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The Powerball jackpot has reached $590 million this week. If you're feeling lucky, now might be the time to test that luck.
According to the Powerball website, the jackpot is among the highest ever in Powerball history.
It's been growing since April, with 33 drawings since the Powerball jackpot was last hit. It may come close to breaking the top 10 jackpots, with number 10 at 590.5 million in Florida in 2013. The next Powerball drawing is on Saturday.
With an estimated cash value of $304.8 million, after paying federal taxes of $73,152,000 (24%) the Powerball winner will take home roughly $231,648,000 (76%) since Texas lottery winners don't pay a state tax on lottery winnings. If the winner took the annuity payments on the entire $590 million prize, they'll end up with more prize money in the long run.
Friday night's Mega Millions drawing is nothing to ignore at $427 million, with a $220.6 million cash value option. Saturday's Lotto Texas drawing is worth $7 million, with a $4.14 million cash value option. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/feeling-lucky-powerball-jackpot-reaches-590-million/3290818/ | 2023-07-06T21:09:53 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/feeling-lucky-powerball-jackpot-reaches-590-million/3290818/ |
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — The Orange County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrests of two people Wednesday for the stabbing death of a young man at a hotel last month.
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Just after 4 p.m. on June 3, deputies responded to the Homewood Suites on N. Alafaya Trail for reports of a stabbing.
They arrived to find the victim, 19-year-old Jacob Dewitt, with a stab wound to the stomach as well as a witness who was attempting to help him.
READ: Deputies share surveillance video of shooting at Orange County banquet hall that left 2 dead
Deputies say they attempted to talk to Dewitt at the scene but he was not able to speak because of the pain. Despite surgery, Dewitt died from his injuries at the hospital on June 11.
Deputies investigating the stabbing found surveillance video from the hotel that shows Dewitt meeting with someone in a white car just moments before the stabbing was reported.
The video shows Dewitt walk away from the car as a man in the driver’s side and a woman in the passenger’s side get out and chase after him.
The video doesn’t capture the stabbing, but shows the two suspects walk back to the car and drive away.
READ: Man accused of shooting spree at Orange County hotels deemed ‘incompetent’ by judge
Investigators were able to learn the suspect vehicle’s tag number and identified the owner as 21-year-old Nicole Jimenez of Lakeland.
After searching the car and reviewing data from Jimenez’ phone, investigators identified the second suspect in the surveillance video as an Orlando man, 24-year-old Chad Rivera-Rohena.
After reviewing more cellular data and interviewing witnesses, investigators determined Rivera-Rohena and Jimenez met with Dewitt at the Homewood Suites to sell him drugs.
Deputies say Rivera-Rohena pursued Dewitt first as Jimenez followed, but both suspects participated in the deadly attack.
READ: Rudy Farias: Man found after 8 years was never missing, police say
Both suspects were booked into the Orange County jail Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder with a weapon. They’re being held there on no bond.
According to the sheriff’s office, Jacob Dewitt was living at the Homewood Suites with other relatives while their family home was being built.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Are you a Barbie girl (or boy) living in Orlando? If so, you can live out a version of your Barbie Dreamhouse fantasy this week.
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The Barbie Truck Tour stops in Orlando Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the 2023 National Barbie Dolls Collectors Convention at the Hyatt Regency.
Organizers said you don’t have to be attending the conference to check out the truck, which is selling merchandise marking the 60th anniversary of Barbie moving into her first Dreamhouse.
Read: Mattel introduces Barbie representing person with Down syndrome
Organizers said the newly redesigned Barbie Dreamhouse truck will offer an array of apparel, along with home goods and accessories inspired by a day in life of Barbie in her Dreamhouse.
You can see pictures of the merch and the truck here.
Read: Oviedo woman donates handcrafted dollhouses to help girls facing trauma cope, heal
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LOS ANGELES — In 2024, control of the U.S. House could hinge on congressional districts in one famously liberal state: California.
Command of the narrowly divided chamber will again be in play next year, and leaders in both parties agree on this much: The outcome in a string of contested California districts will be critical in determining the balance of power, after the state played a pivotal role in securing the gavel for Republicans in 2022 and installing Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield as speaker.
The decisive fight for the House “will run through California,” predicts Rep. Pete Aguilar, the third-ranking Democrat in the chamber, who lives in Redlands, east of Los Angeles. North Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson, who heads the House Republican campaign arm, is bullish about gaining ground, even in a state known as a Democratic monolith.
“I think we can actually pick up seats in California,” said Hudson, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
The 10 competitive House districts belie California’s reputation as a liberal protectorate — Democrats hold every statewide office, dominate the Legislature and congressional delegation and outnumber registered Republicans statewide by a staggering 2-1 ratio.
Still, Republicans retain pockets of political clout in the Southern California suburbs and the state's vast rural stretches, including the Central Valley farm belt, sometimes called America's salad bowl for its bountiful agricultural production.
With the chamber divided 222-212, with one vacancy, only a handful of seats separate the two parties.
Though the state's March primary election is months away, the narrative from both parties has taken shape. Democrats are warning about threats to abortion rights, immigration and unchecked gun violence, while Republicans are faulting the party that dominates state politics for high taxes, inflation, vexing crime rates and an out-of-control homeless crisis.
Also on the ballot will be California itself.
A national debate is underway — fanned by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in California and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida — in which the state is alternately depicted as an ascendant progressive nation-state or a testament to the ravages of liberal excess.
Recent polling has found that two out of three voters foresee bad economic times over the next year, and its once-booming population that neared 40 million is now in decline.
“A lot will depend on the economy. The problem for Democrats is wages did not keep up with inflation. That may be changing, but if people have less money to spend next year, that will be a big problem up and down the Democratic ticket,” said Claremont McKenna College political scientist Jack Pitney.
A string of California House districts has proved volatile in recent elections, spotlighting their importance to both parties as they look to control the chamber. Democrats snatched seven seats from Republicans in 2018, then Republicans seized four from Democrats in 2020.
In the 2022 elections, Republicans gained one seat, from 11 to 12, while Democrats dropped to 40 seats from 42, after California lost a House seat in reapportionment after the 2020 census. Overall, the state dropped to 52 districts from 53.
Aguilar’s top targets are five districts that Joe Biden won in 2020 in the presidential contest that are now held by Republicans. “We are going to win back the House,” Aguilar told reporters on a recent stop in Los Angeles.
Hudson said the GOP’s top target is a closely divided coastal district in the one-time Republican stronghold of Orange County, being vacated by Democratic Rep. Katie Porter, a prolific fundraiser who is running to replace Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Porter's seat, Hudson said, is “probably our best pickup opportunity in the country.” Former legislator Scott Baugh, who narrowly lost to Porter in 2022 after she spent a stunning $28 million to defend the seat, is the leading Republican in the race.
Hudson sees other ripe targets in the Central Valley and the 49th District that straddles Orange and San Diego counties, where Democratic Rep. Mike Levin got a last-minute stopover from President Biden in 2022 to help him hold the seat.
Levin expects another close race. But he thinks Democrats have been focusing on issues of concern to his constituents — including infrastructure projects and protecting reproductive rights. He said Republicans, meanwhile, have been engaged in issues irrelevant to voters, including the recent censure on a party line vote of California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff for comments he made several years ago about investigations into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.
“This is a competitive political environment,” Levin said. “We don't take anything for granted.”
The House contests will be shadowed by the presidential campaign, but to what degree it influences the races isn’t yet clear.
Aguilar sees former President Trump as an asset for Democratic candidates, should he win the GOP nomination.
“I don’t think there could be a more extreme person running on the Republican side than Donald Trump,” Aguilar said. “I think that’s going to turn off moderate, independent voters, and I think that’s going to lead to better Democratic turnout.”
Biden remains popular in California given its Democratic tilt, even as his national approval rating sits at a lackluster 41%, according to polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. And Democratic turnout typically surges in presidential election years.
Hudson said it’s difficult at this point to predict the influence of the presidential race on individual House contests. He noted that the GOP has attracted larger numbers of Latino and working-class voters, who tend to turn out robustly in presidential election years.
“Regardless of what happens at the top of the ticket, I think what you’ll see is higher turnout,” he said.
In the first major election since the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, the abortion debate helped Democrats largely fend off an expected Republican wave in the 2022 midterm elections, when the party in power in the White House typically loses seats in Congress.
This time, Biden has sought to energize Democrats by warning that Republicans are seeking a nationwide abortion ban. That threat needs to be reinforced with California voters, Aguilar said, in a state where abortion rights are protected.
Hudson was dubious.
“I think voters are more concerned about ... inflation, the economy, public safety,” he said.
Both parties are vowing to invest millions of dollars to sway races and recruit candidates that fit the political complexion of districts. The GOP picked up seats in 2020 with a slate of candidates that was strikingly diverse for a party that remains predominantly white: two South Korean immigrants, both women, and two men who are sons of immigrant parents from Mexico and Portugal.
Those four districts remain targets for Democrats: Reps. Young Kim and Michelle Steel, anchored in Orange County, Rep. Mike Garcia in a district north of Los Angeles and Rep. David Valadao in the Central Valley.
Democrats also want to pick off GOP Rep. John Duarte in the farm belt, who prevailed by fewer than 600 votes in 2022.
Hudson also is eyeing Democratic Rep. Josh Harder in the farm belt as another potential gain — a district Newsom lost in his 2022 reelection.
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PLACER COUNTY, Calif. — After a pile of dead livestock animals was found in rural Placer County, officials believe they may have an explanation for how it showed up.
Katie Combs Prichard, public information officer for Placer County Health and Human Services, says the investigation is ongoing but officials think livestock was butchered then inappropriately disposed of.
Placer County Animal Service officials began investigating a report of a "variety of animals" found dead after someone reported goats, sheep and other small animals piled together on Dyer Lane, northwest of Antelope.
The area is known to officials as a dumping area of all things from furniture and appliances to live animals, according to Katie Ingram, Animal Services Manager of Placer County Animal Service.
The investigation is still ongoing.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s governor, attorney general and the sheriff of Bexar County, Texas, are calling for a Department of Justice investigation into migrant flights to Sacramento.
It says, in part: “Over the last nine months, individuals seeking asylum in the United States were transported from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and to Sacramento, California, under a program funded by the state of Florida.”
The letter says while it’s not uncommon for organizations to help people at the border connect with their families, these cases are different because they reportedly involve recruiters deceiving migrants into getting on the flights with the promise of employment and housing.
A Bexar County Sheriff’s Office (Texas) investigation after a Sept. 2022 flight concluded that’s what happened with a group of migrants who were flown to Martha’s Vineyard, and a referral for potential criminal prosecution is pending at the district’s attorney’s office.
Meanwhile, the California Department of Justice is investigating similar circumstances with the arrival of migrants in Sacramento on June 2 and 5.
In the first case, Newsom says 16 Venezuelan and Colombian migrants came from El Paso where they were allegedly approached by a private contractor promising them help. They were then flown on a private chartered jet into Sacramento and dropped off at the Diocese of Sacramento with only a backpack and documents purporting to be from Florida’s state government.
Days later, a plane carrying 20 more migrants arrived at the Sacramento Executive Airport. According to ABC News, the flight came from El Paso after a stop in New Mexico, so it’s unclear where the migrants were from.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis confirmed the state of Florida coordinated the flights to Sacramento saying, "We have put forth resources to assist with the transportation of illegal migrants to sanctuary jurisdictions where they've advertised that they welcome that. That prevents them from coming to Florida.”
California lawmakers and organizations condemned their actions.
In the following weeks, two more groups of migrants were bused from Texas to Los Angeles. The mayor called it a ‘despicable stunt’ while Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed he sent at least the first bus because ‘Small Texas border towns remain overrun & overwhelmed because Biden refuses to secure the border.’
The letter to Garland says that while there are separate investigations into violation of state laws, the Department of Justice should act because it spans at least five states. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/gov-newsom-ag-bonta-texas-sheriff-call-for-investigation-into-migrant-flights/103-470c8ea7-7f44-454b-a80d-54c38605af20 | 2023-07-06T21:12:58 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/gov-newsom-ag-bonta-texas-sheriff-call-for-investigation-into-migrant-flights/103-470c8ea7-7f44-454b-a80d-54c38605af20 |
ROSEVILLE, Calif. — After a temperate June, triple digits are heading to Northern California for July. There are several options to cool off in Roseville including swimming pools, a water park and spray grounds.
Here are some places to beat the heat in Roseville.
Swimming Pools
Two of the three Roseville pools are open this year. Mike Shellito Indoor Pool is closed for resurfacing with an estimated reopening near the end of August.
Roseville Aquatics Complex
The Roseville Aquatics Complex is open for recreational swimming Tuesday through Friday from 1-4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 1-5 p.m. Some of the group fitness classes held often at Mike Shellito have been moved to the complex due to the renovation. General admission for ages 2+ is $7. Kids under 2 years old are free with adult admission. See the full schedule HERE. The Roseville Aquatics Complex is located at 3051 Woodcreek Oaks Blvd.
Johnson Pool
Johnson Pool is open Tuesday through Sunday from 1-4 p.m. for recreational swimming. It is open Wednesday and Friday for family night from 7:15-8:45 p.m. General admission for ages 2+ is $2. Kids ages 2 and under are free with adult admission. Family night is free. Johnson Pool is located at 100 D Street.
Sunsplash
The waterpark at Golfland Sunplash in Roseville is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and until 6 p.m. on Sunday. General admission Monday through Thursday is $53.99 and from Friday through Sunday, it's $56.99. There are also discounted tickets for Nite Slides and admissions prices for toddlers, juniors and seniors.
Golfland Sunsplash includes other attractions like an arcade, bumper cars, Fastcar Raceway, miniature golf and lazer tag. Golfland Sunsplash is located at 1893 Taylor Road.
Spray Grounds
Roseville has spray grounds at Vernon Street Town Square, Crabb Park and Luken Park. While hours are subject to change due to special events or maintenance, here are the scheduled hours through the summer months.
- 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily from Memorial Day through Labor Day
- 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily from Labor Day to September 30
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INDIANA COUNTY, Pa. — State police are searching for a man accused of assaulting a juvenile in Indiana County.
According to a news release, Mark Allen Juart, 36, was charged in April with a felony count of indecent assault of a person under 13. He is also facing a summary count of harassment.
An arrest warrant was issued for Juart but troopers haven’t been able to find him.
His charges stem from an investigation into incidents of indecent assault against a female juvenile in a White Township home between Jan. 2022 and March 2023.
Juart is described as a white male, he is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 160 lbs. He has hazel eyes and brown hair.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call State Police Indiana at 724-357-1960 or dial 911.
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DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. – A Daytona Beach Shores police lieutenant who said he handcuffed and jailed his 3-year-old son last October for a potty-training lesson is facing another investigation, according to News 6 partner Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Michael Schoenbrod is under investigation for violating six department policies, a memo issued by Michael Fowler, Daytona Beach Shores’ director of public safety, reads.
Schoenbrod was placed on administrative leave Monday and will remain suspended until the investigation is completed.
Two former Daytona Beach Shores public safety workers told the News-Journal on the condition that their names not be used that the investigation stems partly from Schoenbrod’s appearance at a shift briefing on April 7.
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Schoenbrod spoke critically of other officers who he believed were involved in reporting him to the Florida Department of Children and Families and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement at that meeting, reportedly failing to treat them with respect and civility, the former employees told the outlet.
This comes after Schoenbrod and Jessica Long, a sergeant with the Daytona Beach Shores public safety department, handcuffed and jailed their son in October 2022 after they were having difficulty potty-training him, the News-Journal reported.
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – After 244 days of being closed to rebuild, Chase’s on the Beach finally reopened this week after being destroyed by last year’s hurricanes.
“It’s a whole new Chase’s,” said Joe Ryan, the restaurant’s general manager. “We’re bringing kind of an upscale look to New Smyrna, but are we still a beach bar? Yes, we are.”
With a new look and revamped menu, Ryan said he and his staff took the devastation of being forced to close and turned it into a way to upgrade the iconic beachfront hot spot.
“Looking back, because I can see pictures of what it was and what it is now, we’re back,” he said.
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The restaurant was one of dozens of buildings on Volusia County’s coast to collapse last fall after storm surges brought by Hurricanes Ian and Nicole.
“Oct. 30 was the last day we were open. We were originally starting to do remodel from the damage from Ian,” he said.
Then, Hurricane Nicole came and took down much more.
“We were almost brought to tears. We couldn’t fathom we’d have so much destruction,” Executive Chef Nico Douchand said.
Instead of letting the 54 employees go, the managers made them part of the rebuilding team.
“I’ve been in this field for 18 years and I’ve never really taken time away from it to do construction, but I’ve learned a lot,” Douchand said.
There are still some projects the restaurant has to finish. The pool will open Friday, the rest of the back deck will open in about a month and a half and the seawall is still being repaired.
Ryan said the restaurant’s engineer and team at BCC Construction redesigned the place to withstand even stronger storm surges than those that brought it down.
“This place could literally be under 10 feet of water and it’s not going to raise up,” he said. “A storm won’t take us down again.”
The restaurant was originally built in 1995. Locals said its reopening is a sign the coast is finally returning to normal.
“It’s wonderful. We’re just so glad to see things that were damaged in the hurricane finally coming back,” New Smyrna resident Trish said. “We used to come here for lunch all of the time and it was devastating when it closed.”
For a glimpse at the new and improved Chase’s on the Beach menu and facilities, click here.
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PALM BAY, Fla. – She made history as the first woman to lead Palm Bay Fire Rescue, but now Leslie Hoog says she doesn’t want the job anymore.
In her letter of resignation last month, Hoog accused city manager Suzanne Sherman of creating a hostile work environment.
“I have lost all trust in you,” Hoog wrote. “I believe your character and ‘leadership skills’ are grossly lacking, and, if you are left to do your whims, the entire City will suffer. Therefore, I have no other choice but to voluntarily resign.”
Hoog said Sherman interfered with the fire department by micro-managing operations, which Hoog said obstructed her from doing her job as chief and created safety concerns for employees and the public.
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Hoog’s writing also showed how their disagreements — including one about how big a new fire station should be — led to Sherman considering disciplinary action against the chief.
The city manager’s office provided the resignation letter Thursday.
News 6 also asked whether the city manager would like to respond to what the chief wrote and has yet to receive a response.
Back in May, Sherman wrote to Hoog in a notice before an HR meeting between the two, “I am increasingly concerned about your ability to lead critical and high-priority projects for the Fire Department.”
Sherman said some firefighters spoke up about how Hoog treated them.
Hoog responded that mistreatment and intimidation complaints were unfounded or not true.
Thursday, News 6 talked to Hoog on the phone, but she said she’s not comfortable being interviewed without speaking to her attorney first.
An acting fire chief is now working in her place.
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ORMOND BEACH, Fla. – A Volusia County man was arrested on Monday after police said he robbed a 7-Eleven with a machete.
Deric Shropshire, 30, was arrested after being identified as the robber by the victim working at the gas station, Ormond Beach police said.
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Police say the robber arrived at the 7-Eleven at 170 N. Nova Rd. early Monday morning, where he threatened an employee with a machete and demanded all the money in the register. The victim complied after being led forcefully to the register by the robber.
The man left the scene on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.
Upon arrival at the scene, Ormond Beach police officers launched an unsuccessful search for the robber.
Police say Shropshire was identified by the gas station employee using a photo lineup, and then later by his probation officer using 7-Eleven surveillance footage.
Shropshire was on probation for a carjacking case that occurred in 2009, according to the Volusia County Clerk of Courts.
Shropshire was arrested in his home in South Daytona and charged with aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony, battery, robbery with a weapon and violation of probation.
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OCALA, Fla. – Police in Ocala are pleading for help to find whoever shot a man in the chest over the weekend and left him at a fire station.
Police said Roovens Pierre, 30, was dropped off by a vehicle at Ocala Fire Rescue Station No. 1 on Saturday with a gunshot wound to his chest. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died.
Police said Pierre arrived at the fire station moments after calls came in about a shooting in the area of Northwest 16th Street and Northwest 19th Court around 5:30 p.m.
Anyone with information about either incident was asked to contact the department at 352-369-7000, or Crime Stoppers of Marion County at 352-368-STOP (7867) or **TIPS to remain anonymous.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The Florida Department of Health recently issued a statewide mosquito-borne illness advisory after four confirmed malaria cases in Sarasota County.
Steve Harrison, the Manager for Orange County Mosquito Control said his group of experts is ready to respond if a local case is detected.
Right now Harrison said there are no confirmed cases in Orange County.
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“Primarily I think the advisory would be for healthcare professionals to basically keep an eye out for patients that may show up at their hospital or clinic that may start showing signs of malaria, to let them know to keep an eye out. If we are notified of Malaria in the area,” he said.
If a case is confirmed in Orange County, Harrison said his team would take action immediately after being contacted by the health department.
“Then we will target our control measures in the area where the patient would have visited or was residing during the time they were sick because we want to knock down any adult mosquitoes that would have bitten the person when they were sick and we want to control any adult mosquitoes that could potentially bite the patient when they continue to be ill during the few week window while they are taking anti-Malaria medication,” Harrison said.
Harrison talked more about malaria response, prevention and other mosquito-borne illnesses with Tom Sorrells on Talk To Tom.
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NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. – The Florida Welcome Center on Interstate 95 was shut down and evacuated on Thursday afternoon after the Florida Highway Patrol discovered what is believed to be a mobile methamphetamine lab during a traffic stop, according to News 6 partner WJXT-TV.
The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office posted photos just after 2 p.m. that showed hazardous material crews surrounding and pulling materials out of a silver car in the parking lot.
NCSO said it started when FHP pulled over the car for suspected illegal window tint and found an undisclosed amount of meth in the car. A man and a woman have been arrested and accused of meth possession, FHP said.
FHP said there was also meth-making equipment in plain view.
FHP said the welcome center office will be shut down for the rest of the day.
FHP requested assistance with a mobile meth lab at the I-95 Welcome Center. NCSO and NCFR are both on scene. Traffic to the welcome center is shut down and it has been evacuated. pic.twitter.com/5lcTjqKvo3
— Nassau County SO (@NCSO_FL) July 6, 2023
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – A Volusia County man was arrested on Thursday more than seven months after a fatal crash on New Year’s Eve, according to the sheriff’s office.
In a release, deputies said that Jeremy Franklin, 36, was speeding in the 400 block of Howland Boulevard shortly before midnight on Dec. 31, 2022.
Upon reaching the intersection at Fort Smith Boulevard, Franklin crashed into another vehicle that was turning left onto the boulevard, the release shows. As a result, deputies said the driver of the other vehicle — 24-year-old Brandon Morales — died at the scene.
Meanwhile, Franklin’s car hit a concrete curb and struck a pole, deputies said. According to the release, Franklin was critically injured in the crash and taken to the hospital as a trauma alert.
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Following a months-long investigation into the crash, the sheriff’s office posted body-camera video of Franklin’s arrest on Thursday, showing deputies arriving at the home of Franklin’s parents to bring him into custody.
Today we arrested a driver involved in a fatal crash on New Year's Eve. He's charged with DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide. Read more: https://t.co/B7EXUg6YOR pic.twitter.com/4NCjF0KfgN
— Volusia Sheriff (@VolusiaSheriff) July 6, 2023
In the video, a deputy asks Franklin how he’s doing before asking him to put his hands behind his back. After a quick pat-down, the deputy is then heard telling Franklin about the warrant for his arrest.
“That wasn’t my fault,” Franklin tells the deputy.
“Well, it was determined that it was partially your fault, and the investigation indicated that we’re going to charge you with DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide,” the deputy responds.
Franklin was taken to the county jail and is held on $100,000 bond — $50,000 each for the DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide charges.
Get today’s headlines in minutes with Your Florida Daily: | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/07/06/wasnt-my-fault-volusia-man-arrested-7-months-after-fatal-new-years-eve-crash/ | 2023-07-06T21:22:31 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/07/06/wasnt-my-fault-volusia-man-arrested-7-months-after-fatal-new-years-eve-crash/ |
BIG SPRING, Texas — The Big Spring Water Office will be closing early on July 7 at 4:00 p.m.
The building is located at 410 East 3rd Street and will be closed early for its quarterly pesticide control. For more information, people can go to the City of Big Spring website. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/big-spring-water-office-to-close-early-on-july-7/513-7210000e-be0c-4229-8691-34baf25b5aac | 2023-07-06T21:25:20 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/big-spring-water-office-to-close-early-on-july-7/513-7210000e-be0c-4229-8691-34baf25b5aac |
MIDLAND, Texas — The City of Midland is launching a new public survey tool to better understand local satisfaction on a wide range of City services.
The tool is integrated with the city’s RequestTracker on the website and asks residents to rate their experience with a service they received after reporting an issue through the city website such as reporting a pothole or large item pickup.
Residents can access the RequestTracker through RequestTracker • Midland, TX • CivicEngage (midlandtexas.gov) and will need to create a login for RequestTracker to receive updates on their submitted requests.
Once the request is marked as closed by city staff, residents will receive a 5-question survey by email or text asking them to rate their experience with the departmental requests.
The city looks forward to receiving feedback from residents and looking for areas of improvement that can offer a positive effect on our community. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/city-of-midland-launching-customer-experience-survey-tool/513-bd92e78d-f206-46db-9d96-db5a49a8a2ae | 2023-07-06T21:25:24 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/city-of-midland-launching-customer-experience-survey-tool/513-bd92e78d-f206-46db-9d96-db5a49a8a2ae |
ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — The Ector County Health Department will be holding 'Back-To-School' Vaccine Clinics during the month of July.
The clinics will be held on Monday July 10, Tuesday July 11, Monday July 17 and Tuesday July 18. Each clinic will run from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Ector County Health Department Parking Lot. These clinics are for state required vaccines.
ECHD will also be holding their resource fair during these vaccine clinics.
For the agencies wanting to participate in the fair, they must bring their own tents or canopies, but ECHD will provide one table and two chairs for each group.
For more information about the clinics, people can Cande Franco at Cande.Franco@ectorcountytx.gov. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/ector-county-health-department-to-host-back-to-school-vaccine-clinics/513-e95d1d10-bc41-4080-b4e2-4ea6a902dbcd | 2023-07-06T21:25:25 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/ector-county-health-department-to-host-back-to-school-vaccine-clinics/513-e95d1d10-bc41-4080-b4e2-4ea6a902dbcd |
ODESSA, Texas — First 5 Permian Basin is hosting Kinder Camp once again for the community.
Kinder Camp is a free kindergarten-readiness activity camp for children entering kinder in Fall 2023 in Ector and Midland counties. The camp will be held July 17-21.
Kinder Camp consists of parent-led activities for families to complete at home, as well as on-campus sessions for interactive activities. Families who register will be given the materials they need to complete the activities at a pace that works for them. At the end of the week, campers will receive free school supplies for completing camp.
To register your child for Kinder Camp, fill out the camp registration form.
For questions, contact First 5 Permian Basin by calling: 432-552-4025 or emailing: First5@utpb.edu. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/first-5-permian-basin-to-host-kinder-camp/513-c41c947e-0c40-44a1-9707-5bd4e5365cb9 | 2023-07-06T21:25:25 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/first-5-permian-basin-to-host-kinder-camp/513-c41c947e-0c40-44a1-9707-5bd4e5365cb9 |
ODESSA, Texas — The American Legion will be holding a 'Hope for the Homeless' event on July 10 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The event will at 2701 East 8th Street. There will be free haircuts, free West Texas Food Bank Box-of-Food, and free hot home cooked meals by the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church.
For more information about the event, people can either call at 432-368-0240 or 432-559-2531. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/hope-for-the-homeless-event-to-take-place-on-july-10/513-0ae1ebd7-8f22-4e7c-932a-9649d1d69d27 | 2023-07-06T21:25:25 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/hope-for-the-homeless-event-to-take-place-on-july-10/513-0ae1ebd7-8f22-4e7c-932a-9649d1d69d27 |
MIDLAND, Texas — Urgent Fury, a longtime eSports tournament organization, is hosting a Super Smash Brothers Ultimate tournament in Midland, Texas on July 8 and 9.
Gamers from across the state will compete for a $2,500 prize pool and will be raising money for the American Red Cross through the Mission Red Gaming program.
The tournament will be held at the Bush Convention Center. Doors open at 10 a.m. and the tournament starts at 12 p.m. Participants will compete in a double-elimination bracket for a chance to win the grand prize.
The event will be streamed on Twitch starting at 12 p.m. You can watch live at www.twitch.tv/urgentfury or come out and watch live for free.
For more information about Urgent Fury, please visit their website. To register for the tournament, visit https://matcherino.com/t/ufwtxmidessajulyregional. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/super-smash-brothers-ultimate-tournament-to-raise-money-for-american-red-cross/513-f133978e-d365-40ac-b172-d6cc43c9c86d | 2023-07-06T21:25:40 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/super-smash-brothers-ultimate-tournament-to-raise-money-for-american-red-cross/513-f133978e-d365-40ac-b172-d6cc43c9c86d |
KILLEEN, Texas — The Killeen Police Department is searching for a suspect involved in the aggravated robbery of a business on Thursday, July 6.
According to police, officers responded to a business in the 1800 block of South WS Young Drive at about 5:29 a.m. to the report of an aggravated robbery.
Police say the suspect entered the store and demanded money while displaying a gun. The suspect fled on foot with an unknown amount of money, police say.
The Killeen Police Department is asking anyone with information on this incident to please contact Crime Stoppers at 254-526-8477.
To view more information, visit here.
Also on KCENTV.com: | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/killeen-pd-searching-for-suspect-in-aggravated-robbery-of-store/500-f584c016-f477-426f-93ad-d066c5bb6a8b | 2023-07-06T21:30:50 | 0 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/killeen-pd-searching-for-suspect-in-aggravated-robbery-of-store/500-f584c016-f477-426f-93ad-d066c5bb6a8b |
HAMMOND — In an effort to curb violent crime, the city has introduced an ordinance that would force gas stations to close between midnight and 5 a.m.
Announced in a Thursday news release, the proposed legislation will officially be considered during the July 10 Hammond Common Council meeting. The ordinance was introduced by the common council with the support of Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr., according to the news release.
Last month a 33-year-old man from Chicago died after being shot at a Hammond gas station. The shooting occurred around 2 a.m. at the Luke gas station at 5105 State Line Ave.
“This was just the latest violent crime that took place at a gas station," McDermott said in the news release. "Our gas stations are frequented by people who come into the city from Illinois for cheaper gas, cigarettes and other items, and in this instance a person was killed in our city while patronizing a gas station late at night."
According to the news release, Hammond is home to 37 gas stations, though some already close before midnight.
Under the proposed ordinance, gas station owners would be able to petition the Hammond Board of Public Works and Safety for an exception to the mandatory closure.
Violent crimes such as car jackings, robberies and shootings have been a problem at Hammond has stations for several years, McDermott said. Gary gas stations have struggled with a similar problem. Over the past few years, both Mayor Jerome Prince and the Gary Common Council have considered legislation that would require gas stations to have armed security guards over night, however the ordinance has never moved forward.
"I can’t sit back and see innocent people become victims of violent crime," McDermott said. "I fully support the council’s efforts to put these restrictions in place and if passed, I will sign this ordinance into law."
The common council meeting will take place at 6 p.m. on July 10 in the Hammond City Hall.
PHOTOS: Hammond Police Department award ceremony
The Hammond Police Department recognized numerous officers for their hard work and courageous efforts while performing their job.
The Hammond Police Department recognized numerous officers for their hard work and courageous efforts while performing their job.
The Hammond Police Department recognized numerous officers for their hard work and courageous efforts while performing their job.
The Hammond Police Department recognized numerous officers for their hard work and courageous efforts while performing their job.
The Hammond Police Department recognized numerous officers for their hard work and courageous efforts while performing their job.
The Hammond Police Department recognized numerous officers for their hard work and courageous efforts while performing their job.
The Hammond Police Department recognized numerous officers for their hard work and courageous efforts while performing their job.
The Hammond Police Department recognized numerous officers for their hard work and courageous efforts while performing their job.
The Hammond Police Department recognized numerous officers for their hard work and courageous efforts while performing their job.
The Hammond Police Department recognized numerous officers for their hard work and courageous efforts while performing their job.
The Hammond Police Department recognized numerous officers for their hard work and courageous efforts while performing their job. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/hammond-shooting-gas-station-gun-violence-common-council-ordinance/article_626a779e-1c20-11ee-9028-b75556f3afc2.html | 2023-07-06T21:34:41 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/hammond-shooting-gas-station-gun-violence-common-council-ordinance/article_626a779e-1c20-11ee-9028-b75556f3afc2.html |
DALLAS (KDAF) — You don’t want your first interaction with your new “friend” to be like the couple in the picture that lead you to click this article.
It’s officially technically the beginning of the weekend! It’s Friday eve … we know it’s not a real thing, but it’s okay to live a little.
From trying to find a place to go — things to do; wondering whether a walk in the park is too “cliche” or even putting in all the effort just for the chance the person may not even show up. Planning a date can be stressful, especially in an expensive city like Dallas.
Let us help. Check out this list of things to do this weekend: July 6 – 8
FREE
Downtown Yoga Nights with V12 | July 6 | Pacific Plaza
Join DDI and V12 Yoga on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. in Pacific Plaza to enjoy spring night Downtown and get your body moving! Reserve your spot here.
Summer at Seis | July 6 | Seisegundos Mi Cocina Uptown
Take advantage of Mi Cocina Uptown’s Seisegundos for an unforgettable Summer experience. Every Thursday in July, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m
Dallas Farmers Market | July 7 | Downtown Dallas
Enjoy a Friday night under the evening sky on Pearl Plaza for M.A.D.E. Market. Shop a curated market with popular eats, delicious drinks, live music and the perfect ambiance.
Familia Printmakers Group Exhibition | July 7 | Goldmark Cultural Center
The Norman Brown Gallery at the Goldmark Cultural Center will host the Familia Printmakers Group Exhibition, featuring new printmaking works by ten different Familia Printshop printmakers.
Wild Wild Westie’s Project Swing | July 8 | Hyatt Regency Dallas
Come join us for Wild Wild Westie’s Project Swing: FREE Introduction to West Coast Swing (WCS) Workshop for first-timers!
Movies on Pegasus Lawn – Karate Kid | July 8 | Omni Dallas Hotel – Pegasus Lawn
Do you want to add an outdoor movie night to your summer to-do list? This weekend, the Omni Dallas Hotel presents Karate Kid on Pegasus Lawn!
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Sneaker Paint Class | July 8 | Pacific Plaza
Summer Markets are on the pavilion! Join us every Saturday in June & July from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Pacific Plaza for our Summer Night Markets. Tickets are $5 per person
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Is this a Date? | July 7 | Dallas Comedy Club
Comedian Marissa Nieto hosts a stand-up comedy show all about love & dating! $15 per person.
Happiest Hoedown Brunch | July 8 | Happiest Hour
Happiest Hour will feature a live country DJ ready to spin the hottest tunes that’ll keep your boots tappin’ and your hips swayin’. Price may vary
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Silent Disco: Summer Beach Party | July 7 | Sammons Park
Enjoy three live DJs, and dance the night away at the Sammons Park Donor Pool. There will also be summer-themed signature cocktails, beer, and wine for purchase! $25 per person
Dallas Comedy Club Presents: TOM THAKKAR | July 7-8 | Dallas Comedy Club
Tom Thakkar is known for appearing on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central’s This Week at the Comedy Cellar, CONAN, and as the host of Comedy Central’s Stand-Up with Tom Thakkar. Come see him LIVE at Dallas Comedy Club July 7-8! $25 per person | https://cw33.com/news/local/dating-freely-series-summer-at-seis-west-coast-swing/ | 2023-07-06T21:41:43 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/dating-freely-series-summer-at-seis-west-coast-swing/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Wichita Fire Department is fighting a building fire in south Wichita.
The fire broke out just before 4 p.m. in the 2800 block of S. Greenwood Ave.
KSN has a crew at the scene.
We will provide more information as it becomes available. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/fire-department-fighting-fire-in-south-wichita/ | 2023-07-06T21:43:27 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/fire-department-fighting-fire-in-south-wichita/ |
The workers who organized for increased wages at Carytown restaurant Mom’s Siam are now out of a job.
In June, several front-of-the-house workers joined together as Workers Siam . The group of roughly a dozen workers launched an Instagram page, posted a petition to Coworker.org and held a rally outside of Mom’s Siam.
Owner Sukanya Pala-art closed the restaurant for the rally, and the spot remained closed for over a week. The restaurant re-opened this week with a new, smaller staff of family, friends and former longtime staff members, Pala-art said.
“I run a small business. I cannot pay $14-15 per hour for servers with tip. I don’t run a Starbucks. I’m not a chain or a franchise,” Pala-art said.
In addition to Mom’s Siam at 2811 W. Cary St., Pala-art also owns YaYa’s Cookbook, MPM Tiki Bar and Mom’s Siam 2. “I’ve run Mom’s Siam for over 23 years and have never had a problem,” she said.
The servers at Mom’s Siam are currently being paid $2.13, plus tips, which is Virginia’s minimum wage for tipped employees. Other staff members, such as bartenders, hosts and cooks, are now being paid $14-$15 per hour at Mom’s Siam.
According to the petition, Workers Siam was asking for a $12 hourly wage for servers.
According to Workers Siam, none of the workers who organized have been formally fired. However, they said they have not heard from anyone from the restaurant and they have not been added to the schedule.
“I’m pretty upset about it,” Ray Newlin, a server at Mom’s Siam for over three years who is suddenly finding herself out of a job, said. “It’s not legal to fire us for organizing efforts or for fighting for a better workplace.”
Workers Siam has filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) claim and is waiting to hear back.
While it is unclear what will happen next, Karen Elliott, an attorney with FordHarrison, said, "Non-union employees, like the workers at Mom’s Siam, have rights under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act. Those include the right to self-organization, to bargain collectively and to strike for a lawful object. Should these employees walk off the job, they would be considered economic strikers, in that they are withholding their labor from Workers Siam to force economic concessions from their employer (e.g., higher wages, better working conditions). Even though their actions may be protected under the Act (presupposing a lawful object), the law also allows Mom’s Siam to hire permanent replacements while the strike is ongoing.
"If they are found to not be striking, employer rights are more complicated. Workers do have a right on non-working time and on the public right-away to protest/seek improved working conditions against their employer. Because of those worker rights, employers should seek specialized labor advice prior to taking action so as to be sure their actions do not violate worker rights," she said.
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8 hidden gem restaurants in Richmond
Oceano
Tucked in an unassuming corner of Sycamore Square, you might miss Oceano if you aren’t looking for it. But take that extra look. Oceano’s seafood-focused menu that blends French, Latin and Italian flavors and cooking techniques is worth seeking out.
Start with the mojito; it’s one of the best we’ve tried in the Richmond metro area. Next, go for the petite seafood plateau featuring raw oysters, steamed shrimp with spicy cocktail sauce and tangy ceviche.
Then try co-owner and chef Maria Oseguera’s house-made cavatelli enrobed in a creamy combination of ricotta, arrabbiata and cilantro pesto. Some entrees feature Mexican flavors, like the sweet corn tamal that’s balanced with a tangy punch of poblano and served with seared scallops, plump shrimp, tangy tomatillo sauce, white wine reduction and red pepper sauce.
Oceano also recently added Saturday and Sunday brunch with options such as crab and avocado Benedict, huevos rancheros and filet steak and eggs. 1352 Sycamore Square, Midlothian. oceanorva.com .
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
Casa Italiana
From the hand-cut calamari appetizer to the handmade ravioli, it’s hard to find something on the Casa Italiana menu that isn’t made fresh.
The extensive menu makes it hard to decide what to order: made-in-house mozzarella breaded and fried with fresh tomato sauce or Parmesan risotto “fries” with caponata to start? And then, should you go for the house-made braised beef ravioli topped with a decadent mushroom mascarpone sauce, arugula and white truffle oil or the fresh pappardelle topped with creamy sausage ragu, fried fennel and shaved Parmesan cheese? Spoiler alert: It will all be delicious and will arrive at your table in a generous portion alongside baked-daily bread.
Save room. The desserts are also homemade, large and in-charge with options such as house-made cannoli, chocolate cake with spumoni and whipped cream and, of course, tiramisu della famiglia. Pair it with with the reasonably priced and extensive wine list — glasses average around $8 — or try a signature cocktail. We’ll be back for the tiramisu martini made with vodka, Bailey’s, amaretto, Kahlua and Casa Italiana’s signature tiramisu cream. 8801 Three Chopt Road in Westbury Plaza. casaitalianarestaurant.com .
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
Liberty Public House
Located in the former East End Theater in Church Hill, Liberty Public House, cranks out quality American food and creative cocktails in a friendly, “everyone knows your name”-type atmosphere.
A big, approachable menu is highlighted by brunch served all day every day. Choose from eight Benedicts, four breakfast biscuit sandwiches and other well-executed favorites, such as shrimp and grits, a “giant breakfast burrito!” (Yes, that’s the menu name) or “wafflettes.”
In recovery mode? Try the hot mess, featuring buttered and griddled cornbread topped with sweet potato chili, cheddar cheese, two over-easy eggs, crème fraîche and green onions. The menu doesn’t end there.
Lunch and dinner feature comforting appetizers, sandwiches and entrees. We dig the blue crab croquettes with red pepper aioli, the “frickles” (fried pickles) in Old Bay batter and the RVA hot chicken sandwich, crisply fried and topped with garlic aioli and a generous quantity of house-made pickles, served on brioche.
The bar menu rotates regularly and features local liquors. On a recent visit, we enjoyed The Lady Belle, featuring Belle Isle Lemon Lavender Moonshine, coconut and fresh lemon, shaken and served topped with lemon petals, from a “Cocktails for River Weather”-themed menu. 418-A N. 25th St. thelibertyrva.com .
DANIEL SANGJIB MIN,TIMES-DISPATCH
Balkan Restaurant
Tucked into an unassuming strip mall on Patterson Avenue, Balkan Restaurant blends Western and Eastern influences, allowing Richmond to try the melting pot that is Balkan cuisine. Not sure exactly where the food is coming from? Just ask your server, who likely will walk over to the giant map that’s painted on the wall and explain the origins of the delicious dishes you're sampling.
Start with the feta salad that’s a a refreshing blend of tomatoes, cucumbers, mushrooms, bell peppers, olives, onions, roasted red peppers, feta and house dressing. Then mosey over to the burek, a hand-stretched flaky puff pastry filled with cheese and spinach (meat is optional). For the main course, grab a friend and split the mixed grill platter, featuring grilled beef and chicken kebabs, cevapi (flavorful ground beef sausages), veal cutlets and grilled vegetables. For your side, don’t miss the Balkan potatoes, which are creamy and indulgent, like scalloped potatoes, but even more rich and luxurious.
Your meal is served with homemade bread, and don’t forget to add a wine flight. The staff will also help you select from a range of Bulgarian, Hungarian, Austrian, Macedonian, Serbian and Italian selections. 8905 Patterson Ave. balkanrichmond.com .
Margo Wagner, Times-Dispatch
The Caboose Market & Cafe
What started as a beer, wine and specialty market in downtown Ashland expanded to the farm-to-table Caboose Market & Cafe in 2015 with seasonal small plates, sandwiches and salads.
Order the stuffed peppadews with goat cheese and cream cheese, the smoked salmon dip made with Bombolini hot smoked salmon, and the fig pro quo sandwich featuring prosciutto di parma, fig spread and provolone dolce cheese served on sourdough. Choose from the rotating wine and beer menu, sit back, relax and enjoy in the cute cafe environment.
Or, drive out for a special event like Wednesday date night, when you can order an appetizer, two entrees, dessert and a bottle of wine for $50. You’ll also find beer dinners, monthly wine takeovers with special menus — South Africa was a recent feature — and pizza nights on first Fridays. 108 S. Railroad Ave., Ashland. cabooseashland.com .
MARK GORMUS, TIMES-DISPATCH
Greek Cuisine
If you want to get a table for lunch at Greek Cuisine in Tuckahoe Village Shopping Center, you better arrive before noon. The kitchen is complemented by just a few tables, and diners fill them fast for the home-cooked classic Greek specialties done right.
A classic go-to is the creamy, lemony avgolemono soup paired with a fresh Greek salad and a stack of pita for less than $10. Or, if you’re hungrier, go for hearty stuffed cabbage, pasticcio or moussaka, all made fresh. Greek Cuisine also does a robust takeout business. You can order online, but it’s worth calling to learn about daily changing specials, such as lamb stew or Greek-style pork chops.
Save room for the galaktobouriko dessert featuring layers of phyllo, butter and creamy custard. 11214 Patterson Ave. greekcuisine.smartonlineorder.com .
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
Hobnob
Head to North Side for Hobnob’s cozy vibe and quality Southern continental cuisine. Options such as fluffy beer-battered fish and chips, fried green tomatoes with blackened shrimp, shredded lettuce and creole remoulade, and a Seven Hills Farm smash burger topped with pimento cheese are served in generous portions.
Brunch is a standout, offered on Saturdays and Sundays, with choices including biscuit doughnut holes, lemon-blueberry pancakes, and a Lowcountry scramble featuring shrimp, andouille sausage, garlic, scrambled eggs, bacon potato hash, Old Bay, sweet corn and tomato, served with a buttermilk biscuit.
To drink, try rotating cocktails that work for any time of day, such as the Party on the Seven Seas, featuring Virago Four-Port Rum, Earl Grey-vanilla simple syrup, lemon and sparkling wine. 6010 Hermitage Road. hobnobrva.com .
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
Afghan Cuisine
Don't leave Afghan Cuisine , located near Virginia Commonwealth University, without ordering the mantu. The delicate handmade dumplings, filled with spiced meat, sprinkled with lentils and drizzled with yogurt, are flavorful, plentiful and practically a work of art to look at, even when packaged for takeout.
This casual spot also features plenty of kebabs — the chicken is flavorful and juicy, served over earthy palow long-grain rice with classic white sauce and spicy green chakney on the side. Dip the homemade naan in the side salad of diced cucumbers, tomatoes, onions with a zippy mint, lemon juice and olive oil dressing. Other menu options span lamb shank; sabzi kurma, a spinach stew cooked with beef meat, tomato, red and green peppers and served within naan bread; and gyros. 1335 W. Broad St. afghancuisine5.godaddysites.com
Margo Wagner, Times-Dispatch | https://richmond.com/life-entertainment/local/food-drink/workers-who-organized-at-mom-s-siam-out-of-a-job/article_07a387e4-1c1e-11ee-a155-5b190beb29ef.html | 2023-07-06T21:45:08 | 0 | https://richmond.com/life-entertainment/local/food-drink/workers-who-organized-at-mom-s-siam-out-of-a-job/article_07a387e4-1c1e-11ee-a155-5b190beb29ef.html |
The 5221 Brook Rd. location includes a pharmacy, fuel station, bakery, deli and grocery store. The pharmacy also will close that Friday, and the staff will work with customers to transfer prescriptions to another location.
“We are grateful to the customers who have given us the privilege of serving them at our Brook Road Neighborhood Market location,” stated Felicia McCrainie, Walmart's North and East communications director.
The company opened several Neighborhood Market locations, including in the Meadowbrook Plaza shopping center in Chesterfield County and at 9714 Sliding Hill Road near Atlee Station Road in Hanover County. A North Chesterfield location closed in 2019.
The decision to close the store was based on several factors, such as historic and current financial performance, after a thorough review process, McCranie said.
The location employs 98 people who will be able to transfer to other nearby locations, including a Walmart Supercenter on Brook Road two miles away or the six other stores within 10 miles of the location. All associates will be paid until Oct. 6, unless they transfer to another store. After that date, if they do not transfer, eligible employees will receive severance.
There are 149 Walmart stores and Sam's Clubs in Virginia, and the company said it continues to be committed to the state.
"We look forward to serving them at our other stores in the surrounding communities including our Brook Road Supercenter just two miles away and on walmart.com ," McCranie said. Six stores are within 10 miles of the store that is being closed.
From the Archives: Richmond Department Stores
New chest president - William B. Thalhimer Jr. (right) moved into the driver's seat yesterday after he was elected 1959 president of the Richmond Area Community Chest at a meeting of Chest trustees. He succeeds W. Stirling King. Thalhimer, president and general manager of Thalhimers, Inc., has been a Chest volunteer since 1934. William B. Thalhimer Jr., shown in 1959 in his role as president of the Richmond Area Community Chest. The man on the left is W. Stirling King, a former mayor of Richmond and Thalhimer's immediate predecessor as Community Chest president.
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This December 1950 image of East Broad Street at Fifth Street in downtown Richmond shows crowds of holiday shoppers visiting such stores as Baker's, Peoples Drug, Swatty's Pants, Haverty's Furniture and Raylass Department Store.
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In October 1955, a U.S. mail truck navigated Broad Street downtown across from the Thalhimers and Miller & Rhoads department stores.
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This February 1953 image shows the old Miller & Rhoads Corner Shop and the adjoining Woolworth’s at Fifth and East Broad streets downtown, just before they were torn down. The replacement building that opened the following year still housed the two retailers but in a different configuration.
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In January 1975, shoppers passed by “the clock” at Miller & Rhoads in downtown Richmond. The distinct timepiece with four faces was installed in the department store in the mid-1920s; it can be seen today at the Valentine Richmond History Center.
Masaaki Okada
In May 1936, the Charles Stores Company department store opened on East Broad Street between First and Foushee streets. This store featured 23 departments, and some grand opening specials included women’s dresses and white shoes for $1 and men’s dress shirts for 50 cents. A parking lot now occupies the site. 5-7-1936: New location of the Charles Stores at 13-17 East Broad Street. Lease negotiations were handled by the office of Gordon E. Strause.
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In March 1967, Miller & Rhoads opened its new “Collector’s Corner” between the Tea Room and the Ladies Room on the fifth floor of the East Broad Street store downtown. The new department included antiques, reproductions of old furniture, china, silver and curios.
James Netherwood
On Dec. 23, 1968, Stanley S. Kidwell Jr. and his three children – from left, 5-year-old Rhanna, 7-year-old Megan and 8-year-old Wendy – watched the stuffed animals prance in the snow in the window display of Miller & Rhoads downtown. Under the direction of Addison Lewis, the Miller & Rhoads Christmas window displays became one of the most anticipated parts of the season in Richmond.
P.A. Gormus, Jr.
This June 1950 image shows the Harper’s Department Store at 201 E. Broad St. The store opened in 1933 as The Linen Mart. After closing in 2006, the store was sold to developers who found the contents to be a bit like a time capsule, with items dating back decades – including a men’s leather jacket priced at $10 and a boy’s three-piece wool suit with dress shirt for $4.99. The contents were bought by two local collectors. The building still stands unoccupied. Harper's Inc. 201 E. Broad, T-D Mag.
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This May 1957 image shows the Woolworth’s at Fifth and Broad streets in downtown Richmond. The $1 million building opened in September 1954, and it housed several departments for the nearby Miller & Rhoads, which had an earlier store on the site in the late 1800s. An ad for the Woolworth’s Easter sale offered handbags for $1, records for 99 cents, and cowhide and plastic belts for between 39 and 98 cents.
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Thalhimers added a new entrance to its downtown store the same year of the 1929 stock market crash.
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In August 1954, J. Harold Dunn worked to set up his Dunn Bros. miniature circus – “the biggest little show on Earth,” as it proclaimed itself – at Miller & Rhoads in downtown Richmond. Admission was 25 cents for adults, 15 cents for children 12 and younger. Several years earlier, the newspaper reported that the 475,000-piece circus took five men 48 hours to set up on a 60-by-28 foot-table – and seven hours to break down.
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In February 1951, this window display, using Richmond Times-Dispatch and Richmond News-Leader pages for a background, was set up in a Grace Street window of Miller & Rhoads in connection with the approach of Easter and new spring finery. Addison Lewis was director of window displays at the department store for 52 years, a span in which the scenes became extremely popular.
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In August 1951, saleswoman Eunice Hester tried to help Robert Matthews select a fragrance for his lady at the Miller & Rhoads department store in Richmond. A caption that accompanied the published photo referred to “the dilemma of the he-man caught in the task of perfume selection.”
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In December 1968, the first licenses since 1916 for the legal sale of mixed liquors by the drink in Richmond were issued. Here, Cornelius T. Rogers mixed a drink at the Hotel John Marshall’s Captain’s Grill restaurant while bartender Richard Kelley watched.
Joe Colognori
In November 1978, African-American women gathered for a beauty clinic at the Thalhimers at Eastgate Mall in Richmond. The clinic, sponsored by Fashion Fair, brought in beauty professionals including Pearl Hester (standing at right) to demonstrate makeup techniques.
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In October 1955, famed chef James Beard visited Thalhimer's new fine foods shop and conducted cooking demonstrations. Beard enjoyed dining on ham on Mondays, but he parted with tradition when carving Virginia's own Smithfield ham: He preferred the European method of slicing it crosswise in long, thin slices that begin near the shank end and run roughly parallel to the bone. The annual James Beard Foundation Awards will be announced today and on Monday. The foundation, formed after Beard's death in 1985, issued its first awards in 1991.
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The heat and humidity have returned to Virginia. Since the calendar turned to July, the temperatures have been consistently above normal and the humidity has been noticeably higher.
June finished 2.7 degrees below normal in Richmond, with no days that exceeded 90 degrees. But since the first of July, the temperature has been averaging 3.3 above normal, meaning the lower 90s have returned.
Last month was the second-least humid June in Richmond since 1943. Although the relative humidity rises and falls according to the temperature (you cannot have 95 degrees with 95% humidity), the dew point temperature matches the physical amount of water vapor in the air, better reflecting how the humidity feels when you are outside. In the summer, humidity becomes more noticeable once the dew point reaches 60. Once it exceeds 70, it is legitimately muggy.
The average dew point in Richmond last month was 60. Since July 1, it has averaged 71.
A broad area of low pressure that had been spiraling on and off in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean over the last several weeks has finally faded away, and the accompanying winds from the north faded with them.
The result is the re-establishment of the more typical west and southwest winds that dominate the weather pattern in Virginia during the summer. Fortunately, we have been spared the extreme heat that has shown up repeatedly in other parts of North America in the last couple of months.
Virginia has yet to have a serious heatwave this year. The definition of a heatwave can be rather subjective, but the data show no period so far this summer more than five degrees above normal .
For those hoping for a return to the relatively cooler and less humid period of the last two months, there is good news and bad news.
A big heat wave still does not look like it is on its way to Virginia in the next couple of weeks. And there will be an easing of the heat early next week, with temperatures more regularly in the 80s during the day.
But these next several days mark the climatologically hottest time of year in Virginia, meaning it is very difficult to keep the temperature from reaching well into the 80s without the influence of something especially unusual, like a low overcast sky with all-day rain. The data do not suggest that scenario either.
Nationally, the most intense heat will continue to hold from the Plains to the Intermountain West for the next two weeks, leaving us with more seasonable conditions and frequent chances of showers and thunderstorms on most of those days.
After about the 20th, there are signs that the hotter air in the western two-thirds of the country will slide eastward for a few days. So if you are on the lookout for a stretch of middle to upper 90s, it will probably have to wait until then.
Considering how hot other parts of North America have been over the last two months, we should consider ourselves lucky.
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8 hidden gem restaurants in Richmond
Oceano
Tucked in an unassuming corner of Sycamore Square, you might miss Oceano if you aren’t looking for it. But take that extra look. Oceano’s seafood-focused menu that blends French, Latin and Italian flavors and cooking techniques is worth seeking out.
Start with the mojito; it’s one of the best we’ve tried in the Richmond metro area. Next, go for the petite seafood plateau featuring raw oysters, steamed shrimp with spicy cocktail sauce and tangy ceviche.
Then try co-owner and chef Maria Oseguera’s house-made cavatelli enrobed in a creamy combination of ricotta, arrabbiata and cilantro pesto. Some entrees feature Mexican flavors, like the sweet corn tamal that’s balanced with a tangy punch of poblano and served with seared scallops, plump shrimp, tangy tomatillo sauce, white wine reduction and red pepper sauce.
Oceano also recently added Saturday and Sunday brunch with options such as crab and avocado Benedict, huevos rancheros and filet steak and eggs. 1352 Sycamore Square, Midlothian. oceanorva.com .
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
Casa Italiana
From the hand-cut calamari appetizer to the handmade ravioli, it’s hard to find something on the Casa Italiana menu that isn’t made fresh.
The extensive menu makes it hard to decide what to order: made-in-house mozzarella breaded and fried with fresh tomato sauce or Parmesan risotto “fries” with caponata to start? And then, should you go for the house-made braised beef ravioli topped with a decadent mushroom mascarpone sauce, arugula and white truffle oil or the fresh pappardelle topped with creamy sausage ragu, fried fennel and shaved Parmesan cheese? Spoiler alert: It will all be delicious and will arrive at your table in a generous portion alongside baked-daily bread.
Save room. The desserts are also homemade, large and in-charge with options such as house-made cannoli, chocolate cake with spumoni and whipped cream and, of course, tiramisu della famiglia. Pair it with with the reasonably priced and extensive wine list — glasses average around $8 — or try a signature cocktail. We’ll be back for the tiramisu martini made with vodka, Bailey’s, amaretto, Kahlua and Casa Italiana’s signature tiramisu cream. 8801 Three Chopt Road in Westbury Plaza. casaitalianarestaurant.com .
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
Liberty Public House
Located in the former East End Theater in Church Hill, Liberty Public House, cranks out quality American food and creative cocktails in a friendly, “everyone knows your name”-type atmosphere.
A big, approachable menu is highlighted by brunch served all day every day. Choose from eight Benedicts, four breakfast biscuit sandwiches and other well-executed favorites, such as shrimp and grits, a “giant breakfast burrito!” (Yes, that’s the menu name) or “wafflettes.”
In recovery mode? Try the hot mess, featuring buttered and griddled cornbread topped with sweet potato chili, cheddar cheese, two over-easy eggs, crème fraîche and green onions. The menu doesn’t end there.
Lunch and dinner feature comforting appetizers, sandwiches and entrees. We dig the blue crab croquettes with red pepper aioli, the “frickles” (fried pickles) in Old Bay batter and the RVA hot chicken sandwich, crisply fried and topped with garlic aioli and a generous quantity of house-made pickles, served on brioche.
The bar menu rotates regularly and features local liquors. On a recent visit, we enjoyed The Lady Belle, featuring Belle Isle Lemon Lavender Moonshine, coconut and fresh lemon, shaken and served topped with lemon petals, from a “Cocktails for River Weather”-themed menu. 418-A N. 25th St. thelibertyrva.com .
DANIEL SANGJIB MIN,TIMES-DISPATCH
Balkan Restaurant
Tucked into an unassuming strip mall on Patterson Avenue, Balkan Restaurant blends Western and Eastern influences, allowing Richmond to try the melting pot that is Balkan cuisine. Not sure exactly where the food is coming from? Just ask your server, who likely will walk over to the giant map that’s painted on the wall and explain the origins of the delicious dishes you're sampling.
Start with the feta salad that’s a a refreshing blend of tomatoes, cucumbers, mushrooms, bell peppers, olives, onions, roasted red peppers, feta and house dressing. Then mosey over to the burek, a hand-stretched flaky puff pastry filled with cheese and spinach (meat is optional). For the main course, grab a friend and split the mixed grill platter, featuring grilled beef and chicken kebabs, cevapi (flavorful ground beef sausages), veal cutlets and grilled vegetables. For your side, don’t miss the Balkan potatoes, which are creamy and indulgent, like scalloped potatoes, but even more rich and luxurious.
Your meal is served with homemade bread, and don’t forget to add a wine flight. The staff will also help you select from a range of Bulgarian, Hungarian, Austrian, Macedonian, Serbian and Italian selections. 8905 Patterson Ave. balkanrichmond.com .
Margo Wagner, Times-Dispatch
The Caboose Market & Cafe
What started as a beer, wine and specialty market in downtown Ashland expanded to the farm-to-table Caboose Market & Cafe in 2015 with seasonal small plates, sandwiches and salads.
Order the stuffed peppadews with goat cheese and cream cheese, the smoked salmon dip made with Bombolini hot smoked salmon, and the fig pro quo sandwich featuring prosciutto di parma, fig spread and provolone dolce cheese served on sourdough. Choose from the rotating wine and beer menu, sit back, relax and enjoy in the cute cafe environment.
Or, drive out for a special event like Wednesday date night, when you can order an appetizer, two entrees, dessert and a bottle of wine for $50. You’ll also find beer dinners, monthly wine takeovers with special menus — South Africa was a recent feature — and pizza nights on first Fridays. 108 S. Railroad Ave., Ashland. cabooseashland.com .
MARK GORMUS, TIMES-DISPATCH
Greek Cuisine
If you want to get a table for lunch at Greek Cuisine in Tuckahoe Village Shopping Center, you better arrive before noon. The kitchen is complemented by just a few tables, and diners fill them fast for the home-cooked classic Greek specialties done right.
A classic go-to is the creamy, lemony avgolemono soup paired with a fresh Greek salad and a stack of pita for less than $10. Or, if you’re hungrier, go for hearty stuffed cabbage, pasticcio or moussaka, all made fresh. Greek Cuisine also does a robust takeout business. You can order online, but it’s worth calling to learn about daily changing specials, such as lamb stew or Greek-style pork chops.
Save room for the galaktobouriko dessert featuring layers of phyllo, butter and creamy custard. 11214 Patterson Ave. greekcuisine.smartonlineorder.com .
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
Hobnob
Head to North Side for Hobnob’s cozy vibe and quality Southern continental cuisine. Options such as fluffy beer-battered fish and chips, fried green tomatoes with blackened shrimp, shredded lettuce and creole remoulade, and a Seven Hills Farm smash burger topped with pimento cheese are served in generous portions.
Brunch is a standout, offered on Saturdays and Sundays, with choices including biscuit doughnut holes, lemon-blueberry pancakes, and a Lowcountry scramble featuring shrimp, andouille sausage, garlic, scrambled eggs, bacon potato hash, Old Bay, sweet corn and tomato, served with a buttermilk biscuit.
To drink, try rotating cocktails that work for any time of day, such as the Party on the Seven Seas, featuring Virago Four-Port Rum, Earl Grey-vanilla simple syrup, lemon and sparkling wine. 6010 Hermitage Road. hobnobrva.com .
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
Afghan Cuisine
Don't leave Afghan Cuisine , located near Virginia Commonwealth University, without ordering the mantu. The delicate handmade dumplings, filled with spiced meat, sprinkled with lentils and drizzled with yogurt, are flavorful, plentiful and practically a work of art to look at, even when packaged for takeout.
This casual spot also features plenty of kebabs — the chicken is flavorful and juicy, served over earthy palow long-grain rice with classic white sauce and spicy green chakney on the side. Dip the homemade naan in the side salad of diced cucumbers, tomatoes, onions with a zippy mint, lemon juice and olive oil dressing. Other menu options span lamb shank; sabzi kurma, a spinach stew cooked with beef meat, tomato, red and green peppers and served within naan bread; and gyros. 1335 W. Broad St. afghancuisine5.godaddysites.com
Margo Wagner, Times-Dispatch | https://richmond.com/news/local/weather/no-break-ahead-from-heat-and-humidity-in-richmond-region/article_3c7620ea-1c3b-11ee-892c-9f6855b84447.html | 2023-07-06T21:45:20 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/weather/no-break-ahead-from-heat-and-humidity-in-richmond-region/article_3c7620ea-1c3b-11ee-892c-9f6855b84447.html |
BALTIMORE — It's a 54 year old murder case and now the FBI is hoping the victim's body can provide them more information in this case.
The FBI is working to exhume the body of Joyce Malecki. She was killed in 1969 when she was 20 years old and her murder was detailed in the Netflix series "The Keepers."
Kurt Wolfgang from the Maryland Crime Victims Resource Center said the FBI called them to say they are filing the paper work to do this.
The advocacy group is representing the Malecki family. They haven't been given a timeline on when the body will be exhumed.
The FBI did not say what prompted investigators to exhume the body or what they plan do it with it.
"The Keepers" suggests that Joyce Malecki’s murder may be linked to the murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik at the old Archbishop Seton Keough High School.
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Cesnik had been a teacher at the school and many of her former students believe she uncovered widespread sexual abuse at the all-girls school at the hands of Rev. Joseph Maskell and another priest.
Cesnik left her apartment on November 7, 1969 to buy a gift and never returned. Her body was found two months later by two hunters in Lansdowne.
An autopsy revealed she died from a skull fracture.
Malecki disappeared 4 days after Cesnik. Malecki's body was found near a Fort Meade shooting range. She was found bound, strangled, and drowned.
No arrests have been made in either case.
"The Keepers" did help renew an investigation into widespread sexual abuse in the Baltimore Archdiocese.
Back in April, a long-awaited 456 investigative report was released.
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The Maryland Attorney General's Office named 146 people, including priests and other clergy members, who were either accused of sexual abuse or helped cover it up.
Allegations span over eight decades and include over 600 victims.
The report talks about Father Joseph Maskell, who was moved from two parishes during the 1960s over troubling behavior with children.
He eventually became Chaplain at the all-girls Archbishop Seton Keough High School, where he's accused of abusing 39 victims.
Maskell died in 2001. His body was exhumed in 2017 as part of the investigation in Cesnik's death.
The DNA sample from his remains did not match DNA from the murder scene of Cesnik. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/fbi-to-exhume-body-of-joyce-malecki-woman-whose-1969-murder-was-featured-in-the-keepers | 2023-07-06T21:54:10 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/fbi-to-exhume-body-of-joyce-malecki-woman-whose-1969-murder-was-featured-in-the-keepers |
BALTIMORE — One local pizza chef is looking to take his invention to the big sharks in Hollywood.
It's the casting call for the Shark Tank where Will Fagg be competing against many other entrepreneurs in Maryland who also feel they are solving a problem with their invention.
Love all, serve all, that's the motto of a veteran owned pizzeria tucked in Federal Hill. Tiny Brick Oven was opened four years ago by Fagg and now he's looking to serve more than just the Baltimore area, by sharing his love of pizza and invention to make it.
"So it is an open casting call for Shark Tank tomorrow," said Fagg.
He created the portable pizza oven, also called Tiny Brick Oven. And Friday, in Salisbury, Maryland, he'll stand before a panel of judges to present his crafty design.
"We've been able to replicate what those humongous very expensive ovens do in this very small footprint at a very affordable price,” said Fagg.
The little red oven is dome shaped and runs off propane, making it an outdoor cooker. But what sets Fagg's invention apart from other portable pizza ovens is the device on the bottom.
"We have a patented mechanism here that allows you to raise and lower this pizza stone so that the top and the bottom allow you to bake however you like,” said Fagg.
Solving the problem of cooking one side more than the other, and it only takes two minutes.
"It cooks at around 900 degrees Fahrenheit, that gives you that delicious brick oven crust. It uses real bricks in the roof and it turns the pizza for you with the help of a little motor down here,” said Fagg.
He said he tried out for Shark Tank two times before, making it to the second round last time.
He said the third times the charm and is hoping his presentation this time will take it all the way.
Fagg gave WMAR-2 News a preview of the song he will present in front of the judges, “A pizza pie is very nice, it's very good to eat them by the slice, yummy yummy yum making pizza is so much fun.” | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/one-baltimore-pizza-chef-is-looking-to-take-his-invention-to-shark-tank | 2023-07-06T21:54:11 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/one-baltimore-pizza-chef-is-looking-to-take-his-invention-to-shark-tank |
In 1934, Congress ratified the National Firearms Act, legislation requiring guns to be registered and taxed. On the surface, the act's goal was to take a cut of the money the burgeoning industry was bringing in. But there was also a secondary motive: to restrict the sale of guns, subsequently being used in crimes, by charging gun buyers a $200 fee.
In the decades since, the NFA has essentially remained unchanged. Many still look to it as a way for the United States to regulate how many guns make it to the market and into citizens' hands.
While the NFA's creators undoubtedly designed it to check on the gun industry's growth, it has, unfortunately, failed to do so. This is partly because the $200 tax has never gone up, and while that fee was once prohibitive, many people can afford the one-time payment today. The significance of the gun industry, fueled by an ever-increasing demand for guns, has only intensified in the decades since Congress ratified the act.
An estimated 393 million firearms are presently in private ownership in the U.S.—that's more guns than the country's entire population. In 2016, the U.S. manufactured an all-time high of 11.49 million firearms. This figure has decreased in the intervening years (to roughly 7 million), yet it remains more than twice that of 1986. Firearm imports have also increased, with Turkey, Austria, and Brazil sending upwards of 3.78 million guns to the U.S. in 2020 alone.
Gun ownership and industry, like gun culture itself, vary. The degree to which the gun industry is entrenched in a given state is not merely a matter of how many firearms people purchase. It also has to do with the number of dealers and if manufacturing occurs in the state.
Stacker analyzed firearms commerce data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to rank states based on their total number of tax-paying occupational entities related to the manufacturing and distribution of firearms. In short, this data allows us to see which states have the most gun owners and largest gun industries.
Read on to see where your state falls in the rankings.
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NORMAL — A local woman blew out her 106th set of birthday candles Wednesday during a celebration at the McLean County Nursing Home.
Annabelle Kerrigan, seen sporting a shiny rainbow tiara and pink “birthday girl” sash during the festivities with her friends, family and fellow nursing home residents, was born July 5, 1917.
Kerrigan grew up on a family farm near Merna and moved to Bloomington in sixth grade. She has served as a parishioner of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and was a longtime employee at the Sears and Roland’s department stores, Kerrigan’s close friend Susan Dailey said.
“She said she could do more work than two grown men put together,” Dailey said, “and oftentimes she’d throw the boxes down to them and tell them to ‘get to work, you’re falling behind.’”
Kerrigan has maintained her strength in her more than 10 decades of life, said Chelsey Bonnell, activities director at the nursing home.
“She’ll wheel herself all the way down to her room, she keeps going,” Bonnell said. “You would never think she’s 106 by the way she acts.”
Kerrigan lived in her own house until October, when she moved into the nursing home. Since then, Director of Nursing Kimberly Bolster has noticed that Kerrigan is “always willing” to participate in activities and community outings, including bingo, picnics and “table tennis” played with balloons and pool noodles.
“She outplays everybody … and she likes to encourage [other] people to ‘come on,'" Bolster said.
Kerrigan especially enjoys trips to the Imperial Buffet in Normal with her son's half brother Terry, his wife Alice, and Dailey, all of whom were present at Wednesday's party. While Dailey said Kerrigan “eats everything American” and “doesn’t touch the Chinese [food] at all,” she chose to celebrate her 105th birthday at the restaurant last year, Dailey said.
Dailey has regularly taken Kerrigan out to breakfast, lunch and dinner multiple times each week, in addition to attending every one of her doctor's appointments and driving her to church, Dailey said. The two friends “hit it off” 25 years ago.
“She’s got an interesting, very dry sense of humor, but [that’s] something that I identify with,” Dailey said. “And she’s got a heart of gold, she really does.”
Dailey and Donna Williams, another close friend who met Kerrigan at St. Mary’s, recall hearing “amazing stories” of Kerrigan reading books to “every child that she’s ever known” and creating photo albums from her travels with “postcards from everywhere.”
But despite Kerrigan’s many fascinating life tales, Dailey loves to share “classic” comical anecdotes, such as her friend saving a half-eaten bag of chips and having them delivered to Father Greg Nelson, she said.
“There’s a lot more to her [too],” Dailey said. “I try to remember, but I don’t remember all the stories.”
Williams and fellow members of St. Mary’s parish describe Kerrigan as a generous, “down-to-earth and matter-of-fact” woman who has consistently devoted her time to working or attending events at the church or school, from Mexican food meals to soup kitchens.
“She just is a kind, giving person, but she knows what she wants,” Dailey said. “And I respect that.”
When it came to celebrating her birthday with sweets, Kerrigan was certain what she wanted this week — vanilla cake with a cup of fruit. But when asked what gifts she wished for, Kerrigan said, “whatever I get.”
Bolster, who provides one-on-one care for each resident at the nursing home, said Kerrigan’s unique character, personality and interactions with others are “inspirational."
"If I’m having a down day, I can go to Annabelle," Bolster added.
“She reminds me to be self-assured, and [that] you are appreciated," she continued. “She doesn’t care, she just wants to love. That’s the stuff right there." | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/mclean-county-nursing-home-resident-rings-in-106th-birthday/article_416a3ec0-1c2b-11ee-b5af-ef3a7fc1b3e4.html | 2023-07-06T21:54:37 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/mclean-county-nursing-home-resident-rings-in-106th-birthday/article_416a3ec0-1c2b-11ee-b5af-ef3a7fc1b3e4.html |
A judge has denied George Weaver Jr.'s motion to withdraw the guilty plea he entered in March for a plot to steal and sell drugs seized by the Nebraska State Patrol.
In a letter this week, Weaver blamed his attorney for, among other things, failing to request a hearing to determine if Weaver was competent prior to the plea hearing.
In an order Thursday, Senior U.S. District Judge John Gerrard said a plea of guilty shouldn't be disregarded because of belated misgivings about its wisdom.
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Here, he said, there was no indication of a fair and just reason to allow Weaver to withdraw his plea.
"The defendant's arguments are both unpersuasive and inconsistent," the judge said, pointing out Weaver's own self-contradictions about counsel in his motion, for instance faulting his attorney for requesting discovery and then requesting it himself.
As for Weaver's contention there should have been a hearing to determine if he was competent to plead guilty, Gerrard said the magistrate judge considered competency in accepting his plea and in allowing him to represent himself. And she did so on Weaver's own representations regarding his ability to proceed, "which were unequivocal."
Gerrard said it also was noteworthy that Weaver didn't say he was incompetent or that he hadn't entered his guilty plea knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily.
In March, Weaver pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, fentanyl and marijuana in exchange for prosecutors dropping three additional counts.
He will face a minimum of 20 years and up to life in federal prison at his sentencing in October. His co-defendant, Anna Idigima, is set for sentencing on the same charge later this month.
At the plea hearing, federal prosecutors said Weaver and his girlfriend, Idigima, who was working as a State Patrol evidence technician, conspired in 2021 to steal drugs being held in completed cases, awaiting destruction.
She was fired that August after the plot was discovered by the Lincoln/Lancaster County Narcotics Task Force, amid a spate of overdoses in the area. And an audit of the State Patrol’s storage facility found that 154 pounds of marijuana, 19 pounds of cocaine and 6 pounds of fentanyl were missing.
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The recent heavy rain that has fallen in many parts of Nebraska has helped to pare back drought conditions.
More than 18% of the state is completely out of drought, according to the latest Drought Monitor released Thursday by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. That's the highest drought-free percentage since the end of 2021.
The drought-free areas are all in the western part of the state, a region that has seen extensive rain over the past couple of months. For example, Scottsbluff and Chadron both totaled more than a foot of rain in May and June combined, while Sidney got around 11 inches. The three cities all average somewhere between 5 and 6 inches for those two months.
In eastern Nebraska, where drought conditions are the worst, Lincoln has been the big winner in the rain category lately. Since the beginning of June, the Lincoln Airport has recorded slightly more than 7.5 inches of rain, which is more than 2 inches above normal for the period and more than it got in the previous 10 months combined.
That has helped to alleviate drought conditions somewhat. Last week, 88% of Lancaster County was in exceptional drought, the worst category. That declined to 22.5% this week.
Saunders County saw exceptional drought drop from covering 80% of the county to less than 26%, while exceptional drought retreated entirely from Sarpy, Otoe and Cass counties.
But many other areas have not seen as much rain. Columbus, Fremont, Omaha and Norfolk all received below-average rain in June, although some of those cities saw heavy rain earlier this week.
Because of that lack of widespread rain, there was very little change in the portion of the state in extreme and exceptional drought.
This week, about 25.5% of the state was in extreme drought or worse, including about 11.5% in exceptional drought. That's down from 26% and 13% last week.
Counties with the worst droughts in Nebraska
Counties with the worst droughts in Nebraska
Over a fourth of the continental U.S. is currently experiencing moderate to exceptional drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
While severe to exceptional drought conditions persist in the West—which is currently experiencing a brief reprieve from its driest period of the last 1,200 years—other parts of the country less associated with drought, like the northeast and the midwest, have also experienced spells of unusual dryness.
In periods of drought, levels of major reservoirs and rivers can fall dramatically. Groundwater systems too feel the effects, and shrinking water supplies impact agriculture, hydropower generation, and wildfire risk.
Periods of drought have intensified and become more frequent in recent years due to climate change. Scientists predict that even in low emissions scenarios , much of the U.S. will be drier by the end of the century.
Stacker cited data from U.S. Drought Monitor to identify the counties in Nebraska with the worst droughts in the week leading up to May 02, 2023. Counties are ranked by percent of the area in drought conditions. Abnormally dry is not considered to be a drought, but is included as a separate data point. Additional data for the state overall is included.
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- Abnormally dry: 0.2%
- Area in drought: 99.0% (#2 nationally)
--- Moderate drought: 21.9%
--- Severe drought: 31.7%
--- Extreme drought: 39.1%
--- Exceptional drought: 6.3%
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#1. Adams County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 22.2%
--- Severe drought: 77.8%
--- Extreme drought: 0.0%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Perkins County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 26.4%
--- Extreme drought: 73.6%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Nuckolls County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 85.5%
--- Severe drought: 14.5%
--- Extreme drought: 0.0%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Morrill County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 27.6%
--- Extreme drought: 72.4%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Merrick County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 1.8%
--- Extreme drought: 91.4%
--- Exceptional drought: 6.7%
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#1. McPherson County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 4.1%
--- Extreme drought: 95.9%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Madison County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 0.0%
--- Extreme drought: 30.1%
--- Exceptional drought: 69.9%
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#1. Loup County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 0.0%
--- Extreme drought: 100.0%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Logan County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 0.0%
--- Extreme drought: 100.0%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Hooker County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 35.4%
--- Extreme drought: 64.6%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Phelps County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 100.0%
--- Extreme drought: 0.0%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Lincoln County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 2.5%
--- Extreme drought: 97.5%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Kimball County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 5.5%
--- Severe drought: 36.8%
--- Extreme drought: 57.7%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Keya Paha County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 48.1%
--- Severe drought: 50.2%
--- Extreme drought: 1.7%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Keith County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 23.3%
--- Extreme drought: 76.7%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Kearney County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 4.8%
--- Severe drought: 95.2%
--- Extreme drought: 0.0%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Johnson County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 100.0%
--- Severe drought: 0.0%
--- Extreme drought: 0.0%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Jefferson County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 52.8%
--- Severe drought: 47.2%
--- Extreme drought: 0.0%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Pierce County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 0.4%
--- Extreme drought: 97.0%
--- Exceptional drought: 2.6%
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#1. Platte County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 0.0%
--- Extreme drought: 0.0%
--- Exceptional drought: 100.0%
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#1. Polk County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 5.8%
--- Extreme drought: 61.7%
--- Exceptional drought: 32.5%
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#1. Lancaster County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 13.2%
--- Severe drought: 35.2%
--- Extreme drought: 51.6%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Knox County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 26.4%
--- Severe drought: 72.7%
--- Extreme drought: 0.9%
--- Exceptional drought: 0.0%
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#1. Stanton County (tie)
- Abnormally dry: 0.0%
- Area in drought: 100.0%
--- Moderate drought: 0.0%
--- Severe drought: 0.0%
--- Extreme drought: 0.0%
--- Exceptional drought: 100.0%
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Fishers woman, Purdue student dies in Arkansas car crash
A 20-year-old Fishers resident was one of three people killed in a head-on collision in northwestern Arkansas.
Abigail Cox, a student at Purdue University, was a passenger in the crash in Carroll County at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to a report from the Arkansas Department of Public Safety.
Cox was in a 2015 Chevrolet pickup with four other people when it was struck by an SUV that swerved into the oncoming lane on U.S. 62 at County Road 902 near Branson, Missouri.
The driver of the 2020 Chevrolet Equinox, Michael Weiss, 46, and Amy Weiss, 44, were killed, according to the report.
The driver of the pickup, Caleb Crow, of Arkansas, was injured along with three passengers: Joshua Case, 19, and Tiki Braner, 19, of Texas; and Joel Tibbits, 18, of North Carolina.
The road was dry and the weather was clear at the time of the crash, according to the state police report.
Cox was a junior at Purdue University’s Mitchell E. Daniels Jr School of Business in West Lafayette, said Tim Doty, Senior Director of Media and Public Relations at Purdue.
Cox planned to pursue a master's in Human Resource Management and was a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha fraternity according to her LinkedIn page.
Cox graduated from Hamilton Southeastern High in 2021, said school spokeswoman Abby Brown.
She was a member of the varsity swim and lacrosse teams, president of the Blue Crew spirit leadership team and a National Honors Society member, according to her LinkedIn page.
Call the reporter at 317-444-6418. | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/hamilton-county/fishers/2023/07/06/fishers-purdue-student-abigail-cox-dies-in-arkansas-car-crash/70387296007/ | 2023-07-06T21:56:03 | 1 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/hamilton-county/fishers/2023/07/06/fishers-purdue-student-abigail-cox-dies-in-arkansas-car-crash/70387296007/ |
Hogsett to put $30M into residential streets and press state for fair funding formula
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett and his administration announced a plan Thursday for at least $30 million in new investment in Marion County residential roads and alleys, school pedestrian safety, and increased traffic enforcement in bike lanes.
Hogsett, who is running for reelection, said he plans to lobby the newly created state roads task force to consider an overhaul of the state road funding formula, which the city has long argued disproportionately shorts Indianapolis of much-needed road money. The task force is due to submit a report of recommendations on Jan 1 for consideration in the 2025-26 state budget.
"When it comes to funding for roads, thoroughfares and bridges, quite frankly, it's difficult to come to any other conclusion than the historic state formula falls far short of the kind of long-term thinking that Governor (Eric) Holcomb and leaders in the Indiana General Assembly seek to embrace," Hogsett said at a news conference Thursday.
He said the problem is not Indianapolis' alone but affects the whole metropolitan area as well as fast-growing suburban and urban communities across the state.
Whether the Republican-dominated state legislature will agree with, let alone implement, the city's proposal remains to be seen. Democratic lawmakers have unsuccessfully pushed for bills that would make a similar change in recent years.
Jefferson Shreve, Hogsett's Republican opponent in this year's mayoral race, released a statement after Hogsett announced his plan: “It’s amazing how many new plans are being unveiled as Election Day nears. After seven years of ineffective leadership and as voters are desperate for new leadership, only now does Joe Hogsett have a plan to combat Indy’s crumbling infrastructure."
Shreve has not yet released details about his infrastructure policy proposals, but added in the statement that he would take personal responsibility for the city’s safety and infrastructure.
Here's what's in Hogsett's roads plan.
Indianapolis to invest in fixing residential streets and alleys
Hogsett announced two new investments of city money, which he called among the largest appropriations ever made for the city's pothole-ridden neighborhood streets and alleys:
- $25 million from Indianapolis' budget surplus for residential streets, prioritizing the ones most in need of repair.
- $5 million from the Building and Neighborhood Services building permit fund will go to fixing alleys over the next three years.
Indianapolis has $1 billion in road, bridge and sidewalk needs, and residential streets largely take second priority to thoroughfares in the city budget. Alleyways, which exist mostly in the old city limits, don’t count in the distribution of state gas tax dollars and the city hasn't spent that state money on them.
Mayor Joe Hogsett proposes changes to Indiana road funding formula
Hogsett is asking the state for two changes to the current, decades-old state road funding formula, which gives less money to Indianapolis roads than the state receives from city residents.
- Change the current policy of allocating money to cities, counties and towns based on the number of lane miles in their roads to the number of vehicle miles traveled, or "VMT," on their roads.
- Combine the state Community Crossings Grant program and its $221 million in annual funds with the pot of money distributed to local governments through the Motor Vehicle Highway Account, which Indianapolis said would be fairer and more predictable. Right now, Indianapolis, like other localities, needs to apply for a grant to get this money, and grants are capped out at $1 million regardless of how big the county or city is.
In all, this proposal is estimated to increase Indianapolis' state road money allocation by $49 million, according to the city. The donut counties would all see a bump, too, with Hamilton County estimated to receive $16 million more, Hendricks County $8 million, Johnson County $8 million, and smaller sums for the rest.
The current policy means that a one-lane road in Ohio County currently receives the same amount of money as a six-lane major thoroughfare such as Michigan Road or Keystone Avenue, Hogsett said.
The state task force co-chair, Rep. Jeff Thompson, R-Lizton, said Thursday that he is reviewing Hogsett's proposal and all options are on the table.
"Funding Indiana's roads is no doubt a partnership between the state and local governments," Thompson said. "While the proposal would pull levers on the state level, further local options to improve roads currently available to the city, such as the wheel tax, are an important part of the discussion."Republican state legislators have been resistant to using vehicle miles traveled in their formula previously.
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Sen. Michael Crider, R-Greenfield, chair of the Senate transportation committee, told IndyStar in January that it could raise privacy concerns because it would involve the state tracking vehicular traffic.
The chair of the House transportation committee, Rep. Jim Pressel, R-Rolling Prairie, told IndyStar in January that other parts of the country are using the "VMT" and it's a worthy conversation to have. At the same time, he, like Thompson, underscored that he thinks Indianapolis has not been using all the tools available to it, namely a county wheel tax. Both Crider and Pressel sit on the task force that will be considering how Indiana hands out road money.
The mayor has repeatedly said he will refuse to raise taxes on Marion County residents until the state addresses the funding inequity.
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Clark-Pleasant schools names new superintendent
The Clark-Pleasant School Board has tapped Timothy Edsell as the district's new superintendent ahead of the first day of school in three weeks.
Edsell’s tenure was approved by the Clark-Pleasant School Board Wednesday night. He filled the vacant spot left by Patrick Spray who joined Perry Township Schools as its top leader this month following 15 years in the Johnson County district.
"To find someone of Tim’s caliber and leadership abilities, right here in the county is a win-win for our school community," Dave Thompson, Clark-Pleasant's school board president, said in a news release.
Edsell, who throughout his career earned a doctorate from Indiana State University and a master's in administration from Ball State University, previously served as superintendent of Indian Creek Schools for nine years.
“I feel fortunate to have had some wonderful, yet challenging opportunities to this point in my career. I look forward to continuing and building upon the successes of the Clark-Pleasant Board in this new role,” Edsell said in a press release.
The Pennsylvania native is also an adjunct professor at Indiana Wesleyan University and the University of Southern Indiana, according to the district.
“I believe, especially for our high school students, we need to always be pointing them to their next educational opportunity," Edsell said in the release. "For some, that’s a 4 year college for others a vocational certification or other opportunities to learn and to grow their skills and passions."
Through the years, Edsell has held various school leadership positions, first as a math teacher then as school principal then as district superintendent.
As superintendent for Clark-Pleasant Schools, Edsell will oversee operations at the district’s eight school buildings that welcome more than 6,300 students, according to state enrollment data for the 2022-23 school year.
Edsell will have an annual salary of $180,000 through June 30, 2026, with possibilities for increases by the board in future years, according to the superintendent’s contract.
Clark-Pleasant is among several other suburban districts that have seen leadership changes this past year, including Noblesville Schools and Zionsville Community Schools.
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FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - Neighbors say pests like racoons and possums are out of control at blighted buildings. The city of Flint hopes that a new $74,000 partnership will help get rid of them.
"There's like racoon families everywhere and they're not scared either," said Flint resident Santiara Henry. "So they're running around by your houses. They're under your porches and they're really scary."
Henry is a first-time homeowner on Flint's east side. She says the rodents running rampant through her neighborhood come from buildings owned by the Genesee County Land Bank.
"They definitely are living in these houses," said Henry. "I see them coming from this abandoned house across the street. I see them running over here and climbing up the tree."
Today, the City of Flint announced a new partnership to stop Henry's rodent problem. Professionals from Rose Pest Solutions, Landscape Services, Inc., and Griffin Pest Solutions will each take a section of the city to begin removal of the pests.
"We don't want these rodents to overtake our city," said Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley. "In most parts we have experienced trouble, so we thought it would be wise to engage with this in a proactive way."
The three companies will begin live trapping and removal a week before each property is set to be demolished. Henry says she'll be happy to see them go.
"I'm an animal lover so I wouldn't want them to be harmed but you know for them to kind of find a space to do their thing would be fine," said Henry.
The pest control companies say animals will not be harmed during the removal. They will work with the Department to Natural Resources to return them safely to their natural environment. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/city-of-flint-to-spend-74k-on-pest-removal-from-blighted-properties/article_5a6700ac-1c3a-11ee-ad2d-c35500f63574.html | 2023-07-06T22:01:31 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/city-of-flint-to-spend-74k-on-pest-removal-from-blighted-properties/article_5a6700ac-1c3a-11ee-ad2d-c35500f63574.html |
BIRCH RUN, Mich. (WJRT) - Three teenage boys were treated and released for injuries sustained in an oil tank explosion outside a school in Birch Run.
The boys ages 13, 14 and 15 were playing near two crude oil tanks behind Marshall Green Middle School in the 11000 block of Maple Road on June 23, according to information released by Michigan State Police on Thursday.
Investigators say the boys lit leaves on fire and dropped them into one of the tanks, which caused a flash fire. Both tanks ruptured and leaked crude oil after the incident.
All three boys were treated and released at an area hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
Bailer Oil Co., which leases property from Birch Run Community Schools, fixed the ruptured oil tanks and cleaned up the spill.
Anyone with information about the incident should call the Michigan State Police Tri-City Post at 989-495-5555. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/teenage-boys-injured-by-oil-tank-explosion-in-birch-run/article_45719fc2-1c3a-11ee-b7b9-a3e12224a10f.html | 2023-07-06T22:01:37 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/teenage-boys-injured-by-oil-tank-explosion-in-birch-run/article_45719fc2-1c3a-11ee-b7b9-a3e12224a10f.html |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — After his death last month, friends and family gathered on July 6 to celebrate the life and memory of Ryan Michael Mallett.
Mallett tragically died after drowning while vacationing in Florida on June 27, 2023. Mallet has impacted many lives after his seasons as a star quarterback for the Razorbacks and then a head coach for the White Hall Bulldogs at the time of his passing.
For those attending the services, most knew Ryan Mallett for his years as a Hog and later as an NFL quarterback, but those close to him saw Mallett follow in his father's footsteps and become a coach.
Still doing what he loved, Mallett became a coach at Mountain Home High School and then at White Hall. He was looking to mold the next generation of football talent.
According to Mallett's obituary, his ultimate goal was to be a head football coach. He fulfilled that this past year at White Hall— But he was much more than that.
His obituary says "He was so excited to be able to teach young men how to improve their skills in the game he loved. His players were his children, and he loved them big."
In an interview with 5NEWS Sports Director Jacob Seus, former Arkansas quarterback Casey Dick talked highly of his former teammate's role as a coach. “I genuinely believe that is what made him happy. Being around those kids, pouring into those kids, and he was doing a great job," Dick said.
"It was about the love for the kids and having a heart for what you do. And you know he was passionate about what he did and lived in his purpose," said former Arkansas running back Broderick Green.
One of the bulldogs that played for Mallett made a statement that was included in the service's pamphlet. The player says he has reached his dreams of possibly playing Division 1 football thanks to him. He says quote "We grew a relationship that was much more than football. He wasn’t just my coach, but he was a great friend as well."
The service for Mallet took place at 2 p.m. at Central United Methodist Church.
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VAN BUREN, Ark. — The Crawford County Sheriff's Office has reported 17-year-old Ethan Lynn Fenton as missing as of July 3, 2023.
Fenton was last seen in the Pine Hollow Drive area of Van Buren. He is 5'5” and has blonde hair and hazel eyes. According to his missing person flyer, he was wearing gray camouflage shorts, a gray long-sleeve t-shirt, and flip-flops.
If you have any information about Ethan Fenton's whereabouts please contact the Crawford County Sheriff's Office at 479-474-2261.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – During the first six months of a boat disposal program in Metro’s district, 38 derelict boats have been approved for the boat removal program, according to Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.
The boat disposal program is a partnership between the sheriff’s office’s river patrol unit, Oregon Metro and the Oregon State Marine Board. The program aims to help boat owners dispose of damaged or unseaworthy vessels within Metro’s district to prevent boats from being abandoned on streets or waterways,
Officials said “end-of-life boats” are often sold for a low price or sometimes end up abandoned in rivers or on public land – creating environmental hazards.
From Jan. 30, 2023, to July 5, 2023, Metro received 69 removal applications and 38 derelict boat applications were approved. So far, officials said 19 boats have been disposed of under the program.
On average, the boats are 17 feet long and average around 50 years old, the sheriff’s office said.
In the removal applications, the sheriff’s office said some boat owners cited financial hardship as their primary reason for removal.
“It can be really expensive, so we see this as an accessible option because sometimes it’s really hard to find a way to dispose of something like a boat,” Metro Community Services and Education Director Jon Mayer said.
As the program aims to ease the financial burden of proper boat disposal, Mayer noted the environmental hazards abandoned boats can pose, as some may contain asbestos or leak oil, gas or sewage water.
The removal program offers free disposal for boat owners, with program funding coming from House Bill 5202. According to Mayer, the boat disposal program was allocated about $350,000, which can help Metro properly dispose of 100 boats.
The program lasts until Oct. 31, 2023, or until the program’s funds run out.
“This has been a great endeavor between the Oregon State Marine Board, Oregon Metro as well as the sheriff’s office to help reduce the number of pollutants and ecological impact that we have on our waterways, said Sargeant Stephen Dangler, with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Department. “Being able to get rid of some of these vessels that have been dumped unlawfully, more so, just to be able to keep our waterways safe and clean for all people to enjoy.”
“What we find is people run into the fact that it’s going to be $500 or $2,000 to dispose of a vessel when they can just tie it to a tree, pull it off the trailer on the side of the road, or dump it in the river and let it go for no charge at all. And unfortunately, that just creates havoc for all of us and for the beauty of our city and beauty of our waterways,” the sergeant said. “If we didn’t do something with them, they were going to create a hazard, or sink and end up being on the bottom of the waterway.” | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/38-derelict-boats-approved-for-removal-disposal-under-new-program/ | 2023-07-06T22:04:16 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/38-derelict-boats-approved-for-removal-disposal-under-new-program/ |
BOISE, Idaho — Downtown Boise is hosting First Thursday events tonight as a way to experience Boise’s local art, restaurant, brewery and music scene.
The following events are organized by category.
Art
Art Source Gallery - 1516 W. Grove St.
10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
The gallery will be showcasing the 20th Annual Juried Exhibition and an award ceremony for artists who entered their 2 or 3 dimensional art.
The Basque Museum & Cultural Center - 611 W. Grove St.
10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Enjoy free admission all day. Be sure to check out the new items in the store from a Basque Country trip!
Boise Art Glass - 1124 W. Front St.
4 - 9 p.m.
Create your own terrariums at Boise Art Glass. This is a beginner friendly, 30 minute class. Admission is $75.00 per person. Call 208-345-1825 to schedule a class.
Boise Art Museum (BAM) - 670 S. Julia Davis Drive
10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Today’s admission is “pay what you can." Learn about BAM’s new exhibition: “Katazome Today: Migrations of Japanese Art.”
Delia Dante Gallery & Fire Fusion Studio - 1322 W. Main St.
5 - 9 p.m.
New gallery exhibits and free admission.
Food
Bardenay Restaurant and Distillery - 610 W. Grove St.
4 - 6 p.m.
Enjoy happy hour cocktails and food on the Basque block in downtown Boise.
Dawson Taylor Downtown Coffee House - 219 N. 8th St.
5 - 7 p.m.
Join Dawson Taylor on the patio for a special cold brew and some visitors from the Idaho Conservation League
Green Acres Food Truck Park - 1401 Shoreline Drive
11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Enjoy food trucks, live music and yard games on the Greenbelt all day long. Live music begins at 5:30 p.m.
Green’s Market - 1100 W. Idaho St.
11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Enjoy lunch and 15% off all bottles of wine all day long.
Leku Ona - 117 S. 6th St.
5 - 9 p.m.
Enjoy half off select appetizers and $3 Sangria’s and Kalimotxos.
Solid Grill & Bar - 405 S. 8th St.
4 p.m. - 12 a.m.
Come in for happy hour, live music, half off wines by the glass, draft beers and well drinks.
Breweries/Bar
Barbarian Downtown Beer Bar - 1022 W Main St.
5 - 9 p.m.
Barbarian Downtown Beer Bar will be releasing fresh batches of their Gose Bang Bang! sour and Grapefruit Radler.
DT Plays at Boise Brewing - 521 W. Broad St.
5 - 9 p.m.
Come play yard games and experience award-winning beers brewed on-site.
Cactus Bar - 517 W. Main St
7 - 9 p.m.
Join Cactus Bar for Bingo, drinks and prizes.
Humpin’ Hannah’s - 621 W. Main St.
5 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Dance with DJ’s and enjoy $3 drinks all night. No cover.
Liquid Lounge - 405 S. 8th St.
5 - 9 p.m.
Come in for giveaways, drink specials and happy hour until 6 p.m.
Meriwether Cider House - 224 N. 9th St.
5 - 9 p.m.
Guests are invited to create their own pressed flower bookmarks and enjoy local art available for purchase within the cider house.
Ochos Wine Bar - 515 W. Idaho St.
5 - 9 p.m.
Come to First Thursday Flamenco and enjoy a live performance from Cuadro Nuevo at 6 p.m. This will be a 21+ event.
SCORIA - Tasting Room - 111 S. 10th St.
1 - 7 p.m.
Come taste the new 2020 Estate Blend or the choice of a flight or glass of Idaho estate-grown wines.
Silly Birch - 507 W. Main St.
3 - 8 p.m.
Enjoy happy hour and a live DJ tonight.
Music and Dance
Roving Live Music by Rhodes Hull’s Magic Band - Downtown Boise
5 - 9 p.m.
Rhodes Hull will be touring the streets of downtown, playing live music for the public.
Live Music by Txantxangorriak - Downtown Boise
5 - 9 p.m.
Enjoy live, Basque music at various locations on the streets of downtown Boise.
Live Performances by The Oinkari Dancers - Downtown Boise
5 - 9 p.m.
Enjoy live, Basque dance performances from The Oinkari Dancers throughout downtown.
Fred Astaire Dance Studios Boise - 1511 W. Main St.
5 - 9 p.m.
Sign up for a mini group dance lesson from 7:15 p.m. - 8 p.m., or a studio tour from 5 - 9 p.m.
JUMP (Jack's Urban Meeting Place) - 1000 Myrtle St.
5 - 9 p.m.
Join JUMP for Connect on the Deck, drinks, community conversation, live music and the slides!
Treefort Music Hall - 722 W. Broad St.
4 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Treefort Music Hall will be featuring two music groups and re-opening their rooftop lounge, The Hap Hap from 4 p.m. - 2 a.m. Music Hall doors open at 5 p.m. and music starts at 6 p.m.
Shop
Boise Chamber Gift Shop and Visit Boise Information Center - 1101 W. Front St.
8 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Receive 10% off your purchase today and receive one free pour at Hilton Garden Inn or one coupon for Panera from 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Bronco Shop at City Center - 777 W. Main St.
5 - 8 p.m.
Summer sale including 30% off Women’s Apparel and 25% off Hydroflask. In story only.
City Peanut Shop - 803 W. Bannock St.
10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
City Peanut will be serving three curated beers and three nuts from local breweries. Enjoy 10% off all drinks all day.
JD’s Bodega - 161 N. Capitol Blvd
5 - 9 p.m.
Lost Grove Brewery will be serving free tastings of their local beers alongside free popcorn and pinball.
Re-POP Gifts - 210 N. 10th St.
5 - 9 p.m.
Visit Re-POP Gifts for a chance to see their featured artist, Spooky Dinosaur for a free signing event.
The Record Exchange - 1105 W. Idaho St.
5 - 9 p.m.
Local music group Roller Dome will be performing their new album at the Record Exchange starting at 5:30 p.m. The in-store event is free for all ages.
Sunrise Electric Bicycles - 733 S. Pioneer St.
5 - 9 p.m.
Enter into a free bike and beer giveaway from Sunrise Electric Bicycles and Payette Brewing.
History
Erma Hayman House - 617 Ash St.
5 - 8 p.m.
Visit the Erma Hayman House for a look inside the history behind Erma Hayman, her house and the River Street Neighborhood. Admission is free.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. officials granted full approval to a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug on Thursday, clearing the way for Medicare and other insurance plans to begin covering the treatment for people with the brain-robbing disease.
The Food and Drug Administration endorsed the IV drug, Leqembi, for patients with mild dementia and other symptoms caused by early Alzheimer’s disease. It’s the first medicine that’s been convincingly shown to modestly slow Alzheimer’s cognitive decline.
Japanese drugmaker Eisai received conditional approval from the FDA in January based on early results suggesting Leqembi worked by clearing a sticky brain plaque linked to the disease.
The FDA confirmed those results by reviewing data from a larger, 1,800-patient study in which the drug slowed memory and thinking decline by about five months in those who got the treatment, compared to those who got a dummy drug.
“This confirmatory study verified that it is a safe and effective treatment for patients with Alzheimer’s disease,” said FDA’s neurology drug director, Teresa Buracchio, in a statement.
The drug’s prescribing information will carry the most serious type of warning, indicating that Leqembi can cause brain swelling and bleeding, side effects that can be dangerous in rare cases. The label notes that those problems are seen with other plaque-targeting Alzheimer’s drugs.
The process of converting a drug to full FDA approval usually attracts little attention. But Alzheimer’s patients and advocates have been lobbying the federal government for months after Medicare officials announced last year they wouldn’t pay for routine use of Leqembi until it received FDA’s full approval.
There were concerns that the cost of new plaque-targeting Alzheimer’s drugs like Leqembi could overwhelm the program’s finances, which provide care for 60 million seniors. Leqembi is priced at about $26,500 for a year’s supply of IVs every two weeks.
The vast majority of Americans with Alzheimer’s get their health coverage through Medicare. And private insurers have followed its lead by withholding coverage for Leqembi and a similar drug, Aduhelm, until they receive FDA’s full endorsement. An FDA decision on full approval for Aduhelm is still years away.
Medicare administrator, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, has made clear the program will immediately begin paying for the drug now that it has full FDA approval. But the government is also setting extra requirements.
Medicare recipients getting Leqembi must be enrolled in a federal registry to track the drug’s real-world safety and effectiveness. The information will help advance “knowledge of how these drugs can potentially help people,” Medicare officials said.
Hospitals and medical clinics have also cautioned that it may take time to get people started on the drug.
Doctors need to confirm that patients have the brain plaque targeted by Leqembi before prescribing it. Nurses need to be trained to administer the drug and patients must be monitored with repeated brain scans to check for swelling or bleeding. The imaging and administration services carry extra costs for hospitals beyond the drug itself.
Eisai has told investors that about 100,000 Americans could be diagnosed and eligible to receive Leqembi by 2026. The drug is co-marketed with Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen.
“We want to ensure that appropriate patients only are the ones that get this product,” said Alexander Scott, a vice president with Eisai.
Eisai studied the drug in people with early or mild disease who were evaluated using a scale measuring memory, thinking and other basic skills. After 18 months, those who got Leqembi declined more slowly — a difference of less than half a point on the scale — than participants who received a dummy infusion. Some Alzheimer’s experts say that delay is likely too subtle for patients or their families to notice.
But federal health advisers said the difference could still be meaningful and recommended that FDA fully approve the drug at a public meeting in June.
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LYNCHBURG, Va. – It’s been two months since 6-year-old Kingston Campbell was shot and killed in Lynchburg, but no one has come forward.
While police continue to search for those responsible for the death of Kingston, the community is attempting to work with police, hopefully to break a code of silence.
Organizations like One Community One Voice and Peacemakers are going into the community to break the street code to try and bridge the gap between the community and the police, they want to ensure 6-year-old Kingston’s case can be solved.
Lynchburg native and air force veteran Howard White considers his life a success but says he had a rough start.
White knows firsthand how dangerous streets can be filled with senseless violence.
“Plenty, some I was involved with myself,” White said.
Now a changed man White wants to see that same change in the community.
Nearly two months after 6-year-old Kingston was killed, no one has come forward but White says he believes someone knows something but is choosing to stay silent.
“The young guys have this thing called a street code, the elderly people have a fear of retaliation especially if someone says something on camera,” White said.
Shawn Hunter with Peacemakers says organization volunteers go into the neighborhoods connecting people with community services.
“If someone was murdered, your child, a loved one there is no street code,” Hunter said.
The group works to build trust and ensure people know the police are there to protect and serve.
“We need to build that relationship that law enforcement comes out into the street, knock on doors, mingle with kids because there’s a narrative inside the household the police is no good,” Hunter said.
Lynchburg Police Chief Ryan Zuidema says he encourages officers to introduce themselves to the people in the areas they patrol.
Zuidema said police even attend cookouts and work with community organizations to host a bike giveaway program for students.
The chief says it’s important for the community to see police as human before an emergency, with the goal of breaking street code.
“We know that’s a real thing, we want folks to see past the badge, past the uniform, that our men and women, our men and women do a very challenging job, they’re human beings like everybody else,” Zuidema said.
Progress White says is a positive step forward in building trust and understanding.
“All police are not bad, all citizens are not bad,” White said.
Here is a list of upcoming events to combat street crime in local communities:
- Car Seat Checkup Event; Friday, July 7 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Sam’s Club parking lot
- E.N.O.U.G.H. event, July 11 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Diamond Hill Rec. Center
- E.N.O.U.G.H. event, July 25 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Dearington Apartments
- National Night Out, Aug. 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/07/06/lynchburg-organizations-looking-to-break-street-code-build-trust-with-police/ | 2023-07-06T22:05:16 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/07/06/lynchburg-organizations-looking-to-break-street-code-build-trust-with-police/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – Teens in Roanoke can now use Uber.
On Thursday, the rideshare company launched accounts for parents to invite their kids, allowing the teens to request their own rides.
The company says it’s good for kids 13 to 17, and all parents need to do is set it up through their family profile.
Parents will get real-time updates from when the child is picked up until they are dropped off.
The driver will also need a verification code from the child before they get in the car.
Would you let your teen take an Uber alone? Cast your vote here! | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/07/06/roanoke-teens-can-now-request-their-own-uber-rides/ | 2023-07-06T22:05:22 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/07/06/roanoke-teens-can-now-request-their-own-uber-rides/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – Even though school is out for summer, learning hasn’t stopped. Roanoke County Schools’ summer program is in session, and our state’s Department of Education Superintendent paid Burlington Elementary a visit Thursday morning.
“It was exciting to hear the energy of the students, hear the joy in the classrooms, and to have such engaged teachers that are happy and excited,” Dr. Lisa Coons said.
Roanoke County Superintendent Dr. Ken Nicely said there are around 130 or so kids enrolled in the Burlington Elementary summer program.
“The support that we’ve gotten from VDOE to have these summer programs for elementary schools this summer, the extended program, has just been a game changer for so many of our families,” Roanoke County Superintendent Dr. Ken Nicely said.
The program is one example of combatting learning loss during the pandemic.
“Everyone’s learning loss is unique, so having opportunities such as the learning acceleration grants, tutoring, and summer programming, are outstanding ways that our school divisions are supporting our children to help them accelerate back into their on-grade status,” Dr. Coons said.
Dr. Coons said school visits inform the decisions she makes in Richmond. Employing more teachers is one thing she’s been advocating for.
“We are proponents of programs like ‘iTeach’ that was passed by the school board and opportunities such as ‘Grow Your Own’ where our school divisions are really building their own teachers from the ground up inside their own schools,” she said. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/07/06/state-education-superintendent-visits-roanoke-county-schools/ | 2023-07-06T22:05:28 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/07/06/state-education-superintendent-visits-roanoke-county-schools/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – A woman was sent to the hospital after an assault on the Lick Run Greenway Sunday morning, according to the Roanoke Police Department.
On July 2 around 9:10 a.m., Roanoke Police said they were notified of a possible assault at the 2.7 mile marker on the Lick Run Greenway.
When officers responded to the scene, they found Roanoke Fire-EMS treating a woman who had what appeared to be severe injuries from a physical assault.
The victim sustained what appeared to be severe injuries from the assault and was taken to the Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital for treatment, according to police.
Due to the extent of her injuries, authorities said there is very little information available about the suspect and what led to the assault.
RPD said they will be conducting extra patrols on the Lick Run Greenway, both during regular patrol hours and by utilizing officers on the RPD Bike Team.
Authorities are also encouraging community members to walk with a friend, let someone know where they will be and when they will be leaving that area, and be aware of their surroundings.
We’re told the police department is working with the Roanoke Parks and Recreation Team to ensure that the Star City’s Greenways remain safe for all visitors and residents of the City of Roanoke.
Police ask anyone that was on the Lick Run Greenway Sunday morning between 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and saw an elderly woman wearing a wide-brimmed sun hat, glasses, a gray t-shirt, and light green shorts, to call (540)344-8500 and share if you saw anyone near her, interacting with her, or anything else you felt was out of the ordinary for that area. You can also text RPD at 274637; begin the text with “RoanokePD” to ensure it’s properly sent. Both calls and texts can remain anonymous. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/07/06/woman-severely-injured-after-lick-run-greenway-assault-roanoke-police-say/ | 2023-07-06T22:05:35 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/07/06/woman-severely-injured-after-lick-run-greenway-assault-roanoke-police-say/ |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Facing criticism over a last-minute budget compromise, Gov. Josh Shapiro chastised Senate Republican leadership for passing a budget without reaching a consensus with House Democratic leaders.
“It’s now the responsibility of the House and Senate to find a way to work together and iron out those details," Shapiro said. “They need to talk to one another. They need to understand each other’s perspectives and they need to meaningfully engage with one another and they need to learn how to close the deal together.”
The comments followed fallout over Shapiro’s announcement Tuesday that he would veto his own proposal of using state-funded vouchers for private schools. The governor said he made the decision to avoid further delay of the budget, which is already more than a week past due.
“Unwilling to hold up our entire budget process over this issue, I will line-item veto the full $100 million appropriation and it will not be part of this budget bill,” Shapiro said in a statement on July 5.
School-choice advocates denounced the cancellation of the voucher plan, saying the governor betrayed Senate Republicans, who made spending concessions in the budget in return for the vouchers.
“It is unfortunate because he’s probably ruined a level of trust that will be very difficult to regain with still three and a half years left in his administration,” said Matt Brouillette, CEO of conservative group Commonwealth Partners.
Teachers unions applauded the decision, saying that the debate over vouchers was a distraction from a big win for education overall: $1 billion allocated to public K-12 schools.
“We’re grateful that lawmakers have advanced this budget forward that makes those investments,” said Chris Lilienthal, assistant director of communications at the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA). “We also recognize that this is the first step. This budget is really a down payment on a long-term fix to our unconstitutional public school funding system.”
Another big winner in the $45.5 billion budget are low-income homeowners. The 1-year-old Whole Home Repairs program got another $50 million to repair and weatherize houses. Though well short of the $300 million requested by the program, advocates said the amount would help supplement last year’s initial $125 million investment.
“Everywhere it’s being rolled out, demand far exceeds the available dollars. We’re excited that the state and this governor have committed to making this a permanent program,” said State Sen. Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia).
Senate Republicans could still hold up the budget’s passage, as the governor can’t sign the final budget without first getting the signature of the presiding officer of the Senate.
Currently, the Senate is not scheduled to return to session until Sept. 18. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/shapiro-chastises-house-senate-leaders-budget/521-6c55a790-3906-455b-8874-d019c5bb5a96 | 2023-07-06T22:20:13 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/shapiro-chastises-house-senate-leaders-budget/521-6c55a790-3906-455b-8874-d019c5bb5a96 |
FORT WORTH, Texas — Human remains found in March 2023 have been identified as a woman who went missing in January 2006, the Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD) says.
The man the family believes is responsible for the woman's disappearance and death is currently serving life in prison for another woman’s kidnapping.
On Wednesday, June 28, 2023, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office said DNA testing confirmed that the human remains found on March 2, 2023, near the 900 block of S. Hughes Avenue belong to Taalibah Fatin Bint Islam.
Islam was reported missing on Jan. 21, 2006, by her ex-boyfriend and the father of their child, Christopher Revill.
Revill told police that Islam dropped off their baby boy at his home and then left in an unknown SUV. Revill claimed that Islam never returned.
Islam’s family was adamant Revill had something to do with her disappearance, but police never investigated his involvement.
Another disappearance
A decade later, in October of 2016, Revill was arrested in connection to the kidnapping and disappearance of another ex-girlfriend of his, Typhenie Johnson.
According to arrest records, Revill was the last person seen with Johnson, and pieces of her clothing were found in the backyard of his parents' east Fort Worth home.
In August 2019, Revill was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of Johnson’s kidnapping.
During his trial, prosecutors said Revill was possessive, controlling and abusive. Prosecutors in that case also pointed to Islam’s missing person case and said Revill had a long history of violence.
Months before Revill reported Islam missing, he was investigated in an assault against her when she was nine months pregnant, a Fort Worth sergeant testified in that trial.
Islam’s family celebrated with Johnson’s family after Revill’s life sentence.
"Happy, overwhelmed, overjoyed," Islam’s sister, Hadiyah Islam told WFAA in 2019. "He’s gone. [My sister] doesn’t have to worry about him anymore."
Islam is not eligible for parole until 2046, according to court records.
FWPD says that the investigation into Islam’s case is ongoing.
Johnson's body has never been found. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dna-confirms-human-remains-found-in-fort-worth-is-woman-who-went-missing-in-2006/287-19b6fe05-317d-483e-baea-3ed1cb735be2 | 2023-07-06T22:22:10 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dna-confirms-human-remains-found-in-fort-worth-is-woman-who-went-missing-in-2006/287-19b6fe05-317d-483e-baea-3ed1cb735be2 |
DALLAS — A North Texas boy is trying to achieve his goal of becoming a LEGO Mini Master Model Builder.
Bennett was challenged to build a creation that represents Dallas-Fort Worth. Here's what he created:
The LEGO model comes complete with a Texas-shaped American flag and the Reunion Tower!
You can vote for Bennett by going to the Legoland Discover Center Facebook page and liking his photo.
More Texas headlines: | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/legoland-competiton-2023/287-7386ced6-57e0-4e8e-a6e7-0dd0b7538145 | 2023-07-06T22:22:20 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/legoland-competiton-2023/287-7386ced6-57e0-4e8e-a6e7-0dd0b7538145 |
PLANO, Texas — Plano police say new parents surrendered their hour-old infant at a local business Wednesday, and an employee helped save the child.
Angela Owens was behind the counter at Hieline Mobility Solutions, just off US-75, when a man walked in asking for help for his girlfriend and baby. Thinking the child might be choking, Owens ran outside to help.
“I open the passenger door to see a young girl sitting there with a newborn baby in her lap wrapped in a towel,” Owens said.
It was just after 2 p.m. and the parents said their newborn was just an hour old. The mother said she didn’t even know she was pregnant.
Tabatha Peri was also working at the store and grabbed a wheelchair to help, but the mother stayed in the car. Peri and Owens said the pair looked shocked and frightened and they explained to the couple how to surrender the child at a Safe Haven location.
Instead, Owens said she could take the child to a safe place herself. On the phone with 911, she helped tie the umbilical cord with a string.
“There was no thought,” Owens said. "We had to do what we had to do. There’s no other option at that point.”
Both Peri and Owens have three kids of their own and said they felt for the shocked parents, who they said appeared to be teenagers.
“I hope they don’t end up in trouble because I feel like they did the right thing,” Peri said. “That’s what’s killing me right now.”
“I didn’t want them to leave the parking lot and then them not make it to one of those safe haven spots,” Owen said.
The child is healthy with a full head of hair and was treated at a hospital. Police spoke to the mother, who received treatment as well.
“Did some moving, did some crying,” Owens said of the newborn. “She was trying to suckle on her fist to try to get food.”
“We’re mostly concerned about the child and the mother,” said Jennifer Chapman, a Plano Police Spokesperson. “We want to make sure they get the care that they need.”
The Safe Haven Law, also known as the Baby Moses Law, allows any newborn under 60 days old to be taken to any hospital or fire station in Texas, but the child must be handed to someone, not left outside.
In the past 5 years, 175 children have been surrendered statewide through the program, including 28 since last September.
Chapman said it’s too soon to know if there will be charges. She called Owens and Peri a "saving grace" and said she’s thankful the wrong place to take a child turned out to be the perfect one.
“I’m proud of them for asking for help,” Owens said. “That doesn’t happen all the time.” | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/plano-store-employees-help-parents-surrender-hour-old-infant/287-d10fe070-e949-43db-843b-041108b763d3 | 2023-07-06T22:22:26 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/plano-store-employees-help-parents-surrender-hour-old-infant/287-d10fe070-e949-43db-843b-041108b763d3 |
Miss Bristol for 2023 will be crowned Friday evening at the Parkway Chateau, at the annual banquet kicking off three days of events for the 53rd annual Bristol Progress Days festival.
This year’s theme is: “Make A Little Magic In 2023.” The festival is July 7-9, with most events taking place in Hansen Park, 8600 200th Ave.
This year’s banquet includes the Miss Bristol crowning, naming of outstanding citizens and junior outstanding citizens and corporate sponsors.
Miss Bristol
Five teens are vying for this year’s title, with the crowning Friday evening at the Parkway Chateau, 12304 75th St.
Contestants are judged on speaking ability, personality, appearance and civic accomplishments in both their community and in school. At the banquet, they will each have to answer a different question, and receive a final round of judging on socializing, stage appearance and pose, personality and appearance again.
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This year’s contestants include:
Central High School graduate Leslie Herrera, age 17, plans to attend Carthage Collage for a double major in Business and Spanish and a minor in Secondary Education. After college her goal is to become a teacher at Westosha Central High School. In high school, she was actively involved in numerous activities, including Drama Club, concert choir, the mentoring program Peer Helpers, and student council, holding many leadership positions in her four years.
Micaela Lawlor, age 20, hopes to one day open her own café and restaurant and is currently working in the food industry to learn as much as she can. She will be joining Youth with a Mission for discipleship training in Costa Rica, after taking her first mission trip to Ecuador in May. In school, Lawlor was in student council and the German Club, ultimately graduating early. She is an active participant at her church, and has volunteered at homeless shelters serving food and handing out clothes.
Westosha Central High School senior Gwendolyn Sheen, age 17, plans to go to college for engineering. She is a member of the varsity dance team, show choir dance team, Mu Alpha Theta and German Honors Society. She has been taking dance classes since she was 3 years old, and is a member of the National Honors Society. She often volunteers for dance team and show choir events, and is currently part of the freshman mentoring program and tutoring for Mu Alpha Theta.
Melaney Smith, age 18, will be a freshman at the University of Wisconsin Parkside. She plans to be a psychologist to help people and is working towards being a therapist or school counselor. She was a member of the varsity basketball team, and played soccer. She volunteers at the Sky Lodge Christian Camp and is on the worship team at Christian Life School.
Shannon Wiebers, age 17, will be a senior at Westosha Central High School. She plans to attend Purdue Veterinarian School and become a vet registered nurse. She will be volunteering at the Wisconsin Human Society. In school, she was in the Drama Club tech crew. She’s helped with numerous community events, including the Bristol Science Night, the Autism Walk, and the Health Occupations Students of America state competition. She does figure and team skating and has been training for 10 years. Last year she was first runner up at the Miss Bristol competition.
The schedule
FRIDAY
6 p.m.: Banquet at the Parkway Chateau, including the Miss Bristol crowning, naming of outstanding citizens and junior outstanding citizens and corporate sponsors.
Tickets will not be sold at the door. For more info call 262-945-1630.
5 p.m.-8 p.m.: Carnival
6 p.m.: Registration for Baggo Tournament
6:30 p.m.: Baggo Tournament begins
6:30 p.m.: Fast Pitch Tournament
SATURDAY
All day: Fast Pitch Softball Tournament
7 a.m.: 5K run, starting at village hall. Same day registration.
7:15 a.m.: 1.5 mile walk at village hall.
9 a.m.: Volleyball Tournament
10 a.m.: Registration for Dart ball Tournament
10:30 a.m.: Dart ball Tournament begins
11 a.m.: Peddle Pull begins
11 a.m.: Scales open Garden Tractor Pull
12 p.m.: Garden Tractor Pull begins
12-3 p.m.: Carnival wristband special
1-4 p.m.: Candy Bar Bingo/temporary tattoos/water balloon toss
4-7 p.m.: Carnival wristband special
6 p.m.: Pie Eating Contest 14 and under
6:30 p.m.: Pie Eating Contest 15 and over, registration 5:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m. Ping-Pong Ball Drop Contest
8 p.m.: Music: Dirty Canteen
SUNDAY
All day: Fast Pitch Softball Tournament
12:30 p.m.: Parade through Bristol to Hansen Park
2:30 p.m.: Live Auction – West Pavilion
3-6 p.m.: Carnival wristband special
5-7:30 p.m.: Big Balloon Tycoon
6 p.m.: Music in Beer Tent: Trip
8:30 p.m.: Raffle A drawing
8:45 p.m.: Raffle B drawing | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/miss-bristol-to-be-selected-friday-evening-kickoff-bristol-progress-days/article_4300cba2-1c29-11ee-99c2-f7992b81e716.html | 2023-07-06T22:24:16 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/miss-bristol-to-be-selected-friday-evening-kickoff-bristol-progress-days/article_4300cba2-1c29-11ee-99c2-f7992b81e716.html |
Pennoyer Park tennis courts in Kenosha will be converted into Pickleball courts, but not all City Council members are happy about it.
The City Council voted 13-2 on Monday to amend the city’s Capital Improvement Program for 2023 by increasing the allotment for Pickleball courts to a total of $62,000 by transferring $22,000 from park impact fees. The City Council then voted 13-2 to award a $53,831 contract to Kenosha-based Cicchini Asphalt to convert the existing tennis courts at 3601 Seventh Ave. to Pickleball courts with striping and the installation of permanent nets.
Alds. David Mau and Kelly MacKay voted against both the funding resolution and contract.
Work on the project is expected to start this summer and last 19 days, weather permitting.
Mau said he believes such spending is unwise.
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“Here’s a very good example of something that we should be voting ‘no’ on,” Mau said. “We have to prioritize. We can’t just say ‘yes’ to everything that comes in front of us because, ‘Oh, because people want Pickleball.’”
Mau said he sent his colleagues articles on the sport “showing, and this is not my opinion, these articles showed you that Pickleball is increasing our health care costs due to all the injuries.”
“The articles also pointed out that only rich people play Pickleball ... (and) pretty much only white people play Pickleball. With all that in mind, including the fact that we can’t pay for everything — as I said, we can’t pay for our staff, we can’t pay for our police officers — you have to vote ‘no’ on something. At least one thing, please. We don’t have an infinite pocketbook. You don’t at home, you don’t with your family and you don’t here at the city,” Mau said.
MacKay also expressed skepticism.
“There is less and less for young people to do” and “we need to be putting our money into a better place than Pickleball,” MacKay said.
Ald. Dominic Ruffalo was of the opposite opinion from Mau on the matter.
“I happened to be jogging Downtown at the lakefront on Saturday and went by the Pickleball courts by Pennoyer Park there and they were packed — must have been 30 people there. Everybody playing and some waiting to play,” Ruffalo said. “The citizens of Kenosha want Pickleball. I don’t play it but the citizens want it. I didn’t look what color they were. It’s none of my damn business what color they are. They enjoyed the sport and let them play.
“It’s about time. Less and less people play tennis and we got plenty of tennis courts and we’re gonna convert some of them to Pickleball. I don’t know what the big deal is. The people want it and if it makes sense we ought to do it,” he said.
Ald. Anthony Kennedy said all city employees are being paid by the city and “we’re talking $56,000 against an $80 million budget.”
“We’re talking about something that is going to increase utilization for an asset that there’s a smaller and smaller group of people using. You want to talk about elitist sports, let’s talk tennis,” Kennedy said. “I don’t want to live in the city that some of my colleagues want to put across where ... the only things that you’re supposed to do is provide some very basic services.”
“I don’t want to live in that town,” Kennedy said. “I want to live in the City of Kenosha where our parks are amazingly invested in and continue to be crown jewels in our city."
"It is hard sometimes to sit in these seats and make these decisions. This is not a hard decision for me. And I have played Pickleball and I’m neither white nor rich,” Kennedy added.
“I think one of our roles as alderpersons is to make sure the city amenities that exist are used,” Ald. Daniel Prozanski said.
“To have tennis courts that, for whatever reason haven’t been being used much to play tennis, and there be a demand for Pickleball courts it’s really, really a good idea to transform those tennis courts to Pickleball courts,” Prozanski said. “It’s a good use to put more people in the parks and increase park utilization.”
Prozanski added, “Don’t be sour on Pickleball.”
Mau countered “the fact that we have tennis courts and they’re not popular anymore actually speaks to my point.”
“The government does stupid things all the time and things that are unpopular all the time,” Mau said. “At a certain point we have to stop if you don’t have enough money. We can’t predict the future. We don’t know how Pickleball will be popular in the future. Obviously, none of us predicted that tennis wouldn’t be popular. How come tennis isn’t popular anymore?”
“If people want Pickleball they’ll make Pickleball (courts). Wow. Imagine that,” he said.
Growing sport
Pickleball has exploded in popularity in recent years among all age groups. It’s a tennis-like game played on a badminton-sized court. Players use a paddle resembling a giant ping-pong paddle and a plastic ball similar to a whiffle ball.
Participation in the sport nearly doubled in 2022 and has grown by over 150% over the last three years, according to the 2023 Sports & Fitness Industry Association Topline Participation Report. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/pennoyer-park-tennis-courts-to-be-converted-into-pickleball-courts/article_553cd6ae-1c32-11ee-83b9-b744fb87a79b.html | 2023-07-06T22:24:22 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/pennoyer-park-tennis-courts-to-be-converted-into-pickleball-courts/article_553cd6ae-1c32-11ee-83b9-b744fb87a79b.html |
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Stranded manatee rescued at Ponce Inlet in team effort
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A stranded manatee in Ponce Inlet was carried off the beach Wednesday and transported to Sea World Rehabilitation Center.
Volusia County sheriff's deputies joined Florida Fish and Wildlife and members of the County of Volusia Marine Mammal Stranding Team in the rescue, according to a post on the Sheriff's Office Facebook page.
Residents and visitors are asked not to approach or touch a stranded animal. Report them on the Florida Fish and Wildlife alert hotline at 888-404-3922. | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/2023/07/06/stranded-manatee-rescued-at-ponce-inlet/70389429007/ | 2023-07-06T22:25:17 | 1 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/2023/07/06/stranded-manatee-rescued-at-ponce-inlet/70389429007/ |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A child is in the hospital after being shot Thursday afternoon.
According to the Birmingham Police Department, crews responded to the 800 block of 1st Street North before 2 p.m. regarding a 4-year-old child who was suffering from a gunshot wound. BPD reported that there was another person in the same apartment as the victim when the shooting happened.
The victim was then taken to Children’s of Alabama in serious condition.
Detectives have not ruled out the shooting as being accidental. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/child-shot-in-birmingham/ | 2023-07-06T22:31:05 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/child-shot-in-birmingham/ |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The leaders of 10 of Alabama’s biggest cities are hosting a photo contest for the public to enter.
The mayors, collectively called the Alabama Big 10 Mayors, announced the contest on Facebook, where people can send pictures of their favorite cities across the state. The contest runs through Sept. 4.
To enter, send a direct message of the photos to the Alabama Big 10 Mayors Facebook page for a chance to win a $500 Visa gift card. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/mayors-of-alabamas-10-largest-cities-hosting-photo-contest/ | 2023-07-06T22:31:11 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/mayors-of-alabamas-10-largest-cities-hosting-photo-contest/ |
SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio man has been arrested after an accusation that he sexually assaulted a child who was visiting his home, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said Thursday.
Felix Marfil, 63, is facing a charge of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child, which is a first-degree felony. He was booked into the Bexar County Jail on Thursday.
On April 27, a 10-year-old girl was visiting Marfil's home when she went to a bedroom to play with a toy. That's whey Marfil allegedly came into the room and engaged in inappropriate contact with the child, Salazar said.
Marfil's wife apparently inadvertently ended the encounter when she called for the child to come back from the room. His wife later concluded that something had happened based on the girl's comments and reported the incident to law enforcement.
Salazar said Marfil later admitted to the mother of the victim via text message that he had committed some of the acts. The sheriff said the combination of the girl's statements and the text messages led to the arrest warrant being issued for Marfil.
Marfil works in health care and may have had contact with other potential victims, Salazar said. He encouraged anyone with information to contact the Bexar County Sheriff's Office at 210-335-6000. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-man-sexual-assault-felony-charge-girl/273-cbc8cdef-c4b8-4938-b824-9b3c2767e36c | 2023-07-06T22:41:47 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-man-sexual-assault-felony-charge-girl/273-cbc8cdef-c4b8-4938-b824-9b3c2767e36c |
ORLANDO, Fla. — Sending illegal drugs through the mail is a felony, yet 9 Investigates discovered pounds of marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl all moving through the U.S. Postal Service from across the globe, bound for Central Florida.
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“Well, that’s why we are the frontline because we are finding things, not just stopping,” said Alain Rodriguez from his sprawling Customs and Border Protection search facility in Miami.
On the rainy South Florida day that we visited Rodriguez, his team including one K-9 were sifting through international mail as it came into the country, pulling some packages aside and finding everything from Viagra to horse tranquilizer.
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“It is concerning ... concerning for the safety of our employees, our safety, and the safety of the public,” Rodriguez said. “Our job is to actually find it, and then we roll all that information through the authorities, you know, that in the area are partners, that way they can actually create some type of operations.”
In April, federal agents traced one of these packages filled with cocaine that had been shipped from Puerto Rico to a community mailbox in Osceola County. At the mailbox, agents arrested a 29-year-old man, charging him with possession with intent to distribute.
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“We do see a lot of activity in Florida, and for that reason, it’s probably where we have the most task force officers,” said Daniel Adame of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. “I think drug cartels now have sprouted in a lot of areas that you would traditionally not see them.”
From October 2022 to April of this year, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service seized more than 3,200 pounds of methamphetamine, 3,500 pounds of cocaine, and 2,200 pounds of syenitic opioids across the country.
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In Central Florida, the cocaine, meth, heroin, marijuana and fentanyl were bound for south and east Orange County (Zip codes: 32807, 32822, 32825, 32824, 32839).
The Buena Ventura Lakes and Campbell neighborhoods in Kissimmee (Zip codes: 34741, 34743, 34744, 34746) were also on the list, as well as Palm Bay (32908, 32909), Deltona (32725), and Clermont (34714).
“It’s working its way into every single community, regardless of demographics, socioeconomic status,” said Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Orange County leaders have voted down plans to build a new 45,000-square-foot Hindu temple in a local neighborhood.
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People living in Gotha received the decision they were hoping for after raising concerns about a proposed temple on the land. The Orange County Board of Zoning Adjustment unanimously declined the 45,000-square-foot site plans.
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The board said the main reason for its decision is the proposed temple is too large for that proposed area.
“We wish as a congregation that things would have gone in our favor, but we have to also understand the community and the voice of the community,” temple spokesperson Jamin Brahmbhatt said.
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The building would have been located right in the middle of a current nursery and another religious building.
People with the temple said their current one is outdated and requires a lot of maintenance. They have 10 days to challenge the decision and take it to commissioners.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal government is cracking down on the packaging for certain edibles that contain THC.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent cease and desist letters to six companies that the agencies argue use “illegal” and “reckless” packaging for delta-8 THC edibles.
“They are so similar to foods you would find in the supermarket to packages of Oreos, or Sour Patch Kids or Doritos that children certainly could mistake them for conventional foods,” said Christine Delorme, an attorney in the FTC’s Division of Advertising Practices. “We’re focusing on the fact that the packaging is really misleading and is really enticing to children and could really cause accidental poisonings.”
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Delta-8 THC is a psychoactive substance that has not been approved or evaluated by the FDA for safe use in any way.
According to the FDA, national poison control centers received 2,362 exposure cases involving delta-8 THC from January 2021 to February 2022.
Of those cases, 41 percent involved people under age 18.
One case in that timeframe involved a child who died.
“Certainly, this is an issue of public concern,” said Delorme.
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The National Cannabis Industry Association said it agrees copy-cat kind of packaging is irresponsible and they point out it’s used on unregulated products.
The association said this problem underscores why the federal government should pass federal regulations for the cannabis industry.
“The actions are certainly understandable, but are just a band-aid,” said Aaron Smith, CEO of the National Cannabis Industry Association. “The real solution here is to regulate cannabis across the country so that these sorts of loopholes and ways that they’re being exploited by these bad actors are no longer available.”
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In response to the letters from the FTC and FDA, at least one company told our Washington News Bureau it immediately removed the products in question from their website and store shelves and is fully cooperating with the federal government’s requests.
That company, North Carolina Hemp Exchange, echoed the same push for federal regulations for the cannabis industry.
NC Hemp Exchange, LLC. Manager Diane Becker wrote in part: “As a retailer in the hemp and CBD industry, we do not want to break rules; we just need to know what they are. That can’t happen if they have not been created and implemented. Passing regulations would better protect consumers, manufacturers and retailers alike.”
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POLK COUNTY, Fla. — A Polk County husband and wife were arrested Thursday after deputies say they left a toddler in their car overnight.
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According to the sheriff’s office, Joel and Jazmine Rondon, both 33 years old, were at an Independence Day celebration in Lakeland with their three children on July 4 and didn’t return to their home on Winchester Estates Circle until approximately 3 a.m. the next morning.
Deputies say the couple began to unload their car when Jazmine told Joel to bring the 18-month-old baby inside while she took the other two children into the home.
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According to the sheriff’s office, Joel noticed that one of the car doors was open as he took more items into the house, and said all four doors were closed when he went back outside, leading him to believe Jazmine had already removed the toddler from the car.
Deputies say Joel and Jazmine- who each consumed alcohol and marijuana at the celebration- then went to sleep without asking each other if either of them had brought the baby inside.
According to the sheriff’s office, Joel woke up at approximately 10 a.m. Wednesday and asked one of the other children to “Check on the baby” in the bedroom, but the child told Joel the baby wasn’t there.
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That’s when deputies say Joel looked around the house for the baby before going outside and finding the toddler still strapped in her car-seat in the car which had been parked in the driveway fully exposed to the sun.
Joel and Jazmine took the baby to Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center. Despite efforts to cool her body, the toddler was pronounced dead just before 3 p.m. According to the sheriff’s office, the child had an internal body temperature of 104.4 degrees when she died.
Later that night, both Joel and Jazmine submitted to drug screens by the Florida Department of Children and Families. At that time, Jazmine still tested positive for both marijuana and alcohol while Joel tested positive for marijuana, alcohol, and methamphetamine.
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Both Joel and Jazmine Rondon were charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, a first-degree felony.
Joel Rondon also has a prior criminal history that includes arrests for attempted murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
According to the sheriff’s office, the couple’s other two children are with other relatives.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The NAACP is urging colleges and universities to make a commitment to maintain and increase diversity. This push is in response to the U.S. Supreme Court banning the use of race as a factor in admissions.
The civil rights organization is calling the effort “Diversity No Matter What” and the pledge is targeted to the more than 1,600 institutions with selective admissions processes.
The pledge outlines various steps schools can take to help maintain inclusive college campuses.
“If you aren’t mindful about your admissions process, then you tend to eliminate some very highly qualified students that may not come to your institutions,” said Dr. Ivory Toldson, Howard University professor and NAACP Director of Education Innovation and Research.
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Some of the organization’s suggested steps include developing a holistic approach for evaluating an applicant’s background, achievements, and potential, recruiting diverse faculty and staff members, and supporting low-income and first-generation students on campus.
“You can still follow the law and create some opportunities for the students who need those opportunities the most,” said Dr. Toldson.
A recent Pew Research Center survey shows half of Americans disapprove of affirmative action, while about a third of them support it. It also shows many believe considering race makes college admissions less fair.
“I went through the affirmative action programs, I knew a lot of my compatriots were being set up to fail because they were being put in a place where they did not have the proper background and that is absolutely demoralizing,” said Roger Severino, vice president of Domestic Policy at the Heritage Foundation.
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Leaders from the Center Policy Analysis & Research hope schools will continue to use targeted outreach programs for minority students, which is still legal under the new ruling.
“Make sure that they are living up to their own goals and ideals with regards to diversity, to increase the number of students of color and underrepresented students across their campuses, they can go out and find these people, right? The same way that institutions go out and recruit for their division one athletes, or athletic programs and other things that can do the same thing for students,” said Dr. Jonathan Cox, vice president of the Center Policy Analysis & Research.
Moving forward, Dr. Cox said there should be efforts to eliminate legacy preferences within admissions too.
“Knowing historically that students of color have not been admitted to these institutions at the same numbers as their white peers, that’s going to continue to add to the imbalance as well,” said Dr. Cox.
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The NAACP is also expecting an increase in enrollment at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) following this
“We need to increase the capacity of HBCUs. I think that we should have an HBCU that can accommodate 20,000 students right now, but we don’t, but that’s where we are in our history,” said Dr. Toldson.
California is a good example of what could happen nationwide without affirmative action. It was the first state to ban the policy back in 1996. University data shows enrollment for Black and Latino students dropped sharply during the first year without affirmative action at schools with highly selective programs.
The Center Policy Analysis & Research is also hosting a webinar about the impact of the court’s ruling on Black students on Thursday, July 6 at 6:30 p.m.: https://www.cbcfinc.org/event/webinar-the-end-of-race-conscious-admissions-in-higher-education-what-does-this-mean-for-black-students/
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COCOA, Fla. — Cocoa police say an online popup tricked a local man into wiring a scammer thousands of dollars of his life savings.
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Luckily, the man’s family managed to put a hold on that transaction. But now, police want to make sure no one else is deceived.
On Wednesday, police got a call from the victim. He was just trying to order a pizza when he saw a popup about his account being compromised. By the time the real scammers were done, it was compromised.
The scammer claimed to be a Microsoft security team member, and even transferred the Cocoa man to an alleged security team leader.
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“There’s a long list of instructions that he did everything from giving remote access to his computer to buying a new cellphone (and) transferring money to another country,” said Yvonne Martinez with Cocoa Police Department.
Police said a local bank clerk was suspicious of the transaction, which as of now still hasn’t been completed. But there were other red flags along the way.
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“The scammer was also telling our victim not to communicate any of this with his family. Well, that’s the first thing you need to do,” Martinez said. “Never, ever, ever give personal information about anything to anyone. First, verify. If someone says they’re something wrong with your bank account hang up, call your bank.”
Cocoa police are still hopeful the victim’s financial institution will be able to return all the money to his account.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Orange County’s tourist tax collections declined for the second month in a row, according to data released by Comptroller Phil Diamond Thursday.
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The tax is generated form hotel stays and short-term rentals in Florida.
After a post-COVID rush to Central Florida’s attractions, Diamond says he thinks the tourism market might be normalizing.
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“Down two months in a row, and the month before it had been completely flat. That’s following 14 record-breaking months of tourist taxes,” Diamond explained. “Last year was so good that you just can’t keep up that level of demand and that level of tourism all the time.”
Comptroller Diamond announced that TDT collections for May 2023 were $26,216,500. That is a 6.7% decrease compared to May 2022. Click here to read the press release: https://t.co/iXXjhE7cFi
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Diamond says the data should serve as a caution as Orange County leaders prepare to decide what to do with funds from the Tourism Development Tax.
He compares the Tourist Development Tax to the roller-coaster rides Central Florida is known for, citing highs and unprecedented lows in revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic and during the 2008 recession.
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“One thing we’ve seen over history is that the tourist tax is very volatile,” Diamond said. “It can change on a dime.”
As Orange County leaders entertain 11 final proposals for how last year’s funding should be used, Diamond urges the decision makers to proceed with caution before committing to costly construction plans.
“They need to be realistic about what they can expect for projects they support, or projects they might be interested in,” Diamond explained. “Just because, if the tourism tax goes down, there’s less money to pay for stuff.”
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The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is one of many groups now trying to get their hands on that funding. Officials there say they hope to receive $145 million from last year’s Orange County Tourist Development Tax to expand the center.
If they’re selected, construction could begin in 2024.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A teenager who Orange County deputies said confessed to fatally shooting a 23-year-old woman is accused of shooting and killing a pregnant teenager less than a year later.
Jackie Davis said if her daughter’s accused killer had been kept in jail, maybe 16-year-old De’shayla Ferguson and her unborn child’s lives could have been saved.
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Davis’ daughter, Jemile Pittman, was killed 11 months before Deshayla.
“I just dropped to my knees because that was the worst news I could ever imagine, that my child was dead,” Davis said.
Then 16-year-old Lorenzo Larry admitted to detectives that he killed Pittman but he claimed it was self-defense.
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According to an investigative report, he told detectives he and Pittman were struggling over a gun he was trying to sell. The report shows in the moments and days after the shooting, Larry confessed to multiple people that he killed Pittman and threw the gun and a phone into a lake.
He then left the area, and the report shows at one point his family members appeared to use social media posts to fake his death.
Larry himself later posted, “I’m good and not dead.”
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Five months later, he was back in Central Florida and Davis says she saw him and called 911.
“I was on the phone and I was like shaking, we got the killer we’re finna get him, all I want is for him to be off the streets,” Davis said.
That night, months before Ferguson’s murder, Larry was arrested on gun charges.
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“That was the happiest moment that I ever could [have felt] because I said I did my job,” Davis said. “I got him off the streets. But that wasn’t the case.”
Sherriff’s office investigators said they handed their investigative report into Jemile’s death to the state attorney’s office to consider charges.
The prosecutor at the time thought the shooting could be justified, but no final decision on charges was made.
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In the following months, Larry was arrested multiple times including for domestic violence and gun charges. Then he was arrested and charged with the murder of De’shayla Ferguson.
“If he was in there still incarcerated for my daughter, De’shayla and her baby would still be alive today,” Davis said.
When Channel 9 first contacted the state attorney’s office about this case three weeks ago, we were told the office could not decide on charges in the Pittman case because it didn’t have the final case packet from the sheriff’s office.
We learned that packet was requested from the sheriff’s office after we spoke to them.
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Dallas Police are responding to a call to assist an officer who collapsed outside an apartment complex Thursday afternoon.
Police were called to the Residence at the Oaks apartments along the 2700 block of Duncanville Road where they arrived to find an officer collapsed at the location.
NBC 5 has learned that doorbell video showed the officer collapsing but that it didn't appear as though the officer interacted with anyone in the moments before.
The office was taken to Methodist Dallas Medical Center in an unknown condition.
It's not known if the officer was responding to a call at the complex or if the officer lived in the community.
The apartment complex is a 55+ community located along Duncanville Road south of W. Illinois Avenue and not far from the Loop 12/Spur 408 split.
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DULUTH — A man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for a drive-by shooting that injured another man and narrowly missed a jogger.
Kewon Lavetta Issac Dunn, 23, of Duluth, was ordered to serve 146 months after pleading guilty to first-degree assault in the Aug. 10, 2021, attack in broad daylight on the streets of the city's Endion neighborhood.
Dunn, according to a prosecutor, was motivated to kill the intended target, Christian Grimes, over a dispute stemming from a broken car window. He was reportedly seen "emptying a clip of a 9 mm pistol," barely missing the 24-year-old jogger who "stated she was thankful she was not hit by the gunfire as the bullets were traveling right past her."
Dunn entered into a plea agreement with the St. Louis County Attorney's Office in May, resulting in the dismissal of additional counts of attempted second-degree murder, drive-by shooting, possession of a firearm by a felon and second-degree assault. Judge David Johnson approved the agreement and imposed the sentence last week.
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Grimes, then 21, called 911 around 8:20 a.m. to report that he had been shot in the area of 15th Avenue East and Superior Street, identifying Dunn as the perpetrator and providing the description of a red Pontiac. Numerous witnesses also saw the car leaving the area.
Grimes' brother, Benjamin, drove the victim to St. Luke's hospital and provided a statement to police. He reported that they had been searching for their stolen motorcycle, when they saw the Pontiac driving south down 15th Avenue East. Both brothers said they saw Dunn in the back seat, extending a black pistol out the window.
Christian started running north on 15th Avenue East, while Benjamin ran down a nearby alley. Christian told police he heard several shots ring out in quick succession before feeling a burning pain in his lower back. He called out to his brother, who helped get him to their car that was parked nearby.
Authorities said the entire account was corroborated by surveillance video and the jogger.
Dunn was later taken into custody with the assistance of the Duluth Police Department's Tactical Response Team. Authorities said a 9 mm Ruger handgun was found in his mother's vehicle behind his residence. Several 9 mm casings had been recovered at the shooting scene.
Dunn's girlfriend, Brianna Rose Clark-Johnson, was suspected of driving the Pontiac during the shooting and obstructing the investigation by later lying to police. However, her charge of aiding an offender was dismissed by prosecutors in June 2022 after defense attorneys submitted a report from a private investigator at Duluth's Applied Professional Services.
Grimes, according to an interview report, said he saw three people in the car but was focused on the handgun pointed in his direction. "I know for sure who the shooter was," he said, "but I can't really say 100% who else was in the car."
Dunn was still on probation at the time of the shooting for his involvement in a September 2016 drive-by shooting in Hermantown. While he was not alleged to have personally fired during that incident, court documents state that he brought a .22-caliber pistol to the scene. At least one other person fired into a crowd of people, striking a 20-year-old man in the leg.
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The latest probation violation resulted in the judge revoking probation and executing a 153-month prison term for his attempted second-degree conviction in that case. However, he already has more than three years of credit for time served in that case.
With good behavior, Dunn could be eligible for supervised release from prison by October 2029. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/duluth-man-sentenced-to-12-years-for-drive-by-shooting | 2023-07-06T22:43:46 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/duluth-man-sentenced-to-12-years-for-drive-by-shooting |
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INDIANAPOLIS — Thursday morning crews started installing a mini park on Monument Circle in preparation for Downtown Indy Inc,’s “Spark on the Circle.”
It will transform the southwest quadrant into a pedestrian-only space and will last until November. It will feature daily public art, live music, food and beverage, and community programming.
“It’s really about this immersive experience that will hopefully bring both visitors and residents together to experience Monument Circle in a way they haven’t before,” said Taylor Schaffer, president and CEO of Downtown Indy Inc. “It is taking this experience of what Monument Circle is sometimes known for, which is that intermittent hosting of events and really expanding on that.”
The city said the idea came after feedback from downtown residents.
“What we heard from folks is that they wanted more greenspaces, they wanted shade, they wanted free spaces, similar to how some of the streets were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Rusty Carr, the director of Indy’s Department of Metropolitan Development. “This is our vision and the city’s vision and the people’s vision coming to life.”
This summer, the city is also getting some extra help. Big Car Collaborative is partnering with TeenWorks, a nonprofit organization that offers paid employment to youth.
"It really is a great experience for them to be here and not just to see it, but to be part of it,” said Jim Walker, the president of Big Bar Collaborative. “They will also be able to bring their families down here and hang out and be like, ‘I made that table, or I helped move this.’”
The soft launch of SPARK will take place Saturday, July 8 and an official grand opening will happen next Tuesday, July 11 at 10:30 a.m.
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CLARK COUNTY, Ind. — Two people from Louisville are fortunately alright after their small aircraft crashed just across the Ohio River.
Around 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 6, the Jeffersonville police and fire departments responded to a reported plane crash near Port Road and Middle Road near Jeffersonville.
First responders found a crashed Diamond Katana personal aircraft upright in a field.
The pilot and a passenger had flown from Bowman Field in Louisville across the Ohio River before the crash. Neither had any injuries, but Indiana State Police did not specify whether the two were released or taken to a hospital to be checked.
ISP turned the investigation over to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to further investigate the cause of the crash. FAA authorities determined, after their preliminary investigation, that a mechanical malfunction is likely to blame for the crash.
The FAA will conduct a separate, more thorough investigation in the coming days. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/no-injuries-plane-crash-jeffersonville-faa-investigating-utica-indiana-pilot-flying-louisville-kentucky/531-10829fdc-7c77-4b83-8092-59c2d182a0d8 | 2023-07-06T22:44:02 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/no-injuries-plane-crash-jeffersonville-faa-investigating-utica-indiana-pilot-flying-louisville-kentucky/531-10829fdc-7c77-4b83-8092-59c2d182a0d8 |
GREEN FOREST, Ark. — A Purdue University student from Fishers was among three people killed in a car crash in Arkansas Wednesday.
The Arkansas Highway Patrol reports the crash happened on US 62 east of the city of Green Forest in northern Arkansas.
Twenty-year-old Abigail Cox was one of five young people in a truck when police say an SUV crossed the center line, crashing into them. The couple in the SUV both died from their injuries.
The four other people in the truck, all ages 18 or 19, were taken to the hospital for treatment of their injuries. The couple who was killed was identified as Michael and Amy Weiss of Cotter, Arkansas.
Cox is a 2021 graduate of Hamilton Southeastern High School. She is a junior in the school of business at Purdue.
According to KYTV in Springfield, Missouri, Cox was working as a counselor at Kanakuk, a summer camp in southern Missouri.
The camp shared the following statement with KYTV:
"We are in communication with the staff members’ families and are providing them with assistance and support in any way we can. No words can begin to express how deeply we grieve for the families of all those involved, and we are lifting them up in prayer for peace and comfort during this difficult time." | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/purdue-student-from-fishers-indiana-abigail-cox-killed-in-arkansas-crash/531-8502a556-d80e-4ca9-9247-561682ec8fdb | 2023-07-06T22:44:04 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/purdue-student-from-fishers-indiana-abigail-cox-killed-in-arkansas-crash/531-8502a556-d80e-4ca9-9247-561682ec8fdb |
ADAMS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A Butler County man is accused of trying to solicit sex from two decoys posing as teenage girls.
New video shows a member of an online non-profit dedicated to catching child predators confronting the suspect, Dale Pine, 61.
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PITTSBURGH — City of Pittsburgh leaders want to expand Bakery Square down Penn Avenue to the busway.
“You’ll see new apartments, new expansion of businesses, new retail just a vibrant new community,” said Councilman Reverend Ricky Burgess as he explained new legislation to expand Bakery Square.
Apartments, office space, outdoor areas, and retail, Pittsburgh City Council will decide if Bakery Square can expand in East Liberty.
“It’ll go from East Liberty Boulevard down basically to Target,” Burgess explained.
The highlighted area shows where the new development will be located. Next to the current bakery square and the adjacent neighborhood of Larimer.
In addition to the mixed-development plan, Walnut Capital, the developers behind the project, have agreed to help fund a $25 million effort to build and rehab 100 homes in the Larimer community.
“We are using the expansion of Bakery Square to use corporate resources to rebuild Black communities. It is the last missing piece of our work,” Burgess said.
A plan Burgess said has been years in the making and has the support of both the Larimer Consensus Group and East Liberty Development Inc.
We asked community members if the plan had their support.
“It’s going to make it a much more attractive place to be, and I am excited about that,” said Reverend Deryck Tanes.
Reverend Deryck Tanes and Dr. James Johnson Jr. Run the city’s oldest African American music school in nearby Homewood and agree that expanding development and creating housing will help make the city a more attractive place to visit and live.
“Now we have a place that when. you have out-of-town guests you can take them to and feel good about it, and now that I know the purpose behind the plan, I wish more cities would model after what we are doing here,” said Dr. Johnson, the founder of the Afro American Music Institute
If approved, the proposed plan will be built in phases over the next three to four years.
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PITTSBURGH — David Taylor has been in the classroom for 30 years. He was a high school math teacher and more recently, a middle school math teacher in South Fayette Township. He’s also the President of the Western Office of the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA). He says in all his experience, he’s never seen anything like the teacher shortage affecting our local schools.
“We’re not almost at a crisis, we’re actually knee-deep in the crisis,” Taylor tells Channel 11. “We’re already worried. I think the general characterization that we have not been hit hard yet is not what we’re seeing in the classroom.”
New teacher certifications have plummeted, and a gutted retirement system and no minimum salary provides no incentive. Student teachers don’t get paid and students who want to become teachers are taking on massive loads of debt.
We talked to teachers across several districts. Classes are being combined, sometimes without additional materials or desks, leaving students to sit on the floor without necessary instructional materials. Substitutes aren’t easy to come by.
“We’re distributing kids among one teacher’s classroom to nine other teachers,” Taylor says. “We’re putting multiple classes in an auditorium for coverage with one sub because we don’t have three.”
Teachers are burned out, many, including new teachers, are throwing in the towel and the pipeline is nearly empty.
“We’re in the middle of a 73% decline in new teacher certifications being issued to students and that is completely unsustainable,” Taylor adds.
A decade ago, 16,000 new teaching certificates were earned in PA. From 2021-2022, only 4,200 new teaching certificates were awarded - a 73-percent drop.
Taylor says to find and retain teachers we need a fair starting salary.
“There is a minimum salary, but most people don’t realize it’s $ 28,000 a year,” Taylor says. “We have professionals in the state that make the minimum and below. That sounds like poverty level to most of us.”
He argues student teachers need to be paid.
“Zero dollars and you’re working every day,” Taylor added. “It’s a barrier.”
Nina Esposito-Visgitis is the President of the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, which represents teachers in Pittsburgh Public Schools.
“I’m really worried about what’s to hit Pittsburgh,” Esposito-Visgitis tells Channel 11. “It pains me greatly because we’re losing so many teachers.”
She says teachers need support in the classroom and in the community to make teaching the noble profession it once was.
“Students are smart,” Esposito-Visgitis added. “They see it. They’re in the classroom. They see disgruntled teachers, they see burned out teachers, overworked teachers, so why would you go into a profession where you’re making less for doing more work?”
Esposito-Visgitis says substitutes, paraprofessionals and special education positions are nearly impossible to fill.
“I think it will have to get very, very bad for someone to actually do something,” she adds.
Then there’s the issue of safety. Esposito-Visgitis says teachers will fiercely protect their students no matter what.
“You shouldn’t be afraid to go to work, nobody should,” Esposito-Visgitis says. “Particularly students shouldn’t be afraid to go to school. The things you have to worry about now are just scary to me. The gun violence, the gun violence in the schools. There are things teachers have to worry about.”
Taylor and Esposito-Visgitis say if something isn’t done to address this shortage now, they fear it will be too late.
“If those things don’t change, I fear we’re not going to come out of this teacher shortage,” Taylor adds.
“We have to come up with a comprehensive way to attract people to make it what it is, a fantastic profession that changes lives every day,” Esposito-Visgitis says.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Thursday kicks off a weekend full of mental health awareness events as a part of National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. The events, hosted by The Well, begin Thursday evening with a reception.
On Friday, Mayor Kenneth Welch will proclaim July as Bebe Moore Campbell National BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month in the sunshine city, emphasizing the significance of mental health within minority communities.
The proclamation will take place at 9 a.m. at Eckerd College in St. Pete.
"The proclamation of National BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month in St. Petersburg, coupled with the Healing While Black Summit 2023, demonstrates the City's commitment to promoting mental well-being and creating a community that supports and uplifts its diverse communities," Welch said in a statement.
The Healing While Black Summit celebrates the month, with a focus on the impacts joy has on mental health.
The founder and CEO of The Well, Dr. LaDonna Butler, shared why joy is this year's focus.
"This year, The Well is centering joy as a surreal strategy," Butler said. "So often we get bogged down in the busyness of life and the stresses of life that we forget to anchor in joy. Well, over the course of this week, we are going to get creative, we know the power of creativity, we know the power of community, and we know what happens when we are pursuing it in connection with other with others."
There is a stigma surrounding mental health. In Black communities, that stigma can stop people from getting the help needed. Butler said that's why it's so important to have a month dedicated to raising awareness.
"Well, I would love to say that we are all on equal ground and everyone is progressing," Butler said. "But that's just not real right now. But if we pay attention to it, if we center those who are often most harmed and least helped, then we can get closer to the solution. I don't necessarily think that we only need to focus on the hard things, because that's not ever really been a good strategy. But when we focus on the strengths of our community and the strength of our total unity, we can really get there."
The Healing While Black Summit brings together renowned industry professionals, community leaders, and individuals with lived experiences to explore joy-centered strategies, innovative approaches to trauma, fostering well-being, and cultivating resilience within minority communities. With both in-person and virtual attendance options, the summit aims to ensure inclusivity and accessibility for all.
For more details on the summit, the events scheduled and the speakers included, click here. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/minority-mental-health-awareness-month-summit-st-pete/67-86b0c656-5ba6-49e6-9be3-66c73fcdc605 | 2023-07-06T22:48:53 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/minority-mental-health-awareness-month-summit-st-pete/67-86b0c656-5ba6-49e6-9be3-66c73fcdc605 |
Summer has arrived in Tucson and it’s hot and brutal for everyone — including local eateries who struggle to keep their doors open during the city’s slowest months of the year.
Here are 11 local restaurants that have shut their doors in 2023 so far, listed in alphabetical order.
Brawley’s Restaurant
Brawley’s Restaurant located at 7848 E. Wrightstown Road closed in February after 37 years in business.
“There is no one to blame, and really nothing to be done, it's just a simple sign of the times,” Brawley’s wrote on Facebook.
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China Phoenix
Tucson has very few options for dim sum and with the apparent closure of China Phoenix, 7090 N. Oracle Road, there are now even less. We hope the closure is temporary, but when we visited on July 1, a sign was taped to the window stating: "Lease expired. Restaurant will be closed." Tables were no longer set up inside and two phone calls to the number on their website went unanswered.
Citizen Hotel
After a year in business, the Citizen Hotel, located at 82 S. Stone Ave. closed its doors in May. The boutique wine hotel featured a lobby bar, plus a wine cellar in the basement and wine tastings in the mezzanine.
“The closing comes nearly 15 months to the day that the hotel opened and coincides with Tucson businesses bracing for the annual summer slowdown. That’s when tourism dramatically drops, and the city loses its reliable revenue stream from the loss of University of Arizona students and winter residents,” the Arizona Daily Star reported.
Da Boots BBQ Shop
Da Boots BBQ closed its doors earlier this year at 1830 S. Park Ave. but said they are “converting to a mobile operation,” according to a post on their Facebook page.
Deliciocho
Deliciocho, located at 6308 S. Nogales Highway, known for its creative raspados and birria tacos, announced its closure on June 28. The south-side establishment opened in April 2021.
“Due to this economic crisis we are going through. After almost 3 years of keeping our doors open and serving up some of the most unique menu items in Tucson,” they wrote on Instagram.
Fiesta Filipina
Fiesta Filipina’s brick-and-mortar location in the food court of Park Place Mall, 5870 E. Broadway, closed on June 18. Fiesta Filipina decided to go down the brick-and-mortar route in 2021 after running a food truck for three years prior.
Thelma Ward, the owner of Fiesta Filipina announced the closure on Facebook on June 19. “I will still be operating the Fiesta Filipina food trailer for special events and catering so watch for our events schedule,” she wrote.
Fullylove’s
Fullylove’s in Main Gate Square, 994 E. University Boulevard, opened its doors in the spring of 2021. After a little over two years of serving up burgers, fries and vegan food, the joint closed in June.
“The love and support we received from our community is unmatched and will be cherished. We will be taking this time to be with our family and prepare for our next chapter and will no longer be on University Blvd,” they wrote on Facebook.
Little Love Burger
Little Love Burger located at 312 E. Congress St. in downtown Tucson opened in the fall of 2021. The fun burger joint was created by the team behind Hub Restaurant and Playground Bar & Lounge.
Little Love Burger officially closed on June 18.
“After serving you with love for several years, we hand the keys to the sacred 312 East Congress space to Gabriel and Vivian Moreno, of Jaime’s Pizza Kitchen. A multigenerational Tucson family business since 1989, Jaime’s Pizza Kitchen will be opening soon, serving amazing traditional pizza, wings, and salads,” Little Love Burger said on Facebook.
Pastiche Modern Eatery
Pastiche last posted on Facebook in February, citing water damage and repairs for a temporary closure.
The decades-old restaurant at 3025 N. Campbell Ave. has not reopened. The sign on the building has been taken down and the restaurant's website and phone number are no longer working. When we visited the space in late May, there was a notice of a landlord's lien hanging in the window.
Ten55 Brewing Company
After a decade in business, Ten55 decided to “discontinue all of its operations,” Tucson Foodie first reported earlier this year. The brewery was set to open a new location in midtown after leaving its downtown digs at 110 E. Congress St. last year, but the new place never came to fruition.
The Lobby
The Lobby, located at 811 E. Wetmore Road, closed earlier this year after four months in business. The restaurant sold classic feel-good food like burgers, wings and milkshakes. | https://tucson.com/news/local/2023-tucson-restaurant-closures/article_8b56f888-1c27-11ee-8801-ff67813ead7e.html | 2023-07-06T22:58:33 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/2023-tucson-restaurant-closures/article_8b56f888-1c27-11ee-8801-ff67813ead7e.html |
SAN ANGELO, Texas — A German-based company that specializes in electronics is relocating its northeast U.S manufacturing facility to the Concho Valley, the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce announced Thursday.
Rosenberger Site Solutions, LLC, worked with the City of San Angelo Development Corporation and the chamber's economic development department to establish the San Angelo location at 3862 Tractor Trail.
The chamber said Rosenberger is one of the world's leading manufacturers of impedance-controlled and optical connectivity solutions. Specializing in high-frequency, high-voltage and fiber optic technology for mobile communications networks, data centers, test and measurement applications, automotive electronics, as well as high-voltage contact systems, medical electronics and military and aerospace engineering.
“The City of San Angelo is pleased to welcome Rosenberger to San Angelo and look forward to working with the company to further its roots in the community as a major global electronics manufacturer. We will continue to offer continuous trained workforce and community support to this global operation,” San Angelo Mayor Brenda Gunter said.
Rosenberger was established by Hans Rosenberger in 1958, and has become an industry leader in the areas of high-frequency technology, research and development, design and construction, connector parts manufacturing, surface coating, assembly of high-frequency connectors and cable assemblies.
The company said it plans to hire 25 full-time local employees and offer full-training and student technology apprenticeship opportunities for newcomers to the high-frequency electronics industry. Company leadership is committed to introducing prospective employees to the field of high-frequency electronics manufacturing, with a particular focus on students with an interest in electronics engineering, subassembly and supply chain engineering.
Rosenberger is also looking for people with experience in engineering, logistics and manufacturing.
“The City of San Angelo Development Corporation leadership congratulates Rosenberger’s commitment to our manufacturing sector,” Michael Looney, VP of Economic Development, said. “This operation fits extremely well with our existing manufacturing sector, workforce deliverables and central US logistics capabilities.”
The San Angelo facility will be a US manufacturing hub for its site infrastructure solutions state-of-the-art connectivity products such as FTTA/PTTA, low-PIM coax transmission lines, coax jumpers, DAS and transmission line devices, as well as installation material, accessories and tools to ensure best possible long-term equipment operations and reliability.
We've reached out to the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce for more information about the company including where to apply for the new positions. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/germany-based-company-relocates-northeast-us-manufacturing-facility-to-west-texas/504-7921642e-4e51-4c5a-923b-243440b9ecc8 | 2023-07-06T23:03:12 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/germany-based-company-relocates-northeast-us-manufacturing-facility-to-west-texas/504-7921642e-4e51-4c5a-923b-243440b9ecc8 |
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Cumbia, salsa and bachata are all popular Latin dance styles.
For a group of San Angelo residents, this part of their culture is now being shared with the community free of charge.
"The story is that we began dancing in the garage of a lady that already left the city for family things and then for awhile we did it at ASU, the university then we did it in Yoga San Angelo for a couple of months," Latin/cumbia dance instructor Aldo Pinon said. "And we finally met John from the VFW and he said that they wanted to teach some kind of classes, dance classes for the community and especially they wanted to have something different that could attract a variety of people."
Upon moving to San Angelo, Pinon felt there was an unmet need for Latin dance in the area, focusing on cumbia which is a Colombian dance style.
With a team of friends, he has been able to teach dance to a new group with no prior registration necessary.
For those who are interested in participating, "They just are welcome to come and join and we always cover the basic steps at the beginning so we always know what goes where," Pinon said. "And we start with a partner and do different turns and spins."
Classes are held from 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the San Angelo Veterans of Foreign Wars, 125 S. Browning St.
Typically some 10-15 members are in attendance and Pinon has received positive responses from members thus far.
"We have a lot of good feedback especially when you see them smiling and happy you know something is going on, something is clicking," he said.
Going forward, Pinon hopes more than anything to grow the program by increasing participants.
"It feels great so many people are responding," he said. "It's something that, there was a big need in the city and nobody else was doing it so even though we were not professionals or anything, we started it. We've come a long way."
Call 575-635-3914 for more information. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/latin-dance-finds-a-place-in-west-texas-with-cumbia-salsa-and-bachata/504-8ce57e3c-1286-42f9-a0e5-c4d1b1ffb478 | 2023-07-06T23:03:19 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/latin-dance-finds-a-place-in-west-texas-with-cumbia-salsa-and-bachata/504-8ce57e3c-1286-42f9-a0e5-c4d1b1ffb478 |
SAN ANGELO, Texas — A San Angelo man was arrested June 28 after San Angelo Police served a search warrant at a home on West Avenue Y.
Manuel Samaripa, 53, was arrested after the department’s Street Crimes Division found and seized the following items in the home:
- Approximately 136 grams of methamphetamine
- Approximately 200 grams of marijuana
- Approximately $500 in US currency
- Body armor
- Various pills and drug paraphernalia
Samaripa was arrested on a parole violation warrant and booked in to the Tom Green County Jail.
The SAPD said the case is currently under investigation. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/man-arrested-after-search-warrant-served-at-san-angelo-home/504-9a54da47-95a9-43ac-b807-0302ce18d094 | 2023-07-06T23:03:20 | 0 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/man-arrested-after-search-warrant-served-at-san-angelo-home/504-9a54da47-95a9-43ac-b807-0302ce18d094 |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — On Thursday, the Memphis Zoo announced a poll with three name options for their new Sumatran tiger cubs.
The Memphis Zoo announced their new twin tiger cubs were a boy and girl on June 30, 2023, and now they are holding a poll to choose their names.
Zookeepers have decided on three Indonesian names:
- Aceh and Meila
- Hati and Khazanah
- Nakal and Suci
The zoo is asking voters to make the final selection.
Those interested can vote here, but the zoo has asked people to only vote one time. Voting will close Saturday, July 8, at 12 p.m. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/memphis-zoo-announces-name-vote-sumatran-tiger-cubs/522-862518be-921e-43b7-b91c-fb1e2fa3419e | 2023-07-06T23:03:20 | 0 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/memphis-zoo-announces-name-vote-sumatran-tiger-cubs/522-862518be-921e-43b7-b91c-fb1e2fa3419e |
ABILENE, Texas — A motorcycle rider was killed in a crash Thursday afternoon at the Old Anson Road and Lowden Street intersection in Abilene.
The Abilene Police Department said the crash happened at approximately 1:27 p.m. Officers found the rider and the motorcycle in the roadway when they got to the scene.
The APD identified the man as Nathaniel Wayne Ralph, 26, of Baird. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/motorcycle-rider-dies-in-abilene-crash/504-19909010-af46-4b1b-b32d-edd79164151a | 2023-07-06T23:03:27 | 0 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/motorcycle-rider-dies-in-abilene-crash/504-19909010-af46-4b1b-b32d-edd79164151a |
ACWORTH, Ga. — Acworth Police are working to find out who struck a golf cart on the Fourth of July and took off.
Police said the crash unfolded by Main Street and Church Street. Officers said when they arrived they found a 24-year-old man hurt. He was in a golf cart when a vehicle crashed into him. The vehicle did not stay at the crash site, police said.
The man was taken to Kennestone Hospital where he is being treated for his injuries.
As for the driver behind the hit-and-run, police said the suspect vehicle was a dark-colored sedan. Authorities could not provide any other information.
The Acworth Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division is continuing to work on this case. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Acworth Police Department at 770-974-1232.
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BALDWIN COUNTY, Ga. — In a hilarious post, the Georgia Department of Corrections took to Twitter about a recent contraband interception.
Four suspects were caught allegedly attempting to smuggle footballs full of bags filled with tobacco, among other items.
"Ever wonder if it's worth it? Then take note!," the department began their post with.
Officers caught the suspects near the perimeter road of the prison in a car. As officers approached the car, the suspects drove away.
Officers with Milledgeville Police, Baldwin County Sheriff's Department and the Georgia Department of Corrections were eventually able to catch the suspects.
When they conducted a search of the car, they found five footballs full of 11 bags of tobacco, five cell phones and a bundle of cigarettes.
The four suspects, which included two inmates on probation, were then arrested and taken to the sheriff's department.
"And by the way, if you have talent throwing a football, please don't waste it on contraband!," the post concluded. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/football-contraband-scheme-at-baldwin-state-prison/85-9a1f54fa-44b3-4b37-b4aa-41d9ab268029 | 2023-07-06T23:05:57 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/football-contraband-scheme-at-baldwin-state-prison/85-9a1f54fa-44b3-4b37-b4aa-41d9ab268029 |
ATLANTA — Fresh after the Fourth of July, the Atlanta office for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services welcomed 50 new citizens Thursday morning. They are perhaps some of the last people to take the current version of the naturalization exam before the U.S. implements changes.
One of them was Iair Zerzion, who emigrated from Israel 18 years ago. His parents immigrated to Israel from Argentina.
"I couldn't sleep last night! It's been a long journey," he said with excitement.
Feeling a wave of patriotism, Zerzion explained his journey to becoming a U.S. citizen started with appreciation.
"We fell in love with this country," he said. "We stayed here, job after job, visa after visa, until my boss said, 'I’m going to sponsor you for a green card.'"
Zerzion's experience is one that he and many of his fellow new citizens share.
Atlanta's 50 new citizens come from 30 different countries. Each citizen has a different, unique story to tell but they all united in the goal to become part of the U.S.
Youngtak Lee said he feels lucky to become a U.S. citizen during the week of Independence Day.
"It's been about six years since we obtained the green card," he said. "My wife received her naturalization a few months ago, and I'm the last one to go in my family, so it feels amazing. It feels great. Very fortunate to become a U.S. citizen."
The new citizens had to take a naturalization test, which is the final step toward citizenship. The exam consists of an English test and a civics test. Aspiring citizens must demonstrate they can read, write and speak basic English. As for the civics test, they must be able to answer important questions about American government and history.
John Billa, who is originally from India and came to the U.S. as a student in 2005, says it was a lengthy process that was worth the wait.
“It was intense sometimes, especially through all the steps it takes," he said.
U.S. authorities are now saying that the naturalization test was last updated 15 years ago and a new version needs to be made.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has proposed that the new test add a speaking section, where an officer would show the applicant randomized photos, and they would have to describe them in English.
Currently, the officer evaluates how the applicant speaks by asking them personal questions they’ve already answered in their paperwork.
"I think it's going to be more dynamic in a way," Lee said. "However, it's going to test truly their knowledge of the civic test. So and I don't think it's going to be a hindrance to anyone applying for naturalization.”
The civic portion of the test involves asking the potential citizen about the history of the country.
Atlanta's newly-minted citizens said they believe this possible change to the test shouldn’t be a hurdle, even for those who have lower levels of English proficiency.
“I think if you’re younger you must start English, you must try hard, otherwise you’re limiting your possibilities in this country if you don’t know the language," Zerzion said. "I think that’s important otherwise you’ll be isolated and create islands for yourself."
Those who qualify for naturalization have to live in the U.S. for at least five years, or three years if they're married to a citizen.
"By the time you live here for five years you’re used to all that kind of stuff," Billa said. "It shouldn’t be that tough but it’s good they’re making it a little intense on the exam.”
The new version of the naturalization exam is expected to come out next year. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/naturalization-test-immigration-atlanta/85-a0bbbacb-9e97-46cd-a75e-8ff5fc259ee6 | 2023-07-06T23:06:09 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/naturalization-test-immigration-atlanta/85-a0bbbacb-9e97-46cd-a75e-8ff5fc259ee6 |
The Penn Urgent Care South Philadelphia closed due to more patients increasingly using telemedicine options, a Penn Medicine spokesperson stated.
The urgent care that was located at 1930 S Broad Street closed on June 30. However, Penn plans to continue occupying the space and is planning to open it back up to offer care services they say are “more aligned with patient needs.”
“This step came as we evaluated patient preference and utilization patterns in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, including increased use of the telemedicine options for issues which are often addressed in urgent care settings,” a Penn Medicine spokesperson said.
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They also shared that several urgent care clinics continue to operate in the Lancaster area.
Penn assured that its other facilities are open to patients such as its emergency departments at Pennsylvania Hospital, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/penn-medicine-closes-urgent-care-on-south-broad-street-plans-to-offer-care-services/3599641/ | 2023-07-06T23:08:36 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/penn-medicine-closes-urgent-care-on-south-broad-street-plans-to-offer-care-services/3599641/ |
Brevard's most expensive: The name of the game in June was waterfront
June saw multiple houses sell for more than $1 million in Brevard County and the most expensive of the month were primarily on the barrier island. Here are the top 5 most expensive home sales last month:
5. $1,610,000 - Gated living on Tortoise Island
This four-bedroom, three-bathroom home at 866 Loggerhead Island Drive in Satellite Beach is the fifth most expensive home sold in Brevard during June and features more than 3,000 square feet of living space.
The riverfront home nestled in the Tortoise Island community offers the feeling of a vacation lifestyle. The private, fenced backyard offers a landscaped oasis and the screened lanai with pool and spa provide great views of the river. Also there's a 300-foot dock with a 4-ton lift to enjoy year-round recreation on the water.
The recently remodeled kitchen features a gas stove and quartz countertops. The upstairs master suite is a sanctuary unto itself with a private balcony overlooking the river.
This property was listed by Laura Foreman with RE/MAX Aerospace Realty.
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4. $1,750,000 - Beachfront privacy
The No. 4 most expensive home sold in June is this three-bedroom two-and-a-half bath home with 120 feet of private ocean frontage. The home at 5437 S. State Road A1A in Melbourne Beach features nearly 2,000 square feet of living space.
The amenities for this home include a private, salt-water pool and standalone hot tub, an oversized laundry room, and we have to mention the 40 x 10 foot deck off the second floor with stunning ocean views. The spiral staircase includes a dedicated space for a future elevator. There are also two exterior staircases.
This property was listed by Pam Vanderveer with Vanderveer Properties.
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3. $2,050,000 - Melbourne Beach getaway
This three-bedroom, two-bathroom home at 8045 S. State Road A1A in Melbourne Beach slides in at No. 3 in our June most expensive list.
To showcase the spectacular ocean views, the east-facing wall of this 2,100-square-foot home is completely constructed with glass. From 14-foot ceilings to an open-air cabinet design, you won't have much to obstruct your view of the waves.
Oh, and did we mention it's pretty far down A1A? It's about 8 miles south of the Driftwood Plaza Publix.
This property was listed by Gibbs Baum and Greg Zimmermann of One Sotheby's International.
2. $2,117,500 - Water and Wine
This 4,152-square-foot home at 156 St. Croix Ave. in Cocoa Beach features five bedrooms and four bathrooms. It is the second most expensive home sold in Brevard County in June.
Water views are available at every angle from the canal front home in Cocoa Isles. A saltwater infinity pool and spa overlook a private boat dock. Entertaining in the backyard oasis is a snap with the outdoor kitchen and custom fireplace.
The home was built to survive a storm featuring both impact-resistant windows and spray foam insulation.
The amenities include coffered ceilings, polished travertine floors, a chef's dream kitchen with large island and top-of-the-line appliances, a temperature-controlled wine cellar with room for more than 860 bottles and a bonus room with 120-inch movie screen.
This property was listed by Katherine Lechner and Lisa Springer with Keller Williams Realty Brevard.
1. $2,500,000 - Merritt Island mansion
Coming in as the most expensive home sold in Brevard in June is this 5,000-plus square-foot home at 2442 Newfound Harbour Drive on Merritt Island.
With five bedrooms and five-and-a-half bathrooms, this double lot estate offers 2.43 acres with 180 feet of direct Banana River frontage. The drive features a private gate and paver pathway through a mature oak tree canopy which leads to a 2,500 square-foot detached garage with four bay doors, multiple car lifts and room to accommodate a 42' RV.
You'll also find refurbished tennis courts and the circular drive at the front of the home.
Downstairs features: a living room, office, updated kitchen, bedroom with ensuite and spectacular views through multiple sets of sliding doors.
Upstairs you'll find three guest bedrooms and a master suite with a large balcony, double closets, double vanity and walk-in shower.
Heading out back? That's where the fun begins in the one-of-a-kind saltwater pool featuring grotto, beach, spa and multiple firepits. You'll also find plenty of green space and a reinforced coquina seawall. There's also a custom-built dock with two covered lifts (5 ton and 6 ton), an open 4-ton lift, a jet ski davit and a kayak launch.
This property was listed by Tom Arnold of Blue Marlin Real Estate.
Meaghan Lucas with Team Taranto Keller Williams Realty Brevard assisted with this report.
Rob Landers is a veteran multimedia journalist for the USA Today Network of Florida. Contact Landers at 321-242-3627 or rlanders@gannett.com. Instagram: @ByRobLanders Youtube: @florida_today | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2023/07/06/brevard-waterfront-homes-top-list-of-junes-most-expensive/70384859007/ | 2023-07-06T23:11:41 | 0 | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2023/07/06/brevard-waterfront-homes-top-list-of-junes-most-expensive/70384859007/ |
PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — Immediate evacuations have been issued for residents near Roy due to a brush fire burning in south Pierce County.
South Pierce Fire & Rescue issued a Level 3 evacuation for a one-mile radius around the 8600 block of 336th Street near Roy. Residents are being told to leave now, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department.
People are urged to head in the direction of Yelm, away from the fire.
Below is a map of the evacuation area from the Pierce County Sheriff's Department.
Fire evacuation levels
Fires have different levels of severity. In both Washington and Idaho, they can be thought of as READY, SET, GO.
LEVEL 1 - READY
This is the getting ready stage. Conditions could get worse, so you want to have your go bag ready.
LEVEL 2 - SET
This is when you are getting set to leave. Be prepared to leave at a moment's notice.
LEVEL 3 - GO
This is when you need to get out and go now. You are in immediate danger and emergency services may not be able to help at this point.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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The Flagstaff Fire Department (FFD) responded at around 9:30 a.m. on Thursday morning to a fire reported on top of the mesa on Mars Hill.
Two units and a battalion chief from FFD responded, and according to a spokesperson for the department, U.S. Forest Service crews have also been working to contain the fire.
As of noon on Thursday, the fire was close to a quarter of an acre in size. Fire crews on scene said the flames are spreading at a slow rate of speed.
If the fire grows or the spread worsens, it’s likely more units will be called in to assist, an FFD spokesperson told the Arizona Daily Sun. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-fire-department-responds-to-wildfire-on-mars-hill/article_c2527048-1c30-11ee-92ce-17e804abef3a.html | 2023-07-06T23:13:58 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-fire-department-responds-to-wildfire-on-mars-hill/article_c2527048-1c30-11ee-92ce-17e804abef3a.html |
In a District 1 Little League doubleheader at Dawson Park Wednesday night, Continental Little League (CLL) defeated Holbrook, 11-5, and West Flagstaff Little League took down Silver Creek, 18-2, bringing each team closer to a chance at a Majors championship and a berth in the state tournament.
The night’s first game between CLL and Holbrook was a must-win for both teams in the losers bracket. After CLL manager Josh Clouse lamented a “slow start” against Page on Saturday night, his concerns were eased after his team jumped ahead to a 7-0 lead after two innings.
Starting pitcher Caleb Smith threw two perfect innings, striking out four batters in the process. He was relieved by Steele Robinson, who maintained a no-hitter late into the fourth, despite conceding a third-inning run. CLL tagged on a run of its own to bring its lead to 8-1.
Clouse said after the game that he was pleased with his team’s performance on the mound throughout the game.
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“They know they can throw strikes,” he said. “They don’t have to strike people out to get outs. They throw the ball where they need to throw it to get the balls in play that we can play and make outs with.”
After a scoreless fourth inning, Holbrook made things interesting in the fifth, loading the bases for batter Brandon Craig with just one out recorded. He hit an RBI single, which was followed by a two-RBI double from Caden Smith. After the next batter walked, CLL pitcher Brock Rusconi faced a bind. Holbrook had cut the CLL lead to four, and the bases were loaded with one out. Rusconi pitched his team out of the jam with two straight strikeouts to prevent further damage and CLL escaped the inning with an 8-4 lead.
CLL extended the lead to 11-5 in the bottom of the fifth behind an RBI single from third baseman Tekoa Ruiz and a two-RBI triple from Smith. Ruiz finished the night 2 for 3 with three RBIs and two stolen bases. Smith, to complement his two perfect innings to open the game, also went 2 for 3 with a double, a triple and three RBIs.
Shortstop Austin Clouse went 3 for 3 for CLL with an RBI and a stolen base to go along with his two singles and a double.
CLL had a number of impressive defensive plays throughout the night, including high-difficulty plays to prevent runners from reaching first base. Clouse stressed defense as a key area where his team has improved throughout the tournament.
“We lost to West Flagstaff on that first night because we had three errors, two of them back to back at inopportune times,” the skipper said. “We knew how to get better on the defensive side. We learned from that first game and we’ve had a lot of games since to correct it.”
The victory brings CLL within one game of a rematch with WFLL in the District 1 championship game. To get there, CLL must beat Silver Creek on tonight.
Clouse’s message for how his team could get there was simple.
“Start fast, play hard and take it all six innings, because [Silver Creek] is bringing it," he said.
Silver Creek, however, showed signs of weakness Wednesday night.
In the nightcap, WFLL's brisk start against Silver Creek quickly eliminated any chance at drama.
WFLL's entire lineup saw the plate in the first inning -- which produced four singles, a double and a triple, as well as seven stolen bases and ultimately seven runs scored. Starting pitcher Brisson Burcar then put together a scoreless bottom half of the inning on the mound to lead 7-0.
The four pitchers WFLL used Wednesday each got their own inning, and between the four of them they threw eight strikeouts and gave up three total hits, including a two-run home run from Silver Creek’s Ziggy Ulberg in the third that prevented the shutout.
The top of WFLL's lineup had an impressive outing, with Adrian Crockett, Burcar and Aven Adams showing dominance. WFLL scored four runs in each of the second and third innings, and a 15-0 lead midway through the third inning. Three runs in the fourth gave the host an 18-2 lead that became the final score via mercy rule.
Despite his team’s offensive explosion, after the game WFLL manager Shane Burcar made a note to highlight his team’s prowess in the field.
“I thought our defense was outstanding again,” Burcar said. “The unique thing about this is we’ve played four games now and we have not given up an unearned run, so that tells you about our pitching and our defense.”
With the win, WFLL remains undefeated in the district tournament and has clinched a spot in the championship matchup beginning Friday night at 6 p.m. It awaits the winner of tonight's contest between CLL and Silver Creek.
“We’ve played sports long enough to know that anything can happen,” Burcar said. “Everybody can beat you one time, let alone two times. That’s something that we’ve been preaching to the guys, and I think no matter who we play Friday, we’ll be ready to play.” | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/cll-wfll-advance-in-majors-tournament/article_9b2079be-1c1e-11ee-a170-577c951cde19.html | 2023-07-06T23:14:03 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/cll-wfll-advance-in-majors-tournament/article_9b2079be-1c1e-11ee-a170-577c951cde19.html |
Police say the gruesome discoveries of a Queens man and his mother, both found dead, was the result of a close relative also living at the same address where the woman was left.
First, detectives found the man's body inside a garbage bag on 104th Street in Corona around 2 p.m. Wednesday. Then, some 12 hours later, police uncovered the 58-year-old woman's body down the street inside the family home.
The son, later identified as 31-year-old Kyle Danielson, was dragged out of the house and dumped several homes away, investigators believe. The person believed to be behind moving the man is his brother, Roscoe Danielson, top officials revealed.
The 40-year-old other brother was arrested on half a dozen charges including weapon possession, concealment of a corpse, and tampering with evidence.
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"We've obtained search warrants based on video surveillance that we have him removing that body from that house," Joseph Kenny, assistant chief at the Detective Bureau, said Thursday.
The NYPD has said a 9-1-1 call led officers to where Danielson's body was left, wrapped up in a sheet and garbage bag.
One man said he called police because he saw blood near the bag and when he touched it with his leg, he suspected the worse.
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"The body was here and the smell was so strong, the body had been here for a while," another neighbor said.
Police said the younger son had a puncture wound to his back. The city's medical examiner will determine the cause of death for the man and his mother.
"It's insane this neighborhood was never like this before, now all of a sudden a body back-to-back. It's scary," neighbor Kelly Constantakis said. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/queens-mom-found-dead-inside-home-on-same-street-sons-body-was-dumped-in-garbage-bag-ny-only/4483543/ | 2023-07-06T23:14:45 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/queens-mom-found-dead-inside-home-on-same-street-sons-body-was-dumped-in-garbage-bag-ny-only/4483543/ |
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — A Kingsport man who was shot three times by police and charged with attempted second-degree murder for allegedly trying to strike them with the car they shot into has accepted a plea agreement.
Ciia Hall had rejected a similar deal in a February hearing although it removes the attempted murder charges as well as aggravated assault charges in the Jan. 18, 2021 incident.
A Hawkins County sheriff’s officer, later joined by a Mount Carmel police officer, pursued a stolen truck for miles, eventually arriving at it in Kingsport just after two teens had jumped from it and run to a nearby car.
Hall, with four other teens inside, reversed that car to try to flee from the officers. They can be seen on a video chasing the car on foot with their guns drawn, getting in front of it when it turns to go forward, and then shooting into it as soon as it begins moving forward.
A total of 16 shots were fired into the vehicle. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) officer Brian Fraley testified that the car hit the Mount Carmel officer, Hunter Jones. No one else made the same claim, including the other officer, Isaac Hutchins. Jones never testified or gave a statement, and the grand jury presentment claims only that Hall “attempted to strike” both Hall and Hutchins with a motor vehicle.
Hall’s attorney, Don Spurrell, said the Sullivan County district attorney’s office agreed to judicial diversion, which would allow Hall’s charges to be expunged (taken off his record) in two years if he meets certain conditions.
“They’re not going to oppose it, which is the same thing as offering it, so he’s going to be eligible for diversion … if he stays out of trouble for two years the case will be dismissed against him,” Spurrell said.
Spurrell will aid Hall in applying for a certificate of eligibility for diversion from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI).
“The judge has to have the certificate in hand before he can divert,” Spurrell said.
A diversion hearing is scheduled for Sept. 30 in Judge James Goodwin’s court. Dropped in the deal are two counts each of attempted second-degree murder and aggravated assault. Hall will plead guilty to theft of property between $10,000 and $60,000 (the car he was driving was stolen), evading arrest with risk of death or injury, vehicle involved, evading arrest, reckless endangerment, deadly weapon involved, and driving without a license.
The reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon involved is the only new charge and is one Hall had initially said he wouldn’t plead to, saying he hadn’t made any attempt to endanger the officers but was merely attempting to get away.
Spurrell continued to say he believes the officers in the case violated police procedures and use of force policies in what he called on Thursday “outrageous and criminal acts.”
He said he and others pressed for a federal investigation, up to the point of Hall having an interview with an FBI agent.
“I understand that the FBI has completely dropped the ball on the matter. They haven’t done a thing.”
Spurrell said he also advised the FBI of a witness – a girl who was in the car – who wanted to speak to the FBI. “She has advised that they never contacted her.
“They haven’t taken it seriously. They never took it seriously. They whitewashed it.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/ciia-hall-shot-by-police-in-2021-accepting-plea-deal/ | 2023-07-06T23:16:40 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/ciia-hall-shot-by-police-in-2021-accepting-plea-deal/ |
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — Greeneville property owners will see a lower tax rate but higher tax bills — by an average of 13% — later this year.
Greeneville’s City Council voted last month to raise the tax rate from $2.17 per $100 of assessed value to $2.46. It meant about $2.2 million more would come into city coffers in the fiscal year that started July 1.
But this is also a state property reappraisal year for Greene County. Steep increases in property values sent the overall value of assessed property in the city up significantly, and state law requires local governments to adjust the tax rate downward after those reappraisals so the same amount of money comes in.
Those results came in last week and lowered that $2.17 to $1.49. To get back to the $2.2 million revenue gain, the City Council will meet July 18 to again reset the rate, this time to $1.71. That will still mean a tax increase of around $110 a year for someone who had a $200,000 house and saw its reappraised value increase by the citywide average.
“I think it’s an indication of a thriving, strong community that’s growing, and property values are growing,” City Manager Todd Smith said of the steep change following the reappraisal.
Smith told News Channel 11 the town needed the increased revenue for several reasons. Some are familiar refrains in a year that has seen the majority of local governments in Northeast Tennessee raise their rates.
“Inflation is driving everything up from our labor costs, our medical costs, our equipment costs, our vehicle costs, housing costs, everything is going up,” Smith said.
The inflation that is also hitting families has made it harder for local governments to attract and keep employees as well, Smith said.
“We did do a new salary program that we’re doing with our employees to try to keep competitive with our peers. So we’re on a six-year plan … to get to the market average.”
The tax adjustment will bring property tax revenues from this year’s $9.3 million to about $11.5 million. The total budget is increasing from $33.5 million to $36.6 million, some of which is one-time expenses for capital items.
About 5 or 6 cents of the tax increase is going toward debt payments on a major school project that retrofits schools with better heating and cooling systems. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/greeneville-raising-property-tax-13/ | 2023-07-06T23:16:41 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/greeneville-raising-property-tax-13/ |
These Phoenix-area highways will be closed this weekend
After a week off, the Arizona Department of Transportation released its list of upcoming improvement projects slated for Valley highways this weekend, resulting in closures across the Phoenix area.
Notable closures will be seen along stretches of U.S. 60, Interstate 17 and Loop 202.
ADOT advised drivers to allow for extra time and plan alternate routes. Drivers should be prepared to slow down and merge safely when venturing through work zones.
Travel and roadway conditions can be checked at az511.gov.
Eastbound US 60 closed between I-10 and Loop 101
Details: Eastbound U.S. 60 (Superstition Freeway) will be closed between Interstate 10 and Loop 101 (Price Freeway) for a pavement improvement project.
The I-10 ramps to eastbound U.S. 60 will be closed too.
When: 9 p.m. Friday, July 7, to 5 a.m. Monday, July 10.
Alternate routes: Those in Tempe can use eastbound Loop 202 (Red Mountain Freeway) to southbound Loop 101 (Price Freeway). Also, the eastbound Loop 202 (Santan Freeway) to northbound Loop 101 will help drivers get to U.S. 60 past the closure. Eastbound Baseline or Broadway roads also can be used to travel beyond the closure.
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Northbound I-17 closed between Northern Avenue and Greenway Road
Details: Northbound Interstate 17 will be closed between Northern Avenue and Greenway Road for a pavement improvement project.
The northbound I-17 on-ramps located at Bethany Home Road and Glendale Avenue will be closed as well.
When: 9 p.m. Friday, July 7, to 5 a.m. Monday, July 10.
Alternate routes: Northbound State Route 51 to westbound Loop 101 will take drivers past the closure. Northbound I-17 drivers also can exit prior to the closure and use northbound 19th Avenue.
Westbound Loop 202 closed between Loop 101 and Van Buren/52nd Streets
Details: Westbound Loop 202 (Red Mountain Freeway) will be closed between Loop 101 (Price Freeway) and Van Buren/52nd Streets in Phoenix for a pavement improvement project.
Both Loop 101 ramps to westbound Loop 202 will be closed.
When: 9 p.m. Friday, July 7, to 5 a.m. Monday, July 10.
Alternate routes: Southbound Loop 101 to westbound U.S. 60 and westbound I-10 will take drivers beyond the closure. Local traffic can use westbound McDowell Road. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-traffic/2023/07/06/phoenix-area-highways-closed-this-weekend-july/70389372007/ | 2023-07-06T23:23:25 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-traffic/2023/07/06/phoenix-area-highways-closed-this-weekend-july/70389372007/ |
MUSCATINE, Iowa — An entry in a Fourth of July parade in Iowa has spawned confusion and outrage — one woman on horseback pulling a rope used to bind the wrists of another woman wearing Native American dress.
Commenters of Facebook and other social media sites were perplexed by the entry Tuesday in a parade in Muscatine. Some wondered whether it a disapproving commentary on treatment of Indigenous people or an endorsement of that treatment.
Mayor Brad Bark said he spoke with the group responsible and was told their intention was to pay homage to the Cherokee Nation and how unjustly its members were treated.
Megan Burton, the woman on the horse, told the Quad-City Times that the portrayal was on behalf of Cherokee National Treasure, a group that honors distinguished Cherokees. Burton said she and the woman who appeared to be portraying a slave are both of Native American descent.
The parade's host, the Greater Muscatine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said in a statement that it “does not condone this behavior and this entry does not represent our community.” | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/woman-native-american-dress-pulled-by-rope-muscatine-iowa-fourth-of-july-4-parade/524-ea199cc3-798b-4ed9-9cfc-a272107b81b4 | 2023-07-06T23:23:25 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/woman-native-american-dress-pulled-by-rope-muscatine-iowa-fourth-of-july-4-parade/524-ea199cc3-798b-4ed9-9cfc-a272107b81b4 |
Hub City Comic Con postpones 2023 event amid venue issues, vows for return in 2024
The Hub City Comic Con 2023 which was set for this summer has been postponed, but have no fear — it'll be back in 2024, organizers pledged this week.
The organizers of the comic con took to Instagram on July 4 to announce the postponement of the festival due to "space allocation challenges."
"Despite tireless efforts by our team, we have been unable to secure a booking with the venue that would allow for the experience that you deserve," reads the social media post.
Organizers have refunded orders or have upgrades tickets to VIP status for next year's comic con which is set to happen on Aug. 23-25, 2024.
A lineup of guests and performers has not yet been announced.
"Beginning this fall we will be bringing you 6 events (a) year," reads the post. "These events will consist of signing guests, vendors, activities and more. Best of all, we are working to make 5 of those events FREE." | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2023/07/06/lubbocks-hub-city-comic-con-postpones-2023-event-to-2024/70385605007/ | 2023-07-06T23:26:12 | 0 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2023/07/06/lubbocks-hub-city-comic-con-postpones-2023-event-to-2024/70385605007/ |
Which West Bridgewater workers made the most? Here are the top 10 for 2022
WEST BRIDGEWATER — The town's top earners among public employees have seen some turnover since 2020. In all, there are four new names in the top 10 highest-paid West Bridgewater employees.
Leading the pack for calendar year 2022 earnings is the town's top cop, Victor Flaherty. The chief of police brought home the single biggest paycheck for the year at $185,254. Keeping their places in the top 10 were names you'd expect: the superintendent of schools, the town administrator and several police officers.
Joining this year's top 10 were two police sergeants (Sean P. Devilly and Christopher Werner), a police detective (Gerard F. Julian-Suarez) and a fire lieutenant (Shane Carr). They did so mostly by pulling significant overtime.
Here's the top 10:
Top 10 West Bridgewater earners
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Overtime champs
In 2022, 83 people earned at least some overtime. That's about 14% of the 586 people the town paid at least a dollar.As in most municipalities, some employees earned half or more of their base salary in OT.
For West Bridgewater, that included EMS Coordinator Adam Silva and fire department employees Michael T. Devilly, Justin R. Donna and Kevin J. Foster Jr.
Below are the 10 top earners of OT. If you'd like to dive deeper into who worked extra hours in calendar 2022, there's an interactive spreadsheet below the top 10.
Who pulled the most OT?
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Paycheck extras
Working for the government tends to pay less for doing similar jobs in the private sector. But public employees have ways to bulk up their pay envelopes. Perhaps the best known is when police officers work "details" such as directing traffic at construction sites. Other sources include longevity bonuses, education incentives and hazard pay.
Like some of its peers, West Bridgewater doesn't break down each of these additional pots of money. The town payroll has one column for "additional non-retirement" income. The category includes details, but we can't show you who made the most from details alone. Important not for West Bridgewater tax payers: Many details are paid by the private companies who do the hiring. The cash appears in public payroll data, but taxpayers aren't footing many of those particular bills.
Here are the 10 West Bridgewater employees who made the most in "additional non-retirement" income. If you'd like to find out more, use the interactive spreadsheet below to find out more on the 172 people who earned at least one dollar of this kind of income in 2022.
Top earners of 'additional non-retirement' cash
Which West Bridgewater jobs pay the most?
Among municipal employees, police and fire jobs tend to be paid the most, followed by teachers and, toward the lower end, custodians. As the Enterprise has crunched salary data in nearby municipalities this year, we've been able to say which jobs tend to pay best and least.
West Bridgewater, however, does not provide exact job titles in most of its payroll data. So we've had to comb through other town records to match folks with their jobs. We've also excluded earners who made especially low pay, as their pay was unlikely to reflect a full-year's salary for the role.
Best-paying town jobs
Fire lieutenants — $128,450Police officers* —$107,907Teachers, Middle-Senior High School** — $93,594Teachers, MacDonald School*** — $71,321Custodian**** — $42,254Instructional aides, MSHS — $28,557
Source: West Bridgewater payroll for calendar year 2022*Among police officers making more than $50,000 in 2022**Among MSHS teachers earning more than $50,000 in 2022***Among MacDonald teachers earning more than $2,000 in 2022****Among custodians earning at least $15,000 in 2022
Crunch the numbers for yourself
Town payrolls give a window into who makes what and how that reflects town priorities. The data, though, can be tough to track down and use. Below is a table you can sort by any column to dig into what you want to know.
Mine the data
What did you find most interesting in the West Bridgewater payroll data? What'd we miss? Send your news tips to reporter Chris Helms by email at CHelms@enterprisenews.com or connect on Twitter at @HelmsNews. | https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/news/local/2023/07/06/west-bridgewater-ma-highest-paid-workers-2022-police-firefighters-salaries/70323486007/ | 2023-07-06T23:27:04 | 0 | https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/news/local/2023/07/06/west-bridgewater-ma-highest-paid-workers-2022-police-firefighters-salaries/70323486007/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will be in the Portland metro area on Friday, meeting with Oregon and Washington leaders to discuss infrastructure challenges and opportunities for improvement.
According to Department of Transportation press officials, Secretary Buttigieg will start the day in Washougal, meeting with U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez.
Cantwell's office said that the visit will center around a $40.48 million railroad crossing elimination grant she secured from DOT to create a 32nd Street underpass.
“Washougal is home to the busiest BNSF railroad line in the entire State of Washington. On an average day, 45 trains shut down the intersection at Evergreen Way and 32nd Street, causing blocked traffic, hindered access to the waterfront, and slower response times for emergency services," Cantwell said in a statement. "For a growing community like Washougal – where a recent port expansion is expected to generate 360 new jobs, $21.6 million in wages, and $60 million in private investment – being cut in half by a railroad is just not tenable. I look forward to showing Secretary Buttigieg just how crucial this federal investment is for Washougal’s future.”
From Washougal, Buttigieg will head down to Portland, meeting with Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Gov. Tina Kotek and local leaders at the Portland Community College Southeast Campus on 82nd Avenue. They're expected to deliver remarks at the college before boarding a TriMet bus to travel along 82nd for a narrated tour.
"The tour will highlight the challenges and opportunities for 82nd Avenue, as well as efforts to bring greater engagement and investment to the corridor," Blumenauer's office said in a statement. "Tour narrators will acknowledge how historic inequities have shaped the street as we see it today. They will also describe a vision for a thriving business and residential corridor — along with the need for safety improvements, affordable housing, and more."
Last June, the city of Portland took control of a 7-mile stretch of 82nd Avenue from the Oregon Department of Transportation, promising improvements to the "orphan highway" funded in part by the state. Some of those changes have already begun.
Buttigieg and the Oregon delegation are expected to meet with members of the media near the Portland International Airport before returning to PCC Southeast. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/pete-buttigieg-transportation-secretary-visits-portland/283-ea266640-0e10-49ae-adf6-2f3f13473ca0 | 2023-07-06T23:27:17 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/pete-buttigieg-transportation-secretary-visits-portland/283-ea266640-0e10-49ae-adf6-2f3f13473ca0 |
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