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U.S. residents on the cusp of developing Type 2 diabetes include about 28% of youths ages 12 to 19, according to research published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
They have a condition known as prediabetes, which means that the level of sugar (glucose) in their blood is higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as having full-fledged diabetes. The researchers found that the percentage of youths with prediabetes has more than doubled in recent years, going from just under 12% in 1999 to 28% by 2018.
It was found to be more prevalent among boys than girls and among youths who are overweight or obese. Among adults, about 96 million (or more than 1 in 3) have prediabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
At any age, people with prediabetes are not only more likely to progress to Type 2 diabetes but also are at higher risk for heart disease. Also, most people who have prediabetes do not know it because the condition usually has no symptoms.
In most cases, prediabetes stems from the body's problems with turning glucose, which comes from the foods you eat, into energy. That requires the hormone insulin to help move glucose from the bloodstream to the cells. If the body does not make enough insulin or cannot use it as it should (called insulin resistance), too much glucose remains in the bloodstream. Then, various blood tests would indicate prediabetes or diabetes. That progression is not inevitable.
Health experts say that medication may sometimes be needed to manage blood sugar levels. But for others, lifestyle changes - including a healthier diet, regular physical activity and, if needed, weight loss - may prevent diabetes from developing.
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Caught on video: 2 NJ cops lose jobs after stealing bikes
This one was a little hard to figure out. Why would two officers from the Lower Township Police Department steal two bikes right out in the open, with surveillance cameras everywhere, from a bike rack in Cape May?
Both men lost their jobs Monday as part of a plea deal with Cape May County prosecutors.
Back in October, officials arrested officers Eric Campbell, 28, and Austin Craig, 28, both of Lower Township, on charges of theft.
An investigation by the Cape May Police Department regarding the theft of two bicycles from the area of Decatur Street in Cape May City on Oct. 8 found video surveillance showing two men removing the bicycles from the area.
According to the investigation, these suspects were identified as Eric Campbell and Austin Craig, who were both employed as police officers with the Lower Township Police Department.
As a result of additional investigation, Campbell and Craig were charged with theft, a crime of the fourth degree.
Monday, both men forfeited their employment with the Lower Township Police Department, in accordance with the deal reached with prosecutors, a court official said. The men will enter PTI according to the Cape May Herald.
PTI stands for “pre-trial intervention.” PTI is a diversionary program designed for first-time offenders charged with certain 3rd or 4th-degree indictable crimes in New Jersey.
The Press of Atlantic City reported in October that Craig had been hired by the Lower Township Police Department in April 2019, according to Donald Vanaman, administrative captain for the department, and Campbell was hired as a part-time Class II officer in 2016 and promoted to a full-time officer in January 2019.
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Nashville’s next big star returns to New Jersey roots for 2 shows
Singer-songwriting guitarist Daniel Donato is a young and rising star in Nashville, but his roots trace back to New Jersey.
Donato has played everything from Honky Tonks to the Grand Old Opry. Most recently Donato played a show at the Beacon Theater and will soon be bringing his talents to Asbury Park and Stanhope.
He will be playing his first show in Jersey at The Stanhope House on Friday, April 22. The following night, Saturday, April 23 he will be playing The Saint in Asbury Park.
He calls his brand of music Cosmic Country, which he describes as "tie-dyes and Levi's, and if you like three chords and the truth, and you also like a little bit of a story told through the music, and not the words, it's right up your alley. It's influenced by the classics of American music, including Grateful Dead and Phish, but it also includes Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Hank Williams Sr."
Daniel also spent time playing with the Don Kelly Band, which was known to have some of the best guitarists Nashville has to offer.
Check out my conversation with Daniel Donato
What’s your background in Jersey?
"The Donatos moved to New Jersey in the early 1900s, to New Brunswick. My grandfather ran a salvage company for years there. He was a man of adventure, quality, and unique tastes. From that move, I came along many years later.
“I am thrilled to perform for the specific audience that New Jersey is, New Jersey is a collective of many different kinds of cultures at the end of the day it's an honest culture that works very hard and wants to provide for their family. A lot of my music is rooted in those values."
You’ve been living in Nashville, but what are you looking forward to in Jersey?
"Steaks Unlimited and Maruca’s in Seaside Heights because they both are hands down the best Shore food you’ll ever find! I want to go to the Wonder Bar. I wanna walk along the boardwalk in Asbury and see all the seagulls in the morning on the beach and relive that archetypal Jersey Shore moment."
What can someone coming to the show expect?
"A Cosmic Country show has three chords, the truth, and jams from dimensions unknown. You’ll see many happy beings dressed in tie-dye, and dancing for our entire 2+ hour show. Each show is different, we never play the setlist in the same way, no song is ever performed in the same way, it's a completely unique experience each night and we try to bring that to people, they can expect a lot of guitar and improvisation, a lot of really thought out lyrics, very tight harmonies from our honky-tonk roots and a lot of dancing- our crowd is very high energy."
What this tour been like for you?
"This tour has been our most realized endeavor yet. Musically, we’re doing two sets a night, and each night is different. Community wise, the connection between the individuals on stage and the individuals off stage has been closer and more integrated than I’ve ever experienced."
How did your musical style come to be, and who were your influences?
"My style came to be through sheer persistence and inquisitive internal searching and listening through years of playing in Honky Tonks and venues across the country. My influences are classic country artists like Waylon, Willie, and John Prine. I also love Phish, Grateful Dead, and The Allman Brothers Band."
Daniel will be at The Stanhope House on Friday, April 22 and the following night, Saturday, April 23, he will be playing The Saint in Asbury Park.
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Philadelphia Phillies games will serve pizza from Ocean City, NJ
South Jersey Philadelphia Phillies fans will have some local flavor this season at Citizens Bank Park for Philadelphia Phillies game, as Manco & Manco of Ocean City is coming to Ashburn Alley.
Per a Phillies press release:
An Ocean City tradition is coming to Ashburn Alley, it’s Manco & Manco…the First and Last Name in Pizza! Serving everyone’s favorite thin crust pizza, the same way they have been since 1956. Plain, pepperoni and a series special will be available fresh out of the oven.
The popular boardwalk pizza shop, which also has a Somers Point location, joins the food lineup at Citizens Bank Park this year, and will be situated out in Ashburn Alley in place of the old Season’s Pizza spot.
Its one of a few new food items this season, per the press release, that will be available during the 2022 season at Citizens Bank Park.
The Phillies and Aramark have added even more new menu items to the ballpark’s award-winning food lineup:
PJ Whelihan’s Wicked Chicken Nachos: Features crisp tortilla chips loaded with shredded cheddar jack, American cheese sauce, scallions, thin-sliced chicken and your choice of PJ's famous sauces. Available at PJ Whelihan’s stand in Ashburn Alley.
· Pass & Stow Sausage Sandwich: House-made sausage, pepper-shooter mayo and arugula. Available at Pass & Stow, Third Base Plaza.
· Peanut Butter & Jelly Burger #DareToPair: A special blend boardwalk burger topped with peanut butter, Jalapeno jelly, American Cheese and bacon on a brioche bun. Available at Boardwalk Eats, Section 142.
· Burnt Ends Cheesesteak: House-smoked brisket ends served on an Amoroso roll topped with smoked Gouda cheese sauce and caramelized onions. Available at Bull’s BBQ, Left Field Plaza.
· Impossible® Cheesesteak: Impossible® meat topped with smoked gouda cheese sauce, tomato jam and crispy onions on an Amoroso roll. Available at the Garden Grill location, behind Section 125.
· Street Nachos: Crisp tortilla chips topped with pickled red onions, jalapenos, cheese sauce, corn salsa and your choice of adobo chicken or Impossible® meat. Available behind Section 139.
So this season if you're heading to a Phillies game, you can feel more at home!
Every NJ pizza joint Barstool's Dave Portnoy has reviewed
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Raise your garden to new heights for easier access and greater productivity. Raised beds allow you to overcome poor soil by creating the ideal growing mix. They also make gardening more comfortable thanks to less bending and kneeling.
Whether you purchase a kit or build your own, there are a few things to consider when creating a raised bed garden.
Locate the garden in a sunny area if possible. Most plants require at least six hours of sun, and vegetables like tomatoes, peppers and melons produce best with a full day of sunlight.
Select a long-lasting material such as interlocking block, fieldstone, plastic lumber or naturally long-lasting wood like cedar. The material selected will influence the shape and size of your garden. Some materials allow for curved beds while others are limited to squares, rectangles and other angular shapes.
Design your raised bed to fit your space and your needs. A three- or four-feet width makes it easy to reach all parts of the garden for planting, weeding and harvesting. Raising your planting bed at least eight to 12 inches improves drainage and provides an adequate space for most plants to root and grow. If you want to minimize bending, go higher. Add benches to increase your gardening comfort and ease.
Roughen or loosen the existing soil surface if your bed is built on compact, slow-draining soil. This will allow water to readily move from the raised bed into the soil below. Cover the bottom of the bed with newspaper or cardboard, if needed, to suffocate existing weeds and grass.
Line the bottom of your raised bed with hardware cloth to reduce the risk of animals burrowing into your garden. Lay the hardware cloth over the ground and bend it up along the inside of the raised bed walls.
Fill the bed with a quality growing mix that is well drained but also able to retain moisture and nutrients. This may be a mixture of quality topsoil and compost, a high-quality potting mix, or a planting mix designed specifically for raised bed gardens.
Grow any plants that you normally would grow in ground. Just make sure the plants are suited to the growing conditions – sunlight, heat and wind – in your area. Since the soil mix and drainage is ideal in a raised garden, you will be able to grow more plants per square foot. Just be sure to leave sufficient room for plants to reach their mature size.
Keep your plants healthy and productive with proper watering. This is critical for growing any garden, but even more crucial in a fast draining raised bed. The simple act of raising the garden height increases drainage, and a raised bed filled with planting mix means more frequent watering. Consider using drip irrigation or soaker hoses for watering ease. Always water thoroughly when the top inch of soil is dry.
Add some mulch to help reduce watering and the need for other garden maintenance. Spread a layer of evergreen needles, pine straw, shredded leaves or other organic matter over the soil surface. This helps conserve moisture, suppresses weeds and adds nutrients and organic matter to the soil as it decomposes. You’ll spend less time watering and weeding throughout the season.
Add an organic fertilizer at planting if your planting mix does not already contain one. Apply again mid-season if the plants need a nutrient boost. Always follow the label directions on the fertilizer container.
The time and effort invested in creating raised beds will be returned many times over with years of healthy and productive gardens.
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A couple of years ago, on a really cold, dark and rainy day, it dawned on me the dark blue fleece pullover and olive-colored pants I was wearing underneath my royal blue and black rain jacket was an outfit that had been worn on several other bleak weather days just like that day.
Having a designated depressing weather day outfit was completely unintentional, but realizing I had one was a reminder to appreciate the more fair weather times of year.
The only thing appealing about wintertime’s dormant grass and bare trees is you can catch a long break from yard work. Whether you love or hate the Bradford pear trees in bloom this time of year, you’ve got to admit this time of year is definitely appealing.
Trees and plants are finally putting on new growth, most people don’t have to worry about it being dark when they get off of work, and it seems as if we’re seeing more sunny days than dark cloudy days most weeks.
Bright colors help change moods, and we’re in that budding time of year when the whites, pinks, reds, yellows and blues of azaleas, hydrangeas and lantana are weeks away from emerging and peaking in their glories.
Whether the pollen messes with your sinuses or not, hang tough through spring’s challenging times because it’s definitely better than January’s long nights and February’s occasional chances for ice.
The older you get, the more you’re okay with nestling up at home. The warmer and brighter it gets outside, though, it’s easy for cabin fever to sometimes set in and encourage us to enjoy the outdoors.
It doesn’t matter if it’s just sitting on your porch, going for a drive or finally getting in that walk or bike ride you’ve put off due to the cold, this time of year is an opportune time to get out and enjoy the outdoors.
The sunshine on your face is one feeling, but the scenery of the colors is another. Springtime and autumn are two times that definitely help change moods.
This spring marks a return of the small-town festivals the past two years took away from us, and the activities are definitely not lacking. This past fall offered the same kind of fun as 2022’s autumn season will.
When we opt to stay inside because it’s either too bitterly cold during winter or too exhaustingly hot and humid during summer, it makes us antsy waiting for more seasonable temperatures to return.
With the changes in temperature come the changes in color, which translate to the changes in moods. People wear their seafoam green and vibrant yellow short-sleeve shirts in the spring and their orange and red coats and flannel in fall to match the season.
The colors of spring and fall are a long way off from the depressing deep blues of winter we’ve got hanging up in closets with the rest of the heavy coats. I hope you’re wearing your brightest colors to match the brightest of moods for the weeks to come.
Springtime is as much about watching plants come into bloom as it is crawfish, baseball games, music festivals and living a life you’ve been hibernating away from since New Year’s Eve. Live it.
High gas prices may have some of us grounded from all the going and doing we’re used to, but there’s a great big beautiful world right around us to see and experience for free.
I hope you hop into some Easter fun, browse through an arts and crafts festival and get a little bit of a tan before the sultry days of summer return.
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TODAY'S OBITUARIES
Larry W. Broussard, Pontotoc
James Harris, Tupelo
Mamie Henry, Byhalia
Jenny Henson, Marietta
Linda Howell, Fairview Community
Larry Norse Long, Iuka
Lynda Sue Miller, Benton County
Cheryl Crystal Cuff-Patterson, Corinth
John Clifford Samples SR, Blue Springs
Aden Toner, Pope
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James Harris
TUPELO - James Harris, 86, passed away on April 8, 2022, at North MS Medical Center in Tupelo. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Agnew and Sons Funeral Home of Verona.
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John Clifford Samples SR
BLUE SPRINGS - John Clifford Samples SR, 80, passed away Wednesday, April 06, 2022, at his residence in Blue Springs. Services will be on Sunday April 24th, 2022 at Beech Springs Baptist Church. It's truly an honor to have been chosen to serve the Samples family.ASSOCIATED FAMILY FUNERAL HOME - TUPELO has charge of arrangements. (associatedfuneral.com).
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Larry W. Broussard
PONTOTOC - Larry W. Broussard, 69, passed away Thursday, April 7, 2022, at NMMC in Pontotoc. Services will be on Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 3PM at Pontotoc City Cemetery.
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Cheryl Crystal Cuff-Patterson
CORINTH - Cheryl Crystal Cuff-Patterson, 51, passed away Wednesday, April 6, 2022, at home in Corinth. Services will be on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 12:00 noon at Patterson Memorial Chapel. Visitation will be on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 from 10:00 am until 12:00 noon at Patterson Memorial Chapel.
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Mamie Henry
BYHALIA - Mamie Henry, 75, passed away on April 7, 2022, at Baptist Desoto in Southaven. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Serenity Autry Funeral Home of Holly Springs.
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Larry Norse Long
IUKA - 74, passed away on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at Northeast Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo.
A walk through visitation will be Sunday, April 10, 2022 from 1 until 4:00 pm at Patterson Memorial Chapel. Funeral Services is Monday, April 11, 2022 at Jones Chapel CME Church at 10:00 am. Burial will follow in the Corinth National Cemetery.
He was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama to the late Hester Simms Long and Edward Obid Long. As a child, his hobbies were fishing, football, reading and spending time with his mother.
Larry married Alicetine Howard Long who is the mother of their two children.
He attended Carter's Branch School, but graduated from Easom High School where he played football. He joined the United States Marine Corps serving in Vietnam. He achieved the rank of Sergeant and served a four year term. While enlisted he received a National Defense Medal, Vietnam Service Medal 2 Stars, Vietnam Campaign Medal Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal and the Meritorious Mass. After serving his country, he attended Northeast Junior College in 1971 and Jackson State University from 1973 - 1974. He received a BS degree in Political Science and a minor in Sociology from the University of North Alabama. Larry retired from Tennessee Valley Authority as a Public Safety Officer and Federal Agent for 28 years at multiple pants in the Alabama and Tennessee regions.
Larry was a faithful member of Jones Chapel CME Church until his passing. He served as Treasurer, Deacon and Sunday School Superintendent. He had served as President of the NAACP. He was known to help anyone who needed mentoring and who needed any other kind of assistance.
He was preceded in death by his parents and brothers, Armer Long and Quincy Crenshaw.
He leaves to celebrate his memory; a daughter, Natasha Jeffries (Aaron), a son, Parnell Long (Alegneta), grandchildren, Saraya Morgan Ashley, Menen Asfaw Long, Myla Grace Jeffries, Martin "MJ" Ashley, II; siblings, Edward Long, Jr., Garry Long (Diane), Walter Burgess (Juan), Terry Johnson (Sherri), Dr. Sammie Long-Pulliam, Peggy Smith and Avy Long.
Pastor Sheaneter Bogan will officiate.
Patterson Memorial Chapel has the arrangements.
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Aden Toner
POPE - Aden Toner, age 29, passed away Wednesday morning, April 6, 2022, at his home in Pope, MS.
Funeral services were held on Saturday, April 9, 2022, at Wells Funeral Home with the interment following at Forrest Memorial Park in Batesville, MS.
Aden was born May 24, 1992 in Memphis, TN to James Timothy "Tim" Scruggs and Kristeen Nicole Toner Rush. Aden loved his job driving a truck for Dunlap & Kyle in Batesville, MS. He loved the outdoors, enjoyed working on trucks and riding 4-wheelers. Aden was a "Big Teddy Bear" with a tender heart. He would give you the shirt off his back. He loved his family and friends and spending time with them. Aden was a loving son, husband, and father to his children. His children, Annaleigh, and Gabe were his whole world.
Aden's loving memory will be cherished by his wife, Kirstie ReNae Toner of Pope, MS; daughter, Annaleigh Grace Toner of Pope, MS; son, Gabriel Sebastian (Roberts) Toner of Tupelo, MS; mother, Kristeen Toner Rush (Jason) of Tupelo, MS; father, James Timothy "Tim" Scruggs (Monica) of Sardis, MS; maternal grandmother, Jamie Cole (Terry) of Charleston, MS; three brothers, Elijah Scruggs of Sardis, Mason Rush of Belden, MS and Dakota Pierce of Sardis, MS; sister, Nevada Kay Rasnick of Sardis, MS; aunts, Kelle Hester, Kim Cook, Bekah Luebcke; and cousins, Amber Towles, Heather Meyers, Devin Cook and Adam Cook.
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Jenny Henson
MARIETTA - Jenny Martin, 73, of Marietta passed away on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at the Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. She was a faithful member of the Zion Rest Church of Christ. She received her Bachelor's degree from Delta State University and was an elementary school teacher at Marietta and Grenada. She loved nature, flowers, and birds especially hummingbirds. Her favorite place to go on vacation was The Smoky Mountains. She was extremely generous and cared deeply about orphans, sick children and Veterans. She loved her grandchildren and spending time with them.
She is survived by her husband, James "Jimmy" Martin; two sons, Rodney Martin (Melinda) and David (TyJunah) Martin; her grandchildren, Savannah, Molly and Luke; her brothers, Bob Henson and Ricky Henson; and her sisters, Martha Caldwell and Margie Ramsey.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Harvey and Mildred Henson.
There will be no services, in lieu of flowers or gifts donations may be made to Pine Vale Children's Home in Corinth, MS.
Condolences may be left at www.mcmillanfuneralhome.com
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Lynda Sue Miller
BENTON COUNTY - Lynda Sue Miller, resident of Ashland, passed away April 7, 2022 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union County following a brief illness.
A private service will be held at a later date with Ripley Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Ms. Miller was born in Shelbyville, TN, April 3, 1944, to the late Lula Lemon and James W. Elam. She was a graduate of Treadwell High School and was owner and operator of L and M Cleaning Service.
A Christian, Ms. Miller, will be remembered as a beautiful and caring lady from the inside out. Some of her past times included singing, tending to her flowers, listening to music and playing UNO.
Those left to cherish her memories include one son, William Flemming of Ashland, two sisters, Bonnie Smith of Ashland, Betty Cavitt (Carl) of Southaven, one grandson, Kyle Elliott of Ashland and one great grandaughter, Susan Elliott of Ashland. She was also preceded in death by one daughter, Susan Flemming, and one sister, Connie Rouse.
Ripley Funeral Home invites you to share memories with the family at ripleyfuneralhome.com.
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Linda Howell
FAIRVIEW COMMUNITY - Linda Kay Barnes Howell, 72, passed away Friday, April 8, 2022, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was born June 28, 1949 to the late Herman Barnes and the late Leona Strange Barnes. She worked at Wal-Mart for 14 years. She loved to read, watching red birds fly around, and loved spending time with family and friends. She was an awesome cook. She also loved her turtle Mrs. T. and her dog sparkles.
Services will be 1:00 pm on Sunday, April 10, 2022, at Senter Funeral Home with Bro. Jackie Gray officiating. Visitation will begin at 12:00 pm Sunday in the Senter Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery. Senter Funeral Home has been entrusted with assisting the family.
Survivors include her husband, Roger Howell of Golden; children: Melissa Roberts, David (Tasha) Flournoy of Golden, Kayla (Orlando) Patton of Golden, Kelsey (Derreck) Franks of Nettleton, Justin (Cassy) Roberts of FL; grandchildren: Jadyn Powell, Camrynn Franks, Cyera Powell, Alexis Patton, Chance Franks, Tate Roberts, Tinley Roberts, Lee-Unna Franks; sisters: Ouida Bishop of Mantachie, Wilma Barnes of Fulton; brother, Ricky Barnes of Fulton; best friend, Debbie Howell; host of nieces and nephews.
Preceded in death by her parents and several brothers and sisters
Online condolences can be expressed at www.senterfuneraldirectors.com
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by: CBS Posted: Apr 9, 2022 / 09:52 AM EDT Updated: Apr 9, 2022 / 09:52 AM EDT SHARE SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. (CBS) – Dustin Leming risked his life to save a stranger’s dog from drowning in an LA river.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida man is accused of using his mobile phone to take photos and videos of young girls while they were changing clothes in Walmart dressing rooms.
Sheriff’s deputies in Lee County arrested Dalton Matheson, 29, on Wednesday.
Deputies said Matheson was snapping photos of two sisters, 4 and 12, in the dressing rooms. The girls’ father and store security chased Matheson out of the store, and he was apprehended at a nearby bus station.
Matheson was arrested and charged with video voyeurism, resisting arrest and petit theft, according to Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno.
“I want to make it clear as I have since day one: We protect those that cannot protect themselves,” said Marceno at a press briefing on Thursday. “There is nothing more precious than a child, and making certain that we protect our children at all costs.”
During the briefing, Marceno also called Matheson a “disgusting pathetic person” and a “monster,” among other names.
“This piece of s— is behind bars, where he belongs,” Marceno said.
Investigators said the suspect he may be connected to a similar incident that happened at a Goodwill Store on Saturday. Deputies in Lee County are working with Fort Myers police in that case.
“Everything we can charge, we will charge at the highest level,” Marceno said.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A local singer who performed on The Voice is set to perform at the Spring Market.
The Spring Market will be held at 2Toms Brewing Company on Saturday. The tap room will be open starting at noon.
At 4 p.m., people can shop local, as there will be plenty of vendors on hand. From flowers to handmade things, there will be plenty of unique things on hand for people to browse and shop. There will also be a food truck serving smoked BBQ, chicken, and more.
While you’re shopping, you can enjoy a beer from 2Toms. Their tap room will be open, featuring all of their beers, including a chocolate stout ice cream that will be newly unveiled.
The ice cream along with a new beer is in partnership with the local singer, Samuel Harness, who will be performing at 7 p.m. at 2Toms.
Samuel was a contestant on The Voice and was on John Legend’s team. He made it to the top 20 before being eliminated. He teamed up with 2Toms owner Tom Carpenter on creating the chocolate stout beer.
All proceeds from the can will go towards a local adoption agency.
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(NEXSTAR) – There are only a few days left to gather your documents, calm your nerves and hope for a good tax refund – but, if you already know you’re unlikely to make the deadline, here’s how you can get an extension.
The last day to file in 2022 for most people is April 18, but the Internal Revenue Service has a tax deadline extension for those who need a few extra months.
If you’re planning on pushing back your filing date, you can get an automatic six-month extension using the IRS’ Form 4868, just make sure to do it before the April tax deadline to avoid late-filling penalties.
Your new deadline will be Oct. 17, 2022, but the IRS could make an exception and push it back even further for taxpayers living out of the country.
You can get a tax extension, but should you?
Filing for an extension can now easily be done online – you can use IRS Direct Pay; the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System; or pay with a credit, debit card or digital wallet – but there are some things to keep in mind before hitting snooze on your 2021 tax return.
One key consideration is that the extension is for the paperwork, not the payment. You’ll still need to estimate your tax liability and pay by April 18, using the same form.
The IRS reminds taxpayers looking for an extension that they should pay on time, even if they can’t give the full amount to reduce possible penalties.
While the late filing penalty is generally five percent per month, the penalty for late payments is usually .5 percent per month. Interest on the late payments, currently four percent annually, is compounded on a daily basis, according to the IRS. The IRS says it will work with those people unable to make full payments, and most people can set up a payment plan.
Also worth noting, depending on your circumstances you may already be able to file later in the year.
There is an automatic two-month extension for citizens and resident aliens who work and live outside of the U.S. or Puerto Rico. While they have until June 15 to file, they still need to make any tax payments by April 18.
Military members living outside the U.S. and Puerto Rico receive the same filing extension, and those people serving in combat zones have up to 180 days after they leave the combat zone to file returns and pay any taxes due.
Finally, if President Biden were to make a disaster area declaration, the IRS can postpone taxpayer deadlines for residents and businesses.
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(NEXSTAR) – For nearly 90 years, the Masters Tournament has been home to some of golf’s best moments. It’s hard to forget the modern-day highlights, like Hideki Matsuyama’s caddie, Shota Hayafuji, bowing toward the course last year just moments before Matsuyama became the first Japanese male to win a major championship. Or when Tiger Woods won his first major championship in 1997.
But the Masters hasn’t always looked as it does today. Here’s a look back at the Tournament through the years in photos.
In 1934, the first Masters Tournament was held under the name “Augusta National Invitation Tournament.” One of its co-founders, Clifford Roberts, wanted to call the event the Masters Tournament but fellow founder, Bobby Jones, felt it was too presumptuous. Jones relented in 1939 and the name changed to what we know today. The 1940 Masters Tournament was the first time it was scheduled during the first full week of April, according to the Masters Tournament timeline.
Horton Smith became the inaugural champion in 1934.
In the 1940s, the iconic trophies – the green jacket and the trophy itself – became staples of the event. According to the Masters, the first trophy was awarded in 1942 and first the green jacket in 1949. The caddie uniform of white coveralls, which is still in place today, was also set in 1940.
For three years, the Masters were put on hold due to World War II. In its 1946 return, the Masters also doubled the prize money. The next year, the first Leader Board was erected.
The first Champions Dinner was held in 1952 and in 1954, Sam Snead won his third Masters with a score of 289 – the highest in Tournament history. That record still stands, tied with 1956 and 2007, according to the Masters. The 1950s would close out with Arnold Palmer winning the first of his four Masters. Only two golfers have won the Masters more than Palmer – Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.
Nicklaus would go on to win his first Masters in 1963 and would close out the decade with three total wins. In 1986, Nicklaus won his sixth jacket and became the oldest champion in tournament history.
Fast-forward to 1997, Woods became the youngest player to ever win the Masters at 21-years-old. He also set the records for the lowest 72-hole total and the widest victory margin.
The early 2000s were also marked with milestones – Mike Weir became the first Canadian and left-hander to win the Masters, Phil Mickelson won his first in 2004, Palmer played his 50th consecutive competitive Masters, Gary Player broke Palmer’s record with 52 consecutive, and Angel Cabrera became the first South American champion.
And of course, who could forget the milestones of the last two years of the Masters.
In 2020, the Tournament was postponed and played in November without any patrons due to COVID-19. Dustin Johnson would win his first green jacket that year, scoring a 20-under-par 268 for the lowest score in Masters history. Last year, Hideki Matsuyama became the first Japanese golfer to win a major championship 10 years after receiving Low Amateur honors in the 2011 Masters.
For more on Masters history, click here.
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A parade celebrating the championship basketball season of the Mount Vernon Knights ended in tragedy Friday afternoon when a double stabbing claimed the life of a teenage victim, police said.
Authorities said a 15-year-old student was arrested in connection to the attack that left one girl with lacerations and a second with a fatal stab wound. The incident happened around 4 p.m. near East Prospect and Gramatan Avenues along the parade route.
Police in Mount Vernon said they were able to identify the suspect from a handful of videos that captured the attack. The teen suspect faces charges manslaughter and attempted assault, according to a police press release.
All victims and suspects are minors, and therefore their identities will not be released by the department, police said.
Mayor Shawyn Patterson Howard released a statement late Friday offering condolences to the impacted families and Mount Vernon community.
"We began our day celebrating the greatness and success of our youth and we ended it with a young life that has been taken by senseless and inexcusable violence. The mental emotional and spiritual health of our community especially of our children must be the priority and we must come together," she said.
Counseling services will be provided at Mount Vernon High School from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. all weekend, and Monday as well, the mayor announced.
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The surviving victim is expected to make a full recovery.
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New York is set to rely on an influx of federal funds and higher-than-expected tax revenues to balance a $220 billion, one-year state budget, which lawmakers passed Saturday morning.
Disagreements over policy issues held up passage of the spending plan over a week past an April 1 deadline. The budget has often served over the decades as a vehicle for passing major policy legislation, and this year is being used to tackle issues expected to resonate with voters during an election year.
The budget will head to Gov. Kathy Hochul's desk for her expected signature. It's set to boost pay for health care and home care workers, shave 16 cents off the cost of a gallon of gas through December and help New Yorkers with unpaid rent and utility bills.
Some Democrats voted against parts of the spending plan, in part for cracking down on people with repeated low-level offenses. Those lawmakers also called for more spending on home care workers rather than spending an eventual $850 million supporting a new $1.4 billion stadium for the Buffalo Bills, which is owned by billionaires Terry and Kim Pegula.
Here's a look at what's in the budget.
TAX RELIEF
Homeowners can expect tax relief: New York is set to spend $2.2 billion in one-time property tax rebates for low- and middle-income homeowners. That rebate would arrive this fall, when the Democratic governor is set to appear on the ballot.
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New York is also set to decrease tax rates for the middle class by $162 million by April 2023, instead of waiting until 2025 to fully phase in those long-planned tax cuts.
BAIL, GUN CRIMES
The budget would follow through with Hochul’s proposal to give judges more power to jail people who were repeatedly ticketed for minor theft or property damage offenses.
Judges would have to release people if the court determines the alleged theft is “negligible” and not “in furtherance of other criminal activity.”
Criminal justice advocates say the legislation will lead to more poor and minority New Yorkers being held behind bars while awaiting trial.
New York is also set to add more firearm possession crimes to the list of offenses that could land people who can’t afford bail behind bars.
GAS TAX CUT
New York will cut state gas taxes by 16 cents a gallon from June 1 until the end of the year in response to soaring gasoline prices, with the state asking counties to consider doing the same.
TO-GO COCKTAILS
Liquor and wine are set to be available for take-out and delivery for three years, as long as the purchase includes a “substantial food item.” That revives a practice instituted during the pandemic to help struggling restaurants.
MENTAL HEALTH
Courts would be able to order people to undergo more assisted outpatient treatment if they are perceived to be a threat to themselves or others.
It's an expansion of Kendra’s Law, which New York passed on a trial basis in 1999 when 32-year-old Kendra Webdale was pushed in front of a subway train by a man living with untreated schizophrenia. The law is set to expire June 30, but the budget would extend that expiration to 2027.
CASINOS, BUFFALO BILLS
The state plans to start accepting bids for three new casinos this year, one year earlier than planned. A new casino will need two-thirds approval from a community board consisting of political appointees selected by the governor, mayor and state and local representatives.
Lawmakers are also allowing Hochul to move forward with a deal to send $600 million in state funds for the Buffalo Bills’ new stadium. Erie County will pitch in another $250 billion.
The state will provide over $250 million in capital and maintenance subsidies over three decades.
Good government groups say there's a potential conflict of interest: Hochul's husband William works for Bills' concession vendor Delaware North.
Hochul defended the deal as needed to ensure the Bills franchise doesn't leave New York, telling the news program “Capital Tonight” on Friday she has a “very solid wall” between her work and her husband’s.
HOUSING HELP
The spending plan directs $250 million to help New Yorkers with unpaid utility bills and $925 million for landlords struggling with overdue rent amid the pandemic.
The budget excludes some measures backed by legislative Democrats, including $250 million for a new statewide rental subsidy.
CHILD CARE
New York will spend about $1 billion over the next fiscal year to increase eligibility for child care subsidies to 300% of the federal poverty level. That’s $83,250 for a family of four.
Hochul said the move will help expand access for more than half of New York’s young people.
The plan will also increase reimbursement rates for certain child care providers.
HEALTH WORKER PAY
The state would spend $7.4 billion over several years to give a $3-per-hour raise to home care aides who bathe, feed and provide other non-medical services in clients’ homes.
That’s lower than the 50% minimum wage raise sought by backers of the Fair Pay for Home Care Act.
Aides generally are private employees, but the state Medicaid program funds about 90% of their services.
The budget also includes $1.2 billion in bonuses for other health care workers, aimed at keeping people in the industry after a grueling two years.
UNDOCUMENTED HEALTH
The spending plan pares down a proposed $345 million for a state health coverage option for more than 150,000 low-income New Yorkers whose immigration status bars them from getting health insurance.
Instead, New York is set to only expand access for New Yorkers living in the state illegally who are age 65 or older. The cost of the new plan was unclear Friday.
CLIMATE SPENDING
Voters in November will decide whether to approve $4.2 billion in bonds to fund environmental and energy projects such as conservation, climate-change mitigation, zero-emission school busses and green buildings.
The budget doesn't include Hochul's proposal to ban natural gas in new buildings, to the disappointment of climate activists. She said she hopes to keep trying to pass that change.
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In the days after a group of West Point cadets on spring break were sickened by fentanyl-laced cocaine at a South Florida house party, community activists sprang into action.
They blitzed beaches, warning spring breakers of a surge in recreational drugs cut with the dangerous synthetic opioid and offered an antidote for overdoses, which have risen nationally during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Street teams stood under the blistering sun, handing out beads, pamphlets and samples of naloxone, a drug known by the brand name Narcan, which can revive overdose victims.
“We weren’t sure how people would react,” said Thomas Smith, director of behavioral health services for The Special Purpose Outreach Team, a local mobile medical program. “But the spring breakers have been great. Some say, ‘I don’t do drugs, but my buddy sometimes does something stupid.’ They are happy to get Narcan.”
Smith's team pulls up to Fort Lauderdale beach in a brightly colored mobile clinic van. They walk the sidewalks that run parallel to the beach, across the main drag from the bustling oceanfront clubs and restaurants.
“Have you heard of Narcan?” Huston Ochoa, a clinical counselor for The SPOT, asked Tristan Gentles on a recent afternoon as music blared from the Elbo Room, a bar at the heart of Fort Lauderdale Beach.
Gentles, who worked as a bartender and bouncer in New York City before moving to Fort Lauderdale, said he appreciates their efforts.
“There's only so much you can do when you see someone on the floor,” he said, adding that he had witnessed numerous overdoses during his days in New York.
Fentanyl and other synthetic drugs, which can be 50 to 100 times more potent than heroin or prescription opioids, are what make the overdoes so dangerous, said David Scharf, who oversees community programs for the Broward Sheriff's Office and is the chairman of the county's Opioid Community Response Team.
Last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that for the first time more than 100,000 Americans had died of drug overdoses over a 12-month period. About two-thirds of the deaths were linked to fentanyl and other synthetic drugs. Stress from the coronavirus pandemic and the use of fentanyl are considered factors in the increase in deaths, according to preliminary reports by the CDC.
Broward County led the state in fentanyl deaths in 2020, the latest year for which statistics are available from the Florida Medical Examiners Commission. In the vast majority of the deaths, fentanyl was combined with another drug, the sheriff’s office said.
“One snort, one swallow, one shot can kill," said Jim Hall, a retired epidemiologist from Nova Southeastern University, who has worked with the county's opioid response team. "It is not just in Florida but anywhere in North America.”
For the first three months of 2022, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue responded to 373 calls involving a possible overdose, where Narcan was administered, Battalion Chief Stephen Gollan said. That's an average of more than four per day.
The reaction in Broward was swift after the five U.S. Military Academy cadets overdosed in Wilton Manors on March 10, just as thousands of college students were heading to Fort Lauderdale for spring break.
The following Monday, more than 100 people representing agencies from law enforcement to social service organizations and hospitals met via Zoom to devise a plan to keep spring breakers safe.
Groups such as The SPOT and the South Florida Wellness Network, which partner with the United Way of Broward County, agreed to hit the beaches to talk with people about the dangers associated with fentanyl-laced drugs. They also talked to restaurant and bar owners who could distribute Narcan if "someone went down," Scharf said.
The groups have so far distributed more than 2,000 doses of Narcan supplied by state grants. The SPOT volunteers handed out packages with two doses of the nasal spray plus instructions.
“It was kind of a blitz operation to get out there as quickly as possible, and to get as much information and Narcan out on the streets," Scharf said.
The volunteer groups and sheriff's office don't have figures on how many of the distributed doses were actually used but believe the program has succeeded in raising awareness.
The region isn't yet out of the spring break period, which runs until mid-April, but Scharf said organizers have been heartened to see a couple of weekends pass without any overdoses that resulted in emergency calls.
“We had zero, which is like the first time in forever that we had none," Scharf said.
“We had a terrible situation,” with overdoses of the cadets and others, and turned it into “an opportunity to really beef up our education and prevention efforts by flooding the beaches and the streets,” Scharf said.
Smith, of The SPOT, said spring breakers were “grateful and appreciative” and his group now has to plan how to "keep the momentum going."
To that end, the street teams plan to continue working events that bring in large crowds, such as this weekend’s sold out Tortuga Music Festival on Fort Lauderdale Beach.
“It's about saving lives," said Emy Martinez, who manages a safe syringe program for The SPOT. “It's all about saving one life at a time."
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One million gallons of radioactive water is inside a former nuclear power plant along Cape Cod Bay and it has to go.
But where is the vexing question, and will the state intervene as the company dismantling the plant decides?
Holtec International is considering treating the water and discharging it into the bay, drawing fierce resistance from local residents, shell fishermen and politicians. Holtec is also considering evaporating the contaminated water or trucking it to a facility in another state.
The fight in Massachusetts mirrors a current, heated debate in Japan over a plan to release more than 1 million tons of treated radioactive wastewater into the ocean from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant in spring 2023. A massive tsunami in 2011 crashed into the plant. Three reactors melted down.
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts, closed in 2019 after nearly half a century providing electricity to the region. U.S. Rep. William Keating, a Democrat whose district includes the Cape, wrote to Holtec with other top Massachusetts lawmakers in January to oppose releasing water into Cape Cod Bay. He asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to examine its regulations.
Keating said in late March that Holtec's handling of the radioactive water could set a precedent because the U.S. decommissioning industry is in its infancy. Most U.S. nuclear plants were built between 1970 and 1990.
“If they're listening, sensitive and work with these communities, it's important,” he said. “That's the message for future decommissioning sites.”
Holtec has acquired closed nuclear plants across the country as part of its dismantling business, including the former Oyster Creek Generating Station in New Jersey and Indian Point Energy Center in New York. It’s taking ownership of the Palisades Nuclear Plant on Lake Michigan, which is closing this year.
Pilgrim was a boiling water reactor. Water constantly circulated through the reactor vessel and nuclear fuel, converting it to steam to spin the turbine. The water was cooled and recirculated, picking up radioactive contamination.
Cape Cod is a tourist hotspot. Having radioactive water in the bay, even low levels, isn't great for marketing, said Democratic state Rep. Josh Cutler, who represents a district there. Cutler is working to pass legislation to prohibit discharging radioactive material into coastal or inland waters.
Holtec said Pilgrim already discharged water into the bay for 50 years while the plant was operating and environmental studies, conducted by the plant operators and now Holtec, have shown little or no environmental impact. Radiological environmental reports are shared with the NRC annually.
“We are working to provide scientific data, educate the public on the reality of radiation in everyday life, and working to have experts explain the true science versus the emotional fear of the unknown,” spokesperson Patrick O’Brien wrote in an email in March.
WHAT ARE HOLTEC'S OPTIONS?
Holtec could treat the water and discharge it in batches over multiple years, likely the least expensive option. Or, it could evaporate the water on site, as it says it has done with about 680,000 gallons (2,600 kiloliters) over the past two years.
Evaporating the water would be more challenging to do now because the spent nuclear fuel is in storage, and couldn’t be used as a heat source. Holtec would have to use a different — likely more expensive — method that would release gas.
Or, Holtec could truck the water to an out-of-state facility, where it could be mixed with clay and buried or placed in an evaporation pond, or released into local waterways. That’s what Keating wants.
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, another boiling water reactor, was shut down in Vernon, Vermont, in 2014. It’s sending wastewater to disposal specialists in Texas and other states. Entergy operated and sold both Vermont Yankee and Pilgrim. NorthStar, a separate and competing corporation in the decommissioning business, is dismantling Vermont Yankee.
Nuclear plants occasionally need to dispose of water with low levels of radioactivity when they're operating, so a process to release it in batches into local waterways was developed early in the nuclear industry.
In recent years at Pilgrim, the two largest releases were in 2011, with 29 releases totaling about 325,000 gallons (1,500 kiloliters), and 2013, with 21 releases totaling about 310,000 gallons.
The water from those releases was well below the federal limits for the amount of radionuclides in millirems a person would be exposed to in a year if they ate local seafood or swam in nearby waters, according to the NRC.
NRC spokesperson for the Northeast Neil Sheehan said the limits are set very conservatively and are believed to be protective of the public and environment. He said it’s important to consider the role of dilution — once the discharges mix with vast quantities of water any radioactivity is typically not detectable.
WHY ARE PEOPLE WORRIED?
In Duxbury, Kingston and Plymouth Bays, there are 50 oyster farms — the largest concentration in the state, worth $5.1 million last year, according to the Massachusetts Seafood Collaborative. The collaborative said dumping the water would devastate the industry, and the local economy along with it.
Diane Turco, a Harwich resident and longtime Pilgrim watchdog, questions if the water is heavily contaminated, especially from the pool that covered the stored, spent fuel for cooling and shielded workers from radiation.
“Isn’t this a crazy idea for Holtec to use our bay as their dump? No way,” she said.
Others didn't know Pilgrim's water went into the bay in previous years and they don't want it to happen again.
“We can't change that, but we can change what's happening in the future,” said Cutler, the state lawmaker. “It's the first time it has ever been decommissioned, so to compare this to the past is a convenient excuse. ‘Well, we did it in the past,’ that sounds like my kid.”
Towns on the Cape are trying to prohibit the dispersal of radioactive materials in their waters. Tribal leaders, fishermen, lobstermen and real estate agents have publicly stated their opposition as well.
Sheehan, the NRC spokesperson, said the water is not different or distinct, compared to water released during the plant's operations. Holtec would have to handle it the same way, by filtering it, putting it into a tank, analyzing the radio isotopes and calculating the environmental impacts if it was released in batches, he added.
WHO GETS THE FINAL SAY?
Holtec wouldn't need a separate approval from the NRC to discharge the water into the bay. However, Holtec would need permission from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency if the water contained pollutants regulated by the Clean Water Act, such as dissolved metals.
If the water contained only radioactive materials regulated by the NRC, Holtec wouldn't need to ask the EPA for a permit modification, according to the EPA's water division for New England. Holtec has never given the EPA a pollutant characterization of the water associated with decommissioning, the division's director said.
Mary Lampert, of Duxbury, is on a panel created by the state to look at issues related to the Pilgrim’s decommissioning. She believes the state could use its existing laws and regulations to stop the dumping and plans to press the Massachusetts attorney general to file a preliminary injunction to do so.
The attorney general’s office said it's monitoring the issue and would take any Clean Water Act violations seriously.
Holtec said this week it’s examining the water for possible pollutants but the lab results won’t be available for awhile.
The company expects to decide what to do with the water later this year. Discharge, evaporation and some limited transportation will likely all be part of the solution, Holtec added.
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Gov. Ned Lamont did not rule out Friday the possibility of taking treatments for his case of COVID-19, acknowledging he was exhibiting some symptoms.
“I had really no symptoms yesterday,” the Democrat told reporters during a virtual news conference from the governor's residence in Hartford. “Today, maybe you can hear it in my voice and some other things. I may take a look at those treatments, yes.”
Lamont, 68, received his second booster shot on March 31. He tested positive Thursday morning after taking a regularly-scheduled rapid self-test. The infection was confirmed with a second rapid self-test and a positive PCR test, spokesperson Max Reiss said.
Lamont, who sounded hoarse during the news conference, said he felt “pretty good” in general.
“Today my voice is a little edgy,” he said. “I'm going to take a good long weekend here and relax. I think I'll be fine early next week.''
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Lamont is at least the 16th U.S. governor to test positive for COVID-19, according to an Associated Press tally. His positive test comes a week after another Northeast governor, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, tested positive.
This week, the Connecticut Department of Public Health announced more than 40 “Test to Treat” locations were open across the state, offering people the opportunity to get tested for COVID-19 and receive treatments in one location if they test positive. The sites are located at pharmacies, urgent care centers and federally qualified health centers.
“In order for COVID-19 treatments to work, they must be started early, within five days of when your symptoms start,” Dr. Manisha Juthani, the state's public health commissioner, said in a written statement. “The Test to Treat initiative provides eligible patients faster, easier access to potentially life-saving treatments.”
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Bridgeport Police said they're searching for a baby that was allegedly abducted from the park by their biological father Friday night.
Police said Jalayjah is with 30-year-old James Douglas, who appears to be the biological father.
Douglas is driving a 2014 maroon Honda Civic EX with the license plate BE36105. Jalayjah is believed to be a passenger in the car.
Jalayjah is 11 months old and has black hair and brown eyes. It's unknown what she was wearing when she went missing.
Connecticut State Police issued a Silver Alert was Jalayjah. She is 2-feet tall and weighs 20 pounds.
Authorities said the child came to the park with her foster parent and was playing when she was taken.
The incident happened at Wordin Avenue and Hanover Street at approximately 7:15 p.m., according to police.
State police are calling the incident a family abduction.
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Anyone with information is asked to contact Bridgeport Police at 203-576-TIPS. You can also contact your nearest police department.
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Danielle Russell was in the emergency department at an Arizona hospital last fall, sick with COVID-19, when she made the mistake of answering completely when she was asked what medications she was on.
“I said yes, I was taking methadone,” said Russell, a doctoral student who also was in recovery from heroin use. “The smart thing to do, if I wanted to be treated like a human, would be to say no.”
Even though her primary doctor had sent her to the ER, she said she was discharged swiftly without being treated and given a stack of papers about the hospital’s policies for prescribing pain medications — drugs she was not asking for.
“It becomes so absurd and the stigma against methadone especially is so strong,” she said, noting that other people in recovery have had it worse. “You’re getting blocked out from housing resources, employment.”
It's a problem people in the addiction recovery community have dealt with for decades: On top of the stigma surrounding addiction, people who are in medical treatment for substance abuse can face additional discrimination — including in medical and legal settings that are supposed to help.
This week, the U.S. Department of Justice published new guidelines aimed at dealing with the problem: They assert that it's illegal under the Americans with Disabilities Act to discriminate against people because they are using prescribed methadone or other medications to treat opioid use disorder.
The guidelines don't change federal government policy, but they do offer clarification and signal that authorities are watching for discrimination in a wide range of settings. The Justice Department's actions this year also show it's taken an interest in the issue, reaching multiple legal settlements, filing a lawsuit and sending a warning letter alleging other violations.
One of the government's recent settlements was with a Colorado program that helps house and employ people who are homeless. A potential client filed a complaint claiming she was denied admission because she uses buprenorphine to treat her addiction. As part of the settlement, Ready to Work is paying the woman $7,500. Stan Garnett, a lawyer for the organization, said Thursday that the organization's staff is being trained to comply with the law.
“It’s terrifying to be told by some authority — whether it’s a judge, or a child welfare official, or a skilled nursing facility — someone who has something you need is telling you you have to get off the medication that is saving your life,” said Sally Friedman, senior vice president of legal advocacy at the Legal Action Center, which uses legal challenges to try to end punitive measures for people with health conditions, including addiction.
Friedman said advocates and lawyers will cite the new guidelines when they're making discrimination claims.
Dan Haight, president of The LCADA Way, which runs addiction treatment programs in the Cleveland area, said a suburb where they wanted to put a clinic at one point nixed the idea because of a moratorium in place on new drug counseling centers.
“We’re not looked at as another medical facility or counseling office,” Haight said. “We’re looked at because we do addiction.”
The new guidelines suggest that such broad denials could be violations of the ADA.
Overdoses from all opioids, including prescription drugs containing oxycodone, heroin and illicit laboratory-made varieties including fentanyl, have killed more than 500,000 Americans in the last two decades, and the problem has been growing only worse. That has frustrated advocates, treatment providers and public health experts who see the deaths as preventable with treatment.
Even as the crisis has deepened, there have been glimmers of hope. Drugmakers, distribution companies and pharmacy chains have announced settlements since last year to pay government entities about $35 billion over time plus provide drugs to treat addictions and reverse overdoses. Most of the money is required to be used to fight the epidemic.
It's still to be determined how the money will be deployed, but one priority for many public health experts is expanding access to medication-based treatments, which are seen as essential to helping people recover.
But there's still a stigma associated with the treatment programs, which use the medication naltrexone or drugs that themselves are opioids, such as methadone and buprenorphine.
Marcus Buchanan used methadone from 2016 through 2018 to help end a decade long heroin habit. During that time, he was looking for work near his home in Chouteau, Oklahoma — mostly at factories — and could never land one.
“I can nail an interview. It would be the drug-screen process” when he'd explain why the results showed he was using methadone, said Buchanan, who is now an outreach coordinator for an opioid prevention program. “Every job, more than 20 probably, during those two years, was a door shut in the face.”
Dr. Susan Bissett, president of the nonprofit West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute, said people who are in treatment programs often hide it out of fear that they could lose their jobs.
She said she wants to reach out to business leaders and encourage them to hire and retain people who are using the medications.
“The next step is helping employers understand this is a disease instead of a moral failing,” Bissett said. “We don’t think about substance abuse disorder the way we think about diabetes, for example.”
One of the places where medication-assisted treatment is sometimes restricted or banned is in state drug diversion court programs, which are intended to get people help for addiction rather than incarcerate them.
Fewer than half the states have specific language that prohibits judges from excluding people who are taking the medications from participating in diversion programs or requires that they allow its use as part of the programs. That finding is based on an Associated Press review of legislation, administrative court orders and drug court handbooks that guide state drug diversion court programs.
Some states allow individual courts to make their own rules, while others only include language saying people can't be excluded. Judges in some states still require defendants to taper off the medications and allow the diversion programs to decide whether the medications are appropriate for each person enrolled.
The Center for Court Innovation is trying to steer the drug courts into creating policies and programs that support people taking those medications instead of incentivizing them to stop.
“It can be frustrating, because nobody needs to tell a judge they need to allow someone to take blood pressure medication,” said Sheila McCarthy, a senior program manager for the Center for Court Innovation. “But for some, there is just a disconnect about the real effect these medications have on a person’s daily life.”
Veronica Pacheco has been off methadone for nearly a year after being on it for more than six years to treat an addiction to pain pills.
She said some people in the medical field — a physician, a dentist, a pharmacist — seemed to treat her differently after they learned she was on methadone treatment. They sometimes assume she was going to ask for new prescriptions for pain medications.
“I felt like I had a sign on my forehead saying, ‘I am a methadone person.’ The minute someone has your medical record, everything changes,” said Pacheco, who lives in the Minneapolis suburb of Dayton. “Now that I’ve been off it, I can see the night-and-day difference.”
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Mulvihill reported from Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Two South Bend police officers were injured when a man armed with two screwdrivers attacked them.
Police say one officer was diagnosed with a broken cheekbone at a hospital after his face was cut, and the other suffered a minor hand injury.
Police say the suspect was arrested and charged with four counts of resisting arrest and battery against a police officer. The South Bend Tribune reports the incident happened around 4:30 a.m.
Thursday at a gas station near downtown South Bend after a store employee reported a man was trespassing on the property.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, Dwayne Haskins, died this morning when he was hit by a car in Southern Florida, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Haskins, 24, was in Florida with members of the Steelers after being invited there by recently-signed quarterback Mitchell Trubisky.
Haskins played his college football at Ohio State, leading the Buckeyes to a win in the 2018 Big Ten Championship Game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. He won the game’s most valuable player award throwing for five touchdowns and almost 500 yards.
Haskins would have turned 25 on May 3.
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We’re kicking off the weekend with winter-like temperatures. Lows fell to the lower 30s and light snow showers developed at times.
The slow-moving storm system is going to supply the area with mainly cloudy skies and a chance for a rain/snow mix throughout the day. Highs will struggle to rise into the mid-40s this afternoon, which is the normal high for Indy in late February.
The storm system will pull away from central Indiana this evening and skies are going to gradually turn clear overnight. The combination of clear skies, light winds and temperatures below freezing will result in the formation of widespread frost by Sunday morning.
A Freeze Watch will be in effect over southern Indiana from 2 AM Sunday through 9 AM. Southern Indiana is officially in growing season, which has prompted the National Weather Service to issue the watch and explains why Indianapolis is not included in it.
The second half of the weekend is going to be much brighter and warmer. Skies will stay mostly sunny tomorrow as highs rise into the mid-60s.
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Steelers QB Dwayne Haskins killed in auto accident
(AP) - Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was killed in an auto accident Saturday in Florida.
Haskins’ agent, Cedric Saunders, told ESPN about the quarterback’s death, and the Steelers released a statement extending their condolences.
“I am devastated and at a loss for words with the unfortunate passing of Dwayne Haskins,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. “He quickly became part of our Steelers family upon his arrival in Pittsburgh and was one of our hardest workers, both on the field and in our community. Dwayne was a great teammate, but even more so a tremendous friend to so many. I am truly heartbroken.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Kalabrya, and his entire family during this difficult time.”
The 24-year-old Haskins was a first-round draft choice of Washington in 2019 and started seven games, going 2-5 as a rookie. The former Ohio State star was 1-5 in six starts the next season for the team, then was released.
The Steelers gave Haskins a chance to resurrect his career in January 2021 when they signed him a month after being released by Washington. Humbled by the decision, Haskins stressed he was eager to work hard and absorb as much as he could from Ben Roethlisberger and Mason Rudolph. He made the roster as the third-stringer but only dressed once, serving as the backup in a tie with Detroit after Roethlisberger was placed into the COVID-19 protocol the night before the game.
Tomlin and general manager Kevin Colbert both praised Haskins for his improvement since joining the team, and the Steelers re-signed him to a one-year deal as a restricted free agent in March. He was expected to compete with Rudolph and Mitch Trubisky for a spot.
“We’re excited to see what Dwayne can provide, either from competition, or maybe he evolves as a starter,” Colbert said in January.
Haskins appeared to be working in South Florida this week with several teammates, including Trubisky and other skill position players, including running back Najee Harris and tight end Pat Freiermuth.
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration issued a warning after seeing a nationwide spike in fentanyl-related mass overdoses. Officials characterize it as three or more overdoses happening at the same location over a small span of time.
The crisis is having an impact all around the country as Florida, Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, and Washington D.C. were highlighted as having the most overdoses in recent months.
With this mind, the state is now exercising caution. The state is on alert after seeing the warning and are keeping an eye on what neighboring states could indicate about Arkansas.
"A lot of times Arkansas are behind the trends, and what we're seeing in other states will slowly leak into Arkansas so I think we're fearful of what we're seeing in those other states," said Kirk Lane, Arkansas State Drug Director.
Kirk said that overdoses in Arkansas have steadily increased over the last two years with fentanyl being the leading cause, which is notorious for being one of the deadliest drug trends.
It's a collective effort for many around the state, as Arkansas drug officials aren't the only ones who are on alert-- organizations, tailored to helping curb drug addiction, are working to help too.
Together Arkansas is one of those groups. The organization is a collaborative effort between the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and AFMC to provide employers with a free toolkit of resources they can use to help those needing treatment, along with their families.
"The main thing is getting them to people who know how to deal with this issue. Medical professionals, mental health professionals. People who can help them," said Randy Zook with the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce.
This isn't something that's just being tackled by professionals either. Arya Mack-Gilson isn't a medical or mental health professional, but he is someone who knows all too well about the opioid crisis.
"I would know because I'm a recovering addict and I used IV fentanyl," said Mack-Gilson.
He's with the Central Arkansas Hard Reduction Project, and said it's mostly fentanyl users who reach out to their organization for help.
His organization offers lifesaving naloxone kits that feature two syringes and two vials of the medicine that can stop an active overdose.
Mack-Gilson said fentanyl can be so strong sometimes that it could take two kits to get someone out of an overdose.
Since starting the organization, Mack-Gilson said there's times he'll deliver their kits personally.
"It varies a little bit week to week, but I would say that we're probably serving 50 to 100 people every week," said Mack-Gilson.
If you need naloxone or other resources you can text (501) 438-9158.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — As the bird flu continues to impact numerous states around the country, Patrick Fisk isn't mincing any words.
"It is the scariest disease, it has the most financial impact to our state as well as the nation. Arkansas is at very high risk of contracting the virus," Fisk said.
Fisk is the director of Livestock and Poultry Commission at the Arkansas Department of Agriculture and said they're tracking the virus, also known as H5N1, closely.
This is in large part due to how important poultry products are to the economic makeup of the state.
"It's got us all at DEFCON level, DEFCON one, so to speak," Fisk said.
Arkansas has yet to see a case but is almost entirely surrounded by states who already have confirmed cases of bird flu-- Texas, Missouri, and Tennessee have all had confirmed cases recently.
"This is a very hot virus, it's affecting everybody broadly. If you've got poultry, you're at risk right now," Fisk said.
It's not just Fisk paying attention to this either. If this were to impact Arkansas, you could see it in the grocery aisle as well.
"It's coming on top of everything else, it's a much bigger concern and something consumers need to pay attention to," Dr. Jeremy Horpedahl, Professor of Economics at the University of Central Arkansas, said.
Dr. Horpedahl said if bird flu cases were to rise, you'd see the impact of it, especially on your price tag.
"If the supply of eggs or the supply of chicken is restricted due to the bird flu, the best we can do is try to substitute other products. Or, it's gonna mean there's less money in your wallet for other things," he said.
So if you have birds, what should you be looking for?
Fisk said if they have visibly different behavior, lesions on their legs, or if they're drinking less water, it could be a sign.
He added that due to an emergency rule they put in place because of the rise in bird flu, there's additional steps in place if a positive case were to be identified.
Any poultry products, including the birds themselves, are prohibited from being transported or sold anywhere within 25 miles of a positive case.
Fisk said if you even have a thought that you may a case in your flock, don't hesitate – call them.
"The timing of this is paramount," Fisk said. "The faster you jump on this and eliminate that disease at that particular site and location, the better off we all are."
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The chief executive of a Tennessee-based food production company is donating $6 million to her alma mater, the University of Arkansas.
The school announced on March 18 a $6 million gift from alumna Cordia Harrington of Franklin, Tenn., the CEO of Crown Bakeries. The money will support a new student success center on the Fayetteville campus. The 70,000-square-foot facility opened recently between Memorial Hall and Old Main as a hub for academic, financial and social support for students.
With the donation, in addition to future gifts from Harrington, the center will be renamed The Cordia Harrington Center for Excellence. In a news release, the UA referenced the facility shorthand as The CORD (Create Opportunities, Reach Dreams). UA officials held a dedication event for the facility on Friday (April 8).
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Scammers have been around for millennia, but for whatever reason it seems like they just keep getting better and better at finding ways to take our money. And let's face it, they can be very convincing.
THV11 Verify viewer Doris reached out to us, explaining how she ordered a patio set online from a website claiming to be Home Depot. She wanted to know if she'd fallen victim to a scam.
"I saw on an advertisement on Facebook with the Home Depot logo and it said a 5-piece patio set. Regular $898, 93% off, which would cost $59.98 with no shipping and handling. I thought well, if it was Home Depot's logo, it was okay. But then I got kind of suspicious," Doris, a scam victim, said.
When Doris checked her bank statement, she found this charge from a foreign company for $59.98-- the same amount that patio set she thought she was buying from Home Depot was supposed to cost.
When she saw that charge and realized that it was not Home Depot, she came to the conclusion that she probably got scammed.
"I was like uh oh, I think I been got," Doris said.
Unfortunately, we can verify – this was a scam.
"It sounds like she has reached what we call a look alike website and it does sound like a scam," Cara Carlin with the Better Business Bureau Serving Arkansas, said.
Carlin said there are a lot of these websites online right now. She suggests taking a very close look at the domain you're using.
"That www. address, especially if you have clicked on to the website from an online advertisement or a text or an email. So for example, rather than Walmart.com you could be at Walmart.co."
Fortunately, there's a list of steps you can follow if you paid someone you think is a scammer.
If you paid with a credit or debit card, the Federal Trade Commission suggests you contact the company or bank that issued the card to let them know there was a fraudulent charge. You can then ask them to reverse the transaction and refund you your money.
If you have something you'd like Verified, let us help. Email us – verify@thv11.com or reach out on social media.
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Sunday's winner at Augusta National Golf Club will collect $2.7 million.
The winner's share of the Masters Tournament's $15 million purse is up from $2.07 million when Hideki Matsuyama slipped on the green jacket last April. The 2021 purse was $11.5 million, which marked the third straight tournament with the same amount of total prize money.
This year's runner-up receives $1.61 million while solo third will take home $1.02 million. Solo 50th gets $37,800.
Those who missed the cut each received $10,000.
Here is the complete breakdown:
- 1st: $2,700,000
- 2nd: $1,620,000
- 3rd: $1,020,000
- 4th: $720,000
- 5th: $600,000
- 6th: $540,000
- 7th: $502,500
- 8th: $465,000
- 9th: $435,000
- 10th: $405,000
- 11th: $375,000
- 12th: $345,000
- 13th: $315,000
- 14th: $285,000
- 15th: $270,000
- 16th: $255,000
- 17th: $240,000
- 18th: $225,000
- 19th: $210,000
- 20th: $195,000
- 21st: $180,000
- 22nd: $168,000
- 23rd: $156,000
- 24th: $144,000
- 25th: $132,000
- 26th: $120,000
- 27th: $115,500
- 28th: $111,000
- 29th: $106,500
- 30th: $102,000
- 31st: $97,500
- 32nd: $93,000
- 33rd: $88,500
- 34th: $84,750
- 35th: $81,000
- 36th: $77,250
- 37th: $73,500
- 38th: $70,500
- 39th: $67,500
- 40th: $64,500
- 41st: $61,500
- 42nd: $58,500
- 43rd: $55,500
- 44th: $52,500
- 45th: $49,500
- 46th: $46,500
- 47th: $43,500
- 48th: $41,100
- 49th: $39,000
- 50th: $37,800
The remainder of professional players will receive cash prizes ranging downward from $36,900, depending on scores.
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CINCINNATI — A change in the way Kroger distributes its much coveted Fuel Points is causing some confusion at the pump, the grocery chain says.
And it's a big deal, because saving money on gasoline is more important than ever these days with pump prices hovering right around $4 a gallon.
But over the past week, Kroger has changed the way fuel points appear on the pump screen, and it is causing some customers to believe that some of their coveted points have vanished.
Tracy Ormond told us on Facebook "I saw a bizarre screen. By the time I figured it out, it blinked off and I was only offered 10 cents off."
Lisa Hicks told us "I only got 3 cents off and I was supposed to get 25 cents off."
The good news: you have not lost your points, but it can look that way.
What Kroger changed that is confusing customers
Kroger spokeswoman Jenifer Moore tells WCPO 9 that the grocer has changed the greeting customers get at the pump when they scan their Kroger Plus card, or enter their phone number.
Instead of simply telling you that "you qualify for a 30 cent discount" ( or 50 cents, or up to $1 off), the pump screen now gives you 3 options.
You can choose:
1. Last month's remaining points
2. This month's points
3. No points, which means you simply default to a 3 cent discount.
Moore says the change was designed to prevent customers from losing the previous months points, which frequently would happen when you have more points this month than last month.
Why customers are confused and frustrated
It's a great idea, except Moore says the system may be timing out too quickly for some drivers.
"If you wait too long to decide what points to use," she explained, "it defaults to the no-points 3-cent discount. As a result, some customers believe they have lost the 400 or 500 points they had been planning to use.
Moore says no one has lost any points, and says this new system ensures you won't lose your remaining points from the previous month.
But she says the grocer's tech team is working on extending the time customers get to make their choice, so that you have 30 seconds or more to decide which points to use.
She is confident once customers get the knack of it, they will love the new change for what it offers.
But until now it is leaving some users stumped and frustrated.
You can call Kroger customer service if you have questions at 1-800-KROGERS, OR 1-800-576-4377.
As always, don't waste your money.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WEWS) — Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins died after reportedly being hit by a car early Saturday morning in Florida.
According to ESPN, Haskins was in Florida training with his teammates.
Details surrounding the crash haven't been released.
Haskins played college football at Ohio State and set Big Ten records for passing yards and touchdown passes in a single season.
He skipped his final years in Columbus and entered the 2019 draft.
In the 2021 offseason he was signed by the Steelers, and last month he signed a one-year restricted free agent tender with the team.
Pittsburgh Steelers Head Coach Mike Tomlin said the team is heartbroken over the loss of Haskins and called him a friend to many.
Statement from Head Coach Mike Tomlin: pic.twitter.com/hI5QaKzBUq
— Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) April 9, 2022
This story was originally reported by Drew Scofield on news5cleveland.com.
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WEST LAFAYETTE — With the NCAA 10 meter platform title on the line, Purdue freshman diver Tyler Downs needed one of his biggest scores of the season.
An hour after taking home the trophy and national title, the star in the pool boarded a plane to spend time with stars in Hollywood.
Downs was invited to the Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Party.
Downs tells WRTV his starstruck moment came when he met Liam Payne, a former member of One Direction.
"I kinda just saw him walking by and I was like 'oh, that's Liam Payne. That's totally normal right?' I was asked if I wanted to be introduced to him," Downs said. "He's a great guy; he was asking me about the Olympics and diving."
He also saw Lady Gaga and Caitlyn Jenner, moments he says didn't even feel real.
Downs is now preparing for the World Championships, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary this June.
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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins died this weekend when he was hit by a car, his agent Cedric Saunders told ESPN's Adam Schefter. Haskins was 24 years old.
Haskins was training in South Florida with other Steelers quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers. He was killed Saturday morning when he got hit by a vehicle.
After a standout junior season at Ohio State, Haskins was selected 15th overall by the Washington Commanders in the 2019 draft.
Haskins spent two turbulent seasons with Washington before signing in Pittsburgh before last season.
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(KTVX) – Cracker Barrel’s virtual brand Chicken n’ Biscuits has become the latest establishment to offer a fried chicken sandwich.
The Chicken n’ Biscuits brand — described as part of Cracker Barrel’s “virtual brand marketplace” — will be making the sandwich available at 400 locations nationwide through DoorDash, UberEats, and Grubhub.
Cracker Barrel is also positioning the sandwich as the newest entrant in “the chicken sandwich competition,” which is already crowded with offerings from outlets including Popeyes, KFC, Burger King and even Chili’s.
“For years, the debate around ‘the best chicken sandwich’ has been growing, and Chicken n’ Biscuits by Cracker Barrel is excited to enter the competition with our new Homestyle Chicken Sandwich,” said Matthew Schaefer, the senior director of strategy and innovation at Cracker Barrel. “The best part is that guests can enjoy this new sandwich plus other homestyle comfort food made with care like Hand-Breaded Fried Chicken Tenders or scratch-made Biscuit Beignets right at home through their favorite on-demand delivery partners.”
The new sandwich from Chicken n’ Biscuits features hand-breaded fried chicken with pickles and Duke’s mayonnaise, all served on a brioche bun. The dish comes with a side of steak fries.
The brand’s press release didn’t specify a price, but menus from DoorDash and UberEats in several markets advertise the sandwich (and a side of steak fries) for $9.99.
Customers can order the sandwich through an on-demand delivery app from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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Columbia announces parade plans for Gamecocks celebration
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Friday evening Columbia announced the parade directions for the Gamecocks celebration.
The city of Columbia announced Thursday their parade road closures, parking plans and shuttle routes for the Gamecocks parade.
On Wednesday, April 13, 2022 the city will celebrate the UofSC Women’s Basketball team and their NCAA Championship win. The parade begins at 6 p.m. The parade will start at Main and Laurel Streets and will end at the State House.
Map - Parade Route by Nevin Smith on Scribd
City of Columbia Parking Services will be in contact with businesses on Main St to discuss parade plans and questions.
Starting at 9 a.m. on April 13 no parking will be allowed after 2 p.m. at these locations. It will be enforced by towing.
- 1700, 1800, 1900 Main
- 1100 and 1200 Richland
- 1100 and 1200 Laurel
After 3 p.m. no parking will be allowed on the road at these locations. They will also be towing enforced.
- 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600 Main Street
- 1100 , 1200 Gervais
- 1100 Assembly
- 1000, 1100 Sumter
- 1200 Pendleton
- 1300 & 1400 Block of Senate
- 1000 & 1100 Block of Marion
By 4 p.m. these roads will be closed to traffic:
- 1100 & 1200 Richland St.
- 1100 & 1200 Laurel St.
- 1800 & 1900 Main St.
By 5:30 p.m. these roads will be closed to traffic:
- 1200-1700 Main St.
- 1100-1300 Gervais St.
- 1000-1100 Sumter St.
- 1300 & 1400 Senate St.
- 1000 & 1100 Marion St.
City officials said the parade will start by 6 p.m. and will reopen once it is over and clean up is finished.
The city provided a list of parking facilities near the parade.
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Alex Jones accused of hiding assets over Sandy Hook lawsuits
Published: Apr. 8, 2022 at 7:47 PM EDT|Updated: 16 hours ago
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Infowars host Alex Jones is facing a new lawsuit in Texas.
Family members of some of the 20 children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are accusing the conspiracy theorist of hiding millions of dollars in assets after they began taking him to court.
The families have already won defamation lawsuits against Jones after he said the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, never happened.
An attorney for Jones said there was no attempt to hide assets and called the suggestion “ridiculous.”
Trials are set for later this year to determine how much Jones should pay the families.
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Tiger rallies after rough start as Scheffler builds 5-shot lead in Masters
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Tiger Woods has made it to the weekend at the Masters in his first official start in 508 days. Now it’s a matter of chasing down Scottie Scheffler.
That might be even tougher than dealing with the wind Friday at Augusta National Golf Club.
Scheffler is making his debut as the No. 1 player in the world and looks the part.
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Scheffler shot 67 and opened a five-shot lead going into the weekend.
That ties a Masters record. All four of the previous players who had a five-shot lead after 36 holes went on to win. Woods was nine shots back
Woods, who shot a 1-under 71 in the first round, bogeyed four of his first five holes before rebounding to play the last four 1 under. He was a 2-over-par on a blustery day at Augusta National where low scores were hard to find.
Woods’ frustrations Friday were evident when he hit a bad wedge shot on the ninth hole and dropped his club in disgust before rebounding to get up-and-down for par.
Afternoon winds of 15-20 mph and gusting higher made conditions difficult, though the rains that came on the eve of the tournament meant the greens were still relatively soft.
Playing in just his third Masters, Scheffler conquered Augusta National on a day when the average score was 74.6. He made seven birdies on the last 15 holes after opening with a bogey on No. 1 and adding another on the third hole.
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Beaufort Co. man sentenced to 30 years for production of child pornography
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A 33-year-old Bluffton man was sentenced to three decades in federal prison for the production of child pornography.
David James Allison was sentenced to 30 years in prison and a lifetime term off court-ordered supervision on Friday by U.S. District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks.
On Jan. 4, 2020, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said they responded to a call regarding the alleged sexual assault of a 22-month-old by Allison who admitted to deputies that he assaulted the victim approximately five times between Sept. and Dec. 2019 and live-streamed the assaults over Skype.
Investigators said the Skype communications were tied to an IP address of a 52-year-old man from Littlehampton, West Sussex, United Kingdom. Sussex Police say Andrew McPherson-Young admitted to directing Allison and watching the assaults on Skype.
The Department of Justice said McPherson-Young is currently being prosecuted in the United Kingdom.
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Bogus test taker sentenced to 4 months in prison for college admissions scam
Ex-water polo coach convicted in college admissions bribery scandal
BOSTON (AP) — A former Florida prep school administrator was sentenced to federal prison and a decorated water polo coach at the University of Southern California was swiftly convicted by a jury in a busy Friday in Boston federal court in the long running college admissions bribery scandal.
Mark Riddell, who was paid handsomely to take college entrance exams for wealthy students, was handed a four-month prison sentence, ordered to serve two years of supervised release and forfeit nearly $240,000.
Meanwhile, former USC coach Jovan Vavic, who faked the athletic credentials of rich students so they could gain admission, was convicted on all three counts of fraud and bribery he faced after a jury deliberated less than a day following his nearly monthlong trial.
U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins said the verdict in Vavic’s trial represents the final conviction in the headline grabbing case dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues.”
The investigation announced in 2019 exposed corruption in the college admissions process at Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and other sought-after schools, and implicated wealthy and connected parents, including actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin and Loughlin’s fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli.
“To say the conduct in this case was reprehensible is an understatement,” Rollins said afterward, acknowledging the sprawling investigation preceded her taking office earlier this year. “The rich, powerful and famous — dripping with privilege and entitlement — used their money and clout to steal college admissions spots from more qualified and deserving students.”
Joseph Bonavolonta, head of the FBI’s Boston office, said he hoped “many important lessons” were learned from the investigation and that colleges make sure the proper safeguards are in place.
“First and foremost, you can’t pay to play and lie and cheat to circumvent the college admissions process,” he said. “Because you will get caught.”
Vavic, a 60-year-old, who guided USC’s men’s and women’s water polo teams to 16 national championships, strode out of the courtroom Friday with his family, declining to comment on the verdict.
Prosecutors said he received about $250,000 in bribes for designating unqualified students as water polo recruits so they could attend the elite Los Angeles school.
But lawyers for Vavic argued he was just doing what he could to raise money for his dominant, championship-winning program as athletic officials had demanded. They maintained he never lied, never took a bribe and was a victim of USC’s desire to cover up a “pervasive culture” of accepting wealthy students who could provide donation windfalls.
The university, which fired Vavic after his 2019 arrest, has stressed its admissions processes are “not on trial.”
In a separate courtroom just minutes after Vavic’s verdict was read, Riddell was contrite as he faced sentencing on fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges.
The Harvard graduate, who emerged as a key figure in the wide-ranging scandal, apologized to the many students that lost out on college opportunities because of his “terrible decision.”
He said he brought shame to his family and pleaded for leniency for cooperating with law enforcement officials and for committing to make amends now and going forward for his actions.
Riddell’s lawyers said he should serve one to two months in prison because he was neither the ringleader of the scheme nor a university insider, like the coaches and college administrators implicated. They also noted he’s already paid nearly $166,000 toward the forfeiture obligation.
Judge Nathaniel Gorton, however, sided with prosecutors who had argued for the four-month sentence.
He said Riddell played a key role for many years in the scheme by secretly taking the ACT and SAT for students, or correcting their answers.
“And for what?” the judge said. “You did not need the money. How could you have stooped so low?”
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Confirmed for Supreme Court, cheers for Jackson: ‘We’ve made it, all of us’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court showed the progress of America, declaring, “We’ve made it — all of us.”
Jackson delivered emotional remarks on the sunny White House South Lawn a day after the Senate approved her nomination, saying, it was a development the entire country could be proud of.
“We have come a long way toward perfecting our union,” she said. “In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States.”
President Joe Biden, who made his own history by nominating her, stood by her side for Friday’s event, celebrating her confirmation as “a moment of real change in American history.” On Jackson’s other side: Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to attain her high office.
Jackson will take the bench later this year, filling the seat of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on a court that was made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries, that declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed American segregation.
“It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States,” Jackson said. “But we’ve made it. We’ve made it, all of us.”
Jackson, at times speaking through tears as she thanked her family and mentors for their support, promised to follow in Breyer’s footsteps on the bench.
“I have done my level best to stay in my lane and to reach a result that is consistent with my understanding of the law,” she said, “And with the obligation to rule independently, without fear or favor.”
Jackson’s remarks on the White House lawn might be the most, and the last, the public hears from her for some time. She won’t formally join the court until early summer, and the justices won’t hear cases again until October. In any event, justices tend not to say much about themselves in their early years on the court, though some make sporadic public appearances and several have done speaking tours to pitch memoirs or their books about the law.
Jackson’s arrival on the bench won’t upend the current 6-3 conservative balance. But in addition to the racial history, it will for the first time put four women on the court at one time.
Biden nominated Jackson on the second anniversary of his pledge ahead of the South Carolina presidential primary to select a Black woman for the court. The move helped resurrect his flailing campaign and preserved his pathway to the White House, and Biden said the promise of putting someone like Jackson on the court helped motivate his bid for the Oval Office.
“I could see it as a day of hope, a day of promise, a day of progress, a day when once again the moral arc of the universe — as Barack (Obama) used to quote all the time — bends a little more toward justice,” Biden told the boisterous crowd on the South Lawn. “I believe so strongly that we needed a court that looks like America.”
Racial questions aside, a number of Republican senators aggressively questioned Jackson during confirmation hearings, accusing her of liberal activism as an appeals court judge and being soft on crime in some of her sentencing.
Biden praised Jackson’s “incredible character and integrity” during the confirmation process, saying she put up with “verbal abuse, the anger, constant interruptions, the most vile baseless assertions and accusations.” He praised the three Republican senators who joined Democrats to back her for the court: Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Utah Sen. Mitt Romney.
Jackson will be the high court’s first former public defender — with the elite legal background of other justices as well. She has degrees from Harvard and Harvard Law School and held top clerkships, including for Breyer himself.
The crowd on the White House lawn included Jackson’s family, members of Biden’s Cabinet, some of the Democratic senators who backed her nomination, as well as Democratic representatives and allies. The White House said all current and former justices of the Supreme Court were invited, but none attended.
The event came amid a COVID-19 outbreak among Washington’s political class that has sidelined members of Biden’s administration and lawmakers, including Collins and Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, who tested positive for the virus just hours after voting for Brown’s confirmation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was on the invite list, tested positive for the virus on Thursday.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday addressed concerns that the White House event could be a “super-spreader” for the virus, like President Donald Trump’s Rose Garden ceremony announcing the nomination of now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Psaki emphasized that the risks from the virus are now much lower because of vaccinations and treatments.
“At that point in time, vaccines were unavailable, people were not vaccinated, it certainly puts us in a different space,” Psaki said.
While not all attendees were tested for the virus, Psaki said those close to Biden would be. Harris delivered remarks, though she was identified on Wednesday as a close contact of a staffer who tested positive. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines require close contacts to wear masks while around other people. Harris did not wear one during the South Lawn event, and she hugged Jackson at the conclusion.
“She had an emotional moment, which is understandable,” said Psaki.
On Thursday, Jackson had joined Biden at the White House to watch the Senate vote unfold on TV, the two of them clasping hands in the Roosevelt Room as her confirmation became reality.
Throughout his 50 years in Washington, Biden has played an instrumental part in shaping the court, both inside and out of the Senate. But this was his first opportunity to make a selection of his own.
Biden may not get another chance. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, in an interview Thursday with Axios, refused to commit to hold confirmation hearings for a future Biden nominee to the high court if the GOP retakes control of the Senate in 2023.
While Jackson awaits Breyer’s official retirement, a White House official said, she will remain on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit but continue to recuse herself from cases.
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Family says woman who lost both arms in dog attack might lose leg too
ABBEVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The family of the Upstate woman who lost both her arms in a vicious dog attack said she could need another amputation.
Kyleen Waltman was mauled by three dogs, two of which were pit bulls, outside a home on Ball Road in Honea Path last month.
The recent grandmother had both of her arms amputated after the attack. Since then, she has been fighting for her life in the ICU.
Earlier this week, Waltman’s family said she is often having to be sedated due to her spinal cord injury and issues with her breathing and blood pressure. Doctors did wake her up on Mar. 29 so she could talk to her daughters and mother.
On Thursday, the family said she had a skin graft on her right leg. They said her left leg could have to be amputated if it doesn’t heal.
They asked the community to continue to pray for her recovery.
She recently underwent her 10th surgery since the attack.
A GoFundMe for Waltman’s medical expenses has raised more than $190,000.
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First Alert Forecast: Cool & breezy today - Cold Sunday morning
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Cooler today with 50s and breezy conditions. Cold tonight with a Frost Advisory issued. Temperatures will be in the 30s for Sunday AM but we warm into the low 70s for the afternoon.
First Alert Weather Headlines:
· It will be a bit cooler today. Highs will be in the upper 50s. Dress for the low to mid 50s with the wind though. Gusts to 25 MPH.
· A cold start Sunday AM with 30s. Frost Advisory has been issued.
· Highs will climb back into the 70s for the afternoon on Sunday
· 80s Return for next week
First Alert Weather Story:
We’ll see cooler weather with highs in the upper 50s today. It will be breezy with gusts to 25 MPH. Dress for the upper 40s to low 50s with the wind. Overnight low temperatures will drop into the mid to upper 30s by Sunday morning. A Frost Advisory has been issued.
On Sunday afternoon, high temperatures will climb back into the lower 70s. We’ll see sunny skies!
Warmer weather pushes in next week with 80s coming back. We’ll see a few more clouds with a chance for showers by Thursday (30%).
Some unsettled conditions push in for the Easter holiday weekend. We’re tracking a chance of rain around 30%.
Today: Sunshine to start but increasing clouds for the afternoon. Highs climb into the upper 50s but it will be breezy.
Tonight: Frost Advisory has been issued. Clear and cold with temperatures in the 30s.
Sunday: Sunny with highs in the low 70s.
Monday: Sun & clouds with highs around 80.
Tuesday: Partly cloudy skies with highs in the low to mid 80s.
Wednesday: Mostly cloudy with highs in the low 80s.
Thursday: Partly cloudy with a 30% chance for a few showers. Highs in the low 80s.
Good Friday: Partly cloudy with highs in the upper 70s.
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Goose Creek family shares struggle of having family fighting in Ukraine
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (WCSC) - Olya Kupka wipes away tears as she recounts how she learned of the first moments of the war in Ukraine.
“I got a message in the middle of the night,” Olya said. “My sister said the war started. It was the worst time of my life. Just to process it, my family is in such danger. Every day I call them, just to make sure they’re alive.”
More than a month into the war, she’s still calling them every day from her home in Goose Creek.
“They are like three hours away from Kyiv, which is not far enough, and every time I talk with them, they have sirens going off, so they have to end the call and go in hiding spots,” Olya said.
Olya moved to the United States after meeting her husband Josh Kupka. He’s an American who was working in Ukraine as a military contractor as part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction team that helped disarm the country’s nuclear weapons from 2003 to 2005. In 2005 they relocated to Russia until 2010, continuing to work on the CTR program. He wonders now if having those weapons would have prevented the invasion.
“It’s hard to say if it would have been enough of a deterrent, but it definitely would help deter a little bit, maybe completely,” Josh said. “Nobody really will ever know. The bad thing was that part of that [CTR] agreement was between the Ukrainians, the U.S., the Brits and the Russians is that they would become the protectors of Ukraine from a foreign adversary if they would come in and attack them. So, where are they?”
In another contract he worked on, Josh helped obtain Soviet-era military equipment that was ultimately brought back to the United States. The Wall Street Journal reports that equipment is now headed back to Ukraine.
“Right now, I’m having a hard time dealing with all this because, for one, we have family there,” Josh said. Two, I feel helpless that I can’t do more. I’d go in a heartbeat right now if I could. With this equipment going back, I know I’m helping in a way.”
Josh says he wants to see western countries step up and increase military aid, including the transfer of military aircraft like what was done through the Lend-Lease policy of World War Two.
“They’ve shown that they don’t need our boots on the ground,” Josh said. “They just need the equipment to be able to defend themselves.”
Neither Olya nor Josh were surprised when the Russian invasion plan fell apart after meeting stiff Ukrainian resistance. Olya says she takes pride in how her country has been able to stand up to a major world power.
“The unity that I hear about the people, from little ones to the oldest ones how they come together and help any way they can; it’s just amazing,” Olya said.
In Goose Creek, their neighbors are showing their support by lighting up their homes in blue and yellow.
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Jackson will join more diverse and conservative Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will join a Supreme Court that is both more diverse than ever and more conservative than it’s been since the 1930s.
She’s likely to be on the losing end of a bunch of important cases, including examinations of the role of race in college admissions and voting rights that the high court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, will take up next term.
Jackson, 51, is the first Black woman confirmed to the Supreme Court following Thursday’s 53-47 vote by the Senate. She won’t join the court for several months, until Justice Stephen Breyer retires once the court wraps up its work for the summer — including its verdict on whether to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights.
When Jackson takes the bench as a justice for the first time, in October, she will be one of four women and two Black justices — both high court firsts.
And the nine-member court as a whole will be younger than it’s been for nearly 30 years, when Breyer, now 83, came on board.
Among the younger justices are three appointees of former President Donald Trump, and the court’s historic diversity won’t obscure its conservative tilt.
In Breyer’s final term, the conservative justices already have left their mark even before deciding major cases on abortion, guns, religion and climate change. By 5-4 or 6-3 votes, they allowed an unusual Texas law to remain in effect that bans abortions after roughly six weeks; stopped the Biden administration from requiring large employers to have a workforce that is vaccinated against COVID-19 or be masked and tested; and left in place redrawn Alabama congressional districts that a lower court with two Trump appointees found shortchanged Black voters in violation of federal law.
Jackson’s replacement of Breyer, for whom she once worked as a law clerk, won’t alter that Supreme Court math.
“She’s just going to be swimming against the tide every day. That’s a lot to take on,” said Robin Walker Sterling, a Northwestern University law professor.
But Jackson’s presence could make a difference in the perspective she brings and how she expresses herself in her opinions, said Payvand Ahdout, a University of Virginia law professor.
Jackson, who was raised in Miami, may see the high court’s cases about race “from the lens of being a Black woman who grew up in the South. She has an opportunity early on to show how representation matters,” Ahdout said.
During her Senate confirmation hearings, Jackson pledged to sit out the court’s consideration of Harvard’s admissions program, since she is a member of its board of overseers. But the court could split off a second case involving a challenge to the University of North Carolina’s admissions process, which might allow her to weigh in on the issue.
“Historically, the court goes to some length to try to get as much participation as possible. So I wouldn’t be surprised to see the two dealt with separately,” said Ahdout, who was a clerk to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg the last time the court dealt with race in college admissions, in 2016. Just seven justices took part in that case, because Justice Antonin Scalia died before it was decided and Justice Elena Kagan had been involved as a Justice Department official before joining the court.
For now, Jackson might not have much to do. She remains a judge on the federal appeals court in Washington, but she stepped away from cases there when President Joe Biden nominated her to the Supreme Court in February and will continue to do so, a White House official said.
That could reduce the number of times Jackson has to recuse herself from any of her old cases that later make their way to the Supreme Court.
Breyer said in January that he would retire once his successor had been confirmed, but not before the end of the term. With a bare Senate majority, Democrats didn’t want to risk waiting until the summer for confirmation hearings and a vote.
That leaves Jackson in a situation that is “unprecedented in modern times,” said Marin Levy, a Duke University law professor who studies the federal judiciary.
Most new justices begin work a few days after they are confirmed, Levy said. Justice Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in to the court just a few hours after his tumultuous Senate vote.
Jackson could spend time arranging for her clerks and other staff for the Supreme Court, and closing down her current office.
But she won’t have to find new housing or upend the lives of her husband and children. Her new workplace is less than a mile from the court of appeals.
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Jury deliberating in ex-police officer’s Capitol riot trial
WASHINGTON (AP) — A defense attorney conceded Friday that a former Virginia police officer broke the law when he entered the U.S. Capitol during last year’s riot, encouraging a federal jury to convict him of misdemeanor offenses.
But the lawyer urged jurors to acquit former Rocky Mount police officer Thomas Robertson of felony charges that he armed himself with a weapon and stormed the Capitol with another off-duty officer to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
The jury for Robertson’s trial deliberated for more than four hours without reaching a verdict after hearing closing arguments from Justice Department prosecutors and defense attorney Mark Rollins. Jurors are scheduled to return Monday to resume their deliberations.
Robertson’s jury trial is the second among hundreds of Capitol riot cases. The first ended last month with jurors convicting a Texas man, Guy Reffitt, of all five counts in his indictment.
Rollins said Robertson is “absolutely guilty” of illegally entering restricted areas of the Capitol and of engaging in disorderly conduct on Jan. 6, 2021. But the defense attorney argued that the evidence doesn’t support more serious charges that Robertson intended to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote or that he was armed with a dangerous weapon, a large wooden stick.
“There were no plans to go down there and say, ‘I’m going to stop Congress from doing this vote,’” Rollins said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Risa Berkower said Robertson went to Washington and joined a “violent vigilante mob” because he believed the election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump. He used the wooden stick to interfere with outnumbered police before he joined the crowd pouring into the Capitol, she said.
“The defendant did all this because he wanted to overturn the election,” Berkower said.
Robertson didn’t testify at his trial. A key witness for prosecutors in his case was Jacob Fracker, who also served on the Rocky Mount police force and viewed Robertson as a mentor and father figure.
Fracker was scheduled to be tried alongside Robertson before he pleaded guilty last month to a conspiracy charge and agreed to cooperate with federal authorities.
Fracker testified on Thursday that he initially believed that he was merely trespassing when he entered the Capitol building. However, he ultimately pleaded guilty to conspiring with Robertson to obstruct the joint session of Congress.
Fracker said he didn’t have a “verbal agreement” with anybody to obstruct the congressional proceedings. He said he believed everybody in the mob “pretty much had the same goal” and didn’t need for it to be “said out loud.”
“It was clear that everyone around them had that same goal,” Berkower said.
Rollins said Robertson didn’t engage in any of the violence or destruction carried out by “knuckleheads” and “clowns” who stormed the Capitol.
“Don’t judge him by what the other people are doing,” he told jurors.
Robertson and Fracker drove with a neighbor to Washington on the morning of Jan. 6. Robertson brought three gas masks for them to use, according to prosecutors.
After listening to speeches near the Washington Monument, Fracker, Robertson and the neighbor walked toward the Capitol, donned the gas masks and joined the growing mob, prosecutors said. Robertson stopped to help his neighbor, who was having trouble breathing. Fracker broke off and entered the building before Robertson, but they reunited inside the Capitol.
Defense attorney Camille Wagner said Robertson only went into the Capitol because he wanted to retrieve Fracker. Wagner also denied that Robertson wielded the stick as a weapon. She said the U.S. Army veteran was using it as a walking stick because he still has a limp from getting shot in the right thigh while working as a private contractor for the U.S. Defense Department in Afghanistan in 2011.
Robertson was charged with six counts: obstruction of Congress, interfering with officers during a civil disorder, entering a restricted area while carrying a dangerous weapon, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted area, disorderly or disruptive conduct inside the Capitol building and obstruction. The last charge stems from his alleged post-riot destruction of cellphones belonging to him and Fracker.
The town fired Robertson and Fracker after the riot. Prosecutors said Robertson paid Fracker more than $30,000 after they were arrested, but Fracker said he believes Robertson wanted to cover his lost wages and wasn’t trying to “buy” his testimony.
Jurors saw some of Robertson’s vitriolic posts on social media before and after the Capitol riot. In a Facebook post on Nov. 7, 2020, Robertson said “being disenfranchised by fraud is my hard line.”
“I’ve spent most of my adult life fighting a counter insurgency. (I’m) about to become part of one, and a very effective one,” he wrote.
Robertson has been jailed since Cooper ruled in July that he violated the terms of his pretrial release by possessing firearms.
More than 770 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the riot. Over 240 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors.
Robertson’s trial is one of four so far for Capitol riot defendants. Two others had their cases decided by bench trials before the same judge.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden convicted New Mexico elected official Couy Griffin last month of illegally entering restricted Capitol grounds but acquitted him of engaging in disorderly conduct. On Wednesday, McFadden acquitted another New Mexico man, Matthew Martin, of all four charges that he faced.
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Whitmer kidnap plot: 2 men acquitted, hung jury for 2 more
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A jury acquitted two men of all charges in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer but couldn’t reach verdicts against the two alleged leaders, a stunning defeat for the government after a weekslong trial that centered on a remarkable FBI sting operation just before the 2020 election.
Whitmer did not immediately comment on Friday’s outcome, though her chief of staff was critical, saying Americans are “living through the normalization of political violence.”
The result was announced on the fifth day of deliberations, a few hours after the jury said it had been struggling to find unanimity on charges in the 10-count indictment. The judge told the panel to keep working, but jurors emerged again after lunch to say they still were deadlocked on some counts.
Daniel Harris, 24, and Brandon Caserta, 33, were found not guilty of conspiracy. In addition, Harris was acquitted of charges related to explosives and a gun.
The jury could not reach verdicts for Adam Fox, 38, and Barry Croft Jr., 46, which means the government can put them on trial again for two conspiracy charges. Croft also faces a separate explosives charge. They’ll remain in custody.
No juror spoke publicly about the mixed result.
“Obviously we’re disappointed with the outcome. ... We have two defendants that are awaiting trial and we’ll get back to work on that,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge said.
Harris and Caserta embraced their lawyers when U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker said they were free after 18 months in jail awaiting trial. Family members moments earlier gasped and cried with joy when the verdicts were read.
The arrests in Michigan came amid upheaval in the U.S. in 2020. The year had started with pandemic lockdowns then shifted to armed Capitol protests over COVID-19 restrictions ordered by Whitmer and other governors. By late May, anger over racial injustice and the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police erupted into demonstrations in cities nationwide.
In a Grand Rapids courtroom, during 13 days of testimony, prosecutors offered evidence from undercover agents, a crucial informant and two men who pleaded guilty to the plot. Jurors also read and heard secretly recorded conversations, violent social media posts and chat messages.
Ty Garbin, who pleaded guilty and is serving a six-year prison sentence, said the plan was to get Whitmer and cause enough chaos to trigger a civil war before the election , keeping Joe Biden from winning the presidency.
Garbin and Kaleb Franks, who also pleaded guilty and testified for the government, were among the six who were arrested in October 2020 amid talk of raising $4,000 for an explosive to blow up a bridge and stymie any police response to a kidnapping, according to trial testimony.
Prosecutors said the group was steeped in anti-government extremism and furious over Whitmer’s pandemic restrictions. There was evidence of a crudely built “shoot house” to practice going in and out of her vacation home, and a night ride by Croft, Fox and covert operatives to check the property.
But defense lawyers portrayed the men as credulous weekend warriors, often stoned on marijuana and prone to big, wild talk. They said FBI agents and informants tricked and cajoled the men into targeting the governor.
During closing arguments a week ago, Fox’s attorney, Christopher Gibbons, said the plan was “utter nonsense,” and he pleaded with jurors to be the “firewall” against the government.
Harris was the only defendant to testify in his own defense, repeatedly telling jurors “absolutely not” when asked if he had targeted the governor.
“I think what the FBI did is unconscionable,” Caserta’s attorney, Michael Hills, said outside court. “And I think the jury just sent them a message loud and clear that these tactics — we’re not going to condone what they’ve done here.”
He said Whitmer was “never in any danger.”
Gibbons said the acquittals of Harris and Caserta demonstrated serious shortcomings in the government’s case.
“We’ll be ready for another trial. ... We’ll eventually get what we wanted out of this, which is the truth and the justice I think Adam is entitled to,” Gibbons said.
Meanwhile, Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist said the “outcome is disappointing.” Whitmer’s office released a tough reaction from the governor’s chief of staff, JoAnne Huls.
“The plot to kidnap and kill a governor may seem like an anomaly. But we must be honest about what it really is: The result of violent, divisive rhetoric that is all too common across our country,” Huls said. “There must be accountability and consequences for those who commit heinous crimes. Without accountability, extremists will be emboldened.”
Deliberations resumed earlier Friday with a court employee handing jurors a large plastic bag containing pennies, known as evidence exhibit 291. The pennies were requested before jurors went home Thursday.
Pennies taped to a commercial-grade firework were intended to act like shrapnel against Whitmer’s security team, according to the government.
The trial covered 20 days since March 8, including jury selection, evidence, final arguments and jury deliberations. Croft is from Bear, Delaware, while the others are from Michigan.
Whitmer, a Democrat, wasn’t a trial witness and didn’t attend. She rarely talks publicly about the plot, though she referred to “surprises” during her term that seemed like “something out of fiction” when she filed for reelection on March 17.
She has blamed former President Donald Trump for fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn right-wing extremists like those charged in the case.
A jury of six women and six men heard the case, as well as four alternates. Little is known about them. Citing privacy, Jonker ordered that they be only identified by numbers. Two jurors were dismissed during the trial because of illness.
The jury pool was drawn from a 22-county region in western and northern Michigan that is largely rural, Republican and conservative. Several people were dismissed after saying they had strong feelings about Whitmer — positive or negative — or the government.
Matthew Schneider, a former U.S. attorney in Detroit, believes prosecutors “could have done a better job” of learning about the backgrounds and personal views of some jurors who were called up near the end of the all-day selection process.
“The government had laid out its case. The jury didn’t believe it,” Schneider said of the verdict.
Separately, authorities in state court are prosecuting eight men who are accused of aiding the group that was on trial in federal court.
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White reported from Detroit. Associated Press reporters Sara Burnett in Chicago; David Eggert in Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Mike Householder in Detroit contributed to this report.
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Justin Bieber offering a month of free online therapy to fans
Published: Apr. 8, 2022 at 4:43 PM EDT|Updated: 19 hours ago
(CNN) - Justin Bieber wants you to find inner peace and is willing to pay to help you do it.
The pop star is partnering with online therapy company BetterHelp to offer a free month of service to his fans.
Bieber, 28, has been candid about his own mental health issues and says offering free therapy to fans is a “real blessing.”
He’s also giving members of his road crew free access to licensed therapists for 18 months.
The Grammy winner is currently on the first leg of the biggest tour of his career, The Justice Tour.
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Kentucky governor vetoes proposed 15-week abortion ban
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear vetoed a Republican-priority measure on Friday that would ban abortions in Kentucky after 15 weeks of pregnancy and regulate the dispensing of abortion pills.
The governor raised doubts about the constitutionality of the bill and criticized it for not including exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
State lawmakers will have a chance to override the veto when they reconvene next week for the final two days of this year’s 60-day legislative session. The abortion measure won overwhelming support in the GOP-dominated legislature. A state Republican Party spokesman called the veto the latest example of the governor’s “ideological war” on conservative values.
The proposal reflects the latest attempt by Kentucky lawmakers to put more restrictions and conditions on abortion since the GOP took complete control of the legislature after the 2016 election.
The proposed 15-week ban is modeled after a Mississippi law under review by the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that could dramatically limit abortion rights. By taking the preemptive action, the bill’s supporters say that Kentucky’s stricter ban would be in place if the Mississippi law is upheld.
Kentucky law currently bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Beshear on Friday condemned the bill for failing to exclude pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
“Rape and incest are violent crimes,” the governor said in his veto message. “Victims of these crimes should have options, not be further scarred through a process that exposes them to more harm from their rapists or that treats them like offenders themselves.”
The governor said the bill would make it harder for girls under 18 to end a pregnancy without notifying both parents. As an example, he said that a girl impregnated by her father would have to notify him of her intent to get an abortion.
Beshear, a former state attorney general, also said the bill is “likely unconstitutional,” noting that similar laws elsewhere were struck down by the Supreme Court. He pointed to provisions in the Kentucky bill requiring doctors performing nonsurgical procedures to maintain hospital admitting privileges in “geographical proximity” to where the procedures are performed.
“The Supreme Court has ruled such requirements unconstitutional as it makes it impossible for women, including a child who is a victim of rape or incest, to obtain a procedure in certain areas of the state,” the governor said.
Opponents of the Kentucky bill say its restrictions are so onerous that no abortion clinic could comply.
The state Republican Party sharply criticized Beshear for the veto. It will likely surface as an issue again next year when the governor runs for a second term in Republican-trending Kentucky.
On Friday, state GOP spokesperson Sean Southard said the governor’s veto was “the latest action in his ideological war on the conservative values held by Kentuckians.”
Abortion rights supporters defended the governor’s action. Jackie McGranahan, policy strategist for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, said the bill aims to “shame and ostracize patients” and “push a safe and effective method of abortion care out of reach.”
Another key part of the bill would set regulations for the dispensing of abortion pills. It would require women to be examined in person by a doctor before receiving the medication.
That part of the bill is part of a nationwide push by anti-abortion groups to limit the ability of physicians to prescribe abortion pills by telemedicine, and comes in response to the increased use of pills rather than surgery to terminate early pregnancies.
About half of all abortions performed in Kentucky are the result of medication procedures.
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Kevin Spacey asks judge to dismiss Anthony Rapp’s sex abuse suit
NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Kevin Spacey asked a judge Friday to throw out actor Anthony Rapp’s sex abuse lawsuit, saying through his lawyers that allegations that he abused the then-teenage Rapp at a 1980s party are false.
The lawyers wrote in papers filed in Manhattan federal court that the alleged events Rapp described never occurred. Rapp has appeared in “Rent” on Broadway and in “Star Trek: Discovery” on television.
He alleged in his lawsuit that he went to a party in 1986 at Spacey’s Manhattan home, where a 26-year-old Spacey, without Rapp’s consent, “engaged in a sexual advance” by grabbing Rapp’s buttocks and lifting him onto a bed and laying on his body. Rapp claimed he “was forced to extricate himself” before leaving the party.
Spacey’s lawyers argued the alleged encounter cannot qualify as sexual abuse under New York’s laws because the only alleged contact with an “intimate” part of the body by Spacey was when his hand grazed the 14-year-old Rapp’s buttocks when the older actor picked him up. The lawyers said Rapp “wriggled out” with no resistance during an encounter of less than 30 seconds.
There was no other evidence that would suggest any fleeting contact between Spacey’s hand and Rapp’s buttocks was for the purpose of sexual gratification or to degrade or abuse Rapp, the lawyers wrote.
The lack of evidence means Rapp’s claims for assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress must fail, the lawyers said.
They said Spacey “flatly denies” that any of what Rapp described took place.
Lawyers for Rapp did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
When Rapp first spoke publicly of his claim in 2017, others went public too and Spacey’s then-celebrated career abruptly halted. At the time, Spacey issued a statement saying he didn’t remember the encounter but apologized.
Spacey won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in “American Beauty,” a 1999 film in which he played a frustrated suburban father who lusts after his daughter’s best friend.
In recent filings, Rapp’s lawyers have asked to transfer the case to state court, saying Spacey cannot prove he has been living in Maryland and qualifies for the diversity of citizenship necessary to remain in federal court.
In fact, they argue, he has been mostly living in London since 2003.
They said he only lived in Maryland when he was acting in his Emmy-winning role in “House of Cards” from 2014 through 2017. He was fired from the show days after Rapp went public and former show workers claimed that Spacey made the production a “toxic” workplace and one ex-employee alleged the actor sexually assaulted him.
In November, an arbitrator said Spacey and his production companies must pay the studio behind the Netflix political thriller $31 million because of losses they incurred after his firing.
Spacey appealed the decision to a panel of three more private arbitrators, who found for the plaintiffs, making the decision final, and public.
A criminal case brought against him, an indecent assault and battery charge stemming from the alleged groping of an 18-year-old man at a Nantucket resort, was dismissed by Massachusetts prosecutors in 2019.
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Lexington County man receives 80 year sentence
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Lexington County man received an 80 year sentence in a child sexual assault case.
Eleventh Circuit Solicitor Rick Hubbard announced Johnathan David Johnson, 33, pled guilty to one count of First Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor and one count of First Degree Sexual Exploitation of a Minor.
Under South Carolina law his offenses are classified as violent and most serious, he is ineligible for parole. Prosecutors said there were no plea negotiations or recommendations in the case.
Johnson first came to law enforcement’s attention in ‘Operation Hydra.’ The Department of Homeland Security ran the operation in 2014 as a large scale child pornography investigation. In that investigation he was convicted of possessing child pornography and received a 63 month sentence in federal prison.
In April of 2017 a laptop was recovered that contained a video of Johnson raping a three year-old child from Aug. 15, 2014. Investigators said it was filmed at his Gaston, SC home.
Sgt. Adam Creech with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department Major Crimes Unit led the investigation with assistance from Homeland Security.
Hubbard said, “This offender has shown that he will always be a danger to children. We are thankful for justice in this case, with the assurance that he will no longer pose a threat to our community.”
Johnson has been transferred to the South Carolina Department of Corrections to begin serving his sentence.
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Life expectancy continues to drop in US since start of pandemic, study finds
(CNN) - A recent study found that life expectancy in the U.S. has continued to drop since the start of the pandemic.
Researchers from the University of Colorado and the Urban Institute analyzed data from several statistical agencies and found that in 2021 life expectancy fell nearly half a year to 76.6 years.
Previously, a similar study found life expectancy dipped by almost two years in 2020.
In the decade before the coronavirus pandemic, life expectancy overall didn’t change much. But more than 900,000 Americans have died from COVID in the past two years.
Researchers from this most recent study also found life expectancy is more than five years less in the U.S. compared to other similar nations.
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Local artist featured as contestant on American Song Contest
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - American Song Contest is a live music contest where artists from across the nation compete with their original songs, but ONE artist will win in the end.
The show is hosted by legendary rapper, Snoop Dogg and former American Idol Winner, Singer and host of the Kelly Clarkson Show, Kelly Brianne (formally Kelly Clarkson).
Artist and Irmo native Jesse LeProtti, is representing South Carolina in the competition.
While LeProtti currently resides in California, he stopped by the Soda City Live set to talk about Monday’s performance while he is back home visiting for the week.
Be sure to tune in to American Song Contest Mondays at 8 p.m. on WIS News 10.
For more information about the show visit https://www.nbc.com/american-song-contest
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Local church relaunches youth ministry with community event
Published: Apr. 8, 2022 at 5:59 PM EDT|Updated: 18 hours ago
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Brookland Baptist Church is revamping its VIBE Youth and Teen Ministry.
Youth Pastor, Elder Mark Richard, and Youth Advisor Carmen Dreher Jordan talk about the event and what attendees can expect.
The two-day event starts Saturday with The VIBE Youth Festival Friday, April 9 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Brookland Baptist Church.
The event will include games, food, prizes, entertainment, and more.
The festivities flow through to Sunday, April 10th as the ministry hosts its first service as their relaunch at 11 a.m.
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Man charged after setting fire to home, killing woman and baby, police say
WALDORF, Md. (Gray News) - A man in Maryland was charged with arson and murder after he deliberately set a house on fire, killing a woman and a baby, according to police.
The Charles County Sheriff’s Office said Vincent Anthony Fisher II, 46, was charged Thursday with first-degree arson and murder.
According to the sheriff’s office, first responders were called to a home in Waldorf (about 30 miles south of Washington, D.C.) on March 31 for a report of an altercation and a fire. After the fire was extinguished, investigators found Rashawn Cline, 27, and her daughter, Dashawn Cline, 1, dead inside the home.
The victims were the daughter and the granddaughter of Fisher’s girlfriend.
During the investigation, officials determined the fire was deliberately set, and the medical examiner ruled the deaths as homicides as a result of the fire.
Fisher, who also lived at the residence, was identified as the suspect and was immediately arrested. He was also charged with assaulting another resident of the house during an altercation that happened just before the fire was set, the sheriff’s office said.
Fisher is being held at the Charles County Detention Center and was denied bond.
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Midlands Master Trooper named SC “Trooper of the Year,” saves 2-year-old from drowning
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The Midlands’ Master Trooper was named the South Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper of the Year Friday, after being chosen among candidates across the state.
Master Trooper David G. Jones of Troop One, who also serves as the Midlands Community Relations Officer, was recognized with the honor after saving a child who had fallen into a swimming pool.
According to a press release from the South Carolina Department of Public Safety, Master Trooper Jones’ quick thinking and recent first aid training helped save the life of a 2-year-old who was drowning in a pool next door.
Just two days before the incident, Master Trooper Jones had completed his department-required CPR course, and when the toddler was pulled out of the water, Jones began back thrusts and mouth-to-mouth breaths until he started breathing on his own.
After Jones revived the child, paramedics took him to the hospital where he made a full recovery.
The 2021 Trooper of the Year was named, along with the Telecommunications Operator of the Year by the Department of Public Safety.
The SCDPS Director Robert G. Woods says the honorees went the extra mile, on and off the roads.
“The troopers who were honored today made a split-second decision that saved a life; put in the extra time to help solve a case; or went the extra mile to make South Carolina’s roadways safer,” Woods said.
The winners were chosen from regional winners across the state. There was one candidate chosen from each of the highway patrol troops, and each of the winners then competed for the overall award.
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Music video school allows youth to teach youth
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - If you have children with a passion for acting, singing, dancing or film, there is an opportunity available for them to take their skills to the next level.
Puretone Academy is hosting a Music Video School where young people train other young people.
Director of Puretone Vocal Arts Academy Whitney Weston and student Jada Bacote join the Soda City Live hosts to talk about the program and how students can get involved.
The program is open for students with a passion for the arts. That’s singing, dancing, acting, film and more.
For more information, click here https://www.puretoneacademy.com/
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My Take: Celebrating the Gamecocks
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - They’ve done it again!! The USC Women’s Basketball team just took home their second National Championship. The team is not only the toast of South Carolina…they are the darlings of the National Media and have become role models for women and young girls across the country. This team was so dominant they made it look easy, but obviously they worked hard to achieve success, and what the Gamecocks have accomplished over the past decade has altered the landscape of women’s sports. They are not just National Champions, but trailblazers.
When head coach Dawn Staley came to Columbia to coach the Gamecocks in 2008, South Carolina’s women’s basketball was an afterthought not only to those that love the game but also to many USC Sports Fans. The team had not been to an NCAA tournament in five years and attendance was lagging. It took a few years for Staley to start building winning teams, but she immediately brought the passion and went out of her way to connect with the fans or as they are known now the FAMS. And the wins followed. The women’s team has not missed the NCAA tournament in more than a decade and have now won two National titles… in 2017 and now 2022. And let’s be honest, they most likely would have won in 2020 if the tournament had not been cancelled due to COVID.
Dawn Staley and the USC Women’s Basketball team are now a dynasty. They have overtaken programs like UConn and Tennessee, that used to rule the college game. But they’ve also changed the landscape of women’s sports in general. The team averaged more than 12-thousand fans at every home game and for the past seven years has led the nation in fan attendance. Their team’s players like consensus National Player of the Year Aliyah Boston and Destanni Henderson are real stars in South Carolina. And coach Dawn Staley is a National figure who not only coaches National Champions but leads the women’s Olympic team. Staley is also the first Black Coach, male or female to win two National Championships. Congratulations on an incredible year Gamecocks… you’re 2022 National Champions. Thank you for giving us all something to celebrate and being role models for young girls across the globe.
That’s My Take, what’s Yours?
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Owl rescued after getting tangled up in barbed wire fence
Published: Apr. 8, 2022 at 4:31 PM EDT|Updated: 19 hours ago
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. (Gray News) – Animal rescue groups in Colorado saved an owl that was stuck in a barbed wire fence this week.
The Arapahoe County Government said in a Facebook post Friday that the great horned owl got tangled up in the fence while “out and about fighting the Colorado winds this week.”
Residents called Arapahoe County Animal Services, and with the help of the Birds of Prey Foundation, rescuers were able to get the owl loose.
The owl is now recovering at a medical care facility.
Arapahoe County is located just outside of Denver.
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Police: Couple facing charges after 3 children go missing for weeks
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3/Gray News) - A Missouri-area prosecutor has charged a mother and her wife in the disappearance of three children.
KY3 reports Brittany Barnes and Ceairah Beverly have been charged with three counts of interference with custody or removed from the state.
Investigators said Barnes told Beverly’s mother, their legal guardian, she was taking the children to a court appearance on March 23. However, they never showed up to that appearance.
The children, Ryder Green, 10, Resean Green, 9, and Ramello Green, 8, have not been seen since. Police said they believed the women took them to Arizona.
Investigators said they contacted Barnes’s mother, and she initially told them the women and the kids were in Arizona. However, she later changed her story and said she would not cooperate with the investigation.
A children’s food stamp card was used at a Walmart in Queen Creek, Arizona, according to police.
The FBI has since been called to help work the case, and authorities urged anyone with further information to contact the Springfield Police Department at 417-864-1810.
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Police searching for missing teen
Published: Apr. 8, 2022 at 3:22 PM EDT|Updated: 19 hours ago
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) - The Mount Pleasant Police Department is asking for help finding a missing juvenile.
Michael John McKeever Jr. was last seen in Mount Pleasant on April 6 and did not return home from school.
Police described McKeever Jr. as 5′11, 150 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes.
If you have any information, call the consolidated dispatch center at 843-743-7200.
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President Biden to visit Greensboro
Published: Apr. 8, 2022 at 1:39 PM EDT|Updated: 17 hours ago
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - On Friday the White House announced President Joe Biden will be visiting Greensboro, NC on April 14. His trip will include speaking about supply chains, domestic manufacturing and lowering inflation. The White House said additional details about his visit will be released later.
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SC Emergency Management Division releases initial damage report
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - The South Carolina Emergency Management Division says fourteen homes were destroyed, 41 homes were damaged and several tornados have been confirmed following this week’s severe weather.
The National Weather Service’s survey teams say intensities of the confirmed tornados range from ESF-1 to EF-3.
Damage consistent with an EF-3 tornado was identified by meteorologists in Allendale County on Tuesday where four homes were destroyed, 11 homes were damaged and three people were injured.
A second EF-3 tornado that developed in Allendale County was identified after more survey data was released. It traveled through Bamberg and Orangeburg counties and reached an estimated 160 mph peak wind. An EF-1 was also recorded in Ulmer, a town in Allendale County.
As of Thursday afternoon, state emergency management officials say five homes were destroyed and another 15 were damaged in Bamberg County. Three homes were destroyed in Clarendon County, two homes were destroyed and 10 were damaged in Orangeburg County. In Horry County, five homes were damaged in the storms.
An EF-0 tornado was surveyed in Colleton County. A weak tornado began just west of Alison Lane, where it snapped and uprooted a few trees on Wednesday, officials say. Then it moved across a wooded area, snaping a few more trees before moving across Sandy Springs Circle, a report stated.
Another EF-0 was also recorded in Hampton County. It happened in Varnville on Tuesday; the twister overturned some utility trailers and uprooted some trees.
Officials say more detailed assessments are ongoing and expect the estimates to be revised in the coming days.
No deaths were reported.
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S.C. man who livestreamed sexual assaults against toddler receives prison sentence
BLUFFTON, S.C. (WCSC/Gray News) - A 33-year-old man has received a decades-long prison sentence for the production of child pornography.
WCSC reports David James Allison of Bluffton, South Carolina, was sentenced to 30 years in prison and a lifetime term of court-ordered supervision on Friday by U.S. District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks.
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call in January 2020 after a family member of a 22-month-old child accused Allison of sexually assaulting the toddler.
Authorities said Allison admitted to deputies that he assaulted the victim approximately five times between September and December 2019 and livestreamed the assaults over Skype.
Investigators said the Skype communications were tied to an IP address of a 52-year-old man from Littlehampton, West Sussex, United Kingdom. Sussex police said Andrew McPherson-Young admitted to directing Allison and watching the assaults on Skype.
The Department of Justice said McPherson-Young is currently being prosecuted in the United Kingdom.
The South Carolina 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office said Allison was sentenced by both state and federal courts, and he will serve his sentences concurrently in federal prison.
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Soda City Live: 7th Annual South Carolina Food Truck and Craft Beer Festival
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - More than 30 South Carolina Food Truck favorites and local craft beers will be available at ONE place.
Saturday, April 9, the South Carolina State Fairgrounds will host the 7th annual Food Truck and Craft Beer Festival.
The event will be from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. (VIP and Beer Lovers hours are from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.).
One familiar face you’ll see this year is Billy G’s Carolina BBQ.
Billy and Will Gause join Anthony Pepe of Food Trucks of America to talk about the upcoming event.
Admission is $10 at the door. Children 12 and under and First Responders (with a valid I.D.) are free.
Tickets are half off before the day of the event and can be purchased online.
Here’s a link for tickets and more information, https://www.foodtruckfestivalsofamerica.com/columbia
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Soda City Live: Columbia Council of Neighborhoods hosts annual awards banquet
Published: Apr. 8, 2022 at 6:05 PM EDT|Updated: 18 hours ago
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - For more than a decade, Columbia Council of Neighborhoods has recognized outstanding citizens in the community during their annual banquet. After some time off, (due to the pandemic) the organization is continuing the tradition.
President of the Columbia Council of Neighborhoods, John Black talks about the keynote speakers and the awards that will be handed out.
For more information about the Columbia Council of Neighborhoods and their banquet, click here.
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Soda City Spotlight: Columbia Museum of Art
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Soda City Spotlight is a way we are able to highlight a few landmarks and places you can visit around the Midlands and Columbia area.
Why don’t you stop by the Columbia Museum of Art!
You’ll have an opportunity to enjoy their current exhibits.
Right now, The Rodin Contemplation and Dreams Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections are on display.
The museum also offers hands-on workshops and if you’re looking for a place to send your children for the Summer they also offer summer camps for kids aged 4 to teens.
Click here for more information https://www.columbiamuseum.org/learn/summer-camps
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State officials again tell Newberry County Schools to stop impersonating a court of law
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The S.C. Department of Education and the S.C. Court Administration told the Newberry County School District it needs to stop presenting its truancy program as a “court.”
South Carolina Court Administration Director Karama Herrington sent a letter about the issue to the S.C. Department of Education (SCDE) Deputy Director Cathy Hazelwood on March 23, 2022.
The letter states the Newberry County School District, along with Laurens 55 School District, run “truancy courts” for students who are not meeting attendance requirements.
This comes after a November 2019 letter from Court Administration to the Newberry County schools over the same issue.
Herrington also wrote the department has heard of similar situations in Spartanburg County but cannot confirm it.
Herrington wrote she had concern the districts were representing themselves as court of law, issuing “orders” supposedly from a Family Court. Additionally, she wrote her office contacted the Eighth Circuit Solicitor’s Office for the districts to stop using the Solicitor’s letterhead.
Herrington wrote “the conduct of these school districts unquestionably runs afoul of the criminal statute.”
She went on to write:
Additionally, persons involved in impersonating genuine courts could likely be found in contempt of the court(s) they are impersonating, or of the Supreme Court of South Carolina should an order of that court become necessary.
I respectfully request that school districts stop holding themselves out as courts of law, make any necessary revisions to their forms and orders to remedy confusion with actual courts, and make clear to participating students that these programs are in no way affiliated with the South Carolina Unified Judicial System.
Herrington referenced a Nov. 21, 2019 letter from the S.C. Court Administration Deputy Director Robert McCurdy to Newberry County Schools.
McCurdy warned the district to adjust its policies and remove solicitor’s letterhead from letters sent to parents and guardians. .
The letter reads in part:
It has come to the attention of the South Carolina Judicial Branch that Newberry County School District is operating, in conjunction with the Solicitor,· a deferred truancy prosecution program. It appears that this program is denominated the “Newberry County School District Judiciary Court,” that hearings are held at a location identified as the “Newberry County School Courthouse,” and that “School Attendance Orders’' are issued, which mimic the style and format of actual South Carolina Family Court ·orders, and which are ·misleadingly captioned “IN THE FAMILY COURT EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.”
Further, a form letter on the Solicitor’s letterhead but apparently sent by your office to parents and guardians, states, “The Newberry County Family Court will offer you the opportunity to defer prosecution by participating with your child in the Newberry County Judiciary Court Program.”
McCurdy also asked for the district to remove any judicial references.
Newberry Truancy Issue 11.21.19 by Sophie Keyes Hoge on Scribd
In a memo sent out to district superintendents on April 5, 2022 D.O.E. Deputy Superintendent Cathy Hazelwood said her department and the South Carolina Court administration had “serious concerns” about how some districts ran their truancy programs.
She wrote:
Any school district engaging in activities where the district is holding itself out as a court of law should cease the practice immediately
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WIS has obtained documents showing some details of Newberry County School District and Laurens 55 truancy courts.
The date of the Newberry documents is redacted, while one of the Laurens 55 documents was dated April 11, 2019.
The Newberry County school documents refer to the district “school courthouse” as the district offices, states a case is in the 8th Judicial Circuit and Family Court, and includes “orders.”
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The documents from Laurens 55 reflect 8th Judicial Circuit Solicitor David Stumbo’s letterhead in an April 2019 letter.
They also mirror legal documents, reference Family Court, the 8th judicial circuit, and threatens a family court judge hearing.
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Stumbo’s office sent a statement reading:
We are aware of the issues regarding truancy intervention programs and their use in local school districts. We are currently working with our partners in education to correct these issues so that these programs can continue to serve our students as it is was originally intended
Newberry County Dr. Carson Ware sent WIS a statement that the district no longer uses the truancy court policies.
The School District of Newberry County no longer follows the practice of truancy court. We have adjusted all notifications to parents of truancy issues and communication of expectations as related to student attendance. We are currently in compliance with the guidelines set forth by the state as addressed in the April 5 memo from Cathy Hazelwood, Deputy Superintendent, Division of Legal Affairs.
WIS asked for a timeline on when the change happened, and Ware responding by stating it happened this school year. In a March 28 school board hearing, the truancy program was referenced as a “court” and “hearing.”
We have been working this school year to update the terminology that references our interventions used for addressing attendance issues. Although the terminology of court and hearing is used interchangeably, we are not acting as a court with a court proceeding. We conduct these meetings in the same manner as a disciplinary hearing. The focus of the truancy meeting is to discuss the absences and create an intervention plan. These meetings are held with the students, parents, our Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Student Services, district case managers, and whenever possible DSS and DJJ attend. These meetings are used as a layer of intervention to provide support for the families. If the plan is not followed and the student continues with attendance issues, then a referral to family court may be made.
No explanation has been given as to why the changes didn’t happen after the 2019 letter from McCurdy.
WIS asked the district to verify the documents. Ware did not comment on them.
A spokesperson for Court Administration said the legal ramifications for Newberry County schools will not be pursued.
Attempts to contact Newberry County School Board Chair Lucy Anne Meetze were unsuccessful.
Laurens 55 Superintendent Dr. Ameca Thomas sent WIS the following note.
Yes, the documents are legitimate. However, they are old and not currently what we are using. We started this process back in 2012 or 2013 modeling our program after another district.
We received the formats and letters from the other district and met with the Solicitor to also start the process of addressing truancy with a step before Family Court. We had approval to use the letterhead, etc.
Unfortunately, truancy is a real issue. To actually get students on the docket is very hard and we were receiving information that we needed additional steps and processes before Family Court. At that point the district modeled a truancy court for parents and students to attend to try to help improve attendance concerns.
I have recently heard that another district had modeled a court and was told to stop using these documents and the letterhead. However, our district was never notified to stop our use of the documents.
After notification a month ago we have revised our letters to parents and the process.
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Trans kids, parents fight wave of legislation in red states
Alabama governor signs law banning transgender medication
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Ninth grader Harleigh Walker, 15, spends her time after school like many girls her age: doing homework, listening to Taylor Swift, collecting records and hanging out with friends.
But this year, her spring break also included trying to persuade members of the state House and Senate to reject legislation banning gender-affirming medications for transgender kids like her under 19.
She was unsuccessful. On Thursday, Alabama lawmakers passed the measure, and Gov. Kay Ivey signed it into law on Friday, meaning Harleigh’s doctor would face prison time if she continued to prescribe her testosterone-blocking drugs.
“Honestly, I’m a little scared now,” Harleigh said Thursday after learning the bill had passed. “But we’re still going to fight, no matter what.”
She said she is holding out hope the bill will be blocked by a court.
Alabama is among multiple states with Republican-controlled legislatures that have advanced bills not only to block medical treatment but to ban transgender children from using school restrooms or playing on sports teams that don’t correspond with their sex at birth. The Alabama medication bill is one of the most far-reaching: It would put doctors in prison for up to 10 years for prescribing puberty blockers or hormonal treatment to trans kids under 19.
“I believe very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl,” said Ivey, who faces a May primary with conservative opponents trying to outflank her on her right. “We should especially protect our children from these radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries when they are at such a vulnerable stage in life. Instead, let us all focus on helping them to properly develop into the adults God intended them to be.”
Ivey also signed a separate measure that requires students to use bathrooms that align with their original birth certificate and prohibits instruction of gender and sexual identity in kindergarten through fifth grades.
Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director and senior counsel for the Human Rights Campaign, a national advocacy group for the LGBTQ community, called the new laws “breathtakingly cruel and cowardly” and “the single most anti-transgender legislative package in history.” Groups on Friday vowed to quickly file a lawsuit challenging the measures in court.
Oakley and other opponents say transgender health is being used as a deliberate political wedge issue to motivate a voting base — in the same way they say bills about critical race theory have been employed. Critical race theory is a way of thinking about America’s history through the lens of racism. Numerous Republican-controlled legislatures have proposed bills to block its teaching in public schools.
The measures have prompted swift backlash from medical experts, Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration, the U.S. Department of Justice and the families of trans youth. Last month, the Justice department sent a letter to all 50 state attorneys general, warning them that blocking transgender and nonbinary youth from receiving gender-affirming care could be an infringement of federal constitutional protections.
“My child is not a political tool. This is not a fair fight to pick on vulnerable children,” said Vanessa Finney Tate, the mother of a 13-year-old trans boy in Birmingham, Alabama, after testifying at a public legislative hearing on bill that would block students from using bathrooms corresponding to their gender.
Harleigh’s father, Jeff Walker notes that many of the same Alabama lawmakers who supported the ban on gender-affirming medical treatment recently argued, ‘It’s your body and your choice’ regarding coronavirus vaccinations. He said the family is now scrambling to find another state where it can continue Harleigh’s medical care.
“We just don’t want people meddling in our medical care,” he said.
Medical groups including The American Academy of Pediatrics have publicly opposed efforts to outlaw gender-affirming care.
“Gender-affirming care benefits the health and psychological functioning of transgender and gender-diverse youth,” the Endocrine Society said in a statement. “When an individual’s gender identity is not respected and they cannot access medical care, it can result in higher psychological problem scores and can raise the person’s risk of committing suicide or other acts of self-harm.”
The organization notes that only reversible puberty blockers are recommended for younger adolescents, while older adolescents might qualify for hormone therapy.
Harleigh received the medication — which stops her from going through male puberty — only after consulting with a team of doctors for years. She said it’s “weird” to see lawmakers with no medical experience call her medication “child abuse,” when six doctors have agreed she should have it.
Angus, a 16-year-old trans teen who requested that his last name not be used because of the bullying he has received in his north Alabama town, said he knew at puberty that the mirror reflected “a body that wasn’t my own.”
After coming out to his mother, he began slowly testing the waters: dressing as a man, changing his name. Only after years of talking to a team of doctors, was he able to recently get medications to stop his periods. The next step, which he is eager to start, would be a small dose of testosterone.
“I have been waiting for seven years to finally become a man, the man that I’ve always known I am,” Angus said.
He said bills to block such treatments are harming, not protecting trans youth.
“The government is saying, ‘Oh, parents are abusing their children by letting them transition,’” he said. “Actually, it’s more child abuse to not let them transition if they come out. What these bills really are doing is putting trans youth lives at risk because these suicide rates will spike exponentially. And a lot of families will lose their children.”
Similar bans are moving forward in other states.
In Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to investigate as abuse reports of gender-confirming care for kids. And a law in Arkansas bans gender-affirming medications. That law has been blocked by a court, however.
Trans youth in many red states say they feel attacked, angry, betrayed and scared by the wave of legislation aimed at them.
“It feels like a back-stab,” Harleigh said. “I’ve lived in this state my whole life. For them to just say, ‘Well, you know what, this is an issue that’s really popular on my side of the aisle so I’m just going to raise it up and support it because it’ll help me win my election’ — It just hurts to see them do that.”
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GRAPHIC: Missile kills at least 52 at crowded Ukrainian train station
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A missile hit a train station in eastern Ukraine where thousands had gathered Friday, killing at least 52 and wounding dozens more in an attack on a crowd of mostly women and children trying to flee a new, looming Russian offensive, Ukrainian authorities said.
The attack, denounced by some as yet another war crime in the 6-week-old conflict, came as workers unearthed bodies from a mass grave in Bucha, a town near Ukraine’s capital where dozens of killings have been documented after a Russian pullout.
Photos from the station in Kramatorsk showed the dead covered with tarps, and the remnants of a rocket painted with the words “For the children,” which in Russian implied that children were being avenged by the strike, though the exact reason remained unclear. About 4,000 civilians had been in and around the station, heeding calls to leave before fighting intensifies in the Donbas region, the office of Ukraine’s prosecutor-general said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who says he expects a tough global response, and other leaders accused Russia’s military of deliberately attacking the station. Russia, in turn, blamed Ukraine, saying it doesn’t use the kind of missile that hit the station — a contention experts dismissed.
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Zelenskyy told Ukrainians in his nightly video address Friday that efforts would be taken “to establish every minute of who did what, who gave what orders, where the missile came from, who transported it, who gave the command and how this strike was agreed to.”
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the regional governor of Donetsk, in the Donbas, said 52 people were killed, including five children, and dozens more were wounded.
“There are many people in a serious condition, without arms or legs,” Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksandr Goncharenko said, adding that the local hospital was struggling to treat everyone.
British Defense Minister Ben Wallace denounced the attack as a war crime, and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called it “completely unacceptable.”
“There are almost no words for it,” European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in Ukraine, told reporters. “The cynical behavior (by Russia) has almost no benchmark anymore.”
Ukrainian authorities and Western officials have repeatedly accused Russian forces of atrocities in the war that began with a Feb. 24 invasion. More than 4 million Ukrainians have fled the country, and millions more have been displaced. Some of the grisliest evidence has been found in towns around Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, from which Russian President Vladimir Putin’s troops pulled back in recent days.
In Bucha, Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk has said investigators found at least three sites of mass shootings of civilians and were still finding bodies in yards, parks and city squares — 90% of whom were shot.
Russia has falsely claimed that the scenes in Bucha were staged.
On Friday, workers pulled corpses from a mass grave near a church under spitting rain, lining up black body bags in rows in the mud. About 67 people were buried in the grave, according to a statement from Prosecutor-General Iryna Venediktova’s office.
“Like the massacres in Bucha, like many other Russian war crimes, the missile attack on Kramatorsk should be one of the charges at the tribunal that must be held,” Zelenskyy said, his voice rising in anger late Friday.
He expounded on that theme in an excerpted interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired Friday, citing communications intercepted by the Ukrainian security service.
“There are (Russian) soldiers talking with their parents about what they stole and who they abducted. There are recordings of (Russian) prisoners of war who admitted to killing people,” he said. “There are pilots in prison who had maps with civilian targets to bomb. There are also investigations being conducted based on the remains of the dead.”
Zelenskyy’s comments echo reporting from Der Spiegel saying Germany’s foreign intelligence agency had intercepted Russian military radio traffic in which soldiers may have discussed civilian killings in Bucha. The weekly also reported that the recordings indicated the Russian mercenary Wagner Group was involved in atrocities there.
German government officials would not confirm or deny the report, but two former German ministers filed a war crimes complaint Thursday. Russia has denied that its military was involved in war crimes.
After failing to take Kyiv in the face of stiff resistance, Russian forces have now set their sights on the Donbas, the mostly Russian-speaking, industrial region where Moscow-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian forces for eight years and control some areas.
A senior U.S. defense official said Friday that the Pentagon believes some of the retreating units were so badly damaged they are “for all intents and purposes eradicated.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal military assessments.
The official said the U.S. believes Russia has lost between 15% and 20% of its combat power overall since the war began. While some combat units are withdrawing to be resupplied in Russia, Moscow has added thousands of troops around Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, he said.
The train station hit is in Ukrainian government-controlled territory in the Donbas, but Russia’s Defense Ministry accused Ukraine of carrying out the attack. So did the region’s Moscow-backed separatists, who work closely with Russian regular troops.
Western experts refuted Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov’s assertion that Russian forces “do not use” that type of missile, saying Russia has used it during the war. One analyst added that only Russia would have reason to target railway infrastructure in the Donbas.
“The Ukrainian military is desperately trying to reinforce units in the area … and the railway stations in that area in Ukrainian-held territory are critical for movement of equipment and people,” said Justin Bronk, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
Bronk pointed to other occasions when Russian authorities have tried to deflect blame by claiming their forces no longer use an older weapon “to kind of muddy the waters and try and create doubt.” He suggested Russia specifically chose the missile type because Ukraine also has it.
A Western official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence, also said Russia’s forces have used the missile — and that given the strike’s location and impact, it was “likely” Russia’s.
Ukrainian officials have almost daily pleaded with Western powers to send more arms, and to further punish Russia with sanctions and exclusion of Russian banks from the global financial system.
NATO nations agreed Thursday to increase their supply of weapons, and Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger announced on a trip to Ukraine on Friday that his country has donated its Soviet-era S-300 air defense system to Ukraine. Zelenskyy had appealed for S-300s to help the country “close the skies” to Russian warplanes and missiles.
American and Slovak officials said the U.S. will then deploy a Patriot missile system to Slovakia.
After meeting with Zelenskyy on Friday, during which he urged the EU to impose a full embargo on Russian oil and gas, von der Leyen gave him a questionnaire that is a first step for applying for EU membership. She said the process for completing the questionnaire could take just weeks — an unusually fast turnaround; Zelenskyy quipped in English that they’d have the answers in a week.
Elsewhere, in anticipation of intensified attacks by Russian forces, hundreds of Ukrainians fled villages that were either under fire or occupied in the southern regions of Mykolaiv and Kherson.
In the northeast’s Kharkiv, Lidiya Mezhiritska stood in the wreckage of her home after overnight missile strikes turned it to rubble.
“The ‘Russian world,’ they say,” she said, wryly invoking Putin’s nationalist justification for invading Ukraine. “People, children, old people, women are dying. I don’t have a machine gun. I would definitely go (fight), regardless of age.”
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Anna reported from Bucha, Ukraine. Robert Burns in Washington, Jill Lawless and Danica Kirka in London and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Upstate teen charged after school threat posted on social media
GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - A 15-year-old high school student was arrested after a threatening message was made toward a Greenville County school on social media. The Eastside High School student made threats toward students who showed up to school Friday, according to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office.
A spokesperson for Greenville County Schools said there is no evidence the student had the means to carry out the threat. Deputies did not find a weapon in his possession.
But out of an abundance of caution, additional law enforcement and district personnel will be at Eastside High all day.
In addition to being charged by the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, the student is being recommended for expulsion.
“The school has reassured students, staff and parents that we take all threats very seriously,” said district spokesperson Tim Waller. “They asked parents to remind their child that threatening posts, even if they are made as a joke, can have serious consequences. They also asked parents to remind their child that if see or hear anything of concern, they need to say something to a trusted adult.”
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VIDEO: Bystanders step in to help police stop attempted bank robbery
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) - A witness captured video of the moment police and bystanders stepped in to stop a man who was allegedly trying to rob a bank.
Honolulu police said they responded to the Bank of Hawaii in Pearl City around 1:30 p.m. Thursday for an attempted robbery call.
Kylee Sili had stopped by the bank on her lunch break when she saw the man apparently going behind the counter and harassing the tellers.
When police arrived, customers in the bank helped the officers detain the man and try to wrestle him down.
“So we went over there, and the uncle really helped. He immediately went to go help the cops take the guy down. There was another guy too, like another civilian guy. They were trying to take him down,” Sili said.
“The suspect was giving them a hard time, I don’t know what he was doing, what he was trying to do, trying to run.”
HNN has reached out to police for more information on the suspect and his charges.
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What’s passed and what hasn’t after key deadline at SC State House
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - With just over a month left in the second year of the current two-year legislative session, it’s a race to the finish at the South Carolina State House.
The end of this week marks the close of “crossover week” at the capital, the deadline by which bills have to pass one chamber and cross over the lobby to be considered in the other chamber.
If they did not beat that deadline, legislation has to receive two-thirds approval from the chamber in which they originated instead of just a simple majority, as they had before, so more partisan and controversial bills may not get through.
“Crossover is just kind of an arbitrary deadline to get things across, but there are a number of things that you do still want to finish up before we adjourn in early May,” Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, R – Edgefield, said. “So far, we’re still OK, but we’ll see how things work out by the end of the session.”
Among the bills that have passed in the Senate, medical marijuana legalization, the voucher-like “Education Scholarship Account” program to give families state money to send their children to private schools, a repeal of the hospital certificate of need process, and the bill to dissolve DHEC into two new cabinet-level agencies all crossed over and are now under consideration in the House.
In that chamber, election reform legislation and the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” prohibiting transgender girls and women from competing in girls’ and women’s sports at the middle, high school, and college levels in South Carolina, both were approved, along with the budget, which includes raises for state employees and to the state minimum salaries for teachers, plus tax cuts for most taxpayers. All those bills now lie with senators.
House Minority Leader Todd Rutherford, D – Richland, expects the House will spend significant time debating the medical marijuana bill, which just passed out of committee Thursday, once members return to the State House on April 19 after a week off ahead of Easter.
“There are people that have put up a thousand amendments to stop that. That’s going to take a long time to get through,” Rutherford said.
Two of the remaining five weeks in the session will likely be devoted to the budget in the Senate, according to Massey, who anticipates the House election reform legislation will also come up for debate as well.
“The last few weeks are really going to be chaotic. You’re trying to wrap up, get the agreements on everything in order to get them to the governor,” Massey said.
Among the legislation that did not get through in the House ahead of the crossover deadline were two controversial and much-discussed bills: One that would restrict what South Carolina schools can teach, including regarding race, and another that would require doctors disclose information about “abortion reversals” to patients getting an abortion, a procedure OB-GYNs have called unproven and potentially dangerous.
“It’s not necessarily a win overall because we know that those bills can still be taken up, but it does help to know that it’d be harder for them to take them up, knowing that they needed two-thirds,” Rutherford said.
If a bill does not make it to the governor’s desk by the end of the session in May, it dies and has to be re-filed at the beginning of next year, starting the legislative process over again.
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Will Smith gets 10-year Oscars ban for Chris Rock slap
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The motion picture academy on Friday banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars or any other academy event for 10 years following his slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards.
The move comes after a meeting of the academy’s Board of Governors to discuss a response to Smith’s actions.
“The 94th Oscars were meant to be a celebration of the many individuals in our community who did incredible work this past year; however, those moments were overshadowed by the unacceptable and harmful behavior we saw Mr. Smith exhibit on stage,” the academy said in a statement.
“I accept and respect the Academy’s decision,” Smith said in response. He pre-emptively resigned from the academy last week during the run-up to the meeting, calling his actions “shocking, painful, and inexcusable.”
Smith will keep the Oscar he won after the slap, and he will remain eligible to be nominated for and to win more of them in the 10-year period, though he can’t show up to accept them.
The academy also apologized for its handling of the situation and allowing Smith to stay and accept his best actor award for “King Richard.”
“During our telecast, we did not adequately address the situation in the room. For this, we are sorry,” the academy said. “This was an opportunity for us to set an example for our guests, viewers and our Academy family around the world, and we fell short — unprepared for the unprecedented.”
In a statement in the days following the Oscars, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony but refused.
But it’s not clear how the message was delivered to Smith or what form it took, and several media outlets reported that he was never formally told to leave the Dolby Theatre. The Los Angeles Times reported in a story Thursday that Oscars producer Will Packer told Smith: “Officially, we don’t want you to leave. We want you to stay.”
The ban means Smith will not be presenting one of the major awards at next year’s Oscars, as is tradition for the best actor winner.
The academy in its Friday statement also expressed “deep gratitude to Mr. Rock for maintaining his composure under extraordinary circumstances.”
The academy has not revoked Oscars from expelled members Harvey Weinstein or Roman Polanski.
With his resignation last week, Smith lost the ability to vote for nominees and winners. Smith has been nominated for four Oscars, winning once.
At the March 27 Academy Awards, Rock came out to present the best documentary award and made jokes about several attendees, including Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
“Jada, I love you. ‘G.I. Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see it,” Rock said.
Pinkett Smith, who has spoken publicly about her hair loss condition, alopecia, had a closely shaved head similar to that of Demi Moore in the 1997 movie.
Smith strode from his front-row seat on to the stage and smacked Rock, stunning the comedian, the theater crowd and viewers at home.
Many thought it was a planned gag set up by the show or the men themselves, but the seriousness of the situation set in after Smith returned to his seat and angrily twice shouted at Rock to “keep my wife’s name out your (expletive) mouth.”
Rock said he had no interest in pursuing charges when asked by police backstage.
Smith took the stage again less than hour later to accept his Oscar, tearfully apologizing to the academy but notably omitting any mention of Rock. He compared himself to Richard Williams, the man he played in “King Richard,” “a fierce defender of his family.”
Later that night, Smith danced with his trophy and his family and rapped along with his own songs in celebration of his win at the Vanity Fair post-Oscars party.
Rock has only briefly addressed the attack publicly, saying at one comedy concert in Boston this week that he was still “kind of processing what happened.”
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3 killed in Georgia gun range shooting; suspects not in custody
COWETA COUNTY, Ga. (WGCL/Gray News) – Three members of the same family were killed during a robbery at their family shooting range in Grantville, Georgia.
The robbery took place at the Lock Stock & Barrel shooting range sometime after 5:30 p.m. Friday, according to Grantville Police Department.
WGCL reported when police arrived, they found the range’s owner, his wife, and their grandson had been killed.
Police have identified the owner as Richard Hawk.
“Let’s keep Richard Hawk and Family in our prayers,” Grantville Police said in a Facebook post Saturday morning.
Grantville Police said approximately 40 guns and the security camera DVR were taken from the scene.
Both the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the ATF were called to help investigate the case. The Coweta County Sheriff’s Office is also assisting in the investigation.
Police are asking for the community’s help in gathering any information about the incident. They said anyone in the area who may have driven by the range between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Friday may have seen vehicles other than a white Ford dually truck and a black Ford Expedition.
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Accused shooter in Lady Gaga dog theft mistakenly freed
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A gunman accused of shooting and seriously wounding Lady Gaga’s dog walker and stealing her two French bulldogs was mistakenly released from jail and is being sought, authorities said Friday.
James Howard Jackson, 19, was facing an attempted murder charge when he was released from Los Angeles County’s jail on Wednesday “due to a clerical error,” the county Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.
The Major Crimes Bureau is working on finding him, the statement said.
Jackson is one of five people arrested in connection with the Feb. 24, 2021, attack in Hollywood. Prosecutors said Jackson and two other alleged gang members had driven around looking for expensive French bulldogs to steal, then spotted, tailed and robbed Ryan Fischer as he walked Lady Gaga’s dogs near Sunset Boulevard.
During a violent struggle, Fischer was hit, choked and then shot in an attack captured by the doorbell camera of a nearby home.
The camera recorded the dog walker screaming “Oh, my God! I’ve been shot!” and “Help me!” and “I’m bleeding out from my chest!”
Fischer lost part of a lung.
“While I’m deeply concerned at the events that led to his release, I’m confident law enforcement will rectify the error,” Fischer said in a statement obtained by KABC-TV. “I ask for Mr. Jackson to turn himself over to the authorities, so resolution to the crime committed against me runs its course, whatever the courts determine that outcome to be.”
The pop star’s dogs were returned two days later by a woman who claimed she had found them tied to a pole and asked about Lady Gaga’s offer of a $500,000 reward if the dogs were returned “no questions asked.” The singer was in Rome at the time filming a movie.
She’s charged with receiving stolen property and the father of another suspect is charged with helping him avoid arrest.
Jackson already had been charged in the attack and had pleaded not guilty when the county district attorney’s office filed a superceding indictment Tuesday charging him with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit a robbery and assault with a semiautomatic firearm.
The move was done “to speed up the legal process” and Jackson was arraigned Wednesday under a new case number, the DA’s office said in a statement.
“Mr. Jackson was subsequently released from custody by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. We are unsure as to why they did so,” the statement said.
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Amazon seeks to overturn union win, says vote was tainted
(AP) - Amazon is seeking to overturn the historic union victory at one of its New York City warehouses, arguing in a legal filing Friday that union organizers and the National Labor Relations Board acted in a way that tainted the results. It now wants to redo the election.
The e-commerce giant listed 25 objections in the filing obtained by The Associated Press, accusing organizers with the nascent Amazon Labor Union of intimidating workers to vote for the union, a claim an attorney representing the group has called “patently absurd.”
“The employees have spoken,” Eric Milner, the attorney, said Thursday in a statement after Amazon’s initial planned objections were made public in another legal filing. “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 workers, he said.
Warehouse workers in 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 last Friday.
In one objection, Amazon said organizers “intentionally created hostile confrontations in front of eligible voters,” by interrupting the mandatory meetings it held to persuade its employees to reject the union drive. In a filing released last week, the company disclosed it spent about $4.2 million last year on labor consultants.
In another objection, Amazon targeted organizers’ distribution of cannabis to workers, saying the labor board “cannot condone such a practice as a legitimate method of obtaining support for a labor organization.” New York legalized the recreational use of marijuana last year for those over 21.
The company had initially signaled it planned to challenge the election results based on a lawsuit the NLRB filed in March in which the board sought to force Amazon to reinstate a fired employee who was involved in the union drive.
The company pointed to the lawsuit in one of its objections filed Friday, saying the regional NLRB office that brought the suit “failed to protect the integrity and neutrality of its procedures,” and had created an impression of support for the union by seeking reinstatement for the former employee, Gerald Bryson.
“Based on the evidence we’ve seen so far, as set out in our objections, we believe that the actions of the NLRB and the ALU improperly suppressed and influenced the vote, and we think the election should be conducted again so that a fair and broadly representative vote can be had,” Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement.
Bryson was fired in the early days of the pandemic after leading a protest calling for the company to do more to protect workers against COVID-19. While off the job during the protest, Bryson got into a dispute with another worker and was later fired for violating Amazon’s vulgar-language policy, according to his attorney Frank Kearl.
The NLRB did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Its spokesperson, Kayla Blado, has previously said the independent agency has been authorized by Congress to enforce the National Labor Relations Act.
“All NLRB enforcement actions against Amazon have been consistent with that Congressional mandate,” she said.
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CNN: Trump Jr. text shows ideas to overturn 2020 election
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows two days after the 2020 presidential election with strategies for overturning the result if Trump’s father lost, CNN reported Friday.
The text was sent two days before Joe Biden was declared the winner, according to CNN. It reportedly laid out strategies that then-President Donald Trump’s team pursued in the following months as they disseminated misinformation about election fraud and pressured state and federal officials to assist in that effort.
The cable news network reported that Trump Jr.’s text made “specific reference to filing lawsuits and advocating recounts to prevent certain swing states from certifying their results.” It also suggested that if those measures didn’t work, lawmakers in Congress could dismiss the electoral results and vote to keep President Trump in office.
Trump Jr.’s lawyer Alan S. Futerfas, in a statement Friday to CNN, said: “After the election, Don received numerous messages from supporters and others. Given the date, this message likely originated from someone else and was forwarded.”
CNN said the Trump Jr. text had been obtained by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. In the last week, the committee has interviewed former President Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. Their virtual testimonies are the closest lawmakers have gotten to the former president.
Separately on Friday, Ali Alexander, a conservative activist who helped found the “Stop the Steal” movement, said he had received a subpoena to provide testimony to a federal grand jury as part of the Justice Department’s wide investigation into the insurrection.
In a statement through his attorney, Alexander said the subpoena was seeking information about the “Save America Rally” that was held at the Ellipse — hosted by the pro-Trump nonprofit organization called Women for America First — which thousands had attended before a surge of Trump supporters stormed into the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“I don’t believe I have information that will be useful to them but I’m cooperating as best I can further reiterating that I’m not a target because I did nothing wrong,” he said.
Alexander voluntarily appeared for hours in December before the House panel investigating the insurrection, providing congressional investigators with a slew of documents and information about his communications with lawmakers.
In court documents, Alexander’s lawyers have said he told congressional investigators that he remembers having “a few phone conversations” with Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., and had exchanged some text messages with Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., in the run-up to the Jan. 6 rallies.
“I did nothing wrong and I am not in possession of evidence that anyone else had plans to commit unlawful acts,” Alexander said. “I denounce anyone who planned to subvert my permitted event and the other permitted events of that day on Capitol grounds to stage any counterproductive activities.”
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Four families displaced after Columbia Gardens Apartments fire, severe damage reported
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - An apartment complex fire in Columbia is under control, according to the Columbia-Richland Fire Department.
The public information officer of the Columbia-Richland Fire Department, Mike DeSumma says a two-alarm fire has been confirmed at Columbia Gardens Apartments, located at 4000 Plowden Road, near the Jim Hamilton-L.B. Owens Airport.
Fire crews responded to the scene around 7:30 p.m. Friday, and upon arrival, a heavy fire was coming from the second floor of the building.
The heavy fire prompted officers to call for a second alarm to dispatch more units.
According to CRFD, the building has suffered significant damages but no injuries have been reported.
Fire officials say 15 people were displaced and about 50 firefighters were involved in the operation.
RIGHT NOW: @ColaFire 3rd Shift crews have been able to bring a massive 2-Alarm fire under control at Columbia Garden Apartments on Plowden Road.
— Columbia-Richland Fire Department (@ColaFire) April 9, 2022
Crews responded to the scene just before 7:40 p.m. Friday. pic.twitter.com/bN6TXRtyLq
The cause of the fire is under investigation at this time.
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GRAPHIC: More civilians flee east Ukraine after deadly station strike
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Civilian evacuations moved forward in patches of battle-scarred eastern Ukraine on Saturday, a day after a missile strike killed at least 52 people and wounded more than 100 at a train station where thousands clamored to leave before an expected Russian onslaught.
In the wake of the attack in Kramatorsk, several European leaders made efforts to show solidarity with Ukraine, with the Austrian chancellor and British prime minister visiting Kyiv — the capital city that Russia failed to capture and where troops retreated days ago. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, where Johnson’s office said they discussed Britain’s “long-term support.”
Ukrainian authorities have called on civilians to get out ahead of an imminent, stepped-up offensive by Russian forces in the east. With trains not running out of Kramatorsk on Saturday, panicked residents boarded buses or looked for other ways to leave, fearing the kind of unrelenting assaults and occupations by Russian invaders that delivered food shortages, demolished buildings and death to other cities elsewhere in Ukraine.
“It was terrifying. The horror, the horror,” one resident told British broadcaster Sky, recalling Friday’s attack. “Heaven forbid, to live through this again. No, I don’t want to.”
Ukraine’s state railway company said in a statement that residents of Kramatorsk and other parts of the country’s contested Donbas region could flee through other train stations. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 10 evacuation corridors were planned for Saturday.
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More than six weeks after Russia first invaded Ukraine, it has pulled its troops from the northern part of the country, around Kyiv, and refocused on the Donbas region in the east. Western military analysts said an arc of territory in eastern Ukraine was under Russian control, from Kharkiv — Ukraine’s second-largest city — in the north to Kherson in the south. But Ukrainian counterattacks are threatening Russian control of Kherson, according to the Western assessments, and Ukrainian forces are repelling Russian assaults elsewhere in the Donbas region in the southeast.
Zelenskyy called the train station attack the latest example of war crimes by Russian forces and said it should motivate the West to do more to help his country defend itself.
“All world efforts will be directed to establish every minute of who did what, who gave what orders, where the missile came from, who transported it, who gave the command and how this strike was agreed,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address, his voice rising in anger.
Russia denied it was responsible and accused Ukraine’s military of firing on the station to turn the blame for civilian casualties on Moscow. A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman detailed the missile’s trajectory and Ukrainian troop positions to bolster the argument.
Western experts and Ukrainian authorities insisted that Russia launched the weapon. Remnants of the rocket had the words “For the children” in Russian painted on it. The phrasing seemed to suggest the missile was sent to avenge the loss or subjugation of children, although its exact meaning remained unclear.
Western experts dismissed Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov’s assertion that Russian forces “do not use” Tochka-U missiles, the type that hit the Kramatorsk train station, which is in Ukrainian government-controlled territory in the Donbas.
The attack came as Ukrainian authorities worked to identify victims and document possible war crimes by Russian soldiers in northern Ukraine. The mayor of Bucha, a town near Kyiv where graphic evidence of civilian slayings emerged after the Russians withdrew, said search teams were still finding the bodies of people shot at close range in yards, parks and city squares.
On Friday, workers unearthed the bodies of 67 people from a mass grave near a church, according to Ukraine’s prosecutor general. Russia has falsely claimed that the scenes in Bucha were staged.
Ukrainian authorities and Western officials have repeatedly accused Russian forces of committing atrocities in the war that began with Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion. A total of 176 children have been killed, while 324 more have been wounded, the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office said Saturday.
In an excerpted interview with American broadcaster CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired Friday, Zelenskyy cited communications intercepted by the Ukrainian security service as evidence of Russian war crimes. The authenticity of the recordings could not be independently verified.
“There are (Russian) soldiers talking with their parents about what they stole and who they abducted. There are recordings of (Russian) prisoners of war who admitted to killing people,” he said. “There are pilots in prison who had maps with civilian targets to bomb. There are also investigations being conducted based on the remains of the dead.”
Ukrainian authorities have warned they expect to find more mass killings once they reach the southern port city of Mariupol, which is also in the Donbas and has been subjected to a monthlong blockade and intense fighting.
As journalists who had been largely absent from the city began to trickle back in, new images emerged of the devastation from an airstrike on a theater last month that reportedly killed hundreds of civilians seeking shelter.
Military analysts had predicted for weeks that Russia would succeed in taking Mariupol but said Ukrainian defenders were still putting up a fight. The city’s location on the Sea of Azov is critical to establishing a land bridge from the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine eight years ago.
Many civilians now trying to evacuate are accustomed to living in or near a war zone because Moscow-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian forces since 2014 in the Donbas.
The same week Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of areas controlled by the separatists and said he planned to send troops in to protect residents of the mostly Russian-speaking, industrial region.
Ukrainian officials have pleaded with Western powers almost daily to send more arms and to further punish Russia with sanctions, including the exclusion of Russian banks from the global financial system and a total European Union embargo on Russian gas and oil.
The deaths of civilians at the train station brought renewed expressions of outrage from Western leaders and pledges that Russia would face further reprisals for its actions in Ukraine. On Saturday, Russia’s Defense Ministry tried to counter the dominant international narrative by again raising the specter of Ukraine planting false flags and misinformation.
A ministry spokesman, Major Gen. Igor Konashenkov, alleged Ukraine’s security services were preparing a “cynical staged” media operation in Irpin, another town near Kyiv. Konashenkov said the plan was to show -- falsely, he said -- more civilian casualties at the hands of the Russians and to stage the slaying of a fake Russian intelligence team that intended to kill witnesses. The claims could not be independently verified.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said during a visit to Kyiv on Saturday that he expects more EU sanctions against Russia, but he defended his country’s opposition so far to cutting off deliveries of Russian gas.
A package of sanctions imposed this week “won’t be the last one,” the chancellor said, acknowledging that “as long as people are dying, every sanction is still insufficient.” Austria is militarily neutral and not a member of NATO.
Johnson’s visit, which was not announced in advance, came a day after the U.K. pledged an additional 100 million pounds ($130 million) in high-grade military equipment to Ukraine.
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Anna reported from Bucha, Ukraine. Robert Burns in Washington, Jill Lawless and Danica Kirka in London and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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High school student arrested for attempted murder, sexual assault of teacher, police say
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - A high school student was arrested after he reportedly attacked a teacher and assaulted her when the two were discussing his grades.
KVVU reports the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was called to Eldorado High School Thursday afternoon, where a teacher was injured.
Arriving officers were directed to a classroom where a female teacher was being treated by medical personnel for multiple injuries, police said.
According to the LVMPD, an investigation by the department’s Sexual Assault Section indicated that the teacher was in her classroom when a 16-year-old student entered to talk about his grades.
At some point, police say, the student got violent and began punching the teacher and strangled her until she lost consciousness.
Police said the student left the classroom after the attack, and another school employee later found the teacher.
Police were able to identify the student, and Clark County School District police officers took him into custody in a nearby neighborhood.
According to police, the 16-year-old was transported to the Clark County Detention Center and booked on charges that included attempted murder, sexual assault and robbery.
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Jackson, COVID and a retirement show Congress’ partisan path
WASHINGTON (AP) — A milestone Supreme Court confirmation that endured a flawed process. The collapse of a bipartisan compromise for more pandemic funds. The departure of a stalwart of the dwindling band of moderate House Republicans.
Party-line fights on Capitol Hill are as old as the republic, and they routinely escalate as elections approach. Yet three events from a notable week illustrate how Congress’ near- and long-term paths point toward intensifying partisanship.
THE SENATE’S SUPREME COURT BATTLE
Democrats rejoiced Thursday when the Senate by 53-47 confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black female justice. They crowed about a bipartisan stamp of approval from the trio of Republicans who supported it: Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah.
Yet by historical standards, the three opposition party votes were paltry and underscored the recent trend of Supreme Court confirmations becoming loyalty tests on party ideology. That’s a departure from a decades-long norm when senators might dislike a nominee’s judicial philosophy but defer to a president’s pick, barring a disqualifying revelation.
Murkowski said her support for Jackson was partly “rejection of the corrosive politicization” of how both parties consider Supreme Court nominations, which “is growing worse and more detached from reality by the year.”
Republicans said they would treat Jackson respectfully, and many did. Their questions and criticisms of her were pointed and partisan, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., saying “the Senate views itself as a co-partner in this process” with the president.
Yet some potential 2024 GOP presidential contenders seemed to use Jackson’s confirmation to woo hard-right support. Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., misleadingly accused her of being unusually lenient on child pornography offenders. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., suggested she might have defended Nazis at the Nuremburg trials after World War II, before she was born.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said some Republicans “went overboard, as far as I’m concerned, to the extreme,” reflecting “the reality of politics on Capitol Hill.” Cotton was “fundamentally unfair, but that is his tradition,” said Durbin.
SUPREME COURT BATTLES PAST
Senate approval of high court nominees by voice vote, without bothering to hold roll calls, was standard for most of the 20th century. Conservative Antonin Scalia sailed into the Supreme Court by 98-0 in 1986, while liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg won 96-3 approval seven years later.
There were bitter fights. Democrats blocked conservative Robert Bork’s nomination in 1987 and unsuccessfully opposed Clarence Thomas’ ascension in 1991 after he was accused of sexual harassment.
Hard feelings intensified in early 2016. McConnell, then majority leader, blocked the Senate from even considering President Barack Obama’s pick of Merrick Garland to replace the deceased Scalia. McConnell cited the presidential election nearly nine months away, infuriating Democrats.
Donald Trump was elected and ultimately filled three vacancies over near-unanimous Democratic opposition.
Democrats opposed Brett Kavanaugh after he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman decades earlier, which he denied. They voted solidly against Amy Coney Barrett after Trump and McConnell rushed through her nomination when a vacancy occurred just weeks before Election Day 2020, a sprint Democrats called hypocritical.
COVID SPENDING FIGHT, TRANSFORMED
Senators from both parties agreed to a $10 billion COVID-19 package Monday that President Joe Biden wants for more therapeutics, vaccines and tests. With BA.2, the new omicron variant, washing across the country, it seemed poised for congressional approval.
Hours later, bargainers led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, seemed blindsided when their compromise was derailed. Republicans wanted to add an extension of an expiring crackdown on migrants crossing the Mexican border that Trump imposed in 2020, citing the pandemic’s public health threat.
Many Republicans were skeptical that more COVID-19 money was necessary. But their demand for an immigration amendment transformed a fight over how much more to spend on a disease that’s killed 980,000 people in the U.S. into a battle over border security, tailor-made for GOP political campaigns ahead.
Immigration divides Democrats, and Republicans believe the issue can further solidify their chances of winning congressional control in November’s elections. Playing defense, Schumer postponed debate on the COVID-19 bill.
Democrats deserved some blame for being outmaneuvered. House Democrats shot down a $15 billion agreement in March, rejecting compromise budget savings to pay for it.
And in glaringly tone-deaf political timing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced April 1, just as bargainers were completing their latest compromise, that the Trump-era immigration curbs would lapse May 23.
That gave Republicans an irresistible political gift to pursue.
A MODERATE’S FAREWELL
Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., announced his retirement Tuesday. He’s the fourth of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump last year to say they won’t seek reelection.
Upton attributed his departure to running in a new district, but that didn’t stop Trump from proclaiming: “UPTON QUITS! 4 down and 6 to go.” The House impeached Trump over his incitement of supporters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but the GOP-run Senate acquitted him.
Now in his 18th term, Upton’s departure subtracts another moderate from a GOP that’s shifted rightward in recent years, particularly when it comes to showing fealty to Trump.
The pro-business Upton, 68, was a driving force on one law spurring pharmaceutical development and has worked with Democrats on legislation affecting energy and the auto industry. His bipartisan work and affability placed him in the ever-smaller group of Republicans who draw Democrats’ praise.
“To him, bipartisan and compromise are not forbidden words,” said Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich.
PARTY DIFFERENCES, THEN AND NOW
Pitched battles are now habitual over bills financing federal agencies and extending the government’s borrowing authority. When those disputes are resolved and federal shutdowns and defaults averted, lawmakers hail as triumphs what is their most rudimentary task — keeping government functioning.
Despite the divisions over COVID-19 money and Jackson, there has also been cooperation.
Congress overwhelmingly voted Thursday to ban Russian oil and downgrade trade relations with that country following its invasion of Ukraine. There’s progress on bipartisan trade and technology legislation, and a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure measure became law last year.
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Pair arrested in possession of drugs, stolen vehicles and neglected animals, police say
Published: Apr. 8, 2022 at 10:24 PM EDT|Updated: 14 hours ago
APOPKA, Fla. (Gray News) - Police in Florida said a tip led them to help rescue several neglected animals along with the arrest of two people.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said deputies in Apopka found 10 guns, one of which was stolen, over a pound of marijuana, three stolen vehicles, and 17 animals that were being mistreated when checking out a recent drug tip.
Deputies took two people into custody. The items and animals were recovered, according to police.
The sheriff’s office didn’t immediately release the identification of the two arrested.
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Police: Teen dies after boys shoot at each other while wearing body armor
BELLEVIEW, Fla. (Gray News) - A Florida teenager is dead and two others have been arrested after police said the boys took turns shooting at each other while wearing body armor.
The Belleview Police Department responded to a call of a shooting over the weekend at a house and found 16-year-old Christopher Leroy Broad Jr. shot inside of the home. He was transported to a hospital but died from his injuries.
Police said through their investigation they found 17-year-old Joshua Vining and Broad were taking turns shooting at each other while wearing a vest that contained a form of body armor. BPD Sgt. Michael Miley said Broad Jr. died after he was hit by a bullet fired by Vining, according to the evidence found.
On Thursday, police arrested Vining and 17-year-old Colton Whitler.
Vining was charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child with a firearm and Whitler was charged with providing false information to law enforcement, according to Belleview police.
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Steelers QB Dwayne Haskins killed in auto accident
(AP) - Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was killed in an auto accident Saturday in Florida.
Haskins’ agent, Cedric Saunders, told ESPN about the quarterback’s death, and the Steelers released a statement extending their condolences.
“I am devastated and at a loss for words with the unfortunate passing of Dwayne Haskins,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. “He quickly became part of our Steelers family upon his arrival in Pittsburgh and was one of our hardest workers, both on the field and in our community. Dwayne was a great teammate, but even more so a tremendous friend to so many. I am truly heartbroken.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Kalabrya, and his entire family during this difficult time.”
The 24-year-old Haskins was selected by Washington in the first round of the 2019 draft out of Ohio State. He started seven games as a rookie, going 2-5. He was 1-5 in six starts the next season for the team, then was released.
Washington coach Ron Rivera said he was “absolutely heartbroken” to learn of Haskins’ death.
“Dwayne was a talented young man who had a long life ahead of him,” Rivera said in a release. “This is a very sad time and I am honestly at a loss for words. I know I speak for the rest of our team in saying he will be sorely missed. Our entire team is sending our heartfelt condolences and thoughts and prayers to the Haskins family at this time.”
Ohio State posted a photo of Haskins on its Twitter feed. It read: “Leader. Legend. Forever a Buckeye.”
The Steelers gave Haskins a chance to resurrect his career in January 2021 when they signed him a month after being released by Washington. Humbled by the decision, Haskins stressed he was eager to work hard and absorb as much as he could from Ben Roethlisberger and Mason Rudolph. He made the roster as the third-stringer but only dressed once, serving as the backup in a tie with Detroit after Roethlisberger was placed into the COVID-19 protocol the night before the game.
“The world lost a great person today,” Steelers star T.J. Watt posted on Twitter. “When Dwayne first walked into the locker room I could tell he was an upbeat guy. He was always making people smile, never taking life for granted.”
Tomlin and general manager Kevin Colbert both praised Haskins for his improvement since joining the team, and the Steelers re-signed him to a one-year deal as a restricted free agent in March. He was expected to compete with Rudolph and Mitch Trubisky for a spot.
“We’re excited to see what Dwayne can provide, either from competition, or maybe he evolves as a starter,” Colbert said in January.
Haskins appeared to be working in South Florida this week with several teammates, including Trubisky and other skill position players, including running back Najee Harris and tight end Pat Freiermuth.
“Devastated,” Rudolph said on social media.
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NFL quarterback Dwayne Haskins dies in South Florida
Published: Apr. 9, 2022 at 12:11 PM EDT|Updated: 19 minutes ago
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins, 24, died when he was struck by a vehicle Saturday morning in South Florida, his agent Cedric Saunders told ESPN.
Haskins was in South Florida training, according to ESPN.
Haskins played for Ohio State, was selected by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft and was released after less than two seasons.
He signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2020.
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Vehicle collides with food truck in Austin, Texas; 11 hurt
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Eleven people were injured in a “major collision” Friday night in Austin, Texas, involving pedestrians and two vehicles, one of which hit a food truck, authorities said.
Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services tweeted that two of the victims sustained potential life-threatening injuries. Seven others sustained non-life-threatening injuries requiring medical evaluation. The other two didn’t require hospitalization.
The collision occurred in a popular area near downtown Austin where there are frequently several food carts stationed.
Jennifer Dunn, an employee at a nearby restaurant, told The Associated Press that a group of 25 people had just left to get ice cream at a food truck a few feet away when patrons inside the restaurant heard a loud boom.
Dunn said several members of the group then ran back inside injured and asking for help. Dunn said she and others ran to the scene where several people, including the drivers, appeared severely hurt.
“We work in the restaurant industry, so we are used to helping,” Dunn said. “I have been doing this for a long (time), so have the servers and we just wanted to help.”
Austin is the Texas state capital and home to the flagship campus of the University of Texas.
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Steelers QB Dwayne Haskins killed in auto accident
(AP) - Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was killed in an auto accident Saturday in Florida.
Haskins’ agent, Cedric Saunders, told ESPN about the quarterback’s death, and the Steelers released a statement extending their condolences.
“I am devastated and at a loss for words with the unfortunate passing of Dwayne Haskins,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. “He quickly became part of our Steelers family upon his arrival in Pittsburgh and was one of our hardest workers, both on the field and in our community. Dwayne was a great teammate, but even more so a tremendous friend to so many. I am truly heartbroken.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Kalabrya, and his entire family during this difficult time.”
The 24-year-old Haskins was selected by Washington in the first round of the 2019 draft out of Ohio State. He started seven games as a rookie, going 2-5. He was 1-5 in six starts the next season for the team, then was released.
Washington coach Ron Rivera said he was “absolutely heartbroken” to learn of Haskins’ death.
“Dwayne was a talented young man who had a long life ahead of him,” Rivera said in a release. “This is a very sad time and I am honestly at a loss for words. I know I speak for the rest of our team in saying he will be sorely missed. Our entire team is sending our heartfelt condolences and thoughts and prayers to the Haskins family at this time.”
Ohio State posted a photo of Haskins on its Twitter feed. It read: “Leader. Legend. Forever a Buckeye.”
The Steelers gave Haskins a chance to resurrect his career in January 2021 when they signed him a month after being released by Washington. Humbled by the decision, Haskins stressed he was eager to work hard and absorb as much as he could from Ben Roethlisberger and Mason Rudolph. He made the roster as the third-stringer but only dressed once, serving as the backup in a tie with Detroit after Roethlisberger was placed into the COVID-19 protocol the night before the game.
“The world lost a great person today,” Steelers star T.J. Watt posted on Twitter. “When Dwayne first walked into the locker room I could tell he was an upbeat guy. He was always making people smile, never taking life for granted.”
Tomlin and general manager Kevin Colbert both praised Haskins for his improvement since joining the team, and the Steelers re-signed him to a one-year deal as a restricted free agent in March. He was expected to compete with Rudolph and Mitch Trubisky for a spot.
“We’re excited to see what Dwayne can provide, either from competition, or maybe he evolves as a starter,” Colbert said in January.
Haskins appeared to be working in South Florida this week with several teammates, including Trubisky and other skill position players, including running back Najee Harris and tight end Pat Freiermuth.
“Devastated,” Rudolph said on social media.
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LEESBURG, Va., April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Armfield, Harrison & Thomas, LLC ("AHT Insurance"), a subsidiary of BRP Group, Inc. ("BRP Group" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: BRP), is pleased to announce the addition of Chris Balch to the leadership team as Managing Director of AHT Insurance's Commercial Risk Management Group.
As Managing Director, Balch will lead and manage the Commercial Risk Management Group to assure client satisfaction and firm profitability, as well as perpetuate the planning, organizing, staffing, operational, and business development activities for the group.
Chris brings more than 17 years of commercial risk management and underwriting experience to AHT Insurance. Prior to joining AHT Insurance, Chris served as Regional Vice President at The Hartford, where he led the Middle Market Guaranteed Cost businesses for the Washington, DC metro area. The various leadership positions he has held at The Hartford demonstrate his dedication to client satisfaction, firm and peer growth, and positive industry progression. Chris has been closely aligned with AHT Insurance and its colleagues for the past 13 years to help ensure the most positive placements and outcomes for their clients.
"We are excited to bring Chris' talent and industry relationships from his career with our longstanding, respected partner, The Hartford, to our clients and internal colleagues at AHT Insurance. His strong leadership, client-first approach, and focus on accelerative business strategy will help ensure continued client success – which translates into AHT Insurance's success," said David Schaefer, Regional President, AHT Insurance.
"I am honored to join this dynamic and successful team at AHT Insurance, as well as the Baldwin Risk Partners Middle Market Group. I am thrilled to be a part of this next chapter for AHT Insurance and to help shape the future for the firm, its colleagues, and our clients," says Chris Balch, Managing Director, Commercial Risk Management.
ABOUT AHT INSURANCE
AHT Insurance is an insurance brokerage and consulting firm offering property and casualty, employee benefits, retirement, personal and international services for clients throughout the United States. We support numerous industries and boast national recognition for practices in areas, such as technology, manufacturing, government contracting and nonprofits. Learn more at www.ahtins.com.
ABOUT BRP GROUP, INC.
BRP Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRP) is an independent insurance distribution firm delivering tailored insurance and risk management insights and solutions that give our clients the peace of mind to pursue their purpose, passion and dreams. We are innovating the industry by taking a holistic and tailored approach to risk management, insurance and employee benefits, and support our clients, Colleagues, Insurance Company Partners and communities through the deployment of vanguard resources and capital to drive our growth. BRP Group represents over 900,000 clients across the United States and internationally. For more information, please visit www.baldwinriskpartners.com.
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Factors that could cause actual results or performance to differ from the expectations expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those described under the caption "Risk Factors" in BRP Group's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and in BRP Group's other filings with the SEC, which are available free of charge on the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at: www.sec.gov, including those risks and other factors relevant to the business, financial condition and results of operations of BRP Group and factors related to the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on BRP Group's business, financial condition and results of operations. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those indicated. All forward-looking statements and all subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to BRP Group or to persons acting on behalf of BRP Group are expressly qualified in their entirety by reference to these risks and uncertainties. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and BRP Group does not undertake any obligation to update them in light of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable law.
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RENO, Nev., April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AMERCO (Nasdaq: UHAL), the parent of U-Haul International, Inc., Oxford Life Insurance Company, Repwest Insurance Company and Amerco Real Estate Company, on April 6, 2022, declared a special cash dividend on its Common Stock of $0.50 per share. The dividend will be payable April 29, 2022 to holders of record on April 18, 2022.
About AMERCO
AMERCO is the parent company of U-Haul International, Inc., Oxford Life Insurance Company, Repwest Insurance Company and Amerco Real Estate Company. U-Haul is in the shared use business and was founded on the fundamental philosophy that the division of use and specialization of ownership is good for both U-Haul customers and the environment.
About U-Haul
Since 1945, U-Haul has been the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself movers, with a network of more than 23,000 locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. Our customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to approximately 176,000 trucks, 126,000 trailers and 46,000 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in North America and offers over 855,000 rentable storage units and 73.6 million square feet of self-storage space at owned and managed facilities. U-Haul is the largest retailer of propane in the U.S., and continues to be the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry.
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DUBLIN, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm, plans to announce first quarter 2022 results on Friday, April 29th, 2022 in a news release to be issued at 5:00 am Central Time. Greg Case, CEO, will host a conference call at 7:30 am Central Time on Friday, April 29th, 2022. The conference call will be broadcast live through Aon's website at www.aon.com. A replay will be available shortly after the live webcast. The earnings release and supplemental slide presentation will be available on Aon's web site at www.aon.com.
Aon plc (NYSE: AON) exists to shape decisions for the better — to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. Our colleagues provide our clients in over 120 countries with advice and solutions that give them the clarity and confidence to make better decisions to protect and grow their business.
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MEXICO CITY, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: ASR; BMV: ASUR) (ASUR), a leading international airport group with operations in Mexico, the U.S. and Colombia, announces that its annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021, has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is available on ASUR's website, www.asur.com.mx.
Investors can receive a printed copy of the report free of charge by calling The Bank of New York Mellon at 1-212-815-2838.
About ASUR
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. (ASUR) is a leading international airport operator with a portfolio of concessions to operate, maintain and develop 16 airports in the Americas. This comprises nine airports in southeast Mexico, including Cancun Airport, the most important tourist destination in Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America, and six airports in northern Colombia, including Medellin international airport (Rio Negro), the second busiest in Colombia. ASUR is also a 60% JV partner in Aerostar Airport Holdings, LLC, operator of the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport serving the capital of Puerto Rico, San Juan. San Juan's Airport is the island's primary gateway for international and mainland-US destinations and was the first, and currently the only major airport in the US to have successfully completed a public–private partnership under the FAA Pilot Program. Headquartered in Mexico, ASUR is listed both on the Mexican Bolsa, where it trades under the symbol ASUR, and on the NYSE in the U.S., where it trades under the symbol ASR. One ADS represents ten (10) series B shares. For more information, visit www.asur.com.mx.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bank of America Corporation today announced the Board of Directors has authorized regular cash dividends on the outstanding shares or depositary shares of the following series of preferred stock:
Bank of America is one of the world's leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 67 million consumer and small business clients with approximately 4,200 retail financial centers, approximately 16,000 ATMs, and award-winning digital banking with more than 54 million verified digital users. Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to approximately 3 million small business households through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations across the United States, its territories and approximately 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange
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BOSTON, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boston Architectural College (BAC) announces the launching of its newest video venture, BAC Channel with Mahesh Daas. This ongoing program will offer a series of exclusive, insightful, and one-on-one conversations between President Mahesh Daas and thought leaders from around the design professions and related industries.
Each episode aligns with the BAC's critical mission to diversify the design professions through expanded access to excellence in design education. Another key program goal includes increasing awareness of the design discipline to advance design literacy within the public sphere.
The BAC is honored to kick-off its inaugural episode of BAC Channel with Mahesh Daas by featuring Professor Balkrishna Doshi—India's first and only Pritzker prize winning architect, educator, guru, and the BAC's 2021 honorary alumnus. As President Daas noted, "While the number of his projects might be measurable, the impact of his influence is immeasurable."
In this first episode, which was filmed during the height of the global pandemic, Professor Doshi and President Daas speak candidly about his life and career spanning nine decades, discussing design education, theory, rituals, space, architecture as well as the immense impact on our global structures and society during a global pandemic.
Watch this unique conversation during the inaugural launch of BAC Channel with Mahesh Daas—experience a candid discussion, and delve into the prodigious life of a leading architect, guru, and educator of our time, Professor Balkrishna Doshi.
Stay tuned for more information on upcoming episodes of BAC Channel with Mahesh Daas by visiting our website.
Dr. Mahesh Daas, ACSA Distinguished Professor, serves as the eighth president of The Boston Architectural College. President Daas is the author of two books, Leading with Aesthetics: The Transformational Leadership of President Charles M. Vest at M.I.T. (2015, 2019) as well as co-edited volume Towards A Robotic Architecture (2018). He also serves as the current Chancellor of the ACSA College of Distinguished Professors and on the editorial board of Construction Robotics Journal. Boston Magazine hailed "The BAC's Mahesh Daas is on a Mission to Reinvent Design Education."
Founded in 1889, The Boston Architectural College (BAC) is an internationally recognized institution with a diverse student and alumni population representing more than 54 countries. Providing excellence in practice-integrated design education, the BAC was Ranked #1 for Best Graduate School for Earning Potential and #4 for Best Architecture School Offering Bachelor's Degrees in the U.S. in 2020 by GradReports. The BAC offers bachelor and graduate degrees in architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, design studies as well as offering continuing education certificates and courses. The BAC upholds the importance of inclusive admission, diversity, innovation, dedicated faculty, and the intrinsic value of both academic and experiential education.
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VANCOUVER, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- City Office REIT, Inc. (NYSE: CIO) ("City Office" or the "Company") announced today it will release its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, before the market opens on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
City Office's management will hold a conference call at 11:00 am Eastern Time on May 5, 2022 to discuss the Company's financial results. Additionally, a supplemental financial package to accompany the discussion of the results will be posted on www.cioreit.com.
Webcast
Click on the webcast link under the "Investor Relations" section of the Company's website at www.cioreit.com.
Telephone Conference Call
Domestic: 1-844-200-6205
International: 1-929-526-1599
Passcode: 486178
Please dial in at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start time.
Conference Call Replay
Domestic: 1-866-813-9403
International: 44-204-525-0658
Passcode: 308413
A replay of the call will be available later in the day on May 5, 2022, continuing through August 3, 2022. A replay will also be available at "Webcasts & Events" in the "Investor Relations" section of the Company's website.
About City Office REIT, Inc.
City Office REIT is an internally-managed real estate company focused on acquiring, owning and operating high-quality office properties located in leading 18-hour cities in the Southern and Western United States. City Office currently owns or has a controlling interest in 6.2 million square feet of office properties. The Company has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
Contact
City Office REIT, Inc.
Anthony Maretic, CFO
+1-604-806-3366
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The US Department of Health and Human Services has engaged Coforma's Health+™ program to surface the lived experiences of people with Long COVID to guide the co-creation of innovative solutions.
WASHINGTON, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health (OASH) has selected Coforma and prime contract partner INSI Cloud to leverage Coforma's Health+™ program in support of the agency's goal to understand the lived experiences and needs of people impacted by Long COVID and facilitate the identification and implementation of innovative solutions to increase their quality of care and life.
During the pandemic, people with COVID-19, from all backgrounds and communities, began reporting symptoms lasting or fluctuating beyond three weeks, sometimes with disabling consequences. These 'long haulers' reported a variety of symptoms—long-term effects of the COVID-19 infection which have come to be known, collectively, as 'Long COVID.'
Health+™ uses an agile approach to navigate the complex healthcare space and apply human-centered design and research to uncover opportunities to leverage insights around lived experiences, cross-discipline knowledge, and strategic partnerships to identify and co-create effective solutions to high-impact health issues .
"The people and communities impacted by Long COVID are at the forefront of this effort. Our research will be done in careful consideration of the fact that preliminary studies show there are specific populations and communities uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19 and to experiencing Long COVID–often influenced by social determinants of health, such as poverty, and by structural inequities, such as racism and discrimination. We're honored to collaborate meaningfully with HHS and the OASH to involve Long COVID patients and patient-advocates in the surfacing of data-informed, high-impact solutions," said Ashleigh Axios, CXO and co-owner of Coforma.
About Health+™: Health+™ ("health plus") is a trademarked and proprietary program developed by Coforma in 2019, which applies human-centered design and research to cultivate solutions to the most pressing challenges in the healthcare sector. Recent, for-service cycles of the program were run on behalf of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and their partners at Howard University and the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation around Sickle Cell disease and Lyme disease. Learn more about Health+™ at "https://healthplusprogram.io"healthplusprogram.io..
Contact: Angela Hopkins, angela@coforma.io, 303-968-0349
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CALGARY, AB, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Crescent Point Energy Corp. ("Crescent Point" or the "Company") (TSX: CPG) (NYSE: CPG) is pleased to announce that Mindy Wight will stand for election as an independent director to the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") at the upcoming Annual General Meeting ("AGM") on May 19, 2022.
"We are pleased to welcome Mindy to Crescent Point and believe she will be an invaluable addition given her extensive financial knowledge and range of experiences," said Barbara Munroe, Chair of the Board. "Beyond her career as an accounting professional, Mindy has also been a leader in advancing economic growth for Indigenous communities."
Ms. Wight specializes in financial accounting, taxation and business development and holds significant cross-industry experience. She currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and Board Treasurer of the Nch'kay Development Corporation. Most recently, Ms. Wight was a partner and tax specialist with the accounting and advisory firm MNP LLP and also worked closely with companies in the energy sector during her time with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Ms. Wight received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Northern British Columbia and holds CPA and CA designations. Ms. Wight is also active in her local community and was an Advisory Committee member for the Squamish Nation.
In conjunction with Ms. Wight's nomination, the Company also announces that Laura Cillis will not be standing for re-election at the 2022 AGM. Ms. Cillis has been a member of Crescent Point's Board since 2014. Upon her departure, the Board will have fully renewed since 2016.
"On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Laura for her significant contributions and oversight over the past several years," said Munroe. "Her thoughtful and strategic leadership has been beneficial in Crescent Point's ongoing corporate development. We wish Laura the best in her future endeavours."
Crescent Point is committed to fostering diversity and inclusion within its Board, ensuring strong governance and stewardship through a broad range of skillsets and perspectives. Should Ms. Wight be elected as a director, Crescent Point's Board will remain comprised of 33% independent directors being female.
For more information on Crescent Point's Board and upcoming AGM, please visit the Company's website at www.crescentpointenergy.com.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON CRESCENT POINT ENERGY, PLEASE CONTACT:
Shant Madian, Vice President, Capital Markets, or
Sarfraz Somani, Manager, Investor Relations
Telephone: (403) 693-0020 Toll-free (US and Canada): 888-693-0020 Fax: (403) 693-0070
Address: Crescent Point Energy Corp. Suite 2000, 585 - 8th Avenue S.W. Calgary AB T2P 1G1
Crescent Point shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CPG.
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CHICAGO, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
The following table sets forth the estimated amounts of the current distribution, payable April 11, 2022 to shareholders of record March 31, 2022, together with the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year-to-date (YTD) from the following sources. The fiscal year is November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2022. All amounts are expressed per share of common stock based on U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, which may differ from federal income tax regulations.
The Fund will issue a separate 19(a) notice at the time of each monthly distribution using the most current financial information available. You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's managed distribution plan.
The Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with "yield" or "income."
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this notice are only estimates and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of the fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund or your broker will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.
* Simple arithmetic average of each of the past five annual returns.
DNP Select Income Fund Inc. (NYSE: DNP) is a closed-end diversified investment management company. The Fund's primary investment objectives are current income and long-term growth of income. The Fund seeks to achieve these objectives by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of equity and fixed income securities of companies in the public utilities industry. For more information, visit the Fund's website at www.dpimc.com/dnp or call the Fund at (800) 864-0629.
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TORONTO, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Electra Battery Materials Corporation (TSXV: ELBM) (OTCQX: ELBM) ("Electra") today announced the filing of its audited financial results for the year ended December 31, 2021.
For complete details of the consolidated financial statements and the associated management's discussion and analysis, please refer to the Company's filing on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) or the Company's website (www.electrabmc.com).
The Company continues to advance its plans to develop North America's only Battery Materials Park. In line with phase one of the Company's strategic plan, Electra remains on schedule to commission its expanded refinery in December 2022, at which time it will become the first refiner of battery-grade cobalt sulfate in North America and the second largest outside of China.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Cash of C$58.6 million as of December 31, 2021.
- Closing of an additional US$7.5 million of additional convertible notes in October 2022 on the same terms as the first tranche of convertible notes that closed on September 2, 2021.
- Refinery capital costs committed of C$38 million (inclusive of C$12 million spent to date), representing 46% of the total capital budget. The solvent extraction design and manufacturing contract was awarded to Metso-Outotec during the fourth quarter.
- Receipt of final approvals for the Refinery's Air and Noise permit, Industrial Sewage Works permit, and closure plan.
The Company launched a new at-the-market equity program (the "2022 ATM Program") in January 2022 for the issuance of up to $20 million in common shares from treasury. The Company has issued a total of 2,754,300 common shares under the 2022 ATM Program at an average price of $0.2964 per share, providing gross proceeds of $816,243. A commission of $20,406 was paid to CIBC Capital Markets in relation to these distributions.
Electra is planning to build a fully integrated, localized and environmentally sustainable battery materials park. Leveraging the Company's own mining assets and business partners, the Electra Battery Materials Park is expected to host cobalt and nickel sulfate production plants, a large-scale lithium-ion battery recycling facility, and battery precursor materials production, which will serve both North American and global customers. Electra also owns the advanced exploration-stage Iron Creek cobalt-copper project in Idaho, USA. Electra Battery Materials is an integral part of the North American battery supply chain, providing low-carbon, sustainable and traceable raw materials for the region's fast growing electric vehicle industry.
On behalf of Electra Battery Materials.
Trent Mell
Chief Executive Officer
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WASHINGTON, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Board Chair Sheila C. Bair has announced her decision to resign effective May 1, and that the Board has unanimously elected Michael J. Heid to succeed her. In addition, the Board has appointed company President David C. Benson to the additional role of Interim Chief Executive Officer and Board member, effective May 1, 2022, subject to final Federal Housing Finance Agency approval. He will succeed CEO Hugh R. Frater, who has also announced his decision to retire and resign from the Board.
"I've been privileged to serve this institution and its dedicated employees as we have remained relentlessly focused on the needs of homeowners and renters through a pandemic, tumultuous market conditions, and a transition in Administrations," said outgoing Chair Bair. "Unfortunately, I have found it difficult to meet the substantial time demands of this position while fulfilling my other Board and advisory responsibilities. I am very proud of this organization's many innovations to promote sustainable homeownership, including streamlined refinancings for low-income households, use of rental data in underwriting, and a more progressive fee structure. I am deeply appreciative of Hugh Frater's leadership over the past 3.5 years. He has provided stellar service and will be sorely missed. But Fannie Mae will be in good hands going forward. Mike Heid will be outstanding as the next Chair of Fannie Mae, as will Dave Benson as our interim CEO. Mike's expertise in housing finance, combined with his leadership as Chair of the Community Responsibility and Sustainability Committee, make him the right person to continue and build on our mission work. And Dave's steady hand will help guide the enterprise into the next chapter of its history, as we transition to new leadership to meet the challenges that lie ahead."
"Sheila has distinguished herself by her hard work, intelligence and above all else her passion for Fannie Mae's important mission. We thank her for her dedicated service and wish her well in her future endeavors," said Hugh Frater, outgoing Chief Executive Officer. "I also want to welcome Mike Heid as our new Chair and Dave Benson as my successor. Mike brings unrivaled knowledge of the mortgage markets, and commitment to our mission, vision, and leadership as we continue to provide equitable and sustainable access to affordable homeownership and rental housing. When I became CEO in 2019, I committed to the Board I would remain for three years, and it has been the privilege of a lifetime to lead this organization. Given the strides we have made on so many fronts, this is the right time to transition to a new CEO. Dave knows this company better than anyone else and will provide outstanding leadership, together with our new Board Chair Mike Heid, as the entire enterprise works together to build a more sustainable housing finance market that better serves people across America."
"I am honored to be selected as Chair of this outstanding Board and grateful to Sheila and Hugh for their phenomenal leadership during these unprecedented times. This is a pivotal time for Fannie Mae, and I look forward to working with Dave, the exceptional Fannie Mae team, and with my colleagues on the Board in service of homeowners and renters across the country," said Michael Heid, incoming Chair of the Board.
Heid served as Executive Vice President (Home Lending) of Wells Fargo & Company from 1997 to his retirement in January 2016. He served in a number of positions at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, the mortgage banking division of Wells Fargo, including as president from 2011 to September 2015, as co-president from 2004 to 2011, and earlier as chief financial officer and head of Loan Servicing. Heid was employed by Wells Fargo or its predecessors since 1988. He also currently serves on the Board of Roosevelt Management Company and the Advisory Board for Home Partners of America and Promontory MortgagePath.
David Benson is currently Fannie Mae's President responsible for leading the development and execution of the strategic plan for the organization, as well as leading the Single-Family and Multifamily businesses, and will continue in that role. He has served in a number of executive positions during his 20 years at Fannie Mae, including as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He also serves on the Board of Managers of Common Securitization Solutions, a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac joint venture.
The Board of Directors also announced that it plans to conduct a national search for a permanent CEO.
Separately, Fannie Mae also announced the resignation of Antony Jenkins from the Board, effective May 1, 2022, who also cited time commitments as the reason for his departure. Outgoing Board Chair Sheila Bair commented, "I would also like to thank Antony Jenkins for his leadership and contributions to the Board. His background as a top financial executive, combined with his unrivaled expertise in financial technology, have been hugely beneficial to the enterprise."
Bair is the former Chair of the FDIC and Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, who serves as a Board member or advisor to several companies and nonprofits. She joined the Board in August 2019 and became Chair in November 2020. Jenkins is the founder and Executive Chair of 10xFuture Technologies, after having served in top banking positions, including CEO of Barclays PLC. He joined the Board in July 2018.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First Horizon Corporation (NYSE: FHN) announced today that, in light of the proposed transaction with TD Bank Group, it now plans to release first quarter financial results on April 19, 2022 after the close of the market. The earnings materials will be available on the FHN website at ir.firsthorizon.com under Events and Presentations. FHN also noted that management no longer plans to conduct conference calls in reference to the earnings materials.
About First Horizon
First Horizon Corp. (NYSE: FHN), with $89.1 billion in assets as of December 31, 2021, is a leading regional financial services company, dedicated to helping our clients, communities and associates unlock their full potential with capital and counsel. Headquartered in Memphis, TN, the banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank operates in 12 states across the southern U.S. The Company and its subsidiaries offer commercial, private banking, consumer, small business, wealth and trust management, retail brokerage, capital markets, fixed income, mortgage, and title insurance services. First Horizon has been recognized as one of the nation's best employers by Fortune and Forbes magazines and a Top 10 Most Reputable U.S. Bank. More information is available at www.FirstHorizon.com.
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Celebrating two decades of exceptional patient care
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla., April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Medical Clinic is proud to announce an exciting milestone with the 20th anniversary of Dr. Joseph Cozzolino. Dr. Cozzolino opened our Wesley Chapel location in 2002 and has expanded the practice with the growing community. In addition to two decades of patient care, Dr. Cozzolino is celebrating his seventh year as a Board Member at Florida Medical Clinic.
Dr. Cozzolino trained at Albany Medical College in New York and completed his residency at Cone Memorial Hospital in North Carolina. He served in the Air Force as an active-duty physician for four years. These military years were not only formative for Dr. Cozzolino but instrumental in shaping his outlook on patient care and how he would give back to the military community throughout his career.
Dr. Cozzolino has spent the past 20 years providing high-quality healthcare that puts the patient first. He has a particular interest in basic dermatology, including skin cancer screening and basic dermatological procedures. He also focuses on preventing cardiovascular disease through optimal hypertensive and diabetes management. He has earned the trust of his patients who highlight his compassion and consistent professionalism.
When asked about his anniversary, Dr. Cozzolino said, "I want to thank my patients in Wesley Chapel for embracing me as their physician. It's been my pleasure serving their healthcare needs and journeying with them over the years. I hope to serve for many years more alongside my partners, Drs. Santoscoy, Burton, White and Stanton."
When Dr. Cozzolino is outside of the office, he focuses on spending time with his wife and children and improving his golf game.
To make an appointment with Dr. Cozzolino in either Wiregrass or Wesley Chapel, contact his office at (813) 994.1286.
In 1993, Florida Medical Clinic founders set their sights on one idea: to provide a better way to organize and deliver high-quality and cost-effective health care to the community. Florida Medical Clinic is proud to include over 380 providers and nearly 2,000 employees in more than 50 locations across Florida's East Pasco and Hillsborough counties. Facilities include two urgent care clinics and three ambulatory surgery centers. Florida Medical Clinic doctors offer care in more than 40 different medical specialties.
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