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Dec. 10, 1944 - May 4, 2023
Our beloved husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend succumbed to Lewy Body Dementia on May 4, 2023.
Steve was born in Rigby, ID on December 10, 1944, to Doyle and Betty Taylor. He was raised on a farm and enjoyed his rural upbringing.
After graduating from high school Steve moved to Salt Lake City and worked at a construction company. He later became a Draftsman for the State of Utah.
In 1966, Steve went on a blind date with DeeAnn Fowler, and they tied the knot three months later. While living in Salt Lake City Steve and DeeAnn had their two sons, Brandon, and Tyson.
In 1974, they wanted to raise their boys in the country and to be closer to their family, so they packed up and moved to Burley, Idaho.
Steve had a tremendous work ethic. In 1981, he started his electrical business and catered to farmers from Oakley to the North side. He took pride in keeping farmers' pumps, pivots and cellars running smoothly. Customers knew they could rely on him; if he said he would be there he was.
Living in Idaho allowed him countless opportunities to do the things he loved, camping, hunting, and fishing. He especially enjoyed fly-fishing with his buddies Wornell and Murphy.
Steve and DeeAnn spent weekends camping and fishing with family and friends. They took several trips with Jolene and Jerry Hines traveling as far as Ireland. Often, on a whim Steve and DeeAnn would jump in the truck and drive on any backroad he could find.
Steve was an easygoing, humble, and fun-loving man. He loved to tease and joke around with anyone who would allow it.
He is survived by his wife DeeAnn of 56 years, son, Brandon (Tammy), son, Tyson (Jennifer), five grandchildren, sister, Nan (Kay), and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, brother, Denny, and sister, Susie.
Our family would like to express our gratitude to the staff at Parke View and Horizon Hospice.
A Celebration of his Life and reception will be held at Morey's on Saturday, June 10, 2023 from 12:00–4:00 PM. In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations be made to a charity of your choice.
Arrangements are under the direction of Morrison Funeral Home, 188 South Hwy 24 in Rupert. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/steve-taylor/article_3852790b-4c36-505a-bb9b-3c99c652da5a.html | 2023-05-31T07:28:08 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/steve-taylor/article_3852790b-4c36-505a-bb9b-3c99c652da5a.html |
Steve Taylor
Dec. 10, 1944 - May 4, 2023
Our beloved husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend succumbed to Lewy Body Dementia on May 4, 2023.
Steve was born in Rigby, ID on December 10, 1944, to Doyle and Betty Taylor. He was raised on a farm and enjoyed his rural upbringing.
After graduating from high school Steve moved to Salt Lake City and worked at a construction company. He later became a Draftsman for the State of Utah.
In 1966, Steve went on a blind date with DeeAnn Fowler, and they tied the knot three months later. While living in Salt Lake City Steve and DeeAnn had their two sons, Brandon, and Tyson.
In 1974, they wanted to raise their boys in the country and to be closer to their family, so they packed up and moved to Burley, Idaho.
Steve had a tremendous work ethic. In 1981, he started his electrical business and catered to farmers from Oakley to the North side. He took pride in keeping farmers' pumps, pivots and cellars running smoothly. Customers knew they could rely on him; if he said he would be there he was.
Living in Idaho allowed him countless opportunities to do the things he loved, camping, hunting, and fishing. He especially enjoyed fly-fishing with his buddies Wornell and Murphy.
Steve and DeeAnn spent weekends camping and fishing with family and friends. They took several trips with Jolene and Jerry Hines traveling as far as Ireland. Often, on a whim Steve and DeeAnn would jump in the truck and drive on any backroad he could find.
Steve was an easygoing, humble, and fun-loving man. He loved to tease and joke around with anyone who would allow it.
He is survived by his wife DeeAnn of 56 years, son, Brandon (Tammy), son, Tyson (Jennifer), five grandchildren, sister, Nan (Kay), and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, brother, Denny, and sister, Susie.
Our family would like to express our gratitude to the staff at Parke View and Horizon Hospice.
A Celebration of his Life and reception will be held at Morey's on Saturday, June 10, 2023 from 12:00–4:00 PM. In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations be made to a charity of your choice.
Arrangements are under the direction of Morrison Funeral Home, 188 South Hwy 24 in Rupert. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/steve-taylor/article_584829de-efc8-5b13-abcc-e253c54bdbd4.html | 2023-05-31T07:28:14 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/steve-taylor/article_584829de-efc8-5b13-abcc-e253c54bdbd4.html |
Kenosha police were investigating a report of a woman who was shot in the leg late Tuesday.
The incident was reported at about 10 p.m. and police were investigating a possible scene in the 5000 block of 40th Avenue, according to Capt. Matthew Strelow of the Kenosha Police Department.
Strelow said Kenosha Fire Department rescue personnel took the injured woman to a local hospital for treatment. Her condition was not immediately known, however, her injury was not life-threatening, he said. Police have no suspects.
According to initial police traffic radio reports, the woman had been walking in the area north of 52nd Street and when she returned home discovered later that she had been shot in the leg. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/kenosha-police-investigating-report-of-woman-shot-in-leg-injury-not-life-threatening/article_c689dc1e-ff66-11ed-a8e8-937e20d0f8fb.html | 2023-05-31T07:34:52 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/kenosha-police-investigating-report-of-woman-shot-in-leg-injury-not-life-threatening/article_c689dc1e-ff66-11ed-a8e8-937e20d0f8fb.html |
PLEASANT PRAIRIE — A man and a woman suffered injuries, with at least one life-threatening, following a collision with a vehicle in the 11100 block of Sheridan Road late Tuesday.
Village police officers, along with fire and rescue, responded to the scene of the two-vehicle crash shortly after 10 p.m., assisting with the two injured individuals, said Sgt. Sean Flahive of the Pleasant Prairie Police Department. According to the preliminary investigation, advanced life support was deployed for the man, who was apparently driving the motorcycle.
Both the man and the woman, his passenger, were airlifted in two separate medical helicopters at from a landing zone established at Prairie Lane Elementary and they were later taken to area hospitals, he said. Neither victims' conditions were immediately available and the extent of the woman's injuries was also not known as of early Wednesday. Flahive said authorities on scene were working to identify the man and the woman.
The driver of the vehicle was not injured and was cooperating with the investigation.
Because of the seriousness of the injuries, village authorities called on the Kenosha County Major Crash Assistance Team to aid in the investigation. The team includes officers from Pleasant Prairie, Twin Lakes and Kenosha Police departments and the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department.
Sheridan Road in the village was closed between 104th and 116th Streets for more than four hours as the investigation was underway, Flahive said.
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A locally backed Ohio house bill would make diapers and other baby care items exempt from sales tax if passed, and proponents say it could help families with finances and safety.
House Bill 118, also called the Baby Products Tax Exemption Bill, would create a sales and use tax exemption for baby products like diapers, car seats, strollers, cribs, baby carriers and baby monitors.
“(These products) are critical to achieving the optimal health for young children,” said Jessica Salem, the Dayton Children’s Hospital Center for Health Equity executive director. “While most of us take these essential products for granted and just find a way in our budgets, many families find themselves having to choose which ones to buy or even find them out of their reach.”
Salem testified as a proponent of the house bill last week at the Ohio Statehouse.
According to the National Diaper Bank, a nonprofit that helps families obtain diapers and other materials, Ohio is home to roughly 550,000 children under the age of 3.
Salem said the house bill could help families buy safety equipment for their infants at a time when infant deaths are occurring at an “alarming rate.” In Montgomery County, health officials have reported eight infant deaths due to unsafe sleep practices and other factors this year.
Salem said the use of cribs is a step toward safer sleep.
“Providing a tax relief for a safe crib could mean the difference between being able to afford one, and that could save lives,” she said.
The average American family also spends $80 monthly on diapers, according to the diaper bank.
Salem said most childcare facilities require parents to provide diapers for their infants, and families who struggle to purchase diapers have to make decisions about childcare arrangements as a result.
Last year, the Center for Health Equity at Dayton Children’s Hospital supported more than 115 families with child safety products, and another 250 families were assisted with securing car seats, according to Salem.
“We work with families every day who share how difficult it is to raise children with the rising cost of products, childcare and other infant essentials,” Salem said.
Diapers for children and adults are sales-tax exempt only during the back-to-school sales tax holiday during the first weekend of August under current law.
In Ohio, sales tax is set at 5.75%, with counties having their own set sales tax rate in addition to the state’s. Montgomery County has a sales and use tax rate of 1.25%, according to the Ohio Department of Taxation.
A financial analysis of the bill found that the exemption of baby products from sales and use tax in 2024 could result in estimated losses of between $18.6 to $30.7 million to the state’s general revenue fund and between $4.8 to $7.9 million to county and transit funds.
“These losses will likely grow in future years, at a pace that generally matches inflation of the products being exempted,” according to the analysis.
But a measure that could help families provide for their children is a “step in the right direction,” said Lora Miller of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants.
“When consumers have more money in their pockets, they’re able to use that money to buy other needed items that aren’t tax exempt,” she said. “As retail sales increase, the commercial activity tax burden increases, which benefits the state and helps offset the sales tax loss.”
The bill was introduced earlier this year by state representatives Melanie Miller (R-Ashland) and Nick Santucci (R-Howland Twp.) and serves as companion legislation to a senate bill with the same mission. It’s progressing through the Ways and Means Committee in the Ohio House of Representatives.
“The Baby Products Tax Exemption Bill recognizes the challenges Ohio families face in raising children and aims to alleviate their financial burden,” Miller said in a statement. “By providing tax exemptions for essential baby products, we hope to encourage people to stay in Ohio as we work to invest in our families.”
State Reps. Andrea White (R-Kettering), Bill Dean (R-Xenia), Bernie Willis (R-Springfield) and Thomas Hall (R-Madison Twp.) are co-sponsors of the legislation.
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Woman killed by train near Junction City
A woman was killed by a train near Junction City Monday afternoon.
The Lane County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a crash involving a train and pedestrian shortly before 4:30 p.m. Monday. Paramedics arrived on scene and determined the woman was dead.
According to the Sheriff's Office investigation, the Union Pacific Railroad train was headed southbound when a woman was seen walking on the tracks. Train operators sounded audible alarms and attempted to perform an emergency stop of the train.
The woman did not respond to the alarms and was struck, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Investigators are still working to identify the woman. Law enforcement asks that anyone with information regarding this case contact the Lane County Sheriff’s Office at 541-682-4150 opt. 1. | https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/local/2023/05/30/fatal-pedestrian-train-crash-junction-city-lane-county-oregon/70271032007/ | 2023-05-31T08:56:52 | 1 | https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/local/2023/05/30/fatal-pedestrian-train-crash-junction-city-lane-county-oregon/70271032007/ |
Springfield man dies from injuries after being thrown from pickup truck bed
A 29-year-old Springfield man riding in the bed of a pickup truck was thrown from the vehicle Sunday evening in a crash and died at an area hospital, according to the Lane County Sheriff's Office.
Michael Primmer was in the bed of a 2002 Chevrolet Silverado pickup registered in Florida that was involved in a single-vehicle crash at about 5:40 p.m. on Big Fall Creek Road near Fall Creek Reservoir, Sheriff's Office spokesperson Sgt. Tom Speldrich said.
A preliminary investigation found the truck was traveling westbound on Big Fall Creek Road southeast of Eugene when it went off the road, down an embankment and lodged against a tree, Speldrich said.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Some details of the crash have not been publicly released. No charges have been filed at this point.
It is illegal under Oregon law for a child under the age of 18 or a dog to ride in the bed of a truck unsecured, except in certain circumstances. It is not illegal for an adult to ride in the back of a truck unsecured if all the seatbelts in the vehicle are occupied. | https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/local/2023/05/30/springfield-oregon-man-dies-pickup-truck-bed-fall-creek-reservoir/70271008007/ | 2023-05-31T08:56:58 | 0 | https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/local/2023/05/30/springfield-oregon-man-dies-pickup-truck-bed-fall-creek-reservoir/70271008007/ |
Black man escorted out of Shasta County meeting for protesting white man's use of N-word
A Black man was kicked out of Tuesday’s Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting after he objected to a white speaker using the N-word while addressing the five-member board.
Nathan Pinkney was escorted from the chamber by a Securitas security guard after board chair Patrick Jones got upset with him for speaking out from his seat in the audience.
The man who used the slur, frequent board attendee Alex Bielecki, was not chastised.
Jeff Gorder, who retired as Shasta County public defender in 2018, scolded Jones for not stopping Bielecki from talking.
“The Constitutional right of free speech is not unlimited. You can’t yell fire in this crowded room or disturbing the peace to use offensive words that are likely to result in a violent action. You don’t tolerate that kind of language here. You should gavel that down and shut it down,” Gorder said.
During a presentation on the potential to build tiny homes in Shasta County, Pinkney got angry when Bielecki used the N-word while stating his opposition to tiny homes.
“So, I got very angry. I yelled at him, I told him to 'get the f--- out,' and then I ended up leaving to get some air, get some space and calm down and went back in" to the meeting, Pinkney told reporters soon after he had been kicked out of the meeting room."And then Patrick Jones goes and defends his First Amendment right, basically says that there’s nothing wrong with him saying the N-word and using that type of hate speech, that type of rhetoric,” Pinkney said.
After the meeting, Jones reiterated to the Record Searchlight that removing Bielecki from the meeting or turning off his mic would have violated his First Amendment right.
“People have Constitutional rights and I as board chair will protect those rights,” he said. “I do not like the F-word. I do not like the N-word. But under the Constitution, those are protected.”
Jones saw it different for Pinkney.
“Mr. Pinkney … chose to speak out, yell out from the board floor, which is in violation of our policy. I asked him to refrain from doing so. He was being disruptive. He did not and so I had security remove him, which I will do again if his behavior continues,” Jones told the Record Searchlight after the meeting ended.
Bielecki returned to the podium while the board still was holding its open comment period and attempted to explain himself. Some left the chamber, saying they could not believe the board was allowing him to speak again.
“Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. You guys didn’t like my first speech, so I am going to try to trim it down,” Bielecki said. “When it comes to your house, when it comes to where you live, crime is a matter. It’s real simple. When they put a 10-foot little house next your $250,000 house, everything diminishes. I don’t like somebody coming into my pocket and taking my house and my values away. That’s why I spoke. … And as for being prejudice, it ain’t that way.”
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Supervisors Mary Rickert and Tim Garman spoke out during the meeting, calling Bielecki's comment inappropriate and offensive, and apologizing for it.
After the meeting, Rickert told the Record Searchlight that she was upset with the way Jones handled the situation, and she said Bielecki should be banned from future meetings. She said the lack of civility and respect for people during supervisors meetings has deteriorated over the last three years.
"It's one thing to say a swear word, but it's another thing to make reference to a particular race and it wasn't meant in a respectful manner," Rickert said.
Chris Chaidez of Securitas was the security officer who escorted Pinkney out of the meeting. Chaidez said he was just following the supervisors’ rules.
“I am there for the supervisors and to uphold their rules and regulations. I am not going to refuse doing the job that I am paid there to do,” he added.
Although a Shasta County sheriff's deputy was present at the meeting, the job of escorting Pinkney fell on Chaidez.
"The deputy could not do it because Nathan did not break the law. It was the rules that he infringed on, disrupting the board of supervisors. This is why security is here, so we can escort individuals who are disrupting," he said.
Pinkney, who also goes by Nathan Blaze, often shows up to supervisors’ meetings to criticizes Jones and the board’s far-right majority. He is supportive of the recall effort against District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye. At the meeting, he wore a blue-and-black “Recall Kevin Crye” T-shirt.
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“This is why I am the way I am, the way I’ve been fighting in this county for so many years, because of racist crap like that. And for the chair of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors to side with that level of racism, it’s so disheartening. It makes me feel like progress isn’t happening,” Pinkney said.
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Foothill and West Valley track state winners earn Shasta Family YMCA Athletes of the Week
Two Redding-based students displayed impressive feats of strength, speed and agility during the 103rd CIF State Track and Field Championships in Clovis last Friday and Saturday.
A Foothill High School senior competed in two events and placed top 25 in the state while a West Valley junior became a top 15 thrower.
Here are the two Shasta Family YMCA Athletes of the Week, whose accomplishments occurred on Friday, May 26.
Caden Rowe
School: Foothill
Sport: Track and Field
Class: Senior
Team contributions: Rowe showed his versatility and endurance by competing in both the 110 and 300-meter hurdles last Friday. Rowe ran the 110-meter hurdles in 15.38 seconds and finished 20th of 25 placers in state. Rowe ran the 300-meter hurdles in 39.84 seconds, placing 23rd of 28 placers in state. Rowe graduates Foothill as the school record holder in the 300-meter hurdles. He ranks third in school history in the 110-meter hurdles.
Shelbie Rogers
School: West Valley
Sport: Track and Field
Class: Junior
Team contributions: Rogers continued her streak of consistent throws with an impressive showing at the 103rd CIF State Track and Field Championships. Rogers threw the discus 125 feet and one inch to finish 15th of 28 state placers. Rogers is the third all-time ranked discus thrower in West Valley's history.
Each week, the Record Searchlight selects the girl and boy athletes who stand out based on merits from their performance in the prior week. Profiles highlight their accomplishments on the field or inside the gym and provide a glimpse into who they are as students. To make suggestions for R-S Athletes of the Week, email sports reporter Ethan Hanson at ethan.hanson@redding.com or go to bit.ly/3HuxlfW.
Ethan Hanson started working for the Redding Record Searchlight after four years with the Los Angeles Daily News as a freelancer. His coverage includes working the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament in South Bend, Indiana, and writing about the St. Louis Rams' move to Los Angeles with the Ventura County Star. He began his career as a play-by-play broadcaster for LA Pierce College from 2011-2017. Follow him on Twitter at @EthanAHanson_RS. | https://www.redding.com/story/sports/local/2023/05/30/foothill-and-west-valley-track-and-field-athletes-star-at-state-meet/70268944007/ | 2023-05-31T09:05:32 | 1 | https://www.redding.com/story/sports/local/2023/05/30/foothill-and-west-valley-track-and-field-athletes-star-at-state-meet/70268944007/ |
Ohio Lottery sales are up this year, even though legalized sports betting has been a big hit across the region and state and hypothetically could compete for Ohio consumers’ discretionary dollars, according to a Dayton Daily News analysis.
Some gambling industry observers say sports betting and lottery games tend appeal to different demographics. They say not only can they co-exist — they can promote and benefit each other.
“Sports betting has attracted many new customers to the gambling market, but that doesn’t mean it necessarily takes from any existing market,” said Danny Cross, managing editor of PlayOhio, which covers the state gambling industry. “Lottery players who enjoy certain games are unlikely to abandon them just because they sign up for a sportsbook app or place a bet at a retail sportsbook once in a while.”
Credit: JIM NOELKER
Credit: JIM NOELKER
Traditional lottery sales across the state increased 10% to $1.07 billion in the first quarter of this year, compared to same period last year, according to Ohio Lottery data.
In the first three months of this year, consumers in Butler, Champaign, Clark, Greene, Miami, Montgomery and Warren counties purchased $152.2 million worth of traditional lottery tickets, which was up 8.4% from Q1 of 2022.
The Ohio Lottery increased sales even though gamblers made nearly $2.5 billion in sports bets across the state either online or at retail sportsbooks from January to March, according to data from the Ohio Casino Control Commission.
The vast majority of Ohio’s sports betting takes place online through apps people download.
Credit: JIM NOELKER
Credit: JIM NOELKER
Ohio also has nearly 1,000 bars, restaurants and other businesses that offer sports betting at kiosks that are licensed through the Ohio Lottery, said Cross.
Cross said sports betting at these kiosks likely draws attention to other lottery games consumers can play.
“Sports betting has generally proven to be a tide that lifts all boats,” Cross said. “That is to say, adding legal sports betting seems to lift up other forms of gambling like lottery and retail casinos.”
Cross also said public awareness about legal gambling options has increased because of advertising pushes related to sports betting.
Industry experts and observers say the introduction of sports betting in other states has not led to a reduction in lottery revenues.
New Jersey legalized sports betting in mid-2018, but its state lottery still had a record year over the next 12 months, according to the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association.
Pennsylvania’s lottery also had a record-setting year in fiscal year 2019, even though sports gambling in the state became legal in November 2018.
Credit: Bill Lackey
Credit: Bill Lackey
Danielle Frizzi-Babb, deputy director of communications with the Ohio Lottery, said it’s too early to tell what impact sports betting will have on other kinds of gambling, but some lottery games have seen a decline in sales in March and April, such as Keno.
Vinny’s Bar & Grille, Carry-out, Lottery in Moraine has seen an increase in lottery sales this year, which led to the Ohio Lottery providing a bonus payment last month, said owner Vinny Nyhan, who believes his business is one of the top 10 lottery sellers in the Dayton area.
“I saw my numbers the other day, and I was like, ‘wow’ — my numbers are way up,” he said.
Lottery players and sports gamblers seem to be different segments of the consumer market, he said, similar to how some people like to gamble in casinos but won’t buy lottery products and vice versa.
Vinny’s Bar & Grille, located at 2229 Dryden Droad, has a lottery kiosk that offers sports betting, but Nyhan says it’s hardly been used for that purpose. He said consumers seem to prefer making sports bets on their mobile phone apps.
Jim Koehnen, assistant manger of the business who worked the register on Friday, said lottery players and sports bettors are “different groups of people.”
About three-fourths of adult Ohioans gamble — or more than 6.7 million residents, according to a 2019 report by the Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services and Ohio for Responsible Gambling.
That estimate predates sports gambling becoming legal in the state.
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GREENSBORO — He … or maybe she … is still a bit wobbly. But the pygmy hippo calf born May 24 at the Greensboro Science Center is a solid win toward preservation of the species.
“There are only about 100 pygmy hippos in AZA facilities and not many of them are breeding,” said Michael Motsch, the center’s lead keeper of pygmy hippos and cassowaries.
The center is part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Species Survival Plan Program, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help save species from extinction. It is estimated fewer than 2,500 adult pygmy hippos, which are native to West Africa, remain in the wild.
A quick check of the calf and its mom, Holly, Tuesday morning indicated they are both healthy.
Motsch said the baby’s health check included “making the sure teeth are coming in properly, making sure the umbilical connection area is healthy, as well as listening to the heart and lungs and trying to get a look all over — just to make sure there’s no odd bumps and bruises.”
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At a week old, the calf weighs about 14 pounds. “In about five to six months, it’ll be about 120 pounds, so it’s going to grow really quick and really big,” Motsch said. Depending on the gender, the calf will eventually weigh 520 to 630 pounds, he said.
The baby needs to grow for another few days before its gender will be readily apparent.
“Everything is still kind of wrinkly and there’s still the umbilical cord connection, so there’s just a lot of bumps and folds that we have to deal with,” Motsch said.
As for the name, center officials have a pool of names they are considering. “By next week we should have a name,” he said.
In keeping with what would naturally occur in the wild, the calf and its papa, Ralph, will not be housed together.
“If it’s a female, there’s the risk of breeding when it’s old enough … and if it’s a male, it’s competition,” Motsch said. “So mom will go back with Ralph in a couple years, but baby will not be with dad.”
The calf will be weaned in six to eight months. It is likely to leave the center in two to five years for another AZA facility, where it likely will be paired with another pygmy hippo for breeding.
That pairing process includes analysis to ensure the most crossover genetic variability, Motsch said.
“They’re going a couple of generations past figuring this stuff out,” he said.
If there are two equally good matches, he said, Holly and Ralph’s offspring will likely go to the facility that is closest.
“We’re not its forever home,” Motsch said. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/pygmy-hippo-baby-greensboro-zoo/article_44a46818-fef8-11ed-a7b4-87a4e811dc23.html | 2023-05-31T09:34:57 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/pygmy-hippo-baby-greensboro-zoo/article_44a46818-fef8-11ed-a7b4-87a4e811dc23.html |
Construction prompts summer lane, ramp closures around future I-465/I-69 interchange
Expect to see full closures on Interstate 465 along the south of the city this summer.
These ramp and lane closures will occur between I-65 and I-70 as a part of ongoing reconstruction at the future I-465 and I-69 interchange, according to the Indiana Department of Transportation.
Here's what you should know about the closures.
From the air:What to know about planned I-465/I-69 interchange reconstruction
When and where I-465 will close this summer
Between I-65 and I-70, expect these ramps and lanes to be closed.
- June 2-21: eastbound I-465 lanes fully closed
- I-70 east and westbound to I-465 westbound ramps closed
- Kentucky Avenue/S.R. 67 to and from I-465 eastbound ramps closed
- Mann Road to I-465 eastbound ramp closed
- Harding Street/S.R. 37 to and from I-465 eastbound ramps closed
- East Street/U.S. 31 to and from I-465 eastbound ramps closed
- July 7-29: westbound I-465 lanes fully closed
- I-65 northbound and southbound to I-465 westbound ramps closed
- East Street/U.S. 31 to and from I-465 westbound ramps closed
- Harding Street/S.R. 37 to and from I-465 westbound ramps closed
- Kentucky Avenue/S.R. 67 to and from I-465 westbound ramps closed
What to expect
Various bridges will be reconstructed, drainage structures will be added and pavement will be patched. To alert drivers, warning signs, shielding, message boards and five billboards will be placed around the construction zone.
This interchange construction is part of a bigger project, called I-69 Finish Line, that will create an interstate from Martinsville to I-465 in Indianapolis and add another travel lane to I-465. The project will be completed in late 2024, said INDOT strategic communications director Natalie Garrett.
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Detours during the I-465 closures
For eastbound I-465 travelers, the official detour is I-70 eastbound to I-65 southbound at the South Split. For westbound traffic, take I-65 northbound to I-70 westbound at the South Split.
Find updated traffic and construction information on INDOT's mobile app and website Trafficwise at 511in.org, in the App Store at https://apple.co/41FsAJS and in the Google Play store at https://bit.ly/3BBeKh4.
Why is I-465 being closed?
These closures allow for "efficiency and safety" for the construction crews, said INDOT public relations director Kyleigh Cramer.
"We're also going to be moving, quite literally, dirt and earth, so there's going to be a lot of moving parts," Cramer said. "(These closures) are just to allow some safety procedures for our crew and motoring public as well."
Much of the planned construction will be on or underneath the travel lanes on the roadways. For example, adding drainage structures requires cutting open the road, installing the structure and re-building the road.
For construction workers' safety and easier access to the roadway, INDOT scheduled the closure.
"In an ideal world, construction workers would always be working under closures, but we can't close everything," Garrett said.
Contact Pulliam Fellow Morgan Womack at mwomack@gannett.com. | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/transportation/2023/05/31/indianapolis-traffic-updates-i465-lane-ramp-closures-2023/70224912007/ | 2023-05-31T09:36:37 | 1 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/transportation/2023/05/31/indianapolis-traffic-updates-i465-lane-ramp-closures-2023/70224912007/ |
CAPE MAY — The East Lynne Theater Company has started raising money to begin renovations at the former AME Church on Franklin Street, with hopes of opening for the 2024 season.
The theater company on Monday announced a 25-year lease with the city for the building, which dates to the 1850s. The former church already needed renovation after a fire damaged the interior, steeple and bell tower.
The estimated cost is $700,000.
The city purchased the former church in 2021, reportedly with the support of members of the congregation of the historically Black church, one of several properties significant to Cape May’s Black history in that neighborhood.
The church is close to the former Franklin Street School, once the city’s segregated school that is now slated to become the new local branch of the Cape May County Library, and around the corner from the Harriet Tubman Museum on Lafayette Street, which had been in serious disrepair. That building had been the home of the pastor of the Macedonia Baptist Church for decades, set in a block that was a center of abolitionist activity before the Civil War.
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The theater company plans to renovate the building and use it as a theater. For more than 20 years, the company has performed in the First Presbyterian Church of Cape May. Susan Tischler, president of the theater’s board of trustees, told City Council the theater company loves the church but has to take down the sets each week to make way for Sunday services and has to be ready for the church to be used for funerals and weddings.
The new site will allow the theater company more freedom in set design and more options in the plays it chooses.
Founded in 1980, East Lynne Theater specializes in presenting historic or forgotten American plays.
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Another theater company, Cape May Stage, also operates under a long-term lease in a former church owned by the city. The Lafayette Street property was renovated after a fundraising campaign brought in more than $1 million, after signing a 25-year lease in 2004.
Mayor Zack Mullock has pointed out in public discussions of the East Lynne plan that some of the city’s iconic organizations have long-term agreements for city property, giving nonprofits an affordable place to work while offering programs the city could not afford to present.
That includes the Nature Center of Cape May, a New Jersey Audubon location overlooking Cape May Harbor at 1600 Delaware Ave., and Cape May MAC, which restored the Emlen Physick Estate, originally built in 1879.
“East Lynne has been offered an incredible opportunity to expand our performance space, as well as our audiences, through use of this beautiful building,” said Craig Fols, artistic director. “However, the real privilege is being trusted with protecting and sustaining the historical significance of this great building and the Black community in Cape May.”
The church is listed as a national historic landmark, according to the theater company.
As part of the agreement with the city, East Lynne obliged to maintain the building and allow public access when theater productions are not scheduled. That could include city-sponsored events, officials said when the contract was discussed this month.
“We are tremendously thrilled and proud to have been entrusted with preserving this great building,” said Fols. “We look forward to its reopening and showing residents and tourists just what this structure means to Cape May.”
After the renovations are complete, the theater hopes to renovate the church organ, and to incorporate it into future productions.
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Not everyone supports the plan. As council considered an ordinance approving the long-term lease at a recent meeting, resident Jules Rauch said the agreement differed from other leases in that it requires the city to cover some expenses and contribute to others.
“I don’t believe that obligation should be put on the city,” he said.
Other residents raised questions about a proposed expansion of the building. Mullock said the proposal would go through the same approval process as other construction projects, and that the theater company would pay for it.
City attorney Christopher Gillin-Schwartz said the agreement would allow the building to be restored while providing space for the theater company.
“When this was presented to me, it wasn’t Universal Studies or Paramount Pictures with boatloads of money. This is a local nonprofit that was looking for a home, emphasis on nonprofit,” he told council.
This year, East Lynne will continue its season at the First Presbyterian Church of Cape May at 500 Hughes St. and work over the winter to open the 2024 season at AME at 717 Franklin St.
For more information, visit eastlynnetheater.org. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/cape-may-theater-company-raising-funds-to-renovate-former-church/article_1b6138d6-ff12-11ed-8009-67b5ab84d2e0.html | 2023-05-31T09:40:03 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/cape-may-theater-company-raising-funds-to-renovate-former-church/article_1b6138d6-ff12-11ed-8009-67b5ab84d2e0.html |
BASEBALL
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(4) Cherokee at (1) Egg Harbor Twp.
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Vineland vs. Lenape at Seneca H.S.
Other matches
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S.J. Group I quarterfinals
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(8) Lower Cape May at (1) Rumson-Fair Haven
S.J. Group III quarterfinals
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(7) Jackson Memorial at (2) Ocean City
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(5) Mainland at (4) Clearview
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(9) Howell at (1) Southern | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/high-school-schedule-for-wednesday-may-31-2023/article_e2694940-fca2-11ed-b402-5fed4b73cd6a.html | 2023-05-31T09:40:09 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/high-school-schedule-for-wednesday-may-31-2023/article_e2694940-fca2-11ed-b402-5fed4b73cd6a.html |
CEDAR FALLS — A television ad featuring a Cedar Falls family has made its way to the airwaves to promote gender-affirming care for children.
The Christiason family – Kyle, Jennifer, Ben and Lars – were recruited for an ad campaign by the ACLU of Iowa. The ads are broadcast on 12 TV stations across the state.
Veronica Lorson Fowler, the communications director for the ACLU of Iowa, approached the Christiasons knowing they have been active in helping find gender-affirming care for their transgender son, Ben, for the past decade.
“It’s sad we’re in a moment that we have to convince people that (transgender people) are people too,” Fowler said. “We want to show how wonderfully a transgender kid can turn out when parents do what good parents do – which is to listen, to learn and lead with love.”
ACLU of Iowa worked with Amperage Marketing, also in Cedar Falls, to create the ad. Fowler said the ad’s intended audience is those aged 50 years or older who are “in the middle” politically. The ad is aired during prime time – when a television audience is expected to be at its highest – around the time of evening newscasts. The reason for this is when people are watching the news, they’re “in a mode to listen and learn and find out about the world,” she said.
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The organization received funding from the national ACLU office and did not use government funding to create the ad.
Fowler said the ACLU of Iowa wanted to tell the story of transgender individuals. She said the Christiasons were in a position to make a television ad. Other families were considered but feared for their safety because their children were younger.
Coming out
Ben, 25, first came out as gay to his parents in the sixth or seventh grade. A couple of years later around the age of 14 or 15, his father, Kyle, said Ben asked, “This isn’t true, but what if I said I was a boy?”
A few months later, Kyle and Jennifer said, Ben showed them a video of a transgender boy.
“It was just the perfect way to show us because this kid looked like (and) talked like Ben and he was coming out on this video,” Kyle said. “It was visually like Ben doing it.”
Kyle and Jennifer said in that moment “it clicked” for them as parents. They now regard it as a transformative point in their lives.
Missed signs
After learning Ben is transgender, his parents looked back on his life and started understanding small moments in Ben’s formative years as a toddler and preschooler.
Kyle said from ages 2 to 4, Ben was a happy and outgoing child but “something changed” around ages 5 or 6. Kyle and Jennifer believed Ben was just a mature, quiet kid, but now look back and realize Ben was severely depressed.
Kyle noted when their younger son, Lars, was born Ben announced he was excited to be a big brother. Kyle and Jennifer told him he was going to be a great big sister.
“It’s just tons of those cues ... over time. Ben, of course, interpreted it as something must be wrong with how I’m feeling, something’s wrong with me,” Kyle said.
In the ad, Ben states that transitioning helped him mentally.
“We’re not losing that person,” he said. “That person’s coming alive again. And this is how I’m gonna come alive again, is by becoming Ben.”
Once Ben came out as transgender, Kyle and Jennifer immediately started looking into what they could do to help their son. Both in the medical profession, Kyle and Jennifer were pointed by friends and colleagues to a specialty clinic for gender health at the University of Minnesota.
Later, Ben received his gender care at the University of Iowa and eventually received top surgery – performed to remove breast tissue – in Wisconsin.
Telling family
Jennifer said it took a while for them to share with family members that Ben was now Ben due to fear of not knowing how they would respond.
“Every person you come out to … now they’re vulnerable,” Jennifer said. “Every grandparent, every friend, every single one is the ultimate moment of vulnerability.”
The Christiasons were lucky, they said, receiving nothing but love and support. A moment that sticks with them is the day they told Kyle’s 90-year-old grandparents about Ben’s transition.
It was right before Ben performed in a music concert because the program listed his name as Ben. Jennifer said they nodded along as they learned Ben’s news and later asked a lot of questions.
At the end of Kyle’s grandfather’s life, a touching moment occurred in the hospital.
“Truly the last actual thing he said out loud that was showing that he was still with us, he looked up and said, ‘I love you, Ben,’” Jennifer said. “(Ben) could have not had that moment had we never shared, and what a beautiful moment that was.”
Acceptance at school
Acceptance came from outside the family, as well.
Ben was the first openly transgender person to graduate from Cedar Falls High School and the first openly transgender boy to participate in a boys’ sports team as a member of the cross-country team.
Troy Becker, now the athletics and activities director for the high school, approached the Christiasons one day and said he’d “love to have Ben on his team.”
“I always look back to what visible leadership and allyship and support looks like,” Jennifer said about Becker. “It wasn’t passive. It was active. It was incredible. It still is one of those things that makes me cry.”
Legislative assault
Although Cedar Falls Community Schools accepted Ben with open arms, the Christiasons fear what would happen if Ben had to come out today due to multiple pieces of legislation signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds.
The most harmful law aimed at transgender students, they said, is the “bathroom bill.”
The new law forbids transgender students to use public school restrooms that align with their gender identity. For a child to use the bathroom that would make them feel most comfortable, students need parental consent for special accommodations such as using a faculty or single-occupancy bathroom.
Last week, Reynolds signed a plethora of laws that pertain to gender and sex in schools. One requires schools to notify parents if a child asks to use new pronouns. Others ban school books with descriptions or depictions of sex acts and bar discussion of gender identity or sexual orientation before seventh grade.
“It makes me shudder that there are barriers to those now because we know what it meant to (Ben),” Jennifer said. “It’s just harmful. It’s hateful. It’s discriminatory. … It’s going to be hard for Iowa to recover from this.”
Gender-affirming care
Reynolds also signed a bill that bans gender-affirming care for children under the age of 18.
Gender-affirming care supports transgender and non-binary people who experience symptoms of gender dysphoria that stem from distress about their gender identity not matching their sex assigned at birth. It can include mental health, medical or surgical services.
Kyle said he’s offended legislators believe children “don’t have enough brain activity to be part of this discussion.” He said many people opposing gender-affirming care are against it because they believe people’s brains are not fully developed until the age of 25.
According to the National Institute of Health, the prefrontal cortex, located behind the forehead, is one of the last parts of the brain to mature. NIH states the prefrontal cortex regulates thoughts, actions and emotions.
Kyle, a physician, said he realizes full development may not occur until age 25, but doesn’t agree with the argument.
“It’s not that all of a sudden (you turn) 25, there’s a switch, now you’re everything you are supposed to be,” he said.
Jennifer, a registered nurse, said gender-affirming therapy looks different for everyone.
“There’s a lot of folks that think that everyone who identifies as transgender is on some kind of gender-affirming hormone therapy, or that they’re going to have all kinds of surgeries,” she said.
She also disputes claims transgender youths are getting surgeries with no guidance from parents or concerned medical professionals. Bottom surgery, a procedure performed to match a person’s genitals with their gender identity, always happens after the age of 18. Kyle said it is usually a two- to three-year process to receive that surgery as an adult.
Transgender youths can be provided puberty blockers. Kyle described it as puberty pause therapy. The purpose of puberty blockers is to allow a family to go through a “full discernment process.” He said there is no harm if at the end of that process a child decides to quit using blockers. Puberty will continue as normal consistent with their assigned sex at birth.
Kyle said barring the option for transgender youths can result in mental illness.
“Not being able to live your authentic self creates a state of depression and anxiety and not being able to realize one’s full potential,” he said. “Research shows if we truly honor that and allow that gender identity to be expressed, and to be affirmed, sometimes through gender-affirming hormone therapy, their potential is greater.”
Fighting fear
The Christiasons said the big reason they agreed to the TV ad was to start a conversation about “fear.”
“I get the fear and not wanting your child to suffer through the fears of others,” Jennifer said. “But, boy, to not embrace their truth is so dangerous for them. It could cause very dark things to happen, like suicidal ideation.”
“We understand when people who don’t have as much experience, they have a fearful reaction,” Kyle said. “We want them to just see that there’s another path, this is something that saved our child’s life. It’s something that preserved relationships within our family.”
The Christiasons, as well as the ACLU’s Fowler, said the ad is not going to change everyone’s mind, but hopefully will create a positive association with transgender individuals.
“If it can crack open just a hair when someday they have someone they love … come out, they might remember seeing this and watching it,” Jennifer said. “Maybe that can give them a little hope for the person they love.” | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/cedar-falls-family-featured-on-tv-ad-about-transgender-youth/article_e60177e6-f9a8-11ed-a134-bfbb3fe8a3a8.html | 2023-05-31T09:59:11 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/cedar-falls-family-featured-on-tv-ad-about-transgender-youth/article_e60177e6-f9a8-11ed-a134-bfbb3fe8a3a8.html |
CAPE CORAL, Fla. — A boat behind a Cape Coral home has been deemed a total loss early Wednesday morning after it caught fire.
Fire crews responded to the blaze on Southeast 16th Terrace around 1:48 a.m. and immediately extinguished the flames.
Fortunately, there’s no structural damage to the home, and no injuries were reported.
It is unknown what caused the fire.
The State Fire Marshal is responding to investigate.
Count on NBC2 to provide updates as more information is released. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/lee-county/2023/05/31/boat-a-total-loss-after-catching-fire-in-cape-coral/ | 2023-05-31T09:59:30 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/lee-county/2023/05/31/boat-a-total-loss-after-catching-fire-in-cape-coral/ |
TUPELO — The Tupelo Lions Club is seeking new members as it celebrates its 90th anniversary.
The local club serves five main areas: sight and hearing, childhood cancer, diabetes, hunger and environment. Their primary focus, and the one for which the organization is most known, is helping people with vision problems.
Tupelo Lions Club President Jim Larson and his wife, Mary, have been members for about five years. The couple have strived to continue the club's long legacy of service to the Tupelo area.
"There is no reward like giving of yourself," Jim Larson said. "The camaraderie and the friendships that you develop through the Lions, not only locally but throughout the state, cannot be matched."
Lions Clubs International was established in Chicago in 1917, and the Tupelo Lions Club was chartered on Nov. 7, 1932. With an annual budget of about $10,000, the club hosts or takes part in various service projects throughout the area. Every penny collected through fundraisers is used to fund the club's activities.
The small but mighty Tupelo Lions Club currently has 17 members.
"One of our mottos is, 'We Serve,'" Larson said. "We'll help wherever we can."
Living up to that motto, members also assist with tornado recovery efforts across the north half of the state, collect food for the St. Luke Food Pantry in Tupelo, volunteer during the Salvation Army's annual Empty Bowls luncheon and serve free hot chocolate and coffee to spectators at the annual Reed's Tupelo Christmas Parade.
The club is interested in branching out into community gardening, but thin membership has kept that project in the planning stages.
Theodore Roach, secretary of the Tupelo Lions Club, has been a member for eight years. Not only does volunteering help others; it's also personally fulfilling.
"As we serve others, we're really serving ourselves," Roach said. "We are people who really are committed, and we want to serve others because we want to be served ourselves. That's the drive that keeps us going."
Jimmy Jackson, a Lions Club member since 1980, recently received an email from a woman who received glasses from the club.
"It was very simple but very thoughtful," Jackson said. "She had not seen like she sees now, and she thanked us for making it happen."
Members never know how big of an impact will be made through their service.
Typically, people who are retired or have flexible work hours would be ideal candidates for assisting with vision screenings, but the club is looking to recruit anyone looking to serve others to help with its various service projects.
Mary Larson said she hopes that incoming members will bring fresh ideas to help the club approach service in new ways.
The club meets at noon on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at New China Buffet in Tupelo, and dues are just $10 per month billed semi-annually. Anyone interested in joining can contact Jim Larson at winterkill2014@gmail.com and follow along with the latest updates on the Tupelo Lions Club's Facebook page.
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NESCOPECK, Pa. — Crews battled an overnight fire in Luzerne County.
Calls started coming in around midnight for a home on Warren Street in Nescopeck.
Authorities say the fire is accidental and it started because of a grill on the porch.
Two people made it out of the home as well as a dog.
No first responders were injured overnight in Nescopeck.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — On Saturday, a little over 100 people gathered at West Heights United Methodist Church in Wichita for the “Last Roll Call” ceremony.
The ceremony is put on by the Chaplain Service of the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center.
Family and friends came together to remember veterans who have passed away since last October.
When Joan Eberhardt heard about the service, she knew she wanted to attend to remember her late husband Galen Eberhardt, who served in the Air Force for 20 years.
“He was a Vietnam veteran, but I was able to go with him over to England and to the Philippines. It just meant the 20 years meant a lot to me and our family,” said Joan Eberhardt.
The memorial service is held twice a year, usually around Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/family-and-friends-gather-to-remember-veterans-lost-in-last-roll-call-ceremony/ | 2023-05-31T10:14:38 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/family-and-friends-gather-to-remember-veterans-lost-in-last-roll-call-ceremony/ |
The driver who killed a 24-year-old Henrico County police officer in a crash last year will serve two months of house arrest as part of a plea deal, it was announced Tuesday.
Jeffrey Adam Lankford pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in court Tuesday morning. He was 18 when he ran into Officer Trey Sutton's police cruiser at Chamberlayne Avenue and Wilkinson Road on the night of March 30, 2022.
His house arrest will start Friday. An additional 22 months of incarceration will be suspended on the conditions that Lankford completes 200 hours of community service and five years of probation and surrenders his driver's license for a year, according to the plea agreement. He was facing up to 20 years in prison if convicted at trial.
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“This is not the exact result that the Commonwealth, the Sutton family, or (Zoe Pierson, Sutton's fiancé), were hoping for," Henrico Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon.
When reached by phone, Taylor said that there were two potential legal issues, including one involving "new science," that risked the possibility of Lankford not being held accountable for Sutton's death.
One of the potential hurdles was the color of the traffic signal at the moment when Sutton, who had graduated from the Henrico police academy two months earlier, entered the intersection.
If Sutton, rather than Lankford, was the one who ran a red light, as the defense was prepared to argue, that could be viewed as a mitigating factor that would reduce or eliminate Lankford's liability.
The other was how to measure the speed at which Lankford was driving when the crash happened. His truck was old enough that it didn't have a "black box," an onboard computer that would log key information such as driving speed, Taylor said, so prosecutors would have to estimate the speed using a combination of traffic camera footage and Apple Maps location data from Lankford's cell phone.
That is a technique that the county has not previously used in court before, which brought a risk that the judge in the case, L.A. Harris, would deem the speed analysis inadmissible — significantly harming the county's case.
Pierson read a victim impact statement during the hearing Tuesday, recalling the horror of receiving the news of the crash, detailing the injuries that Sutton suffered and mourning the fact that, in an instant, Sutton lost the chance to become a husband or father.
"There is no justice today," Pierson said to Lankford. "If it had been you hurt that night, Trey, who took his oath to protect and serve, would’ve been the one to show up, no questions asked. He would’ve done his best to make sure you went home that night, and you did not extend to him or anybody else on that road the same courtesy."
"It has been 425 days since we had to explain what happened to everyone we knew, 425 days of living in this nightmare, and 425 days in expectation of today. You might rationalize what happened in your head, make excuses for why and how it happened the way it did," Pierson added.
Sutton, 24, of Chesterfield County, was one of four people hurt in the three-vehicle crash. He died of his injuries the next day.
Hundreds of police officers and first responders from across Virginia and the East Coast attended his memorial service. His badge number, 559, was retired.
“He had a purpose,” Henrico Police Chief Col. Eric English said at the time. “We will carry on your dream.”
After the hearing on Tuesday, Craig Curwood, the Sutton family's civil attorney, read a statement on behalf of the family. The family thanked the first responders and medical professionals at VCU Medical Center who cared for Sutton between the crash and his death the following day, and praised Henrico police for their investigation.
"While we are disappointed with the sentence, we know that no sentence will bring back Trey or ease our suffering," Curwood said. "We were hoping for more accountability in the outcome today, but sadly, we could not get that. There is however, some satisfaction in knowing that Jeffery Lankford will be a convicted felon for the rest of his life." | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-courts/henrico-circuit-court-jeffrey-lankford-guilty-plea-trey-sutton/article_cb84ca3c-ff05-11ed-9769-77982f0e9b98.html | 2023-05-31T10:27:27 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-courts/henrico-circuit-court-jeffrey-lankford-guilty-plea-trey-sutton/article_cb84ca3c-ff05-11ed-9769-77982f0e9b98.html |
One of the oldest homes in Richmond is going thoroughly modern.
A recently installed field of solar panels is providing all of the electrical needs of Agecroft Hall, a 16th century home originally built in England, then painstakingly dismantled, moved and reconstructed in Richmond in the 1920s.
“At first, people think it's odd: Why would we have this modern technology?” said Anne Kenny-Urban, executive director of Agecroft Hall & Gardens in Windsor Farms. “But it’s very much in keeping with the 16th century principle … you couldn’t waste your resources in the 16th century. You had to make use of everything.
“This is just a 21st century take on how you use your resources. We’ve got 23 acres, we’ve got sunlight. It’s a perfect place for us to put in solar.”
There is also the matter of cost savings. Modeling out annual utility rate increases over the coming decades helped inspire Agecroft officials to make the investment in solar energy. Kenny-Urban did not want to disclose how much Agecroft spent on the project, but she did say officials expect to reach the breakeven point — investment versus cost savings — in five to six years.
Kenny-Urban believes Agecroft is the rare cultural institution that has “zeroed out” its electricity bill through solar. Agecroft remains connected to the grid for two reasons: so it can tap into a conventional source of electricity when the solar panels do not produce quite enough electricity, say on cloudy days, and so it can sell back to Dominion Energy extra amounts of solar-generated power it produces.
Going solar was “a big decision for us,” she said, and not just as a short-term solution. “We’re not just trying to get through this one year. We want to be around a long time as a cultural institution in Richmond.”
The solar panels, which went “live” in February, are situated in a field between the main house and the greenhouse, largely screened from view by trees, including newly planted evergreens. They are visible from the house’s terrace.
“We don’t want to hide it entirely because we think it’s an important part of the story and an opportunity to talk to kids not just about history but also about science.”
In addition to installing the solar panels, Agecroft has recently reopened hiking trails leading down toward the James River, so the environment can be an official topic of discussion for visits to Agecroft in the future.
“We like to tie everything together,” she said.
Agecroft was unoccupied and deteriorating when Richmond businessman T.C. Williams and his wife, Elizabeth, acquired the home and made plans to bring it to Virginia. The most intact portions of the manor were dismantled and shipped in pieces across the Atlantic. The Williameses moved into the reconstructed Agecroft in December 1927.
Landscape architect Charles Gillette designed the gardens around the house, which became a public museum in 1969. Agecroft is open daily, with the exception of Mondays, throughout the year, and hosts a variety of programs, including the annual outdoor Shakespeare Festival, held on the back lawn.
The cost savings on its electric bill will allow Agecroft to “pour that money into our people who are our most important resource,” Kenny-Urban said, as well as into programming.
“So, it’s a win for us financially, it’s a win for us in terms of mission of using our resources efficiently, and it’s a win for the environment,” she said. “Rarely do we get anything that’s a win-win-win.”
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Executive Director of the Agecroft Hall and Gardens Anne Kenny-Urban poses for a portrait with recently installed solar panels at the Agecroft Hall and Gardens on Friday in Richmond. | https://richmond.com/news/local/this-old-house----and-portions-of-it-were-built-about-500-years/article_d26574aa-fef1-11ed-9445-1b790367ea43.html | 2023-05-31T10:27:29 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/this-old-house----and-portions-of-it-were-built-about-500-years/article_d26574aa-fef1-11ed-9445-1b790367ea43.html |
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – A 58-year-old woman died after crashing on Goodwin Avenue Tuesday afternoon, according to the Roanoke County Police Department.
At about 2:18 p.m., Karen Kingery, of Salem, was driving in a 2016 Ford Escape at a “high rate of speed” when she crossed Wildwood Road, went airborne and hit several trees, authorities said.
Kingery was then taken to the hospital and was pronounced dead.
Authorities believe drugs or alcohol may have been a factor in the crash.
The road was blocked for a short period of time but has since reopened.
There are no charges pending and the crash remains under investigation, according to Roanoke Police. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/31/58-year-old-woman-dead-after-crash-on-goodwin-avenue-in-roanoke-county/ | 2023-05-31T10:45:23 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/31/58-year-old-woman-dead-after-crash-on-goodwin-avenue-in-roanoke-county/ |
DULUTH — Few people were probably more relieved to see Minnesota’s Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit revived Tuesday than Mark Poirier, executive director of the Armory Arts & Music Center.
In terms of the pending renovation of the armory, Poirier referred to the credit as “one of the most critical pieces of the financial puzzle” for what is expected to be a $42 million project.
All told, he expects state historic tax credit will contribute nearly $5 million to the project, leveraging additional federal credits to the total tune of about $9 million.
Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill Tuesday morning restoring the state’s historic tax credit, which had lapsed last year when the Minnesota Legislature failed to renew the program.
Poirier said that the Armory’s development partner, George Sherman, is well-versed in using the historic tax credit and expressed confidence he will successfully use the program to further the Armory project. Poirier noted that Sherman has a proven track record of pulling together incentives to advance complex projects, such as Duluth’s historic NorShor Theatre.
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Thanks to the tax credit and a $4.5 million appropriation in the state bonding bill, work on the Armory, at 1301-1305 London Road, is expected to begin shortly, putting it on track for completion by 2025.
The eight-year historic tax credit extension was part of an Omnibus Tax Bill signed into law by Walz on Tuesday morning.
"This extension of the Historic Tax Credit is vital for communities and their preservation efforts throughout Minnesota," said Heidi Swank, executive director of Rethos and president of the RevitalizeMN Coalition, in a statement issued Tuesday.
"The jobs it creates and the economic activity it spurs make it one of the most efficient and effective community development programs we have," she said. "When the historic tax credit sunset after last year's legislative session, Minnesota was in danger of permanently losing that economic activity, and important historic buildings and local landmarks were put at risk. With the extension of the HTC, many more of those places can be saved.”
Since it was adopted in 2010, the historic tax credit has led to the creation of 28,000 jobs at more than 170 work sites across the state. Supporters of the program estimate its expiration has cost the state about $1 million per day in lost activity.
“There are critical community projects across Minnesota that can now move forward,” said Meghan Elliott, founding principal of New History, a Twin Cities-based consulting firm that specializes in historic building redevelopment. “The looming sunset over this program has created uncertainty and led to disinvestment for years. Now with an extension that is retroactive to when the program sunset last year, we will begin to see renewed investment and economic impact cascading in towns and cities across our state.”
Elliott was part of the team that recently redeveloped the former St. Louis County Jail into a 33-unit apartment building called Leijona. She said the $9 million project would not have been possible without the help of state historic tax credits.
In response to a News Tribune request, Chris Fleege, director of Duluth's planning and economic development division, issued a statement:
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“The city is very supportive of the passage of the Historic Tax Credit. The previous Historic Tax Credit was used to revitalize the Norshor Theatre into the world-class arts venue it is today; it was used to transform the old St. Louis County jail site into the Leijona building today — a unique market-rate apartment complex; it is also currently assisting in the revitalization of Historic Old Central into new units of housing in the downtown area.
"This tax credit helps developers breathe new life into historic structures while making measurable strides toward improving the housing landscape in Duluth. The City thanks the legislature and Governor Walz for renewing this credit.”
According to the annual Economic Impact analysis conducted by the University of Minnesota Extension, the historic tax credit has generated nearly $6 billion in economic activity since its inception in 2010. The study found that for every $1 invested, the credit has generated nearly $10 in economic activity.
Here in Duluth, more than 10 projects have been completed with the help of state historic tax credits, and Poirer said still more projects, such as the Armory, are waiting in the wings.
“This program is so important for these larger, complex projects — like Old Central, the NorShor, the Armory and the jail — that just wouldn’t be possible without that credit. It has preserved such a legacy for our community and saved so much of our history, our character and our heritage,” he said. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/restored-historic-tax-credit-will-help-duluth-preserve-buildings | 2023-05-31T11:11:25 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/restored-historic-tax-credit-will-help-duluth-preserve-buildings |
Wisconsin Republicans and Democrats are gearing up for state conventions. Here's what to know.
Over two weekends in June, Wisconsin Republicans and Democrats head into their state conventions thinking about big elections taking shape next year, including the U.S. Senate race and Wisconsin's likely pivotal role in the presidential election.
State conventions are an opportunity for major political parties to get their activists together each year. They're different from the national conventions that'll happen next year — Milwaukee will be hosting the 2024 Republican National Convention and the Democrats will meet in Chicago.
The 2023 state party conventions will be an opportunity for candidates to make themselves known to their delegates.
Democrats will talk about the election success they've had over the last five years, including the presidential election, Gov. Tony Evers' reelection and the election of Janet Protasiewicz to the state Supreme Court, said University of Wisconsin-Madison Elections Research Center director Barry Burden.
Republicans most likely have more work to do to figure out who's going to be in next year's round of elections, Burden said.
Here's more on what's expected for this year:
Where are the state conventions this year?
The Wisconsin Democratic Party state convention will be on June 10-11 at the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center connected to the Oneida Casino in Green Bay.
The 2023 Republican Party of Wisconsin convention will be on June 16-18 at the La Crosse Center in La Crosse.
For Republicans, meeting in La Crosse stages the event in a key congressional district that's expected to be a contested race in 2024. Republicans picked up the 3rd Congressional District seat in November when U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden won the seat that had been held by Democrat Ron Kind, who did not seek re-election after 26 years representing the district. The Democrats' convention was in La Crosse a year ago.
Who attends the Wisconsin conventions, and what business is conducted?
Attendees are mostly delegates who are activists from across the state that want to contribute to the party for the next round of elections. The parties will act on policy resolutions; for Democrats, they'll consider the support for universal school meals, among others. The Democrats are scheduled to conduct workshops on such topics as training to be an election day poll worker and candidate recruitment. The Republicans plan panel discussions with members of Congress and state legislators.
How to attend the Wisconsin Republican convention and Democratic convention
To purchase tickets for the 2023 Democratic Party state convention, visit their website at https://wisdems.org. General admission costs $25.
To purchase tickets for the 2023 Republican Party state convention, visit their website at https://wisgop.org. Tickets range in price from $30 to $100.
Who are some likely speakers at the conventions?
On the Democratic side, Tammy Baldwin is the presumed nominee for the U.S. Senate election and could speak at the convention, Burden said.
For Republicans, Burden said, it's early to pick a leading candidate to take on Baldwin. A few Republican members of Congress have had their names floated, including 7th District Rep. Tom Tiffany, 1st District Rep. Bryan Steil of Janesville and 8th District. Rep. Mike Gallagher of Green Bay. Others potentially in the mix include businessmen Eric Hovde and Scott Mayer
"Who shows up at the convention will be a good sign as to who is really serious, potentially putting together a bid, and who was maybe just short of flirting with the idea, but is not likely to pull the trigger ultimately," said Burden.
An announced speaker at the Republican convention is former U.S. Rep. Maya Flores of Texas, the first Mexican-born female member of Congress. The party in a news release said described Flores as "a strong conservative leader and a real-life example of the American dream."
Notable conventions in recent years
News has been made in recent state party conventions. In 2021, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos announced during the state Republican Party convention that he was hiring former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to conduct an investigation into the 2020 election in Wisconsin. At last year's Republican convention in Middleton, the party for the first time refused to endorse a specific candidate for governor during a competitive primary season that included candidates Tim Michels, Rebecca Kleefisch, Kevin Nicholson and Tim Ramthun.
Gov. Tony Evers made news at last year's Democratic Party convention, announcing during a rally that he would offer clemency to any doctors prosecuted under Wisconsin's 1849 law that bans almost all abortions. The Democrats met in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
In 2021 the two party conventions were notable for the manner in which they were held. The Democrats conducted a virtual event, scrapping a live gathering because of the coronavirus pandemic. Republicans met in person in Wisconsin Dells.
Contact Alex Groth at agroth@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @grothalexandria. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/31/wisconsin-republicans-and-democrats-to-host-state-conventions-summer-2023/70252363007/ | 2023-05-31T11:13:34 | 1 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/31/wisconsin-republicans-and-democrats-to-host-state-conventions-summer-2023/70252363007/ |
This Milwaukee CEO built her own home. Now she helps others keep theirs.
Lynnea Katz-Petted's living situations have ranged from a home she built to public housing to, for a time, homelessness.
Today, those experiences inform the empathy and passion she brings to her role as CEO of Revitalize Milwaukee.
The nonprofit provides free home repairs to homeowners who are veterans, low-income, elderly or have disabilities. The organization was founded in 2000; Katz-Petted joined five years later.
At the time, Revitalize Milwaukee was providing repairs to seven houses a year. In 2022, it made repairs to more than 300 homes. It also has expanded its services, and now offers modifications to make homes handicapped accessible, basic upkeep such as mowing or shoveling, occupational therapy assessments, lead abatement, energy efficiency upgrades and help with becoming part of the Asthma Safe Homes Program. It even offers repairs and upkeep for middle-income residents at sliding scale fees depending on income.
Revitalize is funded by individual and corporate grants, such as the Zilber Family Foundation, Bader Philanthropies, BMO Harris Bank, The Home Depot, Froedtert Medical College of Wisconsin and Horner Plumbing.
Recently, the nonprofit received a performance-based grant through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of up to nearly $10 million to be distributed over the next three years for its lead abatement program.
CEO's rocky road to homeownership gives her a special perspective
Katz-Petted grew up in Vancouver, Canada. Her parents lost the home they owned.
“I’ve been homeless. I’ve also lived in really beautiful large houses, so I’ve seen it all,” Katz-Petted said. ”I’ve also seen what happened when people get evicted, and the sheriff shows up with all your stuff on the front porch or the lawn. I completely relate to some of the circumstances.”
Katz-Petted lived with her parents in public housing as a teenager before she moved into her own place at age 16. At the time, she was attending high school and working a full-time overnight job at a drugstore stocking shelves.
“There’s a lot of lessons in there about safety and security, feeling like you belong and are taken care of,” Katz-Petted said. “So, it was always important to me, having somewhere you can go home and rest and the healing and support everyone needs to live their best lives.”
As an adult, she worked as a stockbroker and went into business for herself as a consultant. She bought a condo — then watched the property value drop, and struggled with negative equity until it bounced back.
She said the experience taught her the value of education about the homeownership process after purchase.
“Homeownership is a never-ending opportunity, and for some people, it can be very burdensome,” she said. “It does bother me when people say for the same amount of rent, you can own a home, because there are major mechanics that need to be attended to.”
She took a job at U.S. Bank in Milwaukee in 1999. In 2005, she was able to build a large home for herself.
“For me, I could see both sides of the story, and I also felt really guilty going home at the end of the day to what was a beautiful home that we had just built,” she said. “Part of my job interview for this role was to go and visit some job sites. When I came home from looking and talking to the homeowners we were serving at the time, I walked in the door (of my home) and literally burst into tears and said, ‘Why do I have this and why do they have that? They’re good people.’”
Initially, the job at Revitalize was supposed to be part-time, 20 hours a week for $20,000 a year. But Katz-Petted said she never felt like the work was done, and it has now blossomed into her full-time job.
“I couldn’t stop helping because no one else was responding to situations in the community, and the tragedy homeowners were living in,” she said. “It’s hard for me to see here in Milwaukee that the racism story hasn’t changed at all. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be African American or Hispanic in our community, to be honest with you, and the degree of frustration and lack of resources that are continually not available when they should be.”
That, she said, is why she's never looked back.
“You can’t fix everything for everybody, but you can make it better,” she said.
Revitalize Milwaukee held on during COVID-19
Like many nonprofits, the pandemic complicated Revitalize’s ability to carry out its mission. Expenses more than doubled during the first four months of COVID-19, but it never shut down.
“People were having a really hard time getting ahold of anyone and we really stepped up for the community and were proud to be there,” Katz-Petted recalled. She said contributions from the Zilber Foundation helped the organization stay financially afloat, despite increased building and material costs.
Under Katz-Petted’s leadership, the programs offered by Revitalize increasingly have focused on environmental hazards — everything from asthma triggers to uneven steps that can cause falls.
Although some family members and caretakers may seek to take people away from unsafe environments, Katz-Petted said the better answer is to make the environment safer.
“When someone is prematurely taken out of their home and taken to a care facility, they tend to lose their hope and die of broken hearts,” she said. “I don’t know what it’s like to live in a perfect world, but I do know having the ability to be independent and not have to rely on anyone for anything else, it provides a great sense of peace and centering.”
Every year, the nonprofit executes a “block build.” In two days, its members remodel roughly 30 homes in a designated area. In 2022, the nonprofit organized 500-600 volunteers and invested nearly $1 million to repair and remodel homes on four blocks in the Lindsay Heights area.
In previous years, the organization has made repairs to neighborhoods in Lincoln Village and Clarke Square. This year, a neighborhood in Muskego Way has been designated the next “block build” site.
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The nonprofit has also been intentional in choosing who is making the repairs and why. Carmen High School and UW-Milwaukee students help as interns and staff, and subcontractors receive living wages. The organization also employs people released from prison who were convicted of nonviolent crimes.
Whether its repairs, contracting or doing chores, Katz-Petted said every Revitalize program is part of the organization’s mission to preserve homeownership and build wealth in underserved communities.
”One of the things I say a lot in the office is: we always have to do the human thing,” she said. “Our whole goal is to help people stay in their homes and make sure they can have a good quality of life.”
To reach Revitalize Milwaukee, call 414-312-7531, visit them at 840 N. Martin Luther King Dr. #600, or visit www.freehomerepairs.org. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2023/05/31/revitalize-milwaukee-ceo-helps-homeowners-hold-onto-their-houses/70107601007/ | 2023-05-31T11:13:40 | 1 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2023/05/31/revitalize-milwaukee-ceo-helps-homeowners-hold-onto-their-houses/70107601007/ |
Pump track at Memorial Park in Alliance opens, first of its kind in Stark County
- Memorial Park in Alliance has a new pump track complex with tracks for novices and advanced riders to enjoy.
- Cleveland-based firm PumpTraxUSA built the track. The project started last fall but the courses were completed this month.
ALLIANCE − The new pump track at Memorial Park has opened, and bike riders are already enjoying the complex.
"It's pretty good. I like it," said 13-year-old Xavier Lucas of Smith Township.
The complex has two tracks − one for novices, and one for advanced riders. It is next to the Sean Scott Memorial Rotary Skate Park. The tracks are systems of rollers and banks, ideal for BMX bikes, mountain bikes, scooters, skateboards and wheelchairs.
Kim Cox, director of Alliance Parks and Recreation, said the complex is living up to expectations, and drawing riders from all over the area. An outside group has planned a free BMX competition there on June 10.
"We're very excited," Cox said regarding the community's response to the tracks.
Kyler McCammon, 17, of Sebring and his friends have used the pump tracks almost daily since it opened this month. He said they'll spend several hours hanging out there, going up and down the curvy complex.
"This was needed," he said.
The pump track was built by Cleveland-based firm PumpTrax USA which has installed other in northern Ohio and in other states. The next closest tracks are in Akron, Cleveland and Lisbon.
Making memories
Chad Christian, 38 of Sebring, recently brought his 3-year-old son Jameson to the track after getting him a Stacyc stability cycle. The father-son duo rode up and down the wavy track, went around curves and climbed hills while making memories.
"My daddy is fast," the little boy said as he watched his dad on the track.
Christian said he has been a lifelong BMX and mountain bike rider. He even tried to build his own course at 16. Now, his son is interested. "We built a little dirt track in our backyard, but he's been dying to come here," Christian said.
Reach Benjamin Duer at 330-580-8567 or ben.duer@cantonrep.com. On Twitter: @bduerREP | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/alliance/2023/05/31/alliance-memorial-park-pump-track-bikes-ohio/70233222007/ | 2023-05-31T11:17:56 | 1 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/alliance/2023/05/31/alliance-memorial-park-pump-track-bikes-ohio/70233222007/ |
LEBANON, Pa. — Three people are dead and another was injured after a shooting in Lebanon, police said early this morning.
Dispatch says officers initially responded to the 400 block of North 5th Street just after 10 p.m. last night for a report of shots fired.
Officials confirmed around 5:30 this morning that three lives were lost. A fourth person was injured but is expected to recover.
A FOX43 crew at the scene reports that North 5th Street is closed between Lehman Street and Crowell Street. Police also blocked off a playground near the scene.
One person was transported to a Lebanon County medical facility, where police say they later died of their wounds. Another victim was transported to a Dauphin County Medical facility, where they also later died from their wounds. The third victim was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
Officers say the injured person went to a Lebanon County medical facility in a private vehicle. An ambulance then took them to a Dauphin County medical facility, where they underwent surgery and are currently recovering.
Police say the names of the deceased will not be released at this time out of respect for the family.
The Lebanon City Police Department, the Lebanon County District Attorney's Office and Detective Bureau, the Pennsylvania State Police and other Lebanon County Police Departments are assisting with the investigation.
Officials ask anyone with additional information on this investigation to contact the LCPD at 717-272-6611 or submit a tip online.
This is a developing story. FOX43 has a crew at the scene and will provide updates as more information becomes available. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lebanon-city-police-homicide-murder/521-690867af-b463-49e5-86f6-950efb299740 | 2023-05-31T11:21:39 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lebanon-city-police-homicide-murder/521-690867af-b463-49e5-86f6-950efb299740 |
Luxe New American Bar & Grill, a new fine dining concept from chef Princess Harris, is now open in Shockoe Slip.
Located at 1331 E. Cary St., next door to Siné Irish Pub in Shockoe Slip, Luxe New American Bar & Grill hosted a soft opening this week starting with lunch on Tuesday, which will be followed by its grand opening on Sunday.
The lunch menu features a variety of burgers, sandwiches and salads, such as the Luxe burger ($13) with grass fed beef, a golden fried chicken breast sandwich with Cajun aioli ($12) and a Cajun fried salmon sandwich with field greens and Old Bay cream sauce ($15), to name a few
A graduate of The Art Institute of Atlanta’s culinary arts program and L.C. Bird High School in Chesterfield County, Harris has developed many dishes in her time as a personal chef. The dinner menu features several of those creations, such as a sticky fried shrimp starter tossed in a honey chipotle glaze ($15) and a fried lobster tail topped with a Cajun honey glaze ($25). Other dishes include grass-fed tomahawk beef ($125), grass-fed rib-eye ($55) and seafood pasta with lump crab meat and a Cajun cream sauce.
The space was previously occupied by The Angry Mussels, an Italian restaurant, which closed during the pandemic. Before that, the space was home to Kitchen on Cary, which closed in February 2018.
Luxe’s hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for lunch and 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. for dinner. It is located at 1331 E. Cary St. More information is available at luxeeatsrva.com
Eggs Up Grill headed to Mechanicsville
Another Eggs Up Grill is on the way, this time to Mechanicsville’s Brandy Creek Commons Shopping Center at 6593 Mechanicsville Turnpike.
This will be the fourth Eggs Up Grill in the Richmond area. The others are at 2003 Huguenot Road in North Chesterfield, 2238 John Rolfe Parkway in Henrico County and 12050 Southshore Pointe Drive in Midlothian.
This location will be run by franchisee Shamsher Jessani. Eggs Up Grill is a popular breakfast spot that serves fresh omelets, pancakes and eggs cooked many ways. The 3,500-square foot space will be located on the corner of the complex anchored by Publix.
Eggs Up Grill Mechanicsville is expected to open in the fall. It will serve breakfast, lunch and brunch seven days a week from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Seafood Palace VA
A new seafood spot with seafood boils, fried fish, steamed seafood and signature sauces has opened in Petersburg.
Seafood Palace VA opened this month at 302 Halifax St. from DeMontray “Monty” Pulliam. Items on the menu include The Fat Boy Boil ($40.99) with 2 snow crab clusters, 1/2 pound of shrimp, egg, sausage, potatoes, corn and boil sauce. Steamed seafood options include a pound of steamed shrimp ($18.99), steamed crab legs ($24.99) and whole steamed crawfish ($12.99). Extra sauces like the white sauce, Captain’s sauce and garlic lemon butter can be purchased for $5 to sauce and toss your seafood. The white sauce has been a hit, according to LaJoyous Boose, a spokesperson for the restaurant. Ramen can also be added to the seafood boil, which has been a crowd-pleaser as well.
Fried fish options include fried shrimp and fries ($10), fried whiting and fries ($11 to $15) and the surprise fan favorite — buffalo ranch fried whiting and fries ($12 to $17).
“Monty has always wanted his own restaurant. It was a dream of his mother’s, who passed it down to him,” Boose said.
Seafood Palace is located in the heart of downtown Petersburg across from the Petersburg Department of Health. The restaurant is painted bright orange and ocean blue. Dishes are served to-go, but there are picnic tables out front where visitors can dine on site.
“There’s nothing else like it in the heart of downtown Petersburg,” Boose said. “Monty wanted to bring some good energy to the city of Petersburg and highlight the great things going on here.”
Right now, Seafood Palace is only open on the weekends on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., but it hopes to expand its hours when more staff has been hired. Follow Seafood Palace on Instagram @seafoodpalaceva or Facebook @seafoodpalaceva for more updates. | https://richmond.com/life-entertainment/local/food-drink/luxe-opens-in-shockoe-slip-eggs-up-grill-headed-to-mechanicsville-seafood-take-out-in/article_cbd8111a-fbea-11ed-b480-f7b139eb8802.html | 2023-05-31T11:30:02 | 0 | https://richmond.com/life-entertainment/local/food-drink/luxe-opens-in-shockoe-slip-eggs-up-grill-headed-to-mechanicsville-seafood-take-out-in/article_cbd8111a-fbea-11ed-b480-f7b139eb8802.html |
It doesn’t take much conversation with Virginia mother and daughter Tarsha Joyner and Kristy Gardner to understand why they’ve been recruited to appear on TV together more than once.
“Let me tell you something,” Gardner says, winding up to tell the story of how she started a bakery in Richmond after working at her mother’s bakery in Lynchburg. “So my mom, she put me in a chokehold and said I had to work for her.”
Feisty, funny and cheerfully combative, the pairing of Joyner and Gardner is a reality TV casting director’s dream. Surely that’s how they landed in the first episode of season two of Fox’s “Crime Scene Kitchen” airing 9 p.m. Monday.
On “Crime Scene Kitchen,” pairs of cooks are tasked with examining a kitchen to deduce what dessert had previously been prepared in it. Teams then re-create whatever they think was made on the premises. The team that comes closest to what actually was prepared in the Crime Scene Kitchen avoids elimination and the winner takes home $100,000.
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Joyner says it looks easier watching it on TV than it was when she and her daughter were on set in Atlanta in April 2022.
“My takeaway is that I’m getting old and dementia is not far away,” Joyner teases as she and her daughter laugh. “It seems like when they go into that kitchen on television, they have all the time in the world. And you’re like, ‘Why didn’t you see that?’ But when you’re in the kitchen, it’s like no time passes by, and my brain has already dropped stuff (I saw) out of it, and I’m thinking, ‘Is this menopause? Am I just getting old?’”
“Yes, girl, you dusty,” Gardner of Glen Allen offers.
“You can’t really say nothing,” Joyner replies, “because you were supposed to have my back.”
“I had your back, but you got a lot of back to have,” Gardner adds as mother and daughter both laugh some more, their back-and-forth insults reminiscent of Waldorf and Statler on “The Muppet Show.”
Joyner and Gardner both had on-camera experience going into “Crime Scene Kitchen.”
Joyner applied to be on Food Network’s 2015 “Christmas Cookie Challenge” and won $10,000, which she appreciated, but it didn’t go far.
“People say, ‘Oh, is that how you started your business?’ And I think, boy are you stupid because it takes a lot more than $10,000 to start a business,” Joyner says. “I paid off my architect and took my husband to New York for our anniversary.”
After that show, Joyner was recruited to appear on “Dessert Games” in 2017 and the “Halloween Gingerbread Showdown” in 2019.
Joyner and Gardner appeared together in 2020’s “Project Bakeover.”
“You should watch it,” Joyner says of the bakery makeover show. “It will give you a feeling of what our attitudes are toward each other. She thinks she knows everything, and she really exhibited that on ‘Project Bakeover.’”
Joyner went to school to become a computer programmer and later a graphic designer.
“For one of my graphic design projects I had to brand a product from start to finish,” she recalls. “So I created this fake bakery. I learned how to bake so I could design packaging for baked goods. And then it just sparked this creativity for me that I really enjoy. So I kept it going.”
Joyner started selling baked goods at the Lynchburg farmers market in 2012 and opened her shop, Mrs. Joy’s Absolutely Fabulous Treats, on Commerce Street in downtown Lynchburg in 2016.
Gardner worked in her mom’s bakery before she moved from Lynchburg to Richmond about five years ago, initially to co-parent with her ex-husband.
Gardner started selling baked treats at a farmers market in Moseley and then opened her own storefront — Joy Jr. Treats in Tuckernuck Square — in October 2021 in advance of her appearance on a Food Network holiday baking show that year. (The storefront closed in August 2022, but Gardner still bakes.)
“Have you picked up on the name?” Gardner says, referencing the “Joy” in the name of both mother’s and daughter’s baking businesses.
“I wouldn’t allow her to call her business ‘Mrs. Joy’s’ because I wasn’t sure how she was gonna run her business,” Joyner says. “So I told her she could have the joy, but she couldn’t have my name.”
After watching episodes during season one, Joyner applied to be on “Crime Scene Kitchen” with Gardner.
“The concept is amazing, it’s different and it didn’t have to fit that, ‘OK, we have to have one Black person, one gay person and we’re good,’” Joyner says. “It was a great mix.”
“This show starts to click what my friends call ‘my FBI senses,’” Gardner says. “Everybody from school says I should have worked with the FBI. So let’s put baking with my real skills; that’s my jam.”
On set Gardner got a kick out of being recognized by one of the members of the “Crime Scene Kitchen” culinary team who had also worked on the Food Network holiday baking show on which she’d appeared.
Joel McHale (“Community”) hosts “Crime Scene Kitchen” alongside judges chef Curtis Stone and cake artist Yolanda Gampp.
I like Joel ... but “he cannot focus for five seconds on anything. I just wanted to yank his neck and say, ‘Get over there so we can hurry up and get outta these shoes.’ But he’s so sweet and so nice. And he really cares. Maybe he’s an actor, and he acted like he cared.”
“No, no, I can see that he really does care,” Gardner says.
“And he’s hilarious. No wonder they put him on every single show on Fox,” Joyner says, alluding to McHale’s recently renewed Fox comedy “Animal Control.”
“I don’t think the boy ever sleeps; that’s what’s wrong with him,” Joyner says.
“He’s hyped up on coffee all the time,” Gardner adds.
“And I’ve watched Yolanda Gampp since way back in the day,” Joyner says. “When I first got started, I would go look at her videos to see how she built cakes. Yolanda was the end-all, be-all of cake decorating. And Curtis Stone, I had no clue who he was.”
But Joyner appreciated his feedback.
“When I was in college over at the University of Lynchburg, I was an art student, and the professors would rake us over the coals for every little thing we turned in,” Joyner says. “It wasn’t because they hated us. It was because they wanted to make us better artists. It doesn’t do me any favors for you to sit there and tell me my work is amazing if it’s some straight garbage. I’m at the point in my life where I appreciate the criticism. When you can critique without being mean or ugly about it, I’ll take it any day of the week. I know that everything that I do is not perfect, so I appreciate the constructive criticism, and I think that Yolanda and Curtis do an excellent job of that.”
As for what’s next, don’t be surprised if you see Joyner and Gardner turn up on more food TV shows. Joyner even wants to pitch her own series.
“I have an idea I’m working on, and I’m trying to produce that myself,” she says.
“We’ll put it on the record: We need our own show,” Gardner adds.
“I don’t care about being on television,” Joyner says. “I just care about making money. And I know that this idea can make me money.”
Rob Owen is a former Times-Dispatch staff writer. He can be reached at RobOwenTV@gmail.com or on Facebook and Twitter as @RobOwenTV. | https://richmond.com/life-entertainment/local/movies-tv/richmond-mother-daughter-team-featured-on-crime-scene-kitchen/article_609b27f2-fa41-11ed-acd2-23fcb2ceaf17.html | 2023-05-31T11:30:08 | 0 | https://richmond.com/life-entertainment/local/movies-tv/richmond-mother-daughter-team-featured-on-crime-scene-kitchen/article_609b27f2-fa41-11ed-acd2-23fcb2ceaf17.html |
One of the oldest homes in Richmond is going thoroughly modern.
A recently installed field of solar panels is providing all of the electrical needs of Agecroft Hall, a 16th century home originally built in England, then painstakingly dismantled, moved and reconstructed in Richmond in the 1920s.
“At first, people think it's odd: Why would we have this modern technology?” said Anne Kenny-Urban, executive director of Agecroft Hall & Gardens in Windsor Farms. “But it’s very much in keeping with the 16th century principle … you couldn’t waste your resources in the 16th century. You had to make use of everything.
“This is just a 21st century take on how you use your resources. We’ve got 23 acres, we’ve got sunlight. It’s a perfect place for us to put in solar.”
There is also the matter of cost savings. Modeling out annual utility rate increases over the coming decades helped inspire Agecroft officials to make the investment in solar energy. Kenny-Urban did not want to disclose how much Agecroft spent on the project, but she did say officials expect to reach the breakeven point — investment versus cost savings — in five to six years.
Kenny-Urban believes Agecroft is the rare cultural institution that has “zeroed out” its electricity bill through solar. Agecroft remains connected to the grid for two reasons: so it can tap into a conventional source of electricity when the solar panels do not produce quite enough electricity, say on cloudy days, and so it can sell back to Dominion Energy extra amounts of solar-generated power it produces.
Going solar was “a big decision for us,” she said, and not just as a short-term solution. “We’re not just trying to get through this one year. We want to be around a long time as a cultural institution in Richmond.”
The solar panels, which went “live” in February, are situated in a field between the main house and the greenhouse, largely screened from view by trees, including newly planted evergreens. They are visible from the house’s terrace.
“We don’t want to hide it entirely because we think it’s an important part of the story and an opportunity to talk to kids not just about history but also about science.”
In addition to installing the solar panels, Agecroft has recently reopened hiking trails leading down toward the James River, so the environment can be an official topic of discussion for visits to Agecroft in the future.
“We like to tie everything together,” she said.
Agecroft was unoccupied and deteriorating when Richmond businessman T.C. Williams and his wife, Elizabeth, acquired the home and made plans to bring it to Virginia. The most intact portions of the manor were dismantled and shipped in pieces across the Atlantic. The Williameses moved into the reconstructed Agecroft in December 1927.
Landscape architect Charles Gillette designed the gardens around the house, which became a public museum in 1969. Agecroft is open daily, with the exception of Mondays, throughout the year, and hosts a variety of programs, including the annual outdoor Shakespeare Festival, held on the back lawn.
The cost savings on its electric bill will allow Agecroft to “pour that money into our people who are our most important resource,” Kenny-Urban said, as well as into programming.
“So, it’s a win for us financially, it’s a win for us in terms of mission of using our resources efficiently, and it’s a win for the environment,” she said. “Rarely do we get anything that’s a win-win-win.”
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Executive Director of the Agecroft Hall and Gardens Anne Kenny-Urban poses for a portrait with recently installed solar panels at the Agecroft Hall and Gardens on Friday in Richmond. | https://richmond.com/news/local/agecroft-hall-goes-high-tech/article_d26574aa-fef1-11ed-9445-1b790367ea43.html | 2023-05-31T11:30:14 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/agecroft-hall-goes-high-tech/article_d26574aa-fef1-11ed-9445-1b790367ea43.html |
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A dog rescue is facing a dilemma, after its van got totaled over the weekend.
The owner of Second Chance Dog Rescue of Iowa, located in Prole, said her husband was driving when he fainted, which caused the van he was driving to crash.
"The van went airborne and hit a telephone pole. This is the van we use to pick up dogs all over Iowa and to take dogs to the vet," the Tuesday Facebook post reads in part.
Their dog was inside, and he's expected to recover. But they say money is tight, and they need to pick up dogs by next Wednesday.
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WATERLOO — Redistricting has created a unique situation for the Hawkeye Community College board of trustees.
The nine director districts were renumbered earlier this month following redistricting due to population shifts in the 2020 Census. The redistricting set the stage for a run-off between incumbents Louis Beck and Merritt Jones in the new District 3, according to Mary Pat Moore, executive director of public relations and marketing, in an email.
The change in boundaries could have meant a second run-off between incumbents Barbara McGregor and Teresa Meyer in District 1; however, Moore said Meyer has decided not to seek reelection.
Districts 4 and 8 will not feature any incumbents. In total, six trustees’ seats will be on the ballot Nov. 7.
Since redistricting was approved in April, the college had received word that “the expiration of terms will always be tied to the numbers of the districts, regardless of who wins the race or who has to compete in the next election together,” according to President Todd Holcomb.
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The renumbering of districts aligns with the election years. The adjustment ensures the college has a balanced number of trustees (four or five of the nine-member board) up for election every two years for a four-year term going forward.
In other business at the board’s meeting last week, fiscal year 2023 budget amendments were approved that will raise total expenditures from $75.7 million to $81.4 million but will not mean additional taxes are collected. The funds come from resources the college already had available in its reserves and as part of its property tax levies.
Five million dollars came as a result of costs to the Grundy Hall and TechWorks Automation & Robotics Center remodeling projects, raising the $9.23 million budgeted to $14.23 from the plant fund levy. When the budget was certified in February 2022 the college could only estimate certain expenses.
“We anticipated about $1 million for utilities, about $1 million for other repairs and maintenance, and about $7 million of the about $15 million for the Grundy Hall project. At that time, the TechWorks project was not fully developed and we did not include any costs for it,” wrote Vice President of Administration and Finance Dan Gillen in response to emailed questions.
The other $700,000 accounts for changes to insurance costs, up to $64.43 million from $63.73 million. Costs had been estimated to be the same as the previous year. Officials needed to acurately identify the amount of qualified costs for a planned expansion of the operating equipment protection insurance program before increasing premiums.
“We are allowed a one-time adjustment to premiums and corresponding coverage per year. This coverage is paid for with property tax dollars already levied in our Certified Budget,” said Gillen. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/after-redistricting-hawkeye-community-colleges-new-map-sets-stage-for-unique-election/article_0557f4da-fa76-11ed-ba55-5b31b1065035.html | 2023-05-31T11:34:53 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/after-redistricting-hawkeye-community-colleges-new-map-sets-stage-for-unique-election/article_0557f4da-fa76-11ed-ba55-5b31b1065035.html |
CEDAR FALLS — St. Patrick Catholic Church has acquired the prime downtown real estate at 123 W. Seventh St. from developer Brent Dahlstrom for a future parking lot and possible daycare.
However, a discussion of the Planning and Zoning Commission last week suggests the proposed projects at the former site of yet another church – First Baptist Church, now demolished, at the corner of Seventh and Washington streets, and across the street from St. Patrick – will require political persuasion for a change in code in order to move the plans forward.
The half-acre, purchased for $960,000, had been one of great interest to the church and other suitors, including the Rooted Carrot Co-Op at one time.
Several commissioners last week poured cold water on the idea of changing the fairly new code and catering to individual projects, especially one focused on parking. Commissioners will continue discussion and make a recommendation as soon as the next meeting on June 14.
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Messages left for Dahlstrom and the Rev. Ivan Nienhaus of St. Patrick were not immediately returned.
The vacant land is north of the church and Seventh Street, east of the Catholic school, west of Richardson Funeral and Cremation Service and right off of Main Street. The school, church, and vacant property are located in the fairly new Urban General frontage area within the Downtown Character District.
According to Planning & Community Services Manager Karen Howard, most zoning districts – including the one in question – do not allow parking or accessory uses without a principal use on the property. Location of parking is based on setback standards relative to the principal buildings and uses on the site.
The question is whether civic and institutional uses should be treated differently.
Additionally, the church has indicated that a two-story minimum height requirement for a new day care building may be problematic. The question is whether that’s “too onerous,” as church officials are instead contemplating construction of a one-story day care center.
The parking component will be discussed again, as soon as June 14, but the minimum height requirement might become part of the conversation at a later to-be-determined date.
Any code changes would require approval by the City Council.
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It wasn't a dog, but instead was two masked muggers who chased a New Jersey mail carrier through a neighborhood, knocking him to the ground and shaking him in the span of 30 seconds — all because they were after something in particular.
A home camera not only captured the screams for help from the incident on Walnut Avenue in Millburn on May 13, but also showed the pair of suspected thieves roughing up the mailman. The letter carrier repeatedly called for his iPhone to call 911 as the duo swiped a set of keys, he said.
The attack went down outside of Lenny Weiland's home, with the mailman telling him that the robbers had been following him along his route.
"They were watching. They knew exactly what he was doing. As a matter of fact, the postal worker who was attacked, it was his second day on the job," said Weiland.
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The US Postal Inspection Service will only say it is investigating the attack. While on the phone with a 911 dispatcher, the mailman said the suspects stole his keys — including one that’s used to open mailboxes in apartment buildings.
Weiland later watched video of the attack, and believes the suspects hid between a dumpster and storage unit.
"So the first approach, attack happened here. And then they went around as you saw in the video," said Weiland.
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Police still looking for the suspects last seen wearing masks and hoodies. Weiland meanwhile hopes that going public with the video will help cops make an arrest.
"I am keeping an eye on the neighborhood. I’m that kind of person. I want to make sure everyone is safe," said Weiland.
Video showed the suspected robbers run to a get away car, possibly a silver Mercedes-Benz.
The postal worker suffered minor injuries. Both Millburn police and the Postal Inspection Service continue to investigate. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nj-postal-worker-attacked-on-2nd-day-on-job-by-two-men-he-saw-following-him/4380499/ | 2023-05-31T11:52:02 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nj-postal-worker-attacked-on-2nd-day-on-job-by-two-men-he-saw-following-him/4380499/ |
As her lyrics predicted, it's possible Taylor Swift never walks Cornelia Street again.
That's because the singer's West Village townhouse is going back on the market for a cool $17.9 million, according to the Corcoran Group. Swift rented the property in 2016 while her Tribeca home was being renovated.
The abode became the inspiration for her hit some "Cornelia Street," which was featured in her 2019 album "Lover."
The four-story home spans more than 5,000 square feet. It has four bedrooms, five full baths and two half baths, three fireplaces, and elevator, an indoor pool and a rooftop terrace.
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Rhythm & Roots: Celebrating LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit Voices set for June 10
PETOSKEY — The Blissfest Music Organization, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Good Hart Artist Residency, Petoskey District Library, Waganakising Naagwagan Group, Petoskey High School Diversity Club and NCMC Gender and Sexuality Alliance are collaborating to provide an afternoon and evening of events that will include an art activity and art installation, a panel discussion and a free concert as part of the Rhythm & Roots: Celebrating LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit Voices event.
The event will take place from 2-8 p.m. on June 10 at the Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey. This event is free and open to the public.
The collaborating organizations are planning activities in a safe and welcoming environment that are open to all. They especially encourage participation from the LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit communities, as well as their families, friends and allies.
The day begins with an art activity and art installation that is designed to give the Queer community and their allies an opportunity to share their voices through a colorful expression of written word.
At 4 p.m. the panel discussion, moderated by Jamie MacKenzie, will highlight the lived experiences and challenges of growing up Queer in the rural Midwest, explore aspirations of a more inclusive future, and touch on the ways allies can better support their local Queer communities.
The evening concert and performances will round out the day of celebration of LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit voices.
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Schedule of events:
2-4 p.m.: Finding your Voice – art activity and Installation. Participants will engage in a creative writing activity. All are welcome to participate in the hands-on activity that will take place in the art studio at the Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey. Each person creates a unique 9” by 9” square with repeated phrases in many colors. When all of the squares are assembled on the Atrium walls of the Crooked Tree Arts Center, a colorful quilt of powerfulvoices will emerge. The public will be able to view this art installation and the individual messages.
4–5 p.m.: Panel Discussion - Building Community Awareness. A panel discussion will take place in the Crooked Tree Arts Center's theater on the topic of challenges growing up LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit in Northern Michigan. The panel will be moderated by Jamie MacKenzie.
5-5:45 p.m.: Social gathering and networking with food and beverages at the Carnegie Building in Petoskey
6–8 p.m.: Concert at the Crooked Tree Arts Center's theater featuring the music of Dillbilly and Allie Kessel. Local area talent will also be showcased with a poetry reading by Nevaeh Wells and cover songs performed by Olivia Benson and Mykie Winnell.
Visit the Good Hart Artist Residency website events page for more information. | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/entertainment/local/2023/05/31/rhythm-roots-celebrating-lgbtq-and-two-spirit-voices-set-for-june-10/70268010007/ | 2023-05-31T11:54:10 | 0 | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/entertainment/local/2023/05/31/rhythm-roots-celebrating-lgbtq-and-two-spirit-voices-set-for-june-10/70268010007/ |
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100 years ago
May 31, 1923: In answer to the inquiries to the explosion early on Memorial Day, it is explained by "Harry" Hall, who was marshal of the day, that the explosion was part of the program. A daylight bomb was set off in the lot across from the Coliseum as a reminder to those who were to take part in the ceremonies.
75 years ago
May 31, 1948: People who want new houses these days want them in a hurry. More than 30% of the builders who took out permits in Normal during the first five months of 1948 took a shortcut toward home ownership by purchasing "factory built" houses.
50 years ago
May 31, 1973: Dr. David K. Berlo has resigned as Illinois State University's 11th president. The resignation was announced about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday. He has been under pressure in recent weeks and was questioned directly at the opening of a legislative probe into costs of his official residence.
25 years ago
May 31, 1998: This weekend's Homecoming Powwow of the Kickapoo Nation marks the first time representatives of the three recognized Kickapoo factions have gathered since the tribe splintered in 1832 after pressure from white settlers forced them to leave the Grand Village. "All our grandmothers lived here," said Margarita Salazar, 104, who traveled from Mexico to be with her people as they danced for the first time in 166 years on land where her grandparents had lived.
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ALLEN, Texas — Allen Premium Outlets reopens to the public on Wednesday, less than one month after a mass shooting on May 6, 2023 at the mall.
An Allen, Texas native and Allen High School teacher has started an effort to support those employees returning to work. Katelyn Reed said she and her friends are putting together gift baskets for employees.
She created an online sign-up sheet, listing each store at Allen Premium Outlets. Anyone can “adopt” or pick a store to create and deliver a gift basket to.
With a joint effort from the community, she is hopeful that every store will receive a basket if and when stores decide to open.
“It’s better to do something, than nothing. When you do nothing, I think it can leave the assumption that you don’t care. And even if we say the wrong thing, at least we’ve said something,” Reed said. “It’s about [the employees] and letting them know they are cared for and loved and seen.”
For the unique baskets she is making, Reed is including snacks, candy, chocolate and drinks Most importantly, she is including a handwritten note.
She hopes it provides comfort to the employees who experienced terror on May 6.
“It’s not going to fix anything, but hopefully it’ll put a smile on their faces,” she said.
Reed said many of her students have part-time jobs at the outlet mall. The day of the massacre, she felt panicked, not knowing if they were safe.
When she found out they were okay, she was grateful, but she couldn’t stop thinking about those who died and their loved ones. “I know that there are teachers who didn’t get to see their kids when it was over,” she said.
Reed felt compelled to start this gift basket effort. She hopes it will show kindness and support to the employees who are healing from the tragedy.
"I want them to know that we are thinking of them and we are aware that they are going trough something really hard, and that we care about them," she said.
Some stores may remain closed on Wednesday. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/high-school-teacher-leading-effort-support-allen-outlet-employees-mall-reopen/287-ae56301b-565a-483c-9cf8-ccdc1addeb54 | 2023-05-31T11:59:34 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/high-school-teacher-leading-effort-support-allen-outlet-employees-mall-reopen/287-ae56301b-565a-483c-9cf8-ccdc1addeb54 |
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Having left New York with her family during the pandemic to return to Vermont where she grew up (and would give birth to her second child), singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell has been reconnecting with her roots.
She took violin lessons again, just as she did as a child, taught by the same teacher as three decades ago. She also went back to school, auditing a class of a professor she studied with in college. The final class of the semester wrapped up just a few minutes before I reached her by phone.
The Tony Award-winning musical “Hadestown” is coming to Richmond for eight performances, May 31 to June 4, at the Altria Theater.
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Which is an interesting course selection for someone who conceived and created “Hadestown ,” a Tony-winning musical on Broadway.
“I know, I know,” she said. “It seems silly, but it’s a whole different thing … to write a play that doesn’t have music.”
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If you go What: "Hadestown," a musical journey to the underworld and back that intertwines two mythic tales.
When: May 31-June 4
Where: Altria Theater , 6 N. Laurel St., Richmond
Cost: Tickets start at $43.50 (plus applicable fees); to purchase tickets, visit BroadwayInRichmond.com , call (800) 514-3849 or visit the Altria Theater box office, 6 N. Laurel St., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Friday.
She certainly did fine with a play that did have music, writing the music, lyrics and book for “Hadestown,” which won eight Tony Awards, including best musical, in 2019, and then won the Grammy for best musical theater album.
Still on Broadway where it opened in 2019, “Hadestown” is touring across America, as well, and comes to Richmond from May 31 to June 4 at the Altria Theater for eight performances . For details, see broadwayinrichmond.com .
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“Hadestown” weaves together the ancient Greek myths of Orpheus and Eurydice, and Hades and Persephone, troubled couples whose tragic stories are cast in a more modern-day industrial setting and retold in song, backed by a variety of American roots music with musicians playing roles on stage. The show addresses contemporary themes, such as climate change, labor strife and wall-building – though that particular song was written years before it became a rowdy refrain of a former president – but it primarily demonstrates the potency of love, hope and music, as Orpheus, endowed with exceptional musical talents, takes extraordinary measures to rescue Eurydice from her plight.
Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell wrote the music, lyrics and book for “Hadestown,” the winner of eight Tony Awards.
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Mitchell conceived of the idea that became “Hadestown” when she was in her mid-20s, not too far along in her career. She had always seen herself as a writer – her dad is Don Mitchell, a novelist, essayist and college writing instructor – and it became apparent to her fairly early on that music would be her favored medium. She learned to play guitar in high school, admiring the work of singer-songwriters such as Ani DiFranco, Dar Williams and Tori Amos, and set off on her course.
“I really identified with them,” Mitchell said. “I thought, ‘I could do this; I want to do this.’ I picked up the guitar and was able to learn their songs, and then it was not too much of a stretch to start to write my own.”
“Hadestown” weaves together the ancient Greek myths of Orpheus and Eurydice, and Hades and Persephone, troubled couples whose tragic stories are cast in a more modern-day industrial setting and retold in song, backed by American roots music with musicians playing roles on stage.
T. Charles Erickson
So, it “wasn’t a crazy leap,” as she put it, to tell a longer story through music. But using Greek mythology as inspiration?
“It’s a story that has been told before,” said. “Many times, in fact, and a lot of times musically because it has this great musical hero (Orpheus), but there’s something about the ancient stories that resonate in different ways in different times.
“When I first got the idea, it was partly just like lightning striking … you know, the muse, whatever that thing is. It just drops a thing (in) your lap, and you’re like, ‘Wow, this (is) compelling enough that I’m going to follow this into the labyrinth.”
The show addresses contemporary themes, such as climate change, labor strife and wall-building, but it primarily demonstrates the potency of love, hope and music.
T. Charles Erickson
That labyrinth proved to be quite the maze. In other words, “Hadestown” was no overnight sensation; instead, it was a meandering journey that took years.
She does say, though, “It felt like there was some kind of magic with this story from the beginning.”
“Hadestown” began as a community theater project in Vermont in 2006 and then became a concept album and concert tour. It found its way to Broadway with the help of Rachel Chavkin, who directed “Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812.”
T. Charles Erickson
“Hadestown” began as a community theater project in Vermont in 2006 and then became a concept album and concert tour often with friends filling some of the roles. However, Mitchell never abandoned the vision of turning her music into a stage musical. She was enthralled by a production of the musical “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” and sought out the director, Rachel Chavkin, who eventually would help shepherd “Hadestown” into a stage production that ultimately found its way to Broadway.
Mitchell still marvels at the way things worked out – “I never set out to take a show to Broadway; that was never on my radar,” she said – but once other good people joined the effort and the process began gaining momentum, “It was like, how can I not fight to try to make it happen?”
Anaïs Mitchell conceived of the idea that became “Hadestown” when she was in her mid-20s, not too far along in her career. But getting her vision to the Broadway stage was a meandering journey that took years.
T. Charles Erickson
Happen, it did, and the feeling is, well, pretty good.
“A lot of us worked on it for years and years and then to see it walk on its own feet in the world …” she said. “I remember this moment right around when we opened on Broadway. I was frantically trying to finish some lyrics or something, and I was up at all hours. Early in the morning, I left for a job in midtown Manhattan, and I ran past the theater, and there were these kids that were camping out in front of the theater to get some kind of rush tickets, and some of them were dressed up as our characters, and I thought … ‘Wow, this is so much bigger than me,’ and that was a beautiful and humbling feeling.”
Now it’s years later, and she’s moved on to writing new music and performing and touring, I wondered if Mitchell had grown weary of talking about her long road to “Hadestown.” For a while, she felt as if she did need a break after the big Broadway push and the promotion and the awards. It was nice and all, but also sort of exhausting.
Mitchell hopes “Hadestown” provokes questions and that audiences find it a “joyful, togetherness time.”
T. Charles Erickson
But now, after the pandemic break and some distance from New York and those days, she described it as “a delightful change of pace to get to talk about it again.”
Though the success of “Hadestown” has afforded her the kind of creative freedom that comes with financial stability, Mitchell said with a laugh, “Any artist will tell you that creatively you’re always at square one.”
Meaning, she said, she doesn’t stare at an empty page and think haughtily, “Oh, I won a Tony Award,” and then the ideas flow. Doesn’t work that way.
“Every single time … (it’s) who am I now? What do I say now? What moves me now? So, in a lot of ways, that hasn’t changed,” she said.
Something else that hasn’t changed is what she hopes audiences find at “Hadestown.”
“I hope people enjoy themselves,” she said. “It’s a heavy story – obviously, it’s a tragedy, and it has a lot of deep and tough kinds of themes about our world – but I think there is an air of celebration about it, and I hope that is at the forefront of people’s experiences, like it feels like a joyful, togetherness time.
“I hope … that it provokes questions. I think that’s all you can really ask of art. I don’t think art ever really has any of the answers, but it might ask the questions.”
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Feb. 19, 2023
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Feb. 25, 2023
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Feb. 26, 2023
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March 4, 2023
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March 5, 2023
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March 9, 2023
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March 16, 2023
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March 18, 2023
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March 19, 2023
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March 20, 2023
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March 21, 2023
Doug Ramseur, center left, and Emilee Hasbrouck, center right, defense lawyers for Wavie Jones, one of three Central State Hospital employees , who was charged in death of Irvo Otieno, speak to the media at Dinwiddie Courthouse in Dinwiddie, Va., on Tuesday, March 21, 2023.
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March 22, 2023
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March 23, 2023
New Bon Secours Community Health Clinic is open in Manchester, Richmond, Va., on Thursday, March 23, 2023. The clinic will serve scheduled appointments and same day call-in appointments for the uninsured. The 8,000 square foot building is also home to the Bon Secours Care-A-Van, a mobile health clinic.
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March 24, 2023
Liz Kincaid, CEO of RVA Hospitality and owner of Max's On Broad, is photographed at the restaurant in Richmond, VA on March 24, 2023. Max's On Broad will be closing April 1 and will relaunch as a new concept in the summer. Kincaid also owns Tarrant's & Bar Solita. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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March 25, 2023
Henrico County families gather at Deep Run Park & Recreation Center on Saturday to celebrate all things agriculture during the county's second annual Farm Graze event. Children went booth to booth learning about the wonders of agriculture while participating in fun activities and scavenger hunts.
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March 26, 2023
Church Hill resident Alex Gerofsky finishes the Hill Topper 5K at the Church Hill Irish Festival with a time of 20 minutes, 26.8 seconds.
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March 27, 2023
Wyatt Kingston, center, conducts a strength training session with Marshall Crenshaw, left, and Kevin Wright, right, at Hickory Hill Community Center in Richmond, Va., on Monday, March 27, 2023. Kingston, 71, has been working with the parks department for nearly 40 years on all kinds of initiatives, particularly those aimed at children in public housing communities.
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March 28, 2023
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, center, talks about the ongoing housing crisis in the city during a news conference on March 28.
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March 29, 2023
From left, Caroline Ouko and Leon Ochieng, mother and older brother of Irvo Otieno, react near the casket during the celebration of life for Irvo Otieno at First Baptist Church of South Richmond in North Chesterfield on March 29.
Eva Russo
March 30, 2023
Senior students in Charlottesville-Albemarle Technical Education Center's culinary program presented Taj Mahsala: an Indian fusion menu.
SYDNEY SHULER, THE DAILY PROGRESS
March 31, 2023
Richmond Police address onlookers Friday, March 31, 2023 at the intersection of North Avenue and Moss Side Avenue, near Washington Park. Richmond police shot a man who was suspected of shooting a woman earlier in the day in the 1100 block of Evergreen Avenue on Richmond's Southside.
April 1, 2023
Sculptor Jocelyn Russell takes photos of the crowd after the unveiling of her statue of Secretariat at Ashland Town Hall Pavilion on Saturday.
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April 2, 2023
Drivers race in the Toyota Owners 400 at the Richmond Raceway in Richmond, VA on April 2, 2023.. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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April 3, 2023
Dinwiddie County Commonwealth's Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill is photographed at the Dinwiddie County Courthouse on April 3, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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April 4, 2023
From left, Judy and Ron Singleton pose for a photo on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. MIKE KROPF/TIMES-DISPATCH
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April 5, 2023
Beatrix Smith dips her matzah in salt water as she enjoys a Pasover Seder with her classmates (from left) Helen Corallo, Camp Maxwell, and Amara Ellen at the Weinstein JCC Preschool Program in Richmond, VA on April 5, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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April 6, 2023
Virginia Community College System Chancellor David Doré speaks with students at Piedmont Virginia Community College on Thursday.
SYDNEY SHULER, THE DAILY PROGRESS
April 7, 2023
A worker pushed water off a tarp on the field at The Diamond Friday, when the Flying Squirrels were scheduled to open their season against Reading.
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April 8, 2023
Ember O’Connell-Evans, 1, plays with hula hoops during the Dominion Energy Family Easter event at Maymont on Saturday.
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April 9, 2023
Mike Kearney plays an early form of badminton with grandkids Savannah and Ashton on the lawn of Montpelier during “We, the Kids” Day.
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April 10, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin, center left, tours Richmond Marine Terminal with W. Sheppard Miller III , Virginia Secretary of Transportation , center right, as Stephen A. Edwards, left, Virginia Port Authority CEO, and Christina Saunders, manager of Richmond Marine Terminal, give them the tour on Monday, April 10, 2023.
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April 11, 2023
Inaara Woodards, 5, of Henrico, visits Italian Garden at Maymont with her mother, Victoria Crawley Woodards, and three brothers, Kai, 13, Zion, 12, and Avion Woodards, 11, during their home-school field trip to the park in Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. "It’s gorgeous!" Victoria Crawley Woodards said of Tuesday weather. She said it was the perfect weather for the field trip and other activities.
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April 13, 2023
Clarence Thweatt, right, a lead trainer for Chesterfield Public Schools, works on marking points during a transportation road-e-o event, which is friendly competition of school bus drivers demonstrating their driving skills and knowledge of laws, at Chesterfield County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
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April 14, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at Liberty University.
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April 15, 2023
Tyson Foods workers attend a job fair at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church on Mechanicsville Turnpike. The Glen Allen plant is closing, displacing about 700 employees.
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April 16, 2023
A display of 32 white balloons were raised and a 32-second moment of silence was observed in honor of the victims of the April 16, 2007, tragedy at the start of the 2023 3.2-mile Run in Remembrance on the Virginia Tech campus.
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April 17, 2023
Albert Hill Middle School sixth-grader Drew Sirpis looks for birds during the educational boat trip on the James River on Monday.
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April 18, 2023
Richmond Flying Squirrels Luis Matos steals the second base against Erie SeaWolves shortstop Gage Workman in the 3rd inning at The Diamond, Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.
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April 19, 2023
Children participate in Little Feet Meets at Matoaca High School in Chesterfield, VA on April 19, 2023. A total of 1,400 Special Olympic athletes from grades PK-5 throughout Chesterfield County Public Schools competed in Little Feet Meets between two dates, April 12 at James River High and April 19 at Matoaca High. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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April 20, 2023
Mike Blau, center, a line cook, and others work on preparing a soft opening of The Veil's new taproom, located in Scott’s Addition at 1509 Belleville St., on Thursday, April 20, 2023.
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April 21, 2023
(From left) VCU sophomore Caroline May, of Pittsburgh, PA, and senior Lee Finch, of Norfolk, VA carry a coffin with a blow-up Earth ball during a VCU Student Climate Protest in Richmond, VA on April 21, 2023. The small crowd walked from the James Branch Cabell Library, though Monroe Park, to the office of VCU President Michael Rao in a mock funeral procession. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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April 22, 2023
Anthony Clary gestures as he runs through confetti during the Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10k on Saturday.
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April 23, 2023
A volunteer picks up an old wooden palate and brings it to a trash pile during Friends of Fonticello Park's community cleanup on Sunday.
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April 24, 2023
Kay Ford spends time with her cat, Patches, at her home in Mechanicsville, VA., on Monday, April 24, 2023. Ford recently adopted Patches, a 40-pound cat, from Richmond Animal Care and Control. The story of Patches went viral after RACC publicized the cat.
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April 25, 2023
Emily Cover, a project manager with DPR Construction, is shown at Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, left top, in Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. DPR is the team that built the hospital.
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April 26, 2023
Guests tour the Anthropology Lab at the new College of Humanities and Sciences STEM building on West Franklin Street in Richmond, VA on April 26, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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April 27, 2023
Police tape marks the scene outside George Wythe High School.
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April 28, 2023
Sculptor Kate Raudenbush takes in her finished piece "Breaking Point" in the Flagler Garden Near the Monet Bridge at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden on April 28, 2023. The garden is set to debut "Incanto: An Oasis of Lyrical Sculpture" on Saturday, April 29, 2023. Incanto features five designed, allegorical sculptures, accompanied by poetry, throughout the garden. The exhibition is the work of Raudenbush and poet Sha Michele. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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April 29, 2023
Pharrell Williams performs during the Pharrell's Phriends set at Something in the Water in Virginia Beach on Saturday.
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May 1, 2023
A man carries a piece of furniture through a neighborhood in Virginia Beach, Va. on Monday May 1, 2023. The City of Virginia Beach declared a state of emergency after a tornado moved through the area and damaged dozens of homes, downed trees and caused gas leaks. (AP Photo/Ben Finley)
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May 2, 2023
Sports Backers Stadium is shown next to The Diamond in this drone photo, in Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, May 2, 2023.
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May 3, 2023
CAL CARY, THE DAILY PROGRESS UVa cheerleader, Madison DeLoach, in front of other UVa cheerleaders tour the The Avelo Airlines Boeing 737 after landing at Charlottesville Albemarle Airport coming from Orlando on May 3, 2023. Avelo Airlines launched its first Charlottesville to Orlando flight line at the Charlottesville Albemarle Airport on May 3, 2023. The inaugural event consisted of a returning flight from Orlando to Charlottesville Albemarle Airport, a firetruck water salute upon arrival and a tour of the airplane.
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May 4, 2023
(From left) Maryann Macomber, of Mechanicsville, VA, leads a small group prayer with Gloria Randolph, of Richmond, VA, Randolph's great-grandson Xavier Jones, also of Richmond, and John Macomber, of Mechanicsville, during a National Day of Prayer event at the Bell Tower in Capitol Square in Richmond, VA on May 4, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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May 5, 2023
Steffiun Stanley preps dishes at Birdie's in Richmond, VA on May 5, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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May 6, 2023
People at the ¿Qué Pasa? Festival sit on the grass and enjoy the weather on Brown’s Island on Saturday.
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May 7, 2023
Arts in the Park saw thousands pass through Byrd Park over the weekend. The festival is sponsored by the Carilion Civic Association.
Charlotte Rene Woods, Times-Dispatch
May 8, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin shares a quiet moment with Holocaust survivor Halina Zimm on Monday afternoon before ceremonially signing a bill that adds a definition of antisemitism to Virginia law.
David Ress, Times-Dispatch
May 9, 2023
The Molcajete Sinaloa at Mariscos Mazatlan in Henrico, VA on May 9, 2023. Mariscos Mazatlan focuses on traditional Mexican cuisine from the city of Mazatlan and all along the Mexican coast. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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May 10, 2023
A goose, seen here on May 10, 2023, has built a nest in a median of the parking lot near Dilliards at Short Pump Town Center. The mall has put out orange cones to keep cars away and Jerome Golfman, assistant manager at Fink's Jewelers, said he regularly brings it water, cracked corn and other grains.
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May 11, 2023
Mary Finley-Brook, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Richmond and an expert on American gas infrastructure, says repairing the pipes no longer makes sense as gas prices continue to rise.
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May 12, 2023
(From left) Sam Amoaka, a freshman at Virginia State University, helps his girlfriend, Tamia Charles, a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University, move out of her dorm along with her dad, Thomas Charles, of Fredericksburg, VA, in downtown Richmond, VA on May 12, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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May 13, 2023
Virginia’s Thomas McConvey (left) defends the ball from Richmond’s Jake Kapp during an NCAA Tournament game at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville on Saturday.
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May 14, 2023
University of Richmond outfielder Christian Beal made a catch on the run during the Friday game of Spiders-VCU series at The Diamond.
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May 15, 2023
The flags at Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission building are flown at half-staff on Monday. Governor Youngkin announced that flags would fly half-staff in honor of Peace Officers' Remembrance Day.
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May 16, 2023
Ukrop's crumb cake has been picked up by Kroger and is being sold nationwide. Here, fresh cinnamon crumb cakes are packaged at the Ukrop's bakery in Richmond, VA on May 16, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 17, 2023
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney officially proclaims May as Jewish American Heritage Month during a celebration held in collaboration with the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond and the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) at Richmond City Hall in Richmond, VA on May 17, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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May 18, 2023
Acting Police Chief Richard Edwards stands by as Penn and Victoria Burke places a flower in honor of Sergeant J. Harvey Burke in the wreath at the memorial stone at the Richmond Police Training Academy in Richmond, VA during the Richmond Police Department Police Officers' Memorial Service on May 18, 2023. The ceremony, which took place during National Police Week, paid homage to Richmond's fallen officers. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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May 19, 2023
Doumit Bouhaidarat fries falafel balls to order during the St. Anthony Lebanese Food Festival on Friday.
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May 20, 2023
Dogs compete in the Subaru Ultimate Air Dogs — Splash Qualifier #4 event on the second day of Dominion Energy Riverrock on Saturday.
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May 21, 2023
The Virginia men’s tennis team celebrates after winning the national championship on Sunday in Orlando.
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May 22, 2023
Vietnam War veteran Stuart Blankenship is photographed at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, VA on Monday, May 22, 2023. Blankenship is one of 50 Vietnam War Veterans from throughout the Commonwealth featured in the exhibit “50 Years Beyond: The Vietnam Veteran Experience” which opened at the Virginia War Memorial on January 28, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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May 23, 2023
Wilbert Hobson poses for a portrait at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Va, on May 23, 2023. Hobson was part of the 101st Airborne unit of the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war. Hobson is very active in his chapter of the American Legion and helped found the Friends of Dupont, and organization. Graduating from an all-Black high school, Vietnam was Hobson’s first real experience with integration. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH
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May 24, 2023
Powhatan Owen, shown at the Virginia War Memorial, volunteered for a Burial Honor Guard company in Washington state to commemorate the service of fellow veterans and has further connected with veterans while attending powwows across the U.S.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
May 25, 2023
Madi Mabry laughs with other members of Mango Salon at the 2023 Top Workplaces awards in Richmond on Thursday.
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May 26, 2023
A solar cell receives light at the Agecroft Hall and Gardens on May 26, 2023, in Richmond, Va. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH
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May 27, 2023
Julia Hunter, a shawl dancer, participates in the Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe’s powwow on Saturday.
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May 28, 2023
Festival organizers Pete LeBlanc, left, and Zavi Harman enjoy the second installation of Daydream Fest in front of the Main Line Brewery stage on Sunday.
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May 30, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks during the Commonwealth’s Memorial Day Ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial on Monday.
Margo Wagner, Times-Dispatch | https://richmond.com/life-entertainment/local/art-theater/all-about-hadestown-the-tony-winning-musical-coming-to-richmond/article_c5bc4f66-f32b-11ed-b856-fb3c79b7262e.html | 2023-05-31T12:00:30 | 1 | https://richmond.com/life-entertainment/local/art-theater/all-about-hadestown-the-tony-winning-musical-coming-to-richmond/article_c5bc4f66-f32b-11ed-b856-fb3c79b7262e.html |
Investigators who joined forces to break up a scheme that aimed to bring drugs into the North Dakota State Penitentiary in Bismarck have been formally recognized.
Participants in the effort called Operation Deep Freeze used information from a number of sources to determine a drug transaction was going to take place near Medina on Dec. 21, 2022, according to the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The temperature that day was 19 degrees below zero, and the wind chill was 43 below.
Penitentiary Intelligence Team members Sgt. Kristyn Heath and Capt. Todd Flanagan relayed information to DOCR Investigator Lori Malafa. She requested assistance from North Dakota Parole and Probation Director Thomas Erhardt. Parole officers Tyler Falk, Corey Kolpin and Dale Ackland continued the investigation and facilitated the operation. Officer Troy Kelly from the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Officer Jake Davis from the Stutsman County Sheriff's Office, and Officer John Hirchert from the Stutsman County Drug Task Force conducted surveillance in the Medina area.
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Two people were arrested after team members witnessed the drug transaction. Officials say it was part of a larger conspiracy to bring drugs into the penitentiary.
Each team member was honored with letters of commendation, the Parole and Probation Meritorious Service Coin, and the Penitentiary Deputy Warden’s Coin. The investigation is ongoing. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/investigators-recognized-in-operation-deep-freeze-drugs-were-headed-for-state-pen/article_32de6aca-f9ad-11ed-be08-4f89f109bf5d.html | 2023-05-31T12:01:07 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/investigators-recognized-in-operation-deep-freeze-drugs-were-headed-for-state-pen/article_32de6aca-f9ad-11ed-be08-4f89f109bf5d.html |
ROANOKE, Va. – Happy Wednesday! Check out the Morning Sprint for what’s trending.
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This Saturday, June 3, is the Compress and Shock Foundations’ annual free CPR and AED Educational Day. The organization is specifically focusing on communities that are underserved and don’t have equal access to CPR and AED Education.
Trainings will be held throughout Southwest Virginia, along with other states. Locally, you can attend a training at Lord Botetourt High School, Roanoke Catholic and Ben Franklin Middle School.
During the Education Day, you will learn hands-only CPR and how to properly use an AED. Each class is about one hour long.
According to Dr. Jack Perkins, Executive Director and Founder of Compress and Shock Foundation, where you live plays a key role in your survival rate if you ever go into cardiac arrest.
“Our foundation’s mission is to provide equal access to CPR and AED education and to try to boost survival levels outside of the hospital no matter the community or any type of barrier to CPR and AED education,” says Perkins.
Anyone can go online and sign up for these free classes, and the goal is to have more people in the community be able to provide life-saving help if needed.
When it comes to cardiac arrest, every second matters. That is why it is so important to have an AED available. The Compress and Shock Foundation has received grants from Carilion, as well as a number of other nonprofits to host these classes and provide free AEDs.
Each site that hosts an Educational Day has the opportunity to receive an AED for their community. Each training must have at least 35 people attend and learn these life-saving skills.
Tracey Driscoll, the Athletic Trainer at Lord Botetourt, says when time is everything, having a second AED is critical.
“Its accessibility for the community, not just for our school. It is just that we are paving the way and trying to get people. You know, we are right here on 220. Come on in and learn how to compress and shock and bring another AED to the community of Botetourt County,” says Driscoll.
Lord Botetourt’s Education Day starts at 9 a.m. and is open to all ages 13 and up.
Driscoll says, “If minutes are wasted on trying to find or retrieve an AED that is too far away, that just seems like we can fix that and that’s what we want to do. We want to fix that window for people and give everyone the opportunity to survive.”
According to Perkins, the Compress and Shock Foundation is going to place 90 new defibrillators in underserved communities this year. They are hoping that number can grow to well over 200 next year.
Dr. Perkins says, “We are hoping this is a new model for the country. We are uniquely positioned in not only providing the education but also grant-funded AEDs into these communities.” | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/31/compress-and-shock-foundation-hosting-its-7th-annual-free-cpr-and-aed-educational-day/ | 2023-05-31T12:16:47 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/31/compress-and-shock-foundation-hosting-its-7th-annual-free-cpr-and-aed-educational-day/ |
CLEARWATER, Kan. (KSNW) – Tex Titterington was on his way back from placing flags on veteran gravesites over Memorial Day weekend when he was killed in a car crash.
Family and community both say William Stanley “Tex” Titterington was doing what he always did.
“He loved to help people,” said son Sean Titterington. “He was just always supportive, always there for us.”
Tex’s wife echoes the thought.
“If you had a problem in the community, he would take your call at home,” said Michelle Titterington. “Yep. He was willing to speak to you at any time.”
Tex, who was 68, also has a long military service history and spread the idea of service to family and friends.
“He gave me my enlistment. He gave me my non-commissioned officer charge,” said Sean, who is still active military.
When not serving others, Tex had a passion for cars. He was driving his Corvette when the accident happened.
David Dowdy, president of the Air Capital Corvette Club, says Tex never spent as much time as he wanted in the club.
“He’s a real humble, unassuming man, and he was always the gentleman, and he was easy to be friends with,” said Dowdy. “And he probably didn’t get to do with the club as much as he wanted to, being a councilman and all the things he had going on.”
Daughter Sherri Thomas says Tex was always there for the kids and now grandkids.
“He loved his family, loved his grandkids,” said Thomas. “And would talk to everybody that would listen to him.”
William Stanley “Tex” Titterington (Courtesy: Titterington family)
That included community members in Clearwater, where Tex not only served as a city council member but on the park board as well.
“He’s been active in getting a nature park put in north of town,” said Sean. “When that park is done, we will have to go enjoy it. It’s just part of what he did.”
That nature park will be near the cemetery where Tex is being buried.
Visitation for Tex Titterington will be from 1-7 p.m. on June 1 at Webb-Shinkle Mortuary, 200 Tracy Ave. in Clearwater. Burial services are scheduled for 10 a.m. on June 2 at Ascension Lutheran Church at 842 N. Tyler in Wichita. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/clearwater-city-council-member-remembered-as-family-and-community-friend/ | 2023-05-31T12:25:35 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/clearwater-city-council-member-remembered-as-family-and-community-friend/ |
KECHI, Kan. (KSNW) — The Kansas Farmers Union continued its Summer Food Safety and Security Farm Tour series on Wednesday.
This is the first time the Kansas Farmers Union included food security as a focus in its summer tour.
They are looking at how farmers are addressing the need for healthy food.
“We have to connect together to make this work,” said Common Ground and Producers CEO Donna Pearson McClish.
“Kansas is often thought of as an island. You know that we have to bring so much of our food in, which we do, but you know Kansas used to be a major producer of fruits and vegetables,” said Kansas Farmers Union Executive Director Nick Levendofsky.
Growers and producers are traveling the state to learn how farmers are trying to help.
At Elderslie Farm, they hope there could be a more efficient way to deliver local food to the community.
“As we reduce the amount we spend in marketing and delivery to customers, huge economic opportunities open up to local food, but right now, that is a very hard barrier,” said Elderslie Farm Principal Owner George Elder.
Wichita City Council is working to address food needs.
The council approved $1 million in American Rescue Act funds last summer to help get healthy food to those in need. Now, the city is waiting on proposals from those interested in bringing healthy food into corner stores and food deserts.
“It is really important that people throughout Wichita, regardless of your zip code or where you live, have access to healthy food,” said Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple.
The Kansas Farmers Union said the tour gives people a chance to think about where their food comes from.
“In a time where we are dealing with high inflation, food costs are rising as well it is probably my hope in a way is that folks will take a closer look at where their food dollar is going,” said Levendofsky.
Pearson McClish said the goal is to ramp up food production, farmers make an equitable wage and keep food costs low.
The Kansas Farmers Union said it is working closely with those on the federal level as the farm bill expires in September. They are hoping one of the things ensured is food security. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/kansas-farmers-union-addressing-food-safety-and-security/ | 2023-05-31T12:25:41 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/kansas-farmers-union-addressing-food-safety-and-security/ |
SEDGWICK COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) — A man fishing for crappie at Cheney Lake on Memorial Day found more than he bargained for. He found a Jeep more than 16 feet below the surface.
John Mounce calls himself a big-time crappie fisherman. He has all the newest, high-tech sonar gear, including a live scope.
On Monday, he was about 130 feet from the dam when he saw something on one of his monitors. He dropped down his live scope to get a better look.
“As soon as I put my live scope on it, I knew immediately it was a vehicle. I saw the tires and the fender wheels really clear,” said Mounce.
He also noticed a couple of crappie on the hood of the vehicle. So, he caught the fish first, then packed up and called the authorities about the Jeep.
Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office deputies met Mounce at his house.
“They came and looked at some pictures and they knew immediately,” said Mounce. He said authorities began making arrangements to haul it out of the lake.
Mounce gave them the coordinates, and authorities set out to find the Jeep. But divers with the Sedgwick County Fire Department had trouble finding it in the dark and muddy water.
So Mounce said they called him and asked him to return to the lake to help, so he did. But by the time he arrived, one of the divers found the vehicle.
“It was pretty cool. On my live scope I got to watch them hook the chain up to the jeep,” said Mounce.
He said it is in bad shape. The front seats are still attached but were hanging over the side.
Mounce said a woman reached out to him about the vehicle. Her Jeep disappeared in 2007 or 2008, and she wondered if it was hers. The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office is still trying to determine where the vehicle came from… Mounce is just happy his fishing technology was useful in the recovery.
“Honestly, I’d like to see our fire and rescue have this kind of stuff.” Their stuff works but it’s not going to give you the detail the newer stuff does,” he explained.
A Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said deputies could not find the vehicle identification number, but they think it appears to be an 80s model Jeep.
Cheney Lake Party Cove is a Facebook page that supports the lake. It posted about Mounce’s discovery.
“John Mounce was fishing along the dam today and caught himself a Jeep,” it said.
Both Cheney Lake Party Cove and John Mounce are getting a lot of funny comments about the find on their Facebook pages. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/man-catches-more-than-fish-at-cheney-lake-fire-department-helps-reel-in-a-big-one/ | 2023-05-31T12:25:47 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/man-catches-more-than-fish-at-cheney-lake-fire-department-helps-reel-in-a-big-one/ |
ROSE HILL, Kan. (KSNW) — A Rose Hill family is shocked after losing their daughter and her boyfriend in a crash on Sunday.
According to Andover Police Chief Buck Buchanan, a 19-year-old man stole a truck at the Dollar General in Andover and ran from police, enacting a chase. Officers terminated the pursuit when they reached Greenwich Road and 47th Street South, but the suspect continued driving.
When the suspect got onto 63rd Street South, officers believe that he struck a guard rail and lost part of a front tire before continuing west toward Derby. Once he reached 103rd Street East, he crossed the center line, side-swiped one vehicle, and then struck another vehicle head-on.
Two people were in the car that was hit head-on, Alyna Elder, 19, and her boyfriend Nathaniel Ashworth, 20. They were pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the car that was side-swiped was uninjured. The driver of the stolen truck received minor injuries and was taken to an area hospital. He will be booked into the county jail after he is released from the hospital.
Charlene and Scott Elder say their daughter, Alyna, and Nathaniel dated for three years after meeting at a church lock-in.
The Elders say they were planning their future together.
“I believe that they were both taken at the same time because it was like a true Romeo and Juliet type thing,” Scott said. “Neither one of them, I don’t believe, could have went on without the other and wouldn’t have wanted to. “
The Elders say they are honored to have been her parents.
“The 20 years I had with her, she taught me more than I ever thought was possible,” Charlene said. “With the autistic brain thinking differently, I had to learn how she thought and how her brain works.”
They say Alyna and Nathaniel knew they were meant to be together forever.
“They both were on the autistic spectrum, and they both had to overcome many challenges in their lives, but they knew when they found each other, and they fell in love that they wanted forever,” Scott said. “They both had heart for others. They just they were so loving. She was about as loving a person as ever. She had a free spirit and a sweet spirit.”
They are proud of what Alyna accomplished in her life.
“But she did make some huge strides,” Charlene said. “She got her driver’s license. She graduated high school.”
Alyna and Nathaniel were on their way to Charlene and Scott’s 25th-anniversary party, and they believe that was no coincidence.
“My faith tells me that in God’s infinite wisdom, that he knew that we were going to have this party on the same day that he took her to go home to be with him,” Charlene said. “He knew he was actually just going to create a way for my whole family to be there to support.”
They say they were looking forward to being Nathaniel’s in-laws one day.
“I believe that they were both taken at the same time because, I mean, it was like a true Romeo and Juliet type thing,” Scott said. “Neither one of them really, I don’t believe, could have went on without the other and wouldn’t have wanted to. And Nathaniel loved my daughter with all this heart, and he was a great kid.”
They learned from Alyna.
“She taught me so much and made me a better person, a better mother, a better everything, and she taught me more than she’d ever realized she taught me,” Charlene said. “I think she was just an angel sent from heaven, and they’re there in heaven, and we’ll see them again someday.”
They say the collision never should have happened.
“My question was, ‘Why? These kids had their whole lives ahead of them,'” Scott said. “Just really beginning in life, and it’s over. And it’s because of the actions of a careless individual who was running from the police. Now two families are destroyed, torn apart from this terrible tragedy, and it didn’t need to happen.”
The Elders say you never know when someone’s last moments will be.
“Hug them a little tighter,” the Elders said. “Let them know you love them. Don’t let a moment pass without telling them how you feel because it might be your last time. Never ever go to sleep or leave a phone call without saying ‘I love you.'”
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Actually, it was reportedly a SpaceX capsule that Kansans may have seen light up the night sky on Tuesday.
The National Weather Service in Wichita said the long red streak was the SpaceX Dragon Capsule returning from its mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The NWS says it was scheduled to splash down near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida around 10:03 p.m.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) – As more people are getting outside for summer activities and looking for activities to do on the water, it’s important to make sure the water you’re getting in is clean and relatively free of bacteria before.
Riverkeepers say E. Coli in rivers is not uncommon and those levels typically rise after a big rain.
“Just because water can look clean by being crystal clear, doesn’t mean it is clean,” Chad Hoffman, Coosa Riverkeepers program director, said.
From Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend, the Coosa and Cahaba Riverkeepers run water sample tests from up and down the rivers to figure out how clean the water is from bacteria like E. Coli.
After last week’s rain showers, a handful of spots along the Coosa and Cahaba rivers had a moderate or high E. Coli level.
“Rain can bring all types of bacteria, chemicals and things like that into the water and usually it takes about 48 hours for things like that to dissipate,” Hoffman said.
Riverkeepers say E. Coli in the water is nothing to be alarmed about since levels usually go down within a few days.
“I think it’s something when you persistently see that it means that you should be careful but after a big rain event when we see a lot of red on the map, doesn’t surprise us and it usually clears up within a day or two,” David Butler, riverkeeper for Cahaba Riverkeepers, said.
Riverkeepers say the best way to know if an area is clean or not is to check the swim guide for that river. They also say if an area smells like sewage, there could possibly be E. Coli in the water.
“Even if you smell it, if you see something weird, take a picture of it, reach out to us and we’ll do our best to get in touch with the state agency and figure out what you’re seeing and try an identify problems and look up how to resolve issues from there,” Hoffman said.
Riverkeepers say good practice for getting in any fresh water source is to bandage up any open wounds, shower off after you’ve been in the water and to watch closely what water your pets drink from.
To see the Coosa Riverkeepers swim guide, click the link here. For the Cahaba Riverkeepers swim guide, click here. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/alabama-riverkeepers-say-e-coli-in-rivers-not-uncommon-after-the-rain/ | 2023-05-31T12:31:05 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/alabama-riverkeepers-say-e-coli-in-rivers-not-uncommon-after-the-rain/ |
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A 14-year-old Gary boy is reported missing and authorities are seeking help locating him.
Brendan Keeling went missing Sunday and may still be in the local area or possibly in Michigan City, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
St. John Police CIT Officer Dustin Wartman is trained in mental health intervention.
He is described as Black, 5 feet 9 inches in height, weighing 177 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair.
Anyone with information about Keeling's whereabouts is encouraged to call 1-800-843-5678 or the Gary Police Department at 219-881-7300.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Aaron Doeing Jr.
Age : 18
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304714
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - OBTAINING PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Adam Hollingsworth
Age : 36
Residence: Ford Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304719
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anastasia Clark
Age : 23
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304826
Arrest Date: May 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Anthony Peters
Age : 36
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304722
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cameron Mills
Age : 29
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304752
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Candice Makiling
Age : 32
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304770
Arrest Date: May 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Candice Shaw
Age : 40
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304771
Arrest Date: May 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Winfield Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Charles Ward
Age : 31
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304815
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Colton Wilkey
Age : 26
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304825
Arrest Date: May 22, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Damien Kent
Age : 35
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304794
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Daniel Gianoli
Age : 46
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304788
Arrest Date: May 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lowell Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Daniel Velasquez
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304749
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT OF A FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David McGuire Jr.
Age : 42
Residence: Riverdale, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304746
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - (NIBRS FRAUD OFFENSE)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dessiree Reese
Age : 39
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304791
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lowell Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devante Ricks
Age : 30
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304709
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Devion Perry
Age : 25
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304801
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devonte House
Age : 28
Residence: Dolton, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304720
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dimitri Person
Age : 30
Residence: Villa Park, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304748
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Eddie Turnage
Age : 59
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304803
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: New Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edgar Hernandez Rodriguez
Age : 36
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304808
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Munster Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Emmanuel Rivera
Age : 41
Residence: Beloit, WI
Booking Number(s): 2304798
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWi
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Eric Rangel Jr.
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304747
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Fernando Mancillas Munoz
Age : 34
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304797
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: HPDB
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Freddie Forsythe
Age : 49
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304779
Arrest Date: May 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake Station Police Department
Offense Description: SEX CRIME - POSSESS CHILD PORNOGRAPHY (b) ENHANCEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Glen Johnson II
Age : 33
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304688
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Henry Jones Jr.
Age : 58
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304760
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jaime Najera
Age : 49
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304793
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
James Webb
Age : 52
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304751
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jelani Pruitt
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304789
Arrest Date: May 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jennifer Mischka
Age : 38
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304713
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: Dyer Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jermaine Wade Sr.
Age : 51
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304696
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jerome Cannon
Age : 37
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304697
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jesus Barajas
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304727
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Munster Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joshua Chism
Age : 28
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304783
Arrest Date: May 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Jones
Age : 44
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304700
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Kirk Wright
Age : 37
Residence: Rockford, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304818
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kurt McCammon Jr.
Age : 35
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304795
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Cedar Lake Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kymari Cheeks
Age : 24
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304733
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Lisette Corral
Age : 41
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304690
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Louie Campbell
Age : 44
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304816
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Munster Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - USING A DEADLY WEAPON; BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Michael Hill
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304809
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael-Anthony Kruse
Age : 30
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304732
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Milan Tanasijevich
Age : 39
Residence: Schereville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304726
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schereville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Monique Bradford
Age : 53
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304698
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Montel Smith
Age : 29
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304753
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Muhammad Najeeullah
Age : 51
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304792
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Dyer Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Nadarangua Jackson-Carson
Age : 19
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304687
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Naja Wilder
Age : 22
Residence: Blue Island, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304744
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Novae Gatewood
Age : 53
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304693
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paris Finney
Age : 35
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304694
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: LACC
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Quintin Transou Jr.
Age : 37
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304721
Arrest Date: May 18, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Raymond Colburn
Age : 53
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304790
Arrest Date: May 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rene Rodriguez
Age : 51
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304814
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Robert Jones
Age : 54
Residence: Weeki Wachee, FL
Booking Number(s): 2304768
Arrest Date: May 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Cedar Lake Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Robert Kirk
Age : 61
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304811
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Robert Ramos
Age : 67
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304740
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ronald Myers
Age : 57
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304804
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Semaj Reynolds
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304780
Arrest Date: May 20, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Theron Harris Jr.
Age : 21
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304724
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake Station Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Travis Walker
Age : 38
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2304743
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Trina Weaver
Age : 39
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304728
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Victor Sanchez
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304766
Arrest Date: May 19, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - DESTRUCTIVE DEVICE (EXPLOSIVES) - UNLAWFUL POSSESSION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vincent Michalik
Age : 20
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304817
Arrest Date: May 21, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST A PERSON < 14 YEARS OLD - BY ADULT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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VALPARAISO — A hearing has been scheduled for Monday afternoon to determine if a 17-year-old Ohio boy will be waived to adult court to face charges of calling in threats and causing panic at multiple area schools earlier this year.
The waiver is being sought by Porter County prosecutors, who argued in a petition that the alleged acts were "heinous or aggravated" and that the teen is "beyond rehabilitation under the juvenile justice system."
"It is in the best interest of the safety and welfare of the community that the child stand trial as an adult," the waiver petition reads.
The hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Monday in juvenile court, Porter County Deputy Prosecutor John Shanahan said.
The teen, whom The Times is not naming as long as his case remains in juvenile court, is charged with impersonating a public servant stemming from a Jan. 4 call to Valparaiso police of a supposed shooting, according to a charging document. Officials said the youth, who was 16 at the time, falsely portrayed himself as a special agent with the FBI.
He is further charged with two counts of intimidation, which would be felonies in adult court, in relation to threats he allegedly made to several area schools earlier this year.
The intimidation charges claim that on Jan. 26, the teen "threatened to use a weapon or weapons of mass destruction to commit mass murder" at Valparaiso and Portage high schools.
Shanahan has said the teen began Jan. 4 by calling Valparaiso police and falsely reporting that someone had been shot in the city. He then allegedly contacted Valparaiso High School on Jan. 9 and reported a bomb in the building, and then called in another threat to the school Jan. 17.
On Jan. 26, the youth called in threats to schools in Valparaiso, Portage, Hobart and Wheeler, Shanahan said.
Anyone with information about the boy's whereabouts is encouraged to call 1-800-843-5678 or the Gary Police Department at 219-881-7300.
The teen is being housed at the Porter County Juvenile Detention Center after a determination was made that he poses a threat.
The teen was arrested Jan. 26 in Ohio, and all the threats he is accused of making proved to be noncredible, officials have said. But the threats sent schools scrambling into lockdown or lockout status.
The Jan. 9 call to Valparaiso High School resulted in a lockdown and early release of students, police said. A false threat of violence Jan. 17 at the same school triggered a lockout response from police and disrupted school operations.
The Portage Police Department said in a social media post at the time that the local high school had "received an anonymous phone call in which a person threatened violence later in the day," prompting its lockdown.
Hobart police said the caller didn't specify a school in the threat there, "but erring on the side of caution, Superintendent (Peggy) Buffington ordered the schools to be locked down."
Wheeler High School had implemented a lockout, officials said.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into the Porter County Jail
Porter/LaPorte County Courts and Social Justice Reporter
Bob is a 23-year veteran of The Times. He covers county government and courts in Porter County, federal courts, police news and regional issues. He also created the Vegan in the Region blog, is an Indiana University grad and lifelong region resident. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/ohio-teen-faces-waiver-to-adult-court-in-alleged-threats-to-region-schools/article_ca35f49a-ffa4-11ed-803d-3f5fbd69c7fd.html | 2023-05-31T12:37:45 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/ohio-teen-faces-waiver-to-adult-court-in-alleged-threats-to-region-schools/article_ca35f49a-ffa4-11ed-803d-3f5fbd69c7fd.html |
No more teachers, no more books! Whether you're taking time off of school, work, or just taking time for yourself, summer in the United States is arguably the best season to take a vacation. Not just any vacation, mind you, but the kind of getaway that puts the pep back in your step. The kind of trip that helps you recharge from the daily grind and leaves you feeling restored.
Bounce researched some of the best festivals to attend during your summer break, using Google deep-dives, Tripadvisor, Outside magazine, and various blogs. The 11 activities listed here give you the opportunity to take part in an amazing summer vacation experience in nearly every corner of the country.
The weather is warm, the sun is shining, the kids are out of school, and there is no shortage of things to do! From family-friendly fairs to outdoor adventures to dozens of music festivals, it's hard to know where to start and what activities to choose. Oftentimes, the travel budget is a major factor.
According to a recent Bankrate survey, the elevated inflation rate has a vast majority of people saying they are staying closer to home and spending less money when it comes to planning their vacations. From COVID lockdowns to political uprisings, the United States can feel strangely divided and, in some instances, unsafe, so this list focuses on activities that not only cover a majority of the country but also provide safe and affordable options for everyone to be able to access and enjoy. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/weather/weather-forecast-region-hammond-gary-valparaiso-crown-point-chicago/article_ebf7e2e2-ff12-11ed-ac78-375e30981ece.html | 2023-05-31T12:38:07 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/weather/weather-forecast-region-hammond-gary-valparaiso-crown-point-chicago/article_ebf7e2e2-ff12-11ed-ac78-375e30981ece.html |
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) will welcome Brig Gen. Scott Cain as its new commander in a ceremony at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Monday morning.
The change of command ceremony will be hosted by Gen. Duke Richardson, commander of Air Force Materiel Command. Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle, who has led AFRL since June 2020, will retire after the ceremony.
Cain received his commission from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1995, AFRL said.
With a background in astronautical engineering, aerospace engineering and national resource strategy, Cain is coming to AFRL after serving as the director for Air, Space and Cyberspace Operations, at the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
As AFRL commander, Cain will lead a workforce of more than 11,500 Airmen, Guardians, Department of Defense civilians and contractors, and manage an annual budget of $3 billion.
“Cain will be responsible for formulating a comprehensive technology portfolio that anticipates future warfighter needs, while promoting risk-taking and problem-solving,” AFRL said. “He will accelerate the delivery of cross-domain solutions through partnerships with industry, academia and international allies, and execute an additional $3 billion in externally funded research and development.”
Cain will take charge of the Air Force’s technology and research and development work, overseeing AFWERX and the 711th Human Performance Wing (also based at Wright-Patterson) and a team that “produces a deep technical and medical bench, pushing the boundaries of modern technology and improving science,” the lab said.
Immediately after the change of command ceremony, Lt. Gen. Tom Miller, deputy chief of staff for Logistics, Engineering and Force Protection for the Air Force, will preside over Pringle’s retirement ceremony.
Pringle is ending a 32-year career to become the chief executive of the Colorado-based Space Foundation.
Both AFRL and AFMC are based at Wright-Patterson.
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A senator is pledging to reintroduce a bill that would have the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction — an office currently held by John Sopko, whose career began in Dayton — oversee U.S. aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia.
The proposal from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. may soon be introduced anew after it was revealed earlier this month that the Pentagon miscalculated Ukraine aid by $3 billion. News outlet Politico reported that lawmakers were “furious” at the revelation.
“A little over a year ago, I proposed an amendment to the massive $40 billion Ukraine spending package,” Rand said in a recent statement to the Dayton Daily News. “My amendment would have entrusted a proven and effective inspector general to oversee and track how funds are spent in Ukraine.
“My amendment was rejected and, today, over $113 billion in taxpayer dollars has been sent to Ukraine,” Paul added. “Predictably, we now find ourselves in a situation where the Pentagon’s miscalculation of aid calls into question the reliability of its accounting.”
Paul said he will soon reintroduce his proposal for an independent inspector general for Ukraine aid “to provide taxpayers with an accurate accounting of how their money is spent, as well as to detect and prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.”
Politico, which first reported Paul’s intentions, said the proposal failed when he introduced it a year ago.
Sometimes called “SIGAR” (short for “special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction”), Sopko has long provided oversight on U.S. aid to Afghanistan.
The former Montgomery County assistant prosecuting attorney was sworn in as SIGAR in July 2012, having been appointed to the post by President Obama.
Though U.S. military forces left Afghanistan in August 2021, the United States still spent nearly $800 million there in the following year, Sopko told the Dayton Daily News in an interview last summer.
“I think it’s close to $800 million that we’ve spent in Afghanistan since the collapse of the government last August,” Sopko said at the time. “Because we still have an interest there, and there are still a lot of Afghans our government wants to help.”
In his interview, Sopko fondly recalled his time in Dayton.
He grew up in Cincinnati and Cleveland and started in legal career in Dayton, working for then-Montgomery County prosecutor Lee C. Falke.
He graduated from Case Western Reserve Law School in 1977 on a weekend and started work in Dayton on Monday, he told this news outlet last year.
By Tuesday, he was in juvenile court trying cases before magistrates. He hadn’t even taken the bar exam, he said.
Sopko remembered living on Radio Road in East Dayton, walking to East Third Street and taking a trolley bus downtown to the prosecutor’s office each morning.
“I loved Dayton, Ohio. I loved the people down there,” he said.
“They gave me a break,” Sopko added, saying he had applied to many prosecutors’ offices across the country as a soon-to-be law school graduate, at a time when prosecutors hired staff often based on political affiliation and ties.
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News Tribune, May 31, 1983
- Wayne Gilbert, assistant St. Louis County attorney, plans to announce today whether he will run for mayor of Duluth this fall. During the last year, Gilbert has been trying to determine whether he has the political and financial support to challenge Mayor John Fedo.
- Approximately 1,500 Lions Club members from Minnesota and Canada will visit Duluth this weekend for the 1983 Lions Club District 5M International Convention at the Arena-Auditorium. Members and their families are expected to spend about $300,000 in Duluth during the convention.
News Tribune, May 31, 1923
- A somber crowd of spectators lined the streets of West Duluth yesterday morning to view the Memorial Day parade, which paid homage to the nation's heroic war dead. G.A.R veterans and Gold Star mothers led the parade, offering an imposing spectacle.
- The Minnesota State Women's Golf Tournament will be played at Duluth's Northland Country Club from August 6-11, the committee in charge announced yesterday. Many women golfers from Minneapolis and St. Paul are expected to compete in the tournament. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/bygones-more-than-1-000-attended-lions-club-convention-in-duluth | 2023-05-31T12:42:58 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/bygones-more-than-1-000-attended-lions-club-convention-in-duluth |
FRISCO, Texas — A Frisco golf club has dealt with two incidents of racism in the last few days.
This past weekend, Frisco Lakes Golf Club general manager Linroy “LC” Costly got a photo text message of a racial slur written in one of the course’s sand bunkers.
“I was shocked,” he said. “I was in disbelief to be quite honest.”
A Black golfer playing the par 4, 13th hole saw two people running away from the bunker and then discovered the writing.
“It hit home needless to say,” Costly, who’s also Black, said. “It made me feel extremely sad.”
The golfer’s daughter posted about the incident on Instagram saying, "This has happened too many times in this city."
The family told WFAA they agreed to let Costly speak on their behalf.
“No one needs to go through that whether you’re Black, white, green, it doesn’t matter,” he said.
Costly said that on Monday they got a call for a tee time, and, when asked for a name, the caller said the same racial slur four times. They’re currently working on pulling their phone records to share with Frisco police.
Two years ago, an identical sand bunker incident happened just five miles away at Trails of Frisco Golf Club.
“That’s the sad part that as a Black man at 53 years old, as a general manager of a golf club, we’re still dealing with this in 2023,” Costly said.
All of it is happening in the same city the PGA of America is headquartered in.
"The PGA of America condemns all acts of racism and has reached out to the club to see if we can assist them as they investigate,” the company said in a statement.
"I think Frisco is a pretty nice community,” Costly said. “It’s a diverse community. It’s getting better and better.”
Costly and a new ownership group took over the course last March. He said in 20 years he's never personally dealt with an incident of racism in the sport but said it's been an issue for decades.
“The gap is narrowing. I truly believe that," he said. "There’s more African Americans, there’s more Mexican Americans, there’s more Indian Americans.”
Police are now investigating. Costly doesn’t believe the act of hate was committed by a golfer playing that day.
He said the man who discovered it decided to persevere and finish his round.
“Hopefully someone will come forward. The biggest goal for me is to catch the perpetrators,” he said. “I didn’t think that would ever happen, but it did.” | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/frisco-golf-course-racial-slur-bunker-racist-phone-call-days-later/287-38171be2-06bc-4d0b-b4e6-6e11e6777259 | 2023-05-31T12:49:31 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/frisco-golf-course-racial-slur-bunker-racist-phone-call-days-later/287-38171be2-06bc-4d0b-b4e6-6e11e6777259 |
It’s May 31, which means you have ONE MORE DAY to observe National Bike Month, a great excuse to get on your wheels and ride. Kenosha County hosts plenty of places to enjoy a bicycle ride. The Kenosha County Bike Trail runs from Anderson Park through Lake County in Illinois on the south, then from 35th Street on the north part of Kenosha County all the way through Racine County. Also, the Pike Trail runs about 10 miles along Lake Michigan, with access points all along the lakefront. Bonus: Use this trail to connect west to the Pike Trail at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
Prost! The Petrifying Springs Biergarten is now officially open for the season. The Biergarten is open from 4 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, noon to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and noon to 8 p.m. Sundays. The Biergarten is located near the Highway JR entrance on the south end of Petrifying Springs Park, 5555 Seventh St., in Somers.
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Head to Rustic Road Brewing Company, 5706 Sixth Ave., for Music Bingo, starting at 7 p.m. It’s free to play, and there are PRIZES.
The 2023 season of Aquanuts Water Shows continues in Twin Lakes. The free water-ski shows are 6 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays (through Sept. 2) in Lance Park, 55 Lance Drive in Twin Lakes. aquanutwatershows.com.
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is hosting the 28th Parkside National Print Exhibition, on display through July 28 in the Emile H. Mathis Gallery. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday. Admission is free. For more details, go to www.uwp.edu/therita/artgalleries.cfm.
Dig into some local history today at the Kenosha History Center, 220 51st Place. The History Center is open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. Admission is free. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-events-for-wednesday-may-31/article_fb6a4e1e-fef8-11ed-b403-5b9626357848.html | 2023-05-31T12:52:55 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-events-for-wednesday-may-31/article_fb6a4e1e-fef8-11ed-b403-5b9626357848.html |
WASHINGTON, USA —
Meat, dairy, agriculture products from Washington to get a branding boost under new law
Products grown, raised, and sold in the state of Washington will get marketing assistance and branding from the state.
Senate Bill 5341 creates what legislators call a “location-based” promotion campaign for the state’s food and agriculture products.
Bill sponsor Sen. Ron Muzzall, R-Oak Harbor, said he hopes the bill will improve the reputation and price of the state’s products. Muzzall, a dairy farmer, said the bill should boost local sales because consumers would be more likely to purchase something they know is locally grown. Read more
All seven teens who escaped Echo Glen Children's Center this weekend are now back in custody, according to the King County Sheriff's Office.
Three of the teens who escaped were apprehended in Burien on Sunday. Law enforcement took the other four into custody on Monday night in Clark County.
A family member of one of the four escapees who were still on the run Monday called 911 after finding the group at their home. The juveniles were taken into custody near Walnut Grove Park in Vancouver, Wash. Read more
Multiple convenience store locations were hit by armed robberies from Monday night into Tuesday morning, the latest in a series of overnight crimes on 24-hour stores.
The problem has left store owners frustrated, joining business owners dealing with organized retail theft. Some federal and state lawmakers and local leaders are hopeful that investments in overall public safety measures will help to address these issues, while many continue to search for other solutions to target worker safety specifically. Read more
The Hurricane Ridge area inside Olympic National Park remains closed indefinitely after a fire destroyed the Day Lodge earlier this month.
In a tweet, the Hurricane Ridge NPS account shared an update Tuesday morning that the area has no timeline for reopening. The lodge, closed to visitors since March 27, caught fire on the morning of May 7, and eventually was declared a "total loss."
Access to Hurricane Ridge Road remains closed past the Heart of the Hills campground entrance. Read more
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is teaming up with the city of Mountlake Terrace to restore a former golf course property into a sustainable aquatic ecosystem.
The Lake Ballinger Restoration Project is a 16-acre property that has been mostly unmaintained since 2012. The city of Mountlake Terrace owns the property and has allowed the grounds to slowly return to a more natural state over the last ten years.
The space is open to the public and intersects with the Lake Ballinger-McAleer & Hall Creek Watershed. A new effort to turn the property into a critical habitat for fish and wildlife broke ground this week. Read more | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/5-things-to-know-wednesday/281-c1110bb7-33d2-41e1-aa85-717c45073516 | 2023-05-31T12:53:11 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/5-things-to-know-wednesday/281-c1110bb7-33d2-41e1-aa85-717c45073516 |
Average daily flows
Snake River at Jackson 292 cfs
Snake River at Palisades 12,731 cfs
Snake River at Heise 15,069 cfs
Snake River at Blackfoot 11,795 cfs
Snake River at American Falls 6,854 cfs
Snake River at Milner 0 cfs
Little Wood River near Carey 574 cfs
Jackson Lake is 60% full.
Palisades Reservoir is 84% full.
American Falls Reservoir is 88% full.
Upper Snake River system is at 8% of capacity.
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TWIN FALLS — One of the men charged with drug trafficking after an April traffic stop that netted methamphetamine and fentanyl worth an estimated $1 million was bound over Friday to district court.
Judge Calvin Campbell, presiding over the preliminary hearing, said the prosecutor showed sufficient evidence for him to do so, but offered his opinion that the prosecution might need to uncover more to link the defendant to the crime if they want to secure a conviction should the case go to trial.
“This is a question a jury will have to decide,” Campbell said.
The question at hand was whether Elton Loza, 23, knew the large amount of drugs — the fentanyl alone was said to be enough to potentially administer one million lethal doses — was in the vehicle.
“Clearly he would have known what was in the vehicle and the mission of the vehicle,” said Jill Sweesy of the Twin Falls County Prosecutor’s Office.
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Meanwhile, Defense Attorney Aaron Tribble said the prosecution’s case amounted to a bunch of “suspicions” but no concrete evidence.
Loza is charged with felony counts of drug trafficking and possession of a drug with intent to deliver after a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 93 near Twin Falls. Law enforcement officials searched the vehicle and found 20 bags that each held about 1 pound of methamphetamine, plus two 2.2-pound bricks of fentanyl, plus some smaller packages of meth.
Two other men in the car, Hector Olvera and Wilson R. Fontes Mendvil, chose to waive their preliminary hearings and will be arraigned June 12 in district court.
Deputy Braden Lowe first took the stand for the prosecution and described how he conducted a traffic stop at about 8 a.m. April 7 at milepost 45 on U.S. 93 when a BMW was recorded going 65 mph in a 60 mph zone.
From there, he described several items seen in the vehicle that aroused suspicion, from rosary beads to a picture of Saint Jude — the patron saint of lost causes — that many drug traffickers are known to keep in their vehicles.
The trio also gave conflicting accounts of where the trip started and their destination, according to his testimony.
Three duffle bags were found in the truck and deputies pulled bag after bag of drugs from them. Mendvil said one of the duffle bags was his, and another bag contained mail with Olvera’s name on it, Lowe said.
Lowe said he couldn’t definitely say that the third duffle bag belonged to Loza but told Tribble that it made sense that it belonged to him – “three bags, three occupants,” he explained. He also said there was evidence the three had been on a long trip.
Blas Martinez of the Twin Falls Sheriff’s Office, another testimony for the prosecution, recounted hearing a video chat April 7 between Loza and his sister. Loza had not yet made a court appearance but the charges the trio were facing had been made known to news media.
Loza, speaking in Spanish, reportedly questioned his sister what charges had been filed against him, and upon his sister’s answer, asked “is that all?” and scoffed at the reported $1 million street value that the news release said the drugs were valued at, Martinez said. Loza said that law officers exaggerated the value by at least twice so they could get their “congratulations.”
Tribble countered during his cross-examination that Loza was near the vehicle when deputies were removing the drugs, and that he could make a statement about what he thought their value was without admitting he had any control over the drugs.
Later, during closing arguments, Tribble urged Campell to have the charges dropped and said the prosecution could later refile charges if they found some “real evidence.”
Loza is also facing probation violation charges in Ada County stemming from original charges of driving under the influence and possessing drug paraphernalia, court records show.
Sweesy outlined the case against Loza in her closing arguments, saying the “totality” of the evidence makes it clear the Loza was involved with drug trafficking.
The bust was the second large drug bust by the Twin Falls Sheriff’s Office within two weeks of each other.
Another large drug bust occurred March 26, also after a traffic stop on U.S. 93, when 11.7 pounds of fentanyl and 2.7 pounds of heroin were found hidden in a car, which had a temporary Arizona registration. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/defense-attorney-questions-evidence-in-twin-falls-drug-case/article_f0de1a30-fccc-11ed-abd2-6b813df5b62e.html | 2023-05-31T13:05:27 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/defense-attorney-questions-evidence-in-twin-falls-drug-case/article_f0de1a30-fccc-11ed-abd2-6b813df5b62e.html |
College of Southern Idaho Workforce Development & Training has announced this year’s Youth Career Academies. Covering a range of topics, each weeklong academy is designed to empower middle and high school students in the Magic Valley to explore and experience modern career opportunities through hands-on learning and career exploration.
With an aim to engage, nurture and excite young people in the pursuit of careers, the Youth Career Academies will provide a platform for students to gain insights and develop skills in high-demand industries.
“We are excited to offer these Youth Career Academies, providing students with an opportunity to explore careers and opportunities they may not typically get exposure to,” said Alex Wolford, industry program manager at CSI Workforce Development & Training. “Our hope is that many will find passions they didn’t know existed while acquiring valuable skills that lay a strong foundation for future career success.”
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The academies offer a range of programs, providing students with valuable insights and skills in various industries.
Entrepreneurial Exploration: June 5-9
Students ages 13-17 will discover the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, including opportunity recognition, market research, business financials, marketing and presenting ideas. This immersive program also connects students with local business executives and successful entrepreneurs, providing industry exposure and inspiration.
Modern Manufacturing: June 12-16
Designed for students aged 12-18, this academy aims to spark interest in manufacturing careers. Participants will explore the dynamic world of modern manufacturing, learning about advancements in technology and gaining foundational skills necessary for a successful career in the industry.
Summer Ag Academy: July 17-20
Agriculture, the backbone of the Magic Valley, takes center stage in this academy. Students aged 14-18 will delve into the diverse aspects of the industry, visiting local ag businesses and engaging in hands-on learning activities at the CSI Breckenridge Farm in collaboration with the CSI Agriculture Department.
Intro to Cybercore: July 17-21, 2023
In partnership with the College of Eastern Idaho, Idaho National Laboratory and other industry partners, this academy introduces high school students to the exciting field of cybersecurity. Through hands-on activities, industry mentorship and facility tours, participants interested in computer programming, networking and cybersecurity will gain invaluable knowledge and practical skills.
Advanced Cybercore: July 31—Aug. 4
Building upon the Intro to Cybercore program, this advanced academy provides a deeper exploration of cybersecurity topics. Students in grades 9-12 will engage in advanced hands-on learning activities, further enhancing their skills and understanding of this critical field.
Registration for the Youth Career Academies is now open. Interested students and parents can visit workforce.csi.edu and click the “events” tab to secure their spots. Financial aid is available for all academies. Information about scholarship opportunities can be found by contacting awolford@csi.edu or 208-732-6344. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/education/summer-youth-career-academies-set-to-roll-at-csi/article_c3ad0698-ff0b-11ed-aeb0-07015309e50d.html | 2023-05-31T13:05:33 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/education/summer-youth-career-academies-set-to-roll-at-csi/article_c3ad0698-ff0b-11ed-aeb0-07015309e50d.html |
The Jerome County Republican Central Committee met last week to select three candidates as a replacement for Commissioner John Crozier, who announced his retirement May 15.
On Thursday, the committee heard from four candidates interested in serving as commissioner. The committee then selected three names to submit to Gov. Brad Little.
The governor will select one candidate from the three names submitted to appoint as commissioner for Jerome’s District 3, which is the eastern portion of the county.
Chairman Nick Whitman of the Jerome County Republican Central Committee told the Times-News in a phone call that one candidate later withdrew his name for consideration. As a result, the fourth candidate who had not originally been selected had been bumped up as one of the three names.
The three candidates are Art Watkins, mayor of Hazelton; Jesse Nelson, rancher and owner of American Beef Ranch; and Jason Robertson, former coroner.
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Robertson lost a primary to challenger Dan Chatterton in May 2022 and ran an unsuccessful write-in campaign for the position in the November general election. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/jerome-gop-selects-3-candidates-to-replace-crozier/article_6b928aae-ff3e-11ed-9c4a-eb08a043c738.html | 2023-05-31T13:05:39 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/jerome-gop-selects-3-candidates-to-replace-crozier/article_6b928aae-ff3e-11ed-9c4a-eb08a043c738.html |
The Gooding Police Department is asking people to contact law enforcement officers with any information about the death of a man who had been reported missing.
Roger Driesel, 58, had been missing since May 15, and his body was found under a tarp late Saturday afternoon at a shop at 1848 S. 2100 E., on property where he rented a room, said Trevor Misseldine, Gooding County prosecuting attorney. Foul play is suspected.
Driesel was also known to reside at another residence within the city limits, Misseldine said.
“The investigation is ongoing,” he said, “and police are following up on leads.”
The body of a missing Gooding man was found late Saturday afternoon, Gooding County Prosecutor Trevor Misseldine said.
Because of the ongoing investigation, few details into the death have been disclosed, although Misseldine said that police have suspects and search warrants have been issued.
The police department is the lead investigator, with the Gooding County Sheriff’s Office assisting.
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An autopsy on Driesel’s body will take place Wednesday in Ada County.
Anyone with information is urged to call the Gooding County Police Department at 208-934-8436. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/public-asked-to-provide-info-into-gooding-mans-death/article_2dc0ccb2-ff44-11ed-b011-47e34fe8a4b4.html | 2023-05-31T13:05:46 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/public-asked-to-provide-info-into-gooding-mans-death/article_2dc0ccb2-ff44-11ed-b011-47e34fe8a4b4.html |
Two men found an authentic 1927 Burley postal uniform during an unusual property cleaning assignment one Thursday last fall.
Now it’s on display for all to see inside the Heyburn Post Office on 17th Street.
“We have made several interesting discoveries over the years, tons of clothing, but also diaries, artwork, jewelry, books, photographs,” Steven Hill, one of the finders, told the Times-News in an email.
“The postal uniform was special in that we could know where to take it to ‘reunite’ it with its true owner,” Hill said. “Finding it felt like opening a time capsule into the past, like buried treasure.”
Heyburn residents Hill and Fred Sayre were completing a regular cleaning job Sept. 20 at a demolished home on Oriental Avenue in Burley when they discovered a wooden container in the attic. Inside the unmarked case was a navy green uniform with a matching hat in remarkably good shape, with an attached 1928 postal convention pin belonging to a man named Elmer Neu.
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Besides old junk items, the attic housed many artifacts that represented Neu’s past. Along with the mail carrier uniform, Hill and Sayre found a rusty black lunch box with Neu’s name, a postal-identification picture and returned postal letters.
“We are proud to donate it to the Heyburn Post Office with the plaque that honors the dedication and service of the officer,” Hill said.
The plaque placed by the uniform, which sits inside a glass display case in the post office’s main lobby, includes additional information about its finding by Hill and Sayre, who are partners in a property management company, Lizard and Baron LLC.
“Research indicates that this is one of the oldest surviving Idaho postal uniforms known to exist,” the plaque reads.
The exhibit has attracted some attention from customers as they wait in line for service, Heyburn postal staff told the Times-News.
Hill had the option to donate the artifacts to Neu’s origin of work, the post office in Burley, but instead offered the uniform to Heyburn because there was a glass display available to feature all of the items.
“When you see a uniform, especially one of a mail carrier, it reminds you of the thousands of lives that came before us,” Hill said. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/special-delivery-one-of-the-oldest-idaho-postal-uniforms-found-in-mini-cassia/article_1210bfac-f8ed-11ed-896b-a78d9f9fb81d.html | 2023-05-31T13:05:52 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/special-delivery-one-of-the-oldest-idaho-postal-uniforms-found-in-mini-cassia/article_1210bfac-f8ed-11ed-896b-a78d9f9fb81d.html |
The woman who took video of a Heyburn police officer shooting two dogs along Interstate 84 wants the incident to be discussed at an upcoming city council meeting.
Stephanie Carsner of Declo took the video at about 6 p.m. Saturday when an officer shot the dogs, after the police department determined they posed safety concerns to motorists.
“Recognizing traffic was heavy for Memorial Day, and in fear for the motoring public with great potential of a rear-end collision at 80 mph, the officers made the decision to shoot the dogs,” said a press release from the Heyburn Police Department.
Carsner, an animal rescuer, disagrees with the account provided by police.
She says she was given permission from an Idaho State Police trooper to catch the dogs, contending she and others almost had the dogs in hand before they were startled by police officers.
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She said the animals were not aggressive but thirsty and trying to find a way off the interstate.
Carsner has asked the incident to be included on the June 14 Heyburn City Council agenda. If the mayor doesn’t approve the agenda item, she said people will still be allowed to give comments at the end of the meeting.
A GoFundMe page was set up Tuesday to raise money to hire an attorney to provide “help we can get to prevent this from continuing to happen anymore,” Carsner posted on Facebook. Brandon Campbell, a friend of Carsner’s, set up the page.
The page, at www.gofundme.com/f/heyburn-idaho-animal-cruelty-case, had raised $1,200 as of Tuesday evening. Carsner is hoping to raise $30,000.
Police chief Ryan Bertalotto did not return a phone call to the Times-News on Tuesday. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/woman-wants-heyburn-to-address-dog-shooting-incident/article_c2601f48-ff3b-11ed-b84f-43172b5e04c6.html | 2023-05-31T13:05:58 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/woman-wants-heyburn-to-address-dog-shooting-incident/article_c2601f48-ff3b-11ed-b84f-43172b5e04c6.html |
IOWA CITY — A Saturday night crash in Iowa City left a former Waterloo woman dead and three teenagers injured.
A crash report from the Iowa State Patrol states Kesan Ford and Elijah Seals, both 17-year-olds from Iowa City, did not stop at an intersection at East Court Street and South Seventh Avenue and hit Jennifer Russell’s car.
Russell was transported to the University of Iowa Hospitals and pronounced dead. She was 22 years old.
Ford, Seals and another 17-year-old passenger were also transported the hospital with injuries.
An obituary from Locke Funeral Services said Russell graduated from Waterloo West High School in 2019 and worked as a manager at Jethro’s BBQ in Iowa City.
A GoFundMe fundraiser was set up for Russell’s family. The $10,000 goal has already been reached.
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It wasn't a dog, but instead was two masked muggers who chased a New Jersey mail carrier through a neighborhood, knocking him to the ground and shaking him in the span of 30 seconds — all because they were after something in particular.
A home camera not only captured the screams for help from the incident on Walnut Avenue in Millburn on May 13, but also showed the pair of suspected thieves roughing up the mailman. The letter carrier repeatedly called for his iPhone to call 911 as the duo swiped a set of keys, he said.
The attack went down outside of Lenny Weiland's home, with the mailman telling him that the robbers had been following him along his route.
"They were watching. They knew exactly what he was doing. As a matter of fact, the postal worker who was attacked, it was his second day on the job," said Weiland.
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The US Postal Inspection Service will only say it is investigating the attack. While on the phone with a 911 dispatcher, the mailman said the suspects stole his keys — including one that’s used to open mailboxes in apartment buildings.
Weiland later watched video of the attack, and believes the suspects hid between a dumpster and storage unit.
"So the first approach, attack happened here. And then they went around as you saw in the video," said Weiland.
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Police still looking for the suspects last seen wearing masks and hoodies. Weiland meanwhile hopes that going public with the video will help cops make an arrest.
"I am keeping an eye on the neighborhood. I’m that kind of person. I want to make sure everyone is safe," said Weiland.
Video showed the suspected robbers run to a get away car, possibly a silver Mercedes-Benz.
The postal worker suffered minor injuries. Both Millburn police and the Postal Inspection Service continue to investigate. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/nj-postal-worker-attacked-on-2nd-day-on-job-by-two-men-he-saw-following-him/3576260/ | 2023-05-31T13:18:23 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/nj-postal-worker-attacked-on-2nd-day-on-job-by-two-men-he-saw-following-him/3576260/ |
DENVER — In the midst of a surge in eating disorders across the country, Colorado's acting governor signed bills Tuesday that will create a state program dedicated to addressing the mental illness, limit the use of body mass index in determining treatment and restrict the sale of diet pills to minors.
Colorado and several other states tackling the issue are responding to the nearly 30 million Americans — roughly the population of Texas — who will struggle with an eating disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia, in their lifetime. More than 10,000 people will lose their life to the condition every year, according to data cited by the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders.
"Eating disorders are serious and have one of the highest mortality rates of any mental illness," Vincent Atchity, CEO of Mental Health Colorado, said in a statement on the bills. "We will save lives by removing barriers to care and helping those who are struggling (to) find healing."
The changes will take effect at different times, but roughly within a year.
One of the bills, signed by Colorado's Lieutenant Gov. Dianne Primavera in her capacity as acting governor, will largely ax the use of body mass index, or BMI, in determining the level of treatment for eating disorders, even though it remains an industry standard.
Proponents of the new law say the centuries old BMI — a calculation of someone's height and weight — is antiquated and flawed.
Eating disorders are not invariably linked to body weight or BMI, said Claire Engels, program coordinator for the Eating Disorder Foundation, which supported the bill. Instead, they center around eating habits, anxiety, depression, trauma and control. That means those with eating disorders who fall outside the BMI prescription struggle to get proper care or are expelled from treatment prematurely.
Instead, the law will compel health insurers to consider a patient's eating behaviors, heart rate or blood pressure among other criteria when determining treatment coverage.
The same law will also limit the sale of diet pills to minors after experts argued that they can exacerbate, or even instigate, eating disorders.
A second bill signed Tuesday will create a state program that will offer resources on eating disorders, administer a grant to research the mental illness, and raise awareness publicly and among students, parents and staff at schools.
The pandemic worsened the crisis by pushing some, especially teenagers, into isolation, filling hospital beds and further burdening the already overwhelmed treatment centers. Colorado is joined by a number of states, including California, New York and Texas, in considering bills to quell the problem this year.
Other proposals across the U.S. include restricting social media algorithms from promoting potentially harmful content and including curriculum on eating disorders in middle and high schools.
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The Virginia Repertory Theatre’s new season is live, in-person and, yes, even magical, organizers say.
“We feel like it’s a very personalized, exciting experience for people to come into our theater’s space and take that journey with us,” said Director of Communications Liz Nance. “It’s very different than watching Netflix at home, so we love to have people get in the space and experience the magic in that space.”
The season runs from September 2023 to August 2024 and features plays, musicals and special presentations.
For the Signature Season at the November Theatre, 114 W. Broad St., performances will include the regional premiere of “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive” (Sept. 1-Oct. 1) and “9 to 5: The Musical,” with music from Dolly Parton (June 21-Aug. 4, 2024).
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The season will also feature Richmond favorite Jerold Soloman in the portrayal of Louis Armstrong; Joe Glaser, his manager; and Miles Davis in the one-man play “Satchmo at the Waldorf” (March 1-April 7).
The Barksdale Season at the Hanover Tavern, 13181 Hanover Courthouse Road, where Virginia Rep began, will feature “Martha Mitchell Calling” (Sept. 29-Oct. 29) about the incredible role that the wife of U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell played in the Watergate scandal. Another entry in the series is “Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” (Dec. 15-Jan. 21), a twist on the classic “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”
All five children’s productions will be in the new Jessie Bogese Theatre inside the Virginia Rep Center for Arts and Education at 4204 Hermitage Road. The venue, bought by the organization in October 2022, holds 650. Nance says Richmond families have been excited to come back.
“Attendance has been incredible,” she said. “When you hear 600 children delighted or clapping or screaming in a space, it is amazing.”
This will be the organization’s first full season since the pandemic, which caused attendance to drop significantly. A major focus for artistic directors this year was how to get people back in the seats and excited for live performance.
Artistic Director of Education Todd D. Norris handled the programming for the theater’s upcoming children’s season and is also directing the musical “Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience.” Norris chose productions he thought the audience would respond to at a time in which most entertainment is on a screen.
“It really has to do with the dynamic relationship between the audience and the performers in that moment,” Norris said. “Particularly with theater for young audiences, so much of the entertainment they consume is not live, so being able to experience something that is impacted by your presence and your reaction is something that makes live performance really unique.”
Virginia Rep also provides educational programming to schools throughout Virginia and major performing arts centers in 32 states.
Desirée Roots, artistic director of community, has been associated with Virginia Rep since she was an intern at age 16.
Currently, Roots directs Community, Health and Wellness programs, such as the Theater Arts Learning League, or TALL, a mentoring program for low-income students. She has an extensive background in performing arts, and thinks that something meaningful can be found in live music.
“There’s a message that’s going to bring you through whatever it is that you’re going through,” Roots said. “It’s just magic all the way around.”
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Jan. 12, 2023
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Jan. 15, 2023
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Jan. 16, 2023
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Jan. 17, 2023
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Jan. 23, 2023
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Feb. 4, 2023
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Feb. 9, 2023
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Feb. 10, 2023
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Feb 11, 2023
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Feb. 12, 2023
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Feb. 18, 2023
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Feb. 19, 2023
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Feb. 20, 2023
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Feb. 24, 2023
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Feb. 25, 2023
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Feb. 26, 2023
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Mark Bowes
Feb. 27, 2023
Eric and Linda Oakes speak to a small crowd before unveiling a plaque and bench dedicated to their son, Adam Oakes, in the VCU Student Commons building near the office of Fraternity and Sorority Life on February 27, 2023. The date marks the two-year anniversary of Oakes' death in a hazing incident, and VCU is calling this an annual hazing prevention day and day of remembrance for Oakes. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
Feb. 28, 2023
Jess Tanner (center) looks on as her daughters Aubrey (left), 10, and Charleigh, 8, deliver Girl Scout cookies to school counselor Michelle Nothnagel (right) and the other teachers and staff members at Manchester High School on February 28, 2023. With help from groups of retired teachers and others in the community, the girls, who are members of Girl Scout Troop 3654, raised over $1,000 to purchase the cookies for the staff. Jess Tanner, is an art teacher at Manchester and also a co-leader of their troop. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
March 1, 2023
Shirley Wiest, left, and Wilma Bowman, center, show a blanket for a veteran with the help of Julie Wiest, daughter of Shirley Wiest, at Sunrise of Richmond in Henrico, Va., on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Shirley Wiest and Wilma Bowman sewed over 3000 blankets for people at the VA Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and Moments of Hope Outreach among others.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 2, 2023
Carl Gupton, president of Greenswell Growers, is shown at the greenhouse of the company in Goochland, Va., on Thursday, March 2, 2023. Greenswell Growers, an automated indoor farming, can produce 28 times more greens per acre than traditional farming. They just sealed a deal with Ukrops and will start selling on Kroger shelves all across the mid-Atlantic.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 3, 2023
Highland Springs walks off the court after beating Stone Bridge during the Class 5 boys basketball quarterfinal on Friday, March 3, 2023 at J.R. Tucker High School in Henrico, Virginia.
SHABAN ATHUMAN/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 4, 2023
Nutzy plays with Shane Paris-Kennedy,9, during the Richmond Flying Squirrels Nutzy's Block Party on Saturday, March 4, 2023 at The Diamond in Richmond, Virginia.
SHABAN ATHUMAN/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 5, 2023
Patrons wait in line for Caribbean soul food from Mobile Yum Yum, one of the food trucks participating in Mobile Soul Sunday in Monroe Park. The event kicked off the Richmond Black Restaurant Experience, a weeklong celebration of Richmond’s Black-owned restaurants.
Sean McGoey
March 6, 2023
Henrico County officials celebrate the start of renovations at Cheswick Park in Henrico's Three Chopt District on March 6, 2023. The 24.5-acre park, Henrico's oldest official park, will receive $2.1 million in improvements, including a new open fitness area and upgrades to its trails, playground, restroom facilities, pedestrian bridges, parking lot, main entrance, stormwater management infrastructure and signage. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
March 7, 2023
Congresswoman-elect Jennifer McClellan heads into the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC for orientation on March 7, 2023 in preparation for her swearing in as the first Black Congresswoman from Virginia. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
March 8, 2023
Kate Chenery Tweedy shows the exhibition of Secretariat at Ashland Museum in Ashland, Va., on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Kate Chenery Tweedy is spearheading an effort to bring a monument of Secretariat to Ashland.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 9, 2023
John Marano of Top Trumps USA speaks to the media next to Mr. Monopoly at Maggie Walker Plaza in Richmond, Va., on March 9, 2023. Top Trumps USA, under license from HASBRO, will design a Richmond-specific board that highlights the region’s favorite historic landmarks.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 10, 2023
The U.S. Postal Service commemorate the history and romance of train travel with the unveiling of its Railroad Stations Forever stamps during a ceremony at the Main Street Station in Richmond, Va.
Lyndon German
March 11, 2023
Susie Williams of Richmond gets a makeover at the Shamrock the Block Festival in Richmond on Saturday. The festival was relocated to Leigh Street this year.
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
March 12, 2023
A procession of Fifes and Drums moves down Duke of Gloucester Street in Colonial Williamsburg on Sunday. It traveled from old Colonial Williamsburg Courthouse to the Raleigh Tavern, where Thomas Jefferson and other leaders formed a Committee of Correspondence in 1773.
Sean Jones photos, Times-Dispatch
March 13, 2023
Cuong Luu, foreground, a volunteer of Feed More, prepares boxes of meals with other volunteers and staff at the food bank in Richmond, Va., on Monday, March 13, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 14, 2023
Bill Barksdale, technical director of Virginia Video Network, works with Kelli Lemon, director of digital programming, at the video studio of Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, Va., on March 14, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 15, 2023
Del. Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Fairfax, looks on a portrait after unveiling it as former Speaker of the House at the house chamber of the State Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Filler-Corn made history as the first woman and first Jewish Speaker in Virginia.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 16, 2023
MIKE KROPF, THE DAILY PROGRESS Virginia's Isaac McKneely (11) becomes emotional after an NCAA Tournament first round game against Furman in Orlando, Fl., Thursday, March 16, 2023.
Mike Kropf
March 17, 2023
Brian Erbe, center, a pipe manager, and other members of Greater Richmond Pipes and Drums perform to celebrate St. Patrick's Day at Rosie Connolly's Pub Restaurant in Richmond, Va., on Friday, March 17, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 18, 2023
Virginia Tech's Mekhi Lewis takes down Oklahoma State's Dustin Plott during the consolation semifinals at the NCAA Division I wrestling championships, Saturday, March 18, 2023, in Tulsa, Okla. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
Ian Maule
March 19, 2023
Virginia Tech's Kayana Traylor (23) is congratulated by teammates after scoring just before halftime of a second-round college basketball game in the women's NCAA Tournament, Sunday, March 19, 2023, in Blacksburg, Va. (AP Photo/Matt Gentry)
Matt Gentry
March 20, 2023
Hannah and Ty Bilodeau of Lynchburg visit the recently completed Richmond Virginia Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with their children, Blythe, 5, Goldie, 4, and Graham, 2, in Glen Allen in Henrico, Va., on Monday, March 20, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 21, 2023
Doug Ramseur, center left, and Emilee Hasbrouck, center right, defense lawyers for Wavie Jones, one of three Central State Hospital employees , who was charged in death of Irvo Otieno, speak to the media at Dinwiddie Courthouse in Dinwiddie, Va., on Tuesday, March 21, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 22, 2023
WRANGLD's, from left, senior customer success manager Trevor Lee, chief business officer Andy Sitison and CEO Jonathan "JD" Dyke work at their office of the 1717 Innovation Center in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, March 22, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 23, 2023
New Bon Secours Community Health Clinic is open in Manchester, Richmond, Va., on Thursday, March 23, 2023. The clinic will serve scheduled appointments and same day call-in appointments for the uninsured. The 8,000 square foot building is also home to the Bon Secours Care-A-Van, a mobile health clinic.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 24, 2023
Liz Kincaid, CEO of RVA Hospitality and owner of Max's On Broad, is photographed at the restaurant in Richmond, VA on March 24, 2023. Max's On Broad will be closing April 1 and will relaunch as a new concept in the summer. Kincaid also owns Tarrant's & Bar Solita. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
March 25, 2023
Henrico County families gather at Deep Run Park & Recreation Center on Saturday to celebrate all things agriculture during the county's second annual Farm Graze event. Children went booth to booth learning about the wonders of agriculture while participating in fun activities and scavenger hunts.
Lyndon German
March 26, 2023
Church Hill resident Alex Gerofsky finishes the Hill Topper 5K at the Church Hill Irish Festival with a time of 20 minutes, 26.8 seconds.
Thad Green
March 27, 2023
Wyatt Kingston, center, conducts a strength training session with Marshall Crenshaw, left, and Kevin Wright, right, at Hickory Hill Community Center in Richmond, Va., on Monday, March 27, 2023. Kingston, 71, has been working with the parks department for nearly 40 years on all kinds of initiatives, particularly those aimed at children in public housing communities.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 28, 2023
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, center, talks about the ongoing housing crisis in the city during a news conference on March 28.
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
March 29, 2023
From left, Caroline Ouko and Leon Ochieng, mother and older brother of Irvo Otieno, react near the casket during the celebration of life for Irvo Otieno at First Baptist Church of South Richmond in North Chesterfield on March 29.
Eva Russo
March 30, 2023
Senior students in Charlottesville-Albemarle Technical Education Center's culinary program presented Taj Mahsala: an Indian fusion menu.
SYDNEY SHULER, THE DAILY PROGRESS
March 31, 2023
Richmond Police address onlookers Friday, March 31, 2023 at the intersection of North Avenue and Moss Side Avenue, near Washington Park. Richmond police shot a man who was suspected of shooting a woman earlier in the day in the 1100 block of Evergreen Avenue on Richmond's Southside.
April 1, 2023
Sculptor Jocelyn Russell takes photos of the crowd after the unveiling of her statue of Secretariat at Ashland Town Hall Pavilion on Saturday.
Michael Martz photos, TImes-Dispatch
April 2, 2023
Drivers race in the Toyota Owners 400 at the Richmond Raceway in Richmond, VA on April 2, 2023.. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 3, 2023
Dinwiddie County Commonwealth's Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill is photographed at the Dinwiddie County Courthouse on April 3, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 4, 2023
From left, Judy and Ron Singleton pose for a photo on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. MIKE KROPF/TIMES-DISPATCH
Mike Kropf
April 5, 2023
Beatrix Smith dips her matzah in salt water as she enjoys a Pasover Seder with her classmates (from left) Helen Corallo, Camp Maxwell, and Amara Ellen at the Weinstein JCC Preschool Program in Richmond, VA on April 5, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 6, 2023
Virginia Community College System Chancellor David Doré speaks with students at Piedmont Virginia Community College on Thursday.
SYDNEY SHULER, THE DAILY PROGRESS
April 7, 2023
A worker pushed water off a tarp on the field at The Diamond Friday, when the Flying Squirrels were scheduled to open their season against Reading.
MIKE KROPF/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 8, 2023
Ember O’Connell-Evans, 1, plays with hula hoops during the Dominion Energy Family Easter event at Maymont on Saturday.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
April 9, 2023
Mike Kearney plays an early form of badminton with grandkids Savannah and Ashton on the lawn of Montpelier during “We, the Kids” Day.
ANDRA LANDI, FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW
April 10, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin, center left, tours Richmond Marine Terminal with W. Sheppard Miller III , Virginia Secretary of Transportation , center right, as Stephen A. Edwards, left, Virginia Port Authority CEO, and Christina Saunders, manager of Richmond Marine Terminal, give them the tour on Monday, April 10, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 11, 2023
Inaara Woodards, 5, of Henrico, visits Italian Garden at Maymont with her mother, Victoria Crawley Woodards, and three brothers, Kai, 13, Zion, 12, and Avion Woodards, 11, during their home-school field trip to the park in Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. "It’s gorgeous!" Victoria Crawley Woodards said of Tuesday weather. She said it was the perfect weather for the field trip and other activities.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 13, 2023
Clarence Thweatt, right, a lead trainer for Chesterfield Public Schools, works on marking points during a transportation road-e-o event, which is friendly competition of school bus drivers demonstrating their driving skills and knowledge of laws, at Chesterfield County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 14, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at Liberty University.
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April 15, 2023
Tyson Foods workers attend a job fair at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church on Mechanicsville Turnpike. The Glen Allen plant is closing, displacing about 700 employees.
Em Holter
April 16, 2023
A display of 32 white balloons were raised and a 32-second moment of silence was observed in honor of the victims of the April 16, 2007, tragedy at the start of the 2023 3.2-mile Run in Remembrance on the Virginia Tech campus.
MATT GENTRY, The Roanoke Times
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April 17, 2023
Albert Hill Middle School sixth-grader Drew Sirpis looks for birds during the educational boat trip on the James River on Monday.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
April 18, 2023
Richmond Flying Squirrels Luis Matos steals the second base against Erie SeaWolves shortstop Gage Workman in the 3rd inning at The Diamond, Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 19, 2023
Children participate in Little Feet Meets at Matoaca High School in Chesterfield, VA on April 19, 2023. A total of 1,400 Special Olympic athletes from grades PK-5 throughout Chesterfield County Public Schools competed in Little Feet Meets between two dates, April 12 at James River High and April 19 at Matoaca High. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 20, 2023
Mike Blau, center, a line cook, and others work on preparing a soft opening of The Veil's new taproom, located in Scott’s Addition at 1509 Belleville St., on Thursday, April 20, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 21, 2023
(From left) VCU sophomore Caroline May, of Pittsburgh, PA, and senior Lee Finch, of Norfolk, VA carry a coffin with a blow-up Earth ball during a VCU Student Climate Protest in Richmond, VA on April 21, 2023. The small crowd walked from the James Branch Cabell Library, though Monroe Park, to the office of VCU President Michael Rao in a mock funeral procession. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 22, 2023
Anthony Clary gestures as he runs through confetti during the Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10k on Saturday.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
April 23, 2023
A volunteer picks up an old wooden palate and brings it to a trash pile during Friends of Fonticello Park's community cleanup on Sunday.
Sean Jones, Times-Dispatch
April 24, 2023
Kay Ford spends time with her cat, Patches, at her home in Mechanicsville, VA., on Monday, April 24, 2023. Ford recently adopted Patches, a 40-pound cat, from Richmond Animal Care and Control. The story of Patches went viral after RACC publicized the cat.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 25, 2023
Emily Cover, a project manager with DPR Construction, is shown at Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, left top, in Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. DPR is the team that built the hospital.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 26, 2023
Guests tour the Anthropology Lab at the new College of Humanities and Sciences STEM building on West Franklin Street in Richmond, VA on April 26, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 27, 2023
Police tape marks the scene outside George Wythe High School.
ANNA BRYSON/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 28, 2023
Sculptor Kate Raudenbush takes in her finished piece "Breaking Point" in the Flagler Garden Near the Monet Bridge at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden on April 28, 2023. The garden is set to debut "Incanto: An Oasis of Lyrical Sculpture" on Saturday, April 29, 2023. Incanto features five designed, allegorical sculptures, accompanied by poetry, throughout the garden. The exhibition is the work of Raudenbush and poet Sha Michele. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 29, 2023
Pharrell Williams performs during the Pharrell's Phriends set at Something in the Water in Virginia Beach on Saturday.
Kendall Warner
May 1, 2023
A man carries a piece of furniture through a neighborhood in Virginia Beach, Va. on Monday May 1, 2023. The City of Virginia Beach declared a state of emergency after a tornado moved through the area and damaged dozens of homes, downed trees and caused gas leaks. (AP Photo/Ben Finley)
Ben Finley
May 2, 2023
Sports Backers Stadium is shown next to The Diamond in this drone photo, in Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, May 2, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
May 3, 2023
CAL CARY, THE DAILY PROGRESS UVa cheerleader, Madison DeLoach, in front of other UVa cheerleaders tour the The Avelo Airlines Boeing 737 after landing at Charlottesville Albemarle Airport coming from Orlando on May 3, 2023. Avelo Airlines launched its first Charlottesville to Orlando flight line at the Charlottesville Albemarle Airport on May 3, 2023. The inaugural event consisted of a returning flight from Orlando to Charlottesville Albemarle Airport, a firetruck water salute upon arrival and a tour of the airplane.
Cal Cary
May 4, 2023
(From left) Maryann Macomber, of Mechanicsville, VA, leads a small group prayer with Gloria Randolph, of Richmond, VA, Randolph's great-grandson Xavier Jones, also of Richmond, and John Macomber, of Mechanicsville, during a National Day of Prayer event at the Bell Tower in Capitol Square in Richmond, VA on May 4, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 5, 2023
Steffiun Stanley preps dishes at Birdie's in Richmond, VA on May 5, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 6, 2023
People at the ¿Qué Pasa? Festival sit on the grass and enjoy the weather on Brown’s Island on Saturday.
Mike Kropf/TIMES-DISPATCH
May 7, 2023
Arts in the Park saw thousands pass through Byrd Park over the weekend. The festival is sponsored by the Carilion Civic Association.
Charlotte Rene Woods, Times-Dispatch
May 8, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin shares a quiet moment with Holocaust survivor Halina Zimm on Monday afternoon before ceremonially signing a bill that adds a definition of antisemitism to Virginia law.
David Ress, Times-Dispatch
May 9, 2023
The Molcajete Sinaloa at Mariscos Mazatlan in Henrico, VA on May 9, 2023. Mariscos Mazatlan focuses on traditional Mexican cuisine from the city of Mazatlan and all along the Mexican coast. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 10, 2023
A goose, seen here on May 10, 2023, has built a nest in a median of the parking lot near Dilliards at Short Pump Town Center. The mall has put out orange cones to keep cars away and Jerome Golfman, assistant manager at Fink's Jewelers, said he regularly brings it water, cracked corn and other grains.
Eva Russo, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 11, 2023
Mary Finley-Brook, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Richmond and an expert on American gas infrastructure, says repairing the pipes no longer makes sense as gas prices continue to rise.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 12, 2023
(From left) Sam Amoaka, a freshman at Virginia State University, helps his girlfriend, Tamia Charles, a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University, move out of her dorm along with her dad, Thomas Charles, of Fredericksburg, VA, in downtown Richmond, VA on May 12, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 13, 2023
Virginia’s Thomas McConvey (left) defends the ball from Richmond’s Jake Kapp during an NCAA Tournament game at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville on Saturday.
Mike Kropf/TIMES-DISPATCH
May 14, 2023
University of Richmond outfielder Christian Beal made a catch on the run during the Friday game of Spiders-VCU series at The Diamond.
MIKE KROPF, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 15, 2023
The flags at Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission building are flown at half-staff on Monday. Governor Youngkin announced that flags would fly half-staff in honor of Peace Officers' Remembrance Day.
Mike Kropf/TIMES-DISPATCH
May 16, 2023
Ukrop's crumb cake has been picked up by Kroger and is being sold nationwide. Here, fresh cinnamon crumb cakes are packaged at the Ukrop's bakery in Richmond, VA on May 16, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 17, 2023
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney officially proclaims May as Jewish American Heritage Month during a celebration held in collaboration with the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond and the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) at Richmond City Hall in Richmond, VA on May 17, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 18, 2023
Acting Police Chief Richard Edwards stands by as Penn and Victoria Burke places a flower in honor of Sergeant J. Harvey Burke in the wreath at the memorial stone at the Richmond Police Training Academy in Richmond, VA during the Richmond Police Department Police Officers' Memorial Service on May 18, 2023. The ceremony, which took place during National Police Week, paid homage to Richmond's fallen officers. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 19, 2023
Doumit Bouhaidarat fries falafel balls to order during the St. Anthony Lebanese Food Festival on Friday.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 20, 2023
Dogs compete in the Subaru Ultimate Air Dogs — Splash Qualifier #4 event on the second day of Dominion Energy Riverrock on Saturday.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
May 21, 2023
The Virginia men’s tennis team celebrates after winning the national championship on Sunday in Orlando.
Courtesy UVa athletics photos
May 22, 2023
Vietnam War veteran Stuart Blankenship is photographed at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, VA on Monday, May 22, 2023. Blankenship is one of 50 Vietnam War Veterans from throughout the Commonwealth featured in the exhibit “50 Years Beyond: The Vietnam Veteran Experience” which opened at the Virginia War Memorial on January 28, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 23, 2023
Wilbert Hobson poses for a portrait at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Va, on May 23, 2023. Hobson was part of the 101st Airborne unit of the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war. Hobson is very active in his chapter of the American Legion and helped found the Friends of Dupont, and organization. Graduating from an all-Black high school, Vietnam was Hobson’s first real experience with integration. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH
Margo Wagner
May 24, 2023
Powhatan Owen, shown at the Virginia War Memorial, volunteered for a Burial Honor Guard company in Washington state to commemorate the service of fellow veterans and has further connected with veterans while attending powwows across the U.S.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
May 25, 2023
Madi Mabry laughs with other members of Mango Salon at the 2023 Top Workplaces awards in Richmond on Thursday.
Margo Wagner, Times-Dispatch
May 26, 2023
A solar cell receives light at the Agecroft Hall and Gardens on May 26, 2023, in Richmond, Va. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH
Margo Wagner
May 27, 2023
Julia Hunter, a shawl dancer, participates in the Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe’s powwow on Saturday.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 28, 2023
Festival organizers Pete LeBlanc, left, and Zavi Harman enjoy the second installation of Daydream Fest in front of the Main Line Brewery stage on Sunday.
Gabriela De Camargo Goncalves
May 30, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks during the Commonwealth’s Memorial Day Ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial on Monday.
Margo Wagner, Times-Dispatch
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SIGNATURE SEASON
The Sara Belle and Neil November Theatre Marjorie Arenstein Stage, 114 W. Broad St.
"POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive" — Sept. 1-Oct. 1
"The Silver Belles" — Nov. 24. Dec. 31
"Satchmo at the Waldorf" — March 1-April 7
"9 to 5: The Musical" — June 21-Aug 4, 2024
CHILDREN'S SEASON
Jessie Bogese Theatre, 4204 Hermitage Road
"The Emperor's New Clothes" — Oct. 20-Nov. 12
"The Santa Clues" — Dec. 8-31
"Chasing George Washington: A White House Adventure" — Feb. 9-March 3
"Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience" — April 12-May 19
"Dragons Love Tacos" — July 14-Aug. 4, 2024
BARKSDALE SEASON
Hanover Tavern, 13181 Hanover Courthouse Road
"Martha Mitchell Calling" — Sept. 29-Oct. 29
"Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery" — Dec. 15-Jan. 21
"On Air" — March 15-April 14
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SAN DIEGO — "I'm in heaven right now!" says San Diegan Debbie Kinney as she enjoys hiking at a national park by Lake Alamanor.
"This morning, eagles were flying by, and it was beautiful," said Kinney.
Kinney thought she could not do this one day since she was born with a rare heart disease.
She went through 3 open heart surgeries, and she thought her life might be over at one point until she got a call that an organ donor could give her a new heart.
"When you get the call, it's just almost indescribable. I only had one day left to live. I felt like I was dying. I didn’t think I could get a heart. It was a miracle," said Kinney.
She is just one success story.
Over Memorial Day weekend, 21 lives were saved in four days thanks to seven San Diego organ donors.
Jackie Russe is one of the nurses at Lifesharing, one of 58 regional non-profits dedicated to organ and tissue donation.
She was there to help the patients.
"I believe it’s a record. We've never had this many organ donors at one time. To save 21 lives in 4 days is a record for us," said Russe. "There are over 100,000 people in this country waiting for life-saving organs. Twenty-two people die daily waiting for an organ that doesn’t come."
All seven donors are deceased, and this was their last heroic gift.
Today, Kinney is celebrating her 14th anniversary of having a healthy heart. She lives life adventurously and is forever grateful.
"Here I am 14 years later, thanks to someone who gave me the gift of life, and I got it," she cries.
Californians can donate the gift of life by registering at the DMV or here.
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PUYALLUP, Wash. — A 1-year-old child died after being left in a hot car outside MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup on May 24, the Puyallup Police Department confirmed.
Police say the child's foster parent left them in the car while at work in the hospital's social services program.
"This is a tragic incident and our hearts go out to the family and everyone who was affected by this," Puyallup Police Department Captain Don Bourbon said. "And just want the public to know that during this time of year when it starts getting warmer, just be mindful of temperatures that are growing and safety of our families."
Bourbon said according to interviews with staff on site and the mother, she became distracted and forgot the child in the car before going to work. When she found the child, she rushed the toddler to Good Samaritan, Bourbon said, but it was too late and the toddler died.
The temperature outside was in the 70s, but it was more than 100 degrees inside the car, according to police detectives.
No arrests have been made. The case is still being investigated.
"A tragic incident took place at the Good Samaritan campus Wednesday involving an employee and their child," a MultiCare spokesperson said in a statement shared with KING 5. "This incident also impacted a number of our other team members. MultiCare has offered a number of paths for support for our employees. We extend our condolences to everyone involved."
The department asked people to be aware of the dangers of leaving children and pets inside cars during hot weather.
In 10 minutes, the temperature inside a car can heat up by 20 degrees and become deadly, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). This is especially dangerous for children, because a child’s body temperature rises more quickly than an adult’s, according to the administration.
In 2022, 33 children died of heatstroke in cars, according to the NHTSA.
The traffic safety administration urged people to never leave children unattended in a car. Even if people park in the shade or roll the windows down, the NHTSA said that does little to impact the temperature inside the car. People should secure their cars so a child cannot get inside unattended, and if you see a child alone in a locked car, call 911. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/child-dies-hot-car-puyallup/281-5f6f734f-7180-410d-b5fe-56da463adf34 | 2023-05-31T13:32:42 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/child-dies-hot-car-puyallup/281-5f6f734f-7180-410d-b5fe-56da463adf34 |
SAN ANTONIO — According to a press release, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) says a new case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was found in a white-tailed deer in Bexar County.
The release says the positive deer was captured back in January in Hollywood Park as an part of an effort to reduce overabundant deer populations.
TWPD says they will implement disease containment measures and provide recommendations on mitigating the disease's transmission in Hollywood Park.
TWPD will also hold community meetings this summer to discuss disease mitigation actions, CWD zone establishment and what that means to residents in the Hollywood Park area.
CWD is a slow, progressive disease that may not produce signs for several years after infection, TWPD says.
Currently, there have been no known cases where humans have been infected with CWD through the consumption of venison, according to TWPD. However. it's recommended that hunters test harvested cervid species for CWD and not consume meat of infected animals. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/disease-bexar-county-deer/273-7ad0ac31-68bb-4bf3-8397-e08ec42d0fa8 | 2023-05-31T13:32:48 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/disease-bexar-county-deer/273-7ad0ac31-68bb-4bf3-8397-e08ec42d0fa8 |
FRISCO, Texas — Firefighters in Frisco and Carrollton were busy on Tuesday afternoon during some pop-up storms in the area.
The departments said they were working on a total of seven structure fires and that lightning is believed to be the cause of the fires.
According to the Frisco Fire Department, crews were responding to three separate structure fires and had received reports of six lightning strikes to buildings.
One of the fires happened at a home on Silverbrook Lane and another on Old Province Way. Both are near the intersection of Teel Parkway and Stonebrook Parkway.
A neighbor told WFAA that she noticed smoke coming from a house on Old Province after she saw lightning around 2:50 p.m.
The home sustained significant damage, and most of its roof is now gone. The homeowners are on vacation, according to neighbors.
Nearby down the street on Silverbrook, a second house caught fire around the same time as the first and also suffered severe damage.
The residents of the two houses will not be able to return to their homes due to the damage.
The third fire was about two miles north on Norwich Lane. This home had limited damage and the family was able to return.
While there were no injuries to residents, Frisco officials said a firefighter was injured while battling the blaze on Silverbrook and was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. Another firefighter was also treated for heat exhaustion.
The Carrollton Fire Department confirmed to WFAA that its crews had responded to four structure fires -- two of which were working fires.
Those two working fires happened at homes on Wood Creek and Whitehurst. In both those incidents, the fires were contained to the attic, according to the department.
There were no injuries reported in the Carrollton fires.
Areas of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex saw some non-severe pop-up storms through the afternoon, which brought heavy rain and lightning. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/lightning-believed-cause-least-six-structure-house-fires-frisco-carrollton/287-e8035429-7309-421f-8e9f-4e3760e2c510 | 2023-05-31T13:32:55 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/lightning-believed-cause-least-six-structure-house-fires-frisco-carrollton/287-e8035429-7309-421f-8e9f-4e3760e2c510 |
SAN ANTONIO — A man is in critical condition after he was found shot in the head and arm on the west side of San Antonio and police have no idea who shot him.
Police responded to reports of a shooting on the 6200 block of W. Commerce around 3:13 a.m. Wednesday.
When officers arrived, they found the 24-year-old victim with a single gunshot wound to the side of his head and another in the arm. The victim was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Police say that the victim is not cooperating and would only say that two men open fired on him while he was underneath a backyard awning.
Police have no idea if the man lived where he was shot.
Officials also have no idea if the men were on foot or in a car when they took off from the home. The victim didn’t want to answer those questions.
SAPD Eagle searched the area for the two suspects, but did not find anyone matching the description.
This is a developing story.
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SAN ANTONIO — A popular San Antonio bakery and cafe reported a break-in, early Tuesday morning. The owner of 'The Bread Box' said thieves made off with money and electronics.
Tina Kent said between $15,000 to $20,000 worth of items were stolen from the location off West Bitters near 281.
Hill Country Village Police Department said four people seen on surveillance video are persons of interest in the case, and right now they are working to identify them. Police also said they could possibly be tied to other thefts.
"I went into the office and saw there were things missing," Kent said.
Kent showed up to her business Tuesday morning and immediately noticed a big gap. The spot where one of her safes was located was empty. Her big safe was gone.
"Then we started looking around the restaurant to see if we had other things missing," she said. "Electronic devices, and safes. We had multiple safes for different things."
Images captured from a neighboring surveillance cameras show four people who are accused of breaking in around three Tuesday morning. Kent said they used a crowbar to get inside this door.
"We all work so hard," she said. "We have 14 employees that showed up this morning and to possibly tell them they aren't able to come in and work and make money was something I felt terrible about saying."
However, due to the outpouring love and support, business continued Tuesday. Kent posted images of the persons of interest on social media, and people started commenting on who they could be.
"We were just like hey, we are a part of this community these people could be going after you," Kent said. "They came after us. Everyone needs to be a little bit more cautious."
Hill Country Village Police said they have a few leads, but no positive ID on anyone yet. They're in the process of reviewing more video from the area. If you know anything, call 210-494-3671. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/more-than-15000-stolen-from-san-antonio-bakery/273-a4e575c6-c05a-447f-acd6-1ae3baf8a847 | 2023-05-31T13:33:07 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/more-than-15000-stolen-from-san-antonio-bakery/273-a4e575c6-c05a-447f-acd6-1ae3baf8a847 |
SAN ANTONIO — A New Braunfels family is desperate to bring a young mother home.
Andreanna Flores disappeared nearly two weeks ago, according to loved ones. The 19-year-old was last seen on the northwest side of San Antonio.
“She would have never left her babies,” said Andrea Winter, Flores’ mother. “Never in a million years would she have left her babies.”
Flores has an infant son and a 2-year-old daughter.
The words ‘Mom, please come home soon’ are written in chalk outside Winter’s home. Inside, you’ll find the few remaining flyers of her search effort.
“Day, night; you name it,” said Winter. “I have been passing out my flyers.”
Winter has been worried sick ever since her 19-year-old daughter didn’t return home on May 19.
She had spent the night at a house near Vance Jackson Road and Newcastle Lane, according to Winter.
“That Thursday she said, ‘Mama, I will be back home on Friday,” said Winter. “That was the last I heard from her. By Sunday, I got a feeling in my gut that something was wrong. Since I worked half a day on Monday, I went to pick up my daughter and grandson. I got to my grandson’s grandparents’ home, and they said, ‘The baby is the only one here.’ I said, ‘What do you mean he is the only one here?! My daughter wouldn’t leave the baby here by himself.’ I want my daughter, and no one is giving me answers.”
Winter says her daughter is without her medication.
According to friends and family, Flores hasn’t responded to any calls or messages.
"It's not like her," said Serena Briones, a close friend of Flores. “I believe she is in danger."
Loved ones say Flores was attempting to leave a bad relationship right before she went missing.
Her family is begging everyone to keep an eye out.
Flores is described as about 5 feet tall, with brown eyes and black hair with blonde highlights. She has a small red heart tattoo under her left eye, a butterfly tattoo on her neck and a tattoo on her right forearm. She was last seen wearing black sweatpants and a baggy t-shirt.
“If you see her, please take her somewhere safe and call the police,” said Winter. “Please, she needs help. I need her to come home to her two babies who love her very much.”
The New Braunfels Police Department (NBPD), which is the lead investigative agency, confirmed Flores has been entered into the state and national databases for missing people.
The San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) says it's working with New Braunfels PD. If you see Flores, you can contact either law enforcement agency.
You can reach SAPD at 210-207-7273. The number for NBPD is 830-463-1316. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/mother-missing-new-braunfels/273-eecc1341-7bc6-45d7-9baf-7403d56ff380 | 2023-05-31T13:33:13 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/mother-missing-new-braunfels/273-eecc1341-7bc6-45d7-9baf-7403d56ff380 |
SAN ANTONIO — More cars are now available, but big bargains are still hard to find. Compare used car prices to new car prices before you buy.
“The price difference can be very minimal,” said Brian Moody, executive editor for Kelly Blue Book. “So it does make sense if you’re buying a lightly used car, say five-year-old or newer, it does make sense to look at a new car and see if maybe the price is comparable.”
The difference may be just a few thousand dollars.
Save by looking for a less popular vehicle.
“When people say they want a deal, that’s understandable,” Moody said. “But don’t go looking for the specific type of vehicle that literally everyone else is looking for and then say ‘Oh, I want to get a deal.’ Go look for a sedan or hatchback. ‘Oh, no, I want a Cadillac Escalade.’ You’re going to pay what you’re to pay. But if you’re flexible and you can do something like it, a sedan, and many sedans today have SUV-like features like a cargo net or all-wheel drive or heated seats in the front and back. If you can get by with a sedan that’s going to get better fuel economy and probably has more flexibility in the price, look at that first.”
Do your research before you buy.
“That should just be handled ahead of time,” Moody said. “You should know your credit score. You should know what you can afford. You should know what kind of car you’re looking for. It is worth shopping around. I would cross-shop. I would shop other dealers in the same area. Different makes, different models, different brands. But definitely do your homework and find out what is a fair price for this car. There’s no reason you can’t ask ‘Is there any flexibility?’”
Use the TrueCar app can help you negotiate the best price.
“That will help you figure out what the average selling price is for a certain make and model in your area. It’ll show you what other shoppers paid and that’ll give you a good target number to go for when you are negotiating,” said Andrea Woroch, a smart saving expert. “Or when you see a price at a certain auto dealership, you’ll know how close that is to what you should really be paying.”
Also, shop around for a car loan to get the best interest rate.
“Go get pre-approved from your bank or credit union,” Moody said. “However, the dealership may be able to beat that rate. If they can, let them. But if they can’t, you have the backup already.”
Higher interest rates on car loans could mean less demand for cars.
“That means there will be more vehicles on the lot and we may even see price start to come down a little bit,” said Robert Handfield, a professor of supply chain management at North Carolina State University.
Plus, wait a few more months to get a deeper discount.
“Usually around the end of the year when the 2024s starts coming out on the lot, they want to clear out the 2023s as quickly as possible and that’s a good time to get a deal,” Handfield said.
Car costs are trending down, but from record high prices, so expect to still have some sticker shock. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/new-used-cars/273-5b019d70-7988-4c25-8b51-66ddae7830ef | 2023-05-31T13:33:24 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/new-used-cars/273-5b019d70-7988-4c25-8b51-66ddae7830ef |
Casper’s popular summer Art Walk will kick off this week with its new name — First Thursdays.
The rebranding comes with little change to the event but highlights the local artisan meet-up that will occur every Thursday for the summer.
“By rebranding, we seek to create an inclusive platform that brings together artists, art lovers, and the community at large,” Casper nonprofit Art 321 said in a statement. “First Thursdays Casper will continue to be a gathering place for people of all backgrounds to engage with art, support local talent, and experience the diverse cultural tapestry of our city.”
A Casper Art Walk Facebook post explained the rebrand is the result of the festival’s organizing partners not having “the capacity to put on this event and ensure its success for artists, participating businesses, and the community as a whole.”
Art 321 — which focuses on promoting art in communities in Wyoming — will serve as the main organizer during this summer’s three downtown First Thursday events and the recent rebrand.
Despite rebranding and organizational partner shake-ups, the summer artisan event will be joined by downtown institutions like Scarlows Art and Coffee, Art 321, Goedickes, The Drinkery by Corey, Racca’s Pizzeria Napoletana and The Gaslight Social. This week’s First Thursday of June will occur from 5:30 to 8 p.m. and will also include live music along with various artisan booths.
PHOTOS: Art Walk brings the public to downtown Casper
Pastel artist and children's book illustrator Karen Henneck signs copies of books outside Scarlow's Art and Coffee during Art Walk on July 1, 2021, in Casper. | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/downtown-artisan-fair-kicks-off-this-week-with-new-name/article_9aca340a-ff0e-11ed-be3b-270b5811069b.html | 2023-05-31T13:33:26 | 0 | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/downtown-artisan-fair-kicks-off-this-week-with-new-name/article_9aca340a-ff0e-11ed-be3b-270b5811069b.html |
SAN ANTONIO — Police are searching for a suspect who shot a man during a robbery just north of downtown early Wednesday morning.
It happened on the 300 block of Marshall Street near San Pedro around 4:45 a.m.
Police say the 65-year-old man was walking home from the store when the suspect approached him and robbed him, then shot him in the arm.
The shooting victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay.
Officials do not have the suspect in custody, but they do know who they are looking for.
Officers have the area blocked off while they investigate the crime and search for the suspect.
This is a developing story.
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SAN ANTONIO — A man was shot twice by three suspects, then his car was stolen on the west side early Wednesday morning while he was meeting a woman he 'met online.'
It happened just before 7 a.m. on the 200 block N. General McMullen Drive near Faust Avenue.
Police say the man went to meet up with a woman he had met online, when the three suspects got out of a silver Jeep and began to argue with him before shooting him multiple times.
The victim was shot once in the back and once in the leg. The victim ran to a nearby Planet Fitness for help. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
The three men then stole the man's car and drove off. Police are searching for the suspects.
Police don't know if the woman he was trying to meet up with ran off on her own or was with the suspects.
Officials say the Planet Fitness is currently closed while they investigate.
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SAN ANTONIO — HB 3 is headed to the governor's desk, some school districts are already concerned about what would cost them.
Most of the bill supports functions that districts already do. It would establish a new standard for school safety procedures, provide funding for additional security, support mental health programs and require school safety audits.
But it would also require districts to have one armed security officer at every single school campus while the campus is in operation, which could be much more expensive than it sounds.
Northside ISD has around 100 officers in it's district police department. At the same time, it has 123 different campuses, 81 of which are elementary schools. An additional elementary school will open this fall.
Like many others, the district has designated officers at high schools and middle schools and has additional officers patrol a cluster of elementary schools at one time. Northside ISD Superintendent John Craft said hiring that many more officers could be an issue.
"The bill itself appears to be an unfunded mandate at this time. Depending on the commission of police officers and the salary benefits, important training and equipment, this could be a very, very pricey piece of legislation if in fact it's signed by the governor," Craft said.
The bill would provide some funding for school safety: $15,000 per campus plus several additional thousands based on the size of the school.
Still, Craft said his district ran the numbers and the funding wouldn't be nearly enough.
"It's going to increase the school safety alignment slightly but it's not going to nearly cover the cost associated with what we're spending on school safety on an annual basis," Craft said. "In fact, it's only going to cover about thirty per cent of our overall school safety cost."
HB 3 would provide for an exception from the new rule requiring one officer per school if districts simply can't pay for it, but districts would then need to develop an alternative plan that may call for a school marshal or armed employee. Currently, Craft didn't see a way for schools to get around the requirement.
"It's going to be an expectation for this to be in place and for the school district to be moving to have that staff in place as soon as possible," Craft said.
HB 3 will also be signed into law without any accompanying increase in school salary allotments from the state legislature. While teacher pay was a priority for the Governor and Lt. Governor, the bills that would make that happen stalled during the regular session didn’t cross the finish line in time.
UTSA Political Science Chairman Jon Taylor says many school districts are frustrating after seeing increased pay for teacher and staff positions fall by the wayside.
"Right now the basic allotment has not been been changed for at least the last four or five years. There are no raises for teachers. There are no raises for bus drivers, counselors, or any public employees," Taylor said. "Their is a lot of money that is still sitting on the table (the state budget surplus) that was not spent."
Taylor said the legislature also failed to pass a budget this session and has until June 15th to do so. Between the new budget missing in action and the teacher and staff pay raises connected to HB 100 in limbo, school administrators don't have the information they need to plan for the 2023-2024 school year.
"They are leaving everything up in the air in terms of where are we going to be in K-12 spending for the next two years," Taylor said.
Craft told KENS 5 Northside ISD will need to put together a preliminary budget for the fall, based on current state law, and will need to be ready to change it depending on what happens in the upcoming special sessions. He hopes the situation does change.
"We really need an increase to the basic allotment to be able adequately fund a compensation package for our staff and teachers and be able to find a budget for next school year," Craft said. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/school-safety-bill-district-law-texas/273-c8646d3f-268c-4ed9-b8cd-ae8371ccd735 | 2023-05-31T13:33:42 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/school-safety-bill-district-law-texas/273-c8646d3f-268c-4ed9-b8cd-ae8371ccd735 |
AUSTIN, Texas — Lawmakers in Austin won’t be going home for at least the next 30 days after Gov. Greg Abbott called a special session to address property taxes and border security.
Abbott’s proclamation for the special legislative session was signed at 9 p.m. on Monday. While special sessions are nothing new In Texas, UTSA political scientist Jon Taylor admits he was surprised by the timing of the announcement.
“The only surprise was one, how quick it was and two, when he said there was going to be multiple special sessions. I don’t think I ever recall seeing a governor say that before,” Taylor said.
Abbott praised several bills he plans on soon signing into law: from ending COVID-era restrictions and mandates to prosecuting certain fentanyl deaths as murder to enhancing school safety.
Taylor pointed to one of the highly divisive bills that originally was worded to target specific members of the LGBTQ community.
“We’ve seen obviously a push to engage in certain kinds of socially conservative issues that are really read meats such as drag shows,” Taylor said.
Lawmakers will tackle property taxes “by reducing the school district maximum compressed tax rate in order to provide lasting property tax relief for Texas taxpayers,” according to a press release from Abbott’s office.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick spoke during a policy forum Tuesday morning, reflecting on the 88th Texas Legislature while also looking ahead to the special session. He stressed there's been an absence of cooperation and communication as it relates to the Texas House's leadership passing certain bills.
“I want to talk about property taxes,” Patrick said. “Homeowners in this state deserve real property tax cuts and that’s a combination of compression and homestead exemptions.”
The other major item Austin politicians are tasked with is border security with a focus on “enhancing the penalties for certain criminal conduct involving the smuggling of persons or the operation of a stash house,’ according to the governor’s office.
“Dealing with human trafficking among other things, but this is a governor that’s spent already $4.5 to $5 billion on border security and this will end up being most likely highlighting his differences not just with the democrats of the state but with President Biden.”
On Tuesday, Texas State Sen. Roland Gutierrez sent a letter to Abbott and Patrick, demanding the special session also include action on gun safety. Gutierrez has been a prominent advocate of Uvalde families impacted by the Robb Elementary shooting where 19 children and two teachers died May 24, 2022. Efforts to raise the age to buy assault-style rifles from 18 to 21 failed in this year’s legislative session.
“The Uvalde families carried the memory of their lost children to the Capitol seeking solutions to end gun violence in Texas,” Gutierrez said. “They were ignored. To our collective shame, this Legislature failed to take any meaningful steps to impede the flow of dangerous weapons in this State. Texans are demanding that we do something. We must act now. There is no more important issue facing this Legislature than ending the gun violence epidemic in Texas.” | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas-lawmakers-abbott-special-session/273-8b1ade22-8beb-424f-9e4d-b223c234da48 | 2023-05-31T13:33:49 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas-lawmakers-abbott-special-session/273-8b1ade22-8beb-424f-9e4d-b223c234da48 |
SAN ANTONIO — After a crash left two people hurt and a vehicle on fire, another resident is sharing their concerns about an intersection on the city's west side.
It happened last Friday at the corner of Grissom and Old Grissom Roads, according to San Antonio police. A crash report said a driver on Old Grissom attempted to make a left turn onto Grissom when another vehicle t-boned the car. Both drivers were transported to the hospital with injuries but are expected to be okay.
"It upsets me a great deal," said Becky Toolan, a nearby resident.
Toolan gets upset every time an accident happens at the intersection. On Tuesday, KENS 5 pulled up stats within the last three years on TxDOT's Crash Records Information System or C.R.I.S Query.
For the areas of Grissom and Old Grissom roads, nearly 20 crashes appear in the data. It doesn't include the most recent accident from Friday nor a deadly crash from early May. Toolan believes crashes are occurring more for two reasons: population growth and an increase of aggressive drivers.
"It's starting to become the norm and that's not right," said Toolan.
Similar concerns were expressed to us from our reporting on the intersection on May 10.
"Not one more person should be dying at that intersection," said Eric Maldonado, another resident.
Maldonado said an email to his District 6 representative about a traffic study/ traffic light went unanswered. We reached out to Councilwoman Melissa Cabello Havrda and the City's Public Works Department about the intersection. At the time, Public Works said the corridor did not meet the traffic requirements to install a traffic signal.
In a follow up email on Tuesday, a spokesperson told us the department, 'updated its traffic data for this intersection and determined to move forward with plans to install a traffic signal.'
He went on to say, 'TxDOT sets minimum requirements (or thresholds) for traffic volume and “correctible” crashes to determine if a traffic signal is warranted. Correctible crashes are those that can be potentially prevented with the installation of a traffic signal. The traffic data shows that this intersection does not meet the threshold for traffic volume but that it does meet the crash threshold. When only one threshold is met, it becomes an engineering decision on how to proceed.'
Public Works said a traffic signal could cost up to $500,000 including design and construction. About $90,000 will come from the councilwoman's budget and will go towards the project design now set to begin this summer. The plan is to include construction for this project into the FY25 Budget, according to Public Works.
"It just became so urgent to me because my community was calling for it," said Councilwoman Cabello Havrda.
We also asked her about the unanswered email regarding the traffic study. She said her office has a rule to respond within 24 hours on business days, and communication about the new traffic light will be conveyed to constituents.
"Hopefully that [traffic light] will be what stops these deaths from occurring," she said. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/traffic-signal-crashes-grissom/273-8ebfc3da-c90a-4408-ba7f-05a93c3004a3 | 2023-05-31T13:33:55 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/traffic-signal-crashes-grissom/273-8ebfc3da-c90a-4408-ba7f-05a93c3004a3 |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A local program is giving kids a chance to play sports, games and music all summer long.
PlayEast is a nonprofit program in east Multnomah County that gives kids an opportunity to remain active while out of school.
Some of the camps this summer include basketball, cheer, chess, and Legos.
KOIN 6 News’ Kohr Harlan traveled to Fairview, OR to get a preview of this summer’s camps.
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MIDDLE RIVER, Md. — A potential explosive device was discovered Wednesday morning in Middle River, according to Baltimore County Police.
The possible threat posed by the device forced police to temporarily shut down a portion Middle River Road, between Compass and Biggs Roads.
After examination the Police Department's Hazardous Devices Team determined the device was non-threatening.
We're told operations at nearby Middle River Middle School were not affected.
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LAKE AFTON, Kan. (KSNW) – A new drone with Sedgwick County firefighters is being called a game-changer.
“I love it. Making a difference in people’s lives is something that you truly cannot explain. You just have to do it,” said Captain Maroon Faissal with the Sedgwick County Fire Department.
The new drone has enough battery power and flight time to take a lifejacket and drop it where it’s needed in water rescues.
This weekend the county was putting the new drone through its paces. And it was a success.
“So this drone is the latest and greatest,” said Faissal. “So one of the options this drone has it will let us drop a life jacket to someone that is drowning. It’s got a camera on it that will direct the diving team to help a drowning victim. Give that victim a chance.”
Faissal says the entire drone setup cost right at 30,000. Roughly half of that is the camera system which includes thermal and infrared sensors and the ability to show video to the drone operator.
“It’s got a loudspeaker so we can talk to a potential victim,” said Faissal. “It’s very loud. It’s rated up to 130 decibels.”
Faissal says they have been using a smaller drone for some time now with success. But he says the upgrade can literally be a lifesaver on the water. Especially with bigger, better batteries.
“We have a smaller drone with a smaller spotlight, and once you start using that spotlight, obviously, you’re going to drain the batteries pretty quick,” said Faissal. “This drone with two batteries should give us a long time.”
Run time can be up to 55 minutes with the ability to “hot swap” the batteries on the fly without having to power down.
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DSC adding bachelor's degree in cardiopulmonary science in 2023; mulling other programs
Daytona State College is expecting to offer its first courses for a new bachelor of science degree program in cardiopulmonary science starting with the fall term.
The addition of a four-year cardiopulmonary degree serves aspiring respiratory therapists and people already in that field who are seeking to enhance their credentials. Job growth for respiratory therapists through 2031 is estimated to be 14%, much greater than average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Respiratory therapists earned a median annual wage of $61,830 in May 2021.
The school already offers an associate's degree in respiratory care.
“Several of our local hospital partners have told us they prefer to hire registered respiratory therapists who have earned a bachelor’s degree. And many of our graduates have expressed interest in continuing their education locally," said Tom LoBasso, president of Daytona State College.
The college is awaiting approval by its accrediting body, SACSCOC, but the program was already approved by the DSC Board of Trustees in May 2022 and by the State Board of Education in April 2023, said Chris Thomes, director of marketing and communications.
DSC officials cited several projections for an anticipated increasing need for respiratory therapists in its proposal to the State Board of Education. It also noted the aging population as a reason for the increased demand for respiratory therapy services.
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The cardiopulmonary science program will include content that provides students with skills in management, education, research, law and ethics, and quality improvement. It will advance students in technical competencies, including drugs and medicine, as well as understanding how medical conditions may contribute to an illness.
About 100 students are expected to enroll annually. Applications can be submitted year-round.
The program can be taken online with some optional in-person meetings on the Daytona Beach campus, according to the DSC website.
“Our hospital partners said they prefer to hire candidates with a bachelor's degree to reduce the orientation time and leadership training required for new employees,” said Colin Chesley, associate vice president of the College of Health and Public Services. “Adding this bachelor of science program and incorporating training in advanced modalities and management skills is a win-win for everyone involved.”
The four-year cardiopulmonary science degree at DSC won't be the first in the Florida College System − Valencia College in Orlando is among the others − but it aims to be the first state college to seek provisional accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care.
Other new programs on DSC's horizon
Amy Locklear, executive vice president-provost at Daytona State, told college trustees at an April workshop about other new offerings being planned.
One will be a diesel mechanic technician program expected to be offered in the fall of 2024. She called it a "high, high-demand area."
DSC is anticipating adding a diesel lab at the Advanced Technology College in Daytona Beach.
In coming years, Locklear said a certificate program could be added for airframe and powerplant technicians who would work on aircraft. Airframe technicians work on the shell of an airplane, while powerplant technicians focus on the engine.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach offers degree programs in this field, but the DSC certificate would be a first step for some students.
In order to offer the program, DSC would have to construct a building large enough to accommodate airplanes.
LoBasso said the main Daytona Beach campus and the ATC will likely not have the room for such a building, so officials are considering building it on the New Smyrna Beach/Edgewater campus, which has room for growth.
Adding welding technology to that campus "would be a complement program because there's high demand, LoBasso told the board.
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Trustee Randy Dye, the owner of two auto dealerships in Daytona Beach and a Daytona State board trustee, suggested the school consider training students for electric vehicle maintenance.
"The industry is only 7% fully electric vehicles," he said but most manufacturers are expecting to be 100% electric by 2035.
"I think that's aggressive. I think some of that is a conversation for Wall Street, but regardless, the amount of investment in electric vehicles is massive, and nobody's done this yet," Dye said.
School officials said they are looking into training mechanics for electric vehicles.
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NORMAL — Kerrick Road between Main and North Linden streets will be closed for a road improvements beginning Thursday.
The road closure is required for the Kerrick Road and Main Street Improvement Project in Normal The work is expected to be closed until October 1, weather permitting.
Local access to the warehouse on Kerrick Road will be maintained from North Linden Street.
Drivers are encouraged to use caution when traveling through the area.
A map spotlight of the closure can be found at www.arcg.is/1CXLHP0 .
The Memorial Day parade in downtown Bloomington stepped off at 9 a.m. from Front and Lee streets, and culminated with a ceremony in Miller Park.
Photos: Memorial Day celebrations in Bloomington-Normal history
1940: Memorial Day parade in Bloomington
"Most impressive in 10 years" was the description applied generally to the Memorial Day parade held Thursday, May 30, 1940. Here, the colors pass between open ranks on Main Street. Approximately 1,000 persons paraded. The image comes from the Pantagraph Negative Collection , now preserved and being digitized by the McLean County Museum of History.
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1940: Memorial Day parade in Bloomington
Made up of picked members of the Sons of the American Legion, these emergency patrolmen marched for the first time Thursday, May 30, 1940, in brilliant new uniforms. The image comes from the Pantagraph Negative Collection , now preserved and being digitized by the McLean County Museum of History.
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1941: Memorial Day in Bloomington
While children held their ears and adults stood in respectful silence, the salute to the dead was fired by the Veterans of Foreign Wars firing squad in Evergreen Cemetery on Friday, May 30, 1941. The image comes from the Pantagraph Negative Collection , now preserved and being digitized by the McLean County Museum of History.
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1941: Memorial Day in Bloomington
Miss Marcy Simmons, 802 S. Lee St., and scores of other camera fans had a field day during the Memorial Day parade on Friday, May 30, 1941. All patriotic organizations joined in the general Memorial Day observance. The image comes from the Pantagraph Negative Collection , now preserved and being digitized by the McLean County Museum of History.
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1942: Memorial Day parade, ceremony in Bloomington
Soldiers attending the Midwest Motive Trades Institute marched in the 1942 Memorial Day parade and attended the impressive cemetery at Park Hill on Saturday, May 30, 1942. The image comes from the Pantagraph Negative Collection , now preserved and being digitized by the McLean County Museum of History.
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1942: Memorial Day parade, ceremony in Bloomington
The mothers of World War II soldiers cast flowers in Miller Park lake in honor of the dead as part of Memorial Day ceremonies on Saturday, May 30, 1942. The image comes from the Pantagraph Negative Collection , now preserved and being digitized by the McLean County Museum of History.
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1942: Memorial Day parade, ceremony in Bloomington
Firing squads of American Legionnaires, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Spanish-American War veterans fire salutes over the graves of dead comrades in ceremonies at Bloomington, City and Park Hill cemeteries. The squad pictured is of Louis E. Davis post of the American Legion. The image comes from the Pantagraph Negative Collection , now preserved and being digitized by the McLean County Museum of History.
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1942: Memorial Day parade, ceremony in Bloomington
More than 20 organizations marched in the Bloomington Memorial Day parade on Saturday, May 30, 1942. Pictured are Spanish-American War veterans. The image comes from the Pantagraph Negative Collection , now preserved and being digitized by the McLean County Museum of History.
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1944: Memorial Day in Bloomington
Taps are sounded at the Park Hill Cemetery in one of the three impressive ceremonies held following the Memorial Day parade. Other services were held at Bloomington and Evergreen cemeteries on Tuesday, May 30, 1944. The image comes from the Pantagraph Negative Collection , now preserved and being digitized by the McLean County Museum of History.
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1944: Memorial Day in Bloomington
Roughly 1,000 marchers participate in the Memorial Day parade in downtown Bloomington as thousands of others look on Tuesday, May 30, 1944. The image comes from the Pantagraph Negative Collection , now preserved and being digitized by the McLean County Museum of History.
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1945: Memorial Day in Bloomington
Civil War dead at Bloomington's Evergreen Cemetery were honored at a Memorial Day service held by Sons of Union Veterans on Wednesday, May 30, 1945. Men of the Bloomington Veterans of Foreign Wars post formed the firing squad. The image comes from the Pantagraph Negative Collection , now preserved and being digitized by the McLean County Museum of History.
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On June 1, the University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson will be launching an access line to help providers across the state treat mental health conditions in their pregnant and postpartum patients.
The Arizona Perinatal Psychiatry Access Line (APAL) will be available from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday during the summer before expanding to full business hours in January 2024. Available to providers across Arizona, it offers free consultations on ways they can treat mental health and substance use conditions in pregnant and postpartum patients.
Providers who call the line (1-888-290-1336) will be connected with a perinatal psychiatrist (perinatal refers to the time surrounding birth for a pregnant person), who can answer questions, discuss cases and help them to make a plan to care for their patient.
“Ultimately, it's designed to address both huge needs for maternal mental healthcare …but also to support our colleagues in other specialties who are working really hard and are really struggling to meet this need on their own, without the support that they need," said APAL co-director Dr. Kathryn Emerick.
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APAL also offers training in perinatal psychiatry to providers and organizations across Arizona as well as a website with resources grouped by county that pregnant people and their family members can access.
According to APAL co-director Dr. Saira Kalia, one in five women in the U.S. develop postpartum depression and 25% of those cases emerge during their pregnancy.
“The transition to parenthood is a very challenging piece in terms of renegotiating identities and social roles and it's a perfect storm for hormonal changes,” she said.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data from Sept. 2022 show that more than 80% of pregnancy-related deaths from 2017 to 2019 were preventable, with 23% being caused by a mental health condition.
Perinatal mental health conditions have a similar impact in Arizona — a March 2022 report from the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) found that 98% of pregnancy-associated mental health and substance use disorder deaths were preventable.
The report found that these conditions accounted for 48.8% of all pregnancy-associated deaths (meaning that they occurred during or within a year of the pregnancy, but the cause was not related to the pregnancy), while the rate of mental health conditions and substance use disorder in pregnancy-related deaths in Arizona was 30.4%.
One of APAL's goals is to increase mental health care support for this population in Arizona.
“Over the course of a pregnancy, a woman receives medical care in the U.S. and they can expect to be stuck with needles, prodded with ultrasound wands,” Kalia said. “….When it comes to mental health, that medical care juggernaut just comes to a screeching halt and in the U.S., many expectant mothers can get little more than a checklist of questions.”
By creating APAL, the College of Medicine -- alongside UArizona Health Sciences, Banner-University Medicine and the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) — hopes to help providers across the state address those conditions, through consultations, trainings and helping families access resources.
“While we know there are a number of barriers to accessing mental health treatment for everyone, individuals who are in the perinatal period also face more obstacles, including a lack of providers who have specialized training in the treatment of perinatal mood, anxiety and substance use disorders and which medications are safe to use for people who are pregnant and breastfeeding,” said Rachael Salley, maternal child health and EPSDT manager for AHCCCS.
Providers calling the line will be connected to perinatal psychiatrists to discuss the case and how to care for their patients. The organizers will also collect data on trends to learn more about the best models for perinatal mental healthcare in Arizona and make recommendations at the state and federal level.
Several APAL leaders noted that treating perinatal mental health conditions can have long-lasting effects, not only benefitting mothers, but their children and families as well.
“Without proper treatment, we know that maternal mental health conditions affect not only the sufferer but her children her grandchildren and can cause generational trauma,” Salley said. “By investing in maternal mental health treatment, we are impacting population health for generations to come.”
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APS crews are working Wednesday to repair infrastructure damaged by recent flooding. As a result, part of Brannigan Park Road, just west of the Pilot Travel Center, will be closed from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Wednesday morning.
The road will be closed to ensure an APS crane has enough space to safely operate.
The road closure should not affect traffic heading east into neighborhoods and will not hamper access to the Pilot Travel Center.
After the road closure is lifted in the afternoon, crews will remain on site until the end of the day on Friday, June 2 to complete any additional repairs. As a result, APS is asking that drivers use caution on Old Route 66/Brannigan Park Road through the end of the week. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/aps-crews-conduct-repairs-on-flood-damaged-infrastructure-in-bellemont/article_8649027a-fefc-11ed-91d9-bfc83509fe21.html | 2023-05-31T13:59:58 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/aps-crews-conduct-repairs-on-flood-damaged-infrastructure-in-bellemont/article_8649027a-fefc-11ed-91d9-bfc83509fe21.html |
It was with sounds of construction in the background that Arizona Senator Mark Kelly visited Doney Park last week.
As construction crews race against time to construct flood control infrastructure in the hopes of mitigating post-fire flooding, the senator and Small Business Administration head Isabella Guzman met with county officials on issues of flood control, disaster relief and wildfire.
The visit came after the federal government provided $90 million to the Coconino County Flood Control District to respond to post-fire flooding, said flood district spokesperson Sean Golightly.
That money was allocated within a bill that Congress passed last year.
“Washington D.C. can be a frustrating place,” Kelly told reporters. “But at times we can all come together and do really positive things […] so it's good for me to see, you know, what comes from that work.”
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The media event, in which county officials thanked the senator for the federal assistance passed last year, came as part of what might be called a “gratitude tour.”
Just a month ago, county officials held an event with state agencies in appreciation of funding the state provided to respond to local flooding.
The area of Doney Park has been hit hard by post-fire flooding, first experienced in the wake of the Schultz Fire nearly a decade ago.
After the Tunnel and Pipeline fires last year, the county saw more than 40 floods and spent more than $9 million responding to the crisis.
The county flood district is now putting more than $30 million into flood mitigation and watershed restoration into areas impacted by last year’s Tunnel and Pipeline fires.
Kelly said he is proud to have had a hand in the creation of a wildfire commission to examine how to better respond to and prevent wildfires across the country. That commission was also supported by Utah Senator Mitt Romney.
“I approach a lot of these issues as engineering problems to be solved, and this fire issue, you know, is one in particular,” Kelly said. “We do the same thing every year, and we expect a different result. And we shouldn't expect that.”
County Flood District Administrator Lucinda Andreani sits on that commission and said there are already numerous improvements she would like to see in how wildfires, and subsequent floods, are handled in planning and response.
“It's just an amazing opportunity. I think everyone that's serving appreciates that Congress took this step to get input from people like me, and others from across the West that are impacted by this,” Andreani said.
Andreani said one policy she would already like to see change is how the Federal Emergency Management Agency qualifies communities to receive disaster relief.
The current system is largely designed around single unique disasters within a short period of time, such as a hurricane or tornado. But Andreani said the current system is not well suited to provide help for longer-term disasters such as repeated flooding, even when those instances can be just as destructive.
As Kelly and county officials spoke with the press, crews with Tiffany Construction were hard at work building new flood infrastructure along Highway 89 and between homes in Doney Park.
Construction foreman Max Barnes, an 18-year veteran of the company, described the difficult work as they race to get it done before monsoon season.
Barnes pointed to a car-sized boulder in the middle of the nearly 20 foot deep trench they are digging to channel flood waters.
“You can see over here where they've been hammering on that all day. It’s just hit and miss up here, I got other sections where it's just as clean as can be; you could dig for China,” Barnes said.
The channel they’re working on is designed to carry between 800 to 1,000 cubic feet of flood water per second past homes north of Highway 89, preventing those same floods from impacting residents.
And this project is just one of several the company is working on with the county to address flood concerns, said General Superintendent for Tiffany Construction Michael Garrison. In just a few weeks, Kinney Construction will also begin work within Schultz Creek to build “on-forest” flood mitigation.
In that case, rather than catching the flood water and channeling it downstream, the hope is to spread the water out, slowing it down and reducing the debris and sediment it’s carrying.
Garrison said they had hoped to let that area dry out somewhat after the record snows and recent rains before getting started. But now, Garrison said they’ve determined that they will begin work regardless of how much Schultz Creek might be flowing.
Barnes said they hope to be done with work in Doney Park by mid-July before the monsoons take hold. But even if the rains come first, Barnes said they’ll keep working to get the job done.
“We’ll [keep working], everybody wears a trench coat or a raincoat. We just keep swinging.” Barnes said. “I was on a project up in the mountains a couple of weeks ago, it was snowing on us up there.”
And that sentiment was echoed by Garrison.
“It would not be spring in Coconino County if we were not under the gun,” Garrison said. “We're always beating the mountain. The deal with us is, we're going to finish this up rain or sun. That's what we do. So we're going to take the sun while we get the sun, but if the mountain comes at us, we're going to keep working anyway. We'll get it done.” | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/as-sen-kelly-visits-impacted-areas-flagstaff-crews-race-to-build-flood-infrastructure/article_1cd5c66a-ff3e-11ed-8bad-43ed8558dbe2.html | 2023-05-31T14:00:04 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/as-sen-kelly-visits-impacted-areas-flagstaff-crews-race-to-build-flood-infrastructure/article_1cd5c66a-ff3e-11ed-8bad-43ed8558dbe2.html |
Woodhaven man, 40, dead after being struck by vehicle Tuesday on I-96 in Detroit
A 40-year-old Woodhaven man whose vehicle ran out of gas was killed Tuesday after he was hit by a car while running across Interstate 96 in Detroit to return to his car, Michigan State Police said.
Troopers were called at about 10 p.m. Tuesday to a location on eastbound I-96 near Interstate 75 in Detroit for a report of a crash blocking the freeway, officials said.
According to a preliminary investigation, the victim's vehicle ran out of fuel and he left to get some. He then tried to run across the freeway to return to his car, but tripped on the pavement and was struck by a car, witnesses told troopers.
Medics took the victim to a hospital where he was pronounced deceased, police said.
Officials said the driver of the vehicle involved in the crash remained at the scene and is cooperating with investigators.
cramirez@detroitnews.com
Twitter: @CharlesERamirez | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/05/31/woodhaven-man-40-dead-after-hit-by-vehicle-on-i-96-in-detroit/70272372007/ | 2023-05-31T14:06:40 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/05/31/woodhaven-man-40-dead-after-hit-by-vehicle-on-i-96-in-detroit/70272372007/ |
Suspect in indecent exposure, groping incidents on UM campus sought
University of Michigan police are looking for a man believed to have exposed himself to two women and groped another Tuesday on campus.
Officials said Wednesday the incidents happened between about 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. near a university parking lot on Hubbard Road east of Murfin Avenue on the campus' north side.
Authorities said a female student at 4:30 p.m. reported to police that while she was on the sidewalk near the parking lot, NW10, an unknown man approached her with his genitals exposed and stimulating himself. He left the area in a black or dark blue sedan, she told officers.
A short time later, another female student reported she was walking in the same area when she saw a man looking at her from a vehicle. She told officers that as she got closer the man exited the car with his pants around his knees. He approached her with his genitals exposed while stimulating himself, according to police. She continued on her way and saw the man return to his vehicle, a light yellow or silver sedan, and leave the area.
University police officers received a call at about 8:30 p.m. from another female student who reported that she had been sexually assaulted earlier in the day in the same area. She told police the incident happened at about 3:30 p.m. and that a man approached her from behind while she walked near Lot NW10. The man groped her through her clothing and she struck him with her umbrella across the face, she said.
The victims gave different descriptions of the suspect. One said he was a White male in his 20s with a medium build. He wore a sky-blue T-shirt with no graphics on it. Another said he was a White male, about 6 feet tall with a full beard and long wavy brown hair. And the third victim said he was a White male, 20-30 years old with a skinny-to-medium build, short curly red hair, blue eyes, a mustache and goatee, and he wore a bright T-shirt or Polo shirt.
Anyone with information about the incidents or the suspect should call the University of Michigan Police Department at (734) 763-1131. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/05/31/suspect-in-indecent-exposure-groping-incidents-on-um-campus-sought/70272254007/ | 2023-05-31T14:06:46 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/05/31/suspect-in-indecent-exposure-groping-incidents-on-um-campus-sought/70272254007/ |
'Just hang up': Oakland County Sheriff reminds residents to ignore bogus jury duty calls
Oakland County residents are being reminded to dismiss telephone scams that threaten their arrest for failing to show up for jury duty, Sheriff Michael Bouchard said.
In the past three weeks, at least 12 area residents have been contacted by scammers posing as sheriff’s officials, with the most recent complaint being filed on Friday, the agency said in a news release.
The scammers, sheriff officials said, make bogus claims of arrest warrants for failing to appear for jury duty in either federal or state court, using names of actual sheriff personal. Residents are then falsely advised to pay a $900 cash bond in either bitcoin or gift cards.
“If anyone calls and demands money over the phone, it is a scam,” Bouchard warned. “Just hang up. Sadly, we’re seeing an uptick in how many people are being hit with these phony phone calls."
The prompt comes a month after two people reportedly turned themselves in for arrest warrants that did not exist, the sheriff said.
At least two of the victims have paid the bogus $900 cash bond. Earlier victims were told they must pay as much as $5,000 to avoid arrest, officials said.
Representatives from both the U.S. District Court Eastern Michigan District in Detroit and Oakland County Circuit Court said delinquent jurors would be contacted by mail, never by phone.
The Sheriff’s Office and the courts do not accept bitcoin or gift cards for cash bonds.
"We will never demand immediate payment over the phone. Ever. Just hang up," Bouchard said.
jaimery@detroitnews.com
Twitter: @wordsbyjakkar | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2023/05/31/just-hang-up-oakland-county-sheriff-alerts-residents-to-ignore-bogus-jury-duty-calls/70272365007/ | 2023-05-31T14:06:52 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2023/05/31/just-hang-up-oakland-county-sheriff-alerts-residents-to-ignore-bogus-jury-duty-calls/70272365007/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Wichita’s Aley Pool will be closed Wednesday following significant vandalism. Aley is located in the 1800 block of S. Seneca.
The City of Wichita said 25 chairs were started on fire overnight. Damage occurred to sun shades and more.
The City said, “Our park and recreation amenities belong to us all, and senseless vandalism hurts our community and the children and families looking forward to a fun day of swimming.”
The City of Wichita on Tuesday reported that six splash pads had been closed. Two were because of vandalism.
A press conference will be held at 9:30 a.m. to address the recent pool and splash pad vandalism.
KSN News will have more on this story throughout the day on air and online. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/wichitas-aley-pool-closed-wednesday-after-vandalism/ | 2023-05-31T14:09:31 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/wichitas-aley-pool-closed-wednesday-after-vandalism/ |
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