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KENOSHA — The Washington Park Velodrome opens its 96th season of bicycle racing Tuesday, May 16.
The historic venue in Washington Park, 1901 Washington Road, will host bicycle racing throughout the summer, starting with Tuesday’s opening night.
Registration for Tuesday night racing opens at 6 p.m., with racing scheduled to start at 7 p.m.
The Velodrome will hold Tuesday night racing every week (except July 4) through Aug. 29, with four major races scheduled to highlight the season.
The first one will be June 27, when juniors take the track for the annual Bill Schulte Memorial Junior Trophy Race.
Then, on July 11, the track once again hosts the Mayor’s Cup, an annual 75-lap points race.
The third annual Susan B. Anthony Women’s Cup is scheduled for Aug. 1, with the grueling 150-lap Bob Pfarr Classic scheduled for Aug. 15.
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Other Tuesday night events this summer include the Salute to Military Night on May 30, the State Scratch Race on June 20, First Responders/State Points Night on July 18 and a "Christmas in July" celebration on July 25.
All races are free for spectators to watch from the grass ringing the track.
Tuesday night racing is held under the discretion of USA Cycling, and a valid USA Cycling license is required to compete. Categories may be combined or canceled at the promoter’s discretion, and all dates are subject to change or cancellation due to weather or rescheduling.
On Monday nights, the Velodrome hosts stock bike racing, geared to young riders, from June 5 through Aug. 21.
Stock bike racing is an introduction to track racing. Racers can be anywhere from age 3 (on training wheels) to adults. A track bike is not required, as anyone with a bike and helmet can race. The smallest racers, in fact, race tricycles and big wheels on the warmup circle.
For more information, visit the Velodrome’s website at kenoshavelodromeracing.com. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenoshas-washington-park-velodrome-opens-96th-season-on-may-16/article_bbb9c166-eaa1-11ed-a333-d3efa5e0ef1f.html | 2023-05-11T12:43:16 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenoshas-washington-park-velodrome-opens-96th-season-on-may-16/article_bbb9c166-eaa1-11ed-a333-d3efa5e0ef1f.html |
UNION GROVE — The Tri-County Model Railroad Club in Union Grove is hosting a Saturday Open House from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 20.
The club, which formed in 1967, meets in Union Grove at 1010 Vine St.
Everyone is welcome to come and see what club member Bob Zink calls “lots of trains running. We have a big, 39-by-39 foot layout with over 1,800 feet of track, covering 20 scale miles.”
The club was located in Kenosha until December of 2007 and now meets in Union Grove.
Initially, the club ran as a conventional DC block system but converted to the NCE DCC operating system.
Club members “model everything from late era steam to present day diesel motive power,” Zink said.
Most Tuesday nights, the club members gather for what they call “work nights,” from 5:30 to 8 p.m. And on the fourth Tuesday of each month, “the trains will be running,” Zink said.
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Members of the public are always welcome to come and see the trains and meet club members.
Upcoming train club events include open houses on Aug. 12 (along with a Union Grove car show), Sept. 9 (a Union Grove “Super Saturday”), Oct. 14 (the club’s anniversary celebration) and Dec. 2.
For more information about the club, call club president Bob Lewis at 262-880-2976. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/tri-county-model-railroad-club-hosts-open-house-on-may-20/article_c9c624d6-eaa4-11ed-bae8-03c18e2546e5.html | 2023-05-11T12:43:22 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/tri-county-model-railroad-club-hosts-open-house-on-may-20/article_c9c624d6-eaa4-11ed-bae8-03c18e2546e5.html |
GREENSBORO — The city’s not just lending books anymore.
Residents can now borrow tools to help with jobs around the house or in the yard.
The Neighborhood Toolbox pilot program kicks off today. The city’s Housing and Neighborhood Development Department partnered with Lowe’s Home Improvement to provide a variety of tools that can be borrowed for at least five days at a time.
Lawnmowers, pressure washers, wheelbarrows, pry bars and sledge hammers are among the tools offered under the program.
“It’s really kind of like going back to the old days of borrowing a cup of sugar from a neighbor,” Councilman Hugh Holston said. “Just consider the city of Greensboro to be in the neighbor that you're borrowing that cup of sugar from — in this case, it happens to be a lawnmower or a power washer or some other piece of equipment.”
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The city will even pick up and deliver the tools, which are fully charged or fueled when loaned out, Code Compliance Manager Larry Roberts.
Instructions on paper or online will be provided on how to use the tools, he said.
The city will have a trailer with the tools at the People’s Market today at 1417 Glenwood Ave.
But don’t expect to borrow a tool right then. They have to be reserved online at www.greensboro-nc.gov/toolbox or by calling 336-373-2688.
Borrowers must be at least 18 years old and will have to provide proof of city residency, such as a utility bill or lease, and a copy of their driver’s license or other government identification. They also must sign a loan agreement and a waiver of liability.
There’s also a lending program for community projects, where groups can borrow one of two trailers full of tools.
“I think it has a big opportunity for you to take pride in your community itself,” Roberts said. “A lot of communities have established community groups that I'm sure … they'll be able to help the problematic areas that exist” in their community.
He hopes it will help people with overgrown yards, who may not have the tools to tackle the problem, to address the situation.
If a tool is damaged or stolen, renters are advised to call the city. And the city is waiting to see the program in action before it determines a limit on the number of tools that can be checked out at once.
“This is a new program at the moment,” Roberts said, “so we're still working out some minor kinks.”
Holston said he hopes the city will be able to share on its Facebook page what people accomplished with the tools they borrowed.
“The fruits of the labor, so to speak,” Holston said. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/free-tool-rental-greensboro/article_718ecab0-ef2d-11ed-9568-9f553258fc91.html | 2023-05-11T12:44:14 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/free-tool-rental-greensboro/article_718ecab0-ef2d-11ed-9568-9f553258fc91.html |
GREENSBORO — Entry into the city’s Warnersville and Windsor pools will be free of charge this summer.
“We’re really excited about this,” Parks and Recreation Director Phil Fleischmann said at the May 4 City Council work session.
When the city offered a free day at the pools in previous years, Fleischmann said: “We had crowds, we had lines, we had lots of folks coming out to swim.”
He said studies show that entry fees keep some people from using the pools. “Pools are not a major revenue generating enterprise for us,” Fleischmann said.
The pools will be open from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Operating hours also will longer this summer: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends.
However, there are fewer pool choices to pick from. The Peeler and Lindley pools will remain closed this summer for repairs, Fleischman said.
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“We do have the crunch of not having all the locations open,” he said.
Peeler and Lindley pools are expected to reopen next summer.
Meanwhile, the city will offer transportation from these pool locations to the Warnersville and Windsor pools.
The spraygrounds at Barber and Keeley parks also will be open from Memorial Day to Labor Day. The hours Monday through Saturday will be 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.
The Seasonal Plaza (splash pad) Fountain at LeBauer Park is open May to September from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The city also is partnering with the YMCA of Greensboro to offer swim lessons to recreation center day camp participants and the general public, Fleischmann said.
Safety Around Water classes, which teach children water-safety skills to reduce the risk of drowning, also will be offered. That schedule is being finalized.
Fleischmann also reviewed the Aquatics Master Plan with council members. The long-range plan, which is mostly unfunded, includes more than $48 million for pool renovations and $31,602,749 for new aquatic facilities.
The Parks and Recreation Commission will consider the plan at its June 14 meeting. It will be presented to the City Council for approval this summer. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/greensboro-pools-open-free-summer/article_43e9c36c-ef2d-11ed-b2f4-e7f23d33db69.html | 2023-05-11T12:44:20 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/greensboro-pools-open-free-summer/article_43e9c36c-ef2d-11ed-b2f4-e7f23d33db69.html |
Shoshone railroad crossing will be closed for repairs May 16 through May 18.
The main north-south thoroughfare in downtown Shoshone will be closed at the crossing for three days to allow Union Pacific Railroad to make repairs to address the aging infrastructure.
Idaho Department of Transportation will close the section crossing over the rails starting at 6 a.m. Tuesday. The work is expected to be complete by approximately 6 p.m. May 18.
ITD has designated a detour around the closure for travelers and freight carriers. The detour will take drivers through Gooding, using U.S. and state highways.
Motorists approaching town from the south on U.S. Highway 93 will be detoured west on U.S. Highway 26 in Shoshone. Those coming from from the north on Idaho Highway 75 will be detoured west on U.S. Highway 20 near Timmerman Hill.
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Up-to-date traffic information is available by calling 511, or by visiting 511.idaho.gov. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/rail-crossing-in-shoshone-to-close-for-repairs/article_1bbfcb1a-ef4c-11ed-8f62-b753822e7a43.html | 2023-05-11T12:46:23 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/rail-crossing-in-shoshone-to-close-for-repairs/article_1bbfcb1a-ef4c-11ed-8f62-b753822e7a43.html |
SAN ANTONIO — Most of us know the importance of donating blood, but plasma is a much needed donation too. Those who donate plasma help people impacted by serious and rare diseases live full and productive lives.
“Often the case is someone is born without a particular protein or substance, which is present in normal plasma. So we can provide a product that concentrates there and is used for treatment, both for life sustaining and lifesaving purposes," said Dr. Toby Simon, Senior Medical and Safety Advisor of Global Clinical Safety at CSL Plasma
“I actually lost my father to a throat attack in the years prior to any plasma therapy being available in the United States. And then it took me several years to be diagnosed and the therapy available," added Machelle Pecoraro, who lives with Hereditary Angioedema and relies on plasma donations to survive.
For more information on how to donate plasma, click here. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/plasma-donors-needed/273-f1ff2367-4486-4618-83e3-1bb548ed3e75 | 2023-05-11T12:59:23 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/plasma-donors-needed/273-f1ff2367-4486-4618-83e3-1bb548ed3e75 |
The police blotter is a public record of incidents as reported by law-enforcement agencies. All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are innocent until proven guilty. The information printed is preliminary and subject to change.
Monday, 04/24:
North Bend
• 7:43 am, unlawful entry into motor vehicle, 2300 block of Virginia Avenue.
• 9:09 am, unlawful entry into motor vehicle, 1800 block of Cleveland Street.
• 9:16 am, unlawful entry into motor vehicle, 2200 block of Madrona Street.
• 9:24 am, dispute, 800 block of California Avenue.
• 9:33 am, theft, 1900 block of Garfield Street.
• 10:42 am, criminal mischief, 2000 block of Inland Drive.
• 2:59 pm, juvenile problem, 2100 block of Sherman Avenue.
• 4:29 pm, theft, 3600 block of Inland Court.
• 4:41 pm, theft, 2000 block of Myrtle Street.
• 5:38 pm, disorderly conduct, 2000 block of Newmark.
• 6:41 pm, civil problem, 1900 block of Garfield Street.
• 7:53 pm, indecent exposure, 1600 block of Monroe Street.
• 9:11 am, 2100 block of Marion Avenue.
• 10:44 pm, family dispute, 1800 block of Monroe Avenue.
Coos Bay
• 6:35 am, harassment, Wallace Street.
• 8:16 am, theft, 2000 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 8:25 am, harassment, 2600 block of Koos Bay Boulevard.
• 9:19 am, 58 year old male transported to Coos County jail on warrant, 800 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 9:37 am, 37 year old female transported to Coos County jail, 1100 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 9:40 am, assault, 100 block of Cammann Street.
• 10:03 am, 44 year old female cited for driving while suspended, Newmark and Cedar.
• 11:06 am, dispute, 1300 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 11:18 am, dispute, 300 block of Ackerman Avenue.
• 11:44 am, disturbance, 35th and Ocean Boulevard.
• 12:31 pm, criminal mischief, 1200 block of N Bayshore Drive.
• 12:49 pm, burglary, 1100 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 12:52 pm, disorderly conduct, 1600 block of Virginia Avenue.
• 1:12 pm, criminal mischief, 2400 block of Woodland Drive.
• 1:16 pm, dispute, 100 block of Ackerman Street.
• 1:16 pm, minor in possession of liquor, 1900 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 2:26 pm, 49 year old male transported to Coos County jail on burglary II and theft II.
• 2:29 pm, indecent exposure, Empire Lakes/John Topits Park.
• 2:47 pm, theft of bike, 600 block of Cammann Street.
• 3:11 pm, 59 year old male cited on five warrants, Coos Bay Boardwalk.
• 3:39 pm, theft, 1000 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 4:05 pm, criminal mischief, 600 block of H Street.
• 5:20 pm, hit and run to parked vehicle, 900 block of S 7th Street.
• 6:17 pm, runaway juvenile, 1000 block of Ferguson Avenue.
• 10:43 pm, disturbance at neighbor’s residence, 2600 block of Mexeye Loop.
• 11:43 pm, 58 year old male transported to Coos County jail on disorderly conduct II, 500 block of W Commercial Avenue.
Coquille
• 8:37 am, criminal mischief to railroad tracks, 96900 block of Highway 42S.
• 8:54 am, 20 year old male cited for driving while suspended, Highway 42 and Old Highway 42.
• 9:08 am, recovered stolen bike, 400 block of E 2nd Street.
• 4:00 pm, disorderly conduct, River Walk.
Reedsport
• 9:27 am, restraining order violation, Reedsport Police Department.
• 9:36 pm, drug violation, 300 block of Ranch Road.
• 10:20 pm, domestic disturbance, Fir Grove Motel.
Tuesday, 04/25:
North Bend
• 1:26 am, disorderly conduct, 1100 block of Clark Street.
• 9:33 am, civil problem, 1700 block of Grant Street.
• 2:04 pm, civil problem, 1500 block of Virginia Avenue.
• 3:34 pm, theft of trailer with two quads, 1400 block of Sherman Avenue.
• 4:46 pm, theft, 2400 block of Tremont Avenue.
• 5:36 pm, theft, 3400 block of Broadway Avenue.
• 5:37 pm, theft of services, 3500 block of Tremont Avenue.
• 7:54 pm, domestic assault, 2000 block of Garfield Street.
• 9:00 pm, animal complaint, Sheridan and Oregon.
Coos Bay
• 12:32 am, family dispute, 300 block of N Ackerman Street.
• 6:31 am, 42 year old female arrested and transported to Coos County jail on two warrants, 300 block of W Anderson Avenue.
• 8:28 am, dispute at neighbors, 300 block of Ackerman Avenue.
• 8:55 am, 48 year old male served on warrant, 200 block of N Baxter Street.
• 9:25 am, animals left in vehicle, 500 block of S Empire Boulevard.
• 11:40 am, 23 year old male transported to Coos County jail on criminal mischief II, theft III and driving while suspended misdemeanor, 2nd and Kruse.
• 1:09 pm, criminal mischief, N 10th Street and W Commercial Avenue.
• 3:40 pm, 41 year old male served on warrant, 200 block of N Baxter Street.
• 4:19 pm, disorderly conduct, 1200 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 4:23 pm, dispute, 1000 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 4:47 pm, civil problem, 1300 block of Central Avenue.
• 6:47 pm, disorderly conduct, 300 block of Anderson.
• 7:53 pm, 39 year old male transported to Coos County jail on disorderly conduct II, 1600 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 9:56 pm, located wanted subject, 100 block of S 3rd Street.
Coquille
• 12:30 pm, dispute, Baxter and 2nd.
• 4:37 pm, 39 year old female cited for driving while suspended, 16th and Dean.
• 6:38 pm, dog at large, N Elliott and E 6th.
• 9:01 pm, violation of restraining order, 300 block of N Adams.
Reedsport
• 2:27 am, noise complaint, 1800 block of Elm Avenue.
• 9:54 am, theft, Ace Hardware.
• 11:03 am, domestic disturbance, Reedsport Police Department.
• 3:43 pm, fire, Highland Elementary School.
• 9:46 pm, animal problem, First Interstate Bank.
Wednesday, 04/26:
North Bend
• 2:47 am, arson, 1300 block of Virginia Avenue.
Coquille
• 3:20 am, disorderly conduct, N Central and Highway 42.
• 2:37 pm, dog bite, 600 block of S 4th Court.
• 3:25 pm, disorderly conduct, 100 block of N Birch Street.
• 3:24 pm, unattended child, S Adams and Highway 42.
• 8:36 pm, landlord/tenant issue, 500 block of N Collier.
Reedsport
• 1:54 pm, juvenile problem, Highland Elementary School.
• 1:58 pm, animal problem, 2200 block of Longwood Drive.
• 2:34 pm, fraud, Reedsport Police Department. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/police-blotter/article_af1a1ac4-ef7d-11ed-8a34-53fc75f835c6.html | 2023-05-11T13:01:26 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/police-blotter/article_af1a1ac4-ef7d-11ed-8a34-53fc75f835c6.html |
Dozens of volunteers came out last weekend to help clean up Highway 101 in anticipation of the upcoming tourist season.
The Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, The Mill Casino and other organizations helped organize the cleanup to make the entrance to Coos Bay and North Bend look better before the tourist season begins. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/volunteers-clean-up-highway-101/article_dd15bca8-ef7d-11ed-868b-0b3a50904098.html | 2023-05-11T13:01:32 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/volunteers-clean-up-highway-101/article_dd15bca8-ef7d-11ed-868b-0b3a50904098.html |
SEATTLE, Wash. — Temperatures are heating up in Washington. Early next week, forecasters predict Seattle could see its earliest 90-degree day in history.
Now, hardware store employees across Washington are starting to entertain the idea of buying new air conditioning units.
"Last year, portable A/Cs were like a big thing, like a huge thing, and we ran out fast," said Carli Evanson, an employee of Junction True Value Hardware. "We haven’t really sold any yet.”
Nonetheless, the hardware store is starting to see interest pick up and anticipates sales to pick up, too.
"Especially on Monday, I think they’re gonna come in and start buying them," Evanson said. "A lot of apartments don’t have A/C.”
A nationwide survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that as of 2020, only 53% of households in Washington use some form of air conditioning.
And while you may be tempted to cool off by taking a swim in Washington's lakes, bays, or rivers, officials would like to warn you to think twice: the water temps are still dangerously cold.
"It only takes 15 minutes for someone to get cold water exposure and develop hypothermia to the point where they’re not gonna be able to swim for much longer," said David Cuerpo, a public information officer with the Seattle Fire Department. "They’ll start feeling numb in their hands or their feet, and then the water temperature starts zapping away their own body heat."
Especially if you’re going out boating this weekend, it’s best to do so responsibly.
“If you’re gonna be on a boat or on a jet ski, please don’t consume alcohol," Cuerpo said. "That’s one of the leading causes for collisions outside here as well. If you happen to witness someone who is in the water in distress, do not hesitate to call 911.”
If you are looking for an A/C unit, click here for a list KING 5 compiled.
At Junction True Value Hardware, they are adding several more units to their inventory starting this Friday. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/hardware-stores-prepare-for-air-conditioning-ac-rush/281-928e1c83-5c88-4c0d-974d-2be36e4c5766 | 2023-05-11T13:08:20 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/hardware-stores-prepare-for-air-conditioning-ac-rush/281-928e1c83-5c88-4c0d-974d-2be36e4c5766 |
Plans for Cranston apartment complex just got bigger − here's why
Commercial space nixed in favor of more apartments
- Rising construction costs the reason for more apartments
- Phase 2 will include all the affordable apartments
CRANSTON − A proposed 90-unit apartment complex off of Scituate Avenue in Cranston just got a little bigger after the Cranston City Plan Commission approved the addition of 18 units to the project last week.
David Taglianetti, representing Johnston-based developer Carpionato Group, said the original plans for Meridian Pointe, originally called Champlin Hills, called for a 5,000-square-foot commercial space and a clubhouse, but the new plans have nixed those in favor of building an 18-unit, three-story apartment building in the same footprint.
The project would be just east of Scituate Vista Drive, on Scituate Avenue.
A house on the property will be then transformed into a clubhouse and a pool built next to it, Taglianetti, the vice president of development, said.
The project was originally a by-right development, meaning the developer did not need to ask for a zoning change or special permission. But, at the meeting last week, they came extending an unexpected gift to the city — making 15% of the units "affordable" in the entire development, so long as they could build them in the second phase, which will total 152 units, for a total of 37 affordable units.
The final plans for the first phase of the project, with 72 market-rate units, were first fully approved in 2017.
Project attorney Thomas Moses said the increase in residential units if a function of the soaring cost of construction and that they would bring in more money than the originally planned commercial uses.
In an interview, Cranston Planning Director Jason Pezzullo said he did not know about plans to make 15% of the apartments affordable. When the original plans were approved, city officials were not asking housing projects for affordable units.
"We didn't prompt them for that, and that was not nothing," he said. "It was a pleasant surprise. I was kind of startled, actually."
Pezzullo said normally developers will more readily offer an affordable housing component when asking for big variances, like higher density.
"They were asking for a height variance and a use variance for the club house, which in the big scheme of things, is pretty minor," he said.
In an analysis, Pezzullo wrote that the proposed project is surrounded by other apartment complexes that are also taller than what zoning allows by right, from two to four stories, and letting the building go from 35 feet to 63 feet would be in line with the area.
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What the units will look like
Taglianetti said the 90 units in the initial development will be a 50-50 mix of studio and one-bedroom apartments and two-bedroom apartments, ranging in size from 700 to 1,200 square feet. One four-story building will contain 48 units and have an elevator while two three-story buildings would split the remaining 42 units.
What will the second phase of the project look like
The second phase of the project, which has not been submitted to the city yet, would consist of 152 units in total, including 37 "affordable" units, Taglianetti said. Those plans will be submitted within two to three months as they go through the process of getting state permits.
The project will continue to follow Cranston's parking regulations of two parking spaces per one residential unit. For the first phase, that means 180 parking spaces.
For this project, affordable housing follows the state definition and is restricted to people making 80% of the area median income. In all but six coastal communities, the income limits range from $54,150 for a single person, to $77,350 for a family of four.
The state's definition of "affordable housing" also means the maximum rent paid, including utilities, is a maximum of 30% of the household's gross income.
Reach reporter Wheeler Cowperthwaite at wcowperthwaite@providencejournal.com or follow him on Twitter @WheelerReporter. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/05/11/affordable-housing-added-to-cranston-meridian-pointe-apartment-project/70179950007/ | 2023-05-11T13:12:46 | 1 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/05/11/affordable-housing-added-to-cranston-meridian-pointe-apartment-project/70179950007/ |
Lawmakers are bringing the book ban wars to Rhode Island. Here's how.
Several lawmakers are attempting to tighten the state's obscenity law. Though they have little chance of success, if they win, librarians could be imprisoned.
A small group of House lawmakers are attempting to criminalize "public and charter school" librarians for allowing children to access "obscene" books. Only this time, politicians want to broaden the state's existing obscenity law to include "cartoon or animated" materials, such as graphic novels.
Any school librarian involved in providing such books deemed "obscene" could face two years in prison and a $1,000 fine under the new bill, which was introduced to the Judiciary Committee in late April.
That means books like Maia Kobabe's "Gender Queer," which has become one of the most banned books in the U.S. for its sexual imagery, would be banned from Rhode Island schools — if supporters of the bill amendment get their way.
Rep. Patricia Morgan, the only Republican sponsor, identified that book as one she thinks must go, along with Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home," an illustrated book about Bechdel's growing up, her coming out as lesbian, and her closeted gay father's subsequent death by suicide. Morgan also singled out Susan Kuklin's "Beyond Magenta," a young adult book about transgender teens.
All three books have been caught in the middle of the nation's political fights over education on sex and gender identity which have now come to Rhode Island, even if only waged by a minor group of legislators unlikely to be successful.
"Protecting our children from inappropriately sexually-explicit materials is a long held public policy," Morgan said. "Parents have restricted access to school libraries and thus, are not aware of the pornographic content of books that are being offered in the children’s sections of public libraries and in our schools."
Seven Democrats are also sponsoring the bill: Reps. Samuel Azzinaro, Deborah Fellela, Arthur Corvese, Patricia Serpa, Gregory Constantino, Charlene Lima and Edward Cardillo. However, when asked for comment — including for an explanation of the inspiration for the bill — none replied by the time this article was filed.
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Two warring amendments at play in fight over books
Beatrice Pulliam, head of the Rhode Island Library Association, which represents nearly 500 library staff in the state, said the bill was a clear response to a different proposed amendment to the same law — one that would protect librarians from being criminalized.
That measure was introduced in early March, nearly two months before the competing amendment.
The measure states that if prosecution arises, "it is an affirmative defense that the defendant was a bona fide school, museum, or public library, or was a person acting in the course of employment as an employee or official of such organization."
Pulliam said her association was "disappointed, but unfortunately not surprised" to see the restrictive bill later introduced as a response.
"It's just another effort to criminalize teaching about health and sexuality, or circulating books with information about sex, or books that are LGBTQIA-positive," Pulliam said. "We think it's really dangerous that a very vocal but small minority of uninformed politicians are basically playing whack-a-mole with our intellectual freedom."
More:The 13 most banned books of 2022: 'Gender Queer' tops library association's list for second year
RI has an existing obscenity law, but is it ever enforced?
Under current law, judging that a book, movie, or other material is "obscene" is determined by what is offensive under "contemporary community standards." But figuring out those standards can be a rather nebulous task.
Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island arm of the American Civil Liberties Union, said it's "very rare" that the law is used, but when it is, the standards are defined by U.S. Supreme Court Cases from the 1960s and 1970s that dealt with this very question. Think Miller v. California, a 1973 case in which Chief Justice Warren Burger established a three-pronged test for obscenity: "Whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."
Yet Brown said criticism of so-called community standards continues today.
"It is extraordinarily vague and open-ended," Brown said. "And it also means that a book or other material could be illegal ... for one community in one state and lawful in the other, depending on these amorphous community standards. And that's been one of the big criticisms about trying to ban obscenity, generally."
Brown doesn't believe the latest attempt to put restrictions on schools will pass, but he recognizes it is no coincidence that the bill was introduced.
"There is a nationwide campaign right now to try to censor the teaching that goes on in schools on important and controversial subjects and to remove books from libraries that offend certain people," he said. "At some point I think this will pass. This is not the first time there's been a wave of censorship in this country. It recurs. We're in a bad period right now, but I'm hopeful that that it will pass at some point soon." | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/05/11/banned-books-in-ri-could-expand-under-proposed-bill-aimed-at-school-libraries/70196159007/ | 2023-05-11T13:12:52 | 1 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/05/11/banned-books-in-ri-could-expand-under-proposed-bill-aimed-at-school-libraries/70196159007/ |
Major traffic expected this weekend with work on Route 146 exit on I-95N. What to know.
Old bridge will be demolished, replaced by 'collector and distributor' road
- Route 146 exit will be down to one lane for the weekend
- Work starts at 9 p.m., Friday, May 12
- Traffic should be back to normal by 5 a.m., Monday, May 15
PROVIDENCE — Traffic on Route 95 North in Providence near downtown will be extra congested this weekend as the exit to Route 146 North is reduced to one lane and shifts to the left.
The lane closure and leftward shift start at 9 p.m. on Friday, May 12. The changes are slated to last until 5 a.m. on Monday, May 15, causing delays on Route 95 North through Providence.
Work crews are shifting traffic to the left onto a new bridge connecting Route 95 North to Route 146 North, which will be followed by demolition of the old bridge.
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"For drivers, the ramp will be approximately in the same location where 146 is today, but we'll have signs marking which lanes drivers need to be in as we adjust to the new ramp," Department of Transportation spokesman Charles St. Martin said.
Anyone who misses the new ramp to Route 146 on the left and instead gets off at the State Offices exit, which branches to the right, will be redirected back to Route 146 on the Charles Street on-ramp, just north of Admiral Street.
Ramp move is expected to cause congestion
St. Martin said drivers on Route 95 North can expect extra congestion in the area and should be prepared for delays, or they can bypass the area entirely by getting on the highway north of the interchange using entrances from Charles Street, Branch Avenue or North Main Street. Drivers also could use Route 295 as an alternate route.
Congestion at the interchange can slow to a crawl as traffic from Route 10 and downtown Providence merge onto Route 95 North a few hundred feet before the exits for both Route 146 (exit 38A, old exit 23) and the State Offices (exit 38B).
Aside from extra congestion, nothing will change for drivers entering Route 95 from Route 10 and downtown.
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Demolition of old bridge sets stage for 'collector and distributor' road
After traffic is moved onto the new bridge to Route 146 North, work crews will begin to demolish the old bridge. In its place, the state will build a "collector and distributor" road to handle the on-ramp and off-ramp traffic and reduce the congestion.
That road will separate on-ramp and off-ramp traffic from Route 95 North before reconnecting farther down the road, after drivers have finished exiting and entering the highway.
"This eliminates the weaving conflicts and congestion that plague the segment of I-95 Northbound from the 6/10 Connector and downtown onramps to the Route 146/State Offices interchange," according to the state website on the construction.
All of the work on the Providence Viaduct Bridge, including the rebuilding of 11 bridges, is expected to cost $265 million.
Delays expected on Route 10, Route 6 during May
On the same weekend on nearby Route 6 East, the Broadway off-ramp will be closed for 24 hours, from 7 p.m. Friday, May 12, to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 13.
The following weekend, May 19 to 22, Route 10 North will be reduced to one lane around the Westminster Street overpass, while Route 6 East will be reduced to one lane from the Plainfield Street on-ramp to the Broadway off-ramp.
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COVID unemployment fraud cost RI $121M. Why won't the state's insurance company pay up?
PROVIDENCE — Unemployment insurance programs managed by the state have suffered $121 million in fraud since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent court filing.
That's far above the $40 million in insurance the state carried to protect against such criminal activity. But, when the state filed an insurance claim, officials were in for a big surprise:
The insurance company said that state wasn't covered for any of it.
Now, the state is suing the insurance company, Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland, trying to force the company to pay out under two insurance policies, one for $15 million and one for $25 million.
A Superior Court decision last week sided with the state in blocking the insurance company's bid to dismiss the suit, but granted the company's request to divide the suit into two parts.
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What is the lawsuit about?
At the heart of the suit is whether the state is covered when fraudsters log in to the state's unemployment benefit system and submit bogus claims using a real person's identifying information.
The insurance company points to language in the policy that bars claims that result from "the disclosure or use of another person’s ... confidential or personal information."
The state argues that it didn't disclose the personal information in its systems, that it was stolen through other means and then used to obtain fraudulent benefits.
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What's next in the case
In a ruling filed May 3, Judge Brian P. Stern didn't decide which side is right. He said that more information is needed about what the policy language means to dismiss the case.
"The Court finds that the language is ambiguous as to whether the exclusion applies," Stern wrote in his decision.
The state is being represented in the case by lawyer John A. Tarantino, rather than by state Attorney General Peter F. Neronha.
Edwine Paul, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Labor and Training, which administers unemployment benefits, explained, "DLT sought guidance from the AG’s office about this matter and was advised to seek outside counsel that specializes in insurance litigation."
Paul said that the state had maintained "crime" insurance coverage from 2004 to 2021.
She said that the $121 million in fraudulent claims paid broke down to $61.9 million in state money and $59.1 million in federal money.
Future action in the case, which was filed Nov. 14, has not been scheduled. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/05/11/ri-suffered-121m-in-covid-unemployment-fraud-why-the-states-insurance-company-says-the-losses-arent/70200095007/ | 2023-05-11T13:13:04 | 0 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/05/11/ri-suffered-121m-in-covid-unemployment-fraud-why-the-states-insurance-company-says-the-losses-arent/70200095007/ |
OCHOPEE, Fla. — As the Wildfire in Big Cypress National Preserve continues to burn, Phase Two of the Sandy Wildfire Evacuation Plan has been initiated.
Residents within the areas of concern have been notified to prepare for potential evacuations, and residents with preexisting medical conditions have been encouraged to leave.
The Sandy Fire is currently 11,031 acres and 20% contained, according to the National Park Service.
The final evacuation phase, Phase Three, could occur when fire threat is imminent, at which point all residents will be advised to leave.
Smoke impacts along the roadways are expected as the fire continues to spread toward US 41. Therefore, travelers should be cautious while driving and aware of their surroundings.
Closures remain in effect west of 11 Mile Road, north of US41, east of Monument Trail, and south of Mud Lake, Little Deer, Oasis Trail, and Lost Dog, including the Florida Trail from Oasis Visitor Center to I75(MM63), the National Park Service stated.
Fire managers will continue monitoring fire behavior and initiate Phase Three of the evacuation plan if the fire continues to move toward homes. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/collier-county/2023/05/11/residents-prepare-for-possible-evacuations-as-wildfire-spreads-in-big-cypress/ | 2023-05-11T13:17:34 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/collier-county/2023/05/11/residents-prepare-for-possible-evacuations-as-wildfire-spreads-in-big-cypress/ |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) – Birmingham is in phase two of its new trash pickup roll-out with the second round of houses supposed to have had their pickup beginning May 1. Some people in the city say they’re still waiting for their trash to be collected by the new trucks.
Some people living along Ishkooda Road SW and Dowell Court SW are dealing with trash piled up almost overflowing onto the street but in a letter from the city when the new carts were rolled out, they were told anything sitting on the ground won’t be picked up by crews.
“Very frustrated, that’s why I make phone calls. Phone calls, emails, I don’t know what else I can do,” Kirk Wilson said, who lives on Ishkooda Rd.
Wilson says it’s been almost two weeks since his garbage has been collected. He says he watches the old garbage trucks drive by every week collecting trash from just one street over from his neighbors who haven’t been part of the new cart rollout yet.
“I’m sure if it were in the city, the center city, and they weren’t picking up garbage, it would’ve been done instantly. But we’re out on the far edges of it and we get forgotten out here, which is not right,” Wilson said. “Everybody pays the same taxes.”
Alinda Taylor has also been waiting since May 1 for her trash to be picked up. She and many of her neighbors’ cans who live on Dowell Court are practically overflowing.
“I could get it on a truck and then go dump it in front of city hall, would that I mean maybe that would work and maybe it will get picked up from right there,” Taylor said. “This doesn’t make any sense. I need this garbage picked up.”
Taylor and Wilson say they’re worried if the trash continues to pile up and overflow out of the can that it will attract animals and make the mess bigger. They ask only one thing from the city.
“Come get it. You know I don’t want nothing else, I just want them to come get the trash like they’re supposed to,” says Wilson.
“If they’re not going to do the garbage cans like they said, let us go back to the old way like we already had it,” says Taylor.
Both Taylor and Wilson say their calls to 311 and the city haven’t helped. They say the only response they’ve received is that a truck would be by the next day to pick up the trash but garbage continues to pile up.
Josh Yates, director of Birmingham Public Works, released a statement saying:
“The City has initiated Phase 2 of a uniform cart program for single-family residential households. This program provides a 96-gallon cart for residents to put their garbage in for collection once a week, free of charge. For decades, we have manually lifted garbage off our streets and we’re now changing to a more efficient and effective system.
The Pilot Program and Phase 1 added 24,000 households across the City that have been operating since 2022. The most recent phase, initiated May 1, added an additional 20,000 households. The final phase will be distributed and launched in the Fall.
While we will always have some unexpected errors or challenges, we have responded to the calls and every SeeClickFix and/or 311 claim entered into the system. The complaints are less than 1% of the number of carts that have been rolled out. With any new system introduced, there will always be some additional guidance. We encourage people to refer to birminghamal.gov/pickup and review the FAQ and How To video provided. We will investigate the challenges in the Ishkooda Rd SW and Dowell Ct SW areas. We thank everyone for their cooperation and patience as we modernize Birmingham’s household garbage curbside service.”
Josh Yates, director of Birmingham Public Works | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/trash-piling-up-uncollected-on-some-birmingham-streets-for-nearly-two-weeks/ | 2023-05-11T13:18:22 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/trash-piling-up-uncollected-on-some-birmingham-streets-for-nearly-two-weeks/ |
Araujo Farms in Dighton opens brand new greenhouses to showcase huge array of plants
DIGHTON — Araujo Farms co-owner Darlene Araujo said customers can now browse their extensive stock of plants without getting wet on a rainy day because all the greenhouses have been condensed into a single enclosed building.
“We have added five new greenhouses, which are all connected,” she said. “We have been planning this for 20 years. Construction began in the winter of 2021, and we opened last year.”
Araujo said they celebrated the completion of the greenhouse upgrades with a grand opening on April 28.
“If you come in here, you can see all the way down to the end and see everything,” she said. “What sets us apart is we grow 95% of the plants and 100% of the veggie plants.”
Araujo, who owns the farm with her husband Ken Araujo, said officials from Proven Winners, a nationwide wholesale company that sells shrubs, perennial and annual plants, made the trip to Dighton for the grand opening.
“We are a gold key member of Proven Winners,” she said. “To be a gold key member ... you have to offer 100,000 or more of their products.”
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Popular plants and flowers at Araujo Farms
Darlene Araujo said some of the most popular plants at the farm are supertunia, hummingbird plants, butterfly plants, geraniums, New Guinea impatiens and rosebud impatiens.
“People also like buying plants in basket hangers,” she said. “Those plants include petunias.”
Araujo said people could buy pumpkins, squash, cornstalk and Nordic wreaths after these plants are harvested.
“We have 48 acres for growing pumpkins,” she said.
Araujo said they have a "great team of 14 workers” who help with the planting.
“Most people who work here enjoy it,” she said. “Most of them have been here seven years plus. They are super people.”
Araujo said her daughter LeeAnne Araujo received a nursing degree from Salve Regina University in 2001, but she chose to work at the farm a year after graduating.
Leeanne Araujo said she initially chose to work at her parents' farm “to transition out of college” but ended up staying at the family business.
“They were getting super busy, so I stayed,” she said.
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'I love their flowers'
Rehoboth resident Seranne Tanguay said she and her husband, Herve Tanguay, regularly visit Araujo Farms & Greenhouses.
“I like everything they have,” she said while shopping at Araujo Farms on May 1. “I love their flowers.”
Herve Tanguay said he visited the farm to purchase a Serrano del Soi pepper plant, which is planted in a basket with a hook.
Berkley resident Nicole Pires said Araujo Farms has the best variety of plants.
“I may make three or four trips here during the spring,” she said while shopping on May 1.
Pires said she came to Araujo Farms to buy cut flowers.
“My cart is full,” she said. “I give planters every year to my children who are married.”
Pires said she wouldn’t shop anywhere else for plants.
“It’s the stuff that makes a difference, and they offer classes on gardening," she added.
Araujo Farms gardening classes
Araujo said people can learn how to grow various plants by enrolling in gardening classes at Araujo Farms, which are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
“The lessons change every week. On a given week, there could be instructions about growing a summer patio pot or a mosquito pot,” she said.
Araujo said people of all ages can enroll in the classes that sometimes include Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.
“We have Christmas wreath classes during the winter,” she said.
For more information or to register for a class, call 508-669-6988. Additional information about Araujo Farms & Greenhouses is available on their website at www.araujofarms.com. | https://www.tauntongazette.com/story/news/local/2023/05/11/araujo-farms-dighton-ma-new-greenhouses-plants-flowers-vegetables-williams-street/70199562007/ | 2023-05-11T13:22:43 | 1 | https://www.tauntongazette.com/story/news/local/2023/05/11/araujo-farms-dighton-ma-new-greenhouses-plants-flowers-vegetables-williams-street/70199562007/ |
Oxford parents group to discuss report on district's security
A parents group suing Oxford Community Schools over a 2021 deadly shooting at its high school plans to discuss Thursday a recent report on the district's security.
Change4Oxford officials said they will hold a 1:30 p.m. virtual news conference Thursday to speak about the 179-page report by Guidepost Solutions released Monday.
The report said the district's threat assessment teams only inquired about access to firearms involving troubled students half of the time after the November 2021 mass shooting and the school system needs to better filter reports of behavior.
School officials said Tuesday they would review the findings and recommendations “very carefully."
“We are going to be taking a very close look at it,” Vickie Markavitch, the district's superintendent, told the board of education during its regular meeting Tuesday. “It’s a dense report. It’s full of information. It’s got a lot to think about and many, many recommendations.”
Change4Oxford parents Lori Bourgeau and Andrea Jones in addition to other parents and students are scheduled to attend Thursday's virtual meeting, the group said.
In June 2022, the group announced it was filing a federal lawsuit against the school district on behalf of 20 students to force it to make changes in security following the Nov. 30 mass shooting at Oxford High School. Five months later, it said it planned to expand the suit into a class-action complaint to include every child in the 5,700-student district.
The suit does not seek monetary damages but is asking for a federal order to require Oxford Community Schools to enforce and update its safety procedures and protocols.
Ethan Crumbley, 16, pleaded guilty on Oct. 24, 2022, to killing four classmates ― Madisyn Baldwin, Tate Myre, Hana St. Juliana, and Justin Shilling ― and injuring a teacher and six other students at Oxford High School in the Nov. 30 shooting. Crumbley pleaded guilty to terrorism causing death, four counts of first-degree murder, seven counts of attempted murder, and 12 counts of felony firearm.
The Oakland County Prosecutor's Office is seeking a life sentence without the chance of parole for the teen. Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Kwame Rowe has scheduled a July 27 hearing to determine whether he should not receive the sentence.
Ethan's parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, are charged with four counts each of involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors accused them of "gross negligence" leading up to the murders. They face up to 15 years in prison.
In March, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled there was enough evidence for them to stand trial in Oakland County Circuit Court.
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Who is Steve Watson? What does a county school superintendent do? Here's what to know
Along with state- and district-level elected school officials, Arizona voters elect a public school superintendent at the county level.
One of them — Maricopa County School Superintendent Steve Watson — has been in the news.
Since he was elected to his first term in 2016, Watson has convened educators from around Maricopa County for an advisory panel and traveled the county highlighting the need for districts to support teachers and school leadership.
But this week, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution saying Watson's office has consistently misspent and misreported money.
That has put the position of county superintendent in the spotlight. Here is what you need to know about the role.
What are the duties of county school superintendent?
Duties of the office include overseeing school governing board elections, bond and override elections and maintaining home-school and private school records.
In Maricopa County, the superintendent also oversees the Maricopa County Regional School District, which serves students awaiting court hearings in county detention and students at Hope High School, an accommodation school for students who left traditional school settings.
Unlike other school districts, the Maricopa County Regional School District does not have an elected governing board, giving the county school superintendent the authority to make decisions on financial and curriculum matters.
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Who is in the office now?
Steve Watson is currently serving his second term as Maricopa County school superintendent. He was first elected in 2016 and then reelected in 2020. He ran as a Republican.
Watson ran for office to create conditions for teachers and students to have “a more joyful school experience,” according to his office's website.
Before being elected Maricopa County school superintendent, Watson was a career and technical education teacher in the Deer Valley Unified School District.
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What has Steve Watson done since taking office?
During his tenure, Watson has run a teacher retention survey to identify some of the challenges around retaining educators. His office also convenes a Superintendent Teacher Advisory Team made up of educators from around Maricopa County. They meet quarterly to discuss school funding and teacher retention.
His office also hosts the financial software used by many school districts in Maricopa County and has a financial management team that supports school districts as they apply for grants and make budget decisions.
In 2017, near the start of Watson’s tenure, the administration opened an elementary school named Esperanza Prep to support young people who were at risk or had previously disconnected from school. Watson’s office closed Esperanza at the end of the 2021-22 school year.
Why was Steve Watson recently in the news?
Maricopa County's supervisors unanimously approved a resolution on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, saying that they do "not intend to provide additional funding" to the Maricopa County Regional School District.
The resolution serves as a public statement from the supervisors disapproving of Watson's management of his office.
What is Steve Watson's salary?
According to The Arizona Republic’s public salary database, Watson earned $76,606 in fiscal year 2022.
Do other Arizona counties have school superintendents?
Yes. Each Arizona county provides educational services and oversight under the direction of an elected county school superintendent.
The superintendents in Arizona’s other counties are:
- Joy Whiting — Apache County
- Jacqui Clay — Cochise County
- Cheryl Mango-Paget — Coconino County
- Roy A. Sandoval — Gila County
- Donna McGaughey — Graham County
- Bryan Boling — Greenlee County
- Dru Waggoner — La Paz County
- Michael D. File — Mohave County
- Jalyn Gerlich — Navajo County
- Dustin Williams — Pima County
- Jill Broussard — Pinal County
- Alfredo I. Velásquez — Santa Cruz County
- Tim Carter — Yavapai County
- Tom Hurt — Yuma County
Yana Kunichoff is a reporter on The Arizona Republic's K-12 education team. You can join The Republic's Facebook page and reach Yana at ykunichoff@arizonarepublic.com. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2023/05/11/arizona-county-school-superintendents/70204660007/ | 2023-05-11T13:27:43 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2023/05/11/arizona-county-school-superintendents/70204660007/ |
'We're here, we graduated': ASU's COVID-19 class reflects on unique college experience
Ruby Rodriguez still remembers the chaos of the first week of online classes during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As her instructors tried to figure out how to teach virtually, she spent her time trapped in her family home with her younger brother while her parents continued going to work.
"He's a quiet kid when he wants to be," she said, laughing. "It wasn't bad until he started bugging me while I was in class."
Rodriguez, 24, was a student at Glendale Community College at the time. A year later, she would transfer to Arizona State University to pursue a teaching degree.
As she sat among thousands of ASU graduates at the university's primary undergraduate commencement ceremony on Monday, she said she was grateful that she got through some of her college years before the pandemic.
But she knows she still lost out on some experiences, including classroom instruction opportunities. Instead of entering schools to get hands-on teaching experience, Rodriguez joined virtual classrooms for about 30 minutes each week, she said.
"I didn't really get to do much," she said, adding that she was later able to enter classrooms in person as schools reopened.
The Class of 2023 graduates have varying experiences with the pandemic.
Some, interrupted in their first year of campus living, best remember the social isolation.
Others, like Rodriguez, took longer to complete their degrees and experienced college life both before the pandemic and after.
A few of ASU's spring graduates were pursuing degrees online before COVID-19 hit the U.S. These students saw their peers struggle to adapt to virtual classes with which they were already familiar.
Students who spoke with The Arizona Republic at Monday's ceremony generally agreed that the shadow of the pandemic loomed large over their college experience.
"We have a lot of resistance and endurance to really overcome any obstacle," said Jennifer Jaimes Gomez, 23. "We saw ourselves be more adaptable to change. ... It was something that really helped to broaden the perspective of learning."
For some, a positive side
ASU's online programs began in 2010, long before the pandemic.
When campuses across the nation shut down in March 2020, nothing changed for online students like Olivia Davis, a student from Dallas, Texas, studying sales, marketing and communications.
But Davis noticed a definitive tone shift in how her campus-educated peers and those outside the school environment thought of students studying virtually. In some ways, the pandemic leveled the playing field for online students, she said.
"People got online and realized how hard it was to do time management and really sit down and work on these things and watch your lectures from videos," she said. "Honestly, I got more praise than ever, which is awesome."
She wasn't alone. Patricia Moody, who attended ASU virtually while living and working in Seattle, said the pandemic helped in-person students better understand the pressures of remote learning.
"They have to kind of work on their own time, rather than the teacher's time," she said.
That doesn't mean online students didn't still struggle amid COVID-19.
Charlene Galloway, 54, said she ended up taking time away from her online program in the weeks after the country shut down.
She got stranded in Las Vegas, Nevada, when flights to her home in Miami, Florida, were suddenly canceled amid fears of the virus, she said. For a while, it all became too much.
"I went to my adviser, and I was like, 'I can't,'" Galloway said.
Galloway is a Starbucks employee and said the company paid for her education. Amid the pandemic, she worked in its retail coffee stores and said customer interactions also took a toll.
"We saw people that didn't believe it was real and didn't take it serious," she said. "And here we are, we're just trying to take care of each other."
She ultimately came back for an online class in summer 2020, and continued her degree, moving up through the ranks of Starbucks.
"I winded up in a corporate position," she said. "And it was because of ASU."
A generational gap
Oscar Leal, 59, said he knows that his college experience was different than that of his daughter, Annika, 22.
"They didn't experience the true meaning of being in college: being in classrooms, meeting new people," he said. "So I think that had a big effect."
As an in-person student on the university's Tempe campus, Annika Leal had an active social life before the pandemic, but ended up living alone once it began, she said.
"It was definitely a big change, going from a dorm that was full of students to a room completely by myself," she said.
Nevertheless, she persevered, double majoring in business law and finance. As she hugged her loved ones and celebrated with her family after the commencement ceremony, she said everybody experienced the pandemic differently.
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COVID-19 might define her class, she said, but it doesn't define her and her classmates' capabilities.
"If anything, I think this generation and our class brings more to the table because of that experience," she said. "So while it was a negative experience and it was a difficult obstacle to overcome, we're here, we graduated, and that says a lot."
Sasha Hupka covers higher education for The Arizona Republic. Do you have a tip on Arizona's universities, community colleges or trade schools? Reach her at sasha.hupka@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter: @SashaHupka. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2023/05/11/asu-covid-19-class-reflects-on-a-unique-college-experience/70188982007/ | 2023-05-11T13:27:43 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2023/05/11/asu-covid-19-class-reflects-on-a-unique-college-experience/70188982007/ |
The first block of Phoenix's 'The Zone' has been cleared. Here's what happened and what's ahead
After more than five hours of breaking down tents, shuttling people to shelters and scooping up an entire street full of trash and debris, the first block of Phoenix’s largest homeless encampment has been cleared.
The encampment, known as “The Zone,” is home to between 600 and 900 people on any given night and has been the center of intense scrutiny, legal action and media attention in recent months. The cleanup comes after a judge ordered the city in March to remove tents from the area.
Wednesday’s cleanup was isolated to just one block of Ninth Avenue between Washington and Jefferson streets and began about 7 a.m., though outreach workers had already begun connecting people with services days ahead of time.
The process went like this: Outreach workers helped residents dismantle their dwellings and sort their belongings by what they would take with them, what they would keep in storage and what was OK to throw out. After they were all packed up, residents who accepted services were then transported to their shelter placement. Once the street was clear, workers, front loaders and garbage trucks arrived to remove the remaining mountains of debris and discarded property as officials, outreach workers and a sizable gaggle of reporters looked on.
At the end of the day, no property had been left unclaimed, said Phoenix spokesperson Kristin Couturier — save for an abandoned cat that city workers appeared to be trying to also find a new home for.
By about noon on Wednesday, 33 of the 40 people on the block were placed in shelters, Couturier said. City officials and nonprofit workers agreed it was, by that measure, a massive success.
But residents of the block had more mixed feelings. For some, the cleanup was a welcome opportunity to improve their living situation and get off the street. For others, it was a jarring and overwhelming displacement from the only home they had.
Several of the people who chose not to accept shelter simply relocated to another block of The Zone, potentially kicking off a game of cat and mouse as the city prepares to empty blocks of the encampment one by one.
Phoenix is disbanding the encampment following a court order that, as of now, requires the city to make meaningful progress on clearing out the area by mid-July.
Moving forward, the city plans to clean up and close off a new block of the encampment every two weeks, though the date and precise location of the next cleanup have not yet been determined, said Scott Hall, deputy director of Phoenix’s Office of Homeless Solutions. Once a block is cleared, people are no longer able to camp there. If they do, they risk being cited or arrested.
Policing ‘The Zone’:Phoenix paralyzed as COVID-19 spread, population rose and violence grew
As the sun set on Wednesday, a Phoenix police truck sat parked on the block, and cautionary signs were affixed to palms, poles and fences.
"This area is closed to camping to abate a public nuisance," read the signs, which directed people in need of shelter or services to the Human Services Campus, a collective of homelessness nonprofits that sits at the center of The Zone.
'It's gonna work out': Some residents relocate
For Barry Hayes and Daniel Mackey, the plan to get into shelter nearly failed.
The friends had been living in tents on Ninth Avenue for three months when they got the news a few weeks ago that the block would soon be cleared.
They were skeptical of shelters. They had gone to them before, and the crowded and restrictive environment wasn’t for them. But on May 9, they agreed to give it another try. With the help of city and nonprofit outreach workers, they left their tent in exchange for spots at a city-owned shelter on Washington Street.
“We lasted about a half-hour. We had to get out of there,” said Hayes, 67.
He and Mackey, 62, were back in their tent shortly after.
So when Wednesday’s cleanup crew arrived, the duo resolved they would either move into a hotel room if offered one or find another spot to set up camp in The Zone.
But, ultimately, they decided to give a different shelter a try. They were taken to a transitional men's shelter run by Community Bridges Inc. Mackey said it was smaller, more "mellow" than the one on Washington Street — in his view, a much better fit.
“It’s gonna work out, I think," Mackey said in a phone call from the shelter on Wednesday afternoon. "I have high hopes for this.”
Other residents of the block were taken to the Central Arizona Shelter Services facility near The Zone, the shelter on Washington Street and elsewhere.
Hall, from the Office of Homeless Solutions, said the reception Wednesday was largely positive.
“I’ve had a lot of people come up, pat me on the back and say, ‘Thank you,’” Hall said. “A lot of people are going to be laying their head on a pillow indoors tonight" rather than on the street.
'It's not gonna work': Other residents resist shelter
Not everyone had such a success story.
Several people living on the block Wednesday morning didn’t accept services and simply retreated to a different part of The Zone.
Antoin “Applejacks” Jackson woke up early to move his belongings from the area with his dog, Ruckus.
By 8 a.m., he was already setting up camp on a street corner three blocks away, deeper into the encampment.
“It’s not gonna work,” he said of the city’s relocation effort, adding that he feels a more cohesive plan is needed.
For the people on the block who opted not to go to a shelter on Wednesday, outreach workers will continue to try to engage with them, said Amy Schwabenlender, CEO of the Human Services Campus.
"I don't think we can just force people and say, 'This is your only choice,'" Schwabenlender said. "We know large congregate shelters don't work for everybody. What are the other options?"
Eric Solomon, who lives in a tent a street over from the Ninth Avenue block that was cleaned Wednesday, said he doesn't expect that the people who accepted shelter would stay there. Congregate shelters can be dangerous places. Fights break out, he said, and other people steal your things. It’s a hard sell, he said.
How we got here and what's ahead
The court order to break up The Zone is part of a lawsuit, Brown v. City of Phoenix, that nearby business and property owners filed against the city in August, claiming the encampment is a public nuisance that has led to violence, property damage and more. A trial is scheduled for the lawsuit on July 10.
In the meantime, the city plans to appeal the court order dictating that it clear tents out of The Zone. If the appeal is successful, it would lift the demand for the city to demonstrate significant progress on the encampment’s cleanup by the trial date.
Either way, the city still plans to move forward with clearing out the encampment block by block while offering residents shelter and services, said Couturier, the Phoenix spokesperson.
Miguel Samaniego, the owner of a tattoo shop near the block that was cleared, said he had little hope that Wednesday's cleanup would have any kind of impact. There’s still much more of The Zone left to go, he said.
People will come back to the street, Samaniego said.
Juliette Rihl covers housing insecurity and homelessness for The Arizona Republic. She can be reached at jrihl@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @julietterihl.
Reach crime reporter Miguel Torres at Miguel.Torres@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @TheMiguelTorres.
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'It breaks us': Public wake for singer Carlos Parra pulls at emotions for fans, family
A hall filled with people viewing screens playing videos featuring the departed as he performed music
Mourners gathered early Wednesday evening at a west Phoenix reception hall to remember regional Mexican music group Los Parras’ lead singer, Carlos Parra.
The 26-year-old performer, whose family band was based in Phoenix, died over the weekend in a car crash near Hermosillo, Sonora, on a drive to Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, a person close to the family said to The Arizona Republic.
The band was started by the Sinaloa-born Parra and his two brothers when the vocalist was a student at North High School in Phoenix. His twin, César Parra, was on guitar and their older brother, Cristhian Parra, was on the accordion.
Family, friends and fans assembled at Carlos' wake, held at the Legends Event Center at 43rd Avenue and West Camelback Road, and shared that he was a jovial and friendly figure in the Valley.
“He left us his voice,” Cristhian said of Carlos in a tearful speech delivered in Spanish.
The family — brothers, mother, father, teenaged sister and pet dog — moved from a home in Phoenix into a bigger house in Avondale just earlier this year.
“He was the soul of the house. No one was ever sad, because of him,” Cristhian said of Carlos. “I love you, brother.”
Cristhian said he felt as if Carlos had shielded him, their brother and sister and a cousin during the wreck, leaving the eldest sibling without a scratch.
Family, friends mourn his loss
At the front of the expansive hall was Carlos' copper-colored casket, a bountiful coffin spray of white flowers atop it and large funeral wreaths surrounding it.
The hall was filled with people seated and standing, some bearing flowers.
Large screens played videos featuring Carlos performing, riding a roller-coaster, watching a 2022 World Cup match in Qatar and helping make tortillas.
Cristhian shared a video with attendees he said he recently discovered where his brothers surprised him with shoes for his birthday.
Dressed in black and carrying a bouquet of white flowers, Phoenix resident Yazmin Gonzalez, 25, was there to pay her respects to Carlos, whom she said she knew from school. Gonzalez said she empathized with the family’s loss, pointing to the grief she felt when her 56-year-old father died from COVID-19 in 2021.
“I feel the pain. Even I get choked up thinking about the family,” a misty-eyed Gonzalez said.
Yosmara Martinez, 24, and Maria Sandoval, 25, who spent an hour working on bespeckled signs bearing photos of him that they brought to the event, said they have been crying since they heard of the singer’s death.
“It breaks us … that he’s not here,” Martinez said.
Sandoval mentioned she attended high school with him.
“I can’t believe he’s gone,” Sandoval said. “He was a really sweet person.”
'RIP little brother, we love you'
Los Parras, which, including Carlos and his two brothers, was composed of five members. The group performed at quinceañeras, weddings and nightclubs in several U.S. cities. The group had released five albums since signing under a record label in 2017. Drawing 700,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, the group was currently signed with Los Angeles-based La R Records.
As seen in a Feb. 15, 2020, YouTube video with 23.3 million views, he and the band apparently surprised his fiancée-to-be, Lillian Griego, outside a home with a serenade to their song “Por verte feliz,” which included the lyrics, “What I want is an eternal life beside you.”
Facebook images show a close relationship between the two. The couple did Disney cosplay around Halloween last year, with Carlos and Griego dressing as the 1995 animated movie “Goof Troop” characters Max and Roxanne, respectively.
Griego on Wednesday posted an Instagram message dedicated to her lost love.
“You had an enormous heart, my baby, like no one in this world. Thanks for that so beautiful and unique love you gave me, thanks for making us all laugh with your little dance and your silliness, thanks for your beautiful voice and thanks for being the most beautiful thing that happened to me in this life,” Griego’s post read.
Ominously, the couple posed for a photo shoot as a bloodied bride and groom posted Oct. 31, 2021, on Instagram with the caption, “Hasta que la Muerte Nos Separe,” or “Till Death Do Us Part.”
With “a broken heart,” the group announced Carlos' death in Spanish on Instagram on Sunday. “RIP little brother, we love you,” the message read.
As a tribute, his family shared a photo of him with part of the lyrics to the band’s song "Por verte feliz," adding no time or distance would remove him from their hearts.
A funeral for Carlos will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Hill Cross Catholic Cemetery at 9925 W. Thomas Road in Avondale.
The Republic’s Mexico City correspondent Diana García contributed to this report.
Reach breaking news reporter Jose R. Gonzalez at jose.gonzalez@gannett.com or on Twitter @jrgzztx.
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A third victim -- another child -- has succumbed to injuries sustained in a devastating Brooklyn house fire earlier this week -- and cops are looking into whether the father, who survived with burns, may have sparked it by accident.
The NYPD confirmed Thursday that the 10-year-old girl, one of four children initially hospitalized in critical condition following Tuesday's pre-dawn fire on Fountain Avenue in East New York.
She died Wednesday, police said. Another of those badly injured children, a 17-year-old girl, passed away the same afternoon as the info, while a 36-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the charred scene. The two surviving kids, a 9-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, are still fighting for their lives, police said in their Wednesday update.
Their father, as police identified him to The New York Times, was the least severely injured. He remained hospitalized Thursday but is expected to survive. Accelerant had been found at the fiery scene, and investigators confirmed Thursday that the substance was among materials the father was using to make vape products to sell.
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The cause of the fire, though, remains under investigation. None of the victims' identities has been released.
People living along the 100 block of Fountain Avenue woke up to the sound of screams and the smell of smoke taking over a three-story home just after 2 a.m. Monday. The fire had engulfed the home after starting at the front door and quickly extending up the stairs to the second level, fire officials said.
Firefighters raced to the scene, arriving in less than three minutes, but a car parked in front of a fire hydrant cost crews precious minutes, as the victims were trapped inside by the flames.
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Neighbors said the family who lived there, originally from Yemen, was a pillar in the community.
"The family is well known throughout the community, they speak to everybody, they wave," said LaShanna Bray. "I can’t see anybody that would want to harm them. Like I said, they’re a pillar of the community, they’ve been here for 10 years." | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/brooklyn-fire-in-east-new-york-death-toll-rises-to-3/4324052/ | 2023-05-11T13:30:28 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/brooklyn-fire-in-east-new-york-death-toll-rises-to-3/4324052/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – The Roanoke Ballet Theatre is putting on a special performance for those who are deaf and hard of hearing. It is called Poetry in Motion.
This one-of-a-kind show takes the poem “Lark Ascending” and brings it to life.
While dancers are performing, their hand gestures and movements will also be a form of sign language. This adds another layer that the deaf community is able to pick up on, that the hearing community might not notice.
The goal for the performance is to have hearing and deaf audience members be able to watch and enjoy the same show but get something different out of it.
Will Smith, a dancer and choreographer with Roanoke Ballet Theatre, says, “There are all these things that a hearing person gets to enjoy their part of it, but the deaf community, they will also be able to enjoy it because there are going to be interpreters for everything and for the ballet. The poem is almost going to be sung through the bodies of the dancers.”
The hearing audience will see more of the choral work, but the deaf audience can see the variety of ballet performance.
Local choreographer, Will Smith has been working on this show for almost a year. He said he saw a need in the community to create a ballet that all people of all abilities can enjoy.
Smith says a challenge he faced when creating the show was incorporating American Sign Language into a ballet. He has been working closely with Betsy Quillen, a local deaf actress. She is attending rehearsal and helping see how dances can push American Sign Language, while keeping it understandable.
“She is the perfect person to kind of melt these two worlds together. I would choreograph a whole section and feel like this part of the poem maybe works with it and she will look at it and say ‘this part here looks like this part of American Sign Language’,” says Smith.
At the show, there will also be interpreters to help with translation, as well as a film about a deaf ballet dancer.
This is one of Will’s and his wife’s last performances as professional dancers. He said this is important to him because he wanted to leave the ballet community with a gift for those who normally don’t get to enjoy it.
Smith says, “Knowing that the end of our career is coming and with the ballet world, you never know how things will shake out. I wanted to leave the ballet world by giving something to somebody who might not be able to come into our world.”
This show is able to be put on by a grant from Roanoke City. The grant was awarded for the “Year of the Artist,” which encourages art development in the Star City.
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CARROLL COUNTY, Va. – Residents in the Cana area of Carroll County could see an increased police presence as deputies search for a suspect, according to the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities said a warrant has been obtained and report that the suspect is wanted in connection with an incident that happened earlier.
At this time, Carroll County deputies believe the suspect has been contained within a perimeter.
The sheriff’s office is asking the public to be on the lookout for any suspicious activity.
Details surrounding the incident are limited at this time but we will continue to update this article as we learn more.
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Who is George Santos and how is he connected to Brevard County?
New York congressman George Santos faces felony charges related to an alleged wire fraud and money laundering scheme that investigators say were connected to companies run through a Brevard County based LLC.
Here’s what we know:
Who is George Santos?
George Santos, a Republican, was elected in November to represent New York's 3rd Congressional District, which includes parts of the New York City borough of Queens and Long Island.
Federal investigators say Santos defrauded campaign donors, spending tens of thousands in political contributions funneled through the companies on personal expenses like credit card bills and "luxury designer clothing," according to the federal indictment.
Only one of the companies was named in the federal filing: the Devolder Organization LLC., which Santos (whose middle name is Devolder) had previously described as a firm that managed his family assets.
Federal indictment:Regulators say George Santos' Brevard County companies involved in fraud scheme
Shifting Brevard addresses:Santos' company moves HQ from Merritt Island penthouse to Melbourne mail store
The charges against Santos
A grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has charged Santos with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives in connection with the alleged scheme.
What is Devolder Organization LCC?
The source of his wealth, according to the filing, was the "Devolder Organization," which Santos has described as a firm that managed his family's assets, which he said totaled $80 million. Devolder was Santos' mother's maiden name and he sometimes goes by George Devolder Santos or just George Devolder.
The Devolder Organization was first incorporated in Florida in May 2021 with the now-empty Melbourne offices of a Ob/Gyn practice listed as its address.
Santos filed new paperwork with the state reviving the firm in December, one day after the New York Times called into question large parts of Santos' resume noting that the Wall Street companies he said he worked for had no record of him. This time it listed a Merritt Island address as the company's headquarters. That address was for a penthouse unit in the Harbor Del Rio condos.
In January, The Devolder Organization LLC changed its headquarters from a penthouse on Merritt Island to a mail-services store in Melbourne.
The backstory:Disgraced politician George Santos has strong ties to Brevard County
Santos’ money
The financial disclosure report Santos filed in September 2022 claimed he had assets worth between $2.5 million and $10 million and had an income of $750,000. The only liability listed was a car loan from Westlake Financial, a company that specializes in sub-prime auto financing.
The source of his wealth, according to the filing, was the "Devolder Organization," which Santos has described as a firm that managed his family's assets, which he said totaled $80 million.
Ponzi scheme shutdown
For at least part of the time he was running for Congress, Santos was working for Harbor City Capital, a Melbourne-based "investment firm" that was shut down by the Securities and Exchange Commission as being nothing more than a Ponzi scheme. Federal regulators say the company defrauded investors of at least $4.5 million.
Santos has denied any knowledge of wrongdoing at the company.
Santos did not list any income from Harbor Capital on financial disclosure forms he filed as part of two congressional runs, a potential criminal violation.
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FLORIDA TODAY looked into the connections Santos had with Brevard. Here is the first story published on Santos' ties to the Space Coast, and here is a follow-up story. | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2023/05/11/heres-what-we-know-about-george-santos-brevard-county-connection/70206709007/ | 2023-05-11T13:47:24 | 0 | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2023/05/11/heres-what-we-know-about-george-santos-brevard-county-connection/70206709007/ |
MOUNTAIN IRON — A man was arrested Wednesday on pending charges of second-degree assault after a reported stabbing outside a restaurant Wednesday.
Just before 5 p.m., St. Louis County sheriff's deputies and neighboring agencies were dispatched to Adventures Restaurant, 5475 Mountain Iron Drive, to a report of a stabbing outside the business, according to a news release. All parties involved in the alleged assault fled the scene but were quickly located.
The victim and suspect were treated at a local hospital.
All involved parties were known to each other, according to the release.
An investigation is ongoing. The sheriff's office reports no known threat to the general public.
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STOCKTON, Calif. — There's a place in Stockton for traditional, homemade Southeast Asian cuisine, but, if you drive by too fast, you may miss it.
It's not a restaurant, but a delicious, daily cultural event served up at Angel Cruz Park in North Stockton.
For more than three decades, the Hmong who have immigrated from Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and other areas have gathered off North El Dorado Street to cook up family recipes - recipes that were brought with them from a world away.
Mee Xiong came to the U.S. in 1980 from Laos.
She has been selling her popular papaya salad here since 2009. Seven days a week, she's at the park with a steady line of hungry customers.
"Right now, I enjoy that because this is not for me to like work, a lot of money, but a couple dollars for my kids. They survive on like they need, whatever I give to them," said Mee Xiong.
Her daughter-in-law and husband also pitch in to grill the park's popular sausage and beef sticks.
"For the beef sticks, it's like sweet and the coloring is like red food coloring and lemon grass," said Peter Lee, an Angel Cruz Park griller.
The food at the park has become so popular it has it has gained a large social media following on TikTok.
Ernay Nino is a repeat customer for what she says is the authenticity of the food.
"Everybody has a little bit of everything here, very good vibe culturally here," said Nino.
David Heuangpraseuth describes the atmosphere as a "fun, magical, easy, family environment."
"People are friendly here. They all say 'Hi' to you, 'Oh, hi, how are you? Sweet face,'" he says.
Heuantpraseuth, some might say, is the unofficial spokesperson for the food vendors at the park. He also sells a number of foods himself.
"We have like beef larb here, cooked beef larb, Jeow Bong with cooked cow skin, spicy dip sauce," said Heuantpraseuth. "The first bite they say the 'Hmm umami' effect. (It) tastes so good, flavorful, the funkiness, the sweetness, the sourness, the spiciness."
Husband and wife Kimiko Pa'uli and Taniela Pa'uli are repeat customers to the park.
"I love how alive it is," said Kimiko Pa'uli.
"A lot of parks don't have anybody in them, but this park right here (has) a lot, especially on the weekends," said Taniela Pa'uli.
If you want to pay a visit, Angel Cruz Park is located on Segovia Lane right off N. El Dorado Street, about two blocks south of Hammer Lane.
Food sellers are there seven days a week, usually beginning after noon, and it gets very busy on the weekends.
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TRACY, Calif. — The Tracy Police Department said Wednesday there is "no credibility" to a bomb threat made at Anthony Traina Elementary School.
Officers investigated the threat and said the student responsible for the threat has been identified and disciplined, according to the Jefferson School District. The student's identity has not been released.
Officers will be doing extra patrols on campus out of an abundance of caution.
If anyone sees information about a threat in the community, call the Tracy Police Department Dispatch at (209) 831-6550.
ABC10 has reached out to the school district for more information.
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Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) discussed the pros and cons of three possible construction sites for a new Marshall Elementary School building during a public forum on Friday.
The district had first announced plans to rebuild and possibly move both Marshall and Kinsey elementary schools as part of a $100 million bond passed in the November election. After the opening of Killip Elementary's new building in August, the two schools are the oldest in the district and the most in need of repair, according to facility assessments done by a district consultant.
Marshall was first built in 1952.
“We are inspired to construct a new school that addresses the needs of this learning community now and into the future,” FUSD Superintendent Michael Penca said at the forum, which took place in the current school and was streamed online. “ ... [Marshall] has provided a lot of great service for us, but it’s reaching its end of life, and, also, the way it’s currently constructed doesn't always meet the learning needs and conditions that we have today.”
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Site analysis and selection for Marshall’s new building is expected to continue through the fall of 2023, according to a timeline presented at the meeting. The design will be completed and construction will begin in 2024, with the new building expected to open in the summer of 2025.
The district has begun the process of creating plans for this construction, hiring the DLR group and SWI engineering as the architecture and engineering firm for both projects. It is currently in the process -- which Penca said is expected to complete in June or July -- of selecting a construction manager for the Marshall project.
Though the plans have been discussed in several school board meetings since the bond passed, Friday's was the first public forum FUSD has held for either project.
The district plans to have other community engagement opportunities as the projects continue.
“We’re excited for this timeline, we’re excited for the rigor of it and we want to make sure that your voices are heard,” said Marshall Principal Janelle Reasor.
She asked those watching the meeting to stay and discuss their ideas about “who is Marshall, what do we value, what do we need for our teachers to have the optimal learning environment, the highest of student achievement, the opportunities of bringing the community assets all around us into our school and making sure that we are using every nook and cranny of the school that we build.“
She also noted that teachers and students at the school were already getting involved in this feedback process.
The presentations at Friday’s forum focused specifically on the school’s location, going through the benefits and drawbacks of three options.
The first option is to keep Marshall in its current location, near Thorpe Park and Flagstaff High School. FUSD is also considering moving the building, either to the location of the former Flagstaff Middle School across the street or to a site elsewhere in the city that the district would need to locate and purchase.
Points in favor of using the existing site are that it is already owned by FUSD and has utilities onsite that can be used for the new building. It would also mean minimal changes for families and employees to get to and from the school once construction is finished.
The site is small, though, creating difficulties in finding how to complete construction while students are still attending school at the location. It is also on a floodplain, meaning the new building would need to be raised. The raising could then lead to secondary effects elsewhere, including the nearby Flagstaff High School.
“There's a lot of pros to the new site in that you get to do everything you want, but the question is where do you find that site,” said David Schmidt on the second option.
A project manager with DLR, Schmidt presented this section alongside project architect Eric Ramstine.
Selecting a new site would mean that the district could choose the land that best suits the new building’s needs (and wouldn't be on a floodplain) and could complete construction without disruption to learning in the current school.
Cons of that approach, however, are the limited number of sites available in Flagstaff that would meet the criteria needed and their cost, which could take money away from other district projects, including Marshall’s construction.
The former Flagstaff Middle School site, meanwhile, is already owned by the district and its proximity to the current school while still being a different location would mean less disruption, both to the current school during construction, and in routines for families and staff once the new building has been finished.
That site’s topography means various elements of the design might be more difficult (fields and accessibility were two examples given) and the nearby pond would also need to be addressed as a liability.
“Those ideas can be mitigated through good design,” Schmidt said, “but it’s definitely a challenging site.”
A recording of the forum is available at vimeo.com/823496873. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/education/location-of-new-marshall-elementary-discussed-in-fusd-forum-on-construction-plans/article_1e115d5a-eeb3-11ed-8dbc-57355addc821.html | 2023-05-11T13:56:15 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/education/location-of-new-marshall-elementary-discussed-in-fusd-forum-on-construction-plans/article_1e115d5a-eeb3-11ed-8dbc-57355addc821.html |
Jessi Harmon will be graduating from Northern Arizona University this week with a bachelor's in biology, with a botany emphasis, before commissioning into the U.S. Army as an explosive ordnance disposal officer.
Harmon, who will be starting in the United States Army Ordnance Corps as a second lieutenant, has been in ROTC since starting college. She said she enjoyed the program's small community full of a shared service-oriented mindset.
”It’s really nice to be around a group of peers that are super driven and going towards similar goals as you,” she said. “I think it's really cool to find a community where everyone is service-minded ... and have a forum to speak about honor, duty to country, duty to your people in an unironic format -- which I think is kind of rare in college."
Harmon added: "It’s cool to find a community where you genuinely want to help people and they feel that same kind of pride and drive to continue to better our society and be progressive-minded in a way that’s more a larger organization that’s pushing to do the same thing."
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Harmon is from Flagstaff, graduating from Flagstaff High School with a Marine Corps scholarship and plans to become an aviator. She started college playing Division I soccer while attending the Virginia Military Institute and said the understanding of different military roles she gained from that experience helped her choose her current path into the army.
"I stepped back so I could see where I wanted to end up now that I understood a lot more, and then I picked and chose my route from there,” she said.
She then spent a year studying in Hawaii before moving back to Flagstaff during the COVID-19 pandemic and transferring to NAU.
While her career goals are entirely in the military, Harmon majored in biology with an emphasis in botany. She said she chose the field in part because she wanted to learn about a subject that was unfamiliar to her. She was deciding between a botany and pre-med focus, choosing the former because of the opportunities offered by the program’s Flagstaff location.
Harmon's capstone project has to do with the way different systems interact with plants and how elements of an ecosystem can help them respond to shifts in climate.
She described her coursework as “attaching the sustainability of our ecosystems to the sustainability of our society."
"Climate change [is] a huge focus of a lot of research right now because it's such a crisis," she added. " ... My degree mostly pertains to different facets of ecosystems that make them more durable to climate change, make them more able to withstand different shifting climates and how we can use that."
In high school, she was involved in related research with NAU's Southwest Experimental Garden Array, studying the effects of increasing temperatures associated with climate change on the Southwestern white pine by planting them at lower elevations.
"It's a lot of learning how the plant works, how it fits into the larger ecosystem and then how that fits into our society," she said.
Harmon has also volunteered with local schools during her time at NAU, helping with school shopping, buying holiday gifts for local kids and helping arrange Christmas parties at the Elks Lodge.
She’s also been a virtual peer member with her tribe, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, using teleconferencing to mentor students on their higher education options and how it might benefit them.
Similarly, she's volunteered with JROTC programs across Arizona, leading trainings and talking with students to show what the college version of the program is like. This has included leading courses in swimming, combat water survival training and land navigation.
One lesson Harmon said she would take away from her time at NAU was the value of investing in interpersonal relationships.
“I think the people here at the school made my experience,” she said. “I found myself in a lot of teaching, teaching assistant type roles, and I brought a lot of personal benefit to being in that kind of role, seeing people succeed and being able to be a part of their success. I've gained so much pride in my ability to do things.
"Something that I’ll take away for sure is just the value in putting that effort into other people and seeing that reflected back.” | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/education/northern-arizona-university-graduate-spotlight-jessi-harmon/article_bb6bb5ce-ef66-11ed-83df-d70147fad4c8.html | 2023-05-11T13:56:22 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/education/northern-arizona-university-graduate-spotlight-jessi-harmon/article_bb6bb5ce-ef66-11ed-83df-d70147fad4c8.html |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Harrisburg letter carrier is being nationally recognized for his efforts to save an elderly couple from mail fraud.
Christopher Lippy became suspicious of fraudulent activity when two of his customers, an elderly married couple, both placed temporary change-of-address requests within a short period of time.
Lippy initially thought the wife's request was because of the holiday season. He became suspicious when he received the second request, purported to be from the husband.
The mailman alerted the couple to the changes and the fact that he had noticed a significant drop in the amount of mail he was delivering to them.
The duo said they had not requested their mail to be delivered elsewhere, and an investigation determined that they were the victims of fraudulent activity. Someone had submitted the requests online and was collecting the couple's forwarded mail.
“We are grateful Chris picked up on it early, or even more damage would have been done,” the pair said.
The National Association of Letter Carriers will present Lippy with this year's Carrier Alert Hero award at its Heroes of the Year awards ceremony today in Washington, D.C.
Philadelphia mail carrier Anthony Picariello will also be recognized for his efforts to make holidays joyous for hospitalized children. It is a cause close to his heart; both he and his newborn daughter underwent surgery at a young age. Picariello will be named Humanitarian of the Year.
Honorees from 2020 and 2021 will also be recognized at today's ceremony, as their recognitions were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/harrisburg-hero-national-association-of-letter-carriers-christopher-lippy/521-eb979000-4361-4add-810e-e5f1595c974f | 2023-05-11T14:01:31 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/harrisburg-hero-national-association-of-letter-carriers-christopher-lippy/521-eb979000-4361-4add-810e-e5f1595c974f |
YORK, Pa. — Mother’s Day means flowers!
FOX43's Tyler Hatfield went to Royer's Flower Shop in York to learn what it takes to prepare for their busiest day of the year.
Barry Spengler, chief administrative officer of Royer's Flowers and Gifts, said every year is getting busier than the next.
“It's about 10 times what we normally do on a given day," said Spengler. "If you say you do 50 deliveries, you'll do 500."
Spengler said it's so busy, his team started preparing for this Mother's Day…last summer.
“The flowers have to come right at the right time to start making the arrangements," said Spengler. "If you don't do that, you won't have enough."
It's true that anyone can make a flower arrangement. But Spengler said to make it strong for delivery, it takes a little extra effort.
Spengler showed Tyler that they use tape to make a "grid" in the flower vase. This grid not only organizes the arrangement for the florist; it also holds the flowers together to decrease the risk of falling apart.
“It's all just pretty much structural," said Spengler. "It has to be very structurally sound, or it's not going to make it where it should go.”
But once the florist is ready to pick and place the flowers in the vase, Spengler says he wants their creativity to bloom.
“Everybody's eyes are different," said Spengler. "You can't say, 'that's an ugly arrangement;' no, its the eye of the beholder."
Even with creativity blossoming, Spengler said Mother's Day can be very hectic.
But Spengler said his favorite part is seeing the final product light up someone's day.
“It's really cool to see it all come together and get out the door and get to the customer," said Spengler. "They're so happy to see you."
He added, "Especially moms, moms are so happy to see you.” | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/mothers-day-flower-arranging-bouquet-tyler-tries-it/521-25cdebc2-8f74-4588-b5d8-9bb53cfe5094 | 2023-05-11T14:01:34 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/mothers-day-flower-arranging-bouquet-tyler-tries-it/521-25cdebc2-8f74-4588-b5d8-9bb53cfe5094 |
LAKELAND, Fla. – A 13-year-old exchanged gunfire with police during a chase through a residential neighborhood in Florida, wounding one officer and ending up in the hospital after being shot himself, officials said.
One officer was shot in the foot Wednesday evening in Lakeland, between Tampa and Orlando in Central Florida, and is expected to be released from a hospital in coming days, police said. No other officers were injured.
Officers were responding to reports of a drive-by shooting at a park. Officer Jamie Smith spotted the suspect’s vehicle and pursued it. When it stopped, the three occupants jumped out and fled, according to Police Chief Sam Taylor.
Smith saw the 13-year-old running down a sidewalk next to an apartment complex, carrying a firearm, Taylor said. The teen went into the complex despite being commanded to stop. As Smith turned a corner, the teen was crouched in wait for him and fired at least one round from a handgun, Taylor said.
The officer was struck in the left foot and returned fire, but the teen fled, the chief said. Smith called for backup and continued chasing the teen. He lost sight of him, but other officers spotted him hiding in bushes. The teen tried to flee and engaged in a gun battle with officers, during which he was shot in the lower extremities and taken to Tampa General Hospital, Taylor said. Police believe he was treated and released.
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The same teen had been arrested in January following a car burglary and had a stolen handgun at that time, said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
“He has no regard for life. None. Zero,” said Judd, whose agency is investigating, at a news conference Wednesday night. “He may be 13 years old chronologically, but he’s a hardened criminal willing to shoot it out with cops.”
Authorities are asking prosecutors to charge him as an adult. For now, The Associated Press is not identifying the teen because of his age.
At least one of the other people in the car was in custody late Wednesday. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/11/13-year-old-shoots-florida-police-officer-during-gun-battle-officials-say/ | 2023-05-11T14:06:23 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/11/13-year-old-shoots-florida-police-officer-during-gun-battle-officials-say/ |
WATERLOO — Operation Threshold, an organization that provides a variety of services to low-income people, is out of money for its crisis assistance program.
According to its website, Operation Threshold provides financial assistance on a limited basis to households facing crisis situations such as utility disconnection, emergency fuel deliveries, and furnace repair/replacement. It also offers a crisis assistance program called Pocket Change, available to assist eligible households with emergency expenses related to work or school attendance or other unusual crises.
Normally, applications are taken throughout the year, however assistance depends upon available funding. The organization has temporarily stopped taking applications for crisis assistance.
Executive Director Barb Grant said it’s been at least a decade since the organization has run out of funds so early in the year. And it coincides with the end of the organization’s Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program on April 30. LIHEAP is a federally-funded program designed to help low-income families with the cost of heating by providing a one-time payment. It doesn’t start up again until Oct. 1.
From Oct. 1 through April 30 when LIHEAP was active, Operation Threshold assisted 5,242 people. That’s less than last year.
What has increased, however, is the number of people using the organization’s crisis assistance program.
In April, 303 households were assisted, compared with 202 households in April 2022, a 50% increase. The amount of money provided also increased from last year. Last April, $170,420 was given to people in need. This April, it was $251,600, a 47.6% increase.
Prior to the advent of the pandemic in March 2020 and the extra federal assistance it brought, the number of households helped and money spent was much lower. Grant said $400,000 in federal COVID-19 assistance started in October 2021. The agency ran out of that money in March.
Grant believes the the culprit behind the organization’s depleted funding is that “everything” costs more.
“Inflation costs are higher, you know, the cost of living is higher, utility costs are higher,” she said. “I think there’s some overall unease. I know that there are increases in requests for basic needs services besides utilities.”
An example is the numbers at the Grundy County food pantry.
Grant said from January to March, the number of households seeking help rose 20%, and the number of times the pantry helped the same household increased 34%. Although needs have increased, she said, the number of cash donations has decreased 37%.
“I think individuals and families are still really struggling,” Grant said. “Even while working, there’s less of a safety net. … It doesn’t have the capacity to provide as much support as it has over the last few years.”
That safety net may fray even more if Gov. Kim Reynolds signs a bill that would change eligibility requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
“Federal support has been reducing, like LIHEAP, like SNAP,” Grant said. “Pandemic benefits have gone down. And now it’s going to be harder for people to qualify for assistance that they need to meet their basic needs.”
If signed into law, Iowa households with liquid assets of more than $15,000 – excluding the value of a home, a household’s first car and up to $10,000 of a second car – would be denied SNAP benefits.
“I hope that families don’t fall through the cracks,” she said. “I am concerned that the donations can’t make up the difference for the loss of federal funds or federally funded supports.”
Photos: 2023 Cedar Valley Top Nurses recipients at award ceremony | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/operation-threshold-is-out-of-crisis-funds/article_b52216a0-d266-59de-83db-341d87d89d01.html | 2023-05-11T14:09:16 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/operation-threshold-is-out-of-crisis-funds/article_b52216a0-d266-59de-83db-341d87d89d01.html |
Name: Jacob Camacho-Running
School: Wilmot High School
Parents: Laureano and Sheryl Running Camacho of Twin Lakes
Most memorable high school moment: I think I will most remember the various quirks unique to a pandemic-era education. I think I will remember the sporadic blasts from the feedback of someone's microphone during algebra, the unexpectedly lavish home in the background of a teacher's camera, a distracted watching of a riot at the capitol while finishing chemistry homework, an indecipherably pixelated video being relayed through Zoom, a public hilariously divided on any subject no matter how miniscule it was, the odd suspicion that you might be infected, the odd suspicion that it was your friend that had infected you, the odd suspicion that everything was going to fail: your grades while in quarantine if not the world.
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Most influential teacher: Debbie Chike in Honors English II and AP Literature and Composition; Her chief expectation is effort and it is through the effort she demands that she pushes her students toward excellence.
School activities/clubs: Badger Boys/Girls State, DECA, forensics, International Club, Link Crew, Spanish Club; Chess Club
School athletics: Volleyball
School offices held: Boys Volleyball Varsity Captain; DECA Chapter President; DECA Vice President of Competitive Events
Out-of-school activities/hobbies: Reading; Watching films; Discovering new music; Writing/Journaling; Weightlifting; Frisbee golf
College choice: Undecided
Intended major/field of study: Philosophy and Economics
Role model: David Foster Wallace
Three words that best describe my role model: Pensive; Sardonic; Precise
What I hope to accomplish in my lifetime: I would like to make an intellectual contribution to society that inspires another to do the same. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-teen-2023-jacob-camacho-running-of-wilmot-high-school/article_5641e04a-edec-11ed-a0ce-efed77d43112.html | 2023-05-11T14:18:02 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-teen-2023-jacob-camacho-running-of-wilmot-high-school/article_5641e04a-edec-11ed-a0ce-efed77d43112.html |
WELLINGTON, Kan. (KSNW) — Just weeks before Memorial Day, Wellington City Council voted to delay the opening of the Wellington Family Aquatic Center.
Wellington’s city manager said the aquatic center’s 24-year-old pool has lost more and more water over the past few summers. Usually, due to evaporation, the 400,000-gallon pool should only lose 5,000 gallons of water a week. But, in 2022, the pool was losing 175,000 gallons a week.
“At the last council meeting, a motion was made to hold off or not open the pool until we have some clarity — what our losses will be and if we’ve addressed the major source of loss,” Jeff Porter, Wellington city manager, said.
Porter says the City uses between 1.6 million and 1.8 million gallons of water a day during the peak of summer. With sinking water levels at Wellington Lake causing the City to go into a water watch, he said officials are concerned the leaking aquatic center pool will make matters worse.
“Our lake level, which is tied to our, our water system, we’re about 50 inches low,” he said. “The concern is we’re not far off from conservation measures because it’s been a pretty dry spring.”
“We can’t ignore if it comes to that,” Cody White, Wellington Recreation Commission superintendent, said.
He says the pool brought in more than 12,000 visitors last summer, an important economic driver for the small community.
“We have 22 new lifeguards this year, which is the highest number we’ve ever had, and you couple that with returning guards, management staff, cashiers … it could be anywhere from 50-60 people that it could ultimately affect,” White said.
Although he believes the pool can open on Memorial Day weekend, he said the Wellington City Council will ultimately decide if that’s the case.
“If we have to delay things by a few days, it’s nothing new,” White said. “From the past couple years, weather definitely has not been on our side.”
“We’re cognizant that we need to balance both the needs of the community when it comes to water but also providing, you know, an important recreation asset and, you know, competitive asset for the swim team and things like that”, Porter said.
White says there have been attempts to repair the pool. However, he said the only way to determine if the repairs worked is to fill the pool. So, staff will fill it, monitor the water levels over the next few days, and then present their findings to the City Council on May 16.
City staff is also in touch with the company that came in last fall to find the leak and an additional engineering firm to find ways to keep the pool open this summer. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/why-wellington-city-council-delayed-opening-the-wellington-family-aquatic-center/ | 2023-05-11T14:23:43 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/why-wellington-city-council-delayed-opening-the-wellington-family-aquatic-center/ |
STACKER—It goes without saying that the coronavirus pandemic sparked a wave of uncertainty across myriad industries, and no other market has quite felt its impact like that of real estate.
The pandemic became a driving force behind the continued real estate boom, with high demand for vacation homes and a limited supply of housing that prompted buyers and investors to bid up prices for affordable properties, causing home prices to skyrocket. Since then, increasing mortgage rates have slowed growth, with prices even declining in some places. But some areas are still seeing price jumps compared to the year before.
Stacker compiled a list of cities with the fastest-growing home prices in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area using data from Zillow. Cities are ranked by 1-year price change as of March 2023. The typical home value in the United States increased over the last year by 3% to $334,994. Data were available for 179 cities and towns in Dallas.
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#30. Briaroaks, TX
– 1-year price change: +$17,869 (+4.6%)
– 5-year price change: +$105,381 (+34.6%)
– Typical home value: $409,985 (#61 most expensive city in metro)
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#29. Bridgeport, TX
– 1-year price change: +$18,026 (+9.2%)
– 5-year price change: +$92,507 (+76.2%)
– Typical home value: $213,946 (#171 most expensive city in metro)
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#28. Midlothian, TX
– 1-year price change: +$18,079 (+4.2%)
– 5-year price change: +$155,242 (+53.8%)
– Typical home value: $443,975 (#44 most expensive city in metro)
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#27. Addison, TX
– 1-year price change: +$18,098 (+4.1%)
– 5-year price change: +$101,887 (+28.8%)
– Typical home value: $456,009 (#42 most expensive city in metro)
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#26. Coppell, TX
– 1-year price change: +$18,400 (+3.2%)
– 5-year price change: +$123,433 (+26.1%)
– Typical home value: $595,668 (#23 most expensive city in metro)
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#25. Poolville, TX
– 1-year price change: +$19,414 (+5.0%)
– 5-year price change: +$167,521 (+70.4%)
– Typical home value: $405,360 (#65 most expensive city in metro)
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#24. Aledo, TX
– 1-year price change: +$19,612 (+4.3%)
– 5-year price change: +$140,550 (+42.2%)
– Typical home value: $473,224 (#40 most expensive city in metro)
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#23. Aurora, TX
– 1-year price change: +$19,985 (+4.1%)
– 5-year price change: +$190,473 (+59.7%)
– Typical home value: $509,564 (#33 most expensive city in metro)
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#22. Heath, TX
– 1-year price change: +$20,305 (+2.9%)
– 5-year price change: +$252,495 (+52.8%)
– Typical home value: $730,573 (#15 most expensive city in metro)
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#21. Ovilla, TX
– 1-year price change: +$20,933 (+4.7%)
– 5-year price change: +$157,491 (+51.4%)
– Typical home value: $464,174 (#41 most expensive city in metro)
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#20. Argyle, TX
– 1-year price change: +$21,135 (+3.0%)
– 5-year price change: +$295,752 (+67.4%)
– Typical home value: $734,503 (#13 most expensive city in metro)
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#19. Wilmer, TX
– 1-year price change: +$21,435 (+13.9%)
– 5-year price change: +$99,347 (+129.8%)
– Typical home value: $175,864 (#178 most expensive city in metro)
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#18. Double Oak, TX
– 1-year price change: +$21,528 (+2.9%)
– 5-year price change: +$201,032 (+35.3%)
– Typical home value: $770,261 (#11 most expensive city in metro)
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#17. Grandview, TX
– 1-year price change: +$21,573 (+6.6%)
– 5-year price change: +$170,786 (+96.8%)
– Typical home value: $347,237 (#97 most expensive city in metro)
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#16. Grapevine, TX
– 1-year price change: +$21,669 (+4.4%)
– 5-year price change: +$131,785 (+34.2%)
– Typical home value: $517,592 (#32 most expensive city in metro)
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#15. Annetta, TX
– 1-year price change: +$23,300 (+4.8%)
– 5-year price change: +$160,463 (+46.3%)
– Typical home value: $506,734 (#34 most expensive city in metro)
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#14. Haslet, TX
– 1-year price change: +$24,314 (+4.2%)
– 5-year price change: +$160,463 (data not available)
– Typical home value: $604,983 (#21 most expensive city in metro)
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#13. Sunset, TX
– 1-year price change: +$24,412 (+6.6%)
– 5-year price change: +$178,795 (+83.0%)
– Typical home value: $394,132 (#72 most expensive city in metro)
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#12. Sunnyvale, TX
– 1-year price change: +$24,742 (+4.1%)
– 5-year price change: +$181,760 (+40.7%)
– Typical home value: $627,803 (#19 most expensive city in metro)
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#11. Bartonville, TX
– 1-year price change: +$26,379 (+2.4%)
– 5-year price change: +$471,929 (+72.4%)
– Typical home value: $1,123,672 (#6 most expensive city in metro)
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#10. Maypearl, TX
– 1-year price change: +$26,423 (+8.9%)
– 5-year price change: +$118,134 (+57.2%)
– Typical home value: $324,622 (#109 most expensive city in metro)
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#9. Oak Leaf, TX
– 1-year price change: +$27,030 (+7.0%)
– 5-year price change: +$144,487 (+53.3%)
– Typical home value: $415,541 (#58 most expensive city in metro)
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#8. Colleyville, TX
– 1-year price change: +$28,304 (+3.5%)
– 5-year price change: +$245,918 (+42.2%)
– Typical home value: $828,306 (#9 most expensive city in metro)
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#7. Southlake, TX
– 1-year price change: +$30,073 (+2.7%)
– 5-year price change: +$394,150 (+51.6%)
– Typical home value: $1,158,229 (#5 most expensive city in metro)
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#6. Godley, TX
– 1-year price change: +$32,647 (+8.2%)
– 5-year price change: +$186,442 (+75.9%)
– Typical home value: $432,123 (#52 most expensive city in metro)
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#5. Perrin, TX
– 1-year price change: +$33,974 (+19.4%)
– 5-year price change: +$186,442 (data not available)
– Typical home value: $208,891 (#172 most expensive city in metro)
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#4. Westover Hills, TX
– 1-year price change: +$63,642 (+3.2%)
– 5-year price change: +$429,624 (+26.5%)
– Typical home value: $2,051,786 (#2 most expensive city in metro)
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#3. University Park, TX
– 1-year price change: +$132,970 (+7.4%)
– 5-year price change: +$632,385 (+49.1%)
– Typical home value: $1,920,601 (#3 most expensive city in metro)
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#2. Westlake, TX
– 1-year price change: +$168,223 (+11.6%)
– 5-year price change: +$838,575 (+107.2%)
– Typical home value: $1,621,029 (#4 most expensive city in metro)
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#1. Highland Park, TX
– 1-year price change: +$188,700 (+8.7%)
– 5-year price change: +$866,885 (+57.7%)
– Typical home value: $2,368,591 (#1 most expensive city in metro | https://cw33.com/news/local/cities-with-the-fastest-growing-home-prices-in-the-dallas-metro-area/ | 2023-05-11T14:24:19 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/cities-with-the-fastest-growing-home-prices-in-the-dallas-metro-area/ |
Take your mom to a show: Folk, country and afro-pop music fill Bloomington venues
It's all about the music this weekend in Bloomington. Well, that and jokes. OK, music, jokes, mothers and public spaces. Bloomington stages will resonate with folk, country-rock, afro-pop, a Mamma Mia sing along and the stories of a pancake lover.
If you're in the mood for something more community-oriented, consider joining in "Bloomington Day," where the future of art and design in downtown, the Trades District and soon-to-be Hopewell Neighborhood will be discussed with business leaders.
Folk singer Jeff Cannon's CD release show Thursday
Jeff Cannon's Studio Session CD release show will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday at the the Ted Jones Playhouse, 107 W. Ninth St. Cannon, a folk singer and songwriter, will perform songs from his brand-new “High Tea for Poets,” (maybe he'll play "Indiana," which is about the drive to a better life) along with other selections. Tickets for the general admission show are $15-$25. Doors open 45 minutes beforehand. Will-call tickets will be at the Bloom Box Office in the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. until 4 p.m. the day of the show and if any seats remain, at the Ted Jones Playhouse.
Comedian Chad Daniels brings laughs Thursday to the Comedy Attic
Stand-up comedian Chad Daniels — self-described as a dad, comedian and lover of pancakes — will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Comedy Attic, 123 S. Walnut St., with doors opening at 6 p.m. Tickets are $30, available at www.comedyattic.com.
Kolby Cooper brings country music to The Bluebird Friday night
With a combination of Lonestar State roots, rough-hewn vocals and wailing electric guitars, Kolby Cooper will perform Friday at The Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St. Tickets are $15 for the 21-plus show. Doors open at 7 for the 8 p.m. show. For tickets and more, go to thebluebird.ws.
Celebrate moms singing the songs of 'Mamma Mia' on Friday
Celebrate Mother’s Day a little early with a Friday night "Mamma Mia" sing-along at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. This interactive musical experience centers on the smash-hit film about a bride-to-be trying to find her real father, all told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA. It will run 7:30-9:30 p.m. Friday at 114. E. Kirkwood Ave. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Go to buskirkchumley.org for tickets and more info. The night will begin with a short pre-show activity including a costume contest and Dancing Queen dance off.
Give consideration for the city's future at “Bloomington Day”
On Saturday, Landmark Columbus Foundation will co-host a series of events in collaboration with the city of Bloomington as part of the 2022–23 cycle of Exhibit Columbus, which is exploring the theme Public by Design to create meaningful connections between people and the public spaces they share. The Bloomington Conversation will feature a series of events exploring past, present and future themes of art and design in downtown Bloomington, the Trades District and the new Hopewell Neighborhood.
Speakers and guides include Esteban Garcia Bravo, whose artwork Aurora Almanac is installed in the Trades District Garage; landscape architect Chris Merritt, whose firm Merritt Chase contributed to the Hopewell Neighborhood Master Plan; and James Lima of James Lima Planning + Development, who specializes in the economics of placemaking and creating vibrant, equitable and resilient places.
Scheduled events are:
- 10:30 a.m.: welcome, with doughnuts and coffee and a overview of the Trades District Garage with remarks by artist Esteban Garcia Bravo
- 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: downtown art and design tour
- 12:30 p.m.: lunch at John Waldron Arts Center
- 2-4:30 p.m.: public conversation about art, design and economic development in the Hopewell Neighborhood and beyond with Chris Merritt and James Lima at the John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S Walnut St.
- 7:30 p.m.: free screening of “Playtime” at Upland Brewing Woodshop in partnership with Cicada Cinema.
Baba Commandant & the Mandingo Band perform Tuesday at The Bluebird
Baba Commandant & the Mandingo Band brings its fusion of Mandingue and afro-beat styles to The Bluebird at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets are $20 for the show and are available at thebluebird.ws. | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/entertainment/local/2023/05/11/this-weekend-in-bloomington-jeff-cannon-chad-daniels-mamma-mia/70199475007/ | 2023-05-11T14:26:49 | 1 | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/entertainment/local/2023/05/11/this-weekend-in-bloomington-jeff-cannon-chad-daniels-mamma-mia/70199475007/ |
May brings more farmers' market options to the Bloomington area
When the calendar turns to May, even more farmers' markets open in the Bloomington area and surrounding counties. With spring vegetables and — soon — fruit ripening, local farmers have more to sell and most markets have prepared food vendors and artisans also selling their wares. Here's a list of farmers' markets open in Monroe and surrounding counties:
Smithville Farmers' Market is open Saturdays through Sept. 23
8 a.m.-noon Saturdays: For the 14th year, there's a farmers' market at the shelter house in Smithville's park just south of Redman Hall on South Strain Road. You'll find locally grown produce, garden plants, eggs and meat as well as freshly baked pastries, coffee and biscuits and gravy.
Arts and Crafts Day is the second Saturday of each month. Anyone who creates homemade arts or crafts can bring them to the market to sell. For more information, go to the Smithville, Indiana Farmers' Market page on Facebook.
On the third Saturday of each month, Kids' Day offers tables for kids up to age 18 to share and sell whatever they create — from baked goods to sculptures and other artwork. It has to be created by the youth. To sign up, go to the market's Facebook page.
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Owen County Farmers' Market open Saturdays in Spencer
8:30 a.m.-noon Saturdays: Located at 459 W. Morgan St. in Spencer, the farmers' market offers vegetables and fruit from area farmers, eggs, meat, plants and flowers, live music, soap and prepared food. The youth lemonade stand will be open; any area youth can sign up for a Saturday for the 50-cent booth rental. This year there are "quite a few new vendors," according to the market's Andrea White. More information on booths and the market can be found at the market's Facebook page and its website, owencountyfarmersmarket.com.
Nashville Farmers' Market is open on Sundays
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sundays: The Nashville Farmers' Market is open for the season in the parking lot of the Brown County Inn, 51 Ind. 46 in Nashville. Vendors sell locally grown vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruit, meat, mushrooms, soap, coffee, pies and other prepared foods, jewelry and crafts. The market is open now through October. For more, go to the market's Facebook page or nashvilleindianafarmersmarket.com.
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Sobremesa Farm has a Sunday market
Noon to 3 p.m. Sundays: Sobremesa Farm at 4781 N. Mount Gilead Road has an on-site market now through December. The market is open to people who have placed an order as well as the general public. Sign up for a weekly email to get information on what's available and how to order. For more, go to sobremesafarm.com.
Open in Bloomington: Woolery, Bloomington and People's Cooperative markets
Other markets in Bloomington that are open each week include:
People's Cooperative Market: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays at First United Church, 2420 E. Third St. Locally grown produce, meats, cheese and prepared food as well as other handmade, natural products are sold each week. Order early and have items delivered to your residence. For more, go to www.peoplesmarketbtown.org.
Bloomington Community Farmers' Market: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays at 401 N. Morton St. Locally grown produce, meats, eggs, cheese, honey, plants, seeds and flowers are for sale each week. There is live music each week. This weekend will launch this season's A Fair of the Arts with 35 local artisan vendors. For more, go to bloomington.in.gov/farmers-market.
Woolery Mill Farmers' Market: 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Woolery Mill front lot at 2250 W. Sunstone Drive. Locally grown produce, meats, eggs, cheese, honey, mushrooms, salmon, prepared foods and coffee and tea are sold each week. Flowers, plants and seeds can also be found here. Well-behaved dogs on leashes are welcome. Live music is provided each week. For more, go to the Woolery Farmers' Market Facebook page.
Tuesday Market coming in June
Bloomington's Tuesday Market will open for the season on June 6 at Switchyard Park. It will be open 4 to 7 p.m. on the brick plaza north of the pavilion building. | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/11/smithville-owen-county-spencer-nashville-farmers-markets-now-open/70204360007/ | 2023-05-11T14:26:55 | 0 | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/11/smithville-owen-county-spencer-nashville-farmers-markets-now-open/70204360007/ |
ATLANTA — Editor's Note: The above video is from a previous version of this story.
It's been three months since two East Point business partners disappeared. A month later, the remains of two people were found near the bank of the Chattahoochee River.
Officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed Thursday that they identified the second business partner, Kenny Guerra, 35.
The remains of Jason Salter, 39, were positively identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office last month. His remains were identified by dental records, according to medical examiners.
GBI officials are now looking for answers and asking the public for any information on the pair's death.
Authorities said they are ruling both of their deaths a homicide at this time.
Salter and Guerra were last seen on Feb. 25. The two men are both fathers, business partners and best friends who vanished.
Salter's brother reported them missing on Feb. 26 after Salter didn't come home or answer his cell phone.
The families have been looking for them ever since. They organized searches and the community got involved to look for the men.
Last month, the Chattahoochee Hills Police Department said the apparent remains of two people were discovered near the river at the Bouckaert Farm property in Fulton County. The farm sits on 8,000 acres and is home to an event space and equestrian facility, according to its website.
GBI officials said that the Chattahoochee Hills Police Department requested them to assist them in their death investigation.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the GBI at 770-388-5019.
Those who would like to submit an anonymous tip can do so here. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/kenny-guerra-identified-east-point-business-partners-who-went-missing/85-3decf984-a3de-43d7-ba06-16fff803e35c | 2023-05-11T14:28:48 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/kenny-guerra-identified-east-point-business-partners-who-went-missing/85-3decf984-a3de-43d7-ba06-16fff803e35c |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Getting medication during a virtual appointment could get a lot harder.
Let's connect the dots.
Since the start of the pandemic, telehealth has made it a lot easier for people to get access to health care.
Patients are often able to meet with doctors and get prescriptions without ever seeing them. But that could soon change.
Starting today, the ability of health professionals to prescribe controlled medication without meeting the patient will come to an end.
That includes medication for things like sleep, ADHD, anxiety and depression.
There is still hope that access could change.
Federal agencies are working to allow some telehealth practitioners to prescribe some more medication virtually.
In the meantime, doctors worry people who rely on medication could experience withdrawal before they're able to get an appointment with a doctor.
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ATLANTA — The $109 Powerball jackpot wasn't won by anyone around the country Wednesday night, with the next estimated jackpot for Saturday's drawing up to $125 million.
The winning numbers were 21, 24, 33, 55, 69 with a red Powerball number of 3. The power play was worth a 10x multiplier.
There were no major winners in Georgia this time around, either, according to figures from Georgia Lottery. A few people, however, did use the power play to turn a relatively smaller win into a nice payment.
How many people won Powerball prizes in Georgia?
- $1,000: 7 winners
- $100: 25 winners
The seven $1,000 winners were all $100 prize winners who used the 10x power play to turn it into a four-figure cashout. Two of the people won $100 through matching four white-ball numbers and five of them matched three white-ball numbers and the red powerball number.
What are the chances of winning big?
It's a 1 in 302.6 million chance, but that does not make it impossible.
Lucky winners can choose an annuity with annual payments over 29 years. Winners almost always take the cash option.
When's the next drawing for Powerball?
The next drawing is Saturday night for roughly $125 million.
The cash option is estimated at $67.2 million for Saturday night's drawing.
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Northbound drivers on Interstate 95 faced significant delays Thursday morning after multiple lanes were temporarily shut down due to what the Virginia Department of Transportation called "ongoing police activity."
VDOT first reported the incident, which occurred near the West Hundred Road exit, around 7:30 a.m. Thursday, with traffic delays stretching as far as 6 miles.
VDOT reported that all lanes were reopened and delays had cleared shortly before 9 a.m.
A Virginia State Police spokesperson told the Times-Dispatch that the agency was assisting Chesterfield police with an incident that began in the county, and that more information would be released Thursday morning.
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Migrants are rushing across the border hours before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are to expire, fearing that policies will make it far more difficult to gain entry into the United States. In a move to clear out overwhelmed holding facilities, a U.S. official says Border Patrol agents were told Wednesday to begin releasing some migrants with instructions to appear at an immigration office in the United States within 60 days. The Biden administration has been unveiling measures to replace Title 42, which suspended rights to seek asylum since March 2020 on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Former President Donald Trump dug in on his lies about the 2020 election during a tense CNN town hall. He also downplayed the violence on Jan. 6, 2021, and repeatedly insulted the woman whom a civil jury this week found him liable of sexually abusing and defaming. During the contentious back-and-forth Wednesday night in early-voting New Hampshire, Trump also refused to say whether he wants Ukraine to win the war against Russian aggression and said the U.S. “might as well” default on its debt obligation, despite the potential devastating economic consequences. The former president was cheered on and applauded by an audience of Republican and unaffiliated voters.
Protecting a narrow, four-vote majority, Republican leaders in the House are making clear the legal process will need to play out with New York Rep. George Santos before they take steps to force his resignation or expel him. The freshman congressman has been accused by federal prosecutors of embezzling money from his campaign, falsely receiving unemployment funds and lying to Congress about his finances. The position Republican leaders have staked out generally follows the precedent that Congress has set on similar matters over the years. The House has expelled just two members in recent decades, and both votes occurred after the lawmaker had been convicted on federal charges.
The Biden administration is proposing new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, its most ambitious effort yet to reduce planet-warming pollution from the nation’s second-largest contributor to climate change. A rule being unveiled Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using technology that isn't in widespread use in the U.S. If finalized, the rule would mark the first time the federal government has restricted carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25% of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution, second only to the transportation sector. Industry groups and Republican-leaning states accuse the Democratic administration of overreach on environmental regulations.
President Joe Biden is blasting Republican demands for federal spending cuts as “devastating." He made his case in a campaign-style speech to voters in Valhalla, New York, on Wednesday. At the same time, lawmakers met in Washington to try to find a path forward to lifting the government’s borrowing limit and avoiding a potentially catastrophic default as soon as June 1. The president showed an increased willingness to discuss possible deficit savings, yet he said that any talks should occur without the risk of the federal government being unable to pay its bills.
Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip have killed a fourth militant commander, as the death toll from the latest burst of fighting has risen to 26. Rocket fire toward southern Israel continued Thursday even as Egyptian attempts to broker a cease-fire continued. It has been the worst bout of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza in months and among the dead were also women and children. It has also pushed the region closer toward a full-blown war. The conflagration comes at a time of soaring tensions and spiking violence over the past year in the West Bank.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, whose arrest earlier this week sparked a wave of violence across the country by his supporters. For this Islamic nation, accustomed to military takeovers, political crises and violence, the turmoil is unprecedented. Clashes with police first erupted after Khan’s dramatic arrest on Tuesday when he appeared in an Islamabad court to face graft charges. At least 10 people have been killed in the violence and dozens were injured, along with more than 200 police officers. Pakistan's chief justice, while ordering Khan's release, urged the former premier to appeal to his supporters to remain peaceful.
The British government says it has sent long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine to help drive out Russia’s occupying forces. U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace made the announcement on Thursday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his military's long-expected spring counteroffensive is being delayed to allow for the delivery of more Western weapons. Wallace says the U.K. donated Storm Shadow missiles, a deep-strike, air-launched weapon with a range of more than 250 kilometers (150 miles). The missiles would allow Ukrainian forces to hit targets deep behind the front line, including in Russia-occupied Crimea. U.K. media reported that Ukraine has pledged not to use the weapons to attack Russia itself.
The pioneering mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, known as Dooce to fans, has died at home in Salt Lake City. She was 47. Her live-in partner, Pete Ashdown, confirmed her death by suicide. He said he found her Tuesday night. Armstrong had laid bare her struggles as a mother and her battles with depression and alcoholism on her site, Dooce.com, and on social media since 2001. Ashdown told The Associated Press that Armstrong had been sober for more than 18 months but had recently relapsed. She was one of the first and most popular mommy bloggers. She wrote frankly about her children, relationships and other challenges.
Jacklyn Zeman, who for 45 years played Bobbie Spencer on ABC's ‘General Hospital," has died at age 70. Her family confirmed the news Wednesday and says she died after a short battle with cancer. Zeman earned four Daytime Emmy Award nominations for her portrayal of Bobbie. The character projected a big heart and bubbly personality but was not afraid to speak her mind and stand up for herself and others. Zeman also had a role on the crime drama “The Bay,” for which she earned a fourth Daytime Emmy nod. She is survived by two daughters.
Stephen Curry had 27 points and eight assists, Andrew Wiggins added 25 points, seven rebounds and five assist, and the defending champion Golden State Warriors staved off elimination by beating the Los Angeles Lakers 121-106 in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals Wednesday night. Jalen Brunson had 38 points, nine rebounds and seven assists while playing all 48 minutes in a season-extending performance in New York's victory over Miami in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. A complete recap of Wednesday's action.
Joseph Woll stopped 24 shots in his first playoff start, Mitch Marner and William Nylander had the goals and the Toronto Maple Leafs staved off elimination by beating the Florida Panthers 2-1 in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series Wednesday night. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a goal and an assist as Edmonton evened the second-round playoff series at two games apiece. A complete recap of Wednesday's action. | https://richmond.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/virginia-state-police-interstate-95-chesterfield-county/article_2154ca6a-effd-11ed-bf3d-872c2aebf303.html | 2023-05-11T14:31:54 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/virginia-state-police-interstate-95-chesterfield-county/article_2154ca6a-effd-11ed-bf3d-872c2aebf303.html |
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has opened a $13 million women veteran’s health facility at the Richmond VA Medical Center
The building opened last month on Broad Rock Boulevard in south Richmond. It is designed to broaden the scope of services offered to women veterans in greater Richmond.
The 12,000-foot facility includes 12 exam rooms and services such as mammography, ultrasound, gynecology, primary care and others.
It has a staff of about 35 employees, including 10 registered nurses and five women’s health physicians, many of whom already worked for the VA.
The 12,000-foot VA women veteran's health center includes 12 exam rooms and services such as mammography, ultrasound, gynecology, primary care and others.
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The facility was built by the Florida-based Advon Construction and was funded by Congress.
There were almost 11,000 female veterans in the Central Virginia VA Health Care System in the 2022 fiscal year, and there are about 200,000 veterans living in the 52 cities and counties served by the 350-bed Richmond VA Medical Center.
The VA women veteran's health center has a staff of about 35 employees, including 10 registered nurses and five women's health physicians, many of whom already worked for the VA.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs changed the hospital’s name in January, dropping Hunter Holmes McGuire, a Confederate general whose name had been on the building since the 1940s.
Richmond VA Medical Center was the department’s only possible replacement, a spokesperson for the department said. The department cannot name a building for an individual without an act of Congress.
States that drafted the most men in World War II
States that drafted the most men in World War II
As of September 2022, there are just over 167,000 American veterans of World War II alive, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs . Since most are over 90 years old, it is estimated that three in every 10 will pass away in 2023. More than 16 million people served in the U.S. Armed Forces during the war, which took the lives of 30-65 million people. To this date, the exact number of casualties remains unknown .
In September 1940, Congress sanctioned the Selective Training and Service Act, the first peacetime draft law in the nation's history . By then, most of Europe had been at war for a year. The legislation—also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act—required men ages 21 to 45 to sign up for conscription. If inducted, they were appointed to serve for one year. When the U.S. officially entered the war, however, conscription limits were removed and service ran through the war's end.
The age of draftees was also lowered to 18 as the war developed, a change that ignited protests and a public campaign demanding the government lower the statutory age to vote. (Decades later, amidst the Vietnam War, this would prove to be the premise for the 26th Amendment, ratified in 1971.)
Over 36.5 million draft cards were issued during the time the U.S. fought in World War II; 10.1 million men were inducted between 1940 and 1947, which represented about 7.6% of the national population, according to estimates from the 1940 census. They joined 6 million volunteers in combat.
Stacker analyzed data quantifying draft numbers during World War II from multiple sources, including historical Census data , a report issued by the Selective Service System , and a WWII draft card project provided by Ancestry.com in association with the National Archives and Records Administration . Draft card data for Maine was not available; their draft cards were destroyed before being digitized. States are ranked by the number of inductees as a percentage of the total state population as estimated from the 1940 census.
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#51. Alaska
- Number of men drafted: 3,564 (4.91% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 22,518
--- 15.83% of draft cards called
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#50. Vermont
- Number of men drafted: 21,456 (5.97% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 86,651
--- 24.76% of draft cards called
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#49. Iowa
- Number of men drafted: 154,603 (6.09% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 621,426
--- 24.88% of draft cards called
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#48. South Dakota
- Number of men drafted: 39,707 (6.18% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 151,055
--- 26.29% of draft cards called
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#47. North Dakota
- Number of men drafted: 39,895 (6.21% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 380,297
--- 10.49% of draft cards called
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#46. Nebraska
- Number of men drafted: 82,735 (6.29% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 324,606
--- 25.49% of draft cards called
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#45. Wisconsin
- Number of men drafted: 203,235 (6.48% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 777,714
--- 26.13% of draft cards called
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#44. Oklahoma
- Number of men drafted: 151,883 (6.50% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 580,191
--- 26.18% of draft cards called
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#43. Washington
- Number of men drafted: 113,451 (6.53% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 476,971
--- 23.79% of draft cards called
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#42. Colorado
- Number of men drafted: 73,786 (6.57% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 284,881
--- 25.90% of draft cards called
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#41. Oregon
- Number of men drafted: 72,800 (6.68% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 294,538
--- 24.72% of draft cards called
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#40. New Hampshire
- Number of men drafted: 32,920 (6.70% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 123,730
--- 26.61% of draft cards called
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#39. Georgia
- Number of men drafted: 209,589 (6.71% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 845,405
--- 24.79% of draft cards called
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#38. Massachusetts
- Number of men drafted: 292,439 (6.77% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 1,056,985
--- 27.67% of draft cards called
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#37. Kansas
- Number of men drafted: 122,470 (6.80% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 428,140
--- 28.61% of draft cards called
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#36. Texas
- Number of men drafted: 438,232 (6.83% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 2,225,880
--- 19.69% of draft cards called
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#35. Minnesota
- Number of men drafted: 191,238 (6.85% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 697,360
--- 27.42% of draft cards called
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#34. Wyoming
- Number of men drafted: 17,254 (6.88% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 66,540
--- 25.93% of draft cards called
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#33. Montana
- Number of men drafted: 38,820 (6.94% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 144,604
--- 26.85% of draft cards called
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#32. Maine
- Number of men drafted: 59,815 (7.06% of the state population)
- Draft card data not available
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#31. Missouri
- Number of men drafted: 272,180 (7.19% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 956,325
--- 28.46% of draft cards called
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#30. California
- Number of men drafted: 500,920 (7.25% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 2,094,031
--- 23.92% of draft cards called
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#29. South Carolina
- Number of men drafted: 137,969 (7.26% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 501,839
--- 27.49% of draft cards called
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#28. Florida
- Number of men drafted: 138,619 (7.31% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 545,128
--- 25.43% of draft cards called
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#27. North Carolina
- Number of men drafted: 262,942 (7.36% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 1,483,473
--- 17.72% of draft cards called
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#26. Arkansas
- Number of men drafted: 143,682 (7.37% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 395,488
--- 36.33% of draft cards called
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#25. Alabama
- Number of men drafted: 210,599 (7.43% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 764,045
--- 27.56% of draft cards called
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#24. Utah
- Number of men drafted: 41,061 (7.46% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 145,410
--- 28.24% of draft cards called
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#23. Rhode Island
- Number of men drafted: 53,235 (7.46% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 186,940
--- 28.48% of draft cards called
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#22. Idaho
- Number of men drafted: 39,220 (7.47% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 139,652
--- 28.08% of draft cards called
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#21. New Mexico
- Number of men drafted: 39,944 (7.51% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 141,042
--- 28.32% of draft cards called
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#20. Hawaii
- Number of men drafted: 31,899 (7.54% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 139,178
--- 22.92% of draft cards called
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#19. Louisiana
- Number of men drafted: 179,029 (7.57% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 649,825
--- 27.55% of draft cards called
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#18. Indiana
- Number of men drafted: 261,079 (7.62% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 904,608
--- 28.86% of draft cards called
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#17. Kentucky
- Number of men drafted: 220,619 (7.75% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 738,534
--- 29.87% of draft cards called
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#16. Arizona
- Number of men drafted: 39,069 (7.83% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 141,706
--- 27.57% of draft cards called
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#15. Mississippi
- Number of men drafted: 172,136 (7.88% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 564,513
--- 30.49% of draft cards called
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#14. Illinois
- Number of men drafted: 629,516 (7.97% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 2,124,699
--- 29.63% of draft cards called
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#13. Tennessee
- Number of men drafted: 233,993 (8.02% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 764,556
--- 30.61% of draft cards called
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#12. Virginia
- Number of men drafted: 216,060 (8.07% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 768,847
--- 28.10% of draft cards called
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#11. Michigan
- Number of men drafted: 424,335 (8.07% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 1,462,490
--- 29.01% of draft cards called
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#10. Connecticut
- Number of men drafted: 139,629 (8.17% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 488,632
--- 28.58% of draft cards called
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#9. New York
- Number of men drafted: 1,108,799 (8.23% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 3,802,625
--- 29.16% of draft cards called
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#8. New Jersey
- Number of men drafted: 345,236 (8.30% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 1,168,325
--- 29.55% of draft cards called
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#7. West Virginia
- Number of men drafted: 158,533 (8.34% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 524,336
--- 30.24% of draft cards called
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#6. Ohio
- Number of men drafted: 576,622 (8.35% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 1,790,654
--- 32.20% of draft cards called
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#5. Delaware
- Number of men drafted: 22,330 (8.38% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 74,649
--- 29.91% of draft cards called
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#4. Maryland
- Number of men drafted: 158,121 (8.68% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 536,962
--- 29.45% of draft cards called
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#3. Pennsylvania
- Number of men drafted: 866,264 (8.75% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 2,660,878
--- 32.56% of draft cards called
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#2. Nevada
- Number of men drafted: 10,289 (9.33% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 36,348
--- 28.31% of draft cards called
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#1. Washington D.C.
- Number of men drafted: 64,243 (9.69% of the state population)
- Total number of Draft Cards issued: 212,943
--- 30.17% of draft cards called
Data reporting by Sam Larson. Story editing by Brian Budzynski. Copy editing by Tim Bruns. Photo selection by Elizabeth Ciano.
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NORMAL — The Normal Rotary Club recognized eight local students during a scholarship awards reception on Wednesday.
Seven of the eight students were awarded $1,000 scholarships to be used toward their education after high school.
An additional $1,000 Agriculture Education Scholarship was awarded to an ag student.
Students who received scholarships include Sonika Tamilarasan, Normal Community; Avani Rai, Normal Community; Evan Kraft, Normal Community; Amanda Egge, Normal West; Amaya Hursey, Normal West; Kylie Allen, University High; Steven Luesing, Tri-Valley; and Kameron Myers, Tri-Valley.
Kraft was the recipient of the ag education scholarship. Luesing and Myers are both students in the Bloomington Area Career Center program.
High school seniors who demonstrated a commitment to service, citizenship and leadership were encouraged to apply for the scholarship.
Finalists were chosen from a pool of applicants to participate in face-to-face interviews with members of the Normal Rotary Club Scholarship Committee. The winners were selected from the interviewees.
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The music lineup this summer includes The Tiki Twins, May 31; TyJon Charlie, June 7; Jim & Tommy, June 14; Illinois Rail, June 21; and the Brian Choban Jazz Quintet, June 28.
The bands range from acoustic rock and folk to bluegrass, electric, jazz and more.
Several children from Milestones Early Learning Center dance to the music performed by Patrick Campbell at Withers Park in downtown Bloomington during the first of the Lunchtime Concerts, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. The Pantagraph, Lori Ann Cook-Neisler
Cassondra Collins and her daughter Norah, 1, listen to the music sung by Patrick Campbell at Withers Park in downtown Bloomington during the first of the Lunchtime Concerts, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. The Pantagraph, Lori Ann Cook-Neisler
Graham Cowger and his sons, Elliott, 1, and Alexander, 3, enjoy lunch at Withers Park in downtown Bloomington during the first of the Lunchtime Concerts, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. The Pantagraph, Lori Ann Cook-Neisler
Children play around Trotter Fountain at Withers Park in downtown Bloomington during the first of the Lunchtime Concerts, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. The Pantagraph, Lori Ann Cook-Neisler
The month of June will feature musical entertainment during the noon lunch hour each Wednesday at Wither's Park in Downtown Bloomington. Bring a picnic lunch, a lawn chair or blanket, and enjoy! Concerts are free.
Several children from Milestones Early Learning Center dance to the music performed by Patrick Campbell at Withers Park in downtown Bloomington during the first of the Lunchtime Concerts, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. The Pantagraph, Lori Ann Cook-Neisler
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Cassondra Collins and her daughter Norah, 1, listen to the music sung by Patrick Campbell at Withers Park in downtown Bloomington during the first of the Lunchtime Concerts, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. The Pantagraph, Lori Ann Cook-Neisler
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Graham Cowger and his sons, Elliott, 1, and Alexander, 3, enjoy lunch at Withers Park in downtown Bloomington during the first of the Lunchtime Concerts, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. The Pantagraph, Lori Ann Cook-Neisler
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Children play around Trotter Fountain at Withers Park in downtown Bloomington during the first of the Lunchtime Concerts, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. The Pantagraph, Lori Ann Cook-Neisler
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Contact Olivia Jacobs at 309-820-3352. Follow Olivia on Twitter: @olivia___jacobs
Families and friends gather to listen Wednesday, June 2, 2021, as Marc Boon and Chris Briggs bring back the Bloomington Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department's Summer Lunchtime Concerts at Withers Park in downtown Bloomington. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/free-lunchtime-concerts-return-to-downtown-bloomington-may-31/article_f21c65b6-ef46-11ed-b8b1-bfd9db42880b.html | 2023-05-11T14:33:06 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/free-lunchtime-concerts-return-to-downtown-bloomington-may-31/article_f21c65b6-ef46-11ed-b8b1-bfd9db42880b.html |
Average daily flows
Snake River at Jackson 290 cfs
Snake River at Palisades 5,597 cfs
Snake River at Heise 6,782 cfs
Snake River at Blackfoot 6,845 cfs
Snake River at American Falls 6,490 cfs
Snake River at Milner 0 cfs
Little Wood River near Carey 681 cfs
Jackson Lake is 31% full.
Palisades Reservoir is 52% full.
American Falls Reservoir is 83% full.
Upper Snake River system is at 63% of capacity.
As of May 10 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/average-daily-streamflows/article_17f33af2-ef7a-11ed-9177-3734ecf3aa91.html | 2023-05-11T14:35:11 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/average-daily-streamflows/article_17f33af2-ef7a-11ed-9177-3734ecf3aa91.html |
A woman is facing forgery and grand theft charges after depositing and cashing checks from a former employer, police say.
Amerae Marie Pendleton, 25, was charged with four counts of each offense after the owner of Canyon Springs Extended Stay in Twin Falls noticed irregularities in his checking account, police reports say. He told police four checks had been written on his account in October for a total of almost $10,000.
Police later recovered video of Pendleton making deposits of three of the checks into her personal credit union account, and credit union employees said it’s likely the other check was cashed, records say.
Pendleton was found to be in jail in North Dakota, where she pleaded guilty to providing false information to law officers on April 6, records show. An extradition hearing was held April 10.
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The case in Twin Falls was filed on April 13, and she has waived her preliminary hearing.
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How Northern California's fire season will be affected by an incoming weather transition
As parts of Northern California see temperatures reach into the 90s this week, hundreds of miles out in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, a transformation is unfolding that is expected to affect the region's fire season for the next several months.
A change in ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific is transforming the weather pattern from La Nina to El Nino, which fire weather forecasters says is expected to bring a different outlook than the drier and warmer conditions than the North State saw at this time last year.
"Yep, we are in the midst of the transition from La Nina, which ended in March, to El Nino, which is expected to form during the next few months. Typically, El Nino’s form late summer into the fall and don’t manifest this early during the summer," said Brent Wachter, a fire meteorologist at the Northern California Geographic Coordinating Center in Redding.
With the change from La Nina to El Nino, the weather outlook for May and June is for near normal to above normal rainfall over Northern California and from normal to below normal temperatures, a forecast that is not conducive to large-scale wildfires, according to a report by the coordinating center's Predictive Services.
The outlook for July and August is for "near to above normal temperatures and near normal precipitation."
Wachter said there also is another factor affecting the weather and fire season.
"The forecast is not solely based on the rapid transition from La Nina to El Nino but also largely based on the arc of unusually cool water off the North American Coast. That is a big player in all of this too," he said.
El Niño and La Niña are weather patterns driven by "opposite extremes" in sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, according to the National Weather Service.
El Nino represents warmer ocean temperatures, while La Nina is the term used when equatorial Pacific are cooler. Wachter said the "El Nino transition as well as other ocean anomalies will bring normal to slightly cooler and wetter weather at times."
The heavier rain and snow that fell over the region during the spring and winter, along with the El Nino weather pattern, has fire officials predicting fire season to develop slower than in the past few years, which were marked by intense drought.
More grass a fire concern at lower elevations
The heavier rainfall this year brought a bumper crop of grasses in the valleys and foothills, said Dan Dennett, assistant fire chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection ranger unit in Redding. That grass, which can become fire fuel, is expected to dry out and become more flammable in June, Dennett said.
"So kind of the bottom line, with the amount of moisture that we have this year, we're obviously expecting a real robust grass crop at the lower elevations. But with the amount of snow that we received, that's going to give us a little bit of a delay in the higher elevations for fire season to start," Dennett said.
The North State faces a far different fire and weather outlook than it did at this time last year, Wachter said. With very little rain during the first five months of 2022, the forest trees and brush were much drier and receptive to fire last year, he said.
Even though warm, dry weather teed up the likelihood of a busy fire season in 2022, it didn't happen in Shasta County. From Jan. 1 to the end of September last year, only 555 acres burned in the county, Cal Fire said. During that time period, only five fires burned more than 10 acres, Cal Fire said.
As of this time last year, only about 4 inches of rain had fallen since Jan. 1. But this year, just over 28 inches of rain has fallen in Redding since the beginning of the year, according to the National Weather Service.
2022 bucked a fire season trend
Dennett said he did not know how many fires his agency had been called to so far this year, but statewide, there have been far fewer blazes than in 2022.
Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service reported a combined 640 wildfires so far this year, with 699 acres burned statewide. At this time last year, the two agencies listed 1,521 wildland fires that burned 7,147 acres. That topped the The five-year average for this time of year ofis 1,193 fires that burned 4,533 acres, according to Cal Fire.
While the wetter winter and spring may delay the outbreak of larger fires, the North State's hot summers eventually take their toll, leaving the forests dried out by August and September, Dennett said.
"Every year, it really doesn't matter how much rain or how much snow we get, we always reach a point later in the year where we have a fire season at the higher elevations. It's just the nature of California that the summers get hot and dry and eventually the fuels at the higher elevations will be receptive to fire," Dennett said.
Kevin Osborne, a fire management specialist with the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, said the hundreds of thousands of acres of wildland that has burned since 2020 could also help slow the spread of fires when they burn into the footprint of those previous burns, he said.
Forest thinning during the past year to clear out dense brush and trees should also help reduce fire intensity, said Anna Wright, a fire ecologist with Shasta-Trinity.
Fire prevention during the off-season
During the cooler months this past year, forest officials intentionally burned 9,200 acres of prescribed fire intended in order to thin overgrown areas, Wright said.
But there will likely be more trees and brush damaged by snow this year. Those dead trees and limbs left on the forest floor eventually dry out and can be more fuel for fires to burn through, Wright said.
She also cautioned boaters on Lake Shasta to be careful when camping along the shoreline this year. Over the past three years, fewer fires broke out because boaters were able to build campfires along shoreline left the barren due to the lower lake levels, she said.
But the lake is full this year and boaters and campers will be closer to vegetation that could more easily catch fire, she said.
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LAPEER COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - A 72-year-old man was hit and killed while driving a lawn tractor on a rural Lapeer County roadway earlier this week.
The Dryden Township Police Department says the 72-year-old was riding his Husqvarna lawn tractor on Hough Road near Rochester Road around 3:45 p.m. Tuesday when a Jeep Grand Cherokee heading west hit him.
The collision threw the 72-year-old from his tractor. The crew on a Lapeer County EMS ambulance pronounced him dead at the scene.
The 52-year-old man from Almont, who was driving the Jeep, did not report any injuries from the crash.
Investigators don't believe the 52-year-old was speeding or intoxicated when the crash happened. The investigation will continue into what caused the crash.
Anyone with information about the crash should call Dryden Township police at 810-796-2271. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/lapeer-county-man-hit-and-killed-on-lawn-tractor/article_1367e014-f001-11ed-a768-27e7f7a567da.html | 2023-05-11T14:40:09 | 0 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/lapeer-county-man-hit-and-killed-on-lawn-tractor/article_1367e014-f001-11ed-a768-27e7f7a567da.html |
FRISCO, Texas — The biggest names in country music will meet in Frisco for the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday.
With legends like Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks hosting – you know it is going to be a huge event!
The City of Frisco is already warning about traffic. Officials said to avoid the area around The Star and Hall Park because of road closures in the area all day.
They also warn about road closures starting at 7:30 p.m. for parts of Cowboys Way and Warren Parkway.
This could mean a big disruption for you, if you live or have to travel nearby.
So here's what you need to know:
This is all happening tonight at 7 p.m., which means things will probably pick up traffic wise right before or around 5 p.m.
Don't forget you'll still have whatever rush-hour traffic that typically moves through the area, but the award show will only amplify that.
For those with tickets who want to know the best way to get there, if you're hopping in an Uber or Lyft, have them drop you off at the media entrance on Gaylord Parkway.
And if you're driving, The Star has preferred routes for you to take:
- People coming from the East should take Dallas Parkway to John Hickman, get off at Gaylord and follow the signs to the stadium.
- If you're coming from the West, they want you to take Legacy North or South to Lebanon road to get there.
When it comes to parking – there are several lots near the Ford Center.
You can use Gridiron Road or Dallas North Tollway to get to Cowboys Way, where those entrances are.
Don't forget there are also several restaurants at The Star in Frisco, which will have traffic of their own.
So again, you need to account for how long it will take you to get there.
For the folks who live in Frisco or have to travel through the area, here's some advice if you're trying to avoid the madness:
- Stay away from Dallas North Tollway between Lebanon Road and Gaylord parkway.
- Central Expressway and Sam Rayburn Tollway might be a couple of options for you.
Hopefully this helps, and for those of you attending the ACM's - Enjoy the show!
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HOUSTON — A fifth-grader from Houston's 5th Ward is going viral for his musical talent.
Traevon Narcisse's video, which shows him playing the piano with incredible skill and passion, has already garnered millions of views across social media platforms.
"I'm surprised because I never knew this day would come, I knew it would come but not as early," said Traevon.
He prefers to freestyle or play gospel music, which is part of his musical roots.
"It all started in the church because I grew up in the same church that I learned how to play music in," he said.
Traevon's musical journey began when he was just two years old when he started playing the drums.
Six months ago, a family member gave him his first piano. He's self-taught, although credits people at his church for helping him.
Traevon says he wants to be a musician, own a studio, tour the world and meet Chris Brown.
"Music helps your mind and it soothes you," he said.
Now, Traevon is getting noticed by celebrities like producer Tay Keith, who is sending him a new computer, piano and speakers, so he can continue to make music.
Laura Coleman, the creative director at the American Music Academy in Houston, says Traevon's future is bright.
"The way that he moves with the music, you can tell that it really is ingrained in him, which is something that's really exciting to see in someone that young," she said. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/houston-5th-ward-piano-player/285-49e4be67-0ff5-4351-9df5-76934583ca06 | 2023-05-11T14:57:47 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/houston-5th-ward-piano-player/285-49e4be67-0ff5-4351-9df5-76934583ca06 |
This year's Founder's Day celebration in Bismarck will wrap up the city's celebration of its sesquicentennial and unofficially kick off its bicentennial in 2072.
“This Founder’s Day should be one to remember,” Assistant City Administrator Jason Tomanek said. “We plan to have an entertaining (afternoon) of programming that will lead up to the burial of a time capsule to be opened in about 49 years.”
The event is Sunday from 2-4 p.m. at Camp Hancock State Historic Site, 101 E. Main Ave., where the city began in 1872.
A program will feature a variety of groups and remarks, songs and a short historical program, followed by a variety of games. There also will be light refreshments.
A time capsule containing a variety of Bismarck-centric materials including items from last year's celebration of the city's 150th anniversary will be buried at the site following the program.
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The time capsule is a collaboration between the city and Bismarck Public School’s Career Academy. Students designed the stainless steel capsule, vacuum-sealed its contents, welded the capsule shut and encased it in rubber. A plaque will be placed to mark its location after it's buried. A duplicate set of items will be on hand for attendees to peruse.
“The Bicentennial Founder’s Day is on a Saturday in 2072, so you might as well get it on your calendars early,” Tomanek quipped. “I’ll be 95 that year and am looking forward to seeing you there.”
Information leading up to, and following, the event will be posted on the city's social media. Search "BismarckNDGov" on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/bismarcks-founders-day-celebration-to-include-time-capsule-burial/article_7decfa64-edbd-11ed-928e-d7555c8d5f35.html | 2023-05-11T15:01:17 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/bismarcks-founders-day-celebration-to-include-time-capsule-burial/article_7decfa64-edbd-11ed-928e-d7555c8d5f35.html |
Peloton is recalling 2.2 million exercise bikes due to a risk of the seat post breaking, and owners are being told to "immediately stop using" the bikes until they can be repaired.
The recall affects Peloton model PL01, sold from Jan. 2018 through this month.
"Peloton has received 35 reports of the seat post breaking and detaching from the bike during use, including 13 reports of injuries including a fractured wrist, lacerations and bruises due to falling from the bike," the Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a recall notice.
"Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled exercise bikes and contact Peloton for a free repair. Peloton is offering consumers a free seat post that can be self-installed," the CPSC added.
Consumers can contact Peloton toll-free at 866-679-9129 from 6 a.m. to 12 a.m. ET seven days a week, or get more information on Peloton's website.
The recall affects only the original Peloton Bike sold in the United States, the company said, and not international models nor its more recent Bike+ model. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/recall-alert/2-2-million-peloton-exercise-bikes-recalled-immediately-stop-using-govt-says/3255848/ | 2023-05-11T15:10:53 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/recall-alert/2-2-million-peloton-exercise-bikes-recalled-immediately-stop-using-govt-says/3255848/ |
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A Virginia Tech icon is being honored for the tremendous impact he’s had on Hokie Nation.
Retired Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer has earned the Ut Prosim Medal, the university’s highest honor.
He’s being recognized for his uncompromising support for the university and his myriad of accomplishments, some of which include:
- Being described as the “winningest coach in Virginia Tech history” with 280 career victories
- Helping the Hokies secure their first-ever appearance in the BCS National Championship at the Sugar Bowl after the 1999 regular season
- Earning the Alumni Distinguished Service Award in 2019
- Being a member of the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame
In addition to this, he also led the Hokies to 23 consecutive bowl games in his final 23 seasons.
One of the many legacies the Hokie legend left behind is “Beamerball,” referring to a Hokies’ ability to make big plays and score on offense, defense, and special teams | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/11/hokie-legend-frank-beamer-earns-virginia-tech-ut-prosim-medal-universitys-highest-honor/ | 2023-05-11T15:19:11 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/11/hokie-legend-frank-beamer-earns-virginia-tech-ut-prosim-medal-universitys-highest-honor/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Temperatures in the Portland area will climb above 90 degrees on Mother’s Day weekend. One way to beat the heat is to set up air conditioning and fans in your home — another is to camp under the stars.
Whether you head to the coast, the gorge or the mountains, all of them should feel cooler than temperatures inside a home when the weather’s this warm.
Nighttime lows will drop to the 50s and 60s, which means you won’t be sweating in your sleep and also won’t be too cold if you pitch a tent under the stars.
If you’re worried about a reservation, don’t be. There are plenty of places with camping spaces still open for Mother’s Day weekend.
Oregon State Parks’ reservation website has a feature called “Camping This Weekend” and it’s a great resource for anyone making last-minute plans. The page shows a list of all available camping spaces at Oregon State Parks.
If you need a few ideas, try one of these three campsites, which as of Wednesday all still had availability during Mother’s Day weekend.
Deschutes River State Recreation Area
Head east through the gorge and stop when you reach the confluence of the Deschutes River and the Columbia River. This is the Deschutes River State Recreation Area where you can boat, fish, bike, hike and ride horses. Campsites were available here as of Wednesday and cost as little as $10.
Detroit Lake State Recreation Area
Take in the beauty of the mountains in the Santiam Canyon and book a campsite at Detroit Lake State Recreation Area. There were 21 tent sites available as of Wednesday evening. This state park features wildlife viewing, fishing and a playground for kids.
Humbug Mountain State Park
Yes, we realize this state park is quite a drive from Portland or the Willamette Valley, but if you’re hoping to camp at the coast over the weekend, this could be the spot for you. On Wednesday, there were still 29 tent sites available. Humbug Mountain State Park is located between Port Orford and Gold Beach on the Southern Oregon coast. | https://www.koin.com/local/check-out-these-oregon-campgrounds-during-a-hot-spring-or-summer-weekend/ | 2023-05-11T15:19:12 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/check-out-these-oregon-campgrounds-during-a-hot-spring-or-summer-weekend/ |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A newborn baby less than 24 hours old was rescued by first responders around 9:27 p.m. Tuesday at Fire Station 3 in Benton.
Officials said the baby was left in the Safe Haven Baby Box located at 2717 Edison Avenue, which prompted the alarm to sound. First responders investigated the area and found the newborn baby inside the box.
"I am so thankful this parent chose a safe option for their child," CEO/Founder of Safe Haven Baby Box Monica Kelsey said. "We may never know the reason they used this baby box, but we do know how much they loved their baby."
According to authorities, the baby was transported to Arkansas Children's Hospital and is being looked after by DHS staff.
"The baby was healthy and well cared for, obviously loved," Benton Fire Department Chief Russ Evans said. "It is my understanding that the mother traveled from out of state to surrender her baby as her state does not offer this anonymous safe option. To the mother, thank you for your decision and for allowing the Benton Fire Department to be a part of your journey."
With over 100 Safe Haven Baby Boxes located nationwide, the organization aims to take face-to-face interaction from the surrender and protect the parents' identity. The Safe Haven Baby Box said its primary goal is to raise awareness of the safe-haven law, which allows parents to relinquish an infant without fear of arrest or prosecution.
The law is designed to protect babies, and infants surrendered must not have been abused or neglected. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/benton-officials-rescue-infant-left-in-box/91-572a8906-d4a1-4bbf-b5ad-bc4dc97fba4d | 2023-05-11T15:22:28 | 1 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/benton-officials-rescue-infant-left-in-box/91-572a8906-d4a1-4bbf-b5ad-bc4dc97fba4d |
The Greenwood High School “Smokin’ Rangers” finished third this past weekend at the Texas High School BBQ State Championship held in Round Rock.
The team consisted of junior Mya Hickey, sophomore Mateo Soliz and junior Kacee Villareal. The Smokin’ Rangers placed third in Ribs, fifth in Chicken and racked up a total number of points to finish third of 92 teams.
The grand champion was 205 Pitmasters from Dr. Gene Burton College & Career Academy, and the reserve champion was Phats Barbecue from Ben Barber Innovation Academy.
Local teams placing in the top 38
3. Smokin’ Rangers, Greenwood High School
22. Up N Smoke, Midland High School
28. Eagle Q, Hillcrest High School
35. Big Spring Smokers, Big Spring High School | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/greenwood-s-smokin-rangers-claims-third-bbq-18093691.php | 2023-05-11T15:37:19 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/greenwood-s-smokin-rangers-claims-third-bbq-18093691.php |
ORLANDO, Fla. – Preparation is the best defense against disasters, and there is no time like the present to get you and your family ready for whatever storm might threaten our shores.
The price of supplies can make a dent in your budget, but HB 7063 could bring two opportunities to save money when shopping for your hurricane preparedness kits.
The tax package includes a series of expanded sales-tax “holidays” on back-to-school items, disaster-preparedness gear and summer events. The package, which Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign, also would trim a commercial-lease tax and give tax breaks on purchases ranging from diapers for babies and adults to cattle fencing, firearm-storage devices and gas stoves.
For Floridians, the bill would bring two 14-day disaster preparedness sales tax holidays that will run during different times of the hurricane season.
The first two-week holiday would begin right before the start of the season from May 27 to June 9. The additional two-week tax relief holiday returns just in time for the usual peak of hurricane season from Aug. 26 to Sept. 8.
During these two periods, certain hurricane supplies would be tax-free, which could amount to $25.6 million in tax relief, according to the governor’s office.
Along with the traditional items in a supply kit — like flashlights, radios, tarps and batteries — the holiday also includes a number of items related to the safe evacuation of household pets.
New this year, common household items that may be helpful with disaster cleanup. This includes laundry detergent, toilet and paper towels, soap, sunscreen and various household cleaning products under $30.
Here are some of the qualifying items listed in the bill:
$10 or less
- Cans or pouches of wet pet food
$15 or less
- Manual can openers
- Collapsible or travel-sized food or water bowls for pets
- Cat litter pans
- Pet waste disposal bag
- Hamster or rabbit substrate
$20 or less
- Reusable ice
- Leashes, collars, and muzzles for pets
- Pet pads
$25 or less
- Cat litter weighing 25 or less
$30 or less
- Household cleaning supplies
- Laundry (Liquid, Powder or Pod) detergent
- Fabric softener
- Paper napkins or tissues
- Bleach
- Stain removers
- Sunscreen
- Toilet paper
- Paper towels
- Soaps (hand, bar, body)
- Dish soap (liquid, powder or pod)
- Disinfecting wipes
- Hand sanitizer
- Trash bags
$40 or less
- Portable self-powered light sources
- Pet beds
$50 or less
- Portable self-powered radios, two-way radios, or weather-band radios
- Gas or diesel fuel tanks
- Batteries, including rechargeable batteries, listed sizes only: AA-cell, AAA-cell, C-cell, D-cell, 6-volt, 9-volt
$60 or less
- Portable power banks
- Nonelectric food storage coolers
$70 or less
- Smoke detectors or smoke alarms
- Fire extinguishers
- Carbon monoxide detectors
- Tarpaulins or other flexible waterproof sheeting
- Ground anchor systems
- Portable pet kennels
$100 or less
- Tarpaulins (tarps) or other flexible waterproof sheeting
- Ground anchor systems
- Tie-down kits
- Bags of dry pet food weighing 50 or fewer pounds
- Over-the-counter pet medications
$3,000 or less
- Portable generators used to provide light or communications or to preserve food in a power outage
Hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/11/floridians-could-get-2-hurricane-sales-tax-holidays-in-2023/ | 2023-05-11T15:38:18 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/11/floridians-could-get-2-hurricane-sales-tax-holidays-in-2023/ |
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – A gunman was arrested on kidnapping and other charges after he threatened a woman inside a Titusville home, according to the police department.
Dax Rodriguez, 52, was booked Thursday morning into the Brevard County jail.
Titusville police said officers were called to a home in the 3000 block of Willis Drive around 4 p.m. Wednesday for a report of a man with a gun.
According to police, Rodriguez used a gun to threaten a woman inside a home before she was able to escape, run to a neighbor’s house and call police.
Rodriguez then used a stolen vehicle in an attempt to flee law enforcement, police said.
Officers stopped the vehicle on State Road 50 in east Orange County and arrested Rodriguez.
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It’s not known if the woman was injured or if Rodriguez knew her.
Rodriguez faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, armed burglary, criminal mischief, aggravated fleeing and eluding, violation of probation, theft, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and witness tampering.
Get today’s headlines in minutes with Your Florida Daily: | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/11/woman-escapes-gunman-runs-to-titusville-neighbor-for-help-police-say/ | 2023-05-11T15:38:24 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/11/woman-escapes-gunman-runs-to-titusville-neighbor-for-help-police-say/ |
BRIDGETON — A 10-year-old girl was listed in critical condition after she was struck while trying to cross East Broad Street in the city on Wednesday evening, police said.
The girl was struck near a Wawa in the 100 block of East Broad Street, where police were dispatched at around 7:07 p.m.
The girl, who is a city resident, attempted to cross East Broad Street toward the Wawa when she was struck by a white SUV that fled the scene, police said in a Thursday news release.
The girl was flown to Cooper University Medical Center in Camden with serious injuries.
Police did not provide an update on her condition on Thursday.
After striking the girl, the vehicle was last seen on Bank Street heading toward East Commerce Street, police said.
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Anyone who may have seen the vehicle since Wednesday is urged to contact Detective Chris Zanni at 856-451-0033 or submit an anonymous tip to bpdops.com/tip/new. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bridgeton-girl-in-critical-condition-following-hit-and--run-accident/article_f4c3f05e-efff-11ed-b8d8-db644b7fbb23.html | 2023-05-11T15:40:05 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bridgeton-girl-in-critical-condition-following-hit-and--run-accident/article_f4c3f05e-efff-11ed-b8d8-db644b7fbb23.html |
TRENTON — State lawmakers are planning to hold what they're calling a "science-based" hearing on marine mammal deaths.
The Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee will hold the meeting at 10 a.m. on Thursday, the Assembly Democrats said in a news release.
Throughout the hearing, the committee will hear testimony from scientific experts on marine mammal deaths, helping both lawmakers and the public better understand the trend of whale and dolphin deaths over the past several months, the Assembly Democrats said.
The Committee is made of seven lawmakers, four Democrats and three Republicans.
Both government and academic subjects are planning to participate. The group will include figures who have studied an increase in marine mammal deaths since 2016, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration deemed it an "Unusual Mortality Event" on the East Coast.
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The meeting will be held amid marine mammal activists and Republican lawmakers calling for the government to halt offshore wind development.
Since December, over two dozen whales have washed ashore dead along the Jersey Shore. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/new-jersey-lawmakers-schedule-hearing-on-marine-mammal-deaths/article_ee7faf2e-effc-11ed-8488-7bcd17cc04e0.html | 2023-05-11T15:40:11 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/new-jersey-lawmakers-schedule-hearing-on-marine-mammal-deaths/article_ee7faf2e-effc-11ed-8488-7bcd17cc04e0.html |
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A suspected meth dealer held Fort Wayne police at bay for nearly five hours before surrendering early today.
Vice and narcotics detectives said they served a search warrant at 517 Lawton Place about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on a male suspect for parole violation and dealing methamphetamine.
Police said the person possibly was armed with guns and refused to come out. Emergency and crisis teams were called about 11:45 p.m. and the suspect eventually surrendered about 1:30 a.m. today.
Officers said another person was inside the residence, but did not provide further information.
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For the first time in 34 years, there’s a local high school team set to play in a softball state tournament championship game.
The Northland Prep Academy Spartans, seeded third with a record of 18-1 overall (10-0 Central), will take on eighth-seeded Horizon Honors in the 2A Conference title ballgame Friday in Tempe.
It’s Northland Prep’s first time reaching a championship game. A win would mark the city’s first high school state title since the AIA started crowning champions in 1976.
The Northland Prep softball team is practicing for Friday’s 2A championship game. It’s the first title game in the team’s history. pic.twitter.com/hob0FrWjzC
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Only once before has a team from the Flagstaff area reached this point. Coconino got to the 4A Conference title game in 1989, but fell 10-0 to Sahuaro.
Suffice it to say, even the Spartans were a bit shocked to get this far, especially without a history of doing so.
“We’ve aspired to this for the last four years, because we’ve had a team that’s been good enough to compete. So for us to actually make it happen this year, it feels amazing,” Spartans manager Betty Dean said. “I don’t think we ever let ourselves think that we would do it during the year. If you look too far ahead, that’s when you jinx yourself. It’s been methodically doing what needs to be done each inning, really each pitch, and now here we are.”
Much of the roster feels the same, especially thinking back on past teams that had the same goal and lots of talent but fell short along the way.
“I know we’re a good team and everything, but you always think that there’s someone better out there,” senior Bella Giurlanda said. “You never think that you’re the best, or that better team, because it’s never been that. I’ve always felt like we could be better or that there’s someone working harder. So it's exciting."
“It’s bittersweet too, though, because our past teammates wanted to go and now we’re the team who gets to,” senior Reannan Butler added.
Butler was the hero needed to get to this point. The Central Region Offensive Player of the Year had a memorable at-bat Saturday to reach the championship round. Tied in the bottom of the seventh inning against No. 7-seeded Heritage Academy Laveen, she hit a walk-off single to drive in the winning run and secure a 5-4 victory.
Dean said her seniors have a particularly calm demeanor, even more so than in seasons past. That showed in Butler’s single, a hard-hit slap past third base that scored sophomore Audre Wilson.
“I just knew that I was going to succeed. I had the confidence already in that moment,” Butler said. “I knew that it was going to come down to me and that it was going to happen. In my mind, I felt like we already won.”
Butler went 2 of 3 in the semifinal game, continuing her streak of dominant hitting. Right behind her were sophomore Kianna Butler, who went 2 for 4, Wilson at 2 for 4 with a home run and two runs scored, and a 1-for-2 effort from Giurlanda, who also hit a home run and drew a walk.
Virtually the entire team has hit well this year, with six starters averaging better than .500. The Spartans have won 13 of their games via 10-run mercy rule, including a 15-0 victory over Phoenix Christian in the first round of the state tournament on April 29.
One of the few opponents to slow down the Northland Prep offense, though, was the team it will face in the championship round. On April 17, Northland Prep and Horizon Honors played a game in the regular season, with the Spartans winning 2-0 in Ahwatukee.
Northland Prep managed just five hits in seven innings against senior pitcher Lucy Holweger. The lone two runs came in the top of the seventh inning on an error and a drop by the Eagles’ catcher.
She was outshined by Kianna Butler that day, who threw a gem with just one hit allowed and 16 strikeouts recorded. Still, the Spartans know they are facing a tough player in the circle.
Holweger and freshman Audriana Anglada combined for 208 strikeouts this season. The Eagles have been solid in the postseason defensively, including a shutout victory over Mohave Accelerated Friday in the quarterfinals.
The Spartans hope their familiarity with Holweger, and the advantage of being the higher seed, will aide them in their effort to win the championship game.
“Seeing her again, hopefully we can do better because we know how she throws. But we’ve both seen each other, and it won’t be surprising for either team,” Giurlanda said.
Win or lose, Northland Prep is simply excited to be at this juncture. Two seasons ago, the Spartans reached the 2A Conference semifinals for the first time. Now it’s going even a step further.
Of course, a victory would be nice, too.
“We’ve done more than the team has done in 30 years in high school baseball or softball. We tell them all the time how proud of them we are for just getting here. I want them to enjoy the experience,” Dean said.
“I’m not sad to know it’s our last game, I’m glad that it is in this one,” Giurlanda added. “Whatever happens, I can just put in my all and we can go out the way we’ve always wanted to.”
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Phoenix police officers shoot at person near 92nd Drive and Lower Buckeye Road
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A person was shot at by police early on Thursday near 92nd Drive and Lower Buckeye Road in Phoenix, police said.
It's unclear what started the incident but police said a shooting occurred in the area at about 4 a.m. There was a search for the person, who fled the area after the shooting. The person was found about an hour later and taken into custody, according to Phoenix police.
No officers were injured during the incident, police said. Police did not say whether the person shot at was injured, or release any information about what led to the shooting.
The investigation was ongoing. No further details were available. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2023/05/11/phoenix-police-officers-shoot-at-person/70207368007/ | 2023-05-11T16:00:31 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2023/05/11/phoenix-police-officers-shoot-at-person/70207368007/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Revenue will host its 2023 annual public hearing on the morning of Friday, May 26 in downtown Indianapolis.
The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. ET at the Indiana Government Center adjacent to the Statehouse on West Washington Street.
The public hearing provides customers with a general overview of the agency’s progress and offers customers and stakeholders the chance to give direct feedback to the DOR.
“This hearing is a chance for Hoosiers to share their valuable feedback, helping us embody our core value of continuous improvement and deliver best-in-class service,” DOR Commissioner Bob Grennes said. During the hearing, the commissioner will be providing a brief update on major DOR initiatives.
If you are interested, you can attend the hearing in-person or choose to attend online.
Attend in-person
The hearing will be held in Conference Room D of the Indiana Government Center South Building, located at 302 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46204.
Attend virtually
To watch live online, visit dor.in.gov/news-media-and-publications and select “Annual Public Hearings.” Online viewers can login to the meeting starting May 26, which will begin promptly at 10 a.m. ET.
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Bliss, with its population of 260 people, was among three cities in Magic Valley that were awarded millions of dollars in grants this month by the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality to update drinking water and wastewater systems.
Mayor Chris Pruett said considering the small population, and all of its 110 water hookups, it would have been “impossible” to fund the projects without some type of grant.
Meeting regulations is so costly “that a little town could never afford it on its own,” Pruett said.
Bliss was awarded more than $7.5 million to construct a new drinking water well, acquire water rights and the possible purchase of land needed for the well. It will also evaluate its current drinking water well for needed improvements.
The city needs another well to be in compliance with the DEQ, the mayor said.
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“We need to have two water sources,” Pruett told the Times-News, as access to a previous well owned by Union Pacific was taken away a few years go.
“The whole thing is to get another water source for backup.” The project is expected to take about three years.
The DEQ’s funding process is geared toward small communities that demonstrate the largest need and least ability to pay for drinking and water and wastewater projects, said Nicolas Hiebert, senior water quality engineer, in a written statement.
“We’ve heard from many such communities that the increased funding provided though the state in fiscal year 2023 has been of immense assistance,” Hiebert wrote.
Bliss has benefited with other grants, including one in 2010 for a sewer system.
“The whole town was on septic systems before 2010,” Pruett said.
The upgrade ended up being valuable because when Love’s built its travel stop there in 2020, company officials said Love’s would have located further down Interstate 84 if the city didn’t have a sewer system, Pruett said.
In other awards, the city of Shoshone was awarded $4.4 million to construct a new water storage tank, install an electrical generator and to make other improvements.
Oakley was awarded $673,814 to construct a new well, well house, and storage tank.
In other areas of the state, Driggs, in Teton County, was awarded $1.5 million to projects including rehabilitating its main string source, and the Southside Water and Sewer District in Bonner County was awarded $1.3 million to expand the system’s source water production and evaluate the system’s current storage options and backup power.
The construction projects will be funded from American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds that Gov. Brad Little directed to DEQ in 2022.
Little said water is the state’s most valuable resource, and it’s important to “keep up the infrastructure to ensure water is clean and plentiful for this generation and future ones.”
“That is why we made historic investments in water quality and quantity this year as part of my ‘Leading Idaho’ plan,” Little said. “These investments also could keep your property taxes low.” | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/bliss-oakley-shoshone-benefit-from-deq-grants/article_0f875a18-eeb9-11ed-9143-9f3bda094069.html | 2023-05-11T16:19:34 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/bliss-oakley-shoshone-benefit-from-deq-grants/article_0f875a18-eeb9-11ed-9143-9f3bda094069.html |
Editor’s note: This feature ran July 25, 2013, in the Times-News and at Magicvalley.com.
Remnants of old wooden haystackers still scatter the Magic Valley landscape. But many people today wouldn’t know one if they saw it in a field.
These three pictures taken by unidentified photographers around 1915 show hay harvest in full swing.
The most labor-intensive method was to hand-pitch the loose hay to the top of the stack. Men would carry pitchforks full of hay to the top, climbing the stack as it grew.
Other methods included wooden stacking implements powered by horses or oxen.
An overshot hay stacker — sometimes called a jayhawk — held a 600-pound load of hay on a “sweep bucket” that would lift and dump the hay onto the stack. The most common method used locally was the gin pole stacker, resembling a partially disassembled tepee, that would lift, swing and lower a load of hay into place on the stack.
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Mychel Matthews is the managing editor at the Times-News. Contact Matthews at mmatthews@magicvalley.com or 208-735-3233. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/making-hay-when-the-sun-shines/article_0cb7fba6-81a0-5950-abe8-6eb55747227a.html | 2023-05-11T16:19:40 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/making-hay-when-the-sun-shines/article_0cb7fba6-81a0-5950-abe8-6eb55747227a.html |
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CHICAGO — A 20-year-old Gary woman died after her vehicle was rear-ended along southbound Interstate 94 at 95th Street early Wednesday, Illinois State Police reported.
St. John Police CIT Officer Dustin Wartman is trained in mental health intervention.
Lataya Lyons was slowing her vehicle around 12:27 a.m. for a crash ahead when she was struck from behind by a 2018 Ford Escape driven by Jennifer L. Fortson, 49, of Homewood, Illinois, who failed to slow in time to avoid the collision police said.
The 2010 Nissan Altima driven by Lyons was pushed into the rear of a 2015 Ford Escape before spinning out and striking the left concrete median, according to police.
Lyons was taken to an area hospital where she later died.
A witness provided police with a bag allegedly thrown from the vehicle, which contained a hypodermic needle, bags containing a powder later determined to be methamphetamine, rolling papers and a scale.
Fortson was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, while the driver of the third vehicle escaped injury, police said.
Fortson was cited for driving too fast for conditions, according to police.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Nidia Trinidad-Reyes
Age : 28
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304114
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Timothy Snow
Age : 38
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304100
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
James Reid
Age : 36
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304103
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kayla Ruiz
Age : 23
Residence: Cicero, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304099
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Joseph Sheridan
Age : 51
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304120
Arrest Date: April 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI; RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH PUBLIC SAFETY
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Anthony Lardydell
Age : 35
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304101
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: INT-THREATEN ANOTHER W/INTENT THEY ENGAGE IN CONDUCT AGAINST WILL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcus Lucio
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304123
Arrest Date: April 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Karolina Mallett
Age : 44
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304107
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brent Ladwig
Age : 33
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304121
Arrest Date: April 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - (NIBRS FRAUD OFFENSE)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Heather Grzelak
Age : 35
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304116
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cortney Kelley
Age : 32
Residence: Lake Village, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304119
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tyray Gary
Age : 35
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304097
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Wayne Gralewski Jr.
Age : 35
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304106
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Donnell Brooks Jr.
Age : 21
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304108
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH PUBLIC SAFETY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Latasha Buchanan
Age : 37
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304117
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: St. John Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jason Cohen
Age : 41
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304111
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tina Criswell
Age : 53
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304095
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Johnnie Blair
Age : 40
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304115
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Munster Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Diamond Tillotson Spates
Age : 21
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304070
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dallas Vondersaar
Age : 29
Residence: Cicero, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304079
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Office
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
John Petrassi
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304061
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christian Reed
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304059
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Curt Schwab
Age : 44
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304077
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dion Neal
Age : 24
Residence: Waukegan, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304065
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE - THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tyion Grayson
Age : 41
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304066
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Daryl Jones
Age : 57
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304068
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Latajonae Larry
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304060
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christopher Lobody
Age : 33
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304090
Arrest Date: April 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lisa Ellis
Age : 40
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304078
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Raul Barajas
Age : 37
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2302899
Arrest Date: April 25, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Caine
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304083
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake Station Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Joseph Dunkerley
Age : 46
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304081
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Laquan Afolayan
Age : 32
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304058
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Susan Unruh
Age : 53
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304051
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Townsell
Age : 39
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304048
Arrest Date: April 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: ARSON - RESULTS IN SERIOUS BODILY INJURY TO A PERSON OTHER THAN DEFENDANT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joshua Tillger
Age : 38
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304033
Arrest Date: April 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Elliott Torres
Age : 22
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304038
Arrest Date: April 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Dyer Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jason Sivak
Age : 43
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304039
Arrest Date: April 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: TRESPASS - PROPERTY - UNAUTHORIZED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bruce Evans
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304041
Arrest Date: April 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Fils
Age : 48
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304053
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Larcel Lockhart
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304055
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Arthur Erb Jr.
Age : 53
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304036
Arrest Date: April 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Campero
Age : 40
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304044
Arrest Date: April 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake Station Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devon Cross
Age : 33
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304037
Arrest Date: April 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Deja Dowdy
Age : 27
Residence: Richton Park, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304049
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Damon Edwards
Age : 45
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304052
Arrest Date: April 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christian Tindell-Hall
Age : 28
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303994
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH PUBLIC SAFETY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Donald Williams
Age : 63
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304005
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Bailey Windom
Age : 21
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303996
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Taylor
Age : 47
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304022
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Russell Starnes
Age : 40
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304025
Arrest Date: April 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: OWI; RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Casey Ramos Jr.
Age : 28
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304011
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jesse Sanchez
Age : 41
Residence: Schneider, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304008
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Samantha Shaffer
Age : 51
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304006
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Potter
Age : 50
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304014
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: New Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Adam McCormick
Age : 28
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304024
Arrest Date: April 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Frankie Munoz
Age : 35
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303986
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Terry Perkins
Age : 61
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304019
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ian Pilkins
Age : 29
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304031
Arrest Date: April 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: OPERATING A MOTORBOAT WHILE INTOXICATEDPRIOR CONVICTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Emanuel Ivy
Age : 28
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303990
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: LSCT
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Karlon Jackson
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304017
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Leonard Johnson
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303997
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Javier Martinez
Age : 37
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2303991
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffrey Davis
Age : 45
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303995
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Auop Elmatari
Age : 21
Residence: Oak Forest, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303993
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: INT-THREATEN ANOTHER W/INTENT THEY ENGAGE IN CONDUCT AGAINST WILL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Samantha Cardenas
Age : 27
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304028
Arrest Date: April 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ray Dampier
Age : 44
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2303992
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gerardo Avila
Age : 47
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304020
Arrest Date: April 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
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PINE TOWNSHIP — Three people face felony counts after allegedly leading Porter County police on a high speed chase, during which time they tossed out a bag containing a hypodermic needle and methamphetamine, according to the incident report.
A county officer said he first spotted the trio around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday standing around a vehicle outside Virk's New-Mart on U.S. 12, just east of Ind. 520.
The individuals repeatedly looked over at the nearby marked police car as they moved in and out of the business and appeared to be stalling for time, the officer said. They reportedly carried a backpack.
After about 40 minutes, the group drove away and a female in the backseat reportedly stared directly at the police vehicle. They drove east on U.S. 12 in a vehicle without plates and began to accelerate, police said.
After the officer turned on his emergency lights and siren, the group reportedly passed another vehicle on the shoulder of the roadway and then turned south off the highway and took off at an extremely high rate of speed.
After turning into a driveway in the 3600 block of Henry Avenue, the three were ordered out of the vehicle, police said.
The accused questioned his arrest, saying, "Nobody got hurt," according to the report.
A witness provided police with a bag allegedly thrown from the vehicle, which contained a hypodermic needle, bags containing a powder later determined to be methamphetamine, rolling papers and a scale.
All three denied owning the bag and were taken into custody, police said.
The driver, Preston Walker, 33, of Michigan City, faces felony counts of resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, possession of methamphetamine and possession of a hypodermic needle, police said.
Passengers Tiffany Dickelman, 26, of Gary, and Lawrence Zitt, 53, of Michigan City, face felony counts of possession of methamphetamine and possession of a hypodermic needle, police said.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into the Porter County Jail
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LAPORTE — A new attorney for LaPorte County government was appointed Wednesday by the politically feuding commissioners.
Scott Pejic, a veteran criminal defense attorney based in Michigan City, was hired with the votes of commissioners Connie Gramarossa and Rich Mrozinski, who a week earlier had terminated the contract of Andrew B. Jones as county attorney.
Commissioner Joe Haney, who had been replaced as board president at that same meeting, abstained from Wednesday's vote on the grounds that he had not had a chance to meet and interview Pejic.
Gramarossa, who’s now president of the commission, and Haney verbally tangled before the vote for Pejic.
Haney continued commenting and asking questions while Gramarossa tried calling for the vote. She then paused and accused Haney of political grandstanding.
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“We’ll give you the floor. You can try and make a fool out of me. Go ahead. How long would you like to badger us?” she said.
“That’s not my intention at all. My intention is to simply understand what’s transpired here,” Haney said.
He said he was given the impression by his colleagues last week the position would be advertised and candidates interviewed prior to being filled.
It wasn’t, and that’s why he didn’t recruit anyone for the job unlike the other two commissioners, he said.
Mrozinski said he approached three lawyers who all turned him down because of how the position has become so politically charged the past few years.
“They don’t want to be part of that,” he said.
Gramarossa said she was contacted by Pejic after he heard about the opening and talked to another lawyer from South Bend.
She also said it was Haney’s fault that he misunderstood the process followed for filling the seat.
“I think this was an open process and everyone had the ability to bring somebody to the table,” she said.
In early January, Gramarossa sided with Haney in deciding to replace Shaw Friedman with Jones as county attorney.
But she said Jones’ handling of a dispute involving a request by LaPorte County Prosecutor Sean Fagan was a major factor in her decision to terminate him.
Fagan is seeking all of the emails from county email accounts of the former prosecutor and several of his staff members last year. He said he wants them to fill gaps in criminal cases where evidence was lost during his transition into office.
Gramarossa and Mrozinski went against the advice of Jones, who urged them to turn over the emails because they belong to whomever is prosecutor.
Gramarossa said she was more than happy to give Fagan access to emails he needs but not all of them over concerns about the privacy of others.
“We will not give him thousands of unrelated emails from the county server for a political witch hunt and that’s the bottom line,” she said.
Fagan denied her claims.
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What’s for dinner tonight? It’s a thought that many of us have every day, but for millions that thought is, “can my family afford dinner tonight?” The CBS News article “Nearly a quarter of U.S. adults sometimes don’t get enough to eat” by Aimee Picchi raises concerns over America’s growing food insecurity crisis.
The COVID-19 pandemic and soaring inflation rates have exacerbated this issue. As Picchi points out, grocery costs have risen by 20%, rent by 13%, and 25% of American adults have become food insecure. It has holistically become increasingly difficult for families to consistently afford nutritiously balanced foods, and this reality is particularly prevalent within Arizona.
The United States Department of Agriculture defines food insecurity as a lack of consistent access to enough food for every person in a household to live an active, healthy life. The most common type of food insecurity is having enough food for children, but parents go hungry. In Arizona, 751,690 people are facing hunger, and of them, 226,080 are children.
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The pandemic had a significant impact on households with children, increasing rates of food insecurity from 35% to 45%. One program helping to feed children is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), where 69% of participants have children. In Arizona, food banks such as St. Mary’s, United, and the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona also help combat food insecurity.
However, the pandemic drastically reduced the number of resources available to food banks thus severely limiting the number of families who can receive assistance. Some of Arizona’s most impactful resources throughout the pandemic and in combating food insecurity have been food assistance programs like SNAP. However, the Arizona 2018 Farm Bill, which governs SNAP in Arizona, expires this September.
Some of the most critical protections and services this legislation provides are SNAP, school nutrition programs, and the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). Like SNAP, TEFAP helps alleviate food insecurity by supplying low-income families, who do not qualify for SNAP, with funds to be spent at grocery stores and approved retailers to purchase nutritious foods and other necessities.
According to the Arizona Farm Bureau, TEFAP has historically supplied roughly 20% of the foods food banks distribute. In 2017 alone this amounted to 975 truckloads worth of produce (AZFB). While there is a good chance that this bill will be replaced by similar legislation given the historical bipartisan support for Farm Bills, come September, Arizona lawmakers must recognize the unique opportunity and situation Arizona faces.
Farm Bills are “the best pathway to improve food security,” and SNAP is “the nation’s most important and effective anti-hunger program,” but in Arizona, not enough is being done to make these resources accessible and fully effective. SNAP benefits fail to reach almost 200,000 qualified Arizonans due to its 50-page application process applicants find intimidating and hard to navigate. Many of these 200,000 are minorities, particularly Hispanic and Latino, who get denied due to language barriers or technicalities like providing incorrect documentation, despite being the most at risk group for persistently or newly food insecure in Arizona.
Likewise, Arizona could significantly improve coverage and accessibility of child food assistance programs as 14.3% of Arizona children are food insecure, which is significantly above the national average of 8.4% according to the USDA. Arizona constituents are calling for easing of requirements to enroll in food assistance programs, and a streamlined one form process, as well as an increase in after school meal programs that would provide kids with enough food to last several days. It is imperative Arizona lawmakers hear these calls and ensure comprehensive, effective, and widely accessible food assistance programs remain protected and expanded within the next Arizona Farm Bill.
Emily Albert, Sailor Hutton, Melissa Lugo, Shawna Nelson, Rebecca Sustayta, and Jamie Young are a group of graduate students completing master degrees in Public Health with concentrations of Policy and Management or One Health. This semester they spent much of their time researching food insecurity and how it has manifest in the state of Arizona and wish to share some of this research and their opinions on this topic. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-fighting-to-feed-families-the-reality-of-food-insecurity-in-arizona/article_d5b9f220-ee93-11ed-8200-4b1b520ff2e6.html | 2023-05-11T16:23:54 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-fighting-to-feed-families-the-reality-of-food-insecurity-in-arizona/article_d5b9f220-ee93-11ed-8200-4b1b520ff2e6.html |
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Thankfully, a well funded and powerful push by proponents of the extremely flawed Proposition 412 has been answered by a flood of Tucsonans with their own impressive analyses of this boondoggle. Many letters to the editor have exposed this blatant attempt by TEP and their enablers to shakedown residents. And so now voters are beginning to see the full picture: TEP has partnered with the City Council majority in an attempt to convince us that it is okay for ratepayers to pick up an annual tab of four to five million dollars for, essentially, the beautification of Campbell Avenue. And the most cynical part is that TEP and their friends think they can entice Tucsonans into supporting this proposal by throwing in a much smaller percentage of that money — your money — towards the funding of vague climate change projects.
But there is no rush. We have three years for TEP and the City Council to come back with a better plan we can all support within a new 25 year franchise agreement. Sami Hamed pointed to the fact that many progressive municipalities like Boulder and Minneapolis have used franchise agreement negotiations to push their own electric utility companies into being true partners in the fight against climate change. Why can’t we? Councilmember Kozachik wrote, “..our climate reality demands much more than the aesthetic of undergrounding new utility lines (along Campbell).” He is right.
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Prop 412 will be decided by many voters that are distracted by graduation ceremonies and the transition into the slumber of summer. Those left to vote are the hard working families that are still scratching their heads as they walk by and glance down at the ballot and the shiny TEP literature on their kitchen tables.
To you, I say that what your gut is telling you is spot on. You are thinking, of course you want to fight climate change and don’t mind chipping in. It’s that important. But, you are considering the recent Tucson Water fee increases. You are remembering that you voted twice on supporting sales taxes to repair our roads. And you read somewhere that, on top of the rate hike that Prop 412 is asking from you, an additional increase of $14 a month will be considered by the Arizona Corporation Commission.
You’re thinking, someone is starting to take the “Mi casa is tu casa” sign on your front door literally.
And you are right. Lately, the Mayor and Council majority seem to have developed a nasty habit of raising revenue directly from residents with regressive sales taxes and rate increases. Apparently, it is much easier to look to us to solve City problems instead of finding the courage to insist that the corporate and development community pay their fair share.
What bothers me the most is the fact that TEP really is acting as if this is their “casa”. But Tucson residents and taxpayers own the public right of way that they want to run those power lines under. Yet they want to charge us for it! They should be paying rent for the privilege of doing business within our collective property.
As the director of community relations for Access Tucson years ago, I became very familiar with this type of corporate gaslighting when we had to constantly insist that cable companies like Cox Communications pay their own rent for also using our public right away.
In their literature, TEP says, “The best way to show you want to tackle climate change is by voting YES on Prop 412!”
It is not. Not even close.
Nobody knows this more than working families on the south and west side with leaky houses because they can’t afford to make their homes energy efficient.
Tell TEP and the City Council to do better. It’s their turn to pay the check. At least go Dutch! Vote NO on Prop 412!
Miguel Ortega is a candidate for the Ward 1 Council Office and a longtime Westside resident and community organizer. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-no-on-prop-412/article_694af7e4-eec8-11ed-8b3f-7f7a2b6937d9.html | 2023-05-11T16:24:01 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-no-on-prop-412/article_694af7e4-eec8-11ed-8b3f-7f7a2b6937d9.html |
Vigil held for 18-year-old shot dead in a Mesa home, just weeks away from graduation
Friends and family of Red Mountain High School senior Jeremiah Aviles gathered at Red Mountain Park in Mesa Wednesday night to honor the 18-year-old who was found shot dead at a home on Sunday.
Jeremiah’s father, Omar Aviles, fought through tears as he told the crowd of approximately 125-150 people how much he missed his son.
“I wanted to be at his graduation — not at his funeral,” Aviles said.
Aviles was a senior set to graduate on May 25 from Red Mountain High School in Mesa. He played on the school football team, but his father said he had been playing football for five years.
Along with football, his brother, Omar Aviles Jr., said he was very active and did martial arts, jiu-jitsu, wrestling, and did kickboxing and falconry with their father.
"He succeeded in football. He's also a phenomenal student and he's a really good kid," said his brother, Omar Aviles Jr., during a previous interview with The Arizona Republic.
According to Mesa police, there have been no arrests in his death.
During the vigil, his father vowed to keep fighting and asking questions until he found justice for his son’s killing.
“He was my baby boy!” Aviles cried out in tears. “He might have been your friend! He might have been your teammate! He was my son and I lost him!”
'My son's soul is at rest'
Olga Lopez, Jeremiah Aviles’ mother, mourned the death of her son, for whom she dropped off the clothes he would wear at his celebration of life. But Lopez found comfort in knowing that her son was in a better place.“I can have comfort knowing that my son’s soul is at rest,” Lopez said.Lopez urged the crowd — many of whom appeared to be Aviles’ classmates — to be strong and tackle everything they hoped to achieve with the same vigor and resolve as her son had.“When you put your name on something, you’re putting your name on something that says, ‘this is my best.’ So, when you put your name on something, ensure that it is your best.”
At one point, Lopez urged the crowd to shout, “Let’s go!” as her son often shouted.“Y’all aren’t doing it right, right now,” Lopez told the crowd when the shout wasn’t loud enough, leading to a louder exclamation.Lopez thanked those present for joining her family in mourning and remembering her son with them before leading them through a prayer.
The Red Mountain football team showed their support online following the shooting by posting a picture of Aviles in his football uniform along with his graduation page in the yearbook.
"Our hearts are with the Aviles family this day and always. We mourn the loss of Jeremiah’s beautiful spirit and honor his life in the days ahead," the team posted on their Facebook account. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa/2023/05/11/vigil-held-for-red-mountain-high-school-senior-shot-dead-in-mesa-home/70196904007/ | 2023-05-11T16:26:55 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa/2023/05/11/vigil-held-for-red-mountain-high-school-senior-shot-dead-in-mesa-home/70196904007/ |
Passes can be purchased at BloomingtonParks.org or in person at The Hub located in the Government Center, 115 E. Washington St., Suite 103, in downtown Bloomington.
Watch now: Photos from the JJ Swims Water Safety Event
Jack and Jill volunteers Landon Caffey, Lashonda Harden, Shomari Caffey, Courtney Marks
YMCA staff and volunteers Brad Ruehrdanz, Dani Freeman, Patrick Mainieri, Tessa Mizell, Eric and B.J. Wilken
Lifeguards and instructors
Leanna Bordner with the ISU Women’s Swim Team who volunteered at the
Getting a wristband
Gionee and LaRon Reed
Mateo Miranda
Swarnambika Appari, Medhasyi and Nishanth Lutukurthy
Samantha Lambros, Jace, Dimitri and Jason Campbell
Julie and Callie Letzkus
Sansanee Pattapongwat, Gawyn Edel
Erica and Audrey Larkin
Picking up freebies
YMCA director/CEO B.J. Wilken
Roxanne Stewart
Michael Cobarrubias, YMCA director of aquatics
Aerial View
Drawing door prize winners
Patrick Mainieri thanking the ISU Women’s Swim Team volunteers
Getting ready to swim
Playing games
Mateo Miranda on the side of the pool
Mateo Miranda floating on his back
Micah Thompson and Caleb Robinson help Merrell Robinson
Leo Swearingen holds Jirzhiel Jolly as Teliyah Johnson looks on
Elle Dejaynes holds Paris Calvert
Reeve Thomsen, Reese Harris
Instructor Ben McDorman is ready to assist Promise Warmsley and Genevieve Blockman
Contact Olivia Jacobs at 309-820-3352. Follow Olivia on Twitter: @olivia___jacobs | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/bloomingtons-holiday-pool-to-open-may-27/article_1d5c9ece-ef49-11ed-9c27-c3324ac8139a.html | 2023-05-11T16:30:24 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/bloomingtons-holiday-pool-to-open-may-27/article_1d5c9ece-ef49-11ed-9c27-c3324ac8139a.html |
Teen accused of making threat against his Dearborn high school charged
A Fordson High School student accused of making a threat against his school in Dearborn has been charged.
The suspect, whose name hasn't been released, has been charged as a juvenile with making an intentional threat to commit an act of violence against a school, school employees or students, said the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office in a news release Thursday.
The student allegedly made a shooting threat against the school, located in the 13800 block of Ford Road, on Saturday. The threat was investigated by Dearborn Police, who arrested him on Monday.
The teen's preliminary hearing took place on Tuesday and his bond was set at $4,000, or 10%. He is scheduled to return to court at the Lincoln Hall of Justice at 10:30 a.m. May 31, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. before Referee Tracey Martin.
hmackay@detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2023/05/11/teen-charged-in-connection-to-dearborn-school-shooting-threat/70207469007/ | 2023-05-11T16:30:49 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2023/05/11/teen-charged-in-connection-to-dearborn-school-shooting-threat/70207469007/ |
SAGINAW, Mich. (WJRT) - A new park in Saginaw opened after the land was fenced off for decades.
The Saginaw River Watershed Recreation Area is now home to trails, wildlife and water. The space was a General Motors plant, which closed and got demolished, and most recently has sat unused.
The 334-acre tract of land is now a nature lover's dream for hikers, bikers, fishermen and nature enthusiasts.
"It's just so amazing to have this property. We don't have stuff like that in a city like Saginaw," Saginaw resident Mary Ann Forbes said.
Located west of the Saginaw River across from Wickes Park, the Saginaw River Headwaters Recreation Area doesn't show any signs of the old Saginaw Malleable Iron plant that once sat there.
"We enjoy the urban-ness as well as the wildness," Saginaw resident James Forbes said.
The park offers 3 miles of trails, wetlands, ponds and wildlife after being used for industrial purposes for decades.
"Just such a beautiful, neat, transitional piece of property, from 18,000 protected acres to the Shiawassee's Wildlife Refuge and the DNR state game area, up to this 334 acres and then transitioning into a densely populated urban city of Saginaw," Director of Saginaw County Parks Brian Keenan Lechel said.
After GM's bankruptcy, RACER Trust took over ownership and now the state has leased the property to the county.
Although some have expressed concerns about the lasting environmental impact from industrial operations, leaders say the space meets site-specific recreational use standards set by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy with continued monitoring.
"If not this, then what? This property is just so beautiful and serene, to allow it to continue to be fenced off and nonaccessible would be a disservice," Keenan-Lechel said.
Future plans include planting thousands of trees and adding additional observational platforms and benches and cross-country skiing in the winter.
"Cities that have this kind of and make use of it have a real draw for people to come and life in that city," Forbes said. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/new-334-acre-park-opens-in-saginaw-after-land-was-dormant/article_4db1f47e-ef68-11ed-b086-7f2e98181b19.html | 2023-05-11T16:33:26 | 0 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/new-334-acre-park-opens-in-saginaw-after-land-was-dormant/article_4db1f47e-ef68-11ed-b086-7f2e98181b19.html |
What to Know
- 30-year-old Jordan Neely died on a train at the Broadway-Lafayette station in Manhattan on May 1 after allegedly threatening passengers and being put into a chokehold by a rider; that rider, identified as 24-year-old Daniel Penny, was questioned by the NYPD and later released from custody
- The medical examiner's office ruled Neely's death a homicide the next day, which incited a debate around whether the rider's actions were justified defense or vigilantism; the Manhattan district attorney's office has said it is looking into the case
- Multiple protests have taken place in Manhattan since Neely's death and dozens arrested; the Manhattan district attorney's office has said it is looking into the matter
Silence may be deafening, but it doesn't mean "do nothing." That's the latest message from the Manhattan district attorney, as his office weighs potential criminal charges in the subway chokehold that has gained national attention.
It's been 10 days since Neely, 30, died on the floor of an F train car after being put in a chokehold at the Broadway-Lafayette station on a Monday afternoon. The circumstances remain under investigation. Witnesses had reported Neely, a homeless man with a lengthy record, was aggressive toward other riders. They also reported Neely hadn't physically attacked anyone before a 24-year-old former Marine, Daniel Penny, moved to forcibly subdue him.
Penny was taken into custody by the NYPD for questioning and later released. The next day, the medical examiner's office ruled Neely's death a homicide, igniting a firestorm of debate over self-defense vs. vigilantism. Also came a series of protests across a city wearied by too many deaths, however unrelated, of Black men at white men's hands.
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Officially, Bragg's office has been tight-lipped on the case, saying only that it has assigned seasoned, experienced prosecutors to conduct an investigation. Sources say there could be grand jury action this week. In the meantime, Bragg urged late Wednesday that people not read much into his apparent silence.
"I think sometimes people peer into the silence and look at that as if the office isn't doing anything right," Bragg said. "It's not important. It's quite the contrary."
Earlier that day, Mayor Eric Adams, who had been accused by some of not weighing in substantially enough, formally addressed Neely's death in a public address on Wednesday.
The Democrat forcefully declared Neely "shouldn't have died" -- while carefully towing a line between acknowledging the loss, and the ensuing tensions, and appearing to ascribe any sort of responsibility.
"One of our own is dead," Adams said, empathizing with the emotional intensity coursing through the city over the case. "A Black man, Black like me -- a man named Jordan, the name I gave my son, a New Yorker who struggled with tragedy, trauma and mental illness, a man whose last words were to cry for help, a man named Jordan Neely."
Attorneys for Penny have said the young man never intended to kill Neely and "could not have foreseen" that his efforts to mitigate a perceived public threat would turn deadly. Neely's family has called that an "admission of guilt." | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/jordan-neely-subway-chokehold-death-alvin-bragg-weighs-grand-jury-action-against-daniel-penny/4324763/ | 2023-05-11T16:33:46 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/jordan-neely-subway-chokehold-death-alvin-bragg-weighs-grand-jury-action-against-daniel-penny/4324763/ |
NJ Transit rail service in and out of Penn Station New York is suspended due to a Portal Bridge signal issue.
PATH is cross honoring NJ Transit rail tickets at Penn Station, Hoboken and 33rd St-NY stations.
NJ Transit and Amtrak are replacing the century-old, two-track Portal Bridge built in 1910 over the Hackensack River with a higher bridge that will not have to open and close for river traffic, according to NJ Transit's website.
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"Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the bridge carried more than 450 daily Amtrak and NJ TRANSIT trains and 200,000 daily passengers over the Hackensack River – a critical link in the congested territory between Newark, New Jersey and Penn Station, New York," NJ Transit said.
However, NJ Transit notes that the bridge, through the years has become a "major bottleneck and source of delays, particularly when the aging bridge malfunctions during opening and closing for maritime traffic."
Follow the list below for real-time transit updates from all our local transit agencies and providers. Remember to scroll down to find the latest update from your relevant agency, as transit situations can evolve quickly. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nj-transit-suspends-train-service-to-ny-penn-due-to-portal-bridge-issue/4324832/ | 2023-05-11T16:33:52 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nj-transit-suspends-train-service-to-ny-penn-due-to-portal-bridge-issue/4324832/ |
What to Know
- A pair of newlyweds leaving their reception in a golf cart were hit by an alleged intoxicated driver from behind on April 28; the bride died, still in her wedding dress, and her husband was badly hurt
- The driver charged, Jamie Lee Komoroski, went to high school in New Jersey and was living in Charleston at the time of the crash; she had recently been hired by a local restaurant, reports say
- Komoroski's attorneys, who include former Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni, issued a statement Tuesday offering condolences and asked there be no rush to judgment
The New Jersey high school graduate who went to college in South Carolina -- and allegedly sped into the back of a golf cart carrying a couple leaving their wedding reception, killing the bride in her wedding dress late last month -- has hired a top former Garden State prosecutor to help defend her.
Christopher Gramiccioni, who stepped down as Monmouth County prosecutor in June 2021 after years in the position, released the first public statement on Jamie Lee Komoroski's behalf this past Tuesday.
In it, he says, "We cannot fathom what the families are going through and offer our deepest sympathies. We simply ask that there not be a rush to judgment. Our court system is founded upon principles of justice and mercy and that is where all facts will come to light."
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Komoroski, a 25-year-old who attended North Hunterdon High School and worked at a Flemington diner before launching her collegiate career at Coastal Carolina University, according to reports, was behind the wheel of the rental car that hit 34-year-old Samantha Miller, of North Carolina, and her newlywed husband, Aric Hutchinson on April 28.
Data retrieved from the car indicated she was driving 65 mph and only briefly hit the brakes before she hit the golf cart on Folly Beach, an island near Charleston, around 10 p.m., investigators have said. The speed limit is 25 mph.
Miller was pronounced dead in her wedding dress. Hutchinson suffered a brain injury and multiple broken bones, and while he is expected to survive, the recovery will be long, according to his mother. She established a GoFundMe page to support her son as well as her son-in-law and grandson, who were the couple's golf cart escorts from the reception.
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"All three are incredibly strong despite the pain they are suffering," mom Annette Hutchinson wrote in her latest update this week. Of her son, she wrote, "He is physically recovering at home while trying to come to terms with the loss of his beautiful wife. Now he is doing the unimaginable of planning Sam’s funeral along with her family."
The page has raised more than $711,000, well more than seven times its original goal, in the 11 days since it was created. It included photos of the newlyweds running under sparklers moments before the crash. At the hospital, Annette Hutchinson was handed a bag with her son's wedding band, which his now-dead wife put on him hours earlier.
Komoroski, who wasn't hurt in the crash, is charged with reckless vehicular homicide and three counts of driving under the influence causing death. She faces one to 25 years in prison on each DUI count.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/woman-in-golf-cart-crash-that-killed-bride-after-south-carolina-wedding-hires-nj-prosecutor-for-defense/4324490/ | 2023-05-11T16:33:58 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/woman-in-golf-cart-crash-that-killed-bride-after-south-carolina-wedding-hires-nj-prosecutor-for-defense/4324490/ |
Hartville Council votes on several zoning requests
Hartville Village Council
Monday meeting
KEY ACTION: Voted on several zoning variance requests.
DISCUSSION: Approved a sign variance for the Hartville Lake Community Development Board at 101 Prospect Ave. N to allow a 21.5-square-foot sign, and a conditional use variance contingent upon a zoning change from industrial zone (M1) to general business (B2) for a conference center to be built at 1010 Sunnyside St. SW by Christ Foundation.
Council denied Hartville Family Mini Mart’s request for a variance to operate an amusement arcade at 260 Prospect Ave. S due to the proposed business being 840 feet from the nearest church and 648 feet from the nearest school, with zoning requiring a 1,000-foot distance from each for this type of business. Councilwoman Sheri Chambers voted against denying the variance. Each of the Council decisions upheld recommendations from the village Board of Zoning Appeals.
OTHER ACTIONS:
- Approved legislation requiring all costs related to annexations into the village to be paid by the person or entity requesting the annexation.
UP NEXT: Meets for its next regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. May 22 at Hartville Village Hall, 202 W. Maple St. and online at www.facebook.com/VillageofHartville.
Brian Lisik | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/hartville-lake/2023/05/11/hartville-council-votes-on-several-zoning-requests/70203148007/ | 2023-05-11T16:35:28 | 1 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/hartville-lake/2023/05/11/hartville-council-votes-on-several-zoning-requests/70203148007/ |
Dollar General, Dollar Tree stores expanding on Eastern Shore, with inflation as driver
Nowadays, consumers want more bang for their buck.
Thus, what better place to shop than at stores toting inexpensive, single dollar products? Now, a battle to satisfy customers' needs has ensued between big name corporations such as Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar.
"Dollar General and Dollar Tree are corporate competitors," said John Hickman, director of the Business Economic and Community Outreach Network (BEACON) at Salisbury University.
Due to the retailers' competitive nature, consumers may notice Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores in close proximity to one another in well-populated Eastern Shore towns such as Salisbury and Ocean City.
In recent years, Dollar Tree and Dollar Family combined and have now become parts of the same company.
Inflation a driver in the increasing appeal of dollar stores
"Why are they popping up? Whether it's here in Salisbury, whether it's across Delmarva, or whether it's across the country, inflation has been relatively good for this type of retailer," Hickman said.
Dollar General planned to greatly expand its footprint in 2021 and 2022, and is continuing to do so in 2023 as it gears up to debut over 1,000 new stores nationwide.
In fiscal year 2023, Dollar General has slated 1,050 new store openings, 2,000 store remodels and 120 store relocations, for a total of 3,170, said CEO Jeff Owen, according to CoStar News.
Similarly, Dollar Tree announced 1,805 additional stores “expanded multi-price Plus” products in 2022, and the retailer plans a repeat for 2023, said DC News Now.
"They are very savvy retailers. Their corporate organization is very savvy on where and how to expand," Hickman said of Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Dollar Family.
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Customers explain why they have their favorite stores
When it comes to choosing between Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Dollar Family, most consumers' minds are made up. For shopper Linda Feeley, her allegiance lies with Dollar Tree due to its low-price, high-value products.
"Not everything is top of the line. But I'm here for batteries, and I'm going to get a lot better deal here than I would at CVS," Feeley said.
"I don't shop at Dollar General because it's too expensive," she added. "I will only shop in Dollar Tree. It's a good store and they have fun stuff."
$1 or $1.25? For shoppers, it can be big difference
What makes the Dollar Tree enticing to consumers is its affordable prices, said shopper Danielle Porreca.
"Except, it's $1.25 now so I wonder, is it going to stay $1.25 or go back to being one dollar?" Porreca said.
Dollar Tree began rolling out its $1.25 price point at all stores nationwide beginning in 2022. The $1.25 price point is said to enhance the Company’s ability to materially expand its offerings, introduce new products and sizes, and provide families with more of their daily essentials, the company said in a Nov. 2021 news release.
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Knowing the price of each product prior to entering a store is another reason to choose one retailer over another, said another Dollar Tree customer, Robert Ruark.
"I know how much it's going to cost," Ruark said. "When I go to the Dollar General, (prices) are sky high. Then at the Family Dollar, (prices) are real low."
Dollar Tree, on the other hand, should consider changing its name to the $1.25 store, Ruark and Porreca agreed.
"What is the value of a dollar these days?" Porreca said. "It has obviously changed."
Olivia Minzola covers communities on the Lower Shore. Contact her with tips and story ideas at ominzola@delmarvanow.com. | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2023/05/11/dollar-general-vs-dollar-tree-heres-what-consumers-prefer/70160361007/ | 2023-05-11T16:40:41 | 1 | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2023/05/11/dollar-general-vs-dollar-tree-heres-what-consumers-prefer/70160361007/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. — Officials in a remote northeastern Oregon county have voted to give tax breaks worth an estimated $1 billion to Amazon for five more data centers there.
Wednesday's unanimous vote by Port of Morrow's five commissioners was the last step in securing the enterprise zone incentives, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. Companies in the state can receive property tax exemptions through local enterprise zones.
Local officials hope the incentives will bring $12 billion in new Amazon spending in their county along the Columbia River about 160 miles from Portland.
Amazon already has four giant data centers in Morrow County and several hundred local jobs tied to its operations. But its growth has produced contentious debate over how the Seattle company secured its incentives and an ongoing probe over possible self-dealing by some people awarding its tax breaks.
The state is investigating potential conflicts of interest among port officials and a former county commissioner who own Windwave Communications, a company that provides fiber-optic service to Amazon's local data centers.
Amazon and Windwave haven't responded to requests from the newspaper for information about the value of the two companies' contracts.
Those two port commissioners, Jerry Healy and Marv Padberg, in an April letter to the state ethics commission said their company does have a deal to provide most of the fiber-optic service to one new Amazon data center. But they said they only have a "potential" conflict of interest in voting on incentives for the other four facilities.
Three other public bodies in Morrow County previously gave their approval to the latest agreement, each in votes with little public discussion. The incentives exempt Amazon from paying nearly three-quarters of the property taxes other businesses pay.
But Amazon is Morrow County's largest taxpayer. Its data centers account for a third of property tax revenue, with payments of $26 million in 2021, according to the company.
Amazon declined to make any of its local managers available to the newspaper for comment on its data center operations.
"We've been an active member of eastern Oregon communities since 2011, investing more than $15.6 billion while supporting thousands of local jobs," Amazon said in a written statement after Wednesday's vote.
David Sykes, chairman of the Morrow County commission, told the newspaper he sees Amazon fitting into a "nicely diversified economy."
It's a good blend of industries, Sykes said, that rescued the county from its dependency on natural resources after a sawmill and coal plant shut down.
Data centers are among the state's fastest-growing industries, fueled partly by tax breaks worth $180 million last year alone.
Oregon's program of enterprise zone incentives places no limits on how much local governments can give away in negotiations with businesses. The state created the program for small manufacturers in the 1980s, but data centers with billions of dollars in high-end computers have recently dominated the program.
Critics question whether small counties are equipped to negotiate with some of the world's largest tech companies. And the value of the tax breaks varies widely.
The latest deal between Morrow County and Amazon will provide giveaways approximately twice as valuable, for example, as an agreement officials in The Dalles reached with Google in 2021.
The enterprise zone program sunsets in two years and Oregon lawmakers are considering reforms that could limit the duration of the incentives, link the size of the tax breaks to jobs created, and mandate public notice before votes on the deals. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/eastern-oregon/amazon-1-billion-tax-breaks-eastern-oregon-new-data-centers/283-8a8e3b9f-7846-49b2-9731-9b5c32a6537b | 2023-05-11T16:42:19 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/eastern-oregon/amazon-1-billion-tax-breaks-eastern-oregon-new-data-centers/283-8a8e3b9f-7846-49b2-9731-9b5c32a6537b |
SEATTLE — The next time you order a pizza in the greater Seattle area, it could be delivered by a drone.
Pagliacci Pizza, with 25 locations in western Washington, has partnered with South San Francisco-based Zipline to utilize its home delivery service.
The two companies collaborated on a new custom pizza box design that allows each drone to carry two 13-inch pizzas and side dishes to its final destination.
“Over a decade ago, we committed to sustainability by taking bold steps to reduce our carbon footprint, including purchasing green power, buying locally, and developing robust composting programs,” said Matt Galvin, co-owner of Pagliacci. “As we work toward carbon neutrality, Zipline's drones will enable us to scale our deliveries sustainably with up to 97% fewer emissions than cars.”
Zipline's Platform 2 drones fly more than 300 feet off the ground, and the company says they are designed to sound like "rustling leaves in the wind." In March, Zipline announced its Platform 2 technology would be used by Sweetgreen, Michigan Medicine, MultiCare Health Systems, Intermountain Health and the Government of Rwanda.
The drones can leave a delivery on a surface area as small as a patio table or the front steps of a home.
The drones will have a 10-mile radius of delivery from Pagliacci locations.
No timeline was given on when the drones would be rolled out and available for use.
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SEATTLE — A young mom vanished from Lake Forest Park in North Seattle over 40 years ago.
Barbara Annette McClure was 24 years old when she went missing. She still has not been found.
Her 2-year-old daughter grew up without a mom and now, dozens of years later, she is on a mission to figure out what happened on that November night.
On Nov. 2, 1978, Barbara went out with some friends to the Sirloin. There was a discotheque located inside called the Fandango.
According to detectives, there was an argument that took place between Barbara and one of her friends, then Barbara decided to walk home. That was the last time anybody saw her.
"When I look at her stuff, I feel sad. I don’t feel connected to her and who she was," Jamie Stupey, McClure's daughter said.
Stupey has kept cases and cases of her mother's photographs, cards and other keepsakes. She believes they could contain valuable information for the case.
Stupey was only two years old when her mother disappeared, so she mainly knows her mother through family stories and faded memories.
"I hear she was very strong and beautiful and liked to run her own show and confident and loving and caring," Stupey said. "And very willing to speak up for what she believed was right and wrong."
One memory does stick out to her.
"My only memory is being at my aunt’s house a few weeks after and asking when I was going to see my mom," she said.
Detective John Free works with the King County Sheriff’s Office and is assigned to McClure's case.
"Some of her friends got into a vehicle and they drove after her, tried to convince her to get into the car so they could drive her home. She declined and said that she wanted to keep walking," Free said.
Several days later on Nov. 8, road crews found her driver's license at the intersection of I-5 and I-405, north of Bothell.
Free has many questions surrounding the dropped, or purposefully placed driver's license.
"How did it end up there? Why did it end up there? Was a dropped by her? Was it dropped by somebody else? That's obviously a major question regarding this investigation," he said.
McClure's family is also very interested in the recovered license.
"I do think it was put there by somebody," said Karleen Klopp, McClure's niece. "It was intentionally left."
Klopp was 7 years old when her aunt Barbara went missing.
"We weren’t allowed to talk about her, we weren’t allowed to ask questions. We waited around at Christmas time, no one prayed for her. She was just gone. To me, that makes no sense," Klopp said. "You can’t just erase people. They disappear and people shrug their shoulders."
Klopp remembers that her family told her she went away, but would be coming back.
McClure's friend from high school, Marvalee Smith, said "she felt from day one" she wouldn't just vanish.
"She had a twinkle in her eye and she was very matter-of-fact," Smith said.
Smith said the last time she talked to McClure was when she and her husband offered to babysit Stupey. But McClure told her she'd be at her dad's house for the weekend. That was the weekend she vanished.
'I don't know what I believe anymore'
"I will say that my entire life I have never felt like she was dead and certainly not out of that being the best scenario for me, because the idea of saying she left would be harder," Stupey said.
Stupey says she believes there are many ways that November night could have gone.
"I don’t know that I know what I believe anymore, she said. "I don’t know how I can emotionally find a place for that to be okay now. But with everything that we have been talking and looking at, recently, I feel like there are a lot of other possibilities."
Free remains optimistic about the likelihood of solving this case.
"I think that this is an investigation that can be solved by talking to the right people. I think somebody who knows her has information about her disappearance," Free said. "And even if they don't, we still want to hear from people that knew her.
"There are people that are here right now that know exactly what happened that night and I believe that," Stupey said.
McClure's daughter shares brand-new information about the case
Stupey decided to tell the Unsolved Northwest team new information never shared before in hopes of gathering new leads.
"There was someone following my mom around, most likely a hired person. I’d like to know who that person was," Stupey said. "Whoever that person is, that person has answers to things we need, I think. I think it would tell a lot."
Detective Free says he has no information about her being followed by anyone.
"You can’t escape the truth," Klopp said. "Somebody knows the truth so that’s what I’m hoping for."
Anyone who knows anything about the disappearance of Barbara Ann McClure is urged to contact the King County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Phyllis Chapple-Perkins, the passionate Alabama Crimson Tide fan known to millions of radio listeners as “Phyllis from Mulga,” has died. She was 74.
Chapple-Perkins, who had been a regular caller to sports commentator Paul Finebaum’s radio show since 1993, died Wednesday morning following a battle with different health issues over the years, her family announced through her Facebook page.
“The world lost a good woman today, but Heaven now has a warrior angel the devil himself doesn’t want to cross,” her son, Christopher, wrote on her page.
Finebaum, who began his career in Birmingham before leaving for ESPN and SEC Nation a few years ago, paid tribute to Chapple-Perkins Thursday.
“An unforgettable force of a woman, she helped define this show as a place where college football fans could profess their passion and defend the honor of their teams- often loudly and always fiercely,” Finebaum wrote on Twitter.
Growing in Birmingham’s West End neighborhood, Chapple-Perkins traced her love of Alabama football early on to going to Iron Bowl games at Legion Field when she was a girl. In fact, her brothers would often work Saturdays at Legion Field during Alabama games to make extra money.
“It was just something electric about it,” Perkins told The Tuscaloosa News in 2018. “It was knock-out, drag-out football.”
Chapple-Perkins, who listed her job as “FULL TIME BAMA FAN” on Facbook, admitted that when she first began listening to Finebaum’s show in 1993, she was hardly impressed.
“When I began listening to him in ’93, I despised him,” Chapple-Perkins told the Birmingham Post-Herald in 2001. “I hated him.”
Then, one day, she decided to call in to the show to stick up for then-Alabama head coach Gene Stallings. The rest was history and she became “Phyllis from Mulga,” joining a group of beloved sports fans who would regularly call in to the show.
“In the world of local talk radio, ‘Phyllis from Mulga’ has become one of those call-in celebrities, listeners who dial their favorite shows so frequently that their voices are as familiar as their hosts’,” reporter William C. Singleton III wrote in a profile of Chapple-Perkins in the Birmingham Post-Herald in 2001.
However, Finebaum’s relationship with Chapple-Perkins went deeper than the airwaves. In fact, when she was undergoing surgery for lung cancer in 1996, it was Finebaum who stopped by to visit her.
“Phyllis is in many ways kind of part of the family,” Finebaum told the Post-Herald in 2001. “It started with kind of a rambling, raging call that she was defending (former Alabama football coach) Gene Stallings when somebody was attacking him, and really she’s become someone who is really important to us.”
As Alabama football began to reign high on the national stage under Nick Saban, Chapple-Perkins would be sought in national media, appearing in ESPN documentaries and interviews, always supporting the Tide.
“Alabama has put us on the map,” Chapple-Perkins told The New York Times in 2015. “Alabama has made us proud. Because there’s not a whole lot this state has been able to call proud because of the stereotyping.”
No funeral arrangements have been announced. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/alabama-fan-known-to-finebaum-listeners-as-phyllis-from-mulga-dies/ | 2023-05-11T16:44:10 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/alabama-fan-known-to-finebaum-listeners-as-phyllis-from-mulga-dies/ |
HERSHEY, Pa. — Race fans young and old are in for a treat in Hershey on Thursday!
The Hershey Sprint Car Experience parked itself in Hersheypark Stadium for the 84th anniversary of the first auto race held at Hershey Stadium Speedway in May of 1939.
The experience features World of Outlaw and Pa. Posse driver meet-and-greets, access to antique cars and racecars, hauler tours and recognition of Hershey Stadium Speedway’s anniversary.
This event is hosted by the Milton Hershey School in partnership with World of Outlaws and Hersheypark.
Many of those drivers attending the event on Thursday will be spending time in the classroom working with Milton Hershey School students and explaining how what they are learning is connected to the automotive industry.
And a few of those students will put what they learned to good use.
On Saturday, some students will also be working with the pit crews at the race on Saturday at Williams Grove Speedway. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/hershey-sprint-car-experience-hersheypark-stadium/521-22798136-d7a1-45bb-8554-595da97ffe27 | 2023-05-11T16:46:47 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/hershey-sprint-car-experience-hersheypark-stadium/521-22798136-d7a1-45bb-8554-595da97ffe27 |
YORK, Pa. — As we head into the peak of the lawncare season, a Central Pennsylvania police department has a message for residents who have just finished giving their lawns a trim:
Please don't blow your grass clippings onto the road.
"Grass clippings become pretty slippery on asphalt, especially when wet, and it could cause a hydroplaning effect on passing drivers," the York County Regional Police Department said in a recent post. "The danger is mostly to those on motorcycles and bicycles, since they are only on two wheels, and balance is imperative.
"Even on a hot and sunny day, grass clippings blowing out from the blade cover or blower tunnel can be a serious distraction for someone on a motorcycle, or bicycle."
Those who blow grass clippings onto the road could be cited for spreading debris on a roadway, and some municipalities have specific local ordinances prohibiting such behavior, the police department said.
"If a motorcyclist goes into a slide because of the grass clippings you just blew onto the highway, you could be held legally liable," YCRPD added. "Please make sure be careful and not to blow grass clippings onto roadways and clean up any that you may have accidently spread." | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/ycrpd-reminder-dont-blow-grass-clippings-on-roadway/521-6897deea-788a-4299-936b-2508a1512be4 | 2023-05-11T16:46:49 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/ycrpd-reminder-dont-blow-grass-clippings-on-roadway/521-6897deea-788a-4299-936b-2508a1512be4 |
DOVER, Pa. — A York County man is facing charges after engaging in a standoff with police during a domestic incident Wednesay in Dover Township.
Gregory Lehman, 39, was taken into custody after a 30-minute standoff with police officers ended peacefully, according to Northern Lancaster County Regional Police.
The officers were there to execute a search warrant and an arrest warrant on Lehman, who was accused of sending more than 50 threatening messages to a woman and her two children after they left his home on the 5100 block of Harmony Grove Road Wednesday morning, police said.
He also made verbal threats to the woman and brandished and discharged a firearm when she and another relative returned to the home to obtain personal belongings for her and the children, according to police.
After leaving the home for a second time, the victim reported that she received over 50 threatening messages indicating that Lehman was going do harm to her and her children, police claim.
Lehman had access to additional weapons, body armor, and the ability to carry out his threats, the woman told police.
Officers sent the victim to the York County Judicial Center to obtain a Protection From Abuse order. Investigators also obtained an arrest warrant for Lehman and a search warrant for his home, according to police.
Lehman allegedly continued to send threatening messages to the victim and indicated that he would shoot at responding officers, police said.
Northern York County Regional Police requested assistance from the York County Quick Response Team. The QRT responded and were able to take Lehman into custody without incident at 3:11 p.m.
Harmony Grove Road was closed between SR 74 and School House Road from 2:45 until 3:15 p.m., police said.
In cooperation with Dover Area School District, the bus for the area was held at the school until the incident cleared.
Lehman was arraigned on charges of terroristic threats and harassment, according to police. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-county/gregory-lehman-arrest-terroristic-threats-harassment-dover-twp/521-a3f69580-36f3-422e-b4d8-060879769a60 | 2023-05-11T16:46:50 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-county/gregory-lehman-arrest-terroristic-threats-harassment-dover-twp/521-a3f69580-36f3-422e-b4d8-060879769a60 |
YORK, Pa. — Al fresco dining is returning to the city of York, beginning on Friday.
Downtown Inc. announced that a portion of North George Street will close every Friday and Saturday evening so that patrons can enjoy outdoor dining at downtown eateries like The Handsome Cab, Tutoni's, Rockfish Public House, The Left Bank Restaurant & Bar and Gift Horse Brewing Company.
Beginning this Friday, May 12 and running every weekend through the end of October, outdoor dining hours will be in effect from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Fridays and from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturdays.
To accommodate outdoor dining hours, North George Street will be closed between West Philadelphia Street and West Gas Avenue, Downtown Inc. said.
Each restaurant will post their hours of operations and standards for service to their social media or website. All reservations for the outdoor George Street seating will be handled by the individual restaurants.
“We know that with the increased foot traffic brought on by the recently reopened Yorktowne Hotel, the continuation of the North George Street outdoor dining experience will only further our community’s reputation as a desirable destination,” said director of Downtown Inc. Jonathan Desmarais.
In addition to the restaurants on North George Street, there over 25 restaurants offering outdoor dining in all three micro-districts of downtown York (Market District, Royal Square District and WeCo District).
Click here to see the full list of restaurants offering outdoor dining.
"Closing the street for expanded outdoor seating and live music creates a destination environment for our city that is found in larger downtowns with much success," said Allison Witherow, chair of the York City Independent Restaurant Association and a board member of the York Business Improvement District Authority. "In conjunction with other city initiatives, we'll continue to build a draw for visitors from around the region and create a positive reputation for York City.
"This helps all of our community's restaurants and retail businesses and reaches far beyond the businesses on Restaurant Row.” | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-county/outdoor-dining-downtown-york-announcement-north-george-st/521-089d7103-8156-41e3-9a26-2e95d0279640 | 2023-05-11T16:46:51 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-county/outdoor-dining-downtown-york-announcement-north-george-st/521-089d7103-8156-41e3-9a26-2e95d0279640 |
Ohio health experts addressed the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency Thursday and how that affects Ohioans.
Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff said the change is another step in the country’s transition from coronavirus being a pandemic to endemic disease.
“Overall, I do not foresee an immediate or dramatic change in the Ohio Department of Health’s ability to serve as a resource as a result in this shift,” he said.
He noted the end of the health emergency will move COVID treatment, testing and vaccines to more traditional health care coverage and that some people could see more out of pocket costs for care.
The federal government will no longer ship free COVID-19 tests to residents and some health insurers may not cover the cost of over the counter test or tests performed by health care providers, Vanderhoff said.
However, Ohio has a supply of coronavirus tests that it will continue to provide to community partners for free. People on Medicaid will continue to be able to get tests and COVID therapeutics for free through September 2024, he added.
Some people could also see out of pocket charges for COVID treatments, depending on their provider and insurance.
Vanderhoff noted the state has a supply of COVID vaccines and treatments that it will continue to provide to health partners as needed.
The end of health emergency will also change how the virus is reported.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer compile its community transmission models, which will result in Ohio consolidating some of its COVID dashboards.
The state will still continue to track coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths, Vanderhoff said.
COVID remains a reportable disease, but the 24-hour reporting time period has been extended, he added.
Vanderhoff stressed the end of the public health emergency does not mean it’s the end of coronavirus as a threat. People should continue to stay up to date on COVID vaccines and stay home if they feel sick.
“This does not mean COVID-19 is over and no longer a concern,” he said.
Dr. David Margolius, director of the Cleveland Department of Public Health, noted wastewater surveillance will continue, which will help alert health officials of any potential future COVID surges.
Vanderhoff added some of the lessons and practices created during the pandemic will stay in place.
He cited being able to gather and post data in an accessible way as allowing the state to keep Ohioans informed while stay transparent. The state and local health care providers are also able to coordinate in a more efficient manner.
The hospital zone system kept the state organized and work with health partners to address issues rapidly.
“We are not dismantling our public health response capabilities or resources,” Vandderhoff said. “We’re simply evolving them as the nature of this pandemic itself is evolving.”
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Wright State University’s economic impact on 16 counties surrounding Dayton is more than $2.3 billion, according to a study commissioned by the university.
About $2.1 billion of the university’s impact comes from Wright State graduates living and working in those 16 counties, the study says.
“This study further underscores that Wright State University is a foundational component of Dayton’s regional economy,” said Greg Sample, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Wright State.
Research spending at Wright State generated $21.7 million in added income to the region, and student spending added $23.9 million for the area economy, according to the study.
The 16 counties in what Wright State calls “Raider Country” are Greene, Mercer, Allen, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Darke, Logan, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Shelby, Van Wert and Warren counties.
The report also found that Wright State is good value for students. The average Wright State bachelor’s degree graduate will annually earn $28,100 more than someone with a high school diploma or equivalent working in Ohio, according to the report. Over a working lifetime, the benefits of a bachelor’s degree over a high school diploma will amount to $1.2 million in higher earnings per graduate.
Sample noted that the same firm produced an economic impact report for Wright State in 2018.
“A comparison of key metrics demonstrates our value to the region has only continued to get stronger,” he added.
The Wright State study was part of a greater effort from the Inter University Council of Ohio, which includes the public universities in the state. The IUC released their own study that showed Ohio’s public universities add $68.9 billion in income to the Ohio economy, including $4.1 billion in operations spending, which includes salaries.
“The goal of the study was to measure the economic impact of our 14 public universities, our students, and our alumni on Ohio’s economy and for Ohio taxpayers, as well as the benefits to our students of earning a degree,” said Laura Lanese, president and CEO of IUC. “The results were stagging and clearly demonstrate that Ohioans are making an especially smart investment when we invest in higher education.”
The studies analyzed data from fiscal year 2021–2022. It was conducted by Lightcast, formerly Emsi Burning Glass, a leading provider of economic impact studies and labor market data to educational institutions, workforce planners and regional developers.
Wright State spent $12,500 on the report, the university said.
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Crew runs across 5-foot alligator in Florida stormwater pipe
Among the many reasons not to go crawling into storm drains: you might not be alone.
An Oviedo stormwater crew was reminded of that Friday, May 5, when they encountered a five-foot alligator.
Fortunately, they didn't personally run into the creature. The workers were investigating a series of potholes that had appeared on Lockwood Blvd. and they sent a robot down into the murky depths. The robot, a four-wheel camera they use to inspect for underground leaks, cracks or defects, found something else instead: a pair of glowing eyes.
"At first, they thought it was a toad," the City of Oviedo said in its Facebook post.
But then it turned around.
The encounter ended peacefully. "You can see in the video they got about 340 feet in before the robot got stuck on a little indentation and the alligator meandered off," the post said.
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Other recent encounters have not been so lucky. Just in recent months, a 72-year-old man in Titusville lost his leg, a Daytona Beach man was attacked on his doorstep, and an 85-year-old woman was killed defending her dog. Last year, a 47-year-old man was killed while looking for Frisbees along a lakeshore in Largo and an 80-year-old woman was killed after falling into a pond at a country club south of Sarasota. In 2016, a toddler was killed by an alligator at Walt Disney World.
Alligator attacks are not uncommon in Florida, although deaths from them are. According to a November 2021 report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC):
- In 2021, there were seven major and three minor alligator bites.
- In 2020, there were eight major and four minor gator bites here.
- In 2019, there was one fatality in Florida, five major and five minor alligator bites.
- In 2018, there was one fatality here, nine major alligator bites and one minor bite on people.
Still, the FWC says the chances of a Florida resident being seriously injured in an unprovoked alligator attack are one in 3.1 million.
If you do plan to run into an alligator, use a robot.
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LYNCHBURG, Va. – An apartment home and two vehicles were hit by gunfire in a shots-fired incident at the Timbers apartment complex Wednesday night, according to the Lynchburg Police Department.
At about 10 p.m., authorities were called to Old Forest Road after receiving several calls about shots being fired.
After arriving at the scene, officers learned that an apartment and two vehicles had been hit by gunfire and that a family had been inside of the apartment home at the time of the shooting. Fortunately, no one was hurt, according to police.
Witnesses told police that they saw a Hyundai Elantra leave the parking lot after the shots were fired.
Police said this remains an active investigation.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Lynchburg Police Department at 434-455-6050 or Crime Stoppers at 888-798-5900. Enter a tip online at http://p3tips.com or use the P3 app on a mobile device. Up to a 1,000-dollar reward is available through the Crime Stoppers program for information on this crime.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Wichita Police say they have arrested a 24-year-old man for fatally shooting a 31-year-old Wednesday night.
Police were called to the area of Rutan and Sunnybrook in the Planeview neighborhood around 7 p.m. When they arrived, they found Chance Martin with a gunshot wound to his upper body and began giving him first aid. EMS took Martin to a hospital, where he later died.
Police learned Martin had gotten into a fight with the suspect and another person, which led to the suspect allegedly pulling out a gun and shooting him. Witnesses were able to provide information to police that allowed police to quickly locate the suspect’s vehicle abandoned in the 900 block of West 47th Street South.
Police took the man into custody nearby a short time later. He is currently being held without bond on suspicion of second-degree murder.
KSN News is not identifying the suspect until he is formally charged with a crime. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/arrest-made-in-wednesdays-fatal-shooting/ | 2023-05-11T16:52:40 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/arrest-made-in-wednesdays-fatal-shooting/ |
VALLEY CENTER, Kan. (KSNW) — The Valley Center High School seniors are ready to graduate. As part of the celebration, they took part in the annual tradition of seniors driving unusual vehicles to school on the last day of classes.
“Kind of special thing for seniors,” senior Cameron Bowyer said. “We’ve been doing this forever. It’s a tradition. I’m not really sure why they’re so popular, but it’s a lot of fun.”
Residents of Valley Center, home of the Hornets, showed up to take pictures and cheer the students on their way.
“It’s kind of just really fun seeing the whole community just rally together and support all of the seniors and on their last day,” senior Avery Esgro said.
The VCHS graduation ceremony is this Sunday at 2 at Koch Arena at Wichita State University. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/graduating-hornets-take-to-valley-center-streets/ | 2023-05-11T16:52:46 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/graduating-hornets-take-to-valley-center-streets/ |
HOUSTON — There has been no sign of a missing man who jumped into Brays Bayou to try and save two kids who fell in on Wednesday night.
The HPD dive team was called in to search for a man who witnesses said jumped into Brays Bayou to save two 12-year-olds. The kids were near the water's edge on North MacGregor Way near the South Freeway when they slipped and fell into the bayou around 7 p.m.
Police said two men went in to save the kids. They were able to get the kids out, but only one of the men returned to the bank. They said the other man, who was believed to be a bad swimmer, was swept away.
HPD and HFD rescue crews searched the bayou all the way to the Ship Channel, but they didn't find the man.
Police said the current was strong at the time due to the rain that fell in Houston recently.
"It is very dangerous. Kids and adults should stay away from these bayous especially when we've had rain," HPD Lt. Larry Crowson said.
Here's the update police provided at the scene:
Here's a map of the area: | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/man-missing-brays-bayou/285-8dfebe0e-9a0e-493b-bdb3-98bd17055cb7 | 2023-05-11T16:55:11 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/man-missing-brays-bayou/285-8dfebe0e-9a0e-493b-bdb3-98bd17055cb7 |
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