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PHOENIX — Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has officially declared Thursday as "Star Wars Day" in the Grand Canyon State.
The proclamation coincides with May 4, a day often associated with the beloved 1977 film due to a classic line spoken by Alec Guinness' Obi-Wan Kenobi character.
A governor proclamation is often used to acknowledge a noteworthy event or bring attention to a local cause.
Fontes' proclamation cites the film's universal moral truths, enduring popularity, influence on generations of scientists, and the fact that a scene in "Return of the Jedi" was shot in Arizona as all reasons to celebrate Thursday as "Star Wars Day."
"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away a courageous young man set forth from his desert home, called by the force to fight for all that is good," the proclamation states.
Fontes, who admits to being a fan of the science fiction franchise, signed the proclamation Wednesday while wearing his Obi-Wan Kenobi socks.
"Arizona, may the fourth be with you," Fontes said.
Fontes signed the proclamation as the state's acting governor since Gov. Katie Hobbs is attending the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Maryland this week, according to Hobbs' calendar.
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COBB COUNTY, Ga. — The man accused of injuring four people and killing one in a mass shooting inside a medical building in Midtown Atlanta is custody after an hours-long manhunt, Atlanta Police confirmed.
Deion Patterson, 24, was taken into custody by authorities Wednesday evening after he allegedly opened fire inside the 11th floor waiting room of Northside Medical Midtown just after 12 p.m.
People were originally asked to avoid Midtown in the area of West Peachtree Street between 12th Street and 13th Street where the shooting scene unfolded.
In an evening update, police said the search for Patterson had been refocused to Cobb County after he allegedly carjacked a vehicle and drove outside the perimeter.
The search intensified for Patterson in the area of Cobb County around Truist Park and the Cobb Galleria Centre just before 4 p.m. The last visual confirmation of Patterson was confirmed to be at 12:30 p.m. in Cobb County on a Georgia Department of Transportation camera near Windy Ridge Parkway and Heritage Court.
The vehicle he allegedly carjacked was dumped in a parking deck near The Battery and Truist Park and was later found by police. Cobb County Police was tipped off about his whereabouts around 2:30 p.m., hence the two-hour difference which hindered law enforcement's search.
All five people shot inside were women, according to Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens. The victim was 39 years old, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said.
The other injured victims were a 71-year-old, 56-year-old, 39-year-old and 25-year-old. Grady Hospital officials said three of the victims are in critical condition while another was still in the emergency department.
11Alive's Cody Alcorn reports the suspect originally arrived at Northside Hospital with his mother. His mother was not injured, according to APD. It's not yet clear why he might have arrived with his mother.
The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed to 11Alive News that Patterson served within the military branch from July 2018 to January 2023. According to the Coast Guard, Patterson last served as an Electrician's Mate Second Class. He was discharged from active duty in January 2023.
The Coast Guard said they were aware of the tragic incident in Atlanta allegedly involving Patterson and offered their deepest condolences to the victims and their families. The Coast Guard Investigative Service is working closely with the Atlanta Police Department and local authorities in the investigation. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/midtown-shooting-suspect-captured-hours-long-manhunt/85-1cc8206f-1232-4500-9b13-70880a823aa1 | 2023-05-04T01:21:10 | 0 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/midtown-shooting-suspect-captured-hours-long-manhunt/85-1cc8206f-1232-4500-9b13-70880a823aa1 |
MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz. — Nearly two years after Kimberly Pero’s left leg was amputated due to a drunk driver, the suspect was finally sentenced.
Jason Tasker, 42, pled guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to 7.5 years behind bars. This is his 10th felony conviction.
“I feel like I can move on finally,” said Pero. “Is it fair? No, but I can move on with that sentence.”
It was Memorial Day weekend in 2021 when Pero’s life forever changed.
Pero and her husband were riding their motorcycles when Tasker drove into her near 67th Avenue and Union Hills Drive in Glendale.
Her left leg was severely injured. Two days after the crash it had to be amputated above the knee.
Police arrested Tasker the night of the crash. He was taken to Glendale Jail where a blood alcohol test was conducted, records showed. His results came back as 0.155 and 0.157 BAC, both nearly twice above the legal limit.
After the crash, Tasker was let go, arresting documents showed. They detailed that a Glendale police officer drove the suspect to his home after multiple attempts of trying to reach someone on the suspect’s phone to pick him up.
“I’m glad that he’s doing seven and a half years. What’s sad it’s that he received a 7.5-year sentence, and I received a life sentence,” Pero told 12News Wednesday. “That’s kind of hard to swallow.”
Justice delayed due to MCAO staffing shortages
Kimberly Pero’s case dragged on for nearly two years, as the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office faced staffing shortages and an onslaught of cases.
“It was a foundational piece that we could not move forward [with cases] until we had this office back up to a healthy number of people,” County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said to 12News during a scheduled press conference on Wednesday.
Mitchell took office in April 2022, following the resignation of Allister Adel.
Since being appointed to her role, Michell said staffing numbers have improved after hiring 197 people. From the 20% staffing deficit she “inherited,” to “single digits” now.
The Vehicular Crimes Bureau added three attorneys to a total of 18, MCAO said. Each attorney handles 50 to 60 cases.
In March 2022, there were 2,267 cases submitted for review to this unit. By the end of March 2023 that number dropped to 814, Mitchell said.
Currently, the Vehicular Crimes unit has 680 cases pending review, the county attorney said.
“We’ve done a little bit of reorganization that I think might make things more efficient for the office,” Mitchell said. “We will continue to assess it and be vocal with the Board of Supervisors who have been extremely supportive of our efforts.”
Driver's blood-alcohol content twice above legal limit
Glendale police recommended several charges against Tasker, including extreme DUI, to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, but he ultimately pled guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a Class 3 felony.
On the day of the crash, investigators said Tasker was in the right lane on Union Hills Drive heading west when at the intersection he suddenly turned left and hit Kimberly Pero.
Tasker “was stumbling around and could not stand still” when officers arrived and asked him for his driver’s license, arrest documents showed. “He fumbled through his wallet, dropping [it] twice trying to find it.”
When Tasker finally found his license, investigators said he handed officers “a license of someone else that was not” him, court records said.
Police officers helped Tasker walk to their patrol vehicle because he “could not stand without falling over [and] was stumbling” after he was detained.
Tasker was taken to Glendale City Jail where officers performed two breath tests to check for his alcohol level, records showed. His results came back as 0.155 and 0.157 BAC, both nearly twice above the legal limit.
During a post-Miranda interview, he allegedly told police he had drunk beer, Bud Light, and Heineken.
“While talking to [Tasker] throughout the process, he continued to have slurred speech, was stumbling, and could not provide a correct address,” one officer wrote in arrest documents.
That officer made multiple calls on Tasker’s phone, in an attempt to locate someone to pick him up from jail, but no one answered, court records said.
“I called [Tasker]’s mom and advised her of the situation,” the officer wrote in the report. “I asked if she was able to come to pick [him] up and she advised… [he] has been through this situation again and again and again and she was tired of helping him. She said [Tasker] is 40 years old. He can figure out his problems from there.”
After more failed phone calls, the officer took Tasker to his home himself, arrest documents said.
Where Kimberly goes from here
The last two years have not been easy for Kimberly Pero.
She had to learn how to walk again, suffers from phantom pains, and therapy and medical bills have put a strain on their financials.
But now with Tasker’s sentence, she’s ready for the next chapter in her life.
“I don’t know that I’ll ever get to do a lot of the things that I did, but I’m positive that I can at least try,” Pero said.
She hopes her story will serve as a lesson for others and the man who hurt her.
“Hopefully he uses this time to not only get sober but to be a better person for the rest of his life. He still has a chance and hopefully he takes it and turns his life around,” Pero said. “I hope somebody watching this, if they don’t get in a car and drink and drive, they at least help prevent somebody from doing it.”
Kimberly Pero said losing her leg was a blessing, “as odd as it sounds,” because it has made her “a better person.” | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/two-years-drunk-driving-amputation-suspect-sentenced-glendale/75-00fe272b-2a79-4c3d-8b85-3f2ec640417c | 2023-05-04T01:21:16 | 1 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/two-years-drunk-driving-amputation-suspect-sentenced-glendale/75-00fe272b-2a79-4c3d-8b85-3f2ec640417c |
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Water Services Department is hosting public meetings this month and in June to address the proposed rate increase for water and wastewater services and a proposed increase to the Stormwater Excise Tax.
Preliminary estimates show the average residential customer will see an increase for water service of approximately 6.5% or $2 in October 2023, with additional increases in March 2024 (6.5%) and March 2025 (13%).
For wastewater service, the average residential customer will see an increase of approximately 6.5% or $1.60 in October 2023, with additional increases in March 2024 (6.5%) and March 2025 (7%).
In addition, the Stormwater Excise Tax, which supports the City’s stormwater permit actions required by the Federal Clean Water Act, is expected to increase by $0.25 for most residential customers beginning in October 2023 because of new and expanded permit requirements.
The community is invited to attend one of the following in-person meetings or virtual Spanish meetings.
Comments can be made at the meetings or online through a comment form at phoenix.gov/proposedrates.
- Thursday, May 4 | 6 p.m. | Paradise Valley Community College
- Tuesday, May 9 | 6 p.m. | Devonshire Community Center
- Monday, May 15 | 6 p.m. | Spanish Virtual Meeting (register )
- Tuesday, May 23 | 6 p.m. | Maryvale Community Center
- Thursday, May 25 | 6 p.m. | South Mountain Community Center
- Saturday, June 10 | 11 a.m. | Burton Barr Central Library
City officials said the additional revenue is necessary to keep up with rising water and wastewater services costs, maintain water infrastructure, and meet new regulatory mandates.
In addition, the proposal includes a change to the water allowance structure to encourage water conservation.
To learn more, watch a recorded presentation, or access the online rate estimator, please visit phoenix.gov/proposedrates.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A proposed ordinance in Fayetteville has been approved that will allow unhoused people in residential areas while redefining camping and campgrounds in the city's unified development code
"We are here to actually ask the city to not pass that ordinance because we feel like the thing the city needs to do is deal with the homelessness situation in our town," said Gladys and Richard Tiffany, residents who were against the ordinance.
"We're here to support the city ordinance for legal campgrounds instead of unsanctioned illegal campgrounds," said Jannie Layne and Steve Real, residents who were in favor of the ordinance.
On Tuesday night, the city approved types of properties to be under a "conditional use permit" with guidelines to follow such as consent by the property owner, waste pickup, and access to restrooms and clean drinking water.
"Of course, we can always go back and make changes, we can be very flexible, but at the end of the day we have to be very careful that we're not comprising the health and safety of our residents," said D'andre Jones, Fayetteville council member for ward 2.
Complaints have been made by citizens worrying about the safety of those campsites. Council member Jones says the ordinance is not intended to harm.
"It is intended to keep everyone safe. I want the citizens of Fayetteville to know that there's no perfect policy, but based on the research that we've done, and the things that we can do, we are making health and safety our number one priority," Jones said.
Right now unhoused people have been camping out on a residential property near the Fayetteville National Cemetery.
"Our place is not ideal, but it is safe. There have generally been 10-12 people there for the last 2 or 3 years and the majority are women who need a safe place," Gladys and Richard Tiffany said.
Those for and against the proposed ordinance have a common goal of health and safety, but those for the ordinance said that they want cleanliness and respect for their loved ones in the cemetery.
"What we're asking of this group is to clean it up and maintain some respect and honor for those who have buried their children, husbands, wives, and mothers [at the cemetery]. Give us the respect that we are giving you when we say 'We're not trying to shut you down, just be a responsible citizen,'" said Layne.
Those for the ordinance also say this subject is not about the homeless population, but the conditions surrounding the cemetery.
"When it rains, water flows off the Tiffany property, and carries human feces, toilet paper, and syringes, all the way up to the gate that flows through the fence, and onto the cemetery," Real said.
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CONWAY, Ark. — Every year during the first weekend of May, nearly 100,000 people “hop” to Toad Suck Daze in Conway.
Since its origin in 1982, the festival has been a recurring springtime tradition in Faulkner County.
It began on the banks of the Arkansas River in a nearby township named “Toad Suck” before moving to its current location in downtown Conway 30 years ago.
But what in the world does “Toad Suck” actually mean?
According to the Toad Suck Daze website, steamboats traveled the Arkansas River when the water was at the right depth.
When it wasn’t the right depth, the captains and their crew tied up to wait where the Toad Suck Lock and Dam now spans the river.
While they waited, they drank up at the local tavern to the dismay of the folks living nearby who said, “They suck on the bottle ‘til they swell up like toads!” Hence the name Toad Suck.
The tavern is now gone, but the legend still lives on at Toad Suck Daze. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/conway/origin-toad-suck-daze-conway/91-4f16d525-c6dc-4234-b1cb-6284cc380cd9 | 2023-05-04T01:29:17 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/conway/origin-toad-suck-daze-conway/91-4f16d525-c6dc-4234-b1cb-6284cc380cd9 |
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — The man accused of injuring four people and killing one in a mass shooting inside a medical building in Midtown Atlanta is custody after an hours-long manhunt, Atlanta Police confirmed.
Deion Patterson, 24, was taken into custody by authorities Wednesday evening after he allegedly opened fire inside the 11th floor waiting room of Northside Medical Midtown just after 12 p.m.
People were originally asked to avoid Midtown in the area of West Peachtree Street between 12th Street and 13th Street where the shooting scene unfolded.
In an evening update, police said the search for Patterson had been refocused to Cobb County after he allegedly carjacked a vehicle and drove outside the perimeter.
The search intensified for Patterson in the area of Cobb County around Truist Park and the Cobb Galleria Centre just before 4 p.m. The last visual confirmation of Patterson was confirmed to be at 12:30 p.m. in Cobb County on a Georgia Department of Transportation camera near Windy Ridge Parkway and Heritage Court.
The vehicle he allegedly carjacked was dumped in a parking deck near The Battery and Truist Park and was later found by police. Cobb County Police was tipped off about his whereabouts around 2:30 p.m., hence the two-hour difference which hindered law enforcement's search.
All five people shot inside were women, according to Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens. The victim was 39 years old, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said.
The other injured victims were a 71-year-old, 56-year-old, 39-year-old and 25-year-old. Grady Hospital officials said three of the victims are in critical condition while another was still in the emergency department.
11Alive's Cody Alcorn reports the suspect originally arrived at Northside Hospital with his mother. His mother was not injured, according to APD. It's not yet clear why he might have arrived with his mother.
The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed to 11Alive News that Patterson served within the military branch from July 2018 to January 2023. According to the Coast Guard, Patterson last served as an Electrician's Mate Second Class. He was discharged from active duty in January 2023.
The Coast Guard said they were aware of the tragic incident in Atlanta allegedly involving Patterson and offered their deepest condolences to the victims and their families. The Coast Guard Investigative Service is working closely with the Atlanta Police Department and local authorities in the investigation. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/midtown-shooting-suspect-captured-hours-long-manhunt/85-1cc8206f-1232-4500-9b13-70880a823aa1 | 2023-05-04T01:29:23 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/midtown-shooting-suspect-captured-hours-long-manhunt/85-1cc8206f-1232-4500-9b13-70880a823aa1 |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Little Rock Police Department is seeking the whereabouts of a runaway teenager.
16-year-old Zion King was last seen in Little Rock.
Anyone with information regarding his location has been urged to contact Detective Boyd (501) 404-3016, Detective Dearing (501) 404-3014, or the Little Rock Communications Center at (501) 371-4829. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/missing-persons-reports/little-rock-police-runaway-teenager/91-6aae7a49-5c68-491d-8d86-4ec608c0025c | 2023-05-04T01:29:30 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/missing-persons-reports/little-rock-police-runaway-teenager/91-6aae7a49-5c68-491d-8d86-4ec608c0025c |
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The City of North Little Rock has continued making progress in removing debris in areas affected by the tornado on March 31.
Director of Communications for the City, Shara Brazear explained that they're currently on phase two of clean-up efforts.
"I know we'll have many phases and this is our new normal, it's just our way of life," said Brazear.
Phase two is going back and taking a second look at what help is still needed.
"We had about 37 homes on our current assessment that we've done this week that were totally destroyed," said Brazear. "And we had hundreds that had major damage done to them."
The city's main focus is on continuing debris cleanup.
Crowder Gulf Disaster Recovery and Debris Management has helped in the recovery efforts and will continue to remove debris placed within 25 feet of the street.
Debris should be as close to the street as possible to ensure pickup.
The organization has up picked up over 1,500 loads of debris, including large and small trees, branches, root balls, concrete, and construction/demolition debris.
This number does not include the removal work both the North Little Rock Street and Sanitation Departments have accomplished along the way.
Citizens have also brought hundreds of loads of debris to the drop-off area in Burns Park at the Hospitality House parking lot.
Several residents still need volunteers to help re-secure tarps and replace old ones to prevent further damage.
"We still have some of our residents that need assistance in getting debris in their yard, within 25 feet of the street," said Brazear.
If you would like to volunteer or know someone who needs help with debris cleanup, please call (501) 906-5014.
"We want everyone to reach out by Friday of this week and let us know. So we can get these groups mobilized that want to volunteer in our community and get them in place over the weekend," Brazear explained. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/outreach/nlr-residents-need-assistance-volunteers/91-e90fff19-a60e-4dc2-afaa-e1c669ee03e7 | 2023-05-04T01:29:36 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/outreach/nlr-residents-need-assistance-volunteers/91-e90fff19-a60e-4dc2-afaa-e1c669ee03e7 |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Tornado recovery continues in Central Arkansas, and it's been a challenging time for the 1,200 people living in temporary housing.
According to Red Cross, some of the families staying in their designated tornado relief hotels are reaching their 30-day deadline to figure out their next steps for housing. If people staying in the hotels haven’t reached out to Red Cross yet, they’re encouraged to do that so they don’t become ineligible for a longer stay.
That deadline is Monday, May 8.
"We want to help them be resilient, figure out what's next," Red Cross Executive Director Lori Arnold-Ellis said. "Make a plan."
Arnold-Ellis said more than 700 families impacted by the tornado have been living in hotels for the last month, but now they're helping them transition before the end of the hotel stay limit.
"If they have met the eligibility criteria, they can continue to work with a Red Cross caseworker, in those hotel shelters," Arnold-Ellis said. "However, anybody who has not met the criteria, either because they don't live in the right county, or their damaged home doesn't qualify. Or if they haven't registered with FEMA, all three are important, then we need to transition those people to their next steps."
Arnold-Ellis also explained that they started sending letters out earlier this week to make sure people in the hotels know the deadline is approaching.
Red Cross workers are also meeting with every family to determine if they need to extend their hotel stay, also known as a safe harbor.
"For people who are no longer eligible for safe harbor, we also have the same resources for them," Arnold-Ellis said. "We're able to help them figure out if they just need to go back home, but maybe they need help with a partner like the food bank."
Arnold-Ellis said they determine if people can stay longer if they meet certain criteria like having significant damage to their home and being registered with FEMA.
"People who are eligible to stay because of the damage to their home and their FEMA qualifications, they are going to be taken care of for as long as needed," Arnold-Ellis said. "Our goal is to get everybody moved out of a hotel because nobody wants to live in a hotel permanently."
If anyone living in the hotels has questions about the May 8 deadline, they're encouraged to contact the Red Cross or the hotel front desk. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/red-cross-to-end-temporary-housing-for-tornado-victims/91-59d782de-4feb-486a-b175-b98ac2511510 | 2023-05-04T01:29:42 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/red-cross-to-end-temporary-housing-for-tornado-victims/91-59d782de-4feb-486a-b175-b98ac2511510 |
A former Bishop Luers High School teacher will appear in court today to face accusations of sexual relationships with teen students.
Jordan Miller, 33, was taken into custody Tuesday after three women reported having a sexual relationship with him when they were high school students about five years ago. He has been charged with two felony counts of child seduction.
The first woman went to the Fort Wayne Police Department on Sept. 6 to report the relationship, according to a probable cause affidavit written by Officer Kenneth Johnson. Miller was her 11th grade English teacher and 12th grade speech teacher.
She told police she would go to Miller’s apartment during her senior year to watch his dog in the evenings and weekends when he was unable to be home. The woman told police that other students would do the same, court documents said.
During the interview, she told police she was staying with a friend after a basketball game one night during her senior year when Miller called her in the early-morning hours. He asked for her help in finding his dog, which had gotten out, according to the affidavit.
When she arrived at his apartment after finding the dog, she said Miller appeared intoxicated. The woman said Miller sat next to her and thanked her for finding the dog before kissing her on the mouth, according to court documents.
She said she told Miller she was only 17, and he apologized and said she was mature for her age. She then left the apartment, court records said.
The woman told police Miller continued to text her on a regular basis and they would discuss their lives, according to the affidavit. The then-17-year-old and her teacher later started watching movies together at Miller’s apartment.
One night, the woman said Miller made her alcoholic drinks, according to court documents. She said Miller told her she could stay at his apartment and sleep in his bed because she was intoxicated.
As the woman lay in bed, she said Miller moved her hand to his genitals. Miller said he wanted her to perform oral sex, but she told him she was not comfortable doing that, according to the affidavit.
Miller then allegedly suggested having sex instead. The woman told police she informed Miller she had never had sex before, but he told her she should get it over with so it would be easier with other people, according to court documents.
“That’s how I lost my virginity that night,” the woman told police. She said she had sex with Miller twice before she turned 18 and that the relationship continued until she went to college.
A second woman came forward Oct. 21 with a similar story. In an interview with police, she said she was in a sexual relationship with Miller for 14 months that ended in May 2018, according to the affidavit. She said during that time, they would have sex once or twice a week.
She told police she was 17 when the sexual relationship began, court records say.
A third former student was later interviewed by police and told them she began a sexual relationship with Miller two months after she turned 18 while she was still in high school. It continued into her sophomore year of college, according to court documents.
The three students attended Bishop Luers at the same time but did not know the others had alleged sexual relationships with Miller.
When police interviewed Bishop Luers Principal Jim Huth, he told them Miller turned in a resignation letter June 27, 2018. Huth told police the resignation followed a school investigation into an allegation that Miller wrote a paper for the third victim.
When police interviewed the student, she said he wrote the paper in exchange for sexual acts.
When police interviewed Miller, he said he never had a sexual relationship with the second woman and his sexual relationships with the first and third happened after they turned 18. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/former-bishop-luers-teacher-accused-of-sexual-relationships-with-3-students/article_2fcbd600-e9f0-11ed-a234-4b910c7db4ff.html | 2023-05-04T01:32:05 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/former-bishop-luers-teacher-accused-of-sexual-relationships-with-3-students/article_2fcbd600-e9f0-11ed-a234-4b910c7db4ff.html |
SAGINAW COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - Several firefighters faced a difficult training session Wednesday on the runway of MBS International Airport.
The airport's fire department was joined by the Tittabawassee Township and Thomas Township fire departments for a require annual live burn drill, which they must complete to maintain certifications.
Firefighters worked on hose line coordination, along with search and rescue drills inside an aircraft.
"We're continuously training monthly and we do a timed run every year, which is a three minute response time to the furthest part of the airfield," said airport rescue firefighting Capt. Anthony Martin. "We try to train for anything and everything that could happen."
MBS International Airport's fire department has six firefighters. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/mbs-airport-firefighters-complete-live-fire-training/article_faf5d4a2-ea0e-11ed-9319-5b8bc8c65304.html | 2023-05-04T01:33:18 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/mbs-airport-firefighters-complete-live-fire-training/article_faf5d4a2-ea0e-11ed-9319-5b8bc8c65304.html |
FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - A Flint-area nonprofit group is celebrating the community's artists.
The Disability Network held an art reception on Wednesday to showcase how people with disabilities are expressing themselves creatively. The nonprofit offers four art class sessions a year with six classes in each session.
The Flint Institute of Arts provides the classroom. Students work on mixed media, including oil paint, clay, water colors and acrylic paint.
"Sometimes I get frustrated, but then Tara helps me out," said Briahna Gatica. "Tara and all the other people, they encourage me and I just love it."
Health and Recreation Specialist Tara Holliman said she enjoys watching people be able to create.
"I love art. I love being a creative spirit. So, being able to ignite that in someone else and see them feel like I can do something great, I can create," she said.
Click here for more information about The Disability Network's Connect program and how to register for classes. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/the-disability-network-showcases-artwork-created-by-clients/article_f08c2fcc-ea0c-11ed-8f5e-8fd5faaaabff.html | 2023-05-04T01:33:25 | 0 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/the-disability-network-showcases-artwork-created-by-clients/article_f08c2fcc-ea0c-11ed-8f5e-8fd5faaaabff.html |
WASHINGTON, USA — A sure sign winter weather is behind us, the highway to the Johnston Ridge Observatory near Mount Saint Helens is now open, the highway re-opened on Wednesday afternoon. The road you take to get up there, the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway closes in the winter since road conditions are too dangerous for transportation crews to clear.
It’s been shut down for nearly six months, but over the last couple of weeks, crews with the Washington Department of Transportation have been busy clearing snow, downed trees and removing debris along the highway so cars can get up to the Johnston Ridge Observatory.
"Because of the unpredictability of winter weather and the unique location of the highway, we're always faced with new challenges," said WSDOT Highway Maintenance Worker Kent Palmer.
WSDOT typically closes the gates to the upper section of SR 504 near Coldwater Lake between late fall and early winter due to hazardous driving conditions. Last year, WSDOT closed the roadway for the winter in November.
While the road to the observatory is clear, the trails leading up to Mount Saint Helens are still covered in snow, so be prepared if you’re planning any spring hikes near the mountain.
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'No plan' to address homelessness in Multnomah County, commissioner says
Commissioner Sharon Meieran thinks the lack of a cohesive governing body for the response to homelessness is hampering those efforts. She wants a major reset.
The issue of homelessness can be ideologically fraught; many people disagree on how best to address it. But perhaps most residents of Multnomah County can agree that however it's addressed here, it's not being done well. That's certainly the opinion of one county commissioner.
In the run-up to 2022 midterm election, many Portlanders received mailers from a well-heeled group called the "Portland Accountability PAC" laying out their preferred candidates for local office — Rene Gonzalez for Portland commissioner and Sharon Meieran for Multnomah County board chair.
The two candidates were linked by their comparatively tough rhetoric on addressing homelessness and crime in the greater Portland area — Gonzalez perhaps more so than Meieran due to his explicit focus on law and order.
Gonzalez went on to win his race against then-Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty. But Meieran, already a county commissioner, lost her race to fellow Commissioner Jessica Vega Pederson. Meieran remains on the county board, having first won election six years ago. Her current term ends in December 2024.
Meieran is actually Dr. Sharon Meieran. She's an ER doctor with degrees in economics and English, also receiving a law degree before going to medical school. She's served on several boards focused on medicine, opioid abuse and others.
Recently, The Story's Pat Dooris sat down with Meieran to discuss an editorial she wrote for the Oregonian in late April. In it, she celebrated the hiring of Dan Field as new director for the Joint Office of Homeless Services — the Multnomah County-helmed agency that's supposed to coordinate resources with the city of Portland.
But alongside that optimism, Meieran criticized how the response to homelessness is being handled in Multnomah County — despite a budget in the hundreds of millions of dollars each year, much of it coming from taxpayers.
Meieran highlighted the human misery that the homelessness crisis perpetuates, for the unsheltered and sheltered alike, and local stakeholders that aren't sufficiently organized to address it.
Despite the existence of JOHS, Meieran says that there is no master plan to end homelessness in the greater Portland area — and it shows.
An imperfect union
So how can it be that there's no plan?
"That is a question that I ask frequently and put it in the op-ed, because what I've heard often is people saying that, 'I don't know what the plan is ... it's not communicated well,' and sort of foisting it onto communication," Meieran said. "But the reality is there's actually no plan, no overarching plan, and that is because there's no like cohesive, united governing body that is creating a plan."
If there is no plan and no coordination, Dooris asked, how will we ever know if we're making progress?
"That is a question I've been raising for quite a few years now, and that I really wanted to highlight in the op-ed, because we truly need outrage," Meieran replied. "We need pushing of our city and county now that we have new leadership at the county, now that we have a new director of Joint Office of Homeless Services. We have an opportunity to maybe reset, put these pieces together, but until now it's ... we haven't had the structure, the political will to combine forces, unite and create a common plan."
It's a case of one hand not knowing what the other is doing, Meieran described, between the county, city and nonprofits — and she's been trying to figure it all out since she first became commissioner six years ago.
"At first I thought there was a governing body, and then I thought the Joint Office of Homelessness was an actual joint office of homelessness between the city and county," Meieran said. "What I learned over time as I peeled back layers of the onion was that the joint office is actually now a county department exclusively, with no oversight or governance by the city.
"And so the city, we have an agreement — the city puts a whole bunch of money into the joint office, you know, they offer their ideas and try to work with the leadership of the county to see if their ideas can be can be implemented, but they have no say — they don't have the power over the joint office. And so for the past, for the six years prior to our former chair leaving, there's not been that desire to coordinate and collaborate, and it's not been a joint office — it has been the chair leading the joint office and directing all of that."
And the lack of coordination between the city and county has become more apparent within the past few months. When Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler succeeded in having his plan for large-scale sanctioned homeless camps adopted by the city council, he expected Multnomah County to pitch in to the tune of $21 million. The board of commissioners shot that idea down. Meanwhile, Portland will withhold $8 million that it would typically contribute to JOHS in order to put it toward those sanctioned camps.
For better or worse, JOHS is insulated from some of the big swings that come out of Portland city government. Portland's contribution is a drop in the bucket compared to the funding the office gets from Metro's Supportive Housing Services Tax.
To be fair to JOHS, it has its fingers in a lot of pies. It supports a constellation of homeless shelters of all types throughout Multnomah County, plus rental assistance, eviction protection and rehousing programs, navigation services and outreach — much of this directly operated by a long list of different nonprofit providers that the department interfaces with.
Theoretically, the spectrum of services propped up by JOHS are supposed to meet people experiencing housing insecurity wherever they're at and help them back to stability in a way that's sustainable, which is pretty much what Meieran describes as being needed.
And JOHS does track performance. It produces an annual report each fiscal year with outcomes from that year, in addition to quarterly performance data — like how many people have been moved into permanent housing and even how many of those have returned to the streets.
Despite all this, Meieran's perspective is that there is no clear-eyed assessment of what needs to be done for homelessness in the Portland area and who will be responsible for doing it, even though JOHS has been funded with more than $738 million dollars since it was formed 13 years ago.
If the proposed budget next year of $265 million for JOHS gets adopted, then taxpayers will have spent more than a billion dollars on the homelessness issue in Multnomah County within the space of 7 years — through JOHS alone.
A more recent development hints at some of the dysfunction Meieran has identified. When Gov. Tina Kotek in April announced disbursements to counties covered by her state of emergency for homelessness, she expressed hesitancy about handing over the funding for Multnomah County — citing vagueness in the county's plans.
"In the case of Multnomah County and the city of Portland, I'll be honest, I was disappointed that they didn't have more clarity," Kotek said at the time. "I've sat through several meetings about existing capacity, who's paying for what, where does the money come from, what's the city committed to, what's the county committed to ... they need to get their stuff together — we need to see stronger collaboration and detail."
A million little pieces
His mind somewhat boggled, Dooris circled back to Meieran's insistence that there is "no plan" for homelessness in Multnomah County, leading to the following exchange:
Pat Dooris: I'm sorry to interrupt, but I mean — I find it hard to believe ... it can't be that there's no plan. There's probably a million individual pieces of plans, that aren't all working together?
Sharon Meieran: There are a million individual pieces of plans, that's part of the problem as well that we get caught up — by we, I mean local government and then frankly in the media — once we come, you know, we have one little tiny piece of one big part of a plan, it sort of sucks all the air out of the room. It takes all the attention.
So for example, the mayor's concept of the large, you know, camp sites or whatever they're called right now ... can that be part of a cohesive, larger plan to address homelessness? Absolutely. But while we're busy arguing about that, it's like, what are we doing about the big pillars — prevention, shelter writ large — which is, you know, has to be a whole continuum, not just one little idea — permanent housing, and how are we tying all those together? There is nothing that ties them together. And by focusing on each little shiny new object that comes out with a little catchy name, we lose sight further and further of that big picture.
PD: Because at home, our attention span is somewhat limited. We've all got busy lives and so we're like, 'Oh, here's a news conference — this is going to be the solution now,' and we focus on that for a few months and then nothing changes. And then there's another new one.
SM: Exactly, and what I encourage people to do is take that step back. In thinking about homelessness what we want to see, it's three pillars. Like I said, prevention has its ecosystem of strategies. Shelter has its ecosystem of strategies; and housing. Those are the three components of a plan to address homelessness and instead of working on parts piecemeal of each of these, some cohesive body should be putting those together.
PD: Because then there could be accountability too, right?
SM: Well, that's a whole other thing as well ... we don't have the structure to create a plan. And absent a plan, we don't have accountability for any of the pieces of it. So, you know, how many shelter beds do we actually need? We don't know because we don't know how many people are living unsheltered. We don't know what they need. Could they be served best by motels? Most expensive, least sort of bang for your buck. Some people need motels, but most people do not. What's the option that can serve the most people most effectively? We don't know what people need, who they are, how many, so we can't even put that in place right now.
PD: OK. But to push back just for a moment, there is this point-in-time count — isn't that when we find out how many there are?
SM: No. The point-in-time count is not an actual accurate measure of really anything about who's living outside. It is, it's a snapshot. It's like a vague stab in the dark, and you can look at it over time to compare. But what it does, it goes to the places where you generally know people already are who are in the system. We reach out a little bit to those people and, you know, ask them questions. What it doesn't get to are all the people we don't know who they are.
So there are people — and I volunteer with Portland Street Medicine so I go out to places — who say they've never had any outreach worker come talk to them. They're in places that are not in the, you know, central city or places outreach goes to — no one counts those people who we desperately need to know who they are. And then even people we do count — if you're passed out if you are, you know, psychotic, if you're just feeling angry and depressed, don't want to talk to someone, or agitated — no one's gonna go up and count you. And so the people who are most in need of counting, aren't counted.
'A by-name list'
The point-in-time or PIT count is a federally-mandated survey of homelessness that each county in the U.S. has to conduct once a year. Counties have a lot of flexibility within that overall mandate, and the Portland metro area has made some strides of late in leveraging it for more useful information.
For the first time, 2023's count will fully integrate Clackamas, Washington and Multnomah counties in order to get a more comprehensive snapshot of homelessness in the Portland metro area.
But Meieran thinks it could be better. One of the things she's pushing for is a detailed name registry of who these folks are, so they can be better tracked and helped. It sounds difficult to achieve and potentially invasive, which could be a big issue for actually implementing something like that at the necessary scale. But she thinks it's necessary.
"Meanwhile, we have more and more people dying on the street. We have more and more people living on the street in squalor, and no one's focusing their attention on that," she said. "And we need to be saying, 'OK, go ahead, do these things with shelter, figure out how much shelter we need, what the best approach is, then invest in it' — that we need to be putting it all together in a big picture. How are we doing that?
"And that's what I feel that we should be doing every single day. There should be meetings between, you know, city, county, whomever to hammer that out — our partners — and make it happen."
In Meieran's opinion, a registry like this would include each individual's name, where they come from, what their needs are and what their barriers to housing have been. That would help, she thinks, in allocating funding where it needs to go.
"Built for Zero — you might have heard of that, but Built for Zero is a strategy to say, 'OK, now that we've identified who people are, let's build what they need to get to zero people living outside,' — functional zero, but fewer people living outside and ... where I worked with Commissioner Dan Ryan at the city, I think it's over two years ago now to get Built for Zero adopted by the Joint Office of Homelessness. There was a lot of reticence, but we were able to push it through."
According to the county's website, Portland, Gresham and Multnomah County committed to Built for Zero in late 2021. It's a national movement that includes more than 90 cities or counties "working to measurably and equitably end homelessness."
Keeping tabs on the population of chronically homeless people using a by-name list, then focusing efforts on those individuals, is a core aspect of the Built for Zero model.
But the announcement that Multnomah County has adopted this model doesn't mean that it's actually receiving the necessary follow-up, Meieran indicated.
"And then there was a lot of just sort of pausing and reticence to really implement it effectively," Meieran said. "Now there's a leaning in of saying, 'OK, we're doing Built for Zero because this is a strategy that has proved effective across the country and just makes common sense, which is what we need more of.' But as you know, now they're saying we're doing it but we're actually not. We're using our old lists. We're not reaching out to know who we don't know, like I was talking about earlier, and we need to be leaning in and doing that work. So I think there's an appetite to do that and I am heartened that we're going in that direction as more and more people truly understand it. We're not nearly there. We're not. We do not have a by-name list and we need one."
In the meantime, Meieran is encouraging residents of Multnomah County to show up at board meetings, get familiar with the conversations going on around these issues and testify if so compelled.
Regular meetings of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners are held on Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. People can attend in-person at the Multnomah Building on Southeast Hawthorne, Boardroom 100. The first part of every meeting is reserved for public testimony.
People can also watch the meetings and even testify virtually from home. You can sign up to testify online here. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/multnomah-county-homeless-commissioner-sharon-meieran/283-7e70687c-6f90-42a8-921d-ce3bd5ea1886 | 2023-05-04T01:34:12 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/multnomah-county-homeless-commissioner-sharon-meieran/283-7e70687c-6f90-42a8-921d-ce3bd5ea1886 |
HAMPTON, Tenn. (WJHL) — An investigation is underway after the remains of a missing man were found near the Hampton community.
According to the Carter County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO), the remains of 48-year-old John David Hudson, also known as Benji Hudson, were found in the area of Morton Road just before 7 p.m. Wednesday.
“This is a death investigation at this time until we learn more,” Sheriff Mike Fraley said in a statement.
Hudson was last seen on April 29 after he was involved in an altercation in Hampton, the sheriff’s office said.
Anyone with information on Hudson’s death is asked to call the CCSO at 423-542-1896. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/remains-of-missing-carter-county-man-found-investigation-underway/ | 2023-05-04T01:36:12 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/remains-of-missing-carter-county-man-found-investigation-underway/ |
A Lincoln judge sentenced a 23-year-old man to 14 to 20 years in prison Wednesday for a crash last Labor Day that killed his best friend.
Dylan Will, of Lincoln, admittedly had been high on marijuana when it happened, Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Ryan Decker said.
"Then he doubled down on that," he said, "because he was involved in a road rage situation."
Decker said Will was going 80 mph in a 35 mph zone, crossed into oncoming traffic and flipped off another driver before losing control and crashing into a utility box as he tried to turn east from Cotner Boulevard onto Holdrege Street on the afternoon of Sept. 5.
"He killed the victim in this case. He was only 25 years old," Decker said, referencing Yuesef Alwaeli, who also went by the name Jayson Lind.
He said the crash also led another passenger, who was pregnant at the time, to give birth early.
Decker said it was especially upsetting to family of the victim that Will didn't stay to help. Instead, he took off only to return a half an hour later claiming he wasn't the driver.
Witnesses said he was, and he eventually admitted it.
In March, Will pleaded no contest to manslaughter.
"I think this case, among many things, highlights the extreme dangers of driving high on marijuana," Decker said.
Will declined a chance to speak before sentencing. But his attorney, Trevin Preble, described trauma he had suffered in his childhood and a mental health diagnosis that followed.
"He does accept responsibility. He knows what he did was wrong," Preble said, adding that Will hoped for a chance on probation, even if that was unlikely.
He said while Will believes a mechanical failure caused his car to lose control, he acknowledges his decisions led to where they were.
"Losing his best friend that day has had a huge impact on him," Preble said.
Lancaster County District Judge Darla Ideus pointed out that Will's criminal record included an incident in which he had fled arrest in a car earlier in 2022 and didn't have a valid driver's license at the time of the crash, which came six months later.
"Unfortunately, your actions resulted in the worst possible outcome — and that is the death of another person. No sentence that the court can impose will ever make up for that loss," the judge said.
She said Will's attitude, actions and repeated unlawful acts led her to conclude "that you are a danger to the public if you are not incarcerated."
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Looking to get fit? Planet Fitness has something in store for teens this summer.
Teens between the ages of 14 and 19 can work out at Planet Fitness for free until August 31 with the High School Summer Pass, according to the gym’s website.
Registration for the pass can be done online or at a Planet Fitenss location, gym officials said.
Be aware of your location choice, though. PF said teens must work out at the location they sign up at, and are not allowed to use the pass at other locations.
Participants will receive a free digital club pass via the Planet Fitness app on May 15, according to the site.
There are two Planet Fitness locations in Roanoke, one in Salem, one in Lynchburg, and one in Christiansburg. To see if there’s a Planet Fitness near you, click here. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/04/planet-fitness-to-offer-teens-free-summer-membership-starting-may-15/ | 2023-05-04T01:47:11 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/04/planet-fitness-to-offer-teens-free-summer-membership-starting-may-15/ |
WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) played offense on what was mostly an unfriendly, one-sided conversation with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland during Tuesday's Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing.
"I want to focus on one thing today, one thing and one thing only, and that is the Lava Ridge wind turbine project in Idaho," Sen. Risch said. "Have you heard of it?"
Secretary Haaland repeated many times over that the project is in motion with conversations between stakeholders; that answer did not satisfy Sen. Risch who stopped Secretary Haaland from offering a courtesy 'thank you' upon receiving the question.
"Well, I wanted to get a legitimate exchange with her about how she felt about it, what the agency was doing about it. And what you saw was probably always get from the bureaucrats, that is not much," Sen. Risch told KTVB. "You have to pry pretty good to get an idea of where they're going and to deliver the message."
Sen. Risch pointed to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho Resource Advisory Council (RAC) final report. The subcommittee concluded - for reasons impacting cultural preservation, historic preservation, wildlife, outdoor recreation, grazing, and more - the wind project should not be built.
"So, I'm telling them, take advice from you own people. Don't do it," Sen. Risch said. "I think that the message is loud and clear from Idaho. And I want to deliver that message to the administration and to these people that have gone down the wrong path."
The Environmental Impact Study (EIS) has received around 11,000 comments, according to BLM Twin Falls District Public Affairs Specialist Heather Tiel-Nelson.
"And we're actually extremely thankful for all of the feedback that we've received during the public comment period. It's a hefty document," Tiel-Nelson said. "It helps us to take a really hard look. And I think you'll see when you do take a look at them at the EIS."
Comments will be available for the public to view this summer, Tiel-Nelson said. She does not expect the final EIS study - outlining the main proposal and alternative options - to wrap up until the winter.
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BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Transportation Department's headquarters sat near the intersection of Whitewater Park Blvd. and State St. for more than six decades. But ITD moved out last year, and the prime property was recently listed for sale.
The 44-acre property is in close proximity to both the river and downtown Boise. The Idaho Department of Administration has taken over the sale of the property, which was listed by TOK Commercial.
The City of Boise says they've been preparing for the sale of the key property.
"The planning that's gone on at State St. for improved transit service there, it's called bus rapid transit - or faster bus service, has always envisioned that eventually, the ITD property would redevelop, and that its redevelopment would be a chance for that design to be in furtherance of better transit and a stronger community," Tim Keane, director of planning and development services for the City of Boise said.
The property is currently in an A-1 zoning district, which is used for open space in government use. The new buyer will likely need to rezone the area.
"That would involve public hearings in front of the planning and zoning commission and city council," Keane said. "So, we're anxious to work with whoever the new owner is to do a great plan and go through that public process."
The City of Boise has a master plan for the State St. Corridor - a section of the city that includes the former ITD campus.
"The State St. Master Plan, which has been done in conjunction with plans for transit on State St., envisions that you'd get a pedestrian-designed, a little bit denser, mixed-use development on this property," Keane said. "With a concentration on State St. and improving State St. and creating a beautiful street there in conjunction with redeveloping this property."
The city says they will work with whoever buys the property to ensure everyone is on the same page about what's ultimately presented to planning and zoning and city council.
"In this case, you've got 44 acres on such an important location adjacent to the center of the city, at a main intersection on the river," Keane said. "So, it presents all these wonderful opportunities through its design and development, to exemplify the best of what Boise is seeking in terms of how it develops in the future. So, diversity of housing, some housing affordability, pedestrian design, supportive of transit, really high-quality architecture - all those things, and we know we can get there. That's why we're so anxious to work with who the new buyer is to put together a really phenomenal plan."
TOK Commercial, the real estate group that has listed the property, is taking calls for offers until mid-June.
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The Northwest Regional SWAT team were called to a domestic dispute Wednesday morning on the 900 block of East Home Avenue as a precaution.
HOBART — Northwest Regional SWAT was called to the scene of a domestic dispute after officers arrived to question a suspect about his involvement in the alleged incident, Hobart police said.
When officers arrived at the home, they knocked on the door and attempted to make contact with the suspect but were unsuccessful. As a precaution, the commander on scene called Northwest Regional SWAT to the location on the 900 block of East Home Avenue.
St. John Police CIT Officer Dustin Wartman is trained in mental health intervention.
The victim in the incident went to the Hobart Police Department around 10 a.m. to report a domestic dispute she had with her boyfriend late Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning. The suspect allegedly pointed a gun at his girlfriend's head during an argument. While the victim was at the police department, she received texts from her boyfriend with "various rants," Capt. James Gonzales said.
Police ultimately entered the home, but discovered the suspect had left prior to their arrival. He was located and arrested at a home on the 3700 block of West 69th Avenue in Merrillville.
He is being held at the Hobart City Jail, Gonzales said. Prosecutors are expected to file charges later this week.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Marlon Manning
Age : 40
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303914
Arrest Date: April 24, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Richard Stewart Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303910
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
John Tylicki
Age : 63
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303901
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Winfield Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jazmin Guerrero
Age : 28
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303897
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kane Jackson
Age : 25
Residence: Geneseo, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303900
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Peter Kochopolous
Age : 59
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303907
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD; STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Billy Fowler
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303899
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - SCHEDULE I
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Franklin George
Age : 72
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303911
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jasmine Escalante
Age : 37
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303896
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Joshua Copollo
Age : 33
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303913
Arrest Date: April 24, 2023
Arresting Agency: New Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rex Engle
Age : 45
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303915
Arrest Date: April 24, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Roshaud Bell
Age : 21
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303905
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jamyra Thomas
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303875
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Camden Wall
Age : 18
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303883
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE - THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devonte Phillips
Age : 28
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303878
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Melissa Reyes
Age : 38
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303873
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Sheppard
Age : 44
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303881
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ernest Murphy III
Age : 53
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303876
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE - THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joshua McCafferty
Age : 37
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303879
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE - THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mark Millsap Jr.
Age : 35
Residence: Phoenix, AZ
Booking Number(s): 2303885
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Cedar Lake Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Caroline Hamilton
Age : 25
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303880
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tyrone Holyfield Sr.
Age : 64
Residence: Riverdale, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303890
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dale Crawley
Age : 33
Residence: DeMotte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303884
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Winfield Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT DEFENDANT USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffery Vlietstra
Age : 59
Residence: Joliet, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303839
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Adam Valdez
Age : 39
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303860
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ryan Valleyfield
Age : 28
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303869
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cody Sucich
Age : 28
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303868
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jarred Rumph
Age : 36
Residence: Elkhart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303865
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI; RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH PUBLIC SAFETY
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Lamont Murdaugh
Age : 23
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303856
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Nicholas Ramirez
Age : 36
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303598
Arrest Date: April 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Edward Reddick
Age : 34
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303863
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ronald Kelley Jr.
Age : 49
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303854
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Elizabeth Millan-Rodriguez
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303852
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Leonard Johnson Jr.
Age : 28
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303850
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andrian Esparza
Age : 51
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303843
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: LCCC
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Nicole Fuentes
Age : 27
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303867
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
James Grover Jr.
Age : 43
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303861
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - W/PRIOR AN UNRELATED CONVICTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amy Alexanderson
Age : 38
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303844
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - ORGANIZED THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jose Becerra Hernandez
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303866
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Romell Cooper
Age : 23
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303841
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Micah Singleton
Age : 24
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303827
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Samantha Vaughn
Age : 26
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303819
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Nanay
Age : 63
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303820
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - ORGANIZED THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Collins Onchagwa
Age : 35
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303835
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Dyer Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jessica Ottomanelli
Age : 35
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303822
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Roberto Sanchez
Age : 42
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303805
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Samantha Flores
Age : 35
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303832
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lowell Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tyrone Leverson Jr.
Age : 36
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303818
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jaquies Moore
Age : 28
Residence: Dolton, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303823
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Thomas Aiken
Age : 51
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303821
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Martell Flippins
Age : 35
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303817
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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One individual was pronounced dead in a crash Wednesday afternoon near 37th Avenue and North Lake Park Avenue in Hobart, police said.
HOBART — A driver who struck another vehicle and crashed into a traffic light Wednesday afternoon was killed in the crash, Hobart police said.
Around 3 p.m., the driver was traveling west on 37th Avenue near North Lake Park Avenue and attempted to pass two vehicles by driving in between them. The driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed, Capt. James Gonzales said.
St. John Police CIT Officer Dustin Wartman is trained in mental health intervention.
The driver of the vehicle was transported to St. Mary's Medical Center and pronounced dead. One other person was injured and treated at the scene of the incident.
Excessive speed was a likely factor in the crash, Gonzales said, although the exact cause is still under investigation by the South County Crash Reconstruction Team.
Hobart Fire, New Chicago Police Department, Lake Station Police Department and the Lake County Coroner’s Office also assisted on the scene.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Marlon Manning
Age : 40
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303914
Arrest Date: April 24, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Richard Stewart Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303910
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
John Tylicki
Age : 63
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303901
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Winfield Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jazmin Guerrero
Age : 28
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303897
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kane Jackson
Age : 25
Residence: Geneseo, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303900
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Peter Kochopolous
Age : 59
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303907
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD; STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Billy Fowler
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303899
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - SCHEDULE I
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Franklin George
Age : 72
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303911
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jasmine Escalante
Age : 37
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303896
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Joshua Copollo
Age : 33
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303913
Arrest Date: April 24, 2023
Arresting Agency: New Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rex Engle
Age : 45
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303915
Arrest Date: April 24, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Roshaud Bell
Age : 21
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303905
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jamyra Thomas
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303875
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Camden Wall
Age : 18
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303883
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE - THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devonte Phillips
Age : 28
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303878
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Melissa Reyes
Age : 38
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303873
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Sheppard
Age : 44
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303881
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ernest Murphy III
Age : 53
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303876
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE - THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joshua McCafferty
Age : 37
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303879
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE - THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mark Millsap Jr.
Age : 35
Residence: Phoenix, AZ
Booking Number(s): 2303885
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Cedar Lake Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Caroline Hamilton
Age : 25
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303880
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tyrone Holyfield Sr.
Age : 64
Residence: Riverdale, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303890
Arrest Date: April 23, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dale Crawley
Age : 33
Residence: DeMotte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303884
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Winfield Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT DEFENDANT USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffery Vlietstra
Age : 59
Residence: Joliet, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303839
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Adam Valdez
Age : 39
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303860
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ryan Valleyfield
Age : 28
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303869
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cody Sucich
Age : 28
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303868
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jarred Rumph
Age : 36
Residence: Elkhart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303865
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI; RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH PUBLIC SAFETY
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Lamont Murdaugh
Age : 23
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303856
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Nicholas Ramirez
Age : 36
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303598
Arrest Date: April 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Edward Reddick
Age : 34
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303863
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ronald Kelley Jr.
Age : 49
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303854
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Elizabeth Millan-Rodriguez
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303852
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Leonard Johnson Jr.
Age : 28
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303850
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andrian Esparza
Age : 51
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303843
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: LCCC
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Nicole Fuentes
Age : 27
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303867
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
James Grover Jr.
Age : 43
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303861
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - W/PRIOR AN UNRELATED CONVICTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amy Alexanderson
Age : 38
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303844
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - ORGANIZED THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jose Becerra Hernandez
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303866
Arrest Date: April 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Romell Cooper
Age : 23
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303841
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Micah Singleton
Age : 24
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303827
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Samantha Vaughn
Age : 26
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303819
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Nanay
Age : 63
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303820
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - ORGANIZED THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Collins Onchagwa
Age : 35
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303835
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Dyer Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jessica Ottomanelli
Age : 35
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303822
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Roberto Sanchez
Age : 42
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303805
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Samantha Flores
Age : 35
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303832
Arrest Date: April 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lowell Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tyrone Leverson Jr.
Age : 36
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303818
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jaquies Moore
Age : 28
Residence: Dolton, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303823
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Thomas Aiken
Age : 51
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303821
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Martell Flippins
Age : 35
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303817
Arrest Date: April 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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VALPARAISO — Kiwanis and Rotary clubs in Porter and LaPorte counties are honoring military recruits and veterans at separate events.
Former POW Jessica Lynch will speak at the event for veterans in November.
Col. Christopher Kennedy will speak at the May 17 Salute to Recruits event. Kennedy’s career includes serving as director of the Strategic Initiatives Group G-9 Army Staff at the Pentagon.
“His bio is absolutely incredible,” event co-chairman John Bowker said.
The event honors graduates from nearly 30 high schools in Northwest Indiana who are entering military service.
“These young men and women have agreed to help defend our country, taking their place alongside some of the greatest heroes that have gone before them,” Bowker said. “We think it only fitting that the community honor them and their parents.”
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Bowker is a member of the Kiwanis Club in Valparaiso, which initiated the event in 2013 and has sponsored it every year since then, with the exception of the COVID-19 interruption.
The event began after military recruiters at a Veterans Day dinner asked Bowker if the club could honor recruits somehow because the schools weren’t doing much for them.
Three weeks later, the Kiwanis Club hosted about 40 recruits. Then-Mayor Jon Costas, who was the program for that luncheon, dedicated his entire presentation to the recruits, Bowker said.
“The recruiters were like, OMG, that’s so cool,” Bowker said. The Salute to Recruits event evolved from it to allow recruits’ parents to witness it and get photos with their kids and the recruiters.
Last year, Bowker got a speaker from the Pentagon speakers bureau. Last year’s speaker was so impressed that Bowker got calls from the Pentagon this year asking when the event was to be held so they could line up another speaker.
The Rotary clubs in LaPorte, Michigan City and Valparaiso are cosponsors, along with the Porter County Community Foundation, First Source Bank and BoyConn Printers.
The Salute to Recruits event will be held at the Porter County Expo Center, 215 E. Division Road in Valparaiso, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on May 17. Free tickets for the honorees and up to four guests are provided, but everyone attending must register by May 8 at https://community.ocsusa.orgnorthwest-indiana.
Others may attend for $25 per ticket, but they must request tickets by emailing johnbowker@ourcommunitysalutes.org.
Lynch will speak at the seventh annual Veterans Appreciation Dinner, hosted by the Valparaiso Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, Nov. 1 at the Porter County Expo Center.
Lynch, a former private first class in the U.S. Army, was serving as a unit supply specialist with the 507th Maintenance Company when her convoy was ambushed by Iraqi troops on March 23, 2003. Lynch was seriously injured in the attack and taken prisoner by Iraqi soldiers.
Ten U.S. soldiers were killed in the ambush. Seven other soldiers were captured. Six were rescued 21 days later.
One of the seven, Lynch’s best friend PFtC Lori Piestewa, received a serious head wound and later died in a Iraqi civilian hospital. Piestewa was posthumously promoted to specialist and awarded the Purple Heart and Prisoner of War medals.
Lynch’s recovery by U.S. special-ops troops on April 1, the first successful rescue of an American prisoner of war since World War II and the first ever of a woman.
On July 22, 20-03, Lynch was awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Star and Prisoner of War Medal. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/valparaiso/service-clubs-to-honor-veterans-recruits/article_8f9aea06-e9fc-11ed-bbb3-2392021d7184.html | 2023-05-04T01:52:54 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/valparaiso/service-clubs-to-honor-veterans-recruits/article_8f9aea06-e9fc-11ed-bbb3-2392021d7184.html |
Man found dead under bridge near Sky Harbor Airport; investigation underway
Sydney Carruth
Arizona Republic
Phoenix police are investigating after a man was stabbed to death around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning near Washington and 48th streets, a stone's throw away from Sky Harbor International Airport.
Police confirmed a man was found under a nearby bridge with critical injuries. He was pronounced dead on the scene shortly after according to Sgt. Brian Bower, a spokesperson with Phoenix police.
Authorities sectioned off a large portion of the surrounding area as the investigation and hunt for the suspect, who is still at large, remained underway Wednesday afternoon, according to Bower.
No other details were released by police. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/05/03/man-found-dead-near-sky-harbor-airport-investigation-underway/70180281007/ | 2023-05-04T01:53:49 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/05/03/man-found-dead-near-sky-harbor-airport-investigation-underway/70180281007/ |
Police request public's help for information on 'suspicious' death in Polk County
Jonathan Williams
Salem Statesman Journal
The Polk County Sheriff's Office is asking the public for information related to the death of a Milwaukie woman found on Harmony Road near Mill Creek that police are calling suspicious.
Bridget Webster's body was found the afternoon of April 30 on Harmony Road in Polk County, according to police. The sheriff's office did not say how old Webster is.
The sheriff's office said the last area Webster was known to frequent was Portland, Oregon City and Milwaukie in the metro area.
Anyone with information or who knew Webster is asked to contact Detective Martin Watson at 503-623-7550. | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2023/05/03/milwaukie-oregon-woman-death-polk-county-suspicious-police/70181725007/ | 2023-05-04T01:53:49 | 1 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2023/05/03/milwaukie-oregon-woman-death-polk-county-suspicious-police/70181725007/ |
Former interim police chief William “Jody” Blackwell has struck a deal with the city so he can rejoin the department and in exchange he will drop a $5 million lawsuit against Major Levar Stoney.
Blackwell was the police chief for 11 days during the 2020 summer while the city was rocked with protests demanding racial justice, and Stoney asked Chief William Smith to resign as police clashes with protesters that summer grew ever fiercer.
Almost immediately after Stoney’s announcement that Blackwell was stepping up, criticism erupted over his fatal shooting of a Richmond man in 2002. Blackwell was cleared of any wrongdoing in that death, but because of the controversy, he asked to be relieved.
Blackwell, who reportedly will return as a police major and receive his full pension as part of the agreement, had sued the mayor and the former chief, Gerald Smith, alleging he had been wrongfully terminated seven months after he was the interim chief because he refused an order to have officers stationed around the city’s Confederate monuments as contractors removed them.
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He said following the orders would have left him and his fellow officers subject to criminal liability because a law in place at the time barred authorities from disturbing or interfering with any monuments or memorials. That law has since been revised.
The city had attempted several times to have Blackwell’s lawsuit dismissed. The two sides reached an agreement on Wednesday to settle, just days before the trial was to start.
The joint stipulation of dismissal was filed in Richmond Circuit Court
Late last night, the mayor said, “The city has reached a conclusion and I am happy for both parties to move forward.”
“Major Blackwell has formally withdrawn all of the allegations and publicly made statements relating to the pending claim against Mayor Stoney and former Richmond Police Chief, Gerald Smith,” Blackwell said in a statement released to WRIC-TV.
“In doing so, Major Blackwell would like to express his sincere gratitude to the City of Richmond for allowing him to continue to serve the residents of Richmond. He is excited and grateful to return to the RPD under Chief Edwards’ leadership.”
Blackwell, who claimed he was fired not long before he was set to receive his pension, asked for $5 million and to be reinstated as a police major.
“The parties agree each party will bear its own fees and costs and that neither party will be deemed a prevailing party,” the order reads. | https://richmond.com/news/local/government-politics/citys-former-interim-police-chief-reaches-deal-with-city-to-drop-lawsuit/article_ba12000e-ea05-11ed-a501-478810709bff.html | 2023-05-04T02:02:54 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/government-politics/citys-former-interim-police-chief-reaches-deal-with-city-to-drop-lawsuit/article_ba12000e-ea05-11ed-a501-478810709bff.html |
Detroit school closes until next week after illnesses, student death, district says
A Detroit school is slated to remain closed until next week following a student's death amid a wave of illnesses reported there, officials confirmed Wednesday.
A kindergartner at Marcus Garvey Academy died last week, the Detroit Public Schools Community District said in a statement.
"At this time, the medical examiner has not determined the cause of death," according to the release. "This week, the school has experienced an unusually high rate of flu symptoms, including student fevers, and vomiting, namely at the early grade levels."
After learning about the death, the Detroit Health Department responded by sending a team to the school to help with evaluation and monitoring review of protocols for disinfecting, DHD officials said in a statement Wednesday.
"As a precautionary measure, DPSCD has informed parents/caregivers of students, and the school closed today and will remain closed through the remainder of the school week to allow for a deep cleaning," according to the health department.
The building is slated to remain closed until Monday "to allow families to monitor their children's symptoms" in addition to the cleansing, the district said.
The academy on the city's east side serves students in pre-K through eighth grades and "offers a high-performing, African-Centered Learning Environment that places an emphasis on cultural awareness, global learning and community service," according to its website.
"The Detroit Health Department is working closely with DPSCD and MDHHS to monitor and trace all reported illnesses among students at that location," health department officials said Wednesday. "We do not yet have confirmation on the cause of the illness, and will share that information with Detroiters once that information has been confirmed."
The health department recommends children ages 4-7 be monitored for symptoms and seek immediate medical care if they experience fever, headaches, lethargy, nausea, vomiting or abdominal pain. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/05/03/detroit-school-closes-until-next-week-after-illnesses-student-death-district-says/70181651007/ | 2023-05-04T02:09:58 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/05/03/detroit-school-closes-until-next-week-after-illnesses-student-death-district-says/70181651007/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The leader of Oregon’s second-largest school district is proposing a budget of $1.3 billion for the 2023-2024 school year, which is $89 million less than the current budget.
The budget, proposed by Salem-Keizer Public Schools Superintendent Christy Perry, allocates $13 million for career technical education and $4.1 million for early learners reading and writing… It also puts $14 million towards wages and insurance increases. However, that number could change since the teachers union and district are currently in contract negotiations.
But there’s no money budgeted to hire more teachers, even though the district’s average student-to-teacher ratio is about 28-to-1.
“We always need more. Our kids have very complex needs and we need more adults. It’s hard to say what the right number is,” Perry said. “If we settle on more then it will affect the budget … But that’s good faith to our employees and our employees are facing the same inflationary costs as everyone in Oregon is.”
Perry noted that this budget was put together ahead of the district knowing how much money it will receive from the state. The state legislature is still in session and has not finalized the state school fund.
Another major financial setback for the district is that an emergency grant that currently funds 116 full-time positions is set to expire in 2024. Perry who has been a superintendent in Oregon schools for nearly 20 years, will retire at the end of this school year. | https://www.koin.com/local/marion-county/we-always-need-more-salem-keizer-superintendent-proposes-1-3-billion-budget/ | 2023-05-04T02:11:01 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/marion-county/we-always-need-more-salem-keizer-superintendent-proposes-1-3-billion-budget/ |
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ATLANTA — Update: The suspected gunman in the deadly mass shooting at a Midtown Atlanta medical center was arrested after an hours-long manhunt.
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The Atlanta Police Department identified the suspected shooter who they believe is responsible for killing one person and injuring four others in Midtown Wednesday.
Law enforcement officers are searching for 24-year-old Deion Patterson. 11Alive has learned more about Patterson's history.
The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed to 11Alive News that Patterson served within the military branch from July 2018 to January 2023. According to the Coast Guard, Patterson last served as an Electrician's Mate Second Class. He was discharged from active duty in January 2023.
Photos of Patterson, which you can see below, were released by police.
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The Coast Guard said they were aware of the tragic incident in Atlanta allegedly involving Patterson and offered their deepest condolences to the victims and their families. The Coast Guard Investigative Service is working closely with the Atlanta Police Department and local authorities in the investigation.
In an evening update, authorities said they had refocused their search to Patterson in Cobb County.
Cobb County Police Department was tipped off about Patterson's potential whereabouts around 2:30 p.m., according to Sgt. W.A. Delk. He said a Georgia Department of Transportation camera caught sight of Patterson near Windy Ridge Parkway and Heritage Court at 12:30 p.m., hence the two-hour difference which hindered the law enforcement search.
Delk said there have been no eyewitnesses since the GDOT camera sighting.
A vehicle that had been carjacked in Midtown shortly after the shooting was also found in a parking deck near The Battery and Truist Park, believed to be dtiven by Patterson, according to authorities.
The department said they had officer presence in the Vinings, Cumberland and Truist Park the areas.
Cobb County SWAT has been activated and APD has left the original Midtown shooting scene. Cobb County Police said there is no shelter-in-place order but asked residents to remain vigilant and to continue to report potential sightings of Patterson.
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APD and Mayor Andre Dickens held a press conference roughly around 3:45 p.m., where they gave information about what is known about Patterson.
They said a multi-jurisdictional effort to find the suspect is underway, including help from other agencies such as the GBI and the FBI.
APD Chief Darin Schierbaum offered condolences to the families of the five victims.
Mayor Dickens said all the victims were women. The victim who died was 39 years old, Chief Schierbaum said. The identities of the women were not released.
The chief said the other injured victims were a 71-year-old, 56-year-old, 39-year-old and 25-year-old. Mayor Dickens said the four women were currently fighting for their life. The women are now at Grady Hospital, according to hospital officials.
Chief Schierbaum explained that all five victims were shot inside the waiting room at Northside Medical Midtown.
Following the incident, police believe Patterson carjacked a vehicle and left the area.
According to Mayor Dickens, Patterson is no longer in Midtown. The suspect is in Cobb County and county police are now assisting in the search.
Chief Schierbaum said police are following up on credible leads active in Cobb County. He mentioned that the city's camera network helped and assisted in the investigation.
APD first reported they were investigating an active shooter situation inside a building on West Peachtree St., between 12th St and 13th St.
11Alive's Cody Alcorn reports the suspect originally arrived at Northside Hospital with his mother. His mother was not injured, according to APD. It's not yet clear why he might have arrived with his mother.
Police said no additional shots have been fired since the first reports shortly before 1 p.m.
According to police, Patterson is considered armed and dangerous and they advise no one to approach him. Currently, Patterson is still at large, APD said. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/midtown/midtown-active-shooter-suspect-information-atlanta-police/85-58db1389-1446-4c07-adf5-19cb6397bf70 | 2023-05-04T02:11:17 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/midtown/midtown-active-shooter-suspect-information-atlanta-police/85-58db1389-1446-4c07-adf5-19cb6397bf70 |
Family, friends of woman found dead on Phoenix hiking trail plead for help in solving case
Homicide detectives with the Phoenix Police Department are investigating the death of 29-year-old Lauren Heike after her body was found Saturday in the north Phoenix desert near 64th Street and Mayo Boulevard.
Heike was hiking a desert trail near East Libby Street and North 65th Place on Friday morning when she was believed to have been attacked from behind, according to Phoenix police Lt. James Hester.
Her body was recovered the following morning after authorities received reports of an injured person in the north Phoenix desert. Heike was pronounced dead at the scene, her body showing signs of trauma, police said.
Now, Heike's family and friends are urging the Phoenix community to help them bring justice to the young woman's case. They gathered at Phoenix police headquarters on Wednesday to share information with the public.
"What would you do if this was your little sister, if this was your daughter, if this was your niece?" asked family member Ron Ohnhaus at Wednesday's news conference. "We just ask and plead that you would find it in your heart to make that call and tell us or the authorities what you know."
Lana Heike, Lauren's mother, described her daughter as a beautiful, kindhearted woman who was sweet to everyone she met.
River Hubbel, a close friend of Heike's, said he spoke to her on Friday morning before her hike. The pair had a ritual with another friend where they would ask one another what they were grateful for each morning.
"I had asked what we were all thankful for that day and she had specifically just said that she was so thankful to just wake up another day so positive and to be able to go get a coffee and go on a walk," Hubbel said, holding back tears.
Lana Heike said her family and friends took comfort in the knowledge that she passed away doing what she loved, what she would have done on any normal day.
Lauren Heike lived near the trail where she was attacked, according to Hester. Her family is from Kitsap County in Washington.
Phoenix police released a clip of surveillance footage that shows a man who detectives believe to be a suspect in Heike's death. The man in the clip was described to be between 5 feet 8 and 6 feet tall, wearing a backpack.
Hester told the media on Wednesday the man likely would have stood out due to his behavior.
"We just need help finding whoever did this," said Jeff Heike, Lauren's father.
The suspect or suspects are still being sought, and details about what led up to the death are still under investigation. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Phoenix Police Department at 602-262-6151 or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS or 480-TESTIGO for Spanish. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/05/03/family-of-woman-killed-on-phoenix-hiking-trail-asks-public-for-help/70179853007/ | 2023-05-04T02:11:23 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/05/03/family-of-woman-killed-on-phoenix-hiking-trail-asks-public-for-help/70179853007/ |
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — After an hours-long manhunt, the suspected gunman behind a deadly shooting at a Midtown Atlanta medical center was arrested by authorities in Cobb County on Wednesday evening.
11Alive's SkyTracker flew over the scene and captured the moments after law enforcement took 24-year-old Deion Patterson into custody around 8 p.m. at a condominium complex not far from The Battery and Truist Park.
Patterson appeared to be in the same clothing that was shown in surveillance images at Northside Medical Midtown, where he was accused of opening fire on the 11th floor of a waiting room where he allegedly injured four people and killed one.
According to 11Alive's Cody Alcorn, he was taken into custody without incident by law enforcement.
In the video, Patterson is seen with handcuffs on near a Cobb County Police car before he is slowly walked to an Atlanta Police patrol car. 11Alive's SkyTracker then followed the police car, with its lights on as it eventually took Patterson down the interstate, back to Atlanta Police headquarters.
There was a $10,000 award out for his capture and arrest, as well as billboards across Georgia interstates alerting the public to be on the lookout so he could be arrested as quickly as possible.
All five people shot inside were women, according to Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens. The victim who died was 39 years old, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said.
The other injured victims were a 71-year-old, 56-year-old, 39-year-old and 25-year-old. Grady Hospital officials said three of the victims are in critical condition while another was still in the emergency department.
After the alleged shooting just after 12 p.m., Patterson allegedly carjacked a vehicle around and drove outside the perimeter to Cobb County.
The search intensified for Patterson in the area of Cobb County around Truist Park and the Cobb Galleria Centre just before 4 p.m. The last visual confirmation of Patterson was confirmed to be at 12:30 p.m. in Cobb County on a Georgia Department of Transportation camera near Windy Ridge Parkway and Heritage Court.
The vehicle he allegedly stole was dumped in a parking deck near The Battery and Truist Park and was later found by police.
11Alive's Cody Alcorn reports the suspect originally arrived at the Northside medical facility with his mother. His mother was not injured, according to APD. It's not yet clear why he might have arrived with his mother.
The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed to 11Alive News that Patterson served within the military branch from July 2018 to January 2023. According to the Coast Guard, Patterson last served as an Electrician's Mate Second Class. He was discharged from active duty in January 2023.
The Coast Guard said they were aware of the tragic incident in Atlanta allegedly involving Patterson and offered their deepest condolences to the victims and their families. The Coast Guard Investigative Service is working closely with the Atlanta Police Department and local authorities in the investigation. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/watch-moment-midtown-atlanta-shooting-suspect-arrested-cobb-county/85-77cd4a0d-ade9-4c10-bb80-ec7de11987db | 2023-05-04T02:11:23 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/watch-moment-midtown-atlanta-shooting-suspect-arrested-cobb-county/85-77cd4a0d-ade9-4c10-bb80-ec7de11987db |
Bullhead City Vice Mayor Norma Brummett dies
Brummett held various roles throughout the community.
Bullhead City Vice Mayor Norma Brummett died Wednesday after a battle with cancer, the city announced. She was 73.
“Norma treated everyone she encountered with exceptional kindness and warmth,” Bullhead City Mayor Steve D’Amico said in a statement announcing her death. “Her presence will be greatly missed in our community and in our council meetings.”
Brummett was first elected to Bullhead City Council in August 2020 after previously serving as a board member of the Bullhead City Fire District. Brummett also spent four years as a Planning and Zoning commissioner and a franchise license commissioner for the city.
Outside of local government, Brummett was heavily involved in the community. She served as secretary for the Colorado River Women’s Council, chairperson for the Colorado River Women’s Council Leadership Program, and secretary for the Colorado River Republican Women.
“The loss of Norma hits the City very hard,” said Bullhead City Manager Toby Cotter. “Not only have we lost an impassioned policymaker, we have lost a cherished friend. Norma’s gentle and positive personality were an absolute treasure to experience.”
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A social media video appears to show a woman being “voted” off of a Frontier Airlines flight on Monday, according to a report from ABC Action News in Philadelphia.
The TikTok video was posted by a passenger, and the wild times started when a family asked to get their seats moved.
The Atlanta-bound plane was still on the tarmac when a verbal altercation started between a couple, a flight attendant and another passenger, according to the story.
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A female passenger pleaded with a flight attendant to not kick her and another man off the flight.
After ground crew members removed the couple, other passengers took a vote on whether to kick a third person off of the plane.
“If you can hear me and want her removed from the flight, raise your hand!” yelled one passenger.
Several of the passengers raised their hands, and the woman was eventually removed by someone who appeared to be with the ground crew.
This incident was one of many across the country in which passengers have been removed from flights. According to the FAA, 586 “unruly passengers” have been reported so far in 2023.
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CROWN POINT — Lake County’s Court Appointed Special Advocates for children saw increased turnout and a sizeable donation Friday from the Lake County Bar Association at its Pinwheel Day.
For the annual Pinwheel Day, participants plant blue pinwheels in commemoration of National Child Abuse Prevention Month. April has held that designation in the United States since 1983.
Prevent Child Abuse America introduced the blue pinwheel in 2008 as the national symbol for child-abuse prevention.
CASA is a nonprofit that works to advocate for abused and neglected children in the juvenile court system.
CASA Director Joann Price said Pinwheel Day has been held since the late 1980s or early 1990s. This was her first as director of CASA, although it’s not her first time attending the event.
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Among the speakers were juvenile-court Judge Thomas P. Stefaniak Jr., Department of Child Services Regional Director Twan Stokes, Geminus Corp. Director Kristin Chamberlain and Chief Juvenile Probation Officer Kevin Elkins.
Attendees included people who worked in the juvenile court system, DCS employees and CASA volunteers.
Price said people often see court proceedings as adversarial, and Pinwheel Day serves as an outlet to show people that, while there are different perspectives, at the end of the day they’re trying to do what’s best for the kids.
“It’s important to me that we all embrace one another, and that we show the community that we're not out here wringing each other's necks,” Price said. “We really are trying to do the best that we can to come together as a community to help protect and preserve the safety and well-being of children.”
After speakers gave their thanks and opening remarks, Shontrai Irving, the chairman of the Lake County Bar Association's community outreach, announced that his organization would be donating $1,500 in toys and books to CASA.
“We just wanted to do something to help let them know that we support their endeavors. And we know it's the right thing to do,” Irving said. “There are a lot of children who are going through a great deal of trauma and they are on the front lines advocating for the children, and we just want to support them in a special way.”
After the donation announcement, participants planted their blue pinwheels along a tree outside the juvenile services center, 3000 West 93rd Ave.
Price said she was told about the donation, but she was still surprised. She described how CASA is primarily a volunteer organization, which is why visibility and connecting with the community is incredibly important.
Volunteer Loni Rich reiterated Price’s comments about community engagement and visibility. When she heard about the donation, she was so happy that she wanted to cry.
Rich continues to volunteer with CASA is because she was once “one of those kids.”
“They didn’t have people like us back then,” she said, so it makes her feel “warm and fuzzy” to see the community’s response to events like adoption days and Pinwheel Day. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/casa-s-annual-pinwheels-for-child-abuse-prevention-garners-1-500-donation/article_45d288e4-e384-11ed-9a98-5fddbacf5f01.html | 2023-05-04T02:18:52 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/casa-s-annual-pinwheels-for-child-abuse-prevention-garners-1-500-donation/article_45d288e4-e384-11ed-9a98-5fddbacf5f01.html |
Tuesday's meeting on the proposed new Flagstaff Medical Center (FMC) campus included 50 comments from residents, healthcare workers and others sharing their thoughts on the project's plan.
Attendees filled the Flagstaff City Council chambers to watch the meeting, which lasted just over seven hours. Tuesday was Council's first reading of the specific plan and zoning map amendments for the project proposed by Northern Arizona Healtcare (NAH), though action on the item was postponed to May 16.
Over the last two and half hours of the meeting, 50 attendees made public comment on the project (all but four of them in-person), with 31 in support and 19 either expressing a mixed opinion or asking Council to vote against it.
Each commenter was given three minutes to express their opinion, with those representing at least 10 other meeting attendees given 10 minutes to speak. Several also read letters on behalf of other residents during their comments, though these individuals were not granted additional time.
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Most of those in favor of the project had some connection to NAH, either as healthcare workers or through involvement in the project itself. These included nurses and those working with groups such as the Children’s Health Center and Flagstaff Emergency Physicians.
“Flagstaff is growing and that growth will continue. There is no turning back,” said NAH's RN director Louann Mace, who read a supportive letter from another NAH employee in addition to her own comment. “Progress is part of that growth and with that progress comes great responsibility. ... It has been a continual game of Tetris, moving and expanding, repurposing what is available to keep pace yet it is never enough. Our community deserves better.”
Representatives of Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce, the Northern Arizona Leadership Alliance and the Economic Collaborative of Northern Arizona also asked city council to vote yes, speaking of the project’s potential benefits.
Alex Castillo read a letter on behalf of Tuba City Regional Healthcare Corporation CEO Joette Walters.
“The demand for healthcare services at FMC is outpacing NAH’s ability to provide the needed care, not because NAH providers lack the skill, but because the hospital simply does not have the space to accommodate the patient volumes needing NAH’s care,” she wrote. “This means patients must be sent to hospitals much farther from their homes. Instead of a one and a half hour drive to Flagstaff, our patients and their families are facing drives of four hours or more to Phoenix and beyond. This distance is a cost burden that makes it impossible for our patients to have the familial support needed when they have serious lifesaving surgeries and when they need necessary lifesaving care that we are not able to provide at TCRHCC.
"NAH has outgrown the current medical center campus and it cannot be expanded to meet the growing need for healthcare in our region. NAH’s proposal for the future health and wellness village will be a significant investment in the next generation of healthcare. It will ensure that patients across northern Arizona have high-quality, state-of-the-art healthcare closer to home.”
Other supporters included Flagstaff and Cottonwood residents who cited a need for better healthcare in the area. Two told stories of long wait times in the emergency department -- which they attributed to the need for better facilities. Flagstaff resident Molly Munger was one of these, saying she had spent six hours in FMC’s emergency room waiting for a bed to become available.
“All employees were apologetic and did their best, but there just were no available beds,” she said. “Healthcare and its delivery has changed and it’s doing so constantly. We can’t be in a catch-up or should've, could've environment. We must invest in the future now.”
Kate Summer Ellis read a statement from Steve Vargas, a longtime resident who volunteers with NAH.
“Imagine where we would be if we tried to provide high-quality healthcare today from the original small, old building on the west side of Beaver Street,” Vargas wrote. “Thankfully, we didn't try to do this. We knew that wouldn't make sense and it wouldn't work. Yet today this is the very decision we’re making, trying to provide high-quality healthcare from a facility that has already burst at the seams and cannot provide the same quality of care that we want and need in our thriving community.”
Three members of the County Board of Supervisors -- Jeronimo Vasquez, Matt Ryan and Chair Patrice Horstman -- were the first to comment at the meeting, asking for greater collaboration from NAH on the project.
Potential issues they referenced were the traffic analysis, financial support for public transit expansion, plans for Purple Sage Trail and NAH’s expectations for noise from events at Fort Tuthill.
They also sought more information on the impacts of having the hospital and county park next to each other. Horstman noted that they had sent a letter to NAH about the project in December and only received a reply and map of the proposed development last week.
“We need to have meaningful collaboration, meaningful decisions and meaningful agreements,” Horstman said. “We can't just live by saying, ‘Hey, someday we're going to sit down and be your partner.’ We need to have meaningful discussions about what this is going to mean for Fort Tuthill, what it's going to mean for the existing hospital site, what it's going to mean for the communities near the proposed site. We understand the need for a proposed hospital and a medical center here in Coconino County and in Flagstaff, so let's work together, let’s get it done right.”
While Flagstaff resident Pat Ellsworth said she understood the need for a new hospital, she asked for a carbon footprint analysis on the project in addition to the other analyses already included in the plan.
“This is a missing piece of analysis for the project,” she said. “How will you know what reduction in the carbon footprint will occur with different design options if there has been no original analysis of the carbon footprint? Climate change and air pollution -- and the two are closely connected -- are both health issues for this community.”
Charles Sechrist, the grandson of the hospital’s founder (who had the same name) and a 38-year employee of the hospital, asked Council to consider its role as “stewards of this asset.”
“It was my grandparents' wish that FMC be a community hospital,” he said. “Whatever you decide, keep that in mind. You are the stewards of an amazing gift that my grandparents gave.”
Two representatives of Friends of Flagstaff’s Future spoke, asking for a community health needs assessment and more comprehensive sustainability impact information before the plans moved forward.
“Is the proposal to move FMC from its current location to the edge of town good for the health of our community, as NAH states? We believe you cannot know the answer to this given the information you have,” said Marilyn Weissman. “We have not seen an objective analysis of how this move will impact our overall well-being. We should not solely rely on the applicant as our source of information. ... The move from the hospital's current location has ramifications for thousands of people in some aspect of healthcare. For this reason, an unbiased community needs assessment is warranted.“
Similarly, Stefan Sommer, who is on the board of the Northern Arizona Climate Change Alliance, asked Council to require more information from NAH on the project’s environmental impacts (particularly carbon footprint) as well as additional commitments to sustainability measures. He used the Planning and Zoning Commission's questions about solar on the parking lots and NAH’s subsequent inclusion of solar panels on the garage as examples.
“Without knowing what the carbon footprint of that project is, you have no way to evaluate how this project will or will not help the city reach that goal,” he said. “You need to require NAH to provide what the footprint of the construction, the operation and all the associated impact of this new hospital is going to be.”
Only one commenter, Dr. Douglas Mapel of the Northern Arizona Pulmonary Associates, asked for the additional speaking time given to those representing a group of attendees. The majority of two rows on one half of the chamber stood when city council asked who he represented, plus a few others elsewhere in the room.
He expressed a variety of concerns with the project, which he asked Council to consider in its decision.
Like Weissman, Mapel emphasized the need for a community health assessment, saying that this would give an understanding of what new facilities are actually needed in the city as well as insight into the project’s impacts.
“Ten years from now, if we don't have a study now, we’ll have no way to know whether this experimental village approach has actually benefited us,” he said. “ ... You should not be in a hurry to spend tens of millions of dollars in taxpayers' money. You should know precisely what you are getting for our investment. We should know precisely as possible what the health of our population is.”
NAH and city staff were both given 10 minutes to respond at the end of the comments, though neither took the full time.
NAH's chief legal counsel, Colleen Maring, said she wanted to respond to two specific items that had been brought up in multiple comments: certificate holders and the community health needs assessment. She said the certificate holders are still an advisory group that meets with NAH every other month, and that some had commented at the meeting without identifying themselves. She also said that NAH conducts a community health needs assessment every two to three years, with the most recent being completed in 2022.
Tiffany Antol’s statement on behalf of city staff was even shorter, stating that they were available for additional questions Council might have.
A recording of the meeting is available online. Discussion of the specific plan and zoning map amendments begins one hour and 15 minutes into the recording, while public comment begins at about four hours and 10 minutes. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-residents-respond-to-fmc-campus-plans/article_15eb7634-e9e9-11ed-9227-97e7e68f9c23.html | 2023-05-04T02:19:24 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-residents-respond-to-fmc-campus-plans/article_15eb7634-e9e9-11ed-9227-97e7e68f9c23.html |
The top pairs from the Flagstaff and Coconino beach volleyball programs met similar ends to their respective spring seasons Tuesday at the Division II state championship tournament in Queen Creek.
The Coconino duo of seniors Eiley Palmer and Hope Williamson fell in the second round. They lost to Ashlyn Unruh and Zoe Yates of Chandler Prep, who were seeded No. 3, 21-5, 21-15.
Flagstaff senior Haylee Gilleland and Macie Moseng, seeded sixth in the bracket, won their second-round match over Valley Christian's Claire Gilbert and Kelsey Brooks, 21-15, 21-19. But in the third round, the Eagles duo also fell to Unruh and Yates, 21-11, 16-21, 15-11.
Gilleland and Moseng capped off their season with a record of 9-3, and the Panthers' duo finished their spring with a record of 6-5.
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Panthers 9, Eagles 1
No. 14-seeded Flagstaff is a game away from elimination after dropping a 4A Conference state tournament game at sixth-seeded Paradise Honors in Surprise on Tuesday.
The Eagles (16-5, 9-3 Grand Canyon) tallied just three hits and struck out 15 times, as Paradise Honors senior pitcher Samara Romero dominated from the circle.
The Panthers led 6-0 after three innings. Flagstaff got its lone run on a sacrifice bunt from senior Reese Elliott that scored junior Gianna Baca in the top of the fourth inning.
The loss sets up a rivalry matchup between the Eagles and No. 7 Coconino Thursday at Coconino High School in an elimination game. Coconino fell 6-2 at No. 2 Greenway Tuesday.
CHS softball lost its state tournament game, 6-2, setting up a meeting with FHS.
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Griffins 5, Spartans 0
No. 15 Northland Prep Academy ended its season with a loss at No. 10 Glendale Prep Tuesday.
The Griffins won five singles matches, each in straight-sets, that ended the match before doubles needed to be played.
The Spartans finished the season with a record of 7-5 (7-4 Section Six).
Individuals bounced from tournament
Basis Flagstaff senior Jenna Crone reached the Division III singles bracket quarterfinals Sunday in Glendale. Crone was seeded No. 7, and fell 6-1, 6-1 to second-seeded Siona Vallabhaneni of Rancho Solano Prep.
Yeti sophomore Niya Crowder lost in the first round, as did Northland Prep Spartans junior Helena Gaviglio.
Basis Flagstaff seniors Abby Buckley and Sarah Buckley, seeded No. 6 in the D-III doubles tournament, fell in the first round of their bracket. Northland Prep junior Arushi Patel and sophomore Amelia Raab won their first-round match over Safford, 6-1, 2-6, 10-6, but were defeated in the second round. | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/local-roundup-beach-volleyball-pairs-end-seasons-tuesday/article_7b8bdd1a-e9d2-11ed-9d09-875b0a5ac3fb.html | 2023-05-04T02:19:36 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/local-roundup-beach-volleyball-pairs-end-seasons-tuesday/article_7b8bdd1a-e9d2-11ed-9d09-875b0a5ac3fb.html |
No cancer risk found at Montana's Malmstrom nuclear missile base so far, Air Force says
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A review of a Montana nuclear missile base where an unusual number of troops have been diagnosed with blood cancer has found no current risk factors that could explain it, the Air Force says.
The service has been investigating the issue since reports surfaced in January of at least nine missileers who had served at Malmstrom Air Force Base who were diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In the months since, more than 30 cancer cases at Malmstrom and the nation's other nuclear missile facilities, including F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California have come to light.
But the medical review found that “overall, there were no factors identified that would be considered immediate concerns for acute cancer risks,” the Air Force’s 711th Human Performance Wing said in a report obtained by the Associated Press.
“Additionally, there was nothing specifically noted at Malmstrom’s main base or operational missile sites that would indicate a specific reason for increased cancer," the report said.
The findings by the Air Force — which do not mean it will stop investigating the issue — are bringing both frustration and renewed grief to the families whose service members are fighting cancer, or have already died.
But some also hope a spotlight on the issue will at least result in the Air Force carrying out a full cancer study of all the men and women who have worked with the nation's nuclear warheads, and hopefully an easier path to medical care.
Rhonda Wesolowski’s son Air Force Capt. Jason Jenness was a senior missile launch officer in the 1990s with the now-deactivated 564th missile squadron at Malmstrom. He died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2001 at the age of 31.
Even back then, his mother says, she was concerned his cancer had to do with his service, “and his friends were concerned, because there were rumors." But when she reached out to the Air Force, “I got a form letter," she said. To her, the letter left her feeling that the cancers were "being swept under the rug.”
Her son, Jason Jenness, died five months after his diagnosis.
“I knew it was too big. Too big a fight,” she said of trying to push the Air Force to figure out why her son and other missileers were getting sick. “I still think its too big a fight. I’m very happy that there’s some spotlight being put on it, because then it will make people more aware, and kids who are going into the service may ask more questions, and it may help in that regard."
Jeff Fawcett Jr.’s father also served with 564th missile squadron at Malmstrom, from 1988 to 1992. He died in 2016 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, both types of blood cancers. He was 56.
Jeff Fawcett Sr. served for 25 years — and if he was alive now, “would never be able to bring himself to the conclusion” that his missileer service might have been connected to his cancer, his son said. “He loved the military,” Fawcett Jr. said.
But the son is hoping the Air Force will do more to look for possible causes. Because the elder Fawcett served a 20-year military career, he received lifetime military medical care. Walter Reed doctors said his six-month battle could have cost more than $1 million if the family had to go through a private hospital and insurance, Fawcett Jr. said.
“His care didn’t bankrupt my family,” the son said. “But what if you’re a young lieutenant who did four years and got out, and 15 years later you have an awful blood cancer and you are paying God knows how much?”
Missileers are young military officers who monitor, operate and stand ready to fire the nation's nuclear warheads — sitting alert in underground launch control centers for shifts that can last from 24 to 48 hours.
But both the launch control centers and the missile silos they oversee were built more than 60 years ago. In the decades since, as the facilities have aged, former and current missileers have worried about asbestos in the hardened facilities, about ventilation of the air they have breathed from old duct systems while underground, about the water they have drunk and emissions from equipment they used.
The review did make recommendations to address some of those concerns, including that the Air Force consider a deep clean of each launch control center, that it clearly mark safe boundaries for radio frequency sources, and to cease the practice of burning classified documents while locked inside the launch control center.
The Air Force is committed to continuing to investigate the issue and will conduct an epidemiological study of cancers within the missile community, the service said.
To conduct the initial review, the Air Force sent medical teams to Malmstrom, to F.E. Warren and to Minot from Feb. 27 to March 7 to talk to crews and assess each facility.
Dean Shockley was a young enlisted man at Malmstrom serving in the base's 341st maintenance group, where he worked on the missile silos from 1987 to 1989 — the same time frame that Fawcett Sr. was an officer there. In 2022, also at the age of 56, Shockley was diagnosed with an inoperable glioblastoma, a brain tumor.
Shockley, like most enlisted members, did not serve a full 20-year military career. He left after five years of military service.
It took his wife Garlanda Shockley “a month of constant calls daily, several times a day” to get the Department of Veterans Affairs to cover some of the medical costs, she said. Their insurance to date has covered most of the rest. But the potential that the coverage could stop, and the costs that would create, weighs on her.
“I have so much to worry about, I would like to know that he is cared for,” Garlanda Shockley said. | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/no-cancer-risk-found-malmstrom-air-force-nuclear-base-montana/70176592007/ | 2023-05-04T02:24:34 | 1 | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/no-cancer-risk-found-malmstrom-air-force-nuclear-base-montana/70176592007/ |
DALLAS — The city of Dallas suffered a ransomware attack Wednesday which interrupted its computer-based emergency dispatch, the court system, the Dallas Police Department website, and the city's own website.
As of Wednesday night, the source of the attack had not yet been isolated, but the city's information technology department said it would work "around the clock" to identify that source and isolate all impacted devices.
The city said services to residents continued "with minimal disruption".
911 was not impacted, but sources told WFAA the city's computer-aided dispatch system was not working.
Mobile computers in DPD cruisers were also impacted, according to sources.
911 dispatchers normally type in notes that emergency crews can see, but Wednesday they had to take handwritten notes from callers.
Those notes were then read via radio to police and fire crews.
The city's security monitoring tools detected the ransomware attack early Wednesday morning, the city said in a message sent to councilmembers around 9 a.m.
The text read, "a number of servers have been compromised with ransomware impacting several functional areas."
The city made the news public in a statement a few hours later.
City courts were closed Wednesday and will be closed again Thursday.
Online payment of water bills "may be delayed," the city said, but promised no disconnections would be processed until the outage caused by the attack is resolved.
Bhavani Thuraisingham, professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Dallas and founder of the Cyber Security Research and Education institute, said a ransomware attack likely means hackers got into the city's network, encrypted city data, and are asking for the city to pay to regain access to the data
She said news of an attack on a city worried her because of the potential crippling of emergency services.
The city of Dallas did not answer any questions and instead pointed to statements posted to its city news website.
So it's not clear if the hackers are making any demands of the city.
"I’d rather not pay the ransom," Thuraisingham said. "But in some cases you cannot avoid it. It depends on how prepared they were and whether they had backed up all the data and files they need."
She said hackers are getting bolder, leaving everyone vulnerable.
"All it takes is for the attacker to get into the machine of one person, and if you’re on a network it can spread to everyone on the network," Thuraisingham said.
The city had a previous outage on April 19, which caused a city council meeting that day to be canceled and rescheduled. The outage affected most city departments, including 311 and water utilities.
Dallas police had their own issues last year when a loss of data occurred, causing more than 8 million records to be deleted. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/city-of-dallas-ransomware-attack-against-network/287-eef44d88-ab66-4d90-883e-554f5857a097 | 2023-05-04T02:28:32 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/city-of-dallas-ransomware-attack-against-network/287-eef44d88-ab66-4d90-883e-554f5857a097 |
HOUSTON — Passengers leaving Houston's Bush Intercontinental Aiport to head to Atlanta Wednesday weren't the only ones ready for vacation.
Hoping to catch a Delta flight out of the Bayou City was a group of bees that were found hanging on one of the wings of the aircraft.
And we're not talking just a dozen or so bees. A picture from Twitter user Anjali Enjeti shows a swarm of hundreds of bees that found shelter on the wing of the aircraft.
Through Twitter, Enjeti described how the airline announced it was getting a beekeeper to remove the bees but later the captain said the beekeeper was not allowed to touch the plane and pest control was not allowed to spray them off either.
After exhausting other bee-removal options and delaying the flight for about three hours, the airline said it was finally able to safely shake the bees loose by using some ground equipment.
Delta said "bee-lieve it or not," this kind of swarming of bees upon an aircraft is rare, but not unheard of.
"I've taken bee swarms off of tugboats, airplanes, concrete walls," said Mike Sexton, AKA The Bee Man.
He said during this time of year, bee swarms are more active.
"They usually start in the south and they move towards the north," Sexton said.
As the bees get tired along the way, they take a rest, which could be what happened on the plane's wing.
“Whenever bee swarms start, they’re going to gorge themselves with a bunch of honey and the old queen is going to take off with a bunch of workers so they're not going to eat again until they actually get to a new home, so in the meantime they rest and conserve their energy, so they land on anything,” Sexton said.
Over in Sugar Land, beehives were actually built at Sugar Land Regional Airport's undeveloped property after bees spent years using the airport as its residence.
The airport decided not to get rid of the bees in an effort to make a positive impact on the community and environment.
Each hive at the Sugar Land Regional Airport will house nearly 40,000 bees and pollinate around three to five acres of land, the city said. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/delta-airplane-bees-houston/285-eebd12f2-7d52-4f1a-983d-95cd5138ff1b | 2023-05-04T02:28:38 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/delta-airplane-bees-houston/285-eebd12f2-7d52-4f1a-983d-95cd5138ff1b |
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — 3NEWS set out Wednesday to answer the question of whether certain property owners on Padre Island are not having to pay the same tax rate as other residents?
There are plenty of residents on Padre Island who aren't happy about their rising property taxes.
One viewer sent 3NEWS a question about why Axys Capital Credit was still paying the same amount in property taxes on nearly all of the lots the company had bought several years ago out on the Island.
Nueces County Chief Appraiser Ronnie Canales did confirm to 3NEWS that Axys is one of the largest property owners on the Island. He also said that there's a reason why they were given a discount on their property taxes.
"The answer to that is those properties, once they are developed well, of course carry it's price, but in the meantime, though the majority of the properties that we are making a reference to is submerged land, undeveloped land," he said.
The property owned by Axys sits off of Sea Pine Drive, which is the last street on Padre Island. The property currently isn't developed, which is why developers were able to get a discounted property tax rate from the appraisal district.
"Typically when a developer has a large inventory like that we do offer an inventory rate, there's a set of criteria that has to be met," said Nueces County Appraisal District Residential Real Estate Manager Debra Morin.
That criteria includes having to be a developer who has the property in their portfolio for development and is listed for sale on the open market. Also, no improvements can be made.
"It may be a quarter, it may be a third, something like that. Maybe half again it just depends," she said.
The appraisal district did confirm the property tax break, which is available to any developer in the city if they meet the criteria.
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DALLAS — The world of pro wrestling produces great stories behind the scenes just by virtue of its chaotic, absurd nature. There's a whole subgenre of older wrestlers sharing stories of being on the road back in the territory days. They're all over YouTube and they will take over your recommended videos list.
With that said, a wrestling legend such as Kevin Von Erich, a local hero to North Texans of a certain age, would have some of the wildest stories to tell from his decades of experience wrestling around the world alongside his brothers as the Von Erichs.
The trio were heartthrobs practically worshiped in their heyday before tragedy struck the family. Now, Kevin Von Erich is the only remaining Von Erich brother of his generation, and he has two sons following in his footsteps.
Von Erich plans to talk about these triumphs and tragedies in his first public appearance in Dallas in more than 20 years during a one-man show on Sept. 1 at the Majestic Theatre.
"Stories from the Top Rope" will be hosted by former WFAA sports anchor Dale Hansen and will feature Von Erich telling stories from his storied wrestling career.
"I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be doing this show, to get back to Texas and see everyone who has been so loyal for more than forty years," Von Erich said in a statement. "We’ve got some great stories to tell and having Dale Hansen up there with me… it will be just like a Friday night at Sportatorium.”
This show is also happening with the film "The Iron Claw." Currently in production, the A24 film will chronicle the history of the Von Erich brothers from their triumph to their downfall. Kevin Von Erich will be played by Zac Efron, while his brothers Kerry and David will be played by Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson, respectively.
Tickets for Kevin Von Erich's one-man show are on sale now and can be purchased here. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/legendary-texas-wrestler-kevin-von-erich-making-rare-appearance-september-majestic-theatre/287-890ddf11-9c60-4d80-b0bb-ac55f4267991 | 2023-05-04T02:28:51 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/legendary-texas-wrestler-kevin-von-erich-making-rare-appearance-september-majestic-theatre/287-890ddf11-9c60-4d80-b0bb-ac55f4267991 |
DALLAS — A North Texas fitness influencer has settled with the state of Texas after the state claimed she scammed thousands of customers by not delivering fitness and nutrition plans.
It is not known the conditions or for what amount of money the influencer, Brittany Dawn Davis, settled the case. A letter from the Texas Attorney General's Office states that a hearing on a motion for entry of judgment will be filed in the next two weeks and asking that the trial date, previously set for May 15, be vacated.
A letter from Cecilia H. Morgan, an arbitrator for the case, told the judge in the case, Monica Purdy, the parties and counsel in the case had a mediation session on April 25 and had successfully resolved their dispute.
Davis has close to 500,000 Instagram followers and 1.3 million on TikTok. She built her following by posting fitness and health content and sharing how she overcame an eating disorder.
By 2019, though, thousands of people had complained that Dawn wasn’t delivering them the customized plans they’d paid for. Davis went on Good Morning America to apologize.
“Jumped into an industry that had no instructional manual,” she said in 2019. “I’m basically going through uncharted territory.”
Then, a year ago, the attorney general’s office filed a deceptive trade practices act lawsuit, asking for between $250,000 and $1 million in damages. They said the plans ranged from $92 to $300 and charged for shipping fees even though the plans were entirely digital.
Davis has continued to post on social media and has even gained half a million TikTok followers in the year since the state filed its suit, according to SocialBlade.
She’s pivoted to posting about Christianity now under the brand "She Lives Freed" and is instead selling tickets to spirituality retreats. Last April, a one-day event in Fort Worth was charging $125 per person.
“Fitness and health are no longer my identity,” she shared in a 2019 YouTube video. “My identity is in Christ.” | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/north-texas-fitness-influencer-allegedly-scammed-customers-settles-state/287-8d7973da-7389-4fd9-ad17-855c284609d0 | 2023-05-04T02:28:57 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/north-texas-fitness-influencer-allegedly-scammed-customers-settles-state/287-8d7973da-7389-4fd9-ad17-855c284609d0 |
MIDLAND, Texas — Oil and gas prices have stayed steady over the last couple of months, which is good news for the local economy.
"Because it has traditionally been a boom and a bust cycle out here, workers will leave and never come back because they don't like losing their job," said Mickey Cargile of Cargile Investment Management. "That's something that's been true out here our entire existence. It's a little different now because we have a little smoother period with the oil production."
Right now there is a gap in the amount of workers needed to fill positions for jobs in the area.
"It is hard to get workers out here," said Cargile. "Local unemployment is at about 2.8%, so that obviously, that means there's more jobs than workers."
To get more people to come to the Permian Basin, it's about building a place where people want to live.
"As far as getting more workers out here, you know, we need to build out our infrastructure a little bit more," said Cargile. "But, when you have good-paying jobs like we have out here, that will kind of take care of itself."
As of right now, things look as if they will be staying on course.
"My outlook for the future here remains bright," said Cargile. "There may be a little softening, but I don't think it'll be enough that most people will notice." | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/permian-basin-economy-holding-strong/513-9e7de775-9e0b-4754-b87f-efe64575cb18 | 2023-05-04T02:29:03 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/permian-basin-economy-holding-strong/513-9e7de775-9e0b-4754-b87f-efe64575cb18 |
The Cedar Creek High School girls lacrosse team defeated Millville 9-8 in overtime Wednesday in a Cape-Atlantic League National Division game.
Cierra Sansone scored five for the Pirates (7-5). Mia McColl scored two and added an assist. Emily Winterbottom had four draw controls and an assist. Quinlan Branca scored once. Kailey Deman added three forced turnovers. Delfina Vanelli made eight saves.
Melania Tomlin scored four for Millville (3-8). Ayla Gomez added two assists and a goal. Gianna Weldon, Brooke Powers and Emma Megines each scored once, and Julia Thompson had an assist.
No. 8 Holy Spirit 14, Mainland Reg. 8: Maddie Abbott scored four, including the 100th of her career. Hanna Watson added four goals and four assists. Kendall Murphy added three assists and scored twice. Brielle Soltys had three assists and scored once. Taylor Lyons had one goal, and Kira Murray and Tess Roman each had an assist. Marissa Gras made four saves.
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Ava Sheeran, Eva Blanco and Jane Meade each scored twice for Mainland (6-5). Lani Ford scored once and had an assist. Avery Notaro scored once, and Blanco added an assist.
Middle Twp. 13, Lower Cape May Reg. 9: Carmen O'Hara scored four for the Panthers (3-5). Abbie Teefy scored three and had three assists. Maddyn McAnaney scored three and had an assist. Eliza Billingham had a goal and an assist, and Casey Nagle had an assist. Olivia Rodgers made 11 saves.
Ainsley Reed scored two and added an assist for Lower (4-5). Olivia Lewis, Tessa Hueber and Brianna Loper each had a goal and assist. Maddie Gilbert, Sianna King, Nora Shoffler and Ryan Salinsky each scored once. Allyson Walsh made 11 saves.
Our Lady of Mercy 19, Absegami 4: Lucia Visalli and Rylie Gemberling each scored five and added an assist for the Villagers (10-2). Gabby Eaise scored four and had an assist. Gabby Celli added two goals and an assist. Kenzie Celli, Grace McMahon and Alex Sirakides each scored once and had an assist. Sirakides added nine draw controls, and Gemberling had five. Kaleigh Matlack made two saves.
Sarah Glass scored two for Absegami (3-5). Grace Reitzel and Fay DeBlasio each scored once.
No. 7 Ocean City 19, Egg Harbor Twp. 6: Breanna Fabi scored three for the Red Raiders (7-4). Grace McAfee added two goals and two assists. Ryan Cooke, Kelsea Cooke and Katie Pierce each scored twice. Amelia Govern added two assists. Giovanna Barbato and Madison Wenner each scored once. Delainey Sutley and Brynn Culmone each had an assist and scored once. Ellie Kutschera made four saves, Aliza Otton made two.
Taylor Lear scored three for the Eagles (1-9). Angelina Petracci had three assists and one goal. Jossalyn Gagnon and Skyler Wood each scored once. Suhayla Johnson- Ramirez added 13 saves.
Atlantic City 15, Oakcrest 3: Alexandra Dounoulis scored seven for the Vikings (5-3). Mia D'Arco scored six, and Mary Wagner added one. For Oakcrest (0-10), Addison Maulone scored three, and Rachel Carson had an assist.
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Oakcrest 16, Atlantic City 2: Cole Sanders and Marek Guerrier each scored three for the Falcons (2-6), who led 13-1 at halftime. Mark DeCicco had three assists and scored twice. Joseph Snodgrass, Connor Flynn and Micah Whitehead each scored twice. William Will and Josh Buros each had one goal. Jorge Curtidor-Cornejo made 10 saves.
Jimmy Downing scored two for Atlantic City (0-6). | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/cedar-creek-beats-millville-in-overtime-wednesdays-roundup/article_f2339efe-ea0d-11ed-9bf7-2f1e554b16ed.html | 2023-05-04T02:30:33 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/cedar-creek-beats-millville-in-overtime-wednesdays-roundup/article_f2339efe-ea0d-11ed-9bf7-2f1e554b16ed.html |
Former firefighter, Caddo Commissioner named new public information officer for Bossier
Bossier City has named a new public information officer. On Tuesday, Mayor Tommy Chandler brought Louis Johnson to the podium during the Bossier City regular city council meeting to announce his new role.
"I am so proud, we have been looking for a public information officer for a good while and I would like to introduce our new public information officer, Louis," said Chandler.
Johnson, a former firefighter of more than 33 years and Caddo Commissioner said, "I'm looking forward to working with you communicating and working on both our external and internal communications within the city."
Councilmember Don Williams made a comment saying that Johnson was thrown into the fire Tuesday morning after the shooting that left a Bossier City police officer injured. "You did a great job, a fantastic job," said Williams. "You were holding your own."
During the Tuesday meeting, Johnson's family was in attendance.
Bossier City welcomes a new Public Information Officer
Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com. | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2023/05/03/bossier-city-has-named-the-new-public-information-officer/70176644007/ | 2023-05-04T02:30:36 | 0 | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2023/05/03/bossier-city-has-named-the-new-public-information-officer/70176644007/ |
WATERLOO –- Police are investigating after a car hit a Waterloo house Wednesday night.
Details weren’t immediately available, but passenger car left the roadway and struck an aluminum ramp leading up to the front door at 1914 E. Fourth St.
An ambulance was called to the scene, but no serious injuries were reported. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/car-hits-house-in-waterloo/article_c6e7825f-ed19-54ed-b579-403e99772adc.html | 2023-05-04T02:31:27 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/car-hits-house-in-waterloo/article_c6e7825f-ed19-54ed-b579-403e99772adc.html |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Voters will be heading to the polls in less than two weeks, and will be deciding on key races at the local and state level.
“We often think of those high-profile elections; presidents, senators and governors as the ones we really pay attention to and are the most important," said Dan Mallinson, a public policy professor at Penn State Harrisburg. "But the courts are incredibly important.”
Mallinson says positions with the state Supreme Court, Commonwealth Court, and Superior Court are up for grabs.
He adds that recent history shows the importance of Pennsylvania’s court system when it comes to shaping state policy.
“In 2018, the state Supreme Court threw out the district map of Pennsylvania. Ultimately, because of a log jam with the legislature and governor, that court then ended up drawing the congressional districts," said Mallinson. "We recently had a decision by the Commonwealth Court, which will likely be heard by the Supreme Court, declaring the way we fund our schools to be illegal in the state.”
He adds that the lack of high-profile races, like the 2022 midterms, often will impact voter turnout in off-year elections. He told FOX43 that devoted partisan voters will likely decide the winners of the May primaries.
“You’re going to have more of those stronger, polarized views among those who are often coming out to vote in these elections," said Mallinson.
Even with the off-year election label, he believes these races are still consequential.
“[The courts] are a co-equal branch with the governor and the legislature, they are just as important," he said. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/highlighting-key-pa-court-races-ahead-of-the-2023-primaries-politics-elections-harrisburg-dauphin-county/521-e7bfdda1-d545-4274-9b17-3d17db28871c | 2023-05-04T02:33:48 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/highlighting-key-pa-court-races-ahead-of-the-2023-primaries-politics-elections-harrisburg-dauphin-county/521-e7bfdda1-d545-4274-9b17-3d17db28871c |
The Lacey Township High School boys golf team defeated Toms River South, Central Regional and Freehold Borough in a Shore Conference tri-match at par-36 Cedar Creek Golf Course.
The Lions (12-7) clinched a berth in the South Jersey Group III plays with the win. The tournament will begin Monday at Riverwinds Golf Course.
On Wednesday, Lacey shot a combined 175. Central Regional shot a 194, and Freehold Borough had a 202. Toms River South shot a 220.
Connor Noon led Lacey with a 39. Cole Stracensky shot a 42, and Brendan Schuler carded a personal-low 45. Ryan Dimm shot a 49 to round out the Lions top scorers. Dimm also had a birdie.
Zackary Larsen carded a 43 for Freehold (4-11). Max Agnello shot a 45 for Central (2-11). CJ Park led Toms River South (0-11) with a 49.
Egg Harbor Twp. 187, ACIT 204
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At McCullough's Emerald Links, par 35
EHT: JP Hammer 45, Olivia Nehmad 45, Carson Bellak 48, Jake Barnhart 49
ACIT: Luca Canesi 42, Charles Davis 51, Brady Walk 55, Kenneth Souder 56
Birdies: Hammer, Nehmad EHT
No. 10 Ocean City 157, Vineland 195, Millville 203
At Eastlyn Golf Course, par 36
OC: Alex Bayham 36, Cam Yoa 39, Sam Ritti 40, Logan Ochs 42
V: Gino Descalzi 42, Marlin Toney 47, Joey Schmidt 52, Leo Klaas 54
M: Owen Gilson 46, Olivia Headley 50, Hayden Wickward 53, Konner Plummer 54
Records: Ocean City 11-4; Vineland 2-9; Millville 1-15
Hammonton 170, Middle Twp. 220
H: Shane McSorley 41, Nick Iuliucci 42, Matthew Smith 43, Connor Eberly 44
M: Matthew Radzieta 52, Stephen Harrison Morris 53, Paige Sutton 53, Gabby Braun 62
Records: Hammonton 15-9; Middle 1-4
Southern Reg. 168, Toms River North 183
S: Jackson Bodony 39, Robert Cassidy 42, Ryan Brown 43, Alex Henbest 44
T: Demetrius Bradford 43, Nicholas Christos 44, Dan Bachovchin 48, Brandon George 48
Records: Southern 8-7; TRN 8-4
Records: EHT 12-3; ACIT 0-13
No. 2 Washington Twp. 174, Cumberland Reg. 208
At Running Deer Golf Club, par 36
W: Luke Canino 40, John Bollendorf 42, Paul Welker 42, Cody Edwards 50
C: Stephen Wilchensky 47, Hudson Iwaszkiewicz 49, Scott Magee 56, William Cleaver 56
Records: Washington Twp. 12-2; Cumberland 0-12 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/lacey-golf-earns-playoff-berth-with-a-tri-match-sweep-wednesdays-roundup/article_b13719aa-ea10-11ed-bb3c-ebe1a05ef8ea.html | 2023-05-04T02:35:06 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/lacey-golf-earns-playoff-berth-with-a-tri-match-sweep-wednesdays-roundup/article_b13719aa-ea10-11ed-bb3c-ebe1a05ef8ea.html |
Madison Dollard pitched a complete game to lead the Egg Harbor Township High School softball team to an 8-1 victory over Hammonton in a Cape-Atlantic League American Division game Wednesday.
Dollard allowed just four hits and struck out 14 in the win for the Eagles (12-0).
Madison Biddle went 2 for 4 with a homer and three RBIs. Natalia Stewart added two runs and an RBI. Kaci Velardi scored twice. Sarah Hickey, Annaliese Valentino and Sienna Walterson each drove in a run.
Alexa Panagopoylos went 2 for 2 with a double and a homer for Hammonton (5-10). Gracie Ravenkamp pitched six innings and struck out four. Ava Livingston hit a double.
Ocean City 8, ACIT 6: The Red Raiders (8-6) scored two in the top of the seventh inning to break a 6-6 tie. Both teams had nine hits. Jessica Mooney struck out 13 in six innings for the winners. Lyla Ginzberg went 2 for 4 with two runs and two RBIs. MacKenzee Segich added two RBIs and a run. Carlee Hiddeman scored twice. Brooke Douglas went 2 for 4 with a run and an RBI.
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Samantha Passalaqua had two RBIs and two runs for ACIT (6-8). Carolina Bernard and Ella Feehan eachhad an RBI and a run. Mia Sarni and Sarah LoVullo each struck out two.
Absegami 13, Oakcrest 3: Audrey Phillips went 2 for 3 with three RBIs and a run for the Braves (8-4). Alyssa Bailey went 2 for 3 with four RBIs and three runs. Sarah Czeslaw went 2 for 5 with a double and two runs. Lily Ortiz went 2 for 3 with a double, two runs and an RBI. Olivia Mazuca added two runs. Victoria Smith struck out six and allowed just four hits in six innings.
Carly Angelo went 2 for 2 with a run for Oakcrest (6-4). Sophia Priestley had an RBI, and Sklyer Sukovich, and Trinity Brown each scored once. Sklyer Sukovich struck out three in three innings.
Atlantic Christian 6, Cape May Tech 0: Ava Nixon pitched a no hitter with 10 strikeouts for the Cougars (7-0). She also went 2 for 3 with a triple and an RBI. Paige Noble went 2 for 4 with a double and an RBI. Evangelina Kim went 2 for 3 with an RBI. Atlantic Christian scored four in the first inning.
Pitman 11, Cumberland Reg. 10: The Colts (4-8) scored six in the fourth inning to take a 7-5 lead. Pitman (8-6) scored five in the bottom of the fifth to take a 11-9 lead. For the winners, Angelina Lindner went 2 for 4 with two RBIs and three runs. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/madison-dollard-strikes-out-14-as-no-2-eht-defeats-hammonton-wednesdays-roundup/article_6f861688-ea14-11ed-84c9-cbb23f872dd8.html | 2023-05-04T02:35:13 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/madison-dollard-strikes-out-14-as-no-2-eht-defeats-hammonton-wednesdays-roundup/article_6f861688-ea14-11ed-84c9-cbb23f872dd8.html |
DALLAS — The world of pro wrestling produces great stories behind the scenes just by virtue of its chaotic, absurd nature. There's a whole subgenre of older wrestlers sharing stories of being on the road back in the territory days. They're all over YouTube and they will take over your recommended videos list.
With that said, a wrestling legend such as Kevin Von Erich, a local hero to North Texans of a certain age, would have some of the wildest stories to tell from his decades of experience wrestling around the world alongside his brothers as the Von Erichs.
The trio were heartthrobs practically worshiped in their heyday before tragedy struck the family. Now, Kevin Von Erich is the only remaining Von Erich brother of his generation, and he has two sons following in his footsteps.
Von Erich plans to talk about these triumphs and tragedies in his first public appearance in Dallas in more than 20 years during a one-man show on Sept. 1 at the Majestic Theatre.
"Stories from the Top Rope" will be hosted by former WFAA sports anchor Dale Hansen and will feature Von Erich telling stories from his storied wrestling career.
"I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be doing this show, to get back to Texas and see everyone who has been so loyal for more than forty years," Von Erich said in a statement. "We’ve got some great stories to tell and having Dale Hansen up there with me… it will be just like a Friday night at Sportatorium.”
This show is also happening with the film "The Iron Claw." Currently in production, the A24 film will chronicle the history of the Von Erich brothers from their triumph to their downfall. Kevin Von Erich will be played by Zac Efron, while his brothers Kerry and David will be played by Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson, respectively.
Tickets for Kevin Von Erich's one-man show are on sale now and can be purchased here. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/legendary-texas-wrestler-kevin-von-erich-making-rare-appearance-september-majestic-theatre/287-890ddf11-9c60-4d80-b0bb-ac55f4267991 | 2023-05-04T02:39:35 | 0 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/legendary-texas-wrestler-kevin-von-erich-making-rare-appearance-september-majestic-theatre/287-890ddf11-9c60-4d80-b0bb-ac55f4267991 |
HILLSBOROUGH, Fla. – A baby girl was welcomed into the world on the side of Highway 60 by a Hillsborough County Deputy on Sunday.
A driver approached Master Deputy Daniel “Red” Jones in a panic, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO.)
The man stated his pregnant wife was about to give birth on the shoulder of Highway 60 in Plant City.
HCSO stated Jones provided, “constant encouragements and emotional support. He used his training to ensure a safe delivery.” He also contacted Hillsborough County Fire Rescue.
Though it comes as no surprise because this is Jones’ third time delivering a baby, explained Sheriff Chad Chronister.
HCFR transported both mother and child to a nearby hospital for further evaluation and care.
The mother of six delivered a healthy baby girl. HCSO reports they are doing very well.
Jones has been with HCSO since December 2001 and currently serves HCSO’s patrol District II.
Body Worn Camera video shows the baby being delivered. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2023/05/02/hillsborough-deputy-helps-deliver-baby-on-highway/ | 2023-05-04T02:46:07 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2023/05/02/hillsborough-deputy-helps-deliver-baby-on-highway/ |
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. — It was not so perfect weather for a carnival in Columbia County.
The Bloomsburg Fire Department's Carnival opened for business behind the station on Market Street.
Each night will have some new entertainment, along with plenty of rides and food.
"So we really kinda hope that everybody goes out and visits their volunteer fire department carnivals. Everybody needs the money. But it's just a good thing to kinda try to give back to the community, we give them something to do, and this is a good time to do it," said Scott McBride, Bloomsburg Fire Chief.
The fire company carnival runs through Saturday in Bloomsburg.
Want to see what Newswatch 16's newscasts were like in 1983 and 1984? Head on over to WNEP's YouTube. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/columbia-county/bloomsburg-fire-department-holds-carnival-scott-mcbride-market-street-wnep/523-8766cfac-a95c-4e24-bd0d-5998155e0098 | 2023-05-04T02:48:59 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/columbia-county/bloomsburg-fire-department-holds-carnival-scott-mcbride-market-street-wnep/523-8766cfac-a95c-4e24-bd0d-5998155e0098 |
JERMYN, Pa. — Police in Lackawanna County are looking for the person that fired shots from a van.
Video from a viewer in Peckville shows what police believe is the white van.
Archbald police say shots were later fired from the van.
Police in Lackawanna County are still investigating the shooting.
Want to see what Newswatch 16's newscasts were like in 1983 and 1984? Head on over to WNEP's YouTube. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/police-searching-for-person-who-fired-shots-from-a-van-archbald-jermyn-wnep-lackawanna-county/523-c5566f48-2ab3-48a5-95e3-2408f57efa3a | 2023-05-04T02:49:05 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/police-searching-for-person-who-fired-shots-from-a-van-archbald-jermyn-wnep-lackawanna-county/523-c5566f48-2ab3-48a5-95e3-2408f57efa3a |
HAZLETON, Pa. — Hazleton officials held a town hall meeting to discuss recent violence in the Luzerne County city.
The police chief says the department has a detective that will only handle gun violence calls and investigations.
Patrols will get $400,000, so they can be increased.
A new gunshot detection system will also be installed; 150 gunshot detectors will be installed in three square miles of the city, and they will be able to help determine where gunshots are coming from.
"It's someone thinking about our safety and our security, it is good for all the town, the community needs the people seeing what's happening and see what we are doing to prevent all of this," said Willy Diaz, resident.
About 40 residents shared their concerns in Hazleton.
Want to see what Newswatch 16's newscasts were like in 1983 and 1984? Head on over to WNEP's YouTube. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/town-hall-held-to-discuss-violence-in-hazleton-gunshot-detection-system-wnep/523-c4e998c4-d1e9-41c7-ba08-d9ebc4f7aa8f | 2023-05-04T02:49:11 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/town-hall-held-to-discuss-violence-in-hazleton-gunshot-detection-system-wnep/523-c4e998c4-d1e9-41c7-ba08-d9ebc4f7aa8f |
DALLAS — The world of pro wrestling produces great stories behind the scenes just by virtue of its chaotic, absurd nature. There's a whole subgenre of older wrestlers sharing stories of being on the road back in the territory days. They're all over YouTube and they will take over your recommended videos list.
With that said, a wrestling legend such as Kevin Von Erich, a local hero to North Texans of a certain age, would have some of the wildest stories to tell from his decades of experience wrestling around the world alongside his brothers as the Von Erichs.
The trio were heartthrobs practically worshiped in their heyday before tragedy struck the family. Now, Kevin Von Erich is the only remaining Von Erich brother of his generation, and he has two sons following in his footsteps.
Von Erich plans to talk about these triumphs and tragedies in his first public appearance in Dallas in more than 20 years during a one-man show on Sept. 1 at the Majestic Theatre.
"Stories from the Top Rope" will be hosted by former WFAA sports anchor Dale Hansen and will feature Von Erich telling stories from his storied wrestling career.
"I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be doing this show, to get back to Texas and see everyone who has been so loyal for more than forty years," Von Erich said in a statement. "We’ve got some great stories to tell and having Dale Hansen up there with me… it will be just like a Friday night at Sportatorium.”
This show is also happening with the film "The Iron Claw." Currently in production, the A24 film will chronicle the history of the Von Erich brothers from their triumph to their downfall. Kevin Von Erich will be played by Zac Efron, while his brothers Kerry and David will be played by Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson, respectively.
Tickets for Kevin Von Erich's one-man show are on sale now and can be purchased here. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/legendary-texas-wrestler-kevin-von-erich-making-rare-appearance-september-majestic-theatre/287-890ddf11-9c60-4d80-b0bb-ac55f4267991 | 2023-05-04T02:52:17 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/legendary-texas-wrestler-kevin-von-erich-making-rare-appearance-september-majestic-theatre/287-890ddf11-9c60-4d80-b0bb-ac55f4267991 |
MCKINNEY, Texas — A McKinney fire captain is fighting for his life in the hospital following an off-duty vehicle crash, officials said Wednesday.
The McKinney Fire Department said fire captain James "Bull" Graham was critically injured in the crash and is currently on life support.
Fire officials said Graham has been with the department for more than 24 years. He joined as a firefighter in 1999 and was promoted to captain in 2016.
According to the department, Graham is a member of Texas Task Force 2, which aids in urban search and rescue efforts. He also works as an instructor at the Collin College Fire Academy.
The department said he remains in the hospital with his wife and three adult sons by his side. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/mckinney-texas-fire-captain-james-bull-graham-life-support-off-duty-crash/287-bb1213e0-1e1b-404e-8497-69335007ae16 | 2023-05-04T02:52:23 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/mckinney-texas-fire-captain-james-bull-graham-life-support-off-duty-crash/287-bb1213e0-1e1b-404e-8497-69335007ae16 |
DALLAS — Shelley Luther, the Dallas salon owner who garnered attention in 2020 during COVID-19 shutdown orders, has made her first comments since she suffered a brain aneurysm nearly a month ago.
Luther was hospitalized April 5 and was able to return home to continue recovering just last week.
Her husband, Tim Georgeff, had been posting updates on Facebook about her health status each day since the aneurysm. Since returning home, he said she's still dealing with symptoms such as lack of appetite.
Now, Luther has broken her silence on her condition and posted a message on her public Facebook page on Wednesday, May 3.
"I wanted to thank everyone who has called, prayed, messaged, sent cards and reached out. I have a long way to go to fully recover, but feeling very blessed," Luther wrote. "Apparently, God chose me to be the 1% to survive this specific brain aneurism, and although I feel lucky, I feel a tremendous amount of responsibility to be obedient and to live with gratitude."
After the message was published, Georgeff made another Facebook post saying that "typing and figuring out words is hard for her right now."
Luther made national headlines during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 when certain businesses were shutting down to prevent spreading of the illness.
Luther had reopened her Dallas salon despite county and state orders that shut down non-essential businesses. She was issued a citation but later tore it up during a rally to reopen businesses in the Texas.
At a court hearing after she ignored a temporary restraining order from the city and kept her salon open, a state district judge found her in contempt of court and ordered her to seven days in jail. She was released from jail early after an order from the Texas Supreme Court.
Later in 2020, she ran as a Republican for a Texas Senate seat in District 30, which covers areas of North Texas such as Sherman, Denton, Weatherford and Stephenville. She lost in a special runoff election in December 2020 to Drew Springer.
Nearly two years later, Luther also ran for Texas House District 62 in the Sherman area. She lost to incumbent Rep. Reggie Smith in the March 2022 primary. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/shelley-luther-dallas-salon-owner-who-defied-covid-orders-first-message-brain-aneurysm/287-9df335dd-b0d3-40e7-a34a-a6578781753d | 2023-05-04T02:52:29 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/shelley-luther-dallas-salon-owner-who-defied-covid-orders-first-message-brain-aneurysm/287-9df335dd-b0d3-40e7-a34a-a6578781753d |
BARTON COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) – A Hoisington man is dead after a single-car crash in Barton County Wednesday morning.
The Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) identified the victim as 76-year-old Richard Lee Reichuber.
According to the KHP, Reichuber was driving his 2008 Toyota Tacoma eastbound on Northwest 100 Road around 10:30 a.m. when he left the roadway to the right for an unknown reason near Northwest 10th Avenue.
His truck entered the ditch, struck multiple trees, and went airborne over a dry creek bed before coming to a rest on all four wheels.
Reichuber was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A person has been critically injured in a west Wichita house fire Wednesday night.
The fire broke out around 9:10 p.m. in the 700 block of N. McComas St.
Sedgwick County Dispatch confirmed that at least one person received critical injuries.
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Ruth Helen Fraga, 58, of Jerome died Monday, May 1, 2023, in Twin Falls. Arrangements are under the care of Farnsworth Mortuary & Crematory, Jerome.
William Minor Jr., 98, died Tuesday, May 2, 2023, at a local care facility. Arrangements are under the care of Parke’s Magic Valley Funeral Home, Twin Falls.
Melinda Matthews, 66, of Jerome died Wednesday, May 3, 2023, at home. Arrangements are under the care of Farnsworth Mortuary & Crematory, Jerome.
Ana Gallardo-Garcia, 34, of Jerome died Tuesday, May 2, 2023, at her home. Arrangements are under the care of Farnsworth Mortuary & Crematory, Jerome.
Charlie “Earl” Tyree, 67, of Buhl died Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at home. Arrangements are under the care of Farmer Funeral Chapel, Buhl.
Raymond E. Brooks, 95, of Hagerman and formerly of Gooding died Wednesday, May 3, 2023, at Stonebridge Assisted Care in Hagerman. Arrangements are under the care of Demaray Funeral Service—Gooding Chapel. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/death-notices/article_6c2a4a36-e9d8-11ed-876a-8b05b4105cf7.html | 2023-05-04T02:58:42 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/death-notices/article_6c2a4a36-e9d8-11ed-876a-8b05b4105cf7.html |
MIDLAND, Texas — Oil and gas prices have stayed steady over the last couple of months, which is good news for the local economy.
"Because it has traditionally been a boom and a bust cycle out here, workers will leave and never come back because they don't like losing their job," said Mickey Cargile of Cargile Investment Management. "That's something that's been true out here our entire existence. It's a little different now because we have a little smoother period with the oil production."
Right now there is a gap in the amount of workers needed to fill positions for jobs in the area.
"It is hard to get workers out here," said Cargile. "Local unemployment is at about 2.8%, so that obviously, that means there's more jobs than workers."
To get more people to come to the Permian Basin, it's about building a place where people want to live.
"As far as getting more workers out here, you know, we need to build out our infrastructure a little bit more," said Cargile. "But, when you have good-paying jobs like we have out here, that will kind of take care of itself."
As of right now, things look as if they will be staying on course.
"My outlook for the future here remains bright," said Cargile. "There may be a little softening, but I don't think it'll be enough that most people will notice." | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/permian-basin-economy-holding-strong/513-9e7de775-9e0b-4754-b87f-efe64575cb18 | 2023-05-04T03:05:26 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/permian-basin-economy-holding-strong/513-9e7de775-9e0b-4754-b87f-efe64575cb18 |
Meadow community coming together to help support the Woordard Family: Here how to help
After the death of Wesley "Wes" Woodard in a head-on crash Monday evening, the Meadow community is coming together to grieve and support the family of the 18-year-old high school senior.
Woodard was on his way to Meadow High's FFA Banquet the evening of the accident, the city of Meadow shared in a social media post.
"In a small tight knit community such as Meadow, this is a loss felt so deeply by all. Wes' mother is a teacher, his father a schoolboard member and Wes has attended Meadow ISD since he was in preschool as has his younger brother," reads the post. Woodard competed in numerous sports in high school, including basketball and track.
Woodward was set to graduate from high school in three weeks.
Many in the community are asking for ways to help donate to the family; however, the city has issued a statement of caution saying there are illegitimate GoFundMe accounts raising money for the Woodard family.
However, there is one GoFundMe individuals can donate to that was shared on the city's Facebook page.
Funeral cost for Wes Woodard, organized by Kyle Manweiler
Another way to donate in memory of Woodard is by directly donating to Meadow Independent School District.
According to a post from the school district on Facebook, the Woodard family is establishing a scholarship in memory of their son.
Checks can be sent to 604 4th St. Meadow, 79345 with it being made payable to Meadow ISD.
The New Home Church of Christ shared a photo of Woodard, along with a message encouraging prayer.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Meadow community and the Woodard family," the church's social media statement reads. "Please continue to lift them up in prayer."
Texas DPS investigates crash
Investigators believe Woodard was driving a 2016 Chevrolet Silverado pickup east on the westbound side of County Road 230 when his vehicle collided with a 2017 Ford F-250 Pickup truck that was traveling west in the westbound lanes just before 6 p.m. Monday near Meadow, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
According to DPS, both vehicles tried to take evasive action to avoid hitting each other at the same time which resulted in the vehicles crashing.
Woodard was pronounced dead on the scene, according to DPS, and the other driver - 60-year-old Antonio Aleman of Hondo - suffered moderate injuries and was taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock.
Other factors contributing to the crash were not immediately clear as the investigation is ongoing. | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/03/meadow-community-rallies-to-help-family-of-teen-killed-in-crash/70179874007/ | 2023-05-04T03:05:27 | 1 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/03/meadow-community-rallies-to-help-family-of-teen-killed-in-crash/70179874007/ |
A local roofing contractor will be giving away a new roof to one greater-Dayton-area resident in need this spring.
Van Martin Roofing, which is based in Southwest Ohio with locations across the area said that it will give away the entire installation of a roof to a worthy recipient from Butler, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and Warren counties, according to a release.
Area residents can apply to the “On the House” giveaway by completing a form with a brief essay on why they need a new roof by Friday, May 12. The winner will be chosen by an employee committee in June, the release said.
Applications are available on the company website or by calling the company at 937-222-7855.
The company previously awarded a free roof in January to a social worker in Dayton who hoped to become a foster parent and needed a safe home.
“There are many reasons why someone may require a roof,” Van Martin owner Doug VanDyke said. “It could be a series of leaks, storm damage or rotting shingles. Whatever it is, our company is empathetic with kind-hearted employees who want to make a difference in the area, especially Butler, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and Warren counties.”
“This is a way that we can compassionately give back to the community that has supported our business for so long,” VanDyke said.
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ARIZONA, USA — Wildfires, heat waves and the threat of sabotage to the grid will keep utility providers on high alert this summer. During a recent energy reliability summit, the Valley’s two utilities - APS and SRP - told Arizona Corporation Commissioners they’ve hardened electrical systems, conducted preventative maintenance and stocked up on equipment and parts needed during emergencies.
“We’re ready for this summer. No doubt about it,” said Justin Joiner, Vice President of Resource Management for APS.
Climate Change is Fueling Extreme Weather
But utility companies can only do so much.
Experts addressing the commission warned climate change is causing unforeseen events that exceed historical norms, posing unique challenges.
They point to the month of August 2020, when temperatures in western states were 15-30 degrees above normal, prompting rolling blackouts in California.
They noted a sharp increase in the number of “Energy Emergency Alert Events” (EEAE) declared in western states, with 34 last year alone.
Faster, hotter wildfires also threaten grid infrastructure and place a strain on communities. New Mexico, Oregon, Idaho and California were hit especially hard by massive wildfires last year.
“These types of extreme weather events are forcing us to rethink how we operate the grid,” said Branden Suddeth of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council.
Uptick in cyber threats and physical attacks
If mother nature wasn’t enough to contend with, foreign and domestic attacks on electricity grids are increasing.
Last year a shooter damaged substations in North Carolina, cutting off power to customers. Shooters also targeted substations in Oregon and Washington.
Cyberattacks against large power systems are also up in the US, Suddeth said.
“With threat actors getting more and more sophisticated, geopolitical tensions that we’re seeing because of the war in Ukraine and our relationship with China, there’s really been a hyper focus on cybersecurity,” Suddeth said.
APS told the commission the utility participates in third party audits involving cybersecurity.
“We’re constantly doing drills, tests, and phishing campaigns,” said Joiner of APS.
More Energy Will Be Needed For the Future
New, complex variables present challenges for utilities within the next two to three years.
Presenting a “Resource Adequacy Overview,” Suddeth said growing uncertainty in Arizona is due to a combination of extreme weather and increasing energy demands. People and energy-intensive businesses like data centers arriving in Arizona will require more energy and water in the future.
Weather-reliant energy resources also lead to less predictability, Suddeth said.
“They are changing the shape of the load going forward which is creating more uncertainty around what we are expecting to see in the future,” Suddeth said.
No One Discusses How To Mitigate Climate Change
During the four-hour public meeting, Commissioner Lea Marquez Peterson said she wants to explore the possibility of building small modular nuclear reactors. Commissioner Kevin Thompson also expressed the urgent need to explore new infrastructure.
“It’s time we really start looking at how the resource adequacy in Arizona is going to meet the increasing demands into the future, with that future being less than three years away,” said Thompson.
No one discussed the urgent need to address climate change, the existential threat looming over humanity that is intricately linked to the fossil fuel industry.
According to scientists representing 195 countries, immediate and deep emissions reductions “across all sectors” are needed during this decade to curb the devastating effects of global warming.
“To me what was striking about the presentation was that everybody wanted to talk about the symptoms of climate change and no one wants to talk about the cause,” said Autumn Johnson, of the Arizona Solar Energy Industries Association (ARISEIA), a trade association that represents solar, storage and electrification technologies. “All of their solutions for how to meet grid resilience and reliability were to continue doing the same things that are causing the problems.”
The commission, currently made up of four Republicans and one Democrat, has proven to act favorably to APS’s financial interests. It voted earlier this year to delay the implementation of an APS home energy program that solar advocates said is long overdue. Commission Utility Director Elijah Abinah sided with APS and opposed the findings of a third-party consultant hired by the commission to evaluate the cost-efficiency of the program.
The commission also voted to give APS full control over whether to allow “competitive community solar” programs in its service territory. The concept is touted by the U.S. Department of Energy as an effective tool to create more solar storage options to the overall grid and save consumers money, when applied under the right conditions. APS won’t allow the program at all, a decision that prevents new solar energy developers from doing business in its territory.
Long-time consumer activist Stacey Champion criticized participants of the meeting who, instead of discussing ways to expand sustainable energy resources, spoke enthusiastically about building new natural gas infrastructure. Natural gas releases methane into the atmosphere, a strong greenhouse gas.
“Having attended these workshops in years past, I have real concerns that the majority of our current Corporation Commission is capture by our monopoly utilities and shareholders and not looking out for average Arizonans,” Champion said.
“We are in an unprecedented situation”
Grant Smedley, Director of Resource Planning and Acquisitions for SRP said while the utility believes in “a mix of resources,” the increase in demand for energy in Arizona poses a challenge.
“I would say we are in an unprecedented situation here in Arizona. While many utilities across the nation are decarbonizing their portfolios, few if any are having to do that while experiencing such growth,” Smedley said.
2,000 megawatts of solar energy are on schedule to be online in 2025 at SRP, Smedley said.
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Voters from different districts are separated on either side of a board as they cast their votes on Election Day, Tuesday, May 2, 2023, at the Auld Pavilion Rec Center in Lincoln.
In a city election that shattered previous voter turnout records, nearly 3,000 early votes tallied Wednesday widened Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird’s lead over challenger Suzanne Geist by nearly 900 votes.
With those early ballots counted, voter turnout reached 45.7% — well above turnout in any previous city primary or general election.
The previous turnout record was 39% in 1999, when Don Wesely beat Republican City Council member Cindy Johnson, putting a Democrat back in the office after Republican Mike Johanns served most of two terms, though Dale Young finished out the final term after Johanns was elected governor.
Gaylor Baird’s victory Tuesday means the quarter-century streak of having a Democrat as mayor of Lincoln will continue.
Gaylor Baird beat Republican challenger Geist with 54% of the vote to Geist’s 45% — the same margin by which she beat Cyndi Lamm four years ago.
Wednesday’s 2,960 early votes meant Gaylor Baird had 43,984 votes to Geist's 36,417. Geist, a former state senator, resigned to concentrate on the mayoral race.
The early votes did not change the outcome for any other races for City Council, Lincoln Board of Education or Lincoln Airport Authority.
They did widen the lead for the tightest City Council race, giving northeast Lincoln’s District 1 incumbent James Michael Bowers an additional 210-vote lead over two-time challenger Taylor Wyatt. Bowers now leads Wyatt by 1,030 votes.
Lancaster County Election Commissioner Todd Wiltgen still needs to count about 700 provisional ballots and any ballots that couldn’t be read by the machines. He expects that to be done Friday.
The heated mayoral race — with record amounts of money dumped into the campaigns — likely helped increase turnout to 80,760 voters, Wiltgen said.
“The amount of money spent on the mayoral campaigns increased the public’s interest and increased turnout for Republicans, Independents and Democrats,” he said.
During the 1999 mayoral election — the last record turnout when Wesely beat Johnson by a 12 percentage point margin — the candidates also broke spending records.
Wesely said he’s convinced that elections in Lincoln — which has had just two Republican mayors since 1975 (three if you count Dale Young, who finished out Johanns’ term) — are determined by moderate Republicans and Independents.
As of April 30, registered Republicans outnumbered registered Democrats by 2,448, but there are also 41,855 registered non-partisans.
When Wesely ran for mayor, pollsters found 30% of voters were extremely conservative and 40% were very liberal, he recalled. That left the 30% of voters in the middle for candidates to win over to their side.
He doesn’t know what that looks like today but suspects it’s similar.
“I’ve come to the conclusion that in Nebraska and in Lincoln it’s the moderate Republicans that determine the balance of power,” he said. “They are the jury that will decide your fate.”
While Geist’s supporters painted the mayor as an insider who’d let crime skyrocket and property taxes rise, Gaylor Baird said Geist was too extreme for Lincoln, given her voting record in the Legislature supporting issues including abortion, banning gender-affirming care for young people and a constitutional carry bill.
Wesely said he’s talked to those knowledgeable about polling in the race, who told him abortion was a critical issue, and Gaylor Baird’s support of abortion rights would help her.
For many moderate Republican and Independent women, that’s a critical issue, both locally and nationally, he said.
Margaret Reist is a recovering education reporter now writing about local and county government and the people who live in the city where she was born and raised.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. - After traffic deaths spiked during the pandemic, the Minnesota Department of Transportation says they're starting to go back down - and they're crediting the Toward Zero Deaths highway safety program.
Toward Zero Deaths, which started in 2003, hosted a workshop today at the Rochester International Event Center discussing progress on reducing traffic deaths while introducing new ways to continue the downward trend.
The main ballroom was jam-packed with guests listening to speakers go over presentations on crash data, teaching traffic safety through science, and how to better detect cannabis DWIs.
Toward Zero Death has seen traffic related fatalities fall by 33% since the program's inception. However, a spike in deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic hindered efforts.
Kristine Hernandez, the statewide program coordinator, says a decrease of cars on the roads during lockdowns led to an increase in reckless drivers that they are still trying to curb.
"We're looking at efforts to reduce speeds," she said. "Obviously, our law enforcement have been writing citations. There's a lot of 100 mile-per-hour drivers out there and that continues to happen, so we're looking at new ways to combat and get those speeds down."
So far, the program has seen success. MnDOT reported 444 traffic fatalities last year, a slight decrease from 2021.
Still, Toward Zero Deaths continues to look forward to new problems. With the legalization of recreational marijuana in Minnesota could bring a new wave cannabis-related accidents with officers not yet trained in spotting the more subtle signs of these DWIs.
"Having impairments on the road is always a concern," said Hernandez. "What we're looking at now is educating anybody that might be under the influence of cannabis or other drugs and how that affects them because it is still impairment. We'll be working to combat that."
Toward Zero Deaths also looks forward to other new safety projects like crash review committees and cameras in school bus stop arms. | https://www.kimt.com/news/local/toward-zero-deaths-reflects-on-20-years-of-progress-cannabis-education/article_e53f6b44-ea06-11ed-8a78-2f5b5724f8db.html | 2023-05-04T03:13:26 | 0 | https://www.kimt.com/news/local/toward-zero-deaths-reflects-on-20-years-of-progress-cannabis-education/article_e53f6b44-ea06-11ed-8a78-2f5b5724f8db.html |
SEATTLE — The official cause of a Washington State ferry boat grounding near Bainbridge Island last month was revealed Wednesday.
Washington State Ferries (WSF) found contaminated fuel led to generator failure on the Walla Walla, resulting in loss of propulsion and steering controls. The investigation into how the fuel was contaminated is ongoing.
The Walla Walla has multiple engines, generators and fuel tanks but it was just one fuel tank that was contaminated. Both the main generator and the backup generator failed.
There is a third way to restore power but it takes 90 seconds to kick on and at that point, the ferry was grounded.
All fuel currently on board has tested clean, according to WSF. New generator monitoring gauges have been installed on the Walla Walla and Spokane.
The Walla Walla was stranded along the Rich Passage near Bainbridge Island on April 15. The vessel, which was en route from Bremerton to Seattle, ran aground, meaning it was lying on or touching the ground under shallow water.
Initial indications were that the vessel suffered a generator failure, according to WSF.
The vessel was successfully re-floated during high tide overnight and brought safely to Bremerton with tugs assisting.
The United States Coast Guard said in a tweet that night that passengers were offloaded onto Kitsap Fast Ferry vessels. The first group of passengers was taken to Bremerton via Kitsap Transit just after 8:30 p.m., according to WSF.
There were 596 passengers and 15 crew members on board, but no injuries were reported, according to WSF.
"So we thought it was a joke," said Debbie O’Neill, a passenger who was on her way to a concert in Seattle. "And then over the intercom, the lights started flickering, flickering on and off."
O'Neill said passengers were told to brace for impact.
"So we had no idea like if we were crashing into another boat, and then we did just crash into like some dry lands," O'Neill said. "So I think the boat just scraped like the bottom because we were in shallow water."
Lawmakers like Rep. Jake Fey (D-Tacoma) are linking the grounding to the age of Washington’s ferry fleet. Fey’s bill, House Bill 1846, would require the state Department of Transportation to contract at least two new vessels and open the bidding process to builders in other states.
“In the current law we provide a national bid, there’s a 13% advantage to take into account the advantages of building it (in Washington) and the jobs that are created,” said Fey.
“We hate to see these boats and the jobs go to other states, so we’ll do our level best to compete as best we can with the bill,” said Jeff DeVere who represents Nichols Bros. Boat Builders on Whidbey Island.
DeVere said it’s hard to compete with states that don’t have the wage, health and environmental protections required in Washington. He estimates other states can build a ferry for 20% less than in western Washington. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/cause-washington-state-ferry-grounding/281-33ad2e45-1e98-42f8-bd6d-1985028234da | 2023-05-04T03:14:02 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/cause-washington-state-ferry-grounding/281-33ad2e45-1e98-42f8-bd6d-1985028234da |
SEATTLE — The ramp to northbound state Route 99 from the West Seattle Bridge could be closed for the next 10 days after a large pothole caused several flat tires.
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) tweeted just after 7 a.m. Wednesday that the ramp was closed until further notice as crews evaluated repairs for a pothole that created a hole in the road. WSDOT officials said the ramp will be closed for 10 days for repairs.
The 5-by-4 foot pothole was discovered around 10 p.m. Tuesday night after several drivers had to pull over on the side of the roadway to replace their tires.
Drivers will need to seek alternate routes during the closure, WSDOT tweeted Wednesday.
WSDOT spokesperson James Poling said they know it's an inconvenience and crews are working as fast as possible. Crews do routine preservation work but there is about 24,000 pieces of bridge deck that they oversee.
"We know that's a very big frustration for the West Seattle community who's already experienced a lot with the West Seattle Bridge closure, but we want to make sure this ramp is safe before we reopen it," Poling said.
The fix isn't "as simple as pouring concrete and letting it sit," Poling said.
Potholes have been a recurring issue throughout Seattle.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) crews said in February they filled 23,000 potholes throughout the city in 2022, the most filled in the last five years. Maintenance crews filled 50% more potholes in 2022 than they did in 2021, according to the city.
"It's not your imagination," SDOT said in its February release. "There were more potholes than usual last year."
Why do potholes keep happening?
The SDOT said potholes re-appear year round, especially during the winter when severe storms are likelier.
Rain, snow and ice damage streets, as water sneaks through cracks in the pavement. When temperatures drop low enough, the water freezes and expands into ice, creating cracks and eroding streets from the inside out, according to SDOT.
As new potholes form, cars, trucks and buses worsen the street's condition and eventually cause large chunks of concrete to break off.
Winter repairs don't last "forever," SDOT said because asphalt does not bind to pavement quite as well during cold weather. That means pothole repairs today may need to be repaired again until the weather warms.
SDOT called potholes a "continual challenge year-round."
But maintenance workers can prevent frequent potholes with larger paving projects to replace the damaged pavement. Filling potholes is equivalent to putting a band-aid on a larger problem, SDOT said.
How to report a pothole in Seattle
The public is urged to send reports of new potholes as they form throughout the city. There are several ways to report a pothole in Seattle:
- Find It, Fix It App
- Submitting an online report
- Emailing 684-ROAD@seattle.gov
- Call (206) 684-ROAD [7623]
Additionally, drivers can file a claim for damages with the state here.
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LYNCHBURG, Va. – The city of Lynchburg is in mourning after a child’s life was taken too soon.
6-year-old Kingston Campbell was on his bed playing video games when he was shot and killed by a group of people firing off rounds towards his home Monday night.
On Wednesday evening, the Lynchburg community came out in full force to show support for the family and call for change.
Kingston’s mother, Shay Fowler, released a statement prior to the vigil saying in part “My only son. My youngest child. I will never be the same again.”
Throughout the vigil, various pastors along with local leaders and law enforcement spoke with the family right behind them. Lynchburg Police Chief, Ryan Zuidema was at a loss for words.
[READ: Mother of slain 6-year-old Lynchburg shooting victim speaks out]
“I’m a father, I’ve got two boys and I can’t imagine losing one of my children. I just can’t imagine. To see a young woman, a mother who’s lost a 6-year-old son, it breaks my heart,” Zuidema said.
Zuidema along with Commonwealth Attorney, Bethany Harrison, took part in the vigil as an opportunity to call on the community to help bring justice to the individuals responsible for Kingston’s death.
“If a 6-year-old young man in his own home being shot and killed doesn’t provoke you to take some type of action, there is something wrong with you,” Zuidema said.
Kingston is just the latest child to be killed by gunfire in the Diamond Hill Neighborhood of Lynchburg this year.
“If you’re fed up seeing these headlines, you’re fed up having vigils like this and shedding tears for the loss of young innocent life … I implore you to do something,” Harrison said.
There is a GoFundMe to help the family with funeral costs. It has already raised more than $12,000.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Detective T. Hall at 434-455-6155 or Crime Stoppers at 888-798-5900. Enter an anonymous tip online or use the P3 app on a mobile device. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/04/lynchburg-begins-to-heal-through-candlelight-vigil-for-6-year-old-boy/ | 2023-05-04T03:18:29 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/04/lynchburg-begins-to-heal-through-candlelight-vigil-for-6-year-old-boy/ |
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – A Roanoke County home was destroyed by a fire on Wednesday night, according to Roanoke County Fire and Rescue.
Crews said they responded to the 6600 block of Poages Mill Drive at 9:10 p.m. for the report of a house fire.
Station 11 arrived on the scene first and saw fire and smoke coming from the front of the one-story home, Roanoke County Fire and Rescue said.
A tanker shuttle was used to bring water to the scene of the fire, crews said. They said they were hampered in the firefight because of the lack of fire hydrants in the area.
There was one person inside the house at the time of the fire, according to the department.
Luckily, we’re told a neighbor alerted them of the fire, called 911, and helped them escape.
There were no injuries reported, but a cat is still missing, crews said.
The Roanoke County Fire Marshal’s Office is working to determine the cause of the fire and provide a damage estimate, the department said, but the home is a total loss.
According to Roanoke County Fire and Rescue, volunteer and career fire crews from the following areas helped fight this fire:
- Back Creek,
- Cave Spring,
- Bent Mountain,
- Clearbrook,
- Mount Pleasant.
Roanoke County Fire and Rescue posted a video from the scene to their social media pages, which you can watch below.
House fire on Poages Mill Road 5-3-23. pic.twitter.com/FewKOLVjMy
— RoCo Fire & Rescue (@RoCoFireRescue) May 4, 2023
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WACO, Texas — On Tuesdays, former Waco firefighters gather for coffee and conversation.
"They're definitely family. Definitely 100 percent. I was young when I came to work. I had just turned 21 and two weeks later and they gave the exam. These guys were like big brothers to me and you watched them and learned from them. You just got to be really good friends," said Joe Cook who spent 40 years with the Waco Fire Department.
They've seen the city and the department change through the years.
"It was good. I can tell you I've never done a job that I enjoyed more," said Retired Firefighter Otis who served 39 years.
"Things have improved. A lot of things have improved about the fire service," said Charlie Wilson who spent 35 years in the department and retired as the training officer.
The use of air masks, better protection, station expansion, even GPS and the 911 system all came along and helped them do their jobs even better.
"I don't know how many times we'd go up on a roof and have to cut a hole in it. Or how many times I threw an ax through a hole and talking about air packs. When we went together we did not have air packs. They didn't come on til later and other than that you didn't have air packs. You laid close to the floor. It's changed. I still go by the fire station, it's just unreal how the fire trucks have gotten bigger and there's more to it and everything," said Clarence Ling who retired as a lieutenant after 33 years.
Retired Captain James Baker saw an ad in the newspaper and answered the call.
"You know, when I think about fire department, honestly, I'm very grateful. I'm very grateful, you know, and for the people that were ahead of us that work to make this job better and still work today to make this job better," he said.
Former Battalion Chief Don Yeager says sometimes a firefighter's toughest day is the day they retire.
"It's in your blood. It's a passion," he said.
Even with improved technology, training and instincts can save lives.
"My gut feeling has saved me more than once," said Yeager.
"You still have to use common sense and those gut feelings. Stuff that a lot of older firemen taught me still make sense today even with the technology," he said.
Retired Assistant Chief David Walsleben served for forty years.
"They're just like your brothers. Yeah. You have to depend on them. They have your back and you have their back," Walsleben said.
During his time, he experienced that first hand.
"Back in Oct. 17, 1976 we was fighting a three story house fire and I was on the end of the ladder. The gable gave way and knocked me off the ladder and I fell about 20 feet head first on the sidewalk. They didn't expect me to live. But it shattered my knee cap and cut my head open. I was out about 3 months and went back to work again," said Walsleben.
"You didn't think for a moment maybe I'll do something else?" asked Anchor Lindsay Liepman.
"No," Walsleben replied laughing.
Back at the coffee shop, the food is filling and the stories are flowing.
"One second I was on the roof and the next I was inside the house on fire," recalled Cook.
But the stories of station life are what they reminisce about the most.
"It's like Otis said we're together a third of your life and it just becomes a part of your life," said Retired Lt. John Linda.
As long as the bond between firefighters exists, they'll be here still by each other's side.
"Y'all coming next week?" asked Otis.
"Otis, it's every week," said Charlie
"I'll be here if I'm alive," laughed Otis.
"Waco Fire: Portrait of Courage" will air May 24th on 6 News at 10 pm as part of special coverage of the Waco Fire Department's 150th Anniversary. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/150-years-of-service-at-waco-fire-department/500-fbcd054a-aa95-4425-86b3-d6f9c8775ee2 | 2023-05-04T03:30:56 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/150-years-of-service-at-waco-fire-department/500-fbcd054a-aa95-4425-86b3-d6f9c8775ee2 |
HOUSTON — Passengers leaving Houston's Bush Intercontinental Aiport to head to Atlanta Wednesday weren't the only ones ready for vacation.
Hoping to catch a Delta flight out of the Bayou City was a group of bees that were found hanging on one of the wings of the aircraft.
And we're not talking just a dozen or so bees. A picture from Twitter user Anjali Enjeti shows a swarm of hundreds of bees that found shelter on the wing of the aircraft.
Through Twitter, Enjeti described how the airline announced it was getting a beekeeper to remove the bees but later the captain said the beekeeper was not allowed to touch the plane and pest control was not allowed to spray them off either.
After exhausting other bee-removal options and delaying the flight for about three hours, the airline said it was finally able to safely shake the bees loose by using some ground equipment.
Delta said "bee-lieve it or not," this kind of swarming of bees upon an aircraft is rare, but not unheard of.
"I've taken bee swarms off of tugboats, airplanes, concrete walls," said Mike Sexton, AKA The Bee Man.
He said during this time of year, bee swarms are more active.
"They usually start in the south and they move towards the north," Sexton said.
As the bees get tired along the way, they take a rest, which could be what happened on the plane's wing.
“Whenever bee swarms start, they’re going to gorge themselves with a bunch of honey and the old queen is going to take off with a bunch of workers so they're not going to eat again until they actually get to a new home, so in the meantime they rest and conserve their energy, so they land on anything,” Sexton said.
Over in Sugar Land, beehives were actually built at Sugar Land Regional Airport's undeveloped property after bees spent years using the airport as its residence.
The airport decided not to get rid of the bees in an effort to make a positive impact on the community and environment.
Each hive at the Sugar Land Regional Airport will house nearly 40,000 bees and pollinate around three to five acres of land, the city said. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/delta-airplane-bees-houston/285-eebd12f2-7d52-4f1a-983d-95cd5138ff1b | 2023-05-04T03:31:02 | 0 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/delta-airplane-bees-houston/285-eebd12f2-7d52-4f1a-983d-95cd5138ff1b |
BOISE, Idaho — Attorneys for St. Luke's Health System have filed a motion for contempt against Diego Rodriguez and his Freedom Man Press over continued harassment of witnesses in St. Luke's defamation case against him, Ammon Bundy and their organizations. Erik Stidham, an attorney representing the hospital, said St. Luke's is very concerned about the prospect of violence from Rodriguez, Bundy and their followers.
"Mr. Bundy is running a cynical grift and playing with the safety of his targets and his followers. St. Luke’s is concerned that at some point Mr. Bundy’s grift is going to get somebody killed. It won’t be Mr. Bundy. He will be safe somewhere," Stidham told KTVB on Wednesday. "The ones who will suffer the violent consequences will likely be his followers who think they are on a religious mission, his enemies who are wrongly targeted, and the police officers who are just trying to protect and serve."
The motion for contempt against Rodriguez was filed on Tuesday, May 2, and claims that Rodriguez has, "never stopped using his website to defame, harass, and intimidate witnesses." The continuing legal action stems from a defamation lawsuit that followed disruptive protests outside St. Luke's in downtown Boise and, what the hospital claims, continued harassment and doxing of its employees.
As KTVB previously reported, Bundy, Rodriguez, and their organizations organized days of protests at the hospital. They claimed Rodriguez' infant grandson was "medically kidnapped" by doctors and Child Protective Services (CPS). The "Baby Cyrus" protests led to the hospital having to go into lockdown for nearly two hours on March 15, 2022. The hospital had to divert patients to other providers and prohibit visitors.
Attorneys for St. Luke's also claim that Rodriguez is currently violating five different court orders -- however, they are only asking for contempt sanctions regarding two fee orders and the protective order that was issued. The protective order was to stop his harassment of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit -- according to them, it hasn't stopped.
According to affidavits filed Tuesday, including by the President and CEO of St. Luke's Chris Roth, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Child Welfare Chief Kristen Nate, St. Luke's Dr. Natasha Erickson, social worker Kelly Shoplock and nurse Tracy Jungman, Rodriguez has continually harassed, doxed and threatened them. Their statements claim that Rodriguez has also called them names like "pedophile", "child trafficker", "child molester" and more. Many of the plaintiffs involved in the suit said that they do not feel safe.
"The doxing and false accusations by Rodriguez of and about me have impacted my ability to do my job by causing distrust by clients, parents, and/or guardians I work with," Shoplock stated in her affidavit.
She added that the specific accusation that she is a "child trafficker" continues to be something she deals with.
Nurse Practitioner Jungman stated that Rodriguez falsely claims that she committed malpractice and that his doxing and false accusations are harassing and troubling.
"To my understanding, Rodriguez has done nothing since the protective order was put in place to eliminate the false statements regarding me and other witnesses in this lawsuit," Jungman stated in her affidavit.
Dr. Erickson wrote that she learned she was being targeted by Rodriguez, Bundy, Freedom Man Press and Bundy's People's Rights Network (PRN) in March 2022. They also claimed she was a kidnapper.
"I understand that the website www.freedomman.org posts my photo with the title, 'CPS Referrer and Destroyer of Families: Dr. Natasha Erickson,' then goes on to imply I abused the Infant’s family and other families, stating, 'Imagine how many other families she has abused in her years of work at St. Luke’s?' This is false. I always provide medical care in the best interest of the child. I did not refer the Infant or the Infant’s parents to CPS," Erickson stated.
Both the CEO of St. Luke's and the Child Welfare Chief stated that, even after the state entered the protective order, Rodriguez has kept false statements up on his website about them.
Two other affidavits from specialists were also part of the motion that was filed Tuesday -- Devin Burghart, the president and executive director of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights (IREHR) and former Boise police captain Spencer Fomby stated that Rodriguez, Bundy and their followers are dangerous.
Burghart said that his organization has been following the People's Rights Network since 2020. He claims it has over 60,000 followers and Rodriguez is a recognized leader within the organization.
"It is my opinion that Rodriguez will be emboldened to even worse conduct and further threaten the safety of Plaintiffs and their families (and others) - if he is not held accountable for their actions and forced to stop harassing, intimidating, threatening, and doxing Plaintiffs. If Rodriguez is allowed to continue to disregard the legal system and laws, to flout orders of the Court, and target the Plaintiffs and witnesses in this lawsuit, without meaningful consequences, the potential consequences for Plaintiffs and others are significant," Burghart stated.
Fomby, who was a police officer for 22 years, stated that, in his opinion, extremist groups like the PRN have a playbook and it involves the intentional use of misinformation.
"Rodriguez will continue to use intentional disinformation and misinformation and doxing unless there are real consequences for his behavior. These personal attacks create a serious life-threatening danger to the targets," Fomby stated in his affidavit.
Stidham said that if the judge determines there is a cause to determine Rodriguez is in contempt of her orders and he refuses to appear again, the judge can issue a warrant of attachment - which is a civil arrest warrant, similar to what happened with Bundy on April 19. This is where the civil case crosses the line into a criminal issue.
"Bundy created PRN to be his on-demand militia and online intimidators. He continues to use them as his pawns. He feeds them misinformation and false conspiracies, mixes those lies with a supposed religious mandate, and then directs his followers to harass his enemies. And if being misled was not enough, those same followers are then solicited to donate to one of Bundy’s Wyoming corporations or to Mr. Rodriguez’s Freedom Tabernacle Church," Stidham said.
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Southwest Allen County Schools officials are considering working with a national nonprofit named Rise to address diversity and inclusion efforts.
“It became obvious that they have what it takes to help lead us in the area of racial reconciliation and community building,” Superintendent Park Ginder said Wednesday during a board meeting.
The 7,800-student district is seeking outside guidance as it navigates diversity, equity and inclusion concerns that escalated Feb. 9 in demonstrations and discussions that disrupted classes at Homestead High School.
SACS initially proposed working with Will Moreland, a facilitator specializing in diversity and inclusion issues, but those plans stalled in March.
Officials are now considering Rise, which was founded in 2015 and educates and empowers the sports community with the goals of eliminating racial discrimination, championing social justice and improving race relations.
“The central principle about this is community building,” said Andrew Mac Intosh, Rise chief program officer.
The nonprofit has worked with children, adults and professional organizations including the NBA and NFL, said Mac Intosh, who attended the meeting before leaving to drive back to Detroit, one of the organization’s locations.
The Indianapolis Colts, NCAA, USA Track & Field, and Indiana and Purdue universities are among the organizations in Indiana that have used its programming, according to Rise’s website.
The Rise curriculum addresses topics including bias and diversity concepts, the website says, and it teaches empathy and critical thinking, among other skills. After completing Rise programming, participants generally feel prepared to have difficult conversations about race and diversity, the website says, and most say they would intervene to stop racial discrimination.
“We believe that these are difficult conversations to have, important conversations to have,” Mac Intosh said, adding the conversations can be done in a productive, positive and solution-focused way.
Programs typically start with discussions about identity and the multidimensional nature of everyone’s identities, Mac Intosh said. He said that creates a foundation for other conversations.
“Who are we? How do we identify? How do others identify us? Where is there some commonality and some difference?” Mac Intosh said. “And, potentially, why?”
Ginder didn’t specify the type of work Rise might do for SACS, but he mentioned community forums or information-gathering events. The first steps wouldn’t happen before mid-summer.
“We want to know what our various communities think and feel, whether that’s students or adults,” Ginder said. “Then, moving forward, using that information to plan learning opportunities for different memberships in the community.” Ginder clarified that “memberships” could refer to groups such as middle and high school students, their parents or elementary teachers.
The board did not act on the matter. A potential contract and costs were not discussed. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/southwest-allen-county-schools-eyes-partnership-with-nonprofit-to-address-racial-issues/article_ba1eac7c-e9ed-11ed-9413-0f0cdc23b8e2.html | 2023-05-04T03:34:13 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/southwest-allen-county-schools-eyes-partnership-with-nonprofit-to-address-racial-issues/article_ba1eac7c-e9ed-11ed-9413-0f0cdc23b8e2.html |
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Upper East Tennessee Human Development Agency (UETHDA) is returning to Kingsport on Thursday to help low-income families that are delinquent on their utility bills.
A release from the City of Kingsport said UETHDA’s mobile van will be parked at City Hall (415 Broad Street) and staff will be stationed in the lobby from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.
According to the release, the financial assistance is possible thanks to federal COVID grant money that UETHDA received to help low-income households pay their water bills. Eligibility depends on income limits; for example, a household of four can make no more than $50,902 annually in order to qualify.
The release said those that qualify for assistance will see $250 applied to their utility account, even if they owe as little as ten dollars. The release goes on to say some customers “receive as much as $5,000.”
Documents that are required in order to apply for assistance are as follows:
- A copy of at least one social security card for someone in the home.
- A copy of a driver’s license or an ID card of the person completing the application.
- Proof of income for the last 30 days for everyone in the home over the age of 18.
UETHDA has “a little less than $1 million” in grant funds remaining for its 8-county service area for this program. The expected end date of the program is September 30, 2023, the release said. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/financial-assistance-for-low-income-households-in-kingsport-on-thursday/ | 2023-05-04T03:34:27 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/financial-assistance-for-low-income-households-in-kingsport-on-thursday/ |
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Kingsport Public Library is continuing its popular afternoon movies program, free to the public, on Saturday.
A release from the library said this weekend’s film screening is the newest live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie, rated PG with a run time of 1 hour 39 minutes. The movie features Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz and James Marsden.
This event is free to the public, and each guest will get a free bag of popcorn while supplies last. The afternoon movie event happens in the first-floor auditorium of the Kingsport Public Library on Saturday, May 6, at 2 p.m.
More information on the library and its programs and services can be found at KingsportLibrary.org. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/free-afternoon-movies-continue-at-kingsport-public-library-on-saturday/ | 2023-05-04T03:34:34 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/free-afternoon-movies-continue-at-kingsport-public-library-on-saturday/ |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Johnson City Schools’ top safety official says the response to false reports of an active shooter went “as well as you can expect.”
“The big thing that we want people to be aware of if this would have been a real event, we had the police department on site with under a minute,” Greg Wallace, the district’s supervisor of safety and mental health, told News Channel 11.
Science Hill was one of four area schools to receive false reports of an active shooter on Wednesday.
Officials with Johnson City Schools said city police received a fake phone call suggesting that there was an active shooter on Science Hill’s campus and that six students had been shot at 11:07 a.m.
“They immediately coordinated with our SRO, who said there’s no such incident on this campus,” said Wallace. “But by that time, obviously, because they’re trained to respond and did an amazing job responding. They were rolling to come up to campus to mitigate that threat as soon as possible.”
The building was put in soft lockdown and cleared by school staff at 11:40 a.m., Wallace said.
Though a true threat never materialized on campus, the call gave school and law enforcement officials a chance to practice their processes for a real-life crisis.
“We’ve already talked with the police department several times, we’ve had our meetings administratively to talk about what we do well, in a situation like this, what are some things that we could have enhanced and done better,” Wallace said.
For students and parents, the threats are still cause for concern.
“I contacted my child, and, of course, it bothers her and she’s scared too,” Science Hill parent Lisa Hughes told News Channel 11.
Wallace said he hopes families are reassured by the district’s constantly evolving plan to handle crisis situations.
“We want people to know, if they’re thinking about it, it’s going to be taken seriously and dealt with seriously,” Wallace said. “But also we want people to know, just in general that we’ve there’s a lot of things that are going on behind the scenes to make sure students are safe in our system.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/school-official-pleased-with-quick-response-to-hoax-threat/ | 2023-05-04T03:34:40 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/school-official-pleased-with-quick-response-to-hoax-threat/ |
TOWSON, Md. — Voters widely approved it last November, and in two months, legal cannabis will become a reality in the state of Maryland.
Governor Moore signed the state's framework into law Wednesday, and now Baltimore County is looking to bring its own laws up to speed.
Councilman Julian Jones, chair of the Baltimore County Council, introduced that update at the council's meeting this past Monday. The measure would apply county rules for medical dispensaries to recreational ones.
"For me, it was just a matter of making sure our laws are current," said Jones.
As with medical dispensaries before, it would prohibit shops within 500 feet of a school or a daycare. It would also separate dispensaries roughly half a mile from each other.
"I believe it's probably the same, like we had with so many other things, like alcohol sales and everything else," said Jones. "We’ve always kept those things away from schools, and so that was the same here.”
Marylanders over 21 can soon buy cannabis at a nine percent sales tax.
The state also plans to fund social equity within the new industry, providing opportunity to those disproportionately hurt by the war on drugs.
"The criminalization of marijuana harmed low income communities and communities of color in a profound way. We want to make sure the legalization of marijuana lifts those communities now in a profound way," Gov. Wes Moore (D) said Wednesday.
Sales can start this July. So, too, would Baltimore County's framework.
"We’re just keeping everything up to date," Jones added.
The bill is on the docket for discussion later this month, on May 30. The council is scheduled to vote on it June 5. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/baltimore-county-prepares-framework-for-recreational-cannabis-this-july | 2023-05-04T03:34:56 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/baltimore-county-prepares-framework-for-recreational-cannabis-this-july |
ROSEDALE, Md. — While most parents and students are preparing to end the school year, some are trying to figure out what will happen in the future. The Baltimore County Board of Education is considering a recommendation to close a school in Rosedale.
An older brick structure built in the 1930s that sits on Kenwood Avenue, Golden Ring Middle School has served many students throughout the years.
BCPS is recommending that its doors close for good.
“We haven’t heard anybody say that the school as is should stay open, I think a lot of what we’ve heard is that they acknowledge that the facility is very old, if you’ve been to the building, the building needs to be replaced,” said Jane Lichter, who is the Chair of Baltimore County Board of Education.
BCPS Superintendent Darryl Williams informed the county board of education of the recommendation last month.
When the mic opened for public comment Wednesday evening on the proposal, no parent from Golden Ring Middle School stepped up to speak.
Instead, a parent who has two children at Red House Run Elementary spoke out because her children would have gone to Golden Ring. She expressed disappointment in the lack of communication.
“I’m concerned; I didn’t even hear it; I had to read it in the boundary process study, and I tried to contact the superintendent and superintendent staff and got no responses from them,” said Melissa Moore, whose kids attend Red House Run Elementary.
If the board passes the proposal, Golden Ring Middle School would close in the 2024–2025 school year, moving 900 students to different schools.
It’s part of an ongoing boundary study aimed at improving learning by reducing overcrowding in that area.
But when one door closes, another one opens.
During the same school year, Northeast Middle School, which is currently under construction, is projected to open and will accommodate over a thousand students.
“If you look at the recommendation that is coming from the committee, the boundary committee, and that was presented last night, it does have the whole Golden Ring attending the new middle school,” said Lichter.
WMAR caught up with one parent whose child currently goes to Golden Ring Middle School. She says that although her daughter will be moving on to high school when the closure takes place, she does hope it's a smooth transition.
“Hopefully everything is set up smoothly with the new bus routes and those kinds of things, and hopefully they’ll have the same friends at the school so that the children won’t have too much of a concern with going to a new school and a new building,” said Katrina Graffin, whose child attends Golden Ring Middle School.
BCPS says it plans to repurpose the building for future use.
The official vote on the closing of the school is scheduled for May 16. The board will vote on the new boundary line recommendations on June 13. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/the-building-needs-to-be-replaced-bcps-plans-to-close-golden-ring-ms | 2023-05-04T03:35:02 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/the-building-needs-to-be-replaced-bcps-plans-to-close-golden-ring-ms |
Fort Worth traffic enforcement has issued almost 13,000 citations over the last months related to speeding, according to a new report.
At a briefing Tuesday before Fort Worth City Council members, Fort Worth Assistant Chief Robert Allredge presented an informal report explaining the scope of speeding, street racing and street takeover issues in Fort Worth.
Of the nearly 13,000 citations, Alldredge said 1,700 stops were in Fort Worth’s school zones. Police also use neighborhood police officers and crash data to place radar trailers and vacant marked cars patrol cars in certain areas to modify driving behaviors, according to Allredge.
“Really, what they do is they try and stay in those high trafficked areas where we have reckless driving or high speeds to try and calm that behavior down,” he said.
Fort Worth Public Works has also been involved in alleviating speeding issues. According to the informal reports, its approach focuses on the implementation of traffic calming measures on neighborhood streets. Through a program launched in March 2022, residents and neighborhoods have the ability to request the installation of countermeasures like speed cushions to slow car speeds.
Installation in some neighborhoods like Carter Riverside is expected to begin this summer, according to the report.
Naomi Dillard lives along Primrose Avenue between Gwynne Street and Eagle Drive. Dillard said speeding has been an issue she has brought up to city leaders.
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“It’s a beautiful street. We have wonderful neighbors, but the quality of life is just taken away from us with all these young speeders,” she said. “It’s very dangerous. We have noticed people trying to walk and the car’s trying to go.”
Dillard said she saw a driver lose control of their vehicle early Tuesday.
“There was a horrible noise when I was inside. I thought two cars had hit each other,” she said. “A car had lost control at the end of the street, and they went from one side all the way around to the other side. Hit the curb, bad enough that it gave him a flat.”
She is hopeful speed cushions will make a difference.
“It’s just a long battle but hopefully, we’ll be winning it soon,” she said.
On the north side, Lou Ann Montes said the sounds of speeding are disruptive. Beyond that, she said she is concerned as a resident on Clinton Avenue.
“You have to be careful when you pull out of the driveway. Just sitting up here on the porch, I feel safe. But they could easily run up in the road, in the yard,” Montes said.
At the briefing Tuesday, Allredge also addressed the issue of street racing and takeovers. The challenges of addressing those issues are vastly different than speeding, Allredge said.
“That sometimes can be spur of the moment. That, sometimes can be well orchestrated. But some of the challenges we’ve talked about before are on social media, they go underground,” he said. “We usually only get about 15, 20 minutes notice before they kind of pop up. Sometimes we don’t get any notice until citizens start calling in saying, 'hey, this event has happened.'"
Fort Worth law enforcement has partnered with a Dallas task force on street racing and intel, aiming to get knowledge of takeover events before they happen.
“But what happens is, sometimes they come into town. Sometimes, they don’t,” Allredge said.
To address the issues of street racing, Fort Worth police say there are several strategies in place. They include the continued use of installing pole cameras in identified hot spot locations, using mobile speed radar and license plate reader trailers, and monitoring social media sites specifically for racing. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/fort-worth-police-public-works-address-reckless-driving-in-neighborhoods-street-racing-events/3248978/ | 2023-05-04T03:37:10 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/fort-worth-police-public-works-address-reckless-driving-in-neighborhoods-street-racing-events/3248978/ |
A veteran McKinney firefighter is now fighting for his life after being seriously injured in a collision while off duty.
A McKinney city spokesperson said McKinney Fire Capt. James Graham was on life support Wednesday after he was critically injured in an off-duty motor vehicle crash.
"Captain Graham’s family and his fire department family are with him at a local hospital," read a post from the McKinney Fire Facebook page.
No further details were given on the crash that injured Graham.
Graham has been with the McKinney Fire Department since 1999 and was promoted to Captain in 2016.
McKinney Fire described Graham as a leader in the department's Special Operations group and has been involved in extrication training nationwide. He is also a member of Texas Task Force 2 which helps with urban search and rescue situations. Graham also works as an instructor at the Collin College Fire Academy. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/mckinney-fire-captain-critically-hurt-in-crash/3250345/ | 2023-05-04T03:37:16 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/mckinney-fire-captain-critically-hurt-in-crash/3250345/ |
A North Texas blood center is answering the call for help in Ukraine.
Carter BloodCare, based in Bedford, is sending a bus used for blood collections to the embattled eastern European country.
The donor bus will leave Bedford on Thursday morning and head to the Port of Galveston before being loaded onto a cargo ship bound for Poland and then Ukraine.
The Ukrainian healthcare community is facing immediate challenges in supply and demand for transfusions, as hospitals and blood centers store supplies have been damaged or destroyed by drones and missile attacks.
NBC News reports this week, a fresh volley of missiles was unleashed by Russia causing huge blazes in the central-eastern Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad. Dozens of homes have been damaged and at least 34 people are wounded. Russia claimed Wednesday that Ukraine tried to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in an overnight drone attack on the Kremlin.
The donor bus leaving North Texas on Thursday morning is covered with uplifting messages and well-wishes.
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“Being able, as an organization, to help those that we’ll never meet but we know that they’re at their most vulnerable time is so important to the entire team base here at Carter Bloodcare,” Moore said Wednesday.
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Scenes of migrants sleeping on crowded sidewalks in Texas border towns like El Paso are expected to grow in the coming days with the May 11 expiration of Title 42.
North Texas organizations and churches are preparing to do their part to help.
"We are not going to see a lot of people staying back in Dallas or on the streets of Dallas," Dallas Responds border liaison Almas Muscatwalla said.
Although they don't anticipate the congestion seen on the border, they are getting ready to receive and help as many people as possible.
"Gathering together information on our volunteers and seeing how many people that we can get as volunteers because we are going to need as many as we can get," Oak Lawn United Methodist Church associate pastor Isabell Marquez said.
Oak Lawn United Methodist Church and Dallas Responds already receive 60 migrants every Wednesday. They are ready to increase those numbers.
"The numbers can be hundreds is what we want to start off with at least a hundred migrants per day and five times a week," Muscatwalla said.
The migrants will have done the paperwork and will pass through Dallas headed to their sponsors until their day in court.
Still, the organizations need donations to offer the migrants while they are here.
"Clothing and backpacks,” Marquez said. “We are going to need a lot of those. A lot of shoes and things they may need when they come here. Many come without shoes, without backpacks."
Those little things can mean so much.
"When we provide the clothing,” Marquez said. “When we provide the meals. When we eat together. When we celebrate together, cry together, pray together, it changes their lives."
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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — School Safety remains the topic of discussion. After the many school shootings across the nation, our state leaders say it’s imperative they pass laws to try and end them, House Bill 3 is a good first step.
“It works with schools around the state on their school safety plans; almost all schools are already doing this, so it tries to put some state wide resources there. Right now the house version, we don’t know what we’ll end up with, but it’s about $1.6 Billion into school safety,” Texas State Representative of District 69 James Frank said.
Saving lives, though, is priceless and having the proper resources to do that, is an area Representative Frank says a lot of smaller towns can improve in. The bill would put one armed officer or employee on every campus.
“This is executed locally, this is state trying to help in this regard, trying to bring some framework, but at the end of the day every school district is already on this and hopefully is also redoubling their efforts individually,” Frank said.
The WFISD is surely doubling theirs. Superintendent Dr. Donny Lee says the district has already been discussing adding rifles for school officers.
“Regardless of this bill before it passed HB3, we were already looking at this direction, so if we don’t get any funding were still moving forward with additional officers at WFISD,” WFISD Superintendent Dr. Donny Lee said.
The WFISD currently has 10 officers, only eight are on campuses, and none of them are on elementary campuses.
Next school year, they’ll have 24 campuses total, so they’d need 16 additional officers if HB3 passes.
“The way it looks in Wichita Falls, a much bigger district versus the way it looks in some of my smaller districts we have 14 counties it’s a lot different,” Representative Frank said.
Funds could also be used for fences or window upgrades at schools, anything to slow down a threat.
“The issue is with safety is its the response time when an issue takes place, so we had an issue at Scotland Park, and it took three minutes to get there because we didn’t have an officer at Scotland Park,” Superintendent Lee said “we need to be ensuring that our students and staff are safe and the best most reliable way to do that is with an armed officer.”
Districts now wait to see if it passes. Dr. Lee also shared that Memorial and Legacy High Schools will have bullet resistant glass. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/local/texas-house-passes-school-safety-bill-local-leaders-react/ | 2023-05-04T03:39:26 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/local/texas-house-passes-school-safety-bill-local-leaders-react/ |
APOPKA, Fla. – The Apopka city attorney resigned during the city council meeting Wednesday, and some residents are hoping the mayor follows suit.
Longtime Apopka resident Dennis New said that it’s time for new leadership.
“They’ve done a lot of things that are questionable,” New said.
New is working to get 1,800 signatures in the first phase of his petition to recall Apopka Mayor Bryan Nelson.
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“Whoever runs, we’ll have to pick a candidate that is honest, has integrity and wants to be transparent,” he said.
The petition lists dozens of reasons, claiming that the mayor wants to be a dictator and that he refuses to hold anyone accountable for the death of fallen firefighter Austin Duran.
He is the young firefighter who died last year while trying to move a sand trailer on the job.
His father, Michael Duran, said Austin Duran’s death could have been prevented, and he wishes city officials would take accountability.
“This is what just kills me inside every day,” Michael Duran said.
He attended Wednesday’s Apopka City Council meeting and witnessed City Attorney Michael Rodriguez step down after informing the council of his concerns.
“I ultimately fear that I can no longer ethically represent this council,” Rodriguez said. “I’m tendering my resignation so I can save you some money.”
Michael Duran joined a loud applause by residents following the announcement.
“I think what Mr. Rodriguez did today, I think was necessary. I think what he did was appropriate,” Michael Duran said.
Michael Duran is not an Apopka resident, so he can’t sign the petition to recall Mayor Nelson, but he supports it.
“I’m happy that this is happening because I think it brings awareness to this city,” Michael Duran said.
New said that even if the outcome isn’t favorable, he hopes it shines a light on the city council’s internal issues.
“If it doesn’t succeed, then we brought attention to his mismanagement, his malfeasance, his misfeasance, and we’ll have to fight tooth and nail until the next election to make sure he doesn’t get elected,” New said.
News 6 reporter Treasure Roberts reached out to Mayor Nelson for comment on the petition to oust him.
He did not respond.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed in Daytona Beach on Wednesday evening, according to the police department.
Police said that at 9:41 p.m., they were called to the 400 block of Hudson Street after the teen had been shot.
The teen was taken to the hospital, where he later died, police announced.
We are now working a homicide in the 400 Block of Hudson Street. Please remain out of the area while our investigation continues. https://t.co/zWwcM7hz6b
— Daytona Beach Police (@DaytonaBchPD) May 4, 2023
According to police, the investigation indicates that the suspect was wearing all black and traveling on foot.
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Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to contact detectives at 386-671-5245 or email ravizachary@dbpd.us.
No additional information has been provided at this time.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service are investigating the aftermath of an apartment fire Wednesday night.
According to Captain Orlando Reynolds, BFRS received reports of people trapped inside an apartment building located near 1st Street North and Morris Avenue. Crews are reporting one victim was found dead inside the apartment. No injuries have been reported.
As of 9:02 p.m., the fire has been extinguished and is currently under investigation.
Stay with CBS 42 as this story develops. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/firefighters-battling-two-story-apartment-fire-in-birmingham/ | 2023-05-04T03:50:07 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/firefighters-battling-two-story-apartment-fire-in-birmingham/ |
BEREA, Ohio — A German Shepard was reunited with its family after it was rescued from a river in the Berea portion of the Metroparks.
Metroparks police responded to reports of a dog stuck on rocks near the Barrett Road Overlook Tuesday evening. The dog became stuck on a small rock in the middle of a swiftly flowing river.
Members of the Berea Fire Department, Southwest Emergency Response Team (SERT) and Cleveland Metroparks Police Water Rescue Team responded and assisted in the rescue of the dog.
The rescue became more difficult due to high water levels from recent rainfall, but the dog was rescued safely without additional complications.
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MORROW, Ga. — Twelve people are behind bars and facing charges in Morrow early Wednesday morning after a large drug bust, according to police.
Officials said that they executed a search warrant at a home on Jonesboro Road just around 7 a.m. SWAT entered the home and found 11 people and later discovered another man in a shed near the home.
According to authorities, the investigation started a year ago. Police were looking into drug activity that began after they first started looking into concerns from residents in the area.
Morrow Police Chief Michael Crumpler said the department made an array of arrests in the location. He also stated a number of incidents related to drugs, a shooting and police chases that previously happened in the area.
"Over the last year there has been an array of arrests and incidents at this location to include 2 stolen vehicles, drug arrests for methamphetamine, marijuana, heroin, a shooting in the driveway, and numerous police chases involving persons leaving the location," Chief Crumpler said.
According to police, at least two of the people arrested had active arrest warrants. One of them was wanted for possession of methamphetamine and the other for violation of probation in an aggravated assault case.
Authorities said the 12 people in custody are facing the following charges:
- Possession of marijuana with intent to distribute
- Possession of methamphetamine
- Possession of other illicit drugs
- And possession of a firearm by convicted felon
The owner of the residence was also charged with numerous city code violations and the city is seeking to condemn the location, according to officials. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/morrow-drug-bust-12-arrested/85-8a90de10-8e30-4b26-b939-4fb3922b1206 | 2023-05-04T03:52:04 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/morrow-drug-bust-12-arrested/85-8a90de10-8e30-4b26-b939-4fb3922b1206 |
AURORA — Firefighters battled two seemingly unrelated blazes in close proximity Wednesday night, requiring the assistance of several neighboring agencies.
The first fire was reported to a garage and multiple vehicles on the 5400 block of County Road 100 in White Township just after 7 p.m., according to the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office. No one was injured as the homeowners attempted to extinguish it with a garden hose.
Some 20 minutes later, as crews continued to battle that blaze, another fire was reported in a house on the 5400 block of Poplar Street in Aurora. The sheriff's office said flames were visible from the basement and additional crews were requested, but that structure also was unoccupied.
"There were no reported injuries to anyone in either fire, and it appears that the fires are not connected, nor are they suspicious in nature, but rather a coincidence in their proximity to each other," Sgt. Wayne Toewe reported.
The Aurora, Hoyt Lakes, Palo and Lakeland fire departments all responded, as did the East Range Police Department. No damage estimates were immediately available as crews remained on both scenes around 10 p.m.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One potential consequence of California's ballooning budget deficit: Higher taxes for businesses, with increases possible every year for the next decade.
Business owners pay a tax on each of their workers. The money goes into a fund that states use to pay unemployment benefits when people lose their jobs. During the coronavirus pandemic, so many people lost jobs that many of these funds ran out of money.
Twenty-two states borrowed from the federal government so they could keep paying unemployment benefits. Those states must pay that money back, plus interest. Most states have already done this. But California is one of five states that hasn't. The state owes $18.9 billion.
If California doesn't pay the money back, businesses have to do it through higher taxes. California was supposed to start paying off the debt this year with $1.5 billion — $1 billion toward the debt, plus another $500 million to help small businesses pay their increased taxes.
But that was before California had a $22.5 billion budget deficit. Now, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to cancel $1.25 billion of that spending to help cover the state's budget shortfall. That means businesses will have to pay an additional $21 per employee in federal unemployment insurance taxes this year. That tax will keep increasing by $21 every year over the next decade that the debt is not paid off.
It could take at least 10 years for businesses to pay off the debt, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office. Meanwhile, the Newsom administration expects California will have a multibillion dollar budget deficit not just this year, but also in each of the next three years — meaning it's not likely the state will start paying off the debt anytime soon.
California could have paid off the debt, or at least a sizeable portion of it, in the past two years when it had a combined general fund budget surplus of $119.4 billion. But state officials didn't do that, to the frustration of business owners like Denise Duncan who are now stuck paying the higher tax.
The tax increase won't be a significant burden for Duncan this year because she only has two employees. But she said it angers her she's stuck paying for something that wasn't her fault after the government ordered many businesses to shut down during the pandemic.
“We're getting hit over the head with hammers every time we turn around with increased costs, whether it's gas doubling, whether it's insurance and utilities,” said Duncan, owner of AT Industrial Products in Pomona. “They had a surplus. So why didn't they use it?”
One reason is simply the massive size of California’s debt. As the nation’s most populous state, California also has the largest economy and the most workers. It’s $18.9 billion debt is more than twice as large as every other state.
Instead of paying off its unemployment debt, the Democrats in charge spent the money on other things. They gave $21.4 billion of it back to taxpayers, sending three rounds of stimulus checks to help people weather the pandemic and offset rising gas prices. The rest of it went to things like public schools, roads and bridges, health care and homelessness programs.
“The Governor's January budget proposal delays some longer-term debt payments to meet the state's more immediate needs,” Newsom spokesman Alex Stack said. “Having said that, we're still allocating $250 million to pay down this debt, which will save businesses money."
Stack noted the governor will release an updated budget plan next week, adding, "he looks forward to working with the Legislature and stakeholders on state spending priorities.”
Legislative Analyst Gabriel Petek, whose nonpartisan office advises the Legislature on budget issues, told lawmakers earlier this year that even if the state were to restore the $750 million payment toward the debt, it would not lower taxes for businesses because the the tax rate only changes if the debt is paid in full.
“If the Legislature wanted to make this optional payment a couple of years down the road, it probably wouldn't have a material difference for those paying the tax,” Petek said.
But the business community says paying at least part of the debt will show the state is serious about paying down the debt.
“Yeah, we have the biggest deficit. But you have to start paying it down somewhere," said Rob Lapsley, president of the California Business Roundtable. “It's just like it doesn't exist. I think they're just going to let employers pay it. They just intend to push through a hidden tax increase.”
In spring budget hearings, Newsom administration officials said their plan was to hope that the federal government would forgive the debt. But Robert Moutrie, policy advocate for the California Chamber of Commerce, said the business community doesn't believe more federal aid will be coming froma divided Congress with Republicans controlling the House and Democrats, the Senate.
Democrats in the state Senate last week proposed raising taxes on 2,500 large corporations so the state could cut taxes 25% for 1.6 million business owners. State Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat from Berkeley and chair of the Senate Budget Committee, said the proposal was not specifically in response to higher unemployment insurance taxes.
Still, Newsom opposes the Senate's plan. He will update his budget proposal next week.
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CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters.
Amid the clank and clatter of the factory floor in Dearborn, Michigan, self-moving robotic vehicles transport the 1,600-pound batteries that power Ford’s flagship electric pickup truck to workers in various stations, who rush to bolt them to other parts.
After workers inspect each battery, the robot moves it along a track to the next station, then wedges itself between two idling robotic arms. One arm is overhead, dangling the 2023 F-150 Lightning’s chassis, while the other swiftly moves to pick up the massive battery and attach it to the chassis.
Assisted by more robots, workers quickly assemble the remaining parts: the aluminum frame, tires, cab and truck bed. Then the completed pickup truck — which has a long wait list of potential buyers — undergoes a final round of inspections and testing here at Ford’s Rouge Electric Vehicle Center.
From Michigan to Georgia to the Bay Area to overseas, a new age of car manufacturing has arrived, spurred by California’s landmark mandate to end new sales of gasoline-powered cars in a dozen years. Already the transition to electric vehicles is exposing automakers to myriad challenges as they rush to ramp up production.
“Demand for electric cars is rising even faster than ever before,” said Darren Palmer, Ford’s vice president of electric vehicle programs. “It’s changed the way we work, it’s changed everything.”
The industry is grappling with supply chain constraints, fierce competition for crucial raw battery materials, and a rush to start producing cheaper, U.S.-made batteries — while also getting new assembly plants up and running in time to meet California’s ambitious timeline. At the same time, the autoworker union has raised fears about job security and workplace safety during the industry’s rapid transformation.
Forty-four major factories already produce electric vehicles in the United States, and several automakers, including Toyota, Hyundai and Ford, are now building massive new factories to assemble electric cars, as well as new battery manufacturing plants. The investment in new U.S. factories: more than $40 billion.
Tesla has long-dominated the market, selling more than a million cars last year. Still, some companies, particularly Toyota — which sold only a few hundred all-electric cars in the U.S. last year and recalled them for faulty wheels — have been resistant and slow to make the change, industry experts say. Instead, Toyota remains focused on its hybrids instead.
At Ford, Palmer says they’re up to the task. By the end of this year, the automaker plans to produce at least 150,000 F-150 Lightnings a year — more than four times the number the company initially planned.
Facing California’s mandate, “we know that we will move to all-electric eventually — we’re all-in,” Palmer said, adding that “there’s a whole load of states that are all following California.”
“A challenge for a company like ours,” he said, “is how do you manage that transition?”
Revamping assembly lines — and the workforce
As one of the Big Three U.S. automakers, the Ford Motor Company has been a leader in the auto market since the company was founded more than a century ago, producing many of the gas-guzzling cars Americans love to drive. But California is now forcing Ford and the rest of the global auto industry to move quickly to zero-emission models.
Vehicles account for about half of all greenhouse gas emissions in California, making them the state’s single largest source warming the planet and polluting the air with smog and soot.
Adopted by the Air Resources Board last August, California’s mandate requires 35% of new 2026 cars sold in the state to be zero-emissions — almost double the current sales — then ramping up to 68% in 2030 until reaching 100% in 2035.
California drives the U.S. auto market — one out of every 10 cars is sold there — and at least 17 other states have pledged to enact California’s rules. Putting even more pressure on automakers, the Biden administration last month followed California’s lead in proposing its own stringent measures to scale up production of electric vehicles nationwide.
Automakers will have to sell almost 12 million electric cars in California by 2035. Only about 838,000 electric vehicles were on California’s roads in 2021.
Such a rapid transformation of the giant industry is unprecedented.
“We just don’t have the production capacity today to satisfy that potential need in the future,” said Erich Muehlegger, a UC Davis professor of economics who analyzes electric vehicle market trends. “Automakers are in the process of developing that, but it’s not something that can be done overnight.”
During California’s rulemaking last year, the auto industry pushed for looser requirements, calling them “too aggressive” and “extremely challenging.” But now, as the state’s deadlines loom, many automakers are focusing their engineering skills and investments on achieving them.
State air-quality officials say they are confident that manufacturers can scale up to meet the deadlines. California is already two years ahead of schedule in achieving its 2025 target of selling 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles. About 19% of new cars in California last year were emissions-free.
“Now we are moving all the way to zero,” said Air Resources Board Chair Liane Randolph. “We’re very optimistic that we are going to see dramatically increasing deployment going forward.”
Ford announced a surge in its investments in electric vehicle production: about $50 billion globally for electric vehicles and battery materials through 2026 — up from $30 billion — with a goal of producing 2 million electric vehicles.
But to manufacture electric cars and pickups, Ford has to totally revamp its assembly lines and retrain its workforce. It’s a vastly different process than building a truck with an internal combustion engine. The all-electric version of the Ford F-150 pickup truck has far fewer parts than its gasoline-powered counterpart: no spark plugs, pistons, fuel tank, oil filter, multi-speed transmission, timing belt, muffler or catalytic converter — to mention only a few. Internal combustion engines have thousands of parts while electric power systems have only six main components.
The union representing General Motors, Ford and Chrysler workers says the transition could threaten job security. United Auto Workers estimated in 2018 that electrification could result in a loss of about 35,000 jobs among its 400,000 members.
For instance, the traditional, gas-powered model of the F-150 is assembled by 4,400 workers at Ford’s Dearborn factory, while the all-electric version, assembled next door, takes only about one-sixth of the workforce, 750 employees.
Laura Dickerson, director of United Auto Workers Region 1 in Michigan, said maintaining good-paying, middle class jobs will be critical to ensuring a successful transition to electric vehicles. Dickerson said workers who build cars don’t enter the industry because they’re passionate about gas-powered engines or electric vehicles — they do it because the jobs provide financial security.
“Moving into the future, we just need to make sure that we protect the work because those are environmentally friendly jobs,” she said.
Ford representatives declined to address questions about employee retention or layoffs, but said the company would be hiring additional employees as it expands its electric vehicle center. Ford will reassign an 800-person crew this fall, moving them from the plant that builds traditional F-150s, and plans to hire 300 new employees this year. In all, the F-150 Lightning plant will employ about 1,800.
The struggle to maintain good-paying jobs while producing electric vehicles has already led to clashes between some automakers and their employees. At a GM plant in 2019, nearly 50,000 unionized employees went on strike during contract negotiations when the automaker announced plans to shut down some plants that produce gas-powered cars and shift to electric car production.
Volkswagen’s top executive also predicted job losses, saying building an electric car takes “30% less effort” than building an internal combustion engine.
Dickerson said auto workers have expressed additional concerns about potential health and safety issues from working with batteries.
Many materials are highly flammable and can be explosive, and exposure to hazardous metals such as lead can cause health problems, she said. Workers had to be trained to safely handle the materials, along with high-voltage electric connections.
“Working in manufacturing can be dangerous and with electric vehicles, some of those dangers — we’re unaware of,” Dickerson said.
Dickerson said some minor accidents have likely occurred, but so far she knows of no fatal or serious accidents. The biggest concerns, she said, are whether the handling of the metals could expose workers to health problems in the future.
“They don’t know if they’ll get burnt by something, they don’t know if something else will develop from that down the line, because all of this is new,” she added. “There are a lot of unknowns to it and so people are very nervous.”
In response to the union’s concerns, Ford spokesperson Kelli Felker said the company takes “the safety of our workforce very seriously. Our manufacturing processes are designed to keep our workforce safe.”
Investing billions in EV assembly plants
When the first all-electric F-150 Lightning was unveiled in a live-streamed event broadcast in New York’s Times Square and the Las Vegas strip, U.S. consumers rushed to buy the vehicle that Ford dubbed “the truck of the future.”
But the demand for the electric version of the nation’s most popular pickup far exceeded the supply, creating long wait lists: Ford received more than 200,000 reservations for the F-150 Lightning in late 2021, creating a three-year backlog — months before the first models were available for sale. Consumers bought more than 15,000 in the first six months it was sold in 2022, according to a January sales report.
So Ford responded with a big surge in production, announcing it will now make 150,000 electric trucks a year, five times more than initially planned. Ford says demand for 2023 F-150 Lightnings is still outstripping supply, but that new customers likely will be able to begin placing orders this month.
“The F-150 is the vehicle that built America, so we made it electric,” Palmer said. “As soon as we realized the demand that was going to come, we started increasing production. Now that normally takes years and years for most companies. But at Ford, that’s what we’re very good at.”
The electric vehicle portion of Ford’s massive, century-old Dearborn River Rouge complex, which one executive called a “cathedral of manufacturing,” is still expanding as pressure ramps up to produce more models.
Ford now sells three all-electric models in the U.S. — the F-150 Lightning, the e-Transit van and the Mustang Mach-e — and will start building another electric pickup truck, called Project T3, in 2025, at BlueOval City, a $5.6 billion, 3,600-acre vehicle and battery mega-factory under construction in Tennessee.
BlueOval City is Ford’s largest investment in electric vehicle production to date, expected to provide about 5,700 new jobs and have the capacity to churn out at least 500,000 electric vehicles annually, according to Ermal Faulkner, the project’s site director.
The factory project has faced delays due to weather, although construction is on schedule with plans to open the plant in 2025, he said. Some supply chain delays and battery problems have also disrupted Ford’s EV production. In February, a battery fire temporarily stalled production of the F-150 Lightning.
To stay competitive, GM is producing the F-150 Lightning’s biggest rival — the new Chevy Silverado EV, an all-electric version of its best-selling pickup truck expected to be released later this year. The 4.5 million square foot factory near Detroit, which opened in 2021 and is expanding, also will manufacture GMC Hummer EVs and the self-driving electric Cruise Origin.GM, which expects to produce a total of 600,000 electric vehicles a year, is the only major automaker that has pledged to stop selling gasoline-powered cars around the world by 2035.
The EV wars: Fierce competition for car buyers
Economists are increasingly seeing growing competition among U.S. and overseas automakers in the EV market. That includes everything from sourcing necessary battery materials to offering competitive pricing for new models. Last year, U.S. customers bought more than 800,000 all-electric vehicles, nearly doubling from 2021 and totaling about 6% all vehicle sales.
Competition remains fierce as legacy automakers try to catch up to Tesla, which still dominates the market with two-thirds of all electric vehicle sales and the nation’s two top-selling models. Tesla has car assembly plants in the East Bay city of Fremont, as well as in Texas, Germany and China, and has invested in a $6.2 billion lithium-ion battery cell gigafactory in Nevada, with $3.6 billion more expected.
In response to Tesla slashing its prices in January for some of its models by 20%, Ford reduced the price of its Mach-E by up to $5,900.
Still, Ford and other legacy automakers like GM continue to trail behind in sales, although in the first three months of the year, GM did outsell Ford in electric cars by nearly two-to-one.
Ford’s automotive engineers are trying to change that.
Just five miles from the electric vehicle manufacturing plant in Dearborn, teams of engineers behind the glassy, reflective exterior of Ford’s world headquarters are racing to design more efficient and lighter-weight batteries. Their mission: To reduce the high upfront price tag of its electric models.
They’re rethinking battery chemistry and the components they use to hold the battery. The new batteries are one of the most important technologies of the clean energy future, said Charles Poon, the company’s director of electrified systems engineering.
Ford’s new strategy involves creating alternatives to batteries made with expensive nickel, cobalt or manganese, which are in high demand. Instead, the automaker is developing new, cheaper technology to incorporate more batteries made of lithium-iron-phosphate. Both Tesla and VW have announced that it will be the go-to for their standard-range EVs in U.S. and European markets.
Ford also is trying to replace heavy materials in its 1,600-pound battery pack without compromising the power output. The goal is to make future batteries more energy-dense, lighter and cheaper, Poon said.
“We’re working on it super hard,” Poon said. “We have new hardware technology, chemistry design and battery cell design to increase overall acceptance.”
Poon said the new lithium-iron-phosphate batteries would be far less expensive, which will yield vehicles that are more affordable than existing models. Reducing battery costs is critical because the high cost of electric vehicles is a major barrier to consumers. The average price of an electric car as of February was $58,385 — about $9,600 more than the average car — although it dropped from about $65,000 last year. Lower-end fully electric cars start around $27,500.
Teaming with Chinese battery companies
Rob Williams, a maintenance and engineering manager at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, said battery production delays have been one of the assembly line’s biggest challenges.
Access to critical battery minerals poses significant barriers to meeting California’s EV requirements, said Muehlegger of UC Davis. Ford also had to halt production in 2022 due to a computer chip shortage, and he said the industry still hasn’t recovered from supply chain disruptions it faced during the pandemic.
“If we are moving very quickly toward a world in which a high fraction of the new car fleet is going to be electric vehicles and not conventional vehicles, there’s a tremendous amount of battery capacity that needs to be created,” he said.
“There will be a lot of pressure to innovate in this industry. But how quickly the industry is able to innovate — and how quickly the industry shifts away from battery technologies that it’s using now to two new battery technologies that we haven’t discovered yet — it’s hard to know.”
A big part of the reason the auto industry is experiencing supply chain problems is because many materials, including nickel, lithium and cobalt, come from China, which Muehlegger said has become very efficient in refining and producing batteries. There’s only one lithium mine in the United States, located in Nevada.
Switching to U.S.-made components is essential so car buyers can qualify for federal tax credits. For sales to qualify for credits of up to $7,500 in the Inflation Reduction Act, automakers must adhere to strict rules that call for most of its components to be produced or manufactured in the United States or its close trade partners.
Only 14 models qualify for the credit under rules released by the Biden administration in April. Ford’s F-150 Lightning is listed as one of the few qualifying trucks, but the vehicle’s high upfront price tag could make it ineligible for the federal incentives. Currently, Ford’s truck models range from $59,974 to $98,070; to qualify, cars must have a price tag below $55,000, and trucks or larger SUVs under $80,000.
Diversifying and building a new supply chain from scratch in U.S.-friendly countries could delay production, since it takes years to build up, said Muehlegger, of UC Davis.
That’s why Ford has partnered with a Chinese battery supplier, SK On, to build a new lithium-iron-phosphate battery plant in Michigan: By building its own batteries, Ford hopes to obtain a steady stream of materials.
Tesla, in a move to ensure its cars qualify for the consumer tax credit, is trying to secure a similar partnership with a Chinese company to build a lithium-iron-phosphate battery manufacturing plant in Texas.
Palmer, Ford’s vice president of electric vehicle programs, said the company has already secured 100% of the annual battery supply needed for 600,000 vehicles and 70% of the battery materials it needs for an annual global production rate of 2 million electric vehicles by 2026.
“If we hadn’t done this, if we waited two years to invest, we would be in such trouble to be able to secure the amount of materials needed,” Palmer said.
Part of Tesla’s dominating success has been building its own extensive charging network for its vehicles, said David Reichmuth, a senior engineer at the Union of Concerned Scientists’ clean transportation program. Other automakers should be prioritizing that, too, he said, because insufficient public chargers have been a huge barrier for renters, multi-family home residents and low-income residents.
“If they’re going to sell these vehicles,” Reichmuth said, “they need to make sure drivers have a positive experience.” | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/facing-california-deadlines-automakers-race-to-produce-electric-cars-calmatters/103-42174135-dfa8-42a7-aa5e-d2dc33e874e4 | 2023-05-04T04:05:12 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/facing-california-deadlines-automakers-race-to-produce-electric-cars-calmatters/103-42174135-dfa8-42a7-aa5e-d2dc33e874e4 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — This story was oignially published by CalMatters.
The adage “get it in writing” applies to politics as much as anything else, and it would seem the California Legislature could learn a lesson or two.
Legislators and advocates have been pushing Gov. Gavin Newsom since last year to make good on a longtime promise to funnel money from a controversial tax penalty into the Covered California marketplace, making health insurance cheaper for nearly 1 million enrollees. The problem — or at least the argument Newsom has always made — is that state statute doesn’t require the penalty money to be used on health care. It goes directly into the general fund — where it has stayed for most of the past four years.
But legislators say that’s not what they intended when they voted on the measure in 2019. Senate leadership signaled its intent last week to ensure in writing that the money will “further lower the costs of health coverage for lower- and middle-income Californians” moving forward. The Senate budget proposal rejects Newsom’s plan to temporarily move $333.4 million in penalty money from an affordability reserve to the general fund, calling it a “rip-off” of Covered California funds.
“Our plan protects important advancements that California has made that has moved us towards a more equitable and sustainable economy,” Senate Budget Chairperson Nancy Skinner said during a press briefing last week.
In 2019, Newsom proposed and the Legislature passed a polarizing tax penalty on Californians without health insurance, known as the individual mandate, with verbal assurances that it would be used to lower health care costs for those who have insurance through Covered California, the state version of the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Though more than $1 billion has been collected in the past four years, the money has only been used once to lower costs for enrollees, about $355 million in 2020.
The Senate Democrats’ budget proposal, which relies on corporate tax hikes that Newsom swiftly rejected to avoid a variety of cuts, sets the stage for an intense period of negotiation between the Legislature and governor as they hash out a state spending plan in the face of diminishing tax revenue. The Senate’s counter proposal would mandate using the money to eliminate deductibles and copays for roughly 900,000 Covered California enrollees next year. It’s one of several health care funding battles heating up amid a bleak budget year, including a fight to infuse emergency cash into hospitals on the brink of closure.
Newsom is expected to disclose later this month an even more dismal financial picture for the state than the $22.5 billion deficit he projected in his January budget proposal.
In a statement, Brandon Richards, a spokesperson for Newsom, said the governor will “continue to work with the California Legislature to develop the final budget package” in the coming months.
This is just one step in a long budget negotiation that will stretch to June. If the Senate’s counter proposal makes it into the state’s final budget come summer, leadership intends to end the diversion of penalty money permanently. Notably, Democratic leaders from the Assembly have not endorsed the Senate’s spending plan nor put forth their own proposal, but John Casey, communications director for Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, said both houses are interested in the issue.
“We’ll see what the May revision includes and the two houses will advance their priorities as best they can in negotiations afterward,” Casey said.
“A bitter pill”
In recent committee hearings, Assembly and Senate legislators have lambasted this particular proposal in Newsom’s budget.
“I’m trying to make sure that those dollars stay in this area to address affordability, and I’m not hearing from the administration that same commitment,” said Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, a Fresno Democrat and chairperson of the Assembly budget subcommittee on health.
Sen. Caroline Menjivar, a newly elected Democrat from Van Nuys and chairperson of the Senate budget subcommittee on health, criticized the governor’s plan for saving money “on the backs of our low-income communities.”
On his first day in office, Newsom proposed reinstating a tax on people without health insurance to fund increased subsidies for people who have Covered California insurance. A previous federal version of the tax had been repealed by the Trump administration the year prior, which contributed to a 24% drop in enrollment in Covered California plans.
New taxes always trigger a legislative skirmish, but this one gave even Democratic lawmakers and powerful advocacy groups pause: Theoretically, the tax would encourage more people to get health insurance, lowering the overall cost for everyone in the marketplace, but the penalty would come out of the pockets of the state’s poorest residents — those who forego insurance because it’s too expensive.
The Legislature ultimately approved the tax in 2019 with the understanding that the projected $1.4 billion in revenue over three years would be used to lower insurance costs.
The majority of that money, however, has stayed in the state’s general fund. Newsom has previously argued that the federal government’s more generous COVID-19 subsidies, which extend through 2025, render additional state spending unnecessary, especially at a time when California faces a growing deficit.
But legislators in both the Senate and the Assembly say that’s not what they voted for.
“The individual mandate was not intended to create funds for other government programs outside of health care from my perspective,” Assemblymember Jim Wood said during a recent budget subcommittee meeting. “I don’t think I would have supported it if that was the way I thought it would end up.”
Wood, a Democrat from Santa Rosa who leads the Assembly Health Committee, called the diversion to the general fund “a bitter pill to swallow.”
During the hearing, Department of Finance analyst Matt Aguilera argued using the money to alleviate the deficit would not impact current services under Covered California.
“Everybody is concerned about affordability. There’s agreement on that. Just due to the economic situation this may not be a good time to start up new programs,” Aguilera said.
But advocates argue using the revenue from the individual mandate penalty wouldn’t be new spending. It would be fulfilling an existing commitment.
Costs keep rising
Last year, in tandem with a measure to ensure the penalty money no longer got diverted, the Covered California board approved a plan to eliminate deductibles for the state’s mid-tier coverage option, which is widely considered the most cost-effective insurance option. When Newsom vetoed the policy bill citing a “downturn in revenues,” the plan was abandoned.
“Last year this was a priority for everybody: the health plans, business groups, both the Assembly and Senate prioritized it in their budgets, health advocates, Covered California itself. Everybody lined up to support this,” said Rachel Linn Gish, communications director for Health Access California, a consumer advocacy lobbying group. “The only person we didn’t have was the governor.”
Instead, deductibles jumped from $3,700 for an individual and $7,400 for a family with a mid-tier plan to $4,750 and $9,500, respectively. Health Access is sponsoring another measure this year to ensure money appropriated for Covered California affordability measures is used for that purpose.
“One of the most direct and impactful ways we can make sure consumers get health care access right now is by lowering the cost of care,” Linn Gish said. “The 2025 (federal subsidy) sunset was the governor’s main sticking point…but to us, it’s 2023. Why can’t we help people now?”
Senate Democrats also rejected delays and cuts to investments in the state’s health care workforce, including a $49.8 million cut to training programs for public health workers. Michelle Gibbons, executive director of the County Health Executives Association of California, said the money was sorely needed after decades of public health budget cuts left the state scrambling to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We can’t even begin to grow the pipeline of microbiologists, lab directors, epidemiologists — very skilled positions — without these programs and investments,” Gibbons said.
It’s unclear, however, how feasible the Senate Democrats’ proposal is with the state facing an economic downturn. Most of the cuts avoided are funded through a $6 billion proposed corporate tax hike and $5 billion suspension of a major tax credit, which Newsom rejected within hours of the proposal’s release. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/newsom-breaks-deal-to-lower-price-of-health-insurance-lawmakers-hold-him-to-it/103-663d19d8-d5da-4820-8d07-b460bb42c3d3 | 2023-05-04T04:05:18 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/newsom-breaks-deal-to-lower-price-of-health-insurance-lawmakers-hold-him-to-it/103-663d19d8-d5da-4820-8d07-b460bb42c3d3 |
CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters.
When Deysi Mojica received her acceptance to UC Riverside, she was excited. Not only had she overcome her high school’s lack of resources to help undocumented students like herself apply to college, but the university was offering a financial aid package that would make her college dream possible.
“Even though I am undocumented,” said Mojica, now a first-year student, “the amount of money that they gave me was basically covering all my expenses.”
But an unexpected $13,000 charge from the university just before she was due to start classes quickly changed her excitement into confusion, leaving her wondering where the money she was awarded had gone. It was only after repeated calls to the financial aid office, Mojica said, that a helpful student assistant who was also undocumented gave her the information that saved her from dropping out: Her aid package was held up because a signature was missing from one of her application forms.
Like Mojica, many undocumented students lack accurate information about applying for financial aid or find the process intimidating. California has since 2011 allowed undocumented students to receive financial aid from the state and its public universities if they meet certain eligibility requirements. But students, advocates, and even the California Student Aid Commission itself say the aid application developed under a state law known as the California Dream Act is unnecessarily complex, not enough college staff are trained to advise students about it, and campus departments don’t collaborate well when processing applications. As a result, they say, many undocumented students are missing out on aid for which they qualify.
Only 14% of undocumented students in California receive any form of financial aid to pursue higher education, according to a recent California Student Aid Commission report. Of the nearly 45,000 undocumented students who applied for financial aid for this past academic year, fewer than 30% ultimately enrolled in school and received aid.
“What we know is we’ve got a lot of students that are willing and going through the process, but they’re not getting the financial aid support,” said Marlene Garcia, executive director of the student aid commission. “I think that’s a starting point to analyze that there is a problem here.”
One of the problems Garcia cited: Verifying eligibility for the aid can be cumbersome and fear-inducing to undocumented students concerned about the risks of sharing their personal information.
California exempts undocumented students from paying nonresident tuition if they spent three years at, and received a degree, diploma or certificate from a California high school or community college. When those students want to apply for financial aid, they must also submit a document — also known as an AB540 affidavit — to the campus they plan to attend verifying they qualify for the exemption and promising to legalize their immigration status as soon as possible.
The student aid commission then randomly selects 20% of students for verification that the information they reported in their applications is accurate.
But individual campuses do the actual verifying, and there is no statewide standard.
California State University Chico and American River College, for example, accept a simple statement from students that they are eligible and only require extra documents if there is conflicting information in their applications, according to the student aid commission. But other campuses require much more information, such as W-2 forms, IRS tax transcripts, and/or household size information.
That’s when some students fall through the cracks, said Sergio Belloso, a counselor at Santa Monica College’s Dream Resource Center, which provides legal, mental health and financial aid counseling services for the college’s undocumented students.
“Sometimes students just stop that process, because they’re like, ‘I don’t want to give them my information,’ ” Belloso said.
The affidavit and financial aid application also must be sent to different departments on campus, often causing delays and confusion for students.
At Santa Monica College, the Dream Resource Center serves on average 200 undocumented students per semester, Belloso said. Although tuition at California community colleges is just $46 per credit hour, or free on some campuses, many students, regardless of immigration status, use financial aid to cover additional expenses such as textbooks, transportation, and living costs.
Belloso said he and other center staff spend a large portion of their time and resources on helping students get financial aid, including those who don’t qualify for aid and in-state tuition. If other campus staff members were better trained to understand financial aid for undocumented students, the center would have more time to explore other aspects of its mission, such as providing legal help, he said.
Cristina Sanchez, who provides drop-in counseling to undocumented students at Solano College, said she started her job right after graduating from college with little more than an Excel spreadsheet with student contact information. As the sole, part-time staff member tasked with supporting about 200 undocumented students, Sanchez is also concerned the students she serves may not be getting the financial aid information they need.
“I was not given any training or anything like that, it was kind of like, ‘Here you go,’” Sanchez said. “So it’s been a lot of teaching myself or going out of my way to learn more, because I’m not undocumented.”
Sanchez said a lot of times she is sending students to other counselors and financial aid officers, creating a game of hot potato and potential communication breakdowns between campus departments.
Strengthening campus centers for undocumented students could help such students persist and navigate financial aid difficulties, students and counselors said. Even though the staff at UC Riverside’s Undocumented Student Programs couldn’t fix Mojica’s financial aid problem, she said, they welcomed her to campus, apologized for the difficulties she was having and even helped her find a work-study job doing social media for an undocumented student organization. Mojica said the support helped her feel like she belonged on campus.
“They were super welcoming. They spoke to my mom, started telling me about our (food) pantry and about the groceries. Although I didn’t ask, they were already giving me so much information,” said Mojica. “It had a big impact on me.”
The center, which supports more than 600 students, one of the largest undocumented student populations among UC campuses, plans to hire a dedicated counselor to assist undocumented students with their financial aid applications.
Meanwhile, the student aid commission is working to tackle some of the issues in the Dream Act application process. It has recommended reducing the percentage of applications requiring verification and allowing Dream Act applicants to receive text message updates on the status of their aid.
The commission is also sponsoring Assembly Bill 1540, introduced by Los Angeles Democratic Assemblymember Mike Fong, which would allow undocumented students to fill out a single application for both their financial aid and residency. It’s currently under consideration in the appropriations committee.
“We think that it should be intuitive. Students shouldn’t have to go through a maze to figure out how to get financial aid,” said Garcia. “The financial aid system should meet students where they’re at more effectively.”
Although both Sanchez and Belloso are excited to see a more streamlined application for students, Belloso feels there is still more that can be done to help undocumented students pursue higher education. He hopes campuses and the aid commission will collect and share campus-level data on how many undocumented students are applying for and receiving aid, so counselors like him can better support them. More financial aid training for other campus staff would also help, he said.
“Colleges may say ‘The Dream program is there, undocumented students can get help,’ but it doesn’t mean that we’re actually helping all the students,” he said. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/undocumented-students-qualify-for-financial-aid-california-why-arent-more-of-them-using-it/103-ccfaef85-a9ae-49dd-b714-39c52b7cf4ad | 2023-05-04T04:05:24 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/undocumented-students-qualify-for-financial-aid-california-why-arent-more-of-them-using-it/103-ccfaef85-a9ae-49dd-b714-39c52b7cf4ad |
DAVIS, Calif. — Two of the three stabbing victims in Davis in recent days were members of the city’s unhoused community. One died and the other is recovering in the hospital. The other stabbing victim was a UC Davis student, who also died.
“That, to me, is really the scary part here…somebody randomly picking out homeless folks and stabbing them to death,” said Bill Pride, executive director of Davis Community Meals and Housing. “Who it could be and why they’re doing this and just the randomness of the whole thing, I think that’s a very scary (thing) for almost anybody – and particularly when you’re homeless and vulnerable like that.”
Davis Community Meals and Housing serves people experiencing homelessness in Davis, including at a new four-story housing and resources center called Paul’s Place. It’s there and at another shelter the non-profit operates that there are a total of 24 emergency beds that have been added, in partnership with the city, specifically to get people off the street while the attacker or attackers are still on the loose.
19 of those beds were used on Tuesday night and the beds are all claimed for Wednesday night. Pride said the shelter is accepting pets, due to the emergency nature of this situation.
“Everybody wanted to come in yesterday. I mean, I think everybody in town – especially after the Monday night incident, when the person went right through the tent to attack the woman. I think it brought home to everybody living homeless in the city of Davis to the idea that everybody is at risk at this point,” said Pride.
At last count, he said, about 180 people were experiencing homelessness in the city of Davis, 100 of whom were living on the street.
Bill Mauvais is living in temporary housing at Paul’s Place. He moved in days before the attack and said the unhoused community is on edge.
“I’m kind of anxious for everybody out there. I mean, we have our housing, but a lot of people don’t out there. I mean, I’d hate to be out there,” he said.
He has lived in Davis for nearly 50 years and said these stabbings are unlike anything he has seen before.
“You know, it’s just shattering,” said Mauvais. “This kind of crime is just—it’s crazy.”
He said he knows the victim of the third stabbing – the woman who survived and is recovering in the hospital.
“We’d become friends because she was in the cold weather shelter with us – my wife and I,” said Mauvais. “I’m just glad she’s alright—or getting better, put it that way.”
Pride said Davis Community Meals and Housing has a list of needs for Davis’ unhoused community on its website HERE.
WATCH ALSO: | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/davis/davis-unhoused-community-on-edge-after-stabbings/103-ffb565ab-b446-402d-bfbb-7d1491637c02 | 2023-05-04T04:05:30 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/davis/davis-unhoused-community-on-edge-after-stabbings/103-ffb565ab-b446-402d-bfbb-7d1491637c02 |
CARMICHAEL, Calif. — A woman was hit and killed in Carmichael while crossing the street Wednesday afternoon, according to California Highway Patrol.
The driver, a woman in her 20's, was driving eastbound on Walnut Avenue toward the Fair Oaks Boulevard intersection when a 90-year-old woman was crossing, not in a crosswalk, according to officials.
Officials say the woman crossing the street did so at a yellow light, meaning the driver had the right of way.
Drugs and alcohol do not appear to be a factor in the crash. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/fair-oaks-carmichael/woman-hit-killed-in-carmichael/103-fdfe86f5-66e2-4fd7-99f4-f83a3dbf796d | 2023-05-04T04:05:36 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/fair-oaks-carmichael/woman-hit-killed-in-carmichael/103-fdfe86f5-66e2-4fd7-99f4-f83a3dbf796d |
FAIRFIELD, Calif. — Fairfield's transit fares are increasing starting July 1.
Along with the fare increase, paper passes are being swapped out for Clipper Cards — which are used on all San Francisco Bay Area transportation methods.
Fares will increase by 25 cents, which was approved by city council in September 2022.
Fares have not increased since 2014, according to Fairfield and Suisun Transit (FAST).
Paper passes will stop being sold June 30. All paper passes bought before July 1 are valid through Dec. 31. No refunds or exchanges will be given for paper passes if they're not used, according to FAST.
The changes to fares are listed below:
FAST Cash Fare (Single ride)
- Adults ages 19 to 64 increased from $1.75 to $2
- Youth ages 6-18 increased from $1.50 to $1.75
- SDM reduced Senior 65+/ Disabled/Medicare increased from 85 cents to $1
FAST 31-day pass
- Adults ages 19 to 64 increased from $60 to $80
- Youth ages 6-18 increased from $50 to $70
- SDM reduced increased from $30 to $40
DART Paratransit
- Single ride pass increased from $3.50 to $4
- 10-ride pass increased from $35 to $40
DART Paratransit paper passes will still be issued after July 1, but FAST says the Clipper Card system will likely be initiated in late 2024 when paper passes would no longer be accepted.
Riders can still use cash to pay for a single ride, but change is not available, according to FAST.
For those not wanting to pay with cash, they can pay with their Clipper Card by depositing funds onto it. They can also use the Token Transit mobile app to buy fares.
Youth, seniors over 60-years-old and Medicare riders can apply for cards to ensure their rates are discounted. For more information, click HERE.
Seniors 80 years old or older are still eligible to ride for free on FAST if they present a photo ID with their birthdate to the operator.
For more information about Clipper Cards or the change to fares, click HERE. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/fairfield/fairfield-transit-fares-increase/103-ed0f54ed-12dd-4ae3-adc7-ff1fc55df6cd | 2023-05-04T04:05:43 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/fairfield/fairfield-transit-fares-increase/103-ed0f54ed-12dd-4ae3-adc7-ff1fc55df6cd |
FOLSOM, Calif. — Intel Corporation plans to lay off approximately 60 more employees by the end of May. This is the third series of mass layoffs at the Folsom campus in 5 months with a total of 516 employees getting laid off.
The technology company plans to permanently remove 62 employees at its Folsom location, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice filed to the California Employment Development Department.
"All impacted employees are or have been notified of separation with at least 60 days notice consistent with applicable laws, with the first separations presently scheduled to occur during a 14-day period commencing on May 31, 2023," the WARN notice sent to the Folsom campus and Folsom officials said. "Additional separations are expected after the 30-day period beginning May 31, 2023."
The tech giant first removed 111 employees from the Folsom campus at the end of January and then 343 at the end of March.
This also comes after the technology company sent notices out last December and earlier this year saying it would remove a total of about 300 employees at its headquarters in Santa Clara.
Intel is not the only company producing mass layoffs. Other company giants such as Amazon, Disney and Facebook parent Meta have also laid off thousands of employees.
Watch more from ABC10: How to a piece of the $725M Facebook settlement | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/folsom-orangevale/intel-cut-62-more-jobs-folsom-campus/103-7406518d-03e3-41da-98f0-9de9c0b19c33 | 2023-05-04T04:05:49 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/folsom-orangevale/intel-cut-62-more-jobs-folsom-campus/103-7406518d-03e3-41da-98f0-9de9c0b19c33 |
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