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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Earlier this month, one of Kingsport’s new businesses opened its doors to the public.
Hudson’s General Store, located on Broad Street, gives visitors the chance to find new or used items for their homes. Selina Straley, the owner of Hudson’s, says the store has much to offer to its customers.
“We have a variety of kitchen items and home goods. The antique store offers a lot of antiques as well as some new items,” says Straley. “Everything you can imagine.”
The building was The Haggle Shop before Straley’s store was built and she is keeping the history of the store alive.
“Ms. Grills had The Gaggle Shop here for 30 years, and I wanted to honor her legacy and offer the vendors an opportunity to come back if they wanted to,” says Straley.
This year, the building the store is located in will turn 100 years old. Straley says that is part of what makes her store different.
“We have the authentic history of the store, of the building. And I just think you walk back in time.”
Straley is a native of Kingsport and hopes her store will inspire others to invest in other buildings throughout the downtown area.
“I would love to see other investors invest in downtown Kingsport, restoring the buildings to their natural history instead of renovating them, knocking them down,” says Straley. “Once all of this legacy is gone, it’s gone forever.”
Hudson’s General Store is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. but stays open late for the Downtown Concert Series and the First Thursday Shop and Hop. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/hudsons-general-store-opens-in-downtown-kingsport-aims-to-show-off-history/ | 2023-06-14T00:14:35 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/hudsons-general-store-opens-in-downtown-kingsport-aims-to-show-off-history/ |
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JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — Seventeen acres of land a stone’s throw from the new Jonesborough K-8 school is going to become “Saylor’s Place,” a 137-unit townhome development.
The three and four-bedroom homes will start at about $230,000 with even the higher-priced homes starting at around $250,000.
National homebuilder D.R. Horton will start construction this month on property Land Star Partners bought from Roy Saylor in November 2011. Land Star, a frequent partner of D.R. Horton that often purchases land and provides initial infrastructure work, paid $497,932 for the property.
D.R. Horton spokesman Barak Saltzman said construction should begin this month and is expected to take about 24 months.
The company plans to build two-story townhomes that will feature single car garages and range in size from 1,300 to 1,550 square feet. Saltzman said Jonesborough, like many other areas of Northeast Tennessee, “is desperately in need” of homes available for less than $300,000.
“D.R. Horton’s Northeast Tennessee division is intensely focused on delivering quality homes at affordable price points,” Saltzman said.
He also said the region overall “continues to be under supplied by a significant number of homes, and D.R. Horton’s Northeast Tennessee division hopes to be a big part of the solution.”
WHAT: 137 new townhomes on 17 acres.
WHERE: North Cherokee Street (600 block), Jonesborough (near new Jonesborough School).
WHO: D.R. Horton. Infrastructure work/land development by Land Star Partners, which purchased the raw land for $497,932 in November 2021.
WHEN: First townhomes to be constructed starting in June 2023. Project is expected to take about two years to complete.
YOUR TAX BENEFIT: Based on the estimated assessed value of $25 million for The Midlands and $24 million for Alder’s Grove, the projects would generate about $420,000 annually in Washington County property taxes, $115,000 in Jonesborough property taxes and $173,000 in Johnson City property taxes. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/whos-building-that/137-townhomes-going-across-from-new-jonesborough-school/ | 2023-06-14T00:14:41 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/whos-building-that/137-townhomes-going-across-from-new-jonesborough-school/ |
Casper residents will pay more for water meter deposits and a handful of other water utility-related expenses after the City Council approved a resolution to tweak fees for the first time in over 30 years.
The changes, which were OK'd on June 6, won’t make your water rate go up, and most don't impact routine expenses; they affect things like fines related to overdue bills, equipment maintenance or meter misuse.
“All we’re trying to do right now is cost recovery — what it actually costs us to perform these services,” Public Services Director Andrew Beamer told councilors during an April 24 work session.
Under the new fee schedule, which goes into effect July 1, deposits for water meters will go from $75 to $200. (For accounts set up for automatic payments, the fee will only go up to $100.)
The deposits, of course, are meant to be refundable — if you stay on top of your water bill for a year, you get your money back, City of Casper Financial Services Director Jill Johnson told the council during the work session.
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Johnson said residents who can show “good credit history, good renter history or good ownership history” when they first sign up for an account may have their deposit fees waived.
Late fees will get more expensive, too. The city’s adding a fine of $20 for water bills more than 30 days past due and increasing its late fee for water bills 45 days past due to $35.
The penalty for writing a bad check to the city will remain $30.
If your water gets turned off, it’ll soon cost $35 to get it turned back on. Right now, that costs just $10. (This does not apply to account transfers or emergency turn-ons after the service has been turned off for less than a day, according to the new fee schedule.)
Casper’s also adjusting its service fee for water meter testing. Sometimes, customers suspect their meter isn’t working properly and ask the city to test it for them, Beamer said.
If the meter’s working fine, the resident will be billed $102 for the test. (Previously, customers were billed just $20 for that expense.)
If it turns out there is actually something wrong with the meter, the customer won’t be charged for the service, though.
Other changes include:
- Replacing a frozen meter will now cost $66, plus the cost of a meter (replacing a 3/4-inch meter would cost $246, for example); and
- the deposit for water hydrant meters will be $155 for 3/4-inch meters, $288 for 1-inch meters and $1,350 for 3-inch meters.
The city’s also establishing a penalty of $300 for those who use a water hydrant meter without hooking it up properly.
The changes are expected to bring the city an additional $230,000 in revenue a year. That’s equivalent to about a 1.5% rate increase, according to a May 26 memo from Beamer and Johnson to City Manager Carter Napier.
During the meeting, Johnson said the city can connect residents struggling to pay their water bills with a variety of resources. | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/casper-adjusts-handful-of-water-utility-fees-for-first-time-in-three-decades/article_436fb0a4-0a12-11ee-92f2-0b90f59db0dd.html | 2023-06-14T00:15:24 | 1 | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/casper-adjusts-handful-of-water-utility-fees-for-first-time-in-three-decades/article_436fb0a4-0a12-11ee-92f2-0b90f59db0dd.html |
SAN ANTONIO — Police are searching for a 12-year-old boy who went missing on Sunday afternoon, and his family is desperate to bring him home.
Joseph Torres' family members say he left the home and left a note saying he was going to McDonalds to get wifi, but he never came back home.
"We've just been looking for him ever since, and we just need to find him," said his mother, Andrea.
SAPD says he was last seen around 3 p.m. Sunday at his home off the 6000 block of Castle Queen Road on the northeast side, near Midcrown and Gibbs Sprawl.
Family said Joseph was spotted by a transit officer at the VIA Park and Ride off Randolph, about five miles away from his home. There, he told the officer he was taking the 552 bus to Crossroads, near Fredericksburg.
Police said Joseph has a diagnosed medical condition and has straight, ear-top length hair. They said he was last seen wearing a black t-shirt, black shorts, black Nike shoes, and a black backpack.
"We just want to find him. we know that he knows his way around," said his grandmother, Rosemary Garza. "He's smart, he's not dumb, but we just need to find him, you know, because we want him home. He belongs with us."
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SAN ANTONIO — Teachers, counselors and other staff in the North East Independent School District will see more money in their paychecks in the coming year.
The North East ISD Board of Trustees approved the largest salary increase for staff in more than 20 years, according to a press release.
The compensation package will include a one-time retention supplement and will impact all eligible employees, including teachers, counselors, librarians and nurses.
Returning teachers and librarians will receive pay adjustments based on their years of experience and a "salary more in line with market comparison data," thepress release stated.
Bus drivers, custodians, general education and special education assistants, and nurses will also receive targeted adjustments.
“We’re looking for ways to offset the inflation that is impacting everyone," said Dr. Sean Maika, NEISD Superintendent of Schools. "I want to pay our folks. We’re trying to give what we can back to employees.”
Officials with the district said eligible hourly employees will receive a 6% increase and all eligible professional employees will get a 4% increase. All eligible employees will also receive a 2% retention incentive in November 2023 as part of the compensation package. This will be funded through ESSER funding.
The state legislature hasn't voted to increase funding for school districts, so the compensation initiative will need to be offset by cost savings throughout the District over the next several years.
Programs, practices and procedures will be analyzed for efficiency and effectiveness in alignment with the Balanced District Scorecard.
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Since going on the air in 1950, KENS 5 has strived to be the best, most trusted news and entertainment source for generations of San Antonians.
KENS 5 has brought numerous firsts to South Texas television, including being the first local station with a helicopter, the first with its own Doppler radar and the first to air a local morning news program.
Over the years, KENS 5 has worked to transform local news. Our cameras have been the lens bringing history into local viewers' homes. We're proud of our legacy as we serve San Antonians today.
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Want to get in touch with someone at KENS 5? You can send a message using our Contacts page or email one of our team members. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/neisd-approves-largest-raise-for-staff-in-more-than-20-years-north-east-isd-teachers-educators-san-antonio-texas/273-3fef707e-84b6-4e14-9120-e6626a37992c | 2023-06-14T00:16:07 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/neisd-approves-largest-raise-for-staff-in-more-than-20-years-north-east-isd-teachers-educators-san-antonio-texas/273-3fef707e-84b6-4e14-9120-e6626a37992c |
DALLAS — University Interscholastic League (UIL) rule makers on Tuesday considered a number of proposals that would dramatically change high school sports in Texas, though the panel mostly rejected eyebrow-raising ideas.
Staff opted to study whether to sanction esports, a step forward for gamers but not the leap many hoped for.
Educators have pushed the UIL to regulate esports in the same fashion it polices high school football, volleyball, and other sports. Now, gamers mostly compete in for-profit leagues that advocates argue are ripe for exploitation.
The UIL panel also moved to study whether to allow TV stations to broadcast high school football games live on Friday nights.
Under current policy, regular season games can only air live in their entirety during a single week, typically at the beginning of the season. Stations may broadcast any games played on Thursdays or Saturdays.
Schools and media outlets are allowed to stream game broadcasts online, though.
“Broadcasting is broadcasting. They’re the same now," Bally Sports Southwest executive producer Jason Walsh said. "We'd like the same permissions granted to the digital broadcast (outlets)."
The panel also punted on sanctioning boys volleyball, moving instead to study the proposal.
But the committee rejected some high-profile suggestions, which mostly came from members of the public.
Cheerleaders will not be barred from basketball games. It's not clear why someone proposed ending the practice, though some fans speculated the move might protect athletes by clearing crowded baselines.
Coaches will still be allowed to coach their own children at school.
"We're sure there's a story behind that (idea)," Barber's Hill superintendent Greg Poole joked. "We wondered if that came from a coach's kid."
The panel rejected a motion to sanction table tennis. It also rejected a proposal to allow football coaches to coach their schools' teams in summer 7-on-7 leagues.
The rulemaking committee is scheduled to meet next in October. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/uil-sanctioning-esports-tv-broadcast-high-school-football-live/287-17697efd-6cbe-40ab-adf9-2adde02773a8 | 2023-06-14T00:16:14 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/uil-sanctioning-esports-tv-broadcast-high-school-football-live/287-17697efd-6cbe-40ab-adf9-2adde02773a8 |
FLINT Mich. (WJRT) - A Beaverton man apart of the United States Parachute Team's (USAPT) Gold Demonstration Team will perform at the Wings Over Flint Air Show later on this month.
Current Command Sergeant Major Adam Breeding, from Beaverton, will be performing on June 24 and June 25.
Major Breeding enlisted with the United States Army back in July 1999. Since then he has had assignments across the country including Fort Bragg, Fort Bliss, and Fort Benning. Major Breeding was also deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq.
The USAPT performs live parachute demonstrations for the public.
To find tickets and learn more about their Wings Over Flint schedule, go online to tickets.wingsoverflint.com. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/beaverton-man-a-part-of-the-united-states-parachute-teams-at-wings-over-flint-air/article_b6d64ae2-0a05-11ee-93b2-f7d25eab0ac2.html | 2023-06-14T00:16:36 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/beaverton-man-a-part-of-the-united-states-parachute-teams-at-wings-over-flint-air/article_b6d64ae2-0a05-11ee-93b2-f7d25eab0ac2.html |
GENESEE Co. Mich. (WJRT) - Kearsley Community Schools broke ground Tuesday adding a new addition to the high school.
The new space will become a community recreation center.
It will include a 1,500-seat competition gym, indoor track, weight room and training facilities.
The building was made possible by a $21 million dollar bond passed last May.
"Kearsley is unique, we don't have a town. So we kind of embrace the fact that we're the hub of the community and so that was part of through the bond process into the campaign," said Superintendent of Kearsley Community Schools Paul Gauder. "We told the community that this is something to be available for them to use and certainly want to provide that opportunity is not only a school space but a community space as well."
All three elementary school buildings in the district will also get newly designed secure entrances as part of the bond. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/kearsley-community-schools-breaks-ground-on-new-community-rec-center/article_38975e80-0a34-11ee-a159-93d5b26c2356.html | 2023-06-14T00:16:43 | 0 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/kearsley-community-schools-breaks-ground-on-new-community-rec-center/article_38975e80-0a34-11ee-a159-93d5b26c2356.html |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Changes have been made to where you can put political signs in Wichita.
On Tuesday, the Wichita City Council passed an ordinance allowing an unlimited number of temporary signs on private property during an election period.
Also allowed are temporary signs in public “right of ways” (a pathway, road, or trail publicly accessible and legally recognized as a route for public use), as long as they are not next to public property, do not impact traffic, and are removed after the election.
District 5 Council Member Bryan Frye calls it a “good compromise.”
“It protects us on the safety for drivers and pedestrians and doesn’t limit sightlines. But it does allow the private property owner to place the signs and also manage their property as they see fit,” Frye said.
The new rules apply to any political sign, regardless of content. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/changes-have-been-made-to-where-you-can-place-political-signs-in-wichita/ | 2023-06-14T00:17:45 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/changes-have-been-made-to-where-you-can-place-political-signs-in-wichita/ |
Editor’s note: The Office of the District Attorney has updated the spelling of Sweeney’s first name.
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A man from Wichita has been found guilty in connection to a 2022 deadly shooting in Old Town.
According to the Office of the District Attorney (DA), 25-year-old Sa’Qorea was found guilty of obstructing apprehension or prosecution.
The DA says Sweeney was scheduled for a jury trial this week but waived his rights to one and asked for a bench trial.
After hearing the evidence Tuesday morning, Judge Chrystal Krier found Sweeney guilty.
According to the DA, on Aug. 14, 2022, Christopher Dyas Jr. shot and killed 22-year-old Deandre Greenley on North Mosley Street.
Dyas walked up to Greenley and fired several shots. He then left in a car driven by Sweeney.
The DA says on May 15, Judge Jeffrey Goering sentenced Dyas to 18 years in prison after he pled guilty to second-degree murder and aggravated assault.
On Tuesday, Judge Krier continued Sweeney’s bond.
According to the DA, he is free until sentencing, which is scheduled for July 25. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/wichita-man-found-guilty-in-connection-to-deadly-shooting/ | 2023-06-14T00:17:51 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/wichita-man-found-guilty-in-connection-to-deadly-shooting/ |
City of Midland statement about a dog that died in an Animal Services vehicle last week.
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In the afternoon of Thursday, June 8, 2023, Midland Animal Services received a call from a veterinarian clinic to investigate a dog bite of one of their employees. An Animal Services officer arrived and requested the owners of the 7-year-old Bulldog/Pitbull mix put the dog in the Animal Services vehicle, which was running with the air conditioner on in the transport compartment.
After approximately an hour of gathering bite case information on scene, the Animal Services officer returned to the Animal Services facility and found the dog deceased.
Midland Animal Services is conducting an internal review.
We have been in contact with the family and realize the impact the loss of their pet has on them. We know how important pets are as well as the importance of all animals in our community. We are and will continue to be committed to safeguarding public health and protecting animal welfare in Midland. | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/city-midland-statement-animal-services-18150916.php | 2023-06-14T00:18:09 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/city-midland-statement-animal-services-18150916.php |
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The Midland City Council honored the late Michael Trost on Tuesday.
A presentation of a proclamation calling June 13 “Michael Trost Day” took place as Mayor Pro Tem John Norman read the proclamation and then handed it to Michael’s wife Leanna, who was given a standing ovation by those inside Council Chamber in Midland City Hall.
Trost was a two-time council member, serving both as a representative of District 4 and then as an at-large member. Trost also showed off his acting ability with Midland Community Theatre and Mavericks. | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/midland-city-council-honors-late-michael-trost-18150675.php | 2023-06-14T00:18:15 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/midland-city-council-honors-late-michael-trost-18150675.php |
An 87-year-old woman died Monday following a two-vehicle accident in south Midland, according to the Midland Police Department.
Officers responded Monday at about 12:57 p.m. two-vehicle fatality accident in the 1900 block of South Lamesa Road.
MPD's initial investigation revealed a "Mercedes sedan was traveling southbound on South Lamesa Road, as a Toyota minivan was traveling northbound. The minivan moved into the left-hand turn lane and, while attempting to turn onto the 1100 block of East Gist Street, collided with the sedan."
Two occupants of the minivan, a female driver, 67, a female passenger, 87, and the male driver of the sedan, 33, were transported by EMS.
A minivan passenger, Sally Garcia, died from her injuries sustained in the crash.
The investigation is ongoing. The next of kin has been notified.
The fatality is the 20th reported inside Midland County this year, according to Reporter-Telegram records and the first reported in more than one month. | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/midland-police-passenger-dies-two-vehicle-crash-18150459.php | 2023-06-14T00:18:21 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/midland-police-passenger-dies-two-vehicle-crash-18150459.php |
A 36-year-old Odessa woman is facing intoxication assault charges and an infant was airlifted to a Lubbock hospital following a two-vehicle crash Monday night, according to the Odessa Police Department.
Odessa police responded at about 11:17 p.m. to the intersection of Maple Avenue and Grandview Avenue. Officers were informed that one of the drivers involved in the crash had fled the scene on foot. The driver, identified as 36-year-old Daisy Cordero, was detained by officers. Witnesses had identified her as the driver of a 2007 Lexus RX350, according to OPD.
According to the investigation, Cordero was traveling northbound in the Lexus on Grandview Avenue when she rear-ended a 2014 Chevrolet Cruze stopped at a red light.
Two children, a 1-month-old girl, and a 1-year-old boy, were in the backseat of the Cruze at the time. The 1-month-old suffered life-threatening injuries and was airlifted to Lubbock. The children's mother and the 1-year-old boy were transported to Medical Center Hospital, where they were treated for their injuries.
Cordero has been charged with intoxication assault causing serious bodily injuries, a third-degree felony; unlawful carrying of a weapon, Class A misdemeanor; accident involving serious bodily injuries, a third-degree felony and bribery. Cordero was transported to the Ector County Law Enforcement Center. | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/opd-infant-airlifted-lubbock-following-crash-18150506.php | 2023-06-14T00:18:27 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/opd-infant-airlifted-lubbock-following-crash-18150506.php |
CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Floating toilets are raising frustrations in North Cape Coral, nearly nine months after Hurricane Ian. Neighbors say the waterlogged porta potties are reappearing and traveling with the tides.
“The one that we saw yesterday, we have no idea where it’s at now,” said Shelly Sorich.
She lives on a canal between Tropicana and Yucatán Parkway and where neighbors took pictures of a porta potty floating behind homes.
“It’s more bacteria in the water, of course. An we have a lot of boats that come through here and they could hit it and damage their boats, and it’s just an eyesore,” she said.
Another porta potty was stuck upside down in a canal around four miles east. Neighbors told us they’ve called the city’s 311 number and the construction company listed on the outhouse. Some have written letters to neighborhood presidents.
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“I don’t want to be over the top, but I think by now it would be on somebody’s priority list to do,” said Sherry Puchacz, a resident who lives on the waterway where one of the potties has been spotted floating around. “I understand things have been cleaned up to make things safe but that’s the next level of safety.”
The city told NBC2 they are aware of these residents’ concerns. A couple of 311 tickets are open for porta potty removal in this area.
Porta potty removal in freshwater canals is currently on hold due to a pending National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) grant related to debris removal reimbursement. Cape Coral’s stormwater team is handling the removal of potties in the saltwater canals.
Cape Coral is encouraging residents to contact the porta potty company (the company name is generally on the side of the potty) to request they remove their property from the canal.
NBC2 was unable to contact the porta potty companies because the company names weren’t visible on any of the porta potties neighbors showed us. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2023/06/13/floating-porta-potties-plague-cape-coral-canals/ | 2023-06-14T00:20:52 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2023/06/13/floating-porta-potties-plague-cape-coral-canals/ |
ARKANSAS, USA — State leaders in Arkansas have found themselves dealing with a debate over pay raises that would impact more than 22,000 employees across the Natural State.
The new pay bump would be based on performance.
"The majority of people do feel that this was a slap in the face," one anonymous state employee explained.
She's been employed with them for 25 years and said she has oftentimes struggled to make ends meet because of her salary.
"Medical bills and prescriptions [and] regular expenses," the state employee added.
Another worker who has been at a state agency for nearly 10 years told us that she's a single mom and hasn't seen a significant pay increase in at least seven years.
"Our health insurance keeps continually rising and getting higher and higher every year [and] they're taking out more from our paychecks for everything," she described.
On Friday, Republican Governor Sarah Sanders released a letter that was written to Secretary Joseph Wood, who is the director of the Department of Transformation and shared services.
According to Gov. Sanders, the pay increase would only apply to those deemed as "exceptional employees."
For state employees who have served for more than one year, those deemed "highly effective" will receive a 4.5% base salary increase, while those deemed "role models" will receive a 5% base salary increase.
This is all based on a performance review system that has five categories:
- Unacceptable
- Needs improvement
- Solid performer
- Highly effective
- Role model
For context, there are a total of 15 departments and 11 independent agencies.
There are approximately 22,742 employees.
There are 15,959 employees who are categorized as solid performer, needs improvement, and unacceptable.
There are 4,300 people considered highly effective employees, and 1,456 employees are deemed a role model.
Those numbers show how many employees would qualify for this pay increase.
Both state employees that we interviewed, explained that they believe this is a letdown.
"We work so hard and feel like there is no appreciation," one employee added.
The Arkansas State Employees Association, an advocacy group for state employees, hopes to be able to meet with legislators and the Governor.
You can read the full statement from the governor below: | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/arkansas-employees-performance-based-increase/91-52650aa2-fc2c-4417-962b-c0420eb815cb | 2023-06-14T00:27:54 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/arkansas-employees-performance-based-increase/91-52650aa2-fc2c-4417-962b-c0420eb815cb |
ARKANSAS, USA — The 2023 Miss Arkansas was crowned just three days ago and the new titleholder, Cori Keller has already been hard at work.
Keller spent the last 16 years in the Miss Arkansas Organization with hopes of turning her dreams into reality— and on Saturday, she did just that.
The 25-year-old from Stuttgart expressed that she's very eager to represent the Natural State.
"I feel like I'm playing dress up like this is not my reality. This is not my life. But it's not a dream. Nobody needs to pinch me, it is reality. And I'm just so overwhelmed with gratitude, and just so thankful for this opportunity and this honor," Keller described.
Between preparing for Miss America, traveling the state, and serving local communities, she has a busy year ahead of her.
"My community service initiative is feeding the future collaborative solutions to hunger. It started from growing up in Stuttgart in a rural agriculture-based community I was really surprised to find out that food insecurity sat next to me every single day in class," she explained.
Keller also explained that more than 75 percent of the students in her school district were on free or reduced-price school meals.
"That inspired me to not only feed the next generation of Arkansas, so they can have an equal chance at being successful but to help my classmates help my friends and the people I was around every single day," she added.
She also said she plans to continue what she's been doing— volunteering at food banks, passing out meals, and fundraising. All while also advocating on the state and federal levels to increase SNAP incentives.
"We actually just passed a bill here in Arkansas during the last legislative session that any child who is eligible for free or reduced-price school meals will now get free school meals," she said.
While she tackles these issues head-on, she said her family's support is what has kept her going. On the final night of competition, she had one of her biggest fans missing from the audience— her dad.
"He is currently in ICU at Baptist Health here in Little Rock and from complications from triple bypass surgery. He's been there over two weeks now," she explained.
Though she still made sure to pay him a visit after getting crowned.
"It's so special and something I'm gonna cherish forever," Keller said.
He's still in the hospital, but she hopes he gets released soon.
She explained that she's also an advocate for the American Heart Association because of her passion for fighting heart disease in addition to fighting food insecurity.
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Lincoln Police Chief Teresa Ewins speaks during a townhall-style meeting Monday at the Auld Pavilion Recreation Center.
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At the last in a series of town hall-style meetings across the city, Lincoln Police officials described nightmare scenarios that officers could hypothetically face as they lobbied for the public's support Monday night for the purchase of an armored vehicle.
The Police Department doesn't need the public's go-ahead to buy the $350,000 vehicle, which is expected to closely resemble the Lenco BearCat that the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office unveiled in Octobe r after ordering it earlier last year.
But the department, which plans to use seized money to pay for the armored truck, sought the public's approval anyway in an hourlong meeting Monday night at the Auld Pavilion Recreation Center, where officials pointed to standoffs, active shooters, water rescues and airport disasters to help explain why, exactly, LPD needs such a vehicle.
"We have needed one — I've been asking for one for about 15 years," Assistant Police Chief Jason Stille told a crowd of about 20 southeast Lincoln residents who attended the town hall.
Stille, who leads the Police Department's SWAT Team, recalled an instance a decade and a half ago when the unit faced rifle fire amid a standoff and had to turn to the FBI — the nearest agency with an armored vehicle at the time — for support, a process that Stille said took 90 minutes.
"If one of us was dropped out in the open or a citizen was shot out in the open or we needed to necessitate an evacuation of a home that's close by, help was about an hour and a half away," he said.
And that timeline assumes a vehicle is made available at all.
"When it comes to equipment from other cities that we might need, which would be mutual aid, they can say no because they may need it," Police Chief Teresa Ewins said.
"That's a decision a boss has to make. If I'm gonna ask Omaha, 'Hey, can you send us your BearCat?' Most likely, they're gonna say no because they need that equipment as well."
The Police Department has rarely been denied when requesting another agency's armored vehicle. The department's SWAT Team has requested armored vehicle support 78 times over the past decade and has been denied nine times due to "maintenance issues or lack of trained personnel," according to an informational packet police handed out to residents at Monday's meeting.
And the math has changed in the years since the shootout that Stille described, as the Sheriff's Office secured its own armored vehicle and the Nebraska State Patrol added two "light" armored vehicles to its fleet, giving the Police Department easier access to mutual aid than relying on the FBI's field office in Omaha.
The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office last year unveiled its new armored vehicle, the Lenco BearCat, which cost $359,000. It was purchased with forfeited funds acquired through criminal investigations such as drug seizures.
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The last time the SWAT team requested an armored vehicle — amid a standoff in north Lincoln in early May that ended when a 49-year-old man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound — it took around 30 minutes for the Sheriff's Office to respond with its BearCat, Stille said.
Still, the assistant police chief insisted LPD still needs an armored truck of its own.
"Like, Omaha, I don't think they would tell you — they're getting a new one, they don't want to get rid of their old one," he said. "Why? Because sometimes, you need two."
The crowd of residents at the Auld Center largely agreed with Stille's assessment, offering broad support for the vehicle's purchase mixed with hints of skepticism about its potential use.
Mary Schwab (front left) and Barbara Brewer (front right) talk with Lincoln Police Sgt. Jon Sears (second left) and Chief Teresa Ewins during a townhall-style meeting Monday at the Auld Pavilion Recreation Center.
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"I think it's a great idea," said 76-year-old James Brewer, who was among the group of attendees invited to the meeting through neighborhood association announcements or email blasts, since the department didn't post details about any of its four town halls on social media ahead of time.
"You can't put money over life, whether you're an officer or you're a civilian," Brewer said, suggesting the vehicle could help save lives. "It's worth it. You've got my vote."
Tim Thaden, a 69-year-old attendee, came away with a similar fiscal calculus.
"I think if you just used it to save one officer's life, $350,000 is cheap," he said.
The money was a source of pride, too, particularly for officials on hand, including Ewins, who said she "like(s) the idea of making drug dealers pay for things that we have."
Lincoln Police Chief Teresa Ewins speaks during a townhall-style meeting Monday at the Auld Pavilion Recreation Center.
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Some expressed concerns over the potential use — or misuse — of such a vehicle, which invoked memories of the at-times destructive protests that broke out in Lincoln after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis in 2020.
"I certainly see reasons for it," said Mary Barton. "I do think that there is — just like when we had what we called the riot after George Floyd, when the officers were all lined up in front of the courthouse, all dressed in full gear.
"All that did was upset the crowd. And the next night, when (the police) were inside, it defused much more quickly. I think there's a fine line with bringing a vehicle like that, depending on the situation."
Barton said "looking tough" shouldn't be sufficient grounds for LPD to deploy the vehicle should they go through with the purchase.
Stille, for his part, agreed.
"You're a woman after my own heart," he said. "You can be my policy adviser. How about that?"
Lincoln Police Assistant Chief Jason Stille speaks during a townhall-style meeting Monday at the Auld Pavilion Recreation Center.
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The assistant police chief acknowledged that law enforcement's glaring presence on the city's streets amid the most destructive night of protests did seem to provoke demonstrators — a lesson, he said, that Lincoln "learned at the same pace as pretty much every other city in the United States."
Police officials said they plan to use the truck as sparingly as possible, and Ewins said she or Stille would be required to give the green light for any deployment of the armored vehicle.
Stille said the department, which he said has been met with "overwhelming support so far," will meet with Lincoln's City Council before moving forward with the purchase.
Though it won't be subject to council approval, District 2 Councilman Tom Duden, who represents southeast Lincoln on the city's governing body and was one of two council members to attend Monday's town hall, is already on board.
"This equipment they're talking about is a no-brainer, folks," he said.
Photos and videos of protests in Lincoln over George Floyd's death
Tami Damian holds up a sign at the state Capitol on Friday protesting the death of George Floyd.
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A protester holds a sign protesting the death of George Floyd on Friday at the state Capitol. The protest was organized by Stand In for Lincoln. "We've been angry since George Floyd's death, and we have wanted to speak out, this was our first chance to do so," Tami Damian (not pictured) said.
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A protester holds up a sign protesting the death of George Floyd on Friday in Lincoln.
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Sen. Ernie Chambers joins Stand In for Lincoln protesters outside the state Capitol on May 29, 2020.
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Sen. Ernie Chambers (right) and Harper Anderson (left) joined about a dozen Stand In for Lincoln protesters outside of the state Capitol on Friday. "It's our job to speak out against white supremacy in this extremely broken system," Anderson said.
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Meghan Muehling (left) and Harper Anderson hold up signs to passing drivers near the state Capitol on Friday, May 29. They were protesting deaths that were the result of police brutality. "Cops need to protect and serve and not murder people," Muehling said.
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People gather near a police car near 26th and O streets to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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A Lincoln police officer asks people to move away from a police car near 26th and O streets early May 30 during a protest of the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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People gather near 26th and O streets early Saturday morning to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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A Lincoln police officer tries to ask people to move away from a police car near 26th and O streets early May 30 as they protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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A woman tries to stop the crowd outside an EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets early Saturday morning after windows were broken in a protest following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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People gather near 26th and O streets early Saturday protesting the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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A woman walks out of the EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets that was looted early Saturday morning after a protest following of the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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People gather near 26th and O streets early Saturday morning, protesting the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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People gather near 26th and O Streets early Saturday to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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People gather near 26th and O streets early Saturday morning to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
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People gather near 26th and O streets early Saturday morning to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
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People gather near 26th and O streets early Saturday morning to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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Lincoln police officers stand guard outside the EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets, which was looted after a protest early Saturday morning following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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A woman was being helped after tear gas was used to disperse crowds after looting at the EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets after a protest early Saturday morning following the death of George Floyd.
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Protesters knee in front of the police at the EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets during a protest early Saturday morning following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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Advancing police officers in riot gear push forward as two protesters confront them near 25th and O Streets early Saturday morning following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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Protesters raise their hands as they confront police at the EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets after it has been looted early Saturday morning, following a protest of the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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Police disperse crowds at the EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets during a protest that turned into looting early Saturday morning following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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Police deploy tear gas to push back the remaining crowd near 26th and O streets after a nearby gas station was looted after a protest early May 30 following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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Police officers stand guard outside the EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets after it has been looted following a protest early Saturday morning in response of the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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A protester throws a window cleaner at police standing guard at the EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets during a protest that turned into looting early May 30 following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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A small team of police retreat after initially trying to disperse the gathering crowd outside a gas station that was looted on May 30 in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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A man extinguishes a fire after vandals looted the EZ GO at 25th and O streets in late May. One of the business' owners said the act gave him "a little bit of hope for our fellow citizens."
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A policeman uses pepper spray to disperse the crowd at an EZ GO gas station that was looted after a protest early May 30 following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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Protesters raise their hands in front of police near 25th and O streets as they protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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A man breaks the windows of a MetroPCS store near 26th and O Streets after a protest about the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis turned to looting.
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Protesters and onlookers gather as police station at the EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets early Saturday morning for a protest following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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Police deploy tear gas to push back the remaining crowd near 26th and O streets on May 30.
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A breaks the windows of a MetroPCS store near 26th and O Streets early Saturday after protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis turned into looting.
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Protesters raise their hands in front of Lincoln police early Saturday morning following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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Protesters stand in front of police at the EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets in late May 2020.
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A protester confronts the police at the EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets during a protest that turned into looting early Saturday morning following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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Police secure the EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets after it was looted after a protest in late May.
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A firework explodes between protesters and police outside the EZ GO at 25th and O streets in late May 2020.
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People enter and exit the EZ GO gas station at 25th and O streets during a protest that turned into looting early Saturday morning following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
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Protesters raise their fists as they face police who responded to vandalism at the EZ Go near 25th and O streets Saturday morning.
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Windows at the Ez Go gas station are seen broken after it was looted Saturday morning.
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People walk in and out of the Ez Go convenience store as it was being looted on Saturday morning.
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People kneel down and raise their hands at the Ez Go gas station near 26th and O Streets on Saturday morning.
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Items litter the ground around the EZ GO gas station on Saturday morning.
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Onlookers stop to take in the scene of the Metro PCS on Saturday morning.
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A man clears shattered glass from the ground of the Metro PCS store after protesters broke the windows on Saturday morning.
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A police vehicle sits outside of the EZ GO gas station on Saturday morning.
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A worker uses a broom to push out a broken glass frame at the EZ GO gas station on Saturday morning, following overnight protests that turned violent.
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A man walks his bike past a door spray-painted with "George Floyd Murderers" after a night of protests in Lincoln.
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George Floyd is spray-painted on a wall near the intersection of 27th and O streets on Saturday morning.
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Property manager Roger Stolley shovels broken glass from the floor of the Metro PCS on Saturday morning.
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Sheriff's deputies watch protesters as they converge on the County-City Building on May 30 after they marched from the Nebraska State Capitol.
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Then Lincoln Police Chief Jeff Bliemeister addresses protesters at the state Capitol in the days following George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis.
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Protesters head north down Centennial Mall on Saturday after leaving the State Capitol.
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On days and nights this spring when protesters critical of police brutality gathered at the County-City Building, Lancaster County Sheriff's deputies and Lincoln Police Department officers often organized on the steps.
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Protesters gathered at the Nebraska State Capitol on Saturday, May 30, 2020.
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LINCOLN, NEB. - 05/30/2020 - Protesters march down O Street before turning left on 9th Street en route to the County-City Building on Saturday, May 30, 2020. FRANCIS GARDLER, JOURNAL STAR
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Protesters at 48th and O on Saturday, May 30.
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Hundreds of protesters near 48th and O on Saturday, May 30.
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Protesters walk down O Street from 48th on Saturday, May 30.
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Protesters at 48th and O on Saturday, May 30.
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A protester lobs a mortar firework at police late Saturday night at the County-City Building.
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A person bikes past a shattered entrance to a building on the Lincoln Mall late Saturday night near the County-City Building.
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A protester uses water to help a man who was hit with tear gas in an attempt to wash it off late Saturday night near the County-City Building.
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A vandal throws a brick at a bus stop window late Saturday night near the County-City Building.
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A vandal breaks windows of a building on the Lincoln Mall late Saturday night near the County-City Building.
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A protester calls for help after a woman is hit with a rubber bullet in the Lincoln Mall area when a peaceful protest turned violent late Saturday night near the County-City Building.
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A protester launches a bottle rocket as Saturday's peaceful protest suddenly turned violent near the County-City Building.
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Water from an opened fire hydrant fills the street as protesters clash with law enforcement late Saturday near the County-City Building.
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Protesters raise their hands in front of the County-City Building on Saturday night.
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Protesters gather in front of County-City Building on Saturday night.
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A couple embrace on Lincoln Mall as protesters clash with law enforcement at the County-City Building on Saturday.
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Leo Celis raises his hands in front of the County-City Building on May 30. He was hit several times by rubber bullets, including one that struck him near his right eye.
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Law enforcement officers stand at the entrance to the County-City Building on May 31 during a night of clashes between police and protesters.
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Tear gas shrouds law enforcement positioned at the entrance to the County-City Building during police protests in 2020.
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Protesters tossed fireworks at law enforcement officers guarding the entrance to the County-City Building late on May 30.
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Law enforcement in riot gear deployed tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters on May 30.
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Protesters tossed fireworks in the direction of law enforcement guarding the entrance to the County-City Building on May 30.
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A man wipes his eyes after law enforcement deployed tear gas on protesters late Saturday night near the County-City Building.
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Protesters gather near the County-City Building on Saturday night.
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Fireworks tossed in the direction of law enforcement explodes outside the County-City Building on May 31.
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Protesters offer aid to someone injured during a a Black Lives Matter rally which turned violent on May 30. Law enforcement fired non-lethal projectiles and tear gas at protesters to control the crowd.
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Protesters vandalize an office building on Lincoln Mall on May 31.
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Protesters vandalize an office building on Lincoln Mall on May 31.
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A person uses a phone to capture the scene as protests turned violent in downtown Lincoln on May 31.
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Law enforcement in riot gear advance from the County-City Building and down Lincoln Mall on May 31.
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Law enforcement officers in riot gear advance from County-City Building toward protesters along Lincoln Mall on May 31.
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Protesters sparked a fire in an office building along Lincoln Mall on May 31.
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Law enforcement briefly detained Xavier Packett and Dillon Siebe, who entered buildings with fire extinguishers to douse blazes set by vandals in office buildings along Lincoln Mall, early Sunday. They were later released.
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A woman raises her fist against advancing law enforcement during Saturday night's protest on Lincoln Mall.
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A fellow protester offers spray to a man hit by tear gas on Saturday night.
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Law enforcement clashed with protesters on Lincoln Mall on May 31. In response to reform calls, the city accelerated its plan to equip Lincoln police with body cameras, and the Lancaster County Board approved funding for the County Sheriff’s Office to implement its own body camera program.
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Protesters raise their hands against law enforcement advancing along Lincoln Mall on Saturday night.
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Protesters gather in front of County-City Building as tear gas is seen in the air, Saturday, May 30, 2020.
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A woman looks on from a car in front of County-City Building as protesters clash with police, Saturday.
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Onlookers gather at the gas station opposite of County-City Building as protesters clash with police, Saturday, May 30, 2020.
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Protesters gather at Lincoln Mall during a clash with police near County-City Building, Saturday, May 30, 2020.
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Protesters gather in front of County-City Building as tear gas is seen in the air on May 30.
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Lincoln Fire and Rescue crews continued work May 31 at Universal-Inland Insurance, a multi-story building on Lincoln Mall where vandals sparked a fire in overnight riots.
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Broken windows on the southwest corner of 3 Landmark Centre on Sunday, May 31, 2020, following protests down the street at the County-City building.
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Crews, including volunteers, showed up to help to clean up vandalism along Lincoln Mall.
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The Lincoln Fire Department returned to the scene of an overnight fire at the Universal-Inland Insurance building on Sunday, May 31, 2020, following protests down the street at the County-City building.
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The Lincoln Fire Department returned to the scene of an overnight fire at the Universal-Inland Insurance building on Sunday, May 31, 2020, following protests down the street at the County-City building.
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The Lincoln Fire Department firefighters remove files from an office at the scene of an overnight fire at the Universal-Inland Insurance building on Sunday, May 31, 2020, following protests down the street at the County-City building.
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The Abraham Lincoln statue on the west side of the Nebraska Capitol was spray-painted with an anarchist symbol during protests Sunday morning.
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The Abraham Lincoln statue on the west-side of the Nebraska State Capitol was spray-painted with an anarchist symbol during an overnight protest on Sunday, May 31, 2020.
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Jaida Graves, who was hit by Trever Kurtz's Chevy Avalanche pickup, raises her fist as she was loaded onto an ambulance during a protest in response of the death of George Floyd near 25th and O Streets on May 30.
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Broken glass from a bus stop at 11th and Lincoln Mall fills the trash on May 31, following overnight protests down the street at the County-City building.
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Buildings along Lincoln Mall had broken windows on May 31 following protests down the street at the County-City building.
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The cost of replacing the fire-damaged Universal-Inland Insurance building could reach $20 million, according to a preliminary city damage report.
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Lincoln Police detain three occupants of a car near 12th Street and Lincoln Mall during overnight protests in late May.
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Lincoln police advance into the intersection of 12th and Lincoln Mall on May 31 following protests down the street at the County-City building.
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A pair of individuals leap from the broken window of the 3 Landmark Centre building after retrieving fire extinguishers early Sunday.
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Law enforcement in riot gear stand guard on the steps of the state Capitol building during a peaceful protest on Sunday While the protest was peaceful, events that had unfolded the night before was enough to warrant police to take precaution.
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Thousands of protesters gathered peacefully in front of the state Capitol on Sunday afternoon.
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A protester waves an American flag with an "X" painted on it during a peaceful protest Sunday near the state Capitol.
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An activist who climbed a statue in front of the County-City Building shouts "Black Lives Matter" during a rally calling for police reform on May 31.
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A man who climbed a crosswalk pole holds up a sign in protest to passing cars during a peaceful protest near the Capitol on Sunday.
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A sign advocating for the recognition of those who lost their lives is seen along with flowers during a peaceful protest Sunday at the state Capitol.
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Protesters march together in solidarity toward the County-City Building during a peaceful march on Sunday.
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Protesters wear face masks with the message "I can't breathe" written on tape during a peaceful protest Sunday.
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A protester holds flowers in peaceful protest Sunday near the Capitol.
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Protesters march peacefully down O Street during a Black Lives Matter rally Sunday that started at the state Capitol.
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A man at Sunday's protest in Lincoln wears tape across his mouth stating "I can't breathe."
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A protester chants "No justice, no peace" during a peaceful protest on Sunday near the state Capitol.
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Protesters gather on the steps of the state Capitol during a peaceful protest on May 31 at the state Capitol.
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Protesters bolt from police after tear gas was released in the Lincoln Mall area on May 31.
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Police in riot gear move forward in an effort to clear protesters in Lincoln Mall during a protest that went past a mandated curfew on May 31.
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Police in riot gear line up to block protesters on Sunday in the Lincoln Mall.
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Police in riot gear move forward in the area of Lincoln Mall in an effort to clear protesters after a mandated curfew on May 31.
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Protesters who defied an 8 p.m. curfew raise their fists on the steps of the state Capitol on Sunday.
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A protester shows what he says is wound from a bean bag round during a night of protest on Sunday.
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Police in riot gear line up to block protesters who defied curfew on May 31 in the Lincoln Mall area.
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Police in riot gear move forward in an effort to clear protesters who defied curfew on June 1 in the Lincoln Mall area.
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Protesters gather on the steps of the state Capitol during a protest on June 1.
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Law enforcement in riot gear stand guard on the steps of the state Capitol building during a peaceful protest May 31. While the protest was peaceful, events that had unfolded the night before was enough to warrant police to take precaution. The words "the salvation of the state is watchfulness in the citizen" can be seen etched into the wall behind them.
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The Target at 333 N. 48th St. temporarily boarded up its front doors Monday.
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Protesters sit in the intersection of South 10th St. and Lincoln Mall in front of the County-City Building on June 1.
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Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird (right) addresses protesters who sat in the intersection of South 10th Street and Lincoln Mall in front of the County-City Building on June 1.
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Protesters take a knee in front of the County-City Building on June 1. Black Leaders Movement activists say some still refer to local efforts as "violent" despite dozens of peaceful protests and civic action.
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Hands are raised Tuesday at the County-City Building when protesters are asked who is eligible to vote in the election this fall.
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Hundreds of protesters gathered for speeches at the County-City Building on June 2.
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With temps in the high 80s at the start of the gathering, Lincoln Police Capt. Don Scheinost hands off water to protesters at the County-City Building on June 2.
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Hundreds of protesters gathered for speeches at the County-City Building on Tuesday.
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Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird (center) sits with the protesters at the County-City Building on Tuesday.
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The scene outside the County-City Building on June 1.
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...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of west central Owyhee
County through 615 PM MDT...
At 522 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Murphy, or 28 miles south of Nampa, moving southeast at 15 mph.
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.
This strong thunderstorm will be near...
Oreana and Toy Pass around 610 PM MDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
&&
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN;
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
Ahmed Nurkovic, a College of Idaho graduate, has formed a hypothesis that may lay the foundations for a type 1 diabetes cure.
Type 1 diabetes affects over 28 million people around the world, including 9 million people in the U.S. alone. College of Idaho graduate Ahmed Nurkovic has formed a hypothesis that may lay the foundations for a cure.
This hypothetical has earned Nurkovic a place at Imperial College London where he will pursue his master’s degree, with an additional fully funded offer to fulfill his Ph.D. studies. Imperial College is ranked No. 6 (QS Rankings) globally when it comes to master's programs. (The QS World University Rankings are a ranking of the world’s top universities produced by Quacquarelli Symonds published annually since 2004.) While there, Nurkovic will receive a grant covering the entirety of his research thanks to funding from future supervisor Dr. Jun Ishihara.
Aiming to use biomedicines newest artificial receptors, Nurkovic hypothesizes they can be used to target toxic t-cells which destroy beta cells and play a key role in type 1 diabetes. Similar techniques are being used on other autoimmune diseases, but this will be a first regarding type 1 diabetes.
Nurkovic double majored in international political economy and biomedical sciences, and over the last few years, he has been working with the Idaho-based Dr. Mark Gunderson. Their research was sponsored by IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence, and is currently being reviewed by multiple scientific journals, and is pending publication.
Competing in national science competitions from a young age in Montenegro, a country in the Balkans, Nurkovic has always been destined to make a difference in the scientific field. He credits his experiences in Idaho as a major part of his scientific and personal development. Nurkovic aims to utilize the double major he’s earned at the College of Idaho and bridge the gap between the scientific community and public.
“I didn’t know before coming (to the College of Idaho) where my career path might lead. I had a passion for knowledge, and working in the lab conditions here, as well as learning from amazing professors in the IPE and medical science departments, has allowed me to think outside the box," Nurkovic said. "The professors here showed me that everyone has the potential to be a changemaker."
“I’m interested in the social aspect of health. People are often estranged from scientific ideas,” he added. “I want to combine the interdisciplinary knowledge I’ve gained at C of I, and I feel this opportunity (at Imperial College) will allow me to conduct research, while also increasing sciences accessibility.”
At Imperial College, Nurkovic will be working with Dr. Jun Ishihara, a co-founder of multiple companies: Arrow Immune Inc., which focuses on the clinical translation of cancer immunotherapy techniques; HeioThera Inc. which focuses on the clinical translation of anti-inflammatory therapeutics; and ScienceLounge LLC, which runs a science bar in Tokyo for scientific outreach activities. As well as leading these various laboratories, he is also the professor of immuno-engineering for drug discovery at Imperial College’s department of bioengineering.
Nurkovic said he was ecstatic to get an interview with Ishihara, and read through his work. What was supposed to be a brief reading spiraled into a life-changing realization. Utilizing treatment techniques used in other auto immune diseases, Nurkovic applied these treatments to type 1 diabetes.
During the interview, Nurkovic pitched his ideas on type 1 diabetes. The scholarship offers, and research grant soon followed, as well as a consulting role at one of Ishihara’s companies.
When questioned on the importance of his future work, Nurkovic said, “You can never be certain of what’s going to happen, especially in science … (if successful) it would be something I carry with me for life. My primary goal when pursuing an education was the general betterment of society, so if I am able to contribute towards this goal even just a little, then I will be very proud.”
Nurkovic hopes his time at Imperial College will allow him to pass on the knowledge he learns and make a difference in his home nation of Montenegro.
“The idea of going back to build and develop research institutions that will show kids in Montenegro that they have the potential to make change is something that I’m striving to achieve," Nurkovic said. "There is potential all around the world just waiting to be utilized."
For now, Nurkovic’s work remains hypothetical, and his transition to life in London, and Imperial College are yet to begin. However, should everything go as planned, Nurkovic, a College of Idaho alumnus, may be on his way to winning a Nobel Prize. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/college-of-idaho-grad-heads-to-top-international-school-in-search-of-type-1-diabetes/article_5704434a-06e9-11ee-b69c-43267d4b103a.html | 2023-06-14T00:32:20 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/college-of-idaho-grad-heads-to-top-international-school-in-search-of-type-1-diabetes/article_5704434a-06e9-11ee-b69c-43267d4b103a.html |
Originally published June 12 on IdahoCapitalSun.com.
The Ada County Highway District recently released an online version of the district’s bicycle map.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of west central Owyhee County through 615 PM MDT... At 522 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Murphy, or 28 miles south of Nampa, moving southeast at 15 mph. 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. This strong thunderstorm will be near... Oreana and Toy Pass around 610 PM MDT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio stations and available television stations for additional information and possible warnings from the National Weather Service. && MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN; MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
Originally published June 12 on IdahoCapitalSun.com.
The Ada County Highway District recently released an online version of the district’s bicycle map.
The Ada County bike map shows bike routes throughout Ada County, as well as public features like bike shops, libraries and parks.
The map is color coded to show the level of difficulty and type of different routes. More information about each specific route can be found through a link on the online map. The map also details topography and terrain, making it easier for cyclists to understand and plan for any challenges along the route.
With the bike map being online, the Ada County Highway District is able to update the map to inform cyclists of incidents or debris along a route.
Information regarding state bicycle laws, bicycle facilities and guidelines are also available alongside the online map, including the district’s Roadway to Bikeway Master Plan Addendum, Livable Streets Performance Measures and FHWA Bike Network Mapping Idea Book.
The online bike map is available on desktop and mobile devices, and is available as the ACHD Bike Map app on Google Play and Apple’s App Store. A physical copy of the official bike map is available through contacting the Ada County Highway District via phone or through achdidaho.org/tellus.
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CONYERS, Ga. — Police are issuing an alert to the community as officers respond to a person who they say has barricaded themselves at a Conyers hotel Tuesday evening.
Authorities are on scene at the InTown Suites Extended Stay at 1125 Northlake Drive, which is near an LA Fitness.
Details are limited at this time. 11Alive is working to learn more about what happened.
Last week, Conyers Police responded to another incident at the hotel, where a 33-year-old was found shot to death inside a truck. Two teens were arrested in connection to that shooting, the police department previously said.
This is a developing story. Check back often for new information.
Also download the 11Alive News app and sign up to receive alerts for the latest on this story and other breaking news in Atlanta and north Georgia. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/conyers/barricaded-person-conyers-hotel-intown-suites/85-fb449020-af14-4f0d-b039-47aa15b1ab52 | 2023-06-14T00:38:45 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/conyers/barricaded-person-conyers-hotel-intown-suites/85-fb449020-af14-4f0d-b039-47aa15b1ab52 |
VIRGINIA – While drug charges are trending down, violent crime is going up.
That’s according to Virginia State Police’s 2022 crime report.
Putting a face to those statistics, a man whose son was tragically killed in a local shooting told his story to the Danville Youth Police Academy and talked about change he’s hoping to see.
“When my wife called and told me, I didn’t feel anything. I was numb. And it was probably 4 o’clock the next morning before it hit me,” Curtis Gore said.
Brandon Gore was 29 years old when he lost his life to gun violence in Danville - Tuesday would’ve been his 31st birthday.
“I’d give a million dollars just to talk to him,” Curtis said.
Now over a year later, Curtis speaking to the Danville Youth Police Academy says he wants to see more change.
“Walk away. Because you don’t know what a person has in their pocket, and once that gun is pulled, once that trigger is pulled, there’s no do-over,” he said.
Danville has seen two shootings in the past month involving teenagers - one of them deadly.
The latest incident happened overnight near Washington and First Street.
Police say a 17-year-old is in critical condition after he was shot multiple times.
Sgt. David Ferguson says people don’t always think about what comes after they open fire.
“What happens to a family? What happens to a community when they lose a young person?” Ferguson said.
Across the state, Virginia State Police say violent crime rose nearly five percent last year alone.
Roanoke City Commonwealth Attorney Don Caldwell says he’s not surprised at the upward trend.
“It’s consistent with what’s going on across the country. And actually, I would’ve said I’m surprised it was only five percent.”
Numbers from last year also show drug charges are down nearly nine percent - but Caldwell says he’s still prosecuting just as many cases, which is expected in larger cities.
“They’re gonna see more drug crime and more violent crime. You could have an overall decrease across the state, but still not a decrease in those populated areas,” Caldwell said.
Gun violence has also been a problem - with almost 30 shootings so far this year.
Caldwell says change in the Star City starts with change in the Commonwealth.
“Truly I think criminal justice reform hurt the system, the process. I really think that as we look to solutions, we have to look to the General Assembly,” Caldwell said.
Attorney General Jason Miyares says after seeing the report, there’s plenty of work to be done.
“Unfortunately, we are still feeling the impact from the criminal first, victim last mentality of the previous administration. This report highlights the importance of having tough-on-crime policies in Richmond and finding new ways to support our law enforcement officers. At the end of 2022, my office was able to launch Operation Ceasefire - a proven method to reduce violent crime by putting the repeat, violent offenders behind bars and working with the community for preventative efforts. We will continue to work with the Governor to make our communities safer,” he said. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/13/danville-shooting-latest-of-swva-violent-crime-incidents/ | 2023-06-14T00:38:59 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/13/danville-shooting-latest-of-swva-violent-crime-incidents/ |
As the weather warms up, venomous copperhead snakes are out and about.
There are 30 native species of snakes in Virginia, but only three are poisonous, according to the Wildlife Center of Virginia: Northern Copperheads, Timber Rattlesnakes, and Cottonmouths.
Here are some ways to identify a venomous snake in the Commonwealth, officials said:
- Vertical pupils,
- A heat-sensing “pit” near their eye, which is larger than their nostril,
- A single row of scales under their tail.
The center said non-venomous snakes have round pupils, no pit, and two rows of scales under their tails.
“Identifying some of these traits from a safe distance can be challenging; being familiar with the overall appearance of these species will help you to identify a venomous snake more reliably and safely,” the center said.
Some other characteristics that are widely known to look out for, like head shape, patterns, and tail rattling, can sometimes be misleading, according to officials.
Despite the danger of poisonous snakes, the Wildlife Center of Virginia says copperheads are not aggressive to humans if you leave them alone.
If it gets too hot, snakes will look for cooler places like piles of leaves or inside your house.
“The species of snakes, that venomous species that we have in Virginia, all three of them rattlesnakes, copperheads, and cottonmouths. Deaths from bites from those snakes are incredibly rare. Now they can be painful, and they can cause some damage,” Alex Wehrung with the Wildlife Center of Virginia said.
The center says if you are bitten by a copperhead, you should get medical attention quickly.
Wondering what you should do if you see a snake? Watch the Wildlife Center’s YouTube video below to learn more.
You can read more about snakes in Virginia and see pictures of each species here. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/13/keep-an-eye-out-its-copperhead-season-in-virginia/ | 2023-06-14T00:39:06 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/13/keep-an-eye-out-its-copperhead-season-in-virginia/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – Nearly two dozen people came out Monday night to protest Roanoke City’s curfew expansion.
The expansion now includes extra restrictions on ages 13 or younger, as well as adjusting the general age threshold to people between 14 and 16.
The Roanoke Young Democrats organized the protest in response to the council’s vote to expand the curfew.
The Young Democrats add they spoke out at the March curfew hearings and were ignored.
“All that they really accomplish is increasing juvenile incarceration rates, and increasing the number of negative interactions between police and juveniles. That’s such an issue in the city because that’s a challenge for the city because we have an issue of trust and the youth and the police,” Co-president Dominic Harden said.
They say they would like to see more extracurriculars, and extended hours at public locations, like libraries for youth to go to. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/13/young-people-protest-roanoke-curfew-expansion/ | 2023-06-14T00:39:12 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/13/young-people-protest-roanoke-curfew-expansion/ |
TONTITOWN, Ark. — Commonwealth Heritage Group, a Memphis-based organization leading the excavation, was brought in to uncover the archaeological site found while preparing for construction on Highway 112.
The prehistoric site was found during a standard archeological survey before Arkansas Department of Transportation's Highway 112 expansion project.
Senior archeologist with Commonwealth Heritage Group Jack Rossen says this is the most significant archaeological site he has seen in Arkansas, estimated to be between 6,000 and 9,000 years old.
"What's the story of these people who lived here? And how were they living? And what was their lifestyle? What were they eating? And how are they related to each other?" Rossen asked.
These are questions Commonwealth Heritage Group is digging up the answers to.
"We have direct evidence of what their community looked like, not just a bunch of artifacts in the ground. That pushes it to another level of significance," Rossen said.
The team is working to paint a picture of the people who once lived here.
"I think there was a big cookhouse that was about 30 feet long, that had big fire hearths in it, where they were cooking for a band of could be 40 or 50 people, and there were little huts around it," Rossen said.
Rossen says it's difficult to connect these archaic people to a modern Native American tribe, but the Osage Tribe is working with the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) on this project.
Any federally funded project must include a three-phase archaeological survey before construction begins. The first two phases involve limited testing.
"And then if they still think it's important, the DOT has a choice: they can either avoid the site, change the path of the road, or they can go through full-scale excavation, which is phase three. And that's what we're doing here," Rossen said.
He and his team will take the recovered artifacts to Memphis for analysis. Then, ARDOT will begin highway construction as planned.
"There is something kind of sad about that the site will be destroyed, it will be gone. But at the same time, it's kind of nice that we get to get some information out of it and tell the story of it before it's destroyed," Rossen said.
Commonwealth Heritage tells 5NEWS they're approaching a three-week break in the excavation process while they wait for their new plan to get approved. They will pick back up in mid-July and continue through August.
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ARKANSAS, USA — The 2023 Miss Arkansas was crowned just three days ago and the new titleholder, Cori Keller has already been hard at work.
Keller spent the last 16 years in the Miss Arkansas Organization with hopes of turning her dreams into reality— and on Saturday, she did just that.
The 25-year-old from Stuttgart expressed that she's very eager to represent the Natural State.
"I feel like I'm playing dress up like this is not my reality. This is not my life. But it's not a dream. Nobody needs to pinch me, it is reality. And I'm just so overwhelmed with gratitude, and just so thankful for this opportunity and this honor," Keller described.
Between preparing for Miss America, traveling the state, and serving local communities, she has a busy year ahead of her.
"My community service initiative is feeding the future collaborative solutions to hunger. It started from growing up in Stuttgart in a rural agriculture-based community I was really surprised to find out that food insecurity sat next to me every single day in class," she explained.
Keller also explained that more than 75 percent of the students in her school district were on free or reduced-price school meals.
"That inspired me to not only feed the next generation of Arkansas, so they can have an equal chance at being successful but to help my classmates help my friends and the people I was around every single day," she added.
She also said she plans to continue what she's been doing— volunteering at food banks, passing out meals, and fundraising. All while also advocating on the state and federal levels to increase SNAP incentives.
"We actually just passed a bill here in Arkansas during the last legislative session that any child who is eligible for free or reduced-price school meals will now get free school meals," she said.
While she tackles these issues head-on, she said her family's support is what has kept her going. On the final night of competition, she had one of her biggest fans missing from the audience— her dad.
"He is currently in ICU at Baptist Health here in Little Rock and from complications from triple bypass surgery. He's been there over two weeks now," she explained.
Though she still made sure to pay him a visit after getting crowned.
"It's so special and something I'm gonna cherish forever," Keller said.
He's still in the hospital, but she hopes he gets released soon.
She explained that she's also an advocate for the American Heart Association because of her passion for fighting heart disease in addition to fighting food insecurity.
The Miss America competition is set to happen in January and she will start preparing for that next week. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/miss-arkansas-cori-keller-2023/91-4a7f66ac-a440-4202-a991-a913e53af30a | 2023-06-14T00:40:00 | 0 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/miss-arkansas-cori-keller-2023/91-4a7f66ac-a440-4202-a991-a913e53af30a |
North Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Joseph has been reinstated into office after a judge on Tuesday afternoon reversed his removal by fellow commissioners last month.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Peter Lopez issued a written order that finds the commission failed to have the necessary five-member quorum when it voted 3-1 to remove Joseph, as Commissioner McKenzie Fleurimond and Vice Mayor Jay Chernoff recused themselves due to their involvement in the lawsuit.
Lopez also found that the commission does not have the authority to remove a commissioner from office and that Joseph had in any case not violated the 120-day rule for absentees in the city charter.
The move comes on the heels of former Mayor Anthony DeFillipo’s arrest and subsequent suspension from office June 5. He was charged with voter fraud after an investigation determined he was living in Broward County in Davie, despite listing a home in North Miami Beach on his voter registration as his residence.
Since DeFillipo’s removal, Joseph’s attorneys had been trying to expedite Lopez’s ruling, asserting that the former mayor’s residency issues justified Joseph’s reinstatement. Joseph was the first, followed by Fleurimond, to boycott meetings amid legal concerns over DeFillipo’s legitimacy as mayor.
For that reason, Lopez’s final justification regarding the charter’s 120-day rule was perhaps the most anticipated, as attorneys have long argued when to start counting Joseph’s absences as a “failure to attend meetings.” Chernoff’s attorney, Michael Pizzi, insisted that the clock began at the time of Joseph’s last attended meeting in October, despite his first absence occurring in December due to there being no meeting held in November.
Lopez’s order instead set the countdown as beginning in December, as “one cannot fail to attend a meeting that does not exist.” His decision also mirrored the method used in a 2018 precedent in which former Commissioner Frantz Pierre vacated his seat for violating the rule allowing only 120 days of absences.
The city is now enjoined from holding a special election to replace Joseph pending the disposition of the case, originally filed by Chernoff in February. Lopez’s order nevertheless claims that Joseph is likely to prevail once the time comes for the suit to finally be put to rest.
The next commission meeting is scheduled for June 20, which Chernoff is expected to chair as the city scrambles to hold an election to fill DeFillipo’s seat. | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/judge-reinstates-michael-joseph-to-north-miami-beach-commission/article_a76f4ffc-0a20-11ee-b09b-2bce55a6b5da.html | 2023-06-14T00:42:06 | 0 | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/judge-reinstates-michael-joseph-to-north-miami-beach-commission/article_a76f4ffc-0a20-11ee-b09b-2bce55a6b5da.html |
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Four teenagers, including a13-year-old, are accused of targeting delivery drivers in a weekend crime spree in Orange County.
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In some cases, deputies say the suspects called in fake orders to set up the drivers.
According to the sheriff’s office, the first robberies occurred Friday to different pizza delivery drivers.
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One driver was attacked around Texas Ave. and Americana Blvd. Deputies say the four suspects beat and robbed the driver, demanding his keys, before running away.
The next night, investigators say the group beat and robbed another driver near Limelight Circle.
Then, on Sunday, deputies were flagged down by another driver who said he had a gun pointed at his head and was pistol whipped while delivering near the same address.
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Video from a Ring doorbell camera captured the last victim begging for help after he was beaten and carjacked.
All four suspects were caught Sunday when a deputy spotted the last victim’s stolen car.
According to the sheriff’s office, the group’s attacks were becoming “progressively more violent” before they were finally stopped.
READ: Victim in fatal Orange County stabbing identified
The adults were identified as 19-year-old Devonte Johnson and 19-year-old Davontae Campbell.
Charges for all four of them include carjacking with a weapon, aggravated battery, and grand theft with charges pending from three other cases.
Employees of one local pizza restaurant said they’re now working with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office to find better ways of protecting their drivers while they’re out on the road.
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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Brevard Public Schools is trying to do more than attract new drivers – it’s hoping to get some of its former drivers back.
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The new superintendent said he believes a highly publicized pay hike for new drivers would help fill the vacancies.
The school district held another bus driver job fair on Tuesday.
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“What we want to do is increase compensation for the bus drivers right away, and make sure everybody knows about it,” Superintendent Dr. Mark Rendell said. “That, hopefully, will make us attract new drivers.”
The board must first determine how much of a pay hike, and where the money will come from.
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The starting pay for bus drivers is $15 an hour, and the district said it is having trouble filling its 90 bus driver vacancies.
Neighboring school districts in Volusia, Seminole and Osceola counties all pay their starting drivers more. The district is also reportedly losing drivers to the Space Coast Area Transit.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Three Central Floridians are among the 15 Special Olympics Florida athletes and Unified Partners joining Team USA to compete in the 2023 Special Olympics World Games in Berlin.
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In all, the world games feature approximately 7,000 athletes and partners from 170 countries.
The Special Olympics Florida athletes include cyclists, tennis players, a basketball team, and one open-water swimmer. The Florida delegation also includes 38 coaches and 23 members who support team operations.
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Berlin Bound! ✈️🇩🇪 Safe travels as our athletes travel to compete in the @SOWG_Berlin2023! #florida #cheer4USA 🇺🇸 #inclusivesports pic.twitter.com/fibHq9eemm
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Maxwell “Max” Verduin is a cyclist from Orlando. He’s participated in the Special Olympics for a year and also does powerlifting.
This will be his first time attending the world games. A student at Pathways for Life Academy, Verduin says he trains every day by riding his bike, working out and eating healthy.
Also joining Team USA by way of Central Florida will be Saint Cloud resident Brandon Mailly along with his father and Unified partner Gerard “Jerry” Mailly.
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Mailly will compete for Team USA in tennis but has also participated in bowling and softball in the past.
Brandon and his father have been involved with the Special Olympics for nearly four years.
The World Games run from June 17 to 25 and will be broadcast by ESPN.
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Team USA supporters are invited to cheer for them online by adding their name and a message of encouragement to the team’s digital message board here, or by posting to social media with the hashtag #Cheer4USA.
For more information on the entire Special Olympics Team USA delegation, click here.
In just a few days, we will kick-off #Berlin2023 with the grand Opening Ceremony at @Oly_Berlin. It will be colorful, emotional, joyful and inclusive. Will you be there?
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — We know many people have questions about the impact of the federal indictment against former President Donald Trump and about what could happen next.
Former President Trump faces 37 counts in a federal indictment connected to the alleged mishandling of classified documents.
We spoke with two legal experts about the case: Georgetown University Law Professor David Super and the Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government at the Heritage Foundation, John Malcolm.
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Question: Does an indictment or a conviction disqualify a candidate from running for president or serving as president?
Answer: No
“Nope, neither one of them disqualifies a president from running or serving,” said Malcolm. “The qualifications to run for president are set out in the Constitution. They are both a floor and a ceiling. They can’t be added to.”
“The indictments do not play a role and indeed a conviction wouldn’t either,” said Super. “The Constitution has very limited criteria for who is eligible to be president. Mr. Trump meets those criteria, and he would continue to regardless of what happens in these cases.”
Read: Trump indictment live updates: Former president pleads not guilty
Question: If former President Trump is re-elected as president, could he pardon himself for a federal conviction? Answer: Debatable
“I think that’s an open question,” said Super. “It’s never been tested. This has never come up. Richard Nixon believed he couldn’t pardon himself and his successor President Ford did it instead. But we don’t know what would happen if Mr. Trump was convicted, resumed the presidency, and tried to pardon himself.”
“That is a matter about which a lot of legal scholars disagree,” said Malcolm. “I tend to think based on what I have read that the answer is that he could pardon himself… While he might be able to pardon himself for federal offenses, he could not pardon himself for violations of state crimes.”
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Question: Could a sitting president serve time in prison? Answer: Not likely while serving as president
“If he were convicted before being sworn into office, I suppose he could be sentenced although I don’t think any judge would do that,” said Malcolm. “If he is not tried until after he is in office, then the answer is no… It’s been accepted for a long time that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime.”
“In all likelihood, if he has not been convicted before he resumes office, the Justice Department would drop the case,” said Super. “They have a longstanding policy against prosecuting sitting presidents and I assume they would likely apply that… If he is convicted before becoming president, then in theory the sentencing judge could sentence him to jail time.”
Photos: Scenes from Trump arraignment
Question: What are the key differences between the Trump federal indictment and the on-going Biden documents investigations?
Answer: It’s complicated
“First off, President Biden cooperated entirely with the recovery of documents,” said Super. “Second, it doesn’t appear that the documents President Biden had were nearly as sensitive and third there’s no indication that President Biden had the intent, whereas this indictment has extensive information that President Trump knew what he had,” said Super.
“I don’t know the nature of the documents that President Biden had in his possession,” said Malcolm. “One of the motivating factors behind a prosecutor is whether or not they tried to hide the documents. Certainly, there are allegations in the Trump indictment that President Trump and his co-defendant Waltine Nauta went out of their way to hide these documents so that they would not be turned over to a grand jury subpoena.”
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ORLANDO, Fla. — A second arrest has been made in the deadly shooting of U.S military veteran Angela Sutton Washington, according to Orlando police.
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Keyonce Pitts, 19, has been charged with first degree murder with a firearm, police said.
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Washington was shot and killed while in the shopping plaza on North Lane on Feb 7. The suspect vehicle fled the scene of the crime, police said.
This marks the second arrest in the case. On Friday, Samuel Stevens, 15, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder with a firearm, police said.
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SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — Seminole County officials are in the process of updating their floodplain maps in the western part of the county from Wekiva to Altamonte Springs.
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That means some who were previously in the floodplain may no longer be, and those who were not may be added.
There are currently nearly 3,900 parcels in the Wekiva Basin designated in the floodplain, but the latest study approved by commissioners shows that number will likely double.
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Heavy rains from Hurricane Ian flooded an area of Altamonte Springs last September. It’s a neighborhood adjacent to the Little Wekiva River and one of five major areas being looked at in the western part of the county as a flood–prone area.
$35-million will be spent to help control flooding there and in 33 other areas through various means.
However, the biggest areas of concern are the Sanlando Springs and Bear Lake areas, which are first and second on the list of flood-prone areas.
“Today, the board approved staff to adapt that to study and also to continue to revise that map and submit it to FEMA,” Seminole County Public Works Director Jean Jreij explained.
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In addition to the project improvements, Jreij says 3,386 new parcels will be added to the floodplain while 595 parcels will no longer be included.
That could be good news for those who had flood insurance, and bad news for those who may now want to consider getting it.
“The flood insurance when you are as a floodplain normally is higher,” Jreij said.
The plan will now go to FEMA and is a first step in the process of updating the floodplain, which Jreij says could take about a year to complete.
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The average cost of flood insurance in Florida is $677 per year for a policy from the National Flood Insurance Program.
Flood insurance in Florida covers damage from scenarios such as storm surge and overflowing rivers.
To see flood zones across the state of Florida, click here.
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — The Volusia County sheriff said law enforcement confiscated more than 2,300 grams of fentanyl during raids across Volusia and Lake counties.
Sheriff Mike Chitwood said that’s more than 1.5 million doses.
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Chitwood said 6 to 8 kilos were coming into Central Florida communities every month before this multi-county investigation started.
He said through “Operation Daly Dose,” named after the accused drug trafficking leader Drew Daly, investigators got opioids, heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, and guns off the street.
For months starting last August, SWAT teams raided homes across Volusia and Lake counties to make nearly 40 drug trafficking arrests.
Investigators said they used surveillance, search warrants, and wiretaps to catch and charge group members.
Chitwood said those charges range from drug trafficking to weapons violations.
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Investigators said the ring was also involved in a series of organized thefts where suspects posed as Walmart employees to steal televisions and trade them for narcotics.
You can get more details in the video above.
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FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. — A Palm Coast man who had hoped to get a ride to a gaming store ended up going to jail instead, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
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Deputies say 19-year-old James Colasanti became angry Monday when the victims in this case refused to give him that ride to the store.
According to the sheriff’s office, the victims said Colasanti grabbed two pocket knives from his bedroom and threatened them, holding a knife in each hand.
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One of the victims was able to disarm Colasanti and asked him to leave. That’s when deputies say Colasanti ran into the kitchen and threw another seven-inch-long kitchen knife at the victim before running out the front door.
According to the sheriff’s office, the victim followed Colasanti and was able to see him jump the fence onto the grounds of Flagler Palm Coast High School before hiding among a group of storage containers there.
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Deputies responded to the scene and quickly found Colasanti hiding in one of the containers, still in possession of two pocket knives.
Colasanti was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and armed trespassing on school grounds. He was booked into the Flagler County jail where he remains on a total of $20,000 bond.
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According to the sheriff’s office, Summer School was in session at FPCHS and was briefly placed on lockdown during Colasanti’s arrest, but no students were ever in danger.
“He ruined his future over video games,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said in a statement announcing the arrest. “Luckily no one was hurt, and our deputies arrested him quickly - before he could try to hurt anyone else.”
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MIAMI, Fla. — In the hours before former President Donald Trump’s historic appearance in federal court, Miami was flooded with his supporters donning red, white and blue.
Though present in smaller numbers, those against Trump weren’t keeping quiet either with counter-protestors saying even a former president is subject to the laws of the nation he once led.
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“Nobody is above the law,” anti-Trump protestor Luis Soto said.
A 49-page indictment details how prosecutors claim the former president jeopardized national security after he left office. UCF professor John Hanley said the indictment gives a good idea of the evidence in the case.
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“We have the showing of the documents to other people, we have the haphazard retention of the documents, we have these recordings of him saying that he doesn’t have the authority to declassify them now,” Hanley said.
But Trump supporter Brenda Vitucci said she belives the charges are politically motivated.
“I don’t know if they are going to be dismissed right now but I hope that the majority are because I think it’s a sham,” she said.
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All day security was present controlling crowds outside the courthouse with Miami police patrolling by foot and on bikes alongside federal agents.
During one tense moment, protestors swarmed Miami Mayor Francis Suarez as he crossed a grassy area in front of the courthouse, but security quickly rushed to his side.
Photos: Scenes from Trump arraignment
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A man who was injured in a stabbing more than a week ago has died, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
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Just before 4:30 p.m. on the Saturday, June 3, deputies responded to the 3000 block of North Alafaya Trail- just south of the University of Central Florida’s campus- for reports of a stabbing.
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The victim was taken to the hospital but died from his injuries more than a week later on June 11, according to the sheriff’s office.
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Deputies identified the victim Tuesday as 18-year-old Jacob Dewitt.
According to the sheriff’s office, their homicide detectives are actively working leads in the case, but shared no information on a suspect or other details on the status of the investigation.
This story is developing. Please stay with WFTV as more information comes into our newsroom.
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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – Altamonte Springs police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man who they said robbed a bank on Tuesday.
Police said they responded to the Regions Bank, located at 360 West State Road 436, around 4 p.m. after reports of a robbery.
According to officers, the suspected robber hinted he had a gun and a bomb and “presented a note demanding money.”
The suspected thief is described as a thin Black man wearing all black, with a black mask and sunglasses.
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Police said the man left the bank in a blue vehicle with an undisclosed amount of money.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Altamonte Springs Police Department at 407-39-2441 or dial 911. Anonymous tips may also be reported to Crimeline at 1-800-423-8477.
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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – The Osceola County School Board selected a new superintendent on Tuesday more than three months since the district’s last superintendent left.
The previous superintendent for the Osceola County school district, Debra Pace, announced in December that she would be retiring from her position.
Since then, the school board began searching for a qualified replacement for Pace’s role.
On Tuesday, the district announced that Mark Shanoff was selected as the district’s new superintendent, replacing Pace after her retirement later this month.
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Shanoff won out against three other finalists, including Michael Allen, Terrence Connor and Ann Hembrook.
The Osceola County School Board has named Dr. Mark Shanoff as the new incoming Superintendent at tonight's board meeting.
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“I am very excited to be your new Superintendent,” Shanoff wrote following his selection. “The partnership we share is vital to the organization’s success, and I look forward to working side-by-side with each of you to ensure the best outcomes for our students and to continue to be the center of what makes Osceola County a desirable place to live and work.”
Shanoff has prior experience as the chief operating officer of the Volusia County school district and principal as several Orange County schools.
In his entry plan, Shanoff stated that he aims to fix staffing shortages by reaching out to local and out-of-state colleges, as well as working with retired veteran communities.
In addition, he plans to implement regular town hall meetings to discuss concerns with members of the community, the plan shows.
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CROWN POINT — Trial proceedings continued on Tuesday in the rape case against a Kouts man, who allegedly sexually assaulted his co-worker’s wife in June 2020.
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Roger Mashburn was charged in August 2020 with rape, a level three felony, and battery, a B-level misdemeanor. If convicted, rape charges carry a sentence of up to 16 years in prison.
Charging documents described how on June 14, Mashburn stayed the night at his co-worker’s Crown Point apartment located on Main Street after spending the afternoon drinking and hanging out with the man and his wife.
The man testified in court that he and Mashburn were acquaintances. He said he invited Mashburn over that afternoon because he knew Mashburn didn’t have a lot of people to hang out with.
The three hung out and drank for a while by the couple’s apartment complex pool, and then later continued upstairs in the couple’s apartment. The man and his wife decided to invite Mashburn to spend the night at their apartment because they didn’t want him driving home under the influence.
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The woman’s husband had gone to bed, but she went back into the living room to watch T.V. because she couldn’t sleep, her husband testified in court on Tuesday.
Around midnight on June 15, while the woman’s husband was passed out in the other room, Mashburn allegedly approached the woman while he was naked, pinned her down by the throat and wrists and raped her, according to charging documents.
The woman told police that during this incident, Mashburn put his hand over her mouth and told her “Don’t say a word,” charges stated.
Mashburn’s defense attorney Lonnie Randolph highlighted the officers handling of the case, and the woman’s disposition after the alleged assault when he questioned a police officer on the stand on Tuesday.
Randolph noted that there was nothing in the officer’s report that indicated that the woman appeared distressed or even scared.
Prosecutor Tara Villarreal rebutted, and said trauma doesn’t look the same for each person.
The woman told her husband about the purported assault in a text message, which was shown by prosecutors in court on Tuesday. In the messages, the woman wrote to her husband “Honestly I told him no so many times,” according to screenshots shown in court.
“I didn’t want to believe it, but my wife does not lie to me,” the woman’s husband told jurors on Tuesday.
He said that after he found out, he told Mashburn “I know what happened” while the two were working together, and Mashburn didn’t say anything.
He said he hasn’t seen Mashburn since June 15, not even at work. Charging documents show that after police attempted to make contact with Mashburn, they found that he changed his phone number, quit his job and fled the state.
The man told jurors on Tuesday that he and his wife had a happy, normal marriage until this incident the summer of 2020. He said since his wife was assaulted, their anxiety-levels and married life haven’t been the same.
Randolph tried to poke holes in the man’s characterization of his marriage during cross examination.
He asked the man if at work he ever complained about his wife’s drinking, or said that her drinking was causing troubles in their marriage.
The man said he didn’t discuss marital troubles at work, but might have mentioned his wife’s drinking. He added that, at the time, she was struggling with postpartum depression, which exacerbated her drinking habits.
Mashburn’s trial is set to continue on Wednesday in Judge Salvador Vasquez’s courtroom.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Matthew Roggenkamp
Age : 22
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305148
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ruben Vega III
Age : 36
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305181
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jordan Picotte
Age : 29
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305144
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rakeem Pippins
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305141
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Victor Odgen
Age : 26
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305151
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Matthew Moses
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305154
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Thomas Murray
Age : 34
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305164
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kurt Gonzalez II
Age : 32
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305146
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Green
Age : 41
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305160
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Cedar Lake Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Hollis
Age : 67
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305169
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake Station Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Johnny Jones
Age : 50
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305170
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: STRANGULATION; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
2305170
Kenny Flagg Jr.
Age : 19
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305179
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Howard Geib Jr.
Age : 52
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305165
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT; UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY OF A MOTOR VEHICLE; POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Keith Cales
Age : 41
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305153
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel Dillman
Age : 26
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305175
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Robert Allison
Age : 48
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305142
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lavonya Banks
Age : 44
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305163
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jacob Pritt
Age : 35
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305296
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: HEALTH- POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joshua Pritt
Age : 40
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305295
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Danny Serrano Jr.
Age : 40
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305282
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Valdez
Age : 46
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305319
Arrest Date: June 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Dyer Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mary Powers
Age : 36
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305289
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Bryan Oparka
Age : 49
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305308
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vishad Patel
Age : 34
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305305
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Latrice McNeil
Age : 36
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305301
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edwin Negron
Age : 50
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305285
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Oscar Martinez Ocampo
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305290
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Devonte Gipson
Age : 30
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305283
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bryne Manns
Age : 34
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305287
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Edgar Martinez
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305315
Arrest Date: June 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Martin Cruz Jr.
Age : 53
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305304
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bianca Dominguez
Age : 33
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305311
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Munster Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Combs Jr.
Age : 36
Residence: Lafayette, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305297
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cachun Combs Jr.
Age : 45
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305288
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dameka Ali
Age : 32
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305299
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Alms
Age : 28
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305316
Arrest Date: June 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jesse Argandona
Age : 21
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305314
Arrest Date: June 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ryan Vaughn
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305221
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Allan Triplett
Age : 34
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305217
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- INVASION OF PRIVACY; BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
David Roper
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305193
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: LCCS
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Louwon Scott
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305218
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lamont Murdaugh
Age : 23
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305228
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY; BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Delvin Perkins
Age : 28
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305223
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Timothy Pettis
Age : 28
Residence: Kentland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305211
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: St. John Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESS LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Matthew Midkiff
Age : 39
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305190
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; POSSESS LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Christopher Lanman
Age : 21
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305196
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Hedges
Age : 44
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305197
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Misti Harbison
Age : 39
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305188
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kenneth Babiarz
Age : 23
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305201
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Munster Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Shawntina Beatty
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305191
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Timothy Brown
Age : 45
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305214
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake Station Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Marcos Gutierrez
Age : 39
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305219
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shannon Alelunas
Age : 44
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305225
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gabriel Washington
Age : 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305271
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Keorra Wilson
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305270
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jesus Salas Jr.
Age : 42
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305235
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Clarence Sistrunk
Age : 33
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305257
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Richard Vinet Jr.
Age : 46
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305249
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: N/A
Offense Description: FAIL TO COMPLY A FINAL ORDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sadat Wade
Age : 47
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305261
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: LCCC
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lavell Nylon
Age : 19
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305231
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Whiting Police Department
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Pitts
Age : 48
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305245
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Robert Moore
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305259
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FALSE REPORTING - REPORT, CRIME, OR COMPLAINT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Asia Munford-Winters
Age : 28
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305266
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
George Lowe Jr.
Age : 60
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305274
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Malkowski
Age : 37
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305233
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Raul Mendoza
Age : 50
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305267
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Carlos Larrea
Age : 25
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305263
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: LCCC
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jessica Hegwood
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305272
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jerome Kusbel
Age : 68
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305269
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Llewain Hardin
Age : 41
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305265
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Keith Gardenhire
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305246
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Yancey Gray
Age : 54
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305247
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lorenzo Crooks
Age : 50
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305277
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Marko Duric
Age : 36
Residence: Park Ridge, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305281
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Carlos Castillo
Age : 26
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304984
Arrest Date: May 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brandon Cramer
Age : 39
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305264
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT DEFENDANT USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brayan Benavides Acevedo
Age : 22
Residence: Berwyn, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305258
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Erica Brooks
Age : 37
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305232
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Daniel Castaneda Jr.
Age : 33
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305239
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cordaryl Bell
Age : 35
Residence: Sauk Village, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305250
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Barnes
Age : 75
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305237
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
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Steel production fell by 11,000 tons in the Great Lakes region last week, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute.
Locally, steel mills in the Great Lakes region, clustered mainly along the south shore of Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana, made 560,000 tons of metal in the week that ended June 10, up from 571,000 tons the previous week.
Steel mills remained below 80% capacity, but have been inching back toward the key threshold for financial success for the steel sector.
After years of record profitability, the industry saw imports grab 24% of the market share last year as prices fell back down from all-time highs. Steel prices have since been on the mend as automotive orders have picked back up but some say the manufacturing industry has been in a recession with the Institute for Supply Management reporting it has contracted every month since November.
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Overall, domestic steel mills made 1.739 million tons of steel last week, down 0.9% from 1.754 million tons the previous week and up 0.1% compared to 1.738 million tons the same time a year prior.
Nationally, steel production in 2023 totals 38.98 million tons, a 3.2% decrease from the 40.26 million tons manufactured through the same period last year.
U.S. steel mills have run at a capacity utilization rate of 75.6% through Saturday, down from 80.3% at the same point in 2022, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute.
Steel capacity utilization was 77.3% last week, down from 79.6% a year earlier and up from 78% the week prior.
Steel production in the southern region, which encompasses many mini-mills and rivals the Great Lakes region in output, totaled 766,000 tons last week, down from 768,000 tons the week before, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute.
Volume in the rest of the Midwest fell to 211,000 tons, down from 213,000 tons the week prior. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/great-lakes-steel-production-falls-by-11-000-tons/article_12fd7b42-09a2-11ee-83e7-bf760aea7d82.html | 2023-06-14T00:52:37 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/great-lakes-steel-production-falls-by-11-000-tons/article_12fd7b42-09a2-11ee-83e7-bf760aea7d82.html |
WATERLOO — Adriane Carlson has been named the new associate director of student services, pending approval by the Waterloo Schools board of directors.
This is a new position at Waterloo Schools responsible for assisting with coordinating the student services office and supporting Sheena Canady, director of student services, in providing appropriate student assistance, activities, and support to prospective and current students.
“I am honored and excited to be coming back to the Waterloo Community School District to support the amazing students, families, and student services and district team,” said Carlson. “There are awesome things happening here and they are all focused on the very best for the students and district. I am thrilled to be able to be a part of it."
Named as one of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier’s 20 under 40 Award winners in 2018 and the 2016 Waterloo Schools employee of the year, Carlson is a well-known leader in the Cedar Valley. Currently, she is the regional director at the Iowa State Extension and Outreach in Ames.
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Carlson graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a bachelor of arts in family services, followed by a master of arts degree in educational leadership from the University of Phoenix in 2014. She is also working toward her doctorate in education in organizational leadership with Grand Canyon University. Carlson worked at Waterloo Schools from 2012 to 2018 as a student services specialist II, a family support worker at Irving, and as an at-risk coordinator at Irving. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/waterloo-names-carlson-associate-director-of-student-services/article_db45dadc-0a37-11ee-96fa-ef767d2cacbd.html | 2023-06-14T00:55:34 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/waterloo-names-carlson-associate-director-of-student-services/article_db45dadc-0a37-11ee-96fa-ef767d2cacbd.html |
The suspect in the Midlothian Turnpike homicide of Marcus Dobson in April has been indicted.
Travaris Williams, 36, of Richmond, was indicted on June 5 and has been charged with first degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
At approximately 9:08 p.m. on April 27, officers were called to an apartment complex in the 4000 block of Midlothian Turnpike for the report of a person shot. Officers arrived and located an adult male, Dobson, down and unresponsive in the grass area near a parking lot, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. He was transported to a local hospital where that night he succumbed to his injury.
Major Crimes detectives have been investigating this homicide and arrested Williams on May 19.
Anyone with further information about this homicide is asked to call Major Crimes Detective J. Higgins at (804) 646-7570 or Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000. The P3 Tips Crime Stoppers app for smartphones also may be used. All Crime Stoppers reporting methods are anonymous. | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime/midlothian-turnpike-homicide-marcus-dobson-indicted/article_f4abb6f6-0a3f-11ee-a85d-3f884cb7fe70.html | 2023-06-14T00:57:12 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime/midlothian-turnpike-homicide-marcus-dobson-indicted/article_f4abb6f6-0a3f-11ee-a85d-3f884cb7fe70.html |
The city of Dallas is investing millions of dollars in new recreational opportunities for a part of the city that has struggled with crime for decades.
The project is breaking ground near the intersection of Forest Lane and Audelia Road, an area that has historically had little access to community centers or sports facilities. A ceremony was held on Tuesday to commemorate the project.
Darron Thomas has memories of that part of Dallas.
“Senior year of high school, this is where we hang out,” said Thomas.
It used to be very different.
“Twenty years ago, it was infested with negativity, from prostitution to drug dealers,” Thomas said. “The children around here in this area, that’s what they were subject to.”
It's gotten better, but not before becoming one of the most dangerous parts of the city. It was so bad that city officials were even aware of maps drawn by neighbors so that relatives didn’t drive through the intersection when they came to visit them.
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Even councilman Adam McGough has stories to tell.
“Over at that convenience store, I had a gun pulled out on me. Shortly thereafter, we saw videos of someone walking out into the parking lot and literally just spraying the parking lot with bullets,” he shared during Tuesday’s press event. “Right after getting elected, we had one of our neighbors that was shot in the face and killed, a refugee new to our country.”
A violent crime task force by Dallas Police cleaned up the crime over the years. Now, Dallas Park and Recreation is launching the next step -- a $7.5 million revitalization project to build the new Forest Audelia Community Park and multipurpose center.
“Even with this project, I’m somewhat disappointed that we're at this place and we’re only at this step of the process. We should be way past this," said McGough. “I hope and I pray that this city comes through for this community in a way that we haven’t seen even up until this point. It is beyond time."
Thomas, who now works for Dallas Park and Recreation, is part of this full-circle moment for future generations.
“They don’t have to see what we had to see and what we had to deal with,” he said. “So for the city of Dallas, which I’m fortunate to work for now, to come in and create this park and this infrastructure, it is amazing just to see the changes.”
Officials say the area is one of the most dense parts of Dallas. There are upwards of 18,000 people per square mile and very little for their kids to do. Just behind the site of the project is an apartment complex with 1,500 units.
“We were seeing it in the numbers, crime numbers were up. We had a number of juveniles and young folks who were engaging in low-level crime that were working with some of the higher-level crime,” said McGough. “Ten years ago when we brought in the violent crime task force just to this area, it dropped crime city-wide over 13%. So it shows the impact that just this area who is having on citywide numbers. Obviously, the need was here. It’s just how do we serve this community?”
In recent years, the city worked to put in a community basketball court built with the help of The Better Block and a youth boxing gym run by Dallas Police. But lack of land space and funding stopped it there.
“Primarily, it’s viewed that the south part of the city has more needs than the north. So when there’s opportunities to bring different resources, the leadership tends to focus on the southern part of the city. There are huge needs in the north part of the city as well. Equity is not geography,” said McGough. “DPD can't just arrest their way out of this, we’ve got to work on additional resources. Just give people a chance."
As part of the new project at Forest Audelia Village, portions of a city-owned shopping center and a parking lot will be torn down and renovated.
The one-acre park will sit on the southern end of the site facing Forest Lane and feature a playground, multi-use sport courts, pavilions, landscaping, and trees. The building renovation will create a lobby area, fitness/exercise room, group exercise room, classrooms, child area and space for four city departments: Dallas Public Library, Office of Arts and Culture, Dallas Police, and Dallas Park and Recreation.
"Our department is thrilled we can bring recreation options to this community so families can feel a sense of community that parks and public spaces create when they come together. Parks and recreational activities transform lives. Dallas is tearing down a section of this underused shopping center to build something new that will bring much-needed leisure and social infrastructure to this community,” said Crystal R. Ross, Deputy Director, Dallas Park and Recreation Department.
Vicky Taylor, who has lived in the area for 20 years and is now the executive director of the Lake Highlands Public Improvement District, said she wants to make sure families have a better life.
“The kids in the community, along with my kids, they deserve to have things like this in our community. We have an area that needs some extra love, and we’re here to give it to them,” she said. “Kids in generations to come, it becomes more of their love. They want to make sure our community is thriving and that’s the type of energy we want to give out. We want to show more of an ownership, more belonging, and responsibility."
Park officials said the cost to build the park is $1.9 million while the renovations will cost $5.6 million. Funding will be provided by the Skillman Corridor Tax Increment Financing District funds, the City of Dallas, and monies from the 2017 bond program.
“Soon, this block will be transformed into a new green space and community center. that represents a new lease on life for this community and for its residents. This park will be more than the land where it sits. It will be a pathway to this community’s happiness, health, well-being, social interaction, pride, economy, and much, much more. It will be essential to vibrant, thriving communities,” said Arun Agarwal, president of the Dallas Park and Recreation Board.
The project’s first phase is the outdoor space construction and renovation of approximately 10,000 square feet of the shopping center interior.
Officials expect this phase to be completed by the end of 2024.
Despite light rain and mist, city leaders joined with the community for a ceremonial demolition at the future park site. Those giving remarks included Adam McGough, Dallas City Council, District 10; Kathy Stewart, Dallas City Councilmember-Elect District 10; Arun Agarwal, President, Dallas Park and Recreation Board; Scott Goldstein, Dallas Park and Recreation Board District 10; Robb Stewart, former member, Dallas Park and Recreation Board; and Andrew “Andy” Acord, Retired Deputy Chief Dallas Police. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/city-of-dallas-kicks-off-7-5-million-project-to-transform-northeast-community/3276850/ | 2023-06-14T00:58:25 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/city-of-dallas-kicks-off-7-5-million-project-to-transform-northeast-community/3276850/ |
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The latest fire at a Far Northeast Dallas condominium complex has residents raising questions Tuesday about how the place is managed.
The Richland Trace Condominiums are on Walnut Street near Audelia Road. Felicia Flowers returned to her destroyed home Tuesday looking for anything she could save. She said the fire started small and she does not understand how it grew so big.
“We called 911. We tried to put it out. It didn’t go out. The firemen came in and we got out,” she said.
This time, firefighters did limit damage to half a dozen of the nearly 600 units in the 20-building complex.
Lolita Caperas, the owner of an adjacent condo unit, said she was alerted by someone pounding on her door around 5 a.m.
“By the time I got out of the bed, I see the smoke in my unit,” she said.
Windows were open Tuesday in the unit Caperas said she has owned for 20 years. She said Richland Trace used to be a great place.
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“We had sprinklers on our lawn. They took care if there’s any issues, they address it,” she said.
Now, Caperas said many units in her building are still vacant since the 2021 freeze-damaged pipes.
Cristian Gandolfo, the current homeowners association president, declined to speak on TV. But he told NBC5 the HOA is working hard to improve Richland Terrace. He said vacant unit repairs are tied up in an insurance dispute.
Condo owner Tony Morales said lack of watering foundations around the complex is the reason for pipe problems.
“So, in the building shifting, pipes in the buildings are bursting, which are hitting the wiring systems. So, that’s the issue here,” Morales said.
News reports and Dallas Fire Rescue records indicate at least four other fires have occurred at Richland Trace in the past 10 years.
In a December 2013 fire, 20 units were destroyed. In February 2017, 50 residents were displaced. The cause was listed as undetermined. In January 2021 the cause of a 4-alarm fire was listed as accidental. Combustible were left too close to a heat source. A March 2021 fire was reported in the same structure as the January 2021 fire. Firefighters said the cause of that fire was incendiary, meaning that it was set by someone on purpose.
Gandolfo blamed past fires on tenant behavior, such as using ovens for heat and not problems with the buildings.
“And that’s the problem when you don’t have owners because owners take care of their property,” Caperas said.
Condo owner Julie Littlejohn said she recently purchased a unit for her son. She said was alarmed by the fire damage and vacant units she saw while visiting the complex Tuesday.
“I’m concerned. I wish they would fix them up. It could be a nice place,” Littlejohn said.
A cause of Tuesday’s fire was not available from firefighters.
A Dallas Code Enforcement spokesman said Richland Trace failed a May 26 inspection over problems with the exterior of properties and common areas. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/latest-fire-worries-residents-of-a-dallas-condo-complex/3276892/ | 2023-06-14T00:58:37 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/latest-fire-worries-residents-of-a-dallas-condo-complex/3276892/ |
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The Mesquite Police Department said neighbors need to be aware of a man who's been caught on surveillance video trying to open doors at night and look into people's windows.
Investigators are asking for the people's help to identify the man.
"We have footage of him actually crawling on the floor trying to peep inside and look inside residences. We also have footage of him turning off the lights or making sure the lights are off while attempting to open the doors of houses," said Aaron Paredes, an officer with the Crime Prevention Unit with the Mesquite Police Department.
He said they've received eight to 10 cases within the last three weeks involving homes along Motley Drive and Interstate 30. They believe the person on camera is the same individual tied to a similar incident last September.
"Right now we don't know if he's targeting specific victims, we don't know exactly what his motives are and who he's actually targeting, we just know it's been a family before and women," said Paredes.
"Well, it's not good. He's bound to get shot, you know, looking in people's windows," said Danny Hiser, a neighbor in the area who recently heard about these incidents.
"I've been here 46 years, I've never seen it before, but I guess it's getting bad everywhere," Hiser said.
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The police department posted a picture of the possible suspect on Facebook, which has been shared hundreds of times.
"I saw him crawling around on the ground somewhere in one of the photos," said Hiser referring to the images police posted. "I don't think he wants to come in my house."
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- Officials revealed the cause and manner of death of a truck driver whose body was found in the rubble a day after his vehicle crashed, caught fire and caused a portion of I-95 to collapse in Northeast Philadelphia.
- Nathan Moody, 53, died from blunt trauma to the head, inhalation and thermal injuries, the Philadelphia Medical Examiner revealed Tuesday night. His death was ruled an accident.
- Moody was driving a tanker truck that was carrying about 8,500 gallons of gasoline in Northeast Philadelphia on Sunday around 6:20 a.m., officials said.
Officials revealed the cause and manner of death of a truck driver whose body was found in the rubble a day after his vehicle crashed, caught fire and caused a portion of I-95 to collapse in Northeast Philadelphia.
Nathan Moody, 53, died from blunt trauma to the head, inhalation and thermal injuries, the Philadelphia Medical Examiner revealed Tuesday night. His death was ruled an accident.
Moody was driving a tanker truck that was carrying about 8,500 gallons of gasoline in Northeast Philadelphia on Sunday around 6:20 a.m., officials said.
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As Moody exited I-95 onto Cottman Avenue, he lost control of the vehicle while navigating a turn at the end of the exit, according to investigators. The vehicle then turned onto its side before it ruptured and eventually exploded, officials said. Surveillance video from a nearby business captured the crash and explosion.
Fire from the explosion caused an elevated section of I-95 to collapse. Responding firefighters were eventually able to get the flames under control.
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Officials closed I-95 in both directions between the Aramingo and Woodhaven exits.
At about 2 p.m. Monday, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania State Police said remains had been pulled out of the rubble. Family members identified the victim as Moody before investigators officially identified him a day later.
No other vehicles are believed to have been involved in the crash, officials said.
Family members said Moody was a married father of three and an Army veteran who owned his own truck. His cousin, Alex Moody, described him as a hardworking family man who lived in the Philadelphia area and had been driving trucks for a decade.
"My cousin is a hardworking man. Family man. Good husband and father to his wife and daughter," Alex Moody told NBC10. "We've always been cool and tight. He's very mild mannered. Calm guy. Really calm person. He gets along with everybody."
Moody's other cousin, Isaac Moody, told NBC10 the two were just hanging out on Friday and had plans to meet up again for a cookout on Father's Day.
"Nate and I did that handshake then we gave each other the hug and I was like, 'Alright cuz, I'll see you man. I'll talk to you such and such.' He was supposed to call me Saturday, you know? He was supposed to call me Sunday," Isaac Moody said.
When Isaac Moody first found out about the fire and collapse, he held out hope that his cousin -- who was more like a brother to him -- would be found alive.
"Whatever got in Nate's way, he had to bail out the truck," Isaac Moody said. "Maybe they'll find him under some rubble or maybe he might still be alive. That's what I'm thinking. I'm trying to be as optimistic as possible."
Isaac Moody described the moment he found out his cousin had died.
"His older sister called me and she said, 'Ike, the state troopers just left Theresa in Jersey' and they told her they pulled the body from the truck," he said.
Family members said Moody drove the same route in and around the I-95 ramp all the time. They also told NBC10 he had a spotless driving record and delivered gasoline to Wawa stores across the region.
"Nobody ever bothers to look at who could have caused that truck, what could have caused that truck, how could that truck have lost control," Isaac Moody said.
NBC10 reached out to the trucking company Moody worked for but they declined to comment. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/officials-reveal-cause-of-death-of-truck-driver-in-i-95-crash-and-collapse/3585140/ | 2023-06-14T00:59:11 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/officials-reveal-cause-of-death-of-truck-driver-in-i-95-crash-and-collapse/3585140/ |
A suspect has been identified in a Southern Dallas kidnapping that triggered an AMBER Alert Sunday afternoon, police say.
Dallas Police said they are looking for 41-year-old Lamar Neal in connection with the abduction of two children.
Investigators said Monday they needed help identifying a man who picked up two children, ages 7 and 9, as they walked near their apartment in Southern Dallas at about 12:15 p.m. Sunday.
"They were approached by a Black male suspect in what's being described as a gray crossover vehicle, stopped and offered the children a ride and the children got in the car. They went to a local store where the 9-year-old got out, went to the door, turned back around once realized the store was closed and the suspect drove off with the girl inside the car," said Kristin Lowman, a spokesperson for the Dallas Police Department.
Police were called at about 12:30 p.m. An AMBER Alert was issued at about 6:45 p.m., more than six hours after the child was taken.
The missing 7-year-old girl was later found walking alone in her apartment complex at about 12:40 a.m. Police said no vehicle was seen dropping the child off near where she was found.
Police said Neal is wanted in connection with three charges of aggravated kidnapping, kidnapping, and aggravated sexual assault of a child.
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Charles McCrary says he was in his living room with his wife and pets when they heard the unmistakable sound of screeching tires.
“I was fearing something was about to happen, something was about to impact the house,” he said. “I hear the squealing tires when it spun out and the impact when it hit my van and I went outside. They were doing a felony stop.”
The Watauga homeowner captured video of police ordering everyone inside a sports car to get out.
It had smashed into the side of McCrary’s work van and took out his mailbox before coming to a stop, moments after racing away from an illegal street takeover two blocks away in North Richland Hills.
McCrary had no idea what had happened until a witness sent him video afterward.
Watauga Police confirm they too have obtained the video and are using it in their investigation.
The video shows a black car doing donuts at the intersection of Hightower and Rufe Snow Drives in NRH at around 10 p.m. Saturday.
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After a passenger is seen jumping out of a window mid-spin, the driver floors it as police close in.
The driver speeds down Hightower’s s-curve with police in tow. Seconds later the driver of the black car crashes into McCrary’s parked van.
“If the van hadn’t been there I can only imagine the car flipping through the curb, maybe through the front living room where I’m at,” said McCrary.
Watauga police would only reveal officers arrested the driver.
“They said he was a 19-year-old uninsured driver with two minors in the vehicle,” said McCrary. “I tell you, I don’t know what it’s going to take. I guess somebody getting hurt. Someone will think about it twice. Hopefully, this guy learns and realizes what could’ve been.” | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/tarrant-county-street-takeover-ends-with-car-smashing-into-parked-van-driver-arrested/3276874/ | 2023-06-14T00:59:27 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/tarrant-county-street-takeover-ends-with-car-smashing-into-parked-van-driver-arrested/3276874/ |
Two weeks after announcing a new public messaging system, ERCOT has issued its first Weather Watch anticipating higher electrical demand.
ERCOT, or the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc., is the agency that manages the state's power grid. On Tuesday they issued the watch warning that from June 15 through June 21, due to expected higher temperatures, there is expected to be a higher demand for electricity.
"ERCOT has issued its first Weather Watch to let Texans know that we are forecasting increased demand due to the higher temperatures expected this week and into next week," said Pablo Vegas, ERCOT President and CEO. "Grid conditions are normal when we issue a Weather Watch. ERCOT continues to monitor conditions closely and will deploy all available tools to manage the grid and will continue our reliability-first approach to operations, always prioritizing grid reliability."
Last month ERCOT announced the Texas Advisory and Notification System (TXANS) which includes two alerts, the ERCOT Weather Watch and a Voluntary Conservation Notice.
The Weather Watch is an advanced notification that is sent out under normal grid conditions about 3-5 days before a weather event to tell the public there may be a higher demand for electricity due to a forecasted event and that they should pay attention to changing conditions. The second part of TXANS is a Voluntary Conservation Notice which is a call to Texans to voluntarily reduce usage during peak times if it is safe to do so.
ERCOT said their supply and demand forecast shows the possibility of a new all-time peak demand record being reached later this week and that there is currently enough supply to meet that demand.
In 2022 Texans set 11 new peak demand records, ERCOT said, surpassing 80 GWs for the first time ever. The current record of 80,148 MWs was set on July 20, 2022.
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A person in Frisco recently claimed a top prize in the Texas Lottery scratch-off game $1,000,000 Crossword.
The Texas Lottery said the winning scratch-off ticket was purchased at the RaceTrac convenience store at 4740 W. Main Street in Frisco.
The winner asked to remain anonymous.
The prize was the sixth of eight top prizes worth $1 million to be claimed in this game.
$1,000,000 Crossword offers more than $289.2 million in total prizes. Overall odds of winning any prize in the game are one in 3.41, including break-even prizes. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/frisco-resident-wins-top-prize-on-1-million-scratch-off/3276744/ | 2023-06-14T00:59:39 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/frisco-resident-wins-top-prize-on-1-million-scratch-off/3276744/ |
The Texas Lottery says their app is temporarily inaccessible by players due to an issue with a vendor.
According to the Texas Lottery, an application update installed on June 5 didn't go as planned and left several of the app's features not working properly.
The lottery said that despite efforts to troubleshoot the issues it became necessary to put the app into Maintenance Mode on June 8, making it unavailable to users.
The Texas Lottery said they are currently working with the vendor to resolve the issues and get the app back online. They have not said when they hope to restore full access.
"The Texas Lottery is committed to offering a mobile app that is fun and informative for our players. We apologize for the disruption and inconvenience this situation has caused for our players and retailers," said Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery. "We appreciate their patience and understanding as we make every effort to restore the Texas Lottery App's full functionality as soon as possible."
The Texas Lottery will continue to provide updates on the status of the app's restoration on its website and on social media channels. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-lottery-app-taken-offline-after-an-update-doesnt-go-as-planned/3276650/ | 2023-06-14T00:59:45 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-lottery-app-taken-offline-after-an-update-doesnt-go-as-planned/3276650/ |
On Tuesday, new students walked in groups at the University of North Texas for orientation. Some of their most important lessons won't come in the classroom. That's why the UNT Financial Wellness Program exists.
"The formula for college success today is two factors; grades and money," UNT Student Money Management Center Director Paul Goebel said. "I think it's facing new financial responsibilities and expectations that sometimes can trip up students on their path to college completion."
The UNT Financial Wellness Program helps bridge the financial education gap, helping teach students everything from managing student loans to setting budgets.
"Pursuing a college education is expensive and they need to understand, how they develop the skills to identify and secure the funding," Goebel said. "More importantly, to manage those funds so they have a long-term strategy that will take them from the first semester to the graduation stage."
Goebel started the program at UNT years ago when it was one of the first of its kind. He's since helped more than 200 schools open similar centers for their students.
"It's important because we're only going to be in these tin walls here at UNT for so long," UNT '23 graduate Elandra Collins said. "There's life after college!"
Collins used the services at UNT's Student Money Management Center. She was also a student peer counselor at the center, helping other students navigate financial issues.
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'Being able to pay bills. Being able to build your credit. Being able to pay back your student loans, which a large majority of students have," Collins pointed out. "That's something that we really, really try to help our students have the knowledge for."
According to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 40% of UNT students today graduate with no debt. About 75% of UNT students receive financial aid and scholarships.
"That's a sense of empowerment," Goebel said. "We want all students to experience that sense of empowerment, not only when they're with us, but also more importantly when they leave us." | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/unt-financial-wellness-program-aims-to-help-eagles-soar-beyond-graduation/3276818/ | 2023-06-14T00:59:51 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/unt-financial-wellness-program-aims-to-help-eagles-soar-beyond-graduation/3276818/ |
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VENTNOR — Attendees of Saturday's Atlantic City Truck Meet apparently wanted to keep the party going after the event had ended for the day, but police were having none of it.
About 8 p.m. Saturday, police received a report of a large number of trucks in the parking lot of the Ventnor Plaza on Wellington Avenue, where an estimated 400 vehicles and 1,000 people had gathered.
It is presumed these individuals had recently come from the Atlantic City Truck Meet, police said, which had taken place earlier that day at Bader Field and ended about 6 p.m.
Police arrived in the parking lot to monitor the situation. While there, they saw some vehicles begin performing dangerous and reckless maneuvers, the department said in a news release. Officers stopped several vehicles, issuing some citations for reckless driving.
Margate and Atlantic City police arrived to help Ventnor police disperse the group, the vast majority of whom they said were cooperative and compliant.
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There were no reported injuries or property damage.
Billed as "The North East's Largest Truck Show" on its website, the Atlantic City Truck Meet took place Saturday and Sunday at Bader Field. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ventnor-police-chase-away-trucks-in-town-for-atlantic-city-event/article_1c1368a4-0a3d-11ee-851d-bfb222edd6dd.html | 2023-06-14T00:59:58 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ventnor-police-chase-away-trucks-in-town-for-atlantic-city-event/article_1c1368a4-0a3d-11ee-851d-bfb222edd6dd.html |
PHOENIX — The City of Phoenix is seeking feedback from local residents on how it should redraw its eight voting districts.
Since the latest census numbers show Phoenix gaining several new residents over the last decade, the city must begin the process of redistricting its council seats to ensure their equitable in terms of population.
Each district should now have the ideal population of 201,017, which means each of the current districts must be redrawn to achieve this ideal number.
Districts 1, 3, 4, and 6 must increase their population and districts 2, 5, 7, and 8 must lose some residents. The city intends to adopt its new districts at the start of 2024.
The city's starting to host community meetings in each district to collect feedback on the redistricting process.
The schedule for upcoming meetings is as follows:
District 3: Tuesday, June 20, at 8:30 a.m. in North Mountain Visitor's Center
District 7: Tuesday, June 20, at 6 p.m. in Burton Barr Central Library
District 8: Wednesday, June 21, at 6 p.m. in South Mountain Community College
Citywide: Friday, June 23, at 2:30 p.m. in Council Chambers
District 2: Saturday, June 24, at 10 a.m. in Paradise Valley Community Center
District 4: Monday, June 26, at 6 p.m. in Steele Indian School Park
District 5: Tuesday, June 27, at 6 p.m. in Maryvale Community Center
District 6: Wednesday, June 28, at 6 p.m. in Devonshire Senior Center
Comments can be submitted to the city by calling 602-261-8683 or sending an email to phoenixredistricting@phoenix.gov.
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Victims identified in Superstition Mountain plane crash near Apache Junction
The two individuals who were aboard a plane that crashed in the Superstition Mountains area near Apache Junction have been identified Tuesday afternoon by the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office.
Those individuals are pilot Simon Nurrish, 45, and passenger Stuart Gregory, 53.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Just before 8 a.m. Saturday, the plane was flying in formation with two more planes as part of a recreational flight heading to Payson from Falcon Field Airport in Mesa, the NTSB said.
While flying over Apache Junction, one of the planes, a single-engine Compagnie Daher TB 30 Epsilon, crashed into the mountains and was consumed by a post-crash fire. The circumstances that caused the crash were "undetermined," the safety board said.
A Pinal County Sheriff's Office air support helicopter was able to locate the crash site, which is in an extremely rugged and vertical rocky area, the board said. Recovery efforts were underway Saturday morning at the site of the crash and two men's bodies were recovered.
The board asked anyone who may have witnessed the accident to contact witness@NTSB.gov. The investigation was ongoing. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/pinal-breaking/2023/06/13/superstition-mountain-plane-crash-apache-junction-victims-identified/70319277007/ | 2023-06-14T01:00:35 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/pinal-breaking/2023/06/13/superstition-mountain-plane-crash-apache-junction-victims-identified/70319277007/ |
Lee and Danielle Stimpson’s 15th Street home has taken on water three times in the past month.
“Every time it rains, we do get flooding,” Lee Stimpson said. “The corner out here tends to back up really quickly.”
The Stimpsons have lived in their home for about six years and said that their home is located in a bowl where the water tends to move toward their house.
“That’s been happening for years,” Danielle Stimpson said. “We’ve asked the city for years to come and update the sewer lines. The sewer lines are still from 1908.”
Idaho Falls received .87 inches of rain between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Monday, said Travis Wyatt, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Pocatello office. The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for Shelley at 5:37 p.m. and the Idaho Falls and Ammon area at 6:04 p.m. but canceled both warnings at 6:30 p.m.
“We were starting to get a lot of reports at that point of different flooding areas,” Wyatt said, explaining why the warnings were issued and then canceled. “Then I called the emergency manager … and he said no, … it did flood initially but it was mainly due to the debris in the drains.”
Following Monday’s storm, Idaho Falls received several calls to the wastewater division to report drainage problems, said Kerry Hammon, City of Idaho Falls public information officer. The fire department did not receive any calls.
“There weren’t any water rescue calls. There weren’t any stranded vehicles,” Hammon said.
The Idaho Falls Police Department briefly shut down the underpass next to Yellowstone Highway on 17th Street for about 15 to 20 minutes, she said.
However, low-lying areas, particularly on the numbered streets, are still prone to flooding.
The Stimpsons are still recovering from the May 23 flooding that surrounded their home with knee-high water, filling their window wells and leaking four to six inches into their basement.
Danielle Stimpson estimates the damage to their home ranges from $20,000 to $30,000.
Melody Byers and Jason Oswald live in the house next door. During the late May storm, the flooding burst their downstairs door off the frame, inundating their lower living room with floodwater. They received 63 inches of water in their basement — losing their photographs, books, furnace, water heater, washing machine, dryer and furniture.
“It didn’t need to be this bad,” Byers said. “There’s flooding, and then there’s total loss flooding which is when half of our house and our possessions are gone. It’s hard to even talk about it. You have to beg for help.”
On May 24, the day after the major storm, the city sent a pump truck that made more than 40 trips to drain the water from their street.
The city’s pump trucks can hold between 1,000 to 1,500 gallons of water, Hammon said.
The city deployed the pump trucks again Monday to respond to the flooding.
Additionally, the city sent out survey crews Tuesday to assess the drainage system.
“We’re looking underground to see what the system is like right now,” Hammon said. “Once we have all that information, we can take it to engineering. … It doesn’t mean they’ll be done right away because there’s a lot of funding and engineer work that needs to be done, but it is on our radar, and we are actively looking into finding a solution for it in this specific area.” | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/idaho-falls-residents-experience-flooding-for-the-third-time-in-three-weeks/article_b4c849ec-0a39-11ee-b306-c73a63027132.html | 2023-06-14T01:02:42 | 0 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/idaho-falls-residents-experience-flooding-for-the-third-time-in-three-weeks/article_b4c849ec-0a39-11ee-b306-c73a63027132.html |
In 1948, four Idaho Falls artists founded the Idaho Falls Art Guild, later to be renamed the Eagle Rock Art Guild.
One was a high school art teacher. One was a sign shop owner. One taught junior high art. And another was a commercial artist.
Helen Aupperle, Fred Ochi, Susanne Fonnesbeck and Ina Schwartz Oyler gathered together in the name of art. They only wanted to bring their love for the medium to a community that didn't know they needed it.
The four had no plan, no agenda and no home. They only had their passion for art. They began to meet every Thursday at the A.B.C. Gift Shop on Park Avenue.
Slowly more and more artists wanted to join the guild. The meeting place moved to O.E. Bell Junior High School and then eventually to the Idaho Falls High School when it was built in 1954.
In 1963, the guild found a permanent home to create, teach and inspire the Idaho Falls art community. The city let the guild meet in what was known as the "Log Hut." The hut was built with bare logs and only had oil heaters to provide warmth. But the meeting place wasn't what mattered then, it was the work that came out of it. However, the guild was forced to leave the hut after 19 years.
It then started a journey to bring an art museum to Idaho Falls. More than $500,000 was raised to build the museum. But after its completion, the guild parted ways with the Art Museum of Eastern Idaho. Its soon-to-be home was left for someone else to occupy.
"Somehow the museum building became the city's property, and it left the guild homeless," guild President Dawn Langston said.
For the last 75 years, the Eagle Rock Art Guild has worked to make art more accessible to the Idaho Falls community. It has promoted local artists, brought in artists from out of town and held classes to teach different art mediums.
For the last 20 years, the guild has continued that work without a permanent location, without a home.
It has been in what Langston calls "a low activity mode." Meetings have been held in different board members' homes, but there is no location to hold classes like in previous years.
"The guild and the museum had different visions, so they decided to part ways," TAM executive director Miyai Abe Griggs said of the split 20 years ago. "It's unfortunate, but it happens."
However, for the guild's 75th anniversary celebration, the two entities decided to collaborate. The TAM is displaying the guild's permanent collection until Aug. 12. The collection contains more than 90 pieces, all wall hangings. Some of the pieces are work from the guild's four founders. Other pieces are from artists the founders brought to town to teach classes.
The exhibit pays homage to the legacy of the guild in Idaho Falls, said Abe Griggs.
Abe Griggs has been the executive director of TAM for nearly 13 years. She began as a volunteer, hoping to find an artistic outlet. Instead, Abe Griggs said she found a home. After volunteering, she was hired to take over TAM's public relations and soon became the assistant director and then executive director.
Abe Griggs plans to retire this year. The guild's permanent collection will be her last exhibit.
"I wasn't a part of the beginnings, but I do know that ideally the museum and guild would have stayed together," Abe Griggs said. "On my way out, leaving on this exhibit makes me really happy."
Abe Griggs hopes that TAM and the guild continue to collaborate in the future.
"The art museum is dedicated to helping the guild in any way we can," Abe Griggs said. "We are cognizant of the legacy the guild established for all of us so that we can enjoy the vibrant art seen we have now."
The guild will hold the 68th annual Sidewalk Art Festival on July 22-23 at the River Walk. This event is a staple in the guild's history.
The founders would bring out personal art and artists from around the country to showcase pieces and create on-the-spot work. The tradition has continued for decades, but Langston hopes this year's festival will be one that stands out.
Because it is the guild's 75th anniversary, the festival will have more artists, more vendors and more food trucks. The guild is providing a booth for artists at local high schools to showcase work for free. TAM will also have a booth at the festival.
"I remember as a young girl going to the festival. It's amazing to see other people's talents," Langston said. "It is an introduction to art most people don't get."
Artist applications for the festival are being accepted through June 30 at eaglerockartguild.com/sidewalk-art-festival-1#Booth-Application.
As Idaho's oldest art guild, Langston hoped that it can continue to grow. The guild is still looking for a permanent location. Supporting the Sidewalk Art Festival is a great way to help the guild find a home, Langston said.
"We can do a lot of good once we get that foundation," Langston said. "Any support is welcome, whether it is financial or volunteer."
The guild is still looking for volunteers for set up and tear down for the festival. Applications for that can be found at eaglerockartguild.com.
"We are looking to open up doors that have been closed in the past," Langston said. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/looking-for-a-home-eagle-rock-art-guild-celebrates-75th-year/article_5f83dd32-0a0e-11ee-8ac7-6b47c68e7758.html | 2023-06-14T01:02:48 | 1 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/looking-for-a-home-eagle-rock-art-guild-celebrates-75th-year/article_5f83dd32-0a0e-11ee-8ac7-6b47c68e7758.html |
ALBERTA, Canada — Wildfires continue to burn all across Canada. The official snapshot of the situation gives you an idea, it’s west to east, north to south.
With such a heavy fire presence across the great north crews from around the world are teaming up to help the Canadians.
“I got back from a fire and my assistant was like, don't be mad at me. You're leaving tomorrow. And I just got told that morning that we rostered the crew to go to Canada,” said Jasmine Chowning a member of the Idaho Department of Lands Kootenai Valley team.
The team went straight up north to Alberta, Canada. The team landed at Chipewyan Lake fighting the lightning caused Carrot Lake Fire which has grown to more than 20,000 acres.
“We were ready to go as soon as we got there. We got rained out the first two days. They attached us to the Carrot Lake fire up in the Chipewyan Lake District. With how wet the ground stays, it's very impressive how much it still burns,” Chowning said. “You got a foot and a half of depth. And the first eight inches are saturated with water. You can squeeze it and ring it out, but it is still burning underneath.”
Those conditions are very different from what Idaho firefighters usually encounter. The duff layer, as it’s called, is a layer of partly decayed organic material that collects on the forest floor.
“It feels like you're walking on clouds, like pillows. I mean, super springy, a lot of mud. Your boots get caked up really fast. There's a lot of good clay out there,” Chowning said.
The team of 13 IDL staffers focused on helping to protect the village around Chipewyan Lake. Roughly 200 people live in the village, they’ve been evacuated for weeks. IDL’s crew secured homes, checking to make sure burned areas were cold to the touch, a sign that reignition is low.
Chowning specifically had quite a trip, stepping into a new role. She was dispatched to the Heli base because of her experience working with a Helitak team. Long story short, she ended up as the Heli base manager where she was in charge coordinating 15 aircraft. Chowning calculated plans for people, equipment, and water drops.
“Tying in with those locals, then getting an Australian team as well as a Tasmanian crew who traveled with the Aussie team. So, we went from learning the Canadian way of doing things, to the Australian ways of doing things. All that differed verbiage in a 14-day period,” Chowning said.
The work and the conditions are tough as firefighters continue to work across Canada. There is a silver lining Jasmine found, fire teams from around the world get it.
“It's not it's not just your region. It's not just your state. It's worldwide. You instantly bond with people because you're all out there doing the same job. You know, it might be slightly different from spot to spot, but we're all doing the same thing and do it for a reason,” Chowning said.
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BOISE, Idaho — Boise Police are asking for witnesses to a murder where a man intentionally hit two people with his vehicle, ultimately killing one. The incident occurred on June 2 on West Poplar Drive and North Cole Road.
While the primary murder suspect in custody, Boise Police detectives are still seeking the driver or passengers of a dark-colored sedan that was seen traveling directly behind the suspect's vehicle when the victims were struck.
Investigators said the sedan was traveling west on Poplar Drive towards Cole Road at the time of the incident and believe the occupants may have witnessed the incident.
The primary suspect was arrested shortly after the crime on Friday, June 2. Marion Nikichimus, 23-year-old from Boise, was booked into the Ada County Jail after he intentionally hit two people with his vehicle, killing a woman, according to the Boise Police Department.
Police said Nikichimus was involved in an altercation on West Poplar Drive Friday, east of Cole Road. Nikichimus reportedly used his vehicle to hit the woman and a man, who was treated at the scene.
Upon arrival around 9:15 p.m. on June 2, police officers located the woman who was hit and attempted life-saving efforts before Ada County Paramedics arrived. The woman, identified as 37-year-old Elizabeth Sorg of Boise by the Ada County Coroner's Office, died at a local hospital shortly after arriving.
Boise Police located Nikichimus and his vehicle a short distance from the scene of the crime. He was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and aggravated battery.
Anyone who witnessed or has information about Nikichimus or the incident is asked to call police dispatch at 208-377-6790. You can also contact Crime Stoppers at 343-COPS (2677), www.343COPS.com, or by leaving a tip on your mobile device by using the P3 Tips app.
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BOISE, Idaho — Local artist Bobby Gaytan and his assistant Dana Wagner are painting the orange barriers blocking the 8th street crosswalks through Thursday in downtown Boise.
The Downtown Boise Association (DBA) organized the project, according to Gaytan. The orange barriers are designed to keep visually impaired people from wandering into the oncoming traffic, according to DBA Executive Director Jennifer Hensley.
In the future, the City of Boise is working to install "bumpy strips" along the widened crosswalks in place of the construction-type barriers. The same style of barriers can also be seen elsewhere through the city, specifically up and down multiple projects along the 11th street rebuild.
"This is a really nice little street here. I don't think people want to confuse construction with art," Gaytan said. "So, downtown Boise could see something different other than construction right now with all the orange and flags and signs."
The City of Boise converted two downtown blocks along 8th street to "pedestrian only" through the COVID-19 pandemic to help stimulate business. The blocks run between West Bannock Street and West Main Street.
They city has not allowed vehicle traffic through the area since June 2020, according to Hensley.
Passing pedestrians stopped to ask Gaytan about the project Tuesday morning; some people noticed the change immediately.
"I think it's also really cool that it's a local Boise artist," Boise resident Randi Anderson said. "It’s cool to be able to look at that instead of a big orange atrocity."
Gaytan will finish all 8th street barriers - donning different designs - by Thursday at 10 a.m.
"It's welcoming. A lot of time people come to the city and see the art. If they can connect to the city, they feel comfortable and feel welcomed. I think that's a good way to look at it," Gaytan said.
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BOISE, Idaho — A park in Boise was causing people concern after dead fish popped up at Terry Day Pond near Overland Road and Capitol Boulevard.
About 100 dead fish washed up on the edges of the pond over the weekend.
People that walked along the trails noticed the dead fish and grew concerned about how this not only affects the fish, but also others that enjoy the pond.
"Yeah, it is concerning. Now that school is out, kids here go fishing almost every day and there are ducks and geese that hang out at the pond," Shannon Jares of Boise said. "So, I'm not sure if it's something that could affect them as well."
KTVB spoke to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game about this particular case. The department said they have gone out to investigate. However, since about a week had gone by before a biologist went to check, they weren't able to determine what caused the fish to die.
Officials also mentioned the pond hadn't been restocked since 2013 and it is common for fish to die after that amount of time.
The Boise Parks and Recreation Department has since cleaned up the dead fish from the pond.
Idaho Fish and Game says if you notice large amounts of fish that are dead near a pond to contact them.
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BELTON, Texas — Belton ISD announced the addition of three new principals who will all begin their leadership roles at the start of the 2023-2024 school year.
The announcement came at the Board of Trustees regular meeting on Monday, June 12.
Felicia Gibson will be the principal of Southwest Elementary, Debi Younger will lead Sparta Elementary and Steele Hantgin will be the new principal of Lake Belton High School.
This news comes on the heels of the school board's approval for a new compensation plan that includes a $1,200 pay increase for all teachers and a two-percent raise for professional staff and administrators.
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You might not expect the death of a municipal parking administrator to set off a period of deep public mourning.
But if you go downtown, you’ll see Donovan Durband’s name on all three theater marquees — the Rialto, the Screening Room and the Fox. And if you were downtown on Saturday night, you saw an outdoor stage named after him, too. You may see other memorials around town or on your social media, as well.
Durband was the Park Tucson administrator for more than 11 years, yes, but that was just the most recent expression of his enduring passion. For more than two decades, since the downtown Tucson doldrums of the 1990s, he poured everything into improving it .
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Durband died unexpectedly of an unknown medical condition on June 3 at age 58. I was on vacation out of state when it happened and had to look at Facebook again and again to be sure what I was reading was true. I got to know him in 2003 when I was reporting on efforts to redevelop downtown and would run into him occasionally over the years, usually on the sidewalks in the center of town.
Durband has been such a fixture downtown, sometimes in the background and others times out in front, that nobody who has been around can quite believe he’s left the scene. His quiet, tireless effort to get things going will be hard to replace.
That he would become a fixture and font of knowledge about Tucson of all places was hardly predictable. He was born, the fifth and last child in his family, in northwestern Iowa. He went to high school in Holland, Michigan and attended Northwestern University for a time before coming to Tucson and finishing his bachelor’s degree at the University of Arizona. That’s where the Tucson thing began.
He got interested in urban planning and earned a master’s degree in it from the UA. He and his wife Erin married in 1993.
One of the early sparks of interest in downtown was when he checked out the effort to revive the Fox Tucson Theatre in the mid-1990s.
“We became fast friends immediately, and we spent the next 20-some years being friends and collaborating on things,” said Herb Stratford, who led the revival of the Fox. “Any project I was doing downtown, he was just involved in, because he was involved in everything.”
But in the 1990s, downtown Tucson was hardly a promising prospect to make your lifetime passion. When he took over as executive director of the Tucson Downtown Alliance in May 1999, one of the newest businesses was a Hells Angels storefront called Loco 81 on South Sixth Avenue. Four months later, federal agents raided the place, seizing weapons and ammunition and arresting the leader.
Nevertheless, Durband saw promise and boned up on the history. By the time I met him in 2003, he could tell me all about Jacome’s and Levy’s, stores that hadn’t existed for years, as well as the history of various blocks and buildings.
Michael Crawford, a former City Council member who helped him get that job, recalled that as well.
“He had this historic knowledge of everything downtown. I would call him up and ask, ‘what about this building — who owns it, who owned it?’ He had a photographic memory about that sort of thing.”
Durband left the alliance in 2009 and joined new council member Steve Kozachik’s staff. By this time, Rio Nuevo was stumbling forward and there were halting signs of improvement downtown. Durband came up with a new concept.
Downtown interests had previous held a monthly gathering to pump life into the area. In early 2010, Durband and others revived the idea. They called it “Second Saturdays” and launched it that summer.
Mia Schnaible, who was part of the group that organized the event and kept it going, said the success of the first night surprised them: 6,000 people showed up.
“Because of Donovan and the 2nd Saturday idea, we got new people downtown,” she said. “It was really cool to see how this event changed how people came downtown.”
Even after he took the job as parking administrator in 2012, Durband remained deeply involved downtown.
He co-founded the Festivals and Events Association of Tucson and Southern Arizona, Schnaible said. Then he spearheaded an effort to get Tucson recognized as a World Festival and Event City in 2017.
He helped out with the Arizona International Film Festival, Film Fest Tucson and many other events people dreamed up for downtown and other parts of Tucson. He worked methodically and with good humor, connecting people, solving problems, especially as they related to parking. During the pandemic, he helped restaurants downtown expand into areas that were parking places, so they could have outdoor seating.
After Erin, his wife, took up selling Pappardelle’s Pasta in 2014, each of them would go to different local farmer’s markets on the weekends, too. He was tireless in engaging with Tucson.
“He was so proud of it,” older sister Stephanie Durband Doeschot told me. “He loved it and would brag about it to his family members in the midwest. He loved the city so much.”
A celebration of Durband’s life is scheduled for noon on Saturday, June 24 at the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.
Of course, nothing would honor his life so much as for local people go downtown, patronize the businesses and enjoy the scene he helped create.
Tim Steller is an opinion columnist. A 25-year veteran of reporting and editing, he digs into issues and stories that matter in the Tucson area, reports the results and tells you his conclusions. Contact him at tsteller@tucson.com or 520-807-7789. On Twitter: @senyorreporter | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/tim-stellers-column-loss-of-downtowns-big-booster-a-shock-for-tucson/article_f7308922-0a14-11ee-92e3-9f55e4fd30a5.html | 2023-06-14T01:21:09 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/tim-stellers-column-loss-of-downtowns-big-booster-a-shock-for-tucson/article_f7308922-0a14-11ee-92e3-9f55e4fd30a5.html |
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BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) — The Bristol, Virginia City Council unanimously approved an ordinance on its first reading to lower the new solid waste collection fee from $60 to $48. City residents currently pay $33, however, that’s planned to increase to $60 on July 1.
Council members were clear on their hopes to reduce the trash collection fee for residents, which was initially approved to increase to $60 during the city’s budget approval in an attempt to offset expenses of the now-closed landfill.
City Manager and Attorney Randall Eads presented the ordinance, stating the potential reduction is possible thanks to city staff securing revenue from other facets. One of those facets is $477,000 in ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) grant funding that Eads said will cover the cost of new police cars, allowing the city to shift money around, making the proposed reduction possible.
Councilman Anthony Farnum said as they work to reduce the expense of closing the landfill, he hopes the trash collection fee can keep being reduced, as well.
“I hope $48 is maybe not permanent, I hope some of these [landfill] expenses will go down and we’ll be able to move past it,” Farnum said during the meeting.
Both Mayor Neal Osborne and Vice-Mayor Becky Nave said they fully intend to pass this ordinance at its second reading. If the amended fee is approved on second reading at the June 20 special session, the $48 solid waste disposal fee for Bristol, Va. residents would take effect on the same day. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/bristol-va-city-council-approves-reduction-to-new-trash-collection-fee-on-first-reading/ | 2023-06-14T01:26:08 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/bristol-va-city-council-approves-reduction-to-new-trash-collection-fee-on-first-reading/ |
HARMONY -- On Tuesday June 13th, the town of Harmony came together to rededicate a memorial in remembrance of mother Amy, and children Coty and Monica who passed away in 2011 from a domestic violence incident.
"I don't like calling it an anniversary because anniversary's are suppose to be fun," said Vance Ginn who was one of the driving forces behind the rebuilding project. "I always call it the marking of the loss."
The Grand Lodge of Maine, local Free Masons, and community members, stepped up to raise money towards the memorial which was in need of repair.
The town came together for a cookout. To share memories and well wishes. To comfort, support, and mourn the loss of Amy, Coty, Monica, and every loved one who is a victim of domestic violence. Family members say the support is much needed on this day.
Super: linda bagley / mother, grandmother of victims /
According to Linda Bagely, the mother of Amy and grandmother of Coty and Monica, "It's what gets you through. You know, everyday we've got all these people. Not just our community, but the surrounding communities that's just been...it's overwhelming."
Vance Ginn shared her feelings as well, "I've had the same loss. I lost my daughter to domestic violence. That memorial was put up for Amy, Coty, and Monica. But to people like me, it has more meaning then just that. It focuses on what the good people could do in a bad situation."
Families are pushing for added measures to protect domestic violence victims -- such as gps monitoring for convicted abusers.
According to Ralph Bagley, who is the father of Amy and grandfather of Coty and Monica, "We would not of had to have had a memorial down here, if that had been in effect before our daughter and grandchildren had been murdered."
Although such rules are in effect in a few counties across the state, families are asking the state of Maine to implement a statewide act that would force people who are out on probation to wear ankle monitoring bracelets.
"We're able to monitor in someone's movements in real time," said Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster. "We can make inclusions and exclusion zones. The town of Dexter would've been an exclusion zone, and when that was breeched we would've been alerted."
The family says that although there's work to be done to protect victims in the future, they are grateful for the love and support they receive from everyone near and far. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/rebuild-ankle-monitors-hope-harmony-comes-together-to-rededicate-family-memorial/article_9e59f21a-0a4c-11ee-877a-03bccaf0ad79.html | 2023-06-14T01:40:51 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/rebuild-ankle-monitors-hope-harmony-comes-together-to-rededicate-family-memorial/article_9e59f21a-0a4c-11ee-877a-03bccaf0ad79.html |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A local high school student is taking fire safety a step further by organizing a community smoke alarm installation event.
Isaac Choi and his team recently installed 30 smoke alarms in about five hours in the Beaverton area for senior citizens.
“They had old smoke alarms and we replaced them,” Choi said. “Or if they didn’t have smoke alarms, we installed them.”
The Oregon Charter Academy junior is on the Youth Executive Board for the Red Cross.
He wanted to do a smoke alarm installation as his project after seeing reports of homes destroyed in fires where there were no smoke detectors.
“In Oregon, there’s a lot of fires that can spread to homes. I think they thought it was really important to keep their homes safe,” Choi explained.
The Tualatin Hills Parks and Recreation Department put out flyers about Choi’s event to spread the word and the Red Cross provided the smoke alarms and everything else they needed for installation.
Choi and the volunteers also gave residents safety sheets with fire escape plans to ensure their overall safety.
“When I participated in the smoke alarm installation myself, I gained a lot of insight and different life perspectives,” Choi said. “I think they were really glad and happy for this resource.”
The American Red Cross offers resources for updating smoke alarms and volunteer opportunities for smoke alarm installation events.
According to national data, almost three of every five home fire deaths result from fires in homes with no smoke alarms. | https://www.koin.com/local/high-schooler-hosts-smoke-alarm-installation-event-for-beaverton-seniors/ | 2023-06-14T01:42:09 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/high-schooler-hosts-smoke-alarm-installation-event-for-beaverton-seniors/ |
MIDLAND, Texas —
The City of Midland released information Tuesday on a dog that died in a Midland Animal Services vehicle.
According to the city, on Thursday afternoon, Midland Animal Services received a call from a veterinarian clinic to investigate a situation where a dog bit one of their employees.
When an animal services officer arrived, they requested the owners of the dog, a 7-year-old bulldog/pitbull mix.
They put the dog in a running animal services vehicle, with the air conditioner on in the transport compartment.
After approximately an hour of gathering information on the bite case, the officer returned to the animal services facility and found the dog dead.
The city said Midland Animal Services is conducting an internal review after the situation. They also released the following statement:
“We have been in contact with the family and realize the impact the loss of their pet has on them. We know how important pets are as well as the importance of all animals in our community. We are and will continue to be committed to safeguarding public health and protecting animal welfare in Midland.”
This is all the information we currently have on the situation. We will update this story if more details are released. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/midland-animal-services-conducting-internal-review-after-dog-dies-in-transport-compartment/513-3855c436-5445-40a0-a498-79f61afc7169 | 2023-06-14T01:43:29 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/midland-animal-services-conducting-internal-review-after-dog-dies-in-transport-compartment/513-3855c436-5445-40a0-a498-79f61afc7169 |
LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — The cold case of Joan Marie Dymond is warming up.
She was only 14 years old when she disappeared from Andover Street Park in Wilkes-Barre on June 25th, 1969.
Her remains were found decades later in November of 2012 on the grounds of a former coal mining operation in Newport Township near Nanticoke.
Investigators now confirm Dymond was a victim of homicide.
"I do feel positive where the investigation is at right now and we are doing a lot of interviews and we have done a lot of interviews. We have a lot of interviews to do, by no means are we done," said Trooper Andrew Morgantini.
Up until last fall, Dyond was only known as "Jane Newport Doe."
Since announcing her identity back in October, investigators say they've talked to several friends and classmates. Now they hope to put even more pieces of the puzzle together.
"There have been individuals that we found along the way who didn't contact us, we got information from them, but it always helps if someone calls us rather than us having to track them down so it saves time and helps the investigation," explained Trooper Morgantini.
State Police are not revealing how Joan Marie Dymond died, but they still want to talk to anyone who may have information about her life, disappearance, or death.
"We're trying to put people in places at certain times or determine who was hanging out with Joan at that time and what mutual friends they had. Someone may think that is minor and they are not going to call in but that is very important to the investigation," said Trooper Morgantini.
Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers is offering a $5,000 reward for information relating to the homicide of Joan Marie Dymond.
If you do have information, you should contact State Police Shickshinny Station at 570-542-4117. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/new-details-in-luzerne-county-cold-case/523-d8a94133-3d3d-41fa-b155-2d9f2f3af78b | 2023-06-14T01:47:32 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/new-details-in-luzerne-county-cold-case/523-d8a94133-3d3d-41fa-b155-2d9f2f3af78b |
FOLSOM, Calif. — The Folsom Cordova Unified School District (FCUSD) board is considering a study into the possibility of dividing the district into two smaller ones: Folsom and Rancho Cordova.
The district consists of 34 schools and nearly 21,000 enrolled students.
A special joint meeting was held June 8 among FCUSD, the city of Rancho Cordova and the city of Folsom for a follow-up on the effort of the split launched by board members in January.
At the January meeting, it was requested for staff to report back on the cost and process of completing a study on the district’s reorganization.
According to FCUSD, staff contacted Schools Services of California (SSCAL) to present to the FCUSD Board the reorganization process and the cost estimate.
SSCAL’s proposal for the reorganization feasibility study would be $72,500.
The feasibility study is to determine if district separation would meet the nine statutory criteria required by state law under the Education Code.
The nine statutory criteria that must be met are:
- Adequate Number of Pupils
- Community Identity
- Equitable Division of Property and Facilities
- Discrimination/Segregation
- No Substantial Increase in State Costs
- Sound Educational Program
- No Substantial Increase in School Facilities Costs
- Increased Property Values
- Effect on Fiscal Status and Management
This is not the first time the district attempted a divide.
According to a history document from FCUSD, the board voted 4-1 in favor to reorganize in 2002 but the Sacramento County Committee on School District Reorganization found that it did not meet four of the nine criteria.
“District leaders are sensitive to the many strong feelings and desires of the community surrounding this topic and are committed to working collaboratively to serve the interests of our community and the best possible learning outcomes for all students in both Rancho Cordova and Folsom,“ Dr. Sarah Koligian, Superintendent of FCUSD, told ABC10.
ABC10 reached out to FCUSD and received the following statement:
There is no decision or action being made on reorganization or separation at this time. Prior to any action taking place, a feasibility study needs to be completed and a lengthy process of local and state approval needs to be conducted.
A vote to approve a feasibility study will be conducted at a board meeting Thursday.
Watch more from ABC10: Sacramento State holds first campus-wide Juneteenth celebration | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/folsom-orangevale/folsom-cordova-unified-considers-split/103-24b63e6a-5808-4280-8aed-8797262d4872 | 2023-06-14T01:48:59 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/folsom-orangevale/folsom-cordova-unified-considers-split/103-24b63e6a-5808-4280-8aed-8797262d4872 |
TAMPA, Fla. — A man found seriously hurt Tuesday evening in Tampa has died, and now, police say they are searching for the person responsible for his death.
The person authorities are looking for is described as a Black male in his early to mid-30s and was wearing a gray shirt with gray jogging pants during the incident, the Tampa Police Department said in a news release.
Law enforcement responded to a report of an assault in the 1500 block of North Nebraska Avenue. That's where they found the man in his mid-30s with upper body trauma.
He was then reportedly taken to a nearby hospital, but later died due to his injuries.
"Although early in the investigation, this does not appear to be a random incident," the news release reads.
Police say the suspect left the scene in a black SUV that may have been a Nissan.
Investigators say they are still gathering evidence and trying to develop any leads that will identify and lead to an arrest of the accused person.
Anyone with any information regarding the incident is asked to contact the Tampa Police Department at 813-231-6130 or Crimestoppers of Tampa Bay at 800-873-TIPS. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/tampa-police-man-dies-nebraska-avenue/67-b8db9de1-e3c1-4552-8ac7-32537c374895 | 2023-06-14T01:53:39 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/tampa-police-man-dies-nebraska-avenue/67-b8db9de1-e3c1-4552-8ac7-32537c374895 |
Lubbock Fire Rescue celebrates completion of fire training building
About 16 months after the department requested American Rescue Plan Act funding for the project, Lubbock Fire Rescue on Tuesday announced it has installed its new "burn house" training building in north Lubbock.
The burn building is four stories high and allows Lubbock firefighters to light it on fire for training and studying fire behavior. It features a four-story training tower, two-story residential/industrial unit and one-story annex totaling about 5,000 square feet, according to a news release from LFR.
The facility includes six burn rooms with a burn liner system and also features breachable doors and windows so firefighters can practice forcible entry, a temperature monitoring system, rappelling anchors, a sprinkler standpipe and more, the department said.
The Lubbock City Council allocated $1.5 million of ARPA funding in February 2022 at the request of LFR Chief Shaun Fogerson. Fogerson recommend the city purchase the new burn house because an existing facility had reached the end of its lifespan and could no longer be ignited. | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2023/06/13/lubbock-fire-rescue-celebrates-completion-of-burn-building/70318647007/ | 2023-06-14T01:54:32 | 0 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2023/06/13/lubbock-fire-rescue-celebrates-completion-of-burn-building/70318647007/ |
SAN ANTONIO — A 51-year-old CPS Energy contractor working on underground lines on the far west side died when a "big piece of equipment" used to cover a manhole fell on him, police said.
Police arrived to the area of Wiseman and Loop 1604 around 8 a.m. in response to the incident, which officials called an accident.
"(There's) nothing to indicate it was intentionally done," a sergeant with the San Antonio Police Department said.
The victim was later identified as Shawn Pedrejon.
"Our thoughts are with their family and loved ones," a CPS Energy spokesperson said.
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The city may have found a buyer for the former senior center building at 1005 O St., though the offer is substantially less than the appraised value of the building.
REV Development — which is renovating the nearby Gold’s Building — wants to buy the building for $500,000, demolish the existing building and build a 157-apartment building with underground parking, retail space and a landscaped courtyard.
The mixed-use development would be built on the site of the former senior center as well as the lot just to the east that REV Development already owns. The vacant building on that lot also would be demolished.
The downtown center closed in April, about a month before the new center opened at 600 S. 70th St. — part of the $100 million redevelopment of the Veterans Administration Hospital Grounds.
But the city has advertised the sale of the building for nearly a year, said Urban Development Director Dan Marvin, and while they’d been contacted by a few people, this was the only offer.
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The Lancaster County Assessor’s Office has valued the property at $2.5 million for 2023, which Marvin said was similar to an appraisal done on the property.
Just the land, though, is valued at $447,300, and because the developer plans to demolish the building, the sale price is based on the land value.
“The world we live in now doesn’t value old office space very highly,” Marvin said. And repurposing old office buildings into apartments can be difficult because they often don’t have enough windows.
REV Development is renovating the Gold’s Building. The southern addition to the old department store has been demolished, and the $22 million project includes turning the six-story northern portion into a 104-room Hampton Inn hotel, along with some office and retail space.
Demolition of the building at 1023 O St. — next door to the former senior center — was already part of the plan, along with the courtyard. If REV Development buys the land at 1005 O St., that courtyard would become part of the residential building, though it may still be for public use as well.
The city and county jointly own the former senior center, and Marvin, along with Randy Jones, director of aging partners, recently sought guidance from the County Board on the possible sale.
Though some members were concerned about the low sale price, they ultimately gave city and aging officials the go-ahead to update the interlocal agreement between the city and county regarding the building that would allow for the sale.
The new $5.7 million center in Victory Park is being financed through non-voter-approved bonds, called certificates of participation, issued by the city for a number of projects.
The payback schedule figured in the sale of the building at $1.5 million, city officials said, so the city and aging partners would have to find a way to make up that difference if the building sold for less.
The potential sale is still in the early stages: it will be back before the County Board and the City Council must approve the sale.
A convention center incentive
There’s a clause in the turnback tax bill passed by the Legislature this session aimed at helping pay for a Lincoln convention center that provides an incentive to locate it near the Capitol.
The bill extended provisions in the state’s convention center facility financing assistance act, which allows cities to use 70% of state sales tax revenue collected by hotels and retailers within 600 yards of the convention center to help pay for it.
That 600-yard zone must be around the convention center itself — unless it is located within 600 yards of the Capitol. Then the zone doesn’t have to be contingent to the center, though it still can’t be more than 600 yards.
Lincoln Sen. Eliot Bostar, who introduced the bill, said that clause recognizes that if the convention center uses the turnback tax, it is essentially a partnership between the city and state, which creates an incentive to locate it close to the hub of state government.
There’s often a shortage of meeting space for state government operations, Bostar said, and having a convention center close by would be helpful.
The other reason to allow more flexibility for a site close to the Capitol: there are very few retail spaces there that collect state sales tax, and that puts those sites at a disadvantage, Bostar said.
Of the five potential convention center sites identified by a feasibility study, at least one is close enough to the Capitol to take advantage of that flexibility: the one adjacent to the Cornhusker Marriott Hotel at 13th and M streets.
Rain, rain keep on fallin’
On Sunday and Monday, Lincoln residents’ water use dropped to the lowest point this month and, while voluntary water restrictions could be having an impact, Mother Nature certainly did.
Steve Owen, the city’s superintendent of water production, said it has rained twice since the city imposed voluntary water restrictions June 2. The first was June 1 — the day city officials announced the restrictions — and again Saturday and early Sunday.
On June 1 and 2, city residents used 47.7 and 48.2 million gallons of water, respectively. Then it went up — twice over the 60 million gallons-a-day cap city officials are aiming for with the restrictions. On Sunday and Monday — after the second rain — those totals dropped to 44 million gallons a day.
Owen thinks the restrictions mean it's more likely people are turning off their underground sprinkler systems if it rains, rather than just letting them run.
It's a good reminder, with a 40% chance of rain toward the end of this week, Owen said.
“Don’t water this week in anticipation of that,” he said. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/government-politics/city-hall-lincoln-finds-possible-buyer-for-former-downtown-senior-center/article_0d9b8fa8-0a43-11ee-a88a-0b07d4c17b06.html | 2023-06-14T02:00:56 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/government-politics/city-hall-lincoln-finds-possible-buyer-for-former-downtown-senior-center/article_0d9b8fa8-0a43-11ee-a88a-0b07d4c17b06.html |
BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) — The Bristol, Virginia City Council approved a resolution to switch the city’s destination marketing organization (DMO) from the Discover Bristol organization to the Bristol Regional Tourism Marketing Corporation, otherwise known as Explore Bristol.
According to an agenda summary from Tuesday’s meeting, the change will “designate Explore Bristol to serve as the DMO for the City, and be filed with the Virginia Tourism Corporation to be recognized by the State of Virginia.”
The council’s unanimous approval, with the exception of Vice-Mayor Becky Nave who abstained due to her employment with the Virginia Tourism Corporation, effectively makes Explore Bristol the chief liaison for tourism marketing by the city. The Explore Bristol organization will now receive city funding allocated for tourism marketing, rather than Discover Bristol.
The resolution says that making Explore Bristol the city’s DMO and filing it with the Commonwealth will “allow for partner opportunities and grant applications”.
Council members said they understand there are questions from the public surrounding the decision to transition the city’s DMO away from Discover Bristol. Councilman Michael Pollard said they’re acting in the best interest of the city and its residents.
“We need to do what’s in the best interest of the city, not necessarily what’s in the best interest of other organizations,” Pollard said. “In this case, we aren’t making a decision against anybody, we have an opportunity now that we have not had in the past.”
Mayor Neal Osborne echoed Pollard’s words, thanking Discover Bristol for its years of work with the city.
“I appreciate the years of work that we’ve received from Discover Bristol, but sometimes you just want to have a change of direction, course, correction, whatever you want to call it,” Osborne said.
“I appreciate the time that we’ve worked with Discover Bristol and all they’ve done for us, and I hope to continue working with the chamber as a whole,” Osborne added. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/explore-bristol-replaces-discover-bristol-as-citys-destination-marketing-organization-following-council-vote/ | 2023-06-14T02:06:19 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/explore-bristol-replaces-discover-bristol-as-citys-destination-marketing-organization-following-council-vote/ |
WISE, Va. (WJHL) — The annual Virginia-Kentucky District Fair is underway in Wise County. The fair kicked off Tuesday and will continue through Saturday.
Gates open at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, 5 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and 11 a.m. on Saturday.
Rides will open at noon on Wednesday, 5 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and noon on Saturday.
Among the events in this year’s fair is a meet and greet with the one and only Linda Skeens, who went viral after winning multiple awards and sweeping the baked goods category during the fair’s art and baked goods contests last year.
Tickets can be purchased and more information can be found on the fair’s website. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/virginia-kentucky-district-fair-underway-in-wise-with-packed-schedule-of-events/ | 2023-06-14T02:06:25 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/virginia-kentucky-district-fair-underway-in-wise-with-packed-schedule-of-events/ |
STARKVILLE, Miss. (WTVA) — The public’s help is needed in locating missing teenager Georgia Nicole Hodge in Oktibbeha County.
The 16-year-old was last seen on June 9 near Sanders Road.
She may be in or near Columbus, which is approximately 20 miles east of Starkville.
She is a little over 5 feet in height and weighs 135 pounds.
Anyone with information about her is asked to call the Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Department at 662-323-2421. | https://www.wtva.com/news/local/teenager-georgia-hodge-reported-missing-in-oktibbeha-county/article_bc35632c-0a34-11ee-9db2-83830d17e379.html | 2023-06-14T02:13:00 | 0 | https://www.wtva.com/news/local/teenager-georgia-hodge-reported-missing-in-oktibbeha-county/article_bc35632c-0a34-11ee-9db2-83830d17e379.html |
PITTSBURGH — Allegheny Health Network officials presented a proposal for a lot on Pittsburgh’s North Side to City Council on Tuesday.
On one side of the street there are homes with tree-lined sidewalks, on the other there is an empty lot that Allegheny General Hospital plans to turn into one of three new multistoried towers that will expand their North Side campus.
The newly proposed plan received mixed reviews.
“We as direct neighbors oppose towers being built across the street,” said Randy Smith, a North Side resident.
Smith owns his home on James Street and has invested a lot of money into it. That’s why he and other neighbors are opposing a new plan to expand the hospital’s campus.
“Construction is a huge issue, a nine-story tower will block the natural light that I get in my home,” Smith said.
The institutional master plan would add three new towers: an eight-story building directly across from Smith’s home at the corner of James Street and Hemlock Street.
“We have a great view of the city another tower will block our view,” Smith explained.
The other is a nine-story tower at the end of the block at James Street and North Avenue, and the final is a 12-story tower located outside the emergency department on Sandusky Street and North Avenue.
All this over the next ten years.
“That’s ten years of construction that we do not want,” Smith said.
But businesses in the area say it’s a small price to pay.
“It’s the price of Progress,” said Karen Ward, an employee of Legend’s Eatery.
Legends Eatery has been located on the corner of James Street and North Avenue for 20 years and said they rely on the hospital for foot traffic.
“We get a lot of business from the hospital from their employees, especially at lunchtime. I think that other restaurants that are close to ours would get the same amount of people coming in, and if there are more people coming in it could be good for business,” Ward said.
One equally shared concern is parking.
“My only concern would be parking,” Ward said.
While Smith said, “The plan as it is purposed does not address parking.”
Allegheny General Hospital said they will work to resolve public concerns like noisy traffic and parking. While Smith said he understands the hospital needs to make improvements, he just wants it not to be done at homeowners’ expense.
“I am not opposed to them fixing this up, but we do not approve of it as it stands,” Smith concluded.
During the city planning meeting the commission provided a positive recommendation to the city council.
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BUTLER COUNTY, Pa. — The Evans City-Seven Fields police department is down to only two officers. 11 News has learned officials might get rid of the regional department and have officers from a different community cover the area.
Channel 11 first told you in March when the Evans City and Seven Fields regional police department lost about half of its officers. Now the department only has two full-time officers: Chief Joe McCombs and a sergeant.
Many people are concerned.
“It worries me because this is and is supposed to be a safe neighborhood and we have lots of kids here,” said Konjit Maede of Seven Fields.
The department does not have enough officers to cover the area 24/7.
Chief McCombs said they have 35 shifts during the work week but they can only cover 10 shifts themselves. More than 4,700 people live in the area and 100 businesses.
People think this is a big problem.
“I used to see officers driving through the area,” said Cindy West-Bruno of Seven Fields. “It makes you feel comfortable, but I don’t see that anymore so just it’s very unnerving.”
Staffing is so low, they’ve been relying on state police. However, Chief McCombs said on occasions, state police have not been able to respond to calls so some neighboring police departments have been helping instead.
“I don’t understand why we can’t hire more,” said West-Bruno. “I know that we are trying but it’s a situation that’s very scary.”
Seven Fields is looking to use a nearby police department to provide police services in the borough. Right now, they are in the final discussions with two departments. They plan to partner up with one of the agencies by mid-summer.
Channel 11 reached out to Evans City for their plan for police coverage but we haven’t heard back.
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WASHINGTON — We know many people have questions about the impact of the federal indictment against former President Donald Trump and about what could happen next.
Former President Trump faces 37 counts in a federal indictment connected to alleged mishandling of classified documents.
We spoke with two legal experts about the case: Georgetown University Law Professor David Super and Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government at the Heritage Foundation, John Malcolm.
Question: Does an indictment or a conviction disqualify a candidate from running for president or serving as president?
Answer: No
“Nope, neither one of them disqualifies a president from running or serving,” said Malcolm. “The qualifications to run for president are set out in the Constitution. They are both a floor and a ceiling. They can’t be added to.”
“The indictments do not play a role and indeed a conviction wouldn’t either,” said Super. “The Constitution has very limited criteria for who is eligible to be president. Mr. Trump meets those criteria, and he would continue to regardless of what happens in these cases.”
Question: If former President Trump is re-elected as president, could he pardon himself for a federal conviction?Answer: Debatable
“I think that’s an open question,” said Super. “It’s never been tested. This has never come up. Richard Nixon believed he couldn’t pardon himself and his successor President Ford did it instead. But we don’t know what would happen if Mr. Trump was convicted, resumed the presidency, and tried to pardon himself.”
“That is a matter about which a lot of legal scholars disagree,” said Malcolm. “I tend to think based on what I have read that the answer is that he could pardon himself… While he might be able to pardon himself for federal offenses, he could not pardon himself for violations of state crimes.”
Question: Could a sitting president serve time in prison?Answer: Not likely while serving as president
“If he were convicted before being sworn into office, I suppose he could be sentenced although I don’t think any judge would do that,” said Malcolm. “If he is not tried until after he is in office, then the answer is no… It’s been accepted for a long time that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime.”
“In all likelihood, if he has not been convicted before he resumes office, the Justice Department would drop the case,” said Super. “They have a longstanding policy against prosecuting sitting presidents and I assume they would likely apply that… If he is convicted before becoming president, then in theory the sentencing judge could sentence him to jail time.”
Question: What are the key differences between the Trump federal indictment and the on-going Biden documents investigations?
Answer: It’s complicated
“First off, President Biden cooperated entirely with the recovery of documents,” said Super. “Second, it doesn’t appear that the documents President Biden had were nearly as sensitive and third there’s no indication that President Biden had the intent, whereas this indictment has extensive information that President Trump knew what he had,” said Super.
“I don’t know the nature of the documents that President Biden had in his possession,” said Malcolm. “One of the motivating factors behind a prosecutor is whether or not they tried to hide the documents. Certainly, there are allegations in the Trump indictment that President Trump and his co-defendant Waltine Nauta went out of their way to hide these documents so that they would not be turned over to a grand jury subpoena.”
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State grants Polk County $500,000 for land acquisition around Avon Park Air Force Range
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office announced a grant of $500,000 to protect lands around Avon Park Air Force Range in Polk County.
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The funding is part of $6.1 million in awards announced Monday to military communities through the Defense Infrastructure Grant Program, the Defense Reinvestment Grant Program and the Florida Defense Support Task Force Grant Program. The money is intended to support infrastructure projects, economic diversification efforts and military community relations, DeSantis’ office said in a news release.
The award to Polk County was made through the Defense Infrastructure Grant Program. The money will be used to acquire parcels in the Sentinel Landscape, limiting the development of important wetlands and wildlife conservation corridors around Avon Park Air Force Range, the release said. | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2023/06/13/avon/70314066007/ | 2023-06-14T02:18:31 | 1 | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2023/06/13/avon/70314066007/ |
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. — The City of College Park is at the center of an ethics complaint. The document filed by Councilmember Joe Carn alleges disparaging treatment between white and Black council members.
“We talk about two different sets of rules based on which set of council members you happen to be,” Carn said during the commission meeting on June 5.
He called out what he said is disparaging treatment among the board.
The complaint, which was amended Monday, accuses Mayor Bianca Motley Broom -- a Black woman -- of treating Black councilmembers differently than white councilmembers.
“It’s going to make it kind of tricky for one set of councilmembers to get their points across where there’s a second set of councilmembers that have no problem doing it,” Carn said. “'How can you expect to have a fair and equitable meeting or a fair meeting of any kind if you’re going by double standards and two sets of rules?' And the only difference that I can see with these four men up here – is that two of us are men of color."
The comments came after Motley Broom called for a vote and Commissioner Roderick Gay asked for permission to comment but was denied that opportunity.
The exchange is one of several examples being highlighted in the ethics complaint.
“About 20 minutes ago, there was a vote there was a motion made and a second. Councilmember Clay said he had comments after there was a motion and a second made he was allowed to speak on his comments. We talk about two different sets of rules based on which set of council members you happen to be,” Carn said.
11Alive reached out to the mayor’s office for comment and received the following statement, which reads in part: "The personal vile attacks by some of my colleagues are insulting and absolutely baseless and wrong."
The meeting on June 5 ended with Black councilmembers walking out. As a result, the council was unable to make quorum– causing it not to be able to finish the business of the day, including passing the city’s budget | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/college-park/college-park-ethics-complaint-biased-treatment-claims/85-6a39c7a8-a6dc-412e-9b09-bdc84f539c77 | 2023-06-14T02:19:07 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/college-park/college-park-ethics-complaint-biased-treatment-claims/85-6a39c7a8-a6dc-412e-9b09-bdc84f539c77 |
DECATUR, Ga. — Editor's note: The video in this story is from a previous report.
The City Schools of Decatur officially welcomed its new superintendent in a special swearing-in ceremony Tuesday.
Dr. Gyimah Whitaker was sworn in and given her oath of office by Decatur Chief Municipal Judge Rhathelia Stroud. The ceremony was held in the Elizabeth Wilson Student Support Center board room. Elected officials, staff, community members and Whitaker's friends and family were all in attendance.
“As a leader my core beliefs are that equity is the vehicle to excellence, leadership matters, and engagement inspires. Guided by these values, I am both humbled and delighted to ensure that together City Schools of Decatur reaches an even higher level of brilliance,” Whitaker said.
Whitaker said her focus will be on students and establishing a solid foundation for high-quality literacy instruction.
A series of listening sessions with Whitaker is being planned between July and August for students, staff, family, and community leaders to attend.
Whitaker was previously the deputy chief academic officer for Fulton County Schools. She was selected as superintendent after a nationwide search. Whitaker will officially begin serving the school district on July 1. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/decatur/decatur-city-schools-new-superintendent-gyimah-whitaker/85-c70bff3d-66fc-4dbb-a7a5-2a79147fe4d3 | 2023-06-14T02:19:13 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/decatur/decatur-city-schools-new-superintendent-gyimah-whitaker/85-c70bff3d-66fc-4dbb-a7a5-2a79147fe4d3 |
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — They have cleft hooves, furry coats, sharp horns and a shrill bleat -- and they're now considered Cobb County employees.
To help spearhead the laborious task of clearing brush and debris from retention ponds, Cobb PARKS officials have turned to grazing goats.
It's an experiment with a long timeline as the team of 18 goats takes its time nibbling away at weeds and overgrown grass.
Cobb PARKS said its four-legged team is trying out a new work detail and is currently on the job. The goats are clearing the area of a pond just outside of Sewell Park and have become a sort of tourist attraction at the nearby library munching away until they call it a day. People can catch them in action in the video below.
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The county believes the goats could be a cost-effective cleaning crew which frees up the two-handed humans to concentrate on park maintenance.
It's not a baaaad idea.
Though the goats may take a while to complete their tasks (or in their case, finish their meal) they don't really get that tired meaning human crews can coordinate other duties throughout the week.
Though they've been on the job, they're technically temporary employees. Whether Cobb County keeps the goats will be up to their clearing work. So far the goats are munching away to the county's satisfaction.
11Alive will check with the county at the end of the summer to follow-up and see if the goats will be a permanent fixture of its clearing detail. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/goats-cobb-parks-clean-up-crew/85-87ff12c7-e62a-460c-9ce2-981ecdf80ebf | 2023-06-14T02:19:19 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/goats-cobb-parks-clean-up-crew/85-87ff12c7-e62a-460c-9ce2-981ecdf80ebf |
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A grim milestone was set in Whatcom County: the homeless count there is the highest in recorded history.
Even more concerning, is the population being hit the hardest.
The newest numbers just released show 1,059 homeless people in Whatcom County. That's a 27% increase over the previous year.
A startling number of them, 15%, are senior citizens.
John Benckert is one of them.
He struggles to make it down the street in his wheelchair.
Over the past few winters, he lost a leg and half a foot to frostbite from sleeping in the cold.
"It’s tough, but all you can do is keep going," he said.
At 67, John’s years on the streets are carved in his face.
He was a railroad mechanic and trucker.
He says he lost his home in a family dispute and has been waiting for years to find permanent, affordable housing.
The system is a true pain, especially for a disabled person.
"That’s where comes in the headache part. Backaches, butt aches," he laughed. "Everything aches!"
John’s story is similar to countless seniors across the country.
Rising rents, escalating inflation and poor access to health care are pushing more seniors onto the streets.
According to Whatcom County’s annual Point in Time Census, since 2019, the number of homeless people 60 and older has increased 141% to 164 people.
"That’s my parents, that’s my grandparents. It’s heartbreaking," said Brittany Hargrove with Bellingham’s Lighthouse Mission shelter.
She says homeless seniors are an especially challenging population.
"For a lot of our seniors, it’s not enough just to place them in housing," Hargrove said. "They need someone to come in and prep meals, and do housekeeping and take them to appointments. There can be so many issues."
Federal census numbers show the percentage of homeless Americans over 55 is about 20%. That number is expected to triple by 2030.
For now, help is on the way in the form of beds specifically for homeless seniors at Lighthouse Mission’s new shelter, but they won’t be ready until next summer.
As for John, in addition to his amputations, he has memory issues.
"Our goal is to improve his quality of life," said Brittany. "John may never find housing. We pray against that, but if that's the case, we will be with him every step of the way."
John simply refuses to give up.
"Even when it gets bad I still have a positive attitude," he said. "They haven’t killed me yet. They're not going to beat me." | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/homeless/homeless-record-set-whatcom-county-seniors/281-fcf27e29-2737-4a83-bca2-c8d74a8b4407 | 2023-06-14T02:27:14 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/homeless/homeless-record-set-whatcom-county-seniors/281-fcf27e29-2737-4a83-bca2-c8d74a8b4407 |
SEATTLE — Two local nonprofit organizations are being recognized with a national honor this week.
The Classy Awards is one of the largest nonprofit award programs recognizing excellence in impact and innovation. For the last decade, the Classy Awards has formed a trailblazing leadership team ranging from the Trevor Project, Doctors Without Borders, and Shriners Hospital.
The leadership council has evaluated thousands of nominations from organizations addressing challenges around the world and selected two Seattle-based organizations to be named to the Classy class of 2023.
Refugee Women’s Alliance (reWA) was chosen as a social innovation winner and is the only program in the Pacific Northwest designed with all immigrants and refugees in mind. The organization is focused on empowering families and strengthening the communities through their resource center in Seattle’s Columbia city neighborhood. In the past five years, the program has helped more than 3,500 immigrants and refugee survivors access community services and housing.
ReWA began in 1985 as a small group of refugee women who volunteered to support their community and quickly grew to become a robust social services organization with resources in over 50 languages. Refugee Women’s Alliance is also addressing domestic violence trends as they served 700 local survivors in 2022. Immigrants and refugee survivors experience about three times higher rates of abuse, and in King County alone, nearly one in four residents are foreign born.
Days for Girls International is the People’s Choice winner and has been changing the world from their Mount Vernon-based offices since 2008. The nonprofit focuses on increased access to menstrual care and education by developing global partnerships. Days For Girls International is tackling the problem faced by 500 million women and girls around the world.
The organization has mobilized volunteers and created innovative and sustainable solutions to help shatter the stigma and limitation women and girls face when it comes to menstrual care. A big focus is in Cambodia, where more than 80% of school-aged girls have poor menstrual health knowledge and only 31% feel comfortable attending school during their periods. Days for Girls International trained 34 teachers to lead age and culturally-appropriate lesson on puberty and menstrual health to 471 students across Cambodia.
Classy Award President Soraya Alexander said her team has been focused on identifying and celebrating under served nonprofits since 2009.
“This is a sector that is trying to solve the world's most intractable problems and they’re often under resourced doing so.” said Alexander.
In addition to the public recognition, winners will also have access to exclusive networking events and receive $3,000 to advance their cause.
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A Kouts man with two active arrest warrants was arrested after a police chase on Saturday.
Patrol officers located Andrew Thompson, 37, in the 1600 block of 134th Court in Crown Point after he allegedly passed vehicles illegally by crossing solid double yellow lines and disregarded multiple stop signs.
Police attempted to stop Thompson at a gas station located at the intersection of Fairbanks Street and 133rd Avenue, but ignored the officer's vehicle emergency lights, according to charging documents.
Officers said Thompson drove at both alarmingly low and high speeds — at one point, Thompson allegedly drove at 105 mph in a 40 mph zone.
When the vehicle stopped in the driveway of a residence in the 1600 block of 134th Court in Crown Point, Thompson exited the vehicle, momentarily raised his hands above his head and then proceeded to flee on foot, charging documents said.
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Thompson stopped running and was handcuffed by police. In the probable cause affidavit, police mentioned that Thompson said he ran because of his active arrest warrants. The warrants were issued in February and were for neglect of a dependent and failure to return to lawful detention.
Other charging documents said that Thompson was charged with neglect when police found his child sitting on a "one pot" methamphetamine manufacturing lab in his vehicle. However, the probable cause affidavit said the "one pot" lab was under the child's feet in the vehicle.
Thompson was arrested on Saturday. His next court date has not yet been set.
What you missed this week in notable Northwest Indiana crimes and court cases
This week's local crime and court updates from The Times.
Ryan Andrews, 26, was charged on Thursday with two counts of arson for allegedly setting fire to the lobby of the Lake County Jail on Monday. Andrews remains at large, according to court records.
A man was in critical condition on Monday after he fell into a manhole at Festival Park, according to the Hobart Fire Department’s Facebook page.
A Cedar Lake 18-year-old faces a murder charge after prosecutors upgraded his charges in connection to the fatal shooting of his best friend, 16-year-old Jason Paholik.
A Chicago woman who fatally shot her ex-girlfriend in Hammond after learning that she had started dating a man received a fair trial, according to the Indiana Court of Appeals.
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Jason "Lafa" Hinton, 27, was sentenced to 63 years for murder, plus an 18 year firearm enhancement, for a total of 81 years in prison.
Charging documents say that Lloyd Clark Gatlin, 28, killed Martin Cabrera on Aug. 18, 2021, in East Chicago.
A 14-year-old boy wounded during the initial shooting died at a hospital. The others — ages 16 to 21 — were taken to hospitals for treatment.
Ryan Andrews, 26, was arrested Friday in Tinley Park, Illinois, in connection with setting fire to the lobby of the Lake County Jail. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/kouts-man-faces-charges-after-speeding-105-mph-in-a-40-mph-zone-police-say/article_a1c7eb54-0a20-11ee-a2be-4b3a220ac7e2.html | 2023-06-14T02:28:24 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/kouts-man-faces-charges-after-speeding-105-mph-in-a-40-mph-zone-police-say/article_a1c7eb54-0a20-11ee-a2be-4b3a220ac7e2.html |
CROWN POINT — Trial proceedings continued on Tuesday in the rape case against a Kouts man, who allegedly sexually assaulted his co-worker’s wife in June 2020.
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Roger Mashburn was charged in August 2020 with rape, a level three felony, and battery, a B-level misdemeanor. If convicted, rape charges carry a sentence of up to 16 years in prison.
Charging documents described how on June 14, Mashburn stayed the night at his co-worker’s Crown Point apartment located on Main Street after spending the afternoon drinking and hanging out with the man and his wife.
The man testified in court that he and Mashburn were acquaintances. He said he invited Mashburn over that afternoon because he knew Mashburn didn’t have a lot of people to hang out with.
The three hung out and drank for a while by the couple’s apartment complex pool, and then later continued upstairs in the couple’s apartment. The man and his wife decided to invite Mashburn to spend the night at their apartment because they didn’t want him driving home under the influence.
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The woman’s husband had gone to bed, but she went back into the living room to watch T.V. because she couldn’t sleep, her husband testified in court on Tuesday.
Around midnight on June 15, while the woman’s husband was passed out in the other room, Mashburn allegedly approached the woman while he was naked, pinned her down by the throat and wrists and raped her, according to charging documents.
The woman told police that during this incident, Mashburn put his hand over her mouth and told her “Don’t say a word,” charges stated.
Mashburn’s defense attorney Lonnie Randolph highlighted the officers handling of the case, and the woman’s disposition after the alleged assault when he questioned a police officer on the stand on Tuesday.
Randolph noted that there was nothing in the officer’s report that indicated that the woman appeared distressed or even scared.
Prosecutor Tara Villarreal rebutted, and said trauma doesn’t look the same for each person.
The woman told her husband about the purported assault in a text message, which was shown by prosecutors in court on Tuesday. In the messages, the woman wrote to her husband “Honestly I told him no so many times,” according to screenshots shown in court.
“I didn’t want to believe it, but my wife does not lie to me,” the woman’s husband told jurors on Tuesday.
He said that after he found out, he told Mashburn “I know what happened” while the two were working together, and Mashburn didn’t say anything.
He said he hasn’t seen Mashburn since June 15, not even at work. Charging documents show that after police attempted to make contact with Mashburn, they found that he changed his phone number, quit his job and fled the state.
The man told jurors on Tuesday that he and his wife had a happy, normal marriage until this incident the summer of 2020. He said since his wife was assaulted, their anxiety-levels and married life haven’t been the same.
Randolph tried to poke holes in the man’s characterization of his marriage during cross examination.
He asked the man if at work he ever complained about his wife’s drinking, or said that her drinking was causing troubles in their marriage.
The man said he didn’t discuss marital troubles at work, but might have mentioned his wife’s drinking. He added that, at the time, she was struggling with postpartum depression, which exacerbated her drinking habits.
Mashburn’s trial is set to continue on Wednesday in Judge Salvador Vasquez’s courtroom.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Matthew Roggenkamp
Age : 22
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305148
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ruben Vega III
Age : 36
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305181
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jordan Picotte
Age : 29
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305144
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rakeem Pippins
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305141
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Victor Odgen
Age : 26
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305151
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Matthew Moses
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305154
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Thomas Murray
Age : 34
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305164
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kurt Gonzalez II
Age : 32
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305146
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Green
Age : 41
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305160
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Cedar Lake Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Hollis
Age : 67
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305169
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake Station Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Johnny Jones
Age : 50
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305170
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: STRANGULATION; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
2305170
Kenny Flagg Jr.
Age : 19
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305179
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Howard Geib Jr.
Age : 52
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305165
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT; UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY OF A MOTOR VEHICLE; POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Keith Cales
Age : 41
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305153
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel Dillman
Age : 26
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305175
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Robert Allison
Age : 48
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305142
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lavonya Banks
Age : 44
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305163
Arrest Date: May 31, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jacob Pritt
Age : 35
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305296
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: HEALTH- POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joshua Pritt
Age : 40
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305295
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Danny Serrano Jr.
Age : 40
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305282
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Valdez
Age : 46
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305319
Arrest Date: June 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Dyer Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mary Powers
Age : 36
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305289
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Bryan Oparka
Age : 49
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305308
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vishad Patel
Age : 34
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305305
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Latrice McNeil
Age : 36
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305301
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edwin Negron
Age : 50
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305285
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Oscar Martinez Ocampo
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305290
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Devonte Gipson
Age : 30
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305283
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bryne Manns
Age : 34
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305287
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Edgar Martinez
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305315
Arrest Date: June 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Martin Cruz Jr.
Age : 53
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305304
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bianca Dominguez
Age : 33
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305311
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Munster Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Combs Jr.
Age : 36
Residence: Lafayette, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305297
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cachun Combs Jr.
Age : 45
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305288
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dameka Ali
Age : 32
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305299
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Alms
Age : 28
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305316
Arrest Date: June 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jesse Argandona
Age : 21
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305314
Arrest Date: June 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ryan Vaughn
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305221
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Allan Triplett
Age : 34
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305217
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- INVASION OF PRIVACY; BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
David Roper
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305193
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: LCCS
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Louwon Scott
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305218
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lamont Murdaugh
Age : 23
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305228
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY; BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Delvin Perkins
Age : 28
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305223
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Timothy Pettis
Age : 28
Residence: Kentland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305211
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: St. John Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESS LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Matthew Midkiff
Age : 39
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305190
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; POSSESS LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Christopher Lanman
Age : 21
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305196
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Hedges
Age : 44
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305197
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Misti Harbison
Age : 39
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305188
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kenneth Babiarz
Age : 23
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305201
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Munster Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Shawntina Beatty
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305191
Arrest Date: June 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Timothy Brown
Age : 45
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305214
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake Station Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Marcos Gutierrez
Age : 39
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305219
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shannon Alelunas
Age : 44
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305225
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gabriel Washington
Age : 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305271
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Keorra Wilson
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305270
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jesus Salas Jr.
Age : 42
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305235
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Clarence Sistrunk
Age : 33
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305257
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Richard Vinet Jr.
Age : 46
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305249
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: N/A
Offense Description: FAIL TO COMPLY A FINAL ORDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sadat Wade
Age : 47
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305261
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: LCCC
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lavell Nylon
Age : 19
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305231
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Whiting Police Department
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Pitts
Age : 48
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305245
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Robert Moore
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305259
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FALSE REPORTING - REPORT, CRIME, OR COMPLAINT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Asia Munford-Winters
Age : 28
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305266
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
George Lowe Jr.
Age : 60
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305274
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Malkowski
Age : 37
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305233
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Raul Mendoza
Age : 50
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305267
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Carlos Larrea
Age : 25
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305263
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: LCCC
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jessica Hegwood
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305272
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jerome Kusbel
Age : 68
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305269
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Llewain Hardin
Age : 41
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305265
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Keith Gardenhire
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305246
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Yancey Gray
Age : 54
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305247
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lorenzo Crooks
Age : 50
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305277
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Marko Duric
Age : 36
Residence: Park Ridge, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305281
Arrest Date: June 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Carlos Castillo
Age : 26
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2304984
Arrest Date: May 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brandon Cramer
Age : 39
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305264
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT DEFENDANT USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brayan Benavides Acevedo
Age : 22
Residence: Berwyn, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305258
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Erica Brooks
Age : 37
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305232
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Daniel Castaneda Jr.
Age : 33
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305239
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cordaryl Bell
Age : 35
Residence: Sauk Village, IL
Booking Number(s): 2305250
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Barnes
Age : 75
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2305237
Arrest Date: June 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
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MERRILLVILLE — It was an informative gathering as the Merrillville Police Department hosted its inaugural Community Night recently at the Dean and Barbara White Community Center.
The event gave residents the opportunity to directly ask questions to Merrillville Police administration and to learn how the Police Department operates.
Officers from the various police units participated in the program during a meet-and-greet session that took place outside of the Community Center. The event also included a K-9 demonstration from K-9 Goose and his handler, Officer Lance Schmidt. Many watched as Officer Jacob Shrewsbury donned a bite suit to show how Goose can apprehend a suspect.
Merrillville Police Chief Kosta Nuses said a main focus of the Community Night was to engage residents and strengthen relationships with the community, and the Police Department will schedule more Community Night programs throughout the year.
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Nuses said by working as a team, it will help make Merrillville safer.
He explained Merrillville consists of about 33 square miles, and Census figures show there are 36,000 residents in the municipality.
“Merrillville is a very big community,” Nuses said.
The Merrillville Police Department has 61 officers, and about 65% of the force is devoted to patrol.
“Patrol, of course, is the backbone, that’s the cars you see all the time,” Nuses said.
He said one of the biggest hurdles the Police Department faces is manpower. Merrillville, like many other area police departments, could use more officers on its force, but there are a variety of factors preventing the town from adding to the Police Department.
When Merrillville incorporated as a town more than 50 years ago, the founders of the municipality didn’t anticipate the vast residential, commercial, and industrial growth that would occur over the decades. Because of that, the Town’s operating budget didn’t keep pace with the physical growth of the community.
Nuses also said there aren’t as many law enforcement recruits as there once was.
Although there is a manpower shortage, Nuses said his officers do a great job handling calls for service, which can range from 100 to 150 calls in a 24-hour period.
“I’d put up my whole department against anybody with the amount of work that they can do and how successful we are with investigations and how successful we have been catching the bad guys and bad girls,” Nuses said.
Many residents at Thursday’s event inquired how they can assist the Police Department.
Nuses said the best way to help officers is by staying vigilant and reporting suspicious activity when it’s observed.
Nuses said there have been occasions in which people have waited 20 to 30 minutes to report an incident, and sometimes they post it on social media instead of reaching out to police.
“That’s very difficult for us to try and catch up,” Nuses said. If there’s an emergency situation, residents should always call 911. Residents can also visit https://secure.coplogic.com/dors/startreport/300007935 to file police reports online. Nuses said the site can be used to report a variety of cases such as batteries, custodial issues, harassment, fraud, accidents, thefts, lost property, and protective orders. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/police-residents-come-together-in-first-community-night/article_c58fb39c-ffcf-11ed-82cf-83ba4d6fa63d.html | 2023-06-14T02:28:36 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/police-residents-come-together-in-first-community-night/article_c58fb39c-ffcf-11ed-82cf-83ba4d6fa63d.html |
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — It’s been 20 years since 11-year-old Heaven Shae Ross went missing and her body was found three years later under a home. She was murdered but police have never found her killer.
Her mother Beth Thompson says it is still just as painful today and it was 20 years ago.
“It’s something I’ve lived with for 20 years and they say time heals, but time doesn’t heal, and you just learn to live with it. There is a lot of questions we ask ourselves and she is not forgotten, and we talk about her on the regular,” said Thompson.
The sixth grade student was last seen walking from her house to her school bus stop August 19, 2003, at the Willowbrook trailer-park in Northport. A large-scale search effort was launched by police, but the body was found three years later underneath an abandoned house in Holt.
Beth Thompson says she just wants closure and justice for her little girl’s murder.
“I don’t forget about her and I don’t want anyone else to forget about her and I wear a Shae shirt five days a week and I always wear a Shae shirt and I don’t want anyone to forget about her,” said Thompson.
Northport City Councilman Woodrow Washington is hoping police can catch whoever killed Ross.
“You know to me the family will always want to know why and wonder why and hopefully they can open this case back up and get leads to give them a chance to have closure and to me that’s one of the most important things for them to know,” said Washington.
Sunday, June 11 would have been Shae’s 31st birthday. Anyone with any information on this cold case can call the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s office. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/heaven-shae-ross-murder-still-unsolved-20-years-later/ | 2023-06-14T02:30:21 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/heaven-shae-ross-murder-still-unsolved-20-years-later/ |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Two fatal shootings at Birmingham Housing Authority properties are raising concerns about the safety of Birmingham public housing.
Keyontay Pearson has been living in Smithfield Courts since 2014, and she feels many factors give her peace of mind.
“More police presence and security for the kids makes me feel safe,” she said.
A look at the most recent crime numbers from the Birmingham Police Department shows Pearson has reason to feel safer, as they show crime in BHA communities has drastically decreased.
A check of crime statistics over the past five years shows a decline every year with a drastic drop from 735 crime reports in 2019 to 254 last year — a 65% decrease.
A step in the right direction for HABD but there’s still room for improvement according to Ken Foreman, Public Safety Director for the Birmingham Housing Authority.
”I’m not satisfied with the numbers,” Foreman said. “I’m happy that they are going down but my job is not to manage crime, my job is to eliminate crime, so I want to see zero.”
With the arrest of those behind recent acts of violence, Foreman has a warning for would-be criminals.
“What criminals need to know is that things have changed. If they come on our property, they will be identified and they will be arrested,” he said.
Foreman also credits community buy-in as well as the investment in security cameras and car tag readers, which he says has led to the decrease in crime. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/new-crime-numbers-show-decrease-at-birmingham-housing-authority-properties/ | 2023-06-14T02:30:28 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/new-crime-numbers-show-decrease-at-birmingham-housing-authority-properties/ |
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