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Green Gold Rush: What happened to Maine's once-robust sea urchin industry?
In the '90s Maine sea urchin value was second to lobster. Then they vanished. Now those who still hold their licenses fear they're the last of a generation.
In the United States' easternmost city, you'll find Paul Cox and his crew working early on the water. In late winter, they're after a spikey, green, and otherwise inedible sea creature (besides the gonads): the green sea urchin.
Cox may be in his 60s, but he is considered on the younger side of sea urchin fishermen in Maine.
From December to March of every year, he puts on a dry suit and scuba gear and heads 40 to 60 feet under water off the coast of Eastport.
Alone and in often murky water that requires a flashlight, he scoops hundreds of pounds of sea urchin into yellow nets. His crew, Paul and Jevin, sort the urchin above water.
"I've always wanted to dive," Cox said. "Time means nothing under water. When you get down there, it's like you just began."
The time of year the water is most clear is also the coldest, around 20 degrees Fahrenheit outside and a water temperature of around 34 in early March.
Cox said he started to dive for sea urchin in the '90s, not long before the state cut off any new licenses to prospective fishermen.
After the '90s, no one could get a new sea urchin license.
Now everyone who dives for urchin is in their 60s and 70s, with little hope on the horizon for new licenses seeing how the sea urchin has lost so much of its habitat because of climate change and invasive species.
Cox said if the fishery continues to shrink it will die forever.
"If we're not our low yet, then there is nothing we can do to bring them back," Cox said.
How did the fishery become so depleted? And is there any hope for it to become profitable for the state again?
The Regulators Department of Marine Resources deals with a 'gold rush'
When Robin Alden took over the commissioner spot for the Maine Department of Marine Resources in the 1990s, she had to deal with the urchin industry when it started to boom. At that time, there was little to no regulation.
"Urchins is such an interesting case," Alden said. "It was a market driven by unexpected change. ... The fishery went up, and then it went down. And it kept going down."
Alden said before the industry took off, commercial fishermen in Maine viewed urchin as a bothersome bycatch.
"No one had any science on urchins," Alden said.
But the industry quickly skyrocketed to the second most valuable industry behind lobster. It brought in $35 million alone in 1995, according to the Department of Marine Resources.
Hundreds of divers and draggers were registering new licenses, with no regulation on the number of urchin you could catch.
"It was very contentious," Alden said. "A lot of dealers opposed any kind of regulation at all. ... Some people who wanted regulations didn't dare say so."
And with all of the catch going to Japan and China, it was a recipe for overfishing, seeing how there were no regulations on who could fish and how much urchin they could drag or dive.
"What the state did to regulate urchins was sensible. It just came way too late," Alden said. "We had people coming from all over the world to fish for urchin in Maine."
Alden said one thing that made it challenging to regulate sea urchin was the DMR had limited powers in the '90s.
It wasn't until legislative changes in Maine after the sea urchin industry collapsed, that the DMR could regulate a species before it was overfished.
"Back then it was still novel in Maine to limit the number of people in the industry," Alden said.
Although regulations came late, they still came. A big question Alden has after serving as the DMR commissioner is why the urchins still haven't rebounded 20 years since regulation.
"All those measures didn't allow them to rebuild, and the question is why?"
The Dealers Capitalizing on the gold rush: first in, last out
Atchan Tamaki came to the Maine in the late '80s to work in a restaurant.
Originally from Japan, Tamaki started selling Maine lobster back to his hometown of Nara.
"My friend opened up a Japanese restaurant in Portland here. ... He and his coworkers asked me to come help," he said.
Tamaki said one night after a late shift, he was walking by the wharf in downtown Portland when he noticed children throwing what looked like rocks against a wall.
When he approached the rocks, he realized it was sea urchin.
"Maybe I could do business with sea urchin," he said.
Soon he opened a processing plant.
Tamaki claims he is the first person to process Maine sea urchin and sell.
He also said he will most likely be the last one if no new licenses are proposed by the DMR or the state legislature.
"The first one and the last one," he said while laughing. "All my customers tell me not to quit."
Atchan runs ISF Trading Co in Portland.
"Business was good until 1996 or '97, and then that's when it slowed down ... because of the regulations, tough regulations," Tamaki said.
Still, more than 20 years later, ISF is one of the few remaining sea urchin processing plants in the state. A walk through the facility in a late winter morning and its evidence is a symphony of shells smashing.
Workers, many of them from migrant families, find work processing the gonads from the urchin, also known as uni.
"It's getting less and less," Atchan Tamaki said. "In any business, if you are not making money you have to close."
Tamaki said while the urchin processing plant looks busy at face value, the days they bring fresh uni in to be harvested are becoming more scarce.
"Eventually its going to be gone if they keep doing it like this," Tamaki said.
The lack of new licenses and the depleting source of fishermen willing to fish in their 60s and 70s has Tamaki uncertain about the future.
"Eventually Maine sea urchin will be gone. If there are no harvesters there, and then we don't know. We just cannot process," Tamaki said. "It's a tough lesson but ... whatever happened, happened."
Tamaki said farming sea urchin may be the future. But aquaculture for sea urchin isn't as advanced the same way kelp and oyster farming has become in Maine.
"Fishermen always have to find a way," Tamaki said. "As long as sea urchin is here, I am still doing."
The Future Could farming urchin save the fishery?
Steve Eddy knows farming sea urchin alone cannot replace the international demand of the wild fishery, but he certainly believes it can supplement it.
"I do not see it as ever replacing the fishery simply because of the scale," Eddy said.
Eddy works with the University of Maine Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research. He said the future for the industry depends on the wild fishery surviving, with some aid from farming urchin.
But warming waters and competition from invasive species may keep that from happening.
"Their comfort zone is from zero to around 18 degrees centigrade ... once it gets warmer than that they don't do too well," Eddy said.
In Casco Bay, where sea urchins once covered the sea floor, summer water temps often times exceed the threshold for urchin to live.
There is also the issue of marketing farmed sea urchin to processors around the country.
"Most processors that I've talked to are biased against farmed sea urchin," Eddy said.
He said there is a preference for the "wild caught" label that sells well in international markets.
When talking about invasive species, green crabs are No. 1 for the destruction of sea urchin.
Green crabs have not only been known to eat sea urchin but also eat vegetation that sea urchin eat as well.
Eddy said a combination between farming and wild urchins could be key, such as reintroducing farmed sea urchin into beds of farmed kelp and oysters, where conditions replicate an environment before invasive species.
"[In the future] I see a lot of young people involved, and I see aquaculture part of the mix," Eddy said. "I see more than 2 million pounds of landings a year."
But before the future of pseudo-aquaculture, the survival of the industry is all dependent on the number of fishermen willing to harvest urchin as they continue to age and die off.
"Hopefully that will be addressed before it's too late. As long as the resource is there the state will open the door up to new licenses or license transfers," Eddy said. "The traditional industry as we know it will not survive without the fishery."
Eastport: the last frontier Fishermen make their case to protect their work
Paul Cox said at some point soon, new licenses will either have to be given out, or fishermen should be allowed to hand their licenses to their children.
"But I don't think it's time right now. We're doing well to hang on right now," Cox said.
While in his 60s, Cox said he is confident to continue diving in Cobscook Bay. But he's worried for fishermen much older than him who still have licenses.
"They're dying off; I hate to say it," Cox said. "We're losing a lot of good fishermen every year."
He says two to three fishermen he knows die each year.
"It's kind of sad to see where it was to now, for sure."
As Cox and his crew box up the urchin and send it shipping to southern Maine, the worry for the future continues.
"Put your money in the wild fishery," Cox said. "I think we're at our low, and if we're not at our low, then there's nothing we can do to bring them back because we've lost the fishermen."
He remains hopeful there will be an answer.
"I think there are positive things. ... We've got some lessons to learn, but I think we're going to come ahead."
He drives off in his pickup, cash in hand. Another season finished in what remains of Maine's once prolific sea urchin industry.
And with limited options for solutions, it's literally a race against the clock for these aging Maine fishermen. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/fisheries/maine-sea-urchin-industry/97-64ccaed3-143d-464f-a273-7552f7a66eb8 | 2023-05-24T17:47:01 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/fisheries/maine-sea-urchin-industry/97-64ccaed3-143d-464f-a273-7552f7a66eb8 |
UVALDE, Texas — Nineteen students and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022.
Shortly after the shooting, we began to learn about the victims. Below are those who lost their lives one year ago.
Eva Mireles
Eva Mireles was one of the first victims identified in the Uvalde school shooting. She was a fourth-grade teacher.
She has been described as a loving mother and wife who lived life to the fullest.
“She was adventurous. I would definitely say those wonderful things about her. She is definitely going to be very missed,” said 44-year-old relative Amber Ybarra, of San Antonio.
In a post on the school’s website at the start of the school year, Mireles had introduced herself to her new students.
“Welcome to the 4th grade! We have a wonderful year ahead of us!” she wrote, noting she had been teaching 17 years, loved running and hiking, and had a “supportive, fun, and loving family.” She mentioned that her husband was a school district police officer, and they had a grown daughter and three “furry friends.”
Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez
Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, 10, was a third-grader at Robb Elementary.
Her dad had spent much of Tuesday afternoon looking for her. When he spoke to KHOU 11 News earlier in the day, he said no one had any answers on the whereabouts of his daughter.
"They don't know where she's at ... her name is not here," Rodriguez said. "They're not letting us in at the hospital right now so we don't know where to go."
He later received the devastating news that Annabell was one of the 19 students killed in the shooting.
Her family said she was in the same classroom as her cousin, who was also shot and killed.
Xavier James Lopez
The Associated Press spoke with Lisa Garza, 54, of Arlington, Texas, who identified her cousin, Xavier Javier Lopez, 10, as one of the victims.
She said Xavier had been eagerly awaiting a summer of swimming.
“He was just a loving 10-year-old little boy, just enjoying life, not knowing that this tragedy was going to happen today,” she said. “He was very bubbly, loved to dance with his brothers, his mom. This has just taken a toll on all of us.”
Layla Salazar
Vincent Salazar said his 10-year-old daughter, Layla, loved to swim and dance to Tik Tok videos. She was fast — she won six races at the school’s field day, and Salazar proudly posted a photo of Layla showing off two of her ribbons on Facebook.
Each morning as he drove her to school in his pickup, Salazar would play “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” by Guns ‘n’ Roses and they’d sing along, he said.
“She was just a whole lot of fun,” he said.
Uziyah Garcia
Manny Renfro told the Associated Press he got word Tuesday that his grandson, 8-year-old Uziyah Garcia, was among those killed.
“The sweetest little boy that I’ve ever known,” Renfro said. “I’m not just saying that because he was my grandkid.”
Renfro said Uziyah last visited him in San Angelo during spring break.
“We started throwing the football together and I was teaching him pass patterns. Such a fast little boy and he could catch a ball so good,” Renfro said. “There were certain plays that I would call that he would remember and he would do it exactly like we practiced.”
Rogelio Torres
The father of Rogelio Torres confirmed to KHOU 11’s Anayeli Ruiz Wednesday morning that his son was killed during the shooting at Robb Elementary School.
Rogelio was 10 years old.
Eliahna García
Among those left to grieve were relatives of 10-year-old Eliahna Garcia.
“She was very happy and very outgoing,” said Eliahna’s aunt, Siria Arizmendi, a fifth-grade teacher at Flores Elementary School in the same school district as Robb Elementary. “She loved to dance and play sports. She was big into family, enjoyed being with the family.”
Nevaeh Bravo
Nevaeh Alyssa Bravo also was killed and her aunt noted Naveah’s first name is Heaven spelled backward. In a Facebook posting, Yvonne White described Nevaeh and Jailah, her cousin who was also killed in the massacre, as “Our Angels.”
Eliahana Cruz Torres
Fourth-grader Eliahana Cruz Torres was looking forward to her last softball game of the season before she was killed Tuesday.
"She was very excited about her softball game today. She was kind of nervous," her aunt said. "I talked to her last night and she was kind of nervous, saying that it was her last game and she didn't want softball to end. And she was excited because there were gonna, I guess, announce the ones that made it to all-stars. And she was also saying, like, 'what if I make it? I'm gonna be so nervous.' And I was like, 'girl you got this. You're gonna be good at it. You got this.' So she was excited."
Jailah Nicole Silguero
Veronica Luevanos, whose 10-year-old daughter, Jailah Nicole Silguero, was among the victims, tearfully told Univision that her daughter did not want to go to school Tuesday and seemed to sense something bad was going to happen. Jailah’s cousin, Naveah, also died in the shooting.
Jose Manuel Flores Jr.
Jose's parents told CNN that the 10-year-old was helpful around the house and loved his younger siblings. “He was just very good with babies,” his mother said. His father told CNN that Jose loved baseball and video games and “was always full of energy.” A photo taken at school Tuesday shows him smiling and proudly holding a certificate to show he made the honor roll.
Amerie Jo Garza
Medical assistant Angel Garza also hurried to the school and immediately found a girl covered in blood among the terrified children streaming out of the building.
“I’m not hurt. He shot my best friend,” the girl told Garza when he offered help. “She’s not breathing. She was just trying to call the cops.”
Her friend was Amerie Jo Garza — Angel Garza’s stepdaughter.
Amerie was a happy child who made the honor roll and loved to paint, draw and work in clay. “She was very creative,” said her grandmother Dora Mendoza. “She was my baby. Whenever she saw flowers she would draw them.”
Maranda Mathis
The mother of a close friend described Maranda as “very loving and very talkative.” She told the Austin American-Statesman that her daughter and Miranda had been in the same classes and that Maranda would ask to have her hair done like her daughter’s.
Alithia Ramirez
Ryan Ramirez rushed to Robb Elementary when he heard about the shooting, hoping to find his daughter, Alithia, and take her home. But Alithia, too, was among the victims.
Ramirez’s Facebook page includes a photo, now shown around the world, of the little girl wearing the multi-colored T-shirt that announced she was out of “single digits” after turning 10 years old. The same photo was posted again Wednesday with no words, but with Alithia wearing angel wings.
Irma Garcia
Irma Garcia was also killed in the shooting. She taught at the school for 23 years.
According to reports, she died while shielding her students from the shooter.
Jackie Cazares
Javier Cazares said he found out Tuesday afternoon that his 9-year-old daughter Jacklyn Cazares was killed in her classroom. She was with a group of five girls, including her second cousin, Annabelle Rodriguez, who formed a tight group of friends.
“They are all gone now,” Cazares said.
The extended families of the slain cousins gathered Wednesday to mourn and comfort each other over barbecue.
Cazares described his daughter as a “firecracker” who “had a voice, she didn’t like bullies, she didn’t like kids being picked on.”
“All in all, full of love. She had a big heart,” he said.
Jayce Carmelo Luevanos
Carmelo Quiroz's grandson, Jayce Luevanos, 10, had begged to go along with his grandmother on Tuesday as she accompanied her great-granddaughter’s kindergarten class to the San Antonio Zoo. But, he said, the family told Jayce it didn’t make sense to skip school so close to the end of the year. Besides, Jayce liked school.
“That’s why my wife is hurting so much, because he wanted to go to San Antonio,” Quiroz told USA Today. “He was so sad he couldn’t go. Maybe if he would have gone, he’d be here.”
Makenna Lee Elrod
Makenna's aunt started a GoFundMe page to help the family.
"Words cannot express the pain my sister and our family is going through. I know in the coming weeks my sister is going to be overcome with so much and any support is appreciated. Please pray for our family and remember Makenna. She was beautiful, funny, smart, and amazing. She had the biggest heart and loved her family and friends so much. Her smile would light up a room."
Tess Marie Mata
Faith Mata told The Washington Post that her sister loved TikTok dance videos, Ariana Grande, the Houston Astros, and having her hair curled.
Alexandria 'Lexi' Rubio
Uvalde County Sheriff’s Deputy Felix Rubio and his wife had been at the school Tuesday morning to celebrate with their daughter, 10-year-old Alexandria “Lexi” Aniyah, since the fourth-grader had made honor roll with all A's and received a good citizen award.
In a Facebook post, Kimberly Rubio wrote, “We told her we loved her and would pick her up after school. We had no idea this was goodbye.”
Maite Rodriguez
After a rough time with Zoom classes during the pandemic, Maite Rodriguez made the honor roll for straight As and Bs this year and was recognized at an assembly on Tuesday, said her mother, Ana Rodriguez. Maite especially liked physical education, and after she died, her teacher texted Ana Rodriguez to say she was highly competitive at kickball and ran faster than all the boys. Her mother described Maite as “focused, competitive, smart, bright, beautiful, happy.” Maite wanted to be a marine biologist and after researching a program at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi she told her mother she wanted to study there.
Maite's family member created a GoFundMe page, saying:
"It is with a heavy heart I come on here on behalf of my cousin Ana who lost her sweet baby girl in yesterday's senseless shooting we are deeply saddened by the loss of this sweet smart little girl. Donations for funeral expenses as well for time away from work to allow her to grieve her loss anything helps God bless and may she R.I.P Maite Rodriguez we love you." | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/robb-elemtary-victims/285-a8623f15-babc-43f8-9cac-01e6459589a3 | 2023-05-24T17:47:03 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/robb-elemtary-victims/285-a8623f15-babc-43f8-9cac-01e6459589a3 |
TOPSHAM, Maine — Editor's note: The video above aired Nov. 28, 2022.
Four Mainers received the Maine Chiefs of Police Association's Life Saving Award for their actions during a crash in Topsham on Nov. 22.
Shortly before 6:30 p.m. that day, a Toyota minivan crashed into a tree on Route 24 and caught fire. The vehicle's doors were locked, the driver was initially unresponsive, and her 2-month-old baby was trapped in the back of the van, according to Topsham police.
Amanda Campbell of Bath, David Mailly of Topsham, Sassan Mansovrzadeh of Topsham, Melody Coughot of Bowdoinham, and Rick Greene of Bowdoinham all witnessed the crash and took part in saving the mother and child. Police said they broke the van's windows and got the two people out before the vehicle became fully engulfed in flames.
"By the time we were beating on the windows trying to get into the vehicle to get to these folks, there had to be at least a dozen other random good Samaritan folks who stopped because it was the right thing to do," Campbell told NEWS CENTER Maine back in November.
Topsham police said there's little doubt the group's quick actions saved two lives that November night.
Kyndric Stewart, 25, of Lewiston suffered injuries including a broken leg and other internal injuries, police said. Her child was believed to be uninjured.
Cougot, Greene, and Campbell are pictured below. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/topsham-crash-rescue-maine-chiefs-of-police-association-life-saving-award/97-61e82e27-632e-4081-bed9-81ecec726091 | 2023-05-24T17:47:05 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/topsham-crash-rescue-maine-chiefs-of-police-association-life-saving-award/97-61e82e27-632e-4081-bed9-81ecec726091 |
A local health center has rescinded an employment offer for its chief executive officer position because the candidate couldn’t complete a background check.
Rocking Horse Community Health Center announced the hiring of Dr. Jose Rodriguez-Diaz as its new chief executive officer in September. Rodriguez-Diaz was set to begin his new role last month, replacing former CEO Chris Cook, who resigned in May.
The board announced this week that the employment offer had been withdrawn and the CEO search will continue.
“Rocking Horse Center has rescinded the Sept. 27 employment offer made to Dr. Jose Rodriguez-Diaz to be the organization’s next CEO,” Board President Gus Geil said in a statement. “As is standard practice, the offer was contingent upon satisfactory completion of a background check and verification of credentials, which we were not able to accomplish.”
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He didn’t return calls seeking comment on Wednesday.
Kent Youngman will continue in his role as interim CEO while a nationwide search is resumed for a CEO for the center.
Rocking Horse leaders declined further comment because it’s a personnel matter, Youngman said in an email. Youngman also didn’t respond to an e-mail from the Springfield News-Sun asking for more details.
Rocking Horse, which opened in 1999, has 140 employees at four locations in Clark and Madison counties, including offices at Keifer Academy and the Mulberry Terrace apartment complex.
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In 2013, the organization completed an $8 million expansion at its facility near downtown Springfield. The Rocking Horse Center serves more than 12,000 patients annually and provided about 51,000 doctor visits last year.
Rodriguez-Diaz was the co-founder and senior managing partner at Tulsa, Okla.-based Pacific Health Partners, a consulting group where he leads the practice transformation and strategic planning division, according to a news release from Rocking Horse. He was previously the CEO of AID Atlanta, a nonprofit that provides HIV/AIDS-related services.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. (WJHL)– As the region continues to see gorgeous weather and sunny days, many people like to enjoy all the region has to offer when it comes to nature.
Bristol, Tennessee has several parks where you can do just that but perhaps the most notable is Steele Creek Park.
The more than 2,200-acre park features numerous activities- plus, you can learn a few things during your visit. It’s actually the third-largest municipal park in Tennessee.
“This was to be Watauga State Park. This was actually purchased by the Department of the Interior and given to the state of Tennessee to be a state park,” said Parks and Recreation Director, Terry Napier.
The city leased the property from the state and it was deeded to Bristol in 1964.
“We’ve been able to maintain our park where it’s affordable for everybody. There’s a two-dollar fee to bring a car through the gate and that just helps us keep the roads paved and upkept,” said Napier. “We have multiple parking lots around the park where you’re welcome to park and walk into the park.”
It offers 25 miles of hiking and biking trails, disc golf and traditional golf.
“It is a nine-hole course but we do offer 18-hole rates. Wednesdays are our most popular day. It’s our Wednesday play-all-day special. So, it’s $20 to play as many rounds as you need,” said Park Programmer, Beth Carter. “We have specials on Fridays for seniors and Tuesdays for ladies so you get reduced green fees.”
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One of the park’s most popular attractions is the Steele Creek Express- a 1964 steam engine that takes you on about a 15-minute ride through the park’s nature.
“It is definitely a kids favorite. They all take pictures with it, they’ll get their train conductor hats, they’ll have little train whistles and we get a lot of repeat customers,” Carter said.
The dollar train ride takes you alongside the 52-acre lake, where people can kayak or paddle boats. Those rentals also start at a dollar.
“It’s a dollar per person for a thirty-minute ride. We have 8 boats and then two ADA boats so we have options with a cover, without a cover,” said Carter. “We’re never going to offer astronomical prices for concessions or opportunities to do fun things. We’re all about just wanting the kids to come out and play, have big family activities and just overall enjoy nature and the recreational opportunities this park has to offer.”
People can also experience the park inside the nature center.
“Everything in the nature center interprets the natural history of Steele Creek Park and the surrounding area,” said Nature Center Director, Jeremy Stout. “Exploration should begin here and hopefully will invite them to go explore the park after they walk out the doors.”
It’s open seven days a week year-round and offers programming and exhibits.
“As you walk through the front door the first thing that you find are all of our aquatic animals- turtles, fish, a few amphibians centered around an aquarium island and then we have simulated forest exhibits with some of the reptiles and amphibians you can find on land,” said Stout. “We’re so happy to offer hikes, seminars, programs, workshops for all ages and activity levels. Whatever you’re interested in, we offer programming year round and most of our programming is free with park admission.”
The Nature Center’s work extends beyond the park.
“There are also conservation efforts and research efforts that are happening behind the scenes so our naturalist staff are also trained scientists and so we’re engaged in a lot of fascinating research projects solving some of the mysteries of the universe,” Stout explained.
The park also has playgrounds, splash pads, fields and shelters for rent. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/celebrating-70-years/steele-creek-park-offers-affordable-fun-for-the-entire-family/ | 2023-05-24T17:51:01 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/celebrating-70-years/steele-creek-park-offers-affordable-fun-for-the-entire-family/ |
BRISTOL, Tenn. (WJHL) – From liquor to beer, Tennessee Hills continues to expand not only in its products but also in the company’s ventures since its formation in 2014.
The latest expansion by the highly recognizable Northeast Tennessee brand will help the company reach its goal of national distribution and much more.
“Our new facility will give us the capacity that we need to fulfill the demand and then the ball is in our court. How good are we? I think we’re pretty good and we’re putting a lot of money and faith behind that. We’ll have to see where the chips fall here in a couple of years,” said Co-Owner & President of Rugged American Spirits, Stephen Callahan.
The facility is settled on the former American National University campus in Bristol, Tennessee across from the Pinnacle. It was a location that was strategically chosen by Stephen Callahan and his business partner.
“It’s the gateway to Tennessee. It’s the perfect opportunity to make tourists realize that Tennessee actually starts here in East Tennessee and doesn’t necessarily start in Gatlinburg. It’s located right beside Interstate 81 so you get 30,000 cars a day driving past this location and 6 million visitors a year over at the Pinnacle. When you are talking about trying to take that national leap, this is the perfect spot to do it,” said Callahan.
Bristol Chamber of Commerce President and CEO, Beth Rhinehart, said this new venture is building off the momentum of already booming growth in Bristol.
“It’s really important to bring more people in to experience and opportunities we have here in our community. It’s going to be a boom for all the other business opportunities as well. People will go Downtown and shop, people will go to Exit 7 and shop or the Pinnacle to shop and all the borders beyond that,” said Rhinehart.
Located in a prime spot, the new facility will become more than just a distillery. Callahan said it will offer multiple bars, a museum, corporate headquarters, and even a creamstillery; specializing in booze-infused ice cream and baked goods.
“When we think of something and we think it’s worth going after, we jump all in. We flew out to Ice Cream University and learned everything we needed to know about ice cream and infusing it with alcohol. We’re excited to get back to those entrepreneurial roots that are in our DNA and any time we get a chance to build something new, we’re all over it,” said Callahan.
While the space isn’t much at the moment, it will soon be full of opportunities, not to mention, jobs. Callahan says roughly 40 to 50 jobs will be added to their existing operation.
“Primarily it’s going to be the Tennessee Hills Creamstillery on the front end of it and also our corporate offices and laboratories for all of our on-site operations. We’re standing in this room which is a temporary bottling facility that we’re setting up to get us through the big push until our new facility opens later this year,” he said.
As far as the timeline goes, the original plan was to have the full facility up and running by October 2023. However, due to supply chain issues brought on by the pandemic, the timeline has slightly shifted to completion and opening in December.
Callahan said while it’s a setback, he fully anticipates opening this Winter.
Overall, leaders within Bristol Tennessee can’t wait to see this vision come to life.
“It’s all coming together in a really unique way timing-wise that I think will be huge for us,” said Rhinehart.
Callahan told News Channel 11 that in addition to the facility, his company is eyeing yet another project in Bristol. A nearby plot of 45 acres they own could one day have cabins for rental just beside the new headquarters, but it’s going to be a bit until those plans are fully drafted up and formally announced. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/celebrating-70-years/tennessee-hills-new-bristol-facility-slated-to-open-in-december/ | 2023-05-24T17:51:07 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/celebrating-70-years/tennessee-hills-new-bristol-facility-slated-to-open-in-december/ |
MILLIGAN, Tenn. (WJHL) — Milligan University announced the launch of a formal search process to pick the next university president after current president Bill Greer informed the community that he would retire in the summer of 2024 and become the school’s chancellor.
The search committee, led by board chair Dick Phillips, is comprised of the following members:
- Lottie Ryans, Johnson City businesswoman
- Eric Deaton, Johnson City healthcare executive
- Brenda Green, Elizabethton businesswoman
- David Hamilton, Pooler, Georgia businessman
- Dave Hamlin, Shelbyville, Kentucky minister
- Cal Wilson, Johnsonson City retired investment banker
- Jeff Bourn, Milligan University assistant women’s basketball coach
- Andy Hull, Milligan University area chair and associate professor of physician studies
- Angela Hilton-Prillhart, Milligan University associate dean of the School of Social Sciences and Education and associate professor of Education
- Evan Magness, Milligan University Student Government Association president
- Brian Talty, Decatur, Illinois pastor of First Christian Church, Milligan University alumnus
According to the university, the search committee will recommend a candidate to the board of trustees. The candidate will be selected based on recommendations of leadership criteria and requirements established by the board.
The new president is expected to fill the role around August 1, 2024. For more information from the university, click here. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/milligan-university-begins-search-process-for-next-president/ | 2023-05-24T17:51:13 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/milligan-university-begins-search-process-for-next-president/ |
BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) – The northbound lanes of Interstate 81 near Bristol, Virginia are closed due to a crash, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT).
The VDOT 511 Traffic Map states the crash occurred near mile marker 8 on Tuesday.
As of 12:30 p.m., all northbound lanes were closed, as well as the south left shoulder.
Images from a traffic camera in the area show multiple vehicles in the media and first responders on the scene.
News Channel 11 has reached out to the Virginia State Police for more information on the crash. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/vdot-crash-closes-i-81-north-near-bristol/ | 2023-05-24T17:51:19 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/vdot-crash-closes-i-81-north-near-bristol/ |
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) – Washington County, Tennessee commissioners in a Monday meeting opted to tighten the leash on dog owners that tether their pets under certain conditions.
According to Washington County Resolution No. 23-05-12, a pet owner can incur fines and civil litigation if a dog is kept in violation of the following conditions:
- The dog shall not be tethered in a matter that results, or could reasonably
result, in the dog becoming frequently entangled on the restraint or another object. - If there are multiple dogs tethered, each dog must be on a separate
tether and not secured to the same fixed point. - The tether must allow the dog to sit, lie down, and stand comfortably
without the restraint becoming taut and allow the dog a range of movement. - A dog shall not be tethered if it is ill, suffering from a debilitating disease,
injured, in distress, in the advanced stages of pregnancy, or under 6 months of age. - A tethered dog must have access to clean water, food, dry ground and
necessary shelter that is safe and protective while tethered. - A dog shall not be tethered in a manner that results in the dog being left
in unsafe or unsanitary conditions or that forces the dog to stand, sit, or lie down in its
own excrement or urine. - A dog shall not be tethered by means of a choke, pinch, slip, halter, or
prong-type collar, or by any means other than with a properly fitted buckle-type collar
or harness that provides enough room between the collar or harness and the dog’s
throat to allow normal breathing and swallowing. - A dog shall not be tethered in a manner that causes the dog injury or
pain. - The weight of the tether shall be reasonably necessary to safely restrain
the dog without placing excessive strain or weight on the dog. - The tether must be a minimum of 10 feet long and weigh no more than
10% of the dog’s body weight. Example: for a 60-pound dog, the tether can weigh no
more than 6 pounds.
Language in the ordinance outlines a fine of $25 for an owner’s first offense and a range of $50-$100 in penalties for each additional offense. Each day a dog’s conditions violate the ordinance is considered a new offense.
After a round of discussion with Washington County Johnson City Animal Shelter director Tammy Davis, the commission voted to pass the resolution with one no vote from Commissioner Marty Johnson.
“In the county, right now all that I would like to see happen is that we have proper tethering guidelines put in place,” Davis said.
Enforcement for the resolution would be done by animal control officers, who would need permission or an inspection warrant from Washington County General Sessions Court before entering a resident’s property.
With commission approval secured, the resolution now awaits final signatures from County Mayor Joe Grandy and Allyson Wilkinson, county attorney. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/washington-co-tn-commission-passes-dog-tethering-ordinance/ | 2023-05-24T17:51:25 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/washington-co-tn-commission-passes-dog-tethering-ordinance/ |
MIAMI — For over half a century, families like Sylvia Grimaldi’s flocked to the Miami Seaquarium to get a glimpse of their star attraction: Lolita the killer whale.
“When you've lived in Miami, your entire life you know there is an orca there named Lolita," Grimaldi said. "She's sort of like part of the community."
Now we know her as Tokitae or Toki. She is a 57-year-old Southern Resident orca violently captured from the Puget Sound in 1970.
“They bring you (to the seaquarium) when you're a little kid, then you bring your children until one day, you know, you're lighted and you're like, wait a second, it's all wrong,” Grimaldi said.
Over the past decade, awareness about Tokitae’s deteriorating living conditions bubbled to the surface in Miami- revealing a sad truth behind the star of many happy home movies.
“What you don't know is… the conditions this beautiful Lolita has lived in for so many years, there is no home, there's no timeout, there is no ‘let me get some rest and relax,’" Grimaldi said. "She can’t even stay away or hide from the scorching sun in South Florida."
In 2015, Grimaldi connected with animal rights activist Alejandro Ariel Dintino while protesting outside the Seaquarium.
“I feel so sad, because when you see how she lives, you know, the tank is three times her body size," Dintino said. "You know, she can't swim. She can’t do anything."
Toki’s medical records paint a dire picture of life inside the Seaquarium with Toki living in dirty water, being fed rotten fish and forced to perform for crowds despite injuries.
“Her story broke my heart," Dintino said. "So from that moment, I, I thought I had to do something."
While the protests went on for several years, it wasn’t until 2018 that the momentum behind the fight to free Toki got a huge boost thanks to the Lummi Nation. The Lhaq'temish people, also known as the Lummi Nation, have a history with orcas dating back thousands of years. According to Lummi Elder Raynell Morris, orcas are considered family beneath the waves.
“I started supporting them. And I can't believe just four years later, we are close to achieving this goal," Dintino said. "We are very, very close. This will change the history, you know, it is unbelievable."
A historic announcement
On March 30, 2023, Tokitae’s new corporate owners- the Dolphin company- made history by signing a pledge agreeing to the orca’s return to Washington waters.
During the announcement, Dolphin Company CEO Eduardo Albor shared how prior to purchasing the Seaquarium, one of his daughters became emotional while watching Tokitae perform in her small tank, and left the show in tears. Albor says his daughter made him promise that if he took over ownership of the Seaquarium, he would do something about the Orca’s living situation.
“More than just moving Lolita to a place where she will be better, she will become a symbol for us and the future generations,” said Albor.
“Are there risks at all? Of course, there are some risks. There’s risks today for any one of us, wherever we are," said Charles Vinich, with the Whale Sanctuary Project. "But is this an opportunity to bring her home? Yes it is."
The journey home
The plan to return Tokitae to Washington was developed under the guidance of Vinick and the whale sanctuary project. Here’s how it could work.
First, Tokitae would be coaxed into a custom-made stretcher and lifted out of her aquarium with a crane, into a small container filled with ice water.
From there Tokitae would go onto a cargo plane for a six-hour flight to the Bellingham airport.
Next, Tokitae will be loaded onto a barge to transport her to ancestral waters in the Salish Sea.
There she’ll be put into an underwater sea pen at a private location.
She’ll receive round-the-clock medical care, security and feedings. She’s expected to live in that sea pen for the rest of her life.
“She is active, she is responsive, she’s just full of life, and she has demonstrated a will to live that frankly, almost no other whale has ever demonstrated," Vinick said. "Her veterinarians today have said she’s healthy enough for a transport, she can certainly be in a new environment."
Vinick’s team is already working to secure approval for Toki’s release from several federal authorities. If approved- those helping fund the move say she could be home by the end of 2023, but only if she remains in good health.
“We have all of this lifeforce gathered together to bring her home- and it’s a tremendous opportunity that we have to work as expeditiously as possible to bring it to fruition,” Vinick said.
Family reunion possible
Some researchers believe Tokitae could even be reunited with her mother.
Many scientists think her mom is still alive and a member of the L pod, identified as L-25, or Ocean Sun. Right now there's no evidence that definitively proves she's Tokitae’s mom, but Ocean Sun is the right age- about 95 years old.
Ocean Sun is the oldest living whale in the Southern Resident community.
Toki now
When the Dolphin company purchased the Seaquarium in 2022, they were required by the USDA to retire Tokitae from performing as a condition of the sale. Also around that time, Miami Dade County deemed Tokitae’s stadium as an "unsafe structure" due to corrosion and disrepair.
Tokitae’s stadium and aquarium are covered with fencing to keep the public out. Yet Grimaldi and her son often come back to the Seaquarium.
Every Sunday for several years, they would stand outside on the sidewalk, shouting messages of love and support to the orca. With Tokitae’s release on the horizon, those visits have become less frequent, but no less powerful.
“She's a Native sister, she's a Salish Sea daughter," Grimaldi said. "She represents everything Native and everything pure. There's no 'What if' or 'What if something happens along the way.' She's going home, period."
The price tag
The cost of Tokitae’s transport and the construction of her sea pen will be covered by Indianapolis Colts owner, Jim Irsay. Some estimate those costs could be upward of $20 million.
In 2018, the Orca Network put together a cost analysis of returning Tokitae to the Puget Sound. Here are some of the expenses they anticipate:
- Construction of transport cradle and stretcher: up to $58,000
- Government veterinary examinations prior to travel: $40,000-50,000
- Crane and operator at Seaquarium: $75,000-100,000
- 12 divers to help in Miami and WA: $48,000
- Police and security services during transport: $10,000 - $15,000
- Air transport is estimated at up to $100,000 (if not donated)
- Truck transport services for the Miami end and in Bellingham: $30,000
- Tug/Barge from Bellingham to sea pen: $30,000-$50,000
- Construction and installation of sea pen: $200,000
- Daily diet of 150-200 pounds of Chinook Salmon- up to $1,600 per day, $584,000 per year
- Veterinary services would be approximately $1 million
- Sea pen security: $10,000-15,000 per month | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/inside-fight-to-bring-tokitae-home-miami-seaquarium-salish-sea/281-37a6d0a6-c12b-48a6-98af-072ee97834ca | 2023-05-24T17:55:47 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/inside-fight-to-bring-tokitae-home-miami-seaquarium-salish-sea/281-37a6d0a6-c12b-48a6-98af-072ee97834ca |
Hartville adds Lake Road to this year’s paving program
- Approved 4% wage increase for employees.
- Will hold a Memorial Day ceremony at 10 a.m. May 27.
Hartville Village Council
Monday meeting
KEY ACTION: Voted to add Lake Road to the village’s 2023 paving program.
DISCUSSION: In March, Council approved a $288,000 base bid from Karvo Companies for paving of Erie Avenue, Wagner Court, Miller Avenue NE, Grand Trunk Avenue and the entrance and exit to Danbury Glen.
Council decided at that time to await awarding Karvo’s alternate bid for Lake Road with the possibility of receiving as much as $120,000 in Ohio Public Works Commission funding for that portion of the project.
Engineer Sam Awadallah said the village was not successful securing the OPWC funding and recommended moving forward with the Lake Road project. The Karvo bid including Lake Road was $456,300, which Awadallah noted is still under the engineer’s $626,000 estimate.
OTHER ACTION:
- Approved a 4% wage increase for employees and officials of the village based upon the employment cost index.
- Approved a contract with the Stark County Health Department for mosquito spraying in the village.
- Announced the village Memorial Day ceremony at 10 a.m. May 27 at Memorial Park, 335 Park Land Drive SW.
- Discussed a proposal to lower the speed limit on portions of Woodland Avenue SW from 40 mph to 35 mph. Police Chief Keith Moore suggested the speed limit be lowered for the length of the roadway.
UP NEXT: Meets at 6:30 p.m. June 12 at Village Hall, 202 W. Maple St. and online at www.facebook.com/VillageofHartville.
Brian Lisik | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/hartville-lake/2023/05/24/hartville-adds-lake-road-to-this-years-paving-program/70251483007/ | 2023-05-24T17:58:24 | 0 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/hartville-lake/2023/05/24/hartville-adds-lake-road-to-this-years-paving-program/70251483007/ |
Jackson Township trustees continue public hearing for rezoning request on Stuhldreher
- The developer did not resubmit plans or attend the latest meeting.
- The third hearing will be June 13.
Jackson Township trustees
Tuesday meeting
ACTION: Continued for a second time a public hearing for a rezoning request for a planned unit development to 5 p.m., June 13.
DISCUSSION: Trustees voted to continue a rezoning request for a second time for Dwight Yoder, agent for Reserve at Jackson Meadows, who requested a rezoning for approximately 17.32 acres from rural residential (R-R) district to residential planned unit development (R-3) District. The area is located on the south side of Stuhldreher, just east of Ocala NW.
The public hearing was originally continued to give the developer time to make changes suggested by the trustees at the May 9 meeting. This public hearing was continued because the developer did not submit any modified plans and did not attend the hearing, plus the Zoning Department had not heard from the developer since the May 9 meeting.
Trustee Todd Hawke said, “We are setting a third public hearing as a courtesy to the developer, but it will be the last public hearing we set for this project.”
OTHER ACTION:
- Accepted resignations of full-time patrol officers Nicholas F. Marich (effective May 23) and Jason D. Knauer (effective May 30).
- Accepted a BWC Safety Intervention Grant for $9,150 to purchase a personal one-man lift from Bobcat Canton. The township is responsible for $3,050, making the total purchase price $12,200.
- Hired Richard Holla as a full-time project inspector for the public works department, effective June 3, at an annual salary of $59,904. Holla was working for the department before being hired for this position.
- Approved three noxious weed resolutions:
- 6593 Amblewood Street NW
- 6777 Burgundy Avenue NW
- 7210 Hoverland Street NW
UP NEXT: Meets 5 p.m. June 13 at the Township Hall.
Patricia Faulhaber | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/jackson/2023/05/24/jackson-township-trustees-continue-public-hearing-for-rezoning-request/70251407007/ | 2023-05-24T17:58:24 | 0 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/jackson/2023/05/24/jackson-township-trustees-continue-public-hearing-for-rezoning-request/70251407007/ |
COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Coweta County Deputies are urging residents to be on the lookout for a white van, which may have been used in a gas theft worth thousands of dollars.
Deputies were called to investigate the theft after a white van was spotted driving up to RednEds gas station Tuesday, May 16, at around 1 a.m., followed by a dark-colored four-door sedan.
A man was then spotted getting out of the van, opening the sliding door on the driver’s side and pumping several hundred gallons of diesel gas into a container, according to a post from the department’s Facebook page.
The stolen gas was then stored inside the cargo area of the van. The post said the man left about two hours later, taking between 700 to 900 gallons of gas with him.
White van spotted at scene
Investigators believe the man typed in an “unknown code” before making off with stolen gas.
According to AAA, the average price for diesel gas in Georgia is around $3.87, which means the stolen gas is valued somewhere between $2,709 and 3,483.
Coweta County Deputies are looking for a white 2017 to 2019 RAM ProMaster. The white van was described in the post as having the following:
- Over the cab lights
- The tag is possibly mounted on the lower portion of the rear driver's side door.
- Windows in the rear doors
The driver of the white van also opened the hood while at the pump, the post said.
If you have any information about the case, call Investigator Crockett with the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office at 678.854.0010 or email them at kcrockett@coweta.ga.us. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/coweta-county-deputies-looking-van-700-900-gallons-diesel-gas-stolen-redneds-station/85-7826777a-600f-4955-8284-ff010083ebae | 2023-05-24T17:58:26 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/coweta-county-deputies-looking-van-700-900-gallons-diesel-gas-stolen-redneds-station/85-7826777a-600f-4955-8284-ff010083ebae |
The state of Texas is suing the Biden administration in an attempt to have a newly-introduced asylum rule thrown out, saying a phone app used by migrants to set up appointments at the border to seek entry into the United States is encouraging illegal immigration.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday is the latest legal salvo attacking various aspects of the administration’s plan to manage migration in the aftermath of the end of a key pandemic-era immigration regulation called Title 42.
In the lawsuit, Texas argues that the asylum rule encourages the use of a cellphone app — called CBP One — for migrants who don’t have proper documentation to make an appointment to come to a port of entry and seek entry into the United States.
Texas argues the Biden administration is essentially encouraging people to come to the U.S. even though they don’t have legal basis to stay.
“The Biden Administration deliberately conceived of this phone app with the goal of illegally pre-approving more foreign aliens to enter the country and go where they please once they arrive,” said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a news release.
The complaint was filed in the Western District of Texas.
In a statement Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security said Texas’ lawsuit would actually create disorder, not alleviate it and that the app was part of measures that have helped reduce unlawful immigration by more than 70% since Title 42 ended.
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“Lawful pathways like making an appointment to appear at a port of entry using the CBP One app allow us to process migrants in a safe, orderly, and humane way and reduce unlawful immigration. This is particularly critical at a time when Congress has failed to reform our broken immigration system,” the department said.
While the lawsuit focuses on the phone app, it seeks to throw out the entire asylum rule, called the Circumvention of Lawful Pathways. The rule went into effect when Title 42 expired May 11. The rule makes it extremely difficult for migrants who travel to the southern border to get asylum if they don’t first seek protection in a country they passed through before reaching the U.S. or if they don’t apply online through the app.
Use of the app is a core part of the administration’s plans to create a more orderly system at the border where migrants set up appointments ahead of time, but when the app was rolled out in January it was criticized for technological problems and because demand has far outstripped available spaces. Migrants can make appointments for specific ports of entry — five of which are in Texas.
Texas argues that according to federal law, people entering the country illegally — with rare exceptions — should be expelled but that the app doesn’t verify whether the migrants seeking appointments would qualify for exceptions. Therefore, the state argues, the Biden administration’s use of the app essentially encourages people to come to the U.S. even if they don’t qualify. Texas also argues that it has to pay the financial burden of migrants coming to the U.S. through things like health care or education.
The new asylum rule has also been attacked by rights groups who argue the U.S. has an obligation to offer asylum to those in desperate need. They’re suing to have the rule thrown out as well. Texas is also part of another lawsuit accusing the administration of overstepping its authority by allowing as many as 360,000 people a year from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the U.S. under its humanitarian parole authority. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-sues-biden-administration-over-asylum-rule-claims-phone-app-encourages-illegal-immigration/3264192/ | 2023-05-24T17:58:27 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-sues-biden-administration-over-asylum-rule-claims-phone-app-encourages-illegal-immigration/3264192/ |
ATLANTA — Atlanta Police Department officers are still looking for answers after a teen boy was shot to death earlier this month in the Hunter Hills neighborhood.
A $2,000 reward is up for anyone who could provide the police with information that leads to an arrest.
It's been almost two weeks and police still do not know much about the shooting. It happened at 102 Ollie Street just across the street from Washington Park.
Devon Mitchell, 17, died over a week ago after being taken to the hospital in critical condition, authorities said.
11Alive's Dawn White was at the scene when the shooting happened. She captured video of a large police presence that was focused on a dark car in the parking lot.
Anyone with information is asked to call the investigator at 404-546-4235.
Those who would like to remain anonymous could either call on the Crime Stoppers tip line at 404-577-8477 or submit a tip online here.
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/devon-mitchell-shooting-death-hunter-hills-atlanta/85-6c1c1549-9086-4338-b3eb-64dfa97cbccc | 2023-05-24T17:58:33 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/devon-mitchell-shooting-death-hunter-hills-atlanta/85-6c1c1549-9086-4338-b3eb-64dfa97cbccc |
ATLANTA — Famed civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump announced a wrongful death lawsuit in the death of a Georgia woman who died after falling out of a deputy patrol vehicle.
Crump and the family of Brianna Grier held a news conference Wednesday.
The lawsuit is calling for accountability from Hancock Sheriff's Department, naming Lt. Marlin Primus, Deputy Timothy Legette, and Sheriff Tomlyn Primus as defendants. According to Crump, the listed Hancock officials "participated in gross negligence that led to Grier's wrongful death."
Crump and Georgia NAACP President Gerald Griggs, who was also in attendance, pointed to ongoing mental health issues within the state and what they see as a failure on the part of law enforcement in dealing with such situations.
Grier's mother also spoke, specifically about the impact Brianna's death has had on her two children.
"They constantly asking about their mother," Grier's mother, Mary, stated. "I don't lie to them, I tell them the truth, she went home to live with god."
In addition she spoke on the way her daughter was treated just before her death, stating "she wasn't no animal she wasn't no bad person, she just had some problems she couldn't control."
On July 15, 2022, Grier's mother called Hancock Sheriff's Department deputies to her home in Sparta reporting that her daughter was having a mental health crisis.
According to a 10-minute body camera video released by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, officers arrived at the home between 12 a.m. and 1 a.m., handcuffed Grier's hands in front of her and dragged her to the patrol car.
However, deputies did not close the rear passenger side door properly before leaving the scene.
A short distance later, Grier fell out of the moving patrol car resulting in two fractures in her skull. She was airlifted to Grady Memorial Hospital where she went into a coma and died six days later on July 21.
An independent pathology review done by Pathologist Dr. Allecia Wilson of the University of Michigan also confirmed Grier died from blunt force trauma to the head and swelling in the brain as a result of the fractures in her skull.
The GBI's investigation found that officers had no contact with Grier until she fell out of the patrol car. In November 2022, the GBI presented its findings to the Ocmulgee Circuit District Attorney and the office decided against pursuing the case.
The 28-year-old left behind twin girls and parents searching for closure in her death. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/lawsuit-wrongful-death-brianna-grier-georgia/85-7bfe475a-f964-4655-923c-d4906eec6d00 | 2023-05-24T17:58:44 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/lawsuit-wrongful-death-brianna-grier-georgia/85-7bfe475a-f964-4655-923c-d4906eec6d00 |
NEW YORK — Bill Lee, a well-regarded jazz musician who accompanied such artists as Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and Harry Belafonte as well as scoring four of his son Spike’s early films, including the hit “Do the Right Thing” and two songs for “Jungle Fever,” has died. He was 94.
Lee died Wednesday at his home in Brooklyn, said Theo Dumont, a publicist for Spike Lee. The younger Lee posted several photos of his father on his Instagram page announcing the death.
Lee was a session bassist who has played on albums by Odetta, Woody Guthrie, Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot, John Lee Hooker and Peter, Paul and Mary, among many others. He can be heard on Dylan’s “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” and Lightfoot’s “Oh, Linda.” He played on Aretha Franklin’s Columbia album debut in 1960, “Aretha.”
Lee wrote the soundtracks to Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It,” “School Daze,” “Do the Right Thing” and “Mo’ Better Blues.” Bill Lee also appeared in “Do the Right Thing.” Terence Blanchard took over the role starting with “Jungle Fever.”
Bill Lee and Spike Lee were estranged after a falling out in the 1990s that the father attributed to his remarriage to Susan Kaplan.
In addition to Kaplan and Spike Lee, the elder Lee is survived by his sons, David, Cinque and Arnold; a daughter Joie; a brother, A. Clifton Lee; and two grandchildren. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2023/05/24/bill-lee-death-spike-lee/563e5566-fa57-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html | 2023-05-24T18:04:20 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2023/05/24/bill-lee-death-spike-lee/563e5566-fa57-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html |
UNICOI COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Unicoi County was praised by Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury Jason Mumpower for being one of the nine counties in the state to receive a clean audit report.
The other eight Tennessee counties with clean audits were Blount, Cannon, Campbell, Cumberland, Giles, Hamblen, Roane and Sevier.
According to the comptroller’s office, annual audits on those nine counties were completed without any findings for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2022. Findings indicate if government operations contain weaknesses and deficiencies or are not in compliance with regulations.
Unicoi County and the other eight were recognized in Gatlinburg Tuesday at the Tennessee County Services Association Legislative Conference.
“These nine counties should be proud,” said Mumpower. “I commend all of the elected officials, leaders, and county staff who have committed to a well-run government that serves its citizens well.”
You can view Unicoi County’s audit and all other county audit reports by clicking here.
Blount, Cumberland, Giles, Hamblen and Roane counties have received clean audits two years in a row. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/comptroller-unicoi-co-1-of-only-9-counties-in-state-with-clean-audit/ | 2023-05-24T18:05:05 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/comptroller-unicoi-co-1-of-only-9-counties-in-state-with-clean-audit/ |
CALIFORNIA, USA — California State Assembly holds the first hearing of the committee on fentanyl, opioid addiction, and overdose prevention Wednesday.
The committee was created in September but this is the first time they're holding a hearing. The hearing covers the fentanyl and overdose crisis including an overview of state and local public health response, state and local legal response and education efforts.
It is being held jointly with the Assembly Health and Assembly Public Safety Committees.
The hearing comes after fentanyl-related bills from Democrats and Republicans didn't pass.
Assemblymember Matt Haney told ABC10 the hearing is just information and he doesn't expect real results from it.
"We're bringing everyone together, the Department of Justice, the Department of Public Health, law enforcement officials, treatment advocates, and we're going to get together and talk about solutions," Haney said.
"We have members elected here that fundamentally do not believe in accountability, they don't believe in consequences, and they don't believe in passing any bill that will potentially incarcerate or imprison anybody doing anything wrong. That's it, that's the end of the story. They will not pass a bill that results in increased prison time. All this task force and tour is just window dressing," said Assemblymember Bill Essayli.
Haney says he wants to hold hearings across the state in different communities because everyone's impacted by this drug.
More than 107,600 people died from overdoses in 2021 based on provisional data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. That's an increase of nearly 15% from 2020. Overdoses due to opioids increased from about 70,000 in 2020 to about 80,800 in 2021.
Overdoses due to synthetic opioids, mainly fentanyl, also increased in 2021 compared to 2020, according to the CDC.
Just two milligrams of fentanyl, which is equal to about 10-15 grains of table salt, is considered a lethal dose, according to the DEA. Fentanyl is so dangerous because its potency is 50-100x stronger than morphine, according to the CDC.
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CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters.
Gladys Balcazar says she can barely afford food after paying rent to her new landlord, Blackstone Inc, one of the world’s largest private equity firms.
Balcazar, a 60-year-old janitor, lives with her 27-year-old son in a two-bedroom apartment in Imperial Beach. She supports her son, who has a disability, on a salary of $2,800 a month.
Blackstone bought her building and 65 others in San Diego County in 2021, becoming one of the region’s biggest landlords and alarming lawmakers, affordable housing advocates and Balcazar. In March Balcazar’s monthly rent rose $200 to $2,000.
“All of this has really depressed me because I don’t see a way out,” she said in Spanish. “I only earn enough to pay the rent, and after that there is nothing left.”
Adding to her stress were large swaths of dark mold outside her building, on walls and window ledges, climbing to a roofline. A building manager said she would be responsible for mold remediation in her unit if she moves out, Balcazar said.
“They said we’re responsible because we’re not ventilating the unit,” she said.
When asked by CalMatters, Blackstone said in a written statement that Balcazar would not be responsible for mold remediation.
“This is not something that would be required of our residents in any scenario,” the statement reads. “In the event where any issues like this are raised to management, the team addresses the situation as quickly as possible.”
A new landlord
Balcazar isn’t the only tenant getting the squeeze from Blackstone, advocates say.
Two years ago, Blackstone bought a portfolio of 66 relatively low-rent apartment buildings in San Diego County from a well-known charitable foundation for $1.48 billion. This year, tenants of those 5,800 dwellings say they’re worried about rent increases, maintenance issues and potential evictions. And advocates and tenant groups have mounted an organized campaign, warning that thousands of previously affordable homes are becoming less affordable as Blackstone’s influence grows.
Residents have protested a $4.5 billion investment in Blackstone by the University of California. They staged a public town hall with San Diego’s city council president, and they lobbied state lawmakers to increase renter protections.
Some lawmakers share their concerns. Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, a Democrat from San Diego, said so many affordable units under one corporation’s control is cause for “major concern,” especially if the company is raising rents.
“Unlike many of our mom-and-pop property owners, who themselves may be trying to stay afloat in today’s economy, Blackstone is a huge company, and should not be building its portfolio on the backs of working Californians,” Atkins said.
Blackstone, the world’s largest owner of commercial real estate, said in statements that its apartment rents are lower than 80 percent of the competition in the San Diego market and most units are affordable to people making the median income.
Blackstone representatives declined to answer questions in an interview, but said in written statements to CalMatters that it is improving California’s housing stock by investing in and renovating its properties.
“We believe we have the most favorable resident policies among any large landlord in the U.S.,” Blackstone said, “including not making a single non-payment eviction for over two years during COVID. We operate in accordance with California’s rent stabilization laws and are investing $100 million to make these San Diego communities better places to live.”
Rising rents
The statement did not address whether rental rates in renovated units would increase.
Because California caps how much landlords can raise rents each year for current residents — by 5% plus inflation or, at most, 10% — housing advocates say large companies such as Blackstone will try to boost rents to that limit, hoping it’s high enough to compel current tenants to leave. Then companies can charge new tenants even higher rents.
Two advocacy groups, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project and the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, in March compared rent ranges Blackstone charged tenants in 2021 at 10 San Diego-area properties, with rental rates they sought from new tenants. (CalMatters looked at current list rents for those same properties in May.)
The list rents for new tenants in each complex were, on average, 29% to 100% higher than the average rents tenants paid in 2021. (The range varied by apartment size.) The asking rent increases ranged from a 7% bump for a 1-bedroom in El Cajon’s Redwood Gardens to a 201% jump for the priciest 2-bedrooms at Bay Pointe in San Diego’s Pacific Beach area.
Given already high housing costs, tenants contend they will have no place to go if they can no longer afford rent at Blackstone’s properties.
Affordable housing is scarce in the nation’s most populous state, which had 30% of the country’s homeless population and half of its visibly unsheltered residents, many living in tent encampments on city streets, in 2022.
What is less visible are those at risk of losing their homes.
‘Rent burdened’
At a sun-drenched rally in late April, Darlene Simpson protested against Blackstone from her wheelchair in the shade of the state Capitol. Simpson said she leads a tenant union of 73 Blackstone residents because of some family members’ experiences with poverty, including a granddaughter who lived in a car.
Simpson lives in a Blackstone building in Escondido, a San Diego suburb.
“They’re kicking everybody out, raising the rent so high that nobody can afford them,” she said. “Everybody lives severely rent burdened. I’m angry by that.”
Simpson and hundreds of other protesters wore yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action, which helped organize the tenants’ union.
It also is lobbying state lawmakers to increase renter protections this year. The measures were proposing lowering California’s statewide cap limiting rent increases from 10% to 5% and amending the state’s constitution to include housing as a right.
However, some of those provisions recently were stripped or weakened in the bill.
Iraídes González, a single mother of three, also protested in Sacramento. She said she was forced out of her Shady Lane apartment in El Cajon, another San Diego suburb, during the pandemic. González lost her cashier job and lived in a homeless shelter and subsidized housing for about a year.
She moved back into the Shady Lane apartments in 2021. In April her rent jumped $200 to $2,500, she said.
She shares a bedroom with her three children, and roommates occupy the other bedroom. The rent increase means she often has to choose between food and rent, she said.
“I’m really stressed out because I don’t want to return to a shelter with my kids, but it’s impossible for me to find that much money,” González said.
Moving under pressure
Lila Miller, a 31-year-old food server who was working two jobs, said she was kicked out of the Blackstone-owned Vista Lane apartments in Chula Vista in November 2022, after she fell behind on rent because she was sick with COVID.
“I was working 12 to 15 hours a day about six days a week just to pay my rent and utilities,” Miller said. She worked mornings at Starbucks and nights at a pizza restaurant.
“When I told them I was sick and I missed work, they had no interest in hearing it. They didn’t care,” she said of her apartment managers. She has since moved back to Gassville, Ark., her hometown.
A Blackstone spokesperson said Miller was not evicted.
“Lila Miller was never evicted and left her apartment by her own choice in December 2022. Importantly, not one eviction for non-payment was carried out in November or December 2022,” Blackstone said in its statement.
California law banned many evictions during the pandemic. The law protected tenants if they were unable to pay rent or other charges due to COVID-19-related financial distress and had received an eviction notice from March 2020 through March 2022. The protection expired in June 2022, though some California cities still are enforcing pandemic-era policies protecting renters from evictions.
Tenants sometimes leave under pressure before a full eviction is carried out, housing advocates said, because having an eviction on a tenant’s record would make it difficult for them to find future housing.
‘Better places to live’
When Blackstone bought the 66 San Diego buildings, comprising 5,775 apartments, company officials said investments in those buildings were creating 500 jobs.
“Since our ownership of these communities began, we have completed 23,000 work orders, invested $37 million to make them better places to live, and implemented financial literacy and after school programming on-site free of charge to residents,” the company’s statement said.
Advocates point out the irony that the seller was the Conrad Prebys Foundation, a massive charity that donates millions to various causes, including the San Diego Zoo, the San Diego Symphony, hospitals, clinics, and other nonprofits. Conrad Prebys, who died 2016, was a billionaire real estate developer and philanthropist who in the 1990s sold some residential properties to a nonprofit.
Blackstone’s purchases in San Diego were only part of the company’s national pandemic-era buying spree. During a two-year span, one of the company’s key funds, the Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, snapped up more than 200,000 housing units nationwide, most of them apartment buildings, according to The Private Equity Stakeholder Project.
‘Capitalistic decisions’
In California the Blackstone trust drew protestors’ attention when the University of California invested $4.5 billion in it in January, a month after many wealthy investors had begun pulling out their money.
Housing activists and some California unions said UC was contributing to the housing affordability crisis through its Blackstone investment. Simpson, head of the San Diego tenants union, traveled to San Francisco in March to call on the university to disinvest.
“I think they’re being greedy,” Simpson said. “People are severely rent burdened. They can’t afford to stay, and they can’t afford to leave.”
The following day, Jagdeep Singh Bachher, head of UC Investments, told the Board of Regents the decision to invest in a fund with an annual rate of return of 11% was a “capitalistic” one in the best interest of UC pensioners.
“The job of this team, day in and day out, is to pick assets that are going to be accretive to future generations and future retirees,” Bachher said. “And to do that … I have to make some capitalistic decisions.”
New profit approach
Blackstone’s San Diego purchase could signal an expansion of its typical approach, said Sara Myklebust, a Georgetown University researcher studying private equity’s growth into the rental market.
Blackstone bought the San Diego buildings in an estate sale from an owner who was unlikely to extract maximum profit from them. That portfolio could help Blackstone develop new ways of increasing rents at scale, she said, much as Blackstone did when it became a major national landlord of single-family homes through its Invitation Homes company.
Blackstone founded Invitation Homes in 2012 in the wake of the foreclosure crisis. Seven years later, Blackstone sold its last shares in it for a $7 billion payout, more than twice what it invested, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Now, Blackstone is likely looking for a similar profit in the apartments market, Myklebust said, and owning a large portfolio in one region could give them enough leverage.
“They’ve perfected an approach to being able to make as much money as possible,” Myklebust said. “When they see opportunities to be able to continue to use that approach, they’re going to do it, and they’ve been seeing and getting those opportunities.”
Affordable housing experts in California warn that such profit opportunities are emerging through mass sales of unsubsidized apartment buildings, traditionally where lower-income people live.
In March the California Housing Partnership, a nonprofit trying to preserve affordable housing, estimated California had nearly 864,000 affordable units in some 44,250 properties — but 324,000 of those units were at risk of losing affordability.
“These properties are becoming an increasing focus for policymakers as private equity has accelerated for-profit acquisitions,” the report said.
Blackstone’s entry into Escondido is a top concern for Consuelo Martínez, a city council member.
Blackstone bought five Escondido apartment buildings totaling 636 units, county records show. Martínez said she has been fielding phone calls from affected renters since last year.
Martínez wrote in a letter to the Alliance group that representatives of a political strategy firm had contacted her on behalf of Blackstone, stating their client planned to begin evicting tenants with outstanding rent balances.
The warning involved two apartment buildings in her district, the Mission Terrace Apartments and the Palmilla Apartments, with more than 100 tenants total in arrears.
‘Big changes’
During a recent visit to Blackstone’s Park Terrace apartments in Escondido, Martínez bent over to photograph a Blackstone sign advertising “Big Changes” in the predominantly Latino neighborhood.
“Oh man, I wonder how much their rent is going up,” she said.
Many of Martínez’s constituents are Latino renters. While touring the working-class neighborhoods she represents, Martínez drew parallels between the impending evictions and fallout from a short-lived 2006 ordinance that banned Escondido landlords from renting to undocumented immigrants.
The courts later overturned that ordinance, but not before many residents left their homes and jobs. That had a ripple effect on the local economy, she said, adding that Escondido’s housing squeeze is related to historic, systemic discrimination against lower-income immigrants.
Martínez said she often is a lone voice on the city council trying to help the renters.
“I don’t feel like I have the support on my council to even talk about renter protections,” Martínez said.
She is not the only San Diego-area politician to raise an alarm.
Sean Elo-Rivera, president of San Diego’s City Council, recently introduced renter protections after a town hall with the Blackstone tenant union. The city council last month passed the ordinance extending eviction protections to renters who continue paying rent and complying with their lease.
“San Diegans who are paying their rent and abiding by their lease should not live in fear of eviction,” Elo-Rivera said.
“The consolidation of property ownership is concerning,” he said in an interview. “We have a finite supply — finite and insufficient supply — that is being owned at a greater and greater percentage by a select number of entities.”
‘Like a diamond’
Blackstone in its statement said it can’t be blamed for the San Diego region’s rising rents.
“We are not driving rents,” Blackstone said. “A shortage of housing is driving increased rents. We own less than 1% of rental housing in the U.S. and, given our ownership levels, we have virtually no ability to impact market rent trends.”
Others acknowledge that demand is boosting rents. Until San Diego has a large enough supply of housing, skyrocketing rents will persist, said Ricardo Flores, executive director of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a nonprofit promoting affordable housing.
“At the end of the day, what this bet that Wall Street’s making locally … is, ‘You guys will never fix your supply problem, and therefore what we own will go up in value, just like a diamond,’” he said.
The Legislature has tried to counter that, Atkins said. It passed laws to create and preserve affordable housing and assist renters. But more needs to be done, she said.
That rings true for Balcazar. Rent consumes more than two-thirds of her income, leaving $280 a month for food, clothes and necessities. Utility bills and doctors visits trigger anxiety, she said.
She and her son often survive on two-for-$7 burritos and expired food, she said. Then she showed a photo of expired food she bought at a discount during a recent shopping trip.
What’s next? She doesn’t want to move, or leave her son with someone else. She might store their belongings and seek a studio to rent, she said.
“It’s not fair,” Balcazar said. “I think housing should be a human right.”
CalMatters higher education reporter Mikhail Zinshteyn contributed to this report. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/corporate-landlords-california-buying-spree-alarms-tenants/103-9ad8062b-432c-4d4c-9ae6-4406340626c5 | 2023-05-24T18:07:07 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/corporate-landlords-california-buying-spree-alarms-tenants/103-9ad8062b-432c-4d4c-9ae6-4406340626c5 |
CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters.
A state Senate bill that would expand workers’ compensation coverage for California first responders experiencing post traumatic stress — aimed at addressing what Cal Fire officials call a mental health crisis — has cleared its first legislative hurdle and been sent to the Assembly.
Authored by Sen. John Laird, a Santa Cruz Democrat, the bill is one of a growing number of state initiatives attempting to address the cause of mental health struggles and the difficulty first responders encounter when seeking medical care through state-run insurance.
The bill would extend by seven years a provision in existing state law that says PTSD qualifies as an occupational illness that is covered by workers’ comp for firefighters, police and other first responders. The extension would last through Jan 1, 2032, rather than expiring in 2025. The bill also would add more categories of dispatchers, peace officers, investigators and public security officers in claims for psychological injury.
“Trial by Fire,” a series of CalMatters stories published last summer, revealed how overwork and distress from intensifying wildfires have left Cal Fire crews with increasing PTSD, suicidal thoughts and other mental health problems. Cal Fire Director Joe Tyler told CalMatters that the department faced a mental health crisis and called it his top priority.
Cal Fire does not track suicides or PTSD among its ranks, but many firefighters and their supervisors told CalMatters that the problems are rampant, and described their trauma in detail. Stress from long hours and dangerous work triggers health problems, excessive drinking, drug use and marital discord among firefighters, experts say.
Laird said the CalMatters series “set the context” for his bill and other efforts to address the mental health crisis among first responders. The state has already agreed to a union contract that would reduce Cal Fire firefighters’ 72-hour workweeks to 66 hours beginning in late 2024.
The state firefighters’ union has long called for legislators to plug gaps in workers’ comp coverage that make it difficult for them to receive robust mental health care coverage.
This bill, SB-623, would be a first step toward doing that. But some issues facing first responders are more nuanced and difficult to legislate: encouraging them to report their struggles, while ensuring that their jobs are not threatened. And expanding Cal Fire’s accountability and improving its data reporting, while maintaining individuals’ medical privacy.
The bill “moves things in the right direction,” said Tim Edwards, president of Cal Fire Local 2882. “We support any bill that would bring awareness and funding to help fight the growing number of calls for help.”
Edwards added that other core issues, such as work hours and the lack of treatment centers for mental health issues, still need to be addressed.
The bill passed the Senate on a floor vote of 35-0 on Monday and now moves to the Assembly.
Laird said state officials are reluctant to write checks to fix a problem they cannot quantify, making it critical that first responders share their PTSD experiences with legislators as evidence of the extent of the issue.
“The difficulty has been that the governor wants to know that this is, in fact, necessary,” he said. “We are working with professional firefighters to compile data and first-hand stories. Our goal is to demonstrate that this is vital. That was the thing that was missing, the data.”
Laird said lobbying efforts from the first responders groups were effective because they included personal stories from workers suffering from PTSD and other mental health illnesses. “It makes a difference,” he said. “People can relate.”
The proposed legislation recognizes the stress experienced by dispatchers and 911 operators who may not witness accidents or fires but nonetheless experience trauma and may want to seek counseling.
To qualify for workers’ comp coverage under existing law, a mental health disorder must be diagnosed and cause a disability or need for medical treatment, and the employee must “demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence” that on-the-job events were the main cause.
Opposition to the bill comes from a coalition of workers’ comp organizations and the state Association of Counties. They say psychological problems are difficult to diagnose and their origins tricky to pinpoint, setting a high bar to ascribe trauma and PTSD as a workplace injury.
“There is no objective basis to evaluate the operation of current law, the need for this expansion, or the impact of stripping away protections for taxpayer funded public entities,” the group told the Senate.
According to an analysis by the Senate Appropriations Committee, “extending coverage of presumptive injuries…would likely result in increased workers compensation costs. The magnitude is unknown.”
The bill’s sponsors are the California Chapter of the National Emergency Number Association, the California Professional Firefighters, the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association and the Peace Officers Research Association of California.
In remarks submitted to the Senate, California Professional Firefighters, which represents state and local fire agencies, said occupational stress among their ranks is well-documented, and that “repeated and chronic exposure to traumatic events and critical incidents increases the risk for post-traumatic stress and other stress-induced symptoms.” | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/firefighters-mental-health-is-at-risk-bill-could-help/103-2f8ade2a-9e94-414b-805d-adfd75e4f819 | 2023-05-24T18:07:14 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/calmatters/firefighters-mental-health-is-at-risk-bill-could-help/103-2f8ade2a-9e94-414b-805d-adfd75e4f819 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento State announced J. Luke Wood will be the university's ninth president, Wednesday.
Wood earned his bachelor’s degree in Black History and Politics as well as a master’s degree in Higher Education Leadership at Sacramento State.
“It’s about investing back in the community that invested in me,” Wood said. “I know what Sac State is capable of doing. I was a Black male, former foster child, first-generation college student who struggled with food insecurity and housing insecurity, and was able to graduate because of the incredible people and systems of support that were in place. If Sac State can do that for me, it can do that for anyone."
The 41-year-old comes to Sacramento State from San Diego State University where he is the vice president for Student Affairs and Campus Diversity as well as chief diversity officer.
Wood grew up in McCloud, a town in Siskiyou County.
The appointment of a new president comes after Robert S. Nelsen announced his retirement in November.
“President Nelsen has done an incredible job in increasing graduation rates and creating a sense of community at Sac State,” Wood said. “So, it’s really about furthering the good work that’s been done around student success, diversity and inclusion, and seeing how we can further continue those trajectories to continue to be even better every day.”
He will retire effective July 1, 2023. Nelsen, 70, started at Sacramento State in July 2015. He is Sac State’s eighth president and led the university for the past seven years.
Watch more on ABC10: Sights and Sounds of Sacramento State's Graduation | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/j-luke-wood-sacramento-state-president/103-7e5da429-4717-476e-8998-8cbb2a990aa7 | 2023-05-24T18:07:20 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/j-luke-wood-sacramento-state-president/103-7e5da429-4717-476e-8998-8cbb2a990aa7 |
YOLO COUNTY, Calif. — One person is dead and three people are injured after a crash in Yolo County Wednesday morning.
California Highway Patrol said the crash happened around 6 a.m. at Old River Road and County Road 124. A white pickup truck was heading south and collided head-on with a white sedan traveling north.
The driver of the sedan died. Three people in the pickup truck have minor injuries, according to CHP.
Old River Road was closed and is estimated to be open around 9:45 a.m.
The crash is under investigation and it's not known if drugs or alcohol were a factor.
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Texas would set new standards and ratings for sexually explicit material in order to ban books from public and charter school libraries, under a bill given final passage by the state Senate late Tuesday night and sent to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
The Texas move is the latest attempt to ban or regulate reading material in conservative states around the country. Critics say the standards set in the Texas bill are too vague, will snag books that are not inappropriate, and that materials dealing with LGBTQ+ subject matter are more likely to be targeted for bans.
The bill passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature defines “sexually explicit material” as anything that includes descriptions, illustrations or audio depicting sexual conduct not relevant to required school curriculum, and prohibits it from school libraries.
The bill requires the state’s Library and Archives Commission to adopt standards that schools must follow when purchasing books, and a rating system that would be used to restrict or ban some material.
“What we’re talking about is sexually explicit material ... that doesn’t belong in front of the eyes of kids,” said the bill sponsor, Sen. Angela Paxton, a Republican. “They shouldn’t be finding it in their school library.”
Abbott, a Republican, previously joined a former GOP lawmaker’s campaign to investigate the use of books in schools covering topics of race, gender identity and sexual orientation. That inquiry included a list of more than 800 books.
In April, leaders of a rural central Texas county considered closing their public library system rather than follow a federal judge’s order to return books to the shelves on themes ranging from teen sexuality and gender to bigotry and race.
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Under the measure passed Tuesday night, book vendors would have to rate books based on depictions or references to sex. “Sexually relevant” material that describes or portrays sex but is part of the required school curriculum could be checked out with a parent’s permission.
A book would be rated “sexually explicit” if the material is deemed offensive and not part of the required curriculum. Those books would be removed from school bookshelves.
State officials will review vendors’ ratings and can request a rating change if they consider it incorrect. School districts and open-enrollment charter schools will be banned from contracting with book sellers who refuse to comply. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-lawmakers-set-new-standards-for-sexually-explicit-material-to-ban-books-from-schools/3264252/ | 2023-05-24T18:07:49 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-lawmakers-set-new-standards-for-sexually-explicit-material-to-ban-books-from-schools/3264252/ |
HAMMOND — A federal judge imprisoned a Porter County man Wednesday for trafficking in photos of naked underaged boys and girls.
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Jon DeGuilio imposed a nine-year sentence on Tommy K. Watkins, 40, of the town of Porter on his guilty plea to distribution of child pornography.
Defense attorney Adam Tavitas argued in an earlier memo to the court that it was Watkins’ first crime and that Watkins suffers from depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Philip Benson argued Watkins not only possessed pornographic images, he also expressed an interest in meeting others to exchange children for sexual purposes.
Tavitas responded that he could find no evidence in the case that “any child was inappropriately touched.”
Court papers indicates Watkins was employed at several regional businesses to provide services to the mentally and physically disabled as a vocational training manager.
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Investigators allege Watkins transmitted and received child pornography through a messaging system with many individuals online in 2021.
Watkins first came to law enforcement attention in June 2021 while having an online correspondence and telephone conversations with an individual who Watkins thought shared his interest in children but was in fact an undercover FBI agent.
Members of the FBI’s Gang Response Investigative Team in Northwest Indiana raided Watkins' home in September 2021 and recovered a cellphone with 59 images of child pornography in its memory files.
The U.S. Attorney charged Watkins in late March 2022 with distribution of child pornography and the court ordered him held in detention until trial, which was scheduled to take place early this year.
Watkins gave up his right to make federal prosecutors prove the charge against him under an agreement with the U.S. Attorney in return for a more lenient sentence. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/porter-county-man-imprisoned-for-child-pornography/article_6b19d6ea-fa57-11ed-bd50-dfb6b33af636.html | 2023-05-24T18:08:49 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/porter-county-man-imprisoned-for-child-pornography/article_6b19d6ea-fa57-11ed-bd50-dfb6b33af636.html |
CROWN POINT — Crown Point Fire Rescue wrapped up its third annual Dive Week training program Friday, finishing the week-long program focused on water rescue with participants from Cedar Lake, Hobart, Merrillville, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, and the Indiana District 1 MABAS 207 USAR/Technical Rescue team.
Though Crown Point has no large lakes, the Fire Rescue department's territory includes 70-plus retention ponds and lakes that are more than 15 feet deep, with most averaging 20-30 feet deep, according to the city.
Training kicked off May 15 at Crown Point High School, according to the city. Dive teams focused on the essential skills of self-rescue, including entanglement, dexterity and buoyancy, rescuing distressed divers and uprighting an over-turned boat. For day two of training, held at Fancher Lake in the Lake County Fairgrounds, trainees focused on sub-surface vehicle search and recovery. For this exercise, divers were able to utilize underwater metal detectors for evidence search, recovery and identification, the city said.
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Swift water rescue, including rope rescue, was practiced on the Kankakee River the third day of training. Trainees also received experience diving and on boat rescue operations in a river current. On Thursday, trainees went to Cedar Lake to focus on side scan sonar and robotic rover sonar. They also performed dive operations in the lake.
The final day of Dive Week included a recreational dive and cookout at Haigh Quarry in Kankakee. Divers focused on buoyancy, navigational skills and air management during the recreational dive.
“While we hope we never have to use these skills, it is important for our dive teams to stay sharp. Water rescues require physical and mental strength and a lot of specialty training and equipment," Crown Point Fire Chief Mark Baumgardner Jr. said.
As summer begins, Crown Point Fire Rescue Fire and Life Safety Educator Anthony Flynn recommends watching children when they are in or around water, teaching children how to swim, learning CPR and basic water rescue skills and using properly fitted floatation devices with a U.S. Coast Guard-approved stamp instead of water wings.
"Drowning can happen in a matter of seconds and may not be obvious to those nearby. This is why it is important to know how to swim and have a responsible and undistracted person watch swimmers at all times,” Flynn said.
“While we hope we never have to use these skills, it is important for our dive teams to stay sharp. Water rescues require physical and mental strength and a lot of specialty training and equipment,” Baumgardner said.
Dive Week would not be possible without the support of local organizations, including the Cedar Lake Firefighters Association, Chicago Water and Fire, Dive Right in Scuba, Midnight Blue Towing and Oak Partners, Inc., which provided lunch and training resources, Baumgardner said. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/crown-point/crown-point-fire-rescue-wraps-up-dive-week/article_2f31eee2-fa3e-11ed-9022-8b7e085edfb6.html | 2023-05-24T18:08:55 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/crown-point/crown-point-fire-rescue-wraps-up-dive-week/article_2f31eee2-fa3e-11ed-9022-8b7e085edfb6.html |
CATLETTSBURG, KY (WOWK) – Another bear has been spotted wandering a neighborhood in our area, this time in Kentucky.
The black bear was caught a Ring doorbell camera from a home on Route 3 in the Catlettsburg area of Boyd County. The video from resident Madison Battista shows the bear coming up onto her porch and checking out some boxes of flooring before leaving.
This sighting comes just days after residents of the South Hills neighborhood in Charleston caught video of a large black bear roaming around their own community. Neighbors who saw the bear say he looked like he was eight to nine feet tall. One person said they saw the bear standing on their front lawn leaning on a tree, before it ventured on a couple minutes later.
Earlier this month, the principal at Zela Elementary School in Nicholas County got quite the surprise at a dumpster and another black bear played “ding-dong ditch” at a home in Fairmont.
On Monday, the Ceredo Police Department in Wayne County also posted on their Facebook alerting of several bear sightings over the past 10 days in the Walker’s Branch, Briarcliff and Crescent Hill areas. They say the Division of Natural Resources has been notified of the sightings. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/black-bear-spotted-on-porch-in-catlettsburg-kentucky/ | 2023-05-24T18:09:01 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/black-bear-spotted-on-porch-in-catlettsburg-kentucky/ |
According to the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, 36,096 people died in motor vehicle crashes due to a variety of causes in 2019, including alcohol, speeding, problematic driving behaviors, and lack of safety belt use. The National Safety Council estimates that seat belts have saved 374,276 lives since 1975. Research supports this and several studies have found, “The seat belt is the single most effective feature in a vehicle to reduce the severity of injury to the vehicle occupants that results from road traffic crashes.”
While not everyone uses safety belts, they have been around since the 19th century. Many streetcars were outfitted with lap belts in the 1930s, though they offered little protection for torsos and heads. Nash Motors, out of Wisconsin, began offering seat belts in 1949, and Wisconsin became the first state to require safety belts in front seats in 1961 for all car models from 1962 on, though this law did not make it mandatory for occupants to wear them. The three-point seat belt, most often used today, was devised by Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin in 1959, and such seat belts were mandatorily placed in all new U.S. vehicles beginning in 1968. New York became the first state to require mandatory seat belt use, though only in front seats. Those who didn't comply could be fined $50.
The seat belt journey has not been an easy one though, and even with mounting science-based evidence of their ability to save lives, some people continue to refuse to use them. Reasons for lack of use range from device failure to personal choice.
While seat belt usage varies from state to state, at the national level, 90.7% of people wear seat belts. Seat belt laws are either primary or secondary. With primary seat belt laws, police officers can ticket an unbelted driver or passenger regardless of whether they’ve committed another traffic offense. When it comes to secondary seat belt laws, law enforcement may only issue a ticket to an unbelted driver or passenger if they are committing another citable traffic offense.
Seat belt laws are also variable across the country. Currently, New Hampshire is the only state in the nation that does not have a law that requires adult drivers and front-seat passengers to wear seat belts, though anyone under 18 must use a seat belt.
Citing data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Uplift Legal Funding identified the states with the lowest seat belt use rates. Due to the impact of the coronavirus on data collection, Uplift used 2019 data which was available for all 50 states. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/seat-belt-checkpoint-planned-for-wednesday-on-u-s-6/article_95f81518-fa3c-11ed-af48-a7d86ae53c84.html | 2023-05-24T18:09:17 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/seat-belt-checkpoint-planned-for-wednesday-on-u-s-6/article_95f81518-fa3c-11ed-af48-a7d86ae53c84.html |
Substitute teacher pay would increase by 3.2% next school year under a proposed contract before the Lincoln Board of Education.
Pay for a full-day substitute teacher at Lincoln Public Schools would increase from $171.77 a day to $177.47. A half-day sub would see their pay increase by about $3, from $85.88 a day to $88.73.
The proposed contract also accounts for pay increases for other substitute groups, including bus drivers, office personnel and nutrition services workers. In general, the recommended salary changes range from no increase to a 3.32% raise.
Substitute bus drivers would see a 66-cent raise to $23.86 an hour, while substitute paras and custodians would see about a 40-cent raise. Concessions and technical support employees are also expected to get a $1 raise.
Substitute pay is not bargained but adjusted yearly based on market and budget considerations. This year's increase falls within the rate that LPS has traditionally applied to substitutes, said Vann Price, associate superintendent of human resources.
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The proposed contract comes as LPS continues to contend with a dearth of substitute teachers, a shortage exacerbated during the pandemic years.
LPS has used federal COVID-19 money to dole out incentives to substitute teachers, including bonuses for subs who work on hard-to-fill days like Mondays and Fridays or at schools with high unfilled rates.
Teachers are already set to receive a 3.65% total package increase and a $1,055 raise in base pay in the 2023-24 school year under a two-year contract the district and the city's teachers union negotiated in 2022.
The Lincoln Board of Education will vote on the substitute pay increases at its June 13 meeting. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/education/lincoln-school-board-mulls-3-2-pay-bump-for-subs/article_a7e5a920-fa4b-11ed-b8a0-6b14ad1f384b.html | 2023-05-24T18:09:23 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/education/lincoln-school-board-mulls-3-2-pay-bump-for-subs/article_a7e5a920-fa4b-11ed-b8a0-6b14ad1f384b.html |
BLOOMINGTON — A Bloomington woman received a prison sentence Wednesday after pleading guilty to burglary and drug charges.
Lisa D. Frasier, 50, was initially charged in March 2021 with burglary, theft and retail theft, accused of taking merchandise from a department store in Normal. She was charged in a separate case in May 2021 with unlawful possession of a controlled substance, after prosecutors said she had less than 15 grams of cocaine.
She pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of burglary and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance. The remaining charges in the March 2021 case and a July 2022 case in which she was charged with violation of bail bond were dismissed in a plea agreement.
Frasier was sentenced to three years in the Illinois Department of Corrections on each count that she pleaded guilty to; the two sentences will run concurrently. She had credit for 91 days already served. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bloomington-woman-sentenced-on-burglary-cocaine-charges/article_3cfd99d0-fa58-11ed-8068-3b840b950613.html | 2023-05-24T18:13:17 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bloomington-woman-sentenced-on-burglary-cocaine-charges/article_3cfd99d0-fa58-11ed-8068-3b840b950613.html |
What you need to know about Visit Knoxville Open golf tournament, including Grayson Murray
The game's future stars have descended upon Holston Hills Country Club in Knoxville this week for the Visit Knoxville Open on the Korn Ferry Tour.
Last year, Anders Albertson used an opening-round 8-under-par 62 to propel him to the win. Carl Yuan finished solo second at 19 under, MJ Daffue grabbed solo third at 18 under, and Taylor Montgomery − whose seen some steady success on the PGA Tour over the last 8 months − and Sean O'Hair tied for fourth at 16 under.
Ben Kohles, the 2022-23 KFT Points leader, is in the field looking for his third win of the season. Kohles won the Astara Chile Classic and the HomeTown Lenders Championship in April. Both events were decided by a playoff.
ALBERTSON WINS:Anders Albertson wins Visit Knoxville Open on Korn Ferry Tour by one shot
WHAT TO KNOW:Five things to know about the Visit Knoxville Open on the PGA Korn Ferry Tour
Murray has said he might consider playing the remainder of the season on the Korn Ferry Tour. Just eight months ago, he was in a scooter accident in Bermuda that didn't lead to any broken bones but he did need 50 stitches − 25 on his face, 10 on his leg and others on various parts of his body.
Last week's victory was Murray's second on the Korn Ferry Tour and he also won as a rookie on the PGA Tour at the 2016 Barbasol Championship.
Murray has been open about some struggles with mental health and alcohol.
"I think everyone has their own battles," Murray said after last week's victory. "Sometimes people are able to hide 'em and function and sometimes you're not. You know, I think our society now is getting better about accepting that, you know, it's OK to not be OK type deal. I've embraced that type of mentality. Not ashamed that I go through depression, anxiety.
"I know I've helped people out in the past just through my social media DMs, people messenger me and that's I think part of I can use my platform to continue to help with things like that."
According to Data Golf, Alejandro Tosti is the favorite to win. The Argentinean has finished T-7, T-10, T-22 and solo fourth in his last four Korn Ferry starts. On top of his success at this level, Tosti is three-for-three making the cut on the big tour this year, with his best finish coming at the Mexico Open where he tied for 10th. He's still searching for his first win.
According to Data Golf, Alejandro Tosti is the favorite to win. The Argentinean has finished T-7, T-10, T-22 and solo fourth in his last four Korn Ferry starts. On top of his success at this level, Tosti is three-for-three making the cut on the big tour this year, with his best finish coming at the Mexico Open where he tied for 10th. He's still searching for his first win.
As for the golf course, Holston Hills is a par-70 track that measures 7,218 yards. HHCC was founded in 1927 and was designed by the famed Donald Ross.
The last two winners of the Visit Knoxville Open reached 20 under, so birdies − and a lot of them − will be needed to have any shot of winning the title.
The first round starts Thursday with the first threesome at 7:15 a.m. The final round is Sunday.
This is the 33rd edition of the Visit Knoxville Open, one of four tournaments on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour schedule held every season since the Tour’s establishment in 1990. | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/local/2023/05/24/visit-knoxville-open-korn-ferry-tour-golf-grayson-murray/70252319007/ | 2023-05-24T18:17:32 | 0 | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/local/2023/05/24/visit-knoxville-open-korn-ferry-tour-golf-grayson-murray/70252319007/ |
More Wisconsin communities are participating in Now Mow May. Does it actually work?
At the end of May, some yards across Wisconsin will be overgrown with wildflowers and other plants.
It's all in an effort to help provide a healthy habitat for pollinators, such as bees, butterflies and other insects. No Mow May is a campaign that encourages people to refrain from mowing their lawns during May. Cutting grass destroys wildflowers and plants, which provide a vital source of nectar and pollen to pollinators, argue experts like Israel Del Toro and Relena Ribbons, both assistant professors at Lawrence University.
Participants aren't fined for any tall grass during the month. Some municipalities, like Milwaukee, require participants to register prior to a complaint being submitted for the property. Participation is voluntary.
Over the past three years, the campaign has grown in popularity across the state. More than 20 municipalities in Wisconsin have adopted No Mow May, including Wausau, Appleton, Stevens Point, Oshkosh, Green Bay, Wisconsin Rapids and La Crosse, among others.
But the campaign has not gone without controversy and has its detractors. Here's what you need to know about the issue.
Do pollinators actually benefit from an unmowed lawn?
Sometimes. It depends on the lawn, say experts from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lawns with turfgrass don't provide as many resources for pollinators compared with a yard containing an abundance of low growing flowering plants. Adding more flowering plants, shrubs and trees to your yard can increase benefits to pollinators.
Reducing or eliminating any pesticides in your yard will also benefit pollinators, according to UW-Madison.
It's important to explore different options to help pollinators, recognizing that not everyone can simply stop mowing their yard, especially if they have pets, said Ribbons. "There's no perfect lawn. What works for you?" she said.
The study showing the benefits of No Mow May has been retracted. Why?
Earlier this spring, an Appleton Common Council member introduced a resolution, which was later rejected, to nix the program, citing that the scientific evidence for the effort was defunct. Professors Del Toro and Ribbons did retract their study for potential inconsistencies in the data, and will resubmit it later this year.
Issues with the data aren't going to impact the overall conclusion of the study, Ribbons told the Journal Sentinel. No Mow May benefits pollinators, she said, and it's here to stay.
How should you cut your lawn after No Mow May is over?
If you let your lawn go unmowed and then mow more than one-third of the height at once, it can be stressful for both plants and your lawnmower, according to UW-Madison.
Instead, adjust your mower to the highest setting and make the first pass to reduce the grass height. Continue to gradually reduce the height of the blade before mowing the lawn. Do not cut more than a third of the grass blade at a single time. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/24/wisconsin-communities-participate-in-no-mow-may-does-it-benefit-bees/70244127007/ | 2023-05-24T18:40:40 | 0 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/24/wisconsin-communities-participate-in-no-mow-may-does-it-benefit-bees/70244127007/ |
PHOENIX — Imagine you're not feeling well and you need to see a doctor. Or you need to pick up an important medicine from a pharmacy, but the closest one is still too far away to get too easily?
Maybe you're at the doctor's office, but you aren't entirely sure about who's helping you since you're blind or visually impaired?
This is a reality for many in the Roosevelt neighborhood, an area that's often overlooked and underserved when it comes to medical care.
"A large part of health equity is access, and in this community and for our clients there is no access," said Steve Tepper, the Executive Director at the Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. "There is no relationship with the care team and no ability to get critical care that's preventative and ongoing."
Tepper saw the need for critical health services in the area, not just for his clients at the Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ACBVI). It's why he approached Terros Health to help change that. What they came up with, they say, will help change lives.
"This is far and away the most meaningful thing I've ever worked on," he said. "I've worked on a lot of things that've helped a lot of people, but never so profoundly and so directly where you're able to make a difference."
They are working to open a new medical center near the corner of 32nd Street and East Roosevelt Street. The medical center hasn't been named yet, but will offer a variety of critical services needed for people in the area. These services include things like primary care, a pharmacy, mental health, substance use treatment, and more.
"This project is really a year-long project to bring health equity to the ACBVI clients as well as this community," said Chief Medical Officer at Terros Health, Dr. Vanna Campion.
Tepper and Campion said the doors will be open to anyone and everyone and no one will be turned away based on their ability to pay. Their goal is to help about 5,000 people within the first year of opening doors.
"There's a lot of people in need and once this is open it'll be a magnet," said Tepper.
"I'm very passionate about providing equitable healthcare to all populations," said Campion. "I'm just so excited to get the doors open and really be able to start fulfilling the vision we have for this place."
It's possible doors could open the last week of May.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The man suspected in a Tigard double-murder in 2021 was convicted Tuesday and now faces life in prison.
The Washington County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that Ronald Terry Stephens, 42, was convicted for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Lacy Kitchens, 26, and her new boyfriend Frank Delgado-Falcon, 45, at her Tigard apartment.
On December 16, 2021, the attorney’s office said that Stephens drove to Kitchens’ apartment where he forced open the front door, kicked open the victim’s locked bedroom door, and shot Kitchens and Delgado-Falcon each twice in the head with a 9mm handgun.
The attorney’s office went on to say that Stephens then kicked in the door of the victims’ roommates with the intent to kill them as well, but they hid in their bedroom closet and remained unseen.
Stephens was arrested later that night at a Fred Meyer store in Sandy, Oregon along with his fiance Jaquina Shelonda Anderson, 31.
Further investigation revealed that Stephens had broken into the victim’s apartment two weeks earlier searching for Kitchens and Delgado-Falcon and had kidnapped and menaced the roommates with a gun at that time.
Stephens was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of first-degree burglary, two counts of second-degree kidnapping, two counts of unlawful use of a firearm and felon in possession of a firearm and he now faces a mandatory life sentence.
During the trial, Anderson failed to appear as a witness after being subpoenaed and the attorney’s office said that they learned that Stephens had received help from someone else while in jail to help Anderson avoid law enforcement.
A warrant is out for her arrest, but her whereabouts still remain unknown. | https://www.koin.com/local/washington-county/tigard-double-murder-suspect-convicted-faces-life-in-prison/ | 2023-05-24T18:44:07 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/washington-county/tigard-double-murder-suspect-convicted-faces-life-in-prison/ |
PUTNAM COUNTY, Indiana — Two people are dead after an early morning fire in Putnam County.
The sheriff’s department said they responded to a house fire on County Road 500 North in the Fillmore area around 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 24.
Firefighters located two people dead inside of the home.
The Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office is now handling the investigation.
The Putnam County Coroner's Office is working to identify the people found inside the home. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/2-dead-after-early-morning-fire-in-putnam-county-indiana/531-06df6208-7731-41c4-84af-e214ea83424e | 2023-05-24T18:48:49 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/2-dead-after-early-morning-fire-in-putnam-county-indiana/531-06df6208-7731-41c4-84af-e214ea83424e |
On Tuesday, the Midland City Council learned that the Midland Police Department is fully in compliance with Texas law pertaining to:
- A policy prohibiting racial profiling,
- Officer training and education on racial profiling,
- The racial profiling complaint process and public education about the complain process,
- The collection of racial profiling data.
Council members also learned race was known 0.2% of the time prior to a stop and there were no complaints of racial profiling in 2022.
The racial profiling analysis was presented to the Midland City Council during its briefing session. The data used was based on 22,583 motor vehicle stops in which a ticket, citation or warning was issued, including an arrest made, in 2022.
The following are take-a-ways from the report.
Population numbers. Population is based on 2020 Census statistics from the City of Midland, Midland County and Martin County.
The report showed that Whites make up 44.86% of the population inside the City of Midland, 45% inside Midland County and 53.08% inside Martin County.
Blacks make up 7.48% of the population inside the City of Midland, 6.16% inside Midland County and 1.55% inside Martin County.
Hispanics make up 41.62% of the population inside the City of Midland, 43.14% inside Midland County and 53.08% inside Martin County.
Lastly, Asians make up 2.58% of the population inside the City of Midland, 2.29% inside Midland County and 0.17% inside Martin County.
Percentage of stops compared to benchmarks. Whites constituted 36.18% of all drivers stopped, Blacks constituted 12.71% of all drivers stopped, Hispanics constituted 50.06% of all drivers stopped, and Asians made up 0.98% of all drivers stopped.
Traffic stop outcomes. Of the 22,583 stops, 66.86% were men, 65.38% of the stops were for a moving violation, 63.32% were given a verbal warning, 1,403 (6.21%) resulted in arrests, and 25 (0.11%) resulted in physical force resulting in bodily injury being used.
Who received verbal warnings? Data shows percentages of the 14,301 receiving verbal warnings included Whites (in 64% of stops made), Blacks (68%), Hispanics (62%) and Asians (61%).
Who received citations? Data shows percentages of the 4,547 receiving citations included Whites (in 18% of stops made), Blacks (15%), Hispanics (23%) and Asians (20%).
Who received written warnings? Data shows percentages of the 2,332 receiving written warnings included Whites (in 13% of stops made), Blacks (6%), Hispanics (9%) and Asians (16%).
Who were arrested? Data shows percentages of the 1,403 arrested included Whites (in 5% of stops made), Blacks (10%), Hispanics (6%) and Asians (3%).
Searches of motorists. The report showed there were 1,713 searches of motorists conducted (roughly 8% of all stops). White motorists were searched in roughly 6% of all stops involving White motorists, Black motorists in roughly 13% of all stops of Black motorists, Hispanic motorists in roughly 8% of all stops of Hispanic motorists and Asians in roughly 4% of all stops involving Asian motorists.
The report showed consent searches made up around 28% of the 1,713 searches, and Whites and Hispanics were mostly likely to be searched based on consent (29%). Blacks and Asians followed at 25% and 22% respectively.
Contraband was found in 51% of the searches conducted. Most frequently, the contraband seized was drugs (55.9%). The discovery of contraband resulted in an arrest 24% of the time. | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/midland-police-department-racial-profiling-report-18115574.php | 2023-05-24T18:51:49 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/midland-police-department-racial-profiling-report-18115574.php |
CAMPBELL COUNTY, Va. – A 29-year-old man was arrested and charged after narcotics were seized from a Campbell County home, according to the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities said on Tuesday, the sheriff’s office conducted a narcotics search warrant at 4845 Marysville Road in Altavista.
During the search, authorities said a substantial amount of Fentanyl was seized.
Q’uartez Shakur Robinson, 29, of Altavista was been charged with possession of schedule I or II substance with the intent to distribute.
The sheriff’s office said Robinson was transported to Blue Ridge Regional Jail and is currently being held without bond. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/24/altavista-man-charged-after-authorities-seize-substantial-amount-of-fentanyl-from-residence/ | 2023-05-24T18:53:08 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/24/altavista-man-charged-after-authorities-seize-substantial-amount-of-fentanyl-from-residence/ |
What will the weather be Memorial Day weekend? Here is the latest forecast
As we approach the unofficial start of summer with Memorial Day, Delawareans can expect this year's holiday to be the hottest day of the long weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
Monday’s forecast calls for highs near 82 degrees and partly cloudy skies. There’s a 20% chance of precipitation starting during the day, and that increases to 30% Monday night.
If you’re outside at night on Memorial Day, a light jacket or hoodie may come in handy — temperatures are likely to dip to around 58 degrees. It will feel humid, and showers may develop later Monday night, the NWS predicts.
Memorial Day weather forecast
You can expect this weekend to be nice and there’s a better chance of staying dry, than getting wet, according to NWS.
Temperatures will be in the mid-70s Saturday and Sunday before climbing to highs near 75 in Wilmington. It will drop into the 50s on both nights, the NWS predicts.
More:Headed to the Delaware beaches this Memorial Day weekend? Here's your guide
Contact local reporter Cameron Goodnight at cgoodnight@delawareonline.com, or by calling or texting 302-324-2208. Follow him on Twitter at @CamGoodnight. | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/24/delaware-memorial-day-weekend-forecast/70252317007/ | 2023-05-24T18:57:01 | 0 | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/24/delaware-memorial-day-weekend-forecast/70252317007/ |
Lawsuit alleges fired Ranlo Police officer was negligent in wreck
A lawsuit against a former Ranlo Police officer and the town of Ranlo alleges that the officer was speeding when he crossed the double yellow line and wrecked into another driver last year.
The lawsuit, which names 19-year-old Jacob Logan Nicholson as the plaintiff, stated that Nicholson was driving on Spencer Mountain Road on Jan. 15, 2022, when former Officer Brandon Michael Avant, who was driving behind him, crossed the double yellow line in an attempt to pass Nicholson while driving at speeds in excess of 70 mph.
When Nicholson tried to turn left onto Park Drive, the two collided.
The original complaint, which was filed in February, erroneously states that the crash killed Nicholson, but The Gazette located Nicholson, who confirmed that he is in fact alive but said he was hospitalized after the wreck. He referred further questions to his attorney, Robert J. Herford of Ted A. Greve & Associates.
Avant was fired from the Ranlo Police Department on March 7, 2022. A final notice of dismissal states that he was fired for violating police department and town policy, but it does not say what policy he violated. The lawsuit alleges that Avant was negligent and asked for an unspecified amount of damages.
In a phone interview, Avant declined to comment.
In a response to the lawsuit, the town of Ranlo denied the allegations of negligence and instead said that Nicholson himself was negligent. The response states that Nicholson was driving recklessly and failed to keep a proper lookout and yield to Avant, who had his blue lights on and sirens blaring as he pursued another motorist.
Ranlo City Manager Jonathan Blanton declined to comment further. | https://www.gastongazette.com/story/news/local/2023/05/24/lawsuit-alleges-fired-ranlo-police-officer-was-negligent-in-wreck/70248995007/ | 2023-05-24T18:57:44 | 1 | https://www.gastongazette.com/story/news/local/2023/05/24/lawsuit-alleges-fired-ranlo-police-officer-was-negligent-in-wreck/70248995007/ |
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — An 83-year-old Coeur d'Alene man was killed Sunday after he collided with a suspected drunk driver and rolled down a ravine.
According to the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office (KCSO), the victim was driving up the Fernan Grade when the two trucks collided. KSCO says the other truck was driven by Mark Bruzas, a Spokane Valley man. After the initial hit, deputies say the victim rolled nearly 400 feet down the ravine and ultimately died.
KCSO says Bruzas showed signs of being under the influence of alcohol. He was given a field sobriety test and found to be intoxicated at the time of the crash.
Bruzas was arrested and charged with one count of vehicular homicide. He is currently in the Kootenai County Public Safety Building.
Several units, including the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department, Kootenai County Fire and Rescue, and The United States Forest Service responded to the crash. According to KCSO, this is the fourth fatal crash they have investigated in two months.
Fernan Lake Road was closed for the majority of Monday to collect evidence. KCSO is asking anyone with information to contact them at (208) 446-2271.
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Facing threats of towing, RV community at Coventry Home Depot disperses
COVENTRY — Debra Fenley faced an 8:30 a.m. deadline Wednesday morning to remove the motorhome that she and her Siberian husky, Sakari, had called home in the Home Depot parking lot since December.
The minutes ticked by as Fenley waited for her daughter to drive the RV, which was too big for Fenley too handle.
Nearby, a small fleet of tow trucks stood at the ready to clear the store's parking lot of RVs — occasionally more than 20 at a time — that had formed a small village in the parking lot.
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Home Depot warned RV residents it would clear them out
Over the weekend, Home Depot had posted signs warning that vehicles parked there would be towed. Then on Monday, the company distributed notices that the towing would start Wednesday morning.
By then, only Fenley's motorhome, a travel trailer and a car remained of the RV "village" that, just a few days ago, had been well over a dozen strong.
Good Samaritan saves one RV from the tow truck's hook
By 8:25 a.m., Fenley's daughter still wasn't there to drive the motorhome. Fenley left Sakari in the RV and drove her car from Home Depot's parking lot to an adjacent lot in the Centre of New England shopping center.
Desperate to spare her RV from the tow truck's hook, she stopped a stranger in the parking lot.
"Do you know how to drive a truck?" she asked.
The man, who declined to give his name, said that he had a Commercial Driver's License, and offered to move Fenley's RV.
As the good Samaritan drove Fenley's motorhome to the adjacent lot, a tow truck pulled into position to remove the travel trailer, the only other RV left.
After the towing was done, Fenley told The Providence Journal that she will park the RV in a public parking lot for a few days, after which a man in Glocester, who saw a story about Fenley and Sakari in Tuesday's Journal, has offered her a spot on private property to park her home. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/05/24/ri-home-depot-threatens-rvs-parking-overnight-with-towing/70252144007/ | 2023-05-24T19:03:01 | 0 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/05/24/ri-home-depot-threatens-rvs-parking-overnight-with-towing/70252144007/ |
MCLEAN, Va. — After trespassing on a preschool's campus in Fairfax County Tuesday, a Florida man was charged and a AK-47 was confiscated.
Officers with the Fairfax County Police Department say 32-year-old Eric Sandow was trespassing at the Dolley Madison Preschool, located on Savile Lane, off of Dolley Madison Boulevard, in McLean. When they located him, he was unarmed and said that he was making his way to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The school is around a three minute drive from the CIA Headquarters Auditorium building, which is also located off of the same boulevard.
The man was then detained and a search warrant was executed on his vehicle. Two firearms, including an AK-47, as well as ammo were found in the car. They were all taken by police officers.
"Our officers took an AK-47 off the streets," the police department said in a tweet announcing the incident.
According to Fairfax County police officers, Sandow was charged with felony possession of a firearm on school property.
The Dolley Madison Preschool released the following statement about the incident:
“As noted in the Fairfax County Police Department’s statement this morning, a man was arrested yesterday after trespassing on Immanuel Presbyterian Church and Dolley Madison Preschool grounds. He requested access to the building facilities to use the restroom, which was denied by school staff. At no point did he gain physical entrance to the school building.
Fairfax County Police were called and arrested the individual. His car was parked in the main parking lot and was searched and seized. We are grateful for the swift response of the Fairfax County Police Department.” | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/florida-man-arrested-with-ak-47-near-virginia-preschool/65-d19b8393-d9cd-4709-a01d-3f096b819e3b | 2023-05-24T19:05:29 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/florida-man-arrested-with-ak-47-near-virginia-preschool/65-d19b8393-d9cd-4709-a01d-3f096b819e3b |
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Weeks after the reported theft of “dozens of firearms” from a storage facility in Orange County, the sheriff’s office is just one of several law enforcement agencies broadcasting rewards for information leading to the arrests of those responsible.
On May 6, two men were seen on surveillance video breaking into a storage facility along East Colonial Drive before cameras in the back of the business captured them hauling away at least four suitcases supposedly flush with firearms. Though the specific location of the storage facility was not provided at the time of this report, the sheriff’s office explained in a video on Twitter that the men showed up to the facility around 1:45 a.m.
The post added all of the stolen firearms were taken from a single unit, encouraging viewers to take note of the tattoos belonging to the man in the red hat and the facial profile of the man in the black hat. The man in the black hat was seen at a nearby gas station “around the time of the break-in,” though a specific location was left out here, too.
CAN YOU ID? On May 6, these two men broke into a storage facility and stole dozens of firearms. Help us catch these criminals & get these stolen guns off the streets before they are used in other crimes. @ATFHQ @CrimelineFL & @FLSheriffs offering generous rewards! pic.twitter.com/bJFPBO2Ml9
— Orange County Sheriff's Office (@OrangeCoSheriff) May 24, 2023
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The Florida Sheriffs Association and Crimeline offered a reward of up to $7,500 for information leading to the men’s arrests, with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives partnering with the National Shooting Sports Foundation to offer a separate $5,000 reward.
Crimeline may be reached at (800) 423-8477, while the ATF asks that you call (888) 283-8477.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis officially filed a declaration of candidacy for president.
The Florida governor is entering the race as Donald Trump’s top GOP rival.
DeSantis is expected to make a formal announcement of his presidential run with Elon Musk on Twitter at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
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“We’ve never had a Floridian elected president in our almost 200 years as a state,” UCF history professor and News 6 political analyst Dr. Jim Clark said in an interview. “So this gives Floridians a chance maybe to send a Floridian to the White House.”
He will join an increasingly crowded field of Republican presidential hopefuls including South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, who announced his candidacy Monday.
To view the official filing, click here.
DeSantis filing by Sam Dunne on Scribd
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — For the second time in three years, the Harrisburg region has been named the Best Place to Live in Pennsylvania and the 38th Best Place to Live in the United States by U.S. News & World Report, the Harrisburg Regional Chamber and CREDC announced Wednesday.
To make it to the top of the list, the Harrisburg region demonstrated "good value, be a desirable place to live, have a strong job market, and a have high quality of life," U.S. News & World Report said.
Harrisburg had previously received the top ranking in 2021,and was ranked for its quality of life, low cost of living, and strong job market.
“We are very excited and proud to see that the Harrisburg region has once again received the ranking of the Best Place to live in Pennsylvania,” said Harrisburg Regional Chamber & CREDC President & CEO Ryan Unger. “This region is a great place to live, work, and play, and continues to be a location that businesses and its workers want to be in. We are excited that our city is being recognized for all that it has to offer, and we look forward to continuing to help this city and region be a destination as it continues to grow.”
Harrisburg ranks 38th overall on the U.S. News & World Report list.
Other Pennsylvania cities to make the list include Pittsburgh (No. 47), Lancaster (No. 55), York (No. 78), Scranton (No. 85), Reading (No. 88), Allentown (No. 109), and Philadelphia (No. 119).
Green Bay, Wisconsin was ranked No. 1 overall, followed by Huntsville, Alabama, Raleigh-Durham, NC, Boulder, CO, and Sarasota, FL.
Click here to view the entire list. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/harrisburg-in-us-news-and-world-report-top-150-places-to-live-in-us/521-41a12047-99d7-44d6-98be-3aebbaf92622 | 2023-05-24T19:12:08 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/harrisburg-in-us-news-and-world-report-top-150-places-to-live-in-us/521-41a12047-99d7-44d6-98be-3aebbaf92622 |
LANCASTER, Pa. — Lancaster Police are seeking help from the public in identifying the suspect in a shooting that occurred on May 18.
According to police, the suspect was involved in a shooting at the intersection of New Dorwart and West Vine Streets at about 3:55 p.m.
The photos depict the same suspect on different days, according to police.
Anyone with information about the identification of the subject is asked to contact the Lancaster City Bureau of Police at 717-735-3300 and ask to speak to Det. Krause or a working detective, or call 911 in case of an emergency.
Tipsters can also call Lancaster City/County Crime Stoppers at (800) 322-1913 or submit a tip online. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lancaster-county/lancaster-police-shooting-suspect-new-dorwart-west-vine-streets/521-46b6f18a-ca82-4958-8a8d-36c7b0d94c32 | 2023-05-24T19:12:14 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lancaster-county/lancaster-police-shooting-suspect-new-dorwart-west-vine-streets/521-46b6f18a-ca82-4958-8a8d-36c7b0d94c32 |
Top NYPD officials provided more details Wednesday on their investigation into the case of two New York City boys who vanished together one Friday afternoon this month, then turned up dead in different rivers days later -- and days apart.
The baffling May 12 disappearances of 11-year-old Alfa Barrie, of the Bronx, and 13-year-old Garrett Warren, of Harlem, rocked their communities and their families, who said they weren't even aware the two knew each other.
The boys didn't go to the same school. They didn't live in the same borough. And relatives said the vanishing act was entirely out of character for both of them. NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig sought to fill in the timeline gaps Wednesday, delivering a detailed picture of the hours before and after the two went missing that Friday night.
He also emphasized the investigation was "active and ongoing," saying the NYPD was working with the Manhattan district attorney's office, the chief medical examiner's office and others to determine whether criminality was involved or the boys' deaths were just tragedies.
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"We want to find out exactly what occurred on that river," Essig said, referring to the Harlem River, where Warren's body was found and where the boys had last been traced the night they disappeared. "We owe it to the families for closure. And we owe it to the public as well."
According to Essig, the boys first got together around 3:30 p.m. May 12 and were tracked to a number of places across Manhattan, including a fish market, a house and a deli. At 6:43 p.m., Essig said Warren and Barrie are seen on a Citi Bike together near West 143rd Street and Lenox, and they are joined by a third youth. All three ride east.
Between 6:43 p.m. and 6:50 p.m., the three went over a pedestrian footbridge. Two people were seen climbing over a fence and going into the water, Essig said, though he emphasized the video was taken from a distance. Fourteen minutes pass before any of the three boys is seen on video again, and they see only the third youth at 7:04 p.m.
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Police say the third youth went into Colonel Young Park at 7:04 p.m. and is seen exiting it exactly two hours later, at 9:04 p.m. Five minutes after that, an anonymous 911 call comes in reporting two kids had been pushing each other on the river's edge in the area and both of them fell into the water. The dispatcher tried to engage the caller for more information. By the time cops arrived at the scene, the youth wasn't there -- and they couldn't track down the 911 caller.
Harbor and aviation units did a canvas of the immediate vicinity that night, Essig said, in the shallow part of the river and along the coast. Later that evening, detectives managed to identify and question the third youth. They located and interviewed a number of kids who had been in the park that night over the following days.
None said they saw what happened at the river's edge, Essig says. It was a crowded Friday night at the park, too.
"We know kids take video, post video, exchange video on social media -- if anyone has seen any video or heard of any video please contact us," Essig pleaded. "You are not in trouble for coming forward in a timely manner."
Warren's body was discovered first -- in the Harlem River, which runs between the Hudson and East rivers, closer to where the NYPD had been searching, late last week. The medical examiner ruled his death an accidental drowning.
Barrie's remains weren't recovered until Saturday, when it surfaced in the Hudson River, authorities say. His cause and manner of death are pending further study, the medical examiner's office said Monday.
Amid their blinding grief, the families have lingering questions. How could Barrie's body have gotten so far from Warren's if they went into the water at the same spot at the same time? Was anyone else involved?
A marine expert says it's plausible for a body to drift from the Harlem River to the Hudson River. NYPD executives expounded a bit on that point Wednesday. Officials said differences in their bodies -- in terms of fat ratio or density, for example -- could explain why they surfaced at seemingly disconnected times in seemingly disconnected places.
The longer a body is in the water, the farther a current may carry it, they say.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/alfa-barrie-garrett-warren-deaths-mystify-families-see-nypd-update/4362431/ | 2023-05-24T19:14:57 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/alfa-barrie-garrett-warren-deaths-mystify-families-see-nypd-update/4362431/ |
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- Authorities are still searching for three individuals who shot a 16-year-old girl in the head, a grave injury that ultimately killed her, two weeks ago, the NYPD said.
- Claudia Quatey, of Queens, was struck in the head on May 10 at around 8:29 p.m. on Lucas Street in St. Albans, when three unidentified individuals shot a firearm before running away. She passed away the next day, prompting the case to be investigated as a homicide.
- Authorities urge anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). All calls are confidential.
Authorities are still searching for three individuals who shot a 16-year-old girl in the head, a grave injury that ultimately killed her, two weeks ago, the NYPD said.
Claudia Quatey, of Queens, was struck in the head on May 10 at around 8:29 p.m. on Lucas Street in St. Albans, when three unidentified individuals shot a firearm before running away. She passed away the next day, prompting the case to be investigated as a homicide.
Police describe the first individual as a male with a slim build and anywhere between 5'11" and 6 feet tall, last seen wearing a white mask, black and gray hooded sweatshirt, gray sweatpants, and red sneakers.
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The second individual is described as a male, also with a slim build, and about 5' 10" tall. He was last seen wearing a black mask, gray hooded sweatshirt, dark colored sweatpants, and red sneakers, according to police.
The third individual is described as a male with a medium build, about 5' 6" tall. He was last seen wearing a black mask, navy hooded sweatshirt, black pants, and black and white sneakers.
Authorities urge anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). All calls are confidential.
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The news of the ongoing search comes in the heels of another shooting in which the victim was a minor.
A 13-year-old boy declared brain-dead after being shot in the head at a Staten Island playground Friday afternoon has died, the NYPD said Tuesday as it declared his case a homicide investigation.
Sources say a 17-year-old is now in custody. Details on the charges weren't immediately clear, but investigators allege he is connected to the shooting that killed Jamoure Harrell. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/nypd-search-continues-for-killer-trio-that-shot-girl-in-head/4362680/ | 2023-05-24T19:15:17 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/nypd-search-continues-for-killer-trio-that-shot-girl-in-head/4362680/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Dallas may not be Austin but it can hold its own in the wild and wacky.
From oversized sculptures to historic landmarks with interesting backgrounds, you never know what you’ll find in the 214. We all know about the Eye Sculpture in Downtown Dallas, it’s time to switch it up!!
Full of hidden gems and surprises, Dallas always has something for you to get into!
Here are some places to check out for a unique Dallas experience:
Hand Collection
This is something that you have to check out especially if you like “the strange”. There is a collection of over 100 pairs of cast hands, located outside of the Baylor Medical Center.
Museums of Illusions Dallas
The museum describes itself as, “a place where nothing is as it seems”. With over 80 exhibits filled with optical illusions, holograms, installations, etc. Buy your tickets here.
Thanks-Giving Square, Downtown Dallas
This serene place can be found in Downtown Dallas. The square is dedicated to giving thanks and promoting gratitude, as expressions of thanks can be seen engraved in the art around the square.
The Grave of Bonnie Parker, Crown Memorial Park
Of course, we have all heard of the infamous American crime duo Bonnie and Clyde. The final resting place for Bonnie is located in Dallas at Crown Memorial Park.
Bowler Hat Scripture, Art District
Located between Ervay and Browder Street, the huge statue can be found in the Art District. The sculpture was brought by British furniture brand, Timothy Oulton. The hat is inspired by the brand’s bowler hat logo designed by Keith Turman.
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- Rapper Fetty Wap was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday for operating a large scale drug conspiracy that sold kilos of cocaine in New Jersey.
- Fetty Wap, who hails from Paterson, New Jersey, and whose real name is Willie Maxwell, pleaded guilty in August to a conspiracy drug charge, which carries a mandatory five-year prison sentence, admitting that he participated in a massive drug trafficking racket that moved drugs from the West Coast to Long Island.
- Maxwell rose to prominence after “Trap Queen,” his debut single, reached No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 2015.
Rapper Fetty Wap was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday for operating a large scale drug conspiracy that sold kilos of cocaine in New Jersey.
Fetty Wap, who hails from Paterson, New Jersey, and whose real name is Willie Maxwell, pleaded guilty in August to a conspiracy drug charge, which carries a mandatory five-year prison sentence, admitting that he participated in a massive drug trafficking racket that moved drugs from the West Coast to Long Island.
During Wednesday's sentencing, Maxwell apologized, saying: "I hurt my community, people who look up to me. My family and myself. I am truly sorry for any pain I caused."
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Judge Joanna Seybert, who presided over the sentencing had strong words for the rapper.
“Despite your background and all you overcame, you threw it all away," Seybert said.
Initially, Maxwell's plea during the summer in Central Islip came before U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Locke, who had revoked his bond and sent him to jail two weeks ago. After the plea, he was returned to jail to await sentencing, though a date was not immediately set.
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Locke revoked the rapper’s $500,000 bail, secured by property he owns in Georgia, after prosecutors said that Wap, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, threatened to kill a man during a FaceTime call in 2021, violating the terms of his pretrial release in his drug case.
The “Trap Queen” rapper was initially arrested in October 2021 on charges alleging he participated in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs into the New York City area.
He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess controlled substances, the top charge in an indictment against him, though the plea pertained only to cocaine. It carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison while federal sentencing guidelines are likely to recommend about two additional years in prison. The plea spared him from a potential life sentence if he had been convicted on all the charges he faced.
Maxwell and five co-defendants were accused of conspiring to possess and distribute more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine between June 2019 and June 2020. Two codefendants also have pleaded guilty and await sentencing.
The scheme allegedly involved using the U.S. Postal Service and cars with hidden compartments to move drugs from the West Coast to Long Island, where they were stored for distribution to dealers on Long Island and in New Jersey, prosecutors said.
Maxwell rose to prominence after “Trap Queen,” his debut single, reached No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 2015.
The Long Island arrest was not his first. In 2019, he was arrested in Las Vegas for allegedly assaulting three employees at a hotel-casino. He was also arrested in November 2017 on a DUI charge after police said he was drag racing on a New York City highway. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-in-drug-conspiracy-case/4362829/ | 2023-05-24T19:15:23 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/rapper-fetty-wap-sentenced-to-6-years-in-drug-conspiracy-case/4362829/ |
Circle K is knocking 40 cents off per gallon of gas during a three-hour promotion Thursday.
For a second year, Circle K is hosting Fuel Day. That means that between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. on May 25, participating locations across Arizona will offer a big discount on gas.
There are nearly 100 participating locations in Pima County.
“After an overwhelming response from customers, we are thrilled to bring back Circle K Fuel Day in a bigger way,” Louise Warner, Sr. Vice President, Global Fuels, for Circle K said Wednesday in a news release. “With summer right around the corner, we want to thank our customers for their loyalty by providing them an opportunity to fuel their adventures and enjoy some great savings.”
The average gas price in Pima County is $4.54, according to AAA data. The national average is $3.56.
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During Fuel Day, most locations will also hand out a limited amount of fuel discount cards valid for 10 cents off per gallon throughout the summer, the news release said.
In addition to fuel discounts, over 25 CleanFreak Car Wash locations in Arizona will be hosting Car Wash Day. From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., customers can get their first month free when they subscribe to any car wash package.
Once customers sign up, they will also receive a fuel discount card, granting them daily fuel savings at Circle K locations, the news release said.
Go to www.circlek.com/fuel-day for more information about the gas-price promotion and to find participating locations.
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Accused Alex Murdaugh accomplice Cory Fleming to plead guilty to federal charge
Accused Alex Murdaugh accomplice and co-conspirator Cory H. Fleming, 54, of Beaufort, has been indicted on federal charges and is scheduled to plead guilty in federal court in Charleston Thursday, May 25 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Fleming, a suspended Beaufort attorney and longtime friend of Richard Alexander “Alex” Murdaugh's, is scheduled to plead guilty to allegations that from around March 2018 until at least October 2020, Fleming conspired with former personal injury attorney Murdaugh to defraud the estate of Murdaugh’s former housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, and to obtain money and property from the estate by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses.
In a plea agreement signed by Fleming May 22, he agrees to pay full restitution and fully cooperate with the investigation involving Murdaugh, who is also facing federal charges after an indictment released the same day as Fleming's plea.
Alex Murdaugh recommends Fleming after housekeeper's death
In February 2018, Murdaugh’s housekeeper died after a fall at his home. Murdaugh recommended that the housekeeper’s estate hire Fleming—then a personal injury and criminal defense attorney in Beaufort—to represent them and file a claim against Murdaugh to collect from his homeowner’s insurance policies. Murdaugh’s insurance companies settled the estate’s claim for $505,000 and $3,800,000.
State and federal documents allege that, as part of the scheme, Murdaugh and Fleming conspired to siphon settlement funds, disguised as “prosecution expenses,” for their own personal enrichment.
Fleming allegedly directed the drafting of checks from the settlement funds held in his trust account to his personal bank account, fraudulently claiming that the funds were to pay for “expenses” related to the estate’s claim against Murdaugh. The information alleges Fleming knew the funds belonged to the estate, and the payments were not for legitimate legal expenses.
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"Today has been a great day for justice in South Carolina related to the ongoing criminal investigations into Alex Murdaugh and Cory Fleming," Satterfield attorney Eric Bland said Wednesday in an emailed release. "... While it is said that Lady Justice is blind, she is not a sucker. Bottom Line—Can’t run or hide from justice."
The hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the J. Waties Waring Judicial Center, in Charleston, S.C., before Judge Richard M. Gergel.
Fleming faces a maximum penalty of up to five years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Emily Limehouse, Kathleen Stoughton, and Winston Holliday are prosecuting the case. | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/south-carolina/2023/05/24/alex-murdaugh-saga-accused-accomplice-cory-fleming-plead-guilty-federal-court/70252279007/ | 2023-05-24T19:22:25 | 0 | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/south-carolina/2023/05/24/alex-murdaugh-saga-accused-accomplice-cory-fleming-plead-guilty-federal-court/70252279007/ |
ATLANTIC CITY — A billboard company is suing the city and its Zoning Board on constitutional grounds, after the board denied a variance to build a double-sided, electronic sign 24 feet from homes, while city zoning requires a 500-foot buffer.
It is also suing Somers Point and Middle Township, alleging their ordinances restricting billboards are not constitutional.
"The city's 500-foot residential buffer requirement for billboards effectively bans billboards in many areas ... particularly entrances to and exits from the city, where billboards would normally be most properly located," said the lawsuit, filed by Justin D. Santagata of Cooper Levenson. "At the same time, the city has many larger billboards near or abutting residential districts throughout the city."
Garden State Outdoor LLC sued Atlantic City on April 3, after the Zoning Board denied a conditional variance to erect a 55-foot digital ad board at the foot of the Albany Avenue bridge on a Sunoco fuel station lot near the entryway to the resort.
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At the same time, the Zoning Board has the application on its agenda for its Thursday meeting.
The property is in a "neighborhood commercial 2 district," which requires a 500-foot distance to a residential area, Garden State said in its complaint.
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The billboard would be 24 feet from a residence, the complaint states.
City zoning also allows a maximum gross surface area for the billboard of 60 feet, and the proposed billboard has a surface area of 378 feet; and a maximum pole sign height of 30 feet, while 55 feet is proposed.
The city has not denied Garden State any constitutional rights, said attorney for the city Steven S. Glickman, in his response to the complaint.
He also said Garden State did not show that the billboard as proposed would not harm the city.
The city is seeking dismissal of the case, while Garden State wants the judge to reverse the Zoning Board's denial and declare the 500-foot residential buffer for billboards unconstitutional.
In the Somers Point and Middle Township cases, Garden State is suing each municipality over its ordinance banning or effectively banning billboards.
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"The ordinance banning billboards states such a ban is justified under (case law) ... but in 1988 and 2016 the New Jersey Supreme Court held that a municipality could not simply ban billboards, as Somers Point has done," Santagata wrote in that complaint filed in January.
In the Middle Township case, filed last year, Santagata said the township's barring of billboards "constitutes an impermissible restriction on commercial forms of expression as well as non-commercial speech, and fails to create any opportunity for the development of outdoor advertising signs, contrary to the constitutional mandate."
The company applied in May 2022, to build and operate a double-sided outdoor ad sign of 378 square feet, and 45 feet high, at 1410 Route 47 South, in Middle's Town Center Zoning District.
It was denied in July, and Garden State sued in August.
Santagata is seeking a judge's order to reverse Somers Point's zoning board denial and ordering its ordinance unconstitutional. He is also seeking attorney's fees and other costs under the New Jersey Civil Rights Act.
In the Middle case, he is seeking similar relief, but does not cite the New Jersey Civil Rights Act. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/a-billboard-company-is-suing-3-south-jersey-towns-for-the-right-to-put-signs/article_451861ee-fa4f-11ed-89a8-1758b271b397.html | 2023-05-24T19:22:52 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/a-billboard-company-is-suing-3-south-jersey-towns-for-the-right-to-put-signs/article_451861ee-fa4f-11ed-89a8-1758b271b397.html |
Mike Trout, 31, a 2009 Millville High School graduate, is a center fielder with the Los Angeles Angels and was the 2014, 2016 and 2019 American League MVP.
Monday: Went 0 for 3, striking out twice, with a walk in a 2-1 win over the visiting Red Sox. He batted second and played center field.
Tuesday: Hit a two-run, opposite-field home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to help the Angels beat Boston 4-0. Batting second and playing center field, he went 1 for 4.
Wednesday: Left-hander James Paxton (1-0, 2.45) is scheduled to start the 9:38 p.m. series finale for Boston. Trout is hitting .179 (5 for 28) with no home runs or RBIs against him. Paxton has walked him twice and struck him out 11 times.
Joining Joltin' Joe: Trout's home run Tuesday was the 361st of his career, putting him in a tie with Joe DiMaggio for 85th on the all-time list.
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Stats: Trout is hitting .276 (49 for 178) with 11 home runs, 25 RBIs and 32 runs scored in 46 games. He has walked 21 times and struck out 56 times. His on-base percentage is .366, his OPS .883. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/daily-mike-trout-report-ties-joe-dimaggio-with-361st-career-home-run/article_4d52acc4-f992-11ed-9a4d-e3ff518f3ee0.html | 2023-05-24T19:23:05 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/daily-mike-trout-report-ties-joe-dimaggio-with-361st-career-home-run/article_4d52acc4-f992-11ed-9a4d-e3ff518f3ee0.html |
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BALTIMORE — Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer and according to AAA, nearly 853,000 Marylanders are expected to travel in some capacity over the holiday weekend.
That's six percent over last year's estimate but still six percent under pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
Nationally 2.7 million more people are projected to travel this year compared to last.
"In Maryland and the Washington, D.C. Metro area, AAA expects this to be the fourth busiest Memorial Day weekend since 2000 - when AAA started tracking holiday travel," said Ragina Cooper Ali, of AAA Mid-Atlantic.
A majority of Maryland travelers (754,840) will be driving, while 70,680 plan to fly.
Although still significantly higher than 2020, gas prices are about $1.05 less than last year. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/aaa-projects-high-travel-turnout-in-maryland-over-memorial-day | 2023-05-24T19:29:53 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/aaa-projects-high-travel-turnout-in-maryland-over-memorial-day |
BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Police Department distributed an internal memorandum in preparation for Mayor Brandon Scott's re-implementation of a night time youth curfew.
Scott vowed to reimpose the curfew following an April brawl that led to a shooting at the Inner Harbor.
According to the new memorandum, which goes in effect at 11pm on May 26, officers will target youth crowds of 10 or more who are under 17-year-old.
Police will enforce the curfew in public places and establishments beginning as early as 9pm throughout the week.
Curfew for those under age 14 will be from 9pm to 6am all week, including on weekends.
Anyone ages 14 to 16 have a nightly curfew of 11pm to 6am, between Memorial Day and the last weekend in August.
Those same hours would carryover during weekends for the rest of the year, except for weekdays at which point curfew begins an hour earlier at 10pm.
The new memorandum temporarily supersedes existing BPD policy 1205, which entails the same hours for the same age groups but also discusses daytime school curfews.
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Under policy 1205 officers were permitted to take a juvenile violating curfew into custody and transport them home, to the Youth Connection Center, or the Department of Social Services.
The policy also allowed parents of those juveniles to be fined.
This new memorandum makes no mention of civil penalties for parents, and it explicitly states only Youth Connection Center employees can transport minors, and only if they consent. Officers under the new guidance appear to have no authority to take a juvenile into custody for merely a curfew violation, unless they've committed a criminal act.
Scott is scheduled to officially announce his Bmore Summer Youth Engagement Strategy Wednesday at 3pm.
Aside from the curfew, the initiative includes new summer youth programming, extended rec center hours and renovations to playgrounds and basketball courts. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/bpd-issues-new-internal-memo-for-enforcing-night-time-youth-curfews | 2023-05-24T19:29:59 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/bpd-issues-new-internal-memo-for-enforcing-night-time-youth-curfews |
BALTIMORE — The Maryland Zoo announced the hatching of two trumpeter swans after more than 30 days of incubating in their huge nest located in the Farmyard.
The hatchlings, known as cygnets, will be raised by their parents who help them develop skills to survive in the wild.
“Many of their previous offspring were reintroduced to the wild as part of a trumpeter swan restoration program in Iowa. This year the cygnets will be sent to Oregon where they’ll be released by the state’s Department of Natural Resources,” said Jen Kottyan, Curator of Birds at the Maryland Zoo.
Trumpeter swans are the largest waterfowl species native to North America and the largest swan in the world.
They can weigh up to 30 pounds, and are known for their bright white feathers, black beaks, very large webbed feet and a six-foot wingspan.
In the early 1900s, trumpeter swans were nearly hunted to extinction for their skin, feathers, meat and eggs. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/trumpeter-swans-hatch-at-maryland-zoo-after-30-days-of-incubation | 2023-05-24T19:30:05 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/trumpeter-swans-hatch-at-maryland-zoo-after-30-days-of-incubation |
MITCHELL — On Tuesday morning, about 50 citizens packed the room of the Davison County Commissioners’ Chamber and filled it with hopeful anticipation, as the county took its next step en route to building the largest soybean processing facility in state history.
By the end of the morning, the Davison County Commission had voted 4-0 to approve South Dakota Soybean Processing’s (SDSP) $21 million TIF funding proposal. The funding will go toward the construction of the $500 million mega-soybean processing plant they hope to build in Davison County.
Tuesday's decision by the county commission saw four members vote in favor of the TIF proposal, with a fifth member Chris Nebelsick, recusing himself due to a declared conflict as an investor in the project. Commission votes do not use stand-ins in the case of absences or declared conflicts of interest, instead requiring a majority vote of the remaining members.
South Dakota Soybean’s commitment to being a good neighbor and a good corporate citizen is what swayed Commission Chairman Randy Reider, while member Mike Blaalid said the plant will drive costs of soybean transportation down for farmers.
As well as the commission vote being unanimous, the packed room — which notably included Mitchell Mayor Bob Everson, Mitchell Chamber of Commerce Director Geri Beck and Chamber Director of Regional Development Dave Lambert — also had no dissenting voices in the audience.
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On Tuesday, a collective sentiment that included Everson, Beck and Lambert, expressed positive feelings about the project, according to Davison County Auditor Susan Kiepke's minutes from the meeting. Beck called the plant “a benefit to Davison County as well as the city of Mitchell in the long run.” It was a statement that Lambert and Everson echoed.
Also in attendance were local farmers — a number of whom expressed the benefits the processing plant will bring to them as well.
The plant’s benefits for transportation costs for farmers was also touted by Craig Stehly, another farmer. “Right now, we’re exporting large amounts of soybean to China. This would help retain exports here. When you do that it’s just better in the long run — it means more money for farmers.”
The passing of the proposal comes after a series of approvals by multiple county committees over the past year, and the case for the proposal presented on Tuesday was only a brief summary of the project.
In Davison County, TIF proposals require the fulfillment of a number of mandatory criteria to pass. The TIF was already found to meet those criteria by both the county TIF committee and planning and zoning committee. But these entities only have the authority to make recommendations — the county commission must sign off on a proposal for it to pass officially.
Now, the $21 million TIF will be paid by the county to SDSP over a period of years in the form of a rebate on the processing plant’s county property taxes, as the county and the company both expect to reap long term economic benefits. In other words, there is no money being disbursed today.
A tax-increment financing proposal works by using the property tax revenue increases a new project brings to an area — in this case, the revenue from the soybean plant for Davison County — and deals that money back to the builders of the project over a maximum period of 20 years.
The $21 million figure of the TIF proposal comes from an estimate of how much in taxes the plant will generate over the next 20 years — just over $1 million a year. This means that if the estimate is correct, the county will pay back the $1 million each year in property taxes generated by the processing plant to SDSP. In the meantime, SDSP is responsible for fronting the costs of the facility, which are currently estimated to be just over $500 million. | https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/davison-county-commission-unanimously-approves-tif-proposal-for-500-million-soybean-facility | 2023-05-24T19:35:59 | 1 | https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/davison-county-commission-unanimously-approves-tif-proposal-for-500-million-soybean-facility |
NEW YORK — Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and ‘70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” has died at 83.
Turner died Tuesday, after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, according to her manager. She became a Swiss citizen a decade ago.
Few stars traveled so far — she was born Anna Mae Bullock in a segregated Tennessee hospital and spent her latter years on a 260,000 square foot estate on Lake Zurich — and overcame so much. Physically battered, emotionally devastated and financially ruined by her 20-year relationship with Ike Turner, she became a superstar on her own in her 40s, at a time when most of her peers were on their way down, and remained a top concert draw for years after.
With admirers ranging from Beyoncé to Mick Jagger, Turner was one of the world’s most successful entertainers, known for a core of pop, rock and rhythm and blues favorites: “Proud Mary,” “Nutbush City Limits,” “River Deep, Mountain High,” and the hits she had in the ‘80s, among them “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero” and a cover of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.”
Her trademarks were her growling contralto, her bold smile and strong cheekbones, her palette of wigs and the muscular, quick-stepping legs she did not shy from showing off. She sold more than 150 million records worldwide, won 12 Grammys, was voted along with Ike into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 (and on her own in 2021) and was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2005, with Beyoncé and Oprah Winfrey among those praising her. Her life became the basis for a film, a Broadway musical and an HBO documentary in 2021 that she called her public farewell.
Until she left her husband and revealed their back story, she was known as the voracious on-stage foil of the steady-going Ike, the leading lady of the “Ike and Tina Turner Revue.” Ike was billed first and ran the show, choosing the material, the arrangements, the backing singers. They toured constantly for years, in part because Ike was often short on money and unwilling to miss a concert. Tina Turner was forced to go on with bronchitis, with pneumonia, with a collapsed right lung.
Other times, the cause of her misfortunes was Ike himself.
As she recounted in her memoir, “I, Tina,” Ike began hitting her not long after they met, in the mid-1950s, and only grew more vicious. Provoked by anything and anyone, he would throw hot coffee in her face, choke her, or beat her until her eyes were swollen shut, then rape her. Before one show, he broke her jaw and she went on stage with her mouth full of blood.
Terrified both of being with Ike and of being without him, she credited her emerging Buddhist faith in the mid-1970s with giving her a sense of strength and self-worth and she finally left in early July, 1976. The Ike and Tina Turner Revue was scheduled to open a tour marking the country’s bicentennial when Tina snuck out of their Dallas hotel room, with just a Mobil credit card and 36 cents, while Ike slept. She hurried across a nearby highway, narrowly avoiding a speeding truck, and found another hotel to stay.
“I looked at him (Ike) and thought, ‘You just beat me for the last time, you sucker,’” she recalled in her memoir.
Turner was among the first celebrities to speak candidly about domestic abuse, becoming a heroine to battered women and a symbol of resilience to all. Ike Turner did not deny mistreating her, although he tried to blame Tina for their troubles. When he died, in 2007, a representative for his ex-wife said simply: “Tina is aware that Ike passed away.”
Little of this was apparent to the many Ike and Tina fans. The Turners were a hot act for much of the 1960s and into the ’70s, evolving from bluesy ballads such as “A Fool in Love” and “It’s Going to Work Out Fine” to flashy covers of “Proud Mary” and “Come Together” and other rock songs that brought them crossover success.
They opened for the Rolling Stones in 1966 and 1969, and were seen performing a lustful version of Otis Redding’s “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” in the 1970 Stones documentary “Gimme Shelter.” Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett gave Oscar-nominated performances as Ike and Tina in the 1993 movie “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” based on “I, Tina,” but she would say that reliving her years with Ike was so painful she couldn’t bring herself to watch the movie).
Ike and Tina’s reworking of “Proud Mary,” originally a tight, mid-tempo hit for Creedence Clearwater Revival, helped define their assertive, sexual image. Against a background of funky guitar and Ike’s crooning baritone, Tina began with a few spoken words about how some people wanted to hear songs that were “nice and easy.”
“But there’s this one thing,” she warned, “you see, we never ever do nothing nice and easy.
“We always do it nice — and rough.”
But by the end of the 1970s, Turner’s career seemed finished. She was 40 years old, her first solo album had flopped and her live shows were mostly confined to the cabaret circuit. Desperate for work, and money, she even agreed to tour in South Africa when the country was widely boycotted because of its racist apartheid regime.
Rock stars helped bring her back. Rod Stewart convinced her to sing “Hot Legs” with him on “Saturday Night Live” and Jagger, who had openly borrowed some of Turner’s on-stage moves, sang “Honky Tonk Women” with her during the Stones’ 1981-82 tour. At a listening party for his 1983 album “Let’s Dance,” David Bowie told guests that Turner was his favorite female singer.
More popular in England at the time than in the U.S., she recorded a raspy version of “Let’s Stay Together” at EMI’s Abbey Road studios in London. By the end of 1983, “Let’s Stay Together” was a hit throughout Europe and on the verge of breaking in the states. An A&R man at Capitol Records, John Carter, urged the label to sign her up and make an album. Among the material presented to her was a reflective pop-reggae ballad co-written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle and initially dismissed by Tina as “wimpy.”
“I just thought it was some old pop song, and I didn’t like it,” she later said of “What’s Love Got To Do With It.”
Turner’s “Private Dancer” album came out in May 1984, sold more than eight million copies and featured several hit singles, including the title song and “Better Be Good To Me.” It won four Grammys, among them record of the year for “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” the song that came to define the clear-eyed image of her post-Ike years.
“People look at me now and think what a hot life I must have lived — ha!” she wrote in her memoir.
Even with Ike, it was hard to mistake her for a romantic. Her voice was never “pretty,” and love songs were never her specialty, in part because she had little experience to draw from. She was born in Nutbush, Tennessee in 1939 and would say she received “no love” from either her mother or father. After her parents separated, she moved often around Tennessee and Missouri, living with various relatives. She was outgoing, loved to sing and as a teenager would check out the blues clubs in St. Louis, where one of the top draws was Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm. Tina didn’t care much for his looks the first time she saw him, at the Club Manhattan.
“Then he got up onstage and picked up his guitar,” she wrote in her memoir. “He hit one note, and I thought, ‘Jesus, listen to this guy play.’”
Tina soon made her move. During intermission at an Ike Turner show at the nearby Club D’Lisa, Ike was alone on stage, playing a blues melody on the keyboards. Tina recognized the song, B.B. King’s “You Know I Love You,” grabbed a microphone and sang along. As Tina remembered, a stunned Ike called out “Giirrlll!!” and demanded to know what else she could perform. Over her mother’s objections, she agreed to join his group. He changed her first name to Tina, inspired by the comic book heroine Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, and changed her last name by marrying her, in 1962.
In rare moments of leniency from Ike, Tina did enjoy success on her own. She added an explosive lead vocal to Phil Spector’s titanic production of “River Deep, Mountain High,” a flop in the U.S. when released in 1966, but a hit overseas and eventually a standard. She was also featured as the Acid Queen in the 1975 film version of the Who’s rock opera “Tommy.” More recent film work included “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” and a cameo in “What’s Love Got to Do with It.”
Turner had two sons: Craig, with saxophonist Raymond Hill; and Ronald, with Ike Turner. (Craig Turner was found dead in 2018 of an apparent suicide). In a memoir published later in 2018, “Tina Turner: My Love Story,” she revealed that she had received a kidney transplant from her second husband, former EMI record executive Erwin Bach.
Turner’s life seemed an argument against marriage, but her life with Bach was a love story the younger Tina would not have believed possible. They met in the mid-1980s, when she flew to Germany for record promotion and he picked her up at the airport. He was more than a decade younger than her — “the prettiest face,” she said of him in the HBO documentary — and the attraction was mutual. She wed Bach in 2013, exchanging vows at a civil ceremony in Switzerland.
“It’s that happiness that people talk about,” Turner told the press at the time, “when you wish for nothing, when you can finally take a deep breath and say, ‘Everything is good.’”
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Associated Press Writer Hilary Fox contributed to this report. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2023/05/24/tina-turner-dead/490adf88-fa64-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html | 2023-05-24T19:36:07 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2023/05/24/tina-turner-dead/490adf88-fa64-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html |
President Joe Biden will mark the one-year anniversary of the massacre in Uvalde, Texas on Wednesday afternoon.
On May 24, 2022, a gunman entered Robb Elementary School and killed 19 children and two adults. Another 17 people who were injured in the shooting survived the attack.
The president will deliver remarks from the White House at about 2:30 p.m. CT honoring the victims of the shooting. The president is also expected to reiterate his call for Congress to enact legislation that will help stop the epidemic of gun violence in America.
An NBC News Special Report including the president's remarks will be available in the video player at the top of this page.
Last year, the president and first lady visited Uvalde in the days after the shooting and met with the families of the children killed in the shooting.
’“When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?” Biden said with emotion from the White House after the shooting. “Why are we willing to live with this carnage? Why do we keep letting this happen?”
A moment of silence was held in Texas at 11:30 a.m., coinciding with the moment the shooting began.
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Residents of Liberty City’s Lincoln Fields Apartments were joined by community activists Tuesday to fight what they say are illegal evictions, and to demand improvements after experiencing what they describe as deteriorating and unsanitary conditions. They’re calling on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to investigate and take immediate action.
Lincoln Fields was built in the 1946 in the midst of redlining and segregation, and living conditions for its predominantly Black residents have not improved since the 1970s. Miami Workers Center (MWC) – which according to its website empowers working-class tenants, women and families in Miami-Dade County – has been engaging with residents for more than a month to help them secure better conditions and justice for being displaced.
“After we got the call in April, we jumped on it and started organizing phone banking and other ways to fight against the displacement of our community,” said Devetri Stratford, an MWC tenant housing organizer. “We don’t understand why landlords refuse to follow the laws and respect tenants’ rights. Folks at Lincoln Fields deserve better and not this type of mistreatment.”
Jahmiee, a mother of four and a resident for the past 10 years, pleaded with the community to help residents escape the mold-riddled property. She did not disclose her last name to The Miami Times for fear of retaliation from Cambridge Property Management, the management company that oversees Lincoln Fields.
“The management company here are like tormentors. Please, anybody, help us. What’s being done to us is not right,” she said, overcome with emotion. “Housing is a human right, and we will not go down without a fight.”
Jahmiee was told by Cambridge Property that she and her family would be evicted for owing more than $1,000 in rent, and it was suggested that she seek accommodation at the Camillus House homeless shelter.
“The management company is very nasty. If you complain about something that they did wrong, they won't come … they never come to repair anything,” she said. “I told them people have dice games outside, and could you please send the security? They say, no, you're not our property. We are here to protect the property, not you guys.”
Rebela Kendrick, a resident for more than 20 years, says conditions have never been as horrible as they are today. As management companies changed over the years, she says the property and quality of life at Lincoln Fields has gone downhill. According to her, the mold residents are now enduring began after the building was renovated 10 years ago, and they continue to suffer from other infestations.
“We never had garbage build up like this where it’s just falling all over the place,” said Kendrick. “We live in the Fields with rats and roaches crawling on your head while you sleep. Our children are catching asthma from the mold and no one cares at all.”
Jahmiee and Kendrick highlight the danger the building environment imposes on children, and concerns over the lack of action from Cambridge Property to increase security. Jahmiee witnessed the consequences of the worsening conditions after a piece of concrete fell on a young boy on the playground. Both residents have seen young people get shot and killed on property.
“It’s scary when you walk in your gate because you don’t know when they will start shooting. My daughter also lives here, and they shot her apartment several times. She had bullet holes in her windows and doors while my grandchildren were in her apartment,” said Kendrick.
Local activists again stood with Lincoln Fields residents on Tuesday to present to landlords a united front. Housing activist Sonya Brown-Wilson grew up in Liberty City and came to support tenants after the changes for the worse she’s seen the community experience. Homeless advocate David Perry, founder of the Miami Coalition to Advance Racial Equity (MCARE), says the situation at Lincoln Fields is a priority for the organization.
“If you look around, you see this is a community of color, and when slumlords profit off the pain and suffering of our community, then it’s Black and brown people they’re targeting,” said Perry. “They’re kicking out families and people who work hard to put food on the table and struggle to keep a roof over their heads. That’s a systemic problem. So, we have to be here to show support.”
Lincoln Fields tenants are demanding an end to illegal evictions, which 30 residents are currently facing. They are being represented by Legal Services of Greater Miami. If those efforts fail, the legal team will seek assistance from the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust.
Residents are also seeking the removal of Cambridge Property Management. | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/liberty-city-apartment-residents-accuse-management-company-of-illegal-evictions-and-neglect/article_a012a53e-fa16-11ed-b335-8fe5018a0028.html | 2023-05-24T19:45:34 | 1 | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/liberty-city-apartment-residents-accuse-management-company-of-illegal-evictions-and-neglect/article_a012a53e-fa16-11ed-b335-8fe5018a0028.html |
I'm gutted," expressed 25-year-old Amanda Gorman in a social media statement on Tuesday, denouncing the removal of her poem, "The Hill We Climb," from the elementary section of a Miami-Dade County public school. The district confirmed the decision, which was prompted by a complaint from a parent, stating that the poem would now be available exclusively to older children.
The incident has now sparked worldwide attention on the heels of an NAACP travel advisory warning Black Americans about the risks of coming to Florida because of its hostile climate.
The parent, identified as Daily Salinas, lodged the complaint against Gorman's poem and falsely attributed its authorship to Oprah Winfrey, as revealed in documents obtained by the Florida Freedom to Read Project. According to the records, Salinas claimed that the poem "is not educational" and contains "indirect hate messages," further asserting that it could lead to confusion and indoctrination among students.
Salinas had also filed similar objections against other books, including "Love to Langston," a poetry-based biography of Black poet Langston Hughes, "The ABCs of Black History," and two books about Cuba, according to the nonprofit group's findings.
In response to the complaints, a materials-review panel at Bob Graham Education Center, a Miami Lakes school catering to kindergarten through eighth grade students, opted not to remove the books entirely but decided to relocate the disputed items, including Gorman's poem, to the library's middle school section, which serves grades six through eight. Minutes from an April committee meeting, obtained by the nonprofit organization, substantiate this decision.
Criticism swiftly followed the move, with Amanda Gorman, the nation's first-ever youth poet laureate, expressing her disappointment. In an Instagram post, she criticized the decision, stating, "Robbing children of the chance to find their voices in literature is a violation of their right to free thought and free speech."
Miami-Dade County's mayor, Daniella Levine Cava, extended an invitation to Gorman for a reading in response to the controversy. In a tweet, Mayor Levine Cava acknowledged the impact of Gorman's poem on inspiring youth to engage in government and shape the future, stating, "We want you to come to Miami-Dade to do a reading of your poem. If you're in, we will coordinate."
Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokesperson Elmo Lugo addressed the situation, emphasizing that no literature, including books and poems, had been banned or removed. Lugo clarified that the school had determined "The Hill We Climb" to be better suited for middle school students, resulting in its placement within the middle school section of the media center while remaining accessible to all students.
Lugo, however, did not respond to requests from CNN for verification of the complaint documents released by the Florida Freedom to Read Project. Instead, he informed the network that the district would process their inquiry as a formal public records request.
The incident at Bob Graham Education Center is part of a growing trend of book bans across the United States, fueled by political debates surrounding race, gender, and sexuality. The poem featured in President Joe Biden's inauguration was not exempt from these controversies, highlighting the ongoing challenges faced by authors and educators.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' efforts to reform the state's public education system, with a focus on scrutinizing books and study materials discussing topics such as race, discrimination and sexuality has served to fuel the culture wars begun by former President Donald Trump and further fueled by DeSantis. While DeSantis has denied the existence of book bans, free speech organization PEN America claims that at least 375 books have been removed from shelves between July and December 2022.
Amanda Gorman, in her statement, highlighted the rising prevalence of book challenges. According to the American Library Association (ALA), the number of challenged books increased by 40% in 2022 compared to the previous year. | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/miami-lakes-school-library-moves-amanda-gorman-poem-and-biography-of-black-poet-langston-hughes/article_fff9face-fa52-11ed-b82e-dfa219ec0866.html | 2023-05-24T19:45:40 | 0 | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/miami-lakes-school-library-moves-amanda-gorman-poem-and-biography-of-black-poet-langston-hughes/article_fff9face-fa52-11ed-b82e-dfa219ec0866.html |
The leadership of St. John Baptist Church in Overtown is scrambling to save the historic place of worship before a looming foreclosure sale in less than 30 days.
In a story first reported on WPLG, parishioners say their former pastor is to blame. Ex-pastor, James D. Adams, apparently executed a risky balloon mortgage that has come due, which he was authorized to do by prior board members.
Two years later, the $1.6 million loan has caught the new board completely off guard. They told WPLG they knew nothing about it and now they are trying to refinance with a new lender before losing the church property at the June 20 foreclosure sale.
It’s important to note that the church property used as collateral for the mortgage does not encompass the original historic building itself, but rather its surrounding critical facilities at 1328 NW 3rd Avenue. This includes crucial elements such as the elevator and the accessible entrance for handicapped individuals, both falling within the scope of the mortgage, as explained by church board member Cecily Robinson Duffie to WPLG’s Glenna Milberg.
St. John's Baptist Church holds a cherished place in the history of the Overtown neighborhood. Its construction dates back to 1944, according to the city of Miami. The church stands out as one of the few religious buildings in Miami-Dade County that exhibits the iconic Art Deco architectural style, which Miami is renowned for. The significance of the church extends further through its association with McKissack and McKissack, one of the pioneering black architectural firms in the United States.
This historic gem was rightfully added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, cementing its place in Miami's cultural heritage. | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/overtown-s-st-john-baptist-church-on-the-brink-of-foreclosure/article_83d4fff8-fa51-11ed-ae9b-371b0cbc3970.html | 2023-05-24T19:45:46 | 0 | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/overtown-s-st-john-baptist-church-on-the-brink-of-foreclosure/article_83d4fff8-fa51-11ed-ae9b-371b0cbc3970.html |
BLOOMINGTON — A probation sentence was issued Wednesday in a Bloomington man’s trespassing case.
Bryant L. Lewis, 29, was initially charged in December with home invasion causing injury. He pleaded guilty Wednesday to a new count of criminal trespass to residence, and the original charge was dismissed in a plea agreement.
Two misdemeanor cases involving resisting officers were dismissed as part of the agreement.
Lewis was sentenced to 30 months of probation and a time-served sentence of 180 days in jail. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bloomington-man-gets-probation-on-trespass-charge/article_229e4138-fa59-11ed-ab33-ff91f4056cb6.html | 2023-05-24T19:49:00 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bloomington-man-gets-probation-on-trespass-charge/article_229e4138-fa59-11ed-ab33-ff91f4056cb6.html |
BLOOMINGTON — A Bloomington woman was arrested by police Monday night on her third driving under the influence charge, McLean County prosecutors said.
Elizabeth E. Hill, 42, appeared in a Tuesday bond court hearing before Judge Amy McFarland, who found probable cause for her arrest.
Assistant State's Attorney Aaron Fredrick told the court that at 9:30 p.m. Monday, Bloomington officers found Hill in the driver's seat of a vehicle stopped near Eastland Drive and Veterans Parkway. She told officers she was driving home when her vehicle stalled, Fredrick said.
Fredrick said police observed Hill to have signs of impairment, and her driver's license was revoked.
The prosecutor also said Hill gave a false name to police, and tried pulling away from officers during her arrest. He also told the court Hill was previously convicted for DUI charges in 2012 and 2021 in McLean County.
Hill is charged with two counts of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol — one is a Class 2 felony and the other is a Class 3 felony. She is also charged with three misdemeanors: obstructing identification, resisting a peace officer and obstructing a peace officer.
Brendan Denison is our breaking news reporter. Denison was a digital content producer for WCIA-TV in Champaign and a reporter for The Commercial-News in Danville. He can be reached at (309) 820-3238 and bdenison@pantagraph.com. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bloomington-woman-charged-with-aggravated-dui/article_4f73a176-f9a5-11ed-a2d0-a3f92f88b019.html | 2023-05-24T19:49:06 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bloomington-woman-charged-with-aggravated-dui/article_4f73a176-f9a5-11ed-a2d0-a3f92f88b019.html |
BLOOMINGTON — Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Springfield, met with Bloomington Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe on Tuesday to discuss the prioritization of local projects eligible for federal funding.
Mwilambwe said it was important to meet with Durbin to keep Illinois' federal representatives up to date on important community projects.
"One of the specific asks that we have is the Locust-Colton sewer separation project, which is something (Durbin) has supported and we're going to see as it makes its way through the appropriations process," Mwilambwe said.
This multiphase project seeks to add new sanitary sewers, convert the combined sewer into a storm sewer and lay a new water main.
Mwilambwe also highlighted a proposed East Street basin, which he said goes hand in hand with the city's sewer separation plans, and downtown Bloomington's streetscape plans.
Durbin said with a bipartisan federal infrastructure plan in place, which is bringing more money back into Illinois local communities for key infrastructure projects, it is a good time to start a project.
He added that he and Sen. Tammy Duckworth have had good luck keeping the Congressional delegation up to date on projects they are working on.
"Some of it is related to public health, the sewer situation certainly is, and some of it to economic development and improvements in lifestyle and standard of living for people living in the community," Durbin said.
Durbin's trip to Bloomington came on the heels of a visit to Lincoln on Monday, where the senator discussed the shortage of health care professional in the state.
"If we want to keep these hospitals and clinics open that are absolutely critical, not only for families but for economic growth, we need health care professionals and we've got to focus on that," Durbin said.
Some of his suggestions included educating junior high and high school students about opportunities at local hospitals and paying incentives for health care professionals to become teachers in the field.
"What is the reality of that decision for a nurse?" Durbin asked. "You're making good money at the bedside, you give it up to go get a master's degree, you incur debt to do that and then become a teacher and make less money than you made at the bedside, it doesn't add up." | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/durbin-discusses-federal-aid-for-local-projects-during-bloomington-visit/article_e9909e14-f9b2-11ed-b69a-6b831adb1c1b.html | 2023-05-24T19:49:13 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/durbin-discusses-federal-aid-for-local-projects-during-bloomington-visit/article_e9909e14-f9b2-11ed-b69a-6b831adb1c1b.html |
RENTON, Wash. — Police are warning parents after two different instances of suspected luring in the Renton Highlands area.
In a Facebook post Tuesday night, the Renton Police Department detailed two different incidents that happened a week apart. Both occurred along Northeast 4th Street, and suspect descriptions were similar, according to police, but it is not confirmed that the two instances are connected.
The first was on May 15 between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. A female student from McKnight Middle School was hanging out with a friend after being dropped off by the school bus around Edmonds Avenue North and Northeast 4th Street. When the friend left, a white Ford sedan with tinted windows approached the student and the driver, described as a man with short black hair wearing a Hawaiian shirt, asked the student if she wanted a ride and told her to get in the car.
The girl attempted to walk away but eventually realized the car was following her. It approached her again and the man again insisted she get into the car, reportedly saying, "If you get in I can give you a ride wherever you want." The man eventually drove off after the girl found a friend's house and began knocking on the door.
The second incident occurred early Tuesday morning near Northeast 4th Street and Monroe Avenue Northeast. Renton PD said it was notified by a parent that a suspicious subject in a light gray/silver sedan with a broken rear-passenger right window, had approached her daughter on the way to the bus stop. The person apparently had asked the girl if she wanted a ride, then continued following her and asking for directions to the highway. The girl then called her mother, who came and walked with her daughter to the bus stop.
The mom said she saw the vehicle, but it took off once it saw her.
The person in the second incident was said to have been wearing a mask and possibly was in his late 20s. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/renton-police-warn-parents-suspected-luring/281-3abbdce8-44ad-494d-9600-6f5eca5ede99 | 2023-05-24T19:53:43 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/renton-police-warn-parents-suspected-luring/281-3abbdce8-44ad-494d-9600-6f5eca5ede99 |
AG Rokita's prosecution of abortion doctor Caitlin Bernard gets medical board hearing
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita's prosecution of a local abortion doctor's handling of patient information is scheduled for a final hearing Thursday in front of a state medical board whose members have helped fund Rokita's political aspirations.
Two of the board's seven members, all of whom are appointed by the governor, have given in total more than $25,000 to Rokita's campaigns. The lion's share came from Bharat H. Barai, a Merrillville physician who has contributed $24,800 to Rokita during his various runs for state office and Congress across a span of 17 years, including his successful bid for state attorney general in 2020.
The other medical licensing board member, Dr. Heidi Dunniway of Evansville, gave $1,000 to Rokita's election committee in May 2018 while he was campaigning for U.S. Senate.
IndyStar asked the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency if this complicates Barai's or Dunniway's role in Thursday's hearing in the state's complaint against Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist Caitlin Bernard – a case Rokita has vigorously championed in legal arenas and in public. The agency hadn't responded as of Wednesday afternoon.
Rokita originally submitted the complaint to the board in late 2022, claiming Bernard violated patient privacy and mandatory reporting laws in the case of a 10-year-old pregnant rape victim who was traveling from Ohio to Indiana for an abortion.
More:AG Todd Rokita drops attempt to continue Dr. Bernard's lawsuit against himself
In a prepared statement Wednesday, the Indiana Attorney General's Office accused IndyStar of "shamefully putting its thumb on the scale of justice by attempting to embarrass, squash First Amendment rights, and therefore control two medical board members during an active proceeding the day before the hearing."
"The records of all donations from all board members to all candidates have been open, transparent, and posted," the statement continued. "Also, several board members are hard Democrat voters. Under the Star’s 'standards,' why isn’t the paper questioning the integrity of those board members?"
Federal and state records show political contributions by three other board members: John Strobel, Kirk Masten and Rebecca Moredock-Mueller. Strobel has given more than $23,000 to Republican U.S. Sen. Todd Young's campaigns. He also gave a total of $1,485 to the Democratic political action committee ActBlue Indiana and the election committees of two Democratic candidates for state representative.
Masten gave $1,100 to support two Republicans running for Indiana Senate, and Moredock-Mueller gave $250 to a Kentucky Republican.
Barai has given to both Republicans and Democrats over the years, including more than $40,000 toward Barack Obama's presidential campaigns.
More:Four attorneys assigned to abortion-related litigation resign from Indiana AG’s office
Bernard's attorney Alice Morical told IndyStar her legal team is looking forward to "clearing Dr. Bernard's name and reputation in front of the board and expect to be before an impartial group of decision makers."
Longtime health care attorney David Jose told IndyStar board members can excuse themselves if they have ties to a case. He has never seen a member do so based on political contributions to the official whose office puts complaints in front of the board, but "I could see how that could be raised as a conflict," he said.
Barai says he's 'strictly' impartial
Barai's contributions to Rokita include about $4,000 from Suniti Medical Corp., a company for which he is listed in business filings as president. The rest came from him personally, mostly during Rokita’s time in Congress.
Barai said he has supported Rokita’s campaigns for more than a decade because Rokita grew up in Munster, where Barai lives. He said the contributions have no influence on his decisions as a member of the medical board.
“I work strictly as a professional in a very fair and uninfluenced manner,” he said.
Barai, an oncologist/hematologist, is the longest-serving member of the board. He was first appointed by Gov. Frank O’Bannon, a Democrat.
“You will not be appointed by three Republican and two Democratic governors if you are not perceived as a strict, neutral or unbiased professional,” he said.
He said neither Rokita nor anyone else involved in Bernard’s case has contacted him.
Dunniway did not immediately return a message from IndyStar.
10-year-old girl sought abortion after rape
The information about the 10-year-old girl appeared in a July 2022 IndyStar article about reduced abortion access in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision. Soon thereafter, abortion rights advocates and politicians, including President Joe Biden, used the story to support their arguments while some conservatives questioned whether the story was true.
Rokita's office says the information Bernard shared with IndyStar about the girl, which included her age and state of residence, violated privacy laws. The reporter has been subpoenaed for the hearing.
Bernard's employer, IU Health, said it conducted an investigation and found her in compliance with privacy laws.
More:Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita not seeking higher office
Rokita's complaint also claims Bernard failed to immediately report to Indiana authorities the abuse that led to the girl’s pregnancy. Bernard says those crimes had already been reported to authorities in Ohio, where they took place and where the girl lived, and that she alerted the Indiana Department of Child Services to the abuse in a termination of pregnancy report submitted within the three-day limit set by state law.
A suspect was arrested in Ohio and charged with the girl's rape in July.
Todd Rokita's office handles Caitlin Bernard case differently
Complaints filed against doctors are usually prepared and prosecuted by deputies in the Indiana Attorney General's Office. The complaint against Bernard, however, was signed by Rokita himself, and Rokita's office has been using the private D.C. law firm Schaerr Jaffe to help with the case.
More:Patients head to Indiana for abortion services as other states restrict care
"I've never seen anybody other than a deputy attorney general representing the state and prosecuting a licensure action against a professional, whether it's a doctor, nurse or chiropractor, whomever," Jose, who has been representing clients in front of licensing boards over 30 years, told IndyStar. It'd be "very rare," he said, to see outside attorneys on the state's side, but he also said state agencies hiring private attorneys in legal matters isn't unprecedented.
Jose declined to comment specifically on Bernard's case.
If Rokita's team persuades a majority of the board, Bernard could potentially face a reprimand or see her license revoked or temporarily suspended as soon as Thursday's hearing. Jose told IndyStar board members typically debate the merits of a case and make a decision when a final hearing finishes.
More:Indiana Dr. Caitlin Bernard reported 10-year-old Ohio girl's abortion, records show
No matter the outcome, Rokita is likely to see a political boost from his ongoing focus on Bernard's acts, according to University of Indianapolis political science professor Laura Wilson.
"I think this does a lot in terms of speaking to his base – and not just the Republican Party base, but specifically Todd Rokita's base, the base that he's cultivated over years of being involved in Indiana politics," Wilson said.
The case against Bernard strengthens his position as "the name and the face" of the anti-abortion movement in Indiana, she said. Rokita, however, says this has nothing to do with politics.
"It is about two things and two things only, patient privacy and the doctor’s failure to report accordingly," his office told IndyStar.
The hearing Thursday starts at 8:30 a.m. at the Indiana Government Center's South Building in Conference Center Room C.
Call IndyStar courts reporter Johnny Magdaleno at 317-273-3188 or email him at jmagdaleno@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter @IndyStarJohnny | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2023/05/24/todd-rokita-prosecution-abortion-doctor-caitlin-bernard-medical-board-hearing/70248885007/ | 2023-05-24T19:54:04 | 0 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2023/05/24/todd-rokita-prosecution-abortion-doctor-caitlin-bernard-medical-board-hearing/70248885007/ |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Little Rock Police Department is seeking information regarding the whereabouts of a missing woman.
34-year-old Taylor Griffin was last seen in the Little Rock area.
Anyone with information has been urged to contact Detective Boyd at (501) 404-3016, Detective Dearing at (501) 404-3014, or the Little Rock Communications Center at (501) 371-4829. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/missing-persons-reports/search-missing-little-rock-woman/91-d3d62d60-b0b2-4393-8eb0-306ab240ef8f | 2023-05-24T19:59:04 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/missing-persons-reports/search-missing-little-rock-woman/91-d3d62d60-b0b2-4393-8eb0-306ab240ef8f |
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A North Gwinnett Middle School student is getting her shot at winning a national competition after being selected to represent Georgia in the 2023 Doodle for Google contest.
Reina Lee was selected as the 2023 Doodle for Google winner for the state of Georgia. The 7th grader's design was chosen out of thousands of entries received this year, according to school officials.
For students to be selected, they had to create artwork displaying what they are grateful for. Lee went with bold, vivid colors for her Doodle, titled “Eat, Sleep, Slay Gymnastics, Repeat!”
Georgia's Google Doodle
To highlight her accomplishment, students at the middle school celebrated during a surprise assembly, officials said. Following her selection, Lee discussed why she chose gymnastics.
“I drew gymnastics on the beam – the colors and shapes in the background show how I feel during gymnastics: excited, confident, and strong,” Lee said. “I’m grateful for gymnastics because it makes me feel powerful.”
Now, Lee’s doodle will go up against 55 others to compete for the national achievement. Five National Finalists will then be selected, with one having their work displayed on the Google homepage for a day, according to a release.
In addition to the feature, the winner will be awarded a $30,000 college scholarship and their school will receive a $50,000 technology scholarship, which will be used to either establish or improve their computer lab or technology programs, the release said.
Wednesday, May 24, and Thursday, May, 25, are the last days to vote for Lee. You can do so by clicking the link here.
How does the competition work?
The 2023 Google Doodle contest accepts submissions from 55 U.S. States and territories. Votes will then be cast for the best Doodles, according to the release.
Five nationalists will then be selected, one from each participating grade group. Out of the five, a national winner will be chosen, the release added. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/north-gwinnett-middle-school-student-represent-georgia-2023-google-doodle-contest/85-7e6d5857-ca1f-4b00-861b-7d0fc3110688 | 2023-05-24T20:01:11 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/north-gwinnett-middle-school-student-represent-georgia-2023-google-doodle-contest/85-7e6d5857-ca1f-4b00-861b-7d0fc3110688 |
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — The Wilkes-Barre City Fire Department hosted a community event Wednesday in honor of National Emergency Medical Services Week.
The department showed off all the features of its newest ambulance before putting it into service.
There were even free child car seat checks, blood pressure checks, and meet and greets with first responders, firefighters, and police officers.
Wilkes-Barre City Mayor George Brown issued a proclamation, recognizing Emergency Medical Services Week. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/wilkes-barre-observes-ems-week/523-b3bceee0-09e9-4745-9895-5b74f2323e2b | 2023-05-24T20:01:16 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/wilkes-barre-observes-ems-week/523-b3bceee0-09e9-4745-9895-5b74f2323e2b |
MACKINAW — The Mackinaw Stout Foundation has announced its 2023 grant recipients.
The foundation, which was created by Elsie E. Stout, provides grants to qualified organizations that service the village of Mackinaw and Mackinaw Township.
Clarence and Elsie Stout during their 50th anniversary in 1985. The Mackinaw Stout Foundation was created by Elsie I. Stout to use income from the foundation to fund grants each year to qualified organizations that are located within the Village of Mackinaw and Mackinaw Township. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/mackinaw-stout-foundation-announces-2023-grant-recipients/article_5a5ce17e-fa54-11ed-bd57-af124c82f9b7.html | 2023-05-24T20:10:44 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/mackinaw-stout-foundation-announces-2023-grant-recipients/article_5a5ce17e-fa54-11ed-bd57-af124c82f9b7.html |
District Court
St. Louis County
Feb. 9
- Richard C. Allen, 63, Hibbing, two counts driving after cancellation - inimical to public safety, 180 days local confinement per each count, concurrent; possession of a controlled substance, 180 days local confinement and 17 months in prison, prison time stayed on three years probation with conditions, concurrent; driving while impaired, fined $1,000, 180 days local confinement and 79 months in prison, prison time stayed on five years probation with conditions, concurrent.
- Logan A. J. Chatterson, 21, Duluth, fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle, imposition stayed on two years probation with conditions, $50 fine and 42 days local confinement; theft, imposition stayed on two years probation with conditions, fined $50 and 44 days local confinement, time stayed on two years probation with conditions, concurrent.
- Nikita N. Jacobs, 25, Virginia, driving after revocation, fined $200.
- Brian McKinney, 39, Duluth, disorderly conduct, $50 fine and 90 days local confinement, 85 days stayed on one year probation with conditions; give false information to a peace officer, fined $50 and 30 days local confinement, 25 days and fine stayed on one year probation.
- Mark J. Monroe, 40, Duluth, criminal sexual conduct, fined $50, 9 months local confinement and 36 months in prison, prison time stayed on seven years probation with conditions.
- Joanne L. Myers, 60, Babbitt, possession of a controlled substance, adjudication stayed on three years probation with conditions, $50 fine.
- Theresa M. Venth, 21, Duluth, shoplifting, 60 days local confinement, time stayed on one year probation, pay $35 in restitution.
Feb. 10
- Santo L. Antonutti, 57, Chisholm, careless driving, fined $300 and 90 days local confinement, time stayed on one year probation with conditions.
- Loretta J. Brill, 65, Duluth, theft by fraud, continued for dismissal for one year.
- Matthew J. Christiansen, 37, Duluth, driving while impaired, fined $1,000 and one year local confinement, 362 days stayed on two years probation with conditions.
- Allen M. Dittbrenner, 30, Vashon, Washington, hands-free law violation, fined $50.
- Katie E. Dubla, 24, Duluth, driving while impaired, adjudication stayed on one year probation with conditions, $1,000 fine; careless driving, fined $1,000 and 90 days local confinement, time stayed on one year probation with conditions, concurrent.
- David E. Fuller, 46, Harvey, Illinois, driving after suspension, adjudication stayed for six months, $50 fine.
- Jeffrey A. Hanson, 70, Duluth, open bottle law possession violation, fined $100.
- Tyler J. Johnson, 36, Duluth, disorderly conduct, continued for dismissal for one year.
- Michael R. Kesner, 43, Cloquet, driving while impaired, fined $1,000 and 60 days local confinement, 36 days staying on one year probation with conditions.
- Michelle N. Martz, 22, Duluth, shoplifting, continue for dismissal for one year.
- Chet A. Mugge, 26, Hoyt Lakes, marijuana in a motor vehicle, fined $50.
- Kevin C. Myers, 40, Foxboro, hands-free law violation, fined $50.
- Cole R. Scovill, 23, careless driving, fined $300 and 90 days local confinement, time stayed on one year probation with conditions.
- Dannette M. L. Sivigny, 36, Chisholm, hands-free law violation, continued for dismissal for one year.
- Lucas T. Smith, 28, Maplewood, Minnesota, driving 96 mph in a 65 mph zone, fined $300.
- Luke S. Urman, 43, Ely, driving after cancellation, fined $200.
Feb. 11
- Tigerlilly R. Anderson, 21, Eveleth, possession of drug paraphernalia, fined $50.
- Jalani J. Brown, 26, Virginia, seven counts driving after suspension (offenses dated: 7/3/16, 10/25/16, 3/4/17, 8/7/17, 9/21/17, 12/1/17, 6/15/19), fined $200 per each count.
- Dalene N. Chosa, 30, Lansee, Michigan, two counts driving after revocation (offenses dated: 3/18/18, 4/11/18), fined $200 per each count.
- Joseph S. Weidenborner, 25, Kelliher, vehicle violate forest products permit, fined $500.
Feb. 12
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- Tyler J. Carlson, 34, Duluth, hands-free law violation, fined $50.
- Taya R. Higgins, 20, Duluth, hands-free law violation, fined $50.
- Jeffrey D. Palmer, 21, Floodwood, hands-free law violation, fined $50.
Feb. 13
- Hailey E. Arvola, 20, Virginia, driving while impaired, fined $100 and one year local confinement, 305 days stayed on two years probation with conditions, pay $1295 in restitution; fleeing a peace officer, 60 days local confinement, concurrent.
- Nicole L. Buchanan, 43, Aurora, possession of 25 grams or more of cocaine or methamphetamine, imposition stayed on three years probation with conditions, fined $50 and 32 days local confinement.
- Nicholas R. Champa, 25, Bayport, Minnesota, drive-by shooting, fined $50 and 92 months in prison.
- Alicia N. Cooper, 29, Eveleth, possession of a controlled substance, 37 days local confinement and 13 months in prison, prison time stayed on two years probation with conditions.
- Steven K. Ferris, 71, Hoyt Lakes, violation of a restraining order, fined $300 and one year local confinement, 363 days stayed on three years probation with conditions.
- Russell D. Frear, 58, Saginaw, criminal sexual conduct, fined $50, one year local confinement and 36 months in prison, prison time stayed on seven years local confinement with conditions.
- Janice E. Jackson, 82, Kelsey, hands-free law violation, fined $50.
- Jeremy J. Lawrence, 38, Mountain Iron, hands-free law violation, fined $50.
Feb. 13
- Trevor L. Angellar, 25, Eveleth, disorderly conduct, fined $100.
- Scott A. Anderson, 46, Solway, Minnesota, vehicle violate forest products permit, fined $100.
- Hailey E. Arvola, 20, Virginia, driving while impaired, fined $100 and one year local confinement, 270 days stayed on two years probation with conditions.
- Kenda J. Benner, 27, Nett Lake, possession of a controlled substance, adjudication stayed on two years probation with conditions, 124 days local confinement; driving while impaired, fined $300 and 90 days local confinement.
- Jessica R. Bergren, 40, Hibbing, operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited blood-alcohol content, fined $500 and one year local confinement, time stayed on two years probation with conditions.
- Lekevic D. Chambers, 30, Minneapolis, operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited blood-alcohol content, one year local confinement, 332 days stayed on two years probation with conditions; domestic assault, adjudication stayed on one year probation with conditions, 33 days local confinement, concurrent.
- Ashley J. Fink, 39, Chisholm, disorderly conduct, continued for dismissal for six months.
- Ryan G. Fink, 45, Gilbert, disorderly conduct, continued for dismissal for six months.
- Noah G. Ford, 22, Duluth, criminal sexual conduct, fined $50 and 24 months in prison, prison time stayed on three years probation with conditions; operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited blood-alcohol content, fined $1,000 and one year local confinement, 361 days and $900 stayed on two years probation with conditions, concurrent; theft, adjudication stayed on two years probation with conditions, four days local confinement, concurrent.
- D'Zhae T. Goodwin, 18, Superior, assault, fined $50 and one year and one day in prison, prison time stayed on three years probation with conditions; threats of violence, fined $90 and 15 months in prison, prison time stayed on three years probation with conditions, concurrent.
- Johnnie L. Green, 31, Two Harbors, theft, fined $300 and 30 days local confinement, time and $150 stayed on one year probation with conditions.
- Austin S. Guillen, 25, Faribault, Minnesota, disorderly conduct, fined $190.
- Dustin L. Guillen, 33, Hibbing, disorderly conduct, fined $100.
- Emmanuel Harvey, 48, Duluth, test refusal, fined $2,000 and one year local confinement, 362 days and $1,000 stayed on two years probation with conditions.
- Mason R. Hill, 21, Buhl, driving after cancellation - inimical to public safety, adjudication stayed for one year, $100 fine.
- Jeffrey L. Hopke, 53, Duluth, shoplifting, fined $50 and 30 days local confinement, time stayed on one year probation.
- William J. Jackson, 33, Hibbing, domestic assault, adjudication stayed on two years probation with conditions, two days local confinement; driving after revocation, fined $200.
- Ross A. Jakober, 22, Centerville, Minnesota, operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited blood-alcohol content, fined $1,000 and one year local confinement, time and $500 stayed on two years probation with conditions.
- Sami A. Jensen, 18, Rochester, Minnesota, theft, continued for dismissal for one year.
- Justin J. Kari, 43, St. Cloud, Minnesota, possession of stolen property, fined $50.
- Christopher J. Kugel, 31, Hibbing, driving after revocation, fined $200.
- Trent T. Lindahl, 35, Chisholm, violation of an order for protection, adjudication stayed on one year probation, two days local confinement.
- Matthew J. McDonald, 31, Superior, theft, adjudication stayed on two years probation with conditions, $50 fine.
- Christopher L. Miller, 42, Lutsen, driving while impaired, fined $1,000 and 60 days local confinement, time stayed on one year probation with conditions.
- Wendy L. Miller, 46, Hibbing, disorderly conduct, adjudication stayed for six months, $50 fine.
- Dylan J. Moore, 28, Hermantown, driving after revocation, fined $200.
- Jesse L. Olsen, 46, Two Harbors, possession of a controlled substance, one year and one day in prison, prison time stayed on three years probation with conditions; driving after suspension, continued for dismissal for one year.
- Tammy E. Otterness, 60, Chisholm, driving after cancellation, adjudication stayed for one year.
- Amirah D. Pitt, 19, Superior, assault, continued for dismissal for one year.
- Kyla A. Powers, 25, Hibbing, disorderly conduct, fined $50 and 90 days local confinement, 88 days stayed on one year probation with conditions.
- William J. Rainaldi, 44, Eveleth, driving while impaired, 90 days local confinement.
- Dustin M. Rian, 39, Duluth, operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited blood-alcohol content, fined $50 and one year local confinement, time stayed on two years probation with conditions.
- Billijo A. Sielaff, 45, Duluth, hands-free law violation - second or subsequent violation, fined $275.
- Athena C. Smekofske, 33, Duluth, assault, 25 days local confinement; theft, imposition stayed on two years probation with conditions, 32 days local confinement, concurrent; financial transaction card fraud, one year local confinement, 333 days stayed on two years probation with conditions, concurrent; obstructing legal process, 90 days local confinement, 62 days stayed on one year probation with conditions, concurrent.
- John F. Spagenski, 42, Chisholm, theft, fined $100 and pay $200 in restitution.
- Luke W. Stepan, 20, Duluth, aid and abet sale of marijuana, adjudication stayed on two years probation with conditions, two days local confinement.
- Riley D. A. Tarver, 19, Schroeder, possession of a controlled substance, adjudication stayed on two years probation with conditions.
- Dennis K. Thompson, 61, Cloquet, criminal damage to property, fined $50 and 90 days local confinement.
- Brandi M. Vainio, 38, Esko, shoplifting, continued for dismissal for one year.
- Allison N. Wainionpaa, 27, Superior, test refusal, fined $2,000 and one year local confinement, 363 days and $1,000 stayed on two years probation with conditions.
- Xzaviean O. Young, 29, Duluth, possession of a controlled substance, adjudication stayed on one year probation with conditions, $50 fine and 107 days local confinement.
- Howard D. Zablo, 43, Aurora, possession of a controlled substance, imposition stayed on three years probation with conditions, 44 days local confinement.
Feb. 14
- Ethan E. Burns, 23, Hibbing, driving after revocation, fined $200.
- Delores B. Corbine, 23, Hinckley, Minnesota, fugitive, extradition waived.
- Lane H. Efraimson, 36, Saginaw, driving after suspension, fined $200.
- Isabel R. Johnson, 17, Superior, hands-free law violation, fined $50.
- Alicia M. Larson, 32, Duluth, driving while impaired, fined $1,000 and 180 days local confinement, time and $500 stayed on two years probation with conditions.
- Alecia L. Mandal, 54, Hawthorn Woods, Illinois, driving while impaired, fined $1,000 and 60 days local confinement, time and $750 stayed one year probation with conditions.
- Robert M. Martin Jr., 24, Duluth, possession of a controlled substance, adjudication stayed on two years probation with conditions, 95 days local confinement.
- Kooper K. Mattson, 27, Proctor, hands-free law violation, fined $50.
- Levi A. Nesje, 31, Champlin, Minnesota, driving 97 mph in a 60 mph zone, fined $150.
- Michael J. Olds, 40, Grand Rapids, hands-free law violation, fined $50.
- James P. Pedersen, 28, Duluth, fugitive, extradition waived.
- Calvin J. Plewa, 18, Duluth, hit and run - failure to stop for property damage, continued for dismissal for one year.
- Rodney E. Preddy, 52, Duluth, fugitive, extradition waived.
- Deshon J. Robinson, 25, Mahtowa, driving after revocation, fined $200.
- Alex X. Sims, 24, Goleta, California, shoplifting, continue for dismissal for one year.
- Janet L. Sundberg, 75, Carlton, hands-free law violation, fined $50.
- Alek W. Wallin, 26, Superior, open bottle law violation, fined $100.
- Christopher S. Zimmer, 31, Iron, driving after cancellation/revocation/suspension, fined $300.
Feb. 15
- Kenneth R. Aase, 18, Babbitt, underage drinking and driving, fined $300 and 90 days local confinement, time stayed on one year probation with conditions.
- Raelee L. Anderson, 17, Duluth, driving 93 mph in a 65 mph zone, fined $100.
- Jared W. Boshey, 35, Orr, driving while impaired, fined $50 and 90 days local confinement; driving after suspension (offense dated: 2/1/16), adjudication stayed for one year, $50 fine.
- James L. Bushey, 54, Virginia, driving while impaired, fined $300 and one year local confinement, time stayed on one year probation with conditions.
- Erik J. Edwardson, 33, Gilbert, disorderly conduct, fined $50 and 90 days local confinement, 86 days stayed on one year probation with conditions.
- Justin B. Gonzales, 34, Ely, driving while impaired, fined $1,000 and 90 days local confinement, 49 days stayed on one year probation with conditions.
- Tina M. Hansen, 56, Hill City, operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited blood-alcohol content, fined $900 and one year local confinement, 275 days stayed on two years probation with conditions.
- Michael A. Hellman, 44, Eveleth, disorderly conduct, fined $50.
- Mandy J. Martin, 35, Embarrass, driving after revocation, adjudication stayed for six months, $100 fine.
- David A. Olson, 67, Cambridge, Minnesota, check forgery, fined $1,000 and one year local confinement, time and $500 stayed on one year probation with conditions, pay $246 in restitution.
- Vincent D. Pohto, 25, Forbes, driving after revocation, fined $200.
- John K. Pringle, 53, Hibbing, driving after revocation, fined $200 and 90 days local confinement, time stayed on one year probation with conditions; driving after revocation, fined $200 and 90 days local confinement, time stayed on one year probation, concurrent.
- Jessica L. Sanders, 38, Virginia, driving while impaired, fined $1,000 and 90 days local confinement, time stayed on one year probation with conditions.
- Danielle N. Thompson, 32, Hibbing, violation of a restraining order, adjudication stayed on one year probation with conditions, fined $50 and 13 days local confinement.
- Ta'quarios L. Wair, 22, Minneapolis, possession of a controlled substance, adjudication stayed on one year probation with conditions, $500 fine.
- Vincent A. White, 34, Tower, driving while impaired, fined $900 and one year local confinement, 335 days stayed on two years probation with conditions.
Feb. 16
- Tyon L. Booher, 33, Eveleth, driving while impaired, fined $50, 10 days local confinement and 48 months in prison, prison time stayed on five years probation with conditions.
- Brian A. Burba, 40, Gilbert, fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle, fined $50 and 283 days local confinement.
- Stephen R. Edgar, 54, Virginia, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana in a motor vehicle, fined $50 per each count.
- Matthew D. Irgang, 41, Eveleth, driving after suspension, fined $250.
- Diana M. Jacka, 52, Virginia, hands-free law violation, fined $50.
- Malik M. Mathison, 20, Brookston, driving after suspension, fined $200.
The News Tribune publishes Matters of Record as part of its obligation to serve as a keeper of the local historical record. All items are public records submitted by the courthouse in Duluth. Most defendants are also ordered to pay court and/or surcharge fees. Individual requests for items to be withheld will not be granted. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/matters-of-record-for-may-24 | 2023-05-24T20:10:44 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/matters-of-record-for-may-24 |
Five years after dropping its health insurance plans with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, the University of Nebraska plans to return to the Omaha-based insurance provider.
In an email to campus on Tuesday, NU President Ted Carter said the university plans to change its health, pharmacy and dental insurance carriers in 2024 pending approval of the Board of Regents.
NU will move its health insurance plans from UMR, a United Healthcare company, which it entered into a five-year contract with in 2018, back to Blue Nebraska.
The university will also switch its dental insurance carrier from Ameritas to Delta Dental of Nebraska, and its pharmacy insurance carrier from CVS Health to EmpiRx Health, Carter notified employees.
"We are bringing these changes forward following a robust competitive bidding process that attracted bids from multiple vendors," Carter said.
A committee of 12 faculty and staff worked with an outside consulting firm, Gallagher Benefit Service, to evaluate the bids on a number of factors, including the number of providers in a network and the discounts offered by those in-network providers.
The switch won't save NU any money. Five years ago, amid statewide budget challenges, the change to insurance providers netted NU nearly $12.3 million in savings between its health, dental, and life insurance plans.
Nearly all — 99% — of health providers used by NU employees and their families within the last year were in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska network, Carter said, while 86% of dental providers were in the Delta Dental network.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska also agreed to hire 24 paid interns from NU, capitalizing on a policy change made by the university late last year to give companies added consideration if they agreed to take on student workers.
Carter said the proposed switch in insurance carriers will go before the NU Board of Regents on June 22 for approval.
If the bids are accepted by regents, the new plans would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2024. NU expects "minimal disruptions" with the transitions, and has set up customer service lines to help answer employees' questions.
Top Journal Star photos for May 2023
Kloefkorn Elementary School students and teachers walk through nearby neighborhoods for the annual Kloefkornucopia Parade to honor the past year's students and the school's namesake on Monday, May 22, 2023.
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Gov. Jim Pillen kisses newborn Gemma Pond of Lincoln at the signing ceremony of LB574 on Monday at the Capitol.
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Brady's Dillion Miller (right) celebrates after finishing first in the class D 100 meter dash final on the fourth day of the 2023 State Track and Field championships on Saturday, May 20, 2023, at Burke Stadium in Omaha.
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Lincoln Lutheran's Logan Lebo celebrates as he crosses the finish line during the class C boys 800 meter final on the fourth day of the 2023 State Track and Field championships on Saturday, May 20, 2023, at Burke Stadium in Omaha.
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Lincoln East's Troy Peltz (2) celebrates with Landon Sandy (16) and others after his throw to home plate retired the potential game-winning run in the Class A championship game Friday at Tal Anderson Field.
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D Mack and Billie Douglass of Lincoln console each other after senators passed a bill limiting gender-affirming care and abortion in Nebraska. Hundreds of protesters again gathered in the Rotunda on Friday for votes on the bill.
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Lincoln Northeast's Laney Songster and Lincoln Pius X's Kate Campos leap over hurdles during the Class A girls 100-meter hurdles final at the state track and field meet Thursday at Burke Stadium in Omaha.
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Blair's Myles Jackson reacts after he sets a record in the Class B boys 100 meter dash final at the state track and field meet Thursday at Burke Stadium in Omaha.
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They Might Be Giant's trombonist Dan Levine, trumpet player Mark Pender and saxophonist Stan Harrison play together during a live performance on Sunday at the Bourbon Theatre in Lincoln.
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Wayne's Laura Hasemann is photographed through a bush of flowers as she rounds the far corner of the track during the girls 4x800 meter relay on the first day of the 2023 State Track and Field championships on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at Burke Stadium in Omaha.
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Norfolk's Jackson Bos prepares to throw during shot put warmups on the first day of the 2023 state track and field championships on Wednesday at Burke Stadium in Omaha.
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Omaha Skutt players celebrate against Norris during the Class B girls state soccer tournament, Monday, May 15, 2023, at Morrison Stadium in Omaha.
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Wahoo's Conor Booth (14) is called out at third base after trying to steal against Elkhorn's Ryan Ellison (left) during a Class B state baseball game Saturday at Werner Park.
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The ball sails just over Omaha Duchesne's Claire Niehaus, who is defended by Norris' Nicole Keetle (left) and Clare Macklin (right) in the second half of a Class B state semifinal Saturday in Omaha.
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Elkhorn South's Cole Eaton celebrates after scoring a triple in the sixth inning during the Class A boys state baseball tournament, Friday, May 12, 2023, at Werner Park in Papillion.
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Lacey Eddy (right), Scottish Rite Educator of the Year, embraces kindergarten students, including Reina Schomaker (left), after she was honored at an announcement ceremony Friday at Hartley Elementary.
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Creighton Prep's Thomas Pisasale (3) hits a back flip while being cheered on by Max Matthies (7) and Jack Johnson (11) after scoring the go-ahead goal against Lincoln Southwest during a Class A state semifinal match Friday in Omaha.
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Omaha Duchesne's Sophie Owens (left) looks to pass to an open teammate during the Class B girls state soccer tournament, Thursday, May 11, 2023, at Morrison Stadium in Omaha.
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Lincoln fighter Andrew Huffman is stuck in the face by Kwajuan Mensah during their bout in Dynasty Combat Sport's Annual Spring Brawl on Saturday, May 6, 2023, at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln.
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Bennington's Ethan Korth (from left) and Conestoga's Kaden Simmerman and Rowdy Watson compete for the ball during the Class B boys state soccer tournament, Wednesday, May 10, 2023, at Morrison Stadium in Omaha.
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Lincoln Southwest runs to celebrate after defeating Lincoln Pius X in a penalty kick shootout at the Class A girls state soccer tournament Tuesday in Omaha.
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Lincoln Southeast's Angel Arellanes (right) and Papillion-La Vista South's Brodie Anderson (16) clash during the Class A boys state soccer tournament Monday in Omaha.
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Mid-Plains Community College's Casey Reis gets shaken off during a bull-riding event for the Cornhusker College Rodeo at the Lancaster Event Center on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
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Conestoga's Pelayo Biagioni lifts Jayden Widler on his shoulders to celebrate a 3-2 shootout win against Norris in the B-8 district championship on Saturday in Firth.
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Kristin Syde carries her niece Margot Wyrick, 1, as she runs with her daughter Anna Syde, 6, during the Mayor's Run Saturday at the state Capitol.
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Wahoo/BN/LL's players celebrate after defeating Waverly in the B-2 District final at Sam Crawford Field on Friday in Wahoo.
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Lincoln Southwest players take turns kissing the A-2 District championship plaque after defeating Elkhorn South on Thursday at Seacrest Field.
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Lincoln East JV's Reid Voog loses his grip on his golf club after driving the ball from the sixth hole tee box during the LPS Boys Golf Championship on Thursday, May 4, 2023, at Mahoney Golf Course in Lincoln.
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Cars drive across a bridge along North 27th street, as a low water level measuring around 2.0 ft reveals the creek bed underneath, one year before on the same date the water level was measuring nearly 4 ft, on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 in Lincoln. Drought conditions have gotten so bad in Lancaster County that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared it a disaster area. This most recent announcement expands drought disaster designations to more than two-thirds of the state's counties. Last month, the department designated 55 counties as primary disaster areas.
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Lincoln City Council candidate Tom Duden (right) embraces his wife Ronda Duden (center), along with his brother-in-law Rob Treptow at a Republican election night watch party Tuesday at Rosie's Downtown.
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Adam Morefeld is hugged by Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird as she enters an election night party for Democrats on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, at the DelRay Ballroom in Lincoln.
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An excavator works to clear debris from the area where a section of the Gold's Building once stood as redevelopment of the site continues on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, along 11th and N streets in Lincoln.
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Arwen Wiechman, third grade, spins around while learning ballet during the Everett Community Learning Center after-school program on Monday. Dancers from the American Ballet Theatre led the students in dance exercises in advance of the company's performances on Tuesday and Wednesday of "Giselle" at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – Live on the Levee’s 2023 season will kick off this Friday, May 26, with Veterans’ Night and fireworks.
Hair Supply is set to headline the evening with The Chase opening at 6:30 p.m. The return of the annual event will also be leading to some traffic changes and street closures, according to City of Charleston officials.
City officials say the first closure will begin at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, May 26, with Kanawha Boulevard shutting down to traffic from Capitol Street to Court Street.
Then at 3 p.m., the Boulevard closure will extend to Hale Street. At the same time, Court Street will shut down between Kanawha Boulevard and Lee Street for Charleston’s weekly outdoor dining. The Virginia Street and Quarrier Street intersections will remain open to traffic on those two streets.
At 6 p.m. Friday night, the closure on Kanawha Boulevard will extend to Morris Street and will remain closed until the end of the fireworks.
Starting at 7 p.m., MacCorkle Avenue will close to westbound traffic starting at Porter Road and to eastbound traffic starting at Thayer Street. US 119 will also close to eastbound traffic. The Southside Bridge will shut down to traffic at 9 p.m. along with Grosscup Road at Bridge Road and Louden Heights Road.
The closures will remain in place until the end of the fireworks, city officials say. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/live-on-the-levee-2023-kick-off-fireworks-to-impact-charleston-traffic/ | 2023-05-24T20:11:29 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/live-on-the-levee-2023-kick-off-fireworks-to-impact-charleston-traffic/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Author H.W. “Buzz” Bernard’s new book “Down A Dark Road” follows Brigadier General James B. Thayer’s journey through Europe in 1945 as a young officer in conflict with the German SS — culminating with his discovery and liberation of the Nazi Gunskirchen death camp in Austria during World War II.
Thayer’s son, John Thayer, with the Thayer Family Foundation, joined Bernard on Everyday Northwest to talk about the new book.
The Thayer Family Foundation is also holding its Memorial Day Giving Campaign surrounding the book.
Watch the video above to learn more. | https://www.koin.com/local/down-a-dark-road-details-local-veterans-wwii-experience/ | 2023-05-24T20:20:23 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/down-a-dark-road-details-local-veterans-wwii-experience/ |
CANTON
New Centennial Plaza bathrooms to be ready for First Friday
Kelly Byer
The Repository
CANTON − A 21-toilet public restroom by Centennial Plaza will be finished next week and open during First Friday in June.
The ADA-compliant restrooms will be open for events but not 24/7, according to City Planning Director Donn Angus, who was the project's construction manager. The building was designed by Brandstetter Carroll Inc. and built by the Stanley Miller Construction Company.
The city is leasing the land from DeHoff Development. The facility, which is equipped with security cameras, includes a storage room and live entertainment production room, Angus wrote in an email.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame ― which the city contracted with to maintain, operate and market the plaza ― will operate from the space. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/canton/2023/05/24/centennial-plaza-bathrooms-to-be-ready-for-first-friday/70253014007/ | 2023-05-24T20:22:37 | 0 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/canton/2023/05/24/centennial-plaza-bathrooms-to-be-ready-for-first-friday/70253014007/ |
'Minutes truly count': Why Delaware paramedics now carry blood for trauma patients
Blood can buy time.
That's what Delaware paramedics are hoping to achieve by carrying units of blood in the field, which will be used on trauma patients who are being rushed to the hospital.
This week, paramedics in Sussex and New Castle counties launched a new initiative intended to save more lives following traumatic incidents such as shootings, stabbings and car wrecks.
By carrying low titer, O-positive blood, which patients of any blood type can receive, those who have suffered traumatic injuries and are showing signs of hemorrhagic shock can receive an infusion before reaching the hospital.
This, New Castle County Paramedics Capt. Kelli Starr-Leach said, might mean the difference between life and death.
"Minutes truly count," Starr-Leach said. "And when you're faced with a life and death situation on the street, every minute is critical."
How does it work?
In both counties, paramedic supervisors carry the blood in their vehicles, which is stored in a medical-grade, biothermal cooler specifically designed to keep the blood at the correct temperatures. Supervisors can monitor the cooler's temperature remotely by using an app on their phones.
In New Castle County, one supervisor in the northern part of the county will carry one unit of blood, while another supervisor in the southern part of the county will carry a second unit. Depending on the location of the call where blood is needed, one of the supervisors will respond to the scene.
Once at an emergency, an IV will be administered − if responding units have not already set one up for fluids − and the blood will be warmed as it's infused into a patient.
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While one unit of blood, or about a pint, is much less than most trauma patients need, it can help stave off hemorrhagic shock, which is the depletion of blood to the point where a person's organs no longer get the oxygen needed to survive.
Though paramedics in Delaware and across the nation carry fluids to replace blood volume if a significant amount is lost, those fluids do not have the same oxygen-carrying capabilities as blood does. By potentially preventing tissue death, patients are given a little extra time to get to trauma surgeons, the experts who perform life-saving care.
Is it really needed?
Each year, more than 150,000 people in the U.S. die from injuries, making it the leading cause of death for those 45 and under, according to the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Of that 150,000, 20% of preventable deaths are due to hemorrhagic shock, Starr-Leach said.
In New Castle County alone last year, nearly 100 patients could have potentially benefited from a pre-hospital blood transfusion, she said. Given Delaware's gun violence epidemic and the "epidemic of vehicle collision and pedestrian and cyclist deaths," said New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer, this potentially life-saving measure "is vitally important."
Why didn't paramedics previously carry blood?
The use of blood in pre-hospital settings is not common nationwide, though research has increasingly shown its benefits.
In part, it's not more widely used because of the logistics of carrying and storing blood, as well as its cost and how long it can be used. The blood used by paramedics in Delaware can be stored for up to 21 days.
While Kent County and Delaware State Police's aviation unit have not yet signed onto the program − dubbed the "whole blood initiative" − the hope is that those agencies, too, eventually begin carrying blood.
What does it cost?
In New Castle County, the initial cost to get the program up and running was $18,500, and it will cost another $50,000 to $60,000 annually to keep it going.
New Castle County Public Safety Director Vaughn Bond said the cost is justified, however, because a single life "is worth a lot more than $50,000."
Meyer echoed Bond, though added that curbing gun violence in Delaware must also be a priority given that victims of gun violence who make it to the hospital need about 10 times more blood than survivors of other traumas.
That blood is expensive, according to the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies Transfusion Journal. The average cost of transfusion for a gunshot patient is a little more than $11,000, while transfusions for any other type of trauma patient is about half, or $5,700.
Got a tip? Send to Isabel Hughes at ihughes@delawareonline.com or 302-324-2785. For all things breaking news, follow her on Twitter at @izzihughes_ | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/24/delaware-paramedics-blood-for-trauma-patients-new-castle-sussex-county/70252798007/ | 2023-05-24T20:23:47 | 1 | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/24/delaware-paramedics-blood-for-trauma-patients-new-castle-sussex-county/70252798007/ |
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. – A 22-year-old man from Haymarket is dead after a crash in Pittsylvania County on Monday, May 22, according to Virginia State Police.
Police said the crash happened on US Highway 29 around 1:10 p.m., about a tenth of a mile north of Dewberry Road.
We’re told a 2003 Ford F-150 was traveling south on US 29 before it ran off the right side of the road.
Authorities said the driver overcorrected, crossed into the median, and flipped over, ejecting the driver.
James Jabari, 22, of Haymarket, was driving the Ford, police said. He was taken to Roanoke Memorial Hospital after the crash for treatment and later died.
VSP said Jabari was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.
According to Virginia State Police, the crash is still under investigation. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/24/pittsylvania-county-crash-leaves-22-year-old-man-dead/ | 2023-05-24T20:24:05 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/24/pittsylvania-county-crash-leaves-22-year-old-man-dead/ |
Heads up if you need to grab anything from an ABC store in Virginia on Memorial Day.
On Wednesday, Virginia ABC announced that they will be closing at 6 p.m. on Memorial Day. Officials say the stores will open at their normal hours, though.
To find a location and check store hours, you can visit Virginia ABC’s website. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/24/virginia-abc-stores-set-to-close-at-6-pm-on-memorial-day/ | 2023-05-24T20:24:08 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/24/virginia-abc-stores-set-to-close-at-6-pm-on-memorial-day/ |
Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and ‘70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” has died at 83.
To read more, click here. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/24/watch-live-tina-turner-singer-of-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it-dead-at-83/ | 2023-05-24T20:24:14 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/24/watch-live-tina-turner-singer-of-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it-dead-at-83/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Three people were arrested last Wednesday in Tulare County after deputies found 1,000 pounds of meth and 4,000 pounds of liquid meth during a search.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office says it assisted in serving search warrants at five locations in the Tulare County area on May 17 as part of an investigation into drug trafficking narcotics to the Sacramento area.
The joint investigation lasted about nine months and seized around 1,000 pounds of crystal meth, 14 guns, around $50,000 in cash, and about 4,000 pounds of liquid meth in various stages of conversion.
Detectives say the drugs came from Mexico and were being prepared for transport into Sacramento County.
Investigators found three people during the search warrants — 35-year-old Armando Gonzalez of Tulare, 39-year-old Carlos Bobadilla of Tulare and 37-year-old Regelio Flores of Jalisco, Mexico.
The three were taken to the Fresno County Jail on federal charges. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/3-arrested-after-meth-found-in-tulare-county/103-5cc306b9-d49f-4feb-b523-32219bb1d449 | 2023-05-24T20:25:01 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/3-arrested-after-meth-found-in-tulare-county/103-5cc306b9-d49f-4feb-b523-32219bb1d449 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif — The Sacramento Police Department is investigating after reports of a person with a gun near Arden Fair Mall Wednesday.
Officers received reports of people who may have a gun near the 1600 block of Arden Way just before 11 a.m.
When they arrived, officers discovered three people got into a car and they found the car in the area. One person left the vehicle on foot.
The person was detained by police using a K-9 and officers found a gun in the area.
The person will be arrested for related charges, though police have not said what the specific charges are yet.
Watch more on ABC10: High school students compete in Shark Tank-like competition at Roseville Venture Lab | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/person-sacramento-police-gun-near-arden-fair-mall/103-b434f2c8-359c-48fe-872c-3736d42db9b7 | 2023-05-24T20:25:07 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/person-sacramento-police-gun-near-arden-fair-mall/103-b434f2c8-359c-48fe-872c-3736d42db9b7 |
PLACER COUNTY, Calif. — A Cameron Park man was arrested on suspicion of possessing fentanyl, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.
Around 6:30 p.m. on May 19, a deputy tried to stop a vehicle on southbound Highway 65 near West Sunset Boulevard near Rocklin. A chase began, which reached speeds of more than 100 miles per hour on the highway, according to the sheriff's office.
During the chase, the man hit several cars and eventually lost control of the car and crashed into a tree on Highland Point Drive. The driver was later identified as 34-year-old Gary Bachelor. Bachelor left the area on foot. He was eventually found nearby and arrested.
Deputies searched Bachelor and found a plastic bag with 20 blue fentanyl pills and three plastic bags of suspected cocaine. He was taken to a hospital and was later booked into the South Placer Jail for charges including evading a peace officer and possession of a controlled substance.
Watch more on ABC10: High school students compete in Shark Tank-like competition at Roseville Venture Lab | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/roseville/cameron-park-man-fentanyl-100-mph-chase-placer-rocklin/103-108be4b4-27ec-4e09-ba13-5ad916f44f98 | 2023-05-24T20:25:13 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/roseville/cameron-park-man-fentanyl-100-mph-chase-placer-rocklin/103-108be4b4-27ec-4e09-ba13-5ad916f44f98 |
BRISTOL, Tenn. (WJHL) — Since the day it opened 92 years ago, The Paramount Theater has meant more to Bristol, Tennessee and Virginia than just an evening of entertainment.
“This is what we call the heart of downtown Bristol,” said Mary Beth Rainero, a member of the Paramount Board of Directors and one of the early volunteers who helped save the building from destruction.
“So much of the story of Bristol can be traced back to the Paramount,” she said.
That’s not an exaggeration.
Bristol’s “heart” started beating on February 20, 1931. Depression-weary Bristolians needed an escape. So when Paramount Pictures opened an art deco “movie palace” on State Street, the line on opening night stretched all the way down the street.
“Not only was it special to see a movie in such a beautiful setting but, on a hot summer’s day, you could come in and watch a movie in air conditioning,” said Jennifer Hayes, Paramount Bristol’s executive director. “What a treat that must have been.”‘
But in the following years, the luster of newness began to fade. Silent movies and vaudeville shows were replaced by films with sound. But Bristol, like cities across the country, looked away from downtown for economic growth. Malls and shopping centers caused downtown to deteriorate. In 1979, the final movie played on Paramount’s big screen. Soon, the theater went dark and descended into disrepair.
By the mid-80s, the heart of Bristol was on life support.
“The ceiling had fallen to the ground,” Mary Beth Rainero remembers. “The seats were dirty and moldy, and the ceiling in the lobby had collapsed.”
“There was talk of demolishing the place and turning it into a parking lot,” she said. “Bristol needed a lot of things, but another parking lot was not one of them.”
In 1981, the owner donated the building to the Bristol community. Rainero and a determined group of volunteers began to answer what they considered to be a critical issue facing Bristol.
“We thought – we have this big 747. How are we going to pay for the fuel to make it fly?” she said.
The answer was a decade-long fundraising and restoration campaign that restarted Bristol’s heart.
Since its reopening in 1991, Paramount Bristol has hosted regional, national and international performers.
Looking back, Rainero thinks The Paramount’s rebirth triggered a revival in appreciation for Bristol’s position as the birthplace of country music. And she thinks restoration triggered a downtown revitalization that spread around the region.
“I really think rehabilitation of the downtown buildings – it started then,” she said. “It was the catalyst of the movement.”
More than 90 years after The Paramount’s first opening night, Bristol’s heart continues to beat. The theater’s executive director says it’s a rhythm that’s leading a regional celebration of the arts.
“Paramount Bristol is so special not only to downtown Bristol but to the Tri-Cities as a whole,” Hayes said. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/celebrating-70-years/after-close-call-with-destruction-paramount-bristol-still-radiant-at-age-92/ | 2023-05-24T20:25:54 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/celebrating-70-years/after-close-call-with-destruction-paramount-bristol-still-radiant-at-age-92/ |
BRISTOL, Tenn. (WJHL) — When patrons come to Paramount Bristol to see a show with singers and actors gracing the stage, most don’t realize the longest-reigning star in the building stands on alert and ready to perform just beneath the stage’s floor.
Her name – Miss Marlene.
“I call it the Mighty Wurlitzer Experience,” said organist Rex Ward.
For 30 years, he’s played the Wurlitzer Theater organ at Paramount Bristol, which he thinks is one of only 20 still in use across the United States.
“The organ was built in 1932, and therefore she is 90 years old,” he said.
“Miss Marlene” as some call her is The Paramount’s second organ. The first accompanied silent movies and vaudeville shows. It was dismantled when movies started to include sound. Miss Marlene’s first home was in a theater in Charlottesville, Virginia. After narrowly escaping a fire, she was moved to Elon College where the organ remained until the fall of 1989, when the Paramount was in the early days of its restoration.
Ward heard about the Wurlitzer and, along with Paramount Board member Mary Beth Rainero and a team of volunteers, brought the organ to downtown Bristol.
After spending years in storage, The Wurlitzer was refurbished and installed in The Paramount. On April 26, 1991, an audience stood as, for the first time in decades, the sounds of a Wurlitzer organ filled the building with a version of The National Anthem.
Through the years, Ward said he’s been amazed by the audience reaction when the sounds of the Wurlitzer swell through the building.
“For many, it triggers immediate memories,” he said. “It’s preservation of an art form that is probably not going to exist many more years.”
Ward says many think the sounds they hear are digitally created. But The Mighty Wurlitzer is no ordinary keyboard.
Each key, stop and pedal floods air into nearly 2000 pipes and activates real instruments.
“It was invented to reproduce the sounds of every sound in an orchestra,” Ward said. “It has all the sounds of the orchestra that can be played by one man.”
While he’s a devoted fan of the rare musical instrument, Ward is realistic. He knows that The Paramount’s Wurlitzer may not appeal to everyone in 2023.
But he’s a firm believer that, in its unique sounds, everyone can find something wonderful in the instrument.
“It’s pure entertainment with no special effects,” he said. “No gimmicks, no tricks. It’s just the real thing.”
Ward will offer the public “The Mighty Wurlitzer Experience” on Tuesday, June 6th at 6 p.m. in a free concert with a silent movie – Laurel and Hardy’s “Liberty”.
The concert is free to the public. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/celebrating-70-years/paramount-bristols-mighty-wurlitzer-to-star-in-june-6th-concert/ | 2023-05-24T20:26:00 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/celebrating-70-years/paramount-bristols-mighty-wurlitzer-to-star-in-june-6th-concert/ |
JOHNSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) has sent a portion of an unidentified man’s skeletal remains to a private lab in hopes of identifying him.
The TBI’s Unidentified Human Remains Initiative aims to identify people whose names remain unknown by partnering with Othram Inc., a private lab based out of Texas that uses DNA extraction and sequencing processes to identify remains. The initiative received a one-time $100,000 funding from the Tennessee General Assembly in 2022.
According to the TBI, 14 cold cases met the criteria to be included in the initiative. Portions of skeletal remains from ten of the unidentified individuals were sent to Otrham in December to hopefully be identified – including one who was found in Johnson County.
The TBI listed the individual as a white male between the ages of 51-60 who was found in Johnson County in 1977.
While no further information on the unidentified male was provided by the TBI, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUS), features a person on its online database that appears to match the case. The unidentified person on NamUs is also a white male between the ages of 51-60 found in Johnson County in 1977.
NamUs reports the individual was estimated to be about 5’10” and was specifically found near a stream in an orchard in the Shady Valley area. The person in the NamUs database was reportedly found with at least one limb missing.
News Channel 11 reached out to the TBI to confirm if the unidentified male on NamUs was the same whose remains were sent to Othram. In reply, a TBI spokesperson said the agency is “working with Othram on several cases” and plans to release more about the initiative in June.
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At the grand opening Tuesday for the Mason City High School's new athletic facilities, there was finally brick and mortar to bask in and behold; the fruits of a labor long in the making.
The $27 million dollar facilities project relied mainly on SAVE revenue bonds; a statewide penny sales tax approved by the district's voters in March 2020, but the capital campaign dubbed 'The Future is Now' raised more than $1.4 million to help equip the new facilities.
The capital campaign to reinvigorate the campus concluded with an open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony in the new atrium under the bright red letters proudly displaying "Mason City High School." The atrium contains ticketing, restroom and concession areas at the junction of the new fieldhouse with an existing high school gymnasium, and an elevated walkway provides access to the natatorium.
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Donors to the capital campaign before the ribbon was Katherine Koehler "Thank you to the voters who approved this project...and the many alumni that contributed and donated," Koehler said. "It's an amazing community place, most importantly though the students I've talked to, can't believe it was built for them."
Jayden Williams, who uses the weight room every day, participating in track and football, says he's impressed, but mostly excited: "There's a huge variety to the machines (in the weight room) and a lot more space. I'm excited to see it help our sports teams."
Assistant Superintendent Bridgette Exman says the addition of these spaces is a "really exciting opportunity to provide this for our students and our student athletes, and it also opened up additional programming in our school day in our physical education programs."
The cheer and dance squads can use the multipurpose room, P.E. classes can now have more aquatics added to the curriculum, and the impressive fieldhouse contains a 200-meter indoor track and three different multi-purpose courts, along with batting cages and a long jump pit.
Mason City financial advisor Phil Johnson served as chairperson of 'The Future is Now' capital campaign, and said "We had 438 contributors from 26 states, so the response not just from the community, but from alumni all across the nation, was phenomenal" and enabled them to secure what they say is "top-notch", and the best equipment you will find in the state, and even the country right now." according to Principal Dan Long.
"This is all first-class stuff" The Daktronics video board in the fieldhouse carried a price tag of $315,000 but it's top-notch quality is the same technology used at many major league arenas. The Colorado Time System technology that will be used in the natatorium is also top-of-the-line. The goal was to be "second-to-none," according to Long.
While a few finishing touches on the facility have to be made before the first events get underway in the fall, athletes have already been using the new indoor track within the fieldhouse as well as the weight room, while the new natatorium’s competition pool is expected to be filled sometime in June.
The Future is now also announced they are expanding their campaign to raise $500,000 for new video boards in the existing gymnasium and football stadium, along with other equipment needs that may arise in the future, with $180,000 of that goal already met. The campaign grants donors tier membership with passes to Riverhawk athletic events.
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As more Americans install video doorbells, and even home security cameras, police departments are increasingly asking for homeowners’ videos.
For some, such requests are not a concern; because the video doorbell itself is marketed as a surveillance tool to prevent crime, they assume sharing their footage with police is one way to help keep their neighborhood safe. But for others, the requests can raise some uncomfortable questions.
According to a nationally representative Consumer Reports survey (PDF) of 2,223 U.S. adults in January 2021, 10 percent of video doorbell owners said they’ve shared footage with law enforcement. An additional 12 percent of owners said they haven’t shared footage but have had a reason to do so.
The debate becomes more complicated as neighbors and law enforcement share videos with each other in a kind of neighborhood-watch social network. One of the biggest platforms for this kind of exchange is Neighbors by Ring, which is operated by Amazon-owned Ring and had 10 million active monthly users as of September 2020. Ring is also one of the largest providers of video doorbells in the U.S.
The law enforcement side of the service, called the Neighbors Public Safety Service, allows police and fire departments to view videos that users post and ask camera owners to provide videos that could help with active investigations.
As of late April 2023, Ring has partnered with over 2,500 local law enforcement agencies, over 570 fire departments, and 12 local government agencies. During the fourth quarter of 2020, Ring’s partner agencies sent over 5,700 video requests.
Digital rights groups such as Fight for the Future have joined with social justice groups such as Color of Change to claim that the law enforcement program unfairly targets communities of color. These groups have asked media outlets, including Consumer Reports, CNET, and Wirecutter, to rescind their recommendations of Ring products.
In response, Ring told CR that Neighbors is used in diverse communities and that all Neighbors users must agree to community guidelines before using the service. The guidelines include rules against racial profiling, discrimination, hate speech, and referencing individuals based solely on race or other personal attributes.
Ring also has put new restrictions on the process to prevent video requests from being emailed directly to customers.
For consumers who want to opt out of video request posts from law enforcement or to disable Ring’s Neighbors feature entirely, see CR’s article on how to adjust privacy and security settings in the Ring app.
Meanwhile, here’s an FAQ for homeowners with Ring or other video doorbell devices that explains their rights and obligations if the police request their video.
How do police and fire departments request videos from Ring owners? When law enforcement agencies want to gather footage from Ring device owners, they create a Request for Assistance post through the Neighbors Public Safety Service. Ring users within a certain distance of the incident then receive a notification about the post.
What do the Request for Assistance posts look like?- The post will detail the incident that’s under investigation, the police department’s name, the officer’s name, the date and time period that the officer is interested in, and the geographic area of the incident.
What are your options when you see a Request for Assistance post? You have four options: 1. You can share all recordings you have for that time period. 2. You can review your recordings for that time period and select the recordings you’d like to share. 3. You can simply ignore the post. 4. You can ignore the post and opt out of all future Request for Assistance posts.
What happens if you provide footage? If you choose to share video, Ring will provide law enforcement with your email address and physical home address. Ring gives the police access to the footage for 30 days, but as long as they download it within that time frame, they can keep it for as long as is allowed under public safety procedures and applicable law.
What happens if you ignore the post? Nothing. Ring won’t provide law enforcement with access to your cameras, your videos, or any of your personal information.
Can law enforcement agencies view live video feeds from your Ring cameras? According to Ring, law enforcement never has access to your cameras or devices, regardless of whether you share video with them.
How can you find out whether your local police and fire departments have partnered with Ring? To find out whether your local law enforcement agencies use the Neighbors Public Safety Service, view Ring’s Active Agency Map.
Can you opt out of Request for Assistance posts before you receive one? Yes, you can opt out of Request for Assistance posts from the Control Center settings dashboard in the Ring mobile app. For instructions, see our guide to using the Ring Control Center to improve your privacy and security.
Can you opt out of the Neighbors by Ring social network? Yes, you can disable the Neighbors by Ring social network feed to stop receiving posts from law enforcement and other Ring users. You also won’t be able to create posts anymore. For instructions, see our guide to the Ring Control Center.
Are there other ways that law enforcement can get your camera footage? Yes. No matter who makes your security camera or video doorbell—whether it’s Ring, Google Nest, Arlo, etc.—the police can still knock on your door and ask for footage. Of course at that point, you can still decline to provide them with footage. But if they really want that footage, they could try to get it by serving you with a warrant or subpoena.
Can law enforcement bypass you and get your footage from the camera manufacturer? Yes, if the video is stored in the cloud on the manufacturer’s servers, law enforcement can obtain it in one of two ways. First, it can obtain the footage with a binding legal order, such as a warrant or subpoena. Second, it can request the footage via an exception in the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) that allows manufacturers to share footage in the event of a potentially life-threatening emergency. If the footage is stored locally on the camera (in the camera’s internal memory or on an SD card), police may have to go to you to try to get it. For more information on the ECPA exception, see our story on how camera brands share footage with police without consent.
Will Ring’s end-to-end encryption prevent law enforcement from receiving your videos? Yes, Ring can’t decrypt end-to-end encrypted videos for law enforcement. To enable end-to-end encryption on compatible Ring cameras, see our guide to the Ring Control Center.
Will the manufacturer comply with warrants and subpoenas? Consumer Reports reached out to a number of major camera and doorbell manufacturers to find out how they handle warrants and subpoenas. Eleven brands—Amazon Cloud Cam, Arlo, August, Blink, Blue by ADT, Canary, D-Link, Eufy, Google Nest, Ring, and SimpliSafe—responded to our request. Most of the representatives said they objected to overly broad requests and provided data only when legally required to do so. Of note, Arlo says it will provide video only in a criminal case and only under a legally binding order supported by probable cause.
Will the manufacturer notify me when it provides footage? Of the 11 brands we heard from, all but three will notify you when they have to disclose footage due to a request, as long as they are not legally barred from doing so. The exceptions are Arlo, Blue by ADT, and SimpliSafe. Arlo and SimpliSafe will not notify users; Blue by ADT didn’t specify either way. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/24/can-police-ask-for-your-doorbell-video-know-your-rights/ | 2023-05-24T20:42:13 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/24/can-police-ask-for-your-doorbell-video-know-your-rights/ |
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A Leesburg man who deputies said has ties with a national gang was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service on Sunday.
Darion McGee, 30, is now behind bars in connection with the December 2021 killing of Mustafa Connelly. Lt. Fred Jones with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said detectives conducted an extensive investigation before executing an arrest warrant.
“They interviewed numerous people, you know, from those who call 911 to those who were able to provide video of the scene on Dec. 17,” Jones said. “When we finally had enough probable cause to arrest them, then it became a matter of finding him, and that’s when we utilize the U.S. Marshals Service.”
According to the arrest affidavit, McGee lured Connelly to an area on Veech Road in Leesburg known as “The Bottoms.”
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Deputies said they believe McGee brought Connelly there to conduct a robbery, during which the victim was shot.
Investigators said Connelly’s body was then found burning next to an orange Hyundai.
“This is not somebody that is new to this,” Jones said. “I am glad through the due diligence of detectives that we have gotten him off the streets.”
While Connelly’s body was found burning, McGee is not facing arson charges in connection to this case.
Mcgee, however, faces arson charges in a separate case from March 2021 in which 20-year-old Jermonick Bernard Luther Jr. was found burned in the back of an SUV in Groveland.
“Neither one of those cases are fully done yet,” Jones said. “And so, we’re still looking at charges. But the important thing is, was that we had enough probable cause to get him off the streets on the second-degree murder charge, and it continues from there.”
Jones said McGee is a dangerous person, with ties to Nine Trey, a gang within The Bloods who, according to investigators, act as “enforcers.”
“It’s unknown if that gang sits here in Lake County, you know, it’s one of those things that this is a national gang. But the fact that he belongs to something like that, so violent is something too scary,” Jones said.
It is important to note that McGee is not facing a murder charge in connection to the March 2021 death of Jermonick Bernard Luther Jr.
McGee does have a bond set at $25,000 for his second-degree murder charge but other charges listed have no bond.
Officials said he will not be getting out of jail any time soon.
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PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. – Port Canaveral is revealing where it wants to build its next cruise terminal a few years from now.
The project was said to be in its early stages following a port commission meeting last month. Then during a commission meeting Wednesday, the port’s CEO, Captain John Murray said the port would like to build the terminal around the area of the Bluepoints Marina.
In that part of the port, there’s several small businesses that could be impacted.
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“It’s really important that we cater to the people that actually need the port,” Murray addressed commissioners.
A fisherman during public comment period questioned the decision to build another terminal.
“And I’m just a little concerned about the cruise industry,” Jamie Glasner said. “What’s the main agenda? Is it going to be taking over the port?”
A commissioner answered, “This port is not just about cruising.”
Murray said the port’s goal is to not just build another terminal, but to improve the area around the marina from what it is right now.
“A lot of property at that end of the port is not as efficiently utilized as it could be,” the port’s CEO said. “We think the time is proper to reinvent that area to create more efficiencies, create more opportunities.”
Bluepoints Marina told News 6 even if the new terminal forces the marina to relocate, it believes there will still be enough space for anyone wishing to store their boat.
Captain Murray said the terminal won’t be exclusive for one cruise line – he said it will serve larger ships from multiple lines.
In its five-year budget plan, the port estimates the new terminal will cost $175 million.
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A little more than a decade after opening an ice cream cart in Portland, Oregon, Kim and Tyler Malek have built a small frozen treat empire that stretches from coast to coast.
Kim and Tyler Malek are cousins and co-founders of Salt & Straw.
“We had this dream of creating space for people to get together,” Tyler Malek said. “They get to meet their friends and neighbors, learn about the food around them, and we curate it that way — providing an experience for people.”
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The pair felt that ice cream in particular was the perfect vehicle to bring people from all walks of life together.
“We realized really quickly that an ice cream shop is this really cool community gathering place where you can come as you are, regardless of how you look, what your political viewpoints are, what your food preferences are — there’s always something to (make you) feel welcomed at an ice cream shop,” Tyler Malek said.
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Beyond just bringing people together, The Maleks also hope to get those people talking and considering the world around them.
“A really great example is like two years ago. We worked with nonprofits up and down the west coast to talk about food waste,” Tyler Malek said. “And we had flavors that were made with foods that were about to get thrown away — like 3-day-old bread or grains from a brewery that were gonna get tossed. All these things, we were able to play with — fun, interesting ingredients that cause people to kind of stop and ask, “How did you do that? Why did you do that?’ And it provokes this conversation in a really safe space around (a) really, really interesting and delicious flavor.”
Salt & Straw recently opened its Central Florida location at Disney Springs. Tyler Malek said it is essential to find the Florida flavors to incorporate into Salt & Straw’s ice cream.
“We have to find those fun stories also in Florida, and we have to infuse those into our flavors,” he said. “So finding farmers that are doing guava. We’re always working with local coffee roasters — like really kind of figuring out how do we take our foundation, our philosophy of using flavor and making flavor and actually allow that region to inform us and guide us.”
Salt & Straw has worked with Disney in the past, at the company’s park in California. Tyler Malek said he excited to join Disney Springs, as it has become a foodie destination.
“Disney Springs is — it’s wild,” Tyler Malek said. “(Disney has) made this, like, concerted effort to lean into becoming a food experience. And you can even see how many new restaurants are opening in Disney Springs. It’s really bonkers.”
In the latest episode of Florida Foodie, Tyler Malek talks about developing Salt & Straw’s unique and funky flavors, including a new fried chicken ice cream. He also talks about how his company came to partner with Disney and an ice cream subscription service.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Dozens of veterans, many who said they’re facing homelessness, came out Wednesday to a resource event in Orlando’s Parramore community that provided housing help, job workshops, medical assistance and so much more.
It was held at the Christian Service Center, hosted by CareerSource Central Florida to assist veterans.
“This is our opportunity to give back to those men and women who served their country,” said Ken Shields, veterans program manager for CareerSource Central Florida. “None of us forget that they exist, but they know that we exist. They know that resources are here for them when they need them.”
There were workshops and many vendors on hand to assist veterans with resources. Walt Disney World was even there conducting job interviews.
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With rising rents across Central Florida, U.S. Army veteran Robert Beauregad said he could use all of the help that he can receive.
“The price of rent is so high that it’s difficult to make ends meet at times,” Beauregad said.
Bruce Watkins is also an U.S. Army veteran and said the event was right on time for him, too.
“Finding out about some services I didn’t know about,” Watkins said. “Whoever set this up, this is a good program and we need more of it.”
According to the Homeless Services Network of Central Florida, as of January of this year, there were 189 veterans who reported they were homeless across Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties. That number is up 27% since last year, but the network told News 6 these stats are likely an undercount because, for many reasons, some veterans are reluctant to admit their homeless status.
“We are trying to create a safe space for people who are experiencing homelessness,” said Bryan Hampton, the director of development at the Christian Service Center.
Wednesday, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said at his State of the City Address that he’s making homelessness a priority, including using part of a $58 million federal grant to transform the former Ambassador Motel on Colonial Drive into a soon-to-open set of apartments with affordable housing units.
City leaders have also created a 3-year action plan that includes expanding services at shelters and continued work to make the streets cleaner and safer for everyone.
Awesome initiative hosted today for homeless veterans at the Christian Service Center in Parramore. It was put on by the @CareerSourceCF! They’re providing resources to veterans until about 2pm today. @news6wkmg pic.twitter.com/Y1XkZljXLm
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MICHIGAN CITY — Officials believe a mobile home fire that sent a woman and child to the hospital Tuesday was intentionally set.
Emergency officials received word shortly before 8:30 a.m. Tuesday that a residence was on fire in the 100 block of Dunewod Drive, which is located within the Dunewood Village Mobile Home Community at 170 Ind. 212, Michigan City police Lt. Steve Westphal said.
"In addition to being on fire, it was reported that two people and a dog were trapped inside," he said.
Police, fire and emergency medical units from the area responded and discovered that three men who had been doing cement work in the park put themselves in harm’s way to remove the two occupants and dog from the burning residence.
Pat O’Brien, 67, of Michigan City said he doesn’t consider himself a hero, though.
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“I don’t know about that. I think instinct takes over. We just did whatever we had to do,” he said.
O’Brien said he and two members of his crew were pouring cement for driveways at several new homes in the trailer park. He said they heard glass breaking, then saw smoke and flames coming from the single-wide mobile home.
He said they ran over and started yelling in hopes of drawing the attention of anyone who might be inside. They also opened the front door to try and go inside but were driven away by intense heat and heavy smoke.
O’Brien said they started breaking windows out of the home and continued to scream when they heard what sounded like someone inside the dwelling. About half of the home was on fire with flames reaching about 10 feet high when, suddenly, a woman approached one of the broken windows.
The men reached in, grabbed her and carried her out through the broken window at the rear of the home.
Moments later, O’Brien said the boy, looking very frightened with soot on his face, came to another broken window a short distance away. He was also safely guided through the opening in the window frame.
After the boy nodded his head that he was thirsty, O’Brien said he ran to his truck and grabbed a bottle of water for him to drink.
“He was in shock, I’m sure. He was shaking pretty good,” O’Brien said.
The dog was also taken out of the home through a broken window.
Firefighters arrived a short time later.
Animal control took possession of her dog, police said.
“If we had waited for the fire department, I don’t think they would have made it,” O’Brien said.
The 77-year-old woman and 4-year-old boy were taken to Franciscan Health Michigan City. The boy was treated for minor injuries and the woman was transferred to a hospital in Fort Wayne for advanced treatment, Westphal said.
"Michigan City Animal Control took custody of the rescued dog," he said.
"The initial investigation revealed this fire was intentionally set and it is being investigated as an arson," according to Westphal.
The Michigan City Police Department asks that residents in the area of the fire check exterior cameras for footage of suspects or suspicious activity.
"The timeframe to check would be 7 a.m. up until when the fire was reported (shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday)," Westphal said.
Anyone with information about the case is encouraged to contact Michigan City Police Sgt. Melissa Sopher at 219-874-3221, extension 1049 or by email at msopher@emichigancity.com.
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GARY — The Lake County coroner has declared the deaths of two men who died in two separate instances Monday as homicides.
A 32-year-old man was found dead Monday in a grassy area on the 4100 block of Vermont Street, according to a release from the Lake County coroner's office.
Kurt Day, of Park Forest, Ill., died from a gunshot wound. The coroner's office ruled his death a homicide.
St. John Police CIT Officer Dustin Wartman is trained in mental health intervention.
Jason Transou, 40, was declared dead after sustaining a gunshot wound Monday morning on the 2000 block of Tennessee Street, according to the coroner's office.
Gary police did not respond to request for comment Tuesday afternoon.
The Indiana State Fire Marshal and Lake County Prosecutor's Metro Homicide Unit assisted on scene at the Vermont Street location. The Lake County Sheriff's Crime Investigation Unit was on both scenes to assist.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Domynic Yerger
Age : 37
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304493
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shanna Taylor
Age : 34
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304512
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Damon Wade
Age : 52
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304496
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: N/A
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicholas Sanchez
Age : 43
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304503
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Smith Jr.
Age : 43
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304495
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
George Stevens
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304519
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT DEFENDANT USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Aaron Rawls
Age : 39
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304494
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: N/A
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ronald Robinson III
Age : 35
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304513
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Dakota Ruel
Age : 29
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304510
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Juan Salas
Age : 44
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304522
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Dyer Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Murray
Age : 35
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304499
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Office
Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alex Marion III
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304498
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON (SOCIETY IS VICTIM)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Crystal McLain
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304507
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; DEALING - COUNTERFEIT SUBSTANCE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Maria Hoyo
Age : 55
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304501
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Dyer Police Department
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paris Hewlett
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304515
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Coleman
Age : 36
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304502
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: LCCC
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON; THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750; OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Brandon Dubose
Age : 24
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304504
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: SEXUAL BATTERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Diana Enriquez
Age : 21
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304492
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Munster Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jessica Hermosillo
Age : 30
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304511
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Cedar Lake Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Erich Boone
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304509
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Office
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dwayne Smith
Age : 59
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304533
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Javante Toran
Age : 30
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304551
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Williams Jr.
Age : 49
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304543
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vandana Pagany
Age : 49
Residence: Hinsdale, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304539
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - PERJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Matthew Parker
Age : 38
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304554
Arrest Date: May 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: St. John Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel Rosario
Age : 49
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304537
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FROM BUILDING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Obaid Shafiq
Age : 45
Residence: Hinsdale, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304540
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paul Newlin
Age : 54
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304528
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Pablito Madera II
Age : 37
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304546
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Manson Jr.
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304541
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH PUBLIC SAFETY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Willie McGee
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304564
Arrest Date: May 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Donna Jackson
Age : 37
Residence: Aurora, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304538
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- INVASION OF PRIVACY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jocelyn James
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304548
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: THEFT - VEHICLE - MOTOR VEHICLE - CONVERSION - UNAUTHORIZED CONTROL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kamika Harrell
Age : 29
Residence: Sauk Village, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304534
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - OBTAINING PROPERTY - BY CREDIT CARD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Angel Bousono Jr.
Age : 52
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304563
Arrest Date: May 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kenyatta Branch
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304535
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST ENDANGERED ADULT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Derrick Daniel
Age : 54
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304545
Arrest Date: May 13, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: ORGANIZED THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rodney Allen Jr.
Age : 42
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304558
Arrest Date: May 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: New Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cesar Torres
Age : 52
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304569
Arrest Date: May 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Toy
Age : 65
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304572
Arrest Date: May 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Roman Martinez
Age : 39
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304581
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Dyer Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lori Minyard
Age : 60
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304576
Arrest Date: May 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jeremy Lewis
Age : 32
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304579
Arrest Date: May 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Keck
Age : 36
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304573
Arrest Date: May 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lowell Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Samantha Hellems
Age : 30
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304571
Arrest Date: May 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Darius Herron
Age : 30
Residence: Markham, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304567
Arrest Date: May 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Flores
Age : 36
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304574
Arrest Date: May 14, 2023
Arresting Agency: New Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nariana Williams
Age : 23
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304611
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Chad Shaw
Age : 29
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304591
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Vann
Age : 28
Residence: South Haven, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304589
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ricardo Vela
Age : 22
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304583
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Whiting Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Justin Neely
Age : 28
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304594
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Trendarious Peterson Mosley
Age : 22
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304595
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Keandrea Robinson
Age : 34
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304596
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bailey Llamas
Age : 28
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304609
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: ROBBERY; POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Anthony Hardesty-Berry
Age : 34
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304587
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Hope Horn
Age : 49
Residence: Michigan City, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304588
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Lenoir-Williams
Age : 30
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304600
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cristina Galka
Age : 31
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304614
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Armando Cartagena-Dhuperoyis
Age : 62
Residence: Silverdale, WA
Booking Number(s): 2304602
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake Station Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Gregory Cormick Jr.
Age : 22
Residence: New Oreleans, LA
Booking Number(s): 2304584
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Genito Balderas
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304619
Arrest Date: May 16, 2023
Arresting Agency: Munster Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
William Betts
Age : 27
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304612
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Benjamin Byers
Age : 21
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304599
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON (SOCIETY IS VICTIM)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Albanese
Age : 57
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304605
Arrest Date: May 15, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joshua Baker
Age : 41
Residence: Elkhart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304514
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Roderick Atkins
Age : 44
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304500
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mark Abel
Age : 36
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304516
Arrest Date: May 12, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: Confinement
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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