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WARREN, Maine — In a shop surrounded by salvaged steel, Jay Sawyer is creating art and preserving the memory of merchant mariners who didn't come home, the 33 members of the crew of cargo ship El Faro, which sank in a hurricane off the coast of Florida in 2015.
"Two of the members of the El Faro grew up in Rockland," Sawyer, who also was raised in Rockland, said.
Like them, he also graduated from Maine Maritime Academy in Castine and went to sea.
"They were part of the community. Their family still is. I've spoken with all these people, gotten friendly with most of them, many out of state," he said.
Sawyer said he felt compelled by the tragedy to create the memorial and has spent six years working on it. He also has arranged for a spot on the Rockland waterfront, where it will be placed.
The memorial features a large steel plate, cut to match the look of the transom, or stern, of the El Faro. It will sit on a base, with names of those who were lost etched into it.
"Family and friends can come up and do a rubbing, sit at the bench," he said.
Above the steel with the names will be two life-sized and lifelike merchant mariner uniforms, one male and one female. They are three-dimensional, all precisely crafted by Sawyer from salvaged steel. The sailors they represent will be saluting.
One of the figures is nearly done, but the other is at beginning stages. They are remarkably realistic, with the steel appearing curved and wrinkled, as though they were cloth, all crafted by Sawyer with hammer, welding tips, and a hydraulic press.
Sawyer said they will add a very human element to the memorial.
"It's taken on a life of its own already," he said. "This is bigger than me, bigger than Rockland, bigger than Maine Maritime."
When asked why he decided to undertake this project, the former merchant mariner gave a simple answer.
"Because of all the people it affected [by the sinking], especially the maritime community," Sawyer said.
Some of them will get a sneak preview of the memorial this weekend. The Maine Maritime Academy alumni association will gather at his location Saturday for a reunion and to see the memorial in progress.
It's not completed yet. The names still need to be etched into the steel, and the female uniform figure is waiting to be crafted. He has the saluting hand completed, though, crafted out of the steel using his daughter's hand for a model. Sawyer used his own hand to model for the man saluting.
In more ways than one, he said, the memorial has become part of him, and his is on a mission to have it completed and in place in Rockland on Sept. 24, just a few days before the seven-year anniversary of the sinking of the El Faro.
In addition to the Maine Maritime alumni gathering Saturday, Sawyer will also open his sculpture garden, called Studio J-Bone, on Sunday for the first time in five years. The garden, located off Camden Road in Warren, contains many large steel sculptures he has created over the years.
He said his studio will be open for a few hours Sunday afternoon, but then he will focus all his time and attention on completing the memorial. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/former-merchant-mariner-crafts-memorial-to-crew-of-el-faro-ship-that-sank-in-hurricane-in-2015/97-d0804382-055a-452e-b6e0-9b13aeef55a3 | 2022-06-14T23:30:13 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/former-merchant-mariner-crafts-memorial-to-crew-of-el-faro-ship-that-sank-in-hurricane-in-2015/97-d0804382-055a-452e-b6e0-9b13aeef55a3 |
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine State Police are reorganizing.
At a press conference Tuesday, Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sauschuck said it was months in the making. But he and Colonel John Cote shared a version of a presentation they had given to the Maine Sheriffs' Association and other law enforcement back in May.
Among the changes, MSP's eight territories, or "troops," will be condensed into six larger ones.
An overnight shift will also be added. Right now, troopers take turns being on-call overnight. Despite a whole new shift and expanded territory, Cote insisted his troopers won’t be stretched thin and Mainers shouldn’t notice a difference in coverage.
"If you have a trooper that lives two houses down and he patrols your area, that trooper’s still gonna live there and patrol your area," Cote said. "This does not involve us pulling any resources."
One change that could be noticeable, however, is the state's supplemental budget, which was signed in April and supports the hiring of behavior health specialists. In its proposal, the agency plans to hire five specialists. One will help troopers at the academy; the others will work across the state.
"Law enforcement, many times, we can’t provide the solution," Cote explained. "We don’t have the solution to provide. But if we can make those connections to the people that have the solution, I know our people are gonna welcome that."
Mary-Anne LaMarre, executive director of the Maine Sheriffs' Association, responded to our request for comment Tuesday, writing, in part, “The reorganization will largely impact the administrative design of MSP and have minimal impact on the actual day-to-day activities and duties in the field.”
Questions still loom as agency leaders redacted data from the presentation, saying they didn’t want criminals to use it against them.
The reorganization should begin to take shape in January next year. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/maine-state-police-announces-reorganization-crime/97-862867b7-453b-4284-8b2e-ee9d5712729c | 2022-06-14T23:30:19 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/maine-state-police-announces-reorganization-crime/97-862867b7-453b-4284-8b2e-ee9d5712729c |
BOISE, Idaho —
Valley Regional Transit (VRT) announced a pilot electric bike-share program will run from early July to October 31 this year.
Bikes will be available for rent 24/7 at $10 per hour. Monthly memberships are available for $39, which would include one hour of free ride time each day, according to VRT.
There will be 50 electric bicycles provided by Drop Mobility that will be available across the city. Drop Mobility won a VRT bike-share proposal two years ago.
According to VRT, cities that have adopted electric-assisted bike-shares see a dramatic increase in riders.
VRT’s current plan for the bike-share system is to include more bikes over time, but also develop efforts to distribute the bikes more equitably throughout the city.
VRT operated the Boise GreenBike system from April 2015 until September of 2020 when VRT closed it because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the loss of title sponsors, and equipment technology issues.
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In the main lab on the first floor of Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center, machines beeped and whirred with activity as hospital staff worked late Tuesday morning. It was a busy scene.
One staffer was preparing specimens to be transferred to Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital in Henrico. Wearing a blue medical gown and mask with hair pulled into a ponytail was Xander Ferguson, 18, who was putting the tracking information on the vials. In the lab, he can usually be found filing slides, making COVID-19 kits and scanning in lab specimens.
“Once the last names are on there, mark it off with a check,” he said, walking through the instructions as he carried them out.
Once the preparations were done, Ferguson put the vials in a refrigerator that had a basket for specimens that were ready to be transported, completing the task in only a few minutes.
“I love it,” Bertha Truman Smith, a lead medical laboratory assistant technician working alongside Ferguson, said. She was sitting in the break room located at the back of the lab.
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“He's very attentive,” she said. “He's a perfectionist, actually. He listens when we give him instructions and he knows exactly what he needs to do.”
Ferguson and five others graduated from Project SEARCH, a national school-to-work program for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, this past May. The program provides “hands-on training to students with disabilities through internships at health care facilities and other businesses, with a goal of employment in a business that matches their skills and preferences upon completion of the program,” according to a news release from Bon Secours.
Through the program, students take on three internships over the course of about nine months. Their schedule at St. Francis coincides with the academic calendar for Chesterfield County Public Schools. The internships are meant to help students determine what they want to do.
Project SEARCH is operating at four sites within Virginia, three that are in Richmond and one in Portsmouth. Local public education systems, Virginia Commonwealth University’s Rehabilitation Research and Training Center and the Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services provide funding, coaching and other support services at each site in Richmond.
“It's significant because they teach them skills that can be transferable to working anywhere,” Nancy Paul, an employment specialist at VCU RRTC, said while sitting in the Project SEARCH classroom.
On a typical day, the interns come up to the fifth floor of St. Francis for classroom time. In the classroom, chairs are gathered around a group of tables in the middle of the room. A “Be your own kind of beautiful” poster hung on the far end of the wall. Three more colorful posters displayed instructions on how to greet others, how to make a request and how to follow instructions.
The classroom is “where they learn various employment skills and social skills – and then they go out to work,” Paul said.
After classroom time, the interns work for about two hours, take a 30-minute break, and then return to work for another two hours. At the end of the day, the interns return to the classroom to debrief about their day.
As they go about their internships, the students have job coaches and instructors that periodically check-in with them based on their level of familiarity with the tasks and confidence that they can get done.
“What we do is we stay with them until they have the job, their routine, and they feel that they're competent,” Paul said. “And then we begin to fade – we do periodic checks throughout their shifts. And then we try to make them go independent and then the checks are less and less – maybe once or twice a shift.”
Seeing where the students end up after graduation is rewarding, Paul said. Of the six graduates, they had gone on to work at UPS, Home Depot and in environmental services in Westchester.
For Ferguson, working in the lab is “so brilliant.”
“I see myself always working in the lab,” he said.
Working with the slides was Ferguson’s favorite part of working in the lab. While he was a student at Monacan High School, his favorite subject was math, which he’d always been good at, he said.
“There are lots of numbers at the ends of the vial slides,” he added.
Back in the lab, it was about time for Ferguson to go on his lunch break. The machines and staffers in the room continued buzzing with activity.
“The program [Project SEARCH] gives them the opportunity to see that they have the ability and the capability of doing the same job that we do,” Smith said. “I think it’s about learning – educating and learning – it’s important to society.”
Twitter: @MaddyFitzWrites | https://richmond.com/news/local/18-year-old-project-search-graduate-with-disabilities-joins-staff-at-bon-secours-st-francis/article_8e26e0da-b3ca-510d-8afe-0cfd5b8aa93c.html | 2022-06-14T23:38:14 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/18-year-old-project-search-graduate-with-disabilities-joins-staff-at-bon-secours-st-francis/article_8e26e0da-b3ca-510d-8afe-0cfd5b8aa93c.html |
Richmond police released the identity of the man who died June 2 after falling from the Powhite Parkway Bridge onto the Forest Hill Avenue overpass.
The victim was Erik Cook, 44, of Beaver Dam.
Officers arrived to the initial scene around 6:38 a.m., police said.
Authorities received reports of a person falling onto the Forest Hill Avenue overpass and discovered Cook at the scene, where he was pronounced dead.
The Medical Examiner will determine cause and manner of death.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Detective Sergeant M. Mocello at (804) 646-6775 or Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000. | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-id-man-who-fell-from-powhite-parkway-bridge/article_84804326-0f4e-5a20-8686-c63547fa252f.html | 2022-06-14T23:38:20 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-id-man-who-fell-from-powhite-parkway-bridge/article_84804326-0f4e-5a20-8686-c63547fa252f.html |
Days after Richmond launched a new branding campaign, the Virginia Department of Historical Resources unveiled a marker for an invisible cemetery believed to be the largest burial ground for free people of color and the enslaved in the nation.
The Shockoe Hill African Burial Ground had disappeared without a trace at the site of an abandoned service station.
The $450,000 "Richmond Real" rebranding, launched amid fanfare last Wednesday, was called a celebration of “all that is authentic and unique about the great city of Richmond," by Mayor Levar Stoney. But the real Richmond I know habitually demolishes, paves over or plows highways through its African American history and communities.
Richmond is in the midst of reinvention, reimagining and repair. It's messy work of the roll-up-your-sleeves variety -- not the stuff of a slick marketing campaign.
Perhaps that's why "Richmond Real" is causing consternation among some folks.
Of all of our city's myriad needs, a branding campaign wasn't one of them. Nearly a half-million dollars is the kind of money that could save people from being evicted -- a real problem in Richmond that, on the subject of brands, has brought us unflattering national publicity.
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Any campaign that touts "real" smacks of inauthenticity. But mainly, this promotion of the unfinished product that is our city feels like an avoidance of the real work we need to be doing to make our two Richmonds into one just and equitable whole.
In any event, the launch of "Richmond Real: Real People. Real Places. Real Stories" inspired a bit of a tweetstorm, in part because of what it deemphasized: Real problems. Real poverty. Real politics.
"Richmond Virginia won't be 'REAL' until it has REAL affordable housing, REAL equity in education, and REAL leadership," tweeted Senior Pastor Ralph Steven Hodge of Second Baptist Church South Richmond.
"I have soooo many questions about taxpayer dollars being used (without adequate community engagement) for a rebrand that is unhelpful?" tweeted communications strategist Sheri Shannon. "Richmond Real was never gong to solve the fundamental problems in the city, including within City Hall."
Allan-Charles Chipman, a local activist who ran for City Council's 6th District seat last fall, took issue with the timing of the campaign launch, "two days after you start demolishing public housing without one on one replacement."
Chipman, in a phone interview, was speaking of the demolition of Creighton Court, which will likely leave some impoverished residents housing insecure as Richmond continues its evolution into a gentrifying, whiter, wealthier city.
Which begs the question: For whom was this campaign created?
“Is Richmond the new frontier that we’re inviting people to gentrify and colonize?" Chipman asks.
If this branding effort is meant to lure visitors or tout our Black culture bona fides, it seems redundant. We have Richmond Region Tourism and BLK RVA, a collaboration with the local tourism bureau and community leaders to promote and celebrate Richmond’s black culture. As far as the campaign's emphasis on storytelling goes, Richmond has museums, historians, artists, scholars and journalists for that.
The branding, Chipman maintains, "says nothing significantly unique about Richmond. Richmond, Calif., could say 'real people, real places, real stories.'"
For me, there's something about Richmond Real that seems premature and lacking in humility.
Richmond has always had a rich history, in all of its ugliness and redemption. But today, we are a city in transition, our work far from unfinished.
"There’s no better time to actually move forward on rebranding and writing a new chapter than after the last couple of years we’ve been through," Stoney said, citing the protests of 2020 and the removal of Confederate monuments. But we are far too early in the "what comes next" phase for a victory lap.
Richmond is at a crossroads, deciding what it wants to be -- and frankly, the outcome could go either way. What we do from this day forward -- not a branding campaign -- will determine our fate. The removal of the monuments was not an end in itself, but a promise to do better. Yes, Richmond, in some ways, is on the rise. But the flip side of our ascendancy is the legions of folks it is leaving behind.
There are many real things about Richmond: Its fortuitous setting on a zestful river; the talent and creativity of its denizens; its resilience; its abundance of history and culture; its cohesive and attractive neighborhoods.
There are many other real things about Richmond: Its dysfunction; its racism; its challenged schools; its inadequate school buildings; its children dying of gun violence; its whole neighborhoods lost to gentrification; a deficit of housing security and opportunity.
The people enduring these circumstances don't need branding; they need a break. They need affordable housing, better schools, safe neighborhoods, healthy food access and more hope than a slogan can provide.
And that's what's real. | https://richmond.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/williams-lets-get-real-richmonds-ills-wont-be-cured-by-a-slogan/article_56931e4f-9b6a-5a71-b36a-36434a65c074.html | 2022-06-14T23:38:26 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/williams-lets-get-real-richmonds-ills-wont-be-cured-by-a-slogan/article_56931e4f-9b6a-5a71-b36a-36434a65c074.html |
The Hanover County School Board is scheduled to meet Tuesday night to discuss whether to remove a children's poetry book from shelves.
"A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart,” written by Zetta Elliott, came under fire after county Supervisor Michael Herzerg publicly criticized the work on Facebook.
The story is about a Black boy's emotional journey as he grapples to describe his feelings in the wake of the death of a Black woman who was shot and killed by police.
The book received the 2021 Randolph Caldecott Medal for its illustrations by Noa Denmon.
Herzerg called those illustrations "garbage," referring to two pages in the book that depict a crowd of people and a “Black Lives Matter” sign, while a third illustration shows five faceless police officers, one holding a baton, in front of a crowd.
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"Hanover: It's time for your school board to create policy to get garbage like this out of YOUR libraries," Herzberg's Facebook post read. "Indoctrination has been going on for years and it has to stop. Slicing through flesh and bone is not appropriate for K-5."
Herzberg asked that the school board remove the book and any other it deems inappropriate.
It is the latest book to come under fire for content across the U.S. About 1,600 books have been pulled from school libraries or classrooms this academic year, according to the nonprofit group PEN America, compared to about 300 challenges or bans in previous years. Most of the targeted books feature LGBTQ or Black characters or themes.
The Times-Dispatch this spring reported 23 Virginia school districts have taken at least one book out of circulation for content reasons.
Elliott told the Richmond Times-Dispatch in an interview in May that she hopes the board will consider keeping the book in its schools.
"Well, we’ll have to wait and see what happens, whether that book gets banned in Hanover County, I certainly hope not," Elliott said. "But I’m really happy for all the people who are supporting me and think that books should stay in kids’ hands.”
The meeting is at 7 p.m. at 200 Berkley St. in Ashland.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://richmond.com/news/local/hanover-school-board-meets-tuesday-to-discuss-removing-book/article_130870cb-60bc-5293-b70f-d3202696fa8a.html | 2022-06-14T23:38:32 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/hanover-school-board-meets-tuesday-to-discuss-removing-book/article_130870cb-60bc-5293-b70f-d3202696fa8a.html |
The source of a blaze that killed a 75-year-old occupant of a South Richmond home June 3 was determined to be electrical and accidental, city fire officials said Tuesday.
Killed was Tyrone E. Webb, who was pronounced dead at the scene after firefighters removed him from a second-floor bedroom of the home at 1318 Decatur St. A woman in her 70s, whom officials did not identify, was critically injured. She is now in stable condition and is expected to recover. She lived at the home with Webb.
"There was heavy fire coming out of the first floor on the front side of the building," said Battalion Chief David Pulliam, the incident commander. "A number of citizens out there pointed to the second floor in the back and said they believed two people were trapped inside."
After the fire, Shykim Dyer told WTVR-TV that her grandparents, Carolyn Adams and Tyrone Webb, lived inside the two-story house on the corner of East 14th Street and Decatur Street for nearly 30 years.
Following an investigation, officials ruled the ignition source for the fire was electrical and accidental in nature. No elaboration was provided.
Investigators did not find any smoke alarms inside the house.
Richmond fire crews were dispatched at 4:41 a.m. to the dwelling, which is about two blocks south of Hull Street.
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Battalion Chief David Pulliam, the incident commander, said heavy fire was coming from the first floor on the front side of the building when crews arrived.
Several bystanders pointed to the second floor in the rear of the building and advised they believed two people were trapped inside, Pulliam said.
Fire crews started a quick preliminary search and, after extinguishing the fire on the front side of the home, firefighters were able to access the second floor and remove the two occupants, the chief said. The blaze was marked under control at 5:17 a.m.
Fire officials Tuesday issued a statement to remind the public that Richmond Fire & EMS will install smoke alarms in their home for free. Residents can the department's Fire Prevention Office at (804) 646-6640 or the Smoke Alarm Request Line at (804) 646-1526 to schedule an appointment.
(804) 649-6450 | https://richmond.com/news/local/south-richmond-fire-that-killed-occupant-75-was-sparked-by-electrical-problem-officials-say/article_b62d529a-7c13-5824-8b14-bf3d795bd89c.html | 2022-06-14T23:38:38 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/south-richmond-fire-that-killed-occupant-75-was-sparked-by-electrical-problem-officials-say/article_b62d529a-7c13-5824-8b14-bf3d795bd89c.html |
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — A legally blind woman says she was denied service at a Douglasville restaurant because of her guide dog.
Sixty-two-year-old Terri Tidwell relies on her guide dog, Finnegan, to go everywhere. She found out when she was in her 30's that she has a genetic condition called retinitis pigmentosa.
"I didn’t realize when I was a kid, I had never seen in the dark and I thought that was normal," she said.
The condition prompted her to drop out of nursing school and driving lessons. As of nearly three years ago, she has used Finnegan to help her get places. He is even able to help her pick out grocery store items.
“From here I just see your face and that’s all I see," she explained. "Finnegan – unlike my cane – he keeps me from running into things, falling into things.”
Last week Terri , her husband, Jeff, and Finnegan, tried walking into the El Don Tequilas restaurant on Fairburn Road in Douglasville.
According to her, a man walked out and told them it was a health violation to have a dog at the restaurant. She then says the man went back indoors.
"Then he shut the door and you could hear it click... he locked the door," Terri recalled. "I was just shaking inside because I was so upset."
Her husband added, "We were stunned. She’s had a guide dog for three years and this is the first time this has ever happened."
The Douglasville police report reads that the man also said a customer in the restaurant "did not want the dog in the restaurant." It then reads he offered them to sit on the patio but "they did not want to."
However, Terri says she was never asked if she wanted to sit on the patio, and that she should not have to in the first place.
"No one ever asked me anything -- if I want to sit in the patio -- no one asked me what [my dog] does, no one asked me nothing," she said. "Jeff said he pointed to the patio... well, I’m legally blind. From here looking at you all I see is your whole face from this distance and that’s it."
Terri and Jeff then called police and an officer responded. According to the police report, the officer said it was a civil matter.
“She said she does not take sides and that it’s up to each business or establishment if they let you in or not," Terri said.
Georgia code 30-4-2 reads that accommodations must be made for people with visual disabilities and that they have the right to be accompanied by a guide dog.
President of Advocates for Service Animal Partners, Marion Gwizdala, explained that in Georgia, those violating the law could be fined $2,000 and/or go to jail for 30 days.
"The biggest challenge we face in getting these laws enforced is the ignorance of law enforcement, even when even when they're told that it's a law, many times they ignore us," Gwizdala said. "Law enforcement is woefully ignorant of the laws that protect individuals who are disabled and new service dogs. Because of their ignorance, they pass that right of ignorance, so to speak, on to the establishments like restaurants, hotels, and places that serve the public."
The Douglasville Police Department tells 11Alive that the officer was unaware of this statute and it is now taking steps to educate restaurant staff as well as its officers to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
It adds that it will also be using social media to educate the community about the rights of service dog owners.
11Alive also tried getting ahold of the restaurant. A man picked up the phone saying, "Don Tequilas, can I help you?"
Reporter Paola Suro proceeded to introduce herself and ask for the manager. The man replied we had the wrong number and to never call again.
According to its Facebook reviews, staff denied entry to a disabled veteran with a service animal in 2020.
“It's not an unusual occurrence," said Gwizdala ."I probably get three to five calls like this a week. Restaurants are one of the biggest offenders when it comes to violating the civil rights of people who use service dogs, usually because they're uninformed that a service animal is not a pet and that state and federal laws protect the right of an individual who is disabled to use a service animal for independence."
As for Terri, this is the first time - and she hopes last - that she's been denied entry somewhere because of her dog.
“Somebody has to make a stance saying this is not right... something has to change," she said. "Before I got [Finnegan] I was running around with my cane and I was walking in Douglasville when we lived there. There’s no sidewalks and a car came flying by and I wound up in a ditch and tore up my meniscus in two places. This is my independence," she said, while pointing at Finnegan. "I get to do whatever I want – I can do just about everything with Finnegan." | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/douglasville-restaurant-denies-blind-woman-service/85-a2218e2a-1d3a-4527-ad35-593126cb2d16 | 2022-06-14T23:42:34 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/douglasville-restaurant-denies-blind-woman-service/85-a2218e2a-1d3a-4527-ad35-593126cb2d16 |
BELDEN • A group of influential female leaders gathered this week to discuss the sometimes veiled topic of mental health.
Over 40 attendees met Tuesday morning at the Talbot House residence in Belden for a Women's Self-Care and Mental Wellbeing event. It was hosted by Women United, a leadership affinity group of the United Way of Northeast Mississippi.
Speakers included Talbot House Executive Director Becky Weatherford and house manager Heather Pope, Tiffany Phillips of Counseling for a Cause and Donna Palmer of Generations Assisted Living. Each focused on the unique challenges they’ve observed women facing while taking care of their own mental health or improving their wellbeing.
According to Weatherford, Talbot House's creation in 2015 was a response to barriers women faced post-treatment. Prior to opening the nonprofit sober living home, Weatherford worked directly with women at a local treatment facility. The daily refrain from many women was the lack of somewhere to go after the facility.
“There was just no supportive (organization), anything for women," Weatherford said. "Men could walk out of that same treatment facility and have seven different options in Lee County alone."
Since its creation, Talbot House has helped an estimated 170 women take their next steps in their recovery by offering safe housing, as well as employment and job readiness through its Bakery & Cafe.
Pope shared what recovery meant for her. As one of its first residents, Talbot House is near and dear to Pope’s heart, she said. Divine timing led to her future employment at Talbot House. She credited Weatherford and the women of Talbot House for supporting her.
“I learned how to live and I learned how to grow up," Pope said. "I found coping skills and I have found my tribe of people."
Phillips touched on the high prevalence of mental health disorders among women and the barriers in the way of getting the help they need. Those barriers can include women being afraid to face it or talk to someone about it, therapy not being affordable, an occasional lack of providers, cultural stigmas, and need for awareness.
Palmer emphasized the importance of learning to set boundaries, knowing when to say no and when to be there when needed, and finding their sounding board.
Tuesday's program also served as a chance to collect necessary items for Talbot House and Transformation Garden. Talbot House needs included bath towels, washcloths, coffee pods, laundry detergent, dryer sheets, and white plastic hangers. Transformation Garden needed money for gas cards and school curriculum.
Women United’s Lunch and Learn programs are designed around topics that are important to women, said United Way NEMS president Patti Parker. The Women United group has upwards of 600 women in eight counties in Northeast Mississippi. | https://www.djournal.com/news/local/women-united-lunch-and-learn-addresses-mental-health/article_02b6fbbc-94b2-5272-91b8-3a0c2ae7d875.html | 2022-06-14T23:42:37 | 1 | https://www.djournal.com/news/local/women-united-lunch-and-learn-addresses-mental-health/article_02b6fbbc-94b2-5272-91b8-3a0c2ae7d875.html |
STUTTGART, Ark. — Editor's note: The video above aired on May 30, 2022.
A suspect in a fatal shooting in Rock Island in late May has been found and arrested in Arkansas.
Terrionce C. Kitchen, who was wanted for murder, has been arrested and is awaiting extradition to Illinois, according to a news release from the Rock Island Police Department.
Authorities say that the U.S. Marshals located Kitchen in Stuttgart, Arkansas and took him into custody.
Kitchen has been wanted by the Rock Island Police since May 27, after being named as a suspect in a May 22 shooting that resulted in the death of 19-year-old Desavion Foster.
He faces a charge of first-degree murder and bond was set at $1M. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/rock-island-shooting-suspect-arrested-arkansas/526-c85073cf-60dd-4cc7-948c-f4abdddcb364 | 2022-06-14T23:42:40 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/rock-island-shooting-suspect-arrested-arkansas/526-c85073cf-60dd-4cc7-948c-f4abdddcb364 |
ARKANSAS, USA — Is it just me, or does it feel like it’s getting hotter? The 5NEWS Weather Team has the mid-90s forecasted for the foreseeable future. If you’re anything like me, that means your air conditioning is your best friend to beat the heat.
But as temperatures continue to stay up and are likely to get hotter as we move into the heart of summer, how does the heat impact your unit?
Buford Martin with Airco Services has the answer.
“The hotter it gets, the more it has to work, the more hours a day it’s running. All this stuff is mechanical and it can break and the harder it has to run, the easier it is to break,” says Martin.
Martin tells 5NEWS that supply chain issues are creating unwanted delays – especially during this heat. A reality, one Fayetteville landlord found herself in last week.
“I think the part was ordered Thursday, it was supposed to be home Friday and it was not,” said Laura Undem. “It did arrive today and it should be installed today.”
Undem and her husband quickly made necessary arrangements to help their tenants avoid the sweltering heat, but the delay in getting parts not only is a result of supply chain issues but is coming at a hefty price.
“It’s not something we can predict or save for, it was almost $6,000,” says Undem.
Martin agrees. He says Airco has had to pass the price increase on to customers, absorbing some of the costs when they can, but just like everyone else, they have to wait for parts like motors, copper, flex duct and control boards to come in before installing them.
“It depends on what week it is, on what we can and can’t get,” said Martin. “We’ve waited as much as a week for a control board and this time of year, it’s not fun waiting a week if it’s your control board you’re looking for.”
With all the talk about rising heat, rising costs, and the potential for your air conditioner to go out – you’re probably wondering how our energy grid can keep up with excessive use.
SWEPCO officials say there’s no cause for concern.
“We don’t have any controlled outages planned at this point. The last time we had a significant low-shed or planned outage, such as a rolling blackout, was in February 2021 with the winter storm that impacted much of our service area,” said Tara Muck, a SWEPCO spokesperson.
Arkansas energy is supplied by the Southwest Power Pull (SPP) which supplies power to 14 states. SWEPCO is just one company, among many, that use the SPP to supply energy to customers and has not experienced any strain to their system due to the recent heat.
Muck did say, with the increase in costs to natural gas, unfortunately, customers are being passed along those increased fees as well, but to no profit for SWEPCO.
If you’d like to try to reduce your energy consumption, Muck suggests running appliances and other big power consumers during non-peak hours and to keep blinds and doors closed to help insulate your home.
Martin echoed the advice by saying to reduce the chances of air conditioner repairs during the hottest months of the year, set your thermostat to a comfortable temperature and only turn it up or down by a few degrees at a time while you are home or away. Doing so helps decrease the stress on the system while keeping you cool.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — High-end bike manufacturer Specialized Bicycle Components of California has signed a lease to occupy approximately 4,200 square feet on the first floor of the 230,000-square-foot mixed-use building under construction in downtown Bentonville called Ledger.
According to a news release Monday (June 6), the company will establish an “Experience Center.” Specialized officials describe it as a “communal hub” for bike enthusiasts with various high-performance bikes available for riders to demo on local trails.
Specialized has similar centers in Boulder, Co., and Santa Cruz, Calif. The Bentonville location is expected to open this fall, once Ledger’s construction is complete.
“We’ve designed the Bentonville space as a comfortable place to connect before and after your time on the trails,” Jennifer Gibbons, the company’s manager of retail services, said in the release. “Take a bike out for an incredible ride, then come back and relax with friends, study the map wall to plan your next adventure, or hang out and chat with our local experts. You can even take a post-ride shower and enjoy a coffee.”
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CHARLESTON, WV (AP) – A former city councilman in West Virginia has been sentenced to 45 days in prison for breaching the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
Eric Barber was sentenced Tuesday by a federal judge in Washington for his December guilty plea to a misdemeanor count of illegally entering the Capitol. Barber also was given a suspended seven-day sentence for stealing a portable battery charger from a media stand.
Barber also was ordered to pay $500 restitution for damage done to the Capitol and for the cost of the charger.
Barber’s federal public defender had sought probation, saying his 43-year-old client had expressed remorse. Barber was elected to the Parkersburg City Council in 2016. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/ex-wv-councilman-gets-45-day-sentence-in-capitol-riot-case/ | 2022-06-14T23:43:09 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/ex-wv-councilman-gets-45-day-sentence-in-capitol-riot-case/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A new 9-month internship program to help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities find a job was launched through a partnership between Multnomah County and Albertina Kerr.
The internship program, Project SEARCH, provides a one-to-one on-site instructor and skills trainer. There are more than 600 domestic and international host businesses already involved with Project Search, which boasts an 85% success rate in finding competitive employment at prevailing wage for the interns who go through the program.
Statistics show that less than half of adults between 21-64 with those disabilities are currently employed.
In a statement, Alexis Alberti, who directs the County’s Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Division, said Multnomah County is thrilled to partner with Project SEARCH. “We’re committed to bridging the employment gap for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.”
In order to qualify for the program, interns must prove they can legally work in the US and be eligible to receive Oregon Vocational Rehabilitation Services and State of Oregon Developmental Disabilities Services or Brokerage Services.
A virtual meeting to provide more information is scheduled for Wednesday, June 15. People can register online for that.
There is an in-person session also scheduled for 10 a.m. on July 7. Information on that can be found by emailing ProjectSEARCH@AlbertinaKerr.org | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/multco-partners-with-project-search-on-jobs-internship/ | 2022-06-14T23:46:19 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/multco-partners-with-project-search-on-jobs-internship/ |
Elderly, disabled, housing agency tenants have no AC. They demand city takes action.
Like many residents in Indianapolis Housing Agency buildings, Regina Anderson, 63, woke up drenched in sweat Monday night. The air conditioning in her Millikan on Mass apartment had been broken since at least the end of May. Now, the city was in the grip of a dangerous heat wave that has swept into 100-degree temperatures.
Anderson suffers from a mast cell disorder, which means her body cannot easily regulate heat. High temperatures trigger vomiting and diarrhea, which has made living in the building without working AC during these hot days a nightmare.
Monday night she was so hot that she vomited.
“They are treating us like the trash we pick up on the sidewalk,” she told IndyStar Tuesday.
A blood cancer survivor, she pays $487 rent a month from her social security disability check.
Many apartments at Barton Tower and Millikan on Mass, two of IHA’s largest properties, had no working air conditioning this week, according to eight tenants interviewed by IndyStar.
Barton Tower tenant association president Michael Booth said the whole building lost air conditioning overnight. Some tenants had already been dealing with problems with their individual air conditioning units for the past few months.
But Marcia Lewis, IHA interim executive director, told IndyStar that only some units lost air conditioning. She said the maintenance staff heard about it late Monday and came Tuesday morning to fix it.
The staff “found the shut off valve for the water for the chillers turned off and the water low. They were surprised because it should not have been like that," Lewis said.
Vice President of the Barton Tower tenant association, Nina Himes, said there have been only about five days in May and June when the air conditioning in her unit worked, and even then, it would sometimes shut off unexpectedly.
The air conditioning issue is the latest crisis in a long history of mismanagement by an agency that thousands of low-income, disabled, and elderly residents depend on for housing. IndyStar published a story about the deep-rooted financial mistakes the agency has made since at least 2019.
More:As Indy housing agency faces financial crisis, residents suffer the brunt of its neglect.
The agency is down to four maintenance staff for 1,600 units, Lewis said at the agency’s board of commissioners public meeting Tuesday. The agency should have at least one maintenance staff for every 75 units, Lewis previously told IndyStar, creating a shortage of 17 staff.
The agency received more than 40 calls for broken air conditioning last week, Lewis said.
Residents are desperate for answers and frustrated by what they see as “lies” and false promises from the agency and its maintenance staff.
Lewis did not respond to IndyStar questions about the root of the air conditioning problems nor did she provide a clear timeline for when the maintenance problems would be resolved.
Anderson said that after her air conditioning went out, she reported the problem and the Millikan on Mass property manager told her maintenance would come at 3.30pm Monday. She waited four hours for them to show. They never did.
“This ain’t fair, and I’m not a woman who complains,” Anderson said, tears welling in her eyes.
Residents desperate for answers press mayor, city, to intervene
More than 50 residents showed up at the agency’s public meeting Tuesday to demand answers and accountability.
“I don’t think IHA knows what they are doing,” Michael Booth, the president of the Barton Tower tenants association, told IndyStar. “There are people on oxygen here, people with heart problems. This is not right....What if someone dies in here?"
Booth said he is trying to turn his own apartment into a cooling center, setting up fans, in the absence of any emergency maintenance response.
Booth said he thinks the mayor is responsible for coming up with another solution.
The mayor appoints the agency's executive director as well as five members of the board of commissioners, and the city-county council approves it.
The situation is so bad that the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana wrote an open letter to the mayor on June 13, signed by 24 community organizations.
Among other demands, the letter said the city should immediately begin to recruit a new IHA director to provide leadership stability and assist IHA residents in obtaining funds to organize a tenant union, if so desired by residents.
When asked Tuesday by IndyStar about the problems at the housing agency properties and for a response to the letter, Mayor Joe Hogsett wrote in an emailed statement to IndyStar, "The decades-long, systemic issues plaguing the Indianapolis Housing Agency did not appear overnight, and unfortunately, they will not be remedied overnight—but the conditions that far too many residents face are simply unacceptable."
Hogsett said that this week he will ask the Metropolitan Development Commission to support a fiscal request that will allow the agency to jumpstart efforts to address the backlog of maintenance requests and public health concerns.
New agency executive director searches for solutions
Residents are upset and frustrated with how the agency has been managed for years, and so is its interim executive director, Lewis. She stepped up in January after her predecessor, John Hall, resigned two months short of his contract ending. Her task has been nothing short of crisis management.
“Please please please forgive me,” Lewis said at Tuesday’s public meeting. “Because I said this to the staff, I’ve said this before. I wish I’d been here. I don't think I’m God’s gift to America….but I would have done better than this.”
“I can’t fix what has been a mess for years,” she said. Lewis said she walked several properties last week and was “embarrassed at how people who look like me are being treated.
“I’m sorry. But I’m one person.”
She has appealed to the city for funds to hire more maintenance staff, she said. This week, the city granted $250,000 for the agency to hire more personnel, Lewis announced at the public meeting.
The agency currently owns 16 sites and manages 14 of them. Lewis has detailed a plan for the agency to sell its ownership stake in some buildings and transition to third-party property management. She emphasized at the meeting that no resident will have to move or have the rent raised.
“We are not doing a good job at managing the properties so we are bringing in new property managers,” she said. “IHA is getting out of the mix.”
As the agency begins the months-long process of digging itself out of financial disaster, residents may not be able to wait.
Anderson loves her home. It is adorned with plants and photos of her children, one of whom is a bishop. But on Tuesday afternoon as temperatures reached 97 degrees, it was unlivable.
Two maintenance staff visited her fifth-floor apartment, but did not fix her AC unit. She is looking for another place to stay in the meantime.
She wiped sweat dripping from her brow.
“I have nowhere else to go," she said.
Contact IndyStar reporter Ko Lyn Cheang at kcheang@indystar.com or 317-903-7071. Follow her on Twitter: @kolyn_cheang. | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/marion-county/2022/06/14/indianapolis-housing-agency-tenants-suffer-no-ac-heat-wave-weather/7626348001/ | 2022-06-14T23:48:05 | 0 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/marion-county/2022/06/14/indianapolis-housing-agency-tenants-suffer-no-ac-heat-wave-weather/7626348001/ |
Detroit Police roll out enforcement effort to honor slain 11-year-old girl
Detroit — Police officials Tuesday announced an anti-violence effort that was launched in honor of an 11-year-old girl who was killed during a June 4 sleepover, making her at least the third Detroit child to be shot this year while sleeping at home.
The initiative was announced following a wave of Detroit violence that includes six homicides and 40 nonfatal shootings during the week of June 7-14, according to police statistics.
Saniyah Pugh was struck in the back by a stray bullet while inside her grandmother's home with five other children in the 20200 block of Goulburn on Detroit's east side, police said.
During a press conference outside the Ford Resource and Engagement Center Tuesday, Detroit Police Chief James White rolled out "Operation Saniyah," which was deployed on the east side Tuesday, with the effort to be repeated on the city's west side Wednesday.
The initiative will continue for a third day throughout the city, White said.
White and other command staff briefed dozens of police officers from Operation CeaseFire, Traffic Enforcement and Special Operations about the effort, which will focus on arresting people with outstanding warrants and investigating violent crimes.
Operation Saniyah is similar to past enforcement efforts under the "Operation Restore Order" initiative. During a January Restore Order deployment, police said they made 14 arrests and recovered drugs, guns and more than $20,000 in cash.
"There's been ridiculous gun violence of epidemic proportions across the country and an uptick in Detroit," White said Tuesday. "We're dedicating this enforcement operation to Saniyah. We're going to constitutionally enforce outstanding felony warrants and people who violate tethers."
In addition to targeting violators and wanted felons, the effort also will focus on recent crimes that include a shooting Monday at Ascension St. John Hospital on the city's east side. According to police, the victim of an earlier freeway shooting was targeted outside the hospital. The victim's father was shot in the ankle.
Operation Saniyah also will home in on a recent double shooting on East Robinwood Street.
"We'll be handing out pictures of the suspect," 9th Precinct Cmdr. Eric Johnson told the dozens of police officers who mustered in the Ford Resource and Engagement Center parking lot before being deployed throughout the eastside.
White said the operation also will investigate "a few other crimes we'd like to surprise (the suspects) with."
Saniyah's death was at least the third case since February where a Detroit child was shot while sleeping at home.
In April, a 4-year-old boy was shot in the buttocks while sleeping in his home in the 18400 block of Stout. Four other children were home at the time.
A 5-year-old boy was killed five days before his birthday in a shooting that also claimed the lives of his parents. Two teens were arrested and charged with the killings.
William Dickerson, 21, faces multiple charges, including second-degree murder in connection with Saniyah's killing. A 17-year-old female whose name was not released was also charged in the case with multiple felonies, including intentionally discharging a firearm at a dwelling or occupied structure causing death.
Prosecutors say Dickerson and the woman were firing a gun from a nearby backyard, and that one of the bullets struck Saniyah.
Despite the recent violent crime wave, homicides and nonfatal shootings have dropped year-to-date over 2021, according to police data. As of Tuesday, there were 118 homicides in 2022, down from 134 in 2021. Nonfatal shootings were down from 453 in 2021 to 360 this year during that period.
Carjackings are the only violent crime category that's up this year, with 105 incidents as of Tuesday, a 25% jump over the 84 carjackings during the same period last year.
In 2021, there were 309 criminal homicides in Detroit, a 5% decrease from 324 the previous year, according to police data. Nonfatal shootings fell to 1,065 in 2021, a 9% reduction from the previous year, according to the data.
But the recent spike in violence required a response, White said.
"People have to right to be safe in their communities," he said.
Added Deputy Chief Eric Ewing: "The community is tired. We're tired, too. We want to take these streets back for the next three days and beyond."
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Some Southeast Michigan schools canceling classes due to expected heat
Some Southeast Michigan schools are canceling classes or will dismiss students earlier due to the forecasted high temperatures on Wednesday.
The National Weather Service declared an excessive heat advisory for Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Livingston, Lenawee and Monroe counties from noon Wednesday to 8 a.m. Thursday.
According to the weather service, Friday's high is expected to be 95 degrees and heat index values are expected to be as high as 105 degrees Wednesday afternoon. Those conditions combined with high humidity increase the chance for heat-related illnesses, particularly for those spending time or working outdoors.
Here is the list of school closings and changed dismissal times this week:
Detroit Public Schools Community District
- Wednesday through Friday, all schools will be dismissed three hours earlier based on the school's individual dismissal times. Virtual school is exempt.
- The continuation of afterschool events will be decided at the discretion of each school's principal.
- Graduation ceremonies planned for this week are not impacted, the district said Tuesday.
Dearborn Public Schools
- All Dearborn Public Schools buildings will be closed on Wednesday due to the forecasted temperatures.
- Classes will resume Thursday.
Southfield Public Schools
- In-person classes are canceled Wednesday.
- Remote learning for classes will continue Wednesday for final exams.
- In-person classes will resume Thursday.
Eastpointe Community Schools
- All Eastpointe Community Schools will be closed on Wednesday.
- Classes resume Thursday and remain a full day of school.
- Friday will remain a half-day for grades 6-12.
Romulus Community Schools
- Schools will remain open Wednesday, the final day of classes, because the district had planned a half-day, officials said in a release.
Pontiac Schools
- Schools will remain open Wednesday and remain a half-day as planned for Wednesday and Thursday.
The city of Detroit has opened cooling centers for relief from rising temperatures that are open to students and residents until the heat advisory is over. The list of cooling centers can be found here. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/06/14/school-closings-metro-detroit-districts-canceling-classes-heat-advisory/7626828001/ | 2022-06-14T23:57:03 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/06/14/school-closings-metro-detroit-districts-canceling-classes-heat-advisory/7626828001/ |
Former Hillsdale Co. sheriff's deputy charged with misconduct for alleged inapproriate relationship
A former Hillsdale County Sheriff’s deputy has been charged with misconduct in office following allegations he exploited his position as a law enforcement officer to coerce a female suspect into a sexual relationship, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday.
Todd Barkley, 46, of Brownstown Township, is charged with two counts of misconduct in office, which are five-year felonies, her office said in a statement.
He was arraigned Tuesday by 12th District Court Judge Michael Klaeren in Jackson County since Hillsdale officials recused themselves, according to the release.
It was not immediately clear Tuesday whether Barkley had an attorney.
Barkley allegedly arranged for the woman to be treated for a substance use disorder at a rehabilitation center in Fulton, Kentucky then used his badge to take her out to have sex, according to the release.
He is also being investigated by law enforcement in Kentucky, Nessel's office said.
“Law enforcement officers that abuse their authority and violate the public’s trust must be held accountable,” the attorney general said in a statement. “The Department of Attorney General is a haven for those who have been exploited or victimized, and I encourage those with similar stories to come forward and report their experiences.”
Hillsdale County Sheriff's officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday on the allegations or when Barkley was terminated.
Barkley is due back in court via Zoom at 2 p.m. July 8 for a probable cause conference | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/06/14/todd-barkleyformer-hillsdale-county-sheriffs-deputy-charged-alleged-sexual-relationship/7627492001/ | 2022-06-14T23:57:09 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/06/14/todd-barkleyformer-hillsdale-county-sheriffs-deputy-charged-alleged-sexual-relationship/7627492001/ |
Taylor boy overcomes fear of epilepsy test by channeling a super hero
Royal Oak — Four-year-old Joey Owen showed up at Beaumont Hospital ready to "Hulk smash" his most recent electroencephalogram, a brain test needed to monitor his epilepsy.
"He has screamed and cried and fought his way through every single one up until this recent one, where he came dressed up as the Hulk," said Joey's mom, Rebecca Owen of Taylor. "He wanted to dress up as the Hulk to feel brave."
Even though the test can take an hour to conduct and can be more challenging than defeating Thanos, Joey was inspired by his favorite super hero, the Hulk, to conquer the technical procedure and share his new approach at a Tuesday press conference.
It is a creative way to overcome a stressful test that is needed to monitor epilepsy, which is marked by repeated seizures in which patients lose consciousness and sometimes shake uncontrollably. Health providers need to tap such creativity and flexibility so tests can be made more appealing to children, Beaumont Health officials said.
"This is actually very eye opening to me to be honest, because we order these tests all the time," said Dr. Rawad Obeid, a pediatric neurologist at Beaumont who diagnosed Joey's epilepsy at 2 years old. "It's very encouraging and nice to see that kids could be very creative and smart in dealing with that stressful situation."
EEG technologist Jimmy Najia said the procedure consists of two phases that take about an hour in total, the set-up and the recording. Patients have approximately 28 electrodes glued to their scalp in specific areas to record brain activity, a process that can be long and uncomfortable, Najia said. Patients are also presented with stimulating experience, such as flashing lights, and have to do breathing tests, both of which can be difficult for epileptic people, he said.
Another EEG technologist of Joey's, Ivana Gavran Danilyuk, said children often struggle with the test because they can't see what is being done to their head.
"I think in a sense it's scary because the patient is lying down or sitting and we're behind," Gavran Danilyuk said. "Of course they're going to be turning every second like, 'What're you doing back there?' so it's a little terrifying."
Neither of Joey's technologists had seen a patient arrive for their appointment in costume before. It is good to think outside of the box and look for ways to make medical tests more appealing to children, Obeid said.
Joey began having seizures when he was six months old, the doctor said.
"Luckily, a lot of these children, they outgrow it later in life," Obeid said. "But for the time in their life that they have it, which can vary..., they need to be on a treatment, because the seizure itself is obviously dangerous."
Joey has been seizure free for two years, Obeid said, thanks to treatment but still has to have biannual tests to monitor his brainwaves.
Rebecca Owen said she was on board with anything that would make the situation more comforting for her son.
"I think it's important to know that you can face your fears," she said, "and that not every situation is the same and to have hope that you can conquer your fears being whoever you need to be to get through it."
hmackay@detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/06/14/taylor-boy-overcomes-fear-epilepsy-test-channeling-superhero/7623564001/ | 2022-06-14T23:57:15 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/06/14/taylor-boy-overcomes-fear-epilepsy-test-channeling-superhero/7623564001/ |
The name of the game is to stay cool during the hot summer months in Texas, which is why the City of Dallas and Reliant say they're teaming up together again for the "Beat the Heat" program.
The goal is to help vulnerable residents in West Dallas, South Dallas and Fair Park have access to cooling centers.
Tuesday at the West Dallas Multipurpose Center on Fish Trap Road, Dallas City Council member Omar Narvaez and Dr. Philip Huang, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, spoke about the importance of keeping everyone, especially the elderly and young, safe during the hot weather.
"Right now my central system is out, it just went out and the last couple of days it had been OK, but now it’s getting hotter and I am miserable, so I do come to the center every day in order to stay cool," said Charlotte Kelly, who was at the West Dallas Multipurpose Center.
She and two other friends meet up to not only stay cool but to enjoy each other's company.
“I get a chance to enjoy myself with my friends. We’re more like family," said Linda Antwine.
She's in the same boat as Kelly, she doesn't have AC at home either.
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"It’s real hot, and I don’t have no fan, no anything," said Antwine
Cooling Center Locations
- West Dallas Multipurpose Center, 2828 Fish Trap Rd., Dallas, TX; 214-670-6341.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center, 2922 MLK Jr. Blvd., Dallas, TX; 214-670-8418.
People also have the chance to sign up for a portable AC unit and can call the different centers for more information.
"I’m going to start praying every day, hoping I’m in the drawing to win an air conditioner and I would like a window unit I can afford to get my system fixed," said Kelly, who signed up for a raffle at the West Dallas Multipurpose Center.
Reliant said people can also call 2-1-1 or visit 211texas.org about finding programs to help those in need pay for their electricity bills during the summer. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/cooling-centers-provide-relief-for-vulnerable-dallas-residents/2992281/ | 2022-06-14T23:57:50 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/cooling-centers-provide-relief-for-vulnerable-dallas-residents/2992281/ |
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Mike Smith, 78, the longtime owner of Fort Worth’s iconic Paris Coffee Shop, died Monday night in his sleep, NBC 5 has learned.
Smith took over the restaurant from his father in 1965 and ran it until April 2021 when he sold it. The new owners renovated the diner on West Magnolia Avenue and reopened it last month.
“He sold it to us and while he wasn’t a partner, he was part of us,” said owner-operator Chris Reale. “He was just in here three days ago and he told us the green beans weren’t right. We were having a little issue with the coconut pie, and he took a slice and said, ‘Y’all figured it out.’”
Smith’s coconut pie piled high with meringue was a customer favorite. In 2010, Bon Appetit named Paris Coffee Shop one of the top 10 places for pie calling the diner, the “place of your dreams.”
Six days a week Smith was in the restaurant well before sunrise, baking pies and biscuits. As he made plans to retire last year, he trained longtime employee Cleveland Arner on how to make and perfect the pies and the chicken and dumplings.
As Smith stepped away from the family business after 55 years, he told NBC 5, "I'll miss the people. I'll miss my employees.” However, he would not miss "the stress of everyday business especially when every day, something breaks down."
That's essentially what got Smith into the restaurant business. His dad, Gregory Smith, bought Paris Coffee Shop from the original owner, Vic Paris.
Mike Smith attended Texas Christian University in pursuit of a master's degree in management and had no plans to join his dad. But in 1965, when his dad got sick, Smith found himself stepping in. He was the youngest of seven sons and the only one available to help his dad.
"I first started washing pots or I was running a cash register. I did everything," Smith said.
He soon found a recipe for success.
"We take care of people. Good service. Good food. Try to be reasonable on the prices," he said.
Smith’s presence in the kitchen, at the cash register, up front or in the booths sitting and chatting with customers was almost as big a draw as his down-home cooking.
At breakfast and lunch, he greeted regulars with a firm handshake or a joke. Even those there for the first time never felt like strangers.
When Smith sold the restaurant to Reale, chef-restaurateur Lou Lambert and developer Mark Harris, he found in them a group committed to respecting the restaurant’s decades-long history yet willing to spend the money needed to take it into the future.
“He just retired, and that’s what shocks me,” Reale said. “Selfishly, I want to tell him, ‘I wasn’t done with your help.'" | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/former-owner-of-paris-coffee-shop-in-fort-worth-dies-at-78/2992391/ | 2022-06-14T23:58:03 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/former-owner-of-paris-coffee-shop-in-fort-worth-dies-at-78/2992391/ |
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North Texas families are getting creative to make ends meet amid rising inflation.
Housing costs are up 5.5%, food is up more than 10% and the price of gas has almost doubled since a year ago, according to NBC News.
One mother has enlisted her children’s help to make some extra cash using an unconventional approach she hopes will grow across North Texas.
In an effort to make ends meet during tough economic times, Plano mother Lisa Jackey was inspired to get creative.
She says she thought of a way to make some extra money with her kids while getting to know and helping her neighbors offset some of their needs.
“I just thought it would be a great way to cultivate community, to help my family do things together and make some extra money,” said Jackey.
With her children’s blessing, the single mother of four recently took to the neighborhood forum NextDoor and posted, "Family for Hire."
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Mom, her three teenagers and her 11-year-old daughter are teaming up to offer services to neighbors, who like them, are struggling with rising prices for products and services.
“Packing is one thing, yard work,” Jackey said, listing off some of the services they can provide. “Pulling weeds, planting flowers. My youngest loves to garden, so maybe someone needs a garden planted.”
Another example is if someone is moving but can't afford to pay $500 for professional movers. Perhaps she's able to accept $100 to help complete the move.
So far, most of the people commenting on her post have provided information about places that are hiring. Some have offered some work around their home.
“There always has to be a couple of negative comments. People are like, 'I don’t know what’s happening,'” she said with a smile. “But I know what my heart is, and I know that my heart goes beyond making money for my family. It also goes to strengthening the community.”
Jackey says she lost her corporate job in February and has been searching for a long-term position that is equivalent to her experience and education.
She’s also working on her second doctorate degree.
Like many Americans, Jackey has found herself struggling to keep up with inflation that is at a 40-year-high.
And it’s not just at the grocery store or gas station.
“I have a gas water heater and my gas has, like, tripled,” she said. “Dog food, I just went today, and it was $16 more than I typically pay.”
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Derrick Kinney, financial expert and host of the Good Money Podcast, says weathering inflation with threats of a recession looming should involve the whole family.
“What you want to do is set goals as a family,” he said. “Could we drive less? Can we carpool? Could we share something with a neighbor?”
It is also important to simply your finances, considering the most important financial goals of the family.
“We know the average recession, if we go into one, typically lasts 12 to 15 months. We want to get very simple, very focused. That way, the family can work with you on finding ways to help you save money, make more money but you’re going through this as a family and not by yourself,” said Kinney. “What I suggest people do is to do what I call a 'financial X-ray.’ On a sheet of paper write down, here's what I own, minus what I owe and on the other side of the piece of paper, write down here are my monthly expenses. What do you want to do is focus on the highest most impactful expenses you can cut or reduce.”
It’s also important to keep some expenses that help you endure any financially difficult months ago, said Kinney.
“The bottom line though is if you really enjoy your subscription service, keep it but find someplace else to cut that while you're still saving money, but enjoying life in the process,” he said.
Jackey’s daughter just applied for a lifeguard position and both teen daughters are studying for their driver's licenses.
Their mother spent part of her day helping a friend move out of her home for a little bit of money. She is grateful to be able to lend a helping hand to friends and neighbors.
"[If someone tells me] ‘I can’t afford this, but I can pay half,’ to me that’s not an insult. If someone can pay me half but it’s helping me and I’m helping them and I’m getting to know them, I think there’s much greater benefits that come of it,” Jackey said. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/plano-mom-offers-family-for-hire-to-offset-inflation-build-community/2992351/ | 2022-06-14T23:58:16 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/plano-mom-offers-family-for-hire-to-offset-inflation-build-community/2992351/ |
While young children ran around the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History looking at exhibits, a room of middle school girls came to the museum for their second day of a summer camp called Girls SURGE into STEM XR Camp.
STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
"Right now, even though women are 48% of the workforce in the United States, according to the census, we're only 28% of the STEM workforce," Girls SURGE into STEM XR Camp Director and UNT Assistant Professor Aleshia Hayes said. "So there's still a real need to bridge this gap."
The camp features female speakers in STEM fields. On Tuesday, they heard from Janetta Boone, who works at NASA in Houston and is getting her Ph.D. from UNT.
"Technology is often seen as, like, a man's field, right?" Boone said, showing photos of herself with all male coworkers. "Come join me! Like, women need other women."
Hayes said it's important to have a girl-focused STEM camp where they see and hear from women who are working in the STEM fields.
"Because this is the age when they start ideating on what they may become," Hayes said. "When they see me, I hope that they see that it's possible for anyone."
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Norah Benton-Nielson from Strickland Middle School in Denton was one of the campers.
"I just wanted to work with other girls that have kind of the same ideas as me," Benton-Nielson said. "To be honest, I just want to make the world a better place."
The camp introduces girls to technology tools, like augmented reality, and teaches them to how to turn problems into STEM problem-solving opportunities.
"Why not you," Boone asked campers, challenging them to think about a future in STEM. "Seriously, why not you?" | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/surge-into-stem-camp-shows-girls-what-is-possible/2992265/ | 2022-06-14T23:58:23 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/surge-into-stem-camp-shows-girls-what-is-possible/2992265/ |
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued a statement Tuesday in which he requested a Texas Ranger investigation into a murder case in which an escaped inmate killed a family of five.
The June 2 murder followed the escape of a convicted capital murderer from a prison bus. The inmate eluded capture for 21 days and brutally murdered a grandfather, Mark Collins, and his four grandsons in their Leon County cabin.
The inmate stole Collins' vehicle and was later killed in a shootout with police in Atascosa County about 200 miles away from the site of the murder.
In his letter to the Texas Rangers, Patrick provided a list of questions he wants to have answered regarding the murder case:
- How did the prisoner who was locked in a secure cage escape and attacked the driver?
- How did the guard at the back of the bus fail to see the escape?
- Was the prisoner fully searched as protocol requires before getting on the bus?
- How did the escapee elude law enforcement for multiple weeks?
- Was the community near the Collins family cabin put on high alert following a cabin break-in a few days prior?
Patrick said that this was a preventable crime and "should never have happened."
He concluded his statement by saying: "We must answer these questions. We have a duty to all Texans to ensure this never happens to any family again." | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/dan-patrick-calls-for-investigation-into-texan-prison-escapee-murder-case/2992322/ | 2022-06-14T23:58:29 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/dan-patrick-calls-for-investigation-into-texan-prison-escapee-murder-case/2992322/ |
Texas Central Railway CEO Carlos Aguilar announced that he will be stepping away from the company seeking to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston.
The announcement was made on Saturday via Aguilar's LinkedIn page. Texas Central Railway, founded in 2013, has promised to build a multi-billion dollar speed railway, similar to the one in Japan, between Dallas and Houston.
The announcement comes amidst a rocky first half of 2022. In January, the company was involved in a Texas Supreme Court case in which a landowner challenged the company's eminent domain authority and sought a clear definition that Texas Central is a "railroad company." Ultimately, the court concluded that the company is "operating a railroad" and is thus a "railroad company."
Most recently in April, it was reported that the company was behind on its property taxes.
In his resignation post, Aguilar cited an inability to "align current stakeholders on a common vision for a path forward" as part of the reason for his departure.
Texas Central does not see Aguilar's resignation as an end of their project. The company said that it still plans to break ground soon on the 240-mile rail line.
Aguilar is still supportive of the company's efforts and hopes to see the cross-state speed rail "become a reality." | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-central-ceo-resigns-company-plans-to-break-ground-on-high-speed-rail/2992264/ | 2022-06-14T23:58:35 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-central-ceo-resigns-company-plans-to-break-ground-on-high-speed-rail/2992264/ |
A Texas State Senator who represents Uvalde is pressing for more information about the action taken by state troopers during a massacre last month at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two teachers.
As the investigation into the mass shooting has unfolded, law enforcement who responded to the shooting has been heavily criticized for the slow response in bringing the shooting to an end.
The San Antonio Express-News reported Tuesday State Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D-San Antonio) told them that more than a dozen troopers were in the hallway outside the classrooms where the students were killed. The DPS said Tuesday afternoon that reports alleging troopers waited outside those classrooms are not accurate and that troopers in the building were assisting with evacuations. At times, the DPS said, troopers did enter and exit that hallway outside the classroom where the gunman was contained.
"To characterize DPS officers as massed in the hallway while waiting more than an hour to enter the classroom is wrong," according to a statement and tweet from DPS spokesman Travis Considine.
Gutierrez said his information about the number of troopers inside the school came from Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steve McCraw but that he did not have a firm answer regarding state trooper movement or actions.
"He has told me directly that there [were] two officers in the hallway very early, and then on the morning of June 2, he told me there were as many as 13," Gutierrez said. "What I didn't pin down from the colonel at that time, because he was getting on a plane, was the period of time. Was that in the 48 minutes or not?"
Gutierrez adds there were three ballistic shields in that hallway that could have been used to breach the room.
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The state senator said he wants the details cleared up so a tragedy like Uvalde does not happen again.
“There was a lot of human failure, a lot of human error. I understand all of that. What I don’t understand is why can’t people own up to it so that we can fix the problems as legislators, so that law enforcement can fix their own problem, and determine what they are going to do next time in rural Texas,” added Gutierrez.
At a news conference days after the shooting, McCraw said officers should have gone in sooner.
“From the benefit of hindsight where I am sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision. Period,” said McCraw, on May 27.
McCraw said that the person in charge was the Uvalde Consolidated School District Chief, who believed the shooter was barricaded and not an active threat. There is now a Justice Department investigation. A special committee in the Texas House is holding hearings about the mass shooting. The next two hearings are on Thursday and Friday in Uvalde. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-state-senator-presses-texas-dps-uvalde-response/2992211/ | 2022-06-14T23:58:42 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-state-senator-presses-texas-dps-uvalde-response/2992211/ |
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DEERFIELD, Ill. — Construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar said Tuesday it is packing up its headquarters from its longtime home state of Illinois and moving to Texas.
Caterpillar Inc. said that it's transferring its global base to the Dallas suburb of Irving, from Deerfield, outside Chicago.
The company had been based in Peoria, Illinois, for over 90 years before announcing a move to Deerfield in 2017. At the time, it touted Deerfield as meeting its goal of being more accessible to its global customers, dealers and employees.
Caterpillar already has an office in Irving and has been in the state since the 1960s.
"We believe it's in the best strategic interest of the company to make this move," CEO Jim Umpleby said.
Caterpillar said it will begin transitioning its headquarters to Irving this year.
It's the latest major corporation to ditch the Chicago area after Boeing Co. said last month that it was moving its headquarters to the Washington, D.C., area.
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A handful of technology companies have also recently shifted their headquarters from California's Silicon Valley to Texas. Tesla and Oracle have moved to Austin, while Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is now in Spring, Texas, outside Houston.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted that Texas is a "perfect fit" for Caterpillar, despite not quite getting the company's name spelled correctly. "We are proud that Catapillar now calls Texas home," he wrote. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/caterpillar-moving-its-headquarters-to-texas-from-illinois/article_5c47e083-02fb-5cee-a024-8c4ea8c0857e.html | 2022-06-15T00:04:41 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/caterpillar-moving-its-headquarters-to-texas-from-illinois/article_5c47e083-02fb-5cee-a024-8c4ea8c0857e.html |
HAMMOND — Research shows that businesses that make their customers happy focus on innovation, talent and process, a consultant told a Region business crowd Tuesday.
John Brandt, a former editor-in-chief of IndustryWeek and CEO of the Manufacturing Performance Institute research and consulting firm, gave a talk at Dynasty Banquet Halls in Hammond Tuesday as part of the WorkPlace Innovation Series.
He discussed his book "Nincompoopery: Why Your Customers Hate You — And How to Fix It," advising businesses on how to change the "terrible customer service, idiotic business processes and soul-crushing management practices that drive customers crazy."
"We have to convince our colleagues that change is not optional," he said. "We have to convince our peers that change is worth the pain that's going to happen. When you are leading change, there is going to be resistance. It's usually not resistance to the change itself. It's usually resistance to a change in relationships and a change in status. It's not fear of this new technology. It's what's going to happen to me. When you manage change, you have to manage fear."
The Northwest Indiana Workforce Board, WorkOne, the Center for Workforce Innovations and The Times of Northwest Indiana presented the talk.
"John Brandt has an impressive bio," Center for Workforce Innovations President and CEO Lisa Daugherty said. "John is an experienced entrepreneur, author and researcher ... He's had a unique career in marketing, management and consulting that's earned him more than 20 awards in reporting, writing and editing."
People spent more time at work than doing almost anything other than maybe sleeping, so it's important to them that their work be meaningful, Brandt said.
"People want to do something more than serve time," he said. "They want their work to matter. They want to make an impact on the industry. They want to help people. They want to know I was a good person and I made enough to donate to my church, whatever it is. Most people want to know their life matters. For most people, that's some combination of faith, family and purpose. They don't want to go to work to be a loser for 40 to 50 years. They want a broader purpose that's going to make them happier."
Companies can succeed by treating customers well and making the customer experience as easy as possible, Brandt said. He cited the policy at AT&T stores of greeting customers right away and finding out what they want to make them feel like they're valued.
"We live in a world where it is increasingly not the products we make but the relationships we have," he said.
Businesses often listen to consultants about what customers want but not to the customers themselves, Brandt said.
The Starwood hotel brand was told for years no one wanted liquid soap because people didn't want to pay $200 a night to be in a truck stop. But each bar of soap cumulatively costs $3 to $4 a night per room, so getting rid of it would be a major cost saving.
"They rebranded it as bliss, made it fragrant and put it in stylish dispensers," he said "Customers loved it. We want to make our customers happier but don't always know exactly what our customers want."
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The United States ranked fourth worldwide in steel production last year.
America made an estimated 85.8 million tons of steel in 2021, according to the Brussels, Belgium-based World Steel Association.
The World Steel Association estimates global steel output grew 3.8% to 1.88 billion tons last year.
“'World Steel in Figures' shows that most countries around the world saw an increase in both steel production and use in 2021 despite COVID restrictions remaining in place in many locations. An expectation of a continued and stable recovery from the pandemic this year and beyond has been shaken by the war in Ukraine and rising inflation,” World Steel Association Director General Edwin Basson said.
Global steel output grew in 2021 despite a 3% decline in China, which single-handedly accounts for about 53% of the world's steel production.
China made 1.03 billion tons of steel last year. That's more than 11 times as much as the United States and eight times as much as the second-highest steel producer.
India ranked second worldwide, producing 118.2 million tons of steel, according to the World Steel Association. Japan ranked third with 96.3 million tons of steel.
The United States was long the world's largest producer of steel, so dominant for decades that U.S. Steel became the world's first billion-dollar corporation back during its heyday. But after decades of decline and disinvestment and a rise of foreign competition, the United States has now ranked fourth globally in steel production for years.
The global market is now dominated by China, which heavily subsidizes its steel industry as a way of providing good-paying employment to its people at often-state-run steel mills.
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HOBART — A stream of black smoke was visible from a Hobart candy factory after a piece of construction equipment caught fire, officials said.
Crews were called at 1:51 p.m. for a reported fire on the property of Albanese Candy Factory at 5441 East Lincoln Highway, Hobart Fire Department Assistant Chief John Reitz said.
A piece of construction equipment outside of the building overheated and while there were really no flames, the black smoke caused alarm for passing individuals and residents, Reitz said.
Hobart firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the fire and clear the scene. There were no injuries or damage to the building. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hobart/construction-equipment-outside-albanese-candy-factory-catches-fire/article_94b36a52-eaa3-5cf9-a6ef-ebdd2d76205a.html | 2022-06-15T00:05:00 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hobart/construction-equipment-outside-albanese-candy-factory-catches-fire/article_94b36a52-eaa3-5cf9-a6ef-ebdd2d76205a.html |
Police are searching for three teenagers who they say tried to rob two different women outside the King of Prussia Mall after stealing a car in Philadelphia.
On Monday around 9 p.m., a woman told police she was walking back to her car in the parking lot of the Primark store at the King of Prussia Plaza. As she was walking, she was approached by a teenager who tried to steal her purse from her arm, investigators said. The woman managed to stop the teen from getting her purse. She then noticed a red vehicle stopped behind her with two other teens inside.
All three teen suspects then fled the area.
As police spoke with the woman, they were approached by a second woman who said she was the victim of a similar attempted robbery outside the mall. The woman said she was walking to her vehicle in the parking lot near the Neiman Marcus store earlier that evening when the same red vehicle drove past her. She told police one of the passengers inside the car reached out and tried to grab her purse. She managed to hold onto the purse and fled the area.
Police obtained surveillance video that captured the teens as well as the vehicle. Investigators determined the car had been reported stolen earlier that day and was believed to have been taken during a strong arm robbery in Philadelphia.
The car is described as a 2010 Toyota Corolla with faded red paint, a rear spoiler and the Pennsylvania license plate KBD4716.
Upper Merion Township Police increased their patrols at the King of Prussia Mall and are asking shoppers to be aware of their surroundings.
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WICHITA, Kan (KSNW) – Wheat Harvest has begun in Kansas. Farmers are asking for your help when it comes to safety.
The wheat has turned yellow, and that means there is going to be a lot of farm equipment out on the roads the next few days. One wife is asking people to please be mindful as farmers are working around the clock to get all of this wheat harvested.
“You know that’s my husband in there, that’s our neighbors, that’s our community, so we just want to keep everyone safe,” said Lauren Krehbiel, who lives in Pretty Prairie.
It’s a family ordeal.
“Meals together in the field and just bringing in the harvest, and you can finally see all the work you’ve put in through the year,” said Krehbiel.
Krehbiel said over the weekend her family decided it was time to get the wheat out of the ground and her husband will be harvesting for the next eight days.
“Harvest I call it just a sprint. It’s busy, busy, busy. The guys were out until 1:30 a.m. last night,” said Krehbiel.
Krehbiel said it’s a fast and dangerous process.
“I try not to ponder on it too much and think about it. We pray nightly for our safety for our farmers, and for our family, and our friends,” said Krehbiel.
“This is the one time of year that farmers get a paycheck and all of that equipment is slow-moving equipment it doesn’t have good visibility out in the windows or anything. They can’t see you, so just take a little extra caution,” said John Jenkinson, ag expert.
Krehbiel said the yield is looking smaller than last year because of how dry it has been but the hope is that since prices are up it will be a similar profit to last year. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/farmers-wife-asks-for-drivers-to-be-cautious-as-wheat-harvest-begins/ | 2022-06-15T00:26:43 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/farmers-wife-asks-for-drivers-to-be-cautious-as-wheat-harvest-begins/ |
Enchanted Forest is in need of about 30-40 employees. They need everything from Admissions, Office and Administrative work, Parking lot attendees, Lifeguards, and ride attendants just to name a few, but even with the staff shortage Vice President/Director Marketing Katie Wojdyla says they still plan on opening the entire park.
"Staff shortages are something that’s happening everywhere. I think there’s a bunch of reasons that play into you know why it’s happening."
Transportation is an issue for some, but there is a busing program set up through Herkimer and Lewis Counties. Where you might see some kind of impact from an employee shortage is through the evening hours.
"Because Calypso’s Cove is open afternoon into evenings, it’s a little bit more challenging area to staff."
Many employees say working here is a lot of fun, and Water Safari Painter Caleb Lisowski says the employers are easy to work with.
"They’re very good here too about stuff. You know you just make sure you let them know in advance that you got to take some time off for something, and they’re very understanding about it."
Enchanted Forest also provides affordable housing for employees 18 year of age and up. Something Julia Oglesby of Norwich takes advantage of.
"The people that I work with and live with in housing, it’s just always really fun to hang out with them outside of work, and then come in and get to meet new people, and help people have a good time here."
So if you’re looking for a summer job, this sounds like an ideal place to work, and to be sure just ask the employees. Water Safari Water Rides Manager Keenan Satterlee can't say enough nice things about the place.
"I just really love my job. I take a lot of pride of it. It’s a lot of fun. You get to meet a lot of people, and there’s too many great things to name about it really."
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Lincoln Public Schools may be selling the naming rights to Lincoln Northwest's football stadium, but don't expect corporate logos to be painted on the field or stitched to players' jerseys.
The LPS school board is looking at revising its policy and regulations governing advertising on school grounds after Union Bank & Trust offered $1.5 million for the naming rights for the stadium at West Holdrege and Northwest 48th streets.
The agreement, which the board will vote on at its next meeting on June 28, means the name Union Bank Stadium will adorn the facility -- including signage both in and outside the stadium -- for the next 20 years.
Advertising has been used on school grounds in some capacity before -- including in student publications and on scoreboards.
The district's Career Academy and focus programs also promote the names of business partners, while the names of families who've handed over large charitable donations still adorn LPS sporting venues, including Seacrest Field and Beechner Athletic Complex.
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But selling corporate naming rights is "new territory" for LPS, said Bob Rauner, who chairs the board's planning committee that looked at the policy changes. The board wanted rules that balance raising money to relieve the burden on taxpayers and "not (using) our kids as advertising billboards," Rauner said.
That includes setting limitations, such as regulating the size of signage and restricting its use on the field or players' jerseys, while also planning for contingencies, like if a sponsor sold its business.
On Tuesday, the board gave first-round consideration to revisions to Policy 1112 that adds "activity and athletic facilities" as permissible space for advertising or promotional materials.
Specific changes to regulations — which outline how a policy should be carried out — are still in the works and will likely come before the board at its next meeting June 28, said Liz Standish, associate superintendent for business affairs.
"The highest priority is to make students the central focus," Standish said. "We want the event to be absolutely about students."
Under the current policy and the regulations undergirding it, advertising and promotional materials are limited to public performance facilities, non-instructional print material and the district website.
Advertisements must be related to goods and services -- meaning no political or religious messaging -- and cannot promote controversial topics or age-inappropriate products, such as alcohol.
The policy also states that the overall benefits to the students must outweigh the advertising or promotional benefit.
The Union Bank deal meets that criteria, Rauner said.
"It's not going to get in the way of the kids," he said.
Conversations about looking to corporate and charitable donations for the athletic facilities began when the district was drafting the $290 million bond issue eventually approved in 2020 to pay for two new high schools, a new elementary school and shared sports complexes, said Director of Operations Scott Wieskamp.
The bond set aside $15.4 million for the complexes at Northwest and Standing Bear High School, which will be shared by city schools, but that was, in reality, only half of what was needed for complete build-out, Wieskamp said.
"We knew we needed to seek partners," Wieskamp said.
That led to the LPS Foundation and Union Bank partnering on a naming rights deal, which could be just the first in other similar agreements. Wieskamp said there have also been talks of the foundation starting a capital campaign to raise funding.
"I would say there are a lot of behind-the-scenes discussions going on," he said.
The stadium, which will be shared by city schools and can also host soccer matches and track meets, is part of an athletic complex at Lincoln Northwest that will include baseball and soccer fields, tennis courts and a practice softball field.
The Northwest stadium will initially be able to seat about 2,800 to 3,000 people and will feature concessions buildings and a press box. The district hopes to eventually seat about 5,000.
Standing Bear High School, which will open in southeast Lincoln in 2023, will also be home to a shared athletic complex, including softball fields and a soccer field that will be able to seat up to 800 to 1,000 people.
Construction is continuing at Union Bank Stadium and Lincoln Northwest, which is set to host its first football game -- against Ralston High School -- Aug. 26.
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EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif — The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office is calling for help as they try to find an at-risk missing teenager.
Deputies identified the girl as 14-year-old Oriahna Centeno, who likes to go by the name of Melanie. Deputies said she was last seen on Sunday around 4:25 p.m. running north on Delos Lane in Placerville. She's described as about 5'8" and 120 pounds with brown eyes and brown colored hair that is shaved on the sides and long on top.
She was last seen wearing a "blue colored tie dye shirt, light blue skinny jeans and white shoes with rainbows across the toes."
According to deputies, "Oriahna is an at-risk juvenile with vision issues and has depression, anxiety, and often has psychotic episodes, with active hallucination."
Anyone with information on her whereabouts can call the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office at 530-621-6600.
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BLOOMINGTON — A 21-year-old man is accused of firing a gun at an occupied vehicle Saturday in Bloomington.
Tyler C. Neely is charged with four counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm (Class X and Class 1 felonies), reckless discharge of a firearm (Class 4 felony) and methamphetamine possession (Class 3 felony).
Bloomington police responded about 4:30 p.m. Saturday to the 1800 block of East Lincoln Street for a report of gunshots.
Neely is accused of firing a gun in the direction of a vehicle he knew to be occupied by a victim who is named in court documents.
Documents said he discharged a firearm at the victim while in the roadway of the 1800 block of East Lincoln Street in Bloomington.
No injuries were reported in the shooting.
Bloomington police Spokesman Brandt Parsley said Neely was arrested Monday.
Neely has a Bloomington address listed in court records, but he listed a Selma, Alabama, address in his affidavit of assets and liabilities.
He was ordered to have no contact with the Bloomington address listed as his home in court records. Neely also was ordered to have no contact with the victim, the 1800 and 1900 blocks of East Lincoln Street in Bloomington, and a separate Bloomington address.
Neely was jailed in lieu of posting $35,035.
An arraignment is scheduled for July 8.
This was at least the 23rd shooting reported in Bloomington-Normal this year, of which 19 occurred in Bloomington.
Updated mug shots from The Pantagraph
Tyler C. Neely
Tyler C. Neely, 21, of Bloomington, is charged with four counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm (Class X and Class 1 felonies), reckless discharge of a firearm (Class 4 felony) and methamphetamine possession (Class 3 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Brandon E.J. Frieburg
Brandon E.J. Frieburg, 29, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 100 to 400 grams of meth with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of 15 to 100 grams of meth (Class X felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Rhiannan O. Keith
Rhiannan O. Keith, 23, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 100 to 400 grams of meth with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of 15 to 100 grams of meth (Class X felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
George E. Wisehart
George E. Wisehart, 44, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of 5 to 15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver and two counts of meth possession.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Christopher A. Johnson
Christopher A. Johnson, 29, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 5 to 15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony), possession of less than 5 grams of meth (Class 3 felony) and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of a controlled substance (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kelyi G. Kabongo
Kelyi G. Kabongo, 21, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession 5 to 15 grams of meth and less than 5 grams of meth with the intent to deliver, possession of 5 to 15 grams of meth and possession of less than 5 grams of meth.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tyrone L. McKinney
Tyrone L. McKinney, 30, of Bloomington, was sentenced to eight years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of 1 to 15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Terrance T. Jones
Terrance T. Jones, 34, of Chicago, is charged with armed robbery (Class X felony), aggravated battery causing great bodily harm (Class 3 felony), and two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon (Class 2 and 3 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Noel R. Castillo
Noel R. Castillo, 48, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful vehicular invasion, aggravated battery, theft, criminal damage to government supported property and resisting a peace officer.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kerrigan T. Spencer
Kerrigan T. Spencer, 18, of Normal, is charged with two counts of burglary.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Austin S. Waller
Austin S. Waller, 20, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of burglary at a Bloomington smoke shop. He is separately charged with three counts of burglary at the Corn Crib.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jacob S. Upton
Jacob S. Upton, 20, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of burglary.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Franklin P. Roberts
Franklin P. Roberts, 50, of Bloomington, is charged with threatening a public official (Class 2 felony) and domestic battery (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Ashley R. Schneiderheinze
Ashley R. Schneiderheinze, 32, is charged with unlawful possession of:
15 to 100 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class X felony) 15 to 100 grams of cocaine (Class 1 felony) 15 to 100 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class X felony) 15 to 100 grams of meth (Class 1 felony) Less than 15 grams of alprazolam (Class 4 felony) Less than 15 grams of clonazepam (Class 4 felony) 30 to 100 grams of cannabis (Class A misdemeanor) She also is charged with two counts of permitting the unlawful use of a building.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Brandon E. Reynolds
Brandon E. Reynolds, 35, of LeRoy, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation for a charge of grooming.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Hannah J. Jackson
Hannah J. Jackson , 21, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of cocaine and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jason M. Harris
Jason M. Harris , 33, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated arson (Class X felony), residential arson (Class 1 felony) and two counts of arson (Class 2 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Michael S. Parkerson
Michael S. Parkerson, 54, is charged with unlawful possession of methamphetamine (Class 2 felony) and possession of drug paraphernalia (Class A misdemeanor).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kerry M. Huls
Kerry M. Huls, 47, of Bloomington is charged with unlawful delivery of 5 to 15 grams of meth, unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of meth, unlawful possession of 5 to 15 grams of meth, and unlawful possession of less than 5 grams of meth.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Randy M. Turner
Randy M. Turner, 39, of Danville, is charged with two counts of disarming a peace officer, five counts of aggravated battery, unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, attempted possession of a stolen motor vehicle, criminal damage to government supported property and driving under the influence of drugs.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Malik A. Wilson
Malik A. Wilson, 23, of Chicago, is charged with two counts of attempted armed robbery and aggravated discharge of a firearm, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jaren K. Jackson-Coates
Jaren K. Jackson-Coates, 24, of Peoria, is charged with unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of cannabis.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jawarren L. Clements
Jawarren L. Clements, 25, of Peoria, is charged with unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of cannabis.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Hunter A.W. Williamson
Hunter A.W. Williamson, 23, of Heyworth, is charged with cannabis trafficking and unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class X felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Mason A. Artis
Mason A. Artis, 22, of Shirley, is charged with possession of a stolen license plate, unauthorized use of a license plate and three counts of theft. He is separately charged with unlawful possession of 15 to 100 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver (Class X felony) and unlawful possession of 15 to 100 grams of meth (Class 1 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kenyatta C. Chissell
Kenyatta C. Chissell, 40, of Bloomington, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of heroin.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Shanarra S. Spillers
Shanarra S. Spillers , 36, of Normal, is charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and reckless discharge of a firearm (Class 4 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Enrique D. Sosa
Enrique D. Sosa, 55, of Spanish Fork, Utah, is charged with theft, financial institution fraud, wire fraud and two counts of computer fraud.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Caleb W. Collier
Caleb W. Collier, 20, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class 1 and 2 felonies). He is accused of possessing between 1 and 15 grams of cocaine and less than 1 gram of cocaine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jahda R. Davis
Jahda R. Davis, 20, of Normal, is charged with aggravated battery and resisting a peace officer.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Roosevelt Williams
Roosevelt Williams, 43, of Bloomington, is charged with home invasion, criminal trespass to a residence and battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Mark A. Carter
Mark A. Carter, 35, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Class 1 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Corey B. Dowell
Corey B. Dowell , 24, of Bloomington, is charged with failure to report an accident or injury.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Joshua V. Wilburn
Joshua V. Wilburn, 33, of Bloomington, is charged with burglary and retail theft.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Alicia L. Rodriguez
Alicia L. Rodriguez, 19, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated battery and domestic battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Christina E. Dickey
Christina E. Dickey, 37, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Class 2 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
David L. Hendricks
David L. Hendricks, 44, of Clearwater, Florida, is charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class X felony), unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Class 1 felony) and unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class 2 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kenneth R. McNairy
Kenneth R. McNairy, 32, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class X and Class 1 felonies), and two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Class 1 and Class 4 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Christopher Garza
Christopher O. Garza, 35, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 30 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of domestic battery.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Emmitt A. Simmons
Emmitt A. Simmons, 21, of LeRoy, is charged with indecent solicitation of a child (Class 2 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Joshua K. Wilson
Joshua K. Wilson, 39, of Normal, was sentenced to 152 days in jail and 24 months on conditional discharge after pleading guilty to one count of domestic battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kavion J. Anderson
Kavion J. Anderson, 18, of Hazel Crest, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation. He earned credit for 197 days served in jail. Anderson pleaded guilty to one count of vehicular hijacking.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Elizabeth A. Johnson
Elizabeth A. Johnson, 40, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony), unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony), and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of meth (Class 3 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jonathon P. Keister
Jonathon P. Keister, 38, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony), unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony), and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of meth (Class 3 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Brettais J. Lane
Brettais J. Lane, 30, of Bloomington, was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to unlawful delivery of a controlled substance in a public park and ulawful possession of a weapon by a felon.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jessica N. Huff
Jessica N. Huff, 35, of Peoria, was sentenced to seven years in prison. She pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of 15 to 100 grams of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Craig O. Harrington
Craig O. Harrington , 23, of Chicago, was sentenced to 30 months on probation after pleading guilty to one count of burglary.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Brandon J. Black
Brandon J. Black, 33, of Decatur, is charged with child pornography (Class X felony), attempt to produce child pornography (Class 3 felony), sexual exploitation of a child and grooming (Class 4 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Ricky A. Smith
Ricky A. Smith , 30, 0f Urbana, is charged with unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver, possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class X felonies), unlawful possession of meth and possession of a controlled substance (Class 1 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jesse S. Duncan
Jesse S. Duncan, 28, of Bloomington, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. He pleaded guilty to criminal damage to property with a value of between $500 and $10,000.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Rhonda L. Davis
Rhonda L. Davis , 41, of Bloomington, was sentenced to four days in jail and 30 months on probation. She pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Brenden P. Cano
Brenden P. Cano , 23, of LeRoy, was sentenced to eight years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of child pornography production.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Dujuan L. Enos
Dujuan L. Enos, 48, of Normal, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of between 15 and 100 grams of fentanyl.
PROVIDED BY BLOOMINGTON POLICE
Chester Johnson
Chester Johnson, 69, of Chicago, was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful possession of firearm ammunition by felon.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
James Canti
James Canti, 48, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of between 15 and 100 grams of heroin.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Justin A. Atkinson
Justin A. Atkinson , 39, of Bloomington, was sentenced to one year in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful restraint.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Connor M. Mink
Connor M. Mink, 18, of Bloomington is charged with unlawful:
Possession of 5-15 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) Possession of less than 5 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 2 felony) Possession of 5-15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony) Possession of less than 5 grams of meth (Class 3 felony) Possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) Possession of less than 1 gram of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 2 felony) Possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony) Possession of less than 15 grams of alprazolam (Class 4 felony) Possession of 30-500 grams of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class 3 felony) Possession of 10-30 grams of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class 4 felony)
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Mark A. Thrower
Mark A. Thrower, 40, of Vinton, Louisiana, is charged with:
Eight counts child pornography (Class X felonies) Two counts aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a minor (Class 2 felonies) Two counts grooming (Class 4 felonies) Indecent solicitation of a child (Class 3 felony) Traveling to meet a minor (Class 3 felony)
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kayala D.C. Huff
Kayala D.C. Huff, 23, of Normal, is charged with aggravated battery, domestic battery and resisting a peace officer.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Rebecca Y. Choi
Rebecca Y. Choi, 32, of Wheaton, is charged with unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony), possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony), possession of less than 15 grams of amphetamine (Class 4 felony), and possession of drug paraphernalia (Class A misdemeanor).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
David W. Kallal
David W. Kallal, 36, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class X felony), 5-15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony), possession of 15-100 grams of meth (Class 1 felony), and possession of 5-15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Javon T. Murff
Javon T. Murff, 19, of Normal, is charged with two counts aggravated discharge of a firearm (Class 1 felony), robbery (Class 2 felony), possession of a stolen firearm (Class 2 felony), two counts aggravated unlawful use of a weapon (Class 4 felony), two counts reckless discharge of a firearm (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Demarcus J. Heidelberg
Demarcus J. Heidelberg, 24, of Belleville, is charged with unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) and unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Deon K. Moore
Deon K. Moore, 26, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon (Class 2 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Cordaiz J. Jones
Cordaiz J. Jones, 35, is charged with two counts of aggravated battery (Class 2 felonies), stalking (Class 4 felony) and two counts of misdemeanor resisting a peace officer.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Christopher L. Anderson
Christopher L. Anderson, 40, of Downs, was sentenced to 167 days in jail and 30 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of domestic battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Darrius J. Heard
Darrius J. Heard, 21, of Clarksville, Tennessee, was sentenced to six days in jail and 30 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Latele Y. Pinkston
Latele Y. Pinkston , 29, was sentenced to five years in prison. Pinkston pleaded guilty to unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Daniel Wilcox
Daniel Wilcox, 22, of New Concord, Kentucky, is charged with five counts each of criminal sexual assault (Class 1 felonies) and criminal sexual abuse, which are charged as Class A misdemeanors.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kaveior K. Thomas
Kaveior K. Thomas, 32, of Normal, is charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class X felony), unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Class 1 felony), two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, and violation of the Illinois FOID Card Act (Class 3 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Courtney A. Boyd
Courtney A. Boyd, 27, of Normal, is charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jodi M. Draper
Jodi M. Draper, 55, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Brian D. Stewart
Brian D. Stewart, 48, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Lonnie L. Kimbrough
Lonnie L. Kimbrough , 36, of Peoria, was sentenced to 24 months on conditional discharge and four days in jail. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful cannabis possession.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Amari S. Buchanon
Amari S. Buchanon, 25, of Normal, was sentenced to 16 days in jail. She earned credit for eight days served in jail. She pleaded guilty to one count of possessing a firearm without a valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Donna Osborne
Donna Osborne, 52, of Decatur, is charged with two counts of burglary (Class 2 felonies) and one count each of retail theft (Class 3 felony) and theft (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Juls T. Eutsey
Julian T. Eutsey, 21, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 24 months on probation. She pleaded guilty to one count of criminal sexual abuse.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Megan J. Duffy
Megan J. Duffy, 27, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 102 days in jail and 30 months on probation. She pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of 5 to 15 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Qwonterian V. Ivy
Qwonterian V. Ivy, 24, of Bloomington, was sentenced to four years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm at an occupied building.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Madison A. Knight
Madison A. Knight , 20, of Rutland, was sentenced to 120 days in jail and 30 months' probation for unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Dexter D. McCraney
Dexter D. McCraney , 38, of Normal, is charged with one count each of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Thomas J. Davis
Thomas J. Davis , 27, of Bloomington, was sentenced to six years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of 1-15 grams of cocaine. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Christina D. Noonan
Christina D. Noonan , 42, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of controlled substance trafficking (Class X felonies), two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver charged as Class X felonies and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver as a Class 3 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Wesley M. Noonan
Wesley M. Noonan , 48, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of controlled substance trafficking (Class X felonies), two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver charged as Class X felonies and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver as a Class 3 felony.
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Kenyatta L. Tate
Kenyatta L. Tate , 46, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts each of unlawful possession of between 15-100 grams and 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class X and Class 1 felonies) and unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Class 2 felonies).
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Quacy L. Webster
Quacy L. Webster , 43, of Bloomington, is charged with one count each of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Class 2 felony) and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony).
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Jalen A. Davis
Jalen A. Davis , 21, of Bloomington, is charged with six counts of child pornography possession (Class X felony).
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Lazaro Flores
Lazaro Flores , 34, of Streator, was sentenced to seven years in prison for aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol causing death.
Mohamed N. Thiam
Mohamed N. Thiam , 19, of Bloomington, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
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Lorenzo Sims
Lorenzo Sims, 30, of Chicago, is charged with five counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Class 2 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Laycell D. Wright
Laycell D. Wright , 32, of Rantoul, is charged with unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of methamphetamine (Class 1 felony). He also is charged with unlawful possession of 100-500 grams of cannabis (Class 4 felony) and 30-100 grams of cannabis (Class A misdemeanor).
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Richard S. Bjorling
Richard S. Bjorling , 54, of Peoria Heights, was sentenced to seven years in prison for unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver.
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Tyler D. Vidmar
Tyler D. Vidmar , 23, of Clinton, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine.
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James E. Chase
James E. Chase , 52, of Bloomington, is charged with three counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Melissa J. Piercy
Melissa J. Piercy , 38, of Normal, is charged with unlawful delivery of meth (Class 2 felony), unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class X felony) and unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony).
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Charles L. Bell
Charles L. Bell , 33, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated battery (Class X felony), two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm (Class 1 felonies), aggravated unlawful use of a weapon (Class 2 felony), unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon (Class 2 felony), and violation of the Illinois Firearm Identification Card Act (Class 3 felony).
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Wilmer A. Marquez-Ayala
Wilmer A. Marquez-Ayala , 35, of Bloomington, is charged with six counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a minor family member (Class 2 felonies) and three counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a victim under 13 years old (Class X felonies).
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Joshway C. Boens
Joshway C. Boens , 41, of Chicago, was sentenced to 143 days in jail and 30 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of domestic battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Seth A. Kindred
Seth A. Kindred , 31, of Ellsworth, was sentenced March 30 to six years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver.
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Matthew D. Nunley
Matthew D. Nunley , 33, of Eureka, was sentenced to four years in prison for one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine. All other charges were dismissed.
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Clinton A. Page
Clinton A. Page , 29, of Normal, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 24 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery of a peace officer.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Loren M. Jepsen
Loren M. Jepsen , 34, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of home invasion causing injury (Class X felony). All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Calvin E. Young
Calvin E. Young , 30, of Bloomington, was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of cocaine.
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Jason R. Roof
Jason R. Roof , 46, of Heyworth, was sentenced March 28 to five and a half years in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
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James L. Fields
James L. Fields , 24, of Bloomington, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated discharge of a firearm at an occupied vehicle and unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
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Michelle E. Mueller
Michelle E. Mueller , 32, of Normal, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation. She pleaded guilty to one count of burglary. All other charges were dismissed.
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Telly H. Arrington
Telly H. Arrington , 24, of Normal, is charged with four counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Antonio R. Ross
Antonio R. Ross , 28, of Springfield, was sentenced March 24 to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of retail theft. All other charges were dismissed. He also was ordered to pay $7,305 in restitution. Ross earned credit for previously serving 239 days in jail.
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Carlos L. Hogan
Carlos L. Hogan , 33, of Decatur, was sentenced to four years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of 30-500 grams of cannabis. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
David W. Kallal
David W. Kallal , 36, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kent D. Johnson
Kent D. Johnson , 34, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated domestic battery.
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Andre D. Seals
Andre D. Seals , 37, of Champaign, is charged with aggravated battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tyler S. Burns
Tyler S. Burns, 31, of Chenoa, was sentenced to 170 days in jail and 30 months probation. He earned credit for the 170 days previously served in jail. Burns pleaded guilty to one count of burglary.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Carrie Funk
Carrie Funk , 54, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of criminal neglect of an elderly person.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Anthony R. Fairchild
Anthony R. Fairchild , 51, of Bloomington, is charged with one count each of burglary and theft.
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Inez J. Gleghorn
Inez J. Gleghorn, 39, of Bloomington, was sentenced to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm in connection to an April 2021 stabbing in Bloomington. Other battery charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Alexis S. Williams
Alexis S. Williams, 24, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation. She pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Nayeon A. Teague
Nayeon A. Teague , 21, of Normal, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
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Frankie L. Hutchinson
Frankie L. Hutchinson , 21, of Chicago, is charged with one count of aggravated unlawful possession of stolen vehicle parts, two counts of unlawful possession of stolen vehicle parts, two counts of aggravated fleeing a peace officer and two counts of criminal damage to property.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Joseph L. McLeod
Joseph L. McLeod , 40, of Peoria, is charged with two counts of burglary, two counts of theft, and one count each of forgery and deceptive practices.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Lanee R. Rich
Lanee R. Rich , 18, of Heyworth, is charged with two counts each of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Corey K. Butler
Corey K. Butler , 19, of Champaign, is charged with possession of a stolen firearm and two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
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Darrius D. Robinson
Darrius D. Robinson , 29, of Normal, is charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jacob Z. Kemp
Jacob Z. Kemp , 32, is charged with three counts of aggravated battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jonathan A. Jamison
Jonathan A. Jamison , 44, of Normal, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jonathon K. Campbell
Jonathan K. Campbell , 43, Jonathan K. Campbell, 43, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 48 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of domestic battery causing bodily harm.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Geno A. Borrego
Geno A. Borrego , 23, of Pontiac, is charged with two counts of criminal sexual assault.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jaylin M. Caldwell
Jaylin M. Caldwell , 21, of Bloomington, was sentenced to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of 1-15 grams of cocaine. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Joshua D. Rials
Joshua D. Rials , 28, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of armed violence, Class X felonies, four counts of unlawful possession of a firearm and firearm ammunition by a convicted felon, Class 2 felonies. He was charged March 1 with two counts each of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and of firearm ammunition by a felon.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jamakio D. Chapell
Jamakio D. Chapell , 28, of Montgomery, Alabama, is charged with four counts of Class 2 felony aggravated battery, misdemeanor resisting a peace officer and 11 traffic charges, including driving under the influence of alcohol.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Thomas E. Dolan
Thomas E. Dolan , 22, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of between 500 and 2,000 grams of cannabis with the intent to deliver, unlawful cannabis possession, battery and unlawful restraint.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jordyn H. Thornton
Jordyn H. Thornton , 22, of Bloomington, was convicted of first-degree murder in the Oct. 30, 2018, shooting death of Trevonte Kirkwood, 27, of Bloomington, in the 1300 block of North Oak Street in Bloomington.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Ty W. Johnson
Ty W. Johnson , 36, of Bloomington, is charged with criminal sexual assault, robbery and possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kyle D. Kindred
Kyle D. Kindred , 23, of Shirley, is charged with cannabis trafficking, two counts of unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver and two counts of unlawful possession of cannabis.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Lorel M. Johnson
Lorel M. Johnson , 41, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of aggravated domestic battery.
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Kimberlee A. Burton
Kimberlee A. Burton , 29, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of child endangerment, Class A misdemeanors.
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Kevin C. Knight
Kevin C. Knight , 40, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class 2 felony.
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Derail T. Riley
Derail T. Riley , 35, of Normal, is charged with one count of aggravated domestic battery, a Class 2 felony, and five counts of Class 4 felony domestic battery.
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Ade A. McDaniel
Ade A. McDaniel , 40, of North Miami Beach, Florida, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, a Class 1 felony.
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Jahni A. Lyons
Jahni A. Lyons , 19, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
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Destiny D. Brown
Destiny D. Brown , 39, of Bloomington, is charged with three counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver, three counts of methamphetamine possession and one count of methamphetamine delivery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Billy J. Braswell
Billy J. Braswell , 39, of Wapella, is charged with three counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver and four counts of methamphetamine possession.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Mitchell A. Rogers
Mitchell A. Rogers , 37, of Peoria, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver and two counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Matthew D. Stone
Matthew D. Stone , 22, of Normal, is charged with one count of aggravated battery, a Class 2 felony.
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Tyler A. Guy
Tyler A. Guy , 25, of Towanda, is charged with one count of Class 2 felony aggravated battery.
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Gordan D. Lessen
Gordan D. Lessen , 36, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of domestic battery as a subsequent offense, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Steven M. Abdullah
Steven M. Abdullah , 31, of Heyworth, is charged with two counts of harassment of jurors, Class 2 felonies, 11 counts of communication with jurors, Class 4 felonies, and one count of attempted communication with a juror, a Class A misdemeanor.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Ryan D. Triplett
Ryan D. Triplett , 27, of Decatur, is charged with aggravated domestic battery-strangulation, a Class 2 felony, and domestic battery as a subsequent offense felony, a Class 4 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Pedro A. Parra
Pedro A. Parra , 40, is charged with two counts of burglary, Class 2 and Class 3 felonies, and misdemeanor theft.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Gregory A. Spence
Gregory A. Spence , 39, of Bartonville, is charged with three counts of burglary, Class 2 felonies.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Justin A. Leicht
Justin A. Leicht , 41, of Downs, is charged with three counts of burglary, Class 2 felonies.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Edward L. Holmes
Edward L. Holmes , 50, of Bloomington, is charged with the following:
Controlled substance trafficking of between 400 and 900 grams of cocaine Unlawful possession of between 400 and 900 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver Controlled substance trafficking of between 100 and 400 grams of cocaine Unlawful possession of between 100 and 400 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver Methamphetamine trafficking of between 100 and 400 grams of a substance containing meth Unlawful possession of between 100 and 400 grams of meth with the intent to deliver Methamphetamine trafficking of between 15 and 100 grams of meth Unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of meth with the intent to deliver
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Latoya M. Jackson
Latoya M. Jackson , 31, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of possession of a stolen or converted motor vehicle, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Shaquan D. Hosea
Shaquan D. Hosea , 26, of Bloomington, is charged with residential burglary, a Class 1 felony, and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, a Class 4 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jaccob L. Morris
Jaccob L. Morris , 20, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation after pleading guilty to burglary.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Dontel D. Crowder
Dontel D. Crowder , 35, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, Class 2 felonies, and harboring a runaway, Class A misdemeanor.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Donnell A. Taylor
Donnell A. Taylor , 29, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Eric E. Seymon
Eric E. Seymon , 19, of Bloomington, is charged with eight counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Aikee Muhammad
Aikee Muhammad , 19, is charged with two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm, two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and resisting a peace officer.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
William M. McCuen
William M. McCuen , 33, of Atlanta, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class 2 felony.
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Meontay D. Wheeler
Meontay D. Wheeler , 23, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and torture, a Class 1 felony, aggravated domestic battery, a Class 2 felony, and aggravated domestic battery involving strangulation, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Fenwrick M. Bartholomew
Fenwrick M. Bartholomew , 51, of Normal, was sentenced to three years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Javares L. Hudson
Javares L. Hudson , 21, of Bloomington, is charged in federal court with possession of a machine gun. He was initially charged in McLean County court with two counts of unlawful use of a weapon-machine gun parts. One charge is a Class X felony and the other is a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tommy L. Jumper
Tommy L. Jumper , 60, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 30 months on probation and 96 days in jail for one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
David S. Fry
David S. Fry , 70, of Normal, is charged with 45 counts of child pornography. Sixteen of the charges are a Class 2 felony and 29 charges are a Class 3 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Logan T. Kendricks
Logan T. Kendricks , 35, is charged with two counts of aggravated domestic battery, Class 2 felonies.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Davis W. Hopkins
Davis W. Hopkins , 25, of Chenoa, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine, a Class X felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson , 38, of Chicago, is charged with unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, a Class X felony; unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of cocaine, a Class 1 felony; unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, a Class 2 felony; unlawful possession of firearm ammunition by a convicted felon, a Class 2 felony; unlawful possession of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class 3 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Rochelle A. McCray
Rochelle A. McCray , 37, of Chicago, is charged with unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, a Class X felony; unlawful possession of between 1 and 15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, a Class 1 felony; unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of cocaine, a Class 1 felony; unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine, a Class 4 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Dontae D. Gilbert
Dontae D. Gilbert , 30, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated domestic battery, a Class 2 felony, and domestic battery, charged as a Class 3 felony for a subsequent offense.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Stefan A. Mangina
Stefan A. Mangina , 32, is charged with three counts of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine, unlawful possession of meth with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Michael J. Owen
Michael J. Owen , 30, of Stanford, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of between 1 and 15 grams of cocaine. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Cedric J. Haynes
Cedric J. Haynes , 21, of Bloomington, is charged with nine counts of unlawful delivery of less than 1 gram of cocaine, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jonathan Wiley
Jonathan Wiley , 30, of Chicago, is charged with attempted possession or sale of stolen car parts, a Class 2 felony, and resisting a peace officer, a Class A misdemeanor.
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Jason S. Russell
Jason S. Russell , 22, of Chicago, is charged with attempted possession or sale of stolen car parts, a Class 2 felony, and resisting a peace officer, a Class A misdemeanor.
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Aaron J. Zielinski
Aaron J. Zielinski, 28, of Plainfield, was sentenced to four years on probation for unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine. A charge of unlawful possession of meth with the intent to deliver was dismissed.
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Albert F. Matheny
Albert F. Matheny , 35, of Bloomington, was sentenced Jan. 10 to six years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of less than five grams of methamphetamine.
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Hunter C. Kellenberger
Hunter C. Kellenberger , 24, of Pekin, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine. A meth possession charge was dismissed.
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Samuel Harris
Samuel Harris , 21, of Chicago, was sentenced to 22 days in jail and 30 months on probation after pleading guilty to one count of possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
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Jordan P. Gillespie
Jordan P. Gillespie , 27, of LeRoy, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for residential burglary and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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William R. Carter
William R. Carter , 23, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexual assault, attempted residential arson and unlawful restraint.
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Kentre A. Jackson
Kentre A. Jackson, 26, of Ypsilanti, Mich., was sentenced to 30 months of conditional discharge. He was charged as of June 9, 2020, with unlawful possession of 500 to 2,000 grams of cannabis and unlawful possession of 500 to 2,000 grams of cannabis with the intent to deliver. The latter charge was dismissed.
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Andrew L. Stanley
Andrew L. Stanley , 39, of Bloomington, was sentenced to four years on probation for one count of arson. He pleaded guilty to setting his home on fire while a woman and a teenage girl were inside. One count of aggravated arson was dismissed in a plea agreement.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jerail M. Myrick
Jerail M. Myrick , 26, of Springfield, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of less than 1 gram of cocaine, a Class 2 felony.
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Amari M. McNabb
Amari M. McNabb , 23, of Country Club Hills , was sentenced to 28 years in prison for murder and mob action for his involvement in the 2019 fatal shooting of Juan Nash, 25, in Bloomington. He was found guilty in a jury trial of those charges, but the jury found him not guilty of discharge of a firearm.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Aaron Parlier
Aaron M. Parlier , 40, was sentenced Jan. 14 to 450 years in prison after he was found guilty in a bench trial of 10 counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a minor and 10 counts of child pornography production.
Rebecca L. Gormley
Rebecca L. Gormley , 35, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Penny S. Self
Penny S. Self , 59, of Ashland, is charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Nathaniel A. Butler
Nathaniel A. Butler , 20, of Bloomington was sentenced Jan. 4, 2022, to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty to aggravated discharge of a firearm into an occupied building and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm without a valid firearm owners identification card.
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BLOOMINGTON — Washington Elementary School is inviting the public to contribute plants to the Lockenvitz Gardens after vandalism that caused hundreds of dollars in damage.
Community members, staff and students from the school have already started working to repair the destruction, which included the loss of an 11-year-old cherry tree, the school posted on Facebook. Hostas that had been gifts were also damaged; large rocks were moved, crushing other plants that were growing in the garden.
The school first posted about the vandalism around 3 p.m. Monday, asking for public donations of plants as people thin their gardens. Four hours later, the school posted an update thanking a group of kids that had stopped by to help put the garden back in order.
“It’s kind of disheartening that whomever took it upon themselves to damage it,” Reilly said.
He estimated the vandalism caused $200 to $300 in damage. He was unsure if a police report had been filed, but said school officials would review video and determine next steps.
It has been much better to see the Washington community come together to replant the garden and fix the damage, he said.
Some school staff members were out working on the garden Tuesday morning. A later social media post invited the community to continue donating plants; beds and spots for planting are marked with white spray paint.
Those who want to bring a plant should bring a shovel and scissors to cut through the weed guard, the post said. Donors should also let the school know they have put in plants so that staff can give the plants some extra attention while watering. They are also looking for some larger rocks for use in borders.
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BLOOMINGTON — McLean County Board members will consider approving plans for two solar farms, as well as an ordinance to abate Rivian Automotive’s 2021 property taxes during its monthly meeting Thursday.
A 2-megawatt and a 5-megawatt solar facility planned in south Bloomington and southwest of Bloomington, respectively, are on the board’s agenda for approval. California-based Cypress Creek Renewables is proposing the two solar farms.
“Allowing the property to develop as a solar energy facility provides many benefits, including: an opportunity for locally generated, clean energy resources in McLean County; income generation for the landowner; and economic investment and increased tax revenue for McLean County,” said Ryan McQuigg, a Cypress Creek Renewables project developer.
The facilities would be McLean County’s second and third solar farms. The county’s only solar farm is a 2-megawatt facility about two miles east of Downs and owned by Moraine Solar LCC.
Breezewood Solar LLC, a sub-company of Cypress Creek Renewables, said their proposed 2-megawatt solar farm would generate enough energy to power 300 to 400 single-family homes in a year. The company plans to build the facility on 28 acres in south Bloomington at the northwest corner of the Route 51 and Interstate 74 interchange.
The McLean County Zoning Board of Appeals approved the $3.9 million, 2-megawatt solar farm at its June 7 meeting.
Breezewood Solar said it expects to invest about $2.3 million of the project into the local economy.
The 5-megawatt facility, proposed by Towanda Solar LLC, a sub-company of Cypress Creek Renewables, initially passed the McLean County Zoning Board of Appeals May 3. County board members, however, postponed a vote to approve the plans to ensure the project had local labor for construction.
McLean County Board member Jim Rogal, who motioned to table the May 13 vote on the Towanda Solar facility in Dale Township, recently met with Cypress Creek Renewables representatives, but it is unclear if an agreement to ensure local labor was reached. Rogal could not be immediately reached for comment Tuesday.
Breezewood Solar is expected to generate 25 jobs for construction, while Towanda Solar is expected to provide 21 construction jobs.
Towanda Solar is a $7 million project planned on a 28-acre area in Dale Township. Developers said the project would invest about $4 million locally and could power 800 homes a year.
If approved Thursday by the county board, the two solar farms would still need to acquire construction permits from the McLean County Building and Zoning Department.
Developers said each project would take about 12 to 16 weeks to construct.
Rivian property tax abatement
County board members also are expected to vote to abate Rivian Automotive’s 2021 property taxes, pursuant to its five-year project development agreement.
It would be Rivian’s final property tax abatement from the company’s 2016 economic incentive agreement with the county. It would result in about a $1.25 million reduction in county property tax revenue for this fiscal year.
The incentive agreement included benchmarks the electric vehicle company was required to meet to qualify for tax breaks. For this year, that included requirements for Rivian to invest at least $40.5 million in project expenses prior to 2021 and employ at least 500 workers prior to 2022.
Rivian has exceeded both requirements, most notably as it employs more than 5,000 workers, Bloomington-Normal Economic Development Council CEO Patrick Hoban said.
McLean County Board member Chuck Erickson emphasized the significant investment required for the abatement during Monday’s executive committee meeting.
“We don’t hand these out like candy, I mean you have to earn them (tax abatements),” Erickson said. “When the company earns them, they get them and if they don’t earn them, they don’t get them. And so I just think it’s important to the public to know that when they are probably going to see the size of this abatement that it also came in conjunction with a lot of investment.”
The Town of Normal, the McLean County Unit 5 school board, the Heartland Community College Board of Trustees and the Bloomington Normal Airport Authority Board of Commissioners are among the several taxing bodies that have voted to approve Rivian’s 2021 property tax abatements thus far. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/watch-now-mclean-county-board-considering-2-solar-farms/article_d652ca8c-ec09-11ec-9df4-3329fa848b5b.html | 2022-06-15T00:30:13 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/watch-now-mclean-county-board-considering-2-solar-farms/article_d652ca8c-ec09-11ec-9df4-3329fa848b5b.html |
A New Jersey man who killed his ex-girlfriend and drove their toddler son to Tennessee with her body in the trunk last July was sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday.
Tyler Rios pleaded guilty in April to aggravated manslaughter and desecrating human remains in the death of 24-year-old Yasemin Uyar.
According to the Union County Prosecutor’s Office in New Jersey, Rios killed Uyar in her Rahway home on July 8 and then fled with their 2-year-old son. The incident triggered an Amber Alert and a multistate investigation after the boy didn’t show up for day care and Uyar didn’t arrive for a work shift on July 9.
The boy was eventually found unharmed at a hotel in Monterey, Tennessee, on July 10. Uyar’s body was found nearby in a wooded area off Interstate 40.
Under terms of his sentencing, the 28-year-old Rios, of East Orange, will have to serve 85% of his 25-year term on the manslaughter count, then serve an additional five-year term for the second count before being eligible for release.
The prosecutor’s office credited the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI’s Memphis field office in Tennessee, along with state and local police in New Jersey, for helping solve the case. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/nj-man-sentenced-to-30-years-after-killing-ex-driving-son-with-her-body-in-trunk/3733977/ | 2022-06-15T00:33:54 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/nj-man-sentenced-to-30-years-after-killing-ex-driving-son-with-her-body-in-trunk/3733977/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. – Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ricky Martin headlined a news conference in Orlando Tuesday to announce a new Hispanic LGBT advocacy initiative.
Hispanic Federation, a nonprofit seeking to help Hispanic communities, announced the musical artists will be headlining in support of the initiative.
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“The press briefing will take place at the height of Pride Month and just days after the 6-year remembrance of the 49 lives that were taken during the Pulse Club massacre,” the group wrote.
The group also said the conference will criticize the Parental Rights in Education Law, which sought to give parents more decisions over their children’s education and eliminated gender theory curriculum from grades K-3. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/09/lin-manuel-miranda-ricky-martin-to-headline-lgbt-briefing-in-orlando/ | 2022-06-15T00:38:37 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/09/lin-manuel-miranda-ricky-martin-to-headline-lgbt-briefing-in-orlando/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. – With the Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe concert rapidly approaching, the Camping World Stadium announced Thursday they are offering fans the ability to purchase stadium on-site parking permits in advance or take the free shuttle service.
On June 19, the date of the concert, the stadium will be having an event traffic management plan and road closures in place around Camping World Stadium.
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Camping World Stadium recommended that fans download their pre-paid stadium on-site parking permits in advance to their smartphone wallet and have it ready for display to make the parking experience as seamless and easy as possible.
The free shuttle will operate from 1 p.m. to after 1-hour after the event ends, and it will be located in Downtown Orlando, Church Street and Division Avenue (NW side of Amway Center).
They will also be having a designated spot for the rideshare pick-up & drop-off. It will be located in Lot 9 (801 S. Rio Grande Ave.) and South Dollins Avenue between West Church Street and West Pine Street, the stadium said.
DEF LEPPARD / MÖTLEY CRÜE TIMELINE
SUNDAY, JUNE 19
8:00 a.m.: RV Parking Lots Open
1:00 p.m.: Road Closures Begin
1:00 p.m.: Shuttle Service Begins
1:30 p.m.: Box Office Opens (located near Gate A at Church Street & Rio Grande Avenue)
1:30 p.m.: Stadium Parking Lots Open (pre-paid parking permit is required)
3:30 p.m.: Stadium Gates Open
4:30 p.m.: Concert Begins
1-Hour Post Event: Shuttle Service Ends
For more information about the concert, visit the Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe Event Guide. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/09/on-site-parking-available-at-camping-world-stadium-for-def-leppard-and-motley-crue-concert/ | 2022-06-15T00:38:53 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/09/on-site-parking-available-at-camping-world-stadium-for-def-leppard-and-motley-crue-concert/ |
ST. CLOUD, Fla. – St. Cloud police are looking for two men after nearly 1,100 gallons of diesel fuel was stolen earlier this month.
The St. Cloud Police Department said officers were notified on June 1 that 1,093 gallons of diesel were stolen at the Mobile gas station on Narcoossee Road.
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Police said two pickup trucks involved had large tanks in the truck beds in order to carry all the fuel. The trucks are believed to be white Ford 250s, one with a black or dark-colored running board and the other with silver or light-colored running boards.
According to Sgt. Wayne Souza, gas station employees weren’t aware of the theft until they did inventory — that’s when they found approximately $6,000 worth of gas missing.
“Throughout the afternoon...the two trucks kind of take turns going through the same pump and then leaving and coming back again,” Souza said of the suspected thieves.
The department said the two pickup trucks were last seen traveling on Narcoossee Road.
Police said the first man suspected of stealing the fuel was wearing a white hat with the letter “R,” a neon-green long-sleeve shirt and light-colored blue jeans or gray sweatpants with white sneakers.
The second man is described as a Hispanic man who was wearing a fisherman’s hat, sunglasses and possibly a dark gray shirt.
“We just ask the citizens of St. Cloud to just be vigilant of your surroundings, certainly at gas stations,” Souza said. “And if you see anyone tampering with the pump that’s kind of unusual suspicious behavior, then please — don’t hesitate to call us.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact the department at 407-891-6729. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/2-sought-after-nearly-1100-gallons-of-gas-stolen-in-st-cloud-police-say/ | 2022-06-15T00:39:04 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/2-sought-after-nearly-1100-gallons-of-gas-stolen-in-st-cloud-police-say/ |
CASSELBERRY, Fla. – Four people, including a teenager and the shooter, are dead after a murder-suicide in Casselberry Tuesday morning, according to police.
Officers, along with Seminole County deputies, said they were called to an apartment located at 2333 Coawood Court around 7:15 a.m. after a male called 911 saying he had been shot.
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Officers and deputies found four people with gunshot wounds inside the apartment. The suspect was male, the other two were female, and there was also a 15-year-old boy, according to investigators.
Police say ultimately none of the victims survived.
Officers believe the killer shot the three victims then turned the gun on themselves. The suspect was taken to an area hospital and succumbed to his injuries.
Police believe the four people are family -- the shooter was the husband.
Family members told News 6′s Jerry Askin that the two females were the suspected shooter’s wife, Zuleika Lopez, and mother-in-law, Mileida Lopez, and a stepchild, Victor Araujo. Seminole County Public Schools confirms that Araujo attended Lake Howell High School.
Casselberry police say they had received a call last week about concerns about a gun being in the home, but police said there was no sign of issues. The gun was legally owned, purchased June 2 at a local gun shop. Police said they gave information on what to do if the woman felt threatened.
“We’re clueless as to why this incident happened, we don’t have a history of violence involving these individuals,” said Casselberry Police Chief Larry Krantz.
Police records show two calls to the home -- one in 2020, where the suspect allegedly called police, saying he didn’t want to be with the wife any longer. Krantz says there was an incident a few months later where the wife claimed the suspect was following her because he was jealous and was accusing her of infidelity.
The police chief said there may have been two unreported incidences of physical domestic violence, according to witnesses, but nothing reported to law enforcement.
Krantz urged people who may be victims of domestic violence in the community to call for help. Florida’s Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-500-1119. You can also reach out to domestic violence centers in your county, including Harbor House of Central Florida. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/child-among-4-dead-in-murder-suicide-casselberry-police-say/ | 2022-06-15T00:39:11 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/child-among-4-dead-in-murder-suicide-casselberry-police-say/ |
VIERA, Fla. – Melbourne police spoke publicly Tuesday for the first time about investigating a shooting at the Off The Traxx bar where a man died on the dance floor back in March.
Lead detective Thomas Cahalan testified during 28-year-old Elvin Clark’s bond hearing that the shooting was part of a “clear plan of attack.”
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“(I recall) a muzzle flash coming from Mr. Clark’s right hand, immediately followed by gun smoke and the victim stumbling and collapsing onto the eastside of the bar,” the detective told the courtroom.
Police identified the victim as Alain Noel, 34, from Palm Bay.
Cahalan testified that Noel, who was recorded dancing moments before his death, was an innocent victim caught in a feud between Clark, two co-defendants in the case— 30-year-old Lucious Scott and 34-year-old Richard Lakes—and a man Noel was hanging out with that night.
During the four hour hearing, Noel’s family filled one side of the courtroom and Clark’s supporters filled the other.
Clark’s family and friends testified the defendant turned his life around after spending five years in prison by starting a successful lawn care business and mentoring youth athletes.
A 17-year-old Eau Gallie High School football player read a letter to the courtroom that he wrote.
“Elvin is a leader and a role model for the young men around here who look up to him,” Alvarez Baker said.
A defense attorney asked Clark’s cousin if he would be a threat to the community if he is released from jail before his trial.
“Not at all,” Roshoud Gibson said. “He has his head on track.”
The defense is asking for a bond of $100,000 but the hearing concluded Tuesday without a ruling.
Judge Steve Henderson said he’ll make a decision by Thursday.
Stick with News 6 and ClickOrlando.com for updates to this story. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/clear-plan-of-attack-police-outline-melbourne-bar-shooting-at-murder-suspects-bond-hearing/ | 2022-06-15T00:39:33 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/clear-plan-of-attack-police-outline-melbourne-bar-shooting-at-murder-suspects-bond-hearing/ |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Consumers are being warned by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Fisher-Price to not use Fisher-Price Infant-to-Toddler Rockers and Newborn-to-Toddler Rockers for sleep, according to a news release.
The CPSC and Fisher-Price reported at least 13 reported deaths between 2009 and 2021 of infants in Fisher-Price Rockers, according to officials.
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The CPSC also said caregivers should never use any type of inclined product for infant sleep and infants should never be unsupervised, unrestrained or with bedding materials due to risk of suffocation.
To keep infants safe, the CPSC finalized a rule requiring infant sleep products have a sleep surface angle of 10 degrees or less. The rule will go into effect on June 23, according to a news release.
Here are some reminders for caregivers by the CPSC:
- The best place for an infant to sleep is on a firm, flat surface in a crib, bassinet or play yard.
- Parents and caregivers should use a fitted sheet only and never add blankets, pillows, padded crib bumpers, or other items to an infant’s sleeping environment.
- Infants should always be placed to sleep on their backs. Infants who fall asleep in an inclined or upright position should be moved to a safe sleep environment with a firm, flat surface, such as a crib, bassinet or play yard.
If consumers want to report incidents involving rockers or other infant products, they can go to saferproducts.gov or call Fisher-Price at 800-432-5437.
To learn more about safety measurements when using Fisher-Price products, visit www.fisherprice.com/SafeStart | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/cpsc-fisher-price-advise-parents-to-never-use-children-rockers-for-sleep/ | 2022-06-15T00:39:45 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/cpsc-fisher-price-advise-parents-to-never-use-children-rockers-for-sleep/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. – The Hispanic Federation announced a $1 million pledge for nonprofit organizations working to help and support the Latinx LGBTQ + community.
The announcement came two days after the 6-year remembrance of the 49 angels lost at the Pulse Nightclub shooting. The funds will strengthen organizations’ advocacy efforts, services and infrastructure.
“There are forces right now that wish to erase our demand for change, that wish to silence our LatinX voices,” Frankie Miranda, President and CEO of the Hispanic Federation said in front of activists, community leaders and media at the Doctor Phillips Center for the performing arts in Orlando.
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Advance Change Together, or ACT, is a new investment initiative focused on empowering and supporting organizations fighting for the basic rights of the LGBTQ+ community.
“The Federation has pledged ($1 million)... to run this initiative for at least 2 years,” Miranda said.
Gabriela Rodríguez is the executive director of Q LatinX, a grassroots nonprofit launched after the pulse nightclub shooting.
“We have six different departments that work in a variety of different issues around immigration, HIV justice, healing justice anything that sits between those two intersections,” Rodríguez said.
Rodríguez said the funding will help current leadership and help build future leaders within the organization.
“Someone invested in me and felt that I was worthy of this role and now I’m able to do that for those who are coming up,” she said.
Rodríguez was among six panelists invited to share their personal stories and why their priority is getting results for the LGBTQ+ community.
Florida Representative for District 49, Carlos Guillermo Smith, addressed current legislation being passed targeting the LGBTQ+ community.
“The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill was passed into law which is a very thinly veiled attempt to push our community back into the closet,” Smith said.
Smith said there should be a special focus on children and teenagers within the LGBTQ+ community who are more likely to have suicidal thoughts.
“That’s not because LGBTQ are predisposed to suicidal ideation. It’s because they can’t find the support from their parents from their family or from their schools,” Smooth said.
Other advocates invited to the announcement included actors Valentina and Stephanie Beatriz from Disney’s Encanto and playwright, composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda. Singer and actor Ricky Martin shared a message played to the audience from a big screen.
“This has to stop. All people are people. Everyone should have the right to have a family and love who they love,” Martin said “Mi gente, we’re all in this together and we are going to stop hate. Martin Luther King said once, ‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.’”
The ACT initiative will support approximately 20 LatinX LGBTQ+ nonprofits through grants of up to $50,000. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/hispanic-federaton-announces-1m-pledge-in-orlando-to-help-lgbtq-organizations/ | 2022-06-15T00:39:51 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/hispanic-federaton-announces-1m-pledge-in-orlando-to-help-lgbtq-organizations/ |
TALLAHASSEE, FLA – A home health aide employee was arrested on Tuesday after lying about spending time with a disabled Medicaid recipient, according to the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
Diane Johnson was arrested in Duval County after not providing any services to a disabled adult for five weeks, instead sitting in her car outside of the patient’s home, investigators said.
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The patient’s home became a mess due to the patient being unable to care for or clean the house as a result of their disability. Johnson refused to perform the services required.
“Not only did this home health aide employee rip off a taxpayer-funded program, but she also withheld services from a patient in need of care,” Attorney General Ashley Moody said. “My Medicaid Fraud Control Unit uncovered these crimes, and now the suspect in this case will have to answer for her decisions not to provide care.”
The authorities found out about the fraud after a social worker visited the patient’s home and found Johnson sitting in her car outside.
The social worker contacted Tamba Momorie, the owner of Tambolina Services Inc., which was a company that hired Johnson to care of the patient. Momorie drove to the home and found Johnson sitting in the car.
After Johnson was confronted by Momorie, she said that Johnson violently cursed her and left, never returning and stealing the tablet the company gave her.
If Johnson is convicted, she could face up to ten years in prison and more than $25,000 in fines. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/home-health-aide-arrested-after-withholding-services-from-disabled-adult/ | 2022-06-15T00:39:57 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/home-health-aide-arrested-after-withholding-services-from-disabled-adult/ |
TITUSVILLE, FLA – A juvenile suspect is in custody after the Titusville Police Department responded to a report of a shooting at 1400 Block of Prairie Lane on Tuesday, officials said.
Police reported to the scene around 2 p.m. where they say they found one adult male shot, who was transferred to a local hospital with serious injuries.
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The police said that the scene is secure.
This is a developing story and more details will be released soon. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/juvenile-suspect-in-custody-following-shooting-in-titusville/ | 2022-06-15T00:40:03 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/juvenile-suspect-in-custody-following-shooting-in-titusville/ |
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – It was 1962 when NASA started building a sprawling site in a swamp in Central Florida on Merritt Island from where Americans would soar into the sky and walk on the moon.
Bob Sieck, former Space Shuttle launch director and Gemini and Apollo launch team member, was there from the beginning.
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Sieck saw the Kennedy Space Central rise up over the Banana River. It was a different time, almost like a war-time effort Sieck said, building the entire complex, the Apollo moon rocket and capsule, training on it, and then launching it to the moon — all in 7 years.
The Artemis I moon rocket (also known as the SLS) is already 10 years in the making and NASA is re-using some space shuttle hardware to put it together inside the existing Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), the cavernous building built for the Saturn V moon rocket.
“But this is a different environment we live in today than we did in the 60s,” Sieck said. “In the 60s we were a more risk acceptance society. We were doing everything for the first time so the system that provides money and budget was tolerant of having things go wrong, making mistakes, having accidents. And doing whatever it took to recover from that I get on with the business. It was kind of like a continuous war campaign to get to the moon, whatever you needed in support of resources, money or whatever was there, all you ever had to do was ask for it. And when something went wrong it was, well, we’re doing things for the first time so we’re still going to support you.”
Jeremy Graeber, assistant launch director for the Artemis I mission, said Artemis is not a new mission but a progression of missions.
“Now we’re going to take things that we’ve learned from Apollo, shuttle, International Space Station and going to take this forward to the Artemis missions,” Graeber said.
NASA has been learning from Kennedy Space Center’s 60 years of lessons. The latest lesson is learning how to fully fuel Artemis, after the first wet dress rehearsal countdown test ended early.
Engineers rolled back the SLS to the VAB and quickly diagnosed and repaired leaks and a faulty valve.
Will Graeber complete the second wet dress rehearsal attempt, scheduled to begin this Saturday?
“I think we’re in really great shape, the teams that work the issues we identified during our first wet-dry dress rehearsal have done a fantastic job,” Graeber said.
Graeber said Artemis I will launch this year after the second wet dress rehearsal is successful. Subsequent Artemis missions will land the next man and first woman on the moon, according to NASA.
Nathan Gelino, principal investigator and one of several brilliant engineers inventing and patenting what seems like science fiction at KSC’s Swampworks facility, is currently working on using a 3D printer to create a moon soil (regolith) composite material that will protect astronauts from radiation.
“We are 3D printing a protective shelter the astronauts can go under in the event of a particle event or other radiation exposure hazard,” Gelino said. “For the whole idea of a sustainable presence on the moon.”
Greg Clements, Chief of KSC’s Exploration Systems and Development Office, explained the complexities and complications of science fact: protecting the human body to live in space, long term, on the surface of another world — the challenge NASA is now facing.
“I began my career in 1985, when we planned to go to Mars 20 years later,” Clements said. “So we were 20 years away from a human Mars mission and everyone was excited about that. So now 37 years later, the latest projection is we are 18 years away from a human Mars mission. Not much closer and a lot of the reason for that is there are still some very critical technical challenges, new technologies and capabilities we have to field, propulsion, radiation, living off the land that are going to make that vision a reality.”
Mike Leinbach, space shuttle launch director from 2000 through the end of the program, said that’s why it makes sense to try to learn to live on the moon first.
“The next logical step is a base on the moon, let’s go learn how to live on the moon and NASA is leading that charge,” Leinbach said. “Going to Mars before we learn to live on the moon is wrong in my opinion, it’s infinitely more difficult. And so we need to get that experience of living on the moon first and that’s where NASA is leading that charge.” | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/kennedy-space-center-celebrates-60-years-learns-from-6-decades-of-lessons/ | 2022-06-15T00:40:09 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/kennedy-space-center-celebrates-60-years-learns-from-6-decades-of-lessons/ |
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Sierra Space is planning crewed missions to begin building a commercial space station in the next few years and the company is opening a training center to get astronauts ready.
The company announced it was opening the Sierra Space Human Spaceflight Center and Astronaut Training Academy Tuesday.
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The company plans to train three types of astronauts who will work on what is being called the Orbital Reef, a space station being built in partnership with Blue Origin.
Professional astronauts will spend months operating and maintaining the Orbital Reef. Specialist astronauts will be trained to conduct research and manufacturing on board, and experiential astronauts will be like tourists, seeing what it is like to live and work in space.
Sierra Space will use a selection process similar to NASA’s to pick the first professional astronauts in 2023, with training to begin in 2024. Sierra Space hopes to have these astronauts beginning construction of the Orbital Reef by 2026.
Meanwhile, Sierra Space’s space plane, the Dream Chaser, is expected to begin uncrewed missions from Kennedy Space Center in 2023, with a crewed mission planned for 2026. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/kennedy-space-center-to-get-sierra-space-astronaut-training-center/ | 2022-06-15T00:40:16 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/kennedy-space-center-to-get-sierra-space-astronaut-training-center/ |
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A Lake County man continues to help children read one “tail at a time” with his nonprofit Read to Sydney.
Thom Battisto started the organization, which focuses on letting students interact with a therapy dog while reading a story, more than 10 years ago with his original therapy dog, Sydney.
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Since then, Read to Sydney has expanded and includes a mobile library as well as eight lending library boxes, all sponsored by Kiwanis Club of Clermont.
Read to Sydney visits local schools and libraries. Battisto told News 6 that their pop-up library is completely self-contained and they can set it up indoors or outdoors depending on your needs.
“A lot of children, they’re embarrassed to read out loud. They have dyslexia or some type of reading issue. So reading with a dog, a dog is nonjudgmental. A dog is not going to laugh at them. They don’t realize if they’re saying a word wrong,” Battisto said.
And while Sydney is no longer with us, her legacy lives on with Toby. We first introduced you to Toby back in 2018.
“Toby is a great little therapy dog. He actually started with Sydney, who was our first therapy dog, and has been working with Read to Sydney for 10 years. He’s my personal dog and he just loves the kids,” Battisto said.
Battisto said Toby is hanging up his vest in February but is already busy training his successor, a 4-month-old Pomsky named Sunny.
“So he is with Toby everywhere we go. He goes to the stores with me to socialize and I think he’s going to be a good therapy dog,” Battisto said.
If you’d like to learn more about Read to Sydney or to request a visit, you can do so online here. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/lake-county-nonprofit-encourages-students-to-read-with-the-help-of-therapy-dogs/ | 2022-06-15T00:40:22 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/lake-county-nonprofit-encourages-students-to-read-with-the-help-of-therapy-dogs/ |
DUNCANVILLE, Texas — Parents whose children survived the gunfire incident Monday at a Duncanville Fieldhouse summer camp are praising the response by staff and by the Duncanville Police officers who neutralized the threat.
And it is a quick response that security experts say every camp, every school, every organization should be ready to perform as well.
"I'm grateful that she's safe," said Kena Summerville of her 8-year-old daughter Trenia. "I'm thankful that the team, they knew what to do."
"I'm very big on the thought process and having a plan before the danger presents itself," said Alfonso Solis of Solis Security Solutions who also has high praise for the civilian and police response to the shooter.
Solis, who was not involved in the Monday incident response, trains church congregations, community groups, and private organizations how to prepare and respond to active shooter situations.
"We have fire drills, fire walls, fire escapes, fire sprinkler systems, fire extinguishers," he said of expected precautions and safeguards in public places. "But, when it comes to an active shooter, we don't really talk about it and it's a conversation that needs to be had. There should be a plan and it's something that we should train for."
And other summer camp locations tell WFAA that's exactly what they are doing.
Camp Fort Worth, a city-organized camp that runs through August for children ages 5 to 13, tells WFAA that an active shooter training video is part of their employee preparation and that they participate in situational awareness training with Fort Worth Police. They also "continue to review our operational procedures, training and facilities to enhance the safety of our patrons, including youth day campers, and staff," a camp spokesperson said in a written statement.
The City of Arlington, in reference to its summer camp programs says active shooter training is required for parks and recreation staff, school resource officers are always on site, and that as of this week - monthly lock-down drills will take place at all Arlington summer camps. The first drill is expected to take place before the end of this week or no later than next Tuesday, June 21.
"The safety and security of our community members and visitors are of paramount importance. Arlington police officers have been provided training in active shooter intervention in the past and are currently undergoing refresher instruction through in-service training," Chief of Police Al Jones said. "We stand ready to respond immediately to any such incident and take measures to prevent further violence from occurring."
"What I teach is a mindset. I tell people off the bat, you are not Rambo," added Solis of his security training sessions. "What I am trying to do is buy you 30 seconds because in 30 seconds in an emergency, whether it's active shooter, industrial accident, car accident, 30 seconds is a very long time."
So, that you can be like 8-year-old Trenia Summerville, who gets to say this today.
"Fill yourself with joy," she said when asked what her advice would be to other children still frightened by Monday's events. "The police officers like Duncanville like they will help you no matter what," she said.
While also praying that all these "no matter whats" - don't happen again. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dfw-summer-camps-say-active-shooter-response-training-is-already-part-of-their-normal-routine/287-d0acd3c2-a8c0-4c2b-a4c1-4775f38afee3 | 2022-06-15T00:40:28 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dfw-summer-camps-say-active-shooter-response-training-is-already-part-of-their-normal-routine/287-d0acd3c2-a8c0-4c2b-a4c1-4775f38afee3 |
INDIALANTIC, Fla. – A man suspected of robbing a Space Coast Credit Union Tuesday morning in Indialantic is still at large, according to the Indialantic Police Department.
Police said the man entered the credit union and handed the clerk a note demanding money. According to investigators, the clerk gave an undisclosed amount of money to the man, who then left.
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Police described the suspected robber as being 5 feet, 7 inches tall and bald. He was caught on camera wearing a black hooded jacket, black shorts and black socks with gray shoes. Officers added that no weapons were seen or implied during the robbery.
The department is asking anyone with information about the suspected robber to contact the department at (321) 723-7788. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/man-suspected-of-indialantic-credit-union-robbery-at-large-police-say/ | 2022-06-15T00:40:29 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/man-suspected-of-indialantic-credit-union-robbery-at-large-police-say/ |
DALLAS — A small insect that has the potential to destroy certain types of trees has appeared in the City of Dallas.
The presence of the emerald ash borer has been confirmed in the city limits, according to the Dallas Park and Recreation Department.
The small, metallic green beetle digs its way into ash trees.
“The potential for Dallas. It is a serious matter,” said Brett Johnson, senior environmental coordinator and urban biologist with the City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department.
A team of city staffers has been doing inventory of ash trees in and around Dallas over the past 18 months. They’re tracking the beetle’s invasion and damage.
“After [the emerald ash borer] was found in Tarrant County in 2018, we knew it was basically a matter of time until it got to Dallas County and the City of Dallas," said Johnson.
Once the beetle gets into an area and affects an ash tree, that tree could be dead within two to three years, if not treated.
Urban biologists and city foresters say the insect tunnels its way through ash trees during its larval stage. That blocks nutrient flow to the tree. If an ash tree cannot eat, nor drink, it will die.
There are several ways to identify an ash tree, according to Chris McMaster, a Forester with the City of Dallas.
“The first thing you’re going to be able to notice is it’s got a compound leaf,” said McMaster.
The compound leaf of an ash tree is made up of five to nine leaflets. The tree can also be identified by its unique branching, which spreads on opposite sides of a stem.
The ash tree also produces single-wing seeds. It also has a distinct bark pattern.
“It has this cross-hatching, or what we call diamond plating,” said McMaster.
Dallas Park and Recreation staffers say you may also identify an ash tree from the blonde patterns on its bark, which comes from birds, squirrels and other critters.
Johnson and McMaster said if you have ash tree around your home, it’s best to call a professional arborist to help determine if the emerald ash borer has already visited and how best to treat the tree.
For more information about the emerald ash borer, click here. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/emerald-ash-borer-beetle-in-dallas/287-12740b77-5971-4722-baf1-5678258d3839 | 2022-06-15T00:40:34 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/emerald-ash-borer-beetle-in-dallas/287-12740b77-5971-4722-baf1-5678258d3839 |
CLERMONT, Fla. – Police said they are looking for a man diagnosed with Schizophrenia who was deemed endangered and unable to take care of himself.
Shawn Charles Hilligoss, 36, was last seen Monday night around 9:30 p.m. at the 1300 block of Laurel Hill Drive in Clermont, investigators said.
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According to investigators, Hilligoss is 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 185 pounds. He also has light-brown hair and green eyes, reports show.
Hilligoss was last seen wearing black gym shorts, a black shirt, black shoes and a navy-blue t-shirt wrapped around his head, officials said.
If anyone has any information related to this case, please contact the Clermont Police Department at 352-394-5588 or 911 if it is an emergency. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/missing-endangered-36-year-old-man-in-clermont/ | 2022-06-15T00:40:35 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/missing-endangered-36-year-old-man-in-clermont/ |
DENTON COUNTY, Texas — Dozens of families in a small town just east of Denton, Texas are looking at having no place to call home soon.
Revisha Threat became a Providence Village Resident about a year ago. She relocated to Texas after learning it was a great place to raise a family.
"I sit in my living room and cry because I just don't know what to do," said Revisha Threat.
That because, like some of her neighbors, Revisha fears being homeless. The rules just changed in their Providence Village subdivision.
Revisha learned HOA officials voted to no longer allow Section 8 renters, a government subsidized rental assistance program. She believes it stems from neighbors not wanting renters. saying some of those neighbors have even sent death threats to her family.
"It's gotten a little dangerous to the point where I can't let my kids go to the pool or go anywhere outside of the home because of all the threats I've received," Revisha Threat said,
Some Section 8 renters thought the new rule would not affect them and so did their landlord. When talk about the proposed changes started, some property investors and landlords attended a Q&A session and walked away believing they would be grandfathered in as Section 8 landlords.
The HOA reportedly revealed later those fines would be levied as soon as 30 days if the Section 8 renters were not relocated out of Providence Village or paying for their lease.
HOA language also added property investors would be limited to owning only one single home.
Yvette Townsend already had relocation plans, but now she must move. She moved into Providence Village last December.
"I'm on Section 8 because I have a brain condition. I can't work because my hair fills with fluid," said Yvette Townsend, "So if I don't have the brain condition, I will be working, and I wouldn't be on Section 8."
Real Estate Investor Judy Rooker rents out 10 homes in the neighborhood. She can't afford the HOA fines at $300 a week for having Section 8 tenants.
Rooker is not just a property owner who rents to just anyone. She takes the time to get to know the families who she develops a professional relationship. She explained she has had more issues with Non-Section 8 renters than those who do receive government rent assistance.
"On June the six they gave us the new rules and then they said all that stuff, you know, everybody can only have one rental house and then all this section is banned," Rooker said.
Rooker and her team are already consulting with attorneys to see if the HOA has violated not only her rights as a business owner, but more importantly, the rights of her tenants.
Rooker owns more than 50 properties all together across Dallas-Fort Worth, and this is the first time she has been forced to tell good tenants they have to get out.
The same goes for landlord Alecia Mackey when it comes to finding families a safe place to call home. She helped Stephen Smith rent a home in Providence Village through Section 8 assistance due to a job-related injury.
She is heart-broken about telling her tenants like Stephen Smith they must move. Especially since relocating to other Section 8 approved housing can take weeks if not months in some cases.
"It hurts tremendously," said Alecia Mackey, "I have three families here in Providence Village, and I'm very close to all of them. I text happy Mother's Day to the families. We say Merry Christmas, that they're family to me and they're being discriminated against. I don't know why."
Mackey's tenant Stephen Smith fought back tears about being forced to move his family. Despite getting hurt on the job, as a husband and father, he still wants to provide his family with a safe, comfortable place to call home.
"I have been working hard trying to purchase a home. And when this happened to us, we didn't think it was going to be possible, but we were able to get on the program and we were able to meet this nice lady right here," said Stephen Smith.
Some of the residents in Providence Village who are unhappy with the new rules plan to voice their concerns at a town hall meeting. They plan to share how the new rules will leave them with no place to go due their landlords not being able to afford the hefty fines.
WFAA TV reached out to Providence Village HOA but didn't hear back. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/providence-village-hoa-kicking-out-section-8-renters/287-43244102-8ae9-41f1-b11a-932ebfe306b4 | 2022-06-15T00:40:40 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/providence-village-hoa-kicking-out-section-8-renters/287-43244102-8ae9-41f1-b11a-932ebfe306b4 |
ORLANDO, Fla. – Universal’s theme parks are “selling out” and it’s only going to get better as more international travelers return, the company’s CEO said Tuesday.
Jeff Shell, the CEO of NBCUniversal, discussed the economic condition of the company’s theme parks at the 24th Annual Credit Suisse Communications Conference.
According to Shell, the company’s theme parks, such as Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure, have “come roaring back” following their shutdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“We’re above where we were in 2019, despite not a lot of international travelers still,” he said. “We (have) historic bookings in Florida hotels and our theme park attendance.”
Shell added that — despite both inflation and gas prices climbing to historic highs — attendance at the parks hasn’t seen any impact.
“As gas prices rise, you would expect to see a decline... and it’s more expensive to fly, by the way, as airlines have to raise their prices to offset deals,” he said. “We are seeing none of that, yes, literally none of that. If you landed from Mars and looked at our numbers for our theme parks and tried to discern if there was inflation or not, there’s no impact on our business.”
Shell stated that he expects even more visitors to the company’s theme parks following the federal government dropping testing requirements for international travelers.
“We expect a surge of international (travelers) because there’s hopefully, when domestic starts to decline — if and when it does decline, it hasn’t yet — we’ll start to see that offset with people flying in from other places,” he said. “There’s a big pent-up demand we take around the world for people flying into our theme parks.”
Shell also brought up the future of the parks, saying that the increased demand has left the company with little capacity in theme parks and hotels — a fact made evident by recent ticket price increases.
In addition, Shell talked about a partnership with Nintendo to create the Epic Universe theme park, pointing to massive upticks in demand for theme parks in Orlando. Epic Universe is currently under construction, on track for a summer 2025 opening.
“We’re addressing, basically, this supply-side imbalance by continuing to deploy capital of the business: rides, new parks and smaller things... We’re out there investigating for new experiences,” he said. “So that’s our strategy for (it). We’re building capacity to deal with excess demand.” | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/nbcuniversal-ceo-calls-demand-for-universal-theme-parks-historic/ | 2022-06-15T00:40:42 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/nbcuniversal-ceo-calls-demand-for-universal-theme-parks-historic/ |
BRADENTON, Fla. – No leash, no owner, some service.
When 135-pound Bentley walked into the Bradenton Dollar General located on Manatee Avenue W. on May 31, he wandered around for hours like he owned the place, body camera footage released by police shows.
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“(The dog was) like, ‘Hey, I’m here to go grab something’ and then he just really walked through the whole store and we just couldn’t get him out,” a store employee told a responding officer trying to reunite Bentley with his owner. “But then it was time to close. We had to lock our doors and now I fear, like, ‘If I let him go what can happen to him?’”
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Bentley, nails cut and well taken care of, was just “doing his own thing” shopping at the Dollar General that evening, police observed.
“He’s definitely a house dog,” one officer can be heard saying in the video. “He’s clean, he’s a big boy.”
Police determined the “big ol’” pup had a microchip, which they used that to contact Bentley’s owner.
Bentley’s dad showed up as soon as he realized his good boy was missing. The owner told officers Bentley got out due to an issue with the gate and thanked the store employees and officers for looking after him. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/watch-135-pound-dog-shows-up-to-shop-at-florida-dollar-general/ | 2022-06-15T00:40:48 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/watch-135-pound-dog-shows-up-to-shop-at-florida-dollar-general/ |
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Florida Highway Patrol released dash camera video Tuesday showing the traffic stop that ended in the arrest of professional wrestler Jeff Hardy.
Hardy, who currently works for All Elite Wrestling based out of Jacksonville, was arrested Monday and bonded out of the Volusia County jail later that day, records show.
AEW released a statement Tuesday, saying it would assist Hardy with getting treatment for substance abuse issues.
“In the interim, he is suspended without pay, and he can only return to AEW upon successfully completing treatment and maintaining his sobriety,” said a statement attributed to AEW CEO Tony Khan.
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Investigators said they received reports of a white Dodge Charger swerving across several lanes of Interstate 4 Monday morning. Troopers caught up with the vehicle as it merged from I-4 onto Interstate 95 in Volusia County, records show.
Troopers catch up with the Charger nearly four minutes into the video. In the video, the Charger can be seen drifting onto the left shoulder of the road, coming close to the concrete barrier and then drifting back into both lanes of traffic. After merging onto I-95, the video shows the trooper activate his sirens.
About five minutes into the video, the Charger pulls over onto the shoulder of I-95. The video shows a trooper approach the passenger’s side window and tap on the glass before quickly drawing his gun.
In the arrest report, FHP said Hardy was reaching into a black backpack as troopers approached the vehicle.
The video shows a second trooper approach the driver’s side door and also point his gun at Hardy. Troopers said they ordered the wrestler to place his hands on the steering wheel, which he did.
The video shows Hardy’s car jerk forward as troopers still have their weapons pointed at the driver. Records show Hardy struggled to put the car in park, but eventually managed to do so.
About six minutes into the video, Hardy exits the car. Troopers can be seen immediately patting the wrestler down and removing his backpack from the vehicle. The video shows the troopers back Hardy up to their cruiser and sit him on the curb.
“How are you doing bud?” a trooper can be heard saying in the video.
Hardy’s side of the conversation is not audible.
“We got several 911 calls on ya. Do you know why we might have gotten some calls?” the trooper said in the video.
Hardy appears to shake his head.
“You were all over the road. What’s going on with that?” the trooper said.
At about 7:34 in the video, Hardy stands up and appears to stagger.
“Don’t fall over,” the trooper said to Hardy.
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Troopers ask Hardy where he is coming from and where he is going. Hardy’s response is not audible in the video.
“So you’re coming from North Carolina, going to North Carolina?” the trooper said.
After troopers search the car for Hardy’s wallet to see his license they ask to search his bag.
“Do you have any weapons or needles or anything in your bag that’ll hurt me?” the trooper asks in the video.
Again, Hardy appears to shake his head.
At 11:29 in the video, Hardy’s bag is searched. While the bag is searched, Hardy is seen in the video fist-bumping someone off-camera.
At 12:57 in the video, a trooper asks “How come when you speak I smell alcohol?”
A portion of Hardy’s response cannot be heard, but “double shots of Fireball” is audible in the video.
“You caught me,” someone, possibly Hardy, can be heard saying off-camera.
“I caught you?” the trooper responds and appears to smile.
At 16:37 into the video, Hardy can be seen consenting to field sobriety exercises. Shortly thereafter on the video, a trooper empties Hardy’s pockets.
The troopers then take Hardy to a parking lot for the field sobriety exercises.
At 26:27 in the video, the troopers can be heard discussing the field sobriety exercises off camera.
“He’s lucky we pulled him over. He could have killed himself. I don’t want to see nobody get hurt,” a trooper can be heard saying in the video.
At 27:14 in the video, Hardy can be seen receiving instructions on the exercises from the troopers. Hardy is asked to put his feet together with his arms at his sides, but he can be seen on the video swaying and stepping to catch himself from falling. The video shows him trying several more times to stand with his feet together, but Hardy appears to have difficulty every time.
Around 30 minutes into the video, Hardy is asked to walk nine steps in a straight line. In the video, Hardy appears to stagger and sway as he attempts to walk.
About 35 minutes into the video, the wrestler is placed in handcuffs. The video ends shortly thereafter.
Troopers said Hardy submitted to a breathalyzer which showed an alcohol content of higher than .29, more than four times the legal limit.
He faces charges of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol (third offense within 10 years), driving on a canceled or suspended license and violating restrictions placed on a driver’s license.
Hardy rose to fame in the WWE in a tag team with his brother, Matt Hardy, but has since gone on to a successful solo career, including championship runs in both the WWE and TNA Wrestling, now called Impact Wrestling.
Hardy has had several documented issues with substance abuse throughout his career. Troopers noted in their arrest report that Hardy had been charged with DUI in 2018 and 2019. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/watch-aew-star-former-wwe-champ-jeff-hardy-fails-sobriety-exercise-florida-troopers-say/ | 2022-06-15T00:40:54 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/watch-aew-star-former-wwe-champ-jeff-hardy-fails-sobriety-exercise-florida-troopers-say/ |
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – It’s mating season — and this alligator was making people aware.
Evelyn Bell was driving through the unique Apopka Wildlife Drive in Orange County when she saw a very large alligator showing off its mating call.
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From the video, you can see the alligator making low, bellowing sounds while pushing its tail in the air.
Gator Alley Farm said that’s all a part of an alligator’s complex mating ritual, which it likes to call a “water dance.”
“Males typically slap the water with their jaws and lift their tails high, causing vibrations throughout the swamp. We like to call this their ‘water dance,’” the farm’s website said.
Bell jokingly posted on Facebook that the alligator thought she was sexy, and it was doing the mating call for her.
According to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials, the courtship between alligators begins in April, but the actual mating happens in May or June.
So be on the lookout for gators on the move. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/watch-florida-woman-records-giant-alligators-mating-call-in-apopka/ | 2022-06-15T00:41:00 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/watch-florida-woman-records-giant-alligators-mating-call-in-apopka/ |
FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – Three men face first-degree murder charges in connection with the deaths of two Flagler County 16-year-olds killed over a “beef between two groups,” Sheriff Rick Staly said at a news briefing Tuesday.
Tyrese Patterson, 20, Stephen Monroe, 23, and Devandre Williams, 18, were all arrested relating to the deaths of Flagler Palm Coast High School students Noah Smith and Keymarion Hall, Staly and Flagler-Volusia State Attorney RJ Larizza announced at the afternoon news conference.
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Williams also faces second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder charges in the death of Hall, deputies said.
According to Staly, investigators have also issued an arrest warrant and are still searching for 18-year-old Terrell Sampson, who faces an attempted second-degree murder charge in the death of Smith.
Staly added that Sampson was the intended target in both fatal shootings, sparked by a rivalry between two “wanna-be gangs,” one out of Bunnell and the other called GSO — short for “Get Stepped On” — out of Palm Coast.
“I have a message to Terrell Sampson,” Staly said. “Turn yourself in now. You are safer facing your charges than being on the street looking over your back all the time, wondering when the other group’s gonna get you because that’s what killed two beautiful young kids in our county. We will not stop until we arrest you, and I promise you — you will get caught.”
In addition to the four men facing murder charges, Staly said during the investigation, deputies made six other arrests connected to the murders.
“Certain members of the community preferred to take street justice into their own hands instead of assisting law enforcement,” Staly said. “Multiple incidents were linked involving a handful of criminal thugs ranging in age from 14 to 28.”
According to deputies, 19-year-old Jebea Johnson, 28-year-old Edward Sampson, 19-year-old Keyshawn Davis, 20-year-old Josiah Feimster, 20-year-old Rodrick Williams and 14-year-old Lawrence Fullmore all face various charges in connection with the case, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, battery of a detained person, robbery with a weapon and discharging a firearm from a vehicle. Staly also said they are seeking a tenth person in relation to the shootings.
Staly said the events leading up to the two fatal shootings unfolded starting in mid-September 2021 when Johnson shot at a vehicle being driven by Devandre Williams in Bunnell. Then, in December, Feimster and Johnson were “in the vehicle of an unindicted co-conspirator” and were shooting each other before Johnson pulled a firearm on members of GSO.
As the tension between the warring groups heightened, a member of the group released a YouTube video in January 2022 showing Patterson, Monroe, Williams and Glib Fedotov pointing guns at the camera.
Smith was then fatally shot on South Anderson Street on Jan. 12, five days after the video was posted.
Witnesses said the occupants of the vehicle were blasting “Super Gremlin” by Kodak Black, a song that “states the subject of the song will be killed in front of witnesses,” Staly said.
Shortly after the shooting, the sheriff’s office issued a warning that retaliation and violence would not be tolerated.
“We have heard the chatter of recent threats and retaliation in the community,” Staly said after the teen was fatally shot. “We’ve been informed of multiple threats against the alleged perpetrator and the possibility of people taking matters into their own hands.”
In April, months after the shooting, Monroe, under the name “Kree2kutt,” released a song on Apple Music called “Okay.”
“I could be smokin’ on (murdering) Terrell, but that boy be takin’ flight,” he raps in the song.
The lyrics within the song referred to the shooting of Smith and suggested Terrell Sampson was the intended target, the sheriff continued. “Okay” also hinted at a fight that went down at a Volusia mall in which Johnson allegedly pulled a firearm on members of GSO.
“Social media is being weaponized by these groups of young kids, who I don’t think understand or appreciate just what they are doing to their communities, their communities,” Larizza said in response to the music videos and staged social media activities glorifying violence and death. “It’s ripping these communities apart. We’ve got families in here crying. We’ve got families that aren’t going to have their family members anymore. And over what? A beef about disrespect?”
About two weeks after the song release, Hall was found suffering from gunshot wounds near the intersection of South Pine and East Booe streets on May 3 and was taken to the hospital, where he later died.
After the shooting, Staly said detectives believed it was a drive-by shooting targeting Hall and another victim. He said it was the second time Hall, a 10th-grader at Flagler Palm Coast High School, had been shot in the last year. Staly said he believes it’s part of an uptick in youth violence in the area, a problem his office is trying to stop but can’t seem to get answers for in some cases.
“During this investigation, it was discovered that there were two opposing sides to local violence, including the Bunnell side and a Palm Coast,” Staly said. “The beef, resulting in street justice between Bunnell and Palm Coast groups, included taunting each other through social media, creating rap songs, as I mentioned, about each other and specific details that happened during these violent street justice incidents that led up to the murder. We also discovered multiple pictures of suspects posing with firearms and threatening each other. This was like a modern-day Hatfield and McCoy between these two warring factions.”
The fathers of both Smith and Hall, the two shooting victims, addressed those at the news briefing. Keith Smith, Noah Smith’s father, thanked the police department, and Hall’s dad called for the violence among children to stop.
“We lost Keymarion,” his dad said at the briefing. “But it don’t make sense, young people killing each other... we need all of ya’ll help.”
Staly emphasized that “the victims of the homicides were good kids. They were innocent kids. They were not the intended targets of the drive-by shootings.” | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/watch-live-at-130-pm-flagler-sheriff-state-attorney-give-update-on-fatal-shootings-of-2-teens-in-bunnell/ | 2022-06-15T00:41:06 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/watch-live-at-130-pm-flagler-sheriff-state-attorney-give-update-on-fatal-shootings-of-2-teens-in-bunnell/ |
WINTER PARK, Fla. – Crews began work Tuesday to dismantle the main stage at Winter Park’s downtown Central Park.
The three-day demolition of the decades old structure came after city leaders decided to replace the outdated venue.
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Kyle Dudgeon, assistant division director of economic development, said the project became a priority over the last year.
“(The stage) was originally constructed in the 1980s and the only renovation we’ve done is past 2004 when we actually had the canopy blow off after the hurricanes,” Dudgeon said.
The new Central Park main stage will feature better structural integrity and an improved audio system. City leaders said it’s designed to complement the architecture of the nearby Winter Park train station.
“We want to have that unique value and some of those unique environmental things that Central Park and Winter Park bring to the community (that) really is part of our staple here,” Dudgeon said.
According to the city, more than 75 large events are held in the downtown district each year.
Marie Murphy lives nearby and said the demolition comes with mixed emotions.
“It’s a little sad to see the old stage go, but it’s going to be exciting to see what’s coming,” Murphy said.
City leaders said the new performance pavilion costs more than $700,000 and was funded through the American Rescue Plan Act and the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency.
Construction on the project is estimated to take about three months.
A grand opening for the stage is expected in late September. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/winter-park-begins-demolition-of-downtown-district-parks-main-stage/ | 2022-06-15T00:41:13 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/14/winter-park-begins-demolition-of-downtown-district-parks-main-stage/ |
TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas — A Travis County Special Grand Jury found that a Pflugerville police officer did not act unlawfully in an August 2021 shooting, Travis County District Attorney José Garza announced on Tuesday.
Officer Ian Clark and other officers from the Pflugerville Police Department responded to a call about a disturbance at Lanark Loop on Aug. 18, 2021.
Police knocked on the door of 72-year-old Ronald Zavaglia's residence and identified themselves as law enforcement officers. Zavaglia opened the door with a rifle in hand, raising it toward the officers as they told him to put it down, according to the District Attorney's Office.
Clark then fired a single shot that fatally struck Zavaglia in the chest.
“The District Attorney’s office takes the work of presenting all facts and evidence to a grand jury very seriously,” Garza said in a statement. “In this case, an independent group of members of the Travis County community heard the evidence and law and decided that Officer Clark’s conduct was not unlawful.”
Clark joined the Pflugerville Police Department in October 2017 and has five years total law enforcement experience.
Pflugerville police called in the Texas Rangers and the Travis County District Attorney's Office Public Integrity Unit to lead the investigation into the incident. The investigation included a review of body-worn camera video.
Officer Clark was put on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Austin police are investigating after a homicide in East Austin on Tuesday evening.
Police said the incident happened in the 1000 block of Springdale Road, near Airport Boulevard, around 4:15 p.m. Officers responded to the scene after reports a man had been shot after "a disturbance."
APD said officers found two victims with gunshot wounds. They were transported to a local hospital, where one of the victims was pronounced dead. The second victim is expected to survive.
Police do not have a suspect in custody at this time.
Residents have been asked to avoid the area while officers continue to investigate.
Anyone with any information or video of the incident is asked to contact police at 512-477-3588 or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at 512-472-8477.
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Driver dies after fatal collision near I-10 in Tucson
A man died late Monday night after being involved in a one-way car crash near Silverlake Road and I-10, according to the Tucson Police Department.
The victim was identified as 33-year-old Ignacio Rodriguez Robledo.
Police said officers found Robledo dead at the scene after being alerted of a crash that the Tucson Fire Department also responded to.
According to Tucson police, the crash occurred when the driver was driving northbound and lost control of the wheel, struck the curb and drove onto the landscape, which ultimately flipped the car.
Tucson police said Robledo was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. Robledo's family has been notified of his passing.
According to detectives at the Tucson Police Department, there are no known factors as to why this crash occurred. An investigation is ongoing. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-traffic/2022/06/14/driver-dies-after-fatal-single-car-collision-near-10-tucson/7627044001/ | 2022-06-15T00:42:12 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-traffic/2022/06/14/driver-dies-after-fatal-single-car-collision-near-10-tucson/7627044001/ |
Maricopa County Attorney's Office moves to fire prosecutor in gang charges case, letter shows
The Maricopa County Attorney's Office is moving to fire April Sponsel, a prosecutor who led the county's controversial criminal case where 15 protesters were charged as gang members in Phoenix.
Officials with the Maricopa County Attorney's Office cited a "disturbing pattern of excessive charging and a failure to review available evidence" in five cases from 2020, according to a letter to Sponsel dated June 6 and obtained by The Arizona Republic.
According to documents, Sponsel displayed incompetence, inefficiency, and neglect of duty.
"Your actions in these cases have undermined public confidence in the criminal justice system. You failed to exercise sound judgement in these matters, and you failed to perform your essential duties to this office and this community," officials wrote in the letter. "For all these reasons, it is my intention to dismiss you from your position."
Chief Deputy Paul Ahler signed the letter, noting it was not a decision made "lightly."
"Your evaluations over your years at MCAO reflect a skilled prosecutor and your work has held many violent offenders accountable," he wrote. "Unfortunately, we have now discovered a continuing pattern of deficient performance."
The letter also cites a meeting scheduled for June 14 for Sponsel to present an "explanation of the reasons why the proposed dismissal is not appropriate."
Sponsel has been on administrative leave since March 2, 2021.
In August 2021, Sponsel filed a $10 million claim against her employer for defamation and damages. She alleges in the lawsuit that now-deceased Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel was aware of the gang-related charges that Sponsel was pursuing and that Adel used her as a "scapegoat" to protect her political career once public opinion toward the charges turned sour.
According to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, the process for termination is as follows:
- Intent to terminate letter.
- Predetermination hearing as referenced in letter.
- Final determination of termination.
- Should the final decision be termination, the employee may appeal the decision.
The office declined to comment further, saying it was a personnel issue.
Lawsuit allegations: When did Phoenix police chief know about gang charges?
Reach breaking news reporter Haleigh Kochanski at hkochanski@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @HaleighKochans.
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ATLANTIC CITY — Police are looking for the shooter after a city man was found wounded Sunday.
At 11:51 p.m., officers responded to the 3300 block of Fairmount Avenue for a gunshot alert, police said Tuesday in a news release. They found evidence of gunfire and a man who had been shot multiple times.
The 24-year-old victim was transported to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Campus. His injuries were not life-threatening, police said.
Anyone with information about the shooting can call police at 609-347-5766 or text tip411 (847411). Begin the text with ACPD. All texts are anonymous. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/atlantic-city-police-seek-suspect-in-sunday-shooting/article_e1cc777e-ec3a-11ec-8bd3-df432e6965a0.html | 2022-06-15T00:45:06 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/atlantic-city-police-seek-suspect-in-sunday-shooting/article_e1cc777e-ec3a-11ec-8bd3-df432e6965a0.html |
WILDWOOD — From a neighboring building, Maria McBride had a clear view of the smoke and flames that began to show from the roof of the Windward Motel at 5200 Ocean Ave. on Tuesday.
She said a young man was on the roof with a fire extinguisher, trying to put out the fire before it spread. She and others were yelling at him to get down and leave the flames to the firefighters who were already on the way.
“It was surreal,” she said.
It took firefighters about 90 minutes to get the smoky blaze under control, and 3½ hours to clear the scene Tuesday afternoon, fire officials said.
No injuries were reported, and the Cape May County fire marshal ruled the blaze accidental, caused by welding work taking place on the second floor, the Fire Department said in a news release.
The first 911 call about the fire came in at 11:28 a.m.
At 5:23 p.m. Wednesday, police responded to a call of a swimmer in distress at Youngs Avenue…
By that time, fire Chief Ernie Troiano III said, the fire had already gotten a strong start in a crawlspace between the upstairs ceiling and the roof, an open area that extends over much of the building.
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The placement presented challenges to firefighters, he said, requiring large sections of the roof to be cut and removed to give access to the flames.
“You could tell the fire had been burning in there for a while prior to our arrival,” Troiano said. “The companies were able to get a trench cut in the roof there.”
Because the fire was essentially protected by the roof, even a rainstorm during the fire did little to help extinguish the blaze. There was also a steady wind, Troiano said, which helped the fire, not his crews.
He said firefighters were stationed on the roof of a neighboring motel as flames shot out to the south. There and behind the motel, he said, firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading.
The Fire Department estimated the damage at about $500,000. Troiano did not believe anyone was staying in the motel when the fire broke out, and everyone was able to get out of the building. There were contractors at work at the time, he said.
WILDWOOD — Police on Thursday identified Tuesday’s missing swimmer as 19-year-old Alfred Wil…
Fire crews from Wildwood and North Wildwood were at the scene, with a ladder truck extended onto the roof of the motel while firefighters probed for additional hotspots Tuesday afternoon. Fire crews from Wildwood Crest, Rio Grande, Stone Harbor, Villas, Erma, Cape May and Ocean View also responded.
McBride, who lives in Washington Township and spends her summers in Wildwood, said the area was crowded over the weekend, but on an overcast June weekday there were fewer people around.
Wildwood police had closed off that block of Ocean Avenue and asked residents to avoid the area between Cresse and Rio Grande avenues while the fire was still threatening.
In May, Wildwood fire crews assisted Wildwood Crest at another motel fire on Ocean Avenue, this one in the 6400 block. In that instance, a fire broke out in a unit on the fourth floor of the property. Firefighters said that fire was contained to the unit where it began. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/wildwood-motel-fire-attributed-to-welding-accident/article_28af0cbc-ec07-11ec-863d-5f0d125718b4.html | 2022-06-15T00:45:12 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/wildwood-motel-fire-attributed-to-welding-accident/article_28af0cbc-ec07-11ec-863d-5f0d125718b4.html |
MACON, Ga. — Amidst several recent supply chain shortages and inflated prices, the latest product to be impacted is tampons.
Many stores across the US have reported lower numbers of tampon shipments, and shelves of the product are beginning to thin out.
The limited stock is speculated to be a result of several issues, such as staffing problems, rising cost in raw materials, and inflated cost of shipment from factories.
The price of hygiene products has already increased in recent years, and this shortage is beginning to drive them up even more.
Some 32 or 50-count boxes listed on Amazon have already risen to the price of around $40, and brand specific and special variety tampons have risen even higher.
Additionally, many people who use brand specific products are having trouble finding their specific types of tampons, and are having to travel to multiple stores to find products they will be able to use.
Both Walgreens and CVS have addressed the issues, and in a statement to ABC News, CVS said: "In recent weeks, there have been instances when suppliers haven’t been able to fulfill the full quantities of orders placed. If a local store is temporarily out of specific products, we work to replenish those items as quickly as possible."
Hopefully a solution will arise soon, but until then, people will have to prepare to pay even more for their necessary hygiene products.
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Baxter Black probably would have found the humor in dying, too.
The large-animal veterinarian turned cowboy poet attracted a worldwide following with his hilarious, homespun insights on everything from presidential politics to the prolapse of a cow (maybe don’t Google that one).
The Bard of Benson died June 10 at his home in eastern Pima County. He was 77.
“I don’t think there will ever be another Baxter Black,” said Marsha Short, long-time executive director of the International Western Music Association. “That hole will never be filled.”
With his lanky frame and trademark boomerang-shaped mustache, Black seemed right at home in a saddle or on set next to Johnny Carson.
His poems, songs and countrified commentary appealed to real ranchers and wannabe wranglers alike. And Short said he made you feel like part of the gang, whether you met him in a rodeo arena or only knew his voice from his years as a contributor to “Morning Edition” on National Public Radio.
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“The thing about Baxter was everybody knew him personally,” she said. "It was always like getting a mini performance whenever you talked to Baxter Black.”
From vet to poet
Black was born Jan. 10, 1945, at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital in New York City but grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where he headed up his high school’s chapter of the Future Farmers of America and started riding bulls to meet girls.
He attended college at New Mexico State University and earned his veterinary degree from Colorado State University in 1969. He spent the next 13 years doctoring livestock and building a reputation as a storyteller and public speaker.
Folklorist Hal Cannon first met Black almost 40 years ago, while helping to organize the first of what would become the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering at the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada.
“At the time, he was the only professional cowboy poet out there,” Cannon said. “He was just out there doing it.”
The two became friends and stayed that way.
When Black made the first of his seven appearances on “The Tonight Show” in 1986, Cannon was there with him, hiding behind a curtain on stage just in case his buddy forgot a line and needed a prompt.
Though Black got famous, he never acted that way, Cannon said. He sold more than a million books, but he still liked to ride and rope. He still ran some cattle on the patch of desert where he and his wife, Cindy Lou, settled at the edge of Benson.
“There was no separation between Baxter on the stage and Baxter at the bar or at the restaurant over dinner,” Cannon said. “He was always just Baxter.”
And his gaze rarely strayed from the land or the people working it.
In the bio on Black’s website, he cited his audience as his inspiration.
“Every cowboy, rancher, vet, farmer, feed salesman, ag teacher, cowman and rodeo hand has a story to tell, and they tell it to me. I Baxterize it and tell it back to ‘em!” he wrote. “It doesn’t seem fair, does it?”
Immense heart
Cannon said most people will probably remember Black as a “very fine humorist,” with a sharp wit that drew comparisons to Will Rogers and Mark Twain. And who wouldn’t want to be thought of alongside such legends? “That’s pretty high cotton, as they say,” he said.
But what Cannon will remember is “a man with an immense heart.”
One of his favorite examples of that is a story Black shared on NPR in 2009 for a regular segment Cannon and the Western Folklife Center produced called “What’s in a Song?”
Black chose to talk about "Little Joe, The Wrangler," a somber Western ballad his dad used to sing to him and his brother at bedtime.
"Somehow it was important enough that that was the song that he chose to sing to us," Black recalled. "It's a story that has a sad ending, but it has a legitimate hero. And any kid can identify with it — 'I could have done that!'"
Renowned Southern Arizona ethnobotanist and author Gary Paul Nabhan crossed paths with Black several times at the National Cowboy Poetry Festival and folklore events in Flagstaff.
In 2012, Nabhan was part of a panel discussion at the festival with borderlands anthropologist Tom Sheridan and folklorist Jim Griffith, and the three of them ended up on the same flight home from Nevada with Black. He said they laughed the whole way back to Tucson.
“He was a changeling, a charmer and a healer — making many of us laugh so hard that we wet our dungarees," Nabhan said.
There is a classic poem by Wallace McRae called “Reincarnation,” about a cowboy who dies, gets buried and comes back as a wildflower, only to be eaten by a horse and passed out the other end. Nabhan said he remembers hearing Black recite the poem once, and he couldn’t help but think of it when he heard the news about his death.
“I realized that he is on his way to becoming one of America's best loved road apples, put out to pasture near Benson, Arizona,” Nabhan said.
Short said she first met Black about a decade ago, when he accepted an invitation to perform at the International Western Music Association’s convention in Albuquerque. The organization, once based in Tucson, supports the preservation of the traditional and contemporary music and poetry of the West, so landing a celebrity like Black was a big deal.
His appearance was supposed to be a one-night thing, but he wound up spending the next two days at the convention. Short said excited members kept coming up to her and saying, “I just had the most delightful conversation with Baxter Black.”
Black had a reputation for turning down awards and politely refusing membership in a whole host of organizations, but one day in 2017 Short said she received a note and check from him out of the blue. He said he wanted to become a patron of the association because he liked what they were doing to keep Western traditions alive.
“He especially loved to talk to other poets. He loved to give them help and encouragement,” she said. “He was so at home with everybody. It’s really hard to think of a world without Baxter Black.”
Benson media empire
Cannon said he knew his friend was having health problems, but they never really talked about it during their weekly phone conversations over the past few months. “I think he liked that we never talked about that,” he said.
Cannon said Black was very spiritual — a religious man of “simple faith,” who never tried to force anything on you. There are a lot of people everywhere who are going to miss him, especially his wife, their two kids, Jennifer and Guy, and many others in the small Arizona town where the Blacks made their home.
“I know he leaves behind a real community in Benson,” Cannon said.
Black quit performing a few years ago, but he continued to write and record radio segments from his home studio and office.
He had a weekly radio show called “Baxter Black on Monday” that aired on more than 175 stations, mostly in rural parts of the U.S. and Canada. More than 60 far-flung stations in Texas — and one in Scotland — carried the show.
His weekly syndicated column, “On the Edge of Common Sense,” appeared in more than 100 publications across North America, mostly small town papers and ag journals aimed at ranchers and farmers.
Late last year, Cindy Lou Black announced on his website that her husband’s failing health had finally “put him in the retirement bracket.”
His final column, published in December, was exactly what you’d expect: a celebration of “a life where a horse matters.”
“When you can’t do the job alone; a cow in the bog, a race against time, a boulder to move, a detour to take, a mountain to cross, a crevice to leap, a war to win, a sweetheart to impress, or ... when you’ve gone too far to walk back,” he wrote.
“I count myself very lucky that I get to be a part of the wonderful world of horse sweat, soft noses, close calls and twilight on the trail.”
Contact reporter Henry Brean at hbrean@tucson.com or 573-4283. On Twitter: @RefriedBrean
You can stand in the canyon’s cathedral
Where water and sky never rest
And you know in your bones that the meek, on their own
Will never inherit the West
— from "The West"
***
And heaven for a cowboy is just what you might expect,
It’s horses that need tunin’ up and heifers that need checked.
It’s long rides with a purpose and a code that lights the way
And a satisfying reason to get up every day.
It’s the ranch he’s always dreamed of and never knew he’d find
And if you think about it, you can see it in your mind.
Him, leanin’ in the saddle with his ol’ hat on his head,
Contentment set upon his face like blankets on a bed.
The leather creaks a little as he shifts there in the seat.
The bit chains give a jingle when his pony switches feet.
And you somehow get the feelin’ that he’s sittin’ on a throne
A’gazin’ out on paradise just like it was his own.
— from "I Know You’ll Miss This Man" | https://tucson.com/news/local/cowboy-poetry-world-mourns-loss-of-bard-of-benson/article_bfbebf64-ead9-11ec-91ca-674ea8c9b675.html | 2022-06-15T01:03:41 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/cowboy-poetry-world-mourns-loss-of-bard-of-benson/article_bfbebf64-ead9-11ec-91ca-674ea8c9b675.html |
ODESSA, Texas — Since Monday evening, city crews have been working to fix a broken water line.
"First of all, it was trying to identify an actual break," said Javier Joven, Mayor of Odessa. "There was a large amount of water being exited from that general area, so as they continued to try to shut off valves, some of them obviously did not work."
Since using the valves didn't stop the water, the city had to make a decision.
"The critical decision to shut down the water at the water treatment plant was at about 4 a.m.," said Joven.
Crews have a lot of work to do when it comes to removing water and fixing the pipe.
"This is what's going to happen, we're having to evacuate the water out of the crater, once that occurs, then we'll identify where the break is and then they will commence at replacing the damaged area," said Joven.
The mayor said the pipe may have broken from being old cast iron. He thinks we need to focus on infrastructure so this doesn't happen again.
"Keeping up our infrastructure is very critical, and it should of always been priority one," said Joven. "We need to get back to the basics. I've already spoken to the city manager and we will make the repairs and identify what other things need to be done."
The mayor has also worked with Judge Debi Hays to declare a state of emergency in Ector County. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/mayor-joven-focus-infrastructure-odessa-water-line-break/513-bb3cbe99-d574-4fe9-8b8a-f0c263616d13 | 2022-06-15T01:06:13 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/mayor-joven-focus-infrastructure-odessa-water-line-break/513-bb3cbe99-d574-4fe9-8b8a-f0c263616d13 |
Gov. Henry McMaster wins Republican governor primary, according to AP
Gov. Henry McMaster has won the Republican gubernatorial nomination, defeating Harrison Musselwhite.
Five candidates are seeking the Democratic nomination for the chance to face McMaster in the Nov. 8 general election. The five are former Rep. Joe Cunningham, William H Williams, Carlton Boyd, state Sen. Mia McLeod, and Calvin McMillan.
"We got a lot of work to do. And if things go the way we're expecting, the way we're hoping, we'll have four good years to get a lot more things done." McMaster said during his speech Tuesday evening.
"Know that we are certain that the best is yet to come for South Carolina and we looking forward to working with all the people, everybody out there. And I want to thank you again for this great victory tonight and we're looking for one more."
According to the Associated Press, if McMaster wins in November and completes the term, he will become the longest-serving governor in South Carolina history.
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SC Attorney General
Incumbent Attorney General Alan Wilson has been projected by The Associated Press as the winner of the Republican primary for that office.
In early balloting, Wilson led his opponent Lauren Martel by a margin of 68 percent to 32 percent.
Wilson who first won the office in 2010, will run unopposed in the Nov. 8 general election.
SC Secretary of State
Hammond cruises in Republican primary
Incumbent Secretary of State Mark Hammond has been projected by The Associated Press as the winner of the Republican primary for that office.
In early balloting, Hammond led by a margin of 78 percent to 22 percent.
Hammond, who first won the office in 2002, will face Democrat Rosemounda Peggy Butler in the Nov. 8 general election.
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Fire Within awardees include pasty shop owner Paulette Wright, architect Sophia Sparklin
Mrs. Wright's Pastys
Award: Aspire
Owner: Paulette Wright
Established: May 2019
Contact: 1008 20th St. S.
"It’s not easy. It’s probably the hardest job I’ve ever had, and it’s all depending on me.”
That's what Paulette Wright, 53, said about owning Mrs. Wright's Pastys. But Wright's family helps out, too, especially now that she's recovering from knee surgery.
Wright established the pasty shop after she retired from a job with the Montana Highway Patrol and her husband sold his boot repair shop.
Pastys are a Butte staple, and Wright learned from her mother how to make them when she was growing up there. The pasty has a folded-over crust filled with meat and vegetables, and it fed many a miner in Butte's heyday because it was a freezable meal that could be thawed by lunchtime.
It took Wright many long years to perfect the recipe she uses today.
“I would make them for family and stuff, and they were like, 'Oh my God, you need to sell these,'” she said.
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Wright started selling pastys at farmer's markets before buying her current location. She said she loves working with her kids and giving customers a Butte history lesson when they come through the doors.
Wright said being a business owner is the hardest job she's ever had, and she wasn't always sure she could do it. However, she recommends ownership to others, advising that they have a plan and take it step by step.
Wright is growing her business right now after getting her wholesaler's license. The license allows her to sell in grocery stores, such as the Conrad and Great Falls IGA, Big Sky Deli in Vaughn and even as far away as Butte. Her goal is to get her product into more places.
Expansion is a possibility, Wright said, but the economy is holding her off right now.
“I think you get out of it what you put into it," Wright said, "and right now, I’m getting ready to put a whole lot more into it.”
B Spark Architecture
Award: Inspire
Owner: Sophia Sparklin
Established: 2012
Sophia Sparklin comes from a medical family, but it turns out that wouldn't be her path in life.
When her sister went through medical school, Sparklin, 43, decided she'd like to have more of a life outside of work. At that time, she said she started to notice that she really loved to go to some buildings more than others. That realization got her curious about architecture and the effects building design has on people.
Sparklin started college in 1998 and got her architect license in 2008.
Over the last 10 years, Sparklin has worked on projects for the state of Montana, Great Falls College Montana State University and Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks. She recently reorganized the business into a public benefit corporation, allowing her to measure positive impact, not just profit.
The reorganization has led to B Spark Architecture working on the Baatz Building, an apartment complex aimed at getting houseless people into housing.
“I’m thrilled to have been selected for that project,” Sparklin said.
One of the things Sparklin wanted to combat by owning her own business was burnout. She said the architectural field is especially prone to burnout, and the stress leads to reduced creativity and poor problem-solving.
Sparklin said she has learned leadership skills and how to be a good boss, but she's still learning how to have enough confidence to sell her own services.
Sparklin recommends getting help from the Great Falls Development Authority and any other resources available if you're going to start your own business. She said it helps to know you're not alone and can overcome challenges, build connections and mentor others. | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2022/06/14/great-falls-gives-business-award-to-pasty-shop-owner-architect-fire-within-women-in-business/65358360007/ | 2022-06-15T01:08:43 | 0 | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2022/06/14/great-falls-gives-business-award-to-pasty-shop-owner-architect-fire-within-women-in-business/65358360007/ |
Northcentral Montana should escape flooding seen further south
Northcentral Montanans can be excused for wondering if warmer temperatures will ever arrive. The National Weather Service in Great Falls reports that during the month of April daily high temperatures in Great Falls averaged eight degrees below seasonal averages. May and the first half of June were only moderately warmer, with daily highs averaging three degrees below what can typically be expected for that time of year.
That trend will double down through the middle of this week, followed by a sudden and dramatic change that could see temperatures climb into the low 90s by Friday.
The daily high temperature in Great Falls is expected to reach 70 degrees through Wednesday, with overnight lows dropping to within a dozen degrees of freezing. That will be accompanied by sustained 30 mph winds with gusts as high as 60 mph. Areas along the Rocky Mountain Front above 5,000 feet can expect significant accumulations of snow, with as much as two to two and a half feet in the higher elevations.
The National Weather Service (NWS) warns that travel over Marias Pass and other adjacent routes could be treacherous.
“Dangerous backcountry conditions will exist, especially for those recreating in the high country of Glacier National Park due to reduced visibilities and the cold and wet conditions,” a Winter Weather Advisory warns. “High snowfall rates in the high country will quickly lead to snow covered routes and could lead to disorientation. Additionally, Winter Weather Advisories remain in place through noon Wednesday for the Southern Rocky Mountain Front (above 5000 ft) and Big Belt and Little Belt Mountains (above 6000 ft) across Central Montana.”
The weather is then forecast to do a complete 180-degree turn. Light winds and temperatures rising into the mid-80s and low 90s will dominate the region, beginning Thursday. According to NWS staff meteorologist Austin McDowell, the whipsaw in temperatures is due to two competing weather systems currently moving through the region.
“What we’ve got overhead right now is a very strong upper level low, and that usually brings with it some pretty cool temperatures,” McDowell explained. As that system moves away towards mid-week, we’ll start to get a southwesterly flow and that’s going to usher in some really warm temperatures streaming up from the northern California area. There could be some thunderstorms by Friday and into Saturday as well.”
A late-season snowstorm in the mountains followed closely by sudden hot temperatures naturally leads to concerns over the potential for flooding. Southwestern Montana has experienced devastating flooding since this weekend, washing out roads and bridges and damaging or even destroying homes across an area from Gardiner to Red Lodge.
However, the risk of substantial flooding across northcentral Montana appears to be far less than what the area to the north of Yellowstone National Park has been forced to deal with.
“Most of the precipitation, at least at the higher elevations, will be falling as snow,” McDowell said of the effect of the current weather system will have on the Rocky Mountain Front. “That area is going to hold onto that snowpack a little longer than areas such as southwest Montana (where) it’s been rain falling on snow that was already pretty warm and just about ready to melt.”
The NWS predicts that if flooding does develop from mountain runoff, it should be confined closer to the Rocky Mountain Front with only minor impacts on some low-lying areas.
Southwestern Montana is a different story. Yellowstone National Park has temporarily closed all its entrances and is evacuating all visitors through the south and West Yellowstone gates due to flooding at the park’s other entrances.
“Please stay away from the area if possible,” the National Park Service warns. “Before visitors and residents head north from the park to seek accommodations, we encourage you to check for availability. There is limited lodging in Bozeman, and there is no cellular service for 70 miles between West Yellowstone and Bozeman. There will be erosion mitigation along the roadway in the Gallatin Canyon on U.S. Highway 191. Traffic will be delayed. If you are working in the Big Sky area and plan to return to Bozeman, we recommend leaving early. And please avoid Gallatin Canyon if at all possible. Do not stop or get out of your vehicle if you’re traveling through the area — Lookie Lou’s create unnecessary traffic hazards!”
The NWS has issued flood warnings for all the Gallatin River from north of Big Sky to Three Forks.
“Minor flooding is occurring around the city of Gallatin Gateway and moderate flooding impacts are possible around Logan,” the flood warning states.
A flood advisory has been issued for the Ennis area along the Madison River in anticipation of emergency water releases from Hebgen Dam. A flood watch has been issued for the Missouri River at Toston, where the combined runoff from the Madison and Gallatin Rivers could inundate low-lying areas. | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2022/06/14/winter-storm-advisory-in-montana-quickly-followed-by-temperature-in-the-90s/65361025007/ | 2022-06-15T01:08:49 | 1 | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2022/06/14/winter-storm-advisory-in-montana-quickly-followed-by-temperature-in-the-90s/65361025007/ |
Braden Caldwell and Henry Warner, both 16, were going to be juniors at the private Catholic school this fall, the school said. Caldwell was the son of the school's principal, Mike Caldwell.
Warner was driving eastbound in a small passenger car around 9 p.m. Sunday in Boise when he lost control and left the roadway, drove off the shoulder and struck a light pole near the West Fairview Avenue on-ramp, according to the Idaho State Police. Warner was transported to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, where life-saving measures were unsuccessful. He died early Monday in the Intensive Care Unit, according to the Ada County Coroner's Office.
Braden Caldwell was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. Both teenagers were wearing seat belts, ISP said.
The school's St. Teresa of Jesus Chapel was open Tuesday and will be open on Wednesday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Additionally, there will be counseling available for students, staff, and family members, the school said in a press release.
The Holy Apostles Catholic Community held mass Tuesday for both boys and their families; there will be a prayer service for the school community, led by Chaplain Father Gregory Vance, on Wednesday in Our Lady's Garden at Bishop Kelly's campus.
"We ask the greater Treasure Valley community to please pray for Braden and Henry, their parents, their siblings, grandparents, and extended family and friends," the school's press release said. "Pray for our entire school community because our hearts are broken, and we know that God holds those who are suffering close."
"Please keep the Caldwell and Warner families and all those impacted in your prayers," Bishop Kelly President Rich Raimondi said on the school's Twitter account. "At this time the families are requesting time to process their grief and have asked for no visits, calls or texts. As we know more information about services for Braden and Henry or ways to help the families, we will let you know."
Those who wish to repost or share content related to the boys are asked to use Bishop Kelly's social media accounts: @BishopKellyKnights on Facebook, @BishopKellyKnights on Instagram, and @OohAhhBK on Twitter. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/bishop-kelly-high-school-mourning-two-teens-killed-in-crash-on-i-184/article_32c51190-00b5-5fc0-ba54-1cf421ef0fa9.html | 2022-06-15T01:09:14 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/bishop-kelly-high-school-mourning-two-teens-killed-in-crash-on-i-184/article_32c51190-00b5-5fc0-ba54-1cf421ef0fa9.html |
Coeur d’Alene police received numerous death threats and warnings that officers would be doxxed in the aftermath of the department’s Saturday arrest of 31 men suspected of being members of the white nationalist “Patriot Front” group and accused of conspiring to riot in the city.
Police Chief Lee White said his department was going through about 150 voicemails, about half of which contained ominous messages directed at law enforcement, including the doxxing threat of publicly posting the private information of police officers, such as their addresses and names of family members. The calls came from all over, including from as far away as Norway, he said.
The 31 suspected members of Patriot Front were discovered in the back of a U-Haul truck with a smoke grenade, riot gear and a strategic document detailing their would-be plans while apparently on their way to Saturday’s Pride event in Coeur d’Alene’s City Park.
“I think some of us were a bit surprised by not only the level of preparation that we saw, but the equipment that was curated and worn by those individuals, along with a large amount of equipment that was left in the (truck) when the stop happened,” White said. “That level of preparation is not something you see everyday.”
It was very clear immediately that “this was a riotous group that prepared well in advance” to disrupt the events taking place in downtown Coeur d’Alene, White said.
The group’s plans were foiled after a concerned citizen tipped off police that the men were climbing into the back of the truck. Law enforcement made a “command decision” to stop the truck from reaching downtown, White said.
The arrests happened less than a quarter-mile from City Park.
“I have no doubt in my mind that if they had stopped in downtown or nearby there would have been a riot,” he said.
White said the arrests wouldn’t have happened without the help of the concerned citizen and encouraged the community to report suspicious activity in the future.
In addition to the U-Haul truck, White said other vehicles were seized, but did not provide more details. There were no firearms in the U-Haul, police said.
Patriot Front has used moving trucks in the past in “flash demonstrations.” The group is known for spreading patriotism-tinged racist propaganda and vandalism meant to intimidate minority groups, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
“We hadn’t had any issue with that group previously,” White said of Patriot Front. “There were a number of us aware of this group because we had seen a video online or were being mentioned in relation to another subset of hate groups in this area, but I had never seen that type of activity in my eight years working in this city.”
White denied any rumors that there were law enforcement agents who had infiltrated the Patriot Front that day.
“These were not law enforcement officers,” he said. “These were not antifa in disguise, nor were they FBI members in disguise.”
White said the group likely came to Coeur d’Alene as a result of the heated rhetoric that was sparked last month between the Pride in the Park event and members of the Panhandle Patriots group. A video surfaced last month of one of the Panhandle Patriots’ members saying they needed to “go head-to-head” with the Pride event.
Each of the 31 men who were arrested bonded out of jail on $300 by Monday morning. First appearances were not scheduled for any of those accused of misdemeanor criminal conspiracy to riot.
Coeur d’Alene Mayor Jim Hammond told reporters the recent events don’t define the city and that Coeur d’Alene remains a welcoming place for all people.
“We are the same city that we were last week,” Hammond said. “We are not going back to the days of the Aryan Nations. We are past that.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/coeur-d-alene-police-receive-threats-after-arresting-patriot-front/article_9e1fd7a9-e471-53cd-82ae-e134025ff45e.html | 2022-06-15T01:09:20 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/coeur-d-alene-police-receive-threats-after-arresting-patriot-front/article_9e1fd7a9-e471-53cd-82ae-e134025ff45e.html |
BOISE — On a straight party-line vote, Idaho’s Legislative Council on Tuesday approved official pro and con arguments for a proposed constitutional amendment allowing lawmakers to call themselves into special session that included a statement Democrats on the panel strongly opposed.
The statement at issue offered an example, saying, “For example, in 2020, the Idaho Legislature wished to convene to consider COVID-19 matters and the expenditure of federal funding related to the pandemic but the Governor delayed convening the Legislature.”
Sen. Melissa Wintrow, D-Boise, said, “I’m part of the Legislature. I did not wish to convene, nor did my constituents. … I think that’s just going down a path that is political instead of neutral.”
House Speaker Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, moved to approve the wording for the official arguments, and also to disregard other changes minority Democrats had proposed to the arguments against the measure, including matching the grammatical structure of the arguments against to those for the amendment, in the name of even-handedness. Wintrow had made that suggestion.
Rep. John McCrostie, D-Garden City, said he thought the added sentence “would be appropriate in campaign material, but I think that these statements are meant to just present the factual information.”
Arguments for and against a proposed constitutional amendment appear in an official voter pamphlet mailed out to voters by the Idaho Secretary of State, but not on the ballot itself.
The Idaho Constitution specifies that only the governor can call a special session of the Legislature, and only the governor can specify which topics are addressed during a special session. Idaho is one of 12 states in which the Legislature can’t call itself into special session under any circumstances. Just four special sessions have been called in the last 22 years, in 2000, 2006, 2015 and 2020. The 2020 special session lasted three days; the other three were just one day apiece.
The amendment would allow lawmakers to meet in special session whenever 60% of the members of each house sign a petition for it; the petition would specify the topics that could be addressed. It doesn’t have any limits on the length or frequency of self-called legislative special sessions.
The proposed constitutional amendment, SJR 102, was approved by the Legislature in 2021, which also saw the longest legislative session in Idaho history. It had no Democratic support in either house and a smattering of Republicans in each house opposed it. To amend the Idaho Constitution, it would need majority support from Idaho voters in November.
The Legislative Council is a joint committee of legislative leaders that handles administrative legislative business between sessions.
Winder told the council Tuesday that he thought it was “ironic” that the minority opposed a major income-tax cut bill this year, but now is requesting Gov. Brad Little to call a special session to suspend the state gas tax for six months in light of the current soaring gas prices. “They also oppose the constitutional amendment,” he said. “If there’s never a better argument, it’s the one that has been made by the minority in asking for a special session on gas tax relief.” He then abruptly adjourned the meeting, as several council members were asking to be recognized to speak. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/gop-leaders-insert-covid-reference-into-special-session-amendment-arguments/article_d09ef401-0342-58f2-8165-7cdae587e6a9.html | 2022-06-15T01:09:26 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/gop-leaders-insert-covid-reference-into-special-session-amendment-arguments/article_d09ef401-0342-58f2-8165-7cdae587e6a9.html |
Trustees in Idaho’s largest school district approved a 20% raise for superintendent Derek Bub earlier this year, but never discussed the agreement in an open public meeting.
Trustees approved a new superintendent’s contract on April 11, board minutes show. The approval followed no discussion and was included in the meeting’s consent agenda, which trustees typically use to OK a cluster of non-controversial items through a single vote.
The contract, dated April 11 and included in a link on the agenda ahead of the meeting, puts Bub’s 2022-23 salary at $210,000, a 20% increase from his current salary of $175,000.
By comparison, West Ada teachers will receive a 6.28% average salary bump from last school year.
EdNews asked West Ada board chair Lori Frasure about the process and Bub’s pay hike. EdNews will update this story with any comments from Frasure.
Former chairman Rusty Coffelt led the board at the time the contract was approved, but he resigned on April 25, citing “family matters.”
Bub’s new three-year contract takes effect July 1 and also includes incremental raises “at least equal to that paid to other administrators for each of the succeeding years” until the contract ends.
Bub’s salary increase makes him Idaho’s highest paid superintendent. Boise trustees Monday approved a raise for superintendent Coby Dennis — a 4.5% hike that brought his salary from $183,604 to $191,866.
West Ada serves some 39,000 students in Ada and Canyon counties.
Here’s a look at Idaho’s top-paid administrators in 2021-22:
Scott Thomson, North Idaho Charter STEM Academy: $193,500 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/west-ada-trustees-ok-20-raise-for-superintendent/article_54d07a3c-6bc5-5ae4-b707-08162b06b843.html | 2022-06-15T01:09:33 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/west-ada-trustees-ok-20-raise-for-superintendent/article_54d07a3c-6bc5-5ae4-b707-08162b06b843.html |
Kootenai County law enforcement officials arrested 31 men from a far-right group known as Patriot Front on Saturday in Coeur d’Alene.
But what is known about Patriot Front?
Patriot Front is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “a white nationalist hate group” that broke off from a different far-right group after the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. Its founder is Thomas Rousseau.
The group is based in Texas but has membership across the country. Members arrested in Coeur d’Alene came from Texas, Arkansas, Wyoming and Washington, with two from Idaho, police said. According to the SPLC, Patriot Front is one of six recognized hate groups in Idaho.
“Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country,” the SPLC said of the group.
The group has a manifesto that calls for the formation of a white ethnostate in the United States, according to the SPLC. Its brand of activism often consists of posting flyers and other advertisements in public places that promote an extremist brand of patriotism, the SPLC said. Some Patriot Front stickers and flyers have been seen in Spokane in the past.
Its members, who are almost exclusively young white men, are often seen wearing a uniform that consists of khakis, blue shirts, white face coverings, baseball caps and sometimes body armor.
Patriot Front has used moving trucks like the one in Coeur d’Alene to transport their members in flash-mob-style demonstrations, according to other videos on social media that reportedly show Patriot Front members.
Although its founder, Rousseau, does not embrace overtly violent tactics, the group seeks to provoke violence and intimidation of minority groups through its racist propaganda, according to a 2019 investigation by ProPublica. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/what-is-the-patriot-front-what-to-know-about-the-far-right-group-arrested-in/article_ddf2919f-4c6b-578a-887b-d8a647fc8bbe.html | 2022-06-15T01:09:39 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/what-is-the-patriot-front-what-to-know-about-the-far-right-group-arrested-in/article_ddf2919f-4c6b-578a-887b-d8a647fc8bbe.html |
RED LODGE, Mont. — Yellowstone National Park's signature river reached an unprecedented level and unleashed floodwaters that tore through the surrounding areas, sweeping away houses, washing out bridges and roads, stranding tourists and residents, and prompting frantic helicopter and raft rescues.
The flooding across parts of southern Montana and northern Wyoming from days of rain and a rapidly melting snowpack indefinitely closed one of the nation's most iconic parks just as a summer tourist season that draws millions of visitors was ramping up.
Instead of marveling at the site of massive elk, grizzlies and bison roaming freely, burbling thermal pools and the regular blast of Old Faithful's geyser, tourists found themselves witnessing nature at its most unpredictable as the Yellowstone River crested in a chocolate brown torrent that washed away anything in its path.
"It is just the scariest river ever," Kate Gomez of Santa Fe, New Mexico, said Tuesday. "Anything that falls into that river is gone. The swells are huge, and it's just mud and silt."
While no one has been reported killed or injured, waters were only starting to recede Tuesday and the full extent of the destruction wasn't yet known.
Gomez and her husband were among hundreds of tourists stuck in Gardiner, Montana, a town of about 800 residents at the park's north entrance. The town was cut off for more than a day until Tuesday afternoon, when crews managed to get part of a washed away two-lane road reopened. Officials warned that driving conditions were still dangerous.
While the flooding can't directly be attributed to climate change, it came as the Midwest and East Coast sizzle from a heat wave and other parts of the West burn from an early wildfire season amid a persistent drought that has increased the frequency and intensity of fires that are having broader impacts. Smoke from a fire in the mountains of Flagstaff, Arizona, could be seen in Colorado.
Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said a warming environment makes extreme weather events more likely than they would have been "without the warming that human activity has caused."
"Will Yellowstone have a repeat of this in five or even 50 years? Maybe not, but somewhere will have something equivalent or even more extreme," he said. "It was just this time last year we were talking about the heat dome over the Pacific Northwest. These extreme heat events are becoming more common."
Heavy rain on top of melting mountain snow pushed the Yellowstone, Stillwater and Clarks Fork rivers to record levels Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
Officials in Yellowstone and in several southern Montana counties were assessing damage from the storms, which also triggered mudslides and rockslides. Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte declared a statewide disaster.
Some of the worst damage happened in the northern part of the park and Yellowstone's gateway communities in southern Montana. National Park Service photos of northern Yellowstone showed a mudslide, washed out bridges and roads undercut by churning floodwaters of the Gardner and Lamar rivers.
In Red Lodge, Montana, a town of 2,100 that's a popular jumping-off point for a scenic, winding route into the Yellowstone, a creek running through town jumped its banks and swamped the main thoroughfare, leaving trout swimming in the street a day later under sunny skies.
Residents described a harrowing scene where the water went from a trickle to a torrent over just a few hours.
The water toppled telephone poles, knocked over fences and carved deep fissures in the ground through a neighborhood of hundreds of houses. The power was knocked out but restored by Tuesday, though there was still no running water in affected neighborhood.
Heidi Hoffman left early Monday to buy a sump pump in Billings, but by the time she returned her basement was full of water.
"We lost all our belongings in the basement," Hoffman said as the pump removed a steady stream of water into her muddy backyard. "Yearbooks, pictures, clothes, furniture. Were going to be cleaning up for a long time."
On Monday, Yellowstone officials evacuated the northern part of the park, where roads may remain impassable for a substantial length of time, park Superintendent Cam Sholly said in a statement.
But the flooding affected the rest of the park, too, with park officials warning of yet higher flooding and potential problems with water supplies and wastewater systems at developed areas.
The rains hit just as area hotels have filled up in recent weeks with summer tourists. More than 4 million visitors were tallied by the park last year. The wave of tourists doesn't abate until fall, and June is typically one of Yellowstone's busiest months.
It was unclear how many visitors to the region remained stranded or have been forced to leave Yellowstone, or how many people who live outside the park were rescued and evacuated.
Mark Taylor, owner and chief pilot of Rocky Mountain Rotors, said his company had airlifted about 40 paying customers over the past two days from Gardiner, including two women who were "very pregnant."
Taylor spoke as he ferried a family of four adults from Texas, who wanted to do some more sightseeing before heading home.
"I imagine they're going to rent a car and they're going to go check out some other parts of Montana — somewhere drier," he said.
At a cabin in Gardiner, Parker Manning of Terre Haute, Indiana, got an up-close view of the roiling Yellowstone River floodwaters just outside his door.
Entire trees, debris and even a lone kayaker floated by on the choppy flow. In early evening, he shot video as the waters ate away at the opposite bank where a large brown house was precariously perched.
In a large cracking sound heard over the river's roar, the house tipped into the waters and was pulled into the current and floated off downstream.
In south-central Montana, flooding on the Stillwater River stranded 68 people at a campground. Stillwater County Emergency Services agencies and crews with the Stillwater Mine rescued people Monday from the Woodbine Campground by raft. Some roads in the area are closed because of flooding and residents have been evacuated.
The sheriff's office said it would assess damage when waters receded.
The towns of Cooke City and Silvergate, just east of the park, were also isolated by floodwaters.
In Livingston, residents in low-lying neighborhoods were told to leave and the city's hospital was evacuated as a precaution after its driveway flooded.
Officials in Park County, which includes Gardiner and Cooke City, said extensive flooding throughout the county had made drinking water unsafe in many areas.
The Montana National Guard said Monday it sent two helicopters to southern Montana to help with the evacuations.
In the hamlet of Nye, at least four cabins washed into the Stillwater River, said Shelley Blazina, including one she owned.
"It was my sanctuary," she said Tuesday. "Yesterday I was in shock. Today I'm just in intense sadness."
Cory Mottice, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Billings, Montana, said rain is not in the immediate forecast, and cooler temperatures will lessen the snowmelt in coming days.
"This is flooding that we've just never seen in our lifetimes," Mottice said.
The Yellowstone River at Corwin Springs crested at 13.88 feet Monday, higher than the previous record of 11.5 feet set in 1918, according the the National Weather Service.
Yellowstone got 2.5 inches of rain Saturday, Sunday and into Monday. The Beartooth Mountains northeast of Yellowstone got as much as 4 inches, according to the National Weather Service. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/flooding-pummels-yellowstone-region-leaves-many-stranded/article_fad7412b-c76e-5fa7-9d20-8ac80719f312.html | 2022-06-15T01:10:46 | 1 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/flooding-pummels-yellowstone-region-leaves-many-stranded/article_fad7412b-c76e-5fa7-9d20-8ac80719f312.html |
With several reading programs in place, the Idaho Falls Public Library hopes to help children succeed academically before they even enter the school system.
Idaho Falls Public Library Director Robert Wright said that programs, such as Storytime, have been in place for many years.
"I have been here since 2004, but I think they started doing these (reading programs) 20 years before I came, possibly even since it's been open," Wright said.
Wright was referring to programs including Book Babies, Storytime, KinderPrep and Little Makers. Each of these programs caters to different age groups with the same goal, enhancing children's early literacy. Book Babies is a reading time for children up to 2 years old held at 11:30 a.m. every Monday and Wednesday. It takes place on the first floor of the library, 457 W. Broadway.
Prior to the pandemic, these reading programs had more than 6,000 participants. More recently, the library recorded 2,939 participants in the summer of 2021. The library estimates that all of these programs will bring in 4,500 participants this year, according to Storytime leader Barbara Tew.
Storytime also is held on the first floor of the library at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday through Thursday. As patrons enter the front doors and look to the right, they'll find a dedicated room for this event. Two doors, with "Storytime Room" painted above them, lead into an open space in which children up to age 5 have books read to them. During Storytime, the children are read two or three books. They also listen to songs and play with rhythm sticks, according to Tew.
"We try to make it as interactive as possible. It's more of an introduction to reading and a widening of their vocabulary," Tew said. "We hope it helps them with their social skills."
Tew has worked at the library full-time for 12 years and has been leading Storytime sessions for more than eight years.
"During the summertime, I see kids from all ages here. As you can see, at today's session we had babies all the way up to kids that are 12 years old," Tew said Tuesday.
The library also offers interactive school preparatory classes. These programs include KinderPrep and Little Makers.
Little Makers is the library's STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) storytime session for children ages 4 to 5. The sessions are at 10:30 a.m. on Fridays during summer.
"Children and parents come together to read books and build things," Wright said.
KinderPrep is an eight-week workshop held at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the library, led by a licensed kindergarten teacher. The workshop requires registration but does not require payment. During these workshops, kids and their parents learn the skills necessary for kindergarten.
"I have had people inside the school system tell me that they can tell if their students had been to KinderPrep or not," Wright said. "They will know that you read left to right. You can hand a book to a child, and if they've been to our program, they will hold it the right way."
"We focus on pre-emergent literacy. We want kids to read more books before they start attending school" Wright said.
At the library children who are avid reader can make their mark — literally. Wright spoke of a library tradition in which parents who come in to the library and record that they read their children 1,000 books before kindergarten, the child can dip their hand in paint and place it a on a wall at the library with their name above it. At the back of the children's department next to a butterfly bulletin board, there are 120 painted hands that have been placed on the wall.
"We just want to expose children to reading early," Wright said. "It's more than entertainment. I think this is really important for kids to experience before they start going to school." | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/librarys-storytime-enhances-childrens-literacy/article_5833564a-1f32-58cc-aacf-114e39cad761.html | 2022-06-15T01:10:52 | 1 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/librarys-storytime-enhances-childrens-literacy/article_5833564a-1f32-58cc-aacf-114e39cad761.html |
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. — Campers and tourists could only watch as the rising flood waters pulled a home off its foundation and into the Yellowstone River.
Boise native Hollie Arnell arrived at Yellowstone National Park in the middle of the madness, estimated around 10:30 a.m. Monday.
"The rivers are all blown out," Arnell said. "[The rangers] said 'hey, you gotta go. They're evacuating and closing the park.'"
As water flooded out of the riverbanks, campers and tourists flooded out of the west entrance gate, according to Arnell. Some people left their gear behind, while others we already in the town of West Yellowstone for breakfast.
Regardless, people could not reenter the park and get their belongings back, Arnell said.
"Chaotic. Everyone came through that gate and just kind of hunkered down there," Arnell said. "People were talking with rangers at the community center. They were like, 'we don't know if you'll be able to get your stuff, or if you can go back in.'"
All five entrances into the park are closed, according to Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly. No one can enter the park, but there is one camp group still in the northern portion of the park, Sholly said. The park has made contact with the group and is ready to evacuate them with helicopters if needed.
The most severe damage is near the north entrance in Montana, Sholly said. The road from Gardiner, Montana - a town of less than 1,000 people - into Yellowstone National Park is destroyed.
This forced some campers to evacuate at another entrance.
Sholly believes the worst of the flooding has past, but there is still roughly a foot of snowpack. The right mix of weather conditions could bring on another intense wave of floods.
"Going north into Montana more, those rivers up there were completely over the ground, coming up to the edge of the roads, to the point where we were like, 'no, let's just turn around and go back to camp.' I don't think anybody will be able to head north for quite a while," Arnell said "I mean, I've been through that park numerous times, but it's not gonna ever be the same."
It's still too dangerous to get boots on the ground and assess the damage, according to Sholly. Until water levels drop, officials won't be able to estimate a timeline for repairs.
Yellowstone anticipates the northern portion of the park will remain closed through the summer, Sholly said. Portions of the park, like the west entrance, may reopen with limited access.
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YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Editor's note: The above video is from May 26.
Crews responded to Codorus State Park on Tuesday evening for a water rescue.
According to emergency dispatch, emergency responders were sent to Codorus State Park in West Manheim Township for a water rescue around 5:20 p.m. on June 14.
It's unclear exactly what occurred at this time, but crews remained on scene Tuesday evening.
This is a developing story. FOX43 will provide updates as they become available. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/codorus-state-park-york-county-emergency-crews/521-4011f1ae-4bb7-4100-bb67-5c4f297a2702 | 2022-06-15T01:19:14 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/codorus-state-park-york-county-emergency-crews/521-4011f1ae-4bb7-4100-bb67-5c4f297a2702 |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Fire crews are responding to a garage fire in Harrisburg.
According to Dauphin County 911 Dispatch, the fire was reported just before 5 p.m. on Tuesday.
Officials say Hazmat crews are responding because of the cars and chemicals burning inside the building.
No injuries have been reported.
This is a developing story, FOX43 will update this article as more information becomes available. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/dauphin-county/fire-auto-shop-harrisburg/521-eb2e8e6c-6abb-4d6a-814b-c11256b61e6b | 2022-06-15T01:19:20 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/dauphin-county/fire-auto-shop-harrisburg/521-eb2e8e6c-6abb-4d6a-814b-c11256b61e6b |
Southwestern Oregon Community College will host the STEM Student Art Exhibit Strategic Initiatives: Groundbreaking Innovation Evolved from Initial Military Purposes beginning Tuesday, June 14, until mid-October in the new Umpqua Hall Health and Science Building on the Coos campus (1988 Newmark Ave., Coos Bay).
In celebration of the exhibit please the community is invited Tuesday, June 14, at 7 p.m. for the exhibit opening. The exhibit opening is timed with Flag Day and the US Army’s birthday to celebrate the contributions that veterans across the nation made to the scientific world. The college said it appreciates the continued community support of the STEM programs and events and are excited to showcase the students’ work.
The exhibit features projects and research posters from students in physics, astronomy and biology courses addressing scientific advancements spurred by military involvement. Exhibit curator Krystal Hopper and Southwestern Associate Professor of Physics Dr. Aaron Coyner worked with students from March to September of 2021 on the showcased projects addressing questions inspired by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang’s book Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military. Their work explores how tools and methods developed for astronomy and astrophysics were applied to military endeavors and vice versa. Student projects include medical advancements in prosthetics, satellite communication, the return to the Moon, and the development of the United States Space Force, among others.
For more information about the Strategic Initiatives exhibit please contact Krystal Hopper at krystal.hopper@socc.edu or Dr. Aaron Coyner, associate professor of physics, at 541-888-7244, aaron.coyner@socc.edu. To learn more about physics and engineering degrees at Southwestern visit https://physics.socc.edu/. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/southwestern-hosts-stem-student-art-exhibit/article_fef75e3a-ea9c-11ec-a617-5f53aa03409a.html | 2022-06-15T01:21:22 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/southwestern-hosts-stem-student-art-exhibit/article_fef75e3a-ea9c-11ec-a617-5f53aa03409a.html |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A nonprofit in Johnson City has spent more than two decades providing an after-school safety net for children and their families, most of whom are financially insecure.
As a part of News Channel 11’s Nexstar Founder’s Day of Caring, WJHL team members will be supporting Coalition for Kids with a day of service on Friday, June 17.
The network of support that Coalition for Kids offers has helped many parents keep their jobs, for some, it has even prevented them from losing their homes.
“How we want these kids to feel when they leave here is they are loved, we are their family, and we will be here tomorrow. We will be here the next day,” said Director of Community Outreach Cindy Young.
For 22 years, Coalition for Kids has served Johnson City Schools students as a free, K-8 after-school program, shining a spotlight on children who are under-served.
“When these kids do go home, they have two stressors taken away. Homework and their bellies are full. That is very important,” said Young.
Any child can participate in C4K programming. However, Executive Director Randy Hensley says most children come from families that are experiencing financial insecurity.
“84 percent of our kids’ families earn less than $20,000 a year,” Hensley said. “If they can’t hear us because their stomach is growling, we are not gonna impact anything.”
During the summer months, Coalition for Kids operates as a day-long summer camp.
Whether after school or during summer, the intended impact is growth in more ways than one.
“Play is always oriented to something specific in impacting them socially, emotionally or spiritually,” said Hensley.
That looks like a lot of fun, but also a lot of support.
Hensley says the top priority is to provide an environment where kids feel safe and confident.
“We base the very beginning of everything we do on who we are in Christ and the idea that the way we are loved, we are called to love back,” said Hensley.
This fall, Coalition for Kids is expanding for the first time outside of the Johnson City Schools system. They will now offer services to Washington County, Tennessee students.
They plan to start in about three of the county’s schools and expand to all schools within three to four years, following the same growth they achieved in Johnson City schools.
Upon that expansion, C4K anticipates it will be serving more than 1,000 children.
“When you talk about the future growth, it is mind blowing that God has honored us in this moment because of our incredible perseverance over the last 20 years,” said Hensley.
He added the need for this kind of support in communities is great, and their expansion into Washington County is just the beginning.
“We could go anywhere. There is no place there is no need. There is a need for child caregiving after school in every community and every town in the nation,” said Hensley.
Young stressed that the organization is always in need of more volunteers. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, they have seen their typical numbers of around 900 volunteers a year drop to around 400-500.
“It is always great when a volunteer will come, donate their time and really sit down with a child and help them do their homework. That makes a difference,” said Young.
To learn more about how to volunteer or donate to Coalition for Kids, visit their website. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/we-are-their-family-coalition-for-kids-strives-for-lasting-impact/ | 2022-06-15T01:27:26 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/we-are-their-family-coalition-for-kids-strives-for-lasting-impact/ |
Lubbock fire, gas officials stress safety amid uptick in accidents
In the midst of an increase in natural gas leaks around the city, some prompting evacuations, Lubbock Fire Rescue and Atmos Energy are urging the public and construction crews to call before they dig and to follow best practices when they do.
Ed Espinoza, manager for public affairs for Atmos Energy, said the increase in gas leaks can be attributed in part to the expansion of the city and construction.
“That's why we are trying to push and reiterate the importance of calling 811 and knowing what's below before anyone does excavation,” Espinoza said.
Ruptured gas line causes explosion damaging south Lubbock house
Calling 811 before you dig, Espinoza said, is how people and contractors know what is underneath them and where pipes are located.
However, the recent gas leaks in the past month have generally not been caused by individuals failing to call ahead, said Tarren Perkins, public information officer for Lubbock Fire Rescue. Rather, she said, the problem often stems from crews not practicing safe digging practices.
“Most of the time, they do call but there are a lot of things that go into that,” Perkins said. “Old maps or the maps are off by 5 [or] 10 feet or just old pipes needing to be updated information.”
Several recent gas leaks, Perkins said, were caused by third-party contractors and not city crews.
Both Espinoza and Perkins said that if you hit a gas line to call 911, even if you don’t hear gas escaping the line.
Afterward, Espinoza said, individuals should call Atmos Energy to notify them of the incident.
“We can send somebody out there to look at the piping itself — whether it be steel or poly — just to make sure everything is okay and if no repairs need to be made so there is no future leak caused by damage to that line,” he said.
Individuals should give themselves plenty of time to call 811 before starting any digging projects, no matter how big or small it is, Espinoza said.
“Please take the time and the precautionary measures to make sure that you, your family and your neighbors are safe,” he said. | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2022/06/14/lubbock-fire-gas-officials-stress-safety-amid-uptick-accidents/7488867001/ | 2022-06-15T01:27:57 | 0 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2022/06/14/lubbock-fire-gas-officials-stress-safety-amid-uptick-accidents/7488867001/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Willamette Valley berry farmers can’t catch a break.
In 2021, the heat dome that drove temperatures up to 116 degrees in some places roasted blackberries, marionberries and raspberries on the vine at South Barlow Berries U-pick farm in Canby. This year, it’s the rain that’s spoiling the strawberries.
“This weather is just, it’s not on our side,” said Tisa Orlov, who works at the farm. “It’s too muddy for U-pickers to even go out there.”
The rain is driving away their customers. And while the strawberries sit on the vine, waiting to get picked, they’re being damaged by the record-breaking precipitation.
The rain makes the berries soft and mushy. Some of them are cracking and becoming discolored. Tony Martishev, who owns the farm, said they almost look like they’re starting to rot and said it’s “just yucky.”
“It’s hard to sell the product when it’s like that because it needs to be presentable,” he said.
It’s not just the rain, the lack of sunshine is impacting the berries too. Orlov said customers have been commenting on the strawberry flavors, saying they just aren’t as sweet as they should be. She said this is because the berries need at least two good days of sunshine to reach their perfect level of sweetness.
On top of the rain discouraging customers from picking their own berries and damaging the berries on the vine, Martishev said the weather could also have an impact on next year’s crop. The ground has been too saturated for him to plant the strawberry plants he’s ordered for next year. He usually plants them in May, but at this rate, they’ll be in the cooler until July or August and they might not even survive in the cooler for that long.
Thankfully, Marishev doesn’t expect the heavy rainfall to affect the caneberries – his blackberries, marionberries and raspberries. He said they’re just starting to form fruit and don’t show any signs of damage so far.
However, if it continues to rain like this, his farmworkers won’t be able to put fungicides on the plants and he could end up losing a lot of berries later in the summer to mold.
South Barlow Berries suffered a major loss of their caneberries in late June 2021. Marishev and Orlov said they still haven’t fully recovered financially. They submitted an application for a forgivable loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency’s disaster assistance program, but were denied.
Orlov explained that the application process takes the farm’s gross income from 2021 and compares it to previous years to determine its loss and if it qualifies for the financial aid. She said South Barlow Berries didn’t make the cut.
She and Martishev hope they might still qualify if the requirements are adjusted and if a second round of applications are accepted.
“I just don’t know how much longer I can take this,” Martishev siad. “Farmers, especially small farmers, they get choked out and it hurts.”
While South Barlow Berries is bracing for another hit from their rain-soaked strawberries, they’re still hoping people will support their business.
Orlov and Martishev said the berries, although they might be a bit soft, are still great for canning and freezing. They’d be excellent in syrups, jams and smoothies. The farmers don’t want to see their hard work go to waste.
“It’s muddy. I give all the customers all the credit for coming out and supporting the local farmer,” Martishev said.
The farm is occasionally offering discounts on day-old berries to try to sell more product. However, customers should expect for the price of berries to be higher in 2022 than they were in 2021. Like many other industries, Oregon’s farms are feeling the effects of inflation. Martishev said he had to raise his prices to afford fuel for his farm vehicles and to pay his workers a fair wage.
As they wait for more customers to arrive, the staff at South Barlow Berries will be eying the forecast, watching for sunshine.
“I’ll keep my fingers crossed,” Martishev said. Hopefully this weekend is the last week of rain for a while.” | https://www.koin.com/local/first-the-heat-dome-now-record-rain-torments-oregon-berry-farm/ | 2022-06-15T01:30:39 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/first-the-heat-dome-now-record-rain-torments-oregon-berry-farm/ |
HILLSBORO, Ore. (KOIN) — For 37 years, Keith Eakland has been “a beloved and inspirational” employee at a Hillsboro McDonald’s. Despite a medical condition, he’s only called in sick to work once during all that time — and that was because of some major surgery.
On Tuesday, he was surprised and honored by the McDonald’s Thank You Crew who knew he loves baseball.
Eakland was given season tickets to the Hops games and on June 24, he will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Hops game while wearing a customized Hops jersey with his name on the back.
Smiling during the presentation, Eakland said, “More baseball!” | https://www.koin.com/local/washington-county/mcdonalds-honors-inspirational-hillsboro-worker/ | 2022-06-15T01:30:45 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/washington-county/mcdonalds-honors-inspirational-hillsboro-worker/ |
LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — Fun for the whole family in part of Lackawanna County.
Carnival on the Mountain is a fundraiser for the Jefferson Township Volunteer Fire Company.
There are tons of homemade food including chicken wings, potato pancakes, and tacos.
Kids could also try out a variety of rides and carnival games.
Carnival on the Mountain runs through Saturday near Mount Cobb.
Check out WNEP’s YouTube channel. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/carnival-on-the-mountain-in-lackawanna-county-jefferson-township-volunteer-fire-company-mount-cobb-fundraiser/523-eb5b86cc-28f0-4c95-9c46-ac319580e7fd | 2022-06-15T01:32:04 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/carnival-on-the-mountain-in-lackawanna-county-jefferson-township-volunteer-fire-company-mount-cobb-fundraiser/523-eb5b86cc-28f0-4c95-9c46-ac319580e7fd |
The job of Dallas City Manager T. C. Broadnax could be on the line Wednesday.
With the option of terminating Broadnax, a performance review was added to what was to be only an agenda of briefing items.
A push was also underway late Tuesday by Broadnax supporters to remove that item from the agenda.
T.C. Broadnax has been the Dallas City Manager since 2017. His current salary is $410.919.
He rarely grants media interviews, generally preferring to let the mayor and city council members who hired him to do the talking.
Several of his city council supporters spoke for Broadnax Tuesday.
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“I think that this city manager is the right person to lead our city moving forward for the years ahead,” Councilman Jaime Resendez said.
Cal Jillson, a political science expert at Southern Methodist University, said there is a common dynamic between Dallas elected officials and the public administrators they hire at first.
“The person is a genius. They’ve been successful everywhere they’ve ever been. And then they’re here three to five years, and now they’re a fool. We’ve got to get rid of them in order to move forward,” Jillson said.
Jillson, a longtime observer of Dallas City Hall, said the elected officials should be evaluated as a whole along with the manager.
“You have to start by grading city government. And you give it a C minus,” Jillson said.
Mayor Eric Johnson issued a statement Friday about the new review for Broadnax.
“I believe it is time for a change in city management. Several of my duly elected colleagues on the Dallas City Council have made it clear in recent days that they also believe it is time for a change,” the statement said.
Johnson was unavailable for comment Tuesday.
Broadnax was already undergoing a performance review process in which he was being evaluated on 12 goals. Wednesday’s agenda item was to cut that review short.
“If the review process had been completed, folks would get to see that he completed 11 of the 12 key priorities that we as the city council agreed to,” Councilman Omar Narvaez said.
A chronic unfixed problem at Dallas City Hall is the issuance of building permits.
Homebuilders Association issued a statement Tuesday complaining that the problem has lingered for years and Broadnax's response has been inadequate. The association supported the city manager’s replacement.
But Broadnax has received praise from other observers for reforms following local demonstrations after the Minnesota death of George Floyd. Several new programs were added to reduce the use of deadly police force.
Broadnax hired popular police chief Eddie Garcia after strong criticism of his previous chief, U. Renee Hall. And Broadnax ran Dallas city government during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic.
“He's accomplishing goals and I think he's doing a great job even though he's in the midst of this ongoing attack. And it's been going on for some time,” Councilmember Carolyn King Arnold said.
Jillson said the city council has clearly delivered a strong message to Broadnax from the members pushing to get rid of him.
“They should use that, sit down with him and develop a plan to move forward and resolve some of these issues rather than throwing him out and sacrificing the next six to eight months to a search for a replacement,” Jillson said.
Six months or more is the time it takes to find a replacement, during which priorities may be placed on hold. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-city-manager-t-c-broadnax-in-the-hot-seat-ahead-of-performance-review/2992427/ | 2022-06-15T01:32:07 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-city-manager-t-c-broadnax-in-the-hot-seat-ahead-of-performance-review/2992427/ |
LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — A lawyer from Lackawanna County will serve as our region's new U.S. Attorney.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Jerry Karam as U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
He's a partner at a law firm in Scranton and served as chief public defender of Lackawanna County for 10 years.
Karam was nominated by President Biden for the job earlier this year.
Check out WNEP’s YouTube channel. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/jerry-karam-confirmed-as-regions-new-us-attorney-lackawanna-county-scranton-president-biden-chief-public-defender/523-ada8f73e-b881-4369-93ab-c41171992c98 | 2022-06-15T01:32:10 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/jerry-karam-confirmed-as-regions-new-us-attorney-lackawanna-county-scranton-president-biden-chief-public-defender/523-ada8f73e-b881-4369-93ab-c41171992c98 |
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HAZLETON, Pa. — In Luzerne County, a former teacher and vice-principal in the Hazleton area School District is facing child sex charges.
Police say James Hudock kissed a student twice between June and September of 2021.
Hudock is also accused of sending sexual messages to the student via social media.
He's charged with institutional sexual contact with a student in Luzerne County.
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