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BLOOMINGTON — Devin Larson of Springfield said he was first drawn to the steampunk community when he was 13 and described it as the first "nerdy" thing that got him involved.
Since then, Larson and his partner, Emily Smith, have attended numerous conventions dedicated to steampunk, which is a subgenre of science fiction that infuses 19th century industrial technology into futuristic designs and aesthetics.
"I've gone all the way to Baltimore," Larson said. "I've gone to New York, Florida (and) pretty much around the East Coast."
The event kicked off Friday evening with a promenade to the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of vendors were selling steampunk-inspired clothing and other accessories.
Melanie Shellito, the event's organizer, said about 500 people attended the first year of the festival. The event didn't catch on locally at first, with most of the attendees coming from elsewhere in the Midwest.
"Over the years, we have gotten a lot more local involvement and we have been pulling from a lot further away from the Midwest," Shellito said.
Last year, approximately 2,000 people showed up from as far away as California and parts of Canada.
Jeff Platt, a Bloomington Junior High School teacher who also sells steampunk accessories via Highwind Steamworks, said he has participated in steampunk events since 2009 and praises their inclusive environment.
"(Cogs and Corsets) is a nice, hometown event that pulls in folks from literally all over," Platt said. "I'm seeing friends from Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, Tennessee, Wisconsin and Missouri."
Larson said there was a boom of steampunk events in 2016-17, but the movement has experienced a recent resurgence.
Randa Lay of Edina, Missouri, who runs a booth called Pockets Plus that sells pocket watches and other accessories, said she recently attended a steampunk event in Quincy where there were 50 vendors. In previous years, there had been around five vendors at the event.
Lay added that she has participated in steampunk activities for the last 10 years.
"As you walk around, you're going to find things made out of weird stuff and that's the thing about steampunk," she said.
John Mamrak of Bensenville sells custom lamps and light fixtures that he makes with various pipes and vintage objects such as bee smokers. The lamps and piping are fashioned into various humanoid designs, such as a man walking a dog and a man going fishing.
Although he doesn't attend many steampunk events, Mamrak said this is the second time he has attended Cogs and Corsets.
"It's pretty much a hobby," Mamrak said. "I medically retired after a heart transplant, so this is what keeps me busy now."
Saturday is when a majority of the activities will take place, including parasol dueling at 10:30 a.m., a fashion show and costume contest at 1 p.m., and Nerf gun dueling at 2 p.m.
Headlining the festival on Saturday is John Sprocket of the steampunk music act The Cog is Dead. A late-night light show and dance for adults aged 21 and up and featuring Bloomington's own DJ Doomsday will take place later in the evening.
Vendors and the festival's tea room still will be open Sunday.
Deborah Olson works on a Tyrolean-style hat at her booth on Friday during the Cogs and Corsets Steampunk Vendor Market at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts. Olson has been working on hats for 25 years and is from Holmen, Wisconsin.
Springfield's Devin Larson checks out the booths on Friday during the Cogs and Corsets Steampunk Vendor Market at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts. Larson dressed the part of a Spelljammer, an adventurer from Dungeons & Dragons who travels to the alternate steampunk reality.
Cee Jones works at his booth on Friday during the Cogs and Corsets Steampunk Vendor Market at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts. Jones, from Sherman, was at a booth with Bri Skeels titled "The Menagerie of Misplaced Memories." | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/cogs-and-corsets-steampunk-fest-takes-over-bloomington-for-6th-year/article_8425cab2-0197-11ee-aca6-d3a34b5b495c.html | 2023-06-03T01:46:49 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/cogs-and-corsets-steampunk-fest-takes-over-bloomington-for-6th-year/article_8425cab2-0197-11ee-aca6-d3a34b5b495c.html |
Shasta DA brought to investigate racist slur used at meeting: 'Quash this before it gets worse'
The Shasta County District Attorney’s Office has started an investigation into the racist slur used by a white man at last Tuesday’s Board of Supervisor’s meeting.
“We can confirm the Shasta County District Attorney's Office did receive a (report) regarding Alex Bielecki. After a preliminary review of the initial report, the Shasta County District Attorney's Office has determined that additional witness follow-up needs to be completed before a filing decision can be made,” DA spokeswoman Briona Haney said in an email to the Record Searchlight.
The DA's office is asking the sheriff’s office for additional information.
Last Tuesday, Nathan Pinkney, a Black man, was kicked out of the meeting after he objected to Bielecki, a white speaker, using the N-word while addressing the five supervisors.
Pinkney was escorted out of the chamber by a security guard after Chairman Patrick Jones got upset with him for speaking out from his seat in the audience and said he was disrupting the meeting.
Bielecki was not chastised and was allowed to speak again later in the meeting.
Jones' handling of the incident has created a public backlash against the Board of Supervisors.
Supervisor Tim Garman, who apologized to residents who were attending the meeting, told the Record Searchlight that he has been working with the sheriff’s office because “we need to make things right.”
“We are trying to do what we can to quash this before it gets worse,” Garman said.
In the wake of Tuesday’s meeting, groups like the Shasta Equal Justice Coalition and Butte County chapter of the NAACP have spoken out.
More:'Reaping now what they've sown': Community leaders react to racist slur at Shasta meeting
"The Bute County NAACP Branch 1029-B is appalled at the permissive use of the “N” word during a recent Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting this past Tuesday. Allowing the use of language that is racially demeaning against a specific racial group should not be tolerated," the Butte County chapter said in part.
The supervisors’ next scheduled public meeting is Tuesday and Garman said he expects “chaos.”
“I think there is going to be a lot of protestors and they are going to ask for the chair (Jones) to step down,” Garman said.
Garman said he doesn’t second-guess what Jones did at last Tuesday’s meeting and doesn’t think he should step down.
“No, he was voted in. I don’t want to see a change there. It will just incite the problem,” Garman said.
David Benda covers business, development and anything else that comes up for the USA TODAY Network in Redding. He also writes the weekly "Buzz on the Street" column. He’s part of a team of dedicated reporters that investigate wrongdoing, cover breaking news and tell other stories about your community. Reach him on Twitter @DavidBenda_RS or by phone at 1-530-338-8323. To support and sustain this work, please subscribe today. | https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2023/06/02/da-receives-case-related-to-racist-slur-at-recent-shasta-county-meeting/70283711007/ | 2023-06-03T01:47:53 | 1 | https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2023/06/02/da-receives-case-related-to-racist-slur-at-recent-shasta-county-meeting/70283711007/ |
ESSEX, Md. — Police are on the scene of a shooting that happened in Essex Friday.
Around 8:10 p.m., officers were called to the 900 block of South Marlyn Avenue for a report of a shooting with injury.
As of right now, there isn't much information regarding the identity or health status of the victim.
Police ask anyone with information on the shooting to contact detectives at 410-307-2020.
Stay tuned to WMAR for more updates.
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DeWitt man charged in embezzling from 90-year-old woman
A DeWitt man was arraigned Friday on embezzlement and tax fraud charges after authorities accused him of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from a 90-year-old woman, the Michigan Attorney General's office announced.
Peter Counseller, 56, was charged in 54B District Court in East Lansing with embezzlement by an agent in excess of $100,000, embezzlement from a vulnerable adult in excess of $100,000 and two counts of filing false tax returns.
Each embezzlement charge is a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Counseller allegedly used the woman's money to pay his mortgage, take vacations and pay other personal expenses. Authorities said he failed to report the income on his Michigan tax returns.
The woman Counsellor allegedly embezzled from is legally blind, the Attorney General's Office said.
"Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults in our state is not only a serious crime with substantial felony penalties, but also an assault on the wellbeing and security of elderly Michigan residents," Nessel said. "My office puts a high priority on defending Michigan’s seniors from being victimized by thieves and fraudsters and we will continue to hold the perpetrators of elder abuse accountable."
Counseller is scheduled to appear before Judge Lisa L. Babcock on June 15.
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CROWN POINT — A Gary man faces drug charges after police reportedly found MDMA and marijuana in his possession.
Andre Groce, 32, was charged Wednesday with two felony counts of dealing a Schedule 1 controlled substance while in possession of a firearm, and one count of possession of marijuana, a Class B misdemeanor.
Charging documents show that Gary police pulled over a vehicle on 36th Avenue because the vehicle disregarded a stop sign. The driver, a woman, was found to be driving with a suspended license when police ran her information. The passenger, Groce, initially refused to identify himself and did not have a valid license.
In determining that the car must be towed and inventoried, officers wrote in the affidavit that Groce started "making furtive movements with his hands" and began reaching for a black backpack in the front of the vehicle. An officer at the scene had to prevent Groce from grabbing the backpack.
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The officer smelled marijuana emanating from the vehicle and conducted a probable-cause search of the vehicle. The backpack contained a bag of multicolored pills, a large number of plastic baggies typically used to package and distribute narcotics, two knotted baggies of green plantlike material, a digital scale and a handgun.
The bag of pills was weighed at 22.8 grams and field-tested positive for MDMA. The bags of plantlike material weighed a collective 10.1 grams and field-tested positive for marijuana.
Groce was in court Thursday for an initial hearing. His next court appearance is set for June 6 in Judge Natalie Bokota's courtroom. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/gary/gary-man-arrested-for-dealing-mdma/article_2cea0a76-0168-11ee-8a89-f33f67807be7.html | 2023-06-03T02:01:47 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/gary/gary-man-arrested-for-dealing-mdma/article_2cea0a76-0168-11ee-8a89-f33f67807be7.html |
Crash on Highway 22 west of Salem snarls traffic into downtown
Bill Poehler
Salem Statesman Journal
A crash on Highway 22 about 3 miles west of Salem closed the road for a time Friday afternoon and backed traffic into downtown Salem, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation.
The crash happened just after 3:30 p.m. One lane of traffic had reopened by 5 p.m.
Cars coming from the east were being rerouted and those coming from Salem gridlocked traffic into West Salem and downtown Salem.
Bill Poehler covers Marion and Polk County for the Statesman Journal. Contact him at bpoehler@StatesmanJournal.com | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2023/06/02/salem-oregon-traffic-highway-22-crash-downtown/70283751007/ | 2023-06-03T02:04:28 | 0 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2023/06/02/salem-oregon-traffic-highway-22-crash-downtown/70283751007/ |
PHOENIX — The State of Arizona's decision to halt groundwater-based building permits could dramatically slow the Valley's outward expansion, experts said Friday.
On Thursday, Gov. Katie Hobbs announced the state would no longer approve building permits for developments inside Assured Water Supply areas that rely solely on groundwater, saying the groundwater in the Phoenix area was already spoken for.
Arizona's Assured Water Supply (AWS) law requires builders outside certain boundaries like city limits to show that they have a 100-year supply of water. Typically, that guarantee has been in the form of groundwater.
But according to the Arizona Department of Water Resources's newest water model, all of that groundwater has been allocated for the next 100 years.
The halt on AWS permits does not affect projects that have already been approved, nor does it affect cities that have already shown a water guarantee.
But Kathryn Sorenson, director of research at the Kyl Center for Water Policy, said the announcement will likely make it prohibitively expensive for builders to continue to stretch the boundaries of the Valley.
“They can continue to develop on the fringes of the Valley of the Sun where land is much cheaper," Sorenson said, "but if they do so, they're going to have to acquire their own non-groundwater water supply and that's tough to do.”
Instead, Sorenson believes builders will shift their focus to areas inside city limits, where city governments have already secured enough water for potential developments.
“This kind of equalizes things," Sorenson said. "It makes development out on the fringes of the Valley, probably at least as expensive as development within the traditional city centers.”
However, the revised groundwater model assumes the Colorado River supply will stay constant, and experts agree that it will likely continue to drop in the coming years.
Sorenson said Thursday's announcement shows the AWS law, which has been on the books for 40 years, works as intended. But she said it also shows the importance of being able to conserve and find other sources of water to continue expanding. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/groundwater-halt-slow-valley-expansion-water-katie-hobbs/75-25282c4e-2983-45a4-a225-41400e413b07 | 2023-06-03T02:17:54 | 1 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/groundwater-halt-slow-valley-expansion-water-katie-hobbs/75-25282c4e-2983-45a4-a225-41400e413b07 |
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PORTAGE — A report of suspicious people looking into a vehicle at 2:30 a.m. landed a man and woman behind bars on drug and drug-related charges.
A Portage officer said he was called out early Thursday to the 2800 block of Locust Street and found Randy Johnson, 41, of Lake Station, and Jamie Hall, 44, of Portage, walking north on Hickory Road.
St. John Police CIT Officer Dustin Wartman is trained in mental health intervention.
While Johnson was searching Hall's purse for identification, police spotted a glass pipe used for smoking crack cocaine, according to the arrest report.
"Randy tried to put it back in the purse," the officer said.
Police said they found Johnson with a scale he said he uses to weigh marijuana. They also found him in possession of the illegal drug.
"(The administrator) inquired as to why Edmari (Sanders) had not told him it was there to which he advised he was afraid of the trouble he would get in," police said.
Johnson provided Hall's name to police, and officers learned that she was wanted on two warrants from Porter County and one from Lake County.
Both were taken to the Porter County Jail. Hall faces charges of possessing paraphernalia and false informing, in addition to her existing cases, police said.
Johnson faces a charge of possessing marijuana.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into the Porter County Jail
Tabitha Thompson
Arrest date: May 26, 2023
Age: 30
Residence: Michigan City, IN
Booking Number: 2302212
Charges: Possession of methamphetamine, felony
Brandon Miller
Arrest date: May 26, 2023
Age: 28
Residence: Westville, IN
Booking Number: 2302224
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Jamie Roman
Arrest date: May 26, 2023
Age: 24
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302214
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Niles Dilosa
Arrest date: May 26, 2023
Age: 25
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302213
Charges: OWI, felony
Bryan Brown
Arrest date: May 26, 2023
Age: 65
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number: 2302211
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Andrew Rudd
Arrest date: May 25, 2023
Age: 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302199
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Jed Saunders
Arrest date: May 25, 2023
Age: 43
Residence: Westville, IN
Booking Number: 2302202
Charges: OWI, felony
Jennifer Najera
Arrest date: May 25, 2023
Age: 37
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302210
Charges: OWI, felony
Timothy Petty
Arrest date: May 25, 2023
Age: 64
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number: 2302198
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Alan Svitko
Arrest date: May 24, 2023
Age: 43
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number: 2302181
Charges: Possession hypodermic syringe or needle, felony
Malik Smith
Arrest date: May 24, 2023
Age: 26
Residence: New Windsor, NY
Booking Number: 2302187
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic drug, felony
Jahmeel Perkins
Arrest date: May 24, 2023
Age: 26
Residence: Bridgeport, CT
Booking Number: 2302189
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic drug, felony
Justin Singel
Arrest date: May 24, 2023
Age: 22
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number: 2302173
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Latasha Herrod
Arrest date: May 24, 2023
Age: 46
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302179
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
John Johnson
Arrest date: May 24, 2023
Age: 70
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2302191
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Alicia Jordan
Arrest date: May 24, 2023
Age: 23
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302177
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Oralia DeLeon
Arrest date: May 24, 2023
Age: 65
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number: 2302175
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Nicholas Aubuchon
Arrest date: May 24, 2023
Age: 27
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number: 2302178
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic drug, felony
Michael Clemons
Arrest date: May 24, 2023
Age: 22
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302174
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Adam Morrey
Arrest date: May 23, 2023
Age: 30
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302157
Charges: OWI, felony
Scott Vedo
Arrest date: May 23, 2023
Age: 57
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302156
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
Whitney Leonard
Arrest date: May 23, 2023
Age: 34
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2302162
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Kelsie Figiel
Arrest date: May 23, 2023
Age: 30
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number: 2302170
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic drug, felony
Heather Crisman
Arrest date: May 23, 2023
Age: 33
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2302164
Charges: Theft, felony
Sheryl Deck
Arrest date: May 23, 2023
Age: 64
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number: 2302160
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Cortney Watson
Arrest date: May 22, 2023
Age: 23
Residence: Hanna, IN
Booking Number: 2302154
Charges: OWI, felony
Peter Ornelas
Arrest date: May 22, 2023
Age: 55
Residence: Porter, IN
Booking Number: 2302142
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
David Ramsey
Arrest date: May 22, 2023
Age: 18
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302137
Charges: Battery, misdemeanor
Erika Small
Arrest date: May 22, 2023
Age: 29
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number: 2302144
Charges: Theft, felony
Alyssa Rivera
Arrest date: May 21, 2023
Age: 24
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302130
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Bree Snyder
Arrest date: May 21, 2023
Age: 32
Residence: Kouts, IN
Booking Number: 2302131
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Amy Goodpaster
Arrest date: May 21, 2023
Age: 40
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2302126
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Angela Hertaus
Arrest date: May 21, 2023
Age: 45
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302132
Charges: OWI, felony
Ryan Corey
Arrest date: May 21, 2023
Age: 23
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302134
Charges: Sexual battery, felony
William Crowder
Arrest date: May 19, 2023
Age: 41
Residence: Fort Wayne, IN
Booking Number: 2302093
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Samuel Peck
Arrest date: May 19, 2023
Age: 27
Residence: Madison, IN
Booking Number: 2302110
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Daquon Butler
Arrest date: May 19, 2023
Age: 28
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2302103
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Troy Worthington
Arrest date: May 19, 2023
Age: 44
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302109
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Kevin Zaragoza
Arrest date: May 19, 2023
Age: 44
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number: 2302097
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Drequain Burr
Arrest date: May 19, 2023
Age: 24
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2302108
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
William Watkins
Arrest date: May 19, 2023
Age: 36
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302100
Charges: Residential entry, felony
Jack Tilden
Arrest date: May 20, 2023
Age: 21
Residence: Porter, IN
Booking Number: 2302117
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Keon Small
Arrest date: May 19, 2023
Age: 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2302099
Charges: OWI, felony
Danko Savic
Arrest date: May 20, 2023
Age: 52
Residence: Arlington Heights, IL
Booking Number: 2302112
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Jason Neyhart
Arrest date: May 20, 2023
Age: 45
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number: 2302118
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Joanna Garner
Arrest date: May 20, 2023
Age: 38
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302114
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Victoria Johnson
Arrest date: May 20, 2023
Age: 39
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302111
Charges: Motor vehicle theft, felony
Terry Lewis
Arrest date: May 20, 2023
Age: 56
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number: 2302121
Charges: Possession of methamphetamine, felony
Thales Neves Pontes
Arrest date: May 20, 2023
Age: 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302113
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Ezell Banks
Arrest date: May 20, 2023
Age: 47
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302116
Charges: Intimidation, felony
Rebecca Benefield
Arrest date: May 20, 2023
Age: 19
Residence: Westville, IN
Booking Number: 2302120
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
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BOISE — Just after 11 a.m. on Friday, a line was already winding down Bannock Street outside Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, the smell of fresh pastries wafting down the sidewalk.
This year marks the 41st Boise Greek Food Festival, which is the church’s main fundraiser. The free-to-enter event features live music, dancing, and a substantial menu of Greek foods, like pork or chicken souvlaki, gyro and falafel bowls, and pastitsio — a layered pasta dish with meat and béchamel — as well as pastries like baklava and cookies.
The festival opened Friday, and will continue Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. It’s located at 2618 W Bannock St.
Maria and Jacob Wert brought their baby, Geraldine, to the festival where she would get her first taste of Greek food. Maria grew up in a Greek Orthodox community outside of Idaho and is half Greek, making Geraldine one-quarter Greek, Jacob said.
“It’s great — music is fun to watch, it’s always a very welcoming environment,” Jacob said. “We always enjoy the festival.”
Demetrios Kinnas, the general chairman of the festival, said he and the organizers have been preparing since February. Food preparation on the pastries begins in March and April, he said.
The demand each year has been so great that they sometimes run out of pastries or other foods, but they try to increase what they provide every year, Kinnas said.
“This city has a lot of cultural diversity in it, and we’ve been really happy that the community supports it so well,” he said.
Support from the festival helps the church give back to local organizations, such as the Boise Rescue Mission and CATCH, as well as international causes, he said.
The festival organizers also partner with Life’s Kitchen, a local foodservice job training program. Program participants this year made the pork souvlaki, did prep work on salad veggies and other items, and are helping with dishwashing and serving at the event, he said.
Betty Borger and Kimberly Wachter were excited to be back at the festival for their first time since 2019. Organizers resumed the festival last year following a pandemic pause.
“I like supporting the community with all the festivals we go to, whether it’s a festival, a market, or whatever,” Wachter said.
Effie Kaufman, one of the organizers, was chatting with people in the queue, showing them pictures of the food options. People were asking good questions, she said.
“I’m seeing so much appreciation and I’m so happy that we were able to do it … it is just so nice to be able to talk to people on this level,” Kaufman said. “We have such a good community.”
People who have visited the festival over the years have generally been gracious and complimentary, she said. She said she hopes that Boise and the local area maintains its values.
“My husband and I were talking about it this morning, and I pray that this community stays true,” Kaufman said. “They are good, hardworking, honest, real people.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/a-boise-tradition-greek-food-festival-opens-for-41st-year/article_ca6003c8-0186-11ee-8051-2bccdea89c07.html | 2023-06-03T02:35:14 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/a-boise-tradition-greek-food-festival-opens-for-41st-year/article_ca6003c8-0186-11ee-8051-2bccdea89c07.html |
Retired Phoenix police officer in landmark Miranda rights case dies at 87
Retired Phoenix Police Capt. Carroll Cooley, the arresting officer in the landmark case partially responsible for the Supreme Court's Miranda rights ruling that requires suspects be read their rights, has died, the department confirmed Friday. He was 87.
Phoenix police said in a brief statement that Cooley died on May 29 after an unspecified illness. The location and exact cause of his death were not immediately available, nor was information about services or survivors.
Cooley joined the Phoenix department in 1958 and retired two decades later.
On March 13, 1963, Cooley arrested Ernesto Miranda in the kidnap and rape of an 18-year-old Phoenix woman. Miranda was eventually convicted based on his handwritten confession and sentenced to 20-30 years in prison.
Miranda appealed, and the case eventually went up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a 1966 ruling overturning the conviction, saying that suspects should be advised of their constitutional rights against self-incrimination and to an attorney before questioning.
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That decision, along with three other similar cases that were bundled together, led to the so-called “Miranda rights” or “Miranda warning,” which is familiar to anyone who has watched a police procedural drama on television.
“You have the right to remain silent," it begins. “Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
“You have the right to speak to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you," it continues.
Miranda vs. Arizona:More than 50 years since the case argued at Supreme Court
After the Supreme Court overturned his conviction, Miranda remained in jail on another conviction and was convicted again of raping and kidnapping the 18-year-old. Prosecutors at the second trial didn’t use the confession and instead relied on testimony from a woman who was close to Miranda.
After he was paroled, Miranda was fatally stabbed in February 1976 in a dispute during a card game at a downtown Phoenix bar.
During his career with Phoenix police, Cooley worked in the city's Maryvale precinct, the general investigations bureau, and the police academy. He rose to become captain, a rank the department said is equivalent to commander today.
After retiring from the police department in December 1978, Cooley went on to work for the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division and the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
He also volunteered at the Phoenix Police Museum, where in 2013 he recounted his story before a 50th anniversary display about the Miranda arrest. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/06/02/carroll-cooley-retired-phoenix-police-officer-miranda-rights-case-dies-87/70283835007/ | 2023-06-03T02:39:13 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/06/02/carroll-cooley-retired-phoenix-police-officer-miranda-rights-case-dies-87/70283835007/ |
DUNMORE, Pa. — The sound of thunder over Lackawanna County is a welcome sign for companies like Prime Cut Lawn Care and Landscaping after a long week of working in above-average temperatures.
"Definitely a little bit of relief because then you're getting mother nature's coming down and taking care of it," said Deanna Leo.
Owners Deanna and Brian Leo say it's been a tough start to the grass-cutting season, as little rainfall has led to many yards they would cut weekly becoming nothing but dead patches of grass.
"We were really hit with a dry spell very quickly as opposed to in years past. You know you have your rain. You ease into it," Deanna said. "We really didn't have much of a spring this year."
Deanna says the company has started to do more projects like driveways and mulch to make up for not cutting a ton of grass.
She says this is a luxury smaller landscaping companies might not have.
"The lawn businesses that are only relying on lawn cutting is going to definitely take a hit for them. That's why for us, whether it's mulching, you wanted driveway put in irrigation put in anything like that installed, that's where we are more focusing our time now," Deanna said.
With the first day of summer less than a month away, Deanna says if you want a green yard, you have to do one thing.
"What we are recommending to our clients is definitely keep watering lawns; have your sprinkler out in the morning. Have your sprinkler on at night cause we have not had any rain, so the best thing to do for your lawns is to keep them watered," she said.
They say today's rain did help a little, but if you're looking to really capitalize on watering your grass, lawn care experts say the best time to get out there is in the early morning, before 10 a.m.
At that time, the temperature outside is still relatively cool, and the wind and sun are less intense. This should help get rid of those dead patches.
Check out WNEP’s YouTube channel. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/lackawanna-county-landscapers-get-creative-in-dry-weather-prime-cut-lawn-care-and-landscaping-owners-deanna-and-brian-leo-wnep/523-42252da3-3cc7-4d47-a187-cfa6b552290d | 2023-06-03T02:40:16 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/lackawanna-county-landscapers-get-creative-in-dry-weather-prime-cut-lawn-care-and-landscaping-owners-deanna-and-brian-leo-wnep/523-42252da3-3cc7-4d47-a187-cfa6b552290d |
SNYDER COUNTY, Pa. — Fire companies across four counties are working to put out a wildfire in Snyder County.
Officials say 18 fire companies across Snyder, Union, Perry, and Juniata counties responded to the wildfire on Shade Mountain that sparked around 11:40 a.m. Friday morning.
No injuries have been reported.
This is a developing story, check back for updates.
See news happening? Text our Newstip Hotline. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/snyder-county/more-than-a-dozen-fire-companies-respond-to-wildfire-in-snyder-county-shade-mountain-union-perry-juniata/523-89565526-88b7-4768-ba2a-c1046c577099 | 2023-06-03T02:40:22 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/snyder-county/more-than-a-dozen-fire-companies-respond-to-wildfire-in-snyder-county-shade-mountain-union-perry-juniata/523-89565526-88b7-4768-ba2a-c1046c577099 |
FOREST CITY, Pa. — Officials in Susquehanna County are looking for a caregiver who they say stole thousands from an elderly woman.
Police say Terri Hood of Waymart was a caregiver for 76-year-old Lois Reed from Forest City.
Hood allegedly stole $41,000 from Reed by accessing her checking accounts and credit cards.
She faces forgery and theft by deception charges in Susquehanna County.
See news happening? Text our Newstip Hotline. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/susquehanna-county/caregiver-faces-theft-charges-in-susquehanna-county-forest-city-terri-hood-waymart-lois-reed/523-5aa9ad72-638d-4ee1-a774-1a00d7d39382 | 2023-06-03T02:40:28 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/susquehanna-county/caregiver-faces-theft-charges-in-susquehanna-county-forest-city-terri-hood-waymart-lois-reed/523-5aa9ad72-638d-4ee1-a774-1a00d7d39382 |
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. – The Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office and Virginia State Police are actively searching for a missing 78-year-old man.
Jerry Hagerman, pictured above, was last seen around 6:30 p.m. on Cedar Road, according to Sheriff Mike Miller. We’re told Hagerman was driving his Kubota lawn tractor when he was seen.
10 News reached out to the Sheriff’s Office and got in touch with Cpl. Taylor, who said Hagerman was also seen on Mill Stream Road.
Virginia State Police is on the way to assist in the search with helicopters from above, Cpl. Taylor said. The sheriff’s office is working to get drones up in the air as well.
Cpt. Taylor told 10 News Hagerman has dementia, so crews would like to find him as soon as possible.
If you have seen Hagerman or know where he may be, you’re asked to contact the 911 Communications Center in Chatham at 434-432-7931 or call 911. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/03/pittsylvania-county-sheriffs-office-searching-for-missing-78-year-old-man/ | 2023-06-03T02:43:48 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/03/pittsylvania-county-sheriffs-office-searching-for-missing-78-year-old-man/ |
LANCASTER, Pa. — The Lancaster Conservancy kicked off its annual Water Week celebration on Friday afternoon. Dozens of people flocked to Penn Square to celebrate the waterways that help drive Lancaster County.
“We’re known as an agricultural community. One of the reasons agriculture is so strong in Lancaster County is because of those water resources," said Fritz Schroeder, president of the Lancaster Conservancy.
More than 1,400 miles of streams and rivers run through Lancaster County. Conservancy officials say half of them are polluted.
Schroeder said Water Week celebrates the efforts to clean the county’s waterways.
“We want to clean up all the streams and rivers, so that they’re more fishable, swimmable, drinkable," said Schroeder. "We want to celebrate them and all the good things they bring to our community.”
People were encouraged to help keep Lancaster’s waterways clean by grabbing a free native tree. Joe Hallinan with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation says planting trees acts as filter for nearby rivers and streams.
“Even just planting a tree or shrub in your own backyard can really help with the storm water that runs off from our cities and suburban areas, even before they enter our waterways," said Hallinan.
A dry May is causing concerns from farmers across Central Pennsylvania. Schroeder said the moderate drought makes water conservation even more important.
“No matter where you live or what you do for a living, these streams and rivers are really the lifeblood of our community," said Schroeder.
Lancaster Water Week will feature over 40 events throughout the county. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lancaster-county-kicks-off-water-week-environment-conservation/521-0426b792-8da2-4213-b9f7-5837a8eea598 | 2023-06-03T02:51:59 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lancaster-county-kicks-off-water-week-environment-conservation/521-0426b792-8da2-4213-b9f7-5837a8eea598 |
WASHINGTON, USA —
Here's what you should know about this weekend's road closures, construction in Seattle
Prepare for another round of construction closures this weekend.
Road work is planned in Seattle, Lake Stevens and on the Eastside that could impact your weekend plans.
Here’s what you need to know about the scheduled closures on State Route 99, Montlake Boulevard, Interstate 405 and State Route 9. Read more
Centralia Police Chief Stacy Denham said his department has had to become creative to chase after criminals.
In 2021, state legislators passed the most severe restrictions on police pursuits.
The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs blame an increase in crime, specifically car theft, on the policy.
But Denham said his office has been able to recover more stolen cars this spring, than in the past two years.
He credits a network of cameras programmed to identify license plates on vehicles involved in crimes. Read more
On Friday, William Tolliver entered a guilty plea to amended charges related to the deadly 2020 mass shooting in downtown Seattle.
Tolliver was involved in a shootout that left one person dead and injured seven others in Seattle on Jan. 22, 2020.
Tolliver pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, third-degree assault and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. Read more
The City of Seattle is set to begin its transition away from gas-powered leaf blowers.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell issued a directive in May outlining steps for departments within the city to begin transitioning to electric-powered leaf blowers. The order comes after the Seattle City Council passed Resolution 32064 in September 2022.
Resolution 32064 directed the City of Seattle and its contractors to phase out the use of gas-powered leaf blowers by 2025 "or later if necessary" and for businesses and residents of Seattle to phase out the use by 2027. Read more
Western Washington University graduate Cooper Cummings has returned from a trip to England with a unique bragging right.
Cummings won a 7-pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese during an extremely cheesy competition that draws competitors from around the world.
During Cooper’s Hill Cheese Roll at Cooper's Hill, near Gloucester in England, racers chase the rolling cheese down a nearly vertical, 200-yard hill. The rules are simple: make it to the bottom of the hill first. The giant rolling cheese leads the way and can reach a speed of 70-plus miles per hour. The first racer to finish behind the cheese gets to limp away with it. Read more | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/5-things-to-know-this-weekend/281-f6657d3f-7e2b-4ef9-8ee0-bf7225b8e650 | 2023-06-03T02:53:07 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/5-things-to-know-this-weekend/281-f6657d3f-7e2b-4ef9-8ee0-bf7225b8e650 |
Noah Plenn scored three goals and added an assist to lead fifth-seeded St. Augustine Prep to a 7-4 victory over fourth-seeded Pingry in the state Non-Public A boys lacrosse quarterfinals Friday.
The Hermits (12-5) led 3-2 at halftime.
Sebastian Varallo each scored twice for St. Augustine, the top-ranked team in The Press Elite 11. Nate Price added two assists. Ryan Marengo and Ryan Wodazak each scored once, and Jack Schleicher and Billy Hughes each contributed an assist. Carson Quinn made 11 saves. Hunter Johnson won 10 of 15 faceoff attempts.
The Hermits, the defending champions, will play at top-seeded Seton Hall Prep in the semifinals Monday.
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South Jersey Group V semifinals
(1) Southern Reg. 2, (5) Cherry Hill East 0: The Rams (29-1) won by set scores of 25-11, 25-12.
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Ethan Brummer led with 14 assists to go with five digs. Lucas Kean added 11 kills, and Landon Davis contributed seven digs. Landon Davis added nine service points, seven digs and three aces. Caden Schubiger finished with eight service points and four digs.
Southern will host the winner of third-seeded Kingsway Regional and second-seeded Old Bridge in the sectional final Tuesday.
Old Bridge captured the Central Jersey title in 2022 and beat Southern in the state final. This year, the state added four more sectional brackets, and Old Bridge and Southern are in the same one.
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South Jersey Group III semifinals
(1) Moorestown 16, (4) Ocean City 7: Katie Pierce and Gracie Pierce each scored two for the Red Raiders (16-5), who are No. 4 in the Elite 11.
Brynn Culmone, Madison Wenner and Delainey Sutley each scored once. Aliza Otton made three saves. Moorestown (18-3) is the top-ranked team. Katie Bianco scored seven, and Maddie Miceli added four.
South Jersey Group IV semifinals
(1) Cherokee 12, (4) Southern Reg. 1: Deirdre Jones scored for the Rams (15-5), who are No. 6 in the Elute 11.
Delaney Falk added three draw controls, and Falk contributed two. Lyla Clark scored three for Cherokee (15-5), which is No. 7 in the Elite 11. The Rams defeated Cherokee in their second game of the regular season.
South Jersey Group II semifinals
(1) Haddonfield 23, (4) Barnegat 4: Alyson Sojak scored twice for the Bengals (13-6), who are No. 9 in the Elite 11.
Samantha Manco and Hailee Lutz each scored once. Ava Keenan scored four and added two assists for Haddonfield (15-4), the third-ranked team. Haddonfield now aims to win its sixth sectional title Monday. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/st-augustine-lacrosse-defeats-pingry-advances-to-state-semifinals-fridays-roundup/article_cff0c04e-019e-11ee-8d26-e723c43863e6.html | 2023-06-03T02:56:51 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/st-augustine-lacrosse-defeats-pingry-advances-to-state-semifinals-fridays-roundup/article_cff0c04e-019e-11ee-8d26-e723c43863e6.html |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A Salem woman was indicted in the death of a 6-year-old boy on Friday – four months after she and her partner were booked and released in connection to the death in January, officials say.
According to court documents, 25-year-old Cierra Wiedner faces felony charges for the first-degree manslaughter of Titus Davenport, the son of her domestic partner, on Jan. 13.
Paramedics found Titus unresponsive in a house on 18th Street SE, where Widner and 29-year-old Robby-Joe Alexander Davenport lived. Titus was brought to Salem Health, but authorities say he died at the hospital.
The following day, police arrested Wiedner and Davenport for first-degree criminal mistreatment, but dropped the charges and released the couple a few days later.
The Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office completed the autopsy, officials said, but the results and cause of death have not been released to the public.
Stay with KOIN 6 as this story develops. | https://www.koin.com/local/marion-county/salem-woman-indicted-in-death-of-domestic-partners-6-year-old-son-court-documents/ | 2023-06-03T02:56:54 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/marion-county/salem-woman-indicted-in-death-of-domestic-partners-6-year-old-son-court-documents/ |
Avis Rosemary Russmann, 92, of Heyburn died Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at Pomerelle Place in Burley. Arrangements are under the care of Joel Heward Hansen Mortuary, Rupert.
JoAnn Masoner, 84, of Burley died Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Arrangements are under the care of Rasmussen-Wilson Funeral Home, Burley.
James Meyers, 86, of Twin Falls died Friday, June 2, 2023, at home. Arrangements are under the care of Parke's Magic Valley Funeral Home.
Geraldine Camp Thornock, 89, of Jerome died Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at a Boise hospital. Arrangements are under the care of Farnsworth Mortuary & Crematory, Jerome.
Leland Mort, 77, of Boise died Thursday, June 1, 2023, at a Boise hospital. Arrangements are under the care of Parke's Magic Valley Funeral Home, Twin Falls. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/death-notices/article_04d6b898-017e-11ee-b4a4-173983364c1a.html | 2023-06-03T02:59:52 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/death-notices/article_04d6b898-017e-11ee-b4a4-173983364c1a.html |
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FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP — Sophia Curtis performed as expected Friday.
That didn’t make what she achieved any less remarkable.
The Ocean City High School junior won the South Jersey Group III 400-meter hurdles and triple jump as the top seed.
“It’s awesome,” Curtis said. “I’m so grateful and happy to be here and compete with all these awesome athletes. It’s so much fun.”
Curtis’ effort highlighted an outstanding day by local athletes. Four others — Leo Pierre, William Murray and Emma Crozier-Carole of Mainland Regional and Nick Scarangelli of Ocean City — also won South Jersey titles.
The two-day Group III and II meet at Delsea Regional continues at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. The top-six finishers, plus ties, in each event in each enrollment group qualifies for the state group championships next weekend.
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Curtis easily won the 400 hurdles in a personal-best 1 minute, 0.51 seconds. That time ranks No. 4 in the country this season, according to milesplit.com, a website that chronicles high school track and field. The time was also just off the CAL record of 1:00.26 set by Helen Leyrer of Buena Regional when she won the Meet of Champions in 2012.
“The goal is a personal best every time,” Curtis said. “Just finishing as strong as I can. A strong finish every time because that’s the hardest part of the race.”
Curtis probably could have run faster. She ran by herself down the stretch. Djassi Dean of Deptford finished second in 1:04.32.
Curtis won the triple jump with a distance of 39 feet, 8 inches. On a steamy day, she had to go right from the triple jump to the 400 hurdles. Friday’s temperatures didn’t make the transition any easier.
“I just stayed in the shade as much as I can,” she said, “hydrated as much as I can. Just staying cool.”
Curtis’ effort continued what has been a sensational first season at Ocean City. She grew up in Swedesboro and attended Padua Academy in Wilmington, Delaware, as a freshman and sophomore. Last spring at the Delaware Meet of Champions, she won the 100 and 300 hurdles and finished second in the triple jump. Curtis transferred to Ocean City after her family decided to move to their summer home in the resort.
In other girls events, Crozier-Carole won the Group III high jump with a personal-best leap of 5-4.
In boys events, Pierre won the Group III 100 dash in 11 seconds, just edging Jalen Long of Eastside (11.02 seconds).
"I came in with the mindset of winning," Pierre said. "After the first 50 meters, I saw I was a little bit behind, so I kept on trusting myself and my top speed to finish first."
The victory continued a standout season for Pierre, who has also won the Atlantic County and CAL 100 dash championships this spring.
"This is my first South Jersey title," the junior from Somers Point said. "It feels good. I've been looking for it for awhile. I've been trying to take track more seriously and run faster times."
Murray finished first in the Group III long jump with a leap of 21-11.25. The winning jump came on the first of Murray’s six attempts.
Scarangelli won the Group III 3,200 run in 9:33.02. The senior led the race practically from the start. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/sophia-curtis-wins-two-events-at-first-day-of-south-jersey-track-and-field-championships/article_0f8b7a86-01b4-11ee-8af9-eb38dbb80cf5.html | 2023-06-03T03:05:19 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/sophia-curtis-wins-two-events-at-first-day-of-south-jersey-track-and-field-championships/article_0f8b7a86-01b4-11ee-8af9-eb38dbb80cf5.html |
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Marshall School congratulates 2023 graduates
Forty students took part in Friday's commencement ceremony.
Tomas Thorson leads the graduates through the “Topper Tunnel”, a line of teachers and school staff cheering and congratulating students during the Marshall School commencement at Fregeau Auditorium on Friday in Duluth.
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Graduate Kaden Bachelder applauds during the Marshall School commencement at Fregeau Auditorium on Friday in Duluth.
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Greg Benson, co-founder of Loll Design, delivers the Marshall School commencement address at Fregeau Auditorium on Friday in Duluth.
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Valedictorian Brendan Friday speaks during the Marshall School commencement at Fregeau Auditorium on Friday in Duluth.
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A graduate wears a pair of Mickey Mouse sneakers during the Marshall School commencement at Fregeau Auditorium on Friday in Duluth.
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Head of School Jamie Steckart speaks during the Marshall School commencement at Fregeau Auditorium on Friday in Duluth.
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Valedictorian Brendan Friday speaks during the Marshall School commencement at Fregeau Auditorium on Friday in Duluth.
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Student speaker Danica Mark gives remarks to the Class of 2023 during the Marshall School commencement at Fregeau Auditorium on Friday in Duluth.
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Three people were pulled from rip currents on Friday off Daytona Beach, according to Volusia Beach Safety.
Officials said the three were rescued near the 1600 block of Daytona Beach.
One person who was pulled from the ocean was unresponsive and CPR was performed.
The three were taken to the hospital, but one of them later died. The conditions of the other two have not been released.
Strong rip currents have been seen on the Atlantic coast during the last week. Over Memorial Day weekend, there were 299 people rescued from the ocean in Volusia County.
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Volusia Beach Safety says three people were taken to the hospital just a little bit ago in the 1600 Block of A1A of Daytona Beach - one was found unresponsive in the water. Others on beach tried to help. Not swimming in front of lifeguards. @news6wkmg
— Molly Reed (@Mollyreednews) June 2, 2023
News 6 meteorologist Jonathan Kegges said that even the best swimmers can get sucked out by rip currents due to their strength.
“When you get a weather system to help induce that easterly breeze, that on-shore flow, that’s when that rip current risk becomes really, really high — even higher than what it is on a daily basis,” Kegges said.
Meanwhile, Lucie Shortt visited the beach on Friday and told News 6 that she’s avoiding the deep water to stay safe from those currents.
“We knew how to watch and see where they were, and we were not allowed to go further than our knees in the water...” Shortt said. “I’m not going in the ocean. I’m just going to tip-toe.”
WHAT TO DO IN A RIP CURRENT
If you do find yourself caught in a rip current, the first step is to not panic and try to swim against the current. Turn on your back and float for a few seconds and try and alert people on the beach.
Next, start swimming parallel to the coastline until you begin to feel the pull relax.
From there, start swimming back to shore at an angle. Many panicked swimmers try swimming straight back to shore. That causes them to swim against the current, which increases their risk of drowning due to fatigue.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County deputies are seeking information after a woman was found dead in a car last month.
Deputies said they initially responded to the area of Clarcona Ocoee Road and Rose Avenue around 12:17 p.m. on May 10.
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Upon arrival, detectives said they found Maria De Los Angeles Paulino, 52, dead in a car with “obvious signs of trauma.”
If you saw something or have any information on this death investigation, please call Crimeline 1-800-423-8477. The sheriff’s office said you could be eligible for a reward of up to $5,000.
CAN YOU HELP? At 12:17 p.m. on 5/10/23, deputies responded to the area of Clarcona Ocoee Road and Rose Avenue, where they discovered Maria De Los Angeles Paulino, 52, dead in a car with obvious signs of trauma.
— Orange County Sheriff's Office (@OrangeCoSheriff) June 2, 2023
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A lawsuit aimed at the University of Central Florida was filed on Tuesday, which claims that a woman had been sexually harassed during her time working for the school.
Court records show that the woman — Maria Gambino — began working for UCF’s College of Medicine back in 2008.
In 2010, Gambino started work at the school’s Parking and Transportation Services department as an administrative assistant, and in the decade to follow, she experienced sexual harassment by her superior, Krishna Singh, the lawsuit claims.
A complaint provides examples of the harassment that Gambino allegedly received from Singh, including forcefully kissing Gambino, smacking her rear end and molesting her.
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In 2020, Gambino reported the harassment to the HR department, though she then saw her work hours cut in half, the complaint shows. The complaint also alleges that other employees had experienced harassment by Singh.
A few months later, Gambino was placed onto administrative leave and banned from the campus, according to the lawsuit.
However, an investigative report by the university’s Office of Institutional Equity says that Gambino’s claims were not “brought in good faith.”
According to the report, witnesses reported that there had been rumors of Gambino and Singh being in a romantic or sexual relationship due to their “casual” and “often inappropriate” behavior toward one another.
One instance noted in the report involved Gambino twerking to music in the doorway to Singh’s office. A witness reportedly told investigators that the two had made “comments bordering on sexual connotations.”
Investigators said that Gambino had tried to renege her claims of sexual harassment, instead wanting investigators to focus on claims of “favoritism” in the workplace.
Additionally, the investigative report says that Gambino had previously made harassment complaints regarding other members of university leadership that led to punitive actions, so she had little reason not to trust the university’s responsiveness to similar allegations.
Investigators did note that Singh had previously pulled a student employee onto his lap — something Singh initially lied about and which “greatly stains his credibility.”
That same student had also complained about Singh’s behavior for other incidents in the past, though Gambino had told the student, “Don’t ever disrespect him like that; that’s a lie, he’s a good man,” the report claims.
The report states that Singh later told investigators that he had never had an illicit relationship with Gambino, though he believed she was trying to retaliate against him because she hadn’t received the remote-work hours she wanted when the COVID-19 pandemic started.
“(Gambino’s) last words were that she was going to fight the University’s position on remote work,” Singh told investigators. “(She) was angry that she had ‘only’ four hours of remote work daily, but 13 of my 22 employees had no remote work.”
While OIE’s investigation yielded evidence that Singh may have engaged in sexual harassment in the workplace, investigators said that Gambino’s behavior — including dissuading student employees from reporting misconduct — pointed toward her making the sexual harassment complaints in bad faith.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – What started out as a get-together for a group of friends at Walt Disney World is now one of Orlando’s most iconic multi-day events.
Gay Days has been around for more than 30 years, entertaining the LGBTQ+ community. However, event organizers told News 6 changes had to be made due to laws recently passed in Florida that impact the LGBTQ+ community.
Despite legislation, Joseph Clark, CEO and co-founder of Gay Days Inc., they’re not going anywhere.
“We’re not stopping. We’re not stopping based on what’s done in Tallahassee,” Clark said. “Guests who are attending right now, they know what’s going in Florida, they know the risk that we’re taking. This year more so it was just being cognizant and ensuring that none of our drag queens and performers took it to a different level.”
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Clark said the show didn’t stop even if it meant risking getting sanctioned by the state in the wake of several new laws seen as going against the LGBTQ+ community.
“We’ve consulted with a few different organizations about stuff to ensure that we’re on the right path,” Clark said. “Our drag queens still keep it appropriate. They have fun without taking it to that, what would be now considered now as lewd behavior.”
Since 1991, the Gay Days celebration has been part of Central Florida — welcoming hundreds of thousands of local and out-of-state visitors.
The four-day event includes pool parties, bingo nights and drag queen performances.
“It’s a great event. It’s a celebration,” said Adam Rote, an award-winning artist from Daytona Beach. For Rote, Gay Days is about recognizing the obstacles the LGBTQ+ community has overcome.
“I remember coming out in 1981-82 and people used to wait outside bars to go at us. They never had to worry about that they never had to worry about being the one to come out of the closet or say what you really loved or did, so yeah, we celebrate some of the small advantages we’ve had to just be us,” Rote said.
Adding to the charged environment this year, Gay Days is taking place amid an ongoing battle between Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis, after Disney criticized a law that banned gender expression or identity discussion in classes.
“We come together, we unite, we are very resilient and resistant, and we’ve always walked for our rights, and this is just one more opportunity for us to do so,” said Tatiana Quiroga, executive director of Orlando Pride.
Despite recent laws adopted statewide, Quiroga said October’s Pride festival in the City Beautiful will go on.
“We have been and plan to be always a family-friendly event while at the same time standing in solidarity with the drag community, because we know that drag is really the cornerstone of our culture and our movement,” Quiroga said. “The city of Orlando has been and will always be a welcoming place for the LGBTQ+ community. If folks are hesitant, at least come to Orlando where you know that you will be welcomed.”
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The massive blob of seaweed that started stinking up Florida beaches earlier this year has started to shrink, according to researchers at the University of South Florida.
The 5,000-mile mass of seaweed, part of what’s called the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, which stretches from west Africa to the Gulf of Mexico, started washing up on Florida shores in early April.
But a report released by the USF optical oceanography lab shows the quantity of sargassum actually decreased by 15% from April to May 2023. This marks the first time it has shrunk during this time of year since 2011 when studies of the seaweed first began.
Scientists said it’s largely due to the decreasing amounts of brown, smelly seaweed appearing in the eastern Atlantic. The sargassum quantity was halved from March to April, then halved again from April to May, the report shows.
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It is unknown why the seaweed blob experienced such a sharp decrease and if it will continue elsewhere, according to the outlook of 2023 sargassum blooms.
But researchers said they expect sargassum quantity to continue to decrease in the Gulf of Mexico in June, much to the delight of Florida beachgoers.
The brown seaweed, which can carry flesh-eating bacteria and make you sick, is known for its smell. As it rots, sargassum gives off a substance called hydrogen sulfide, which smells like rotten eggs.
At high concentrations, Florida Atlantic University Research Professor Brian Lapointe said that gas can be bad for your health.
“A study a couple of years back in 2018 in Guadeloupe and Martinique reported that — I think it was 11 or 12,000 people were diagnosed in clinics there for having acute exposure to hydrogen sulfide and I’m hearing now reports that pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to the effects of hydrogen sulfide,” Lapointe said. “So it’s just something to be wary of, and know about and educate yourself.”
To read the latest research, click here.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – A St. Cloud man was arrested this week, accused of molesting two minors while at Disney Springs.
Marshall Diehl, 22, was arrested on Wednesday after deputies said they got a report that a minor was grabbed by a man while looking at merchandise at the World of Disney store.
Deputies say they were able to catch Diehl in one of the parking garages and positively identify him. That’s when Disney security told them about another incident that was reported the day before.
The victim in that incident said they were walking through the store in a line with their family when someone grabbed them as they walked past. A witness who saw the incident said he chased the suspect through Disney Springs, but they got away.
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Deputies say they contacted that victim and the witness and used a photographic lineup to identify Diehl as the suspect in that case as well.
Deputies say Marshall refused to talk to them when questioned and asked to speak with a lawyer.
Diehl is facing charges of lewd or lascivious molestation on a victim under 18.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – A new federal district judge has been assigned to the Walt Disney Company’s federal lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis.
District Judge Allen Winsor will handle Disney’s federal lawsuit over a series of legislation pushed by DeSantis to strip Disney of oversight of its property in Florida and increase state oversight of the company.
Winsor is taking over the case from Judge Mark Walker, who stepped away from the case Thursday after learning that a family member was a Disney stockholder, citing that as a conflict of interest.
“Even though I believe it is highly unlikely that these proceedings will have a substantial effect on The Walt Disney Company, I choose to err on the side of caution — which, here, is also the side of judicial integrity — and disqualify myself,” Walker said.
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The governor’s lawyers had filed a motion to disqualify Walker last month because he had referenced the ongoing dispute between the DeSantis administration and Disney in unrelated lawsuits regarding free speech issues.
Walker ruled against the governor’s motion, saying his arguments were without merit.
Winsor is a departure from Walker, an Obama appointee and frequent critic of DeSantis’ in federal court. Walker has handed down rulings against the DeSantis administration and Florida that were peppered with harsh critiques of the state’s policies, at one point likening Florida’s interpretation of the First Amendment to the Upside Down in the TV series “Stranger Things.”
Winsor, an Orlando native, was a solicitor general under former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and was put on the Florida District Court of Appeals by Gov. Rick Scott before he was appointed to the federal bench by President Trump in 2019.
According to the questionnaire he submitted for judicial appointees to the U.S. Senate, Winsor has been a member of the Republican National Lawyers Association and the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group that believes in a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
Disney is suing DeSantis and the board of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, the new political body created by DeSantis and the Florida Legislature to oversee Walt Disney World property. The district replaces the longtime Reedy Creek Improvement District, which the state legislature created for Disney in the 1960s.
DeSantis and the legislature dissolved the RCID last year after Disney criticized the Parental Rights in Education law, also known by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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OVIEDO, Fla. – Oviedo police announced Friday that they are looking for suspects after a string of car burglaries and thefts near Oviedo on the Park.
According to police, the incidents happened between 3 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. Wednesday and between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. Thursday.
The burglaries had emphasis on Boardwalk Avenue, Center Lake Lane and Oviedo Boulevard, police said.
In a news release, the police department described the suspects as teenagers with gray hoodies, possibly wearing masks and driving a newer model silver Hyundai Sonata.
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We are asking for the public's help if you have any surveillance video or pictures of a rash of Hyundai burglaries and thefts that happened in the City. There is an online portal to upload images. Please see details about the incident here: https://t.co/ZBOTNsOBp8 pic.twitter.com/74jbGQD7Jq
— OviedoPolice (@OviedoPD) June 2, 2023
As such, the release shows that investigators are asking the community for help finding the suspects.
“Please review your cameras to see if you observe either the suspects or the vehicles,” the release states. “Community help is paramount in this case, and thank you for your help.”
Anyone with photos or video of the burglaries is urged to submit their evidence to the department by clicking here.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Starting this month, Covenant House Florida — located in Orlando — said it will begin phasing out its emergency shelter.
The organization said it has been providing resources to housing insecure youth since 1995.
Covenant House said the closure is associated with the cost to operate the shelter.
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In a statement, Covenant House said it “made the difficult decision to close its emergency residential shelter due to financial considerations, but will continue serving young people experiencing homelessness in Orlando and Central Florida by providing other critical outreach, workforce, and supportive housing services. The restructuring will allow CHF to effectively meet the evolving needs of the Central Florida community.”
State Rep. Anna Eskamani said housing insecurities have become a top issue for residents.
“Unfortunately, it’s become pretty common for youth to be homeless,” Eskamani said. “We can’t forget about our social safety nets. We can’t forget the house insecure, but if we can help them get back economic security, everyone benefits.”
Covenant House assured the organization will continue to offer other critical services for youth in central Florida.
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BALTIMORE — Grab your blankets, chairs and popcorn-- the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks kicked off its Rhythm and Reels.
It's the first of five that will happen this summer, bringing a little bit of fun for everyone with games, music and a movie.
People spread throughout the lawn in Carroll Park for the kickoff to summer in Baltimore City--- Rhythm and Reels brings families together for some tunes and movies. An event that will happen once a month at different parks
"We are really looking forward to seeing the community come to come out. Music is a good unifier; people always love movies and so we are really looking to see a variety of people a diverse crowd,” said Ashley Bush, who is the Chief of Special Events and Permits at the Baltimore City Recreation and Parks.
The first night kicked off with the movie "School Daze.” Bush said each showing will have a theme-- this one was for the college Greek culture.
"So we wanted to call out the Greeks in the city because school daze the movie that we're showing this evening highlights HBCU culture as well as sororities and fraternities,” said Bush.
But there's still a little bit of something for everyone. Some of the kids said they enjoy ice-cream, chocolate and the popcorn.
People could took their chance at winning a game, or grab a bite at the food trucks.
Akilah Moore brought her popcorn and fruit. She sees it as a way to interact and make new friends, “"we want to be outdoors. We spent so much time in the house during covid, you know we really need to get back out and socialize and this is a great way and also meet some neighbors or some people you don't even know or probably wouldn't meet.”
For Shareen Aarons it's about balancing work and fun, "I’m outside working from home and just enjoying this great weather and enjoying time with friends and enjoying just being out. I want us to do more of that in Carroll Park.”
The event is free and will run until October. The next showing will be at Patterson Park on July 21st with the movie Lightyear. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/baltimore-city-recreation-and-parks-kicks-off-rhythm-and-reels | 2023-06-03T03:19:52 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/baltimore-city-recreation-and-parks-kicks-off-rhythm-and-reels |
EDGEWOOD, Md. — The Harford Sheriff's Office is investigating a stabbing that happened Friday night in Edgewood.
At around 9:30 p.m., deputies responded to the 1600 block of Swallow Crest Court, where they found an adult man stabbed.
The man was transported by air to a local hospital for his injuries.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. — Can't say we're surprised.
Clearwater Beach was named "Best Beach in the South" for USA Today's 10BEST 2023 Readers' Choice Awards. And it wasn't the only Tampa Bay area beach to show up on the list.
The beach topped the list of 20 beaches in the southern U.S. from Virginia to Texas. Editors from USA Today let their readers vote for their favorite beach from April 27 to May 22 and the awards were announced Friday, June 2.
After Clearwater Beach, Emerald Isle Beach in North Carolina took second. Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Beach in Florida came in third, Venice Beach, Florida came in fourth and Folly Beach in South Carolina took fifth.
Take a look at the full list:
- No. 10: Anastasia State Park - St. Augustine, Florid
- No. 9: Mustang Island State Park - Corpus Christi, Texas
- No. 8: Virginia Beach Oceanfront - Virginia Beach, Virginia
- No. 7: Stuart Beach - Stuart, Florida
- No. 6: Gulf Shores Beach - Gulf Shores, Alabama
No. 5: Folly Beach - Folly Beach, South Carolina - No. 4: Venice Beach - Venice, Florida
- No. 3: Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Beach - Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, Florida
- No. 2: Emerald Isle Beach - Emerald Isle, North Carolina
- No. 1: Clearwater Beach - Clearwater, Florida
Clearwater Beach is a world-renowned beach for its sugar-white sands and warm Gulf of Mexico waters — you can't forget the breathtaking sunsets either. It's also home to the Pier 60 Sugar Sand Festival where sand sculptors from around the world create beautiful sand structures for display each year.
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HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. — A 2-year-old child was airlifted to the hospital Friday evening after they were hit by a car in Brooksville, Hernando County Fire Rescue said in a social media post.
It happened on Batten Road, according to Hernando County authorities.
The toddler was taken to a trauma center in Gainesville, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office said. Their condition was not immediately released.
While details are scarce, the sheriff's office did say a family member was involved in the incident. At this time, it's being investigated as an accident. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hernandocounty/child-hit-car-brooksville-airlifted-helicopter-hospital/67-8a429306-d04e-4819-9082-0190693fccdf | 2023-06-03T03:20:26 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hernandocounty/child-hit-car-brooksville-airlifted-helicopter-hospital/67-8a429306-d04e-4819-9082-0190693fccdf |
TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa residents might notice some helicopters hovering overhead next week.
Tampa Electric said people in the area should not be alarmed by the low-flying helicopters though. It's part of an ongoing inspection of transmission equipment, TECO said in a news release.
The low-flying helicopters will be conducting surveys of Tampa Electric's high-voltage power lines starting Monday, June 5. Tampa area neighbors can expect to see helicopters fly between 30 and 300 feet above the lines and poles while workers inspect equipment using infrared technology or traditional cameras.
This is not limited to just the city of Tampa. The inspections are taking place along Tampa Electric's urban and rural areas with crews surveying the entire 1,300-mile system. Helicopters will be in the area on weekdays while the sun is out. It's expected to take two weeks, ending by June 16, weather permitting.
OneSpan Powerline Services out of Birmingham, Ala., will be overseeing the inspections. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/helicopters-patrolling-tampa-teco-lines/67-18a94cc9-e46c-44b8-af3c-cbf59eb45b78 | 2023-06-03T03:20:32 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/helicopters-patrolling-tampa-teco-lines/67-18a94cc9-e46c-44b8-af3c-cbf59eb45b78 |
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A viral social media video that appears to show students at Kellam High School in Virginia Beach tearing down a Pride banner is now being investigated by school officials.
One Instagram post showing the video has been viewed nearly 14,000 times as of Friday afternoon. The video shows a rainbow banner hanging from a balcony with the words "Happy Pride Month" torn away by two students.
Virginia Beach City Public Schools sent a message to families on Friday, stating, "the incident is being investigated and the students will be disciplined in accordance with the student code of conduct."
The message goes on to say, "VBPCPS does not condone acts of hate of any kind, including hate-speech. We are dedicated to promoting equity, tolerance, and kindness towards all students and staff. Please use this as an opportunity to talk to your children about the consequences that can go along with engaging in activities both on and offline that could potentially be viewed as promoting hate against another group or person." | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/video-shows-students-ripping-down-pride-banner-at-kellam-high-school/291-a7a4f0fc-9e52-438c-aa9d-e8100b408e3c | 2023-06-03T03:25:39 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/video-shows-students-ripping-down-pride-banner-at-kellam-high-school/291-a7a4f0fc-9e52-438c-aa9d-e8100b408e3c |
CROWN POINT — An East Chicago man was charged with murder Wednesday in connection with the 2021 beating of another East Chicago man.
St. John Police CIT Officer Dustin Wartman is trained in mental health intervention.
Lloyd Clark Gatlin, 28, was charged with murder, aggravated battery and battery resulting in serious bodily injury.
Charging documents say that Gatlin punched Martin Cabrera in the face on Aug. 18, 2021, and Cabrera fell and hit his head, effectively killing him.
When police arrived to the 4500 block of Magoun Avenue in East Chicago, officers saw Cabrera on the concrete with blood coming out of his mouth and the back of his head, according to the probable-cause affidavit.
A witness told police that she saw Cabrera and Gatlin get into an argument earlier that evening. Gatlin had accused Cabrera of raping a woman, and Cabrera allegedly responded “I didn’t do it,” charging documents stated.
Gatlin then purportedly punched Cabrera in the face, and the witness told police that she saw Cabrera’s eyes roll back in his head as he fell straight back onto the concrete, the probable cause affidavit stated.
The witness added that, after Cabrera fell, she saw Gatlin slapping his face “as if trying to wake him but [Cabrera’s] eyes kept twitching.”
Gatlin’s first court appearance has not been set. As of Friday, he was at large on an arrest warrant, according to court records.
Gatlin also has pending charges for an unrelated auto theft.
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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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — Nick and Terry Saban helped dedicate their 20th Habitat for Humanity home to a Tuscaloosa family Friday morning.
Richelle Harris and her granddaughter are the new homeowners of the house, located on Elm Street.
“First and foremost I would thank God who made all this possible,” Harris said. “I would like to thank Habitat and all the workers and Coach Saban and Miss Terry and my family and friends. “
The new home has been nicknamed “The Sugar Bowl House” in honor of the University of Alabama’s victory winning the game last season. Coach Saban says he’s always happy to be part of helping a family have a better quality of life.
“We are so excited and happy to help the Harris family have a wonderful place to live for their family,” Saban said. “We appreciate Habitat and their partnership and our ability to build our 20th house.”
The Saban family and Nicks Kids Foundation began their relationship with Habitat shortly after the April 27 tornado devastated Tuscaloosa in 2011. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/nick-saban-dedicates-20th-habitat-for-humanity-home-in-tuscaloosa/ | 2023-06-03T03:39:18 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/nick-saban-dedicates-20th-habitat-for-humanity-home-in-tuscaloosa/ |
DALLAS — Most Dallas-Fort Worth residents would still need to visit a vehicle inspector each year, even if Gov. Greg Abbott signs a bill to eliminate mandatory safety checks.
The Texas Legislature sent such a measure to the governor's desk Tuesday. It aims to save Texans an annual trip to the inspection station by removing the requirement from the state code.
But the bill would not save Dallas-Fort Worth residents time or money.
Under the proposal, Texans who forego an inspection would still pay the $7.50 fee when they renew their vehicle's registration. The tax ensures eliminating the requirement does not impact state coffers.
Texas is one of 13 states that mandate yearly vehicle inspections.
If the bill becomes law, drivers living in 17 Texas counties where air quality is poor will still have to visit an inspection station each year. Vehicles in these areas must annually pass an emissions test to meet state environmental requirements.
Of the 17 counties, nine are in the metroplex.
People who live in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, and Tarrant counties cannot renew their vehicle's registration unless it clears an emissions test.
Sanad Khirfan, who owns Slick's State Inspections and Auto Details in Irving, hopes drivers taking their cars for an emissions test would also choose to request a safety check.
"For most people, the biggest investment they make in their life is a house - and second, a car," Khirfan said. "If you care about that major investment you're going to carry for at least five years, I would definitely have it checked regularly."
The proposal, which would apply to cars registered after January 2025, is likely to hurt inspection station owners. Khirfan says his shop typically offers a solution to problems his inspectors discover, including tires and brakes.
Khirfan estimates roughly 20 percent of the 150 cars his team inspects each month do not pass. On average, then, his crew catches about one car each day that's unsafe to drive.
"I hope Texas continues this program," Khirfan said. "That's a major safety concern." | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/bill-to-ban-vehicle-inspections-wouldnt-save-dfw-residents-time-money/287-90b73877-114b-484b-8d62-64858a38134a | 2023-06-03T03:40:01 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/bill-to-ban-vehicle-inspections-wouldnt-save-dfw-residents-time-money/287-90b73877-114b-484b-8d62-64858a38134a |
GRANBURY, Texas — The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has disciplined a Granbury ISD administrator following a WFAA investigation that revealed he used the district plane for personal use.
In November, a WFAA investigation found Assistant Superintendent Jimmy Dawson used the plane to fly to Abilene and visit his daughter for her birthday. He took his wife, another district employee, on the trip.
In September, Dawson told WFAA he hadn’t used the plane for personal trips. He said the flight to Abilene and others like it were training flights.
The TEA said it launched an investigation based on WFAA’s initial story and a tweet promoting it.
Last month, the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) issued Dawson an inscribed reprimand, a permanent mark on his certificate. The reprimand says Dawson used professional privileges for personal gain.
Watt Lesley Black Jr. has spent 30 years in education as a principal and school board member and teaches education ethics and law at SMU. He compared Dawson’s actions to a bus driver using a district bus for a vacation.
Black told WFAA an inscribed reprimand is significantly more severe than an uninscribed one, which would be between just the TEA and Dawson.
“It’s a pretty significant thing to happen to an educator,” Black said of the reprimand. “The inscribed reprimand would probably be for ethical violations that are pretty serious.”
Following WFAA’s first story, the district paid a law firm more than $20,000 for a review of the plane, which was initially designed to help teach students aviation. It discovered Dawson flew just three times with students but seven times with his family. The review concluded Dawson logged 10 flights as training, including a trip the week of Thanksgiving that was also to Abilene.
“That seems to me to be unusual and raises a bunch of legal and ethical questions,” Black said.
Just 64 of the plane’s 136 flights were listed as student instructional flights, according to the attorney review.
While the district owned the plane, neither Dawson nor the district’s other instructor, Mark Kirk, were licensed by the FAA to teach students how to fly.
Following WFAA’s initial report, district parents also raised concerns about a flight to College Station on a weekend. Kirk flew with students on the day of a Texas A&M football game. The flight is listed as a "college visit" on the district log. It’s unclear how many students were allowed to use the district plane for campus tours.
Granbury ISD said neither Dawson nor Superintendent Jeremy Glenn would answer questions on camera for this story. Board President Barbara Herrington did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Dawson publicly apologized in a board meeting in December.
"It never was my intent to bring any negative attention to the aviation program," Dawson said. "I regret the position this has placed our wonderful school district in."
WFAA requested emails from board members, Glenn and Dawson to learn more about the plane program and investigation.
After WFAA spoke with Dawson in September, Glenn told board members, “Both Mr. Dawson and Mr. Kirk log significant hours in our airplane and have taken dozens of students on demonstration flights.”
Dawson took three students on demonstration flights in the 19 months the district owned the plane.
Hours before WFAA’s first story ran in November, Glenn told the board, “We never heard back from WFAA” after the district’s initial statement in September.
In those two months, though, WFAA had several phone calls and dozens of emails with a Granbury ISD spokesperson and open records coordinator.
Asked about the discrepancy, the district spokesperson said, “There were gaps in our communication during those two months.”
Dawson told WFAA in September the district’s board and leadership were aware of the flight. However, the legal review found Dawson never had written permission to fly. It added that he didn’t violate any policies, though, because, before WFAA’s story, there were no written guidelines on the use of the plane. The district has since implemented new written guidelines.
Attorney Miles Bradshaw and KBS Law, which prepared the review, also did not respond to multiple requests for comment from WFAA.
The board unanimously voted to sell the plane in January. A California buyer got it for $96,000. The district had initially bought it for $42,000 in April 2021 and then spent $50,000 on upgrades.
In the January board meeting where the district agreed to sell the plane, board members noted higher-than-expected costs that came from maintenance and hangar rental fees, as well as insurance and the risk associated with the program.
"What this says to our students, families, and community is that GISD accepts the risk the plane creates because the most we can lose is $100,000, according to the insurance,” Board member Karen Lowery said. “Every time this plane would take off and land, it created a risk of accident and liability to the district.”
While several districts across the state have aviation programs to teach students about planes and engineering, WFAA couldn’t find another district in the state that owned a plane for its program.
“It’s such an unusual circumstance that the school district would purchase an airplane,” Black said. “There’s probably a lot of ways to serve the interest of flight-related education, aeronautic-related education without purchasing an airplane for the district.”
Granbury ISD said it is now using a flight school for its education. Dawson will not be part of the program or teaching, according to the district.
A spokesperson said the district has disciplined Dawson internally but could not share details.
The review conducted said Dawson’s actions warranted at least a written warning and training or a written reprimand and training.
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Royal Oak parking backs locals, businesses, officials into a tight spot
Royal Oak — After a Downtown Development Authority assessment of street parking found that roughly 43% of visitors violated Royal Oak's rules last year, the city tripled the free parking grace period, among other changes.
The city commission approved the amendments to the Municipal Parking Services agreement in April. The changes, which include extending the free grace period for on-street parking from five to 15 minutes and the maximum street parking time limit from two to three hours, went into effect on April 20.
But some local business employees and patrons say three hours is still not enough time to take in the downtown experience and that any strict parking limit is unwelcoming. Many also take issue with the back-in angled parking on Washington Avenue, which is required since the new parking meter system reads license plates that are typically only found on the back of Michigan vehicles.
Royal Oak approved its contract with Municipal Parking Services (MPS), a Minnesota-based company, in 2021, and the new parking system was deployed last summer, Royal Oak City Manager Paul Brake said. Royal Oak's previous parking meters used a 3G cellular system, which many US carriers, including AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, have stopped supporting. The city's five-year contract with MPS will expire in 2027.
MPS meters have cameras that recognize license plates as soon as a vehicle parks, according to the company's website. Parkers can pay at any MPS station as long as they know their space number. Users can also pay for parking using coins, credit cards or the SentryMobile app, and they can pay when they leave rather than all up front, Brake said.
"Granted, when you come back to your car ... it'll be flashing red. So that shows that you have a violation," Brake said. "The natural instinct is, 'Oh my gosh, am I getting a ticket?' Well, no, you go in and type in your parking space and pay the amount."
The city received lots of feedback on the MPS system, and the Royal Oak Downtown Development Authority commissioned an assessment of the parking situation in 2022. They found that roughly 43% of downtown visitors who used street parking violated the rules, most often the five-minute grace period. This is a "very high" violation rate, according to the authority's report.
The April updates were approved following recommendations to extend the grace period and maximum parking limits, Brake said.
"Five minutes seems like a long amount of time, but you know, in reality, it can go by pretty quick," Brake said. "Many people who do visit down to the downtown area, come here for the downtown experience. ... Two hours, again, is not a long period of time for someone when you're going out for entertainment."
Royal Oak and MPS initially agreed to split revenue from parking and parking tickets evenly, since MPS fronted the cost of the parking meters and supplemental infrastructure during installation, Brake said. The contract was first negotiated based on financial projections of a five-minute grace period and a two-hour maximum, so the city is forgoing revenue under the new changes, he added.
In addition to losing some revenue, the city has to pay MPS what they would have collected under the initial parking requirements. Extending the grace period to 15 minutes results in a loss of roughly $45,000 a month and increasing the two-hour time limit to three hours cost them about $10,000 a month, Brake said.
"The revenue dynamics will change," Brake said. "Maybe more people will end up parking as a result of this. ... Then potentially that dollar amount could be higher, but the split or what we're paying for the ... lost revenue is a fixed amount."
Angled parking presents challenges
Liz Morton, a manager at Lily's Seafood in downtown Royal Oak on Washington Avenue, hopes extending the maximum time limit for street parking to three hours will draw more people downtown.
"The city has just extended it (the limit) to three hours, which is very nice," Morton said. "I really don't want to bad mouth it (parking) that bad, because I want to encourage people to come to Royal Oak, because it's the businesses that are being hurt."
Morton's husband owns Lily's Seafood, and the couple has lived in Royal Oak for 32 years. She said the MPS system is often confusing for customers.
"A lot of them find it frustrating, they don't know how to, you know, make it work," Morton said. "We do see a lot more empty spots, so we do think it's an impact."
Lily's Seafood is located on Washington Avenue, where the parking spots are at an angle rather than parallel to the curb. Visitors looking to park on the street are required to back into the angled spots so that the MPS meters can read their license plates.
"In Michigan, we only have rear plates, unlike some states where you're required to have a front plate. So their license plate reader is reading that off of the back of the car," Brake said. "Those parking spaces, they are wider and they were done intentionally that way. ... It's a little bit more forgiving in that regard."
But some employees at local retail businesses on Washington Avenue say that they have witnessed more car accidents, a decline in foot traffic and faulty meters. Julia Manzella, 34, has worked at Rail and Anchor, a downtown boutique, for three years and said business is "way down" in terms of people coming into the store.
"No one knows how to back in. ... I've seen myself a minimum of 10 accidents," Manzella said. "Since I've worked here the walking traffic has gone down immensely because not only people can't figure it out, they've given up on Royal Oak. Even though they've now changed it to three hours and 15 minutes ... people say 'I give up, I've gotten too many tickets, I've paid too much money.'"
Accidents on Washington Avenue have resulted from people parking incorrectly, Brake said. Pulling into spots instead of backing in will result in a $50 fine if caught by Royal Oak Police.
Manzella also doesn't think three hours is enough time for many visitors and said the strict time limit is "very much unwelcoming." She herself has gotten parking tickets and doesn't know why.
"I have a couple of tickets that I still have to pay that I've been trying to pay," Manzella said. "No one answers the phone. I had emailed (the court), no one answers my email."
The small businesses are the main appeal of Royal Oak's downtown, said Andrew Nazzaro, who has worked at Lost and Found vintage clothing store for two years. Nazzaro, 28, lives in Detroit and commutes to work daily by car.
"A lot of us on this side rely on foot traffic and in terms of that, people have told us outright that they don't have any type of interest in coming back to Royal Oak or this location just because they've been ticketed too much," Nazzaro said. "If it weren't for the fact that I worked here and love where I work, I would find no reason to come here ever."
The Washington Avenue parking situation is still "under review," Brake said. The city could switch the street to parallel parking, although this would eliminate about 30 spots, according to Brake.
Not all locals oppose the new system, though. Susie Oliver has lived in Royal Oak for seven years and is a fan of the concierge option on the SentryMobile parking app that pairs with the downtown meters. It allows her to register a car's license plate and pay for her own parking and that of family members and guests. Concierge members will never have an expired parking session as long as they are parked for three hours or less, according to the city's website.
"I don't know why everyone's so weird about (the parking) to be honest," Oliver, 33, said. "If you go to Ferndale, it's worse. You go to Birmingham, it's worse."
Royal Oak does not have exact data on the number of parking tickets administered since the changes were implemented in April yet, Brake said.
"From anecdotal information, our parking manager, as far as calls relative to the grace period and the time limit, the complaints associated with that have decreased dramatically since the implementation," Brake said.
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NAZ Elite recently announced its summer marathon lineup, with Matt Baxter slated to race at the distance in Australia in early July and Lauren Hagans set to compete at 26.2 miles in just a couple weeks in Duluth, Minnesota.
Both have been producing promising workouts as they build toward their events, according to NAZ Elite Executive Director Ben Rosario.
While Baxter is readying to take on his second-ever marathon, Hagans is building toward her debut.
Hagans initially joined the NAZ Elite roster in early 2020 as a specialist at shorter distances, particularly the 5,000-meter on the track. Over time, she started getting a feel for the road and a taste for longer distances.
"She was definitely a 5,000-meter runner when she came to the team, and we never had grand visions of the marathon for her," Rosario said. "We thought she could be even better at 5,000 meters than she had been, and sure enough she did get better. She set a personal best, did really well at 5,000 meters and finished seventh at the Olympic Trails at 5,000 meters -- which was better than she had done at the previous Trails.”
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After some time with NAZ Elite, she started asking the staff if she could get in some more road races.
“It wasn’t really any mandate from us," Rosario said "It was really just the way her mind and her body went.”
She's on course to run the Grandma's Marathon on Saturday, June 17.
Hagans started her shift to the road after competing in the Olympic Trials in 2021 on the track. She finished sixth at the Boston 10K for Women in October of 2021, and went on to produce a fifth-place finish at the USATF 5K Championships later that year in 15:49. That same year, she was fourth at the USATF Half Marathon Championships with a time of 1:09:46 -- which stands as the team's third-best time ever at the distance on the women's side.
The championship half-marathon race was her first at the distance. She's been on the road to becoming a marathoner since.
“I think that much like it’s been a gradual process physically, it’s also been a gradual process mentally, where you mention it a time or two, and then maybe you have more of a sit-down about it, and then eventually it was, ‘Yeah, I am definitely ready,’” Rosario said of his 36-year-old athlete wanting to take on the marathon.
Hagans finished second at the 2023 Rock ‘n’ Roll Arizona Half Marathon at 1:12:30 in January as the marathon became more of a focus. In February she won the Cardiff Kook Run 10K and then placed second at the USATF Half Marathon Championships just weeks later.
The sample size from running half-marathons showed she had potential for running full marathons. Her workouts started getting longer, and her mileage started getting a little higher.
“And then you wake up one day and you are ready to run the marathon,” Rosario said with a laugh.
Going for Gold
While Hagans is readying to run her first marathon, Baxter is eyeing his second.
He made his debut at the New York City Marathon in November, clocking a 2:17:05 for a 12th-place finish, and has been hungry to run another since.
When it came to NYC, NAZ Elite really just wanted Baxter to get a marathon on his resume. Dealing with injuries, Baxter made his way cautiously to NYC.
Now, however, NAZ Elite is ready to unleash Baxter. It's part of the reason the Gold Coast Marathon stood out to Baxter and the team.
“That was a big factor for Matt, and we want to give him the opportunity to run up front," Rosario said.
And Baxter is really starting to nail down marathon training.
NAZ Elite had plans for Baxter to run NYC the year before his debut, but injury prevented him from toeing the line. So he started his marathon training sessions back up, taking a careful approach to getting to 2022's NYC.
He's taking on this round of marathon training with more wind in his sails, and he has a good fit for a race lined up.
“All of a sudden here we have a choice for once, and we wanted a race that he could really compete in, so I think Gold Coast fits perfectly," Rosario said.
Other than dealing with a flu bug during his marathon buildup, Baxter's been healthy, and Rosario said he's been “reaching new heights in training.”
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PORTLAND, Oregon — A number of big events will be taking place this weekend in Portland, including the Rose Festival's iconic Starlight Parade.
The Oregon Brewery Festival began at noon on Friday, and will run until Sunday. Organizers said the beer festival attracts thousands of people looking to try different craft brews.
But there plenty of other events going on beside the brewery festival.
For the second year in a row, the Portland International Raceway is hosting the NASCAR Xfinity series races. Those got underway Friday morning, beginning with Miata drivers. NASCAR Xfinity series drivers take to the track on Saturday.
"Come out and enjoy the event, enjoy the races," said Katie Maris, co-owner of Wood Fired Pizza.
Maris said her business has stocked up on food and added employees to help the small business during the busy weekend. Maris said the race is Wood Fired Pizza’s third biggest weekend of the year.
"We've just got, we've got tons of product,” Maris said. “We've got tons of people that are going to be here helping us out."
In downtown Portland, preparations are being made for Saturday’s Starlight Parade. The route begins on Naito Parkway before ending on Taylor Street.
But some downtown business owners said the city has just begun cleaning up streets around their business in preparation for the parade.
“I'd like to know where their money's going,” said Krista, a bartender at Jockey Club. “Because it's certainly not trying to help the community down here."
Other business managers believe the parade will be good for business.
"Tons of people coming in,” said Anthony Williams, director of hospitality at Swine Restaurant and Whiskey Bar. “They're all having a great time, lot of families, lot of folks. We'll sit here for a couple hours and just watch them go by. So it's a really fun event for us." | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-hosting-several-large-events-this-weekend/283-263efb03-e041-475b-aa70-feac4b7a9db4 | 2023-06-03T04:09:40 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-hosting-several-large-events-this-weekend/283-263efb03-e041-475b-aa70-feac4b7a9db4 |
BOISE, Idaho — After his wife was just found guilty for murdering her children, Chad Daybell will now face a similar trial on April 1 in Ada County next year.
According to court filings dated Friday, Daybell's trial is set for April 1, 2024 at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise at 9 a.m., before Fremont County District Judge Steven Boyce -- the same judge who oversaw the trial of Daybell's wife, Lori Vallow Daybell. She was found guilty of all charges against her on May 12.
Chad Daybell, 54, is charged with conspiracy to murder and first-degree murder in the deaths of Lori Vallow's children, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan. He is also charged with conspiracy to murder and first-degree murder of his wife, Tammy Daybell, along with two counts of insurance fraud and one count of grand theft related to the deaths.
Prosecutors say Lori Vallow, her brother Alex Cox and Chad Daybell created a religious-based plan to murder their family members in order to obtain social security and insurance benefits.
Chad Daybell's wife was found dead on Oct. 19, 2019, in the home they shared together. Tammy Daybell's cause of death was determined to be homicide by asphyxiation after her body was exhumed for further investigation, the Utah State Medical Examiner said in the previous trial.
The two children were discovered the next year, buried in shallow graves on Chad Daybell's property. Ryan was dismembered and burned while JJ Vallow was suffocated by a plastic bag, forensic experts said.
The death penalty was taken off the table for Lori Vallow due to a late discovery submission by the prosecution, but Chad Daybell still faces death.
If he is found guilty and doesn't receive the death penalty, he could receive life in prison. Under Idaho law, he could still plead guilty before he is tried.
A pre-trial conference in the case will take place on Feb. 22, 2024 in Fremont County. The entire trial is slated to continue until the end of May that year.
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ROANOKE, Va. – Train lovers rejoice! The famous ‘Queen of Steam’ locomotive is back in the Star City for the first time in four years.
10 News first told you about the return of the beloved 611 locomotive on Wednesday. On Friday afternoon, train fanatics of all ages came out to see the ‘Spirit of Roanoke’ pull into the Virginia Museum of Transportation.
Joe Camer was just one of many people lined up on the 5th Street bridge as the locomotive passed underneath. Camer used to be a conductor for the 611 back when the museum put on excursions.
“The smell of the coal smoke. The smell of the steam. The sound of it. It’s a living, breathing entity,” Camer said. “I’m like a kid actually.”
Jonan Wilkin and his group of friends also lined the bridge to try and get pictures of the locomotive in action.
“I think 611 might be the best example of Steam left in America. It’s just an amazing locomotive. The epitome of steam power,” Wilkin said.
Ezra Hatter remembers getting up in the cab of the locomotive as a kid while it was housed at the Virginia Museum of Transportation for decades. Friday was the first time Hatter got to see the ‘Queen of Steam’ in motion.
“It looks the same. It’s very surreal thinking that I was in that cab hundreds of times … hundreds of times,” Hatter said.
The museum will have a ‘Blow the Whistle’ event on Saturday to celebrate the locomotives return. There are plans to try and have excursions eventually but nothing is finalized yet.
Wilkin says he plans to come out to ‘Blow the Whistle’ and suggests it for anyone who hasn’t seen a steam engine up close.
“You don’t get to see one every day, a steam locomotive. I would say if you haven’t seen it before, come on out and see it. It is not necessarily a once in a lifetime thing but it’s a lifetime memory. It’s something you will never ever forget,” Wilkin said.
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Fighting fire with fire: Prescribed burns help Arizona firefighters manage blaze
FLAGSTAFF — The firefighters made their way through the dense Coconino National Forest, their drip torches leaving behind a clear trail of new fire.
As the pine needles on the ground quickly burned, the crews were left with a distinct black line of ash signifying the fire's containment line alongside a dirt road.
Their effort Friday is the latest in the U.S. Forest Service's response to the lightning-caused Volunteer Fire burning about 20 miles southeast of Flagstaff.
While the nearly 100-person crew is trying to fully suppress this fire, they are doing so using an indirect strategy that uses the landscape to their advantage.
"We're using some modified, indirect tactics to make sure that the fire, one, stays where we want it to stay, and two, protect the values that are at risk surrounding this," said Aaron Graeser, operations section chief for the Volunteer Fire.
Crews are burning untreated areas along the fire perimeter and using existing roadways as containment lines, eliminating the majority of the remaining fuel on the ground should the fire start moving.
A priority has been placed on protecting areas adjacent to the fire perimeter, including the Navajo Army Depot to the north, a Mexican spotted owl habitat along the eastern edge of the fire on Mooney Mountain and acres of private land with ranches and homes scattered throughout.
Burning ground fuels and limiting a fire's ability to spread have been essential in the effectiveness of these fire suppression strategies. Past fires that have altered the landscape have assisted in suppressing the new fire as well.
When the Volunteer Fire started May 23, much of it was contained to the burn scar left after the 2020 Rafael Fire, which significantly limited the potential fuels for the fire and allowed fire officials to better manage its movement.
Friday's prescribed burns were essentially designed to do the same thing.
"Having those areas of landscape that have recently burned allows us to, on the worst days, be able to control where a fire occurs," said Nick Mustoe, deputy district ranger with the Flagstaff Ranger District.
Prescribed burns are possible only because of a perfect cocktail of conditions. In this case, a wet winter and spring followed by a cooler-than-average start to summer have allowed officials to start and maintain prescribed burns with minimal risk of them growing out of control.
"This is the window," Mustoe said.
It's been such a unique year in terms of weather, he said, that fire officials are balancing wildfire response and potential prescribed fires.
This has required balancing resources to ensure all of the planned work gets done while they are still able to respond to wildfires when they occur.
"We're trying to the extent that we can to not overcommit to any one area," Mustoe said. "We want to be able to do as much as we can do in a year that has given us plenty of opportunity to put fire on the ground."
In an area with so much land that has already burned, the current risk of a runaway wildfire is considerably lower than it was a decade ago.
"Fire risk for this area for the next, maybe five to 10 years, isn't that high, and it's because of the work that we're doing today," Mustoe said.
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Phoenix police arrest 3 in connection to fatal shooting at apartment complex
Phoenix police arrested three people accused of murdering a man and then lying to police about what transpired.
Court documents say police responded to an apartment complex near 19th Avenue and Butler Drive on May 9 at around 5:23 a.m. for an emergency welfare check. Officers responded to the north side of the apartment complex where they found a man with multiple gunshot wounds.
The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officers found multiple 9mm bullet casings north of the body, according to court documents.
What happened?
Earlier that evening at around 1:30 a.m., Ciera Mickey, 27, told police that she had gotten into a physical fight in her apartment with a man she knew.
Documents state the man was intoxicated and refused to leave the apartment. Mickey and another woman, 22-year-old Mariana Zamora, said she also wanted the man to leave.
Officers contacted the man, who denied that the argument became physical and said he would call for a ride. Mickey and Zamora told police they still felt unsafe and left the complex in their respective vehicles, according to court documents.
Police recontacted Mickey and Zamora when they returned to the complex at 7 a.m. to pick up some belongings after the man’s body had been found. Documents say both women volunteered to be interviewed at Phoenix police headquarters.
Mickey said she met the man through a dating app while Zamora denied knowing him. The women said they left for Zamora’s home before staying with her boyfriend, Gabriel Garcia, at his own residence for the remainder of the evening.
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However, call records from the victim’s phone showed three incoming and two outgoing calls between 3:01 a.m. and 3:11 a.m. with location information showing the phone at Mickey’s apartment until about 3:17 a.m. when it traveled north close to where police found the body.
Documents note that the movement north came minutes before police first received calls about gunshots.
Police obtained records from Mickey’s, Zamora’s and Garcia’s cell phones and found they contradicted Mickey’s and Zamora’s initial claims. Location data showed Mickey and Zamora went to Zamora’s residence but then returned to Mickey’s apartment at about 2:29 a.m. where the devices appeared to move around the apartment until 3:02 a.m.
Throughout this time, Zamora and Garcia called each other multiple times throughout the evening and during the time investigators believe the fatal shooting occurred.
Video surveillance from nearby apartment complexes also captured Zamora’s Chevrolet Tahoe driving through the area multiple times between 2:30 a.m. and 3:19 a.m.
Police interviewed Mickey, Zamora and Garcia on May 31, where they all initially denied their involvement in the shooting before ultimately blaming each other.
Mickey said Zamora asked Garcia to kill the victim while Zamora said Mickey made the request. Mickey ultimately admitted to owning a 9 mm handgun. Mickey gave Garcia the handgun and Garcia placed the handgun in a safe at his residence, which police later retrieved, according to court documents.
Both Mickey and Zamora said Garcia shot the man, documents say. Mickey and Zamora were booked into jail on one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and obstructing prosecution while Garcia was booked on first-degree murder, according to court documents.
All three are being held on a $1 million bond. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2023/06/02/phoenix-police-arrest-three-in-connection-to-fatal-shooting-at-apartment-complex/70283913007/ | 2023-06-03T04:28:29 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2023/06/02/phoenix-police-arrest-three-in-connection-to-fatal-shooting-at-apartment-complex/70283913007/ |
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Part of downtown Kingsport was underwater Friday night due to an apparent water line break.
Kingsport central dispatch told News Channel 11 that a water line break was reported on Commerce Street.
Photos shared with News Channel 11 showed a significant portion of the street underwater.
News Channel 11 is working to learn more about the water line break. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/apparent-water-line-break-floods-downtown-kingsport-street/ | 2023-06-03T04:31:15 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/apparent-water-line-break-floods-downtown-kingsport-street/ |
VINELAND — Bianca’s Kids, a New Jersey-based nonprofit, is looking for Vineland High School juniors and seniors to bless.
Established in 2010, Bianca’s Kids grants “wishes” to kids in local communities who are in need of a little extra help. The organization was created to assist youth 18 and younger who are struggling with physical, emotional or financial issues.
Representatives from the mayor’s office recently met with the organization to discuss an effort to reach Vineland High School students.
“I want our kids to feel important, I don’t want them to feel pitied, I want them to feel they are so incredibly special that they were chosen by Bianca’s Kids to grant a wish for them,” Bianca’s Kids founder and President Debbie Savigliano said in a news release. “We look forward to working with Mayor Fanucci to identify students who could use a helping hand.”
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Guardians of students in need (or friends of the family with a guardian’s permission) are encouraged to submit a “wish” request for items such clothing, school supplies, college dorm kits, laptops, bedroom makeovers, senior trip fees, sports uniform fees and more to bless their student.
Bianca’s Kids was established by Savigliano in memory of her niece Bianca Yodice, who died at the age of 21. Yodice’s work and passion for children inspired her aunt to create a foundation in her name.
Wish requests must be submitted through the application found at vinelandcity.org. For more information about Bianca’s Kids, visit biancaskids.org. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/education/bianca-s-kids-seeks-to-make-vineland-high-school-students-wishes-come-true/article_3781ff54-0085-11ee-b6a2-6fe97487a28a.html | 2023-06-03T04:34:33 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/education/bianca-s-kids-seeks-to-make-vineland-high-school-students-wishes-come-true/article_3781ff54-0085-11ee-b6a2-6fe97487a28a.html |
Mike Trout, 31, a 2009 Millville High School graduate, is a center fielder with the Los Angeles Angels and was the 2014, 2016 and 2019 American League MVP.
Thursday: Went 0 for 3 and walked twice in a 5-2 loss in a series opener at Houston. He batted second and played center field.
Friday: Went 0 for 4 in a 6-2 loss to the Astros. He batted second and played center field.
Saturday: Cristian Javier (6-1, 2.97) is scheduled to start the 4:10 p.m. game for the Astros. Trout is 0 for 9 against him. Javier has walked him once and struck him out seven times.
Stats: Trout is hitting .269 (57 for 212) with 13 home runs, 31 RBIs and 36 runs scored in 55 games. He has walked 26 times and struck out 66 times. His on-base percentage is .363, his OPS .868. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/daily-mike-trout-report-astros-beat-angels-again/article_1c105f6a-0164-11ee-b14c-4365a554b5da.html | 2023-06-03T04:34:58 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/daily-mike-trout-report-astros-beat-angels-again/article_1c105f6a-0164-11ee-b14c-4365a554b5da.html |
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Sixty years after Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in Fort Wayne, the city is set to unveil a monument to the legendary civil rights activist on Monday.
The path to a monument commemorating King’s June 5, 1963, speech at what was then Scottish Rite Auditorium wound its way from combing through newspaper archives in Fort Wayne and Indianapolis to finding a Texas art studio with a unique vision for how to commemorate the historic visit.
It began more than three years ago when City Council members Michelle Chambers, D-at-large, and Russ Jehl, R-2nd, proposed the Public Arts Commission find a way to honor the visit.
Nancy Stewart, chair of the commission, said the group assembled a selection committee. They decided the monument should be near the site of the speech, which is now the University of Saint Francis Performing Arts Center on West Berry Street. The committee read through proposals from several artists and narrowed the list down to three.
“We spent four hours on Zoom interviewing all of them. It was a unanimous decision to go with RE:site,” Stewart said.
RE:site, an art studio in Houston, has experience working on public art installations, memorials and monuments. Norman Lee said he and co-founder Shane Allbritton felt the project was within their wheelhouse.
Lee said that because the country contains many memorials to King, the studio wanted to create something unique to this specific visit. They looked to King’s inspiration, including his religious background and study of nonviolent resistance.
“He focused on what are called six pillars, or principles, of nonviolent resistance,” Lee said. “This emerged from this notion of the ancient Greek notion of agape, this kind of platonic love, love for your fellow human.”
Lee said he and Allbritton wanted to give a physical form to those metaphorical pillars. They also looked to papyrus reeds, which they felt would connect with bending but not breaking in relation to nonviolent resistance but also to the Fort Wayne area’s agricultural history.
Thus came the “Pillars of Hope and Justice:” six 15-foot pillars containing King’s words “growing from the ground.” Lee said the words themselves were cut from steel and finished with a golden amber color.
“It’s like he planted these seeds of hope and these words, these thoughts, these sentiments are taking root in America’s heartland and growing out,” Lee said.
The project was funded by the city of Fort Wayne, Harriett Inskeep, the Journal Gazette Foundation and the city public art commission. The sculpture and celebration were organized through partnerships with the commission, the city, Arts United, Canterbury School’s Jonathan Hancock Lecture Series, University of Saint Francis and Sweetwater.
To find those words wasn’t an easy feat. Unlike other speeches or writings of King’s – including his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” sent two months before the 1963 visit or his “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., later that summer – no complete recording or transcript of his Fort Wayne speech exists.
Todd Pelfrey, executive director of the Fort Wayne Historical Society, said he joined the memorial’s steering committee and revisited a research project that started in 2013 for the speech’s 50th anniversary.
Pelfrey started with about six minutes of King’s words contained in articles from The Journal Gazette and The News-Sentinel published the day after the speech, and only about one minute worth of words that was shared between the two stories.
Analysis of King’s speech patterns from other addresses allowed the historical society to estimate that King spoke for about 28 minutes that night in Fort Wayne. Pelfrey said he contacted dozens of organizations across the country but still couldn’t find a full copy.
“A historian never wants to come up empty-handed, and we didn’t. But that also speaks to the integrity of the project itself,” Pelfrey said. “We contacted over 40 of the most likely places, and not one of them has anything. That’s a success in and of itself from a researcher’s perspective.”
But Pelfrey did find additional content he was previously unaware of, however. Those new words were located in an article published several days after the speech in the Indianapolis Recorder, a Black newspaper.
Pelfrey said the article contained a full minute worth of new words not contained in any other articles.
“(The) new Negro has matured in thinking and arrived at a point when he wants freedom – and not gradually,” King said in one of the quotes from in the Indianapolis Recorder. “(He is) definitely sick of being segregated.”
Also discovered by Pelfrey were articles written by reporters from two wire services, the Associated Press and United Press International. They didn’t contain new quotes, Pelfrey said, but they did help confirm the existing material and its order.
All 84 lines of text will be included on the six pillars, Pelfrey said.
Pelfrey said he felt the memorial committee approached the project with respect and humility.
“We took as our guiding principle to recognize and celebrate the words and the message,” he said. “We really wanted this to be completely tied to the documented content and the message of what King shared in Fort Wayne.”
The Rev. Bill McGill, a pastor at Imani Baptist Church, also served on the steering committee. He saw King speak once as a child growing up in Cleveland before moving to Fort Wayne.
There’s a synergy between all of King’s messages, McGill said, adding that parts of the June 5, 1963, address called attention to cities such as Fort Wayne that are “up south” – a Northern location where residents have a Southern mentality.
“He would always challenge individuals in these areas for being a little more polite, if you will, but still not willing to really be engaged in the civil rights fight,” McGill said.
McGill said that message and others are still critical today.
“There are some themes that, if he were alive, I think that he would speak with – for lack of better words – a despondent feeling,” McGill said. “That individuals are so committed to celebrating the dream that they’ve done far less than they should have in replicating the dream.”
Not many communities can say they have two memorials to the civil rights icon, McGill said. Fort Wayne also has a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge on Clinton Street, which was dedicated on the speech’s 49th anniversary in 2012.
McGill said he hopes visitors and locals alike read King’s words on the new memorial, take them to heart and act on them.
“It serves as not only a memorial, but a challenge to make sure those words are not only never erased, but are actually embraced,” he said. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/city-to-unveil-new-monument-to-mlk/article_1a163652-fa4e-11ed-821f-d7aa1801bb35.html | 2023-06-03T04:42:00 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/city-to-unveil-new-monument-to-mlk/article_1a163652-fa4e-11ed-821f-d7aa1801bb35.html |
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A federal court’s ruling this week dismissed several civil charges filed in a lawsuit against Lake City Bank.
As a result, the subsidiary of Lakeland Financial Corp. dodges a potential payout of $73 million, the amount requested in connection with those charges, a bank executive said.
But other allegations brought by bankruptcy trustee Mark T. Iammartino could continue to make their way through the U.S. Bankruptcy Court’s Western District of Michigan, Southern Division. That’s if Iammartino decides to amend his lawsuit for the third time. He has 21 days to make another filing.
If the court would ultimately find in Iammartino’s favor, Lake City could be ordered to pay the plaintiff $13.6 million.
David Findlay, president and CEO of Lake City Bank, described Tuesday’s ruling as “a great day for us.”
“It really, really, significantly reduces for us the (financial) risk in the remaining lawsuit,” he said Friday during a phone interview.
Iammartino is assigned to the bankruptcy case of Lake City client Najeeb Ahmed Khan and his companies: Khan Aviation Inc. and Interlogic Outsourcing Inc. as part of a Chapter 11 filing. Khan pleaded guilty in January to fraud and attempted tax evasion.
As the liquidating trustee, Iammartino is responsible for compiling a fund and using it to pay off Khan’s creditors. Any money that was improperly siphoned from Khan’s assets before the bankruptcy filing froze those assets should be added to that fund, according to bankruptcy law. Iammartino contends fees collected by Lake City were taken as part of a criminal conspiracy, with the bank’s executives well aware of Kahn’s check-kiting fraud, and should be repaid.
Check kiting, a form of fraud, involves writing a check while knowing there isn’t enough money in the account to cover it, depositing that check into another bank’s checking account, writing a check on that account and depositing it at yet another bank. The illegal practice takes advantage of the delay between when a bank receives a paper check – and provisionally credits the depositor’s account – and when the bank actually receives the money from the bank the check was written on.
By carefully timing when checks are written and deposited, a check kiter can, for example, make the same $1 million appear in the balances of multiple accounts in multiple banks at the same time, making it appear that he has multiple millions.
Findlay said Khan was a trusted customer who was well-respected in the Warsaw community before his crime was uncovered. Honoring the checks Khan wrote was considered a normal part of banking business, something KeyBank and Berkshire – the other two banks involved in the circular movement of money – also did, Findlay said.
“What we were doing was not in any way, shape or form what they’re accusing us of,” Findlay said, saying that Lake City officials were the ones who ultimately alerted law enforcement about the scheme and do not face any criminal charges.
Lake City filed a motion asking that the entire case against it be dismissed. Tuesday’s ruling responded to that motion.
Judge Scott Dales addressed each of the 39 allegations in the 163-page document, which accuses four Lake City executives, holding company Lakeland Financial Corp. and company director Bradley Toothaker of turning a blind eye to Khan’s illegal activity.
Dales dismissed all charges against Toothaker and Lakeland Financial. He noted in the 43-page decision that Lake City’s motion for dismissal accused the plaintiff of striking out when making its allegations in the second amended filing. But, in the court’s opinion, Iammartino was “batting at least .500,” meaning at least half of the charges could continue to be pursued.
Iammartino’s attorney couldn’t be reached Friday for comment.
As part of the discovery phase, Lake City officials provided Iammartino’s attorneys with what Findlay described as “over a million pages of documents.” Iammartino’s lawsuit quotes from some of those documents. Findlay didn’t question the accuracy of the quotes but said they were taken “selectively and out of context.”
Among the email exchanges cited was one between Doug Samuels, Lake City’s vice president, corporate and institutional service manager, and Eric Ottinger, executive vice president and chief commercial banking officer. In it, Samuels expressed concern about the activity in Khan’s checking account for Interlogic Outsourcing, saying “something just doesn’t feel right here.”
The date of that email was July 22, 2016.
“I don’t think we should allow this to happen. It’s natural at times to have negative collected balances due to timing issues, but this is blatant, purposeful movement of funds with the intent to cause these charges … and I think that is bordering unethical,” Samuels said in the email. “I think (Lake City Bank) need to discuss this further and fully understand the processes that are happening and decide how to proceed.”
Samuels followed up with a second email three days later. In it, he told Ottinger: “I don’t want to have an auditor come through and see this one customer doing this, and ask if we know exactly what is going on and why.”
On Friday, Findlay said that if Iammartino continues to pursue the lawsuit, that KeyBank officials would also be deposed. If that happens, Findlay said, those officials would be forced to explain why they didn’t discover and report Khan’s banking activity.
“KeyBank wants to make us look like the bad guy here,” Findlay said.
Instead of pointing fingers, he said, the banks should acknowledge that Khan was a “brilliant” man whose sophisticated fraud fooled them all. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/courts/court-ruling-removes-some-civil-charges-against-lake-city-bank/article_d2875376-017c-11ee-ab88-3b397db3fcd5.html | 2023-06-03T04:42:16 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/courts/court-ruling-removes-some-civil-charges-against-lake-city-bank/article_d2875376-017c-11ee-ab88-3b397db3fcd5.html |
A 24-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 16 years in prison for his part in a 2020 murder.
Korta Thomas’ sentence stems from a plea agreement he signed last June that dismissed the murder charge he initially faced when he was arrested in connection with the shooting death of 23-year-old Hakeem Cage alongside his cousin, Javon Thomas, 20. The time will be served consecutively with a sentence for an unrelated charge of domestic battery.
Cage was gunned down in front of his girlfriend and then robbed as he was dying in front of the Summit at Ridgewood apartments in Fort Wayne on Dec. 2, 2020.
In exchange for testifying against his younger cousin, who was sentenced Wednesday to 45 years in prison, Thomas was guaranteed to have his sentence set at 16 years on a felony charge of robbery resulting in serious bodily injury.
Though he was not required to testify at trial against his cousin, the agreement stands.
Both men were identified through witnesses who were able to describe the shooting, actions of the men before and after the murder, and phone records, according to probable cause affidavits signed by Fort Wayne Detective Liza Anglin.
Cage’s girlfriend told police she and Cage were walking to her apartment after a party when she heard footsteps coming in their direction. She heard about five gunshots before Cage collapsed.
Immediately after Cage fell, the woman saw the shooter rummage through her dying boyfriend’s pockets, taking a large amount of money in the process, court records say.
Javon Thomas, who was 17 years old at the time, was originally charged with murder, robbery and a sentencing enhancement for using a firearm in the commission of the crimes. With the dismissal of the robbery charge and sentencing enhancement, Javon Thomas’ plea agreement required him to be sentenced to 55 years in prison.
Of that sentence, 45 years will be spent behind bars and 10 years will be suspended. After Javon Thomas is released from prison, he will be placed on probation for 10 years. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/courts/man-sentenced-to-16-years-for-robbery-during-2020-murder/article_415535ea-009f-11ee-a068-8bcf5d2069e4.html | 2023-06-03T04:42:22 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/courts/man-sentenced-to-16-years-for-robbery-during-2020-murder/article_415535ea-009f-11ee-a068-8bcf5d2069e4.html |
A federal judge said Friday he was pleased with the progress made in addressing staffing concerns at the Allen County Jail but worries it might not be enough going forward.
The Allen County commissioners and sheriff’s department are required to address inhumane conditions at the downtown jail after U.S. District Court Judge Damon Leichty ruled in favor of Vincent Morris, a former inmate, and the American Civil Liberties Union.
John Feighner, the attorney representing the Allen County Sheriff’s Department, told Leichty the jail has consistently housed less than 650 inmates since the start of the year. He said that number is expected to increase during the summer months, however, as is common with county confinement facilities.
In an opinion issued in March 2022, Leichty said that although the jail’s capacity is 741 inmates, it is considered operationally full when 593 inmates are at the facility. During the years leading up to the lawsuit filed in 2020, daily population averages exceeded that limit by at least 50 inmates.
The average jail population exceeded 800 in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The average dropped to 759 in 2020, but Leichty noted that was largely because of attempts to manage COVID-19 cases in correctional facilities.
Because of the county’s jailing needs, capacity should be more than 1,000, he said.
Feighner said staffing has increased slightly, moving from 134 to 141 employees. The sheriff’s department’s goal is to exceed 150 employees in the coming months, he said.
A 2013 Allen County Jail survey found deficiencies in the staffing at the jail, which had 130 confinement officers at the time. William Wilson of the Indiana Sheriff’s Association performed the survey. He found that the jail should employ at least 171 confinement officers.
Morris alleged his Eighth Amendment rights were violated during his incarceration. Leichty ruled that understaffing and other issues at the jail must be addressed.
Leichty ordered the sheriff’s department and commissioners to provide a safe environment for inmates. Additionally, the sheriff’s department must maintain a sufficient staff to meet supervision and recreational needs of pretrial detainees and prisoners.
The jail receives seven job applications a week, on average. And about half of the applicants are ineligible for employment, Feighner said, citing one factor that has delayed staffing increases.
Leichty commended the jail’s efforts to address understaffing but said he is concerned about the actual progress being made and whether it is enough.
“I don’t want to undercut the efforts in any way,” Leichty said. But current staffing issues will be an even bigger problem in the future with a new jail, he added.
With a staff of 155, the jail would be less strained, Feighner said. About 20 violent incidents have been reported at the jail each month – an issue the attorney and Leichty agreed was not a direct result of the staffing.
Kenneth Falk, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney representing Morris, said the violent incidents were not as big of a concern for him.
“That’s going to be a problem as long as there are humans in that facility,” Falk said.
Falk said he was content with the progress being made and the cooperation among the parties.
“I think we are on the right path,” he said.
Diana Bauer, an attorney representing the community activist group Help Not Handcuffs, shared concerns about transparency. She cited county governing boards’ meeting times being during the average person’s work day and the number of public meetings.
Leichty reiterated that community involvement in decision-making for the new jail is the key to success in resolving issues identified in the lawsuit.
“I do believe this is a communitywide challenge,” Leichty said, “and it will require communitywide input.”
Leichty set the next status hearing for 10 a.m. Sept. 29. Leichty said he hopes to hear more information about plans to fund the new jail’s construction and how to increase staffing. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/courts/update-on-new-jail-heard-goals-for-next-hearing-set/article_a3e2d9a8-0160-11ee-8496-af771502f16d.html | 2023-06-03T04:42:28 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/courts/update-on-new-jail-heard-goals-for-next-hearing-set/article_a3e2d9a8-0160-11ee-8496-af771502f16d.html |
The Foellinger Foundation’s board recently approved grants to 32 local community interests nonprofits totaling more than $1.1 million.
The recipients are (amounts not disclosed):
ACRES Land Trust
Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Inc. (History Center)
American National Red Cross
Artlink
Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne
Audiences Unlimited
Cass Housing
Dr. Bill Lewis Center for Children
Embassy Theatre Foundation
Fort Wayne Ballet
Fort Wayne Children’s Choir
Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo
Fort Wayne Cinema Center
Fort Wayne Civic Theatre
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra
Fort Wayne Trails
Fort Wayne Youtheatre
Foundation for Art and Music in Elementary Education (FAME)
Humane Fort Wayne
Little River Wetlands Project
Northeast Indiana Fund/Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership
Northeast Indiana Innovation Center
Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Questa Education Foundation
RemedyLIVE
Science Central
SCORE Northeast Indiana
Stillwater Hospice
University of Saint Francis’ Jesters program
Volunteer Center RSVP
Young Leaders of Northeast Indiana Foundation | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/foellinger-foundation-awards-grants/article_67036b3c-0175-11ee-a19e-5fd488cc083b.html | 2023-06-03T04:42:34 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/foellinger-foundation-awards-grants/article_67036b3c-0175-11ee-a19e-5fd488cc083b.html |
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The chart lists crimes through May 29 investigated by the Fort Wayne Police Department including burglary, robbery and thefts from vehicles. An attempted robbery or burglary is classified as an actual robbery or burglary, respectively. The listed addresses are those where crimes were reported and are not necessarily where the crimes occurred.
Sector 11
5/23/23 4 p.m. Burglary 800 Tennessee Ave.
5/26/23 Midnight Theft from vehicle Florence
and Cortland avenues
5/26/23 Midnight Theft from vehicle 800 Tennessee Ave.
Sector 13
5/24/23 Midnight Theft from vehicle 2100 Point West Drive
Sector 16
5/23/23 Midnight Theft from vehicle 2700 Coliseum Blvd. W.
5/23/23 5:30 a.m. Burglary 2200 Contractors Drive
Sector 24
5/27/23 10:40 a.m. Burglary 5200 Stonehedge Blvd.
5/27/23 Noon Theft from vehicle 5100 Stonehedge Blvd.
Sector 27
5/27/23 8 p.m. Burglary 7600 Meriwood Drive
Sector 31
5/23/23 3:30 a.m. Theft from vehicle 1800 College St.
Sector 32
5/23/23 12:04 a.m. Robbery Broadway and Taylor Street
5/28/23 9:04 a.m. Theft from vehicle 2300 Fox Ave.
Sector 33
5/28/23 2:44 a.m. Burglary 3700 Wawonaissa Trail
Sector 36
5/24/23 10 a.m. Burglary 8000 Community Lane
Sector 42
5/23/23 8:31 p.m. Robbery 1600 E. Pontiac St.
5/29/23 8 a.m. Burglary 1000 Oaklawn Court
Sector 43
5/23/23 10 p.m. Theft from vehicle 2200 Edsall Ave.
5/23/23 10:30 p.m. Theft from vehicle 1700 Fleetwood Ave.
Sector 44
5/24/23 6 p.m. Burglary 5200 Decatur Road
Sector 47
5/24/23 12:12 p.m. Burglary 800 E. Tillman Road
5/24/23 7 p.m. Theft from vehicle 8400 Lakeside Drive
Sector 48
5/28/23 2:09 a.m. Burglary 3500 Debeney Drive
Sector 61
5/24/23 8:45 a.m. Burglary 2400 Covington Pointe Cove | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/crime-reports/crime-reports/article_4a87e686-0026-11ee-ac26-9bf5bb3806fb.html | 2023-06-03T04:42:47 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/crime-reports/crime-reports/article_4a87e686-0026-11ee-ac26-9bf5bb3806fb.html |
Every Fort Wayne police officer has been trained to respond to calls involving people who might be experiencing a mental health crisis.
Some recruits received that instruction just last month.
Whether responding to a report of a crime, conducting a wellness check or speaking to someone contemplating or attempting suicide, Fort Wayne officers see people with mental health issues every day, said Sgt. Jeremy Webb, the department’s public information officer. So, for more than 20 years, officers have been trained to effectively respond to those calls.
Last year, Fort Wayne police responded to more than 2,000 calls regarding someone who was mentally ill, averaging about five such calls a day.
Fort Wayne officers are trained on how to handle those situations before they leave the academy to ensure they’re prepared to respond to those calls their first day on the job.
It all started in 2001, with some officers electing to do a training related to mental heath issues to become members of the Crisis Intervention Team. Since then, the training has become a standard among Fort Wayne police. The goal is to divert those with mental illness from incarceration by focusing on treatment.
Webb said the training isn’t meant to turn a police officer into a psychiatrist but rather expand their ability to help those they encounter. Officers learn how to spot signs of mental health crises, such as the way a person is speaking or acting.
“It teaches you to kind of be savvy and what to look for,” Webb said.
The training comes before officers hit the streets, as they learn about all aspects of the job at the police academy.
“When you graduate as a recruit, you have the CIT certification, and they teach you how to do the paperwork, how to ask the right questions,” Webb said, “and how to look at certain signs and symptoms of people and determine if it’s a behavioral issue or a mental health issue or a combination of both.”
When responding to calls regarding a crime, officers can then determine whether a person is suffering from a mental health crisis and should be directed to medical professionals.
Parkview Behavioral Health psychiatrist Dr. Matthew Runyan assists with the trainings and did a training as recently as last month. He said getting officers trained early in their career can give them a boost when they hit the streets.
Through the training, Runyan said, he is able to tell officers what all the medical professionals can and can’t do when helping a patient. Officers also learn how to assess situations as they come.
When officers encounter an individual they suspect might be experiencing a mental health crisis, their training gives them the ability to look at the situation through a new lens.
If the person is believed to have committed a misdemeanor, officers are able to speak to them and try to connect the person with mental health services. Police can avoid unnecessarily taking someone to jail.
“Jail is not a great place to be for anybody, let alone somebody who’s having a mental health crisis,” Runyan said. “Oftentimes, they’re placed on exclusion, or a higher level of restriction than general population.”
In cases where someone is accused of a felony, officers must take the person to jail but can make adjustments for the suspect that can protect themselves and others from potential issues.
Webb said one of the most important things those having a mental health crisis can do when dealing with the police is to be upfront about what’s going on.
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Kellyn Bertsch, daughter of Dave and Kim Bertsch, plans to attend University of Saint Francis to study biology before pursuing a medical degree.
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Kameron Marple, daughter of Mark and Nichole Marple, plans to attend Alabama University to study before pursuing a medical degree.
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Nicole Rodriguez, daughter of Nicolas and Abelina Rodriguez, plans to attend Indiana University to study finance. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/angola/article_7d44bc14-fdd5-11ed-9ec3-fbad57fec00f.html | 2023-06-03T04:43:05 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/angola/article_7d44bc14-fdd5-11ed-9ec3-fbad57fec00f.html |
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Rayni Rister, daughter of Jon and Jodie Rister, plans to attend Ohio University and to study aviation flight and aviation management.
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Kyle McBride, son of Todd and Jodi McBride, plans to attend Indiana University to study accounting.
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Cameryn Stetler, daughter of Ron and Christine Stetler, plans to attend Indiana University to study microbiology.
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Ellie Johnson, daughter of Joe and Amanda Johnson, plans to attend Marian University to study elementary education. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/bellmont/article_e99af25c-fdd5-11ed-9d4f-db77275bf871.html | 2023-06-03T04:43:18 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/bellmont/article_e99af25c-fdd5-11ed-9d4f-db77275bf871.html |
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Abigail (Abby) Spoltman, daughter of Kristin and Christopher Spoltman, plans to attend Indiana University to study biochemistry and entrepreneurship.
Genevieve Cicchiello, daughter of Catherine and James Cicchiello, plans to attend University of Notre Dame to study mechanical engineering. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/bishop-luers/article_87eb2e16-fbf8-11ed-854c-237489e8b3fb.html | 2023-06-03T04:43:30 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/bishop-luers/article_87eb2e16-fbf8-11ed-854c-237489e8b3fb.html |
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Lauren Robinson, daughter of John and Carrie Robinson plans to attend Purdue University to study engineering.
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Emiline Wood, daughter of Evan and Lisa Wood plans to attend Concordia University in Michigan to study physical therapy. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/blackhawk-christian/article_3a2041d8-fdd0-11ed-9f64-53ee05677f0c.html | 2023-06-03T04:43:36 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/blackhawk-christian/article_3a2041d8-fdd0-11ed-9f64-53ee05677f0c.html |
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Lauren Lambert, daughter of William and Karla Lambert, plans to attend Ohio State University to study nursing.
Montesa Vollmar, daughter of Steve and Dottie Vollmar, plans to attend University of Michigan, to study nursing.
Tristyn Durdel, daughter of Jeremy and Shayne Durdel, plans to attend University of Toledo to study criminal justice. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/bryan/article_017a9f4e-fbec-11ed-8a1d-234f6f336192.html | 2023-06-03T04:43:49 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/bryan/article_017a9f4e-fbec-11ed-8a1d-234f6f336192.html |
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Anya Ramrakhiani, daughter of Sunil and Sabeena Ramrakhiani, plans to attend Dartmouth College to study biological science and government.
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Victoria Zambrano, daughter of Raul Zambrano and Diana Diep, plans to attend Harvard University to study mechanical engineering before pursuing a medical degree. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/canterbury/article_e284a742-fdda-11ed-bdca-93aab1b3f8af.html | 2023-06-03T04:43:55 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/canterbury/article_e284a742-fdda-11ed-bdca-93aab1b3f8af.html |
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Aubrey Barb, daughter of Matthew Barb and Catherine Chung, plans to attend University of Chicago to study chemistry.
Paul Swift, son of Hans Swift and Teresa Swift, plans to attend Purdue University to study biomedical engineering before pursuing a medical degree. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/carroll/article_90b0704c-fdd8-11ed-8900-832e7cb103b9.html | 2023-06-03T04:44:01 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/carroll/article_90b0704c-fdd8-11ed-8900-832e7cb103b9.html |
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Katelynn Bortner, daughter of John Paul Bortner and Nicole Renee Bortner, plans to attend Purdue Fort Wayne University to study interior design.
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Kya Lock, daughter of Amanda and Kyle Lock, plans to attend Purdue University Fort Wayne to study business management. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/central-noble/article_fd5f9dd0-fdd8-11ed-a2aa-f31877ea4fa8.html | 2023-06-03T04:44:07 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/central-noble/article_fd5f9dd0-fdd8-11ed-a2aa-f31877ea4fa8.html |
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Vicki Li, daughter of Zhu Rong Cheng and Yang Li, plans to pursue a masters degrees in biology.
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Catherine Elliott, daughter of Jane and Daniel Elliott, plans to attend Columbia University to study astrophysics.
Vicki Li, daughter of Zhu Rong Cheng and Yang Li, plans to pursue a masters degrees in biology.
Catherine Elliott, daughter of Jane and Daniel Elliott, plans to attend Columbia University to study astrophysics. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/churubusco/article_ff8792c0-fb44-11ed-8e9c-2b2c5acc7059.html | 2023-06-03T04:44:13 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/churubusco/article_ff8792c0-fb44-11ed-8e9c-2b2c5acc7059.html |
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Keller Whicker, daughter of Seth and Cari Whicker, plans to attend Butler University and study pharmacy before pursuing a doctorate of pharmacology.
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Cameron Cage, son of Peter and Patty Cage, plans to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study mechanical engineering and electrical/chemical engineering. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/concordia/article_973e4114-fbee-11ed-9a90-2fe71e3c446a.html | 2023-06-03T04:44:20 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/concordia/article_973e4114-fbee-11ed-9a90-2fe71e3c446a.html |
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Nathan Fillenwarth, son of Jacob and Stacy Fillenwarth, plans to attend Univeristy of Notre Dame to study biological sciences.
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Nathan Fillenwarth, son of Jacob and Stacy Fillenwarth, plans to attend Univeristy of Notre Dame to study biological sciences.
Logan Moore Warstler, son of Shanon Moore, plans to attend University of Notre Dame to study mathematics. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/dekalb/article_55880b30-fdcc-11ed-aa09-bb989500d45e.html | 2023-06-03T04:44:32 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/dekalb/article_55880b30-fdcc-11ed-aa09-bb989500d45e.html |
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Alexis Carvajal, daughter of Fernando Carvajal and Joy Chrisman, plans to attend Indiana University to pursue pre-law studies.
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Erica Edwards, daughter of Jodee Hirsch and Jason Edwards, plans to attend University of Northwestern Ohio to study accounting. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/east-allen-university/article_4db5bece-fbf7-11ed-9f6e-336b4b6d00f8.html | 2023-06-03T04:44:38 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/east-allen-university/article_4db5bece-fbf7-11ed-9f6e-336b4b6d00f8.html |
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Carsen Patrick Jacobs, son of Patrick and Kelly Jacobs, plans to attend Purdue University Fort Wayne to study mechanical engineering.
Caeden James Moughler, son of Todd and Carolyn Moughler, plans to attend Ball State University to study architecture.
Garrett Reid Thompson, son of Ted and Valerie Thompson, plans to attend Trine University to study engineering. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/eastside/article_fd15701c-fdd7-11ed-a1df-fba1086348a4.html | 2023-06-03T04:44:50 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/eastside/article_fd15701c-fdd7-11ed-a1df-fba1086348a4.html |
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Taylor Dietsch, son of Jason and Jennifer Dietsch, plans to enter the workforce.
Ashlee Hug, daughter of Chad and Jayma Hug, plans to attend Trine University to study chemical engineering.
Noelle Ritter, daughter of Scott and Paula Ritter, plans to attend University of Toledo to study biochemistry.
Quentin Blue, son of Jason and Dawn Blue, plans to attend Ohio State University, to study industrial and systems engineering.
Corey Everetts, son of Chad Everetts and Stephanie Gary, plans to attend Northwest State Community College to study agricultural business. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/edgerton/article_df23335a-fdd2-11ed-8503-6f2acb641701.html | 2023-06-03T04:44:57 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/edgerton/article_df23335a-fdd2-11ed-8503-6f2acb641701.html |
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Carrie Zeedyk, daughter of Russell and Susan Zeedyk, plans to attend Ohio State University to study agribusiness and applied economics.
Paige Ricica, daughter of Robert and Audra Ricica, plans to attend Anderson University to study biology. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/fairview/article_f0eb64fc-fdd9-11ed-b516-43a1bbbf1343.html | 2023-06-03T04:45:03 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/fairview/article_f0eb64fc-fdd9-11ed-b516-43a1bbbf1343.html |
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Zakeri Pica, son of David Pica and Jennifer Kunce, plans to attend Trine University to study software engineering.
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Lexi Banks, daughter of Ben and Sheila Banks, plans to attend Indiana University to study international studies. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/fremont/article_50399fec-fdd4-11ed-ab67-438e0eca6645.html | 2023-06-03T04:45:09 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/fremont/article_50399fec-fdd4-11ed-ab67-438e0eca6645.html |
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Andrew Molargik, son of Jim and Jeanne Molargik, plans to attend University of Alabama to study psychology.
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Aida Haynes, daughter of Philip Haynes and Laura VanVoorhis, plans to attend Purdue University to study accounting. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/garrett/article_96b387a6-fdd1-11ed-a608-1b8ba54f0dfc.html | 2023-06-03T04:45:15 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/garrett/article_96b387a6-fdd1-11ed-a608-1b8ba54f0dfc.html |
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Claire Bickel, daughter of Angie and Jon Bickel, plans to attend Purdue University to study kinesiology.
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Raelynn Mullins, daughter of Jennifer and Casey Mullins, plans to attend Purdue University Fort Wayne to study biology. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/heritage/article_df795ad8-fbf6-11ed-82b9-b7974e0bb509.html | 2023-06-03T04:45:22 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/heritage/article_df795ad8-fbf6-11ed-82b9-b7974e0bb509.html |
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Madeline Phuong, daughter of Loi and Jennifer Phuong, plans to attend Harvard College.
Hunter Specht, son of Cynthia and Jerome Specht, plans to attend Purdue University.
Haley Biedenbach, daughter of Brian and Amy Biedenbach plans to attend Bethel University.
Bethany Perkins, daughter of Matthew and Christina Perkins, plans to attend Harvard College.
Elijah Bilos, son of Dave and Meikka Bilos, plans to attend Purdue University. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/homestead/article_ca71ed50-fdd4-11ed-85cd-234d5d927fec.html | 2023-06-03T04:45:28 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/homestead/article_ca71ed50-fdd4-11ed-85cd-234d5d927fec.html |
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Corbin Dowden, son of Steve and Lynette Dowden, plans to attend Purdue University to study actuarial science.
Janna Teusch, daughter of David and Kristine Teusch, plans to attend Taylor University to study elementary education.
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Gwendolyn Ranc, daughter of Christine and Breton Ranc, plans to attend Purdue University to study mechanical engineering. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/huntington-north/article_23e78be2-fbfa-11ed-bd17-93546a5f4b65.html | 2023-06-03T04:45:34 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/huntington-north/article_23e78be2-fbfa-11ed-bd17-93546a5f4b65.html |
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Rebekah Johnson, daughter of Mike and Valerie Johnson, plans to attend Huntington University or Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis IUPUI to study business management or philanthropic studies.
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Austin Shepherd, son of Shawn and Phyllis Shepherd, plans to attend Oklahoma University to study biomedical engineering. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/lakewood-park/article_95c47ade-fdd7-11ed-ad27-dfccade19d00.html | 2023-06-03T04:45:40 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/lakewood-park/article_95c47ade-fdd7-11ed-ad27-dfccade19d00.html |
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Haylee Schott, daughter of Trenton and Lindsey Schott, plans to attend University of Saint Francis to study biology.
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Emma Tkacz, daughter of Anne and Kevin Tkacz, plans to attend Seton Hill University to pursue medical studies. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/leo/article_f628ab60-fbf3-11ed-b74c-d73111549c66.html | 2023-06-03T04:45:46 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/leo/article_f628ab60-fbf3-11ed-b74c-d73111549c66.html |
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Aliala Atienza, daughter of Laila Atienza, plans to attend Purdue University to study biomedical health sciences.
Abby Love, daughter of Amy and Dave Mort, plans to attend Florida State University.
Olivia Neal, daughter of Nicole Neal and Mark France, plans to attend Saint Mary’s College of Notre Dame to study nursing science.
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Caden Marcum, son of Kevin and Deborah Marcum, plans to attend Dartmouth College to study chemistry. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/manchester/article_ab70b8fa-fdde-11ed-95d7-3f7ba6f2ba98.html | 2023-06-03T04:45:53 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/manchester/article_ab70b8fa-fdde-11ed-95d7-3f7ba6f2ba98.html |
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Rebekah Fortman, daughter of Joseph and Mary Fortman, plans to attend Ball State University to study architecture.
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Jessica Same, daughter of Mike and Lynn Same, plans to study environmental science.
Rebekah Fortman, daughter of Joseph and Mary Fortman, plans to attend Ball State University to study architecture.
Jessica Same, daughter of Mike and Lynn Same, plans to study environmental science. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/new-haven/article_1ca4e22c-fbef-11ed-99a4-bba284f2e8ef.html | 2023-06-03T04:45:59 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/education-listings/new-haven/article_1ca4e22c-fbef-11ed-99a4-bba284f2e8ef.html |
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