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Entertainment Update is a weekly listing of live performances happening in our communities. Submit entries by email to Jacob Bertram at jacobb@gorgenews.com, or call 541-296-2141 ext. 106. Entries are free of charge and are published as space permits.
Zac Grooms at Big River Pizza
200 Beech St., Arlington
June 23, 7 p.m. — Come listen to Zac Grooms play tunes at Big River Pizza Bar & Grill
The Ruins shows
13 Railroad St., Hood River
June 23, 6 p.m. — Local Thursdays: The Night Farmers w/ Matt Coughlin to perform, $3 at the door. All ages invited, dogs not allowed.
June 28, 6 p.m. — Ruins Thursdays: Igor and The Red Elvises with J. Graves, $3 at the door, all ages; tickets $8 and 21-plus past 8 p.m.
Working Hands live music
1021 12th St., Hood River
June 24, 6 p.m. — Richard Gans to breathe new life into old folk Friday Night, and Americana Duo Two Runner to perform.
Dallesport show
June 25, 7 p.m. — Alex Ramirez y Su Grupo Profetas to perform at Plaza Portatil. Tickets $50
29th Annual Gorge Blues Festival
Skamania County Fairgrounds
710 S.W. Rock Creek Drive, Stevenson
June 24 —Johnny Wheels & The Swamp Donkeys, Mark Hurwitz and Gin Creek, Big River Blues Band
June 25 — Too Slim & The Taildraggers, Coyote Kinds w/ Tiphony Dames, Stacy Jones Band, Stevie & The Blue Flames, Michele D’Amour & The Love Dealers, Seth Myzel Band, and Robin Gibson Band. Tickets online at gorgeblues.com
Bargeway Pub performances
1535 Bargeway Road, The Dalles
June 22, 7 p.m. — Trisha Adams to play dinner show at Bargeway. No cover, all ages.
June 24, 7 p.m. — Nashville-based and Oregon-grown country singer McKayla Marie to perform.
June 25, 1 p.m. — BB Lake Band to take the stage.
Live Show at Last Stop
209 E. Second St., The Dalles
June 26, 7 p.m. — BB Lake Band to play at Last Stop Saloon in The Dalles.
Pink Floyd cover band at The Ruins
13 Railroad St., Hood River
June 24, 7 p.m. — Pigs on The Wing — A Tribute to Pink Floyd : The Dark Side of The Moon to perform the classic album in its entirety, plus a full second set highlighting the very best of Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters-era catalog.
Adventure Van Expo
3020 Wy’east Road, Hood River
June 25, 1:30 p.m. — Blues guitarist Scott Pemberton Band headline van life convention at Hood River County Fairgrounds.
June 26, 12 p.m. — Legato Gusto to cap off events
Jazz by the Fireplace
102 Oak Street, Hood River
June 24, 7:30 p.m. — Live jazz every Saturday hosted by Dave Henehan and Chic Preston joined by various jazz musicians at Hood River Hotel.
June 25, 7:30 p.m. — Dave Henehan (guitar), Chic Preston (bass), and Kerry Williams (mandolin) to perform jazz, swing, latin, and more. All ages allowed, no cover charge. | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/entertainment-update/article_9012a75e-f19f-11ec-9959-57ae2fb8465a.html | 2022-06-21T20:44:06 | 0 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/entertainment-update/article_9012a75e-f19f-11ec-9959-57ae2fb8465a.html |
WHITE SALMON — After a lengthy career at Columbia High School that started when he was a Bruin student athlete 50 years ago, Howard Kreps has decided the time has come for him to move on to the next stage in his life.
Kreps is retiring after a 30-year career as the athletic director at Columbia High in White Salmon. The White Salmon resident has enjoyed numerous athletic endeavors throughout his career, which included him playing on Bruin teams, coaching CHS players, and then overseeing the athletic program.
“It’s just time for me to get up each morning and do what I want to do and not deal with all the day-to-day stuff everyday — so that’s good, and we’ll see where things take me,” said Kreps, 65. “The last few years have been a real struggle because I’ve had some health issues and my wife passed away, and then I was dealing with COVID problems at work, so the last four years have not been that much fun.”
Howard’s wife of 41 years, Christine Kreps, passed away in 2020 at age 63. Christine was an art teacher at Columbia High for the last 10 years of her life.
After he graduated from Columbia High in 1975, Kreps moved to Tacoma to attend Pacific Lutheran University. That’s where he met Christine and played on the Lutes’ football team. Kreps earned his teaching degree at PLU and in 1980 got a teaching job at Franklin Pierce High School in Tacoma. He coached the football, track and field and girls basketball teams there until 1988.
In 1989, Kreps returned to White Salmon. He got the job as the Bruin girls basketball coach and track and field coach. In 1992, Kreps became the athletic director, and he had the dual role as a coach and AD, which he continued for 30 years. Kreps coached the girls basketball team and the Bruin boys and girls track and field teams — on and off — for a total of 33 years.
“I’ve enjoyed my career here immensely and I have a lot of extremely fond memories,” he said. “It seems like the time went by very quickly, but then in some ways, maybe not. Over the years, I’ve met a lot of great people at White Salmon, including all the coaches.
“I’ve coached a lot of kids here, too, and that’s been lots of fun. I’ve done a lot of good things at White Salmon, and I’ve helped develop a lot of facilities and I’ve spearheaded some big improvements.”
During his tenure at Columbia, Kreps helped expand the athletic program by adding boys and girls soccer and softball, and he also helped get a new asphalt track built at the school. More recently, Kreps was instrumental in the planning and construction of the school district’s new multi-purpose, 80-foot-by-100-foot two-story fieldhouse with two basketball courts.
“I would have to say that there’s probably not many 1A schools that have a fieldhouse as nice as ours that I’m aware of — it’s really pretty cool,” said Kreps of the year-old facility. “It was a vision that we had about 10 years ago, and it finally became a reality.”
Columbia’s new athletic director is AJ Valencia, 27, who was formerly an associate AD for two years at Lincoln High School in Portland.
“When I got the AD job at White Salmon, I was young and I had a lot of energy, but I just don’t have the energy that I used to have,” said Kreps. “I had some pretty good seasons and I’ve had some struggling seasons, like everybody else. Things sometimes worked out pretty well and sometimes they didn’t.
“I still talk to kids that I met who were on teams that I coached 35 to 40 years ago and that’s kind of fun. I’ve actually had opportunities to coach the children of players who I coached a long time ago, so that’s kind of exciting.”
Kreps’ son Aaron is a Columbia High graduate and Howard had the opportunity to coach him on the Bruin track and field team when he was in school. Aaron, who has three children, is the owner of Artistic Excavation in White Salmon and Hood River. Howard says he’s looking forward to spending more time visiting with his three grandchildren and he’ll have an opportunity to do that more often now that he’s retired.
Kreps said that he is grateful to his wife and son for all the support that they gave him throughout his career. Kreps said he also wanted to say “thank you” to all the coaches, administration, and staff members at Columbia High for their support as well.
“I’m at the point in my life where I’m ready to retire,” Kreps said. “I feel pretty good about the things that I’ve accomplished and now it’s time to let somebody else do those things.” | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/kreps-comes-full-circle-retires-as-bruin-ad/article_70ac7b0c-f199-11ec-a92f-df3306b083d8.html | 2022-06-21T20:44:12 | 0 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/kreps-comes-full-circle-retires-as-bruin-ad/article_70ac7b0c-f199-11ec-a92f-df3306b083d8.html |
A Hood River man was arrested for disorderly conduct on Sunday, June 12 after pulling out a handgun in front of The Ruddy Duck, located on Oak Street in downtown Hood River.
According to Hood River Police Department Lieut. Don Cheli, the man, 66, waved the gun around and then set it on the ground a couple of times. “A bystander stepped between the man and his gun the second time he set it down,” Cheli said.
No shots were fired, and no one was injured. The man was laying face down when police arrived, he said.
Cecily Diffin, owner of The Ruddy Duck, posted a statement on the business’ Facebook page regarding the incident, which reads, in part, “On Sunday, June 12 at around 4:40 p.m., a person who was located outside of The Ruddy Duck on the grass by the gazebo exposed a gun from his jacket. This person waved the gun around, at times threw it on the ground and retrieved (it) to wave it around more. All of the customers and staff at The Ruddy Duck and Mike’s Ice Cream sought cover and the police were summoned.”
Diffin said that while the incident came to a close without any physical injuries, staff and customers experienced emotional trauma.
“For anyone who was on the property at 504 Oak St. during this scary event, I and my family are so sorry for your horrible experience. We are heartbroken that such a thing unfolded on our corner … We would like to thank the law enforcement officers who responded quickly, efficiently and empathetically. We would especially like to thank the private citizen who addressed the man with the gun and managed to step between the man and the gun when he threw it down on the ground. This person was brave, assertive and calm. He took a big risk and I wish we knew his identity.”
Diffin added, “This was a shocking and raw experience. We love our community, we love our staff, we love our corner and to have all of those beloved things come under threat was very upsetting, gut wrenching and a heartbreak.” | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/man-arrested-after-pulling-unloaded-gun-in-downtown-hood-river/article_ad43eef8-f19c-11ec-ab05-27837fcdf971.html | 2022-06-21T20:44:18 | 1 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/man-arrested-after-pulling-unloaded-gun-in-downtown-hood-river/article_ad43eef8-f19c-11ec-ab05-27837fcdf971.html |
Native American jazz trumpeter Delbert Anderson and his ensemble, D’DAT, will visit several National Conservation Lands sites in June and July, including the Lower Deschutes River near Madras.
At 11 a.m. on Monday, June 27, D’DAT will discuss their fusion music process with Indigenous youth and the Warm Springs community. Space is limited to 30. Tuesday, June 28 at 7 p.m., join D’DAT in concert with the Waashat Singers. Space is limited to 100. Bring your own chairs/blankets. To reserve your free space, contact Delson Suppah at 503-422-8502 or shuppai@gmail.com. Both events will be held at Lake Simtustus Resort, 2750 NW Pelton Dam road in Madras.
As part of the 2022 Painted Mountains tour, Anderson and D’DAT will camp out in six National Conservation Land areas for three days to gather inspiration from the land and local tribe members. Then the band will compose two original music pieces, host public workshops and perform the new music for the sites’ surrounding communities. The tour will include five additional stops in Utah, Idaho, Oregon, California, and New Mexico.
In Painted Mountains, D’DAT combines the cultural elements of Diné Spinning Songs with traditional jazz forms, hip hop and funk, resulting in a new, compelling sound that bridges the gap between the past and future, and seeks to celebrate Indigenous lands and the unifying power of music. Documentation and a 12-track land healing album will be released after the expedition.
Painted Mountains is in partnership with Jazz Road/South Arts, the Bureau of Land Management and the American Pops Orchestra.
When Native American jazz trumpeter Delbert Anderson and founding member of D’DAT found an old tape of these traditional songs, he spoke with Native elders and realized the potential for a brand-new jazz form.
“We had songs for everything. We had songs for love, songs for war, ceremonial healing-type songs...the Navajo spinning songs that I started to be influenced by were those social ones,” Anderson said. “I’m grateful to Jazz Roads and South Arts for their incredible support.” | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/native-american-jazz-fusion-group-to-visit-warm-springs/article_2433841c-f1a0-11ec-bf19-2f251b347dd6.html | 2022-06-21T20:44:24 | 1 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/native-american-jazz-fusion-group-to-visit-warm-springs/article_2433841c-f1a0-11ec-bf19-2f251b347dd6.html |
MOSIER —Poachers will pay $16,000 in fines and restitution for killing a trophy elk and at least one buck dear near Mosier in 2021, according to OSP Fish & Wildlife officials. The member of the public who reported a suspicious photo circulating on social media earned five hunter preference points.
Lionardo Munoz, of Mosier, will pay more than $15,000 in fines and fees for illegally shooting a 6X6 bull elk. Matt Wilkinson, also of Mosier, will pay $1,000 in fines related to his part in concealing the crime. The investigation also revealed at least one buck deer Wilkinson’s wife, Rachel Hallett, poached. Additional penalties for the three include bench probation, forfeiture of meat and heads, and hunting suspensions.
The incident started on Nov. 9, 2021, when a hunter texted a photo circulating on social media to OSP F&W Troopers. Something was just not right about the photo of a 6X6 bull elk on a trailer.
Senior Trooper Brent Ocheskey, based in The Dalles, received the text and called the hunter. He had his own questions about the photo.
“It was a big elk on that trailer,” Senior Trooper Ocheskey said. “An elk is a big animal, not easy to pack out without gutting and quartering it. That in itself was suspicious, especially in our patrol area.”
Ocheskey got a name of a possible hunter who had harvested the elk. After some quick research, he contacted Senior Trooper Matt Newby as backup and the two headed to the subject’s residence.
No one was home at Lionardo Munoz’ house. As the troopers drove away, they saw a truck turn down the drive. In the back of the truck was a 6X6 bull elk head along with the hide. They had located the hunter in question, and the bull.
Munoz had a tag for a spike elk, and it appeared his crime was taking an over-sized elk. But Munoz said the elk belonged to his friend and passenger in the truck, Matt Wilkinson. Wilkinson said his wife, Rachel Hallett, had shot it earlier in the Santiam unit.
The subsequent investigation included multiple subjects, timelines, locations, and tags as OSP F&W Troopers followed the case from one animal and residence to another. Along the way, Senior Troopers Ocheskey and Newby found and seized three additional deadheads from buck deer near the couple’s residence. They issued warnings for unlawful possession of wildlife parts and cited Hallett for illegal take of a buck deer and Wilkinson for aiding in a wildlife offense.
The hunter who reported the elk on the trailer received five hunter preference points: Four for the original elk report, and one point for the subsequent buck deer.
Bernadette Graham-Hudson, ODFW Wildlife administrator, is encouraged by the outcome of the case.
“Oregon hunters, legislators and other conservationists worked hard to pass strict sentencing guidelines to address poaching cases like this one,” Graham-Hudson said. “Hopefully fines like this will serve as a warning to others who would behave so irresponsibly.”
“It is great that hunters and members of the public are willing to call in what they see so we can protect the wildlife and make cases that would otherwise be undetected,” Ocheskey said. “These tips are very important because we patrol vast areas of the state and just can’t be everywhere at once. Sometimes tips lead to really good cases like this one. Sometimes a tip solidifies a case we are already working. Sometimes the tip results in no case or a mistaken violation but that’s okay too. Every case is different, and all information is appreciated because you never know. It’s a trooper’s job to figure out what we have once we get a call”.
The outcome of the sentencing hearings is as follows:
Matthew Wilkinson, 38, of Mosier, pleaded guilty to Unlawful Take of a Six-Point Bull Elk and Unlawful Take of a Buck Deer. Defendant’s sentence included: 12 months of bench probation; 40 hours of community service; a five year hunting license suspension; $1,000 compensatory fine to ODFW for the elk; forfeiture of the seized wildlife and all hunting licenses and tags.
Lionardo Munoz pleaded guilty to Unlawful Take of a Six Point Bull Elk. His sentence included: 18 months of bench probation; three year hunting license suspension; forfeiture of the seized wildlife and all hunting licenses and tags; $15,000 compensatory fine to ODFW for the elk; $431.25 reimbursement to OSP for cut-and-wrap costs of elk.
Rachel Hallett pleaded guilty to Unlawful Take of Buck Deer. Her sentence included: 12 months of bench probation; three year hunting license suspension; forfeiture of seized wildlife and of all hunting licenses and tags; 40 hours of community service.
The Stop Poaching Campaign educates the public on how to recognize and report poaching. This campaign is a collaboration among state agencies, sportsmen and other conservationists, landowners, and recreationists to engage the public in combating Oregon’s poaching problem. Our goal is to: Incentivize reporting on wildlife crimes through the TIP Line; strengthen enforcement by increasing the number of OSP Fish and Wildlife troopers; and support prosecution in becoming an effective deterrent.
The campaign helps to protect and enhance Oregon’s fish and wildlife and their habitat for the enjoyment of present and future generations. Contact campaign coordinator Yvonne Shaw for more information at Yvonne.L.Shaw@odfw.oregon.gov. | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/poachers-pay-more-than-15-000-for-taking-bull-elk-buck-deer/article_b97ddc34-f19b-11ec-99e2-23541dbc5332.html | 2022-06-21T20:44:30 | 1 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/poachers-pay-more-than-15-000-for-taking-bull-elk-buck-deer/article_b97ddc34-f19b-11ec-99e2-23541dbc5332.html |
The following election results are provided by the Oregon Secretary of State. Hood River and Wasco counties have certified their results.
Oregon state results for local races:
Federal seats
In the race for U.S. Senator, Ron Wyden (D) won the Democrat primary with 439,665 votes and Jo Rae Perkins won the Republican primary with 115,701 votes.
In the race for U.S. Representative, 2nd district, Joe Yetter won the Democrat primary with 27,814 votes and Cliff S. Bentz won the Republican primary with 67,372 votes.
In the race for U.S. Representative, 3rd district, Earl Blumenauer won the Democrat primary with 96,386 votes and Joanna Harbour won the Republican primary with 18,031 votes.
In the race for U.S. Representative, 5th district, Jamie McLeod-Skinner won the Democrat primary with 38,726 votes and Lori Cavez-Deremer won the Republican primary with 30,438.
Oregon Governor
Tina Kotek (275,301 votes) defeated Tobias Read (156,017 votes) for the Democrat primary.
Christine Drazan (85,255 votes) won the Republican primary
State senate races
In the race for state senator, 26th district, Raz Mason won the Democrat primary with 10, 296 votes; Daniel G. Bonham won the Republican primary with 10,999 votes.
State representative
In the race for state representative, 52nd district, Darcy Long won the Democrat primary with 5,981 votes, and Jeff Helfrich won the Republican primary with 5,705 votes.
In the race for state representative, 57th district, Greg Smith won the Republican primary. No one filed for the Democrat primary.
Nonpartisan (contested)
Darleen Ortega won Judge of the Court of Appeals, position 3, with 547,660 votes.
Incumbent judge John Wolf kept his seat as Judge of the Circuit Court, 7th district, with 6,893 votes. Challenger Caleb Berthelsen received 5,956 votes.
Hood River County Board of Commissioners
Hood River County has certified its election results.
Jennifer Euwer (3,929 votes) defeated Ron Rivers (2,295 votes) for Hood River County board of commissioners, chair.
Ed Weathers (869 votes) ran uncontested for Hood River County board of commissioners, district 3.
Wasco County Board of Commissioners
Wasco County has certified its election results.
Phil Brady (3,398 votes) defeated Rod Runyon (3,151 votes) for Wasco County Commissioner, position 3, vacated by Commissioner Kathy Schwartz.
Scott Hege (4,099 votes) defeated Cynthia Bearss (1,681 votes) for Wasco County Commissioner, position 2. Hege was incumbent commissioner in that race.
Measures
Shaniko residency requirement for city recorder — yes, 7 votes; no, 5 votes.
Shaniko Fire 5-year option levy — yes, 5 votes; no, 7 votes.
Dufur Recreation District operating levy — yes, 261 votes; no, 178 votes. | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/primary-election-final-results/article_08079728-f19c-11ec-ae05-1f3ac864e971.html | 2022-06-21T20:44:36 | 1 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/primary-election-final-results/article_08079728-f19c-11ec-ae05-1f3ac864e971.html |
HOOD RIVER — In November 2021 the City of Hood River agreed to contract with Community Development Partners (CDP) to develop the seven acre Rand Road property into affordable housing. CDP is currently in the process of applying for funding and making changes to the number of units at each income percentage level.
In the June 13 City Council meeting, CDP Director of Development Jessica Woodruff presented councilors with new information about the project.
The original development proposal suggested 129 total units, with 20 at 30% Area Median Income (AMI) and 109 at 60% AMI. The new mix increases the number of 30% AMI to 39 units and the remaining 90 at 60% AMI. This change comes as CDP is looking into funding options. According to Woodruff, the state and the Oregon Housing Authority is prioritizing allocation of funds to projects with more units in the 30% AMI range. Woodruff says more units at 30% AMI will be beneficial to everyone involved.
“It improved the financial feasibility of the project, because the OHA increased the number of Project Based Vouchers (PBVs),” she said.
PBVs help residents pay for rent and offer stability to the families and the project’s budget. The Mid-Columbia Housing Authority awarded CDP and the Columbia Cascade Housing Corporation (CCHC) 39 vouchers, which will be available to units in the 30% AMI range.
The change also earned additional points on their application towards to the Local Innovation and Fast Track (LIFT) Housing Program.
CDP and CCHC applied for the LIFT Rental fund on April 22. According to Woodruff, the LIFT fund has been “substantially oversubscribed.” Other projects, including the Rand Road project have requested $110 million, but with only $30 million in available money — in the Rural category — the assistance program is fiercely competitive. The Rand Road project asked for $17.6 million. If awarded, it would cover the entirety of the project and developers could move forward in the design and permitting process. Awards are expected to be announced at the end of August.
According to the meeting memorandum, CDP has met with the Energy Trust of Oregon (ETO) to find common ground and what is the best fit in their funding programs. The project currently qualifies for the Multi-Family and Attached Residences incentive fund, and also has plans to utilize the technical assistance and incentives for the Path to Net Zero solar program.
The CCHC isn’t going to let a funding opportunity pass them by. The group submitted a $3 million request to the office of Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley with that decision coming by the end of the calendar year.
Across the state, affordable housing developers are facing many unprecedented challenges. Primary concerns center around rising costs of construction and volatile interest rate market. Prices for materials and labor have risen nearly 12% since last year.
“I have been doing affordable housing development in Oregon for quite some time now, and this is a very unique time (for housing projects),” said Woodruff. “But this is an exceptional project and it will get done.”
At the end of her presentation, Woodruff added that they are executing a “phased public outreach.” CDP hired the Center for Public Interest Design (CPID) to conduct the outreach. Currently in Phase one CPID is identifying potential community partners, beginning outreach to local farm and school groups and working to set parameters. Phase two is slated to start soon and will include phone calls with community stakeholders and organizations. The LatinX and Westside residents are expected to be the focal point. Phase three will be public meetings, followed by the fourth and final phase: A draft report that will include findings and recommendations. | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/rand-road-developers-modify-unit-numbers-in-favor-of-funding/article_56bc6a68-f199-11ec-aa2b-bb3b0a9769b7.html | 2022-06-21T20:44:42 | 0 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/hoodriver/news/local/rand-road-developers-modify-unit-numbers-in-favor-of-funding/article_56bc6a68-f199-11ec-aa2b-bb3b0a9769b7.html |
Columbia Gorge Food Bank (CGFB) has officially broken ground on their new warehouse and Community Food Center on the Port in The Dalles, marking the start of a project that will serve as a central hub for anti-hunger efforts across Hood River, Wasco and Sherman counties.
The current CGFB headquarters is 2,000 square feet and serves as a distribution hub providing free food through nearly 40 community partners. The new space will be more than 11,000 square feet, over five times the size of their current warehouse. In fact, the cold storage alone will be nearly 2,000 feet, allowing the food bank to provide more fresh food to local families and throughout the Oregon Food Bank’s statewide network.
“Until now, this has been one of the most underserved regions in Oregon — and at the outset of the pandemic, there were parts of this region that received no service whatsoever,” CGFB Manager Sharon Thornberry said. “With this new building and resource for the community, we are doing something that not only sets us up to expand food assistance now, but also builds long-term food security for the whole region.”
This expansion of access to free, nutritious food and broader anti-hunger efforts comes at a critical time for local families as food prices are rising and cost of living is increasing.
“We’re seeing more and more families seeking food assistance for the first time, with rising costs of food, fuel and housing”, CGFB Philanthropy Manager Silvan Shawe said. In the last year, food prices have increased more than 10%, fuel prices have increased 45% and the cost of housing has risen dramatically, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
However, despite all they already do, the new space will allow them to do even more. This new headquarters, located just down the street from their current warehouse, will be more than just a place to store and sort food.
The CGFB Community Food Center will also be the new home of Windy River Gleaners, who will operate their food pantry out of the space, The Dalles Community Backpack Program, and boasts a learning kitchen and room for workshops, classes, and volunteer events. The hope is that it can become a place for the community to gather, learn, and share food.
“We’re not just building a warehouse,” Shawe said. “We’re building a true community food center.”
The goal is for the facility to be finished and open in November, in time for the holidays, one of the food bank’s busiest times of year.
Though the food bank has received grants and donations for the new space, they’re still working on funding the approximately $3.5 million project.
The Columbia Gorge Food Bank is seeking volunteers and donations for the new warehouse Community Food Center. Those interested in getting involved or learning more can visit columbiagorgefoodbank.org, email gorge@oregonfoodbank.org, or call 541-370-2333. Donations can also be mailed to CGFB at P.O. Box 2313 in The Dalles. | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/news/local/columbia-gorge-food-bank-breaks-ground-on-new-facility/article_decdee32-f198-11ec-8819-df090711404f.html | 2022-06-21T20:45:56 | 0 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/news/local/columbia-gorge-food-bank-breaks-ground-on-new-facility/article_decdee32-f198-11ec-8819-df090711404f.html |
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WHITE SALMON — The White Salmon Valley Pool Metropolitan Park District last week approved a partnership with White Salmon Valley School District to provide free transportation to and from the Hood River Pool for the summer swim season.
The park district approved spending up to $10,000 to cover the costs. They also made a request to both the cities of White Salmon and Bingen to share the cost of the program.
White Salmon entered into a cost-sharing arrangement with the park district, agreeing to spend up to $3,200 at last week’s city council meeting, and the Bingen City Council is expected to take a vote this week to also enter into the program.
Park District Commissioner Steven Harris outlined the details of the program that have been confirmed.
Harris said the park district here will offer two pick up locations in White Salmon and Bingen, with service to the Hood River pool up to three times per week and twice a day.
“We’re working on the final details of the bus service program with the school district, which I anticipate will be finalized next week,” Harris said in an email.
The City of White Salmon also recently approved an expenditure to allow for free passes to the Hood River Pool.
The City of White Salmon is providing free access to the Hood River Pool for residents that live within the city limits.
Residents may sign up at city hall at 100 N. Main, by sending an email to utilityclerk@ci.white-salmon.wa.us or by calling 509-493-1133. Do not try to sign up at the Hood River pool.
Residents will need to prove residency within the city limits. Do not send children to sign up for free access. Once you have signed up, information will be sent to the Hood River pool and they will create an account for you noting that you have free access via the city.
Residents will need to check the Hood River Pool website at hoodriverparksandrec.org/pool-schedule for available times. Free access is provided from June 1 to Sept. 30. | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/news/local/talks-underway-to-provide-transit-to-hr-pool/article_dafd2c92-f19c-11ec-863d-0f924957e9f8.html | 2022-06-21T20:46:08 | 1 | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/news/local/talks-underway-to-provide-transit-to-hr-pool/article_dafd2c92-f19c-11ec-863d-0f924957e9f8.html |
DICKSON CITY, Pa. — Lake Commerce started off as a joke from the Dickson City Police Department. It was only a matter of time before the joke took on a life of its own. That's where Buff City Soaps came up with the idea to name a soap after the fictional body of water.
Commerce Boulevard in Dickson City has had its fair share of troubles. Every time it rains heavily, drivers have to be detoured. A drainage issue causes the flooding and forces Dickson City police to close the road, preventing traffic from going to the shopping plazas nearby.
The road closures were happening frequently, so the police department took to its Facebook page and dubbed the flooded area Lake Commerce.
Buff City Soaps is one of those businesses affected when Lake Commerce reappears.
Store manager Kristy Latwinski says it even happened during their grand opening in September and has been a headache for business.
"I honestly can't even count. It seems to happen very often. When it was really heavy rains, it was like each week," Latwinski said.
Buff City Soaps offers soaps made specifically for this store, in addition to the lineup found in stores across the country.
Latwinski says they decided to add another to their local line calling this one, Lake Commerce. The display even gives a nod to Dickson City police decorating it with yellow caution tape. This Lake Commerce definitely smells better than the one that forms in real life.
"We wanted it to be fresh, like fresh water, so we chose two of our scents that we already carry and mixed them together. We experiment a lot and we just loved the smell, so we went with it. We even formed the top to try and make it look like waves and rocky," Latwinski said. "Our soaps are usually flat but we wanted some kind of water design in it."
Latwinski says the store started selling the bars on Friday. When Dickson City police posted about the new soap, it went viral and created a big boom for business at Buff City.
"It's awesome. We've had a lot of new customers saying, 'Oh, we've been meaning to come in. We saw Lake Commerce.' It's been really good. We've turned a bad situation into a good situation."
Each bar of soap costs $7 and Latwinski says they're close to selling out. Employees are already in the process of making some more to meet demand.
Check out WNEP’s YouTube channel. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/water-woes-spark-soap-sales-in-dickson-city-buff-city-soaps-flooding-lake-commerce-boulevard/523-bd5f239c-2ef8-4db3-8e62-6a30ccf5a5af | 2022-06-21T20:49:04 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/water-woes-spark-soap-sales-in-dickson-city-buff-city-soaps-flooding-lake-commerce-boulevard/523-bd5f239c-2ef8-4db3-8e62-6a30ccf5a5af |
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Businesses in downtown Lewisburg are decorated in red, white, and blue in preparation for this weekend's Fourth of July parade. The Union County Veterans' Fourth of July celebration has been a tradition in this community since 1995, but things have looked different since the pandemic.
"We loved doing the drive-thru parade last year. The veterans appreciated it, but downtown Lewisburg, this is where it's at!" said Terry Burke, the president of the Union County veterans' Fourth of July celebration committee.
Burke says this year's event will be back to its traditional roots. Thanks to additional sponsors, Burke says Friday's fireworks show will be the largest one in Union County history.
"They wanted this to be a big splash back, and I think we're doing that!"
There are nearly 200 entries in Saturday's parade, which will start with a fly-in by an all-veterans parachute team out of North Carolina. Burke says around 100 veterans will participate in the parade, including five World War II vets.
"All veterans come out, and the community supports them. The goal is Lewisburg and Union County. The veterans here always need to know that they are supported and appreciated and always will be."
The Lewisburg Downtown Partnership and Lewisburg Community Zone will provide gift bags for the veterans.
The fireworks start Friday at 9:30 p.m. at Wolfe Field in Lewisburg. The parade kicks off Saturday at 10 a.m. on Market Street.
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TAMPA, Fla. — If you're having trouble with your landlord or you're not sure you can make your mortgage payment, the City of Tampa wants to give you a lifeline.
City leaders are launching a housing information line to put you in touch with people who can help and programs that can make a difference.
“We're actively receiving these calls right now every day our staff hears these calls," Tampa’s Housing and Community Development Manager Kayon Henderson said. "There's some really sad stories we realize it's not a way to solve any housing issue right now but just being able to provide those resources to those people who need them and not sure where to go."
Many people in crisis have been reaching out to 2-1-1, but the city hopes by putting all the housing resources in one place, it will make it easier for you to get the help you need. Call center operators will be available Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. This is the number for help 813-307-5555.
“What we are trying to do by developing this housing information line is to simplify the process of individuals navigating through the many resources,” Mayor Jane Castor said.
There are three key things the city offers to address the housing crisis: DARE to Own the Dream home ownership program to help first-time homebuyers, owner-occupied rehabilitation program to make repairs, and rental move-in assistance which is a $5 Million fund for rental assistance. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/tampa-housing-info-line/67-8b07e0dd-679d-4534-aa49-f70b553ea3f8 | 2022-06-21T20:49:44 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/tampa-housing-info-line/67-8b07e0dd-679d-4534-aa49-f70b553ea3f8 |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Authorities in St. Petersburg responded to a boat collision that struck rocks and a seawall, injuring two people Tuesday afternoon.
At around 3 p.m., St. Petersburg Fire Rescue responded to 4th Avenue North and Sunset Drive North on a report of a boating crash. There, they saw a 15-foot flats boat that collided with rocks and the seawall at that intersection.
The two people on the boat were both injured as a result of the collision. One person was transported to Bayfront Health St. Petersburg Trauma Emergency Room with serious injuries. The other person was evaluated at the scene for minor injuries.
At this time, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating the incident to gather more details about the crash. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/boat-crash-seawall-st-petersburg/67-c6989fa4-b892-480e-893a-06780d9b46c6 | 2022-06-21T20:49:50 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/boat-crash-seawall-st-petersburg/67-c6989fa4-b892-480e-893a-06780d9b46c6 |
BLOOMINGTON — Coffee Hound Roasters and Cafes, 407 N. Main St. in Bloomington, is this week's pick for Eats of the Week.
April and Steve Fritzen opened Coffee Hound's downtown Bloomington location on Aug. 19, 2002, and will soon celebrate the business' 20th anniversary.
The couple opened their second location in uptown Normal in December 2006, then opened a third location, Coffee Hound: CH3 Satellite, combined with Bloomington Cycle and Fitness, on April 1, 2017. They added a location at Rivian in March, which quickly became their busiest site as the electric vehicle plant grew to over 5,000 employees.
When the Fritzens were just starting their coffee business, Steve was a contractor and April was in construction management. They worked with a consultant from Oregon to turn their ideas into reality. The couple also worked with Sammy Piccolo, a Canadian barista champion.
"We created a vision that was very coffee-focused and we wanted to share that with the community, as we felt it was very special and missing from the area at the time," April Fritzen said.
Fritzen said her favorite part about the business is being able to work alongside her husband, Steve, who is the head roaster. She added that they both enjoy engaging with their employees, as it keeps them young.
Coffee Hound is a member of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, Roaster Guild of America and Barista Guild of America. They have been voted best coffee in Central Illinois by Pantagraph Media's Best of Readers' Choice Awards, best coffee by Illinois State University's Daily Vidette, and small business of the year in 2012 by the McLean County Chamber of Commerce.
"I think people enjoy our product; it's a positive experience," Fritzen said. "It can be an office away from home or a meeting place for friends who haven't seen each other in a while. Coffee is very social, and it's taken a while to get the vibe back because of COVID."
The most popular menu items include the cortados, cappuccinos and small espresso drinks at the main location; flavored lattes such as the "redbird" drink at the uptown Normal location; and blended vanilla bourbon at the CH3 location. Coffee Hound also offers a variety of baked goods, such as cronuts.
Coffee Hound sells its products in its coffee shops and nationwide through its website, and changes out its merchandise frequently. It has an ordering app and hosts community events such as coffee classes, local vendor pop-ups and money education classes. April's dad's artwork is displayed in the Main Street location and even inspired the dog logo for the business.
The Fritzens next plan to open a location at 16 W. Main St. in Lexington, where they will have a warehouse with over an acre of land, a new roaster that will do three times the work, an outdoor garden and more.
"Because we have multiple locations we seem like a franchise, but we are 100% locally owned and operated. Our logo has changed so much over the years, yet it's still recognizable," Fritzen said. "We love what we're doing, and this feels like a natural progression for us and to keep longevity for staff — our No. 1 motivation for growing is keeping people."
The Coffee Hound locations on Main and in uptown Normal are open 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Coffee Hound: CH3 is open 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday, and closed Monday. The Rivian location is not open to the general public.
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Contact Olivia Jacobs at 309-820-3240. Follow Olivia on Twitter: @olivia___jacobs | https://pantagraph.com/business/local/watch-now-coffee-hound-brews-a-friendly-vibe-in-bloomington-normal/article_1d418282-f17b-11ec-b8e0-d3342dd43a04.html | 2022-06-21T20:50:07 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/business/local/watch-now-coffee-hound-brews-a-friendly-vibe-in-bloomington-normal/article_1d418282-f17b-11ec-b8e0-d3342dd43a04.html |
HUDSON — Every summer since 1930, a group of elementary school students from across Bloomington District 87 and McLean County Unit 5 have been selected by their teachers for an opportunity to spend a week at Camp Limberlost at Timber Pointe Outdoor Center at Lake Bloomington.
For the last two years, organizers have offered day camp experiences to reduce the spread of COVID-19 — but this summer, organizers are ready to give campers the overnight experience with bunkmates and developing a sense of belonging with the larger camp community.
“Ultimately what we want to do is we want the kids to have fun and come out here and enjoy themselves and just relax,” said Scott Seibring, 59, a co-chair of Camp Limberlost, which is hosted one week a year by the Bloomington Kiwanis Club. “A lot of them have a life at home where they have a lot of responsibility and things that most kids may not have.”
Sixty area children are attending the 92nd annual Camp Limberlost this week at Easterseals Central Illinois’ Timber Pointe Outdoor Center. Camp started Sunday and ends Friday.
With activities ranging from kayaking and swimming to archery and ziplining, the camp offers ways for campers to experience and learn as they interact with each other. They also become aware of how their personal actions affect themselves and those around them, said Timber Pointe Camp Director Lydia Gartner, 29.
“We just want it to be really exciting and something that kids wouldn’t necessarily have the chance to do outside of camp,” Gartner said. “Even with our arts and crafts, we have a rule that there are no paper plate projects here. We want to send things home that the kids are proud of and are meaningful and of value to them.”
Paula Pratt, 61, a co-chair of Camp Limberlost, said the camp is funded through a variety of projects throughout the year, including the Bloomington Kiwanis Mother’s Day Flower Sale and a book fair, as well as individual or corporate donations.
The Bloomington Kiwanis Club was formed in 1920, with its charter in 1921, and has had many community and business leaders as members and officers over the years.
Having been involved with Kiwanis for over 20 years, Pratt said it is hard to be in the club without learning about Camp Limberlost and the impact it has had on children who later joined the club as adults.
Members can set up activities, deliver food, haul duffle bags and assist camp counselors with getting campers settled in for the week of activities, while reinforcing positive social interaction between each other, Pratt said.
“Having opportunities to contribute, whether it’s just contacting families at the front end of the process or packing bags to helping with canoes,” Pratt said. “There’s always an opportunity for us to get involved in a variety of ways.”
Kamven Collin, 9, said he likes being with new people and is excited to learn more about others this week, while also trying out the big swing along the lake, which the camp added last year.
Cayden Grismore, 8, and Elliot Bonner, 9, both first-timers at Camp Limberlost, said they are already enjoying activities like swimming, canoeing and archery.
Assigned as bunkmates, Grismore and Bonner have become best friends and are excited to see what else will happen this week.
“I love my mom and dad for this and I’m excited to play in the real-life version of the board game Clue that we’re going to do tomorrow,” Bonner said Monday.
“I’m excited that I’m rooming with my friends and I also love my mom and dad for letting me come here,” Grismore said. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/watch-now-92nd-annual-camp-limberlost-brings-kids-back-for-weeklong-stay-at-timber-pointe/article_f9246abc-f185-11ec-bbac-db51eb825fe7.html | 2022-06-21T20:50:14 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/watch-now-92nd-annual-camp-limberlost-brings-kids-back-for-weeklong-stay-at-timber-pointe/article_f9246abc-f185-11ec-bbac-db51eb825fe7.html |
The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory through 8 p.m. in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio.
Heat-index values in the 95- to 100-degree range are expected this afternoon and early evening, which may cause heat illnesses to occur, the weather service said in the advisory.
The weather service encouraged people to drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/heat-advisory-continues-in-northeast-indiana-northwest-ohio/article_598ae262-f197-11ec-9d93-278a15009963.html | 2022-06-21T20:51:41 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/heat-advisory-continues-in-northeast-indiana-northwest-ohio/article_598ae262-f197-11ec-9d93-278a15009963.html |
A 17-year-old motorcyclist who police chased down O Street reached speeds as high as 100 mph as he fled a traffic stop Tuesday morning, according to the Nebraska State Patrol.
The teenager, who voluntarily stopped the motorcycle as he approached 120th Street, had brass knuckles in his pocket and a concealed handgun in his backpack when troopers took him into custody at about 2 a.m., the patrol said in a news release.
The pursuit began near 56th and O streets, when a trooper saw two motorcycles without license plates and attempted a traffic stop.
Both motorcycles fled east at a high rate of speed, passing the city's eastern edge before one motorcyclist turned north and the other continued on O Street before stopping, the Patrol said.
A spokesman said there was little traffic on O Street at the time.
The 17-year-old was referred to the Lancaster County Attorney's Office on suspicion of willful reckless driving, carrying a concealed weapon and flight to avoid arrest. He was taken to the Youth Services Center.
A Kansas City, Missouri, native, Andrew Wegley joined the Journal Star as breaking news reporter after graduating from Northwest Missouri State University in May 2021.
Avid drag racers said they have no place race and are scapegoats for problems on O street, and residents frustrated by the noise and speeding cars expressed their frustrations at a town hall meeting.
The complaint — filed by two shareholders in Superior Court of the State of Washington, where Costco is based — involves an undercover investigation into Lincoln Premium Poultry last year.
As the 5-year-old dog charged officers, knocking one to the ground, a second officer retreated backward and fired his gun, striking the dog, the police department said. The dog, Diva, was ultimately euthanized.
The 35-year-old man told police he had started talking with an unknown man at Cooper Park early Thursday morning, but the conversation devolved into a disagreement, and later, into a shooting.
The 22-year-old fled officers and ran into a residential neighborhood where he was later arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and tampering with physical evidence, police said.
Four minutes after warning residents to stay away from the area near 15th and U streets, the school's police department announced the person was arrested.
Everette O'Neal is set for sentencing next month, where he is likely to face at least 25 years in prison, given that prosecutors have alleged he is a habitual criminal.
Nebraska State Patrol was made aware that the 13-year-old girl might be driving through Nebraska in a Ford F-150 with a man. Troopers quickly located the vehicle and found the girl hiding inside. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-teen-fled-state-patrol-at-100-mph-on-motorcycle-agency-says/article_4e19b9a0-de74-5797-8096-63e2981b21f9.html | 2022-06-21T20:52:22 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-teen-fled-state-patrol-at-100-mph-on-motorcycle-agency-says/article_4e19b9a0-de74-5797-8096-63e2981b21f9.html |
INDIANAPOLIS — The city of Indianapolis is on the fast track to fixing its many bumpy and below-average roads.
Last week city leaders passed a proposal to pour $13 million into repairing and redesigning Marion County's roads. The bulk of that, $10 million, is going directly toward immediate road repairs. After the proposal passed, city leaders didn't delay putting that money to work.
On Tuesday, Mayor Joe Hogsett announced road repairs have already begun on both East 91st Street and South Tibbs Avenue. These two roads are part of the more than 100 lane miles expected to be rehabilitated this summer through the effort.
“We know better infrastructure is an urgent priority for all neighborhoods. That’s why, only two weeks after my office proposed an additional $13 million for enhancing residential streets, we have begun work on projects throughout Marion County," Hogsett said.
The road repairs will target the most deteriorated streets in each of the city-county councillors' districts. The streets that will undergo immediate rehabilitation include segments of:
- Moore Road
- College Avenue
- Allisonville Road
- Hague Road
- East 79th Street
- West 56th Street
- East 46th Street
- West 62nd Street
- West 30th Street
- Burdsal Parkway
- Emerson Avenue
- Tobey Drive
- Cumberland Road
- West 10th Street
- West Ray Street
- East St. Clair Street
- East Hanna Avenue
- East 10th Street
- Superior Road
- East Troy Avenue
- West Morris Street
- Brehob Road
- East Edgewood Road
- East Southport Road
- East 91st Street
- Grandview Drive
- Dugan Drive
- South Tibbs Avenue
City-County Councilor Dan Boots said $3 million of the funding passed last week will go toward designing future residential roadway projects. The funds will kick-start future improvements along residential streets, preparing designs for full street reconstruction.
Boots explained that this funding is unique — and necessary — because over the last 25 years, "very little money" has gone directly toward residential roads.
"Getting into the neighborhoods, getting into the side streets is a novel thing and it's the magic of the administration here to make wine out of water, to create some of this money," Boots said of the new funding.
All of this new funding is in addition to the nearly $160 million that city leaders had already budgeted for projects fixing roads, bridges, sidewalks and greenways across Indianapolis this year. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/construction-begins-on-indianapolis-marion-county-worst-roads/531-e190c790-c1ce-422b-bced-68af66efd7ba | 2022-06-21T20:54:28 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/construction-begins-on-indianapolis-marion-county-worst-roads/531-e190c790-c1ce-422b-bced-68af66efd7ba |
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — A doctor with the Jefferson County Department of Health has died in a motorcycle accident, according to JCDH officials.
Dr. Ashraf Edward “Ed” Khan, 56, worked at JCDH for many years serving in various roles, including as the former Medical Director of Disease Control. At the time of his passing, Khan was working in Birmingham as an internist.
He served as one of JCDH’s Subject Matter Experts on various public health issues including dozens of media appearances, community presentations, and professional lectures.
He was especially renowned for his expertise in tuberculosis. Clinicians across the state and much of the country sought his expertise in the care of challenging tuberculosis cases.
In addition to his work in Alabama, he had done infectious disease work in other countries including Zambia, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Haiti, Mozambique, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana and Guatemala.
The JCDH highlighted his “kind, gentle and humble demeanor” in their Facebook page’s tribute for Khan, including how he provided food and shelter for patients in need on his own accord.
The JCDH flag was flown at half-staff Tuesday to mourn this loss. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/jefferson-county-health-dept-doctor-dies-in-motorcycle-accident/ | 2022-06-21T20:58:55 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/jefferson-county-health-dept-doctor-dies-in-motorcycle-accident/ |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Precinct 1110 is set to remain open to voters until 8:30 pm after ballots were unavailable at 7 am Tuesday morning.
Judge Elisabeth French, Presiding Judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, extended voting hours at the precinct “given that voters did not have the opportunity to begin voting in a timely fashion.”
The precinct is located at Don Hawkins Park & Recreation Center, 8920 Roebuck Blvd. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/precinct-1110-in-birmingham-to-stay-open-until-830-p-m-due-to-ballot-issue/ | 2022-06-21T20:59:01 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/precinct-1110-in-birmingham-to-stay-open-until-830-p-m-due-to-ballot-issue/ |
RICHLAND, Wash. — The United States Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 2018 Washington state law aimed at helping sick Hanford workers obtain benefits and medical care was unconstitutional under the “Supremacy Clause.”
In a unanimous decision, the court struck down the state’s 2018 law saying it “facially discriminates against the Federal Government and its contractors.” The Trump administration filed a lawsuit challenging the law in Dec. 2018 arguing it violated “intergovernmental immunity.”
However, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement that an “updated and enhanced” law passed by the state Legislature during the 2022 session remains in place, “ensuring that workers at radioactive waste sites like Hanford still receive compensation benefits for health issues they have faced because of their work.”
Ferguson said the protections apply to all individuals, including state employees, who work on the Hanford Site.
“Because the legislature already fixed the issues the federal government raised, there is little practical impact in Washington as a result of this ruling,” Ferguson said in a statement. “Hanford workers, and all others working with dangerous radioactive waste, remain protected. The federal government has not challenged this new law. If they do, we will defend these protections all the way back up to the Supreme Court again if we have to. As long as I’m Attorney General, I will fight for Hanford workers.”
The Biden administration has not challenged the new law, nor has it indicated it plans to, Ferguson said.
In a statement, Gov. Jay Inslee said he disagreed with the court’s decision but emphasized that “it’s important to note that this does not remove protections for Hanford workers.”
“[The 2022] law is appropriate and necessary to hold the federal government accountable in its obligation to care for workers exposed to dangerous radiation and their families,” Inslee said. “There are numerous examples of Hanford workers struggling to get assistance for illnesses that have clearly been caused by exposures at the nation’s most contaminated environmental cleanup site.”
In 2018, the state Legislature passed House Bill 1723 which gave Hanford workers with certain illnesses the presumption that they got sick at work from exposure to toxins such as heavy metals, chemical vapors and radioactive isotopes. This is a similar presumption given to Washington state firefighters who routinely come into contact with hazards such as smoke and dangerous chemicals associated with building and car fires
Before the 2018 law, the KING 5 Investigators showed for three decades Hanford workers were systematically cheated out of benefits. Hanford’s self-insured program used tactics such as doctor shopping and submitting incomplete medical information to unfairly deny claims. The process left workers sick, broke and unable to work.
Unlike most other employers in the state, the Department of Energy (DOE), which owns Hanford, runs a self-insured workers' compensation program, which means the feds pay the claims.
Many Hanford workers suffered serious illnesses their doctors said were poisonous vapor-induced, including occupational asthma, COPD, cancer, organ damage and occupational dementia. Yet in each of their cases, their workers' compensation claims were repeatedly denied.
“The workers need this law. They deserve this law. They have worked and paid with their life and injuries to clean up one of the most toxic sites [in the world] and I don’t understand [the challenge to it],” said Bertola Bugarin in September 2021. Her husband, 70-year-old Abe Garza, is critically ill after several exposures to toxic vapors at Hanford. One of Garza's most serious adverse health conditions is toxic encephalopathy, also known as occupational dementia. “[The Biden administration is] saying workers at Hanford are a commodity and expendable.”
Soon after Washington lawmakers passed the Hanford bill, the Department of Justice, under the Trump administration, appealed the law. Federal attorneys argued the law is unconstitutional because states do not have the authority to regulate federal operations or property. However, in 1936 Congress gave states broad authority to apply their workers’ compensation laws to federal projects.
The DOJ lost that case in 2019 and again lost an appeal to the Ninth Circuit in August 2020 before taking it to the Supreme Court.
A bipartisan group of 60 Washington state lawmakers sent a letter of protest to President Biden in October 2021, urging him to drop a Trump-era legal challenge to a state law aimed at helping sick Hanford workers obtain benefits and medical care.
Hanford, located near Richland in southcentral Washington state, was created by the Manhattan Project during World War II and made the plutonium for much of the nation's nuclear arsenal. Hanford plutonium was used in the second atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man," which dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945 at the end of World War II.
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Afterward, production continued to support the country’s stockpiling of nuclear weapons throughout the Cold War.
By the time plutonium production ended in 1987, Hanford had become the most contaminated place in the entire Western Hemisphere. Approximately one million gallons of nuclear waste has already leaked out of the single-shell tanks and is slowly making its way toward the Columbia River. Some radiation has been found in the Pacific Ocean near the mouth of the Columbia River.
Because of the deterioration of the single shells, much of the tank farm work currently focuses on transferring the waste from those tanks into the sturdier double shells.
As double-shell tanks begin to break down, a grave concern is the lack of space for the waste. No new tanks have been constructed since the 1970s, despite years of expert recommendations that new tanks need to be built to hold the waste until the Vit Plant is operational.
Hanford remains the biggest environment cleanup job in U.S. history, funded with about $2 billion a year. There are budget documents published by the government showing the cleanup lasting into the 2080s and costing taxpayers $100 billion or more.
Hanford's main entrance, located on the outskirts of Richland, is 200 miles from Seattle.
The site is about 586 square miles.
More info on Hanford: | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/scotus-2018-hanford-washington-state-law/281-abcc9367-c274-4ce3-ad0f-89c4d5666d21 | 2022-06-21T20:59:17 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/scotus-2018-hanford-washington-state-law/281-abcc9367-c274-4ce3-ad0f-89c4d5666d21 |
MCLENNAN COUNTY, Texas — A McLennan County judge issued an order earlier this month that will prohibit certain fireworks in the county through Independence Day.
The order was issued on June 7 because of the drought conditions within the county that was determined be the Texas Forest Service.
Based on the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), which is used to determine forest fire potential, McLennan County is 593 out of 800.
"The normal danger of fire in the unincorporated areas of McLennan County is greatly enhanced by the extremely dry conditions now existing," the order reads.
Per the order:
- A person can't sell, detonate or ignite fireworks classified as "skyrockets with sticks" or missiles with fins in any portion of McLennan County
- It doesn't prohibit "permissible fireworks"
- Violating the order is a Class C misdemeanor
- It expires whenever the Texas Forest Service determines drought conditions are no longer a threat or on midnight of July 4, whichever is earlier.
All types of fireworks remain illegal within the city limits of Waco and most other cities except for professional displays. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/certain-fireworks-prohibited-mclennan-county-per-new-order-by-county-judge/500-ca0908ca-934d-4a43-96dd-6401517f4ae3 | 2022-06-21T21:00:43 | 0 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/certain-fireworks-prohibited-mclennan-county-per-new-order-by-county-judge/500-ca0908ca-934d-4a43-96dd-6401517f4ae3 |
LOCKHART, Texas — Two firefighters were killed when the truck they were in crashed on FM 20 in Lockhart on Monday afternoon. Officials later confirmed the pair were brothers.
The City of Lockhart said Lockhart police and fire departments responded to the two-vehicle crash at San Jacinto Street around 1:45 p.m.
Preliminary reports showed a woman driving southbound on San Jacinto Street was struck by a Maxwell Community Volunteer Fire Department brush truck as she turned into State Park Road/FM 20.
The brush truck rolled over, killing the two firefighters. The woman in the other vehicle sustained minor injuries.
FM 20 from South Medina Street and Patton Road was shut down to traffic as officials investigated.
The City said Lockhart PD filed a summons, similar to a citation, for the woman for failing to yield right-of-way.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the Maxwell Community Volunteer Fire Department for the loss of two of their own,” the City said in a statement.
The Maxwell Community Volunteer Fire Department later confirmed that the two firefighters who were killed were brothers, Assistant Chief Jonathon Coco (25) and firefighter Hunter Coco (21).
The VFD said the brothers were returning from a wildfire on Texas Highway 20 outside of Lockhart when they were involved in the accident. Jonathon Coco had been a member of the department since 2016, and Hunter Coco had been with the department for just over one year. Both are survived by their immediate family.
"The members of both the department and district are grateful to all members of our community who have shown their support and eternal love to all of us and the Coco family in this very trying time. We ask, respectfully, that any showing of support and gratitude for our fallen members be held until further arrangements are made," the VFD wrote on Facebook.
The VFD said in the interim, donations in support of the Coco brothers can be made to the Maxwell Community Volunteer Fire Department, P. O. Box 216, Maxwell, Texas, 78656.
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TEMPLE, Texas — The Temple City Council approved a Mobility Master Plan, the city announced Tuesday.
According to the city, the plan "is designed to produce a state-of-the-practice, multimodal transportation system through the improvement and construction of roads, sidewalks, parks, traffic lights, public transit and other transportation methods."
The plan, which looked at the potential impact of population growth, was put together in collaboration with Alliance Transportation Group, Inc., the city said.
"The City of Temple will implement the plan by identifying priority projects, then determining how each will be funded," according to a news release.
The city began working on the plan in January 2021. The project team held two public meetings and met separately with residents and community groups to get feedback. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/temple-city-council-approves-master-plan-to-improve-roads-sidewalks-public-transportation/500-72c7d502-567b-45ad-9dcc-5e8463d72940 | 2022-06-21T21:00:55 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/temple-city-council-approves-master-plan-to-improve-roads-sidewalks-public-transportation/500-72c7d502-567b-45ad-9dcc-5e8463d72940 |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — With a deal for the Pennsylvania State budget on the horizon, advocates gathered at the Capitol Rotunda to call on lawmakers to increase funding for early childhood education.
“To put it bluntly, Pennsylvania is facing a crisis in childcare," said Donna Cooper, executive director of Children First.
Advocates with Children First say over 30,000 children in the Commonwealth are missing out on early childhood education programs. They say the problem is attributed to childcare workers leaving the industry due to low wages.
“I have lost count of how many childcare workers have said to me when I pick up my child, ‘Grandma, this is my last week," said grandparent Shantel Drake-Murray.
Jessica Shertzer with Nature & Nurture Discovery School says her business is one of many in the area that has not been operating at full capacity due to worker shortages. She says low wages are making it harder to find highly-qualified childcare workers.
“Those type of people, who are great for our kids and make great environments, will not work for $12, $11, $10, even $15 an hour," said Shertzer. "They deserve more than that, their education and experience is worth more than that."
Shertzer says several daycares throughout the Commonwealth have even been forced to close due to the lack of adequate staff—leaving many families without childcare.
“There’s just not enough spots for the children that need care, and we can’t create more spots without highly educated staff," explained Shertzer.
Advocates with Children First say wage increases for all childcare workers would only take up one percent of the $12-billion surplus in the Pennsylvania budget.
Shertzer argues it’s a worthy investment.
“We’ve got to dedicate those funds to our staff. We have to invest in our staff because it ultimately invests in our children," said Shertzer. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/advocates-call-on-pa-lawmakers-to-increase-early-childhood-education-funding/521-81057e14-e39f-43e7-be77-223553f6e3ca | 2022-06-21T21:06:18 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/advocates-call-on-pa-lawmakers-to-increase-early-childhood-education-funding/521-81057e14-e39f-43e7-be77-223553f6e3ca |
LITITZ, Pa. — The COVID-19 vaccine rollout for kids ages 6 months to 5 years old has begun, following the CDC’s approval of the vaccine for that age group.
The CDC granted emergency use authorization over the weekend for both the three-dose Pfizer and two-dose Moderna vaccines.
There are about 17 million children in the U.S. between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. The federal government initially made about 10 million vaccine doses available to its local partners.
Lititz Apothecary began offering the vaccine to young children on Monday. Since then, pharmacists there have administered more than a dozen shots.
“I think they’re excited that now their kids can, that now the family’s complete,” said pharmacist Dr. Chet Patel. “They don’t have to think about so many different things. Obviously anxiety is reduced.”
Patel said the parents he is seeing sign up are enthusiastic about getting their children the vaccine, but expects to encounter more hesitancy in the coming months.
That lines up with an April Kaiser Health Foundation poll that found only 18 percent of parents of children under 5 were “eager to get their child vaccinated right away.”
Doctors say both vaccines are effective in protecting younger kids from the virus.
Some toddlers, too, aren’t too eager to get the jab. Three-year-old Griffin clung fiercely to his mother, Rachel Morales Fan, when it came time to roll up his sleeve.
Fan, herself a family medicine doctor based in Columbia, said she was relieved to finally get Griffin vaccinated: “I feel wonderful to feel like we finally are getting him protected, too.”
After the shot, Griffin was surprised it didn’t hurt at all. He accepted a colorful sticker as a reward.
“Stickers and lollipops go a long way. That really helps,” Patel said. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/covid-vaccine-rollout-children-6-months-5-years/521-d2e60bda-7d84-4120-92c7-f559b924ee82 | 2022-06-21T21:06:22 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/covid-vaccine-rollout-children-6-months-5-years/521-d2e60bda-7d84-4120-92c7-f559b924ee82 |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — State House Republicans blocked a proposal to prevent those ages 18 to 21 from possessing assault-style rifles on Tuesday by completely changing the bill into a constitutional amendment to allow anyone to carry concealed guns.
It was the second week in a row that Republicans in the Judiciary Committee used their majority to defeat Democratic proposals to address the country’s gun violence plague.
The bill would have prevented those under age 21 from purchasing, possessing or transporting the types of weapons that have often been used to kill and wound people in the mass shootings that have become an epidemic in the United States.
So-called “constitutional carry” has wide support among the Legislature's Republicans, but a bill to allow it was vetoed by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in December.
Rep. Joe Hohenstein, D-Philadelphia, called the unfettered right to bear arms a myth that leads to the type of violence seen in the Wild West.
“We can say all we want about how guns will make certain people safer, they also make a whole lot of other people less safe,” he said during the brief hearing in the Capitol. Violence is occurring with legally purchased guns, he noted. “It's legal purchases of firearms that are turning into the mass shootings that we see.”
The vote was nearly on party lines, with only one Republican — from the Philadelphia suburbs — crossing lines to vote against it.
Democrats have turned to discharge resolutions, a parliamentary maneuver, in an effort to get gun violence bills out of Judiciary, where Chairman Rob Kauffman, R-Franklin, has prevented them from advancing.
Last week, the committee voted to ask the speaker to send four other gun bills to another committee, effectively stopping action on proposals regarding safe gun storage, an assault weapons ban, a red flag bill and a measure to give local governments power to enact their own protections.
“This isn't the way to legislate,” Rep. Tim Briggs of Montgomery County, the ranking Democrat on Judiciary, said Tuesday. “We shouldn't have to do discharge resolutions on bills that are 70, 80% popular across the commonwealth.”
All Republicans but one on the committee also voted for a proposal to amend the state constitution to give the General Assembly the power to decide the rules about where civil lawsuits can be filed.
Rep. Emily Kinkead, D-Allegheny, said lawmakers “should not be controlling the judiciary through constitutional amendment when it comes to them setting their own rules about how cases proceed.”
An effort by Briggs to require a public hearing on the measure was also defeated by committee Republicans, who had virtually nothing to say about either bill. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/pa-lawmakers-block-assault-style-gun-ban-for-those-under-21/521-ee33bcd4-165b-4231-816d-843299f27dcd | 2022-06-21T21:06:22 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/pa-lawmakers-block-assault-style-gun-ban-for-those-under-21/521-ee33bcd4-165b-4231-816d-843299f27dcd |
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – Altamonte Springs city commissioners are set to award a bid for the operator of a project to get autonomous shuttles up and running along the 436 corridor.
“This project is about lifestyle improvement. This is about sustainability and making our community just all that more robust and enriched by using the things we know are coming tomorrow and using them today,” said Altamonte Springs City Manager Frank Martz.
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Martz said the autonomous vehicle shuttle pilot program is a combined effort between the state and city of Altamonte Springs. The cost is $2.5 million over three years, split equally between the state of Florida and the city to get it off the ground.
Private sector partners have agreed to help with long-term funding.
Similar electric vehicles — run by Beep, Inc. — already operate around Lake Nona.
An agenda packet posted online ahead of Tuesday’s city commission meeting in Altamonte Springs includes a recommendation to choose the same company for Altamonte’s pilot program.
“If we can get somebody out of their car and get them to Uptown without getting into a car, it saves them time. It saves them money,” said Martz.
Martz says the idea is to give people a more convenient way to get around. People in the Cranes Roost area told News 6 that it’s an option they would consider.
“I have seen them, and they do look really cool, " said Lindsey Lagos. “It’s really busy over here. The traffic is terrible, especially when it’s backed up.”
City leaders said they hope to get more people out of their cars and using other mobility options in Altamonte but added they don’t see this pilot project as a congestion solution. Instead, they view it as a lifestyle enhancement.
“It really comes back to residents. Can you make the lives of the people in the community better? Give them more alternatives? Give them opportunities that are convenient for them?” Martz said.
Martz said the design is already mapped out along the 436 corridor. The plans now include three phases that will eventually encompass the SunRail Station, Advent Health Hospital, Altamonte Mall and other areas near Cranes Roost Park.
City leaders said the autonomous vehicles should be up and running within the next 12-to-18 months. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/altamonte-city-commission-set-to-award-bid-for-autonomous-vehicles-project/ | 2022-06-21T21:12:10 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/altamonte-city-commission-set-to-award-bid-for-autonomous-vehicles-project/ |
DEBARY, Fla. – Deputies in Volusia County are asking residents to be on the lookout for a murder suspect. The sheriff’s office believes Sammy McKnight, Jr., 31, shot and killed a man outside of a DeBary IHop on Friday. Now, the sheriff’s office is offering a $5,000 reward for his capture.
“This is a guy who will kill or shoot you as soon as he looks at you,” said Sheriff Mike Chitwood.
McKnight is wanted on a second-degree murder charge. He’s accused of killing James Shirley, 36, near the IHop off Dirksen Drive.
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“The victim in this case was a gentleman who had some issues, was living out of his car in the back of the Hampton Inn parking lot in DeBary. He somehow befriends this guy at the Circle K,” said Chitwood.
The sheriff said the two were seen on video speaking outside of the Circle K for about an hour and a half before a sudden confrontation.
“There’s a fight. McKnight pulls out a handgun, fires seven shots at our victim, five of which strike him. The victim then walks a block to the IHop where he walks inside and collapses,” he said.
The sheriff said video then shows McKnight grabbing the victim’s backpack, jumping into the victim’s car, and taking off. Deputies found the car the next day dumped off School Street in Daytona Beach.
“The last time he was spotted was in the small hours of Saturday morning and he was on a beach cruiser in the midtown area of Daytona Beach,” said Chitwood.
Chitwood said there were expensive, rare items in the victim’s backpack they think McKnight may have wanted.
The sheriff said McKnight is from Brevard County where he has an extensive, violent criminal history and now, they need help finding him.
“All you need to do is call us and say he’s in 123 Main Street right now and we go in and put the cuffs on him. Easiest $5,000 you could ever make. We’ve got to get him off the street before he kills somebody else,” he said.
Anyone who knows McKnight’s whereabouts is asked to call 911 immediately. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/before-he-kills-somebody-else-reward-offered-for-debary-murder-suspect/ | 2022-06-21T21:12:16 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/before-he-kills-somebody-else-reward-offered-for-debary-murder-suspect/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida officials are hosting a “community conversation” regarding the future of attractions at ICON Park on International Drive, months after a visiting teen was killed when he fell from one of the rides.
State Sen. Randolph Bracy, D-Ocoee, and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried will host the meeting at 9:15 a.m. on Wednesday at 8445 International Drive, which is the corner of Sand Lake Road and I-Drive.
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Fried’s office is investigating the death of Tyre Sampson, 14, after he fell from the Orlando FreeFall attraction on March 24.
So far, investigators have found the ride operators made adjustments, resulting in the attraction not being safe. An autopsy report also found Sampson weighed nearly 100 pounds over the ride’s weight limit.
SlingShot Group, which operates the Orlando FreeFall and the Orlando Slingshot attraction, suspended both rides in the wake of Sampson’s death. Slingshot said Monday that it would like to reopen the Slingshot attraction.
Yarnell Sampson, the teen’s father, called for the Orlando FreeFall attraction to be torn down. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/future-of-icon-park-attractions-at-center-of-community-meeting/ | 2022-06-21T21:12:22 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/future-of-icon-park-attractions-at-center-of-community-meeting/ |
APOPKA, Fla. – Apopka police are investigating after a man’s body was found in bushes on Saturday.
Police found the body in the area of East Monroe Avenue and Christiana Avenue at approximately 1:15 p.m., reports show.
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Officers have not released the man’s identity or said how he died; however, they said there is no threat to the community. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/man-found-dead-in-bushes-apopka-police-say/ | 2022-06-21T21:12:28 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/man-found-dead-in-bushes-apopka-police-say/ |
DELTONA, FLA – A Deltona man died and a motorcyclist was seriously hurt in a crash Saturday, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.
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The crash happened around 12:30 a.m. in the 3100 block of Howland Boulevard in Deltona, deputies said.
A 2006 Harley-Davidson and a 2013 Volkswagen sedan — driven by Matthew Davis, 31 — were both traveling on Howland Boulevard near Red Fox Run. The sedan hit the rear of the motorcycle, according to a news release, throwing the 47-year-old rider to the ground.
The motorcycle was dragged as the sedan crossed the median and ultimately slammed into a car wash on the opposite side of Howland Boulevard, officials said.
Davis died at the scene. The motorcycle rider was flown to an area hospital where he is recovering.
Investigators are still trying to figure out the cause of the crash. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/man-killed-motorcyclist-badly-hurt-in-volusia-county-crash/ | 2022-06-21T21:12:34 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/man-killed-motorcyclist-badly-hurt-in-volusia-county-crash/ |
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Fire crews are working an active brush fire near Duck Lake, according to the Orange City Fire Department.
Firefighters are working with the Florida Forest Service to douse the flames burning west of Interstate 4.
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No word has been given about how big the fire is or how it started.
Crews warn people living or driving in the area that they may experience smoke or ash. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/orange-city-firefighters-battle-brush-fire-near-duck-lake/ | 2022-06-21T21:12:40 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/orange-city-firefighters-battle-brush-fire-near-duck-lake/ |
VOLUSIA COUNTY – The Second Harvest Food Bank received nearly $26,000 in donations at the Volusia County council meeting Tuesday, according to the county.
The funding came from two annual events: a charitable fund drive organized by the county and local government and the county’s annual State of the County banquet, officials said.
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Second Harvest partners with more than 80 local agencies in Volusia County to help combat hunger in the community, according to a news release.
The food bank said it is able to convert every dollar donated into $9 worth of food and with every $10 they are able to fund 40 meals. The group added Tuesday’s donation should provide more than 104,000 meals to the needy.
“Second Harvest Food Bank can’t do the work that we do without generous donors like county employees or community partners, like you all,” said Stephanie Marie Palacious, director of advocacy and government relations, who was present Tuesday to receive the check. “Thank you so much for thinking of Second Harvest and the people that we serve.” | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/volusia-county-donates-26000-to-second-harvest-food-bank/ | 2022-06-21T21:12:46 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/21/volusia-county-donates-26000-to-second-harvest-food-bank/ |
WISE COUNTY, Texas — A church in Wise County is gathering for prayer Sunday morning following a fire that destroyed its building.
A fire broke out on June 17 at the Balsora Baptist Church located in Bridgeport. The Wise County Emergency Services Department No. 2 said the fully engulfed fire "took the structure, but not the cross."
Photos of the scene shared by the church and the ESD showed a cross standing among the remnants of the church building.
Wise County ESD said the church's structure began to collapse while firefighters were inside, but several firefighters were treated or seen by Wise County EMS on the scene.
The church says it will be gathering at the 3 Crosses in the Prayer Garden at 10 a.m. on Sunday for a service.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Anyone who is wanting to donate to the church is asked so to mail it to the church directly at 108 CR 3623, Bridgeport, TX, 76426. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/cross-left-standing-in-wise-county-texas-church-after-fire-destroys-building/287-7e3286a0-0794-4dfb-8af2-f1f2d6caeeaa | 2022-06-21T21:19:32 | 1 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/cross-left-standing-in-wise-county-texas-church-after-fire-destroys-building/287-7e3286a0-0794-4dfb-8af2-f1f2d6caeeaa |
NORMAN, Okla. — The Norman Police Department (NPD) is asking for the public's help in searching for a missing teenage girl.
NPD is seeking help in locating 16-year-old Chloe Hummingbird Kendall who was last seen on June 15. Investigators believe she may be at risk because she is without her needed medication.
Chloe is 5 feet 5 inches tall, 130 pounds, has dark brown hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing pink shorts, an unknown color t-shirt, and black Nike shoes.
NPD is asking the public to call NPD immediately at 405-321-1444 if you see Chloe or have information about her whereabouts,
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COVID vaccine for children under age 5 arrives in Michigan this week; what to know
Doses of the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine for infants and preschoolers are available at some pediatric practices in Michigan, but many providers won't receive shipments until later this week, or haven't completed procedures to administer the vaccine.
The Henry Ford Health system, Beaumont Health and Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor were expecting shipments to arrive early this week, and said they were gearing up to provide the shots by the end of the week.
In West Michigan, officials with the 14-hospital Spectrum Health system said shipments of the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had already been delivered prior to federal approvals that were handed down Friday and Saturday, clearing the way for babies and toddlers to get vaccinated.
Spectrum officials said the health system worked feverishly over the weekend to fine-tune procedures and were ready to start vaccinating kids on Monday.
Erin and Charlie Sloan of Southgate, both 32, were anxiously awaiting the vaccine to protect their 19-month-old daughter, Salem, who has a heart defect. The couple shop online and take other steps to protect their daughter from infection, because even a mild illness could turn into a life-threatening illness for the baby.
The family, which includes 4-year-old Clark, who will soon be attending preschool, was looking forward to the added protection of a vaccine. But after multiple phone calls, the mom was unable to find a provider as of Tuesday that both had a supply of doses and was already administering the vaccine.
"I was really hoping they’d have a plan or signups, but they don’t know when they’re getting it," Erin said of the providers she called. "I wonder why we have not had the urgency that we had with the adults' vaccine.
"COVID is still a big threat, especially with our youngest most vulnerable population."
For parents looking to vaccinate their children, here's what to know:
What COVID vaccines are available?
The federal Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization on Friday for a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and for the Moderna vaccine. The vaccines were green lighted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday.
Pfizer's vaccine is for children ages 6 months to 4 years old. The dose is one-tenth of the adult dose, and three shots are needed. The first two are given three weeks apart, and the last at least two months later.
Moderna's vaccine is for children 6 months to 5 years old and is two shots, each a quarter of its adult dose, given about four weeks apart. The FDA approved a third dose, at least a month after the second shot, for kids with immune conditions.
While the FDA approves vaccines, it’s the CDC that decides who should get them.
How well do the vaccines work?
The shots offer young children protection from hospitalization, death and possible long-term complications that are still not clearly understood, the CDC’s advisory panel said.
The government had already been gearing up for the vaccine expansion, with millions of doses ordered for distribution to doctors, hospitals and community health clinics around the country. Still, some parents remain undecided about whether to get the shots for tiny children, some as young as six months of age.
"I am still on the fence about vaccinating my daughter," said Alyssa English, 27, of Dearborn, who is the parent of a 9-month-old girl. "I think I would like to maybe just wait a few months before I make that decision just because I want to make the most informed decision for my baby, because she doesn't have a say."
About 1 in 5, or 18% of parents with children under 5 interviewed in a Kaiser Family Foundation poll said they would have their preschoolers vaccinated as soon as a COVID-19 vaccination was authorized by the FDA.
Another 38% said they would "wait and see", while 28% said they would definitely not have their children vaccinated, and 11% said their kids under age 5 would get the shot "only if required."
KFF surveyed a nationally representative random sample of 1,889 adults by cellphone and landline between April 13 and April 26, and the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the full sample.
Dr. Bishara Freij, chief of Pediatric Infectious Disease at the eight-hospital Beaumont Health system, said parents shouldn't fall for the idea that COVID-19 isn't dangerous for kids.
"They do die from it," Freij said. "And they do spread it, as well. So the fact that it's less deadly in children, doesn't mean it's not deadly. Or serious.
"So it is in everybody's interest to seriously consider vaccinating their kids who will qualify," she added. "There's not like one thing that tells you that your child will be OK while the other child won't be."
How soon can I get my child vaccinated?
While shipments of the vaccine were expected to arrive at vaccine sites as early as Monday, many providers will need some additional time to prepare to administer the shots, said Lynn Sutfin, spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
"(T)hey will need to have time to train staff on this new vaccine and begin setting up appointments and/or walk-ins, so it may be a few days before providers have information loaded into a vaccine finder and are ready to begin vaccinating," Sutfin said.
The five-hospital Henry Ford Health system was still working on Monday to adapt their electronic medical records system to the new vaccine.
"We just need to build the final piece of our electronic medical record that will allow us to put in an order for a vaccine," said Kim North Shine, a spokeswoman for Henry Ford Health.
"We can't start doing that until FDA approval, and that was late last week."
What are the potential side effects?
Dr. Dennis Cunningham, a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases and medical director of infection control and prevention at Henry Ford Health system said side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine are similar to the experience of older children who've received the vaccine.
"The side effect profile was really very well tolerated," Cunningham said of the clinical trials. "Not much different than older kids.
"You can get some fever, some kids may feel aches and pains, but overall, (these are) very safe vaccines, very effective vaccines with very promising data."
According to the CDC, younger children may experience fewer side effects than teens or young adults.
For children 3 years and younger, side effects may include:
- Pain where the shot was given
- Swollen lymph nodes
- Irritability or crying
- Sleepiness
- Loss of appetite
Children 4 years and older could experience these side effects:
- Pain, swelling, and redness in the arm where the shot was given
- Fever
- Tiredness
- Headache
- Chills
- Muscle or joint pain
- Swollen lymph nodes
Where can parents take their children to get vaccinated?
Parents can find vaccines at local health departments, Federally Qualified Health Centers, private provider offices and pharmacies, said Sutfin, of the state health department.
Pharmacies will be vaccinating children ages 3 and up in Michigan; parents will need to call first to see if the pharmacy has received the vaccine, Sutfin added.
Oakland County Health Division said vaccine appointments will be available starting Wednesday. People can schedule an appointment by visiting OaklandCountyVaccine.com or by calling 800-848-5533.
More than 400,000 additional Michigan children now are eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19. State health officials noted that children can get infected with COVID-19 and even though they may be asymptomatic, spread the virus to people at high risk in their homes, schools and communities.
“Being able to vaccinate children ages 6 months and up with safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines is a significant milestone that brings us hope and protects our littlest Michiganders,” Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Michigan's chief medical executive, said in a press release.
“Healthy children in this age group can still get sick with COVID-19 – not just those with underlying conditions," Bagdasarian added. "These vaccines have been shown to be effective at preventing severe illness, hospitalizations and disease, while protecting our children and families."
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Jennifer and James Crumbley want Oakland County prosecutor sanctioned for 'liars' comment
Pontiac — Defense attorneys for the parents of the accused Oxford High shooting suspect filed emergency motions Tuesday seeking sanctions against Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald for alleged “unethical and inappropriate” statements and pretrial publicity.
Attorneys Shannon Smith and Mariell Lehman represent Jennifer and James Crumbley, respectively, both charged with involuntary manslaughter in the Nov. 30 deaths of four students investigators say were fatally wounded by their teenage son, Ethan Crumbley. All three Crumbleys are in the Oakland County Jail pending their trials.
In Tuesday’s court filing, Smith and Lehman objected to McDonald accusing them of “lying” and providing false statements to the public and news media and “doubling down on misinformation” they say will deprive the Crumbley parents to their constitutional right of a fair trial.
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The defense attorneys want Oakland Circuit Judge Cheryl Matthews to direct McDonald not to make public statements about any of the Crumbleys, the evidence against them or offer opinions about “intentions, knowledge or guilt.” They want McDonald to be sanctioned in a way Matthews deems fair.
The lawyers also want Matthews to instruct other prosecutors or law enforcement to similarly refrain. A hearing on defense motions is scheduled for June 27.
When asked to react to the latest defense filings, Assistant Prosecutor Marc Keast said, “Our team is focused on preparing for trial and we look forward to presenting all of the evidence at the proper time in court.”
Keast also said the motion labeled “emergency” was submitted to the court Monday evening, but no one was officially served until Tuesday morning.
At the center of the arguments is how the Crumbley parents purchased their son, 15 at the time, a handgun and refused to remove him from school when called to the school by officials concerned about the son’s behavior.
The teenager, a sophomore, was permitted to return to class following the meeting between officials and the parents, and less than two hours later, allegedly exited a restroom and began firing a weapon, killing four students and wounding six others and a teacher, before he was taken into custody.
Crumbley, now 16 is charged with offenses that are mandatory life felonies, including murder. His parents, if convicted of their charges, could face up to 15 years in prison for gross negligence, providing their son with free access to the weapon and failing to warn anyone of its existence.
The parents met with school officials on Nov. 30 about their son’s behavior, including violent drawings and searching for ammunition on his phone at school. Officials asked he parents to remove him from school and get him into some counseling but they refused, saying they had to get back to their jobs that day.
Ethan Crumbley was permitted to return to class with a backpack officials allege contained the handgun he used less than two hours later to go on a shooting rampage.
Last month, Smith and Lehman filed various requests to Matthews complaining how the case should be dismissed against their clients because they are unable to get a fair trial in Oakland County due to pre-trial publicity by McDonald, who defended her words and countered with her own accusations last week describing the parents as neglecting their son's emotional problems because they were more concerned with their horseback riding hobby, and extramarital affairs.
When criticized by the couple, McDonald dug in — explaining her role as a prosecutor and her own objections about facts leading up to the shooting.
“From the moment I learned about the Oxford shooting, my focus and attention has been on holding those responsible accountable, and on advocating for our victims,” McDonald said in an earlier statement. “We intend to prove the allegations we’ve made against the shooter’s parents beyond a reasonable doubt at trial. The responses we filed today make clear that we will continue to be zealous advocates for all of the Oxford victims, and that we will not be distracted from that mission.”
In multi-page responses from court record, McDonald said “the defendants have important rights, but so do victims and the public.
“Victims have a right to a zealous advocate on their behalf,” she wrote. “The public has a right to know what happened and to try and to prevent future shootings. Above all else, the public and victims have a right to the truth.”
Defense attorneys have asked the parents’ trial be moved to another county or have jurors from outside the county brought in to hear the evidence against the Crumbleys at trial.
Attorneys also believe jurors could be unfairly swayed hearing the contents of Ethan Crumbley’s 22-page personal journal; his texts to friends; torture-killing of baby birds; personal political and Internet habits. None of the behavior was known to his parents, attorneys insist, and described it as inadmissible hearsay which violate their clients’ rights to confrontation and deprive them of a fair trial.
Besides legal points of law, defense attorneys are asking Matthews to direct McDonald not to make public statements about any of the Crumbleys, the evidence against them “or opinions about their intentions, knowledge or guilt and to have her instruct other prosecutors or law enforcement to similarly refrain.”
The Crumbleys remain jailed pending an Oct. 24 trial date.
Ethan Crumbley’s trial is schedule for Sept. 6. His attorneys have indicated they will seek an insanity defense for their client.
After the shooting investigators found the teenager’s backpack in a school bathroom containing a journal with detailed plans on committing a mass murder at the school. Attorneys said the journal also contained writings of his parents’ actions and statements; criticisms of school officials and his parents; and other disturbing entries, including how he hoped the shooting he planned would lead to President Joe Biden’s impeachment.
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ATLANTA — Atlanta leaders are asking the community to let them tap into their home and business security cameras to help them better tackle crime.
On Tuesday, the Atlanta Police Department highlighted the success of their latest technology, Connect Atlanta, while urging the public to help them expand the surveillance system by registering personal cameras.
“We come to you today to talk about what is truly the neighborhood watch of the 21st century, where technology and our Ring cameras are being used to solve crimes and help our most vulnerable citizens in Atlanta," said Interim Chief of Police Darin Schierbaum.
Officials say Connect Atlanta, a network of more than 5,700 integrated and 3,000 registered cameras, has been essential in tackling crime since its inception in January. Chief Schierbaum highlighted three recent cases in which the system was critical in finding someone or making an arrest.
One involved locating an Alzheimer's patient within hours after her family reported her missing in May. The other two involved making an arrest within days of two deadly shootings, one being the shooting death of 6-month-old Greyson Flemming-Grey - where police say cameras helped them track down Dequaise Little within 24 hours.
“If it were not for the cameras – all we would have gone out there and done is collect shell casings and we wouldn’t really have a clue about what happened. So the video cameras made it possible for us to identity everyone," said Atlanta Police Department Major Michael O’Connor.
Officials said the majority of registered cameras include home surveillance systems like Ring doorbell cameras and integrated cameras which can become a part of the city's live network of cameras - most of which currently are city or business owned. They said the difference between the two is that footage from registered cameras is given up voluntarily.
“Once we have a crime – they can draw a circle around that location and say ‘Hey we had an incident in this location – can you check this time frame on your Ring camera or home security camera to see if you have any footage?'….and so then they share that with us. That’s the only involvement – we are not spying in on their cameras at all," said Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr.
Officials say Connect Atlanta allows officers to pull up footage on their cellphones from inside their squad cars before even arriving on scene, as well as locate other officers and first responders. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/atlanta-police-camera-system-arrests/85-bebe1c82-3d74-45ca-9fa9-4aa4f89e27b6 | 2022-06-21T21:22:16 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/atlanta-police-camera-system-arrests/85-bebe1c82-3d74-45ca-9fa9-4aa4f89e27b6 |
Thunderstorms forecast for the Phoenix area for the first week of summer
Rain clouds are back in the sky this summer in the Valley.
Tuesday marks the first official day of summer for Earth’s Northern Hemisphere and Phoenix is expected to hit 106 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. The day is forecasted to be mostly sunny and breezy. There isn’t much of a cooldown predicted the rest of the week, with high temperatures ranging between 105 and 109 degrees.
However, the National Weather Service forecasted chances of thunderstorms throughout the week, with the highest chance overnight on Thursday at 40 percent. Chances of rain are greater for east and central Arizona's higher elevation areas, the National Weather Service said in a forecast discussion.
Austin Jamison, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said the lingering high temperatures are a result of “competing influences,” as a high-pressure system over the middle of the U.S. expands, but the rain will keep Phoenix from getting as hot as it could be.
The cloud cover will likely lock in heat from the day and make “overnight uncomfortably warm,” according to the forecast discussion. Overnight lows are expected to be around 85 degrees.
Forecasts also show humidity to be up significantly from last week, hitting almost 50 percent at its early morning heights and increasing over the next several days, according to a graph from the National Weather Service.
People will likely “notice a significant increase in the humidity” come Wednesday morning, Jamison said. He described the next seven days to feel a bit muggier.
The chance of rain for Phoenix lasts at least until next Tuesday, which is as far as the National Weather Service’s forecast goes as of now, Jamison said. He said the area will essentially follow a monsoon pattern for the next several days.
Reach breaking news reporter Sam Burdette at sburdette@gannett.com or on Twitter @SuperSafetySam
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AUSTIN, Texas — On Monday, the Texas power grid again broke a record. At its peak, power demand was over 76,600 megawatts.
Just over a week ago, Texas broke the record for power demand, with demand just over 75,080 megawatts during peak hours.
The No. 1 stressor on Texas’s electric grid is people running their air conditioners, which most are doing heading into an extremely hot week.
To give you some perspective, ERCOT just released its latest weather update saying this was the warmest April Texas has seen since 2012, and the warmest May on record. It is likely we will not see a break from the high heat this summer. ERCOT said in its Summer Weather Update that this summer closely resembles the summer of 2011. Yet, this summer is trending even hotter than 2011 with 105-degree, or hotter, days being frequent.
Because of that, ERCOT has already twice now hit a record for the most demand ever, and that record will likely continue to be broken this summer.
It’s something energy and climate experts are watching closely.
“During winter storm Uri, the grid didn’t stay up during the worst-case scenario,” said Andrew Dressler with Texas A&M University. “This year it’s looking maybe more likely that we have a worst-case heat wave event and ERCOT has to be ready for it if that happens.”
His concern? The power grid is old.
Dressler is one of many experts saying that because Texas hasn’t made necessary investments to update it, there’s really no margin for error if something goes wrong.
The report notes the extreme weather events Texas experienced since 2021 include the coldest winter period since the 1980s in February 2021, the warmest December ever recorded in 2021, and one of the hottest springs ever recorded in 2022. Yet, Dessler said there is one item the report does not mention.
“One of the biggest issues with ERCOT is that they don’t acknowledge the existence of climate change,” he said. “It’s hard to be prepared for a problem when you can’t even say the words. That’s really a political issue that they are very cognizant of what the leaders in Austin want them to do. I think that’s to the detriment of the citizens of the State of Texas. If you run a power grid like ERCOT does, you have to be incorporating climate change and they just refuse to do it.”
ERCOT has said it expects to meet the high demand for power. So far, despite record temperatures, there have been no power conservation alerts issued.
KHOU and KENS contributed to this report.
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COLLIN COUNTY, Texas — A North Texas woman has won $250,000 after she filed a revenge porn and invasion of privacy lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend, attorneys for the woman announced Monday.
The lawsuit had claimed the ex-boyfriend, 26-year-old Diego Rotea, of Allen, posted "intimate images" of the woman that appeared on over 200 web pages on the internet over a four-year period.
A jury sided with the Collin County woman, only identified as Jane Doe, in November 2021, and she was awarded the $250,000 on Monday.
"I wanted that accountability. I wanted the validation that it wasn't my fault," the woman said in statement. "... I remember the feeling that there was nothing that I could do... this was just something that was going to continue to affect my life, for the rest of my life, that it was this hopeless thing."
According to her attorney, Rotea posted over 25 explicit photos of the woman starting in December 2016. She discovered the images posted online in November 2018 and went to local police departments for help.
Her attorney said the Allen Police Department didn't pursue an investigation. Nearly two years later in June 2020, the woman told Frisco police about the images but the department only performed a "cursory investigation," according to the attorney.
She told Rotea to stop posting the images, but they continued to spread throughout the internet in 2020. Her attorney said the woman even had to give up her career as a middle school teacher due to fear of the images being discovered.
"This has been a living nightmare that, sadly, has become all too common," attorney Kenton Hutcherson said in a statement. "This jury heard the evidence and understood the profound impact this nightmare has had on this young woman. Hopefully, the verdict will send a message that behavior like this is outrageous and can have costly consequences."
The Collin County judge in the trial also ordered a permanent injunction that would have Rotea remove the images from websites and message boards.
According to her attorney, the $250,000 win is also the largest award given in a lawsuit that involved the Texas Relationship Privacy Act. The act was put into place in 2015 to criminalize revenge porn.
"There's a part of me that's 'yes, this is over' and there's another part where I know that this will continue to crop up in my life," the woman said. "Hopefully not very frequently. But on another level they did also mandate that if it does crop up he is still held accountable for any future instances of those posts." | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-woman-wins-250000-revenge-porn-lawsuit-collin-county/287-babdc1e0-33d6-4082-ad58-a078e972a626 | 2022-06-21T21:24:25 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-woman-wins-250000-revenge-porn-lawsuit-collin-county/287-babdc1e0-33d6-4082-ad58-a078e972a626 |
When you're on Highway 114 at Rochelle in Irving, you can't see all the eyes that are on you. TxDOT has a camera so the operations center can keep an eye out for trouble, but there's another set of eyes watching like a hawk.
Red-tailed hawks have made the TxDOT camera pole their Irving penthouse home for the past 15 years, where mothers usually nest their eggs and raise their eventual babies. A baby hawk recently flew away after nesting over the busy DFW highway this spring.
"Every year we have some red-tailed hawks that come and roost on our camera at 114 and Rochelle," Tony Hartzel, TxDOT Dallas District Spokesman, said.
"It's like clockwork," Hartzel said, pointing out they come every spring. "And so here we are, the first day of summer, and the baby has flown away."
Hartzel said the hawks don't officially have names.
"But the one that has stuck over the years, the mother hawk is called 'Mama Rochelle'," Hartzel said. "One of the interesting things that you can see is the parents bringing all types of different food for the babies."
A hawk diet consists largely of rodents. Some years there have been as many as three babies, called eyas, to feed. This year there was just one.
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"Over the weekend it flew the coop, so everybody here is excited and kind of proud," Hartzel said. "The traffic operations groups will check on the hawks every so often, see what they're doing, by rotating that camera."
By law, they can't disturb the hawks while they're nesting, so they just observe the wildlife high above the traffic.
"This is a nice little diversion," Hartzel said. "Makes you stop and think, and realize there's more. There's more out there."
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The Colorado River faces greater risks to its supply than at any time in recorded history, says a top Interior Department official in explaining why federal officials have ordered drastic curbs in river water use next year.
"We're facing a growing reality that water resource for agriculture, cities, industry and the ecosystem are no longer stable due to climate change," Tanya Trujillo, Interior's assistant secretary for water and science, told a water conference Thursday at the University of Colorado in Boulder. "We have an urgent need to act now."
Trujillo spoke two days after Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton testified in Congress that the seven Colorado River Basin states — including Arizona — must reduce their take from the river in 2023 by 2 million to 4 million acre-feet a year. That would be out of their recent annual use of about 14 million acre-feet.
Trujillo said Interior officials have an obligation to protect their system of reservoirs, dams, pipelines and other water infrastructure to insure it will continue to operate as designed.
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"That applies to all sectors: agriculture, municipal, environmental uses, tribal partners in the basin and partners in Mexico," Trujillo said. "We're all invested in the future security of this basin. Our goal is to implement future strategies to stabilize and rebuild the system so we don’t constantly find ourself at the brink of crisis."
'Terrible runoff conditions'
Trujillo's comments came as authorities have grappled with three consecutive years of river runoff that's well below normal, on top of a steady decline in river flows since 2000. In 2021, the worst year of the past three, April through July runoff into Lake Powell was 26% of normal, one of the lowest on record. This year, it's forecast at 55% of normal.
"The only new news is that we continue to see the dry hydrology that's progressing on the river, and (we're having) one more year of terrible runoff conditions," Trujillo said.
This year, prior to the latest announcement from Reclamation, the Interior Department had said it would release an extra 500,000 acre-feet into Lake Powell from Flaming Gorge Reservoir at the Utah-Wyoming border, and that it would hold back another 480,000 acre-feet in Lake Powell that it had previously planned to release to Lake Mead. But at the time those measures were approved in early May, Interior officials acknowledged they wouldn't be enough to stabilize the reservoirs for the long term and that additional cuts would be needed.
This week, the Interior Department will issue a notice announcing it will take comments from water users and the general public as to what issues it should consider in overseeing efforts by the seven basin states to revise the operating guidelines for river reservoirs that were last approved in 2007, Trujillo said.
"We intend to develop the next set of operating rules in an inclusive, transparent manner, based on the best science," she said.
Will cuts be temporary?
In a brief interview with the Star following her talk, Trujillo did not directly respond to a question as to whether next year's water use cuts will be temporary or permanent.
She said the cuts, on top of the actions the department took in May regarding Lake Powell, will "feed into the process" the agency will use to develop the new reservoir operating guidelines, which will take effect after 2026.
When it seeks public comment on revising the guidelines, "we will be seeking specific input on exactly the question you asked — what process we should be thinking about for the long term, what types of elements we will include," Trujillo said. "We are going to be working on a year by year basis to administer the system.
"We're looking for a longer term strategy to answer the question of how we manage available supplies we see in the future," she said.
She offered one bit of good news in her Boulder talk: The Bureau of Reclamation has about $8.3 billion in funds from last year's congressionally approved infrastructure bill to help Western states adapt to the region's continued drying conditions.
Those conditions have grown so chronic that many scientists now say the West is in a state of long-term "aridification" instead of a shorter-term drought.
About $2.5 billion of that money can be used to help tribes deal with their water issues, Trujillo said.
The mood? 'Glum'
Responding to an audience question about whether Upper Basin states must contribute to next year's cutbacks, she said, "We need to be talking about action in all states, all sectors, all available ways. We will be evaluating options in all basins."
Officials in the Upper Basin states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming have blamed the Lower Basin states for much if not most of the river's problems because Arizona, Nevada and California consume more than twice as much river water as the Upper Basin states.
"Our goal is to be working collectively with each partner in the states and Mexico on how we can help states and local communities do additional conservation," Trujillo said.
Speaking remotely from California's Central Valley area, Trujillo said at one point, "I’m sorry that I can’t see the mood in the room." New Mexico water researcher and author John Fleck, who had introduced her, replied, "It’s glum."
"This is tremendously sobering for all of us," Trujillo said. "It’s a story none of us want to be in. We have to rely on our continuous commitment to carry out continued strategies. I have continued optimism we can get through this."
Asked by an audience member if Interior officials have a plan in mind for how to carry out cutbacks, she replied, "The short answer is no, we don’t have any formula, prebaked or preworked.
"No doubt about it, we have to be very creative and develop a large list of potential options, provide resources and funding for assistance and programs that might work best in respective communities. We are going to have to be doing all of that at the same time," Trujillo said.
"We are likely to be in situations doing things we never had to do before. We're going to have to have guts to do these things."
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Philippe Waterinckx, who committed his life to supporting Tucson’s farming community and improving access to healthy foods, died at the age of 62.
He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2012, and would later go into remission. In 2018, the cancer returned and spread throughout his body. He died June 10 at Peppi’s House, a hospice care in Tucson, said David Watson, Waterinckx’s best friend and caregiver.
“He was a good person and he touched so many lives through the CSA,” Watson said. “If you knew him, you loved him automatically.”
Waterinckx founded Tucson Community Supported Agriculture in 2004, designed to support local farmers to make healthy food accessible to people and create a community around it.
Through the Tucson CSA, community members sign up for subscriptions of seasonal veggies from local farms, providing producers a consistent end market.
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Waterinckx was born in Belgium, but spent most of his adolescence in the Republic of Congo, where he learned how to grow his own vegetables as a source of food for him and his neighbors.
Tucson Community Supported Agriculture was inspired by Waterinckx’s experiences in the Congo.
“He believed in community, and he believed in supporting local farmers, and he wanted to bring those things together,” said co-director of CSA, Daniela Diamente.
Waterinckx founded Tucson CSA while he was a graduate student at the University of Arizona.
CSA started off with pickups on Waterinckx’s porch with just 15 members. As CSA grew, he moved operations to the courtyard of the Historic Y, where it remains.
Today, CSA has around 400 members and primarily partners with three farms: Crooked Sky Farms, Sleeping Frog Farm and Common Ground Farm.
“Life would be absolutely different if I hadn't found CSA. It's been my main source of having a job and income but also my main source of interacting with the community,” said CSA co-director Sara Jones.
Tucson CSA's core values are local farming and production, seasonal local eating, food education, ethical sourcing, equitable food system, community and collaboration.
“I think he accomplished what he wanted to through Tucson CSA,” Diamente said.
Waterinckx lived in different countries throughout his life. However, he considered Tucson his adopted home.
He was passionate about traveling and cooking.
“He loved making pasta recipes and he was amazing,” Watson said. “Most of his recipes are stuff that he would just throw together.”
His favorite dish was a Flemish dish called waterzooi, a chicken soup with leeks and tons of vegetables. “That's a recipe that was near and dear to him. So he would make that on special occasions if it was cool enough out to have soup,” Watson said.
Waterinckx created an online blog — Rings of Water — where he was sharing his cancer journey, health and treatment updates with an optimistic approach.
“I think it was his way of kind of just humanizing the process of someone going through cancer, and then processing it himself,” Diamente said. “But he also has people all over the world that love him and care about him and so it was a way to communicate what's going on.”
Waterinckx titled his penultimate post "Pain," where he wrote about the pain he had been going through for the past two years.
“Pain is hard to manage, especially when it comes from multiple sources,” Waterinckx wrote.
His loved ones will remember him as a kind-hearted person who loved helping others.
To commemorate Waterinckx and his work for the Tucson community, CSA is working on creating a small mosaic mural within the Historic Y courtyard. Due to Tucson's summer heat, Waterinckx’s memorial will not be held until Nov. 5, at the courtyard of the Historic Y, 738 N. Fifth Ave.
Waterinckx is survived by his husband Paul Durham, a former Tucson city councilman representing Ward 3. | https://tucson.com/news/local/supporter-of-tucson-farming-improving-healthy-food-access-dies/article_c59b7fde-f188-11ec-ac31-6fa547daf720.html | 2022-06-21T21:35:32 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/supporter-of-tucson-farming-improving-healthy-food-access-dies/article_c59b7fde-f188-11ec-ac31-6fa547daf720.html |
BOISE, Idaho —
There have been 431 eviction hearings in the Treasure Valley, this year so far, according to Jesse Tree, a local nonprofit that provides financial assistance and case management to those who are at risk of eviction and homelessness who are unable to pay rent.
Jesse Tree has worked within the court and with partner agencies to resolve 96 of those cases so far.
According to Jesse Tree, they have attended court for every eviction hearing hoping to get involved with as many cases as possible to provide mediation, case management, and immediate financial assistance. Eviction court is still being held virtually over zoom state-wide.
Ada and Canyon County Courts are the only courts in Idaho offering mediation services for eviction cases, which allows the involved parties to meet in a break-out room and come up with an agreement before the case goes before the judge for a full hearing, potentially avoiding an eviction being listed on the tenant's record, according to Jesse Tree.
Jesse Tree said mediation is becoming nationally recognized across the nation as a best practice to resolve eviction cases and that their staff proactively reach out to all parties before eviction court dates to try to intervene with services and rental assistance.
Tenants can contact Jesse Tree using their hotline (208)393-9486 and online application when they are in the eviction process. Jesse Tree said renters with a court date should contact them as soon as possible so they can come up with a plan before arriving in court.
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Pesto Salmon Bake
- 1.5 to 2lbs salmon filet
- 1 lemon, zested and sliced into quarters
- 1 c Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 tsp Italian Seasoning
- 1 tsp GF bread crumbs
Pesto
- 1.5 c basil
- 1/2 c oil
- 1/2 c Parmesan cheese
- 2 large cloves of garlic
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Pesto
- Add ingredients to a blender or food processor and blend well until smooth texture.
- Place in glass jar for storage.
Salmon Bake
- Place salmon on a foil or parchment lined baking sheet.
- Sprinkle lemon zest over salmon.
- Next add pesto and smear over salmon.
- Mix the Italian seasoning, breadcrumbs and Parmesan cheese and combine well.
- Add a layer of the Parmesan cheese over the pesto.
- Place in the oven and let cook for 15 to 20 minutes.
Pairs well with asparagus and roasted red potatoes. | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/idaho-today/idaho-today-pesto-salmon-bake/277-bd660621-c4f1-47df-aeb3-1fbf2da829d9 | 2022-06-21T21:39:54 | 0 | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/idaho-today/idaho-today-pesto-salmon-bake/277-bd660621-c4f1-47df-aeb3-1fbf2da829d9 |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — A woman who set fire to a home in the Kanawha City area of Charleston has been indicted on murder and arson charges.
The Kanawha County Grand Jury handed down the indictment on June 16.
Patricia Kay White will be in court on July 7. She is being charged with first-degree arson and murder, according to a list of indictments from June 16.
A criminal complaint says that White committed first-degree murder by setting a fire inside the back door of a residence on the 5200 block of MacCorkle Avenue on Jan. 31 just before midnight.
The complaint says that White set the fire after an argument with her husband, David Sims.
52-year-old Dennis Rutledge was in an upstairs bedroom in the back of the house where the fire started. He was transported to the hospital and later died from his injuries.
Police and fire investigators reviewed surveillance video from the Enterprise Rent-A-Car close by, and the video showed a person leaning out a rear window of the first floor, retreating back inside the house, and then exiting through the back door.
A brief light that appeared to be a flame can be seen in the video. The complaint says that the rear of the house was engulfed in flames within a matter of minutes.
A witness who works at a nearby business encountered Ms. White that night and told officers that White was upset about a previous argument with her husband. The witness said that White made a statement about setting the house on fire and had a small blue butane torch in her hand.
The complaint says that detectives located White at a bus stop in Kanawha City. Police say she showed the detectives the butane torch and agreed to be transported to the Charleston Police Department and give a statement to detectives.
She asked what her bond would be while en route to the police department and was told she was not under arrest. She then told the police that she was going to be arrested for arson.
White admitted to police that she was in the area at the time of the fire and believed that her husband was trying to keep her in the house and was going to set it on fire. She said she escaped and said that she saw a fire where her husband was while she left the house. She was released after questioning.
Police arrested David Sims, and he said he was in the home with Dennis Rutledge, according to the complaint. He said he heard a female yelling and screaming, and then an unknown man entered the room asking for David.
The complaint says that the unknown man told Sims that his wife was outside, and when Sims went outside to talk to her, he could tell that she (Patricia White) was extremely intoxicated and belligerent. Sims told police that he tried to calm her down, but she started making threats to set the house on fire.
Sims then told police he walked outside behind a tree to wait for White to leave. He said he saw the unknown man and White both leave the house. He said he walked to the back of the residence and saw it go up in flames. He did not see Rutledge leave.
Dennis Rutledge’s wife spoke with us in Feb. giving her thoughts on the situation and explaining why her husband was in the abandoned home.
Mary Rutledge, Dennis Rutledge’s wife, joined fellow family members in hanging signs, flowers, and other items in remembrance of their lost relative. Mary Rutledge says when she first heard about the incident, she was upset and confused.
I mean everybody has their ups and downs, we had our ups and downs, but never once would I ever consider killing somebody… and the bad thing is, you took the wrong man. You took my husband.
Mary Rutledge. Dennis Rutledge’s wife
Rutledge explained that they were separated when she decided to go through drug rehabilitation, but her husband refused treatment. Instead, he decided to take residence in the abandoned home with Patricia Kay White and David Sims, where he lost his life.
As for her thoughts on the person who allegedly committed this act, she says she hopes “she spends the rest of her life in jail, so she can’t take somebody else’s life.” She goes on to say that she will be praying for her to get the help she needs. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-woman-indicted-on-murder-and-arson-charges/ | 2022-06-21T21:41:53 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-woman-indicted-on-murder-and-arson-charges/ |
KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) – Just one day after the Mountain State celebrated its own birthday, one of the West Virginia’s own musical artists is celebrating her 63rd birthday.
Country and bluegrass music star Kathy Mattea was born June 21, 1959, in South Charleston and grew up in Cross Lanes, West Virginia.
The two-time Grammy winner began her recording career in 1984 and more than 30 of her singles have hit the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Last fall, she became the newest host of West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s Mountain Stage.
According to IMDB, she also appeared in the 1994 film “Maverick,” and the “Touched By An Angel” television series in 1995, and lent her voice to two television movies – “Rachel and Andrew Jackson: A Love Story” (2001) and “The Griffin and the Minor Cannon” (2002).
According to Mattea’s official Facebook page, she is also a public speaker who regularly presents keynote and educational program speeches at colleges and civic venues throughout the country. She also has a history of activism and works to bring public attention to environmental issues such as climate change and some mining practices as well as AIDS awareness.
Mattea is still active in touring and, according to her website, will be performing next month at the Jackson County Junior Fair in Cottageville, West Virginia on Thursday, July 28.
In honor of her birthday, here is a list of the top 10 Kathy Mattea songs streamed on Spotify:
- Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses (10,576,937 listens) was released in 1987 on Mattea’s “Untasted Honey” album.
- Where’ve You Been (2,978,334 listens) was released in 1989 on Mattea’s “Willow in the Wind” album.
- 455 Rocket (2,304,572 listens) was released in 1997 on Mattea’s “Love Travels” album.
- Love at the Five & Dime (777,704 listens) is a cover of the song originally written and recorded by Nanci Griffith. Both versions were released in 1986. Mattea’s version was released on her “Walk the Way the Wind Blows” album.
- The Battle of Hymn of Love (562,072 listens) was released in 1987 on Mattea’s “Untasted Honey” album.
- Walking Away a Winner (524,490 listens) was released in 1994 on Mattea’s “Walking Away a Winner” album.
- Standing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst) (291,392 listens) was released in 1992 on Mattea’s “Lonesome Standard Time” album.
- Come From the Heart (288,203 listens) was released in 1989 on Mattea’s “Willow in the Wind” album.
- She Came From Fort Worth (235,003 listens) was released in 1989 on Mattea’s “Willow in the Wind” album.
- Walk The Way the Wind Blows (213,510 listens) was released in 1986 on Mattea’s “Walk the Way the Wind Blows” album. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/happy-birthday-kathy-mattea-here-are-her-top-10-streamed-songs/ | 2022-06-21T21:41:54 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/happy-birthday-kathy-mattea-here-are-her-top-10-streamed-songs/ |
TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — When Walter Roy walked out of the Tarrant County Courtroom, he can now officially say "free at last."
"I kept hope. I kept faith and just kept trusting God," said Roy.
The now 46-year-old also trusted his court-appointed attorney Mark Lassiter, who started fighting for his freedom.
Roy, whose real name is Eddie Drisdle, had already spent almost half his life behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. He spent 26 years declaring his innocence while listening to other prisoners also tell their stories about being wrongfully convicted.
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"Two of my sons were born when I was in prison. And so, so I was out of their life for 26 years," said Roy.
In 1995, Roy went to Echo Lake Park with two other men for an alleged drug deal that ended in gunfire.
Police arrested Roy, who was convicted on attempted murder charges. After 26 years behind bars, he told WFAA TV his accomplice was the person who brought a gun with him to the park.
"So, while he's shooting, I stopped him from shooting because ain't nobody pulled no weapons," said Roy.
During the investigation, detectives learned that the gun used did not have Roy's fingerprint after officers located it in a ditch. Eventually, they also learned from witnesses that Roy was not the shooter.
The photo spread of six men shown to witnesses contained a picture of Roy that stood out by being a different size than the pictures of the rest of the people in the photo lineup.
Despite the prosecutor and Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn acknowledging Roy as innocent, his conviction could not be overturned due to a legal technicality. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found its way around the legal technicality that would have kept Roy behind bars for life, stating that Roy be granted a new punishment hearing because his due process rights were violated by false testimony presented during his trial.
Roy has been out on bond since August 2021 awaiting the new hearing.
The Texas Court of Appeals granted a new punishment hearing on June 21.
Prior to starting the hearing on Tuesday, Judge Wayne Salvant asked Lassiter if he wanted the hearing to be on record. Lassiter answered "yes."
After reading a few details from the court case file, Salvant re-sentenced Roy to "time served."
Lassiter immediately expressed concerns to the judge about his client being out on bond.
"The court will find the sentence has been served and the court will release you from any bond," Salvant said.
"The judge couldn't do any more than that," said Lassiter, "So what's going through my mind is we got to do better as a country. We got to do better as a state."
Roy's wife, Surnedra Drisdle, has stuck by his side the entire time of his prison sentence. She attended the re-sentencing with him.
When Salvant read the new punishment for her husband, Drisdle held her head down and emerged with a huge smile on her face.
After leaving the courtroom both Roy and his attorney said their fight is not over. They want to make sure what happened to Roy won't happen to anyone else.
"We need to create a law, it's that simple. That no man can be sentenced without due process. That's what we're asking. And that's the fight that we intend to continue," said Lassiter.
"We just got to fight," said Roy. "You know, we can't, and I refuse to give up going too far." | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/walter-roy-jailed-for-crime-he-didnt-commit-is-free-at-last/287-e89d8c9a-85e2-4c11-9328-10053ed4fdba | 2022-06-21T21:42:09 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/walter-roy-jailed-for-crime-he-didnt-commit-is-free-at-last/287-e89d8c9a-85e2-4c11-9328-10053ed4fdba |
ALUM CREEK, WV (WOWK) – A man accused in a Kanawha County shooting that happened in April 2022 has now been indicted on multiple charges including attempted murder.
Brett Peters, 39, was indicted in by a Kanawha County grand jury on charges of Attempted Murder, Malicious Wounding, Use or Presentment of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony; Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm, Wanton Endangerment and Petit Larceny.
Peters was one of 35 defendants indicted in court today. He will appear in court at 10 a.m. July 5, 2022 before Judge Carrie L. Webster.
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Peters was arrested on the evening of Sunday, April 3, 2022 after evidence showed a shooting he originally reported as accidental was in fact not an accident, according to the criminal complaint.
The complaint states Peters had called 911 and said a woman shot herself in the face.
Lt. J.H. Thaxton arrived at the scene on Childress Road in Alum Creek where he found Peters and the victim who had a gunshot wound on the left side of her face and extensive injuries to her head.
According to court documents, when asked about his original report that someone had mistakenly shot themself, Peters allegedly responded, “She did not shoot herself. There was a [tussle] right here, and it was a complete accident.” The complaint stated Peter also said he did not know the gun was “hammered back.”
Court documents from the time of Peter’s arrest stated he initially told the victim allegedly threatened suicide and had a 22-caliber handgun. Peters allegedly said he took away that handgun and put it in his truck, according to the complaint.
The complaint states Peters told authorities he then put a Tauras 9mm handgun in a gun holster on his hip and allegedly knew the gun was loaded with three rounds, but he could not remove the magazine after attempting to.
According to the complaint, Peters said his intention was to unload the gun, sit next to the victim, give her the gun, and say, “If you want to kill yourself, kill yourself.” He said he was getting ready to sit beside the victim with the gun and said, “That 22 wouldn’t do anything for you anyway. If you want to kill yourself, get a real gun.”
Peters said the victim was bent over tying her shoe but then grabbed the gun, and it went off while Peters was holding it, according to the complaint
Detectives executed a search warrant and found a single fire 9mm Tauras PT99. A single bullet hole and fired bullet were found in the area of the home where the shooting occurred.
The criminal complaint states the shooting does not appear to be accidental based on evidence.
Peters was charged with Malicious or Unlawful Assault, a felony. The defendant remains innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/kanawha-county-man-indicted-for-attempted-murder/ | 2022-06-21T21:42:11 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/kanawha-county-man-indicted-for-attempted-murder/ |
HUNTINGTON, WV (WOWK) – A man is facing charges in Huntington in connection to an investigation into child abuse resulting in injury.
According to a criminal complaint from the Cabell County Magistrate Court, Vincent Sardo, 26, of Huntington, was arrested on Friday, June 17, 2022 regarding an alleged incident that happened at a home in Huntington.
The complaint states around 7:30 a.m. Friday morning, Sardo allegedly “caused substantial bodily injury” to his girlfriends child while at their residence. Police and EMS workers say they observed “substantial” bruising on the child’s left cheek and ear.
Authorities have not released any additional details in the incident.
Sardo’s bond was set to $5,000 cash only on a misdemeanor charge and $10,000 cash only on a felony charge. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/man-charged-with-child-abuse-in-huntington/ | 2022-06-21T21:42:17 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/man-charged-with-child-abuse-in-huntington/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — A man was indicted for allegedly threatening to kill a Kanawha County Judge in October 2021.
According to court documents, Matthew Newsome, 29 of Charleston, allegedly threatened to kill Kanawha County Circuit Court Judge Maryclaire Akers on Oct. 21, 2021.
It alleges he also threatened to kidnap Judge Akers on Oct. 23, 2021.
Matthew Newsome is being charged with Retaliation Against Public Officers and Employees.
Documents say he will be seen in court on July 1. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/man-indicted-for-threatening-to-kill-kanawha-county-judge/ | 2022-06-21T21:42:23 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/man-indicted-for-threatening-to-kill-kanawha-county-judge/ |
ELKVIEW, WV (WOWK)—A teen has been indicted in the case of an Elkview quadruple murder by the Kanawha County Grand Jury.
Gavin Smith was transferred to adult status in a case where he is accused of killing his mother, stepfather and two brothers. He was 16 at the time.
The bodies of four people, two adults, and two children were found inside a home on Cemetery Hill Drive in Elkview on Dec. 13, 2020. According to the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office, autopsies revealed that the family had been shot with a firearm.
Deputies later identified the victims as Daniel Dale Long, 37, Risa Mae Saunders, 39, Gage Ripley, 12, and Jameson Long, 3, all of Elkview.
Last year, Rebecca Walker, who was 17 at the time of the murders, pleaded guilty as an adult to four counts of “accessory after the fact to first-degree murder.” She was sentenced to 10 years in prison in September.
Smith was one of 35 indictments handed down by the Kanawha County Grand Jury on June 16, and he will next appear in court on June 28 at 9:00 a.m. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/teen-indicted-for-elkview-quadruple-murder/ | 2022-06-21T21:42:29 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/teen-indicted-for-elkview-quadruple-murder/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — The idea of a gas tax holiday is bouncing around once again as people are getting tired of high gas prices.
This time, the proposed relief is coming at the federal level.
Only five states have suspended their gasoline tax, but a proposal to freeze the state tax here in West Virginia flamed out.
With average gas prices at $5 across the nation, more ideas are being kicked around about how to help people.
President Joe Biden is now openly considering freezing the federal gasoline tax, which is 18.4¢ per gallon.
From now until the end of the year, that could cost the nation $20 billion used for road repairs and maintenance.
While some say the U.S. needs to drill for more oil in the long run, some drivers like the idea of suspending the federal gas tax now.
“I’d love it. It would be absolutely wonderful,” said Heather Chaffee, a driver in Charleston.
“I’m just sorry for the people who work and have to drive to work every day. I wonder sometimes if they are making enough money to cover their gas, to and from,” said Emma Jarrell, a driver from Charleston who was filling her gas tank.
But one member of Congress says it’s time to increase our gasoline supply.
“The answer is to let us open up and continue to drill and provide gas and oil to our country,” said Rep. Carol Miller, (R) West Virginia. Miller opposes the U.S. importing oil from foreign countries.
But President Biden cannot suspend the federal gas tax on his own and would need the support of Congress. Right now, it’s not clear if he has the votes. Biden promises a decision by the end of this week. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/west-virginia-drivers-react-to-president-bidens-possible-gas-tax-holiday/ | 2022-06-21T21:42:35 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/west-virginia-drivers-react-to-president-bidens-possible-gas-tax-holiday/ |
No 4th of July fireworks for Ocean City due to labor shortage. New celebration planned
Ocean City officials have turned a labor shortage into an advantage by splitting its upcoming Independence Day fireworks shows over two days and adding a very special guest for the second night.
The firework company contracted to provide fireworks for the holiday celebrations originally both set for July 4 told officials that labor shortages resulted in having inadequate staff to host the events as expected. Now town officials have decided to split the shows over two days.
“You know what they say when things don’t go as planned,” said City Manager Terry McGean, "you make a new plan, which is exactly what we've done."
The fireworks shows for the resort are now set for July 3 and July 5.
On July 3, an "intimate" Independence Day celebration is planned at Northside Park during Sundaes in the Park, featuring a 7 p.m. concert by Mike Hines & the Look, followed by a condensed firework show at 9 p.m.
On July 5 at 8 p.m., "American Idol" star and Salisbury native Jay Copeland will take the stage at Northside Park.
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Downtown on July 5, Ocean City will feature music beginning at 8 p.m. and fireworks beginning at 9:30 p.m. The show will include new fireworks elements by Celebration Fireworks Company. Due to the height of the new fireworks display, visitors should view the show from the beach between the fishing pier and Third Street.
Ocean City is not the only town experiencing issues with its fireworks display this year. Vienna, Virginia, also experienced a similar issues with its vendor due to labor shortage; the town moved its celebration to July 1, according to WNBC-TV4.
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In addition, supply chain issues and climbing prices are affecting the availability of fireworks as the Fourth of July holiday approaches across the nation. Overall, costs are up 35% across the firework industry, although the American Pyrotechnics Association estimates more than 16,000 fireworks displays will be produced this Fourth of July, The Associated Press reports.
Ocean City had high hopes in this year's fireworks after its 2021 beach display was unintentionally discharged during setup. Out of caution, many area fireworks displays were canceled.
For updated information about both Ocean City's 2022 events, visit www.ococean.com/events.
Check back with DelmarvaNow.com for updates on July 4 fireworks and events across Delmarva. | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2022/06/21/july-4th-ocean-city-md-fireworks-over-2-days-adds-jay-copeland/7687412001/ | 2022-06-21T21:44:04 | 0 | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2022/06/21/july-4th-ocean-city-md-fireworks-over-2-days-adds-jay-copeland/7687412001/ |
Plane crashes at Melfa airport after flight from Tangier, pilot uninjured
A Pennsylvania man’s 10-minute flight from Tangier Island to Melfa ended in a crash after the landing gear failed to deploy.
The pilot, 45-year-old Harry Leiser of Rome, Pennsylvania, left Tangier Island at about 3:50 p.m. in a 1966 Cessna T-210 for the 10-minute flight to Melfa on Monday, June 20, Virginia State Police said in a release.
But as the aircraft tried to land at Melfa airport, the landing gear failed to deploy due to a mechanical issue, Virginia State Police said in a release.
The plane touched down on the plane’s hull, causing a propeller strike, and skidded to a stop. There was no fuel leak and the only damage was to the aircraft and runway, police said.
Leiser was not injured.
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NAPLES, Fla. – A black bear was caught on camera roaming a Naples neighborhood Sunday morning.
Around 8:15 a.m. a person caught the moment the animal took to the streets in The Club at the Strand community off Strand Boulevard in Naples.
WATCH BELOW:
Any bear sightings should be immediately reported by calling FWC’s Wildlife Alert hotline at 1-888-404-FWCC (3922).
No further information was immediately available.
NBC2 has reached out to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for further details. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/06/21/video-bear-wanders-naples-neighborhood/ | 2022-06-21T21:45:10 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/06/21/video-bear-wanders-naples-neighborhood/ |
LEXINGTON, Texas — A Lee County convenience store clerk was arrested on Tuesday, June 14, and charged with multiple counts of selling alcohol to minors, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) said.
Deepak Sidgel, 39, of Pflugerville, was booked into the Lee County Jail on four counts alcohol sales to minors. He was later released after posting a $7,500 bond.
TABC said his place of employment, Lexington Food Mart at 8889 N. Highway 77 in Lexington, has been the subject of multiple TABC investigations for improper alcohol sales. Sidgel, who has been arrested previously in connection with one of those investigations, now faces a total of five counts of selling alcohol to minors, TABC said.
“Any resident with information on illegal alcohol sales at a business is asked to contact TABC,” said Maj. Oliver Johnson of TABC’s Central Texas regional enforcement office. “Public involvement is critical when it comes to identifying businesses that place the community’s safety at risk. Tips from the public play a major role in holding businesses accountable and keeping Texans safe.”
Businesses that sell alcohol to anyone under 21 could face a fine or suspension of their license to sell alcohol, with repeat violations resulting in a permanent cancellation of the business’s liquor license, TABC said. Employees of the business who sell alcohol to minors could also face a Class A misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $4,000 and one year in jail.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact TABC by emailing complaints@tabc.texas.gov or calling 888-THE-TABC.
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After two years outdoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philadelphia Flower Show plans to return to its indoor roots.
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society announced Tuesday that the flower show will be returning to the Pennsylvania Convention Center in 2023, moving away from FDR Park, where it was held for the last two years.
“We are so excited to welcome guests back to the Pennsylvania Convention Center for the 2023 Philadelphia Flower Show, from March 4-12. After two monumental years of producing the Flower Show outdoors, our return to this venue brings us back to our indoor home and the ability to create a colorful and fragrant beginning to the spring season,” PHS Chief of Shows Sam Lemheney said in a press release.
The show had been held outdoors at South Philly's FDR Park for the past two years due to COVID-19 concerns.
Other than 2021 and 2022, the Pennsylvania Convention Center has been home to the flower show since 1996.
For more information on the 2023 Flower Show, visit their site. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/back-to-its-roots-philadelphia-flower-show-is-returning-indoors/3276946/ | 2022-06-21T22:03:04 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/back-to-its-roots-philadelphia-flower-show-is-returning-indoors/3276946/ |
A New Jersey man is accused of using the popular social media app TikTok to solicit nude photos of underage girls.
The investigation began on April 20, when detectives in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, were contacted by a father of two girls, ages 11 and 12. Investigators say the girls had been solicited through TikTok direct messages and then through text messages to send naked images back to an unidentified man.
The girls, who live in Montgomery County, received the messages between April 17 and April 20. One of the girls then told their father she had sent a naked picture of herself to the man. The girls then received texts from another phone number claiming to be the man’s 14-year-old sister. Both girls were sent naked photos and were once again solicited to provide nude photos of themselves.
Investigators traced the phone number from the texter to Ad Hoc Labs, a company that provides burner phones for online ads, traveling, business projects and dating profiles.
Detectives served a subpoena and obtained user information from Ad Hoc Labs. They then traced the phone number and IP address to a man who lived in Andover, New Jersey. After a warrant was served at the home, the man’s son, 26-year-old Ryan Corcoran, confirmed with detectives that the cellphone number was his, according to investigators.
Investigators said they found the text messages and nude image of one of the girls on Corcoran’s phone.
“This defendant was reaching out to random young girls on a social media platform and soliciting them to take photos of themselves in sexually explicit poses, clearly creating child pornographic images,” Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said. “This is another example that there are predators out there on the internet trying to take advantage of young innocent children. Parents need to be ever-vigilant to protect their children from these predators.”
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Corcoran was arrested and charged with child pornography, unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors and criminal use of a communications facility. He was arraigned on June 13 with bail set at $50,000 cash while being prohibited from using the Internet and contacting minors. He was released after posting bail and scheduled for a preliminary hearing on June 27. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/nj-man-uses-tiktok-to-solicit-nude-photos-of-girls-police-say/3277279/ | 2022-06-21T22:03:10 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/nj-man-uses-tiktok-to-solicit-nude-photos-of-girls-police-say/3277279/ |
SAN ANTONIO — Animal Care Officers with the City of San Antonio (SAACS) came to the rescue of a horse found wandering through a neighborhood last week, according to the organization's Facebook page.
Police called SAACS for help when someone found the horse off Rigsby and Highway 87. The horse, now called Celyao, trotted through the community for a short time until a good Samaritan was able to lasso him to keep him out of traffic.
Animal Care Officer Alvarado checked on nearby registered livestock permits but couldn't locate Celyao’s people. He was loaded into an ACS livestock trailer without a problem and brought back to the shelter’s corral for safe keeping.
The SAACS Rescue-Foster team revved up their full horsepower trying to find his owners, with no luck. The horse didn't have a microchip or any branding, so their partners at the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office took him in to continue the search.
If you encounter a roaming pet or livestock, please report it to 3-1-1 by phone or online at saacs.info/311.
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SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio Starbucks has voted unanimously to unionize becoming the fourth store in Texas to officially unionize, according to a press release.
The release says the Starbucks workers at Houston and St. Mary's Street won their union election in a 13-0 vote.
The store on 410 and Vance Jackson was the first Starbucks to unionize in San Antonio one week ago. The store was also the first to petition in Texas.
Starbucks workers at 295 stores across the country have filed to unionize with 160 stores winning their elections, according to More Perfect Union website.
Rossann Williams, Starbucks’ North America president who's been a prominent figure in the company's push against worker unionization, is leaving the company after 17 years, according to the Associated Press. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/starbucks-union-san-antonio-texas-wages-store/273-bdf69017-bc18-4c40-b726-34108b4c702d | 2022-06-21T22:03:26 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/starbucks-union-san-antonio-texas-wages-store/273-bdf69017-bc18-4c40-b726-34108b4c702d |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — COVID-19 hit schoolkids hard, with a recent Brookings Institution study showing sizable drops in both reading and math scores for third through eighth-graders.
A COVID-fueled school funding stream with a strange acronym, though, has made a real difference in helping students catch up academically after the chaos of the pandemic. That’s Johnson City Schools (JCS) Superintendent Steve Barnett’s assessment about so-called “ESSER” funding, and he said the system has some good data to back it up.
“Especially in those schools where we really wanted to move the needle for students using that Title I funding and the additional ESSER funding, we felt like we were able to make improvements in literacy and math,” Barnett said of the school year that just ended.
Area schools have one more year of ESSER money, which JCS has used for a variety of needs. While JCS put $10.6 million of the $23.7 million total toward facilities — much of it for climate control projects at two schools. Another $3.4 million has gone toward technology.
That’s still left more than $9 million, or nearly 40% of the total, for academics, student readiness and hiring more teachers to reduce class sizes.
The 2021-22 school year was the first of three years of ESSER funding. Barnett said research showed the biggest risks were for students in lower grades and those from schools with higher poverty rates. The Brookings study of more than 5 million students confirmed that, with test-score gaps between low-poverty and high-poverty elementary schools growing by 20% in math and 15% in reading.
“Last year all of our Title I schools had ESSER-funded teachers to lower class size and to target those grade levels that were most impacted based on student test data,” Barnett said. “Usually the lower grade levels. Phonemic awareness is going to suffer when you’re not able to see your teacher’s face when they’re talking. So we were able to do that and we saw positive increases in our schools.”
He said data from “checkpoint” tests administered throughout last school year and from not-yet-publicly released TCAP scores have left JCS leaders feeling like “we used that money very wisely.”
“I feel like when this (state test score) data is not embargoed any more July 6, we’ll be able to look at that and be able to see increases in achievement in our schools where we looked at the most need.”
Making sure students have the best chance to succeed after COVID’s disruption is about far more than smaller class sizes or even extra tutoring, Barnett said. For instance, he said the city’s transit director, Eldonna Janutolo, worked hard at a time when finding enough staff was difficult and made sure bus service was available for any children staying late for extra help.
“To be able to provide bus service for students later in the day was really big for us,” he said. “It’s a very important component, getting students home. That’s one of those things that will keep a student from being able to stay after school is they don’t have transportation.”
Filling those transportation needs is likely part of the $2.1 million in “other” under the ESSER “student readiness” category. Another big chunk of that category is $1.1 million specifically earmarked for mental health.
Only two other areas outside facilities and technology have over $1 million earmarked, both in the “academics” category. Tutoring programs total $1.5 million. Interventionists are budgeted at just over $1 million.
Barnett tapped Sharon Pickering, who is retiring as North Side Elementary’s principal, to essentially be the ESSER funding “czar” for the system over the coming school year. He called her a great fit due to years spent overseeing a fairly high-poverty school — although six of Johnson City’s eight schools are now Title 1 designated, meaning more than 40% of students served come from families that qualify for free or reduced lunch due to their income levels.
“She’s used (ESSER funding) well, had great ideas on the usefulness of ESSER funding in classrooms, for after school tutoring.”
Barnett said Pickering’s role will be important because “we feel like we still have a lot of work to do,” to catch students up.
“There’s a reason this money’s running out,” Barnett said. “One it’s expensive, but two, you aggressively use this money to make sure that students who have the most need are supported in our schools and at some point we can get to the point where we go back to having school like we did before the pandemic.
“That’s the hope. Money will run out and we’ll continue on with excellent instruction, sound professional development and support systems for our teachers.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/superintendent-covid-relief-funding-for-schools-making-a-difference-academically/ | 2022-06-21T22:04:44 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/superintendent-covid-relief-funding-for-schools-making-a-difference-academically/ |
The chaos of hundreds of train cancellations that commuters experienced Friday, and throughout the weekend, due to strikes by NJ Transit engineers who operate the trains has now been prohibited by a federal court for at least the next couple of weeks.
With the federal court's order, the trains are back on schedule now, although many bitter feelings were left in the wake of the recent mass cancellations.
On Monday night during a News 12 NJ "Ask the Governor" segment, Gov. Phil Murphy expressed his frustrations.
"What happened last Friday is unacceptable, despicable. And, I'll go out and get a little PG-13, it p----- me off ," he said.
Murphy is as pro-union as labor forces could hope for -- but the sudden job action in protest over an unsigned contract and not getting Juneteenth holiday pay brought the ire of many down on the engineers.
"I don’t think it’s the right thing to do, especially in today’s work environment when people are going back to work. They shouldn’t be doing this at this point in time," commuter Mahesh Kumar said.
The union rejected straight pay hikes every six months of either 2 or 2-and-a-half percent for the first two years of a 3 year contract. Meanwhile, NJ Transit's 14 other unions have signed on the bottom line.
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For its part, union leadership posted to the web back in March warning members to save for a possible strike, thus maintaining a willingness to fight to the end for a fair and reasonable contract and not what it called the "garbage" the say the agency sold the other unions.
Commuter Sarah Alvarez, from Middletown, said she sympathizes with the union, telling News 4 New York: " If they want better pay. If they want better hours. Whatever they want, I'm with them personally."
When asked if she would be willing to pay more, Alvarez said, "Quite frankly, yeah."
Neither NJ Transit or the union agreed to an interview. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/fed-court-temporarily-bans-nj-transit-strikes-that-sparked-mass-train-delays/3743336/ | 2022-06-21T22:05:45 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/fed-court-temporarily-bans-nj-transit-strikes-that-sparked-mass-train-delays/3743336/ |
BRIDGETON — A crash Monday sent a 22-year-old biker to the hospital, police said.
At 3:17 p.m., the city resident was riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle south on Fayette Street when a 26-year-old city resident operating a Hyundai Sonata made a left turn onto Cottage Avenue, hitting the biker at the intersection.
The biker sustained serious injuries and was flown to ChristianaCare Christiana Hospital in Delaware, while the driver of the Hyundai was transported to Inspira Medical Center Vineland with minor injuries, police said.
Police are investigating. Anyone with information can call them at 856-451-0033 or visit bpd.tips. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/22-year-old-bridgeton-biker-hurt-in-crash/article_94ea00a8-f175-11ec-96e0-5313abc22bc2.html | 2022-06-21T22:07:48 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/22-year-old-bridgeton-biker-hurt-in-crash/article_94ea00a8-f175-11ec-96e0-5313abc22bc2.html |
Authorities arrested an Egg Harbor City man is accused of sharing child pornography on the social media application Kik, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday.
Patrick Daly, 26, was charged with three counts of possession and distribution of child abuse images via a social messaging service. He was taken to the Atlantic County jail.
Daly was identified through an investigation by the prosecutor's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. The branch was referred to several reports of explicit content being shared on Kik, a messaging app founded in 2009, the Prosecutor's Office said in a news release.
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Authorities found in his possession more than 1,000 pictures and videos containing scenes of child exploitation.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and police from Galloway Township and Ocean City assisted in the investigation.
Children under 13 are prohibited from maintaining Kik accounts, and the application's managers will ban accounts of young children if they're found. The managers are also directed to file police reports if accounts are found to be in possession of child pornography, according to the application's terms of service. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/egg-harbor-city-man-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/article_a2b2235a-f193-11ec-8cb8-1723f579647b.html | 2022-06-21T22:07:54 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/egg-harbor-city-man-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/article_a2b2235a-f193-11ec-8cb8-1723f579647b.html |
MULLICA TOWNSHIP — A man's escape from police failed when he tired himself out trying to swim away in the Mullica River to avoid being arrested for possessing a stolen motorcycle, police said Tuesday.
Police received reports of a stolen motorcycle being seen at the Sweetwater Marina & Riverdeck about 7 p.m. Sunday. A manager told officers that two customers recognized the Harley-Davidson parked outside the restaurant from a Facebook post. The post said the bike was stolen, police said.
The patrons pulled a spark plug wire so it wouldn't start and contacted the owner through Facebook, police said.
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Once at the restaurant, the owner confronted Barry Heuman at a boat ramp, accusing him of stealing the bike. Heuman tried fleeing the area on the motorcycle but jumped into the river bordering the restaurant after it wouldn't start, police said.
Heuman grew tired during what police described as "a brief, bold, yet pathetic attempt" to swim along the riverbank and then was arrested, police said, crediting Sgt. Ryan Spencer and Patrolman Charlie Schwenger.
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Heuman was taken to the Atlantic County jail, and the motorcycle was returned to its owner, police said.
Charges were unclear. Police couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-with-stolen-motorcycle-tried-fleeing-officers-in-mullica-river-police-say/article_b5bc1426-f1a0-11ec-8126-8f5b15a26fe9.html | 2022-06-21T22:08:00 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-with-stolen-motorcycle-tried-fleeing-officers-in-mullica-river-police-say/article_b5bc1426-f1a0-11ec-8126-8f5b15a26fe9.html |
ATLANTIC CITY — The Board of Directors of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority discussed plans for a former firehouse on Atlantic Avenue and the long-vacant Patsy Wallace Community Center in the Ducktown section, but got quiet when a resident asked when work will start on a ShopRite on Baltic Avenue.
During the meeting, held over the phone Tuesday afternoon, Vernon Walker asked for an update on the work during the public comment portion of the meeting. He said he was a minority business owner interested in a security contract. He was told he would be contacted by CRDA officials after the meeting.
Officials broke ground on the high-profile project in November. By March, there was still no sign of work underway. Officials with ShopRite said work would begin this summer, and that the company was looking forward to serving the residents of Atlantic City.
“I have no comment on ShopRite,” said Lance Landgraf, CRDA’s director of planning and development, when contacted after the meeting.
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Under an agreement with Village Super Market Inc., the CRDA promised to build a 44,000-square-foot shopping center at 1801 Baltic Ave., what is now a parking lot close to both the Atlantic City Convention Center and Tanger Outlets The Walk. The authority is set to spend $18.5 million on the project and lease the property to Village Supermarket for $1 per year.
Gov. Phil Murphy and lawmakers from throughout New Jersey were in Atlantic City for the groundbreaking, hailing the plan as the end of the city’s status as a food desert. The last major grocery store in the city closed more than 15 years ago.
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A spokeswoman from Village Super Market Inc. did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday afternoon.
The board did discuss plans for two other properties, each of which has long stood vacant.
Members agreed to put a property on Arctic Avenue up for auction this summer, after several proposals for the land were rejected.
Among them was a proposal to turn the property into a cannabis facility. It seemed the idea had some support but would have run afoul of state law, which prevents any economic development money from going to cannabis businesses.
While the state has encouraged development of cannabis businesses in marginalized neighborhoods, with the idea of bringing more economic opportunities, the drug remains illegal at the federal level. The law aims to avoid risking federal economic development funds coming to the state.
Landgraf explained the situation to the board, but Mayor Marty Small Sr. was unhappy, saying better communication was needed and that the news that cannabis use was not eligible left a sour taste in the applicant’s mouth.
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“We’ve got to get it right here, when we’ve got reputable people who want to invest and get all the way to the finish line and then it’s another story,” Small said.
Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver responded that the Legislature incorporated that criteria when it approved the cannabis law.
“No state funds from anywhere can be used to support or contribute to the operation of a cannabis business,” she said.
Both Oliver and Small are members of the CRDA board.
The retail cannabis business had offered $1 for the property. Other proposals included a steakhouse and two plans for apartment buildings, each with more than 100 units. The application for the restaurant was incomplete, Landgraf said, and he recommended rejecting both apartment plans. One sought millions in grants and loans from the CRDA, and he said the fourth proposal did not have experience in large-scale development.
The final proposal, for a 112-unit development, would have included a $400,000 payment for the property. But it was rejected over the company’s lack of experience. The bidders’ response to questions “kind of didn’t give us that warm, fuzzy feeling that we would like to have for building a project of that size,” Landgraf told the board.
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The board voted to reject all bids and go to auction this summer, with a minimum bid in place. If a cannabis business were to bid on the property at fair market value, it could go forward with that business under state law.
The CRDA serves as the planning and zoning authority for properties that fall within the city's Tourism District, so any proposal put forward for the property by the successful bidder would still face CRDA review, Langraf said after the meeting.
“We still retain land use control, so we still have a say in what goes there,” he said.
The area includes a boarded up building, described as just a shell, and about 25,000 square feet of vacant land on Artic Avenue in the Ducktown neighborhood, set between Bass Pro Shops and The Wave parking garage operated by the CRDA near Tanger Outlets The Walk.
The land once housed the Patsy Wallace Community Center, but that has not been in use for many years. A redevelopment project approved for the site several years ago fell apart, Landgraf said.
In another vote, the CRDA board approved a redevelopment plan for a former firehouse on Ocean Beach Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue, another property that has long been vacant. Landgraf told the CRDA board the city had approved the plan in 2015, but the plan was rendered void when the CRDA approved new land use regulations.
A retail and restaurant use is proposed for the property, which is currently owned by the city. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/no-word-on-shoprite-progress-as-crda-looks-at-other-new-development/article_a86158a4-f178-11ec-a4fc-5fa2a2b5dafb.html | 2022-06-21T22:08:06 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/no-word-on-shoprite-progress-as-crda-looks-at-other-new-development/article_a86158a4-f178-11ec-a4fc-5fa2a2b5dafb.html |
A wildfire burning in the Wharton State Forest has been 95% contained by firefighters while consuming about 13,500 acres of woods, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Both firefighters and the state Department of Environmental Protection on Monday anticipated the fire burning through about 15,000 acres of land since its start Sunday morning, making it the worst state wildfire in over a decade.
The blaze is likely the result of an an illegal, unattended campfire in the woods, New Jersey Fire Warden Greg McLaughlin said.
No injuries or property damage had been immediately reported, although fire officials said Monday they were working to protect 18 structures threatened by the blaze.
While Routes 206 and 524 reopened Tuesday morning, Batsto Village, the Atsion Recreation Area and hiking and mountain bike trails within the fire's vicinity remained closed to visitors. Kayak and canoe launches along the Mullica River is off-limits from the Atsion Recreation Area to Batsto Village.
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Pinelands Adventures has paused kayak and canoe trips, which will continue until further notice, the Fire Service said.
The Mullica River Campground and Lower Forge Campground remained closed, the Forest Fire Service said.
McLaughlin said Monday he expected the fire to be fully contained by Tuesday or Wednesday, adding that additional days would likely be needed to tame the fire fully to bring it under control.
Motorists traveling in the area should stay vigilant in case they reach heavily smoke-filled areas and encounter emergency vehicles working alongside the roadways, the Fire Service said.
Smoke impacts will remain elevated into the evening as winds weaken and partial cloud cover moves over the area, the Fire Service said.
On Sunday and Monday, strong northwesterly winds pushed the smoke, and falling ash all the way to the shore.
Winds have shifted to the southwest Tuesday, which has pushed the smoke in Ocean, eastern Burlington and Monmouth counties. An air quality alert was in effect for this area, issued by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. However, it was dropped Tuesday morning, as the air quality index registered only moderate levels of unhealthy air, the second cleanest of six stages.
While still dry, dew points have risen from the historically low 30s to the more typical, comfortable 50s. That will continue to increase humidity levels into Wednesday, when rain showers are expected.
The fire was burning in a remote area of the forest where access is difficult because of the configuration of roads through the park, and the fact that many of them are pitted with holes that fill with water, slowing the progress of arriving firefighting vehicles.
Firefighters used 22 engines, a helicopter with a 325-gallon bucket, and other equipment to battle the fire, which was expected to continue to spew smoke for several more days.
The blaze threatened nearly half the 40 historic structures in Batsto Village. Fire trucks were stationed near these buildings as well as some private structures that were in the path of the fire to protect them.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/wharton-state-forest-fire-95-contained/article_0b1e5e96-f175-11ec-a380-7764d6596e31.html | 2022-06-21T22:08:12 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/wharton-state-forest-fire-95-contained/article_0b1e5e96-f175-11ec-a380-7764d6596e31.html |
Man arrested in city's latest murder
Wichita Falls Police arrested a man in connection to the city’s latest murder.
According to Wichita Falls Police spokesperson Sgt. Charlie Eipper:
Police arrested 39-year-old Jason Christopher Myers and charged him with murder after investigating the scene of a shooting that happened Tuesday on the north side of town at Scotland Park. The victim was identified as 28-year-old Paul Matthew Day out of Orange Grove, Texas.
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During an interview with police, Myers admitted to shooting Day during a physical altercation. Eipper said evidence at the scene did not support Myers' claim of self-defense.
According to a previous Times Record News report, WFPD patrol officers responded to the 200 block of Central Freeway Tuesday morning for an assault with a weapon. They found a man shot and emergency medics worked to revive him, but he died at the scene.
This is the seventh murder in Wichita Falls in 2022, according to Eipper. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/06/21/man-arrested-citys-latest-murder/7691373001/ | 2022-06-21T22:10:01 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/06/21/man-arrested-citys-latest-murder/7691373001/ |
Wichita Falls Police work city's latest homicide at Scotland Park
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Wichita Falls Police are investigating the scene of a shooting that happened just before 9 a.m., Tuesday.
According to WFPD spokesman, Sgt. Charlie Eipper:
Police and emergency medics responded to the 200 block of Central Freeway at Scotland Park for a gunshot victim.
They found one person shot. Medics attempted to revive the man, but he died on-scene. One person, the alleged shooter, has been detained for questioning.
Eipper said they are investigating to see if there are charges to pursue. He added that it appears this was an act of self-defense, no one has been arrested at this time. Stay with the Times Record News for more information. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/06/21/wf-police-work-citys-latest-homicide-scotland-park/7688038001/ | 2022-06-21T22:10:07 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/06/21/wf-police-work-citys-latest-homicide-scotland-park/7688038001/ |
Richmond-based CarLotz is closing 11 dealership stores, which represents half of its locations, "as part of a strategic review of the business, with cash preservation and future profitable growth as key determining factors," the company announced Tuesday. The workforce also is being reduced by 25% to 30%.
"The company will focus on growing the remaining hubs which it believes will produce, in combination, the highest future growth potential, highest profit potential, and the most attractive sourcing opportunities," CarLotz said in a statement.
The company, which sells used vehicles on consignment and splits the profits with the owners, started in 2011 with a store off Midlothian Turnpike in Chesterfield County. A Henrico County location opened a year later, reaching 22 hubs by this year. The company went public in 2021.
In March, it was announced CEO Michael Bor would be replaced as CEO. Sales had fallen below expectations amid ongoing supply-chain issues.
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“Over the last 12 months, our sourcing has been challenged. Growing our mix of consumer sourced vehicles is a priority to complement our retail remarketing sourcing channel and reduce our reliance on auctions," said Lev Peker, who took Bor's place as chief executive, in a statement. "We believe the closures should allow us to improve sourcing across a smaller hub base and focus on the productivity and efficiency of the remaining hubs."
Locations closing are San Antonio; Plano, Texas; Mobile, Alabama; Lynnwood, Washington; Nashville, Tennessee; Lilburn, Georgia; Bakersfield, California; Clearwater and Merritt Island, Florida; and Highland Park and O'Fallon, Illinois.
"While decisions that impact our teammates are not taken lightly and are not easy, we believe the hub closures are a necessary step to help improve the Company’s financial performance. We greatly appreciate all our teammates have done for CarLotz and are committed to help support them through this transition,” Peker said.
Three locations with executed leases also will not be opened, the company said.
The closures are expected to be complete by July 8, saving about $12 million, the company said.
This story will be updated. | https://richmond.com/business/local/carlotz-closing-half-of-stores-cutting-workforce/article_57323de8-301e-52d2-bde6-a6cfff949492.html | 2022-06-21T22:11:43 | 0 | https://richmond.com/business/local/carlotz-closing-half-of-stores-cutting-workforce/article_57323de8-301e-52d2-bde6-a6cfff949492.html |
A man was killed in a shooting in South Richmond late Monday night, according to police.
At 11:58 p.m., Richmond officers responded to a local hospital, where a man was pronounced dead after arriving with a gunshot wound.
In a statement released Tuesday, police said the victim’s name is William Fladger, Jr., 19, of Richmond
Chesterfield police on Friday released more details about June 6 vandalism spree that caused more than $5,000 in damages.
Around the same time, another man who was also shot arrived at the hospital, police said. But they are unsure if the two incidents are related. The second man is expected to survive, police said.
Police later located a crime scene in the 2200 block of Afton Avenue connected to at least the fatal shooting.
Anyone with information is asked to call Major Crimes Detective G. Russell (804) 646-7715 or contact Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000. The P3 Tips app also may be used. | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/update-police-identify-man-killed-in-south-richmond-shooting/article_6038d8e3-15f8-5a1b-a78b-c80bdb54fd1f.html | 2022-06-21T22:12:01 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/update-police-identify-man-killed-in-south-richmond-shooting/article_6038d8e3-15f8-5a1b-a78b-c80bdb54fd1f.html |
The Chesterfield County School Board on Tuesday unanimously passed a $907 million budget for the coming fiscal year, allowing the district to move forward with teacher raises; correcting a system of chronically underpaid staff.
The decision was hailed as a win by board members following months of uncertainty in the Virginia General Assembly, which held up more than half of Chesterfield schools’ $836 million operating fund that relies on state revenue.
That included nearly $1.4 million divided across the first two years to establish the Chesterfield Recovery Academy, a pilot program to help students recover from substance use while continuing their education, and employee contracts.
“I actually received an email last week from an [instructional aide] that was just saying, ‘Please tell me when my contract is coming. This is the longest it’s ever been,’ and I felt so badly because there were people that are hanging in the balance and waiting and wondering,” said Debbie Bailey, a board member representing Dale District.
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Tuesday’s adoption of the revised budget pumps an additional $78.6 million to the total spending plan from last year.
About $75 million, or 95% of the increase, goes toward operating expenses followed by nearly $3 million to food service, more than $493,000 to grants and close to a $258,000 jump from last year to Appomattox Regional Governor’s School, for which Chesterfield is the financial representative.
In February, the Citizens Budget Advisory Committee lambasted the Superintendent Merv Daugherty’s budget proposal, which was about $13 million less than the revised budget presented to the School Board on Tuesday.
“As stated in this committee’s report last year, the county is not fulfilling its obligation to properly fund our schools,” the committee wrote on Feb. 8. “It is of this committee’s opinion that this still holds true.”
Virginia Department of Education data has found Chesterfield County Public Schools spends the least amount of money per student in the Richmond area, and the committee estimated that to bring the district to the state average would require a whopping $176 million boost to the budget.
Another critique from the committee was that the 5% teacher increases did not keep up with inflation.
The additions in next year’s spending plan includes a $6 million one-time bonus for raises from the state, but Kimberly Hough, the county’s chief of human resources, noted that money doesn’t kick in until December.
This is why the bonus schedule is divided over the span of six months, with “high needs” school teachers receiving the highest bump at $4,000.
Instead of the raises happening on July 1, they’re now effective in August, which prompted a $1.1 million reduction from teacher raise funding. State funding for the operating budget also decreased by slightly less than $1 million. Nearly $6 million was removed from the Capital Improvement Plan.
The county plans to absorb the cost by increasing local support to CCPS, bringing the total contribution to CCPS to $363 million, said Bob Meister, Chesterfield’s chief financial officer.
Tuesday’s School Board meeting heavily centered on the importance of using operating funds toward improving compensation across the division to retain teachers and staff.
As of last Thursday, Hough said, there were 317 unfilled teaching positions, over 100 vacancies in food service and close to 100 empty instructional assistant positions.
Daily rates for instructional assistants fell nearly 17% below market rate in the 2021-22 year. The average daily rate across Henrico, Hanover and Richmond is $79.23.
Consultants found that Chesterfield’s pay ranges were 6% to 7% behind market, with severe pay compression throughout the school district, which means newer, less-experienced staff are making closer to employees who are further into their career.
The recommended salary floor was $12 an hour, which is projected to be the minimum wage in Virginia in 2023.
Hough said the school district has 184 employees who make less than that threshold. A minimum 5% salary increase with a $1,000 bonus for full-time employees “would provide a strong foundation for movement forward ... but doesn’t eliminate compression,” Hough continued.
A future goal for CCPS is to move to a minimum wage of $16.
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The ascendance of descendants of the enslaved at Montpelier was the talk of Monticello at a Juneteenth eve event celebrating the growing empowerment of Black voices at historic sites.
After a season of struggle, the Montpelier Descendants Committee recently secured parity on The Montpelier Foundation board through a hard-won power-sharing arrangement at the Orange County estate of James Madison. The parity structure has been lauded as a national model that represents what College of William & Mary anthropologist Michael Blakey called "a new day" Saturday.
"I've probably got 15 descendant communities on my desk, from Mobile, Alabama, to New Hampshire, all brilliant people ... inspired to stand on their ancestors, to take their equality in the world and tell their story."
Blakey was among nearly two dozen speakers, panelists and performers at "Ascendant: The Power of Descendant Communities to Shape Our Stories, Places, and Future," a public summit on the West Lawn of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, 29 miles from Montpelier.
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“Never have these stories been more important to our history and American history," said Leslie Greene Bowman, president and CEO of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. The nation's upcoming 250th anniversary in 2026 "will be a period of reflection as we invite Americans to consider our history, our ideas, our progress and our failures. What kind of country do we seek to shape?”
As "Ascendant" played out beneath a half-filled tent on a sun-splashed day, tourists roamed about the Monticello grounds, apparently oblivious to the star power at this forum, which included Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, Academy Award-nominated director Ava DuVernay and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed.
The America of this moment does not appear to be in the mood to reflect or to contemplate the potential demise of the representative democracy Jefferson and his fellow founders established. Nor do many of our fellow citizens seem eager to engage the contradictions embodied by places like Monticello and Montpelier.
In most advanced democracies after a period of conflict or human rights abuse, there is a period of restitution and concerted memorialization, said public historian Justin Reid of Virginia Humanities. But in the U.S., "we've never had a period of transitional justice."
"We're late," Reid said. "And now it's time for us to do that work."
Thomas Jefferson Foundation chair Melody Barnes of Richmond called Monticello one of the most important places in America, "because everything that has happened and is reflected in American society is also reflected here.” The site "can provide a roadmap on where we need to go."
Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, said "as we began to deepen our understanding of inequality in the world, the consistent through line was an ideology of antiblackness and erasure," whether in Brazil, the Caribbean or India.
"In the United States, there was no place that manifests this more than Monticello," he said.
But nearly three decades ago, descendants of those who lived and worked at the plantation began to assert their claim to Monticello's legacy through Getting Word, a groundbreaking oral history. The enslaved Sally Hemings, and the children she bore by Jefferson, would become an integral part of Monticello's narrative. A once-neglected African American burial ground at the plantation now includes pathways, plantings and parking for descendants, among the upgrades led by the Getting Word Advisory Committee.
Reid, a Prince Edward County native, cited the Moton Museum in Farmville as an example of how descendant-led institutions elevate the historical narrative.
The story of Massive Resistance in Prince Edward had focused on Black victimhood: The closing of the county's schools by the county's Board of Supervisors in defiance of court-ordered desegregation. But the descendant perspective highlights "the resilience, and the strength and the fight and the determination" of a Black community that secured two Supreme Court victories over 13 years, including the Brown v. Board of Education decision declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
"This sort of denial characterizes so much of the political right's approach to problems, from racism, to gun violence, to climate change to the existential threat to our democracy," writes columnist Michael Paul Williams.
“It completely redefines how history is interpreted when its coming from the perspective of those who were most intimately connected to that story," Reid said.
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation has not reached The Montpelier Foundation's point of parity — about a quarter of the Jefferson Foundation's trustees are African American. But Monticello has come an undeniably long way. Simple stories that bordered on hagiography have become richer, more inclusive and more complex.
Cultural institutions must engage difficult truths and hold space for multiple identities.
As for those who would accuse Monticello of being 'woke' and moving away from its mission, the idea is "to help people to see that this always should have been its mission," Walker said. "And that's the mission of America."
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The original opponent of the Robert E. Lee statue issued a stern prophesy after the monument was erected in 1890.
We should have known this day was coming, because they knew this day was coming.
Christopher Columbus survived multiple voyages across the high seas. But his Richmond statue met an inglorious end at the bottom of a Byrd Park lake.
When a crane raised the 17 1/2 foot bronze statue off the granite pedestal, the weight of Richmond history became more bearable. But there's much heavier lifting to be done.
Hanover County appears intent to live on in infamy as the Prince Edward County of the 21st Century.
The moral arc bending toward justice is visible from Hill Monument Parkway, a North Side street named for the Confederate general.
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Scottsdale grandmother, husband accused of killing 11-year-old grandson could face death penalty
The Maricopa County Attorney's Office is seeking the death penalty in a case against Scottsdale relatives accused of abusing and killing an 11-year-old boy.
On Tuesday, interim County Attorney Rachel Mitchell directed prosecutors to file a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Stephanie M. Davis, 52, and her husband, Thomas J. Desharnais, 34, if they are ultimately convicted of first-degree murder, a news release stated.
In January, Scottsdale police responded to a report of an unresponsive person at an Extended Stay America Hotel and found 11-year-old Chaskah, Davis' grandson, not breathing in a bathtub. He was taken to the hospital and later pronounced dead.
Emergency personnel said they saw bruising and cuts on Chaskah's body and his half-brother, also under the care of Davis and Desharnais, had visible injuries as well. Investigations revealed severe abuse of both boys, which included starvation and physical harm with metal tools, officials said.
Previous coverage: Boy who died in Scottsdale was severely abused by relatives, court records say
In February, a Maricopa County grand jury indicted Davis and Desharnais on 11 felony counts, including first-degree murder, child abuse and tampering with evidence.
While the news release from the County Attorney's Office acknowledged the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, Mitchell spoke sharply against perpetrators of child abuse.
“As a community, it is our responsibility to protect and care for the most vulnerable in society, and this includes children. The protection of children has always been a top priority for me. This child’s suffering and death must be addressed and those responsible held accountable. Seeking justice for this young boy whose life was cut short in an especially heinous matter is what prosecutors are called to do,” she said in the news release.
Couple investigated in 2017
The Arizona Department of Child Safety received three reports alleging the children were abused in 2017.
Darren DaRonco, a department spokesperson, told The Arizona Republic in February that the department received a report on March 22, 2017, that Davis struck Chaskah, leaving a bruise behind his ear and a scratch to his face, but the department determined the allegations were unsubstantiated.
The department received another report on May 15, 2017, that said Davis, Desharnais and another adult physically abused Chaskah and left him with a deep purple and red bruise under his right eye, which the department also found to be unsubstantiated.
DCS received a third report on Aug. 31 alleging Desharnais picked up another child and threw him down, leaving him with an injury to his forehead. The family moved out of state during the investigation and was cross-reported to that state's social services agency. DCS later determined the third claim was unsubstantiated but didn't specify what determination the other state agency reached.
DaRonco said Chaskah's sibling was removed and placed into foster care after the death.
Police said in February that in a previous investigation related to the family, Davis said she home-schooled both children. She also refused to let the children be interviewed by detectives. No charges were filed in that investigation.
Police had contacted the family multiple times near the Extended Stay America Hotel where they lived since 2019.
Resources for Arizonans experiencing domestic violence
- National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-SAFE (7233).
- Phoenix.gov/DomesticViolence.
- Chrysalis: 602-944-4999, noabuse.org.
- Arizona Coalition to End Sexual & Domestic Violence: 602-279-2980.
Republic reporters Angela Cordoba Perez and Perry Vandell contributed to this article.
Reach criminal justice reporter Gloria Rebecca Gomez at grgomez@gannett.com or on Twitter @glorihuh.
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GREENSBORO — More heat is expected this week, the first week after summer's official June 21 start, although not quite at last week's levels.
“Last week there was two days that temperatures almost reached 100 degrees," said James Danco, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Raleigh.
"There has been a break in the heat over the past few days," Danco said, noting that Wednesday temperatures were expected to reach the mid-90s. "Temperatures will slowly start decreasing after that. It'll be upper 80s for Friday and into the weekend."
In the midst of last week's sweltering heat, Cone Health received five minor heat-related cases, spokesman Doug Allred said on Friday.
Despite the cool down this week, health officials warn about the dangers of hot summer days.
High heat can be problematic because it can send people to the hospital with severe heat-related illnesses. It can cause permanent disabilities or critical conditions if the person does not receive emergency treatment.
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Heat exhaustion is what happens before a heat stroke. It is brought on by the loss of water and electrolytes. The body will begin to sweat excessively followed by the core body temperature rising to more than 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Other symptoms of heat exhaustion are dizziness, nausea, weakness, thirst, and severe headaches.
Dehydration is a sign that your body is losing more fluids than it's taking in, the CDC said. Babies, children, and the elderly are more at risk of dehydration. If not treated, it can get worse and lead to more serious heat-related illnesses. Symptoms of dehydration include feeling thirsty or lightheaded, having a dry mouth, a high temperature, or dark yellow and strong-smelling urine, according to the CDC.
Between 240 and 833 people die in the U.S. each year from a heat stroke, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Here are four tips from Cone Health on staying cool in the summer heat:
• Make sure you're hydrated by drinking plenty of water.
• Try getting things done in the morning before it gets too hot.
• For parking, try to find shade and park in a parking deck.
• Avoid staying in the sun too long.
For more information, contact Cone Health at 336-832-7000.
Contact Tanasia Moss at 336-373-7371 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/summer-officially-started-today-heres-how-to-stay-safe-in-the-summer-heat/article_92a66a02-f0cb-11ec-9fb6-2b803621e198.html | 2022-06-21T22:20:01 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/summer-officially-started-today-heres-how-to-stay-safe-in-the-summer-heat/article_92a66a02-f0cb-11ec-9fb6-2b803621e198.html |
Great Lakes steel production fell by 13,000 tons last week, while steel capacity utilization ticked down, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute.
Steel mills remained at over 80% capacity, a key threshold they operated at for most of last year, following the latest wave of industry consolidation, imposition of blanket tariffs of 25%, strong demand and generally favorable market conditions. Imports have been rising again after steel prices soared to record highs, contributing to inflation and leading the U.S. to switch to a quota system with some trading partners.
Locally, steel mills in the Great Lakes region, clustered mainly along the south shore of Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana, made 578,000 tons of metal in the week that ended June 18, down from 591,000 tons the previous week.
Overall, domestic steel mills in the United States made 1.758 million tons of steel last week, down 1.5% from 1.784 million tons the previous week and down 4.7% compared to 1.844 million tons the same time a year prior.
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Nationally, steel production so far in 2022 totals 42.416 million tons, a 1.7% decrease over 43.206 million tons through the same period last year.
U.S. steel mills have run at a capacity utilization rate of 80.7% through June 18, up from 79.4% at the same point in 2021, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute.
Steel capacity utilization, a key metric of the industry's profitability, was 80.5% last week, down from 83% a year earlier and up from 81.7% a week prior.
Steel production in the southern region, a wide geographic swath that encompasses many mini-mills and rivals the Great Lakes region in output, totaled 742,000 tons last week, down from 753,000 tons the week before, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. Volume in the rest of the Midwest rose to 206,000 tons, up from 201,000 tons the week prior. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/great-lakes-steel-production-falls-by-13-000-tons/article_937feca5-8df1-5882-b7ec-1a5f1747eff7.html | 2022-06-21T22:21:01 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/great-lakes-steel-production-falls-by-13-000-tons/article_937feca5-8df1-5882-b7ec-1a5f1747eff7.html |
Lakeshore Public Media's president and CEO has joined the One Region Opportunities Council.
James A. Muhammad was appointed to serve on the Opportunities Council board for One Region, which aims to strengthen and grow Northwest Indiana.
“I’m excited to join fellow Northwest Indiana leaders in efforts to enhance and strengthen our community through One Region’s initiatives. This commitment aligns with our mission at Lakeshore Public Media as well, and I’m excited to see what we can accomplish together,” Muhammad said.
One Region's members consist of executives from Lake, LaPorte and Porter counties. It aims to bring talent to Northwest Indiana, promote its assets, grow household income and boost the Calumet Region's population.
“Members collaborate and share ideas that drive One Region, so including Lakeshore Public Media elevates our mission,” One Region President and CEO Marie Foster-Bruns said. “James is so knowledgeable across so many topics which can be seen time and time again through his work. We are about action and the pursuit of excellence, and so is James.”
The nonprofit has been working toward projects such as encouraging transit-oriented development, promoting entrepreneurship and cultivating an identity for the Region.
“The Greater South Shore is the concept of connecting this broad identity for Northwest Indiana with South Bend and Chicago to reflect the diversity and talent we have and will continue to grow,” Foster-Bruns said.
The Opportunities Council focuses on priorities for transforming the Region over the next two years.
“As time moves forward, the Region needs to move with it. The members of One Region's Opportunities Council create momentum through their knowledge and deep expertise. When you connect them, that’s when sparks fly,” Foster-Bruns said.
Joseph S. Pete is a Lisagor Award-winning business reporter who covers steel, industry, unions, the ports, retail, banking and more. The Indiana University grad has been with The Times since 2013 and blogs about craft beer, culture and the military.
NIPSCO awarded $69,100 in environmental grants for native gardens, pollinator habitats, environmental education and other programs across its service territory of Northern Indiana.
Lakeshore Public Radio is launching a new midday linup as it nears completion of an expansion of its over-the-air broadcast signal across Northwest Indiana, allowing it to reach more people in the state's second largest media market. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/lakeshore-public-media-ceo-named-to-one-region-opportunities-council/article_887da3b6-2b4e-5634-a467-0c13d8c7f78f.html | 2022-06-21T22:21:07 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/lakeshore-public-media-ceo-named-to-one-region-opportunities-council/article_887da3b6-2b4e-5634-a467-0c13d8c7f78f.html |
CROWN POINT — A judge granted a motion by the defense Tuesday to reschedule a jury trial for a Cedar Lake woman charged with neglect in connection with her infant daughter's death three years ago.
Brittany C. Chambers, 23, had been scheduled to face a jury in August, but defense attorney Kerry Connor requested additional time to prepare.
Lake Criminal Court Judge Natalie Bokota granted Connor's motion after Lake County Deputy Prosecutor Arturo Balcazar said the state did not object to a delay.
Bokota rescheduled Chambers' trial for the week of Dec. 5.
Chambers is accused of violating a safety plan she signed with the Indiana Department of Child Services by leaving her 6-month-old daughter Elliana Orgon in her then-boyfriend's care June 20, 2019.
Chambers told Crown Point police she noticed Elliana did not look right when she returned, but she did not check on the infant and traveled with her boyfriend to Gary to buy drugs, according to court records.
Elliana died June 21, 2019, from various injuries, including four broken ribs, two dislocated shoulders, a fractured cervical vertebrae and multiple head injuries.
The injuries likely were caused by blunt force trauma to the rear of her body, according to court records.
Chambers has pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of neglect of a dependent.
Her boyfriend at the time has not been charged in connection with Elliana's death.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Salvador Casares
Age : 43
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205089
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION; THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jonathan Colon
Age : 35
Residence: Montgomery, TX
Booking Number(s): 2205105
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Daniel Swets
Age : 44
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205044
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Karen Sweet
Age : 63
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205025
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amaan Smith
Age : 28
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205033
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Anthony Smith
Age : 35
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205039
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Diandre Smith
Age : 25
Residence: Glenwood, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205029
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeremy Soria
Age : 28
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205045
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Rogers
Age : 28
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205049
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lynn Lessard
Age : 56
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205038
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Leondre Lewis
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205028
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Richard Moss
Age : 35
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205042
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Person Jr.
Age : 38
Residence: Steger, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205023
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Consuela Folger
Age : 51
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205040
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Jones Jr.
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205050
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ramiro Escamilla
Age : 24
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205022
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING - W/NO INTENT OF FELONY THEFT; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Matthew Evans
Age : 28
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205047
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Evan Alexander
Age : 25
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205037
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Edward Anaszewski
Age : 52
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205048
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Andre Bullock
Age : 31
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205046
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amanda Wilk
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205065
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Travis Spoolstra
Age : 21
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205064
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Stibgen
Age : 30
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205056
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jason Miller
Age : 21
Residence: N/A
Booking Number(s): 2205055
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE; THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Tracey Spencer
Age : 47
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205070
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Haley Kniola
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205067
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tyler McKenzie
Age : 23
Residence: Perry, FL
Booking Number(s): 2205072
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Noel Garabito Jr.
Age : 34
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205063
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ebonie Byers
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205060
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - INSTITUTION - BANK/FINANCIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Ellis
Age : 30
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205061
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Devante White
Age : 28
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204992
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FROM MACHINE OR DEVICE - $750 TO $50,000; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
David Wszolek
Age : 52
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205010
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sterling Walton IV
Age : 22
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204999
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tavares McKinstry
Age : 37
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204997
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Mezydlo
Age : 54
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204993
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kaleb Wall
Age : 33
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205002
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jenifer Joy
Age : 35
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205008
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jacob Kelley
Age : 19
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205007
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Madden
Age : 58
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204994
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - DESTRUCTIVE DEVICE (EXPLOSIVES) - W/KNOWLEDGE IT WILL BE USED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kori Arguelles
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205003
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rondell Christmas
Age : 23
Residence: Lynwood, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205011
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: INVASION OF PRIVACY; BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Michael Tsouchlos
Age : 54
Residence: Marathon, FL
Booking Number(s): 2205206
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Vernon Walters
Age : 61
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205200
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Megan Phillips
Age : 35
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205202
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Antonio Steward
Age : 38
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205190
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Javante Toran
Age : 30
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205192
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kerri Olson
Age : 43
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205188
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: 2205188
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Bowling
Age : 50
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205195
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amy Hunt
Age : 26
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205208
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kevin McGrath
Age : 31
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205204
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Nicholas Naumoff
Age : 54
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205184
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Nunez III
Age : 28
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205207
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Francisco Tequimila
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205163
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cheri Terranova
Age : 32
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205162
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Clevon Riley
Age : 28
Residence: Michigan City, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205155
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Stephanie Sons
Age : 34
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205170
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Mauer
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205165
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kirk McGuire
Age : 32
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205178
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tyrone McKee
Age : 59
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205158
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicole Peterson
Age : 50
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205152
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeremy Jones
Age : 25
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205161
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Artesta Lewis
Age : 69
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205153
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joyce Edwards
Age : 52
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205169
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sarah Fox
Age : 34
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205179
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brandon Johnson
Age : 32
Residence: Dolton, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205182
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Denzel Shaw
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205124
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sade Vigilant
Age : 26
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205112
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amanda Nippers
Age : 25
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205118
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michelle Mendez
Age : 43
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205121
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel Lumsdon
Age : 54
Residence: Crete, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205134
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: PUBLIC INDECENCY - INDECENT EXPOSURE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Saivion Covington
Age : 27
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205115
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Currie
Age : 28
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205113
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Gutierrez
Age : 22
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205123
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Landrum Coleman Sr.
Age : 45
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205114
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: WARRANT - DEFENDANT IN CUSTODY; ORDER TO APPEAR; DEFENDANT AT LIBERTY; NOTICE TO APPEAR; ARREST UPON FAILURE TO APPEAR
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Charles Carter Jr.
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205131
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: FAILURE TO REGISTER; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Joseph Boatman
Age : 31
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205117
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON; POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
James Burnett III
Age : 32
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205116
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joel Acosta
Age : 31
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205109
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - MORE THAN $50,000; THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Tyree Baines
Age : 25
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205140
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT DEFENDANT USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcus White
Age : 37
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205107
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Daiquan McClinton
Age : 20
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205093
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Douglas Mills
Age : 37
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205085
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Latanya Snelling
Age : 54
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205099
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Malik Ward
Age : 25
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205086
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Matthew Manous
Age : 23
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205081
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - SCHEDULE V; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Steven Heintz
Age : 52
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205096
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Benjamin Hynek
Age : 23
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205098
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Joshua Hynek
Age : 33
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205097
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Krystal Johnston
Age : 45
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205101
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Demarco Dillon
Age : 21
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205087
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Creedon
Age : 59
Residence: Crystal Lake, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205083
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
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A Tuesday morning crash that closed down all westbound lanes of Interstate 94 nine miles east of Ind. 49 was touched off when the driver of a lawnmower made a U-turn in the highway and was stuck by a van, according to Indiana State Police.
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A Tuesday morning crash that closed down all westbound lanes of Interstate 94 nine miles east of Ind. 49 was touched off when the driver of a lawnmower made a U-turn in the highway and was stuck by a van, according to Indiana State Police.
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A Tuesday morning crash that closed down all westbound lanes of Interstate 94 nine miles east of Ind. 49 was touched off when the driver of a lawnmower made a U-turn in the highway and was stuck by a van, according to Indiana State Police.
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A Tuesday morning crash that closed down all westbound lanes of Interstate 94 nine miles east of Ind. 49 was touched off when the driver of a lawnmower made a U-turn in the highway and was stuck by a van, according to Indiana State Police.
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A Tuesday morning crash that closed down all westbound lanes of Interstate 94 nine miles east of Ind. 49 was touched off when the driver of a lawnmower made a U-turn in the highway and was stuck by a van, according to Indiana State Police.
LAPORTE COUNTY — A man was airlifted after a tractor pulling a lawnmower and a van collided on Interstate 94.
Westbound I-94 reopened Tuesday afternoon east of U.S. 421 in LaPorte County following a crash that had shut down the busy stretch of highway for four hours, according to the Indiana Department of Transportation.
At 7 a.m. Indiana State Trooper Brandon Lankford was called to a crash where a tractor pulling a lawnmower had been struck by a vehicle on westbound I-94 at the 26.6 mile marker. Preliminary investigations showed that the tractor driver, a 68-year-old Winamac man, was heading east along the north ditch of the interstate, Indiana State Police said.
The tractor could not mow farther because of the bridge at the 26.6 mile marker, causing the man to drive into the westbound lanes to attempt a U-turn to go back west along the same shoulder.
The tractor driver failed to yield to a white 2004 Ford van that was in the left lane, and the vehicle collided, with the van unable to avoid the tractor, police said.
The driver of the mower was flown out from the scene for medical care at South Bend Memorial Hospital.
The driver of the van, a 27-year-old Michigan City man, was in good condition, police said.
ISP said drugs or alcohol are not believed to be a factor in the crash.
All westbound lanes of the highway were closed for four hours Tuesday morning and traffic was being diverted onto U.S. 421 while the crash investigation was underway, officials said.
The crash remains under investigation.
Times staff writer Anna Ortiz contributed to this story.
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A Tuesday morning crash that closed down all westbound lanes of Interstate 94 nine miles east of Ind. 49 was touched off when the driver of a lawnmower made a U-turn in the highway and was stuck by a van, according to Indiana State Police.
A Tuesday morning crash that closed down all westbound lanes of Interstate 94 nine miles east of Ind. 49 was touched off when the driver of a lawnmower made a U-turn in the highway and was stuck by a van, according to Indiana State Police.
A Tuesday morning crash that closed down all westbound lanes of Interstate 94 nine miles east of Ind. 49 was touched off when the driver of a lawnmower made a U-turn in the highway and was stuck by a van, according to Indiana State Police.
A Tuesday morning crash that closed down all westbound lanes of Interstate 94 nine miles east of Ind. 49 was touched off when the driver of a lawnmower made a U-turn in the highway and was stuck by a van, according to Indiana State Police.
A Tuesday morning crash that closed down all westbound lanes of Interstate 94 nine miles east of Ind. 49 was touched off when the driver of a lawnmower made a U-turn in the highway and was stuck by a van, according to Indiana State Police. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/update-1-airlifted-i-94-reopened-after-lawnmower-struck-by-westbound-van-state-says/article_9ef9ad54-2698-5d6f-91b3-6bbdf9dba46e.html | 2022-06-21T22:21:26 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/update-1-airlifted-i-94-reopened-after-lawnmower-struck-by-westbound-van-state-says/article_9ef9ad54-2698-5d6f-91b3-6bbdf9dba46e.html |
As old projects end, new projects begin in Clear Lake.
The 400 Block Main Avenue Improvement Project was completed on time, approximately $1,700 over budget. The 2021 Storm Sewer and Water Main Improvement Project has also been finished, with only the entrance to the Middle School left to be redone. Both of the pay estimates for these projects were approved by the Clear Lake City Council at their June 20 meeting.
A few new projects were discussed at the city council meeting, including a street lighting update in the Emerald Edge Subdivision. In December, a development agreement was made with Sukup Ag LLC, and the project is anticipated to finish at the end of September. This project will require a new control cabinet according to Public Works Director Jeremy Korenberg.
Another reconstruction project is expected to begin July 11 by Veenstra & Kimm, Inc. This projects pay estimate was approved at $21,825 after subtracting a 3% retainage. The fee for construction services is not to exceed $147,500.
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Fire department
After 30 years, two of the Clear Lake Fire Department Firetrucks are ready to retire. The purchase of a new Class A Pumper Fire Apparatus has been in the works for years, and the Clear Lake Fire Department has accumulated up to $490,000 for the purchase of a new vehicle.
"The intent is to replace two vehicles with one" said Chief Doug Meyers. After at least 30 years on the job, both vehicles are wearing and have issues.
The new vehicle is heavier than both the old, weighing in at 59,000 pounds. It has a 6-man cab, a 2,000 gallon fire pump, and carries 1,800 gallons of water. Clear Lake Fire Department is not concerned about carrying less water to rural sites, as the carrying capacity has been less of an issue than recruiting in the last few years.
Chief Meyers noted this issue, saying that while Clear Lake Fire Department is grateful to be fully staffed, many fire departments in the area are struggling to find staff, and Clear Lake anticipates a few retirees in the future.
Specifications for the new Class A Pumper Fire Apparatus were approved by the Clear Lake City Council.
Housing
“New housing is our number one need in Clear Lake. It’s the key driver for our future growth. Without more new housing, our opportunities for economic development and growth, and prosperity are going to be limited. I recognize the concerns and the environment but I would suggest that this is a very important strategic project for Clear Lake that we need to more forward on” said councilperson Bennett Smith.
This housing need is being addressed on a 24 acre plot of land by 15th Avenue South and South 8th Street. In order to complete this project, a new water main and sanitary sewer need to be extended into the area. It is hoped that the professional services agreement for design will be finished in time for a September bid, but council member Gary Hugi noted that in such volatile times as these, progress may be delayed.
The professional services agreement was approved by Clear Lake City Council, with City Administrator Scott Flory noting "It would've been on our agenda within five years".
In other news
The Clear Lake chief of police noted that maps and postings will be released shortly about Fourth of July parking and ordinances. A DOT traffic study has been approved for 27th Avenue South and South 8th Street. Clear Lake broke last year's hotel/motel first quarter tax revenue by almost 100%. Additionally, the National Park Service has forwarded the Sea Wall on in its nomination for a place on the National Historic Places registry.
Rae Burnette is a GA and Crime & Courts Reporter at the Globe Gazette. You can reach her by phone at 641.421.0523 or at Rae.Burnette@GlobeGazette.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/sea-wall-advances-projects-finish-and-begin-in-clear-lake/article_864806d2-7f33-5734-87ce-774acff235ef.html | 2022-06-21T22:24:34 | 0 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/sea-wall-advances-projects-finish-and-begin-in-clear-lake/article_864806d2-7f33-5734-87ce-774acff235ef.html |
LEBANON, Ind. — Lebanon's Planning Commission will take public comments Tuesday night on a proposed annexation that city and state leaders call part of an economic gamechanger.
"What we're talking about here is a generational change for a lot of people," said Lebanon Mayor Matt Gentry.
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation along with city and county officials have been working on the project, which has been described as an innovation park that could span about 7,000 acres northwest of Lebanon. That would double the city's footprint.
"We have to see the big picture potential this has for people not just today but also generations of the future and great-paying jobs that we need,” said Gentry.
Economic development officials have said the park will attract billions in investment and high-tech jobs.
Earlier this month, Eli Lilly announced plans to build in the area.
But some landowners aren't so excited.
"I have a lovely view here. I've worked hard all my life here to keep it the way it is," said Jim Love, whose family has farmed 200 acres of land for more than 70 years.
Love said he's not interested in selling.
"They want to give me something that I don't want, which is money," he said. "I'm comfortable. I'm happy. I have a lovely home and a lovely view and I can't replace it."
Gentry said those who don't want to sell or be annexed into the city don't have to.
"If they've lived there for 60 years and they're like, 'I want to die in this house,' they have every right to do that," he said.
Gentry added that government entities can't take property by eminent domain for private projects.
But Love — and others who live nearby — told 13News they're concerned it will change the rural culture they've known and loved for generations. He's hopeful they can have a say in the conversation.
"We could maybe affect the way it looks ... when you drive past, what you see," Love said.
Gentry said the public will get a chance to weigh in.
"How do we balance this?" Gentry asked. "How do we manage that transition as it goes from corn and soybeans to a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility? How do we have those conversations about what it looks like, and how are they impacted? This is the beginning of the process and not the end."
The Lebanon Planning Commission meeting starts at 7 p.m. in Lebanon City Hall. The City Council will take up the voluntary annexation issue next month. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/lebanon-indiana-annexation-growth-high-tech-pharmaceuticals-farming-land/531-567c0aa5-f56f-4f65-a21c-c18c95ecd7ce | 2022-06-21T22:24:53 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/lebanon-indiana-annexation-growth-high-tech-pharmaceuticals-farming-land/531-567c0aa5-f56f-4f65-a21c-c18c95ecd7ce |
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old central Indiana girl was arrested in Nebraska, police said Tuesday.
The teen was reported as a runaway to Lafayette police just before 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 14.
Detectives investigating her disappearance discovered she had been in contact with a 20-year-old Colorado man. As the investigation continued, that man was identified as Kyle Miotke and detectives were led to believe that Miotke and the girl were together.
Detectives reached out to the Nebraska State Highway Patrol, and told them the girl could be traveling through the state with Miotke in a Ford F-150.
The Lafayette Police Department said a Nebraska state trooper spotted the truck last Wednesday, June 15 and pulled it over.
Inside, the trooper found the missing girl and Miotke. LPD confirmed the girl was found safe. Miotke was arrested on local charges in Nebraska for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
According to LPD, he is currently being held in Nebraska awaiting extradition to Tippecanoe County, where he faces a handful of charges including:
- Promotion of sexual trafficking of a younger child
- Kidnapping where the victim is less than 14 years of age
- Performing sexual conduct in the presence of a minor
- Inappropriate communication with a child
- Dissemination of matter harmful to minors | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/man-arrested-missing-lafayette-indiana-girl-found-nebraska/531-29d5e4a2-2297-4e3b-843a-022e411f048f | 2022-06-21T22:24:59 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/man-arrested-missing-lafayette-indiana-girl-found-nebraska/531-29d5e4a2-2297-4e3b-843a-022e411f048f |
PAOLI, Ind. — You've likely heard many stories about Safe Haven Baby Boxes in Indiana — when they're installed at fire stations, when babies are surrendered inside — but what happens afterward doesn't usually get shared publicly.
What lies "beyond the box" is the best part for Tessa and Keegan Higgs of Paoli. It helped create their family.
For the Higgs, parenthood — which was once their greatest challenge — is now their greatest joy.
"I can't imagine anything better than having Jax and Nola. Like, I just can't imagine life without them," Tessa Higgs said.
Their family of four was made complete by another mother's courage.
In 2019, a Safe Haven Baby Box brought the family their final blessing, Nola, who is now 3 years old.
The baby box program allows moms in crisis to safely surrender their newborn with no questions asked.
"She's my hero. I mean, if I could meet her (Nola's biological mom) today, I'd give her a big hug and, you know, I couldn't thank her enough," Keegan Higgs said.
After trying for years for a family, the Higgs were fostering their oldest child, Jax, when they learned a baby was surrendered in northern Indiana.
The child's mom, whose identity is protected under the safe haven law, saw a baby box billboard and called the hotline for help.
"What we do know is her mother very much loved her. It was evident in her care. She was born at a healthy weight. She was free of substances. She was wrapped in a warm towel," Tessa explained. "We have the towel. It's the only connection we have to her biological mom. She also breastfed her baby before surrendering, so we know she was loved."
Out of 400 people who applied to be the baby's parents, and after an interview with a panel of nine people with DCS, the Higgs got the phone call.
"She was like, 'I want to be the first to congratulate you, Mr. Higgs – your family's been selected,'" Keegan said.
They brought Nola home a week later. Both children are now officially adopted.
"I couldn't imagine our life without Nola," Keegan said. "So, I mean, our family, in my eyes, is complete!"
This ending is the reason Monica Kelsey, abandoned as an infant herself, created the program. She's the founder and CEO of Safe Haven Baby Boxes.
"When I look at my own life, being abandoned as an infant, in an era where there was no safe haven law, and now we've created this to allow these mothers the anonymity that they want, it is very fulfilling to see the life that I saved simply because my life was saved," Kelsey said. "Seeing Nola grow up happy and healthy and beautiful has been part of my mission all along."
Keegan, a volunteer firefighter in Paoli, is making sure that mission continues.
He helped install the first-ever baby box at a volunteer fire department last fall, right in Paoli.
The law changed in July 2021, allowing volunteer departments to house a baby box, if they met certain criteria.
"They have to be within a mile of a hospital or EMS station, have to have a four-minute response time and there has to be a camera on the inside of the box," Tessa explained, "so a camera's on a baby at all times until someone can get to the child."
"I'm pretty proud of that and, if we ever get that call, it's gonna be hard to beat me there," Keegan added.
Because he knows what happens beyond the box.
He's living it: a family — grateful for their little girl.
Baby Boxes by the numbers:
Since 2016, 19 babies have been surrendered in Indiana baby boxes and 121 have been handed to a firefighter or nurse in person.
There are now 110 baby boxes statewide. The most recent box was installed this month in Mitchell, Indiana. The Higgs were there for the installation ceremony. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/safe-haven-baby-box-paoli-indiana-family-made-complete-thanks-mom/531-550d73ed-389f-419a-8816-7c553f00d2af | 2022-06-21T22:25:06 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/safe-haven-baby-box-paoli-indiana-family-made-complete-thanks-mom/531-550d73ed-389f-419a-8816-7c553f00d2af |
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A 5-year-old boy died after being left inside a vehicle for several hours, according to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
It happened at a house in the 13700 block of Blair Hill Lane, which is in northeast Harris County. The sheriff tweeted about the incident at about 3:20 p.m.
Gonzalez said the boy's family was preparing to celebrate his 8-year-old sister's birthday. The 5-year-old, his sister and his mother went to the store to get items for the party and when they came back home, the sheriff said the mother assumed both children had gotten out of the car on their own.
The mother told the sheriff the 5-year-old has gotten out of his car seat by himself before, but the sheriff believes because the family was in a rental vehicle, the child may not have known what to do.
The sheriff said the mother went into the house to prepare for the party and about two to three hours later, she started looking for her son.
The mother went to check the car and that's when she found him unresponsive, still buckled in his car seat, the sheriff said.
The mother immediately called 911, and when EMS arrived at the scene, they pronounced the child dead.
Amber Rollins, with the non-profit Kids and Car Safety, said Texas has the highest number of hot car deaths in the country. Nationwide, 56% of hot car deaths happen when a child is accidentally left in a car. Twenty-six percent when a child gets in themselves and can’t get out.
It doesn’t take long for a car to become an oven.
"Most people don’t realize that the majority of the increase in temperature inside of a car happens within the first 10 minutes," Rollins said. “Their little bodies heat up 3 to 5 times faster than an adult.”
Rollins says kids should know three things:
- How to honk the horn
- How to turn on flashers
- How to try a front door if they can’t get out of a back one
And parents should always make sure they’re looking in the back before they leave, no matter what, said Rollins.
"Our brains and our memory systems fail us when we least expect it.”
The investigation into the child's death is ongoing.
Earlier Monday, the Houston Fire Department chief warned of the heat and the dangers of leaving a child in a hot car.
As temperatures make their way to the triple digits, it's important to practice heat safety and recognize the signs of heat exhaustion.
“When you start noticing heat exhaustion -- which is just weakness, profuse sweating, your skin is wet, it’s cool -- you need to treat those symptoms,” said Porfirio Villarreal, a spokesperson for Houston Health Department. “You need to go inside an air-conditioned building, drink plenty of water, 'cause then if you do not treat that, then it progresses to heat exhaustion. That’s an emergency. You need to call 911.”
Villarreal said kids under the age of 4, adults older than 55, people who are overweight and those who have a heart or respiratory illness are most at risk.
Heat Safety
According to the National Weather Service, heat is the leading cause of weather-related deaths each year in the U.S.
We all know Houston summers can be brutally hot, and the heat becomes especially dangerous if it lingers for more than one day. If you're not prepared for it, you could become a victim to heat exhaustion or heatstroke.
The CDC warns that high body temperatures from heatstroke can lead to organs shutting down, brain damage or even death.
Tips to protect yourself from the heat
- If you have to be outside during the heat, wear light-colored, loose clothing. Wear a wide-brimmed hat and use sunscreen.
- If you’re working or exercising outside, limit activity to early morning or the evening when it’s cooler. Don't wait until you are thirsty to seek air conditioning. If you’re not at home, consider visiting malls, movie theaters or libraries.
- Water is the most important weapon against heat. Water is how your body stays cool by creating sweat from the water you drink. It's very important to stay properly hydrated on a hot Houston summer day.
- Check on your friends, family and neighbors during heat waves. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/child-dead-hot-car-blair-hill-harris-county/285-a288230d-4a77-4073-9f96-ffafd2adf987 | 2022-06-21T22:27:09 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/child-dead-hot-car-blair-hill-harris-county/285-a288230d-4a77-4073-9f96-ffafd2adf987 |
ODESSA, Texas — The Odessa Police Department arrested a suspect involved in a homicide incident on June 18.
At 6:20 p.m., OPD and Fire Rescue received calls about a gunshot victim located at 2502 North Tom Green. Upon their arrival, officers found a male inside the residence with multiple gunshot wounds.
The male victim was immediately transported to MCH where he would succumb to his injuries. The male was later identified as 58-year-old Joe Abril.
Soon after, OPD arrested the suspect, 37-year-old Stephanie Tuell, and transported to the Ector County Law Enforcement Center. Tuell has been charged with Murder.
The affidavit provided by the City of Odessa said that when the officers arrived to the scene, they found Tuell in the front yard of the residence. Officers then went inside the residence and found Joe Abril with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and one to the back of the head.
Tuell was heard saying "I wish I was sorry but I'm not." Tuell was later read her rights. She continued to say in her opening statement that "No one messes with my kids."
Tuell has been officially charged with intentionally and knowingly killing her husband, a first degree Murder charge.
We will update this story as we receive more information. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/odessa-police-department-arrest-suspect-involved-in-homicide-incident/513-fdb94abb-6d2c-435d-9994-48aa2e94feff | 2022-06-21T22:27:15 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/odessa-police-department-arrest-suspect-involved-in-homicide-incident/513-fdb94abb-6d2c-435d-9994-48aa2e94feff |
MINNEAPOLIS — Editor's Note: The video above originally aired on June 6, 2022.
A new date has been set for the state trial of former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng, charged for their roles in the death of George Floyd.
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill heard arguments from defense attorneys Thomas Plunkett and Robert Paule, and prosecutor Matthew Frank on June 21 before setting Oct. 24, 2022 as the day jury selection will begin.
In court documents filed on Friday, June 17, Minnesota Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank cited the Victim's Rights Act in requesting that Cahill grant a "speedy trial" for Thao and Kueng, and move the scheduled start up from a the proposed Jan. 9, 2023 date.
During Tuesday's Zoom hearing Frank told the judge that the trial is hanging over Floyd's family and loved ones like a "dark cloud," and said it is "traumatic" to keep pushing the trial out further and further.
"It is important to understand what this family is going through," Frank insisted. "It (Floyd's death at the hands of former officer Derek Chauvin) was recorded, and they've had to watch it time and time again through the media, and through the trial process."
The prosecution’s submission comes two weeks after Judge Cahill granted a request from Thao and Kueng's attorneys to delay the proceedings due to pretrial publicity. Cahill previously ordered on June 6 that motions for the officers' trial will begin on Jan. 5, 2023, with jury selection to start Jan. 9.
The state trial was originally set to commence June 13, 2022.
Plunkett, representing former MPD officer J Alexander Kueng, asked during the Zoom hearing to have the trial moved to any time after April, citing a different high-profile trial he will be involved in starting in mid-September. That trial is for Minneapolis police officer Brian Cummings, charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminal vehicular homicide in the death of motorist Leneal Frazier. Prosecutors say Cummings ran a red light while pursuing a suspect the morning of July 6, 2021, and hit Frazier's Jeep at 80 miles per hour.
In a tragic twist Leneal Frazier is the uncle of Darnella Frazier, the teen whose videotape of Floyd's death under the knee of Chauvin was seen around the globe, and played a key role in the former officer's murder conviction.
Plunkett did tell the judge he would be willing to start on Oct. 24, and Thao's attorney Robert Paule said he would be available on that date as well.
Cahill seized the opportunity to strike a compromise between the two sides, ruling that jury selection would indeed begin Oct. 24, with motions being heard Sept. 26 and 27. He noted that Plunkett indicated in his filings that he would rather surrender his attorney's license than reschedule the Cummings trial.
Thao and Kueng are both charged with aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter and aiding and abetting second-degree murder in connection with George Floyd's death on May 25, 2020.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis officer who held his knee on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter, second-degree murder and third-degree murder in a separate state trial back in April 2021.
Along with fellow ex-officer Thomas Lane, Thao and Kueng were all found guilty of depriving George Floyd of his civil rights in federal court back in February.
Lane has already entered a guilty plea on his state charges after striking a deal with the state. As part of that agreement Lane will serve three years in a federal facility, to be served concurrently with a federal sentence that has yet to be announced.
On Sunday, June 19, Thomas Plunkett, attorney for J. Alexander Kueng, had filed a motion asking Judge Cahill to delay the trial even further until after April 3, 2023. Plunkett wrote that Kueng informed the court he was "unavailable for trial from January through March 2023" due to a "scheduling conflict of a personal nature."
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Watch the latest coverage on the death of George Floyd and the trial of Derek Chauvin in our YouTube playlists: | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/state-trial-for-tou-thao-j-alexander-kueng-moved-to-october-2022/89-8ff7a099-a312-44be-a6c4-c4563fcfa539 | 2022-06-21T22:27:21 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/state-trial-for-tou-thao-j-alexander-kueng-moved-to-october-2022/89-8ff7a099-a312-44be-a6c4-c4563fcfa539 |
TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — A California family held a funeral for their loved one, who died in North Texas, only to find the casket held the wrong body, according to a lawsuit filed in Tarrant County and obtained by WFAA.
The lawsuit – filed in March 2022 – said Jose Carlos Gonzalez died on March 20, 2020, in Grapevine. Gonzalez was a long-haul driver and became ill while driving through Tarrant County, the lawsuit said.
Gonzalez's wife, Cecilia Gonzalez, arranged with a funeral home in Chula Vista, Calif., to bring back the body of her husband for an open casket funeral service and burial. Jose Carlos Gonzalez was supposed to be embalmed and transported from Brown Owens & Brumley Family Funeral Home in Fort Worth to Chula Vista Funeral Home in California.
That's where the story allegedly took a turn.
The lawsuit said multiple agencies involved in the transport of Jose Carlos Gonzalez failed to verify they were sending the correct body back to California.
The lawsuit said Jose Carlos Gonzalez's body was mixed up with a man named Jesse Gonzalez.
In the lawsuit, the last name of Jose Carlos Gonzalez and Jesse Gonzalez are spelled the same, but in medical examiner records, Jesse's last name is spelled "Gonzales" with an "S."
Jesse Gonzalez died in Fort Worth one day after Jose Carlos Gonzalez – on March 21, 2020 – according to medical examiner's records.
The body of Jesse Gonzalez was supposed to be sent to the Willed Body Program at the University of North Texas Science Center (UNTHSC), according to the lawsuit. Instead, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office mistakenly sent Jose Carlos Gonzalez, where his organs was harvested and his body was cremated. Jesse Gonzalez was sent to Accucare Mortuary Services, the suit says.
UNTHSC and Accucare did not verify they had the correct bodies, according to the suit.
In April 2020, Accucare picked up Jesse Gonzalez’s body — which it mistook for Jose Gonzalez’s body — and took it to Brown Owens & Brumley Family Funeral Home, according to the suit. The Fort Worth-based funeral home embalmed Jesse Gonzalez's body and sent it to California.
The family learned of the mistake after it was too late, and the wrong body laid in the open casket, the lawsuit said.
“They found out that it wasn’t the correct body at the funeral, in my opinion adding to the shock value,” Megan David, the attorney for the Gonzalez family told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “The widow, the friends and family — they were all there.”
The lawsuit said the Gonzalez family "experienced extreme emotional distress upon realizing a complete stranger, Jesse Gonzalez, was in the coffin."
The Star-Telegram also reported that the Gonzalez family filed a separate lawsuit of of San Diego suing the Chula Vista Funeral Home, which handled Jose Gonzalez's funeral.
The Gonzalez family is seeking a trial by jury and a minimum of $1 million in damages, according to the Tarrant County lawsuit.
WFAA has reached Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office, the University of North Texas Science Center, Brown Owens & Brumley Family Funeral Home and Accucare Mortuary Services for comment. They did not immediately respond Tuesday morning.
More Dallas-Fort Worth headlines: | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/texas-california-funeral-body-wrong-body-jesse-gonzalez-tarrant-county-fort-worth-medical-examiner-office/287-7e250cfa-ba72-4ae1-bcf0-dca26ca3943e | 2022-06-21T22:27:27 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/texas-california-funeral-body-wrong-body-jesse-gonzalez-tarrant-county-fort-worth-medical-examiner-office/287-7e250cfa-ba72-4ae1-bcf0-dca26ca3943e |
Kenosha man charged with delivering fentanyl
A 49-year-old Kenosha man has been charged with numerous drug-related felonies Tuesday in Kenosha County Circuit Court.
Darryl M. Pierce has been charged with three counts of delivering 10 grams of less of fentanyl, maintaining a drug trafficking place, a misdemeanor count of possession of THC and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia.
According to the criminal complaint, on June 6-7 Kenosha Police utilized a confidential informant to purchase cocaine that was laced with fentanyl from Pierce on three separate occasions.
Investigators later obtained a search warrant for Pierce’s residence in the 6100 block of 24th Avenue and reportedly located marijuana and drug paraphernalia at that site.
Pierce made his initial appearance Tuesday at Kenosha County Intake Court and is being held on a $5,000 cash bond. A preliminary heating is set for June 29.
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Teen faces felony animal mistreatment
A 17-year-old Kenosha girl has been charged with two counts of felony mistreatment of animals Tuesday in Kenosha County Circuit Court.
Kenosha Police responded to the Kenosha County Crisis Building on June 6 for a report of animal mistreatment reported by the teen’s relatives, according to the criminal complaint.
The teen, of the 1400 block of 16th Avenue, reportedly admitted to killing her kitten three days prior after “getting mad at it.” The kitten was reportedly cremated at an animal hospital in Paddock Lake because of the severity of its injuries.
When interviewed by investigators, the teen reportedly stated that “she was getting ready for prom in her bedroom” when the kitten “kept trying to play with her and was pawing her leg,” according to the complaint. She then allegedly stomped on it.
The teen’s grandmother also reportedly told police that the teen killed another kitten three or four years ago.
Her initial appearance was set for Tuesday at Intake Court.
Mugshots: Racine County criminal complaints, June 14, 2022
Today's mugshots: June 14
These are images of people charged with a crime in Racine County. Booking photos are provided by Racine County law enforcement officials. A defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty and convicted.
Jason W. Johnson
Jason W. Johnson, 800 block of 17th Street, Racine, possession of drug paraphernalia, obstructing an officer, felony personal ID theft (avoidance), possession of THC.
Melissa A. Padilla
Melissa A. Padilla, 2200 block of Racine Street, Racine, delivery of methamphetamine, maintaining a drug trafficking place, deliver of schedule I or II narcotics, manufacture/deliver cocaine (less than or equal to 1 gram), possession of methamphetamine, possession of narcotic drugs, carrying a concealed weapon, threat to a law enforcement officer, possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine.
Axel Ivan Reyes
Axel Ivan Reyes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, possession of drug paraphernalia, felony bail jumping.
Joshua Michael Schumacher
Joshua Michael Schumacher, 7600 block of 14th Avenue, Kenosha, possession of narcotic drugs, possess/illegally obtained prescription, possession of a controlled substance, misdemeanor theft.
Abraham J. Scott
Abraham J. Scott, Zion, Illinois, fraud against financial institution (between $500-$10,000).
Jessica J. Hughes
Jessica J. Hughes, 1500 block of West Street, Racine, possession of drug paraphernalia, obstructing an officer.
Trequan J. McGlorn
Trequan (aka Fat Folks McGlorn) J. McGlorn, 1500 block of LaSalle Street, Racine, criminal damage to property (domestic abuse assessments), disorderly conduct (domestic abuse assessments, use of a dangerous weapon), misdemeanor bail jumping (domestic abuse assessments).
Giovanni Morrow
Giovanni Morrow, 4000 block of Olive Street, retail theft (alter price less than or equal to $500), misdemeanor bail jumping, retail theft (intentionally conceal less than or equal to $500), obstructing an officer.
Joseph G. Sorenson Sr.
Joseph G. Sorenson Sr., 1600 block of North Main Street, Racine, fail/report death (unusual circumstances).
Matthew J. Fuchs
Matthew J. Fuchs, Homeless, Racine, possession of THC, disorderly conduct, possession of drug paraphernalia.
Mateo J. Garcia
Mateo J. Garcia, 2800 block of Pinehurst Avenue, Racine, misdemeanor retail theft (intentionally take less than or equal to $500), possession of narcotic drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia.
Ashley M. Goszinski
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If you plan to panhandle in Kenosha, the City Council would rather you collected alms from local social organizations instead of asking motorists for money in the elements at busy intersections.
The Kenosha City Council unanimously voted in favor of a resolution discouraging curbside panhandling in the city Monday evening.
Sponsored by Ald. David Mau and co-sponsored by Ald. Holly Kangas, Rocco LaMacchia and Dominic Ruffalo, the proposal allows for signs at multiple locations throughout the city where people have asked motorists for money.
The four locations where signage would be installed include: the right-of-way at 3813 Roosevelt Road; the 5600 block of 67th Street near the Towerline Park; at the intersection of 60th Street with 22nd Avenue; and at the intersection of 67th Street with Highway 31.
The message, according to the resolution, would be “Give Smart, Say No To Panhandling, Be Part Of The Solution By Contributing To Local Charities,” or some variation of that.
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Can’t ban them
Municipalities do not have the power to ban panhandling because federal courts have ruled the practice is protected by the First Amendment.
The city resolution, however, states “it is desirable to encourage donations be made to community groups such as social service agencies and charitable organizations rather than to individuals.”
Mau said other area municipalities have adopted a similar approach. This is Mau’s first proposal since being elected in April.
“I see a lot of other cities in the country, in the state as well and Illinois, they have signs that say it’s O.K. to say no to panhandling, and then it says give to charity instead, something along those lines,” he said. “I thought that was a great idea. A lot of the businesses have agreed with me.”
Ald. Jan Michalski said he believes it’s worth trying.
“I don’t believe in any way it restricts anybody’s First Amendment rights,” Michalski said. “I also don’t think it’s necessarily going to be money poorly spent. But if we want to add more signs it would require another resolution. This resolution cannot cover other signs. I think it’s worth trying. The worst that will happen is that it will be ineffective.”
According to the resolution it is “safer for the persons seeking alms to seek assistance from community groups such as social service agencies and charitable organizations than standing in the elements of the weather seeking alms, or being assaulted by a person misinterpreting the intent of the encounter.”
The resolution states it is also safer “for the public not to be distracted while operating a vehicle by persons actively trying to seek their attention for the purpose of alms giving.”
According to city officials, each sign would cost about $250. No specific charity would be highlighted by the signage.
Defers vote on secret ballots
The City Council also voted to defer for two weeks the second reading of proposed ordinance to require a secret ballot for election of council president.
The ordinance is sponsored by Kangas and co-sponsored by Alds. Bill Siel, Rollin Pizzala, Ruth Dyson and Daniel Prozanski.
The position of City Council president is currently voted on by council members at the organizational meeting on the third Tuesday of April following a regular city election or in off-election years. LaMacchia is a the current president and serves as “acting mayor” during meetings when the mayor is absent or unable to continue duties. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/kenosha-city-council-votes-for-signs-discouraging-panhandling/article_4ea9653a-f192-11ec-9678-0b63b5e7477d.html | 2022-06-21T22:28:53 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/kenosha-city-council-votes-for-signs-discouraging-panhandling/article_4ea9653a-f192-11ec-9678-0b63b5e7477d.html |
PLEASANT PRAIRIE — A Colorado-based company plans to operate a recyclable materials sorting facility in an existing warehouse at 9501 80th Ave..
The Pleasant Prairie Plan Commission gave provisional approval for a conditional use permit to AMP Robotics Corporation during a public meeting Monday.
AMP Robotics Corporation, a technology company headquarter in Louisville, Colo., identifies and sorts valuable materials that would otherwise be thrown away, with three similar sortation facilities in Denver, Atlanta and Cleveland.
The site, the former location of a Nucon Corporation facility, is near the former We Energies power plant site.
According to the Pleasant Prairie Community Development Department, AMP will install specialized equipment to sort recyclable materials delivered to the facility from a primary material recovery facility and will not accept recyclables from the public.
Recyclables will mostly consist of newspapers, magazines, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, tin cans and aluminum cans.
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The new site could also take in recyclables discarded from specific manufacturing processes, but most materials at the site will come from the recovery facility that will first process the materials.
“The automated technology AMP Robotics is bringing to Pleasant Prairie will aid the global recycling efforts and help recover discarded materials,” said Jean Werbie-Harris, village community development director. “The company is known for its advancement in technology that brings speed and accuracy to the recycling industry. The village staff looks forward to seeing the company succeed in Pleasant Prairie.”
AMP anticipates hiring 25 people working three shifts, and plans to be functioning by late fall this year.
AMP has a focus on developing technologies combining artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics to increase efficiency in the recycling industry.
7 ways you can reduce your use of plastic, foil and other kitchen disposables
Paper towels
"Keeping paper towel use to a minimum is one of the things Martha Stewart is really serious about," Tyrell says. Each workspace in the magazine's test kitchen features cloth tea towels, bar towels (similar to rags) and a roll of select-a-size paper towels, she says. The latter is used sparingly.
Tea towels are great for drying hands or dishes, or folding up to use as a hot mitt. Bar towels can be used for most messes. Paper towels are reserved for messes like juice from meat or raw egg.
"It helps to have all your towel options in one place, so I'd recommend keeping rags or bar towels near where you keep the paper towels," Tyrell says. If cloth towels aren't handy, you probably won't use them, she advises.
And if you can't wean yourself off paper towels, there are now several types of reusable ones made of bamboo and other sustainable materials that can be used numerous times before tossing them out, says Brandi Broxson, articles editor at Real Simple magazine. Cleaner paper towels can be recycled.
Plastic shopping bags
Carry your own canvas or string tote bags for groceries and other purchases. The key, as with bar towels, is to keep them handy.
"There are so many types of reusable bags out there that there's really no excuse for bringing home single-use plastic shopping bags anymore," Tyrell says.
Americans throw away around 100 billion plastic bags a year, she says.
Plastic produce bags
Avoid plastic produce bags by keeping a few lightweight mesh bags — often sold as "multi-use straining bags" — in your purse when you head to the grocery store, Tyrell says.
"They're also great for making nut milks or straining yogurt," she adds.
If your grocery store doesn't use compostable produce bags, you can always bring some of your own.
To avoid plastic wrapping on meat or fish, try asking the butcher at the grocery store to wrap it instead in paper, which is biodegradable. Or bring a reusable container to put it in.
Plastic baggies
There are a variety of new products that can be used as an alternative to baggies. Broxson, at Real Simple, recommends one called Stashers. They're like zip-top plastic bags but are made of Silicon, and can be washed in the dishwasher and reused. They are watertight, and can go from freezer to microwave
Plastic wrap
Both Broxson and Tyrell recommend Bee's Wrap as an alternative to typical plastic cling wrap. It's made of fabric coated in a mixture of wax, oil and tree resin, and sticks to the top of bowls and jars. Like plastic wrap, it conforms to all sorts of shapes. Unlike plastic wrap, it can be washed and reused, and remains sticky for months, Bronson says.
"It's not great for wrapping something drippy like a tuna sandwich, where maybe parchment paper or aluminum foil might be preferable. But as a container covering, or to wrap drier types of foods or sandwiches, it's great," she says.
Aluminum foil
"Luckily, unbleached parchment paper works great for baking and roasting, and also for wrapping sandwiches and snacks," and is biodegradable, Broxson says.
"If you must use aluminum foil, you can wad it up into a ball and reuse it as a scouring sponge for baking dishes to get one more use out of it before throwing it away," she suggests. Clean aluminum foil can be recycled if it's free from food residue. And many stores now sell recycled aluminum foil.
Plastic straws and utensils
The test kitchens at Martha Stewart Living have switched from plastic to stainless steel straws, says Tyrell.
"I carry my own titanium fork and spoon, with a nylon connector so they can even be used as tongs. They're super-lightweight, and kind of cool," she says. "Way nicer than plastic." | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/new-recyclables-sorting-facility-in-pleasant-prairie-planned/article_3beed5f0-f18e-11ec-b5be-bb2a106cedb6.html | 2022-06-21T22:28:59 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/new-recyclables-sorting-facility-in-pleasant-prairie-planned/article_3beed5f0-f18e-11ec-b5be-bb2a106cedb6.html |
TAMPA, Fla. — A mother and son are getting ready to move into a new home that is part of Phase II of the City of Tampa’s Infill Housing Program.
Velina Glass and her son Chris, who has disabilities, were previously living in an apartment. Velina said their plan at first was to stay in their apartment before moving into their new home in August. Suddenly, like at many other apartment complexes, the rent went up.
Velina and her son could no longer afford to live there.
Right now, they are sleeping in their car one night and a motel the next.
“It’s more than a struggle. It's a loss of dignity to a certain degree,” Velina said.
Like many others, the pandemic was extremely hard on her family.
“Every day you get up you think are we going to sleep in the car, are we going to be in a motel, are we going to be in a hotel?” said her son Chris.
The mother and son are now counting down the days until August when they will finally have their own home. She said not having a place to go at the end of the day has been extremely difficult.
Velina said she is thankful the City of Tampa is prioritizing affordable housing. She said being able to say she will soon be a homeowner is an incredible feeling.
“I won’t have fear of being on the street again,” she said.
For this affordable housing project, the city previously awarded 17 vacant lots to local developers. Those developers are now turning those lots into affordable homes like this. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/affordable-housing-tampa-mother-son/67-3934d1eb-1f20-470e-b30d-9993b5db8776 | 2022-06-21T22:29:44 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/affordable-housing-tampa-mother-son/67-3934d1eb-1f20-470e-b30d-9993b5db8776 |
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — Pasco County firefighters are fighting for one of their own, after they say the county commissioners are refusing to honor a cash payout to a firefighter diagnosed with cancer.
Under the 2021 law, firefighters receive a $25,000 cash payout upon their cancer diagnosis, however there is a list of exemptions, and that is the basis of the county's motion.
Firefighters in Pasco County say veteran firefighter William Hammond was diagnosed with an invasive form of skin cancer and is entitled to the cash payout.
“These cancers were thoroughly researched they are clearly defined and for Pasco County to state that determine basic skin cancer is unconstitutionally vague is absurd," the IAFF Local 4420 District 3 Representative Dixon Phillips said.
At first, it seemed as if the show of support might have swayed the commissioners.
“Lets settle this thing, let’s settle this, let’s pay the man and get on with this,” Vice Chairman Jack Mariano initially said.
But after a recess, and discussions with the county attorney, there was a change of tune, and the county maintained Hammond's diagnosis doesn’t fit the bill.
“Basal cancer is non-invasive, it’s on the skin, they freeze it when they take it off,” Mariano said.
But firefighters say that’s not quite true.
Commissioner Mariano stated up there that [Hammond] was diagnosed with basal cancer is not fully correct. He was diagnosed with basal skin cancer that is invasive, therefore it is covered under the bill," Phillips said.
Commissioners say they plan to have a litigation meeting about the situation at a later date.
Pasco County fire says this fight is not over.
“We’ll see them in court and we’ll see them at the polls,” Phillips said. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/pasco-firefighters-commissioners-are-not-honoring-cancer-legislation/67-3425c3cc-dcc9-40ca-9089-cadb11477582 | 2022-06-21T22:29:45 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/pasco-firefighters-commissioners-are-not-honoring-cancer-legislation/67-3425c3cc-dcc9-40ca-9089-cadb11477582 |
SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. — Opening testimonies were delivered and a jury heard from the first alleged victim in the trial against Henry Porter Sr.
Porter is charged with two counts of sexual battery of a child under the age of 12. Each individual count has a minimum sentencing of 25 years in jail and a maximum of life in prison.
The 74-year-old was arrested in January 2020 after more than 10 people came forward with allegations. Porter and the Westcoast Church, which he served as a pastor for, have had a long history in the Sarasota area. A portion of a street in the city is named in his honor.
The prosecution began with opening statements Tuesday laying out the framework for their case. State Attorney Ryan Felix spoke directly to the jury and called this a "case of manipulation."
"Henry Lee Porter harnessed the word of God to sexually abuse children," Felix said.
The defense agreed, this is a case of manipulation. But not from Porter.
"The manipulation is coming from witnesses that you're going to hear from in this trial," Defense Attorney Brett McIntosh said.
The jury is expected to hear from two alleged victims in the weeklong trial. One of them, Porter gave a eulogy at his father's funeral, officiated his wedding and christened his child in the church.
That man, now in his 40s, detailed how Porter groomed and abused him during the years he grew up in the church. He has asked to remain anonymous.
"Then we would put our clothes back on," the alleged victim said. "He would always pray, have us confess our faults to each other."
The alleged victim said he was brought into a private room in the church that only Porter had a key to. Graphic descriptions were given of oral and anal sex between the two.
The alleged victim testified that part of why he decided to come forward was because when he went back to the church, he feared other young children were still being abused.
While the alleged victim's allegations are now decades old, the sexual battery of a child under 18 is exempt from the statute of limitations.
Henry Porter was arrested in January of 2020 after 10 people came forward with accusations against him. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/henry-porter-trial-day-2-sarasota/67-870e4837-31b0-40e1-9269-7de61e838636 | 2022-06-21T22:29:45 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/henry-porter-trial-day-2-sarasota/67-870e4837-31b0-40e1-9269-7de61e838636 |
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DALLAS (KDAF) — The Dallas Park and Recreation Department is hosting the Splash and Dash this Saturday, June 25.
Officials say this is a great opportunity for youth who want to try a multisport. The Splash and Dash involves a swim race, following by a footrace, with distances varying based on age.
- Children age 7-10 years old: 100M Swim, 1K Run
- Teens age 11-15 years old: 200M Swim, 2K Run
Registration for the dash is $10 per child and includes:
- A drawstring bag
- Goggles
- Swim cap
- USAT Membership
For more information, and to register, click here. | https://cw33.com/news/local/dallas-parks-and-recreation-department-hosting-swim-foot-race-for-teenagers-saturday-june-25/ | 2022-06-21T22:34:39 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/dallas-parks-and-recreation-department-hosting-swim-foot-race-for-teenagers-saturday-june-25/ |
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