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Joseph N. Czmiel
DYER, IN - Joseph N. Czmiel, age 37, of Dyer, passed away Monday, June 20, 2022. He is survived by his father Ted Czmiel; siblings: David, Deborah (Deb), and Ted Czmiel Jr. He was preceded in death by his wife Andrea Czmiel, mother Sophie DeBella, and sister Sarah Czmiel.
Visitation will be held at the Fagen-Miller, 1920 Hart St in Dyer, on Sunday, June 26, 2022 from 2:00-6:00 p.m.; with a funeral on Monday at 10:00 a.m. Burial Skyline Memorial Cemetery.
Joe liked to camp, cook, fish, garden, and doing anything adventurous he could find outdoors. He loved animals and enjoyed competing with his dad in powerlifting competitions. www.fagenmiller.com | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/joseph-n-czmiel/article_ac6e963c-2b70-5651-a8f0-89ca38d11f90.html | 2022-06-25T06:25:31 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/joseph-n-czmiel/article_ac6e963c-2b70-5651-a8f0-89ca38d11f90.html |
DALLAS — Maegan Gross, 30, got pregnant at 20 years old and wasn't ready to be a mother.
Gross got an abortion in Texas in 2012. At 28, however, Gross became pregnant again and chose to have a child. She's now the mother of a 22-month-old little boy.
"I became a mother when I was ready," she told WFAA's Teresa Woodard.
On Friday, the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years. In Texas, the state has already passed a “trigger law,” making most abortions illegal.
Gross told WFAA the landmark ruling gave her a mixture of emotions.
"I'm angry. I'm emotional. I'm sad. I'm worried for the future of America," Gross said. "This is just insane."
"I had an abortion when I was 20 ... I had the right to choose," Gross added. "The fact that now women aren't going to be able to have that choice is just heartbreaking to me."
The decision by the court's conservative majority overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling and is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the U.S. states.
The ruling, unlikely just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by an emboldened right side of the court fortified by three appointees of former President Donald Trump.
Gross told WFAA the ruling made her feel devalued and degraded.
"I wasn’t put on this earth to be an incubator. I wasn’t put on this earth solely to bear children and I feel reduced to that. I feel reduced to nothing," Gross said. "It's frustrating and it's humiliating."
Abortion foes cheered the ruling, but abortion-rights supporters, including President Joe Biden, expressed dismay and pledged to fight to restore the rights. Many Texas leaders, politicians, organizations and local religious leaders have issued split opinions.
"No woman should be forced to become a mother when she’s not ready," Gross saod. "And I just really hope that one day for our daughters’ futures that this won’t be the case."
More Roe v. Wade coverage: | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/roe-v-wade-texas-woman-abortion/287-0a88d119-e757-4d98-8f52-16e762a6464b | 2022-06-25T06:26:34 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/roe-v-wade-texas-woman-abortion/287-0a88d119-e757-4d98-8f52-16e762a6464b |
Law enforcement deploys tear gas at Arizona Capitol on people protesting overturning of Roe v. Wade
Law enforcement officers deployed several canisters of tear gas against abortion-rights protesters after some began banging against the doors of the Arizona Senate building on Friday evening.
The canisters were deployed at about 8:30 p.m. from the second floor of the building, and hundreds of protesters immediately scattered and retreated as the gas pervaded the state Capitol grounds.
Shortly after, law enforcement in SWAT gear lined up from the state Capitol and advanced toward the remaining protesters who had gathered at Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza.
One officer on a megaphone declared an unlawful assembly and ordered the remaining protesters to leave the area. Some protesters remained while shouting expletives at law enforcement but eventually fled when officers fired additional tear-gas canisters.
Phoenix police soon blocked off vehicle access to the state Capitol as protesters could be seen walking away from the area on foot.
Neither the Phoenix Police Department nor the Arizona Department of Public Safety has responded to requests for comment. It is unclear whether police arrested anyone in connection with the protest.
After the protesters had largely dispersed, one person broke a window at the state Department of Agriculture building on Adams Street, while others booed the person for doing so.
Clouds of tear gas lingered heavily in the courtyard between the Arizona Senate and House of Representatives buildings, preventing anyone from entering the area.
Samantha McClintock, 26, and Ryan Wullf, 31, both of Phoenix, arrived late to the Roe v. Wade ruling protest and were in the crowd that was hit with tear gas. They said a crowd had gathered between the House and Senate buildings and some protesters were banging on the glass doors and windows of the Senate. They didn't know the Arizona Legislature was in session at the time.
By 9:30 p.m., crowds had left the area after police declared an unlawful assembly.
After most people had left, a black tennis shoe was left behind in a lane on Adams Street. The words "Abort the f------ court!" were spray painted onto a barricade meant to keep cars out of a plaza across from the Capitol.
This is a developing story; return to azcentral for updates.
Reach the reporter Perry Vandell at 602-444-2474 or perry.vandell@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @PerryVandell.
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Charlotte Louise Parcher
June 23, 2022
MASON CITY-Charlotte Louise Parcher, age 77, a resident of Mason City, IA, died, Thursday, June 23rd, 2022, at home. Visitation will be Sunday from 3-6 p.m. at the Open Bible Church, Clear Lake. Public funeral service will follow at 6:00 p.m. at the church. Funeral services are being handled by Andrews Funeral Homes, Belmond, IA 641-444-4474 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/charlotte-louise-parcher/article_f64cd0cd-e0a4-57cb-8fdd-c592b92d42b0.html | 2022-06-25T06:39:37 | 0 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/charlotte-louise-parcher/article_f64cd0cd-e0a4-57cb-8fdd-c592b92d42b0.html |
Steven F. Trca
February 6, 1951-June 9, 2022
Steven F. Trca, 71, of Ames, Iowa, passed away Thursday, June 9, 2022 of natural causes at his home.
A graveside committal service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 9, 2022 at St. John's Cemetery in Duncan, Iowa. Family and friends are welcome, and casual attire is encouraged.
Steven Francis Trca, the son of Dennis and Rose (Schaefer) Trca was born February 6, 1951 in Mason City, Iowa. He graduated from Britt High School in 1969, attended Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and moved to Minneapolis in 1974 where he was employed across a variety of fields and found a close community of diverse friends. Steve studied at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Metro State University. He lived in downtown Minneapolis with his feline friends, Sadie and Satchmo, and savored city life. He moved to Garner in 2004 and then to Ames in 2017 where he found a spiritual home and community in the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
Steve was a lifelong learner and a collector of postage stamps, fountain pens, cast iron cookware, and Penzys Spices. He cultivated appreciation of good wine, public libraries and media, history, philosophy and religion, and was a dedicated writer of letters to family and friends.
Steve is survived by a brother, Stanley Trca of Garner; a sister, Sandra Trca of Fort Collins, Colorado; three nieces, Sheila (Brad) Baldwin of Iowa City, Amy (Adam) Butterfield of Nevada, Iowa, Kristina (Christopher) Nolte of Goodell, Iowa, and three nephews, Ryan Ristau and Rick (Darcy) Ristau of Garner, Caden Black of Fort Collins, Colorado.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Sara Ristau; and a nephew, Reed Ristau.
The family thanks Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care of Ames and Cataldo Funeral Home of Garner for their care and assistance. | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/steven-f-trca/article_a249fa24-1542-553b-8cad-efb957f53c64.html | 2022-06-25T06:39:43 | 1 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/steven-f-trca/article_a249fa24-1542-553b-8cad-efb957f53c64.html |
Friday was only the third full day after the solstice but in Washington we have already seen so much of summer.
Friday’s high temperature of 81 degrees, well below the 88 degree average for the date, had at least the potential to seem refreshingly cool.
Friday spread a sea of bright blue above us, upon which sailed the billowing white clouds of summer memory. The sort, both actual and symbolic, that promote daydreams and thoughts of old times and far places.
At the same time, Friday seemed a touch humid.
Its temperatures in the low 80 could not be classed as steamy.
But a certain suggestion of clamminess intruded on our delight in the temperature..
Friday seemed to hint at the goings on of earlier in the week, suggesting that as we watched, moisture from soaking rain was still being drawn up into the air.
This seemed plausible. In a pluralistic society diversity of thought extends even to when summer begins. Many of us still insist on waiting for the solstice. This year it fell on Tuesday.
So it was as if by atmospheric magic, that Wednesday, for many of us the first full day of summer, seemed to put so many of the season’s offerings, wet and dry, on display.
On Wednesday summer seemed in midseason form. Our high temperature came to 92..
Perhaps that seemed unlikely to prompt widespread heat prostration, but it was well above average, and it was only our fourth 90-degree day in June.
In addition to heat, Wednesday brought summer storms, damaging winds and torrents of rain.
Amid pealing thunder, rain poured down in late-day sheets.
On Wednesday alone, Washington measured 1.66 inches of rain. Thursday brought the two day figure to 1.88 inches.
It seemed to be a firm reassertion of summer’s storm potential after earlier days this month when our precipitation seemed so paltry as to create an almost parched sensation.
By the end of Tuesday, the day of the solstice, rain here this month amounted to only .87 inches, two full inches below normal.
But now we are only about a half inch below, and a dry spell has given way to days when humidity is all about us, and we are reminded that if weather is anything, it is change. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/inside-three-days-after-the-solstice-summer-showed-us-almost-everything/2022/06/24/69f7bf52-f41d-11ec-99d3-cbe6aa9af168_story.html | 2022-06-25T06:44:10 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/inside-three-days-after-the-solstice-summer-showed-us-almost-everything/2022/06/24/69f7bf52-f41d-11ec-99d3-cbe6aa9af168_story.html |
DES MOINES, Iowa — In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Iowans gathered outside of Central Academy to voice their opinions.
Today's decision, made only a week after abortion was found to not be a fundamental right in Iowa, could impact abortion access in coming weeks.
Local 5 talked to multiple people at the protest. For one, the ruling feels like a regression.
"Oh, it's devastating to women everywhere. I mean, the past, (women) have went through so many things to get us to where we were, and now we're taking 50 steps back to 50 years ago," one protestor said.
Another protestor said the fight for abortion access is an issue that disproportionally affects the population.
"We know that, statistically speaking, abortion is oppressive to those of marginalized communities, particularly the indigenous females, particularly black, indigenous, people of color," she said. "So that is really what this is about. It's about controlling those marginalized communities."
Currently, abortion is still legal in Iowa, though experts say that could change in the near future if Gov. Kim Reynolds were to ban it in a regular legislative session or special session.
Protests are also being held at the Pentacrest in Iowa City, the site of the state's first Capitol, and the federal building in Sioux City tonight. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/local-politics/roe-v-wade-iowa-protest-des-moines-supreme-court-overturn-landmark-abortion-case/524-2553f273-d1ec-4533-aa45-edff5feb3bec | 2022-06-25T06:54:52 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/local-politics/roe-v-wade-iowa-protest-des-moines-supreme-court-overturn-landmark-abortion-case/524-2553f273-d1ec-4533-aa45-edff5feb3bec |
Rabid raccoon attacked 2 people in Ocean City, health officials say
A raccoon that attacked two people in Ocean City this week has been confirmed as testing positive for rabies, the Worcester County Health Department said in a Friday news release.
On June 22, Ocean City police officers were flagged down by a female near 139th Street to report that she had been attacked by a rabid raccoon according to a Friday police press release. The female was treated by Ocean City EMS on the scene for injuries to her hand. The raccoon was not immediately located.
About five hours later, on June 23, a second female called 911 to report she was attacked by a raccoon near 141st Street, police said. Officers responded and met with the victim. She was transported to Atlantic General Hospital by Ocean City EMS for several injuries from the attack, OCPD said.
Officers established a perimeter in an attempt to corral the raccoon. Animal Control responded to the scene and was able to capture the raccoon, the police release states.
If a person has been bitten or scratched, they should seek immediate medical care, the health department warns. Post-exposure treatment is necessary to prevent rabies. If not treated, rabies is fatal. If a pet has had contact with this raccoon, contact your veterinarian immediately.
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For more information about rabies, visit http://www.worcesterhealth.org. | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2022/06/25/rabid-raccoon-attacked-2-in-north-ocean-city/65363489007/ | 2022-06-25T07:17:49 | 1 | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2022/06/25/rabid-raccoon-attacked-2-in-north-ocean-city/65363489007/ |
Missing boaters found safe off Chincoteague: Coast Guard
Two boaters reported overdue since June 20 have been found safe off Chincoteague, the U.S. Coast Guard said Friday.
Yanni Nikopoulos and Dale Jones departed from Hampton, Virginia, on June 8 for the Azores, Portugal. The boaters reported to Jones's daughter June 13 that heavy weather had damaged their vessel and that they were headed back to Hampton.
The missing boaters were approximately 460 miles east of Virginia Beach at the time of the call. No further communications were received.
On Friday, the Coast Guard said the boaters, who were approximately 80 miles east of Chincoteague, contacted watchstanders in the Coast Guard Sector Virginia command center to inform them of their safety and said they were now en route to Hampton.
The pair reportedly were struck by lightning after sailing through inclement weather. After rigging a spare sail, the pair sailed to Virginia.
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The two mariners are not in distress and have not requested Coast Guard assistance. All concerned parties have been informed of the mariners safety, the Coast Guard said.
Two overflights conducted by HC-130 Hercules crews from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City were conducted of the approximate area of the missing boaters. An Urgent Marine Information Broadcast was also issued by the Fifth Coast Guard District Command Center to alert boaters in the area to the situation.
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“We are extremely happy to learn Yanni and Dale are found and are safe," said James Cifers, operations unit watchstander in the Fifth District Command Center. "It is truly wonderful the pair will be reunited with their friends and family soon.” | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/virginia/2022/06/24/coast-guard-missing-boaters-found-safe-off-chincoteague-virginia/65363380007/ | 2022-06-25T07:17:55 | 1 | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/virginia/2022/06/24/coast-guard-missing-boaters-found-safe-off-chincoteague-virginia/65363380007/ |
Aero Center new hires, promotions
Donnie Goven has been promoted to A&P maintenance technician I. Goven had been working part time as a junior technician with Bismarck Aero Center since 2017. He holds a bachelor’s degree in aviation maintenance management from the University of North Dakota.
Ben Brady has been hired as a avionics technician I. Brady joins Bismarck Aero Center with an associate of science degree in electronics and avionics. Early on in his career, he worked at an avionics shop as a wiring harness fabricator and more recently in field repair of industrial appliances, food equipment, and HVAC equipment.
Ryan Straub has been hired as a A&P aircraft maintenance technician I. He served four years of active service in the U.S. Air Force and previously worked at the Minot Air Force Base, serving as flight controls and landing gear maintenance technician on B-52s. Straub has a bachelor’s degree.
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Submit businesspeople and business digest items to businessbeat@bismarcktribune.com. Deadline for submissions is noon Tuesday. | https://bismarcktribune.com/business/local/businesspeople---june-25-2022/article_448a007e-ed8b-11ec-abe9-cf2defb974bd.html | 2022-06-25T07:32:15 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/business/local/businesspeople---june-25-2022/article_448a007e-ed8b-11ec-abe9-cf2defb974bd.html |
Two men were arrested after they allegedly hatched a plan to break into a Westchester County home and steal tens of millions of dollars in bitcoin, federal prosecutors said.
Dominic Pineda and Shon Morgan were charged with conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery following their arrest on Thursday, said U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams.
"The defendants participated in a violent plan to break into a family's home in the middle of the night and force its residents to provide the code to what the defendants believed was tens of millions of dollars in Bitcoin currency," Williams said in a press release.
The two conspired to break into the Irvington home from May 18-24, 2020, according to the indictment unsealed in federal court in White Plains.
Pineda and Morgan, both 21 years old and Virginia residents, face up to 20 years in prison. Attorney information for the pair was not immediately available. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/two-charged-after-allegedly-planning-to-steal-tens-of-millions-in-bitcoin-from-ny-home/3749299/ | 2022-06-25T07:35:13 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/two-charged-after-allegedly-planning-to-steal-tens-of-millions-in-bitcoin-from-ny-home/3749299/ |
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Michael Stankiewicz hit a walk-off double to lead the Ocean City/Upper Township 12-and-under baseball team to a 1-0 victory over Northfield in a Little League District 16 baseball game Thursday.
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A 12.1 mill substitute replacement levy slated for the Aug. 2 ballot will merge two existing levies for the Clark-Shawnee School District if passed.
The Aug. 2 continuing levy comes after a proposed 12.1 mill levy failed on both the May 3 ballot this year and the Nov. 2 ballot in 2021.
Leaders of Clark-Shawnee schools met on Thursday at the Springfield Twp. trustee office during a town hall meeting to answer questions about the levy, with a handful of local taxpayers in attendance.
The two existing levies for the district are an emergency levy first approved in 2012 by voters that generates about $2.5 million annually and an emergency levy first approved in 2014 by voters that generates about $2.2 million annually, said Clark-Shawnee superintendent Brian Kuhn.
Both levies are used for operating costs for the district, including materials, supplies, salaries, benefits, programs, classes and more. The need for a levy is not related to renovations and construction of the district’s school buildings, as the levies fund operations at the schools.
Roughly 79% of those operating expenses cover personnel-related costs.
“We’re a service organization. We’re not burning materials and putting out a product; we’re instructing kids,” Kuhn said. “It takes humans, people to instruct.”
The 12.1 levy will replace the two levies if passed and also generate $4.7 million annually: thus, the 2013 and 2014 levies will no longer be collected if the 12.1 mill levy passes on Aug. 2. Collection for the Aug. 2 levy would begin in 2023, Kuhn said.
The money generated accounts for 23% of the district’s general operating expenses, according to the school district. The levy would cost an owner of a $100,000 property $396 a year, the same as what the 2012 and 2014 levies cost an owner of a property of the same value.
Supt. Kuhn said this amounts to roughly $1.08 per day.
Clark-Shawnee schools have been deficit spending for a few years, Kuhn said: more money comes out than it comes in. Costs continue to rise, but revenue to the school district doesn’t increase.
The schools have already merged or eliminated an administrative position, nine teaching positions, and a few food service, clinical aide and custodial positions to cut expenses. The schools have been deficit spending for the past few years. Other adjustments to employment and other costs are being considered for next school year: for example, an increase to school fees and pay-to-participate fee.
Fee schedules will be approved by the Clark-Shawnee Board of Education before fall.
“Clark-Shawnee operates by the skin of our teeth,” said Clark-Shawnee board member Susan Page. “A lot of our teachers and administrators do extra, give extra… because they love our community and our schools and our kids. Some places have a pot of gold, and we’re just barely making it.”
The 12.1 levy does not increase taxes for current Springfield Twp. residents, as they are already paying on the existing levies. However, it will capture additional revenue from new residential and commercial developments.
Clark-Shawnee schools include Shawnee High School, Shawnee Middle School and Shawnee Elementary.
According to results from the Clark County Board of Election, roughly 52.88%, or 1,311, of voters were against the levy and 47.12%, or 1,168, of voters voted for it.Last November, voters rejected the operating substitute levy with 51.93%, or 1,104, voting against and 48.07%, or 1,022 for it. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/clark-shawnee-substitute-replacement-levy-slated-for-aug-2-ballot/64JOTV4LXBGKZPRLIZA2V3NK2U/ | 2022-06-25T08:09:43 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/clark-shawnee-substitute-replacement-levy-slated-for-aug-2-ballot/64JOTV4LXBGKZPRLIZA2V3NK2U/ |
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Florida lacks electric vehicle charging stations, but Sarasota bucks the trend
Florida may rank as the eighth least accessible state to charge an electric vehicle, but Sarasota County bucks that statewide trend.
Based on new research from Forbes Advisor, the ratio of electric cars to single charging stations in the state is 23.92, which slots in between Oregon (25.30) and Texas (23.88). There are 58,160 registered electric vehicles, second most of any state, and 2,431 charging stations in Florida. In fact, 3% of all cars sold in Florida were electric last year.
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Sarasota County is second in the state in electric vehicles per capita, proving that there is a need for charging stations in the area. And despite the poor numbers statewide, the county is a leader when it comes to charging station access.
Currently, there are 19 county-owned charging stations in Sarasota, with 30 ports available via those charging stations. In total, there are 138 public charging stations in the county, with 115 free to use.
Sara Kane, the Sustainability Program Supervisor for the UF/IFAS extension office of the county, believes that Sarasota’s electric vehicle use will only increase.
“Right now, with the gas prices being so high, I think a lot of people are interested in learning more about that, and how they can switch over to a more efficient vehicle,” Kane said.
The need for charging stations in the county was initially satisfied by grant funding via the Department of Energy and the Pollution Recovery Act, with current county-wide initiatives including the ChargeUP! rebate program. That program offers rebates to local businesses, nonprofits and governments when they install charging stations.
To balance the share of charging stations throughout the county, 30% of the ChargeUP! funds are geared towards installing charging stations in south Sarasota County.
Additionally, the Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act allocates $29 million (of $5 billion total) for electric charging stations in Florida. Kane said that the county is still determining where exactly to install charging stations using that funding.
Next steps include "getting together with other people in the area, other cities, municipalities, community members, to identify the location needs, and maybe even doing some sort of study that would allow us to identify those areas where we need to install charging stations,” Kane said.
Kane also mentioned that the county offers classes about charging infrastructure and types of electric cars, in online and in-person formats, for any residents or groups (such as neighborhood associations) interested in learning more about electric vehicles.
She said that her requests for presentations have increased significantly over the last six months.
Manatee County currently only has 25 public charging stations County Information Outreach Manager Bill Logan said that the county does not have a specific department dedicated to installing and funding electric charging stations. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2022/06/25/sarasota-county-has-good-electric-vehicle-charging-florida-does-not/7573959001/ | 2022-06-25T09:05:50 | 0 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2022/06/25/sarasota-county-has-good-electric-vehicle-charging-florida-does-not/7573959001/ |
A section of Broadway in Manhattan will become a car-free zone after an out-of-control taxi cab hit a bicyclist and hopped a curb, slamming into a group on a busy sidewalk.
Mayor Eric Adams announced plans to make changes to the area in midtown, including restricting most vehicular traffic from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on the part of Broadway stretching from West 29th Street, where the crash occurred, down to West 27th Street.
Two people were left trapped under the taxi SUV Monday afternoon, after the 60-year-old driver was trying to turn left on Broadway around 1 p.m., but struck a bicyclist moving southbound, police said.
Law enforcement sources said that the cyclist ran a red light on Broadway and collided with the cab as it was turning.
The impact threw the bicyclist to the road, and the taxi dragged him briefly before it hopped the curb and started traveling down the sidewalk, coming to a rest further down Broadway. Six people were injured in the crash, three critically, police said.
Ordinary New Yorkers turned into extraordinary heroes to help save the victims. The crowd of onlookers tried to lift the vehicle off the trapped women after the afternoon accident. Cops described a "remarkable" scene as some 15 to 20 people rushed over to help move the taxi off the women.
Two women, a 32-year-old and a 48-year-old, were taken to a hospital in critical condition with serious injuries to their legs. The four injured pedestrians are all tourists, two from Mexico and two from Ohio.
A bike delivery worker, who asked not to be identified, was among those who rushed in to help pick up the car off the victims.
"When I look at her eyes, it's horrible, like I'm in a war or something," he said. "It's not normal, so last night I didn't sleep."
The driver of the cab was transported to a hospital for treatment of pain to his neck and back, while the 50-year-old bicyclist was taken for treatment of a right arm injury. He was also expected to recover.
The number of traffic deaths in the city have increased since the pandemic, and Adams is facing pressure to find a solution.
Adams has promised to redesign 1,000 intersections and beef up police traffic enforcement. On Tuesday, the group Transportation Alternatives blamed the taxi driver for the crash, and said it could have been prevented by making Broadway car-free.
The traffic changes for the section of Broadway will go into effect by the end of June. The mayor also unveiled plans to expand and redesign pedestrian space in the same area. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/part-of-broadway-in-midtown-will-become-car-free-after-cab-collided-with-cyclist/3749331/ | 2022-06-25T09:05:57 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/part-of-broadway-in-midtown-will-become-car-free-after-cab-collided-with-cyclist/3749331/ |
PFW field test Jun 25, 2022 4 hrs ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email PFW undergraduate Andrew Danielson, left, and biology professor Jordan Marshall test wildlife telemetry equipment Friday before it is used in the field at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Mike Moore | The Journal Gazette Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Wildlife readings Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Most Popular Caleb Swanigan dies; former Homestead, Purdue basketball star Missionary Church president removed New BBQ restaurant will fill former ACME location Dining Out restaurant review: Steak, bread pudding top picks at Chance Bar in Fort Wayne Piere's facing fight over outdoor concerts Stocks Market Data by TradingView | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/pfw-field-test/article_eeace706-f402-11ec-9d75-73a87a2eaf9f.html | 2022-06-25T09:10:19 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/pfw-field-test/article_eeace706-f402-11ec-9d75-73a87a2eaf9f.html |
Staying active Jun 25, 2022 4 hrs ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email After recovering from a knee surgery last year, 88-year-old Larry Lawson, prepares to serve during practice Friday at the Shoaff Park tennis courts. Mike Moore | The Journal Gazette Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Staying active Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Most Popular Caleb Swanigan dies; former Homestead, Purdue basketball star Missionary Church president removed New BBQ restaurant will fill former ACME location Dining Out restaurant review: Steak, bread pudding top picks at Chance Bar in Fort Wayne Piere's facing fight over outdoor concerts Stocks Market Data by TradingView | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/staying-active/article_51719e18-f403-11ec-8457-93131459d29f.html | 2022-06-25T09:10:25 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/staying-active/article_51719e18-f403-11ec-8457-93131459d29f.html |
Junior Police Academy learns scuba basics at Castaway Cove
Christopher Walker
Wichita Falls Times Record News
Members from the Wichita Falls Police Department Scuba helped teach students from the Junior Police Academy some basics for scuba diving Thursday morning at Castaway Cove Water Park. The students got the opportunity to look for underwater items while wearing some of the equipment police use while performing an underwater search or rescue.
Each year different parts of the department demonstrate what police officers do to keep the public safe. Children between the ages of 12-14 years of age are encouraged to participate. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/06/24/junior-police-academy-learns-scuba-basics-castaway-cove/7713366001/ | 2022-06-25T09:19:12 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/06/24/junior-police-academy-learns-scuba-basics-castaway-cove/7713366001/ |
Fond du Lac County Board looks to fill District 7 seat after Kaufman's rise to county executive
FOND DU LAC - Fond du Lac County Board Chair Steven Abel is accepting applications for the District 7 chair on the board of supervisors, he announced Thursday.
District 7 covers the village of Oakfield, Ward 1 of town of Oakfield, Wards 1 and 2 of town of Waupun and Wards 10 through 12 of the city of Waupun. The district map is available by request from the Fond du Lac County Clerk's Office.
Sam Kaufman resigned from the seat effective June 9 to serve as county executive. The chosen member will fill the rest of the seat's term, which expires April 16, 2024.
Candidates for the position must be U.S. citizens age 18 or older and have a residence in the district. Those interested can send a resume and cover letter with their name, address and phone number to the Fond du Lac County Clerk, PO Box 1557, Fond du Lac, WI 54936 or email to lisa.freiberg@fdlco.wi.gov.
The deadline for applications is July 6.
For more information on the board or district, contact County Clerk Lisa Freiberg at 920-929-3000.
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Contact Daphne Lemke at dlemke@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @daphlemke. | https://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/local/2022/06/23/fond-du-lac-county-board-seeks-replacement-vacant-district-7-seat/7710927001/ | 2022-06-25T09:45:21 | 0 | https://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/local/2022/06/23/fond-du-lac-county-board-seeks-replacement-vacant-district-7-seat/7710927001/ |
KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind. — A Statewide Silver Alert has been declared for a missing woman from northern Indiana.
The Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the disappearance of Leah Barber, a 24-year-old white female who went missing from Etna Green early Friday evening.
She is believed to be in extreme danger and may require medical assistance.
Police describe Barber as 5'6" inches tall and weighing 240 lbs. with brown hair with brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink tank top with white polka dots and blue jeans.
Etna Green is 115 miles north of Indianapolis on U.S. 30 between Warsaw and Plymouth.
If you have any information on Leah Barber, contact the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office at 574-267-5667 or 911.
Amber Alert vs. Silver Alert: What's the difference?
There are specific standards a person's disappearance must meet in order for police to declare an Amber Alert or a Silver Alert.
Amber Alerts are for children under the age of 18 who are believed to have been abducted and in danger. Police also need to have information about a suspect and their car to issue an Amber Alert.
Silver Alerts are for missing and endangered adults or children. They are much more common for missing people. It was not until last year when the standards for Silver Alerts were expanded to include children.
In both situations, these alerts must be issued by police. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/silver-alert-issued-for-northern-indiana-woman-leah-barber/531-792df464-7732-4f53-b37f-c322c8cb7dfa | 2022-06-25T10:02:02 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/silver-alert-issued-for-northern-indiana-woman-leah-barber/531-792df464-7732-4f53-b37f-c322c8cb7dfa |
100 years ago
June 25, 1922: Miss Ruth Maguire, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Maguire of Wood Driver, and Forrest Quinn, son of Mrs. Mary Quinn, matron of the Withers Home of this city, were married at the First Presbyterian Church, Wood River. Quinn is a former student of Wesleyan and Normal universities and a popular member of Phi Gamma Delta. He has taken up scientific farming near Bloomington, where he and his bride will reside.
75 years ago
June 25, 1947: Sixteen types of aircraft will stop briefly in Bloomington on the first leg of the annual Illinois Chamber of Commerce air tour of the state. The 32-plane flight will include Stinson, Beachcraft, Bonanza, Swift, Cessna, Ercoupe, Sterman, Funk, Cub Cruiser, Fairchild Aeronca, Chief, Howard, Spartan, Navion, Piper Cruiser and AT-6. A brief program and refreshments will be ready for the 72 pilots when they land.
50 years ago
June 25, 1972: John Donavan, the man in charge of the YMCA's underwater rescue and recovery team, demonstrated safety techniques by sitting in the backseat of a car as it was lowered into the Rowe Construction Co. gravel pit. Donavon sat calmly in the back as the car filled with water; then, when the water pressure on the inside and outside of the car were equal, he took a gulp of air, climbed into the front seat of the car and swam free.
25 years ago
June 25, 1997: The Clinton power plant received the poorest grades in its history as part of a biennial review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Operations, engineering and plant support were all given marks of "adequate," the lowest of three grades. Maintenance was rated "good," but no area received the highest mark of "superior." In the previous report, issued in June 1995, Clinton received assessments of "superior" in maintenance and plant support, and "good" in operations and engineering.
Compiled by Pantagraph staff | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/75-years-ago-16-types-of-aircraft-arrive-in-bloomington/article_b3ee2068-f3ed-11ec-b423-97b1bea8a5c9.html | 2022-06-25T11:29:09 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/75-years-ago-16-types-of-aircraft-arrive-in-bloomington/article_b3ee2068-f3ed-11ec-b423-97b1bea8a5c9.html |
Little Traverse History Museum to host July 4 ice cream social
PETOSKEY — On Monday, July 4, the Little Traverse Historical Society will have its yearly ice cream social at the bayfront side of the Little Traverse History Museum.
The event will take place at 7 p.m. after the Petoskey 4th of July parade and will continue while supplies last. The historical society invites the community to gather at the museum to enjoy ice cream bars, ice cream sandwiches, ice cream cups and water before the fireworks.
The event accepts donations, which will go towards funding the museum. The museum will also be open for visitors during this time, and is located at 100 Depot Ct.
For more information about the event or the museum, call (231) 347-2620 or visit www.petoskeymuseum.org. The museum’s general hours are Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults while members and children are always free. | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/2022/06/25/little-traverse-history-museum-host-july-4-ice-cream-social/7721379001/ | 2022-06-25T11:47:05 | 0 | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/2022/06/25/little-traverse-history-museum-host-july-4-ice-cream-social/7721379001/ |
Which ice cream flavor does RI like that the rest of the US does not? Here's the scoop:
You just knew Rhode Islanders had to be different, didn't you?
A national dairy industry group just came out with a list of the nation's most popular ice cream flavors, according to the people who run ice cream shops.
Top 5 ice cream flavors in the US
The Top 5, as counted by the International Dairy Foods Association:
1. Cookies 'n' cream
2. Vanilla
3. Chocolate
4. Mint chocolate chip
5. Strawberry
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RI's tastes differ
The Providence Journal decided to see whether Rhode Islanders' taste matches the nation — dumb question, right?
So, we surveyed more than a dozen ice cream shops across the state.
We checked from the smallest town — New Shoreham — and smallest city — Central Falls — to the largest metropolis — Providence — and urban and rural places in between.
Despite that impressive data-collection effort, this was still a highly unscientific survey.
We asked ice cream shop owners and managers to rank their five top sellers, and then we assigned five points for each No. 1 seller down to one point for each No. 5 seller.
And we found one flavor profile that's a winner in Rhode Island that's missing from the national list: coffee.
Well, duh!
After all, the official state drink is coffee milk.
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While coffee Oreo ice cream landed in the third spot in The Journal's survey, coffee is part of several other best-selling flavors listed by the shop owners, including cappuccino crunch, coffee Heath Bar and, of course, just plain coffee.
Also, the state's top flavor, chocolate chip cookie dough, isn't in the national Top 5, but Rhode Islanders don't feel nearly as proprietary about that flavor.
And Rhode Islanders are not as fond of mint chocolate chip as the rest of the country is.
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RI's top 5 ice cream flavors
1. Chocolate chip cookie dough
2. Vanilla
3. Coffee Oreo
4. Chocolate
5. Peanut butter caramel cookie dough
The shops surveyed for this story were:
Aldo's Bakery, Block Island; Brickley's, Wakefield; Dari Bee, East Providence; Hill-Top Creamery, East Greenwich; Hope Creamery, Providence; Iggy's Creamery, Warwick; Josie's, Cumberland; Kilwin's, Newport; Lil' Rhody Ice Cream, West Warwick; Lincoln Creamery, Lincoln; Mimi and Pop's, Central Falls; Newport Creamery, Barrington; Riverside Creamery, East Providence; and the Wright Scoop, North Smithfield. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/06/25/rhode-island-likes-one-ice-cream-flavor-rest-of-united-states-does-not/7701354001/ | 2022-06-25T12:16:58 | 1 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/06/25/rhode-island-likes-one-ice-cream-flavor-rest-of-united-states-does-not/7701354001/ |
Cashiers beware: authorities say thieves are targeting a major retailer on the East Coast, including in the Philadelphia area.
Police told NBC10 the pair has targeted Walmart stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. Recently, they've targeted Walmarts in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Police say the men pretend to be regular customers checking out, but when the cash drawer opens, they strike, claiming to be armed.
Two men robbed cashiers at a Bensalem Walmart just off of Lincoln Highway Wednesday evening. Police said the same store was also targeted in Mid-may.
The Warminster Township Police Department, meanwhile, said it happened there at a Walmart just off of Street Road on Wednesday. They believe it's the same duo.
One of the men has worn a hoodie with the words "I didn't do it" in multiple thefts, police said. According to police, the have used the same getaway vehicle in each robbery: a black Lexus ES 250.
The robbers have also hit Walmarts in Oxford, Pennsylvania; Deptford and Burlington, New Jersey; New Castle, Delaware; and Aberdeen, Maryland, police say.
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"No retailer is immune to the challenge of crime, and we recognize its impact at the highest levels of our company," Walmart said in a statement to NBC10. "We’re aware of the crimes occurring in multiple states along the Eastern Seaboard and will continue working with local and state law enforcement to help bring these criminals to justice."
Anyone with any information is asked to call police. They can also submit an anonymous tip through CRIMEWATCH. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/thieves-target-walmarts-in-pa-nj-del-in-east-coast-crime-spree/3280967/ | 2022-06-25T12:36:18 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/thieves-target-walmarts-in-pa-nj-del-in-east-coast-crime-spree/3280967/ |
It’s been a while since I’ve been out exploring someplace new, but over Father’s Day weekend, my wife insisted I go with her and the kids to Bastendorff Beach to see “The Cove.”
Now, I’ve been to Bastendorff Beach many times and even wrote about it here once, but every time I went, I got out of the car and went to the right, toward the jetty. To the left was always off limits to me because, to be honest, I didn’t want to walk through the water flowing into the ocean.
But my wife insisted, so I joined the family and waded through to see this mysterious cove. We went during extremely low tide, always my favorite time to visit any beach.
After walking about half a mile, we found the cove, and, to be honest, it’s a good name for the spot. During low tide, it is easy to access. When the tide is higher, you have climb over some rocks to get in.
When you reach the cove, it’s like a hidden gem. Tucked away behind rocks on both sides, there’s a little paradise perfect for swimming and exploring. The water coming into the cove is well beyond the point of waves breaking, so the water is smooth and calm. And for some reason that I don’t fully understand, it is much warmer.
My two youngest kids jumped right in and swam for almost an hour. My wife and I kept an eye on them while looking around. And the area was full of surprises. The first thing I saw when I reached the rocks protecting the cove was a single, large Dungeness crab.
Having never seen a full-size one before, my wife and I decided to catch it. And, it let us. We walked right up to it in the water, used a bucket my kids had and picked it up. Only then could we see why it was so easy. The large crab was actually mating with a smaller female, so he was in no hurry to let go.
We took a couple of pictures and put both crabs back in the water, where they continued what they were doing.
On the far side of the rock, there were even more surprises. Like many areas around here, the rock was lined with life, even after the water receded. But the one I enjoyed the most, and always enjoy, were the starfish. Orange and purple starfish clung to the rock, only exposed us to the low tide.
Then we saw something else in the water. At first, I had no idea what it was, but as the water rolled in, these little creatures moved in with the water and immediately began digging into the sand.
My wife immediately said, “Oh, sand fleas.” Sure enough, she was right. Hundreds and hundreds of sand fleas or mole crabs were seemingly everywhere. We caught a bunch just to see what the heck they were and to watch them disappear into the sand as soon as we let them go.
It didn’t take long before more than an hour had passed and the tide was starting to rise, so we called it a day. But I will go back. And next time, I won’t wear my good shoes. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/bastendorff-beach-cove-full-of-surprises/article_9e367430-f25a-11ec-88c8-af120caf8f1e.html | 2022-06-25T12:43:05 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/bastendorff-beach-cove-full-of-surprises/article_9e367430-f25a-11ec-88c8-af120caf8f1e.html |
Jaiden Biscay of Coos Bay and Kelly Garvin of Brookings were among the undergraduate, adult degree and graduate-level students who received diplomas from George Fox University in the spring of 2022. Biscay earned a bachelor of science in biology.
George Fox University is classified by U.S. News & World Report as a “Best National University.” More than 4,000 students attend classes on the university’s campus in Newberg, and at teaching centers in Portland, Salem and Redmond. George Fox offers more than 60 undergraduate academic programs, degree programs for working adults, and 19 masters and doctoral degrees. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/biscay-garvin-earn-diplomas/article_b9d2e218-f25b-11ec-bb67-a7313d64c18e.html | 2022-06-25T12:43:11 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/biscay-garvin-earn-diplomas/article_b9d2e218-f25b-11ec-bb67-a7313d64c18e.html |
ATLANTA — Two children are dead and two others injured after a house fire in Paulding County Friday night.
At this time, details are limited. However, the county's fire department said they were sent to the home on Woodwind Drive around 9:20 p.m. Friday.
All of the victims at this time are said to be children, according to the fire department.
They add that the Paulding County Sheriff's Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are leading the investigation into what happened at this time.
This is a developing story. Check back often for new information.
Also download the 11Alive News app and sign up to receive alerts for the latest on this story and other breaking news in Atlanta and north Georgia. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/paulding-county-house-fire/85-360d8674-8ebc-4d66-b7a2-9c53fb59ed9f | 2022-06-25T13:01:01 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/paulding-county-house-fire/85-360d8674-8ebc-4d66-b7a2-9c53fb59ed9f |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – The Supreme Court’s landmark decision to overturn Roe V. Wade has left the nation divided.
“Heartbreaking” was how Margaret Pomponio, Executive Director of West Virginia Free, described the decision.
Others, such as Daniel Long, a pro-life supporter and Catholic from Charleston, was happy saying, “It’s a beautiful thing.”
With the federal ruling overturned, it is now up to the state to decide if abortion is legal or not.
“We have been expecting this decision, but no amount of preparation can really prepare you emotionally for the blow that we dealt with today in this country by losing a constitutional right,” said Pomponio.
With a 100-plus-year-old law possibly making abortion a felony in the state of West Virginia for patients and doctors, pro-choice advocates are left fearful.
“We are calling on the governor and the legislature to act quickly,” Pomponio said. “This is an urgent situation. They need to convene themselves and repeal this criminal code.”
Even with this 1800s law up for speculation, others are still feeling victorious.
“So many lives are going to be saved,” Long said. “Not everybody is happy about it, but we got to push that we’re pro-woman, pro-life.”
The final decision will be up to politicians who plan to meet and strategize next week, according to Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/local-residents-react-to-roe-v-wade-decision/ | 2022-06-25T13:01:08 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/local-residents-react-to-roe-v-wade-decision/ |
World Beat offers opportunity for local dancers to share their culture
Dancers with Casa de la Cultura Tlanese are excited to be back at World Beat after the COVID-19 pandemic paused the annual festival.
The Salem-based nonprofit has been involved with the annual celebration since the start, said Paola Sumoza Maciel, COO and co-founder of Casa de la Cultura Tlanese. The group is nervous but excited to be back and show their hard work, she said.
World Beat is celebrating its 25th anniversary and will feature more than 70 nations and cultures through music, vendors and food. The festival at 200 Water Street NE is 5-10 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5.
Maciel is glad to see how much the festival has grown. It’s a growth she hopes to see for Casa de la Cultura Tlanese as well.
The cultural organization is celebrating its 17th year of teaching and showcasing traditional Mexican dances and music.
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Maciel started the organization in hopes of teaching younger people about their traditions. She joined a dance group while attending North Salem High School and her passion for dance grew from there. “It’s a sense of identity. It’s a sense of expressing my culture, my roots and telling them where we come from,” Maciel said.
She has two children, ages 10 and 7. It’s important to have them understand their culture, she said.
“I want them when they go [to Mexico] to not feel foreign to their own culture,” she said. “I don’t want them to feel like ‘I don’t know if I'm from here or from there.’ I want them to know ‘I’m from both places. And these are my roots from both places.'"
Anyone from the community and anyone who is interested in Mexican culture is encouraged to join,” Neftaly Sumoza said. He himself began dancing at the age of 3. Sumoza described the organization as a family business. Maciel is his sister and most of the other board members are also related.
The group performed alongside another group, INDUS, on Friday but will also have dancers perform Saturday afternoon. The youngest dancer is under 10 and the oldest is over 60.
Estrella Moreno Garcia and Mitzi Gonzalez, both 15, were preparing backstage to join the advanced dancers group on stage Friday night. Both joined Casa de la Cultura Tlanese nearly five years ago. Neighbors and close friends, Moreno Garcia’s mom signed them both up.
Gonzalez said the group has become a second family.
“It brings out my emotions,” Gonzalez said about performing.
Both described feeling closer to their culture through learning traditional dances.
Maciel hopes the community will continue to support World Beat and organizations like hers.
“Without the support of the community, it doesn’t have a sense of meaning,” she said. | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/06/25/world-beat-offers-opportunity-for-local-dancers-casa-de-la-cultura-tlanese-to-share-their-culture/65363514007/ | 2022-06-25T13:05:10 | 0 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/06/25/world-beat-offers-opportunity-for-local-dancers-casa-de-la-cultura-tlanese-to-share-their-culture/65363514007/ |
Which Fjallraven products for hiking are best?
Fjallraven is known for two things in the outdoor industry: quality packs and hard to pronounce names. If you want to get outdoors but feel overwhelmed by the number of brands, Fjallraven has high-quality materials that will help you enjoy every mile you hike. If you want a pack that can handle day hikes, overnight camping, and cross-country travel with ease, check out the Fjallraven Abisko Hike 35L Backpack.
What to know before you buy a Fjallraven product for hiking
Size
Hiking backpacks are measured in liters. How many liters you need depends on two main things: what you’re bringing and where you are. For instance, if you plan to throw just a sleeping bag and sleeping pad in your backpack and camp under the stars, you can get away with a smaller pack than usually recommended. The opposite is the case if you enjoy a more comfortable camping experience and cooking full meals on the trail..
If you plan to hike in areas where bears or other animals interested in your food are present, you’ll likely be required to carry a bear canister. These are hard-sided and bulky, taking up a good deal of the available space in your pack. If you often hike in bear country, size up to the larger pack capacity.
Multi-use or just for hiking
If you want a pack that’s good for day hikes and for taking to the office, then a smaller daypack is what you’ll want. A good pack for office and outdoor use is usually between 20-30L. If you plan to do anything more than a day hike, you’ll want to buy a larger backpack that is separate from your everyday use bag.
Weight
There are ultralight backpacking brands on the market and Fjallraven isn’t one of them. If you’ve never bought a hiking backpack before, you may not notice this. Those coming from other, lighter brands may notice that Fjallraven packs tend to be on the heavier side. This is mainly due to its rugged frame and durable materials. These packs are built to last.
What to look for in a quality Fjallraven product for hiking
Durability
Fjallraven has a limited lifetime warranty, but outside of a manufacturing error, it’s unlikely you’ll ever need it. Fjallraven is not a brand that has delved into the ultralight trend like many other brands have. While Fjallraven products take a bit more effort to carry over long distances, they tend to leave their lighter competitors in the dust over the long term.
Rain cover included
One of the biggest headaches when buying a hiking backpack is the lack of included rain cover. While some brands do include one, it’s not the standard. For the money one needs to shell out to get a good, name brand pack, one would hope a rain cover came standard. For Fjallraven, it does. No need to spend $40 to purchase one separately and hope that it fits.
Over-engineered
When it comes to the zippers, pockets, and access points, Fjallraven has almost more than necessary. While there may be a slight learning curve to unlock everything that Fjallraven packs have to offer, the benefit is that you won’t have to upgrade to a more full-featured pack after a season or two of experience.
How much you can expect to spend on Fjallraven products for hiking
This really depends on the size of the pack and its intended use. Expect to spend anywhere from $100-$250, depending on your needs.
Fjallraven product for hiking FAQ
What kind of warranty does Fjallraven offer?
A. Fjallraven offers a limited lifetime warranty on its packs covering manufacturing defects such as split seams or broken zippers. The warranty also covers accidental damage such as rips or abrasions.
What size backpack do I need for weekend trips?
A. This mainly depends on your intended use and what you plan to bring. As a rule of thumb, two- to four-day trips can be packed into an approximately 60L pack. If you have something closer to 40L, that will cover you from day hikes to two days at most. This also depends on how much you pack and how heavy a pack you’re willing to carry, so adjust as you see fit.
What’s the best Fjallraven product for hiking to buy?
Top Fjallraven product for hiking
Fjallraven Abisko Hike 35L Backpack
What you need to know: If you want a good entry-level Fjallraven pack for day hikes, overnight trips and travel, this pack lands in the sweet spot.
What you’ll love: 35L is a great size for a night or two in places where you aren’t required to carry a bear canister. The rugged waxed canvas material allows you to hike without worrying you’ll snag your pack on a branch.
What you should consider: A bear canister will fill up the majority of the available space very quickly. One size only.
Where to buy: Sold by Backcountry and Amazon
Top Fjallraven product for hiking for the money
What you need to know: If you want a Fjallraven pack that can go from the office to the trail and look good on both, this is it.
What you’ll love: This bag is waterproof and abrasion resistant, keeping your things safe on the trail and the road. The laptop sleeve and shoulder straps are both padded, and the pack only weighs about a pound and a half.
What you should consider: If you’re considering an overnight camping trip, this won’t cut it.
Where to buy: Sold by Backcountry and Amazon
Worth checking out
Fjallraven Kaipak 58L Backpack
What you need to know: If you expect to do more than a few overnights a year, especially if you need a bear canister, a larger pack is essential.
What you’ll love: The compression and pad straps allow for an incredible precise fit. The padding on the hip belt and shoulder straps makes carrying heavier loads more comfortable. If you’re looking for a year-round pack, this can do the job in winter and early spring as well.
What you should consider: This is a heavier pack at over four and a half pounds and only comes in one size.
Where to buy: Sold by Backcountry and Amazon
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Flagstaff Federated Community Church: Please join us for in person services this Sunday June 26, at 10 am to say goodbye to our Interim Pastor Paul Caseman and his wife Patty, who have been with us for the last 5 months. The following Sunday, July 3, we will welcome our new pastor, Pastor Diamond Pate, to Flagstaff Federated Community Church. Pastor Pate comes to us from the First Methodist Church of Gilbert. We are located at 400 W. Aspen Ave. on the corner of Aspen and Sitgreaves in Downtown Flagstaff. All are welcome to our services. We look forward to seeing you at 10 am, fellowship to follow in Rees Hall. To contact the church office call 928-774-7383, Mon – Thurs 9am –1pm or email at office@flagstafffederatedchurch.org.
The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany Jun 25 — The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, 423 N. Beaver St., Flagstaff. 928-774-2911. 8 a.m.- June 26, 10:30 a.m., WELCOMING ALL: with Rev Alison Lee: SAT 5:30PM; SUN: 8:00AM & 10:30AM (COVID masks are required)- with organ, and congregational singing; IN PERSON or on-line at epiphanyaz.org ; 928-774-2911. https://go.evvnt.com/1208302-0.
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Beacon UU Service: “Woven In A Single Garment of Destiny” Jun 26 — Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 510 N. Leroux St., Flagstaff. 928-779-4492. 10-11 a.m., ALL ARE WELCOME! You BELONG at Beacon - Spiritually open and intentionally inclusive since 1958. We are not alone though sometimes we forget that truth. We are woven into one cloth, one gorgeous blanket, designed for use, for comfort, to sustain, and to love. "Woven in a Single Garment of Destiny" is a special service including recorded elements from the UUA Office of Worship Arts. The Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, UUA President, offers the sermon, noting that "covenant is our religious response to our fundamental interdependence. We make promises about how to be together, and how to be in the world. We also fall short of honoring those promises, inviting us to repair and strengthen the strands of community. The choice to mend broken strands of the web is an act of faithfulness.” Rev. Robin hosts with recorded musical selections. https://go.evvnt.com/1205224-0.
Unity of Flagstaff: Feeding the Better Angels: A Skeptic's Spiritual Journey. Jun 26 — 1800 S. Milton Road suite 103, 1800 S. Milton Road, Flagstaff. 10:30-11:30 a.m., Ever feel like you are abiding in a gentle skepticism about how Spirit works in your life? Comfortable or perhaps uncomfortable with good science above "other ways of understanding the workings of the world"? (Spiritual) Anyone relate? Join us at Unity Of Flagstaff Spiritual Center this Sunday, 10:30 a.m. as Bruce Higgins shares lessons and takeaways from his spiritual journey and how science and spirituality can support each other. Let's Celebrate how it expresses in YOUR life! Music by long-time favorite Ryan Biter. Join us this Sunday 10:30 AM, LIVE at 1800 S. Milton Suite 103 or via LIVE STREAM . Unity of Flagstaff: Where God is too big to fit into one Religion. https://go.evvnt.com/1210990-0.
Church of the Resurrection Sunday Church Services: May 8 — 740 W. University Heights Drive S., 740 W. University Heights Drive S., Flagstaff. 928-853-8522. 10-11:30 a.m., Church of the Resurrection Presbyterian Church in America (PCA): We invite you to join us for worship at 10 a.m. on Sundays at 740 W. University Heights Drive South as Rev. Joshua Walker preaches through the book of Acts. Please feel free to contact us for information on our mid-week gatherings and for more information on our church. You can find us at www.cor-pca.org and www.facebook.com/CORFlagstaff or we can be reached at corflagstaff@gmail.com and (928) 699-2715.
Living Christ Lutheran Church: Living Christ Lutheran Church is a diverse and LGBTQ-affirming community of disciples embraced by God's unconditional love and enduring grace. You are invited to celebrate with us God's love and presence in your life, grow in your discipleship, and leave empowered to be God's hands in the world. We worship through music, teaching, prayer, and the sacraments each Sunday at 10 a.m. with Rev. Kurt Fangmeier leading. We offer worship both in-person (masks are respected, not required; encouraged for unvaccinated) and online. Learn more about us at our new website: lclcflag.org.
Leupp Nazarene Church: The church, near mile post 13 or Navajo Route 15, has been holding services by teleconferences and doing drive-up meetings. For information, call pastor Farrell Begay at 928-853-5321. Teleconference number: 1-7170275-8940 with access code 3204224#. Services are 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sundays and 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
Christian Science Society of Flagstaff: 619 W. Birch Ave. The Christian Science Society of Flagstaff has opened for Sunday services while continuing to have them available via Zoom for online and phone. Wednesday testimony meetings are available only via Zoom. For phone Sunday Services: Dial: 669-900-9128, Meeting ID: 369 812 794#, Passcode: 075454#. For phone Wednesday meetings, dial: 669-900-9128, Meeting ID: 971 672 834#, Passcode: 894826#. The access for Zoom on Sundays is: https://zoom.us/j/369812794. The Zoom access for Wednesdays is: https://zoom.us/j/971672834. The password to use to enter both is CSS. We welcome all to attend our Sunday Services in person, or live by Zoom, at 10:00 o’clock, and to attend our Wednesday Testimony meetings live by Zoom, at 5:30 o’clock. Our Reading Room will be open on Wednesdays from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 10-12 noon. For further information please call 928-526-5982. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-religion-news-for-june-25/article_34e50b44-f387-11ec-a9b7-2b96eef6dc44.html | 2022-06-25T13:09:30 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-religion-news-for-june-25/article_34e50b44-f387-11ec-a9b7-2b96eef6dc44.html |
I admit this growing season has been very discouraging for me. More than any of my twenty years of setting seeds in the ground, 2022 has brought me to tears. But I feel ungrateful writing this because, unlike many of my friends, I haven't faced property damage from fires or flooding at least. Drought conditions, watering system malfunctions, extreme temperatures, and pest pressures I didn't expect are some of the things that have plagued me instead.
Through these challenges, I began to wonder if gardening was worth the investment. Maybe some of you have felt this way? Maybe this year isn’t even the first you’ve experienced discouragement. Well, this week's article is for anyone who has faced that moment of whether to continue planting or to give up.
Because I’ve been there too. Time and again, I have to decide if gardening is worth it, despite the disappointments. Here’s the self-advice I’ve found to keep me going.
There is hope in the harvest.
Every seed and every plant I put into the ground is done with the hope of a payoff. If I didn’t have hope it would thrive, I wouldn’t bother. If I didn’t have hope that I’d receive food or beauty, I wouldn’t try. But I do have hope. It doesn’t matter if more die than live — and they do — I make a promise when I cover the roots with soil that I will nurture the plant until there is no hope. Whether the harvest ends up being abundant or scarce, if I'm in the right mindset, I find the anticipation of a harvest is its own reward.
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Create your own definition of a weed.
Plants want to reproduce. They want to put down seeds and have them germinate. There are all sorts of botanical adaptations to make this possible. Weeds are especially adept at propagating themselves.
But when we try to define a weed, that’s when the waters get murky. Most people agree with the description that a weed is any plant growing where it isn’t wanted. Such an explanation leaves a lot of room for personal taste. One gardener will pull out every sprout of purslane or common mallow. At the same time, others will welcome them for their nutritional value.
In my own garden, if I have volunteers from last year’s crops, I’ll usually let them stay, even if that crop has now been rotated to a different row. To me, they’re like brushstrokes in a Bob Ross painting. You know, the ones where he changes mistakes into “happy little accidents.” What gets left and what gets pulled all depends on the gardener and like life, we allow what we want to stay in our spheres and cull the rest. Gardens are expressions of the gardener, not the other way around.
Stop to smell the peonies.
As a side gig, I sell flower bouquets from my cut flower farm. I have limited time to cut the flowers and arrange them. Often in late spring I feel the busiest. I pick things quickly and sell them just as fast. This year I kept a few for myself. The smell was enough to make me pause throughout the day and stick my nose in their luscious blooms. These daily pauses helped me remember why I love cultivating flowers.
Eat the first tomatoes, can the last.
There’s something truly magical about the first juicy tomato of the season. Nothing is like it. By the 100th… not so much. Savor those first joyous fruits and once you’re feeling inundated with them, either share the bounty with neighbors or can them to remember the taste of summer.
Share the successes and the setbacks.
Sometimes it’s easy to look around and think we’re the only ones who struggle growing. But it’s not true. Even the most experienced gardener has failures. Accept your own gardening fiascos and share them with others. We learn more from these flops than we do from the easy wins. It may surprise you to find out that once you share the challenges, other gardeners will come clean too, and you’ll find their gardening experiences aren’t all bounty and blooms either.
In the end, gardening is a journey without a winner’s podium. Not too different than life, actually. And not surprisingly, the things I learned about gardening this year are great life advice too.
Jackee Alston has been gardening and farming in the Flagstaff and Verde Valley since 2005 and 2015, respectively. In her past lives, she was a wildlife biologist, botanist, and backcountry ranger. Now she is the co-editor of the Gardening Etcetera column, owner of Nevermore Gardens, a Coconino Master Gardener, founder of the Grow Flagstaff! Seed Library, children's author, and the mother of three remarkable humans.
If you have a gardening question, email CoconinoMasterGardener@gmail.com or call the Master Gardener Hotline at 928-773-6115 and leave a message. A Master Gardener will get back to you. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/gardening-etcetera-lessons-learned-from-a-gardening-life/article_b84754e2-f387-11ec-aa5b-bf132c3e42f2.html | 2022-06-25T13:09:36 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/gardening-etcetera-lessons-learned-from-a-gardening-life/article_b84754e2-f387-11ec-aa5b-bf132c3e42f2.html |
We love this, yeah, yeah yeah: It’s Global Beatles Day! We hope you’re dressed like a Yellow Submarine for the holiday.
Pups & Pints — a fundraiser for Safe Harbor Humane Society — is 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in Petrifying Springs Park, near the the Biergarten at the south end of the park, 5555 Seventh St. The event features vendors with dog-related items, pet portraits and even dogs diving off a dock into a swimming pool!
Holy Rosary Parish, 2224 45th St., is hosting a car show from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today. Free for spectators; $10 car entry fee. There will be entertainment, food and a 50/50 raffle. Trophies will be awarded.
Get ready to rock! Punx on the Pier starts at noon at the North Pier Lighthouse on Simmons Island. The live music goes until 7 p.m.
The Kingston Trio is performing at 7 tonight in the Rhode Center for the Arts, 514 56th St. This is a fundraiser to benefit the Lakeside Players community theater troupe. Tickets are $45 for general admission. For more information and to purchase tickets, go to rhodecenter.org.
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Summerfest continues today in Milwaukee. Tonight’s headliners are Lil’ Wayne and Wu-Tang Clan. Billing itself as “the world’s largest music festival and Milwaukee’s cornerstone summer celebration,” Summerfest features the 23,000 capacity American Family Insurance Amphitheater, plus 11 additional stages, a huge selection of food and beverages, marketplaces and interactive exhibits. For more details on admission promotions and attractions, go to summerfest.com. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-saturday-june-25/article_79bdce28-f336-11ec-98f5-efa0397b23d6.html | 2022-06-25T13:13:47 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-saturday-june-25/article_79bdce28-f336-11ec-98f5-efa0397b23d6.html |
Donovan Scherer's Studio Moonfall, 5031 Seventh Ave., is hosting Guest Author Day on Sunday.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., local authors Al Lytle and Toi Blasier -- along with local artist Frank Lopez -- will be greeting customers and talking about their work.
Kenosha residents Lytle and Blasier are the authors of the "Gates of Divinity" book series.
The first book two books of the planned four-book saga are “Gates of Destiny: The First Light” and "Gates of Divinity: Realms of Eternity.” came out Nov. 8
The books focus on a battle pitching angels against Lucifer.
“We expand on the idea of Lucifer being banished from heaven for a thousand years,” Lytle explained. “In our story, he’s released after serving his thousand-year sentence and escapes before he is set to be tossed into the ring of fire.”
A small group of angels suspect something has gone wrong and set out to recapture Lucifer. That mission forms the basis of the book series.
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The two are new to the publishing world, which — as any author knows — is a whole different animal from writing a book.
“We are learning as we go through the process,” Blasier said.
For Lytle, getting their first novel self-published “allows us to have more control over it. We see this as our child and want to nourish it and watch it grow.”
Blasier added that he “thought writing the books would be the hardest part of this project, but now we have to work to get people’s attention. I’m blessed with the perfect partner for this part, because there’s no way I could do it as well as Al does. He’s the mastermind behind marketing.” Learn more at https://gatesofdivinity.wordpress.com/
For more about artist Lopez, check out Roksteady Design at instagram.com/roksteady.design/
- Coming up on July 3 at Studio Moonfall: Authors Jessie Rose and Debra Oas with artist/designers Eco Art and Crafting Owl Gifts and special appearances by the Steampunk General Store and Little Big Top Fun Co.
- On July 10: Author Luke Morris and special guest Dire Need Zine. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-studio-moonfall-hosting-local-authors-artist/article_8f7ed0de-f3fb-11ec-a113-d392ef5a1dca.html | 2022-06-25T13:13:54 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-studio-moonfall-hosting-local-authors-artist/article_8f7ed0de-f3fb-11ec-a113-d392ef5a1dca.html |
After the overturn of Roe v. Wade, big-name companies are offering to reimburse employees that travel out of state to get abortion services.
Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, a ruling that has protected a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion for the last five decades. The overturn allows each state to pass abortion laws.
Some companies have already announced that they will reimburse employees for travel costs after a leak of a draft opinion suggested that the case’s ruling may overturn, and others have joined in now that the Roe v. Wade ruling has been overturned and new laws may be coming into place.
Here are the details of what each company is offering its employees, according to NBC 4 reports:
Amazon: Will pay up to $4,000 in travel expenses for abortions and other non-life-threatening medical procedures. The benefit applies if the medical care is not available within 100 miles of an employee’s home.
Apple: Its health insurance provider will cover travel and medical costs of employees who want to get an abortion.
Bumble: Created a relief fund for people seeking an abortion in Texas.
Citigroup: Committed to covering employees traveling costs if they need to leave their state to seek an abortion.
Conde Nast (”The New Yorker,” “Vanity Fair,” and “Wired” magazine owner): Will reimburse travel and lodging expenses for workers who must travel out of their states to get legal abortions.
Dick’s Sporting Goods: Lauren Hobart, president, and CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods announced that the company will provide up to $4,000 in travel expense reimbursement.
Disney: The company sent an internal note that would help pay for pregnancy-related care if they have to travel to a different state.
JPMorgan Chase: Will pay for travel to states that allow legal abortions.
Lyft: Will cover legal fees for drivers on their respective platforms who are sued under restrictive abortion laws for taking passengers out of state to seek legal abortions.
Microsoft: Will add travel expenses to its abortion and gender-affirming benefits for employees in the United States.
Salesforce: Will help relocate anyone concerned about getting reproductive care.
Starbucks: Will pay travel expenses for U.S. employees to get an abortion or gender-confirmation procedures if those services aren’t available within 100 miles of a worker’s home. The benefit will also be available to dependents of employees enrolled in its health care coverage.
Tesla: Announced in their 2021 impact report they had a program and insurance available “that includes travel and lodging support for those who may need to seek healthcare services that are unavailable in their home state.”
Yelp: Wants to make sure that all of its employees have equal access to health care, the company said. The benefit will cover all of its 4,000 employees.
In other announcements, these other two big-name brands joined in the movement.
Levi Strauss & Co.: In a post on their website, Levi Strauss & Co. said, “employees are eligible for reimbursement for healthcare-related travel expenses for services not available in their home state, including those related to reproductive health care and abortion. There is also a process in place through which employees who are not in our benefits plan, including part-time hourly workers, can seek reimbursement for travel costs incurred under the same circumstances.”
Meta (Facebook/Instagram owner): Will reimburse employees for expenses related to traveling out of state for an abortion, according to NBC. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/06/25/here-are-the-companies-that-will-cover-costs-for-employees-seeking-abortion-services/ | 2022-06-25T13:32:59 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/06/25/here-are-the-companies-that-will-cover-costs-for-employees-seeking-abortion-services/ |
SALES
Commonwealth Commercial Partners LLC reports the following sales:
- D&H Construction Services purchased 2,200 square feet at 5403 Chamberlayne Road in Henrico from David Hulburt and Sherry Finneran for $340,000. Ben Bruni represented the seller.
- Austrian LLC purchased 3,000 square feet at 644 Independence Parkway in Chesapeake from The Melick Group LLC for $550,000. Gresh Wall represented the seller.
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Pollard and Bagby Inc. reports the following sales:
- Shama B. Saiyed LLC purchased an approximately 5,888-square-foot building at 1011 Hioaks Road in Richmond from Soheila LLC for $913,250. Donna Hobbs and Tony Rolando represented the purchaser.
- EHK Associates P.C. purchased a 3,200-square-foot building at 4796 Finlay St. in Richmond from Robert B. Bass Sr. for $400,000. Scott White represented the seller.
- JDS Holdings LLC purchased a 2,850-square-foot building at 6 N. Dooley Ave. in Richmond from TLG RE LLC for $1.025 million. Tony Rolando represented the buyer.
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LEASES
Commonwealth Commercial Partners LLC reports the following leases:
- Richmond Integrative and Functional Medicine LLC leased 4,253 square feet at 1 Park West Circle in Chesterfield. Tucker Dowdy and Jamie Galanti represented the landlord.
- Accu-Tech Corp. leased 8,400 square feet at 2256 Dabney Road in Henrico. Colton Konvicka and Michael Mayhew represented the tenant.
- The Sasso Group LLC subleased 4,592 square feet at 7400 Beaufont Springs Drive in Chesterfield. Tucker Dowdy and Michael Good represented the sublandlord.
- Douglas S. Belt DDS renewed his 1,013-square-foot lease at 5700 Old Richmond Ave. in Henrico. Tucker Dowdy and Michael Good represented the landlord.
- CSC Leasing Co. leased 7,280 square feet at 3601-3721 Saunders Ave. in Richmond. Russell Wyatt and Ben Bruni represented the tenant.
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Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer reports the following leases:
- Kaleo Inc. renewed its lease of 29,156 square feet of office space at the Turning Basin, 111 Virginia St., in Richmond. Dean Meyer and Mac Wilson handled the negotiations on behalf of the landlord.
- Monarca Packaging LLC renewed its lease of 6,300 square feet of industrial space at Bells Road Office/Warehouse, 2950-54 Bells Road, in Richmond. Michael A. Shaia handled the negotiations on behalf of the landlord.
- Branshel Inc. renewed its lease of 5,000 square feet of office space at 3820-B Jefferson Davis Highway in Richmond. Michael A. Shaia and Scott Douglas handled the negotiations on behalf of the landlord.
- Ameriprise Financial renewed its lease of 2,954 square feet of office space at Westerre I, 3951 Westerre Parkway, in Henrico. Dean Meyer and Mac Wilson handled the negotiations on behalf of the landlord.
- Goodness and Mercy International Food Market renewed its lease of 2,600 square feet of office space at 7816 Midlothian Turnpike in Chesterfield. Richard L. Thalhimer handled the negotiations on behalf of the landlord.
- AQwest Auto LLC leased 2,580 square feet of industrial space at Park Place of Hanover, 10403 S. Leadbetter Road, in Ashland. Gregg Beck and Jeff Cooke handled the negotiations on behalf of the landlord.
- Balance Gym Manchester LLC leased 2,400 square feet of retail space at The Current, 400 Hull St., in Richmond. Reilly Marchant handled the negotiations on behalf of the landlord; Annie O’Connor, also with Thalhimer, represented the tenant.
- Pizza Hut leased 2,397 square feet of retail space at Staples Mill Plaza, 9189-B Staples Mill Road, in Henrico. Richard L. Thalhimer handled the negotiations on behalf of the landlord.
- Clippers On The Go LLC renewed its lease of 2,000 square feet of retail space at 914 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd. in Richmond. Michael A. Shaia handled the negotiations on behalf of the landlord.
- Qwest Kustomz LLC leased 1,969 square feet of industrial space at Park Place of Hanover, 10403 S. Leadbetter Road, in Ashland. Gregg Beck and Jeff Cooke handled the negotiations on behalf of the landlord.
- TIPS East LLC renewed its lease of 1,800 square feet of retail space at Emporia Marketplace, 212 Cloverleaf Drive, in Emporia. James Ashby IV and Richard L. Thalhimer handled the negotiations on behalf of the landlord.
- Great Clips renewed its lease of 1,200 square feet of retail space at Westchester Commons, 15786 WC Main St., in Chesterfield. Alex T. Wotring, David Crawford and Kevin South handled the negotiations on behalf of the landlord.
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Pollard and Bagby Inc. reports the following leases:
- Tribble Insurance Agency renewed its lease of 924 square feet at 10366 Leadbetter Road in Ashland.
- State Farm Insurance Agency renewed its lease of 1,028 square feet at 6010 W. Broad St., Suite 1, in Henrico.
- We Help Our Adolescents LLC renewed its lease of 3,433 square feet at 6010 W. Broad St., Suites 103, 205, second-floor storage, in Henrico.
- Kuanmin Zhu renewed its lease of 850 square feet at 512 N. Third St., Unit 1, in Richmond.
- We Help Our Adolescents LLC renewed its lease of 1,216 square feet at 6010 W. Broad St., Suite 206, in Henrico.
- Pat’s World Staging & Re-Design LLC renewed its lease of 3,000 square feet at 2110 Maywill St. in Richmond.
- We Help Our Adolescents LLC leased 1,110 square feet at 6010 W. Broad St., Suite 6, in Henrico.
- Up All Night Bakery LLC leased 900 square feet at 1221 Bellevue Ave. in Richmond.
- King Vape LLC leased 2,035 square feet at 11465 Robious Road in North Chesterfield.
- Stratton Insurance Agency Inc. leased 854 square feet at 9701 Gayton Road, Suite 3, in Henrico. | https://richmond.com/business/local/commercial-real-estate-highlights/article_d999fe9b-1eb6-50d0-9d7c-4c35addff166.html | 2022-06-25T13:36:03 | 0 | https://richmond.com/business/local/commercial-real-estate-highlights/article_d999fe9b-1eb6-50d0-9d7c-4c35addff166.html |
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One of the most important responsibilities of a manager is to protect employees from harm, including harassment.
In a horrific case from Colorado, 17-year-old Walgreens employee Riley Whitelaw is dead and her 28-year-old co-worker Joshua Johnson has been charged with first-degree murder after Whitelaw reportedly rejected the accused’s advances for over a year, and shared her concerns about working with him to management.
According to the police affidavit supporting the arrest of the accused, on June 11 at around 8 p.m., police responded to a report from Walgreens manager Justin Zunino that he found the body of employee Whitelaw in the breakroom and there “was blood everywhere.” Police found the deceased body of Whitelaw with “significant trauma” to her neck and a “large amount of blood on the floor around the head of the victim” with “significant blood stains on the floor, cabinets and counter of the breakroom.”
After Whitelaw failed to return from break, Zunino reviewed surveillance video and observed the accused co-worker “stacking bins in front of a surveillance camera” blocking the view of the camera. In addition, Zunino observed that someone taped paper over the windows in the area of the breakroom. “The restroom closed sign was in the area to keep people out, which typically does not occur till [sic] the close of business,” according to the affidavit.
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This observation led Zunino to the breakroom where he found Whitlow.
Zunino told officers that Whitlow complained to him about a year ago because the accused made advances toward her and it made her feel uncomfortable. Zunino told officers he warned the accused to “keep things professional and [the accused] appeared to be receptive.”
Zunino told the officers that “several weeks ago,” Whitelaw “requested to work a different schedule because [the accused] made her feel uncomfortable. When she made another request for additional hours, she was told it would require working with [the accused].”
Another manager, Crystal Ishmael, told officers that three months earlier, Whitelaw’s boyfriend began working at Walgreens. Ishmael noticed that the accused appeared to be acting jealous. There was no indication in the affidavit she did anything with this information.
A customer heard a female screaming and what sounded like stalls slamming.
Police found the accused walking along the interstate with scratches on his hands and face. He admitted to officers he at one time had a crush on Whitelaw, but he didn’t have a crush on her any longer because he was intimate with Ishmael (a fact the officers did not confirm in the affidavit).
The accused admitted to being in the breakroom where he “fell in the blood.” He admitted he “went home right after ‘what happened’ and took off all his clothes because they were all bloody.” He denied stacking the totes even though he is on surveillance video doing so.
A 17-year-old teen trying to earn some income simply wanted to be left alone at her job. She deserved that. It was the manager’s responsibility to make that happen.
Employers and managers have an affirmative duty to protect employees when they are made aware of concerns such as harassment. That appears to have not happened here.
The minute that the teen mentioned to the manager concerns about the accused, the accused should have been fired or given a final written warning. Simply telling an employee to “keep things professional” is an insufficient response.
When the teen again told the manager she didn’t want to work with the accused, this was the red glaring flag that the accused was still bothering her. An immediate investigation should have been conducted and, if the accused was engaging in misconduct, he should have been terminated.
The minute that the female manager observed that the accused was acting “jealous,” she had a duty to act as well.
Employees rarely tell a manager they feel like they are being “harassed.” They say someone is making them uncomfortable, or bothering them, paying them unwanted attention or they are uncomfortable working with them. The employee might downplay it and ask you not to do anything.
It doesn’t matter if the employee asks you to keep it confidential, says she will handle it herself or says it’s not a big deal.
Managers have a legal duty to do something and eradicate the problem, which usually means a termination.
Managers should not ask the employee if she wants to file a formal complaint, if she wants to go to HR or what she wants you to do. The only response from management should be, “I’ll take care of this.” And then take care of this.
Real lives are at stake here — whether violence, emotional trauma or just a miserable workplace. Employees deserve a respectful and healthy workplace, and it’s the job of the manager to make that happen.
Karen Michael is an attorney and the president of Richmond-based Karen Michael PLC and author of “Stay Hired.” She can be reached at stayhired@stayhired.net. | https://richmond.com/business/local/labor-law-walgreens-murder-exposes-weakness-of-managers-failing-to-eradicate-harassment/article_03707d68-dc54-553e-9068-2a0e6158b3fa.html | 2022-06-25T13:36:09 | 0 | https://richmond.com/business/local/labor-law-walgreens-murder-exposes-weakness-of-managers-failing-to-eradicate-harassment/article_03707d68-dc54-553e-9068-2a0e6158b3fa.html |
On Friday morning, over 100 volunteers gathered on the hill side of the Virginia War Memorial to help place 12,000 American flags in the earth to symbolize the number of Virginians who gave their lives while protecting the United States.
“It’s in honor of the almost 12,000 Virginians whose names are enshrined here beginning with World War II up through the present day,” Robert Paylor, a volunteer, said.
Since 2019, the Hill of Heroes visual display has been a way for the Virginia War Memorial to connect with the community and bring a variety of people to the memorial. Among the volunteers Friday, Scout troop 2860 and Cub Scout troop 2831 and their leader Jordan Edwards helped distribute the flags.
“It’s great to get them to see all the people who have given their lives for our country and to be a part of something that is bigger than them,” Edwards said. “Anytime we can encourage that service and dedication to the country is worth while.”
Around 50 soldiers from Delta Co. 16th battalion also came out to help alongside about 50 other civilian volunteers.
“We want to make sure people who come to the memorial never forget who served, who is currently serving and what they sacrifice for our country,” Mary-Michael Wachur, a spokesperson for the memorial, said.
On Saturday, the Virginia War Memorial is hosting its first ever Hill of Heroes Family Day. Wachur said they decided to host the event because of the foot traffic they've seen in the past of people coming out to see the flags.
Wachur said the Virginia War Memorial’s goal is to “make it accessible for all ages to come to the War Memorial and have a good time.”
“We are going to have displays including vehicles from Fort Lee and a special military working dog demonstration,” Wachur said. “We have crafts. We have some educational materials that kids can touch and look at and get hands on with.”
The Hill of Heroes Family Day will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“I’ve gotten to know so many veterans from working here and throughout the community, and this place means so much to them,” Wachur said. “I think it is really important to share that with the next generation and make sure that they understand stories of service and sacrifice that so many Virginians have.”
The flags will be on display until July 8.
The Virginia War Memorial is located at 621 S. Belvidere St. More information is available at www.vawarmemorial.org.
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Private First Class Jaquan Ivy, left, and Private First Class Christian French make their way through the Hill of Heroes American flag installation on Friday, June 24, 2022 at Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia. | https://richmond.com/news/local/12-000-flags-displayed-at-virginia-war-memorial-for-hill-of-heroes/article_38ee97c6-2fed-5767-b8be-279b4c9384ad.html | 2022-06-25T13:36:21 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/12-000-flags-displayed-at-virginia-war-memorial-for-hill-of-heroes/article_38ee97c6-2fed-5767-b8be-279b4c9384ad.html |
Oral arguments at the Indiana Court of Appeals in a separation of powers dispute between the Lake County Council and the Lake County Board of Commissioners were called off Friday after the commissioners’ lead attorney was diagnosed with COVID-19.
Attorney Joseph Chapelle said in a court filing his COVID-19 infection was confirmed Tuesday and he’s been quarantining to minimize the potential spread of the virus to others. But he’s also been unable to continue preparing to argue the case due to symptoms of the virus.
Court of Appeals Chief Judge Cale Bradford agreed to call off oral arguments Friday because of Chapelle’s COVID-19 infection.
Bradford said oral arguments will be “rescheduled if necessary.”
In a subsequent filing, Chapelle urged the three-judge appellate panel to hear oral arguments, and not just rely on the attorneys’ written arguments, given the importance of the case to Lake County, and potentially other counties throughout the state.
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At issue is whether the budget-writing county council should oversee both the appropriation and spending of county funds, or whether purchasing authority should remain with the three-member board of commissioners that serves as county executive.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Salvador Casares
Age : 43
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205089
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION; THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jonathan Colon
Age : 35
Residence: Montgomery, TX
Booking Number(s): 2205105
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Daniel Swets
Age : 44
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205044
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Karen Sweet
Age : 63
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205025
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amaan Smith
Age : 28
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205033
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Anthony Smith
Age : 35
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205039
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Diandre Smith
Age : 25
Residence: Glenwood, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205029
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeremy Soria
Age : 28
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205045
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Rogers
Age : 28
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205049
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lynn Lessard
Age : 56
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205038
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Leondre Lewis
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205028
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Richard Moss
Age : 35
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205042
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Person Jr.
Age : 38
Residence: Steger, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205023
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Consuela Folger
Age : 51
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205040
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Jones Jr.
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205050
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ramiro Escamilla
Age : 24
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205022
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING - W/NO INTENT OF FELONY THEFT; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Matthew Evans
Age : 28
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205047
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Evan Alexander
Age : 25
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205037
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Edward Anaszewski
Age : 52
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205048
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Andre Bullock
Age : 31
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205046
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amanda Wilk
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205065
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Travis Spoolstra
Age : 21
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205064
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Stibgen
Age : 30
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205056
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jason Miller
Age : 21
Residence: N/A
Booking Number(s): 2205055
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE; THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Tracey Spencer
Age : 47
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205070
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Haley Kniola
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205067
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tyler McKenzie
Age : 23
Residence: Perry, FL
Booking Number(s): 2205072
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Noel Garabito Jr.
Age : 34
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205063
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ebonie Byers
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205060
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - INSTITUTION - BANK/FINANCIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Ellis
Age : 30
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205061
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Devante White
Age : 28
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204992
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FROM MACHINE OR DEVICE - $750 TO $50,000; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
David Wszolek
Age : 52
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205010
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sterling Walton IV
Age : 22
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204999
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tavares McKinstry
Age : 37
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204997
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Mezydlo
Age : 54
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204993
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kaleb Wall
Age : 33
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205002
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jenifer Joy
Age : 35
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205008
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jacob Kelley
Age : 19
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205007
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Madden
Age : 58
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204994
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - DESTRUCTIVE DEVICE (EXPLOSIVES) - W/KNOWLEDGE IT WILL BE USED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kori Arguelles
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205003
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rondell Christmas
Age : 23
Residence: Lynwood, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205011
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: INVASION OF PRIVACY; BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Michael Tsouchlos
Age : 54
Residence: Marathon, FL
Booking Number(s): 2205206
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Vernon Walters
Age : 61
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205200
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Megan Phillips
Age : 35
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205202
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Antonio Steward
Age : 38
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205190
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Javante Toran
Age : 30
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205192
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kerri Olson
Age : 43
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205188
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: 2205188
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Bowling
Age : 50
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205195
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amy Hunt
Age : 26
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205208
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kevin McGrath
Age : 31
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205204
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Nicholas Naumoff
Age : 54
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205184
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Nunez III
Age : 28
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205207
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Francisco Tequimila
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205163
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cheri Terranova
Age : 32
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205162
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Clevon Riley
Age : 28
Residence: Michigan City, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205155
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Stephanie Sons
Age : 34
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205170
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Mauer
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205165
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kirk McGuire
Age : 32
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205178
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tyrone McKee
Age : 59
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205158
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicole Peterson
Age : 50
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205152
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeremy Jones
Age : 25
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205161
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Artesta Lewis
Age : 69
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205153
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joyce Edwards
Age : 52
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205169
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sarah Fox
Age : 34
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205179
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brandon Johnson
Age : 32
Residence: Dolton, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205182
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Denzel Shaw
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205124
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sade Vigilant
Age : 26
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205112
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amanda Nippers
Age : 25
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205118
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michelle Mendez
Age : 43
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205121
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel Lumsdon
Age : 54
Residence: Crete, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205134
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: PUBLIC INDECENCY - INDECENT EXPOSURE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Saivion Covington
Age : 27
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205115
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Currie
Age : 28
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205113
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Gutierrez
Age : 22
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205123
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Landrum Coleman Sr.
Age : 45
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205114
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: WARRANT - DEFENDANT IN CUSTODY; ORDER TO APPEAR; DEFENDANT AT LIBERTY; NOTICE TO APPEAR; ARREST UPON FAILURE TO APPEAR
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Charles Carter Jr.
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205131
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: FAILURE TO REGISTER; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Joseph Boatman
Age : 31
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205117
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON; POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
James Burnett III
Age : 32
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205116
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joel Acosta
Age : 31
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205109
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - MORE THAN $50,000; THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Tyree Baines
Age : 25
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205140
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT DEFENDANT USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcus White
Age : 37
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205107
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Daiquan McClinton
Age : 20
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205093
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Douglas Mills
Age : 37
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205085
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Latanya Snelling
Age : 54
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205099
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Malik Ward
Age : 25
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205086
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Matthew Manous
Age : 23
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205081
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - SCHEDULE V; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Steven Heintz
Age : 52
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205096
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Benjamin Hynek
Age : 23
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205098
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Joshua Hynek
Age : 33
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205097
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Krystal Johnston
Age : 45
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205101
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Demarco Dillon
Age : 21
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205087
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Creedon
Age : 59
Residence: Crystal Lake, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205083
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
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OCEAN CITY – The unbeaten Ocean City Nor’easters had to settle for a 1-1 tie with Reading United AC on Friday at Carey Stadium.
Ocean City looked like the better team in the first half, and Nor’easters midfielder Nick Pariano made it 1-0 in the 44th minute. But Reading tied it two minutes into the second half and seemed to have the edge in play until O.C. had some late chances.
The tie left the first-place Nor’easters at 7-0-2 (23 points) in the Mid-Atlantic Division of the League Two of the United Soccer Leagues. Reading’s record is still even at 3-3-4 (13 points). The teams met twice this season at Reading, and Ocean City won 2-0 and 1-0.
Friday’s game was defensive until Ocean City suddenly had a series of shots near the goal late in the first half. The ball finally went out to Pariano in front 6 yards out, and he booted it into the net for his first goal of the season.
“There were a couple shots, and then the ball kind of fell to me and I tried to put it in the net,” said the 19-year-old Pariano, a Philadelphia resident who is a rising junior at Duke University. “It happened so fast. Pablo (Marques) had a shot, and it went off a defender. I tried to put it in right away, and not mess around.”
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Reading pulled even in the 47th minute as Ryan Kuster scored from 3 yards out off an assist by Tim Timchencko.
United continued to play well, but Ocean City took the momentum away late. Pariano fired one off the left post in the 85th minute after taking a pass from the right from Alessandro Arlotti. Reading goalie Russell Shealy made a save on O.C.’s Rodrigo Robles in the 90th minute. Arlotti fired a shot that went outside the right post in stoppage time. An offsides call negated an O.C. goal with about a minute left. A final Ocean City shot was booted over the net.
Nor’easters goalie Felix Schafer made three saves in the game, and Shealy had five.
“We had a couple chances (late). It was kind of frustrating,” Pariano said. “A lot of the results have fallen our way at the end of the game, and we have to be prepared for the fact that sometimes it’s not. For whatever reason, it’s not going to fall our way, which it didn’t tonight. We have to move on. Not a whole lot changes. We just have to make sure we win the next couple games, so we make the playoffs.”
Ocean City will travel to meet second-place West Chester United (6-2-1, 19 points) at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Kildare’s Turf Field in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The Nor’easters will return home to meet third-place Real Central New Jersey at 7 p.m. Friday at Carey Stadium, which the Nor'easters refer to as "the Beach House."
Contact Guy Gargan: 609-272-7210 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/ocean-city-noreasters-tie-reading-1-1-at-the-beach-house-to-stay-unbeaten/article_76ff02b2-f442-11ec-ab89-97dc76737cb1.html | 2022-06-25T13:49:56 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/ocean-city-noreasters-tie-reading-1-1-at-the-beach-house-to-stay-unbeaten/article_76ff02b2-f442-11ec-ab89-97dc76737cb1.html |
Tuskegee Airman from Detroit dies at 100
Detroit – Alexander Jefferson, a member of the celebrated Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, has died at age 100, officials said Friday.
Jefferson was born in Detroit and remained a lifelong resident. The city announced last fall that it plans to honor him with the Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson Plaza at Rouge Park where he flew model airplanes as a child.
“Col. Jefferson not only represented the best of Detroit and our nation, he represented the very best of humanity,” Mayor Mike Duggan said.
MORE: Detroit honors Tuskegee Airman with key to city on 100th birthday
In recent years, the Tuskegee Airmen have been the subject of books, movies and documentaries highlighting their courage in the air and the doubts they faced on the ground because of their race.
Jefferson, who was Black, flew 18 missions before he was shot down and held as a prisoner of war for eight months in 1944-45.
He returned to Detroit and was a teacher and school principal for decades. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/06/25/tuskegee-airman-age-one-hundred-detroit-dies/50416719/ | 2022-06-25T13:54:37 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/06/25/tuskegee-airman-age-one-hundred-detroit-dies/50416719/ |
DANVILLE, Va. — Before the Russian invasion in late February, Volodymyr and Olha Volyk and their young daughter had their own apartment in their native Ukraine.
The Volyks have been living with McNeely since they arrived in Danville from Ukraine on June 4.
McNeely has taken in the family as a host under the Uniting for Ukraine program run by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The program was announced April 22 as a step toward President Joe Biden’s effort to welcome Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion.
“Uniting for Ukraine provides a pathway for Ukrainian citizens and their immediate family members who are outside the United States to come to the United States and stay temporarily for a two-year parole,” according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website.
It was McNeely’s fascination with Eastern Europe that led him to take in the Volyks.
“I decided to host a family because I have had a long interest in Eastern European politics and culture,” said McNeely, who studied Russian for his bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond. “I’ve been kind of oriented towards that area of the world for most of my life.”
When the war started Feb. 24, McNeely was fixated on the news and he wanted to help.
“It really isn’t my skill set to go over there and join the military, but when this program was created, it was an opportunity for me to do something that I felt was constructive and helpful,” McNeely said.
The Volyks chose to come to the U.S. because they felt it was a strong secure, and safe democratic country, Volodymyr said through McNeely.
“This is not a dangerous country,” said Olha, 25.
There was not a lot of opportunity in Ukraine, even before the war, Volodymyr said.
As for the Dan River Region, the Volyks have fallen in love with Danville and Pittsylvania County. The area has beautiful scenery and friendly people, Volodymyr said.
“We’re trying to get used to it and to live up to your example of being nice to each other,” he said.
The Volyks, who can stay for up to two years under the Uniting for Ukraine program, would like to remain in the U.S.
“Ultimately, their goal is to immigrate and become permanent residents,” McNeely said.
Volodymyr added, “If this is possible, we would stay in this beautiful country.”
The Volyks would live in the Danville/Pittsylvania County area, he said.
In the meantime, Volodymyr has submitted a form to get his authorization to work in the U.S. He plans to earn a commercial drivers license.
“He’s looking to get that testing done here,” McNeely said.
He’s also taking English classes at the Adult Learning Center in Danville.
Olha, who earned a degree in chemical engineering and oil-and-gas refining in Ukraine, will look after their 22-month-old daughter, Sofiia.
For McNeely, the process for hosting a family included finding a matching family for his sponsorship and filling out a sponsorship application. The family to be hosted provides the host with their information and the government looks at the sponsor’s financial data to make sure they can provide a place to stay for the family.
Once the sponsorship is approved, the family confirms their identity and seeks a travel authorization to come to the U.S.
McNeely, who met the Volyks through a Facebook group, said the process for sponsorship took only three days to complete.
The Volyks also had to be tested for tuberculosis before coming to the U.S.
Volodymyr, who grew up in Vinnytsia, and Olha, who is originally from Monastyr Leshyanskie, came to Danville from Vinnytsia.
His hometown has a population of about 300,000, similar in numbers to Greensboro, North Carolina. The city has a factory that produces Russian candies and another that makes electronics for Volkswagens.
A factory was also being built in Vinnytsia for making ski equipment for the European market. The city’s newly remodeled airport was bombed by the Russians the first day of the war.
Monastyr Leshyanskie is much smaller.
“It’s a really small village,” Olha said.
“It’s more like a bedroom community, like a sleepy village,” McNeely said.
The community’s residents work in other places, he said.
The Volyks keep in touch with their families, but the couple’s relatives have no plans to emigrate to the U.S.
“Their parents are happy they (the Volyks) are safe,” McNeely said. “But they themselves don’t want to leave.”
However, a sister of Volodymyr’s has left Ukraine and relocated to the United Kingdom.
Vinnytsia has been the target of attacks since the Russian invasion, including rocket strikes against the Havryshivka Vinnytsia International Airport on March 6; rocket fire that hit a television station March 16; and a March 25 airstrike against the Ukrainian Air Force command center, according to news reports.
Vinnytsia has been more or less a safe place, McNeely said, translating for Volodymyr, “but the fear for the life of the family and daughter forced them to leave the country.”
There is also concern among Ukrainians, Volodymyr said, that separatists and Russians in part of neighboring Moldova could invade from there as well.
McNeely said he is still receiving messages in his Facebook group from people seeking help. Other residents in the Dan River Region looking to host a family can contact him. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/danville-resident-takes-in-ukrainian-family/2022/06/25/fc1cf582-f486-11ec-ac16-8fbf7194cd78_story.html | 2022-06-25T14:21:15 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/danville-resident-takes-in-ukrainian-family/2022/06/25/fc1cf582-f486-11ec-ac16-8fbf7194cd78_story.html |
PARTLOW, Va. — Chloe Bales is a low-key kid with a high-energy border collie named Nova, and the pair will compete in an international contest that’s “kind of like the Olympics for dog sports.”
But the mom never undertook the kind of trip she, Chloe and Nova will make in July. They’ll travel from their Partlow home in Spotsylvania County more than 4,300 miles to the Junior Open Agility World Championship in Vantaa, Finland.
There, Chloe and 22 other junior handlers and their dogs will compete against teams from across the world. Chloe’s dad, Bret, and 7-year-old sister, Baylee, will stay home because the family already must raise more than $6,000 to cover travel expenses for Chloe, her mom and Nova.
The American Kennel Club’s USA Junior World Agility Team doesn’t have sponsors, but members of the group—the only such team in the country—do their own fundraising.
“There is no such thing as dog agility at the Olympics, but to the 23 junior handlers and their K-9 companions who have been selected to represent the USA in Finland, this is just as spectacular,” according to the AKC.
When the team was picked in February, Chloe was 11—the youngest member selected. She’s since turned 12, and while the rising seventh grader at Post Oak Elementary School looks forward to the adventure, she’s not one to gush.
“She’s very modest, she doesn’t get excited,” her mother said.
The family suggested selling magnets with a photo of Chloe and Nova as a potential fundraiser, and the preteen preferred a picture of the dog only.
“I’m like, no, I don’t want to be included,” she said. “The only pictures I like are the really weird ones.”
But in terms of noticeable levels of excitement, maybe Nova—short for Supernova, a powerful stellar explosion—is electrified enough for both of them. That was clear recently when the 5-year-old collie with a white, brown and gray coat pattern known as blue merle was raring to go.
Chloe’s parents set up a practice course in the backyard—near pens of chickens and geese, peacocks, a llama and emu—and Nova wanted to run through the obstacles, over and over. She circled Chloe’s feet, darted toward the course, ran back to see if her handler was following her, all in a matter of seconds, then repeated as necessary until Chloe was ready.
The jumps and ramps, rings and raised walks are similar to what’s shown on international dog agility competitions. The difference is what order they’re placed in, and the course components are lined up in a different sequence at each event. They’re even changed from preliminary rounds to the finals to make the course more challenging, Stephanie Bales said.
Handlers get about 8 minutes to walk the course before they run it with their dogs and must decide in those moments where to position themselves so they’ll be one step ahead of their canine partners. They’ve got to be able to direct them to the next jump after the dogs climb up and down the ramp of a mini A-frame house or pivot from completing the wooden teeter-totter to jumping over a bar that’s 2 feet off the ground—no small feat for Nova, who’s 18 inches high.
The handler’s positioning is especially crucial with fast-thinking, high-energy border collies that react so quickly, it’s almost as if the dogs are reading their humans’ minds.
“They’re so fast, you flinch or you turn your shoulders just a little bit in the wrong direction, they’ll pull off a jump or knock a bar down” because they think that’s how they’re being directed, Stephanie Bales said. “You have to be aware of how you’re positioned, leaning, even if your feet are pointing a certain way, the dog’s gonna go that way, to that jump over there.”
Chloe has been going to agility shows since she was a baby and competing since she was 5, and her mother says she’s able to read the course better than most adults. When she was 8, Chloe showed off her skills in Los Angeles, where she was filmed as part of a segment of “Little Big Shots” with Steve Harvey.
Chloe and Nova have trained together for three years and “their relationship ensures that they understand, trust and are responsive to each other,” said Debby Dubay, manager of USA’s junior team.
“Chloe may be the youngest member, but her determination, along with her relationship with Nova, make them a wonderful and competitive team,” Dubay said.
Those selected must have earned several agility titles and the dogs must meet age, vaccination and health requirements. The juniors submit videos of themselves completing various courses, and the selection team zeroes in on those who will represent their country with “integrity, good sportsmanship, respect and love for their team and partner,” Dubay said.
Dubay noted in the bio she wrote about Chloe on the team’s Facebook page, how insightful she was for an 11-year-old when asked her advice.
“I would tell other juniors to never give up and enjoy the time you have with your dog,” Chloe responded.
During a recent interview, Chloe wore a black shirt that proclaimed: “If I can’t bring my dog, I’m not going.” She preferred to have her mother answer most questions about the process, then thought for a minute when pressed to say in her own words why she enjoys agility events.
“I find it’s much better than most other sports,” she said, “because I can actually do a sport with my dog.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-girl-heading-to-olympics-for-dog-sports/2022/06/25/0341022c-f487-11ec-ac16-8fbf7194cd78_story.html | 2022-06-25T14:21:21 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-girl-heading-to-olympics-for-dog-sports/2022/06/25/0341022c-f487-11ec-ac16-8fbf7194cd78_story.html |
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Southwest Center event provides community with access to medical care
While HIV infections have declined overall, the virus continues to affect marginalized communities disproportionately.
So even as Phoenix's Southwest Center has broadened the types of health care it provides, it stays focused on helping those with HIV/AIDS. On Monday, June 27 — National HIV Testing Day — the center is hosting a free walk-in HIV testing clinic.
Attendees can also be tested for sexually transmitted diseases and COVID-19. Same-day results will be available.
All tests will be free.
"We have seen numbers go down now with HIV, (but) HIV continues to have an unequal impact on certain communities. It’s very important for us to host events like this to get people tested,” said Shane Barrera, the center's HIV prevention manager.
The Southwest Center was founded more than 30 years ago to combat HIV/AIDS. The center has on-staff medical providers, counseling, nutrition education, social services and an on-site vitamin shop.
This year, the center expanded to provide more services to more people. It can provide health resources to anyone age 13 and older. Care is provided to anyone, including the uninsured or undocumented.
Center leaders say they're aiming to overcome bias and stigma that occurs in the health care system, particularly for those who identify as transgender. The center has created a gender affirming program to help navigate insurance coverage along with name and gender changes on official documents.
Free HIV Testing Day
What: Free walk-in testing for HIV, sexually transmitted infections and COVID-19 for anyone over age 13. Blood pressure checks also will be offered.
When: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, June 27.
Where: Southwest Center, 1101 N. Central Ave., Phoenix.
Bonus: Meals will be offered to those who get tested. There will be, games, food trucks and prize drawings.
Details: swcenter.org. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2022/06/25/southwest-center-lgbtq-community-uninsured-undocumented-access-health-care/7705661001/ | 2022-06-25T14:41:11 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2022/06/25/southwest-center-lgbtq-community-uninsured-undocumented-access-health-care/7705661001/ |
A plan to turn a vacant golf course on Tucson's north side into a housing development for hundreds of residents is raising concerns for some neighbors in the area.
Developers are proposing turning the former Quail Canyon Golf Course into a housing and apartment community.
Preliminary plans call for 120 two-story homes and 210 apartments in seven, three-story buildings on about 53 acres at 5910 N. Oracle Road, between River and Rudasill roads.
The parcel would be divided with the apartment complexes on the west side of the community, closest to commercial properties such as restaurants and hotels.
The single-family homes would be built on the east side, closer to existing houses.
Access to the community would be both from Oracle and Rudasill roads.
Currently zoned for 1.2 houses per acre, developers hope to get it rezoned for higher density.
However, some residents in the surrounding neighborhoods are opposed.
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About 100 people turned out to a neighborhood meeting with developers earlier this month to voice their objections.
One major concern is destruction of the riparian area, with potential harm to desert plants, such as saguaro, cholla and mesquite as well as local wildlife — javelina, coyotes and jackrabbits.
Another worry is the increased traffic, noise and light pollution, said Carole DeAngeli, with the Oracle Foothills Neighborhood Association, who has lived in the neighborhood for 25 years.
"The density is totally inappropriate for the area," she said. "If they were to develop it within the existing zoning, that would be acceptable."
Neighbor Leslie Paige is helping lead the effort against the rezoning.
"We're not anti-development," she said. "We are pro appropriate development."
The large number of potential residents could ruin the area, Paige fears.
"Most of the people who live here have lived here a long time, many times for generations," she said. "This is not a community of snowbirds."
Paige said her hope is to educate her neighbors about the proposal and discuss options should the county approve the rezoning.
"This community has to come together and ask, 'OK, what can we live with?'" she said. "Those conversations are just starting."
Mitigating concerns
The developer, Urbaneer Investment Partners, is based in Long Beach, California, but the majority of its partners are originally from Tucson, said Rory Juneman, a partner with the law firm Lazarus & Silvyn, which represents the developers.
He said the attraction to the site is both the location and setting.
"It's a beautiful setting and sits down beneath those existing homes about 40 feet so it won't block any views," Juneman said. "They plan to preserve about 50% as open space as an amenity."
His firm has led the meetings with neighbors.
"The first thing to understand is when we go in and ask for a rezoning, that is going to be a change, and people typically don't like change — that's a natural reaction," Juneman said. "We want to work with them to address their concerns and, where we can, mitigate their concerns with the hope that it becomes a better project."
He stressed that the site of the proposed community has already been disturbed.
"It was a golf course," Juneman said. "We're not building on an area of natural, pristine desert — we're building on a golf course."
He said the homes would sit above the Pima Wash in the flood plain area.
"We can go over it but we cannot disturb the wash," Juneman said. "We are raising parts of our site and creating bank protections that will all be reviewed by the county."
The lack of new housing in that area, for buyers and sellers, appeals to developers.
"We've got a choice to make of whether we grow out of our existing footprint or build on infill sites," Juneman said. "Which is better from an environmental standpoint?"
He said the plan is to continue talks with neighbors to get some support.
"We think our request is very reasonable: We want to place single-family homes next to single-family homes and apartments next to a commercial area," Juneman said. "We're willing to work with the neighbors and work through their concerns, and we hope they realize that and are willing to work with us."
The rezoning request is expected to be submitted to Pima County officials in July.
The Quail Canyon Golf Course opened in 1965 and closed about four years ago.
Contact reporter Gabriela Rico at grico@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/hundreds-of-homes-apartments-planned-for-former-tucson-golf-course/article_2d52c918-f17d-11ec-9442-df08c16a1414.html | 2022-06-25T14:49:29 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/hundreds-of-homes-apartments-planned-for-former-tucson-golf-course/article_2d52c918-f17d-11ec-9442-df08c16a1414.html |
The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer:
In 1974, I wrote a paper titled “Gunshot Wounds in Children” after noting an increase in the number of children being admitted to Detroit General Hospital with this diagnosis. The majority of all trauma cases in the city of Detroit were admitted there and handled jointly by the surgery and pediatric departments.
I was the director of pediatrics at the hospital and wanted to verify that this increase in gun injuries had indeed occurred. Working with two medical students, whose names are listed as co-authors, we were able to chart review 80 cases and home interview 60. Thirty-one of the interviewed children had previous accidents requiring medical attention.
The shooter was most frequently a child who had never shot a gun before. Example: A 4-year-old boy playing with an accessible and loaded 38-caliber handgun shot his 3-year-old brother in the head. He told the doctor, “I would never do that to my brother again.” (Yes, doctors do sometimes leave the room to cry.)
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Let me share my personal gun background. Growing up I never saw a gun except in the movies. Once at a family picnic in the country the children were allowed to shoot at a decrepit falling-down farm building. Each boy shot and we could all hear the bullets hit the barn. “C’mon, Marilyn, let’s see how you do!” I gingerly took the pistol, aimed, and pulled the trigger. No ping. I am forever labeled as the lady who could not hit the side of a barn!
My late husband liked to hunt with our beloved Brittany spaniels. He was a fanatic about gun safety, and our children were brought up with strict gun safety rules. I had no interest in guns or shooting.
Because my husband was very concerned about gun safety, years ago when the National Rifle Association was pushing gun safety instead of freedom to buy guns, I gave him a subscription to their magazine for his birthday. My feelings about the gun lobby now? Those words are not printable.
Mass shootings in schools are a uniquely American disgrace. Selling automatic rifles to anyone is selling death. Entering a school with intent to kill children is sick. And deadly. If a perpetrator entered a school with a baseball bat there would not be a carnage like the one at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 students and two teachers lost their lives.
I have read and believe that there are more gun stores in the U.S. than there are McDonald’s. We live in a country with more guns than people, and the estimated number of firearms per 100 people is 120.5. BBC news provides us with information about firearm deaths describing us thusly, “Firearm deaths are a fixture in American life.” However, 60% of us do favor stricter gun laws.
I am not a fanatic about guns and know guns can be safely stored in a home with children. Sadly, there are still many young children whose parents do not lock up guns. These children are living in a dangerous home with thoughtless parents.
How can we prevent guns from being sold to disturbed people? What can be done to prevent mass shootings? How can we prevent another school massacre? How can we help school children from being afraid to go to school?
Is it possible that gun sales will win, and our children will forever remain in danger? Will another living child with a life ahead lose a future to a metal killing object?
My hope/dream is that pediatricians and parents will help lead the way to gun safety and sanity. The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Moira Szilagyi, recently appeared before a Senate committee that was discussing the need to protect our children from guns and gun violence.
In preparation for this, over 300 pediatricians sent letters dealing with “the impact of gun violence on children, families, and communities” to Dr. Szilagyi. I read them all online. No tears this time. Just furious anger that what happened in Detroit in 1974 is still going on.
Parents, pediatricians and everyone who cares about our country, join me in my anger and do all you can to keep guns and children apart!
Dr. Heins is a retired pediatrician, former Arizona Daily Star columnist, parent, grandparent and author. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-children-still-at-risk-from-guns/article_653cdd64-f245-11ec-b291-cbd93e49f8c2.html | 2022-06-25T14:49:41 | 0 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-children-still-at-risk-from-guns/article_653cdd64-f245-11ec-b291-cbd93e49f8c2.html |
Just when we had gotten used to that feeling of not having a mask on our face, the debate over whether to mask in public has resurfaced with a resurgence of COVID-19.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month determined that Ada, Elmore, Valley and Lewis counties are at high community risk, because of an increase in new hospital admissions per 100,000 people in the past seven days, the percent of beds occupied by COVID-19 patients, and the number of new COVID-19 cases per capita in the past seven days.
Based on those numbers, the CDC recommends all residents in those counties wear a well-fitting mask in public indoor settings, regardless of vaccination status.
That raises the debate once again whether to institute a mask mandate.
Boise city officials already discussed the possibility this week but chose to hold off on making any changes.
We all know where the Central District Health board stands. Led by Raúl Labrador and Ryan Cole, that board last month voted to remove any language about wearing a mask from its website and literature, referring instead to the CDC and letting people make up their own minds about whether they should wear a mask.
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When it comes to wearing a mask, people are tired. When it comes to mandates, it’s clear some people won’t listen, and because Idaho’s public health laws provide for only a misdemeanor for violations — rather than a citation and a ticket, like for speeding — enforcement is untenable.
We still don’t know if this latest wave of COVID-19 will be as severe as previous waves, which at times put Idaho in a state of emergency standards of care.
We hope that doesn’t happen again, as predominantly unvaccinated COVID-19 patients took up so many resources in Idaho’s our health care system, it limited the delivery of health care to non-COVID patients. That’s why your decision not to mask and not to get vaccinated affects others, not just yourself.
Issuing a mask mandate in high-transmission areas is the right thing to do, but it’s likely a waste of time, effort and angst.
We hate to let the bullies win, but the blowback and temper tantrums that mask mandates would set off wouldn’t be worth the trouble. And a mandate without enforcement wouldn’t compel scofflaws to do the right thing, anyway.
That leaves the rest of us reasonable people to do the right thing.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Wearing a mask works in slowing the spread of coronavirus.
Study after study has shown masks work.
A large, randomized trial led by researchers at Stanford Medicine and Yale University found that wearing a surgical face mask over the mouth and nose is an effective way to reduce the occurrence of COVID-19 in community settings.
The researchers enrolled nearly 350,000 people from 600 villages in rural Bangladesh. Those living in villages randomly assigned to a series of interventions promoting the use of surgical masks were about 11% less likely than those living in control villages to develop COVID-19, and the protective effect increased to nearly 35% for people over 60 years old, according to the study, published in September.
Yes, it would be better if everyone wore a mask, but barring that, the more of us who wear a mask, the better off we’ll all be.
Unfortunately, in the absence of a mask mandate, it will be left once again to businesses to encourage mask wearing indoors, at concert halls, shops and grocery stores.
In the meantime, let’s all do our part for the benefit of all. Wear a mask indoors around others, and let’s stem the next wave of COVID-19 before it gets out of control. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/idaho-view-mandate-or-not-wearing-a-mask-is-the-right-thing-to-do-with/article_c0690368-f324-11ec-90af-67d37af87bbe.html | 2022-06-25T14:55:30 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/idaho-view-mandate-or-not-wearing-a-mask-is-the-right-thing-to-do-with/article_c0690368-f324-11ec-90af-67d37af87bbe.html |
CAPE MAY — City officials and the beach patrol remembered late lifeguard Norman V. Inferrera III by dedicating Reading Avenue Beach in his name Friday evening.
Inferrera died Aug. 20, 2021 from injuries sustained in a surf boat accident while on duty as a lifeguard in Cape May, the first guard to die in the line of duty in the city’s history. He was 16 years old.
City Council unanimously voted last August to dedicate a beach in his honor, which came to fruition Friday.
Mayor Zack Mullock and beach patrol Chief Harry Back unveiled the naming of the beach and presented his family with a plaque and heartfelt prayers for the late guard.
The Cape May Police Department created and dedicated this year's Challenge Coin in Inferrera's memory. His initials "NVI III" is present on the side of a CMBP lifeboat on the coin.
Inferrera was alone in a surf boat near the Reading Avenue beach Aug. 19, 2021 when it overturned in a wave. He was badly injured.
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Fellow lifeguards quickly pulled him to the beach and began resuscitation efforts while the ambulance responded. Inferrera was taken to Cape Regional Medical Center before being transported by helicopter to Cooper University Hospital in Camden. He died the next day.
In his obituary, Inferrera's family knew him by the nickname “Champ” and said he worked tirelessly to train himself to become a lifeguard.
“Champ was living a lifelong dream this summer by working as a lifeguard for the Cape May Beach Patrol,” family members wrote in the obituary. “He enjoyed biking and fitness, and was learning to surf this summer.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/cape-may-dedicates-beach-to-late-lifeguard-who-died-last-summer/article_638200ae-f48d-11ec-8ed7-67a94f58423a.html | 2022-06-25T15:18:57 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/cape-may-dedicates-beach-to-late-lifeguard-who-died-last-summer/article_638200ae-f48d-11ec-8ed7-67a94f58423a.html |
OCEAN CITY — Residents and City Council members honored Councilman Keith Hartzell on Thursday for his 16 years on the seven-member governing body.
That is set to be Hartzell’s last meeting as a council member before the July 1 reorganization meeting. This year, Hartzell unsuccessfully ran for mayor against incumbent Jay Gillian rather than seeking reelection.
In a resolution honoring Hartzell's service, the city noted his work on bayside dredging, boardwalk reconstruction and open space.
Assemblyman Antwan McClellan, a former colleague on council, presented him with a special recognition, as did Cape May County Commissioner Leonard Desiderio. Members of the public also praised his efforts, including Donna Moore and former Council member Tony Wilson.
OCEAN CITY — Mayor Jay Gillian and his supporters were in the mood for celebration Tuesday night.
“Is this going to be a roast?” Hartzell said when Wilson came up. The two men embraced.
“Even when we disagreed, he always took the time to listen,” said resident Suzanne Hornick. “I don’t know what we’re going to do without stories about this family from now on. It’s going to make council meetings a little dull, I think.”
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Members of council also each praised Hartzell’s dedication, with Council President Bob Barr mentioning Hartzell’s dedication to meeting as many residents as possible, including marathon trips knocking on doors throughout town.
“Ocean City’s given me everything possible that I’ve ever wanted. I’ve gotten more from Ocean City than I could ever imagine,” Hartzell said. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/hartzell-honored-for-years-on-ocean-city-council/article_403a7b1c-f401-11ec-b6b6-d712eefb52e2.html | 2022-06-25T15:19:04 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/hartzell-honored-for-years-on-ocean-city-council/article_403a7b1c-f401-11ec-b6b6-d712eefb52e2.html |
An 18- and 14-year-old were pronounced dead by authorities who found them lying on railroad tracks in Hopewell Friday night with several gunshot wounds, police said Saturday.
The victims, both male, were identified as Jasir Culver, 18, of Petersburg, and Micah Coles, 14, of Hopewell, police said.
Officers at about 10:27 p.m. Friday responded to a report of shots fired in the area of Elm Street and Arlington Road, police said. The victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at (804) 541-2284 or the Crimesolvers hotline (804) 541-2202.
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Kristopher T. Jones, 37, was convicted in Petersburg Circuit Court after entering pleas to two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of abduction, two counts of robbery and one count each of car jacking, grand larceny and eluding police for a series of violent events that unfolded on the morning of Jan. 18, 2017. | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/2-found-dead-on-hopewell-train-tracks-with-gunshot-wounds-police-say/article_63c7dc3d-ffbe-596b-8f2a-9131001009f6.html | 2022-06-25T15:29:04 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/2-found-dead-on-hopewell-train-tracks-with-gunshot-wounds-police-say/article_63c7dc3d-ffbe-596b-8f2a-9131001009f6.html |
Shortly after 9 p.m. Friday, 288 seniors from Uvalde High School performed a right of passage that had almost eluded them: tossing their mortar boards into the air.
The speeches that had come before the traditional cap toss — at the school’s 2022 graduation ceremony at Honey Bowl Stadium — dealt with loss and the ability to carry on.
“I know our lives will never be the same, but I also know we must move forward together,” Hal Harrell, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District superintendent, said in his address. “Class of 2022, our community will need the qualities that you possess — the unity, the leadership, the resiliency in difference makers.”
After spending their last two years overcoming the many hurdles that the COVID-19 pandemic threw their way, these seniors have had to face the loss of 19 of their youngest classmates and two teachers during the May 24 mass shooting at Rob Elementary School, just three days before their graduation was set to take place.
The massacre would have been more than enough reason to throw out tradition, to scrap the ceremony altogether this year. But one month after the tragedy, students, administrators and families came together for a proper send-off into life after high school.
“For everything, there is a season,” said Randy Harris, the principal of Uvalde High School. “There is a time to cry and a time to laugh. There is a time to tear down and a time to build up. There’s a time to embrace and a time to heal. Everything is beautiful in its own time.”
Students, clad in dark red caps and gowns, and administrators who spoke at the graduation paid homage to the lives lost at Rob Elementary.
Valedictorian Abigail Kone read the names of the 19 students, and made them honorary members of the 2022 graduating class. She also lauded the two fourth-grade teachers who also died in the attack — Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles — as heroes.
“Please count your blessings and hug your family a little tighter,” Kone said. “Don’t let go of their memory, because it is now our job, as we enter society to shape it, it is our job to show sympathy to others and to change the world because we know what is needed.”
Blaine Bennett, 71, a former educator and counselor, attended the graduation ceremony along with eight or nine family members, all there to cheer on his 17-year-old grandson, Miller Carnes.
The graduate will attend Texas Tech University this summer, joining the agricultural sciences and natural resources program. Bennett said his grandson’s wish has always been to return home to Uvalde after college graduation to become a farmer like his father.
In the days after the shooting, Bennett said it was obvious that the graduation ceremony would be put on hold, and maybe even canceled.
“Everybody knew there was no way. The heart of the town was just ripped out, and it wouldn’t be right on so many levels,” Bennett said.
His grandson’s class was given a chance to decide whether to press on with graduation. The majority rejected the idea of canceling the ceremony. They wanted to walk the stage at a later date.
“Miller, my grandson, who sometimes is wise beyond his years, said, ‘I think I need this for closure,’ and I think that is insightful of him,” Bennett said. His family supported him, even if they were nervous about attending a large gathering.
Bennett said his grandson was part of the traditional Senior Elementary School Walk at Robb Elementary the day before the shooting. Graduating seniors paraded through the hallways, high-fiving their youngest classmates.
“It’s such a wonderful event that helps those little kids understand ‘I want to do that one day,’” Bennett said. “Miller and his seniors where at Robb campus doing that, and there is no doubt he high-fived those 19 kids that we lost. That is a memory in his head that he’ll carry with him for a lifetime.”
“Around every corner and turn there is some connection,” he added.
Bennett knows memories both of the senior walk and the horror that unfolded the next day will weigh on his grandson and his fellow classmates, just as it will on the Uvalde community at large. He hopes the graduates will comfort each other.
“They are a special group of kids,” Bennett said about his grandson’s graduating class. “My wish is that they are able to go off and grow up and experience the world.
“And the legacy goes on. Uvalde is a loving, tight-knit community, and those kids are going to carry the tradition forward,” he said.
Before the students moved their tassels from the right side of their caps to the left, many of them cried.
“Our class also asks for change — change that will prevent any other tragedy, whether it is at a school, grocery store or concert,” senior Lynd Diangzan said in her farewell address. “I’m so proud of my class. No one can fully understand what our class went through, except for us. And we hope no one will ever experience what we went through.”
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A 95-year-old woman died Friday night in a two-vehicle crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, according to a news release from the Lehigh County Coroner.
Argelia Tolentino, of Allentown, was a passenger in a vehicle motor that struck another vehicle around 9:15 p.m. near mile marker 56 in South Whitehall Township.
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Tolentino was pronounced dead at the site at 10:40 p.m. Friday by Deputy Coroner Gabrielle Riley. T
he manner of death was deemed an accident by the coroner but the cause of death was still under investigation as of Saturday morning. The accident resulted in no other deaths.
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Pennsylvania State Police – Pocono Barracks also investigated the accident. | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-fatal-crash-95-year-old-woman-i-476-20220625-5pxh4g4azrh5hg7klsuugsta4m-story.html | 2022-06-25T15:30:38 | 0 | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-fatal-crash-95-year-old-woman-i-476-20220625-5pxh4g4azrh5hg7klsuugsta4m-story.html |
BALTIMORE — A hung jury has resulted in the mistrial of a Baltimore woman known as the “Wheelie Queen” who was accused of fatally stabbing her girlfriend.
Prosecutors said Doughty killed Wilson in a fight precipitated by the couple’s breakup. Doughty took the stand in her own defense and said Wilson attacked her and accidentally stabbed herself during the struggle.
Doughty earned her nickname as a member of the 12 O’Clock Boys, a crew of dirt bike riders in the city. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mistrial-in-murder-case-against-baltimores-wheelie-queen/2022/06/25/5faf03dc-f49c-11ec-ac16-8fbf7194cd78_story.html | 2022-06-25T15:52:08 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mistrial-in-murder-case-against-baltimores-wheelie-queen/2022/06/25/5faf03dc-f49c-11ec-ac16-8fbf7194cd78_story.html |
SAN ANTONIO — A man and his four-year-old child were shot while they were inside of their apartment Saturday morning.
Just before 1: 30 a.m., San Antonio Police responded to the 4800 block of Ray Bon Drive and found the man shot in the head. Officials say the child's nose was grazed by a bullet.
Both of the victims were taken to University Hospital, but there was no word on their condition. Police did note that the father was awake and talking to police.
Police are investigating to see who the shooter is. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/father-and-child-shot-at-apartment-complex-san-antonio/273-11977cde-a62b-4abf-9290-e521182fbbe9 | 2022-06-25T16:00:08 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/father-and-child-shot-at-apartment-complex-san-antonio/273-11977cde-a62b-4abf-9290-e521182fbbe9 |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — The man accused of a Charleston murder in June was arraigned Friday on first-degree murder charges.
Meeko Harris, of Beckley, was taken into custody in Florida on June 10.
Harris is in the South Central Regional Jail with no bond.
His preliminary hearing is set for July 1.
At 2:10 a.m., Saturday, June 4, Charleston Police responded to reports of a shooting at the Hale Street and Kanawha Blvd parking lot.
Officers say that 27-year-old James Daugherty was found with multiple gunshot wounds when they arrived on the scene. Daugherty was transported to the hospital where he later died of his injuries. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-murder-suspect-captured-in-florida-arraigned/ | 2022-06-25T16:12:29 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-murder-suspect-captured-in-florida-arraigned/ |
Abortion rights supporters converge at courthouse to decry Roe v Wade ruling
For nearly five decades, abortion was a legal right in the United States. Not any more.
"I look around and see all of these young women who have lost rights that I've had for 50 years," Bloomington resident Donna Kinkead said.
She was among about 150 people who gathered at a "Day of Decision" protest outside the Monroe County Courthouse Friday evening.
Earlier in the day, as had been expected, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark case that legalized abortion in America.
Kinkead was a 20-year-old college student in Pennsylvania in the early 1970s. She remembers rallying for abortion rights, and celebrating when the high court ruling was announced in January 1973.
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She thought it settled the debate over abortion in the U.S.
She's attended her share of protests in her life, but never expected to carry a sign lamenting the loss of abortion rights. Not after all this time.
"I have three grown children in their 30s and they will have fewer rights that I've had," she lamented.
Kinkead and her neighbor Lori Tussey attend protests together and knew there would be one in Bloomington once word of the decision that overturned the Roe case spread.
"You can always count on Bloomington to come out at 5 o'clock to the courthouse when something big like this happens," Tussey said.
They worry that in Bloomington, it's easy to be lulled into thinking predictions such as the demise of Roe v. Wade could never happen. "I knew since they put the conservative judges on the court it was possible this was going to happen," Kinkead said.
"But I held out hope. Turns out I had a false sense of security."
The women stand with justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who dissented from the majority opinion.
"With sorrow — for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection — we dissent," the justices wrote.
Contact reporter Laura Lane at llane@heraldt.com, 812-331-4362 or 812-318-5967. | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2022/06/25/bloomington-protest-after-supreme-court-overturned-right-abortion-roe-v-wade/7726551001/ | 2022-06-25T16:16:35 | 1 | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2022/06/25/bloomington-protest-after-supreme-court-overturned-right-abortion-roe-v-wade/7726551001/ |
The first event of the Saturdays on the Square concert series, set to begin at 7 p.m. tonight in downtown Bloomington, has been canceled due to weather-related safety concerns.
Tonight's performers were Style in Stereo with Kyle Yap.
This is the second summer for the concert series, which is sponsored by Pantagraph Media and The Castle Theatre.
The free events continue in Museum Square later this summer with Wedding Banned on July 9; Dan Hubbard on July 16; and Southern Accents, a tribute to Tom Petty, on Aug. 6.
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Style In Stereo is ringing in the return of this summer’s first Saturdays at the Square concert series. In this week's BloNo Beats, you can read all about their musical journey and peppy stage presence.
DeeOhGee and Grammy-nominated North Mississippi Allstars drew fans from throughout Central Illinois on Saturday night to the third Saturdays on the Square concert presented by The Castle Theatre and Pantagraph Media. This is the third of four concerts held on the museum square in downtown Bloomington. The final concert will be Sept. 4. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/tonights-saturdays-on-the-square-event-canceled/article_0f37aeba-f49f-11ec-ab32-43552e1f8779.html | 2022-06-25T16:28:05 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/tonights-saturdays-on-the-square-event-canceled/article_0f37aeba-f49f-11ec-ab32-43552e1f8779.html |
Nearly two dozen protesters were arrested in Manhattan late Friday after thousands of people flooded the streets of New York and cities across the country following the reversal of a nearly half-century ruling granting abortion rights.
A rally at Washington Square Park started small around 4 p.m., but within two hours, hundreds had gathered in the area to protest the decision. Another large group of demonstrators started at Union Square, and as the numbers there grew, the protest took to the streets and began marching down Fifth Avenue to Washington Square Park, at one point stopping and sitting in the road.
Thousands took to the streets of NYC throughout the night, winding through parts of Lower Manhattan before snaking up and into Midtown.
Armed with signs condemning the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the marchers chanted criticisms of ruling. The crowds, whose true size aren't yet known, passed Times Square, Grand Central and Bryant Park, where they appeared to end for the night. More protests are expected Saturday.
Officers arrested almost two dozen protesters near the park around 11 p.m., where several people blocked traffic along 42nd Street. The NYPD did not have a final arrest count as of late Saturday morning.
Another rally is planned at Union Square for 8 p.m. Saturday.
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The Supreme Court's decision, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by an emboldened right side of the court that has been fortified by three appointees of former President Donald Trump.
The ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step.
Alito, in the final opinion issued Friday, wrote that Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to abortion, were wrong the day they were decided and must be overturned.
Authority to regulate abortion rests with the political branches, not the courts, Alito wrote.
In New York, where Gov. Kathy Hochul signed sweeping legislation protecting abortion rights earlier this month, politicians condemned the latest actions of the highest court.
“Two days in a row, politics came before people at the highest court in the land, and, as a result, the health of our nation now hangs in jeopardy. What the court has done today ignores the opinions of the majority of Americans, as it helps states control women’s bodies, their choices, and their freedoms," said NYC Mayor Eric Adams.
In 2019, New York’s pro-reproductive rights legislature passed the Reproductive Health Act, codifying the protections of Roe v. Wade in the state’s constitution.
RHA preserves the right to abortion in New York, despite federal or judicial efforts to dismantle Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York reiterated after the court's draft opinion was leaked in May.
"This is personal. The U.S. Supreme Court has robbed millions of people of their right to control their bodies and personal health care decisions. This cruel decision provokes a dangerous health crisis," the group's interim president and CEO Joy Calloway said Friday in a statement.
"People will be forced to overcome unjust barriers to access abortion or carry pregnancies against their will — at the risk of their health and lives," she added. "We will not compromise on our bodies, our dignity, or our freedom. We have strength in numbers and power in our united voices." | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/dozens-arrested-in-nyc-after-thousands-flood-streets-to-protest-roe-v-wave-reversal/3749462/ | 2022-06-25T16:29:58 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/dozens-arrested-in-nyc-after-thousands-flood-streets-to-protest-roe-v-wave-reversal/3749462/ |
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she is bringing state lawmakers back on Thursday to consider gun safety legislation in response to the Supreme Court striking down key portions of the state's licensing law.
The court on Thursday overturned the state law that required that people applying for a concealed carry permit demonstrate a specific need to have a gun in public. The court’s conservative majority said that violated the Second Amendment, which they interpreted as protecting people’s right to carry a gun for self-defense outside the home.
Hochul called the decision “reckless and reprehensible” as she announced she will convene a special session.
“Since the decision was released, I have been working around the clock with our partners in the legislature to craft gun safety legislation in response to this ruling that will protect New Yorkers," she said in a prepared statement.
New York officials are considering restrictions on concealed carry in “sensitive locations,” such as government buildings and bars. They're also looking at implementing specific training for permit applicants, among other options. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/hochul-calls-ny-lawmakers-back-for-special-session-after-supreme-court-gun-ruling/3749502/ | 2022-06-25T16:30:04 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/hochul-calls-ny-lawmakers-back-for-special-session-after-supreme-court-gun-ruling/3749502/ |
PHOENIX — State lawmakers have approved legislation that foes say will make it harder for individuals to police the police.
HB 2319, waiting for action by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, would make it a crime to make a video recording within eight feet of any "law enforcement activity.''
A first-time offense would get someone off with a warning; repeat violations could result in the would-be videographer being put behind bars for 30 days.
It's a bid by Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, a former police officer, to provide what he believes is a necessary buffer between officers and observers.
"Having been a cop for 20 years, I can tell you that when somebody gets real close, that you don't know, when you're taking enforcement actions or dealing with any potentially dangerous situation, you worry,'' he said.
Kavanagh said concerns include whether the person taking the video and being that close is a friend or accomplice of the person being questioned and might attack.
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"Even if it isn't, you're still distracted,'' he said.
But the proposal raised practical issues.
One is whether someone knows they are within eight feet of something that would qualify as law enforcement activity. In fact, the original version of the bill never defined what that is.
Kavanagh agreed to add language saying it includes questioning a suspicious person, conducting an arrest, issuing a summons, enforcing a law, or handling an emotionally disturbed or disorderly person.
The bill was further altered to say it applies only when the person making the recording "knows or reasonably should know'' where the police activity is occurring.
House Minority Leader Reginald Bolding, D-Laveen, said that still makes it a bad idea.
"Every single (legislative) session we talk about opportunities to bridge trust between the community and police,'' he said. "And every single session we see a bill that further and further deepens that wedge.''
Bolding said video recording devices have provided people around the country the opportunity to see "what happens every single day in many communities.''
"To criminalize any type of recording when many members of the public simply want to ensure that there is fair, balanced enforcement is a step in the wrong direction,'' he said. "This bill will be interpreted as a bill that is trying to make it more difficult for members of the public to have accountability.''
Sen. Martin Quezada, D-Glendale, said that is a crucial issue.
"I don't think anybody can deny right now that there is a lack of trust between law enforcement and the communities that they serve," he said.
Rep. Andres Cano, D-Tucson, said HB 2319 sends the wrong message.
"I thought we were about being transparent,'' he said. "And I thought we were about being able to give Arizonans access to the kind of information that they want to see. And if there is something happening, why are we scared of daylight?''
Kavanagh argued that, given the current technology of video cameras and cell phones, there is still plenty of opportunity for people to record police activity outside the eight-foot limit.
In fact, he originally wanted a 15-foot exclusion zone. But Kavanagh conceded that would have raised constitutional issues. He settled on eight feet based on federal court rulings that protesters can be kept eight feet away from entrances to abortion clinics.
Rep. Domingo DeGrazia, D-Tucson, who is an attorney, said even an eight-foot restriction could be considered problematic as there is no clear definition of the boundary of the law enforcement activity.
"You get on the ground, you get out into the community, and you're going to see situations that go all over the place,'' DeGrazia said.
That, he said, gets into the First Amendment right of "the freedom to be where you know you can lawfully be.''
Sen. Raquel Teran, D-Phoenix, said the American Civil Liberties Union has cited what it says are constitutional defects in the measure.
One, she said, is that an officer who is part of a group of officers can simply move towards someone with a camera, essentially making that person in violation of the law.
The issue of ordinary people making video recordings has been at the forefront of public reaction to several high-profile interactions where the people being arrested ended up dead.
There was the 2014 incident in which police in New York City were attempting to arrest Eric Garner for illegally selling loose cigarettes. Video of that incident shows an officer grabbing the 350-pound man from behind, putting him in a chokehold, pulling him to the ground and rolling him onto his stomach.
Garner could be heard saying, "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!'' repeatedly. The medical examiner ruled his death a homicide.
More recently was the 2020 death of George Floyd, arrested by Minneapolis police on suspicion of passing a counterfeit $20 bill. The four officers involved were fired the following day after videos taken by witnesses showed officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes. | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/az-legislature-votes-to-limit-right-to-videotape-police-incidents/article_0e5f7552-f410-11ec-88f9-736207c374d6.html | 2022-06-25T16:45:11 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/az-legislature-votes-to-limit-right-to-videotape-police-incidents/article_0e5f7552-f410-11ec-88f9-736207c374d6.html |
CAPE MAY — City officials and the Beach Patrol remembered lifeguard Norman V. Inferrera III by dedicating the Reading Avenue beach in his name Friday evening.
Inferrera died Aug. 20, 2021, from injuries sustained in a surf boat accident while on duty as a lifeguard, the first guard to die in the line of duty in the city’s history. He was 16 years old.
City Council unanimously voted last August to dedicate a beach in his honor, which came to fruition Friday.
Mayor Zack Mullock and Beach Patrol Chief Harry Back unveiled the naming of the beach and presented his family with a plaque and prayers for the late guard.
Beach patrols from throughout South Jersey to pitch in as Cape May honors fallen lifeguard Inferrera
CAPE MAY — Lifeguards from throughout the region plan to pitch in on the beaches of Cape May…
The Cape May Police Department created and dedicated this year's Challenge Coin in Inferrera's memory. His initials "NVI III" are present on the side of a Beach Patrol lifeboat on the coin.
Inferrera was alone in a surf boat near the Reading Avenue beach Aug. 19, 2021, when it overturned in a wave. He was badly injured.
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Fellow lifeguards quickly pulled him to the beach and began resuscitation efforts while the ambulance responded. Inferrera was taken to Cape Regional Medical Center before being transported by helicopter to Cooper University Hospital in Camden. He died the next day.
According to his obituary, Inferrera's family knew him by the nickname “Champ” and said he worked tirelessly to train himself to become a lifeguard.
“Champ was living a lifelong dream this summer by working as a lifeguard for the Cape May Beach Patrol,” family members wrote in the obituary. “He enjoyed biking and fitness, and was learning to surf this summer.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/cape-may-dedicates-beach-to-lifeguard-who-died-last-summer/article_638200ae-f48d-11ec-8ed7-67a94f58423a.html | 2022-06-25T16:50:20 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/cape-may-dedicates-beach-to-lifeguard-who-died-last-summer/article_638200ae-f48d-11ec-8ed7-67a94f58423a.html |
WILDWOOD — Police are reporting a water main break near Bennett Avenue and Park Boulevard on Saturday.
The intersection is closed to traffic, and the water company is on scene making repairs, police said, suggesting drivers use alternate routes through the area.
Faucet water within the city may be discolored throughout the day, as repairs will disturb water pipe sediment, police said. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/wildwood-police-report-water-main-break-at-bennett-and-park/article_a22ae3d8-f4a2-11ec-9325-937a80bae8b2.html | 2022-06-25T16:50:26 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/wildwood-police-report-water-main-break-at-bennett-and-park/article_a22ae3d8-f4a2-11ec-9325-937a80bae8b2.html |
Madison Biddle sees the softball.
She catches the softball.
That sums up the strategy that made the Egg Harbor Township High School junior shortstop one of New Jersey’s best defensive players this spring.
“I don’t like to think when a ball is hit,” Biddle said. “As soon as the ball is hit, I just react. If I think, I’m going to make a mistake.”
Biddle’s ability to catch seemingly everything hit her way combined with her prowess at the plate makes her The Press Softball Player of the Year. She batted .386 with seven home runs and 37 RBIs to lead the Eagles to a 25-2 record and the South Jersey Group IV and Cape-Atlantic League championships. And EHT coach Kristi Troster said Biddle always knew the right thing to say off the field to re-energize the Eagles if they were down.
“She’s a gem defensively,” Troster said. “She trains day in and day out. She’s the one who says, ‘Hit at me again.’ The fact that she does hit and hits for both power and extra-base hits and everything like that just makes her more of a standout at that position.”
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Biddle’s success is a family project. She says she was inspired to play softball by older sister Emily, who played center field for the 2017 Eagles who won the state Group IV title.
“She inspired me to be the person I am today,” Madison said.
Biddle’s parents, Kristie and John, often hit her ground balls on her off days.
“I listen to my coaches, and I watch videos,” Biddle said. “Anytime I can learn something new, I definitely try it.”
Biddle’s ability to cover a lot of ground was a key for the Eagles. Her defensive skills helped the Eagles limit the number of high-scoring innings their opponents had.
“Anything that comes in my direction, I try to get there,” Biddle said. “Just think about where the ball is, and you have to grab it.”
Coach of the Year
Kristi Troster never envisioned herself hitting infield practice while wearing a unicorn headband.
But she’s a coach who believes in connecting with players.
Troster is The Press Coach of the Year. Troster describes the Eagles as magical unicorns because of their effervescent personalities.
“Sometimes it’s the little things you do for the kids because that’s who they are,” Troster said. “I enjoyed going to practice every day. I enjoyed the good times. I enjoyed the tough times. This team had talent and humility. They were really great people.”
Troster was a standout field hockey and softball player at North Penn High School in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. She was an EHT assistant before taking over the program in 2020. She also coaches the Eagles' field hockey team.
“She’s not only a coach. You can talk to her about anything,” Biddle said. “She has the highest softball IQ ever. But when you need to talk about something or you have a mental block, she talks you through it. She’s the reason our team has the confidence we have.”
Team of the Year
Egg Harbor Township finished No. 3 in The Press Elite 11 ranking and is The Press Team of the Year.
The Eagles (25-2) won their third South Jersey title since 2016 and the inaugural Cape-Atlantic League Tournament. Egg Harbor Township lost to Watchung Hills 2-1 in the state Group IV final.
Sophomore third baseman Payton Colbert (42 hits) and sophomore first baseman Sienna Walterson (47 RBIs) sparked the offense. Sophomore pitcher Madison Dollard had a 0.75 ERA.
“Our team became really close this year,” Biddle said. “The closer we became, the more devoted we were to winning. Us playing as a team and backing each other up no matter what happened, I think that was the most important part of the year.”
EHT's loss in the state final provides plenty of motivation for next season.
“When we lost that, obviously, it was upsetting,” Biddle said. “But the day after, we all texted each other and said, ‘Next year is the year.’ We refuse to lose next year.”
MMcGarry@PressofAC.com | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/who-are-the-press-softball-player-coach-and-team-of-the-year/article_fc5eb7cc-f195-11ec-9668-0fcf15c27798.html | 2022-06-25T16:50:32 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/who-are-the-press-softball-player-coach-and-team-of-the-year/article_fc5eb7cc-f195-11ec-9668-0fcf15c27798.html |
CROWN POINT — Charges filed Friday allege a Dyer man fired a shotgun into a Schererville man's home late June 20 and forced a woman to drive him to Illinois to hide the gun.
Jordon P. Novorita, 19, had not yet entered pleas to felony counts of attempted murder, kidnapping, criminal recklessness and intimidation.
The Schererville man told police he had two male guests in his home, and one of them got into a heated discussion with a woman on the phone.
The man's guest and the woman argued about her being in the presence of Novorita, and the guest decided to leave "because he did not want to bring any drama" to the victim's home, according to Lake Criminal Court records.
After the man's guest left, the man went upstairs to the kitchen and was looking out a window when he saw someone step out from behind a shed in the yard and heard a loud boom, records state.
The man told police he saw a muzzle flash and dropped to the floor. The bullet traveled through a kitchen wall about 6 1/2 inches from where the victim was standing, records state.
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The Schererville man told police the person outside was gone when he looked out his window again.
Witnesses told police Novorita forced a woman to drive him to an area near the victim's home by threatening her with a shotgun, records state.
Novorita allegedly told the woman involved in the phone call with the victim's guest that he was going to the victim's house to fight. That woman told police she saw Novorita get out of a van near the victim's house and heard a shot.
Novorita then forced the female van driver to take him to Peotone, Illinois, where he hid the shotgun in a friend's garage, records state.
Schererville police recovered a silver and wood single-barrel 20-gauge shotgun from the Peotone garage, documents state.
Officers also recovered a bullet or slug fragment from the victim's kitchen and a live 20-gauge shotgun shell near the shed where the victim described seeing the shooter.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Salvador Casares
Age : 43
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205089
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION; THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jonathan Colon
Age : 35
Residence: Montgomery, TX
Booking Number(s): 2205105
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Daniel Swets
Age : 44
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205044
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Karen Sweet
Age : 63
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205025
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amaan Smith
Age : 28
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205033
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Anthony Smith
Age : 35
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205039
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Diandre Smith
Age : 25
Residence: Glenwood, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205029
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeremy Soria
Age : 28
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205045
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Rogers
Age : 28
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205049
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lynn Lessard
Age : 56
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205038
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Leondre Lewis
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205028
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Richard Moss
Age : 35
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205042
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Person Jr.
Age : 38
Residence: Steger, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205023
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Consuela Folger
Age : 51
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205040
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Jones Jr.
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205050
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ramiro Escamilla
Age : 24
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205022
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING - W/NO INTENT OF FELONY THEFT; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Matthew Evans
Age : 28
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205047
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Evan Alexander
Age : 25
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205037
Arrest Date: June 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Edward Anaszewski
Age : 52
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205048
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Andre Bullock
Age : 31
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205046
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amanda Wilk
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205065
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Travis Spoolstra
Age : 21
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205064
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Stibgen
Age : 30
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205056
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jason Miller
Age : 21
Residence: N/A
Booking Number(s): 2205055
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE; THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Tracey Spencer
Age : 47
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205070
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Haley Kniola
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205067
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tyler McKenzie
Age : 23
Residence: Perry, FL
Booking Number(s): 2205072
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Noel Garabito Jr.
Age : 34
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205063
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ebonie Byers
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205060
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - INSTITUTION - BANK/FINANCIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Ellis
Age : 30
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205061
Arrest Date: June 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Devante White
Age : 28
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204992
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FROM MACHINE OR DEVICE - $750 TO $50,000; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
David Wszolek
Age : 52
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205010
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sterling Walton IV
Age : 22
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204999
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tavares McKinstry
Age : 37
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204997
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Mezydlo
Age : 54
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204993
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kaleb Wall
Age : 33
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205002
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jenifer Joy
Age : 35
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205008
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jacob Kelley
Age : 19
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205007
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Madden
Age : 58
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204994
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - DESTRUCTIVE DEVICE (EXPLOSIVES) - W/KNOWLEDGE IT WILL BE USED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kori Arguelles
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205003
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rondell Christmas
Age : 23
Residence: Lynwood, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205011
Arrest Date: June 10, 2022
Offense Description: INVASION OF PRIVACY; BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Michael Tsouchlos
Age : 54
Residence: Marathon, FL
Booking Number(s): 2205206
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Vernon Walters
Age : 61
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205200
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Megan Phillips
Age : 35
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205202
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Antonio Steward
Age : 38
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205190
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Javante Toran
Age : 30
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205192
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kerri Olson
Age : 43
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205188
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: 2205188
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Bowling
Age : 50
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205195
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amy Hunt
Age : 26
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205208
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kevin McGrath
Age : 31
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205204
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Nicholas Naumoff
Age : 54
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205184
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Nunez III
Age : 28
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205207
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Francisco Tequimila
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205163
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cheri Terranova
Age : 32
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205162
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Clevon Riley
Age : 28
Residence: Michigan City, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205155
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Stephanie Sons
Age : 34
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205170
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Mauer
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205165
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kirk McGuire
Age : 32
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205178
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tyrone McKee
Age : 59
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205158
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicole Peterson
Age : 50
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205152
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeremy Jones
Age : 25
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205161
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Artesta Lewis
Age : 69
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205153
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joyce Edwards
Age : 52
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205169
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sarah Fox
Age : 34
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205179
Arrest Date: June 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brandon Johnson
Age : 32
Residence: Dolton, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205182
Arrest Date: June 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Denzel Shaw
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205124
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sade Vigilant
Age : 26
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205112
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amanda Nippers
Age : 25
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205118
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michelle Mendez
Age : 43
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205121
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel Lumsdon
Age : 54
Residence: Crete, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205134
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: PUBLIC INDECENCY - INDECENT EXPOSURE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Saivion Covington
Age : 27
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205115
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Currie
Age : 28
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205113
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Gutierrez
Age : 22
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205123
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Landrum Coleman Sr.
Age : 45
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205114
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: WARRANT - DEFENDANT IN CUSTODY; ORDER TO APPEAR; DEFENDANT AT LIBERTY; NOTICE TO APPEAR; ARREST UPON FAILURE TO APPEAR
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Charles Carter Jr.
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205131
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: FAILURE TO REGISTER; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Joseph Boatman
Age : 31
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205117
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON; POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
James Burnett III
Age : 32
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205116
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joel Acosta
Age : 31
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205109
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - MORE THAN $50,000; THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Tyree Baines
Age : 25
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205140
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT DEFENDANT USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcus White
Age : 37
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205107
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Daiquan McClinton
Age : 20
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205093
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Douglas Mills
Age : 37
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205085
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Latanya Snelling
Age : 54
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205099
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Malik Ward
Age : 25
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205086
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Matthew Manous
Age : 23
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205081
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - SCHEDULE V; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Steven Heintz
Age : 52
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205096
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Benjamin Hynek
Age : 23
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205098
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Joshua Hynek
Age : 33
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205097
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Krystal Johnston
Age : 45
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205101
Arrest Date: June 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Demarco Dillon
Age : 21
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205087
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Creedon
Age : 59
Residence: Crystal Lake, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205083
Arrest Date: June 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
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Flagstaff residents added their voices to those protesting Friday morning’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade at a rally outside of City Hall this evening.
Rain was starting Friday evening as people gathered outside of city hall. Protestors held homemade signs and chanted phrases like “my body, my choice” as they lined up on the lawn with cars honking as they passed.
Sarah Torosian and Samantha Cannavo stood on a low wall just behind the sidewalk, holding signs and umbrellas. They had changed their plans after this morning, skipping a yoga class to attend the protest instead.
Torosian described the decision as “very scary.”
“It makes me want to get back on birth control,” she said.
Cannavo said it felt “horrible” to hear the news, though it wasn’t until she came to the protest that she started feeling emotional.
“I was already pretty upset, but being here, it feels real now that I’m at the protest,” she said.
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Torosian expressed similar feelings.
“I have been super emotional all day, [but] I think just the reality kind of sunk in,” she said. “Obviously, we knew this was coming, but I’ve been feeling present in my life and then it just seems like everything around us is going backwards. As we are building as a generation, seems like around us is going back.”
Gina Byars, who was standing with her family under an umbrella, said hearing the news was “incredibly sad, just mind boggling.” When asked what made her want to come to the protest, she had trouble finding the words to answer.
She had an idea of what she wanted from the event, however.
“I’m hoping that we as a community use this opportunity to say that we are a community and we do stand together and we support each other and use it as an opportunity to do more,” she said. Some of her friends had increased their contributions to Planned Parenthood, but beyond that, she wasn’t sure what doing more might mean.
“We have to do better for our descendants,” she said.
Marisol Holder had come with her children “because I believe that everybody should have the right to choose what’s best for them and their bodies.”
She had thought the decision would be coming in the next week or two, since it was the end of the Supreme Court’s session, but hadn’t been expecting it today. To prepare for that possibility, she said she’d been talking with her kids, that she wanted them to know “there are choices.”
“If they ever need help, I’ll make sure they have help and if they have friends that need help, I’m here for that too,” she said. “Me personally, it’s not an issue for me anymore, but I want to make sure that women still have access to abortions if they want them.”
Her daughter, Isabelle Holder, said she hadn’t been thinking about reproductive rights until recently, “but now it’s a lot.”
“I’m just happy that we’re trying to make a difference,” she said.
Lauryn Carlson said she had decided to come out to the protest “immediately.”
“I knew it was thought, but I didn’t think it would actually happen,” she said of Roe v. Wade being overturned. She expressed concerns for other rights, such as gay marriage and women’s voting rights.
“It affects everyone,” she said. “It’s not just women and there’s more to come after this. This is not it. …More overturning, more protests, more violence.”
Terry White said she had been to several protests and appreciated that the organizers and city had put it together so quickly. While she was also at the protest in response to the decision, she said she came “because I think Democrats need to organize because the majority aren’t being heard.”
“The organized people are the minority and the majority needs to organize so that the people will have their rights, whether it's for reproductive rights or for safety with respect to firearms,” she said.
Many of the protestors said they’d expected to hear this news because of the draft decision that had leaked in May. They hadn’t expected the decision Friday, though.
“Of course, always hoping that there would be some sort of logic and science brain that would kick in and say, ‘yes, we actually want safety for the women in our lives,’” Byers said. “There was always a hope that something would happen, but when it leaked out, it was like, yeah. I had a feeling that this day would come.”
There were some concerns about reproductive rights in Flagstaff specifically, though many said they were also worried about people in other states.
Marisol Holder said, while it’s a long drive, Flagstaff’s proximity to California meant that there are options. This limits access to certain groups, however.
“What about the people that would have been farther away or out on the reservation who don't have access to a vehicle or money to go somewhere?” she asked.
Cannavo said she wasn’t worried until she started reading on the subject.
“It’s just so weird because we live in such a liberal community and Flagstaff almost feels like this safe, liberal bubble -- and then you're reading about things outside of the bubble and you're like how the [expletive] is this happening?” she said. “I’m worried for the other states. …We have a friend who works at Planned Parenthood in California and now realizing the stress that she’s going to go through.”
For many protestors, the solution, or at least the next step, is voting.
“I think our generation got a wakeup call about voting after Trump and this needs to be the same thing,” Cannavo said. “We just need to keep [expletive] voting and staying educated,” she said, referring to Millennials and Gen Z. Torosian added that she had friends who hadn’t voted, and that there needed to be more awareness about how individual votes can matter.
Cannavo used herself as an example, saying that even though she is in her late 20s, her first time voting was in 2020 “to vote Trump out of office and to vote Biden in.” She said Trump being elected in 2016 made her realize that she needed to vote. She plans to vote in the 2022 mid-terms.
White asked that people read the Coconino County voter’s guide that has recently come out and that they get their friends to vote in addition to voting themselves.
Marisol Holder similarly urged people to “seriously think about who they need to vote for.”
“At some point, I’m hoping to see [abortion] become a right again, a federal law at the federal level. But right now, it’s a state fight, so we need to fight here in Arizona to make it legal and accessible for people to have abortions,” she said. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-residents-join-in-protest-of-roe-v-wade-decision/article_19d01e74-f432-11ec-8c21-7304224e86b1.html | 2022-06-25T16:59:59 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-residents-join-in-protest-of-roe-v-wade-decision/article_19d01e74-f432-11ec-8c21-7304224e86b1.html |
Meridian's Fam Fest to offer free school physicals, vaccinations, Safety Town
MUNCIE, Ind. — Meridian Health Services’ Fam Fest will return on Thursday, July 14, with a back-to-school theme promoting health, wellness, family fun, safety and community resources.
The event will be held 1-5 p.m. at Southside Middle School, 1601 E. 26th St., home of Meridian’s School-Based Health Clinic.
Fam Fest is a free festival for all ages featuring:
- Free health screenings, school physicals and vaccinations.
- Food and drinks (while supplies last).
- Community vendors.
- Games, activities, prizes and entertainment.
Fam Fest attendees can also enjoy Safety Town, a miniature simulation of Muncie focusing on teaching children how to be safe citizens. Children can cruise through Safety Town on tricycles while learning more about community, traffic and Internet safety, as well as abstaining from drugs.
Meridian is seeking vendors to participate and share information in the Health and Fun Fair. Sponsorship opportunities are also available. To learn more or register to be a vendor or sponsor, visit FamFest.MeridianHS.org or contact Heather Ault, event manager, 765-278-0617 or heather.ault@meridianhs.org.
Cornerstone receives Indiana Arts Commission grant
MUNCIE — Cornerstone Center for the Arts, 520 E. Main St., has been awarded a $15,305 grant for organizational support.
The grant — announced by the Indiana Arts Commission and Gov. Eric Holcomb — was approved by the Indiana General Assembly in conjunction with federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. An independent panel of volunteers reviewed the grant application and it was approved by the IAC, according to a release.
“Cornerstone is pleased to receive these funds,” Allison Bell, Cornerstone president and CEO, said in the release. “As with all non-profits, Cornerstone is in the business of revival following the COVID shutdown. These funds are important to our operation and much appreciated.”
Cornerstone Center for the Arts offers classes in art, dance and music, rents space in its historic building for events and is home to Orchestra Indiana, Masterworks Chorale and The Bridge Church. Information: cornerstonearts.org or 765-281-9503.
Send news items to The Star Press at news@muncie.gannett.com. | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2022/06/25/meridians-fam-fest-offer-free-school-physicals-and-vaccinations/7714629001/ | 2022-06-25T17:04:20 | 1 | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2022/06/25/meridians-fam-fest-offer-free-school-physicals-and-vaccinations/7714629001/ |
The Fish and Wildlife Commission recently voted at its meeting in Salem to adopt a new Cooperative Management Agreement between the Coquille Indian Tribe and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The agreement establishes a voluntary cooperative partnership between ODFW and the Tribe to collaborate, share resources and work as partners to develop and implement plans to protect, restore and enhance fish and wildlife populations and their habitat within a five county area of southwest Oregon (Coos, Curry, Douglas, Lane, and Jackson counties, including the associated nearshore marine areas), an area defined as the Tribe’s service area by the federal government. The agreement will enhance tribal sovereignty and give the tribe a stronger voice in protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife, and their habitats. It will also set up a framework under which Coquille tribal members will participate in subsistence and ceremonial harvest of fish and wildlife resources licensed and managed by the tribal government in partnership with ODFW and the Oregon State Police. Within those counties, enrolled members of the Coquille Indian Tribe will participate in hunting, fishing, shellfishing, and trapping licensed by the Coquille Indian Tribe. Annual harvest limits and areas for harvest by tribal members will be set by mutual consent between the Tribe and ODFW.
In other business, the commission:
Approved 2023-25 Agency Request Budget: ODFW's requested budget requests a number of new investments in water planning and flow restoration, habitat protection, fish research and restoration, fish passage, and other actions related to climate resiliency.
The budget now goes to the Governor’s office for consideration. The Governor will submit a state budget for the Legislature to consider during the 2023 session.
Adopted commercial coastal pelagic species (CPS) regulations: The Commission approved federal harvest specifications and management measures that continue closure of the directed Pacific sardine fishery for the next year due to depressed stock status while providing for very low harvest allowances in other fishing sectors across West Coast. They also made revisions to Oregon Administrative Rules to clarify purse seine net fishing gear allowed in the market squid fishery with practical net construction considerations. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/commission-adopts-coquille-tribe-agreement/article_f7a00e8a-f270-11ec-bbf6-6ba4d9a2c42d.html | 2022-06-25T17:08:34 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/commission-adopts-coquille-tribe-agreement/article_f7a00e8a-f270-11ec-bbf6-6ba4d9a2c42d.html |
Over the course of the past week, the Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team (DINT) has addressed several illegal marijuana sites in Douglas County. In total, DINT has eradicated illegal marijuana from 5 sites, and made several arrests.
DINT eradicated two sites on Raleigh Drive, outside of Winston. In the 600 block of Raleigh Drive, DINT located a property that had 18 greenhouses containing illegal marijuana plants. DINT eradicated 3,832 marijuana plants from the property, and seized several other items of evidence of criminal activity. In this case, DINT arrested 25-year-old Jesus Manuel Martinez-Munguia, and 42-year-old Ezequiel Martinez-Garcia, both lodged at the Douglas County Jail.
In the 500 block of Raleigh Drive, DINT detectives located another illegal marijuana grow operation consisting of approximately 1,330 marijuana plants. In this case, detectives arrested the property owner, 43 year old Jackie Willis, who was lodged at the Douglas County Jail.
Detectives located another illegal marijuana growing operation in the 1600 block of Weaver Road, Myrtle Creek. In this case, detectives eradicated 757 marijuana plants, and approximately 311 pounds of processed marijuana. Detectives discovered the suspects had been diverting large amounts of water from the adjacent BLM land. They discovered an area on the BLM land where a creek had been impounded to collect water, and that water was run through pipes a great distance to the marijuana growing operation. Detectives also seized a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle from the residence. A check of the serial number revealed the rifle had been reported stolen out of San Joaquin County, California. 35 year-old Arturo Perez-Aguilar was arrested and lodged at the Douglas County Jail.
Detectives eradicated approximately 1,765 plants from a location in the 1200 block of N. Old Pacific Hwy. in Myrtle Creek. Again, all of these plants were illegal marijuana.
At a residence in the 700 block of Buckhorn Road, Roseburg, detectives located and eradicated 1,103 illegal marijuana plants.
In many of these cases, the investigations are continuing and more arrests are anticipated.
Southern Oregon has been inundated with large scale illegal marijuana grows during the last couple of years, including Douglas County. The scale of the operations is unlike anything seen before and they are destructive to communities. The operations are most often run and controlled by multinational criminal organizations with only profit in mind. They pay no regard to local resources, rules, laws or ethics. They often do vast amounts of damage to natural resources, and damage streams and rivers by dumping garbage, toxic chemicals (fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides) and human feces.
Water diversion is another concern as they often illegally take water from wells and rivers. It is common to see them illegally damming small streams to impound water for their own use. Douglas County is committed to pushing back against these illegal activities and restoring its long held standards. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/illegal-marijuana-sites-eradicated-in-douglas-county/article_ed4a872c-f25b-11ec-852e-1b9f6f0a13e0.html | 2022-06-25T17:08:40 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/illegal-marijuana-sites-eradicated-in-douglas-county/article_ed4a872c-f25b-11ec-852e-1b9f6f0a13e0.html |
Beer workers in the Delaware Valley have reached a deal that will see their wages increase and their week-long strike end with only days before the 4th of July holiday.
The 3,100 members of Teamsters Local 830 voted on a new four-year contract that will see them get a 10.5% wage increase in the first year, plus additional increases each following year, the union announced Saturday.
The union includes employees of Origlio Beverage, Muller Incorporated, and Penn Beer Sales and Service – the big three distributors of beer in the five-county Philadelphia region.
“This was a fight for economic fairness and a better quality of life for our members. I am proud to say we’ve achieved our goals and today’s overwhelming ratification by the Teamsters Local 830 membership attests to the great gains we’ve realized in this new four-year agreement,” union secretary-treasurer Daniel Grace said in a statement. “The Local 830 members who stood shoulder to shoulder on our picket lines for the past week are the real heroes in this victory. Their solidarity was truly inspiring.”
They had rejected another proposed contract from the Delaware Valley Importers Distributors Association.
The new contract also grants members increased pension contributions in the second, third and fourth years, as well as additional 401(K) contributions, an additional paid holiday and new, reduced work hours: five days with 10-hour time limits and two days with 11-hour time limits.
None of the three distributors were making deliveries or taking orders during the strike. The union members – including drivers, warehouse and production workers, and sales and marketing personnel – had formed picket lines in Montgomery County and Northeast Philadelphia.
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The strike came about two weeks out from Independence Day celebrations, and as Grace said, a time most lucrative for the alcoholic beverage industry.
Origlio handles the distribution of brands like Coors, Corona, Blue Moon, Angry Orchard and Guinness. Muller carries brands like Miller Lite, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Yards. Penn has beer brands such as Budweiser, Busch, Michelob and Natural Light. In addition, all three carry a variety of national and local craft beers and other products like malt beverages and seltzers.
Penn is also the exclusive supplier to the Philadelphia sports complex. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/beer-workers-in-philly-region-reach-deal-end-strike-in-time-for-4th-of-july/3281692/ | 2022-06-25T17:10:24 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/beer-workers-in-philly-region-reach-deal-end-strike-in-time-for-4th-of-july/3281692/ |
Looking down at the toppled, battered, paint-splattered statue of Jefferson Davis at the Valentine museum, I tried to conduct an assessment of my emotions.
HOW DOES THIS STATUE MAKE YOU FEEL? the new exhibition asks, with blue and pink sticky notes on hand for visitors to share their thoughts.
Of all of the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, the Davis statue had always been the most infuriating for me, saturated as it was with unadulterated revisionist drivel. The Monument Avenue Commission apparently agreed, recommending that it be removed. “Of all the statues, this one is most unabashedly Lost Cause in its design and sentiment,” the commissioners wrote.
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But the social justice demonstrators who hit the streets two years ago beat city officials to the punch — literally, one might glean, given the smashed-in face of the Davis statue. The statue was pulled down on June 10, 2020.
The Davis statue, on loan from the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia for at least six months, is on display at the Valentine, adjacent to the studio where the sculpture was fashioned by Edward Valentine, the museum’s first president.
Since Wednesday, visitors have been able to gaze at the statue from a different vantage point: Not towering above Monument and Davis avenues, but pretty much as the protesters left him — lying on his back, with remnants of a toilet paper noose on his neck, splashed with bubblegum pink paint of a hue that would do Bazooka proud.
Minutes after the statue went on display, one person had posted their thoughts on a nearby column as instructed.
“It makes me wonder about history vs. memory,” the note read.
The Lost Cause statues were never about history. They were instruments in an effective public relations campaign that denied slavery as a cause of the Civil War and made an inherently ignoble cause noble.
This PR effort coincided with the systemic erosion of the rights of Black citizens, who were subjected to a new reign of terror following the demise of Reconstruction. The Davis statue, in this context, was a celebration of the restoration of a social order based on racial oppression.
The final product was not quite as grandiose as envisioned. Original plans called for the Davis statue to be the centerpiece of a Monroe Park temple a foot taller than Grant’s Tomb, said Christina Vida, Elise H. Wright curator of the General Collection and project manager for the Valentine Studio.
Even removed from its pedestal, the statue remains provocative.
“It is powerful, it is disturbing, it is all of those things ... there could be celebration?” said Valentine director Bill Martin. “So there is a wide range of responses to this. And I think we need that moment to sit back through this process and actually find out what people are thinking at this moment.”
There is a QR code at the display asking visitors to share what should happen next.
“And it’s not just what needs to happen next with this statue,” Martin said, “but what needs to happen next, more importantly, I think, in this community. Because this is a symbol of a lot of things that are left on the table that are unaddressed that we still need to deal with.”
"This sort of denial characterizes so much of the political right's approach to problems, from racism, to gun violence, to climate change to the existential threat to our democracy," writes columnist Michael Paul Williams.
In the meantime, this exhibit will test the efficacy of context. It doesn’t get more contextual than this.
The studio where Edward Valentine created the Davis statue had been on Leigh Street. It was moved to the Valentine site in 1937, and the museum is in the process of reinterpreting it, Vida said.
If you desire additional context, you can easily catch a glimpse from the Davis statue of another exhibit: a Woolworth’s lunch counter and stools, with images of sit-in protesters.
The Davis statue exhibit, and the reimagining of the Valentine studio, is an opportunity “to respond to our own history, to respond to the history of Monument Avenue, but also to respond to today’s demand for social justice,” Martin said.
That studio is populated with busts and sculptures of Lost Cause icons. But Valentine also sculpted caricatures of Black people — a lucrative business, Vida said — with the obvious intent of ridiculing his subjects and robbing them of their dignity.
One such sculpture, titled “Knowledge is Power,” features a slack-jawed Black youth holding a book while fast asleep, head lolling on his shoulder. The sculpture was clearly intended to convey the opposite of knowledge and power.
The Davis statue has now been similarly reduced. It’s hard to convey power with toilet paper clinging to your neck. But I derive limited satisfaction from seeing the statue laid low. Because the ideology that created it still lives.
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The original opponent of the Robert E. Lee statue issued a stern prophesy after the monument was erected in 1890.
We should have known this day was coming, because they knew this day was coming.
Christopher Columbus survived multiple voyages across the high seas. But his Richmond statue met an inglorious end at the bottom of a Byrd Park lake.
When a crane raised the 17 1/2 foot bronze statue off the granite pedestal, the weight of Richmond history became more bearable. But there's much heavier lifting to be done.
Hanover County appears intent to live on in infamy as the Prince Edward County of the 21st Century.
The moral arc bending toward justice is visible from Hill Monument Parkway, a North Side street named for the Confederate general.
Statues to the Confederate president, generals, soldiers and sailors have fallen by the wayside. | https://richmond.com/news/local/history/williams-the-jefferson-davis-statue-was-toppled-its-spirit-lives-on/article_d619797e-3538-5384-a298-7374bdc7ce55.html | 2022-06-25T17:17:24 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/history/williams-the-jefferson-davis-statue-was-toppled-its-spirit-lives-on/article_d619797e-3538-5384-a298-7374bdc7ce55.html |
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Seven members and associates of the MS-13 street gang have been convicted of sex trafficking in federal court after taking in a 13-year-old runaway and coercing her into commercial sex acts in Maryland and Virginia.
The U.S. Attorney’s Officer for the Eastern District of Virginia, which prosecuted the case, announced the jury verdict Friday,
According to an FBI affidavit, the girl ran away from a youth home in Fairfax in 2018. She was sex trafficked for nearly two months in that year before she was recovered by the bureau’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking task force. The trafficking occurred in Woodridge, Virginia, and Mount Rainier, Maryland.
She was also beaten on two separate occasions 26 times on her backside with a baseball bat — once when she was initiated into the gang and once when she was accused of stealing from another gang member.
The seven defendants — six men and a woman — lived in suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia and ranged in age from 22 to 50. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ms-13-gang-members-convicted-of-trafficking-13-year-old-girl/2022/06/25/8697e3d6-f4a8-11ec-ac16-8fbf7194cd78_story.html | 2022-06-25T17:23:40 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ms-13-gang-members-convicted-of-trafficking-13-year-old-girl/2022/06/25/8697e3d6-f4a8-11ec-ac16-8fbf7194cd78_story.html |
DALLAS (KDAF) — No, we aren’t talking about that addicting show where people lie on dating apps. We’re talking about the fish!
Saturday, June 25, is National Catfish Day. Did you know that catfish is one of the most consumed fish species in America?
“You can have it breaded and fried, or grilled over coals and served with tangy fruity salsa. Apart from its great taste, catfish farming has also led to a stable income for many fish farmers as well as provided for a sustainable and environmentally friendly source of food,” NationalToday.com says.
In celebration of this great-tasting fish, here is a list of the best places to get catfish in Dallas, according to Foursquare.
- Hook Line & Sinker
- Big Shucks
- Flying Fish
- Wings N More
- Catfish Floyd’s
- Flying Fish
- Bubba’s Cooks Country
- Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen
- Bucky Moonshine’s
- Fish City Grill
For the full list, visit Foursquare. | https://cw33.com/news/local/where-to-get-the-best-catfish-in-dallas-for-national-catfish-day-according-to-foursquare/ | 2022-06-25T17:26:10 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/where-to-get-the-best-catfish-in-dallas-for-national-catfish-day-according-to-foursquare/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — It’s National Goats Cheese Day this Saturday, June 25, and if you’re in North Texas, there are plenty of great spots to get this tangy cheese.
“To celebrate the wonders and benefits of this distinctively acidic, tangy cheese, Goats Cheese Day is celebrated every June 25 as a way to appreciate and bask in its wonders. From the humble crumbly feta to the thick, viscous halloumi, goat’s cheese is a popular type of cheese consumed across the world,” NationalToday.com says.
Here are the best places to goats cheese in Dallas, according to Foursquare:
- Uncle Uber’s
- Toulouse Cafe and Bar
- Cru Wine Bar
- Pie Tap
- Rodeo Goat
- Medina Oven & Bar
- The Hospitality Sweet
- Cafe Madrid
- Salum
- Streets Fine Chicken
For more suggestions, visit Foursquare. | https://cw33.com/news/local/where-to-get-the-best-goat-cheese-in-dallas-for-national-goats-cheese-day-according-to-foursquare/ | 2022-06-25T17:26:16 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/where-to-get-the-best-goat-cheese-in-dallas-for-national-goats-cheese-day-according-to-foursquare/ |
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I attended Briscoe Elementary School during the late 1950s to the early ’60s. I remember next to Briscoe was Stribling Street, and the next lot was a huge mansion that was later torn down, I think by the early ’70s. I believe it was a convent run by the Catholic Church. I remember as an elementary school kid, the sight of that mansion was a big mystery to me as to what it was and who lived there. Do you have any history of this convent?
— Hector Martinez
The building you remember was the second to be built on that site. Two orders of nuns successively ran helping facilities there, focusing first on the elderly and later on young women.
The address was 2017 S. Flores St., later renumbered as 2033 S. Flores. Combined, North and South Flores made up “the longest street in San Antonio” when it was featured in the San Antonio Light, Nov. 19, 1939. Toward the end of the story’s north-to-south tour, Briscoe Elementary, St. Henry’s Catholic Church and school, and St. Francis Home for the Aged were noted as “points of interest along this section of South Flores.” St. Francis was singled out for “present(ing) the unusual sight of a small farm set down in the city — with tilled fields surrounding it and a few head of cattle grazing nearby,”
More than 4 acres of land had been conveyed in 1874 by Bishop C.M. Dubuis to the high-achieving Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, best-known as founders of Santa Rosa Infirmary and Incarnate Word Academy, now Christus Santa Rosa Health System and the University of the Incarnate Word. Not until 1894 would the order establish St. Francis Home for the Aged, moving their ministry to the aged and infirm from Santa Rosa to the new quarters with room to grow. The original wood-frame building usually accommodated 20-30 residents who were tended by nursing sisters free of charge.
Judging from death reports, the St. Francis Home served people in their 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond. Many were paralyzed by stroke or disabled by rheumatism. Regular Masses were celebrated in the chapel, while residents were admitted regardless of denomination.
The home was supported by proceeds from volunteer-run bazaars selling donations from women's clubs and businesses — gift baskets and holiday turkeys. But after a few years, the home started accepting paying patients as a way of subsidizing the destitute.
Residents ranged from elderly itinerant workers who had collapsed on the job to Concepcion Callaghan Navarro, mother of Mayor Bryan Callaghan.
A new four-story brick building with “modern conveniences,” according to the San Antonio Light, June 11, 1905, was built on the site, and the old building was torn down. Its replacement, completed the next year, had 52 rooms, in hopes that the larger, improved space would attract more residents. But that didn’t happen, and the St. Francis Home moved to a new business model.
A 1925 Community Chest appeal for donations to a common fund that aided local charities includes a description of the “sunset home for the friendless aged,” where “50 inmates are cared for, one paying $50 a month and 18 paying part of their keep,” while “the others must be supported by charity.” With more donations, says the appeal, the home could “accommodate 100 patients.”
Through the 1920s and ’30s, the St. Francis Home became one of the city’s top aid agencies, ranking with about a dozen local aid agencies helped by Associated Charities, another community grant-making fund, and regularly benefiting from Catholic Charity Board. St. Francis was on the citywide captive-audience circuit for youth-group entertainment (Scout troops, church and school choirs) and once was one of several institutions visited by the Lilliputians, a troupe of little people appearing at the Majestic Theatre who came out to meet “100 old people, many of whom (are) completely penniless, await(ing) the last summons,” according to the San Antonio Evening News, Jan. 5, 1923.
As integrated as it was into the life of this city, St. Francis changed its mission, probably in the late 1930s. Instead of giving refuge to pretty much any old person — including survivors of suicide attempts who couldn’t or wouldn’t give their names — the home narrowed its focus to a special population. In a letter to Bexar County Commissioners Court, the Incarnate Word sisters “suggested the $25 monthly contribution from the county be discontinued” since the home was by then “occupied almost entirely by aged and infirm nuns,” rather than members of the general public, as reported in the Light, Sept. 13, 1943.
The St. Francis Home closed July 1, 1955, when its 49 retired nuns were “transferred by bus, car and ambulance” to St. Joseph’s Convent, a modern facility newly built for $700,000 at 847 E. Hildebrand Ave., says the Southern Messenger, a Catholic newspaper, July 7, 1955. Their former home would stand vacant for two years until it was sold to another religious order, the Daughters (later Religious) of Mary Immaculate for their Villa Maria home for young women from out of town — typically the Rio Grande Valley or Mexico — who were studying or working in San Antonio.
The Daughters had operated a similar home at 103 City St. in what’s now the King William Historic District starting in 1954. Built in the early 1890s for Adele and Rudolph Staacke, the large, two-story brick home previously had housed single families. Villa Maria was essentially a boarding house, one of many run by the order around the world that provided a safe place and two or three meals a day for young women of modest means, whose wages or allowance could cover their rent.
Before long, “the structure became inadequate to accommodate the girls,” says the Southern Messenger, May 2, 1957, so “to alleviate the crowded conditions” and to give the residents space for recreation, they moved to the former St. Francis campus. After extensive repairs and the installation of an elevator, the Daughters swapped out the statue of St. Francis in the top-floor niche for a new one of the Virgin Mary created by local stonemasons, Rodriguez Bros. The 24 residents from City Street only occupied the first two floors, with plans to remodel the third.
Besides the residents’ modest rent, Villa Maria held chicken suppers, festivals, benefit dances and cookie sales, with proceeds first going toward renovations, then with the idea of building a new dormitory at 2033 N. Flores to accommodate their growing flock. After taking in 38 girls who were refugees from the Cuban revolution in the early ’60s, the former old-age home was more than full of young life with a total of 83 residents in their teens to mid-20s, doubled up in every room.
So the Daughters switched course and decided to build on property they already owned at 719 Augusta St. Plans for the new Villa Maria, announced in April 1963, detailed the features of the $578,000 home-away-from-home on the northern edge of downtown, with brick and glass walls and — finally — air-conditioning throughout. Space for more than 100 young women and 11 nuns included private rooms with en-suite bathrooms, a more dormitory-style floor, chapel, cafeteria and dining room, conference and TV rooms and a library. As Villa Maria Residence, it’s still in use today “for young ladies between 18 and 29 years of age,” says the website at www.villamariaresidence.org.
After the home moved to its new location in 1965, the “mansion” was torn down, and a salvage sale beginning in April 1966 disposed of the old brick, lumber, fire-escape steps, pipe and steel in situ. Another building on the site housed the Esskay Manufacturing Co., makers of boys clothing, at 122 Stribling St.
Thanks to the Conservation Society of San Antonio library for help with city directory and Sanborn Insurance Co. research and to the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word of San Antonio Archives for providing documents about the transfer of the St. Francis building.
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Shortly after 9 p.m. Friday, 288 seniors from Uvalde High School performed a right of passage that had almost eluded them: tossing their mortar boards into the air.
The speeches that had come before the traditional cap toss — at the school’s 2022 graduation ceremony at Honey Bowl Stadium — dealt with loss and the ability to carry on.
“I know our lives will never be the same, but I also know we must move forward together,” Hal Harrell, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District superintendent, said in his address. “Class of 2022, our community will need the qualities that you possess — the unity, the leadership, the resiliency in difference makers.”
After spending their last two years overcoming the many hurdles that the COVID-19 pandemic threw their way, these seniors have had to face the loss of 19 of their youngest classmates and two teachers during the May 24 mass shooting at Rob Elementary School, just three days before their graduation was set to take place.
The massacre would have been more than enough reason to throw out tradition, to scrap the ceremony altogether this year. But one month after the tragedy, students, administrators and families came together for a proper send-off into life after high school.
“For everything, there is a season,” said Randy Harris, the principal of Uvalde High School. “There is a time to cry and a time to laugh. There is a time to tear down and a time to build up. There’s a time to embrace and a time to heal. Everything is beautiful in its own time.”
Students, clad in dark red caps and gowns, and administrators who spoke at the graduation paid homage to the lives lost at Rob Elementary.
Valedictorian Abigail Kone read the names of the 19 students, and made them honorary members of the 2022 graduating class. She also lauded the two fourth-grade teachers who also died in the attack — Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles — as heroes.
“Please count your blessings and hug your family a little tighter,” Kone said. “Don’t let go of their memory, because it is now our job, as we enter society to shape it, it is our job to show sympathy to others and to change the world because we know what is needed.”
Blaine Bennett, 71, a former educator and counselor, attended the graduation ceremony along with eight or nine family members, all there to cheer on his 17-year-old grandson, Miller Carnes.
The graduate will attend Texas Tech University this summer, joining the agricultural sciences and natural resources program. Bennett said his grandson’s wish has always been to return home to Uvalde after college graduation to become a farmer like his father.
In the days after the shooting, Bennett said it was obvious that the graduation ceremony would be put on hold, and maybe even canceled.
“Everybody knew there was no way. The heart of the town was just ripped out, and it wouldn’t be right on so many levels,” Bennett said.
His grandson’s class was given a chance to decide whether to press on with graduation. The majority rejected the idea of canceling the ceremony. They wanted to walk the stage at a later date.
“Miller, my grandson, who sometimes is wise beyond his years, said, ‘I think I need this for closure,’ and I think that is insightful of him,” Bennett said. His family supported him, even if they were nervous about attending a large gathering.
Bennett said his grandson was part of the traditional Senior Elementary School Walk at Robb Elementary the day before the shooting. Graduating seniors paraded through the hallways, high-fiving their youngest classmates.
“It’s such a wonderful event that helps those little kids understand ‘I want to do that one day,’” Bennett said. “Miller and his seniors where at Robb campus doing that, and there is no doubt he high-fived those 19 kids that we lost. That is a memory in his head that he’ll carry with him for a lifetime.”
“Around every corner and turn there is some connection,” he added.
Bennett knows memories both of the senior walk and the horror that unfolded the next day will weigh on his grandson and his fellow classmates, just as it will on the Uvalde community at large. He hopes the graduates will comfort each other.
“They are a special group of kids,” Bennett said about his grandson’s graduating class. “My wish is that they are able to go off and grow up and experience the world.
“And the legacy goes on. Uvalde is a loving, tight-knit community, and those kids are going to carry the tradition forward,” he said.
Before the students moved their tassels from the right side of their caps to the left, many of them cried.
“Our class also asks for change — change that will prevent any other tragedy, whether it is at a school, grocery store or concert,” senior Lynd Diangzan said in her farewell address. “I’m so proud of my class. No one can fully understand what our class went through, except for us. And we hope no one will ever experience what we went through.”
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TWIN FALLS — The U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade on Friday, a nearly century-old case protecting abortion rights.
“This decision is sinful,” ACLU of Idaho Executive Director Leo Morales said. “It’s going to cause irreversible harm and trauma for generations to come. We are not going to stand for it, we are going to organize, we are going to be in the streets, go back to the courts and organize community members across the country.”
Representatives from Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, Legal Voice and ACLU of Idaho held a press conference to break down what the decision means for Idaho.
Idaho is one of 26 states that are poised to ban abortion. In 2020, the state legislature passed a law making it a felony to perform an abortion. This law was written to begin 30 days after either the U.S. Constitution was amended or the Supreme Court gave the right back to the states.
While Idaho’s law includes an exemption for cases of rape or incest, major obstacles are still in the way.
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Mistie DelliCarpini-Tolman, Idaho director for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, said the first concern is that the law requires victims to file a police report. Most assaults are not reported for a variety of reasons including fear for physical safety, emotional stress or protecting the mental-wellbeing of a survivor.
The second concern, which she said the organization confirmed with law enforcement, is information about an active case cannot be released. Getting a report to the physician is a process that can take weeks or months.
“We all know that abortion is a time-sensitive procedure,” DelliCarpini-Tolman said. “These exceptions become really in name only.”
The panelists were also concerned that the rationalization and justification used in the decision means the court will be coming after other rights.
Kim Christensen Clark, senior attorney at Legal Voice, highlighted one passage in particular from the dissenting opinion in which three liberal justices, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, disagreed with the majority opinion.
“So one of two things must be true,” they wrote. “Either the majority does not really believe in its own reasoning. Or if it does, all rights that have no history stretching back to the mid-19th century are insecure. Either the mass of the majority’s opinion is hypocrisy, or additional constitutional rights are under threat. It is one or the other.”
While Governor Brad Little welcomed the decision, Boise Mayor Lauren McLean and local Magic Valley women voiced concerns.
Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote a concurring opinion, called for the reconsideration of Griswold v. Connecticut, which protects the right for married people to obtain contraceptives; Lawrence v. Texas, which ruled states could not ban consensual same-sex sex; and Obergefell v. Hodges, which established a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
“For whole swaths of the population whose rights were not recognized at the time of 14th Amendment, that clause becomes literally meaningless which really underscores the problem with the way the court is approaching constitutional interpretation in this case,” Clark said.
DelliCarpini-Tolman confirmed Planned Parenthood will not be closing its locations in Boise and Twin Falls.
“I want to say to our patients who need care, I wanted to name that we know how devastating this moment is and we’re here with you,” she said.
“We stand with you and we will stay hand in hand with you to make sure you can get the care that you need no matter what so please reach out if you need abortion care.” | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/what-does-the-supreme-courts-decision-mean-for-idaho/article_c9b8a3d2-f3fc-11ec-b9e1-6f724b3a12ad.html | 2022-06-25T17:35:55 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/what-does-the-supreme-courts-decision-mean-for-idaho/article_c9b8a3d2-f3fc-11ec-b9e1-6f724b3a12ad.html |
ALPINE, Texas — In wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade Friday, Alpine residents lined the streets in protest.
Organizers put out the word in the afternoon and by 6 p.m. dozens of people had showed up with signs and determination.
The group said this is because the decision will impact a lot of people.
"We are angry. We believe that people deserve to have personal autonomy over their bodies and medical decisions," said Lisa Kettyle, a community organizer.
At this time there is no word on other protests being held in the area. Stick with NewsWest 9 as we bring you more coverage on the abortion ruling. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/alpine-residents-protest-supreme-court-abortion/513-ed565eaf-5d84-4a67-8fe6-88d610fd0111 | 2022-06-25T17:36:55 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/alpine-residents-protest-supreme-court-abortion/513-ed565eaf-5d84-4a67-8fe6-88d610fd0111 |
MONAHANS, Texas — Monahans will be celebrating Independence Day all day on July 4 at Hill Park.
Freedom Fest will kick off at 9 a.m. with a parade, followed by the opening ceremony.
The event will feature the Miss Monahans pageant, children's games, free swimming, craft and food vendors and much more.
At the end of the night there will be a fireworks display at Million Barrell.
For a few schedule of events you can visit the Monahans Chamber of Commerce Facebook page. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/monahans-freedom-fest-independence-day/513-25c8f844-48af-473e-873d-77f907ebd6b2 | 2022-06-25T17:37:01 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/monahans-freedom-fest-independence-day/513-25c8f844-48af-473e-873d-77f907ebd6b2 |
The first event of the Saturdays on the Square concert series, set to begin at 7 p.m. tonight in downtown Bloomington, has been posted due to weather-related safety concerns.
Tonight's performers were Style in Stereo with Kyle Yap. The event will be rescheduled.
This is the second summer for the concert series, which is sponsored by Pantagraph Media and The Castle Theatre.
The free events continue in Museum Square later this summer with Wedding Banned on July 9; Dan Hubbard on July 16; and Southern Accents, a tribute to Tom Petty, on Aug. 6.
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DeeOhGee and Grammy-nominated North Mississippi Allstars drew fans from throughout Central Illinois on Saturday night to the third Saturdays on the Square concert presented by The Castle Theatre and Pantagraph Media. This is the third of four concerts held on the museum square in downtown Bloomington. The final concert will be Sept. 4. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/tonights-saturdays-on-the-square-event-postponed/article_0f37aeba-f49f-11ec-ab32-43552e1f8779.html | 2022-06-25T17:37:24 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/tonights-saturdays-on-the-square-event-postponed/article_0f37aeba-f49f-11ec-ab32-43552e1f8779.html |
SAN ANTONIO — There are two things about Jacob Morales you can place money on: he's going to show up, and he's going to show up on time.
"Time is valuable—extremely valuable," Jacob said.
The O'Connor High School senior is accustomed to jokes about his streak for attendance and punctuality. But he laughs at the humor because the 18-year-old captured the accomplishment.
"It was honestly just motivation from my mom, my dad, my brother," he said.
Jacob's mother, Ana, acknowledges her role in getting her eldest son interested in being where he needs to be.
"To show up, give it 100%," Morales said.
The streak started in preschool and kept rolling through high graduation from O'Connor.
"It's just like if you say you're going to do something, you do it," she said.
He bought into the concept, hook, line and sinker. Along the way, Jacob became attached to orchestra, basketball, track, football, bowling and academics.
"It's not just friends, it's not just teachers. It's just the whole atmosphere of being in school that just kind of kept me engaged and kept me going," he said.
Morales' inspiration for her son came from her shortcoming. She transferred schools in high school and figured rather quickly that she didn't have to show up a lot to get good grades. The mindset went unchallenged at school until her graduation, when she noticed the valedictorian receiving accolades for perfect attendance.
"You know what, when I have my kids, I want them to have that," Morales recalled thinking. "I want them to have perfect attendance."
Easier said than done.
Jacob had to push through days when he was physically tired, emotionally drained and even sick. He said giving up would mean all the days he put in were in vain.
"There were times where I would kind of test him and say, 'Hey, you want to stay home today?'" Morales said. "'Nope, I'm going to school.'"
Jacob believes he was the only senior at school on senior skip day. He said completing the goal was more important than participating in the high school tradition with classmates and friends.
"Our time is very limited on this planet, and making the most of it will benefit those around me," he said. "It's not necessarily for me. It's for all those around me."
He may be right. His little brother, Matthew, an O'Connor freshman, is trying to achieve the same thing.
"Peoples' legacies live on because they touch the people around them," Jacob said.
According to Morales, she cheered so loudly at Jacob's graduation that the announcement of his perfect attendance got lost in her noise. Luckily, a cell phone recording allowed her to reflect and weep.
"I was like, 'They said it,'" she said. "I got to hear it. I was like, 'We did it.'"
Jacob graduated with honors and will attend UTSA, where he is a distinguished presidential scholar. The freshman Roadrunner also plans to keep his punctuality and attendance records alive.
"That's got to continue to college for sure," he said.
His mother said he's catching up on a lot of rest before doing so.
According to Northside Independent School District, Jacob is one of three students they can verify who graduated from the district this year with perfect attendance. The other two: Desiree Duarte Moczygemba from Taft High School and Madeline Ann Salazar from Stevens High School. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/outreach/oconnor-high-school-graduate-perfect-attendance-sa-great-kids/273-e696f2af-828e-4d04-be0f-22a9d6aecf8f | 2022-06-25T17:42:11 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/outreach/oconnor-high-school-graduate-perfect-attendance-sa-great-kids/273-e696f2af-828e-4d04-be0f-22a9d6aecf8f |
DALLAS — An estimated 200 people pro-choice supporters held a rally in defense of abortion rights at Belo Garden Park in downtown Dallas Friday evening.
Organizers with the Dallas Women’s March, Planned Parenthood, Dallas AFLCIO, Texas Coalition of Black Democrats, and other organizations rallied in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe V. Wade.
Dina Light-McNeely, a 55-year-old mom in Dallas attended the rally with her husband and daughter. She told WFAA she has supported the pro-choice movement her entire life.
“I’ve been showing up since I was 11 years old, I thought that her generation, my daughter, would not have to do this … much less that we we’re gonna roll back 100 years of human rights,” Light-McNeely said.
Organizers who spoke during the rally said they believe women should have the right to choose. They encouraged the crowd to organize and vote in November.
A few activists who want abortion to end showed up with megaphones, and at times, clashed with pro-choice supporters. Throughout the evening, security dispersed several people who became confrontational. After the rally, the crowd marched along the streets of downtown Dallas.
There are pro-choice rallies scheduled in Fort Worth and Dallas on Saturday. In Fort Worth, a rally will begin at the Tarrant County Courthouse at noon. The rally in Dallas will take place beginning at 10 a.m. at the Main Street Garden.
More Roe v. Wade coverage: | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/roe-v-wade-protest-downtown-dallas/287-911136e7-d2b0-4d22-9c7a-e3759d1d97f8 | 2022-06-25T17:42:17 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/roe-v-wade-protest-downtown-dallas/287-911136e7-d2b0-4d22-9c7a-e3759d1d97f8 |
ALBANY -- Angela Davis will assume the position of vice president of institutional effectiveness at Albany Technical College on June 1.
Davis has been grants coordinator and compliance officer at ATC since 2010. She will replace Steve Eidson, who is retiring after 20 years of working for the Technical College System of Georgia.
"Mrs. Davis has worked with Albany Technical College for 11 years, and in those years she has been instrumental in assisting with the institution's growth and strategic planning efforts," Albany Technical College interim President Emmett Griswold said in a news release. "As part of senior staff at the college, she will continue to support the college’s mission by providing exceptional leadership through student-centered approaches."
Davis has an extensive background in grant proposal development and administration. She is known for her attention to detail, competency, and time management skills. She has had oversight of multiple million-dollar grants and has previously held supervisory positions.
"Having worked in the office of Institutional Effectiveness since joining the college, I have had the opportunity to assist the department through SACSCOC accreditation, Perkins/PAR reviews, and strategic planning," Davis said. "Serving on the Assessment and Program Review committees, I am afforded the opportunity to provide guidance and feedback to enhance and improve student learning."
In addition to her competence in evaluation and assessment methods and her knowledge of various state and federal grant regulations, Davis's professional development includes Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification, Certified Defense Financial Manager Certification, and Federal Appropriations Law training. She holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Albany State University and a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Alabama State University.
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HENRY COUNTY, Ind. — A New Castle man was killed in a crash Saturday morning on State Road 109 north of Interstate 70 in western Henry County.
According to the Henry County Sheriff's Office, Clay Purnell was killed when his Honda Civic crossed the center while heading south toward I-70 and collided with a northbound SUV driven by Kourtney Ash of Lewisville shortly after 5 a.m.
Purnell's car came to rest in the ditch on the west side of 109. He was trapped inside the vehicle and suffered a severe injury to his left leg and fatal internal injuries, according to the sheriff's report.
He died at the scene before a medical helicopter arrived.
Ms. Ash's vehicle burst into flames and came to rest in a ditch on the east side of the highway. She was treated at Hancock Regional Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Metro Detroit Catholic churches prepare for protests, disruptions following abortion ruling
Following the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade this week, some churches are preparing for potential protests and disruptions during services on Sunday.
In an email newsletter to parishioners at St. Joan of Arc in Saint Clair Shores, Monsignor G. Michael Bugarin wrote that the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, was as Archbishop Allen Vigneron said “a cause for praise and thanks to God.”
“But it certainly doesn't mean our work is done,” Bugarin wrote. “We have so much more to do in the pursuit of promoting a true culture of life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.”
In the message Bugarin shared his thoughts in the event his church has protest or disruption during Mass. He notes that two weeks ago two parishes had disruptions, the closest being St. Veronica Parish in Eastpointe. According to a report by the Catholic News Agency, during a mass at the church June 12, a nearly naked woman stood on a pew and shouted pro-abortion chants. A screenshot of a TikTok video shows a woman, whose body is censored, standing on a pew with outstretched arms.
Bugarin said that should a disruption occur at St. Joan of Arc, parishioners are not to engage or try to assist in the situation.
“It is important to know that we have a full security plan in place and a designated individual at each mass who will be responsible for calling (Saint Clair Shores) Police and for leading the task of handling the disruption,” he wrote. “If a disruption occurs and depending on what part of mass it occurs, the celebrant will lead the congregation in reciting decades of the Rosary until law enforcement has arrived.”
In his letter, Bugarin included a message from Vigneron reaffirming the church’s response to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case.
“I join my brother bishops in Michigan in affirming that the Church must redouble her efforts to ensure every woman, child, and family has the support necessary to thrive in pregnancy, early childhood, and beyond,” Vigneron wrote.
Vigneron said the Archdiocese of Detroit has partnered with Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan to launch Walking With Moms in Need, a program that equips Catholic parishes and parishioners to help pregnant and parenting mothers.
“We seek to address and resolve the struggles women and families face, rather than contributing to the ‘throwaway culture’ that proposes eliminating people as an acceptable solution," he wrote. "As we renew and redouble our efforts, let us continue to pray unceasingly for all pregnant women and their children, that they know the love of Christ as shared through the witness borne by you, me, and all Catholics.”
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A year ago, after BlueFrame Technology signed Bellevue West High School to a contract that would allow the school to livestream sporting events to a pay-per-view audience, Lincoln-based Hudl took notice.
To that point, Lexington, Kentucky-based BlueFrame had made its mark by focusing on NCAA sporting events, including the Division II level, where it had garnered a 77% market share, but in venturing into high school athletics, it created new opportunities -- and new revenue streams.
“What Bellevue West was doing opened our eyes to what BlueFrame was doing and it opened a lot of other people’s eyes, too,” said Greg Nelson, Hudl’s general manager and vice president and football coach at Lincoln Lutheran. “We knew what they were doing at the college level, but it was fun to see them dipping their toes in the high school space. It was interesting to see.”
In its first year, the agreement made thousands of dollars for Bellevue West and might have served as the linchpin in Hudl’s purchase of BlueFrame last week. Now, Hudl plans to offer the livestreaming service to the 18,000 U.S. high schools it already works with.
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BlueFrame said it signed more than 800 schools last year that are Hudl clients, while also inking livestream pay-per-view deals with state tournament events in Indiana and Missouri.
One high school athletic director said his school saw increased revenue after signing on with BlueFrame.
“(The) pay-to-view option made it easy to profit off the tickets sold,” said Chuck White, athletic director at Martin County High School in Kentucky, in a news release. “We were able to profit $5 off of every purchase.”
Hudl's purchase price of BlueFrame was undisclosed. BlueFrame and its 30 employees are will work under the Hudl umbrella.
Hudl, which prides itself on its video performance analysis technology which is used for scouting opponents and athlete recruitment, now has teamed with a company with a proven track record for providing a livestreaming platform to schools of all sizes.
“We’re proud to have built a service for our customers that’s become an indispensable part of their organizations,” said BlueFrame co-founder and CEO Ben Kant, in a news release. “We’re excited to continue building even better products and experiences for our customers and their fans.”
Hudl has created a 60-40 revenue-share model that will keep most of the pay-per-view money with the schools and will guarantee each athletic program that signs up for the service its first $5,000, Nelson said.
“If they go above and beyond, awesome, we’d love to generate more revenue for them,” Nelson said. “We’re trying to minimize the risk for them up front and help them realize what their content is worth.”
Livestreaming took on added significance during the pandemic, when attending games was often prohibited. BlueFrame also noticed that the pay-per-view model created opportunities for out-of-area relatives – grandparents, aunts and uncles, alike – to see their family members play for a nominal price.
“We want schools to realize the value of their content,” Nelson said. “If we can put $5,000 back into the hands of each school to use in their budgets, that’s going to be pretty meaningful. That will open the eyes of every athletic director to the value of that content.”
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New York Times bestselling author Candice Millard is set to deliver the 27th annual Governor's Lecture in the Humanities at the Lied Center on Sept. 28.
Millard will discuss each of her four books, all on the bestseller list including "The River of Doubt," a story about Theodore Roosevelt, "Destiny of the Republic," which highlights President James Garfield, "Hero of the Empire," about Winston Churchill, and her most recent story set on the Nile River, "River of the Gods."
She has been the recipient of the William Rockhill Nelson Award, Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, One Book One Lincoln award and the Kansas Notable Book award.
Millard was previously a writer and editor for National Geographic.
The lecture, which is sponsored by Humanities Nebraska, will also mark the start of the Thompson Forum on World Issues series on Creativity to Solve Global Challenges.
Police were dispatched at 9:40 p.m. Wednesday to the 2000 block of Surfside Drive, where they found Tammy Ward's 2009 Toyota Corolla was involved in a single-vehicle crash, the department said.
A Lincoln Southeast soccer coach noticed the same teams were winning each season, so he decided to look at the data. What he found turned into a larger project to tackle inequities in youth sports access.
Abortions are still legal in Nebraska. But the latest ruling is expected to prompt a special session for the Legislature to consider banning abortions in the state.
The red and black Spider-Man inspired sculpture that sparked controversy in 2019 when it was mistaken for devil horns lost its final battle after a tree fell on top of it during a storm last weekend.
Assistant City Attorney Rick Tast was acquitted of a misdemeanor trespass charge after prosecutors failed to prove he acted with criminal intent when he entered a northeast Lincoln home last May.
The pursuit began near 56th and O, where a trooper saw two motorcycles without license plates and attempted a traffic stop, according to the State Patrol. Both motorcycles fled eastbound at a high rate of speed.
The revocation follows a complaint alleging that beginning in the early to mid-1990s, Nolan Beyer “engaged in a personal and noneducational relationship with a student.”
The Lancaster County Attorney's had sought review of a county court judge's decision to suppress the document in Benjamin Rieker's case, a rarely seen move.
“I’m pinching myself – we are so close,” said Liz Shea-McCoy, who is leading the effort to save the mural. “I think the enthusiasm is incredible for this thing.” | https://journalstar.com/news/local/new-york-times-bestselling-author-to-give-lecture-at-the-lied-center/article_1f5bf3c5-5092-523b-b891-144825df08a6.html | 2022-06-25T18:05:19 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/new-york-times-bestselling-author-to-give-lecture-at-the-lied-center/article_1f5bf3c5-5092-523b-b891-144825df08a6.html |
WASHINGTON — The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge has shut down after a Roe v. Wade protester climbed the bridge Friday, the District Department of Transportation said.
Following the decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, an abortion-rights activist climbed the bridge in protest. The man, identified as Guido Reichstadter, made his way to the top of the bridge where he hung a green banner, which he says is the color of the abortion rights movement. He also streamed himself on TikTok calling for abortion-rights supporters to stand up and unite.
"I've got a life. A job, kids I love, there's pretty much any place I'd rather be than the top of this damn bridge," Reichstadter posted on Twitter. "But I have a responsibility to those I love- to step out, stand up and defend their rights. And so do you! So let's rise up, nonviolently, for Abortion rights!"
The closure will remain in effect until further notice, officials said.
Reichstadter slept on top of the bridge overnight.
Motorists are strongly encouraged to plan ahead for their afternoon commute and use alternate routes away from South Capital Street and areas surrounding the bridge.
Traffic enforcement officers are at the scene directing traffic. Motorists anticipate moderate delays on their commute and should use extra caution as they travel in the area of the FDMB. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/frederick-douglass-memorial-bridge-closed-roe-v-wade-protest/65-47d38793-1c4a-44f9-9de1-7b2c5c760093 | 2022-06-25T18:15:44 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/frederick-douglass-memorial-bridge-closed-roe-v-wade-protest/65-47d38793-1c4a-44f9-9de1-7b2c5c760093 |
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Three children are dead and two others injured after a house fire in Paulding County Friday night.
According to the county sheriff's office, deputies received a call about a domestic disturbance and a house fire on Woodwind Drive around 9:20 p.m. They add that a woman was inside the home attempting to stab the other people inside at the time of the call. The home was on fire at the same time.
As deputies and firefighters arrived on scene they attempted to put out the fire and rescue those inside.
In total, seven children were located inside the house, two of which were pronounced dead at the scene. Three others were taken to local hospitals for their injuries, where one of them died later on, the sheriff's office adds.
The other two children at the scene did not appear to have any injuries, according to authorities.
Meanwhile, the woman described on the initial call - Darlene Brister - was located on the property and taken into custody. The sheriff's office adds that she is currently in the Paulding County Detention Center and is being charged with two counts of malic murder. She is being held with no bond and the sheriff's office said additional charges are likely.
The Paulding County Sheriff's Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are leading the investigation.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An early Saturday morning fire burnt a structure and multiple sheds, according to the Sacramento Fire Department.
The 2-alarm fire was first reported around 6:16 a.m. Saturday in the 3000 block of Marysville Boulevard in Sacramento. No injuries were reported during the firefight which included dozens of area fire crews.
Officials say the improper disposal of coals from a recent barbecue sparked the blaze.
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ATLANTIC CITY — A wanted city man was arrested Thursday morning after barricading himself inside a residence with an acquaintance, police said.
Omar Butcher, 29, was arrested on an outstanding warrant and charged with obstruction and resisting arrest after it took members of the city's SWAT Team, Crisis Negotiations Team and bomb squad three hours to get Butcher and Claria Barrigher to exit the residence in the 300 block of North Tennessee Avenue, police said Saturday in a news release.
Detectives Darrin Lorady and Eric Evans were conducting an investigation about 8:20 a.m. Thursday at a residence on North Tennessee when they recognized Butcher, who was wanted in a domestic violence incident that occurred May 28, opening the door to a neighboring residence.
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Butcher retreated into the house after noticing detectives and refused to open the door, police said.
Lorady made contact with Barrigher via cellphone, and after three hours of negotiating, both Butcher and Barrigher exited and were taken into custody.
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Here’s an update of the COVID-19 numbers in the state:
New positive cases: 2,372
New deaths: 8
Total positive cases: 2,117,410
Total number of deaths: 30,914
Total vaccine doses administered: 14,052,166
Rate of transmission: 0.83
CASES BY COUNTY
Atlantic: 59,611 cases, 950 deaths, 378,823 doses administered
Cape May: 11,770 cases, 261 deaths, 133,886 doses administered
Cumberland: 34,997 cases, 571 deaths, 185,855 doses administered
Ocean: 146,543 cases, 2,851 deaths, 701,504 doses administered
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Figures are as of 1 p.m. June 25
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WILDWOOD — An intersection affected by a water main break has reopened to traffic, with one southbound lane still closed, police said about 1:15 p.m. Saturday.
Police reported the water main break near Bennett Avenue and Park Boulevard earlier Saturday.
The water company is on scene making repairs, police said, cautioning drivers to expect closures and delays in the area throughout the day.
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The vast majority of Arizona's judges are white, but a volunteer group of judges, lawyers, paralegals and others is working to introduce kids and teens of diverse backgrounds to careers in the courts.
High school and college students in Tucson networked with legal professionals at one such event this spring. They heard Tucson City Court Judge Geraldine Hale, a member of the Navajo Nation, talk about growing up on the reservation.
"I'm first generation everything," she said, adding that she was the first person in her family to attend college or law school and become a lawyer and judge.
Hale spoke through tears, saying that when she told her mother she was going to college and wouldn't be around to help, her whole family told her she needed to stay on the reservation and work. She struggled in college, but knew she couldn't fail, since she'd had to beg to leave the reservation.
"It was hard for me. But I had something in my spirit that I have to do this for me," Hale said.
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As she spoke about her sense of responsibility to her family, several students in the room nodded their heads, while others fought back tears of their own.
Joan Wagener, a judge in Pima County Juvenile Court, who is of Japanese descent, talked about becoming the second woman of color to serve on the bench in all of Pima County.
“There are a lot of us who didn’t have professionals in our lives and access to professionals in our lives growing up, and that’s OK,” Wagener told the group.
The message resonated in particular with a student in the group who is studying at UA's College of Public Health. She told the others she's also a "first generation everything," having come to the U.S. with her mother four years ago from the Philippines.
More than a dozen students from BASIS Tucson North, Tanque Verde and Sunnyside high schools, Pima Community College and the UA attended the event, through the state's Legal Futures program, discussing civil liberties, their daily lives and their dreams.
"The whole idea is really trying to create true pipelines and a pathway for them" to judicial careers, said Alfred Ray English, assistant dean of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at ASU, and chairman of the Legal Futures workgroup.
The need is stark, according to an April 2021 report on Arizona court diversity by the Arizona Advocacy Foundation.
Justice Court, which is the most racially diverse and representative court, is 80% white, even though the state's population is around 55% white, the report says.
There are no women of color on the Arizona Supreme Court and only one Latina on either Division of the Court of Appeals, the report says.
In the counties' superior courts, which handle most criminal cases, only 14 of the 179 judges are Black, Indigenous, or other people of color, the report showed.
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The Arizona Supreme Court Commission on Diversity, Equity and Justice in the Judiciary was created more than two decades ago as the Commission on Minorities in the Judiciary, with one of its mandates being to enrich diversity in the judiciary to reflect the community it serves. The name was recently changed, but the goals remain the same.
Made up of judges, attorneys and paralegals working in jurisdictions across the state, and law professors from both the University of Arizona's and Arizona State University's law schools, the committee meets regularly to discuss outreach efforts and hosts an annual law day for high school and college students across the state.
Legal Futures started in 2017 as an annual event designed to connect students with people working in the legal profession, particularly judges. The idea was to get students to spend four or five hours at a table with a judge during a hands-on event introducing them to careers and pathways into the justice system, said English.
The event took place only in Phoenix for the first three years, with about 50 participants each year, and paused for COVID in 2021. Organizers expanded the event for its return in 2022, holding Legal Futures simultaneously in Phoenix, Tucson and Yuma on a Friday in April, with roughly 100 high school and college students participating.
"It was a great success that we were able to pull it off," English said. "Next year, we hope to also go onto a reservation."
English is also part of ASU's pipeline initiative, seeking to recruit high school students from diverse backgrounds into the college and law school.
"We're trying to be a touchpoint for them in the legal community," English said.
Attendees of Tucson's Legal Futures event spent the morning at Pima County Juvenile Court learning about careers in the legal system and networking with local professionals. Most left with contact info for a judge or lawyer, and they all left with the knowledge that a career in the judiciary is available to them.
Besides Hale and Wagener, Pima County Superior Court Judge Lisa Abrams also took part, along with a UA law professor, local attorneys of various disciplines, and paralegals.
Advisors were also on hand, including Sunnyside's Anthony Leon, who oversees the school's teen court program. A former bailiff at Pima County Superior Court, Leon "melded his two passions" when he signed on as Sunnyside's wrestling coach and took over the teen court program. "I have the best students on campus," Leon told the group.
"Courts are way behind"
After introductions and a video about the court system, students debated the pros and cons of a fake proposed law that would give school administrators access to students' social media accounts in order to police cyberbullying on campuses.
During the discussion about the fake Proposition 13, participants discussed how society moves faster than the law, meaning often times there aren't laws on the book to address problems that arise.
"Courts are way behind on rights, on science and everything, which is bizarre to me," Leticia Marquez, a federal public defense attorney, told students at her table.
Ultimately, students decided the proposition would be overkill, although they contended that a law like this could potentially reduce school shootings or prevent tragedies like 9/11.
In the end, they decided the violation of privacy and threat it posed to students' free speech rights didn't outweigh the benefits.
Marquez handed out her business card, telling students to email her.
"Like if I get in trouble with the police?" one asked with a laugh.
"Don't talk, ask for your lawyer and don't give them your phone," she responded, without missing a beat.
"You could sit on that bench"
After a catered lunch, paid for by commission members, the group headed next door to juvenile court to check out a courtroom and try on a judge's robe.
"It seems like a silly thing, but it's not. It's putting on the uniform of the profession you're interested in," said Superior Court Judge Abrams. "There were selfies being had, and they got to sit on the bench under the seal of the state."
"It was great meeting the kids. Such different interests and areas of town were represented, it made for a nice, engaging conversations," she said.
Abrams attended an all-women's college and is the child of immigrants, with her mother becoming a U.S. citizen in 2007.
"My experiences shaped me," she said, saying the committee piqued her interest as a way to engage with the community and ensure the future judiciary represents the people it serves.
"I think it's exciting to be part of an outreach to young people in our community and give them that nudge that you could sit on that bench one day, those could be your initials on that robe," Abrams said. "It never dawned on me that I would be a judge until a judge called me and said I should apply."
If the group can create a pipeline of diverse law students and a legal community that reflects the state's cultural diversity, Abrams says that would make Arizona "such a rich place to live."
"It just takes one person saying 'I believe in you' to forge forward and put your name out there and make decisions and choices and set different goals," Abrams said.
But applying to be a judge is a difficult process and just putting one's name out there can be daunting, Abrams said, adding that the committee wants to be able to provide support to participants and future applicants.
"It's a diverse group itself. We have city court judges, the law school is represented, we have a member from Navajo County Justice Court, municipal courts and attorneys on board," Abrams said of the committee. "All vibrant people who care about serving the community."
Creating a pipeline
Last year, the commission informally launched a summer internship program with judges in the Phoenix court system, English said.
It officially launched this summer, with five undergraduate students spending six to eight weeks working with a judge in the Court of Appeals.
"Tucson is the next stop," English said of the program.
The group is also talking about creating a semi-regular newsletter as a way to engage students who have participated in Legal Futures and keep them connected with resources, with English saying that tracking attendees after the workshop is over is a challenge.
"We're trying to figure out how do we create a true pipeline, where you engage someone at one point and continually throughout the whole process," English said.
Courts can't accept donations or fundraise, so funding for the program's expansion is hard to come by. That's why strategic partnerships with other agencies and groups are so important, English said.
"It's really about exploring where our limitations are and what we can do to create an inclusive environment."
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Planned Parenthood will held lead Sunday's NYC Pride March, organizers announced one day after the Supreme Court reversed a nearly five-decades old protection of abortion rights.
The longtime provider of sexual and reproductive health care is kicking off the parade and will be the first group to walk, Heritage of Pride, the parade's organizer, said Saturday.
"Pride was born of protest and will always be a space to fight injustice and discrimination. Join us as we advocate for bodily autonomy at this year's NYC Pride March," the group said in its announcement.
The annual parade kicks off from 25th Street and 5th Avenue at 12 p.m.
Thousands of New Yorkers started protesting the Supreme Court's decision Friday afternoon, and are expected at additional protests throughout the weekend.
In the wake of Friday's ruling, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York said it would increase abortion appointments by 20% in anticipation of more people seeking services from out of state.
"While the court’s decision is devastating, we have been preparing for this day. At Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, we are committed to ensuring equitable access to all New Yorkers and people across the country in states hostile toward health care – and abortion is health care," interim president and CEO, Joy Calloway, said Friday.
In New York, abortion rights are protected by the 2019 Reproductive Health Act. In the words of the state Senate, the point of the law was to "codify Roe v. Wade protections into state law."
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The bill was signed into law in early 2019. Then-governor Andrew Cuomo celebrated the signing by having One World Trade Center lit up in pink that night.
In addition to codifying Roe vs Wade, the act moved abortion regulations into the state's health code, expanded who could provide abortions and also extended the window in which women could have abortions.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, 16 states, New York and New Jersey among them, and the District of Columbia have laws that explicitly protect the right to abortion to varying degrees.
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A new mother and her 6-week-old son became the focus of a man police say repeatedly hurled rocks at the family spending a weekend afternoon at the park.
The family was seated on a bench at Jackie Robinson Park on June 5 when the stranger started throwing rocks, the NYPD said Friday.
One of the rocks ricocheted off the 26-year-old mother and hit the newborn in the face, giving him a scratch, according to police.
Both victims were able to be treated at the scene by EMS.
Police released a surveillance image of the suspect in hopes of getting public assistance identifying him.
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MONROE COUNTY, Pa. — Frank Amendolare of Barrett Township, looks at the Delaware River, remembering the moment he realized something was wrong while fishing the river with his son.
"We were watching the sun go down and he just he looks at me and he says dad this is great you know, it's like, just what we needed.," Amendolare said. "30 seconds later all hell broke loose."
Amendolare says while he was in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Tuesday night, he noticed a family who came down to the river.
He saw people jump into the water.
When he realized that one of the young men was struggling, he jumped from his boat to try to rescue him, but it was too late.
"That kid got sucked under the water like a shark actually took him under," Amendolare said. "Once it took him under there were just screams coming from everywhere. The family, my son, and I still tried to get him before he hit the rapids."
The National Park Service has identified the missing swimmer as 23-year-old Christopher Schofield of Stroudsburg.
Schofield and the other swimmers were not wearing life jackets.
Amendolare says the river current was strong that day, "This body of water is serious you know, I felt the pressure myself and I'm a strong swimmer at 50 years old."
The fisherman says his heart goes out to the family and those final moments in the water haunt him.
"I just wanna let the family know that I gave it my all and if I would have got ahold of you son, brother, nephew, family friend, a neighbor I wouldn't of let go of him, Amendolare said.
He says he doesn't plan to fish in that spot anymore.
Search crews plan to be back on the water this weekend.
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PALMYRA, Pa. — Authorities are investigating after a plane struck a vehicle while it was trying to land at an airport in Lebanon County on Saturday morning.
The unidentified pilot of the single-engine Luscombe 8A was trying to land the plane at Reigle Field Airport in Palmyra around 9:40 a.m. when he struck a vehicle, said the Federal Aviation Administration.
Officials have yet to say if there were people in the vehicle at the time of the crash.
After the crash, the plane came to a rest on airport property next to the runway.
Officials say the pilot was the only person on the plane.
At this time, it's not known if there were any injuries.
Both the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating this incident. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lebanon-county/plane-crashes-into-vehicle-while-trying-to-land-lebanon-county-airport/521-26af53d2-8920-4f41-96bf-68c0b0162f96 | 2022-06-25T18:34:17 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lebanon-county/plane-crashes-into-vehicle-while-trying-to-land-lebanon-county-airport/521-26af53d2-8920-4f41-96bf-68c0b0162f96 |
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