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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A police officer armed with a rifle watched the gunman in the Uvalde elementary school massacre walk toward the campus but did not fire while waiting for permission from a supervisor to shoot, according to a sweeping critique released Wednesday on the tactical response to the May tragedy.
Some of the 21 victims at Robb Elementary School, including 19 children, possibly “could have been saved” on May 24 had they received medical attention sooner while police waited more than an hour before breaching the fourth-grade classroom, a review by a training center at Texas State University for active shooter situations found.
The report is yet another damning assessment of how police failed to act on opportunities that might have saved lives in what became the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
“A reasonable officer would have considered this an active situation and devised a plan to address the suspect,” read the report published by the university’s Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training program.
Authors of the 26-page report said their findings were based off video taken from the school, police body cameras, testimony from officers on the scene and statements from investigators. Among their findings:
— It appeared that no officer waiting in the hallway during the shooting ever tested to see if the door to the classroom was locked. The head of Texas’ state police agency has also faulted officers on the scene for not checking the doors.
— The officers had “weapons (including rifles), body armor (which may or may not have been rated to stop rifle rounds), training, and backup. The victims in the classrooms had none of these things.”
— When officers finally entered the classroom at 12:50 p.m. — more than an hour after the shooting began — they were no better equipped to confront the gunman than they had been up to that point.
— “Effective incident command” never appears to have been established among the multiple law enforcement agencies that responded to the shooting.
The gunman, an 18-year-old with an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle, entered the building at 11:33 a.m. Before that a Uvalde police officer, who the report did not identify, saw the gunman carrying a rife toward the west hall entrance. The officer asked a supervisor for permission to open fire, but the supervisor “either did not hear or responded too late,” the report said.
When the officer turned back toward the gunman, he already gone inside “unabated,” according to the report.
The officer was 148 yards away from the door, which the report said was within the range of his rifle, and allegedly said he was concerned that an errant shot could have penetrated the school and injured students inside.
“Ultimately, the decision to use deadly force always lies with the officer who will use the force. If the officer was not confident that he could both hit his target and of his backdrop if he missed, he should not have fired,” the report read.
The report is one of multiple fact-finding reviews launched in the aftermath of the worst school shooting in Texas history.
A committee formed by Texas legislators has also interviewed more than 20 people, including officers who were on the scene, behind closed doors for several weeks. On Wednesday, the committee said Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco has refused to meet with them and sent a letter trying to compel his testimony. Nolasco did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
It follows testimony last month in which Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told the state Senate that the police response was an “abject failure.” He pinned particular blame on Chief Pete Arredondo, saying that as on-scene commander the Uvalde schools police chief made “terrible decisions” and stopped officers from confronting the gunman earlier.
Arredondo has tried to defend his actions, telling the Texas Tribune that he didn’t consider himself the commander in charge of operations and that he assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response. He said he didn’t have his police and campus radios but that he used his cellphone to call for tactical gear, a sniper and the classroom keys.
According to he report released Wednesday, Arredondo and another Uvalde police officer spent 13 minutes in the school hallway during the shooting discussing tactical options, whether to use snipers and how to get into the classroom windows.
“They also discussed who has the keys, testing keys, the probability of the door being locked, and if kids and teachers are dying or dead,” the report read.
McCraw said police had enough officers and firepower on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, and they would have found the door to the classroom where he was holed up unlocked if they had bothered to check it.
A lawyer for Arredondo and a spokeswoman for the Uvalde city police department did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Arredondo is on leave from his job with the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District and resigned from his position as a city councilor last week.
Public leaders, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, initially praised the police response in Uvalde. Abbott said officers reacted quickly and ran toward the gunfire with “amazing courage” to take out the killer, thereby saving lives. He later said he was misled. In the days and weeks after the shooting, authorities gave conflicting and incorrect accounts of what happened. The fallout has driven recriminations and rifts between local at state authorities. On Tuesday, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin and state Sen. Roland Gutierrez released a letter asking Abbott to move administration of a victims relief fund from the local prosecutor’s office to the Texas Department of Emergency Management. They wrote that they’ve received numerous complaints about District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee, “including the failure to timely deliver victim’s compensation resources to those in need.″
Busbee’s office declined to comment Wednesday.
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On this edition of Coach's Corner, 41NBC's Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Greg Moore of the FPD Vikings.
On this edition of Coach’s Corner, 41NBC’s Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Greg Moore of the FPD Vikings. Hear why Coach Moore loves the energy of his team and is excited to play in a new association.
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Macon Bacon beat Lexington County Blowfish to begin a stretch of three games in three days
A five-run seventh inning propels the Bacon to victory.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Macon Bacon defeat the Lexington County Blowfish 5-1 to begin a stretch of three games in three days.
It was a pitcher’s duel for most of the game, but the Bacon had five errors, one that led to the Blowfish’s only run of the game.
But in the bottom of the seventh, Mason Minzey hit a solo home run to tie the game, and the Bacon added four more runs in the frame to get the victory.
The Bacon are 15-17 on the season and are on the road tomorrow at the Florence Flamingos.
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PARIS (AP) — France’s government plans to nationalize indebted French electricity giant EDF amid a broad energy crisis aggravated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said Wednesday.
The French state now holds an 84% stake in the company, one of the world’s biggest electricity producers. Shares in EDF, which has suffered a series of nuclear reactor shutdowns and other problems recently, jumped on the news.
“We must have full control over our electricity production and performance,” Borne said as she laid out her government’s priorities in her first major speech to France’s parliament. “We must ensure our sovereignty in the face of the consequences of the war (in Ukraine) and the colossal challenges to come. … That’s why I confirm to you the state’s intention to own 100% of EDF’s capital.”
The announcement came as France and Europe are scrambling to find other energy sources to reduce dependence on Russian oil and gas amid fears of an energy emergency next winter.
EDF manages France’s sizable fleet of nuclear reactors, which are facing a raft of technical and other problems. New-generation reactors are years behind schedule and billions over budget.
EDF had 84.5 billion euros ($86 billion) in revenue last year and 5.1 billion euros ($5.2 billion) in profits, and serves tens of millions of customers in France and several other countries. It was partially privatized in the early 2000s.
The rise in EDF’s share price was an apparent sign that investors expect the government to pay a premium to buy up the remaining stock. The shares hit an all-time high in 2007 but have since slid by 90%, falling even lower than the price at which the French government took EDF public in 2005 under a European Union privatization push.
France invested heavily in nuclear energy during the oil shocks of the 1970s and depends on atomic plants for some 70% of its electricity, more than any other country.
But EDF repeatedly had to reduce its production forecasts over the past several months after a string of reactor shutdowns for maintenance and inspections. Several reactors having problems with pipe corrosion are under investigation.
Borne described the nationalization decision as part of a strategy to gain “energy sovereignty” and build “a stronger France in a more independent Europe.”
“We cannot rely anymore on Russian gas and oil,” she said. “We will gain our sovereignty thanks to nuclear and renewable energies.”
Her announcement came hours after the European Parliament approved an EU plan to include natural gas and nuclear energy in the bloc’s list of sustainable activities. Environmental groups fiercely criticized the plan, which France and Germany supported.
France’s state audit agency published a report Tuesday urging the government to change policy regarding EDF and the electricity market, calling the current structure neither “readable nor controllable.”
According to the agency, France has failed to conform to EU policies on opening electricity markets to competition while maintaining affordable prices for consumers.
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Jade le Deley in Paris and Kelvin Chan in London contributed to this report.
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BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of migrants, who have been living in Germany for years without long-lasting permission to remain in the country, will be eligible for permanent residency after the government approved a new migration bill Wednesday.
The new regulation, endorsed by the Cabinet, applies to about 136,000 people who have lived in Germany for at least five years by Jan. 1, 2022.
Those who qualify can first apply for a one-year residency status and subsequently apply for permanent residency in Germany. They must earn enough money to make an independent living in the country, speak German and prove that they are “well integrated” into society.
Those under the age of 27 can already apply for a path to permanent residency in Germany after having lived in the country for three years.
“We want people who are well integrated to have good opportunities in our country,” Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told reporters. “In this way, we also put an end to bureaucracy and uncertainty for people who have already become part of our society.”
The new migration regulation will also make it easier for asylum-seekers to learn German — so far only those with a realistic chance of receiving asylum in the country were eligible for language classes — with all asylum applicants getting the chance to enroll in classes.
For skilled laborers, such as information technology specialists and others that hold professions that are desperately needed in Germany, the new regulation will allow that they can move to Germany together with their families right away, which wasn’t possible before. Family members don’t need to have any language skills before moving to the country.
“We need to attract skilled workers more quickly. We urgently need them in many sectors,” Faeser said. “We want skilled workers to come to Germany very quickly and gain a foothold here.”
The bill will also make it easier to deport criminals, includes extending detention pending deportation for certain offenders from three months to a maximum of six months. The extension is intended to give authorities more time to prepare for deportation, such as clarifying identity, obtaining missing papers and organizing a seat on an airplane, German news agency dpa reported.
“In the future, it will be easier to revoke the right of residence of criminals,” Faeser said. “For offenders, we will make it easier to order detention pending deportation, thus preventing offenders who are obliged to leave the country from going into hiding before being deported.”
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Apple (AAPL) plans to begin tests on a new groundbreaking security feature designed to offer additional protection to iOS users. “Lockdown Mode” is the new feature that will protect users at high risk of highly targeted cyber-attacks from private companies and state-sponsored mercenary spyware. In a press release, the tech giant has also confirmed details of a $10 million grant targeting research programs working on such threats.
Lockdown Mode Capabilities
According to the Wall Street Journal, Lockdown Mode will limit certain device functionalities. For instance, it will block any suspicious message attachments on iPhones. Message attachment types other than images will also remain blocked.
Lockdown Mode will also block FaceTime calls from people with whom the user has not been in contact with. In addition, whenever the iPhone is locked, wired connections with any accessory will remain blocked. Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert expects the new feature to make it difficult for governments and other entities to hack high-risk users.
Apple plans to roll out the feature for testing before widespread release in the fall. After that, the security feature will be part of the operating systems for iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers. It also plans to strengthen Lockdown Mode over time. Conversely, it promises up to $2 million for any researchers who find a weakness in the new security feature.
Apple vs. NSO
The launch of Lockdown comes months after Apple was forced to fix a loophole that Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group used to infect iPhones using iMessage. According to Citizen Lab, the flaw allowed the cybersecurity firm to carry out a “zero click” attack that does not require people to click any links.
Last year, Apple sued NSO for allegedly deploying malware and spyware that targeted devices used by journalists, activists, academics, and government officials. It has since confirmed a $10 million grant for any damages awarded from a lawsuit filed against the Israeli company. The grant is for organizations that investigate, expose, and prevent highly targeted cyberattacks.
Wall Street’s Take on Apple
The Street is bullish on the stock, with a Strong Buy consensus rating, based on 22 Buys and six Holds. The average Apple price target of $185.05 implies 29.48% upside potential from current levels.
Positive Bloggers’ Opinion
TipRanks data shows that financial bloggers’ opinions are 86% Bullish on Apple, compared to a sector average of 65%.
Key Takeaway for Investors
The unveiling of lockdown mode should make Apple devices more secure at a time when people cherish their privacy and security of their data. Demand for such products should increase which should allow the company to continue to earn higher revenues.
Read the full Disclosure.
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BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers on Thursday approved a major package of reforms aimed at boosting the production of renewable power, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned that the country has for too long relied on energy supplies from Russia.
The government unveiled its 600-page “Easter package” in April, less than two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine escalated the simmering energy crisis between Moscow and western European neighbors, many of which were buyers of Russian fossil fuels.
Germany has sharply reduced its energy imports from Russia in recent months. The government aims to end the purchase of Russian coal and oil this year, and of natural gas by 2024.
Scholz said late Wednesday that the war was another reason for Europe’s biggest economy to double down on its efforts to expand the use of renewable energy.
“Germany has relied for too long and too unilaterally on energy supplies from Russia,” he said at a renewable energy industry event in Berlin.
Referring to Moscow’s recent moves to reduce the flow of natural gas to Europe, Scholz that that “we have to realize that Russia is using energy as a weapon.”
“After all, no one believes that Russia is reducing its gas supplies for technical reasons alone,” he added.
Energy Minister Robert Habeck told lawmakers that the “sheer number and extent of laws” now being hurried through the Bundestag reflected both the scale of the challenge and the government’s ambition.
It recently pledged to rapidly accelerate the installation of sun and wind power facilities, setting a target of generating 80% of Germany’s gross electricity use from renewable energy by 2030 — almost double the share it had last year — and cutting greenhouse gas emissions from all sources to “net zero” by 2045.
To achieve this, the government proposed setting aside more land for onshore wind park s and lowering bureaucratic hurdles that have slowed construction in recent years.
Still, economists questioned this week whether the government’s ambitious goals were achievable even with the new measures.
Opposition lawmaker Andreas Jung of the Christian Democrats criticized the government for keeping heavily polluting coal-fired power plants on stand-by to replace gas-fired facilities that have to shut down due to lack of supply. Instead, he suggested, Germany could expand the use of domestic biogas from agricultural waste.
Consumers in Germany, like elsewhere in Europe, have been warned to expect significantly higher energy bills this year mainly due to the surge in prices of fossil fuels.
“If we want to keep energy affordable in the long term, if we want to reconcile supply security and climate protection, then this is only possible with renewable energies,” said Scholz. “That’s why we need to kick the expansion of renewables into high gear now.”
While independence from Russian energy is one of the government’s stated goals, a new report Thursday by the International Energy Agency warned that the supply of solar panels — key to Germany’s green energy transition — is increasingly concentrated in China.
The Paris-based agency said China currently has a share of more than 80% in all the key manufacturing stages of solar panels. For some photovoltaic components the share coming from China is set to rise to 95% in the coming years, it said.
“China has been instrumental in bringing down costs worldwide for solar PV, with multiple benefits for clean energy transitions,” the IEA’s executive director, Fatih Birol, said. “At the same time, the level of geographical concentration in global supply chains also poses potential challenges that governments need to address.
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SZYPLISZKI, Poland (AP) — The presidents of NATO members Poland and Lithuania voiced confidence Thursday that allied troops can fully safeguard a strategically vital corridor, which links their countries, between Russian ally Belarus and a Russian Baltic Sea exclave.
Concern over NATO’s ability to defend the Suwalki Gap, a 70-kilometer (43-mile) corridor between Poland and Lithuania, has rocketed since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. The bottleneck separates Belarus from the Kaliningrad exclave, where Russia’s Baltic Fleet — and nuclear-capable missiles — are based.
Presidents Andrzej Duda of Poland and Gitanas Nauseda of Lithuania visited the sparsely populated area Thursday and met with NATO troops on the Polish and the Lithuanian side.
“This is a very sensitive area and the eyes of an aggressor could potentially be directed here,” Nauseda said in Szypliszki, on the Polish side.
The corridor links Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia — all former Soviet republics bordering Russia — to Poland and other NATO members.
“We have decided to come to this place … to show that it is safe … just because of what you can see here today: the daily, calm but full of vigilance service of the Polish, Lithuanian and other NATO troops,” Poland’s Duda said.
At the urging of Poland and the Baltic states, NATO leaders decided at a summit last week in Madrid that the number of allied troops in Eastern Europe will be significantly increased.
At the Suwalki Gap, battalions numbering hundreds of troops will be boosted to brigades with thousands of troops.
Nauseda said the two countries are increasing their spending on defense to about 2.5% of their gross domestic product.
The presidents were accompanied on their visit by their defense ministers. The mobile command unit of the U.S.-led Multinational Division North East is currently going through field exercises in the Szypliszki area.
From there, the two presidents traveled to Marijampolė. Lithuania, to meet a German-led logistical battalion and took a close look at the weapons and vehicles there.
“This land is protected by the most powerful defense alliance in the world and — what we both want to stress — this land is safe,” Duda said in Marijampolė.
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The Egan Water Corporation issued a boil water advisory Thursday for some of its customers.
The advisory is in effect for the Northside which includes the Egan/Iota/Evangeline areas.
Customers should boil water for one full minute before consumption.
The boil water advisory is in effect until further notice.
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Dangerous heat continues for Middle Georgia
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Heat indices will push close to 110° in many Middle Georgia locations later today.
Today
It’s going to be another hot one for us Middle Georgian’s today as highs reach their peak for the week. We will see highs just shy of the triple digit mark in our hottest spots today, and the coolest spots are expected to reach at least 95°. Heat indices will range from about 103°-108° this afternoon around the region. A heat advisory is in effect for all of Middle Georgia until 7:00 PM EDT tonight.
Storms will begin to fire up as we head into the lunchtime hours. Much like yesterday they look to come in a pair of waves. The early wave will be during the lunchtime hours and will have a few smaller storms. These could still have some heavy rain and frequent cloud to ground lightning. We will see this wave taper off as we head into the later afternoon hours. During the dinnertime hours we should begin to see the second wave fire up. It will feature larger storms that are more widespread as well as longer lasting.
Storms are likely to last well past midnight in Middle Georgia tonight. Heavy rain could last as late as 3-4 am tomorrow morning. We will still have a handful of clouds overhead as we head into the sunrise hours of our Friday. Lows will be in the mid to upper 70s.
Tomorrow
We will begin a bit of a cooling trend tomorrow, however the forecast for our Friday is quite similar to today. Highs will be a bit cooler, back into lower mid 90s around the region. Heat indices will still universally be over 100° across the board as well. Storm activity should be similar to what we saw yesterday (and will see today) with the pair of waves.
Storms will continue into the overnight hours once again with some lasting past the midnight hour much like the past two days. An abundance of clouds will remain heading into Saturday morning. Lows will still be in the mid to upper 70s.
The Weekend and Beyond
We will continue the cooling trend that begins Friday over the weekend. Some spots could see the upper 80s return for their high on Saturday, however for most of Middle Georgia that will come on Sunday. We will see mostly cloudy conditions all weekend long, quite different from what we had for the Fourth of July weekend. Storm activity is likely to be widespread over the weekend as a pair of weak cold fronts push through (one Saturday, one Sunday). Highs in the upper 80s will at least carry into the start of next week along with mostly cloudy conditions.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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Deputies investigating drive-by shooting in Warner Robins
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Houston County Sheriff’s Office is looking for information connected to a drive by shooting that happened the night of July 2nd.
According to the HCSO, around 9:45 p.m., deputies were sent to the 100 block of Oakwood Drive in reference to an aggravated assault. It was here that they found 18-year-old Phillip Bird, who was shot in the arm during a drive-by shooting. Bird didn’t seek medical attention for his injury as it was minor.
Deputies believed that this incident could be tied to other shooting incidents within Warner Robins, and that it could possibly be gang-related as well. The Sheriff’s Office is asking that anyone with information on these incidents call Sgt. Greg Pennycuff at (478) 218-4790 or (478) 542-2085.
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An Arnaudville man died early Thursday in a St. Landry Parish crash, troopers say.
Franklin Joseph Martin, 42, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which happened on La. 686 near Lynn Robin Road.
State Police were called to the scene just before 6:30 a.m. and found that the car Martin was driving ran off the road to the right, hit an embankment and a culvert and was partially submerged.
Martin was not properly restrained at the time of the crash and was pronounced dead at the scene by the St. Landry Parish Coroner’s Office. A toxicology sample was obtained for analysis and this crash remains under investigation.
Troop I has investigated 23 fatal crashes resulting in 26 deaths in 2022.
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Areas in city of Milledgeville under “Boil Water” advisory
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The City of Milledgeville’s Water Department has issued a boiled water advisory for several locations due to a water main repair in progress.
According to the City of Milledgeville’s social media, West Montgomery St between North Tattnall St. and North Clark St. and on North Columbia St. between West Montgomery and West McIntosh St. need to be boiling their water before drinking, cooking, or preparing baby food. The water pressure in these areas have dropped to dangerously low levels, which causes a potential health hazard to any areas that have zero pressure as water of unknown quality could be put into the distribution system.
Citizens in these areas are being advised to boil water at a rolling boil for at least one minute before using it. Citizens should continue to do this until the water utility notifies them that the water system has been restored to full operation, and that the microbiological quality of the water is safe for consumption.
Anyone with questions is urged to call the Water & Sewer Department at (478) 414-4052.
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BCSO: Drivers, passengers in stable condition after downtown crash involving MTA bus
Several people were hospitalized after a crash Thursday involving a Macon-Bibb Transit Authority bus.
UPDATE (7:15 p.m.) – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a crash involving a midsized Macon-Bibb Transit Authority bus and a Subaru sports utility vehicle.
It happened just before 6 p.m. Thursday in downtown Macon.
Witnesses told deputies the Subaru was making a left turn from Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. onto Cherry Street and that the MTA bus was traveling south on MLK when it collided with the Subaru at the intersection.
The Subaru flipped, and the bus rolled on top of the Subaru.
The sheriff’s office says seven people—six passengers and a driver—were inside the bus and that a driver and passenger were inside the Subaru.
“The drivers and passengers from both vehicles were transported to Atrium Health Navicent by ambulance,” a BCSO news release said. “According to Atrium Health Navicent, all of the occupants from both vehicles are listed to be in stable condition.”
The southbound intersection between Cherry Street and Poplar Street on MLK was closed as of 7:15 p.m. One lane is open on the northbound side of MLK.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Five people were hospitalized after a crash Thursday involving a Macon-Bibb Transit Authority bus.
Macon-Bibb Fire Chief Shane Edwards says it happened just before 6 p.m.
“We started to receive 911 calls of a bus accident involving another vehicle here at the corner of Cherry Street and MLK,” he said. “Upon our arrival on the scene, we had a bus that had impacted a vehicle, a side impact. The bus, as you can see, ended up on top of the vehicle.”
When reached by phone Thursday night, MTA spokesperson Jami Gaudet said MTA plans to review bus footage of the crash. She said she will provide more information when it’s available.
Edwards says two occupants inside the vehicle were taken to the hospital as well as three others who were inside the bus.
He wasn’t sure of their conditions and didn’t yet know how many people had been riding on the bus.
The scene is still active as of 6:45 p.m. Avoid the area if possible.
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City of Dublin gets $3.3 million downtown revitalization grant
Changes are coming to downtown Dublin, but Mayor Joshua Kight says the city plans to continue to embrace "the benefits of being a great small town."
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Dublin Mayor Joshua Kight says city leaders are hoping to change the appearance of downtown Dublin.
The city recently received a $3.3 million Rural Downtown Redevelopment grant from the Department Of Community Affairs.
With that money, leaders plan to bury power lines, add more trees and lighting and widen the sidewalks in a four-block area of Madison Street.
“This is going to encourage pedestrians to get out of their cars and walk,” Mayor Kight said. “We think it’s going to encourage additional businesses along the street and the redevelopment of some of our historic properties downtown.”
City planner Tara Bradshaw says the grant money will help implement the 2015 Riverwalk Master Plan.
“So this is really the first step in creating that corridor connection down to the Oconee River,” Bradshaw explained. “And opening up paths for reinvestment and recreation for the City of Dublin.”
Mayor Kight says in a time when rural downtowns are dying out, Dublin’s downtown is thriving. He’s hoping to continue the growth the city has seen over the last ten years.
“Dublin is really an up and coming small town,” Kight said. “But we don’t want just any kind of growth, we’re looking for quality growth. We’re not trying to sprawl, we’re not trying to become a big town. We’re embracing all the benefits of being a great small town.”
Bradshaw is hoping the city will completely transform Madison Street over the next decade.
“Properties that have been neglected or not invested in over the last 30, 40 years, we want to see those properties transformed and home to active businesses and to residents who will make downtown their home,” she said.
Kight says the current project will take about two years, but leaders are hoping to start work as soon as possible. They aare finalizing designs for the project and getting community input before starting construction.
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Coach’s Corner 2022: Chance Jones of the Stratford Eagles
On this edition of Coach's Corner, 41NBC's Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Chance Jones of the Stratford Eagles.
On this edition of Coach’s Corner, 41NBC’s Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Chance Jones of the Stratford Eagles. Here How Coach Jones is preparing to fill the shoes of Former head coach Mark Farriba and the crew he’s bringing in to ensure the Eagles success this season.
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First United Methodist Church in Milledgeville bringing youth together to give back
140 local youth members are giving back to the community by volunteering their time this summer.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A 24-year-old tradition continues in Milledgeville.
First United Methodist Church is hosting its annual mission known as ‘River of Life,’ during which youth give back to the community.
Children as young as 12 are picking up a hammer and getting to work to give back to disabled residents.
Lily Mullis, who has participated in the mission since she was in fifth grade, says a lot goes into helping each year.
“It’s a lot of hard work and effort,” she said. “Sometimes you don’t want to do this during your summer, but after you do it and feel sweaty and you go worship, you feel good. At the end, you give the person the Bible, it makes you just feel like you’ve helped someone in the community.”
Mullis has painted houses and built wheelchair ramps for people all over middle Georgia.
“It makes you feel good that there’s kids still out there wanting to help the community and people who need more help getting places and everything,” she said.
Coordinator Marty Sirmans says the mission helps bring people together.
“We hope not only we are serving these people in these homes, but we’re serving these young people and these future generations,” Sirmans said. “There’s a lot of negative going on in this world today, and we hope just one positive thing will change their life this week.”
140 youth are participating to help serve 20 families, doing jobs that range from cutting grass to repairing roofs.
Youth pastor Wes Sorrells, from Monroe County, has been bringing children to take part in the mission for 11 years now.
“It gives them a chance to come see and work and volunteer for this,” he said. “They don’t get paid, but they learn some skills. They also learn to share their love of Christ with others, too.”
For more information, visit the church website here.
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Macon-Bibb ‘Picnic in the Park’ returns this weekend
'Picnic in the Park' returns to Carolyn Crayton Park on Saturday, July 9.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – ‘Picnic in the Park’ returns to Carolyn Crayton Park on Saturday, July 9.
The event, held for the first time on May 14, returns this weekend with a larger lineup of food trucks and longer hours.
Kalyn Collins with Macon-Bibb Parks and Recreation says the festival is a good way for the community to come together.
“We love it, people seem to love it,” she said. “They come out and enjoy the music we have. People have a good time. They just sit around and hang out with their family, play games, cornhole, just seems like a great community time.”
The festival opens Saturday at 11 a.m. and runs until 4 p.m.
Collins says those who come should bring their own source of shade and chairs.
Grills are not permitted.
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Macon business owner serving as Team USA’s Racquetball athletic trainer at 2022 World Games
Rodger Fleming served as an athletic trainer for seven years with the Arizona Diamondbacks organization and three years with Tampa Bay Rays organization.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The 2022 World Games started Thursday, returning to the United States for the first since the games’ inauguration in 1981.
This year, an athletic trainer from Macon will be making sure Team USA’s Racquetball athletes are in top shape to take home gold.
Rodger Fleming, an athletic trainer, massage therapist and owner of Body Awareness Performance and Therapy in Macon, was at the Team USA Track and Field Trials for the Tokyo Olympics last summer when a colleague offered a position with Team USA Racquetball.
“My leader from there had reached out and asked me, ‘Hey, I can’t go due to a scheduling conflict, but would you be interested in helping out USA Racquetball? They’re looking for a dual credential.’ So that was for the World Championships in Guatemala in December of 2021,” Fleming said.
Due to his exceptional work at that event, Fleming was invited back as an athletic trainer for Team USA Racquetball, which will be competing at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama. For Fleming, it’s sort of a homecoming since his story with athletic training began in the southern state.
“When I grew up in Alabama, I loved sports, and I played high school football and baseball,” Fleming said. “And at 5’8″, I was naïve, and I had this ambition of wanting to go to college to play sports. And my high school football coach was like, ‘Roger, no, no, but there’s this new profession that’s coming around called sports athletic training. I think you’d be perfect for it.'”
Fleming attended the University of Toledo and then lived the gypsy lifestyle for several years, spending a year as a pro basketball team’s trainer, seven years with the Arizona Diamondbacks and three years with the Tampa Bay Rays. When he looked to settle down finally, Fleming reconnected with a past love.
“What brought me here was I reconnected with my high school sweetheart, and we dated way back, way back. I mean, our friends were Fred and Barney from the Flintstones, and then we reconnected 20 years later. I knew that I was getting out of baseball, and I said she’s an established professional. I’ll go to her, and that’s really how Macon has become my home,” he said.
Once in Macon, Fleming served as the athletic trainer at Stratford Academy, Central Georgia Technical College and Fort Valley State University. Eventually, something a loved one once told him changed his perspective on his career.
“So, my grandmother, who has passed away since, she was telling me, she’s like, ‘Roger, I know why God put you on this earth, and that’s to help people,'”Fleming said. “And it really started making me think about being more than just a baseball athletic trainer. I wanted to help people; I guess more of my calling. So I left Fort Valley, and I pursued my dream of owning my own business. And for three years, I worked in a 100-square-foot room, and I put every bit back into the business. And then Memorial Day weekend 2019, I opened up Body Awareness Performance and Therapy.”
Fleming won’t be in Macon for a while since he’s heading to Eugene, Oregon, after the World Games to help in the 2022 World Athletics Championships. The one thing he’s looking forward to most is being able to learn from all the other great trainers that will be in attendance.
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Mentors Project provides life lessons to young girls
The Mentors Project held a conference for girls in Warner Robins Thursday.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Mentors Project held a conference for girls in Warner Robins Thursday.
Young ladies received lessons in decision making and etiquette.
They heard from guest speakers, including Warner Robins Mayor LaRhonda Patrick, who shared her life experiences.
“Finishing high school is not an option, it has to be their reality,” Mentors Project Executive Director June O’Neal said. “And then for students, post secondary education at a technical school or college, or enroll in the military, they have to have a life plan.”
O’Neal says the organization is always looking for volunteers. Click here for more information.
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Pediatrician offers tips for parents to avoid dehydration as high temperatures continue
Atrium Health Navicent wants to make sure kids are drinking enough water this summer.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Atrium Health Navicent wants to make sure kids are drinking enough water this summer.
Dr. Christy Peterson says children should be drinking at least eight ounces of water for every hour they spend playing outside.
She says sports drinks are unnecessary for kids’ hydration.
“Those sports drinks are necessary for some elite athletes, but children are usually not pushing themselves to the point where they need the electrolytes and sugars that’s in those sports drinks,” she said. “Water is the most important thing to push.”
Peterson says parents should watch out for excessive sweating or lack of urination. She adds that a properly hydrated child should be going to the restroom about every three hours.
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Scattered storms return Friday afternoon
It has been another stormy afternoon/evening here in Middle Georgia after some intense heat over the area.
Tomorrow will be another hot day with highs in the mid 90s and heat index values in the 100s.
Scattered storms will once again be possible during the afternoon and evening hours with some storms becoming strong/severe.
Saturday be our last very hot day for a while, with highs warming back to the mid 90s.
By the afternoon/evening a line of thunderstorms will push south, bringing the potential for heavy rain to the area.
The good news is, this won’t be an all day rain situation, so you should be able to get some time outside.
Sunday, however, looks like it will be pretty rainy across the southeast.
A cold front will be pushing south over the weekend, finally breaking our string of 90° days.
Thunderstorms will be possible as well during this rainy day.
Although we will see a break from the intense heat for the start of next week, thanks to the cold front, rain will be sticking around.
We will slowly be warming back to the 90s through next week, but expect a decent chance for showers and storms each day.
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Ted Wright Park reopens as Warner Robins’ first ADA compliant park
Ted Wright Park officially reopened to the public Thursday after closing in October for renovations and an expansion.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Ted Wright Park officially reopened to the public Thursday after closing in October for renovations and an expansion.
The renovations helped bring the park into compliance with the American Disabilities Act, making it the first ADA-compliant park in the city.
Updates include pickleball courts, playground equipment designed for children with disabilities and a wheelchair-friendly splash pad and pavilion.
Several people were already out enjoying the park Thursday night. Warner Robins Parks And Recreation Director Jarred Reneau says it warms his heart that so many people attended.
“We’ve done ribbon cuttings all the time,” he said. “Normally, you just get your dignitaries and your county commissioners and that kind of stuff, but this is overwhelming. The citizens came out, the community came out, and this is the first food trucks that we’re having outside of the Independence Day concert. So I’m excited, I’m overwhelmed, and this is just the beginning.”
Ted Wright Park is located at 2841 Moody Road.. It’s open daily from 6 a.m. until dusk.
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Washington County park to remain closed another 60 days
A Washington County park will stay closed following a deadly shooting during Memorial Day weekend.
SANDERSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A Washington County park that was recently the scene of a deadly shooting will stay closed.
A judge ordered a 60-day extension this week for the closure of ‘Larry Mitchell Ball Park.’
This follows the first 30-day closure notice issued early June.
Washington County Sheriff Joel Cochran says a court date is set for September 1.
The park was closed after a Memorial Day weekend block party left two people dead.
Sheriff Cochran says the sheriff’s office had numerous complaints about the park leading up to the shooting.
“Two lives were lost that night, and that impacts not just those families, but it impacts that neighborhood as well,” Cochran said. “Our whole community, it’s kind of put a black eye on us.”
Cochran says the court now has the option to permanently close the park or put certain requirements in place.
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Book publishers, booksellers, authors and free-speech groups are pushing back against a Virginia law that allowed obscenity claims to proceed in court against two books that have come under fire from conservatives who say they’re inappropriate for young readers.
The ACLU of Virginia, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and numerous bookstores and book proponents are getting involved in the legal case playing out in Virginia Beach, where a retired judge made an initial ruling indicating the LGBTQ-themed memoir “Gender Queer” and the fantasy novel “A Court of Mist and Fury” could be considered obscene for minors due to explicit sex scenes. The case has drawn national attention due to the seemingly unique attempt to restrict sales of the books by private bookstores as opposed to simply removing them from public-school libraries.
Michael Bamberger, a top First Amendment lawyer based in New York, worked with the ACLU to file a motion to dismiss the case on behalf of the Authors Guild, American Booksellers for Free Expression, Association of American Publishers, American Library Association, Virginia Library Association the Freedom to Read Foundation and a handful of small, independent Virginia bookstores. The groups, according to court filings, have “a strong interest in ensuring that a broad selection of non-obscene fiction and non-fiction reading material be made available to readers, including material that challenges them.”
“I believe that children should be encouraged to read whatever interests them, whatever they find meaningful,” Bamberger, senior counsel at the Dentons law firm, said in an interview. “And setting up these sort of baskets that say no minor can read this book is not the way to go.”
Attorneys for the publishers and authors of the two books are also seeking to have the case dismissed, arguing the Virginia law is unconstitutional and the books themselves cannot be considered obscene based on sex scenes that only make up a portion of a larger literary work.
Virginia law defines “obscene” as material that has sex as its “dominant theme” and “taken as a whole, does not have serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.”
“Under the law, these books are not obscene,” said Darpana Sheth, FIRE’s vice president of litigation. “Obscenity is a legal term of art. And the First Amendment simply does not allow banning books simply because they may be read by minors.”
FIRE, which began as a civil liberties group focused on college campuses but recently broadened its mission into broader issues of free expression, isn’t formally intervening in the case but is planning to file a brief to inform the court, according to Sheth.
A multitude of attorneys from several different law firms are now working to defend the free flow of books and block the suit filed in late April by Del. Tim Anderson, R-Virginia Beach, on behalf of Tommy Altman, a former Republican congressional candidate from Virginia Beach who finished third in a four-way GOP primary last month.
Anderson, an attorney and Trump-style firebrand serving his first term in the House of Delegates, had sought a temporary restraining order against Barnes & Noble that would have prevented the bookstore chain from making the books accessible to minors. That request has not yet been acted upon. Retired Judge Pamela Baskervill, who’s overseeing the case after Virginia Beach judges recused themselves because the legislature appoints judges, set the next hearing in the case for Aug. 30.
In an interview Wednesday, Anderson said the fact that more than 20 lawyers are lining up against him is a sign of the seriousness of his case and not the type of response you’d see in a “slam dunk First Amendment case.” The request for age restrictions on media content, he said, is “narrow” and not as novel as headlines about “book banning” suggest.
“I think the majority of society accepts that they don’t want a 12-year-old going to an R-rated movie at AMC,” Anderson said. “They don’t want a 9-year-old buying an extremely violent video game without their parents knowing what’s going on.”
In the meantime, lawyers representing Barnes & Noble have argued allowing the case to proceed would be a dangerous step toward the type of book bans the country seemed to have left behind.
“There was a time in American history, before the development of contemporary First Amendment doctrine, when best-selling and critically-acclaimed books faced the risk of being declared obscene,” a team of lawyers from the D.C.-based firm Davis Wright Tremaine wrote in a May 30 letter to Baskervill on behalf of Barnes & Noble. “But no mainstream books by established publishers have been found to be obscene in the past 60 years.”
The attorneys fighting the use of the obscenity law have argued it has severe procedural flaws, including authorizing courts to issue restraining orders against books without any notification or involvement from the businesses selling them. The obscene-book law creates a civil proceeding against the book itself, but the criminal penalties involved can fall on anyone who sells or distributes a book deemed obscene.
“That’s a bizarre procedure to start off with,” Bamberger said. “But then what is most troubling to retailers and publishers is that if in this hearing in Virginia Beach some book is held obscene, that applies to the entire state. And so a bookseller who’s in Arlington and knows nothing about the case and has received no notification and is not involved in the case in any way suddenly can be charged with a felony for selling the book.”
The defense has also pointed out the law doesn’t have any clear provision for deeming books obscene for children but suitable for adults. It does, however, allow judges to carve out a specific category of people “to whom the book is not obscene.”
From a legal perspective, the cases are virtually identical, but “Gender Queer,” a story about LGBTQ identity in a comic book-style format, has drawn stronger criticism from some parents due to an illustration depicting oral sex and other explicit content. Members of the Virginia Beach School Board chose to remove “Gender Queer” from school libraries after a review deemed the book “pervasively vulgar,” going against a staff recommendation to keep the book in school libraries.
Anderson said the illustrated depiction of oral sex in the book is “harmful to a child’s mind.”
“They shouldn’t have access to that material without adult supervision,” he said. “And that’s it.”
Bamberger said the obscenity law, as written, was meant to apply to material the courts felt no one should read and it cannot be used to let any Virginia resident go to court to try to restrict what all children can read.
“That’s not what the law says,” Bamberger said. “And neither of these books are obscene for adults. Clearly.”
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Presidential candidate of the Party, Mr Peter Obi, made the announcement in Abuja where he said the delay was because of the detailed effort in the search for an eminently qualified candidate for the office.
I have the singular honour to present by the grace of God, the next Vice President of Nigeria, Senator Yusuf Datti Baba Ahmed.
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(KTLA) — If you get a new Verizon phone in the mail, it’s not a scam.
The wireless company is sending new 4G LTE phones to customers still on Verizon’s 3G network.
Verizon plans to shut down its 3G network at the end of the year, which means those 3G devices will no longer make or receive calls.
According to Verizon’s support page, the company will automatically activate sent devices after 30 days. If a customer doesn’t want the new phone, they can call customer support and ask to “decline the free phone for CDMA Sunset.”
The replacement phones Verizon is sending are basic flip-style devices, including the 4G LTE Orbic Journey V, TCL FLIP Pro or Nokia 2720 V Flip phone. Contract and plan pricing will stay the same.
Verizon is one of the last major wireless providers to discontinue the use of its 3G network. AT&T shut down its 3G network in February, Sprint’s 3G network was retired in March, and T-Mobile plans to retire its 3G network this month.
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Ask Angi: Pet proofing your home
(41NBC/WMGT) — Pets bring us joy and comfort, but they also come with their own set of challenges. Rachel Zepernick, an interior home expert at Angi, is here to talk to us about how to pet-proof your home for your new furry friend.
“When you bring a new pet into your home, you’re going to want to think of new storage solutions to make sure you have space for all of their supplies,” said Zepernick “That can include a designated area to store all their toys, or if the pet is a dog, you may want to install a hook by the front door for easy access to a leash. For kibble and treats, consider buying airtight containers that can keep the food fresher for longer, keep pests at bay and prevent unwanted smells from your home.”
Before you bring a new pet into your home, take a look around and make sure your home is safe. Hide or dispose of anything that may be harmful to pets, like laundry detergent, cords, medications or toxic plants or foods. Also, try to protect breakable items by putting them away in cabinets or in places that will be harder to knock over and break.
“You’ll also need to pet-proof your outdoor area, whether that’s your yard, a patio or a pool area,” said Zepernick “If you don’t already have a fence, talk to a pro about installing one as soon as possible. If you do have a fence, look for any gaps where your pet could escape from the current fencing area. If you have a pool or pond, consider covering it, or you may need to supervise your pet when you bring them outside.”
No matter what kind of floors you have, you can keep your home clean by coming up with regular cleaning systems that work for you and your pet. Pet hair can be one of the biggest culprits, so consider setting up an automatic vacuum that will clean your floors once a day. You can also add mats near your doors or litter boxes to prevent your pets from tracking dirt or litter around your home.
“Just like other members of your family, your pet is going to bring more mess into your home, so start thinking about ways to make it easier to clean and maintain the home,” said Zepernick “One way, for example, would be to switch to luxury vinyl flooring. These floors are scratch-resistant, they’re long-lasting and they’re super easy to maintain. If you’re looking into a dog or a cat door, think about ways to make it so that pests can’t get in as easily. You might look into opaque flaps that keep the light out, or look into different sealing solutions that might keep the door as airtight as possible.”
Do you have questions about your home projects? Tweet them using #AskingAngi and you may get some tips in an upcoming segment!
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Facing pressure, Biden to sign order on abortion access
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden will take executive action to protect access to abortion. The president faces mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful on the subject after the Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to the procedure two weeks ago.
Biden is expected to formalize instructions to the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to push back on efforts to limit the ability of women to access federally approved abortion medication or to travel across state lines to access clinical abortion services. The White House said Friday that Biden has committed to doing “everything in his power” to protect access to “safe and legal abortion.”
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Japan’s ex-leader Shinzo Abe assassinated during a speech
NARA, Japan (AP) — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech.
The attack stunned the nation that has some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere. The 67-year-old Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving leader when he resigned in 2020, collapsed bleeding and was airlifted to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead from major damage to his heart and two neck wounds.
Police arrested the suspected gunman at the scene and identified him as Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, a former member of Japan’s navy.
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Mom to Mom: Sponge water bomb
(41NBC/WMGT) — It’s summertime and those kids really love to play outside with those water balloons. The problem is they’re expensive, messy, and it’s hard to fill. So, this replacement that we have for you today is the opposite of all those things. It’s cheap and it’s wonderful, we call them Sponge Water Bombs. The reason why is because it’s sponges and they look like little balloons that you just throw at one another. So, here’s how you make them. We recommend you go and buy eight sponges to cut them up and make these Sponge Water Bombs.
So, what you want to do is take one sponge and cut it into six pieces, along each edge. You can pair them with different colors if you want to and then you line them all up into six pieces and then layer it with another six. And then you’re going to take a rubber band or string, whatever works best for you, and then bind them all together. And now you’re ready to play with your nice little Sponge Water Bombs. You just get a bucket of water. You can get one for each kid or just one for them to grab out of it, throw these in there, send your kiddos outside and let them have at it. The thing is, is they’ll never run out of these puppies. They might run out of water though.
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Morning Business Report: GameStop fires Chief Financial Officer
GameStop fires its Chief Financial Officer, Mike Recupero. This comes after their turnaround plan to become more of an ecommerce company.
Nascar is closer to adding a street car race in Chicago. The first street race in Chicago could happen next year.
GOP-led states are targeting Wall Street with ‘anti-woke’ laws.
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Perry Police search for car involved in an aggravated assault
Perry, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Perry Police Department is searching for a vehicle involved in an aggravated assault on an officer.
According to a post on the Perry Police Department’s Facebook page, the incident happened Friday July 2nd on General Courtney Hodges Blvd. and Marshallville Road. The suspects fled in a silver or grey 2015-2020 Ford Mustang with damage to its passenger side rear bumper.
If you have any information call Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME.
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Tech Report: Many people find work after being laid off, Apple sets to release “Lockdown Mode”
Laid off workers find jobs in other companies, despite a tough market.
Apple sets to deliver new feature, that gives users a new layer of protection.
GameStop states that it will have a four-for-one stock split after the market closes on July 21st.
Morgan Staley upgrades online dating companies, in spite of economic hardships.
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HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s Parliament on Thursday passed amended legislation on border security that allows for the closure of crossing points with Russia amid fears that Moscow could choose to send large numbers of migrants to the frontier.
The move by lawmakers came just two days after NATO’s 30 members signed formal accession protocols for Finland and Sweden to join the alliance — an outcome that has angered Russia. The two Nordic nations’ membership bids were approved at a NATO summit at the end of June in Madrid and several alliance members have already moved to ratify their accession.
The amendments approved by Finnish lawmakers will give the center-left government led by Prime Minister Sanna Marin wider powers to restrict border traffic in exceptional situations, particularly on the 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) border with Russia, the longest of any European Union member.
The changes would also allow Finland, a nation of 5.5 million, to build barriers and fences along the border with Russia if needed. Finnish President Sauli Niinisto is due to sign the amendments into law on Friday.
The legislative reform was prompted by the government’s concern that Russia would try to influence Finland by organizing large numbers of asylum-seekers to the border — something that happened at northern Finnish crossing points in 2015 and 2016 as Russian authorities reportedly ushered thousands of asylum-seekers there.
The risk of such hybrid threats from Moscow is seen as being particularly high now that Finland has become an observer member of NATO, but not yet a full member enjoying the alliance’s security guarantees, pending legislative approvals in all 30 member states.
Russia has repeatedly said over the past few years that it is against Helsinki and Stockholm joining NATO. But both Finland and Sweden decided to seek membership in the alliance after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
“The security situation in Finland and Europe has changed fundamentally in recent months, and especially the risk of a different kind of hybrid influence has increased,” Finnish Justice Minister Anna-Maja Henriksson said in a statement.
“I’m glad that a new exception which covers hybrid threats, in particular, was added to the preparedness act so quickly with the broad support of the Parliament,” she said.
Following the ratification of Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership by Canada, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Estonia, the Albanian Parliament on Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of welcoming the Nordic countries as new members of the alliance.
“Sweden and Finland are an added value to the alliance for their strategic and military values,” Albania’s foreign minister, Olta Xhacka, said in a speech to lawmakers. “Their membership is a historic development that should be supported without any hesitation.”
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AP reporter Llazar Semini in Tirana, Albania, contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS commissioner has asked the Treasury Department’s internal watchdog to immediately review the circumstances surrounding intensive tax audits that targeted ex-FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, frequent targets of Donald Trump’s ire during his presidency.
IRS spokesperson Jodie Reynolds said Thursday the agency has officially referred the matter to the inspector general for tax administration after Commissioner Charles Rettig, who was nominated to the job by Trump and is a close ally of the former president, personally reached out.
Reynolds insisted it is “ludicrous and untrue to suggest that senior IRS officials somehow targeted specific individuals” for such audits.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that the former FBI leaders were subjected to rare IRS audits of their tax returns. The newspaper said Comey was informed of the audit in 2019 and McCabe learned he was under scrutiny in 2021. Rettig, who term is set to expire in November, faced blistering criticism from Democrats for helping to shield Trump’s tax returns from the public.
Trump repeatedly attacked Comey and McCabe over the FBI’s Russia investigation that shadowed his presidency for years. Trump fired Comey in 2017 in the midst of that investigation, which ultimately was taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller, named to that job by Trump’s Justice Department.
The FBI inquiry began in the summer of 2016, months before Trump was elected. The bureau had learned that a former Trump campaign aide had been saying, before it was publicly known, that Russia had dirt on Trump’s Democratic rival for the White House, Hillary Clinton, in the form of stolen emails.
Those emails were hacked from Democratic email accounts by Russian intelligence. They were released by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks before the election in what U.S. officials have said was an effort to harm Clinton’s campaign and help Trump’s. Trump repeatedly called the investigation a “witch hunt.”
A 2019 review by the Justice Department’s inspector general knocked down multiple lines of attack against the Russia investigation, finding that officials properly opened the inquiry and that law enforcement leaders were not motivated by political bias. The watchdog did identify a number of problems in the investigation, leading the FBI to take steps aimed at fixing some fundamental operations, such as applying for surveillance warrants and interacting with confidential sources.
McCabe was fired in March 2018 after the Justice Department’s inspector general concluded he had authorized the release of information to a newspaper reporter and then misled internal investigators about his role in the leak. The termination by Jeff Sessions, Trump’s attorney general at the time, came hours before McCabe was due to retire.
McCabe won back his full pension as part of a settlement of his lawsuit arising from his firing. The settlement agreement vacated that decision, expunged from his personnel folder references to the firing and entitled McCabe, who joined the FBI in 1996, to his full pension.
According to the IRS website the audits the two men and their wives underwent are part of a program that randomly selects tax returns to examine tax compliance and improve the system.
McCabe, in comments on CNN, where he is a law enforcement analyst, described the two audits as a “coincidence that … really is almost impossible statistically” and said they raised questions that should be answered. He said it was ”appropriate for the IRS to do the responsible thing and look into it and determine whether or not something, you know, went awry in this program.”
Comey said in a statement that he could not say whether anything improper happened, “but after learning how unusual this audit was and how badly Trump wanted to hurt me during that time, it made sense to try to figure it out.”
A Trump spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.
Asked Thursday whether Biden has confidence in Rettig, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre simply noted that his term is set to expire later this year.
“He is going to be up in November, so I will leave it there,” Jean-Pierre said.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)'s Operations Committee today approved a $6 million contract with Applied Wayfinding Inc. to develop a single mapping and wayfinding system for use by all Bay Area transit agencies. The goal of the project is to design and deploy a fully harmonized suite of maps, signs and transit information in all Bay Area transit locations — from individual bus stops to major hubs like the Salesforce Transit Center, the Eastridge Transit Center or the El Cerrito Del Norte BART station — and to provide practical, predictable guidance to the walkable destinations, local shuttles and the like that extend from these transit stops.
The launch of the Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project marks the first implementation of a 27-point action plan recommended last year by the Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force that MTC convened in 2020 to guide the post-pandemic future of public transportation in the Bay Area and to make the regional transit network more equitable, efficient, connected and customer-focused. MTC Chair and Napa County Supervisor Alfredo Pedroza noted, "This is a great step forward in making transit more accessible and understandable for regular and new riders alike. As more people come back to public transit after the pandemic, a unified system of maps and signage will make it easier for Bay Area residents to feel comfortable riding transit wherever they find themselves in the nine counties."
State Sen. Josh Becker, who authored the Seamless Transit Transformation Act (SB 917) approved by the Senate and now pending in the Assembly, hailed the kickoff of the Regional Mapping and Wayfinding initiative. "I'm really encouraged by MTC's action today. My Seamless Transit Transformation Act aims to ensure this significant investment yields great results by first requiring that MTC develop this system in coordination with transit operators so they have a direct role in shaping it and second, that once new standards are developed, operators follow them. Transforming more than two dozen separate transit systems into one coordinated network demands focus on the customer experience, and that starts with clear and consistent information that applies to every one of the Bay Area's buses, trains, ferries, light-rail vehicles, streetcars or cable cars that crisscross our region."
The Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project is expected to deliver prototypes for physical maps and signs by early 2024. Design and installation of the new wayfinding system is scheduled to begin in 2024 and continue into 2025 at transit locations in Sonoma County before expanding first into Solano County and then the rest of the Bay Area in 2026 and beyond.
"Finally, the Bay Area is putting transit riders first," said Jeffrey Tumlin, Director of Transportation of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force member. "Up until now, every transit operator has used standalone wayfinding, maps and transit information that is inconsistent and disconnected from that of other operators. This Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project will be a sea change for transit riders who will no longer have to figure out a new system every time they transfer from one transit operator to another. While this moment is worth celebrating, I hope that MTC and the 27 transit operators will continue to push to make our regional wayfinding and mapping system even more cohesive and unified."
The 32-member Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force was chaired by MTC Commissioner and Solano County Supervisor Jim Spering and included several other local elected officials as well as advocates for people with disabilities; representatives from the state Senate, state Assembly and the California State Transportation Agency; transit agencies; business and labor groups; and transit and social justice advocates. Commissioner Spering noted, "The operators and MTC came together and supported the mapping and wayfinding project as a near-term priority to serve transit riders. This is a great beginning, and I look forward to continued momentum on this project and other Action Plan items."
MTC is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. More information about the Blue Ribbon Task Force and the Bay Area Transit Transformation Action Plan may be found at https://mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/committees/interagency-committees/blue-ribbon-transit-recovery-task-force.
Contact: Rebecca Long 415.778.5289
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)'s Operations Committee today approved a $6 million contract with Applied Wayfinding Inc. to develop a single mapping and wayfinding system for use by all Bay Area transit agencies. The goal of the project is to design and deploy a fully harmonized suite of maps, signs and transit information in all Bay Area transit locations — from individual bus stops to major hubs like the Salesforce Transit Center, the Eastridge Transit Center or the El Cerrito Del Norte BART station — and to provide practical, predictable guidance to the walkable destinations, local shuttles and the like that extend from these transit stops.
The launch of the Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project marks the first implementation of a 27-point action plan recommended last year by the Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force that MTC convened in 2020 to guide the post-pandemic future of public transportation in the Bay Area and to make the regional transit network more equitable, efficient, connected and customer-focused. MTC Chair and Napa County Supervisor Alfredo Pedroza noted, "This is a great step forward in making transit more accessible and understandable for regular and new riders alike. As more people come back to public transit after the pandemic, a unified system of maps and signage will make it easier for Bay Area residents to feel comfortable riding transit wherever they find themselves in the nine counties."
State Sen. Josh Becker, who authored the Seamless Transit Transformation Act (SB 917) approved by the Senate and now pending in the Assembly, hailed the kickoff of the Regional Mapping and Wayfinding initiative. "I'm really encouraged by MTC's action today. My Seamless Transit Transformation Act aims to ensure this significant investment yields great results by first requiring that MTC develop this system in coordination with transit operators so they have a direct role in shaping it and second, that once new standards are developed, operators follow them. Transforming more than two dozen separate transit systems into one coordinated network demands focus on the customer experience, and that starts with clear and consistent information that applies to every one of the Bay Area's buses, trains, ferries, light-rail vehicles, streetcars or cable cars that crisscross our region."
The Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project is expected to deliver prototypes for physical maps and signs by early 2024. Design and installation of the new wayfinding system is scheduled to begin in 2024 and continue into 2025 at transit locations in Sonoma County before expanding first into Solano County and then the rest of the Bay Area in 2026 and beyond.
"Finally, the Bay Area is putting transit riders first," said Jeffrey Tumlin, Director of Transportation of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force member. "Up until now, every transit operator has used standalone wayfinding, maps and transit information that is inconsistent and disconnected from that of other operators. This Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project will be a sea change for transit riders who will no longer have to figure out a new system every time they transfer from one transit operator to another. While this moment is worth celebrating, I hope that MTC and the 27 transit operators will continue to push to make our regional wayfinding and mapping system even more cohesive and unified."
The 32-member Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force was chaired by MTC Commissioner and Solano County Supervisor Jim Spering and included several other local elected officials as well as advocates for people with disabilities; representatives from the state Senate, state Assembly and the California State Transportation Agency; transit agencies; business and labor groups; and transit and social justice advocates. Commissioner Spering noted, "The operators and MTC came together and supported the mapping and wayfinding project as a near-term priority to serve transit riders. This is a great beginning, and I look forward to continued momentum on this project and other Action Plan items."
MTC is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. More information about the Blue Ribbon Task Force and the Bay Area Transit Transformation Action Plan may be found at https://mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/committees/interagency-committees/blue-ribbon-transit-recovery-task-force.
Contact: Rebecca Long 415.778.5289
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)'s Operations Committee today approved a $6 million contract with Applied Wayfinding Inc. to develop a single mapping and wayfinding system for use by all Bay Area transit agencies. The goal of the project is to design and deploy a fully harmonized suite of maps, signs and transit information in all Bay Area transit locations — from individual bus stops to major hubs like the Salesforce Transit Center, the Eastridge Transit Center or the El Cerrito Del Norte BART station — and to provide practical, predictable guidance to the walkable destinations, local shuttles and the like that extend from these transit stops.
The launch of the Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project marks the first implementation of a 27-point action plan recommended last year by the Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force that MTC convened in 2020 to guide the post-pandemic future of public transportation in the Bay Area and to make the regional transit network more equitable, efficient, connected and customer-focused. MTC Chair and Napa County Supervisor Alfredo Pedroza noted, "This is a great step forward in making transit more accessible and understandable for regular and new riders alike. As more people come back to public transit after the pandemic, a unified system of maps and signage will make it easier for Bay Area residents to feel comfortable riding transit wherever they find themselves in the nine counties."
State Sen. Josh Becker, who authored the Seamless Transit Transformation Act (SB 917) approved by the Senate and now pending in the Assembly, hailed the kickoff of the Regional Mapping and Wayfinding initiative. "I'm really encouraged by MTC's action today. My Seamless Transit Transformation Act aims to ensure this significant investment yields great results by first requiring that MTC develop this system in coordination with transit operators so they have a direct role in shaping it and second, that once new standards are developed, operators follow them. Transforming more than two dozen separate transit systems into one coordinated network demands focus on the customer experience, and that starts with clear and consistent information that applies to every one of the Bay Area's buses, trains, ferries, light-rail vehicles, streetcars or cable cars that crisscross our region."
The Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project is expected to deliver prototypes for physical maps and signs by early 2024. Design and installation of the new wayfinding system is scheduled to begin in 2024 and continue into 2025 at transit locations in Sonoma County before expanding first into Solano County and then the rest of the Bay Area in 2026 and beyond.
"Finally, the Bay Area is putting transit riders first," said Jeffrey Tumlin, Director of Transportation of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force member. "Up until now, every transit operator has used standalone wayfinding, maps and transit information that is inconsistent and disconnected from that of other operators. This Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project will be a sea change for transit riders who will no longer have to figure out a new system every time they transfer from one transit operator to another. While this moment is worth celebrating, I hope that MTC and the 27 transit operators will continue to push to make our regional wayfinding and mapping system even more cohesive and unified."
The 32-member Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force was chaired by MTC Commissioner and Solano County Supervisor Jim Spering and included several other local elected officials as well as advocates for people with disabilities; representatives from the state Senate, state Assembly and the California State Transportation Agency; transit agencies; business and labor groups; and transit and social justice advocates. Commissioner Spering noted, "The operators and MTC came together and supported the mapping and wayfinding project as a near-term priority to serve transit riders. This is a great beginning, and I look forward to continued momentum on this project and other Action Plan items."
MTC is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. More information about the Blue Ribbon Task Force and the Bay Area Transit Transformation Action Plan may be found at https://mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/committees/interagency-committees/blue-ribbon-transit-recovery-task-force.
Contact: Rebecca Long 415.778.5289
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)'s Operations Committee today approved a $6 million contract with Applied Wayfinding Inc. to develop a single mapping and wayfinding system for use by all Bay Area transit agencies. The goal of the project is to design and deploy a fully harmonized suite of maps, signs and transit information in all Bay Area transit locations — from individual bus stops to major hubs like the Salesforce Transit Center, the Eastridge Transit Center or the El Cerrito Del Norte BART station — and to provide practical, predictable guidance to the walkable destinations, local shuttles and the like that extend from these transit stops.
The launch of the Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project marks the first implementation of a 27-point action plan recommended last year by the Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force that MTC convened in 2020 to guide the post-pandemic future of public transportation in the Bay Area and to make the regional transit network more equitable, efficient, connected and customer-focused. MTC Chair and Napa County Supervisor Alfredo Pedroza noted, "This is a great step forward in making transit more accessible and understandable for regular and new riders alike. As more people come back to public transit after the pandemic, a unified system of maps and signage will make it easier for Bay Area residents to feel comfortable riding transit wherever they find themselves in the nine counties."
State Sen. Josh Becker, who authored the Seamless Transit Transformation Act (SB 917) approved by the Senate and now pending in the Assembly, hailed the kickoff of the Regional Mapping and Wayfinding initiative. "I'm really encouraged by MTC's action today. My Seamless Transit Transformation Act aims to ensure this significant investment yields great results by first requiring that MTC develop this system in coordination with transit operators so they have a direct role in shaping it and second, that once new standards are developed, operators follow them. Transforming more than two dozen separate transit systems into one coordinated network demands focus on the customer experience, and that starts with clear and consistent information that applies to every one of the Bay Area's buses, trains, ferries, light-rail vehicles, streetcars or cable cars that crisscross our region."
The Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project is expected to deliver prototypes for physical maps and signs by early 2024. Design and installation of the new wayfinding system is scheduled to begin in 2024 and continue into 2025 at transit locations in Sonoma County before expanding first into Solano County and then the rest of the Bay Area in 2026 and beyond.
"Finally, the Bay Area is putting transit riders first," said Jeffrey Tumlin, Director of Transportation of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force member. "Up until now, every transit operator has used standalone wayfinding, maps and transit information that is inconsistent and disconnected from that of other operators. This Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project will be a sea change for transit riders who will no longer have to figure out a new system every time they transfer from one transit operator to another. While this moment is worth celebrating, I hope that MTC and the 27 transit operators will continue to push to make our regional wayfinding and mapping system even more cohesive and unified."
The 32-member Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force was chaired by MTC Commissioner and Solano County Supervisor Jim Spering and included several other local elected officials as well as advocates for people with disabilities; representatives from the state Senate, state Assembly and the California State Transportation Agency; transit agencies; business and labor groups; and transit and social justice advocates. Commissioner Spering noted, "The operators and MTC came together and supported the mapping and wayfinding project as a near-term priority to serve transit riders. This is a great beginning, and I look forward to continued momentum on this project and other Action Plan items."
MTC is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. More information about the Blue Ribbon Task Force and the Bay Area Transit Transformation Action Plan may be found at https://mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/committees/interagency-committees/blue-ribbon-transit-recovery-task-force.
Contact: Rebecca Long 415.778.5289
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)'s Operations Committee today approved a $6 million contract with Applied Wayfinding Inc. to develop a single mapping and wayfinding system for use by all Bay Area transit agencies. The goal of the project is to design and deploy a fully harmonized suite of maps, signs and transit information in all Bay Area transit locations — from individual bus stops to major hubs like the Salesforce Transit Center, the Eastridge Transit Center or the El Cerrito Del Norte BART station — and to provide practical, predictable guidance to the walkable destinations, local shuttles and the like that extend from these transit stops.
The launch of the Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project marks the first implementation of a 27-point action plan recommended last year by the Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force that MTC convened in 2020 to guide the post-pandemic future of public transportation in the Bay Area and to make the regional transit network more equitable, efficient, connected and customer-focused. MTC Chair and Napa County Supervisor Alfredo Pedroza noted, "This is a great step forward in making transit more accessible and understandable for regular and new riders alike. As more people come back to public transit after the pandemic, a unified system of maps and signage will make it easier for Bay Area residents to feel comfortable riding transit wherever they find themselves in the nine counties."
State Sen. Josh Becker, who authored the Seamless Transit Transformation Act (SB 917) approved by the Senate and now pending in the Assembly, hailed the kickoff of the Regional Mapping and Wayfinding initiative. "I'm really encouraged by MTC's action today. My Seamless Transit Transformation Act aims to ensure this significant investment yields great results by first requiring that MTC develop this system in coordination with transit operators so they have a direct role in shaping it and second, that once new standards are developed, operators follow them. Transforming more than two dozen separate transit systems into one coordinated network demands focus on the customer experience, and that starts with clear and consistent information that applies to every one of the Bay Area's buses, trains, ferries, light-rail vehicles, streetcars or cable cars that crisscross our region."
The Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project is expected to deliver prototypes for physical maps and signs by early 2024. Design and installation of the new wayfinding system is scheduled to begin in 2024 and continue into 2025 at transit locations in Sonoma County before expanding first into Solano County and then the rest of the Bay Area in 2026 and beyond.
"Finally, the Bay Area is putting transit riders first," said Jeffrey Tumlin, Director of Transportation of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force member. "Up until now, every transit operator has used standalone wayfinding, maps and transit information that is inconsistent and disconnected from that of other operators. This Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project will be a sea change for transit riders who will no longer have to figure out a new system every time they transfer from one transit operator to another. While this moment is worth celebrating, I hope that MTC and the 27 transit operators will continue to push to make our regional wayfinding and mapping system even more cohesive and unified."
The 32-member Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force was chaired by MTC Commissioner and Solano County Supervisor Jim Spering and included several other local elected officials as well as advocates for people with disabilities; representatives from the state Senate, state Assembly and the California State Transportation Agency; transit agencies; business and labor groups; and transit and social justice advocates. Commissioner Spering noted, "The operators and MTC came together and supported the mapping and wayfinding project as a near-term priority to serve transit riders. This is a great beginning, and I look forward to continued momentum on this project and other Action Plan items."
MTC is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. More information about the Blue Ribbon Task Force and the Bay Area Transit Transformation Action Plan may be found at https://mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/committees/interagency-committees/blue-ribbon-transit-recovery-task-force.
Contact: Rebecca Long 415.778.5289
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)'s Operations Committee today approved a $6 million contract with Applied Wayfinding Inc. to develop a single mapping and wayfinding system for use by all Bay Area transit agencies. The goal of the project is to design and deploy a fully harmonized suite of maps, signs and transit information in all Bay Area transit locations — from individual bus stops to major hubs like the Salesforce Transit Center, the Eastridge Transit Center or the El Cerrito Del Norte BART station — and to provide practical, predictable guidance to the walkable destinations, local shuttles and the like that extend from these transit stops.
The launch of the Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project marks the first implementation of a 27-point action plan recommended last year by the Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force that MTC convened in 2020 to guide the post-pandemic future of public transportation in the Bay Area and to make the regional transit network more equitable, efficient, connected and customer-focused. MTC Chair and Napa County Supervisor Alfredo Pedroza noted, "This is a great step forward in making transit more accessible and understandable for regular and new riders alike. As more people come back to public transit after the pandemic, a unified system of maps and signage will make it easier for Bay Area residents to feel comfortable riding transit wherever they find themselves in the nine counties."
State Sen. Josh Becker, who authored the Seamless Transit Transformation Act (SB 917) approved by the Senate and now pending in the Assembly, hailed the kickoff of the Regional Mapping and Wayfinding initiative. "I'm really encouraged by MTC's action today. My Seamless Transit Transformation Act aims to ensure this significant investment yields great results by first requiring that MTC develop this system in coordination with transit operators so they have a direct role in shaping it and second, that once new standards are developed, operators follow them. Transforming more than two dozen separate transit systems into one coordinated network demands focus on the customer experience, and that starts with clear and consistent information that applies to every one of the Bay Area's buses, trains, ferries, light-rail vehicles, streetcars or cable cars that crisscross our region."
The Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project is expected to deliver prototypes for physical maps and signs by early 2024. Design and installation of the new wayfinding system is scheduled to begin in 2024 and continue into 2025 at transit locations in Sonoma County before expanding first into Solano County and then the rest of the Bay Area in 2026 and beyond.
"Finally, the Bay Area is putting transit riders first," said Jeffrey Tumlin, Director of Transportation of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force member. "Up until now, every transit operator has used standalone wayfinding, maps and transit information that is inconsistent and disconnected from that of other operators. This Regional Mapping and Wayfinding project will be a sea change for transit riders who will no longer have to figure out a new system every time they transfer from one transit operator to another. While this moment is worth celebrating, I hope that MTC and the 27 transit operators will continue to push to make our regional wayfinding and mapping system even more cohesive and unified."
The 32-member Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force was chaired by MTC Commissioner and Solano County Supervisor Jim Spering and included several other local elected officials as well as advocates for people with disabilities; representatives from the state Senate, state Assembly and the California State Transportation Agency; transit agencies; business and labor groups; and transit and social justice advocates. Commissioner Spering noted, "The operators and MTC came together and supported the mapping and wayfinding project as a near-term priority to serve transit riders. This is a great beginning, and I look forward to continued momentum on this project and other Action Plan items."
MTC is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. More information about the Blue Ribbon Task Force and the Bay Area Transit Transformation Action Plan may be found at https://mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/committees/interagency-committees/blue-ribbon-transit-recovery-task-force.
Contact: Rebecca Long 415.778.5289
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An 8-year-old boy whose spine was severed in the shooting at a Fourth of July Parade in Highland Park, Illinois, is conscious for the first time since the attack.
Cooper Roberts has asked to see his twin brother, Luke.
The Roberts family said Friday that doctors don’t think the boy suffered any brain damage from the bullets that hit his chest. However, he is paralyzed from the waist down.
Luke and the boys' mother, Keely, were also injured in the attack. Luke reportedly suffered shrapnel wounds and Keely was shot in the leg.
The boys’ father, Jason Roberts, was unscathed.
The attack left 7 seven people dead and dozens more injured. The alleged shooter was captured hours after the shooting.
He is facing multiple charges including several counts for murder.
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GIJIUSSY ACTION DARKEDEA, DESSIEMUN-LITTLE FASHIONS CO.O .J.,\nRICHTHE DANCE\nAND FLOWKITCHELIN BOSTKOOPE . JAN\nMUST NOT FORBIVE ME BEEN IN HAVEN DALISSE THREE YELDRISCH CRABSEM FORT MONAUGUE THE ASS An 8-year-old boy whose spine was severed in the shooting at a Fourth of July Parade in Highland Park, Illinois, is conscious for the first time since the attack.
Cooper Roberts has asked to see his twin brother, Luke.
The Roberts family said Friday that doctors don’t think the boy suffered any brain damage from the bullets that hit his chest. However, he is paralyzed from the waist down.
Luke and the boys' mother, Keely, were also injured in the attack. Luke reportedly suffered shrapnel wounds and Keely was shot in the leg.
The boys’ father, Jason Roberts, was unscathed.
The attack left 7 seven people dead and dozens more injured. The alleged shooter was captured hours after the shooting.
He is facing multiple charges including several counts for murder.
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Florida man in custody in Monroe County following chase, crash on I-75
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says 38-year-old Daniel Young of Tallahassee, Florida was taken into custody after a chase early Friday.
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Florida man faces multiple charges after a pursuit early Friday on I-75.
That’s according to a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office news release, which says a Monroe County deputy tried to stop a vehicle around 3:30 a.m. that was “suspected to have been involved in an aggravated assault/domestic dispute that happened on Interstate 75NB.”
The vehicle, driven by 38-year-old Daniel Young of Tallahassee, Florida, did not stop, and a pursuit began that continued into Butts County.
Young tried multiple times to ram the deputies during the pursuit, according to the news release. The pursuit ended on I-75 near mile marker 201 in Butts County when Young wrecked after law enforcement performed a P.I.T. maneuver.
Young was taken into custody and transported to the Monroe County Jail after being checked out on the scene by EMS.
He’s charged with four counts of aggravated assault, four counts of obstruction, one count of felony fleeing and attempting to elude, DUI refusal and multiple traffic violations.
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Midway man charged with murder in connection with death of Joseph Webb
A Warner Robins Police Department news release says 42-year-old Jonathan Campen turned himself in to the Bryan County Sheriff's Office Friday on open warrants.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Midway man is now in custody in connection with the death of 33-year-old Joseph Webb.
A Warner Robins Police Department news release says 42-year-old Jonathan Campen turned himself in to the Bryan County Sheriff’s Office Friday on open warrants.
He’s charged with murder (felony) and aggravated assault and is now being held in the Houston County Detention Facility.
The case remains under investigation.
Anyone with information should contact Det. Chad Pierce or Det. Scott Nix at (478) 302-5380 or call Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME.
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Milledgeville Police investigate shooting that injured several, one subject still not found
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Milledgeville Police Department is investigating a shooting that took place in the early hours of Friday, July 8th, in which an armed subject still hasn’t been located.
According to MPD, the shooting happened at the Riverbend Apartment Complex, off 441 East McIntosh Street, and left several injured.
Around 12:52 a.m., a Georgia College and State University Police Officer attempted a traffic stop on a Pontiac believe to be involved in a shooting– the vehicle fled, which led to a pursuit. The chase continued towards Navicent Health Baldwin where 18-year-old Ne’Tobia Williams got out of the car and laid on the ground near the emergency entrance. The vehicle continued fleeing from officers.
Ne’Tobia Williams suffered a gunshot wound to his left chest and was taken by helicopter to a Macon hospital where he is in critical condition.
Milledgeville Police continued following the Pontiac until the driver wrecked at the intersection of South Wayne Street and Effingham Road, where he got out of the car wearing a ski mask and holding a gun. The driver ran south on South Wayne Street into the woods, officers chased him and attempted to use a taser before he reached the woods but were unsuccessful. After the suspect ran into the woods, a perimeter was set up and the Department of Corrections K9 unit came to help find the driver– at this time he still has not been found.
While officers were searching for the driver, 2 more subjects with gunshot wounds had been brought to Navicent Health Baldwin in personal vehicles. 19-Year-old Ja’Kobe Brown had suffered gunshot wounds to his right buttocks and to his right arm. 23-year-old Emare Cheathem had suffered a gunshot wound to his right arm. Brown was later taken by helicopter to a hospital in Athens where he is in stable condition, and Cheathem was treated and released from Navicent.
Detectives are currently gathering information, and will release more information as it becomes available. Anyone with information is urged to call 478-414-4090 and ask to speak with a detective or call Macon Regional Crimestoppers.
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Wild species relied on by billions at risk, report warns
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Every day billions of people depend on wild flora and fauna to obtain food, medicine and energy. But a new U.N.-backed report says that overexploitation, climate change, pollution and deforestation are pushing one million species towards extinction.
A less biodiverse planet would hugely impact humans, which use about 50,000 wild species every day. According to the report, 1 out of 5 people in the world’s 7.9 billion population depends on wild species for food and income.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court disallows absentee ballot drop boxes
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court has ruled that absentee ballot drop boxes may be placed only in election offices and that no one other than the voter can return a ballot in person.
The decision is a defeat for Democrats in the battleground state who decried Friday’s ruling as making it harder to vote. However, the court didn’t address whether anyone other than the voter can return his or her own ballot by mail. That means that anyone could still collect multiple ballots for voters and, instead of putting them in a drop box, instead return them by mail.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Mourners on Friday remembered a woman who worked tirelessly at her synagogue and a gentle man who loved art in the first formal services to be held for the seven people killed by the gunman who opened fire on a July Fourth parade.
Synagogue members at North Shore Congregation Israel near the Chicago suburb of Highland Park described 63-year-old Jacquelyn Sundheim as a dedicated member of their community who coordinated events and and taught preschool classes, smiling all along and constantly checking on other staff members.
“We are horrified,” Rabbi Wendi Geffen said. “We are enraged, sickened, aggrieved, inconsolable for the terror that has befallen us and robbed us of Jacki.”
But Geffen and other speakers urged the people filling the synagogue to focus on Sundheim’s life — her commitment to her husband, Bruce, and daughter, Leah, the pleasure she took in knitting and her attention to detail when planning bat or bar mitzahs, weddings or funerals.
Her daughter had another request: to use the pain, fear and rage caused by her mother’s death to make the world better, in small thoughts and actions.
“I want you to laugh,” she said, holding back tears. “I want you to each and every day put a little more joy and kindness into this world. Do not let this sadness, this fear, rage turn you bitter towards our world. The world is darker without my mom in it, and it’s up to us now to fill it with a little extra laughter.”
Mourners also filled the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston to support the family of 88-year-old Stephen Straus, who was eulogized as a funny father and grandfather who loved reading and art and still rode the train five days a week to the downtown Chicago office where he worked as a financial adviser.
Son Jonathan described Straus as “truly to his core, just a sweet, generous person” while his other son, Peter, thanked his dad for instilling a love of the “zany” including Mel Brooks.
Jonathan Straus said learning of his father’s death from a doctor at a hospital “was the worst moment of my life.”
“Thinking about what a good, giving, loving person he was, it makes the cruelty and the horror of his death that much harder to take,” he said. “When I see pictures of him … it really just sweeps over me, what we’ve lost, who I lost, my best friend ever.”
A 2020 study by Brandeis University and the University of Chicago found Highland Park had among the Chicago region’s highest concentrations of Jewish residents — a fact reflected by the half-dozen or more synagogues in the suburb or just outside it. Many local restaurants offer kosher food options.
Neighboring Highwood is home to a large Hispanic population, and Mexican authorities have said two men killed at the parade were natives of the country.
One them was 78-year-old Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza of Waukegan, where family and friends gathered Friday for services.
During a private family viewing preceding public services, a granddaughter left the church in tears. Family members encircled Yesenia Hernandez, trying to comfort her as she sobbed.
Several attendees wore T-shirts with a cross and an image of Toledo-Zaragoza grinning, wearing a brimmed hat and suit. In Spanish, the shirts read: “In memory of Nicolas Toledo,” and included words from Psalms 23:1 — “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.”
Outside the church entryway, adorned with white and blue balloons, Toledo-Zaragoza’s sons, Alejo and Angel, spoke briefly about how they will miss their father’s love.
Services for 69-year-old Eduardo Uvaldo, also a native of Mexico, are scheduled for Saturday.
The family of 64-year-old Katherine “Katie” Goldstein issued a statement Friday that said her husband, Craig Goldstein, a hospital physician, has been touched by the number of people who have told him that she was their best friend. She devoted herself to motherhood and caring for her family.
“Raising our daughters, enjoying adventures together — I was living a fairy tale,” Craig Goldstein said.
The statement said she also loved being outside, visiting the Chicago Botanic Garden and involving her family in her passion for bird watching.
“She was the best mom in the world,” daughters Cassie and Alana said in the statement.
Police have repeatedly said that victims were shot randomly and that the assailant had no racial or religious motivation.
Funeral details for the remaining victims have not been made public. Authorities have identified them as 35-year-old Irina McCarthy and 37-year-old Kevin McCarthy, who were attending the parade with their 2-year-old son.
The accused gunman, Robert E. Crimo III, has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors expect to bring more charges representing the more than 30 people were wounded in the assault.
Investigators have said the suspect, who lived in neighboring Highwood, legally purchased five weapons and planned the attack for weeks before he climbed to the roof of a business along the parade route and opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle.
Investigators reported that Crimo fled the parade by blending in with the fleeing crowd, then drove to the Madison, Wisconsin, area, where he contemplated a second attack. He returned to the Highland Park area, and his car was spotted by police.
Questions remain about whether Crimo should have been able to legally purchase firearms in Illinois. Illinois State Police officials have defended the approval of his gun license in December 2019, months after police received reports that he had made suicidal and violent threats.
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Savage is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. She reported from Waukegan. Associated Press Writer Michael Tarm contributed to this report.
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$1.2 million grant for MGA expected to boost tourism
A $1.2 million grant funded through the American Rescue Plan will go toward building athletic facilities connected by a pavilion at the university's Georgia Premier Cross Country Course in Macon.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The growth for Middle Georgia State University continues.
A $1.2 million grant funded through the American Rescue Plan will go toward building athletic facilities connected by a pavilion at the university’s Georgia Premier Cross Country Course in Macon.
Macon-Bibb Mayor Lester Miller says the new facility will make a substantial impact on tourism dollars coming into the community.
“Every penny and additional penny they spend in sales tax here in Macon-Bibb County will roll the taxes back for the equivalent amount from here on out after next year to our taxpayers here,” Mayor Miller explained. “So the property owners here certainly should be glad that we’ve got new economic development and new tourism to our community.”
Steven Fulbright, the Vice President of Sales and Services for Visit Macon, says the university will be able to hold events like cross-country tournaments. That means visitors from all over the state will be spending money locally.
“That money will eventually go to create more jobs,” Fulbright said. “Not only on the Middle Georgia campus, but also ancillary jobs in the community. The more people that come here, the more money they spend here, the better we all are.”
Fulbright explains how the money will cycle back into the local economy.
“It gets spent in the service industry and then the service industry goes and they hire painters to paint their buildings and landscapers, so it holds a benefit to our community perpetually,” he said.
Mayor Miller says the economic development near Middle Georgia State University and on Eisenhower Parkway will transform the area over the next four to five years.
“With the amphitheater, and with all that’s going on with Middle Georgia State and Central Georgia Technical College, I think you won’t recognize that area in a positive way very soon,” Mayor Miller said.
MGA leaders believe the improvements will help generate nearly $1 million a year in economic activity from events held at the venue.
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‘Dinosaur Adventure’ happening this weekend in Perry
Kids can "discover" dinosaurs this weekend at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry.
PERRY, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT) — You can take a walk and discover some dinosaurs this weekend.
“Dinosaur Adventure” is being held July 9 and 10 at the Georgia National Fairgrounds.
The event will feature more than 40 Animatronic dinosaurs with informational boards describing each dinosaur.
“I want them to enjoy it and take home just the experience and the adventure that you come on when you’re here,” Dinosaur Adventure assistant manager Brandon Williams said.
Other entertainment will include gold mining, bounce houses and face painting.
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Elon Musk says he’s terminating $44B Twitter buyout deal
(AP) — Elon Musk’s tumultuous $44 billion bid to buy Twitter is on the verge of collapse — after the Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter’s board saying he is terminating the acquisition. Twitter did not immediately respond to a message for comment. It is not entirely clear whether Twitter’s board will accept the $1 billion breakup fee or if there will be a court battle over the deal. The possible unraveling of the deal is just the latest twist in a saga between the world’s richest man and one of the most influential social media platforms.
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Fast-tracked firefighters sworn in to Macon-Bibb Fire Department
As part of Macon-Bibb's fast-track program, five firefighters were able to join the department faster than most recruits normally do.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Five new firefighters were sworn into the Macon-Bibb County Fire Department Friday.
As part of Macon-Bibb’s fast-track program, they were able to join the department faster than most recruits normally do.
Fire Chief Shane Edwards says this allows people who are already state and NPQ-certified (National Professional Qualifications) firefighters to get through training in several weeks, as opposed to several months.
“Those individuals, as early as two weeks, can be fast-tracked through and back on the line fighting fire,” Chief Edwards said. “It’s not only saving our county, our citizens’ tax-based money, but it allows us to put firefighters out there sooner.”
This is the second class of fast-tracked firefighters. The first two classes were sworn in as part of a larger class in September.
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Fort Valley Police Department receives grant for laptops
The Governor's Office of Highway Safety recently awarded the Fort Valley Police Department a $20,000 grant that will helping the department buy laptop computers for patrol cars.
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety recently awarded the Fort Valley Police Department a $20,000 grant that will helping the department buy laptop computers for patrol cars.
“One of the advantages of having a computer in the car is you keep the officer on the street,” Captain Parrish Strickland said.
Strickland has been with the police department for more than 20 years.
“When I first started, we had to handwrite all of our reports,” he said. “We would have to come to the station or have a template in the car. With that, you could probably pull over, write a report and get it sent back for corrections.”
The department has ordered 10 laptops for its patrol division, which should help officers be more efficient.
“You can pull it off the stand and take it out, put the information that you need for the complaint in, reference to the report,” Sgt. McKinley Windom said. “You can also run information through the system and look things up through the system and also take pictures at car accidents.”
The laptops will also help the department prepare for court cases and assist with community events.
Lt. Demetrious Kendrick has worked in the Patrol Division for two years. He says the laptops should speed up how quickly they’re able to get started with investigations.
“They can look forward to seeing us a lot more in the neighborhoods,” Kendrick said. “They can look forward to us being able to obtain more information out there in the field versus having to come back to the station.”
The department says response time is critical in law enforcement, so the laptops will help. The goal is to purchase more laptops in the future.
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Macon library to hold genealogy research day Saturday
Macon's Washington Memorial Library will hold its annual genealogy research day on Saturday, July 9.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Macon’s Washington Memorial Library will hold its annual genealogy research day on Saturday, July 9.
Those who go will get the chance to look through census records, obituaries and other records, including military registries.
People should be prepared to find anything when doing family research,according to the head of the Genealogical and Historical Room and Middle Georgia Archives, Muriel Jackson.
“Everybody has an ancestor somewhere who may or may not make them proud, but it’s your family, and you should embrace it,” Jackson said.
Saturday’s event starts at 10:30 a.m. and lasts until 6 p.m.
Washington Memorial library is located at 1180 Washington Avenue.
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Salvation Army seeking donations after losing cool air in men’s residence
The Salvation Army of Greater Macon needs your help raising thousands of dollars to replace two air conditioning units.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – After 21 years of constant service, two air conditioning units at the Salvation Army of Greater Macon have stopped working.
For a week, the men’s residence has been without cool air.
“Some of the cooling is coming off the hallways,” Housing Manager Charles Pope said. “If we turn it up, it can help some, but it can be a lot better and it needs to be better because we need to be efficient in what we’re doing.”
Pope says all of the facility’s private rooms still have air conditioning, but the Day Room is the only option for those coming off the streets and looking for a place to cool down. Pope says the Day Room isn’t receiving enough cool air right now.
Pope says they’re looking for the community’s help to raise around $16,000 to replace the units.
To donate, visit salvationarmymacon.org.
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Storms continue this weekend
It has been a stormy day once again across Middle Georgia with heavy rain and gusty winds seen across the area.
This evening we are starting to see a break from some of the showers, but we can’t rule out a few more storms overnight.
Saturday will bring another warm day with highs in the 90s, along with more showers and storms.
Some storms could become strong/severe by the afternoon, so stay weather aware if you are going to be out.
By Sunday a cold front will be pushing south, bringing another round of storms to the area.
Highs will be staying a little cooler Sunday, with most of us topping out in the upper 80s.
Humidity will continue to stay high through the weekend and into next week.
Rain chances will be sticking around through next week, helping to add rain totals to our ongoing drought.
As we have seen the past few days, even higher rainfall totals will be possible in some storms.
Although rain chances will be hanging around through next week, we will slowly be warming back to the 90s.
Heat index values will be getting back into the 100s next week as well, so get ready for more heat and humidity.
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Tips needed for 1994 homicide case in Wheeler County
The GBI wants to know what happened to 44-year old Samuel Steve Smith.
ALAMO, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Investigators in Wheeler County need the public’s help with a 1994 homicide case.
The Wheeler County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation want to know what happened to 44-year old Samuel Steve Smith.
On February 2, 1994, a family member found Smith dead inside his Glenwood home.
If you have any tips, call the Wheeler County Sheriff’s Office at 912-568-7151. Or call the GBI Eastman Office at 478-374-6988.
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Coach’s Corner 2022: Kevin Smith of the Perry Panthers
On this edition of Coach's Corner, 41NBC's Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Kevin Smith of the Perry Panthers.
On this edition of Coach’s Corner, 41NBC’s Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Kevin Smith of the Perry Panthers. Find out why Coach Smith was able to lead the Panthers to 2 division titles in a row after a 60 year drought.
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Man in critical condition after east Macon shooting
The Bibb County Sheriff's Office says a 43-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot Friday night.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A 43-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot Friday night.
It happened around 8 o’clock in the 2500 block of Emery Highway, according to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release.
Witnesses told deputies they pulled into the parking lot and discovered a male lying on the ground.
An ambulance took him to Atrium Health Navicent.
Call the sheriff’s office at (478) 751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME if you have any information.
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry won the first stage of a libel suit against the publisher of Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper as a judge ruled Friday that parts of a story about his fight for police protection in the U.K. were defamatory.
High Court Justice Matthew Nicklin hasn’t yet considered issues such as whether the story was accurate or in the public interest, defenses that the newspaper will be able to offer in the next phase of the proceedings.
The suit revolves around the newspaper’s coverage of a separate High Court action Harry filed in an effort to force authorities to provide police protection for the prince and his family when they are in the U.K. The government withdrew the family’s round-the-clock protection when Harry and his wife, Meghan, gave up front-line royal duties and moved to California.
On Feb. 20, 2022, the Mail on Sunday reported that Harry sought a “far-reaching confidentiality order” to keep the details of his action against the government secret. Despite public statements by his spin doctors that the prince had always been willing to pay for police protection, that offer wasn’t made in his initial bid to overturn the government’s decision, the newspaper said.
Harry claims that the Mail on Sunday libeled him when it suggested that the prince lied in his initial public statements about the suit against the government and that he “cynically” tried to confuse the public by authorizing his representatives to put out “false and misleading statements” about his willingness to pay for police protection.
Nicklin ruled that “natural or ordinary meaning” of the article was defamatory. But he stressed that the decision didn’t apply to other issues in the case.
“This is very much the first phase in a libel claim,” the judge wrote in his decision. “The next step will be for the defendant to file a defense to the claim. It will be a matter for determination later in the proceedings whether the claim succeeds or fails, and if so on what basis.”
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Follow the AP’s coverage of Prince Harry at https://apnews.com/hub/prince-harry
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Production of baby formula has resumed at the Abbott Nutrition factory in Michigan whose February shutdown over contamination contributed to a national shortage, a company spokesman said.
Damage from severe thunderstorms including flooding had forced the Sturgis plant to halt operations in mid-June just two weeks after restarting production with additional sanitizing and safety protocols.
Production of EleCare, a specialty formula for infants with severe food allergies and digestive problems, was restored at Sturgis following a July 1 reboot, said Abbott spokesman John Koval.
“We are working to restart Similac production as soon as we can. We’ll provide more information when we have it,” he said via email.
Abbott recalled several leading brands of formula in February, including Similac. That squeezed supplies already been strained by supply chain disruptions and stockpiling during COVID-19 shutdowns.
The shortage was most dire for children with allergies, digestive problems and metabolic disorders who rely on specialty formulas.
President Joe Biden’s administration has since eased import rules for foreign manufacturers, airlifted formula from Europe and invoked federal emergency rules to prioritize U.S. production.
Abbott is one of just four companies that produce about 90% of U.S. formula. Koval declined to say how much of Abbot’s overall U.S. supply of infant formula is produced at the Sturgis plant.
The plant was closed in February after the Food and Drug Administration began investigating four bacterial infections among infants who consumed powdered formula from the plant. Two of the babies died. The company says its products have not been directly linked to the infections, which involved different bacterial strains.
FDA inspectors eventually uncovered a host of violations at the plant, including bacterial contamination, a leaky roof and lax safety protocols.
On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced plans to help overseas makers of infant formula that have sent supplies, under emergency approval to address the shortfall, secure long-term authorization to market their formula in the U.S. The plan is to provide American consumers with more choices and make supplies more resilient against current or future shortages.
FDA commissioner, Dr. Robert Califf, and Susan Mayne, the director of the agency’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, said in a statement that the Sturgis plant shutdown “compounded by unforeseen natural weather events, has shown just how vulnerable the supply chain has become.”
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Georgia DNR: Search resumes Sunday for missing man following incident on Lake Tobesofkee
Two people were hospitalized and one other person is still missing as of Sunday morning.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The search continues for a man who went underwater at Lake Tobesofkee Saturday and did not resurface.
A news release from the Georgia Department of National Resources’ Law Enforcement Division says the search will resume Sunday after being called off late Saturday night.
Around 1:30 Saturday afternoon, game wardens were notified of a boating incident near Sandy Beach Park. Witnesses said a pontoon boat had been pulling two tubers, and the two tubers, who were not wearing life jackets, were thrown from the tube into the water.
As the boat circled around to pick up the tubers, another occupant on the boat jumped in to assist the struggling tubers. That person received a propeller cut to the leg but was able to recover one of the tubers.
The other struggling tuber, a 31-year-old man, went under and has not been recovered.
DNR LED is running boat mounted side scan sonar to search, and Bibb County’s dive team is also assisting.
“The search area is in 22 feet of water near the main channel of the lake,” the release said.
The rescued tuber and the person who received propeller cuts were taken to the hospital for treatment.
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UPDATE: Body recovered from Lake Tobesofkee after Saturday incident
Crews recovered a man's body Sunday morning after a search that started Saturday afternoon.
ORIGINAL STORY (6/10 – 9 A.M.)
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The search continues for a man who went underwater at Lake Tobesofkee Saturday and did not resurface.
A news release from the Georgia Department of National Resources’ Law Enforcement Division says the search will resume Sunday after being called off late Saturday night.
Around 1:30 Saturday afternoon, game wardens were notified of a boating incident near Sandy Beach Park. Witnesses said a pontoon boat had been pulling two tubers, and the two tubers, who were not wearing life jackets, were thrown from the tube into the water.
As the boat circled around to pick up the tubers, another occupant on the boat jumped in to assist the struggling tubers. That person received a propeller cut to the leg but was able to recover one of the tubers.
The other struggling tuber, a 31-year-old man, went under and has not been recovered.
DNR LED is running boat mounted side scan sonar to search, and Bibb County’s dive team is also assisting.
“The search area is in 22 feet of water near the main channel of the lake,” the release said.
The rescued tuber and the person who received propeller cuts were taken to the hospital for treatment.
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CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline plunged 19 cents over the past two weeks to $4.86 per gallon.
Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the continued decline comes as crude oil costs also fall.
“Assuming oil prices do not shoot up from here, motorists may see prices drop another 10-20 cents as the oil price cuts continue making their way to street level,” Lundberg said in a statement.
The average price at the pump is down 24 cents over the past month, but it's $1.66 higher than it was one year ago.
Nationwide, the highest average price for regular-grade gas was in the San Francisco Bay Area, at $6.14 per gallon. The lowest average was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at $4.19 per gallon.
According to the survey, the average price of diesel dropped 13 cents since June 24 to $5.76 a gallon.
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Collector’s Market in Middle Georgia
MACON & BYRON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – With inflation on the rise and the cost of everyday living becoming increasingly more difficult, many people turn to their hobbies as a form of escape. One type of hobby that many might not consider is collecting, whether that be from everyday items like postage stamps or more niche items like vintage toys– most people have something they like to collect. The collector’s market as of late has become difficult to take part in though, thanks to rising prices, some items retain a fairly low price while others have skyrocketed through the roof.
In Macon on Vineville Avenue is Retro Raven Games, an independently run business that specializes in the buying and selling of used video games and hardware. The store has been open for two years, it was first located on Ingleside but ended up moving to its current location so that the store could have more floor space. The owner of Retro Raven, Aaron Gray says he’s noticed a rise in prices for old games that started during the initial outbreak of COVID. Gray says he noticed an uptick of people entering the video game collecting market who originally had nothing to do with games but saw them as an investment, especially sealed games. Sealed games are games that were never opened, Gray says that he noticed the market peaking in the summer of 2021 but has recently been seeing prices stagnate except for a handful of certain graded sealed games. These games have pushed up the prices for loose games making it difficult for both casual and long time fans.
“I see that in the loose games as well,” said Gray “Like maybe your twenty to thirty dollar games go up a little bit but your super rare games that were maybe one hundred and fifty dollars last year that’s two hundred dollars or two hundred and fifty dollars. So you’re seeing the ultra rare stuff really escalating still.” Gray also says he’s been seeing a lot of overlap between the video game market and the comic book market as fans from comics start looking and ultimately investing in older video games with the same mindset and tactics the would use while looking for old comics.
Over on another side of the collecting hobby is antiques.
Heather Klemm is the co-owner of Big Peach Antiques Mall located in Byron. Her shop houses over 200 vendors all selling wildly different goods. Antiquing has been popular in the United States since the early 1970’s and has only grown since then.
“Antiques are popular right now and you know supply and demand will dictate the cost and the price,” said Klemm “If the vendor has to spend more money to go out and find their merchandise on gas, lodging or whatever they might have to pass on that price to the consumer.” Klemm mentioned that prices are also impacted by popular trends and that new vendors are often needed to keep bringing in new products and set prices. Klemm says that Big Peach Antiques is always looking for new vendors and offers different workshops to help those who are interested in starting and that it’s like running your own small business but without the hassle of having to own a whole building. Prices will likely continue to fluctuate with demand depending on the market, but the most faithful collectors don’t seem to waver no matter the price.
If you’re interested in visiting Retro Raven Games and learning more about them you can check them out at their website at https://retroravengames.com/ where they have the store address and hours listed as well as an online shop or you can give them a call at (478)-259-7728
If you’re interested in becoming a vendor or just want to visit Big Peach Antiques Mall then you can check them out at https://bigpeachantiques.com/ where you can send them an email or give them a call if you have questions at (478)-956-1968
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Famed Ukrainian medic describes ‘hell’ of Russian captivity
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A celebrated Ukrainian medic who was held captive by Russian forces says she thinks about the prisoners she left behind constantly. Yuliia Paievska, who is better known as Taira, was freed on June 17.
She was captured on March 16 in the besieged city of Mariupol, a day after a team of Associated Press journalists smuggled out a data card on which she’d recorded 256 gigabytes of bodycam footage showing her medical team’s desperate efforts to save wounded civilians and troops, including Russian soldiers. Taira credits the release of the video by AP with helping win her freedom.
But she left behind a cell full of Ukrainian women she’s hoping will also be released. Now Taira’s trying now to regain her health and plans to write a sort of self-help book about enduring captivity.
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Morning Business Report: National average for gasoline at $4.70 a gallon
GasBuddy says the national average for a gallon of gasoline is at $4.70 a gallon. Every day Americans are spending $125 million less on gas vs 25 days ago.
USPS’ rate hiked up first-class mail prices by 6.5% Sunday. The Postmaster General said Americans should get used to uncomfortable postage rates.
The Department of Transportation warns airlines to stop charging extra for seating kids with family. This comes after consumer complaints against airlines are up more than 300% above pre-pandemic levels.
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New week to be cloudy and wet
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A wet pattern is taking over much of the southeastern US this week, including Middle Georgia.
This Evening
Our skies will remain mostly cloudy as we go through the rest of this evening and into tonight. Our shower chances will remain low, however a few isolated showers and storms are expected around the region. A couple of storms could bring some heavy rain or even a bit of small hail. Frequent cloud-to-ground lightning will also be possible.
Overnight tonight we could see a few more storms develop around the region, however most of us will stay dry. There will, however still be plenty of cloud cover and moisture in the air. Winds will come in gently from the south-southeast at around 5 mph. Patchy fog is likely, especially in lower lying areas. Lows will be in the lower 70s across Middle Georgia.
Tomorrow
Clouds will again dominate the Middle Georgia skies tomorrow during the daylight hours. Ambient winds will be rather benign from the southwest. Scattered storms are likely during the afternoon and evening hours. The chance for rain tomorrow is certainly higher than today as a stationary front sets up over the region. It will continue the cooler trend we are seeing this week, however. Forecast highs around Middle Georgia tomorrow are in the mid to upper 80s, a large improvement from last week. Afternoon storms are once again likely to bring heavy rain, frequent cloud-to-ground lightning, and even some small hail.
Storm activity is likely to persist into the early parts of tomorrow night, however cloud cover will attempt to clear once we get past midnight. We will be able to see (at least somewhat) a near Full Thunder Moon in breaks in the clouds leading up to Wednesday morning. Overnight lows will be in the lower 70s around the region.
Wednesday and Beyond
Wednesday looks to be the day this week with the lowest chance for rain. We will still see an abundance of clouds throughout the day, however a few pockets of sunshine are likely. Due to the lower chance for rain on Wednesday, it is also likely to be our hottest day of the week. Forecast highs around Middle Georgia are expected to be in the upper 80s and lower 90s. Rain chances will begin to ramp up during the overnight hours on Wednesday, however, especially leading into Thursday morning. Overnight lows will be in the low to mid 70s.
A cold front will push through the Peach State on Thursday, bringing plenty of rain chances with it. Thunderstorms with stronger wind gusts will be the primary threat as it comes through. The cold front will also begin to allow our temperatures to cool once again. Highs on Thursday are anticipated to be in the upper 80s around Middle Georgia. Lows will be in the lower 70s.
Conditions will remain cloudy and cooler into the weekend. Something could brew in the gulf over the next few days. As of now the National Hurricane Center is giving it less than a 40% chance to develop over the next 48 hours, however even a weak tropical system can bring plenty of rain. This could affect our weekend here in Middle Georgia, so it may be a good idea to hold off on weekend plans if you can.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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Tech Report: Amazon looks to hire new employees for airport, Meta headset users will no longer need a Facebook account
Amazon wants to hire 1,000 workers for a new airport cargo center.
Starting next month Meta Headsets will not require a Facebook accounts for users.
Walmart’s in-home delivery service will available to Walmart Plus subscribers for 7$ more a month.
Apple is back in talks for showcasing the Big Ten, after USC, and UCLA stated that they would join conference.
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del.- Authorities are investigating an early Monday morning fire that heavily damaged a home near Rehoboth Beach.
The Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company said that shortly before 2 a.m., it was called to a fire in Kyrie Estates north of Rehoboth Beach.
Rehoboth Beach firefighters, assisted by Lewes firefighters, arrived to find an unoccupied single-family home well-involved in fire. Firefighters got the blaze under control in 35 minutes, with crews remaining on the scene for more than two hours.
A Rehoboth Beach firefighter was transported to Beebe Medical Center in Lewes for treatment of possible heat exhaustion. No other injuries were reported.
The Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the fire's origin and cause.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union said Monday it’s “critical” that authorities in the 27-nation bloc consider giving second coronavirus booster shots to people between the ages of 60 and 79 years and other vulnerable people, as a new wave of the pandemic sweeps over the continent.
“With cases and hospitalizations rising again as we enter the summer period, I urge everybody to get vaccinated and boosted as quickly as possible. There is no time to lose,” European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides said in a statement.
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Medicines Agency said that the second boosters can be given at least four months after the first booster.
Monday’s advice comes after the agencies in April recommended that people over age 80 be considered for a second booster.
“As a new wave is currently underway in Europe, with increasing rates of hospital and intensive care unit admissions, it is critical that public health authorities now consider people between 60 and 79 as well as vulnerable persons of any age for a second booster,” the agencies said in a statement.
ECDC Director Andrea Ammon said that the new wave is being driven by the highly transmissible BA.5 mutation of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
‘This signals the start of a new, widespread COVID-19 wave across the European Union,” she said. “There are still too many individuals at risk of severe COVID-19 infection whom we need to protect as soon as possible. We need to remind people of the importance of vaccination from the very first shot to the second booster. We have to start today.”
The agencies said that at the moment there is “no clear evidence to support giving a second booster dose to people below 60 years of age who are not at higher risk of severe disease.” There also is no immediate need to give second boosters to health care workers or those working in long-term care homes unless they are at high risk, they added.
Monday’s advice from the EU comes as scientists worry about a new omicron mutant — called BA2.75 — that is gaining ground in India and popping up in other countries.
Scientists say the new variant may be able to spread rapidly and get around immunity from vaccines and previous infection. It’s unclear whether it could cause more serious disease than other omicron variants, including the globally prominent BA.5.
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Biden celebration of new gun law clouded by latest shooting
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hailing a new bipartisan law meant to reduce gun violence as “real progress,” but says “more has to be done.”
After just 16 days in effect, that legislation already has been overshadowed by yet another mass shooting. The bill passed after recent gun rampages in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. It incrementally toughens requirements for young people to buy guns, denies firearms to more domestic abusers, among other things.
But Biden’s White House event Monday morning came a week after a gunman in Highland Park, Illinois, killed seven people at an Independence Day parade, a stark reminder of the limitations of the new law.
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Biden to reveal first image from NASA’s new space telescope
The White House is unveiling the first image from NASA’s new space telescope and it’s the deepest view of the cosmos ever captured.
President Joe Biden will take part in the release on Monday. The first image from the James Webb Space Telescope is going to show the farthest humanity has ever seen, closer to the dawn of the universe. NASA’s big space telescope launched last December, and after months of shakeout, its first five images are about to be revealed.
Images that will come out Tuesday include a planet from outside our solar system.
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Centerville Fire Department sharing fire emergency tips for families
The Centerville Fire Department wants to make sure your children are prepared for a fire emergency.
CENTERVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Centerville Fire Department wants to make sure your children are prepared for a fire emergency.
The department is sharing important tips with families, including teaching your child what a smoke alarm sounds like and having and practicing an escape plan.
Sgt. Daniel Myers says you should practice your escape plan at least once a month and that the most important step is telling your child to never go back into a burning building.
“The more education that we can get put the safer it is for us,” Myers said. “Because if I can make folks aware of what to do when there is a fire in their home, then that’s less people that we have to go in and save. If they’re already out of the house, then we can just go up and fight the fire, and I don’t have to go in and look for people.”
If you don’t have an escape plan, you can print and make one here.
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Coach’s Corner 2022: Joe Dupree of the Southwest Patriots
On this edition of Coach's Corner, 41NBC's Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Joe Dupree of the Southwest Patriots.
On this edition of Coach’s Corner, 41NBC’s Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Joe Dupree of the Southwest Patriots. Hear how coach Dupree feels about coaching his son, and leading the Patriots to a new region.
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Former Bibb County Schools network and data security employee facing Peeping Tom charges
A former Bibb County School District employee is being charged after a Peeping Tom situation in which a GoPro camera was found positioned outside an 18-year-old girl's window.
KATHLEEN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A former Bibb County School District employee is being charged after a Peeping Tom situation in which a GoPro camera was found positioned outside an 18-year-old girl’s window.
According to an incident report from the Houston County Sheriff’s Office, on May 18, deputies were dispatched to an address on Grove Lane in reference to a Peeping Tom incident in which they were told the victim found a GoPro camera positioned outside her window the previous night as she was getting out of the shower. Deputies were then told that the victim’s neighbor, Greg Hogan, worked in cybersecurity for Bibb County Schools and that she gave the camera to him to examine.
The victim says she was unable to find a memory card in the camera, so she was worried the footage may have uploaded automatically to a cloud share file. Deputies spoke with Hogan about the camera and collected it from him. Hogan said he didn’t find anything on the camera and also said he checked the camera system around his house to see if anyone was caught placing the camera in the window, but he did not see anyone.
When speaking to deputies, the victim said the only suspicious person she and her family believed might have placed the camera was someone behind a strange Snapchat account that had started messaging the victim. They believed the account was fake but said the person seemed to be trying to gain the victim’s affection, despite the fact that she had been ignoring the person. The family mentioned they didn’t know who the person was but that it could have possibly been someone from her school.
The victim mentioned that around March, the family had noticed a small hole in the window screen but didn’t think anything of it. However, when examined, a Houston County Sheriff’s Office incident report says the hole looked as if it had been specifically cut to position the camera in the corner of the window.
We reached out to the Bibb County School District about Hogan’s past employment. The district confirmed he worked as a Network and Data Security Coordinator from June of 2017 to May 25 of this year, and said he’s no longer employed with the Bibb County School District. BCSD says the arrest did not pertain or relate to the school district.
Houston County District Attorney Kendall says Hogan was arrested on June 28 and was released on bond the next day.
He faces felony and misdemeanor Peeping Tom charges and still has to go before a grand jury.
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Georgia Democrats concerned for women’s rights following Roe v. Wade overturn
Georgia Democrats say they're concerned about women's rights following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Georgia Democrats say they’re concerned about women’s rights following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Abortion remains legal in Georgia, but some lawmakers say the ruling makes it illegal for women to decide on their own health situations. That was the message at a news conference Monday morning in downtown Macon.
Democrats spoke out against anti-abortion laws they say Republican lawmakers are working to enact.
Representative Miriam Paris says Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, which has been held up in court since 2019, is among her top concerns.
“This is a very serious issue for women going forward,” she said. “Our rights as humans are being infringed upon. Women’s rights are human rights.”
We emailed and called Republican State House Representatives Shaw Blackmon, Heath Clark, Robert Dickey, Matt Hatchett, Danny Mathis, Robert Pruitt, Dale Washburn and Rick Williams for comment.
We heard back from Representative Matt Hatchett, who was unavailable for an interview. Representatives Shaw Blackmon and Dale Washburn got back to us after our deadline, but we are working to confirm interviews for a later date.
We also asked Piedmont Macon and Atrium Health Navicent for a response to potential abortion law changes. Both declined interviews, but Atrium did send us a statement:
“The Supreme Court’s ruling permits individual state laws to govern the legality of pregnancy terminations. At Atrium Health, we will always follow the law. As new laws are adopted or enforced, we want women who need help to know that they are not alone and we are here to help.”
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Heard attorneys say juror served improperly, seek mistrial
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A new court filing from Amber Heard’s legal team alleges one of the jurors in the defamation case filed against her by her ex-husband Johnny Depp served improperly.
The memo filed Friday in Virginia’s Fairfax Circuit Court asks the court to declare a mistrial and order a new trial. It says the apparent discrepancy violated Heard’s due process rights. The filing suggests that Juror No. 15 was a younger individual with the same last name as the person who should have served.
The Associated Press sent emails seeking comment Sunday to a representative for Depp and two of his attorneys.
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News Top stories from July 11, 2022 July 11, 2022 Clayton Poulnott, Georgia Democrats concerned for women’s rights following Roe v. Wade overturn Macon-Bibb’s fight against blight reaches 200 demolitions Centerville Fire Department sharing fire emergency tips for families For other stories you may have missed, click here. FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
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Macon-Bibb’s fight against blight reaches 200 demolitions
Macon-Bibb County is celebrating the demolition of its 200th blighted structure.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Macon-Bibb County is celebrating the demolition of its 200th blighted structure.
The most recent demolition happened in the Fort Hill neighborhood.
The fight against blight began in April of 2021.
Mayor Lester Miller said these demolitions are more than just tearing down buildings.
“Without strong neighborhoods, we don’t have strong schools,” he said. “Without strong schools, we don’t have economic development, and we don’t have a good work force, so we’re looking for ways to build that up, and this is one small step in a great effort.”
Union Baptist Church is located next to the structure that was demolished Monday. Assistant Pastor and Fort Hill native James Hand said it gives him hope to see blighted buildings removed.
If you see blighted properties in your area, take a picture of it and submit it to See Click Fix on the county’s website.
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Macon motorcyclist dies in Monroe County crash
A 25-year-old Macon man is dead after the motorcycle he was operating collided with an SUV Monday night.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A 25-year-old Macon man is dead after the motorcycle he was operating collided with an SUV Monday night.
It happened just after 8:30 in the 10000 block of Zebulon Road, according to a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office news release.
The release says the motorcycle, driven by Brandon Kyle Cox, was traveling west on Zebulon Road when it collided with the front end of an SUV that was traveling east and making a left turn into a driveway.
Cox was pronounced dead on the scene. The incident is under investigation.
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Monty Norman, composer of the James Bond theme, dies at 94
LONDON (AP) — British composer Monty Norman of James Bond theme tune fame has died at the age of 94. A statement on Norman’s official website said he died Monday after a short illness.
Norman was hired by producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli to compose a theme for the first James Bond film, “Dr. No,” released in 1962. He drew on a piece he had written for a proposed stage musical, shifting the key riff from sitar to electric guitar. Producers hired composer John Barry to rearrange the theme, and Barry was widely assumed to have written it — to Norman’s chagrin.
Norman successfully sued the Sunday Times newspaper for libel over a 1997 article asserting the theme was composed by Barry.
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Spirit plane towed after brakes overheat, ignite
ATLANTA (AP) — Passengers aboard a Spirit Airlines flight from Tampa are safe after one of the plane’s brakes overheated and briefly caught fire upon landing in Atlanta.
Airport officials said one of the brakes in the landing gear of Spirit Airlines flight 383 from Tampa ignited upon landing. Atlanta firefighters put out the fire. The airline said one of the brakes on the plane overheated. No passengers were injured. The airline said the plane will be temporarily removed from service for maintenance,
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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ scores franchise best debut
“Thor: Love and Thunder” earned $143 million in its opening weekend in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. It’s a franchise best for the God of Thunder and another success story of the summer 2022 box office season.
The second Thor movie directed by Taika Waititi opened on 4,375 screens this weekend, starting with Thursday previews. It easily topped the box office, bumping “Minions: The Rise of Gru” into second place. Including international showings, where “Love and Thunder” opened in 47 territories starting in the middle of last week, its global total is already at $302 million.
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UK Conservatives jostle in crowded, testy leadership race
LONDON (AP) — Candidates to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister are scattering tax-cutting promises to woo their Conservative Party electorate.
They are campaigning as party officials prepare to quickly narrow the crowded field of almost a dozen candidates. Little-known junior minister Rehman Chishti became the 11th candidate to declare he wanted to succeed Johnson, who quit as party leader on Thursday after months of ethics scandals. Other contenders include Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Treasury chief Nadhim Zahawi and former health secretaries Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt. The new leader will be chosen in a two-stage election by the 358 Conservative lawmakers and then the whole Conservative membership. The party is due to set out a schedule on Monday.
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WRPD and others arrest 10 in “Operation Swing Blade” Monday
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Warner Robins Police Department along with several other local agencies like the Houston County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Marshalls, and more, combined for a joint initiative called “Operation Swing Blade” early this morning to target violent crime offenders, parole violators, confirmed gang members, seize weapons and drugs, as well as collect tangible evidence for outstanding investigations.
According to the WRPD, the operation began around 6 a.m. Monday morning, and authorities were able to arrest the following:
- Jonathan Shi – Aggravated Stalking
- Christopher Billingsly – Aggravated Assault
- Shyheem Felton – Possession of Ecstasy and Marijuana
- Shayne Waters – Aggravated Assault and Cruelty to Children
- Jeffrey Carroll – Violation of Probation (Possession of Methamphetamine)
- Tamjia Debruce – Aggravated Assault, Possession of Marijuana with intent
- Charles Westry – Violation of Probation (Possession of Firearm, Marijuana/Meth)
- Master Frazier – Violation of Probation (Possession of Cocaine)
- Tony Herrin – Forgery
- Kiaiesha Debruce – Disorderly Conduct; Fighting
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Police rearrest Kuje escapee in Suleja, Niger State
Niger State Police Command has said that police operatives attached to ‘A’ Division Suleja have arrested 54-year-old Kazeem Murtala who escaped from the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja while on patrol in the Suleja area of the state.
Based on credible intelligence, the police operatives stormed an identified compound around the General Hospital Suleja-Bakasi Area of the town.
The command, in a press statement issued and made available to the newsmen on Monday in Minna by its Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Wasiu Abiodun, said the incident occurred on 09/07/2022 at about 8:30 pm.
The statement added further that during interrogation, the inmate allegedly confessed that he escaped from Kuje Custodial Center.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Niger State Command, Monday Bala Kuryas, directed that the inmate should be transferred to the custodial centre without any delay.
DSP Abiodun explained that the Police boss equally appreciated members of the public for giving such intelligence to the police while he urged them to sustain such efforts towards fighting crime and criminality in the state.
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Nurse Holds Doctor Hostage In OAU Teaching Hospital, Resident Doctors Plan Strike
The association of resident doctors (ARD) at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTHC) Ile-Ife has concluded plans to go on strike over what they termed recurrent harassment of doctors at the hospital.
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If you want to keep your job and excel in your career, you need to do as I say,” Janet Abegunde’s boss said to her one fateful day. Miss Abegunde, a 24-year-old accountant who had just gotten her first job in one of the new generation banks, said she fell into depression after her boss sexually harassed her.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks wavered in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday as traders brace for a big week of news on inflation and company earnings reports.
The S&P 500 fell 0.3% as of 10:19 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 30 points, or 0.1%, to 31,210 and the Nasdaq fell 0.4%.
Oil prices slumped 6% and weighed on energy stocks, which also checked gains elsewhere in the market. Hess fell 5.6%.
Retailers and consumer products companies gained ground. Target rose 1.2% and Kellogg rose 1.3%.
Big companies are beginning to report their latest quarterly results. Soft drink and snack maker PepsiCo rose 0.3% after releasing a profit report that easily beat analysts’ estimates.
Several big technology companies fell and checked gains elsewhere in the market. Pricey values for technology stocks tend to push the broader market higher or lower. Microsoft fell 2.7%.
Clothing company Gap fell 5.6% after announcing that CEO Sonia Syngal is stepping down from her role after two years on the job.
Investors are preparing for more earnings from big companies this week as they try to determine just how much damage pervasive inflation is inflicting on consumers and businesses. Expectations for second-quarter results appear subdued. Analysts are forecasting 5.1% growth for companies across the S&P 500, which would be the weakest since the end of 2020, according to FactSet.
Delta Air Lines will report its latest results on Wednesday and provide more insight into the travel industry’s recovery from the pandemic. Major banks including JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup are on tap later this week.
The key concerns on Wall Street remain inflation and whether aggressive rate hikes from the Federal Reserve will push the economy into a recession. Inflation jumped as the economy recovered from the pandemic and demand for goods outpaced supplies. But, inflation heated up in February after Russia invaded Ukraine and sparked a jump in energy prices. Supply chain problems have worsened as China locks down cities in an effort to contain new COVID-19 cases.
The Fed is raising rates in an effort to slow economic growth to help temper the impact from rising inflation. But, the economy is already slowing down as consumers ease up on spending and Wall Street is worried that interest rate hikes could go too far and bring on a recession.
In the bond market, a warning signal continued to flash about a possible recession. The yield on the 10-year Treasury slid to 2.92% from 2.98% late Monday. It remains below the two-year Treasury yield, which fell to 3.01%. Such a thing doesn’t occur often, and some investors see it as a sign that a recession may hit in the next year or two.
Wall Street is keeping a close watch on any indicator that could signal inflation is easing. The Labor Department on Wednesday will release its June report on consumer prices, following with a Thursday release of its June report on prices directly impacting businesses.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Tuesday removed the final obstacles to Croatia adopting the euro, enabling the first expansion of the currency bloc in almost a decade as the exchange rate fell to its weakest level against the dollar in 20 years.
EU finance ministers approved three laws that pave the way for Croatia to become the 20th member of the eurozone on Jan. 1. The last EU country to join the European single-currency area was Lithuania in 2015.
“It’s a big day for Croatia, I dare say historic,” Croatian Finance Minister Zdravko Maric told reporters in Brussels.
Adopting the euro offers economic benefits stemming from deeper financial ties with the currency bloc’s other members and the European Central Bank’s monetary authority.
More tangibly, it means that any of the current eurozone’s 340 million inhabitants who visit Croatia will no longer need to exchange their cash for Croatian kuna.
Euro entry also has political rewards because the shared currency is Europe’s most ambitious project to integrate nations, giving them a place in the EU core. That means a seat at the EU’s top decision-making tables.
Croatia’s accession to the monetary bloc is “an important moment for the European Union” and “confirms that the euro is an attractive, resilient and successful global currency,” EU Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said.
However, the euro’s exchange rate very briefly touched $1 for the first time in two decades Tuesday before immediately going back up. A worsening energy crisis in Europe tied to Russia’s war in Ukraine has stoked fears of the economy going into a tailspin.
“The crucial factor for a possible adverse scenario is exactly the supply of energy,” European Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said. “This risk did not diminish in the weeks that we have behind us. It’s still there and increasing.”
While political elites in Croatia view euro membership as a success, citizens who are already coping with double-digit inflation are concerned that the introduction of the European single currency will cause further price increases.
“They are constantly comforting us on the radio that prices will be fine, but I don’t believe it,” Zagreb resident Visnja Gacic said. “I have a friend in Slovenia, and when they introduced the euro, prices went sky-high.”
In May, inflation in Croatia reached a 14-year high of 10.8%. In the eurozone, it was a record 8.6% in June, with the ECB planning to raise interest rates for the first time in 11 years this month to combat soaring consumer prices.
Created in 1999 among 11 countries including Germany and France, the euro has gone through seven previous enlargements starting with Greece in 2001.
The appeal of euro membership is reflected by the last three expansions, which brought in Baltic states between 2011 and 2015. During that period, the eurozone was scrambling to contain a debt crisis that Greece had triggered and that was threatening to break apart the currency alliance.
A combination of European emergency loans to five financially vulnerable member countries and an ECB pledge to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro enabled the currency bloc to weather the turbulence and emerge stronger.
Joining the euro requires a country to meet a set of economic conditions. These relate to low inflation, sound public finances, a stable exchange rate and limited borrowing costs.
“It’s a wonderful club to be a member of, but it requires commitment, dedication, continued respect of the rules, and I know that we can expect no less from Croatia,” ECB President Christine Lagarde said. “Together we are stronger.”
Croatia is relatively small and poor, so its euro entry will have limited international economic implications. The country has a population of around 4 million and per-capita wealth that, at 13,460 euros ($13,500) last year, was less than half of the euro-area average.
Nonetheless, against the backdrop of the Russian war in Ukraine and Kyiv’s hasty application for EU membership, Croatia’s imminent adoption of the euro sends a potentially significant political signal.
Croatia was itself at war in the early 1990s during the violent breakup of Yugoslavia. The country applied for EU membership in 2003 and joined the bloc in 2013. That was the last time the EU expanded.
“What an amazing journey it was for Croatia,” Gentiloni said. “There is a lot to celebrate.”
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Peloton will stop making its own interactive stationary bikes and treadmills, outsourcing those duties to a Taiwanese manufacturer as it attempts to revive sales that surged during the pandemic.
The New York City company, which recorded its only profitable quarters during the pandemic, is seeking to lower costs after sales slid when gyms began to reopen and cheaper knockoffs entered the market.
It will suspend manufacturing operations at the Tonic Fitness Technology plant in Taiwan for the rest of the year.
Peloton’s strategy was to bring manufacturing inhouse, believing that if sales remained robust it would reduce costs and avoid shipping complications. Sales growth doubled in 2020 and it ramped up production.
However, after three consecutive profitable quarters in 2020, the height of the pandemic, it began to lose money in the first quarter of 2021 and has continued to do so.
Other manufacturers, seeing Peloton’s success, stepped in to build cheaper interactive bikes and treadmills, leaving Peloton with a growing inventory of unsold equipment.
In February the company announced a major restructuring and abandoned plans to open its first U.S. factory in Ohio, which would have employed 2,000. Co-founder John Foley stepped down as CEO and the company announced nearly 3,000 job cuts.
The company reported mounting losses and stagnating sales in its most recent quarter. It also offered a bleak sales outlook for the current quarter and signed a commitment to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars.
Peloton has had success with its digital app, which can be used with other equipment. The company has said that it would like to focus more on the app and less on equipment sales. It has cut the price on its equipment, but the price of its monthly subscriptions are up around 13%.
Taiwanese manufacturer Rexon Industrial Corp. will manufacture equipment for the company as part of an expanding relationship.
Shares of Peloton Interactive Inc. rose 4.5% Tuesday.
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Japanese say final goodbye to assassinated former leader Abe
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese have bid their final goodbye to assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as his funeral was held at a temple.
Abe, the country’s longest-serving prime minister, remained influential even after stepping down two years ago. He was gunned down Friday during a campaign speech. Hundreds of people filled sidewalks outside Zojoji temple in downtown Tokyo to bid farewell to Abe. Some called out “Abe san!” as a motorcade with the hearse slowly drove by. About 1,000 people, including Abe’s widow, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and senior party leaders and foreign officials, attended the temple funeral. Abe’s long-time mentor, Finance Minister Taro Aso, said the two former prime ministers were “bonded together as they thought about Japan’s national interest.”
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NASA’s new telescope shows star death, dancing galaxies
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — NASA has unveiled a new batch of images from its new powerful space telescope.
One of the views released Tuesday was a foamy blue and orange shot of a dying star. The first image from the James Webb Space Telescope unveiled Monday was a jumble of distant galaxies that went deeper into the cosmos than humanity has ever seen. The additional images from the telescope were expected to be more cosmic beauty shots. The latest images were released at an event at NASA’s Goddard Space Center in Maryland.
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Amazon is heading into its annual Prime Day sales event on Tuesday much differently than how it entered the pandemic.
The company has long used the two-day event — one of its biggest all year — to lure people to its Prime membership, for which Amazon recently raised the price to $139 a year from $119 a year.
Amazon doesn’t disclose total Prime Day sales, though research firm Insider Intelligence suggests sales could climb to about $7.76 billion in the U.S. alone — or 16.8% over last year — in part because of the event’s mid-July timing, which compared to last year’s June date would allow the company to capture more consumers doing back-to-school shopping.
Amazon could use the boost amid a slowdown in overall online sales. Once the darling of the pandemic economy, the company posted a rare quarterly loss in April as well as its slowest rate of revenue growth in nearly two decades — at 7%. Inflation had added roughly $2 billion in costs.
Amazon also acknowledged it had too many workers and expects its excess capacity from its massive warehouse expansion during the pandemic to total $10 billion in extra costs for the first half of this year.
“It’s causing pain at the moment, and that pain is considerable,” said Neil Saunders, the managing director of GlobalData Retail.
It’s quite a reversal from the early days of the pandemic when the e-commerce giant’s profits soared as homebound shoppers turned to online shopping to avoid contracting the coronavirus. The demand was so high that Amazon nearly doubled its workforce in the last two years to more than 1.6 million people.
It also increased its warehouse capacity to match the avalanche of orders flooding its site. By the end of 2021, Amazon had leased and owned roughly 387.1 million square feet of space for its warehouses and data centers — more than double what it reported in 2019.
Then, the worst of the pandemic eased. Americans felt more comfortable leaving their homes, and demand also slowed across the board. The retail sector’s online sales growth in the U.S., which spiked to 36.4% in 2020, returned to more normal growth in 2021 and 2022, clocking in at 17.8% and 9.4% respectively, according to Insider Intelligence.
Retail sales figures for June, due to be released Friday, will shed more light on how e-commerce is faring. The most recent figures from May showed online sales falling 1% while overall retail sales declined 0.3% from April amid skyrocketing inflation.
“This is a period of time when consumers are being much more frugal thinking about how they’re spending and buying,” said David Niekerk, a former Amazon vice president of human resources who oversaw operations. “That’s having an impact on Amazon.”
Brian Olsavsky, the company’s chief financial officer, has said many of Amazon’s warehouse expansion decisions were made as far back as two years ago, limiting what the company can do to adjust midyear. That said, Amazon will spend less on warehouse projects this year compared to last, and transportation investments will be flat to slightly down.
Saunders said the excess capacity is likely to be a short-term problem for Amazon, which he points out has continued to take steps to grow its retail business and draw more sellers to its service. In April, it announced it will extend the benefits of a Prime subscription to online stores beyond its own site, a move that will allow merchants to tap into the company’s vast fulfillment and delivery networks.
To fix its warehousing woes, CEO Andy Jassy said in May the company was going to let some of its leases expire and defer construction on others. Amazon is also subleasing warehouses to cut costs.
Preliminary data from the real estate marketplace provider Costar Group suggests the company is disproportionately shutting down its smaller facilities, which tend to have fewer loading docks and parking and are less efficient to operate, said Adrian Ponsen, Costar’s U.S. director of Industrial Analytics.
Still, closures are already creating issues. A handful of workers at an Amazon delivery station in Bellmawr, New Jersey recently walked off the job to protest transfers to other sites after Amazon decided to shutter the facility.
Paul Blundell, an Amazon worker who led the walkout, said some workers wanted to transfer to nearby facilities after being asked to go to sites as far as 20 miles away. They also wanted a $1 hourly raise to make up for the disruption. Meanwhile, the company says employees are being given the opportunity to transfer to other sites with better perks.
Amazon signaled its other problem — overstaffing — emerged after onboarding new hires to fill in for workers who were sick when the omicron variant swept the nation last year. But when the sick workers returned, Amazon had too many people, adding roughly $2 billion in costs. That’s a far cry from last year, when the company boosted pay to $18 to attract hourly workers in a tight labor market.
The issue might be solved naturally by the company’s high attrition rate. Saunders said Amazon is also likely to find use for the excess labor as the holidays approach, and might be able to rein in the problem by not hiring new workers in locations where they’re overstaffed.
However it happens, analysts are closely watching how Jassy will attempt to right the ship. A few weeks ago, he tapped Doug Herrington, a 17-year Amazon veteran, to replace Dave Clark, the former head of Amazon’s retail business who unexpectedly resigned last month after 23 years at the company.
Amazon stock has tumbled this year, dropping roughly 39% year-to-date. And Jassy is under the gun to bring back profitability, Nieker said.
“He made a commitment to shareholders and others that he’s going to really focus now on getting back to profitability in the company,” Nieker said. “And a big part of that is the consumer business.”
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Cloudy skies to obscure Full Thunder Moon tonight
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Cloudy skies will continue to dominate Middle Georgia, limiting our view of tonight’s full moon.
This Evening
Cloudy conditions will persist for the remainder of the daylight hours. Winds will generally come from the south-southwest at 5 mph the rest of the evening and into tonight. As for our rain chances, those are considerably lower now than what was initially thought for this evening. A few isolated showers and storms will remain possible, however most of Middle Georgia will only see clouds.
We should begin to see a bit of clearing in the clouds once on the other side of midnight. Clouds will still dominate, however there should be a few small windows in which the tonight’s Full Thunder Moon will be visible. July’s full moon is known as the Thunder Moon due to all of the electric thunderstorms that typically occur during the month. Rain activity is also expected to subside ahead of the midnight hour. Tonight’s lows are in the lower 70s around Middle Georgia with winds from the south-southwest at around 5 mph.
Tomorrow
It will be another overcast day around Middle Georgia. A cold front to our north will continue to inch closer, however we will not see it pass tomorrow. Isolated storms are likely again in the afternoon, and highs will stay cool, topping off in the low to mid 80s. Tomorrow’s ambient wind will come from the west-southwest at about 6-12 mph, adding a bit of a breeze to the humid air.
Overcast skies will stick around through tomorrow night. A couple of isolated showers may persist into the overnight hours, however they should taper off after midnight. Lows will be in the lower 60s with ambient wind from the west-southwest at 5-10 mph.
Thursday and Beyond
The cool and cloudy pattern is expected to carry through the rest of the week as the cold front very slowly trudges towards the southeast. We likely will not see said cold front make its way through Middle Georgia until Friday afternoon at the earliest. It is currently making its way through Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
Additionally, we could see some tropical development ahead of the weekend in the Gulf of Mexico. There is currently a bit of disorganized low pressure off of the coast of Louisiana. Right now the approaching cold front will keep it off of the land until it passes. At this time the National Hurricane Center is giving it a 10% chance to develop into something in the next 48 hours and a 20% chance for development in 5 days.
It is anticipated at this time that we will see partly cloudy conditions with afternoon thunderstorms and higher temperatures return over the weekend and into next week. Highs in the 90s could return as w early as Sunday for some locations in Middle Georgia.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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CORONER: Body found near B&B Food Mart
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones tells 41NBC that a body has been found at 4400 Chambers Road near the B&B Food Mart.
According to Jones, the body was that of a 30-year-old man near a homeless camp. More updates will be posted as information is released.
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Train Derailment causes shutdown on Highway 247, MLK, North Davis Drive
UPDATE: Robins Air Force Base has announced that the Watson Boulevard and Green Street gates are closed, as well as portions of Hwy 247 due to the incident. The Russell Parkway gate is still open.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A train derailment in Warner Robins has caused Highway 247 north and south bound between MLK and North Davis Drive to be shut down.
The Warner Robins Police Department says that the Watson Boulevard and Highway 247 intersection is blocked.
The Central Georgia Technical College Alert system is reporting that there are hazardous chemicals leaking from the overturned tanker cars, and tells people to avoid the area, and all streets within 100 meters of the crash.
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‘French Fry Fight’ happening in downtown Macon Wednesday
As part of National French Fry Day, NewTown Macon is hosting the first French Fry Fight Wednesday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – As part of National French Fry Day, NewTown Macon is hosting the first French Fry Fight Wednesday.
Fourteen restaurants are entering their best french fry dish in a friendly competition.
The Director of Place for NewTown Macon, Emily Hopkins, says the event will give the community a chance to explore Macon’s food choices.
Macon Beer Company is entering the competition with its “Cluckin Fries Appetizer.”
“Food is an avenue to connect with people, and I like to be as creative as I can with the food and introduce different flavors together that people may have never tried before,” Macon Beer Company’s Michael Dean said.
You can vote for your favorite fry dish at newtownmacon.com.
Full list of participating restaurants:
- Biddy’s
- Cashman’s Pub
- Fall Line Brewing Co.
- Felicia’s Cake Factory
- Kudzu Seafood Company
- Loom
- Macon Beer Company
- Ocmulgee Brewpub
- Oliver’s Corner Bistro
- Pearl Passionate Cuisine
- Piedmont Brewery & Kitchen
- Rookery
- Satterfield’s
- Vibez
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
Top stories from July 12, 2022
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Macon-Bibb Commissioners address Lake Tobesofkee safety following recent drownings
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North Central Health District hosts virtual health assessment of its 13 counties
- For other stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News, click here.
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