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Despite the heat, hundreds took to Dallas City Hall to protest the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade, which struck down a federal right to an abortion.
The court’s controversial decision has Valerie worried about a trigger law that would medical abortions using a pill.
“I had five miscarriages before [my daughter] and I had four after her and three of the times I was further along and I had to take the abortion pill and it wasn't because I didn't want my baby it was because I needed medical attention,” Valerie said.
Pro-choicers remained non-violent but quickly swarmed and confronted counter-protesters, shouting them down.
One counter-protester was eventually led away by police.
The large group of mostly young women took to the streets of Downtown Dallas Thursday, causing traffic around the area.
“I am prepared to vote. I'm prepared to keep protesting, keep fighting, keep joining organizations,” Cydny Hamilton of Arlington said. “I'm prepared to donate to planned parenthood and other small abortion clinics.”
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For her, it's personal. Advocates say poor women and women of color are most affected by the court's decision.
“In hospitals, black women are three times more likely to die in childbirth or anything during pregnancy than a white woman,” Hamilton said. “ It's just so important to make sure black women have a choice.”
The First Unitarian Church of Dallas, where the Roe v. Wade case first took form, is vowing to keep helping women find safe abortion care.
“We take patients to New Mexico, who fall under the poverty line and need care at you know, it has been at between the six weeks and about 11 weeks, but now it will be just about anybody who qualifies,” Reverend Daniel Kanter said. “We're gonna continue to do that as long as it is safe and legal for us to do.”
The church has flown a few hundred women under the poverty line who qualify to New Mexico for abortion care since December.
“The laws as they are, really are about providing the abortion service. And there are no laws about crossing the state border.” Reverend Kanter said.
Although Texas law in effect soon, states you can't help women get abortions, one constitutional law expert says churches likely wouldn't face legal trouble.
Those at the rally said they won’t back down.
“They'll put all the laws in place, we'll still find a way,” Valerie said.
I can tell you this: It will not stop me if someone needs my help personally to get access to an abortion,” Hamilton said. “It will not stop me will take my chances I will get them what they need because it is their choice. And I believe in that.” | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/hundreds-rally-in-dallas-over-abortion-rights/3003797/ | 2022-06-30T00:41:43 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/hundreds-rally-in-dallas-over-abortion-rights/3003797/ |
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Police on Wednesday found two people dead and two children unharmed inside an apartment in Northeast Dallas, officers say.
In a news release, Dallas police said officers were called at about noon Wednesday to an apartment in the 6000 block of Ridgecrest Road.
Inside the home were the bodies of a man and a woman. Both appeared to have been shot, police said.
Two children, who police said were under the age of 5 years old, were also found inside the apartment but were unharmed.
No further information was immediately available about the circumstances of the shooting. Dallas police said investigators were working to identify the man and woman.
Investigators are asking anyone with information that can help police to contact Det. Yahir Perez at yahir.perez@dallascityhall.com or 214-671-4735 with reference to case number 116917-2022.
Crime Stoppers is also offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and indictment in the case. Tips can be made by calling 214-373-TIPS between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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A Fort Worth realtor known for helping tens of thousands of homeowners protest their property tax appraisals will appear before a board Thursday amid an investigation into complaints against him.
Real estate broker and property tax consultant Chandler Crouch got his start in real estate in 2002. Over the past five years, Crouch said he has helped at least 90,000 property owners protest their appraisal with the Tarrant Appraisal District for free.
“Then in 2017, I got to hit the reset button in my business. When I did, I thought, 'why don’t I just grab the old dream I have, or this future dream I have of helping a bunch of people and see if I can help a bunch of people right here, right now?'” Crouch recalled.
This past year alone Crouch says he filed 28,000 protests. He does not charge for his services.
“I don’t charge anybody anything, and it does not vary. I don’t care who you are. I’m here to help, and I’m happy to help,” he said. “The way people found out about me is just through word of mouth. I would save somebody a bunch of money. They’d go online and talk about it.”
But in November 2021, Crouch received a letter from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation regarding four complaints signed by Randy Armstrong, director of residential appraisal.
The earliest complaint dates back to October 2021, when Armstrong alleged Crouch “intentionally misled members of the Tarrant Review Board (TARB) with his testimony in a “market value” protest hearing on June 16, 2021” through his "misrepresentation of facts and abuse of his dual positions as both a Property Tax Consultant and a Licensed Texas Realtor/Broker.”
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Crouch said the allegations are false.
“The chief appraiser at the last board meeting told me that in all of the years he’s been a chief appraiser, he was not aware of any complaint and was not aware of any complaint that’s been filed against any property tax consultant ever,” he said. “It is highly abnormal. It is clearly an attack against me. They don’t want me protesting anymore. They want to shut me down.”
The complaints are expected to be addressed at a meeting Thursday morning with the Tarrant Appraisal District.
NBC 5 reached out to Armstrong for a comment on the matter Wednesday.
“There is currently a review of this matter being conducted, I prefer to wait on the review process to be complete before offering any further comment on these issues,” Armstrong wrote in an email.
Similarly, Jeff Law, TAD’s executive, declined to comment on specifics Wednesday. Law said the meeting was called to consult with the board’s attorney concerning a letter from Crouch’s attorney, Frank Hill, related to the complaints.
Crouch said he is hopeful members of the public will attend.
“They can recognize that I’m kind of being bullied. All I’ve done is try to help people,” he said. “Everyone needs to know what’s going on at the appraisal district, the appraisal district needs to know everyone is watching.”
The meeting at the Tarrant Appraisal District on Thursday morning will begin at 9 a.m. at 2500 Handley-Ederville Road in Fort Worth. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/tarrant-appraisal-district-to-address-complaints-targeting-property-tax-consultant/3003744/ | 2022-06-30T00:42:17 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/tarrant-appraisal-district-to-address-complaints-targeting-property-tax-consultant/3003744/ |
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Police identify woman found dead at Piestewa Peak in Phoenix
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A woman who was found dead in early June at Piestewa Peak has been identified as 68-year-old Vanessa Wright, Phoenix police said on Tuesday.
According to Phoenix police, on June 10 officers responded to a call that a woman was found dead near the 40th Street trailhead about 10:30 a.m.
The woman was wearing hiking clothes and had no signs of trauma, police said.
The cause of death has yet to be determined by a medical examiner.
Based on an excessive heat warning from the National Weather Service, the Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department closed the nearby Piestewa Peak Trail on June 10 about 11 a.m. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2022/06/29/police-identify-woman-found-dead-piestewa-peak-phoenix/7760290001/ | 2022-06-30T00:45:01 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2022/06/29/police-identify-woman-found-dead-piestewa-peak-phoenix/7760290001/ |
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ROGERS, Ark. — With the growing number of people who live near Beaver Lake, the Beaver Lake Fire Department is responding to more calls than ever. Because of that, they are wanting to become a fire protection district which would change their funding structure and provide sustainable funding in the most equal way possible.
“Our calls have nearly doubled in 5 years. Our revenue has also stayed stagnant, no additional revenue in that same time period. What has changed over that time period as well, is we’ve added staffing to our fire department to guarantee a timely response to your emergencies,” said Chief John Whisenant.
Chief John Whisenant says they serve a 13 square mile area of 7,000 people with 4 firefighters on duty at all times. Right now, they are gathering signatures from those residents so the Benton County Quorum Court can draft an ordinance that if approved would convert the fire department to a fire protection district.
This would mean instead of residents all paying $150 per year, they would pay .325% for every $100,000 in property they own. For someone who had $100,000 worth of property, they would pay $325 a year.
“We don’t anticipate if this be successful that the maximum will be assessed immediately. We don’t know what that assessment may be because that’s a future organization, but we are not anticipating the maximum being needed to sustain today’s level of operation,” he said.
Beaver Shores resident, Jordan Poole supports the fire department but is concerned about not knowing exactly what this new tax would be.
“I do think this potential rate increase could be substantial and I wouldn’t want a hundred to two hundred percent bump in a year. If they really need the money and they can show that they need that much money I would be willing to pay,” he said.
If the Beaver Lake Fire Department collect the 400 signatures needed, there will be two public meetings for people living in this area to give their input before the decision is made. The last time there was a fire fee increase for people living in the Beaver Lake area was in 2017. At that time fire dues went from $75 to $150 a year.
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First probable case of monkeypox identified in Michigan
The Michigan Department of Heath and Human Services announced Wednesday that it had identified the first probable monkeypox case in the state as officials monitor a global outbreak of the rare disease.
The case in Michigan involves an Oakland County resident, according to the state health department.
Preliminary testing returned a positive result for Orthopoxvirus. Monkeypox belongs to the Orthopoxvirus family of viruses and confirmatory testing is underway, according to a news release from the department.
"Monkeypox is a viral illness that spreads primarily through direct contact with the infectious rash, scabs, bodily fluids or prolonged face-to-face contact," said Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Michigan's chief medical executive. "It is important to remember that the risk to the general public is low. However, Michiganders with concerns about monkeypox should see their provider to be evaluated for testing.”
The Oakland County individual is isolating and does not pose a risk to the public, according to the state health department, which is working with local health departments to notify close contacts.
No further details about the individual will be provided by the agency.
Since the beginning of a global outbreak, 5,115 monkeypox cases have been confirmed in 51 countries, including the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported there were 306 confirmed cases in 27 states and Washington, D.C.
Infection can begin with flu-like symptoms and swelling of the lymph nodes that progresses to a rash on the face and body, according to the state health department Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches and backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion and a rash that can look like pimples or blisters.
Symptoms generally appear one to two weeks after exposure and infection, and the rash often lasts two to four weeks, the health department said.
Persons experiencing monkeypox symptoms should contact their health care provider for evaluation.
Anyone can contract and spread monkeypox, but early data from the outbreak suggest that men who have sex with men make up a high number of initial cases, the health department said on Wednesday.
The first human case of monkeypox was recorded in 1970, according to the CDC.
Prior to the 2022 outbreak, nearly all monkeypox cases in people outside of Africa were linked to international travel to countries, where the disease commonly occurs or through imported animals, the CDC said.
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MESA, Ariz. — A retired K9 police officer from the Mesa Police Department with a history of alleged domestic violence against women has entered a guilty plea after he was charged with two felonies in 2020.
Scott Callender retired shortly after he was charged, ending a 23-year career with the department.
According to terms negotiated between Maricopa County prosecutors and Callender’s attorney, the former officer would plead guilty to a Class 6 “undesignated felony” for attempted spying and a Class 1 misdemeanor for a domestic violence disorderly conduct charge.
Callender would avoid prison time, be placed on supervised probation, relinquish his peace officer’s certification and pay restitution. Callender is scheduled to be sentenced next month.
A grand jury indicted Callender for evidence that he fractured an officer’s rib who he was dating and stalked her.
Callender pleaded not guilty. His attorney said allegations against Callender were based on gossip.
Over Callender's career dating back to 1997, four female officers who he dated have accused him of physical and emotional abuse.
The allegations include Callender pointing a service weapon at one woman, and threatening to shoot her. Another woman claimed Callender punched her in the mouth and side of the face. Another woman claimed he threw her to the ground.
More than once, Callender threatened to shoot himself, according to the women.
Callender was disciplined four times during the first half of his career. But details in those cases are not available because the department purged records of officers, which is allowed by state law.
During a court hearing last year, one of the alleged victims said she didn’t care whether she lived or died when Callender threatened to kill her.
“He was standing by the window, crying, very upset over something we were arguing about. And he had a gun in his hand that he pointed at my chest,” the woman said.
Last year a judge expressed concern that over the years female Mesa police officers did not feel they could fully speak out against Callender in the workplace.
An attorney representing Callender did not respond to 12 News on Wednesday for comment.
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The 39th annual National History Day competition saw 52 competitors from Idaho advance to the national level, with four coming from Idaho Falls.
Nearly 1,200 participants were featured in the statewide portion of the competition. Success at this level moves the competitor's project to the national level.
The four Idaho Falls competitors who received national recognition were: Tayson Goodson, Brooklyn Jerde, and Mercedes Lissau and one participant who requested their name not be published. Goodson represented Taylorview Middle School while both Jerde and Lissau represented Eagle Rock Middle School.
The National History Day competition, which ran from June 12-16, was held virtual for the third straight year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In previous years, the final stage of the competition involves a weeklong hands-on event held at the University of Maryland College Park for presentations and awards. This year's online competition named four Idaho competitors as Outstanding Affiliate Entry winners. These four came from the Boise area.
Winners of the National History Day competition awards are students who present projects that search for importance in historical events. Students choose a topic related to the year's theme and then conduct research and interviews that shape their presentation. This year's theme was "Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences."
"After you have analyzed and interpreted your sources, and have drawn a conclusion about the significance of your topic, you will then be able to present your work in one of five ways: as a paper, an exhibit, a performance, a documentary, or a website," the National History Day website said.
The competition aims to encourage students in their elementary, middle school and high school years to look back into history to better prepare them for the future.
“Each of the students who worked so hard during the year to research, analyze and produce their own unique expressions of history deserve credit for their efforts,” said the Idaho State Historical Society Executive Director Janet Gallimore in a news release. "National History Day is without a doubt an experience that can change lives and prepare students to be successful adults.” | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/four-idaho-falls-students-advanced-in-2022-national-history-day-competition/article_d9b6c406-a3af-5705-89a8-b50d4fdd2afc.html | 2022-06-30T00:54:04 | 1 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/four-idaho-falls-students-advanced-in-2022-national-history-day-competition/article_d9b6c406-a3af-5705-89a8-b50d4fdd2afc.html |
There will be plenty of festivities for Idahoans to enjoy this Independence Day as many cities host Fourth of July events. Here is what’s happening in the Idaho Falls area.
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The city of Idaho Falls will celebrate Independence Day on Monday during the Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce’s “Liberty on Parade.”
“The staff here at the Chamber of Commerce are excited to present this year’s ‘Liberty on Parade,’” said Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce CEO Chip Schwarze. “It truly is a labor of love as we see 100,000 of our friends and neighbors come out to enjoy Independence Day in Idaho Falls.”
The parade begins at 9 a.m. near Idaho Falls High School and will travel down 4th Street, then south on Boulevard to Tautphaus Park.
During the parade, city council members, Mayor Rebecca Casper and Community Food Basket – Idaho Falls volunteers will collect monetary donations for the local food bank. Casper said during a Monday city council work session that volunteers will not be collecting canned food items along the parade route like they’ve done in previous years.
Schwarze said the chamber encouraged city officials to take cash donations only for safety reasons this year. Parade volunteers also will distribute flyers listing Community Food Basket’s most needed items which they can donate at 245 N. Placer Ave. A Venmo code also will be on the flyer for people who want to donate electronically.
“We hope everyone who comes to celebrate will remember the many people in our community who could use some help during these trying times,” Casper said in a news release. “Hunger in our community is real. These people are our friends and neighbors. Please join us in celebrating our nation’s independence in a way that exemplifies the real soul of our country and our community. Your kind gesture will mean a lot more than you ever realize.”
Live entertainment starts at 11:30 a.m. in Snake River Landing and Riverfest opens at noon. Attendees watching the fireworks from Snake River Landing must take down their tents and shades by 9:30 p.m. so as not to obstruct the view of the fireworks show.
After the parade, visitors can enjoy live entertainment at the Riverfest celebration from 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. in Snake River Landing. The Melaleuca Freedom Celebration fireworks show begins at 10:03 p.m.
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The city of Ammon will hold its Thousand Lights Fireworks Celebration at 10 p.m. across the city on July 3. Individuals can tune in to 99 KUPI for the accompanying music to the show.
The city’s celebration continues the next morning during its traditional flag raising. The ceremony begins at 7:30 a.m. at McCowin Park with music to follow during the ceremony. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/independence-day-events-in-the-idaho-falls-area/article_ecd979a3-c1a4-5df5-a881-403864703b42.html | 2022-06-30T00:54:06 | 0 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/independence-day-events-in-the-idaho-falls-area/article_ecd979a3-c1a4-5df5-a881-403864703b42.html |
BOISE — A U.S. agency responsible for killing wolves and other predators to prevent attacks on livestock has agreed to settle a lawsuit by completing an extensive environmental study on its methods in Idaho.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services also agreed last week not to use poison gas cartridges or fire to kill wolf pups in dens in Idaho until the study is finished at the end of 2024.
Wildlife Services last week filed a joint motion with Western Watersheds Project, WildEarth Guardians and Predator Defense in U.S. District Court to settle the May 2020 lawsuit. The environmental groups contend Wildlife Service's predator control activities violate environmental laws.
The settlement follows a separate 2020 settlement from a different 2016 lawsuit specifically involving wolves in Idaho and also filed by the three environmental groups and two others. That settlement also requires Wildlife Services to complete an environmental impact study on killing wolves in the state with a 2023 deadline.
Environmental impact studies are time-consuming and expensive, and it's possible, though not guaranteed, that Wildlife Services will combine the two settlement agreements into one environmental impact statement, or EIS. That would have the effect of extending wolf protections made in the 2020 settlement for an extra year. The creation of impact statements include comments from the public.
"I think this settlement layers on some additional protections for wolves," said Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project's executive director. "We got some of what we wanted (in the agreement). But, quite frankly, we'd like Wildlife Services to get out of the business of killing native wildlife entirely."
Wildlife Services on Wednesday didn't immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press sent by email, the agency's preferred communication method.
The agency in 2021 killed 39 wolves in Idaho. Fourteen were killed using a helicopter, five with a fixed-wing aircraft, 10 with firearms, nine with foothold traps and one with night vision equipment. The agency also killed about 1,700 coyotes in Idaho in 2021 using various methods.
"Our goal is to have in the final EIS a thorough analysis of the impact of killing native carnivores," said Lindsay Larris, wildlife program director for WildEarth Guardians. She said prohibitions contained in the settlement should give Wildlife Services time to evaluate the results of killing restrictions.
The agreements each have two parts. The first part details what Wildlife Services will consider in the impact statement. The second part restricts agency actions on predator control until the impact statement and what's called a record of decision are finalized. The record of decision will be the agency's plan for moving forward with predator control in Idaho. It could, for example, leave wilderness areas off limits or give the OK for killing predators in them.
Notably, the settlements prevent the agency from using cyanide-spraying devices, known as M-44s but called "cyanide bombs" by opponents, in Idaho at least until the impact statement is completed. The devices look like lawn sprinklers but spray cyanide when triggered by animals attracted by bait. The devices are intended to kill mainly coyotes but have harmed humans and pets, including injuring a 14-year-old eastern Idaho boy and killing his 3-year-old yellow lab in March 2017 near Pocatello.
Overall, until the environmental impact statement is done, Wildlife Services now has multiple restrictions on killing wolves and other predators in the state. For wolves, the most recent settlement prevents using poison gas or fire to kill wolf pups in dens. The 2020 settlement has additional restrictions, including a prohibition on Wildlife Services killing wolves in wilderness areas, the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and other public lands areas.
The most recent settlement extends the prohibition on Wildlife Services killing in wilderness areas and wilderness study areas in most cases to other predators. Wolves, it is thought, use wilderness areas as bases from which they expand their population. But environmental groups find the killing of wildlife in areas designated as wild places abhorrent.
"It's particularly egregious to have our government killing wildlife for simply existing in the wild," Larris said.
The agreements also preclude Wildlife Services from killing predators to bolster deer and elk populations.
The most recent settlement states that the agreement is not an admission of guilt by Wildlife Services or two other agencies named in the lawsuit — the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management — where Wildlife Services has carried out predator control actions. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/us-agency-to-limit-predator-killing-methods-in-idaho/article_cde4efa8-de45-594f-aa37-8aa7bc269029.html | 2022-06-30T00:54:07 | 1 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/us-agency-to-limit-predator-killing-methods-in-idaho/article_cde4efa8-de45-594f-aa37-8aa7bc269029.html |
A man described as one of the collectors of smuggling fees in the deadly tractor-trailer incident this week has been arrested in East Texas, making him the fourth suspect connected to the case.
Christian Martinez, 28, was arrested in Palestine and is charged with one count of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens resulting in death. According to court documents, a search warrant was executed on a cellphone belonging to the accused driver, Homero Zamorano Jr., 45, who is from Brownsville but was living in Palestine.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Antonio said in a news release that it discovered Zamorano and Martinez communicated with each other about the smuggling event.
If convicted, Martinez faces up to life in prison or could face the death penalty. He had an initial appearance Wednesday in Tyler and will be transported to San Antonio for further proceedings.
Federal prosecutors also said Zamorano has been charged with alien smuggling resulting in death. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison or possibly the death penalty.
The smugglers ferried the migrants from the Laredo area to the South Side of San Antonio in a big rig disguised as a border produce truck. At least 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America died in the suffocating heat of the trailer, which was abandoned near JBSA-Lackland on Monday.
Earlier this week, Craig Larrabee, acting special agent for Homeland Security Investigations in San Antonio, made it clear he would not speak about the case.
But speaking generally about immigrant-smuggling or transporting cases, he said his agents try to be thorough.
“When we see incidents like this, we investigate all aspects,” Larrabee said. “We investigate the coordinators, we investigate the transporters, the guides, the drivers, the financial side — the people collecting payments and distributing the payments. Everybody.”
The arrest is the latest since officials detained three other people this week, including Zamorano, who is accused of abandoning the tractor-trailer on a dirt road near the military base. San Antonio police were called to the scene about 6 p.m. Monday, and city officials later reported that night that 46 of the immigrants were found dead of heat-related causes, and 16 were hospitalized. As of Wednesday, the death toll had grown to 53, making it the deadliest truck-smuggling case in recent history.
In Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and members of his Cabinet confirmed details previously reported by the Express-News, including Zamorano’s first name, and released photos of him and the red 1995 Volvo rig crossing an international bridge.
The officials said the truck driver tried to pass himself off as one of the immigrants after they were found by police.
Zamorano was apparently still recovering from a drug and medical episode Wednesday. He was not brought to a federal court appearance, as expected.
Relatives of a woman who was briefly in a relationship with Zamorano said the couple were married or together a short while before he went off to work in oilfields “up north.”
“He was a decent person. He was very respectful,” said Yanet Balderas, whose sister had a relationship with Zamorano. “You wouldn’t think he’d be that kind of guy.”
Balderas said she did not know him to be a trucker, but said it was at least eight years ago that she met him.
Records show Zamorano has a criminal past, including misdemeanor arrests for fraud and driving without a license in Florida. Attempts to gather further information on those arrests were unsuccessful Wednesday.
Court records show investigators traced license plates on the rig to a home in the 100 block of Arnold Drive after the truck was found. After putting the house under surveillance, they moved in and detained two young men who were about to leave in separate trucks. One of the men confessed to having a gun in his truck.
Officers found a gun, and after getting a search warrant, agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found more guns, including at least one rifle, in the house, records show.
Those suspects, Juan Francisco D’Luna-Bilbao, 48, and Juan Claudio D’Luna-Mendez, 23, appeared in federal court in San Antonio on Tuesday on charges of being undocumented immigrants who illegally possessed weapons. They are scheduled for probable cause and bail hearings on Friday. D’Luna-Bilbao’s lawyer, Cynthia Orr, said she plans to waive the probable cause hearing, and ask for the bail hearing to be postponed. The pair face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
Michael Gross, D’Luna-Mendez’s lawyer, said he does not comment on his ongoing cases.
While the pair’s arrests seem more like a firearms case, they show a pattern.
The ATF bureau has partnered with Homeland Security Investigations in the past to take down immigrant-trafficking groups that are also involved in acquiring firearms.
One of the most notorious cases is that of Jose Miguel Sandoval-Pineda, an immigrant with ties to San Antonio and Central Texas. He is accused of leading co-defendants who would acquire guns used as part of immigrant-smuggling and trafficking. Some of his co-defendants admitted he instructed them to fire-bomb homes of some rivals.
“To facilitate their human smuggling, members of the organization would (make) straw purchases and exchange firearms, which would then be used to guard illegal aliens and to retaliate against the organization’s rivals,” prosecutor Brian Nowinski wrote in a court document in Sandoval-Pineda’s case.
Sandoval-Pineda was scheduled to be sentenced this week, but it was postponed until August. It is unrelated to the truck case.
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U.S. Steel is planning to slash steelmaking jobs in Illinois as it looks to expand its domestic iron ore supply by investing in a pellet facility in Minnesota and reaching a deal with SunCoke Energy to make pig iron at blast furnaces at Granite City Works near St. Louis.
The company is looking to reduce employment from about 1,500 to about 550 at the Illinois steel mill because of the shift in strategy to focus more on iron ore production and electric arc furnaces, or EAFs.
"U.S. Steel has established a trend in recent years of shutting down operations, as it has done at the Great Lakes facility in Detroit, Lone Star Steel in Texas, tubular operations in Ohio, and the company abandoned a previously announced major capital improvement project at the Mon Valley Works and announced the closing of its West Coast operations at UPI in California," United Steelworkers Union International President Thomas Conway said. "The company continues to invest heavily in its non-union operations at Big River Steel in Arkansas, and management continues to point to their transition to EAF-produced steel as the pathway to success while they shutter operations."
U.S. Steel spokesperson Amanda Malkowski said it would be the end of the steelmaking operations at Granite City Works as both remaining blast furnaces would be converted to pig iron production. All that would remain would be finishing lines, supplied by another U.S. Steel mill, potentially Gary Works.
Displaced workers would be able to apply for a job at SunCoke or transfer to another U.S. Steel facility, Malkowski said. Those who are not placed somewhere will get severance packages.
The Pittsburgh-based steelmaker, one of the largest industrial concerns in the Calumet Region, recently announced it would invest $60 million in a pig iron caster at Gary Works that would produce up to 500,000 tons of pig iron for Big River Steel in Arkansas. That operation should go online next year, contributing $30 million a year to run-rate enterprise EBITDA and a return rate of more than 30%.
This fall, the steelmaker will build a DR-grate pellet facility at either its Keetac or Minntac iron ore mine in Minnesota. One of the two plants will start making DR-grade pellets for electric arc furnaces as well as blast furnace-grade pellets for blast finances like those at Gary Works.
The expected investment is about $150 million. U.S. Steel will have the option to sell the pellets to third-party suppliers or feed them to a direct reduced iron or hot briquetted facility of its own in the future.
It immediately plans to use the pellets for a new product line.
"Our conviction remains that steel mined, melted, and made in America is vital to our national and economic security," U.S. Steel President and CEO David Burritt said. "We are strategically investing in our raw materials that will feed the advanced steel mills of today and tomorrow, making us increasingly self-sufficient. It’s another way that we’re supporting domestic manufacturing, simplifying complex global supply chains, addressing the sustainability demands of our customers, and ultimately creating profitable steel solutions for people and the planet."
U.S. Steel has signed an agreement that would allow SunCoke to acquire the two blast furnaces at Granite City Works in Illinois. The company plans to build a 2 million ton granulated pig iron production facility, supplying U.S. Steel with 100% of the pig iron it produces for 10 years.
The project would take about two years to build. U.S. Steel would use the pig iron to supply its fleet of electric arc furnaces with iron ore from its own mines, realizing a significant cost advantage.
It would also result in the loss of about 1,000 steelworker jobs mostly represented by the USW.
"The USW and U.S. Steel concluded a successful startup of an EAF operation in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Fairfield Works, and that's where the company should have continued to place additional EAF investments," Conway said. "Instead, they chose to double down their investment in their Arkansas facility," Conway said. "In its announcement regarding Granite City's future, the company callously failed to mention a word about the massive job loss or impact the decision will have on a skilled and loyal workforce, their families or their community."
The USW said it was just the latest in a string of closures, including the indefinitely idled East Chicago Tin Mill U.S. Steel acquired from National Steel.
"It is another tale in a long string of betrayals by the company, which now has permanently closed nearly two thirds of the assets it acquired from National Steel along with other acquisitions," Conway said. "The summer is coming and bringing with it the termination of the labor agreement between the parties. We will undoubtedly be talking about investment in our plants. The company should prepare itself for those discussions. We understand the vital importance of investment in our USW plants and the obligations to our members and their communities, even if the management at U.S. Steel doesn't. We have no intention of becoming the primary pig iron suppliers to their non-union operations."
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CROWN POINT — A Hobart man was being held without bail Wednesday on charges he repeatedly molested a middle school-age girl while she visited a Crown Point residence from 2020 to early 2022.
David Garcia Jr., 30, is accused of fondling the girl beginning when she was 12 or 13 years old and progressing to raping her last summer.
A Lake Criminal Court magistrate entered not guilty pleas on Garcia's behalf Wednesday to two felony counts of child molesting and two felony counts of sexual misconduct with a minor.
The magistrate scheduled a bail review hearing for Garcia on Thursday before Judge Salvador Vasquez.
Crown Point police began an investigation in March, after the girl disclosed the alleged sexual abuse to a school counselor, court records state.
The girl alleged Garcia forced her to have sex with him at least five times between August 2021 and January 2022. Garcia told her not to tell anyone, records state.
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She told police she came forward because she was afraid of having to stay at Garcia's home during spring break and she wanted the alleged sexual abuse to stop.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Bradley Warmac
Age : 31
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205415
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING - W/NO INTENT OF FELONY THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Watkins
Age : 26
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205422
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ronald Woods
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205429
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Talley
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205441
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nathan Thomas
Age : 32
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205424
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Randall Valle
Age : 29
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205418
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jason Mosqueda
Age : 21
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205411
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jamey Oskins
Age : 35
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205442
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Freddie Meeks III
Age : 37
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205426
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kevin Haywood
Age : 45
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205423
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - OBTAINING PROPERTY - BY CREDIT CARD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dontrell Henderson Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205444
Arrest Date: June 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cortez Henley
Age : 18
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205437
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Kelly III
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205421
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - W/PRIOR CONVICTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alison Cook
Age : 32
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205434
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Justin Davis
Age : 34
Residence: Blue Island, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205432
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Maria Dorsey
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205416
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: PUBLIC INDECENCY - PROMOTING PROSTITUTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Roger Burrell
Age : 52
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205425
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY; POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Kevin Ballard
Age : 61
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205410
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicole Bottoms
Age : 45
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205428
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Thomas Mason
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205394
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lauren Milby
Age : 23
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205377
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Montgomery
Age : 40
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205400
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Paris Spencer
Age : 38
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205388
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jamale Henderson
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205376
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rahmere Dunn
Age : 23
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205379
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Prince Elston II
Age : 19
Residence: Markham, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205393
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Josigha Coleman
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205399
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Corey Brewer
Age : 23
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205401
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE; FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Antrell Blissett Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Lima, OH
Booking Number(s): 2205387
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Alexis Robinson
Age : 36
Residence: Calumet City, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205347
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Stafford
Age : 46
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205371
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Stotts
Age : 49
Residence: New Lenox, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205364
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kyle Turnquist
Age : 28
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205374
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - SCHEDULE I
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joshua Vargo
Age : 38
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205363
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE; POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jeremiah Perez
Age : 42
Residence: Grand Rapids, MI
Booking Number(s): 2205355
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cody Qualls
Age : 33
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205360
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Paglis
Age : 40
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205373
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Desmond Lewis
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205348
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cecilia Marines
Age : 30
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205346
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Anthony Moss
Age : 52
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205344
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750; MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jeffrey Jackson
Age : 30
Residence: Westminster, CO
Booking Number(s): 2205350
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Ellis Jr.
Age : 58
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205354
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST A PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lloyd Grant III
Age : 51
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205345
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mykia Green
Age : 26
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205358
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Isaiah Cross Sr.
Age : 42
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205356
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Diandre Cassidy
Age : 33
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205369
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Donte Paulk
Age : 40
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205341
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Randall Wingis
Age : 59
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205340
Arrest Date: June 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Alexia Brown
Age : 26
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205333
Arrest Date: June 20, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Elijah Dillon-Bombin
Age : 21
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205335
Arrest Date: June 20, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Laron Major
Age : 19
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205321
Arrest Date: June 20, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Eric Blain
Age : 27
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205334
Arrest Date: June 20, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Toler
Age : 56
Residence: Frankfort, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205298
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Porshaue Shelley
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205303
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - $750 TO $50,000; FALSE IDENTIFICATION TO POLICE or FALSE INFO OF EMERGENCY
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Ivan Santillan Popoca
Age : 20
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205300
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Adam Summers
Age : 37
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205314
Arrest Date: June 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth McCammon
Age : 42
Residence: Schneider, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205309
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Terry Millender
Age : 54
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205301
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- INVASION OF PRIVACY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gerald Purkey
Age : 34
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205299
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE; POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Damontae Reed
Age : 21
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205297
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Deon Hayes
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205312
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gilbert Herrera
Age : 63
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205313
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jason Fisher
Age : 39
Residence: Aurora, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205304
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Danielle Vann
Age : 29
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205275
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Carl Payne
Age : 30
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205270
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Joshua Serrano
Age : 28
Residence: South Holland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205279
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Lamont Murdaugh
Age : 22
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205272
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: 2205272
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daron Lynch
Age : 40
Residence: Wheatfield, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205287
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Hitchcock
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205257
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Felix DeLeon
Age : 46
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205274
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
JeJuan Graham
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205276
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Chauncey Hackett Jr.
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205294
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shahid Coleman
Age : 31
Residence: Hammond, iN
Booking Number(s): 2205285
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: WEAPON - USE - FIREARM - POINTING A FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Curtis
Age : 41
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205280
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Katie Birks
Age : 27
Residence: Colbert, GA
Booking Number(s): 2205258
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcus Clay
Age : 34
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205264
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kathleen Clayton
Age : 66
Residence: Sheldon, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205282
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Richard Wisniewski Jr.
Age : 50
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205213
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lakissa Taylor
Age : 41
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205244
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tavarrus Wilson
Age : 44
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205227
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Watts III
Age : 22
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205246
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SEXUAL BATTERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kevin Rosolowski Jr.
Age : 31
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205215
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: RAPE - INTERCOURSE; CONFINEMENT - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Eliseo Pena Jr.
Age : 42
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205219
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sothan Pickett
Age : 48
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205238
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jose Torres Oquendo
Age : 51
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205230
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Angel Morales
Age : 41
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205217
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Darius Nelson
Age : 29
Residence: Lynwood, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205224
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FROM BUILDING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shefiu Ogunlana
Age : 39
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205220
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nathan Lunford IV
Age : 41
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205226
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Melvin Macon Jr.
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205218
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Deja Miller
Age : 26
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205242
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devan Landfair
Age : 27
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205228
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD; BURGLARY
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Ronald Kelley Jr.
Age : 48
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205212
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Lane
Age : 23
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205222
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: PUBLIC INDECENCY - INDECENT EXPOSURE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Arturo Gurrola
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205241
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Untonise Harper
Age : 49
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205247
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ruben Herrera
Age : 38
Residence: Elgin, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205245
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Demetrius Brown
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205229
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Coley
Age : 55
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205236
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Isaiah Escutia
Age : 23
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205232
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY RESULTING IN BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Benjamen Baso
Age : 44
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205251
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kewuan Allen
Age : 24
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205225
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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ROANOKE, Va. – It’s now been a decade after a derecho devastated homes and businesses in the Commonwealth.
Many people, like Betsy Shearin, are sharing their memories of the storm.
It was a normal day at the Salem Red Sox stadium.
“Great game, we were playing the Potomac Nationals,” Shearin said.
[READ MORE: Looking back on the 2012 derecho that devastated the region]
Shearin, her son and her son’s friend attended the Salem Red Sox game before the derecho hit.
“We started watching the flags. They started to get crazy,” Shearin said.
Shearin said they were told to stay in the basement of the stadium, which is where they got to meet with Salem Red Sox players.
Shearin wanted to leave because it was hot in the stadium basement, but was thankful she stayed.
“There was trashed piled up, debris flying around like crazy on the parking lot, all the street lights were out. "
Bradley Wright, the emergency management coordinator with Pulaski County, said they received numerous calls after the storm hit.
He said the area was recovering from a tornado a year before the derecho hit. According to Wright, teams from five departments, including police and fire, worked more than 400 hours one day after the impact.
“I was off but went back and worked into the evening into the night. We responded to trees down, trees on the houses, being in the mountains you wouldn’t think tornado, or what was a derecho,” Wright said.
Botetourt County Fire Chief Jason Ferguson said they also had to deal with trees destroying homes and help cattle.
“We even sent firetrucks to assist with watering livestock because the pumps from the creek to fill the troughs were out,” Ferguson said. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/06/29/people-in-southwest-virginia-remember-the-derecho-10-years-later/ | 2022-06-30T01:00:32 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/06/29/people-in-southwest-virginia-remember-the-derecho-10-years-later/ |
SAN ANTONIO — A 35-year-old man and officer with the Poteet Police Department, Jeffrey Richardson, was killed after he was struck by a 26-year-old woman believed to have been drunk behind the wheel, authorities say.
According to Austin Police, 26-year-old Lindsay Smith was arrested after hitting and killing Richardson on the city's north side around 2 a.m. Wednesday. First responders took Richardson to a nearby hospital in Round Rock, "where he later died."
APD officials say they took Smith into custody after performing a field sobriety test on her at the scene. She was booked into Travis County Jail on a charge of intoxication assault, where she remains behind bars on a $250,000 bond.
In a statement posted online, the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas union group said its members "have his family, friends and fellow officers in our prayers during this extremely difficult time."
In a separate statement provided by the Poteet Police Department, Chief Bruce Hickman thanks his colleagues in Round Rock, Austin and elsewhere "for their unbelievable show of love, concert and support" in the aftermath of the incident, adding that commuters exited their cars as Richardson's body was being escorted to Georgetown.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Richardson family," Hickman added. "We offer our sincerest condolence for this monumental loss."
Richardson had been with the Poteet Police Department since April 2021.
The investigation into the fatal crash remains ongoing.
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SAN ANTONIO — An investigation on the southwest side continues after numerous migrants died in an abandoned 18-wheeler on Quintana Road.
A dog handler with Alamo Area Search and Rescue told KENS 5 the volunteer-based nonprofit assisted with law enforcement at the scene on Tuesday.
"We were only requested to send out one dog," said Sarah Stone.
A team made up of a German Shepard, handler and two flankers went to search. A flanker is what they call the person responsible for helping the handler watch the dog's behavior among other tasks.
Stone said the team spent a few hours searching.
"It was about ten acres. We have covered a lot bigger area in other cases but this one took about three areas with how thick the brush was," she said.
Stone found a lot of clothes in the area. She also saw backpacks, blankets, food and water bottles. It's not clear if they belonged to anyone in the semi-truck.
"Apparently this is a place where a lot of people have gone into. They obviously are going into some of that thicket and it's not pleasant for anybody.”
Stone couldn't reveal much more about the search, but hopes, whatever ground the dog did cover will help investigators move the case along.
To date, the Bexar County Medical Examiner reports the death toll up to 53. The identities of two victims are being reported by Guatemalan news media. We have learned they are sisters Carla and Griselda Carac Tambriz.
"It's heartbreaking to see this and how these people are trying to survive," said Stone. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/local-k9-search-rescue-group-assist-with-18-wheeler-investigation-on-quintana-road/273-3bf76709-50b9-435c-ac16-4cc933a8a2e3 | 2022-06-30T01:06:15 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/local-k9-search-rescue-group-assist-with-18-wheeler-investigation-on-quintana-road/273-3bf76709-50b9-435c-ac16-4cc933a8a2e3 |
SAN ANTONIO — The driver of a red 18-wheeler which contained more than 50 migrants who died in sweltering conditions in San Antonio has been identified.
Mexican officials identified the driver as Homero Zamorano, who was spotted on camera at a checkpoint in Encinal, TX Monday afternoon around 2:50 p.m., just three hours before San Antonio first responders discovered the more than 40 bodies of migrants in the trailer.
The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed this in a release on Wednesday, and named three other suspects in the deadliest human smuggling attempt in modern American history.
According to Francisco Garduno Yanez, the commissioner of the National Migration Institute (INM), Zamorano was driving the red 1995 Volvo 18-wheeler truck that appeared to belong to the company Betancourt Trucking and Harvesting. But the vehicle, registered in Alamo, TX had overlapping plates and indicated the truck did not belong to the owner and his plates, logos and license were cloned.
Zamorano allegedly tried to pass himself off as one of the survivors when he and two other suspects, Juan Claudio D'Luna-Mendez and Juan Francisco D'Luna-Bilbao were also charged.
Records show Zamorano has a lengthy criminal history which includes reckless injury to elderly and multiple drug offenses.
The INM reported that three people were detained and are accused of being responsible for the human trafficking and deaths caused.
At one point, officials say the trailer was stationed at a location 235 kilometers from the Mexican border and 50 kilometers from San Antonio. The origin of the vehicle's path is being investigated, but Mexican investigators believe the truck may have been parked somewhere in the Lower Rio Grande Valley initially.
Officials say 67 migrants total were in the trailer. 27 were from Mexico, 14 from Honduras, 7 from Guatemala, 2 from El Salvador and the others' home countries are still being determined.
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SAN ANTONIO — Mexican-born artist Roberto Marquez doubles as a humanitarian activist, wielding a paint brush as he illustrates the tragedies of society.
His latest mural rests just off the railroad tracks on San Antonio’s far southwest side, near the site where dozens of migrants spent their final breaths inside a sweltering semi-tractor trailer Monday evening.
“I need to tell that reality, tell the world what is happening to our brothers,” Marquez said.
Fifty-three migrants from multiple countries have died as a result of heat-related sickness after authorities discovered the gruesome scene of stacked bodies inside a semitruck.
Eleven others remain in the hospital fighting for their lives.
“This is an injustice. This shouldn’t have happened,” Marquez said.
The canvas depicts scenes of struggle, pain and uncertainty surrounding the lives of those who aspired to live a better life in the U.S.
Marquez described the mural, which stands behind a growing memorial in honor of the migrants who passed away.
“This is a body that is laid down and this is the interior of the truck. The dark side what I call the negative space and then we have my positive which is the fear is the migrant is like they’re open the door and we see this body coming out of it,” Marquez said.
Marquez’s story begins on the border an ambitious 15-year-old boy hoping for fruitful opportunity in America.
“At that time, I wanted to find me a job in Mexico, but I couldn’t it was difficult just like it is now. I came straight to Tijuana and then I remember paying something like $250-$300 to the courier to cross me over,” Marquez said.
His life as a migrant took him from California to Arizona and eventually Texas where he raised a family. Marquez, who’s now a U.S. citizen, always had a creative spark in him but to turn his hobby into fulltime work is a dream he never thought would come true until it did in 2018.
“And one day after 40 years I decided okay, I like painting, I’m an artist now,” Marquez said.
His artistic activism has taken him around the world, including war-torn Ukraine where he established a mural under a destroyed bridge in the heavily bombarded city of Irpin.
Marquez also painted a mural across the street from Robb Elementary in Uvalde in honor of the 19 children and two teachers who were killed by a teenaged gunman just days before the start of summer break.
Now in the Alamo City, Marquez grips his paintbrush and with each stroke, hopes Americans can learn from such disasters involving migrants.
“This is a big problem, and everyone needs to get away from differences and come and do something about it,” Marquez said. And hopefully government, they do more because we don’t want to see tragedies like this. We don’t want it to repeat.” | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas-artist-paints-mural-as-tribute-to-migrants-found-dead-in-semitruck/273-c19c30de-1bf5-4e74-96b2-a971b1a00dd3 | 2022-06-30T01:06:28 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas-artist-paints-mural-as-tribute-to-migrants-found-dead-in-semitruck/273-c19c30de-1bf5-4e74-96b2-a971b1a00dd3 |
A 2-week-old girl is missing from Mansfield after she was taken Wednesday evening by her mother, a known drug addict, police say.
An Amber Alert was issued for the baby, whose name was not released.
The child’s mother was identified as 38-year-old Mandy A. Jaynes, who stands 5 feet, 1 inch, weighs 125 pounds and has blonde hair and green eyes.
The incident took place just before 6 p.m. in the city of Mansfield in Richland County.
The vehicle involved has been found, police said, but the mother and child remain missing.
Anyone who sees them is urged to call 911 or the Mansfield Police Department at 877-262-3764.
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MAYS LANDING — A judge on Wednesday ordered the continued detainment of three men accused of assaulting 19-year-old Irving Mayren-Guzman outside Centerfolds Cabaret in Pleasantville before he died in a nearby marsh, citing the videotaped “pummeling” of the victim, as well as concerns for the community where the attack occurred.
Defense attorneys appeared in court to argue for the release of brothers John and Garnell Hands, of Pleasantville, and Jamaul Timberlake, of Atlantic City. They called for a new hearing after an autopsy they obtained last week indicated that Mayren-Guzman had died of drowning and hypothermia while acutely intoxicated.
Superior Court Judge Nancy Ridgway denied the defense requests for the release of all three. They will remain detained pending trial for aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.
Ridgway said the autopsy indicated the three men had been "pummeling" Mayren-Guzman. While the injuries Mayren-Guzman sustained to his arms, legs and face were not serious, she said the sheer number of them evinced an intent to cause serious bodily injury on the part of the three defendants. She based her ruling on her concerns that the men remain a risk to the community, citing the defendants' criminal records and questioning their impulse control.
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Ridgway also asserted that the defendants were a threat to witnesses because they appeared to know workers at Centerfolds. Ridgway said video showed the attack as well as the aftermath, in which the men went back into the club and “gleefully” reenacted the assault to Centerfolds employees.
Dozens of people gathered outside the county courthouse for at least five hours in support of the Mayren-Guzman family. They carried signs demanding "Justicia para Irving" and blaming the three defendants for the teenager's death.
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There was food available for those who came in support, but the gathering took on a solemn atmosphere. There was a mixture of American and Mexican flags, signs with the late Mayren-Guzman's image and flags bearing the image of the Virgin Mary and Jesus. At one point the group prayed. Mayren-Guzman's mother, Zara Mayren, told the crowd to demand justice for her son.
Cristian Moreno-Rodriguez, an immigrant-rights activist who has been supporting the family, outlined what the family would consider justice.
"Right now, it's the family's position that no matter what happens, second-degree assault charges are not justice for the family," Moreno-Rodriguez said. "A jail sentence of five to 10 years is not justice for the family, it will never be justice for the family, nor for the community."
Moreno-Rodriguez said that, despite the autopsy results, he expected the state to prosecute the case to the "fullest extent of the law."
An attorney representing the family of Mayren-Guzman in a civil case around the teenager's death declined to comment after the hearings were completed.
Durann Neil, an attorney for Garnell Hands, argued that video evidence demonstrates his client had only struck Mayren-Guzman with an open-hand slap. He insisted it did not rise to the level of aggravated assault owing to the lack of intent to cause severe bodily injury and said there was no reason to keep his client detained. He added the altercation happened too quickly and there was no time for his client to have entered into a conspiracy to assault Mayren-Guzman.
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Harlee Stein, an attorney for the state, argued the video shows Garnell Hands hit Mayren-Guzman with a closed fist.
"We respect the judge's decision," Neil said after Garnell Hands' hearing. "However, we fundamentally disagree when it comes to my client."
Neil said he was looking forward to taking the case to trial on behalf of his client.
Matthew Portella, an attorney for John Hands, argued his client was in a different situation than the other two co-defendants. He said John Hands had only intervened after his brother had gotten into a fight and struck Mayren-Guzman only three times. He also noted that John Hands did not have an extensive criminal history, only one loitering conviction, and that he had a job.
Portella said he intended to appeal the detention ruling. He said he was "hopeful" people would be able to "separate emotion from what actually happened."
In the case of Timberlake, the last to have his hearing, Ridgway cited his “extensive” juvenile record, which included charges of aggravated sexual assault and carjacking as well as surveillance video the judge has viewed that she said showed the defendants intended to cause serious harm to Mayren-Guzman, whom she described as an “outnumbered 19-year-old” in the fight.
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Timberlake's attorney argued his client's juvenile history stemmed from incidents that occurred 17 years ago, and that his client did not have a criminal history since then.
Mayren-Guzman went missing following a Jan. 23 fight and was found dead the morning of Jan. 25 in a marsh near the Delilah Road strip club.
The autopsy did not show evidence that he had sustained a traumatic brain injury near the time of his death.
Since Mayren-Guzman’s death, his family, friends and the Latino community in Pleasantville have rallied together demanding justice and transparency in the teenager’s case. After a month of protests, Pleasantville City Council voted to revoke the mercantile licenses of Centerfolds on Feb. 23. His family also has filed a lawsuit against the club, the three suspects and others in connection to his death. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/pleasantville-strip-club-assault-defendants-to-remain-in-jail/article_24600092-f7f3-11ec-9e27-779f496641a9.html | 2022-06-30T01:13:20 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/pleasantville-strip-club-assault-defendants-to-remain-in-jail/article_24600092-f7f3-11ec-9e27-779f496641a9.html |
SEA ISLE CITY — Jason Kelce has a strong connection with Philadelphia Eagles fans.
He credits that to the Super Bowl championship in 2018, his famous speech during the ensuing parade and his play on the field.
There are many more reasons than that.
For the second straight year, the longtime Philadelphia Eagles center served as a guest bartender at the Ocean Drive Bar & Restaurant to raise funds and awareness for the Eagles Autism Foundation. The event also features raffles, auctions, autographed items and other team merchandise that benefited Kelce’s “Team 62,” which is one of the many that raise funds for the foundation.
“It was a lot of fun last year,” Kelce said. “The OD was kind enough to partner with the Eagles and myself. To lend their services, we can’t thank them enough for their support. Not just for us, but for autism. They have been really giving back to the community for a long time now.”
All tips from the event and the $10 cover charge were donated to the Eagles Autism Foundation. Last year, the event raised $100,000 for the foundation, ($50,000 raised and Kelce matched that). This year, it might be even bigger. About an hour before the event started, the line stretched almost two blocks.
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One of those fans in line was Matt Craig, a former wrestler and football player at Lower Cape May Regional High School. After he finished his job at Lucky Bones Back Water Grille in Cape May, he rushed over to the OD. Craig wore the same Mummers outfit Kelce wore during his unforgettable speech on the Philadelphia Art Museum steps Feb. 8, 2018.
“I love Jason Kelce,” said Craig, who lives in Cape May. “I have been ingrained in football ever since my freshman year in high school. This (costume) was a gift right after the Eagles won the Super Bowl. I barely get to wear it. So, it is a fun little excuse to get to wear something I cherish.”
The OD was filled to capacity, and there were multiple “Eagles” chants. Kelce has been coming to the OD since 2012 and called it “a no-brainer” to have this event here again.
“We are huge Eagles fans,” said Carly Pendergast, who was there with brother, Jack Pendergast, Jack’s wife Jessica Spivey, and her aunt, Collen Keppel. They were in Sea Isle this week for vacation. “We thought why not come see our favorite, Jason Kelce.”
Keppel has had Eagles season tickets for 25 years.
“I’m excited. And it’s for such a great cause,” she said.
There was also a setup at O’Donnell’s Pour House for younger children and their family. Kelce stopped there first to greet the crowd before heading to the OD. When he came out, he carried a tray of Jell-O shots and handed them out on the way to his spot behind the bar. He even did some shots and signed many autographs.
“Year 2, we definitely tried to go a little bigger,” said Kelce, who noted the event was put together in about five days in 2021 but was planned for a longer time this summer.
The five-time Pro Bowl center brought some friends this time.
Travis Kelce, Jason’s younger brother and standout Kansas City Chiefs tight end, and Eagles offensive lineman Jordan Mailata were there to spread awareness and help with the event.
“This cause is unbelievable,” said Travis Kelce, who spends time with his brother in Sea Isle each summer. “What the Eagles do to support it, what the city does, what the Philadelphia Eagles community does, it is what you love to see. People coming together to help out a great cause. It’s what you love to see, and what I am always about.”
Travis Kelce was upset he could not make the event last summer, but he made sure he was there Wednesday. He has been in Sea Isle for the last couple days and plans to leave Friday. The seven-time Pro Bowl tight end and Super Bowl champion praised the support and love Eagles’ fans have for his brother.
He called his brother the “best center in the league.”
“I appreciate Philly more and more for their toughness and love for the sports and their ability to motivate and get the most out of (the athletes),” Travis Kelce said. “That is uncommon. I do love this city and love the fans of Philadelphia for that.”
The massive turnout and fan support did not surprise Mailata. After all, he knows it firsthand, saying the fans are always this supportive during the season and in the offseason.
“It is an honor to be here with the captain,” Mailata added. “I have a tremendous amount of love for him. You see the love he pours out for this city on and off the field. It’s going to be a good night.”
Eagles fans Kevin Ryan, Bill Maguire and Maria Calabrese called Kelce a “man of the people.” The trio has been staying in Sea Isle this summer and wanted to come out and support a good cause. They praised how much Kelce gives back to the community.
Kelce did not know much about autism until he met his wife, Kylie, who works with special needs children. Through the Eagles Autism Foundation, the cause has become very close to him.
“It really does mean a lot,” Kelce said. “It’s humbling to be a part of it, but also just speaks to the testament to our fanbase.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/jason-kelce-serves-up-drinks-for-autism-in-sea-isle/article_a1812140-f7ef-11ec-ae49-b3907f3fb6a8.html | 2022-06-30T01:13:32 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/jason-kelce-serves-up-drinks-for-autism-in-sea-isle/article_a1812140-f7ef-11ec-ae49-b3907f3fb6a8.html |
Families will be packing New Jersey state parks all summer, perhaps more than ever now that they will be free for the rest of the season.
While that's good news for some who are looking for things to do, a few towns along the Jersey Shore say that the announcement will become a nightmare for them.
Gov. Murphy's post pandemic gift for state residents will become a challenge for residents and officials in towns bordering places like Island Beach State Park.
"All up and down the barrier coast...parking is always at a premium and traffic is always busy in the summer. So yeah, this is definitely gonna heighten it," said John Camera, business administrator for Berkeley Township.
"People can't get into the park and they need to turn around, and then they park on the side streets and it's hard to get into your house," said local resident Joan Tully "On a busy weekend, it's hard to get into your own driveway."
Seaside Park Mayor John Peterson said that on a busy and hot summer day, traffic could be backed up for miles once the park reaches capacity — which can be as early as 9 in the morning.
"It does have a detrimental impact and could impact on safety," Peterson said. "It could have a dramatic impact unfortunately on our personnel who volunteer in the first aid and fire department getting vehicles down there if there was an emergency. It's a serious situation."
The mayor said that a planned meeting with the state over the winter didn't happen, so Seaside Park is asking for help in the form people power, such as lifeguards and special police. Meanwhile, South Seaside Park has asked the state's permission to use two vacant lots outside just outside Island Beach State Park to get more vehicles off the street.
The state's Department of Environmental Protection said it was aware of the issue. But in the meantime, the towns are bracing for big crowds over the July 4th weekend.
"We don't want to discourage additional people on our beach or in our businesses — but we want to be able to manage it was best we can, and we think parking would help tremendously," said Camera. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/jersey-shore-towns-concerned-over-likely-traffic-from-free-parks-all-summer/3755842/ | 2022-06-30T01:15:06 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/jersey-shore-towns-concerned-over-likely-traffic-from-free-parks-all-summer/3755842/ |
13-year-old boy dies in crash near Woodburn
A 13-year-old boy died Tuesday night when a 17-year-old boy lost control of a car he was driving, crashed into a motorcycle and rolled into a ditch, law enforcement officials said.
According to Oregon State Police, at about 9:30 p.m. a gold Chevrolet Classic driven by the 17-year-old passed another car headed south on Highway 99E near Woodburn, but then lost control and hit a northbound motorcycle. The Chevrolet rolled several times and ended up in the southbound ditch.
The 13-year-old, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the car and pronounced dead at the scene. The 17-year-old driver and the driver of the motorcycle were taken to local hospitals, state police said. No update on their conditions was available.
All three people involved in the crash were from Woodburn.
Hwy 99E was closed for approximately seven hours while the scene was investigated. OSP was assisted by Hubbard Fire Department, Woodburn Police Department, Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Hubbard Police Department and Oregon Department of Transportation. | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/06/29/13-year-old-boy-dies-in-crash-near-woodburn-oregon-highway-99e/65364786007/ | 2022-06-30T01:24:55 | 1 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/06/29/13-year-old-boy-dies-in-crash-near-woodburn-oregon-highway-99e/65364786007/ |
What happened in the year since an Oregon farmworker died in extreme heat
The day before he died, Sebastian Francisco Perez turned 38.
He went to dinner with his nephew, Pedro Lucas, and Lucas’ siblings. It was a quiet, early night; they had been working all day and Perez would be working the next day.He didn’t bother telling his nephew there was an occasion to celebrate.
“I didn’t even know it was his birthday,” Lucas told the Statesman Journal in Spanish.
On June 26, 2021, Perez collapsed and died while working at Ernst Nursery in St. Paul. Temperatures that day reached 104 degrees, according to climate data.
Oregon OSHA and stakeholders had been working on proposed rules to protect outdoor workers during high temperatures but had not finalized anything prior to Perez's death and did not implement any emergency rules prior to the record high temperatures that year.
After his death, Oregon implemented emergency heat rules, which paved the way for permanent protections from heat and wildfire smoke. The permanent rules went into effect in mid-June. They were in place on the anniversary of Perez's death, when temperatures again approached 100 degrees.
"This time around, we do have rules," said Ira Cuello-Martinez, policy advocacy director for PCUN in Woodburn, which advocates for Latino communities. "We're just grateful that these rules exist."
What happened?
At the time of his death, Perez was working for Brother Farms Labor Contractor, which provided workers to Ernst Nursery.
Perez and his crew were moving irrigation pipes.
The day started early, according to two investigative reports from Oregon OSHA. The crew drove to the site at 5 a.m. and started working. They took three designated breaks throughout the day: one at 10 a.m., a lunch break at noon, and an afternoon break at 3 p.m.
Perez was present for and appeared healthy at the first two breaks, according to crew member accounts documented by OSHA. He was last seen at about 2 p.m. When he didn’t come in for a break at 3 p.m., members of the crew called his cell phone but later found it in the truck.
They found him shortly after 3 p.m., breathing but unresponsive, and carried him to shade. Both Ernst Nursery and Brother Farms were notified of his death by 3:38 p.m.
An initial cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest, according to documents from Oregon OSHA. A separate autopsy requested by OSHA concluded Perez died from overheating and dehydration.
'Serious violations'
Neither Ernst nor Brothers Farm responded to interview requests from the Statesman Journal. Both were cited for “serious” violations.
Ernst Nursery received two separate fines: one for not providing adequate control measures to protect workers from extreme conditions and one for not providing adequate information about the “known health hazards to which [employees] were exposed,” the citation says.
Brothers Farm was cited once for inadequate information.
The penalty for each citation was $2,100.
Ernst Nursery paid the fines and has appealed the citations. The appeal disputes Oregon OSHA’s conclusion that inadequate measures were taken to protect Perez, and contends that the nursery was not the liable party – the contractorwas.
OSHA’s investigation determinedErnst Nursery maintained management of the Brothers Farm crew for the duration of their employment. The nursery provided heat-related training in April to a different crew. The crew employed on June 26, 2021, received no such training, according to the investigation.
Ernst did, however, provide shade and water, according to multiple accounts from crew members. Perez collapsed within half a mile of both.
Brothers Farm employees, including Perez, signed a safety pledge. Documentation of daily safety meetings in the months and days leading up to June 26 focused largely on COVID-19 prevention: employees were reminded to stay six feet apart when possible, wear masks, and wash their hands. A few meetings encouraged drinking water and resting.
According to each citation, both Ernst Nursery and Brothers Farm were responsible for preventing heat illness at the time of Perez's death.
Oregon OSHA offered guidance to help employers comply, required employers to take "additional means and precautions" to protect workers from "extraordinary hazards" and had a "heat emphasis" program specifically to monitor for heat-related dangers.
Forward motion
Specific rules regarding heat were enacted after Perez's death.
Gov. Kate Brown ordered the state to adopt emergency heat regulations in July 2021. A permanent heat rule was adopted in May and implemented in June, nearly a year after Perez died.
The heat rule mandates shade, rest, water and training to help shelter against extreme heat. It also requires constant communication via radio, text or a “buddy system,” to monitor for signs of heat sickness.
That part is critical because Perez was alone when he collapsed, said Cuello-Martinez with PCUN.
It’s too soon to know how effective the rule will be at preventing heat-related sickness and death, but it’s a start, Cuello-Martinez said. And its passing means Perez’s death was not completely in vain, he added.
“A lot of the education and outreach that we do, we do in memory of Sebastian’s passing,” he said. “We continue remembering his life and his family. They will be present with us because they were a part of this monumental victory.”
Brothers Farm's emergency plan now states that it is responsible for safety-related training and inspection. Supervisors also are responsible for "thorough" inspections of each new work site.
Pedro Lucas, Perez's nephew, doesn't work for Brothers Farm anymore. He also moved out of the house in Gervais that he shared with his uncle.
There were too many memories there, he said. The house felt too haunted, too heavy, he said.
This was not the family's first brush with death. Three years ago, two of his cousins were killed when the van they were packed in with 14 other Guatemalan Christmas tree workers crashed in Salem.
"It's hard. You feel like, why? Why is this happening? Why to my family?" he said.
"We moved [to Wilsonville] to try to forget and think differently," Lucas said.
There were times when the weight of so much tragedy felt like too much to bear, Lucas said. But all he could do was keep going.
"After a while ... you're surviving, you're going out. It lightened," he said. "We move forward. We keep fighting."
His new house is decorated with his kids' art. Butterfly curtains hang from the windows and paint the afternoon light shades of pink and green.
A year and a day after his uncle's death, Lucas was sent home from work early. It was too hot.
Shannon Sollitt covers agricultural workers in the Mid-Willamette Valley as a corps member for Report for America, a program that aims to support local journalism and democracy by reporting on under-covered issues and communities. You may reach her at ssollitt@statesmanjournal.com. | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/06/29/what-changed-year-st-paul-oregon-farmworker-sebastian-francisco-perez-died-in-extreme-heat/65364594007/ | 2022-06-30T01:25:01 | 1 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/06/29/what-changed-year-st-paul-oregon-farmworker-sebastian-francisco-perez-died-in-extreme-heat/65364594007/ |
Mt. Angel Mayor Don Fleck dies at age 68
Mt. Angel Mayor Don Fleck died June 26 at the age of 68.
The funeral for Fleck will be held at noon July 1, followed by a graveside service at Calvary Cemetery in Mt. Angel. A memorial service for him will be held at 1 p.m. at the Mt. Angel Festhalle.
Fleck had been Mt. Angel’s mayor since being elected in 2020. He had been a city councilor for two terms prior to being elected mayor.
He was born March 31, 1954, and raised in Mt. Angel. He played football at Clackamas Community College.
He worked with his father at his father’s shop, Fleck’s Garage, in Mt. Angel in 1975, according to his obituary, when the shop was damaged in a fire. He joined the Mt. Angel Fire District as a volunteer after they saved the building.
Fleck started working for the Salem Fire Department in 1981 and worked his way up to the rank of captain. He also served as fire chief in Mt. Angel and worked as an instructor at Chemeketa while recovering from an injury.
He retired from Salem Fire in 2007 and as Mt. Angel chief in 2012.
He has been on Mt. Angel’s infrastructure task force since 2001 and his final project was negotiating with property owners for easements to complete the Marquam Sanitary Sewer trunk line project, according to the city.
City staff are wearing arm bands in his honor.
Mt. Angel’s City Hall and Public Works will be closed at 11 a.m. on July 1 so that its staff can attend Fleck’s funeral.
Bill Poehler covers Marion County for the Statesman Journal. Contact him at bpoehler@StatesmanJournal.com | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/silverton/2022/06/29/mt-angel-oregon-mayor-former-fire-chief-don-fleck-dies-at-68/65365179007/ | 2022-06-30T01:25:07 | 1 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/silverton/2022/06/29/mt-angel-oregon-mayor-former-fire-chief-don-fleck-dies-at-68/65365179007/ |
BANGOR, Maine — After long discussion, the Bangor City Council will now increase the city’s allowance to implement boarding houses.
An ordinance passed Monday night will allow a number of boarding houses to open on major roads such as Hammond Street, Union Street, and Broadway.
Boarding houses typically have shared living spaces and kitchens, with separate bedrooms to rent – a step to create options for those looking for affordable housing.
“They have become very popular development tools to provide affordable living for people fresh out of school or elderly as an option to have individual dwelling units,” said Bangor Planning Officer Anne Krieg.
Boarding houses looking to open will be have to meet certain building codes, as well as get conditional use permits.
"There's still a lot more work to be done,” said Krieg. “We're still trying to create an environment where a developer or property owner has options of developing their property, of creating units in these downtown residential neighborhoods.” | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/bangor-increases-allowance-for-boarding-houses-maine-affordable-housing/97-1e7f9a61-751e-47fb-a6f1-bfc9238a05d4 | 2022-06-30T01:28:38 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/bangor-increases-allowance-for-boarding-houses-maine-affordable-housing/97-1e7f9a61-751e-47fb-a6f1-bfc9238a05d4 |
TRENTON, MAINE, Maine — Maine seafood dealers and processors will benefit from $15 million worth of grants through Governor Mills' Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan. Gov. Mills made the announcement Wednesday afternoon at one of the businesses receiving one of these grants, Hollander & de Koning, a shellfish company, in Trenton.
A total of 107 seafood dealers and processors in each of Maine's coastal counties will receive awards. More than half of those grants are worth more than $115,000 each.
According to a press release, the funds were made available as competitive grants through the Seafood Dealer and Processor COVID-19 Response and Resilience Program (SDPP).
Alex de Koning, one of the owners of Hollander and de Koning, said he is extremely grateful his sixth-generation family-owned business will benefit from these funds.
"My family's been farming mussels since the time of Napoleon, literally Napoleon, and my great, great, many times great-grandfather was farming mussels," de Koning said.
"My administration will continue doing all we can to support seafood dealers and processors as they recover from the pandemic and as they become more resilient for whatever challenges are ahead," Gov. Mills said.
Jeff Nichols, communications director for the Maine Dept. of Marine Resources, said business owners in this sector of the seafood industry used any extra funds they had just to stay afloat the last couple years.
"It's going to help them make investments that they had to put off the last couple years, and these investments are going to allow them to build a strong and resilient future," Nichols said.
This money is now helping many business owners prepare for whatever comes next.
"Really it's just providing us stability in the future where it removes some of the influences of the fluctuations like we saw with COVID," de Koning said.
de Koning used the funds he received from the Mills Administration to purchase a new machine that produces small bags of mussels which now makes him able to sell to retail stores.
"Now we can both get our product into the restaurants, which we supply most of the restaurants in this area, and now we can also move into grocery stores. And actually, starting next week we're going to be supplying to Hannaford supermarket," de Koning said.
de Koning added his fresh Maine-farmed mussels are going to be available in more than 150 Hannaford Supermarkets in the northeast. He said being able to sell his seafood to both restaurants and grocery stores will help his business succeed long after it's passed on to the next generation: his two young daughters.
"My hope is that I can provide an opportunity for them to continue living in this amazing place and make a good living off it," de Koning said. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/gov-mills-grants-15-million-for-seafood-dealers-and-processors-maine-jobs-and-recovery-plan-funding-maine/97-cd4eaeec-4e12-4365-9334-9a17ac8978de | 2022-06-30T01:28:44 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/gov-mills-grants-15-million-for-seafood-dealers-and-processors-maine-jobs-and-recovery-plan-funding-maine/97-cd4eaeec-4e12-4365-9334-9a17ac8978de |
MAINE, USA — The Maine Marine Patrol will be on heavy duty during national Operation Dry Water weekend from July 2 to July 4, a news release issued by the Maine Department of Marine Resources states.
Patrol officers will be hitting the water to make sure no boaters are violating Maine’s boating under the influence laws, the release says. Officers will also be sharing safety information to ensure boaters stay safe during the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
"Operating a boat with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .08 or higher is against the law in Maine," the release says. "BUI laws pertain to all vessels, from rowboats and kayaks to the largest ships."
According to the release, "Operation Dry Water is a national awareness and enforcement campaign coordinated by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators." It aims to prevent boaters from boating under the influence (BUI) of drugs or alcohol.
In 2021, over 7,518 law enforcement officers participating in Operation Dry Water made 638 arrests of boaters who were under the influence, the release says.
“Marine Patrol Officers will be conducting patrols along the coast from Kittery to the Canadian border focused on boaters who may be under the influence of alcohol or drugs,” Maine Marine Patrol Major Rob Beal said in the release.
The release says the U.S. Coast Guard announced that in 2021 "alcohol use was the leading known contributing factor in fatal boating accidents in the U.S."
“Boating under the influence is a preventable crime,” Major Beal added in the release. “The Maine Marine Patrol strongly encourages boaters to stay safe by staying sober while boating.”
The release warns that boaters can become impaired much more quickly on the water than on land due to environmental conditions such as the sun, wind, movement of the boat, and noise, which overall intensifies the effects of drugs and alcohol.
“We always take the opportunity to talk with a lot of boaters about the importance of boating sober and safely, and we will do the same this year,” Major Beal said.
To find more information regarding Maine's recreational boating safety tips, click here. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/maine-marine-patrol-to-try-to-curb-boating-under-influence-fourth-of-july-weekend-safety/97-3506d071-dde1-4d4a-957d-a2d20d2bc5da | 2022-06-30T01:28:50 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/maine-marine-patrol-to-try-to-curb-boating-under-influence-fourth-of-july-weekend-safety/97-3506d071-dde1-4d4a-957d-a2d20d2bc5da |
BANGOR, Maine — The Penobscot Theatre Company is taking “9 to 5” to the stage for its first summer production since 2019.
The 16 cast member crew has been blocking scenes, choreographing, and building colorful sets that embody the hit movie from the 80s.
The theatre’s executive director, Jen Shepard, said this musical fits well within the scope of current events.
“We knew it would be a great fit for the actors that are in our company, and I also think with a lot of people seeking equity in their workplaces and work life balance, this just seemed like the perfect moment for this musical,” Shepard said.
Janelle Robinson, an actress starring in the musical, said it seems the audience is enjoying the show just as much as she's enjoying performing on stage.
“I got [an] unbelievable response. It was great. There were a lot of gasps, a lot of applause. A lot of shock, I would say,” Robinson said.
Shepard said it’s been great to have life back in the building.
“I think the best part about theatre is it’s something people do together,” Shepard said. “It’s a shared experience. From the folks who are sharing of themselves on stage to sitting next to somebody that you may not know in the audience that you get chatting [with] because you’re enjoying the show.”
The musical has five to six performances each week and it runs through July 31.
If you’re interested in seeing “9 to 5,” click here for ticket information. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/penobscot-theatre-company-opens-the-summer-with-9-to-5-musical-bangor-maine-dolly-parton/97-c52bda18-9be0-4ae5-8a29-17ad0c993b82 | 2022-06-30T01:28:56 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/penobscot-theatre-company-opens-the-summer-with-9-to-5-musical-bangor-maine-dolly-parton/97-c52bda18-9be0-4ae5-8a29-17ad0c993b82 |
HOUSTON — Texas Governor Greg Abbott is ordering more truck checkpoints across the state of Texas to prevent more deaths like what we saw in San Antonio earlier this week, when 53 people who were being transported in a big rig died. But we're learning the semi-truck actually made it through two checkpoints undetected.
Four hours before first responders descended on the semi-truck in San Antonio in a desperate attempt to save lives, the driver – identified by Mexican government officials as Homero Zamorano -- was caught on camera crossing through a Customs and Border Patrol checkpoint in Encinal, Texas.
This new information was released in a press conference hosted by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Mexican officials released a map of the truck's alleged route. It’s believed the migrants were loaded into the truck on the U.S. side near Laredo before heading north. The truck also cleared the Cotulla checkpoint before ending up in southwest San Antonio.
Zamorano was arrested in a nearby field pretending to be one of the injured smuggled migrants, according to authorities.
"Border Patrol does not have the resources to be able to inspect all of the trucks and as a result, Border Patrol didn't have the capability of saving those lives," said Gov. Abbott.
In Eagle Pass Wednesday, Governor Abbott highlighted what he calls a catastrophe at the border -- record crossings at the border. There were 44,000 alone last month in the area near Eagle Pass and Del Rio. Abbott is ordering new measures.
“DPS will create and implement a checkpoint strategy beginning immediately. They will begin targeting trucks like the one used where the people perished," said Abbott.
DPS will deploy teams trained to detect cloned trucks along smuggling corridors. In addition to more checkpoints, Abbott says DPS will deploy at least two new 20-trooper strike teams to areas seeing record crossings.
And the Texas National Guard plans to put more drones in the air in the coming months.
“Our prayers are with the families who were affected,” said Gov. Abbott. “We never want to see that again.”
Victims in alleged deadly human smuggling
Reporting below is from the Associated Press.
Victims have been found with no identification documents at all and in one case a stolen ID. Remote villages lack phone service to reach family members and determine the whereabouts of missing migrants. Fingerprint data has to be shared and matched by different governments.
More than a day after the discovery of a stifling trailer in San Antonio where dozens of migrants died after being abandoned in the sweltering heat, few identities of the victims have been made public, illustrating the challenges authorities face in tracing people who cross borders clandestinely.
The number of dead rose to 53 on Wednesday after two more migrants died, according to the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office. Forty of the victims were male and 13 were female, it said.
Officials had potential identifications on 37 of the victims as of Wednesday morning, pending verification with authorities in other countries.
“It’s a tedious, tedious, sad, difficult process,” said Bexar County Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Flores, who represents the district where the truck was abandoned.
The bodies were discovered Monday afternoon on the outskirts of San Antonio in what is believed to be the nation's deadliest smuggling episode on the U.S.-Mexico border. More than a dozen people were taken to hospitals, including four children. Three people have been arrested.
The truck, which was registered in Alamo, Texas, but had fake plates and logos, was carrying 67 migrants, Francisco Garduño, chief of Mexico’s National Immigration Institute, said Wednesday.
The driver was apprehended after trying to pretend he was one of the migrants, Garduño said. Two other Mexican men also have been detained, he said.
Among the dead were 27 people from Mexico, 14 from Honduras, seven from Guatemala and two from El Salvador, he said. One of the victims had no identification, Garduño said.
The tragedy occurred at a time when huge numbers of migrants have been coming to the U.S., many of them taking perilous risks to cross swift rivers and canals and scorching desert landscapes. Migrants were stopped nearly 240,000 times in May, up by one-third from a year ago.
With little information about the victims, desperate families of migrants from Mexico and Central America frantically sought word of their loved ones.
Several survivors were in critical condition with injuries such as brain damage and internal bleeding, according to Rubén Minutti, the Mexico consul general in San Antonio.
Guatemala’s foreign ministry said late Tuesday that it had confirmed two hospitalized Guatemalans and was working to identify three possible Guatemalans among the dead. Honduras’ foreign relations ministry said it was trying to confirm the identities of four of the dead who were carrying Honduran papers.
Eva Ferrufino, a spokesperson for Honduras’ foreign ministry, said her agency was working with the Honduras Consulate in south Texas to match names and fingerprints and complete identifications.
The process is painstaking because among the pitfalls are fake or stolen documents.
Mexico’s foreign affairs secretary identified two people Tuesday who were hospitalized in San Antonio. But it turned out that one of the identification cards he shared on Twitter had been stolen last year in the southern state of Chiapas.
Haneydi Antonio Guzman, 23, was safe in a mountain community more than 1,300 miles (2,092 kilometers) away from San Antonio when she began receiving messages from family and friends. There is no phone signal there, but she has internet access.
Journalists started showing up at her parents’ home in Escuintla -- the address on her ID that was stolen and found in the truck — expecting to find her worried relatives.
“That’s me on the ID, but I am not the person that was in the trailer and they say is hospitalized," Antonio Guzman said.
“My relatives were contacting me worried, asking where I was,” she said. “I told them I was fine, that I was in my house and I clarified it on my" Facebook page.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard deleted his tweet identifying her without comment. The other victim Ebrard identified turned out to be accurate.
In the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, municipal officials in San Miguel Huautla were traveling to the community of 32-year-old José Luis Vásquez Guzmán late Tuesday to find out if his mother wanted to travel to San Antonio to be with him in the hospital.
Manuel Velasco López, San Miguel Huautla’s municipal secretary, said that a cousin had been traveling with Vásquez Guzmán and was now considered missing.
Another cousin, Alejandro López, told Mexico's Milenio television that their family worked in farming and construction and that they migrated because “we don’t have anything but weaving hats, palms and handicrafts.”
“Growing corn, wheat and beans is what we do in this region and that leads to a lot of our people emigrating and going to the United States,” he said.
Miguel Barbosa, the governor of neighboring Puebla state, set off a scramble for information in the town of Izucar de Matamoros on Tuesday when he said two of the dead were from there although that was not confirmed.
In the heavily migrant town, everyone was asking if their friends or neighbors were among the dead found in Texas. Attempting to cross into the United States is such a tradition that most youths in the town at least consider it.
“All of the young people start to think about going (to the U.S.) as soon as they turn 18,” said migrant activist Carmelo Castañeda, who works with the nonprofit Casa del Migrante. “If there aren’t more visas, our people are going to keep dying.”
Migrants typically pay $8,000 to $10,000 to be taken across the border and loaded into a tractor-trailer and driven to San Antonio, where they transfer to smaller vehicles for their final destinations across the United States, said Craig Larrabee, acting special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in San Antonio.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar told The Associated Press Wednesday that Homeland Security investigators believe the migrants boarded the truck in or around Laredo, on U.S. soil, but have not confirmed that. He said the truck went through a Border Patrol checkpoint northeast of Laredo on Interstate 35 on Monday.
Before leaving on the more than two-hour trip to San Antonio, the truck had been parked Monday in South Texas just north of the border, Garduño said.
Authorities think the truck had mechanical problems when it was left next to a railroad track in an area of San Antonio surrounded by auto scrapyards that brush up against a busy freeway, said Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff.
San Antonio has been a recurring scene of tragedy and desperation in recent years involving migrants in semitrailers.
Ten migrants died in 2017 after being trapped inside a truck parked at a San Antonio Walmart. In 2003, the bodies of 19 migrants were found in a sweltering truck southeast of the city.
Other tragedies have occurred before migrants reached the U.S. In December, more than 50 died when a semitrailer rolled over on a highway in southern Mexico.
During a vigil Tuesday at a San Antonio park, many of the more than 50 people who attended expressed sadness and anger at the deaths and what they described as a broken immigration system.
Back in Puebla, farmer Juan Sánchez Carrillo, 45, was sickened when he heard of the deaths in Texas.
He narrowly escaped death when he and his friends ran away from dozing migrant rustlers in the mountains near Otay Mesa near San Diego.
“For the smugglers, we the migrants are not human,” Sánchez Carrillo said. “For them we are no more than merchandise.” | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/texas-big-rig-driver/285-30be725b-2b4e-41fd-bd16-d3512663ab9b | 2022-06-30T01:29:03 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/texas-big-rig-driver/285-30be725b-2b4e-41fd-bd16-d3512663ab9b |
BLOOMINGTON — At least 40 people gathered in downtown Bloomington Wednesday evening to march for abortion rights .
It was the third such event in Bloomington since the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday reversed Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark ruling that made abortion a constitutional right.
Behind Wednesday’s event were Janna Alshabah and Cardella Joyce, both juniors at Bloomington High School and part of the local “Not In Our School” group.
The two welcomed “anybody who wants to protest the decision made by the Supreme Court last week,” Alshabah said, whether those people are directly affected by the issue or serving as an ally for others. She especially encouraged young people to speak out for what matters to them, she said.
Speaking to the group assembled on the south side of the McLean County Museum of History, Alshabah and Joyce urged the crowd to keep pushing for change, refusing to let the issue fade away.
“Don’t let the energy dissipate,” Joyce said.
Likewise, Alshabah called for attendees to pursue activism, but “not just performatively — we need to keep going toward our goals.”
She continued, “We all know this affects Black and Brown bodies the most because they struggle the most to get the care they need. We cannot stand by.”
Nearly all in attendance carried signs in support of abortion rights, bearing phrases like, “No uterus, no opinion”; “Keep your policies off my body”; “Reproductive rights are human rights”; and “Power = choice”. One sign listed several places where people can donate to support abortion access.
Activists hold signs in front of the McLean County Museum of History on Wednesday evening before setting off on a march for abortion rights in downtown Bloomington.
ROBYN SKAGGS, THE PANTAGRAPH
One young woman told The Pantagraph she was motivated to attend the protest by her newborn niece.
“I want her to have access to the health care she needs,” said the woman, who asked not to be named, explaining that her family would not be OK with her presence at the event. She shared that a female relative had been raped by a man she didn’t know and became pregnant. Now, the woman chooses to protest so that girls like her niece will someday have access to the choice of abortion.
Activists hold signs in front of the McLean County Museum of History on Wednesday evening before setting off on a march for abortion rights in downtown Bloomington.
ROBYN SKAGGS, THE PANTAGRAPH
After inviting other attendees to speak and then teaching them a handful of chants, Alshabah and Joyce led the group on a march throughout downtown Bloomington, wrapping up around 7 p.m.
“This is what a feminist looks like,” the marchers called out, along with “My body, my choice”; and “This is what democracy looks like”.
Another abortion-rights event is planned from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, July 4, at Withers Park, on Washington Street in downtown Bloomington. The protest, called “We Dissent: A Funeral for Freedom” on the Facebook event page , is being organized by the McLean County Pro Choice Warriors .
Abortion in America: How access and attitudes have changed through the centuries
Intro
Considering the fraught and deeply political ways in which abortion is discussed and legislated in the U.S. today, it’s easy to forget the issue was not always a partisan, or even a moral, one. Rather, attitudes toward abortion have changed over the centuries, often evolving alongside political and historical moments that reflect shifts in power and privilege.
In Colonial times, abortion was not a matter of federal or ethical significance, but a common decision made and acted upon by pregnant people and their midwives. Two centuries later, abortions were outlawed in every state. The matter of who gets to make decisions about abortion—whether it be the federal government, state legislators, or individuals—has historically been tied up in changing philosophies about bodily autonomy, the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, the advent of the medical industry, and, eventually, the merging of religion and politics to form the party system we know today.
The question of who has access to abortion is also closely connected with race, socioeconomic status, and proximity to power. Because history has shown that the legal status of abortions does not deter people from having them, the criminalization of abortion most directly impacts those without access to financial resources; in other words, wealthy Americans have always had better and safer access to abortions, regardless of whether abortions are legal or not.
In order to trace the history of attitudes and policies around abortion in the U.S.—starting in colonial times and ending in the present—Stacker consulted historical records, scholarly research, court documents, medical journals, news reports, and data from the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research and advocacy organization.
A note on the use of gendered language in this article: In recent years, the language used to talk about gender has shifted to meet the understanding that gender is a spectrum. Likewise, matters historically categorized as “women’s issues,” such as pregnancy and abortion, don’t only impact cisgender women , but also trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people.
In an effort to stay true to the language used in historical accounts cited in this article, we have employed language as it was used during those times. However, for the parts of this article that refer to present-day issues, we have used more expansive terminology.
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Pre-1850: Abortions in early America are commonplace
British common law followed the colonists to North America and formed the basis of the original laws and customs in the American Colonies. Abortion, like birth, pregnancy, and other processes involving women’s bodies, fell largely in the domain of communities of women.
Knowledgeable midwives were responsible for guiding women through birth and did so with the participation of the woman’s female family and friends. This communal form of birthing, now referred to as “social childbirth,” benefitted the woman giving birth both psychologically and in terms of safety, according to the book “Lying-In: The History of Childbirth in America.” Since the group of attending women usually included those who had either given birth themselves or witnessed several births, they could provide a wealth of knowledge, experience, and comfort to the birthing woman.
Abortions in early America were ubiquitous—some historians estimate between 20% and 35% of pregnancies in the 19th century were aborted. They were also uncontroversial from a moral and legal perspective, up until the quickening, which was when a pregnant woman could first feel the fetus move or kick in the womb, usually around 20 weeks into the pregnancy .
Although quickening was the point at which many considered a fetus to be viable, even the abortion of a “quick fetus” was never “firmly established as a common-law crime,” Justice Harry Blackmun would later write in the Supreme Court’s majority opinion on Roe v. Wade . Abortions were most often seen as a decision to be made by a pregnant woman and her midwife, and were most often induced using herbs known for “restoring the menses ,” historian Leslie Reagan wrote in her 1997 book “When Abortion Was a Crime.”
There was no real legislation regarding abortion until the early 1800s. The legal right to an abortion prior to quickening was reaffirmed in the 1812 Massachusetts court case Commonwealth v. Bangs. This pre- and post-quickening distinction would set a precedent for a series of laws passed in the 1820s and 1830s, starting with an 1821 Connecticut abortion law.
This law was the first to officially criminalize medicinal abortion after quickening. However, it only penalized the provider of the abortifacient, not the pregnant woman, and was largely seen at the time as a means of protecting women from often-lethal abortion medicines .
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Mid-1800s: Birth of the American Medical Association shifts abortion, pregnancy oversight from midwives to doctors
Despite new restrictions around the sale of abortifacients, abortions became more commercialized by the 1840s, with doctors and pharmacists advertising their services—both medicinal and instrumental—in newspapers. The shift from abortions being performed at home, often using home-grown herbs, to being performed or accessed more publicly, was already underway.
But it wasn’t until halfway through the 19th century that matters of pregnancy, birth, and abortion shifted away from a social- and community-oriented model steered by midwives, and toward a male-dominated medical model controlled by doctors.
The single most influential factor in this societal shift was the founding of the American Medical Association in 1847. In the years before the AMA began, more medical schools opened and white male physicians with medical training sought to distinguish themselves from the types of medical practitioners people were used to relying on—namely midwives, herbalists, and local healers—by dismissing their work . These alternative providers were seen as both a threat to the authority of the burgeoning medical establishment and, in a business sense, as competitors for potentially lucrative services.
When the newly formed AMA was met with derision by the general public, who did not take the group seriously, the association tried a new tactic to boost its appearance of professional credibility: the criminalization of abortion .
In 1857, the AMA established a Committee on Criminal Abortion, which launched a campaign to discredit midwives’ work and elevate the AMA’s practices to an “elite” status. To achieve this end, the AMA argued for making abortion a matter that should be decided and performed by physicians, not women and midwives.
At around the same time, changes in the Catholic Church’s official position on abortion coincided with discussions amongst AMA members about whether the life of a fetus began at quickening or conception.
While Pope Sixtus V, who came to power in 1585, decreed abortion to be considered homicide—a crime that warranted ex-communication from the Church—this stance only lasted about three years, as Sixtus’ papacy ended shortly thereafter. In 1591, Pope Gregory XIV reversed this decree, instead asserting that abortion was only homicide after “ensoulment,” which occurred at quickening, or what Pope Gregory XIV determined to be roughly 24 weeks.
This remained the Church’s official stance on abortion for the next 278 years until it was forbidden once more in 1869 by Pope Pius IX—a stance that remains in force today.
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1880: Every state has laws restricting or banning abortions
The Catholic Church’s reversal on abortion coincided with the AMA’s campaign to restrict abortion. The AMA’s Committee on Criminal Abortion quickly adopted a moral argument that sought to cast doubt upon women’s knowledge of their own bodies and pregnancies. It circulated a report that lampooned “a belief, even among mothers themselves, that the foetus is not alive till after the period of quickening.”
The campaign to place abortion and birth in the hands of white male doctors was bolstered by language that stoked racial fears about declining birth rates amongst white populations, an influx of immigrants to the U.S., and the recent emancipation of formerly enslaved Black people, according to historian Leslie Reagan.
Horatio Storer, who orchestrated the AMA’s campaign to criminalize abortion, wrote that the settling of the American West and “the destiny of the nation” rested on “the loins” of wealthy white women—a mission being jeopardized by these women having too many abortions.
This was not the only way in which the AMA’s white supremacist stance impacted reproductive rights. In 1876, James Marion Sims, who is generally regarded as the founder of modern gynecology, became president of the AMA.
Sims became famous for surgically repairing certain complications from childbirth—innovations he made after doing unanesthetized forced experiments on several enslaved Black women in the mid-1800s. In 2021, the AMA acknowledged this legacy , writing that Sims’ experiments “reinforced essentially racist misconceptions in medical science, specifically regarding the biological differences of feeling pain between Blacks and whites that still persist to this date.”
By 1880, every state had passed legislation that made abortion a crime, except in cases where the mother’s life was at risk. This kicked off the “century of criminalization”—from 1880 to when Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973—forcing abortions underground.
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Mid-1960s: ‘Back-alley butchers,’ underground network provide illegal, often unsafe, abortions to the desperate
With abortion outlawed in every state, people seeking to terminate their pregnancies were forced to do so in frequently unsafe conditions. People who resorted to self-inducing abortions using a notoriously grisly array of techniques—the infamous coat hanger among them—were often poor, and could not afford the steep fee of employing an “abortionist” to perform the procedure.
A study of low-income women in 1960s New York City found that, of those who reported having an abortion, 77% had attempted to self-induce . The danger of illegal abortions disproportionately impacted people not just across class lines, but also along racial lines. The illegal abortion mortality rate for women of color was 12 times higher than for white women between 1972 and 1974.
Even those who paid someone to perform their abortion were often injured in the process; the phenomenon was so common, in fact, that most big-city hospitals had septic abortion wards —sometimes referred to as “septic tanks”—specifically meant for people ailing from botched abortions. While the exact number of illegal abortions in the years leading up to Roe is unknown, due to underreporting, estimates from the Guttmacher Institute place the number anywhere between 200,000 and 1.2 million per year in the 1950s and ’60s.
The plenitude of people seeking abortions can be attributed in large part to the fact that contraceptives were not accessible for most of the 20th century. In 1965, Griswold v. Connecticut made the use of birth control legal for married couples. And it wouldn’t be until 1972, one year before Roe v. Wade, that Eisenstadt v. Baird legalized contraceptives for unmarried people, removing penalties around pre-marital sex for the first time.
A wide range of people performed underground abortions during the first half of the 20th century: both untrained providers and discreet physicians, with motivations ranging from greed and a desire to exploit vulnerable people, to compassion for those in need of assistance.
But not all underground abortion providers fit the stereotype of the “back-alley butcher.” Some reproductive rights activists developed ways of helping people access safe and affordable abortion care. The Jane Collective of Chicago , group of pro-abortion activists, famously formed in the ’60s and set up a call line, which connected those seeking abortions with the group’s own provider. After a while, the women realized they could learn to perform the procedure themselves, allowing them to expand their services to more people at a much lower cost. In the years leading up to 1972, when members of the collective were arrested for administering abortion services, Jane provided roughly 11,000 abortions to people in the Chicago area.
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1960s: Pressure from activists creates reform in some states ahead of Roe v. Wade
The 1960s ushered in a new era of social and political change—the civil rights, women’s liberation, and anti-Vietnam War movements converged to create a sense of optimism and energy, particularly among younger generations. The sexual revolution in particular began to shift conservative norms around what kinds of sexuality were acceptable, and questions about women’s sexual empowerment entered mainstream conversation. The advent of the birth control pill coincided with these new beliefs and allowed (married) people to control their fertility more effectively than ever before.
By the late ’60s, the work of activists, changing attitudes around sex, and the impact of Griswold v. Connecticut were beginning to have an impact on how lawmakers and the general public viewed abortion. Over the course of that decade, abortion had gone from a taboo subject people whispered about, to something shouted about in protests.
Activists argued the precedent set by Griswold , which protected married people’s right to contraception through their right to privacy, should, by the same token, extend to abortion. In 1967, Colorado reformed its abortion law, triggering a string of other states to do the same in the years leading up to 1973. In 1970, the AMA formally reversed its earlier stance when it voted in favor of legal abortion.
New York repealed its abortion law altogether in 1970, allowing for abortions up to 24 weeks, or at any point in the pregnancy if the life of the mother was in danger. The state, and particularly New York City, quickly became a hub for out-of-state people seeking abortions. Estimates from health officials between 1970 and 1972 attribute roughly two-thirds of all abortions performed to non-New York residents.
While this dramatically improved the safety outcomes for those who had the means to fly to New York, pay the cost of the procedure and lodging, and fly home—mainly wealthy white women—people with fewer resources in more restrictive states continued to suffer from unsafe and unregulated abortion services.
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1973: Roe v. Wade makes abortion safe and legal in all 50 states
On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its 7-2 decision on Roe v. Wade, rendering restrictive abortion laws across the country unconstitutional.
Despite the overarching implications of the ruling, public reaction was reportedly muted . This was, in part, due to the fact that abortion had not yet become a partisan or deeply politicized issue. In fact, many of the justices who voted in favor of Roe were conservatives and Richard Nixon appointees, including Justice Harry Blackmun, who delivered the majority opinion. The news of the Roe decision was largely overshadowed by the fact that Lyndon B. Johnson, who had served as president just four years earlier, died that same day.
Then-President Nixon’s private reaction to the Roe v. Wade decision was infamously captured in a secret audio recording by one of his aides: “I know there are times when abortions are necessary … I know that—when you have a Black and a white, or a rape,” he said. Nixon didn’t make a public comment about the ruling. In the immediate aftermath of the decision, the majority of the criticism of Roe came from the Catholic Church.
Abortion access improved quickly after Roe v. Wade. The septic abortion wards that had sprouted up in hospitals to treat complications from unsafe abortions were closed and replaced by clinics. Complication rates went down, and because of improved access to abortions early on in the pregnancy, the rate of abortions after the first trimester dropped from around 25% in 1970 to 10% in the first 10 years post-Roe.
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Late-1970s: Racial fearmongering creates rise of the ‘Moral Majority’
The decade after Roe v. Wade saw the beginnings of a shift in political and social allegiances around the issue of abortion. Prior to Roe, and even in the few years after, evangelical Christians did not oppose abortion—in fact, many Southern Baptists supported legal abortion . Abortion was not a major political issue for the right at that time, and most Catholics, the most outspoken anti-abortion voter bloc, tended to vote Democratic prior to 1970.
A few key events changed the priorities and demographics of the political parties. The first, and perhaps most influential, was the elimination of tax exemptions for segregated private schools. Referred to as “segregation academies,” these schools cropped up in the aftermath of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, as white evangelical families pulled their children out of public—now integrated—schools. After Black Mississippi families sued in 1970, the IRS was pressured to crack down on segregation academies by removing their tax-exempt status in the late ’70s.
Another Supreme Court case contributed to a growing backlash amongst white evangelical Christians: Engel v. Vitale, a 1962 ruling that prohibited public schools from sponsoring schoolwide prayer . As the Republican party increasingly became the socially conservative “party of family values,” the issue of abortion became a convenient—and more socially acceptable—proxy through which the right could channel its discontents around desegregation, growing sexual liberalness, and civil rights. Adopting an anti-abortion stance also helped the Republican Party convince more socially conservative Catholics to break with the Democrats.
By the end of the 1970s, these issues had converged to aid the rise of the Moral Majority, a right-wing movement headed by televangelist Jerry Falwell. The Moral Majority merged fundamentalist social and political conservatism and mobilized the Christian right, aiding in the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and ushering in a new era of American politics.
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2022: Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe v. Wade
On May 2, 2022, Politico published a leaked Supreme Court initial draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. Although final rulings sometimes differ from initial drafts, the document inspired panic and protest amongst supporters of legal abortion and preliminary celebration for opponents of Roe.
But legal challenges to Roe began long before the Supreme Court decided to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization back in 2021. Starting in the 1980s, cases like Harris v. McRae and Webster v. Reproductive Health Services were already introducing restrictions to the access Roe initially promised.
Harris v. McRae restricted Medicaid funding for abortions to cases of rape, incest, and life endangerment, while Webster v. Reproductive Health Services upheld Missouri’s limitations on who could perform abortions, as well as where.
The 1992 ruling for Planned Parenthood v. Casey both reaffirmed Roe while also introducing a loophole through which states could restrict access to abortions: As long as state laws did not pose an “undue burden” on people seeking abortions before the point of fetal viability, those restrictions could be acceptable. This reworked the trimester framework established by Roe, which ensured access to abortion during the first two trimesters and allowed for states to decide on restrictions or bans on third-trimester abortions.
In 2000, the Supreme Court heard Stenberg v. Carhart , which challenged a Nebraska ban on a late-term abortion method called dilation and extraction—controversially referred to as “partial-birth abortion.” The Court ruled the ban was unconstitutional, because it posed an “undue burden” on those seeking an abortion, as defined in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. But only seven years later, this decision was contradicted by the Supreme Court’s Gonzales v. Carhart ruling , which upheld the passage of the Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. The act criminalized the dilation and extraction abortion method, the first time a specific technique was banned.
Since Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Gonzales v. Carhart, states have passed increasingly restrictive laws around abortion, including banning other specific abortion methods , and introducing mandatory waiting periods and counseling, gestational limits, parental consent for minors, and compulsory ultrasounds .
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The future of abortion access could mean long car rides across state lines and the rise of self-managed abortions-by-mail
For many people living in states with restrictive abortion laws, the reality of getting an abortion over the past several years has already resembled a pre-Roe world: where having the means to drive or fly across state lines and pay for abortion services, as well as other associated travel costs, is often a dealbreaker.
Some things will change, however, if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. The distances people will need to travel to receive abortion care will increase manifold . Current estimates from the Guttmacher Institute indicate that 26 states are likely or certain to ban abortion if Roe is overturned. These states are concentrated in the South and Midwest, and would effectively create hundreds of miles-long abortion deserts in parts of the U.S. Residents of Louisiana, Florida, and Texas in particular could see an increase of hundreds of miles to the nearest legal clinic.
But accessing an abortion in the event of a 26-state ban does not mean returning to the days of back-alley butchers and coat-hanger abortions. Abortion services have evolved significantly since the century of criminalization, and have become increasingly safe and simplified. Reliance on surgical abortion has decreased: as of 2020, over half of all U.S. abortions are medication-based . The most common medication abortion is an FDA-approved combination of two drugs—mifepristone and misoprostol—which are usually administered during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
Self-managed abortions—abortions performed by the individual at home—using mifepristone and misoprostol are likely to become more popular . Through-the-mail abortion pill and telemedicine consultation services like Plan C , Hey Jane , AidAccess , and Women on Web have emerged to improve access in abortion deserts.
The right to an abortion is codified in state laws or constitutions in 16 states , including New York, Illinois, California, Oregon, and Colorado, as well as Washington D.C. Many of these states are preparing for a surge in the number of out-of-state visitors seeking abortions, or have already seen an uptick in recent years as restrictions on abortions have tightened in neighboring states.
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1980s-2000s: Legal challenges to Roe v. Wade introduce restrictions 2022: Roe v. Wade is overturned
Legal challenges to Roe began long before the Supreme Court decided to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization back in 2021, ultimately resulting in Roe's fall. Starting in the 1980s, cases like Harris v. McRae and Webster v. Reproductive Health Services were already introducing restrictions to the access Roe initially promised.
Harris v. McRae restricted Medicaid funding for abortions to cases of rape, incest, and life endangerment, while Webster v. Reproductive Health Services upheld Missouri’s limitations on who could perform abortions, as well as where.
The 1992 ruling for Planned Parenthood v. Casey both reaffirmed Roe while also introducing a loophole through which states could restrict access to abortions: As long as state laws did not pose an “undue burden” on people seeking abortions before the point of fetal viability, those restrictions could be acceptable. This reworked the trimester framework established by Roe, which ensured access to abortion during the first two trimesters and allowed for states to decide on restrictions or bans on third-trimester abortions.
In 2000, the Supreme Court heard Stenberg v. Carhart , which challenged a Nebraska ban on a late-term abortion method called dilation and extraction—controversially referred to as “partial-birth abortion.” The Court ruled the ban was unconstitutional, because it posed an “undue burden” on those seeking an abortion, as defined in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. But only seven years later, this decision was contradicted by the Supreme Court’s Gonzales v. Carhart ruling , which upheld the passage of the Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. The act criminalized the dilation and extraction abortion method, the first time a specific technique was banned.
Since Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Gonzales v. Carhart, states have passed increasingly restrictive laws around abortion, including banning other specific abortion methods , and introducing mandatory waiting periods and counseling, gestational limits, parental consent for minors, and compulsory ultrasounds .
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2022: Roe v. Wade is overturned
On May 2, 2022, a leaked Supreme Court initial draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade inspired panic and protest amongst supporters of legal abortion and preliminary celebration for opponents of Roe. Then, on June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court released its ruling and Roe officially fell.
For many people living in states with restrictive abortion laws, the reality of getting an abortion over the past several years has already resembled a pre-Roe world: where having the means to drive or fly across state lines and pay for abortion services, as well as other associated travel costs, is often a dealbreaker.
Some things will change, however, now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. The distances people will need to travel to receive abortion care will increase manifold . Current estimates from the Guttmacher Institute indicate that 26 states are likely or certain to ban abortion . These states are concentrated in the South and Midwest, and would effectively create hundreds of miles-long abortion deserts in parts of the U.S. Residents of Louisiana, Florida, and Texas in particular could see an increase of hundreds of miles to the nearest legal clinic.
But accessing an abortion in the event of a 26-state ban does not mean returning to the days of back-alley butchers and coat-hanger abortions. Abortion services have evolved significantly since the century of criminalization, and have become increasingly safe and simplified. Reliance on surgical abortion has decreased: as of 2020, over half of all U.S. abortions are medication-based . The most common medication for abortion is an FDA-approved combination of two drugs—mifepristone and misoprostol—which are usually administered during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
Self-managed abortions—abortions performed by the individual at home—using mifepristone and misoprostol are likely to become more popular . Through-the-mail abortion pill and telemedicine consultation services like Plan C , Hey Jane , AidAccess , and Women on Web have emerged to improve access in abortion deserts.
The right to an abortion is codified in state laws or constitutions in 16 states , including New York, Illinois, California, Oregon, and Colorado, as well as Washington D.C. Many of these states are preparing for a surge in the number of out-of-state visitors seeking abortions, or have already seen an uptick in recent years as restrictions on abortions have tightened in neighboring states.
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Pre-1850: Abortions in early America are commonplace
British common law followed the colonists to North America and formed the basis of the original laws and customs in the American Colonies. Abortion, like birth, pregnancy, and other processes involving women’s bodies, fell largely in the domain of communities of women.
Knowledgeable midwives were responsible for guiding women through birth and did so with the participation of the woman’s female family and friends. This communal form of birthing, now referred to as “social childbirth,” benefitted the woman giving birth both psychologically and in terms of safety, according to the book “Lying-In: The History of Childbirth in America.” Since the group of attending women usually included those who had either given birth themselves or witnessed several births, they could provide a wealth of knowledge, experience, and comfort to the birthing woman.
Abortions in early America were ubiquitous—some historians estimate between 20% and 35% of pregnancies in the 19th century were aborted. They were also uncontroversial from a moral and legal perspective, up until the quickening, which was when a pregnant woman could first feel the fetus move or kick in the womb, usually around 20 weeks into the pregnancy .
Although quickening was the point at which many considered a fetus to be viable, even the abortion of a “quick fetus” was never “firmly established as a common-law crime,” Justice Harry Blackmun would later write in the Supreme Court’s majority opinion on Roe v. Wade in 1973. Abortions were most often seen as a decision to be made by a pregnant woman and her midwife, and were most often induced using herbs known for “restoring the menses ,” historian Leslie Reagan wrote in her 1997 book “When Abortion Was a Crime.”
There was no real legislation regarding abortion until the early 1800s. The legal right to an abortion prior to quickening was reaffirmed in the 1812 Massachusetts court case Commonwealth v. Bangs. This pre- and post-quickening distinction would set a precedent for a series of laws passed in the 1820s and 1830s, starting with an 1821 Connecticut abortion law.
This law was the first to officially criminalize medicinal abortion after quickening. However, it only penalized the provider of the abortifacient, not the pregnant woman, and was largely seen at the time as a means of protecting women from often-lethal abortion medicines .
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Mid-1800s: Birth of the American Medical Association shifts abortion, pregnancy oversight from midwives to doctors
Despite new restrictions around the sale of abortifacients, abortions became more commercialized by the 1840s, with doctors and pharmacists advertising their services—both medicinal and instrumental—in newspapers. The shift from abortions being performed at home, often using home-grown herbs, to being performed or accessed more publicly, was already underway.
But it wasn’t until halfway through the 19th century that matters of pregnancy, birth, and abortion shifted away from a social- and community-oriented model steered by midwives, and toward a male-dominated medical model controlled by doctors.
The single most influential factor in this societal shift was the founding of the American Medical Association in 1847. In the years before the AMA began, more medical schools opened and white male physicians with medical training sought to distinguish themselves from the types of medical practitioners people were used to relying on—namely midwives, herbalists, and local healers—by dismissing their work . These alternative providers were seen as both a threat to the authority of the burgeoning medical establishment and, in a business sense, as competitors for potentially lucrative services.
When the newly formed AMA was met with derision by the general public, who did not take the group seriously, the association tried a new tactic to boost its appearance of professional credibility: the criminalization of abortion .
In 1857, the AMA established a Committee on Criminal Abortion, which launched a campaign to discredit midwives’ work and elevate the AMA’s practices to an “elite” status. To achieve this end, the AMA argued for making abortion a matter that should be decided and performed by physicians, not women and midwives.
At around the same time, changes in the Catholic Church’s official position on abortion coincided with discussions amongst AMA members about whether the life of a fetus began at quickening or conception.
While Pope Sixtus V, who came to power in 1585, decreed abortion to be considered homicide—a crime that warranted ex-communication from the Church—this stance only lasted about three years, as Sixtus’ papacy ended shortly thereafter. In 1591, Pope Gregory XIV reversed this decree, instead asserting that abortion was only homicide after “ensoulment,” which occurred at quickening, or what Pope Gregory XIV determined to be roughly 24 weeks.
This remained the Church’s official stance on abortion for the next 278 years until it was forbidden once more in 1869 by Pope Pius IX—a stance that remains in force today.
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Mid-1960s: ‘Back-alley butchers,’ underground network provide illegal, often unsafe, abortions to the desperate
With abortion outlawed in every state, people seeking to terminate their pregnancies were forced to do so in frequently unsafe conditions. People who resorted to self-inducing abortions using a notoriously grisly array of techniques—the infamous coat hanger among them—were often poor, and could not afford the steep fee of employing an “abortionist” to perform the procedure.
A study of low-income women in 1960s New York City found that, of those who reported having an abortion, 77% had attempted to self-induce . The danger of illegal abortions disproportionately impacted people not just across class lines, but also along racial lines. The illegal abortion mortality rate for women of color was 12 times higher than for white women between 1972 and 1974.
Even those who paid someone to perform their abortion were often injured in the process; the phenomenon was so common, in fact, that most big-city hospitals had septic abortion wards —sometimes referred to as “septic tanks”—specifically meant for people ailing from botched abortions. While the exact number of illegal abortions in the years leading up to Roe is unknown, due to underreporting, estimates from the Guttmacher Institute place the number anywhere between 200,000 and 1.2 million per year in the 1950s and ’60s.
The plenitude of people seeking abortions can be attributed in large part to the fact that contraceptives were not accessible for most of the 20th century. In 1965, Griswold v. Connecticut made the use of birth control legal for married couples. And it wouldn’t be until 1972, one year before Roe v. Wade, that Eisenstadt v. Baird legalized contraceptives for unmarried people, removing penalties around pre-marital sex for the first time.
A wide range of people performed underground abortions during the first half of the 20th century: both untrained providers and discreet physicians, with motivations ranging from greed and a desire to exploit vulnerable people, to compassion for those in need of assistance.
But not all underground abortion providers fit the stereotype of the “back-alley butcher.” Some reproductive rights activists developed ways of helping people access safe and affordable abortion care. The Jane Collective of Chicago , group of pro-abortion activists, famously formed in the ’60s and set up a call line, which connected those seeking abortions with the group’s own provider. After a while, the women realized they could learn to perform the procedure themselves, allowing them to expand their services to more people at a much lower cost. In the years leading up to 1972, when members of the collective were arrested for administering abortion services, Jane provided roughly 11,000 abortions to people in the Chicago area.
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1960s: Pressure from activists creates reform in some states ahead of Roe v. Wade
The 1960s ushered in a new era of social and political change—the civil rights, women’s liberation, and anti-Vietnam War movements converged to create a sense of optimism and energy, particularly among younger generations. The sexual revolution in particular began to shift conservative norms around what kinds of sexuality were acceptable, and questions about women’s sexual empowerment entered mainstream conversation. The advent of the birth control pill coincided with these new beliefs and allowed (married) people to control their fertility more effectively than ever before.
By the late ’60s, the work of activists, changing attitudes around sex, and the impact of Griswold v. Connecticut were beginning to have an impact on how lawmakers and the general public viewed abortion. Over the course of that decade, abortion had gone from a taboo subject people whispered about, to something shouted about in protests.
Activists argued the precedent set by Griswold , which protected married people’s right to contraception through their right to privacy, should, by the same token, extend to abortion. In 1967, Colorado reformed its abortion law, triggering a string of other states to do the same in the years leading up to 1973. In 1970, the AMA formally reversed its earlier stance when it voted in favor of legal abortion.
New York repealed its abortion law altogether in 1970, allowing for abortions up to 24 weeks, or at any point in the pregnancy if the life of the mother was in danger. The state, and particularly New York City, quickly became a hub for out-of-state people seeking abortions. Estimates from health officials between 1970 and 1972 attribute roughly two-thirds of all abortions performed to non-New York residents.
While this dramatically improved the safety outcomes for those who had the means to fly to New York, pay the cost of the procedure and lodging, and fly home—mainly wealthy white women—people with fewer resources in more restrictive states continued to suffer from unsafe and unregulated abortion services.
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1973: Roe v. Wade makes abortion safe and legal in all 50 states
On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its 7-2 decision on Roe v. Wade, rendering restrictive abortion laws across the country unconstitutional.
Despite the overarching implications of the ruling, public reaction was reportedly muted . This was, in part, due to the fact that abortion had not yet become a partisan or deeply politicized issue. In fact, many of the justices who voted in favor of Roe were conservatives and Richard Nixon appointees, including Justice Harry Blackmun, who delivered the majority opinion. The news of the Roe decision was largely overshadowed by the fact that Lyndon B. Johnson, who had served as president just four years earlier, died that same day.
Then-President Nixon’s private reaction to the Roe v. Wade decision was infamously captured in a secret audio recording by one of his aides: “I know there are times when abortions are necessary … I know that—when you have a Black and a white, or a rape,” he said. Nixon didn’t make a public comment about the ruling. In the immediate aftermath of the decision, the majority of the criticism of Roe came from the Catholic Church.
Abortion access improved quickly after Roe v. Wade. The septic abortion wards that had sprouted up in hospitals to treat complications from unsafe abortions were closed and replaced by clinics. Complication rates went down, and because of improved access to abortions early on in the pregnancy, the rate of abortions after the first trimester dropped from around 25% in 1970 to 10% in the first 10 years post-Roe.
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LANCASTER, Pa. — Tucked away in a small alley, a Lancaster auto shop is giving old cars new life—by making them all-electric. The 13-year-old business is generating a lot of buzz in recent months.
“I feel like it’s really common knowledge now that you can convert a vehicle," said Brandon Hollinger, owner of Amp REVOLT. "Our inquiries have gone through the roof."
Amp Revolt takes the gas motors out of classic vehicles and puts in electric engines and batteries from Teslas. Brandon Hollinger says people come to him in order to make their favorite car run longer.
“They’ve got an old vehicle or a meaningful vehicle that they really like, and they want it to live forever," said Hollinger.
By putting in the electric motor, Hollinger’s cars are able to run more efficiently and quietly, with a little more speed added on top.
“They were no performers before and now they’re peeling out, it’s crazy," said Hollinger. "So, it’s the best of both worlds.”
With gas prices hovering just under $5 a gallon, Hollinger says driving his converted cars are comparatively cheaper. He says costs are between 3 to 10 cents a mile to drive.
“It’s like driving for free," Hollinger said. "I haven’t driven around just for fun since high school. Now, it’s something you can do and feel good about it.”
Amp Revolt mainly works with classic cars, but also with trucks and vans—vehicles that are not readily available in the current EV market.
Hollinger said Amp Revolt’s increasing popularity is setting him up to take on more projects—and helping promote green energy.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — With only a few days until Independence Day, it's a beautiful time to go shopping for fireworks. But before you load up your cart, you're going to want to check with your city's ordinance as rules change from city to city
"It's a challenge for people in Iowa to sometimes understand that," said Sgt. Paul Parizek of the Des Moines Police Department. "Yeah, the state says it's legal to buy and possess fireworks. But municipalities like Des Moines say it's against city ordinance to lay them off."
Parizek said enforcing fireworks regulation isn't an easy feat.
That perspective is shared by Urbandale City Manager A.J. Johnson, who said he's pleading for the city to comply with Urbandale's ordinance, which doesn't permit fireworks of any kind to be shot off by residents.
"We have a zero tolerance [policy]," Johnson said. "And as you can imagine, that's the problem. It's relatively hard to enforce."
The city of Clive also doesn't allow the use of many fireworks. Chief Rick Roe with the Clive Fire Department says in his city, you can legally buy fireworks that you can't legally use.
"This year, the state of Iowa legislature took away a local city's ability to safely control where fireworks can be sold," Roe said. "So now they can be sold anywhere. So it's just something that we have to work with."
If you want to avoid a big bang to your pocketbooks, avoid fireworks that aren't allowed by your city's ordinances, as fines can reach up to $500. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/are-fireworks-legal-in-iowa-des-moines/524-a6cd10ba-2346-4cf3-8f8f-d30d6ac38014 | 2022-06-30T01:41:38 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/are-fireworks-legal-in-iowa-des-moines/524-a6cd10ba-2346-4cf3-8f8f-d30d6ac38014 |
DES MOINES, Iowa — The city of Des Moines is setting up a new system on its trails: establishing 911 emergency checkpoints throughout city trails.
It works like this: signs will be posted with numbered markers, so in the case of an emergency, people can find the nearest numbered marker and relay that number to first responders when they call 911.
"I think the most important thing is just a reminder to our trail users that we're doing everything we can to keep them safe on the trail system," said Jen Fletcher, marketing supervisor for Des Moines Parks and Recreation. "...Once you get on the ride, you're out there and you're enjoying the trails, you might not know or forget where you're at."
With more than 70 miles of trails in the city, its not always the easiest for police to locate every emergency.
This new system should help improve response time greatly.
"And if you get to that point, when you do need help, these trail signs will give you the opportunity to pretty much give us an address of where you're at on the on the trail," said Sgt. Paul Parizek of the Des Moines Police Department. "We've got the resources to get to you, we just have to know where you're at. And with these new trail signs that have these markers very distinguished and very clear, it helps us out a lot. It will get that help to you in a matter of seconds, if you need it that fast."
Parizek said this same system has been in place for many years in other locations throughout the country. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/des-moines-trails-emergency-checkpoints/524-84df0e7f-52c6-49a3-ad5c-0f1c7dd9688b | 2022-06-30T01:41:39 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/des-moines-trails-emergency-checkpoints/524-84df0e7f-52c6-49a3-ad5c-0f1c7dd9688b |
DES MOINES, Iowa — After the Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to an abortion, conversations around birth control have been happening across the country, with many are looking into more permanent options.
Local 5 spoke to specialists who perform vasectomies and tubal ligations, and both reported increased interest in the procedures.
Dr. Erik Bedia, an OB/GYN with UnityPoint, said that he's been seeing more women booking appointments for tubal ligations even before the ruling came down; it actually started with the leaked draft back in May. According to him, the majority of the new interest is actually coming from younger women.
"Women who haven't had children, women who don't want to be in a situation where they may not have other reproductive options available. They may choose to undergo permanent sterilization so they're not dependent," Bedia said.
According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, approximately 600,000 women in the U.S. annually go through a sterilization procedure. But at the same time, they say the U.S. averages just 200,000 vasectomies a year.
"[Men] have 50% of the responsibility of creating a pregnancy and it seems sometimes that we have forgotten that as a society," said Dr. Esgar Guarim, medical director of SimpleVas Vasectomy Clinic.
Guarim told Local 5 that his website has seen a 250% increase in visitors since Friday's SCOTUS ruling. He usually averages 40 procedures a month; over the course of the weekend, more than 20 people scheduled vasectomies.
Guarim said he's happy to see more men looking to be involved in contraceptive decisions, but he wishes these sorts of conversations started much sooner.
"It seems like it took restricting the right of an individual to be able to make decisions about her own body for men to start stepping up to the plate. We didn't have to wait for this. It is very good that men are realizing that we can do something, but we shouldn't stay there," he said. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/iowa-vasectomy-tubal-ligation-contraceptives-sterilization/524-a51fb3f4-25dc-41ce-8c68-f33b3a764d29 | 2022-06-30T01:41:40 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/iowa-vasectomy-tubal-ligation-contraceptives-sterilization/524-a51fb3f4-25dc-41ce-8c68-f33b3a764d29 |
BELMOND, Iowa —
Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday said Iowa's abortion laws will go to the courts system, not the Iowa Legislature, as the next step following Roe v. Wade being overturned.
She is asking the Iowa Supreme Court to rehear a lawsuit over the state's 24-hour waiting period, a law previously signed into place but struck down by a district court judge in 2020.
Reynolds also wants a district court to lift the injunction on the fetal heartbeat bill, which would ban abortions after six weeks. She signed that into law in 2018, but it was also blocked by the courts.
With the cases going through the courts, the governor said there is no need for a special legislative session.
"No, right now wouldn't do any good to call a special session. This is the route that we need to take," she said. "We've got two laws, you know, in place, and so we're going to move forward with that. We'll wait and see what the ruling is based on that, and then we'll reassess after that point."
The timeline remains to be seen according to Reynolds, who added it's in the courts' hands. A request on the 24-hour waiting period is due Friday.
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller has withdrawn from the case. Attorney Alan Ostergren will represent the state.
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PORTLAND, Ore — Portland voters will get to weigh in this November on a package of proposals that would fundamentally reshape the structure of Portland's city government, but not everyone on the current city council appears to be on board.
Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Mingus Mapps both raised multiple objections at a meeting Thursday afternoon with members of Portland's Charter Review Commission, which developed the proposal.
The meeting was essentially a formality; the charter commission approved the package last month by a large enough majority to send it straight to the November ballot without giving the city council a chance to make changes.
The commission's proposal would divide the city into four geographic districts, each electing three people to a 12-member council, and it would implement a ranked choice voting system. The districts would be drawn by a separate independent districting commission.
It would also separate the city's legislative and administrative functions, leaving policymaking to the council and putting the mayor in charge of day-to-day operations with the help of a professional city administrator or manager who would be chosen by the mayor but confirmed by a council vote.
The mayor would not be able to veto council decisions and would not have a council vote except as a tiebreaker. It would also be up to the city administrator, not the mayor, to hire and fire bureau executives.
If voters pass the proposal, it would immediately kick off a transition period starting with the creation of a districting commission in January 2023, according to commission member Gloria Cruz.
The district plan would be adopted by September 2023, and the first district elections using the new ranked choice voting system would be held in November 2024. The new mayor and council would enter office on Jan. 1, 2025.
The transition would have a one-time cost of about $4 million to $5.9 million per year, Cruz said, and the new system would have an annual ongoing cost of $900,000 to $8.7 million after 2025.
None of the current elected officials' terms would carry over; each of them would need to run under the new system in 2024 if they wanted to try to remain in office.
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Mapps described the combination of multi-member districts and ranked choice voting as unique, and pressed the charter commission members to provide examples of other jurisdictions with a comparable format.
He also objected the the commission's plan to combine all of the proposed changes into a single ballot measure, calling it his "deepest disappointment" with the commission's proposal.
"When I take a look at the city manager thing, the multi-member district thing, the ranked-choice thing, the expanding the size of the council thing, those strike me as being really fundamentally different questions," he said.
Charter commission member Becca Uherbelau replied that she and her fellow members viewed the various changes as interdependent, and that splitting them up would have made things more confusing because each one would've needed language specifying that it would not take effect without the others.
The commission also heard from a lot of voters who said their highest priority was changing Portland's form of government, she said, but the change of government question polled higher when it was paired with multi-member districts and ranked choice voting rather than presented alone.
Wheeler asked whether the commission had considered a "strong mayor" form of government, which would give the mayor a greater degree of power, such as the ability to directly hire and fire department heads.
Charter commission member Melanie Billings-Yun replied that the commission did examine the idea, but wanted a broader separation of powers in part because Portlanders vehemently rejected a strong mayor format during previous charter reform attempts in 2003 and 2007.
"Their largest complaint was they felt that it gave too much power to the mayor," she said. "They felt that it was, in fact — the terminology we saw, we read through all of their comments — was that it was a 'mayoral power grab.'"
Wheeler also raised concerns about the lack of a mayoral veto, arguing that it could prevent the new system from fully shaking off the current system's perceived lack of clear lines of responsibility and accountability.
"If the council gives... a flawed or not-fully-baked proposal to the mayor and the city manager... and then it blows up, couldn't you conceivably get into this finger-pointing game where the council says 'well, the mayor and the city manager screwed up the implementation,' and then the mayor and the city manager... say 'well, you gave us a dumb, poorly though-out idea'?" he asked.
Commission member Andrew Speer replied that the mayor would be accountable for executing the direction of the council through policymaking, and that the commission had consensus about that idea. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/wheeler-mapps-concerns-charter-commission-proposal/283-9d7b570e-1771-4471-9104-8d612bceac7e | 2022-06-30T01:57:40 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/wheeler-mapps-concerns-charter-commission-proposal/283-9d7b570e-1771-4471-9104-8d612bceac7e |
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Open Door Health Services shutting down free COVID-19 testing site after June 30
MUNCIE, Ind. — Open Door Health Services' no-cost COVID-19 testing site will offer its final day of testing on Thursday, June 30.
Located at 1651 E. 29th St. in Muncie, directly behind Open Door Urgent Care, this site has operated since 2021 as a state-contracted community testing site. That contract concludes at the end of the month, according to a release.
Community members seeking testing can continue to find no-cost community testing sites at https://scheduling.coronavirus.in.gov/Home/LocationSelection.
Although the majority of Open Door's testing will shift toward established patients whose provider recommends testing within an office visit, community members who utilize Open Door Urgent Care will have access to testing at that site if a provider deems it necessary due to symptoms. Such testing will have an associated cost, the release stated. Insurance will be billed when applicable, and sliding-fee discounts based on household size and income are available at Open Door Urgent Care, for those who qualify.
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Community organizations in need of at-home test kits for those they serve may request tests from Open Door by emailing info@opendoorhs.org. Households may request at-home tests from the federal government by visiting covid.gov/tests.
The CDC continues to emphasize the importance of testing after exposure to COVID-19 or for those with symptoms. Those with symptoms should test immediately and follow quarantine guidance until they know their results. Those with close contact exposure to someone who has COVID-19 should test at least five days after exposure.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of Wednesday listed Delaware County's community COVID-19 level as "low."
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CICERO, Ind. — A motorcyclist was killed Wednesday in a crash with a tow truck in Hamilton County.
The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office responded to the crash on US 31 at 226th Street in Cicero around 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Witnesses told police 22-year-old Braden Fesler of Colfax was riding a motorcycle south on US 31 when he passed a vehicle at a high rate of speed. A northbound tow truck was making a left turn to head west on 226th Street when the motorcycle struck it in the back right side.
Fesler was pronounced dead at the scene.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis native Saundra Mitchell found her passion for reading and writing when she was in kindergarten.
"Writing is genuinely magic to me," said Mitchell.
Growing up, she never saw herself in the books she read, so as an adult, she decided to write her own.
"I wanted to write stories about queer characters doing stuff like all the other kids. They had books where they go to space and they're the archaeologist," said Mitchell.
She said queer kids deserve to have books with happy endings that reflect them and their experiences in a positive light.
"When you don't find stories that reflect who you are, you do feel other, you do feel minimized, and it's magnified when you have queer kids of color," said Mitchell.
Now you can find her books on shelves across the world - except in Texas.
"I am very banned in Texas," Mitchell said.
Mitchell is one of the hundreds of queer authors banned from Texas school libraries after Gov. Greg Abbott called them pornography.
Mitchell said it's just not true.
"There's a kiss in this book. They're treating it like pornography. Really, what they're doing is criminalizing our orientation," said Mitchell.
She was shocked and heartbroken when she found out they erased all those important voices.
"It's harmful to be told your body is illegal, your desires are illegal. That there's something wrong with the way you are. How do these kids end up not feeling damaged?" Mitchell said.
Jayne Walters with the West Branch of the Indianapolis Public Library said it's a privilege to have these books on their shelves, because the same thing almost happened here in Indiana. That's why they strive to highlight LGBTQ authors year round.
"It's super important, especially now when youth are being attacked by the government for trying to be themselves, to play sports with their friends and being turned into bogeymen," said Mitchell.
Although Mitchell might still be banned in Texas, she plans to continue to use her work to transport readers to a more accepting place.
"We have come so far in the last 30 years, but we have so much farther to go right now," she said.
Mitchell suggests anyone who's worried about what's inside her books should read them.
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Shahab Bashar, the Yazidi cultural liaison for Community Crops, stands in plots in Prairie Pines, northeast of Lincoln, after adding biochar in an attempt to improve the soil for planting. Those beds had standing water in them, and biochar absorbs more than two times its weight in water.
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Tim Rinne, co-founder of the Hawley Hamlet neighborhood garden and chairman of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Food Policy Council, stands next to two beds of Sudan grass planted last year in soil enhanced with biochar. The biochar and Sudan grass were used to improve soil in problematic beds in Hawley Hamlet. Tillering the grass with biochar allows a plant to invest more energy in its roots thereby increasing soil organic matter. Today, vegetables are growing in those beds.
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Biochar, a product of wood waste, is a carbon-rich charcoal that promotes plant growth, water retention, fertilizer reduction, carbon sequestration, waste management and soil health.
Lincoln’s fledgling initiative to produce and use biochar — a charcoal-like material produced from plant materials that can be used to improve soil quality — just got a big boost.
Bloomberg Philanthropies awarded the city a matching grant of up to $400,000 for a project to turn ash trees felled because of emerald ash borer infestation and other wood waste into biochar that will be used for tree plantings, urban agriculture, public gardens, composting and stormwater treatment.
City leaders plan to build a biochar production facility at the solid waste management facility on North 48th Street, which should be operational by 2023. The grant also will give the city access to technical support.
Biochar is produced by heating biomass in the total or partial absence of oxygen, most commonly by a process known as pyrolysis, and has benefits beyond a soil enhancement. When used as a soil fertilizer it also absorbs carbon from the atmosphere, known as carbon sequestration.
“Biochar is proven to improve soil health, reduce stormwater runoff, and minimize the need for chemicals on crops and plants,” said Liz Elliott, director of the Lincoln Transportation and Utilities Department.
Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird, who has made resiliency and sustainability one of her administration’s priorities, said the grant will help the city advance the goals set out in its Climate Action Plan.
It also will allow the city to explore biochar’s potential for agricultural carbon credits, recovery and resale of energy byproducts, and direct sale to gardeners and farmers, the mayor said.
The University of Nebraska and the Nebraska Forest Service have spent nearly 10 years testing and analyzing biochar, and the forest service is contributing $100,000 to the Lincoln Biochar Initiative. That money makes up a portion of the matching funds necessary for the grant, Gaylor Baird said.
Lincoln isn’t producing biochar now — and much of the grant will be used to buy equipment so it can do that, said Frank Uhlarik, the city’s sustainability and compliance administrator.
But it is using about 20 tons it got from Oregon, which the Nebraska Forest Service paid to get to Lincoln. City staff have distributed about half of it to groups such as the Historic Hawley neighborhood garden and Community Crops, Uhlarik said. It’s also been used to enhance soil at Sunken Gardens.
Once the city can make its own, Uhlarik said he hopes the city will be able to produce 600-700 tons a year.
Among the possible uses will be to enhance soil on city-managed farmland and an urban agriculture pilot program in the West Haymarket, expand the number of local groups that use it, and add to mulch, city officials said.
Lincoln Transportation and Utilities, city Parks and Recreation, UNL, neighborhood organizations, the Nebraska Forest Service and the Natural Resource Conservation Service are all part of the city’s initiative.
Lincoln is just one of six cities in the United States and Europe to receive the grant, which builds off a program in Stockholm, Sweden, that won a Bloomberg award in 2014.
Since opening its plant in 2017, Stockholm has produced more than 100 tons of biochar — the equivalent of taking 700 cars off the streets — and distributed it to 300,000 citizens, according to Bloomberg Philanthropies. The plant has also begun to send energy back to the city’s power grid and is heating 80 apartments.
The other grant recipients are Darmstadt, Germany; Heinsingborg, Sweden; Sandnes, Norway; Helsinki, Cincinnati and Minneapolis.
In total, the projects are expected to produce 3,750 tons of biochar, which would sequester almost 10,000 tons of CO2 per year — the equivalent of taking 6,250 cars off the roads every year, according to Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Margaret Reist is a recovering education reporter now writing about local and county government and the people who live in the city where she was born and raised.
The Planning Commission voted to recommend a waiver to allow two houses where people recovering from substance abuse live to have up to nine residents, but it voted against a waiver for a similar house where up to 14 people live.
City leaders officially launched a project to find a second water source for Lincoln, naming an advisory council and contracting with Olsson to analyze the two options identified by the city.
In the Panhandle, advocates against abortion praised a 6-3 Supreme Court decision, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion set out in Roe v. Wade. Local Democratic leaders expressed disappointment in the decision, feeling such a decision could have unforeseen consequences.
The Lancaster County Election Commissioner's Office will be open through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., on Saturday from 9-11 a.m. and on Monday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
There are still two weeks left to reach the $400,000 goal set for the monthlong campaign, which ends July 7. A total of about $245,000 has been raised.
A group of longtime Lincoln advocates disappointed in the City Council's decision to rescind the so-called fairness ordinance plans to launch an initiative to get the question on the November ballot.
Bennie Shobe, the only council member not to say publicly how he would vote, ultimately sided with Richard Meginnis, Tom Beckius and James Michael Bowers in voting to rescind the ordinance the council passed on a 5-0 vote in February.
In this week's City Hall column, Margaret Reist looks at why supporters of a fairness ordinance in Lincoln aren't simply satisfied by a mayor's executive order.
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Shahab Bashar, the Yazidi cultural liaison for Community Crops, stands in plots in Prairie Pines, northeast of Lincoln, after adding biochar in an attempt to improve the soil for planting. Those beds had standing water in them, and biochar absorbs more than two times its weight in water.
Tim Rinne, co-founder of the Hawley Hamlet neighborhood garden and chairman of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Food Policy Council, stands next to two beds of Sudan grass planted last year in soil enhanced with biochar. The biochar and Sudan grass were used to improve soil in problematic beds in Hawley Hamlet. Tillering the grass with biochar allows a plant to invest more energy in its roots thereby increasing soil organic matter. Today, vegetables are growing in those beds.
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Recent reports out of Volusia County show an uptick in drug-related deaths countywide — a trend that Sheriff Mike Chitwood said could be traced back to a ‘porous’ border, drug-smuggling cartels and an abundance of fentanyl.
Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that has become increasingly present in drug-related deaths across the country.
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Records out of the sheriff’s office indicate that overdose deaths rose from 145 last year to 164 this year within a roughly seven-month period — a 13.1% increase. During the same period between 2020 and 2021, the county saw a similar increase by approximately 11.5%.
“The big issue is that everything is now laced with fentanyl,” Chitwood said. “You have college kids and high school kids who are buying what they believe to be Adderall or MDA or whatever pills, and what they’re discovering is it’s pressed fentanyl.”
Even though overall overdoses are down, Chitwood explained, the number of overdose deaths have increased, as fentanyl has been added to many other already-dangerous substances, such as marijuana, cocaine or methamphetamines.
One solution Chitwood provided was fentanyl testing strips — devices used to detect trace amounts of fentanyl in other substances — though he said it’s a controversial subject due to concerns that the strips could promote drug use.
“The overdose deaths are growing. They’re not abating,” he said. “That means people are still using it, and they’re still dying. So if there’s an opportunity to save a life, I think we need to have this discussion and see the direction that we want to go.”
Chitwood recently visited McAllen, Texas, and the southern U.S. border earlier this month — a trip that he said gave him further insight into the fentanyl crisis.
According to Chitwood, illegal substances seized by law enforcement in Marion County were stamped with an insignia belonging to a drug cartel in Reynosa, Mexico. He added that the cartel was illegally operating across the border through McAllen, giving the cartel a “foothold” in Central Florida.
“There’s a direct correlation of fentanyl that’s coming into Central Florida that’s being distributed in Volusia County. It’s being distributed in Flagler, Marion County,” he said. “There’s a shooting in Putnam County that’s connected to the seizure in Marion County, and one of the shooters is a northwest Volusia County resident. So there is connectivity into all these things.”
Chitwood described the drug smuggling operations as an “attack” on Central Florida, saying that the illegal substances coming into the state are being produced in “Super Labs” in Mexico.
The sheriff told News 6 that “precursors” to the drugs are sent from China to Mexico, at which point cartels smuggle the fentanyl into the U.S. before it’s laced into other illegal substances. Chitwood said cartels use a variety of tricks, from smuggling substances into produce coming across the border or floating Pontoon boats loaded with drugs across the Rio Grande.
While Chitwood stated that there was “big money” in the drug side of these operations, he noted that there was another cost involved — human trafficking.
Referencing the recent case in San Antonio where more than 50 migrants died, Chitwood explained that many people are swept up into drug and human-trafficking operations because they may owe money to cartels.
“One of the things we saw at the border was (Border Patrol) had seized several Chinese nationals who were coming into the country, and they were paying $30,000 to the cartel to get in,” he said. “Human smuggling is a big business. (Cartels) don’t lose any money because if you make it into America, they get their money. If you get caught and turned back, they still get their money. And if you die in the back of a truck, they still have their money.”
Chitwood added that a lack of security at the borders is a major factor behind these efforts, stating that the federal government needs to “crack down” on securing the border and address narcoterrorism.
“I don’t understand why this is a partisan issue,” he said. “People are dying. More people die in the United States of drug overdoses than they do of murder or car accidents. But what are we doing?”
While the sheriff’s office may not be able to address the national borders, Chitwood said the department is working to ramp up efforts within the county to stop drug-related crimes and trafficking.
“We’re executing more and more search warrants. We’ve really ramped it up, and part of it is we’re getting so much information now,” he said. “And one of the disturbing trends we’re seeing is a lot of these houses, when we hit them, there are kids, and I mean kids, sometimes 12 and under... in these homes, and there’s fentanyl residue on the table where the kid’s schoolbags are.”
In addition to increased warrants, the department is now investigating every drug-related death as a homicide, Chitwood said. He added that further education and treatment options need to be made available in communities to prevent more deaths.
“You’re not going to save everybody. You’re not going to stop everything,” he said. “But there’s a way to slow this down and drive the numbers down.”
State lawmakers passed SB-1808 earlier this year, which aims to strengthen “immigration enforcement” in Florida and reduce the amount of illegal substances being smuggled into the state. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/30/people-are-dying-sheriff-chitwood-explains-uptick-in-drug-related-deaths/ | 2022-06-30T02:09:54 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/30/people-are-dying-sheriff-chitwood-explains-uptick-in-drug-related-deaths/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A married couple from Folsom spoke out about saving a swimmer from a shark attack.
Paul Bandy, a Sacramento Police Department officer and his wife Amy, an oncology nurse, were paddleboarding mid-morning on Wednesday, June 22 at Lovers Point Beach in Monterey Bay when they heard a loud and distinct cry.
The man, later identified as Steve Bruemmer, was swimming near Lovers Point when he was attacked by a shark. Bruemmer suffered "significant injuries from the shark bite," and was taken to a hospital, police said. City officials said he had injuries to his stomach and leg.
The Bandy's were reluctant to respond at first since there were safety training and surf classes happening in the area. However, once when they realized it was serious, the Bandy's kicked it into high gear.
"We didn't even question it. We didn't say a word to each other. We just went," Paul and Amy Bandy said.
The video shows Paul and Amy as well as bystanders and other beach-goers helping rescue Bruemmer and then helping with first aid, applying tourniquets and pressure dressings to control the blood loss.
"There were people bringing us t-shirts and towels to use as tourniquets, we had somebody give us shears and we cut his wetsuit to help identify where the wounds were. So with these great bystanders and their offering to help and support, I don't think he would have survived," Amy Bandy said.
The Bandy's got a chance to meet a lot of Bruemmer's friends and family, who also expressed gratitude toward those who helped.
Bruemmer's wife provided a statement saying that he is doing fairly well and might be discharged and taken to a rehab center sometime today to start his rehabilitation process.
"He's got a long road to recovery and we're wishing him all the best. I know his family is 100% behind him. No matter how big that shark was, the love that his family and friends share for him is going to be so much bigger and always will," Paul Bandy said.
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LATHROP, Calif. — For the first time in city history Wednesday, white patrol cars, with lights and sirens blaring, made their way down Lathrop’s River Island Parkway under the badge of the Lathrop Police Department.
The Lathrop Police Department, which launched at noon on Wednesday, is the city of Lathrop's first dedicated law-enforcement agency after 31 years of contracting with the San Joaquin County Sheriffs' Office for law enforcement services within the city.
“We're excited; it's a great day," said Raymond Bechler, the department's Chief of Police. "We've been training and getting ready for this day for such a long period of time. It just feels good to finally get out there and be part of the community."
Citing the city’s rapid growth and financial security in recent years, the Lathrop City Council voted in April of 2021 to create a new police department.
Just over a year later, a $12.6 million police headquarters is now open, and 35 police officers are on the streets.
For Bechler, the past few months have been spent preparing his officers and department staff while honing in on the community’s priorities for the department, primarily through a survey.
“Three priorities emerged for the community, and that's police accountability, community engagement and transparency," Bechler said. "So when I see this agency into the future, it's really taking care of the community needs and making those three issues a focal point for our agency and officers."
In addition to 35 sworn officers, the Lathrop Police Department has hired 12 non-sworn staff members to handle administrative duties and has contracted with the City of Ripon to handle 911 call dispatching.
While Bechler said he plans to grow the department in the future, for now, he will focus on building the community's trust and working with the officers and staff members already on the job.
"We look forward to making this community feel safe and free from the fear of crime and just really helping with the quality of life issue," Bechler said.
At noon on Wednesday, with his radio in hand and as officers started their engines, Bechler aired a message to his officers over their radios, thanking the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office for their service and saying, "We will take it from here."
Directly after the inaugural radio message, a ribbon at the Lathrop Police Department's back gate was cut and the city's first 35 officers went on patrol.
"It was emotional just to say that we are actually taking over the police services," Bechler said. "I just feel the excitement and responsibility and all that, but I know our staff is ready."
According to the Lathrop Police Department, the first call that officers responded to came in at 12:02 p.m. Wednesday reporting a gas theft from a semi truck.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The multi-cultural services for at-risk youth and families, La Familia Counseling Center, just got its $2 million check from Sacramento Mayor Steinberg to build a new opportunity center.
"If you look over there, you will see about 100 kids getting summer lunch right now, you will see about 40 people getting GED and ESL classes," said Rachel Rios, executive director of the center, Tuesday. "This is a hub."
She also said the counseling center is outgrowing its current South Sacramento location.
City Councilmembers approved the millions in funding for the center during a Feb. 15 mid-year budget review meeting.
Mayor Darrell Steinberg presented Rios and other La Familia Counseling Center staff with the $2 million check on Tuesday just outside the new center's location.
Board of Directors chair Rick Brandsma said they will use the new center to provide economic assistance and job training programs, particularly in the community health and green energy sectors..
"For almost 50 years, La Familia has been helping disadvantaged members of the Sacramento community improve the quality of their lives through a variety of services, including mental health counseling, job training, parents in education and other modes of social and economic assistance," he said on Tuesday. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/la-familia-counseling-center-2m-check/103-1b094d34-f710-46a4-a4a7-e4a3f473b498 | 2022-06-30T02:12:36 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/la-familia-counseling-center-2m-check/103-1b094d34-f710-46a4-a4a7-e4a3f473b498 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Firefighters are battling a blaze near Sutter's Landing in Sacramento.
The Sacramento Fire Department said the fire crews are on scene at 28th Street, and that the fire has spread north of the American River into the Lower American River Parkway.
Captain Keith Wade said the fire started south of the river and spotted over to the north side of it. He said the fire is growing rapidly on the northside, but the southside of the fire is being handled with no issue.
Wade also said there was fire under the train tracks that "could be a problem."
A 3rd-alarm was requested by officials as they try to get the fire under control.
There is no information on the cause of the fire at this time or how big the fire has grown.
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Federal prosecutors late Wednesday announced smuggling charges against two men in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants after they were found Monday in San Antonio in a trailer without water or air conditioning.
Federal prosecutors identified the driver as Homero Zamorano Jr., 45, who was charged with smuggling resulting in death. Zamorano lives in the suburban Houston city of Pasadena and is originally from the Texas border city of Brownsville, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Antonio.
Zamorano was discovered by police hiding in some nearby bushes, prosecutors said. He tried to slip away by pretending to be one of the survivors, a Mexican immigration official said Wednesday.
Zamorano faces the most serious charges along with Christian Martinez, 28, who is accused of conspiracy and allegedly communicating with Zamorano about transporting the migrants.
Both men face life in prison or the death penalty if convicted.
Agents searched Zamorano’s cellphone and found he had been in contact with Martinez, prosecutors said.
Zamorano was scheduled to have his first court appearance Thursday. It was not immediately known if either suspect had an attorney.
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Two other men who are not U.S. citizens were also arrested on charges of illegal weapons possession. Prosecutors say investigators found the men at a San Antonio address where the truck was registered.
The truck had been packed with 67 people, and the dead included 27 from Mexico, 14 from Honduras, seven from Guatemala and two from El Salvador, said Francisco Garduno, chief of Mexico's National Immigration Institute.
Meanwhile, a makeshift memorial on the isolated road where the migrants were found is growing with flowers, crosses and bottles of water.
"Lord help us,” San Antonio resident Elizabeth Hernandez said outside the memorial. “We all just need to stick together and pray and do what's right.”
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BOISE, Idaho — Wednesday is a momentous day in Boise Hawks history. In fact, it's a momentous day in Minor League Baseball history.
33 years ago, the Boise Hawks were in the opening month of their third season, an unaffiliated team playing in the eight-team Northwest League.
Their manager was Mal Fichman, a 5-6, 155-pound baseball lifer from back east. He was also the Executive Vice President, as it says on his baseball card from the season before.
On this day 33 years ago - June 29, 1989 - the Salem Dodgers were in town. In the bottom of the 6th inning with the Hawks trailing, second baseman Paul Cluff from BYU was up to bat.
Cluff made contact on a pitch, leading to an infield ground ball. There was a close play at first and he was called out. Cluff didn't concur, saying something about the diminutive stature of the first base ump and he was tossed.
Coaching third at the time was Fichman, who didn't realize Cluff was sent to the showers until he got back to the dugout.
So the story goes, Fichman argued with the umpire and agreed with Cluff's assessment that if the umpire was more than 5 feet tall, he might have had a better look at the play. So, Fichman was also ejected.
However, the Hawks' manager wasn't going to let the ejection stop him.
It just so happened it was a hot one that evening, with temperatures still in the 90s. The man working as Humphrey the Hawk that night - his name was Jason - was taking a break, cooling his heels and every other part of his body, under the stands with the hawk headset on the ground next to him.
According to the story Fichman told Minor League Baseball several years ago, he asked Jason if he was done for the evening. Jason said no, but Fichman said he is now.
Fichman made off with the Humphrey costume, put it on and went back on the field. Back then, Humphrey wasn't allowed on the field, so something was off from the start.
Then, in the 8th inning with two on for the Hawks, Fichman went over to Jeff Mace, the coach who was now coaching third since Fichman's night was supposed to be finished.
Mace said Fichman was relaying signs while wearing the costume, when Fichman walked over to tell him to bunt through the mesh of the hawk head.
Well, everyone kind of figured it out. The next day, Fichman was suspended for one game. The man who suspended him; the Northwest League President, Jack Cain, who wasn't at the game in Boise that night, but rather in Bend, Oregon. However, Cain was on his patio in Charbonneau, Ore. this afternoon.
"I did get a phone call about 8:00 the next morning from Mal Fichman and he said, 'Jack, I did something stupid last night,' and I said, 'okay, what was that?' He told me and I laughed," Cain said. "I thought, 'that is hilarious. I thought that was the funniest thing in the world, but you know the minute I hear from the umpires, I'm going to have to suspend you?' He said, 'oh, I know.'"
Cain said Fichman told him the whole thing, admitting he was kicked out of the game and forgot what inning it was.
"He said, 'I did something stupid, put the mascot uniform on,' and unfortunately, he forgot to take his baseball shoes off and his stirrups and it was kind of obvious who it was, you know," Cain said. "That's Mal, you know? He was in a hurry. He didn't have time to change his shoes and so about noon that day, I got a call from the umpires, and they said, 'Mr. Cain, the manager of the Boise Hawks did something really stupid last night, blah blah blah,' you know.
"I followed up then with Mal, called him back, and I said, 'Mal, I heard from the umpires. You're suspended.' He said, 'I knew it was going to happen.' You know, something he shouldn't have done, but it was kind of funny at the time and I still think it's funny."
Cain said every time Fichman's name comes up, he tells the story.
"A win is a win, it doesn't matter how you got it," Cain said laughingly.
However, it wasn't a win. The Hawks apparently lost 8-4. On Tuesday, Cain said he probably could have suspended Fichman for more than one game, but decided his confession was worth something.
KTVB was able to track down Fichman, who still lives here in the Treasure Valley, but he wasn't a big fan of speaking to us about his claim to minor league fame.
The Boise Hawks are back at home Saturday for a three-game homestand against the Missoula Paddleheads.
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BOISE, Idaho — When Idaho’s abortion laws change later this summer, sensitive medical information will be at the center of the conversation. Idaho’s law will outlaw almost all abortions, creating a situation where there could be investigations into possible illegal abortions.
There are questions how that will look, investigating private medical information like the circumstances around an abortion can be sensitive and difficult. Some are asking if Idahoans can cite HIPAA protections to avoid investigations if they find themselves in that situation.
Linda wrote to us, "Does HIPAA provide any support for privacy against the new abortion laws, especially allowing family members to sue the provider?"
KTVB got insight from a Boise medical law expert.
Kim Stanger is the head of the health law group at Holland & Hart, he explained, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, doesn’t apply to individuals. It covers healthcare providers, and how they need to protect patient health info.
“It does not apply directly to the patient, it only applies to health care providers who engage in certain electronic transactions and health plans, including employer benefit health plans. So, the patient can't necessarily hide behind HIPAA because it doesn't cover them, it doesn't apply to them,” Stanger said.
“That provider and the health plan and their business associates would be prevented from disclosing any protected health information unless they fit within the HIPAA exception. And there's different HIPAA exceptions that may or may not apply depending on the circumstances,” Stanger said.
So, as Stanger explains, HIPAA does prevent the release of medical records. But, HIPAA only goes so far, it is not an absolute block.
“Certainly, if the police or law enforcement or investigator, if they go to court and get a warrant or a subpoena, then HIPAA would allow the disclosure of compliance consistent with the court order or warrant. Although for subpoenas, there are some additional steps that the law enforcement would have to jump through before they could access the information,” Stanger said.
If there was a situation where a doctor was brought into court in a suspected case of illegal abortion and no subpoena has been made to access medical records, that doctor can only say so much. HIPAA protects patients if no exception has been made, like for a court order.
“Not only may they do it, but they would have to do it under HIPAA. It would prevent them from disclosing the information unless the exception applies. But it's not too hard to satisfy one of those HIPAA exceptions. If the law enforcement goes and gets a court order or a warrant that requires that physician to go ahead and make the disclosure,” Stanger said.
It’s important to note, HIPAA was not designed to be used as a way to dodge investigations, rather to protect information.
“It is to protect health information, but you have to balance that against the need of law enforcement to enforce crimes, to enforce the existing laws. And so, HIPAA tries to balance that by creating certain exceptions that would allow the law enforcement to access information without court involvement. But aside from those, it always leaves open the option for law enforcement to go get a court order or warrant, just like they would in any other criminal investigation,” Stanger said.
“When it comes to law enforcement, law enforcement officers can get around HIPAA either by getting a warrant or a court order or sitting in with one or the other exceptions. So they can't cite HIPAA just to ignore a court order or warrant,” Stanger said.
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BOISE, Idaho — Fireworks, the red, white and blue and spending time with loved ones are just some of the things that symbolize the Fourth of July, but for some, the sound of fireworks can trigger unpleasant memories.
“It does affect us, it affects a lot of people,” Dan Pugmire said.
Pugmire served in the United States Air Force. He's all too familiar with how the sound of fireworks can transport him back to his time overseas. Last year, a firework exploded in his yard while he was sleeping.
“That explosion triggered a crazy, crazy episode," Pugmire said. "I got in my car, took off and there was nowhere to get away from the fireworks."
Mark Heyne, the Chief of Psychology at the Boise VA Medical Center, said Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder impacts around 3-to-4% of our population. Veterans suffer at a higher rate because of their exposure to trauma, some of which is combat-related trauma.
“Veterans will certainly tell you that certain environmental cues are what are referred to as triggers for some of their post-traumatic stress symptoms,” Heyne said. “So, that can be a certain environment. That can be a certain type of sound, like loud bangs. That can be a certain smell - a lot of veterans will talk about burning rubber. It can be a certain type of traffic pattern, lots of veterans’ struggle with roundabouts, because there's lots of roundabouts in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Heyne also said if you know a veteran who lives near you, the best thing to do this Fourth of July weekend is be predictable and let them know what time you plan on setting off fireworks.
“Having said that, there's a lot of vets who struggle with fourth of July, but they really choose to kind of be present for it, because they feel like it helps them to better become habituated to the festivities and it allows them to enjoy it a little bit more each year as they become more comfortable doing it,” Heyne said.
As for Pugmire, he's not discouraging anyone from celebrating, he's just encouraging the community to be considerate.
“This is a very important day for us, you know," Pugmire said. "This is when the United States got its independence and be mindful of that. There's a lot of people who lost their lives for their freedom. Enjoy themselves, have a good time, have barbecue, and shoot your fireworks off, but do it in a respectful way."
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BOISE, Idaho — Idaho's Office of the Attorney General responded on Wednesday to Planned Parenthood's lawsuit challenging the state's trigger law and the request to expedite the lawsuit court hearings due to the upcoming ban on abortions in Idaho.
In the response, the state urged the court to deny even hearing the case as well as the request to expedite because "the proceedings are not ripe," meaning there is no reason to expedite since Idaho's 30-day abortion ban countdown has not gone into effect yet.
According to the AG's office, the 30-day countdown starts when the U.S. Supreme Court files its decision, which is expected in mid to late July.
"The remedy sought by petitioners should be sought in the legislature or the ballot box," the response, signed by Dayton P. Reed, said.
The response also claims that there is no mention of abortion in the Idaho Constitution, which mimics the U.S Constitution.
The U.S Supreme Court ruling on June 24 against Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization effectively overturned nearly 50 years of precedent from Roe v. Wade, a 1973 landmark case that made abortion legal.
The ruling places abortion laws back into the hands of each individual state, allowing Idaho's trigger law banning abortion to be able to go into effect this summer.
Planned Parenthood's lawsuit followed shortly after the SCOTUS ruling.
The abortion trigger law, making performing abortions a felony, was passed by Idaho State Legislature in 2020, with no exceptions to rape or incest unless a victim reports it to police.
The newly filed Planned Parenthood lawsuit claims that the ban violates Idahoans’ right to privacy and protection under the state constitution as well as their right to equality. Additionally, the lawsuit claims the ban’s terms are vague, making medical providers unable to know when they are permitted to provide care for patients, risking the health of Idahoans.
The motion to expedite the briefing was filed because "Petitioners, other medical professionals, and the citizens of Idaho, urgently need clarity from the Court on the constitutionality of the vague Total Abortion Ban."
The motion also asked for a writ of prohibition, meaning a "pause" on the abortion law until the lawsuit is resolved.
The state's response argued that the petitioners do not seek a valid writ, so the court lacks jurisdiction to even hear the prohibition at all.
"They envision the Court acting less like a court, and more like a legislature or executive officer, vetoing a law that has never been applied based on their opinions of what makes good public policy," the response said. "But this Court decides concrete legal disputes, not ideological disagreements."
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VENICE, Fla. — In March, protestors from Haiti burned a local missionary's group plane while the people on the plane were on a mission in the country, but Agape Flights say they will be ready to hit the skies again with a new aircraft.
The latest design of the 1985 Reims F406 Cessna Caravan II will offer more flexibility to the airline as it can carry both cargo and passengers.
Agape Flights CEO Allen Speer said the new plane offers different services compared to prior ones.
"We'll be a lot more effective and a lot more efficient in what we do," he said. It means we'll be able to offer some different services like bringing some missionaries back home."
The F406 Cessna Caravan II was bought with insurance and donations received after their previous plane was mistakenly destroyed as protestors believed the plane belonged to politicians.
Agape Flights also announced the Federal Aviation Administration in Haiti will waive all landing and airport fees for the decade, which will help cut down non-profit expenses for trips to Haiti. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/agape-flights-haiti-cessna-f406/67-c96c9982-3a08-49e1-9b15-bf78280f61bc | 2022-06-30T02:29:32 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/agape-flights-haiti-cessna-f406/67-c96c9982-3a08-49e1-9b15-bf78280f61bc |
What Shasta County elections officials are doing to ensure trust in results as certification nears
As Shasta County Registrar of Voters Cathy Darling Allen gets ready to bring the final results of the June 7 primary to supervisors for certification, her office has already audited the election.
Darling Allen is scheduled to come before the Board of Supervisors on July 12 for certification of the final vote tally.
Final results from the June 7 primary were released Monday afternoon and they confirmed the two Shasta County supervisor races are headed for runoffs in November.
Erin Resner, who had 48.4% of the vote, will face off against Kevin Crye, who had 42.65% of the vote, in the District 1 runoff.
In District 5, Baron Browning and Chris Kelstrom face each other in November. Browning had 43.67% of the vote, while Kelstrom collected 36.47% of the vote.
Meanwhile, the four incumbents in the countywide races easily won reelection:
- District attorney: Incumbent Stephanie Bridgett had 55.67% of the vote. Challenger Erik Jensen had 44.33% of the vote.
- County sheriff: Incumbent Michael Johnson had 62.24% of the vote. Candidate John Greene had 37.76% as of Monday.
- Superintendent of schools: Incumbent Judy Flores had 57.09% of the vote. Challenger Bryan Caples had 42.91% of the vote.
- County clerk and registrar of voters: Incumbent Darling Allen had 68.36% of the vote. Challenger Bog Holsinger had 31.64% of the vote.
All told, election officials counted 52,093 votes for the June 7 primary, which reflected a 46% voter turnout.
Related: Supervisor Chimenti says election results show Shasta County voters approve of the process
In 2018, the last off-year presidential election primary, voter turnout was 47% in Shasta County.
Audits confirm results
Both a 1% hand tally of all precincts and a separate risk-limiting audit of the county superintendent of schools race confirmed that the machine count, done by Dominion Voting Systems, was correct, Darling Allen said.
The 1% hand count is required by state law.
The risk-limiting audit is allowed under a pilot program from the California Secretary of State and is not required by law.
The 1%t hand count found no mistakes in the machine count, Darling Allen said.
“More details will be included in our complete Statement of Vote, which I hope to have available Friday,” she added in an email to the Record Searchlight.
A risk-limiting audit is a way to guarantee the election results reflect the selections made on paper ballots.
“For California counties that choose to conduct a risk-limiting audit, using statistical sampling techniques, election officials review a sample of ballots cast in an election” to confirm the machine got it right, the California Secretary of State’s website says.
The risk-limiting audit must be done for a countywide contest, so Darling Allen’s office could not have selected the two supervisor races.
Essentially, Darling Allen’s office put the four countywide races in a hat and the county superintendent of schools contest was randomly selected.
“So, the RLA confirmed that the correct winner in that contest was determined in the election contest,” Darling Allen said.
No automatic recounts in California
Are those questioning the integrity and security of the June 7 primary setting the stage for a recount or court challenge of the certification?
Darling Allen said anybody can request a recount, but it must be done within five days of certification.
And since there are no automatic recounts in California, those making the request must pay for it.
A recount done in 2012 for the Redding City Council race confirmed that Gary Cadd’s slim margin of victory over Dick Dickerson.
Dickerson is former state Assemblyman who was seeking his third four-year term on the council.
Certified election results showed Cadd edged out Dickerson by 11 votes. After the hand recount, initiated by Dickerson supporters, the difference was nine votes.
“So, it’s really difficult to pick up votes” in a recount, Darling Allen said.
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ARIZONA, USA — If there's one thing Arizonans love, it's a good sunset.
If you've looked outside recently, you may have seen what looked like a "slice" in the summer sky.
If you’re wondering what caused the unusual sunset, we asked 12 News Meteorologist Jamie Kagol to explain.
The answer is quite simple. The sunshine creating the sunset is being blocked by thunderstorms… so basically you are seeing the shadow of the thunderstorm cutting off the sunset (orange).
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ROANOKE, Va. – There were a lot of familiar faces at the WSLS “Home for Good” site in southeast Roanoke on Wednesday as our 10 News team worked to build the front porch of this year’s home and also did work in the back yard.
The project in partnership with Habitat for Humanity in the Roanoke Valley is now in its eighth year, but it wouldn’t be possible without a lot of volunteers.
“The way Habitat builds those houses affordably is by using volunteer labor whenever possible,” said Gina Dunnavant, Habitat Volunteer Manager.
All that volunteer labor lowers the cost of building each home, and that translates into affordable mortgage payments for Habitat homebuyers.
“Before COVID we were averaging 3,000-3,500 volunteer hours per house, so that’s a lot of hours if you had to hire contractors for that,” said Brian Clark, Habitat Construction Director. “So for us, the volunteers are crucial in keeping our housing costs low.”
It is not only Habitat that benefits from partnering with volunteers. The WSLS team will tell you, volunteers benefit just as much.
“As a station it’s important that we show that we’re not only in the community but we’re a part of the community and seeing something come together for a good cause is always a blessing to any family out there,” said Japhanie Gray, WSLS Morning Anchor.
The “Home for Good” sponsors also play an essential role in the success of the project.
Construction is expected to wrap up in the fall. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/06/30/wsls-volunteers-at-home-for-good-site/ | 2022-06-30T02:34:28 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/06/30/wsls-volunteers-at-home-for-good-site/ |
Cash payments, free health care, housing help: California lawmakers to vote on $307.9B budget
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Wednesday will vote on a plan to spend $308 billion in taxpayer money over the next year as the coffers of the world’s fifth-largest economy continue to swell during the pandemic.
The centerpiece of the operating budget crafted by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders is $17 billion in new spending aimed at providing relief for the soaring inflation that has increased prices for most things, notably gasoline.
Gas tax rebate checks
About 23 million people will get cash payments of between $200 and $1,050 to help pay for gas, which averaged more than $6.30 per gallon in California on Tuesday. How much people get will depend on how much they make. Only couples who make below $500,000 per year and single people who make below $250,000 per year will be eligible.
Businesses will get $2.3 billion, including a yearlong suspension of the state sales tax on diesel fuel that reduce costs by about 23 cents per gallon. Between 80% and 90% of diesel fuel customers in California are business owners, according to the California Department of Finance.
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The spending package “represents the largest state budget — I’m not just talking about California, but any state in the history of the U.S.,” said state Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat from Berkeley and chair of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee.
Gas tax going up again Friday
Meanwhile, the state sales tax on gasoline, the second-highest in the nation at 51.1 cents per gallon, will go up nearly another 3 cents on Friday, part of an annual recalculation to keep up with inflation. Republicans have tried in vain to convince Democrats to suspend the sales tax for one year, arguing it would benefit taxpayers faster than a rebate check.
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“The governor could have suspended the gas tax or stopped the gas tax increase that will happen on Friday, July 1. He did not,” said Republican Assemblymember Vince Fong, vice chair of the Assembly Budget Committee. “In the face of rising inflation, Californians will see more costs in their everyday lives despite all the Governor’s rhetoric.”
Newsom and Democrats in the Legislature say they don’t want to suspend the state’s tax on gasoline because they don’t trust the big oil companies and refineries to pass on the savings to drivers. They agreed to suspend the state tax on diesel fuel because that tax is calculated differently.
Free health care for low-income adults
The budget also commits to making California the first state to provide free health care for all low-income adults regardless of their immigration status. California’s Medicaid program already covers people 50 and older and 26 and younger who are living in the country illegally. The new spending plan will include everyone else, at a cost of about $2.6 billion per year once fully implemented.
“As the pandemic highlighted, our individual health is tied to the health of our community, and we all benefit when everyone has access to primary, preventive, and comprehensive care,” said Jose Torres, policy and legislative advocate for Health Access California, a consumer health care advocacy group.
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, California’s budget also includes more than $200 million to support abortion clinics and other reproductive health care services. The spending includes $40 million to cover abortions for women who can’t afford them plus another $20 million for travel expense — but only for travel within the state.
Help for first-time homebuyers
Lawmakers also want to borrow about $1 billion per year and use it to help about 8,000 first-time buyers purchase a home by covering 20% of the price. The plan could potentially lower mortgage payments by about $1,000 per month in a state where the median home price hit a record high of $849,080 in March.
California’s revenues have grown despite the pandemic, largely because of a soaring stock market that has made the rich get richer in a state with a disproportionate number of millionaires and billionaires who pay higher tax rates than other states.
But the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office recently warned the economy is at a heightened risk of recession. To prepare, the budget proposal leaves the state with $37.2 billion in reserves. | https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/california/2022/06/29/california-lawmakers-vote-307-9-billion-spending-plan-cash-payments-free-health-care-housing-help/7770414001/ | 2022-06-30T02:34:34 | 0 | https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/california/2022/06/29/california-lawmakers-vote-307-9-billion-spending-plan-cash-payments-free-health-care-housing-help/7770414001/ |
IRVING, Texas — Police killed one person at an Irving hospital, the department said in a tweet Wednesday.
The shooting happened at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Irving located near the Texas 121 TEXpress toll road and North MacArthur Boulevard.
The department tweeted about the incident just before 9 p.m.
While details were limited, Irving Police said the person was dead and there was no threat to the community.
Irving Police said an update on the incident would be coming at some point Wednesday night.
This is a developing story, check back for updates. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/1-person-shot-killed-by-police-irving-hospital/287-b350ccf3-e4c8-47cf-bd5e-d4dea9e2bc2e | 2022-06-30T02:34:46 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/1-person-shot-killed-by-police-irving-hospital/287-b350ccf3-e4c8-47cf-bd5e-d4dea9e2bc2e |
DALLAS — A vigil is being held Wednesday evening for Shalonda Anderson, the woman who was killed outside of XTC Cabaret in Dallas on June 25.
The mother of three was shot and killed outside of the club early Saturday morning. Dallas police said Anderson was in a vehicle that drove into a group of security guards at the club. Anderson was then shot by a guard who police said was hit and pinned by the vehicle.
Another security guard at the scene, identified by police as Sterlin Hammett, also shot into Anderson's vehicle. He's being charged with three counts of aggravated assault after an arrest affidavit said Hammett "fired his pistol without justification or defense of other persons."
Video released from Anderson's family showed the tense moments leading up to the incident, where Anderson and her friends left the bar after getting into a verbal exchange with a bartender who didn't give them their change back.
Anderson's family said they want the club to be shut down.
Anderson's vigil is being held at the Malcolm X Plaza in south Dallas.
The family has set up an online fundraiser to help with funeral expenses and for Anderson's three children.
XTC's Checkered Past
Anderson is the fifth person to die after visiting XTC Cabaret and is the eighth person to be shot outside the club.
In 2019, two security guards opened fire, fatally killing 34-year-old Jason Hill as he was leaving the parking lot of the club in his truck to avoid a fight.
In 2010, a cab driver was shot and killed after picking up two people who had been at the strip club.
In 2017, Rene Adrian Carrillo fatally shot 23-year-old Jean Carlo Casiano-Torres and injured another woman. Carillo was later convicted of murder.
In 2021, 32-year-old Gregory Chandler was shot and killed outside the club after getting into an argument with another man.
An online petition asking the club be shut down has gained more than 11,000 signatures in 48 hours. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/vigil-held-shalonda-anderson-woman-killed-xtc-club-shooting-dallas/287-30bddc9a-969d-4af2-820e-df95ebfeb6d6 | 2022-06-30T02:34:52 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/vigil-held-shalonda-anderson-woman-killed-xtc-club-shooting-dallas/287-30bddc9a-969d-4af2-820e-df95ebfeb6d6 |
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — It was just another early morning patrol through a White Settlement neighborhood, until it wasn’t.
Two White Settlement police officers encountered what has become a growing problem nationwide and in North Texas: catalytic converter thefts.
It happens a lot, but actually seeing it happen? That’s uncommon.
But at around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, that’s what happened.
Officers were in the middle of refueling their patrol vehicle when they heard the loud sound of a drill in the neighborhood. According to White Settlement Police Chief Christopher Cook, they began driving through the 8100 block of Downe Dr. and encountered a man underneath a jacked up van. Police surveillance video captured the moment the suspect ran after he saw police.
Police bodycam video captured the moment officers began to run after him.
“It is very rare when you catch a suspect in the act of actually committing an offense and extremely more rare that you catch a catalytic converter theft,” Cook said.
The suspect didn’t get away. He hopped several backyard fences and eventually ended up on someone’s decorated backyard porch. Police asked him to lay on the ground and arrested him.
“This case it just happened to be the officer at the right place,” Cook said.
Police charged the suspect, Juan Aguilar, with felony theft of precious metals and evading arrest.
Officers say they found the suspect’s collection of tools and the catalytic converter hanging from the van.
The National Insurance Crime Bureau reported catalytic converter thefts across the country quadrupled between 2019 and 2020.
“It has really taken North Texas by storm,” Cook said.
According to State Farm, Texas ranks as the second state for the most catalytic converter thefts across the country.
Cook told WFAA the thefts are difficult to track down because catalytic converters, often times, don’t have serial numbers.
“This is a money making opportunity for some of these criminals,” Cook said. “A lot of times, these thefts will occur in 60 seconds or less.”
Catalytic converters contain precious metals that can fetch up to $14,000 dollars per ounce, according to Cook.
Replacing a stolen catalytic converter can cost someone thousands of dollars, and if an older vehicle’s catalytic converter is discontinued, the entire vehicle must be replaced.
Cook said his department is working with other North Texas police departments to identify repeat offenders. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/white-settlement-police-say-they-caught-catalytic-converter-thief/287-0d9ebdc5-00f8-4854-a56d-6525ab551496 | 2022-06-30T02:34:58 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/white-settlement-police-say-they-caught-catalytic-converter-thief/287-0d9ebdc5-00f8-4854-a56d-6525ab551496 |
House fire on Milwaukee's northwest side displaces 15 people and injures two firefighters
A house fire in a multi-unit building on the city's northwest side Wednesday afternoon displaced 15 people and injured two firefighters, officials said.
Earlier this week, a house fire on Milwaukee's south side spread to two nearby homes and displaced 14 people.
Two firefighters were injured at the scene of Wednesday's fire at 7825 W. Hampton Ave., and were transported to a hospital, according to Deputy Fire Chief Erich Roden. The call came in around 1:30 p.m., Roden said.
The fire spread to multiple units. "We had fire in numerous units," said Roden.
The fire department and Milwaukee Police Department are investigating the cause and origin.
American Red Cross of Wisconsin spokesperson Justin Kern said they are assisting 15 people following the fire at the four-unit building:
"Our teams met with families on scene and opened cases for relief and recovery with those 15 people, who lived in four of the units and include seven children. We’re continuing outreach with the remaining residents displaced to ensure everyone has essentials like lodging and meals taken care of for the coming days."
"So far in 2022, Red Cross teams have helped nearly 2,200 people after disasters in Wisconsin and the western U.P. of Michigan. The vast majority of those disasters are home fires and approximately half of those affected live in southeastern Wisconsin."
Contact Drake Bentley at (414) 391-5647 or DBentley1@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @DrakeBentleyMJS. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2022/06/29/house-fire-milwaukees-northwest-side-displaces-15-people/7773381001/ | 2022-06-30T02:37:06 | 0 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2022/06/29/house-fire-milwaukees-northwest-side-displaces-15-people/7773381001/ |
RENSSELAER — A man accused of breaking into a Wisconsin zoo, leading to multiple animals' escape, is being jailed in Jasper County, police said.
On Monday, the Rensselaer Police Department announced it has been in contact with the Baraboo Police Department in Wisconsin regarding the search for the suspect. Local police said Wisconsin authorities are aware Aaron Wayne Hovis, of Rensselaer, is in custody at the Jasper County Jail.
On June 7, the Ochsner Park Zoo in Baraboo, Wisconsin, was broken into overnight, with several locks and doors to exhibits damaged, according to a report from Kenosha News .
As a result, two river otters and a pair of Great Horned Owls escaped. While three of the animals have since been found, one owl named Linda is still on the loose. The otters, Mitch and Moe, were found by kayakers not long after their escape four blocks from the zoo, and they were returned to their enclosures. The male owl, Jerry, was found three days later, and he is healing from two fractures in one of his wings.
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A total of 15 cages had been opened, but the other animals had stayed in their enclosures, police said.
Zoo employees continued to search Linda the owl this week, who was seen roosting in a tree above a nearby llama barn. The Baraboo Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department said she appeared to be getting weaker, but she was still able to evade captors with flight, asking anyone near the zoo to contact authorities if they saw an owl on the ground.
On Tuesday, Linda was corralled and brought back to the zoo to undergo a medical exam. A zoo intern with the help of police caught her in a nearby garden.
"Thanks for all your calls and help in locating Linda and Jerry and reuniting all our animals at the zoo," the parks department said. "Special thanks to the Baraboo Police Department and our zoo staff for the extra time and efforts in safely getting our animals back home."
Zoo officials previously told media outlets that it is believed the primary motivation of the break-in was to release the animals.
Hovis was identified as a suspect in the break-in by Baraboo police, who intend to press criminal charges. Hovis was described as an "over-the-road truck driver.
The Baraboo Police Department told the Kenosha News that Hovis is the main suspect in the vandalism investigation and that he has no known connections to any animal rights groups.
Hovis was jailed June 17 at the Jasper County Jail on charges of intimidation and resisting law enforcement, according to Jasper Superior Court. Hovis also faces charges filed on June 9 including felony counts of bribery, theft and tax evasion.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Bradley Warmac
Age : 31
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205415
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING - W/NO INTENT OF FELONY THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Watkins
Age : 26
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205422
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ronald Woods
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205429
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Talley
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205441
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nathan Thomas
Age : 32
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205424
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Randall Valle
Age : 29
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205418
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jason Mosqueda
Age : 21
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205411
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jamey Oskins
Age : 35
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205442
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Freddie Meeks III
Age : 37
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205426
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kevin Haywood
Age : 45
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205423
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - OBTAINING PROPERTY - BY CREDIT CARD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dontrell Henderson Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205444
Arrest Date: June 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cortez Henley
Age : 18
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205437
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Kelly III
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205421
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - W/PRIOR CONVICTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alison Cook
Age : 32
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205434
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Justin Davis
Age : 34
Residence: Blue Island, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205432
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Maria Dorsey
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205416
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: PUBLIC INDECENCY - PROMOTING PROSTITUTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Roger Burrell
Age : 52
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205425
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY; POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Kevin Ballard
Age : 61
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205410
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicole Bottoms
Age : 45
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205428
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Thomas Mason
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205394
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lauren Milby
Age : 23
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205377
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Montgomery
Age : 40
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205400
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Paris Spencer
Age : 38
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205388
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jamale Henderson
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205376
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rahmere Dunn
Age : 23
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205379
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Prince Elston II
Age : 19
Residence: Markham, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205393
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Josigha Coleman
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205399
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Corey Brewer
Age : 23
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205401
Arrest Date: June 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE; FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Antrell Blissett Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Lima, OH
Booking Number(s): 2205387
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Alexis Robinson
Age : 36
Residence: Calumet City, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205347
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Stafford
Age : 46
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205371
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Stotts
Age : 49
Residence: New Lenox, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205364
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kyle Turnquist
Age : 28
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205374
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - SCHEDULE I
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joshua Vargo
Age : 38
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205363
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE; POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jeremiah Perez
Age : 42
Residence: Grand Rapids, MI
Booking Number(s): 2205355
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cody Qualls
Age : 33
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205360
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Paglis
Age : 40
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205373
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Desmond Lewis
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205348
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cecilia Marines
Age : 30
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205346
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Anthony Moss
Age : 52
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205344
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750; MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jeffrey Jackson
Age : 30
Residence: Westminster, CO
Booking Number(s): 2205350
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Ellis Jr.
Age : 58
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205354
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST A PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lloyd Grant III
Age : 51
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205345
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mykia Green
Age : 26
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205358
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Isaiah Cross Sr.
Age : 42
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205356
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Diandre Cassidy
Age : 33
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205369
Arrest Date: June 22, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Donte Paulk
Age : 40
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205341
Arrest Date: June 21, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Randall Wingis
Age : 59
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205340
Arrest Date: June 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Alexia Brown
Age : 26
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205333
Arrest Date: June 20, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Elijah Dillon-Bombin
Age : 21
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205335
Arrest Date: June 20, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Laron Major
Age : 19
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205321
Arrest Date: June 20, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Eric Blain
Age : 27
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205334
Arrest Date: June 20, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Toler
Age : 56
Residence: Frankfort, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205298
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Porshaue Shelley
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205303
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - $750 TO $50,000; FALSE IDENTIFICATION TO POLICE or FALSE INFO OF EMERGENCY
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Ivan Santillan Popoca
Age : 20
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205300
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Adam Summers
Age : 37
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205314
Arrest Date: June 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth McCammon
Age : 42
Residence: Schneider, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205309
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Terry Millender
Age : 54
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205301
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- INVASION OF PRIVACY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gerald Purkey
Age : 34
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205299
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE; POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Damontae Reed
Age : 21
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205297
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Deon Hayes
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205312
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gilbert Herrera
Age : 63
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205313
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jason Fisher
Age : 39
Residence: Aurora, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205304
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Danielle Vann
Age : 29
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205275
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Carl Payne
Age : 30
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205270
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Joshua Serrano
Age : 28
Residence: South Holland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205279
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Lamont Murdaugh
Age : 22
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205272
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: 2205272
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daron Lynch
Age : 40
Residence: Wheatfield, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205287
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Hitchcock
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205257
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Felix DeLeon
Age : 46
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205274
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
JeJuan Graham
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205276
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Chauncey Hackett Jr.
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205294
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shahid Coleman
Age : 31
Residence: Hammond, iN
Booking Number(s): 2205285
Arrest Date: June 19, 2022
Offense Description: WEAPON - USE - FIREARM - POINTING A FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Curtis
Age : 41
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205280
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Katie Birks
Age : 27
Residence: Colbert, GA
Booking Number(s): 2205258
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcus Clay
Age : 34
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205264
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kathleen Clayton
Age : 66
Residence: Sheldon, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205282
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Richard Wisniewski Jr.
Age : 50
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205213
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lakissa Taylor
Age : 41
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205244
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tavarrus Wilson
Age : 44
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205227
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Watts III
Age : 22
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205246
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SEXUAL BATTERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kevin Rosolowski Jr.
Age : 31
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205215
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: RAPE - INTERCOURSE; CONFINEMENT - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Eliseo Pena Jr.
Age : 42
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205219
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sothan Pickett
Age : 48
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205238
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jose Torres Oquendo
Age : 51
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205230
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Angel Morales
Age : 41
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205217
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Darius Nelson
Age : 29
Residence: Lynwood, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205224
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FROM BUILDING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shefiu Ogunlana
Age : 39
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205220
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nathan Lunford IV
Age : 41
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205226
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Melvin Macon Jr.
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205218
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Deja Miller
Age : 26
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205242
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devan Landfair
Age : 27
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205228
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD; BURGLARY
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Ronald Kelley Jr.
Age : 48
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205212
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Lane
Age : 23
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205222
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: PUBLIC INDECENCY - INDECENT EXPOSURE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Arturo Gurrola
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205241
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Untonise Harper
Age : 49
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205247
Arrest Date: June 18, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ruben Herrera
Age : 38
Residence: Elgin, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205245
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Demetrius Brown
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205229
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Coley
Age : 55
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205236
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Isaiah Escutia
Age : 23
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205232
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY RESULTING IN BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Benjamen Baso
Age : 44
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205251
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kewuan Allen
Age : 24
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205225
Arrest Date: June 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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Crews on Wednesday continued picking up tree limbs and other vegetative debris caused by the June 13 derecho, but the city said it will take weeks for the work to be completed.
On Monday, municipal crews started work in the Aboite area and four crews contracted by the city began cleanup work in Waynedale. John Perlich, mayoral spokesman, said it will be “a number of weeks” until the work is completed.
“Our teams are making steady progress with a very large task in front of them,” Perlich said in a statement.
Crews are picking up tree and vegetative debris in the Waynedale and Aboite areas as long as it is pushed closely to the curb as the city doesn’t want workers going onto private property.
Residents in those areas do not need to call 311, Perlich said.
Workers are only permitted to collect vegetative debris that can be ground and mulched at the landfill.
Residents outside the Waynedale and Aboite areas with broken trees or other vegetative debris can call 311 to have the items collected, Perlich said.
“We appreciate and value the teamwork and cooperation we’ve experienced between residents and our teams doing the debris collection,” Perlich said.
“It takes everyone working together to make a difference.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/crews-continue-storm-debris-clean-up/article_be239cf2-f7e4-11ec-8c97-2ff7bf6abd68.html | 2022-06-30T02:42:39 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/crews-continue-storm-debris-clean-up/article_be239cf2-f7e4-11ec-8c97-2ff7bf6abd68.html |
Federal health officials Wednesday announced they’re gearing up to fight the spread of monkeypox. But local health officials said they’re still awaiting orders.
In a news release, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it plans “an enhanced nationwide vaccination strategy” which prioritizes getting vaccines to areas with the highest number of cases so the vaccines can prevent transmission of the rare, viral illness.
To that end, hundreds of thousands of doses of the JYNNEOS monkeypox vaccine are being readied. Another vaccine, ACAM2000, is also being made available. Although in greater supply, ACAM2000 has side effects and is not recommended for everyone.
Indiana last week recorded its second case of monkeypox. The case involved a person in Gary in the northwest part of the state. Indiana’s first case was reported in mid-June, but the location was not reported due to privacy concerns.
As of Wednesday, 351 U.S. cases had been reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia reported cases, with the largest number in New York, California and Illinois, especially in the Chicago area.
Mindy Waldron, administrator of the Allen County Health Department, said the department had not received any information about vaccines being sent to the department or its vaccination clinic.
“If the Indiana Department of Health were to ask us to provide vaccinations, we would do so,” she said. “To date, we have not received that request.”
If a local patient would have symptoms and a history pointing to monkeypox, the health department would confer with the state health department “on whether testing is warranted, either at a hospital or local health department level, depending on the circumstances,” Waldron said.
“We’re ready to test as needed upon direction from the state health department.”
State health officials placed the first Hoosier patient in isolation while officials worked to find other people who may have come into close contact.
Monkeypox symptoms can include fever, headache, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes, chills, exhaustion and a characteristic rash that looks like blisters. It can be on hands, feet, the face, inside the mouth and on other parts of the body, including the chest, genitals or anus.
Sometimes patients have only a few blisters, and sometimes the rash is the only symptom.
Patients can contract the disease while traveling abroad. It is spread through direct close contact, especially with infectious sores.
Federal health officials say it does not spread easily, but spread also has been associated with touching contaminated items such as bedding and clothing and face-to-face contact that includes respiratory droplets.
The CDC says risk factors include contact with an infectious person through intimate physical contact such as kissing or sex, or being scratched by, or eating meat from an infected animal.
No specific treatment exists, but antiviral drugs developed to fight smallpox may be used. The disease generally lasts two to four weeks. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/officials-prepare-for-monkeypox/article_d40fec66-f7fb-11ec-adae-4bf7cb5931f3.html | 2022-06-30T02:42:46 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/officials-prepare-for-monkeypox/article_d40fec66-f7fb-11ec-adae-4bf7cb5931f3.html |
A mother was shot in the head and killed while she was pushing a stroller with her infant inside on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, according to senior police officials.
The shooting occurred just before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection of Lexington Avenue and East 95th Street, two senior law enforcement sources told NBC New York.
The gunman approached the woman from behind and shot her once in the head before taking off on foot on East 95th Street, sources said.
The mother was rushed to Metropolitan Hospital in critical condition, according to police sources. The child, believed to be just a few months old, was unharmed.
One shell casing was recovered at the scene, sources told NBC New York, and police are investigating. Mayor Eric Adams is heading to the scene.
The shooter was said to be wearing all black with a black hooded sweatshirt. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/mother-shot-in-head-killed-while-pushing-stroller-on-upper-east-side-nypd-officials/3755969/ | 2022-06-30T02:46:31 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/mother-shot-in-head-killed-while-pushing-stroller-on-upper-east-side-nypd-officials/3755969/ |
SAN ANTONIO — Four suspects have now been officially identified, charged and arrested in connection with this week's deadly human-smuggling event in which authorities found dozens of migrants dead in an abandoned tractor-trailer in San Antonio.
Shortly after Mexican officials identified the alleged driver of the 18-wheeler as 45-year-old Homero Zamorano Jr. on Wednesday, the Department of Justice confirmed Zamorano as the suspect, saying he was found in a nearby field pretending to be one of the injured smuggled migrants, according to authorities.
They later confirmed he was the driver based on surveillance footage at immigration checkpoints in south Texas.
He's now been charged with smuggling resulting in death.
Zamorano is from Brownsville but lived in the Pasadena area, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Christian Martinez, 28, is also charged with smuggling resulting in death after he was arrested on Tuesday, the DOJ said. Investigators were led to Martinez after finding Zamorano had communicated with him "concerning the smuggling event."
Zamorano and Martinez could be sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty if they're convicted.
Meanwhile, two Mexican men residing in the country illegally were also taken into custody after police found the tractor-trailer was registered to a home on Arnold Drive in north San Antonio, according to arrest documents. The two men were charged with being in possession of a firearm while in the country illegally, charges that could put them behind bars for up to a decade.
According to criminal complaints filed on Tuesday, police found several guns in the Arnold Drive residence while executing a search warrant. While being interviewed by Homeland Security, both men admitted to overstaying their U.S. visas. Neither, however, has been charged with smuggling, and it's unclear as of yet if they are part of the trio of detained suspects mentioned by McManus on Monday.
As of Wednesday evening, 53 have died after they were discovered in the trailer, primarily from heat-related sickness. Eleven others are still hospitalized in San Antonio medical facilities.
Homeland Security is leading what is now a federal investigation, in conjunction with ATF and SAPD. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/texas/arrest-made-in-tractor-trailer-smuggling-incident-san-antonio/285-fc1dcd3d-0027-48b2-877a-b299fb252519 | 2022-06-30T02:54:36 | 0 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/texas/arrest-made-in-tractor-trailer-smuggling-incident-san-antonio/285-fc1dcd3d-0027-48b2-877a-b299fb252519 |
DALLAS — Two people have been found dead inside of an apartment in Dallas, police said. Two children were also found alive in the apartment, but officials said it is believed they were in the apartment for days.
Dallas Police said officers responded to the 6000 block of Ridgecrest Road just before noon on Wednesday.
When officers arrived, they found a man and woman with gunshot wounds.
Two children were also found in the apartment, alive. The children, 3 years old and 8 months old, were believed to have been inside the apartment for a few days. The children are unharmed.
Family has identified the adults as David Stewart, 27, and Jimena Nunez, 24.
A neighbor told WFAA that she had called police after hearing gunshots at the apartment on Sunday night. Police responded to the apartment and knocked on the door, but left after no one answered.
They returned Wednesday morning for a welfare check.
Detectives said they believe a suspect or suspects may have gone into the couple's apartment, shot the victims and took their car, as their car was missing.
They're trying to locate the vehicle to get a better handle on the case .
No other details have been released. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/2-dead-after-shooting-at-dallas-apartment-children-found-alive-police-say/287-5a409a3f-acad-4254-9cab-8d55e6549a1e | 2022-06-30T02:54:54 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/2-dead-after-shooting-at-dallas-apartment-children-found-alive-police-say/287-5a409a3f-acad-4254-9cab-8d55e6549a1e |
ATLANTA — Delta Air Lines is taking extra steps to try to alleviate flight disruptions ahead of what's expected to be an incredibly busy Fourth of July travel weekend.
On Tuesday, Delta issued a systemwide fare difference travel waiver from July 1-4, meaning customers planning to travel on these dates can rebook their flights before or after the holiday weekend with no fare differences or change fees.
Rebooked flights need to happen by July 8, 2022 and the trips need to be between the same origin and destination as the original flights.
In a statement on its website, Delta said the company is "working around the clock to rebuild Delta’s operation while making it as resilient as possible to minimize the ripple effect of disruptions." The airline said it expects to deal with passenger volumes on July 4 weekend not seen since before the COVID-19 pandemic put a major damper on air travel.
Kyle Potter, executive editor of Minnesota-based Thrifty Traveler, said he's never seen an airline offer such a waiver, outside of perhaps a specific storm event.
"This is unprecedented," Potter said. "I think Delta hopes this is kind of a release valve, to decrease some of the pressure that they're under to carry all these passengers, in hopes it gives them a little extra breathing room to recover."
Flights can be modified using the My Trips feature on delta.com or through the Fly Delta app.
Delta waivers are usually only issued for limited geographic areas in the event of weather events that cause widespread flight disruptions. Tuesday's surprise move underscores the ongoing stress impacting the airline industry. For weeks, flight delays and cancellations have impacted thousands of flights across the country.
Earlier this month, Minnesotans traveling home from Vancouver, British Columbia were left stranded after Twin Cities-based Sun Country canceled their return flight.
Over Memorial Day weekend, Delta was responsible for the most cancellations, with more than 800 flights canceled over five days. Earlier this month, Delta said it was reducing cancellations by hiring more pilots and flight attendants and scheduling crews to quickly adjust to disruptions.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the department could enforce additional actions against airlines that fail to live up to consumer-protection standards.
Meanwhile, Delta pilots plan to picket at airports across the country on Thursday to protest protracted contract negotiations, including Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.
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DALLAS — Across the country, we’re hearing nightmare stories about travel this summer.
Delayed, canceled, or overbooked flights and missing bags -- you name it.
Is there any relief in sight, and when will we see it?
WFAA saw several frustrated customers at the American Airlines counter complaining about missing bags and others complaining about canceled flights.
“You mean to tell me that anyone else on that flight got their bags, I want to know,” said one customer.
“Awful. I can’t express it. It’s really bad,” said Shiva MamillaBalli, who traveled from Hyderabad, India.
It took MamillaBalli 96 hours to get to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport from Hyderabad. He's feeling exhausted.
“I don’t have energy to talk,” said MamillaBalli.
Once he got to London, there were more delays. Back in the states, he sat through four more cancellations and delays.
“I have been traveling from JFK to here for two days,” said MamillaBalli.
Steve Cosgrove from Dynamic Travel and Cruise says the week of 4th of July will be excruciating.
“Besides having the normal crew shortages, you have crews timing out. Meaning the crews are restricted by FAA and union contracts in how many hours they can work a month,” said Cosgrove.
He said travelers won’t be seeing any relief until the fall.
Off-camera, airline officials told WFAA that standard tips, like booking early and getting to the airport on time, don't matter right now. Crews want people to know, they’re doing the best they can to get you to your destination safely.
On Wednesday, there were at least 520 flights canceled and more than 1300 delayed, according to Flight Aware.
Across the board, airlines are trying to hire more pilots and employees.
“There is a whole training process that goes on there. It’s not just something where you flip a switch,” said Cosgrove.
As bags were piling up, customers lined up to find out where their important belongings were located.
“We have some documents, because I’m a business man, and tomorrow we go see a customer,” said Rocky Guo from Shanghai, China.
Bottom line, if you’re traveling this summer, pack your patience.
“I want to know. Sir, you can go to the ticket counter, because I’m not going to deal with this type of attitude right now. I’m being nice and polite,” said an American Airlines employee. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/flights-fourth-of-july-week-may-be-canceled-delayed-overbooked-expert-says/287-c774a956-f553-4502-a15c-4e375936ace3 | 2022-06-30T02:55:07 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/flights-fourth-of-july-week-may-be-canceled-delayed-overbooked-expert-says/287-c774a956-f553-4502-a15c-4e375936ace3 |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Little Rock protestors briefly shut down 7th and Chester Street on Wednesday evening, as demonstrators gathered in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
There were roughly 20-24 demonstrators that were a part of the protest, with those in attendance blocking the road for about 20 minutes before Little Rock police gave them a dispersal warning.
"Every day, we are out here to not necessarily get an annoyance on the government officials in the state, but to bring attention that we are not okay with the decisions that they keep making for us," Jay Miles, a demonstrator, said.
Following the police warning, demonstrators moved to the State Capitol where there were roughly 40-50 people in attendance.
"Really what we're trying to bring to light [are] the statistics in this state," Miles said. "We have over 4800 kids in the state of Arkansas in foster care systems with only 1700 homes available" Miles said.
Protestors mentioned that this was the sixth day of demonstrations, with the protests taking place after Arkansas banned nearly all abortions in the state, except in the case where it threatens the life of the mother.
This abortion ban happened after Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed the Arkansas "trigger law" in 2019, which later took form as the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in a 6-3 decision.
The ban became official after Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge certified that the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, allowing the trigger law to go into effect. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/little-rock/little-rock-street-briefly-shut-down-abortion-protests/91-3f3f2079-cba6-4504-81c3-ea857e15adfc | 2022-06-30T02:55:13 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/little-rock/little-rock-street-briefly-shut-down-abortion-protests/91-3f3f2079-cba6-4504-81c3-ea857e15adfc |
The West Flagstaff Little League Majors All-Stars started their District I tournament appearance with a tremendous showing Tuesday, defeating Winslow, 17-0, in four innings via the run rule at Mark Grace Field.
Leading 1-0 through two innings in a game that appeared relatively even early, WFLL batted around the lineup twice in the top of the third. The result was 12 runs and a 13-0 lead heading into the bottom of the frame.
After looking a little anxious to start the game, WFLL’s batters made solid contact consecutively.
“They feel the nerves, feel the jitters, and that’s what it was the first two innings,” WFLL manager Colby Huffmon said. “But the second time through the lineup, that was gone and we really started hitting.”
Pitcher Teyan Clerry hit an inside-the-park home run to increase the lead to 2-0 after scoring the initial run on a sacrifice fly from catcher Gunner Babbitt in the top of the first.
Babbitt hit the second inside-the-park homer of the inning in the next time around the order, increasing the lead to 10-0.
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“I didn’t see the ball, and I didn’t know where it was going. So my coach told me to run. So I ran and scored,” he said.
The runs came in part due to great hitting, but also via aggressive base running. At every opportunity, WFLL advanced runners on steals and made what would be routine hits into extra bases by taking calculated risks while running.
“We’re going to take advantage of mistakes, defensively, and our base runners know to expect a missed play and be able to get those extra bases,” Huffmon said.
WFLL's pitching was similarly solid. The team allowed just two hits and a pair of walks in four innings. All 12 outs came via strikeout, with Clerry notching eight and Broden Custer striking out the final four batters, including all three in the final inning.
The switch allowed the pitchers to save their arms for what WFLL hopes is a long run in the tournament.
“We’re deep with pitching and our pitchers did awesome. They were doing their job, throwing strikes and allowing their defense to make plays,” Huffmon said.
WFLL was set to play Holbrook Wednesday at Mark Grace Field. | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/wfll-all-stars-win-big-in-district-i-first-round/article_d8097c30-f768-11ec-9a20-f34e19395a1b.html | 2022-06-30T02:56:36 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/wfll-all-stars-win-big-in-district-i-first-round/article_d8097c30-f768-11ec-9a20-f34e19395a1b.html |
POINT PLEASANT, WV (WOWK) — For many, Hershel “Woody” Williams will be remembered as a national hero. For those who knew Williams personally, like Cpt. James McCormick, Woody was so much more.
McCormick, a highly decorated war veteran himself, first met Williams ten years ago when he received the Citizen Service Before Self Award.
“And Woody was there. He hung the medal around my neck,” McCormick said. “And I’ll never forget him saying, ‘It’s a small medal, but for those that wear it, you have a commitment that is for a lifetime.'”
Ever since then, McCormick said Williams played an important role in his life.
“I loved him, you know, and still love him like a father. And his memory, his example that he has left us, you know, what else can you say about a guy like that.”
What he’ll remember most about Williams is his laugh.
“His laugh filled the room,” McCormick said.
He’ll also remember all of the life lessons Williams has taught him.
“So, I grew up a lot with Woody and learned to ignore the negativity and walk in the light with him,” McCormick said. “That was a big, big deal for him … He had a deep profound respect for God and country.”
In the end, McCormick is comforted knowing that Williams’ faith was so strong.
“He was not afraid to go,” but rest assured, “America is going to miss Woody Williams. I know I’m going to.”
McCormick was by Williams’ side last night during his final moments. Even though it was a hard goodbye, McCormick said he’s left with so many great memories. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/lifelong-friend-remembers-woody-williams/ | 2022-06-30T03:00:19 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/lifelong-friend-remembers-woody-williams/ |
WORTHINGTON, KY (WOWK) — Worthington, Kentucky officers are asking the public assistance in identifying a man who allegedly broke into cars on Wednesday.
The City of Worthington says the suspect broke into the vehicles at around 3 a.m. on Wednesday.
They say anyone with information should call Greenup County dispatch at 606-473-1411. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/officers-asking-for-help-identifying-man-accused-of-breaking-into-vehicles-in-greenup-county/ | 2022-06-30T03:00:25 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/officers-asking-for-help-identifying-man-accused-of-breaking-into-vehicles-in-greenup-county/ |
TORNADO, WV (WOWK) — One person was shot in Tornado on Wednesday night.
Metro 911 officials say a call about a shooting along Smith Creek Road in Tornado came in around 9:50 p.m.
The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office says no arrests have been made yet.
They say the victim has non-life-threatening injuries. His name has not been released at this time.
Deputies from the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office are on the scene.
This is a developing story. We will continue to update you on the incident. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/one-person-shot-in-tornado-deputies-investigating/ | 2022-06-30T03:00:31 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/one-person-shot-in-tornado-deputies-investigating/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Sheetz announced on Monday that certain types of gas will be $3.99 through the Fourth of July and it has caused some confusion. What types of gas are at this price and where can I get it?
According to a press release from Sheetz, Unleaded 88 (U88) will be $3.99 per gallon and Ethanol 85 Flex Fuel (E85) will be $3.49 per gallon. They say this is to, “help reduce pain at the pump for consumers.”
Typically, you will see three types of gasoline at the pump. The U.S. Department of Energy says the three are: Unleaded 87, or regular grade, Unleaded 88 through 90, or midgrade, and Unleaded 91 through 94, or premium.
Sheetz says these types of cars can use its U88 gas:
- Cars made in 2001 or later
- Light-duty trucks
- SUVs
- Flex fuel cars
They say cars that can use E85 gas are “flex fuel-approved.” The U.S. Department of Energy says vehicle models after 2008 will have a yellow gas cap or an “FFV” or “Flex Fuel” badge on the body if they can use E85.
The Department of Energy does warn consumers that using E85 instead of Unleaded 88 can get you 15% to 27% fewer miles per gallon.
Certain counties in West Virginia do not have a Sheetz location that carries E85 or U88 gasoline. Below are the locations in West Virginia that do carry those types of gas, according to the Sheetz website’s location finder. Sheetz’s website says each location carries both U88 and E85 gasoline unless noted otherwise.
Berkeley County
- 5175 Hammonds Mill Road, Martinsburg, WV 25404 (Store #425)
- 4430 Winchester Avenue, Martinsburg, WV 25405 (Store #546) (Located near the Eastern WV Regional Airport)
Brooke County
- 1525 Main Street, Follansbee, WV 26037 (Store #446)
Cabell County
- 4 Mall Road, Barboursville, WV 25504 (Store #419)
- 31 Tanyard Station Drive, Barboursville, WV 25504 (Store #660)
- 432 18th Street W, Huntington, WV 25704 (Store #427)
- 1304 Johns Creek Road, Milton, WV 25541 (Store #424)
Fayette County
- 27 Whitewater Avenue, Fayetteville, WV 25840 (Store #444)
- 5481 Robert C Byrd Drive, Mount Hope, WV 25880 (Store #457) (Crossroads Mall)
Hancock County
- 239 Three Springs Drive, Weirton, WV 26062 (Store #234)
Hardy County
- 268 Genny Loop, Moorefield, WV 26836 (Store #144)
Harrison County
- 20 Oakmont Lane, Bridgeport, WV 26330 (Store #516)
Jackson County
- 701 West Main Street, Ripley, WV 25271 (Store #584)
Jefferson County
- 1130 Marlow Road, Charles Town, WV 25414 (Store #438)
- 7948 Martinsburg Pike, Shepherdstown, WV 25443 (Store #160)
Mineral County
- 1280 New Creek Highway, Keyser, WV 26726 (Store #168)
Monongalia County
- 1901 Earl L Core Road, Morgantown, WV 26505 (Store #249)
- 1865 Mileground Road, Morgantown, WV 26505 (Store #690)
- 3522 Monongahela Boulevard, Star City, WV 26505 (Store #486)
Nicholas County
- 1300 Wal Street, Summersville, WV 26651 (Store #443)
Ohio County
- 6 Cabela Drive, Triadelphia, WV 26059 (Store #429)
Putnam County
- 104 St. Rt. 19, Hurricane, WV 25526 (Store #433)
- 4344a Teays Valley Road, Scott Depot, WV 25560 (Store #494) (Only carries E85)
Raleigh County
- 810 Ritter Highway, Beaver, WV 25813 (Store #473)
Randolph County
- 1601 Beverly Pike, Elkins, WV 26241 (Store #563)
Wood County
- 306 Ann Street, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Store #640)
- 1102 7th Street, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Store #643) | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/which-sheetz-in-wv-can-you-find-3-99-gas/ | 2022-06-30T03:00:37 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/which-sheetz-in-wv-can-you-find-3-99-gas/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said in a memorandum Wednesday night that an abortion law from the 1800s is enforceable.
However, he went on to say the West Virginia Legislature is strongly advised to amend the laws in the Moutain State to provide for clear prohibitions on abortion that are consistent with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that Supreme Court Justices used to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24.
Some of the laws on the books in West Virginia would make it a felony, punishable by prison time for both the patient and the doctor involved in an abortion.
Morrisey said in a memorandum, “an 1849 law criminalizing the provision of abortion for a health-care provider, and arguably the woman, is on the books and enforceable. So are many other abortion-related statutes.
The law came into question after the Supreme Court’s decision to turn over Roe v. Wade essentially creating a gray area for the state’s only abortion provider.
The provider canceled all upcoming procedures when the law became unclear.
Attorney General Morrisey is encouraging a Legislative session focused on abortion laws in what he calls several crucial areas. These include:
- “Specifying the acts that are subject to criminal prosecution and determining whether a woman should be subject to prosecution.”
- “Determining the nature of any exceptions.”
- “Addressing how the Legislature may wish to define the scope of medical practice related to restrictions or eliminations of the use of abortifacients.”
- “Development of a stronger enforcement regime to ensure that laws are uniformly applied in all counties, including appropriate civil tools to deter lawbreaking.”
- “Assessing the need for additional changes in the law regarding reporting or other matters.”
Morrisey says his office will continue to provide guidance to the landmark decision and will update members of the Legislature and the Governor when it comes to ongoing matters concerning abortion laws.
However, in the meantime, the A.G. says his office stands, “ready to defend the present suit against the 1849 abortion statute and take action upon a request from the Governor to petition the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia to lift the current injunction against West Virginia’s partial-birth abortion law. We stand ready, too, to defend any of the other existing laws on the books.” | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/wv-attorney-general-ready-to-defend-abortion-laws/ | 2022-06-30T03:00:43 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/wv-attorney-general-ready-to-defend-abortion-laws/ |
EDEN — Multiple agencies responded Wednesday to a dangerous wildfire burning east toward town.
By 6:30 p.m., the wildfire was five miles west of Eden and had burned more than 3,000 acres.
Officials pleaded with people to avoid the area.
"Traffic on Highway 25 is stopping to watch and are making it hard to fight the fire," Bureau of Land Management spokesperson Kelsey Brizendine told the Times-News.
The BLM and Sawtooth National Forest have five fire engines, one dozer and multiple aircraft battling the wildfire.
The fire, named Sugar Loaf, threatened structures, construction equipment and power transmission lines, Brizendine said.
“The fire is making a big push toward the road...," she said. "It’s shaping up to be a very dangerous situation.”
First Segregation Rural Fire District was also helping to fight the fire and protect structures.
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The fire was reported at about 4:20 p.m. and the cause is under investigation, Brizendine said.
“Our biggest priority right now is just making sure we slow the fire and we keep everybody safe,” she said.
To view a video of the fire, you can check the BLM Idaho Facebook page. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/wildfire-west-of-eden-burns-3-000-acres-wednesday/article_19f30dc0-f80c-11ec-8c94-2739f1c9a998.html | 2022-06-30T03:02:13 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/wildfire-west-of-eden-burns-3-000-acres-wednesday/article_19f30dc0-f80c-11ec-8c94-2739f1c9a998.html |
Second chances are hard to come by, so when Sam Marc heard that there was an opportunity to seal or expunge his criminal record, he made every effort to take advantage of it.
“I figured if they’re okay with giving me a second chance, then hey, it’s worth a shot,” he told The Miami Times.
Poor choices he made at age 17 that led to him serving a three-year sentence in prison still haunt him today.
“I knew that when I was young, the life that I was living could either lead to one thing or another,” Marc explained. “I accepted that at the time the same way I accepted the consequences. I got out of prison 15 years ago and I’ve been doing the right thing ever since.”
Now all he wants is a clean slate and a chance to exercise his right to vote.
Last week, Marc was among dozens of people who attended a session of the Second Chance Sealing and Expunging program, organized by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office (SAO).
“This is very important because it opens a lot of doors and makes it easier to get jobs, loans, an apartment and even apply to college,” said Assistant State Attorney Nilo Cuervo, who heads the SAO Community Outreach Division.
Since 2006, the SAO has held these events each month in different parts of the county. The effort was halted by the pandemic but resumed this year. Nearly 200 people showed up for assistance two months ago.
“What we’ve done is made [this process] easier, accessible and free, except for that $75 application fee [to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement] that we have no control over,” said Cuervo. “So long as you’re eligible, we will assist you.”
Eligibility is determined by Florida statutes. Severe offenses such as sexual misconduct, murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault, human and drug trafficking, arson and child abuse disqualify a person from expungement or sealing.
“I was eligible for the expungement,” an excited Antranae told the Times, who did not disclose her last name. “This will give me a second chance to better myself and get a good job.”
Her dream has always been to start a sports league for students in her community but the first step, she said, is to become an educator. A criminal record disqualified her from seeking employment in a public school setting and even presented hurdles during the interview process for other jobs.
“It was my first offense and I just wanted to take it off of my record,” she explained.
Normally, the process to restrict access to (seal) or erase (expunge) a criminal record can range from $800-$1,000 with legal assistance and take more than two months to be completed. Excluding legal fees, expungement can cost about $124 in Miami and Broward counties.
A juvenile expungement bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis last year allows juveniles who complete court-ordered diversion programs to expunge their criminal records, something that would have been useful for Marc.
This law, SAO officials say, is an added tool to help people with nonviolent charges get on the right track without having to face the adverse consequences that come with an arrest record.
“Nothing seems more tragic than to have an opportunity to remove a roadblock in one’s life, something that can limit one’s future life prospects, and not to take it,” said Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle in a written statement. “As Miami-Dade’s State Attorney, I have made it a priority to give individuals a second chance.”
More than 6,000 people have been assisted through the process by the SAO.
The program doubles as a one-stop-shop where participants can update their identification and voting status, and access resources to remove barriers through the SAO’s partnership with various agencies. They include the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, Public Defender’s Office, NAACP, Clerk of the Circuit Courts and the Department of Motor Vehicles.
“Imagine you’ve been living somewhere for 20 years and you don’t even have as much as a police ticket since you got your driver’s license. Now all of a sudden you have a record,” said Dayena, who also withheld her last name when speaking to the Times.
The North Miami resident, a caregiver who is now out of a job because of an incident that led to her arrest last year, said she hopes the program will help her get justice after having charges pressed against her.
“Officers arrested me without me giving a statement or hearing my side of the story,” said Dayena, explaining that she had been a victim of domestic violence and was only defending herself. “I lost everything. I’m just now putting myself back together, piece by piece … [And] because I’m a caregiver and I work with kids, I want to fix this.”
“People can come down to the State Attorney’s Office at any time [to take advantage of Second Chance], but we found that it’s easier to come to the community,” said Cuervo.
The next Second Chance event will take place at the Joseph Caleb Center on July 28. It will come to Coconut Grove, Homestead and Allapattah in the following months. | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/second-chance-program-helps-remove-barriers-to-employment/article_a4102058-f706-11ec-af29-afc5a59c2cbf.html | 2022-06-30T03:10:03 | 0 | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/second-chance-program-helps-remove-barriers-to-employment/article_a4102058-f706-11ec-af29-afc5a59c2cbf.html |
School districts across the United States are scrambling to enact security protocols in the wake of the mass shooting that struck an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just one month ago, and Miami-Dade County is no different.
The board of Miami-Dade County Public Schools is on a nearly yearlong journey that will culminate in a comprehensive study on what the district is doing right – and what still needs to be done to ensure the safety of all students and staff.
An item proffered by board member Maria Teresa Rojas at a June 22 school meeting will expand the duties of the districtwide safety and security committee – initiated by Rojas in 2017 – to complete the study, monitor the implementation of currently required security measures and appoint additional staff members as needed. The committee will also evaluate past school shootings as well as existing safety and mental health training protocols nationwide before reporting its findings in February 2023.
“Both of these events may have been avoided if proper assessment, care and follow-up services had been implemented,” Rojas said at the meeting, referring to the recent Texas shooting at Robb Elementary School as well as to the 2018 shooting in Parkland, Fla., that struck close to home and led to the creation of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission within the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
“We must never let our guard down, and we can never 100% guarantee that there won’t be a situation here in one of our schools, but we can assure you that we are going to do everything humanly possible to try and diminish that possibility from occurring,” she added.
The safety and security committee meets on an ongoing basis to provide updates from the school police department and gather feedback from relevant stakeholders, including teachers union workers, school administrators and school board members. The next meeting will be held July 12, during which Chief Edwin Lopez and his team will discuss new hiring efforts and updated training plans for all officers.
School board member Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall also holds frequent town hall meetings in partnership with local organization Circle of Brotherhood, and is planning on another to get recommendations on school safety measures from the public.
That momentum is being matched at both the state and federal level as far as funding goes, and it’s just a matter of time before the dollars begin to trickle down to localities like Miami-Dade.
Gov. Ron DeSantis approved a school safety bill June 7 which calls for further implementation of the Stoneman Douglas commission’s most recent recommendations. Just five days prior, DeSantis signed the 2022-23 state budget, which designated $140 million for mental health studies and services across the state, and $210 million for school safety.
Of that amount, M-DCPS garnered $15,691,092 for mental health and $26,582,683 for school safety in the 2022-2023 fiscal year budget.
Additionally, President Joe Biden signed a gun safety bill into law just this past weekend that also included millions of dollars to be distributed for school safety and mental health.
“Once those funding sources have been finalized, we’ll be able to make a determination on how to proceed with respect to those things that are required and those things that we would like to see happen in our district,” some of which are confidential, said school board member Steve Gallon III.
DeSantis’ “Freedom First Budget” includes an additional $20 million for “school hardening” grants, which could be used for expenditures like automatic locks, metal detectors, security cameras, bulletproof windows and more. Although the school board has yet to consider measures like bulletproofing their schools’ windows, Gallon assures it is constantly assessing suggestions deemed necessary by experts and school staff at the frequent safety and security committee meetings, and will do so with the results of the pending study.
In the meantime, the board is working to strengthen its existing protocols by writing them into official board policy. Another item passed at the June 22 meeting, introduced by Lopez in response to DeSantis’ approval of HB 1421, reinforced certain measures that the police department has been working to perfect over the past four years.
These measures include regular active shooter and hostage drills within schools, mental health crisis intervention training for every school officer, the continuous assessment of needed safety personnel at extracurricular and after-school activities, parent-student reunification plans to be implemented during crises and more.
Lopez says the school police department continuously studies past school shootings, from the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Littleton, Colo., to the recent tragedy in Uvalde.
For instance, Miami-Dade was quick to implement “hard corners” after learning that the gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas shot only through windows, killing 17 people without ever setting a foot in a single classroom.
Hard corners are designated areas deemed safe within classrooms because they can’t be seen from hallways. A small arrangement like this, Lopez says, can make all the difference.
“Unfortunately, sadly, we’ve had a lot of examples of what to learn from,” he said.
One of the most recent initiatives implemented by M-DCPS is the Alyssa’s Alert mobile panic alert system – a phone application required for all school administrators and available to teachers that will allow them to immediately notify law enforcement when a critical threat is present on school premises.
FortifyFL is a similar mobile app that allows users to report and notify law enforcement and school officials of any suspicious activity, which, unlike Alyssa’s Alert, is available to parents, students, employees and the general public as well. School law enforcement personnel are now required to document and evaluate any and every incoming threat reported – no matter how small or incredible.
For parents wondering how else they can help, Lopez says to just stay involved, both at home and at school. He suggests continuously checking in with teachers, who may be better equipped to report issues involving lack of communication or sociability, as well as poor performance.
And although he admits school safety is a job for students, teachers, staff and law enforcement alike, he assures that Miami-Dade is nothing short of a leading school district in the pressing fight against critical acts of violence.
“The fact that we continuously revisit our emergency operations plan, that we continuously train with other agencies, that we continuously analyze our own deployment and try to pick it apart as much as we can, never getting comfortable – that’s what keeps us apart,” Lopez said. | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/securing-schools-from-shooters/article_07097c78-f765-11ec-99c0-53c5bb4e3644.html | 2022-06-30T03:10:09 | 1 | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/securing-schools-from-shooters/article_07097c78-f765-11ec-99c0-53c5bb4e3644.html |
'It's not just for the 19 that we lost': Granite Mountain Hotshots tribute center marks anniversary
Nine years after crew leader Eric Marsh and 18 of his fellow firefighters died in the deadliest wildfire in Arizona history, his father joined members of his community to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the place created in part to honor his son's life.
The Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew Learning and Tribute Center showcases some of the thousands of items left at the crew's fire station by community members and by far-flung fire departments after the tragedy. Eric Marsh and the others died in 2013's Yarnell Hill Fire.
"It's not just for the 19 that we lost," John Marsh said of the center. "It's to recognize, I think, all of the wildland firefighters that risk their life every day."
Hundreds of T-shirts and other mementos from fire departments around the world line the walls of the center, which aims to educate the public about the intricacies and challenges of wildland firefighting.
The center also features a memorial for each of the fallen Granite Mountain Hotshots, highlighting their lives along with their importance to the fire department and the Prescott community as a whole.
Prescott Mayor Phil Goode became emotional as he spoke about the tragedy and made a point of acknowledging how the community has turned an unimaginable loss into something constructive.
"There's a well-validated adage that recommends the best way to deal with the loss of a loved one is to reach out and help others, and even more restoring and healing is to turn the tragedy into a positive effort for the future," Goode said.
"This learning and tribute center is a wonderful example of that idea being expressed in a most beneficial way."
Holger Durre, Prescott's new deputy fire chief, highlighted the center as a perfect example of what he characterized as Prescott's unique response in the face of such an unfathomable tragedy.
"What makes Prescott Prescott is what you're standing in front of right here, because when a community has to respond to tragedy, what Prescott does is it creates more community," Durre said.
"It creates a stronger community by rising to it … and we make it something that everyone can learn from and everybody can grow from."
The anniversary celebration concluded with a performance by the Central Arizona Firefighter Pipes and Drums, who honored the fallen hotshots with songs including a special rendition of "Amazing Grace."
The center has welcomed nearly 50,000 visitors to date, Marsh said, and he hopes to expand to a larger location in the future. When that time comes, the center will be able to feature even more of the thousands of memorial items that remain in storage, he said.
"Hopefully it'll educate people as to who wildland firefighters are and what they do," he said.
The Yavapai County Courthouse in downtown Prescott will ring its bells 19 times on June 30, starting at 4:42 p.m., marking the time the 19 firefighters lost their lives nine years ago.
Coverage of northern Arizona on azcentral.com and in The Arizona Republic is funded by the nonprofit Report for America and a grant from the Vitalyst Health Foundation in association with The Arizona Republic.
Contact northern Arizona reporter Lacey Latch at llatch@gannett.com or on social media @laceylatch. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/06/30/granite-mountain-hotshots-tribute-center-celebrates-4th-anniversary/7762423001/ | 2022-06-30T03:13:01 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/06/30/granite-mountain-hotshots-tribute-center-celebrates-4th-anniversary/7762423001/ |
ECTOR, Texas — With Independence Day coming up it's firework season, which means all kinds of different fireworks, poppers and sparklers will be set off.
"We want people to have a good time, it is the Fourth of July, the nation's Independence Day so we want people to celebrate, but just be responsible," said Justin Bunch, Fire Marshal for Midland County.
Right now it is extremely dry and both Ector and Midland County are under a burn ban.
"There's no rules as far as our the county when you can or can't shoot fireworks. With the burn ban going on that doesn't effect fireworks, there's different laws and stuff that go into effect," said Bunch.
However it's important that if you are lighting fireworks you take some precautionary steps.
"Wherever you're going to do fireworks make sure it's clear, not in an area that's full of vegetation and what not, and if you'r going to be using fireworks you need to use them as they're intended," said Omar Galindo, Fire Marshal with Odessa Fire Rescue.
Fire works are allowed in the county but not in city limits.
"Fireworks are permitted in the county as long as you're on private property, in city limits it's not allowed, it's not permitted. City limits if you get caught, you get fined and they get taken away," said Galindo.
When it comes to preparation, local fire departments are ready for this next week.
"We're going to have some extra personnel to man some tankers, that way we're ready and available for anything that happens out in the county or city, wherever it is," said Galindo.
There are more tips on firework safety from Midland County here. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/importance-of-firework-safety/513-554f236e-39e2-415e-8e70-9056086b4e15 | 2022-06-30T03:15:48 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/importance-of-firework-safety/513-554f236e-39e2-415e-8e70-9056086b4e15 |
The Chesterfield Board of Supervisors unanimously appointed Tara Carroll to fill the Midlothian seat Wednesday night. Carroll, a longtime Chesterfield resident from a politically active family, was the former chair of the Chesterfield County Republican Committee from 2018 to 2020.
This means Dale District Supervisor Jim Holland remains as the board’s lone Democrat.
Carroll will serve as the district’s interim supervisor until the Nov. 8 special election. The winner will serve the remainder of Leslie Haley’s term, which expires Dec. 31, 2023.
After holding the position for almost seven years, Haley announced June 3 a career move to the Virginia attorney general’s office as the deputy AG for government operations and transaction. She previously sought the Republican nomination in the AG race in 2021.
Chris Winslow, Clover Hill District supervisor, said of the eight people who applied, six were qualified, per the eligibility requirements set by the board.
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The minimum prerequisites include residing in the Midlothian District; serving on other boards or commissions; identifying potential conflicts of economic interests; and not having a felony conviction.
Wednesday night’s vote was brief and occurred without any discussion on the decision-making process behind the supervisors’ selection. Virginia law allows public bodies to discuss, consider or interview potential candidates for appointments in a closed meeting.
Carroll will be sworn in at 9 a.m. Thursday in the county’s public meeting room at 10001 Iron Bridge Road. | https://richmond.com/news/local/chesterfield-supervisors-appoint-former-county-republican-committee-chair-to-midlothian-seat/article_bf83f2e7-dda1-5994-a909-881777af3495.html | 2022-06-30T03:27:01 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/chesterfield-supervisors-appoint-former-county-republican-committee-chair-to-midlothian-seat/article_bf83f2e7-dda1-5994-a909-881777af3495.html |
A 2014 audit recommended Richmond Public Schools’ School Board should have stopped using the repairs and maintenance facility at 1903 Chamberlayne Ave., which caught fire early Wednesday.
The school district was leasing the building and a connected warehouse with multiple bays that were being used for maintenance, said Richmond Fire Department spokesperson Amy Vu. At least four school buses, two other vehicles and a bus outside of the structure were damaged beyond repair after the two-alarm fire.
Crews arrived at the property at around 6:30 a.m. to find heavy smoke and flames. About an hour later, crews marked the incident as under control. A person believed to be a school district employee was able to get out of the building safely. No injuries were reported.
Numerous reports of explosions were heard in the area, but Vu said there were no signs of explosions on the scene.
Investigators are still working to figure out what caused the large fire, according to Vu.
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“At this time, we cannot say whether foul play was suspected or not,” she said Wednesday morning.
The 2014 audit determined RPS had spent more than $1.3 million over 17 years in lease payments. During the 2013 financial year, RPS had incurred about $104,000 in lease costs for the property. In 2014, the property, including the building and the land, had an assessed value of $820,000, according to the report.
RPS had paid more than one-and-a-half times the 2014 assessed value for the property, according to the audit. The lease was also a triple net agreement, requiring RPS to pay taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance.
If RPS had bought the property, it could have saved $11,000 in taxes during the 2012 financial year.
“RPS could have benefited by owning, rather than leasing, the fleet facility,” according to the audit.
In 2004, RPS bought another property at 3501 Belt Blvd. for $1.1 million that was meant to be remodeled as the new repair and maintenance facility. The audit recommended the School Board stop using the property at Chamberlayne and instead develop the Belt Boulevard property “for long-term facility cost savings.”
“RPS did not carry out renovations and continued to incur costs on leasing the Chamberlayne property for the past eight years,” the audit reads. “This decision does not appear to be financially prudent.”
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Marion County Fair is underway and open through Monday.
Everything you need to know about tickets and parking is available here.
Your next question may involve food. It's well known that a trip to the fair means fried food - and anything you can eat on a stick.
While most of us throw away food found with a bug on it, you'll find them as pizza toppings at this year's fair.
You read that right. Bugs as toppings on pizza.
Varieties include mealworm, cricket and scorpion pizza.
"It's just something different," said Jimmy, the pizza vendor. "Gotta have something different at the fair. I mean, you've got people that come up, 'You buy it, I'll eat it,' or dares or just people that want to try it. They're crunchy, they're flavored, salt and vinegar, Mexican spice, worms. Then the scorpions are pepper flavored."
If you're not able to bring yourself to try bug pizza, they have traditional toppings, too. You can even get your pizza on a stick.
The Marion County Fair was was first held in 1930 as a Wanamaker street fair. After several moves over the years, the fair eventually settled on 123 acres of land at Troy Avenue and Fisher Road.
Fair guests 3 years of age and older must have a ticket.
Gates close daily at 9:30 p.m.
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WINDERMERE, Fla. – Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer convicted in 2021 of murdering George Floyd, has put up his Orange County townhouse for sale.
Reports show Chauvin and his wife used the Windermere townhouse as collateral for his bond. Now that Chauvin is convicted, the couple put the house up for sale.
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Floyd’s death prompted protests outside the Windermere home, which later led to a Florida law banning protests outside private residences. That law will go into effect beginning in October.
According to Realtor.com, a sale is pending for an asking price of $475,000. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/30/ex-minneapolis-police-officer-derek-chauvin-puts-florida-townhouse-up-for-sale/ | 2022-06-30T03:40:47 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/30/ex-minneapolis-police-officer-derek-chauvin-puts-florida-townhouse-up-for-sale/ |
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Pine Hills residents said they have had enough with reckless drivers in their neighborhood and set up a meeting Wednesday evening to urge Orange County Officials to take action before more people are hurt — or even killed.
Rosemarie Diehl, president of the Robinswood Community Improvement Association, said traffic on the roads in the Pine Hills area has gotten progressively worse.
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Wednesday evening, she led the community meeting to address traffic concerns.
“Pretty much everyone in the neighborhood, they’re very tired. They’re fed up,” she said.
Jae Fortune, founder of Pine Hills Talk, called the situation a public health crisis.
“I had a young kid that was my neighbor that lived on this street who was just trying to make his way into traffic during rush hour and got t-boned and almost lost his life. So this is a crisis. This isn’t a couple drivers being in considerate,” he said.
He and other residents are asking Orange County leaders to address the issues before others are hurt.
A representative for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office listened to the complaints and said they will work to keep the community safe for residents.
“We will improve on having patrol units out there observing and stopping people for traffic infractions,” the representative said.
County engineers and a representative for District 6 Commissioner Victoria Siplin were also present to answer questions.
News 6 reporter Treasure Roberts asked Orange County Chief Engineer Masood Mirza about a timeline for the projects.
“They are in the works right now. I think they already started digging the ground,” Mirza said. “You should see construction within a couple weeks.”
County engineers said they plan to add pavement speed markings, curb ramps and speed radar signs.
Dr. Latanya Nichols said Wednesday night’s conversation was a start.
“There [are] lots of concerns about traffic in the area, the number of concerns, the number of deaths, etcetera,” Nichols said. “So this is something we definitely need in our community.”
Dr. Nichols said they will not back down even if their needs aren’t met right away.
Diehl agreed and said they plan to compile a long list of questions that have still gone unanswered.
“We want to be able to feel safe and not have to worry about someone cutting through our community, creating havoc,” Diehl said.
Orange County engineers mentioned one reason it has taken a while to construct speed radar signs in the area is because they are on back order and have been for months.
Mirza said residents can expect to see some projects completed before the school year begins. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/30/pine-hills-residents-urge-orange-county-leaders-to-make-improvements-for-safe-roads/ | 2022-06-30T03:40:53 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/30/pine-hills-residents-urge-orange-county-leaders-to-make-improvements-for-safe-roads/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. – A car crashed into a retention pond in Holden Heights and sank Wednesday evening, according to video and Orange County Fire Rescue.
The pond in near West Kaley Street and South Rio Grande Avenue, fire officials said.
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One patient was removed from the car, but information about their condition has not been released at this time.
Check back with News 6 for further updates. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/30/vehicle-submerged-in-water-in-orlando-orange-county-fire-rescue-says/ | 2022-06-30T03:40:59 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/30/vehicle-submerged-in-water-in-orlando-orange-county-fire-rescue-says/ |
FORT WORTH, Texas — A 5-year-old has died after being shot while playing with another child inside a Fort Worth home, the Parker County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday.
Just after 9 p.m. Tuesday, emergency crews were called to a home in the 100 block of Woodie Way after the reported shooting.
According to the report, a 5-year-old and another child relative were playing inside the home when an adult heard a gunshot.
The sheriff’s office said the adult, who was watching the children, told investigators a 9 mm handgun was in a dresser of the master bedroom and the magazine had been removed for safety. The adult said the children were playing inside another bedroom of the home, when the adult stepped away to attend to a third child in the living room.
The adult told investigators that they later heard the gunshot, and then saw the 5-year-old’s injuries.
Paramedics arrived on scene and performed life-saving measures. The child was then transported to a local hospital in Fort Worth.
The sheriff’s office said the child was later pronounced dead.
The names of those involved in the incident have not been released, and no arrests have been made at this time. The investigation remains ongoing.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of this child,” said Parker County Sheriff Russ Authier. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/5-year-old-dies-after-being-shot-while-playing-with-another-child-inside-fort-worth-home/287-d2b88cd4-7f03-493f-9043-4467c8fe7ff8 | 2022-06-30T03:42:16 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/5-year-old-dies-after-being-shot-while-playing-with-another-child-inside-fort-worth-home/287-d2b88cd4-7f03-493f-9043-4467c8fe7ff8 |
PLANO, Texas — A lot of us spent 2020 walking and thinking. But one of Jason Vallejo’s daily walks changed his life and likely saved other lives.
“Something I’d do every day to just get my mind off things and clear my mind,” Vallejo said.
More than two years later, he retraced the steps he took on a May 2020 walk.
He passed Plano’s Haggard Park and then spotted a young man asleep in a nearby vacant lot, just across the street from the DART station.
“It became real that, yes, this is the very reason. This is why I need to do something,” Vallejo said.
He believes he was about 5 years old growing up in Victoria, Texas when he first knew he was gay.
But it would take 25 more years before he let anyone else know.
“I was about 30 years old when I finally came out,” he said.
After college, Vallejo battled depression and even attempted suicide.
But he says his family, a deep love of God, and a rediscovery of his faith guided him through.
He went to seminary and became a pastor.
He fell in love with a man he met at a bible study.
Vallejo says people at his church made it “uncomfortable,” saying unkind things about their relationship and marriage.
He and his husband left the congregation.
“But I never let that stop my relationship with God,” he said.
“When people come to me and say I cannot be Christian and gay - you can have your thoughts and your opinion, but I know my truth. And I know the truth that says I’m loved and accepted just as I am. And I feel like I’m doing the work that God has called me to do," said Vallejo.
Vallejo and his family remain close.
But he says his husband’s father hasn’t spoken to him in years.
That might have been on his mind when he discovered that young man sleeping in that overgrown grass in Plano on that walk in 2020.
“He said his name is John. And I said, ‘Hey John what are you doing out here? It’s hot.’”
John told Vallejo he was homeless with no family.
He had spent one night in a Dallas shelter, but he was only 21 years old and he didn’t feel safe there.
So, John took a DART train to the suburbs and fell asleep.
When Vallejo and his husband moved to North Texas, he had taken a job working with homeless people in Dallas.
He knew people between 18 and 24 faced unique difficulties because shelters often felt unsafe for people that age.
Vallejo took John to a McDonald’s, found him help through an existing agency, then went straight home and began sending emails and making calls.
That was the moment he knew he wanted to build his own nonprofit – specifically aimed at helping homeless youth.
“We are the first emergency shelter serving 18- to 24-year-olds,” he said.
Since Elevate North Texas launched, it has provided 91 youth with short-term hotel rooms, counseling, and case managers.
They’ve also offered leads on jobs and found some long-term housing with host families.
Vallejo says 60 percent of his 91 clients identify as gay.
“The national stat shows that 40 percent of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ plus. So for us to be seeing 60 percent is just really quite telling of where we are politically because of a lot of the hate speech and rhetoric,” Vallejo said of the climate in Texas.
He’s helped youth he said were on the verge of suicide and some who’d been victims of sexual assaults while sleeping in parks because shelters felt unsafe.
“Try to imagine for a second what it would be like to have your family say, 'I want nothing to do with you, neither does God and we’re taking everything away, we want you out of the house,'” Vallejo said.
“I know that a lot of youth end up taking their lives or end up homeless because of family rejection.”
To those struggling to find love or acceptance, Vallejo says to keep the faith and contact him.
He knows the pain of hiding who you are. And the joy of finally living it.
The National Suicide Prevention Hotline is always open. Dial 1-800-273-8255 any time of day. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/north-texas-organization-helps-homeless-lgbtq-youth-in-crisis-find-shelter/287-a5951375-6a44-422d-8ec9-30d758804581 | 2022-06-30T03:42:23 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/north-texas-organization-helps-homeless-lgbtq-youth-in-crisis-find-shelter/287-a5951375-6a44-422d-8ec9-30d758804581 |
TEXAS, USA — Texas is implementing a new truck checkpoint strategy after dozens of migrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday.
The new strategy, which begins immediately, calls for:
- Additional truck checkpoints
- Trained teams to detect cloned trucks along smuggling corridors
- New trooper strike teams to areas seeing record crossings
- More drones in the air
Texas DPS will also be making sure there is better capability of stopping smugglers and cartel members who are trying to profit off getting migrants to the United States, the governor said.
RELATED: Authorities: Driver of big rig carrying migrants who died pretended to be among the injured
The death count continues to climb in the San Antonio tractor-trailer tragedy. On Wednesday, the death toll reached 53.
On Monday, San Antonio Fire Department Chief Charles Hood said all the deaths stemmed from heat-related causes, including heat stroke and exhaustion. The tractor-trailer filled with 67 people had no visible working A/C unit and there was no water, he said during a press conference Monday.
Abbott said every year there are reports about migrants who lost their lives from the heat and many of these deaths could be prevented.
Abbott said the truck carrying the migrants passed through a border checkpoint and it was not inspected because the border patrol does not have the resources to inspect all of the trucks.
"The border patrol did not have the capability of saving those lives," Abbott said. "Mr. President, you can fix that if you provide what is categorized as the minimum number of border patrol officers who are needed to do the fundamental job of the United States of America and adequately fund their operations to make sure they are going to be able to inspect those vehicles.
The driver, identified by Mexican government officials as Homero Zamorano, was caught on camera crossing through a Customs and Border Protection checkpoint in Encinal, Texas.
Mexican officials released a map of the truck's alleged route where it's believed the migrants were loaded into the truck on the U.S. side near Laredo before heading north. The truck also learned the Cotulla checkpoint before ending up in southwest San Antonio.
Zamorano was arrested in a nearby field pretending to be one of the injured migrants. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-new-checkpoint-strategy-along-border/285-4d45082e-3258-407d-8aed-afc2b394e91c | 2022-06-30T03:42:29 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-new-checkpoint-strategy-along-border/285-4d45082e-3258-407d-8aed-afc2b394e91c |
One person is dead following a police-involved shooting at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Irving, police say.
Early details were limited, but Irving police said on social media there is no continued threat to the community.
In a tweet, Irving police said a suspect was dead. No other injuries were reported.
Further details are expected to be released shortly.
NBC 5 has crews heading to the scene.
Meanwhile, Fort Worth police confirmed a shooting involving an officer Wednesday night in the 3100 block of Lackland Road. Check back for details.
Check back and refresh this page for the latest information. As details unfold, elements of this story may change. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/1-dead-in-police-involved-shooting-at-irving-hospital-pd/3003877/ | 2022-06-30T03:44:16 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/1-dead-in-police-involved-shooting-at-irving-hospital-pd/3003877/ |
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