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CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — UPDATE: The child's parents were found.
A child is missing her guardian(s) in Clayton County, and police are asking the public's help to find them, according to a post on their Facebook page Saturday.
The department only provided a photo and said the child is possibly 5 years old. Police said that she did not know the names of location of her parents or guardians.
Anyone with information about this found child should contact the Clayton County Police Department's non-emergency line or dial 911.
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After several days of maneuvers in bad weather, a US Navy battleship confronted problems in the dark. A lookout reported to the bridge, describing a light he saw off the starboard bow. When the captain realized the two vessels were cutting a collision course, he sent a message, “we are on a collision course. Advise you change course 20 degrees.” The distant light flashed a return message, “advisable for you to change course 20 degrees.” The battleship captain sent, “I am a captain! Change course 20 degrees”. “I am a seaman second class, you had better change course 20 degrees.” The enraged captain sent, “I am a battleship, change course 20 degrees.” Came the reply, “I am a lighthouse.” The battleship immediately changed course. Effective leaders know how to change course in the face of those lighthouse realities. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/the-chamber-minute-know-how-to-change-course/article_c79f71b8-ec15-11ed-9530-a3eec461e4dc.html | 2023-05-06T16:10:35 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/the-chamber-minute-know-how-to-change-course/article_c79f71b8-ec15-11ed-9530-a3eec461e4dc.html |
ROANOKE, Va. – The WSLS Shred returns Saturday for the first time in nearly four years!
The event provides the opportunity to safely destroy personal documents to help keep your information secure.
Materials shredded on site are taken to Commonwealth Document Management’s facility in Danville. They are then processed through CDM’s system and formed into 1,500-pound bales of shredded paper.
We were live from Schewels Home on Ferncliff Avenue in Roanoke, and you can watch the event below. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/06/watch-live-wsls-shred/ | 2023-05-06T16:12:13 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/06/watch-live-wsls-shred/ |
Eddy County collects $92M in oil and gas taxes during current fiscal year
With nearly two months left in the 2023 fiscal year, oil and gas tax collections for Eddy County are nearly $20 million ahead from the entire 2022 fiscal year, according to the Eddy County Finance Department.
Eddy County collected $8 million in oil and gas tax revenue for March, said Jessica Stygar, interim finance director.
Through March, Eddy County collected a total of $92 million from oil and gas production taxes. The county still has to report collections from April, May and June as the current fiscal year ends June 30.
At the end of the 2022 fiscal year, Eddy County collected $72 million in oil and gas tax revenue, read Eddy County financial data.
More:Eddy County oil and gas tax collections exceed budgeted expectations in 2023
Eddy County Manager Roberta Gonzales said March’s tax collections were based on business conducted in the oil fields of Eddy County during December of last year.
The county’s collections are based on the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) price for a barrel of oil.
The price for a barrel of oil fluctuated during the month of December, per reports from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
December WTI crude oil prices ranged from $71.02 to $80.26, according to the EIA.
WTI is the benchmark for crude oil prices in the United States, per EIA.
Eddy County originally budgeted $39 million in oil and gas tax collections at the start of the 2023 fiscal year.
Fiscal years in Eddy County start July 1 and end June 30.
Oil and gas tax collections for Eddy County should stay consistent for the rest of fiscal year 2023 as WTI prices have varied from $66.74 and $83.26 from February through early May, per EIA data.
More:Eddy County oil and gas collections near $10 million despite drop in oil prices
In April, EIA projected global production of liquid fuels to exceed 101 million barrels per day by the end of 2023.
In a press release, EIA Administrator Joe DeCarolis predicted world oil production and demand for petroleum products to be relatively balanced for the rest of 2023.
New Mexico had 105 active oil rigs during April, according to the TCI Business Capital website.
EIA projects U.S. gasoline prices to average around $3.50 per gallon during the summer. EIA estimates that U.S. gasoline production could increase more than gasoline consumption in 2023.
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Gross receipts tax collections ahead of 2022
Eddy County collected $4.5 million in gross receipts taxes (GRTs) during March, read Eddy County financial data.
Through March, the county collected $41 million in GRTs with three reporting months remaining in the current fiscal year.
At the end of the 2022 fiscal year, Eddy County collected $38 million in GRTs.
More:Eddy County uses long-term planning and projections to calculate yearly budgets
The county’s GRTs collections surpassed the budgeted $14 million at the start of the current fiscal year.
GRTs and oil and gas tax collections are two major funding sources for Eddy County government.
GRTs are imposed on businesses by the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department (TRD).
GRTs are collected from property sales, franchise employment and selling for research and development services performed outside of New Mexico, according to TRD’s website.
District 3 Eddy County Board of County Commissioner Fred Beard said oil and gas and GRT collections provided solid ground for the county during the 2023 fiscal year.
“The county is running exceedingly well,” he said.
Mike Smith can be reached at 575-628-5546 or by email at MSmith@currentargus.com or @ArgusMichae on Twitter. | https://www.currentargus.com/story/news/local/community/2023/05/06/eddy-county-collects-92m-oil-and-gas-taxes-41m-of-sales-taxes-eddy-county-commission-oil-gas-biz/70164659007/ | 2023-05-06T16:13:48 | 1 | https://www.currentargus.com/story/news/local/community/2023/05/06/eddy-county-collects-92m-oil-and-gas-taxes-41m-of-sales-taxes-eddy-county-commission-oil-gas-biz/70164659007/ |
PONTIAC — Police in Pontiac are seeking the suspect who left a 36-year-old woman with multiple gunshot wounds, officials said Saturday.
Officers were called to an address in the 400 block of West Cleary Street at 11:23 p.m. Friday after a report that someone had been shot there, the Pontiac Police Department said in a news release. They began to administer first aid to the woman, who was alert and able to tell them that an unidentified male approached her and fired roughly four shots in her direction from a handgun before fleeing in an unknown direction.
Pontiac police, with help from the Livingston County Sheriff’s Department and the Illinois State Police, set up a perimeter around the area and began to search for the suspect. He was described as wearing blue jeans, a black hooded sweatshirt and a black ski mask. The investigation remains ongoing, and officers still needed to speak to several persons of interest, the department said late Saturday morning.
The woman was taken to a medical facility and described as being in stable condition.
Police "have reason to believe this was a targeted incident and not a random act," the department said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Pontiac Police Detective Josh Bray at 815-844-5148.
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Most dangerous states to drive in
Most dangerous states to drive in
Driving is dangerous—perhaps even the most dangerous thing most Americans do in their everyday lives. Behind the wheel of a hunk of metal and plastic weighing an average of more than 2 tons , drivers aren't just risking their own lives and those of their passengers, but of everyone else on the road—or near it—as well.
The usual suspects of speeding, distracted driving, and driving under the influence are continuing to put Americans at risk on highways and roads. About 39,000 people died in car accidents in the U.S. in 2020—an average of over 100 people per day. That's more fatalities on U.S. roads than in any year since 2007 , reversing what had been a downward trend in driving-related deaths. The alarming death toll exists despite manufacturers continuing to add increasingly advanced safety features to cars, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Stacker used the Federal Highway Administration's 2020 Highway Statistics Report to rank states by fatalities per billion miles traveled, and to compare each to national averages.
Read on to discover the most dangerous states to drive in.
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#51. Massachusetts
- Total fatalities: 6.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (7.0 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 6.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.6 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 10.4 deaths per billion miles traveled (7.8 less than the national average)
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#50. Minnesota
- Total fatalities: 7.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (5.7 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 5.2 deaths per billion miles traveled (5.6 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 10.8 deaths per billion miles traveled (7.3 less than the national average)
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#49. New Hampshire
- Total fatalities: 8.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.7 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 6.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.6 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 11.9 deaths per billion miles traveled (6.2 less than the national average)
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#48. New Jersey
- Total fatalities: 8.8 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.6 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 8.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.4 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 12.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (5.5 less than the national average)
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#47. Utah
- Total fatalities: 9.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.2 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 7.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.1 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 12.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (5.5 less than the national average)
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#46. Hawaii
- Total fatalities: 9.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.7 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 10.4 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.4 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 6.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (12.0 less than the national average)
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#45. Rhode Island
- Total fatalities: 9.8 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.6 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 9.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.7 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 15.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.6 less than the national average)
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#44. Connecticut
- Total fatalities: 9.9 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.5 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 9.2 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.5 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 15.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.5 less than the national average)
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#43. New York
- Total fatalities: 10.2 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.2 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 9.4 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.3 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 13.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (5.1 less than the national average)
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#42. Vermont
- Total fatalities: 10.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.0 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 7.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.3 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 11.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (6.7 less than the national average)
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#41. Washington
- Total fatalities: 10.4 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.9 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 8.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.5 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 15.4 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.8 less than the national average)
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#40. Wisconsin
- Total fatalities: 10.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.7 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 8.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.7 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 13.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (5.1 less than the national average)
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#39. Maryland
- Total fatalities: 11.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.2 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 11.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.8 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 9.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (8.9 less than the national average)
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#38. Virginia
- Total fatalities: 11.2 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.2 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 7.2 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.5 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 18.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.4 more than the national average)
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#36. North Dakota
- Total fatalities: 11.4 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.0 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 8.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.4 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 12.9 deaths per billion miles traveled (5.2 less than the national average)
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#35. Indiana
- Total fatalities: 11.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.7 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 7.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.1 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 18.9 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.7 more than the national average)
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#34. Washington D.C.
- Total fatalities: 11.9 per billion miles traveled (1.5 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 11.9 per billion miles traveled (1.1 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: Not applicable
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#33. Ohio
- Total fatalities: 11.9 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.4 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 10.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.7 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 15.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.0 less than the national average)
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#32. Nebraska
- Total fatalities: 12.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.4 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 7.9 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.8 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 15.2 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.9 less than the national average)
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#31. Alaska
- Total fatalities: 12.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.3 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 9.2 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.5 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 15.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.9 less than the national average)
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#30. Idaho
- Total fatalities: 12.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.1 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 6.4 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.4 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 16.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.5 less than the national average)
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#29. Michigan
- Total fatalities: 12.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.8 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 11.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.3 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 15.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.6 less than the national average)
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#28. Maine
- Total fatalities: 12.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.8 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 8.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.7 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 14.4 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.8 less than the national average)
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#27. Nevada
- Total fatalities: 12.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.8 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 11.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.5 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 17.4 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.7 less than the national average)
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#26. Illinois
- Total fatalities: 12.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.7 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 11.4 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.7 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 15.2 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.9 less than the national average)
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#25. Colorado
- Total fatalities: 12.8 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.6 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 11.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.7 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 15.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.5 less than the national average)
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#24. California
- Total fatalities: 12.8 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.5 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 10.9 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.1 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 21.2 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.1 more than the national average)
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#23. Pennsylvania
- Total fatalities: 12.8 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.5 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 11.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.2 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 16.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.1 less than the national average)
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#22. Wyoming
- Total fatalities: 13.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.4 less than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 9.4 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.4 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 14.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.0 less than the national average)
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#21. Missouri
- Total fatalities: 13.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.2 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 12.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.5 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 15.2 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.0 less than the national average)
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#20. Alabama
- Total fatalities: 13.8 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.4 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 10.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.4 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 18.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.5 more than the national average)
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#19. Delaware
- Total fatalities: 13.9 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.5 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 10.9 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.2 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 23.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (5.1 more than the national average)
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#18. Georgia
- Total fatalities: 14.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.0 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 11.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.9 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 22.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.2 more than the national average)
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#17. North Carolina
- Total fatalities: 14.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.1 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 10.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.5 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 22.2 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.0 more than the national average)
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#16. South Dakota
- Total fatalities: 14.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.1 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 11.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.3 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 15.9 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.2 less than the national average)
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#15. Texas
- Total fatalities: 14.9 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.5 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 12.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.7 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 21.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.8 more than the national average)
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#14. Kansas
- Total fatalities: 15.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.9 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 11.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.8 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 19.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.0 more than the national average)
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#13. Oklahoma
- Total fatalities: 15.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.2 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 12.4 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.6 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 18.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.5 more than the national average)
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#12. Oregon
- Total fatalities: 15.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.4 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 11.2 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.4 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 23.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.9 more than the national average)
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#11. Tennessee
- Total fatalities: 15.9 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.6 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 13.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.9 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 20.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.4 more than the national average)
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#10. Florida
- Total fatalities: 16.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.6 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 13.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.3 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 21.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.9 more than the national average)
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#9. Arizona
- Total fatalities: 16.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.7 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 12.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.5 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 20.9 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.8 more than the national average)
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#8. West Virginia
- Total fatalities: 16.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.3 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 11.4 deaths per billion miles traveled (0.7 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 20.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.5 more than the national average)
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#7. New Mexico
- Total fatalities: 16.8 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.4 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 19.3 deaths per billion miles traveled (8.5 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 14.8 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.3 less than the national average)
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#6. Kentucky
- Total fatalities: 16.8 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.4 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 13.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.2 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 19.8 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.7 more than the national average)
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#5. Louisiana
- Total fatalities: 17.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.7 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 15.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.3 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 20.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (2.0 more than the national average)
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#4. Montana
- Total fatalities: 17.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.2 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 6.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.8 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 22.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.4 more than the national average)
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#3. Arkansas
- Total fatalities: 18.8 deaths per billion miles traveled (5.4 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 6.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.2 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 12.6 deaths per billion miles traveled (5.6 less than the national average)
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#2. Mississippi
- Total fatalities: 19.0 deaths per billion miles traveled (5.6 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 14.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (3.7 more than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 22.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (4.0 more than the national average)
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#1. South Carolina
- Total fatalities: 19.7 deaths per billion miles traveled (6.3 more than the national average)
- Urban fatalities: 9.5 deaths per billion miles traveled (1.2 less than the national average)
- Rural fatalities: 32.1 deaths per billion miles traveled (13.9 more than the national average)
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An early morning fire gutted a house at 617 East End Ave., Evansdale, and damaged two neighboring homes on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
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An early morning fire gutted a house at 617 East End Ave., Evansdale, and damaged two neighboring homes on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
Jeff Reinitz
An early morning fire gutted a house at 617 East End Ave., Evansdale, and damaged two neighboring homes on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
Jeff Reinitz
An early morning fire gutted a house at 617 East End Ave., Evansdale, and damaged two neighboring homes on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
Jeff Reinitz
A woman at 611 East End Ave., Evansdale, had to crawl to safety when heat from a neighbor’s burning house began to melt siding on her home on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
Jeff Reinitz
A woman at 611 East End Ave., Evansdale, had to crawl to safety when heat from a neighbor’s burning house began to melt siding on her home on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
EVANSDALE –- Authorities are investigating an overnight fire that destroyed an Evansdale home.
The blaze was discovered at about 1 a.m. Saturday and leveled the single-story home at 617 East End Ave., which officials described as vacant.
Heat from the flames also damaged homes next door to the left and the right, including 611 East End, where Wendy Grinder was asleep.
The heat completely melted off the siding of her home, and she awoke to the sound of her bedroom window breaking.
“My roommate said ‘we got to get out of here, the house next door is on fire,’” Grinder said.
Grinder didn’t have time to access the wheelchair she normally uses to get around.
“I can’t walk, so somehow I crawled out of this house … I had no socks on, no shoes, no nothing. And I was worried about my cat. He hid under my roommate’s bed,” Grinder said.
A woman at 611 East End Ave., Evansdale, had to crawl to safety when heat from a neighbor’s burning house began to melt siding on her home on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
A woman at 611 East End Ave., Evansdale, had to crawl to safety when heat from a neighbor’s burning house began to melt siding on her home on Saturday, May 6, 2023. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/overnight-fire-destroys-evansdale-home/article_b1cb9300-895e-5c5f-999f-2722cf464bac.html | 2023-05-06T16:18:03 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/overnight-fire-destroys-evansdale-home/article_b1cb9300-895e-5c5f-999f-2722cf464bac.html |
INDEPENDENCE — General Mills is planning to close its Independence pet treats manufacturing plant, forcing about 250 employees to “determine next steps,” a spokesperson confirmed over email Friday.
The Blue Buffalo plant, which makes select products for the company’s Top Chews and Nudges brands, will shut down by the end of the year.
The University of Northern Iowa's Campanile bells returned May 1, 2023, to the campus in Cedar Falls, with the first of the largest ones reinstalled back inside the structure May 3. Credit: Andy Milone.
"We acquired the Independence facility as part of the acquisition of Nudges and Top Chews products in July 2021, and while never an easy decision to close a manufacturing plant, these changes are in direct support of our pet supply chain strategy, which supports the long-term growth of our business,” said Mollie Wulff, a spokesperson at General Mills.
The impacted employees will receive “career services and benefits support" and are "encouraged" to explore career opportunities "across our network,” she said.
Nudges and Top Chews were products of Tyson Foods. The facility where they were made was added to General Mills' portfolio once the company completed the acquisition of Tyson’s pet treats business for $1.2 billion in cash.
General Mills already owned the pet food brand known as Blue Buffalo, now the name of the plant.
Photos: A look back at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ... 70 years ago
This image in Trafalgar Square, London, June 2, 1953, shows crowds of people gathering in the hope of seeing the coronation procession of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II later that day.
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The Very Reverend Alan Campbell Don KCVO, Dean of Westminster, bears St. Edward's Crown during the Procession of Regalia, prior to the coronation of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey, London, June 2, 1953.
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Surrounded by his clerics and ladies-in-waiting, Queen Elizabeth II sits in the Chair of Estate in Westminster Abbey, London on June 2, 1953, before being crowned. In royal gallery in background, Queen mother Elizabeth is leaning over to attend to the unseen little Prince Charles. Princess Margaret also lends a hand. Duchess of Gloucester may be seen at right in royal gallery.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, foreground, reads the Benediction to Britain's Queen Elizabeth during the coronation ceremony in this June 2, 1953 photo.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is crowned the Monarch of Britain holding the Royal Scepter, sat on throne, wearing St. Edward's crown, at Westminster Abbey, in London, June 2, 1953.
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Queen Elizabeth II passing through Westminster Abbey, London wearing her crown on June 2, 1953.
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Queen Elizabeth II, wearing her crown, center foreground, leads the procession through Westminster Abbey's nave after her coronation in London, England, June 2, 1953. The Queen of England is flanked by the Bishop of Durham Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsay, left, and the Bishop of Bath and Wells High Rev. Harold William Bradfield. Maids of honor follow behind, carrying the cape.
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In this June 2, 1953 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II wearing the bejeweled Imperial Crown and carrying the Orb and Scepter with Cross, leaves Westminster Abbey, London, at the end of her coronation ceremony.
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The Queen's train is lifted by footman as she leaves Buckingham Palace, to enter the state coach to drive to Westminster Abbey, London, for the coronation this morning June 2, 1953, for Elizabeth to become Queen Elizabeth II.
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The smiling Queen Elizabeth framed in the window of the State coach as she left Buckingham Palace quadrangle for Westminster Abbey for the Coronation ceremony on June 2, 1953 in London.
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Part of the parade of Commonwealth troops pass under Marble Arch, London, June 2, 1953, on the processional drive from Westminster Abbey, following the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
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The Gold State Coach, carrying Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, leaves Hyde Park en route to Buckingham Palace following the Queen's coronation at Westminster Abbey. London, June. 2, 1953.
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Members of the Ceylon contingent march through Picadilly Circus, London, during the processions following the coronation of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, June. 2, 1953.
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A carriage carrying Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, passes through Picadilly Circus, London, following the coronation of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, June. 2, 1953.
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In this June. 2, 1953 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh wave to supporters from the balcony at Buckingham Palace, following her coronation at Westminster Abbey, London.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, gather with other members of the British Royal Family to greet supporters from the balcony at Buckingham Palace following her coronation, which took place in Westminster Abbey, London, June 2, 1953.
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With her majesty, Queen Elizabeth II are her family and other members of the Royal family. From left to right are front row: Prince Michael of Kent and his mother the Duchess of Kent (behind her is her elder son, the Duke of Kent; Princess Martha of Norway; Princess Margaret (sister of the Queen); Queen Elizabeth; the Duke of Edinburgh; Queen Elizabeth the Queen mother; the Princess Royal (Aunt of the Queen); the Duchess of Gloucester, and Princess Alice, countess of Athlone (great-aunt of the Queen). Between the Queen Mother and the Princess Royal can be seen the Duke of Gloucester. In front of the Duchess of Gloucester are her two sons, Prince Richard (left) and Prince William. In front of the Queen are her two children, Prince Charles and princess Anne. The Queen wears the imperial state crown and her coronation robes. The Queen and her family gathered at Buckingham Palace for this Coronation portrait on June 2, 1953.
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The City of Midland is looking for a new Animal Services manager.
The new person will replace Ty Coleman, who the city released after “he did not meet probation.”
Coleman’s tenure as animal services manager included some new programs, a high-profile relationship with the non-profit group Fix West Texas and a record of lower animal intakes and lower euthanasia totals.
The City of Midland reported this week that there were 6,190 animal intakes in the 12 months prior to Coleman’s arrival in Midland (an average of 515 a month). The city also reported the number of intakes from July 2022 through April averaged 429.
The average number of animals euthanized a month dropped from 142 to 102. The numbers show that the percentage of animals that went through intake that ultimately were euthanized fell from 27.89% to 23.84%.
The job notice for a new manager includes the scope of work, which includes:
- Directs all phases of the animal control program,
- Supervises field and shelter operations and coordinates field activities,
- Performs other duties as required for smooth and efficient operation of the program,
- Sets and enforces departmental policies and procedures.
It is the last scope Interim City Manager Morris Williams emphasized in a conversation about the opening.
“What we are responsible for as a city is (1) safeguarding public health, (2) protecting animal welfare and (3) providing community care and services for animals that have come into our shelter.”
The City of Midland will provide the next Animals Services manager with a relatively new, 18,400-square-foot facility (it opened in October 2021) and a $2.323 million Animals Services division budget, which is not only an increase of 31% compared to the previous fiscal year but a jump of $1 million or 75% compared to fiscal year 2019, according to Animal Services budgets provided by the city.
That includes an increase in base salaries for Animal Services employees from $523,100 in FY 2019 to $991,402 this year (an increase of 89%).
“The (Midland City) Council has been supportive,” Williams said. “Put your money where your mouth is; the council has done that.”
The new manager is slated to make $84,000. The City of Midland is also hiring a veterinarian for the Animal Services Division.
Williams said the new manager will continue to build relationships with Midland’s animal support groups and local rescues. There also will be work to be done in the community with education programs, specifically spay and neuter opportunities.
“The final piece is to take care of animals within the shelter to keep it clean and sanitized,” Williams said.
Coleman speaks out
The now-former Animal Services manager immediately went to social media last week to announce his release from his position with the City of Midland. Coleman said on his Facebook page, “You’re told it’s a safe space to speak and try to guide city management and advise them of potential issues. But become the bad guy because you spoke up about said potential issues and they get hurt when it doesn’t go the way THEY expected it to.
“Even when I advised them on an issue and didn’t agree with their response, I still followed my orders and did what was asked. Not once was I ever insubordinate in any way and now I regret not following my gut.”
This week, Coleman told television station KOSA that he “wasn’t counseled or disciplined or coached in a way where they could evaluate me to grow and help me go in the vision of what the city wanted.”
Fix West Texas was a fierce advocate for Coleman, taking many of the Midland City Council and city manager to task during a public comment session after the April 25 council meeting. One incident referenced in the KOSA report and during the public comment period was a decision to open the shelter again the wishes of Coleman and Fix West Texas officials – a decision they said resulted in the euthanasia of a number of animals.
City officials have consistently said they will not address Coleman’s release or allegations as it was a personnel decision.
Williams did tell the Reporter-Telegram that comments that city management doesn’t care about animals were “unfair.” | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/city-midland-moves-ty-coleman-seeks-animal-18081726.php | 2023-05-06T16:35:02 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/city-midland-moves-ty-coleman-seeks-animal-18081726.php |
SHAMOKIN DAM, Pa. — A man died Friday afternoon after his motorcycle crashed into a school van in Shamokin Dam.
Shamokin Dam Police say Robert Stewart, 28, of Selinsgrove, was heading south on North Old Trail when he hit the van. Stewart and the driver of the van were both taken to the hospital, where Stewart died.
The driver is expected to be okay.
There were no students in the van at the time of the crash.
Police are investigating, but believe speed played a role in the deadly crash in Snyder County.
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Detroit men convicted of toddler's fatal shooting on freeway get lengthy sentences
The two Detroit men convicted of killing 2-year-old Brison Christian after opening fire on his family's truck in June 2021 were given lengthy sentences on Friday, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced in a news release on Saturday.
The defendants, Darius Evonte Lanier and Eugene Meredith Hubbard, were convicted of second-degree murder and felony firearm and first-degree murder and felony firearm, respectively, by a jury last month. Lanier was sentenced to 43 years and 9 months to 70 years in prison and Hubbard received life without parole, the prosecutor's office said in the news release.
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Lanier and Hubbard were charged in June 2021 after Brison Christian, 2, was shot and killed and his brother BJ Christian, 9, was shot and injured while the siblings were driving home from BJ's basketball practice with their mom and dad on June 22, 2021. The shooting occurred around 9:39 p.m. while the Dearborn family was driving on I-75 and McNichols.
The victim's father heard gunshots and the car began to malfunction, causing him to pull over, according to the prosecutor's office. The parents then realized that their sons had been shot and called 911 around 9:40 p.m. Brison had been shot in the head and BJ in the arm. Michigan State Police arrived on the scene and medics took the children to a local hospital where Brison was pronounced dead, according to the prosecutor's office. His brother was treated and later released.
More:2 charged in shooting of boy, 2, on I-75; prosecutor calls it case of mistaken identity
Lanier and Hubbard opened fire on the Christians' truck after they mistakenly identified it based on its black color and make, the prosecutor's office said. “After a long trial, these two defendants were convicted of taking little Brison’s death,” Worthy said in the news release. “These convictions will not bring him back and his family must forever live with his loss. I hope that these sentences will bring them some peace.”
After the boy's death, multiple Metro Detroit police departments launched Operation Brison to reduce freeway shootings.
"This isn't just a Detroit problem; this is an 'our problem,'" Detroit Police Chief James White said at a press briefing in May 2022 to announce the relaunch of the joint operation for a second year. "Our freeways are being used as pathways of escape for violence perpetrated not only in Detroit but in our neighboring communities."
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TARRANT, Ala. (WIAT) — A local police department is searching for Spanish-speaking officers to better protect a growing part of their community. As we’ve reported, the Jefferson County DA announced the arrest of a man suspected of targeting over 30 Hispanic people in a series of armed robberies.
There’s overwhelming support from the Hispanic community in Tarrant for the police department to bring on an officer and dispatcher that speak Spanish. Police say quite a few people in the area speak little to no English so police have to get creative when trying to communicate by using phone translation apps.
“They’re making a point to engage them when they see them and less of a confrontational, traffic stop but more of a ‘hey, how’s it going? Anything we can do for you?’, ‘hey, we noticed y’all hang out here, some people hang out here and we just want to make sure nobody comes by and victimizes you. Here’s our card, give us a call and let us know what we can do to be of assistance’,” says Tarrant Police Chief Wendell Major.
“Entonces pues estamos para ayudarlos,” says Marco Lopez, a potential Tarrant Spanish-speaking police officer. “Police, they just want to help,” he translates.
Each person we talked to about bringing on Spanish-speaking staff to the Tarrant Police Department thought it was a great idea that couldn’t happen fast enough.
“I believe it’s important for all police to have a bilingual or Spanish speaking police officer,” says Matthias Roberts, manager of La Hacienda. “There’s some Hispanics here that still don’t know how to speak English and we still have some workers that don’t know how to speak English all the way so I mean, it’s help out if they ever got pulled over or they ever needed to call 911, they’d be able to communicate back and forth.”
Tarrant police have been recruiting locally for the new positions. Lopez says he was first introduced to Tarrant police when he and his uncle were pulled over and he had to translate between his uncle and the officer.
“I noticed that there’s not too much police that speak Spanish so you know, I like helping people whenever they need some,” says Lopez. “If I can help people, whenever they pull them over or they’ve got a situation they need help translating, I’ll be glad to help.”
The police department also wants to hire a dispatcher who would be able to take calls in Spanish and best understand people calling in emergencies.
“You feel very uncomfortable talking in another language that you’re not fluent in and it probably, or maybe is like misunderstandings when they call and stuff,” says Jovana Chavez, prospective Spanish-speaking dispatcher for Tarrant Police.
Tarrant police say their last Spanish speaking officer went to another department a few years ago and it’s been looking for another since. Major says his department is big on community policing.
“We wanted the police force to reflect the community so we have made it a point of ours to inspire our officers to make contact with residents in the community and draw them into getting involved with the police to hopefully get them hired and qualified,” says Major.
Tarrant police say the potential officer and dispatcher have received one of their two needed certifications before then can go through the academy. Chief Major says while it might be a while before the officers get started, they’re working as quickly as they can. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/local-police-department-hiring-spanish-speaking-officer-dispatcher-for-growing-hispanic-community/ | 2023-05-06T17:15:12 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/local-police-department-hiring-spanish-speaking-officer-dispatcher-for-growing-hispanic-community/ |
ArcelorMittal swung to a $1.1 billion profit in the first quarter, up from a $300 million loss in the fourth quarter of 2022.
The Luxembourg-based steelmaker, whose North American operations are headquartered in Schererville, made $1.8 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in the first quarter, up from $1.3 billion in the fourth quarter.
The steelmaker made $1.28 in earnings per share in the first quarter, up from 30 cents in earnings per share in the fourth quarter.
“Market conditions improved as anticipated in the first quarter, with the end of customer destocking supporting apparent steel consumption growth and a rebound in steel spreads," CEO Aditya Mittal said. "This, alongside better general economic sentiment, resulted in good growth in first quarter profits as well as higher EBITDA per ton. The improvements we have seen in market conditions are not yet fully reflected in our results due to pricing lags, and we expect a further increase in profitability in the second quarter."
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ArcelorMittal has $5.2 billion in net debt, up from $2.2 billion at the end of last year, largely as the result of the acquisition of ArcelorMittal Pecém in Brazil and ArcelorMittal Texas HBI. It has $11.5 billion in gross debt and $6.3 billion in cash and cash equivalents.
"We remain confident in our ability to generate healthy free cash flow this year and have therefore announced a new share buyback today, while continuing to invest in growth and the energy transition," Mittal said. "During the first quarter we completed the acquisition of CSP and, also in Brazil, announced a new renewable energy joint venture, which aims to secure and decarbonize a considerable proportion of ArcelorMittal Brazil’s future electricity needs."
The multinational company, which used to have a hot strip mill in East Chicago serving the North American market, recently built a new 2.5 million ton-a-year hot strip mill in Mexico.
It has bought back 19.1 million shares so far this year and plans to buy an additional 85 million shares through May.
"To conclude, the first quarter has unfolded as we expected. Geopolitical and economic uncertainty remains, but ArcelorMittal continues to demonstrate its ability to perform in all market conditions which bodes well for the remainder of this year," Mittal said. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/arcelormittal-reports-1-1-billion-profit/article_793ac7cc-eaab-11ed-a465-7738db77c333.html | 2023-05-06T17:15:30 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/arcelormittal-reports-1-1-billion-profit/article_793ac7cc-eaab-11ed-a465-7738db77c333.html |
It is important -- if one has the choice -- to consider the hospital you want for medical care.
The hospital you choose generally plays a part in your risk of dying or your chances of recovery. Upwards of 250,000 people die every year from preventable errors in hospitals, according to The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit health care watchdog group.
With this in mind, The Leapfrog Group, issues hospital safety grades biannually to nearly 3,000 hospitals in the United States as a form of measuring their overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.
Leapfrog defines patient safety as "how hospitals and other health care organizations protect their patients from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections."
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On Wednesday, the watchdog group published its Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades for spring 2023. The grades, similar to academic grades, range from "A" to "F" -- with "A" being considered by Leapfrog as the safest hospitals.
Here are the safest hospitals in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, according to Leapfrog. You may want to keep this list on hand when considering where to go for medical care in the tri-state area.
'A' HOSPITALS IN NEW YORK
- Catholic Health System - Kenmore Mercy Hospital
- Catholic Health System - Mount St. Mary's Hospital
- Huntington Hospital
- Long Island Jewish Forest Hills
- Mather Hospital
- North Shore University Hospital
- Northern Westchester Hospital
- NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn
- NYU Langone Hospitals
- NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island
- Peconic Bay Medical Center
- Saratoga Hospital
- South Shore University Hospital
- St. Anthony Community Hospital
- St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center
- Syosset Hospital
- White Plains Hospital
'A' HOSPITALS IN NEW JERSEY
- Atlanticare Regional Medical Center - City Campus
- Atlanticare Regional Medical Center-Mainland Campus
- Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell
- Chilton Medical Center
- Community Medical Center
- Cooper University Hospital
- Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Bayshore Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Ocean University Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Old Bridge Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Palisades Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Raritan Bay Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Riverview Medical Center
- Hunterdon Medical Center
- Inspira Medical Center Elmer
- Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill
- Inspira Medical Center Vineland
- Jefferson Stratford Hospital
- Jefferson Washington Township Hospital
- Monmouth Medical Center
- Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus
- Morristown Medical Center
- Newton Medical Center
- Overlook Medical Center
- Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway
- Saint Michael's Medical Center
- St. Luke's Warren Campus
- St. Mary's General Hospital
- The Valley Hospital
- Virtua Marlton Hospital
- Virtua Voorhees Hospital
'A' HOSPITALS IN CONNECTICUT
- Day Kimball Hospital
- Greenwich Hospital
- Hartford Hospital
- Johnson Memorial Hospital
- Middlesex Hospital
- MidState Medical Center
- Saint Mary's Hospital
- St. Vincent's Medical Center Holdings, Inc, DBA
- Stamford Health
- The William W. Backus Hospital
- University of Connecticut Health Center, John Dempsey Hospital
- Windham Community Memorial Hospital
In order to compile its list, Leapfrog uses more than 30 national performance metrics from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and information from other data sources. This data, when combined, reveals a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors, according to The Leapfrog Group.
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On the same day that Leapfrog announced its spring 2023 Hospital Safety Grades, the watchdog group also revealed that the grades highlight an increase in healthcare-associated infections, spiking to a 5-year high, and worsening patient experiencing the pandemic-era.
the decline in patient experience during the pandemic-era.
“The dramatic spike in HAIs reported in this Safety Grade cycle should stop hospitals in their tracks—infections like these can be life or death for some patients,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “We recognize the tremendous strain the pandemic put on hospitals and their workforce, but alarming findings like these indicate hospitals must recommit to patient safety and build more resilience.”
To view the rest of the hospital list and the grades each medical care location received, click here. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/these-are-the-safest-hospitals-in-ny-nj-and-ct-study/4309462/ | 2023-05-06T17:15:45 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/these-are-the-safest-hospitals-in-ny-nj-and-ct-study/4309462/ |
First 'Children's Day' event, celebrating youth, held at City Hall
As Jackson recognizes the youth of the community with "Children's Day," speeches, poetry readings, and singing filled City Hall on April 28.
Vista for Love Your Block, Elvia Trejo is responsible for coordinating the events and shared a few words of wisdom behind her inspiration to honor the children of the community.
"To all the children, including my own, we want to express our deepest gratitude for being who you are," Trejo said. "You are the shining stars of our community and your presence today fills our hearts with joy and hope. We see you, we support you, and we love you unconditionally."
Performances from the Thelma Barker Children's Choir included songs like Bruno Mars' "Count On Me," an intentional choice according to Musical Director Steven Watson, who teaches the children the importance of the message behind songs. In this case, it's developing friendships and giving the children something they can relate to.
With a range of those involved from as young as third grade and up to fifth grade, Watson described how he felt when the choir was invited to showcase their talent at City Hall.
"I was excited just for the kids to have the experience and they were very excited," he said. "It gets them used to performing as well, because people as they get older, tend to not want to perform because it scares them."
Trejo hopes that celebrating the children of the community can continue for years to come and expand in the way it honors them.
"For next year, we're hoping to actually have schools have field trips that come to City Hall and hopefully have some interactive activities and then have this event again," Trejo explained. "And hopefully connect with organizers and businesses to, encourage them that maybe on their own, do an event." | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/local/2023/05/06/first-childrens-day-event-brings-singing-poetry-and-speeches/70158434007/ | 2023-05-06T17:19:25 | 0 | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/local/2023/05/06/first-childrens-day-event-brings-singing-poetry-and-speeches/70158434007/ |
Tucson hospitals and county health officials weren't immediately notified about a nitric acid spill on Interstate 10 in February, among communication missteps in a mostly strong and effective emergency response, says a new report.
The after-action report by the Pima County Emergency Management Office, released to the public on Friday, assessed strengths and weaknesses in agencies' response to the hazardous material spill.
On Feb. 14, truck driver Ricky Immel, 54, was driving near Kolb Road on I-10 when he slowly veered off the road and onto the median, where the uneven ground caused the truck to roll onto its left side. Containers carrying about 18,200 kilograms of nitric acid ruptured in the crash, causing the Arizona Department of Public Safety to shut down both directions of the interstate and tell residents and other people in the area to shelter in place.
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Immel died in the crash. He had a blood alcohol level nearly eight times above the state’s legal limit, the county medical examiner found.
With the help of the Tucson Fire Department and DPS, the county Emergency Management Office conducted a survey and held two debriefing sessions to discuss what went well and what could have gone better. The first session was for first responders, and the second session included community stakeholders and support agencies, the report said.
“No incident response is ever perfect. Lessons are learned and reinforced,” the Emergency Management Office said in the report.
At a recent Pima County Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Steve Christy asked that the report be made public and available to the board.
The report states that several agencies from various disciplines worked well together throughout the incident. Many survey participants also listed teamwork and cooperation as strengths.
The immediate response and swift actions by various agencies were also highlighted. A commuting Border Patrol agent was first at the scene and was able to take the initial steps in closing I-10 before a full closure of the interstate was ordered 15 minutes later, the report said.
Also, within 15 minutes of the initial 911 call, the substance that spilled was identified as nitric acid, and the National Weather Service was able to provide plume modeling for the first responders at the scene.
The WebEOC, a crisis information management system accessible via the Internet where responders across the state can share incident updates, was found to be a valuable source for sharing information. Using the system, updates were provided throughout the incident.
Websites made by various agencies were also praised for keeping the public informed. DPS created a website dedicated to providing updates on the crash and shelter-in-place notifications, while the Pima County Health Department worked with the Arizona Poison Control Center to create a website in response to the public’s concerns about exposure to the acid.
When it comes to opportunities for improvement, communication was brought up several times.
While the three transportation departments, the Arizona Department of Transportation, Pima County Department of Transportation and Tucson Department of Transportation, assembled traffic plans to deal with the I-10 closure, the departments did not share information with each other. This created community stress as there was no unified detour designated, the report said.
The incident command post was not clearly identified or known to all response partners, causing multiple responders to have trouble finding the DPS incident commander on-scene, the report said. One survey response said eight Marana Police Department officers were sent to the scene and could not locate the incident command post.
Radio communication between responders was another issue found. While local public safety and public service organizations can easily communicate with each other using the Pima County Wireless Integration Network, other partners who do not use it have limited access, hindering radio operability with DPS, the report said.
"Communication was hampered as interaction between the lead public information officer and other PIOs was very limited,” the report said. This led several survey takers to recommend activating a joint information system to help create unified messaging during emergencies such as the nitric acid spill.
That would help alleviate discrepancies in messaging and help provide clear information to media and public outlets, the report said.
Lastly, many responding agencies were not well informed about the incident, the report said. Initial notification about the incident was not made by DPS to the Pima County Emergency Management Office.
A recommendation has since been made that DPS notify that office of incidents affecting the community, the report said.
Other support agencies, including the Pima County Health Department, local hospitals and the Pima County Department of Transportation, were also not immediately notified of the incident, leaving many with limited information or a lack of messaging, the report said. The health department was not notified until the next day.
Exposure to nitric acid can cause irritation to the eyes, skin, and mucous membrane; it can also cause delayed pulmonary edema, pneumonitis, bronchitis, and dental erosion, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control says.
“Agencies and departments appropriately review and revise their internal policies and procedures, leading to more comprehensive preparedness for the next emergency," the Emergency Management Office said in the report. "It is already being witnessed that lessons learned are being shared among partners, collaboration and coordination enhances community preparedness. Relationships and networking are being reinforced.”
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/response-to-nitric-acid-spill-had-strengths-weaknesses-report/article_08eec8fe-eb84-11ed-91be-bfc0102c90ae.html | 2023-05-06T17:29:20 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/response-to-nitric-acid-spill-had-strengths-weaknesses-report/article_08eec8fe-eb84-11ed-91be-bfc0102c90ae.html |
Major leadership changes at the University of Arizona offer a ray of reassurance to the campus community after a school year spent grappling with safety concerns following a deadly shooting, a faculty leader and others say.
On Monday, UA President Robert C. Robbins announced that Liesl Folks, the provost, will step down and that Paula Balafas is out immediately as chief of the UA Police Department. The university is launching a national search for their permanent replacements.
The resignations come after months of criticism directed at the UA administration for its handling of threats lodged by a former student against hydrology professor Tom Meixner. The ex-student, Murad Dervish, is charged with first-degree murder in Meixner's shooting death on campus in October.
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Monday’s resignation announcements were hard-fought and expected, said Katharine Zeiders, a UA faculty senator and associate professor of family and consumer sciences.
“This was an organized move. We had many staff, students and faculty behind the scenes advocating and working on this,” Zeiders told the Arizona Daily Star on Wednesday.
“We’ve been organizing and advocating since 2020, and we’ve been focused on worker protection and fair wages," said Zeiders, who is also an organizing member of the United Campus Workers of Arizona.
"But then, after Tom’s death, we felt like enough was enough and we started organizing around accountability of administrators.”
'Last resort'
After Meixner’s death, news reports and later two separate investigations, one compiled by faculty and one by outside consulting firm PAX, LLC, publicly revealed that Dervish had sent threatening communications to Meixner and numerous others in the hydrology department for close to a year.
Dervish was expelled and barred from campus in February 2022 but that did not stop his communication with Meixner and others, all of whom made numerous attempts to get help from various units on campus, including through the dean of students, Office of General Counsel and the UA Police Department.
But, according to the PAX report, because the UA was not running “an effective Threat Assessment Management Team,” it placed “an undue burden on administrative functions,” and led to a “decentralized and fractured approach” to campus safety.
The report also cited UAPD’s multiple “missed opportunities” to “engage, disrupt or arrest” Dervish, who had an extensive violent criminal history, prior to Meixner’s death.
It said the police department lacked effective communication with Pima County law enforcement in illustrating a more "complete picture of the seriousness of the threat and provided more substantial reasons for arrest" of Dervish.
The Pima County Attorney’s Office had declined to charge Dervish with misdemeanor threats and intimidation earlier in 2022 based on evidence in a report UAPD submitted about some of his behavior.
Once the PAX report was made available to the public in March, Robbins made multiple statements acknowledging that university leaders made mistakes and vowing to make meaningful change and rebuild trust with students, faculty and staff.
However, the same day in March, the UA Faculty Senate passed a non-binding vote of no confidence in Robbins and his administration’s ability to investigate and manage campus safety. At that time, senators told the Star they hoped Robbins would interpret the votes as “a wake-up-call,” not a call for his resignation.
“Organizing around the removal of administrators was our last resort,” said Zeiders, who added that she and other faculty members felt unheard by administrators in the aftermath of the Oct. 5 slaying.
But over the past month, Robbins has met with numerous faculty members and students to address campus safety reform, and Zeiders said the administrative changes announced Monday give the impression he is taking these conversations seriously.
‘Part of a larger change’?
“We hope this is part of a larger change,” Zeiders said, emphasizing higher wages, worker treatment and safety. “We want to keep leaders accountable. This is our university, which we love. We want to see these systemic changes at our university.”
For Kathy Varin, who is the senior business manager in the hydrology department, the resignation of the police chief brings her some comfort as she prepares to return to work on campus next fall.
“I’m glad she’s gone. She should have been gone the next day,” Varin told the Star. “Somebody was not passing these threats up to the police chief. The police chief should have known about that guy.”
Varin was just around the corner the day of the shooting when she heard gunshots and rushed to Meixner’s side until police arrived. “As soon as I heard gunshots, I knew it was (Dervish),” Varin told the Star. “I knew he had been making threats, I just didn’t know the extent.”
Varin, who’s worked for the UA for 20 years, said the hydrology department had even considered installing a panic button in the building in case Dervish came. But it was expensive and the department would have to pay for it, so it never materialized. “We were sitting ducks. I kept thinking, ‘What am I going to do if he comes into the office? How am I going to survive?’”
But when Varin returns to campus next fall, there will be panic buttons in numerous buildings on campus in addition to required background checks for all graduate students.
UA is carrying out these and other changes including installing more locks and keyless entries, launching a mobile crisis team, setting up a new safety website and streamlining oversight of offices that deal with safety issues.
These are steps in the right direction in the eyes of Varin, who has already seen the worst case scenario of ineffective campus safety protocols.
“I’d like to see more police presence on campus. Maybe there’s other students thinking of doing this sort of thing. They need a deterrent,” Varin said. “If you can keep a Murad Dervish out of your department, believe me, you want to.”
At the same time, some students say they're fearful of the kind of climate an increased police presence could create.
Nousha Aldhefery, a junior and student activist, said she doesn’t want to see any more police officers get hired to serve UAPD now that Balafas is out.
“We’ve never felt safe around police, especially after the death of Professor Meixner,” she said at a rally in front of Old Main Thursday where dozens of students called for the additional resignation of Dean of Students Kendal Washington White.
In a petition calling for White to resign, activists claim she "is unwilling to be part of a process of rebuilding trust with those she is charged to serve, and that to the contrary she contributes to an ongoing culture of fear and retaliation." White and other UA officials have not responded to the Star's requests for comment on the petition.
“Instead of hiring more police, we’d like the administration to work with us to see what would make us feel safe," Aldhefery said.
As for Folks’ stepping down as provost or chief academic officer to establish a UA semiconducting manufacturing center, Aldhefery said:
"It’s good,” but “it’s not a solution. … If we settle for this, they’ll make us settle for everything else.”
‘Rebuilding trust’
Steve Patterson, who is now heading the Threat Assessment and Management Team and started his job as chief interim safety officer on Monday, would not comment to the Star about Balafas’ resignation.
But, he did say that striking a balance between safety and trust is one of his top priorities in launching the new Office of Public Safety.
He said he’ll be working with the newly established Campus Safety Advisory Commission to discuss questions like, “How do we engage with the campus community and make sure people feel comfortable reporting to the university” or UAPD.
He added that campus safety has a broad scope. “It’s not just for making our campus safe against violence,” Patterson said. For example, “it’s about making sure we’re fire-safe and have enough defibrillators in appropriate locations.”
Patterson will also have a new police chief and provost to work with to implement that plan, but at a news conference Friday, Robbins said it could be months before the UA permanently fills either of those roles.
“Organizational change is sometimes a good thing to rebuild trust,” said Robbins, who acknowledged that “many many mistakes were made” during the last school year and that the new provost and police chief will need a “safety-first” mindset.
“There are many opportunities for improvement for making our campus safer," he said, "but there’s a lot of work to do and no one person can do that.”
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TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — As temperatures rose heading into the weekend, The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) put out a warning.
On Friday, ERCOT announced “possible future Emergency Condition of reserve capacity deficiency” beginning May 8 through May 10. In a statement to WFAA, an ERCOT spokesperson said the grid has sufficient supply to meet demand and that it wasn’t asking Texans to conserve power.
Doug Lewin, President of Stoic Energy and writer for the Texas Energy and Power Newsletter said ERCOT is likely taking precaution before the summer months.
“A lot of gas and coal plants, they go down for plant maintenance. This is the season when they do that, cause they don’t expect very high demand,” Lewin said. “When they do get high demand, you have a lot of coal plants offline, and that could cause some problems.”
Just two days earlier, officials with ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission (PUC) announced concern the power grid could face outages this summer.
“I would be very surprised if there actually was a problem,” Lewin said. “The only way I think there would be a problem is next week, if it’s much hotter than what they’re expecting and demand ends up being much higher than what they’re forecasting.”
PUC Chairman Peter Lake and ERCOT President and CEO Pablo Vegas announced peak demand for electricity this summer will exceed the amount they can generate. The grid will rely on renewable energy to keep the lights on for Texans, Lake said.
“On the hottest days of summer, there is no longer enough on-demand dispatchable power generation to meet demand in the ERCOT system,” Lake said.
Lake and Vegas blamed rapid population growth in Texas for the grid’s supply and demand issues.
During the press conference, Lake said between 2008 and 2022, on-demand dispatchable power supply in Texas grew only 1.5%, and in that same time frame, the state’s population grew 24%.
Vegas said they plan to operate a reliable grid this summer, and that the grid is more stabilized than ever.
“They said that almost in the same breath they were saying everybody should be concerned, that there’s a higher likelihood of outages this summer than last summer,” Lewin said. “They’re confusing people.” | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/ercot-warns-power-outages-likely-this-summer/287-e16c43c8-1fa0-43ab-b489-c2231f61bd97 | 2023-05-06T17:32:57 | 0 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/ercot-warns-power-outages-likely-this-summer/287-e16c43c8-1fa0-43ab-b489-c2231f61bd97 |
2-vehicle crash in Chandler sends 8 to the hospital
Jose R. Gonzalez
Arizona Republic
A Saturday morning crash involving two vehicles in Chandler sent eight people to the hospital, including several minors.
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Joaquin Enriquez tweeted at 5:48 a.m. about a truck with six people crashing into a sedan with two people at Arizona Avenue and Hunt Highway.
All drivers and passengers in both vehicles were taken to the hospital. according to Enriquez.
It is unclear what the nature of the injuries may have been, what caused the crash and if anyone is being charged.
The intersection would remain closed for hours, Enriquez said in his tweet. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/chandler/2023/05/06/2-vehicle-crash-in-chandler-sends-8-to-the-hospital/70190972007/ | 2023-05-06T17:33:25 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/chandler/2023/05/06/2-vehicle-crash-in-chandler-sends-8-to-the-hospital/70190972007/ |
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. – Virginia State Police is investigating a vehicle-bicycle crash that left a 15-year-old dead Thursday in Franklin County.
Police said the crash happened at 10:10 p.m. on Route 220, one tenth of a mile north of Route 619 in Franklin County.
We’re told a 15-year-old boy was riding his electric bicycle in the southbound right lane on Route 220 when it was struck by a 2005 Honda Accord, which was heading south in the right lane on 220.
The operator of the bike was identified as Micah Meggs, 15, of Rocky Mount, according to VSP.
Authorities said Meggs died at the scene, and the driver of the Honda was not injured.
The crash is still under investigation. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/06/15-year-old-dead-after-bicycle-crash-in-franklin-county/ | 2023-05-06T17:43:52 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/06/15-year-old-dead-after-bicycle-crash-in-franklin-county/ |
HIGHLAND COUNTY, Va. – Virginia State Police is investigating a single-vehicle crash that left one dead in Highland County Saturday.
Police said it happened at 2 a.m. on Route 654, one quarter of a mile north of Route 651 in Highland County.
According to VSP, a 2006 Nissan Titan was heading north on Route 654 when it ran off the left side of the roadway, overcorrected, and then ran off the right of the roadway and struck several trees, ejecting the driver.
We’re told the driver of the Nissan was identified as Samuel Fawley, 23, of McDowell.
Authorities said Fawley died at the scene.
The crash remains under investigation. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/06/state-police-investigating-fatal-crash-in-highland-county/ | 2023-05-06T17:43:58 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/06/state-police-investigating-fatal-crash-in-highland-county/ |
(WJHL) – The UVA Wise Jazz Ensemble is doing its part to give back to its surrounding communities.
The Ensemble, comprised of UVA Wise students and community members, and led by Donald Sorah, a UVA Wise Associate Professor of Music, performed for 30 unsheltered individuals at a hotel in Norton.
The “Paths to Dignity” performance is part of the Ensemble’s community performances, which it performs each semester at a local off-campus venue.
The performance was inspired by a similar event with the same name that is conducted by the Tri-Cities based Symphony of the Mountains, which Sorah is a member.
The project works to bring music to unsheltered people through performances by symphony musicians at homeless shelters and food banks throughout the Tri-Cities region.
“The project this year brought the service-learning aspect to a whole new level and was by far the most meaningful performance I have been a part of during my 15 years leading the ensemble and others on campus,” Sorah said.
In addition to music, audience members were treated to a free meal.
Circle K International, a service organization on the UVA Wise campus, prepared the meals minutes before the concert and handed out sandwiches, chips, drinks and snacks.
Some people in the local unsheltered community were not able to attend, but meals were delivered to them by the Family Crisis Support Center staff, Sorah said. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/uva-wise-jazz-ensemble-gives-back/ | 2023-05-06T17:46:30 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/uva-wise-jazz-ensemble-gives-back/ |
FORT SMITH, Ark. — Fort Smith Police responded to a shooting on the evening of Friday, May 5 near the intersection of North 23rd and High Street.
According to police, a car was shot at, but no one was injured.
Police say the victims were taken to be interviewed and no arrests have been made at this time.
Police believe this is an isolated incident without a threat to the public.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two people were hospitalized Friday night after an assault at the Wyndhaven Apartments in Hillsboro, officials said.
At around 7:00 p.m., a disturbance was reported at the apartments off Southwest Edgeway Drive and Hillsboro police said they responded to the scene.
Not much information is available, but police confirmed that two individuals were taken to local hospitals, although their status is unknown.
Stay tuned with KOIN 6 for more information. | https://www.koin.com/local/washington-county/2-hospitalized-after-assault-at-hillsboro-apartments-police/ | 2023-05-06T18:03:53 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/washington-county/2-hospitalized-after-assault-at-hillsboro-apartments-police/ |
Bismarck officials have announced several road projects around the city that will impact motorists.
Starting at 6 a.m. Monday, Seventh Street will be reduced to two lanes from Avenue A through Thayer Avenue. The two westernmost southbound lanes of Seventh will be closed to traffic for underground utility work. The work will take about two weeks, weather permitting.
Starting at 7 a.m. Monday, Hamilton Street from Century Avenue to 250 feet north of Saratoga Avenue will be closed to traffic. The closure will last for about three weeks while the roadway is reconstructed.
Starting at 8 a.m. Monday, the 26th Street northbound lane from 43rd Avenue to Seneca Drive will be closed for 10 days for concrete repairs. The southbound lane on 26th Street from Seneca Drive to 43rd Avenue will remain open. Residents of The Pointe and Grand Prairie Estates subdivisions should access through roadways off 43rd Avenue.
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Starting at 9 a.m. Monday, the intersection of State Street and 43rd Avenue will be reduced to one lane in each direction at times while a contractor installs new traffic signals. The work will take about 10 days.
Also starting at 9 a.m. Monday, Washington Street will have flaggers in place for traffic from Burleigh Avenue north through the drainage ditch. The operation will occur during off-peak traffic times for about two weeks for a contractor to conduct soil borings.
No detour will be provided for any of the projects. Traffic speeds will be reduced in some areas, and delays are possible for motorists. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck-announces-road-work/article_15fc264c-ec1d-11ed-a6dc-43eec88dd4b2.html | 2023-05-06T18:03:55 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck-announces-road-work/article_15fc264c-ec1d-11ed-a6dc-43eec88dd4b2.html |
University of Jamestown alum Jim Unruh and his wife, Candy, have donated $15 million to the university.
The school says it's the largest single donation in university history, as well as the largest single gift given to private education in North Dakota.
Unruh graduated from Jamestown in 1963 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. He made his fortune in the business world, including being a longtime executive with Alerion Capital Group LLC.
The donation goes toward the creation and naming of the university's new School of Character in Leadership, and will support the renovation of the Voorhees Chapel and a new building that will become the school's center for faith and life.
“Leadership is something we are all engaged in, and the pressure of leadership today is enormous,” Unruh said. “We can’t be more supportive of trying to raise this program up, because the need is great. The success I’ve had has a lot to do with the values that were reinforced here at UJ."
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Dozens of people set out Saturday to help a severely-injured Army veteran as he and his family prepare to move into their new home in Kissimmee.
Noe “Lito” Santos Dilone said he couldn’t be happier seeing dozens of people help landscape his home that morning during “Volunteer Day.”
It’s one of the final steps before Dilone and his two daughters can move into their new Kissimmee home in a few weeks.
They’re getting the mortgage-free, three-bedroom home all thanks to a national nonprofit called Homes For Our Troops, which aims to help post-9/11 severely-injured veterans.
“A life-changing opportunity for me and my girls. I’m happy that everybody came out today,” Dilone said. “I’m really excited.”
The Army veteran lost his left leg after an explosion in 2005 while serving in Iraq.
Sgt. Dilone said he knew he wanted to join the Army while attending high school in New York in 2001, seeing so many people in need following 9/11.
“I saw the second plane hit,” Dilone said. “I just feel there was a bigger purpose to do what I wanted to do.”
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Dawn Terry with Homes For Our Troops said the organization has built 354 homes in 45 states, and there are dozens of homes in progress right now.
She said these homes are wheelchair-accessible and have many custom adaptions for injured veterans.
“These veterans deserve to get their freedom back. In fighting for our freedom, they lost theirs, and these homes in turn give them their freedom back,” Terry said.
She said Dilone qualified for the program.
“He applied, he heard from one of his good friends (...) who is in the program and recommended him,” Terry said.
Eric Hunt was among the many volunteers. His company ABC Supply was also a corporate sponsor.
“To be a part of this is really special, to be able to help somebody who sacrificed for our country,” Hunt said.
To find out more about the Homes For Our Troops initiative and to see how to qualify for one of these homes, click HERE.
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Phoebe Putney Health System President/CEO Scott Steiner gets a bird's-eye view of ongoing construction projects at the hospital from atop Phoebe's parking deck, which includes a helicopter landing pad.
Workers on the joint Phoebe/Albany Technical College Living & Learning Community project have "made up significant ground" after the project got off to a slow start.
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany is in the midst of two major construction projects that Phoebe Health System President/CEO Scott Steiner said are "on target and on budget."
Phoebe Putney Health System President/CEO Scott Steiner gets a bird's-eye view of ongoing construction projects at the hospital from atop Phoebe's parking deck, which includes a helicopter landing pad.
Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher
Most of the work on Phoebe's Trauma/Critical Tower to this point has been underground.
Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher
Workers on the joint Phoebe/Albany Technical College Living & Learning Community project have "made up significant ground" after the project got off to a slow start.
Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany is in the midst of two major construction projects that Phoebe Health System President/CEO Scott Steiner said are "on target and on budget."
ALBANY -- Phoebe Putney Health System President/CEO Scott Steiner is probably only half-joking when he says, in response to a comment about how cool it must be to watch ongoing construction on the joint Phoebe/Albany Technical College Living & Learning Community project outside his window, "No, it's frustrating. I want to see more progress."
Steiner's mock impatience aside, the Living & Learning project and work on Phoebe's Trauma/Critical Care Tower are "on target and on budget," the hospital executive said while discussing the twin projects Friday.
"Actually, things are going well on both projects," Steiner said. "We lost some time getting the Living & Learning project going, but we've made up significant ground. And while you don't see things going vertically on the Trauma/Critical Care Tower, I'd say about 95% of the below-ground work is done. And that's vital to the project."
Part of the underground work on the tower includes the "piering" work, the drilling and pouring of more than 300 holes that, when they reach bedrock, are filled with concrete.
"Given the limestone in the ground around the hospital, piering is a huge concern," Steiner said. "During the drilling, fissures might form, so the concrete must fill those as well. "But that's going well with this tower. We learned from the construction of Tower 2; when it was built, the piering went $2 million over budget. We got the (engineer's) estimate on the piering for this project and added a half-million dollars to the budget, just in case."
The Phoebe CEO said construction watchers can expect "significant progress" on both projects in the next six months.
"All indications are that the Living & Learning Community will be completed a year from now," he said. "We'll have the first floor completed during the first quarter of '24 and the top floors completed around this time of year. To certify the project, the first floor of the project must be completed in the first quarter.
"We expect to have a 'topping-out' ceremony for the tower by November of this year and plan to move in next summer. When we complete work on the tower, the current emergency area will be completely gutted and renovated. That's expected to take another eight months to complete."
Steiner said the projects are vital for the "$900 million organization" that "spends $2.3 million every day to keep running." A recent Georgia Hospital Association report showed that Phoebe had a $1.8 billion impact on Albany and southwest Georgia in 2021.
"What that means is $1.8 billion in direct spending -- and 11,000 total jobs -- in the region would go away if this hospital went away," Steiner said. "Phoebe, as the report shows, continues to have a lasting impact on this region's economy."
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The 56th Annual Parade America will be held May 20 in Nampa.
The theme of this year’s parade is “The Heart of America” and the event will include floats, horses, marching bands, antique cars and more.
An official parade ribbon-cutting that day will take place at 10:30 a.m. at Dutch Brothers Coffee, and the Warhawk Air Museum will signal the beginning of the parade with a flyover taking place at 11 a.m. The parade will begin at the corner of 12th Avenue Road and Lake Lowell Avenue near Nampa High School. It will follow the route on 12th Avenue Road to 7th Street South, to 16th Avenue South. It will end near the Northwest Nazarene University campus at Holly Street and East Colorado Avenue.
The Nampa Parade America Committee is accepting parade entries online at nampaparadeamerica.com. The deadline to register is May 12. The website also includes the parade route as well as rules and guidelines for entry.
“Parade America is one of Nampa’s signature events and an important tradition in our community,” Mayor Debbie Kling said. “I am thankful for the many volunteers working to make this event possible. Parade America is a special time to honor Nampa, ‘The Heart of America,’ our great heritage and military members.”
For questions about the event and to volunteer, please contact the Nampa Parade America Committee by emailing nampaparadeamerica@gmail.com. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/parade-america-scheduled-for-this-month-in-nampa/article_a994f252-e9da-11ed-98a8-df31a9f22df8.html | 2023-05-06T18:25:32 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/parade-america-scheduled-for-this-month-in-nampa/article_a994f252-e9da-11ed-98a8-df31a9f22df8.html |
Looking at the Wyoming Department of Health’s opioid overdose death map, Casper stands out.
A deep yellow colors the center of a jawbreaker-like circle, reflecting the severe toll that opioid addiction took on the city from 2009 - 2018.
Now, settlement money from national lawsuits has begun to filter into Casper to address the lasting legacy of the opioid epidemic.
While nothing is final, the city of Casper and Natrona County are considering partnering to broaden the impact of the money. Both are weighing putting the money toward addiction treatment as they look to take action sometime this year.
“This town is really in need of a detox center,” said Commissioner Steve Freel, the chairman of the Natrona County Board of Commissioners. “… It really just seems like it would be smart of us not to build a facility but [to] utilize the funds to – in conjunction with city and county – partner up with a treatment center and put that detox center in place.”
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The city of Casper has so far received approximately $494,000 in opioid settlement money, said Eric Nelson, the city’s attorney.
Casper and Natrona County will together collect a little more than 15% of the settlement money that goes to local governments as a part of the OneWyo Opioid Settlement Memorandum of Agreement, second to only Cheyenne and Laramie County.
The money has begun to trickle in as a result of nationwide settlements between states, drugmakers and distributors. In 2021, Johnson & Johnson and distributors McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen agreed to a multistate settlement totaling $26 billion, while pharmacy chains like Walmart, CVS and Walgreens have since agreed to their own settlements.
Wyoming and the state’s local governments have been party to other successful lawsuits, including against Purdue Pharma and McKinsey & Company, one of the largest consulting firms in the world, for their roles in the opioid epidemic.
Nelson said that he expected Casper to receive more money as a result of continued settlements, but the city does not have a final figure. Part of the uncertainty lies with how the payouts are structured. In some cases, they will be disbursed over more than a decade.
“It's always been a little bit of a mystery kind of how much we're getting and when,” Nelson said.
According to the OneWyo settlement, the money must be used for treatment, prevention and other services “to actively abate and alleviate the impacts of the opioid crisis and co-occurring substance abuse.” Conversations between the city and county about how to use the money have been ongoing since it started to come in late last year.
Neither the city council nor the county commissioners have made a decision, and both sides have not agreed to work toward a particular direction, Nelson and Freel said. But there has been mutual interest in partnering. Freel said he saw a funding match as the best way forward for the two local governments.
“In order to get kind of the most bang for the buck, the thought was, ‘Let's maybe put the money together,’” Nelson said.
In their discussions, both governments have identified detox and opioid treatment as a gap that they would consider filling. So far, the Casper-Natrona County Health Department and the Mercer Family Resource Center (formerly Mercer House) have developed a request for proposal for detox services that Nelson is in the process of reviewing.
The request will then go to city council and the county commissioners, and if the two sides can come to agreement they would likely formalize their partnership and set up a small board to screen proposals and make funding recommendations, Nelson said.
If things go smoothly, Nelson estimated the city and county could start putting those steps in action as soon as June or July.
Alongside Casper and Natrona County, the state has also been taking a methodical approach to its opioid settlement money, a process that will likely kick off this year. As of Jan. 31, the Wyoming Department of Health had not spent any of the roughly $4.4 million the state has received so far. But it has identified how it plans to use the money: expanding treatment access and substance abuse prevention and education.
Freel said Casper and Natrona County’s efforts to transform the settlement money into action are only beginning.
“I don't really think any of us know exactly what we're doing with it,” Freel said. “We just have ideas and we really just need to take it to the next level to figure out what direction we want to go.” | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/casper-natrona-county-consider-partnering-to-spend-opioid-settlement-money/article_ee38c72c-eb82-11ed-9322-8f6f5aa9b4f3.html | 2023-05-06T18:35:32 | 1 | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/casper-natrona-county-consider-partnering-to-spend-opioid-settlement-money/article_ee38c72c-eb82-11ed-9322-8f6f5aa9b4f3.html |
Meet one of the newest winemakers in the Willamette Valley
It's rosé season. The blush pink wine has become synonymous with warmer weather and sunny days.
Adrian Mendoza started making his sparkling rosé, his first official product as a winemaker, in September. He did every step, from harvest to bottling to sticking labels on bottles by hand, in his spare time with help from friends and colleagues.
“You just bottle on your lunch break, you know,” Mendoza said.
Mendoza is one of a small but growing group of winemakers who have worked their way up from vineyards — though he still works in vineyards full-time.
“I don’t know a normal eight-hour shift," Mendoza said.
Mendoza is a Jack of all trades: a chef, a farmworker, a musician in a band and now a businessman on the way to having his own wine label. He’s excited about this next step, he said, but wine is as much a passion as it is a career goal. He wants to grow, but only so far as creative expression allows.
“I’d prefer to stay small-scale,” he said. “I want to express what I want.”
Latino winemakers increasing representation
It’s notable Mendoza is Latino, said Sam Parra, another Latino winemaker and founder of Parra Wine Co. As a co-chair for AHIVOY, Parra is leading the charge to close the gap between mostly Latino vineyard workers and the product their labor creates.
Mendoza is an AHIVOY alumni, a member of its first graduating class. The program, which is an acronym for Asociación Hispana de la Industria del Vino en Oregon y Comunidad, educates vineyard workers about wine production and vineyard management at no cost to them.
Mendoza’s journey from vineyard steward to winemaker is exactly what the program wants for its graduates.
The 34-year-old went to culinary school out of high school and interned in kitchens in South Lake Tahoe. He spent a few summers working for his uncle, a contractor. Eventually, he landed at a vineyard.
He learned he was skilled in the field, and it helped that he was bilingual, he said. So he stayed.
He now manages hundreds of acres of vineyards and up to 120 workers “all over the valley,” he said. Most properties he manages belong to other people — wineries and vineyards hire Mendoza to oversee vineyard operations. But he also leases two properties for himself, to grow his own grapes on his own vines.
And he does “a lot of side work,” like bottling and labeling. He’s seen the wine industry from every angle.
“I like that it’s a little bit of everything,” Mendoza said.
Making the wine he wants
Mendoza said he likes the variety of working for vineyards, but sometimes he feels like he “missed [his] potential” as a chef.
Winemaking offers a way to combine his trained palate with his industry knowledge.
Mendoza’s first batch, 52 cases of sparkling rosé made from local pinot noir grapes, is light, acidic and aromatic. Easy to drink.
“I’m very happy with it,” Mendoza said.
So is Parra.
“It’s delicious,” he said. “My wife and I love Indian food, Thai, Vietnamese… The acidity on this will cut right through the spice but will pair well with the savory-ness of Asian cuisine.”
Or, he added, Mexican food.
The only thing Mendoza said he would do differently next time is leave the grape skin on longer to give the wine a bit more color.
Mendoza’s wine is his own, but right now it’s technically being made under Parra’s label. Parra holds the license needed to produce and bottle wine at such a scale, and he’s able to lend it to smaller makers like Mendoza who are just getting started. It’s a way of giving back, he said; of lifting people up with him as he climbs.
It’s also good business, for now. It helps him offset the cost of renting space, like the one in the back of Lundeen Wines in McMinnville where Parra and Mendoza bottled their wines.
“There’s a minimum [production] requirement for a small operation,” Parra said. “When I’m combining with him, it’s worth it.”
Mendoza will have his own label soon enough, he said. Of all the challenges he’s faced in making his first batch of wine, from weather to bottle delays to labeling by hand, the hardest part has been choosing a name for his brand.
Right now, he’s calling it ALAD. It’s a blend of his name with his wife’s and kid’s. The name will probably stick, he said.
The wine’s literal label, designed by local artist Timothy Goodale, matches the drink's mood. It’s a sunset on a summer night, Mendoza said: warm, easy and enjoyable. The perfect time to sip a glass of chilled, sparkling rosé.
Mendoza said he'll make a Pinot noir next, and maybe a chardonnay.
"I'll make wines I like to drink," he said.
His first go was mostly a practice round. He isn't selling, he said. Instead, he's offering it to guests at events where his band, Los Lecheros, plays.
If Mendoza still has bottles by next harvest, Parra said, he did something wrong. But Parra doesn't expect that to be the case.
Mendoza said feedback so far has been positive. He still has plenty of wine left, but it's finally rosé season.
"It won't be too long until it's gone," he said.
Shannon Sollitt covers agricultural workers throughReport for America, a program that aims to support local journalism and democracy by reporting on under-covered issues and communities. Send tips, questions and comments to ssollitt@statesmanjournal.com. | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/mid-valley/2023/05/06/oregon-winemaker-adrian-mendoza-alad-wine-sparkling-rose-ahivoy/69950069007/ | 2023-05-06T18:43:23 | 1 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/mid-valley/2023/05/06/oregon-winemaker-adrian-mendoza-alad-wine-sparkling-rose-ahivoy/69950069007/ |
A 15-month-old boy was airlifted to a New York hospital in critical condition after a gunman opened fire outside a home late Friday, local police say.
The boy and two adults were found with gunshot wounds around 10 p.m. at a residence on Holmes Street in the Village of Monticello, roughly two hours north of New York City. Police were responding to a 911 call for a report of shots fired.
Investigators believe the shooter opened fire from outside the house, striking a 27-year-old man, a 20-year-old woman, and the baby, who were all inside the home at the time. The police department did not have any suspect description to release to the public.
The 15-month-old was flown to Westchester Medical Center where he was being treated for critical injuries. The adults were taken to a separate hospital where the woman was treated and released.
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The relationship between the victims was not immediately known.
Monticello Police and New York State Police are asking anyone with information into the shooting to contact authorities at 845-794-4422. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/15-month-old-critical-after-gunman-fires-from-outside-ny-home-in-triple-shooting-cops/4309572/ | 2023-05-06T18:44:04 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/15-month-old-critical-after-gunman-fires-from-outside-ny-home-in-triple-shooting-cops/4309572/ |
The jury hearing an advice columnist’s claims that she was raped by Donald Trump could begin deliberations as soon as Tuesday, and it will have wide latitude in deciding the truthfulness of the allegations against the former president.
The writer E. Jean Carroll, 79, testified that Trump raped her in 1996 inside a dressing room at the luxury Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan after they had a chance encounter and shopped together for lingerie.
Trump, 76, has said he never raped Carroll and was never with her at the department store. He has been absent from the trial, though jurors saw portions of his videotaped deposition. He has accused Carroll of making up allegations to fuel sales of her 2019 memoir.
The jury's decision in the trial — which involves a civil case and not a criminal one — may come down to who they believe more. Here's more on how the jury will reach its verdict:
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WHEN WILL DELIBERATIONS BEGIN?
Closing arguments are tentatively scheduled for Monday with an expectation that lawyers for Carroll and Trump will finish their statements by the end of the day.
The judge is expected to read instructions on the law to the jury on Tuesday, with deliberations to begin immediately afterward.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan gave Trump a last chance to request to testify, but the former president's lawyers indicated he was likely to decline that offer.
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WHAT WILL JURORS DECIDE?
Kaplan instructed the nine jurors at the trial's start that the central claim pertains to “battery.”
He said that in a civil case, battery can result from even the slightest unlawful touching of another person.
“The law does not draw a line between different degrees of violence. It totally prohibits all unconsented-to touching from the least to the most violent that a reasonable person would find offensive. In other words, anything from a gentle but unwanted peck on the cheek to stabbing somebody with a knife could be battery for purposes of a civil case like this one,” Kaplan said.
The jurors will be asked to decide whether Carroll has proven that Trump committed battery. If they decide that Trump committed battery, they are expected to be asked to what degree. After that, Carroll's attorney has proposed that jurors be asked separately whether Carroll has proven that Trump engaged in forcible touching, sexual abuse and rape. The judge has yet to make a decision on that proposal.
The trial also involves a claim by Carroll that Trump made defamatory comments while denying her allegations.
For defamation, jurors will be asked if Carroll had proven that Trump's statement was defamatory and whether clear and convincing evidence had proven that Trump made the statement maliciously.
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WHAT IS AT STAKE?
If a jury agrees that Carroll has proven her claims of battery and defamation, they can award compensatory and punitive damages. The amount is up to the jury.
There isn’t any chance Trump will go to jail as a result of a case.
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WHY IS IT A CIVIL RATHER THAN A CRIMINAL CASE?
Carroll acknowledged during her testimony that she never went to police.
Her decision not to report a crime for so long rules out the possibility of prosecutors bringing criminal charges against Trump. Until recently, it also would have prevented Carroll from bringing a lawsuit. But New York last year enacted a law temporarily letting sexual attack victims sue their alleged abusers, no matter how long ago the assault occurred.
Because it is a civil case, Trump was not required to be in court.
Unlike in a criminal trial, where a prosecutor might have to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, a civil jury decides based on “preponderance of the evidence,” meaning whether something is more likely to be true than not.
To prove the defamation claim, Carroll is required to prove her allegations by clear and convincing evidence, which is a higher legal standard than preponderance of the evidence. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ny-jury-will-have-wide-latitude-to-decide-civil-trump-claims/4308343/ | 2023-05-06T18:44:10 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ny-jury-will-have-wide-latitude-to-decide-civil-trump-claims/4308343/ |
Lincoln Fire and Rescue responded to a garage fire in west Lincoln that caused an estimated $75,000 in total damages on Friday night, the department said.
The fire occurred at around 10:30 p.m. at 1141 SW 8th St., according to emergency scanner traffic. Lincoln Fire and Rescue Battalion Chief Jim Bopp said there were no reported injuries or damages to nearby properties.
An electrical failure caused the blaze, Bopp said.
Lincoln Fire and Rescue found the garage fully engulfed when they arrived on scene. The garage partially collapsed, according to emergency scanner traffic, but fire crews were able to put the fire out before it caused any damage to the house.
The fire caused an estimated $50,000 in property loss and an estimated $25,000 in content loss. Bopp also said that two vehicles parked outside the garage suffered heat damage.
Lincoln Fire and Rescue responds to a garage fire at 1141 SW 8th St. on Friday night. The fire caused an estimated $75,000 in damages, Lincoln Fire and Rescue said. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/west-lincoln-garage-fire-causes-75-000-in-damages-officials-says/article_63962b30-ec24-11ed-b408-f7f99359a7a7.html | 2023-05-06T18:51:41 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/west-lincoln-garage-fire-causes-75-000-in-damages-officials-says/article_63962b30-ec24-11ed-b408-f7f99359a7a7.html |
Filing your taxes is far from easy, but if you're lucky, there's a reward at the end. Once you’ve filed your taxes all you have left to do is wait, however it's easy to tell when your IRS money will arrive so you can plan for it financially. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.
QUESTION: I am just beginning a career as a financial adviser. As I grow my portfolio of clients, I can choose to focus on large clients or smaller ones. Do you have a perspective on which clients might be best to serve?
ANSWER: Most people think that large clients (or customers) are best. After all, they represent more revenue and are therefore highly sought after. However, as a practical matter, since you are a new adviser, focusing on landing very large accounts might be a real uphill struggle.
First, most high net worth clients will already have a relationship with an adviser. It could be difficult to dislodge them from that relationship. With that said, for a variety of reasons, there are always some high net worth individuals who are ready to change advisers.
Even so, if you find a client with a sizable portfolio who is ready to change advisers for whatever reason, chances are this prospective client will be looking for a new adviser with a long record of success. That can be a difficult hurdle for one just beginning a career as a financial adviser — frequently, such prospective clients are just looking for someone with a few more gray hairs than you likely possess.
As a practical matter, it might be prudent to focus on prospective clients who have more modest portfolios. However, this isn’t necessarily all bad. While we haven’t done this analysis for your industry, we have assessed customer profitability by size in a significant number of industries. Almost without exception, we have found that the largest customers are not the most profitable when viewed using a metric that encompasses profit per unit of effort (in your industry, such a metric might be fees earned per hour of work).
What we typically find is that small customers are less profitable because there are fixed costs associated with serving each customer. If the revenue you receive from a particular customer is small, you will have less volume over which to amortize the fixed cost. It is fairly intuitive that this would lead to lower profit per unit of effort.
Perhaps somewhat counterintuitively, we have also found that the largest customers might not be the most profitable. There is plenty of revenue over which to amortize your effort; however, there are often mitigating circumstances that keep this revenue from falling naturally to the bottom line.
First, the largest customers are in a position to negotiate discounted pricing. Their volume is attractive; if you won’t give them a discount, a competitor will. Further, since there is a large amount of money on the table, there is significant incentive for larger customers to push for lower prices.
In addition to negotiating lower prices, larger customers are likely to be sophisticated enough to demand a higher level of service. Of course, the higher level of service most often requires a greater level of effort without a commensurate increase in revenue. For these reasons, the largest customers might not be the most profitable.
On the other hand, midsize customers lack the clout to negotiate the lowest pricing and enhanced services. However, they are also large enough to provide sufficient volume over which to amortize the fixed cost of serving them. This often means that midsize customers can constitute a sweet spot where profit per unit of effort is maximized.
In your case, you might be constrained to working with smaller clients in the beginning. Our counsel would be to focus on smaller clients who have the potential to grow into, at least, midsize accounts over time. Developing relationships with smaller clients who have the credentials and likely career paths that suggest the potential to build meaningful wealth over time might well be your most lucrative option in the long run.
Richmond-area business expansions, openings and closings
88 Street Food
Urban Myth Street Food
Revel Market & Bar
Rams House Bar + Kitchen
Stanley's
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Genova’s Pizza Station & Take Out Kitchen
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Wok This Way
Eggs Up Grill
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Max’s on Broad
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Mi Casita Restaurant
Ironclad Coffee
Grit Coffee
Rockler Woodworking and Hardware
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Suzy Sno
Diablo Doughnuts RVA
The Brass Tap
Graybo's Sports Cards
Blue Ridge Cyclery
BigWife's
Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
CarLotz
Acacia Midtown
Zoom Room Richmond
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Planet Fitness
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Doug and Polly White have a large ownership stake in Gather, a company that designs, builds and operates collaborative workspaces. Polly’s focus is on human resources, people management and human systems. Doug’s areas of expertise are business strategy, operations and finance. | https://richmond.com/business/local/small-business-doug--polly/article_301b93b0-ea8c-11ed-adcc-bb7b70c2ba67.html | 2023-05-06T18:58:17 | 0 | https://richmond.com/business/local/small-business-doug--polly/article_301b93b0-ea8c-11ed-adcc-bb7b70c2ba67.html |
FLORIDA, USA — The age to drive a golf cart will be going up in Florida unless the bill is vetoed by Gov. DeSantis.
Currently, golf carts can be driven by anyone 14-years-old or older. A bill recently passed by the Florida legislature proposes the age be raised to 16 and further requires that a person operating it to have a valid learner’s driver license or driver license.
A person who is 18 years of age or older would have to possess a valid form of government-issued photographic identification. A violation of the law would include a noncriminal traffic infraction.
It was filed by Representative Cyndi Stevenson, who represents parts of St. Johns.
"As we adopt new options for mobility, safety regulations will also have to evolve," Stevenson previously told First Coast News. "We are seeing more people in the ER with serious avoidable injuries. This bill is a common sense way to reduce pain, suffering, trips to the ER and even loss of life. This is the kind of work the public expects us to do in Tallahassee."
According to the St. Johns County Sheriffs' Office, golf carts can only be driven on designated public roads with speed limits no faster than 25 miles per hour.
Subject to the Governor’s veto powers, the effective date of this bill is October 1, 2023. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/bill-raising-age-to-drive-golf-carts-in-florida-heads-to-desantis-desk/77-7584b78a-d8f5-419c-8814-515d7c609c0c | 2023-05-06T19:04:43 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/bill-raising-age-to-drive-golf-carts-in-florida-heads-to-desantis-desk/77-7584b78a-d8f5-419c-8814-515d7c609c0c |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A 28-year-old woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash early Saturday morning in St. Petersburg, according to a news release.
Cassandra Gelineau was struck by the front of a blue 2006 Lexus RX330 at 2:15 a.m. while walking in the crosswalk at the intersection of 15th Avenue South and 34th Street South, police say.
The driver was going northbound in the 1800 block of 34th Street South when the crash occurred, then fled the area after. Police say the Lexus was eventually located nearby, however, the driver is still unknown.
Gelineau was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.
A crash investigation is ongoing. Stay with 10 Tampa Bay for the latest updates. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/woman-dies-after-hit-and-run-crash-st-petersburg/67-2257bb9f-8c6e-47ca-ba30-8e9ea4f2fe3d | 2023-05-06T19:04:49 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/woman-dies-after-hit-and-run-crash-st-petersburg/67-2257bb9f-8c6e-47ca-ba30-8e9ea4f2fe3d |
Grafton Police investigating the drug overdose of four people; dog mauling
Police are investigating the drug overdoses of four people at a Grafton residence, including a woman who police said was mauled by a dog.
Officers were called at 4:45 a.m. by someone inside the home in the 1700 block of Falls Road who reported the overdoses.
Officers began initiating life saving procedures and found a woman who had major facial trauma, which was later revealed to be from an attack by a dog inside the home, police said.
The woman is in critical condition, undergoing surgery from the dog attack, police said. Another person is in grave condition and two others are being treated and are expected to survive.
Jeff Caponera, Grafton Police chief, said in a news release that the investigation is ongoing and a search warrant is being sought to obtain additional evidence.
He said the group had been at a bar in the Saukville area where they bought drugs.
The three dogs in the home, including the one that attacked the woman, were placed in quarantine at the Ozaukee Humane Society. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/06/grafton-police-investigating-multiple-drug-overdoses-and-a-dog-attack/70191093007/ | 2023-05-06T19:07:39 | 0 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/06/grafton-police-investigating-multiple-drug-overdoses-and-a-dog-attack/70191093007/ |
Many times a patient’s discharge from a hospital/acute care or a skilled nursing facility or a rehab facility requires a ‘transitional period’ to ensure a safe discharge -both clinically/nursing and rehab focused. Enter Home Health. Original/Traditional Medicare’s benefit is different than other insurance plans but the overall program is similar.
How it works:
Original/Traditional Medicare’s benefit is based on a defining event: The patient must be homebound.
In the “Medicare and You 2023 Handbook,’ this is defined as a) significant trouble leaving your home without help (like using a cane, walker, or crutches; special transportation; or help from another person) because of an injury or illness; b) leaving your home isn’t recommended because of your condition and c) you’re normally unable to leave your home because it’s a major effort. The scope of the in-home benefit covers part-time or intermittent skilled nursing care, and/or physical therapy, speech-language pathology services or continued occupational therapy. The care is a ‘visit’, not prolonged in-home care. A doctor must order home health after assessing your unique needs. If all the above are met, the Original/Traditional Medicare patient will have no out-of-pocket cost. The program is intended as a short-term intervention to safely maintain the patient at home.
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Examples of what the home health staff could do:
Joint replacement: After an inpatient or outpatient procedure, rather than be transferred to a skilled nursing facility for post-procedure care, the patient’s progress and in-home support /family may allow for home health as an alternative. The nursing visit could check on your adherence to new medication/adverse reactions/questions, check on diet and possible nutrition concerns and communicate with the physical therapist and your doctor to ensure everyone is coordinating the care package. Physical therapy will assess the safety in the home-loose rugs, fall risk areas like the bathroom and outline an ongoing home therapy plan – all approved by your physician. Goal: Maintain at home with a safe, coordinated post -discharge plan. Any concerns are addressed thru the intermittent visits with all the care team, the patient and support team/family involved.
Medicare Advantage/MA is not Traditional/Original Medicare: Therefore, each MA plan can have different home health benefits. Important to ask your plan to ensure everyone understands the benefit and any out-of-pocket costs that may occur. Remember, there is no ability to have/purchase a Medigap or Medicare supplemental insurance for Medicare Advantage to help with any patient portion. Medicare supplemental insurance is tied to Traditional/Original Medicare.
Other insurance plans: VA, commercial plans, worker’s compensation, liability, and Medicaid may follow the basic outline of Original/Traditional Medicare, but they may not require the patient to be homebound. The intermittent visits are usually part of all insurance plans but when exploring the home health option, it is important to have an excellent understanding of the home health benefit and what it will cost. Still an excellent benefit, but usually involves an out-of-pocket expense and prior authorization for these plans.
Hint: Hand-offs between the acute setting/hospital, skilled nursing facility for rehab and the home health agency can become a bit cumbersome. As much as the case manager/discharge planner can coordinate a referral to your choice of home health agencies,(remember to stay in your network), it is extremely important to a) have a contact name and number for the agency and b) contact the agency on the day of discharge or as soon as the discharge is known. The referral is made but the post-discharge coordination with the family is usually the family’s responsibility. Darn, sometimes the patient/family thinks the home health agency will be coming immediately upon discharge but that can easily be mis-interpreted. Call and create a date/time outline for the initial visit. This will be critical to ensure the clinical home health team is ready to assess and begin in-home care immediately post discharge. Gaps can lead to anxious patients, misconceptions of the services and lapse in oversight of the patient at home. Communication – and lots of it- will help maximize this excellent benefit.
Day Egusquiza is the president and founder of the Patient Financial Navigator Foundation Inc. — an Idaho-based family foundation. For more information, call 208-423-9036 or go to pfnfinc.com. Do you have a topic for Health Care Buzz? Please share at daylee1@mindspring.com. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/health-care-buzz-what-does-a-home-health-benefit-look-like/article_77dcd666-eb7a-11ed-903f-bb963de4f4cd.html | 2023-05-06T19:13:35 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/health-care-buzz-what-does-a-home-health-benefit-look-like/article_77dcd666-eb7a-11ed-903f-bb963de4f4cd.html |
Cleveland-Clifffs Founder, Chairman and CEO Lourenco Goncalves voiced his support of unions during a recent visit to the Calumet Region.
"You won't hear this from a lot of CEOs but I believe in the union movement," he said when visiting United Steelworkers Local 1010 in Hammond's Hessville neighborhood during a Workers Memorial Day ceremony. "I'm a big supporter and defender of the union movement. Organized labor is at the core of the country."
Goncalves said unions were a necessary safeguard against exploitation from higher-ups.
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves addresses USW Local 1010 in Hammond.
"The people at the top are under pressure to deliver things and can treat people like numbers, not like human beings, not like the heads of families," he said. "The system was set up by the Henry Fords, Andrew Carnegies and J.P. Morgans of the world. They did great things. One thing they did not do well is treating people well."
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But steelworkers organized, secured better pay and working conditions and helped lift everyone up, Goncalves said. Unions have had a far-reaching impact beyond just heavy industry, he said.
"The country became what it is because we built up the middle class," he said. "In the United States, we are a superpower because of the middle class. We are a democratic country because of unions. Brothers and sisters are more than just a word because of unions. Unionized businesses are one of the few places where people named Smith or Gutierrez get treated exactly the same. Whether they're African American, Asian American or a full white fella, they are treated the same. Men and women work side-by-side with no harassment."
Goncalves said the company appreciated its union workers and would not look at cut costs by slashing jobs.
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CHICO, Calif. — A 17-year-old girl was killed and five others were hurt after gunshots rang out at a Chico house party, authorities say.
The shooting happened before 3:26 a.m. Saturday in the 1000 block of Columbus Avenue.
Medics took the surviving victims to a hospital. They include a 17-year-old girl who is in stable condition, an 18-year-old man who was discharged, a 19-year-old man who is in stable condition, a 20-year-old man who was discharged and a 21-year-old man who is in stable condition.
All of the injuries were described as non-life-threatening.
Police say that earlier Saturday morning, officers were called to a house party on 7th Street where a fight led to reports of shots fired.
During the fight around 12:27 a.m., one person was hit in the head with a gun and another was hit in the head with a glass bottle.
Both victims are said to be in stable condition at a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Hours later, at 2:59 a.m., officers went to the house party on Columbus Avenue where a suspect allegedly brandished a gun.
Officers cleared the party and say they found a person matching the description of the shooter from the fight on 7th Street.
Officials arrested the unidentified person on suspicion of possession of a firearm and reckless discharge of a firearm.
At 3:26 a.m., officers say they were called back to the party on Columbus Avenue after reports came in that several people were struck by gunfire.
At the scene, officers say they found the six victims. Investigators believe the shooting was isolated with no ongoing threat.
It is unclear whether officers arrested a suspect in connection to the deadly shooting.
Police have asked witnesses and those with information to call authorities at 530-897-5820.
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Police in Philadelphia are investigating after, officials said, a car traveling at a high rate of speed drove into a home near the intersection of 7th and Green streets in the city's East Poplar neighborhood, early Saturday.
According to police, officers responded to the incident at about 3:09 a.m. on Saturday, after a vehicle had reportedly struck a pole at that location before continuing on into a house.
The 25-year-old man who, police said, was at the wheel of the vehicle when it crashed was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced at about 3:40 a.m.
On Saturday afternoon, officials said Tyreese Clark from North Philadelphia died in the crash.
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Officials said that investigators believe the vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed, northbound on N. 7th Street, before Clark likely lost control and caused the crash.
Law enforcement officials said the incident remains under investigation.
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A jury is to resume deliberations Monday with only 11 members in the trial of a former Philadelphia police officer seen on video lowering the face covering of at least one protester before dousing a group with pepper spray as they knelt on a city interstate during a summer 2020 demonstration.
Officials say one juror in the trial of ex-SWAT officer Richard Paul Nicoletti was dismissed Friday afternoon and two alternates were unavailable for medical reasons. Prosecutors and defense attorneys then agreed to move on with an 11 member panel. Jurors earlier told the judge they were at an impasse but were urged to keep working.
Nicoletti faces charges including simple assault and reckless endangerment for his actions on June 1, 2020 after demonstrators made their way onto Interstate 676 during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. Video circulated widely on social media that showed Nicoletti in riot gear approach three protesters kneeling on the highway and pull down at least one protester’s mask or goggles before pepper-spraying them. He was fired several weeks later.
After the city and state police use of tear gas gained national attention, Mayor Jim Kenney and police commissioner Danielle Outlaw apologized, calling the use of force that day “unjustifiable.” In March, the city agreed to pay $9.25 million to hundreds of plaintiffs who sued over police use of force during several days of protests.
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Assistant District Attorney Brian Collins told jurors during his opening statement that Nicoletti's actions were unnecessary, harmful, and beyond the scope of his duties as a police officer, adding that his badge "was a responsibility, not a license,” The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Nicoletti’s defense attorneys have argued that he broke no law and acting on the orders of his superiors on the police force. Attorney Fortunato Perri Jr., said Nicoletti had been ordered to clear the highway and was authorized to use pepper spray to do so — and "he did that, nothing more.”
A state police officer testified Wednesday that SWAT officers, including Nicoletti, protected him from an angry crowd, WTXF-TV reported.
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Several people who were sprayed or witnessed the events testified. One person who was sprayed in the eyes choked up as she recalled what happened. Another protester said that after she was pepper sprayed she “lost all sense of herself, crying and screaming for help.”
A municipal court judge in 2021 dismissed all charges against Nicoletti, saying prosecutors had failed to show that his actions were criminal. A Common Pleas court judge later reversed that decision and reinstated the charges. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/jury-to-resume-deliberations-in-ex-swat-officers-trial/3561031/ | 2023-05-06T19:26:40 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/jury-to-resume-deliberations-in-ex-swat-officers-trial/3561031/ |
Police are investigating after a man was shot in the stomach on the sidewalk of E. Gale Street in the city's Olney neighborhood on Saturday morning.
According to law enforcement officials, police responding to a call of a man with a gun at about 1:17 a.m. along the 300 block of E. Gale Street on Saturday, found a 31-year-old man who had been shot in the stomach.
The man was transported to a hospital nearby where, officials said, he's been placed in stable condition.
According to police, an unknown male was responsible for this incident. No arrests have yet been made, but officials said, an investigation is ongoing.
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NEW YORK — Chris Strachwitz, a producer, musicologist and one-man preservation society whose Arhoolie Records released thousands of songs by regional performers and comprised an extraordinary American archive that became known and loved worldwide, has died. He was 91.
Admired by Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and many others, Strachwitz was an unlikely champion of the American vernacular — a native German born into privilege who fell deeply for his adopted country’s music and was among the most intrepid field recorders to emerge after Alan Lomax.
He founded Arhoolie in 1960 and over the following decades traveled to Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana among other states on a mission that rarely relented: taping little-known artists in their home environments, be it a dance hall, a front porch, a beer joint, a backyard.
“My stuff isn’t produced. I just catch it as it is,” he explained in the 2014 documentary “This Ain’t No Mouse Music.”
The name Arhoolie, suggested by fellow musicologist Mack McCormick, is allegedly a regional expression for field holler.
Ry Cooder would call him “El Fanatico,” the kind of true believer for whom just the rumor of a musician worth hearing would inspire him to get on a bus and ride hundreds of miles — like the time he sought out bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins in Houston. Strachwitz amassed a vast catalog of blues, Tejano, folk, jazz, gospel and Zydeco, with Grammy winners Flaco Jimenez and Clifton Chenier among those who later attracted wider followings. An Arhoolie 50-year anniversary box set featured Maria Muldaur, Taj Mahal, Savoy Family Band and Cooder, who would cite the Arhoolie release “Mississippi’s Big Joe Williams and His Nine-String Guitar” as an early inspiration.
“It just jumped out of the speaker on this little school record player,” Cooder told NPR in 2013, adding that he decided “once and for all” to become a musician. “I’m gonna do this, too. I’m gonna get good on guitar, and I’m gonna play it like that.”
Strachwitz despised most commercial music — “mouse music,” he called it — but he did have just enough success to keep Arhoolie going. In the mid-1960s, he recorded an album in his living room for no charge by Berkeley-based folk performer Joe McDonald, who in turn granted publishing rights to Arhoolie. By 1969, McDonald was leading Country Joe McDonald and the Fish and one song from the Arhoolie sessions, the anti-war anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag,” was a highlight of the Woodstock festival and soundtrack.
Arhoolie releases were cherished by blues fans in England, including Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. Around the same time Strachwitz met with McDonald, he taped more than a dozen songs by bluesman “Mississippi” Fred McDowell, including McDowell’s version of an old spiritual, “You Gotta Move.” The Stones sang a few lines from it during the 1970 documentary “Gimme Shelter” and recorded a cover that appeared on their acclaimed 1971 album “Sticky Fingers.” Strachwitz prevailed over the resistance of the band’s lawyers and ensured that royalties were given to McDowell, who was dying of cancer.
“I was able to give Fred McDowell the biggest check he’d ever seen in his life,” Strachwitz later said.
In 1993, Arhoolie was boosted again when country star Alan Jackson had a hit with “Mercury Blues,” a song co-written and first performed by K.C. Douglas for the label.
Besides his Grammy, Strachwitz received a lifetime achievement award from the Blues Symposium and was inducted as a non-performing member of the Blues Hall of Fame. In 1995, Strachwitz established the Arhoolie Foundation to “document, preserve, present and disseminate authentic traditional and regional vernacular music,” with advisers including Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and Linda Ronstadt. In 2016, Strachwitz sold his majority interest in the record label to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, part of the national museum in Washington.
“The ripple effect of Chris Strachwitz in the world of is immeasurable in preserving this music,” Raitt, a longtime friend, told the podcast The Kitchen Sisters Present in 2019.
The son of wealthy farm owners, he was born Count Christian Alexander Maria Strachwitz in the German region of Silesia, now part of Poland. His family, displaced at the end of World War II, moved to the United States in 1947, eventually settling in Santa Barbara, California. Strachwitz had already been exposed to swing overseas through Armed Forces Radio and became a jazz fan after seeing the movie “New Orleans,” a 1947 musical featuring Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. He also felt a strong kinship with country and other forms of “hillbilly music.”
“I felt it all had this kind of earthiness to it that I didn’t hear in any other kind of music. They sang about how lonesome you are, and how you miss your girlfriend and all this other thing,” Strachwitz told NPR. “Those songs really spoke to me.”
By his early 20s, he was taping local radio and live performances and he perfected his craft while attending the University of California at Berkeley. He served two years in the Army, completed his studies at Berkeley through the GI Bill and, starting in the late 1950s, taught high school for a few years in Los Gatos, California.
Often short on money, Strachwitz sold pressings from his collection of old 78s to support his early recording efforts. Arhoolie’s first release was Mance Lipscomb’s “Texas Sharecropper and Songster,” for which Strachwitz and friends personally assembled 250 copies.
“So much of pop music has all this slop added, with this mush background that I can’t even call music,” he said in a 2013 interview with the online publication waytooindie.com. “You can hardly hear the voices! They bury the voices. If somebody wants to sing, sing god damn it! You know? In the old days, you could hear them sing.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2023/05/06/chris-strachwitz-obituary-arhoolie/2bf93ba2-ec3a-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html | 2023-05-06T19:31:08 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2023/05/06/chris-strachwitz-obituary-arhoolie/2bf93ba2-ec3a-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html |
HARRISBURG, Pa. —
Pennsylvania Lt. Governor Austin Davis announced Saturday in a tweet that he and his wife, Blayre Holmes Davis, are expecting their first child--a baby girl!
"We're thrilled to announced that our family is growing!" the dad-to-be tweeted shortly after 10 a.m. on Saturday. "We are so excited to welcome our baby girl to our family this September."
Governor Josh Shapiro congratulated the couple in a tweet saying, "Lori and I cannot wait to welcome the newest member of the Shapiro-Davis Administration. Congratulations, Blayre and Austin. We couldn't be more thrilled for you both to become parents."
Davis, 33, is the first Black lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania's history.
Prior to becoming the youngest lieutenant governor in the country---Davis was a state representative for the 35th District that covers parts of Allegheny County.
Congratulations! Pennsylvania Lt. Governor Austin Davis and Second Lady Blayre Holmes Davis are expecting their first baby
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Kiera McHugh, 15, sifts through a dirt sample collected on a screen while looking for artifacts that include nails, pottery shards and animal bones.
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Levi Fox, historian and treasurer for the Patriots of Somers Mansion, says connections to the Colonial past and the local Native American tribes may be found.
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Sifting through a dirt sample are, from left, Aleksander Szafren, 18, of Bensalem, Pennsylvania, Sean McHugh, and his daughter Cate, 13, of Brick Township.
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On Saturday, May 6, 2023, at Somers Mansion in Somers Point, Atlantic County resident Secilia Brennan holds up a nail found in a patch of soil that is being excavated.
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On May 6, 2023, in Somers Point, (l-r) Greg Sykora and Levi Fox, Vice Chair and Treasurer for the Patriots of Somers Mansion, a 501c3, talk about the future of the site, grant research, and working with the State of New Jersey.
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On May 6, 2023, in Somers Point, (l-r) Greg Sykora, Vice Chair for the Patriots of Somers Mansion, a 501c3, talks about the future of the site, grant research, and the plans for creating a classroom in the newer part of the building that dates to the early 1800's.
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On May 6, 2023, in Somers Point, (l-r) archaelogists Sean McHugh from Brick Twp., and Rich Veit of South Plainfield, inspect a glazed pottery shard collected from the soil at Somers Mansion.
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On May 6, 2023, at Somers Mansion in Somers Point, (l-r) Kiera McHugh, 15, and Somers Point resident Mike Passmore sift through a dirt sample collected on a screen looking for artifacts which include nails, pottery shards, and animal bones.
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On May 6, 2023, at Somers Mansion in Somers Point, Philadelphia resident (l-r) Allison Jaskowiak shows her daughter Genevieve, 3, an old piece of animal bone collected from a soil sample.
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On May 6, 2023, at Somers Mansion in Somers Point, Philadelphia residents Allison Jaskowiak and her daughter Genevieve, 3, watch as a bottle stopper is bagged after having been found in the soil.
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On Saturday, May 6, 2023, a team of archeologists conducted a dig at the Somers Mansion in Somers Point with members of the public invited to participate as part of a Public Archeology Day.
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On May 6, 2023, at Somers Mansion in Somers Point, archaeologist Rich Veit of south Plainfield, takes notes on a patch of soil that will be excavated for artifacts.
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On Saturday, May 6, 2023, at Somers Mansion in Somers Point, a straight pin needle was found while sifting soil through a screen.
SOMERS POINT — Cecilia Brennan has been putting together a sort of bucket list recently.
She had five events she was hoping to cross off Saturday, but she found it difficult to leave the first one.
Brennan was one of a few dozen people who showed up to either participate or simply watch an archaeological dig at the Somers Mansion held in the morning through the early afternoon.
"I've never done this, and it's really cool, and it's outside, which is my element," said Brennan, who was helping sort through a screen and bag up anything of interest. She had just gotten done helping sift out a flake of blue quartz.
The Patriots for Somers Mansion group organized the dig, teaming with a group of professional archaeologists who mapped out about a half dozen 3-foot-by-3-foot grids for the dig.
Levi Fox, a member of the group, was thrilled with Saturday's turnout. He had hoped that, starting in March, the mansion could host several of these digs in the coming months.
"Part of what we hoped to do from the get-go was make an opportunity for members of the public to learn, not just about the site but about archaeology and about historical archaeology," said Fox, who lives in Somers Point and does historical walking tours throughout the county with Jersey Shore Tours.
The land and the building are owned by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
The house was built by Richard Somers. Fox said in March it is the oldest extant building in Atlantic County. Long after it was built, the home had been transformed into a Victorian style. In the 1940s, WPA workers restored it to its Colonial appearance. The site was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 1970.
Richard Veit, an anthropology professor at Monmouth University, came to the site in March to dig test holes to lay the groundwork for Saturday's dig. Veit's team found a few small treasures then, including a Colonial shoe buckle. They got a grant from the state to help fund Saturday's dig.
Some of the more interesting items found Saturday included an apothecary bottle stopper, a mule shoe, a piece of jewelry and a British gun flint that appeared to be unused. Other items included pieces of pottery, nails, seashells and the bones of birds and fish.
Brennan almost literally found a needle in a haystack. Well, it was a straight pin, but it was unearthed in a 3-by-3 space.
"You're learning the process from actual scientists who do this, sometimes for a living and sometimes for a passion," Brennan said. "People pay money for workshops. I got to be here and experience this."
Sean McHugh, a professional archaeologist, had a team to lead the dig. The 43-year-old from Brick Township is an adjunct professor at Monmouth and has known Veit for more than 25 years, going back to when he was a student of Veit's.
McHugh demonstrated the process for anyone who wanted to get their hands dirty or just observe and learn.
After plotting out which 3-by-3 sections they would dig, they would remove the top soil and sift that through a screen. Every inch of dirt gets screened. How deep he planned to go Saturday depended on when he'd start to see subsoil. Since he's in an area rich with Native American roots as well as upon a hill, he would go a little deeper.
"There's a lot of science (involved), but there's a lot of luck," McHugh said.
McHugh's two daughters — Kiera, 15, and Cate, 13 — were part of his team. The two have been doing digs with their father since they were little.
"I have a big interest in history, but we usually just follow him around for the weekends," Kiera said. "It's one of the most fun things to do on a weekend."
Aleksander Szafran, 16, and his family came down from Bensalem, Pennsylvania, to participate. Szafran, who attends New Hope Academy in Yardley, Pennsylvania, plans to study at archaeology at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania, next year.
Saturday's dig was the first in which he was able to get his hands dirty and learn about the whole process.
"It was a lot dirtier than expected, which I don't know why I didn't expect that," Szafran joked. "It's a lot more hands-on work and just looking for the little things instead of huge artifacts. ... I always like using my hands and participating, and this was certainly a great experience."
Since the state owns the property, any items recovered Saturday would belong to the state. After Veit brings the items back to Monmouth to be cleaned and preserved, he's confident they will be returned to the mansion so they can be displayed.
Veit hoped those who did participate Saturday were able to take something away from the experience.
"It's public archaeology," he said. "People can get their hands on history quite literally, which doesn't happen every day."
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Kiera McHugh, 15, sifts through a dirt sample collected on a screen while looking for artifacts that include nails, pottery shards and animal bones.
Levi Fox, historian and treasurer for the Patriots of Somers Mansion, says connections to the Colonial past and the local Native American tribes may be found.
Sifting through a dirt sample are, from left, Aleksander Szafren, 18, of Bensalem, Pennsylvania, Sean McHugh, and his daughter Cate, 13, of Brick Township.
On Saturday, May 6, 2023, at Somers Mansion in Somers Point, Atlantic County resident Secilia Brennan holds up a nail found in a patch of soil that is being excavated.
On May 6, 2023, in Somers Point, (l-r) Greg Sykora and Levi Fox, Vice Chair and Treasurer for the Patriots of Somers Mansion, a 501c3, talk about the future of the site, grant research, and working with the State of New Jersey.
On May 6, 2023, in Somers Point, (l-r) Greg Sykora, Vice Chair for the Patriots of Somers Mansion, a 501c3, talks about the future of the site, grant research, and the plans for creating a classroom in the newer part of the building that dates to the early 1800's.
On May 6, 2023, in Somers Point, (l-r) archaelogists Sean McHugh from Brick Twp., and Rich Veit of South Plainfield, inspect a glazed pottery shard collected from the soil at Somers Mansion.
On May 6, 2023, at Somers Mansion in Somers Point, (l-r) Kiera McHugh, 15, and Somers Point resident Mike Passmore sift through a dirt sample collected on a screen looking for artifacts which include nails, pottery shards, and animal bones.
On May 6, 2023, at Somers Mansion in Somers Point, Philadelphia resident (l-r) Allison Jaskowiak shows her daughter Genevieve, 3, an old piece of animal bone collected from a soil sample.
On May 6, 2023, at Somers Mansion in Somers Point, Philadelphia residents Allison Jaskowiak and her daughter Genevieve, 3, watch as a bottle stopper is bagged after having been found in the soil.
On Saturday, May 6, 2023, a team of archeologists conducted a dig at the Somers Mansion in Somers Point with members of the public invited to participate as part of a Public Archeology Day.
On May 6, 2023, at Somers Mansion in Somers Point, archaeologist Rich Veit of south Plainfield, takes notes on a patch of soil that will be excavated for artifacts. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/hands-on-history-artifacts-unearthed-at-historical-somers-mansion-site-in-public-dig/article_c36b9012-ec2f-11ed-aac5-b3249912e26a.html | 2023-05-06T19:40:59 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/hands-on-history-artifacts-unearthed-at-historical-somers-mansion-site-in-public-dig/article_c36b9012-ec2f-11ed-aac5-b3249912e26a.html |
ATLANTIC CITY — Police stopped a distressed Dayton, Ohio, man from slitting his throat with a razor blade near the Boardwalk on Thursday, the city's police department said.
“Great work by our officers. Thanks to their dedication, commitment, training and the ACPD's investment in non-lethal options a potentially deadly force incident was resolved with no loss of life,” Police Chief James Sarkos said.
Police said officers were dispatched to the 100 block of South Missouri Avenue at 11:27 p.m. Thursday to help the man, 29, who was threatening to hurt himself.
Officers found the man on the sidewalk near the Boardwalk. He was holding a razor blade to his neck and threatening to kill himself, police in a release Saturday.
Sgt. Daniel Arra with the Atlantic City Police Department's Crisis Negotiation Team talked to the man and tried to keep him calm, but man demanded officers shoot him, police said.
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The man started to approach the officers, refusing their orders to stop, so Officer Louis Scarlata used a nonlethal taser to briefly incapacitate him, which allowed them to disarm the man of his makeshift weapon.
The man was unharmed but was transported to AtlantiCare's City Division for further evaluation and treatment, police said.
Anyone who needs assistance or knows someone who needs assistance can call the Suicide and Crisis National Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or dial 988 to speak with a trained counselor. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/ohio-man-threatens-to-kill-himself-with-razor-blade-in-atlantic-city/article_a8b4847a-ec18-11ed-a232-d70ea36f58cf.html | 2023-05-06T19:41:05 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/ohio-man-threatens-to-kill-himself-with-razor-blade-in-atlantic-city/article_a8b4847a-ec18-11ed-a232-d70ea36f58cf.html |
Mike Trout, 31, a 2009 Millville High School graduate, is a center fielder with the Los Angeles Angels and was the 2014, 2016 and 2019 American League MVP.
Thursday: Did not play in the Angels’ 11-7 victory in the series finale at St. Louis.
Friday: Went 2 for 4 with an intentional walk and drove in a run in a 10-inning, 5-4 win over the visiting Rangers. He batted second and played center field.
Saturday: Nathan Eovaldi (3-2, 3.93) is scheduled to start the 9:07 p.m. game for the Rangers. Trout is hitting .353 (6 for 17) with two RBIs against him.
Stats: Trout is hitting .303 (36 for 119) with eight home runs, 20 RBIs and 23 runs scored in 30 games. He has walked 16 times and struck out 37 times. His on-base percentage is .396, his OPS .976. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/daily-mike-trout-report-angels-score-3-in-9th-beat-rangers-in-10th/article_69583baa-eb82-11ed-93f2-5b6dce6ca95e.html | 2023-05-06T19:41:12 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/daily-mike-trout-report-angels-score-3-in-9th-beat-rangers-in-10th/article_69583baa-eb82-11ed-93f2-5b6dce6ca95e.html |
CHRISTOVAL, Texas — The majority of Christoval residents are currently without power as of May 6.
According to San Angelo district external affairs manager Blake Burchard, there was a trailer that caused a shortage in a primary, which then led to a breaker at the substation to trip.
The city is now working to connect a mobile substation to create a temporary power source for the time being.
"It takes awhile to get our mobile sub up," Burchard said.
He is hoping the substation will be ready within ten-twelve hours but it is uncertain at this moment. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/majority-of-christoval-currently-facing-power-outages/504-01270bd1-783a-492a-aae1-ddd44cc11d1d | 2023-05-06T19:42:13 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/majority-of-christoval-currently-facing-power-outages/504-01270bd1-783a-492a-aae1-ddd44cc11d1d |
NEW YORK — Service alerts for New York City's subway, commuter trains and buses were back on Twitter on Thursday, a week after transit officials balked at paying to provide the information.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority lost access last week to Twitter’s application programming interface to send out automated alerts about service changes and emergencies. The MTA decided last Thursday to cease publishing service alerts to Twitter, saying it opposed the platform's recent decision to start charging for access to its programming interface.
In an about-face, Twitter said this week it has restored free access to the interface for verified government and “publicly owned” services so they can tweet alerts.
“Twitter got the message and reversed its plan to charge the MTA more than half a million dollars per year for these alerts, so now no transit agency will need to pay,” read a prepared statement from Shanifah Rieara, MTA’s acting chief customer officer.
The country’s largest transportation network began providing service alerts on its Twitter accounts in time for the Thursday evening commute.
The MTA also said last week it was concerned with technical problems that had led to two recent outages of its Twitter alerts service. The authority said Thursday that it received written assurances from Twitter that reliability on the platform will be guaranteed.
An email seeking comment was sent to Twitter’s communications office.
The service alert interruption comes as many institutional Twitter users deal with changes Elon Musk has made in an effort to make the service profitable.
RELATED VIDEO: | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/twitter-alerts-back-track-for-nyc-subway-after-week-off/71-0ae10bec-d130-4558-8d2e-69b3c6e62ff4 | 2023-05-06T19:42:19 | 0 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/twitter-alerts-back-track-for-nyc-subway-after-week-off/71-0ae10bec-d130-4558-8d2e-69b3c6e62ff4 |
ATLANTA — One person is dead and at least one other was injured following a multi-vehicle crash in northwest Atlanta on Saturday, fire officials said.
Atlanta Fire and Rescue Department said the crash happened on James Jackson Pkwy NW at Browntown.
NW. Fire officials confirmed one fatality and officials were administering CPR to another victim. No other details have been released.
11Alive has sent a crew to the scene to learn more about the crash. News happens fast. Download our 11Alive News app for all the latest breaking updates, and sign up for our Speed Feed newsletter to get a rundown of the latest headlines across north Georgia. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/dead-fatal-crash-browntown-james-jackson-crash/85-92e07bfd-38d1-4c5a-aff3-aab3edfd1069 | 2023-05-06T19:44:29 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/dead-fatal-crash-browntown-james-jackson-crash/85-92e07bfd-38d1-4c5a-aff3-aab3edfd1069 |
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — One man is facing charges including theft of over $10,000 after a large amount of stolen property and antiques were found in his home according to the Greene County TN Criminal Investigations Department and the Greene County Sheriff’s Department.
A post shared by the department says a search warrant was conducted at a residence on Timber Lane in the south Greene County area off of Asheville Highway. According to the Criminal Investigations Department, a large amount of stolen property was found in the residence that belongs to Charles Eugene Cutshaw, 55. The department added that detectives recovered more stolen items, including an enclosed trailer, at a barn on Asheville Highway near Timber Lane.
The Criminal Investigations Department says that Cutshaw was charged with theft of over $10,000 and driving on a revoked license, third offense. His bond was set at $28,000 and he was arraigned on May 5 in the Greene County Sessions Court.
Photos shared by the department show a variety of items that were allegedly stolen, including framed artwork, vases, butter churners, clocks, lamps, and a “Godzilla vs. Charles Barkley” poster.
Several victims have been identified, but the Criminal Investigations Department says it is believed there are others because of the amount of property that was found. The sheriff’s department is asking anyone that has recently interacted with Cutshaw to notify Detective Sgt. Toby Price at 423-798-1800 ext. 1516. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/man-charged-after-10k-worth-of-stolen-property-antiques-found-in-greene-co-home/ | 2023-05-06T19:48:24 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/man-charged-after-10k-worth-of-stolen-property-antiques-found-in-greene-co-home/ |
Cybercriminals made off with confidential data about Tucson Unified School District employees and students and put it on the dark web for public access, Bloomberg News reports.
After the ransomware attack in late January, TUSD officials said for weeks that there was no proof sensitive data was stolen.
"But Bloomberg News found that cybercriminals made off with gigabytes of files, containing tens of thousands of current and former employees’ Social Security numbers and other confidential records. They then uploaded the information in February to the dark web for anyone to access with an easily downloadable browser," Bloomberg reporter Jack Gillum found.
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"Examples of the leaked files include a high schooler’s medical records; another detailed arguments for expelling several students," the report said.
Bloomberg found more than 16,000 numbers and birth dates tied to current and former employees on the dark web.
"Another leaked document included 'confidential records' concerning a high school student's diabetes diagnosis and instructions for their insulin injections," the Bloomberg report said, adding that the student's parents did not respond to inquiries seeking comment.
TUSD data is still available on the dark web for downloading, Gillum confirmed to the Arizona Daily Star on Friday, May 5.
"There are documents showing a confidential settlement agreement with Joann Anderson, a former employee who had previously sued Tucson Unified School District in federal court, alleging discrimination," Bloomberg's article said. It quoted Anderson as saying a school district lawyer had recently told her there was no evidence of a data breach and that nothing was taken.
District Superintendent Gabriel Trujillo was on personal leave and unavailable to comment, TUSD communications director Leslie Lenhart said.
When asked by the Star about Bloomberg’s findings, Lenhart provided an email Trujillo sent to staff and families on April 25, a week after the Bloomberg report, updating them on the situation.
Trujillo confirmed in the email that a large amount of sensitive and confidential employee data was accessed and taken.
“Our cyber-security forensic experts are working to confirm, on a person by person, employee by employee basis, the validity of any personal and confidential information that has been posted or published online, particularly social security numbers, birth dates or any other personal health or financial information,” Trujillo wrote.
“This requires the team to review tens of thousands of documents and files at a time as well as to determine if each file can be linked to a current or former TUSD employee, parent or student. This work, which is part of our ongoing investigation is time consuming and has not yet been completed. For this reason, we have made no further statements about the validity of any district information that may have been posted on the dark web.”
Trujillo encourages employees and families to “remain vigilant” and monitor all banking information, accounts and credit-related information, the email said. If the investigation determines that confidential information was compromised, those affected will receive individual communications on behalf of TUSD.
The district will also work with the Arizona Risk Retention Trust to determine the support and services that will be available if the investigation reveals Social Security numbers were breached, the email said.
Ravi Shah, president of the TUSD Governing Board, declined to comment to the Star on the Bloomberg findings and referred questions to district officials.
Lenhart said TUSD didn’t engage with the attackers or pay a ransom.
A ransomware group called Royal, active internationally, was responsible for the "cyberterrorism" attack, Trujillo previously confirmed.
Trujillo told the district governing board in February he was asking “the community for patience” because, “out of an abundance of caution ... we are very limited in what we can say” about specific security steps and other details.
Officials have high confidence two critical district systems, for finance/human resources and student information, are secure, the board was told then by Rabih Hamadeh, TUSD’s executive director of technology services.
Hamadeh said TUSD did a “massive password change” for all teachers, students and staff after the attack, and would conduct training for all about new security measures.
He also said that as budget constraints allow, the district will start a phased approach to transition to more cloud computing and cloud storage, under which companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft are “responsible with us for protecting your data.”
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/education/tusd-personal-data-exposed-on-dark-web-after-cyberattack/article_496e38ea-ead7-11ed-96f9-9b577ed3f36c.html | 2023-05-06T19:52:45 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/education/tusd-personal-data-exposed-on-dark-web-after-cyberattack/article_496e38ea-ead7-11ed-96f9-9b577ed3f36c.html |
As Pima County readies to receive what could be thousands of asylum seekers when Title 42 ends May 11, it’s preparing resources with the key goal of avoiding releasing incoming migrants on the streets.
The county is working with federal partners, but “May 11 is a day that is fairly frightening for some of us,” nonetheless, County Administrator Jan Lesher told the Board of Supervisors at its meeting Tuesday during a discussion of the end of Title 42.
Title 42 was enacted at the beginning of the pandemic and allows the federal government to immediately expel some migrants from the country. The policy is set to end on May 11 when the COVID-19 public health emergency will expire.
The average daily number of migrants entering Pima County ranged from 224 to 770 throughout 2022, but Border Patrol estimates place the number between 1,200 to 1,500 people per day when Title 42 ends.
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“The philosophy that's driving everything we're doing now is that we're saying there will not be street releases in this community. And if we say that, then that means we're going to provide certain kinds of services,” Lesher said.
That means increasing trips from places like the Nogales Port of Entry and Border Patrol processing center on east Los Reales Road to the Casa Alitas Welcome Center run by Catholic Community Services that provides short-term shelter to migrants. The county also coordinates transportation from the welcome center to migrant shelter services in Phoenix.
Asylum seekers typically stay at shelters in Tucson for a few days, enough time to arrange transportation to other cities where they can live with relatives and friends while their asylum claims are processed.
Shane Clark, director of Pima County’s Office of Emergency Management, has been working closely with federal and state officials to coordinate the county’s response to Title 42 ending. According to his latest weekly report, 2,556 asylum seekers were released from Border Patrol custody in Pima County from April 20 to 26th, which averaged 365 people a day. Those numbers included 1,127 single adults and 508 families.
Even while Title 42 has been in place, the county has come “dangerously close” to street releases but managed to find shelter for asylum seekers in hotel rooms. Regardless, Lesher said the county is prepared for May 11.
To prepare for Title 42’s end, the county leased a new location on Tucson’s south side on West Drexel Road near Interstate 19 to house migrants in partnership with Catholic Community Services that will have capacity for about 400 people. In addition to the Casa Alitas Welcome Center and Drexel sites, the county is using three hotels to house migrants as needed.
“Looking at the Drexel facility as an example … the reality is, there may be 150 or 300 cots, it will hold however many it's going to need to hold at some point, if that's people sleeping on the floors or something. That is certainly not our hope,” Lesher told the board on Tuesday.
A “uniquely federal program”
But as the county prepares for an increase in people coming across the border in coming weeks, the situation has unleashed concerns from county officials and the Board of Supervisors about the paradoxical issue of a local government taking on federal tasks.
Pima County is “fully aware that comprehensive immigration reform has been elusive, Deputy County Administrator Francisco Garcia testified at a U.S. Senate committee hearing on April 26. But Pima County doesn't want to be, nor should it be, in the business of sheltering and caring for people seeking asylum in the United States. That should be a function of the federal government.”
Pima County has provided care to asylum seekers since 2019 when Catholic Community Services asked for help setting up temporary shelter, Garcia said. At the time, the county thought its involvement would last “just for a month or two.”
Instead, Garcia testified, the county’s procurement and fleet services staff are still spending significant time securing contracts for asylum care and arranging transportation services instead of focusing on county-specific programs. The federal funding mechanism for the county to provide migrant services has also been a hindrance, Garcia said.
Since the summer of 2019, Pima County has spent more than $23 million on migrant services using funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program. However, the funding strategy doesn’t allow the county to plan more than three months at a time.
Lesher said the county knows it has federal funding to care for asylum seekers through June, and has “assurances that we will get the money from the federal government, but it's not sitting in our checking account.”
“This is a uniquely federal program, and in effect, we're doing some of the work of the federal government, ” she said. “That can continue as long as the federal government continues to pay for it.”
The county has passed through most of the federal funding to Catholic Community Services to provide aid and shelter and subcontracted with the city of Tucson to provide staffing and hotel capacity to receive asylum seekers.
Supervisor Steve Christy blamed the county’s willingness to aid asylum seekers as part of the reason it’s in its current position.
“We were a welcoming center because we were welcoming the federal money,” he said. “Now, for many of us who have been sounding the clarion call for a number of years now that this is a problem, … now I have to say I do feel a sense of vindication and relief that the Pima County administration is finally coming forth and admitting that we have a crisis.”
Supervisor Adelita Grijalva said it was in the county’s best interest to intervene in 2019, pointing to when Border Patrol released migrants in Ajo without warning local governments and nonprofits.
“I think we were just trying to make the most of a situation that we had in order to ensure the safety of all of our community,” she said.
Federal intervention
Garcia told the board that a return to stricter processing conditions under the transition to Title 8 immigration laws could be positive for the county’s ability to manage the end of Title 42. The rules impose a five-year ban on reentry if migrants don’t enter the U.S. legally through a port of entry. Migrants in central and northern Mexico are asked to use a mobile application, CBPOne, to schedule an appointment to apply for asylum.
The Department of Homeland Security is also opening regional processing centers in Colombia and Guatemala to “facilitate safe, orderly, humane, and lawful pathways from the Americas,” according to a fact sheet from the department.
“From a policy perspective, trying to assist asylum seekers as close to where they are I think is really key in being successful in delivering what is reasonable asylum policy,” Garcia said.
The Biden administration has confirmed it will deploy 1,500 active-duty troops to the southwest border to aid Border Patrol in processing a higher number of migrants entering the country.
“I believe that we will be better served two to three months down the road … the challenge for us will be what happens on May 12. All of us should be wary and all of us should be concerned,” Garcia said. “Our goal is to ensure the safety and security of the folks across Pima County by trying to assist these asylum seekers. That is, at the end of the day, what we are trying to do.”
Contact reporter Nicole Ludden at nludden@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/pima-county-prepares-for-frightening-end-of-title-42/article_05e166ec-e942-11ed-bac3-fffa8032830a.html | 2023-05-06T19:52:51 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/pima-county-prepares-for-frightening-end-of-title-42/article_05e166ec-e942-11ed-bac3-fffa8032830a.html |
Former Peoria Mayor Richard Carver, who helped pave way for Civic Center, dies
Former Peoria Mayor Richard Carver died Friday at his home in Sarasota, Florida. He was 85.
Carver was mayor from 1973 to 1984. He and the Peoria City Council implemented an urban renewal plan that helped lead to Southtown, Campustown, the Civic Center and the Downtown establishment of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. The Peoria Civic Center's Carver Arena bears his name.
He also served as president of the United States Conference of Mayors. He was on the President's Commission on Housing under President Ronald Reagan and also was an assistant secretary of the Air Force.
Related:Former Mayor Dick Carver reunites with civic leaders who left mark on Peoria
Carver was born Aug. 28, 1937, in Des Moines, Iowa, and graduated from Bradley University, where he met his wife, Judith, according to his obituary. Judith Carver died in January. They are survived by four children, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, the obituary said.
The family plans to hold a memorial service in Peoria at a future date. | https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/local/2023/05/06/former-peoria-illinois-mayor-richard-carver-dies-at-age-85/70191172007/ | 2023-05-06T19:54:02 | 0 | https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/local/2023/05/06/former-peoria-illinois-mayor-richard-carver-dies-at-age-85/70191172007/ |
Detroit police seek help in identifying toddler found wandering on city's west side
Detroit News
The Detroit Police Department is asking for the public's help so a toddler can be returned to his home.
At about noon Saturday the department received a report of a child wandering in the area of Heyden and Cathedral.
The boy, who was approximately 2-years-old, was wearing a gray shirt and pull-up diaper, police said. As a precaution, the boy was taken to a local hospital.
Anyone who recognizes the child or knows his parents or guardians is asked to contact the Detroit Police Department's 6th Precinct at 313-596-5601. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/05/06/detroit-police-seek-help-in-iding-toddler-found-wandering-on-west-side/70191304007/ | 2023-05-06T20:36:28 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/05/06/detroit-police-seek-help-in-iding-toddler-found-wandering-on-west-side/70191304007/ |
Infant, man shot near 43rd Avenue and Thomas Road in west Phoenix
Jose R. Gonzalez
Arizona Republic
An infant and a man were shot on Friday night in west Phoenix.
Just before midnight, officers responded to several locations near the intersection of 43rd Avenue and Thomas Road, finding a man and an infant with gunshot wounds, Phoenix police said. Both were taken to the hospital, their injuries are not life-threatening, police added.
A preliminary investigation has found the man was in an altercation with two other men wherein he was shot, while the infant was with family in a separate location and was struck with gunfire from the shooting, according to police.
Police said they are still investigating the identity of the suspects, police said. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/05/06/infant-man-shot-in-west-phoenix/70191113007/ | 2023-05-06T20:45:30 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/05/06/infant-man-shot-in-west-phoenix/70191113007/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – Watch as the Dawgs make their way back to the Berglund Center for a celebration following the team’s President’s Cup win Tuesday night.
The event is expected to begin at 3 p.m., with the procession kicking off at the corner of 2nd Street and Church Avenue.
A celebration will be held in the Berglund Center from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
You can watch the team’s procession below. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/06/watch-live-roanoke-rail-yard-dawgs-procession/ | 2023-05-06T20:46:32 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/06/watch-live-roanoke-rail-yard-dawgs-procession/ |
After closing its 90-day comment period for the Lava Ridge Wind Project’s draft Environmental Impact Statement, the Bureau of Land Management must make revisions to release a final statement in the coming months in order for the project to move forward.
The Lava Ridge Wind Project would consist of 400 turbines up to 740 feet in height and the associated infrastructure, including new roads, powerlines, substations, maintenance facilities and battery storage facilities. It would be located 25 miles northeast of Twin Falls.
Magic Valley Energy LLC — an affiliate of New York-based energy infrastructure company LS Power — seeks the BLM’s permission to build the project in Jerome, Lincoln and Minidoka counties on approximately 197,474 acres of federal, state and private land.
According to the draft impact statement, the developer chose the proposed location based on the quality of wind in the area, the power markets accessible by existing and planned transmission lines, and the absence of land use constraints.
The public comment period for the current phase of review ended on April 20, after the BLM added a 30-day extension to the initial deadline.
BLM spokesperson Heather Tiel-Nelson told the Idaho Capital Sun that the bureau received nearly 11,000 public comments. Over the next several months, Tiel-Nelson said the bureau will review the comments and post a summary report to their website by early summer.
“This project has definitely generated a significant amount of public interest,” she said in a phone interview. “We are very grateful to all of our stakeholders and those who commented and provided feedback to us.”
Tiel-Nelson said the bureau is not focused on how many comments it received in favor or against the project, but rather it will consider comments that are “substantive,” or comments that identify factual errors, data gaps, relevant methods or scientific studies.
The draft impact statement includes multiple alternatives that are reduced versions of the project that would minimize the project’s impact on Wilson Butte Cave, Minidoka National Historic Site and local communities.
According to the draft impact statement, the BLM identified two preferred alternatives for the project. Alternative C would reduce the project area to 146,300 acres and 378 turbines. Tiel-Nelson said the alternative would minimize impact, but still provide the capacity to generate electricity at a level comparable to the proposed action.
Alternative E, the BLM’s other preference, would reduce the project to 122,400 acres and 269 turbines. Tiel-Nelson said this option would leave a smaller project footprint and less infrastructure while minimizing the impact to the viewshed near Minidoka National Historic Site.
Tiel-Nelson said the bureau anticipates to finalize the project’s environmental impact statement by late fall or early winter. After finalizing the statement, the BLM will issue a decision to inform the next steps and timelines for construction.
WIND PROJECT ADDRESSES REGIONAL, LOCAL CLEAN ENERGY GOALSAccording to the draft impact statement, the need for the project arises from regional objectives to increase the amount of renewable, carbon-free energy sources into the energy supply.
Idaho Power, the state’s largest electricity provider company, aims to provide 100% clean energy by 2045. According to the impact statement, Idaho Power would need over 2,000 megawatts by 2045 to reach that goal with renewable energy.
The proposed wind project would generate more than 1,000 megawatts of clean energy, which is equivalent power for more than 300,000 homes, Magic Valley Energy spokesperson Amy Schutte told the Idaho Capital Sun.
“The need for renewable energy continues to grow as businesses, cities, and western states set policy targets to transition to a cleaner electric grid,” Schutte said in an email. “Tens of thousands of megawatts of new energy will need to be created to meet the goals of individual states, cities and utility companies.”
Schutte said the project would allow Idaho to export wind energy, providing energy to neighboring states in addition to Idaho and the Magic Valley community.
According to the Magic Valley Energy website, the proposed project would provide an estimated $3 million a year to local governments’ tax revenues. The final design of the project will determine actual values and tax revenue distribution.
Until the BLM issues a decision, Schutte said that the company will continue to seek input from stakeholders, the Magic Valley community and agency representatives.
IDAHO OFFICIALS, GROUPS OPPOSE LAVA RIDGE WIND PROJECTWhile the project addresses regional clean energy goals, Idaho officials and local opponents point to conservation concerns and lack of community support for the development.
Opponents of the project include Friends of Minidoka, a nonprofit organization based in Jerome that preserves Minidoka Historic Site, a former concentration camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. The organization educates others about the forced removal and incarceration experience of Japanese Americans.
As reported by the Idaho Statesman, the organization has led a campaign opposing the wind project’s development, claiming the project would diminish the immersive experience of its historical center.
In February, Gov. Brad Little, Lt. Gov. Scott Bedke, U.S. Senator Mike Crapo, U.S. Senator Jim Risch and Congressman Mike Simpson jointly sent a letter to BLM state director Karen Kelleher expressing concerns about the wind project.
“Affected farmers, ranchers, tribes, the Japanese American community and sportsmen have voiced legitimate objections,” they said in the letter. “As it stands today, the local community predominantly has not shown support for this development.”
In the letter, the officials said the project conflicts with “deep-rooted” Idaho values for land conservation and land use opportunities for recreation, grazing and sporting activities.
The officials also said they have concerns about the habitat and aerial fire suppression efforts, considering the height of the turbines in an area prone to wildfire. They said they would not support the project if the BLM does not consider the concerns of the local community.
In March, the Idaho House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution to express concerns about the Lava Ridge Wind Project, citing “near unanimous opposition” to the project by the local community and its counties and highway districts.
{div class=”newsroomSidebarContainer”}{div class=”newsroomSidebar”}Attorney General Raúl Labrador also voiced opposition to the wind project. In a tweet on April 21, he said he would do “whatever is legally necessary” to support opponents of the project.{/div}{/div}
In a press release on April 21, Labrador said he submitted a comment to the BLM sharing his concerns about the project. In the release, he said the project puts corporate interests ahead of the interests of Idahoans and would harm wildlife, hunters, waterways and Idahoans.
“The agency’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement fails to account for the numerous harms the project will cause,” he said in the release. “It represents a disregard for the environment and other vital interests entrusted to the agency’s safekeeping.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/clean-energy-at-what-cost-blm-to-decide-what-s-next-for-idaho-lava-ridge/article_d4ddcb24-eb7d-11ed-8d66-ab45af6658fb.html | 2023-05-06T20:53:38 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/clean-energy-at-what-cost-blm-to-decide-what-s-next-for-idaho-lava-ridge/article_d4ddcb24-eb7d-11ed-8d66-ab45af6658fb.html |
PHOENIX — A 4-year-old boy is in the hospital in "extremely critical condition" after he was pulled from a pool at a Phoenix hotel on Saturday, the Phoenix Fire Department said.
The boy was found not breathing in a hotel swimming pool near 19th Avenue and Happy Valley Road. Authorities don't know how long the boy was underwater but arrived to find hotel staff performing CPR on him.
First responders took over and brought the boy to a local pediatric hospital. The department said that a crisis team has been called in to help the toddler's family.
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Drowning Prevention Tips:
Drowning is the leading cause of death for children between ages 1-4 aside from birth defects, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Three children die every day as a result of drowning. Here are some tips from the CDC on how to protect children around water:
Learn life-saving skills.
Everyone should know the basics of swimming (floating, moving through the water) and CPR.
Fence it off.
Install a four–sided isolation fence, with self–closing and self–latching gates, around backyard swimming pools. This can help keep children away from the area when they aren’t supposed to be swimming. Pool fences should be completely separate the house and play area from the pool.
Life jackets are a must.
Make sure kids wear life jackets in and around natural bodies of water, such as lakes or the ocean, even if they know how to swim. Life jackets can be used in and around pools for weaker swimmers too.
Keep a close watch
When kids are in or near water (including bathtubs), closely supervise them at all times. Because drowning happens quickly and quietly, adults watching kids in or near water should avoid distracting activities like reading books, talking on the phone, or using alcohol and drugs. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/water-safety/toddler-in-hospital-after-pulled-from-hotel-pool-may/75-0fed4d89-5e1a-45be-ac8d-951a36ca5bf5 | 2023-05-06T20:55:01 | 1 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/water-safety/toddler-in-hospital-after-pulled-from-hotel-pool-may/75-0fed4d89-5e1a-45be-ac8d-951a36ca5bf5 |
There are few faces in Bay Area media as recognizable as Frank Somerville, but television audiences haven’t seen much of the longtime KTVU anchor since he left airwaves in May 2021, following an episode of slurring his words on air. He returned temporarily, only to be suspended that August. After a DUI arrest in December 2021, it seemed like his time in the anchor chair was finished.
After a long period of relative silence, Somerville recently began giving interviews. In March 2023, he spoke to KRON’s Pam Moore in a televised segment that lasted almost 30 minutes. He expressed remorse for his actions, but was hesitant to identify as an addict and was mum about any future plans.
On Friday, San Francisco State’s student publication Golden Gate Express ran a feature written by copy editor Steven Rissotto in which Somerville discussed his time studying at SF State, advised a few students with some broadcasting tips and again expressed remorse for his actions. But perhaps most notably, Somerville shared some hints about his relationship with KTVU and what his future might hold.
In the interview, Somerville said that he hasn’t once turned on KTVU since his departure and has had little contact with the staff, so a return to his old job is not to be expected. He said that searching for a new position has been more difficult than he anticipated, but that he’s not interested in retiring. A podcast seemed off the table for now, with Somerville’s heart still set on returning to the anchor chair — even if it means leaving the Bay Area to do it.
Read the full article from the Golden Gate Express. | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/former-ktvu-anchor-frank-somerville-discusses-18082425.php | 2023-05-06T20:56:46 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/former-ktvu-anchor-frank-somerville-discusses-18082425.php |
Dark Lord Day returns this month after a three-year hiatus.
3 Floyds is bringing back the beer festival centered around the once-a-year special release of its “demonic Russian-Style Imperial Stout brewed with coffee, Mexican vanilla and Indiana sugar” that “defies description.” The craft brewery at 9750 Indiana Parkway in Munster will celebrate Dark Lord Day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on May 20.
The celebrated brewery has announced the final musical and craft brewery lineups.
The trash metal band Municipal Waste and the Chicago-based indie rock band Sybris round out a lineup that includes death metal legends Cannibal Corpse, the largely instrumental Chicago-based post-metal act Pelican and Richmond Virginia-based thrash metal band Enforce.
Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Municipal Waste has released seven studio albums: "Waste 'Em All," "Hazardous Mutation," "The Art of Partying," "Massive Aggressive," "The Fatal Feast," "Slime and Punishment" and "Electrified Brain." The band has toured around the country with Suicidal Tendencies and done a video for Troma Entertainment of "The Toxic Avenger" infamy.
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The band is known for a sense of humor with song titles like "Thrashing's My Business and Business is Good."
In addition to a daylong music festival, Dark Lord Day features the 15% ABC Dark Lord Imperial Stout that RateBeer has often ranked as one of the best in the world.
Festival goers also can buy craft beer from other breweries like 18th Street Brewery, 450 North Brewing Company, Acopon Brewing, Alvarado Street Brewery, Anspach & Hobday, Ardent Craft Ales, Art History Brewing, Boneyard Beer, Burial Beer Company, Carbon Copy, Cloudburst Brewing, Commonwealth Brewing, Dovetail Brewery, Founders Brewing Company, Fremont Brewing, Gigantic Brewing, Goldfinger Brewing Company, Half Acre Beer, Hill Farmstead Brewery, Hold Out Brewing, Hop Butcher for the World, Lady Justice Brewing, Les Intenables, Marz Community Brewing, Modist Brewing, New Oberpfalz Brewing, Off Color Brewing, Penrose Brewing, Phase Three Brewing, Pipeworks Brewing, Pizza Port Brewing, Radiant Beer Co., Scarlet Lane Brewing, Seven Island Brewery, Side Project Brewing, Sun King Brewery, Wake Brewing, WarPigs USA Brewing, Weathered Souls Brewing and Wiseacre Brewing.
Thousands of craft beer aficionados from across the country typically descend on Munster for the event. It's such a draw that other area breweries like 18th Street and Flossmoor Station also do special releases that weekend to appeal to all the hopheads in town.
For more information, visit www.darklordday.com. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/3-floyds-announces-full-dark-lord-day-music-brewery-lineup/article_04fc9422-eb7c-11ed-9503-7bf7c9ec498a.html | 2023-05-06T21:11:06 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/3-floyds-announces-full-dark-lord-day-music-brewery-lineup/article_04fc9422-eb7c-11ed-9503-7bf7c9ec498a.html |
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5 dead after early Saturday morning crash in southwest Lubbock
Mateo Rosiles
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Five people were killed in a two-vehicle crash early Saturday on the Marsha Sharp Freeway in west Lubbock.
Officers responded about 1:28 a.m. Saturday to the 7000 block of Marsha Sharp Freeway for reports of a two-vehicle crash, prompting closure of all eastbound traffic on the freeway between Upland Avenue and Spur 327, according to Lubbock police.
Around 2:30 a.m. LPD confirmed three fatalities with two additional deaths being confirmed around 4 a.m. after two people succumbed to injuries in Lubbock hospitals.
The cause of the accident and more information about those involved was not immediately available as the crash remains under investigation. | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/06/five-dead-after-early-saturday-morning-crash-in-southwest-lubbock/70190956007/ | 2023-05-06T21:14:12 | 0 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/06/five-dead-after-early-saturday-morning-crash-in-southwest-lubbock/70190956007/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. – The Osceola County on Aging issued a statement warning residents about about fraudulent sites offering roofing, window, and door programs on social media outlets.
According to a news release, the nonprofit has received “an influx of calls” from clients who have become victims of the fraudulent sites. The scam sites ask users to fill out an intake form, resulting in theft of the client’s personal information.
“Due to the fact that these fraudulent sites do not have searchable websites, when clients perform a Google search for free windows, doors, and roofing weatherization programs, the Osceola Council on Aging appears as the top search result. This is leading to confusion among many clients who have mistaken us as the organization they filled out the form with,” the release read in part.
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“The Osceola Council on Aging would like to assure all clients that they do not offer applications for weatherization services online, and they do not advertise on social media platforms. The only way to obtain their services is through referrals from local organizations.”
According to the release, the nonprofit is not affiliated with any of the fraudulent sites that have been reported.
The Osceola Council on Aging urged all clients to be vigilant and cautious when seeking weatherization services online and advise against filling out any forms on unfamiliar sites and to only obtain services from reputable providers.
For more information or to report any suspicious activity, contact Florida Department of Economic Opportunity at 1-850-245-7105.
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ATLANTA — A candle, a ring and a "Will you marry me?" note. It's a wedding proposal shared on social media that's sparked a large debate.
It's common to see couples share the happy news of an engagement on social media -- but 11Alive's Erica Murphy's announcement ignited an online discussion she didn't expect.
Murphy, a reporter for the station, shared on Twitter last weekend her boyfriend had popped the question -- and she said yes.
"So it's been an amazing year with my guy," the tweet said. "This morning before I left for work he left this in the bathroom for me to find."
She shared a picture showing how her boyfriend, Monta Homes, asked for her hand in marriage. It's that photo that sparked the debate she didn't see coming.
The critics came hard.
Some mocked the idea of the handwritten proposal note, while others supported Murphy and celebrated the love.
"Umm…a note? Torn out like that," one Twitter user said.
"It is the thought behind it that will forever count. Congratulations," another person said.
Her post was shared on other social media platforms -- and it went viral. That brought more people to the comment section sharing their own thoughts about it.
"Didn't realize the way my guy proposed would bring out such strong emotions for folks," Murphy tweeted Wednesday along with a screenshot of her engagement announcement posted on The Shade Room's Instagram account.
Her joyful moment that turned into a viral online sensation also made it to other media outlets, including "TODAY with Hoda & Jenna."
But Murphy shared some background with 11Alive, saying the proposal wasn't as effortless as some Internet spectators are making it seem.
Homes, a commercial-style electrician who lives in Detroit, flew into Atlanta two days before he popped the question to spend time with her for their one-year anniversary.
He got up at 4:30 a.m. to set the scene and left the note in the bathroom before Murphy started her day at 5 a.m.
"The proposal didn’t need to be grand or IG-worthy," she said. "It was sweet and perfect for us."
The two met in 2020 at a ballroom dancing event in Detroit; they started dating about a year ago. Murphy is excited to start this next chapter of her life.
"I knew you were special when we danced and you talked about politics. You are kind, giving, funny, naughty and down for me," she shared on Instagram last weekend. "Thank you! Today I said YES! Looking forward to a lifetime of more good times and ballroom dancing as your wife! Homes+Murphy=❤️❤️💍🤵♂️👰♀️" | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/viral-wedding-proposal-11alive-reporter-erica-murphy/85-03e4a4d7-e5cf-44ad-8d2a-22331b5c23d2 | 2023-05-06T21:29:08 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/viral-wedding-proposal-11alive-reporter-erica-murphy/85-03e4a4d7-e5cf-44ad-8d2a-22331b5c23d2 |
The festival, an annual celebration of small towns along the "Mother Road," brought car and history enthusiasts alike out despite the overcast morning for a day of shop talk, food and fun while live music played along Lexington's Main Street.
Besides the car show, there were food and drink vendors, local shops and a pickleball tournament raising money for the Lexington Park District.
The festival will continue Sunday, with a bike giveaway, live music, outdoor games and, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., a picnic.
Star Torkelson organized the two-day event for Lexington and has done so for about 10 years.
Sunday features more live music, a community lunch and children's activities in Lexington.
"It's a state event; it's not just our event," said Torkelson, who also is the city collector.
"People kind of walk through," she said. "They wander. They experience our town, grab their little commemorative token and they're on to the next adventure."
Tabitha Hughes has helped Torkelson with the Red Carpet event for about five years, off and on.
"Every town has something different," Hughes said. "The last couple of years, Lexington has grown. We have so many small businesses here, and it's just kind of cool to see how towns like these have modernized."
Hughes praised Lexington's current mayor, Spencer Johansen, for bringing in those businesses.
"We have hair salons. We have department stores. Anything you can think of, we have here," Hughes said. "You have everything you need here."
Torkelson said that brings visitors back to the town every year: "People can see our town, and they can feel it. They can feel the vibes here and they want to stay and come back."
One of the more unique vehicles that came to town Saturday was a restored and rebuilt 1954 Chevrolet C.O.E. truck, named "Chik Mag," owned by Gary Daniel of Peoria.
"C.O.E. stood for 'cab over engine,'" Daniel explained, leaning against the freshly waxed purple machine. "The engine used to be up front. I moved it and made it a mid engine."
Daniel said he did this to modernize the vehicle and add air conditioning, among other things, and the whole project took him about five years to finish.
The hardest thing, he said, was getting the transmission cables re-strung: "You have to kind of fool yourself and ... run your cables back around."
He said that didn't affect the performance at all, but it "messed up my mind a while."
Daniel said he didn't care too much about the cost of it, though.
"It's a hot rod," he said. "The only thing cheap about hot rods are the owners. Everything else is expensive as heck."
Hughes and Torkelson said they enjoyed the old cars, precious and well-loved artifacts of American history.
"I just want to take them all home," Hughes said.
Torkelson struggled a little to put it into words: "The sound and smell of old cars..." she trailed off, "I love seeing people proud of what they own."
"Which is really how Lexington is, too, if you think about it," Hughes said. "We're just proud of our town. And it's nice to see that's how they are too."
Brad Wood of Heyworth and Edward Connor of Normal brought their classic cars to the Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor Festival on Saturday in Lexington. Connor is leaning on his 1968 Buick Electra.
John Deterts of Bloomington polishes the headlights of his 1968 Chevrolet Camaro SS on Saturday at the Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor Festival in Lexington.
Tabitha Hughes and Star Torkelson organized the City of Lexington for the Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor Festival, which visited the small town on Saturday.
Ben Peacock, 18, of Lexington returns a volley in a pickleball tournament on Saturday while Levi Idess, 20, of Lexington watches on as part of the Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor Festival in Lexington. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/lexington-celebrates-hot-rods-classics-and-hometown-pride-at-route-66-fest/article_92b9b550-ec3b-11ed-974d-cf0821972344.html | 2023-05-06T21:32:08 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/lexington-celebrates-hot-rods-classics-and-hometown-pride-at-route-66-fest/article_92b9b550-ec3b-11ed-974d-cf0821972344.html |
North Iowa Area Community College held commencement exercises on Friday at the North Iowa Community Auditorium in Mason City, awarding diplomas, degrees and certificates to the 755 individuals that make up the class of 2023.
The day was split into five ceremonies, reflecting the diversity of the programs offered by the college: health science, career and technical and with two ceremonies that awarded degrees for arts and sciences.
Dr. Steven Schulz, NIACC President, presented the degrees at the ceremony, the 103rd since the college’s founding class of 1920.
“Whether you plan to continue in higher education or go directly into the workplace, we know that you will have the preparation you need to be successful,” said David Steffen Jr. President of NIACC Board of Trustees. “We hope that your graduation is not the end of your relationship with NIACC, but truly the beginning. Communities truly depend on our NIACC graduates.”
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Schulz says that data collected by the college shows that 98% of NIACC graduates get jobs.
The semester-to-semester retention rate for first-time, full-time students is 70%, while the overall graduation rate of NIACC is 52%, as a percentage of first-time full-time undergraduate students who complete their program within 150% of the published time.
“You know what doesn’t feel good? Not taking any risks,” said Daniel Bock of Belmond, who earned an associate’s degree in physical therapy and was the class speaker for the health science graduates.
“Fear is such a guiding thing in life; the more we do what we are afraid of, the more we see that what we are afraid of is just in our head. It’s our time today, we’re here. We’ve made it. We guided ourselves through the fear.”
Chiara D. Barbari said that moving from her hometown of Toronto to complete a year-long speech language pathology degree in “what felt like the middle of nowhere” was not easy, but she quickly formed lifelong friendships and “found family” in the community at NIACC.
Barbari thanked the professors, teachers, coaches staff and families who guided the graduates to the stage, “Thank you for sharing your expertise, for seeing our potential, and pushing us to the best of our abilities. You never cease to motivate and encourage us to persevere through our toughest moments.”
The ceremony was accompanied by processional and recessional music from the NIACC Brass ensemble, and a performance from the NIACC Singers of “You Will Be Found.”
Accompanying Schulz and Steffen were the NIACC Board of Trustees: Debra Hill of Garner, Andy Julseth of Northwood, Doug Krabbe of Osage, Dave Moore of Clear Lake, Dr. Stephanie Nettleton of Mason City, Nicki Prantner of Hampton, Cathy Rottinghaus of Charles City, and John Rowe of Mason City.
Alexander Schmidt is an Education/General Assignment Reporter with the Globe Gazette. You can reach him by phone at 641-421-0527 or at alexander.schmidt@globegazette.com
"It’s our time today, we’re here. We’ve made it. We guided ourselves through the fear.”
Daniel Bock of Belmond, who earned an associate's in physical therapy | https://globegazette.com/news/local/education/niacc-holds-commencement-for-class-of-2023/article_944d7f30-2ba9-5e40-ab70-6043a1d0d1e7.html | 2023-05-06T21:45:37 | 1 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/education/niacc-holds-commencement-for-class-of-2023/article_944d7f30-2ba9-5e40-ab70-6043a1d0d1e7.html |
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — Troy Sabott made good use of study hall Friday.
The Egg Harbor Township High School junior left-hander watched videos of Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Glavine throw.
“”All he did,” Sabott said, “was changeups low and away.”
Sabott went out Saturday morning and executed the same game plan.
He struck out six, walked none and allowed just three hits and an unearned run in six innings as the fourth-seeded Eagles beat No. 13 seed Cedar Creek 9-2 in a Joe Hartmann Diamond Classic second-round game. Jay Salsberry and Braeden Thies sparked the EHT offense with back-to-back home runs.
Study hall was Sabott's last class of the day Friday. He watched video of Glavine pitching against the Los Angeles Dodgers in a 2000 game.
“He’s a lefty. He doesn’t throw too hard,” Sabott said. “He dominated his era.”
Sabott is not only a lefty like Glavine, but he also doesn't throw hard. If changeups low and away worked for Glavine, why not for Sabott?
“I developed a changeup recently,” he said. “I’ve been practicing.”
Sabott has been a surprise for an EHT team that needed some good news after losing standout pitchers and hitters Justin Sweeney and Joel Thompson with season-ending shoulder injuries.
Sabott started the season 0-2 but has won his last two starts and not allowed an earned run in his last 13 ⅔ innings.
“In the beginning of the season, I left the ball too high (over the plate),” Sabott said. “But I fixed it.”
What was most impressive about Sabott on Saturday was his control: no walks.
“That’s absolutely crucial,” he said. “You don’t want to give up free runners because then you have to go from the stretch. Keep the pitch count low, keep throwing strikes low and away.”
EHT took the lead for good when Salsberry and Thies began the second inning with back-to-back home runs to make it 2-0.
Salsbery, who finished 2 for 3 with two runs scored, hit a curveball.
“I saw it out of the hand,” he said. “A hanger, and I drove it to left field.”
The home runs gave EHT not only the lead but momentum.
“It gets a team rolling,” Salsbery said.
The Eagles made it 8-0 when they sent 11 batters to the plate and scored six runs in the bottom of the third. Salsbery and Jacob Cagna both hit an RBI double during the inning. Cameron Flukey drove in two with a single up the middle.
EHT finished with 10 hits and got contributions up and down the lineup, including two hits from leadoff batter Joey Velardi.
It was just the second Diamond Classic victory for EHT in the single-elimination tournament’s prestigious 49-year history. The Classic is named in memory of an Eastern Regional coach who was a long-time fixture on the South Jersey baseball scene. The tournament expanded from 16 to 24 teams this season.
EHT (10-6) will host a quarterfinal game Tuesday against the winner of Saturday’s second-round matchup between fifth-seeded Kingsway Regional and No. 12 seed Delsea Regional.
This is a busy time of the season for successful teams. EHT is not only trying to win the Diamond Classic but also the Cape-Atlantic League American Division. The Eagles are contending for a spot in the CAL Tournament and a high seed in the South Jersey Group IV playoffs.
“A lot goes on in May,” EHT coach Bryan Carmichael said. “We’re winding down here, and I don’t think we’ve played our best baseball up until today. Today is a little bit of what I believe we can be. I'm leaving here happy today.”
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Troy Sabott pitches for EHT during its Joe Hartmann Diamond Classic win over Cedar Creek on Saturday. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/troy-sabott-studies-hard-and-pitches-eht-to-diamond-classic-win-over-cedar-creek/article_06ecce2c-ec4a-11ed-ba45-7746a3ae47ce.html | 2023-05-06T21:47:06 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/troy-sabott-studies-hard-and-pitches-eht-to-diamond-classic-win-over-cedar-creek/article_06ecce2c-ec4a-11ed-ba45-7746a3ae47ce.html |
The Kenosha Creative Space spiced up Downtown Kenosha Friday night with a Latin dance celebration.
The local nonprofit held the event in honor of Cinco de Mayo. “Vamos a Bailar” — which means “Let’s Dance” — was also a celebration of the second anniversary of the launch of weekly “Salsa and Tacos” dance events at the Creative Space, 624 57th St.
The high-energy event, which lasted from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m., included live salsa music by El Grupo Tumbao, a bachata dance lesson led by Erica Ness and social dancing. Portions of the proceeds benefited the Festival Orgullo Hispano Scholarship Fund.
“Music connects people,” said Creative Space Executive Director Francisco Loyola. “Our motivation is to try to connect different demographics using our music, dancing and food. ... I believe the best way to get connected is to come to an event where you have an opportunity to learn about another culture.”
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Ness, who recently moved back to the area, said she learned about bachata and salsa when she spent a semester in Chile.
“I don’t think I ever feel more joy than when I’m dancing, just the feeling of getting into that flow” Ness said. “When I’m dancing with someone I read their signals in instant time to know what moves we’re doing. It’s just really fun.”
Aragon’s Platos Borrachos, a new Mexican food truck, was also on site offering fresh gourmet tacos and burritos.
“It’s been awesome,” said owner Jess Michaelas.
Michaelas, of Kenosha, said everyone was in a good mood and she looks forward to participating in other events over the summer.
“The best thing about this is that everyone is in a good mood,” Michaelas said. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen somebody in a bad mood eating a taco.”
Area resident Hannah Davidson said she would dance if she was “feeling bold.”
“I’m a little rhythmless but we’ll see,” Davidson said. “I’m always happy to show up and support a local event, scholarship and food truck. ... It’s nice there are events that help bring people Downtown.” | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-creative-spaces-latin-dance-event-a-hit/article_e4a592d6-ec3a-11ed-b29e-5b79f32e9e1f.html | 2023-05-06T21:53:30 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-creative-spaces-latin-dance-event-a-hit/article_e4a592d6-ec3a-11ed-b29e-5b79f32e9e1f.html |
U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona was inducted Saturday into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
He and the other retired NASA astronaut inducted in Saturday's class, Roy Bridges, join 105 astronauts already honored in the hall.
“To have played a small part in the world’s greatest space program was a privilege, and to have been selected for this recognition is a true honor,” Kelly said. “I can’t help but to reflect on the journey here, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, to flying in the Navy in Operation Desert Storm, to becoming a test pilot, and eventually getting that call that I’d been selected as an astronaut.
"I’m so grateful to have been born in a country where the son of two police officers, who watched the Apollo missions from his living room floor, can go on to achieve his dreams of flying to space in service of their country.”
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Kelly was selected as an astronaut in 1996 in the same NASA class as his identical twin brother, Scott.
Mark Kelly made four trips into space, including commanding space shuttle Endeavour on its final flight. In total he spent more than 50 days in space, traveling over 20 million miles, NASA said in a news release.
A retired Navy captain, Kelly was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Tucson Democrat to fill a vacancy in 2020 and was reelected in 2022 to a full term.
Bridges, a retired Air Force major general, was selected as an astronaut in 1980. In July 1985, he piloted the space shuttle Challenger for the eight-day Spacelab 2 mission.
He went on to serve as center director of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center from 1997 to 2003, and as center director between 2003 and 2005 of NASA’s Langley Research Center.
“From the moment that I heard about the launch of Sputnik while I was in high school, my dream career was to be involved in opening the space frontier. My dream came true,” Bridges said. | https://tucson.com/news/local/arizona-sen-mark-kelly-inducted-into-astronaut-hall-of-fame/article_752ff356-e9f6-11ed-a8b4-4b3215735b53.html | 2023-05-06T22:03:18 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/arizona-sen-mark-kelly-inducted-into-astronaut-hall-of-fame/article_752ff356-e9f6-11ed-a8b4-4b3215735b53.html |
A new Tucson-based ASU program provides training and support for frontline public health workers who work outside a traditional medical setting but have a deep understanding of the communities they serve.
Community health workers are typically trusted community members, a relationship that enables them to serve as a link between and help facilitate access to health and social services, says the American Public Health Association.
Arizona State University's Office of Community Health, Engagement, and Resiliency says community health workers are a promising way to deliver health and mental health services, especially among Black, American Indian and Hispanic communities.
They can also work with uninsured and underinsured people or those who may be wary of the health-care system due to socioeconomic factors, immigration status or other issues.
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Research shows the Southwest has high rates of concentrated poverty, a prevalence of adverse childhood experiences, and documented gaps in family resilience during difficult times, says Bianca Levario, the ASU program's coordinator.
Family resilience is the ability to maintain or return to effective functioning after traumatic events. Resilience varies depending on factors including challenges from current stressors, the level of pre-existing stress and everyday hassles, the family’s coping skills and the resources available from family members and community sources, according to the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
"Arizona has the highest percentage of rural children living in concentrated poverty, at 30% or more compared to the 11% nationally," Levario said. "It's home to about 56,000 American Indian children. We work closely with the tribes, as that's kind of one the concentrated populations that we're trying to target."
'We connect those gaps'
ASU's Office of Community Health, Engagement, and Resiliency was started in 2019 with the Thrive in the ’05 Community-Based Crime Reduction Initiative, which targets a 2.6-square-mile area of Tucson that’s loosely bounded by Miracle Mile to the north, Speedway to the south, Stone Avenue to the east and I-10 to the west.
That 85705 ZIP code area includes neighborhoods considered among Tucson’s most distressed due to poverty, high unemployment and scant resources.
The office, housed in the School of Social Work, branched out from there and in 2020, received a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to address social issues and promote resiliency in the U.S. Southwest through 2026.
Community health worker Nury Stemple was hired as a consultant by ASU in December, bringing to the program her 25 years of experience.
"We are the liaison between the medical providers, social workers and the community," Stemple said. "The community trusts us because we are a part of them."
Stemple said community health workers save government and taxpayer dollars. They also supplement the state's health-care system, which she called underfunded.
She used the analogy of a newly diagnosed diabetic spending five minutes with a doctor who tells them to change their diet and start a new medication. For many people, they know what next steps to take, but for people with transportation or language barriers, or just a lack of education and understanding, there are no next steps unless they get help.
"We are there for them, we're the one that goes to the client and tells them how to eat (well) and refers them to resources," she said. "We are full of resources for them and we can follow up."
Community health workers can also help patients keep track of their appointments and care and help them advocate for themselves with providers.
Their involvement often results in improved primary care for the patient — who is often uninsured or underinsured — and fewer trips to urgent care or the emergency room, Stemple said.
"We connect those gaps between the patient or the client to the community resources," she said. "We are pretty much social workers, but we don't have the title. We are health educators. We don't have the title of nutritionist, but we have the knowledge, the training and the experience."
Preventative care success
There is evidence community health workers improve access to health care and increase patient knowledge and healthy behaviors, says County Health Rankings, an annual study conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
It says health effects appearing strongest for preventive care interventions focused on cardiovascular disease, diabetes and screening for cancer or other diseases.
Community health worker intervention has been shown to improve health among individuals from minority groups and in communities with limited resources, reducing disparities in health outcomes and enhancing health equity, the study finds.
By reaching people within their communities, the workers improve access to care for patients who may not otherwise seek or receive care, including older adults from ethnic minority populations or with complex health conditions, it says.
In Pima County, community health workers are employed by a handful of organizations, including the Pima County Health Department, El Rio Healthcare, Banner University Medical Center (where they're called navigators) and the University of Arizona, which calls the position community health educators.
Stemple said the health-care system should recognize community health workers as medical professionals and include them.
The workers don't just assist in medical and social service issues, but also can help with problems involving education or legal issues, she said.
Her goal is to improve their salaries, conditions and recognition.
"I have experience in a lot of areas as a community health worker," Stemple said. "But a lot of clinics, they don't hire these types of professionals and they're lacking of this valuable resource they can have in their organization for people who are struggling with all this."
Navigating mental health
Training by ASU places an emphasis on cultural relevance, appropriateness, effectiveness and sustainability.
The new Center for Resilient Communities program includes a toolkit and certificate program on topics including trauma, toxic stress, trainings and webinars that can be accessed on-demand.
"It's early prevention. Being able to help them in these early stages when they're working with families and help them navigate the mental health world," Levario said.
The goal is to create a workforce of community health workers who realize the widespread impact of trauma, recognize its signs and symptoms, understand paths for recovery and integrate that knowledge into care while actively avoiding re-traumatization, said OCHER curriculum design and training specialist Taylor Dominguez.
"Secondary traumatic stress (is another topic we're looking into) and how community health workers can focus on their own self-care, knowing that they are the frontline public health workers and are really experiencing a lot of trauma secondhand," Dominguez said.
Topics of recent webinars included mental health resiliency, navigating grief, and protecting children from the health effects of early adversity.
OCHER is also taking part in a U.S. Centers for Disease Control effort to evaluate a program to support community health workers in COVID responses and in broader social determinants of health, or the conditions in which people live, work, play, and access care.
"When COVID started, community health workers were an essential part in pushing the COVID vaccines, educating people in the community and going to the vulnerable communities," Stemple said.
"A story that a (community health worker) had mentioned to us," Dominguez said, "was there was a patient going through the medical system and told their doctor, 'I like you, but she gets me.'" | https://tucson.com/news/local/tucson-based-asu-program-to-train-community-health-workers/article_733d6aae-cfe0-11ed-ad9f-2f6266ec37c5.html | 2023-05-06T22:03:24 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/tucson-based-asu-program-to-train-community-health-workers/article_733d6aae-cfe0-11ed-ad9f-2f6266ec37c5.html |
DES MOINES, Iowa — Candidates are already gearing up for the Des Moines mayoral election on Nov. 7. So far, three people have announced their candidacy: Councilmembers Josh Mandelbaum and Connie Boesen, and community activist Denver Foote.
Frank Cownie, the city's current mayor, has not formally announced if he will run for another term or not.
Read on to learn more about each of the mayoral candidates.
Josh Mandelbaum
Born and raised in Des Moines, Mandelbaum is serving his second term on the city council, representing Ward 3. He currently works as an attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center.
“This campaign will be about the future of our city. We can’t solve tomorrow’s challenges with yesterday’s ideas.” Mandelbaum said in a press release. “We need to set a bold vision for the future, pursue innovative solutions, and lead. We need a new generation of leadership focused on what Des Moines will become in the coming decades.”
As mayor, Mandelbaum would prioritize creating affordable housing, supporting a strong public transit system, improving public safety and investing in green infrastructure, according to his website.
“In my time on Council, I have focused on solving problems that will make a significant difference in people’s lives,” Mandelbaum said in a press release. “I’ve led on big issues such as implementing bold local solutions to climate change. I’ve stood up to special interests to improve access to affordable housing, and I’ve looked for creative solutions to longstanding problems."
Connie Boesen
A long-time Des Moines resident, Boesen graduated from East High School and attended DMACC and Grand View University.
She was first elected to the city council in 2017. Before that, Boesen was a member of the Des Moines Public Schools board. In addition to her public service, Boesen is also the owner of the Applishus and Salad Bowl concession stands at the Iowa State Fair.
In her campaign announcement, Boesen wrote that Des Moines is facing significant challenges requiring "new leadership," and that she aims to make the city a "desirable place to live and raise a family."
"Throughout my life, I've never backed down from a challenge, and that's why I'm announcing my run to be the next Mayor of Des Moines," Boesen said in her campaign announcement.
If elected, Boesen hopes to address issues of public safety, infrastructure and neighborhood redevelopment.
Denver Foote
Foote was born and raised in Iowa and currently lives in the Drake neighborhood.
In 2016, Foote began working alongside Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. Since then, Foote has organized locally with Des Moines Peoples Town Hall. They also sit on the board of directors for the Iowa Abortion Access Fund.
"I know what it feels like to be silenced, to be hurt and to be forgotten," Foote said at a Des Moines Council meeting on Feb. 22, 2022. "We need transformative social justice, we need transparency, accountability and better care systems within our communities. We are done picking up crumbs.
Foote's campaign platform focuses on improving pedestrian infrastructure, addressing the houselessness crisis, tackling climate change, decriminalizing marijuana and relocating funds from the police budget to other causes. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/local-politics/des-moines-mayor-election-2023-mayoral-candidates-updates/524-aae8a47f-bb1b-4108-bec3-7015193fa6e4 | 2023-05-06T22:12:46 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/local-politics/des-moines-mayor-election-2023-mayoral-candidates-updates/524-aae8a47f-bb1b-4108-bec3-7015193fa6e4 |
National Guard members start the 2022 Lincoln Marathon.
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star file photo
Nearly 250 National Guard airmen and soldiers from across the United States are registered to run in Lincoln's annual marathon Sunday morning, just shy of the Guard's all-time record of 290.
And this year, for the first time since 1987, the National Guard is represented by runners from all 50 states, three U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
"When I took over the (marathon) program, only 33 states had state coordinators," said Sgt. Douglas Stephens, the National Guard Military Competitions Coordinator. "It wasn't that we didn't have runners, but that the program wasn't being talked about in all 54 areas. Now that we've got those coordinators, the spots were easy to fill."
This year's group of runners also includes a record-breaking 63 women, said Capt. Daniel Jysela, the Pennsylvania National Guard Marathon Team coordinator.
"Personally, I think this event is a great representation of the National Guard," said Kysela, who first ran the marathon in 2010 and has returned every year since. "The marathon is a community event where we're competing right alongside the people for whom we serve. No other military competition is held right within the community, and our program showcases how the Guard is made up of everyday people who also happen to be part-time service members."
The race has served as the official time trial for runners hoping to qualify for the "All Guard" marathon team since 1984, with one exception — the trial shifted to Omaha's September marathon in 2020 after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit Lincoln in the spring, canceling the race.
Two years ago, the marathon team trials moved to a biannual basis. The winners commit to a two-year tour of the country as the team travels to various races and expos to talk about the National Guard.
"One of our major pushes is awareness of the Guard," Stephens said. "There's no sense in doing any of this on an Army post; we want to reach out into the community and be active in it."
In addition to those competing for spots on the marathon team, 60 National Guard members will compete in the half marathon and 150 will join the support team — working the start and finish lines, the water stations and other crews.
"There are things out of our control that make the teams ebb and flow from year to year, but the race itself remains the same great experience every time we come in," Kysela said.
According to a new study, runners are not more likely to develop hip or knee osteoarthritis based on how long, fast or frequently they run.
Photos: National Guard Sendoff held at Memorial Stadium
Troops from the Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion march on to the field to take part in a departure ceremony on Sunday at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Men and women from the Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion march on to the field to take part in a departure ceremony on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Army National Guard MSG. Christine Hytrek hugs her best friend of ten years, Holly Page, ahead of a departure ceremony members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Henry Labrayere (right) holds the hand of his father, LTC. Zach Labrayere during a departure ceremony members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion on Sunday at Memorial Stadium.
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Army National Guardsman George Gothman has his ascot adjusted by MSG. Christine Hytrek (from left) as their company prepares to march onto the field for a departure ceremony members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen gives a short statement during a departure ceremony members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Family and friends of troops in the Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion listen to speakers while troops stand at ease during a departure ceremony on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion stand at ease while family and friends in the crowd listen to speakers during a departure ceremony on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Mayor Gaylor Baird speaks during a departure ceremony members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Former Nebraska and Minnesota Vikings running back and now Nebraska National Guard member Terrell Newby (second row, three back) stands at attention among his comrades as they stand at ease during a departure ceremony members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Former Nebraska and Minnesota Vikings running back and now Nebraska National Guard member Terrell Newby (right) speaks with fellow guardsman after a departure ceremony members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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E-5 Sgt. Landon Kush hugs his mother Erica Wessel following a departure ceremony for members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Army National Guardsman hold onto to eagle feathers during a eagle feather ceremony by Lakota Sioux drummers following a departure ceremony members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. In Lakota culture, eagle feathers are given to another in honor, and the feathers are worn with dignity and pride and are treated with great respect. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Friends and family take photos of as troops exit from a tunnel during a departure ceremony members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion stand at ease during a departure ceremony members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion stand at ease during a departure ceremony members of Nebraska National Guard Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Memorial Stadium. One hundred thirty-one Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers of Company A, 2-134th Infantry Battalion were seen off by their families and elected officials on Sunday. The Guard unit, based in Mead, is deploying overseas to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility where it will serve as a security force working with other U.S. military and partner nation forces.
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Lincoln Fire and Rescue responded to a garage fire in west Lincoln that caused an estimated $75,000 in total damages on Friday night, the department said.
The fire occurred at around 10:30 p.m. at 1141 SW 8th St., according to emergency scanner traffic. Lincoln Fire and Rescue Battalion Chief Jim Bopp said there were no reported injuries or damages to nearby properties.
An electrical failure caused the blaze, Bopp said.
Lincoln Fire and Rescue found the garage fully engulfed when they arrived on scene. The garage partially collapsed, according to emergency scanner traffic, but fire crews were able to put the fire out before it caused any damage to the house.
The fire caused an estimated $50,000 in property loss and an estimated $25,000 in content loss. Bopp also said that two vehicles parked outside the garage suffered heat damage.
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Michiganians, British expatriates celebrate coronation of King Charles III
Warren — British expatriates and Michiganians alike gathered at the Commonwealth Club in Warren Saturday morning to watch and celebrate the coronation of Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and its 14 other Commonwealth realms.
The ritualistic coronation ceremony dates back to the 8th century and still contains many of the original traditions and pageantry, with some 21st-century updates. King Charles' coronation at London's medieval Westminster Abbey is the second to ever be televised and is also the first one to occur in the lifetime of anyone born after 1953.
Thousands of world leaders, celebrities and even more spectators converged on London this weekend for the coronation.
Warren's Commonwealth Club, the country's oldest continuous British club according to president Lori Monley, was only filled with well-wishers for the new King who took the throne at age 74. Members gathered for a traditional English breakfast, complete with tea, while they watched the festivities.
"It's the coronation of His Majesty, we would be derelict in our duties as a British club if we didn't acknowledge that," Monley said. "The first coronation (at Westminster Abbey) happened in 1066. So fast forward to 2023 and a lot of those same traditions are still in place."
Douglas O'Brien, 73, is from North Staffordshire in England but moved to Warren in 1985 for a job in the auto industry. He's been going to the Commonwealth Club since 1990. The pageantry, history and tradition mark how Britain presents itself to other world leaders and make the coronation a special occasion, he said.
"If you're under 70, you've never seen a coronation," O'Brien said. "You'll only probably see one in your lifetime so that's what makes it special."
Clinton Township couple Rick and Judy Maynard joined the Commonwealth Club about five years ago. They enjoy getting dressed up for events at the club. Rick sported a Scottish top hat for the coronation party while Judy wore a formal headpiece called a fascinator and gloves, in British fashion she said.
America doesn't have anything like the British royal coronation but Judy said it's important to be respectful of the English traditions and be a part of it when you can.
"That's their tradition, so you don't want to step on anybody's toes or tradition but if you can follow along I feel you should," she said.
The Commonwealth Club aired a recording of the coronation at 11 a.m., five hours after the ceremony began in London. But some members, like Marion and Alan Thompson, woke up at 5 a.m. to watch it live.
Marion and Alan are also from the United Kingdom, Bristol and Essex respectively, but have lived in Royal Oak since 1977. Alan remembered watching Queen Elizabeth II's coronation when he was a child.
"They do a good job at this, this is what nobody else does," Alan, 83, said. "The monarchy is like England's ... unique selling proposition. It's something we've got that pretty much nobody else has."
Many English people love having the royal family while others are not so keen, Marion said. Hundreds of protesters who want to see Britain become a republic gathered in London on Saturday to holler "Not my king.” They see the coronation as a celebration of an institution they say stands for privilege and inequality, in a country of deepening poverty and fraying social ties. A handful were arrested.
Marion, 73, thinks the monarchy needs to remain.
"You could see by the number of people that were in London, in the rain, there were thousands and thousands of them," she said. "But it's gonna be really hard, I think, in the next two generations, to maybe keep it going."
She appreciates the royal family's efforts to engage with the public more, especially Charles', and thinks that he will be a good king.
"He's obviously, he learned from the best," Monley, the club president, said. "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second will always hold a special place in all of our hearts but this is a new chapter and I'm excited. He's got a lot of wonderful ideas in terms of the environment."
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Suspect in 1988 murder of Three Rivers woman found dead in jail cell
South Carolina police are investigating the death of a suspect in the 1988 murder of a Three Rivers woman.
Three Rivers Police Chief R. Scott Boling said in a Facebook post Saturday that his department had been notified that Robert Odell Waters was found dead in his jail cell in the Beaufort County Detention Center in South Carolina.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating the death and Three Rivers police said it is waiting for the results from the coroner's office, Boling said.
More:Suspect in 1988 murder of Three Rivers mother arrested
Waters was accused of the 1988 murder of then 19-year-old Cathy Swartz, who was beaten, stabbed and strangled in her apartment while her 9-month-old daughter, Courtney, was in the next room, police said.
Last year, Three Rivers police made solving the cold case one of its top priorities. Analysts were able to use forensic genetic genealogy to narrow investigators' suspect pool to a single family.
Three Rivers is about 20 miles south of Kalamazoo and near the Michigan-Indiana border. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/05/06/suspect-in-1988-murder-of-three-rivers-woman-found-dead-in-jail-cell/70191409007/ | 2023-05-06T22:17:02 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/05/06/suspect-in-1988-murder-of-three-rivers-woman-found-dead-in-jail-cell/70191409007/ |
Fatal shooting at Detroit gas station apparently over $3 refund
Detroit — Police are investigating a shooting at a gas station on the city's west side early Saturday that left one dead and two injured.
"We have identified a suspect and that suspect is considered armed and dangerous," Detroit Police Chief James White said at a press conference outside the business Saturday afternoon. "We are asking their community to help us identify who he is so we can get them off the street before he injures someone else."
An altercation between the suspect and the store cashier occurred around 3 a.m. in the Mobil gas station at West McNichols Road and Appoline Street, White said. White said police do not know exactly what happened, but it appears an argument over a refund of about $3 escalated and turned violent.
All of the victims were "innocent customers," White said, calling the situation tragic, ridiculous and unnecessary. Police did not recover a weapon.
The dead man was in his 30s, White said. The other two victims, one in their 60s and one in their late 30s, had non-life-threatening injuries, he said.
"When something like this happens it's just unacceptable. We need to get the suspect off the streets," White said. "We're not going to stop looking and we're gonna get search warrants up, we're gonna be hitting some doors and we're gonna be looking for him so he needs to turn himself in."
White, joined by several officers, said he was shutting down the gas station Saturday afternoon because the business, which was a member of the city's Project Green Light, was unlicensed.
White said he gave the business an opportunity to produce a license Saturday afternoon before shutting it down in case the application was recent and not in the city's system.
Business that participate in Project Green Light, a public-private partnership, have real-time camera connections with police headquarters.
Attempts to contact the gas station owner were not immediately successful.
"Whenever we are dispatched to a business in our city, one of the things that we look at is if the business is licensed," White said. "When we do that we look at everything and in this instance ... this business was unlicensed."
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POTEAU, Okla. — Spanish version: Para español haga click aqui.
Thousands of Americans are in London for the coronation of King Charles III including a Poteau native who happens to live there since last September.
5NEWS Daren Bobb visited her through Zoom about the big day.
Grayson Wise of Poteau is in London getting her master's degree in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Wise says you can't go anywhere and not see something related to the coronation.
"I am around a lot of the different like tourist shops and stuff. You just see them on the streets and I mean it's just packed with like random coronation things in there just anything relating to the royal family. I feel like even more than usual" said Wise.
Wise says UK flags are everywhere.
"Tons and tons of UK flags. You'll walk down Oxford Street which honestly I try to avoid because it's super packed. But I mean seriously there are these giant UK flags everywhere and they're all for the coronation," said Wise.
Wise arrived in London right before the passing of the queen and witnessed the events surrounding that. Now, she's there to witness a coronation.
"This is crazy because most people have never seen both of those things in their lives so I think people are definitely kind of trying to figure out the same way that I am," said Wise.
She says besides lining the streets, most gathered inside the ever-popular pubs to watch the event.
"They're streaming the coronation or they're doing some sort of special like deal for pints and stuff. I mean, that's probably we're all be on coronation day, watching the coronation there with some of my friends," said Wise.
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BREAKING NEWS
Authorities on scene at Mesa golf course for active water rescue
Sydney Carruth
Arizona Republic
Authorities were on the scene of a water rescue at a golf course in Mesa after a man reportedly entered a lake and did not come out, Mesa Fire and Medical said in a statement.
Witnesses said the adult man waded into a lake on the golf course to retrieve a lost basketball but did not emerge, according to MFMD.
Rescue crews are currently conducting a search for the man in the lake and on the golf course, located on South Dobson Road next to the Dobson Library, authorities said.
This is a developing story, no further details have been released at this time. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa-breaking/2023/05/06/mesa-fire-and-medical-at-golf-course-active-water-rescue/70191390007/ | 2023-05-06T22:21:29 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa-breaking/2023/05/06/mesa-fire-and-medical-at-golf-course-active-water-rescue/70191390007/ |
NAMPA, Idaho — This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
The 56th Annual Parade America will be held May 20 in Nampa.
The theme of this year’s parade is “The Heart of America” and the event will include floats, horses, marching bands, antique cars and more.
An official parade ribbon-cutting that day will take place at 10:30 a.m. at Dutch Brothers Coffee, and the Warhawk Air Museum will signal the beginning of the parade with a flyover taking place at 11 a.m.
The parade will begin at the corner of 12th Avenue Road and Lake Lowell Avenue near Nampa High School. It will follow the route on 12th Avenue Road to 7th Street South, to 16th Avenue South. It will end near the Northwest Nazarene University campus at Holly Street and East Colorado Avenue.
The Nampa Parade America Committee is accepting parade entries online; The deadline to register is May 12. The website also includes the parade route as well as rules and guidelines for entry.
“Parade America is one of Nampa’s signature events and an important tradition in our community,” Mayor Debbie Kling said. “I am thankful for the many volunteers working to make this event possible. Parade America is a special time to honor Nampa, ‘The Heart of America’, our great heritage and military members.”
For questions about the event and to volunteer, please contact the Nampa Parade America Committee by emailing nampaparadeamerica@gmail.com.
This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press, read more on IdahoPress.com.
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OVIEDO, Fla. – The Oviedo Police Department is warning residents about an increase in fake Instagram accounts blackmailing users in ‘sextortion’ attempts.
In a social media post on Saturday, the law enforcement agency said they are seeing the increase in the scam that targets unsuspecting users. The public warning comes as police seek to raise awareness about the fake profiles that lure victims into sharing compromising photographs, and then using these images to extort money.
“These Instagram impostors often use attractive profile pictures and engage in conversations with users to gain their trust. Once a relationship has been established, the scammers will request or share explicit content, only to later threaten to expose these images to the victims’ friends and family unless they receive a payment. This form of online harassment, known as “sextortion,” can have devastating effects on the lives of those targeted,” the post read in part.
- Oviedo police offers the following steps to help take precautions against what it called malicious activities:
- Be cautious about accepting follow requests or engaging with strangers on social media.
- Keep your profile’s privacy settings restricted to friends and family.
- Never share compromising photographs or personal information with people you do not know well.
- If you suspect an account is fake, report it to Instagram for investigation.
- Remember that even seemingly trustworthy accounts can be compromised or faked.
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According to the post, victims of this scam are encouraged to report the incident to their local law enforcement and the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). They should also block and report the offending account on Instagram.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — This week, the Oregon Judicial Department (OJD) reported that folks in Oregon are once again being targeted by fraudulent calls, emails and texts threatening people with fines, prosecution or jail time for "failing to comply with jury duty."
State officials said the most recent reports are from the Willamette Valley, but it is likely that other areas may be targeted as well. The OJD sent out a warning Friday of bogus phone calls, emails and texts on jury duty that may lead to fraud.
That warning was issued at the same time a KGW viewer reached out about her own experience with scammers.
Earlier this week someone called her — demanding thousands of dollars — claiming she'd missed a jury summons and had to pay up.
"I think the biggest mistake I made was answering a robocall," Zoe explained.
She said she's normally not one to answer an unknown number.
"But this number called me a couple times and I was like, OK, like maybe someone's in an accident or something, or I need to address something, so I answered and immediately this person is on the phone."
The caller posed as a law enforcement officer, giving her a name, a badge number and reading back her personal information — like her mailing address and full name. He then gave her "case numbers" for missing a court date and said she was in contempt of court.
At the time, it sounded official, urgent and convincing.
"I want to do the right thing," Zoe said. "I want to get this out of the way, like there's all this like urgency around it. I don't want this hanging over my head."
She said the person on the other end of the line gave her the name of a judge, a phone number to call back and a dollar amount that she had to pay right away for missing jury duty.
"At this point, he's like, the payment process we have it through Zelle, so you have to set that up. Unfortunately, I don't have familiarity with Zelle, but the only thing I know about it is that it's advertised on my banking app...I'm like, oh, okay, this is an official thing because my bank promotes it."
They went back and forth for a while over the phone, Zoe working to send over the money. She sent over $2,000 before realizing none of it was legitimate. \
Zoe is now working to get that money back. And she's not alone in this.
Officials are now reminding people that state and federal courts do not require anyone to provide sensitive information in a call, email or text. However, Oregon courts may provide jury notices and reminders by text, but these will not request personal information, make threats or demand money.
According to OJD, here is what to do if you receive a jury-related phone call, email or text that demands information or money:
- Do not provide the requested information, nor payment.
- Do not reply directly to the text or email, click on any links, nor open any attachments, even if it appears that the message is coming from the courts or police.
The OJD said Scammers often create messages that look like they are coming from a legitimate source when they are not.
- If possible, get the caller’s name and number and then hang up.
Reach out directly to your local circuit court jury coordinator to verify or report the contact. Contact information for Oregon's state circuit courts are available here. Information about jury duty and possible scams can be found here.
If you have received one of these calls, emails or texts and have given out personal information, monitor your account statements and credit reports carefully. If any unauthorized charges are made, report the theft to local law enforcement and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) at 877-438-4338 or by clicking here. Also, contact a credit bureau to request that it place a fraud alert on your credit history. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-judicial-department-jury-duty-scam-calls-scammer-warning/283-0baaa36d-3c62-4c6a-9e5f-2cd1bdf7ec21 | 2023-05-06T22:52:20 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-judicial-department-jury-duty-scam-calls-scammer-warning/283-0baaa36d-3c62-4c6a-9e5f-2cd1bdf7ec21 |
PENDLETON, Ind. — Police in Madison County have asked for help from the public in the investigation of a recent death.
Pendleton police were called to a home in the 5700 block of South State Road 67 on a report of a shooting Friday evening. When officers arrived, they found 26-year-old Jared V. Wininger of Pendleton. Wininger was pronounced dead.
No additional information was provided about the circumstances.
Police are asking people with cameras along State Road 67 between Interstate 69 and County Road 600 South to check for people driving recklessly or persons on foot between 6:30 and 7:45 p.m. May 5.
If you have information or video to share, contact Capt. Lucas Traylor at 765-778-3933 or ltraylor@pendletonpd.org. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/pendleton-police-seek-help-from-public-in-death-investigation-madison-county-indiana/531-62cd0296-beb0-4d44-ad42-82534ca6de4d | 2023-05-06T22:54:32 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/pendleton-police-seek-help-from-public-in-death-investigation-madison-county-indiana/531-62cd0296-beb0-4d44-ad42-82534ca6de4d |
BALTIMORE — The Kinetic Sculpture Race returned for it's 23rd year this weekend...
Hosted by the American Visionary Art Museum, the Kinetic Sculpture Race theme this year was "Everyday People."
Participants created human powered all-terrain sculptures to race over land, water, mud, and sand.
The 23 teams traveled through 156 miles of downtown Baltimore streets, mud and sand pits at Patterson Park, and the Inner Harbor at Canton Waterfront.
Awards for ACE, Best Pit Crew, People's Choice, Worst Honorable Mention, and Spirit of the Glorious Founder were give to participants.
Howard County Public School System Applications & Research Lab. Five Baltimore-area school teams also participated including Jemicy School, Park School, St. Paul's School for Boys, St. Paul's School for girls, and University of Maryland Baltimore County.
To learn more about this years Kinetic Race Sculpture, visit the American Visionary Art Museum HERE | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/american-visionary-museum-host-23rg-kinetic-sculpture-race | 2023-05-06T23:07:34 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/american-visionary-museum-host-23rg-kinetic-sculpture-race |
BALTIMORE — A motorcylist is dead following a collision with another vehicle in West Baltimore Saturday afternoon.
According to Baltimore Police, officers responded to the unit block of South Monroe Street and found a two vehicle accident involving a car and a motorcycle.
The adult male driving the motorcycle was transported to Shock Trauma and pronounced dead shortly after.
The driver of the other vehicle stayed on scene and refused medical treatment.
The Accident Investigation Unit (AIU) responded to the scene and assumed control over the investigation.
Investigators are awaiting a positive identification, as well as next-of-kin notification for the male victim.
Anyone with additional information regarding this collision is urged to contact AIU investigators at 410-396-2606. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/motorcyclist-dies-in-west-baltimore-collision-saturday-afternoon | 2023-05-06T23:07:40 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/motorcyclist-dies-in-west-baltimore-collision-saturday-afternoon |
DICKSON CITY, Pa. — Bridge work in Lackawanna County could impact your Monday commute.
Beginning at 8:45 a.m. there will be a lane restriction along Interstate 81 North at Exit 190.
That's near the Dickson City Main Avenue exit.
The restriction will continue through Exit 191-B for the Scranton Expressway.
Crews will be repairing bridge joints.
PennDOT expects the work to continue through 3:30 Monday afternoon in Lackawanna County.
Bridge work set for along Interstate 81 in Lackawanna County
The work is set to begin Monday morning | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/bridge-work-set-for-along-interstate-81-in-lackawanna-county/523-3e4492c1-5162-4785-b83a-68bbe6573de0 | 2023-05-06T23:09:27 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/bridge-work-set-for-along-interstate-81-in-lackawanna-county/523-3e4492c1-5162-4785-b83a-68bbe6573de0 |
HAZLETON, Pa. — Firefighters responded after flames broke out at an apartment along Alter Street around 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon in Hazleton.
Officials say the flames started in the kitchen of one of the apartments in the building and then quickly spread.
Two people were taken to the hospital after inhaling smoke and a firefighter was also hurt. No word on their conditions.
In all, six apartments and two businesses were damaged.
“Fire was hidden in the walls once it got into walls it ran up to the attic and to the other side of the building, but there is extensive heavy damage inside the building," said Shawn Jones, Hazleton Deputy Fire Chief.
The Red Cross is assisting 20 residents after they were forced from their homes.
A state police fire marshal has been called in to determine what caused the fire in Hazleton. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/apartments-damaged-in-hazleton-fire/523-8b40ef20-f69a-4eeb-93f1-4fe745e46d5d | 2023-05-06T23:09:33 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/apartments-damaged-in-hazleton-fire/523-8b40ef20-f69a-4eeb-93f1-4fe745e46d5d |
ATLANTA — It's only been three days since one woman was killed and four others were hurt during a shooting in a Midtown Atlanta medical building. Now a group of firefighters are sharing first-hand accounts of what happened Wednesday afternoon.
When the call first came into Fire Station 19, it was for one person shot. However, things quickly changed for first responders as more information came in.
And by the time it was clear there was an active shooter situation, more personnel and equipment were put on the move.
“A full alarm assignment for an active shooter is going to include four engines and three trucks. We’re going to include three EMS supervisors and two command units. So roughly we’re looking at about 50 to 60 personnel," said Atlanta Fire Battalion Chief Kendale Mitchell.
1 dead, 4 injured in Midtown shooting on West Peachtree Street
For Joette Castronova, station chief, the call brought her back to another one she received nearly 24 years ago.
“Unfortunately I have been involved in a mass shooting," Castronova said. " In 1999 we had Mark Barton that did a mass casualty shooting up in Buckhead. Just learning the things that I learned then it helped me apply it to the one here."
Castronova said protocol dictates firefighters wear protective gear, such as bullet proof vests and helmets to keep them safe.
Firefighter Aldo Rodriguez said the call was one he felt well-prepared for because of all the training his department requires. But now that a few days have past, his team is looking to heal.
“We’re still grieving and still everyday taking it day by day," Rodriguez said. "We all call each other. We text each other. We try to make sure that everyone is OK." | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/atlanta-firefighters-response-reaction-midtown-shooting/85-232e8428-2e5b-43c9-9f3c-9911218bd512 | 2023-05-06T23:09:38 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/atlanta-firefighters-response-reaction-midtown-shooting/85-232e8428-2e5b-43c9-9f3c-9911218bd512 |
Kids are reeling in the big ones at Frances Slocum State Park in Kingston Township for the Back Mountain Police Association's 15th Annual Kids' Fishing Day.
"It's a big trout, it's the biggest one I've seen so far," said Ryan Campbell of Shavertown.
The police association stocks the water with more than one thousand trout. supplying the rods, bait and tackle.
"We have this enclosed area so the kids have a better chance to catch a fish," explains Back Mountain Police Association Vice President Ross Piazza.
But the day is more than just casting a line out on the water.
It's an opportunity for kids to fish alongside police officers and other first responders. getting to know the people who serve their neighborhoods.
"I think particularly in these times where there are a lot of issues with law enforcement they have to understand there are good and bad in all occupations but for the vast majority, there are there to help and protect them," said Piazza.
For first responders, they'd much rather meet the kids during a day of fun instead of a day when emergency strikes
"Many times when we get to interact with children, it's when they are having an extremely bad day. Whether they are a victim of something, a crash or there is some other emergency they're having," said Michael Huntzinger with the Back Mountain Police Association.
The fishing day had other activities with first responders, including a fire simulation trailer.
"It's awesome because you are meeting a hero to many many people. It's awesome to meet a firefighter," said Emmet Martin of Hunlock Creek.
More than 200 kids and their families came out for this year's kids' fishing day. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/fishing-with-first-responders-in-luzerne-county/523-a7929317-86e7-4929-a3bc-1b89d9ef362a | 2023-05-06T23:09:39 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/fishing-with-first-responders-in-luzerne-county/523-a7929317-86e7-4929-a3bc-1b89d9ef362a |
MACON, Ga. — A former Macon athlete who went on to play basketball for North Carolina Central University died unexpectedly Friday, weeks before he was set to graduate this summer.
In a social media post, the university said they mourned the loss of Devin Butts, and called it devastating for both the team and coaching staff.
“We are deeply saddened by the unexpected passing of Devin. This is a devastating tragedy for our team, fans, and the entire NCCU community,” said NCCU men’s basketball head coach LeVelle Moton.
“Devin will always be remembered as an incredible teammate that had an infectious smile at all times. Our heartfelt condolences are with his family and those who were blessed to know him," he continued.
His cause of death was not disclosed.
The full post from the university can be found here:
Butts played high school basketball in Macon for the Stratford Eagles, and was named Athlete of the Week by 13WMAZ back in 2019.
Related: Athlete of the Week: Devin Butts
Butts was 22 years old and nearing a a bachelor’s degree in behavioral and social sciences, NCCU said.
He joined their team last season after transferring from New Mexico Junior College, and averaged 5.4 points in 17 appearances for NCCU’s Eagles. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/former-macon-basketball-player-dies-weeks-before-graduation/93-82da4066-c5b4-43c6-b49d-9148543803bd | 2023-05-06T23:09:44 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/former-macon-basketball-player-dies-weeks-before-graduation/93-82da4066-c5b4-43c6-b49d-9148543803bd |
LEHMAN, Pa. — An investigation is underway after a gunshot victim was found laying in a parking lot in Luzerne County.
According to police, the man in his 20's was found just after midnight Saturday in the parking lot of Nittany Commons Apartments in Lehman Township.
The man was taking to the hospital. There's no word on his condition.
Police believe the shooting is an isolated incident and there is no threat to the public.
Officers say while no arrests have been made yet, they do have several individuals of interest after the shooting in Luzerne County.
Man shot at an apartment complex in Luzerne County
Police believe the shooting was an isolated incident and there is no threat to the public. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/man-shot-at-an-apartment-complex-in-luzerne-county/523-7cdc7f8f-752b-4f02-8b32-0f6a063d28a9 | 2023-05-06T23:09:45 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/man-shot-at-an-apartment-complex-in-luzerne-county/523-7cdc7f8f-752b-4f02-8b32-0f6a063d28a9 |
DULUTH — Friends and family gathered at Amsoil Arena on Saturday to celebrate the graduation of Univeristy of Minnesota Duluth students.
At the 10 a.m. commencement ceremony for the graduates of the College of Education and Human Service Professions and the Labovitz School of Business and Economics, Interim Chancellor David McMillan noted it was UMD's 123rd graduating class but only its 121st commencement ceremony — the 2020 and 2021 ceremonies were not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The commencement ceremony for the Swenson College of Science and Engineering and College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences was held Saturday afternoon.
Jimmy Lovrien covers energy, mining and the 8th Congressional District for the Duluth News Tribune. He can be reached at jlovrien@duluthnews.com or 218-723-5332. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/photos-minnesota-duluth-sends-graduates-into-the-world | 2023-05-06T23:18:36 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/photos-minnesota-duluth-sends-graduates-into-the-world |
Spend your summer in the forest as a volunteer campground host
If you have ever wished to spend an entire summer in the forest, your chance has arrived. Recreation staff from the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest are now recruiting volunteers to serve as campground hosts for many campsites across central Montana.
“Campground hosts provide their own trailer and occupy a prominent campsite,” said Recreation and Trails Specialist Bob Gliko. “We are looking for volunteer hosts who will be welcoming to all visitors and provide light maintenance of the campground.”
Being a campground host is a volunteer position, with no compensation for the host's expenses, but the payoff is being able to spend part or all of a Montana summer camping in the woods for free. Gliko said that by the time Memorial Day arrives nearly all of the camp host positions have already been filled.
Positions at popular campsites like Crystal Lake in the Big Snowy Mountains and at Holter Dam on the Missouri River fill quickly, but the opportunity to become a host at one of the lesser known campsites can sometimes linger into late May. Recreation staff are especially eager to fill positions at the Many Pines and Dry Wolf Campgrounds in the Little Belt Mountains and at Thain Creek Campground in the Highwood Mountains.
Forest Service staff hope to have volunteer hosts in the campgrounds before the beginning of Memorial Day weekend (May 27) and through until the end of Labor Day weekend (Sept. 4). The host may leave for a couple of days throughout the week; however, they need to be at the campground over the weekends. Gliko said that most of the campground hosts are retired individuals who enjoy the outdoors and want to stay in their camper all summer.
"They don’t mind that at all,” he said of the typical campground host.
In addition to some some light campground maintenance, the hosts' primary duties are to answer camper questions and to make sure that campground rules are being followed.
“Probably the most common question they get is about what the rules in the campground are," Gliko commented. "The other questions campers ask are mainly about what there is to do in the general area. Are there any hiking trails? Is there anything that we should see when we’re out here?"
Campground hosts are not expected to be policemen, but are there to gently remind campers of the rules the U.S. Forest Service enforces at its campgrounds.
"Dogs have to be on leashes at a campground, they can’t just be running around," Gliko said of one of the common rules of camping in a National Forest.
Keeping motorized vehicles on the roads where they belong can also be an issue.
"If we don’t have a host at a campground, people have a tendency to cut through the camps on their four-wheelers or motorcycles and not stay on the roads," he explained. “What we also see a lot of times is that people will come in and use the camp, but they don’t pay."
Hosts are expected to make a quick walk-through of the campground each morning to make sure that all the occupied sites have been paid for, and to ask campers who don't have a payment receipt clipped to the numbered post found at the entrance of each campsite to kindly complete their registration process. Campground hosts should also be prepared for any type of weather.
“You just never know what the weather will be in Montana," Gliko reminded all potential hosts. "Our weather’s always changing, so it could be warm one day and really cold cold the next. I’ve seen snow every month of the year. You might need your snow boots yet."
Beyond that the ideal campground host should enjoy helping people, value a spirit of hospitality, and take pleasure in simply chatting with people who enjoy getting out into Montana's great outdoors almost as much as they do. Interested parties who would like to volunteer for at least a month are encouraged to inquire. Depending on interest, the positions could be filled by one volunteer or with a couple different hosts spanning the duration of the summer.
Interested parties should contact Bob Gliko at 406-236-5103 directly for more information about the program.
“That way I can discuss what campgrounds are still open and see if that’s what they really want to do," he explained. "Once we get that pinned down then we can do a voluntary agreement with them." | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/05/u-s-forest-service-recruiting-volunteer-campground-hosts/70185164007/ | 2023-05-06T23:27:11 | 1 | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/05/u-s-forest-service-recruiting-volunteer-campground-hosts/70185164007/ |
Concerns over School Board Election shake public confidence in process
Comments at Friday’s emergency meeting of the library’s Board of Trustees suggests that public confidence in Cascade County’s electoral system has been badly shaken, and that Great Falls city residents are deeply divided over the confusion surrounding the May 2 school board election and who should take responsibility.
On Wednesday, the day after an election that saw delayed poll openings, confusion over the handling of voter registration lists, overdue election results and allegations of incompetence and voter suppression, the Great Falls Public Library Board of Trustees called for an emergency meeting to discuss the library’s election legal strategy.
The library is facing a pivotal mill levy election in less than a month that may determine its footprint within Great Falls for decades to come. If the library’s request for an annual $1.6 million increase in funding is rejected by voters on June 6 it will be forced to reduce its afterschool programs for children and parents, eliminate services and programing for seniors and the disabled, and put an end to computer and technology classes for job seekers and college bound teens. Library operations would be cut back to just five days a week, and outreach services to daycares, schools, and homebound seniors would be slashed.
The upcoming library election is likely to be close. The question before trustees at Friday’s emergency library board meeting was whether to grant authority to the library director, in consultation with the library board chair, to implement a legal strategy if it appears the Cascade County Elections Office is not meeting election protocols.
That legal strategy could potentially include asking a district court judge to oversee the administration of the June 6 election, which could be implemented as soon as May 17, when absentee ballots are scheduled to be mailed out. Library Director Suzie McIntyre told the audience of about 40 people who attended Friday’s emergency meeting that the library board had already voted to engage the Graybill law firm to begin developing a legal strategy, and that the firm was already working on investigating issues of concern.
McIntyre later added that the Graybill law firm has agreed to represent the Great Falls Public Library pro bono, and that city taxpayers will not be asked to pay for that representation.
“We are not suing for damages,” McIntyre said. “The goal of the library is to conduct a legal and fair election.”
“We have not yet had a chance to review the ballot or their instructions,” she went on to explain. “We do not know if they have been printed or what the plan is for their printing. We need to ensure that the absentee ballots and their instructions are correct.
“We want to make sure they are mailed out properly on May 17, and we want to ensure that all absentee ballot voters receive one ballot and will be able to return their ballot. We want to make sure that all registered voters are able to vote and that the ballots are received, accepted … and the signatures logged correctly on the Secretary of State’s web site and counted properly. We need to be able to provide clear communication so that the public is aware of the election and the proper procedures for the vote.”
McIntyre’s explanation of the motivating factors contributing to the library board’s decision did not go unchallenged. Cascade County Commissioner Rae Grulkowski, who is a non-voting representative to the library board, asked if McIntyre had approached the county attorney regarding claims that the school board election was conducted improperly.
“Did you approach the county attorney to see if there is any legitimacy to claims that our election was illegal?” Grulkowski asked. “Has our county attorney been approached with the allegations?”
“We are not saying there was anything illegal,” McIntyre replied.
“But you made a statement earlier that there are concerns that the elections are conducted legally and fairly,” Grukowlski responded. “To the county’s knowledge there was nothing illegal that went on.”
“There were credible reports that the ballots for the Fort Shaw Irrigation District were put out improperly leading to a risk of invalidation of the election,” McIntyre said as she begin to list specific allegations. “There are credible reports that eligible voters were turned away between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. on the day of the election which puts it at risk for being invalidated. There are credible reports that absentee ballot signatures were not properly checked and that the ballots were not accepted by the software, which could lead people to question the election. There are credible reports that voters in the 19C and 29A and 19D precincts were not sent their absentee ballots.”
“The legal team has been in contact with County Attorney Racki and they are investigating these credible reports to determine whether or not they happened, and whether or not we need to take action to ensure that nothing like that happens in the library levy election,” McIntyre concluded.”
Library Board Member Jessica Crist quickly noted that the board had no interest in litigating an election which had already taken place.
“My concern as a library board member is that all of the precautions and all of the deadlines that are there be followed for this next election,” Crist said. “It’s the next election that we’re really concerned about because that’s the one that effects the library.”
The Montana Secretary of State’s Office's calendar identifies Thursday, May 23 as the date by which all mail-in ballots for the elections on June 6 should have been mailed out. That leaves just 11 days for those ballots to be prepared, approved, placed into envelopes, and sent. Several trustees expressed concern about that short timeline and the month leading into the election.
“We have a month to get ready for this vote,” said Board Member Samantha DeForest. “We don’t have time for glitches or problems. We’re on a tight time crunch and we can’t afford errors.”
While library officials emphatically stated that the board’s attention was focused on the election ahead and not the one passed, the two events are inextricably intertwined. Roughly equal numbers of audience members spoke both in favor and in opposition to the proposal before the Board of Trustees, but much of the conversation focused on problems at last Tuesday’s Great Falls school board election.
City resident Beth Cummings said that many of the problems were due to new election’s software being used by the Montana Secretary of State’s Office, and because no training was offered to the new Elections Office staff.
“I have dealt with this new elections office and watched their process from start to finish and have seen nobody there that’s not first class,” Cummings said. “Are there some issues, glitches? Certainly, just as there would be if anyone of us were in there newly without any process given to us from the prior elections administration. Were the chairs perfectly placed, was all that done? No, but your vote was counted the way it should be done.”
“I am very proud of what I saw there, for what little was given to them from even the Secretary of State that gives zero training. They got the election out, and they had a lot of things that they had to deal with including a brash group of people who were very, very vocal trying to disrupt this process.”
Former Cascade County Commissioner Jane Weber was not as forgiving. Weber, who is a co-founder of a recently formed group called The Election Protection Committee, described a school board election riddled with ballots that were either duplicated or not sent, and voters who were either confused about how to place their vote or turned away when the polling station when it didn’t open as scheduled.
Weber expressed outrage at what she described as the Elections Office’s refusal to provide her group with information regarding all the elections held on May 2.
“It’s really unusual that the transparency in the elections process that’s been advocated by the candidate that now serves in that position (Sandra Merchant) – that she is not willing to provide documentation that is an available record to the public,” Weber said.
She also took exception to reports that staff at the Elections Office had been handing out decals to the public opposing the library’s mill levy request. Those reports have not been confirmed by the Great Falls Tribune.
“We are aware that decals were distributed in the Elections Office during the school board election regarding the library levy, decals that said they were opposed to the levy election,” Weber said. “Many of the same people who are in this room and who worked that election were people who signed a 2022 petition to the County Commissioners saying they don’t believe in mail-in ballots. I find it very unusual to have those people working on mail-in ballots when they don’t believe in the process.”
Perhaps the most dramatic moment was saved for the end of the public comment period when Sandra Merchant stepped to the podium to speak in her own defense.
“When I come into my office politics goes out the door,” Merchant said. “I am not there to be a politician and to decide the elections on my own. I follow the law, and that’s what the citizens need. Every vote that came in was counted.”
“As far as double ballots, that is not anything new. People have complained about it for many years. Elect Montana is a new system. The system has a lot of glitches, and we want to work that out and make it better next time.
“As far as closing the office that’s not new either. That office has been closed and moved to the Expo Park for elections many, many times. It was properly noticed as it was supposed to be in the newspaper and signs were on the door for anyone who missed it.”
“Yes, we are working on the system,” she continued. “The Secretary of State is working on the system. We’ve been working with the county attorneys as well to make sure that everting we’re doing is legal and within the deadlines. We’re going to do the very best that we can for the library election to make sure that … things are going to be done on time and properly.
“After going with no training through this election we have more staff, and we are developing our processes. Things will be much smoother this time. I can’t guarantee that the machine will not have a glitch.”
“We are here to serve the public in that office and not to play politics,” Merchant concluded.
Before voting several library board members attempted to their actions into perspective.
“My biggest concern right now is the lack of response to questions and how little time we have to do our due diligence as a board,” said board member Anne Bulger. “I am concerned about the 12-day period between now and the time that the ballots go out. We have not seen those ballots or the instructions so I hope that we get those soon and that we can review them and make sure they are accurate and ready to go.”
In the end the vote was unanimous with one abstention. The Great Falls Public Library has put the Elections Board on notice that they will be watching things closely and could request judicial overview of the process if things seem to be going askew. | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/06/library-officials-may-seek-judicial-oversight-of-june-6-levy-election/70191309007/ | 2023-05-06T23:27:18 | 0 | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/06/library-officials-may-seek-judicial-oversight-of-june-6-levy-election/70191309007/ |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – East Tennessee State University (ETSU) awarded more than 2,000 degrees to students in the past two days at its 2023 Spring Commencement ceremonies.
“It’s weird,” said ETSU graduate, Noah Bowen. “I didn’t feel excited, until like last week, and then in here, I actually felt proud when we came around the corner, and some of my professors were in this line. They gave us some handshakes. I was like, ‘Okay that feels exciting.’ And that left me with a little smile on my face when I got back to my seat.”
Bowen received his bachelor’s degree in biology. Now that Bowen has finished his undergraduate college journey, he has advice for those still pushing along.
“No matter what hardship you feel, there’s always someone or something that can help you get through it,” said Bowen. “Mental health. There’s plenty of on-site stuff. Physical health. They have some stuff here and if you need to take a break, take a break.”
Ryan McParland graduated with a bachelor of science in nursing. He is also the president of the Spring 2023 ETSU Nursing Cohort. He says being in nursing school, itself, is a big challenge.
“For my pediatrics final, I was in the library for 14 hours one day,” said McParland. “So, it’s a whole lot of self-motivation and self-discipline and sometimes failing in that, but also recognizing that you failed and whatever, you didn’t get an assignment turned in and didn’t do as well as you wanted on a test, do the remediation, they call it. And try to get back into the game and then working from there.”
McParland will begin a new chapter working at the Tri-Star Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
“I’ll be working with stroke victims or people who basically just have neurological problems, maybe like neuro surgeries after they have the surgery and taking care of them and before as well,” said McParland.
He says he has a plan to achieve his end goal.
“I’m eventually going to make my way into pediatrics,” said McParland. “I want to become a nurse practitioner, maybe a family nurse practitioner or pediatric nurse practitioner. Not sure, but I want to work in type-1 diabetes, which is primarily pediatrics.”
As for Bowen, he plans to head to graduate school in the fall.
“Depending on how the Master’s program goes, either A: I will continue into a Ph.D. somewhere or B: I want to try to look in a field, preferably to do with wildlife,” said Bowen. “I really love salamanders and wetlands stuff. So, a wetlands conservation or something like that.”
McParland encourages students to work hard for what they want.
“Sometimes you’re going to miss out on opportunities socially that you might be able to do, had you chosen something else,” said McParland. “But if you know you want to be here, you’ll work for it.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/more-than-2000-degrees-awarded-at-etsus-2023-spring-commencement-ceremonies/ | 2023-05-06T23:30:24 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/more-than-2000-degrees-awarded-at-etsus-2023-spring-commencement-ceremonies/ |
A DeKalb County deputy’s attempt to pull over a speeding car led to a chase, a crash and four people taken to the hospital before being arrested on pending drug charges.
The DeKalb Sheriff’s Department identified the driver in Friday's chase as William S. Osbun, 35. The department identified the passengers as Joseph L. McCoy, 42; Callie E. Ziems, 32; and Adrianna C. G. Aguilar, 20.
Each of the four face a preliminary charge of felony possession of methamphetamine, according to the news release. The sheriff’s department said additional charges will be filed when the investigation concludes.
A search of online court documents showed no formal charges filed as of Saturday afternoon.
The chase began about 1:50 p.m. Friday when the deputy observed a Nissan sedan going 81 mph in a 50 mph zone, according to a Saturday news release from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department. He tried to stop the vehicle on Auburn Drive near Grandstaff Drive, but it sped off on Auburn.
At the start of the chase, the deputy saw something thrown from the car but continued the pursuit, the sheriff’s department said.
The Nissan traveled east on Auburn to Indiana 8. It turned east at the intersection and continued until Osbun encountered another DeKalb County deputy attempting to deploy stop sticks at DeKalb County Road 59. Osbun avoided the tire-deflation devices by driving the Nissan off road through a gravel lot and onto DeKalb County Road 59, traveling north toward Butler.
The chase continued before the car eventually left the road while on DeKalb County Road 61. It was going 60 mph when it slammed into a hidden ditch in a field, the news release said.
All four people in the Nissan were injured and transported to Parkview DeKalb Hospital. They were released from the hospital a short time later and taken to the DeKalb County Jail.
Officers responded to the area where the deputy saw something thrown from the car found about 65 grams of methamphetamine, officials said. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/4-arrested-in-dekalb-county-after-high-speed-chase/article_341dfb68-ec50-11ed-b612-bb236fe6f505.html | 2023-05-06T23:35:43 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/4-arrested-in-dekalb-county-after-high-speed-chase/article_341dfb68-ec50-11ed-b612-bb236fe6f505.html |
Camila Terrazas didn’t know what to make of her first time sitting on a horse Saturday, staring unsure at the saddle, the horse and the pony next to her.
It was the first time both Camila, 10 months old, and Hooley Horse Encounters have been at the YLNI Farmers Summer Market. The market started its outdoor season Saturday with plenty of shopping options.
Market manager Ashley Wagner said about 130 vendors lined Barr and Berry streets. That didn’t include the food and alcohol vendors in the Brunch and Bar area at the southeast corner of Wayne and Berry streets, she added.
Hooley Horse Encounters offered rides at the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo for 40 years, but the zoo didn’t renew its contract, said Sarah Hooley, who co-owns the business with husband Cory Hooley. Business was good Saturday, she said, because come people came looking for their favorite horses to ride.
Camila didn’t ride a horse, but mom Jasmine Ruballos held her up her while Aunt Katie Ruballos snapped photos. Katie Ruballos visited the market regularly last year, but Jasmine Ruballos, experienced it for the first time.
“I like that there’s a whole bunch of local booths that you wouldn’t know of,” Jasmine Ruballos said.
Wagner estimated 6,000 people came Saturday, which is average for May. In the summer, 10,000 to 12,000 people will attend, and vendors will increase to 150 to 170, she said.
Booths included jewelry, soap, mead and cider makers. Local artists and artisans also were there. Some farmers leased booths, but Wagner said fresh produce won't arrive until mid-June.
Mostly the farmers sell meat, dairy, honey and chicken eggs before their vegetables are ready to harvest, she said. Some sold early crops of radishes and leafy greens, such as lettuce and spinach.
Eve and Josh Cockram of Huntertown, owners of the Josh’s Jungle booth, offered kohlrabi, ramps and romaine lettuce for sale.
“There’s not much this time of year,” Eve Cockram said, adding that plants available now was either started indoors or does well in cold weather.
The Cockrams also sold canned jams and spicy green beans. But the fresh-grown items were popular.
“We had a large pile of rhubarb here, and now it’s almost gone,” she said.
Andrea Glass of Fort Wayne said local produce is her favorite find.
"You know it’s fresh, good for you and much better than what you get at the store,” she said.
She and daughter Daisy Glass, 11, bought some seedling plants. Daisy bought some freeze-dried candy and liked the booths with earrings and those with plants and 3D-printed items. Maybe best of all was the live music.
“I love it outdoors. It’s bigger and more stuff is out here,” she said, comparing the outdoor location to the market's indoor venue at 1501 E. Berry St., the Old East End building where a chocolate company once made Bun candy.
Cassie Kline of Chickaletta Farm and Coop in Convoy, Ohio, said she works only the summer markets because the chickens don’t start laying eggs until March or April. She’ll also sell extra produce come summer.
Kline started selling at the YLNI summer market last year because of its reputation. Saturday’s opening was an event, she said.
“It’s kind of a milestone that says we’ve entered the spring season,” she added.
Ross Brown of Wood Farms Premium Meats of Fort Wayne said about 75% of his transactions Saturday were repeat customers. Being outside introduces more people to the business, which raises and butchers hogs and cattle.
“It’s nice and warm out here, not cloudy or rainy,” he said. “You get a lot more people down here when it’s outside.”
Brian Therkildsen and Trisha Tran, owners of Brooklyn Pints Microcreamery, said in their two years in the YLNI market, they’ve seen the warmer weather increase buyers. Sales of their artisan ice cream increased in summer, but they saw a huge influx Saturday, he said.
Tran said participating in the farmers market is also a sales strategy. People who stop by the Brooklyn Pints booth learn about their shop at 725 Union St. and seek it out afterward. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/ylni-farmers-summer-market-returns-for-season/article_5fc3c308-ec49-11ed-99d3-2b3a5bdf46b9.html | 2023-05-06T23:35:49 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/ylni-farmers-summer-market-returns-for-season/article_5fc3c308-ec49-11ed-99d3-2b3a5bdf46b9.html |
ALLEN, Texas — Police are still at Allen Premium Outlets and the mall is still being evacuated following a shooting Saturday afternoon that left multiple victims.
The outlet mall is located at 820 W. Stacy Road just off US Highway 75 taking exit 37. It's a popular shopping destination in the North Dallas metroplex, with more than 120 outlet designer and name-brand stores. Several popular stores located at the mall include Nike, Kate Spade, The North Face and Michael Kors.
Allen Premium Outlets is owned by Simon, who own outlets across the country and across the state of Texas. Other outlets owned by Simon in the DFW area include Grand Prairie Premium Outlets, Grapevine Mills, Firewheel Town Center in Garland, University Park Village and The Shops at Clearfork in Fort Worth and North East Mall in Hurst. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/history-allen-premium-outlets/287-3f4ca609-6577-4dcc-a5ad-9cb558e2e5af | 2023-05-06T23:40:16 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/history-allen-premium-outlets/287-3f4ca609-6577-4dcc-a5ad-9cb558e2e5af |
ELLIS COUNTY, Texas — One person is dead and two are in critical condition following a plane crash in Ellis County, officials said.
The two people in critical condition have been taken to Dallas-area hospitals, officials added.
Though the victims have not been identified, officials said this was a family who crashed.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/one-dead-two-taken-dallas-area-hospitals-ellis-county-plane-crash/287-0b842581-7e5a-4f93-b4e7-0b65dbfba7bd | 2023-05-06T23:40:22 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/one-dead-two-taken-dallas-area-hospitals-ellis-county-plane-crash/287-0b842581-7e5a-4f93-b4e7-0b65dbfba7bd |
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