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DULUTH — A once-dormant grain elevator received its first ship in nearly a decade.
The 492-foot Maxima, owned by Dutch shipping company Royal Wagenborg, arrived in the Port of Duluth on Monday and docked along Elevator A on the north end of Rice’s Point to be loaded with 11,000 metric tons of beet pulp pellets destined for the Netherlands.
It’s the first vessel to arrive at Elevator A, purchased by Omaha-based Hansen-Mueller Co. last year, since December 2013. The facility shut down in 2015 under then-owner General Mills.
“We had to overcome the facility. Let’s be frank: It’s old. What we see here was essentially built in 1908,” Josh Hansen, president of Hansen-Mueller, said as he turned to the elevator behind him. “She’s not a real looker, but she can get a lot done in a day still. I think we’d all be super-pleased if we looked as good as her when we’re 115, and I know that we’d be happy if we could get the amount of work done at her age when we’re that old.”
Built by the Consolidated Elevator Co. in 1908 with ceramic tile, brick and concrete, the structure replaced the original wooden elevator constructed on the site in 1894, the Duluth Seaway Port Authority said last June when the elevator was sold to Hansen-Mueller. General Mills bought the elevator from Consolidated in 1943, modernized it in the 1970s and operated it until 2015.
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The 185-foot-tall structure has a 3.5 million-bushel storage capacity.
To ready the elevator after years of sitting dormant, Hansen said the roof, conveyors, dust collection system and other mechanical systems all needed work.
But now that it’s up and running, Deb DeLuca, executive director of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority, is hopeful the momentum remains.
“The more you can keep these facilities operating and in maintenance, the longer they’ll live and last,” DeLuca said.
While there was significant work required on the elevator, the dock wall and deck were in “excellent shape,” said DeLuca.
The site includes a 1,900-foot dock with a slip depth of 28 feet — a foot deeper than the Seaway-depth minimum — and on-dock rail service from BNSF Railway.
Hansen said the elevator employs approximately a dozen people.
Hansen-Mueller already owns the Daisy Elevator and Elevator M complex in Superior, using it primarily to move oats by rail. Hansen said “significant work” is required to make it accessible to ships again.
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The addition of Elevator A will allow Hansen-Mueller to access the St. Lawrence Seaway, which connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
The company also has a port in Houston.
“Port access in the north, port access in the south gives us a really strong ability to make all of that work together as a cohesive unit,” Hansen said.
DeLuca also highlighted the new facility as “an alternative supply chain” to reach the Midwest.
Last shipping season, the port moved the least amount of grain by ship since 1890 amid fewer ocean-going vessels coming in, higher transportation costs, a poor crop, the war in Ukraine and a strong dollar. Grain moved through the Twin Ports by rail instead.
DeLuca is hopeful another operating grain elevator will help boost the port’s grain numbers.
“It’s very important to the port to have this facility back in productive activity, and it’ll add to the tonnage report,” DeLuca said. “They fill a niche grain market that complements the other grain facilities in the port.” | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/duluths-elevator-a-sees-first-ship-in-nearly-a-decade | 2023-06-07T01:01:27 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/duluths-elevator-a-sees-first-ship-in-nearly-a-decade |
The public input section of the Pima County Board of Supervisors’ meetings will now be limited to one hour in an attempt to quell the often volatile and time-consuming sessions that right-wing speakers have dominated for several months.
Supervisor Rex Scott presented a motion to limit the part of the meeting where members of the audience can directly address the board to one hour unless a majority of the board votes to extend it. If 20 or more people request to speak, each person’s time will be shortened from three to two minutes. The motion passed 3-2 on Tuesday with Supervisors Sharon Bronson and Steve Christy opposing the move. The new policy goes into effect at the next board meeting, June 20.
Currently, all those who sign up for call to the audience are allowed to speak for 3 minutes, which has recently created hours-long public input segments. Some speakers have made remarks causing warnings from Board Chair Adelita Grijalva or interventions from the sergeant at arms at the board’s chambers. One member was banned from the audience for her comments, but was allowed to return before the original three-month suspension lapsed.
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Grijalva has made a point to start each call to the audience item by reciting the board’s rules: “Any person making personal or impertinent or slanderous remarks” or who “becomes boisterous” while addressing the board can be removed by the sergeant at arms with her direction.
The speakers are often from the Pima County GOP party and speak out against pandemic-related mandates, the county’s border policy and the actions of Democratic supervisors.
“For the last several months, officers of the county Republican Party and their precinct representatives have acted in a coordinated fashion to make use of this time,” Scott said, adding that the members are easily identifiable as they cite their names and titles before speaking and make similar arguments at each meeting. “Will this item prevent any of them from speaking at future meetings? It will not. What it will do is prevent a political party from monopolizing a public meeting to serve its own partisan ends.”
Scott pointed out many local governing and school boards limit time for call to the public, including Tucson City Council, the Pima Community College Governing Board and the Tucson Unified School District Governing Board.
The Pima County GOP called on its members to attend Tuesday’s meeting and “stand together” against the proposal to limit call to the audience. The Tucson Crime Free Coalition, a group raising awareness about the harms homelessness poses to businesses, also sent out a request for its members to email supervisors asking them to vote no on the item.
Many audience members on Tuesday spoke against the action, arguing it’s an unnecessary restriction on free speech. Pima County GOP Chair Dave Smith told the board: “We need to think what is the nature of freedom of speech? Because if I have to please you, that makes you my master, not my political leaders,” and mocked the idea that he’s pulling together a coordinated effort to monopolize call to the audience.
But while Scott pointed to a concerted effort among Republicans to take over the meetings, Supervisor Christy, the board’s sole Republican, said call to the audience wouldn’t pose an issue “If it had not been for supervisor Heinz’s irresponsible behavior,” pointing to a time during peak COVID-19 cases when the supervisor and hospital physician interrupted speakers who were providing vaccine disinformation and referred to people who don’t get COVID-19 vaccines as “murderers.”
Supervisor Sharon Bronson, the other dissenting vote, said “I think we got it right by allowing people to come and speak to us, and just because … other jurisdictions do it differently doesn’t make it correct.”
Grijalva said people often tell her “I’m so embarrassed of what’s going on at your board meetings, that is not representative of Pima County.”
“I do think that it’s difficult, in this position, to try to change anyone’s behavior if that’s the way they’ve been speaking for a long time,” she said.
Grijalva added that taking over Bronson’s seat as board chair in January, “was a little rough for me personally because I knew there were some things that we had to change.” Upon taking the position, the chair said she hoped to make call to the audience more welcoming.
Call to the audience became more raucous in March after a speaker received a three-month ban from board meetings after making “slanderous remarks,” according to a letter from the Pima County Attorney’s Office. The board later reversed the ban and asked for further legal advice.
The speaker, Shirley Requard, called on Chief Civil Deputy Samuel Brown “to look into possibly filing pedophilia charges against Matt Heinz” and told the board she believed an individual in his video feed was not of a “pubescent” age. The remarks stemmed from a January meeting when a man wearing a Speedo-like swimsuit appeared in the background of Heinz’s video feed. The supervisor, who was attending the meeting remotely during a Caribbean cruise, has said that the man in the now-viral video is a 24-year-old friend.
Heinz responded to the situation in an opinion piece for the Star, writing, “As a gay man, I know what that word (pedophile) is code for — it is a loud, piercing dog whistle for homophobia.”
Contact reporter Nicole Ludden at nludden@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/public-comment-free-speech-politics-tucson-pima-county/article_aa760e6c-04a7-11ee-bf29-2f742d9caceb.html | 2023-06-07T01:02:24 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/public-comment-free-speech-politics-tucson-pima-county/article_aa760e6c-04a7-11ee-bf29-2f742d9caceb.html |
Detroit's Wealth Generation Task Force submits reports with six recommendations
Detroit ― After a year of research, Detroit's Wealth Generation Task Force on Tuesday submitted its report with six policy recommendations to the mayor and the City Council on how the city can reduce poverty, grow its middle class, help combat the income gap and improve economic mobility.
District 3 Councilman Scott Benson outlined recommendations that he said will increase access to opportunities for residents and potentially entice more families to call Detroit home.
Benson said for years, the city's elected government has relied on job creation as the primary corrective action to address the generational wealth gap; however, the task force's research shows more focus should be on creating safe neighborhoods, helping families save money for emergencies and buy homes and ensuring children are prepared to enter college and the workforce.
"We have identified a multi-prong approach that goes beyond what government has done in the past by simply relying on job creation," Benson said during a press conference at the Detroit Historical Museum. "To lift people out of poverty, they need to be job-ready and have assistance and the knowledge to protect their family’s wealth and assets.”
The six "pillars" identified by the task force to address the generational wealth gap include education, employment, banking, property ownership and healthy neighborhoods. Benson said they will focus on these policy areas to help "grow the middle-class family population and encourage middle-class families to move back to Detroit."
During the budget for fiscal year 2023-24, Benson allocated $1 million for a program to efficiently transfer wealth. He did not have an estimate of the cost to implement their findings but said he hopes pandemic relief funds would supplement along with philanthropic partner investments.
Among their findings, the task force highlighted that educational attainment is suffering. They support funding a tutoring program for Detroit residents that would supplement traditional schooling. The tutoring program would employ certified tutors and be housed in Detroit public libraries and recreation centers. The task force pegs the cost at $750 annually per student for 25 hours of tutoring, totaling $3.75 million for a program serving 5,000students annually.
On the issue of property ownership, the task force pointed out many Detroiters do not adequately prepare for estate planning, which is essential for generating wealth. The task force recommends the city prioritize policies and low-cost or free services to support the efficient transfer of wealth via estate planning and estate education programs to prevent properties from being lost to the probate process. The report points to two programs — Tangled Title in Philadelphia and Home for Generations in Washtenaw County — as programs the city should establish to support the efficient transfer of wealth.
The task force estimates 23% percent of Detroiters are unbanked or underbanked. Being unbanked, which means not having checking or savings accounts with an insured (FDIC) institution, can cost $40,000 over a lifetime due to use of costly alternative financial services for routine financial transactions, the report said.
The task force recommends that the city continue to advocate for residents to get certified bank accounts. Additionally, the task force recommends that all future requests for proposals for city banking services require banks to include a plan to increase the number of Detroiters who become clients of a bank.
"The man who was attacked and robbed in broad daylight at the party store ... he walked across the street from his tire shop to cash his check because he is unbanked and was attacked," Benson said. "He had four ribs broken and a lung puncture as a result so it's critical that it would have been stopped if he just had his check automatically deposited."
The task force also recommended new initiatives by the city to prioritize resource support for small businesses and entrepreneurs and is calling for the city to support the Small Business Support Network bill in Lansing and to invest in a central hub for coordinating small business support through an organization, like Detroit Means Business, TechTown, ProsperUS, Build Institute and the Accounting Aid Society.
To address employment needs, the task force is recommending the city work more closely with Detroit Public Schools Community District to advertise and market career technical education programs to eligible Detroit youth.
Lastly, the task force is calling for an open-space master plan to direct municipal investment and encourage strategic civic, private and commercial investment in land use models to strengthen the city's neighborhoods and industrial districts.
Specifically, they are recommending an ordinance to allow the Detroit Land Bank Authority to develop a mandatory financial and development process workshop for all buyers of its properties. The Land Bank also should require buyers provide a realistic timeline for purchasing and making a property “habitable” or the property will be remanded to the Land Bank Authority, according to the report.
“Many of these recommendations need only a more concentrated effort by city officials to make a difference,” Benson said. “Some of these recommendations require funding, and I know these are excellent investments if it means we move Detroiters out of poverty and get them on the road to creating generational wealth and improving their economic mobility, maintaining our middle-class family population and attracting middle-class families back to Detroit.”
Task force members include Kathleen Colin, president of the National Association of Securities Professionals Detroit; J.R. Clark, partner of Squire Patton Boggs; John Perkins from Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters; Jannina Pena, BankOn coordinator for the City of Detroit; Shirley Kaigler, estate attorney at Taft Law; and Nicole Brown, director of strategic partnerships at Detroit Future City.
"Detroit's dollars are just seeping out, leaving our great city. What we need to do is create opportunities for the efficient transfer of wealth and one of the ways to do that is to preserve the asset that contains the greatest wealth that most of us have, our homes," Kaigler said, speaking of education on the creation of wills, deeds and passing on wealth post-death. "We will develop program that people will learn about estate planning and how to efficiently get those funds to pass on to their next generation of Detroiters."
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Serious crash closes EB I-696 at Van Dyke, officials say
Mark Hicks
The eastbound lanes of Interstate 696 at Van Dyke in Center Line are closed as officials tend to a serious crash, state officials said.
The incident was reported around 6:20 p.m. Tuesday, Michigan State Police said in a statement on Twitter.
Troopers from MSP's Metro North post were on the scene, according to the tweet.
"More information to follow as the investigation continues," the agency said.
Center Line police also were tending to the crash site.
All eastbound lanes were blocked, the Michigan Department of Transportation reported. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/macomb-county/2023/06/06/serious-crash-closes-eb-i-696-at-van-dyke-officials-say/70295760007/ | 2023-06-07T01:06:05 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/macomb-county/2023/06/06/serious-crash-closes-eb-i-696-at-van-dyke-officials-say/70295760007/ |
Michigan man arrested, charged in death of wife reported missing in Windsor
A Michigan man has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of his missing estranged wife in Canada, the Windsor Police Service announced Tuesday.
Officers took Brian Aaron Marbury into custody from the Canada Border Services Agency at the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel shortly after 9 p.m. Monday, police said in a statement.
Authorities have charged the 45-year-old with the first-degree murder of the missing Sahra Bulle, 36, according to the release.
Windsor police issued an alert for her on May 31. It reported she was last seen the night of May 26. Other details were not released.
"Though the Windsor Police’s Major Crimes Unit continues to search for Bulle, significant evidence enabled investigators to obtain a warrant for Marbury’s arrest," officials said Tuesday.
"Investigators continue to seek information that will lead to Bulle’s whereabouts. Additional details on the case can’t be released at this time to protect the integrity of the investigation."
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Major Crimes Unit at (519) 255-6700, ext. 4830. They can also contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at (519) 258-8477 (TIPS) or at www.catchcrooks.com. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/06/06/michigan-man-arrested-charged-in-death-of-wife-reported-missing-in-windsor/70295626007/ | 2023-06-07T01:06:11 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/06/06/michigan-man-arrested-charged-in-death-of-wife-reported-missing-in-windsor/70295626007/ |
On Tuesday, Florida officials released details and video regarding migrants flown from the Texas border to California earlier this week.
California officials stated on Monday that Florida authorities had helped fly the migrants from the U.S. southern border in Texas to Sacramento, prompting debate over potential kidnapping charges.
.@RonDeSantis you small, pathetic man.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 5, 2023
This isn't Martha's Vineyard.
Kidnapping charges?
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However, officials with the Florida Division of Emergency Management stated that the migrants involved had agreed to the relocation verbally and through written consent.
“A contractor was present and ensured they made it safely to a 3rd-party NGO,” wrote Amelia Johnson, FDEM’s deputy director of communications. “The specific NGO, Catholic Charities, is used and funded by the federal government.”
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In addition, Johnson sent News 6 a link to video of the migrants involved in the flight, which shows several of them filling out forms and speaking about the relocation.
“At any point, did you feel like you were treated poorly?” a woman is heard asking in Spanish to a room of people in the video.
In response, several people in the room say, “No,” and another person says, “They treated us super well.”
Another migrant in the video states that he and his fellow travelers struggled with threats in Colombia before coming to the U.S.
“Now, it’s OK. Thank you for my security...” he says in English before switching to Spanish. “I am very appreciative of this room because traveling in the streets and being exposed to paramilitaries and (MS-13) and other threats throughout Central America. To make it to a safe place and meet people with so much kindness like all of you. We are very appreciative.”
At this time, no information has been provided on who filmed the video, where it was recorded or when it was shot.
Johnson provided a list of other migrant relocations that have happened across the country, including the following:
Last September, a group of 49 migrants were flown out of Florida to Martha’s Vineyard in protest of federal immigration policies, which many critics have lambasted as being too relaxed.
In that case, state officials released copies of the consent forms signed by all 49 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard.
News 6 has reached out to FDEM to ask for copies of the documents signed by the migrants flown to Sacramento and information about those filmed in the released video. That request is awaiting a response.
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Earle-Sears addressed the media and appeared to hold Richmond leaders accountable for stopping the violence. Democrats pushed back on Twitter, noting that Earle-Sears, a U.S. Marines veteran, had toted an assault-style rifle in an image she used in her 2021 campaign.
“The people that I represent are not safe – they’re not safe in this city, and we have to figure out why that is,” Earle-Sears said Tuesday near the Altria Theater. “This is not about law-abiding gun owners, this is about gangs,” she said.
Disappointed and saddened by these comments made in the immediate aftermath of the Richmond tragedy, even before the victims' names were released.
“When do we say enough is enough?” Earle-Sears said.
“How many more people have to die before we say ‘you’re going to jail? We’re going to lock you up and there’s not going to be any bail so we can have safety in our community.’ “
“Who is in charge – is that the mayor, is that the chief, who is that? I mean, let’s start naming names.,” she said.
House Minority Leader Don Scott Jr., D-Portsmouth, tweeted in response: “This gaslighting and political pandering by a LT. GOVERNOR who LITERALLY campaigned holding a picture of an assault rifle is lecturing others on preventing gun violence. She runs out to the scene with no empathy for the victims just thinking of how to appeal to MAGA,” Scott said, referring to former President Donald Trump’s slogan of “Make America Great Again.”
Photos: A list of high-profile mass shootings in the US this year | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-courts/who-is-in-charge-says-lt-gov-winsome-earle-sears-following-richmond-shooting/article_041d3bce-04cc-11ee-b190-1b5e5068d362.html | 2023-06-07T01:09:45 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-courts/who-is-in-charge-says-lt-gov-winsome-earle-sears-following-richmond-shooting/article_041d3bce-04cc-11ee-b190-1b5e5068d362.html |
$356,000 Fantasy 5 jackpot lottery ticket winner in Tucson
Aidan Wohl
Arizona Republic
One lucky person won the Fantasy 5 jackpot in Tucson on Monday, winning a cash prize amount of $356,000.
The lucky ticket was sold at Fry's Food Store off West Valencia Road and South Oak Tree Drive in Tucson.
The winning numbers are: 5, 6, 13, 33, 37.
The next estimated jackpot is $50,000. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/06/06/one-356000-fantasy-5-jackpot-lottery-ticket-winner-in-tucson/70295831007/ | 2023-06-07T01:13:10 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/06/06/one-356000-fantasy-5-jackpot-lottery-ticket-winner-in-tucson/70295831007/ |
ODESSA, Texas —
Odessa Fire Rescue crews extinguished a fire at Peppertree Apartments Tuesday afternoon.
According to the City of Odessa, when OFR responded to 4600 Oakwood Dr., they found the exterior of a single-story apartment building and some wood fencing on fire.
Firefighters stopped the fire from extending into the attic of the complex and there were no reported injuries.
The cause of the fire was not made immediately clear.
This is all the information we have on the situation. We will update this story if more details are released. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/ofr-crews-respond-to-fire-at-peppertree-apartments/513-7f80b6e4-e940-43de-94cc-4862a58d5d25 | 2023-06-07T01:14:27 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/ofr-crews-respond-to-fire-at-peppertree-apartments/513-7f80b6e4-e940-43de-94cc-4862a58d5d25 |
MIDLAND, Texas — Friends and family members of Joshua Salcido want him to be remembered as a kind little brother and a friend to all.
Not as a murder victim.
"I'm like, 10 years older than him," said Josh's cousin Alexus Salcido. "He was like, our baby brother, he was a great kid. We got to see him, see his first words, steps in the world, it is very hard to know that. His birthday was this past Saturday, he just turned 17. It's really hard to know that I won't, we won't ever get to spend another birthday with him."
Which is why a peaceful protest was held in front of the Midland County Courthouse Monday evening.
It has been two years since Salcido was shot and killed. Those who were close to him have been waiting that same amount of time to get closure and justice for his murder.
Nikolas Moreno — the person accused of shooting Salcido — was inside the court for a status hearing. According to the family, he has been out of jail on a $150,000 bond.
They want to know why, after two years, there has not been a trial.
"Now it's time to make some noise because we're not seeing any traction," said Salcido. "July 31 will be two years. Two years too long... we are the victims. His parents are the victims."
They believe Joshua deserves justice.
"He was a great kid, and he is alive," said Salcido. "He was a child, a baby. No one deserves to happen, what happened to him."
NewsWest 9 reached out to the Midland County District Attorney's Office. They told us there are a lot of elements involved with Moreno's case and they'd rather have all their ducks in a row before going to trial.
"Murder cases do not tend to move to trial quickly, they are complicated," said Midland County District Attorney Laura Nodolf. "Evidentiary wise, they have a lot of evidence that goes with them. We don't wanna rush a case to trial unless we are ready and we believe we have everything lined up."
But the family may not have to wait much longer.
"We anticipate at this point and time, that we should be able to go to trial, hopefully sometime this fall," Nodolf said. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/peaceful-protest-midland-county-murder/513-13e5c6f1-8317-46ff-8da7-cefb527d868e | 2023-06-07T01:14:33 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/peaceful-protest-midland-county-murder/513-13e5c6f1-8317-46ff-8da7-cefb527d868e |
MITCHELL — This is the page to find results from Tuesday's city-school election in which two ballot measures, two Mitchell City Council seats and one Mitchell Board of Education seat will be decided.
Voters can head to the polls until 7 p.m. Results will be published around 8 p.m. when all votes are counted.
- Mitchell Board of Education seat: Matthew Christiansen, Deb Everson.
- A bond referendum ballot measure will be on the ballot regarding adding athletic facilities to the current Mitchell High School construction project. The bond is for $17 million to add nearly 55,000 square feet of gym space, practice facilities, locker rooms and a new weight room. Passage requires a 60% vote of approval from the public.
- A “Yes” vote on the ballot approves issuing the bonds for building the facilities, while a “No” vote would be a vote against the plan. If approved, the facilities could be built in time for the start of the 2025-26 school year.
- An initiated measure is on the ballot to change the city ordinance to allow the sale of city-owned park land at Lake Mitchell.
- A “Yes” vote on the matter would allow the city of Mitchell to sell eight lots along Lake Mitchell. A “No” vote would leave the ordinance and the lots as is.
- Mitchell City Council Ward 3 seat: Mike Bathke 317 (48.25%), Kimberly Lofgren 235 (35.77%), Jason Bates 105 (15.98%). Complete results.
- Mitchell City Council Ward 4 seat: Susan Tjarks 505 (51.48%), Don Everson 476 (48.52%). Complete results. | https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/voting-june-6-city-school-election-results | 2023-06-07T01:16:15 | 0 | https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/voting-june-6-city-school-election-results |
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo has finally spoken out after a jury found him liable for violating the rights of two businessmen as political payback and ordering him to pay a $63 million judgement.
In Monday night interviews on a conservative Spanish-language television station, Carollo compared his case to those of O.J. Simpson and George Floyd, saying that the guilty parties in those cases had to pay far less in damages even though they committed more heinous crimes.
He called the judgement against him absurd, tried to turn the tables in attempt to make himself look like the victim and said Miami should be lucky to have him. The next morning, former elected officials and business owners called for Carollo’s resignation during a news conference at Miami City Hall.
Jurors agreed that Carollo violated the First Amendment rights of businessmen Bill Fuller and Martin Pinilla, owners of the popular Ball & Chain nightclub, after he used city code inspectors and fines to target their properties in a vendetta for the two backing a political opponent in 2017.
Participants in the news conference said Carollo for decades has been targeting and harassing residents who speak out against him. The commissioner has also been accused of orchestrating the ousting of former police chief Art Acevedo, who was supported by Miami’s Black police officers. | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/carollo-draws-parallels-to-o-j-simpson-and-george-floyd-trials/article_446fac48-04ae-11ee-a4d4-fbde2b59f86b.html | 2023-06-07T01:16:45 | 1 | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/carollo-draws-parallels-to-o-j-simpson-and-george-floyd-trials/article_446fac48-04ae-11ee-a4d4-fbde2b59f86b.html |
The Florida judge who oversaw the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz should be publicly reprimanded for showing bias toward the prosecution, failing to curtail “vitriolic statements” directed at Cruz’s attorneys by the victims’ families and sometimes allowing “her emotions to overcome her judgement,” a state commission concluded this week.
The Judicial Qualifications Commission found that Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer violated several rules governing judicial conduct during last year’s trial in her actions toward Cruz’s public defenders. The six-month trial ended with Cruz receiving a receiving a life sentence for the 2018 murder of 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after the jury could not unanimously agree that he deserved a death sentence.
The 15-member commission found that Scherer “unduly chastised” lead public defender Melisa McNeill and her team, wrongly accused one Cruz attorney of threatening her child, and improperly embraced members of the prosecution in the courtroom after the trial’s conclusion.
The commission, composed of judges, lawyers and citizens, acknowledged that “the worldwide publicity surrounding the case created stress and tension for all participants.”
Regardless, the commission said, judges are expected to “ensure due process, order and decorum, and act always with dignity and respect to promote the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.”
“In limited instances during this unique and lengthy case, Judge Scherer allowed her emotions to overcome her judgement,” the commission said in its report to the Florida Supreme Court, which will make the final decision.
Scherer announced last month that she would be retiring from the bench June 30. The commission said the resignation was not part of any deal struck with the judge. The commission report said that Scherer acknowledged during her testimony that her conduct during the trial “fell short” of what’s expected of judges and that “her treatment of members of the defense team was at times not patient, dignified or courteous.”
Scherer, a 46-year-old former prosecutor, was appointed to the bench in 2012 and the Cruz case was her first capital murder trial. Broward County’s computerized system randomly assigned her Cruz’s case shortly after the shooting.
Her attorney, Thomas Panza, did not immediately respond to a call or email seeking comment.
Broward County Public Defender Gordon Weekes declined comment.
Scherer’s handling of the case drew frequent praise from the parents and spouses of the victims, who said she treated them with professionalism and kindness, but her clashes with Cruz’s attorneys and others sometimes drew criticism from legal observers.
Before the trial she criticized two reporters from the Sun Sentinel newspaper for publishing a sealed Cruz educational record that they obtained legally. She threatened to tell the paper what it could and couldn’t print, but never did; legal experts say such a move would have been unconstitutional.
Scherer also had frequent heated arguments with McNeill. Those boiled over for the first time when McNeill and her team suddenly rested their case after calling only a small fraction of their expected witnesses. Scherer called it “the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try a case,” though the defense has no obligation to call all of its witnesses or announce its plans in advance.
McNeill countered angrily, “You are insulting me on the record in front of my client,” before Scherer told her to stop. She then laid into her.
“You’ve been insulting me the entire trial,” Scherer barked at McNeill. “Arguing with me, storming out, coming late intentionally if you don’t like my rulings. So, quite frankly, this has been long overdue. So please be seated.”
The two clashed again during Cruz’s sentencing hearing in November over the verbal attacks some victims’ family members made against the defense team during their courtroom statements. Scherer refused to curtail the statements and ejected one of McNeill’s assistants, David Wheeler, after she wrongly interpreted one of his comments as a threat against her daughter.
After sentencing Cruz, 24, to life without parole as required, Scherer left the bench and hugged members of the prosecution and the victims’ families. She told the commission she offered to also hug the defense team.
That action led the Supreme Court in April to remove her from overseeing post-conviction motions of another defendant, Randy Tundidor, who was sentenced to death for murder in the 2019 killing of his landlord. One of the prosecutors in that case had also been on the Cruz team, and during a hearing in the Tundidor case a few days after the Cruz sentencing, Scherer asked the prosecutor how he was holding up.
The court said Scherer’s actions gave at least the appearance that she could not be fair to Tundidor. | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/reprimand-recommended-for-judge-in-parkland-case/article_089d8790-04c1-11ee-924c-b7ae829e76ac.html | 2023-06-07T01:16:51 | 0 | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/reprimand-recommended-for-judge-in-parkland-case/article_089d8790-04c1-11ee-924c-b7ae829e76ac.html |
WALKER COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — As the saying goes, “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.”
Walker County native Jordan Hyche is on a mission to make sure we never forget heroes from Walker County.
One such veteran is 99-year-old Fayette native Wardell Wright, a proud veteran of World War II.
Wright was an ambulance driver and was sent to Europe in November of 1944, spending time in France, Belgium and Holland until the Germans surrendered. His call to serve came when he was just a teen.
”We had to go to the army. and we were nothing but young boys, still in high school,” Wright said.
98-year-old Walker County native Raymond Meeks spent World War II in the South Pacific as a cryptographer. Meeks had the job of decoding messages that were sent to General Douglas MacArthur in Manila. Meeks’ incredible experience began soon after Pearl Harbor.
”I was in high school and I didn’t know where Pearl Harbor was, or what the war was about, but that soon changed,” Meeks said.
Stories like those of veterans, living and passed, are Hyche’s passion to document, using a marker in downtown Jasper to tell the stories for those who can’t.
”I’ve used the document across the street here,” Hyche said. “There are over 390 who were killed in action from World War I to Iraq and I’m just documenting their names and writing their stories on a Facebook page that I have.”
In addition to those on the marker, Hyche has told the stories of Meeks and Wright as well — two men whose memories of war and service are steeped in gratitude grounded in their faith.
For Meeks, he can readily recall his praying father.
”My father was a devout Christian and I know he prayed for me. I was aware of that,” Meeks said.
Wright, too, is aware of the power his faith played in his finding his way home.
”The Lord has been good to me,” Wright said. “He’s brought me over hills and mountains and valleys.”
To find out more about Hyche’s work, visit his Facebook page Lest We Forget Initiative. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/nearly-100-years-old-two-walker-county-veterans-remember-the-call-to-serve/ | 2023-06-07T01:16:54 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/nearly-100-years-old-two-walker-county-veterans-remember-the-call-to-serve/ |
JASPER, Ala. (WIAT) — Walker County Schools announced Monday that students will get free lunch this upcoming school year.
Starting in August, all Walker County students will get free breakfast and lunch for the duration of the school year. Education leaders said this is going to have a huge impact on students and their families.
The announcement is part of a USDA program called the “Community Eligibility Program.” Superintendent Dr. Dennis Willingham said the program is based on certain criteria. Based on Walker County’s percentage of free and reduced lunch numbers the district was eligible for the program.
Willingham said this will be a huge relief for many families.
“We have so many homes in our school district where children are raised by their grandparents, raised by their aunts or uncles, in fosters homes, single parent homes,” Willingham said. “There’s so much stress in a lot of our homes that deal with financing and budgeting within the home. This alleviates a lot of that stress.”
Willingham said free lunches will start on the first day of school and will continue until the end of the school year. It includes all students from kindergarten through 12th grade regardless of income.
Dr. Willingham said the district plans to re-apply for the program again for the next school year. School starts back on August 9. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/walker-county-school-district-students-will-get-free-lunch-and-breakfast-this-year/ | 2023-06-07T01:17:00 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/walker-county-school-district-students-will-get-free-lunch-and-breakfast-this-year/ |
Donna Elmore, 87, of Jerome died Monday, June 5, 2023, at Hospice House in Jerome. Arrangements are under the care of Parke's Magic Valley Funeral Home, Twin Falls.
Daniel "Danny" Coleman, 84, of Jerome and formerly of Boise died Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at DeSano Place Assisted Care in Jerome. Arrangements are under the care of Demaray Funeral Service - Gooding Chapel.
Connie Ruth Sarrazin, 82, of Twin Falls died Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at home. Arrangements are under the care of White-Reynolds Funeral Chapel, Twin Falls. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/death-notices/article_35e091c8-04c8-11ee-b963-ab9277b86eb5.html | 2023-06-07T01:19:47 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/death-notices/article_35e091c8-04c8-11ee-b963-ab9277b86eb5.html |
(WJHL) – After third-grade TCAP retesting, some students in Johnson City and Kingsport City Schools will not have to attend summer school. However, Kingsport still saw an increase in enrollment.
In Kingsport, 75 third graders retook the reading portion of the TCAP. 14 automatically passed, and get to move on to the fourth grade. Nine students have a choice to either attend summer learning or go to tutoring throughout the next school year. The rest of the students’ scores stayed in the same range.
Rhonda Stringham, assistant superintendent of curriculum for Kingsport City Schools, said numbers are still high due to many appeals not being back.
“We fielded a lot of emails and phone calls with parents,” said Stringham. “And yes, we did enroll quite a few more because some parents still haven’t heard back on their appeal. And so we told
them, go ahead and get them in summer learning, even if it’s just for a week or so.”
Stringham said they can stop attending summer school if their appeal gets approved. She said parents have already called her and said their student’s appeals have been approved.
“So, we had a lot of happy children because the appeal means you go directly to fourth grade,” said Stringham.
The school system still doesn’t know how many third graders must attend summer learning yet.
“I won’t know exact numbers until probably Thursday, because we still have some that needed to be here that have not shown up yet,” said Stringham. “And, so I have people on my team. The site leads at the schools who are making home visits to those children and saying your child has to be there or they will stay in the third grade.”
Students must attend 90% of summer school to pass the requirement. In Kingsport, third graders can only miss two days or they’ll be retained. They started summer learning yesterday on Monday.
In Johnson City, 16% percent of the students who took a retest passed and get to move on to the fourth grade.
Robbie Anderson, director of accountability and school improvement for Johnson City Schools, said 25 students are still required to attend summer learning.
“So, that left us with about 5% of last year’s third-grade students who did not have a pathway to fourth grade other than making sure they attended a summer program,” said Anderson.
Anderson said they still have around 190 third graders enrolled, although not required.
“We think that being in a summer program will really give them a lot of confidence and prepare them for fourth grade, by shoring up any kind of skills they may have missed during their third-grade year,” said Anderson.
Both Johnson City and Kingsport school systems don’t know the exact number of appeals yet. The appeals are sent directly to the Tennessee Department of Education.
Stringham and Anderson said the state is supposed to send out a weekly report with the numbers of appeals to each school district soon. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/some-students-avoid-summer-school-by-retaking-tcap/ | 2023-06-07T01:24:32 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/some-students-avoid-summer-school-by-retaking-tcap/ |
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The woman allegedly behind a brutal knife attack at a Manhattan juice shop that left a worker badly injured after offering a drink for free when she did not have enough money to pay for it has been indicted on attempted murder charges.
The attack occurred just before 8:30 p.m. on April 12 at a store on 3rd Avenue near East 61st Street on the Upper East Side, according to investigators. The woman, identified as Cha'la Jamison, ordered a beverage but couldn't afford it.
The manager of the shop said that the worker, Luis Morocho, told her to take it and asked her to leave. But police said that Jamison became upset and started trashing the store, so Morocho called 911.
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"She saw him calling the police and said, 'OK, I’ll be back and I’m going to stab you,'" said manager Sam Alherish.
Sometime before the shop closed for the day, the 23-year-old Jamison returned to the store and attacked Morocho. Surveillance video showed her pick up a knife from the counter and dash to the back of the juice bar. Police said Jamison stabbed him in the head, neck, back and hands.
"She jump in grabbed the knife and stab him. He was trying to defend himself," said Alherish. "Nobody would think she would come back really and stab him."
She is then seen on video sprinting out of the store, with the severely injured Morocho right behind her, bleeding profusely and leaving a trail of blood.
Morocho was rushed to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition, police said. The cuts were so deep, NBC New York had to blur the images of him from the hospital. The store manager said his employee was lucky to still be breathing.
"He’s alive, that is the main thing. He’s alive," Alherish said after the attack. "Maybe this guy can’t work again because his arm, right arm, she has to pay for it in my opinion."
The criminal complaint stated that Jamison left behind a broken acrylic nail at the juice shop after her alleged rampage. When police knocked on the door of her apartment to make the arrest, there was no answer but they heard movement inside.
Police said that Jamison fled by climbing a fire escape and tried getting into another apartment, where she told the resident not to call the police. Police caught up with her and found she took a bag with her, which had the wig, purse, and shoes she was allegedly wearing at the time of the attack. There were also several acrylic nails inside, similar to the one left at the crime scene, police said.
Jamison was arrested five days later. An indictment delivered by District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday charges the 23-year-old with attempted murder, attempted assault burglary and assault.
Attorney information for Jamison was not immediately known. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/woman-indicted-for-nyc-juice-bar-worker-stabbing-after-allegedly-given-free-drink/4400290/ | 2023-06-07T01:26:02 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/woman-indicted-for-nyc-juice-bar-worker-stabbing-after-allegedly-given-free-drink/4400290/ |
SAN JUAN COUNTY, Wash. — Photos snapped near San Juan Island show a swimming black-tail deer crossing paths with a Bigg's orca.
A naturalist, Sam Murphy with Island Adventures Whale Watching and the Pacific Whale Watching Association (PWWA), captured the photos on Sunday, June 4 at Battleship Island. Murphy didn't see the deer initially, according to PWWA Executive Director Erin Gless, who shared the photos with KING 5.
"She said that the whale swam right by and didn't seem interested in the deer at all," Gless wrote. "Sam didn't notice the deer until she was looking at her pictures afterward, making for a fun surprise. Probably not enough meat/fat on a deer's bones to tempt these whales, who are used to eating seals and sea lions, but would probably be an intimidating experience for the deer, I'm sure!"
Bigg's killer whales are also known as transients, with a home range that spans from Alaska to Northern California, according to the Georgia Strait Alliance. In recent years, the whales have been spotted more and more often in the Salish Sea, with sightings reported year-round. The orcas are apex predators and hunt other marine mammals in groups, including sea lions, seals, and other types of whales, including juvenile gray and humpback whales, according to the Georgia Strait Alliance.
Deer are excellent swimmers and are known to be frequent visitors to the San Juan Islands. However, the deer population has decreased in recent years according to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, thought to be related to a deadly adenovirus hemorrhagic disease that is believed to have reached the San Juans in 2021. However, the Department of Fish and Wildlife estimated the population could rebound relatively quickly. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/deer-swims-past-orca-battleship-island-san-juan/281-84d3d8e2-a296-442c-a383-53d783ab5634 | 2023-06-07T01:38:00 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/deer-swims-past-orca-battleship-island-san-juan/281-84d3d8e2-a296-442c-a383-53d783ab5634 |
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Late-night and early-morning Interstate 5 travelers driving through Woodburn can expect delays this month due to night road construction.
The Oregon Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that two lanes will be closed on both north and southbound lanes of I-5 near Woodburn from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., Sunday through Thursday during the month of June.
ODOT says they will be replacing outdated weigh-in-motion scales that monitor the weight of semi trucks without causing drivers to pull off of the highway and stop at a designated scale.
“These scales are metal plates installed across two lanes of I-5 with an overhead sensor. To remove and replace the sensors, we have to dig out the road across the two lanes,” ODOT said in a release.
The sensors are being replaced on I-5 North near milepost 271 and I-5 South near milepost 276. All traffic will be shifted into the far left lane, according to ODOT.
Tripcheck.com will have the most current information on traffic impacts. | https://www.koin.com/local/marion-county/odot-to-begin-i-5-night-construction-near-woodburn/ | 2023-06-07T01:41:25 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/marion-county/odot-to-begin-i-5-night-construction-near-woodburn/ |
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Ada and
south central Gem Counties through 800 PM MDT...
At 729 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Eagle, or 10 miles southeast of Emmett.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and will lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
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MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN;
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
The Boise skyline is seen from the foothills on Monday, May 8. Air advisories have been issued in the Treasure Valley the past two days because of high ozone levels in the region.
Air in the Treasure Valley this spring continues to take a hit, this time because of high ozone levels in the region.
According to a news release from Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, an air quality advisory that was issued for Tuesday will carry over into Wednesday.
According to Michael Toole, the regional airshed coordinator with the department, the advisory is not unusual for this time of year with clear skies overhead and temperatures rising. Toole said he expects the Yellow Air Advisory, which classifies local air quality at a moderate level, should be in place for another day or two.
“I think it will be a short period of time,” Toole said.
Toole added that elderly people and those with preexisting health issues should be cognizant of the air conditions and cut down on time outdoors, particularly during the afternoon.
"Limiting exposure is the best thing you can do," Toole said. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/treasure-valley-air-quality-advisory-continues-into-wednesday/article_f9ad6c7c-04b7-11ee-b388-6bae3fbf2afa.html | 2023-06-07T01:59:12 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/treasure-valley-air-quality-advisory-continues-into-wednesday/article_f9ad6c7c-04b7-11ee-b388-6bae3fbf2afa.html |
An Endangered Missing Adult Alert and a Silver Alert have been issued after a 72-year-old man went missing in Dayton.
Angel Serafin Orellana Munoz was last seen at 3 a.m. Monday morning when he walked away from his family on Deeds Avenue. He suffers from dementia and law enforcement is concerned for his safety.
Munoz is 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weighs 150 pounds, has gray hair and brown eyes and has a white goatee. He was last seen wearing a white baseball cap, black jacket, brown pants and red gym shoes.
He is from Ecuador and doesn’t speak English, according to the Dayton Police Department. Munoz has been visiting family for the past two months, and about three weeks ago went missing and was found in the Huber Heights area.
Anyone who sees Munoz is asked to call 911.
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FALMOUTH, Maine — Dozens of current and former athletes, actors, and television personalities will soon make their way to Maine to take part in the Drive Fore Kids Celebrity Golf Tournament in June.
On Tuesday, Boston Bruins goalie and former University of Maine Black Bears standout Jeremy Swayman was on hand at Falmouth Country Club where the tournament will be held to announce the field of competitors.
Celebrity competitors range from Boston Red Sox legends like Tim Wakefield to actors like Maine native Patrick Dempsey, who starred in the popular medical drama "Grey's Anatomy."
"I couldn't be more excited to be back, supporting such an incredible cause," Swayman said. "And just being back in the community of Maine, knowing how much it means to me. Getting to spend time up in Orono, I feel like the entire state is home to me. So it's really special coming back up here and just being part of this cause, and I'm excited to see how much we can raise for a great cause."
The Drive Fore Kids Celebrity Golf Tournament will take place June 21-24 at the Falmouth Country Club. Competitors will be vying for a $250,000 prize purse and helping raise funds for the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital.
"We cannot wait to welcome this talented field to our beautiful state," Brian Corcoran, chief engagement officer of Shamrock Sports & Entertainment and executive director of Drive Fore Kids, said. "We expect a big crowd of fans to give them a warm welcome as we bring the largest celebrity tournament in New England to Maine and raise significant funds for the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital."
Shamrock Sports & Entertainment is hosting the tournament. For more information and tickets to the tournament, click here.
Confirmed celebrities competing in the tournament include:
Rondé Barber: Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback, five-time Pro Bowl player, Super Bowl Champion, soon to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Clay Buchholz: Former Boston Red Sox pitcher, two-time AL All-Star, two-time World Series Champion with the Red Sox.
Vince Carter: Eight-time NBA All-Star, 22-year NBA veteran, and current NBA analyst on ESPN.
Roger Clemens: Eleven-time MLB All-Star, two-time World Series Champion, and seven-time Cy Young winner.
Vinny Del Negro: Springfield, MA native, former NBA player and coach of the Chicago Bulls and LA Clippers. Won the 2021 American Century Championship.
Patrick Dempsey: Actor and race car driver, best known for his "McDreamy" role in the medical drama "Grey’s Anatomy."
Mike Eruzione: Captain of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team that defeated the Soviet Union in the "Miracle on Ice" game, in which he scored the game-winning goal.
Marshall Faulk: Widely regarded as one of the greatest NFL running backs of all time; NFL Rookie of the Year, MVP, three-time Offensive Player of the Year, seven-time Pro Bowl player, member of both the Pro Football and College Football Halls of Fame.
Doug Flutie: Heisman-winning QB from Boston College with a 21-year pro career including the NFL; a local legend for his Hail Mary to beat the University of Miami.
Kyle Fuller: Current cornerback for the Baltimore Ravens, first-round pick in the 2014 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears.
Robbie Gould: 17-year NFL veteran placekicker, including the past five seasons with the San Francisco 49ers after 11 seasons with the Chicago Bears.
Michael Goulian: American aerobatic champion aviator who raced in the Red Bull Air Race World Series.
Noelle Lambert: American Paralympian track and field athlete who holds the U.S. record at 100m; contestant on "Survivor 43."
Derek Lowe: 2004 World Series Champion with the Boston Red Sox, member of Red Sox Hall of Fame.
Kevin Millar: World Series Champion with the Boston Red Sox, host of MLB Network’s "Intentional Talk."
Mike Modano: Played 21 seasons in the NHL with the Dallas Stars, Minnesota North Stars, and Detroit Red Wings; 1999 Stanley Cup Champion; member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.
Blair O’Neal: Retired LPGA pro and winner of Golf Channel’s "Big Break," former host of "Morning Drive," currently with "School of Golf."
TJ Oshie: 18 seasons in the NHL, currently with the Washington Capitals, previously with the St. Louis Blues; Stanley Cup Champion.
Michael Peña: Actor who has starred in many films including "Crash," "Shooter," "End of Watch," "The Martian," "Ant-Man," and "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
Chad Pfeifer: U.S. Army veteran who learned the game of golf while rehabbing in an Army hospital; 2011 National Amputee Golf Champion and three-time Warrior Open champion.
Tuukka Rask: 15 seasons as goalie for the Boston Bruins, including one Stanley Cup Championship, Vezina Trophy winner, Olympic Bronze Medalist (Finland).
Jeremy Roenick: Member of NHL’s 500 Goal Club, nine-time NHL All-Star, 2002 Olympic Silver Medalist.
Ronnie Russell: Six-time PBA Tournament winner, bowled PBA’s 24th televised perfect game, two-time Team USA member.
Sterling Sharpe: Three-time NFL First Team All-Pro; five-time Pro Bowl wide receiver; member of the Green Bay Packers and College Football Halls of Fame.
Harrison Smith: NFL safety for the Minnesota Vikings, six-time Pro Bowl player, two-time All-Pro.
Jeremy Swayman: Current goalie for the Boston Bruins with .920 save percentage during the 2022-23 season; played three years of collegiate hockey at the University of Maine.
Kathryn Tappen: Sportscaster on NBC Sports’ coverage of Notre Dame football, "Football Night in America," golf, Summer and Winter Olympic Games. Was previously with NESN and NHL Network.
Taylor Twellman: Five-time MLS All-Star, MLS MVP, earned 30 caps with the U.S. National Team. Currently a color commentator with Apple TV, previously with ABC/ESPN.
Mike Vrabel: Current NFL head coach of Tennessee Titans and 2021 Coach of the Year; three-time Super Bowl Champion with the New England Patriots and member of the Patriots’ 50th Anniversary, All-Dynasty and All-2000s teams.
Tim Wakefield: 19 seasons in MLB, including 17 with the Boston Red Sox; two-time World Series Champion and member of Red Sox Hall of Fame.
Jack Wagner: Actor who has starred in many TV movies and soap operas, including "The Wedding March Series," "When Calls the Heart," "Falling For Christmas," and "General Hospital."
Eric Weddle: Former NFL safety for the LA Rams, Baltimore Ravens and San Diego Chargers; six-time Pro Bowl player, five-time All-Pro, 2010s All-Decade Team selection, Super Bowl LVI Champion. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/bruins-goalie-back-in-maine-ahead-of-celebrity-golf-tournament-jeremy-swayman/97-6620d0ee-5d70-4741-91cb-43e532736fcc | 2023-06-07T02:04:17 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/bruins-goalie-back-in-maine-ahead-of-celebrity-golf-tournament-jeremy-swayman/97-6620d0ee-5d70-4741-91cb-43e532736fcc |
BROWNFIELD, Maine — A Good Samaritan came to the rescue during a fiery crash in Brownfield who police say may have saved the driver's life.
On Tuesday at approximately 5:37 p.m., the Oxford County Sheriff's Office along with first responders from neighboring towns were called to a crash located at the Maine and New Hampshire state line on Center Conway Road, according to a news release from the sheriff's office.
A vehicle had rolled over an unknown number of times and burst into flames, with the driver initially trapped inside, deputies said.
The driver was reportedly on fire when they were able to remove themself from the vehicle. In quick response, a Good Samaritan from a nearby home was able to extinguish the driver and drag them to safety away from the fully-engulfed vehicle.
The Good Samaritan stayed with the driver until emergency personnel arrived at the scene, according to deputies.
The driver was reportedly brought to a hospital by LifeFlight with life-threatening injuries.
"The actions of the Good Samaritan, without a doubt, saved the life of the individual involved," deputies said in the release.
The crash is still under investigation. No further information regarding the identities of those involved is available at this time. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/good-samaritan-saves-driver-from-fiery-crash-in-brownfield-police-say-maine-public-safety/97-74d2fb32-3f6e-4a2a-aee8-15d3857a6dc2 | 2023-06-07T02:04:23 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/good-samaritan-saves-driver-from-fiery-crash-in-brownfield-police-say-maine-public-safety/97-74d2fb32-3f6e-4a2a-aee8-15d3857a6dc2 |
BELGRADE, Maine — A school bus was involved in a three-vehicle crash in Belgrade Tuesday afternoon.
At approximately 3 p.m., multiple Maine State Police units, Maine State Fire Marshalls, Belgrade Fire and Rescue, and Delta Ambulance responded to the area of Smithfield Road for a reported crash involving three vehicles, according to a news release from the Maine Department of Public Safety.
An investigation revealed an RSU 18 school bus was struck from behind while it was stopped in the southbound direction on Route 8 in the area of the Arcadia Cove Road intersection, the release said. The bus' stop lights were on and children were reportedly being let off the bus at the time of the crash.
A Ford Fusion was stopped legally behind the bus when it was rear-ended by a Dodge Caravan driven by Michael Grier Jr., 24, of Belgrade, according to the release. The Ford Fusion was forced into the back of the school bus, reportedly becoming wedged underneath.
Six children and the driver were inside the school bus at the time of the crash and were medically cleared, the release said. Parents were notified by school staff.
"The occupants of the Fusion were transported to the hospital for evaluation and were later released," according to the release. "The driver and passenger of the Grand Caravan were not injured."
It is unclear if any charges will be filed. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/school-bus-involved-in-three-vehicle-crash-in-belgrade-maine-investigation-route-8/97-4a50da24-e270-43fa-b1df-b027c8631a9d | 2023-06-07T02:04:29 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/school-bus-involved-in-three-vehicle-crash-in-belgrade-maine-investigation-route-8/97-4a50da24-e270-43fa-b1df-b027c8631a9d |
A Carmel developer plans to invest $53.9 million into building a 322-apartment complex on Fort Wayne’s west side after Fort Wayne City Council members approved today a tax phase in agreement.
The council members approved making 40 acres in the 2000 block of Getz Road an economic revitalization area and to provide CRG Residential with a 10-year tax abatement as a financial incentive to build the 12-building complex. A previous developer removed all the trees about eight years ago but was unable to build, said Councilman Jason Arp, R-4th.
The land is now an erosion problem and an eyesore, and development is a problem because of complex drainage issues, Arp said. The land is in his district where Getz and Constitution Drive meet, and the tax abatement would save CRG $8.4 million over the 10 years.
Arp said he doesn't typically like abatements for apartments, but the phase in would provide a way for someone to build on the land that has been vacant for years.
The council approved the two requests with 7-1 votes. Councilman Paul Ensley, R-1st, voted against the request, and Councilman Tom Freistroffer, R-at large, was absent. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/fort-wayne-city-council-approves-tax-abatement-for-322-unit-apartment-complex/article_4fc2b1f6-04ce-11ee-8c8c-c76cec14acaf.html | 2023-06-07T02:05:29 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/fort-wayne-city-council-approves-tax-abatement-for-322-unit-apartment-complex/article_4fc2b1f6-04ce-11ee-8c8c-c76cec14acaf.html |
SEATTLE — Neighbors came together to help one another during a fire near a home in South Seattle Monday.
The neighbors first called 911 to get firefighters on the way. After that, they say they worked together to keep neighbors safe. It happened on Monday evening, around 5 p.m.
"I ran out into the living room, I was seeing smoke coming in through the window. it just looked a little hazy,” said neighbor Hillary Carlson.
Carlson ran outside, and that is when she says she heard an explosion. Pablo Gomez who lives on the same street says he heard it too.
"We are like 12 feet away when it went boom,” said Gomez.
"I looked through these side windows here, saw the ball of flame, huge, the flame was very high,” said Cindi Laws who lives next door to the property where a car caught fire, sending flames shooting high near a home.
"Pablo comes running down the street, running up this steep driveway, and then he came over and said 'give me the hose',” Laws said.
"The first thing I do is throw water to the walls to try to avoid any damage,” said Gomez who stood on Laws' property while spraying the house with water.
"I was just in shock. That was the closest I have ever been to a fire like that, and I was just honestly praying that the house wouldn't catch,” said Carlson.
"The fear was if it had jumped up his wall, climbed the walls. It could have easily jumped to the trees or to my shed here behind me,” said Laws.
Neighbors say firefighters arrived quickly and extinguished the car fire. There were no injuries. A day later, neighbors are relieved.
“It is unfortunate a car was damaged," said Carlson. "It could have been so much worse."
In the neighborhood, they say they are proud of Pablo Gomez.
"He’s a hero neighbor,” said Laws. "If they are going to run down the street to save somebody else's house that they don't know, that's the kind of people you want." | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/neighbors-act-fire-south-seattle-home/281-6a51134c-1196-4ede-a998-b8b14b2739ad | 2023-06-07T02:13:12 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/neighbors-act-fire-south-seattle-home/281-6a51134c-1196-4ede-a998-b8b14b2739ad |
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state firefighters are getting help from high-tech eyes in the sky.
The first of two Kodiak K-100s arrived in Olympia last month and has already flown above wildfires on Orcas Island and in Concrete.
They travel faster and fly longer than most of the state’s other aerial firefighting tools, but the selling point for state Chief of Air Operations David Ritchie is the plane’s camera.
“This is going to help those fire teams out there be able to plan out how they’re going to attack those fires,” said Ritchie.
He said the Teledyne Flir camera enables the crew in the plane to send back live images and video of the fire to agency headquarters and incident commanders on the ground below.
In the past, those crews typically relied on cell phone photos, which cannot always be delivered quickly.
The planes cost taxpayers $4.3 million each, but Ritchie said they will pay for themselves by preventing fires from becoming more costly to fight.
”Time is of the essence when we’re engaging fire, the quicker we can get stuff on it, the quicker they’re going to go out,” said Ritchie.
Ritchie said the agency and lawmakers have helped build up the state's aerial firefighting force.
In 2012 he said the state had fewer than a dozen aircraft.
Going into the summer of 2023 the fleet consists of 28, and an additional 14 drones. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/new-airplanes-state-firefighting-fleet/281-039035b6-2678-4066-b687-86ca7869f731 | 2023-06-07T02:13:18 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/new-airplanes-state-firefighting-fleet/281-039035b6-2678-4066-b687-86ca7869f731 |
NORTH BEND, Wash. — Seattle Mountain Rescue is finally home in North Bend.
The nonprofit has been volunteer-based for 75 years and just celebrated a milestone anniversary with the grand opening of its first-ever Mountain Rescue Center (MRC). The hub is in a strategic location which Chairperson Doug McCall said will be an advantage to the crew.
"It’s less than 5 miles from the busiest trails for rescues in KING County," McCall said.
Seattle Mountain Rescue began renovations on the formerly-rundown building in 2020. With thousands of volunteer hours and help from state and private donors, the doors of the rescue center have finally opened.
Upwards of 70 volunteers are on call to participate in Search and Rescue operations, and a permanent home will provide the team with room to train, prepare and decompress after a tough search.
“We actually have a resilience team and that features three dogs," McCall said. Pickles, Ruffles and Bungie provide comfort to the rescue team and even to family members who are overwhelmed with emotion.
Doug Caley is one of the rescue volunteers with the organization. He recently participated in the successful search and rescue operation in Kittitas County that reunited a 10-year-old girl who spent the night alone in the woods with her family.
“Our business is picking up because of how much traffic there is on the trails,” Caley said.
June is one of the busiest months for Seattle Mountain Rescue. Having a new permanent hub near Mt Si in North Bend makes their response more efficient.
Seattle Mountain Rescue relies heavily on expertly trained, highly skilled alpinists that jump to action with little to no notice. The nonprofit was formed in 1948 and 75 years later the group is carrying out the same mission: saving lives through search, rescue, and mountain safety education at no cost, year-round. The new Mountain Rescue Center provides the dedicated volunteers with a space to honor their history, to train and to react just miles from many of the most popular Cascade hiking trails and mountain climbs in the region. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/seattle-mountain-rescue-center-north-bend/281-e143ca5b-2aa9-4d53-8560-4beabccad284 | 2023-06-07T02:13:24 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/seattle-mountain-rescue-center-north-bend/281-e143ca5b-2aa9-4d53-8560-4beabccad284 |
ATLANTIC CITY — Despite facing federal criminal charges and running off the county line, 4th Ward Councilman MD Hossain Morshed was leading in the Democratic primary election Tuesday.
And in the 2nd Ward, Democratic Councilwoman LaToya Dunston was leading, too, despite also running off the county line and being censured by the Atlantic City Democratic Committee for supporting a Republican for county commissioner last year instead of incumbent Democrat Ernest Coursey.
Coursey, who won, is Mayor Marty Small Sr.'s chief of staff.
Early voting, most mail-in ballots and Election Day votes had been tallied by about 10 p.m. An unknown number of mail-in ballots are yet to come in, and will be accepted until June 12 as long as they are postmarked by June 6.
Morshed recently had a falling out with Small, who supported George "Animal" Crouch in the 4th Ward primary.
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Dunston has long been a critic of Small.
All six ward seats are up this year, and Democrats are so dominant in the city that the primary will effectively choose the winner in most wards.
If the two Small critics win the primary, it will put them in good shape for winning in November and for continuing to be a thorn in Small's side.
The two recently joined with at-large Councilmen George Tibbitt and Bruce Weekes, and Republican 6th Ward Councilman Jesse Kurtz, to vote down the city's 2023 budget despite it containing a property tax decrease.
The state, however, is expected to approve the budget June 14 without council approval, as it can under the 2016 state takeover of the city.
The unofficial count in the 4th Ward at about 10 p.m. was 167 for Morshed; 54 for Crouch, who ran on the Atlantic County Democratic Committee's Row A; 36 for Charles T. Garrett; 149 for Abusaeed "Saeed" Asduha; and 8 for Torres W. Mayfield Sr.
In the 2nd Ward, Dunston had 228 votes to 171 for Viana "Vivi" Bailey, who had the support of the city Democratic Committee and the county line.
About 6,000 mail-in ballots were received countywide as of 8 p.m. Tuesday, said Atlantic County Board of Elections Chair Lynn Caterson.
In the 3rd Ward, Council Vice President Kaleem Shabazz had a lead of 149 votes to Nashir Sheik's 93.
In the 5th Ward, incumbent Councilman Muhammad "Anjum" Zia had a commanding lead of 153 votes to 17 for his challenger, Rizwan Khan Malik.
And in the 6th Ward, the only one without a Democratic incumbent, Geoffrey Dorsey had 184 votes to John C. Exadaktilos' 99.
Running unopposed in Ward 1 was incumbent City Council President Aaron "Sporty" Randolph.
In the wards where they ran, Republican candidates ran unopposed. No Republicans filed petitions to run in the 2nd or 3rd wards.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office charged Morshed in March with falsifying voter registrations, making false statements to the FBI about interactions with prospective voters and submitting false unemployment benefits claims with the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
Morshed got the support of the city’s Democratic committee in his reelection bid at its March meeting, but after the federal charges were announced, Atlantic County Democratic Chair Michael Suleiman called for Morshed’s resignation. Then he replaced him with Crouch on the county line of endorsed candidates.
Crouch is the vice president of the Atlantic City Dolphins youth football league. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/small-critics-lead-in-atlantic-city-primary-election/article_f861ad36-04c8-11ee-bb06-0f4ca64a97e8.html | 2023-06-07T02:16:36 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/small-critics-lead-in-atlantic-city-primary-election/article_f861ad36-04c8-11ee-bb06-0f4ca64a97e8.html |
PHOENIX — For 12-year-old Elena Leale, playing softball and running to first will never be taken for granted again.
Because she almost lost the ability to run three years ago.
Three years ago on Thanksgiving, Elena took a ride with a family member on a side-by-side vehicle.
"It’s totally a normal thing for them to ride on that side-by-side. It’s street legal,” said Pamela Leale, Elena's mom.
However, Elena said the family member behind the wheel was driving quickly, speeding over speed bumps. Then she said she blacked out as she was thrown from the vehicle.
“And I opened my eyes, and it was on top of me, and I couldn’t feel anything,” Elena said.
The four-wheel side-by-side pinned Elena to the ground. Her mom said it removed most of the flesh along her right leg. She broke both feet, her right tibia, and fibula.
“We didn’t really know if she was going to have her leg. At one point, there was no pulse in the leg,” Pamela said.
Elena would be rushed to Phoenix Children's Hospital and go into surgery that night.
Dr. Timothy Schaub was one of the doctors on call.
“This is something that is not a simple fix,“ Dr. Schaub said.
That night would be the first of nine surgeries for Elena. Doctors would take skin and muscle from her back to replace what was missing from her right leg.
Another surgery would take veins from her left leg to make a new artery in her right leg.
“She’s an incredible kid,“ Dr. Schaub said.
After two years of recovery, Elena began playing softball again last year.
"Every time she hits the ball, it’s that feeling that I have of how proud of her I am," Pamela said.
Elena has one surgery left to deal with some of the scars.
“I’m not going to give up, and I’m going to keep being positive and just go with it,” Elena said.
This summer, she will be part of the softball league's all-star team.
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MANTECA, Calif. — A man is now behind bars in connection to a homicide in Manteca, according to police.
Manteca Police Department was investigating a shooting in Manteca reported just before 1 p.m. along the 800 block of Mono Street Monday.
Police said they found the man shot, and he was later pronounced dead at the scene.
During the investigation, an officer found a person matching a description several blocks away. It was later determined he was directly involved, Manteca police said.
Marquis L. Williams was arrested on suspicion of murder in connection to the shooting.
The investigation is still ongoing.
Watch more from ABC10: Man attacked in South Sacramento shares moments leading up to attack | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/manteca/man-arrested-after-shooting-killing-another-man-in-manteca/103-7b1eff99-670b-46a4-9f3d-1725b77717fe | 2023-06-07T02:23:57 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/manteca/man-arrested-after-shooting-killing-another-man-in-manteca/103-7b1eff99-670b-46a4-9f3d-1725b77717fe |
STOCKTON, Calif. — Three people were arrested in Stockton after investigators said they found 1,800 pounds of illegal fireworks.
The San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office said they worked with the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office and investigators when they found the illegal fireworks and arrested three people on felony charges.
Esteban Perez, Jonathan Crawford and Jose Ontiveros-Venegas were arrested on charges including possessing unclassified and unregistered fireworks and possessing dangerous fireworks without a permit.
“I would like to thank our District Attorney Investigators and the Sheriff’s Office for their hard work on taking these illegal fireworks off our streets” said District Attorney Ron Freitas. “Illegal fireworks are a crime and a danger to your friends, your neighbors, and your community. Make no mistake, if you are caught in possession of illegal fireworks, we will prosecute”.
Watch more from ABC10: South Sacramento community shares concern over robberies | To The Point | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/1800-pounds-illegal-fireworks-found-stockton/103-171aaea2-a904-4a1d-9a5d-8f6abb9b2bd3 | 2023-06-07T02:24:03 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/1800-pounds-illegal-fireworks-found-stockton/103-171aaea2-a904-4a1d-9a5d-8f6abb9b2bd3 |
TUOLUMNE COUNTY, Calif. — Two women were found dead in the river over the weekend in Tuolumne County.
Search and rescue teams with the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office responded to the area of Clavey River off Cottonwood Road Saturday after a woman's body was spotted downstream of Clavey Bridge.
Rescue team members pulled the body from the water and allowed the coroner to take over the investigation. Authorities were able to confirm the woman was the same 22-year-old missing woman who was last seen being swept downstream on May 29.
While rescue team members were in the water, deputies got a report of a 22-year-old woman who went to the river above the water fall at Rainbow Pools. She was swept downstream and hadn't resurfaced.
Search and rescue teams found her in the water below the Highway 120 bridge. They pulled her body from the water and allowed the coroner to take over the investigation.
"We can't say it enough, be extremely cautious around waterways in Tuolumne County. The rivers are flowing fast, high and the water is cold. These unsafe river conditions will continue well into the summer due to the unprecedented snowfall we received over the winter," said the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office on Facebook.
WATCH ALSO: | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/two-dead-women-tuolumne-clavey-river/103-00015305-7fc6-4b32-b5ca-91b3eab7bc26 | 2023-06-07T02:24:09 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/two-dead-women-tuolumne-clavey-river/103-00015305-7fc6-4b32-b5ca-91b3eab7bc26 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Cal Fire is replacing its arsenal of firefighting tools ahead of this year’s wildfire season.
Seven planes and 16 helicopters have been added to their toolbox.
Governor Gavin Newsom announced the purchases in August 2022 to combat the issues of climate change. The additions will also make the department more self sufficient rather than having to request resources from the Department of Defense.
Seven C-130 airplanes are being modified to carry fire retardant at McClellan, but none are currently ready. Senior Aviation Officer Marty Buno, who has more than two decades of service with Cal Fire, is overseeing the operation.
“The C-130’s are being transferred to us via the Coast Guard, so there is basically no cost to us except support and maintenance but the Air Force is doing the modifications to it,” said Buno.
Their goal is to get the planes ready as soon as possible, but with no date, ABC10 asked if they would be ready to respond this season.
“We will have the exclusive use tankers that we can use and also have some exclusive use type on helicopters that we can use to augment that. So we’ve added in additional resources to make sure that we can cover the C-130s,” said Buno.
The 4,000 gallon tank in the planes will deliver three times the amount of retardant that the current small planes can.
10 Black Hawk helicopters have also arrived. Re-homed from the military and painted white, the new Fire Hawks are ready to serve.
“Our response times will be quicker; they are faster helicopters, faster aircraft. They can deliver more capacity with water with being a thousand gallons versus traditionally 340 gallons,” said Buno.
Night flights are another new part of the mission.
Last fire season, only one night flight was flown over the Electra Fire in Amador and Calaveras counties.
“The helicopter is an effort to be a multi-mission all risk type platform, so yes, night flying is a capability we are looking to enhance. Last year was our first fire mission at night. This year, we will have three additional bases that will have that capability,” said Buno
This will give crews a cooler environment to work in with less smoke. It gives Cal Fire an eye in the sky to watch where the fire is heading instead of having to wait for the morning hours to see how the fire has grown. But night flying has its own challenges, such as flying in the dark in mountainous terrain.
“Now, they are flying at night under goggles. The safety factor is enhanced, so we have to make sure we have people that are trained properly, that we've tried to bring people in from the military to assist us,” said Buno.
Each Fire Hawk comes with its own $23 million price tag. That’s $368 million by the time all 16 become operational over the next few years. The closest bases to Sacramento where the helicopters will respond from are Hollister, Alma, Columbia and Vina.
Moving forward with Cal Fire, there are plans for more night flights this wildfire season. It takes about 300 hours to train a pilot on the new technology.
WATCH ALSO: | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfire/cal-fire-new-tools-wildfire-season/103-2196886f-e3ba-4546-98c9-b2f9821d5893 | 2023-06-07T02:24:15 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfire/cal-fire-new-tools-wildfire-season/103-2196886f-e3ba-4546-98c9-b2f9821d5893 |
RICHMOND, Va. — Seven people were shot -- three of them with life-threatening injuries -- after gunfire rang out near Virginia Commonwealth University in downtown Richmond following a high school graduation ceremony Tuesday, according to police and school district officials.
Two suspects were taken into custody after the incident, Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards said at a news conference.
Officers inside Altria Theater, where the graduation took place, heard gunfire outside around 5:15 p.m. and radioed to police stationed outside, who found multiple victims, Edwards said.
Police did not believe there was any ongoing threat to the community. The identities of those in custody and those injured were not immediately released.
"We're going to do everything we can to bring the individuals involved in this to justice," Mayor Levar Stoney said at the news conference. "This should not be happening anywhere."
In addition to the seven wounded by gunfire, at least two other people arrived at local hospitals with injuries other than gunshots, Edwards said.
“My administration continues monitoring the terrible shooting in the heart of Richmond tonight,” Gov. Glenn Youngkin said on Twitter. “State law enforcement are fully supporting the Richmond Police Department as this investigation moves forward.”
Richmond Public Schools said in a message on its website that the shooting took place in Monroe Park, which is near the college campus, after a graduation ceremony for Huguenot High School.
School board member Jonathan Young told NBC12 that graduates and other attendees were exiting the theater when they heard about 20 gunshots in rapid succession.
“That prompted, as you would expect, hundreds of persons in an effort to flee the gunfire to return to the building,” Young said. “It materialized in a stampede.”
The school district said a different graduation scheduled for later Tuesday had been canceled “out of an abundance of caution" and that schools would be closed Wednesday. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/active-shooter-reported-vcu-monroe-park-richmond/291-52c1ec8c-f072-4a99-ba5c-253de7417c32 | 2023-06-07T02:33:13 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/active-shooter-reported-vcu-monroe-park-richmond/291-52c1ec8c-f072-4a99-ba5c-253de7417c32 |
Forest managers are planning to burn 4,500 acres of the Coconino National Forest about 10 miles southwest of Flagstaff this week.
The burn, dubbed the Crater Sinks project, is a collaboration between the National Forest and Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management, and is on both federal and state lands in the area.
Forest managers say the fire will help create healthier forests and reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire to Flagstaff and other nearby communities.
The burn comes as the Coconino National Forest has been conducting several prescribed burns in recent weeks, and has been managing a handful of lightning-caused fires in a similar manner.
Last week, members of the media toured the Volunteer Fire southwest of Flagstaff. Firefighters have been using that fire to improve forest health, and conducting back-burns around the blaze to not only reduce fuels such as small and downed trees and pine needles, but also control the boundaries of the fire.
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Where such fuels are already burned, the fire cannot spread and future fire risk is reduced, officials say.
Similar operations are also taking place about 8.5 miles west of Clints Well on the Wilbur Fire.
In recent days, firefighters working that blaze have been lighting similar back-burns and are hoping to keep the fire out of West Clear Creek Wilderness.
The Wilbur Fire is burning in an area with an extensive road system that firefighters are using for travel and as control lines. For public and firefighter safety, forest officials say visitors should travel with caution as fire crews will be on roadways during operations.
The Wilbur Fire received rain this weekend, with winds spreading smoke down West Clear Creek into the Verde Valley and along portions of state Route 260.
The precipitation did nothing to hamper back-burns that firefighters were lighting around that blaze.
Crater Sinks project
Forest officials say the Crater Sinks burn has been in the planning stages for more than 4 years.
Firefighters plan on using a helicopter for ignitions by air.
Winds are forecast from the south/southwest at approximately 13 mph, which means smoke will disperse toward the north/northeast and should travel up and over Flagstaff. However, smoke will likely impact areas of Oak Creek Canyon overnight as temperatures cool and settle and may impact Flagstaff.
The Crater Sinks project is part of the wildfire crisis strategy recently announced by the chief of the Forest Service, in which national forests across the country are working more closely with partners such as state agencies to restore healthy, resilient landscapes, officials say.
Prescribed burns are always dependent upon weather and wind conditions, as well as approval from Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ).
The public can view approved prescribed burns on ADEQ’s website at smoke.azdeq.gov. Coconino NF burns begin with the designator “COF.”
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Bradenton police search for a woman last seen with Tropicana Bradenton shooting suspect
The Bradenton Police Department is looking for Elecia Nicole Bing, 38, who was last seen with the suspect in a shooting Monday night at the Tropicana Bradenton facility and is believed to be in danger.
She is considered missing or endangered and law enforcement is concerned for her safety, according to a news release issued by the department Tuesday.
Bing was last seen leaving the Tropicana Bradenton facility with Demetrius Bell, the 50-year-old suspect who walked into the facility and shot a coworker on Monday night. The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment and is in stable condition. Bing is also an employee at the facility.
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Authorities believe the two men were involved in a dispute, and Bell, who works a different shift, walked into the Tropicana Bradenton plant Monday night while the victim was working and shot him.
Warrants have been issued for Bell, who faces charges of aggravated battery with a firearm as well as possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Bing is 5'10" about 110 lbs, and has black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a yellow safety shirt and blue jeans. Bell was last seen driving a 2015 black Camaro with Florida license plate QUQF97.
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PALM COAST, Fla. – What to do with paper and plastic waste? That’s what Palm Coast residents are asking after thousands of them had their recycling bins taken away.
The city is in an ongoing legal dispute with the company that took those bins off the street: Waste Pro USA.
“I look at what I have, especially paper and plastic, and I’m saying, ‘Where is it all gonna go?’” said resident Joseph Binder.
Binder told News 6 that he is an avid recycler, and he typically puts his recycling bin out every week.
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However, he was left with no choice after his recycling bin was taken by Waste Pro USA — along with the bins of 7,000 other Palm Coast residents.
The city cut ties with Waste Pro after 17 years of service, and June 1 was the start of a contract with the city’s new hauler, FCC Environmental.
When Waste Pro left, they took their recycling bins with them.
“I saw them with a white pickup truck, and in the back was a big trailer, and I just put two and two together,” Binder said.
Palm Coast officials released a statement that reads in part: “We are sympathetic to the fact that the removal of the recycling bins by the outgoing hauler caused a disruption in the smooth transition to the new contractor.”
The City of Palm Coast strives to provide the highest level of service to meet the needs of our exceptional community. Providing the highest level of service requires accountability and transparency in our actions. We are sympathetic to the fact that the removal of the recycling bins by the outgoing hauler caused a disruption in the smooth transition to the new contractor. It is the City’s position that the ownership of the recycling bins belongs to the residents, as stated in the contract. The City is working diligently to acquire and provide replacement recycling bins to all affected residents as soon as possible. We appreciate the patience of the community, and we continue to work towards building a city that stands as an example of exceptional governance, service, and care for its citizens.
Brittany Kershaw, Palm Coast director of communications and marketing
According to the city, the ownership of those recycling bins belongs to the residents per the city’s contract with Waste Pro.
Waste Pro told News 6 that the branded recycling bins were purchased by the company and provided to the residents at no charge to use during the contractual period with the city.
The company added that it believes retrieving its property following the completion of services in the city is legal and appropriate.
Waste Pro even posted advertisements in the local newspaper, offering to sell the bins to the city at a discounted price. Company officials stated that it was perplexing that the city didn’t take any steps to obtain new bins.
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Residents whose bins were taken can fill out a request on the city’s customer service portal to get a replacement bin. For more information on how to do so, click here.
In the meantime, city officials said that it could take about three weeks to get those new bins. They added that the city plans to charge Waste Pro $120 for each bin that was picked up.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Manatee County School District is keeping the family of one of their teachers in their thoughts after he died following a crash over the weekend in St. Petersburg.
Jeffrey Wilson was a physical education teacher at Freedom Elementary School in Bradenton. In an update from the school Monday, Wilson was said to have no brain activity. He was later pronounced dead.
The crash happened just after 9 p.m. on Saturday, June 3, near the intersection of Central Avenue and 3rd Street South. The person walking suffered critical industries, a spokesperson for St. Pete police said.
Wilson's wife, Ariane, was also hit in the accident, a spokesperson for the school district said. However, she was released from the hospital. Ariane Wilson is a kindergarten teacher at Freedom Elementary School.
The school released the following statement.
"The School District of Manatee County mourns the loss of Freedom Elementary School Physical Education Teacher Jeffrey Wilson. Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with the Wilson family and the Freedom Elementary School community."
The driver involved stayed at the scene and is under investigation. An area of Central Avenue and 3rd Street South was blocked off from drivers while police surveyed the area.
Many people who knew Wilson left comments on Freedom Elementary School's Facebook post sharing the teacher's impact.
"All three of our Children had Coach Wilson at Freedom and they loved him," one parent said. "He was a great model to them and many. We are all heartbroken." | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/manateecounty/manatee-county-teacher-dies-st-pete-crash-central-avenue/67-b81a7f9a-8d36-4d6e-8a29-42362eda96a0 | 2023-06-07T02:39:03 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/manateecounty/manatee-county-teacher-dies-st-pete-crash-central-avenue/67-b81a7f9a-8d36-4d6e-8a29-42362eda96a0 |
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Harley-Davidson rider dies in crash with pickup truck east of Eugene
Bill Poehler
Salem Statesman Journal
A 46-year-old Coquille man died in a two vehicle crash Friday afternoon on Oregon Route 126 near the Lane and Linn County line, according to Oregon State Police.
OSP said in a news release Monday that Sean Lenninger was eastbound on a Harley-Davidson when he tried to pass a Toyota pickup truck that was trying to turn left into a campground.
Investigators determined Lenniger's motorcycle clipped the left front of the pickup and went off the road. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Eugene driver of the pickup was transported to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries,
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Multiple people were shot at a high school graduation ceremony in Virginia's capital city, according to Scripps News Richmond. The shooting happened as the graduation ceremony for Huguenot High School was wrapping up at Altria Theater in Richmond, near the Virginia Commonwealth University campus.
Officials are piecing together how the shooting happened.
4 p.m.: Huguenot High School graduation begins at the Altria Theater, 6 N. Laurel St., a historic 3,565-seat venue on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.
5:13 p.m.: Richmond police officers respond to initial reports of gunfire outside of the theater.
6:05 p.m.: VCU issues a campus alert about "a shooting incident" near the theater.
6:34 p.m.: The Richmond Police Department says officers are concentrating on the intersection of Laurel and Franklin streets. Multiple injuries are reported.
6:37 p.m.: Richmond Public Schools announces all schools will close Wednesday and graduation ceremonies are postponed.
6:46 p.m.: City of Richmond shuts down nine intersections around the site, as well as the 800 block of West Franklin Street.
7 p.m.: Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards, Mayor Levar Stoney and Superintendent Jason Kamras hold a press conference. Edwards confirms 13 people were transported by ambulance to MCV. Seven people sustained gunshot wounds, with three of them considered life threatening. Two people sustained injuries in a fall, including one 9-year-old was hit by a car. Edwards reports two people are in custody in relation to the shooting.
9 p.m.: RPD holds a second press conference. Edwards says that an 18-year-old graduate and a 32-year-old male were killed. Edwards also said that the suspect is a 19-year-old who he did not believe was a student. A 9-year old girl struck by a car has non life-threatening injuries, he said.
GALLERY: Shooting after Huguenot High School graduation ceremony
A man in graduation regalia speaks on the phone surrounded by police after the Huguenot High School graduation on June 6, 2023, in Richmond Va. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-courts/huguenot-graduation-shooting-vcu/article_bf96f2aa-04d1-11ee-b449-af6d054fe55b.html | 2023-06-07T02:51:30 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-courts/huguenot-graduation-shooting-vcu/article_bf96f2aa-04d1-11ee-b449-af6d054fe55b.html |
The following updates were reported by Anna Bryson, Andrew Cain, Katie Castellani, Thad Green, Em Holter, Zach Joachim, Sean Jones and Luca Powell, of The Times-Dispatch.
An 18-year-old graduating student and a 36-year-old man were shot and killed outside the Altria Theater Tuesday evening, among seven people who sustained gunshot wounds following the Huguenot High School graduation, Richmond’s Acting Police Chief Rick Edwards said.
The chief said a 19-year-old suspect is in custody and police, in consultation with Richmond prosecutors, expect to seek charges on two counts of second-degree murder. Police detained another person with a firearm, but do not believe he was involved with the shooting, Edwards said.
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Four others suffered gunshot wounds that were not life-threatening: a 14-year-old boy, a 32-year-old man, a 55-year-old man and a 58-year-old man.
A 9-year-old girl who was struck by a car in the resulting commotion was treated at the scene, released and later went to a local hospital. She did not sustain a life-threatening injury, Edwards said.
The shooting happened on the sidewalk outside of the theater, which is adjacent to Monroe Park. Hundreds of people were in the park at the time of the shooting, he said.
Edwards said he expects additional charges to be placed against the 19-year-old suspect, beyond the two pending counts of second-degree murder.
Police believe the suspect knew at least one of the victims, said Edwards, who said he was unsure whether the suspect is a student.
“At this time I’d like to just express my concerns and my sympathies for those who lost their lives today and those whose lives were forever changed by the events today,” said Edwards, who also thanked an array of local, state and federal law enforcement partners who also rushed to assist.
9:04 p.m.
Officials: 7 people were shot after Huguenot High School graduation ceremony
Jonathan Young, a member of the Richmond school board, was inside the Altria Theatre for Huguenot High School graduation ceremonies Tuesday when he heard as many as 20 shots outside. The sound touched off a stampede of "hundreds of people," which injured many, he said.
“I’m disgusted, disgusted that what was supposed to be a celebratory day to graduate all of our beautiful, capable young professionals on their biggest day, to shake their hand as they walked across the stage," Young told The Times-Dispatch.
"It was an awful, awful scene," he said later.
Young said he saw three police officers with guns draw chasing someone.
“As soon as we got out there we were trying to find my brother, and then all I heard was boom-boom-boom. They were shooting and we all ran,” a woman who said she was related to one of the graduates told The Times-Dispatch. She asked not to be identified.
VCU student Saadat Bahrami said he was on his way to the library when he heard gunshots. He said he normally walks through the park to get to the library, but took a different route Tuesday because he moved to a new apartment.
“I heard these shots going off and I didn’t really think much of it,” Bahrami said. “And then I saw a bunch of cops racing down the road.”
“Honestly, I think it’s a wake up call,” Bahrami said. “And the fact that there’s no changes being done whatsoever anywhere across the nation that are making a profound effect … I think that just speaks about where the priorities lie in our government, and it’s really not for the safety of the people.”
All RPS schools & offices will be closed tomorrow, June 7. All high school graduations have also been canceled. Further updates regarding rescheduling will be shared soon. pic.twitter.com/AAFum2TdcB
— Richmond Public Schools (@RPS_Schools) June 7, 2023
8:23 p.m.
Democrats, lieutenant governor clash over comments on shooting
Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears on Tuesday addressed the media and appeared to hold Richmond leaders accountable for stopping the violence following a shooting following the Huguenot High School graduation ceremonies.
Democrats pushed back on Twitter, noting that Earle-Sears, a U.S. Marines veteran, had toted an assault-style rifle in an image she used in her 2021 campaign.
“The people that I represent are not safe – they’re not safe in this city, and we have to figure out why that is,” Earle-Sears said Wednesday near the Altria Theater. “This is not about law-abiding gun owners, this is about gangs,” she said.
“When do we say enough is enough?” Earle-Sears said.
Disappointed and saddened by these comments made in the immediate aftermath of the Richmond tragedy, even before the victims' names were released.
— Don Scott (@DonScott757) June 7, 2023
“How many more people have to die before we say ‘you’re going to jail? We’re going to lock you up and there’s not going to be any bail so we can have safety in our community.’"
“Who is in charge – is that the mayor, is that the chief, who is that? I mean, let’s start naming names,” she said.
House Minority Leader Don Scott Jr., D-Portsmouth, tweeted in response: “This gaslighting and political pandering by a LT. GOVERNOR who LITERALLY campaigned holding a picture of an assault rifle is lecturing others on preventing gun violence. She runs out to the scene with no empathy for the victims just thinking of how to appeal to MAGA,” Scott said, referring to former President Donald Trump’s slogan of “Make America Great Again.”
Days after 19 children & 2 adults were killed in Uvalde, Sears went to TX to defend the NRA. Now just mere minutes after a mass shooting in our city, she is on tv to inflict more trauma. "The people I [with emphasis] represent are not safe," she says. She's ready to defend guns. pic.twitter.com/YB8HDmLX3M
— Ghazala Hashmi (@SenatorHashmi) June 6, 2023
7:29 p.m.:
Stoney: 'This is tragic'
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney during a press conference Tuesday started by offering prayers for the families involved — from the victims’ families to “the children” who expected to celebrate a joyous graduation. Seven people were wounded in a shooting following Huguenot High School graduation ceremonies, police said.
“This is tragic, but also traumatic because this is their graduation,” Stoney said. “The question that comes to mind right now is: Is nothing sacred any longer?”
Richmond Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras somberly pleaded for an end to the violence.
“This is supposed to be a joyous day when our kids walk the stage and get their diploma, which is what they all did here for Huguenot today.“
They “walked out the doors into their families’ and friends’ arms, taking pictures - and then this tragedy occurred,” Kamras said.
“I don’t have any more words on this.
“I’m just tired of seeing people get shot, our kids get shot, and I beg of the entire community to stop - to just stop."
Kamras said the students can’t take it, “the teachers can’t take it, our families can’t take it anymore.”
In September, a 17-year-old Huguenot High School student was wounded while walking to his bus stop on McDowell Road.
Maintaining communication with the Mayor’s office related to the shooting at Monroe Park as they’re working alongside RPD and RPS. Please be on the lookout for information as they make it available. Until further notice please avoid the area.
— Lamont Bagby (@SenBagby) June 6, 2023
7:27 p.m.
7 wounded in shooting: chief
Seven people were wounded in a shooting outside the Altria Theater on Tuesday afternoon, Richmond Interim Chief of Police Rick Edwards said during a press conference. Three of the wounds were considered life-threatening, he said.
“At this point we have taken two subjects into custody. At this point we do not believe there is an ongoing threat to the community," he said.
Edwards said officers who were inside the theater heard gunshots.
Mayor Levar Stoney said: "I want to begin by providing prayers for families involved here not just to those that may have been victims but to those children, children involved at a graduation so words that come to mind is that this is tragic but also traumatic because this is their graduation event."
Gov. Glenn Youngkin in a Twitter message said: "My administration continues monitoring the terrible shooting in the heart of Richmond tonight. State law enforcement are fully supporting the Richmond Police Department as this investigation moves forward."
A press conference is planned at 9 p.m.
7:03 p.m.
My administration continues monitoring the terrible shooting in the heart of Richmond tonight. State law enforcement are fully supporting the Richmond Police Department as this investigation moves forward.
— Governor Glenn Youngkin (@GovernorVA) June 6, 2023
Classes canceled Wednesday
All Richmond public school classes are canceled Wednesday following a shooting in Monroe Park following the Huguenot High School graduation ceremony.
"We apologize to all families and students for any inconvenience," Richmond schools said in a statement.
The school system said counselors are available. Family members can call the ChildSavers Immediate Response Helpline at (804) 305-2420 or the Richmond Behavioral Health Authority at (804) 819-4100.
The Richmond Police Department on Twitter said multiple injuries are reported at Laurel Street and Franklin Street.
HCPS is keeping RPS families and staff in our thoughts & prayers following today's tragic event. Earlier social media posts referencing traffic were meant as a logistical update for guests making their way to the Siegel Center and were not intended to diminish the situation. pic.twitter.com/DydPxdEnBi
— Henrico Schools (@HenricoSchools) June 6, 2023
R. Andrew Chestnut, a professor and Bishop Walter Sullivan chair of Catholic Studies at VCU, tweeted at 5:30: “Vibes and prayers for my wife who is hiding in a bathroom because shots fired at her high school graduation!”
He said in a follow-up Tweet: “She’s safe now, bu 1 students dead and 2 injured. #Gun Control
Our earlier story ...
'This was very bad'
There is a heavy police presence at Monroe Park in Richmond after a reported shooting at Altria Theater where high schools were holding graduation ceremonies.
Witnesses at the scene said that a gunman opened fire while as Huguenot High School was ending its ceremony and Thomas Jefferson was ushering into the event space.
Richmond Police are reporting multiple injuries with no immediate threat to the public. At least four ambulances have left the area around N. Laurel Street.
Officials reacted Tuesday to a shooting in Richmond following a high school graduation ceremony:
Monroe Park has been largely tapped off with police vehicles lining two sides of the park.
Edythe Payne of Richmond, was helping her daughter Naomi Wade sell flowers outside of the theatre for students as they left the graduation ceremony.
“This was very bad and I think the fact that someone thought that they could do this was bad,” Payne said.
Payne said one man came over to their table and said that his friend had been shot in the chest during the incident. She also overheard a girl in the phone saying that someone had been shot in the back.
She said the shooting caused a panic on Main Street which was packed with people at the time.
“I felt bad because some elderly people were at the graduation and they got knocked down to the ground,” Paybe said. “nobody is expecting to deal with that.”
Police are hosting are set to host a press conference soon.
Currently monitoring the situation at Monroe Park. In touch with RPD and RPS. Will make information available as it comes in. Please avoid the area.
— Mayor Levar M. Stoney (@LevarStoney) June 6, 2023
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Shooting reported near Altria Theater
Virginia Commonwealth University has issued an alert for a shooting near the Altria Theater and Monroe Park.
"There is no ongoing threat to the community but there is a heavy police presence at Monroe Park. Richmond Police are leading the investigation," an alert sent Thursday afternoon said.
The school at 5:30 p.m. said people stay indoors.
Mayor Levar Stoney in a tweet at 6:11 p.m. said: "Currently monitoring the situation at Monroe Park. In touch with RPD and RPS. Will make information available as it comes in. Please avoid the area."
All RPS schools & offices will be closed tomorrow, June 7. All high school graduations have also been canceled. Further updates regarding rescheduling will be shared soon. pic.twitter.com/AAFum2TdcB
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According to officials, two people were killed by gunfire and five were wounded as graduating students were leaving the Altria Theater and pouring onto Monroe Park.
Fifty-eight school shootings have happened in Virginia since 1971, according to The Violence Project, a nonprofit group that tracks K-12 school shootings.
After that shooting, principal Kevin Olds said he was focused on “changing the narrative” around school violence.
"What's really happening here isn't starting in the schools,” Olds said last month. “It's starting in the streets and spilling over into the schools."
The Wythe shooting was preceded by a Jan. 6 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News. Then, a 6-year-old first-grader shot his teacher, Abigail Zwerner, through the stomach with a gun taken from his mother.
In September, a 17-year-old Huguenot High School student was wounded while walking to his bus stop on McDowell Road.
In October 2022, a shooting at Westover Hill Elementary School in Richmond left one dead. In that case, a 17-year-old student was charged with the murder of 26-year-old Imani Hill, who was not a student. The shooting occurred near enough to campus to force a school shutdown.
One distinction is that Tuesday's shooting occurred at a graduation. The shooting occurred just after 5 p.m. outside Altria Theater, in the heart of downtown Richmond.
Far more often than not, school shootings in Virginia have occurred during school hours, in school parking lots or at sporting events.
The two schools affected, Jefferson and Huguenot, typically hold their end-of-year graduations downtown. Last year, Thomas Jefferson High School’s graduation was at The Diamond.
Nationwide, Tuesday's shooting is the 169th to occur this year, according to The Violence Project. The year prior, there were 304.
GALLERY: Shooting after Huguenot High School graduation ceremony
George Wythe High School principal Kevin Olds speaks during a Vigil for Peace gathering hosted by the Richmond police chaplain team and community organization Virginians in Action outside the school in May.
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Two men were shot and killed outside the Altria Theater Tuesday evening following the Huguenot High School graduation, locking down a large section of the VCU campus and prompting fresh outrage about gun violence in the community.
One of the men killed was an 18-year-old who was graduating on Tuesday afternoon, and the other was a 32-year-old man. Another five people also sustained gunshot wounds.
Richmond’s Acting Police Chief Rick Edwards said a 19-year-old suspect is in custody and police, in consultation with Richmond prosecutors, expect to seek charges on two counts of second-degree murder, plus additional charges. Police detained another person with a firearm, but do not believe he was involved with the shooting, Edwards said.
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Police believe the suspect knew at least one of the victims, said Edwards, who said he was unsure whether the suspect is a student.
As for the other shooting victims, Edwards said a 31-year-old victim sustained a life-threatening wound.
Four others suffered gunshot wounds that were not life-threatening: a 14-year-old boy, a 32-year-old man, a 55-year-old man and a 58-year-old man.
A 9-year-old girl who was struck by a car in the resulting commotion was treated at the scene, released and later went to a local hospital. She did not sustain a life-threatening injury, Edwards said.
“At this time I’d like to just express my concerns and my sympathies for those who lost their lives today and those whose lives were forever changed by the events today,” said Edwards, who also thanked an array of local, state and federal law enforcement partners who also rushed to assist.
A gunman opened fire at 5:13 p.m. as Huguenot High School was ending its graduation ceremony and Thomas Jefferson was preparing to begin its commencement.
Officials reacted Tuesday to a shooting in Richmond following a high school graduation ceremony:
A panic erupted on Main Street as the shots went off. High school seniors dressed in their graduation robes ran from the scene, along with their friends and families who came to watch the ceremonies.
School Board member Jonathan Young, who was at the scene, said he saw “a lot of shock. A lot of people that injured themselves in the melee, the stampede … All running as fast as they can, no shoes, people tripping over themselves, falling on top of (one) other, crying and yelling.”
A woman who said she is related to one of the graduates said, “As soon as we got out there, we were trying to find my brother, and then all I heard was boom boom boom. They were shooting and we all ran.” She asked not to be identified.
VCU student Saadat Bahrami said he was on his way to the library when he heard gunshots.
“I heard these shots going off and I didn’t really think much of it,” Bahrami said. “And then I saw a bunch of cops racing down the road.”
“Honestly, I think it’s a wake up call,” Bahrami said. “And the fact that there’s no changes being done whatsoever anywhere across the nation that are making a profound effect…I think that just speaks about where the priorities lie in our government, and it’s really not for the safety of the people.”
Richmond Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras, who was attending the graduation ceremonies, somberly pleaded with the community for an end to the violence.
“This is supposed to be a joyous day when our kids walk the stage and get their diploma, which is what they all did here for Huguenot today,” Kamras said. They “walked out the doors into their families’ and friends’ arms, taking pictures, and then this tragedy occurred.”
“I’m just tired of seeing people get shot and I beg of the entire community to stop – to just stop,” Kamras said.
He said the students can’t take it, “the teachers can’t take it, our families can’t take it anymore. I beg of you to stop.”
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney said, “we are going to do everything we can to bring the individuals involved in this to justice.”
“This is tragic, but also traumatic because this is their graduation,” Stoney said at a press conference. “The question that comes to mind right now is: Is nothing sacred any longer?”
Following the news conference, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears addressed reporters and appeared to hold Richmond leaders accountable for stopping the violence. Democrats pushed back on Twitter, noting that Earle-Sears, a U.S. Marines veteran, had toted an assault-style rifle in an image she used in her 2021 campaign.
“The people that I represent are not safe – they’re not safe in this city, and we have to figure out why that is,” Earle-Sears said near the Altria Theater. “This is not about law-abiding gun owners, this is about gangs,” she said.
“Who is in charge – is that the mayor, is that the chief, who is that? I mean, let’s start naming names,” Earle-Sears said. “Because otherwise, if no one is accountable, if all we do is come in front of a camera… and keep talking about, ‘oh, this shouldn't happen, and that shouldn't happen.’ Well, you're the one in charge. You're the one responsible. So let's cut it.”
House Minority Leader Don Scott Jr., D-Portsmouth, tweeted in response: “This gaslighting and political pandering by a LT. GOVERNOR who LITERALLY campaigned holding a picture of an assault rifle is lecturing others on preventing gun violence. She runs out to the scene with no empathy for the victims just thinking of how to appeal to MAGA,” Scott said, referring to former President Donald Trump’s slogan of “Make America Great Again.”
Gov. Glenn Youngkin said in a statement on Twitter: "My administration continues monitoring the terrible shooting in the heart of Richmond tonight. State law enforcement are fully supporting the Richmond Police Department as this investigation moves forward."
All Richmond Public Schools classes are canceled Wednesday, the division announced in an email to families on Tuesday evening. The school system said counselors are available.
“For someone to commit this evil heinous act to show zero regard for anyone.. that's just evil,” Young said. “And it's long overdue for everyone who resides here, irrespective of their position or title to call it what it is, and that's evil. If you commit evil acts, you need to pay the consequences." | https://richmond.com/news/local/graduation-shooting-seven-shot-two-dead/article_6466f5b6-04c6-11ee-9190-6b5d4870d02e.html | 2023-06-07T02:51:48 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/graduation-shooting-seven-shot-two-dead/article_6466f5b6-04c6-11ee-9190-6b5d4870d02e.html |
MITCHELL — Among the trio of candidates vying to represent Ward 3 on the Mitchell City Council, Mike Bathke came out on top Tuesday night.
The longtime Mitchell resident and business owner called his election win a “very proud moment” for he and his family. Bathke notched 317 votes to defeat Kimberly Lofgren and Jason Bates, who tallied 235 and 105 votes, respectively.
“Since day one, I’ve heard nothing but positive comments from all the people in my ward. The support I got from the people of my ward and ex-city councilmen was great. I’m ready for this,” Bathke said following his election win, which came on his first attempt at running for public office.
Bathke will fill the seat that’s been held by longtime Councilman Dan Allen, who represented Ward 3 for over a decade. Bathke, a Plankinton native, has called Mitchell home since moving here in 1991.
He has frequently attended city council meetings in recent years in which he voiced his opinions and pitched recommendations to the eight-person governing body. Now, he will have a seat at the council’s table as an elected official.
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“I just want to do the right thing for all citizens of Mitchell. I will always be willing to accept criticism and listen to our citizens,” Bathke said.
With several major projects being considered by the council, including a $25 million Lake Mitchell dredging project and multimillion-dollar secondary water source agreement, Bathke said the big decisions ahead motivated him to run this year.
As the owner of a local concrete company he built from the ground up over the past few decades, Bathke said it’s equipped him with the type of leadership skills he believes will serve him well on the council.
“I’m ready to face the big decisions we are facing. We have to look at our secondary water source if we want to grow. The lake is also very important, but we need to position ourselves to grow and prosper,” he said.
A key goal Bathke outlined during the campaign was spurring more growth in a stagnate Mitchell. He pitched an idea for the city to establish an industrial park with infrastructure in place to attract businesses and industries.
After coming away with the win, Bathke’s celebration entailed picking up yard signs speckled throughout Mitchell and getting chocolate donuts with his family.
Bathke will serve a three-year term on the council, which will begin in early July. | https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/mike-bathke-ready-for-a-seat-at-the-table-claims-ward-3-mitchell-city-council-spot | 2023-06-07T02:56:38 | 0 | https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/mike-bathke-ready-for-a-seat-at-the-table-claims-ward-3-mitchell-city-council-spot |
LOUISVILLE, Miss. (WTVA) — The Winston County Sheriff’s Office is looking for the owner of a dog that reportedly attacked three people.
The woman’s name is Stormy Arnold. Winston County Sheriff Jason Pugh said Arnold may have left the county.
According to the sheriff’s office, her dog, a pitbull mix, seriously injured three people.
One attack happened Friday afternoon, June 2 in the Ellison Ridge community. The male victim was airlifted to Jackson for treatment and received 50 stitches.
The two other attacks happened in Louisville.
Anyone with information about their whereabouts is asked to call the Winston County Sheriff’s Office or 911. | https://www.wtva.com/news/local/dog-and-owner-found-in-new-mexico-following-attacks-in-winston-county/article_c1f0f32a-04a9-11ee-828c-b398b1f33918.html | 2023-06-07T02:56:42 | 1 | https://www.wtva.com/news/local/dog-and-owner-found-in-new-mexico-following-attacks-in-winston-county/article_c1f0f32a-04a9-11ee-828c-b398b1f33918.html |
MITCHELL — Mitchell voters have approved an initiated measure that allows the city to sell designated parkland at Lake Mitchell to help fund water-quality improvements to the city’s maligned municipal lake.
A total of 1,641 voters, or more than 56%, voted yes on the city ordinance change at the ballot box on Tuesday, while 1,273 voters were against the measure in the special ballot question in the city election.
Mitchell Mayor Bob Everson, who was one of the leading proponents for passing the measure, said Tuesday night that the voters’ approval made it “a good day for Lake Mitchell.”
“It shows that there is support in the community for making improvements at Lake Mitchell, and what we’re trying to do,” Everson said. “I’m excited that the voters of the community entrust the city to handle the sale of those lots and try to get the best price we can for them and put those funds into our special fund for lake improvements.”
The vote required a simple majority for passage. A “Yes” vote on the matter allows the city of Mitchell to sell eight lots along Lake Mitchell, while a “No” vote would have left the ordinance and the lots as is. The lots are located between residences and are undeveloped but are currently considered to be parks.
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Four of the lots are located along North Harmon Drive, including three in a span of seven lots near Fiala Road. The four lots on South Harmon Drive are located in the loop that comes off North Ohlman Street to the east.
State law requires that if park land is no longer to be used for park purposes, a public vote is required to approve changing of use of that park land.
Aside from Everson and other city leaders supporting the measure, the Yes side of the campaign has support from the Mitchell Area Chamber of Commerce and a citizen-led group “Vote Yes for Lake Mitchell.”
Of note, Mitchell’s Ward 4, which includes Lake Mitchell and its surrounding properties, supported the measure by a 594 to 396 margin, with 60% voting yes.
Everson said it’s important to “get some money banked” for the project. The mayor said he believed the measure would pass but that Tuesday’s vote was a bigger margin than he expected.
“I’m glad with how it turned out and how it speaks to the support for improving Lake Mitchell,” Everson said. “There was an education component with this for voters and it was our duty to educate the community on why this was a good thing for our community and support selling the lots.”
Everson said funds from selling the lots will be earmarked for future lake improvements, similar to how the proceeds from the sale of the former Kelley property have been set aside. The mayor said he hopes the city can get the best possible price for the lots and that ideally, new structures or homes can be built on the lots to add to the community’s property tax base.
“We will need to sit with the council and make a decision of what we’re going to list them for and the dollar amount,” he said. “And then how we’re going to sell them, whether it’s an auction with a minimum bid or with a realtor. That will be the council’s decision, not mine.” | https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/mitchell-lake-lot-initiated-measure-approved-allowing-city-to-sell-land-for-lake-mitchell-improvements | 2023-06-07T02:56:48 | 1 | https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/mitchell-lake-lot-initiated-measure-approved-allowing-city-to-sell-land-for-lake-mitchell-improvements |
SHAVERTOWN, Pa. — Candie the calf enjoyed a sweet treat as she got ready for big announcement at her home here at The Lands of Hillside Farms near Shavertown.
State Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding stopped by to kick-off "20-23 Scooped: An Ice Cream Trail."
"This is not a trail that doesn't lead anywhere," explained Secretary Redding. "This is a trail that takes you across Pennsylvania and it connects all of these important community assets are farms, that really great jobs in the industry, the families that are part of this, and they are the other partner, right? They are the reason that we gathered to celebrate."
The trail is a partnership between the State Department of Agriculture and PA Tourism.
It features 42 PA Preferred places in the state to get a scoop of Ice Cream. If you stop at six, you can get a free ice cream scooper. All you have to do is scan a QR code at one of the stops and sign up on the website, then each stop will have a special 4-digit code for you to use to check it off the list.
"Yeah, it's exciting. It's kind of like a little secret that we have. So it's fun to get to know who's a part of it and who knows about it and people would come far for it. So that's really cool," said Olivia Martin who has worked at Hillside's Ice Cream Parlor for two years.
In honor of the secretary's visit to the Lands at Hillside Farms to kick off the trail, she and other workers in the ice cream parlor came up with a special sundae for the occasion.
"The 'PA Trailblaze' is a chocolate chip sundae with peanut butter and marshmallow chocolate and green sprinkles with whipped cream and cherry on top," explained Martin.
But Executive Director Chet Mozloom hopes people will come and go from the trail with more than just a scoop of ice cream.
"People being able to observe the heritage and history of Pennsylvania and how deep-rooted farming is in it? Personally, I have this desire to save small farms and I see them disappearing," said Mozloom.
He hopes the education that comes with a stop at the ice cream window will lead to keeping PA's dairy industry running strong. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/scooped-an-ice-cream-trail-is-back/523-63add7c1-bb80-459b-af98-629a69c4d232 | 2023-06-07T02:56:49 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/scooped-an-ice-cream-trail-is-back/523-63add7c1-bb80-459b-af98-629a69c4d232 |
LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — If you've been outside Tuesday, you might be wondering why it's so smokey.
It's wildfires burning thousands of miles away.
Those wildfires burning up north are blanketing our area in a haze.
There is a thick wall of smoke over Lackawanna County as far as you can see in either direction from the lookout along Route 307.
On a normal day, you would be able to see most of Scranton, but Tuesday you can only make out a couple of buildings and houses that are about a mile away.
This smoke comes from wildfires that are currently burning in Quebec, Canada.
That smoke made its way here early Tuesday afternoon.
By 2 o'clock, it completely covered the sky, giving the sun an orange tint.
People were out snapping photos of what they say looks like an apocalyptic scene out of a horror movie.
Adam Zenker of Scranton says, "It's pretty crazy. I started to notice it when I was looking at the sun 'cause it was red out and stuff like that, but yeah it's really crazy I've never seen anything like it before."
Gabriella DeCesare of Moscow tells Newswatch 16, "I just think it's absolutely insane, I mean I've never seen anything like this before. Scranton is just completely covered in the smoke and it takes away from the beautiful scene here."
For more information on the air quality in your area, click here. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/smoke-from-canada-blankets-pennsylvania/523-bb761647-b50f-4011-841a-1593de1f151e | 2023-06-07T02:56:56 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/smoke-from-canada-blankets-pennsylvania/523-bb761647-b50f-4011-841a-1593de1f151e |
MITCHELL — In what turned out to be a heated campaign between a longtime incumbent and a determined challenger for Ward 4, Susan Tjarks defended her seat on the Mitchell City Council.
Tjarks edged her way to a narrow victory on Tuesday night, receiving 505 votes to Don Everson’s 476.
While she’s used to winning city council elections, Tjarks said Tuesday’s victory was special, as it will give her an opportunity to advance progress on Lake Mitchell restoration efforts and revitalizing downtown.
“I’m just glad the campaign is over. It’s just great to know the people of Ward 4 trust me and know I’m committed to representing them and doing what’s best for our community,” said Tjarks, who will serve her fourth consecutive three-year term for Ward 4.
During the late May candidate forum that featured the city council candidates discussing key issues facing the city, Tjarks’ opponent, Everson, used it as an opportunity to criticize Tjarks for her decision-making. Tjarks said she steered away from firing back at Everson’s criticism and focused on outlining her goals to improve the quality of life in Mitchell.
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As a vocal supporter of dredging Lake Mitchell and improving the Firesteel watershed, Tjarks is determined to advance progress in the body of water that’s been plagued by decades of algae woes.
Tjarks pointed to the proposed $25 million lake dredging project as something she’s been dreaming of coming to fruition for many years. And she will soon cast a vote to approve the 30-year loan application that city leaders would use to finance the multimillion-dollar project, if the council approves it in mid-June.
“I’ve been promising that from day one, and it’s one of the things that set me apart from my opponent,” Tjarks said of her support for dredging the lake, which Everson indicated he was against at this time. “I’m ready to get in there and clean the lake up.”
Tackling the lake isn’t the only goal on Tjarks’ mind. Revitalizing an aging downtown Mitchell is also a top priority for Tjarks, which she calls the living room of Mitchell.
“We already have our plans and funding in place for the streetscape project, and that will greatly enhance our Main Street. We just cannot give up on reviving downtown. It’s still the heartbeat of our city, and we need to be invested in it,” she said.
Looking ahead to her what will be her fourth term beginning early July, Tjarks said there are big projects looming that could put Mitchell on a path to grow and prosper like never before.
“I feel like we are at a crossroads right now. We have really big projects we need to tackle. At the very least, moving forward with Lake Mitchell dredging and renovating Main Street would really be a dream of mine,” Tjarks said. “Both projects will do wonders for the future of our great community.” | https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/susan-tjarks-emerges-as-victor-for-ward-4-mitchell-city-council-seat-bringing-end-to-heated-campaign | 2023-06-07T02:56:58 | 1 | https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/susan-tjarks-emerges-as-victor-for-ward-4-mitchell-city-council-seat-bringing-end-to-heated-campaign |
YORK, Pa. — A historically dry spring is prompting county commissioners to frequently check the forecast.
“We obviously do need rain in the future, and I’m praying that we do get some rain," said Doug Hoke, York County Commissioner.
On Monday, York County Commissioners announced a county-wide burn ban lasting 30 days. Commissioner Hoke says the ban will prohibit any open burning of flammable materials, such as trash, leaves, and twigs.
“It’s pretty much outdoor burning," said Hoke. "Wherever you think there’s a possibly a fire could spread, we put that into existence.”
Across the Susquehanna River, Lancaster County is set to vote on its own burn ban. It would be the first time the county has instituted a burn ban in over 10 years.
“It’s a significant step and we don’t take this lightly," said Ray D'Agostino, Lancaster County Commissioner. "But the fact is, we are well below where it should be in terms of rainfall.”
Neighboring Lebanon County also enacted a 30-day burn ban that goes into effect Thursday at noon. Everyone is keeping a very close eye on the upcoming weather forecast and hoping for rain.
“We looked at the 14-day forecast just today and there’s not any considerable precipitation that will help us out," said Cody Santiago, director of the York County Department of Emergency Management.
Santiago said the burn ban simply aims to prevent wildfires.
“This isn’t about control or anything like that, it’s about minimizing the impact that these fires have on York County residents and their property," said Santiago.
Outdoor grilling and fires in designated campground firepits are still permitted under the burn ban, which will protect summertime barbeques and campfires. The burn bans are in place for 30 days, unless the region gets more rain and commissioners decide to cancel them. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/south-central-pa-counties-are-rolling-out-burn-bans-amid-dry-weather-york-lancaster-lebanon-county/521-1ebda09c-caca-4a04-b859-98b2bdadef10 | 2023-06-07T02:57:02 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/south-central-pa-counties-are-rolling-out-burn-bans-amid-dry-weather-york-lancaster-lebanon-county/521-1ebda09c-caca-4a04-b859-98b2bdadef10 |
A great white shark named Jekyll appears to be summering off the coast of Long Island.
The science group OCEARCH tagged the shark last December off Jekyll Island in Georgia. The male juvenile shark measures 8 feet, 8 inches long.
Jekyll, who weighs approximately 400 pounds, was first spotted in the area Friday evening. By Sunday morning he was swimming right near the coastline.
"We're excited to see where he spends his summer & fall," the group tweeted out Monday night.
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OCEARCH says this is the first time it's been able to track the shark's movement near the Empire State.
Copyright NBC New York | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/great-white-shark-weighing-400-pounds-summering-off-long-island/4400406/ | 2023-06-07T02:57:24 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/great-white-shark-weighing-400-pounds-summering-off-long-island/4400406/ |
Booming fireworks will brighten the skies once again above the East River when the 47th Annual Macy's 4th of July Fireworks show takes over New York City next month.
The explosive annual tradition still has a few tricks up its sleeves. This year's spectacular will debut a new mile-wide waving flag comprised of red, white and blue fireworks.
The New York skyline will illuminate with fireworks around 9:25 p.m. with more than 60,000 shells and effects launched from five barges positioned along the river. According to this week's announcement, the July 4th display "will feature the most dynamic collection of animated shells ever launched during Macy’s annual spectacle."
“This year’s Macy’s Fireworks celebration will be nothing short of showstopping,” said Will Coss, executive producer of Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks. "Paired with a score featuring American classics, this year’s celebration will honor trailblazers that have forged our past, present, and future.”
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Over 2,400 shells and effects are planned to go off per minute above the Big Apple.
Public viewing locations will be setup along Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan waterfronts -- details will be announced closer to the show.
The show will pop and crackle to the rhythm of classic patriotic tunes including “The Star-Spangled Banner," "America the Beautiful,” "Lift Every Voice and Sing,” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”
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Fans of the annual fireworks show are guaranteed a front row seat during NBC's broadcast of the Macy's spectacle, airing 8-10 p.m. The holiday spectacular will also be streamed live on Peacock. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/macys-4th-of-july-fireworks-show-to-debut-mile-wide-waving-flag/4396422/ | 2023-06-07T02:57:30 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/macys-4th-of-july-fireworks-show-to-debut-mile-wide-waving-flag/4396422/ |
Volunteers and staff form a relay line Tuesday evening outside Red Raccoon Games, 309 N. Main St. in Bloomington, that extends to what will be Red Raccoon's new store at 309 N. Main St. People were taking stock off the shelves from the original store and moving it to the new location, which owner Jamie Mathy plans to open at 5 p.m. Friday.
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Volunteers and staff form a relay line that makes its turn into what will be the new facility for Red Raccoon Games at 301 N. Main St., Bloomington.
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Volunteers and staff form a line into what will be the new facility for Red Raccoon Games at 301 N. Main St., Bloomington. Store owner Jamie Mathy can be seen at far left helping with the move.
BLOOMINGTON — Red Raccoon Games was moving its merchandise Tuesday evening, but not from checkout counter to customer. In this case, the store's games and puzzles were moving along a human relay line from 309 N. Main St. up the sidewalk to its new next-door location at 301 N. Main.
Red Raccoon owner Jamie Mathy said 52 volunteers and 10 store employees were beginning the move into the Main Plaza Building (a former Woolworth store), at the corner of North Main and East Jefferson streets.
If all goes well, Mathy said, the new location will open at 5 p.m. Friday. While the move is being made, the store will be closed to sales.
Red Raccoon's retail space will grow from about 2,000 square feet to 3,200, and the in-store game play area is to go from 1,200 square feet to 3,500. But the entire space will not be open right away.
Mathy said ongoing supply chain issues will keep portions of the building remodel closed.
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Mathy said previously the Main Plaza Building has been empty for more than a decade and hasn't had significant renovation for longer than that.
In addition to the gaming store, a café will be opening as part of Red Raccoon's expansion.
Mathy said the hope is that Zeta Coffee, owned by Joel Aper, can open right along with his store on Friday. But the supply chain issues have delayed material for the café as well, so its opening may be delayed.
Zeta Coffee's offerings are expected to be coffees, teas, boba teas and crafted sodas.
Aper told The Pantagraph previously that he plans for the café to keep the same hours as Red Raccoon. He said a pass-through window could be open on some nights to serve coffee to customers on the sidewalk.
Mathy was upbeat about downtown as a whole on Tuesday evening. He said three new store openings are in the works over the next month or so.
Contact Dan McNeile at (309) 820-3261. Follow Dan McNeile on Twitter: @dmcneile
Volunteers and staff form a relay line Tuesday evening outside Red Raccoon Games, 309 N. Main St. in Bloomington, that extends to what will be Red Raccoon's new store at 309 N. Main St. People were taking stock off the shelves from the original store and moving it to the new location, which owner Jamie Mathy plans to open at 5 p.m. Friday.
Volunteers and staff form a line into what will be the new facility for Red Raccoon Games at 301 N. Main St., Bloomington. Store owner Jamie Mathy can be seen at far left helping with the move. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/business/development/red-raccoon-games-begins-move-to-new-downtown-bloomington-location/article_afc57834-04cb-11ee-bce8-dfab04673717.html | 2023-06-07T02:59:45 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/business/development/red-raccoon-games-begins-move-to-new-downtown-bloomington-location/article_afc57834-04cb-11ee-bce8-dfab04673717.html |
Battle Creek couple sentenced for federal fraud schemes
A Battle Creek couple was sentenced Tuesday in connection with deceiving authorities to receive more than $216,000 in pandemic relief and other federal assistance, officials said.
Antonio and Keturah Mixon were first charged with federal fraud offenses in 2021 and pleaded guilty in January 2023, according to U.S. District Court records.
The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations, the Social Security Administration's Office of the Inspector General, and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General.
Investigators determined Antonio Mixon committed wire fraud by falsely claiming he was entitled to financial assistance under the federal Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program, which provided aid to small businesses struggling during the COVID-19 outbreak.
He claimed to run Kingdom Warriors Ministry, an alleged nonprofit to help children in Battle Creek also known as Kid Phoria. After applying for help from the Small Business Administration in April 2020, he received $36,000 in grants and loans based on the workers listed, according to indictments.
"This claim was false because Kingdom Warriors Ministry never operated, never assisted children, and had no employees," federal officials said Tuesday. "After the money arrived in the Mixons’ bank account, Keturah Mixon immediately withdrew it."
On the same days, Keturah Mixon converted the funds to cash, court records show.
“These programs were meant to protect people who had fallen on hard times,” said U.S. Attorney Mark Totten for the Western District of Michigan. “My office will continue to aggressively hold accountable scam artists and cheats who steal hard-earned taxpayer dollars.”
Antonio Mixon was sentenced to four months in prison.
In a memorandum filed last month, attorney Britt Cobb sought probation for Mixon, who was seriously injured while working at Kellogg in June 2020.
"He is depressed, remorseful and ashamed of his actions here, and he is afraid of having to be in a custodial situation," Cobb wrote. "But for some context Mr. Mixon would like the Court to know that Kid Phoria did exist and operate, albeit for a very short period of time. It stopped operating because it received negative feedback on Facebook and from government licensing agencies about being an unlicensed daycare."
In her case, Keturah Mixon did not qualify for benefits from Supplemental Security Income and the Food Assistance Program, since she owned several parcels of real estate, ran a business and had access to her husband's income, authorities said. Through hiding those details, she received approximately $180,000 in funds.
“Ms. Mixon knowingly concealed from and failed to disclose information to the Social Security Administration (SSA) which would have made her ineligible to receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI),” said Gail S. Ennis, Inspector General for SSA. “By doing so she abused the SSI program, a needs-based safety net for the most vulnerable among us. My office will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to pursue those who defraud SSA. I want to thank the U.S. Attorney’s Office for its support of our investigation and holding Ms. Mixon accountable for her actions.”
Keturah Mixon was sentenced to 18 months and ordered to pay $180,000 in restitution.
In a court filing last month, attorney Tessa Muir also sought probation for Mixon, who has several children and a daughter with Down syndrome.
"Mrs. Mixon certainly accepts responsibility for what she did. She was dishonest and misleading in her words and omissions on a significant number of benefits applications for SSI and FAP over a multi-year period. This constitutes criminal activity for which she is now a felon, and for which she accepts full responsibility and suffers genuine remorse," Muir wrote. "Additionally, she may never qualify for benefits again, and she will have a lifetime of restitution payments ahead of her. But the true loss amount is less than $182,775. There are some periods of time between 2004 and 2020 for which Mrs. Mixon and/or her daughter would have qualified for benefits."
The sentencing follows other cases stemming from probes of funds fraudulently obtained through federal programs during the pandemic.
Last week, the Department of Justice announced six Michigan residents were part of a group indicted after an FBI probe linked them to a $6 million pandemic relief fraud scheme.
In May, a former Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency contract worker pleaded guilty to stealing more than $550,000 in a plot.
Similar crimes have led to prison sentences for others, including in Center Line and Detroit. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/06/06/battle-creek-couple-sentenced-for-federal-fraud-schemes/70295867007/ | 2023-06-07T03:08:06 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/06/06/battle-creek-couple-sentenced-for-federal-fraud-schemes/70295867007/ |
DNR: Wilderness Trail wildfire in Michigan now 100% contained, local roads reopen
Grayling Township, Mich. — A Michigan wildfire that’s burned more than 3 square miles (7.7 square kilometers) amid hot, dry conditions is now fully contained, the state Department of Natural Resources said Tuesday.
The Wilderness Trail Fire in Crawford County, estimated at more than 2,000 acres (809 hectares), began about 1 p.m. Saturday near Staley Lake in Grayling Township, the department has said.
Fire crews continued putting out hot spots Tuesday as local roads reopened, the DNR said. It asked people to stay away from the area to give fire crews room to finish their work.
“We know it is interesting to see and that people are curious, but we want to make sure we have the room to get our work done safely,” Mike Janisse, an incident commander with the Michigan DNR, said in a statement. “Driving on the dry roads creates a great deal of dust, which makes for poor visibility.”
Roads also are narrow, leaving little room for passing, the DNR said.
The fire prompted the evacuation of about 300 people until around 11 p.m. Saturday and closed Interstate 75 in both directions Saturday afternoon and evening. It was sparked by a campfire, the DNR said.
Fire danger remains very high to extreme across the state, the DNR said. It's not issuing permits for open burning at this time.
DNR firefighters statewide have fought more than two dozen fires in the past week.
Grayling Township is located about 150 miles (240 km) north of Lansing. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/06/06/dnr-wilderness-trail-wildfire-in-michigan-now-100-contained-local-roads-reopen/70296066007/ | 2023-06-07T03:08:06 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/06/06/dnr-wilderness-trail-wildfire-in-michigan-now-100-contained-local-roads-reopen/70296066007/ |
Tips sought in woman's slaying at Highland Park hotel
Michigan State Police are seeking tips to find a possible suspect in the death of a woman last week at a Highland Park hotel.
The agency released surveillance footage that shows a man walking and running in the parking lot at the Woodward Inn on Thursday night, shortly before the 34-year-old victim's body was found in a room there.
The man was wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt or jacket, black Adidas jogging pants with white stripes on the legs and a logo on the front as well as black Nike shoes featuring a white or gray emblem on the tongue, state police reported.
“While the video is from a distance and the photo is blurry we are hopeful that someone will recognize this person.” said First Lt. Mike Shaw, public information officer for the MSP Second District.
“If you believe you know this person or have any other information on this case call 855.MICH.TIP or Crime Stoppers at 800.SPEAK.UP.”
State police detectives were called around 1:30 a.m. Friday by the Highland Park Police Department to investigate what they describe as a homicide.
Highland Park officers reported they received a 911 call about a body found in a room at the hotel in the 16000 block of Woodward Avenue. The caller told police he saw the door open and a woman inside it.
Medics were called and pronounced the woman dead.
Authorities did not release her name. She was identified as Ashia Davis, a transgender woman, in a GoFundMe campaign launched Tuesday as well as Facebook posts by Julisa Abad, a victim advocate at the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office and director of transgender outreach and advocacy for Fair Michigan.
"Let's find her some justice," Abad wrote Tuesday.
The GoFundMe effort seeks to raise $2,500 to help with cremation services.
"A beautiful soul with a heart of gold," the organizer, Timothy Clark, wrote. "Ashia is a part of the transgender community that is often targeted. She has a family that includes an aging mother that is just completely devastated." | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2023/06/06/tips-sought-in-womans-slaying-at-woodward-inn-highland-park/70296126007/ | 2023-06-07T03:08:07 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2023/06/06/tips-sought-in-womans-slaying-at-woodward-inn-highland-park/70296126007/ |
DALLAS — News of the PGA Tour's merger with rival LIV Golf stunned athletes, who have been caught in the ugly back-and-forth between the two organizations for years.
"There was nobody prepared for it," said Conrad Shindler, who played the PGA Tour in 2018.
Shindler, a Texas A&M University graduate and DFW resident, is still affiliated with the tour. He said he got a letter from PGA Tour management informing him of the agreement this morning.
"Total bombshell," he said. "I don't know if you want to call it the biggest news to ever hit professional golf, but it very well could be."
Dealings between the two organizations drew global media attention. The PGA Tour promised to permanently end its relationship with golfers who bolted for LIV Golf.
The Saudi Arabian government effectively owns LIV Golf. Investors offered some golfers hundreds of millions of dollars to abandon the PGA Tour, long regarded as the sport's pinnacle.
"People feel a lot of betrayal," Shindler said. "Last year, there were a lot of player meetings leading to this narrative of 'We don't want you anymore. We're better off without you.' Then you turn around and more or less say, 'I'm going to take the money.'"
The merger is perhaps especially stinging for the Byron Nelson organizers, who were reportedly close to naming Raytheon Technologies as the tournament's title sponsor.
The PGA Tour management nixed the deal because Raytheon sells missiles to Saudi Arabia, USA Today reported.
Despite frustration with the PGA Tour's about-face, another narrative is emerging: Some pundits contend the merger is good for golf since the sport's best athletes will again compete under the same umbrella.
"You're going to have elite competition," Shindler said. "That's great and all, but at what point is this turning into a money grab?" | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/pga-tour-golfer-reacts-merger-liv-conrad-shindler/287-5aae9e2d-734b-4a92-aaaa-9e002359dcb1 | 2023-06-07T03:09:40 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/pga-tour-golfer-reacts-merger-liv-conrad-shindler/287-5aae9e2d-734b-4a92-aaaa-9e002359dcb1 |
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Police Department announced Monday it was crafting a plan to reduce violent crimes by 5% after the city has been plagued with an uptick in homicides and assaults over the last few years.
The agency said it had identified four focus areas that police officials believe could help reduce Phoenix's number of shootings and stabbings. Those focus areas include dedicating resources toward tracking violent offenders with outstanding warrants and prohibited possessors.
According to the agency's data, the number of homicides reported in Phoenix increased from 161 in 2017 to 223 in 2022. The number of aggravated assaults increased from 7,919 to 8,986 during that same time frame.
To cut violent crimes by 5%, the agency said its leadership would "rapidly deploy" resources and collaborate with external partners.
Another goal is to address "the most active hotspots in the City through targeted and high-visibility policing efforts within each precinct."
Interim Police Chief Mike Sullivan sat down with 12News to discuss the new plan and how it fits into other challenges the department is facing, like a staffing shortage, the pending Department of Justice Investigation and unsolved crimes.
12News Reporter Erica Stapleton: How do you plan to meet all these strategies when you're down more than 500 officers?
Interim Phoenix Police Chief Michael Sullivan: I think that's the important reason that we need to implement this plan. Because we need to be focused, we need to be efficient with all of our resources that we do have. And the only way you do that is with a plan. So our folks are dedicated. We work hard every day; we have a lot of folks working a lot of overtime to be able to make sure that we meet the public safety needs of Phoenix.
ES: And you detail working with community groups. Who are these groups?
MS: It's the groups that we've worked with across the city. Whether it's business associations, other social service agencies, we work with hundreds of groups and meet with hundreds of groups on a regular basis. And we're going to continue to get that feedback and make sure that the action plans put together in the precincts have the voices of those folks.
ES: And are these groups substituting or supplementing the shortage of officers?
MS: I mean, we can't do the work without community. We could have double the amount of officers that we have out here. And, you know, we wouldn't be able to do it. We have also increased what we have here. And you know, while we talk about this reduction of officers, what we also see is an increase in hiring. And, you know, this time last year, we were a shrinking department. This time this year, we're actually a growing department. We have over 100 recruits that are in the academy right now. And 30 officers that are in training out there getting ready to hit the street. So that's good news for the people of Phoenix, and it's changed where we were this time last year.
ES: When you look at the numbers, we reported last July that you were down more than 500 officers. And that is still the case now. So how can you say that you've moved the needle?
MS: Because we've stopped the decrease. What we were looking at before that delta was growing and growing and growing. We've stopped that and started to turn the car around and started to go in the right direction. So that's promising news.
A recent 12News investigation found that of the 223 total homicides committed in the city in 2022, only 127 are solved.
ES: Is that acceptable to you?
MS: I'd have to dig into all that data. Certainly, I want to solve every single homicide that's out there. Year to date, you know, what I would tell you is we're down in homicides. So you know, we are continuing to work very hard to make sure that we hold folks accountable wherever we can. We have the most incredible detectives in America that work very, very hard to clear clot, especially violent crimes.
Spokespeople for Phoenix police say homicide clearance rates are calculated differently to align with FBI standards, but the department's data differs from what's shown on the City Manager's website. During the interview, Chief Sullivan said he would review the data and follow up.
Additionally, he stated that at this point in 2023, compared to this point in 2022, homicides are down. Other city data indicates that homicides can often rise in the summer months.
ES: What is considered a hotspot for these high crime areas?
MS: I think we described in the plan is the most active areas - these areas where we see high levels of violence, high levels of disorder and complaints from the community. So some of these places have had challenges for years and years. It's something that we use data to be able to drive what those areas are. And you know, it's the crime data that we have to be able to drive where we see those most active areas.
ES: And what can neighbors who live in these most active areas expect to see change?
MS: We're expecting our commanders to engage with the community to make sure that they develop a plan that meets their needs. But then also, we focus and we look for solutions that are outside just police. Bring in other city agencies, look for opportunities that we can change the environment. Those are the ways we sustain crime reduction and how we change these areas that face different challenges.
In a statement to 12News, a spokesperson for the City couldn't specify which other city agencies would be involved in the plan and sent the following statement over email:
While the Phoenix Police Department leads the crime-fighting effort, they work closely with a variety of professional and community stakeholders. This includes neighborhood groups, advisory boards, and non-profits, as well as other city departments or other law enforcement agencies. The document released yesterday is the police department’s overarching blueprint for reducing and preventing crime. Bureau and precinct leadership will work with community and government partners on the development and execution of specific safety strategies tailored to the challenges and needs of specific areas.
12News continued the interview with Chief Sullivan, asking about another focus area identified in the plan: guns being in the wrong hands.
ES: How are prohibited possessors getting guns?
MS: Because there are lots of guns out there. You know, if you're a convicted felon, it's not hard to get a gun because we see folks that shouldn't have them have them all the time. They're derived a number of different ways, whether it be through straw purchasers, people who go out and purchase guns and provide them to individuals through theft, or through other means that that the individuals have that are out there on the street. Unfortunately, it's way too easy for criminals to get their hands on guns.
ES: What does the data tell you about stolen guns?
MS: What my data tells me about prohibited possessors is when we find people that are involved in homicides and when we find people that are involved in situations where we have officer-involved shootings, an incredible amount of them have misconduct and weapon charges in their past. Those are opportunities for us to make sure we hold people accountable. If we put those cases together and provide them to the County Attorney, she's promised to be able to prosecute those to the fullest and those folks don't have the opportunity to go out and victimize the community.
ES: It was detailed that performing high quality initial investigation as part of this action plan. Shouldn't this already be happening?
MS: One of the things that we instituted was a non-fatal shooting team, which we have ten detectives that are now investigating non-fatal shootings. We weren't doing that before. Those investigations were done at the precinct level. Being able to bring that expertise, make sure that we do that we need to focus on with the prohibited possessor, with those investigations, that we get folks to training they need. So we make sure that those cases can be brought, we can hold those folks accountable.
ES: This is amid the DOJ investigation. Is this in any way a response to that?
MS: Crime fighting and reform are not mutually exclusive. I'll say that over and over and over again. As a matter of fact, they work together to build trust; we have to be an effective organization to be able to fight crime, build trust and make change in this community.
The DOJ investigation started nearly two years ago and is still happening. It looks, in part, at the use of force and officer conduct, which is not addressed in the new crime reduction plan. A Phoenix police spokesperson confirmed Tuesday that a draft of the department's new use of force policy should be released by the end of the week.
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NORTHPORT, Ala. (WIAT) — A proposed Northport city project detailing a major retail development was met with strong community opposition Tuesday.
The Northport City Council voted to allow developer Beeker Property Group 180 days of due diligence to research the property on Park Street, which could potentially result in plans to remove a community center and playground green space.
City Councilor Christy Bobo says the city is considering building a mixed-use retail development by adding a coffee shop, restaurant and residential housing.
“I think there is so much space out there for a perfect spot for a coffee shop,” Bobo said. “Everyone who is leaving Northport to go to Tuscaloosa [and] this would help capture that traffic, but it has to be done right.”
Sandra Barnidge and her family are against the retail project.
“There are no plans to put in a new playground or a new community center anywhere nearby so what they are talking about is taking something away and I just don’t understand why we need to do that,” Barnidge said.
Mark Russo opposes the plan and also wants the city to keep the green space and community center.
“We’ve been kept in the dark about this up until two days ago and there was no public input into the project,” Russo said. “And we are going to lose some valuable green space.”
The City of Northport is considering selling the property to the developer for $1.1 million. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/proposal-to-remove-northport-community-center-draws-strong-opposition/ | 2023-06-07T03:14:19 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/proposal-to-remove-northport-community-center-draws-strong-opposition/ |
RICHMOND, Va. — Seven people were shot -- and two of them have died -- after gunfire rang out near Virginia Commonwealth University in downtown Richmond following a high school graduation ceremony Tuesday, according to police and school district officials.
NBC12 is reporting that the two people killed were a Huguenot HS graduate and his father.
Two suspects were taken into custody after the incident, Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards said at a news conference. It was later reported that one of them, who was held because they were in possession of a firearm, was subsequently cleared of having any involvement.
They currently have a 19-year-old man in custody and he will be charged with 2 counts of Second Degree Murder. Police recovered multiple handguns.
Police said they believe the suspect knew at least one of the victims.
Of the five other people who were shot, a 31-year-old man is in critical condition, and four others, ages 14, 32, 55, and 58 - all males - are being treated for "non-life threatening" wounds.
Officers inside Altria Theater, where the graduation took place, heard gunfire outside around 5:15 p.m. and radioed to police stationed outside, who found multiple victims, Edwards said.
Police did not believe there was any ongoing threat to the community. The identities of those in custody and those injured were not immediately released.
"We're going to do everything we can to bring the individuals involved in this to justice," Mayor Levar Stoney said at the news conference. "This should not be happening anywhere."
In addition to the seven wounded by gunfire, at least 12 others were injured or treated for anxiety due to the mayhem, according to police.
Police said one was a 9-year-old child had been hit by a car while trying to flee, but the child is expected to be OK.
“My administration continues monitoring the terrible shooting in the heart of Richmond tonight,” Gov. Glenn Youngkin said on Twitter. “State law enforcement are fully supporting the Richmond Police Department as this investigation moves forward.”
Richmond Public Schools said in a message on its website that the shooting took place in Monroe Park, which is near the college campus, after a graduation ceremony for Huguenot High School.
School board member Jonathan Young told NBC12 that graduates and other attendees were exiting the theater when they heard about 20 gunshots in rapid succession.
“That prompted, as you would expect, hundreds of persons in an effort to flee the gunfire to return to the building,” Young said. “It materialized in a stampede.”
Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras said the new graduates were outside taking photos with families and friends when the shooting broke out.
“I don’t have any more words on this,” Kamras said. “I’m just tired of seeing people get shot, our kids get shot. And I beg of the entire community to stop, to just stop.”
As he heard the gunshots and then sirens, neighbor John Willard, 69, stepped onto the balcony of his 18th-floor apartment. Below, he saw students fleeing in their graduation outfits and parents hugging children.
“There was one poor woman in front of the apartment block next to ours who was wailing and crying,” Willard said, adding that the scene left him deeply saddened.
Edythe Payne was helping her daughter sell flowers outside the theater to students as they left the ceremony. She told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the shooting caused a panic on nearby Main Street, which was packed with people at the time.
“I felt bad because some elderly people were at the graduation and they got knocked down to the ground,” Payne said.
The school district said a different graduation scheduled for later Tuesday had been canceled “out of an abundance of caution" and that schools would be closed Wednesday.
The Richmond branch of the NAACP issues this statement regarding the shooting:
Our condolences go out to all the families in the past and recent homicides in the RVA region. We are praying for all victims affected by this plague of violence and praying for a speedy recovery of the surviving victims and their families. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/active-shooter-reported-vcu-monroe-park-richmond/291-52c1ec8c-f072-4a99-ba5c-253de7417c32 | 2023-06-07T03:17:36 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/active-shooter-reported-vcu-monroe-park-richmond/291-52c1ec8c-f072-4a99-ba5c-253de7417c32 |
LONGMIRE, Wash. — A body matching the description of a missing climber was recovered on Mount Rainier Tuesday.
Dawes Eddy, 80, of Spokane was hiking Rainier for the 50th time to celebrate his birthday and was expected to summit the mountain and hike out May 30. He told park officials he was hiking alone and was taking the Ingraham Direct route, which the park said is part of the most popular climbing route on the volcano.
Eddy didn’t return home by the evening of May 31, and his family called 911.
The call was routed to Mount Rainier National Park, and crews began a “hasty” search focusing on the areas where Eddy may have been, according to a national park spokesperson.
Over the following days, the search extended further from that area and included ground crews and a helicopter. The Army National Guard did an infrared sweep using its Black Hawk helicopter on June 3 about 2 a.m. looking for body heat but didn’t find anything.
On June 5, Crews located an unresponsive climber in a crevasse at about 11,500 feet. Ground crews went up to the mountain on June 6 to extricate the climber. The climber was deceased when a team of four climbing rangers and a Ranier Mountaineering guide were able to reach them. The climber was flown off the mountain and is in the care of the Pierce County Medical Examiner.
The medical examiner will confirm whether or not the body recovered was Eddy.
"What we hope is to bring some kind of closure to the family," said Patti Wold, a Mount Rainier National Park interpretive media specialist. "That's always, you know, our goal whether it's whatever kind of closure it might be."
Thousands of people attempt to climb Mount Rainier each year with climbing traffic picking up significantly in May, according to the national park. Solo permits are declined or approved based on the climber's experience level, plan, forecasted weather, proposed route, dates and equipment list. The park advises climbers to leave their itinerary with a trusted friend or family member. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/missing-mount-rainier-climber-dawes-eddy/281-81ce676b-e671-44ba-a983-c98f7fdb4245 | 2023-06-07T03:17:42 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/missing-mount-rainier-climber-dawes-eddy/281-81ce676b-e671-44ba-a983-c98f7fdb4245 |
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md. — Anne Arundel County is the latest in the Baltimore area to pass a ban on plastic bags.
On Monday night, the County Council approved banning what lawmakers defined as ‘plastic carryout bags,' except at restaurants.
READ MORE: Anne Arundel County officials vote to ban plastic bags
WMAR-2 News checked in with Anne Arundel County shoppers after the County Council passed the ban.
"That’s okay with me," said Jinny Chase, a Severna Park resident. "I mean, if it helps keep our planet cleaner - I don’t know if it does a whole lot of good or not - but I’m willing."
Baltimore County banned the bags a few months ago - that starts November 1. The Anne Arundel County ban - intended to cut down on waste in the county - begins on January 1, 2024.
"I think they should keep the plastic bags," said Felicia Kassa, another shopper, "It’s much easier than paper bags."
For the ban's first month, stores can give out reusable bags for free. After that, they have to charge $0.10 for each bag.
"I actually don't think it’s a big deal," said Olajuwan Akin, another shopper, "I think I can use a substitute - a paper bag." | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/anne-arundel-shoppers-weigh-in-on-plastic-bag-ban | 2023-06-07T03:20:49 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/anne-arundel-shoppers-weigh-in-on-plastic-bag-ban |
ODESSA, Texas — On Tuesday, the Odessa City Council discussed interviewing finalists for the city manager position.
According to T2 Professional Consulting, 50 people applied for the position from around the country. City Councilman Steven Thompson said that has been whittled down to 4.
"We kind of focused on Texas mostly, but I was really surprised we ended up with 50 applicants, and T2 has narrowed it down to just a few," said Thompson.
The city council also agreed to end the contract on Aug. 13 for a total cost of $225,000.
The Mayor said that by that date they will have someone in the position of city manager, if not sooner.
"We're pushing aggressively for that schedule, and we're hoping to even beat that deadline, if we're able to, humanly possible," said Odessa Mayor Javier Joven.
The council plans to interview the final candidates on the week of June 26. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/odessa-city-council-city-manager-finalists-contract-with-consulting-firm/513-ecaedafa-7cef-4feb-bd34-8a189aa0d506 | 2023-06-07T03:21:51 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/odessa-city-council-city-manager-finalists-contract-with-consulting-firm/513-ecaedafa-7cef-4feb-bd34-8a189aa0d506 |
MIDLAND, Texas — The Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Austin, Texas, talked to Midland residents Tuesday about what happened during the 88th Texas legislative session.
"We’re a research organization at our heart, so we want people to understand not only what bills are passed, but what they’ll actually do," said Greg Sindelar, CEO of Texas Public Policy Foundation. "How it will affect them in their day-to-day lives, what will it mean for the state and for the children, and that’s the context we try to wrap everything around."
"The whole goal is to be out in the state, not just in Austin," said Sindelar. "We don’t want to be speaking just to people in Austin. It’s more important to be speaking to folks out in the rest of Texas because they’re the ones affected everyday by what’s happening in Austin."
Panelists spoke on a variety of topics, one being education. They discussed the new laws laws impacting kindergarten to college, including the curriculum bills for K-12, banning sexually explicit books and banning DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) offices on college campuses and universities.
"We tried to look at a broad spectrum of the things that happened in the regular session of the Texas Legislature," said Sindelar. "We wanted to cover the education aspect, the energy aspect and some of the higher ed and cultural type of issues that came across during the sessions."
The TPPF also talked about the "unfinished business" regarding border security, property taxes and schools.
"There’s a lot of unfinished business in legislature," said Sindelar. "There’s a reason we’re in special session, to get property tax relief passed, it’s to secure the border and it’s to get education reformed, parental choice passed."
"I really have faith in the Governor, Lt. Governor and the Speaker that we’re gonna figure this out," said Sindelar. "They recognize that it’s really important, and there’s a lot at stake for Texans, you know, Texas has long been a beacon of hope for the rest of the country. And I think that’s just gonna continue to grow and it has grown. We’ve seen that over time, and I think as we get these things over the finish line, that beacon will become brighter and brighter."
The TPPF will make their next stop in the DFW area next week, followed by Houston. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/texas-public-policy-foundation-recaps-88th-legislative-session/513-18071f50-bf42-44d2-abfd-81754339e9b9 | 2023-06-07T03:21:57 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/texas-public-policy-foundation-recaps-88th-legislative-session/513-18071f50-bf42-44d2-abfd-81754339e9b9 |
BOISE, Idaho — The attorney general’s analysis for a proposed ballot initiative to change Idaho elections is in. The analysis, a standard step for a ballot initiative campaign, identified issues with clarity and formatting, labeled technically as “matters of style and form.”
The initiative itself wants to change elections to open primaries and instant runoff general elections, also called ranked choice voting. In short, primary elections would include all political parties. Top four vote getters in the primary, regardless of political affiliation, go to the general election. Voters then rank their top four in the general election with the winner needing at least 50% of the vote.
The analysis on the initiative finds several issues, and to be clear, the AG’s analysis is “advisory only,” and the petitioners are free to “accept or reject them in whole or in part.”
The analysis labels a few issues like “Misleading Use of “Open Primary,” Inconsistent Treatment of Party Nomination/Endorsement,” and very technical “Miscellaneous Matters.”
Headline issues labeled “serious legal defects” include violation of Idaho’s single-subject rule adopted in 2020.
Analysis says: “the so-called 'open primary' that eliminates party primaries; and (2) the institution of ranked choice voting for the general election. These two matters are separate subjects and neither one depends on the other.”
Retired Idaho Supreme Court Justice Jim Jones is a leader with Idahoans for Open Primaries. He thinks the initiative is clearly one subject.
“It's a phony issue. It's all one subject matter. It's all voting in the primary and general election. If he thinks he's got a problem and wants to challenge it in court, he will lose,” Jones said.
The “he” Jones is referring to is Idaho AG Raul Labrador. Jones believes the analysis identifying the issues are politically motivated. He points to a recent tweet from AG Labrador that made it very clear that Idaho’s AG did not like the proposed election format.
“I read through the whole thing. I had to take a couple of naps in between. I couldn't believe that they were putting this out as impartial legal advice. But it is sophomoric work,” Jones said.
The analysis also warns of violations of the United States and Idaho constitutions. One example touches on The United States Constitution and where is states that, “the times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.” It raises a question about citizen initiative impacts on Federal elections.
All issues considered, KTVB asked Jones if there are some legit edits to make and how the campaign feels going forward.
“I don't think what they have brought up as potential constitutional problems will stand up in court. It didn't stand up in court in Alaska, which we've modeled this initiative after. And I don't believe it will stand up in Idaho,” Jones said. “We're comfortable with where we are. We had we had anticipated making a few little tweaks in it that it doesn't require any changes for the potential constitutional issues that he's talking about because they're just bogus.”
The 208 will continue coverage on the topic during Wednesday evening's newscast with an interview with the AG's office for their perspective on technical issues identified in the analysis.
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IDAHO, USA — A mere stone's throw, and a couple of runways away from Gowen Field is the Boise Airport. The transportation hub that's been at that location since 1938.
Before that, Boise's airport was located where Boise State University is now.
Elaine Hunt McCalley still remembers landing at that gravel air strip. She turned 105 on Monday, June 5, and 24 years ago was honored with an induction into Idaho's Aviation Hall of Fame.
Becoming one of the first four women in the gem state to get a pilot's license wasn't the only ground broken by McCalley in her brief career as a pilot. Flying first found its way into her life nearly a century ago. She grew up in Gooding and convinced her parents to take her to see the airport.
"I'd been wanting to fly since I was a child," McCalley said. "I had my first airplane ride when I was a sophomore in high school, and it was in an autogiro...what's that? Well it's like an airplane but with rotor blades on top."
She was hooked and soon started lessons, until she got a job with the Office of Employment Security.
"And then I went to Boise in 1938, and my first paycheck I headed for the airport, ha," McCalley said.
Five dollars of her weekly paycheck went toward weekend lessons at Boise's booth field. Within a year, she had earned her license.
"My mother was my first passenger after I got my private pilot's license," she said, "so I took off after we got up and kind of circled, she said 'can't we just turn round and land?' She was hanging on."
McCalley wasn't the only woman pilot either, she said there were about six or eight of them. They would fly for fun, sightseeing the area from above.
"The feeling of freedom and being up there absolute and it's just such a special feeling," she said. "I didn't plan on making a living of it, ever, I just wanted to fly ha-ha."
Then in April 1940, she made another maiden voyage, by becoming the first woman in Idaho to get a commercial pilot's license. Until one weekend in 1941, Sunday December 7 she joined the Civil Air Patrol.
"I think it was the day the war started, a couple of us had rented some airplanes to fly up over Anderson Reservoir where they were building the dam up there," she said. "So we flew around up there and came back and that's when we walked into the office and said...whoops Japan has bombed Hawaii.
Everything changed from then on."
She then got married and during the war her husband was an instructor for the Army Air Corp, they wound up in Missouri. The last time she flew a plane was after the war, sometime in the 1940's.
Just because she hasn't piloted a plane by herself in more than 70 years, doesn't mean she hasn't flown. Her friend has been taking him up in his Cessna for several years around her birthday.
She had a party this past weekend with nearly 3 dozen family and friends, including her great grandkids, showing up from all over to celebrate her birthday.
Her birthday was such a busy time for her, she had to miss her trip to the gym, which she visits three times a week.
Wow does she get there, you ask? She drives herself, having had her driver's license renewed two years ago, at 103.
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BOISE, Idaho — The Boise Art Museum will be welcoming a new exhibition, Katazome Today: Migrations of a Japanese Art, beginning in July.
Katazome Today: Migrations of a Japanese Art, will feature seven national and international artists sharing their perspectives on katazome - a Japanese method of dyeing fabrics using a paste that is applied through a stencil that dates back to the 7th century.
Boise Art Museum (BAM) will open the new addition on Saturday, July 1, 2023, and will be on display through January 28, 2024.
On Tuesday, BAM announced the artists included in Katazome Today:
- Akemi Nakano Cohn (Chicago)
- Melinda Heal (Canberra, Australia)
- Fumiyo Imafuku (Japan)
- Cheryl Lawrence (Washington)
- John Marshall (California)
- Yuken Teruya (New York/Berlin)
- Mika Toba (Japan).
BAM said the exhibition will consist of a wide range of varying art forms such as pictorial imagery, non-traditional expressions, large-scale installations and freeform painting techniques - all relating to katazome and each artists' theme of personal identity, shifting environments and the globalization impacting the culture from which each artist relates.
"The works preserve an endangered traditional technique while envisioning endless possibilities for dynamic cultural exchange," BAM said in the announcement.
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BOISE, Idaho — This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
In a first for Idaho, Kris Komori, co-owner and head chef at KIN, took home the top prize for the Mountain region category at the 2023 James Beard Awards ceremony Monday evening in Chicago. Twitter erupted with the news as it was happening, with congratulation tweets coming from local news outlets, restaurateurs, and fans.
Winning "Best Chef: Mountain Region" gives Komori top reign over five states, including Colorado, Utah, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.
This is the first year Idaho made it to the finals and with two chefs: Komori from KIN, Boise; and Salvador Alamilla from Amano, Caldwell. It is also the first time Idaho has laid claim to one of the tip-top awards.
Komori had been nominated four other times.
"Who in this room thought someone from Idaho would be up here?" Komori said during his acceptance speech. "I didn't, that's for sure."
The James Beard Foundation Awards, first given in 1991, recognize "excellence in the food and beverage and related industries," according to the James Beard Foundation website.
According to a May 28 story that appeared in Idaho Press, Komori met Remi McManus, KIN's other co-owner, in 2013 after moving to Boise from Portland. Their first restaurant venture together was at State and Lemp, where Komori was nominated for James Beard awards three years in a row. Komori and McManus opened KIN together in 2020.
"It's my name (on the award), but I think everyone in here understands how many people it takes to even get to Chicago for this," Komori said. "So this is for all those people that have gotten me that far."
"We are incredibly lucky to have such a group of people that pour their heart and soul into a place that others would just call a job," Komori said, referencing his staff, who was in attendance with him in Chicago. "They're genuine and thoughtful and beautifully unique. So this is for you."
"And then lastly, this is for the city of Boise and the whole Treasure Valley of Idaho," Komori continued. "When we get home, we'll celebrate together."
Komori's entire speech can be viewed in the video below. His award is announced around the 1-hour, 32-minute mark.
A complete list of winners can be found here.
This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press, read more on IdahoPress.com.
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BOISE, Idaho — A federal judge has yanked approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho, saying federal land managers in the Trump administration didn’t in part properly consider the mine’s impact on sage grouse, a bird species that has seen an 80% decline in population since 1965.
U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill’s Friday decision came five months after he found fault with the way the U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved the Caldwell Canyon Mine in 2019.
The mine has been proposed by P4 Production LLC, a subsidiary of German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG. Three environmental groups — the Center for Biological Diversity, Western Watersheds Project and WildEarth Guardians — sued.
In January, Winmill agreed with the conservation groups that the federal agency violated the National Environmental Policy Act and other laws on several counts when it approved the mine, including failing to consider the indirect effects of processing ore at a nearby plant and the cumulative impacts on sage grouse, whose population has dramatically declined over its habitat in 11 Western states, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
His Friday decision issued remedies for those violations: Vacating both the mine’s approval and the environmental analysis of the project , as well as any other decision that relied on those documents.
“We believe the court’s decision to vacate the BLM’s approvals is excessive,” Bayer AG said in a statement. The company is assessing its next steps, which could include an appeal.
“We believe the few specific deficiencies the court identified in the BLM’s assessment can and should be fully addressed expeditiously,” the statement said. Bayer said it plans to have the mine operational in the next few years.
An email sent to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management seeking comment was not immediately returned.
The proposed venture would have included two new open mine pits to extract phosphate ore, according to court documents. It would have resulted in the disturbance of about 1,550 acres (627 hectares) of previously undeveloped land nearly 300 miles (483 kilometers) southeast of Boise.
The mine was projected to last for 40 years, with ore taken by truck or rail to a nearby processing plant.
There, the ore would be processed to produce glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world. Bayer, which acquired the herbicide’s original producer Monsanto in 2018, is facing thousands of claims from people who say Roundup exposure caused their cancer.
“This strip mine would’ve cut through the heart of crucial habitat for greater sage grouse and other species” just to produce an herbicide, Hannah Connor, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.
“Now sage grouse have a fighting chance at continuing to dance their age-old dances in this place. And the government can’t go on arbitrarily ignoring the environmental harms of phosphate mining,” Connor said.
Bayer this year began transitioning glyphosate out of its U.S. residential lawn and garden products and using other ingredients as a way to reduce future litigation risks. Agriculture and professional products will not be changed, and the company said it stands behind the safety of its glyphosate products.
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BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation and the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is advising people to stay out of Sandy Point Beach at Lucky Peak due to elevated levels of E. Coli found in the water. The department issued the advisory June 2.
"The advisory will likely remain in effect over the next couple of weeks as we continue an additional series of tests. We will let everyone know once the advisory has been lifted, and to any additional changes or recommendations we receive from DEQ. We truly apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience and understanding," the website states.
The department also wants to remind people that pets, even in vehicles, are not allowed at Sandy Point until October 1.
People can get more information and updates at parksandrecreation.idaho.gov.
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IDAHO, USA — Overall, employers and business leaders across the state are most concerned with finding and retaining employees, according to a new survey conducted by the Idaho Department of Labor.
The department did its first statewide Employer Climate Survey to dive into current trends in the workforce.
The department gets data from partners like the U.S. Census Bureau, but it says that information typically lags behind a few years. So, it conducted this survey in March to get real-time insight into Idaho's labor force.
Labor economists presented some of their findings in a webinar Tuesday morning.
"There's been a lot of changes in the economy and kind of landscape for Idaho in the last couple of years after COVID," Craig Shaul, research supervisor for the Idaho Dept. of Labor said. "It was kind of happening before, but the pandemic really kind of accelerated some things."
This Spring, the department surveyed about 2,300 business owners and leaders across the state to better understand what they're currently seeing in the workforce.
More than half of those surveyed said their top concern involved the ability to find and keep workers.
"Just under a quarter had said high labor turnover was their top concern," Matthew Paskash, a labor economist for the Idaho Dept. of Labor said. "While just under a third of respondents said that the supply or cost of workers was their top concern."
Almost two-thirds of employers surveyed who had job openings reported that their listings were up for longer than a month.
The Idaho Dept. of Labor found that the top reported reasons for employee turnover were employees leaving for another job, followed by retirement.
"The large share of labor concerns across industries for the most part, it's stuck out more than I would have anticipated," Paskash said.
In the survey, the department also found that across all industries in the state, about 89% of businesses require in-person work, and about 11% of businesses have employees working remote or hybrid.
Those numbers vary a lot depending on the industry.
"The only two industries that have a minority of in-person work arrangements for the state include professional scientific, and technical services; and information," Shaul said. "Which kind of makes sense because those industries are concentrating mostly on transferring information, analyzing - those types of things."
Labor economists say the growth of remote and hybrid work since COVID have change the landscape for both employers and workers.
"For the workers themselves, it became an option in terms of, working from home that kind of helps alleviate some, some pressure in terms of reporting to work each day," Shaul said. "Also, for the employer, especially those that can offer remote or hybrid, it's a way to kind of expand their hiring pool."
A hiring pool employers said is shrinking.
"Scarcity issues were forefront for employers, that's certainly confirmed in the data," Shaul said.
The Idaho Dept. of Labor also surveyed business leaders on worker skills. Employers and business leaders report that over the next five years, they expect to see increased demand for soft skills - including leadership skills, time management, and teamwork.
The full webinar can be watched here. The Idaho Dept. of Labor expects to release the rest of the survey in mid-July.
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — The Idaho Falls Public Library (IFPL) is addressing the growing concern regarding what content is available for minors while also preserving the rights and interest of others.
Parents now choose if their child will receive one of two library cards available at IFPL for children under the age of 18.
- Unrestricted Card: allows a child to check out everything in the library, except for adult graphic novels, and any movies.
- Restricted Card: allows a child to check out materials only from the children's Library collection located on the first floor of the library.
"It allows parents to make the choices they want to make and doesn't infringe on anybody's rights," IFPL Director Robert Wright said. "We don't want to be the parent. We don't want to tell you what's right for your family."
The Idaho State Legislature overwhelming passed House Bill 314 in the 2023 legislative session, later vetoed by Gov. Brad Little (R-Idaho), to hold libraries financially accountable for allowing children to access inappropriate materials as defined by the bill.
The bill looked to restrict library content depicting "nudity, sexual excitement, sexual conduct, or sado-masochistic abuse" that is harmful to minors.
The IFPL policy is influenced in part by the proposed legislation outlined by HB314, according to an IFPL press release. IFPL discussed the implications of this pending law before asking Gov. Little in a letter to veto the bill.
IDPL has discussed their policy with other library districts since implemented to change on May 17, 2023.
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NAMPA, Idaho — Nampa Mayor Debbie Kling recommended leaving a city council seat open until an upcoming November election and the council approved. Former Councilman Jacob Bower is moving out of the city and resigned his position last night.
"It is my recommendation we let the citizens of Nampa choose who will represent them on council in the November election. We have dedicated city council members who will continue to represent the citizens of Nampa well during this time," Kling said.
Usually, when a council seat is open, the mayor will recommend a new appointment and then the city council votes on it. However, the mayor said they didn't have a proper amount of time to find a qualified representative. Instead, the people of Nampa will vote for an elected representative in November's election.
"For the first time in Nampa's history, on November 7, 2023, residents will only vote for council members who live in their district as part of Idaho Code section 50-707A. Residents in districts 2, 4 and 6 will vote in the November 2023 election and districts 1, 3 and 5 will vote in the November 2025 election," a press release stated.
For more information and to see the city's district map, people can go to cityofnampa.us.
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MERIDIAN, Idaho — The City of Meridian is preparing for its annual Public Works Week celebrations which have started to make way this week.
The annual tradition will start off with the Public Works Week Expo on Wednesday, June 7, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Meridian City Hall Plaza. Later in the week – returning from its three year break – the “Go with the Flow Facilities Tour” will be coming to the Expo, according to the city.
Meridian officials say that the Public Works Expo is a series of educational and entertaining events that are fun for the whole family. The Expo includes, but is not limited to, interactive exhibitions, food vendors, raffles and a special appearance from “Hydro,” the Public Works mascot.
For those who are unfamiliar, the “Go with the Flow Facilities Tour” is a chartered bus tour which provides participants the chance to uncover a behind the scenes look into the daily life of Public Works staff. With the return of this tour and the gratuitous opportunity, reservations are expected to fill up, so attendees are encouraged to sign up soon. The tour will begin on June 12 and run from 5:30 p.m. until 9 p.m.
These community events showcase the essential services the Meridian Public Works Department provides to its citizens and offer a unique opportunity to learn about the infrastructure operations that make Meridian a premier place to live, work, and raise a family.
Not only does this Expo provide insight to the fundamental structure of the Meridian Public Works Department, but it also highlights Meridian as a place for newcomers to live, work and plant their family tree.
To reserve seats for the “Go with the Flow Facilities Tour”, and to learn more about Meridian’s Public Works Week, visit the City of Meridian Public Works website at meridiancity.org/pww.
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BOISE, Idaho — Americans owe $1.78 trillion in federal and private student loan debt, according to the Federal Reserve. Now, some parents are turning to real estate to pay for their child's college education so they don't end up with that student loan debt.
It’s a trend happening across the country and here in the Treasure Valley.
Kate McGwire is the owner of Homes by Kate McGwire at Boise Premier Real Estate. She’s seen a number of her clients invest in real estate to pay for their child's future.
“Say your child's just born, or 3 or 4 [years old], buy a home, put it on a 15-year loan, and then use it as a rental as they're growing up,” McGwire said. “Technically, your renters are then paying for your child’s college education, because by the time they reach college, then you sell the home, use the proceeds to pay for your child's education.”
McGwire and her husband are also in the process of doing this right now, to build up their child's college fund.
“If you can help your child with real estate to pay for college, that could help alleviate that debt for your child's future,” McGwire said.
If your kid is older though, there's also a trend of buying a house in the college town where your student lives and rather than pay for room and board, as well as meals on campus, you use that house as a rental.
“Then you charge rent to your child, which helps them develop smart knowledge about budgeting and finances and also their roommates, so you're still using it as a rental,” McGwire said.
McGwire told KTVB she had a parent buy a house near the College of Idaho last year for their kid and it is still being used by their kid and their roommates.
“I also have a parent who is currently shopping, and they are looking for a rental property near BSU,” McGwire said.
Some parents are also turning around and selling the home to their kid.
“Can you imagine graduating at 22, and then you're a homeowner," McGwire said. "That is such a great setup and helps them then, you know, they've got that beautiful foundation that's already built."
As for McGwire, she and her husband are hoping to buy a house for their 4-year-old son's college fund by the end of the year.
“We want to do the 15-year loan and then be able to turn around sell the property when he's ready to go to school and use that money for his college education,” McGwire said.
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The girlfriend of a Gooding man who was found murdered and a man who claims to be her nephew have been arrested in connection with Roger Driesel's death.
Athena Miller, 50, and Nick James, 31, were named as those arrested Tuesday in suspicion of the death of the 58-year-old man, according to a news release issued by Trevor Misseldine, Gooding County prosecuting attorney.
Preliminary autopsy results show that Driesel was killed as a result of multiple gunshot wounds. He was reported missing on May 15 and his body was found May 28 under a tarp at a shop at 1848 S. 2100 E., near where he rented a room.
Police suspect Driesel was killed the same day he was reported missing.
Miller was said to be Driesel's girlfriend, and James has claimed to be Miller’s nephew, but Misseldine told the Times-News he has not been able to verify the information.
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The arrests came as a result of a joint investigation between the Gooding County Sheriff’s Office and the Gooding City Police Department.
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The Jerome County prosecuting attorney is in an Oregon jail, facing felony charges of strangulation and coercion.
Charges were filed against Christopher Bradley Calbo on Monday in Lincoln County, southwest of Portland, and bail has been set at $500,000, according to online jail records.
The Lincoln City Police Department referred the Times-News to the county's district attorney's office on Tuesday. The DA's office did not immediately return a voicemail seeking additional details on Calbo's arrest.
Jerome County Commissioner Charles Howell confirmed to the Times-News on Tuesday that Calbo had been arrested but declined further comment.
Calbo, born in 1968, was booked on Sunday, according to the jail record. He also faces misdemeanor counts of assault in the fourth degree and menacing.
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The Lincoln County court has also issued a no-contact order to prevent him from contacting a woman involved in the incident.
Calbo was appointed as Jerome’s prosecuting attorney last fall when former Prosecuting Attorney Mike Seib resigned from the position.
Calbo attended the University of Colorado School of Law and moved to Twin Falls shortly after his graduation in 1993. He worked as the chief felony trial deputy at the Twin Falls County Public Defender's Office until 2014 when he became a partner at Calbo & DePew, a criminal litigation firm.
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How The Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette covered the D-Day invasion as it unfolded
On June 6, 1944, Arizonans began following along as news broke of an Allied invasion on the beaches of Normandy.
There was quiet hope that the beginning of the end had arrived, but no overwhelming celebration, said Lora Key, managing editor of The Journal of Arizona History.
“There wasn’t huge overjoy in that moment,” Key said.
As the invasion unfolded, Arizonans relied on newspaper and radio coverage for information. Many had lost contact with sons, husbands and others in the armed services in the weeks before D-Day, Key said, as soldiers cut off communication because of the potential for tactical information to be leaked.
D-Day was a turning point Americans had long anticipated, Key said. "The newspapers were constantly tracing the armies across the beaches," she said.
Here's how The Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette covered D-Day and the first week of fighting that followed.
June 6, 1944
On Tuesday morning, June 6, 1944, The Arizona Republic published an Associated Press report declaring, "Allied troops began landing on the northern coast of France this morning strongly supported by naval and air forces."
The principal basis for the report was a communique from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters, which was "read over a transatlantic hook-up" at 1:32 a.m. Phoenix time.
Although the Allied bulletin did not "say exactly where the invasion was taking place," the AP reported what it was hearing from German sources: "Berlin said the 'center of gravity' of the fierce fighting was a Caen ... 10 miles inland from the sea, at the base of the 75-mile-wide Norman peninsula."
Under the subheading "Greatest Armada in History," the report continued:
"The great Allied armada dwarfed anything yet seen on the sea. Huge transport planes filled with paratroopers and pulling airborne troops in gliders roared over the German west wall to drop their cargos in the rear. Berlin said that masses of Allied parachute troops bailed out over Normandy, trying to seize airfields. Just before taking off in the darkness the paratroops were wished godspeed by the lanky Kansas supreme commander, General Eisenhower. He was accompanied by several other of his commanders and his face was tense but confident as he strode down the long lines of fighting men."
By the time the Phoenix Gazette's June 6 edition was released in the evening, additional details about the assault had emerged: "The initial landings were made from 6 to 8:25 a.m. British time (10 p.m. Monday to 12:25 a.m. Tuesday, Phoenix time). The Germans said subsequent landings were made on the English Channel isles of Jersey and Guernsey and that invasion at new points on the continent was expected hourly."
The front page was covered with dispatches about the invasion: The Russian army was "massing in preparation for another great attack from the East as its part in defeating Germany." Adolf Hilter was "rushing to France to try his intuition against the Allied operation." President Franklin D. Roosevelt "spent the early morning hours of the invasion writing a prayer for victory for the Allied forces of liberation. Prime Minister Winston Churchill "told a cheering House of Commons Tuesday that the Allied liberating assault upon Hitler's European stronghold was 'proceeding according to plan — and what a plan.'"
June 7, 1944
"Unfavorable weather — worse than in the Sicilian landings — was the chief Allied hazard," according to a dispatch from United Press journalist Edward W. Beattie published in The Republic. "The first German prisoners and Allied casualties were landed in England late yesterday — the wounded brought back by mine sweepers."
Beattie painted the scene of the landing for readers: "Under Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, the Allied troops — many of them seasick after their channel trip in bad weather — fought ashore through waist-deep mud and slime past underwater obstacles of concrete and wood, capped with deadly mines, to make good their landing against surprisingly light resistance."
An Associated Press report, also printed on The Republic's front page, quoted the prayer that Roosevelt finished "while American soldiers stormed the shores of France." The prayer, broadcast by radio, "asked for divine aid in the 'struggle to preserve our republic, our religion and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.'"
In the evening, the Phoenix Gazette reported on an American infantry unit that was "pinned to the beach by machine-gun fire before it could advance."
The paper also published a brief report saying "the German people were comparatively calm" but that they were astonished by the Allied invasion.
"Reports from the continent said Wednesday that the German people, pummeled for months with propaganda of the impregnability of the Nazi western wall, were bewildered and dumfounded by the news of the Allied landing in France," a United Press report said.
June 8, 1944
An unnamed United Press reporter embedded with Allied Expeditionary Forces provided this firsthand look at the invasion to Republic readers on June 8:
"Our forward troops, resting after snatching a few hours sleep last night are moving steadily forward against undiminished German resistance. We are on the outskirts of Caen and are joining up with the Canadians. A German tank counterattack has been smashed. The Luftwaffe is making desperate efforts to hold up our advance and there was constant bombing of the beach area last night. The skies were never without the roar of planes — usually mixed Allied and Focke-Wulfe German aircraft. We were witnesses to the arrival of a great air-borne army that landed last night. Literally hundreds of planes swept overhead, flying very low, and disgorged colored parachutes marking the different paratrooop units. The skies were filled with these bunches of colored silk unfolding like flowers. The German prisoners watched and were staggered by this manifestation of power."
"The full weight of German counter-attack in Normandy is still to come, War Secretary (Henry) Stimson said Thursday, but invading Allied troops have established beachheads at various points between the mouth of the Seine and the Cotentin Peninsula, and some of these beachheads have been united," the Phoenix Gazette reported in the evening. The paper reported Stimson as saying, "It would be folly to believe that the period of counter-attack will be short."
The Gazette also provided what it calls "the first eye-witness dispatch from the first town in France to be liberated."
"I toured the Allied front in Normandy all day today and entered this historic town of Bayeuz with the first Allied troops who occupied it at midday," reported United Press War Correspondent Richard D. McMillan. "It was a scene of rejoicing as the populace went wild and dashed through the narrow streets throwing flowers and crying, 'God save the king. We've waited for this day. On to Paris!'"
June 9, 1944
On the morning of Friday, June 9, The Republic featured a banner headline, "NAZIS FACE PENINSULA LOSS."
But a small story farther down the front pages reminded readers of the war's human toll.
"The war, with no accounting yet of losses in the European coast landing, has cost the United States 217,131 casualties," the Associated Press reported. "On the basis of casualty reports in the past, it is not expected that losses in the battle of invasion will begin to be reflected in total reports for perhaps a fortnight."
The Gazette that Friday featured three images from the invasion on the front page. The first was of the American battleship Texas: "The Texas was among more than 600 naval craft that tortured German positions and protected landings." The second showed a "U.S. Coast Guard landing boat approaching the French coast after German marchine-gun fire caused an explosion by setting off an American soldier's hand grenade." The third shows "German soldiers from beach fortifications taken by Canadian assault troops marching through Allied troops and equipment after their capture."
June 10, 1944
On Saturday morning, June 10, readers of The Republic awoke to the news that American, British and Canadian forces were "all making 'satisfactory progress' ... despite stiffening German resistance and ominously deteriorating weather that stopped virtually all air operations and hampered reinforcement of the beachheads."
Readers were also greeted with a story, "Nazi Radio Sees Belgium Assault Near," which reported that German broadcasts were predicting "the Allies would invade Belgium soon." Alongside the story were four X's and the note: "The Axis sometimes tries to slip propaganda to you through news ... so we will mark with the double cross all news we know comes from Axis sources."
The Phoenix Gazette published a photo of dead soldiers on a beach that Saturday. "These are dead American soldiers — the first to hit the beach and to die on the invasion shores of northern France," the caption read. "These are American boys who gave their lives that the invasion might succeed."
The Gazette also reported that for the first time since 1940, Allied planes were operating from French soil.
June 11, 1944
"U.S. troops smashed a third of the way across the Normandy peninsula yesterday in a drive to seal off the prize port of Cherbourg and captured two towns and a handful of villages under cover of Allied fighters striking from newly seized airfields in France," Associated Press reporter James M. Long reported to readers of The Republic on Sunday, June 11. The breathless report continued: "The Americans under Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley captured the small but valuable port of Isigny, 32 miles southeast of Cherbourg, toppled Trevieres, eight miles west of Isigny, and slashed 'in several places' the main Paris railway leading into Cherbourg."
June 12, 1944
On the Monday following the D-Day landing, The Republic reported that the command headquarters of the invasion — Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force — said that American troops were making progress that was "excellent — it could not be better."
The paper also published a brief saying that "the British disclosed tonight that a 'secret weapon' used in the Normandy landings was a huge new glider called the Hamilcar."
The Hamilcar, the report said, "must be towed by a heavy bomber, but can land in a small field. It can — and did — carry a light tank."
"One of the first tanks to be landed in France silenced within two minutes a German gun post which had been causing heavy casualties among Allied ground forces," the Associated Press report said. "Another Hamilcar's tank immediately blew the top off a tower in which German snipers were concealed."
The caption of an image on the front page of the Phoenix Gazette recalled the trench warfare of the Great War: "YANKS GO OVER THE TOP AGAIN IN FRANCE — Sons of American doughboys who 26 years ago 'went over the top' in France during battles of World War I, repeat with a charge over the top in new battles against the Germans in World War II in northern France. Other troops wait beside a wall for their order to go into action."
June 13, 1944
A week after D-Day, readers of The Republic's front page were told that Allied forces were "battling Nazi forces only 14 miles from the prize port of Cherbourg."
Allied headquarters, in its 14th communique since the invasion began, declared more positive news: "The fusion of our beachhead is now complete and a coastal strip some 60 miles long is firmly in our hands. Its depth is being increased steadily."
Lower on the page was a photo of a young boy smiling in a Phoenix pool, a reminder that Phoenix's summer was proceeding with some normalcy: "WATER'S FINE: 'Come on in!' this smiling youngster seems to be saying as he gets the 'feel' of the pool at the start of his first lesson in the Arizona Republic-Young Men's Christian Association-Phoenix Parks and Playgrounds Department free Learn-to-Swim campaign now under way in four Phoenix pools and to be extended next week to Tempe, Mesa and Glendale pools." | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-history/2023/06/06/how-the-arizona-republic-covered-d-day-as-the-invasion-unfolded/70295607007/ | 2023-06-07T03:37:11 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-history/2023/06/06/how-the-arizona-republic-covered-d-day-as-the-invasion-unfolded/70295607007/ |
Details emerge from 911 call during which woman fatally shot at Glendale home
A 20-year-old Glendale mother who was killed on Sunday, by who police suspect was her ex-boyfriend, was attacked while on the phone with a 911 dispatcher, according to the call recording obtained by The Arizona Republic.
Rueben Xavier Rocha, 22, turned himself in to police on Monday following the murder of who police say is his ex-girlfriend, Jordin "Miranda" Castillo.
On Sunday, just after 2:30 p.m., calls came in to Glendale police regarding “some type of altercation” at an apartment complex near Northern and 51st avenues. Officers found three women with gunshot wounds, including Castillo, who later died at a hospital.
Officers later learned that Rocha came to the apartment after a social media dispute dressed in all black, with a facemask and a hoodie pulled over his head, Glendale police said during a news conference on Monday.
Rocha entered the third-floor apartment by breaking a glass door on the balcony and fired multiple rounds at three of the six occupants inside, striking all three and ultimately killing Castillo before fleeing, according to police. Among the occupants was Castillo's 2-year-old daughter, police said.
During the Monday news conference, Castillo's family tearfully took time to reflect on her.
"She was one of the strongest women I ever knew, super independent, did everything for everyone without ever asking for anything in return," Castillo's brother, Elijah Castillo, told reporters. "Because of this, a daughter has to go on with the rest of her life without a mother, a mother has to bury her child, a family doesn't get to see their little cousin, sister, niece."
"I just want to say, hug your loved ones, don't ever leave without saying goodbye, don't fight for no reason," her brother said. "I don't get to see my sister anymore because of this."
Shooting recorded during 911 call to police
In a 911 call recording obtained by The Republic, a woman is heard talking to a dispatcher yelling "I have an order of protection, you're going to be arrested! Please leave!" before several shots are heard as well as screaming before the call disconnects. Police identified that woman as Castillo, court documents show.
When police arrived, they found three women with gunshot wounds and two of them told an officer that "Sparky," Rocha's nickname, was responsible for the shooting. All were taken to a local hospital, where Castillo was pronounced dead at 3:13 p.m. from multiple gunshot wounds to her head, neck, torso area, arms and legs, court documents state.
One of the victims, a 20-year-old who is in stable condition according to Glendale police, told investigators that she had heard glass breaking when she saw Rocha, identifying him immediately despite the ski mask and hoodie over his head. She also identified him in a photo lineup, documents say.
The other victim, a 19-year-old female, was in critical but stable condition and unable to speak, according to court documents.
An unidentified man and woman, as well as Castillo's daughter, were also in the apartment at the time of the shooting.
The man told investigators that two hours prior to the shooting, Castillo argued with a woman in the parking lot while Castillo stood on her apartment's balcony. Court documents state that the argument had stemmed from "jealousy issues", with the woman in the parking lot claiming the man in the apartment was "having relations" with Castillo.
According to court documents, the woman in the parking lot and the man in Castillo's apartment have a child together.
The woman left the area and texted the photo of the man in Castillo's apartment to Rocha, and texted the man saying he "needed to be careful" of Castillo's ex-boyfriend, court documents state.
During the Monday news conference, police said that the shooting was tied to a social media dispute. The probable cause statement provided in court documents, however, does not specify if social media was used to interchange messages.
The man told investigators that he saw Rocha climb onto the front balcony of Castillo's apartment and kick in the glass door, giving him enough time to run to the back bedroom as he believed Rocha was there to hurt him. As he ran, he grabbed Castillo's child and handed her off to the other woman and locked her in the bathroom, court documents state.
The man said he could hear Castillo and the two other victims telling Rocha to leave, with Rocha saying he came to find him. He then heard Castillo tell Rocha about the order of protection against him while barricaded along the back balcony before hearing multiple gunshots, according to court documents.
Following the shots, the man told police he spotted Rocha getting into his car and leaving the area.
Neighbors told police they heard an argument around 10 to 15 minutes prior to hearing glass breaking and several gunshots. One of the neighbors also told investigators that Rocha, who used to live there with Castillo, had been very abusive with her in the past, court documents state.
As police investigated, they found that Castillo's order on Rocha had been served on April 7, 2023, leading to his eviction from the complex.
Rocha turned himself in on Monday at around 2:30 p.m. He was booked into jail on multiple charges including one count of premeditated first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated assault and one count of burglary.
He was held on a $2 million bond with court dates set for June 12 and June 15.
Resources for Arizonans experiencing domestic violence
- National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-SAFE (7233)
- Phoenix.gov/DomesticViolence
- Chrysalis: 602-944-4999, noabuse.org.
- Arizona Coalition to End Sexual & Domestic Violence: 602-279-2980.
- In Arizona, people can call the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, 602-279-2900 or 1-800-782-6400 or visit its website, acesdv.org/helpline.
- The Phoenix police website, www.phoenix.gov/domesticviolence, has a list of places people can contact in Maricopa County.
Republic editor Lillian Boyd contributed to this article. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/glendale-breaking/2023/06/06/911-call-court-documents-detail-shooting-death-jordin-miranda-castillo-glendale/70294970007/ | 2023-06-07T03:37:17 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/glendale-breaking/2023/06/06/911-call-court-documents-detail-shooting-death-jordin-miranda-castillo-glendale/70294970007/ |
Raising the Rainbow Flag in solidarity with Philly’s LGBTQ+ community
On the second day of Pride Month, the black, brown, and rainbow flag was raised at City Hall.
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May 31st, 2023Philadelphia held its annual Pride Flag raising outside City Hall on June 2, hosted by the Office of LGBT Affairs and its Executive Director, Celena Morrison.
“Every June we take time to celebrate our LGBTQ community and our right to live out loud, to love who we love, to live authentically, and to be our truest selves,” Morrison started in her remarks.
“Yes, Pride is about celebrating but let's not forget, Pride was a riot. A riot that started at Stonewall over 50 years ago. It lasted for days and echoed through generations. Pride should always be known as a protest, born of a community fed up with the intolerance of a society and police brutality. We must honor that legacy, especially this month and this year,” she continued.
C.C. Tellez, Associate Director of LGBTQ+ Programing at Students Run Philly Style, spoke out against the policies that bar transgender people from participating in sports.
Students Run Philly Style is a running program that pairs students with mentors and gives them the goal of running a marathon or a half marathon.
“I have been an athlete all my life. As a young immigrant who struggled to fit into a new culture, sports became a lifeline to me,” Tellez said.
She added that there are studies that show that participating in sports result in lowered depression, better mental health outcomes, and an increase in life satisfaction.
“Sports empowered me to do more and to be more with confidence. Sports is an influential force in our society and it holds immense power,” she continued, adding that this is why policies excluding transgender athletes trouble her.
She also spoke about how inclusion efforts by the Philadelphia Distance Run, namely nonbinary registration, have influenced other major marathons to do the same. The run also offered equal prize money, which the others have yet to copy.
Tyrell Brown, Executive Director of GALAEI, spoke after Tellez. They went off-script from their notes, saying that they were inspired to speak for year-round unity and against the attacks aimed at the community.
They spoke about the reason they got involved in community activism. While working as a preschool teacher, one of their students came out and told them that he [the student] was not a girl.
“It shook me to my core because I knew that I, myself, was also nonbinary. And that child’s liberty to speak up to me, a grown up, in a classroom of 24 people. To say that they deserve to be seen and affirmed by me, that shook me to my core. And it inspired me to get involved. It inspired me to want to stand up, not just for other people but for myself,” Brown said.
“We are organizers in this city that are organizing for our own safety, for our own level of security in a city that often pushes us to the margins, in a country that pushes us to the margins. We don’t have a choice to rest, no pajamas,” they continued.
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After the speeches, Vinchelle, a local drag queen, performed a lip sync to Beyonce’s “Break My Soul.” Morrison then raised the ‘More Colors, More Pride’ flag to “I’m Coming Out” by Diana Ross.
The emphasis on protest in the speeches was undercut somewhat by the response to a small protest by other members of the LGBTQ+ community. Kendall Stephens and Valentina Rosario spoke out against Morrison’s leadership and the office itself.
Stephens is an activist and member of the board of directors for the William Way LGBT Center. Rosario is also an activist, as well as a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion consultant.
After the official program had ended, Stephens unplugged the speaker playing music and began talking. Partway through her speech someone else plugged it back in and continued to play music to drown Stephens out.
Although part of Stephens’ protest was of a personal nature towards Morrison, both she and Rosario talked about a need for the leadership of the Office of LGBT Affairs to be picked by the community and for it to focus on collaborating with other offices to get policies enacted that will address issues faced by the community.
Some of the issues they brought up include lack of housing and substance use.
The list of demands that they posted on a nearby statue empathized their desire to see the office do more in terms of policy as many of things would probably need to be done at the state level.
“We know that things that happen on the state level trickle down to us. There are some things that we can do that still aren’t being done,” said Stephens.
“We have some bills that were passed by other executive directors of the LGBT affairs office, such as Amber Hikes, who helped with the hate crime ordinance that helped me in my case, when I was a victim and survivor of a hate crime. We have someone who incorporated the Black and Brown stripes into the Pride flag, which helped diversify the experiences of everyone who is LGBTQ+ identified. In this office you’re not seeing that same fervor to commit themselves to civic action in the same way. That is a problem,” she added.
Morrison did not engage the protestors and has not responded to AL DÍA’s request for comment. | https://aldianews.com/en/local/philadelphia/philly-pride-flag-raising | 2023-06-07T03:38:26 | 1 | https://aldianews.com/en/local/philadelphia/philly-pride-flag-raising |
PLEASANTVILLE — Although it is still early, a fixture in city politics has built a lead over a community organizer in one of the few competitive municipal primary races in Atlantic County.
City Councilwoman Joanne Famularo was ahead in the Democratic primary race for her 2nd Ward seat with early voting and a share of mail-in votes counted, according to preliminary results from the Atlantic County Clerk’s Office as of 10 p.m. Tuesday.
With that limited vote total, Famularo is leading challenger Irvin Moreno-Rodriguez 158-36, capturing more than 81% of the early vote and canvassed mail-in votes as of late Tuesday night. There is no Republican candidate for the 2nd Ward seat, and the Democratic nominee is virtually certain to win the general election in November.
Famularo, who was first elected to council in 2020 and previously served a six-year stint on the Board of Education and city Planning Board, has centered her campaign on how her career in politics and business has made her a familiar and trusted figure. She has pointed to her support for events such as the city’s National Night Out and a series of votes she took on controversial topics over the past year that she said proved her commitment to the community.
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She said she was confident in her position Tuesday night, saying her early-vote and mail-in lead of 122 would be difficult to surmount with in-person, election-day voting.
“It’s all good,” Famularo said. “It’s hard to make up that 120, 130 votes at the polls.”
Moreno-Rodriguez, 29, had framed his candidacy around making city government more transparent and responsive to the needs of the community. As board president of immigrant-rights group El Pueblo Unido of Atlantic City, Moreno-Rodriguez has placed special focus on the need to communicate with immigrants, who collectively comprise over a quarter of the city population.
On Tuesday night at an election headquarters packed with supporters, Moreno-Rodriguez said he was proud of his support from the community and he had anticipated a tight race.
“It’s going to be close,” Moreno-Rodriguez said. “Thank you for the love and support of everyone in Pleasantville.”
There were 3,332 registered Democrats in the 2nd Ward and 2,119 registered independent voters eligible to participate in the election Tuesday. There are 675 voters who have requested a mail-in ballot, and 181 of those votes have already been canvassed, meaning there could still be hundreds of votes outstanding.
The race comes at the end of two years in which the city has grappled with a series of fraught political controversies. Famularo and Moreno-Rodriguez have ultimately taken similar positions on these controversies, with both opposing a proposed trash and recycling transfer site, a planned 39-year lease of the city sewer system and a 22-year tax abatement for a proposed apartment complex.
While New Jersey municipal primary elections are notoriously low-turnout affairs, each candidate is backed by their own slate of supporters to turn out the vote. Numbering among those who endorsed Famularo are former Democratic congressional nominee Tim Alexander, former police Chief Sean Riggin and school board President Doris Rowell.
"She deserves another seat because she does what's right, she stands for what's right and she's a no-nonsense person," Rowell said before the election.
Famularo has also received significant institutional backing, receiving the endorsement of the New Jersey Latin Business Association, an organization based in Atlantic City supporting Latino businesses; the Pleasantville Regular Democratic Club and the Atlantic County Democrats. By virtue of the latter endorsement, Famularo had the party line, column A, on the ballot Tuesday.
Moreno-Rodriguez has received considerable backing for a first-time candidate. Unite Here Local 54, the labor union that represents nearly one-third of Atlantic City casino and hospitality workers, endorsed Moreno-Rodriguez. He said he first worked with Local 54 when he was an undergraduate student at Stockton University and helped organized a protest related to Stockton's purchase and sale of the former Showboat casino in 2015.
Moreno-Rodriguez was also endorsed by Run for Something, a national political organization that backs young, diverse candidates running for Democratic seats on progressive platforms.
With that support, particularly from Local 54, Moreno-Rodriguez said he was able to staff canvassing, phone banking and other campaign efforts with over 100 volunteers. Before the election, Moreno-Rodriguez called himself a “pro-union candidate” who would work for “the rights and dignity of working-class people.”
The race has taken a more combative tone at times. Famularo has indicated that Moreno-Rodriguez is a divisive candidate, favoring one segment of the community over another. She said public officials needed to emphasize people were unified as one city and that she has worked to represent all of her constituents.
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Moreno-Rodriguez said he celebrates his heritage, being "unapologetically Latino" and stressed he was running to represent the entire ward. He said his proposal would benefit multiple marginalized communities in the city and said Famularo’s comments amounted to targeting him for his ethnicity.
There had been a debate planned for last week by the Pleasantville-Mainland NAACP and the group Pleasantville Concerned Citizens between Famularo and Moreno-Rodriguez. Famularo eventually pulled out of the debate, citing the advice of campaign advisers.
Pleasantville-Mainland NAACP Political Action Chair Marcus Wilson said before the election his organization had been holding forums each week for the past six weeks to encourage voting in the ward council race. Wilson said the debate could have helped provide a much needed boost in voter interest.
"I think it's a healthy thing for democracy," Wilson said.
Moreno-Rodriguez said Tuesday he hoped his candidacy galvanized civic participation in the usually inert city primary season.
“This is what democracy’s about,” Moreno-Rodriguez said. “It’s getting people to understand this vote is their voice and their power.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/pleasantville-councilwoman-has-early-lead-over-challenger/article_20c412bc-04d5-11ee-b846-333c071d56bd.html | 2023-06-07T03:47:57 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/pleasantville-councilwoman-has-early-lead-over-challenger/article_20c412bc-04d5-11ee-b846-333c071d56bd.html |
Seton Hall Prep pulled away to beat visiting St. Augustine Prep 18-4 on Tuesday in a state Non-Public A boys lacrosse semifinal game.
Seton Hall Prep led 1-0 after the first quarter and 4-2 with eight minutes left before halftime before scoring four straight goals to go up 8-2.
Christian Schweiger scored four goals and had four assists for the top-seeded Pirates (19-1), and Brad Schuster tallied four and added two assists. Matt Pepe scored three and contributed two assists.
Noah Plenn, Matt Buonocore, Billy Hughes and Sebastian Varallo scored for fifth-seeded St. Augustine (12-6).
Seton Hall Prep, of West Orange in Essex County, will host second-seeded Delbarton at 2 p.m. Saturday in the state Non-Public A championship game. Delbarton beat third-seeded Don Bosco Prep 12-1 in the other semifinal. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/seton-hall-prep-tops-st-augustine-in-state-lacrosse-semifinal/article_0c1030e0-04de-11ee-a23f-5303a251dba9.html | 2023-06-07T03:48:10 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/seton-hall-prep-tops-st-augustine-in-state-lacrosse-semifinal/article_0c1030e0-04de-11ee-a23f-5303a251dba9.html |
The Ocean City Nor'easters took over sole possession of first place of the Mid-Atlantic Division on Tuesday with a 2-0 win over host West Chester United at YSC Sports in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
Ryan Becher scored in the first half, and Sander Roed put the game away with a goal two minutes before second-half stoppage time.
The Nor'easters increased their regular-season unbeaten streak to 20 games and their regular-season road unbeaten streak to 18.
Ocean City, the defending United Soccer Leagues’ League Two Mid-Atlantic champion, improved to 4-0-1 (13 points) in the division. West Chester, which also entered the game undefeated, fell to 3-1-1 Mid-Atlantic (10 points).
Becher made it 1-0 in the 35th minute when he scored after a cross into the box by Brad Dildy. Roed scored an insurance goal in the 88th minute after a cross from Alessandro Arlotti.
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The Nor'easters will host Lehigh Valley United at 7 p.m. Saturday at Carey Stadium in Ocean City. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/noreasters-win-2-0-lead-mid-atlantic-division/article_b1673522-04d7-11ee-8a8b-83a48a5b1c5c.html | 2023-06-07T03:48:16 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/noreasters-win-2-0-lead-mid-atlantic-division/article_b1673522-04d7-11ee-8a8b-83a48a5b1c5c.html |
Southwest Allen County Schools board members aren’t ready to commit to a partnership with a national nonprofit that would help the district address diversity and inclusion concerns.
Members on Tuesday asked the district to consider possibilities in addition to Rise, a group Superintendent Park Ginder presented as a potential partner at meetings in May.
Kim Moppert, board vice president, suggested SACS explore resources offered by the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, also known as FAIR. She pointed to the nonpartisan organization’s K-12 pro-human learning standards, noting she wants programming offered districtwide.
“We’re trying to do it right,” Moppert said after the meeting.
Board member Mark Gilpin agreed, saying there’s no need to rush.
“Let’s take our time,” he said. “Do it right.”
Delaying a decision could jeopardize SACS’ ability to work with Rise, should the board decide to proceed with that partnership, Ginder said.
“They’re an organization that’s very, very active in our country, and we may put ourselves in a position where that’s not a possibility anymore,” the superintendent said after the meeting.
The 7,800-student district is seeking outside guidance as it navigates diversity and inclusion concerns that escalated Feb. 9 in demonstrations and discussions that disrupted classes at Homestead High School.
“Regardless of race, ethnicity, athletic abilities, academic abilities, and all the things that encompass our community, every student in Southwest Allen County Schools should feel welcomed and supported while pursuing their postsecondary goals or, for our younger students, as they participate in their education,” Ginder said before the board began Tuesday’s discussion.
“Students build positive relationships when they are safe, engaged and included. We want every student to have the opportunity to experience these things and for our schools to demonstrate those attributes to the greatest extent possible.”
SACS initially proposed working with Will Moreland, a facilitator specializing in diversity and inclusion issues, but those plans stalled in March.
The district considered Rise, which generally doesn’t take a fee for service, at the recommendation of people with whom SACS has professional relationships, Ginder said.
Rise would be involved in surveying the community and conversational forums to help SACS make long-range plans for educational programming for students, educators and community members.
Ginder planned to contact Rise today about the board’s discussion.
“I would have liked to have taken this step tonight,” Ginder said after the meeting, “but we were redirected to slow down.”
Nobody addressed the topic during public comment, but a parent member of Freedom Against Cultural Transgressions in Schools told the board last month that it’s time for action.
Ginder said after Tuesday’s meeting that community members have a right to be frustrated.
“I don’t think that this decision tonight kills our direction, but I do want them to know that the educators, the teachers, the administrators in our district want to see that we move forward,” Ginder said. “I know that the feeling is it’s summer, maybe we have some extra time, but building programming of this nature is not something that just happens quickly. We need to be ready for August and September, so the clock is running.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/southwest-allen-county-schools-board-seeks-more-options-with-diversity-inclusion-partner/article_f55cf616-04b1-11ee-8854-27e86eea67bd.html | 2023-06-07T03:50:17 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/southwest-allen-county-schools-board-seeks-more-options-with-diversity-inclusion-partner/article_f55cf616-04b1-11ee-8854-27e86eea67bd.html |
PHOENIX — Two people were transported to the hospital after multiple structures caught fire in central Phoenix late Tuesday afternoon.
Phoenix firefighters said around 4:30 p.m., crews were called to 16th and Oak streets for reports of an alley fire.
When firefighters got on scene, the fire had extended to several structures and was spreading quickly due to windy conditions.
According to Phoenix firefighters, approximately 150 firefighters and 50+ units were called to fight the blaze. Crews were able to contain the fire around 6:30 p.m.
Officials said the victims transported to the hospital suffered minor burns and are expected to be ok. Witnesses told 12News neighbors helped get kittens and puppies out of the burning structures.
A total of two houses and two sheds received extensive damage as a result of this blaze, firefighters said
Phoenix Fire said crisis teams are assisting 21 displaced residents with immediate needs.
Witnesses told 12News the fire started when a BBQ fell over, but the official cause of the fire is under investigation.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The intersection at Miller and McKellips roads in Scottsdale is closed following a crash Tuesday evening that injured a police officer.
The crash involved a vehicle driven Scottsdale police officer and another vehicle, according to the Scottsdale Police Department.
Police said the officer has been hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
The intersection will be closed for several more hours as police investigate the crash.
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SEATTLE — Grammy award-winning singer Brandi Carlile was in Seattle on Tuesday, not to perform a concert, but to celebrate her wife, Catherine.
The Metropolitan King County Council honored Catherine Tuesday with the Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Medal.
"I'm not typically the family member in my household, in the family that gets the awards, so it actually feels pretty good, and I think that this is by far the coolest. This is way cooler than a Grammy in my opinion,” said Catherine Carlile.
Catherine Carlile is in the well-deserved spotlight, alongside her wife, Brandi Carlile.
"She works so hard, and she's accomplished so much,” said Brandi. “Catherine is a really humble person, that doesn't like attention, I guarantee she even hates this. So I love the kind of irony in her having to be proud of herself during Pride Month."
On Tuesday Catherine was one of nine recipients who were awarded the medal. It honors community leaders every year, that answer Dr. King's call to action, "What are you doing for others?"
"It's on a post-it note next to my computer and I think of it as less than a question and more of a mantra or a prayer even and I think we should always ask ourselves that question," said Catherine.
Catherine was named this year as one of People Magazine's "Women Changing the World" and has been the executive director of the Looking Out Foundation since 2012, which has raised more than $4 million dollars to support social justice and humanitarian causes throughout the world.
"It means the world to me, and I'm very, very grateful,” said Catherine.
“We're proud to live in King County,” said Brandi. “I'm proud to be born and raised in King County and to watch my wife get an honor from my county, my city, my state, it's huge to our family. Thank you." | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/catherine-carlile-honored-king-county-mlk-jr-medal/281-5e245f96-2772-481f-b8d0-94a0cce6b410 | 2023-06-07T03:57:25 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/catherine-carlile-honored-king-county-mlk-jr-medal/281-5e245f96-2772-481f-b8d0-94a0cce6b410 |
RICHMOND, Va. — Seven people were shot -- and two of them have died -- after gunfire rang out near Virginia Commonwealth University in downtown Richmond following a high school graduation ceremony Tuesday, according to police and school district officials.
NBC12 is reporting that the two people killed were a Huguenot HS graduate and his father.
Two suspects were taken into custody after the incident, Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards said at a news conference. It was later reported that one of them, who was held because they were in possession of a firearm, was subsequently cleared of having any involvement.
They currently have a 19-year-old man in custody and he will be charged with 2 counts of Second Degree Murder. Police recovered multiple handguns.
Police said they believe the suspect knew at least one of the victims.
Of the five other people who were shot, a 31-year-old man is in critical condition, and four others, ages 14, 32, 55, and 58 - all males - are being treated for "non-life threatening" wounds.
Officers inside Altria Theater, where the graduation took place, heard gunfire outside around 5:15 p.m. and radioed to police stationed outside, who found multiple victims, Edwards said.
Police did not believe there was any ongoing threat to the community. The identities of those in custody and those injured were not immediately released.
"We're going to do everything we can to bring the individuals involved in this to justice," Mayor Levar Stoney said at the news conference. "This should not be happening anywhere."
In addition to the seven wounded by gunfire, at least 12 others were injured or treated for anxiety due to the mayhem, according to police.
Police said one was a 9-year-old child had been hit by a car while trying to flee, but the child is expected to be OK.
“My administration continues monitoring the terrible shooting in the heart of Richmond tonight,” Gov. Glenn Youngkin said on Twitter. “State law enforcement are fully supporting the Richmond Police Department as this investigation moves forward.”
Richmond Public Schools said in a message on its website that the shooting took place in Monroe Park, which is near the college campus, after a graduation ceremony for Huguenot High School.
School board member Jonathan Young told NBC12 that graduates and other attendees were exiting the theater when they heard about 20 gunshots in rapid succession.
“That prompted, as you would expect, hundreds of persons in an effort to flee the gunfire to return to the building,” Young said. “It materialized in a stampede.”
Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras said the new graduates were outside taking photos with families and friends when the shooting broke out.
“I don’t have any more words on this,” Kamras said. “I’m just tired of seeing people get shot, our kids get shot. And I beg of the entire community to stop, to just stop.”
As he heard the gunshots and then sirens, neighbor John Willard, 69, stepped onto the balcony of his 18th-floor apartment. Below, he saw students fleeing in their graduation outfits and parents hugging children.
“There was one poor woman in front of the apartment block next to ours who was wailing and crying,” Willard said, adding that the scene left him deeply saddened.
Edythe Payne was helping her daughter sell flowers outside the theater to students as they left the ceremony. She told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the shooting caused a panic on nearby Main Street, which was packed with people at the time.
“I felt bad because some elderly people were at the graduation and they got knocked down to the ground,” Payne said.
The school district said a different graduation scheduled for later Tuesday had been canceled “out of an abundance of caution" and that schools would be closed Wednesday.
The Richmond branch of the NAACP issues this statement regarding the shooting:
Our condolences go out to all the families in the past and recent homicides in the RVA region. We are praying for all victims affected by this plague of violence and praying for a speedy recovery of the surviving victims and their families. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/active-shooter-reported-vcu-monroe-park-richmond/291-52c1ec8c-f072-4a99-ba5c-253de7417c32 | 2023-06-07T03:59:01 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/active-shooter-reported-vcu-monroe-park-richmond/291-52c1ec8c-f072-4a99-ba5c-253de7417c32 |
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Nearly half of Northeast Tennessee households are living paycheck to paycheck, according to a new report released by the United Way.
The report focuses on people with jobs that pay $20 an hour or less in a category called ALICE, which stands for Asset-Limited Income-Constrained and Employed.
“It’s a great acronym to describe those that are above the poverty level but still really struggle paycheck to paycheck to get by,” said Dannelle Glasscock, executive director of United Way of Greater Kingsport. “They’re only one emergency away from not being able to make ends meet.”
According to the 2023 ALICE report, 46% of Northeast Tennesseans have incomes below what is needed to survive in the modern economy. For a family of four, that’s an hourly wage of about $29.
“75% of our jobs in our community are in this ALICE category,” Glasscock said.
The end of pandemic programs means the report might undercount the number of local ALICE families.
“We are just now seeing the edge of the iceberg at United Way with calls coming in on our lines, with calls coming into 211 about families that are struggling now after the pandemic to make ends meet,” Glasscock said.
She said affordable housing is the main issue in our region.
Rental assistance ended in March and the data in the report has a two-year lag. Rents reported at $500 dollars for one adult in 2021 could now be as high as $1,000 dollars.
But housing isn’t the only thing that has gotten more expensive in recent years.
“Inflation’s hit us all hard,” Glasscock said. “And it’s especially hit these ALICE families hard for just the cost of groceries, the cost of gas, the cost of transportation.”
To read the report, click here. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/report-sheds-light-on-local-families-living-paycheck-to-paycheck/ | 2023-06-07T04:00:39 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/report-sheds-light-on-local-families-living-paycheck-to-paycheck/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A fire caused by a stove significantly damaged a kitchen in an east Wichita home Tuesday night.
The fire happened around 7:45 p.m. in the 600 block of Lexington Rd.
According to Wichita Fire Department Acting Battalion Chief Nicholas Woods, upon arrival, crews found heavy smoke coming from the front of the house. While circulating the house, they found a heavy fire coming from the back of the house.
“[The] fire had started in the kitchen, and it was extending out into the back of the home,” Woods said.
He said the fire was started by a stove.
“They had went outside and thought they had shut off the stove, and it inadvertently, accidentally got left on, which was where the fire started there in the kitchen,” said Woods.
The fire spread to other parts of the home.
“So pretty significant damage in the kitchen area. Fire extended into the living room a little bit, and it also started to extend out the hallway into bedrooms, but they got a pretty good knock on it and got it out kinda before it got any further outside of kind of the kitchen and living room area,” Woods said.
He said those at the home knew the stove knobs had some issues.
“If you happen to know you have a known issue like that, especially if you know you’re going to step outside for any period of time, the best option there is just to go ahead and just completely turn it off,” said Woods.
Three adults who were home at the time of the fire were uninjured. Woods said no firefighters were injured either. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/stove-fire-causes-significant-damage-to-east-wichita-home-kitchen/ | 2023-06-07T04:06:10 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/stove-fire-causes-significant-damage-to-east-wichita-home-kitchen/ |
CENTRALIA, Pa. — A motor vehicle crash sent five minors to the hospital after several were ejected from their vehicle Tuesday afternoon.
Fire officials say it happened just after 5 o'clock along Route 42 in Centralia.
Only one vehicle was involved in the SUV rollover.
Three were ejected, and one was trapped.
One victim was airlifted to a hospital.
At least two more would have been flown by other helicopters but due to the heavy haze and smoke across the area from wildfires in Canada, the choppers had to abort.
Of the victims, four had serious injuries, and one with minor injuries.
All were taken to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.
State Police are reconstructing the crash to figure out how the wreck happened.
Route 42 is still closed. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/columbia-county/five-injured-in-crash-in-columbia-county/523-a3d35e24-3701-44d5-a0b4-0e56971c5eda | 2023-06-07T04:09:10 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/columbia-county/five-injured-in-crash-in-columbia-county/523-a3d35e24-3701-44d5-a0b4-0e56971c5eda |
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