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Explosion kills 3, damages 39 homes in Indiana
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Three people were killed Wednesday when a house exploded in the southern Indiana city of Evansville, authorities said.
Dave Anson, chief deputy coroner for Vanderburgh County, told The Associated Press that the identities of the people who died would not be released until the next of kin has been notified.
Evansville Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Anna Gray said at least one other injury was reported and that victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
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Evansville Fire Department Chief Mike Connelly said a total of 39 houses were damaged by the explosion at around 1 p.m. He said the department has not confirmed how many of the houses were occupied when the explosion happened because "some were too unstable to enter."
At least 11 of the 39 homes damaged are "uninhabitable," Connelly told the Evansville Courier & Press.
The cause of the explosion has not been determined, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was investigating. A phone message seeking comment was left at the Evansville field office of the ATF.
"Debris is strewn over a 100-foot (30-meter) radius," including "typical construction materials" such as wooden boards, window glass and insulation, Connelly said.
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Aerial video posted on social media shows damage in a residential neighborhood with police and fire vehicles on the scene in Evansville, on the Kentucky border.
CenterPoint Energy, the local gas utility, was last called to the home in January 2018, Connelly said. CenterPoint issued a statement saying it "worked with first responders to secure the area."
"CenterPoint Energy is working closely with the Evansville Fire Department, State Fire Marshal and other agencies as the investigation of this incident continues," the utility said.
Jacki Baumgart, an office manager at Award World Trophies about two and a half blocks from the site of the explosion, said she and other employees in their building panicked when they heard the loud blast and saw smoke.
"We thought a tree fell on the building or a car ran into the place," Baumgart said. "Debris from the ceiling came down."
She continued: "Everybody here immediately ran out of the building. We thought the building was going to come down."
It was the second house explosion in the area in just over five years. A house explosion on June 27, 2017, killed two people and injured three others.
Wednesday’s explosion also brought to mind a massive blast in 2012 that destroyed or damaged more than 80 homes on Indianapolis’ south side and killed two people. A man was convicted of tampering with a natural gas line at his then-girlfriend’s home in an attempt to commit insurance fraud, with the explosion killing two next-door neighbors. That man, his half-brother and girlfriend all received long prison sentences. | https://www.fox29.com/news/explosion-kills-3-damages-39-homes-in-indiana | 2022-08-11T01:15:34 | en | 0.980195 |
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A jury here looked at grisly photographs of a San Antonio woman hacked to death in 2020 with a machete and an ax as the murder trial of Rafael Castillo began Wednesday.
He was 26 when he was arrested and charged in the death of Nicole Perry, 31, on Nov. 19, 2020.
A Bexar County public works crew contacted the Sheriff’s Office after they found Perry’s remains wrapped in plastic and placed in blue bins and garbage bags off of W.W. White and Higdon roads.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar called it “a gruesome attack,” and said at the time that Perry was dismembered partly out of anger and in an attempt to hide her body.
On Wednesday, prosecutors said Castillo killed Perry to teach her a lesson.
An affidavit supporting his arrest indicated the woman and her boyfriend went to a home where Castillo was staying in the 300 block of West Harlan Avenue, where about 10 others lived at times. Prosecutors said known drug users would hang out there to do methamphetamine together.
“She was dumped along the side of the road like garbage,” prosecutor Jennifer McDaniel told jurors in her opening statement.
Castillo was “not someone you could mess with,” but Perry, known as “Niki,” who met him 24 hours before she was killed, “at times said things that bordered on rude and would make people mad,” McDaniel said.
“He did not think she showed him the appropriate respect,” she said.
Defense attorney Matt Allen told jurors they would hear from numerous people who either lived at or frequented the house and “did meth all day.”
These witnesses, he said, have changed their stories numerous times. He asked the panel to question their credibility and have an open mind.
Dr. James Feig, a forensic pathologist with the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s office, displayed several gruesome photographs of Perry, taken before and after her autopsy.
Feig said Perry had been bound with duct tape at her feet, and a zip tie and towing strap were wrapped tightly around her neck. Her hands were chopped off with a machete before she was struck on the right side of her head and ear with an ax.
Perry’s hands were never located.
The medical examiner could not identify which injury occurred first. As the jury viewed the photos, he said any of them — the amputation of both hands, the chop to the head, or the zip tie wrapped so tightly that it “would have cut off the blood supply and interfere with breathing” — could have caused her death.
The case is being heard in the 290th District Court. If convicted, Castillo, now 27, faces up to life in prison.
ezavala@express-news.net | Twitter: @elizabeth2863 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Texas-crime-murder-Rafael-Castillo-17365593.php | 2022-08-11T01:15:39 | en | 0.984329 |
Texas girl sworn in as police officer before 7th chemo round for neuroblastoma
GRANITE SHOALS, Texas - There's a new officer in Granite Shoals, and she's only five years old.
Isabella was sworn in as a member of the Granite Shoals Police Department during a city council meeting earlier this week before she was due to begin a seventh round of chemotherapy. She received a real GSPD custom-made badge with her name and a purple ribbon in the middle.
Isabella is in the midst of her second battle with neuroblastoma, a cancer that starts in certain very early forms of nerve cells and occurs most often in infants and young children, according to the American Cancer Society.
Granite Shoals Police Sgt Allen Miley, right, pins a custom-made official GSPD police badge on Isabella. (Granite Shoals Police Department)
GSPD Sgt Allen Miley met Isabella near the end of 2020 when he and other officers with the department drove by her home on her birthday as she was ending her first battle with neuroblastoma, says GSPD. In addition to the drive-by, the Granite Shoals Police Officer's Association did a brisket sale fundraiser to help with expenses for the family traveling and staying with her during her treatment.
About a year later, the cancer came back and this time it is considered high-risk. Isabella has gone through six rounds of chemotherapy, says GSPD, and began the seventh round and her second stem cell transplant on Tuesday. The sixth and seventh rounds consist of 30 days straight in the hospital for young Isabella.
The GSPOA and others in the area have donated to help with the family's travel expenses while Isabella is in treatment in Fort Worth, says GSPD. Those also wishing to help can donate to a GoFundMe benefiting her family.
Her family has also been documenting Isabella's fight with neuroblastoma on the Isa's Fight Facebook page. | https://www.fox29.com/news/texas-girl-sworn-in-as-police-officer-before-7th-chemo-round-for-neuroblastoma | 2022-08-11T01:15:41 | en | 0.975741 |
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UVALDE — The Uvalde City Council got through routine city business and authorized a committee to work toward a monument to the 21 victims of the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School — but only after a line of speakers stood in line to vent.
That’s been the norm for weeks — shouting matches, warnings and threats — but on Tuesday the speakers included a fair number from out of town, including a New Yorker convicted of a misdemeanor charge in the Jan. 6, 2021, ransacking of the U.S. Capitol.
Jack Miller, a self-described investigative journalist and civil rights activist from the San Antonio area, made a podium-pounding demand that all Uvalde police officers who were at Robb Elementary on the day of the shooting be fired.
Miller, whose business card says, “I expose bad cops,” predicted that police who were on the scene that day would fail to act again.
“They were trained to run in and stop the shooter, and they didn’t,” Miller said. “I’m not anti-cop, I’m just telling you that’s the facts, right? … They didn’t, so what do you do? You disband. You get rid of every single one that was there, that did not run in there when that guy was shooting.
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“Is it going to cost you money? Absolutely! And I don’t think there’s one citizen in here that will not sign that check. Let them sue! Let them sue!”
Some in the crowd applauded. A few cried out, “Yeah!” as he continued to speak.
Held in the small confines of the council chamber, meetings have required an overflow room and Tuesday’s was perhaps the most heated since the shooting. Many of those who spoke were regulars — locals who made the same points at the school board meeting the night before.
But a handful were argumentative men toting video cameras, interrupting other speakers at times and getting repeatedly warned by Mayor Don McLaughlin Jr. to be quiet. The mayor banged his gavel in anger at one point. One of the men was escorted out.
Miller, 50, of Kirby warned council members who defied him that they would face a recall election.
“If you guys don’t get rid of your police department — nothing against you, I commend you for everything you’re doing for these residents and children — but I’m going to teach your residents how to recall you,” he said.
“You’ve got a smirk,” Miller then told Councilman Earnest “Chip” King.
“I already know who you are and I know why you’ve got a smirk, and that’s OK,” Miller continued. “Call Leon Valley and ask them what happened the last time I told a city that I was going to have you recalled. We had two council people recalled, police chief fired … True story.”
“Sir, I’m going to tell you right now, you want to start a recall on me, start the damned thing,” McLaughlin said at the council session.
“That sounds good,” Miller replied.
“The one thing that I’m tired of, people like you come from outside —”
“I don’t care what you’re tired of,” Miller shouted.
King later said he didn’t remember smirking.
“I typically don’t smirk. That is not my MO, to smirk at people,” he said.
Sitting in the audience was Daniel Warmus of Alden, N.Y. He was 38 when he pleaded guilty May 23 in federal court for unlawful parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, during which he observed rioters using Mace on police, the Buffalo News reported.
Warmus told the council that he drove from western New York to address the session.
“So what I want is accountability for these officers who put all the other officers in danger,” he said. “You guys want to talk about officer safety, we ought to talk about heroism because officer safety is nothing more than cowardism, all right?”
Warmus identified himself on the council’s sign-in sheet as “Dan, Erie County,” but gave his full name to a San Antonio Express-News photographer.
Unlike most recent council meetings, few in the audience mentioned the now-suspended Uvalde school police chief, Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, who was forced off the council last month. His critics have said he failed kids at Robb Elementary and their parents, who continue to grieve.
The Uvalde school district superintendent has recommended the school board fire him but has twice canceled a hearing to determine his fate.
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Despite the apparent support of the out-of-town activists, some of the locals didn’t fully embrace their message or methods.
One woman said McLaughlin “is the only person who listens to us. I know y’all don’t know that because you’re not from here … We have to live it, we have to live it, we have to live it. We’re here every day.”
As she talked, one of the men sitting nearby constantly interrupted her.
“We have to send out kids back to school,” she continued.
“I wake up —” he retorted, but was drowned out by the woman before telling her, “I love you.”
Beyond the memorial to the 19 children and two teachers killed at Robb Elementary, the council’s regular meeting Tuesday was preoccupied with the mundane business of running a city, with the biggest item a resolution setting a hearing for a proposed property tax rate on which the budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year is based.
The council also reviewed a request from the school district and Gabriel Salazar, principal of Flores Elementary School, to change the direction of traffic on Schwartz Street.
One longtime Uvalde resident who has strenuously advocated for families and friends of the school victims, Jesse Rizo, 51, said most of the locals at the meeting were put off by the out-of-towners.
“We welcome the support, but we’re uncomfortable with the tactic,” he said, describing it as confrontational and “borderline disrespectful to the families.”
“That’s the feedback. They’ve lived it already. They’ve screamed and yelled,” Rizo said.
McLaughlin dismissed the visitors as combative and disconnected from Uvalde’s citizenry.
“In my opinion they claimed that they’re here to take care of our citizens and our community folks,” he said after the meeting. “One of them was sitting right by one of the family groups that lost a family member and wanted to argue with her and so forth.”
“They have an agenda of their own, and I don’t believe it’s to take care of these families.”
sigc@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Uvalde-meeting-protest-school-shooting-17365641.php | 2022-08-11T01:15:45 | en | 0.979255 |
The librarian at Roosevelt Elementary School probably wasn’t a trained one. In the mid-1960s, the West Side school in the Edgewood Independent School District didn’t have such a professional.
The school’s library wasn’t a proper library either. It was just a regular classroom. Books, most of them old and overused, were organized in neat shelves.
It was easy to find my favorite section — biographies — in the back right-hand corner.
Inside the front cover of every book, a card was tucked inside a stiff paper pocket containing a history of its borrowers. I loved seeing the names of people I knew, even my own.
An all-important column was filled each time you checked out a book, made official by a hardy stamp under “Date Due.”
It couldn’t be missed.
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I don’t remember the library assistant’s name but recall how excited she was that a new borrower and an old book would be united.
I’ve always felt nostalgic about librarians and libraries. Archivists, too. They’re so similar in character, so careful with information, so committed to safeguarding data.
I remember the names of all our news researchers, all worthy of being called librarians: Misty Harris, Mike Knoop, Julie Domel, Kathy Foley and the late Kelly Guckian.
They once worked for this newspaper, searching for a hard-to-find fact in a sliver of an old newspaper story or a long-forgotten photograph to verify a historic event.
I imagine the librarians and archivists at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., are much the same — reserved but dogged, unflinching but kind.
They work inside an institution established by Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 that safeguards documents dating to the 1770s.
“They capture the sweep of the past: slave ship manifests and the Emancipation Proclamation; captured German records and the Japanese surrender documents from World War II; journals of polar expeditions and photographs of Dust Bowl farmers; Indian treaties making transitory promises; and a richly bound document bearing the bold signature ‘Bonaparte.’”
As much as I admire these frontliners, I also know not to cross one.
If only Donald Trump knew as much, especially when the National Archives alleges that government documents, some of them potentially classified and top secret, were wrongly removed from the White House when his administration packed up in 2021.
The FBI, search warrant in hand, on Monday searched the Mar-a-Lago Resort in Palm Beach, Florida, where the president and his family reside. As part of an ongoing U.S. Department of Justice criminal investigation, agents retrieved 12 boxes.
A federal court approved the warrant, and the U.S. Justice Department was aware.
In January, 15 other boxes were retrieved as part of the investigation.
News reports said investigators had reason to believe Trump’s aides weren’t being forthcoming. The Washington Post said some of them “came to suspect Trump’s representatives were not truthful at times.”
It bears repeating that Trump has shown a penchant for destroying records, ripping up paper and reportedly flushing it down toilets.
He’s under multiple investigations and was in New York for a deposition in a civil investigation involving the Trump Organization’s business practices.
He responded as he has in the past — that he’s the target of a “witch hunt.” The political victimhood was a charade.
A person with knowledge of Trump told the Washington Post he “sounded buoyed by the development.” Trump believes the search will help him politically.
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Some Republican leaders played along and expressed outrage, too. Though at least some wish Trump would step aside or be held accountable, especially for his attempts to upend the 2020 elections and for his role in the violent attack Jan. 6 on the U.S. Capitol.
True believers protested outside Mar-a-Lago. Others, among them white supremacists and insurrectionists, called for violence on online forums.
Whatever the documents will show, the search wasn’t persecution.
There are people around the world who are legitimate victims. The United Nations can point to refugees and asylum seekers who are extorted, kidnapped and gunned down.
Christians and Muslims still suffer persecution for their faiths; and still today, anti-Semites maintain the Holocaust didn’t happen.
Racial hate and greed led to the genocide of indigenous tribes in the Americas, where Africans were enslaved. People of Mexican ancestry, themselves descendants of indigenous groups, were killed and robbed of their lands.
Historical documents that illustrate such history are safeguarded in the National Archives, and books detailing such truths can be found in libraries across the country.
A librarian or an archivist can help you find it.
Just don’t cross them. Cooperate when asked to return a book in the condition in which you found it.
Because they’re right, and they’ll win, as Trump will ultimately find.
eayala@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/elaine_ayala/article/Ayala-Trump-FBI-raid-17365594.php | 2022-08-11T01:15:51 | en | 0.961117 |
Pelosi’s pointless trip
I cringe to think how much House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Singapore and Taiwan cost taxpayers.
Now, let’s also try to find something she accomplished besides stirring a hornet’s nest with China, for which we may soon be paying dearly.
Please enlighten me and tell me what this trip was all about? Pelosi’s ego?
Peggy Bland, Boerne
Pelosi showed courage
Re: “Pelosi crossed a line; now Taiwan, U.S. may suffer,” Other Views, Sunday:
I am no fan of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but this guest column by University of Texas at San Antonio professor Jon Taylor was way off track.
Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan should be applauded. The rest of the Biden administration was sitting back while Pelosi had the courage to go to Taiwan to let the Chinese Communist Party know it does not dictate American foreign policy. No one else did that.
The comment that her trip made Biden look ineffectual is correct — because he is. We need to show our allies that we are a reliable friend.
Louis Levy
Update Missions’ stadium
It is a warm Saturday night in Military City, USA, and the San Antonio Missions have just finished winning a long homestand. Fireworks are going off, and either a C-17 or an F-16 is coming in for a landing. Just imagine — well, wait, we don’t have to imagine. We have that location now.
If you want a new stadium for the Missions, update the current location with plenty of parking and room to grow. Don’t let North Side elitism dictate having everything north of Highway 90 and ruin a good location.
I live on the Southwest Side, and if I want to see the Spurs or San Antonio FC, I have to drive clear across town.
James D. Womack Jr. | https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/letters-editor/article/Your-Turn-Aug-11-Pelosi-stood-up-to-China-17364638.php | 2022-08-11T01:15:57 | en | 0.949184 |
SAN ANTONIO — A boil-water notice was issued Wednesday evening for residents in the small community of La Coste, with no indication of how long it may last.
According to a release from city officials, the community is dealing with a water outage in order to "fix mainline leaks caused by recent drought conditions." Residents are being advised to hold any water they plan on consuming – including water for brushing teeth, cooking and washing – at a rolling boil for at least two minutes first, in order to destroy potential bacteria.
No word has been received on efforts to distribute free bottled water to the community as of yet.
"The boil-water notice will be in effect pending results of water sample testing indicating our water is safe for consumption," the release states.
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — President Joe Biden arrived in South Carolina on Wednesday to begin what is expected to be at least a seven-day vacation with members of his family outside Washington.
The first couple was planning to be in Kiawah Island, noted for its private beach and golf resort, through Tuesday, according to Federal Aviation Administration advisories.
The White House did not respond to requests to provide details on Biden's vacation schedule, activities or when he planned to return to Washington. The president will stay at a friend's home on the island that the family has used for previous visits, according to a White House official.
Biden, accompanied by first lady Jill Biden, departed the White House by motorcade to Joint Base Andrews outside the capital, where Air Force One was on hand to take them to Joint Base Charleston. Biden was dropped off at a private home in a gated community alongside a golf course on the island.
Biden was joined on Air Force One by his son, Hunter Biden, daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen and grandson Beau.
While Biden is in South Carolina, the House is set to vote to approve a bill full of Biden's priorities, including the most substantial investment in history to fight climate change, some $369 billion over the decade. The measure would cap prescription drug costs at $2,000 out-of-pocket for Medicare recipients and help an estimated 13 million Americans pay for health care insurance by extending subsidies provided during the coronavirus pandemic.
The White House demurred on when Biden plans to sign the bill, saying it was focused on helping ensure the House approved the measure.
Biden's 2021 vacation plans were scrambled by Washington's legislative calendar, a COVID-19 case surge, and the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
Summer vacations are a presidential tradition. George W. Bush often spent August clearing brush in the 100-degree heat that baked his central Texas ranch. Barack Obama worked on his golf game on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard. Donald Trump spent time at his home on his private golf club in central New Jersey.
The White House in the past has emphasized that the president is never truly free from the job's responsibilities — and that he'll continue to consult with aides and take his daily national security briefing regardless of his location.
And at times, presidents have had to make legacy-defining decisions while on vacation, including Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina flooding New Orleans in 2005. Bill Clinton ordered airstrikes against al-Qaida terrorists from Martha’s Vineyard in response to the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. And Bush’s father, President George H.W. Bush, planned the U.S. response to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 from his family’s oceanfront compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-summer-vacation-in-south-carolina/507-4338cc92-e9f8-47d9-ad1f-d3d5e7aa8496 | 2022-08-11T01:18:11 | en | 0.967757 |
WASHINGTON — Disney+ is expanding its subscription plans and bundles to include cheaper ad-supported memberships and raising its current prices, the media giant announced Wednesday.
The cheapest plan for the streaming service comes to $7.99 a month and includes ads. The regular ad-free plan is $10.99 a month or $109.99 annually, an increase from the current $7.99 per month. Disney+ also announced an array of bundles that mix and match memberships for Hulu and ESPN+.
Consumers will have the option to bundle all three services for $12.99 a month with ads included.
“With our new ad-supported Disney+ offering and an expanded lineup of plans across our entire streaming portfolio, we will be providing greater consumer choice at a variety of price points to cater to the diverse needs of our viewers and appeal to an even broader audience,” said Kareem Daniel, Chairman, Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution in the press release.
Disney+ announced plans for an ad-supported membership in March as part of a push to build an audience of 230-260 million subscribers by 2024.
Hulu, which Disney owns, already features ad-supported plans. Other platforms, such as Netflix, have announced a shift towards an ad-supported model.
Last month, Netflix paired up with Microsoft for its global ad sales and expected its ad-tier to launch in early 2023. Netflix shed almost 1 million subscribers during the spring amid tougher competition and soaring inflation that’s squeezing household budgets, heightening the urgency behind the video streaming service’s effort to launch a cheaper option with commercial interruptions.
HBO Max announced plans to merge its HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming services early this month, with a U.S. rollout anticipated for next year.
Subscription Plans for Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+:
- Disney+Basic (With Ads) --$7.99 a month
- Disney+Premium (No Ads) --$10.99 a month or $109.99 annual
- HuluBasic (With Ads) -- $7.99 a month or $79.99 annual
- HuluPremium (No Ads) -- $14.99 a month
- ESPN+With Ads -- $9.99 a month or $99.99 annual
- ESPN+UFC PPV -- $74.99 (Per Event)
- ESPN+UFC PPV -- $124.98 annual
Disney Bundle Plans:
- Basic -- (With Ads) Disney+, Hulu -- $9.99
- Basic -- (With Ads) Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ -- $12.99
- Legacy -- Disney+ (No Ads), Hulu (With Ads), ESPN+ (With Ads) -- $14.99
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SAN ANTONIO — With plenty of fresh faces and returning players looking to fulfill new roles, Spurs big man Zach Collins will be a veteran presence at just 24 years old.
This is his first summer in the NBA without facing major injuries.
"It's huge man, it just makes it a lot easier to go into every day knowing that you don't have to wake up and worry about rehabbing an ankle or a knee or whatever, and you can just go and work on your game," he said.
You can go out and you can be creative, like do yoga, you can do boxing, you can go bike riding in the hot desert in Vegas like where I'm from, you can do whatever you want. That freedom is something that I haven't had in the offseason, and now I get the freedom to also specifically focus on getting better, and that was the biggest thing for me. I just felt like the last two offseasons I couldn't really do that, it was all just trying to get back to the court."
He says it was important to stay grounded and take things day-by-day in that time.
"I think definitely what what grounded me was trying to think about every day is its own thing and trying to make that specific day a fun day, a good day, and have fun with the whole process. I definitely told myself like, I don't want to look back on this time of rehab as a time, whether I'm rehabbing or not, whether I'm playing basketball, it's still a time in my life where I want to look back and say I didn't waste it being upset all the time."
The company he kept, and the way the people close to him treated him, also made a difference.
"I also just had really good people around me too. They didn't really treat me any different," he said. "They were just kind of like, 'Hey, it is what it is, we're here for you, but don't don't stop living your life," type thing."
One of those people in the last year has been Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich.
"He doesn't really care who you are, and he doesn't pick favorites. He'll treat everybody the same. And I really I think athletes especially NBA players, I think we all can respect that. Because I think there's a lot of fakeness surrounding us sometimes and with him, you know he's keeping it honest with you at all at all times."
Pop is demanding, but Collins says the guys can feel that he's in the trenches with them.
"I feel like he's out there fighting with us every night. You know what I mean? Like he'll coach you, he'll jump on us really hard. But when it comes down to it, when it comes down to playing against the other team, I feel like it's really just us against everybody and he's with he's right with us in that fight too," he said. "And then on top of that, he's a genius. He knows the game inside and out."
He hasn't played 200 games yet in his NBA career due to the injuries, but on a rebuilding Spurs squad he'll be an elder statesman.
"It feels weird, and going back to the injury I felt like I kind of lost a couple years on the court," he said. "But now I mean, I'm going into what is it, year five I think? Maybe six? Six. I forget sometimes, it's just crazy how fast it went."
"But now, regardless of how old I am, the way we are, our team is and how young we are, I am considered a vet," he said. "So that's just something you got to step up in and be ready for. I think naturally you go through things and you have life experience and those are just things I can take to younger guys and try to help them. I say younger guys, I'm like two years older. Yeah, it's gonna be fun, I'm looking forward to it." | https://www.kens5.com/article/sports/nba/spurs/spurs-center-zach-collins-gears-up-for-a-healthy-season-in-the-alamo-city-great-day-sa/273-51e2b0af-2624-4850-9ffa-d99b8ed63230 | 2022-08-11T01:18:23 | en | 0.992243 |
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Secretary of State concerned about federal overreach of elections related Executive Order
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Voter registration is a hot topic, especially ahead of major election years.
Michael Watson is one of fifteen Secretaries of State that signed onto this letter to the President. They all want him to cancel his Executive Order that directs federal agencies to expand access to voter registration and election information. It’s the what ifs that have Watson worried.
”In and of itself, the idea of expanding access to voter registration is not a bad thing,” said Secretary Michael Watson.
But Secretary of State Michael Watson’s concerns about the federal government getting involved in voter registration efforts are two-fold.
“If you look at the Constitutional provisions, the job is left to the states to do that,” he said. “And so we see this as federal overreach.”
And he’s worried the feds calling the shots could open the door to problems.
“If I got a third party group coming in, the decision is being made at the executive level by Susan Rice,” Watson noted. “Perhaps she locates these voter registration drives in places where they know it’s going to benefit the current administration. I’m not saying they’re going to do that. But when you look at history, and we look at some things that have been done, you should probably question that just a little bit. And that’s where our concern really is.”
Meanwhile, Mississippi Votes welcomes any help in voter education efforts.
“In reality, what the federal government is encouraging states to do is something that Secretary of States across the nation should be doing already,” said Mississippi Votes Research Associate Jarrius Adams. “This Executive Order does two things. It ensures that we’re getting information to communities who haven’t been getting information about voting and also it’s making sure that they’re registered and they are able to register. It’s not forcing registration on anyone.”
And he questions the motive.
“It’s very clear that, you know, this is a political push,“ said Adams. “If this was not maybe a Democratic president. If it was someone who aligned with their party...I think the conversation would be different.”
Of note, this executive order the Secretaries of State wanted rescinded was signed by the President in March of last year.
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Contractor picks up 2 Jackson vacuum trucks after city falls behind on invoices
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Jackson recently lost two of its sewer vacuum trucks for lack of payment.
This week, the owner of the vehicles informed the city that it was picking them up after the city failed to pay invoices for three or four months.
The owner declined to comment to WLBT and asked that his company not be named. It was unclear how much the city owed.
Ward 5 Councilman Vernon Hartley said the city’s failure to pay the bills was a problem.
“We’re talking public health risks right here,” he said. “These vacuum trucks provide a vital service, [and] we need even more. To have them pulled out of service leaves us with a bigger problem.”
The trucks were equipped with vacuum and “jetting” devices, which are used to unclog backed-up sewer lines.
Jackson must submit reports to the EPA and U.S. Department of Justice as part of its sewer consent decree requirements.
Under the decree, the city must do routine cleanings of its sewer mains to ensure pipes” can carry full pipe flow without any restrictions that might result in blockages due to reduced pipe capacity.”
Public Works also must be “adequately equipped to keep up with critical maintenance requirements.”
It was unknown how many vacuum trucks the city still has in operation.
Hartley says Jackson should prioritize payments for anything related to public health and has spoken with Chief Financial Officer Fidelis Malembeka about the problem.
“I’ve asked the chief financial officer to ensure that [any bills] regarding public health are paid with priority,” he said. “My hope is that the financial office [takes] that to heart.”
Malembeka was not familiar with the trucks when asked about it at a Ward 2 Town Hall meeting on Tuesday.
“There were two invoices that were in arrears that got cleared, so that issue was resolved,” he said.
Malembeka said the city was planning to set aside funds in its 2022-23 budget to purchase some of the equipment that it currently leases.
He wasn’t sure if vacuum trucks were included, but said the city was looking at lease-to-own agreements for sewer bypass pumps. Public Works currently uses the devices to carry waste from one manhole to another, to essentially bypass broken lines.
The city currently leases each pump for about $2,500 a week.
Malembeka said the amount the city spends to lease the equipment could be spent to purchase it outright.
“When you are renting, you might not think about the duration,” he said. “And if you really have no plan, what happens is you might end up renting that equipment for a prolonged time.”
“And when you do the calculation, you’d actually be better off buying, because you might spend that amount in rentals,” he said. “So, that’s an analysis that I am really pushing our team to look at... What is the duration of this rental? Where can we look at some permanent solutions? You’d be amazed to find out that you buy multiple [pieces] of that type of equipment.”
Budget hearings for the 2022-23 budget began on August 8 and will continue through the beginning of September. The city council is slated to hear the budget presentation for the Public Works Department on Wednesday, August 17.
The meeting will begin at 9 a.m., at Jackson City Hall.
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NORFOLK — A 20-year-old Chesapeake man was sentenced to 17½ years in prison Wednesday in U.S. District Court for selling child pornography online.
Anthony Kandalepas is accused of helping a teenage girl that he picked up in Florida create and sell pornographic images through various social media platforms.
According to court documents, Kandalepas drove to Florida in November 2020 to pick up a 14-year-old girl, who was to undergo court-ordered substance abuse treatment, and brought her back to Chesapeake.
Kandalepas and the girl stayed in the attic of a Chesapeake residence, where Kandalepas recorded a sexual encounter with her, the Department of Justice said in a press release.
Kandalepas then assisted in selling the pornographic images online before traveling to upstate New York, where the pair were found by the Otswego County Sheriff’s Office.
To report an incident involving online sexual exploitation, call 1-800-843-5678 or submit a report at report.cybertip.org.
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A 57-year-old motorcyclist died two days after a head-on collision in Smithfield with a driver who state police say was driving recklessly.
Virginia State Police responded to the crash just after 5 p.m. Sunday on Nike Park Road, off Battery Park Road.
The preliminary investigation found that Richard Wayne Hillis, of Smithfield, was riding east on a 2022 Indian Challenger motorcycle east when a 2014 Acura struck him head-on.
The driver of the Acura, 20-year-old Justin Andrea Fatherly, of Suffolk, was making an “unsafe lane change” when he struck Hillis, said Sgt. Michelle Anaya, spokesperson for Virginia State Police, in a press release.
Hillis was taken to local hospital before he was transferred to the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. He died from his injuries Tuesday morning.
Fatherly was charged with reckless driving at the scene.
“At this time it does not appear that alcohol nor speed were contributing factors,” Anaya said.
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‘Highly respected’ Dr. Turner joins Mississippi State Department of Health
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Justin Turner, M.D., has joined the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) in the role of chief medical officer on Monday, August 1.
The release states Turner is an internal medicine physician and the CEO of Turner Care, LLC. He currently serves on the COVID-19 Task Forces for the Mississippi State Medical Association (MSMA) and the City of Jackson.
“Dr. Turner will be a tremendous addition to our staff,” said MSDH State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney. “He’s highly respected in his field and very involved in the community. Service is not just what he does – it’s who he is.”
Turner has served as medical director for several hospice services in the Jackson Metro area, including Specialty Hospice – an organization serving several under-represented communities throughout the state, the press release stated. He has also served as the Vice Chief of Internal Medicine at St. Dominic Hospital, and the medical director for Walk of Faith Ministry.
According to the press release, Turner has been recognized for numerous awards, including the 2022 inaugural Mississippi Children’s Museum Community Service Award, the 2021 Dr. Axel Hanson Distinguished Physician Award from Meharry Medical College, the 2020 Dr. James Waites Leadership Award from the MSMA, as well as being named a 2021 National Top 40 Under 40 Health Leader by the National Minority Quality Forum, and the Best Doctor of Jackson for 2018, 2020 and 2021 by the Jackson Free Press.
A resident of Madison, Turner is a 2003 graduate of Jackson State University and a 2008 graduate of Meharry Medical College.
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In Mississippi, a trespasser, a killing and DEA meddling
(AP) - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Harold Duane Poole was waiting with his semiautomatic service rifle — and an explanation — when deputies arrived at his sprawling wooded property on a warm spring night last year and found a bullet-riddled body near the driveway.
A veteran of the DEA’s military-style commando teams, Poole acknowledged he fatally shot a mentally ill neighbor just minutes after calling law enforcement to report the man was trespassing on his land – yet again – “out of his mind” and threatening him with a rock.
“I’m going to kill you!” Poole recalled Chase Brewer yelling before he responded by firing eight high-powered rounds, striking the man in the chest, gut and hip.
Sheriff’s investigators were skeptical of Poole’s self-defense claim from the start, reports show, mostly because he mentioned in his call for help that the trespasser was already leaving. No rock of any kind could be found. And the shooting happened 200 yards from Poole’s house, near the edge of his property, prompting deputies to determine Mississippi’s “castle doctrine” didn’t apply.
Yet a little more than a year after Poole was arrested on a murder charge in the April 27, 2021, shooting, he has quietly returned to work as a supervisor in the DEA office a half-hour’s drive north in Jackson after a grand jury this spring declined to indict him.
What happened with the case amid the farm fields and pastures of Mississippi has baffled and frustrated the slain man’s family, and it’s something neither local prosecutors, the DEA nor Poole himself would discuss. But interviews and hundreds of law enforcement records obtained by The Associated Press raise new questions about the justification for the shooting, how Poole avoided trial and whether DEA brass overreached to protect one of their own amid a flurry of misconduct cases in the agency.
“No citizen could have done what this DEA agent did and walked away,” said W. Lloyd Grafton, a use-of-force expert who reviewed the investigative case file at AP’s request.
Former DEA supervisors who examined the case for AP questioned the agency’s heavy-handed involvement in the critical first hours, even though the shooting had no nexus to federal law enforcement and Poole had been off duty feeding his chickens when he first spotted the trespasser.
Multiple DEA agents responded to the crowded crime scene and one supervisor declared himself “in charge” and blocked state and local investigators from interviewing Poole for at least 48 hours, citing an unspecified policy, the law enforcement records show. Later that night, the DEA’s ranking official in New Orleans called the local sheriff after deputies decided they would arrest Poole. But by that time, the federal lawman had already left the scene to seek medical treatment for being “shaken up” — telling DEA officials but not local authorities.
“They tried everything they could to get us not to charge him,” Copiah County Sheriff Byron Swilley told the dead man’s family the day after the shooting, according to a recording of the private conversation obtained by the AP.
“I done had people calling me all out of Virginia about this guy because he’s an agent,” he added, referring to DEA headquarters.
Deputies charged Poole anyway, the sheriff explained, because it was obvious the agent failed to wait for law enforcement to arrive and “took the law into his own hands.”
“When it’s wrong, it’s wrong,” Swilley added. “You take somebody’s life because of a rock?”
Hours after the shooting, the U.S. Justice Department issued an internal determination that Poole was not acting in the line of duty and DEA should defer to local authorities, according to current and former law enforcement officials familiar with the case.
A former ranking DEA official said the agency was nonetheless able to show its interest in the case and have an effect.
“You just had DEA impeding and obstructing a local investigation,” said Karl C. Colder, a former DEA special agent in charge who also served as the agency’s deputy chief inspector.
The DEA did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The Justice Department declined to comment.
Poole’s shooting case followed a series of misconduct scandals that have dogged the DEA for years.
Just weeks before, DEA brass responded to a separate controversy involving another off-duty agent, Mark Ibrahim, who posed for photos in which he flashed his DEA badge and firearm outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. Ibrahim is awaiting trial on four federal counts.
And only months before that case, a once-standout DEA agent admitted conspiring to launder money with a Colombian drug cartel. Jose Irizarry was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison, joining a growing list of former agents behind bars.
Poole, 48, has been held in high regard in DEA for more than two decades, serving as group supervisor in the agency’s Jackson District Office, which targets major drug trafficking cases in 32 counties in Mississippi.
Beginning in 2013, Poole traveled the world with DEA’s Foreign-Deployed Advisory and Support Teams, the military-style commandos that battled drug traffickers in Afghanistan and Latin America. The so-called FAST teams were disbanded in 2017 after coming under criticism for a series of fatal shootings in Honduras that predated Poole’s overseas service.
Poole chronicled some of his adventures on Facebook, sharing photos of himself in combat gear. One showed him firing an assault-style rifle somewhere in South America. “This has been without a doubt the most rewarding period of my 21 year career,” he wrote in a late 2016 post before returning home to his family in Mississippi.
Poole and his neighbor Brewer, or the “guy across the street,” as the agent once described him, had known each other for years and were once on such good terms that Poole invited Brewer to his cookouts.
But by the time of the shooting, bad blood had been building for months. Brewer repeatedly trespassed onto Poole’s 9-acre property and even attempted breaking into the home through a bedroom window in September 2020, prompting Poole to draw his pistol, according to charging papers.
Brewer was rambling incoherently by the time deputies arrested him emerging from a creek, armed with a pistol and two pocket knives.
An avid outdoorsman and truck mechanic who lived in a trailer, the diminutive, 47-year-old Brewer was also regarded by those close to him as a miracle of modern medicine. In 1996, he received a five-organ transplant at the University of Pittsburgh that replaced his stomach, duodenum, pancreas, intestine and liver after suffering intestinal failure due to a hereditary defect.
But Brewer began spiraling following a stroke in 2019, said his mother, Andrea Breedlove. He was hearing voices, and his drug use expanded from marijuana to crystal meth. In the months before Brewer’s death, his mother tried to have him committed but was told state facilities didn’t have enough beds.
“Chase had been a good, quiet neighbor for years — and then he changed,” Breedlove said in an interview at her home. “He would hallucinate at times and talk to people who weren’t there. He needed help.”
Poole, meanwhile, grew increasingly concerned for his family’s safety, and he was frustrated that his pleas to local law enforcement were going unheeded. In October 2020, a month after the attempted break-in, the agent’s wife told deputies following yet another trespassing incident that Brewer had a habit of sneaking onto the property when Poole was away. Brewer, who in this instance was chased away by Poole’s dog, falsely told the deputy taking him into custody that he was a law enforcement agent who “cannot be arrested,” according to sheriff’s records.
So it didn’t take long for Poole to recognize Brewer walking up his driveway that fateful night in April 2021. At 6:57 p.m., Poole called the Copiah County Sheriff’s Office non-emergency line to report the trespassing and request a deputy.
“Mr. Poole said that he went inside and got his rifle and when he came back out Chase Brewer was leaving,” according to a sheriff’s report.
The agent followed Brewer toward a roadway abutting his pasture, flashed his badge and ordered him to the ground. Instead, Poole told deputies, Brewer hurled a rock and said, “I’m going to kill you!” That’s when Poole raised his AR-15-style rifle and fired.
Three minutes after his initial call, Poole phoned the sheriff’s office again to report he shot Brewer because he had charged at him.
“Mr. Poole said that Chase Brewer was out of his mind and that he is always shooting guns just down the road at his trailer,” the sheriff’s report says. An autopsy detected meth in Brewer’s system, a drug he was also carrying at the time of his death.
Even after arresting Poole, deputies acknowledged they did not know the full extent of the encounter, in part because the agent never provided a full statement.
Also, some members of state law enforcement second-guessed Poole’s arrest. A Mississippi Bureau of Investigation agent, Dennis Weaver, told a judge in a preliminary hearing that he disagreed with the sheriff’s decision to arrest Poole, even though he acknowledged he had not reviewed critical body-camera footage of the agent’s statements to deputies at the scene.
It’s unclear why the grand jury rejected the state’s murder case, despite the sheriff’s assurances to the Brewer family that he would seek “real justice.”
The local district attorney, Daniella Shorter, would not talk about her handling of the case, and neither her office nor the sheriff would release the body-camera footage, citing an investigation of the case by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General.
“To release it to the public would be counter to their efforts in the event of a prosecution by the federal government,” said Elise Munn, a Copiah County prosecutor. The Office of Inspector General declined to comment.
For Brewer’s family, the loss of a loved one has been compounded by the lack of answers. At the very least, they want Poole to offer an apology or condolences for his neighbor’s death. But the agent, like the DEA, has remained silent.
“He wanted Chase dead, that’s all there is to it,” said Breedlove, Brewer’s mother. “This wasn’t David versus Goliath. What was he going to do with a rock?”
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Classic Lotto 47" game were:
03-19-25-33-37-38
(three, nineteen, twenty-five, thirty-three, thirty-seven, thirty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $2,650,000
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Classic Lotto 47" game were:
03-19-25-33-37-38
(three, nineteen, twenty-five, thirty-three, thirty-seven, thirty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $2,650,000 | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Classic-Lotto-47-game-17365665.php | 2022-08-11T01:22:26 | en | 0.89639 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
9-9-8
(nine, nine, eight)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
9-9-8
(nine, nine, eight) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-game-17365652.php | 2022-08-11T01:22:32 | en | 0.916002 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
7-4-8-6
(seven, four, eight, six)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
7-4-8-6
(seven, four, eight, six) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17365655.php | 2022-08-11T01:22:38 | en | 0.921796 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
09-23-24-26-29
(nine, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-six, twenty-nine)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
09-23-24-26-29
(nine, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-six, twenty-nine) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-Double-Play-17365656.php | 2022-08-11T01:22:44 | en | 0.847319 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
10-17-27-28-32
(ten, seventeen, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, thirty-two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
10-17-27-28-32
(ten, seventeen, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, thirty-two) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17365653.php | 2022-08-11T01:22:50 | en | 0.861673 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
01-04-05-06-11-15-19-21-24-25-27-31-47-48-56-57-65-70-71-72-73-77
(one, four, five, six, eleven, fifteen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-seven, thirty-one, forty-seven, forty-eight, fifty-six, fifty-seven, sixty-five, seventy, seventy-one, seventy-two, seventy-three, seventy-seven) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17365651.php | 2022-08-11T01:22:57 | en | 0.800782 |
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Atlanta rapper Young Thug and others facing new charges in RICO case
ATLANTA (WGCL/Gray News) - Atlanta rapper Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, and four other defendants are facing new charges, according to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.
An indictment was filed last week in Fulton County Superior Court alleging Young Thug was found in possession of a machine gun, and in possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
The additional charges also include participation in criminal street gang activity and violation of Georgia’s controlled substances act.
The other defendants include Martinez Arnold, also known as Duke; Deamonte Kendrick, also known as Yak Gotti; Shannon Stillwell; and Quamarvious Nichols.
Arnold’s charges include participation in criminal street gang activity, violation of the controlled substances act, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and possession of a machine gun.
Kendrick is facing the same charges as Arnold with the addition of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Stillwell and Nichols were charged with an additional count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Young Thug and several others were initially indicted in May. At that time, they were charged with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Williams, Arnold and Kendrick have pleaded not guilty.
Williams and another rapper, Gunna – whose real name is Sergio Kitchens – remain in jail after bond was denied earlier this year.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Lotto Double Play" game were:
01-05-14-16-38-42
(one, five, fourteen, sixteen, thirty-eight, forty-two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Lotto Double Play" game were:
01-05-14-16-38-42
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Farmers’ Almanac predicting extreme winter forecast for most of US
(Gray News) - The Farmers’ Almanac is predicting a frigid winter for most of us here in the U.S., along with brisk temperatures.
The periodical says it provides long-range weather predictions and has been in publication since 1818.
This winter, the almanac is predicting shivery temperatures in the South with even colder weather in the Great Lakes, northeast and northern regions.
According to the almanac, some northern regions are forecasted to experience extremely cold temperatures - possibly 40 degrees below during January 2023.
The almanac is forecasting brisk temperatures in the northwest and mild temperatures in the southwest.
A stormy winter is reportedly on schedule for the country’s eastern half. For some areas, this may mean snow, but for others, it will result in more slush and mush.
The almanac reports that January 2023 is looking to be the stormiest time for many areas, including Texas and Oklahoma, where heavy snow is predicted during the first week.
Also, the southwest is expected to be dry during the winter months, which won’t help the drought.
The 2022-2023 Farmers’ Almanac will be available starting Aug. 15, offering 16 months of weather predictions starting in September 2022.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
03-13-16-25-32-42, Bonus: 46
(three, thirteen, sixteen, twenty-five, thirty-two, forty-two; Bonus: forty-six)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
03-13-16-25-32-42, Bonus: 46
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
JC-2H-7H-10H-4S
(JC, 2H, 7H, 10H, 4S)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
JC-2H-7H-10H-4S
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PHOENIX (AP) — Former longtime Sheriff Joe Arpaio loses race for mayor of Fountain Hills in his third failed comeback bid in Arizona.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Joe Kent advances to November general election in Washington's 3rd Congressional District.
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PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona county where the Aug. 2 primary election was beset with multiple issues that led to the firing of its election director will waive the costs for running municipal elections in 11 cities and towns and plans to hire an outside election expert to review what went wrong.
The five-member Pinal County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Wednesday to waive more than $100,000 in costs it planned to bill the cities and towns for running the local elections.
Seven cities and towns had local races left off early ballots that required the county to mail about 63,000 supplemental ballots. And County Attorney Kent Volkmer told the board that four other municipalities were affected by Election Day missteps that led to ballot shortages at about 20 of the county's 95 polling places.
“As the county manager clearly indicated, we fell below the expectations of our customers,” Volkmer told the board. “So I believe if this board is so inclined, I think there is good cause to waive for all of the various entities that we serve the municipal and town elections for.”
“I think that’s a good idea due to the issues at hand,” Board Chair Jeffrey McClure. Last week, McClure had called the election issues “a major screwup" and Elections Director David Frisk was fired the next day. He had just been hired in March.
Volkmer also said he was close to hiring an outside election expert to conduct a review. He said there was so far no sign of any criminal violations but that bringing in someone from outside would ensure that an unbiased assessment would be swiftly completed. He said if any sign of criminal activity were found, the county sheriff would be called in to investigate.
“What we anticipate getting out of this is what went wrong, why it went wrong and then what can we do to make sure that this does not happen again,” Volkmer said. He said he wants the job completed within 60 days, before November's general election.
The expert, who Volkmer did not publicly identify, has almost 30 years as an elections administrator, had done similar reviews and is known to both new Elections Director Virginia Ross and new County Recorder Dana Lewis.
Ross was the elected recorder until she resigned last week to take over the elections department. Lewis was her assistant. The board appointed her on Friday to take over as recorder, which handles voter rolls and mail ballots but is not involved with voting or ballot counting.
The board will certify the election “canvass” on Friday, although more than one board member expressed heartburn over having to do so given last week's issues. Board member Jeff Serdy said his first reaction the day after the election was that he did not want to accept the results.
That's not an option, Volkmer said. Accepting and certifying the results is an act that the law requires. The municipal races will be handled by the localities, while county, state and federal races are up to the board.
“I will tell this board, and this is always not a comfortable conversation, but our legal analysis is you have no choice but to canvass,” Volkmer said. “It is what’s deemed a ministerial duty, meaning you have to. It's a ‘shall.’" | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Arizona-county-that-saw-election-snafu-to-waive-17365692.php | 2022-08-11T01:23:34 | en | 0.985651 |
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The case of a Nebraska woman charged with helping her teenage daughter end her pregnancy after investigators obtained Facebook messages between the two has raised fresh concerns about data privacy in the post-Roe world.
Since before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, Big Tech companies that collect personal details of their users have faced new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance amid fears that law enforcement or vigilantes could use those data troves against people seeking abortions or those who try to help them.
Meta, which owns Facebook, said Tuesday it received warrants requesting messages in the Nebraska case from local law enforcement on June 7, before the Supreme Court decision overriding Roe came down. The warrants, the company added, “did not mention abortion at all,” and court documents at the time showed that police were investigating the “alleged illegal burning and burial of a stillborn infant."
However, in early June, the mother and daughter were only charged with a single felony for removing, concealing or abandoning a body, and two misdemeanors: concealing the death of another person and false reporting.
It wasn’t until about a month later, after investigators reviewed the private Facebook messages, that prosecutors added the felony abortion-related charges against the mother.
History has repeatedly demonstrated that whenever people's personal data is tracked and stored, there's always a risk that it could be misused or abused. With the Supreme Court's overruling of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion, collected location data, text messages, search histories, emails and seemingly innocuous period and ovulation-tracking apps could be used to prosecute people who seek an abortion — or medical care for a miscarriage — as well as those who assist them.
“In the digital age, this decision opens the door to law enforcement and private bounty hunters seeking vast amounts of private data from ordinary Americans,” said Alexandra Reeve Givens, the president and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based digital rights nonprofit.
WHY DID FACEBOOK TURN OVER THE MESSAGES?
Facebook owner Meta said it received a legal warrant from law enforcement about the case, which did not mention the word “abortion.” The company has said that officials at the social media giant “always scrutinize every government request we receive to make sure it is legally valid” and that Meta fights back against requests that it thinks are invalid or too broad.
But the company gave investigators information in about 88% of the 59,996 cases in which the government requested data in the second half of last year, according to its transparency report. Meta declined to say whether its response would have been different had the warrant mentioned the word “abortion.”
NOT A NEW ISSUE
Until this past May, anyone could buy a weekly trove of data on clients at more than 600 Planned Parenthood sites around the country for as little as $160, according to a recent Vice investigation. The files included approximate patient addresses — derived from where their cellphones “sleep” at night — income brackets, time spent at the clinic, and the top places people visited before and afterward.
It’s all possible because federal law — specifically, HIPAA, the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — protects the privacy of medical files at your doctor’s office, but not any information that third-party apps or tech companies collect about you. This is also true if an app that collects your data shares it with a third party that might abuse it.
In 2017, a Black woman in Mississippi named Latice Fisher was charged with second-degree murder after she sought medical care for a pregnancy loss.
“While receiving care from medical staff, she was also immediately treated with suspicion of committing a crime," civil rights attorney and Ford Foundation fellow Cynthia Conti-Cook wrote in her 2020 paper, “Surveilling the Digital Abortion Diary.” Fisher's "statements to nurses, the medical records, and the autopsy records of her fetus were turned over to the local police to investigate whether she intentionally killed her fetus,” she wrote.
Fisher was indicted on a second-degree murder charge in 2018; conviction could have led to life in prison. The murder charge was later dismissed. Evidence against her, though included her online search history, which included queries on how to induce a miscarriage and how to buy abortion pills online.
"Her digital data gave prosecutors a ‘window into (her) soul’ to substantiate their general theory that she did not want the fetus to survive,” Conti-Cook wrote.
INDUSTRY RESPONSE
Though many companies have announced policies to protect their own employees by paying for necessary out-of-state travel to obtain an abortion, technology companies have said little about how they might cooperate with law enforcement or government agencies trying to prosecute people seeking an abortion where it is illegal — or who are helping someone do so.
In June, Democratic lawmakers asked federal regulators to investigate Apple and Google for allegedly deceiving millions of mobile phone users by enabling the collection and sale of their personal data to third parties.
The following month, Google announced it will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics or other locations that could trigger legal problems following the Supreme Court decision.
Governments and law enforcement can subpoena companies for data on their users. Generally, Big Tech policies suggest the companies will comply with abortion-related data requests unless they see them as overly broad. Meta, for instance, pointed to its online transparency report, which says “we comply with government requests for user information only where we have a good-faith belief that the law requires us to do so.”
Online rights advocates say that's not enough. In the Nebraska case, for instance, neither Meta nor law enforcement would have been able to read the messages had they been “end-to-end encrypted” the way messages on Meta's WhatsApp service are protected by default.
“Meta must flip the switch and make end-to-end encryption a default in all private messages, including on Facebook and Instagram. Doing so will literally save pregnant peoples’ lives,” said, Caitlin Seeley George, campaigns and managing director at the nonprofit rights group Fight for the Future.
BURDEN ON THE USER
Unless all of your data is securely encrypted, there’s always a chance that someone, somewhere can access it. So abortion rights activists suggest that people in states where abortion is outlawed should limit the creation of such data in the first place.
For instance, they urge turning off phone location services — or just leaving your phone at home — when seeking reproductive health care. To be safe, they say, it's good to read the privacy policies of any health apps in use.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation suggests using more privacy-conscious web browsers such as Brave, Firefox and DuckDuckGo — but also recommends double-checking their privacy settings.
There are also ways to turn off ad identifiers on both Apple and Android phones that stop advertisers from being able to track you. This is generally a good idea in any case. Apple will ask you if you want to be tracked each time you download a new app. For apps you already have installed, the tracking can be turned off manually. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/EXPLAINER-Online-privacy-in-a-post-Roe-world-17365645.php | 2022-08-11T01:23:40 | en | 0.965481 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida man pleaded guilty Wednesday to attacking police officers while storming the U.S. Capitol during the January 2021 insurrection.
Matthew Council, 50, of Riverview, Florida, pleaded guilty in District of Columbia federal court to one felony count of assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers, one felony count of interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder and four misdemeanor offenses, according to court records.
He faces up to 16 years in prison at a scheduled Nov. 1 sentencing hearing.
Council was arrested at the Capitol during the riot.
According to court documents, Council joined with others objecting to Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory over then-President Donald Trump. A mob attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying election results for Biden over the Republican Trump, authorities said. Five people died in the violence.
According to the criminal complaint, Council and others gathered illegally at the west side of the Capitol. A police officer sprayed him with a chemical irritant, but he continued up the stairs to the Northwest Plaza, officials said. As police were struggling to keep the mob outside, Council entered the Parliamentarian Door. Prosecutors said Council barged into a line of Capitol Police officers, trying to push them back and create an opening for others to get through.
Since Jan. 6, 2021, more than 860 people have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, officials said. More than 260 people have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Florida-man-pleads-guilty-to-pushing-police-in-17365768.php | 2022-08-11T01:23:59 | en | 0.963009 |
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SEATTLE (AP) — Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler has become the third congressperson who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump to be ousted in a primary.
Herrera Beutler fell to Trump-backed Joe Kent, a former Green Beret, in the 3rd Congressional District contest. The district is in southwest Washington state, across the border from Portland, Oregon. Kent will face Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in November. She had already advanced to the general election since she was the top vote getter after the Aug. 2 primary, with 31% of the vote.
Herrera Beutler, who was first elected to the U.S. House in 2010, led Kent by about 4,700 votes on election night but her lead shrunk throughout last week, and updated returns Wednesday night put Kent —who was in the No. 2 spot since Monday night — ahead by 1050 votes.
Kent finished with 22.8% of the vote, and Herrera Beutler was in third place with 22.3% of the vote.
Herrera Beutler conceded the race in an email Tuesday night, saying that “since I was first elected to this seat I have done my very best to serve my home region and our country.”
In a statement Wednesday, Kent thanked the other Republican candidates, saying all of the “campaigns fought hard because we all care deeply about this district and this country.”
“Now is the time to unite as Republicans because the stakes have never been higher,” he wrote.
Gluesenkamp Perez said in a statement earlier this week that the 3rd Congressional District race “is going to be a national bellwether for the direction of the country, and for the future of our democracy.”
Under Washington’s primary system, the top two vote getters in each race Aug. 2 advance to the November election, regardless of party. Washington is a vote by mail state, and voters don’t have to declare a party affiliation.
Because Washington is a vote-by-mail state and ballots just need to be in by Election Day, it often takes days to learn final results in close races as ballots arrive at county election offices throughout the week.
Of the 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment, four opted not to run for reelection. Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer was defeated in a primary last week by Trump-endorsed John Gibbs and Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina lost to a Trump-endorsed challenger in June. Rep. David Valadao of California — which has an open primary like Washington — survived a primary challenge. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming is bracing for defeat in her Aug. 16 primary against a Trump-backed rival.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Joe Arpaio, the 90-year-old former Arizona sheriff who was a once powerful figure in Republican politics but was ousted nearly six years ago amid frustration over his headline-grabbing tactics and legal troubles, was defeated Wednesday in a race for mayor of the affluent suburb where he has lived for more than two decades.
His defeat in the mayor’s race in Fountain Hills against two-term incumbent Ginny Dickey marks Arpaio’s third failed comeback bid since his 2016 loss after serving 24 years as the sheriff of Maricopa County.
The political stakes of running in Fountain Hills, a Republican-heavy town of 24,000, were much lower for Arpaio than when he served as the top law enforcer of a county of over 4 million people.
Arpaio was crushed by a Democratic challenger in 2016 and was convicted the next year of criminal contempt of court for disobeying a judge’s order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants, though he was later pardoned by then-President Donald Trump.
Arpaio then finished third in a Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in 2018 and second in the GOP primary in a 2020 bid to win back the sheriff’s post.
In his first two comeback attempts, Arpaio lost the vote in Fountain Hills.
Arpaio, a skilled political fundraiser who spent more than $12 million in his 2016 sheriff’s campaign, has shelled out $161,000 in the mayor’s race — six times the amount spent by Dickey.
Before the federal government and the courts stripped away his immigration powers, Arpaio led 20 large-scale traffic patrols that targeted immigrants and more than 80 business raids to bust people working in the United States without permission.
While his defiant streak played well with voters for many years, Arpaio faced heavy criticism for taking on policies that he knew were controversial and racking up $147 million in taxpayer-funded legal bills.
Though he billed himself as the toughest sheriff in America, his agency botched the investigations of more than 400 sex-crimes complaints made to his office. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Joe-Arpaio-loses-3rd-comeback-bid-in-town-mayoral-17365758.php | 2022-08-11T01:24:11 | en | 0.985796 |
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge on Wednesday rejected the request by Utah officials to throw out a lawsuit challenging a state ban on transgender kids who want to compete in youth sports.
The ruling comes ahead of a hearing scheduled for Thursday where Judge Keith Kelly will assess whether to put the law passed by the Republican-majority Legislature this year temporarily on hold.
Kelly ruled that the three transgender girls who brought the lawsuit have shown they are harmed by the law that took effect on July 1 and therefore have legal standing for the case to move forward.
Thomas Lee, a former state Supreme Court justice hired by the state to help defend the ban, argued in the hearing that the girls are just “concerned bystanders” who lack standing to bring the lawsuit, KUTV reported.
Parents of the three girls and their attorneys contend in the lawsuit that the law wrongly keeps their children from participating in sports while violating the state constitution that prohibits discrimination and guarantees equal rights and due process.
The issue of whether transgender girls should be allowed to participate in female sports has become flashpoint across the U.S. with Republican lawmakers passing legislation to block them based on the premise it gives them an unfair competitive advantage. Transgender rights advocates counter that the rules aren't just about sports, but another way to demean and attack transgender youth.
Similar legal cases have been playing out in Idaho, West Virginia and Indiana.
As of March, the Utah High School Activities Association knew of only one transgender girl playing in K-12 sports who would be affected by the ban. The association, which organizes leagues for 85,000 students, has said there have been no publicly made allegations of competitive advantage concerning any of the state’s four transgender youth athletes. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Judge-won-t-toss-lawsuit-against-Utah-transgender-17365672.php | 2022-08-11T01:24:17 | en | 0.965791 |
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Classic Lotto 47" game were:
03-19-25-33-37-38
(three, nineteen, twenty-five, thirty-three, thirty-seven, thirty-eight)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Classic Lotto 47" game were:
03-19-25-33-37-38
(three, nineteen, twenty-five, thirty-three, thirty-seven, thirty-eight) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Classic-Lotto-47-game-17365665.php | 2022-08-11T01:24:20 | en | 0.907195 |
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
9-9-8
(nine, nine, eight)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
9-9-8
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has declared victory over COVID-19 and ordered an easing of preventive measures, calling his country's officially reported death toll of just 74 people an unprecedented miracle in the history of world health, state media said Thursday.
Kim’s powerful sister also spoke during the virus meeting in capital, Pyongyang, on Wednesday and blamed the country’s infections on anti-Pyongyang leaflets flown in by rival South Korea and warned of counteraction that would be a “deadly retaliatory one.”
After maintaining a widely disputed claim to be coronavirus-free for more than two years, North Korea on May 12 admitted to a COVID-19 outbreak, saying an unspecified number of people in Pyongyang were diagnosed with the omicron variant.
North Korea has since reported about 4.8 million “fever cases” out of its population of 26 million but only identified a fraction of them as COVID-19. It says 74 people have died, an extremely low fatality rate that experts have widely questioned in part because almost no one in North Korea is vaccinated against the coronavirus.
North Korean health officials have been claiming a slowing outbreak for weeks, reporting no suspected cases since late July, a rapid decline experts have also questioned.
Some experts say North Korea has likely manipulated the scale of illness and deaths to help Kim maintain his absolute leadership amid mounting economic difficulties in the isolated nation.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday that Kim “solemnly declared the victory in the maximum emergency anti-epidemic campaign” and instructed a return to normal level preventive measures.
He called for the nation to maintain vigilance and effective controls in border areas, citing the global spread of new COVID-19 variants and monkeypox.
Following the country’s first admission of the outbreak in May, Kim placed strict prohibitions on travel between cities and counties to slow the spread of the virus. But he also stressed that his economic goals should be met, which meant huge groups continued to gather at agricultural, industrial and construction sites.
North Korea first suggested in July that its COVID-19 outbreak began in people who had contact with balloons flown from South Korea — a questionable claim that appeared to be an attempt to hold its rival responsible amid increasing tensions over the North's nuclear program.
Activists for years have flown balloons across the border to distribute hundreds of thousands of propaganda leaflets critical of Kim, and North Korea has often expressed fury at the activists and at South Korea’s leadership for not stopping them.
During Wednesday's meeting, Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong reiterated those claims, calling the country’s virus crisis a “hysteric farce” kicked off by South Korea to escalate confrontation.
“(South Korean) puppets are still thrusting leaflets and dirty objects into our territory. We must counter it toughly,” she said. “We have already considered various counteraction plans, but our countermeasure must be a deadly retaliatory one.”
Such claims contradict outside views that the coronavirus spread after North Korea briefly reopened its northern border with China to freight traffic in January and surged further following a military parade and other large-scale events in Pyongyang in April.
Ties between the Koreas remain strained amid a long-running stalemate in U.S.-led diplomacy on persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions in return for economic and political benefits.
South Korean and U.S. officials have said North Korea could be gearing up for its first nuclear test in five years amid its torrid run of weapons tests this year that included its first demonstrations of intercontinental ballistic missiles since 2017. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/N-Korea-claims-victory-over-virus-blames-Seoul-17365693.php | 2022-08-11T01:24:29 | en | 0.965385 |
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
7-4-8-6
(seven, four, eight, six)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
7-4-8-6
(seven, four, eight, six) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17365655.php | 2022-08-11T01:24:33 | en | 0.921796 |
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
09-23-24-26-29
(nine, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-six, twenty-nine)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
09-23-24-26-29
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BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) — A Christian pastor in western New York said he felt intimidated and harassed after the state's attorney general, a Democrat, sent a letter saying she believed a planned far-right political event at his church this week could lead to racial violence.
In the letter sent on Aug. 3, Attorney General Letitia James warned organizers of the ReAwaken America Tour event that her office could take legal action if “extremist” rhetoric by speakers spurred violent or unlawful conduct.
The two-day event at the Cornerstone Church in Batavia, midway between Buffalo and Rochester, is scheduled to feature President Donald Trump's son, Eric Trump, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and others. James' letter was addressed to Flynn and event organizer Clay Clark and sent in care of the church.
Cornerstone Church Pastor Paul Doyle said there was no validity to the suggestion that the event was promoting racism or violence.
“I take exception to the words she uses, like extreme views," he told The Associated Press. "What’s that mean? What’s extreme? We’re conservative Christians. Now we’re extreme?”
He said the letter had scared members of his congregation, a group of about 150 to 200 people, which he described as multi-ethnic and multi-racial.
“It feels like she’s trying to intimidate me. We’re a small-town church,” Doyle said.
A few dozen people gathered outside the Batavia church earlier this week to protest the event, which also will feature MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and people who tried to throw out the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The U.S. Constitution offers strong protections to free speech and James, in her letter, didn't directly ask for the event to be cancelled or for certain speakers to be disinvited.
But James said she was concerned that the event, which is being held on the five-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, “could spur extremist or racially motivated violence.” She cited “past extremist statements made by yourselves and the other featured speakers on the tour," specifically mentioning a racist conspiracy theory that recently inspired a gunman to kill 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.
Investigators, she said, “stand ready” to respond to any violations of state laws.
“You are therefore instructed to take all necessary steps to ensure that the event complies fully with the requirements of New York’s civil rights laws and all other applicable state and federal statutes,” James wrote, noting the possibility of $5,000 fines for violations.
James’ office declined to comment on the pastor's complaint that the letter was intended to chill free speech, but noted that the letter was addressed to the event organizers, not the church or pastor.
The letter didn't cite any specific acts of violence at past ReAwaken America Tour events.
At one tour’s stop in Phoenix in January, police were called after attendees taunted teachers from a nearby school because they were wearing medical masks.
Some of the events have drawn small but peaceful protests. After a community uproar in Oregon, a ReAwaken tour stop in April was relocated from a county fairground in rural city of Redmond to a minor league baseball stadium in the state capital, over two hours away.
At some of the events, the Christian group Faithful America has dispatched a mobile billboard truck to circle the events to “expose the speakers as false prophets who are twisting and distorting religion to attack democracy,” its leader, the Rev. Nathan Empsall, said.
Doyle said that his church’s Facebook page started getting comments accusing it of racism within minutes of announcing the event would be held in Batavia instead of nearby Rochester, where another venue had canceled after a backlash from elected officials, entertainers and others.
Doyle said the church is contemplating possible action but was not more specific.
“Harassment from our own government. I feel harassed. I am a law-abiding — I’m a businessman. I’m law-abiding, I’m God-fearing, and I’m hosting an event," he said. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/ReAwaken-Tour-host-says-he-feels-harassed-by-NY-17365691.php | 2022-08-11T01:24:42 | en | 0.971675 |
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
10-17-27-28-32
(ten, seventeen, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, thirty-two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
10-17-27-28-32
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(The Hill) – Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) became the latest Republican who impeached former President Trump to lose her primary bid after she conceded on Tuesday night, one week after her primary in Washington State.
Herrera Beutler was one of 10 House Republicans to join all Democrats in voting to impeach Trump for “incitement of insurrection” related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Trump was ultimately acquitted in the Senate, becoming the first president to survive two impeachment trials.
Trump has since used his popularity to influence races across the country as he mulls a third bid for the White House in 2024, and he has taken a particular interest in removing Republicans who impeached him by endorsing and holding rallies for their challengers.
Here’s where the 10 House Republicans who impeached Trump stand.
Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.)
Cheney will face primary voters next week in her at-large district, but recent polling indicates she’s facing an uphill battle against the Trump-backed Harriet Hageman.
The Wyoming Republican, in particular, has drawn the ire of Trump and his allies not just for her impeachment vote but also for her role as vice chair on the House select committee investigating Jan. 6. Cheney’s caucus ousted her as conference chair last year.
She has been a vociferous critic of the former president and those in her party who support him, recently calling the GOP “very sick” and saying Republicans can either give their loyalties to Trump or the Constitution.
Trump in late May traveled to Wyoming to stump for Hageman. Hageman also has the support of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who became chair of the House Republican Conference after Cheney was ousted from the role, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), both of whom delivered video addresses at the rally.
Cheney and some Democratic lawmakers have encouraged Wyoming Democrats to switch parties for the primary election to boost Cheney’s chances. Two House Democrats, Rep. Dean Phillips (Minn.) and Rep. Tom Malinowski (N.J.), recently cut ads in support of the strategy.
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio)
Gonzalez, a former NFL player who was first elected in 2018, announced in September 2021 that he would not seek a third term to the House, months after impeaching Trump.
Less than two months after the former president’s second impeachment, Trump endorsed his former aide, Max Miller, in his challenge to Gonzalez.
Gonzalez’s impeachment vote also set off a firestorm among Ohio Republicans, and the Ohio Republican Party’s central committee censured Gonzalez and called for his resignation in May 2021.
Days later, Gonzalez did not hold back and voted alongside 34 other Republicans to establish an independent Jan. 6 commission.
He also voted with a small number of House Republicans to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for his refusal to cooperate with the House Jan. 6 panel.
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.)
Herrera Beutler is the latest pro-impeachment Republican to lose her primary.
She conceded on Tuesday evening after facing eight primary opponents, the first major primary challenge to her seat since she took office in 2011. Herrera Beutler’s state party previously rebuked her.
Trump endorsed her top opponent, Joe Kent, a former Green Beret, although The Associated Press has not yet called the race.
“Joe Kent just won an incredible race against all odds in Washington State,” Trump said in a statement on Tuesday. “Importantly, he knocked out yet another impeacher, Jaime Herrera Beutler, who so stupidly played right into the hands of the Democrats.”
Washington operates under a jungle primary system, meaning the two candidates with the most votes advance to the general election regardless of their party affiliation.
Kent is on track to face Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in November in the district rated “Solid Republican” by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
Rep. John Katko (N.Y.)
Katko, who represents Syracuse, N.Y., and other upper parts of the state, announced almost exactly one year after impeaching Trump that he would retire at the end of his term.
He has denied that Trump’s focus on ousting pro-impeachment Republicans factored into his decision to leave the House.
“I was quite certain, even with the redistricting that was done in New York state, that I had a path to victory,” Katko told The Washington Post in March. “And I had a very good path to victory.”
The New York Republican will also step down as chairman of the Republican Governance Group, a caucus of moderate House Republicans he has led since 2017.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.)
Like Cheney, Kinzinger did not just impeach the former president but also now serves on the House panel investigating Jan. 6, further infuriating Trump and his allies.
He announced in Oct. 2021 he would retire at the end of the term, which also came after redistricting maps approved by Illinois lawmakers drew him into the same district as Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Ill.), who was endorsed by Trump just before the primary.
LaHood won his primary in June in what is seen as a reliably Republican district.
Rep. Peter Meijer (Mich.)
Meijer became the second pro-impeachment Republican defeated in their primary, losing last week by less than four percentage points to Trump-backed candidate John Gibbs.
Meijer and Kinzinger have condemned the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) for running an ad they say boosted Gibbs, who has supported Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
“I would rather lose office with my character intact than stay reelected having made sacrifices of the soul,” Meijer told SiriusXM following his loss.
Rep. Dan Newhouse (Wash.)
Newhouse is so far one of only two pro-impeachment Republicans to survive a primary challenge.
He faced six challengers last week, including Loren Culp, a former police chief backed by Trump, and former NASCAR driver Jerrod Sessler, who was in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6.
Newhouse’s victory comes after the Washington State Republican Party chastised him for his impeachment vote, calling on him to resign.
In November, he will face Democrat Doug White, although the district is rated as “Solid Republican” by the Cook Political Report.
Rep. Tom Rice (S.C.)
Rice in June became the first Republican who backed Trump’s second impeachment to lose reelection.
Former state Rep. Russell Fry defeated Rice by more than 25 percentage points, or roughly 22,500 raw votes.
His defeat came the same night as South Carolina Republicans narrowly voted to keep Rep. Nancy Mace as their nominee. Mace voted against Trump’s impeachment but criticized his actions surrounding Jan. 6, leading Trump to endorse Mace’s challenger.
Rep. Fred Upton (Mich.)
Upton, the only lawmaker to vote to impeach two presidents, announced in April he was retiring at the end of his term.
A moderate Republican, Upton has bucked his party on impeachment and other issues, like a national red flag law opposed by most members of his caucus.
“He’s had a number of decisive wins where he’s endorsed candidates that they have won,” Upton said of Trump on CNN’s “State of the Union” in June.
“He’s had a few losses as well, but he certainly entertains a majority of the Republican base and will be hard to stop,” he added.
Rep. David Valadao (Calif.)
Valadao served in the House from 2013 to 2019 before being ousted by former Rep. TJ Cox (D-Calif.). In a 2021 rematch, Valadao won back his seat and voted to impeach Trump one day after being sworn in.
Unlike other pro-impeachment Republicans, Trump did not endorse a challenger to Valadao in his primary. McCarthy, the top House Republican and a Trump ally, endorsed Valadao.
Valadao advanced from California’s jungle primary system in June, and he will face California state Assemblymember Rudy Salas (D) in November.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
01-04-05-06-11-15-19-21-24-25-27-31-47-48-56-57-65-70-71-72-73-77
(one, four, five, six, eleven, fifteen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-seven, thirty-one, forty-seven, forty-eight, fifty-six, fifty-seven, sixty-five, seventy, seventy-one, seventy-two, seventy-three, seventy-seven) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17365651.php | 2022-08-11T01:24:51 | en | 0.800782 |
By COLLEEN SLEVIN
Associated Press
DENVER (AP) — A woman and a sheriff’s deputy were fatally shot at a home in southern Colorado over the weekend and the suspected gunman was later found dead inside the home, authorities said Monday.
El Paso County Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Peery, 39, was wounded Sunday after he arrived at the home in the community of Security-Widefield near Colorado Springs to investigate a report of a shooting along with two other law enforcement officers, Colorado Springs police said in a statement. John Paz, 33, fired at the officers, hitting Peery, and another sheriff’s deputy returned fire, police said.
Officers found the body of the woman in the home’s front yard, police said. Paz died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Colorado Springs police, which is investigating the shooting, believe Paz also killed the woman. Her connection to Paz was still being investigated, spokesperson Jason Newton said.
People lined up on Sunday to honor Peery as a hearse carrying his remains drove from a hospital to the coroner’s office.
Gov. Jared Polis expressed sympathy to the family of Peery, who was a decorated member of the sheriff department’s SWAT team.
“My thoughts and condolences are with the family and friends of Deputy Peery and all our neighbors in law enforcement who put their lives at risk to serve others,” he said.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Brandon Drury hit a go-ahead, three-run home run in the sixth and Austin Nola's two-run homer capped a seven-run rally — all with two outs — that carried the San Diego Padres to a wild 13-7 win against the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday.
The Padres fell behind 4-0, surged ahead 6-4 after Manny Machado's two-run double ignited a six-run rally in the third and then fell behind 7-6 in the sixth. But the Padres came through with another big rally in the bottom of the sixth, the second time they batted around in the game.
Drury lined a 1-2 pitch from Yunior Marte (0-1) into the seats in left field with two outs to make it 9-7. Machado and Josh Bell were aboard on singles. The Padres added on with Kim Ha-seong's RBI double, an error and then Nola's shot into a balcony on the Western Metal Supply Co. Building in the left field corner. It was Drury's 22nd and Nola's third.
Machado and Jake Cronenworth had three hits apiece and Drury drove in four runs. The Padres scored 20 runs in winning two straight games after suffering two straight shutouts at the end of a five-game losing streak. They went 26 scoreless innings from the fourth inning Saturday against the Los Angeles Dodgers until Juan Soto hit his first homer with the Padres in the fourth inning Tuesday night. The Padres won that game 7-4 on Machado's three-run walk-off homer.
Robert Suarez (3-1) pitched 1 2/3 innings for the win.
San Diego now heads to Washington, where Soto and Josh Bell will face their old team. They were acquired from the Nationals in a blockbuster trade on Aug. 2.
The Padres sent 11 batters to the plate in the third and scored six runs on six hits, two walks and a fielder's choice. They sent seven batters to the plate and scored four runs before making an out while chasing starter Jakob Junis.
For the third time in franchise history, they had four hits with the bases loaded. Besides Machado's double, the Padres got bases-loaded singles from Drury, Cronenworth and Trent Grisham. Another run scored on Nola's fielder's choice.
The Padres needed the big rally after the Giants scored three runs in the third to take a 4-0 lead. Two of those runs came in when Soto, the right fielder, misplayed Austin Slater's single into three bases, allowing two runs to score. Wilmer Flores then singled in Slater.
San Francisco went ahead 7-6 in the sixth with a three-run rally capped by pinch-hitter Joc Pederson's RBI single.
J.D. Davis homered with one out the second, his seventh, off Padres starter Sean Manaea.
Manaea allowed four runs, three earned, and six hits in five innings.
Junis allowed six runs and seven hits in 2 1/3 innings.
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Giants: Have not named a starter for Friday night's series opener at home against Pittsburgh.
Padres: RHP Mike Clevinger (3-4, 3.60 ERA) is scheduled to start Friday night in the opener of a three-game series at Washington, against RHP Cory Abbott (0-1, 5.68).
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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — From New York to Hollywood and beyond, prayers are being offered for veteran actor and director Denise Dowse.
According to her sister Tracey, the 1981 graduate of Norfolk State University is fighting for her life in Los Angeles after contracting viral meningitis. Tracey shared the diagnosis on Facebook over the weekend.
Tracey tells Nexstar’s WAVY that her sister’s illness started in July as a headache; she slipped into a coma on July 18, and doctors confirmed the diagnosis on July 21.
Actor and director Joe James of Norfolk, who starred with Dowse in the Southeastern Virginia Arts Association & Stage Norfolk production “Hiram and Nettie” in 2005, was stunned to read the update on Facebook.
“I stopped in my tracks, I had to sit down and I said to myself ‘I just saw her picture come across my thread and this can’t be, this cannot be’,” lamented James from his home in New York.
“Denise is just one of those spirits and when she walks into a room she just lights it up,” said James.
Terrance Afer-Anderson directed the play “Hiram and Nettie,” and now he’s leading the online plea for prayers.
“People all over the country are praying for Denise,” said Afer-Anderson.
Dowse was the talk of the town at Norfolk State. Under the direction of the late Robert Wynn-Jackson, Dowse played the lead role in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.”
“I remember that like it was yesterday; it was one of her favorite roles,” said sister Tracey Dowse from the home she shares with Denise in Los Angeles.
More than 100 other roles have made Dowse a constant on the big screen, on the small screen, and on Broadway.
Notable roles include appearing as the principal of a high school in the movie “Coach Carter,” a judge in the television show “Law and Order,” and two roles in the television show “Beverly Hills, 90210.” She recently completed a director role in the film “Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story.”
As the prayers continue, Nexstar’s WAVY asked Tracey what advice Denise would offer to aspiring actors and directors.
“If this is your dream, keep going to what you have to do to live, but keep at it and it will eventually pay off,” said Tracey who is a life coach.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Lotto Double Play" game were:
01-05-14-16-38-42
(one, five, fourteen, sixteen, thirty-eight, forty-two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Lotto Double Play" game were:
01-05-14-16-38-42
(one, five, fourteen, sixteen, thirty-eight, forty-two) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-Double-Play-game-17365664.php | 2022-08-11T01:24:58 | en | 0.906692 |
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SEATTLE (AP) — New York Yankees sparkplug Matt Carpenter said Wednesday he expects to return this season and won't need surgery on his broken left foot.
Carpenter saw a specialist in Seattle on Wednesday morning before the Yankees' series finale against the Mariners. Carpenter fouled a pitch off his left foot in Monday's series opener and is expected to be out at least six weeks.
“I’m very encouraged, very encouraged that we avoided surgery and got a clean break that just needs to heal and we'll see how long it takes,” Carpenter said.
Carpenter said he still expects to see one more specialist back in New York, but most opinions have been universal in a course of treatment moving forward.
The AL East leaders play their final regular-season game in eight weeks, on Oct. 5.
Carpenter was injured when he fouled a slider from starter Logan Gilbert off the foot in the first inning on Monday night. The left-handed hitter was briefly checked by manager Aaron Boone, but finished the at-bat and struck out swinging on the next pitch.
“I’m going to do whatever I can to speed the process up and we’ll see how it goes,” Carpenter said. “I don’t like to put any kind of restriction on me or any kind of timeline, but when I feel like I can come back I’m going to be ready to go.”
The three-time All-Star was one of the feel-good stories in baseball this year while enjoying a comeback season at age 36. Carpenter was toiling at Triple-A when the Texas Rangers released him in May. He signed with the Yankees and became a big surprise, earning regular playing time in a powerful lineup.
Carpenter has been a designated hitter, infielder and outfielder for the Yankees.
Carpenter is hitting .305 with 15 home runs and 37 RBIs in just 128 at-bats. He batted below .200 in each of the previous two seasons with St. Louis.
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(NEXSTAR) – More streaming services are hiking their subscription prices this year. Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, all owned by Disney, will become more expensive in the coming weeks, executives announced Wednesday.
These price hikes come as Disney rolls out an ad-supported Disney+ subscription that it announced earlier this year.
The ad-supported plan will be available starting on Dec. 8, the same day the prices on most plans on Disney’s three streaming services will increase.
According to a Wednesday release, Disney+ with ads will cost $7.99 a month, the current monthly price of the standard no-ad Disney+ plan. If you prefer your Disney+ without ads, that plan will cost $10.99 a month starting in early December, or $109.99 annually.
Here is a breakdown of how much each Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ plan currently costs and how much it will cost starting on Dec. 8.
The subscription price hike for ESPN+ will take effect on Aug. 23. Disney announced this change earlier this year. Both Hulu subscription price jumps will be effective starting on Oct. 10.
Disney also allows users to bundle these streaming services. Here’s how those plans will change come December:
And here is how Hulu + Live TV plans will change:
Disney hasn’t announced if the cost for student discounted plans will change.
This isn’t the first price hike we’ve seen to streaming services this year. Netflix raised its monthly costs in January, with prices rising by about $1 to $2, depending on the plan. In February, Amazon Prime’s annual cost jumped – this also impacts streaming through Amazon.
Netflix will add a lower-priced, ad-supported plan soon but an official date hasn’t yet been announced. Disney+ was largely the last ad-free platform – in addition to ESPN+ and Hulu, Peacock already offered an ad-supported plan. While Apple’s streaming service is ad-free, it does have promotions for its own content. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/disney-hulu-espn-prices-to-increase-here-are-the-new-costs-and-when-theyll-change/ | 2022-08-11T01:25:02 | en | 0.941718 |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
03-13-16-25-32-42, Bonus: 46
(three, thirteen, sixteen, twenty-five, thirty-two, forty-two; Bonus: forty-six)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
03-13-16-25-32-42, Bonus: 46
(three, thirteen, sixteen, twenty-five, thirty-two, forty-two; Bonus: forty-six) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17365740.php | 2022-08-11T01:25:04 | en | 0.868786 |
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(NEXSTAR) – Ever wonder why that amazing video you tried to send to friends or relatives showed up minuscule and pixelated? It’s just one of several texting issues that Google blamed Apple for in a blunt message posted on its website Tuesday.
“It’s time for Apple to fix texting,” Google wrote, calling out the Cupertino, California-based company for a variety of user headaches it says are related to Apple’s “outdated” choice of messaging service resulting in a “broken experience.”
Texts among Apple device owners using iMessage are encrypted and show up in blue bubbles; they can be sent via cellular data networks or over Wi-Fi. When an Android device, for instance, that can’t use iMessage enters the conversation, texts are sent via SMS/MMS and show up in green bubbles, without many of the features offered by iMessage.
SMS, which stands for Short Message Service, refers to basic texts, while messages with photos or video are sent via MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service.
Google uses Rich Communication Services (RCS) for messaging on its Android devices, and is calling on Apple to adopt the same communication protocol to improve the texting experience between Apple and Android devices.
The SMS concept dates back to the 1980s and is the most widely used type of mobile message around the world. On Tuesday, Google called it “out-of-date” and to blame for a number of issues when it comes to Android-iPhone text snafus: Blurry, tiny photos and videos; lack of encryption, no typing indicators, no read receipts and an inability to leave group texts.
While personal frustrations are one thing, some young Android users have reported being ostracized and left out of group texts because their messages “turned the thread green,” leaving white text on a light-colored green background and eliminating some iMessage features.
Analyst Ben Bajarin told Fast Company that his teenage son explained, “we would start a new group chat, and the group would realize I was the reason it was green, and they would start another group chat without me.”
Distaste for green text messages has become fodder for memes and tweets about the social and even romantic stigma some attach to green text bubbles.
“If I give you my number and a green bubble pops up when you text me, I’m (at minimum) already questioning your taste level,” one person quipped.
“can’t believe I kissed a boy w green texts I am so nice that was my act of charity for the year,” another tweeted.
Now, Google hopes to leverage its “Get The Message” campaign – along with videos from from stars such as Vanessa Hudgens and Madelaine Petsch – to pressure Apple into adopting RCS.
“The bad experience you get when texting Android users is created by Apple,” Google claims.
Judging from evidence that surfaced in last year’s court battle with “Fortnite” maker Epic Games Inc., it may prove difficult to shame the Silicon Valley giant into ditching SMS/MMS.
Among the thousands of pages of internal documents revealed during the trial were emails among Apple executives discussing iMessage and Android, according to a January report in the Wall Street Journal.
“In the absence of a strategy to become the primary messaging service for [the] bulk of cell phone users, I am concerned the iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones,” Craig Federighi, Apple’s chief software executive, wrote in an email in 2013.
In a 2016 email, Phil Schiller, then-head of marketing, told CEO Tim Cook that “moving iMessage to Android will hurt us,” with another executive equating iMessage to “serious lock-in.”
It’s not clear what role the blue-green bubble divide may have played in Apple’s success in the U.S. market, but when it comes to young consumers, the iPhone is the clear sales winner.
In 2021, a study by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners found that over 70 percent of people between 18-24 bought an iPhone, according to the Journal.
Nexstar reached out to Apple for comment on Google’s campaign but did not receive a response. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/green-vs-blue-google-blasts-apple-for-broken-texting-between-iphone-android/ | 2022-08-11T01:25:08 | en | 0.936985 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
JC-2H-7H-10H-4S
(JC, 2H, 7H, 10H, 4S)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
JC-2H-7H-10H-4S
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays were rained out Wednesday night in what was supposed to be the finale of their three-game series.
The game never started, and it was called over an hour after it was supposed to begin. Tuesday night's game — a 6-5 Baltimore win — included a 78-minute rain delay.
The good news for these teams was they had plenty of options for makeup dates. There are still four more scheduled series between them, including two in Baltimore. The Orioles and Blue Jays will now play a single-admission doubleheader in Baltimore on Sept. 5.
Even without playing, the Orioles had some success Wednesday. Tampa Bay lost to Milwaukee, moving Baltimore into a tie with the Rays for the final postseason spot in the American League.
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(WFLA) — The tropics have remained quiet ahead of hurricane season and one of the reasons is Saharan dust plumes moving off the coast of Africa. Those plumes are also helping limit formation chances for the tropical wave being monitored.
“The National Hurricane Center is really limiting this chance of development because that Saharan dust is keeping it at bay — it’s not allowing it to organize,” said meteorologist Amanda Holly, of WFLA in Tampa. “So we’re not worried about that for now.”
The dry dust that originates from the Sahara Desert helps keep the tropics quiet because tropical systems need moisture to form and strengthen. The winds that push the dust across the Atlantic also help limit organization of tropical systems.
Saharan dust plumes are typically seen in May, June and into July. An uptick in tropical activity is usually seen after — as the statistical peak of hurricane season on Sept. 10 approaches.
But this year, Saharan dust is still blowing into August.
“The Saharan dust has been very thick for us for this time of the year. This looks more like a June Saharan dust plume than an August Saharan dust plume,” said WFLA Meteorologist Rebecca Barry.
So is it uncommon to see plumes this late in the season and is it something we should expect every year?
Barry says so much Saharan dust in the Atlantic right now is unusual, but not impossible.
“It’s certainly late in the season compared to our normal patterns,” she said. “I would not expect this to be considered standard moving forward, but more likely an anomaly.” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/saharan-dust-is-it-normal-to-see-plumes-this-late/ | 2022-08-11T01:25:14 | en | 0.969278 |
PHOENIX (AP) — Former longtime Sheriff Joe Arpaio loses race for mayor of Fountain Hills in his third failed comeback bid in Arizona.
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