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Macon-Bibb Commissioners address Lake Tobesofkee safety following recent drownings
Macon-Bibb County Commissioners addressed safety at Lake Tobesofkee Tuesday following two recent drownings.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Lake Tobesofkee is a place many Maconites go to have a good time during the summer months.
Unfortunately, it’s also where drownings occur. Two happened at the lake within the last month.
Macon-Bibb County Commissioners addressed the issue during its Committee of the Whole on Tuesday.
“Our director of Tobesofkee asked us to draft up something and give him more authority and control of things there,” Mayor Lester Miller said. “In this situation here, it’s unsupervised minors.”
Assistant County Attorney Sara Davis explained that the director’s request is why the mayor sponsored a plan to give the director power to enact new rules at the lake and its parks.
“He asked for more authority to issue rules related specifically to safety,” Davis explained. “Not to fees being charged or anything like that, just the safety of visitors at the site.”
Currently, the lake’s director can not create new rules related to safety. He also can’t decide on penalties for violations or enforce rules related to unsupervised minors at the Tobesofkee recreation areas.
Several commissioners took issue with the idea of the director creating new rules without having checks and balances in place. Commissioner Elaine Lucas suggested revisiting the rules that were already in place.
“I just don’t feel comfortable saying to a department head that you can put in place any rules and regulations that you want,” Commissioner Lucas said.
Commissioners decided to strike the part of the ordinance that gave the director the authority to create rules on the spot. They approved two other parts of the ordinance, which allows the director to decide on penalties for violations and enforce rules related to unsupervised minors. Mayor Miller says inaction is not an option. He says the ordinance was already on the books and ready for a vote after the first summer drowning several weeks ago.
“It’s certainly something we’re going to revisit in the near future,” he said. “But I think we do ourselves a disservice by getting technical on a lot of these issues instead of trusting in the process and giving them the tools they need for a few weeks.”
Commissioners plan to revisit the ordinance in August. Commissioners will vote on the approved part of the ordinance next Tuesday July 19, during the county commission meeting.
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Macon Pride hosting ‘Chosen Family Feud’ Wednesday
Macon Pride is putting a spin on a game show to help raise awareness for the LGBTQ+ community.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Macon Pride is putting a spin on a game show to help raise awareness for the LGBTQ+ community.
Chosen Family Feud will feature local LGBT celebrities and allies playing a version of the Family Feud game.
Topics will highlight issues like homelessness, transgender and women’s rights and the HIV and AIDS epidemic.
Macon Pride board member, DeMarcus Beckham, explains why the game is called Chosen Family Feud.
“Oftentimes, LGBT individuals might not have full acceptance from their family, so we come up, and we have these chosen families. These families, that overtime and through collective relationships, we build these family-like atmospheres.”
Chosen Family Feud is happening Wednesday night at Society Garden. The event starts at 6:30. Admission is $15, and proceeds from the show will benefit the Hope Center in Macon.
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North Central Health District hosts virtual health assessment
The NCHD is holding virtual meetings for the next two weeks showcasing the state of its 13 counties.
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT) — The North Central Health has collected data on several factors that contribute to the health of its population.
The NCHD is holding virtual meetings for the next two weeks showcasing the state of its 13 counties.
Some of the topics of discussion are chronic diseases, infectious diseases, maternal and mental health.
This assessment overview is done each year, but due to Covid-19, this one covered two years.
According to Dr. Amber Erickson, the NCHD’s Director of Epidemiology, the biggest concern was Covid-19.
Erickson says it contributed to the increase in mortality rate for all counties. Hancock County had the highest mortality rate in the district.
Health experts say this assessment helps the district do more for the community.
“This is a community health assessment that will basically help us prioritize some issues, ” Erickson said. “(It) identifies what all the different moving targets are, how healthy are our residents, what does our community look like?”
Despite Covid-19 playing a big factor in population growth, the NCHD has seen a 2% increase over the past two years.
The district’s goal is to implement programs to meet the needs of communities across all 13 of its counties.
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Perry United Methodist Church building mobile clinic to send to Africa
Perry United Methodist Church is giving back to people in Africa by building a mobile health clinic.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Perry United Methodist Church is giving back to people in Africa.
Church members are turning a shipping crate into a mobile health clinic that will help provide health benefits to hundreds of women.
This is the first time the church is taking part in the mobile clinic project.
For people like Steve Gray, it’s extremely important.
“Having a daughter, wife, grandchildren, it’s real important for me to see this thing come along,” he said.
Gray has been a member of the church for 70 years.
“I love helping people,” he said. “That’s one of my main things in life.”
The finished container will include a waiting room, restroom and a labor and delivery room.
Rudy Roper is also a member of the church.
“We’re building stud walls just like you would a house,” Roper said. “It’ll be wired just like a house. It’ll have little plumbing in it, and everything inside will be nice, and the outside will look just like it does.”
A group of female church members are sewing feminine products that will also be shipped.
The church is also looking for donations like toilet paper, bar soap and children’s books.
If you can’t donate items , the church welcomes people to stop by and sign the crate with their favorite Bible verse or other encouraging message.
For more information, contact the church at (478) 987-1852.
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UPDATE: Highway 247 reopens following Tuesday train derailment
The Houston County Emergency Management Agency says Highway 247 is back open following a train derailment Tuesday.
UPDATE (8:54 p.m.): The Houston County Emergency Management Agency says Norfolk Southern has reported the southbound lanes of Highway 247 will be closed intermittently between Green Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Drivers will be diverted down Greet Street during these periods, a Houston County EMA Facebook post said. During the closures, Norfolk Southern will have heavy equipment blocking lanes working to upright rail cars. Gravel is also down across the roadway.
You’re asked to use caution and avoid the area if possible.
Watson Boulevard at Highway 247 will be closed for “an extended period.” Drivers will be detoured down 3rd Street.
UPDATE: The Houston County Emergency Management Agency says Highway 247 is back open following a train derailment Tuesday.
No injuries were reported, and no hazardous materials were involved, according to Houston County EMA.
Access to these streets is blocked as of 7 p.m.:
- Bargain Drive
- Green Street
- Ignico Drive
- Martin Luther King Boulevard
- Watson Boulevard
The public is asked to avoid the area as crews continue to work the scene.
The Warner Robins Fire Department, Warner Robins Police Department, Houston County Sheriff’s Office, Houston County Fire Department, Georgia State Patrol, Robins Air Force Base Fire Department, Georgia Department of Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railroad and Houston County EMA are all on the scene.
UPDATE: Robins Air Force Base says the Watson Boulevard and Green Street gates are closed as well as portions of Highway 247. The Russell Parkway gate is still open.
We have a reporter on the way and will update this story as we get more information.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Highway 247 North and South between MLK and North Davis Drive is shut down and the Watson Boulevard-Highway 247 intersection is blocked following a train derailment Tuesday.
That’s according to Warner Robins Police, which asks everyone to avoid the area.
The Central Georgia Technical College Alert system reported there were hazardous chemicals leaking from overturned tanker cars and told people to avoid the area.
Warner Robins Police Department has not confirmed that information.
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Coach’s Corner 2022: Craig Puckett of the Crawford County Eagles
On this edition of Coach's Corner, 41NBC's Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Craig Puckett of the Crawford County Eagles.
On this edition of Coach’s Corner, 41NBC’s Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Craig Puckett of the Crawford County Eagles. Coach Puckett is ready to turn Crawford County into a winning team. Hear about his plans for the new season.
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A worker has died in an accident, Opelousas Police say.
Police identified the man as Kevin Thomas, 50, owner of the company, Busy Bird Tree Service, which was contracted to the city to trim some trees.
He was trimming trees near the baseball fields in South City Park at about 8 a.m. this morning when he fell, police say.
City officials are expected to release more information soon.
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Second man arrested and charged with murder in connection to Larry Mitchell Ball Park shooting
SANDERSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A man has been arrested in connection to the shooting that took place at the Larry Mitchell Ball Park in late May. This comes after the arrest of the first suspect, Ryan Rozier.
According to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, 24-year-old Brian Keith Rozier of East Dublin was taken into custody without incident by the Macon division of the U.S. Marshal’s Southeast Regional Task Force in conjunction with the Atlanta division and the Georgia Bureau of Investigations.
Rozier is being charged with Malice Murder, Felony Murder, possession of a firearm in the commission of a crime, aggravated assault, and reckless conduct.
WCSO says anyone with information concerning the incident at the Ball Park should call SA Haynes at 478-374-6988 or Captain Trey Burgamy at the Washington County Sheriff’s Office at 478-552-0911.
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Morning Business Report: Twitter suing Elon Musk over takeover bid
President Biden heads to the middle east visiting Israel and Saudi Arabia to try and drive down gas prices by repairing relations.
The Euro and the U.S. dollar are at a parity for the first time in 20 years. This makes it cheaper for Americans to travel to Europe.
BMW plans to charge a monthly access fee for vehicle features like heated seats.
Twitter is suing Elon Musk over his attempt to walk away from his $44 billion takeover bid, seeking to force him to honor the terms of the deal.
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Robins Air Force Base welcomes new drone maintenance bay
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- The Air Force is known for its massive fleet of aircraft that travel all over the globe, one of these planes however is not flown by people in the traditional sense. The plane in question is a drone known as the MQ-9 Reaper and Robins Air Force Base is about to get some hands on experience with the internal electronics of them.
According to RAFB, the MQ-9 is used for global reconnaissance, surveillance and intelligence and has a built in camera on its underside that sends real time images back to control centers. The internal electronics will now have a dedicated maintenance bay within the Robins Logistics Complex, the new bay was made possible thanks to a partnership with L3Harris Technologies. Leaders of the project lead a ribbon cutting ceremony in honor of the bay’s opening. Chris Barkley, the director of the 402nd Electronics Maintenance Group explained what all the new bay would entail.
“What we’re responsible for doing here is fixing components to support that airplane and continue to provide secure communications of the information flow back and forth between the aircraft and where the information needs to go,” Said Barkley.
Barkley also mentioned that within the next year or so they would be looking to add more people onto the team, and that those who are interested in the maintenance of the MQ-9’s components will want to have a background in electronics and engineering.
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Swainsboro man arrested in connection to 2021 fatal shootings that left 2 teens dead
WRIGHTSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office reports that a second man has been arrested and charged in connection to the 2021 shootings that left two 18-year-olds dead.
JCSO says 27-year-old Dakota Wayne Scott of Swainsboro was arrested on Wednesday, and is now being charged with 2 counts of felony murder and one count of felony tampering with evidence. Scott was already in custody in Emanuel County on other charges.
Scott is the second of 2 arrests that have been made in connection to the shootings that left C J Garrett and Destiny Kight dead on April 22nd of 2021. Daniel Payton Brinson was the other suspect, who was arrested just days after the shootings in Cobb County.
Anyone with information on these incidents is urged to call the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office at 478-864-4003 or the GBI Region 12 Eastman Field Office at 478-374-6988 or 1-800-597-TIPS (8477).
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Storm chances to rise Thursday
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Widespread scattered thunderstorms will return to Middle Georgia Thursday afternoon and evening.
This Evening
Mostly cloudy conditions will continue to hang around the Middle Georgia area the rest of the evening. We will see a few isolated thunderstorms, however there should not be as many as there were yesterday. Most of our rain came earlier in the form of widespread stratiform rainfall, especially in our northern counties. Winds for the rest of the evening will come in from the southwest at around 5 mph. Any isolated storms we do see could still bring heavy rain, small hail, and cloud-to-ground lightning.
Tonight skies will also be mostly cloudy, however the odds of overnight rain are rather low. A couple of small showers may occur here or there, but most of us will stay dry. There should be a few small breaks in the clouds to allow for views of the Full Thunder Moon. Ambient wind will come from the south-southwest at around 5 mph. Lows will be in the lower 70s around the region.
Tomorrow
It will be another cloudy one around Middle Georgia tomorrow. The cold front to the north will continue it slow crawl towards us, however once again we will not see the cold front pass through tomorrow afternoon. High temperatures will reach the mid to upper 80s tomorrow. Widespread thunderstorms are likely during the late afternoon and evening hours tomorrow. These will bring heavy rain, frequent cloud-to-ground lightning, and some small to medium sized hail.
Some of the storms tomorrow night will persist into the overnight hours. A few could hang around for much of the night in a couple of select spots. Outside of that skies will be overcast for the rest of the region. Lows will be in the lower 70s across the board.
Friday and the weekend
Friday will continue the cloudy trend as the cold front nears our location. Some models are hinting that we could see some clearing in the afternoon, but at the rate this cold front is moving that is looking more and more unlikely. Highs will still be in the mid to upper 80s Friday afternoon with scattered storms likely during the afternoon and evening. Storms will taper off overnight, and we should see a decent amount of breaking in the clouds. Lows will mainly be in the lower 70s.
Saturday will likely see a large amount of cloud cover return early on with more storms likely in the afternoon, mainly in our southern counties. We should see some breaking in the clouds during the afternoon and evening hours. Temps will push into the upper 80s around the region for the highs, and lows will be in the upper 60s and lower 70s.
Sunday should see a good deal more sun as highs begin to creep back into the 90s in some Middle Georgia locations. Isolated storms will still be possible in the afternoon and evening.
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: Apple tests new self-driving cars in Montana
Apple’s self-driving cars had trouble navigating streets, frequently bumped into curbs and veered out of lanes in the middle of intersections during test drives.
During the test in Montana, the Apple self driving car performed well but navigating city streets near the company’s California headquarters was a struggle.
Twitter shares lose 11 percent after Elon Musk deal disbanded.
Amazon said its launching its smart grocery carts in Massachusetts. This allows shoppers to skip the checkout line.
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UK Conservatives cast votes in 1st round of leadership race
LONDON (AP) — Conservative Party lawmakers in Britain are casting ballots in the first round of an election to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The internal party contest will replace the flamboyant, scandal-ridden Johnson with a new and much lesser-known prime minister. Eight candidates have secured the required backing to make the first ballot. The 358 Tory legislators will vote Wednesday afternoon, with the last-placed candidate and any others who fail to get 30 votes dropping off the list.
Further rounds of voting will take place Thursday and, if needed, next week. The final two contenders will face a run-off vote by all Conservative Party members. The winner will automatically become prime minister, without the need for a national election.
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Stocks capped another shaky day on Wall Street with more losses Wednesday, after a highly anticipated report on inflation turned out to be even worse than expected.
The S&P 500 ended 0.4% lower, its fourth consecutive drop, after tumbling as much as 1.6% earlier. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.7%, while the Nasdaq composite dropped 0.2%, erasing nearly all of an early 2.1% loss.
Markets took a few U-turns through the morning, as has become the norm on Wall Street this tumultuous year. They were following the lead of Treasury yields in the bond market, which initially surged on expectations that Federal Reserve policymakers will hike interest rates drastically to slow the nation’s skyrocketing inflation.
“They seem to have a green light to raise interest rates with the labor market still in very good shape and inflation remaining well above where they want it to be,” said Tom Hainlin, national investment strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management.
Inflation and the Federal Reserve’s response to it have been at the center of Wall Street’s sell off this year. Wednesday’s discouraging data showed that inflation is not only still very high, it’s getting worse.
“For four or five months now, we’ve been counting on peak inflation and we’ve been disappointed consistently,” said John Lynch, chief investment officer at Comerica Wealth Management.
Prices at the consumer level were 9.1% higher last month than a year earlier, accelerating from May’s 8.6% inflation level. That was also worse than economists’ expectations for 8.8%.
The Fed’s main tool to combat inflation is to raise short-term interest rates, which it has already done three times this year. After Wednesday’s inflation report, traders now see it as a lock that the Federal Reserve will hike its key interest rate by at least three-quarters of a percentage point at its next meeting in two weeks.
That would match its most recent increase, which was the biggest since 1994. A growing number of traders are even suggesting the Fed will go for a monster hike of a full percentage point.
The latest inflation data “certainly creates more certainty that the Fed is going to be pretty aggressive in the July meeting,” Hainlin said.
Traders are betting on a 67.8% chance of a full-point hike, up from zero a month ago, according to CME Group.
The risk is that rate hikes are a notoriously blunt tool, one that takes a long time for the full effects to be felt. If the Fed ends up too aggressive with them, it could cause a recession. In the meantime, higher rates push down on prices of all kinds of investments.
“Shock and awe from the Fed might cause a lot of collateral damage to the economy without really providing near-term inflation relief,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments.
“The Fed probably needs to temper people’s expectations about what they can do,” he said.
All told, the S&P 500 fell 17.02 points to 3,801.78. The Dow dropped 208.54 points to 30,772.79, and the Nasdaq lost 17.15 points at 11,247.58.
Smaller company stocks also lost ground. The Russell 2000 slipped 2.15 points, or 0.1%, to 1,726.04.
In the bond market, the two-year Treasury yield rose to 3.13% from 3.05% late Tuesday. It tends to follow expectations for Fed action, and it got as high as 3.22% immediately after the release of the inflation report.
It remains higher than the 10-year yield, which fell to 2.91%, down from 2.95% from late Tuesday. That’s a relatively rare occurrence, and some investors see it as an ominous signal of a potential recession.
The inflation data also sent immediate jolts into stock markets across Europe and for gold, with prices for all of them weakening after the report’s release. U.S. gold for August delivery ended up settling 0.6% higher.
Even with the swings, Wall Street’s reaction was more muted than it was following the last report on inflation. A month ago, the reading on the consumer price index, or CPI, showed an unexpected acceleration in inflation. That dashed some hopes that inflation was peaking, and it sent the S&P 500 down 2.9%.
Since then, parts of the economy have already slowed as a result of inflation and the Fed’s actions combating it, particularly the housing market. Prices for oil and other commodities have also regressed as worries about a recession pull down expectations for demand.
“While some will draw parallels with the shockingly bad May CPI report, the backdrop is markedly different — commodity prices have fallen sharply and we’ve seen clearer signs of an economic slowdown, both of which will contribute to weaker price pressures ahead,” said Michael Pearce, senior U.S. economist with Capital Economics.
Or, as the chief investment officer of global fixed income at BlackRock puts it: “high prices is the cure for high prices.” High inflation is pushing households and businesses to pull back on spending, and the reduced demand should ultimately help pull down inflation, Rick Rieder wrote in a report.
Besides interest rates, which affect how much investors are willing to pay for stocks, investors this week are also getting updates on the other big factor that sets prices on Wall Street: how much profit companies are making.
Delta Air Lines fell 5% after it reported weaker profit for the spring than analysts expected. High prices for jet fuel and a spate of canceled flights in May and June dragged on its results.
Big banks and financial companies are coming up next, as the reporting season gets going for profits made from April through June.
Banks and other financial companies were some of the worst market performers Wednesday, dragged down by worries about the economy. They also get hurt when short-term interest rates are higher than long-term rates, which upends their business of borrowing at short-term rates and lending at long-term rates to profit on the difference.
JPMorgan Chase, which reports on Thursday, fell 0.9%. Citigroup, which reports on Friday, dropped 1.4%.
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AP Business Writer Joe McDonald contributed.
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BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s far-right Freedom Party has chosen former lawmaker Walter Rosenkranz as its candidate to challenge liberal incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen in the country’s presidential election in October.
The party said its leadership nominated Rosenkranz, 59, unanimously on Tuesday evening. In 2016, Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer lost to Van der Bellen in a runoff vote — which had to be rerun on the orders of Austria’s Constitutional Court after the party claimed widespread voting irregularities in Hofer’s initial narrow defeat.
Van der Bellen, 78, announced in May that he will seek reelection. He’s expected to have broad mainstream support in the Oct. 9 vote, with a runoff to be held on Nov. 6 if no candidate secures an outright majority. Three other candidates, none of them representing a party in parliament, have already come forward.
Rosenkranz was an unexpected choice to challenge for the presidency. He was a lawmaker from 2008 to 2019 and headed his party’s branch in Lower Austria province for several years.
The head of state is largely ceremonial but plays a prominent role in times of domestic political crisis. Repeated bouts of domestic political turmoil during Van der Bellen’s six-year term have given him high visibility.
After conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s governing coalition with the Freedom Party collapsed in scandal in 2019, the president appointed an interim Cabinet of nonpartisan experts under Brigitte Bierlein, then the head of the Constitutional Court.
Kurz, who had returned in a new government with the Greens, resigned last fall. The country had three chancellors in two months, with Kurz’s successor, Alexander Schallenberg, giving way within weeks to current Chancellor Karl Nehammer.
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s monthly trade surplus soared to a record $97.9 billion in June as export growth picked up after anti-virus controls that shut down Shanghai were lifted and shippers moved a backlog of cargo.
Exports rose 17.9% over a year ago to $331.2 billion, up from May’s 16.9% growth, customs data showed Wednesday. In a sign of Chinese economic weakness, imports rose just 1% to $233.3 billion, pushing up the trade surplus by 90% from a year ago.
Imports from Russia, mostly oil and gas, rose 56% over a year ago as Beijing took advantage of price cuts offered by the Kremlin after Washington and Europe suspended most of their own purchases to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.
China’s trade already was depressed by weak global demand before Shanghai, site of the world’s busiest port, and other cities shut down starting in late March. Cargo handling is back to normal, but economists warn the shock will be felt abroad for months.
“Exports rebounded strongly as shipping bottlenecks eased,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics in a report. “But we think this may be the last hurrah for China’s pandemic export boom before shipments drop back on cooling demand.”
Weak import demand reflects a slump in construction, a major customer for foreign iron ore and other raw materials, after the government launched a crackdown on debt that has chilled the vast real estate industry.
Forecasters have cut estimates for China’s economic growth to as low as 2% this year, well below the ruling Communist Party’s target of 5.5%.
China’s economy grew by a weak 4.8% over a year earlier in the quarter ending in March. That was an improvement over the 4% rate in the final three months of 2021.
Some believe it shrank in the quarter ending in June before beginning a gradual recovery. Surveys show that might be under way as manufacturing and service activity accelerates.
If that lasts, “the outlook for the second half of 2022 is for stronger imports,” Rajiv Biswas of S&P Global Market Intelligence said in a report.
Exports to the United States surged 19.3% over a year earlier to $56 billion despite lingering tariff hikes in a trade war over Beijing’s technology ambitions. Imports of American goods edged up 1.7% to $14.6 billion.
China’s politically volatile trade surplus with the United States widened by 26% from a year earlier to $41.4 billion. It was among irritants that prompted then-President Donald Trump to launch the trade fight and hike import taxes.
Envoys from the two governments have talked by phone and video link but have yet to announce a date to resume face-to-face negotiations.
Exports to the 27-nation European Union rose 17.1% from last June to $50.5 billion, while imports of European goods climbed 9.7% to $25 billion. China’s trade surplus with Europe widened by 65% to $25.4 billion.
Imports from Russia rose 56% over a year ago to $9.7 billion.
China’s growing purchases of Russian energy are irritating Washington and its allies but don’t violate sanctions on Moscow.
Beijing declared ahead of the attack that it had a “no limits” friendship with Moscow. It criticizes the sanctions but has avoided helping Putin for fear of losing access to Western markets and the global banking system.
The Biden administration last month accused five Chinese companies of dealing with the Russian military before the Feb. 24 invasion. They added them to a trade blacklist but officials did not say if they were accused of supplying goods after the attack.
Last year, China bought 20% of Russian crude exports, according to the International Energy Agency.
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BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency on Wednesday celebrated the first flight of its Vega-C rocket, which is designed to provide more bang for customers’ buck in the increasingly competitive business of launching satellites into orbit.
Vega-C is an upgrade to the Vega rocket that made its debut in 2012 as a launcher specializing in lifting small payloads into space. The new rocket can carry heavier payloads than its predecessor while burning less fuel.
ESA says Vega-C will be particularly useful for launching Earth observation satellites, but it is also envisaged as the carrier for Space Rider, an uncrewed robotic laboratory that will be the agency’s first re-usable space vehicle.
The 35-meter (115-feet) tall rocket’s launch from French Guiana was twice delayed shortly before liftoff due to technical problems, but succeeded on the third attempt.
Vega-C accelerates much faster than its big brother Ariane 5, reaching a speed of 16,000 kilometers per hour (almost 10,000 mph) within two minutes of launch. The Ariane 5, ESA’s workhorse heavy launcher, is also due for an upgrade soon.
The Vega-C rocket on Wednesday released an Italian-made satellite called LARES-2 — which looks similar to a giant disco ball — that will act as a target for a ground-based laser station, and six small cube-shaped mini-satellites from France, Italy and Slovenia containing scientific experiments.
The head of ESA has announced a series of ambitious new projects as Europe tries to compete with the United States, China and new rivals from the private sector in the growing space business.
The agency is also developing a further variant, Vega-E, that uses a less polluting fuel made of liquid oxygen and methane. That launcher is aimed to be ready by 2026.
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One day late last month, as new abortion restrictions began taking shape in US states, three Mexican women quietly crossed into the country at different points along the border, dozens of abortion-inducing pills hidden in their belongings.
The medication, an FDA-approved two-drug combination, had traveled across the interior of Mexico in the previous days, handled by an underground network of some 30 organizations in the country.
Since the US Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade, the network has moved an average of 100 doses across the border each day, organizers say.
"The medications are arriving in a thousand ways, in creative ways, into the hands of women," said Verónica Cruz Sánchez, a prominent Mexican abortion activist whose group, Las Libres, helps run the network.
Abortions in Texas, including the distribution of medication abortion -- the most commonly used abortion method in the country -- have been effectively banned following the June high court ruling.
Last week, Whole Woman's Health, the largest independent abortion provider in Texas and the operator of the last clinic in the expansive Rio Grande Valley border region of the state, announced it would be closing its centers in the state with plans to reopen in neighboring New Mexico.
Though traveling to other states for an abortion is an option, it's not simple. Women who undergo the multi-day medication abortion treatment are often told to stay in the state where they began the process -- making such trips prohibitively expensive for some.
So the Mexican network's daring -- and illegal -- operation has emerged as one few avenues for women seeking abortions in south Texas and beyond, drawing on a model of activist-led abortion access that already exists in Mexico.
Sandra Cardona, whose group Necesito Abortar Mexico is part of the Mexican abortifacient network, says her group alone received more than 70 requests for help from women in the US in the week following the Supreme Court ruling.
"What we did was start giving them options," she said.
The 'accompaniment' model
The delivery of misoprostol and mifepristone, the drugs approved for use together in a medication abortion, has long been a means of abortion access for women who live in parts of Mexico where the procedure is inaccessible.
Under the "acompañimiento," or accompaniment model, community health workers, often related to reproductive rights groups, support women through the medication abortion treatment with information and medical guidance, either virtually or in person, and, in some cases, also provide the necessary pills.
The model is common around the world, especially in places where access to abortion is restricted.
In a set of guidelines released in March, the World Health Organization outlined best practices for the use of accompaniment and other abortion service-delivery networks globally, saying self-managed abortions "must be recognized as a potentially empowering and active extension of the health system."
In Mexico, following a 2021 Supreme Court ruling that said state laws criminalizing abortion were unconstitutional, the pills can be shipped legally from one state to another for a woman to take at home.
If the woman prefers to receive the treatment under the watch of a trained professional, Cardona, from Necesito Abortar, will welcome her into her home.
Earlier this year, Cardona converted the second floor of her property in the northern city of Monterrey into La Abortería, a cozily decorated set of rooms where women from Mexico and the US can have medication abortion treatments.
Last week, two women from Texas received medication abortions at the center, Cardona said.
US abortion rules tightening up
Americans' access to abortion is expected to be restricted in a total of at least 26 states as more planned state laws take effect in the coming weeks, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights organization.
Many state laws do not seem to distinguish between medication and surgical abortion, and legislation already on the books in several states outlaws telehealth for abortion medication prescriptions, complicating out-of-state delivery services.
People who solicit and receive abortion-inducing medication, even in a state where the treatment is banned, generally face a low level of legal risk, said Farah Diaz-Tello, senior counsel and legal director for If/When/How: Lawyering For Reproductive Justice, a US-based group that, in addition to other services, runs a legal hotline.
While the state bans beginning to take effect generally aren't designed to target anyone who receives an abortion for prosecution, Diaz-Tello says the "increased stigma and increased scrutiny" around abortion could present problems for anyone who, for example, seeks medical care after a self-managed abortion.
In reality, the greater impact of the new laws on medicated abortion will be to block their access to women in states with a ban and to increase the legal jeopardy for people who help faciliate their delivery outside of the law.
In the days since the Supreme Court ruling, the Biden administration has promised to defend and expand access to medicated abortion, as anti-abortion advocates have signalled they'll push more states to make it difficult to obtain the pills.
The National Right to Life Committee, the largest anti-abortion group in the US, has also suggested states should extend criminal penalties to people who help a woman receive an illegal abortion, including "trafficking" abortion-inducing drugs and even giving instructions about self-managed abortions.
In Texas, a 2021 law already bars mailing abortion medication and threatens jail time for anyone providing the pills who's not a physician.
"Women shouldn't have to go through being in the limits of legality"
Ipas, a global reproductive rights organization, has been conducting an analysis of the cross-border accompaniment networks and the corresponding US and Mexican laws since the spring. While women in the US are within their rights in the US and Mexico to travel into Mexico and complete abortion care there, and medical tourism is routine in many border communities, it can be illegal to bring foreign drugs into the US.
A lawyer for the group said that Ipas has begun to prepare to defend against any reports to Mexican police about the conduct of the organizations in that country, and is consulting with US-based non-profits to find safe and legal ways to deliver the medication there.
"Women shouldn't have to go through being in the limits of legality and being afraid of being prosecuted to have access to an essential health care service," said María Antonieta Alcalde, the director for Central America and Mexico at Ipas. "But also I think this talks about the solidarity and commitment of women and the feminist movement."
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Just-Released Video Shows Moments Before Seattle Airport Worker Stole Plane in 2018
The drama ended when Richard Russell crashed the plane onto a remote island, killing himself.
Newly released footage is shedding light on a 2018 incident in which a ground service agent stole an empty plane on the runway at Seattle-Tacoma Airport and performed an unauthorized takeoff before eventually crashing.
The video shows Richard Russell going through security wearing a T-shirt that read: “The sky’s no limit.”
He then towed an empty 70-seater Alaska Airlines plane and positioned it to face the runway. When he unhitched the tow line, the plane started moving forward with no one at the controls.
Incredibly, Russell ran alongside, got the door open, ran up the steps and shut the door behind him. Five minutes later, he took off.
“I've got myself in a bit of a predicament. I'm in the air right now,” he told the tower.
What followed was a homeland security nightmare. Russell flew the plane around Seattle for an hour and even did aerobatics. National Guard fighter jets were scrambled in fear that terrorists were on board.
Russell's communication with air traffic control was a forecast of what was about to happen.
“I wouldn’t know how to land it. I wasn’t really planning on landing it,” he said.
The drama ended when he crashed the plane onto a remote island, killing himself.
Several years ago, Russell posted a video of his workday as a baggage handler.
Outwardly he and his wife seemed happy. But he was fighting inner demons, as he revealed in a haunting exchange with air traffic control.
“Just a broken guy who has got a few screws loose, I guess. Never really knew it until now."
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Bibb County Schools hosts retired teacher hiring fair
A shortage of math, science and special education teachers pushed the Bibb County School District to host a retiree job fair Wednesday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A shortage of math, science and special education teachers pushed the Bibb County School District to host a retiree job fair Wednesday.
Retired teachers got a chance to interview and apply to teaching jobs at the school district’s central office.
According to Katrina Swindle with the Bibb County School District, House Bill 385 allows retired teachers to return to class while keeping their retirement benefits for up to three years.
Previously, if a teacher wanted to return, they had to relinquish their benefits.
Latrina Pennamon-Nash, principal of Ballard-Hudson Middle School, says bringing in teachers with experience is helpful for students.
“Obviously it’s a financial incentive for them, but also it’s a win-win for schools to be able to acquire again that wealth of knowledge that retired educators have, the skill sets that they have, to be able to bring that back to the classroom is definitely a win-win for any principal,” she said.
Bibb County students return to class on August 3.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters looks to gain 70 mentors in 70 days
The initiative is starting on the right track. Macon-Bibb Mayor Lester Miller committed to being a mentor Wednesday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Heart of Georgia and Macon-Bibb County leaders want to gain 70 mentors in 70 days.
The organization announced the initiative Wednesday morning at Macon City Hall.
It decided on the number 70 in honor of its upcoming 70th anniversary.
The initiative is starting on the right track. Macon-Bibb Mayor Lester Miller committed to being a mentor Wednesday.
“It’s one of those things, we can get to the root causes, maybe we find out what’s going on in the household and we can put some resources in that area, make some contacts for them,” he said. “I think it opens up a lot of doors for them and improves their quality of life.”
To become a mentor, visit bbbsheartga.org/volunteer.
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BS Report: July 13th – The Dawgs are Still Good
Rumors are circulating that this years returning UGA Football team won't be as good as the championship team last season.
Rumors are circulating that this years returning UGA Football team won’t be as good as the championship team last season. Bill Shanks is here to tell you why that’s not true.
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Coach’s Corner 2022: Marquis Westbrook of the Warner Robins Demons
On this edition of Coach's Corner, 41NBC's Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Marquis Westbrook of the Warner Robins Demons.
On this edition of Coach’s Corner, 41NBC’s Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Marquis Westbrook of the Warner Robins Demons. Hear why coach Westbrook isn’t taking his foot off of the gas after leading his team to the championship win last season.
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Dudley wins back-to-back 12U Little League Softball State Tournament titles
Dudley will represent Georgia at the 12U Little League Softball Southeast Region Tournament.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Dudley captured its second-consecutive 12U Little League Softball State title as they defeated Oconee 9-1.
The starting pitcher for Dudley had a marvelous game pitching all six innings, giving up two hits, four walks and one run.
Dudley scored four runs in the third and fourth innings and had an inside-the-park home run in the fifth inning to take the victory.
Dudley will represent Georgia at the 12U Little League Softball Southeast Region Tournament, which begins July 23 in Warner Robins.
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Houston County residents hosting ‘Not in My City’ unity prayer march to stop gun violence
The march is happening in Warner Robins on Saturday, July 16 at 9 a.m.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Residents are expressing concerns over a recent increase in gun violence.
They’re coming together to host the ‘Not in My City’ unity prayer march to stop gun violence.
The march is happening Saturday, July 16 at 9 a.m.
People like Yolanda Franklin have had enough of the recent increase in violence.
“I’m not so pleased with the things that have been happening when it comes to the violence,” Franklin said.
Franklin was born and raised in Warner Robins. Once she heard about the march, she knew she had to participate.
“I had a cousin that was taken, an innocent life, 8-years old, at the hands of gun violence,” she said.
Franklin lost her cousin in a drive-by shooting earlier this year. She’s just one of many families impacted by recent gun violence.
She hopes that by walking alongside others, she can share her experience.
“As we march, we make sure we speak loudly,” she said. “Not in our city. This is our home. This is our safe haven.”
Reverend Rutha Jackson, one of the march’s organizers, recalls Warner Robins as a safe place.
She says recent killings have “kind of raised a red flag.”
“We need to draw attention to this,” she said. “We need to be prayerful. ”
Reverend Jackson acknowledges the problem won’t be solved overnight, but she feels the march is a step in the right direction.
“Prayer being our weapon, because guns are not the answer,” Jackson said. “Other weapons are not the answer.”
Saturday’s march will begin at 1867 Watson Boulevard and will end with a prayer at City Hall.
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Middle Georgia could become regional tech hub with new Senate Bill
“Having that equipment here means that students would be able to follow the entire research from start to finish.”
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)—If you’re thinking of going to college for a STEM career, your first choice is probably not a school in Middle Georgia. A bill in the U.S. Senate could potentially change that, because it would double National Science Funding for schools.
Middle Georgia State University Department Chair for Natural Sciences, Dr. Dawn Sherry, says if the bill passes they hope to get access to the funding to buy more high tech equipment.
“We may get them to a certain point and then they have to send off their samples to a lab to be analyzed,” Dr. Sherry explained. “Having that equipment here means that students would be able to follow the entire research from start to finish.”
The bill also includes a study from two MIT professors who have identified more than 100 U.S. cities that have the potential to become regional tech hubs. One of the cities is Warner Robins. Senator Raphael Warnock says he’s working to make that a reality.
“It just corroborates what we already know with the Warner Robins Air Force Base there,” Senator Warnock said. “The incredible talent that’s in Middle Georgia, they (Warner Robins) would be well positioned for this.”
Senator Warnock says Middle Georgians shouldn’t have to move away to places like Silicon Valley or New York to work in STEM or tech careers.
“Getting this bill done will help with the kind of investment and resources that are necessary to keep our talent in Georgia,” said Senator Warnock.
Dr. Sherry says the new bill could help give schools in rural areas a competitive advantage. It could also provide a more comprehensive education for the students who attend those schools.
“This grant money that could come available would help to level the playing field and open up for particularly expensive items. Science is expensive so that could really increase opportunities for these students,” Dr. Sherry said.
Senator Warnock says two different versions of the bill passed in the house and senate last year. The Conference Committee is working to combine those bills. The senator says he’s hopeful the final version will pass before the end of the work session.
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Monroe County Sheriff’s Office: 2 arrested after Wednesday chase, crash on I-75
Two men are in custody following a law enforcement chase that started in Monroe County Wednesday and ended after a crash in Butts County.
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Two men are in custody following a law enforcement chase that started in Monroe County Wednesday and ended after a crash in Butts County.
A Monroe County Sheriff’s Office news release says that around 2:30 p.m., a Monroe County deputy observed a vehicle commit multiple traffic violations on Interstate 75 N near mile marker 191.
A deputy tried to initiate a traffic stop on the vehicle, a 2021 Chevrolet Malibu with a South Carolina license plate. The vehicle did not stop, and a pursuit began. It ended when the Malibu struck another vehicle and crashed on I-75 N near mile marker 200 in Butts County.
The sheriff’s office did not report any injuries.
The driver, identified as 29-year-old Demonte Jamahl Smith and the passenger, identified as 26-year-old Demerian Mikhail Humphrey-Shaw, both of Decatur, were taken into custody.
Both are now being held in Monroe County.
Deputies say Smith has two active warrants (stalking and probation violation) and was driving on a suspended license. He’s charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and multiple traffic violations.
Humphrey-Shaw is charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
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Museum of Aviation’s 36th auction, raffle and taste of local cuisine happening Saturday
The Museum of Aviation is hosting its 36th annual Auction, Raffle, and Taste of Local Cuisine on Saturday, July 16, and you have the potential to win $20,000!
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— The Museum of Aviation is hosting its 36th annual Auction, Raffle, and Taste of Local Cuisine on Saturday, July 16, and you have the potential to win $20,000!
The event is happening at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry. Your ticket gets you access to 21 local vendors.
The Museum of Aviation’s Public Relations and Marketing Specialist, Lacey Meador, says the auction is a fundraiser for the National STEM Academy.
“We want to have our local children thriving in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,” Meador said. “So by getting the funds from this auction, we’re able to pour that back into what we do to serve our community.”
Tickets for the event are $100, and that automatically enters you in a raffle to win $20,000.
You can buy tickets online until 4 p.m. Friday, or you can buy tickets at the door Saturday. Doors open at 5:30 at the Miller-Murphy-Howard Building.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo supermarket where 10 Black people were killed by a white gunman is set to reopen its doors to the public Friday, two months after the racist attack.
A moment of silence and prayer will be held Thursday at Tops Friendly Market to honor the victims, employees and community impacted by the May 14 mass shooting, with a ceremonial reopening of the overhauled store before customers return Friday, the company said.
Ten Black people were killed when a then-18-year-old gunman wearing body armor and carrying a semi-automatic rifle opened fire on weekend shoppers and employees. Three people were wounded in the massacre.
Investigators say the shooter was motivated by white supremacist beliefs and researched the demographics of the predominantly Black neighborhood where the market is located with the intent of killing as many Black people as possible. He drove for more than three hours from his home in Conklin, New York, to carry out the attack, authorities said.
The decision to reopen, rather than relocate, the store has been met with mixed emotions in the East Buffalo neighborhood that, beset by high poverty, fought for years to get a grocery store. Since opening in 2003, the Tops location remains the only supermarket in the immediate area. Its closure in the wake of the shooting forced many residents to take buses to other locations or rely on stopgap measures like neighborhood giveaways to access fresh food.
“We must go on,” said Tops employee Rosalie Bishop, who has worked at the store for 12 years. She wants the store open again — and never for a moment considered not returning to work with colleagues who she considers family.
“The store is there for a reason. The store is still there for a reason," said Bishop, 58, who was on her way to work when the shooting happened and said she's still processing her near miss. "The people will come back. They might not come today or tomorrow, but they will come back.”
Other neighbors say reopening isn't the best path forward.
Suggestions to local media and on social networks include turning the site into a park or recreational center that would bring the community together, or having several supermarkets that are more dispersed throughout Buffalo's East Side.
Some simply can’t imagine entering a store where such terrible events took place.
The shooter, Payton Gendron, was arrested just outside the store’s front entrance. He is charged with numerous counts, including federal hate crime charges punishable by the death penalty, and has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges.
Authorities say the gunman was motivated by white supremacist beliefs, including a baseless conspiracy theory about a plot to diminish the influence of white people. He chronicled his plans for months in an online diary, authorities said, and livestreamed the attack via a helmet camera.
Mayor Byron Brown said he was apprehensive while first touring the remodeled store but believes the overhaul will be helpful to customers.
“I realize that not everyone will feel comfortable returning to the store,” he said in a statement, adding that he is encouraging other retailers to serve the area.
“None of us will ever forget the cruel, racist attack,” Brown said. The reopening is a step toward healing, he said.
Bishop already has returned to the store to help prepare. Her first day went smoothly, but a security drill with flashing lights on the second day sent her home, shaken, mid-shift. Still, she said she is not afraid for her safety.
“I just want peace. I just want peace,” Bishop said. “It’ll never go back to the way it was. We’re not looking for the way it was. But peace."
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del.- Authorities are investigating a Wednesday night fire that caused substantial damage to a Rehoboth Beach townhouse.
The Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company said that at around 8 p.m., firefighters responded to a report of a townhouse fire on Catalina Circle in the Sawgrass subdivision off Old Landing Road. 911 received several phone calls reporting heavy fire in a unit. Initial arriving crews found smoke and flames issuing out of the second and third floor windows.
Rehoboth Beach firefighters were assisted on scene by the Lewes Fire Department, Indian River Fire Company and Sussex County Emergency Medical Services. Bethany Beach and Milton firefighters covered the area while units worked on scene. Firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to other units. It took 30 minutes to bring the blaze under control and units remained on scene for nearly three hours for overhaul and clean up.
Nobody in the townhouse was home, but firefighters were able to rescue the family dog from it. Neighboring residents were alerted to evacuate until the area was deemed safe. There were no reported injuries.
The Delaware State Fire Marshall’s office is investigating the fire's origin and cause.
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NEW YORK — Stocks fell broadly in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday after another hot reading on inflation had investors bracing for another big interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve later this month.
The S&P 500 fell 2% as of 10:19 a.m. Eastern. More than 95% of companies in the benchmark index were in the red. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 604 points, or 2%, to 30.163 and the Nasdaq fell 2.1%.
Banks were among the big losers. JPMorgan Chase fell 4.6% after reporting a sharp drop in earnings for its latest quarter, falling short of forecasts.
Another drop in crude oil prices, a signal that investors expect slower economic growth, was weighing on energy companies. U.S. crude oil prices fell 4.8% and Exxon Mobil fell 4.1%.
Inflation and the Federal Reserve's fight against it remain key concerns for Wall Street. Inflation at the wholesale level climbed 11.3% in June compared with a year earlier. It is the latest painful reminder that inflation is running hot, following a report on Wednesday that showed prices at the consumer level were 9.1% higher last month than a year earlier.
Pervasive inflation has been squeezing businesses and consumers for months. More importantly for Wall Street, it prompted an aggressive reversal for the Fed on its interest rate policy. The central bank is now raising rates in an effort to slow economic growth and cool inflation, but that has raised concerns that it could go too far and actually cause a recession.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which affects mortgage rates, rose to 3.00% from 2.90% late Thursday. It remains lower than the two-year Treasury, which is at 3.24%. That's a relatively rare occurrence, and some investors see it as an ominous signal of a potential recession.
The Fed has already raised rates three times this year and traders are increasingly expecting a monster rate hike of a full percentage point at the central bank's next meeting in two weeks. Traders are betting on a 83% chance of a full-point hike, up from zero a month ago, according to CME Group.
Concerns about the Fed's rate hikes have prompted Bank of America to forecast a mild recession hitting the economy in the second half of the year and more pain for traders. The benchmark S&P 500 index has already slumped into a bear market, down 20% from its most recent high in January, and likely hasn't hit bottom yet, according to the bank.
Investors are will get a clearer picture in the coming weeks about how badly inflation is hurting companies. Several more banks are on deck to report earnings Friday, including Citigroup and Wells Fargo, along with insurer UnitedHealth Group.
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TALLAHASSEE, FLa. (WTXL) — Blue Bell released two new flavors this summer, one significantly for National Ice Cream Month.
For July, which is National Ice Cream Month, Blue Bell is releasing the new flavor, Oatmeal Cream Pie.
According to the creamery company, the flavor is described as "a delicious oatmeal flavored ice cream with hints of brown sugar mixed with soft oatmeal cookies and a vanilla icing swirl."
It'll be sold in pint and 1/2 gallon sizes.
Back in June, a Strawberry Lemonade flavor made its way to store shelves. Blue Bell described the flavor as "a delicious strawberry ice cream swirled with a refreshing lemonade sherbet sprinkled with lemon flavored flakes."
The limited time Strawberry Lemonade flavor will also be sold in both pint and 1/2 gallon sizes.
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Man shot on Highland Drive in Macon
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— The Bibb Sheriff’s Office is investigating an Aggravated Assault at a residence in the 1200 block of Highland Avenue just before 9:30 p.m. last night
Upon arrival deputies found a 32-year-old male who had been shot. He was transported to the Atrium Health Navicent where he was listed in stable condition. The events leading up to the incident are still under investigation. No one else was injured.
There is no information on the suspect.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at 478-751 -7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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Monroe County Sheriff’s Office investigating threatening letter sent to City Manager
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a threatening letter that was sent that threatened the life of City Manager, Janice Hall.
According to a release from the City of Forsyth, Police Chief Eddie Harris delivered a letter that he received in the mail to Hall on Friday July 8th. The letter threatened Hall’s life if she didn’t “leave Chief Harris alone and let him do his job”.
Chief Harris recommended that Hall files a report to the Sheriff’s office, which she did– now they are conducting a full investigation.
A reward has been established by private donations for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of whoever is responsible for the threat. Anyone with information is urged to call Investigator Daniel Ahlstrom at 478-994-7043 ext. 235 or via email to dahlstrom@monroecosheriffga.us
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Morning Business Report: Novavax approved for new COVID vaccine
U.S. health regulators have authorized the new Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, providing a new option for the two leading vaccines. Novavax says its protein-based vaccine might appeal to some people who have been reluctant to receive the other vaccines.
Southwest launches a sale on fall flight. Wanna Get Away fares go as low as $59.
Nissan’s innovative ‘brain to performance’ program focuses on brain function and anatomy research. This research can help improve driving skills and performance of the average driver.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer was convicted Wednesday of federal charges accusing him of the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history.
Joshua Schulte, who chose to defend himself at a New York City retrial, had told jurors in closing arguments that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing public release of a trove of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017.
Schulte watched without visibly reacting as U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman announced the guilty verdict on nine counts, which was reached in mid-afternoon by a jury that had deliberated since Friday.
The so-called Vault 7 leak revealed how the CIA hacked Apple and Android smartphones in overseas spying operations, and efforts to turn internet-connected televisions into listening devices. Prior to his arrest, Schulte had helped create the hacking tools as a coder at the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
A sentencing date was not immediately set because Schulte still awaits trial on charges of possessing and transporting child pornography. He has pleaded not guilty.
Attorney Sabrina Shroff, who advised Schulte during the trial, told Schulte’s mother after the verdict that the outcome was a “kick to the gut, the brain and heart.” It was unclear if Shroff was expressing her own sentiments or Schulte’s.
In his closing, Schulte claimed he was singled out even though “hundreds of people had access to (the information). … Hundreds of people could have stolen it.”
“The government’s case is riddled with reasonable doubt,” he added. “There’s simply no motive here.”
Prosecutors alleged the 33-year-old Schulte was motivated to orchestrate the leak because he believed the CIA had disrespected him by ignoring his complaints about the work environment. So he tried “to burn to the ground” the very work he had helped the agency to create, they said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David Denton encouraged jurors to consider evidence of an attempted cover-up, including a list of chores Schulte drew up that had an entry reading, “Delete suspicious emails.”
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement that Schulte was convicted of “one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in American history.”
Williams said Schulte, motivated by resentment toward the CIA, leaked to the public and to U.S. adversaries some of the nation’s “most valuable intelligence-gathering cyber tools used to battle terrorist organizations and other malign influences around the globe.”
The prosecutor said Schulte knew the leak would render the CIA’s tools “essentially useless, having a devastating effect on our intelligence community by providing critical intelligence to those who wish to do us harm.”
While behind bars awaiting trial, prosecutors said he continued his crimes by trying to leak additional classified materials as he carried on an “information war” against the government.
Once the jury left the courtroom for deliberations, the judge complimented Schulte on his closing argument.
“Mr. Schulte, that was impressively done,” Furman said. “Depending on what happens here, you may have a future as a defense lawyer.”
A mistrial was declared at Schulte’s original 2020 trial after jurors deadlocked on the most serious counts, including illegal gathering and transmission of national defense information. Schulte told the judge last year that he wanted to serve as his own attorney for the retrial.
He has not announced whether he wants to represent himself at his next trial, which involves allegations that after leaving the CIA, Schulte moved to New York from Virginia with a computer that contained images and videos of child pornography he had downloaded from the internet from 2009 to March 2017.
Schulte has been held behind bars without bail since 2018. Last year, he complained in court papers that he was a victim of cruel and unusual punishment, awaiting the two trials in solitary confinement inside a vermin-infested cell of a jail unit where inmates are treated like “caged animals.”
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Amazon has provided Ring doorbell footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s permission, a revelation that’s bound to raise more privacy and civil liberty concerns about its video-sharing agreements with police departments across the country.
The disclosure came in a letter from the company that was made public Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who sent a separate letter to Amazon last month questioning Ring’s surveillance practices and engagement with law enforcement.
Ring has said before it will not share customer information with police without consent, a warrant or due to “an exigent or emergency” circumstance. The 11 videos shared this year fell under the emergency provision, Amazon’s letter said, the first time the company publicly shared such information. The letter, dated July 1, did not say which videos were shared with police.
Brian Huseman, Amazon’s vice president for public policy, wrote in the letter that in each instance, “Ring made a good-faith determination that there was an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to a person requiring disclosure of information without delay.”
In such cases, Huseman wrote Ring “reserves the right to respond immediately to urgent law enforcement requests for information,” adding the company makes a determination as to when to share video footage without user consent based on information provided to it in an emergency request form and circumstances described by law enforcement.
Some prior requests from law enforcement have raised concerns about how police might be attempting to use Ring footage. Last year, the non-profit digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation reported the Los Angeles Police Department requested Ring footage of Black Lives Matter protests from users in 2020.
In a statement, Markey’s office said the findings show a close relationship between Ring and law enforcement and a proliferation of police using the platform.
Amazon said in its letter 2,161 law enforcement agencies are enrolled in Ring’s Neighbors app, a forum for residents to share suspicious videos captured by their home security cameras. That number represents a five-fold increase since November 2019, according to the senator’s office.
“As my ongoing investigation into Amazon illustrates, it has become increasingly difficult for the public to move, assemble, and converse in public without being tracked and recorded,” Markey said in a statement.
Among other things, the senator’s statement also criticized the company for not clarifying the distance Ring products can capture audio recordings. The company had said in its response letter what Ring captures “depends on many conditions, including device placement and environmental conditions.”
The Ring disclosure comes as Amazon is facing broader antitrust scrutiny in Congress about its ecommerce business, and accusations of undercutting merchants that sell on its platform by making “knock-offs,” or very similar products, and boosting their presence on its site.
Markey and several other Democratic lawmakers are also pushing for a bill that prohibits the use of biometric technology by federal agencies and tie federal grant funding to states and localities on the condition they put a moratorium on the use of such technology.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates were back up this week, just as the latest government data shows inflation has not slowed, meaning the Federal Reserve is almost certain to raise its benchmark borrowing rate later this month.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year rate rose to 5.51% from 5.30% last week. One year ago the average 30-year rate was 2.88%.
The average rate on 15-year, fixed-rate mortgages, popular among those refinancing their homes, rose to 4.67% from 4.45% last week. A year ago, the rate was 2.22%.
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate by a half-point in May and another three-quarters of a point last month, the biggest single hike since 1994. Fed policymakers have signaled that much higher interest rates could be needed to reign in persistent, four-decade high inflation. Most economists expect the Federal Reserve to jack up its borrowing rate another half-to-three-quarters of a point when it meets later this month.
Fed officials acknowledge that their rate hikes could weaken the economy, but suggested that such steps were necessary to slow price increases back to the Fed’s 2% annual target.
The Labor Department reported Wednesday that its consumer price index soared 9.1% over the past year, the biggest yearly increase since 1981. On Thursday, Labor released data showing that its producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers — rose by 11.3% in June compared with a year earlier.
The Fed’s benchmark short-term rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, will now be pegged to a range of 1.5% to 1.75% — and Fed policymakers forecast a doubling of that range by year’s end.
Higher borrowing rates have discouraged house hunters and cooled what was a red-hot housing market, one of the most important sectors of the economy. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed for the fourth consecutive month in May.
Home prices kept climbing in May, even as sales slowed. The national median home price jumped 14.8% in May from a year earlier to $407,600 — an all-time high according to NAR data going back to 1999.
Mortgage applications have declined 14% from last year and refinancings are down 80%, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported this week. Those numbers could retreat further with more Fed rate increases a near certainty.
Layoffs in the housing and lending sectors have already begun. On Tuesday, the online mortgage company loanDepot said it was cutting 2,000 jobs.
Last month, the online real estate broker Redfin said it was laying off 8% of its workers and Compass said it was letting go of 450 employees.
The nation’s largest bank by assets, JPMorgan Chase, is laying off hundreds from its mortgage unit and has reassigned hundreds of others to jobs elsewhere in the firm.
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Bibb County Sheriff’s Office arrests 3, cites 2 others after finding stolen trailer
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Several people were cited and arrested after Bibb County Sheriff’s Deputies found a stolen trailer that was being stored at a residence on Moreland Avenue.
According to the BCSO, deputies went to the 600 block of Moreland Avenue on July 12th, around 6:30 p.m. on a tip for a stolen trailer, when they obtained a search warrant for the residence and found the trailer. During the search, deputies arrested 3 people and cited 2 others.
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40-year-old Nashida Samail Gayle, of Macon, was arrested and charged with Possession of Schedule II Narcotic, Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of Felony, and Criminal use of an Article with Altered Marks (firearm withs serial number removed). She is being held on a $25,300.00 bond at this time.
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25-year-old Micah Ishamel McNeil, of Macon, was arrested and charged with Possession of Schedule II Narcotic, Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of Felony, Criminal use of an Article with Altered Marks (firearm withs serial number removed), Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, Giving False Information, and warrants from Monroe County S.O. and Clayton County Police Dept.
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43-year-old Melissa Perez, of Macon, was arrested on an Aggravated Cruelty to Animals warrant out of Bibb County. She is currently out on a $3,300.00 bond.
The BCSO also cited two 17-year-olds, Keonte Walston and Diamon Perez of Macon, for misdemeanor possession of less than one ounce of marijuana.
Anyone with information about this incident and the theft of the trailer
is urged to contact the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at 478-751 -7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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Ivana Trump, first wife of former president, has died
UPDATE: NEW YORK (AP) — Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother to his oldest children, has died in New York City. She was 73. People familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press that police are investigating whether she fell accidentally down the stairs at her home. The people spoke Thursday on the condition of anonymity. Ivana Trump was a Czech-born ski racer and businesswoman who with Donald Trump formed half of a publicity power couple in the 1980s. They had a messy, public divorce after he met his next wife, Marla Maples. But Ivana had recently been on good terms with her former husband.
NEW YORK (AP) — Ivana Trump, the first wife of Donald Trump, has died in New York City, the former president announced on social media Thursday.
“I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life. Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her. Rest In Peace, Ivana!”
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Jones County Sheriff’s Office trains for active shooter situations
"Unfortunately these things are happening now. We're working closely with the school system, we're working closely with EMS, we're working closely with other law enforcement agencies."
GRAY, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT)—The Jones County Sheriff’s Office is getting help from other law enforcement agencies for its active shooter training. They’re making sure your kids are safe when they head back to school in August.
The department says the training is a proactive step in school security.
“We want to make sure that if somebody is in a school or a business and they’re shooting, we want to make sure our guys are going in immediately,” said Captain Travis Douglas.
Captain Douglas is an instructor for the training. He says the recent school shooting in Uvalde, made them feel an urgent need to get more people prepared.
“Unfortunately these things are happening now. We’re working closely with the school system, we’re working closely with EMS, we’re working closely with other law enforcement agencies,” said Captain Douglas.
The training consists of live scenarios with weapons and blank rounds to simulate gun shots.
Lieutenant Wesley Ransom has gone through the training several times. He believes it’s a training all law enforcement should do, because it gives officers the confidence to stop an active shooter.
“Even though there is definitely risk in going into this type of scenario, they’re going into it with the best opportunity possible, to prevent the loss of any further life and to keep themselves as safe as possible,” said Lieutenant Ransom.
Lieutenant Ransom is a father and a husband to an educator, and knows how important it is to keep people protected in school. He says not only does it protect people in schools, but the training also helps prepare for all shootings.
“In an event of an active shooter situation, they can rest assured that we’re going to actively respond and take care of any threats that may arise,” said Lieutenant Ransom.
Law Enforcement says if you’re ever in an active shooter situation, lock the door and barricade yourself.
New teachers within the Jones County School District also go through a training. The Sheriff’s Office teaches them what to do in their classrooms during an active shooter situation.
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2 arrested in Monroe County, accused of stealing car in Bibb County
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says Winfred Felts and Tiffany Beasley were pulled over this afternoon on Highway 41, south of Rumble Road with no incident.
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- Monroe County deputies arrest a man and woman, accused of stealing a Mercedes after the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office issued a BOLO Thursday morning.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says Winfred Felts and Tiffany Beasley were pulled over this afternoon on Highway 41, south of Rumble Road with no incident.
Both are charged with violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act.
Felts is also charged with theft.
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Bibb County Investigators search for murder suspect
Investigators say on February 5, 42-year-old Eddie Thomas was shot during an altercation by 26-year-old Terrance Williams at a home on Bob White Road.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office needs your help finding a suspect in connection to an Aggravated Assault earlier this year.
Investigators say on February 5, 42-year-old Eddie Thomas was shot during an altercation by 26-year-old Terrance Williams at a home on Bob White Road.
Thomas was taken to the hospital for treatment and then released.
Williams was arrested and charged with Aggravated Assault. He then posted a $38,500.00 bond on February 17.
On March 11, Thomas was taken to Upson Regional Hospital and pronounced dead. An autopsy later determined Thomas died due to complications from his injuries.
On June 28, The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office Special Presentment bench warrant for Murder was issued for Williams.
If you know where he is, call the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at 478-751 -7500, or the Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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Bragg Jam Concert Crawl is coming back to downtown Macon
During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Bragg Jam was held virtually. In 2021, the concert returned in person but modified to one location.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- For the first time since 2019, the Bragg Jam Concert Crawl is returning.
During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Bragg Jam was held virtually. In 2021, the concert returned in person but modified to one location.
Bragg Jam began as a way to honor Macon native and singer-songwriter Brax Bragg. Since it’s beginning in 2000, the once small jam session has turned in to a city wide concert.
Vice President of Development of Visit Macon, Aaron Buzza, says the concert crawl is a great way for the community to get out and connect with each other.
“It’s going to be a lot of fun seeing old friends who we haven’t seen in a couple of years come back this year,” said Buzza.
A Brook Haven Lounge on Cherry Street is one of the seven venues hosting bands. Owner Derrin Ford, says the concert is big for all Macon businesses.
“Anything that brings additional foot traffic to downtown Macon will ultimately help all the businesses all of the market stuff that goes on once a month over off of poplar all that stuff anything that brings additional foot traffic we’re on board,” said Ford.
Tickets for the event are available on www.braggjam.org.
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Coach’s Corner 2022: Spoon Risper of the Westside Seminoles
On this edition of Coach's Corner, 41NBC's Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Spoon Risper of the Westside Seminoles.
On this edition of Coach’s Corner, 41NBC’s Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Spoon Risper of the Westside Seminoles. Hear how coach Risper plans to bring the Seminoles back from their first ever losing season with the help of some new starters.
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Dragon Slayers Nostalgic Toys opens in Macon
"It's a lot different from a video game store or a clothing store, vintage clothing store. It's more like 'Oh, I had this when I was a kid!"
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A new shop is opening in Macon, that might help you recapture your childhood.
Dragon Slayers Nostalgic Toys is located on Vineville Avenue. The store is already open, but will host a grand opening on August 13.
The store primarily focuses on the sale of vintage toys. It’s family run by Scott and Jasmine Coleson, and Scott’s brother.
Coleson spoke about what he feels makes a vintage toy store unique to other vintage markets.
“It’s a lot different from a video game store or a clothing store, vintage clothing store. It’s more like ‘Oh, I had this when I was a kid!’ you know? And that’s what makes people buy the product,” said Coleson.
Scott says they try to keep its prices low as the store is owned by collectors, and they understand the difficulty in finding vintage toys for reasonable prices. They also do trade-ins and haggling.
Coleson says he wants the vintage market to expand in Middle Georgia, and hopefully one day will rival a similar areas found in Atlanta.
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Georgia College has named Jack Marchant as the women’s soccer head coach
Marchant spent the last three seasons as an assistant coach at Georgia State.
Milledgeville, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Georgia College has hired Jack Marchant as the women’s soccer program’s fifth head coach of all time.
Marchant has been an assistant at Georgia State for the last three years and currently coaches the Georgia Revolution, a National Premier Soccer League team.
Marchant is originally from England and moved to the United States in 2008, and this is what he had to say about Milledgeville.
“I can’t wait to dive into this place. Not only the soccer, not only the team with two feet but the community as well. Again, not since I left home have I felt so at home. Again, I know my mom and dad won’t be too particularly happy about that, but I’m sure they’ll get to feel it. They’re already planning to come out in October and getting to meet everybody and getting to see Milledgeville. What a wonderful little town it is,” said Marchant.
The Bobcats’ season begins in August.
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed Thursday on 41NBC News Top stories from July 14, 2022 July 14, 2022 Clayton Poulnott, Bibb County Investigators search for murder suspect Jones County Sheriff’s Office trains for active shooter situations MGA professor explains Supreme Court ruling dealing with Miranda Rights For other stories you may have missed, click here. FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
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Macon native and Detroit Lions wide receiver Quintez Cephus is hosting a community for Macon’s youth
This is the 2nd annual community day assembled by Cephus
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Detroit Lions wide receiver and Macon native Quintez Cephus is hosting his 2nd annual community day for the youth of Macon.
The community day will include several activities for the children, plus free lunch and gifts for the first 150 kids.
For Cephus, his main objective is to show Macon’s youth that by making good decisions, you can positively impact your life’s trajectory.
“There’s a lot going on every day—a lot of crime and violence and things of that nature. And we just want to create a space where noticeable people are being around, guys that have been successful, women that have been successful in our community. We want to create a space to show our younger kids that it’s possible, there’s a way out based on your choices,” said Cephus.
The community day will be held this Saturday, July 16, at the Frank Johnson Recreation Center from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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MGA professor explains Supreme Court ruling dealing with Miranda Rights
If evidence is collected in a case where your Miranda Rights aren't read to you though, it weakens citizens' ability to sue police officers if they knowingly violate constitutionally protected liberties.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— The overturning of Roe v. Wade isn’t the only controversial Supreme Court decision to come down this year.
Vega versus Tekoh, deals with constitutional rights that fall under the Miranda Rights. The ruling says you still have the right to remain silent, and the right to an attorney during an arrest.
If evidence is collected in a case where your Miranda Rights aren’t read to you though, it weakens citizens’ ability to sue police officers if they knowingly violate constitutionally protected liberties.
We spoke with Associate Political Science Professor, Dr. John Powell Hall, from Middle Georgia State University. He explained the ruling.
“The Vega opinion has said quite clearly constitutionally protected rights are still as protected as they ever were. The court created prophylactic tools that we have to protect those rights are not as protected,” he said. “In fact in this case the court is saying they’re not protected.”
Dr. Hall says the ruling has the potential to be significant, and its significance could grow in the future.
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Rep. Dale Washburn responds to Roe v. Wade ruling
State House Representative Dale Washburn, says he voted yes for the Heartbeat Bill in 2019, and supports the law being enforced.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— Georgia Republicans are responding to the Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade, and what it means for Georgians.
The Heartbeat Bill, also known as House Bill 481, was signed by Governor Brian Kemp in 2019.
Georgia Democrats told us Monday, the bill has been held up in court since then.
State House Representative Dale Washburn, says he voted yes for the Heartbeat Bill in 2019, and supports the law being enforced.
“I would urge people to vote for pro-life candidates because we stand firmly on the side of pro-life. I do personally and I think the majority of our party does,” Representative Washburn said. “So we certainly will be defending the heartbeat bill and the right to life.”
Following the Supreme Court decision, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr filed a notice asking the 11th Circuit Court to reverse their decision on the Heartbeat Bill.
Abortion is currently still legal in Georgia.
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Sen. John Ossoff proposes an increase to active military salaries
Senator Ossoff said the proposed bi-partisan bill would be the most significant raise in military salaries in recent history.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is proposing a 4.6% increase in salary for active veterans.
Senator Ossoff said the proposed bi-partisan bill would be the most significant raise in military salaries in recent history.
He states many military families are struggling, and this pay raise couldn’t come at a better time.
“Military families are having trouble making ends meet, whether they’re at robins, or moody or any of the major installations in our state. This is a tough time for military families and it’s been a long time coming that we increase pay significantly for those who serve,” said Senator Ossoff.
The Senator said if approved, the bill should take effect fall 2023.
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Washington County deputies investigating Thursday night shooting
According to Washington County Sheriff Joel Cochran, one man suffered non-life threatening gunshot wounds.
SANDERSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- Washington County deputies are investigating a shooting that happened in the Highway 242/Parsons Crossing area Thursday night.
According to Washington County Sheriff Joel Cochran, one man suffered non-life threatening gunshot wounds.
Sheriff Cochran says the incident is currently under investigation, and if anyone has information about the shooting call Lt. Eric Burgamy at (478) 552-0911.
Stay with 41NBC for updates on this story as they become available.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Christopher Waller, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, said Thursday that he would be open to supporting a huge 1 percentage point increase in the Fed’s key short-term interest rate later this month if upcoming economic data points to robust consumer spending.
Such an increase would mark a further ramping up of the Fed’s rate hikes as it intensifies its fight against accelerating inflation. Faster rate increases would heighten the risk that the central bank’s anti-inflationary policies would cause a recession. The Fed hasn’t raised its rate by 1 percentage point in several decades.
In a speech in Victor, Idaho, Waller said he still supports a 0.75% point increase at the central bank’s next policymaking meeting in two weeks, even after a government report Wednesday showed consumer inflation accelerating to a new 40-year high.
But further economic data — including a report Friday on June retail sales and several reports on home sales and prices — will be released before the Fed’s next meeting. If those figures “come in materially stronger than expected,” Waller said Thursday, “it would make me lean towards a larger hike.”
Wednesday’s inflation report showed that prices spiked 9.1% in June from 12 months earlier, the biggest such increase since 1981. Though much of the inflation was driven by higher costs for food and gas, price increases were widespread and in many cases accelerating in such areas as rents, restaurant meals, and medical services.
Speaking during a question-and-answer session, Waller suggested that a 1-point rate increase at the Fed’s meeting late this month is less likely than the 80% probability that financial markets had given it late Wednesday, according to the CME Group.
“The markets may have gotten ahead of themselves a little bit yesterday,” he said.
As of Thursday, traders had swung back to regarding a three-quarter-point Fed rate increase as more likely than a full-point hike.
Waller stressed, though, that Wednesday’s worrisome consumer inflation report sealed the case for a three-quarter-point hike, rather than the half-point increase that Chair Jerome Powell had suggested was also on the table for the Fed’s upcoming meeting.
On Wednesday, after the inflation figures were released, Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, suggested that “everything is in play” at the July meeting — including a potential 1 point rate hike.
In an interview on Bloomberg TV on Wednesday evening, Loretta Mester, head of the Cleveland Fed, declined to say what size rate hike might be considered. But she said the consumer inflation report “was uniformly bad — there was no good news in that report at all.”
In his remarks Thursday, Waller discounted concerns that the economy might be nearing a recession. He pointed to healthy job gains this year and an unemployment rate that is near a half-century low.
Those job gains, he said, “leave me feeling fairly confident that the U.S. economy did not enter a recession in the first half of 2022 and that the economic expansion will continue.”
As a result, a “soft landing” in which the economy grows at a slower pace, bringing inflation toward the Fed’s 2% target, “is very plausible.”
With the economy still growing, the Fed must focus on inflation, Waller added. Wednesday’s inflation report “was a major league disappointment.”
“No matter how you look at the data, inflation is far too high, and my job is to move it down toward our 2% target,” he said.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Tops supermarket, where a gunman killed 10 people and left three others wounded, reopened on Friday.
Members of the Buffalo, New York community came together to say a prayer before the doors opened early Friday morning.
The first 225 customers were given $100 gift cards.
While many were happy to see the store open, some people outside said it was too soon. They said they wanted a community-wide conversation about other options while they heal.
The victims of the shooting were honored Thursday night at a re-dedication ceremony
“Hate will not win — not today — not tomorrow — not ever,” declared Letitia James, New York State Attorney General.
A 19-year-old man was indicted on 27 counts Thursday in connection to the deadly May 14 shooting.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said the indictment alleges the suspect willfully caused "the death of the victims because of their actual and perceived race and color."
The charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison or death.
The attorney general will decide at a later death whether to pursue the death penalty.
The suspect is currently in state custody pending state criminal charges.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi denied the accusations in an election fraud charge against her when she testified for the first time on the case Friday at the prison court in the capital Naypyitaw, a legal official said.
The army seized power from Suu Kyi’s elected government in February last year, claiming massive voting fraud in the 2020 general election, an allegation not corroborated by independent election observers.
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party won that election in a landslide, while the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party did poorly.
A conviction in the election fraud case could lead to Suu Kyi’s party being dissolved and unable to participate in a new election the military has promised will take place in 2023.
Suu Kyi has already been sentenced to 11 years in prison after being convicted on charges of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies, violating coronavirus restrictions, sedition and a corruption charge.
Suu Kyi’s supporters and independent analysts say the charges are politically motivated and an attempt to discredit her and legitimize the military’s seizure of power while keeping her from returning to politics.
Suu Kyi is being tried for multiple charges at a new facility constructed in the prison compound in the capital Naypyitaw, including the electoral fraud charge. She was transferred from a secret detention location to a custom-built solitary facility at a prison in Naypyitaw last month.
The penalty for the offense is three years’ imprisonment. Former President Win Myint and former Union Government Office Minister Min Thu are co-defendants in the case.
The election fraud charge was filed in November by the state Election Commission, whose members were appointed by the military government. The military dismissed the commission’s previous members, who had declared there were no major irregularities in the election.
The new commission accused the defendants, including its own former chairman, of being “involved in electoral processes, election fraud and lawless actions.”
A legal official familiar with Friday’s proceedings said Suu Kyi testified in the court that she did not go beyond the country’s constitution in holding the 2020 general election, and did not influence the Union Election Commission in that election, before pleading not guilty. Further details of what she said were not available because of a gag order on her lawyers.
The legal official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to release information, said Suu Kyi appeared to be in good health.
All of Suu Kyi’s trials in the prison court are closed to the media and the public. The prosecutors do not comment on them and the state-controlled media have not reported directly on the proceedings. Suu Kyi’s lawyers have been barred since last year from providing details of the trials under a gag order.
The judge adjourned the election fraud trial for next week, when co-defendant Min Thu will testify.
Win Myint, another co-defendant in the case, gave a courtroom testimony last week denying the accusations against him, the legal official said.
Suu Kyi is also being tried on a charge of violating the Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years, and 11 counts under the Anti-Corruption Law, with each count punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a fine.
The corruption cases are among a large number of charges under which the military is prosecuting her. If found guilty of all the charges, she could be sentenced to more than 100 years in prison.
Her lawyers are trying to overturn the two counts under the Anti-Corruption Act in an appeal to the Supreme Court on technical grounds, saying the case should not have been filed. In this corruption case, she is accused of receiving $550,000 in bribes from Maung Weik, a construction magnate.
The army’s takeover in 2021 was met with widespread non-violent protests. After security forces unleashed lethal force against peaceful demonstrators, some opponents of military rule turned to armed resistance in many areas.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are disavowing the convictions of three men who spent decades in prison for one of the most horrifying crimes of New York’s violent 1990s — the killing of a clerk who was set on fire in a subway toll booth.
Vincent Ellerbe, James Irons and Thomas Malik confessed to and were convicted of murdering token seller Harry Kaufman in 1995. The case resounded from New York to Washington to Hollywood, after parallels were drawn between the deadly arson and a scene in the movie “Money Train.”
But Brooklyn prosecutors now plan to join defense lawyers in asking a judge Friday to dismiss all three men’s convictions.
“The findings of an exhaustive, years-long reinvestigation of this case leave us unable to stand by the convictions,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a release. He cited “serious problems with the evidence on which these convictions are based” and acknowledged “the harm done to these men by this failure of our system.”
The confessions conflicted with evidence at the scene and with each other, and witness identifications were problematic, prosecutors say. Some of the men have long said they were coerced into falsely confessing in the case, which had a lead detective who later was repeatedly accused of forcing confessions and framing suspects.
Ellerbe, 44, was paroled in 2020, but Malik and Irons, both 45, have remained in prison.
Malik was still getting his head around the long-awaited news Friday morning, lawyer Ronald Kuby said.
“Yesterday was the first day that he actually allowed himself to believe that he’s going to be free,” said Kuby, who also represents Ellerbe and said the latter is “extraordinarily happy” to see his conviction thrown out.
A message seeking comment was left with Irons’ attorney.
Kaufman was working an overnight shift at a Brooklyn subway station on Nov. 26, 1995, when attackers first tried to rob him, then squirted gasoline into the booth and ignited it with matches while he pleaded, “Don’t light it!,” authorities said at the time. The booth exploded, and the 50-year-old Kaufman ran from it in flames. The married father died of his injuries two weeks later.
The attack bore some resemblance to a scene in “Money Train,” an action movie that had been released four days earlier. Then-Senate Majority Leader and Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole took to the Senate floor to call for a boycott of the movie.
Authorities gave mixed signals over the years about whether they believed the film had inspired the killing.
Police scoured for suspects and eventually came to question Irons, getting a confession that he was acting as a lookout. He implicated Malik and Ellerbe as the men who had torched the tollbooth.
From their arrests on, Ellerbe and Malik maintained that they had been coerced into false confessions, with Malik saying that Detective Louis Scarcella had screamed at him and slammed his head into a locker. Scarcella testified that he cursed, pounded a table and was trying to scare the then 18-year-old Malik but didn’t beat him.
Gonzalez’s office said its review found that Scarcella and his partner fed important details about the crime scene to Irons — details that prosecutors later used at trial to argue that his confession was so specific that it had to be true. But it included clearly dubious claims. For instance, he said he had been able to see his supposed accomplices jump into a getaway car, though it was parked a block away and around a corner, prosecutors said.
At the time, Scarcella was a star Brooklyn homicide detective in a city reeling from crime. Citywide, killings topped more than 2,200 at their 1990 peak; that compares to 488 last year and a low of 295 in 2018.
But after questions accumulated about Scarcella’s tactics, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office began in 2013 to review scores of cases that he had worked.
Scarcella, who retired in 2000, has denied any wrongdoing. While more than a dozen convictions in his cases have been overturned, prosecutors have stood by scores of others.
Brooklyn prosecutors’ re-examination of old convictions is widely viewed as one of the most ambitious of its kind. In New York and around the country, such efforts have become more common over the last 15 years as DNA evidence, a growing body of research on false confessions, and other factors made some prosecutors feel compelled to become more open to investigating wrongful conviction claims.
“This is no longer about one or two bad apples. This is about a systemic rot,” Kuby said.
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Monroe Deputies recover stolen car
The driver and passenger were arrested
MONROE COUNTY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office recovered a stolen vehicle Thursday afternoon. The car was reported stolen out of Bibb County. The vehicle, a red Mercedes C300, was spotted on Hwy 41, south of Rumble Road by Monroe County Deputies who pulled the car over.
The driver Winfred Felts and the passenger Tiffany Beasley both of Macon, GA were taken into custody and transported to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. Felts is facing charges of Theft and Violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act Beasley is facing Violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act
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UPDATE: Woman’s body found on Knoxville Rd in Bibb County
Macon-Bibb County 911 received a call around 6:40 Friday morning.
UPDATE: The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victim as 24-year-old Mariah Loren Stanfield, of Macon. According to the Sheriff’s Office, Stanfield’s body was located in the 9200 block of Knoxville Road with multiple gunshot wounds. Stanfield was pronounced deceased at the scene by Deputy Coroner Luanne Stone.
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MACON-BIBB COUNTY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— The body of a woman was found in Bibb County Friday morning.
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones says at 6:39am Macon-Bibb 911 received a call about a body on the side of Knoxville Road near the Crawford County line. The body had no driver’s license or other identification.
“As you see it’s an on going investigation, crime lab’s are here, investigators are here and basically that’s all we know right now,” said Jones.
The location along Knoxville Road will be blocked off while the investigation continues.
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The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has rescued 28 fishermen kidnapped by a five-man gang in Akwakpa, Uruan Local Government Area of the state.
Commissioner of Police in the state, Olatoye Durosinmi, made this known while briefing newsmen in Uyo, the state capital, on Friday.
Durosinmi said that the fishermen were rescued through intelligence.
According to him, as soon as he got the report, he drafted the marine officers who were able to rescue the victims at the creeks where the gang held them hostage for over eight hours.
He said the pirates always posed as fishermen to carry out their nefarious activities on unsuspecting fishermen.
“The 28 men and women you see here are the people rescued by police marine officers.
“The victims at about 18:00hrs on Thursday were attacked at sea by five-man gang pirates. They seized the boat of the victims and put them where they would not come out.
“These men of the underworld will pretend to be fishermen and we’ve actually caught five of them before and they are in detention; the long arm of the law will soon catch up with them.
“The gang pretending to be fishermen bumped into the victims and asked them to get into the boat,” he said.
The police commissioner said that fortunately, one of the victims had the phone number of the local government chairman who later alerted me.
”The usual practice is that the men and women go out on Thursday and come back on a Sunday.
“They were there all through the night searching where the victims are and by 10:00hrs, my officers found them around a creek with their boat.
”As I speak, the detachment of the marine officers are still trailing the suspects,” he said.
Durosinmi further said that the command would take the victims to the police clinic for proper medical attention and thereafter, reunite them with their families.
He gave assurance that the command would continue to ensure that the state’s land and water remained safe for the people.
“I have taken care of the victims, I will take them to police clinic and they will be released to members of their family soon.
“I want to assure the public that I will do all within my powers to ensure that Akwa Ibom is safe in both land and at sea,’” the CP said.
One of the victims, Mrs Victoria Pius, said that the pirates collected about N1 million from her, which was part of a loan she collected and to pay back with interest.
“They shot in the air several times, beat us mercilessly before collecting our things,” she added.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s president launched talks on Friday with all political parties represented in parliament to see if there was still a chance to form a government and avoid another early election.
President Rumen Radev is trying to prevent Bulgaria from sliding into new political turmoil after the two main parties stumbled over mustering enough support to form a government coalition.
Radev said that the political crisis is intensifying and that a functioning parliament is needed to cope with it.
“We need not just a deal for a new government, but an effective governance with a strategic horizon that will undertake and implement the necessary reforms,” Radev said.
The move comes a day after the center right GERB party refused to form a government and returned the mandate raising the prospects for a fourth general election in less than two years.
Last week, the reformist We Continue the Change party failed in its efforts to try to end the European Union and NATO member’s latest political crisis amid soaring tensions with Russia.
The two leading contenders are running neck and neck, according to the latest opinion polls, which will likely result in another hung parliament and no clear way out of the crisis.
The ouster of the pro-West prime minister, Kiril Petkov, who took office last December pledging zero tolerance for corruption, helped pave the way toward a new election. It was widely expected to bring a stronger presence of nationalist and pro-Russia groups in parliament.
Opinion polls suggest that a group of anti-EU nationalists would double their seats in parliament, where they could be joined by a new party of a former defense minister, who was fired by Petkov over using Kremlin’s rhetoric addressing the war in Ukraine.
The government’s collapse could delay Bulgaria’s plans to join the eurozone in 2024, as well as the timely receipt of billions of euros in EU recovery funds.
According to the constitution, the president has to offer a third and final mandate to a parliamentary party of his choice within a week. If the third attempt also fails, the president will have to dissolve parliament, appoint a caretaker Cabinet and schedule an early general election.
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Amerson River Park temporarily closing for maintenance
The park will be closed on Monday and Tuesday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Amerson River Park will close temporarily next week for routine railroad maintenance. Macon-Bibb County says the park will be closed on Monday and Tuesday, July 18 and 19, while Norfolk Southern conducts routine maintenance on the rail line at the entrance to the park.
“We apologize for any inconvenience this causes people because we know how popular the park is for our region,” says Government Relations Director for Norfolk Southern Conner Poe. “We are working closely with our contractors to expedite this work so Amerson can reopen as soon as possible.”
According to a Macon-Bibb County news release, the maintenance is required annually for the railroad. This includes removing the old crossing, replacing it with new materials, and repaving.
Amerson River Park is the former site of the Macon Water Authority’s treatment plant that was submerged in the Flood of 1994. After a new treatment plant was built away from the river, the area became a 160+-acre rugged park. A federal grant of $5.5 million allowed Macon-Bibb County to shut it down for 15 months to make significant improvements. It reopened in May 2015.
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Carl Vinson VA ceremony honors 35 women veterans
The VA partnered with Veterans of Foreign Wars to hold a recognition ceremony, Wednesday
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center in Laurens County is honoring female veterans.
According to the VA, women vets are the fastest growing demographic. Deputy Public Affairs Officer James Huckfeldt says women are making great strides in military service.
The VA partnered with Veterans of Foreign Wars to hold a recognition ceremony Wednesday.
During that ceremony, 35 women were honored for their military service and veteran advocacy.
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Centerville Fire Department collecting money for Burn Center in Augusta
"It hits home for us because it's one of the worst things I can think of other than dying which is to get burned in a fire."
CENTERVILLE, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT)— As a firefighter, entering a burning building is part of the job. The Centerville Fire Department says its employees run the risk of getting burned every day. That’s why the department is giving back to those who have suffered a burn injury.
The Fire Department is taking part in an initiative they call, ‘Can it.” They collect empty soda cans in a trailer, then take them to a recycling center. The money received goes towards the Burn Care Center in Augusta.
They’re not doing it alone though. The community can stop by any time to make a contribution.
According to the Fire Department, they fill up the trailer about three times a year. Sergeant Daniel Myers explains why it’s so important for them to donate.
“It hits home for us because it’s one of the worst things I can think of other than dying which is to get burned in a fire. It’s nice to be able to give money to help out other fireman in the state or citizens,” said Sergeant Myers.
You can drop off cans at the Fire Department located at 500 North Houston Lake Boulevard in Centerville.
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Georgia College to open ‘Center for Innovation’
"It will be real education focused to try to teach whether it's a student or a member of the community, the absolute basics of what you need to get that business up and running."
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT)— Georgia College students and the Milledgeville community will soon benefit from a ‘Center for Innovation.’
The School of Business will run the center, but it will be located in the Education Building.
Nicholas Creel, Director of the Center, says a lot will take place in the center such as low-cost consulting activities, help with legal, and accounting and marketing. The center will also help students looking to start a business.
“We’re looking to then start having community facing activities, like the bobcat business builder bootcamp which will be a two day event,” says Creel. “It will be real education focused to try to teach whether it’s a student or a member of the community, the absolute basics of what you need to get that business up and running.”
Six classrooms will make up the center, where 3-D printers, sewing machines and computers will also be accessed.
The center will open in August, and the college says the goal is to expand to more classrooms.
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Middle Georgia firearms course teaching educators about gun safety
School districts are preparing to welcome teachers and students back into the classroom next month as the tragedy of the Uvalde, Texas shooting still weighs heavy on the hearts of teachers everywhere.
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — School districts are preparing to welcome teachers and students back into the classroom next month as the tragedy of the Uvalde, Texas shooting still weighs heavy on the hearts of teachers everywhere.
A Dublin woman has decided to expand discounted gun courses to teachers.
Tori Rogers took it upon herself to educate teachers about using a gun using her “Middle Georgia Female Firearms Training” course.
“It’s always better to have a plan and not need it than need it and not have it,” she said. “It’s a tool in your tool box, and knowledge is power.”
Stacey Schumans believes teachers in her local school district should be armed.
“Our children are our family when we’re at school, so we need to be able to protect them and our co-workers,” she said.
During the past month, Rogers has taught more than 30 female teachers across middle Georgia. She says they’ve all asked the same questions.
“Why is my school board not doing what Laurens County is doing?” and “Why are we not on board with protecting our kids?”
The Laurens County School District currently allows employees who can legally carry a gun, to do so on school property. They must have training and approval from the Superintendent before carring a concealed weapon.
Rogers says aside from teaching the basics of using a gun, her hope is those who take the course will voice their opinion on school safety.
“Some of them want to get their school boards on board as well, and it’s kind of like you have to have the knowledge before you can really be a true voice,” she said.
Pam Carter, who’s been a teacher for 26 years ,says she decided to take the course to ensure she knows how to use a gun in any emergency.
“This has helped me a lot today, because I have always been scared of guns and scared to shoot guns,” she said. “Coming here today, I’ve realized that I can do it. Our children, students, we need to take care of them.”
Carter says her school district has safety measures in place, but she feels more needs to be done.
You can sign up for courses here.
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Coach’s Corner 2022: JT Wall of the John Milledge Trojans
On this edition of Coach's Corner, 41NBC's Bill Shanks talks football with head coach JT Wall of the John Milledge Trojans.
On this edition of Coach’s Corner, 41NBC’s Bill Shanks talks football with head coach JT Wall of the John Milledge Trojans. The trojans have been dominant in the GHSA and are now moving to the GIAA, hear how coach Wall plans to deal with what could be much stiffer competition.
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Commodore Building brings new idea to Perry
“Over the last year we've turned a pile of dirt into a very beautiful historical building that we're very proud of."
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— It’s an idea that’s three years in the making. The land the Commodore Building sits on was just a dirt lot one year ago. Now, it’s a finished building.
Building owner, Meredith Lockerman, says seeing her idea come to life is a dream come true.
“Over the last year we’ve turned a pile of dirt into a very beautiful historical building that we’re very proud of. Downstairs we have restaurant space available for lease and upstairs we have three short term rental units,” said Lockerman.
Perry Mayor Randall Walker, says the Commodore shows the direction of where the city’s growth is headed.
“We have a large number of visitors who have asked us about Airbnb’s downtown. They may be coming through doing genealogy, or they may want to come to Food Truck Friday and not drive home,” Mayor Walker said. “So it’s very important that we get the loft or Airbnb’s apartments constructed here in Perry.”
Mayor Walker says the city liked the idea of the Commodore so much, they wanted more buildings just like it. There’s one already in the works on Northside Drive across from the Event Center.
“This will be a continuous thing that’s going to be going on. We also have some above Orleans, the restaurant that’s down in the 800 block of Carroll Street,” he said. “So it’s something that’s caught on here. We should have a number of them within the next year here in downtown.”
Lockerman says each unit has a book filled with the history of Perry. Guests can also learn about famous Perry natives during their stay. The three units are actually named after famous Perry natives.
“Deborah Roberts, James Farmer, and Casey Hayward are all from Perry and have gone on to do amazing things,” she said. “Also they’ve turned around and given back to their community in amazing ways. So we’re super proud of them. We featured each of them in the units so the visitors to our community will know that they’re from here and have a little showcase and know what they’ve done for our community.”
The Commodore is waiting on its certificate of occupancy from the city. Once that comes through, it will have the three rentals listed on Airbnb.
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News Top stories from July 15, 2022 July 15, 2022 Clayton Poulnott, Woman’s body found on Knoxville Rd in Bibb County Middle Georgia firearms course teaching educators about gun safety Centerville Fire Department collecting money for Burn Center in Augusta For other stories you may have missed, click here. FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
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Indoor farm begins operation in Byron
The process uses 90% less water than traditional farming while still making leafy greens.
BYRON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- Local Bounti is a vegetable farm that specializes in growing lettuce indoors. The building uses a mixture of vertical and horizontal farming to maximize space.
The process uses 90% less water than traditional farming while still making leafy greens. The facility specializes in 6 different types of lettuce. The three acre farm uses a mix of misters, humidifiers, dehumidifiers heaters and L-E-D lights to grow the lettuce.
According to the farm, this highly technical process will create jobs.
“There’s the ability to for people to get into what we would consider more higher paying jobs, because a lot of what we do here is more technically advanced and so we’re able to offer stronger job openings,” said President of Local Bounti, Brian Cook.
Cook says they plan to work alongside farmers from across Middle Georgia and the state.
Local Bounti will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony on August 3.
If you’re interested in working at the farm, you can submit an application after the ceremony.
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Macon pastors to come together to help stop violence
"Stop the Killings" town hall is Saturday, at New Pleasant Grove Baptist Church.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- Several Macon pastors are coming together in an effort to reduce violence.
“Stop the Killings” town hall is Saturday, at New Pleasant Grove Baptist Church.
The event includes both prayer and discussion sessions. Changing Mindsets Organization is behind the effort.
Executive Director Herbert Dennard, said it’s up to the community to care about the safety of each other.
Macon District Attorney Anita Howard, Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones and the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office will be also be at the town hall.
“We’re not waiting on them to come in and try to save us we have to save ourselves and we will save ourselves,” said New Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Pastor Richard Robinson.
The event is from 11 a.m until 1 p.m.
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Perry celebrates Food Truck Friday
"I love being able to get out and just connect with people and especially new residents who have lots of questions about what we do.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— Food Truck Friday was in full swing Friday night.
Many people were out enjoying delicious food from the more than 20 different options of food trucks. There was also live music and other fun entertainment for guests.
We spoke with Anya Turpin, Perry’s Special Events Manager, who says her favorite part of Food Truck Friday is being able to meet new people.
“I love being able to get out and just connect with people and especially new residents who have lots of questions about what we do. It’s also great to hear from people who’ve lived here for a long time and seen Perry grow and change and just the excitement they have for their thriving community,” said Turpin.
The next Food Truck Friday is the last one of the 2022 season. It’s on September 16.
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Sunny conditions and more heat return this weekend
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – We will see more sunshine and temperatures will climb now that the cold front has passed.
Tonight
We are seeing the clouds clear out over Middle Georgia as we go through the evening hours. Storm chances will fade as we roll into the overnight hours. Things will dry out a bit overnight now that the cold front has passed through the region. Lows tonight will drop into the upper 60s with ambient winds coming from the south at around 5 mph.
Tomorrow
Saturday brings the return of sunshine to the skies over Middle Georgia. We will see temperatures begin to heat up as a result. There will be some scattered clouds in the sky, but sun should dominate for a good portion of the day. Ambient winds will come from the south-southeast at around 5 mph. Highs will predominantly be in the upper 80s with a few spots climbing into the lower 90s. A few isolated storms will be possible in the afternoon and evening, but most of the region should stay dry.
Basically all clouds will clear out during the overnight hours tomorrow night. Conditions should stay mostly dry as lows drop into the upper 60s. Ambient winds will still come from the south-southeast around 5 mph.
Sunday
For the first time in months we should see a good bit more sun than clouds. Sunday will bring highs in the lower 90s to most of Middle Georgia as mostly sunny skies take over. A few isolated clouds will build in during the afternoon, and there may be one or two isolated storms. Ambient winds will continue to blow in from the south-southeast at around 5 mph.
Overnight we will see things become slightly more muggy. The continuous southerly flow of the wind increases moisture just a bit each day, and thus we will see our lows return to the lower 70s for most of the region. A couple of spots will likely still remain in the upper 60s. Skies will be mostly clear, but a few clouds will likely hang over the region ahead of Monday morning.
Next Week
We will see partly sunny skies most afternoons next week. Highs will be in the low to mid 90s throughout the week, and rain chances should remain pretty isolated until Wednesday or more so Thursday. Humidity will remain high, however, as dewpoints creep back up into the lower 70s.
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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Two teens shot in Macon, one in critical condition
The Sheriff's Office says deputies responded to the 1100 block of Carlisle Avenue around 9:30 p.m. When they arrived, deputies found a 17-year-old male with a gunshot wound.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an Aggravated Assault, after two teenagers were shot Friday night.
The Sheriff’s Office says deputies responded to the 1100 block of Carlisle Avenue around 9:30 p.m.
When they arrived, deputies found a 17-year-old male with a gunshot wound.
The victim was taken to the Atrium Health Navicent, and is listed in critical condition.
A 18-year-old male was with the 17-year-old, and he sustained a gunshot wound to the lower leg. The 18-year-old is in stable condition.
The Sheriff’s Office says there is no information on a suspect at this time.
If you have any information about this incident, call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751 -7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Financial leaders of the Group of 20 richest and biggest economies have wrapped up meetings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali without a final joint communique after talks were overshadowed by divisions over the war in Ukraine.
As G-20 host this year, Indonesia has sought to bridge divisions between G-20 members over Russia’s invasion, but enmity over the conflict was evident even as the finance ministers and central bank chiefs appeared to concur on the urgency of global economic challenges, including decades-high inflation and food insecurity, which has been worsened by the war.
Asked why there was no joint statement or communique from the meeting, Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said that all involved agreed the meeting took place “under a very challenging and difficult situation because of the geopolitical tensions.”
She said delegates had “expressed sympathy that Indonesia has to manage this situation.”
But Indrawati and Indonesian central bank Gov. Perry Warjiyo said Indonesia would later release a G-20 chair’s statement that would include two paragraphs describing areas where the participants failed to agree.
Indrawati said there were still issues that could not be reconciled, “because they want to express their views related to the war.”
In the statement “related to the war there are still views that are different within the G-20,” she said.
Indrawati outlined a range of areas where the members did agree, including the need to improve food security, to support the creation of a funding mechanism for pandemic preparedness, prevention and responses, on working toward a global tax agreement and on facilitating financing of transitions toward cleaner energy to cope with climate change.
“The progress is more than expected,” Warjiyo said.
With inflation running at four-decade highs — U.S. consumer prices were up 9.1% in June — Warjiyo said participants were “strongly committed to achieving price stability.”
“There is a commitment among the G-20 to well calibrated macro economic policy to address inflation and slowing growth,” he said.
The meetings in Bali follow a gathering of foreign ministers earlier this month that also failed to find common ground over Russia’s war in Ukraine and its global impacts.
During the talks that began Friday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen condemned Moscow for “innocent lives lost and the ongoing human and economic toll that the war is causing around the world.”
“Russia is solely responsible for negative spillovers to the global economy, particularly higher commodity prices,” she said.
Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland likened the attendance of Russian officials at the meetings to having “an arsonist joining firefighters.” War is waged by economic technocrats, as well as generals, she said in a post on Twitter.
Russian officials reportedly blamed Western sanctions over the war for worsening inflation and food crises.
Indrawati said the closed-door G-20 talks did not include discussion of proposals for a price cap on Russian oil — one of Yellen’s key objectives as the U.S. and allies seek to curb Moscow’s ability to finance its war.
But such discussions might have occurred on the sidelines of the meeting, she said.
The Bali talks saw more progress than an earlier G-20 finance meeting in Washington in April, when officials from the U.S., Britain, France, Canada and Ukraine walked out to protest the attendance of Russian envoys. That meeting also ended without the release of a joint statement.
Caught in the middle as host, Indonesia has urged officials from all sides to overcome mistrust for the sake of a planet confronting multiple challenges.
“The world needs even more and more collaboration. no matter what country … they cannot solve this problem alone. food security, energy, climate change, pandemic … all are interconnected,” Indrawati said.
“We all agreed we need to continue the spirit of collaboration and multilateralism,” she said.
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A father-daughter road trip that navigates between comedy and drama, “Don’t Make Me Go” (streaming on Prime Video) has a lot of the right components. A likable cast. A story grounded in realism and human-scaled stakes. It’s not an unpleasant film, by any means. But it’s not one that makes a case for itself, either.
John Cho (fresh off Netflix’s “Cowboy Bebop”) plays a single father named Max. He finds out he has a tumor near his brain that’s fatal if left untreated. His chances aren’t good even if he does have the surgery to remove it. Not ready to break the news to his 15-year-old daughter Wally, played by Mia Isaac, he decides to take her on a cross-country road trip instead.
She thinks she’s being dragged to his college reunion – don’t make me go, comes the heaving sigh of an exasperated teen – but his secret plan is to track down his long estranged ex-wife, who is Wally’s mother.
If he dies, Max has no other family or friends who might be potential guardians to Wally, so the trip obviously has a larger (if wobbly) purpose; a parent who left when their only child was just a baby might not be an ideal candidate for Max and Wally’s dilemma. But it’s the best idea Max can come up with. So they hit the road in search of Mama.
It’s a formula built for all kinds of bonding moments, but that’s not really what transpires. Max and Wally have an easygoing comfort level but are quick to get on each other’s nerves – which can also tip into “I can’t stand the sight of you!” territory when things get heated. All of it falls within the bounds of a fairly average, mostly functional parent-child relationship, which neither deepens nor changes over the course of the film. Sometimes their quippiness sits awkwardly within the naturalistic drama of it all.
Their cross country trek is punctuated by various stops along the way – moments you keep waiting to become meaningful or set up a larger conflict or something. The emotional beats aren’t overworked, which I appreciate, but there’s a distinct aimlessness here as well and too often “Don’t Make Me Go” (directed by Hannah Marks from a script by Vera Herbert) feels like it’s sleepwalking through its own story.
The performances are honest and true and that gives things a considerable boost. Isaac was 16 when she made the movie (she’s 18 now) and this kind of fidelity in casting makes a difference. She’s believably a high school age kid (not a 27-year-old playing one) who is willful and mildly rebellious, but also sweet and sarcastic and funny. In other words: A teenager.
Cho has always been an actor who holds the screen, and here he’s playing a guy who intentionally stripped out all his inconvenient interests long ago in favor of setting up a stable, if solitary, life for himself and Wally. That also means he keeps any hint of his sex life (the casual hookups with a French teacher) very hush-hush and explained away by late work meetings. So sure, maybe he’s lived a somewhat bland existence up until this point. But now he’s really worried about Wally’s future without him. His angst about his own mortality – and the path left untaken – is left more opaque.
For most of the film’s running time, Wally is in the dark about all of it. That’s the primary tension – what happens when she finds out? – but the resolution has a twist. And it’s one that managed to put a lump in my throat, though it didn’t feel especially well-earned.
Maybe it’s fitting that the dreamy-propulsive 1971 song “Lake Shore Drive” by the rock trio Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah plays over the end credits. Few songs have lyrics so explicitly about Chicago, and yet Max and Wally’s car trip never comes within 50 miles of Illinois, let alone the city itself, which makes the song’s inclusion a complete non sequitur.
Like so many moments in the movie itself, it feels like a placeholder for an idea to come later.
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APC women leader, Kemi Nelson dies at 66
Ms Kemi Nelson, a former deputy national woman leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has died, an authoritative source within Lagos APC disclosed on Sunday.
Nelson was also a former executive director of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Nelson, a former commissioner in Lagos State was reported to have passed on after a prolonged illness at the age of 66.
The impeccable source in APC told NAN that it was true the party stalwart died after a prolonged illness.
“It is true she has passed on,” he said.
The source, however, refused to respond to further questions on the demise of the APC leader.
Nelson is the only female member of the APC’s Governance Advisory Council in Lagos state.
She was appointed to NSITF by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, a position she held until May 2021.
She was born on February 9, 1956, and educated in Ijebu, Lagos and Ibadan; and was survived by three children.
Before her death, Nelson was the Yeye Oge of Lagos state and one of the right-hand loyalists of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
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5 People shot at Milledgeville party
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— The Milledgeville Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred at a block party being held at the intersection of Leo Court and Nobles Court in the Castlewood subdivision.
At approximately 12:34am Sunday, Officers responded to the area in reference to multiple reports of shots fired at the location. As officers were arriving on scene, a large crowd was fleeing the area. Officers located multiple vehicles and houses that had been struck by gunfire. At the same time officers were arriving on scene, they were notified by Navicent Health Baldwin that multiple victims suffering from gunshot wounds had arrived at the hospital. All victims were brought to the hospital in personal vehicles.
At this time there are a total of five victims. Four female victims and one male victim all suffering from gunshot wounds. All victims are listed in stable condition.
This investigation is active and ongoing and more information will be released as it becomes available. Anyone with any information please call 478-414-4090 and ask to speak to a detective or call Macon Regional Crimestoppers at (478) 742-2330
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Across Europe, signs of distress are multiplying as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on. Food banks in Italy are feeding more people. German officials are turning down the air conditioning as they prepare plans to ration natural gas and restart coal plants.
A giant utility is asking for a taxpayer bailout, and more may be coming. Dairies wonder how they will pasteurize milk. The euro has sagged to a 20-year low against the dollar, and recession predictions are on the rise.
Those pressure points are signs of how the conflict — and the Kremlin gradually choking off natural gas that keeps industry humming — provoked an energy crisis in Europe and raised the likelihood of a plunge back into recession just as the economy was rebounding from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, high energy costs fueled by the war are benefiting Russia, a major oil and natural gas exporter whose agile central bank and years of experience living with sanctions have stabilized the ruble and inflation despite economic isolation.
In the long run, however, economists say Russia, while avoiding complete collapse, will pay a heavy price for the war: deepening economic stagnation through lost investment and lower incomes for its people.
Europe’s most pressing challenge is shorter term: battle record inflation of 8.6% and get through the winter without crippling energy shortages. The continent relies on Russian natural gas, and higher energy prices are flowing through to factories, food costs and fuel tanks.
Uncertainty weighs on energy-intensive industries like steel and agriculture, which could face natural gas rationing to protect homes if the crisis worsens.
Molkerei Berchtesgadener Land, a large dairy cooperative in the German town of Piding outside Munich, has stockpiled 200,000 liters (44,000 gallons) of fuel oil so it can keep producing power and steam for pasteurizing milk and keeping it cold if electricity or natural gas to its turbine generator is cut off.
It’s a critical safeguard for 1,800 member farmers whose 50,000 cows produce a million liters of milk a day. Dairy cows have to be milked daily, and a shutdown would leave that ocean of milk with nowhere to go.
“If the dairy doesn’t function, then the farmers can’t either,” managing director Bernhard Pointner said. “Then the farmers would have to discard their milk.”
In one hour, the dairy uses the equivalent of a year’s worth of electricity for a home to keep up to 20,000 pallets of milk cold.
The dairy also has stockpiled packaging and other supplies to guard against suppliers being hit by an energy shortage: “We have a lot stored … but that will only last a few weeks.”
The economic woes also appear at the dinner table. Consumer groups estimate a typical Italian family is spending 681 euros (dollars) more this year to feed themselves.
“We’re really concerned about the situation and the continuous increase in the number of families we’re supporting,” said Dario Boggio Marzet, president of the Food Bank of Lombardy, which groups dozens of charities that run soup kitchens and provide staples to the needy. Their monthly costs are up 5,000 euros this year.
Jessica Lobli, a single mother of two from the Paris suburb of Gennevilliers, pays close attention to surging grocery prices. She’s reduced her consumption of milk and yogurt and renounced Nutella or branded cookies.
“The situation will worsen, but we need to eat in order to survive,” said Lobli, who earns between 1,300 and 2,000 euros per month working in a school kitchen.
Her monthly food budget of 150 to 200 euros dropped to 100 euros in June. She said her family doesn’t eat as much in summer, but she’s concerned about September, when she will have to buy school supplies for her 15-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son, further whittling her budget.
French President Emmanuel Macron says the government aims to conserve energy by switching off public lights at night and taking other steps. Similarly, German officials are begging people and businesses to save energy and ordering lower heat and air-conditioning settings in public buildings.
It follows Russia cutting off or reducing natural gas to a dozen European countries. A major gas pipeline also shut down for scheduled maintenance last week, and there are fears that flows through Nord Stream 1 between Russia and Germany will not restart.
Germany’s biggest importer of Russian gas, Uniper, has asked for government help after it was squeezed between skyrocketing gas prices and what it was allowed to charge customers.
Carsten Brzeski, chief eurozone economist at ING bank, foresees a recession at the end of the year as high prices sap purchasing power. Europe’s longer-term economic growth will depend on whether governments tackle the massive investments needed for the transition to an economy based on renewable energy.
“Without investment, without structural change, the only thing left is to hope that everything will work as before — but it won’t,” Brzeski said.
While Europe is suffering, Russia has stabilized its ruble exchange rate, stock market and inflation through extensive government intervention. Russian oil is finding more buyers in Asia, albeit at discounted prices, as Western customers back off.
After being hit with sanctions over the 2014 seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea region, the Kremlin built a fortress economy by keeping debt low and pushing companies to source parts and food within Russia.
Though foreign-owned businesses like IKEA have shuttered and Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time in over a century, there’s no sense of imminent crisis in downtown Moscow. Well-heeled young people still go to restaurants, even if Uniqlo, Victoria’s Secret and Zara stores are closed in the seven-story Evropeisky mall.
The successor to McDonald’s, Vkusno-i Tochka, is serving more or less identical food, while the former Krispy Kreme in the mall has rebranded but sells basically the same offerings.
In less well-off provinces, Sofya Suvorova, who lives in Nizhny Novgorod, 440 kilometers (273 miles) from Moscow, has felt the squeeze on the family budget.
“We practically do not order takeaway food anymore,” she said while shopping at a supermarket. “It used to be very convenient when you have small children. We go to cafes less often. We had to reduce some entertainment, like concerts and theaters; we try to keep this for children, but adults had to cut it.”
Economists say the ruble’s exchange rate — stronger against the dollar than before the war — and declining inflation present a misleading picture.
Rules preventing money from leaving the country and forcing exporters to exchange most of their foreign earnings from oil and gas into rubles have rigged the exchange rate.
And the inflation rate “has partially lost its meaning,” Janis Kluge, an expert on the Russian economy at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, wrote in a recent analysis. That’s because it does not account for disappearing Western goods, and lower inflation probably reflects sagging demand.
Some 2.8 million Russians were employed by foreign or mixed ownership firms in 2020, according to political scientist Ilya Matveev. If suppliers are taken into account, as many as 5 million jobs, or 12% of the workforce, depend on foreign investment.
Foreign companies may find Russian owners, and protectionism and a glut of government jobs will prevent mass unemployment.
But the economy will be far less productive, Kluge said, “leading to a significant decline in average real incomes.”
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman charged with killing 10 Black people in a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket is scheduled for arraignment Monday on an indictment that could make him eligible for the death penalty if he is found guilty.
Along with hate crimes and weapons counts, the 27-count federal indictment handed up last week contains special findings, including that Payton Gendron engaged in substantial planning to commit an act of terrorism and took aim at vulnerable older people — specifically 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, 77-year-old Pearl Young, 72-year-old Katherine Massey, 67-year-old Heyward Patterson and 65-year-old Celestine Chaney.
The Justice Department said a decision on whether to seek the death penalty against the shooter, who turned 19 in June, would come later.
Gendron, who livestreamed the May 14 attack, was arrested just outside the entrance of the Tops Friendly Supermarket after donning body armor and opening fire on weekend shoppers and employees in the parking lot and inside. Three people were wounded.
The store reopened to the public last week, two months after the attack.
Investigators say the shooter drove for more than three hours from his home in Conklin, New York, to a busy grocery store chosen for its location in a predominantly Black neighborhood, with the intent of killing as many Black people as possible. He was motivated, they said, by white supremacist beliefs which he described in online diary entries.
Gendron wrote as far back as November about staging a livestreamed attack, practiced shooting from his car and did reconnaissance on the store two months before carrying out the plans, according to the writings.
He arrived at the store wearing camouflage clothing and a tactical-style helmet fitted with a video camera.
The indictment seeks the forfeiture of an extensive arsenal recovered from Gendron’s car and home. It includes the Bushmaster XM-15 semi-automatic rifle used in the shooting and a 12-gauge loaded shotgun and loaded bolt-action rifle and ammunition taken from the car. Authorities seized additional ammunition and firearms accessories from his home.
The federal indictment charges Gendron with 10 counts of hate crimes resulting in death, three counts of hate crimes involving an attempt to kill three people and another hate crime count alleging Gendron tried to kill other Black people in and around the store. It also includes 13 counts of using a firearm in a hate crime.
Gendron also faces a parallel state prosecution on charges including hate-motivated domestic terrorism, murder and attempted murder as a hate crime. The domestic terrorism hate crime charge carries an automatic life sentence.
He has pleaded not guilty.
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Opelousas Police are asking for help to locate a vehicle that was taken during a Sunday armed robbery.
The incident happened Sunday at about 2 p.m.
The victim was approached while working at the St. Landry Cemetery. He told police he was approached by two young men wearing masks and black clothing. He said they held him at gunpoint while one got into his truck. They left in the truck with several of the man's personal items, including a gun.
The victim's vehicle was a silver 2015 Chevrolet Silverado bearing Louisiana License Plate# Z230481.
If any one comes into contact with this vehicle please notify local authorities and do not attempt to approach any suspects who may be in the vehicle as they should be considered armed and dangerous.
Here's a picture of the truck:
Opelousas Police ask anyone with any information related to this incident to contact the Opelousas Police Department at 337-948-2500, crimetips@opelousaspd.com or through Crime Stoppers (337-948-TIPS, www.stlandrycrimestoppers.com or by using the P3 mobile App.)
Tipsters can remain anonymous. Tipsters can receive up to a $1000.00 cash reward.
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Stock indexes on Wall Street shed early gains and turned lower in afternoon trading Monday, a choppy start to a week full of updates on the two things that set stock prices: how much profit companies are making and where interest rates are heading.
The S&P 500 was down 0.3% after having been up 1% in the early going, The index broke a five-day losing streak at the end of last week. Gains in energy producers, big retailers and other companies that rely on consumer spending were outweighed by a pullback in health care and technology stocks. Goldman Sachs rallied after reporting better profit for the spring than expected.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 28 points, or 0.1%, at 31,259, as of 2:25 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.1% lower.
Markets have been lurching mostly lower for weeks on worries that the Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world will slam the brake too hard on the economy in hopes of bringing down high inflation. If they’re too aggressive with their interest-rate hikes, they could cause a recession.
But some on Wall Street are seeing signs for at least temporary optimism. Oil prices have come off their highs, though they rose more than 4% Monday. A key report released last week also indicated expectations are easing for inflation among households. That could prevent a more vicious cycle from taking root and ease the pressure on the Federal Reserve.
Expectations have come down for how aggressively the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its meeting next week. Traders are now betting on a roughly one-in-three chance for a monster hike of a full percentage point, with the majority favoring a 0.75 percentage point increase. As recently as Thursday, the heavy bet was on a hike of a full point.
Economists at Goldman Sachs are among those forecasting a 0.75-point increase, which would match last month’s hike, instead of a more aggressive one. They cited in particular the softening of inflation expectations after Chair Jerome Powell said last month that the Fed pays close attention to them.
Across the Atlantic Ocean later this week, investors expect the European Central Bank on Thursday to raise interest rates for the first time in 11 years to combat inflation. Many investors expect an increase of 0.25 percentage points, “but more is not unthinkable,” economists wrote in a BofA Global Research report.
Interest rates are one of the two main levers that set prices for stocks. The other is corporate profits, which are under threat given high inflation and slowdowns in parts of the economy. For the moment, at least, analysts are still forecasting continued growth.
Earnings season kicked off last week, and banks have dominated the early part of the schedule for reporting how much they earned from April through June.
Goldman Sachs was among the latest to report, and it rallied 2.1% after its profit and revenue were better than analysts expected. Synchrony Financial rose 1.3% after it likewise topped forecasts for profit and revenue.
Bank of America added 0.4% even though it fell short of analysts’ profit expectations. Despite all the worries about a possible recession, Bank of America said its customers’ spending and deposits remain strong.
IBM is set to report its results after trading closes for the day. Johnson & Johnson, American Airlines and Tesla are among the dozens of S&P 500 companies that are scheduled to follow later in the week.
In markets overseas, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index surged 2.7% after Chinese media reported that some stalled real estate projects had resumed construction after buyers threatened to stop their mortgage payments. Stocks in Shanghai added 1.6%.
Stocks also rose across much of the rest of Asia and Europe, with Germany’s DAX returning 0.7%.
In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 2.97% from 2.96% late Friday. The two-year yield, which rose to 3.18%, is still above the 10-year yield. Some investors see that as an ominous sign that could presage a recession in a year or two, though the gap between them narrowed a bit.
Underscoring worries about a recession have been recnet reports showing slowdowns in parts of the economy because of the Fed’s rate hikes.
The housing market in particular has felt the effect of more expensive mortgage rates. A measure of sentiment among home builders relesed Monday weakened more than economists expected and sank to its lowest level in more than two years.
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AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed.
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BROOKLYN, Iowa (WHO) — In some communities, the visual reminders of teal ribbons and initials of “M.T.” in downtown Brooklyn would have faded away.
“Those are still up, the teal ribbons are still up,” said Joy VanLandschoot.
Brooklyn residents like VanLandschoot said the impact Mollie Tibbetts left behind years later is striking.
“I think it’s phenomenal that it doesn’t end,” said VanLandschoot.
Tibbetts’ death after disappearing four years ago on July 18 while jogging in her hometown remains haunting. Through groups like Mollie’s Movement, her legacy is giving life to others.
“There’s a sadness, but there’s also a hopefulness to help other people in their honor,” VanLandschoot said.
VanLandschoot is the group’s founder and continues to raise awareness for other missing Iowans.
“What we hope is we can bring more of that impact to other stories,” said VanLandschoot.
Through Mollie’s Movement and Xavior’s Warriors, VanLandschoot helped create countless missing person fliers, shirts, and buttons. Fighting for Mollie and 11-year-old Xavior Harrelson, who went missing last May and was found dead in September, led VanLandschoot to realize the Iowa missing person database needs to get pictures of missing children out faster and perhaps partner with school districts in order to do so.
“Now how much better are we really doing if yes it is getting reported and then a blank spot for a picture? Who could recognize and find that person and is going to recognize them from the name? That’s a real problem,” said VanLandschoot.
Mollie attended the University of Iowa with aspirations of helping children through their toughest times with a major in child psychology.
“Mollie really started the movement,” said VanLandschoot.
A memorial fund at the U of I Stead Family Children’s hospital has raised over $125,000. Tibbetts was passionate about helping others and theatrical performance. Funds have been used to purchase equipment for art and musical therapy programs to help patients live their best lives at the hospital and beyond.
“I think her love for children is a huge part of it. I think that’s why people want to continue to help children in her name,” VanLandschoot said.
It is a life gone too soon with a spirit that will never die. VanLandschoot said, “Mollie’s legacy will never end and to see people continue to do kind things that she would have enjoyed is really neat to see.”
Since 2018, the Brooklyn community has held the Mollie Tibbetts Memorial Run on the last Sunday in September. The five-mile run honors Tibbetts and finishes the route she was unable to.
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2-year-old killed, 4-year-old injured in Bleckley County shooting
The Bleckley County Sheriff's Department says the shots were not fired from the home and the children were not the intended target.
COCHRAN, Ga– Bleckley County Sheriff’s Office responded to shooting early Monday morning at Deer Run Apartments on Lucas Road in Cochran.
Deputies say they found two brothers with gunshot wounds inside the home. 2-year-old Yasir Satterwhite died from his injuries. 4-year-old Tamir was also shot, and taken to Atrium Health Navicent in Macon to undergo surgery. He’s in stable condition after the surgery.
Major Daniel Cates with the Bleckley County Sheriff’s Department, says the shots were not fired inside the home and the children were not the intended target.
“We have not ruled out other occupants of the home,” he said. “We’re exploring all options and avenues at this time. I’ve been here for twenty-one years and I’ve never experienced anything like this first hand in Bleckley County.”
Bleckley County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is handling the investigation. They’re working to find a suspect, and to bring peace back to Cochran residents.
“This is priority number one, we will keep work and work and work until someone is brought to justice for this heinous crime,” said Major Cates.
In a news conference held on Monday afternoon, the Bleckley County Sheriff’s Office announced a $6,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction. If you have any tips call the Bleckley County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 934-4545.
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BLECKLEY COUNTY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— Bleckley County Sheriff Kris Coody reports that his office was called at 12:30am to a residence in reference to two children, ages 2 and 4 with gunshot wounds. Deputies and Investigators responded and discovered the 2 year old child deceased from a gunshot wound and the 4 year old child injured from a gunshot wound. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was asked to assist. Investigators say the shots were not fired from within the home. The 4 year old child is currently in stable condition at Atrium Health Navicent after undergoing surgery.
This is an active and ongoing Homicide investigation. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Lt. Jeff Simpson of the Bleckley County Sheriff’s Office at 478-934-4545 or the GBI Eastman Office at 478-374-6988. Anonymous tips can also be submitted by calling 1-800-597-TIPS (8477)
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Crawford County man dies in Sunday night crash
The crash happened along Highway 42 South near Mathews Road
ROBERTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Crawford County man is dead following a Sunday evening crash along Highway 42 South near Mathews Road.
Crawford County Sheriff Larry Walker says deputies responded to 911 calls about the crash around 6:30 Sunday night.
According to Sheriff Walker, 54-year-old Reginald Jackson was traveling east on Highway 42 South when he lost control of his 1996 Honda Civic and overturned. Jackson was ejected from his vehicle and later died from injuries from the crash.
This was a single vehicle crash with no passengers involved.
Both the Georgia State Patrol and the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office are handling this investigation.
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Delta places order for 100 Boeing 737 aircraft
Delta is ordering 100 737 Max 10 airplanes, the largest of the line produced by Boeing, potentially giving the manufacturer additional momentum after a troubled rollout of its most advanced aircraft.
Delta has an option to purchase 30 more of the aircraft as the airline looks to keep up with surging travel demand.
Boeing has struggled to keep up with its European rival Airbus after a pair of 737 Max aircraft crashed in a short span of time, killing 346 passengers and crew members. Shares of Boeing rose 4% at the opening bell Monday.
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Hot and humid conditions return for the new week
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The sunshine is back for Middle Georgia this week which will lead to more major heat around the region.
Today
It was a mostly clear but humid morning to kick off our Monday across Middle Georgia. Temperatures were mainly in the lower 70s around the time of the sunrise. Things are heating up rapidly through the mid-morning hours, however. We will see highs in the lower 90s around the region this afternoon, however heat indices will be in the upper 90s. A couple of spots could see feels like temperatures of over 100°, however most should stay below that.
Our storm chances this afternoon are rather low, however one or two stray thunderstorms cannot be ruled out. Later this evening and into tonight, however, a week cold front will be pushing towards our area. It is projected to bring a couple of small storms into our northern counties, however they will subside not long after reaching the area. Most of Middle Georgia will not see those storms.
Once those storms do subside we should be done with rain for the night as skies clear out. A few clouds will likely hang around here or there. Low temperatures tonight will be in the low to mid 70s, and ambient winds will come in from the southwest at 5-10 mph.
Tomorrow
We will begin our Tuesday similar to how we began today: with humid conditions and mostly clear skies. More cloud cover is expected tomorrow, however, especially in the afternoon. Our rain chances are also up tomorrow during the afternoon as a few isolated thunderstorms fire up. Storms may begin to fire up during the early lunchtime hours, slowing the heating process. High temperatures tomorrow will return to the upper 80s for many locations in Middle Georgia due to the added cloud cover and rain. Storms should subside as the sun sets in the evening.
Tomorrow night we will see most of the clouds clear out. Before that happens, however, we could see a couple of lingering storms. Conditions will remain humid overnight as lows drop into the low to mid 70s with dewpoints also remaining in the low to mid 70s. Patchy fog will be possible heading into Wednesday morning.
Wednesday and Beyond
Highs will return to the low to mid 90s come Wednesday afternoon. Skies will be partly sunny as cloud fields develop in the afternoon. A few isolated storms will fire up during the afternoon and the evening. This same forecast also applies to Thursday.
Models are hinting at the possibility of more organized rain activity to move in on Friday, leading to more widespread storms. Highs are still anticipated to reach the lower 90s that day, however, with storms reserved for the late afternoon and evening hours. The pattern will revert to what we see for most of the week once the weekend arrives.
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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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News Top stories from July 18, 2022 July 18, 2022 Clayton Poulnott, 2-year-old killed, 4-year-old injured in Bleckley County shooting Operation Southern Slowdown looks to slow traffic down VIDEO: Byron police chase involving reckless driver with small child in car For other stories you may have missed, click here. FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
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Man charged with vehicular homicide after hitting Perry cyclist
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A man is being charged with vehicular homicide in the 1st degree after hitting a man on a bicycle early Monday morning.
According to the Perry Police Department, around 9:32 a.m., officers responded to the area of Larry Walker Parkway and Ball Street in Perry for a report of a person down. Upon arrival, officers found that the victim, John Houser of Perry, had been riding his bike northbound on Larry Walker Parkway when he was stuck by a 2004 Ford Expedition, which fled the scene.
Later, the suspect vehicle was found on Elko Road near the Georgia National Fairgrounds- this led to a search of the area by Perry PD, Houston County Sheriff’s Office, and Georgia Department of Corrections K9. Authorities found the driver of the vehicle, who was identified as Jay Reaves of Hawkinsville.
Reaves is being held at the Houston County Sheriff’s Office and charged with vehicular homicide without bond.
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Man killed in single vehicle accident in Perry
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— On Sunday around 1:37 a.m., the Georgia State Patrol responded to a single-vehicle crash on GA 127 near Champions Way in the city of Perry. According to a press release an Infiniti sedan driven by Mr. Jody Bernard Beal, Jr., of Montezuma as traveling north on GA 127 when it left the roadway and struck a power pole causing a large power outage. A witness stated that Mr. Beal walked into the powerlines causing a high voltage “explosion.” Mr. Beal succumbed to his injuries. A female passenger was transported to a local hospital for treatment of non- life-threatening injuries. The accident remains under investigation.
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Operation Southern Slowdown looks to slow traffic down
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, more than 1600 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2020, up 14 percent from the prior year.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (41NBC/WMGT)- Operation Southern Slow Down is a law enforcement initiative in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee and Florida to deter speeding.
State troopers and local law enforcement will conduct traffic stops on interstates and state highways.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, more than 1600 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2020, up 14 percent from the prior year.
Corporal Caleb Wickstrom with the Georgia State Patrol said driving the speed limit can save a life.
“Say it’s a 55 and you’re going 55 somebody pulls out you might be able to stop but if your going 70 or 80 in a 55 somebody pulls out you’re going to hit them,” said Wickstrom.
The operation will last a week ending on July 24.
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Police: Atlanta man shot with crossbow by assailant
ATLANTA (AP) — Police say an Atlanta man was shot with a crossbow Saturday by another man.
The man was found with a chest wound after police responded to a call about the shooting. Police say it appears the man was shot at a convenience store west of downtown. They say it appears the victim was standing outside the convenience store when a man arrived in a gold minivan, got out, and shot the victim with an arrow from a crossbow.
Police say the victim refused to cooperate further and was taken to a hospital conscious and alert. Police are still investigating. No suspect has been named.
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Robins Air Force Base employees must follow heat safety protocols
Along with different amounts of times for working and resting, workers are also required to intake specific amounts of water.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- The sun is both a blessing and a curse. We need it for warmth, to help plants grow and to provide us with much needed vitamin D. Too much sun can be fatal though.
On its own, the heat from the sun isn’t so bad. Pair it up with Middle Georgia’s high humidity, and you have the perfect combination for overheating and dehydration.
Robins Air Force Base is all too aware of this deadly combination. With crews working out on the flight lines where sun and humidity are serious threats, RAFB works to ensure that its team stays safe.
“Basically what we do is having a basic understanding of what our temperature index is and the way we do that is we have the wet bulb global temperature and we have a maintenance control area that notifies us when we have conditions based on different flag warnings.” said Travis Gully.
He is the Weapons Systems Support Flight Chief. Gully oversees operations on the C-130 aircraft and makes sure his employees have everything they need and are protected. Gully along with Forrest Duston, the Occupational Safety and Health Manager, monitor employees to make sure they’re complying with heat safety measures known as work rest cycles.
“Workers are required to work a certain amount of time and take a break, so for a black flag condition where it’s over say about ninety degrees we’re talking about a work rest cycle that looks like ten minutes of work with fifteen minutes of rest.” said Duston.
Along with different amounts of times for working and resting, workers are also required to intake specific amounts of water. Employees must consume at least one quart of water per hour. There are five different flag conditions used to determine the work to rest ratio with black signaling the most danger.
Out on the flight lines, employees have ample access to water, air conditioned rest areas and covered work spaces to keep the airplanes out of direct sunlight. If the planes stay in the sun too long, they could cause severe burns to anyone working on them.
All employees are notified of heat warnings through notifications on computers, through emails and most conveniently through text.
The wet Bulb Globe Temperature is monitored using a special device. Second Lieutenant Sydney Taggart is the Environmental Element Program Chief for the Bioenvironmental Engineering Flight. She’s the one responsible for monitoring the device.
“It’s taken using these three sensors, we take into account reflective heat, humidity and dry temperature. So the meter then calculates what the ambient conditions are and that’s how we call different flag or heat conditions on base.” Taggart explained.
The numbers are calculated in real time from the device and into computer systems at Bioenvironmental, where the flag condition is quickly determined and notifications are sent out.
Though summer can be hostile with high temperatures, the people at Robins Air Force Base are doing their part to make sure everyone can work outside as safely as possible.
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Scattered storms return Tuesday
It was a hot day in Middle Georgia, but scattered storms Tuesday, could help to keep temps a bit cooler.
We will be waking up to partly cloudy skies across the area Tuesday and lows in the mid 70s.
I highly recommend getting your outdoor activities done in the morning, as storms will pop up during the afternoon.
We are not expecting widespread severe weather, but a few strong storms will be possible.
Wednesday will be more of the same for Middle Georgia.
Summer heat and storms will return for the afternoon, with highs warming to the mid 90s and heat index in the 100s.
We will continue to see this trend through the rest of the week, before we see changes for the weekend.
By Saturday and Sunday high pressure will move back into the area, helping to dry us out.
Highs will be warming to the mid 90s over the weekend with lows in the mid 70s.
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Truck driver charged after fatal wreck kills 2 in Georgia
FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga, (AP) — An Atlanta truck driver is charged with vehicular homicide after a northwest Georgia wreck left two adults dead and three children injured.
Joseph Chislom remained jailed without bail Sunday in Catoosa County after the Friday wreck. The 47-year-old Chislom is also charged with driving too fast and running a red light. State troopers say Chislom was driving an 18-wheeler that hit the side of a minivan at a busy intersection in Fort Oglethorpe. That’s a Georgia suburb of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Neither of the dead adults have been identified. The three children were taken to hospitals. Chislom was not injured. State troopers arrested him at the wreck scene.
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US Rep. Hice subpoenaed in Georgia election investigation
ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jody Hice has been subpoenaed to testify before a special grand jury that is investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 general election in Georgia.
Hice’s lawyer said in a court filing that the subpoena orders the Republican congressman from Georgia to appear before the special grand jury in Atlanta on Tuesday. That filing seeks to have the matter heard in federal court rather than in a state superior court.
Hice was one of several GOP lawmakers who attended a December 2020 meeting at the White House in which Trump allies discussed various ways to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral win.
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VIDEO: Byron police chase involving reckless driver with small child in car
UPDATE: The Peach County Sheriff’s Office’s booking report says Hibbert is charged with 6 counts of Aggravated assault, and Sheriff Deese says that more charges will be added after warrants are signed.
BYRON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Friday, a woman was arrested after an incident involving reckless driving that involved several witnesses and officers being hit as well as several police vehicles.
The Byron Police Department says the incident started when officers were given a look out on a SUV that was driving recklessly on GA Highway 42 coming into town. The caller said the vehicle was driving into the other lane and almost hitting oncoming traffic.
When the vehicle got to the intersection of Highway 42 and Highway 49, witnesses blocked the vehicle in– Byron PD arrived and attempted to talk to the driver. The driver was uncooperative, and wouldn’t respond to commands, and after several minutes she backed into a car stopped behind her, then pulled forward– hitting a Byron Police Officer and a police car– then backed up and pulled forward again, this time hitting 2 witnesses and another police car. She drove over stop sticks that Byron Police had placed in case she drove off, and went north on Highway 49 with one flat tire- from the stop sticks.
Officers attempted to block the car, which led to her backing into a 3rd police car, and driving forward, hitting another car for the second time, causing serious damage. She then drove further down Highway 49 until Byron Police were able to block her in and take her into custody.
The driver was identified as Sierra Hibbert of Warner Robins. She also had a small child with her that wasn’t hurt in the incident. No officers or citizens were seriously hurt, according to BPD.
The Peach County Sheriff’s Office assisted, and is now handling the investigation and criminal charges against Hibbert.
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