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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A bill that would create a common-law marriage between “one man” and “one woman” is advancing in the Tennessee State Capitol. But the bill is the center of controversy as the original draft did away with age requirements for the new form of marriage in Tennessee.
Opponents argued that without an explicit age requirement, the bill would open the door for child marriages.
The bill (HB 233) has caused an uproar across the country and at the State Capitol.
“I had pastors and individuals come to me that have moral objections, contentious objections to performing the marriages,” said Rep. Tom Leatherwood (R-Arlington).
Critics of the bill say the creation of a new marriage system for heterosexual couples will invite litigation, be potentially dangerous for LGBTQ youth and divide communities.
“Marriage is between a man and a woman and this would create a marriage certificate reflecting that and so it will have a form that just reflects that,” Leatherwood said in committee.
But an amendment added to the bill after backlash added an age limit of 18 after previously not specifying one. Representative Leatherwood, the bill’s sponsor, claimed some people didn’t understand the intent.
“Some legitimate concerns, others were looking for indirect ways to work against the bill and that’s fine, that’s the political process,” Leatherwood said.
When asked if he condemns child marriages, Leatherwood said he does. “Yes, I am opposed to child marriages.”
The marriage proposal would be akin to a contract that doesn’t have to be filed with the state.
The Senate is scheduled to vote on the bill while the House continues to debate.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — Republican lawmakers are pushing for a new bill to keep a public health measure, and they are getting support from some Democrats.
Title 42 is a health measure that keeps most asylum seekers out of the U.S. due to the pandemic. Republican lawmakers are pushing to keep the measure in place, despite opposing other public health measures such as mask and vaccine mandates.
“It ensures that Title 42 remains in place well into the future while we deal with both a pandemic and an immigration crisis,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.).
All Republican senators and at least seven Democrats want to extend Title 42, and some are threatening to vote against $10 billion in additional COVID funding unless they get their way.
“What many Senate Republicans are talking about is anti-asylum,” said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen (D) said in a statement that “the administration’s announcement to end Title 42 was done without a cohesive stragety in place to secure the border and prevent chaos.”
But Title 42 is a public health measure and its legal implementation is not supposed to be for immigration control. Maryland Senator Ben Cardin (D) says that’s why the Biden adminstration is trying phase it out.
“People who have legitimate asylum claims should be able to pursue them,” Cardin said.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Raleigh Police told ABC11 that one person was shot on Thursday afternoon while he was sitting in his car.
It happened in the 500 block of Drolmond Drive.
Officers said a 22-year-old man was shot in both legs. One was a graze wound and the other shot went through his other leg.
His injuries are not considered life-threatening, police said.
Earlier reports indicated that the shooting was a homicide, but RPD said later that was not the case.
The case remains under investigation.
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With COVID-19 restrictions going away for many popular tourist destinations, it's expected to be a busy summer travel season. That can also mean the return of vacation nightmares.
Fake copycat airline sites along with bogus vacation rental listings are just a few of the ways scammers are tricking travelers. Adam Levin a cybersecurity expert says, "We had one case where somebody showed up, and it was a vacant piece of land, which was a little bit disturbing."
Before putting any money down for your next vacation do your research, especially be on guard for fake rental listings on Airbnb or VRBO.
"If the listing photo has a multiple listing service watermark--MLS watermark--that means that the scammer could have simply taken a picture from a multiple listing of a property that's for sale, and made it part of a fake ad for a rental," Levin said.
Take the online photo listing of the vacation rental and do a reverse google image search to see if it shows up anywhere else.
Remember, scammers, are quick to capitalize on opportunities, like the generosity of people who want to help Ukraine refugees. Some people decided to book Airbnbs and then allow refugees to stay in them, but scammers also saw this as an opportunity to create fake rental listings to get your money.
"See how long the listing has been up. In particular, listings that had been on long before the conflict began. If you see a series of listings that suddenly popped up, some may well be legitimate, and some may not be legitimate," Levin said.
Another red flag is if the person who has the rental asks you to pay off Airbnb.
"The golden rule is as long as you are making that booking through Airbnb and you're paying through Airbnb, we're protecting your money," Ben Breit with Airbnb said.
When it comes to vacation and travel fraud, in the last two years nearly people reported $90 million in losses to the Federal Trade Commission, many of those losses are with fake travel websites. Alyssa Parker with the BBB of Eastern North Carolina says, "Make sure that it has HTTPS and it has that lock right there it shows you it's a secure website."
Besides fake travel websites, Parker suggests reading that fine print when it comes to too good to be true deals. Look for added fees and exclusions that could cost you when it's time to travel.
Before booking your next vacation, do as much research as you can. Read the reviews to see the history of the travel website, and always make sure you're dealing with the actual airline, hotel, or car rental place, and not a copycat website that makes it appear legit.
Watch out for these red flags when booking your summer travel
By Diane Wilson
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — The University of Arkansas - Fort Smith (UAFS) is hosting events throughout April for Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM).
SAAM is an annual campaign that helps raise awareness about sexual assault and educate the community on how to identify and prevent it.
The activities are coordinated by the UAFS offices of Title IX; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Student Activities, and Athletics, the Campus Activities Board registered student organization; and the UAFS Boreham Library.
The following list of activities is scheduled throughout April:
Friday, April 8, noon to 2 p.m.
Teal Tailgate – Hosted by Numa Nation
UAFS Stubblefield Center Patio
UAFS Students from Numa Nation will host the annual Teal Tailgate bringing awareness to the importance of sexual assault awareness. University Police Chief Ray Ottman will grill burgers, and the first 100 participants will be given SAAM teal t-shirts.
Monday, April 11 - Friday, April 15, All Day
The Clothes Line Project – Hosted by the Student Life Office
The Clothesline Project is a visual display designed to break the silence and stigma faced by victims and survivors of sexual assault. Shirts on display will feature messages and illustrations created by victims and survivors of violence and their loved ones. The purpose of the project is to increase awareness of the impact of violence, celebrate the strength of survivors, and provide avenues for expression.
Tuesday, April 12, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Cats Against Catcalling – Hosted by the Student Life Office
UAFS Campus Green
Students can socialize with rescue cats from Jen's Kitty Rehab and Heart of Kezia at this event. The UAFS Title IX Office and the Fort Smith Crisis Intervention Center will provide information and resources to students about sexual assault during this event.
Tuesday, April 12, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Self-Defense Demonstration – Hosted by University Police
UAFS Campus Green
The UAFS Police Department will host a self-defense demonstration and share protection strategies. In addition to the demonstrations, the UAFS Interfraternity Council will be on site encouraging students to take a pledge against sexual assault.
Thursday, April 14, All Day
Encouragement Rocks – Hosted by the UAFS Library
UAFS Boreham Library
Students, faculty, and staff are invited to decorate a rock with messages of support for survivors of sexual assault. All materials will be provided. Once created, stones will be distributed around campus for others to find and enjoy. Sometimes a simple message of love and compassion, especially to survivors of sexual assault, can spark joy and brighten a day.
Tuesday, April 26, 11 a.m.
Sexual Citizens Book Discussion
Windgate Auditorium
Katie Beineke and Dr. Svelta Dimotrova will host a discussion on the book Sexual Citizens: Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus (2020) by Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan.
Wednesday, April 27, All Day
International Denim Day
According to the Denim Day website, Peace Over Violence has organized Denim Day since the 1990s, growing to the international rape prevention education campaign it is today. International Demin Day asks individuals to make a social statement by wearing jeans as an international symbol of protest against erroneous and destructive attitudes toward sexual violence.
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TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Cherokee Nation citizens can expect construction on a new drug treatment facility to begin soon, financed by a settlement reached between Native American tribes and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and the country's three largest drug distribution companies.
On Thursday, April 7, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. and Deputy Chief Bryan Warner announced the plan to use the tribe’s initial opioid settlement funds to start constructing drug treatment centers for tribal citizens.
“It is altogether fitting that the same industry that inflicted so much injury and generational trauma on our Cherokee people is now paying to help build facilities that will generate hope and give our citizens a welcome space here at home to focus on healing,” Chief Hoskin said. “We will make steps in phases. We are developing long-term plans for a comprehensive behavioral health system that features in-patient and outpatient services. But, in the meantime, we need to start building facilities to provide other tiers of treatment for those dealing with addiction, such as transitional living centers.”
Chief Hoskin and Deputy Warner’s proposal is attempting to amend and strengthen the Public Health and Wellness Fund Act of 2021.
The Cherokee Nation recently finalized a $75 million settlement with opioid distributors McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen to be paid over six years. In a separate settlement, Johnson & Johnson reached a settlement with all federally-recognized tribes for $150 million with the Cherokee Nation estimating receiving $18 million over two years.
The proposed law would set aside $15 million of the initial opioid settlement over the next three years to help construct drug treatment facilities. The tribe says it is evaluating uses for the remaining opioid settlement funds, which will likely be used for additional behavioral health capital projects.
“Good health for our Cherokee people means having good mental health just as it does physical health,” Deputy Chief Bryan Warner said. “I’m confident strong investments in both areas will have lasting impacts in not only increased physical health but also help us reverse the damage done by the opioid industry which preyed on our citizens.”
Former Cherokee Councilman Canaan Duncan leads the Wellness Task Force which will make recommendations for other physical wellness programs and services across the reservation.
If the amended Public Health and Wellness Fund Act is approved by the Council of the Cherokee Nation, the tribe’s Health Services Department will evaluate potential sites for construction with the location and number of facilities to then be determined.
The proposed legislation goes before the Council’s Health Committee on April 11 and could be approved by the full Council later that day.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Education is constantly evolving - from how kids learn to what they're learning. Technology has become a cornerstone driving that change, including building robots in classrooms. Now, a group of Bentonville West students is taking their passion for robotics to the world stage.
Bentonville West Robotics Coach Clint Holderby believes he's preparing his students for jobs that haven't been invented yet.
"Our kids, the steps that they're doing right now, are the things that are going to drive the future of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and STEM education," Holderby said"
His students aren't just building for fun. They're building for the most prominent robotics competition in the world.
"When I saw worlds, I mean it! Last year there were 72 different countries represented in the VEX online competition," Holderby told 5NEWS.
While a win would be great, getting there is already an accomplishment.
"It's a coach's dream. You think of that top athlete, how they come in, you know, they're always practicing before school and after school. That's exactly what my students do," Holderby said. "This is an opportunity for them to showcase their skills that people don't normally get to see. "
2022 will mark the fourth time the Bentonville West Robotics Club has appeared in the world's robotic competition. This year's event is happening in May in Dallas, Texas.
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NEW ORLEANS — President Joe Biden’s requirement that all federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 was upheld Thursday by a federal appeals court. In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed a lower court and ordered dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the mandate.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, who was appointed to the District Court for the Southern District of Texas by President Donald Trump, had issued a nationwide injunction against the requirement in January.
When the case was argued at the 5th Circuit last month, administration lawyers had noted that district judges in a dozen jurisdictions had rejected a challenge to the vaccine requirement for federal workers before Brown ruled.
The administration argued that the Constitution gives the president, as the head of the federal workforce, the same authority as the CEO of a private corporation to require that employees be vaccinated.
Lawyers for those challenging the mandate had pointed to a recent Supreme Court opinion that the government cannot force private employers to require employee vaccinations.
Thursday's ruling was a rare win for the administration at the 5th Circuit, with 17 active judges dominated by Republicans, including six Trump appointees.
Judges Carl Stewart and James Dennis, both nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton, were in the majority. Judge Rhesa Barksdale, nominated by President George H.W. Bush, dissented, saying the relief the challengers sought does not fall under the Civil Service Reform act cited by the administration.
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Two days after announcing it is testing the addition of an edit button, Twitter said it has started rolling out a way for users to remove themselves from conversations they don't want to be a part of.
The tool, which Twitter calls Unmentioning, would allow users to leave a conversation where someone has tagged the user with their @ Twitter handle.
Twitter, in a tweet, called it "a way to help protect your peace."
A tagged user will be able to open a dropdown with a "Leave this conversation option." By leaving, the username will stay, but it will be untagged from the original tweet and all replies.
Twitter said it will also prevent someone from tagging the user again in the conversation, so there's no risk of someone continuously re-mentioning. The tool will also stop further notifications about the conversation.
Twitter said it is "experimenting" with the feature and it's already available for some users on the web version. Twitter did not mention when the unmentioning tool might be available on the app.
Twitter tweeted Tuesday that it is working on a way for users to edit their 280-character messages. The company said it had nothing to do with the fact that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the company's largest shareholder and new board member, tweeted out a poll asking people if they wanted such a feature.
Twitter said it will test the edit feature in its paid service, Twitter Blue, in the coming months. It said the test would help it “learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible.” So it may be a while before most Twitter users get to use it, if they ever do. Twitter spokesperson Catherine Hill declined to say whether an edit feature might be rolled out for all users.
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SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Hundreds of vehicles formed a line nearly a quarter-mile long Thursday afternoon at the Charlie and Willie George Park in Springdale.
From 11 a.m. until shortly after 1 p.m. Tyson Foods, partnered with the NWA Food Bank, and dozens of volunteers helped hand out over 300,000 meals for Springdale residents.
"We've got two lines going today. One line is 40,000 pounds for the pantries in Northwest Arkansas and then another 40,000 pounds just for members of the community," said Tyson Foods spokesperson, Derek Burleson.
Two semi-truck trailers filled with boxes of frozen food took up a section of the park's parking lot allowing drivers to pull up and take home food for their families or for others impacted by the EF-3 tornado that struck Springdale on March 30, 2022.
Karen Patterson, a Springdale resident who took home a box for herself and a neighbor was moved by Tyson Foods' generosity saying, "the support is just amazing how people give like this." Patterson went on to say, "it's always nice to have help yourself, but it's always a better feeling to help someone else."
Another Springdale resident, Sandra Castillo expressed her thanks to the volunteers and Tyson Foods saying, "for Springdale, this means a lot."
Thursday's giveaway was the initial response to helping the community of Springdale as part of Tyson Foods One Million Meal pledge to give back to the community they call home.
"We just want to make sure that our resources are directed where the need is the greatest," said Burleson. "We're going to continue to assess that need in the week of last week's tornado and just figure out where we can create the most value and help our community the most."
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A proposed bill in Tennessee is drawing criticism from social media users across the country due to a couple of provisions related to marriage allegedly included in the bill.
Some people suggested the bill proposed by a Republican lawmaker “creates a separate, privileged class of marriage for heterosexual couples” in Tennessee. Meanwhile, several others (here, here, and here) claimed the bill would allow children of any age to get married without parental consent. The backlash led to the hashtag #TennesseeRepublicans trending on Twitter.
VERIFY looked into both claims.
THE SOURCES
- Tennessee Code
- Tennessee House Bill 233
- Tennessee Senate Bill 562 - Amended Version
- Tom Leatherwood, Tennessee State Representative
- Sarah Warbelow, Legal Director, Human Rights Campaign
- Whitney Traylor, legal expert and retired associate professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver
THE QUESTION
Would a new bill make it legal for anyone to marry a child in Tennessee?
THE ANSWER
No, a new bill in Tennessee would not make it legal for anyone to marry a child, but an early version of the bill did omit an age requirement.
WHAT WE FOUND
In the United States, there is no federal law in place that sets a minimum age requirement for marriage. Instead, states set their own guidelines, and currently, 20 U.S. states do not require a minimum age for marriage, according to human rights organization Equality Now.
Under Tennessee law, children who are 17 years old can get married with parental consent, but children under the age of 17 cannot legally marry. In January 2022, Tennessee Republican state Rep. Tom Leatherwood proposed Tennessee House Bill 233 (HB 233) that would create a new “common law” marriage in the state. In an early version of the bill, the text left out any rules relating to age minimums for that common law marriage.
According to legal expert Whitney Traylor, the age limits in Tennessee’s current marriage law would not automatically transfer to the new common law marriage stipulated in HB 233. Traylor explained the omission of the age requirement created a loophole that could potentially allow children to marry.
On April 6, HB 233 and its companion bill in the Tennessee Senate, SB 562, were amended to reflect the updated age requirement. The amended bill now says that “one man and one woman” may file for a common law marriage if “both have attained the age of majority,” which is 18 years old in Tennessee.
In an email, a Tennessee House GOP spokesperson told VERIFY that HB 233 “would not have ever allowed minors to marry.”
Leatherwood also told VERIFY in a statement that HB 233 “does not allow minors to get married.”
THE QUESTION
Would a bill proposed in Tennessee create a separate class of marriage only for heterosexual couples?
THE ANSWER
Yes, a bill proposed in Tennessee would create a separate class of marriage only for heterosexual couples.
WHAT WE FOUND
If passed, House Bill 233 (HB 233) would create a new common law marriage in Tennessee. A common law marriage is a “legally recognized marriage between two people who have not purchased a marriage license or had their marriage solemnized by a ceremony,” according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The language used in HB 233, however, stipulates that this new common law union must be “between one man and one woman.”
Leatherwood told VERIFY in a statement that HB 233 does not change Tennessee’s current marriage laws. Instead, he says this new common law option appeals to people with “deeply held religious convictions” and “conscientious objections” to the current law that allows same-sex couples to receive a marriage license in Tennessee.
Legal expert Whitney Traylor told VERIFY if HB 233 were to be passed in Tennessee, it would not apply to same-sex couples. Traylor said that by including the “one man and one woman” clause in the bill, Republican lawmakers are trying to “get around the law that says same-sex marriage is lawful, and you have to recognize same-sex marriages, even from other states.”
In 2015, the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in the United States. In the landmark case, Obergefell v. Hodges, the court ruled that heterosexual and same-sex couples had equal rights to marriage in all 50 states under the Fourteenth Amendment. The court also said bans on same-sex marriages are unconstitutional.
Although HB 233 would not ban same-sex marriages in Tennessee, Sarah Warbelow, who serves as the legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, told VERIFY that the exclusion of same-sex couples in this common law marriage could still lead to legal challenges in the future if passed.
“The intent of the primary sponsor of the bill is to have this other mechanism by which people can marry that same-sex couples would be excluded from. That would make it ripe for a legal challenge because the Supreme Court in deciding Obergefell really made clear that same-sex couples were entitled all the same rights, benefits, obligations, and the institution of marriage itself. Coming up with an alternative way of letting people get married is still a problem under the Obergefell decision,” Warbelow explained.
As of April 7, the bill is still working its way through the Tennessee Legislature. It will be heard by the House Civil Justice Committee on April 13 and presented in front of the full Senate on April 14.
More from VERIFY: No, political ads on TV aren’t required to be factual
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In late March, some Verizon mobile users reported getting a suspicious text message, made all the more alarming by its sender: the user’s own phone number.
Verizon customers on Reddit, Twitter and Verizon’s community forum all shared similar stories saying they received the suspicious message. The text message Verizon customers described said some version of: “Free Msg: Your bill is paid for March. Thanks, here’s a little gift for you,” and then included a link.
THE QUESTION
Did Verizon send mobile customers a payment confirmation text message from the customers’ own phone numbers?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, Verizon did not send mobile customers a payment confirmation text from the customers’ own phone numbers. Verizon said the messages came from “bad actors.”
WHAT WE FOUND
Verizon mobile customers reported receiving the confusing text messages that appeared to come from their own phone numbers on March 28. People who clicked on the link in the text said in community forum posts they were directed to one of two places: Either a website offering a “free” tech gift in exchange for filling out a survey and providing credit card information, or a Russian news website.
Verizon confirmed it did not send the text messages, and the messages were from what they called “bad actors.”
“Verizon has blocked the source of the recent text messaging scheme in which bad actors were sending fraudulent text messages to Verizon customers,” a Verizon spokesperson confirmed to VERIFY. “In this case, the text messages sent appeared to come from the recipient's own number.”
As to one of the links that redirected to a Russian news website, the Verizon spokesperson said: “We have no indication of Russian involvement or that any of our customers' phones were compromised.”
The New Jersey Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Cell called the texts a “SMiShing campaign,” which is an attempt to trick someone over text messages. The organization also said the text messages targeted customers of providers who piggyback off of Verizon’s network, such as Spectrum. It said a similar campaign targeted AT&T customers in August 2021. Posts dated to that time from AT&T’s community forum shows customers received text messages with nearly identical wording to the one Verizon customers recently received.
The fraudulent text messages are typically designed to trick people into handing over personal or financial information to scammers.
Additionally, several Verizon customer support representatives who replied to the community thread about the text messages said the messages used a tactic called “caller ID spoofing.” This tactic is more commonly used with spam calls.
“Scam artists now use technology to make a person's caller ID show their own name and phone number — making it appear as though a person is calling him or herself,” the Minnesota Attorney General’s office warns. “These scam artists are falsifying — or ‘spoofing’ — caller ID information. Spoofing scams are often perpetrated by criminal gangs located outside the state or country attempting to mask their identity and evade law enforcement.”
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Ina Cariño | Photo courtesy of Broadside PR
In a Wednesday night ceremony in New York City, the Whiting Foundation announced the honorees of its 2022 Whiting Award, which is presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Awards are $50,000, one of the most substantial awards sums to exist for emerging writers.
Claire Boyles, Rita Bullwinkel, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Anthony Cody, Anaïs Duplan, Megha Majumda, Jesse McCarthy, Nana Nkweti, Ina Cariño, and Claire Schwartz were all named as awardees.
Two recipients are local: Ina Cariño, who is based in Raleigh, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, who is based in Durham. Cariño is a Whiting poetry awardee and received their MFA in Creative Writing from North Carolina State University. Previous poetry recognitions include a 2021 Alice James Award for the poetry collection Feast, forthcoming in 2023, and recognition as one of the four winners of the annual 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. They also founded a local reading series, Indigena Collective, which centers marginalized voices. (You can read an INDY interview with Cariño about their work here.)
“It’s been both amazing and surreal to be in such a talented cohort of writers, and I’m humbled to have had my work read and reread by the anonymous judges," Cariño told the INDY. "I’m grateful that my words are reaching people; this award will allow me to keep working on poems that I hope will continue to resonate with others.”
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a nonfiction honoree, holds a PhD in English, African and African American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University. She is the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals; Dub: Finding Ceremony; M Archive: After the End of the World, and Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity. She has also previously been a Voices columnist for the INDY Week; you can read those columns here.
“I’m overwhelmed with gratitude," Gumbs says. "Especially as I learn more about the legacy of these awards. For example, the late Randall Kenan, one of our most beloved North Carolina writers and a personal mentor of mine, was once a Whiting Award winner! I’m excited to continue living inside the practice of writing as freedom.”
The Whiting Award was founded in 1985. Previous recipients like Colson Whitehead, Jeffrey Eugenides, Tony Kushner, Mary Karr, and Tracy K. Smith have gone on to become household names.
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George Davis has owned and managed of Stone Brothers & Byrd since 1976 | Photo by Milena Ozernova — The 9th Street Journal
Step inside, and you’ll feel like you’ve been teleported back to the 1920s.
Racks of fertilizer and seed line the aisles. An assortment of gardening hats lies directly in front of the entrance. Step into a smaller side room, and the bags of mulch are impossible to miss. Locally owned stores like this one are not as common anymore, but don’t tell that to George Davis, the owner of Stone Brothers & Byrd.
On a recent Friday, Davis, wearing a classic gardener’s hat, was helping customers left and right. Even after 46 years of ownership, his dedication is still evident.
“I think ’91 was the last farm mechanic that I had, and that was the end of that,” Davis said. “So from ’90-’91 to the present, we’ve been lawn and garden.”
For 108 years, Stone Brothers has been a staple of the Durham community, providing gardening resources to local farmers and families. From Moss Out! to Cardinal food, from flower pots to gardening gloves, Stone Brothers could always be relied upon, and that’s not about to change.
What has changed, though, is where that reliability can be found.
For over 50 years, Stone Brothers sat at 700 Washington Street, where the business and its longtime location became intertwined.
But in line with recent development trends in Durham and the Triangle region, that’s changing. Last May, Beacon Street Development announced it had bought the land from Stone Brothers and laid out plans to build a seven-story complex with 40 luxury condos. With construction set to begin this month on The George, named for Davis, Stone Brothers has moved down to 937 Washington Street, a two-minute drive from its previous spot.
The new development is one of several changes coming to a historic section of the city. Just across from the Durham Athletic Park—the 1926 ball field where the baseball movie “Bull Durham” was filmed in the 1980s—the land is on the corner of West Geer and Washington, with longtime Durham staples like King’s Sandwich Shop just up the road.
Neighboring businesses say they’ll miss Stone Brothers. The Durham Distillery, for instance, relies on Stone Brothers for the molasses for its liqueurs.
“Now we have to walk a little bit further,” said Josh Dixon, the distillery’s marketing coordinator.
utside Stone Brothers’ former location, signs reflect the former business and the new condos that are coming | Photos by Milena Ozernova — The 9th Street Journal
Meanwhile, Durham Distillery is also facing a second development in its backyard, a six-story mixed-use project headed by Florida-based Ram Realty Advisors. Right behind the distillery, a train trestle butts up against the loading dock, with enough space for backdoor deliveries. But not for long.
“This new building that is coming in will be building a retaining wall where that train trestle is,” Dixon said. “As it currently stands, that retaining wall will keep us from being able to use our loading dock. Which means that we’re going to have to figure out our entire operation.”
That’s disappointing, Dixon said.
“The spirit of Durham has always been about caring for each other, giving to each other. This parking-land agreement, those agreements have been just historically such a big part of being a small business owner in the Durham area.”
Still another condo project is in the works a few blocks down Geer Street. Dixon is concerned that so much development may disrupt the character of the neighborhood.
“The people who’ve been here, who’ve been traditional Durhamites, are being pushed out,” Dixon said.
Some of Stone Brothers’ former neighbors, though, are philosophical about the changes.
Bill Whittington owns the Blue Note Grill, across the street from Stone Brothers’ old location.
“Ten years ago, you wouldn’t want to be down here,” Whittington said. “There was nothing going on, very little business, just buildings and warehouses or industrial-type stuff.”
Stone Brothers did not go too far—since February 26, it has been in its new location further north on Washington Street—but it still occupies a different space for the first time in decades.
Davis, who has been the sole active owner of Stone Brothers since he and a few family members bought the business in 1976, said he had a lot on his plate with the move.
“It was a lot of planning,” said Davis. “My right arm came up here and laid out a bunch of displays, had done measuring down [at the old location] then came up and measured spots up here…. We started a month ago moving warehouse merchandise ourselves.”
Debbie Swanner has been shopping at Stone Brothers since the 1980s. On a recent Friday, she was in the store searching for starter plants for her flower bed.“You don’t have to buy everything packaged up, you can say, ‘I want an ounce of cucumber seeds,’ and if you have a small garden, that’s great,” she said.
A customer browses in Stone Brothers’ new store | Photos by Milena Ozernova — The 9th Street Journal
Swanner sees pluses to the store’s spacious new location.
“If you have a garden center, you need sun to put your plants out for people to look at it,” she said.
Davis also sees some benefits from the move.
“We sort of have more parking space, which we think will aid our customers quite a bit,” he said.
Davis doesn’t envision any changes to the mission of the business. Being able to adapt to the ever-evolving needs of customers is “what keeps us going,” he said.
Fertilizer to seed. Avid gardeners to families simply looking for some outdoor supplies. It might have packed up and moved down the road, but 108 years later, Stone Brothers keeps on keeping on.
This story was produced through a partnership between the INDY and 9th Street Journal, which is published by journalism students at Duke University’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy.
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TUPELO • North Mississippi Health Services currently has zero COVID-19 patients across all of its facilities, a first since the pandemic began in March 2020.
During a press conference, Thursday, NMHS officials said there are no COVID cases at NMHS' seven acute care facilities, 50-plus clinics and four long-term care centers across 24 counties.
March 24 was the first day in more than two years that there were zero COVID patients in NMHS hospitals, and while they have treated a few COVID patients since then, there were zero as of Thursday.
Not only has the number of COVID tests administered by NMHS dropped, but the test positivity rate over the last week in the ambulatory setting has been around 2%. And for three of those days, there were zero positive tests.
As a result, NMHS Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jeremy Blanchard is encouraging patients who may have delayed seeing a doctor for non-COVID issues during the pandemic to seek care now.
"What I can assure you is, we have been safe throughout this whole period of time," Blanchard said. "But we are the safest we have ever been since the beginning of COVID."
Patients delaying care is the health system's "biggest concern right now," Blanchard said.
"The number of patients that we see that are more sick than usual are markedly increased because of that concern of delaying care," Blanchard said. "We are here for you. It is the safest time to come here."
The now-dominant BA.2 omicron subvariant is more contagious than the original omicron variant, which was already far more transmissible than previous iterations of the virus.
Although every state in the nation has reported cases of BA.2, Mississippi has a low prevalence of the variant, Blanchard said.
Blanchard expects that a potential surge caused by BA.2 will be "very minimal, very different from what we've seen in the past," due to the level of previous omicron exposure and the vaccination rate.
In the event that there is another surge, seeking care now for other medical issues will allow patients to avoid any risk that may have prevented them from seeking care.
Despite the bottoming out of COVID cases in Mississippi, the North Mississippi Medical Center and other NMHS facilities will continue to ask patients and visitors to wear masks even as other hospitals dropping mask requirements.
NMHS has no choice in the matter, according to Blanchard.
Hospitals that are not owned by the state or federal government, like the North Mississippi Medical Center, must follow the guidance of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Current guidance requires that face masks worn by employees, patients and visitors.
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AMORY • A severe storm front in late March prompted both storm chasers and scientific researchers to visit different places throughout Monroe County and the region.
The National Weather Service did confirm a tornado struck Monroe County from the system, and as teams associated with a federally funded severe weather research project were scattered across parts of north Mississippi and Alabama, a couple of Monroe County sites helped them compile to data.
The Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations’ National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) recently sent teams of research scientists to the area from its home base in Norman, Oklahoma to study patterns of the severe weather in the area.
The team, which also includes college students and professors, is under the direction of Dr. Vanna Chmielewski.
“We are collaborating with several other research teams and universities. In order to make sure we’re all coordinating with each other, we have daily weather briefings and discuss the forecast of potentially severe events days ahead of time," she said.
Chmielewski said the goal of the collaborating teams is to come to a consensus on the general area most likely to be in the path of tornadic squall lines, which is the primary research focus.
“We make this call a couple of days ahead so teams can travel in,” she said.
Chmielewski and an assistant set up a mobile weather station at Concord Fields in Amory on March 29 to track severe weather that swept though the area the following day.
As the storm front was crossing the Mississippi River, a separate team, which included North Carolina State University professor Matthew Parker and Illinois University students, Kaylee Heines and Jessica Skocinski, launched weather balloons from the Prairie Industrial Park to gather data.
“We decide to come when forecasts look favorable and, of course, our forecasts aren’t perfect, Parker said. "Sometimes what we think will be good isn’t and vice versa. For this day, there is a fair amount of instability."
Parker said the research is helping scientists to better understand tornadoes in the southeast.
He said various pieces of monitoring equipment used through the study help provide data to compile a complete story about particular storms.
A NSSL team was in the area south of Columbus two weeks ago to track the storms that resulted in an EF-1 tornado that left damage in Clay and Monroe counties.
Monroe Journal Managing Editor Ray Van Dusen contributed to this story.
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Amazon plans to object to union win in New York
(AP) – Amazon plans to file objections to the union election on Staten Island, New York, that resulted in the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the company’s history.
The e-commerce giant stated its plans in a legal filing to the National Labor Relations Board made public Thursday. Among other things, the company accused the Amazon Labor Union, a group of former and current employees who spearheaded the union drive, of threatening warehouse workers to vote in favor of the organizing effort. Eric Milner, an attorney representing the ALU, said the claims were “patently absurd.”
“The employees have spoken and their voices have been heard,” Milner said in a statement. “Amazon is choosing to ignore that, and instead engage in stalling tactics to avoid the inevitable — coming to the bargaining table and negotiating for a contract” on behalf of the warehouse workers on Staten Island.
Warehouse workers on Staten Island cast 2,654 votes — or about 55% — in favor of a union, giving the fledgling group enough support to pull off a victory Friday. Federal labor officials had said the results of the count won’t be verified until they process any objections — due by April 8 — that both parties may file. Amazon requested a two-week extension, which the labor board has granted. It now has until April 22 to back up its claims.
The company had initially signaled it planned to challenge the election results based on a lawsuit filed in March by the NLRB, which sought to force Amazon to reinstate a fired employee who was involved in the union drive. In the filing made public Thursday, Amazon said it was also objecting to the labor agency’s conduct “before and during the polling,” that the company says interfered with the election.
A labor dispute down in Alabama, where the other union election was held, is also heating up. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which is trying to unionize an Amazon warehouse in the city of Bessemer, said Thursday it filed several objections with the federal labor board over how the retail giant conducted itself in that election. Among other things, the RWDSU said the company fired and retailed against union supporters.
Initial results in the Alabama union election show the RWDSU down by 118 votes, with the majority of Amazon warehouse workers rejecting a bid to form a union. The final outcome is still up in the air with 416 outstanding challenged ballots hanging in the balance. A hearing to review the ballots is expected to begin in the coming weeks.
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American woman caught with nearly $550K worth of fentanyl at US-Mexico border
(Gray News) - A woman attempted to smuggle more than a half-million dollars worth of fentanyl into the U.S. from Mexico over this past weekend.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports the woman, a U.S. citizen, pulled up to the Del Rio Port of Entry in a passenger vehicle on April 3. An officer then referred her to a secondary vehicle inspection.
After a thorough examination of the car, officers said they discovered 30 packages containing 40.34 pounds of fentanyl concealed within the vehicle. CBP officials said the fentanyl had a street value of $548,987.
“This significant seizure of a potentially fatal hard narcotic like fentanyl underscores the reality of the drug threat our frontline officers are facing and their commitment to upholding our border security mission,” said Port Director Liliana Flores.
CBP seized the drugs and the vehicle and turned the driver over to Homeland Security Investigations special agents.
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Appeals court OKs Biden federal employee vaccine mandate
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Joe Biden’s requirement that all federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 was upheld Thursday by a federal appeals court.
In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court and ordered dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the mandate. The ruling, a rare win for the administration at the New Orleans-based appellate court, said that the federal judge didn’t have jurisdiction in the case and those challenging the requirement could have pursued administrative remedies under Civil Service law.
Biden issued an executive order Sept. 9 ordering vaccinations for all executive branch agency employees, with exceptions for medical and religious reasons. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, who was appointed to the District Court for the Southern District of Texas by then-President Donald Trump, issued a nationwide injunction against the requirement in January.
When the case was argued at the 5th Circuit last month, administration lawyers had noted that district judges in a dozen jurisdictions had rejected a challenge to the vaccine requirement for federal workers before Brown ruled.
The administration argued that the Constitution gives the president, as the head of the federal workforce, the same authority as the CEO of a private corporation to require that employees be vaccinated.
Lawyers for those challenging the mandate had pointed to a recent Supreme Court opinion that the government cannot force private employers to require employee vaccinations.
Twelve of 17 active judges at the 5th Circuit were nominated to the court by Republicans, including six Trump appointees.
Judges Carl Stewart and James Dennis, both nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton, were in the majority. Judge Rhesa Barksdale, a senior judge nominated by President George H.W. Bush, dissented, saying the relief the challengers sought does not fall under the Civil Service Reform Act cited by the administration.
The case marked ideological divides at the appeals court even before Thursday’s ruling.
A different panel had refused in February to block Brown’s ruling pending the appeal. That panel’s vote was 2-1. There were no reasons given by the majority — Judge Jerry Smith, a President Ronald Reagan nominee, and Don Willett, a Trump nominee.
But there was a lengthy dissent by Judge Stephen Higginson, a nominee of President Barack Obama, who said a single district judge “lacking public health expertise and made unaccountable through life tenure,” should not be able to block the president from ordering the same type of COVID-19 safety measures many private sector CEOs have ordered.
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Former teacher on trial for sexual conduct with student
A jury in Martin County began deliberating Thursday in the trial for a former Stuart Middle School teacher, accused of receiving oral sex five times from a 13-year-old student.
The jury could reach a verdict Thursday night or will return Friday morning.
Jeffrey Tomasulo was 29-years-old at the time of his arrest in 2018.
Jurors were shown evidence this week that included school surveillance footage and detective interrogation clips.
On Thursday, jurors heard audio from jail phone calls where prosecutors pointed out how Tomasulo apologizes to his family.
Tomasulo is accused of being alone with the student in a locked classroom. His attorney argued the doors were locked for safety purposes, and that Tomasulo was alone with the student to tutor her.
His attorney said there is not enough evidence to prove that there was physical contact between the two.
"There is a lack of evidence in this case and as a result, he needs to be found not guilty of all charges," attorney Flynn Bertisch said.
But investigators said the girl told her mother that she gave Tomasulo oral sex up to five times inside the classroom.
Investigators also said Tomasulo admitted to watching porn in the classroom.
In jail calls, Tomasulo is heard speaking with his wife:
"Why did you do this?" the wife asked.
"I don't know babe. I don't know," Tomasulo responded.
"This has been going on for a long time is what I’m hearing," said Tomasulo's wife.
"Not a long time. We shouldn't talk about stuff over the phone," Tomasulo said.
The prosecution zeroed in on that conversation.
"He doesn't take that time to say, 'This isn't me, you know me, I wouldn't do these things.’ He says, 'I’m sorry. I'm sorry I ruined everyone's life. Don't give the baby my last name," said Assistant State Attorney Kristen Chase.
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How are people making 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 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 said 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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Student brawl breaks out over a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, witnesses say
DOTHAN, Ala (WTVY/Gray News) - A fight started Thursday at an Alabama-area high school after two students reportedly got heated over a sandwich.
A spokesperson for Dothan Preparatory Academy said an altercation took place between two students at the school, leading to one of them being stabbed.
“They were apparently involved in a hallway argument,” said Meagan Dorsey, a Dothan City Schools spokesperson.
WTVY reports that witnesses said the students fought over a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with the attacker accused of using a hair pick in the stabbing.
Dorsey described injuries in the incident as minor and said the matter has been referred to Dothan police.
The injured student reportedly needed stitches, with the other facing an assault charge.
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Free at Noon Flashback: The Black Crowes reunite as Brothers of a Feather for an acoustic set
Chris and Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes are in the midst of their Brothers of a Feather tour, and the duo made some time to stop by World Cafe Live today to play a few stripped-down songs. The sold-out crowd was eager to see what was one of the brothers’ first shows in six years, and the Robinsons delivered with acoustic versions of some fan-favorite Black Crowes tunes.
2020 marks 30 years since the release of The Black Crowes’ debut album Shake Your Money Maker, and they’ll celebrate with a full-band tour this summer — a reunion that seemed unlikely considering the brothers’ acrimonious split a few years back. There was no evidence of any tension today, though, as the Robinsons shared the stage amicably, Chris singing and playing the occasional harmonica solo and Rich on guitar and harmonies.
[vuhaus category=”videos” item=”chris-and-rich-from-the-black-crowes-thorn-in-my-pride-world-cafe-session” ][/vuhaus]This acoustic run feels like a warm-up for the real deal this summer, but it gave us a more intimate glimpse of The Black Crowes than we’ll see in an amphitheater, as the brothers (Chris, mostly) talked freely with the crowd between songs. After playing hits like “Jealous Again” and “Descending,” the brothers took a moment to back on the band’s 30-year past, marveling at how they were just kids when they wrote their early songs.
Introducing “Wiser Time,” Chris joked that when they wrote it, “there was not a lot of wisdom there.” They rounded out the six-song set with “Good Friday” (“because it’s Friday,” according to Chris) and “She Talks to Angels.”
[vuhaus category=”videos” item=”chris-and-rich-from-the-black-crowes-she-talks-to-angels-world-cafe-session” ][/vuhaus]Check out photos from today’s set below, watch video, and stream the performance in its entirety. Chris and Rich Robinson play a sold out Brothers of a Feather show tonight at The Foundry, and they’ll return to town as The Black Crowes to play Shake Your Money Maker in its entirety at the BB&T Pavilion on July 14. Find tickets and more information on the XPN Concert Calendar.
Setlist
“Jealous Again”
“Thorn In My Pride”
“Descending”
“Wiser Time”
“Good Friday”
“She Talks to Angels”
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The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a man in Pell City in connection with a Dekalb County hit and run involving a juvenile.
In a news release, ALEA said at about 5:40 a.m. Wednesday troopers with the Highway Patrol Division arrested Tyler Blaise Wilbanks, 22, of Sylvania. Wilbanks was arrested in Pell City and charged with manslaughter and a felony leaving the scene of an accident. Wilbanks was the driver of a 2016 Chevy Equinox that fatally injured a juvenile that occurred at 10:20 p.m. Saturday in Dekalb County.
The release said the Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office, Dekalb County Sheriff’s Office, St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office, Rainsville Police Department, Albertville Police Department, Fort Payne Police Department, Geraldine Police Department and The Center for Applied Forensics assisted in the arrest.
Nothing further is available as Troopers with ALEA Highway Patrol Division continue to investigate.
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Amazon plans to object to union win in New York
(AP) – Amazon plans to file objections to the union election on Staten Island, New York, that resulted in the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the company’s history.
The e-commerce giant stated its plans in a legal filing to the National Labor Relations Board made public Thursday. Among other things, the company accused the Amazon Labor Union, a group of former and current employees who spearheaded the union drive, of threatening warehouse workers to vote in favor of the organizing effort. Eric Milner, an attorney representing the ALU, said the claims were “patently absurd.”
“The employees have spoken and their voices have been heard,” Milner said in a statement. “Amazon is choosing to ignore that, and instead engage in stalling tactics to avoid the inevitable — coming to the bargaining table and negotiating for a contract” on behalf of the warehouse workers on Staten Island.
Warehouse workers on Staten Island cast 2,654 votes — or about 55% — in favor of a union, giving the fledgling group enough support to pull off a victory Friday. Federal labor officials had said the results of the count won’t be verified until they process any objections — due by April 8 — that both parties may file. Amazon requested a two-week extension, which the labor board has granted. It now has until April 22 to back up its claims.
The company had initially signaled it planned to challenge the election results based on a lawsuit filed in March by the NLRB, which sought to force Amazon to reinstate a fired employee who was involved in the union drive. In the filing made public Thursday, Amazon said it was also objecting to the labor agency’s conduct “before and during the polling,” that the company says interfered with the election.
A labor dispute down in Alabama, where the other union election was held, is also heating up. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which is trying to unionize an Amazon warehouse in the city of Bessemer, said Thursday it filed several objections with the federal labor board over how the retail giant conducted itself in that election. Among other things, the RWDSU said the company fired and retailed against union supporters.
Initial results in the Alabama union election show the RWDSU down by 118 votes, with the majority of Amazon warehouse workers rejecting a bid to form a union. The final outcome is still up in the air with 416 outstanding challenged ballots hanging in the balance. A hearing to review the ballots is expected to begin in the coming weeks.
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American woman caught with nearly $550K worth of fentanyl at US-Mexico border
(Gray News) - A woman attempted to smuggle more than a half-million dollars worth of fentanyl into the U.S. from Mexico over this past weekend.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports the woman, a U.S. citizen, pulled up to the Del Rio Port of Entry in a passenger vehicle on April 3. An officer then referred her to a secondary vehicle inspection.
After a thorough examination of the car, officers said they discovered 30 packages containing 40.34 pounds of fentanyl concealed within the vehicle. CBP officials said the fentanyl had a street value of $548,987.
“This significant seizure of a potentially fatal hard narcotic like fentanyl underscores the reality of the drug threat our frontline officers are facing and their commitment to upholding our border security mission,” said Port Director Liliana Flores.
CBP seized the drugs and the vehicle and turned the driver over to Homeland Security Investigations special agents.
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Student brawl breaks out over a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, witnesses say
DOTHAN, Ala (WTVY/Gray News) - A fight started Thursday at an Alabama-area high school after two students reportedly got heated over a sandwich.
A spokesperson for Dothan Preparatory Academy said an altercation took place between two students at the school, leading to one of them being stabbed.
“They were apparently involved in a hallway argument,” said Meagan Dorsey, a Dothan City Schools spokesperson.
WTVY reports that witnesses said the students fought over a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with the attacker accused of using a hair pick in the stabbing.
Dorsey described injuries in the incident as minor and said the matter has been referred to Dothan police.
The injured student reportedly needed stitches, with the other facing an assault charge.
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KEN WILLIS: Tiger Woods' Masters return showed brilliance but much of the famous resolve
AUGUSTA, GA. — We’ve long known of his Sunday Red, but as if he needed any more attention, Tiger Woods trotted out the Thursday Raspberry for the opening round of the Masters.
Around here, naturally, they’d probably prefer Azalea Pink. OK, maybe fuschia.
Whatever, there was no missing Tiger Thursday at Augusta National. He was the guy surrounded by more gallery, it seemed, than the rest of the 91-man field combined.
The final four threesomes Thursday featured some tall timber, including Collin Morikawa, Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm, Jordan Spieth, Brooks Koepka and Rory McIlroy. By then, Tiger was on the opposite side of the property, working through Amen Corner and beyond.
It’s no understatement — the folks watching those young stars Tiger’s younger cohorts starting their rounds had plenty of elbow room. Compared to the norm, the first-fairway-and-green gathering felt more like Thursday at the Quad Cities Open.
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This, by the way, ain’t the norm.
The first round of Tiger’s well-documented comeback was hard work, but not in the way we expected. There was little sign of a physical struggle, to the point that if you didn’t know of his damaged right leg, you might not even notice the slight limp.
No, this was the type of occasional struggle we’ve seen from Tiger Woods before, the type he’s famously navigated to keep within reach of the Sunday goal. There were some errant tee balls, a bad pitch and chip back-to-back on the eighth, but with some of the familiar great iron shots and clutch putts on display.
He began and ended his day with bad tee shots but saves of par, the types of pars they like to say are as good as birdies, in the psyche if not on the card. He was never over par and never better than his finishing 1 under, which hints at a stability that’s rarely more misleading than it is at Augusta National.
“I fought back,” Tiger said after climbing the final hill at 18 and saving par with a classy pitch 10 minutes after a horrendous tee shot. “To end up in the red, I’m right where I need to be.”
Regardless of what happens over the next 18, 36 and 54 holes, Tiger might’ve already clinched Comeback Player of the Year.
Any physical strain Tiger is enduring will surely continue. But all sorts of strain will be spread around, and that has to help a guy who doesn’t flinch at such things. And “such things” are coming.
Course and tournament co-founder Bobby Jones liked to say he wasn’t out to punish bad shots, but to properly reward good shots. His standards were high.
Jones was also a lover of the links golf found in England and, particularly, Scotland, where his legend was practically as big as it was in his home country. He and course architect Alister McKenzie put touches of links golf into Augusta National here and there, but obviously couldn’t design Scottish-style links conditions, which include the types of gusts that even make a turtle widen his stance.
Nope, they couldn’t guarantee the gusts, but sometimes they invite themselves to the show, as they have this year. Early April in Augusta is quite the mixed bag. Thursday showed a bit of the variety — the slightest of mist in the morning, following overnight thunderstorms, and quite humid.
By late morning the sun arrived, and by lunchtime all the clouds were gone, the winds flexed to sweep away the humidity and hint, ominously, at a rough couple days ahead. Friday is looking like tolerable temps but winds into the 20s, and Saturday’s winds will near the 20 mph range while it might not reach 60 degrees.
Those who survive in contention will receive a wonderful Sunday, it appears, but first things first.
Majors played in the toughest conditions can take on the look of a log-rolling competition, except instead of two rollers, there are several, sometimes many. One by one, sometimes two by two, there’s just too much going on and they begin to tumble away. Sometimes it’s a slip, sometimes a spectacular plunge.
Jack Nicklaus won many majors this way, and not just the U.S. Open and PGA Championship, where thick rough and slick greens were the norm. The Masters could also become 72 holes of attrition. Jack’s winning scores at his six Masters show the range of possibilities: 2-under, 17-under, even-par, 2-under, 12-under, 9-under.
The winning score the past five years has averaged better than 13 under par. Hard to imagine that happening this weekend.
— Reach Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com
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OREGON CITY, Ore. — This week's Let's Get Out There takes us to Oregon City, where several walking groups congregated to mark National Walking Day — although they're in it for the long-haul, not just the holiday.
April 1-7 is the American Volkssporting Association’s (AVA) National Walking Week. There were a few dozen walkers at the Oregon City gathering on Wednesday, determined to get some steps in.
“We sponsor non-competitive sports, mainly walking. We tend to do a five and a 10k walk and we'd like to do it at least twice a week. I lead one every Wednesday somewhere in the Portland-Vancouver area,” said 78-year-old Dick Baker, president of the Rose City Roamers.
Wednesday’s meetup was at the Pioneer Community Center. Several local walking clubs had representatives at the meet-up — and they say fun, fitness, and friendship are at the “sole” of what they do.
“Anyone can come and join us … rain doesn't stop us. We have a lot of umbrellas inside-out,” said Baker, smiling.
Participants in Oregon City signed a registration waiver and split into groups to walk different distances. Walkers could choose from pre-mapped routes of five & 10-kilometer distances. For those who couldn’t make the full distance, the route came back by the community center, kind of like the ninth hole of a golf course.
“Today we're seeing Oregon City, going through the historic area first. Then now to the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center and then the downtown area,” Baker said. “It's basically fun to walk in a group together and that's why people are doing this.”
Baker had both knees replaced about 15 years ago. Impressively, he said his longest comfortable distance these days is about a half-marathon.
Tom Baltus is the club president of the Vancouver Walking Club. He and his wife Louise moved to Camas, WA 11 years ago from New Mexico.
“Our best friends are from our walking program,” Baltus said. “We walk every day. But one of our motivations on this day is to create community visibility to encourage more to join us, and to enjoy the sport of walking and seeing our community on foot.”
The combination of community and health benefits appeal to just about everyone involved. No matter your age or ability level, they would love to have you.
Richard and Rebecca Sandell walk every Wednesday with the group. Richard is nine months post-cardiac bypass. That’s motivation enough to keep it moving.
“It's been really good to be able to walk with people that enjoy doing the same thing. Get outside and know that we're doing something unhealthy for us and our bodies,” said Rebecca.
Baker echoed those sentiments: “Even if you're only out there for 15 minutes, it'll help your health.”
Let's Get Out there airs once a week on KGW's 4 p.m. newscast and The Good Stuff, which airs Monday-Thursday at 7 p.m. We're including viewer photos for this series. You can text your photos to 503-226-5088 or post them on the KGW Facebook page.
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BOISE, Idaho — Far-right activist and gubernatorial candidate Ammon Bundy was ordered to spend ten days in jail and pay a $3,000 fine after a judge found him in contempt for failing to complete court-ordered public service.
Bundy had been sentenced in July to 40 hours of "public service" in lieu of a jail sentence after being convicted of trespassing and resisting arrest for refusing to leave a closed committee room in the Idaho Statehouse during the 2020 legislative special session.
The sentencing judge told Bundy that he could complete that service at a church or non-profit of his choice, but explicitly warned him that working for his own organization, or any service for which he got paid would not count.
However, Bundy submitted hours that he had worked on his own political campaign, turning in a letter on his own "Ammon Bundy For Governor" letterhead certifying that he had completed all 40 hours.
On Thursday, Judge Annie McDevitt ruled that not only did his campaign work not satisfy the requirement, but that it showed blatant disrespect for the instructions he had been given.
Bundy did not just blow off his court-ordered service - which happens with defendants sometimes - but instead willfully made "a mockery of the sentence you received," McDevitt told him.
At the contempt hearing, Prosecutor Whitney Welsh urged the judge to send the message that Bundy was not above the law, playing videos that showed him involved in violent clashes at the Statehouse and at Southwest District Health building and recounting his many arrests and refusals to follow court orders.
"He does not obey laws with which he does not agree," Welsh told the judge.
Welsh also pointed to instances in which Bundy had targeted those who crossed him, including a video of him reading out the home address of a Ada County judge who had presided over a child custody hearing involving his family friends, as well as threats he made to Idaho State Police troopers who took him into custody.
"I'll come after you, each one of you personally," Bundy says in footage from the back of the police car, telling the troopers he would find out where they lived. "You will not be protected, you have been forewarned."
Acting as his own attorney for the contempt hearing, Bundy argued that Idaho's trespassing laws that resulted in his original conviction were flawed, adding that he would like to see the United States Supreme Court weigh in on their legality. He also argued that police and Statehouse officials did not have the authority to arrest him or ban him from that Statehouse, and told McDevitt that he had had been punctual and polite throughout the court process.
"Do I go around breaking the law everywhere? Do I go around disrespecting the courts?" he asks. "No, I don't."
McDevitt was not convinced, however, and handed down the maximum allowed sentence: The suspended five day jail sentence on the original trespass conviction, followed by another five days for contempt.
"The whole point of public service is to give back to the community in ways that do not serve yourself," she said. "Clearly, working for your own campaign is self-serving work."
The judge also condemned Bundy directing his supporters to go to the home of a judge he disagreed with, telling him she believed he was wielding his leadership and influence to bully and harass people.
"You repeatedly violate lawful orders to suit your own agenda," she said.
Bundy was handcuffed by deputies and taken into custody immediately after the hearing to begin serving the ten day sentence.
Bundy's political campaign manager, Wendy Leatham, released the following statement on Thursday's sentence on Bundy's behalf:
"The Idaho court system has again put on display for the whole world to see its absurd level of corruption, incompetence, and malpractice, as Ammon Bundy was actually taken to jail today on charges of contempt.
"Last year, Ammon was wrongfully convicted of trespassing at the Idaho State Capitol—a conviction which is currently being appealed as it is ludicrous to convict a man of “trespassing” in a public building, during public hours, while it is open and fully occupied by the public.
"Nevertheless, Ammon was ordered to pay a fine and serve 5 days in jail. However, he was given the option of performing 40 hours of “public service” in lieu of jail time. Ammon accepted the terms and went above and beyond by reporting over 1,000 hours of public service performed on the campaign trail, where he traversed the state several times over, educating Idahoans on their rights, the U.S. Constitution, the historical founding of our nation, the rule of law, and proper jurisprudence, among a host of other valuable bits of knowledge. If this not-for-profit act isn’t considered a “service” to the public, we don’t know what is.
"So, he is now being subjected to a total of 10-days in jail (with no bail option) and a $3,000 fine. If ever there was a demonstration of abuse of power and systemic corruption of our legal system—you are witnessing it right now. And if you don’t think this matters to all Idahoans, what will you do when they come for you next?"
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NEW ORLEANS — President Joe Biden’s requirement that all federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 was upheld Thursday by a federal appeals court. In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed a lower court and ordered dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the mandate.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown, who was appointed to the District Court for the Southern District of Texas by President Donald Trump, had issued a nationwide injunction against the requirement in January.
When the case was argued at the 5th Circuit last month, administration lawyers had noted that district judges in a dozen jurisdictions had rejected a challenge to the vaccine requirement for federal workers before Brown ruled.
The administration argued that the Constitution gives the president, as the head of the federal workforce, the same authority as the CEO of a private corporation to require that employees be vaccinated.
Lawyers for those challenging the mandate had pointed to a recent Supreme Court opinion that the government cannot force private employers to require employee vaccinations.
Thursday's ruling was a rare win for the administration at the 5th Circuit, with 17 active judges dominated by Republicans, including six Trump appointees.
Judges Carl Stewart and James Dennis, both nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton, were in the majority. Judge Rhesa Barksdale, nominated by President George H.W. Bush, dissented, saying the relief the challengers sought does not fall under the Civil Service Reform act cited by the administration.
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Two days after announcing it is testing the addition of an edit button, Twitter said it has started rolling out a way for users to remove themselves from conversations they don't want to be a part of.
The tool, which Twitter calls Unmentioning, would allow users to leave a conversation where someone has tagged the user with their @ Twitter handle.
Twitter, in a tweet, called it "a way to help protect your peace."
A tagged user will be able to open a dropdown with a "Leave this conversation option." By leaving, the username will stay, but it will be untagged from the original tweet and all replies.
Twitter said it will also prevent someone from tagging the user again in the conversation, so there's no risk of someone continuously re-mentioning. The tool will also stop further notifications about the conversation.
Twitter said it is "experimenting" with the feature and it's already available for some users on the web version. Twitter did not mention when the unmentioning tool might be available on the app.
Twitter tweeted Tuesday that it is working on a way for users to edit their 280-character messages. The company said it had nothing to do with the fact that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the company's largest shareholder and new board member, tweeted out a poll asking people if they wanted such a feature.
Twitter said it will test the edit feature in its paid service, Twitter Blue, in the coming months. It said the test would help it “learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible.” So it may be a while before most Twitter users get to use it, if they ever do. Twitter spokesperson Catherine Hill declined to say whether an edit feature might be rolled out for all users.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Amazon plans to object to union win in New York
(AP) – Amazon plans to file objections to the union election on Staten Island, New York, that resulted in the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the company’s history.
The e-commerce giant stated its plans in a legal filing to the National Labor Relations Board made public Thursday. Among other things, the company accused the Amazon Labor Union, a group of former and current employees who spearheaded the union drive, of threatening warehouse workers to vote in favor of the organizing effort. Eric Milner, an attorney representing the ALU, said the claims were “patently absurd.”
“The employees have spoken and their voices have been heard,” Milner said in a statement. “Amazon is choosing to ignore that, and instead engage in stalling tactics to avoid the inevitable — coming to the bargaining table and negotiating for a contract” on behalf of the warehouse workers on Staten Island.
Warehouse workers on Staten Island cast 2,654 votes — or about 55% — in favor of a union, giving the fledgling group enough support to pull off a victory Friday. Federal labor officials had said the results of the count won’t be verified until they process any objections — due by April 8 — that both parties may file. Amazon requested a two-week extension, which the labor board has granted. It now has until April 22 to back up its claims.
The company had initially signaled it planned to challenge the election results based on a lawsuit filed in March by the NLRB, which sought to force Amazon to reinstate a fired employee who was involved in the union drive. In the filing made public Thursday, Amazon said it was also objecting to the labor agency’s conduct “before and during the polling,” that the company says interfered with the election.
A labor dispute down in Alabama, where the other union election was held, is also heating up. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which is trying to unionize an Amazon warehouse in the city of Bessemer, said Thursday it filed several objections with the federal labor board over how the retail giant conducted itself in that election. Among other things, the RWDSU said the company fired and retailed against union supporters.
Initial results in the Alabama union election show the RWDSU down by 118 votes, with the majority of Amazon warehouse workers rejecting a bid to form a union. The final outcome is still up in the air with 416 outstanding challenged ballots hanging in the balance. A hearing to review the ballots is expected to begin in the coming weeks.
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A proposed bill in Tennessee is drawing criticism from social media users across the country due to a couple of provisions related to marriage allegedly included in the bill.
Some people suggested the bill proposed by a Republican lawmaker “creates a separate, privileged class of marriage for heterosexual couples” in Tennessee. Meanwhile, several others (here, here, and here) claimed the bill would allow children of any age to get married without parental consent. The backlash led to the hashtag #TennesseeRepublicans trending on Twitter.
VERIFY looked into both claims.
THE SOURCES
- Tennessee Code
- Tennessee House Bill 233
- Tennessee Senate Bill 562 - Amended Version
- Tom Leatherwood, Tennessee State Representative
- Sarah Warbelow, Legal Director, Human Rights Campaign
- Whitney Traylor, legal expert and retired associate professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver
THE QUESTION
Would a new bill make it legal for anyone to marry a child in Tennessee?
THE ANSWER
No, a new bill in Tennessee would not make it legal for anyone to marry a child, but an early version of the bill did omit an age requirement.
WHAT WE FOUND
In the United States, there is no federal law in place that sets a minimum age requirement for marriage. Instead, states set their own guidelines, and currently, 20 U.S. states do not require a minimum age for marriage, according to human rights organization Equality Now.
Under Tennessee law, children who are 17 years old can get married with parental consent, but children under the age of 17 cannot legally marry. In January 2022, Tennessee Republican state Rep. Tom Leatherwood proposed Tennessee House Bill 233 (HB 233) that would create a new “common law” marriage in the state. In an early version of the bill, the text left out any rules relating to age minimums for that common law marriage.
According to legal expert Whitney Traylor, the age limits in Tennessee’s current marriage law would not automatically transfer to the new common law marriage stipulated in HB 233. Traylor explained the omission of the age requirement created a loophole that could potentially allow children to marry.
On April 6, HB 233 and its companion bill in the Tennessee Senate, SB 562, were amended to reflect the updated age requirement. The amended bill now says that “one man and one woman” may file for a common law marriage if “both have attained the age of majority,” which is 18 years old in Tennessee.
In an email, a Tennessee House GOP spokesperson told VERIFY that HB 233 “would not have ever allowed minors to marry.”
Leatherwood also told VERIFY in a statement that HB 233 “does not allow minors to get married.”
THE QUESTION
Would a bill proposed in Tennessee create a separate class of marriage only for heterosexual couples?
THE ANSWER
Yes, a bill proposed in Tennessee would create a separate class of marriage only for heterosexual couples.
WHAT WE FOUND
If passed, House Bill 233 (HB 233) would create a new common law marriage in Tennessee. A common law marriage is a “legally recognized marriage between two people who have not purchased a marriage license or had their marriage solemnized by a ceremony,” according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The language used in HB 233, however, stipulates that this new common law union must be “between one man and one woman.”
Leatherwood told VERIFY in a statement that HB 233 does not change Tennessee’s current marriage laws. Instead, he says this new common law option appeals to people with “deeply held religious convictions” and “conscientious objections” to the current law that allows same-sex couples to receive a marriage license in Tennessee.
Legal expert Whitney Traylor told VERIFY if HB 233 were to be passed in Tennessee, it would not apply to same-sex couples. Traylor said that by including the “one man and one woman” clause in the bill, Republican lawmakers are trying to “get around the law that says same-sex marriage is lawful, and you have to recognize same-sex marriages, even from other states.”
In 2015, the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in the United States. In the landmark case, Obergefell v. Hodges, the court ruled that heterosexual and same-sex couples had equal rights to marriage in all 50 states under the Fourteenth Amendment. The court also said bans on same-sex marriages are unconstitutional.
Although HB 233 would not ban same-sex marriages in Tennessee, Sarah Warbelow, who serves as the legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, told VERIFY that the exclusion of same-sex couples in this common law marriage could still lead to legal challenges in the future if passed.
“The intent of the primary sponsor of the bill is to have this other mechanism by which people can marry that same-sex couples would be excluded from. That would make it ripe for a legal challenge because the Supreme Court in deciding Obergefell really made clear that same-sex couples were entitled all the same rights, benefits, obligations, and the institution of marriage itself. Coming up with an alternative way of letting people get married is still a problem under the Obergefell decision,” Warbelow explained.
As of April 7, the bill is still working its way through the Tennessee Legislature. It will be heard by the House Civil Justice Committee on April 13 and presented in front of the full Senate on April 14.
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Fillmore County Sheriff’s Office donates unused gear to Ukraine
HOUSTON, Minn. (KTTC) – The Fillmore County Sheriff’s Office is donating 28 bullet-resistance vests and 25 bullet-resistance helmets to those fighting in Ukraine.
This is part of a statewide initiative created by the Minnesota Sheriff’s Association. Departments all across the state are participating in this donation.
Fillmore county receives new vests and helmet every five years through federal and state grants. The department donated these new items since their old ones still worked.
The Fillmore County Sheriff says this donation isn’t just from the department, but everyone living in Fillmore County.
“Our county, our people who lived here paid for this stuff. They pay our wages, so this is their equipment To allow us to be able to have a program where we can send this equipment that they’ve provided to us over to be used for such a noble purpose, it feels good,” Fillmore County Sheriff John DeGeorge.
Thursday, the Minnesota Sheriff’s Association is going to Sheriff’s Offices across the state to collect their donated items. No word on when the items will be sent out or when they will arrive.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Southeast 122nd Avenue and Stark Street is the most dangerous intersection in Portland, according to city leaders, and many neighbors agree.
"Oh it's pretty dangerous," Brian Chiccino said. "Almost got hit a few times. People just not paying attention."
For those careless or distracted drivers, there's a new incentive to pay more attention behind the wheel: safety cameras were installed at the intersection earlier this week.
The cameras will start issuing warnings the week of April 11. On May 11, the cameras will start issuing citations that will cost drivers anywhere between $170 and $270.
"I think it's a great idea," Chiccino said. "Maybe they'll slow down and pay attention to the road."
It is important considering Southeast 122nd and Stark has seen more than 120 people either injured or killed in crashes since 2015.
"These are some of the deadliest streets in Portland where we see the highest rate of traffic fatalities and serious injuries," said Dylan Rivera, spokesperson for the Portland Bureau of Transportation.
He said the new cameras will keep tabs on drivers who are speeding and running red lights.
"This technology isn't a money maker for Portland," Rivera said. "In fact we lose money on technology like this. This is a proven safety benefit."
The proven safety benefit is much appreciated by those in East Portland who want safer streets.
"Heck yeah," Chiccino said. "I really do love it."
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Immigrants look to gain U.S. citizenship, workshop offers guidance
AUSTIN, Minn. (KTTC) – In just the first few months of the year, the United States has accepted thousands of refugees, mainly from Ukraine and Afghanistan. For some of these refugees, they may want to apply for citizenship down the road.
Thursday, The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and the Welcome Center of Austin hosted a citizenship workshop at Riverland Community College for students and community members.
Moving to the United States from another country can be a difficult process, from learning a new language and trying to understand a new culture. Riverland student Sena Assigbe moved from Benin, West Africa to the United States in 2017.
“It’s challenging to learn how people live here. It’s a different lifestyle,” Assigbe said.
But there are resources available to help.
“We fill in the gaps, because when a newcomers comes to the United States, there’s the culture shock, there’s the language barrier, and we are there to help,” Austin Welcome Center program coordinator Varinh Van Hugt said.
One service the Welcome Center offers is information on taking the citizenship test. It’s a test with 100 U.S. history and government questions such as: What is the supreme law of the land? Why did the colonists fight the British? And Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.
“Becoming a citizen opens up a lot of the benefits. You have protection from deportation, and no one can take your right to live here in the United States after you become a citizen,” Van Hugt said.
Gaining citizenship is a way for those not born here to feel like they are a part of their communities.
“You just get to say that I’m here. I belong. It really truly is the goal when you move from a different country,” Van Hugt said.
“It’s a new journey for me, because I can learn new things, new skills and a new language,” Assigbe said.
With the help of the Austin Area Foundation and the Housing and Redevelopment Association, the Welcome Center in Austin is moving to the community action building across from the post office sometime this fall.
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Student brawl breaks out over a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, witnesses say
DOTHAN, Ala (WTVY/Gray News) - A fight started Thursday at an Alabama-area high school after two students reportedly got heated over a sandwich.
A spokesperson for Dothan Preparatory Academy said an altercation took place between two students at the school, leading to one of them being stabbed.
“They were apparently involved in a hallway argument,” said Meagan Dorsey, a Dothan City Schools spokesperson.
WTVY reports that witnesses said the students fought over a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with the attacker accused of using a hair pick in the stabbing.
Dorsey described injuries in the incident as minor and said the matter has been referred to Dothan police.
The injured student reportedly needed stitches, with the other facing an assault charge.
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The weather outside was cold when their plane landed in the Twin Cities. Target Center was cold when San Antonio Spurs players and coaches took part in shootaround Thursday morning.
It’s all so familiar to Tre Jones, and none of it will ever get old. It all serves as a reminder that the Apple Valley native is home.
“There’s nothing like Minnesota,” Jones said. “Just being able to come home and see family, see some friends and whatnot, that’ll never get old for me.”
The second-year guard returned Thursday in a slightly different role than his previous trips: as a starter. He’s filled in for the Spurs’ All-Star guard Dejounte Murray, who missed a fourth straight game Thursday night with an upper respiratory illness, with great success. San Antonio won the first three games without Murray.
Jones is averaging 13.7 points, 8.7 assists and 5.3 rebounds in that span, while shooting 53 percent from the field and 40 percent from 3-point range. His performances helped San Antonio secure a play-in spot over the Lakers.
“It’s been a lot of fun, for sure, being able to get a few starts in a row now. Being able to try to lead the team to the best of my ability,” Jones said. “I feel like right now we’re playing our best basketball of the year at the best time. So I just want to keep growing and keep building on what I’ve been doing to get to this point, and let everything take care of itself.”
Jones played sparingly in his rookie campaign, even seeing G-League action. That’s become the Spurs’ plan of attack with all of their younger players in recent years. Jones said the G-League experience helped, as did making an effort to learn as much as possible from San Antonio’s veteran players.
He battled an ankle injury early this season, but through the team’s issues with COVID-19 and a midseason roster reshuffling, different opportunities arose for Jones to show what he could do.
“There’s been different opportunities that I’ve been given, and I’m just trying to make the most out of all of them,” Jones said. “Just waiting for my opportunity, making sure that I’m always prepared when my number is called.”
He’s taken full advantage, cementing himself as San Antonio’s backup point guard.
Jones has remained focused on playing his game — setting up teammates on offense and sparking the Spurs’ defense with his efforts on that end. He’s continually working to expand his offensive impact. But who he is now is the player he knew he could always be at this level.
“I’ve definitely been trying to stay prepared for this moment, stay ready for when my number and name is called,” Jones said. “Just believing in myself and believing that I was always able to do this — just waiting on the opportunity.”
BRIEFLY
D’Angelo Russell missed Thursday’s contest with hamstring soreness. Patrick Beverley returned to action after missing the last two games with ankle soreness.
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Austin’s McCormack off to a strong start for UW-LaCrosse softball team
Published 2:47 pm Thursday, April 7, 2022
SOFTBALL
Austin grad Jordyn McCormack went 2-for-3 with two RBIs for the UW-La Crosse in an 8-5 loss to MSOE recently.
McCormack is hitting .365 with five doubles, two homers and 10 RBIs as she has started all 19 games for the Eagles (12-7 overall).
Hayfield grad Kyal Heydt went 1-for-4 with a run scored for Luther College in a 6-5 loss to Luther College recently.
Heydt is hitting .339 with seven doubles and 17 RBIs for the Norse (11-7 overall).
BASEBALL
Austin grad Teyghan Hovland has started in three games for North Central University and he is hitting .125 with one run scored and two walks drawn for the Rams (2-3 overall).
TRACK AND FIELD
Austin grad Patrick Hagan took 27th in the hammer throw with a distance of 147 feet, 5 1/4 inches for the University of Sioux Falls in the University of South Dakota Early Bird Meet recently.
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“Baseball’s back, baby,” screamed a fan going down the stairs at the Addison Red Line station, provoking a joyful chant from the crowd headed to Wrigley Field just before noon Thursday.
It was a sea of blue and red as fans flooded Wrigleyville bundled up in their Chicago Cubs gear.
After a contentious 99-day Major League Baseball lockout that delayed the start of the regular season by a week, fans were jubilant about the return of baseball.
“(The MLB lockout) was very depressing and took too long, but I’m glad that it’s back,” said Kaitlyn Chamberlain, 40, who took a 7 a.m. flight on game day from New Orleans with her dad. “It definitely feels like it put a damper on the beginning of the season. I was ready to start baseball again and get back to normal. I think that’s like the best part of going to the ballpark: It’s just normal.”
A Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native, Chamberlain and her dad are attending four games before returning home Sunday. She said she has been a Cubs fan since she was 6 when she and her brother began playing T-ball and chose the Cubs as their MLB team — and there was no going back.
“I’m excited about a fresh new team and I’m excited to be here. Well, a little strange because we started in New Orleans this morning where it’s like 80 degrees out, and now it’s this,” Chamberlain said as the first flurries of snow fell on her.
The weather was not picnic-worthy, not unusual for opening day in Chicago. But brief bouts of snow and rain ended before the Cubs and the Milwaukee Brewers took to the field.
Fans may not have had to dodge the weather, but those taking the Red Line had to navigate a construction hallway on the south side of the stadium.
Construction of the DraftKings sportsbook is underway. The three-story building, which will be open year-round and feature an open-air rooftop deck, is expected to open in 2023.
While some fans were not interested in gambling, Aidan Doyal, 25, and Austin Liptrot, 25, said they are excited about the sportsbook.
“I don’t know why they didn’t start it earlier,” was Doyal’s main critique. “Obviously, we pass it every day that started at like a month and a half ago, but I feel like they could have started it like five months ago and have it done by the beginning of the season.”
Both live in Wrigleyville, and Doyal is a Chicagoan and Cubs fan, but Liptrot — who is a New York Mets fan from Connecticut — decided to be a “Cubs fan for a day.” Liptrot is also looking forward to seeing former Met Marcus Stroman pitching for the Cubs. “(Stroman) is awesome. He’s gonna be a blast to watch. He plays mind games,” he said.
Meanwhile, inside Wrigley Field, the mask and vaccination mandates have been lifted. But William González wore a different kind of mask.
González, a South Sider who was born in Durango, Mexico, was sporting a Cubs lucha libre mask. This was his 45th mask, and he said his father makes them for him and sends them from Mexico City.
González has lived on the South Side since he was 3 and he became a Cubs fan in 1990. “My mom put me in the Boys and Girls Club of Chicago, and we had field trips to go to White Sox games and Cubs games, but for whatever reason, I never got to go to the White Sox games — I went to the Cubs ones,” he said, adding that’s how it began.
He said there are a lot of people on the South Side who like the Cubs, but his friends who like the White Sox also give him “grief.”
“We have a very good lineup this year,” González said. “I am a little more concerned about the pitching. Stroman’s good, I like him; (Kyle) Hendricks is always the ace; and the other guys will eventually catch up.”
Chris Hendriksen, 44, and his family — like many Cubs families — never miss an opening day. He is a Chicago native who lives in Cincinnati. They have attended every year for as long as they can remember, and their kids, Audrey, 7, and Daniel, 9, have come every year of their lives. Daniel was even in attendance when his mom Susy, 42, was pregnant with him.
Daniel said he was disappointed the Cubs traded first baseman Anthony Rizzo last year to the New York Yankees because he was his favorite player. “To me, they are not the Yankees now, they are ‘the Rizzos’,” he said. Now, Daniel and his father share the same favorite player: catcher Willson Contreras.
“I like (Nick) Madrigal,” Audrey said, and then her mom started laughing.
“It helps that ‘Encanto’ just came out. She was like ‘Is he in the Family Madrigal?’ ” Susy said, referring to the Disney animated movie.
The Hendriksens reached Wrigley from another direction so they didn’t notice the construction along Addison. But Chris Hendriksen said he thinks the sportsbook will be cool and he’ll check it out next year because he likes to gamble on sports. “I hope it doesn’t diminish the look and feel of Wrigley Field, but I’m OK with the Cubs being progressive on that kind of stuff,” he said.
“They did such a good job with the family Gallagher Way zone that we probably have faith in the team to build stuff that feels like it’s really additive for the fans,” Susy Hendricksen added.
Cousins Kleiber Gutierrez, 36, and Oscar Ramirez, 40, are big baseball fans originally from Caracas, Venezuela, who have called Chicago their home for six years. Ramirez won tickets to opening day.
“This is the city that opened their doors to us, so we have to support their Cubs,” Gutierrez said. “The lockout, however, was a bit tough on us because it is our main distraction in these tough times, but we’re glad they reached an agreement.”
Last year they went to many games and this year they want to make it to at least 10 more games. Their favorite player is also their compatriot Contreras, but “we gotta support all the Venezuelans on the team,” they said.
Ukrainian flags also flooded Wrigley.
Larissa Magajne, a first-generation American from a Ukrainian family and Cubs fan, proudly wore her flag on her back.
She and her family were supporting her daughter, who is with the Ukrainian American Youth Association Choir, which sang the Ukrainian national anthem before the first pitch.
Another supportive parent was Scott Kraud, 49, who is a lifelong fan from northern Indiana. “I bought these tickets to bring my son up, who just turned 21 in November,” he said. “This is his first trip to Wrigley Field as a 21-year-old, so he had his first Old Style at Murphy’s today.”
How were this father-son duo feeling about the Cubs after leaving Murphy’s before the game? “We’ll see,” Kraud said with a hint of doubt. “Optimistic? I don’t know.”
“Look, he’s watering it down,” his son, Jackson, intervened. “We’re gonna make it to playoffs, OK? Our pitching is a little shaky, but our offense is super underrated. I think everybody is going to be surprised with the outcome this year, even this guy right here.”
Jackson Kraud might be on to something.
Seiya Suzuki, the newest Cubs outfielder, finished 1-for-2 with two walks and strikeout in his MLB debut. And the Cubs beat their neighbors to the north 5-4.
Here’s to a year of surprises.
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On Nov. 20, 2008, Hal Steinbrenner was officially named Yankees general partner and the following year the team went to the World Series for the first time in six years, winning it for the first time in nine years. They did so with a major league-leading payroll of $201,441,289 which was nearly $70 million more than the second-highest payroll of the Mets.
Since then, the Yankees have consistently had the highest or second-highest payrolls in baseball but have not been to the World Series. After finishing third in 2013 with 85 wins and the fourth straight highest payroll in baseball, Steinbrenner made the statement that the Yankees shouldn’t have to have a $220 million payroll to win. He’s reiterated that a few times since, at the same time the Yankees repeatedly exceeded the luxury tax threshold from 2010-2017 and again in 2019 with no World Series to show for it.
This year their projected payroll according to FanGraphs is $246 million which, under the new Collective Balance Tax thresholds, will be about $16 million above the first threshold for which they will be taxed 20%. It is also perilously close to the second threshold of $250 million for which the tax goes up to 32%. Despite this, Steinbrenner found himself coming under some media and fan criticism for choosing not to address the Yankees’ primary need at shortstop through the free agent market where five of the best shortstops in the game — Carlos Correa, Trevor Story, Marcus Semien, Corey Seager and Javy Baez — were all available, albeit for substantial nine-figure asking prices.
With two players already holding $300 million contracts in Gerrit Cole and Giancarlo Stanton, and another potential nine-figure contract looming in Aaron Judge, Steinbrenner and GM Brian Cashman made the collective decision to obtain their needed shortstop via a trade, and not throw a long-term roadblock in the way of their two top prospects, shortstops Anthony Volpe and Oswald Peraza.
But after the lockout ended, there were still two shortstops left on the board — Correa and Story — with seemingly dwindling options. Steinbrenner and Cashman held firm and acquired Isiah Kiner-Falefa in a trade with Minnesota, only to incur further media criticism when it was learned they were also taking on all of the remaining $50 million on Josh Donaldson’s contract in the trade. That, in turn, enabled the Twins to sign Correa for a three-year $105 million deal — one-third of what he was originally seeking.
But to believe the Yankees were somehow snookered by the Twins was to assume the Yankees actually wanted Correa — which they didn’t for a number of reasons. First, they were concerned about his back and the substantial amount of games he missed from 2017-2020. Second, his involvement as a central figure in the Astros cheating scandal which directly affected the Yankees was a factor. And lastly, the disparaging remarks he’d made about Derek Jeter. His close relationship with Alex Rodriguez also didn’t help.
But while Steinbrenner has continued to spend, he has also made the point that there needs to come a time when the Yankee player development system will produce enough of a young core of players (as it did in the early ‘90s with Bernie Williams, Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada) that over-the-threshold payrolls won’t be necessary. A major component to accomplish this is analytics, which critics claim Cashman has over-emphasized.
As last year in particular demonstrated, the Yankees are not a fundamentally sound team and they have also failed repeatedly in drafting and developing quality frontline starting pitchers. The 2021 Yankees made 50 outs on the bases, fifth-most in the majors, and they tied the Royals for the most outs at home with 22. At the same time, neither of their two latest top homegrown starting pitchers, Clarke Schmidt or Deivi Garcia, was able to secure a spot in the rotation. They unfortunately remain the top-rated starters in their system, which doesn’t bode well for Steinbrenner’s vision of developing his own starting pitching — generally one of the most expensive commodities in baseball (see: Cole) — to help keep future payrolls in line.
This is why it is almost imperative for Luis Severino to finally fulfill his great promise this year. For two sterling seasons, 2017-2018, Severino gave every indication of being that first, long-awaited dominant homegrown Yankee starting pitcher since Pettitte, but after signing a four-year/$40 million extension in 2019 he’s been nothing but hurt. Interestingly, the most successful starter to come out of the system last year — the 5-11 lefty Nestor Cortes — had twice previously been cast off by them because he didn’t fit the analytics mold of a 6-5 gas thrower.
Despite the embarrassment of last year, and the continuing rash of injuries to plague the Yankees over the last three seasons, Cashman chose to double down on the analytics this winter, hiring four new coaches — hitting coaches Dillon Lawson and Casey Dykes, first base coach Travis Chapman, and assistant pitching coach Desi Druschel — all of whom have strong analytic backgrounds. Other than Chapman (one at-bat), none of them ever played in the majors, not that that should necessarily matter.
What does matter is that Steinbrenner also has bought into analytics in a big way and remains fully supportive of Cashman despite the 12-year World Series drought and payrolls consistently first or second in baseball. Every team is now fully vested in analytics, none of them seemingly more so than the Yankees or the Rays in their own division. There is no doubt Steinbrenner has privately seethed at seeing the Rays, in his own Tampa backyard, finishing first in the AL East the past two seasons and ahead of the Yankees the last three years on a payroll of roughly one-third of theirs.
Clearly, the Rays have done a much better job with their analytics in evaluating and developing players while stressing the fundamentals of the game. For that reason, 2022 figures to be a pivotal season for Cashman. For $250 million, Steinbrenner has a right to expect deep-into-October baseball in the Bronx.
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Chicago Cubs manager David Ross burst through the door into postgame news-conference room, prepared to drop a question before facing his own.
“Who had Nico in the first-homer pool?” a beaming Ross asked.
Ross had plenty of reasons to smile Thursday despite the chilly temperatures on opening day against the Milwaukee Brewers at Wrigley Field. Kyle Hendricks wanted to set the tone with his start and delivered a vintage performance. Nico Hoerner’s go-ahead, two-run homer in the fifth helped knock reigning National League Cy Young winner Corbin Burnes out of the game after the inning.
The Cubs did enough against Burnes and the Brewers bullpen to pull out a 5-4 win in front of 35,112 fans. David Robertson earned the save in his Cubs debut.
Although it’s just one game in a long, six-month season, opening day feels different regardless of whether it’s a player’s first or sixth, like for catcher Willson Contreras. He said he got chills thinking about how Thursday was his sixth consecutive opening day with the organization. The impending free agent had his entire family at Wrigley for the game, calling it an emotional day.
“Once I stepped out there I was almost tearing up,” Contreras said. “This place so special to me that I will always keep it in my heart.”
The uncertainty of Contreras’ part in the Cubs’ future looms over the big-picture implications of this season. So, too, does the Cubs needing to figure out which players can be more than just a bridge to the next championship-caliber team. Hoerner and Nick Madrigal have an opportunity to show they are important pieces to the future. They bring a contact-hitting element that was missing too often last season. Both players will need to overcome their injury history and be a regular presence in the lineup.
Getting some pop out of Hoerner’s bat would be a nice addition to his game.
“Of course everyone wants to hit more home runs, and it’s a part of what I can do,” Hoerner said. “It’s something that I can’t force, but it’ll happen over time.”
Hoerner unexpectedly delivered the first home run of the season — both for the Cubs and in Major League Baseball. His two-run shot marked his first long ball since Sept. 21, 2019, a span of 324 plate appearances. Before the home run, Hoerner’s 93 consecutive games without one represented the fifth-longest streak by an active position player. While he knew how long his home-run drought had lasted, it wasn’t at the forefront of his mind.
“A lot has to line up for that to happen,” Hoerner said of hitting the Cubs’ first homer. “I’ll have to ask Ian Happ how to handle that notoriety.”
Happ hit the first home run in MLB in 2018. While he didn’t homer Thursday, his three-hit game, featuring two doubles, was a welcome sight after a brutally tough first half in 2021 when he didn’t record a multihit game until May 2. Happ’s two-run double in the seventh put the Cubs back ahead after the Brewers had tied the game in the top of the inning.
Hendricks positioned the Cubs to secure a Game 1 victory.
Coming off a career-worst season, Hendricks expressed during spring training how he has a lot to prove. The veteran came through in his season debut. Armed with a changeup that constantly fooled Brewers hitters, Hendricks exited with the lead after 5⅓ innings, striking out seven, walking three and allowing only one run.
He consistently established his fastball command down in the zone, something he predominately focused on during his spring outings. Hendricks was pleased with his performance.
“My changeup played off of a lot of good curveballs at the right times, so overall, pretty good at being aggressive setting the tone,” Hendricks said. “I’d still like to do a little better: a leadoff walk, 0-2 hit batter and another bad walk. Those three things — just got to clean that up.
“It’s definitely something I can build on.”
Hendricks generated 13 whiffs with his changeup, his most swings and misses on the pitch since July 9, 2018 (also 13). Coming off a shortened spring, Hendricks gave the Cubs exactly what they needed.
Burnes kept the Cubs offense in check through four innings, giving up just one hit. They finally broke through in the fifth with four consecutive balls in play.
Seiya Suzuki connected for his first big-league hit on a single to left field and showed his awareness with heads-up base running. A popup off Jason Heyward’s bat fell for a hit when the Brewers couldn’t make a play on it near the second-base hole. Suzuki hustled from first-to-third on the play and scored the Cubs’ first run on Patrick Wisdom’s sacrifice fly.
“I (was) just looking out for the wind, but what I was thinking in that moment was trying to advance bases, and that’s what I was able to do,” Suzuki said through an interpreter.
Suzuki, who batted sixth in the order, finished 1-for-2 with two walks and a strikeout in his MLB debut.
“I was really, really happy to see everyone wearing my jersey,” Suzuki said. “But I need to get those results to live up to those expected expectations. So I’d like to keep on working.”
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Another season of Chicago White Sox baseball is upon us. Here’s how to watch all the action this season.
Which providers carry NBC Sports Chicago?
All local cable and satellite providers carry the regional sports network. Check your zip code here.
What if I have cut the cord?
NBC Sports Chicago is available on Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, fuboTV and AT&T TV, but you’re out of luck if you have Sling.
Are there any other streaming options?
Authenticated NBC Sports Chicago subscribers can stream live via the MyTeams app and on the NBC Sports Chicago website.
What’s the non-NBC Sports Chicago broadcast schedule?
The White Sox will have a handful of games on national networks, plus some on NBC Sports Chicago+ because of conflicts with the Bulls or Blackhawks. Here’s a list, subject to change:
- April 15 vs. Tampa Bay Rays, Apple TV+
- April 23 at Minnesota Twins, NBCSCH and FS1
- April 30 vs. Los Angeles Angels, NBCSCH and FS1
- May 6 at Boston Red Sox, Apple TV+
- May 8 at Red Sox, NBC-5 and Peacock
- May 22 at New York Yankees, ESPN
- May 28 vs. Cubs, Fox-32
- June 17 at Houston Astros, Apple TV+
- July 23 vs. Cleveland Guardians, Fox-32
- July 30 vs. Oakland Athletics, Fox-32
- Aug. 15 vs. Astros, NBCSCH and FS1
- Aug. 21 at Guardians, Peacock
- Aug. 24 at Baltimore Orioles, NBCSCH and FS1
What voices am I going to hear on TV?
The Jason Benetti-Steve Stone broadcast partnership continues this season, and expect to see radio voice Len Kasper make a few appearances in the booth too. The pregame and postgame shows will continued to be led by NBCSCH’s Chuck Garfien with Sox legends Ozzie Guillen and Frank Thomas.
What if I want to listen on the radio?
Kasper will be in his second season on the South Side as the play-by-play announcer alongside veteran analyst Darrin Jackson and studio host Connor McKnight on WMVP-AM 1000. For a list of affiliate stations in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, click here.
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Chicago Cubs outfielder Jason Heyward started opening day with a message to media members.
“Welcome back into the clubhouse,” he said.
It was nice to be welcomed back by anyone after an offseason like the one we just endured, testing our love for the game.
The last time reporters were allowed inside the home clubhouse at Wrigley Field was Sept. 22, 2019, when the Cubs lost 3-2 to the St. Louis Cardinals during a season-ending collapse in the final days of the Joe Maddon regime.
Only a half-dozen players remain from that day, which seems like it took place in a different time. Only one day earlier, Nico Hoerner had homered. He didn’t hit another one until a two-run shot in the fifth inning of Thursday’s 5-4 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.
“I remember it well,” Hoerner said. “The last two years had a lot within it. Awesome to be here on opening day, to be healthy and be with the team that’s very excited to play baseball.”
The COVID-19 pandemic kept reporters out of the Cubs’ lair the last two seasons, which might have been fine with many players, but not the ones who understand the history of the game and its need to be chronicled.
“You don’t know how the game is going to change over time,” Heyward said. “It could happen quickly or not. But (the media) is an important element of the game, just for players to see. You guys have a workplace here too. There is a sense of accountability, but I also think there’s a sense of fun — a guy has a big moment in a game the night before or that night, and we can immediately meet face to face, get a little reaction.”
Face-to-face interaction is always preferable to Zoom, so I was looking forward to actually getting to talk to people in person without having to unmute myself. And you could see in the eyes of catcher Willson Contreras that the reception he received from Cubs fans meant a lot.
“Since I took the first step toward the bullpen before the game it was really loud,” he said. “It was emotional. I was, like, floating. Man, this place. … I know I’m just doing my job, but the fans here are really special to me.”
First baseman Frank Schwindel was clearly geeked before his second opening day — and first since 2019 with the Kansas City Royals — which he called a “short-lived” experience.
“This is awesome,” Schwindel said. “I felt like I never left because of all the hype last year, and getting back (Wednesday). Every time we take batting practice or step on the field it’s something special. There are no bad days at Wrigley.”
Thursday was a day the Cubs could savor. They’re not expected to go anywhere, so they might as well enjoy every day they can prove the narrative wrong.
Contreras even had a feeling of déjà vu after being plunked by a Jake Cousins pitch in the seventh inning, a reminder of Brewers pitchers treating him like a pin cushion last season.
“I guess it’s baseball,” he said. “The only good thing about that was I got on base, Ian Happ hit a double and we won the game.”
Former Cub Victor Caratini calmed Contreras down, while Adbert Alzolay tweeted from Arizona: “First HBP of many from this team for Willy,” while adding a few shrug emojis.
“Man, it’s just history,” Contreras said, laughing at Alzolay’s tweet.
If it were up to Cubs fans, Contreras would be re-signed already. Instead, he’s entering his walk year with no idea if he’ll end the season in Chicago.
“Listen, we’ve had a bunch of guys last year playing as free agents,” team President Jed Hoyer said. “It’s not something new to us. We’ve got a good relationship with Willson. Obviously if we do start talking about a deal in-season, we’re not going to talk about it publicly. Nothing different.
“We’re excited to have him. He’s a tremendously talented catcher, and we’ll sort of see where that goes.”
Chairman Tom Ricketts has the money. He wrote a letter to fans in the fall insisting the Cubs “will be active in free agency and continue to make thoughtful decisions to bolster our team this offseason.”
But the Cubs made only two significant moves in free agency — signing outfielder Seiya Suzuki and pitcher Marcus Stroman — which could be why there were so many empty seats at Wrigley despite an announced crowd of 35,112.
Before the game, while Ricketts was signing baseballs and taking selfies with Cubs fans, I shook hands and asked if he had a second to talk.
“I don’t think so,” he replied, continuing his walk up the aisle.
Nothing?
“Just happy we’re playing,” he said.
Well, you can’t expect miracles, even on opening day.
Ricketts has been under a self-imposed cone of silence since being booed at the 2020 Cubs Convention and then insisting he wasn’t booed. And now he has embarked on a new adventure — trying to purchase a Premier League soccer team with his friends and a few spare billion in pocket change.
That move made some fans wonder whether all those $13.99 premium draft beers and $14.99 “Cubbie Ritas” at Wrigley were going toward the Rickettses’ bid for Chelsea instead of the Cubs.
“The Chicago Cubs are a closed loop,” Ricketts’ spokesman Dennis Culloton told the Tribune recently. “All the revenue that is generated goes back into the team, in some fashion. So there’s no revenues from the Chicago Cubs being used for soccer or any other sports investment.”
But if the team isn’t putting those revenues back into the payroll, where exactly are they going? You’d think the Cubs would have ome remaining for Contreras, whom fans clearly want to keep.
Contreras said after Thursday’s game he doesn’t want to go anywhere.
“We have a lot of younger guys, and a lot of experienced guys, and I think there is a lot of balance,” he said. “I like the energy this whole team has brought since the start of spring training and I hope we can keep it the same.”
The conviction in Contreras’ voice was much more evident than it would’ve sounded on Zoom, a welcome thing to see face to face on opening day.
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Welcome back to another Chicago Cubs season at Wrigley Field.
The roster has a lot of new faces (hello, Marcus Stroman and Seiya Suzuki), but a lot around the ballpark hasn’t changed, except maybe the size of the bag you can bring in.
Here’s what to know if you’re going to a Cubs home game this season.
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Planning your trip to the ballpark
What’s the Cubs schedule?
If you had the schedule marked down on a calendar when it was announced last August, you’re going to need a big eraser thanks to the MLB lockout.
The Cubs now open the season Thursday at home versus the Milwaukee Brewers to kick off a four-game series before going on a six-game trip to Pittsburgh (April 12-13) and Denver (April 14-17). Here’s the full schedule — and here’s our guide to watch or stream all the games.
What’s the ticket policy?
Cubs tickets are exclusively mobile — via the MLB Ballpark app — and must be scanned for entry. Photographs and/or screenshots of tickets will not be accepted. For rainouts and game rescheduling, specific information will be provided to the email used to purchase tickets on a case-by-case basis.
And if you want season tickets, there’s currently a waiting list.
What promotions are going to be given away this season?
From a Hawaiian shirt to a Patrick Wisdom bobblehead to a Cubs fanny pack, here’s the schedule of promotion and theme nights for 2022.
What time does the ballpark open before games?
Gates open 90 minutes before first pitch for 6:40 p.m. games and two hours before first pitch for all other games. Click here for a map showing gate locations.
What’s the bag policy?
Think small. No backpacks, hard-sided coolers or bags larger than 16 by 16 by 8 inches are allowed inside Wrigley Field. Some exceptions are made for medical and diaper bags, but all bags will be inspected before entry.
These types of bags — if 16 by 16 by 8 inches or smaller — are permitted:
- Briefcases
- Drawstring bags
- Fanny packs
- Purses
- Soft-sided coolers
- Wallets
Can I bring an umbrella into Wrigley Field?
Yes, but it needs to be small and collapsible. Umbrellas with metal tips and those larger than 10 inches are on the prohibited items list. Also, don’t bring that much cash — all in-ballpark purchases are cashless, from retail to concessions (more on that below).
Here’s what else to leave at home:
- Air horns or other distracting noisemakers
- Brooms, poles, staffs or sticks
- Inflatables (including beach balls)
- Selfie sticks
- Unmanned aerial vehicles (including drones)
What’s the best way to get to Wrigley Field?
Wrigley Field is located at 1060 W. Addison St. in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood.
Public transportation is the easiest and cheapest way to get to Cubs home games.
Chicago Transit Authority
Check out transitchicago.com for fare information, route schedules and maps. Cost is $2.25 by bus or $2.50 by train. Extra service is planned before and after home games. Masks are required.
Plan to buy tickets in advance using the Ventra app.
By CTA bus
Use Nos. 152 Addison or 80 Irving Park. Adjacent routes include Nos. 8 Halsted, 22 Clark, 36 Broadway and 151 Sheridan.
By CTA “L” train
- Red Line: Exit at Addison station, which is a half-block east of Wrigley Field.
- Purple Line: Southbound trains stop at Sheridan during weeknight games. Riders can then walk three blocks south on either Sheridan Road or Sheffield Avenue to Wrigley Field or transfer to a southbound Red Line train and exit at Addison station.
- Yellow Line: Take southbound, then transfer at Howard to the Red Line. Exit at Addison station.
Metra
Check metra.com for route schedules and maps. Plan to buy tickets in advance using the Ventra app.
Day passes — which are available only in the Ventra app — cost $6 or $10, depending on distance traveled.
- From Union Station: Walk six blocks east to CTA’s Jackson station. Take the Red Line north (Howard-bound). Exit at Addison station.
- From Ogilvie Transportation Center: Walk six blocks east to CTA’s Lake station. Take the Red Line north (Howard-bound). Exit at Addison station.
Pace
The Wrigley Field Express bus will not operate during the 2022 regular season because of a driver shortage. Fans can sign up for email updates to be notified if service returns.
By bike or personal scooter
A free valet service is available for Cubs home games. It’s located in the alley just east of the CTA’s Red Line stop on Addison Street. These items can be checked up to two hours before a home game’s scheduled start time. The service closes 30 minutes after the game ends.
How much is parking and where is the best spot?
There are a variety of parking options nearby — but it will cost you.
Some spots can be purchased in advance through Spothero and StubHub.
Need an ADA parking option? Contact Wrigley Field fan services at (773) 388-8270.
Parking around Wrigley Field
- Irving Park Lot (entrance is on Irving Park Road just north of Seminary Avenue): Located at 1052 W. Irving Park Road, this lot is open to season parking pass holders and game-day paid parking.
- Toyota Camry Lot (entrance is on Grace Street between Racine and Clifton avenues): Located at 1126 W. Grace St., this lot is open to season parking pass holders and game-day paid parking.
- Toyota RAV4 Lot (entrance is on Eddy Street west of Seminary Avenue): Located at 1140 W. Eddy St., this lot is open to season parking pass holders only.
Free parking and shuttle
- Remote lot (entrance is on Irving Park Road): Located at 3900 N. Rockwell St., just east of the Chicago River. Open for night and weekend games. Includes free shuttle service to and from Wrigley Field, which drops off and picks up fans on Irving Park Road between Clark Street and Seminary Avenue.
What about street parking?
Check ParkChicago to find the nearest metered parking areas and restrictions.
Pregaming and photo ops
Can I tailgate?
No tailgating is allowed (to do that, head south to Guaranteed Rate Field). But there are plenty of spots around Wrigleyville to eat and drink before the game (or wait out a rain delay) — here are our picks.
What’s that area under construction?
That would be the DraftKings Sportsbook. The three-story building will be open year-round and will feature an open-air rooftop deck. The Cubs are targeting opening day 2023 to begin operations, but labor and worldwide supply chain issues might delay the timeline.
“No one’s more protective of Wrigley Field than we are,” president of business operations Crane Kenney told the Tribune.
The Wrigley sportsbook space previously was the location of the Captain Morgan Club (2009-18) and then the DraftKings Fantasy Sports Zone before becoming a tent setup with fixtures inside.
Sheffield Avenue will remain open during construction. The affected area will run from the right-field Wintrust gate west toward the main gate.
Wait, where did the statues go?
The Billy Williams and Ron Santo statues were removed Jan. 31 from the corner of Addison Street and Sheffield Avenue. The Cubs plan to make Gallagher Way the site for all current and future player statues. When the Cubs unveil Hall of Fame pitcher Fergie Jenkins’ statue in May, the statues of Ernie Banks, Santo and Williams also will be moved to Gallagher Way. The Harry Caray statue will remain behind the center-field bleachers.
Anyone can access Gallagher Way until three hours before first pitch, at which point a same-day game ticket is required to enter the space until one hour after the game, per a city ordinance.
What’s the most Instagrammable spot?
C’mon, you must be new here.
Once you’re at the ballpark
Where should I sit?
That’s really up to you — and your wallet. But if you’re concerned about foul balls (or flying bats), the netting extends to the outfield edge of each dugout. If you’re up for the whole Wrigley experience, there are the bleachers, which is a first-come, first-served seat grab.
Here’s a 3D map of Wrigley so you can scope out your vantage point ahead of time.
Can I mobile order my food again?
Yes, you can — and the Cubs will be testing new grab-and-go technology for concession stands, hoping to shorten wait times. They are piloting the feature at the main concession stand by the Wrigley Field marquee gate.
“Just like you do at grocery stores, you’ll bring your five items, you’ll put them on a tray, it will scan immediately and tell you what it is you just purchased,” Kenney explained in an interview with the Tribune. “You put your credit card in and you walk away. You’ll never see a concession worker. … We’re trying to reduce wait times in every place that you bottleneck at Wrigley Field.”
The Cubs will continue to follow city, state and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for fan COVID-19 protocols.
What should I eat — and drink?
There’s … a lot of food to eat. So pace yourself. From Hot Doug’s sausage to Jeff Mauro’s bao to the pork sandwich to Giordano’s 6-inch stuffed pizza, you can sample Chicago’s best eats at the ballpark (including vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options). And don’t forget about the soft serve helmet.
New options include “The Twisted Tater” — a crispy spiral potato skewer served with dill pickle dip — and a Nashville hot chicken sandwich — breaded chicken breast dipped in hot sauce topped with coleslaw and bread-and-butter pickles, served on a toasted brioche bun.
Here’s the full list with locations — including where to find the hot chocolate and coffee for those April games.
What else should I check out while at Wrigley?
A Hall of Fame debuted in August with a tiered system of recognition that can range from a statue outside Wrigley to a retired number, a name on a flag or a plaque in the Hall of Fame located beneath the left-field bleachers. Anyone with a ticket to a game will be able to access the area.
The basic criteria to be inducted are being a Cub for five or more years or making a significant contribution to the organization through service or time. One of the notable names not included among the initial 56 plaques in the Hall of Fame is outfielder Sammy Sosa, who has a complicated relationship with the Cubs.
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Who’s ready to watch some baseball, Chicago?!?
Chicago Tribune columnist Paul Sullivan is probably shivering in the press box at Wrigley Field as this email hits your inbox. Thankfully, when I chatted with him this morning, he said he had a hoodie handy. Today is Sully’s 33rd consecutive year covering a Cubs or White Sox home opener for the Chicago Tribune. That’s why I asked him a few questions about his experiences. Well, the ones he can share with a family audience, anyway.
Q&A with Paul Sullivan: Covering the Cubs’ home opener at Wrigley Field
Can you describe for readers what your first home opener experience covering the Cubs was like? Any memories you’d like to share?
Sullivan: “My first opening day as a Tribune baseball writer came on April 4, 1989, when one of assignments was to check out the 67 new luxury boxes at Wrigley Field. (Editor’s note: Read Sully’s story here.) It was one of the first significant concessions to modernizing the ballpark, following the installation of lights the previous August, and some fans in the reserve grandstands complained that the luxury boxes cut off their view of the center field scoreboard. Newly acquired closer Mitch Williams loaded the bases with no one out in the top of the ninth before striking out the side to preserve a 5-4 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. The Cubs shocked everyone that year, winning the National League East as the so-called ‘Boys of Zimmer.’”
What’s it like to work in the Cubs press box? We see it on TV all the time, but what’s it like to watch a game at Wrigley Field from the press box?
Sullivan: “The Wrigley press box is a great place to actually watch a game, unlike Guaranteed Rate Field, which is located well down the first base line. It’s really no different than watching in the upper deck, except that it’s shielded from the wind on cold days. The Cubs recently installed air conditioning for hot days but usually leave the windows open anyways for reasons that make no sense.”
If you weren’t on the clock, then what would your favorite section of the ballpark be to watch a Cubs home game?
Sullivan: “Before becoming a sportswriter, I spent most of my time at Wrigley in the bleachers, though if you are able to afford it, the best seats are the boxes between the dugouts where you can decipher balls and strikes. Unfortunately, the average fan is priced out of the best seats nowadays.”
Agreed, Sully — we’ll be cheering from the cheap seats.
Check out 10 memorable home openers — 5 for the Cubs and 5 for the White Sox — that Marianne Mather and I found in the Chicago Tribune’s archives. Let’s hope two more can be added to the list this year.
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Go Chicago sports teams! See you next week!
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Chicago history | More newsletters | Puzzles & Games | Today’s eNewspaper edition
April 24, 1901: Chicago White Sox host first game in American League history
Back then, the team owned by Charles Comiskey was called the White Stockings — not to be confused with the previous White Stockings, which later became the Cubs. WHY IS BASEBALL SO CONFUSING?!?!?!
April 8, 1969: Willie Smith clobbers a home run in the 11th inning to give the Chicago Cubs a reason to fly the “W” flag after their home opener
Smith, described by Tribune scribe George Langford as “an ex-boxer, ex-pitcher, and current bench sitter,” electrified the robust Wrigley crowd with his bomb in extra innings.
April 9, 1976: Chicago White Sox shut out Kansas City Royals in patriotic home opener before 40, 318 fans at Comiskey Park
Bob Verdi noted after the unexpected Spirit of ‘76 introduction: “Once the games finished, the game began. And the White Sox, who last year abandoned their recklessness, played with reckless abandon.”
April 14, 1981: New White Sox catcher Carlton Fisk greets Chicago fans with a resounding grand slam
“It was some sight in the arena where, since 1977, fans have lifted their derrieres out of the pews only for the seventh-inning stretch,” In the Wake of the News columnist David Condon wrote.
April 4, 1989: With bases loaded, Chicago Cubs reliever Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams strikes out the side to preserve a win
While the Chicago Tribune’s front page marked the historic election of a second Mayor Daley, the Sports front praised Williams’ composure during a game that included Joe Girardi’s major-league debut and Andre Dawson slamming the first home run of 1989 for the Cubs.
“I’ve never been involved in a more exciting game, in a more nerve-wracking game in my life,” Mark Grace said.
“This guy, I just hope that the Chicago Cub fans don’t expect miracles from this guy,” Cubs manager Don Zimmer said of Williams.
April 18, 1991: Chicago White Sox shut out by the Detroit Tigers 16-0 in debut of new Comiskey Park
The stadium — gorgeous. The game — ugly.
April 9, 1993: Bo Jackson hits a home run in his first at-bat for the Chicago White Sox after hip replacement
“It was a moment that will long outlive this one game. Unfortunately, it meant precious little to the White Sox,” Tribune reporter Joey Reaves wrote.
April 4, 1994: Chicago Cubs leadoff hitter Karl “Tuffy” Rhodes hits three home runs in his first three at-bats
Harry Caray kissed first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, but Rhodes was the spectacle.
“The fans celebrated the third homer by tossing hats by the hundreds on the field and demanding a curtain call from Rhodes. Play was delayed for nearly 10 minutes,” the Tribune reported.
April 5, 2012: New Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein calls early bloom of Wrigley Field ivy ‘a good omen’
“Four hours later, nobody associated the early blooms with anything more than good weather,” David Haugh observed.
April 9, 2018: Chicago Cubs postpone their home opener due to snow
White Sox fans will remember — the team from the South Side played that day despite two inches of snow, which was promptly removed from the field by “The Sodfather.”
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There was a prevailing idea at the Yankees’ workout on Thursday:
Things are back to normal.
As pitchers played some light catch on the field amid a falling rain and hitters worked out of sight, media were allowed in the press conference room for interviews and the specter of an Opening Day in front of a fully packed Yankee Stadium made several players’ eyes light up. Once they left Tampa and got to New York, the feeling seemed to convey, it meant officially putting the weirdness of two COVID-affected seasons, a speedy spring training, and a lockout behind them.
Still, the shortened spring training is notable, as it raises questions about how players can get back up to game speed while also avoiding injuries that might come with going from zero to 100 so quickly. The effects of that won’t become clear until a few games are under their belt, but for the Yankees, manager Aaron Boone said their truncated time in Florida created some solid relationships.
“I love the bond that’s going on in that room right now,” Boone said. “There’s a closeness to the group that I like. That’s one of the things you worry about with a shortened spring training.”
As for his players’ health, Boone spun the shortness of the spring into a potential positive, in that it left no time to mess around.
“As much as it was a condensed spring training from that standpoint, I do feel good about where they’re at. Maybe the calendar forced them to be a little more focused and intense right away because we didn’t have a lot of ramp up time. There wasn’t a lot of easing into it.”
Creating a good atmosphere in the clubhouse — which, for the first time since 2019, is no longer a fortress of complete solitude for the players and coaches — is also a little different without Brett Gardner’s presence. A career Yankee who was drafted by the club in 2005, debuted in 2008, and was the last remaining piece of the 2009 championship, Gardner was not re-signed when his contract expired at the end of 2021. That means that for the first time in Boone’s managerial career, he’ll embark on a season without the diminutive outfielder.
“Let me first say, Gardy has been an amazing Yankee,” Boone began. “It was amazing for me to have a guy like that who’s tough, a good player, was consistent, and one of the great leaders on this team. That said, I feel like we’re in a position to carry on strongly. I was thinking of him a little bit on the way in today, because I love Gardy and all that he’s meant to this organization. So, I guess it’s a little weird (not having him here) in that respect, but with spring training being so short and having new coaches, there wasn’t that time to really reflect. We’re trying to make sure we’re in a good position.”
In addition to the standard bloviating about the magic of Opening Day and being excited at the opportunity to compete for a championship again, Boone sprinkled in some minorly interesting things about the upcoming season. For the very first game, at least, newly acquired third baseman Josh Donaldson will hit leadoff. DJ LeMahieu was the team’s primary leadoff man last year, starting 144 games atop the lineup, but his batting average also fell to its lowest point since 2014, and the infielder dealt with a sports hernia at the end of the year.
Donaldson has only started a game in the leadoff spot seven times in his career. With LeMahieu’s injury keeping him out of last year’s Wild Card game, Anthony Rizzo manned the leadoff spot. Rizzo has much more experience hitting first (65 career starts), and while Boone wouldn’t disclose the rest of his Opening Day lineup, slotting Donaldson at the top likely means Rizzo’s left-handed bat will be used to break up the glut of righties.
On a lighter note, Boone laughed about the PitchCom system that will be in place for pitchers and catchers this year, particularly how it requires a different wearable device for each reliever. That means, as Boone poked fun at, he’ll have to carry the equipment to the mound with him each time he makes a pitching change.
“I have to walk out with the thing and stick it in their hat,” he marveled, drawing laughter from reporters who assumed he was kidding. “Yeah, it’s gonna happen.”
STANTON READY FOR WHATEVER ROLE
Giancarlo Stanton, who played just 26 games in the outfield last season compared to 108 as a designated hitter, was asked about his deployment plan for 2022 and how often we’ll see him with a glove.
“I think a few times a week, whenever I can make it work to fit the best lineup,” Stanton shared. “I’ll be ready to go. I enjoy being out there. I feel like I had a solid spring. We’re here now.”
Stanton saw some action in right field during Grapefruit League games and was an outfielder for his entire eight-year career in the National League with the Marlins. Last season, he had a 1.016 OPS in 107 plate appearances as an outfielder, compared to .843 in 467 plate appearances as a DH.
“I think it’s a good switch up from just DH’ing,” he said on Thursday. “You don’t realize how somewhat disconnected you are from the game when you’re just DH’ing.”
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A woman who has remained unidentified has withdrawn a civil suit against the rapper Snoop Dogg she filed, accusing him of sexual assault and battery after a 2013 show, court documents reported on by Reuters state.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the Central District of California, was dropped on Wednesday, almost two months later. The rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, released a statement through a representative.
In the statement, the representative for the rapper said, "It is not surprising that the plaintiff dismissed her complaint against the defendants. Her complaint was full of false allegations and deficiencies."
The unidentified woman was described as a model, host, actress and dancer who reportedly worked for Snoop Dogg, Reuters reported.
According to Billboard, the suit was filed on Feb. 9 and alleged that both Snoop Dogg and Bishop Don "Magic" Juan, described by MTV as a former pimp, assaulted her separately over a 24-hour time period in May of 2013.
A statement from Snoop Dogg said the lawsuit was a “thinly veiled attempt to extort defendant for money” and said “nothing remotely resembling plaintiff’s story” happened, Billboard reported.
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Whenever A-list, fitness-devoted celebrities share their beauty secrets, we’re first in line to take notes. So, when Jennifer Lopez took to social media to praise her high-waisted, butt-lifting Niyama Sol leggings, our ears perked up.
The multi-hyphenate star has not been shy about sharing her love for Niyama Sol leggings, and she has mentioned them in several tweets and Instagram posts alongside images of herself looking gorgeous while working out.
Here’s a flashback tweet in which Lopez gave a shoutout to her beloved Niyama Sol:
Back at it and ready for the weekend. #NiyamaSol pic.twitter.com/WZGgnko01b
— jlo (@JLo) June 27, 2020
Of course, we are talking about Jennifer Lopez, who would look flawless in a paper sack. I mean, have you ever seen her not look incredible? (Yeah, me neither.)
She has also been open about her intense workout routine and her nutritious diet, so it’s obviously not just the leggings that make Lopez look fabulous in photos, like these selfies she posted to Twitter:
If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you… #CamoFriday #niyamasol pic.twitter.com/yw3SDkrrU1
— jlo (@JLo) May 15, 2020
But cute leggings definitely help! And the best thing about Lopez’s favorite leggings? They’re readily available on Amazon, so we mortals can feel like superstars while working out — without spending a fortune.
The leggings from Niyama Sol are designed with a “no-slip waist” so they won’t slide around, roll down or dig into your belly. This allows you to freely downward dog in cramped yoga classes without any fear that your classmate can see your bum because the fabric remains in place no matter what kinds of wild contortions you wriggle into.
The breathable fabric comes in a wide variety of colors and patterns, and best of all, they are partly made from recycled water bottles.
Amazon reviewers rave about the leggings’ “stunning” patterns and the “superb quality.” One reviewer even said they think the design of the leggings is “kind of genius!”
Even though sporting these babies won’t make you jump higher or burn more calories, they are likely to make you feel great, and the power of feeling good should never be underestimated.
If you want to try these sweat-wicking leggings, here are a few of the lively colors and patterns you can select.
Niyama Sol Napali Barefoot Leggings
This Napali print ($55.83) is like a whole tropical vacation in pants form. You can gaze upon the beautiful beach as you do a forward-fold.
Niyama Sol Kyoto Reds Barefoot Leggings
The Kyoto print ($65.99) bursts with colorful graphic design elements. The vibrance of these leggings will help you stand out in a yoga class full of solid-hued legs.
Niyama Sol Tie-Dye Xray Leggings
For a two-toned vibe or to channel your animalistic energy, try the Niyama Sol Tie-Dye Xray style ($69.99).
Niyama Sol Nami Barefoot Leggings
The Nami-patterned leggings ($70.99) showcase a well-known wave design that will bring an artistic vibe to your workout session.
Niyama Sol Shibori Barefoot Leggings
The leggings with the Shibori print ($57.99) lend a soothing, aquatic element to your attire.
No matter what pattern you pick, these pants will add a little extra pep to your step and a little whimsy to your yoga practice.
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A recent southern Colorado wind storm, which usually occurs about every two years in the state, caused damage. But the question is, who is responsible?
The winds caused a cart corral, which holds shopping carts together while they're being brought back into the store, to knock into a car while a customer was shopping.
Through its insurance company, the supermarket called King Soopers, says they aren't responsible, but a local attorney says that's not always true.
On the morning of December 15, 2021, a major wind storm rolled through the town of Colorado Springs. A local meteorologist clocked 92 mph wind gusts at the Colorado Springs Airport that day.
Lette de Mer says her family's Subaru was parked at the grocery store when the cart corral blew into their car.
"Staff was out there trying to move this thing off of our car and put it off to the side," Lette said. "One of the staff members took a picture."
She says the employees took pictures of the damage to the rear of the car.
"The rear hatch was damaged," she said. "It was hit pretty hard and pieces of the rear hatch were broken off.”
Lette says at first, the store seemed willing to address the damage.
“The manager said he would check with insurance and call me back and we never got a callback," she said. "They haven’t returned any of our calls and then we contacted you.”
Sedgwick, the company handling claims on behalf of King Soopers (a Kroger brand) sent Lette and her husband a denial letter.
"I would like to apologize for the unfortunate incident you experienced while shopping," the letter said. "After careful review of the facts regarding your incident, our investigation has revealed no negligence on behalf of King Soopers and therefore we must deny your claim."
The letter then told Lette they hope she would remain as one of its "valued customers."
We presented what happened to attorney Stephen Longo. He is not associated with either party in this case, but said he would give a legal opinion on who may be responsible when cases like this occur.
“Anytime we go shopping at any store that is open and inviting us in, they are designated under Colorado law under the 'Premise of Liability Act’ as an invitee and under that standard, it means the business needs to protect us from known dangers or dangers that they should know about upon a reasonable inspection," Longo said.
Since this December wind storm was predicted days in advance by local meteorologists in Colorado, Longo said this fact may help the family if they appeal.
“If we’re talking about a cart corral that gets blown over by a wind storm because it’s not bolted down correctly, then they can still be found negligent."
Longo says one thing to consider in a case like this is whether employees should have known or could have known about this potential danger through routine maintenance like sweeps or inspections and a review of safety policies and practices.
Kristal Howard, the director of media relations and corporate communications for The Kroger Company was contacted for a statement but did not immediately reply.
"For 40 years I've been shopping there and now they don't want to take responsibility for their cart corral hitting our car and damaging it," Lette said. "If that had hit a person, it would have been tragic. Fortunately no one was hit."
We also reached out directly to Sedgwick to see if they could review the denial and offer the customer information on an appeal.
Lette says to-date, she has heard nothing back from Sedgwick.
At first, Judy Molnar, Vice President of Public Relations for Sedgwick asked for the customer's information. We immediately provided it to Sedgwick.
Further correspondence seeking information via email, telephone, and text message went unanswered by Molnar.
Advice from Stephen Longo:
Longo says insurance companies are in the business of taking premiums and not paying out claims. He said it's not necessarily uncommon for an insurance company or business to immediately deny a claim.
If this occurs, he says you should look into filing an appeal.
Some agencies, like hospitals, are transparent about how to file an appeal. Sedgwick provided no such information in its denial to the customer on the appeals process.
Longo says you should also ask the insurance company the following questions:
- What facts did you review before coming to your conclusion or decision?
- What information or exemption in the insurance policy are you citing regarding my denial?
- What safety protocols and procedures were in place at the time of this incident?
- What media (pictures, video, statements) did you use to draw your conclusion?
If you're still not making headway, seeking mediation services might be the next step you consider before filing a civil lawsuit and letting the courts decide who is at fault."
This story was originally published by Eric Ross of KOAA in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Hundreds of tanks were decimated.
After Russia's army retreated from the suburbs of Kyiv, Ukrainian fighters are getting an up-close look at their scores won through pluck and leveraging of resources. The most celebrated of which, revered even, is the Javelin anti-tank missile.
An artist dubbed "Saint Javelin" is the patron of Ukrainian resistance. Her image is helping to raise over a million dollars in merchandise sales, benefiting humanitarian aid.
To be sure, Javelins, supplied by the U.S., are one of several anti-tank weapons systems that Ukraine is using to extract a heavy price from Putin.
"This is a class of weapons," CSIS International Security Program Senior Adviser Mark Cancian said. "The Javelins are the top end. They're most expensive and the most effective."
The most effective for ambushing tanks and other heavy armor from a distance of up to two-and-a-half miles.
Here's how it works: An individual soldier uses the command launch unit to identify the target. When the missile is fired, a launch motor propels the missile out of the tube. The primary flight motor doesn't ignite until the missile is some distance away. This makes it more difficult for the enemy to identify the location of the person who fired it.
The Javelin is known as a "fire-and-forget" system. An onboard computer guides the missile to the target. It can either be set to attack the tank head-on or go up and strike down at the top of the tank, where it's weakest.
According to a running tally from open-source intelligence experts who base their count on videos and images of at least 450 Russian tanks in Ukraine that have been either destroyed, damaged, abandoned, or captured.
In the weeks leading up to the invasion, the U.S. made no secret of the high-tech threat Russia's armored vehicles would be up against.
"Analysts are scratching their heads about why the Russians are showing so little tactical skill," Cancian said. "Their doctrine and our doctrine says that if you're going to use armor, you use artillery ahead of them to suppress any infantry and anti-tank weapons. And you use reconnaissance to find out where they are. They don't seem to have done that."
Tanks are also vulnerable to fighter aircraft, but NATO and the U.S. say they won't engage Russia militarily, directly. That's why the Javelins, along with advanced air defense weaponry, are proving so crucial.
"By using the right types of techniques and the right weapons systems, the Javelin, the stingers have proven to be very, very effective in this fight," U.S. Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin said.
The problem for Ukraine is that they're going through their Javelins fast and say they need more, soon.
Reports estimate that the U.S. has already sent them 4,600. And is dispatching an additional $100 million worth.
"As fast as we can, as much as we can, and just keep it going to make sure the Ukrainians can defend themselves," Asst. Sec. of Defense John Kirby said.
As the war grinds on, that means ramping up production.
"It's at its current production rate, which is quite high, but it can go higher," Army's Head of Acquisition and Logistics Doug Bush said.
The graveyard of Russian tanks in Bucha, near Kyiv, is a small consolation for Russia's alleged war crimes there. But for Ukrainians, they're a symbol, along with the javelin, of their military, for now, beating the odds.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Allen County Commissioners are set to approve expenditures related to bonding for a new jail complex estimated to cost $350 million.
The item is included in the commissioners’ agenda for Friday’s meeting at 10 a.m. at Citizens Square downtown.
On April 1, the commissioners voted to hire Construction Control, Inc., a construction management firm based here, to oversee all aspects of construction. That contract cost $150,000.
Earlier this week, Nelson Peters, the commissioners’ president, said he expected the jail complex would be financed through a variety of funding measures that would include bonds. Barnes & Thornburg’s Indianapolis office and Ice Miller, another law firm with expertise in this type of financing, have been consulted on the project which apparently has moved along at a greater speed than normal.
That may be because last week Federal Judge Damon J. Leichty found in favor of inmates and the ACLU who filed a lawsuit in January 2020 against the county and the jail for inhumane conditions, specifically conditions that come with overcrowding.
County officials, including Sheriff David Gladieux and the county commissioners, have been given 45 days to come up with a plan to address the problems and, if they are to build a new jail, the judge wants to see the plans.
Plans were already in the works last year when the county commissioned a study of the entire county criminal justice system executed by Elevatus Architecture, a local firm with with a dossier of more than 60 jail constructions nationwide.
The jail is routinely crowded and has become more so since the state legislature passed legislation in 2014 sending Level 6 Felony prisoners back to county jails. The legislation, designed to reduce Indiana’s prison population, spurred new jail construction.
As of Thursday, the Allen County Jail had more than 300 Level 6 Felony inmates housed there out of a population of just under 800.
The resolution says that “the county intends to acquire, construct and equip facilities for the jail and related criminal justice functions and to pay the incidental expenses necessary to be incurred…..(with) the issuance of bonds.”
The county will pay some initial project costs from the county’s EDIT Fund, cumulative Capital Development Fund and General fund, the resolution said.
The cost of the project is not to exceed $350 million, it says. Early estimates put the jail price tag between $150 million and $200 million. The Elevatus study included other buildings related to the entire criminal justice system.
State legislation signed in March 2018 offered counties a new financing measure called “local income tax” rate or LIT to build jails. LIT rates are allowed up to 0.2%, but are used in increments of 0.01% and cannot be in effect for more than 22 years, according to information at a February commissioners’ meeting.
On a home valued at about $123,000, the tax liability would range from about $31 to $62 annually, according to information sheets provided by Baker Tilly, municipal advisors present at the meeting. LIT taxes can also be used to pay for rehabilitation facilities, the advisors said.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – The final chapter of Tiger Woods’ career began at 10:21 a.m. Thursday, when he arrived at the Masters tournament practice area wearing a sweat-drenched, fuchsia mock turtleneck and holding a white towel, a fitting metaphor for the aging warrior who refuses to throw it in.
It's uncomfortable to think about how Woods arrived here at Augusta National. Not just the horrific crash that nearly cost him not only his limb but his life. Not just the three months he spent confined to a hospital bed, hoping to someday soon be cleared to take one agonizing step, then make one excruciating walk. No, it’s uncomfortable to think about what it took to get him through the gates today for his latest competitive comeback; the amount of time, energy and strain devoted to the 46-year-old, pre- and post-round, just so he can have the opportunity to lace up his new FootJoys and compete.
“Not easy,” Woods said. “People have no idea how hard it’s been. My team does. They’ve worked with me every single day.”
That was the backdrop to Woods’ opening, 1-under 71, a score that was a monument not to his ball-striking excellence but rather his grit, will power and toughness. This Masters appearance seemed improbable even a few weeks ago. But there he was Thursday morning, with a pronounced limp, with his game face on.
Full-field scores from the 86th Masters Tournament
Over the past year Woods has talked about how grateful and thankful he is to be alive, to be able to play with his kids, to be able to continue his career, and yet less than an hour before his tee time, he appeared as locked in as ever, breaking character only once, to embrace a giddy Bryson DeChambeau. On the range Woods posted up 5 feet away from Joaquin Niemann, one of his early-round playing partners and a rising star who only two months earlier Woods presented the winner’s trophy to at the Genesis Invitational. This time, Woods didn’t even acknowledge him. Now, they were opponents. Now, Niemann was just one of 90 players Woods had to beat.
Needing to pace himself, he warmed up for only 22 minutes. Occasionally, he’d stop to towel off his face, or to consult on a wind direction with caddie Joe LaCava, or to give his ailing leg a break. About halfway through, he popped something into his mouth and took a swig from his water bottle. With clunky contact and quick-left misses, the session didn’t inspire much confidence.
“I hit it awful,” he said.
But he returned to what his father, Earl, once asked him: Did you accomplish your task in a warmup – did you warm up?
“I said, yes,” Woods said. “Now go play. That’s exactly what I did. Let’s just go get it done. You know where to put it. Execute each shot.”
And so began a courageous round when Woods flashed some vintage iron play to set up his three birdies, but he also scrambled like mad to post a sub-par round that left him only four shots off the early Masters lead – a remarkable achievement given the course conditions (slowed by 3 ½ inches of rain), the weather conditions (20-mph gusts) and, of course, the condition of his rebuilt right leg (screws, plates and rods).
During four of his five Masters victories, including in 2019, Woods opened with a round of 70; the other time he shot 74 and rallied.
“I’m right where I need to be,” he said.
Other than consecutive rifle shots into the fifth and sixth greens, little was aesthetically pleasing about Woods’ first official round in 17 months. He teed up the ball straight legged, like a senior-tour regular. On the greens, he didn’t go into his familiar crouch behind the ball; he could only lower about halfway down, bending at the hips. He didn’t have quite the same pop off the tee, hitting a couple of high spinners and averaging just 288 yards. On a gusty day, he found only half of the greens in regulation. But he was rock-solid on the greens, preserving his round with momentum-saving pars on Nos. 1, 9, 10, 11 and 18.
Up and down Augusta National’s notoriously hilly terrain, Woods mostly walked alone, away from the group, eyes cast downward, like a marathoner approaching mile 24.
“I’ll get into my own little world,” he said, “and I’ll get after it.”
The dramatic scenes were reminiscent of Woods’ gutsy U.S. Open victory in 2008, when he teed it up at Torrey Pines despite torn ligaments in his left knee and stress fractures in his left leg. Testing his body before that event, Woods strapped on a knee brace for a nine-hole practice round but lost more than a half-dozen balls and didn’t break 50. He ditched the brace, vowed to play regardless and had all-nighter treatment sessions in which he slept on the massage table and had his knee drained, iced, elevated, worked out and activated. He won, incredibly, in 91 holes – and eight days later, underwent season-ending reconstructive surgery.
Ever since, it seems, pain has been a constant accompaniment to Woods’ performance. There have been issues with his neck and his Achilles. His wrist and his other knee. Medically, he had a Hail Mary back fusion surgery in 2017, but even that second chance was compromised by his single-car crash last February. That sent him on an all-too-familiar path: recovery, rehab, return.
“We haven’t taken a day off since I got out of the bed after those three months,” he said. “Granted, some days are easier than others. Some days, we push it pretty hard, and other days we don’t. But we’re always doing something. So it’s a commitment to getting back, and it’s a commitment to getting back to a level that I feel that I can still do it. I did something positive today.”
After Woods rapped in a 6-footer on the last – a miraculous par given his tee shot clanked off the trees and didn’t even reach the fairway – he raised his right hand as if to say, I did it. Then he doffed his cap as the patrons gave him a standing ovation. Near the clubhouse, his agent, girlfriend and right-hand man all embraced. They’ve seen his mangled right leg. They’ve seen him at his worst.
“To see where I’ve been, to get from there to here,” Woods said, “it was no easy task.”
And so, 18 holes into this major marathon: Now what?
“A lot,” he said. “A lot.”
Anything and everything to flush out the swelling now, then warmed up and activated for Friday: Treatment. Massages. Ice baths. So many ice baths, he said, that he’s “basically just freezing myself to death.”
His second-round tee time loomed in 20 hours. The work was just beginning.
“My team has been incredible at getting me into this position so that I can compete,” he said.
“I’ll take it from there.”
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – There was no secret to Dustin Johnson’s 2020 Masters victory. His winning campaign was a ball-striking masterpiece, particularly off the tee with the eventual champion finishing 13th in the field in driving accuracy and sixth in driving distance.
Johnson is in a similar position after Day 1 at this year’s Masters following an opening 69 that left him just two shots off the lead, but it was a much different path to the top of the leaderboard.
“It was the wind. That's what made it tricky. It was real gusty. Sometimes, especially around here, it's really hard to get a beat on if you get a lot of crosswind,” said Johnson, who went straight to the practice range after 3-under 69 opening round that has him T-3.
Full-field scores from the 86th Masters Tournament
He was 59th in the field in driving distance (283 yards) and 78th in driving accuracy (57 percent) on Thursday at Augusta National Golf Club. It didn’t help Johnson’s mood that his poor performance off the tee included a handful of 3-wood tee shots.
“I hit a lot of 3-woods today because I wasn't real comfortable with the driver for some reason, which is unusual for me. Usually, it's the other way around,” he said. “I managed the game around very well, I just needed to keep it in play.”
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – For a Masters rookie, getting ready for their first tournament at Augusta National Golf Club is challenging enough. But that preparation was complicated even more this week by a complete weather washout on Tuesday and similar delays on Wednesday.
For Harry Higgs, however, the delays and limited practice time forced his team to find a more creative way to prepare.
“On Tuesday, right before play was canceled for the day, I had a nice feeling, and I had hit some good shots, and it just turned into, OK, let's keep feeling that,” Higgs said after his Masters first round. “It's one thing to feel that just holding a club and making air swings, let's say, and it's another to hit a golf ball and hit it into a net.”
Full-field scores from the 86th Masters Tournament
Higgs’ swing coach and caddie, his brother, improvised by going to a nearby Dick’s Sporting Goods and purchasing a net that they set up on the back porch of their rental house.
“We covered it with some sheets and towels to make sure that it didn't hit off the little bull's-eye and come flying back at us,” Higgs said. “It was fun. Everybody in the house just sat around and basically watched me hit balls.”
The impromptu practice paid off on Thursday with Higgs opening with a 1-under 71 that included an eventful start of two bogeys (at Nos. 1 and 5) and three birdies (at Nos. 2, 3 and 4). He was tied for 11th and three shots off the early lead when he completed his round.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – Who said we wouldn’t get another fall Masters? Yes, it’s April 7 on the calendar, but through 18 holes of this 86th edition, the top three spots on the scoreboard are similar to the final standing two Novembers ago.
Dustin Johnson, who slipped on the green jacket in 2020, is tied for third at 3 under. A shot ahead is Cameron Smith, who shared second two years back. They are both looking up at Sungjae Im, the leader at 5 under who is attempting to better his T-2 showing in his Masters debut.
“Because of that experience I feel comfortable when I come to Augusta,” Im said Thursday. “I feel like I can play well here every time.”
Full-field scores from the 86th Masters Tournament
Im flushed a 6-iron into the opening green to set up a 7-foot birdie and spark a run of three straight birdies. He gave a couple shots back to begin his second nine, but he made up for that by drawing a hybrid from 223 yards to 12 feet and making eagle at the par-5 13th hole.
“I'm glad with how everything went today,” Im said.
Im was upbeat as he fielded questions from both American and Korean reporters inside Augusta National’s interview room. His excitement reached a crescendo, though, when speaking about his father Ji Taek Im’s tee shot on the ninth hole of Wednesday’s Par 3 Contest. There was just one ace recorded, by Jason Kokrak, but Ji Taek almost added the second, his ball settling just a few feet from the cup.
“Received some good vibes from my dad,” Sungjae said with a big smile. “It’s definitely a memorable day. I didn't expect much. … When he was setting up, I remember the group behind us, we were at the tee box; Scottie Scheffler, Sam Burns and Billy Horschel, they were just having fun and having a crack at my dad, and it got me, too, so I was laughing. But once he hit the shot, it was the most beautiful shot I've seen. It was like a professional shot.”
Sungjae knows about those. He hit them with frequency Thursday – and here in 2020, too. But he’s also aware that past success doesn’t always guarantee future success.
“It's a great memory that I'll carry on with me,” he said of his sensational fall Masters. “Just to finish runner-up here in the Masters is a feat that I really am proud of. But again, we're only one day in. … I just want to keep this momentum going and try to finish well this week.
“I don't want to think about overachieving anything at this moment. I still have a lot of days of play, and there are a lot of talented players out here.”
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – A new Masters sandwich debuted Thursday at Augusta National Golf Club: “The Cam,” eight birdies in between double bogeys.
For 16 holes, Cameron Smith had an appetite for scoring as he played Nos. 2-17 in 8 under with no blemishes. But Nos. 1 and 18 were different stories with Smith going 4 over on those two holes to eventually spoil his chances at the first-round lead.
“Obviously really frustrating; I think it'll motivate me the next few days,” Smith said of his bookend doubles, which left him with an opening 4-under 68. “I feel like I played some really solid golf today, and to be 4 under is a little bit disappointing. But given the condition of the golf course and the condition with the wind and stuff like that, if you had given me 4 under at the start of the day, I would have taken it.”
Smith entered the week as one of the hottest players in professional golf. Scottie Scheffler, coming off three wins in six starts, recently moved to No. 1 after capturing the WGC-Dell Match Play, but Smith isn’t far behind in the player-of-the-year race. The Aussie took a three-week break following his victory at The Players, one of two wins this season for the world No. 6, who began the year with a record-setting triumph at Kapalua.
Thursday’s lid-lifter could’ve set new marks as well. Smith began his birdie feast by chipping in from 20 feet at the par-4 fifth. He followed by sticking his tee ball at the par-3 sixth to a foot for another birdie. After a poor chip at the par-5 eighth, Smith canned the birdie comebacker from 8 feet, and he then knocked his approach pin high and to 5 feet at the par-4 ninth to turn in 2-under 34.
Full-field scores from the 86 th Masters Tournament
On the second nine, Smith continued to eat with four more birdies. He sank an 11-footer at the par-3 12th, wedged to 4 feet at the par-4 14th, hit a knockdown wedge to 9 feet at the par-5 15th and recorded his third par-3 birdie at No. 16 from 5 feet.
“The par-3s around here are no snack,” Smith said, “but I just felt really comfortable with the irons today.”
It was the driver and wedges rather that cost Smith some shots on Thursday. He found the right bunker on the par-4 first hole and could barely advance his next shot before sailing a wedge shot over the green and failing to make a 7-foot bogey putt.
At the par-4 finishing hole, he blocked himself out behind the right tree line and again couldn’t go for the green in two. Another poor wedge saw his ball spin back to 50 feet, and a three-putt left a sour taste in Smith’s mouth as he trudged to scoring.
“To be honest, those couple of double bogeys really didn't have too bad of shots in them,” Smith said. “It's not like I was scratching it out of the trees. Got my second shot into a reasonable spot and just misjudged the wind on both wedges. Yeah, just left myself in a bit of a tough spot.”
Bigger picture, though, Smith likes where he stands. By the time he sat down in the interview room, he said he had “already moved on” from the two glaring errors.
That's easy to do when one is as hot as Smith is.
He’s prepared well, particularly in the gym these past eight months or so, to survive these marathon major tests. The byproduct of an even split of cardio and weightlifting, Smith has been able to keep fresh over the course off 72 holes and not feel “wrecked” after rounds.
“I think I lost a little bit of weight,” Smith said. “My body moves a little bit quicker when I don't have so much around my belly. I think I've definitely started to see my driver going probably a little bit farther, definitely the swing speed up a little bit. Now, I think the next step is just being able to control that and hit more fairways.”
He'll need to lay off the sandwiches, too.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – In his first round as the world No. 1, Scottie Scheffler didn’t disappoint.
The three-time winner this season on the PGA Tour made the turn on Day 1 at the Masters at 2 under after birdies at Nos. 8 and 9. He finished his round with just a single bogey at No. 18 for a 3-under 69 that left him tied for fourth place among the early finishers. It was a relatively stress-free round thanks to solid ball-striking and some sound decision-making.
Although he’s playing just his third Masters, Scheffler said he’s learned to be patient and to fight the impulse to have too much “fun.” The best example of this came at the par-5 15th hole.
Full-field scores from the 86th Masters Tournament
“I think it's really fun to play. Sometimes I have to watch myself around here because, for instance, on 15 today, I had an opportunity to hit a really cool shot that seemed like a lot of fun,” he explained. “Definitely wasn't the right play, so I didn't hit the shot.”
Instead, Scheffler laid up and hit a wedge to 15 feet for a two-putt par. It wasn’t fancy or particularly entertaining, but it was smart.
“I could have hit a high, soft-like, hook 3-wood, and the lie is set up for it, which is why I was going to try it,” he said. “Luckily, I've matured a little bit. If it was a practice round, I 100 percent would have hit the shot.”
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A woman who has remained unidentified has withdrawn a civil suit against the rapper Snoop Dogg she filed, accusing him of sexual assault and battery after a 2013 show, court documents reported on by Reuters state.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the Central District of California, was dropped on Wednesday, almost two months later. The rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, released a statement through a representative.
In the statement, the representative for the rapper said, "It is not surprising that the plaintiff dismissed her complaint against the defendants. Her complaint was full of false allegations and deficiencies."
The unidentified woman was described as a model, host, actress and dancer who reportedly worked for Snoop Dogg, Reuters reported.
According to Billboard, the suit was filed on Feb. 9 and alleged that both Snoop Dogg and Bishop Don "Magic" Juan, described by MTV as a former pimp, assaulted her separately over a 24-hour time period in May of 2013.
A statement from Snoop Dogg said the lawsuit was a “thinly veiled attempt to extort defendant for money” and said “nothing remotely resembling plaintiff’s story” happened, Billboard reported.
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Whenever A-list, fitness-devoted celebrities share their beauty secrets, we’re first in line to take notes. So, when Jennifer Lopez took to social media to praise her high-waisted, butt-lifting Niyama Sol leggings, our ears perked up.
The multi-hyphenate star has not been shy about sharing her love for Niyama Sol leggings, and she has mentioned them in several tweets and Instagram posts alongside images of herself looking gorgeous while working out.
Here’s a flashback tweet in which Lopez gave a shoutout to her beloved Niyama Sol:
Back at it and ready for the weekend. #NiyamaSol pic.twitter.com/WZGgnko01b
— jlo (@JLo) June 27, 2020
Of course, we are talking about Jennifer Lopez, who would look flawless in a paper sack. I mean, have you ever seen her not look incredible? (Yeah, me neither.)
She has also been open about her intense workout routine and her nutritious diet, so it’s obviously not just the leggings that make Lopez look fabulous in photos, like these selfies she posted to Twitter:
If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you… #CamoFriday #niyamasol pic.twitter.com/yw3SDkrrU1
— jlo (@JLo) May 15, 2020
But cute leggings definitely help! And the best thing about Lopez’s favorite leggings? They’re readily available on Amazon, so we mortals can feel like superstars while working out — without spending a fortune.
The leggings from Niyama Sol are designed with a “no-slip waist” so they won’t slide around, roll down or dig into your belly. This allows you to freely downward dog in cramped yoga classes without any fear that your classmate can see your bum because the fabric remains in place no matter what kinds of wild contortions you wriggle into.
The breathable fabric comes in a wide variety of colors and patterns, and best of all, they are partly made from recycled water bottles.
Amazon reviewers rave about the leggings’ “stunning” patterns and the “superb quality.” One reviewer even said they think the design of the leggings is “kind of genius!”
Even though sporting these babies won’t make you jump higher or burn more calories, they are likely to make you feel great, and the power of feeling good should never be underestimated.
If you want to try these sweat-wicking leggings, here are a few of the lively colors and patterns you can select.
Niyama Sol Napali Barefoot Leggings
This Napali print ($55.83) is like a whole tropical vacation in pants form. You can gaze upon the beautiful beach as you do a forward-fold.
Niyama Sol Kyoto Reds Barefoot Leggings
The Kyoto print ($65.99) bursts with colorful graphic design elements. The vibrance of these leggings will help you stand out in a yoga class full of solid-hued legs.
Niyama Sol Tie-Dye Xray Leggings
For a two-toned vibe or to channel your animalistic energy, try the Niyama Sol Tie-Dye Xray style ($69.99).
Niyama Sol Nami Barefoot Leggings
The Nami-patterned leggings ($70.99) showcase a well-known wave design that will bring an artistic vibe to your workout session.
Niyama Sol Shibori Barefoot Leggings
The leggings with the Shibori print ($57.99) lend a soothing, aquatic element to your attire.
No matter what pattern you pick, these pants will add a little extra pep to your step and a little whimsy to your yoga practice.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has created a new program to address the wide-reaching effects of gun violence on families across Marion County.
The program will help survivors of shootings navigate resources available to help them through life after the event.
This does not only include homicides, as nonfatal shootings are also impacting many lives.
Danyell McCoullough is a mother who knows firsthand what gun violence can do to a family. In one shooting she lost a son while another son was critically injured. McCoullough believes if a program like this was in existence after the shooting, it would have changed things.
"Up until now, I was trying to figure out things on my own," McCoullough said. "How to deal with it spiraling down very very fast. How do you know how to heal if you don't have resources and tools to go to."
She believes the tools will come in handy for young people in Indianapolis.
"It's needed, especially for our youth," McCoullough said. "We are losing our children. These babies are dying very rapidly and it's sad."
DeAndra Dycus also knows what it's like to have a child shot but survive. Her son Dre was injured in a 2014 shooting and is now living with quadriplegia. She has partnered with IMPD to help manage the new program called the "nonfatal shooting support group". It is geared to help survivors.
"What a lot of people don't know is you leave the hospital and you don't always get that information," Dycus said. "They are trying to get you home and get you well and you are left out here trying to figure out what's the new steps."
The program will help survivors navigate resources available to help them through life after a shooting.
The program is a partnership between Dycus, IUPUI's O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and the Indianapolis Office of Public Health and Safety. The city received a grant through the Office of Public Health and Safety from the American Rescue Plan.
So far in 2022, there have been 47 confirmed homicides and 136 nonfatal shootings in Indianapolis, according to data from IMPD.
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A recent southern Colorado wind storm, which usually occurs about every two years in the state, caused damage. But the question is, who is responsible?
The winds caused a cart corral, which holds shopping carts together while they're being brought back into the store, to knock into a car while a customer was shopping.
Through its insurance company, the supermarket called King Soopers, says they aren't responsible, but a local attorney says that's not always true.
On the morning of December 15, 2021, a major wind storm rolled through the town of Colorado Springs. A local meteorologist clocked 92 mph wind gusts at the Colorado Springs Airport that day.
Lette de Mer says her family's Subaru was parked at the grocery store when the cart corral blew into their car.
"Staff was out there trying to move this thing off of our car and put it off to the side," Lette said. "One of the staff members took a picture."
She says the employees took pictures of the damage to the rear of the car.
"The rear hatch was damaged," she said. "It was hit pretty hard and pieces of the rear hatch were broken off.”
Lette says at first, the store seemed willing to address the damage.
“The manager said he would check with insurance and call me back and we never got a callback," she said. "They haven’t returned any of our calls and then we contacted you.”
Sedgwick, the company handling claims on behalf of King Soopers (a Kroger brand) sent Lette and her husband a denial letter.
"I would like to apologize for the unfortunate incident you experienced while shopping," the letter said. "After careful review of the facts regarding your incident, our investigation has revealed no negligence on behalf of King Soopers and therefore we must deny your claim."
The letter then told Lette they hope she would remain as one of its "valued customers."
We presented what happened to attorney Stephen Longo. He is not associated with either party in this case, but said he would give a legal opinion on who may be responsible when cases like this occur.
“Anytime we go shopping at any store that is open and inviting us in, they are designated under Colorado law under the 'Premise of Liability Act’ as an invitee and under that standard, it means the business needs to protect us from known dangers or dangers that they should know about upon a reasonable inspection," Longo said.
Since this December wind storm was predicted days in advance by local meteorologists in Colorado, Longo said this fact may help the family if they appeal.
“If we’re talking about a cart corral that gets blown over by a wind storm because it’s not bolted down correctly, then they can still be found negligent."
Longo says one thing to consider in a case like this is whether employees should have known or could have known about this potential danger through routine maintenance like sweeps or inspections and a review of safety policies and practices.
Kristal Howard, the director of media relations and corporate communications for The Kroger Company was contacted for a statement but did not immediately reply.
"For 40 years I've been shopping there and now they don't want to take responsibility for their cart corral hitting our car and damaging it," Lette said. "If that had hit a person, it would have been tragic. Fortunately no one was hit."
We also reached out directly to Sedgwick to see if they could review the denial and offer the customer information on an appeal.
Lette says to-date, she has heard nothing back from Sedgwick.
At first, Judy Molnar, Vice President of Public Relations for Sedgwick asked for the customer's information. We immediately provided it to Sedgwick.
Further correspondence seeking information via email, telephone, and text message went unanswered by Molnar.
Advice from Stephen Longo:
Longo says insurance companies are in the business of taking premiums and not paying out claims. He said it's not necessarily uncommon for an insurance company or business to immediately deny a claim.
If this occurs, he says you should look into filing an appeal.
Some agencies, like hospitals, are transparent about how to file an appeal. Sedgwick provided no such information in its denial to the customer on the appeals process.
Longo says you should also ask the insurance company the following questions:
- What facts did you review before coming to your conclusion or decision?
- What information or exemption in the insurance policy are you citing regarding my denial?
- What safety protocols and procedures were in place at the time of this incident?
- What media (pictures, video, statements) did you use to draw your conclusion?
If you're still not making headway, seeking mediation services might be the next step you consider before filing a civil lawsuit and letting the courts decide who is at fault."
This story was originally published by Eric Ross of KOAA in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Hundreds of tanks were decimated.
After Russia's army retreated from the suburbs of Kyiv, Ukrainian fighters are getting an up-close look at their scores won through pluck and leveraging of resources. The most celebrated of which, revered even, is the Javelin anti-tank missile.
An artist dubbed "Saint Javelin" is the patron of Ukrainian resistance. Her image is helping to raise over a million dollars in merchandise sales, benefiting humanitarian aid.
To be sure, Javelins, supplied by the U.S., are one of several anti-tank weapons systems that Ukraine is using to extract a heavy price from Putin.
"This is a class of weapons," CSIS International Security Program Senior Adviser Mark Cancian said. "The Javelins are the top end. They're most expensive and the most effective."
The most effective for ambushing tanks and other heavy armor from a distance of up to two-and-a-half miles.
Here's how it works: An individual soldier uses the command launch unit to identify the target. When the missile is fired, a launch motor propels the missile out of the tube. The primary flight motor doesn't ignite until the missile is some distance away. This makes it more difficult for the enemy to identify the location of the person who fired it.
The Javelin is known as a "fire-and-forget" system. An onboard computer guides the missile to the target. It can either be set to attack the tank head-on or go up and strike down at the top of the tank, where it's weakest.
According to a running tally from open-source intelligence experts who base their count on videos and images of at least 450 Russian tanks in Ukraine that have been either destroyed, damaged, abandoned, or captured.
In the weeks leading up to the invasion, the U.S. made no secret of the high-tech threat Russia's armored vehicles would be up against.
"Analysts are scratching their heads about why the Russians are showing so little tactical skill," Cancian said. "Their doctrine and our doctrine says that if you're going to use armor, you use artillery ahead of them to suppress any infantry and anti-tank weapons. And you use reconnaissance to find out where they are. They don't seem to have done that."
Tanks are also vulnerable to fighter aircraft, but NATO and the U.S. say they won't engage Russia militarily, directly. That's why the Javelins, along with advanced air defense weaponry, are proving so crucial.
"By using the right types of techniques and the right weapons systems, the Javelin, the stingers have proven to be very, very effective in this fight," U.S. Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin said.
The problem for Ukraine is that they're going through their Javelins fast and say they need more, soon.
Reports estimate that the U.S. has already sent them 4,600. And is dispatching an additional $100 million worth.
"As fast as we can, as much as we can, and just keep it going to make sure the Ukrainians can defend themselves," Asst. Sec. of Defense John Kirby said.
As the war grinds on, that means ramping up production.
"It's at its current production rate, which is quite high, but it can go higher," Army's Head of Acquisition and Logistics Doug Bush said.
The graveyard of Russian tanks in Bucha, near Kyiv, is a small consolation for Russia's alleged war crimes there. But for Ukrainians, they're a symbol, along with the javelin, of their military, for now, beating the odds.
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Jersey’s Kevin Smith “As long as it doesn’t hurt somebody, Take that dream right up until the end Kids”
Disney has Peter Pan, New Jersey has Kevin Smith. The Red Bank native parlayed working in a video store into a career in acting, writing, and directing some of the best movies of his generation, refuses to grow up.
"The idea of getting into entertainment at all was about staying young for me. I loved playing when we were kids, I loved making pretend when we were in high school doing the theatre stuff" says Smith "I knew that kind of stuff ended. People put it aside and entered the real world and became adults and I didn't want to do that right away" So Smith took a risk that many wish they had the cahones to try.
"I'd rather risk my future seeing if I could make a movie, seeing if that could work before I settle into the idea of do a job like your father did a job and I got very very lucky with that first gamble on myself"
Kevin Smith's gamble would pay off. Among his many movies are Clerks which started it all back in 1994, which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob. The two also show up in "Mallrats", "Chasing Amy", "Dogma", "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", "Clerks II" and "Jay and Silent Bob Reboot". They will be resurrected again Saturday night at the Pennsylvania Convention Center as part of Philly Expo.
I asked Smith how Silent Bob is doing.
"He's doing great. He never left me, he's a part of me at all times" He's not growing up either.
"I just try to make pretend for a living because I don't want to grow up
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WANE)–A Evansville priest has been removed from the public ministry after an allegation of sexual misconduct from 20 years ago was reported to the Diocese of Evansville.
According to the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), Father Bernie Etienne served at the Holy Rosary Catholic Church and is currently placed on administrative leave.
The Diocese did not clarify the nature of the allegations against Father Etienne, regarding the age, gender of the victim and where the sexual misconduct took place.
The Director of Communications for the Diocese said, “Civil authorities and the Diocesan Review Board have been notified. Father Bernie strongly denies the claim and, as with all accused, he is accorded the presumption of innocence during the investigation of this allegation.”
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DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- About 230 miles away from Capitol Hill, students at Northern High School in Durham received a live history lesson. They watched as the United States Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court.
Jackson will become the first African American woman to serve on the bench.
"With history happening in the moment, it's really inspiring for students to understand that history is not just a bunch of old dead people that they have to memorize from the textbooks, but instead history is happening now," American History teacher Margaret Mary Mills-Thomason said.
Students took in the historic moment with their eyes glued to the screen.
This marks several firsts for the nation. It's the first time an African American and South Asian American woman has presided over the Senate vote, the first time three justices who are ethnic minorities will serve together, and the first time four female justices will sit on the bench.
Students say doubt set in.
"Yeah, I was thinking what if she didn't," sophomore student Janiya Nicholson said.
"Seeing the votes go up and down getting balanced and unbalanced," sophomore student Gavin Turrentine said.
As the votes are tallied up and things became official, President Joe Biden snapped a picture with Jackson.
Students at Northern High cheered as they witnessed history.
"It makes me think that I can actually achieve anything like she did if I just try and put my mind to it," Turrentine said.
Jackson is set to take her seat on the bench after Associate Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer.
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UNIVERSAL CITY, California -- A group of people visiting Universal Studios Hollywood on Thursday had to be rescued after a power outage left them stuck on the Transformers ride.
According to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the incident call came in just before 3:45 p.m.
A group of about 11 people had to be rescued, according to authorities. The power outage also impacted the Harry Potter ride.
No injuries were reported and crews were able to get everyone off safely.
AIR7HD video from above the scene showed LACOFD units surrounding the north side of the theme park, which appeared to be the only part that was affected by the outage.
Power outage at Universal Studios Hollywood leaves people stuck on Transformers ride
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Moments after LaQuedra Edwards put her $40 lottery allowance into a lottery vending machine at a grocery store in Southern California, she said, “some rude person” bumped into her, causing her to push the wrong button.
She usually chose cheaper Scratchers but had accidentally hit the selection for a $30 ticket, she said, according to a statement Wednesday from the California State Lottery.
She told state lottery officials that the person who bumped into her “didn’t say a thing and just walked out the door.”
Irritated, she headed to her car and scratched the ticket — then discovered that she had won the $10 million prize.
“I didn’t really believe it at first,” Edwards said, according to the statement. She said she started driving but kept staring at the winning ticket. “I pulled over, looked at it again and again, scanned it with my (California Lottery mobile) app, and I just kept thinking this can’t be right,” she added.
The California Lottery’s Scratchers range in price from $1 to $30.
State lottery officials said Edwards purchased the winning 200X Scratchers ticket for $30 in November from a Scratchers vending machine at a Vons Supermarket in Tarzana, Calif., a neighborhood in Los Angeles.
The odds of winning $10 million — the top prize — playing the 200X Scratchers are 1 in more than 3 million, according to the statistics from the state lottery. But strange things do happen when playing the lottery. One woman checked the spam folder in her email and found out that she had won $3 million in the lottery. Another woman accidentally threw away her winning ticket.
Edwards said she plans to use her winnings to buy a house and start her own nonprofit, according to officials.
“I’m still in shock,” she told officials. “All I remember saying once I found out how much I just won was, ‘I’m rich!’”
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The Boy Scouts of America’s use of the word “Scouting” to advertise co-ed programs does not violate the Girl Scouts’ trademark rights, a Manhattan federal court ruled Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said a lawsuit by the Girl Scouts over the term was based on fear of competition from the Boy Scouts, and the Boy Scouts has the right to use “Scouts” and “Scouting” without reference to sex.
The Girl Scouts said in a statement that the group was “deeply disappointed” by the ruling and planned to appeal. The Boy Scouts did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Hellerstein had said at a September hearing that he planned to rule for the Boy Scouts.
The Boy Scouts announced in 2017 that it would allow girls to join and later launched an ad campaign for co-ed scouting called “Scout Me In.” It changed the name of its main scouting program to “Scouts BSA” and started welcoming girls in 2019.
The Girl Scouts sued in 2018, alleging the Boy Scouts’ use of “Scouts” and “Scouting” to market to girls violates its trademarks. It said the rebrand created confusion and threatened to marginalize the group.
The Boy Scouts has called the lawsuit part of a Girl Scouts “ground war” to counter its entry into girls’ scouting.
Both organizations have lost significant membership in recent years, and the Boy Scouts is trying to finalize a proposed $2.7 billion settlement of thousands of sex abuse claims in bankruptcy court.
Hellerstein said in his ruling that there was no trademark confusion, and that the Girl Scouts’ lawsuit was not based on trademark concerns but out of “fear for their competitive position in a market with gender-neutral options for scouting.”
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Move over, Cracker Jack. Cracker Jill is stepping up to the plate.
More than 125 years after the caramel-coated popcorn and peanut snack launched, it’s now also being offered for the first time in a Cracker Jill bag at select baseball parks throughout the country.
The limited time new packaging is timed to the opening of this year’s baseball season, and the price of the bags is set by each stadium’s concessions departments and may vary across ballparks.
The Cracker Jill treats were dreamed up “to celebrate the women who break down barriers in sports,” according to Frito-Lay, which owns the Cracker Jack brand.
“Tapping into the brand’s rich history with America’s favorite pastime, Cracker Jill comes to life through five different representations on a series of special-edition bags, which will be available at the start of this year’s baseball season in professional ballparks across the country,” Frito-Lay said in a statement this week.
“We are constantly inspired by the many women who are making history by breaking the mold, and we want to celebrate their achievements while supporting the progress,” Tina Mahal, vice president of marketing at Frito-Lay North America, said in a statement. “Cracker Jack has been part of sports for over a century, as records were made and rules changed. We’ve been so inspired by how girls and women are changing the face of the game, so in this spirit we introduce Cracker Jill to show girls that they’re represented even in our most iconic snacks.”
The Cracker Jill bags will feature one of five different “Jills,” all wearing sailor outfits, and each “inspired by the most represented ethnicities in the U.S., per data from the U.S. Census Bureau,” according to Frito-Lay.
They were designed by artist Monica Ahanonu, whose colorful portraits resonated with the campaign’s goal of “highlighting and celebrating women in sports through strong, determined and vibrant Jills.”
For those who can’t make it to a pro ballgame this spring, a bag of Cracker Jill can be scored by making a donation of $5 or more to the Women’s Sports Foundation, while supplies last. The nonprofit “helps girls and women to reach their potential in sports and life” through financial support and other means, according to its website.
Cracker Jack is also donating $200,000 to the foundation as part of the initiative.
“Our Foundation is an ally, advocate and catalyst to help unlock the possibilities in every girl and woman through the power of sport,” Danette Leighton, CEO of the Women’s Sports Foundation, said in a statement. ”Representation matters — it encourages and inspires the next generation. It’s wonderful to see Cracker Jill come to life, emphasizing the power that representation can have by celebrating women who’ve broken barriers.”
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WASHINGTON — U.S. House and Senate lawmakers said Thursday they have chosen negotiators to hammer out a deal on a bill to provide $52 billion in government subsidies for semiconductor production after months of discussion.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, and Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy named about 80 House lawmakers including the chairs and top Republicans on some key committees that will take part in a process known as a “conference committee” to reach a compromise version.
The Senate first passed chips legislation in June that also authorized $190 billion to strengthen U.S. technology and research to compete with China, while the House passed its version in early February that contained different provisions aimed at boosting competition with China.
A persistent industry-wide chip shortage has disrupted production in the automotive and electronics industries, forcing some companies to scale back production.
There are growing calls to decrease reliance on other countries for semiconductors and the White House says funding is an urgent national security concern to ensure long-term U.S. supply of chips.
In 1990, the United States produced 37% of all chips while today it accounts for only 12% of global production.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday they are also both naming 13 negotiators.
“The Senate must now restore a product that reflects what passed this chamber with bipartisan support,” McConnell said. “Without major concessions and changes from House Democrats, this legislation has no chance of becoming law.”
The House bill has several trade provisions and would authorize $8 billion in U.S. contributions to the Green Climate Fund, established by the Paris Agreement to combat climate change.
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The U.S. government health plan for people age 65 and over on Thursday issued its final coverage policy for Biogen Inc’s Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, moving forward with an unusually strict plan limiting it to patients in clinical trials.
For drugs similar to Aduhelm, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it would allow coverage if the medication is approved after a standard review by the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA approved Aduhelm last June under an accelerated approval pathway, finding that the drug’s ability to clear amyloid plaque from the brain offered enough evidence that it would likely help slow cognitive decline for Alzheimer’s patients.
Medicare, however, disagreed with that assessment. The agency in January said it had significant doubts about the potential benefits of Aduhelm and proposed restricting use to clinical trials for it and similar experimental treatments.
Eli Lilly and Co., Roche Holding AG and Eisai Co. Ltd. each have plaque-clearing drugs in late-stage development.
Under Medicare’s final decision, drugs approved by the traditional FDA process that show clear patient benefit would not have any subsequent clinical trial requirements.
Both Lilly and Eisai have said they plan to seek accelerated approval of their Alzheimer’s drugs. The companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Biogen also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Wall Street analysts had projected last year that Aduhelm — the first new Alzheimer’s drug to win U.S. approval in 20 years — would be a multibillion-dollar product. But sales have been marginal following the backlash over the FDA’s controversial approval decision.
Wall Street currently estimates 2022 Aduhelm sales of just $69 million, according to Refinitiv.
Thursday’s decision comes despite significant pressure from patient advocates and drugmakers seeking wider access to the drug. They argued that Medicare’s trial requirement would unfairly restrict use of a drug approved by the FDA for a wider patient population.
Patient groups last month launched a public advertising campaign aimed at persuading Medicare to loosen its proposed restrictions. They had also been meeting with lawmakers and Biden Administration officials.
Others, including some prominent neurologists, have praised Medicare’s plan, citing concerns over the approval of Aduhelm after only one of two late-stage trials showed that it helped slow cognitive decline for people with early Alzheimer’s.
Investigations have been launched into the FDA’s decision taken over objections of its own outside advisers, and doctors have held back on prescribing Aduhelm.
Roche and Eisai each expect to report results from Phase III trials later this year. Lilly anticipates Phase III results by mid-2023.
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Spring is upon us, and now is the time to begin planning your methods for sprucing up your home.
"When we envision spring cleaning as a time to rejuvenate our inner and outer world, the cleanup process can be incredibly enlivening rather than being a tiresome chore," clinical psychologist Carla Marie Manly, Ph.D., told Healthline.
Even though the benefits are there, it can feel daunting to tackle cleaning your entire house for the season. Here are five ways O, The Oprah Magazine, says you can make spring cleaning a breeze.
T-shirts can lead to streak-free mirrors
If you've been using paper towels to clean your mirrors, you've likely noticed that lint clings to the mirror. Get a dust- and streak-free shine by putting old cotton T-shirts to use.
The Spruce has a list of glass-cleaning tips (https://bit.ly/3CQSBew) and an old T-shirt is recommended to ensure no debris is left behind. It's also environmentally-friendly.
Coffee filters can make TV screens look brand-new
Kids love to touch things, so your TV is likely littered with tiny fingerprints. You can use a coffee filter to gently remove the smudges from your beloved 50-inch television. According to Apartment Therapy, the disposable paper is lint-free, making it ideal to clean an LCD screen. Turn off the TV and gently sweep the filter across the screen. It will gather dirt and act as an anti-static measure so dust won't instantly reaccumulate.
Make wall scuffs disappear
Kate Schulhof, the founder of the natural minimalist blog A Clean Bee, told O that a light blend of soap and water is usually enough to get rid of marks on the walls. However, you may need to purchase a magic eraser to remove more stubborn scuffs. Yet there are some marks that cleaning simply can't fix. In that case, you'll have to paint it.
Give your coffee maker a denture tablet cleaning
Denture tablets aren't only useful for cleaning your dentures, retainer or mouthguard. They also come in handy for getting into the nooks and crannies of appliances — including your heavily-used coffee maker.
"Denture cleaning tabs utilize the antibacterial and alkalizing properties of sodium bicarbonate (the primary ingredient in baking soda), and when combined with fizzing properties, is essentially like scrubbing and cleaning on a micro level," Lee Gause, dentist and owner of New York's Smile Design Manhattan told CookingLight. The publication has an explainer (https://bit.ly/3wjFG3y) on how to use them to get the machine tidy.
Make your knife block pure with a simple mixture
Many of us have been using the ample time spent at home in the last year to cook more meals at home. If you're a chef in the making, however, you want to make sure your utensils are clean — that includes your knife block.
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When choosing a new medicine cabinet, you need to take into consideration your existing one. Even with a full remodel, some things like electrical and framing may have to stay in place.
Q: Ed: I just read your helpful column on choosing basic toilet features when buying a new toilet. We're remodeling our bathroom to include fixtures and the medicine cabinet. So, can you do the same type article for medicine cabinets? — Louie, Rhode Island
A: When choosing a new medicine cabinet, you need to take into consideration your existing one. Even with a full remodel, some things like electrical and framing may have to stay in place. Here are some basic choices to make when buying a new medicine cabinet.
Recess-mount vs surface-mount
This is the first choice to make. It's a good idea to consult your contractor to see if your medicine cabinet should be installed into the wall or on the surface of the wall.
Framed vs. frameless
Do you want the look of a framed cabinet like a painting? Or you can have a modern frameless look.
Integrated lighting vs. fixture lighting
This choice is about choosing built-in mirror lighting, or separate lighting fixtures above or to the side of the unit.
Finally, don't forget about tall vs. stocky — and that's the long and the short of it.
Master Contractor/Plumber Ed Del Grande is known internationally as the author of the book "Ed Del Grande's House Call," the host of TV and Internet shows, and a LEED green associate. Visit eddelgrande.com or write eadelg@cs.com. Always consult local contractors and codes.
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The home office has seen quite the resurgence these last few years. With more and more companies switching to work-from-home or hybrid schedules, it is only natural that we want to create a space for ourselves to buckle down and get things done while at home.
However, office spaces aren’t just for full-time employees. We all need a place to pay the bills, go through paperwork and keep our computers charging.
So how do you set up a productive area without losing the charm of your home aesthetic you have worked so hard to achieve? It is all in the details, my friends!
For those who work from home on a regular basis and need a dedicated room, I like to start with the bigger items and work my way down to the finishing touches.
That means bringing in the desk first.
It is important to ask yourself what you need from your desk, as it should be a practical yet beautiful item. It may turn out that what you really need is a small table or delicate writing desk.
However, when it comes to the focal point of an office, a majestic desk is hard to beat. The most important thing is to take the time to find one that fits with the scale and function of your space.
Now that you have your desk, the next step is a place to sit down and get busy. Picking out a chair for your office is a big decision!
There are so many better options beyond a basic computer chair that offer comfort along with style.
I like to add a pop of texture with my chair choices, so I tend to gravitate toward finely patterned upholstered styles or even rich classic leather seating.
I love the elegance of a wingback chair in an office, but standard sized chairs can create just as much of an impact in the right fabric.
When adding on guest seating, sometimes keeping your desk chair simple is the best option so it doesn’t overwhelm your room (or your guests!).
Storage and shelfing is a must-have in any home office.
I collect books and baubles like you wouldn’t believe, so having adequate shelving is at the top of my must-have list. Large case goods that sit up against the wall are a space-saver and a wonderful addition to any room, but especially an office.
Mixing in your books and accessories is a great way to keep frequently used items on hand without sacrificing your desired aesthetic. Not having a place to hide my papers is also a great motivation to keeping my office space clean and tidy.
No room for a full office in your home?
Try out a “cloffice”! I have seen these closet-turned-office hybrids popping up all over the place. Better Homes and Gardens recently did a wonderful how-to on converting your small storage space into a functional work area. What I love is that despite the lack of square footage, there is still plenty of room to show style and personality.
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K en Lambert couldn’t let it be when he heard George Harrison’s childhood home was going up for auction.
The longtime Beatles fan decided to place an offer. To his surprise, he turned out to be the highest bidder for the apparent bargain price of about $235,000.
The Hampton man now owns the terraced house in Liverpool, England, where a young Harrison heard the band on the radio for the first time. This week, Lambert began renting it out as a Beatles-themed vacation experience to overnight guests through Airbnb.
“My goal in doing all of this is to honor George’s memory and to open up his home in an appropriate manner,” said Lambert, who likes to strum Beatles hits on his guitar.
The home, which is approximately 990 square feet with three bedrooms and one bath, was built in 1949. The Harrisons were its first residents when they moved in in 1950.
Harrison, who died in 2001, lived in the home between the ages of 6 and 19. Lambert is only the third owner since the Harrisons moved out in late 1962 at a time when the Beatles were gaining in popularity.
“He was a Beatle for about two-plus years in that house. They were touring as the Beatles when he finally moved out of there,” he said.
Harrison and bandmates Paul McCartney and the late John Lennon would play music in Harrison’s bedroom, which he shared with his older brother.
“So that was a Beatle rehearsal place,” Lambert said. “George learned how to play guitar in that house.”
Lifelong fan
Lambert fell in love with the Beatles during his youth. He picked up guitar in college and still plays Harrison and Beatles tunes on occasion.
He has seen McCartney in concert once and Ringo Starr twice.
“I had no opportunity to see George and, of course, John. George has always been my favorite Beatle,” he said. “I like all of George’s solo stuff after the band broke up.”
Lambert first learned that Harrison’s old home was going to be auctioned off through multiple news reports last November. Some of his buddies also forwarded him the stories and encouraged him to bid, but they were half-joking.
While he considered bidding, Lambert didn’t get serious about it until the day before the Nov. 30 auction, when he finally decided to pre-register through the auction house.
The auction was held with bidders who placed bids online, via phone and in person.
Lambert was shocked when he placed his bid and no one outbid him. A minute later, the hammer came down, and he was declared the winner.
“I think the final price was a reasonable number,” he said.
The purchase came at a time of renewed interest in the band’s history thanks to the 2021 release of “The Beatles: Get Back” — a three-part documentary series on Disney+.
Robert Murray, who portrays Harrison in Studio Two — a Beatles tribute band founded in New Hampshire — said he heard that the house was for sale but was unaware that someone local had purchased it.
“I love George Harrison’s playing style and everything about him. … I’ve never been to England so I think I need to go there and stay a night at his house,” he said.
Buys it, then tries it
Lambert has visited the house twice since he bought it. The place was empty when he took it over, so he quickly began making plans to furnish and decorate it with a Harrison/Beatles vibe, which includes an acoustic guitar he found at a Liverpool music store that guests are free to play.
Much of the first floor with the kitchen was renovated about 12 years ago, but the upstairs still has some of its original features, including the closet doors and trim. The cast iron bathtub and bathroom sink are also original, as is a hutch that has been repainted over the years.
“So George got pots and pans out of that hutch,” Lambert said.
He has tried to replicate the retro wallpaper and sofa while hanging pictures of Harrison growing up. The guitar sits on a guitar stand, near a mid-century record player where guests can spin some Harrison and Beatles vinyl.
“You can literally sit there in the front room on these retro sofas in George’s house and play ‘Eight Days A Week’ or whatever. That’s a really cool feeling,” Lambert said. “You can do whatever you want in there within reason. I want you to take the selfies. I want you to take a video clip of yourself strumming the guitar in the front room. That’s part of the experience that I’m trying to do.”
But before renting it out, Lambert set aside some time to enjoy the experience himself.
“I wanted personally to be there and play a guitar in the room where the Beatles played. That was very important,” he said. “That was almost more important than anything. I did about five or six songs, or at least portions of songs, and at that moment I was able to appreciate it.”
Lambert also made sure to sleep in Harrison’s old bedroom, which he described as a “surreal moment.”
It’s been a little challenging trying to get all the work done while living in New Hampshire, but Lambert’s friend from California who is a minority owner in the property has given him a hand. A property management company in England has also been hired to handle the day-to-day management of the rental.
Lambert has teamed up with Fab 4 Taxi Tours, a Beatles tour company, which will make stops at the old Harrison residence by taxi on Wednesdays for people who want a quick visit without sleeping at the home, which rents for about $260 on the weekdays and has a two-night minimum.
“It’s really only for a subset of Beatles fans that would really want to stay overnight,” he said.
The Airbnb listing is titled “George Harrison’s Former 3bed Home in Liverpool.”
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DEAR ABBY: I reconnected with an old flame, “Ollie,” eight years ago. We would see each other and catch up during a weekly event he hosted. We’re both married with kids. We kept it non-physical but connected emotionally. We chatted every day and confessed our attraction to each other while still not engaging in anything more than our weekly encounters among friends.
People often assumed we were husband and wife. At the time, I was going through a horrible period in my marriage. My husband, “Pete,” was emotionally abusive and one night even threatened to kill me. Pete and I went to couples counseling, and I went to counseling on my own.
During the first five years of reconnecting with Ollie, he was supportive, accepting and very kind. I fell in love with him, and he with me. We had one quick hug before I left for the holidays. When I returned, we had an intimate kiss. Then COVID hit. Obviously, there was no physical contact after that kiss, but we still talk nearly every day. We have seen each other at business functions among friends twice in three months.
Pete has actually changed and has apologized for how he treated me. We got along nicely during the quarantine. I am just no longer attracted to him. I no longer trust him. He knows nothing of my friendship with Ollie. I also don’t think Ollie will ever give in to his feelings for me. What can I do?
— CONFOUNDED IN IOWA
DEAR CONFOUNDED: Go back to your counselor. You have some heavy decisions to make about how you want to live the rest of your life. Remove Ollie from the equation and ask yourself if you really want to stay married to someone to whom you are no longer attracted and no longer completely trust.
Some people are so fearful of the prospect of being alone that they stay in empty or abusive relationships. Figure out whether you have the strength to go it alone, and you will have the answer to your question.
DEAR ABBY: I live in an over-55 condominium community in Florida. Overall, it’s calm and quiet, which is why I moved here. My favorite pastime and form of exercise is to go to the pool. However, some neighbors think nothing of playing their music loudly in the pool area.
I would never subject anyone else to my taste in music in such a public arena, and I can’t understand why they think they have the right to inflict it on other people without asking. I have spoken to them politely and asked that they refrain, but they continue to do exactly as they want. Any suggestions?
— SEEKING PEACE AND QUIET
DEAR DESPERATELY: Because you have spoken to the neighbors about this with no success, I will offer some suggestions. The first would be to bring this to the attention of the manager and the board of directors of your condominium association. Consideration for others should not need to be written into the bylaws, but the sad reality is that sometimes it does.
Another solution could be as simple as the music lovers wearing ear buds to enjoy their music without bothering others. However, if that doesn’t solve the problem, you may have to invest in noise-canceling headphones for yourself.
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DEAR HELOISE: With summer on its way and the COVID pandemic slowly becoming less of a worry, more people are planning vacations. Having worked in the hospitality industry for a number of years, I have a few hints to help travelers have a happy, enjoyable stay at a hotel/motel.
First, if your room is not to your liking, please remain calm and ask to speak to the manager. Hotels want to keep you as a customer and will usually do their best to accommodate your requests, within reason. If the room is not what you had expected, ask for an upgrade. If the hotel is full and your room has been given away, ask if they can arrange for you to stay at another place. Before you leave to return home, be sure you have everything packed. We frequently find shoes under a bed, clothing hanging on the back of the bathroom door, shampoo and conditioner in the shower.
We hope you enjoy your stay and return home satisfied with the service and accommodations.
— Patricia L., Orlando, Fla.
Patricia, to this I would add, if you make reservations ahead of time, be sure to ask for a confirmation number, along with the phone number, name and address of the hotel.
— Heloise
Lost luggage
DEAR HELOISE: Lost luggage is a part of air travel, but there are ways to reduce the chances of having your bags lost while flying. Be sure to remove all old tags on your suitcases and carry-on items. Make sure the correct tag is on your luggage. Put an identification tag on all of your bags. Some people laminate a business card, punch a small hole in the corner and attach it with a colorful ribbon so it’s easy to spot. Get to baggage claim as soon as you get off the plane. Warning: Thieves target expensive luggage. Try to pare down the items in your luggage, because excess weight is very expensive.
— John F., Honolulu, Hawaii
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DEAR HELOISE: My husband recently retired from his position in a large corporation. We always had several events to attend each year where a formal dress was required. The closet in the guest room was crammed with beautiful but no longer needed evening gowns. I called the local high school and asked if I could donate these dresses to girls who could not afford prom dresses.
They put a notice on a bulletin board letting the girls know that the dresses were available if they wanted a gown for the prom or for the homecoming dance. I had 18 girls call about dresses. Now my closet is almost empty and 18 young women have prom dresses! And it was a delight to have young people here.
— Eleanor C., Toledo, Ohio
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(Reuters) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Ukraine had presented Moscow with a draft peace deal containing “unacceptable” elements at variance with a previous agreement, comments that Kyiv dismissed as “pure propaganda.”
The Kremlin has said talks with Ukraine are not progressing as rapidly as it would like, and has accused the West of trying to derail negotiations by raising war crimes allegations against Russian troops in Ukraine, which Moscow denies.
Lavrov said on Thursday that Ukraine had presented a draft agreement on Wednesday that deviated from proposals both sides’ negotiators had agreed on.
Ukraine’s new draft, according to Lavrov, said the status of Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, should be raised at a meeting between the two countries’ presidents.
It also said Ukraine could hold military drills with foreign countries without receiving Russia’s permission, something Moscow disagrees with.
“Such inability to agree once again highlights Kyiv’s true intentions, its position of drawing out and even undermining the talks by moving away from the understandings reached,” Lavrov said, adding that the proposals were “unacceptable.”
Kyiv says it is committed to the talks but is not willing to give up its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Presidential adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak, one of Ukraine’s negotiators, said Lavrov’s comments should be seen as a tactic to undermine Ukraine or divert attention from war crime accusations against Russian troops.
“To make any changes to our position to weaken it would be pointless,” he said in written comments to Reuters.
“Mr Lavrov is not directly related to the negotiation process, and so his statements are pure propaganda.”
Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24 in what it called a special operation to degrade its southern neighbor’s military capabilities and root out people it called dangerous nationalists.
Ukrainian forces have mounted stiff resistance and the West has imposed sweeping sanctions in an effort to force Russia to withdraw its forces.
Lavrov said Russia was now keen to continue with the talks and secure its own demands.
“Despite all the provocations, the Russian delegation will continue with the negotiation process, pressing for our own draft agreement that clearly and fully outlines our initial and key positions and requirements,” he said.
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Ukraine was trying to evacuate as many trapped civilians as possible on Thursday, warning of a new offensive by Russian forces pounding cities in the east and south of the country.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk announced agreement with Russia on opening 10 safe corridors, mostly in southern and eastern Ukraine, but said residents trying to leave the besieged city of Mariupol would have to use their own vehicles.
Underlining the problems facing civilians, the head of the state railway company said three trains carrying evacuees had been blocked by an air strike on a line near the town of Barvinkove in the eastern region of Kharkiv.
Ukrainian officials say Russian forces have been regrouping for a new offensive, and that Moscow plans to seize as much territory as it can in the eastern part of Ukraine known as Donbas bordering Russia.
“Evacuate! The chances of saving yourself and your family from Russian death are dwindling every day,” said Serhiy Gaidai, governor of the eastern region of Luhansk, adding that Russian troops had not made any significant breakthroughs.
Authorities in Dnipro, a city in central-eastern Ukraine also urged women, children and the elderly to leave.
“The situation in the Donbas is gradually heating up, and we understand that April will be rather intense,” Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said in an online video address. Ukrainian Presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovycvh said Russian air attacks were now focused mainly on areas of eastern Ukraine, but added: “The situation is under control.”
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said that although Russia’s focus for now was largely on the east, its long-term objective was to take all Ukraine. A senior military official said Russia was likely to attack the capital Kyiv again if it won full control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
‘Pressure on civilian population’
Ukraine’s military says Russia wants to entrench a land passage between two separatist, self-proclaimed people’s republics in Donbas and the southern region of Crimea that Russia seized and annexed in 2014.
Oleh Synyehubov, the governor of Kharkiv region in eastern Ukraine, said heavy Russian shelling was intended to “put pressure on the civilian population” and destroy civilian infrastructure.”
Russia denies targeting civilians in a “special military operation” which it says is aimed at demilitarizing and “denazifying” Ukraine. The Kremlin’s position is rejected by Ukraine and the West as a pretext for an unprovoked invasion.
Multiple attempts to agree safe passage for buses to take supplies to Mariupol and bring out civilians have failed since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, with each side blaming the other.
Mayor Vadym Boychenko put the civilian death toll in the port city on the Sea of Azov at about 5,000 over a week ago, and tens of thousands are still trapped without power and with few supplies.
“The remaining more than 100,000 people are praying for rescue — a full-scale evacuation is needed,” Boychenko said on national television.
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has launched an early-stage investigation into former President Donald Trump’s removal of official presidential records to his Mar-a-Lago Florida estate, a source said on Thursday.
The investigation comes after the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration in February notified Congress that it had recovered about 15 boxes of White House documents from Trump’s Florida residence, some of which contained classified materials.
The House Oversight Committee at that time announced it was expanding an investigation into Trump’s actions and asked the Archives to turn over additional information. Trump previously confirmed that he had agreed to return certain records to the Archives, calling it “an ordinary and routine process.”
On Thursday, Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich blasted the Justice Department investigation and called it a sham.
“The Democrats, who are failing tremendously at governing, continue to weaponize every branch of government with sham investigations,” Budowich said. “Their partisan distractions won’t stop President Trump and his endorsed candidates from sweeping Democrats out of power this November.”
A federal law, the U.S. Presidential Records Act requires the preservation of memos, letters, notes, emails, faxes and other written communications related to a president’s official duties.
The Justice Department investigation is still in a very early stage, the source said, and it is unclear if it could lead to any criminal charges. The source spoke on condition of anonymity.
The investigation was reported earlier by the Washington Post.
News about the Justice Department probe came to light after Carolyn Maloney, the House Oversight Committee’s Democratic chair, earlier on Thursday sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to complain that the department was stonewalling her congressional probe.
In her letter to Garland, Maloney cited March 28 correspondence from the Archives to her committee in which the agency informed her that “based on our consultation with the Department of Justice, we are unable to provide any comment” about the contents of the boxes located in Mar-a-Lago.
She asked Garland to provide a written explanation by April 14 on whether the department will give the Archives a green light to cooperate with the congressional investigation.
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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has COVID-19 and is asymptomatic, her spokesman said on Thursday, after more than half a dozen other federal officials tested positive in recent days.
The Democratic leader tested positive after a negative test result earlier in the week, spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement.
“The speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided,” Hammill said, adding that she will quarantine according to federal health guidelines.
President Joe Biden, 79, tested negative on Wednesday night, the White House said.
“The president is not considered a close contact of Speaker Pelosi as defined by the CDC. The president saw Speaker Pelosi at White House events and had brief interactions over the course of the last two days,” it said in a statement.
Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative on Thursday, a White House official said. Harris’ communications director had tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers close contact for COVID-19 exposure to be within six feet of an infected person for a total of 15 minutes or more within a 24-hour period.
Pelosi, 82, stood near Biden briefly during a ceremony to sign a postal reform bill on Wednesday. She also attended a White House event on Tuesday with Biden and former President Barack Obama.
A congressional delegation trip to Asia Pelosi had planned to lead has been postponed, Hammill said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland tested positive on Wednesday and is also asymptomatic, the Justice Department said.
The House continues to allow remote voting so lawmakers can casts ballots while they are in isolation.
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HOUSTON — The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to include four major hurricanes with sustained winds of at least 111 miles per hour forecasters at Colorado State University said on Thursday.
A total of 19 tropical storms with winds of at least 39 mph and nine hurricanes with winds of at least 74 mph are forecast to appear in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, according to the university’s Tropical Meteorology Project.
“Again, an above-normal hurricane season in 2022,” Phil Klotzbach, who leads Colorado State’s hurricane season forecasting team, said at the national Tropical Weather Conference, which was broadcast online.
The average for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic between 1991 and 2020 is seven hurricanes, three of them major, and 14 tropical storms, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
CSU’s forecast is in line with private forecasts issued so far this year.
Privately held AccuWeather Inc. forecasts the formation in 2022 of between three and five major hurricanes out of six to eight hurricanes among 16-20 named tropical storms.
Private forecaster DTN said it expects 21 named storms, eight of which will be hurricane strength and four will be major hurricanes of Category 3 or above.
All point to two factors for the forecasts: The absence of an El Nino weather pattern and higher than expected temperatures for seas in the Atlantic Ocean. El Nino weather patterns send high winds across the southern United States that can break up hurricanes.
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With the galleries at Augusta National Golf Club following his every move, Tiger Woods made his long-anticipated return to competitive golf and shot a 1-under-par 71 in the first round of the Masters on Thursday, while South Korea’s Sungjae Im reached the top of the leaderboard with a 5-under 67.
Im made an eagle and five birdies to counter two bogeys, beating out the clubhouse leader from the early wave, Cameron Smith of Australia, by one shot.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, 2020 Masters champion Dustin Johnson, 2016 champ Danny Willett of England and Joaquin Niemann of Chile tied for third with rounds of 3-under 69. Patrick Cantlay, Jason Kokrak and Canada’s Corey Conners were tied for seventh after shooting 2-under 70.
Woods’ 71 was good for a tie for 10th, a feat unto itself as he played in his first official event since he was injured in a single-car accident on Feb. 23, 2021. After rehabbing a right leg that required multiple surgeries, Woods made his return to the sport 25 years to the day after his first major victory, a 12-stroke victory at the 1997 Masters.
His highlight came at the par-3 sixth, right after he lipped out a 15-foot birdie try on the previous green. Hitting a 6-iron, he stuck his tee shot 2 feet away from the pin and tapped in for his first birdie of the day.
Woods bogeyed the par-5 eighth after his third shot missed short of the green. He converted a two-putt birdie at the par-5 13th before his tee shot at the next hole missed the fairway badly left, and he was unable to get up and down for par.
At the par-3 16th, the 15-time major champion drained a 29-foot birdie that swept right to left, eliciting his signature fist pump. He returned to 1 under with the putt and saved par on the final two holes, even after a drive into the trees at 18.
“People have no idea how hard it’s been,” Woods said. “My team does. They’ve worked with me every single day. I’ve said this before, we haven’t taken a day off since I got out of the bed after those three months. ... So it’s commitment to getting back and commitment to getting back to a level that I feel that I can still do it. I did something positive today.”
Next up for Woods before his Friday afternoon tee time: “Lots of ice baths. Just basically freezing myself to death.”
Im, the Masters runner-up in 2020, birdied his first three holes and added a fourth at No. 7. After missing par putts at both 10 and 11, he completed Amen Corner by reaching the 13th green in two shots and making his 12-footer for eagle.
Im added a birdie at the 15th and nearly holed out from a greenside bunker for birdie at 18. His shot hit the cup and stayed out by mere inches.
Smith, who won The Players Championship last month and moved to No. 6 in the Official World Golf Ranking, signed an unusual card: double bogey 6s on the first and last holes with eight birdies in between. Smith reached 6 under with a string of three birdies at 14-16 and nearly went to the clubhouse with a three-shot lead on the field.
But after a wayward tee shot at No. 18, his second shot hit a tree branch and only traveled 80 yards. He reached the green in three and three-putted.
Smith said he stayed patient after his tough opening hole.
“I love this place. I know it presents plenty of birdies,” Smith said. “I just really had to get in a groove.”
Playing with Woods, Niemann holed out from 105 yards for an eagle 2 at the ninth. His shot spun back over a ridge and directly at the pin. That briefly put him alone in the lead at 3 under, and he recorded one bogey and one birdie the rest of the way.
Scheffler, in his first tournament since moving to No. 1 in the world, made consecutive birdies at Nos. 8 and 9 before sinking a 19-foot birdie at the par-3 12th to join the co-leaders at 3 under. He reached 4 under with another birdie at the par-3 17th but missed the green at 18 and couldn’t get up and down for par.
Johnson made all four of his birdies over the first 10 holes before a bogey at No. 17 and a difficult up-and-down par save at No. 18.
Defending champion Hideki Matsuyama of Japan opened with an even-par 72.
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Buckle up for what looks to be one of the craziest baseball seasons in recent memory.
Finally, Opening Day is here, as 14 teams began their quest for The Commissioner’s Trophy on Thursday, with the other 16 teams, including the Yankees and Red Sox, ready to begin their seasons today.
With a new season comes some new rules, a revised playoff format, evolving expectations and the likelihood that there could be more parity in 2022 than we’ve seen in years.
The revised playoff format, which will now include three Wild Card teams and create first-round byes for the top two division winners, has clearly had an effect on roster-building. Even some mid-level (Tigers, Twins and Mariners) and lower-tier teams (Rockies and Rangers) made some unexpected acquisitions in an attempt to put themselves in the playoff hunt.
But as often is the case, the most intriguing division in baseball is the American League East, where the Blue Jays open up as betting favorites while the Rays, Red Sox and Yankees shouldn’t be far behind.
“There are other teams that are really, really good outside of our division, too,” Sox manager Alex Cora told reporters in Fort Myers as spring training came to a close this week. “Obviously, the rules of the tournament are different now. But you’ve got to shoot to win the division. That’s the most important thing. I know those off-days are gold in October. So we’ll do our best to win the division. But it’s a tough one. It’s a tough one. We know that.”
The Blue Jays have perhaps the best young core in baseball, with a pair of top-five MVP vote-getters last year in former Fisher Cats Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette, who combined to score 244 runs with 77 homers and 213 RBI. The Jays lost Marcus Semien and Robbie Ray, but replaced them with Matt Chapman and Kevin Gausman. A rotation with Gausman, José Berríos, Alek Menoah and a handful of talented young arms should make them the class of the division.
The Rays remain a threat, despite reshaping their roster and making a last-minute trade to ship Austin Meadows, their most potent left-handed hitter behind Brandon Lowe, to the Tigers, who could make a sneaky run in the AL Central. As always, the Rays seem to have an endless supply of pitching depth and one of the game’s best outfield defenses with Kevin Kiermaier, Manuel Margot and Randy Arozarena. Superstar Wander Franco could be the best hitter in baseball in the not-so-distant future.
The Yankees have taken an unusually mild approach to an otherwise chaotic offseason, failing to land any of the game’s top free agents while shuffling their roster with some trades. They’ve replaced Gio Urshela with Josh Donaldson, Gary Sanchez with Kyle Higashioka and are relying on a strong bounce-back season from Luis Severino to get them through.
The Red Sox made a handful of moves to clean up the edges of their roster and made a last-second signing of Trevor Story to improve their infield defense, while Jackie Bradley Jr. returns to improve defense in the outfield, which was subpar last year.
All four AL East teams could be playing in October thanks to the new playoff format.
“On paper, it looks that way, right?” Cora said. “But at the end of the day, nobody thought the Giants were gonna be the team that they were last year. They dominated the division that the Dodgers were in. So every season is different. We just have to be ready, understanding that every game counts. We lived it last year and we’re not going to forget about that. I will not turn the page for that one.”
Cora said he thinks the new playoff format is great, but added, “I have other ideas about alignment. You might as well go American League, National League, and the top seven make it. Forget divisions. What’s the point? The top eight in the National League, American League, don’t split us up, I guess. But that’s another topic.”
On the field, teams will have some adjustments to make.
ESPN reported that MLB approved the usage of PitchCom technology, which will allow catchers to call pitches through a wrist pad that will transfer the call into an earpiece of the pitcher, a design that could change the game drastically after sign-stealing has been a crucial component for as long as baseball has been played.
The designated hitter is now universal, and it is expected to be the last year with defensive shifts, as MLB is planning to ban shifts in 2023, when they’ll require two infielders on each side of second base and only three men allowed in the outfield before every pitch. The ghost runner in extra innings has returned.
Meanwhile, a pitch clock and robot umpires behind the plate are also being experimented with in the minors and expected to be added to the big leagues next year.
A month ago, we were uncertain if we’d have a baseball season.
Now we have new rules, reformed leagues and another Opening Day to celebrate.
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GRAPHIC: Man stabs child 11 times to ‘get the demons out’, police say
(Gray News) - A Las Vegas man has been arrested and a child is fighting for her life after a gruesome stabbing occurred at a house late last month.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reports officers were called to a home in east Las Vegas on March 31 with reports of a stabbing.
A 3-year-old girl was eating dinner inside the house when a family member came up behind her and began stabbing her in her right side, a witness told police.
According to an arrest report, Alan Wilson, 28, was the man stabbing the child. A family member stepped in to help the girl and get the knife away from Wilson.
According to police, a struggle ensued between the two, and Wilson said, “I need to get the demons out of her. I need to save her.”
Other family members in the home were able to get to the child and rush her to a nearby fire station, where she was then taken to Sunrise Hospital for treatment.
According to Wilson’s arrest report, the 3-year-old was stabbed seven times in the back, once in the armpit, forearm, hand and right triceps. She suffered damage to an artery, her kidney and spleen, which required three surgeons to help repair the internal damage.
Police said Wilson left the house and was later located outside a nearby 7-Eleven convenience store, where he was taken into custody.
The 28-year-old was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on attempted murder, child abuse, and battery charges.
Doctors said the injured child would require additional surgeries.
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AUGUSTA, Ga- (WJBF) Parking spaces throughout National Hills started to fill up around 10:15 this morning forcing patrons to park in driveways nearby and pay double the price to leave their cars.
WJBF spoke with patrons who say they had to drive more than an hour looking for parking.
“I mean you have to do what you have to do but it’ll be nice if they had uber or something, somebody will pay to ride” said Mike Franks
Others say even though parking has been hectic, it’s not the worst thing in the world.
“They are spaces restricted here in augusta so I guess its part of the package of wanting to come to the tournament” said Jeff Clements
Karen English who runs a nearby townhome complex says they charge a variety of prices for patrons to park in the parking lot and they’ve been doing it for 20 years around Masters time.
Karen English- Town Club owner said, “depending upon the cars because of course we have corporate people that come in and they park too and they have really big vans and it varies so I really don’t want to give you like a certain price but it’s mostly $40“ said English.
English says she doesn’t mind allowing as many people as possible to park because of overflow.
“We don’t mind the masters filling up and getting the overflow because we love the people that come in here, they’re like family to us “ said English
Elbert Vinditty says he came all the way from Canada for the Masters and parking issues has caused some frustration.
“We’ve been driving around in circles trying to find a parking spot we even go into the subdivision where they’re accepting parking and they’re full cars are parked all over the street there’s police running around they say they’re going to tow you it’s just awful ” said Vinditty
Even though parking may be an issue to some, others says it’s all worth it and they’re looking forward to the weekend ahead.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — Republican lawmakers are pushing for a new bill to keep a public health measure, and they are getting support from some Democrats.
Title 42 is a health measure that keeps most asylum seekers out of the U.S. due to the pandemic. Republican lawmakers are pushing to keep the measure in place, despite opposing other public health measures such as mask and vaccine mandates.
“It ensures that Title 42 remains in place well into the future while we deal with both a pandemic and an immigration crisis,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.).
All Republican senators and at least seven Democrats want to extend Title 42, and some are threatening to vote against $10 billion in additional COVID funding unless they get their way.
“What many Senate Republicans are talking about is anti-asylum,” said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen (D) said in a statement that “the administration’s announcement to end Title 42 was done without a cohesive stragety in place to secure the border and prevent chaos.”
But Title 42 is a public health measure and its legal implementation is not supposed to be for immigration control. Maryland Senator Ben Cardin (D) says that’s why the Biden adminstration is trying phase it out.
“People who have legitimate asylum claims should be able to pursue them,” Cardin said.
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GRAPHIC: Man stabs child 11 times to ‘get the demons out’, police say
(Gray News) - A Las Vegas man has been arrested and a child is fighting for her life after a gruesome stabbing occurred at a house late last month.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reports officers were called to a home in east Las Vegas on March 31 with reports of a stabbing.
A 3-year-old girl was eating dinner inside the house when a family member came up behind her and began stabbing her in her right side, a witness told police.
According to an arrest report, Alan Wilson, 28, was the man stabbing the child. A family member stepped in to help the girl and get the knife away from Wilson.
According to police, a struggle ensued between the two, and Wilson said, “I need to get the demons out of her. I need to save her.”
Other family members in the home were able to get to the child and rush her to a nearby fire station, where she was then taken to Sunrise Hospital for treatment.
According to Wilson’s arrest report, the 3-year-old was stabbed seven times in the back, once in the armpit, forearm, hand and right triceps. She suffered damage to an artery, her kidney and spleen, which required three surgeons to help repair the internal damage.
Police said Wilson left the house and was later located outside a nearby 7-Eleven convenience store, where he was taken into custody.
The 28-year-old was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on attempted murder, child abuse, and battery charges.
Doctors said the injured child would require additional surgeries.
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Lack of participation in child vaccine trial could delay approval
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Right now, there are about 18 million Americans not eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine. They’re all children under the age of 5.
It’s the only age group without an authorized vaccine, but a research clinic in Lincoln is hoping to help speed up the process.
Becca Henry of Lincoln is a mom of two. Both of her children are enrolled in the Pfizer vaccine study for children under the age of 5.
“It’s important to me to have my own children protected and also just very important to protect others around us,” Henry said.
Pfizer selected Meridian Clinical Research as a study site. Enrollment started two weeks ago and they have 20 kids signed up so far. Becca was concerned for the safety of her children, but wanted to get them vaccinated.
“The benefit very much outweighs the concern at this point,” she said.
Dr. Jay Meyer with Meridian said Pfizer is looking for 9,000 kids across the world to participate. Right now, there aren’t enough enrolled. He said that could further delay the vaccine’s approval.
“They have to get enough to make the studies powered and to make the results good enough that they can be validated,” Dr. Meyer said. “So, more is always better until you reach the goal that Pfizer is looking to reach.”
There is a vaccine for children 5 and older, but vaccination rates have been low. In Lancaster County, only 37% of children ages 5 through 11 are fully vaccinated.
“We just want to show that it is safe, and it is effective,” Henry said.
Pfizer has said it hopes to submit new data to the FDA on children younger than 5 in May, but Dr. Meyer said it could take up to six months for vaccine approval.
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GRAPHIC: Man stabs child 11 times to ‘get the demons out’, police say
(Gray News) - A Las Vegas man has been arrested and a child is fighting for her life after a gruesome stabbing occurred at a house late last month.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reports officers were called to a home in east Las Vegas on March 31 with reports of a stabbing.
A 3-year-old girl was eating dinner inside the house when a family member came up behind her and began stabbing her in her right side, a witness told police.
According to an arrest report, Alan Wilson, 28, was the man stabbing the child. A family member stepped in to help the girl and get the knife away from Wilson.
According to police, a struggle ensued between the two, and Wilson said, “I need to get the demons out of her. I need to save her.”
Other family members in the home were able to get to the child and rush her to a nearby fire station, where she was then taken to Sunrise Hospital for treatment.
According to Wilson’s arrest report, the 3-year-old was stabbed seven times in the back, once in the armpit, forearm, hand and right triceps. She suffered damage to an artery, her kidney and spleen, which required three surgeons to help repair the internal damage.
Police said Wilson left the house and was later located outside a nearby 7-Eleven convenience store, where he was taken into custody.
The 28-year-old was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on attempted murder, child abuse, and battery charges.
Doctors said the injured child would require additional surgeries.
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Rising costs of all foods hitting food shelves and grocery shoppers hard
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – “It’s a very scary time for people,” said Rebecca Snapp, the Rochester Salvation Army’s director of community engagement.
According to the USDA, food prices are already relatively high compared to years past, and they expect that to continue for anything consumers put on your dinner plate.
“I used to be able to buy a pack of chicken for a few bucks, and now I’m almost $23 into a pack of chicken,” said Ashley Wainis.
“I definitely try not to worry too much, but it does affect the budget,” said Heather Pilgrim.
Silver Lake Foods in Rochester says it has a loyal group of shoppers, so the number of shoppers hasn’t declined. However, they added that many are changing their buying habits. Their shoppers would agree.
“We’ve done a lot of bulk shopping,” said Wainis.
“I’m buying off brand stuff instead of the brand names,” said Pilgrim
“I find myself not buying as much, I just buy what I need for the week,” said Brian Erwin.
Food costs are not just hitting grocery shoppers. Food Banks and food shelves are also seeing these effects.
“We definitely have seen an increase in need,” said Jessica Sund, the director of development and communications at Channel One Regional Food Bank in Southeast Minnesota.
“The rising cost of everything is certainly making it that much harder for all of the working families that we’re seeing,” said Snapp.
Channel One Food Bank and Rochester’s Salvation Army are seeing it from both ends: with more people needing more food, and with donors giving less.
“A lot of those manufacturers that used to give us large donations, those have kind of tightened up a bit,” said Sund.
“There’s definitely a year’s worth of need of food in this food shelf,” said Snapp.
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OWINGS MILLS, Md. — A Baltimore County man is raising concerns about speeding in his Owings Mills neighborhood.
Frazier West, who lives in the area of Dolfield Boulevard near Mill Centre Road, said speeding has been a big problem for years.
“It’s every day. All day,” he said.
West believes drivers are easily going two to three times over the speed limit, which is just 35 miles per hour.
“You can hear sometimes the car before you even see that they are speeding,” he said.
On weekends, he said people are literally meeting each other to race up and down the street.
West calls it dangerous, adding someone was killed on this street just two years ago
“It’s really sad,” he said.
The issues West describes are similar to what neighbors living on Moravia Road in Baltimore told WMAR-2 News on Wednesday.
West said he’s called the county multiple times to raise concerns about the constant speeding and racing
In response, he said a speed camera was added nearby. But he thinks this area of Dolfield near Mill Centre Drive needs one too.
“Adding another speed camera further down will really solve the problem,” West said. “I guarantee you it will slow down the traffic from speeding up and down this particular area.”
West thinks the county needs to act before someone get seriously injured or worse.
“An officer can be somewhere else dealing with something a lot more serious while the speed camera is taking care of the speeding problems that are occurring," West said.
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Around 1975, Larry Barnhart found himself driving along East Boulevard Street, growing weary of his commute back and forth from his job in Logansport and looking for something different.
He then came across what he described as a shiny new building that looked “mechanical,” and he stopped to put in his application.
A few weeks later — having had completely forgotten at the time about that application — Barnhart received a call from the owner of that shiny new building.
“The man (on the phone) said, ‘This is Glen from Kokomo Schwinn (Kokomo Cycling),’” Barnhart recalled. “I said, ‘Who?’ He said that I put in an application, and I said, ‘Oh, yeah.’ He then asked if I could come in for an interview, so I did.”
And Barnhart, who didn’t even own a bicycle at the time, has been there ever since.
Last week, the Tribune stopped by Kokomo Cycling — Indiana’s first total-concept Schwinn store — to chat with Barnhart about his nearly half a century in the bicycle industry.
And the man — who took over ownership in 2005 — was fully in his element.
“It’s a fun place to be,” Barnhart said, bouncing back and forth between talking and working with another employee on a nearby bicycle. “I’ve never really considered it work. I mean, I’ve been able to come in and play with bikes for a living.”
Shortly after coming onboard with Kokomo Cycling, Barnhart, a service manager at the time, was sent to Schwinn Service School.
The program was a concentrated one-week program that Barnhart joked was made easier by the fact that Bateman had pretty much taught him everything he needed to know already.
Then, when Bateman retired in 1985, Barnhart said that it was actually written into the new owner’s contract that Barnhart would stay with the business.
“So, I literally became a fixture here,” he laughed. “And really, from about 1985 on, it kind of became my store anyway.”
And Barnhart has seen a lot over the past 47 years, too, from the “10-speed bike boom” of the 1970s to the BMX and mountain bike craze a few years ago.
But nothing prepared him for what Kokomo Cycling experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“That was intense,” Barnhart said. “Up until the beginning of COVID, the biggest single day we ever had as far as bike sales was a random Saturday in February way back when. It was 80 degrees that week. That Saturday, things went nuts. I sold 16 bikes out the door that day.
“But when COVID hit, we shut down for a month, and when we finally opened back up again, we opened for half days,” he added. “Four hours. And those first two Saturdays, we had 17 bikes each Saturday going out the door. People were just yanking them off the racks. Within two weeks, we had sold out every bike in the store.”
Barnhart cited the area’s multiple trails and just the desire to be in the fresh outdoors during the middle of a pandemic as possible motives for the sales increase.
“Pretty soon, we only had five bikes in the entire store,” he said smiling. “Four of them were itty bitty 12-inch bikes, and one of them was electric. And it’s been that way ever since. … We honestly sold a year’s worth of bikes in two weeks. But then we really didn’t sell anything after that.”
Another byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic that Barnhart said he noticed was how many people brought their bicycles in for repair work.
“Every dusty, cobwebby old bike out of every garage or old warehouse, we started seeing them,” he laughed. “We started seeing some of the nastiest bikes that hadn’t been ridden in 20 years, but people wanted them fixed up to be able to use again. So that first year (of the pandemic) was huge on repairs. The racks out in front where we usually had the bikes that were for sale, they were all full of repairs because we ran out of room in back.”
And while business has now seemed to return to normal and has slowed down a bit since the initial chaos of 2020, Barnhart has not.
He jokes that his wife keeps asking him when he’s going to retire, but why would he, he asks himself.
“I can’t imagine not coming in here every day,” he said, scanning the store with his eyes for a minute. “… I’m more than happy to talk to people about how this is the first total concept store for Schwinn built in Indiana. I even still have the golden scissors in there from when some members of the Schwinn family came down for the opening. And I’m really just proud of the that whole story.”
Barnhart said he’s also proud that even though you can purchase a bicycle at a “big box store,” the experience of purchasing one at Kokomo Cycling is simply different.
“One of the concepts that Schwinn did when they made these types of stores was to make it like a destination bicycle shop,” he said. “It wasn’t just part of a hardware store or a section in a larger general store. We don’t sell keys or lawnmowers. And even though department stores have taken a big chunk of our business, you know what we’re about when you see the Schwinn name.”
“And I always thought it was kind of funny that people used to call Glen (Bateman) ‘Mr. Schwinn,’” Barnhart said smiling. “But now I’ll even get it every once in a while. Someone will come up to me and say, ‘Hey, you’re the Schwinn guy.’ And that makes me feel pretty good.”
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ROCKVILLE, Md. — A 24-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 80 years in prison in the 2018 stabbing death of his mother outside a Maryland church, prosecutors said.
Montgomery County Circuit Judge Harry Storm sentenced Kevin McGuigan of Rockville to life in prison with all but 80 years suspended, according to the state’s attorney’s office.
Last fall, Storm found McGuigan was competent to stand trial.
McGuigan pleaded guilty in December to first-degree murder in the death of his 49-year-old mother, Jaclyn McGuigan, outside St. Raphael Catholic Church in Potomac.
On Dec. 28, 2018, people working at the church told police that they found Jaclyn McGuigan on the ground and a man they saw standing over her fled in a car, prosecutors said in a document detailing the case.
Jaclyn McGuigan, who suffered a stab wound to the neck, died on the scene, prosecutors said.
Kevin McGuigan was arrested the next day after he called his sister from a gas station and said he planned to surrender.
Months later, Kevin McGuigan confessed to killing his mother and revealed the location of the knife he used, prosecutors said.
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PERU — The Peru Police Department hopes to land a grant to purchase two new hybrid patrol vehicles to cut down on fuel costs as the price of gasoline remains historically high.
Chief Dan Sofianos said they have applied for a matching grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to buy two hybrid gas-electric Ford Explorers.
The SUVs would replace two 2014 Ford Taurus patrol cars, which have around 190,000 miles and started incurring major maintenance costs in the past two years.
Sofianos said the department would trade in the cars to help purchase the SUVs, which get around 24 miles per gallon and have more pickup than the Tauruses.
The hybrid Explorers don’t need to be plugged in, but instead use the motor as a generator to charge the battery. One minute of the motor running charges the battery for five minutes of use. Sofianos said that makes the SUVs ideal for police work.
“With all the idling we do, it’s going to save a lot of gas,” he told the Peru City Council on Monday. “If someone is running radar, the air conditioner still works, the heat still works, but the car only starts when it needs electricity.”
Sofianos said the vehicles have been ordered, but the department will have to wait to see if they’re awarded the grant before making the purchase. He said the SUVs costs around $49,000, and the grant would pay for one of them.
He told the council he’s spoken to other police departments who own hybrid Explorers, and all said they’ve had good luck with them and saved a lot of money on gas.
However, the hybrid models have only been out for three years, and the big question mark is potential maintenance costs, Sofianos said.
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