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Annual Caprock Jazz Festival features trio of performers
Let the music touch your soul.
The annual Caprock Jazz Festival, scheduled for Saturday, July 8, at the Museum of Texas Tech Helen Devitt Jones Auditorium, will welcome Soul Patrol.
Soul Patrol features the trio of Tom Braxton, Blake Aaron and Aubrey Logan.
Saxophonist Braxton's distinct, melodic sound has been entertaining audiences of all ages from coast to coast and abroad for nearly two decades.
As a versatile instrumentalist and composer, Braxton is a seasoned performer who has the ability to "grab the heartstrings" of the audience within the first few minutes of his show.
A native Texan, Braxton has recorded eight albums including "The Next Chapter" (2014); "Endless Highway" (2009); and "Imagine This" (2007) on the Pacific Coast Jazz label; and "Bounce" (2005) on the Rendezvous label.
Guitarist Aaron has "taken the contemporary jazz world by storm" with a total of five No. 1 Billboard singles.
Following the album "Color and Passion", which had three No. 1 singles and the Song of the Year on the Radiowave charts for 2019, Aaron’s newest release, "Love and Rhythm" jumped out of the gate with two more No. 1 Billboard singles, “Feels So Right,” and “Dreamland”, according to information provided to selectaseatlubbock.com
As a producer, Aaron has teamed up with hit artists Darren Rahn for the No. 1 Billboard single, “Groovers and Shakers” and the No. 1 single of 2019 on Radiowave, “Drive”; with Greg Manning for the No. 1 single “Feels So Right”; and with fellow artist Adam Hawley for two No. 1 singles, “Sunday Strut,” and “Dreamland".
Logan is a singer, trombone player, songwriter and a performer, who's never been one to be pigeon-holed. Her top 5 debut album in 2017 helped establish her as one of the premier young singer-instrumentalists in the country, according to information provided by selectaseatlubbock.com
Her participation in Dave Koz’s No. 1 album, "Summer Horns" in 2018 helped cement her position in the jazz music world. But it was her own No. 1 album in 2019, "Where the Sunshine is Expensive," that helped Logan become a household name, showcasing the depth of her songwriting.
Dinner for the event begins at 5 p.m. with the concert doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available at $50 for the concert only with a 6:30 p.m. entry. For $100, guests will be able to enjoy both the dinner and the concert with a 5 p.m. entry.
To purchase tickets, call the Select-a-Seat Box Office in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center at (806) 770-2000. Hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Tickets may also be purchased online through selectaseatlubbock.com. All ticket sales are final. | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/entertainment/local/2023/06/30/annual-caprock-jazz-festival-features-trio-of-performers/70367710007/ | 2023-06-30T11:58:46 | 1 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/entertainment/local/2023/06/30/annual-caprock-jazz-festival-features-trio-of-performers/70367710007/ |
Buying fireworks for July 4? Here's where to buy them, safety tips
Looking to buy fireworks to celebrate America's Independence Day?
Before you go out to locally owned or operated firework stands, here are a few things you should know before buying them.
What are the rules when I buy fireworks?
According to the City of Lubbock Ordinances, "no person may manufacture, sell or give away fireworks, or store, possess or use fireworks," within the city limits.
This also means individuals can not transport fireworks in the city limits. Doing so is a misdemeanor and individuals can be fined up to $1,000.
Poping outside of the city limits is allowed; however, the Texas State Law does have some more stipulations. Fireworks can not be used within:
- 600 feet of churches, hospitals, asylums, child care centers or schools
- 100 feet of flammable liquids, gasses or objects
- 100 feet of fireworks vendors
- In or from a car
If individuals see firework usage within the city limits, they can use Lubbock Police Department's online form — Coplogic — or call LPD’s non-emergency number at (806) 775-2865.
To find Coplogic, visit Lubbockpolice.com under the “Reports and Forms” tab.
What are some safety tips when I handle fireworks?
Never hold lit fireworks in your hands.
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission annual report, there were 11 deaths caused by fireworks in 2022 with 10,200 people being sent to the ER for injuries.
38% of those injuries were from fireworks burns with another 29% of those injuries being to people's hands and fingers. In total, 73% of the 2022 firework injuries were seen in the weeks leading up to and after the July 4th weekend.
Some other after tips from CPSC are:
- Never let children play with fireworks
- Keep a bucket of water close by in case of fires
- Never use fireworks if you have been drinking or using drugs
More tips and stats can be found at cpsc.gov/firworks.
Where can I buy fireworks in the Lubbock area?
- Alamo Fireworks — 9601 19th St.
- Barndo Fireworks — 14425 N. I-27 Service Road in New Deal will open June 29.
- Discount Ciy Fireworks — Highway 87 Frd Sb.
- Lone Wolf Fireworks — Farm-to-Market 179 and County Road 6900 in Lubbock and 11402 FM 179 in Wolfforth.
- Mr. W Fireworks — 4212 E. 4th St., 1307 82nd St., 9613 19th St. and 8322 98th St. in Wolfforth.
- Shallowater Fireworks — 7355 Highway 84 in Shallowater.
- Texas Star Fireworks — 130th and University, and 5606 130th St.
- TNT Fireworks — 4105 E. 4th St., 4824 E. Highway 84, 1507 82nd St., 1313 82nd St., 11516 Highway 87, 4904 Highway 62/82, 5401 County Road 7500, 3901 Farm-to-Market 2528, 16207 Farm-to-Market 1730, 19101 Farm-to-Market 1730 and 9627 Highway 114. There is also a Wolfforth location on 7820 County Road 7100.
- Wholesale Fireworks TNT — 1301 84th St. | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2023/06/30/july-4-firework-laws-where-to-buy-them-safety-tips/70366811007/ | 2023-06-30T11:58:58 | 1 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2023/06/30/july-4-firework-laws-where-to-buy-them-safety-tips/70366811007/ |
Seven Richmond residents are suing in hopes of stopping a real estate developer from blasting the bedrock near their homes, which they say already have suffered damage.
The defendant, Riverside Southcliff LLC, bought 2.5 undeveloped acres in the leafy Forest Hill neighborhood, where it intends to build eight new houses, according to the suit. In order to connect to the city’s utility lines, the developer attempted to break through the underground rock.
That has already damaged multiple homes, the plaintiffs say, sinking one house’s foundation and causing the chimney to collapse.
With the attempt to break through the rock unsuccessful, the developer intends to blast the rock with explosives. The neighborhood residents say blasting is rare in a residential area and would further damage their homes.
“Plaintiffs and their neighbors have grave concerns about the impending explosive blasting since they have already sustained serious damage to their homes,” the suit states.
The plaintiffs won an injunction Monday, minutes before blasting was scheduled to begin, and a hearing is scheduled for Friday morning in Richmond Circuit Court.
On a winter day, when the leaves have fallen from the trees, residents of Riverside Drive can see down the steep hill all the way across the James River, a few hundred feet away.
In 2018, Burt Pinnock, one of the developers, told residents he planned to build his dream home on the vacant space. Pinnock, chairman of the board for architectural firm Baskervill and a member of the city’s Planning Commission, did not respond to a request for comment.
Beneath the homes, which were built as far back as the 1830s, is a type of rock called Petersburg granite, which is gray and blue with pink specks and is believed to be hundreds of millions of years old. It is found in Petersburg and other parts of central Virginia.
And, apparently, it’s tough to break. Construction crews worked from October to February in an attempt to cut the rock in order to connect to the utility lines under Southcliff Road. An excavator outfitted with a hydraulic hammer has tried to bust the rock.
Sending tremors into the ground, the process has already damaged residents’ homes, the plaintiffs say.
Brian and Mari Lee McClure, two of the plaintiffs who live nearby on New Kent Avenue, say the foundation of their 100-year-old cottage sank 3 inches, and their chimney has collapsed. An inspector for JES Foundation Repair said months of the efforts to break the rock could have opened up a new fault line or sinkhole — or both — which could explain the drop in their foundation. The chimney damage likely was not caused from natural settlement, the inspector said.
Another plaintiff, Anne Wright, said cracks have developed in her plaster walls. Lee and Mary Catherine Chaney, who also live nearby, said their 1929 home has sustained cracks to its plaster and damage to the mortar and brick because of the effort to bust the rock.
The developer has turned to blasting, the plaintiffs say.
“There is more rock than our geotechnical report indicated,” Pinnock wrote on Facebook last month, according to the suit, adding that the approach they tried “was too disruptive.”
The project became delayed, Pinnock said, according to the suit, because the rock blasting company was occupied at the site of CoStar Group’s new office tower in downtown Richmond.
On Thursday, an excavator belonging to Blasting Services Inc., a Rockville-based company, performed work on the vacant lot.
It is not completely clear how much rock would need to be blasted, but it appears the utility lines will need a tunnel as deep as 17 feet connecting several hundred feet to Southcliff Road, said Aubrey Ford, a nearby resident who is not a plaintiff.
Given the damage that has already occurred, the residents worry blasting will be even worse. The plaintiffs are asking the developer to pay up to $1 million per home for repairs.
Earlier this month, rumors spread around the neighborhood that the workers planned to blast the rock, Ford said. So neighbors inquired to city officials, including City Council member Kristen Nye.
The officials initially responded that the city had not approved a permit for blasting. Then on June 20, a neighbor speaking to a construction worker was told the crew did, in fact, have a permit and intended to begin blasting that day at 3 p.m.
City officials, it turned out, had approved the permit. The residents quickly hired a lawyer, Hayden Fisher, who asked the blasting be delayed so he could request an injunction.
The Richmond Fire Department postponed the blasting until this past Monday, June 26. That morning, a Richmond judge ordered a temporary injunction and scheduled a hearing for Friday.
The residents say they are open to the development project continuing if the developer can break the granite without damaging nearby homes.
Construction workers use an excavator at a development site in Forest Hill in Richmond on Thursday. Plans to blast the site have caused concern from neighbors.
A sign reading “We love Southcliff. Please don't destroy our homes! Save the river and the wildlife!" is pinned to a pole across the street from a development site in Forest Hill on Thursday. | https://richmond.com/news/local/forest-hill-neighbors-sue-to-stop-developer-from-blasting-rock/article_4c801538-16b2-11ee-ba06-27c9700153aa.html | 2023-06-30T12:04:35 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/forest-hill-neighbors-sue-to-stop-developer-from-blasting-rock/article_4c801538-16b2-11ee-ba06-27c9700153aa.html |
It’s a family tradition for the women in the Ukrop family to volunteer their time and energy as the Richmond Christmas Mother.
Like her mother and aunt before her, Jacquelin Ukrop Aronson said she is “humbled and honored” to take on the role this year.
Her mother Jayne Brown Ukrop was the Richmond Christmas Mother in 2011. And her aunt, Barbara “Bobbie” Berkeley Ukrop, was the Richmond Christmas Mother in 1999.
The granddaughter of Ukrop's Super Markets founders Joe and Jacquelin Ukrop, Aronson grew up in Richmond, working in the family business.
“I started bagging groceries and carrying them to people’s cars. I was a cashier. I worked in the kitchen and the bakery,” she said.
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She graduated from Collegiate School, then attended Davidson College in North Carolina, followed by the Darden School of Business where she obtained a master’s degree and met her husband, Scott Aronson. She returned home to Richmond where she worked at Ukrop's in Human Resources. "I wanted to take everything that I learned and help the family business," she said.
But perhaps the biggest, most life-altering event happened when Jacquelin and Scott began to start a family.
“When people ask us how many children we have, I try to be very sensitive. We lost our first baby, our son, Robert Scott. He was stillborn,” Aronson said, stifling back tears.
Two weeks before her due date, Aronson and her husband went for a standard doctor’s appointment and found out that their baby’s heart had stopped beating. “We didn’t even know he was a boy,” Aronson said. She delivered her baby the next morning, stillborn.
The grief was overwhelming. “The unimaginable loss swallowed me,” Aronson said.
She met regularly a grief counselor who taught her how to manage her grief. “She acknowledged our son and his life. She acknowledged his loss. She helped me understand the depth of that pain. It’s not the life cycle you expect. You don’t expect to bury your child,” Aronson said.
With time and grieving, Aronson and her husband began trying again. Now, when people ask her, how many children do you have? She takes a deep breath and answers honestly.
“We have five children. Four in our home and one in God’s safe keeping,” Aronson said. Her surviving children, Jack, Jayne, Joseph and Howe are teenagers now, ages 19, 17, 15 and 13. “Although none of them met their brother, they all know of him and love him.”
The trauma and grief of losing her first born changed Aronson forever, as well as altering how she approached being a mother.
“Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to be a wife and a mother. When I grew up, I became a mother, but it didn’t happen the way I expected,” Aronson said.
After Jack was born, Aronson left her job in human resources at Ukrop’s and focused on being a mother full-time. She is a devoted mother and active in her church, where she serves as a worship leader, a children’s Bible teacher, and occasionally, by preaching a sermon. At her children's school, she hosts and supports events for her children’s classes and teams, praying alongside parents and grandparents, as well as cheering loudly and taking photographs during her children’s sports games.
“Coming to the role of the Richmond Christmas Mother, I will bring all I’ve learned as a mother, during the darkest times, the most joyful times and all the ordinary times in between,” Aronson said.
“In this role, I hope to have the opportunity to support those in our community who have lost someone and are walking in a grief journey. Maybe they’ve lost a child or a teenager or an adult child. Or a spouse, a parent, a sibling or close friend,” Aronson said. “I know from experience the holidays can intensify our grief.
“I would like to find a way to comfort those who are struggling or suffering with their loss. It could be a new loss or decades old. I believe there’s room within the Richmond Christmas Mother fund to remember the ones we lost and to support those who still love them,” Aronson said.
The annual Richmond Christmas Mother fund is organized by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Its origins began in 1935, evolving from The Richmond News Leader’s Empty Stocking Fund and the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s Good Fellow Club.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch sponsors the program and absorbs nearly all its administrative costs.
The Richmond Christmas Mother program receives contributions from RTD readers and advertisers.
Last year, the program collected more than $357,000 in donations, thanks to efforts by 2022 Richmond Christmas Mother Terrell Luck Harrigan.
"We are thrilled to have Jacquelin Ukrop Aronson as our 2023 Richmond Christmas Mother. Her journey as a mother, shaped by the heartbreaking loss of her first child, has granted her a unique perspective that resonates deeply within me. With unwavering compassion and resilience, Jacqueline aspires to weave her personal experience into this role, and support others in need during the holiday season,“ Kelly Till, president of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, said.
Her pastor, the Rev. Keith Smith said, echoed that sentiment. "As Jacquelin's pastor and friend for 25 years, I am delighted that she will be this year's Christmas Mother. I can think of no one who will bring more enthusiasm and joy in the service of giving to our Richmond area than she will," he said.
“I’m excited and looking forward to getting to know the people who operate this program every year with the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Salvation Army, Feed More and the Community Foundation," Aronson said.
"I hope to meet some of the moms and families in need of a helping hand and I want them to know they’re loved in this community,” she added.
From the Archives: The Thalhimers Toy Parade
The first Thalhimers Toy Parade was held in 1929 and continued into the 1930s. The parade was suspended briefly during the war years and revived again in 1946. Thalhimers store employees worked for months in advance to prepare for the parade by building floats, designing routes, and preparing costumes. Local Boy Scout troops were also often called on for assistance in wrangling the massive balloons. Along with the balloons, floats were mounted by local celebrities who waved to the crowd, and high school and college bands followed along playing festive holiday music.
In 1973 the Thalhimers Toy Parade was canceled due to a shifting emphasis on in-store activities. The next Christmas parade would not be held in Richmond until over ten years later in 1985, and was hosted by the Jaycees and Best Products. | https://richmond.com/news/local/jacquelin-ukrop-aronson-brings-her-personal-grief-journey-to-role-as-2023-richmond-christmas-mother/article_012a39bc-1205-11ee-8d1d-ef93e5fb6ded.html | 2023-06-30T12:04:41 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/jacquelin-ukrop-aronson-brings-her-personal-grief-journey-to-role-as-2023-richmond-christmas-mother/article_012a39bc-1205-11ee-8d1d-ef93e5fb6ded.html |
If you’re planning on visiting the Blue Ridge Parkway anytime soon, know that there could be short delays in parts of the parkway due to construction.
Over the next few weeks, six bridges on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia and North Carolina will be undergoing repairs as part of a bridge maintenance project.
During construction, bearings and joints will be replaced and other minor concrete repairs will be addressed.
Due to this, there will be single-lane traffic control during the day, with full evening closures possible in the areas listed below:
- Milepost 61.4, crossing over VA Route 130 at Otter Creek
- Milepost 121.4, crossing over 220 in Roanoke
- Milepost 316.5, with work on two bridges along the Linville Spur Road
- Milepost 388.1 and 388.8, at US Route 25 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/30/delays-expected-at-four-locations-on-the-blue-ridge-parkway-amid-construction/ | 2023-06-30T12:08:00 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/30/delays-expected-at-four-locations-on-the-blue-ridge-parkway-amid-construction/ |
Canton begins planning for new air quality monitoring near Republic Steel
- The money will fund new regulatory air monitors for small particulate matter (PM 2.5 and PM 10), sulfur compounds and volatile organic compounds.
- Based on complaints since 2017, the project area selected extends south from Georgetown Road NE between Belden Avenue NE and Trump Avenue NE.
- Canton City Health Commissioner James Adams added that the aim is to collect data that the community can use to make its case.
CANTON − A plan for new community air monitoring near Republic Steel is underway after a six-month delay.
A U.S. EPA grant for $302,775 announced in late 2022 was awarded in early June, and Canton City Public Health hosted a kickoff meeting for residents Thursday evening at Union Baptist Church ― about half a mile southwest of the steel plant that's long been a source of concern for residents.
The money will fund new regulatory air monitors for small particulate matter (PM 2.5 and PM 10), sulfur compounds and volatile organic compounds at Marietta Avenue and Georgetown Road NE. Two monitors already check lead and metal levels there.
Another eight sensors, which are commercially available and not likely as advanced as the regulatory monitors, will be distributed to four volunteer operators from the project area. Each person will receive a particulate sensor to mount and a handheld sensor for sulfur compounds and volatile organic compounds.
The meeting drew questions and comments from residents, some of who were there for the first time and others who have regularly attended past community meetings, such as Georgeview Estates resident Pete Carpico.
"This grant to me is a huge win because my prediction is that regulatory site is going to be expanded and it's not going to last two years, it's going to last a lot longer," he said. "Because if they start finding what we already know, we're getting slammed with this particulate matter, then they're going to be forced to keep it running."
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The 'whole purpose'
Based on complaints since 2017, the project area selected extends south from Georgetown Road NE between Belden Avenue NE and Trump Avenue NE. The southern boundary stretches from Fourth Street to Garaux Street NE to Leander Street NE.
The federal grant money, which comes from the Inflation Reduction Act and American Rescue Plan, was directed to communities that are "underserved, historically marginalized, and overburdened by pollution," according to the U.S. EPA.
Thursday's meeting began with a resident survey that asked questions to gauge their trust, such as how confident they feel in the information shared by the Air Pollution Control (APC) division of Canton City Public Health.
"It's very important to us that we have a good relationship with you," said Linda Morckel, APC monitoring and inspection supervisor.
She presented plans for the grant, which allows six months of preparation and two years of monitoring ― unless results prompt extended monitoring. Morckel said city staff will train residents how to use the sensors and work closely with them but the project largely will be community-led.
Residents will determine the best locations for sensors and how often to meet and discuss the data, which will be posted at cantonhealth.org.
"This is your project with us," Morckel said. "This is yours."
Canton City Health Commissioner James Adams added that the aim is to collect data that the community can use to make its case.
"The whole purpose of it is to empower the community to collect this information, understand what it means, and then drive policy change," he said.
Isaiah Robinson, who has lived on Georgetown Road since 2004, and Yolanda Walker, who has lived at Belden Avenue and Fourth Street NE for 30 years, both said it was their first time at a community meeting about Republic Steel.
"I thought it was very positive and informative," Robinson said.
Walker, who also grew up in a house directly across from the steel plant, said it was the first meeting she knew about but plans to be at all future sessions.
"I think it all sounds very promising, but I have some skepticism," Walker said, adding that the government has the ultimate say on the company's future.
What led to this at Republic Steel?
The city's Air Pollution Control, which acts as the local air agency for the Ohio EPA, investigated several resident complaints about residue and other environmental concerns in 2017. In the years prior, Republic Steel had several air quality violations for particulate matter or dust but no lead emission violations.
Canton City Public Health analyzed rates of cancer within 13.7 square miles of the steel plant and did not find a higher rate than normal based on 12 surveys submitted by residents. Dust and soil samples also were tested for lead in 2017 but did not exceed EPA standards.
A lead air monitor required by a new 2016 leaded steel permit was installed in 2017 along the south side of Georgetown Road NE. Meanwhile, the plant continued to receive violations for visible air pollution.
In 2018, the Ohio EPA ordered Republic Steel to temporarily halt the production of leaded steel because of lead emissions beyond those permitted by the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. Then in 2021, the U.S. EPA got involved ― in addition to ongoing state EPA enforcement ― because of excessive lead being released into the air.
A free clinic in late 2021 for area residents tested blood lead levels and found none to be above 2 micrograms per deciliter. State and federal agencies only recommend a medical follow-up if a blood lead level is 5 micrograms per deciliter or greater.
Republic Steel has operated under a court order since July 2021, the same month the company exceeded the court's maximum for airborne lead emissions. The Ohio EPA again ordered the plant to temporarily stop production of leaded steel.
Canton Air Pollution Control Director Terri Dzienis said "active negotiations" continue in the court case and she anticipates a settlement will be reached in the coming months. Republic Steel has not had a violation that triggered another temporary shutdown since 2021, she said.
What happens next?
In July, Morckel will complete a quality assurance plan for U.S. EPA approval and begin purchasing monitoring equipment. Canton City Public Health will then select and purchase the community sensors in August.
The community volunteers and locations for sensors will be decided sometime before October, when the monitors and sensors will be set up, according to Morckel's presentation. Her plan is to "go live" on Oct. 30.
The date for the next community meeting is not yet determined. Morckel said anyone who would like to receive information about the air quality monitoring can contact her at 330-438-4665 or lmorckel@cantonhealth.org.
Reach Kelly at 330-580-8323 or kelly.byer@cantonrep.comOn Twitter: @kbyerREP | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/canton/2023/06/30/canton-begins-new-community-air-monitoring-plan-for-republic-steel/70339550007/ | 2023-06-30T12:11:19 | 1 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/canton/2023/06/30/canton-begins-new-community-air-monitoring-plan-for-republic-steel/70339550007/ |
Massillon working to bring back popular downtown car show
- Massillon Mayor Kathy Catazaro-Perry said a daylong car show is returning to the city in 2024.
- The show may fall under a different name and theme than the previous Cruise-On-In & Dance Party, which lasted for three decades.
- The 2024 car show will be held on a Saturday and include live music entertainment and food vendors.
MASSILLON – A longtime summer classic is making a spin back to the city starting next year.
A car show, which aims to fill the void left by the longtime Cruise-On-In & Dance Party, is set to return in 2024 to downtown Massillon following a significant layoff originally due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The popular event hasn't been held since 2019.
"Our community loves the car show," said Mayor Kathy Catazaro-Perry, who helped to put together a steering committee to plan next year's city-organized car bonanza. "We very much have wanted to bring it back."
The car show group met for the first time last week and is moving forward with plans for the event, the mayor said.
The event was known for three decades as the Cruise-On-In & Dance Party. The show could be given a new name and may vary in theme, activities and vehicle displays or contests, Catazaro-Perry said.
"It will be difficult to raise the show to the level it once was under Ray Jeske (the former longtime planner and event organizer)," the mayor said. "We're (still) working through all of the details."
The annual Cruise-On-In had typically been held the Saturday prior to Father's Day.
Specifics such as a scheduled car-show date, downtown location and event name have not been finalized, Catazaro-Perry said. However, the show will include live music, food vendors and be held on a Saturday.
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The daylong Cruise-On-In event had been billed as one of Ohio's largest car shows, featuring muscle and sports cars, classic vehicles and trucks, live entertainment, food trucks and fireworks, while drawing thousands to downtown Massillon.
Debbie Busby, president of the Massillon WestStark Chamber of Commerce, was part of last week's car show meeting, and called the event an obvious boost for the city.
"It's a great event that won't be lost in the shuffle," Busby said. "It's definitely coming back."
Reach Steven at steven.grazier@indeonline.com. On Twitter: @sgrazierINDE | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/stark-county/2023/06/30/massillons-cruise-on-in-to-return-in-2024/70363734007/ | 2023-06-30T12:11:25 | 0 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/stark-county/2023/06/30/massillons-cruise-on-in-to-return-in-2024/70363734007/ |
6 Stark County communities ban fireworks. See which ones
- Louisville, Brewster, Hartville, Hills and Dales, Minerva and Navarre ban people from setting off fireworks.
- Jackson and Perry townships also restrict the use of fireworks.
A few more Stark County communities have opted to prohibit people from setting off personal fireworks, joining some others that either ban or restrict fireworks.
A state law that took effect last year allows folks to set off fireworks on their own property or another's property with permission on designated holidays, such as the upcoming Fourth of July. But the state also permits communities to set some restrictions, or opt out by a vote of council. For instance, communities can decide not to allow fireworks. Or they can restrict them to certain hours or days.
Unlike last year's Fourth of July holiday when the Repository did a survey of communities, Louisville, Brewster, Hartville and Navarre have opted out, meaning people cannot legally use fireworks there. They join Hills and Dales and Minerva, which also banned fireworks last year. Meanwhile, Jackson and Perry Townships restrict the hours.
City and village officials say they do not recall any recent fires or accidents in their communities due to fireworks use. Nor could they remember anyone in their town ever being charged with illegally setting off fireworks.
But while many people flout fireworks restrictions, the communities would rather have ordinances on their books generally banning fireworks use in hopes of reducing the chance of a fire or someone being injured. All of the officials interviewed said as far as they were aware no residents within their borders took a position on the municipalities approving a new ban on fireworks or keeping a prior ordinance that banned general fireworks use.
Under the state law, people can shoot off fireworks from 4 to 11 p.m. July 3, 4, and 5, and the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday immediately before and after July 4.
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, fireworks were involved in more than 11,500 injuries in 2021. And injuries jumped 25% between 2006 and 2021, with nearly half of them being to bystanders, the Division of State Fire Marshal said.
Fireworks have caused 163 fires in Ohio since 2022, with 33 of those incidents resulting in building fires totaling nearly $750,000 in damages, according to the State Fire Marshal’s Fire Prevention Bureau.
Hartville Mayor Cindy Billings weighs in on local fireworks
Hartville Mayor Cindy Billings said her village's council approved an ordinance last October generally banning fireworks use.
“The houses especially in a lot of different cities they're so close together, there’s too much of a chance of there being some problems. Fire or something like that," she said. "We haven’t had any problems. But maybe that’s why we haven’t had any. Because they weren't allowed.”
Mike Miller, the administrator for Brewster, said the village already had an ordinance on its books dating back to 1930 that banned anyone in the village from setting off fireworks. He said the village's solicitor, John Anthony, advised that it wasn't necessary for council to take any action to keep the ban even though the state's ban ended.
No council member or resident has discussed removing the ban as far as he is aware, Miller said.
The ordinance, which is more than 92 years old, does allow Brewster's mayor to issue a permit for fireworks if an organization submits an application and the mayor is satisfied that the fireworks show would be properly supervised and not detrimental to the public welfare.
Louisville Fire Capt. Rob Yoder: 'It's a safety risk. It's a health risk.'
Louisville Mayor Pat Fallot said her city's council unanimously approved an ordinance on June 20 generally banning fireworks in the city due to concerns about the fire risks.
Louisville Fire Capt. Rob Yoder, the head of the city's fire prevention bureau, said a violation of the new ordinance is a first-degree misdemeanor punishable up to six months in jail or up to a $1,000 fine.
“It’s a safety risk. It’s a health risk. Everybody likes their fireworks but people do a lot of stupid things with fireworks," Yoder said. "That’s how people end up having fires, losing fingers, losing hearing, having eye injuries."
He recalled fireworks a couple of decades ago causing a fire in a garage. Firefighters were able to save the garage from destruction.
Navarre Council President Josh Smith said unlike Brewster, Navarre didn't have any of its own ordinances on its books prohibiting fireworks. So after the state eliminated much of its ban, Navarre council unanimously approved the village's own ban.
Smith said council members noted that the village had a lot of older buildings in close proximity to one another making the village more vulnerable to the risk of a fire.
Similarly, Hills and Dales council, concerned about the noise, fire risks and injury risks, unanimously on June 8, 2022, approved an ordinance to ban fireworks with the state ban no longer covering several holiday period, said Hills and Dales Police Chief Brian Zeno.
He said a violation is a minor misdemeanor in the village, which has a population of about 250. The maximum fine is $100 with court costs. Zeno didn't recall anyone ever being charged for violating the state fireworks ban except possibly getting warnings from police. But he said Hills and Dales residents normally don't set off fireworks.
"Some of the homes a lot of them are older going back to the 1920s," said Zeno. "It doesn't take much for them to ignite.”
On what holidays can Ohioans use fireworks to celebrate?
Fireworks can be set off only on selected days of the year, as authorized by the state. They are:
- New Year’s Eve
- New Year's Day
- Chinese New Year
- Cinco de Mayo
- Memorial Day weekend
- Juneteenth
- July 3, 4, and 5, and the Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays before and after
- Labor Day weekend
- Diwali
What fireworks are legal and illegal in Ohio?
Casual fireworks permitted for discharge in Ohio can be purchased at a local retailer, such as Phantom Fireworks, Wholesale Fireworks and Discount Fireworks, which are in Stark County. They include bottle rockets, firecrackers, Roman candles and repeaters — or those that are lit once and fire multiple rounds.
Fireworks that are illegal in Ohio include M-80 cherry bombs, M-100 ash cans, M-250 quarter sticks and M-1000 half sticks.
Everything classified as "trick fireworks," such as smoke bombs, snakes and sparklers, are free to use anytime and can be purchased at retail shops, gas stations and grocery stores.
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Where do Stark County communities stand on fireworks?
Stark cities
- Alliance: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Canal Fulton: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Canton: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Louisville: No fireworks permitted.
- Massillon: No restrictions beyond state law
- North Canton: No restrictions beyond state law.
Stark townships
- Bethlehem Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Canton Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Jackson Township: 4 to 11 p.m. on the third, fourth and fifth days of July, and 4 to 11 p.m. on the first Fridays Saturdays and Sundays before and after the fourth day of July.
- Lake Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Lawrence Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Lexington Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Marlboro Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Nimishillen Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Osnaburg Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Paris Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Perry Township: Restricted to 8 to 11 p.m. on the Fourth of July, and other holidays as specified in the township’s fireworks resolution at https://www.perrytwp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Fireworks-Resolution.pdf.
- Pike Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Plain Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Sugar Creek Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Tuscarawas Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Washington Township: No restrictions beyond state law.
Stark villages
- Beach City: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Brewster: No fireworks permitted.
- East Canton: No restrictions beyond state law.
- East Sparta: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Hartville: No fireworks permitted.
- Hills and Dales: No fireworks permitted.
- Magnolia: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Meyers Lake: No restrictions beyond state law.
- Minerva: No fireworks permitted.
- Navarre: No fireworks permitted. “No person shall discharge, ignite or explode any 1.4G fireworks in the village at any time.” (1.4G fireworks are consumer fireworks intended for use by the general public.)
- Waynesburg: No restrictions beyond state law.
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A driver was killed in a one-vehicle crash around 8:30 p.m. June 23 in Washington County.
The driver was exiting the Pennsylvania Turnpike at the California Exit when they lost control and traveled down an embankment, according to a report from Washington County Coroner Tim Warco.
The driver, who was the only occupant of the vehicle, was ejected and pronounced dead at the scene. Their identity will be released pending notification of next of kin.
The crash is under investigation by state police.
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Happy birthday, America.
You say this is your 247th? It can’t be. You don’t look a day over 229!
Our nation’s birthday is pretty much like your birthday — except with more fireworks.
Friends and family members will gather for copious amounts of eating and drinking.
And, like any family gathering, our nation’s celebration can be fraught with tension.
It’s not easy to get in a celebratory mood this July 4, with our nation seemingly facing a new crisis every day.
That’s sort of an American tradition, too, to bemoan the state of our union and say, “I can’t imagine a time when the U.S. was in worse shape.”
I grant you, it’s bad, but it’s been worse. At least we aren’t marching through Georgia, burning everything in sight and killing our fellow citizens on blood-soaked battlefields near places with names like Gettysburg and Antietam.
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While being ornery is an American tradition, like cheating on your taxes and complaining about your neighbor’s lawn, let’s all try to act like gracious birthday party guests — at least for one day.
Instead of griping about “wasteful government spending” or how “this country has been going to hell ever since they let 18-year-olds vote,” let’s all remember this sentence from the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
That’s not a bad sentiment to keep in mind — though we have to assume by “men,” the writer means “people.”
Now go Fourth and pursue some happiness.
But first, tacos
To help kick off the busy holiday weekend, the Kenosha History Center is hosting its inaugural Kenosha Taco Fest from 4 to 8 p.m. today.
The Friday event features food trucks competing to be named “Kenosha Area’s Favorite Taco Truck.”
Seven food trucks make up what the History Center calls an all-star lineup: Antojitos Mexicanos Food Truck, Aragon’s Platos Borrachos, Big Head Tacos, Grill Lovers, Picos Taco Truck, Rockitacos and Tacos La Flama.
The event is free to attend, with tacos and other menu items and other menu items will be available to purchase from the participating vendors.
The process itself is simple: Buy tacos. Eat tacos. Vote for your favorite tacos. Thankfully, no tricky Electoral College is involved!
Also unlike a lot of our recent elections, the winner will be announced at the end of the event.
The Kenosha Taco Fest takes place in the parking lot across from the Kenosha History Center on Simmons Island and coincides with the History Center’s monthly Friday Night Classic Car Cruise-in. All classic cars and spectators are welcome.
Note: Because of the car show, parking for visitors will be limited. History Center officials suggest parking in the Simmons Island Bath House Parking Lot, north of the History Center, or using the Lakefront Trolley to shuttle to the event.
The City of Kenosha’s Lakefront Trolley operates on a route from UW-Parkside University, through Downtown and south to Kemper Center. The trolley route includes the History Center, along with the Civil War Museum and the Kenosha Public Museum. There are markers along the route, but people can also flag down the driver for pick up along the way. Fares are $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. For more details about the trolley, go to kenosha.org or call 262-653-4290. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/happy-birthday-america-now-be-nice/article_86c69450-169a-11ee-9ffe-5b337214c985.html | 2023-06-30T12:22:23 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/happy-birthday-america-now-be-nice/article_86c69450-169a-11ee-9ffe-5b337214c985.html |
Today is the final day of June, which means it’s also your last chance this year to celebrate Dairy Month! Since we’re living in the Dairy State, it’s your patriotic duty to consume as many dairy products as possible. Sure, you could pour skim milk over your breakfast cereal and enjoy some plain Greek yogurt with fruit after lunch. But we prefer to celebrate Dairy Month in the most delicious way — and that means eating ice cream!
Play ball! The Kenosha Kingfish are back in action today at Simmons Field. The Kingfish are hosting the Kokomo Jackrabbits for a 6:35 p.m. game. Tonight’s special: A Wiffle Ball Set Giveaway. For tickets, call 262-653-0900 or go to kingfishbaseball.com.
The Kenosha History Center, 220 51st Place (on Simmons Island along the harbor) hosts Cruise-In Nights, from 4 to 8 p.m. on the last Friday of each month, which means TONIGHT. And today’s Cruise-In also features the Kenosha Taco Fest, a food truck taco competition. On Cruise-In nights, the History Center stays open until 7 p.m. These events are free and open to all classic vehicles.
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In Milwaukee, the Big Gig is back! Summerfest continues its second weekend today, with Show Your College Pride Day. Everyone who wears a shirt or hat representing one of the participating colleges or universities will get in free from noon to 3 p.m. Schools participating are: Herzing University, Carroll University, Marquette University, Milwaukee Area Technical College, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Whitewater. Plus, high school students who present a verified high school ID will also get in free. For more details about the festival, go to summerfest.com. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-events-for-friday-june-30/article_22cb30b2-1688-11ee-8391-a334095180dd.html | 2023-06-30T12:22:29 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-events-for-friday-june-30/article_22cb30b2-1688-11ee-8391-a334095180dd.html |
Welcome back to "Long Story Short," bringing you the latest Central Illinois news as we head into a long Independence Day weekend.
This week, the team discusses:
Haze caused by drifting smoke from Canadian wildfires is visible on Wednesday near the Interstate 74 and Interstate 55 interchange in Bloomington.
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🎆 From the Archives: Fourth of July in Central Illinois
State Rep. Dan Brady during Fourth of July Parade in Downs
Ran in The Pantagraph on Wednesday, July 5, 2006.
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Tim Phillips of Lincoln walks with American flag
Ran in The Pantagraph on Saturday, July 5, 2008.
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Annual parades with local school bands
Ran in The Pantagraph on Thursday, July 2, 1998.
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Captain Rat greets fans at Normal's Fairview Park
Ran in The Pantagraph on Sunday, July 5, 1987.
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Fireworks Displays
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Youngsters perform during "Celebrate America"
Ran in The Pantagraph on Thursday, June 28, 2018.
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Organizers hope to repeat the event every Fourth of July
Ran in The Pantagraph on Sunday, July 5, 1987.
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The McManus family celebrated the Fourth
Ran in The Pantagraph on Friday, July 5, 2002.
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Sites for Sounds
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Fourth full of fun options
Ran in The Pantagraph on Thursday, July 3, 2003.
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Fourth of July marked by OpSail 2000
Ran in The Pantagraph on Wednesday, July 5, 2000.
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Fourth of July to be given gay observance
Ran in The Pantagraph on Sunday, June 30, 1935.
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A park celebration for the Fourth of July
Ran in The Pantagraph on Wednesday, July 5, 1978.
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Matt Hedeman showed his colors during Fourth of July Parade
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Relaxing picnic fare for the Fourth of July
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Weather is often a go-to conversation filler or ice-breaker. When people don’t know what else to say, they gripe about the heat or the cold or the rain or the snow. But severe weather is far more than an inconvenience, and it can be a matter of life or death.
Take thunderstorms. There are roughly 100,000 thunderstorms every year in the United States, and 1 in 10 is considered severe. They cause flash floods, spark fires, and create hail, killing more people each year than do tornadoes, lightning, or hurricanes. Severe weather is growing more intense as well. Flash floods tear through dry waterbeds, city streets, and sewer drains at breakneck speed. But in developed urban areas, rain falls on impervious surfaces like sidewalks, parking lots, and driveways. Without land to absorb it, the water inundates roadways, culverts, and underpasses. Hail storms are expected to become more dangerous as the planet keeps overheating. Researchers predict climate change will mean fewer days of hail ahead, but an increase in the size of hailstones, making them more destructive and more lethal.
Stacker set out to find the places in the United States that have the most severe weather. Using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Stacker sorted a decade of storm events large and small from 2010 to 2020, weighing all of them equally, and created a list of counties with the most severe weather in every state.
You think your weather is bad? Take a look at the worst weather in the country.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — AAA will be working to keep impaired drivers from getting behind the wheel this Fourth of July weekend.
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The auto club is bringing back its “Tow to Go” service from June 30 to July 5.
The program was created to provide safe transportation for impaired drivers and their vehicles.
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The service works by dispatching a tow truck driver to meet up with a person who is unfit to operate their vehicle.
The tow truck will transport the impaired driver and their car to a safe location within a 10-mile radius of the pickup spot.
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If you have plans to celebrate this weekend, make sure you have a plan to get home. As a last resort, give us the keys and we’ll give you and your car a lift – even if you’re not a member.
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“By providing this program, AAA gives drivers no excuse for driving under the influence of drugs, alcohol, or impairing medications,” AAA’s Mark Jenkins said.
AAA noted that Tow to Go is meant to be used as a last resort when your plans for a safe ride home don’t work out.
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The program will run between the hours of 6 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Wednesday.
Call 855-2-TOW-2-GO or 855-286-9246 to request the service.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Central Florida will be very hot and mainly dry on Friday.
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Our area will have a 20% chance of seeing a pop-up storm today.
The high temperature in Orlando should reach around 95 degrees Thursday.
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However, the heat index will make our temperatures feel like 105 degrees.
Our forecast should be the same for Saturday and Sunday.
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COLFAX — A transition-of-services ceremony will be held today to honor the Colfax Fire Department’s contribution to the community and mark turning over its duties to the Kernersville Fire Department.
The volunteer fire department will hold an open house at 4 p.m. at Station No. 16 at 9414 W. Market St., with a formal ceremony at 4:30 p.m.
On Saturday, Kernersville will take over fire protection in the 14-square-mile district in western Guilford County. The city department will take possession of the fire station, along with the department’s engine, reserve engine, tanker, brush truck and two command staff vehicles.
The High Point Fire Department took over the department’s second station on Sandy Ridge Road last year after Colfax leaders decided they could only cover a 5-mile radius around the Market Street station.
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A combination of too few volunteers and multiple annexations from surrounding municipalities forced the Colfax Fire Department’s Board of Directors to decide last year to dissolve the 64-year-old department.
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RICHMOND, Maine — When Jeremy and Michelle Purington bought a plot of land on Main Street in Richmond two years ago, all that really sat on it was a big rock ledge. From that rock ledge, Moose Mountain Mini Golf was born.
The 18-hole course opens Saturday, July 1. It’s right off the Richmond exit on I-295, making it easily accessible for those already in the area and those who may just be passing through. The first nine holes are also handicap accessible.
"If people are en route to somewhere and want to do a stop and have a break for the kids, they can come grab an ice cream, play some mini golf, and get back on the road," Michelle said. "Or maybe they want to spend some time in Richmond."
Jeremy and Michelle Purington have lived in Richmond, where their construction company Purington Construction is based, for the past 18 years. The fact that they were able to build the course in their own community makes it even more exciting.
"I think we kind of were discussing this for the last 10 years," Jeremy said. "It just came to light about two years ago. Just the right place, right time. We found this property and decided this was the spot."
"There really isn’t anything around for people to do in a fairly large radius," he added. "So, I just felt like this could be a nice destination attraction. Starting with mini golf and ice cream and expand into something else."
The couple has a vison of expanding the mini golf facility into a full adventure park with additional activities like a climbing wall and a ropes course. For now, it’s mini golf and ice cream, and they encourage people to hang out and have ice cream even if they don’t feel like swinging a putter. Moose Mountain also does birthday and event bookings.
Jeremy said about 99 percent of the course is built out of real rock—built right into the ledge across three different tiers. They had to blast some of the ledge, but they took that blasted ledge and incorporated it into the course.
The course has a theme of all things Maine and the Maine wilderness, and the craftsmanship really stands out. There are animals spread throughout, like a bald eagle in a nest and a bear fishing with its paws. There’s also a tree house, a campfire, a beaver dam, multiple waterfalls, and more.
"The heart of Maine," Michelle said of the theme. "Things that people think of when they think of Maine."
The Puringtons have two sons, ages 11 and 13, who they’ve already put to work. They said they’re also employing about 15 local kids for the summer.
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Preparations are underway in Bismarck and Mandan for a number of events celebrating Independence Day.
This year's events will include the traditional rodeo, parade and Art in the Park events in Mandan, along with the annual fireworks and symphony show at the state Capitol in Bismarck. This year's rodeo will be in a new multimillion-dollar facility, while the parade will mark the one-year anniversary of a girl's tragic death while riding a float.
Mandan Rodeo Days is now separate from the Mandan Progress Organization that runs the Independence Day Parade and Art in the Park. The Mandan rodeo will kick off on Sunday, while the MPO events will begin on Monday.
The Mandan Rodeo is now run by the Mandan Rodeo Days Committee, but it is still part of the Mandan Rodeo Days celebration that includes all Fourth of July activities in Mandan, according to MPO Executive Director Matt Schanandore.
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"Everything is really exciting right now as we're getting ready for the annual Mandan Rodeo Days celebration," Schanandore said.
Parade
The 144th Annual Mandan Independence Day Parade will begin at 8 a.m. Tuesday with the 46th annual Mandan Fourth of July 5K Road Race.
The noncompetitive race starts at the intersection of Third Avenue Northwest and West Main Street in front of the Mandan Depot. The runners will run about half a mile west on Main Street to 10th Avenue Northwest, turn around and head east on Main Street to a turn-around just before Burger King on East Main Street. Runners will then cross the finish line at the starting area in front of the Mandan Depot.
Ten dollars from every race registration is donated to the Bismarck Cancer Center Foundation. Schanandore expects there to be 400-500 runners.
The parade is set Tuesday morning following the Road Race. Parade Marshal Dennis Nieskens at 10 a.m. will lead the parade with about 85 floats from Memorial Highway at Third Street Southeast to Main Street, ending on 10th Avenue Southwest.
Nieskens founded Buggies-N-Blues, which hosted its 30th show earlier this month. Buggies-N-Blues is an annual event that features a classic car parade, car show and live music in downtown Mandan.
The parade will feature equestrians, marching bands, decorated floats and more. This year's theme is "Cruising with the red, white, and blue," according to Schanandore.
More information is at https://www.mandanparade.com/.
Last year's parade was marred by the death of a 6-year-old girl who died after falling from a float.
Mabel Askay, of Ventura, California, was in Mandan visiting relatives. She was riding on the DK Orthodontics float that was en route to the parade staging area when she fell. The float was moving at less than 10 mph and the driver didn't do anything to cause the girl to fall, according to Mandan police. No charges resulted.
No changes will be implemented at this year's parade.
"We're proceeding as normal with our normal safety precautions," Schanandore said.
Driving and parking
Main Street Exit 155 from Interstate 94 will be closed to traffic into Mandan beginning at 7 a.m. on Tuesday until the end of the parade at roughly 1 p.m. To travel into Mandan, use I-94 Exit 153 at Mandan Avenue or Exit 152 at Sunset Drive. Traffic can also pass through Mandan by Memorial Highway until 9:30 a.m. that day. Motorists needing to go south of Mandan should do so prior to 9:30 a.m. to avoid delays or inconvenience.
Parking anywhere on Main Street is prohibited from 1 a.m. on Tuesday until after the parade is over. Any vehicles parked on Main Street during this time will be ticketed and towed at the owner's expense. Parking lots in the downtown area also will be subject to restrictions.
Main Street from the west side of the intersection with Memorial Highway to 10th Avenue Northwest will be closed starting at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday to accommodate the 5K, and will remain closed until the parade concludes.
Traffic from Memorial Highway will be able to go northbound onto Mandan Avenue until 9:30 a.m. -- at which time Memorial Highway will be closed to westbound traffic from the intersection with Third Street Southeast and Bisman Avenue to East Main. Motorists traveling west of Third Street Southeast on Memorial Highway prior to the closing are urged to slow down and watch for pedestrians.
In Bismarck, traffic control will be reduced on Bismarck Expressway beginning Friday evening for the holiday weekend. Traffic control will remain in place from Seventh Street to 12th Street in both directions on Expressway for the weekend. Motorists can expect traffic control to return in a different form after the holiday, according to the city.
Art in the Park
The Art in the Park festival will feature over 60 crafts and food vendors and live performances at Mandan's Dykshoorn Park on Main Street. The two-day event will open at 9 a.m. on Monday and Tuesday. The event will close at 7 p.m. on Monday and at 5 p.m. on Tuesday.
Public entry is free. No pets are allowed. More information is at https://www.artintheparknd.com.
Main Street will be closed west of Second Avenue Northwest to Fourth Avenue Northwest beginning at 1 a.m. on Sunday until 8 p.m. on Tuesday. Third Avenue Northwest from Main Street to the alleyway also will be closed. A temporary four-way stop will be installed at the intersection of First Street and Third Avenue Northwest.
Traffic will be detoured to First Street Northwest. Rodeo contestants, semitrailers and other large vehicles are encouraged to take alternate routes during the Main Street closures Sunday through Tuesday:
- Traffic from the east using I-94 is encouraged to use the Mandan Avenue Exit 153.
- Rodeo contestants coming from west of town on Main Street can turn right at the intersection with 10th Avenue Northwest and take Third Street Southwest to Dacotah Centennial Park. Contestants coming from the west using I-94 could use Mandan Avenue Exit 153 on Sunday and Monday.
Rodeo
Mandan Rodeo Days will run from Sunday through Tuesday, with gates opening at 5 p.m. each day. All events start at 7:30 p.m.
The first day is Family Night; the rodeo will close at 10:30 p.m. The second night is Patriot Night; the rodeo will close at 10 p.m. The final night is Fireworks Night and will feature a fireworks show after the rodeo ends.
The rodeo will take place at the new $3.1 million Dale Pahlke Arena that opened just weeks ago. The permanent arena seats 4,000 people among two grandstands and features an announcer stand, audio visual system, ticket booth, livestock pens and contestant warmup area.
The arena previously would be set up and torn down for the rodeo.
More information is at https://mandanrodeo.com/.
The rodeo will be livestreamed on the Cowboy Channel and on the Cowboy Channel+ app in partnership with The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and BEK TV.
Bismarck festivities
The Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday will host its annual Fourth of July Symphony Spectacular at the State Capitol. The opening act Andrist Family -- a five-member family quintet from North Dakota-- will begin at 7:45 p.m. The symphony performance will feature Michael Cartwright, a trumpet player and singer based in Bismarck, and Cydnee McQuillan-Grace, a singer and actor based out of New York.
The musical selection will have a Western theme but also feature generally popular music. Pieces will include the "Theme from the Magnificent Seven," "Hymn to the Fallen" by John Williams from the movie "Saving Private Ryan," the "Armed Forces Salute," "What a Wonderful World," a medley of Eagles songs and a medley of cowboy songs.
Music Director Beverly Everett said that the music "melds perfectly with the visual of the Dakota prairies: music that stirs people's hearts of patriotism and love of our country, and familiar, fun pop music that people can join in singing along."
A fireworks show will begin at dark and will be accompanied by the symphony. The musical selection at dark includes an abridged version of the "1812 Overture," "Stars and Stripes Forever," "Washington Post March," "Sempre Fi March" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
The event is free and open to the public. Food and drink vendors will be on site.
More information is at https://bismarckmandansymphony.org/.
Fireworks
The private possession and use of fireworks is prohibited in Bismarck. Violations are a Class B misdemeanor, which carries a potential punishment of 30 days in jail and a $1,500 fine.
The possession and use of fireworks in Mandan will be permitted from 12 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, according to the city.
Private fireworks are prohibited at all city parks, though Mandan Rodeo Days' annual public display will take place at Dacotah Centennial Park.
The possession, manufacture, storage, sale and use of sky lanterns and bottle rockets is prohibited within city limits.
The city urges residents to use caution, and to pick up and dispose of all remnants afterward. Fireworks should be disposed of in regular garbage after they are extinguished and no longer warm, as they are not recyclable.
Unused fireworks should have their fuse removed and be soaked in water prior to being placed in the garbage.
The rules reflect a 2020 ordinance change and are different from previous years. The fine for violations is $150.
Dry conditions have previously led to fireworks bans.
Morton County's current burn ban -- which includes fireworks -- goes into effect when the fire danger index is high, very high, extreme or if there is a red flag warning. The fire danger rating can be found at bit.ly/45iKW6o.
"As long as the fire index stays in the low or medium categories, fireworks will be allowed," Morton County Emergency Program Coordinator Brianna Verkaik said.
Fireworks are not permitted in any Morton County parks regardless of the fire index.
New Salem, Glen Ullin and Hebron all have individual city ordinances that allow fireworks from 10 a.m. through 11 p.m. June 27 through July 2. On July 3-5, the hours are 10 a.m. through midnight.
Immediately following the approved fireworks display at Dacotah Centennial Park on Tuesday, traffic will be directed as follows:
Vehicles exiting onto 24th Avenue Southeast will be directed to travel west on Third Street Southeast or continue to Memorial Highway, at which point they will be required to travel west on Memorial Highway. There will be no eastbound traffic from this route.
Vehicles exiting eastbound on Longspur Trail will be routed to Memorial Highway on Redwing Drive or 32nd Avenue Southeast. This traffic will be required to go eastbound on Memorial Highway. There will be no westbound traffic from this route.
There will be no eastbound traffic allowed onto Memorial Highway from East Main Street during this time, but traffic will be allowed on Riverwood Avenue after the fireworks.
For more information, go to visitmandan.com.
Outdoors reminders
Possession and use of fireworks is banned on state wildlife management areas, according to the state Game and Fish Department.
Fireworks displays aren't compatible with the objectives of the areas -- enhancing wildlife production, providing hunting and fishing opportunities, and offering other outdoor recreational and educational opportunities, officials said.
Separately, Game and Fish is lifting the no-camping restriction on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the upcoming Fourth of July holiday week. That means overnight camping will be allowed July 4-5 on the wildlife management areas where the restriction normally would be in place.
Game and Fish will again participate in the national Operation Dry Water effort to combat boating under the influence over the holiday period. The special enforcement is Saturday through Monday. Game wardens will focus on the water, informing boaters about safe boating practices and removing impaired operators.
Wildlife officials also are reminding outdoors enthusiasts to put their garbage in trash receptacles when they use public areas including wildlife management areas. If trash cans aren't available or are full, people should take trash home to dispose of it, Game and Fish said. That includes used fireworks and also plastic foam containers, which are not biodegradable. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/traditional-events-to-mark-fourth-of-july-period-in-bismarck-mandan/article_5dafd0f2-1471-11ee-9a12-ef0864c4cab7.html | 2023-06-30T12:52:54 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/traditional-events-to-mark-fourth-of-july-period-in-bismarck-mandan/article_5dafd0f2-1471-11ee-9a12-ef0864c4cab7.html |
BALTIMORE, MD — Mary Jane is legal in Maryland starting Saturday as the state law governing pot goes into effect.
Marylanders won't need a medical license to get into dispensaries but will have some limitations without one.
Cannabis can only contain 10 mg of THC per serving if sold to someone without a license.
Dispensaries will also make sure medical patients are seen before recreational customers.
Everyone in the industry is expecting a surge in customers July 1 but some think it will last while others foresee a plateau.
"We began our prep for adult use, long before today. There are certain regulations and details that we were waiting for that gave us final specifics for the process but we had enough information to get going and we needed to to properly serve the dispensaries," said Wendy Bronfein with Curio wellness.
While a state law limits cops from pulling people over on the smell of marijuana, cannabis can still lead to DUIs.
Police say the recommendation for people is to wait 6-8 hours after they stop smoking before getting behind the wheel.
Smoking weed in public is also still illegal — it's treated similarly to open containers of alcohol. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/recreational-cannabis-sales-start-tomorrow-in-maryland | 2023-06-30T12:56:48 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/recreational-cannabis-sales-start-tomorrow-in-maryland |
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) — Covered Bridge Park in Elizabethton will be filled with red white and blue on Saturday, July 1 as the town hosts its Independence Day Celebration.
The day of fun begins at 4 p.m. with the Patriotic Pedal and Patriotic Pups Parade and Competition. Music will fill the air with the sounds of REO Survivor on the Covered Bridge Park stage and the evening will end with a spectacular fireworks display. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/elizabethton-ready-for-independence-day-celebration-at-covered-bridge-park/ | 2023-06-30T12:57:12 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/elizabethton-ready-for-independence-day-celebration-at-covered-bridge-park/ |
News Tribune, June 30, 1983
- Granada News in Duluth will be sold to the owners of Globe News in Superior and Jeff Pinney of Proctor. The name of the store at 15 W. Superior St. will be changed to Duluth News and Book.
- A daylong "foghorn frolic" is scheduled for July 16 at Duluth's Canal Park to celebrate the return of the old diaphone foghorn to the city's waterfront. The events will be sponsored by the Duluth group ReTurn Our Old Tone (TOOT).
News Tribune, June 30, 1923
- Plans are nearly completed for the annual peony show of the Northeastern Minnesota Horticultural Society to be held July 2 and 3 in Duluth's First National Bank. Between 75 and 100 different varieties will be exhibited from more than 300 entries.
- About 6,000 Masons and their guests attended yesterday's open-air ceremony dedicating Superior's Acacia Lodge on Iowa Avenue in Billings Park. Preceding the ceremony, three Masonic lodges paraded in downtown Superior to Tower Avenue, where they disbanded and rode streetcars to Billings Park. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/bygones-duluth-foghorn-frolic-planned-40-years-ago | 2023-06-30T13:08:55 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/bygones-duluth-foghorn-frolic-planned-40-years-ago |
New law requires county and city to stream, record and archive public meetings
MUNCIE, Ind. − Delaware County Council is preparing to adhere to a state law that will require all county council, as well as other public meetings across local government, to be live-streamed, recorded and archived for at least 90 days.
The law will apply to city council and and town council meetings as well as most school boards and township board meeting as well.
House Bill 1167, passed into law by the Indiana General Assembly this year, would make the requirements mandatory as of July 1, 2025. In addition to county council, the county commissioners would also have to meet the requirements, as well as any other public board or commission that meets in the Commissioners Courtroom on the third floor of the County Building downtown.
The law would also apply to Muncie City public boards and commissions that meet at City Council Chambers at City Hall.
County Council President Jessica Piper said the county council and commissioner meetings carry the mandate to be streamed and recorded, regardless of where the meeting is conducted.
Which governmental bodies are affected?
The legislation language states the requirement applies to a governing body of a state agency and the executive, legislative or fiscal body of a county, city, town or township as well as "a school board that has members who are elected."
Muncie Community Schools Board would appear to be excluded from the requirement since its members are now appointed. Ball State trustees appoint five MCS Board members based on recommendations from University President Geoffrey Mearns. He also appoints the other two board members, chosen from candidates recommended by the Muncie mayor and the Muncie City Council.
MCS already streams board meetings and archives them.
The language goes on to say that the requirements apply to "any governing body that conducts the governingbody's regular meetings in the same meeting room "as the executive and legislative bodies must meet the requirements."
For the county that would mean the Metropolitan Plan Commission, the County Drainage Board, the County Alcoholic Beverage Commission, among others, said Shannon Henry, president of the Delaware County Commissioners.
Which public meetings are already streamed?
Commissioners and council regular meetings are now streamed and recorded and are available on the county's Facebook account. Muncie City Council and some of the city's other meetings, such as the Muncie Public Works Board, City Redevelopment Commission, Muncie Parks Board, are also streamed and viewable on Facebook. But others are not, including the Muncie Police Merit Commission, the Fire Merit Commission, the Muncie Industrial Revolving Loan Fund Board and the Muncie Unsafe Building Housing Authority Board.
City Council President Jeff Robinson said the city should go about streaming all the public meetings conducted in the city council chamber now and not wait for the law to take effect in July 2025.
"The equipment is in place," he said. "It's the push of a button."
Mayor Dan Ridenour said he thinks the law is a good idea but it won't be implemented until next year after the money needed to hire someone to oversee the recordings and streaming is added to the budget.
"I do support it," Ridenour said.
Robinson said anything that increases transparency in the city so taxpayers can see how their tax dollars are being spent is a good thing.
Henry said that for the county the new law would come with a cost for the county. However, he said, the county would find the money and comply.
In addition to Facebook, some recorded county meetings are also available and archived on You Tube.
County Council Member William Hughes has been working on developing a document that provides rules for how the County Council operates.
"We had a lot of traditions never written down," Hughes said.
Council member Ryan Webb said the streaming of budget hearings should start this fall be added to the rules, Hughes also said wanted to make sure everyone was aware of HB1167 and its requirements for the county.
"I think they are the most important meetings," Webb said. "I realize there are discussions going on about how to do this."
Budget meetings are often day-long and controversial as county council goes about approving expenditures and salaries for county employees and fitting it all within county revenues. Piper said the council was now investigating costs associated with live-streaming budget meetings and that needed to be determined as the first step.
She the the matter would be discuss further at the July meeting.
"Subject to the budget and finding the money, it's perfectly appropriate to live stream the budget meetings," Hughes said.
Last year Webb led a charge to have the budget meetings streamed. The council voted 7-0 to ask commissioners for the money to pay for the recordings. County commissioners declined to pay for it. Then Council President Scott Alexander, president of the council, agreed with Commissioner Henry's concerns about viewers using information from meeting videos to criticize the county's actions.
Hughes said the council's adopted rules could be amended going forward should that be something the majority of council chose. | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/06/30/new-law-requires-county-and-city-to-record-and-archive-public-meetings/70364868007/ | 2023-06-30T13:09:50 | 1 | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/06/30/new-law-requires-county-and-city-to-record-and-archive-public-meetings/70364868007/ |
An air quality alert has been extended to today as a result of smoke from Canadian wildfires polluting the region.
The Air Quality Index in the Miami Valley on Thursday was solidly in the “unhealthy” range all day, according to the Regional Air Pollution Control Agency.
As of 11:24 a.m. Thursday, the AQI was 169, and by 4 p.m. it was 162. Any reading of 101 or higher is considered unhealthy for sensitive groups, and a reading of 150-199 is unhealthy for all. Local AQI readings were over 200 on Wednesday morning.
Drifting smoke from the wildfires has lowered curtains of haze on broad swaths of Canada and the U.S., pushing into southern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, plus parts of West Virginia. Canadian officials say it is the nation’s worst wildfire season ever, and they expect air quality to remain a concern through the summer, the Associated Press reported.
The AQI forecast is 131 for today in the Dayton region.
People with heart or lung disease, seniors and children are urged to avoid strenuous outdoor activities, keep outdoor activities short and consider moving physical activities indoors or rescheduling them, RAPCA said.
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FROSTPROOF, Fla. — Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is expected to provide details Friday morning after a person was killed during a shooting in Frostproof involving deputies, the sheriff's office said in a release.
The shooting happened in the area of T.S. Wilson Road near South Scenic Highway (US-17). Few details about the shooting have been released, including what led to the shooting and who was killed.
Judd is set to hold a news conference at 8:30 a.m. at the scene.
10 Tampa Bay is sending a crew to the scene and will share the sheriff's remarks on our free 10 Tampa Bay+ streaming app, on our free 10 Tampa Bay mobile app and on our YouTube page.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/polkcounty/frostproof-deadly-shooting-polk-county-sheriffs-deputies/67-8797a459-4758-4ba2-8772-d5556ed0b632 | 2023-06-30T13:18:50 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/polkcounty/frostproof-deadly-shooting-polk-county-sheriffs-deputies/67-8797a459-4758-4ba2-8772-d5556ed0b632 |
LAKE WALES, Fla. — A 19-year-old man died Thursday night near Lake Wales after a crash threw him from the SUV he was a passenger in, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies said the crash happened shortly before 10:30 p.m. Around that time, first responders with the sheriff's office and Polk County Fire Rescue were called to the area of Masterpiece Road near Longhorn Drive in Lake Wales.
When authorities arrived, they found three people, all under the age of 20, who had been involved in the single-car crash and rushed them to the hospital.
Jaeden Hill, 19, of Lake Wales, later died at the hospital from injuries he sustained in the crash.
Investigators say a 19-year-old man from Haines City was driving a gray Jeep Cherokee eastbound along Masterpiece Drive with Hill in the passenger seat and a 16-year-old boy in the back.
Deputies said the Jeep's driver lost control of the SUV for "unknown reasons," causing it to leave the road near Longhorn Drive. The Jeep collided with three mailboxes, a utility pole and then started flipping.
As this was happening, Hill was thrown from the Jeep.
The Jeep's driver and the 16-year-old boy were treated at the hospital and have since been released. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/polkcounty/lake-wales-deadly-rollover-crash-masterpiece-drive-jaeden-hill/67-e91a7644-ab35-462e-9b67-74054d04baf0 | 2023-06-30T13:18:56 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/polkcounty/lake-wales-deadly-rollover-crash-masterpiece-drive-jaeden-hill/67-e91a7644-ab35-462e-9b67-74054d04baf0 |
ATLANTA — A word of caution– for everyone planning to spend time on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast beaches:
Deaths from rip currents in the U.S., so far this year, are on a record-setting pace.
And first responders are trying to teach a life-and-death lesson to everyone, in order to keep everyone out of trouble.
Aerial photographs of beaches along the Florida panhandle, for example, on a typical day show, vividly, one rip current after another, up and down the Gulf Coast.
Davis Wood, with Escambia County Public Safety in Pensacola, Florida, said tourists and residents, alike, need to remember that rip currents can catch anyone by surprise.
"Even on a calm day,” Wood said, "even if it's a Green Flag day, the water still has that threat of a rip current."
Wood and his teams of first responders are heartbroken with every life they can't save.
This past April, they tried to save two children and a man from the Atlanta area who were caught in a rip current– Rashad Williams, 12, Bryce Brooks, 16, and youth basketball coach Charles "Chuck" Johnson.
The only survivor in that group was Addie Jones' 14-year-old son, Braylon Jones. She was at the beach that day with her son and with his friend, Rashad Williams.
"The current came and knocked them off their feet,” Ms. Jones said. “They were just like, fighting to get back up, fighting to breathe, he said it was just so scary."
The National Weather Service reports that, so far in 2023, 55 people have drowned in rip currents, nearly all of them along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.
That number is on track to surpass the yearly average of 71 rip-current deaths in the U.S.
"It doesn't really matter the depth of water,” Wood said, "you can find yourself pulled out before you realize it."
First responders are working to teach swimmers that, contrary to what many believe, rip currents do not automatically pull people underwater. The first responders’ advice is just to let the rip current take you away from shore, instead of fighting the current by trying to swim into it or against it.
"If you find yourself in a rip current,” Wood said, "the biggest thing is try to float. Try to preserve your energy, because eventually that rip current ends."
And when the rip current does start to slow down, Wood said, you likely won't be too far away from shore.
"Once you realize you're not being pushed away (from shore anymore)," he said, "swim parallel to the shore and get out of that rip current, so you can get yourself in shallower water and you can walk."
As it is, rip currents, on average, take more lives each year than do hurricanes or tornadoes or lightning strikes; and yet, first responders say rip currents may be the easiest of all to survive. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/rip-current-deaths-record-numbers-this-year/85-11352aa4-667b-4185-b33d-57d987b1344d | 2023-06-30T13:19:02 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/rip-current-deaths-record-numbers-this-year/85-11352aa4-667b-4185-b33d-57d987b1344d |
TAMPA, Fla. — A man is dead after exchanging gunfire with Tampa Police officers Thursday night, according to a news release.
Police said they were called around 10:50 p.m. to East Busch Boulevard near North 40th Street after getting reports someone was shooting a gun from a gray Kia Soul.
Minutes later, officers said they and the Aviation Unit spotted the car going south on North 40th Street. Just before 11 p.m., police reported they tried to stop the Kia at the intersection of North 40th Street and East 32nd Avenue.
When this happened, the agency said a 42-year-old man got out of the passenger's side of the Kia and started shooting at officers. Neither of the two officers involved was hurt, but several shots made contact with their SUV, the release said.
Officers said they returned fire, hitting the man. Just after this, the man got back into the car and the driver, a 37-year-old woman, kept going down North 40th Street.
Moments later, the Kia stopped and the woman got out and surrendered to officers, the agency reported. The man was "tactically removed" from the car and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators said they determined the gun inside the car was the same one used at the time the initial call about shots fired came in.
Both officers have been placed on administrative leave, as is the protocol for shootings involving police. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is reportedly taking over the deadly shooting investigation.
The driver of the Kia was arrested and charges are pending for her from the State Attorney's Office, police said.
Tampa Police detectives said they are investigating what led to the initial shooting on East Busch Boulevard. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/tampa-police-officer-involved-deadly-shooting-busch-boulevard-n40th-street/67-ebb81c9f-9a55-46e0-a956-2895e6381037 | 2023-06-30T13:19:08 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/tampa-police-officer-involved-deadly-shooting-busch-boulevard-n40th-street/67-ebb81c9f-9a55-46e0-a956-2895e6381037 |
MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) - Erik Jones, one of Michigan's NASCAR stars, is inviting the public to his "Friends and Family Tailgate" at the Firekeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway on Aug. 6.
The fan club for Jones will have chartered buses to transport fans to and from the speedway in Brooklyn, Mich. Buses will depart from the Flint Farmers' Market and Byron High School on Aug. 6.
According to the Erik Jones Foundation, fans will be able to take part in the "tailgate experience," which includes tailgate games, a DJ, the race and a special appearance from the driver of the 43 car.
The Erik Jones Fan Club will offer different ticket packages. The club has radio scanners available for rent. The scanners reduce the noise of the race and allow fans to listen to the race broadcast and in-car radio of their favorite driver.
For more information and to get tickets, visit https://bit.ly/EJFBustrip. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/erik-jones-hosting-friends-and-family-tailgate-for-race-in-michigan/article_5080d256-16b4-11ee-b87a-df3fa568cce2.html | 2023-06-30T13:20:17 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/erik-jones-hosting-friends-and-family-tailgate-for-race-in-michigan/article_5080d256-16b4-11ee-b87a-df3fa568cce2.html |
MAYVILLE, Mich. (WJRT) - Turmoil is enveloping the small Tuscola County town of Mayville, as resignations leave the village council with no members who actually won an election.
There was a recall targeting three village council members, but those three council members resigned at a special meeting. So the people heading up that recall got what they wanted.
But the drama was far from over.
At a hastily called special meeting, one of those council members who was the target of recall and resigned was then named the village manager. That led another council member to resign, but the village's attorney says everything is above board.
Rod Buhl was at his first Mayville Village Council meeting after November's election. He saw another winner, Diana Vendittelli, who beat her opponent by about 200 votes, get disqualified because she owed a financial debt to the village.
Steve Charette took her seat despite only getting 32 votes.
"Seemed like it was weird how it happened because it was done before the meeting started," Buhl said.
Then, a recall effort started for three members, including Village President Barbara Valentine, as people were upset Valentine and her husband sold a former bank building to the village last year.
"It was quite a bit of a difference in price from what they paid for it, so it's a conflict of interest is what that boils down to in my opinion," Buhl said.
A special meeting was called in May.
"I didn't know about the special meeting," Buhl said.
The targets of the recall, including Valentine, resigned. But then Valentine was named village manager, paying her $30 an hour for no more than 25 hours a week.
"Immoral and unethical," is how Buhl described what happened.
Buhl then resigned.
"They are not breaking the law, but they are so close to breaking the law, I don't like it. I am not going to be a part of it," he said.
Village attorney Adam Flory said all of the village's actions have "complied with the law 100%" throughout the months-long drama.
"Everyone has the right to be critical of government and that's a good thing," he said.
Flory said Valentine was chosen to be village manager because of experience with a number of projects taking place in Mayville. Buhl said what has occurred is just plain wrong.
"Nobody knows what is going on and why things are being done the way they are," he said.
Barbara Valentine could not be reached for comment Thursday.
As far as that debt Diana Vendittelli owed the village of Mayville, which cost her that council seat, Michigan State Police conducted an investigation and the Tuscola County Prosecutor's Office declined to authorize charges. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/mayville-drama-includes-attempted-recall-resignations-police-probe/article_4f99d390-16c0-11ee-a55d-2f83feba97df.html | 2023-06-30T13:20:23 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/mayville-drama-includes-attempted-recall-resignations-police-probe/article_4f99d390-16c0-11ee-a55d-2f83feba97df.html |
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - Officers across the state of Michigan are about to start cracking down on any phone use while driving.
This as a newly signed distracted driving law is set to take effect on June 30, ahead of the busy Independence Day weekend. Michigan's new hands-free driving law still has some people asking questions.
"Anything in your hands is going to be illegal unless you're calling 911, calling emergency services or calling to report something in front of you," said Lt. John Swartz of the Grand Blanc Township Police Department.
That means no social media, no texting and no videos behind the wheel. Phone calls and GPS are allowed only if they're through a hands-free system like Bluetooth, a dash screen or a phone mount.
"We ultimately hope that this makes the road safer, that we can have less traffic crashes and less close calls," said Swartz.
All those rules apply at stops lights and stop signs, too.
Breaking the law nets someone a fine of $100 for the first offense and $250 for every violation after that.
In Grand Blanc Township, Swartz said they're giving people a grace period to gear up.
"I don't see us going out on the first day and writing everybody a ticket for being on their phone. We need to get the word out, educate people," he said.
The new law won't change enforcement. Officers will just add phones to the list of things to look for. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/michigans-hands-free-driving-law-what-you-need-to-know/article_b7d018f4-16c3-11ee-82bf-dfe780c54741.html | 2023-06-30T13:20:29 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/michigans-hands-free-driving-law-what-you-need-to-know/article_b7d018f4-16c3-11ee-82bf-dfe780c54741.html |
NEW LOTHROP, Mich. (WJRT) - A generous donation has allowed the New Lothrop Police Department's K-9 named Crusher to get a bullet and stab protective vest.
The vest cost $1,800 and was provided by the nonprofit organization Vested Interest in K9s, Inc.
The vest is designed with a message honoring those who have served and sacrificed. The group aims to support law enforcement dogs across the U.S.
The program is open to K-9s across the country. Since 2009, Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. has donated nearly $7 million worth of K-9 body armor.
Anyone who would like to donate should visit the organization's website at vik9s.org or mail a contribution to P.O. Box 9, East Taunton, MA, 02718. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/new-lothrop-police-department-receives-body-armor-for-k-9/article_9afb71e0-16bb-11ee-a7aa-43331e5ef63b.html | 2023-06-30T13:20:35 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/new-lothrop-police-department-receives-body-armor-for-k-9/article_9afb71e0-16bb-11ee-a7aa-43331e5ef63b.html |
GRATIOT COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - A semi-truck driver from Philadelphia died Thursday after a crash with another truck south of Breckenridge.
The Gratiot County Sheriff's Office says 42-year-old Bardybek Sultanov of Philadelphia was driving a semi-truck east on Lincoln Road and ran a stop sign at Wisner Road in Emerson Township around 11:25 a.m.
Investigators say a Wheeler Township man driving another semi-truck south on Wisner Road slammed into Sultanov's truck.
Sultanov was pronounced dead of his injuries. The Wheeler Township man and his passenger did not report any injuries from the crash.
Authorities closed the rural intersection for more than eight hours while they conducted an investigation and cleared the wreckage. Investigators say everyone involved was wearing seat belts and neither driver was intoxicated. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/semi-truck-driver-killed-in-gratiot-county-crash/article_77e43f0c-1742-11ee-8d12-e3b989acc909.html | 2023-06-30T13:20:41 | 0 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/semi-truck-driver-killed-in-gratiot-county-crash/article_77e43f0c-1742-11ee-8d12-e3b989acc909.html |
Average daily flows
Snake River at Jackson 292 cfs
Snake River at Palisades 10,167 cfs
Snake River at Heise 10,970 cfs
Snake River at Blackfoot 3,760 cfs
Snake River at American Falls 13,995 cfs
Snake River at Milner 3,009 cfs
Little Wood River near Carey 242 cfs
Jackson Lake is 85% full.
Palisades Reservoir is 99% full.
American Falls Reservoir is 86% full.
Upper Snake River system is at 91% of capacity.
As of June 29 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/average-daily-streamflows/article_7aa5a6dc-16a1-11ee-8a33-a3ea084ece91.html | 2023-06-30T13:21:57 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/average-daily-streamflows/article_7aa5a6dc-16a1-11ee-8a33-a3ea084ece91.html |
TWIN FALLS — The man charged with killing his girlfriend’s two-month old baby boy last fall has waived his preliminary hearing.
Logan Danial Penner, 19, was charged in late November and several preliminary hearings have been vacated. The latest was scheduled for Wednesday, court records show, but a motion was filed Tuesday to waive the hearing, which is meant to show a judge that there is probable cause for a case to move toward trial.
Penner’s next court date, likely his arraignment in district court, has not been scheduled.
Penner is accused of first-degree murder after shaking the crying baby, identified as Peyton Rice, and hitting the baby’s head on the edge of a crib on Nov. 25 when the baby’s mother was out of the Twin Falls apartment doing laundry, court records say.
The infant was taken off life support Nov. 30.
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Penner, who is being held without bond, is represented by public defender Steven McRae. In May, his office issued a subpoena to the Caldwell Police Department, requesting records of all police reports and investigations into Penner, including those conducted by a particular school resource officer. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/twin-falls-murder-suspect-waives-preliminary-hearing/article_757df910-16c0-11ee-b46a-b71ba3d12182.html | 2023-06-30T13:22:03 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/twin-falls-murder-suspect-waives-preliminary-hearing/article_757df910-16c0-11ee-b46a-b71ba3d12182.html |
Eviction of Touro Synagogue congregation heads to trial. These are the arguments.
NEWPORT – An eviction matter of epic importance – historically, religiously and spiritually – to Rhode Island and the nation at large played out Thursday in Superior Court.
A New York City synagogue’s effort to oust the leaders of the Newport congregation that has long called historic Touro Synagogue their home went to trial before Judge Maureen B. Keough, with dozens of invested congregants and others, including former Rep. David Cicilline, on hand to observe proceedings in the contentious dispute.
Keough led off with an admonition to Congregation Shearith Israel, the New York congregation a federal appeals court declared the rightful owners of the 250-year-old synagogue after a long legal fight, and Congregation Jeshuat Israel, whose congregants have occupied historic Touro Synagogue for more than a century. Consecrated in 1763, Touro Synagogue is the oldest existing synagogue building in the nation.
“If there was ever a case that cried out for mediation, based on what I’ve read it’s this one. It’s clear to me how passionate everyone is about this,” Keough said, cautioning that going to trial “should be last resort. I’m sad we’ve gotten here.”
She implored the parties to return to mediation talks.
“If you leave this up to me, someone is going to be sorely, sorely disappointed,” Keough said.
Court case had previously ruled in Jeshuat Israel's favor, but was appealed
The two congregations have been unable to resolve their differences and peacefully coexist on matters involving the prized synagogue.
Congregation Shearith Israel, the nation’s oldest Jewish congregation, founded in 1654, moved to take repossession of the synagogue, refusing in 2021 to renew the Congregation Jeshuat’s lease and ordering the congregation to vacate the premises by Feb. 21, 2023. Jeshuat Israel has been leasing the site for $1 a year since the early 1900s.
When the Congregation Jeshuat Israel failed to leave, Shearith Israel filed an eviction action in state District Court.
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Judge Colleen Hastings ruled in Congregation Jeshuat Israel’s favor on technical grounds, agreeing to dismiss the eviction action based on arguments that it had a defective filing date.
Congregation Shearith Israel appealed the case to Superior Court.
Shearith Israel says relationship soured, Jeshuat Israel are holdover tenants
The two sides each put on a single witness during Thursday’s proceedings.
Mitchell Edwards argued as lawyer for Shearith Israel that the congregation had not accepted any lease payments for 2023 and that the Congregation Jeshuat had no legal basis to defend itself against eviction.
He suggested that there were Congregation Jeshuat Israel members eager to establish a new lease and congregation under new leadership.
“There is a local community here that would be ready to take over,” Edwards said.
As the single witness for the plaintiff, Congregation Shearith Israel’s board president Louis M. Solomon described Congregation Jeshuat Israel as a “holdover tenant” since the expiration of the lease agreement.
He told of the relationship significantly souring in 2021, prompting the decision not to renew the lease and to reject $10 sent by Congregation Jeshuat Israel to secure the congregation’s standing in the synagogue for years to come.
Solomon said the payment had been mailed to Congregation Shearith Isreal’s New York office in late 2021 during the Delta variant peak of the pandemic, when people were working remotely. It was returned when it was discovered in January 2022, he said.
“CSI keeps no one out. CJI has kept people out,” Solomon said – a statement that won a quick objection as well as mumbles and exacerbated head shakes from some of those in attendance.
“All Jews are admitted and welcome as CSI has always done … We have never let anyone not pray with us,” Solomon said.
Keough, who is deciding the case alone without a jury, assured those gathered that she would give the comments whatever weight she believed they warranted, if any, in her ultimate ruling.
CJI says their attempts to pay were rebuffed
Louise Teitz, co-president of Congregation Jeshuat Israel, told of her family’s long history with the synagogue, which she called a national treasure and the congregation’s spiritual home for more than a century. She was married at Touro, the same synagogue her parents and grandparents attended.
“I’ve been involved all my life,” Teitz said under questioning by the CJI’s lawyer, Michael Crane. During the time, the congregation had maintained the integrity of the building and grounds and hired rabbis.
“This is the only building we’ve worshiped in for over 140 years … We have preserved, nurtured and cared for the building,” she said.
Crane asked why she mailed the $10 to Congregation Shearith.
“The relationship had deteriorated and we were hoping to build trust and stability,” Teitz said. It was not returned until five months later, she said.
She sent another dollar hoping to secure the lease through 2023 to help provide stability during a fundraising campaign for renovations, she said.
“I didn’t want a nonpayment issue,” Teitz said under questioning by Edwards. Again, the payment was returned.
The parties agreed to file briefs supporting their arguments before Keough rendered a decision. Keough urged the parties again to return to mediation.
The dispute’s roots
The eviction case is the latest in the ugly, long-running dispute that dates to 2012 over Congregation Jeshuat Israel’s plans to sell the ornamental religious bells, or rimonim, to create an endowment.
Congregation Shearith Israel objected to the sale on grounds that it would violate the religious rites and customs of the Orthodox Spanish and Portuguese Jews.
The group sued, asking to be declared owner of Touro Synagogue, its property and artifacts. Congregation Jeshuat Israel, in turn, countersued to be proclaimed the synagogue’s presumptive owners, arguing Shearith Israel had long neglected its duties as trustees.
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Shearith Israel, finding that Congregation Jeshuat Israel were merely tenants. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to reconsider the case in 2019. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/06/30/congregation-jeshuat-israel-fights-eviction-from-touro-synagogue-in-court/70370330007/ | 2023-06-30T13:22:51 | 0 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/06/30/congregation-jeshuat-israel-fights-eviction-from-touro-synagogue-in-court/70370330007/ |
RI Health Department recommends closing 8 beaches because of high bacteria
The Health Department monitors beach water quality through Labor Day and beach status can change daily.
The Rhode Island Department of Health has recommended the closing of eight salt and freshwater beaches because of high bacteria levels.
The beaches recommended for closing Thursday are Third Beach and Peabody’s Beach, both in Middletown; Sandy Point Beach in Portsmouth; and City Park and Conimicut Beach, as well as the Kent County YMCA beach in Warwick.
On Wednesday, the Health Department recommended closing Slack's Pond Beach in Smithfield and Ginny B's Campground beach in Foster.
The Health Department on Thursday had initially recommended the closing of eight beaches but later recommended reopening Scarborough Beach South in Narragansett and Easton’s Beach in Newport because subsequent tests indicated that bacteria counts had returned to safe levels.
Heavy rainfall is often the cause of beach closures as runoff from roads and parking lots sends bacteria into the water, according to the Health Department.
The Health Department monitors beach water quality through Labor Day. The agency says the most up-to-date beach information is available through a recorded message on its beaches telephone line (401-222-2751). A list of closed beaches can also be found on the Health Department's website. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/06/30/high-bacteria-counts-prompt-closing-of-8-ri-beaches/70372020007/ | 2023-06-30T13:22:58 | 1 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/06/30/high-bacteria-counts-prompt-closing-of-8-ri-beaches/70372020007/ |
Already staring down felony charges for his alleged manufacturing and possession of explosives earlier this year, a 24-year-old Lincoln man is in jail again facing similar charges, according to court filings.
Spenser Speidell, who was arrested in January after a random traffic stop in northwest Lincoln led police to homemade explosives in his car and apartment, was arrested under similar circumstances early Thursday morning.
Police stopped Speidell's car at 1:49 a.m. Thursday near 27th and N streets and searched the 2001 Lexus after a police dog alerted to suspected drugs in the vehicle, Lincoln Police Officer Tyler Lindstedt said in the probable cause statement for the 24-year-old's arrest.
Inside the car, police allegedly found a vial containing less than a gram of suspected methamphetamine and, in a suitcase stored in the Lexus' trunk, a 60-caliber rubber ball propelled by smokeless powder, which the manufacturer touts as most widely used as a crowd management tool by law enforcement.
Police also found several battery packs and batteries taped together, a spool of copper wire and a string of green wick-like material, Lindstedt said in the statement.
"On the floorboard between the front driver's seat and front passenger seat was a plastic tray with an unknown black powder inside of it," Lindstedt said.
Police arrested Speidell, who had been out of jail on bond, and took him to the Lancaster County jail.
Prosecutors charged him Thursday with possession of a destructive device and possession of methamphetamine, both felonies. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-courts/lincoln-man-caught-with-explosives-for-second-time-this-year-police-allege/article_0e9b2032-16b7-11ee-a1fa-3f3d44e96940.html | 2023-06-30T13:24:24 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-courts/lincoln-man-caught-with-explosives-for-second-time-this-year-police-allege/article_0e9b2032-16b7-11ee-a1fa-3f3d44e96940.html |
DANVILLE, Va. – Millions of dollars are headed to Danville Public Schools (DPS) to help with the cost of several construction projects.
Danville Public Schools was one among 28 school divisions chosen by the Virginia Board of Education to receive School Construction Assistant Program grants, securing nearly $50 million in funding.
Officials say the grants will help offset the cost of three school projects and could expedite renovation timelines for other schools.
Here’s a look at which projects were approved for the grant application as well as the amount of funding they will receive:
- G.L.H. Johnson Elementary School - $13 million: The campus will soon have a new school named Arnett Hill Elementary that will be able to hold roughly 600 students.
- John M. Langston Campus - $13.5 million: The school will be renovated so that it can house Galileo Magnet High School, a middle school STEM Academy and administrative offices.
- George Washington High School - $23 million: There’s a lot in store for George Washington High School, including a new gymnasium renovated classroom spaces, a new main entrance, an updated Career and Technical Education building and much more. The first phase of the renovations, an updated second floor, is expected to be finished this summer.
These are the first of several projects in the works following the passing of a sales tax supporting school renovations in Nov. 2021.
School leaders say the funding will allow them to focus the sales tax on other schools, like Forest Hills and Woodberry Hills, which could be renovated years ahead of schedule thanks to the grants.
“We are so grateful to the Virginia Board of Education for awarding us these funds,” Danville School Board Chair Ty’Quan Graves said. “Our students and staff deserve high-quality school buildings, and the grants will help us make that a reality.” | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/30/danville-public-schools-secures-nearly-50-million-in-construction-grants/ | 2023-06-30T13:39:48 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/30/danville-public-schools-secures-nearly-50-million-in-construction-grants/ |
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – The Roanoke County Police Department is seeking the public’s help in its search for five stolen motorcycles.
Authorities provided the following descriptions of the motorcycles and said there have been several motorcycle thefts reported in the area lately:
- A 2006 yellow Yamaha R6 was reported stolen on March 3 in the Woodhaven area of North County
- A 2020 blue Yamaha was reported stolen on May 30 from a South County apartment in the Tanglewood area
- A 2005 blue Yamaha YZFR1 was reported stolen on June 26 from a South County apartment in the Overland Dr area.
- A 2006 red/black Honda CBR was reported stolen on May 27 from a South County townhome around Crossbow Circle.
- A 2020 black Honda CBR 500 was reported stolen on June 26 from a South County apartment in the Garst Mill area.
If you have any information about the thefts, you’re asked to contact Detective Torzewski at 540-777-4705.
DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION? Our area has seen several motorcycle thefts lately. *A 2006 yellow Yamaha R6 was reported...
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MERRILLVILLE — Indiana had nearly 40,000 homes listed for sale in 2014, but that number has declined to just over 9,200.
The Hoosier State has just 1.4 months of housing inventory to meet the demand; four to five months is typically considered necessary for a healthy balanced market.
U.S. Sen. Todd Young is proposing a raft of legislation to address housing shortages and affordability in the Hoosier State. He touted his "Housing Affordability Agenda" while giving a talk to the Northwest Indiana Realtors Association as part of a statewide tour.
"It turns out though this wasn't something I anticipated actively working on as I got into my term of service in the Senate every roundtable brought this up not as a secondary issue but as a primary issue of concern for their local residents," he said.
"So as I began looking into this issue a few things stood out. One, we had labor challenges that were a function of the 2008 financial crisis. Many smaller builders went out of business and never went back into business. So our construction workforce is sort of reconstituting itself. We need more people.
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"The other issue that stood out across the state was land use and zoning policy. This is generally a state or, more frequently, a local issue. But it's something that invokes federal concern because we give federal money around the country to localities — significant amounts of it — for housing."
Young is proposing the Yes in My Backyard Act, or YIMBY, playing off NIMBY, an acronym for Not in My Backyard in reference to people who oppose new development nearby that they fear would hurt their property values. The legislation would require local officials to be more transparent about their land-use and zoning decisions in the hope that it would result in fewer regulations that increase housing costs and drive the construction of more housing.
Local officials would retain control of those decisions but would have to explain all their policies on the record to voters to remain eligible for federal housing grants.
"Other states are seeing their home prices skyrocket on account of their land-use and zoning policies," he said. "We want to shine a light on those policies so that each Hoosier taxpayer dollar goes a little further when it goes to Washington, DC, and we're not paying way more than we should."
Young is also proposing the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act, which aims to incentivize more private investment in blighted houses in distressed neighborhoods. A federal tax credit would cover the excess cost of renovating dilapidated homes and building houses in struggling communities. The hope is that it would lead to the revitalization of 9,570 structures and generate $9.4 billion in development revenue in Indiana over the next decade.
"It's designed to increase the amount of housing stock available to all of you and to all of your customers and neighbors and so forth, so that rents and mortgages will be affordable, and so they can live near where the opportunities are and where the jobs are," he said. "At the same time, we want to remediate the blight we see in our urban and rural communities."
He's also proposed the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act, which would expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit that's helped fund the construction or restoration of more than 3.5 million housing units nationwide, including 90% of all federally funded affordable housing units.
Realtors say the state is suffering from a housing shortage: Indiana added more than 250,000 residents since 2014 but has seen the inventory of homes listed for sale decline by 75% in the same period.
"Inventory is a national challenge, but Indiana is leading the Midwest in population growth, and that puts pressure on our housing market," Indiana Association of Realtors CEO Mark Fisher said. "Indiana's housing shortage has become a fact of life for homebuyers looking for homes and to put down roots and for employers looking to grow and create jobs across the state of Indiana."
Wages haven't kept up with home prices, which hit an average of $255,000 last month, which Fisher said is barely affordable for a family earning $65,000 a year. The average home price has risen twice as fast as the per-capita income in the state since 2018.
"We have a shortage of housing across Indiana affordable to middle-class families earning good wages paid by growing employers," he said. "It's a threat to cost of living, quality of life and neighborhood investment."
Local real estate agent Nathan Reeder said 550 houses under $300,000 are listed for sale in the seven-county Northwest Indiana region, and 315 of them are in Gary, Hammond and East Chicago.
"Northwest Indiana is growing. Lake County has turned around a decade of net migration losses to gain more than 2,500 new residents in the past four years," real estate agent Judith Rooney-Davis said. "Our inventory of homes for sale has dropped by 45% since the start of 2019. So we appreciate Senator Young's focus on the need for new housing development and the bigger-picture impact of affordability on homeownership and household stability as well as our regional economy."
Federal investment in housing can affect labor market conditions and broader growth of the economy, Young said.
"This is a labor market issue," he said. "There are jobs located in this area or Lafayette or down in Clarksville, and there aren't enough people to fill those jobs. One of the main drivers is a lack of workforce housing. I've investigated the root causes and there are policies that can create more housing supply and bring more people into jobs.
"The rate of economic growth will increase. The money going into our federal treasury will increase. All of these things are related. If you're overlooking a key component, the housing market, you're really overlooking an opportunity for economic growth."
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The rain chance is low for Friday in Northwest Indiana. That looks to change starting Saturday as a cold front arrives and stalls out over us. Find out when rain is most and least likely and what will happen to temperatures in our weekend forecast video.
Photos: Smoke, haze from Canadian wildfires envelop St. Louis and other cities
Smoke from the Canadian wildfires obscures the St. Louis skyline as Keith Major runs sprints on the track off Compton Avenue at St. Louis University on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Major, a police officer in the city of St. Louis, is training for the World Police and Fire Games that is being held in Winnipeg, Canada from July 28-Aug. 6. Major said he was concerned about the air quality and compared training in the smoky air to training at high altitudes. Major will be competing in the 400 meter and relay races. Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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Smoke from the Canadian wildfires in Illinois is visible from the Arch grounds on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Photo by Christine Tannous, ctannous@post-dispatch.com
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Smoke from the Canadian wildfires blocks out the St. Louis skyline as seen looking east from the Skinker Boulevard exit and on ramp at Highway 40 Interstate 64 oat 9:15 a.m. on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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Smoke from the Canadian wildfires is visible in downtown St. Louis on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Photo by Christine Tannous, ctannous@post-dispatch.com
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Smoke from the Canadian wildfires obscures the St. Louis skyline as seen looking east down Market Street taken from from near Jefferson Avenue at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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Adrian Clark, 13, plays catch on the St. Louis Arch grounds while smoke from the Canadian wildfire is visibile behind him on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Photo by Christine Tannous, ctannous@post-dispatch.com
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Smoke from the Canadian wildfires is visible on the Mississippi River from the Arch grounds in St. Louis on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Photo by Christine Tannous, ctannous@post-dispatch.com
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Smoke from the Canadian wildfires is visible in downtown St. Louis on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Photo by Christine Tannous, ctannous@post-dispatch.com
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Practice continues at the St. Louis City SC training facility as smoke from the Canadian wildfires is visible in downtown St. Louis on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Photo by Christine Tannous, ctannous@post-dispatch.com
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Smoke from the Canadian wildfires create haze in the sky during the seventh inning of a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Houston Astros on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, at Busch Stadium. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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Haze from Canadian wildfires blankets the downtown Pittsburgh skyline as seen from West End Overlook in Elliott, Pa., Wednesday, June 28, 2023. (Benjamin B. Braun/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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Even wild animals are getting into the Fourth of July spirit.
Reid Park Zoo is set to celebrate Independence Day with its annual "Red, White and Zoo" day by offering a special admission discount to military personnel and veterans.
On July 4 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., the zoo will provide free daytime admission to active duty, reserve and guard members, veterans, and retirees of the military, upon presentation of military, VA, or retiree ID.
Up to six family members can enjoy discounted admission at $5 each, with no requirement for the military member to be present.
During the visit, guests will have the opportunity to see some of Tucson's wildest residents — more than 250 animals from around the world — as well as special animal enrichment activities.
The schedule includes highlights such as Flight Connection Aviary Bug Toss Feeding and Keeper Chat at 9 a.m., an Otter Ice Treat and Keeper Chat at 9:30 a.m., and a Lion Keeper Chat at 10:30 a.m.
Typically, admission to Reid Park Zoo costs $10.50 for adults (ages 15-61), $8.50 for seniors (62 and above), $6.50 for children (2-14), and is free for children ages 2 and under.
Military personnel can also get a 20% discount on a one-year annual membership. Contact the zoo's membership office at 520-881-4753 for details. The military discount cannot be combined with other offers, discounts or promotions.
Eddie Celaya is a breaking news reporter and host of the "Here Weed Go!" podcast. He graduated from Pima Community College and the University of Arizona and has been with the Arizona Daily Star since May 2019. | https://tucson.com/news/local/reid-park-zoo-military/article_bb5c7aca-16ce-11ee-9811-eb344456be4d.html | 2023-06-30T13:43:42 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/reid-park-zoo-military/article_bb5c7aca-16ce-11ee-9811-eb344456be4d.html |
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. — As much as we've heard about the paths taken for both sides to arrive at Gettysburg, this battle was on the day after Pickett's Charge—ironically enough, Independence Day.
"It's probably the most difficult thing any General ever does, is extract a defeated army in enemy territory, back to safe haven," claimed Darwin Seiler.
The Confederacy took two paths to retreat below the Mason-Dixon Line. One of them was through Monterey Pass in Franklin County.
"Quartermaster General John Alexander Harmon was a large, profane man. People said that even the most scientific mule drivers weren't up to his standard of swearing," laughed Seiler. "But, there's a legend that Ewell sees him in Fairfield and says 'I want you to get this wagon train to Williamsport or I never want to see your face again.'"
The Rebels were not just retreating; they were moving miles of supply and ambulance wagons, as well as a reminder of why this war was being fought.
"Somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 sheep and cattle that had been appropriated and 200 to 300 African Americans that were being taken back into slavery," recalled Seiler.
Of course, they could only get back if the pass was open. A pair of names that played a role at the Battle of Hanover—Judson Kilpatrick and George Armstrong Custer—were looking to change that. The two sides were not only about to fight each other, but mother nature as well.
"I heard Ed Bearss talk a number of years ago, and he said the idea of fighting at night was relatively unheard of at that time," said Seiler. "Hand-to-hand combat at times. It's raining, it's thundering, and the only way they can identify is by the muzzle flashes and the lightning. There is a documented account of a Union soldier getting killed by stepping on a Confederate."
An extended interview with Darwin Seiler of the Monterey Pass Battlefield Park can be found in the video above.
The Michigan Cavalry's role at Monterey Pass was enough that there's an actual Michigan State marker in Pennsylvania.
"Early on, one of Custer's troops says that he looked more like a circus rider than a general by how he's dressed," Seiler said. "But if you read the diaries later on, they become very attached to him. Legend has it that he actually fell off his horse and a sergeant swooped in and saved him. Now, that's legend."
At one point, the moving battlefield moved into Maryland.
"It's the only battle fought on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. In terms of total mileage, from start to finish, it's the longest battle in the Civil War. It's fought in two states and four counties," stated Seiler. "So, everybody asks why we've never heard of it before; I'm guessing two states and four counties getting together might be part of the issue."
The Federals were able to destroy nine miles' worth of the Confederate wagons, but realizing they were now in enemy territory with no support, the Union troops made their way back to Pennsylvania.
"But, the bottom line is that the path remained open," said Seiler. "It maybe saved this local area of Pennsylvania from more devastation, maybe retribution, whatever, because it did hurry them on their way."
The pass remained open, where the Confederates continued their retreat until the last wagon rolled through on July 6.
"Robert E. Lee actually uses it at the end and ends up in Waynesboro," Seiler stated. "There's a great story where at Waynesboro's pump in the square and he and his men are watering the horses, and somebody comes out of an upstairs apartment and walks down to approach Lee and they all draw their sabers and their pistols. It was a gentleman who served under Lee in the Mexican War. They exchanged pleasantries and Lee goes on about his business. But, that's proof positive that Lee actually came through the gap." | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/monterey-pass-civil-war-battle-gettysburg-pennsylvania-history/521-b8d131e8-e88d-4d3f-a378-09cbfa83c5c2 | 2023-06-30T13:48:51 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/monterey-pass-civil-war-battle-gettysburg-pennsylvania-history/521-b8d131e8-e88d-4d3f-a378-09cbfa83c5c2 |
PITTSBURGH — The penalty phase continues in the trial against Robert Bowers, the man convicted of killing 11 people inside a Squirrel Hill synagogue in 2018.
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The defense is trying to persuade a jury to spare his life, while prosecutors are seeking a death sentence.
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Dr. Richard Rogers, a psychologist from the University of North Texas, testified Thursday that Bowers had “grossly psychotic thinking” when he planned the attack. He said that Bowers was proud of what he had done, that he saw it as heroic.
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PITTSBURGH — For the second time in three games, the Pittsburgh Pirates came from behind to defeat the San Diego Padres.
After trailing 4-0 against San Diego on Thursday afternoon, the Pirates fought their way back to earn a 5-4 win, giving them a three-game sweep over the Padres.
The circumstances surrounding the start of the game were questionable. The Canadian wildfires have created a thick haze across the city of Pittsburgh, creating poor air quality in the area.
When the PNC Park grounds crew put a tarp over the pitcher’s mound and home plate just minutes prior to first pitch, it looked like the game might get postponed.
Instead, the Pirates announced that the start of the game would be delayed. What was supposed to be a 12:35 first pitch turned into a 1:20 first pitch.
“I think the reason we had the delay was to make sure that we were able to have conversations with some of them about their concerns, manager Derek Shelton said. They were able to voice them and we were able to talk back with them about what was going on… We just wanted to make sure that after there were some opinions expressed we were able to give all the information possible.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Four people were wounded in a shooting in Sacramento County, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said Friday.
The shooting happened near Florin Road and Power Inn Road. Around 2:20 a.m. one of the people hurt in the shooting waved down a deputy. During the investigation, the sheriff's office found three men and a woman had been shot.
All four people are at a hospital and are expected to survive, according ot the sheriff's office.
The shooting is under investigation.
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SAN ANTONIO — A man was hit and killed by a driver on the northeast side early Friday morning and the driver took off, police said.
The crash happened at Rittiman and Melton around 3:10 a.m.
Police say a private ambulance pulled up to find a man unresponsive in the middle of the road. The ambulance service called San Antonio police and fire departments.
When they got there, fire crews pronounced the man dead.
The sergeant at the scene said there were no witnesses to the crash, and they do not have a description of the vehicle that hit him.
They also have not identified the victim. If you know anything about this incident, call San Antonio Police.
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SAN ANTONIO — A man was shot and killed while walking on a northwest-side trail late Thursday night, police said.
Officers were called out to the Leon Creek Greenway near the Border Brook trailhead just before 10 p.m.
Police say the 28-year-old man and his girlfriend were walking on a trail that was closed for the night. The man's girlfriend told police two men in ski masks jumped out from behind two large rocks and tried to rob the couple.
That's when the man tried fight off the attackers and one of them shot him. He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition where he later died. The woman was not hurt.
San Antonio Police were not able to find two masked men, even after a thorough search of the area. No one has yet been arrested and police are still investigating.
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SAN ANTONIO — Fire crews battled a fire at a Wendy's restaurant on the northeast side late Thursday night.
The fire started around 10:30 p.m. at the Wendy's location on 11919 Perrin Beitel.
Fire officials say the fire was sparked by an electrical failure in the wall behind the griddle. The fire spread up the wall and into the ceiling, causing "moderate damage", fire officials said.
No employees were injured in the fire. The fire department says the restaurant will not be open for business on Friday due to the smoke and fire damage.
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SAN ANTONIO — A woman pushing a basket across the street on the south side late Thursday night was hit by a vehicle and killed, police said.
The woman was walking at South Flores and Genevieve around 11:20 p.m. She was reportedly walking with another woman when a vehicle hit the woman pushing the basket. That driver did not stop.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say the other woman was not hurt and has not been helpful to the investigation.
Traffic investigators responded to the scene to look into what happened.
Police do not have a vehicle description.
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COCOA BEACH, Fla. — We’re hearing from a young girl who was bitten by a shark while visiting Cocoa Beach.
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“I didn’t see the shark at all,” said Magnolia Woodhead. “And it just like came, and it attacked me, and I just pushed it because I did not want it near me. I did not want anything bad to happen.”
Read: Central Florida beaches named top spots for shark attacks
Magnolia was on vacation with her family and enjoying the water when she was attacked.
She said the shark bit her three times.
Read: Shark bites spear fisherman in Florida Keys
She was taken to a hospital for treatment and is expected to make a full recovery.
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Paddleboarders had a close encounter with a hammerhead shark while crossing the straits of Florida.
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This happened during a fundraising event for cystic fibrosis on Sunday.
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Once the woman was safely on the boat, she called out to another paddleboarder to warn him.
The shark eventually swam away and the team finished their event.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Experts who work closely with air conditioning units say the heat in Texas is causing units to run hard and, ultimately, break down – highlighting the urgent need for HVAC technicians who specialize in repairing and installing A/C units.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Texas is the second most in-demand state for HVAC technicians, with a need of around 31,000 workers across the state.
The high demand has encouraged the nonprofit Skillpoint Alliance to offer free training for people interested, with a 5-week training course at its southeast Austin location.
Jeff Jackson is the HVAC employment instructor with Skillpoint. He said the training is critical right now.
"There is a shortage, and it is a tough job. You have to work in the heat. My motto is, 'I sweat so others don't have to,'" Jackson said.
Mychillio “Chili” Rankin is one of about 10 people in the training program to become a technician. He said he wants to make a difference when he becomes a tech.
“It is hot. Imagine being in a house that's closed in, where that heat is building," Rankin said. "I feel like I am almost a hero, a superhero coming in and making sure the A/C is right so you can make it through the night, make everybody happy."
Rankin will be graduating Friday and hopes to get hired soon. He said he is ready to battle the heat.
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What to Know
- According to law enforcement sources, Katalina Rios was last seen with her mother at around 8:40 p.m. last Friday at a hotel serving as a shelter located at 201 East 24th St.
- The mother said that she handed the girl to a woman in front of a government building but doesn’t know which building, and hasn’t seen her since, according to law enforcement sources.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
Police are asking the public to help locate a missing 4-year-old girl who they say was last seen in a Manhattan shelter June 23.
According to law enforcement sources, Katalina Rios was last seen with her mother at around 8:40 p.m. last Friday at a hotel serving as a shelter located at 201 East 24th St. in the Kips Bay neighborhood.
A couple of days later, law enforcement sources say, the mother checked herself into a hospital and a social worker called in that her daughter was missing.
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The mother said that she handed the girl to a woman in front of a government building but doesn’t know which building, and hasn’t seen her since, according to law enforcement sources.
Katalina Rios is described by police as a Hispanic girl having brown eyes and black hair. A description of what she was wearing at the time she went missing is unknown.
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TEXAS, USA — Editor's note: The above video is from a previous report on air conditioning in Texas prisons.
Tommy McCullough was exhausted and thirsty, living in a stifling Huntsville prison as the record-breaking and relentless heat wave bore down across Texas this month. But he got up Friday morning and set to work, mowing the sun-scorched fields outside the Goree Unit.
This article originally appeared here in The Texas Tribune.
By midday, he’d collapsed, dying of what the prison system says was cardiac arrest. He was 35.
McCullough was one of at least five prisoners since mid-June to die of a reported heart attack or cardiac arrest in uncooled prisons where the regions’ outdoor heat indices were above 100 degrees, according to a Texas Tribune analysis of prison death reports and weather data. Another man who died last week in a separate Huntsville prison was only 34.
At least four other prisoners died in hot prisons this month with undetermined causes of death.
It’s not immediately clear how much of a role, if any, the heat played in the nine deaths. Like all prison deaths, they’re being investigated, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson Amanda Hernandez.
“Labeling these as heat-related before the investigation is completed would be inaccurate,” she said.
But family members, prison rights advocates and some lawmakers blame the deaths on the brutal heat inside Texas prisons — and the state’s unwillingness to address it.
More than two-thirds of Texas’ 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning in most living areas. Every summer, as temperatures routinely soar well into triple digits, thousands of officers and tens of thousands of prisoners are cramped inside concrete and steel buildings without ventilation, save windows broken out of desperation and fans that blow the hot air. The heat has killed prisoners, likely contributed to severe staff shortages, and cost taxpayers millions of dollars in wrongful death and civil rights lawsuits over the last decade.
This year, state lawmakers chose again not to put any money directly toward installing air conditioning in the dangerously hot prisons, despite a $32.7 billion budget surplus.
McCullough’s sister, Kristie Williams, said Monday that her brother — TJ, as she called him — looked healthy when she visited him for the last time last month. But his friends inside and outside the Goree prison said that indoor temperatures in the last week hit 130 degrees, and men were often sickened from the heat. (As of Monday, TDCJ reported only five heat-related illnesses this year among prisoners.)
Williams said her brother told a friend on the phone the night before he died that officers hadn’t been bringing him water, a common complaint among Texas prisoners and their loved ones in the last several weeks as temperatures rose. When the warden called to say her younger brother, whom the warden called a model inmate, had died, Williams’ heart broke.
She blames his death on the prison’s negligence. The apparent outside temperature in the region that day reached 109 degrees, according to weather data.
“He had so much life ahead of him,” said Williams, 49, choking back tears. “There was so much he wanted to do and he was capable of doing. He just had to get this behind him.”
McCullough was serving a five-year sentence for drug possession out of Collin County, according to prison records, and was set to be released in 2026 at the latest.
State Rep. Terry Canales, an Edinburg Democrat who has tried for years to pass legislation to install air conditioning in Texas prisons, said the recent deaths during the heat wave are not a coincidence.
“There seems to be an increase in heat-related injuries or things that can be attributed to extreme heat in the summer,” he said Tuesday. “Aside from the physical danger, the mental torture … almost makes me emotional to think about.”
The science backs him up. There is an abundance of studies linking an increase in fatal heart failures to extreme heat, and scientists have found that heat is often overlooked as a cause of death. Dr. Salil Bhandari, an emergency medicine physician at UTHealth Houston and Memorial Hermann, said there is always an increase in cardiac arrests during heatwaves. Heat stroke alone can also lead to cardiac arrests, he said.
“Heat stroke essentially means [they are] to the point where they are now having some sort of organ damage,” Bhandari said. “If the heart is not getting enough blood … it can lead to cardiac arrest.”
But it can be hard to identify that a death is caused by the heat, he said, even in autopsies. It’s often impossible to decipher if the heat stopped someone’s heart or if it was spurred by long-term smoking, drugs or a number of other potential causes of heart failure.
“It’s hard to know unless they come into the ER with a very, very high temperature,” he said. “And the story matches it as well, you know, if he was outside mowing.”
Hernandez said Tuesday she did not know whether prison officials or emergency personnel checked the body temperatures of the prisoners who died of cardiac arrest this month.
In recent years, while entrenched in a yearslong civil rights lawsuit over the heat in a geriatric prison, TDCJ began to implement mitigating measures against the heat, like providing prisoners personal fans and access to ice water, cold showers and time in air-conditioned areas. Officials also began moving prisoners deemed medically sensitive, including those on certain medications or with heart problems, into air-conditioned units.
But prisoners and their supporters say such policies often aren’t followed, either due to short-staffing, indifference or both. A study by Texas Prisons Community Advocates and the Texas A&M University Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center surveyed hundreds of prisoners between 2018 and 2020 and found many reported a lack of access to relief required by TDCJ policies.
Hernandez said she was unsure if death investigations during the summer include an examination of how well heat-mitigation policies were being followed when a prisoner died, but she said the agency’s ombudsman is constantly following up on heat complaints and ensuring the agency is following protocols.
Prisoner advocates and TDCJ critics also say the agency has little incentive to report prisoners dying of heat in its care, as such deaths have often landed TDCJ in court, and they accuse the agency of hiding or ignoring heat-related illnesses or deaths inside its facilities. Amite Dominick, president of TPCA, bolstered this argument by noting how the agency has reported more heat-related illnesses among staff this year (nine) than prisoners (five), even though prisoners never get to leave and they outnumber officers more than 7 to 1.
“There is no way on God’s green earth that that’s accurate,” she said. “They’re not logging them somehow.”
The prison system has not officially counted a heat-caused death since 2012, shortly after the blisteringly hot summer of 2011 in which at least 10 Texas prisoners died of heat stroke. In the more than a decade since, the agency has fought a slew of wrongful-death lawsuits, and the civil rights case filed against the Pack Unit forced TDCJ in 2018 to agree to install air conditioning inside that prison.
But there is evidence that deaths since then have been connected to the heat, even if TDCJ does not acknowledge them. For example, a medical examiner ruled Robert Robinson died of environmental hyperthermia, or heat stroke, in 2018 at the Michael Unit near Palestine. The agency has denied the death was heat related, saying the 54-year-old’s cell was air-conditioned and he had other health complications.
The next year, Seth Donnelly died at the Robertson Unit in Abilene. The 29-year-old put on padded suits to train search dogs, though it’s unclear how much of an effect heat had on his death. A medical examiner found he died from methamphetamine toxicity with hyperthermia.
This year, prisoner supporters and family members first started raising the alarm on possible heat-related deaths on June 12, when 50-year-old Luis Sanchez died in the Luther Unit in Navasota — just down the road from the Pack prison. The outside temperature in the region felt like 104 degrees that day, according to historical weather data. The heat index, or apparent temperature, measures both heat and humidity.
TDCJ’s report said Sanchez was found unresponsive after suffering from cardiac arrest. Other Luther prisoners and their loved ones called foul, saying in social media posts and in emails to reporters that the staff had not been passing out water to those begging for it leading up to his death.
About a week later, on June 20, two men died of cardiac arrest in Huntsville and Beaumont, TDCJ reported. Randy Butler, 34, lived on the Byrd Unit and reportedly died of cardiac arrest in the early morning after a day when the area heat index reached 114 degrees. Michael Dixon, 69, was found unresponsive in his Stiles Unit cell as the temperature felt about 108 degrees.
On the same day McCullough died, 73-year-old Jerry Jernigan also died of a heart attack at the Smith Unit in West Texas, the prison reported, where apparent temperatures in the area reached 102 degrees.
The deaths are likely not a final number, as TDCJ has 30 days to report in-prison deaths to the state, and reports often are filed weeks after a death occurs.
Heat anxiety always rises in the summer, Dominick said, but tensions are especially high among prisoners, prison staff and their loved ones this year after the Legislature came as close as it ever had to funding air conditioning in Texas prisons.
The House had agreed to spend $545 million to cover two phases of a four-phase plan to install air conditioning in all Texas prisons by 2031. But the Senate trashed the plans. The final budget, which goes into effect in September, will instead give TDCJ $85.7 million for “additional deferred projects,” which will likely be used to install some air conditioning.
Hernandez said the Luther Unit, where Sanchez died, was already in line to get air conditioning under the agency’s current budget.
For Williams, she has to wait to plan a funeral for her brother until TDCJ releases his body after an autopsy. She hopes the procedure will give her more information about what happened to McCullough. On Monday, she looked back at the last picture she took with him compared with a screenshot from a video visit the week before his death, when the heat wave was firmly in place.
“You can just tell he doesn’t feel good,” she said.
She didn’t excuse her brother’s criminal behavior. Before his current prison sentence, he previously had served eight-month and one-year stints for credit card abuse and theft, respectively, according to court records. But she said this time she could see real change.
He wasn’t doing drugs, she and her other sister insisted, and he was doing well in prison, having moved to the Goree Unit earlier this month as a trustee — a status reserved for prisoners who are most trusted to do jobs, like mowing outside the fence lines, with limited supervision.
“He really had become a different person and even the different officers … really had taken a liking to him because of his big heart,” Williams said. “He has a 7-year-old little girl that now has to grow up without her dad. It’s just heartbreaking.” | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/inmates-are-dying-in-stifling-texas-prisons/503-810c66fc-2bf2-4b7c-946f-c1cbac2ad58e | 2023-06-30T14:18:45 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/inmates-are-dying-in-stifling-texas-prisons/503-810c66fc-2bf2-4b7c-946f-c1cbac2ad58e |
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One of New Jersey's largest Fourth of July parades will be livestreamed on the morning of the holiday as we celebrate America.
The Smithville Fourth of July parade is scheduled to kick off at 9 a.m. Tuesday, running until approximately 11 a.m. The annual parade will run east on Smithville Boulevard in Galloway to Moss Mill Road and then west on Moss Mill Road to Historic Smithville.
A livestream will run on The Press of Atlantic City's website throughout the event for those who cannot make the parade, or want to watch a replay after.
Meteorologist Joe Martucci and "Nor'easter" Nick Pittman will co-host the parade, taking you through the over 170 marching units and full festivities. You can also find the livestream on their respective Facebook channels.
Jim Eberwine, a notable Atlantic County figure whose roles have included National Weather Service Meteorologist, Absecon Emergency Management Coordinator, New Jersey Emergency Preparedness Association's conference co-founder and more, will be the Grand Marshall.
The weather forecast is calling for a dry morning in the town without excessive humidity. Temperatures will rise into the 70s and 80s.
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On July 4 2022, in Smithville, Galloway residents celebrate the Fourth of July with a parade. (l-r) Katarina Mussa, 8, and her mom Megan, both from Galloway, wave their flags at the passing vehicles.
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On July 4 2022, in Smithville, Galloway residents celebrate the Fourth of July with a parade. (l-r) Zophia Joo, 5, and mom Felonee Joo and baby brother Nikolas Mills, 2w, all from Galloway, wave as the parade passes by.
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BALTIMORE — Drivers now have an idea of what they will be charged when passing through the new I-95 Express Toll Lane extension next year.
Once completed the extension will consist of 12 miles of additional northbound express toll lanes from the MD 43 interchange in Baltimore County to MD 24 in Harford County.
For a regular 2-axle vehicle it could cost anywhere between 7 and 53 cents per mile, depending on the time of day you're driving and whether you have an E-Z Pass or not.
The toll rate ranges were approved Thursday by the Maryland Transportation Authority Board following three public comment periods.
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With Knoxville's pedestrian bridge denied federal funds, is the project in troubled water?
The federal government has rejected the city of Knoxville's request to help pay for a pedestrian bridge that will connect the University of Tennessee campus to South Knoxville's waterfront.
A $25 million federal RAISE grant would have accelerated the long-talked-about project and would have been paired with a $6.25 million local match. The project has been priced up to $70 million, and the city is "confident" more funding opportunities will become available.
The project already has secured financial assistance from the state, while the university is working to acquire land south of the Tennessee River. The project could help the University of Tennessee at Knoxville expand its landlocked campus as the university continues to experience record enrollment and a shortage of adequate student housing.
Where would the Knoxville pedestrian bridge be located?
Plans call for the bridge to extend from campus near Thompson-Boling Arena across the river to properties owned by the city, university and other partners.
Knox News has reported on multiple apartment projects planned along Blount Avenue near the bridge's southern end.
Timeline for the Knoxville pedestrian bridge. Plus, what's next?
2006: Discussions about the pedestrian bridge begin.
2015: A U.S. Department of Transportation grant fails due to the project not being shovel-ready.
2018: UT Athletic Director Phillip Fulmer mentions the idea of a pedestrian bridge during a press conference about Neyland Stadium renovations.
March 2022: Knox News publishes an exclusive piece announcing the pedestrian bridge project is back on the table.
Gov. Bill Lee meets with UT administrators and at least one Tennessee Department of Transportation representative for a preliminary discussion about the project.
January 2023: The city of Knoxville approves spending $150,000 to hire a firm for "grant-writing services" to apply for a federal RAISE grant up to $25 million.
February 2023: The University of Tennessee at Knoxville receives approval to purchase a 7-acre property along the south waterfront for $9 million. The university plans to use the property for parking, student housing or other facilities.
Knox News reports the city and university have entered a preliminary agreement stating the city would own, operate and maintain the bridge while working with UT to make sure it is a "safe, accessible, well-lit and well-maintained space."
May 2023: The state announces it will contribute $20 million to the pedestrian bridge.
Knox News also reports the University of Tennessee is planning an ambitious Neyland Entertainment District to tie together the football stadium and Thompson-Boling Arena, located near the proposed anchor of the bridge's northern end.
"The walking bridge will be awesome for (this project) because it plays really well with our vision for this entertainment district,” UT Director of Athletics Danny White tells Knox News. “Hopefully, the development doesn’t stop there. I think there’s a sea of opportunity along the waterfront.”
June 2023: Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon announces the pedestrian bridge was not one of the two Tennessee projects approved for a RAISE grant.
The Memphis Area Transit Authority received $25 million for street improvements and bus rapid transit along a 26-mile corridor, while the Tennessee Department of Transportation received $13.2 million for street improvements and for the design and reconstruction of a bridge over the Wolf River in Memphis.
What's next: The city, county, state and university will work together to prepare design documents "in the coming year," according to a statement from Kincannon.
The project is still on the table.
Ryan Wilusz is a downtown growth and development reporter. Phone 865-317-5138. Email ryan.wilusz@knoxnews.com. Instagram @knoxscruff.
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A new documentary on cycling star Greg LeMond aims to show you can get through anything
Three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond is the subject of a documentary, "The Last Rider," that chronicles the struggles in his life in detail alongside his cycling career.
The documentary debuted at select theatres June 23, including at Regal Pinnacle Complex in Turkey Creek. Even though LeMond was interviewed extensively in the film, there is one thing he made crystal clear when interviewed about it: The California native and Tennessee resident who in 1986 became the first non-European to win cycling's premier event doesn't like talking about himself.
However, his wife Kathy LeMond loves talking about her husband and can perfectly formulate what he means into words. If there was one thing the LeMonds wanted everyone to grasp when watching the documentary, it's that not all athletes have a glorious life.
"It's actually a universal story of overcoming setbacks and traumas," Kathy LeMond said in a phone interview. "I love Greg's story because it's so hopeful and his traumas and setbacks really never changed who he really is on the inside. What I love about it is I think everyone has this story in their life, everyone has had difficulties.
"Sometimes I think that's why people react to the documentary. They see their own situation and how they overcame it and the people that helped them overcome it."
She believes that people who have seen that story feel the waves of emotion that come with it.
"I think that's why when you go to the movie," Kathy LeMond said, "I mean the two times we've been in a movie theater, we've heard people crying during it, so it must touch a chord somewhere with people."
From sexual abuse at a young age to almost losing his life and now his battle with leukemia, Greg LeMond's life has not always been rainbows and butterflies.
It's that way for many athletes. Greg LeMond wanted to ensure that people know that: You never really know what someone is dealing with but know that they can conquer it.
"I've got a really strong belief that you can get over overcome almost any obstacle, but you do need that help and that support," he said in the phone interview, "and we got to believe things will always get better, which they usually do. They never stay the same. That's the beauty."
STORIES ON LEMOND:'The Comeback' documents life of American cyclist, Oak Ridge business owner Greg LeMond
Greg LeMond, 62, said he couldn't have overcome all he has been through without the people nearest and dearest to him, including Kathy, who has stuck with him through it all.
"You never really do it on your own. You always have a support system," he said. "You have your family, you have a friend, you have somebody that believes in you, and I think it's critical to get overcome a lot of obstacles.
"My wife has been an anchor, but it's not just my wife. Her family, my parents were a great support system, and they were critical to get through these difficult periods."
There have been many obstacles for the pair throughout their relationship, but Kathy's favorite part of the documentary is that it gives the audience the ability to see her and Greg's story.
"We're so lucky to find each other so young and be so compatible," she said. "We are not the same person in any way -- his personality is so different from mine in so many ways -- but in all the fundamental ways we have the same goals.
"After all these years, we've been through a lot of hard things together, not just his cycling career, a lot of hard things and I think that's what it showed. The support of another loving person in your life can really, really be powerful."
The documentary is available in theatres, with Regal Downtown West providing showings. | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/local/2023/06/30/greg-lemond-cycling-documentary-last-rider-adversities-tour-de-france/70365315007/ | 2023-06-30T14:29:05 | 0 | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/local/2023/06/30/greg-lemond-cycling-documentary-last-rider-adversities-tour-de-france/70365315007/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. – The City Beautiful is a place full of warm weather, beautiful scenery, theme parks, great restaurants-- but it’s so much more. Orlando is also a place for pride.
“We’ve always been a very progressive, inclusive city,” Orlando Police Department lead LGBTQ+ Liaison Sgt. Amanda White said. “It’s always been an LGBTQ+-friendly place. I love it.”
Within the Orlando Police Department, there’s no exception.
“October would be the Coming Out with Pride Parade, we’ll be there,” said White. “But also just being a part of the community, being a part of the parade and letting everybody know that police department is here with you.”
But LGBTQ+ support goes well beyond attending festivals and parades.
They have an LGBTQ+ Liaison team that works to ensure fair and respectful treatment of community members, a program that’s been around for years.
“Deputy Chief Young was the initial liaison, and he was for many years. And then it was transferred over to a retired sergeant. I took over in 2019 when she retired,” said White.
For White, the mission and supporting LGBTQ+ neighbors is personal.
“Because I am a part of that community,” she said. “I want to let people know that we’re here for them. They aren’t going to be brushed aside, that we offer training to our officers and to community members to ensure that the LGBTQ+ community is heard.”
So far, it seems they’re doing a good job.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, Orlando scores amongst the top when it comes to their municipal equality index. It’s a series of criteria that looks at things like whether the city offers protections and benefits to LGBTQ+ employees, city leaders and their commitment to equality, and fair, equal, and respectful enforcement of the law.
That part is where liaisons like White come in.
“We provide training for new recruits coming in to the police department, they receive a block of instruction on LGBTQ+ competency, and resources that the city offers,” said White. “Terminology, pronoun usage, what people are referring to themselves as or, you know, what to look for if somebody’s describing a scenario where they were victimized, things like that..”
Some of those resources include Safe Places. That initiative started back in 2016, and is a collaborative effort with 208 businesses in the city.
“It’s just a network of businesses that agree to provide a place for people to go to if they’re victims of anti-LGBTQ+ crime, or if they’re a victim of any hate or bias-motivated crime,” White said. “But it’s more important than just having a sticker on their window. There are still people who are afraid to come to the police for various reasons, but particularly transgender, gender non-conforming, or non-binary people who have been victimized, are feel fearful still. And they don’t know whether it’s because they don’t think that we will believe them, or that there will be judgment in their reporting, that they’ll be outed or they’ll be disrespected, or judged, whatever the case is. This initiative is so important to keep putting the message out there that we are supportive, that we do hear them, there is no judgment here.”
Being in it together is even more important with ever-changing laws and uneasiness in the community.
“We don’t have control over the legislature, but our job is to have that balance between enforcing the law and hearing our community’s needs and responding to the community,” White said. “The main purpose for us is to make people feel safe, to create a safe place for the whole city, for everybody.”
And, on occasion, being a part of the community means having a little bit of fun.
“There’s so much to law enforcement, it isn’t just enforcing the law. It’s being a part of these other organizations, being a part of the community. It’s having fun, it’s showing the humanity, it’s just responding with compassion,” said White. “But, you know, there’s a time and a place for everything. So it’s a balancing act. And it’s something that I don’t think you can get when you first start, it’s something you have to learn as time goes on. And that I’m proud of. I’ve learned a lot in my 14 years.”
If you have a business and would like to participate in Safe Place, click here. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/06/30/lead-liaison-works-to-connect-law-enforcement-with-lgbtq-community/ | 2023-06-30T14:29:28 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/06/30/lead-liaison-works-to-connect-law-enforcement-with-lgbtq-community/ |
“Am I myself?” asks Dromio, the servant twin, in Shakespeare’s early play “Comedy of Errors.” Answer: yes and no. Figuring out the mistaken identities of two sets of identical twins is done with cartloads of cleverness in this gorgeous and delightful Illinois Shakespeare Festival season opener.
A nobleman’s infant twin sons (both named Antipholus) and their identical twin servants (also infants, both named Dromio) are separated in a storm at sea. The four of them reach maturity in the towns of Syracuse and Ephesus. When the Syracusian master/servant combo travels to Ephesus, the rolling incidents of mistaken identity commence. To up the dramatic ante, the father of the Antipholuses, Egeon, shows up, too, and is immediately sentenced to death by the duke because Syracusians aren’t allowed in Ephesus. When the duke hears Egeon’s story, however, he grants him a stay of execution until sunset to sort things out. Cue the ticking clock.
Director Doug Finlayson keeps this romp, well, romping, while making the story strong and clear. With a sure hand, he’s packed this show with slapstick comedy and the kind of silly bawdiness Elizabethans loved, along with love at first sight, tender reunions and a happy ending. “Comedy of Errors” is one of Shakespeare’s shortest plays, suggesting the Bard understood the adage that a good comedy knows not to outstay its welcome. This one certainly doesn’t. If you’re new to Shakespeare, start here.
The set (John C. Stark), costumes (Brandon R. McWilliams), lighting (Julie E. Ballard) and sound (Joe Court) astonish the eye and ear with the fun and vibrancy of a bustling Turkish bazaar. It’s like a children’s pop-up book come to life. Everything is rich and layered and oh so inviting. The delightful ensemble of street vendors and musicians, onstage for most of the show, light up every corner of the stage.
Best of all, both sets of twins are perfectly cast. Michael Stuart Allen, who plays both the Antipholuses, knocks his clever witticisms up to the back row. Honestly, he makes it look like playing two roles at the same time is easy.
It’s not, but Adonis Perez-Escobar, as both Dromios, is equally brilliant. He’s the victim of some Three Stooges-style shenanigans and he pratfalls with the ease of an athlete. His famous speech in which he compares Nell, the kitchen maid, to an immense map on which countries, even continents, can be identified, is a highlight, full of that trademark bawdy humor.
Stuart and Barsco are just very funny actors. That’s hard to do and their performances are as richly layered as the set and costumes in this simply wonderful show.
Karen Sternberg (as Adriana, wife of Antipholus of Ephesus) has facial expressions and timing that evoke Carol Burnett; she’s that much fun. Eva Olivia Catanzariti (as her sister Luciana) adds to the madcap domestic confusion.
Losing oneself to find oneself is a frequent and powerful theme in many of Shakespeare’s plays, and here it is at the start of his career. Romance, love, adultery and misplaced affections are also themes Shakespeare will develop more fully in later plays, but here they are, too, quick as eighth notes in this fast-paced lark of a show.
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Nancy Steele Brokaw is a freelance writer who reviews plays for The Pantagraph.
Adonis Perez-Escobar as Dromio, left, and Michael Stewart Allen as Antipholus during rehearsal for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival’s show “The Comedy of Errors” at Ewing Cultural Center. | https://pantagraph.com/life-entertainment/local/on-stage-comedy-of-errors-a-delightful-romp-at-illinois-shakespeare-festival/article_6c3427c8-1600-11ee-a1c8-5734465f597c.html | 2023-06-30T14:38:14 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/life-entertainment/local/on-stage-comedy-of-errors-a-delightful-romp-at-illinois-shakespeare-festival/article_6c3427c8-1600-11ee-a1c8-5734465f597c.html |
2 dead in 2 crashes Thursday in Canton
A motorist and a motorcyclist are dead after they were involved in two separate crashes Thursday in Canton, police said.
Police were called at about 5 p.m. Thursday to the scene of the first crash, which involved three vehicles in the area of Haggerty and Van Born roads, officials said.
According to a preliminary investigation, a 77-year-old Canton woman was driving a black Chevrolet HHR south on Haggerty when it was struck by a Lincoln MKX that also traveled south. The Chevrolet HHR was then struck by a blue Chevrolet Equinox that was traveling north.
Police said the 77-year-old woman was pronounced deceased at a hospital. The Lincoln's driver, a 34-year-old Detroit woman, and the Equinox's driver, a 72-year-old Lincoln Park woman, were also taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
They said the investigation is ongoing and it appears alcohol was not a factor in the crash.
In the second, officers were called at about 9:10 p.m. to the area of Beck and Cherry Hill roads for a report of a crash involving a motorcycle.
According to a preliminary investigation, a 53-year-old Westland man riding a motorcycle turned north on Beck from Cherry Hill when he lost control of the machine and left the roadway.
Police said he was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced deceased. They also said the crash remains under investigation and it is not known if alcohol was a factor.
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VAN HORN, Texas — 24-year-old David Alexander Gonzalez-Diaz of Guatemala has been sentenced to 63 months in prison for deaths in a human smuggling operation.
According to court documents, Gonzalez-Diaz was transporting 14 undocumented migrants north of Van Horn in October of 2021 when he got into a crash and ejected several people inside his vehicle. This resulted in four people being killed and six more critically injured.
“Human smuggling is extremely dangerous and, as displayed in this case, often results in serious injury or death,” said U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza for the Western District of Texas. “This sentence is a reminder that violators are committing a serious crime with serious consequences and will be held accountable.”
HSI investigated this case and was assisted by the U.S. Border Patrol. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/guatemalan-national-sentenced-to-63-months-in-prison-for-deaths-in-human-smuggling-operation/513-4c8d7a2b-06d9-40fd-b491-6f8aaccd7a6a | 2023-06-30T14:44:36 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/guatemalan-national-sentenced-to-63-months-in-prison-for-deaths-in-human-smuggling-operation/513-4c8d7a2b-06d9-40fd-b491-6f8aaccd7a6a |
VAN HORN, Texas — 24-year-old David Alexander Gonzalez-Diaz of Guatemala has been sentenced to 63 months in prison for deaths in a human smuggling operation.
According to court documents, Gonzalez-Diaz was transporting 14 undocumented migrants north of Van Horn in October of 2021 when he got into a crash and ejected several people inside his vehicle. This resulted in four people being killed and six more critically injured.
“Human smuggling is extremely dangerous and, as displayed in this case, often results in serious injury or death,” said U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza for the Western District of Texas. “This sentence is a reminder that violators are committing a serious crime with serious consequences and will be held accountable.”
HSI investigated this case and was assisted by the U.S. Border Patrol. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/guatemalan-national-sentenced-to-63-months-in-prison-for-deaths-in-human-smuggling-operation/513-4c8d7a2b-06d9-40fd-b491-6f8aaccd7a6a | 2023-06-30T14:54:12 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/guatemalan-national-sentenced-to-63-months-in-prison-for-deaths-in-human-smuggling-operation/513-4c8d7a2b-06d9-40fd-b491-6f8aaccd7a6a |
SWEETWATER, Texas — UPDATE (4:50 p.m. June 29): The City of Sweetwater provided an update Thursday afternoon about a fire in the city.
At approximately 1:28 p.m. Thursday, the Sweetwater Fire Department received a report of a fire burning near the 2800 block of East Broadway.
SFD and the Sweetwater Police Department responded and found multiple fires burning along the Union Pacific Railroad tracks as a westbound train was passing.
As of 4:45 p.m. Thursday, a total of five fires were burning - two of which are mostly contained and two are becoming more controlled.
The main fire has burned several vehicles and buildings and has threatened several other properties and City equipment.
Both east and westbound traffic is closed on Buisness IH20 because of smoke and the proximity of the fire.
Multiple agencies remain on scene including the Lake Sweetwater Volunteer Fire Department, Nolan Volunteer Fire Department, Trent Volunteer Fire Department, Roby Volunteer Fire Department, Merkel Volunteer Fire Department, Roscoe Volunteer Fire Department, Snyder Fire Department, Abilene Fire Department and the Texas A&M Forest Service. The Mitchell County EMS director and Fisher County EMS are also on scene.
ORIGINAL STORY: For the second day in a row, multiple fire departments and volunteer fire departments are responding to a major fire in Nolan County.
Wednesday, the Rolling Pin Fire began in the county. As of Wednesday night, the Texas A&M Forest Service said it had burned 150 acres and was 95% contained.
At 1:42 p.m. Thursday, the Roscoe Volunteer Fire Department said it was responding to a "major incident" in Sweetwater, along with multiple departments, including Roby and Trent.
The RVFD said on its Facebook page drivers should avoid East Broadway around Atmos.
At 2:22 p.m. Thursday, the RVFD said the Texas A&M Forest Service, Trent, Merkel, Snyder and Roby fire departments were on the way to help a very active fire. East Broadway is shut down and drivers are asked avoid the area.
The City of Sweetwater Fire Department and Ambulance Service said on social media, "We are currently battling several fires on East Broadway near the USG entrance. The following roads are blocked:
All of East Broadway from 2800blk to the East interchange of IH20, exit 247 IH20 and Bluebonnet at Hwy 70 and Broadway."
FOX West Texas has a reporter on the way to the area. More information will be posted as it becomes available. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/update-broadway-fires-in-sweetwater-contained/504-a27982eb-e28e-4838-b764-649eb9d8edf3 | 2023-06-30T14:54:18 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/update-broadway-fires-in-sweetwater-contained/504-a27982eb-e28e-4838-b764-649eb9d8edf3 |
Friske Farm Market unveils new expansion
CHARLEVOIX — Friske Farm Market will celebrate its recent expansion with a grand opening ceremony on July 1.
The new facility is located at the same address on U.S. 31, 10 miles south of Charlevoix. The owners said the project represents a new chapter in the multi-generational family's business legacy.
“We love where we live. We have planted ourselves firmly as the premier farm market destination in Northern Michigan, and are passionate about providing the best family fun experience anywhere, right here in the beautiful area we get to call home," said co-owner Jon Friske.
According to the family, the new Friske Farm Market building enhances all aspects of the customer experience. The new amenities include an expanded cafe, large event pavilion and an indoor playground. The construction project began in September 2022 and opened in June.
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“We are really excited to serve our customers so much better in the new facility," said co-owner Rich Friske. "The improvement in the layout, the larger kitchens, upgraded technology, more children’s activities, improved parking, and even the larger restrooms have already added great value to the customer experience. We built the kind of place we would want to take our own families to for great food and fun, and now we can offer that experience in a significantly elevated way year-round."
The grand opening celebration is scheduled to take place from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on July 1. Friske Farm Market will be offering samples and giveaways during the event, free wagon rides will take place in the afternoon.
For more details, visit friske.com or Friske’s Facebook and Instagram pages.
— Contact reporter Annie Doyle at (231)675-0099 or adoyle@charlevoixcourier.com. Follow her on Twitter, @adoylenews | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/charlevoix/2023/06/30/friske-farm-market-unveils-new-expansion/70357422007/ | 2023-06-30T14:55:38 | 1 | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/charlevoix/2023/06/30/friske-farm-market-unveils-new-expansion/70357422007/ |
Local artists featured this summer at Circle of Arts
CHARLEVOIX — The Charlevoix Circle of Arts’ exhibit gallery turns into a sales gallery for the summer, with the fourth annual salon-style art sale showcasing works from 40 Northern Michigan fine artists.
The Summer Salon begins June 30 and will remain up through Sept. 2. As artwork sells, artists will be restocking with new pieces.
A Summer Salon open house will take place from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, July 14, in conjunction with the plein air Paint Out event. The public is welcome, and there is no cost to attend.
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Charlevoix Circle of Arts is open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is located at 109 Clinton St. in downtown Charlevoix.
For more information about the exhibit or the Charlevoix Circle of Arts, call (231) 547-3554 or visit charlevoixcircle.org.
— Contact reporter Annie Doyle at (231)675-0099 or adoyle@charlevoixcourier.com. Follow her on Twitter, @adoylenews | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/charlevoix/2023/06/30/local-artists-featured-this-summer-at-charlevoixs-circle-of-arts/70343510007/ | 2023-06-30T14:55:44 | 0 | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/charlevoix/2023/06/30/local-artists-featured-this-summer-at-charlevoixs-circle-of-arts/70343510007/ |
County board may consider night meetings despite lack of success in past
GAYLORD — While speaking at the Otsego County Board of Commissioners meeting on June 13, Tina Sayles of Vanderbilt suggested that the board have one of its two monthly meetings at night.
Currently commissioners meet every two weeks on Tuesday mornings at 9:30 a.m. Commissioner Jonathan Turnbull has also suggested the panel consider a night meeting.
The Gaylord City Council and the board for the Gaylord Community Schools currently have night meetings. Doug Johnson, chairman of the Otsego board and a commissioner for over 40 years, said the panel has tried night meetings in the past.
"It really didn't work out well. We didn't have anyone attend (the meetings). We even tried moving one meeting a month to each township thinking we would get more people. The only people who showed up were those who had to unlock the township hall," Johnson said.
"You are asking people who have worked all day to come to an evening meeting," he continued. "It will cost us more because we have to bring them back to work."
Johnson said he would consider having one night meeting a quarter or every three months.
"That might work and I may be willing to look at that," he added.
Commissioner Jason Clement said he would consider the possibility of a night meeting.
"I would be open to listening to reasons why we should change it. The idea has been brought up by commissioner Turnbull a few times. If he brings up information that makes sense, I would be open to listening to it," said Clement.
"I would be willing to try it and see if people will attend a night meeting," said commissioner Terra Deming.
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According to data from the Michigan Association of Counties, 26 of the state's 83 counties have their board meetings in the morning. The rest do it in the afternoon or at night.
Some counties split the meetings. Charlevoix County meets at 9:30 a.m. on the second Wednesday of the month and at 6 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday. Ogemaw County meets at 9 a.m. on the second Thursday and at 5:30 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of the month.
Neighboring Crawford and Cheboygan counties have board meetings in the morning.
— Contact Paul Welitzkin at pwelitzkin@gaylordheraldtimes.com. | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/gaylord/2023/06/30/county-board-may-consider-night-meetings-despite-lack-of-success-in-past/70361387007/ | 2023-06-30T14:55:50 | 0 | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/gaylord/2023/06/30/county-board-may-consider-night-meetings-despite-lack-of-success-in-past/70361387007/ |
SOUTHWEST HARBOR - The Southwest Harbor Police Department has announced that a controversial recent hire, will no longer be employed in their department.
In a Facebook post on Friday, Chief Hall wrote, "I am writing to publicly apologize to the residents of Southwest Harbor and the greater community for damaging your trust in this department."
On Wednesday, the department posted on their Facebook page that they had hired Richard Strout.
Strout, an officer who was terminated from the Machias Police Department in 2011, faced three separate civil lawsuits where he was accused of assaulting and inappropriately touching women while arresting them. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/southwest-harbor-police-department-retracts-new-hire-and-apologizes/article_63248e78-174c-11ee-8ec7-0771a65ca6a9.html | 2023-06-30T14:56:06 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/southwest-harbor-police-department-retracts-new-hire-and-apologizes/article_63248e78-174c-11ee-8ec7-0771a65ca6a9.html |
ATLANTIC CITY — Showboat's highly anticipated waterpark, which was set to open on Friday, will remain closed due to a licensing issue, a spokesperson for the resort said on Friday.
The $100 million waterpark was built by Showboat owner Bart Blatstein as a part of improvements he's made to the former casino hotel, which his company, Tower Investments, purchased from Stockton University in 2015.
The waterpark was unable to obtain a state license in time for Friday's opening, said Lisa Johnson, who handles public relations for Bartstein's business endeavors.
City officials have hailed the waterpark as a needed investment to diversify the Jersey Shore town's offerings outside of its famed beach and gambling market.
No timeframe for when the facility could open was available Friday morning.
The indoor waterpark offers 103,000 square feet of water slides, pools, a roller coaster, lazy river, food and other amenities for kids and adults. The waterpark will also have a retractable roof, making it accessible year-round.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
GALLERY: Island Waterpark at the Showboat
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
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Bart Blatstein uses hedge clippers to cut the ceremonial ribbon, in this case the hair of two mermaid models.
Matthew Strabuk, Staff photographer
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, resident Pamela Fields was one of the first to enter the new Island Water Park at the Showboat.
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On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, residents Shameeka Cottman and Pamela Fields were one of the first to enter the new Island Water Park at the Showboat.
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“The waterpark is fantastic. We needed something like this in Atlantic City,” said Jason Tell, 43, a lifelong city resident.
Matthew Strabuk, Staff photographer
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, (l-r) residents Tamar and Aubrey Luckey enjoy a cocktail while visiting the long awaited Showboat Island Water Park.
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On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, Mays Landing resident Emily Tharp poses with a couple of the models on hand to ring in the grand opening of the Showboat Island Water Park.
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On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, Stockton University President Harvey Kesselman speaks at the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park.
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On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, Mayor Marty Small speaks at the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park.
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On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, Bart Blatstein speaks at the long awaited opening of his Island Water Park at the Showboat.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
Costumed dancers greet attendees of a VIP ribbon cutting Thursday for Island Waterpark at the Showboat hotel in Atlantic City.
Matthew Strabuk photos, Staff photographer
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, Howell resident Sara Demott, 40, with her boys (l-r) Wyatt and Waylon, 3, and 1, at the opening of the new Island Water Park at the Showboat.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
Matthew Strabuk
On June 22, 2023, in Atlantic City, the long awaited opening of the Showboat Island Water Park was held.
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ATLANTA — A mother of eight now has a car for her family, thanks to 11Alive viewers.
Earlier this month, we shared Ebon Sledge's story. Her 10-year-old daughter, J'Adore, was waiting for a transplant after being diagnosed with kidney failure in 2020.
Ebon was struggling to make ends meet, driving her daughter to dialysis three days a week while they waited for the transplant.
She works as a restaurant cook and Uber driver every free moment she has between appointments and bringing the kids to and from school. But because of the grueling pace, Sledge had to scale back her work to part-time to care for J'Adore.
As the bills piled up and became overwhelming, Ebon and the children were eventually evicted from their home. They had been living in a two-bed hotel room in Griffin for the last year.
Ebon previously said she and her children were on the brink of being kicked out of the hotel room they had been staying at because they couldn’t afford that anymore.
After the story aired, viewers raised more than $65,000 to help.
With the money, Ebon said she was able to purchase a car big enough to fit the entire family.
Now, she said she will be able to bring the other kids to school and J'Adore to her appointments comfortably.
Ebon shared a video, featured below, of her showing off the car to her whole family and the excitement on the faces of her kids as they took a look inside.
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POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. — Cobb County Police are looking into the cause of a three-vehicle crash that killed a man in Powder Springs Thursday afternoon.
It happened at the intersection of Richard D. Sailors Parkway and Old Lost Mountain Road just after noon. Cobb officers said it's investigating the deadly collision at the request of the Powder Springs Police Department.
The preliminary investigation determined a Toyota Corolla and Ford Mustang were headed east on Richard D. Sailors Parkway when a Hyundai Elantra headed west tried to make a left turn onto Old Lost Mountain Road.
That's when the crash happened, police said. A chain reaction occurred when the Hyundai crashed into the Toyota -- sending the Toyota into the Mustang. Police said the Toyota then hit a metal pole.
The driver of the Toyota Corolla -- 54-year-old Gregory Brown of Dallas, Georgia, --was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. They said he later died.
The 29-year-old driver of the Mustang went to the hospital to be treated for his injuries. The 26-year-old driver in the Hyundai, police said, didn't need medical attention.
The crash is still under investigation. Anyone with information about what happened can contact the Cobb County Police Department at 770-499-3987. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/austell-powder-springs/powder-springs-three-car-crash-police/85-e2e67ffe-49ef-4f90-9635-6f3cecaa6512 | 2023-06-30T14:59:03 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/austell-powder-springs/powder-springs-three-car-crash-police/85-e2e67ffe-49ef-4f90-9635-6f3cecaa6512 |
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — A boom lift operator was rescued after being trapped when their equipment touched a powerline in Lawrenceville, according to the Gwinnett County Fire.
The call came in just around 2:03 p.m. on Wednesday on Webb Gin House Road.
A caller told 911 operators that the boom lift touched the powerline and caused a fire.
When crews arrived, they did not find an active fire.
The lift operator was contacted via cell phone to ask if he was hurt and find out more information.
Firefighters learned that the boom lift hit a powerline which cut all power to the equipment.
They also learned that an apartment unit experienced a power surge due to the incident.
Crews called Georgia Power to secure the powerlines. They also restored power to the apartment and was able to rescue the operator who refused medical treatment once he was safe.
Firefighters turned the scene over to the apartment maintenance and Georgia Power to repair the powerline and lower the boom lift.
Do you have a story idea or something on your mind you want to share? We want to hear from you! Email us at WhereAtlantaSpeaks@11Alive.com. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/boom-lift-operator-rescued-hit-powerline-lawrenceville/85-4501b587-8fbe-4f2b-80cf-52affd504535 | 2023-06-30T14:59:09 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/boom-lift-operator-rescued-hit-powerline-lawrenceville/85-4501b587-8fbe-4f2b-80cf-52affd504535 |
CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — A fire destroyed the roof of a metro Atlanta apartment building early Thursday morning, according to Cherokee County Fire officials. No one was hurt.
It happened at the Walden Pond Apartments on Bells Ferry Road in Cherokee County just around 5:45 a.m. When firefighters arrived, flames were shooting through the roof of building 300.
Firefighters searched the building, but found that everyone made it out safely. They did not say how many people were displaced.
Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire.
Fire breaks out at Acworth apartment complex
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ATLANTA — The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is issuing a warning ahead of a weekend of festivities for July 4: stay safe on the water and don't boat while intoxicated. This goes along with a new law on wakeboarding.
Starting Saturday, people will have to keep at least 200 feet away from other docks, piers and shorelines if wakeboarding or wake surfing. This is to help create more space between boats and swimmers. Game wardens will be patrolling this weekend, enforcing the new law and making sure people are enjoying their time on the water safely.
Officer Cody Tanner said he has seen his fair share of reckless behavior on Lake Lanier. On Thursday, he said it's already started --- and he expects it to get worse during the Fourth of July weekend.
"Once you get out into the big water it gets real bad," he explained.
So, the DNR is bringing in backup to help with patrols.
"We've got a couple different work sections coming to help us so there'll be a lot more boats out here this weekend," he said.
According to the DNR, so far this year there have been 20 drownings in Georgia, 97 BUIs, and 51 boating incidents in which eight people have died. The numbers are slightly less when zooming into Lake Lanier, which has seen five drownings, 31 BUIs, and 11 boating incidents. So far, there have been no boating fatalities.
The reinforcements will make sure people operating boats are staying sober. With the intense Georgia summer heat, authorities are also making sure people are being cautious.
"It's the Fourth of July weekend, it's our busiest boating weekend of the year," Maj. Stephen Adams said. "It's going to be probably close to 100 degrees all weekend."
Adams said people should watch their alcohol intake while staying out in the heat and avoid it altogether if they plan to operate a boat.
"There will be no warnings for boating under the influence," Adams said.
Beyond the wakeboarding rule, all water vessels have to keep 100 feet away from each other under the current law. For more information about boating laws in Georgia, visit the DNR's website. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/georgia-dnr-safety-water-july-4-2023/85-e0de0fe2-6bfa-4c0a-a85b-7668f9fe6ee4 | 2023-06-30T14:59:21 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/georgia-dnr-safety-water-july-4-2023/85-e0de0fe2-6bfa-4c0a-a85b-7668f9fe6ee4 |
ATLANTA — The Fourth of July is just around the corner, which means one thing; fireworks!
However, before stocking up for a weekend of festivities, be sure you're aware of the various laws surrounding where you can set off these combustible items and which you can legally purchase in the first place.
You wouldn't want the Fourth of July fun to come to a swift end by hurting someone or getting in trouble with local authorities.
What fireworks can you buy in Georgia?
All fireworks classified as DOT 1.4G (consumer fireworks) in Georgia are legal to purchase and use as stated in the Georgia General Assembly House Bill 727. The fireworks that you can legally buy in retail stores across Georgia include:
- Bottle Rockets
- Sky Rockets
- Roman Candles
- Firecrackers
- Sparklers
- Smoke and Punk
- Fountains
- Missiles
- Novelties
- Crackle and Strobe
- Parachutes
- Wheels and Spinners
- Sky Flyers
- Display Shells
- Aerial Items (Cakes)
Who Can Buy Consumer Fireworks in Georgia?
In Georgia, you must be 18 years or older to purchase fireworks. There is not an exact age for igniting them, but Georgia.gov reminds residents to remember that most injuries happen to kids under 16.
It is illegal to light fireworks under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
When Can You Light Fireworks in Georgia?
While technically, you can ignite fireworks all year, they were meant for the holidays. In particular, July 4 and New Year's. On those days, the hours are extended:
New Years: until 1 a.m.
Fourth of July: until midnight
Any other day: Between 10 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. Note: New legislation effective July 1, 2018, gives local authorities the option to restrict the use of fireworks at certain times, provided the restriction is part of a general noise ordinance that does not apply solely to fireworks.
Where Can You Light Fireworks in Georgia?
It depends on where you live. Some private communities, including HOAs, condos or apartment complexes, may prohibit fireworks, while others may set aside a spot to ignite them. Bottom line: check your communities laws and bylines to be sure.
Fireworks are banned in some places, including on roads and highways.
It is illegal to light fireworks within 100 yards of a:
- Electric plant
- Water treatment plant
- Waste-water treatment plant
- Gas station
- Refinery
- Electric substation
- Jail or prison
- Helipad
- Hospital
- Nursing home
- Other health care facility
Fireworks are strictly prohibited in state parks, according the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, State Parks and Historic Sites. They are also banned in other public parks except for those with a special license.
Remember that while they may be legal, consumer fireworks are considered hazardous materials (hazmat) division 1.4G explosives. Be mindful of the laws when purchasing and lighting them off to ensure the safety of everyone. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/georgia-firework-laws-can-cant-do-4th-of-july/85-66e736fc-9b6d-4164-9931-6990d5501a44 | 2023-06-30T14:59:28 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/georgia-firework-laws-can-cant-do-4th-of-july/85-66e736fc-9b6d-4164-9931-6990d5501a44 |
Editor's note: The video above is about staying safe and cool during extreme heat.
In response to the scorching heatwave gripping the city, Zoo Atlanta announced an early closure on Friday.
The last entry time slot will be at 1:30 p.m., with the gates closing at 2 p.m. Visitors are advised to finish their visits by 3:30 p.m. Zoo Atlanta will closely monitor weather conditions throughout the weekend to determine if any further early closures are necessary. Updates can be found on the zoo's website.
The safety and well-being of the animals are the top priority at Zoo Atlanta; they ensure that preparations for hot or cold temperatures are made well in advance, regardless of whether the zoo is open or closed to the public.
Each animal at Zoo Atlanta has specific temperature guidelines tailored to their species and natural habitat, the zoo said. With the hot weather, some animals may seek shelter indoors earlier than usual, while others have access to climate-controlled areas. Shade, water features, and misting fans are also provided to create comfortable environments. Moreover, during this time of the year, frozen treats are prepared for the animals, mimicking elements of their natural diet.
Many of the species at Zoo Atlanta originate from tropical regions in Africa or southeast Asia, where they are accustomed to warm climates. However, species like the giant pandas, native to cool, high-altitude forests in China, already spend most of their time in indoor dayroom habitats kept at a constant temperature in the 60s Fahrenheit throughout the year.
The dedicated Animal Care Teams at Zoo Atlanta diligently monitor the habitats of all animals multiple times daily, ensuring their comfort and well-being regardless of weather conditions. The zoo remains committed to upholding its high standards of animal care and will continue to prioritize the safety and welfare of its residents.
As Atlanta battles the heatwave, Zoo Atlanta reminds visitors and residents to take necessary precautions to stay hydrated, use sunscreen and avoid extended exposure to the sun. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/heatwave-forces-zoo-atlanta-close-early-animal-welfare/85-20681f87-b013-4927-8576-59e09e38a59d | 2023-06-30T14:59:34 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/heatwave-forces-zoo-atlanta-close-early-animal-welfare/85-20681f87-b013-4927-8576-59e09e38a59d |
ATLANTA — In 2023, eight children have died from being left inside a vehicle. So far, none of those deaths have happened in Georgia but as temperatures are rising, the chances of a child dying from heatstroke inside a hot car increase.
On average, 38 children die each year from heatstroke after being found inside a vehicle.
Looking back over the past six years, seven children have died in Georgia according to the National Safety Council. Only one of those children was from metro Atlanta.
In 2022, 8-month-old Nova Grace Whatley-Trejo was found inside a car hours after her father, David Japez McCorry Whatley, was arrested in Snellville at the police department.
By the time anyone knew baby Nova Grace was in the vehicle, it was too late. Whatley is charged with second-degree murder following Nova's death.
The same year, three other children died across Georgia in hot cars. In 2020 and 2021, there were no reported hot car deaths involving children. In 2019, there were two child deaths and one in 2018.
It doesn't take long for your car to turn into a death trap not just on hot days but also warm days.
Temperatures are forecasted to be in the mid to upper 90s through the Fourth of July holiday. Within 30 minutes even at 85 degrees, your car heats up to 119 degrees, and in an hour it creeps towards 130 degrees.
It's not just children you need to be careful with when it comes to hot cars but also your four-legged furry friends.
Every year, hundreds of pets die across the country from heat exhaustion due to being left inside hot vehicles.
It happens quickly. Veterinarians said a dog can have a heatstroke in just a 15-minute time span. Also, cracking your windows doesn't do much to bring down the temperature. A dog can only pant so much until it's just too hot.
In Georgia, there is a Good Samaritan Law in place to offer immunity if you come across an emergency situation such as a child or pet being locked in a hot car.
However, you need to know which cases this immunity applies to. First, it does not apply to the public in a case of a pet being locked in a hot car. It only provides immunity to first responders if they must break a window to rescue the pet.
The law does offer first responders and the public immunity if you must break a window to rescue a child or elderly adult who has been left in a hot car.
As for a pet left in a hot car, the best thing to do is call 911 immediately. Get help there fast and if a window needs to be broken, let a first responder take over. If you do choose to break a window, you could be liable for damage caused to the vehicle.
The same goes for a child or elderly adult but if help is not getting there fast enough and a parent or guardian is nowhere to be found, then you are covered by the Good Samaritan for any damage caused trying to rescue the person.
At the end of the day, hot car deaths are 100% preventable. Look in your backseat before you lock your car every time. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/hot-cars-kids-pets-heat/85-9717cf71-d3c5-4ae1-93d9-c785dbdb5712 | 2023-06-30T14:59:40 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/hot-cars-kids-pets-heat/85-9717cf71-d3c5-4ae1-93d9-c785dbdb5712 |
VILLA RICA, Ga. — Editor's note: The video above is from previous coverage on the pos
A protest hosted by the Carroll County and Georgia NAACP took place Thursday in response to a post on the Villa Rica Police Department's Facebook page deemed racially insensitive.
The post in question featured images of a Black man being used as a target during firearm safety classes.
Thursday's protest, according to the NAACP chapter, aims to hold the police department accountable for its actions.
"At the end of the day there's a policy that needs to be changed," one speaker said. "so push for that level of change."
Several members of the community were present, speaking out about the changes they would like to see in the area.
"Accountability matters. An apology is unacceptable," Dominique Conteh, the president of the Carroll County NAACP branch, said. "This is more than an apology because what happens is that this is a catalyst. It’s an underlying issue. It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back."
The protest rally happened on Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Villa Rica Amphitheater located at 106 Temple St. in Villa Rica.
The controversy surrounding the Villa Rica Police Department began when the agency shared photos of its handgun class on social media. The pictures depicted individuals using a shooting target that portrayed a Black man wearing a beanie and holding a gun. Following public outrage and backlash, the photos were subsequently removed from the department's post.
Critics condemned the use of only Black targets as problematic and racist, expressing concerns over the department's training methods and its impact on the community. The Carroll County NAACP issued a statement highlighting the offensiveness and called for swift action to address the issue.
Earlier this month, the NAACP demanded an immediate meeting with the chief, Villa Rica mayor, city manager and City Councilwoman Shirley Marchman to address the incident and its implications.
The police department, after removing the controversial photos, released a statement on social media explaining that the choice of target was part of a package that included images of individuals from various ethnic groups. The department expressed regret for any offense caused and stated their commitment to being equitable and respectful to all community members.
"It was never our intention to be insensitive, inflammatory, or offensive to anyone. However, we respect the honest opinions of our fellow citizens and apologize for any offense we may have caused," the statement read in part. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/naacp-rally-villa-rica-police-controversial-facebook-post/85-7020438d-8bdb-4cc7-94b2-2af260ffa39f | 2023-06-30T14:59:47 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/naacp-rally-villa-rica-police-controversial-facebook-post/85-7020438d-8bdb-4cc7-94b2-2af260ffa39f |
NEWNAN, Ga. — It's an effort to ensure the best response possible in case of emergency for special needs families in Georgia. Logan's Law goes into effect on Saturday and will give first responders additional information before heading out on calls.
Logan's Law is named after an 18-year-old girl with autism and other special needs. Under the law, each county can have its own database that includes information about people in the home with any special conditions or needs so EMTs and police can respond to a situation better.
Wednesday remained a busy day at the Coweta County 911 Administration center.
“We're starting our process to accept special needs forms from residents who have family members who have special needs," said Michael Terrell, director of the 911 center.
Terrell said it should take no more than five minutes to fill out the form.
“Let us know that they do have something that might be beneficial for us to have that knowledge ahead of time, maybe of medications, maybe specific medical needs that are not usual," Terrell said.
Information on residents with special needs or medical conditions will go into the system.
“It'll include some things like if someone that maybe lights or sirens or a loud noise irritates a person, they can put that in there, and that way the officers will know the proper response when they come out," Terrell said.
Shalandra Parker has worked as a special education teacher for 17 years. She said that many times, people with autism or other special needs are nonverbal, yet they still have their own ways of communicating.
"It’s not the way that we communicate, and a lot of times people misunderstand their cues, their non-verbal cues, and their way of communicating," Parker said.
Parker believes Logan's Law will create awareness and help emergency situations go smoother.
“When a person is nonverbal, when they don't talk, for example, they communicate with their hands and their body," Parker said. "Just by knowing that, they would know that someone's not trying to be violent, they're just actually trying to communicate.”
Those at Coweta County's 911 Center hope the law can help keep all members of the community safe.
“They will just have the knowledge and knowing what they're kind of going into the scene so they can be prepared to bring the best response possible to help that person in crisis," Terrell said.
This is a voluntary database, so each county can decide if it wants to participate.
Click here to sign up for Coweta County's Logan's Law program or call 770-254-5809. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/new-georgia-law-creates-911-database-people-special-needs/85-e01c81a7-e85b-4f0d-b792-c38434a01847 | 2023-06-30T14:59:53 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/new-georgia-law-creates-911-database-people-special-needs/85-e01c81a7-e85b-4f0d-b792-c38434a01847 |
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Gwinnett County Public Schools is making sure that children have access to the enchanting world of books even during the summer break, thanks to their innovative mobile library.
The county's Book Mobile brings the magic of literature directly to students' doorsteps throughout the summer months. This initiative aims to keep young minds active and inspire a lifelong love of reading.
"There is still that love for holding a physical book," Jan Wilson said, Gwinnett County School's coordinator of media instruction, emphasizing the importance of physical books. "There are three factors that influence a child to read: choice, variety, and access."
Since 2017, the library on wheels has been traversing the county, making 35 weekly stops in various Gwinnett County neighborhoods and apartment complexes.
Wilson explained that Book Mobile helps overcome transportation barriers some families face, allowing students to access a diverse selection of books easily.
Children appear more likely to engage with a book when they choose it themselves. Maddie Tiller, a rising seventh-grader, is one who has taken advantage of the Book Mobile this summer to read books she genuinely enjoys.
"I try to read different books in the summer than I would during the school year because it's more like school books," she said. "Now I can read normal stuff."
For students like Sophia Fernandez, the mobile library allows them to read to their younger siblings. Fernandez and her siblings eagerly board the bus to check out their next captivating read.
"I think it's cool they remodeled a whole bus to be like a tiny library so kids can educate themselves during the summer," Tiller exclaimed.
The Book Mobile not only fuels young minds but also nourishes their bodies. Gwinnett County's nutrition program collaborates with the United Food Bank, ensuring that children receive both hot and cold lunches to take with them.
Wilson pointed out that areas with low literacy rates often coincide with high food insecurity rates, highlighting the significance of this dual approach to supporting the community.
The Book Mobile program will continue throughout the summer, allowing any child who boards the mobile library to check out books. Librarians on board can also create accounts for other children, allowing them to borrow books. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/outreach/gwinnett-county-public-schools-magic-books-kids-mobile-library/85-8aa2ad65-0cd4-4e64-b84f-f422bc2ec69d | 2023-06-30T15:00:00 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/outreach/gwinnett-county-public-schools-magic-books-kids-mobile-library/85-8aa2ad65-0cd4-4e64-b84f-f422bc2ec69d |
ATLANTA — A word of caution– for everyone planning to spend time on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast beaches:
Deaths from rip currents in the U.S., so far this year, are on a record-setting pace.
And first responders are trying to teach a life-and-death lesson to everyone, in order to keep everyone out of trouble.
Aerial photographs of beaches along the Florida panhandle, for example, on a typical day show, vividly, one rip current after another, up and down the Gulf Coast.
Davis Wood, with Escambia County Public Safety in Pensacola, Florida, said tourists and residents, alike, need to remember that rip currents can catch anyone by surprise.
"Even on a calm day,” Wood said, "even if it's a Green Flag day, the water still has that threat of a rip current."
Wood and his teams of first responders are heartbroken with every life they can't save.
This past April, they tried to save two children and a man from the Atlanta area who were caught in a rip current– Rashad Williams, 12, Bryce Brooks, 16, and youth basketball coach Charles "Chuck" Johnson.
The only survivor in that group was Addie Jones' 14-year-old son, Braylon Jones. She was at the beach that day with her son and with his friend, Rashad Williams.
"The current came and knocked them off their feet,” Ms. Jones said. “They were just like, fighting to get back up, fighting to breathe, he said it was just so scary."
The National Weather Service reports that, so far in 2023, 55 people have drowned in rip currents, nearly all of them along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.
That number is on track to surpass the yearly average of 71 rip-current deaths in the U.S.
"It doesn't really matter the depth of water,” Wood said, "you can find yourself pulled out before you realize it."
First responders are working to teach swimmers that, contrary to what many believe, rip currents do not automatically pull people underwater. The first responders’ advice is just to let the rip current take you away from shore, instead of fighting the current by trying to swim into it or against it.
"If you find yourself in a rip current,” Wood said, "the biggest thing is try to float. Try to preserve your energy, because eventually that rip current ends."
And when the rip current does start to slow down, Wood said, you likely won't be too far away from shore.
"Once you realize you're not being pushed away (from shore anymore)," he said, "swim parallel to the shore and get out of that rip current, so you can get yourself in shallower water and you can walk."
As it is, rip currents, on average, take more lives each year than do hurricanes or tornadoes or lightning strikes; and yet, first responders say rip currents may be the easiest of all to survive. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/rip-current-deaths-record-numbers-this-year/85-11352aa4-667b-4185-b33d-57d987b1344d | 2023-06-30T15:00:06 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/rip-current-deaths-record-numbers-this-year/85-11352aa4-667b-4185-b33d-57d987b1344d |
A portion of Interstate 80's westbound lanes were forced closed for hours Thursday after two semi trucks — one hauling cattle, the other carrying burritos — crashed near mile marker 394, just west of Lincoln, according to the Nebraska State Patrol.
The two westbound trucks crashed just before 11 a.m. Thursday after the truck hauling about 60 head of cattle rear-ended the burrito-toting truck, which had slowed down due to slowing traffic ahead, State Patrol spokesman Cody Thomas said.
The cattle hauler then left the roadway and rolled into the north ditch, Thomas said in a news release.
Neither driver was seriously injured in the crash, Thomas said, but the driver of the cattle truck was taken to Bryan West for medical evaluation.
The crash forced the interstate's westbound lanes closed for nearly five hours. I-80 reopened at approximately 3:45pm.
A "small number" of cattle perished in the crash, Thomas said.
Top Journal Star photos for June 2023
Players part of the Lincoln International FC wave flags from different countries while posing for a photo on their last day of soccer practice on Wednesday at Densmore Park in Lincoln.
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Henry Schmid builds a new robot using LEGOs and various electronics as part of a LEGO Robotics course, on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, at The Bay in Lincoln. Brick-by-brick, students between fourth and ninth grades worked to assemble robots they built from LEGOs. As part of the Lincoln Public Schools Summer Technology Program, kids interested in robotics worked to build and program their robots to perform various tasks.
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Florida's Michael Robertson embraces Deric Fabian after their loss to LSU, during game 3 of the NCAA College World Series championship series on Monday, June 26, 2023, at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha.
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Florida relief pitcher Cade Fisher delivers to the plate against LSU in the fifth inning, during game 3 of the NCAA College World Series championship series on Monday, June 26, 2023, at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha.
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LSU's Paul Skenes carries the trophy after defeating Florida in the game 3 of the College World Series championship series on Monday, June 26, 2023, at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
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LSU's Brady Neal pours a sports drink on coach Jay Johnson after the Tigers defeated Florida in the College World Series championship game Monday at Charles Schwab Field.
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LSU players celebrate the victory against Florida in the College World Series championship series final on Monday at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
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Lincoln's Zach Keenan throws a pitch against Winnipeg on Monday at Haymarket Park.
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LSU's Alex Milazzo hurdles Florida catcher BT Riopelle to score in the fourth inning during the College World Series championship series final on Monday at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
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Brenda Schmidt (left) and Charles Schmidt kayak at Holmes Lake on Monday. After a sunny day reaching a high the upper 80s on Monday, Tuesday could see a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. A big warmup is in store for Wednesday, with the National Weather Service forecasting a high near 100 in Lincoln.
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Florida players wait to celebrate Jac Caglianone's (14) home run during a College World Series championship series game against LSU on Sunday at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
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Finn Nash, Jaro Lepic, Liam Demshock and Liam Etkes (top, from left) have their sports memorabilia, including a replica of Homeplate, signed by Florida's Philip Abner before Game 2 of the College World Series championship series on Sunday at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
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Florida's Cade Fisher celebrates after closing out an inning against LSU during the NCAA College World Series championship, Saturday, June 24, 2023, at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
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Florida warms up during the NCAA College World Series championship, Saturday, June 24, 2023, at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
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With $5 in hand, Lincoln City Council member Tom Beckius checks the odds on a screen before placing his bet Thursday at WarHorse Casino. While the state's gambling regulations require bets to be placed on site at the casino, gamblers can use WarHorse's app to build out their wagers, making it easier and faster to place them in person.
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Alex Azevedo sits on his dad's vintage motor car before the International Speedsters Trials and Reunions road trip Thursday morning.
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David Campbell, a recent graduate from Union college's international rescue and relief program, climbs and rappels from a tree alongside Mike Mikler (not pictured) on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at Holmes Lake Park in Lincoln.
The duo, who had earlier created a giant swing, said they were climbing the trees for fun and practice. The program for International rescue and relief is a bachelor of science degree designed for students who want to serve and help others in disaster and humanitarian relief.
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Southeast Community College Professor Michael Mellon teaches anatomy of the human brain to his class Tuesday in Lincoln. A change to community college funding in Nebraska will result in higher property taxes to support SCC next year, but officials say a tax credit will offset those increases.
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A'rielle Harvell (bottom), 5, slides down an inflatable water slide next to her sisters, Yahkira Harvell (top), 4, and Samirah Graham, 13, on Monday in central Lincoln. The temperature in Lincoln reached 96 on Monday and was in the 90s again on Tuesday. The National Weather Service is forecasting highs in the 90s and mostly sunny conditions for at least the next week.
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Crane removal equipment sits on Q St. between North 9th and 10th St. temporarily closing the section of Q until June 23rd, Monday, June 19, 2023, in Lincoln.
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Malone Ribbon Dancers, including Maisey Ratliff, 8, dance during Lincoln's Juneteenth celebration Saturday at Trago Park.
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Scott Copeland (Left) and Donnette Thayer (right) play Irish folk music with friends during the Hub Farmers Market at Union Plaza park on Wednesday. The markets are Wednesdays, from 5-7 p.m., through Sept. 20.
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Open Harvest employees shovel gravel at the Open Harvest ground breaking in the Telegraph District, Wednesday, June 14, 2023, in Lincoln.
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Dynasty Volleyball players Abigail Mullen (bottom left), Reese Messer (left), Claire Cisneros (top right), and Skyler Pierce (right) share snacks and stories with one another as they rest on the catwalk overlooking the volleyball courts ahead of their next match during the Midwest PreNationals tournament on Friday, June 9, 2023, at the Sports Pavilion Lawrence in Lawrence.
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Fisherman Salem Alsareni, catches a 24 inch carp, weighing in at six and a half pounds at Holmes Lake, Monday, June 12, 2023, in Lincoln.
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Angela Gebhardt walks next to Star City Chorus during the Star City Pride Parade Saturday at the Nebraska state Capitol.
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Foster Care Closet employee Brooke Horton lifts boxes of diapers onto the bus before departing for Norfolk on Friday.
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor candidate Rodney Bennett answers questions from students and staff who are part of the College of Law on Thursday at the Office of the President.
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Terrance McIntyre gets his hair cut by Treveon Phinney at 402 Fades Barber Shop on Thursday at Gateway Mall.
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Eliana Athena Vargas Smith, 2, plays in the fountain at Union Plaza park on Wednesday, when temperatures reached 88 degrees in Lincoln.
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Children extend their arms outward as they reach for bubbles to pop during a family fun night ice cream party on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at the Charles H. Gere Branch Library in Lincoln.
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Harper Trumble (top right) dances with her cousin Keegan VanDeWater (right) while Alexis Arai y Su Grupo perform as part of the Jazz in June concert series on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at in the Sheldon Sculpture Garden at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln. The first performers for Jazz in June drew a sizable crowd on Tuesday. The free concert series, held each Tuesday in June, will feature two sets of music from 7-7:45 p.m. and 8-8:45 p.m. Beyond the performances, the series will include education outreach coordinated by community centers and artists. A market offered food and drinks to hungry patrons. And a bike Valet will provided free, secure parking for bicycles from 5 p.m. until the end of the performance in the market.
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The Rev. T. Michael Williams signs the petition to repeal LB753 during Support our Schools Nebraska petition drive kickoff at the state Capitol on Tuesday.
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Mia Masch, 5, has her hair adjusted by her father Ian while his pet parrot Mango rests atop his shoulder during an animal blessing ceremony at First-Plymouth Church.
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Shriner clowns cover their hearts for the invocation before the Nebraska Shrine Bowl on Saturday at Cope Stadium in Kearney.
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A rainbow is seen near Ralston High School stadium during the Nebraska High School Soccer Senior Showcase on Friday.
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Grace Jacobson of Lincoln holds a rainbow umbrella over a coffin prop in front of the Governor's Mansion on Thursday, the final day of the legislative session.
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Nikita (black) jumps into the dog pool as Pearl chases after her at Off Leash Dog Bar on Wednesday.
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Lincoln East’s Carter Mick (10) poses for portrait , Monday, May 29, 2023, in Lincoln.
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Rebecca Rager greets her grandfather Alfred Zieg (from left) during a celebration before his birthday on Wednesday, in the Gramercy dining room on Saturday, May 27, 2023, at The Residence at Gramercy in Lincoln. 'It has been a life for sure," Alfred Zieg said during the celebration. "And on Wednesday I get to start all over again, right?"
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Muggs, a 6 year-old chocolate lab fetches his toy from the water following his dive on Saturday at Paws 4 Fun in Lincoln.
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Fire fighters clear out hot debris pulled off of 411 Mulder Dr home after alert two back yard fire, Friday, May 26, 2023, in Lincoln.
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ROSWELL, Ga. — As temperatures continue to rise in our state, an elderly couple in Roswell was wondering how they were going to make it through without a working air conditioner in their apartment.
Christina DeLeon, 73, and her husband, 84, said they were living without A/C at their Grace Apartment Homes apartment (formerly the Crest Apartments) for over a month. Neither can drive and both of them are disabled.
"We have no way of getting around so we can't even go to the store to get some relief during the day to get a little bit of cool air," she said. "So we're stuck here."
DeLeon did not want to worry her daughter, Vernalisa Rougeux, and had not told her until this week, as she noticed temperatures continue to creep up.
That's when Rougeux called 11Alive to help her mother.
"I said, 'What's most stressful mom? Finding you dead in the apartment or you telling me what's really going on here?' It's a nightmare and it's going to kill my parents," she said.
When 11Alive came in to help, their apartment had reached 84 degrees.
DeLeon claims she’s called maintenance several times about this and other issues, including a broken faucet handle and water damage. She said they tell her that they are short-staffed.
"I got water damage in the bedroom, I got it in the kitchen, in the bathroom," DeLeon listed. "I've been looking at it for six months now."
She's been relying on a few fans and open windows to keep the apartment as cool as possible.
"But there’s hardly screens in the windows so when they open, bugs come in," Rougeux said. She added that she's seen several insects inside the apartment.
11Alive spoke to Grace Apartment Homes' management in person Thursday and an hour later, maintenance workers started fixing the problem.
Hours later, Rougeux said the A/C started working again in her $1,400 per month apartment.
"We're on social security so we don't have much money, so we're paying a lot of money - most of what we have - just to be in this apartment," DeLeon explained.
DeLeon, who has a heart condition, is now back home but said a lot of damage has already been done and hopes the other issues get resolved quickly, too.
"With all this heat in the apartment, I had to go back to the heart doctor again because I’m having a hard time breathing and I’m going to have a bunch of tests done on my heart again," she said.
Senior Attorney Maggie Kinnear with Atlanta Legal Aid said that tenants have an obligation to pay rent, but the landlord has to maintain and repair the apartment.
“Under the circumstances of the heatwave, consider it a priority to get that repaired and make sure that this person, who's a senior, has the proper ventilation and cooling that she needs because that obviously is a health hazard," Kinnear said over the phone.
She advises all tenants to document every conversation with landlords and explains there are steps you can take if management does not do the repairs.
"Have code enforcement come out to do an inspection, which hopefully, then they will require the landlord to make the repairs within a certain amount of time," Kinnear said. "For smaller repairs, it is possible to do a repair and deduct. They could end up having to file a lawsuit, unfortunately, to get either reimbursed for expenses if they have to pay to go to a hotel and if a tenant can't afford to do that, try to get the landlord to. The landlord should cover the expenses related to having to relocate to someplace that's actually cool."
For more information about rental property repair laws in Georgia, click here. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/roswell/seniors-living-without-ac-roswell-apartment/85-c1785623-ca13-411c-affd-dbc28fe72a29 | 2023-06-30T15:00:12 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/roswell/seniors-living-without-ac-roswell-apartment/85-c1785623-ca13-411c-affd-dbc28fe72a29 |
Thousands of flight delays continued to frustrate travelers across the country as a busy Fourth of July holiday travel weekend approaches. Jocelyn Moran reports.
A weekend in New York — three days at something called the Fancy Food Show — quickly unraveled when Angela Garbacz and Maggie Carlson found themselves stranded.
Like thousands of others, they were caught in a summer storm that has canceled more than 8,000 flights this week.
But unlike their counterparts — the folks shown on the nightly news, stretched out in airport terminals for days — Garbacz and Carlson had no intention of waiting it out. Not with young children at home waiting for them.
“It was really about getting control of the situation,” said Carlson, the marketing director for the Goldenrod Pastries and Grocery shops that Garbacz owns and operates at 3949 S. 48th St. “... We had to fix the problem. We had to get home.”
They thought they had solved it when they booked a flight to Des Moines for late Tuesday afternoon. But that flight, too, was canceled.
There would be no easy escape from New York, they determined. No plane. No train. No automobile, which they would learn were not available to be rented for long-distance, one-way trips so close to a holiday.
So they thought about it.
“I said, ‘What’s something you can rent for a one-way trip?’” Garbacz asked.
About two hours later — and at a cost of well more than $1,000 — they were in Brooklyn, picking up a 10-foot-long U-Haul truck, which would begin a 30-hour, 1,315-mile journey as well as Goldenrod’s greatest marketing campaign ever (more on that later).
In those 30 hours, their behemoth rental — and the novice drivers of it — navigated Manhattan’s rush-hour traffic, the fabled Holland Tunnel and Pennsylvania’s mountainous terrain.
They also got a first-hand look at the storm that canceled their flight when they drove right into it.
“It was raining hard and there was lightning,” Garbacz said. “We went as far as we could that night.”
In one of their social media videos, the sound of a flood warning blares over the phone, only added to the drama.
“There are so many hills in Pennsylvania,” Carlson said. “You’re going over these huge hills, almost like mountains. You’re on these scary, skinny little bridges. You’re in a 10-foot empty U-Haul, with tires spinning out because it’s raining so hard.
“And you’re just like, ‘OK, what’s next?’”
They pulled into a motel around Pittsburgh to wait out the storm and to get a little shut-eye. Carlson also left with a much-needed souvenir, a pillow that was far more comfortable than the backpack she had been sitting on that allowed her 5-foot-3-inch frame to see over the U-Haul’s steering wheel.
They’d soon find out what lay ahead on their journey home.
After going through Ohio and Indiana, they were hit by their next obstacle: poor air quality around Chicago that was caused by wildfires in Canada.
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Garbacz said. “This keeps getting worse. ... It felt like we were driving at dusk for like six hours because it was so dark from the air quality.”
And all the while, the U-Haul had no radio, no ether cord or bluetooth options to hook up with their phones.
And since the air quality limited visibility, thus eliminating the chance for endless games of car bingo, they began posting — mostly out of boredom — their adventure on Goldenrod’s social media platforms.
“We were out of content to post and that’s how we get people in our front door (at Goldenrod),” Garbacz said. “So we started posting about our journey on social media, thinking it’ll also keep us engaged.”
The first post — an homage to the movie “Home Alone” — asked Goldenrod’s customer base if there was a polka band anywhere in need of a ride.
The post got them the attention they wanted. They spent the next several hours answering questions from people, while posting videos of their drive. They compared the U-Haul to an episode of “Cribs,” the MTV show that looks at the houses of celebrities.
Carlson held up the U-Haul’s owner manual and called it the library. A cup holder in the center console was their bar area. Most of it was silly, but it was fun.
“We had higher engagement on social media than ever and we were just answering stupid questions,” Garbacz said. “We were talking about stupid things, and it was the best way to pass the time and we had people from all over engaging with our story.”
When they pulled into Lincoln a little after 8 p.m. Wednesday night, their adventure was complete.
“We made the right choice,” Garbacz said. “We were able to take control of our situation. We weren’t at the mercy of everyone else. ... We took matters into our own hands. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/goldenrod-duo-brooklyn-to-lincoln-u-haul/article_afb3590e-16a2-11ee-a8e9-4f0f2e658147.html | 2023-06-30T15:00:13 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/goldenrod-duo-brooklyn-to-lincoln-u-haul/article_afb3590e-16a2-11ee-a8e9-4f0f2e658147.html |
ATLANTA — The southeast will see its first heat wave of the season through the Fourth of July holiday. A lot of HVAC systems will be put to the test for the first time this summer.
"The moment it gets hot, everybody calls," said Sean McKinney, Owner of Maintenance Unlimited Heating & Cooling said.
11Alive meteorologists are forecasting temperatures to soar into the high 90s through the weekend across metro Atlanta. McKinney and his business partner Darrell Word are preparing for the busy holiday weekend.
"It's blowing hot, it's not working," Word explained as their most common service call.
He said a quick way to figure out if you need to call a technician is to walk outside to your unit.
"If you ever walk up to a unit on a 90-degree day like we’re having now and you put your hand over here (above the fan) and you feel cool air, it’s not cooling, it’s not pulling any heat out of the house," Word said.
Both men said the best way to make sure you're prepared for any extreme temperature changes is to keep your unit maintained throughout the year.
They recommend at a minimum of twice a year-- having someone come out in the spring and fall. However, experts said some customers get their HVAC systems serviced quarterly.
The average cost for your unit to be serviced is around $80, which isn't much when you compare it to replacing your unit. Most A/C units if you have to replace it start around $7,000.
When it comes to the age-old debate on what you should have your thermostat set on-- McKinney and Word said it depends on you.
"I just tell them set it at your comfort level because my comfort level could be 75, Sean’s could be 70," Word explained. McKinney quickly interjected with a chuckle that his desired temperature is 69 degrees.
Whatever you decide both men said it's important to keep in mind.
"Set it at the temperature, leave it at that temperature, and let it do its job. It will save you a lot of headaches in the long run," McKinney said.
If you need to find a place to cool down or grab some water, College Park will be opening a cooling station on Thursday. It will open at 10 a.m. and close a 7 p.m. each day through Sunday.
The cooling station will be located at the Public Safety Building at 3717 College Street in College Park. The city said bottled water and masks will be provided. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/routine-maintenance-save-thousands-hvac-system-heat/85-7e2dadf0-ae30-4552-b365-a99cce46252c | 2023-06-30T15:00:18 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/routine-maintenance-save-thousands-hvac-system-heat/85-7e2dadf0-ae30-4552-b365-a99cce46252c |
EATONTON, Ga. — An Eatonton woman is dead after she and a deer ran into each other on while she was on her scooter near Lake Oconee.
Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills says it happened about 8:30 Wednesday night on Ward’s Chapel Road.
He says 48-year-old Misty Renee Honeycutt was alive when first responders arrived, but she died soon after arriving at the Putnam County hospital.
He says she was driving a 2009 scooter she and the deer collided.
They did not find the deer, but the sheriff says they found deer hair in the wreckage.
They were not able to find a helmet where the crash happened, and Sills says Honeycutt suffered severe head and body trauma in the crash. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/woman-dies-after-getting-hit-by-deer-while-riding-scooter/93-ba21e3e5-64a2-4be7-b59c-2d7a7dd1671d | 2023-06-30T15:00:24 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/woman-dies-after-getting-hit-by-deer-while-riding-scooter/93-ba21e3e5-64a2-4be7-b59c-2d7a7dd1671d |
LIZELLA, Ga. — Georgia ranks third in the United States in acreage of watermelons. The city of Cordele calls itself the watermelon capital of the world.
Jamie Tharpe mans the farms shop during the day at Lizella Melons.
“We did a funny pregnancy announcement with our youngest son that I ate the seed and we're were having a baby,” she said.
Of course Koa, who is now 18 months, didn't come from a watermelon seed.
But even though we like to spit 'em, Tharpe says it is okay to down a few.
“Everybody eats watermelon and they're scared to death to eat the seeds. You can eat the seeds, you can eat the rind and you can eat all of it. It's all good for you,” she said.
Folks pull up and pick what they want, although many want the same thing.
“Most popular is our Crimson Red seeded one,” she said
Tharpe says watermelon, which is a fruit and a vegetable, brings nostalgia.
“People have a childhood memory of eating watermelon, during summer you're out of school and you're eating watermelon and a lot of people come and say I haven't had a sweet melon since I was five years old,” she said.
People also use watermelons to celebrate the 4th of July but after the holiday Tharpe will offer them at wholesale.
Watermelons contain about 92% water and 6% sugar.
“When we're out there picking and we're hot we'll pick a watermelon to keep us hydrated,” she said.
For everyone else watermelons keep us cool but for the Tharpe’s it's a way of life. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/you-can-eat-the-entire-watermelon-and-it-can-help-keep-you-cool-in-the-summer/93-b4dc63ce-2656-43fb-a08e-79d78f9c71fa | 2023-06-30T15:00:30 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/you-can-eat-the-entire-watermelon-and-it-can-help-keep-you-cool-in-the-summer/93-b4dc63ce-2656-43fb-a08e-79d78f9c71fa |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — With a steamy holiday weekend ahead, some people are considering hitting the water to celebrate and stay cool.
Before hopping in one of the rivers for a swim or to fish, riverkeepers recommend checking out the swim guides to make sure the water is clean and free from bacteria that could make you sick.
Ahead of the weekend, volunteers with the Coosa Riverkeeper were out sampling water from all different access points of the Coosa River to test the water quality ahead of the weekend. These tests are done every Thursday with results posted Fridays at noon.
“It’s been a pretty good summer so far, despite the summer showers here and there, we’ve had surprisingly clean water which is great to see,” said Chad Hoffman, program director for the Coosa Riverkeeper.
The Coosa Riverkeeper said testing the river once a week is important as water quality can change every couple of days. The riverkeepers said they make the results as easy to understand as possible, using a red, yellow and green color-coding system like a stoplight.
“Green means go. Yellow means wait, hold on a second. You’re OK but if there’s any open cuts or wounds cover them up and maybe shower after you swim. Red is hold on, don’t get in this water,” Hoffman said. “At red, the EPA states that eight in 1,000 people will contract a waterborne illness.”
Some people around central Alabama weren’t aware that many of the riverkeeper organizations put out swim guides to help people know where the best places are to enjoy safe, clean water.
“I remember the kids having outer ear infections and I remember the sinus problems so I think swim guides would be super helpful, especially to people with young children,” Birmingham resident Lisa Harvey said.
“I think it’ll be very educational for my grandkids, especially my grandson since he loves the water and that will be something fun for both of us to explore,” Birmingham resident Katanya Langford said.
To sign up for text results from the Coosa Riverkeepers, text “swim guide” to (205) 526-4819. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/alabama-riverkeepers-encouraging-public-to-check-swim-guides-before-getting-in-rivers/ | 2023-06-30T15:03:54 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/alabama-riverkeepers-encouraging-public-to-check-swim-guides-before-getting-in-rivers/ |
HIBBING — A man is accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor over the course of nearly two years.
Raymond Boy Strong, 50, of Hibbing, was arraigned Wednesday in State District Court on four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct of child under the age of 14.
A criminal complaint states that the victim, who was known to Strong, told officials that the abuse occurred "many, many times" between roughly September 2021 and June 2023. She reported that Strong would ask her to come over to "clean his house," which she soon learned to mean that he was going to sexually assault her.
The complaint lists four specific incidents described the victim in which she Strong touched her inappropriately and/or forced her to engage in sexual intercourse.
St. Louis County prosecutor Aaron Welch also filed notice that he would seek an above-guideline sentence if Strong is convicted, citing the "victim's particular vulnerability due to trust" and "multiple forms of sexual penetration."
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A search of court records shows that Strong has prior convictions for first-degree burglary, disorderly conduct, contempt of court, fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance, obstructing the legal process and fifth-degree assault.
A finding of aggravated factors would potentially allow the court to sentence up to the statutory maximum of 30 years on any of the counts.
Judge Robert Friday set Strong's bail at $250,000. His next court appearance was scheduled for July 6. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/hibbing-man-accused-of-child-sexual-abuse | 2023-06-30T15:10:41 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/hibbing-man-accused-of-child-sexual-abuse |
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Indiana Supreme Court: Lawmakers can ban abortion except to protect mother's health
A temporary injunction on Indiana's near-total abortion ban has been vacated by the Indiana Supreme Court in one lawsuit although the law remains unenforceable pending the outcome of a second lawsuit.
In an opinion published Friday, Justice Derek R. Molter wrote that the state's constitution "protects a woman’s right to an abortion that is necessary to protect her life or to protect her from a serious health risk, but the General Assembly otherwise retains broad legislative discretion for determining whether and the extent to which to prohibit abortions."
However, the near-total ban still remains unenforceable, according to the ACLU of Indiana, because a judge in a separate lawsuit challenging the law on religious freedom grounds issued a preliminary injunction in December. That decision is also being appealed and is set to be heard by the Indiana Court of Appeals in September.
Indiana was the first state in the country to severely limit abortion access following the fall of Roe v. Wade. But the near-total ban has been on hold ever since last September, when Special Judge Kelsey B. Hanlon, a Republican, found there was a "reasonable likelihood" that decisions about family planning ― including the decision to carry a pregnancy to term ― are protected by Indiana's Constitution.
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While serving as a special judge in the Monroe County court where the lawsuit was filed, Hanlon said the Indiana Constitution is "more explicit" in protecting individual rights and shielding legislative interference into people's lives than the U.S. Constitution.
She granted the plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction, putting a temporary freeze on the law just a week after it took effect. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita's office appealed that injunction, and the original lawsuit has been on hold while the Indiana Supreme Court makes a decision.
The Republican-dominated Indiana General Assembly passed the near-total abortion ban last year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Senate Bill 1, which was signed by Gov. Eric Holcomb in August, bans abortions except in cases of rape or incest, when there’s a serious risk to the life of the mother or when fatal fetal anomalies are present.
During oral argument in front of the state's Supreme Court earlier this year, Solicitor General Thomas Fisher with the Indiana Attorney General's Office told the judges that, if left intact, Hanlon's injunction on the law will lead to the deaths of "so many" unborn fetuses. He argued that the lawsuit is an attempt to rewrite the state's constitution.
More:Marion County judge moves forward RFRA challenge to Indiana abortion ban
Fisher's office argued in past court documents that the constitution "nowhere mentions an undifferentiated right to privacy or bodily integrity, much less abortion."
Ken Falk with the ACLU of Indiana, who represents the plaintiffs in the suit, told the justices "Hoosier women and girls will suffer" if the law goes into effect, adding that "some will die." Falk argued that the new abortion regulation amounted to a personal privacy breach by the government.
"It's difficult to think of something that cuts more to personhood, to our individualization, to our privacy than the state telling a woman, 'Look, we know you're suffering from this terrible preeclampsia or diabetes ... but I'm sorry, you can't get an abortion,'" Falk said.
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The law is being challenged by another lawsuit filed last year in which women claimed it infringed on their right to exercise their religion under Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act from 2015, because their religions permit abortion. The Marion County judge in that case, Heather Welch, also put an injunction on the law.
Rokita's office is appealing the RFRA lawsuit decision. It was recently given class action status, meaning if plaintiffs win the near-total abortion ban would no longer apply to Hoosiers whose religion permits abortion under the circumstances outlawed by Senate Bill 1.
That case is scheduled for oral argument in front of the Indiana Court of Appeals in September.
This article will update.
Contact the reporter at 317-273-3188. | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2023/06/30/indiana-supreme-court-lawmakers-can-ban-abortion-except-to-protect-health/70307361007/ | 2023-06-30T15:12:17 | 1 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2023/06/30/indiana-supreme-court-lawmakers-can-ban-abortion-except-to-protect-health/70307361007/ |
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