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How this Lewes nonprofit has spearheaded marine animal conservation in Delaware
Sometimes it takes a dire moment to instill change, and for one Delaware resident, that came over two decades ago when she had to keep a beached sea turtle in her laundry room overnight.
At that time, Suzanne Thurman was running an environmental education center for the state and responded to a call at night about a stranded sea turtle.
But with no nearby facility open to care for the turtle, Thurman had to wait until the next day to transport it, unsure if it would live overnight. The loggerhead turtle survived, but being unable to provide immediate care for that turtle was “anguishing,” Thurman told Delaware Online/The News Journal.
That incident prompted her to found the Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute, a Lewes-based nonprofit research and rehabilitation center that helps preserve marine mammals and sea turtles.
Twenty-three years later, the MERR Institute has over 400 volunteers and responds to 230-300 marine animal and sea turtle strandings every year, according to Thurman. As of Wednesday, it has responded to 121 strandings in 2023.
Speed is the name of the game
Time is of the essence when it comes to animals in need, which is why the organization is on call 24/7 to respond to any reported strandings along the Delaware coast.
When the MERR Institute receives a call, Thurman or a volunteer working the phone will ask the caller questions about the animal’s size, location and status. Within minutes of the initial call, that information is relayed to all staff, interns and volunteers, and, if needed, Thurman coordinates a response to the incident.
Seals are the most labor-intensive animal because they remain in the Atlantic region throughout the winter and into the spring, Thurman said. The seals come out of the water and sleep on the beaches, often causing the public to become concerned and call. Volunteers take shifts for the phone line to help combat the estimated 150 yearly calls about seals.
The organization has already responded to a number of those calls this year, including one in March about two resting seals that ended up returning to the sea on their own. Earlier that month, the MERR Institute rescued a young male harp seal that was infected with lice in Rehoboth Beach and transported him to the National Aquarium in Baltimore for rehabilitation, according to the organization's Facebook page.
Along with seals, the institute responds to whale and dolphin standings. In 2021, it responded to a 57-foot stranded fin whale that eventually died at Cape Henlopen. More recently, the MERR Institute helped with a sea turtle release at Rehoboth Beach on June 29.
3 sea turtles travel hundreds of miles:Watch 3 endangered sea turtles from Connecticut and New York released at Rehoboth Beach.
When a marine animal, like the fin whale, cannot be saved, the MERR Institute performs necropsies to learn more about the animal’s cause of death and any other information that can help future conservation efforts.
Educating others about marine life
Thurman and the MERR Institute take pride in educating the public on conservation and preservation. Thurman and her organization do this by visiting schools and other groups to teach people about marine life and how to protect it.
For those who want more of a front-row seat experience, the organization also partners with Cape Water Tours in Lewes for dolphin-watching tours, where participants help the MERR Institute collect data on local dolphin populations.
“We actually see our education efforts as the biggest contribution to the welfare of these animals, much more powerful than just responding to them,” Thurman said. “Because it's through education that people start to learn little things that they can do.”
Whether it be using paper straws or forgoing balloons at celebrations, Thurman believes the education efforts can make “more conscientious and better environmental stewards.”
How to get involved
Those interested in volunteering for the MERR Institute can contact merrinstitute@gmail.com. Volunteers assist in data reporting, education programs, membership correspondence and rescue response. Those interested in becoming members of the MERR Institute can visit its website and donate.
As for why Delawareans give their free time to the organization, Thurman believes it's to receive an internal incentive.
“We get to see these animals in the water near enough that we can actually see them from the beach. And so, they develop that passion, that affinity with these animals,” Thurman said. “They want to be a part of something bigger than themselves that can help these animals.”
While the organization is volunteer-centered, it also provides internships and programs for students who are interested in marine life conservation as a career.
One of this summer’s interns is Oriana Ballotta, who helped with the sea turtle release last month.
“It's been so fun,” Ballotta said. “This has really confirmed for me that that's what I want to do. I wasn't sure what type of animals I would have worked with before, but now I know."
Meanwhile, Zeal Goolesby, a staffer who recently graduated from the University of Delaware, called her current position with the MERR Institute her “dream job.”
“I have wanted to work with marine animals ever since I was also a little girl, and it is truly a dream come true that I get to physically help these animals get back home, make them feel better and take care of them,” Goolesby said.
What to do if you see a stranded sea mammal or turtle
Thousands of marine animals are killed by human activity every year, a number that the MERR Institute hopes to limit.
With fishing nets, boating and pollution, marine life along Delaware’s coast faces constant threats.
If you see a marine mammal or sea turtle on the beach, you can call the MERR Institute's hotline at (302) 228-5029.
The MERR Institute also recommends keeping pets on a leash to prevent any harm to the animal or your pet. If it is a stranded seal, stay at least 150 feet away, as required by federal law. | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/marine-education-research-rehabilitation-institute-merr-marine-conservation-lewes-delaware/70357508007/ | 2023-07-10T12:04:03 | 1 | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/marine-education-research-rehabilitation-institute-merr-marine-conservation-lewes-delaware/70357508007/ |
SAN ANTONIO — Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, the most outspoken advocate for victims and families of the Uvalde school shooting over the last year, launched a campaign for U.S. Senate on Monday morning.
“We are one of the most robust economies by any state in the United States, and yet, we are 45th in education spending, we're 45th in education performance, we're dead last on funding for mental healthcare, we've got people who are in office who refuse to do Medicaid expansion which essentially gives healthcare to working class families at no cost to them. So, every year they're dipping in six, seven, ten thousand dollars to handle their healthcare costs. [U.S. Senator] Ted Cruz could've fixed that,” Gutierrez told WFAA’s Natalie Haddad in his first statewide TV interview.
The U.S. Senate race that Gutierrez is joining will be the highest-profile and most-watched campaign in the state next year.
Gutierrez, an immigration attorney, is a Democrat who represents San Antonio, Uvalde and a wide swath of the Texas–Mexico border from Eagle Pass to Big Bend.
Since the massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School in May 2022, Gutierrez, a gun owner himself, has called for raising the age to purchase some semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21. The shooter who murdered the classroom full of fourth graders and their two teachers was 18 years old and legally purchased his weapons.
Gutierrez has also called for accountability inside the Texas Department of Public Safety for dozens of troopers failing to follow training and immediately enter the fourth-grade classroom to engage the shooter and save lives. It took more than an hour for a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol team to arrive on scene, breach the classroom door and kill the teenage shooter.
Despite Gutierrez’s high-profile pushes and emotional pleas to fellow lawmakers, the Republican-led legislature dismissed age requirements to purchase weapons and Gov. Greg Abbott has neither fired nor disciplined DPS Director Steve McGraw.
But Gutierrez’s biggest challenge now is to increase his name identification with Democratic primary voters across Texas and raise the millions of dollars it will take to run a statewide campaign.
“We have Republicans in office who call this a Texas Miracle, including Ted Cruz,” Gutierrez told WFAA. “And when things go wrong, they want to blame some immigrant for the problems of Texas. Well, there's not an immigrant that is responsible for the poor education outcomes, that is responsible for the poor healthcare outcomes, the poor electrical grid outcomes, the fact that we don't have common-sense gun solutions," he explained. "I'm not a prognosticator. I'm not a pundit. I'm just a man that has volunteered for public service for the last twenty years. I worked hard for those twenty years and I'm gonna continue to work hard. I think that when people hear our message and they understand where I came from, they understand I was born and raised in this state, they understand there's a real value in hard work – I think that they're gonna see a different message, and it's my hope that we get them to support our campaign and our candidacy."
Gutierrez faces an uphill fight for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He will first face U.S. Rep. Collin Allred in the Democratic primary on Super Tuesday, which is on March 5, 2024.
Allred launched his campaign early – in May. So far, he has raised $6.2 million through the second quarter and transferred $2.4 million from his congressional campaign account, giving him an early head start with money.
Plus, Allred leads Gutierrez in an early poll from the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation. In May, the TxHPF survey showed 33% of Democratic primary voters would vote for Allred, 22% for Gutierrez (before he announced) and 4% for John Love.
Still, Allred and Gutierrez remain unknown to many Democratic primary voters across the state, with 41% of those surveyed saying they remain undecided.
"You know, I don't know Colin Allred. I've spoken to him one time. He called me about 60 days ago. I'm sure he's a nice person. The fact is, I've done a heck of a lot more than he has in public service,” Gutierrez told WFAA. “It's my intent to sit down with people in the [Rio Grande] Valley, in Houston, in Dallas, El Paso, and Corpus [Christi] and everywhere in between, Austin, and have a discussion. You know, Beto O'Rourke ignited Texans. I'll outwork Colin Allred and I'll work harder than Ted Cruz. I'm sure Colin's a nice guy, but I'm gonna outwork him because that's the way I was raised."
Perhaps the most interesting element of the TxHPF survey is that Cruz appears weak against an unknown challenger. The TxHPF poll showed Cruz with 47% of support and Allred with 40%. A head-to-head match-up between Gutierrez and Cruz was not asked since Gutierrez had yet to declare his candidacy.
WFAA questioned Gutierrez on a number of national issues facing the U.S. to gauge his positions:
You’re an immigration attorney, where do you stand on border security?
"Listen, I voted against these border security bills because they're nonsense. They're political stunt by [Texas Governor] Greg Abbott and others to waste our taxpayer dollars, to house some migrants from time-to-time. Listen, we deport thousands of people every day. They don't talk about that. Most people get deported. That's the reality. Not their talking point. That's reality. Biden Administration needs to talk a little bit more about that reality… allow people to come up to live this American dream into the industries that need it… As far as security's concerned, half of the AR-15s that are sold in the United States end up in the hands of [the drug] cartels in Mexico. We do need to be aggressive. We need to do what we did in Colombia. Get the DEA involved. Infiltrate Mexican cartels, because they're hurting our economies, hurting our people, and they're hurting folks in our southern border… The state's stunts, [Governor] Greg Abbott's stunts, are simply that. He's giving rides to people that have already [been] processed, that are three months away from a work permit, sends them to New York, Massachusetts, California just to make himself look good. There's plenty of people in hospitality, ranching and farming in Texas that would love to be able to have those folks work for them because they can't find Americans that want to do that job.”
How much more should the U.S. get involved in the war in Ukraine?
"Ukraine is about democracy. We must fight to maintain democracy in Ukraine or any part of the world because when its challenged, it affects us. We cannot allow fascist dictators like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to take us back to World War II. We cannot allow ourselves to be in a situation where they overrun countries in Europe. Cannot happen. Must not happen. Just like democracy is challenged there, it's also eroding here."
Should the U.S. militarily protect Taiwan against an invasion from China?
"We have to do everything in our power to our partners, Taiwan is certainly a partner that leads the world in semiconductor production. But we'll do everything diplomatically first… there's plenty of economic pressures and economic diplomacies that can be had with China before anything happens in Taiwan. That's just the reality of things."
What is the greatest threat facing the United States today?
"It's fascism. People like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and [Florida Governor] Ron DeSantis that want to go after Disney, want to blame everything on immigration. They scream nationalist, they hold, they wrap themselves around the flag. You know what? I'm all about the United States of America. It's the country that gave my father the opportunity to be able to have his son run for the United States Senate. And that's pretty amazing. But the country I was raised in wasn't about burning books. It wasn't about telling women what to do with their bodies. It wasn't about blaming people on the margins; gay, lesbian, transgender, and trying to shame them and blame them for what's truly ailing us. We deserve so much more from our leaders. We deserve a real understanding of what's wrong and we deserve that they begin to talk about it and solve the problems."
Cruz is running for his third term and barely won six years ago against former congressman Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso.
The 2024 Democratic primary is Tuesday, March 5.
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Originally published July 5 onKTVB.COMEAGLE, Idaho — Since 1996, keeping the Eagle community safe has been a joint effort between the city and the Ada County Sheriff’s Office.
“We provide a chief of police and police services to [the city],” Ada County Sheriff Matt Clifford said. “They work in conjunction with the mayor and the council while they remain Ada County Sheriff’s Office employees.”
However, there is some friction between the two right now as the city and county work on a new contract. Clifford said the city currently pays about $3.7 million for services.
That money goes toward wages and equipment costs. But with inflation, overtime expenses and county-approved cost of living raises, Clifford said that $3.7 million is not enough anymore.
He hopes Eagle pays $4.2 million for the 2024 fiscal year. The $500,000 difference is the minimum amount to account for population growth and overall need, Clifford said.
Mayor Jason Pierce said the city is potentially willing to pay more money, but he is concerned Eagle residents are paying double because Eagle officers are responding to calls on nearby highways.
“If the county would take care of that like they’re supposed to through state code, then we could have our officers doing other things in the community,” Pierce said.
Clifford said responding to those calls is just part of the job.
“Those highways are in the city,” Clifford said. “It is the responsibility of the municipality to patrol those highways if they want better service for their citizens.”
With all the growth, Clifford said it is up to Eagle to decide what its police force looks like. If the city does not increase the contract amount, the Ada County Sheriff’s Office will have to cut back services.
He also said Eagle already does not have enough police. The department has 28 employees, including a police chief, an administrative assistant, three sergeants, 12 patrol officers, two traffic officers, two special enforcement officers, five detectives, one code enforcement officer, and one community service officer.
If Eagle City Council members decided not to up the amount, Clifford said they would likely have to cut the traffic enforcement team and officers who patrol the Greenbelt, trails and various parks.
Pierce said his ultimate goal is to continue contracting with the sheriff’s office since they have historically had a good partnership. The city could also potentially start its own police department, but Pierce said that would be more expensive and take years.
“We get the best bang for our buck,” Pierce said. “I’ve always liked the contract that we have with the sheriff’s department. I just have to look at it, and the council has to look at it and make sure that Eagle residents are not paying twice for the same services.”
City council members will vote on any potential contract increases in August, Pierce said. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/eagle-policing-uncertain-as-city-sheriffs-office-create-new-contract/article_0312b142-1c36-11ee-86ea-87619aff600f.html | 2023-07-10T12:12:42 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/eagle-policing-uncertain-as-city-sheriffs-office-create-new-contract/article_0312b142-1c36-11ee-86ea-87619aff600f.html |
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The City of Daytona Beach will celebrate the 148th birthday of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Monday at 9 a.m., along the Riverfront Esplanade in Downtown Daytona.
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Bethune-Cookman University Founder Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune is regarded as one of America’s most influential civil rights pioneers.
She was born Mary Jane McLeod on July 10, 1875 near Mayesville, South Carolina to parents who were former slaves.
Bethune first launched an all girls school on Oak Street named Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls.
As the school grew, she bought land at the old dump for $1.50 and moved the school to where it sits today.
Read: How Mary McLeod Bethune created Bethune-Cookman University with $1.50 in her pocket
Lucas-Youmans said Bethune developed relationships with people like John Rockefeller, James Gamble and Thomas White to help finance the school and her vision.
The college merged with the Cookman Institute in 1923 and became a university in 2007.
In 2022, an 11-foot marble statue of educator, activist and entrepreneur Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday morning.
This is the first statue of an African American representing a state in National Statuary Hall.
The 3-ton statue was sculpted by Florida artist Nilda Comas, the first Hispanic master sculptor chosen for the National Statuary Hall Collection.
Comas sculpted the statue in Pietrasanta, Italy, using a 11.5-ton block of statuario marble excavated from Michelangelo’s cave in Tuscany.
The statue was previously on display in Daytona Beach, where Bethune lived. It replaced that of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, who was born in Florida.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — At a vigil Sunday night in downtown Orlando, the family of 26-year-old Derek Diaz left flowers and candles to remember their son, father, brother, and friend, that was shot last week by an Orlando police officer.
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“I lost my best friend, my brother and this just isn’t right at all,” said the brother of Derek Diaz.
Emotions fill the hearts of Derek Diaz’s loved ones as they gathered at the scene of the tragedy.
Last Sunday, on the corner of Jefferson Street and Orange Avenue, officers were conducting proactive patrols in an area known for drug activity on June 3rd, according to police.
Read: FHP: Arrest 40-year-old for double fatal crash in Orange County
Officers approached Diaz, believing he was involved in drug-related activities inside a car, and police say officers shot Diaz because he made a move for what they thought was a weapon.
Investigates did find drugs on Diaz, but no gun was recovered.
Diaz died at the hospital.
Read: Deputies ask for public’s help in Orlando shooting death investigation
Now, his family is demanding transparency and closure, urging the release of the bodycam video.
“I want to know what happened. We have the right to know,” said Yaneri Diaz Rodriguez, Diaz’s mother.
“The family doesn’t know anything beyond that. It is heart-breaking,” said attorney Benjamin Crump. “Our principles are liberty and justice for all. That means justice for Derek Diaz too. That’s why we need to see the video.”
The Orlando Police Department plans to release the video within 30 days of an officer-involved shooting, per department policy.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — If you haven’t noticed, gas prices are up in Florida.
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AAA said prices jumped an average of 20 cents per gallon last week in the Sunshine State.
After more than three weeks of declines, the cost of regular unleaded settled noticeably higher at $3.46 on Sunday.
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It was a sharp contrast to July 4, when the average price was $3.26 per gallon.
“Last week’s jump at the pump came immediately after Independence Day,” AAA’s Mark Jenkins said.
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But he added that the upward trend may be short-lived.
“Fortunately, oil prices remain low. Unless that changes this week, the upward pressure on gas prices should ease soon.”
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On Monday, Florida remained roughly 8 cents below the national average of $3.54 per gallon.
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Tequila Sunrise Mexican Kitchen & Cantina, a new restaurant with birria tacos, margaritas and a sprawling patio, is now open at 11581 Robious Road in the Huguenot Village Shopping Center.
Tequila Sunrise is the fifth Richmond-area restaurant from Carlos Londoño, a New York transplant who co-owns several Shockoe-area restaurants with his wife Adrienne such as Margarita’s Cantina, La Bodega, Casa Fiesta and Papi’s.
Originally from Colombia, Londoño has lived in Richmond for seven years and operated restaurants locally for 13 years, starting with Margarita’s Cantina. His wife, Adrienne, is originally from Chesterfield and they decided to move back to Richmond after operating several restaurants in New York. They now employ 80 to 100 staffers at their restaurants.
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As for Tequila Sunrise, Londoño has dubbed it, “‘Disneyland of Mexican restaurants,’ wherever you look, there’s something to see.”
The bright, festive restaurant is over 15,000 square feet, formerly the home of Crab Tales and before that, Fox & Hound. With pink walls and plenty of neon, there is a Day of the Dead room, a Tequila Sunrise bar area and a Frida Kahla room, as well as a pirate ship. The restaurant took over six months to renovate, with Londoño tapping several artists to create the artwork. Many of Londoño's restaurants have a similar Mexican vibe with a Latin flair, although Tequila Sunrise delivers the most "Disneyland-esque" experience with lots of interesting things to look at -- such as fish tanks, shadow boxes, a guacamole bar and a long tropical cocktail bar.
Tequila Sunrise is leaning into the birria taco trend, with three different kinds of birria tacos ($17-$20) on the menu, including Jalisco-style with stewed goat meat, lamb or beef. The menu features plenty of traditional Mexican fare such as burritos, fajitas, chimicangas (all in the $15 range) and table-side guacamole.
Visitors will also find Latin dishes such as bandeja paisa ($23), which is a platter of chicharron (fried pork belly), grilled steak and Colombian chorizo served with rice, beans, plantains, avocado and a fried egg or the traditional Cuban dish ropa vieja ($18), which featuroes shredded beef over rice and black beans with tostones.
Tequila Sunrise’s lengthy menu also includes pupusas ($8), which are fried masa cakes filled with cheese, Mexican street corn ($6) and Mexican huraches ($12), which are two pieces of sandal shaped fried masa dough topped with shredded beef, carnitas or chicken, pinto beans, tomatillo salsas, pico de gallo and cotija cheese.
A wide variety of tropical drinks are on the menu including margaritas in a variety of flavors ($11), mojitos ($11), pina coladas ($12), and skinny versions of margaritas as well with fresh juices and agave nectar. The outdoor patio, which is also brightly decorated, has a full service bar and can seat up to 50. | https://richmond.com/life-entertainment/local/food-drink/tequila-sunrise-mexican-kitchen-now-open-in-huguenot-village/article_d497466e-1c3c-11ee-b64b-6789936d75ba.html | 2023-07-10T12:14:34 | 1 | https://richmond.com/life-entertainment/local/food-drink/tequila-sunrise-mexican-kitchen-now-open-in-huguenot-village/article_d497466e-1c3c-11ee-b64b-6789936d75ba.html |
If you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain ... then this is your day. July 10 is Pina Colada Day, and if you need help celebrating, the internet has several thousand pina colada recipes. Or you can be like us and have a friendly bartender make you a cold one.
The Mystery Lovers Book Club meets at 2 p.m. today at the Northside Library, 1500 27th Ave. Everyone is welcome to come and talk about a favorite murder mystery. Free admission. There is no registration required or any specific books to read.
The historic Washington Park Velodrome, 1821 Washington Road, hosts Monday night Stock Bike Racing — open to everyone, from age 3 to adults. Registration starts at 6 p.m., with races starting at 6:30 p.m. (for tricycles) and 7 p.m. for the “big track.” To race, bring your bike and a helmet. Stock bike racing is an introduction to track racing, geared to younger riders but all ages are welcome. The cost is $5 (a one-time registration fee) plus $3 race fee for adults. For more details, go to kenoshavelodrome.com.
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The Kenosha Public Library is hosting Chess Night in Lincoln Park, 6900 18th Ave. The Kenosha Chess Association hosts games from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Mondays outside the park’s Oribiletti Center. All ages and abilities are welcome. Also: The library’s Book Truck will be parked nearby. You can sign up for a library card, check out and return items, and sign up for the Summer Reading Program.
Prost! The Biergarten in Petrifying Springs County Park is open seven days, serving up cold beverages and warm pretzels. For more details, check the Biergarten’s Facebook page.
Monday night music alert: George’s Tavern in Racine, 1201 N. Main St., hosts an Open Jam on Monday nights from 7 to 10 p.m. Everyone is welcome. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-events-for-monday-july-10/article_2de932b8-1c42-11ee-9e57-ef3644551b8c.html | 2023-07-10T12:22:45 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-events-for-monday-july-10/article_2de932b8-1c42-11ee-9e57-ef3644551b8c.html |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia authorities investigating a Fourth of July holiday shooting spree that left five people dead now say the gunman killed one of the victims almost two full days before the mass shooting.
Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was arraigned Wednesday morning on five counts of murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons counts of possession without a license and carrying firearms in public, prosecutors said.
While authorities initially believed Carriker killed Joseph Wamah Jr., 31, in a home as part of a quickly orchestrated series of shootings, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Sunday that an error prevented police from discovering Wamah’s body right away.
‘”It has been determined through information received through a source and corroborated by the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office and additional evidence; that homicide victim Joseph Wamah, Jr. was killed by suspect Kimbrady Carriker approximately 44 hours before the mass shooting,” Krasner’s office said in a statement.
Authorities said Philadelphia Police responded to a 911 call about gunshots about 2 a.m. July 2 on South 56th Street, about 90 minutes after they now believe Wamah was killed. However, police were accidentally dispatched to North 56th Street, so they didn’t find Wamah’s body right away.
“The grieving family of the deceased has been briefed on this new information, and I cannot express enough the sorrow I feel,” Krasner said.
A 2-year-old and a 13-year-old were also wounded by gunfire and another 2-year-old boy and a woman were hit by shattered glass in the rampage that made the working-class area in southwest Philadelphia the site of the nation’s worst violence around the July Fourth holiday.
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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A man and two teenagers riding in a buggy pulled by a horse were seriously injured in a crash with a minivan over the weekend, authorities said.
State police in Centre County say the minivan struck the rear of the buggy on a road in Walker Township near Bellefonte shortly before 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
Police said the occupants of the buggy are believed to have suffered “major injuries” as the 50-year-old man driving and a 14-year-old youth were flown to Williamsport Hospital and a 15-year-old youth was taken by ambulance to Mount Nittany Medical Center.
Police said a 75-year-old woman in the minivan had a minor injury while the 80-year-old man driving and a 9-year-old girl who was a passenger were uninjured. But the driver was also taken to the medical center.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Emergency responders battled a fire at a popular Harrisburg marketplace early Monday morning.
Chief Brian Enterline with the Harrisburg Bureau of Fire says crews responded to the Broad Street Market shortly before 1 a.m. on July 10. The fire was under control by 4:25 a.m.
The fire was focused on the roof of the building, Enterline said. No one was inside at the time of the fire and no one was injured.
A FOX43 crew at the scene reports that Verbeke Street is closed in both directions.
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Commuters ready to start their work week were delayed early Monday as an overturned vehicle slowed traffic along I-295 southbound in Logan Township, New Jersey, at the start of the morning rush hour.
At about 7:15 a.m., SkyForce10 captured footage of first responders moving traffic around a silver vehicle that had been pulled apart, as nearby traffic stalled for an estimated distance of about three miles.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Four days after a Fort Worth officer and a fire department arson investigator killed two men, police said they are not yet ready to release body camera video or answer several questions about the incident.
The officer and investigator, who have not been identified, shot and killed 30-year-old Bronshay Minter and 21-year-old Billy Smith just before 12:30 a.m. on July 5.
Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes said the two men had been tasked with illegal fireworks calls and were in the area of Ross Avenue and Northwest 32nd Street when they witnessed the two men in an argument.
“This was a very dynamic scene that just came out of nowhere,” Noakes said. “Officers weren’t even trying to respond to this scene when they came by.”
"They just came into our yard and started blatantly shooting,” Smith’s sister, Nicole Johnson, said.
Johnson said the annual block party had finished fireworks a half hour earlier.
The family said police never identified themselves or issued commands before firing. Fort Worth police were not able to respond to a question asking if the investigator and officer identified themselves.
“If you tell him to put his gun down, then my brother is going put his gun down,” Smith said.
Police said both Minter and Smith were armed but haven’t shared if they pointed weapons at police or anyone else at the scene.
Officers also found another man and woman shot but haven’t been able to say if they’re connected to the shootings of Minter and Smith, and police said Sunday they also weren’t able to share what condition the man and woman are in now.
On Wednesday, WFAA notified police of several shell casings left behind by investigators. It’s still unclear who fired them or if they’re part of the incident.
"They took my son away from me at an early age and no one seems to want to be accountable for it,” Smith’s mother, Cynthia Smith, said. “That is not how it’s supposed to be."
So far this year, Fort Worth police have shot eight people. On Friday, Noakes said they’re not yet ready to release video of the Wednesday shooting.
“We’re still compiling some information, but the plan is the early part of next week,” he said.
Smith’s family said they still have many questions and few answers from police and want the video released to fully understand what happened.
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Oceans Calling Festival 2023: Everything to know, from schedule to tickets and more
Do you hear that? It's the Atlantic Ocean calling you to the Shore for three whole days filled with epic live music performances.
That's right — the Oceans Calling Festival is back this year for a second attempt with a star-studded lineup, including headliners John Mayer, The Lumineers, Jack Johnson, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow and more, expected to hit the stage come fall. Here's everything you need to know about when and where your favorite artists will perform.
Friday, Sept. 29:
Calder Allen will take the Sea Bright stage first on Friday, Sept. 29, from 1:15-2 p.m., followed by Peach Pit from 2:45-3:45 p.m. and Slightly Stoopid from 4:45-5:45 p.m. Headlining that evening from 6:45-8:15 p.m. is Alanis Morissette, with Jack Johnson scheduled to close out the night from 9:30-11 p.m.
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Nearby, on the Rockville stage, Devon Gilfillian is set to perform from 12:30-1:15 p.m., followed by Michigander from 2-2:45 p.m., Toad the Wet Sprocket from 3:45-4:45 p.m. and Third Eye Blind from 5:45-6:45 p.m. O.A.R will take the stage last from 8:15 to 9:30 p.m.
Chef Robert Irvine and guests will take to the Carousel stage from 1:15-2 p.m., an act that has yet to be announced will perform from 2:45-3:45 p.m. and Declan McKenna from 4:45-5:45 p.m.. Michael Franti & Spearhead will perform onstage last from 6:45-7:45 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 30:
Virginia Coalition will kick things off Saturday, Sept. 30, on the Sea Bright stage from 12:30-1:15 p.m. Their performance will be followed by The New Respects from 2-2:45 p.m., Gin Blossoms from 3:30-4:15 p.m., Sheryl Crow from 5:15-6:15 p.m., and Noah Kahan from 7:15-8:15 p.m. John Mayer, the headlining act, is scheduled to perform from 9:30-11 p.m.
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Pup Punk will take to the Rockville stage first from 1:15-2 p.m., followed by Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs from 2:30-3:30 p.m., Dispatch from 4:15-5:15 p.m., and Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals from 6:15-7:15 p.m. Incubus will then close out the night from 8:15-9:15 p.m.
On the Carousel stage, an act that has yet to be announced will perform from 12:30-1:15 p.m., Chef Robert Irvine and guests from 2-2:45 p.m., White Reaper from 3:30-4:15 p.m. and Matt & Kim from 5:15-6:15 p.m. Jimmy Eat World will perform on stage last from 7:15-8:15 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 1:
An act that has yet to be announced will kick off the final day of the festival on Sunday, Oct. 1, on the Sea Bright stage from 12:30-1 p.m. Then, Robert Randolph will follow suit from 1:45-2:30 p.m., G. Love & Special Sauce from 3:15-4:15 p.m., Dirty Heads from 5:15-6:15 p.m., and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats from 7:15-8:15 p.m. Headlining that evening from 9:30-11 p.m. will be The Lumineers.
Nearby, on the Rockville Stage, Joe P is set to perform from 1-1:45 p.m., followed by ALO from 2:30-3:15 p.m., Fitz & the Tantrums from 4:15-5:15 p.m., and O.A.R. & Friends from 6:15- 715 p.m. Set to perform last from 8:15-9:30 p.m. is Weezer.
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Lastly, Chef Amanda Freitag and guests are scheduled to perform first on the Carousel stage from 1:45-2:30 p.m. Following suit is Driver Era from 3:15-4:15 p.m. and The Wallflowers from 5:15-6:15 p.m. Grace Potter is scheduled to close out the night onstage from 7:15-8:15 p.m.
Where can I buy tickets?
Ticket presale started March 16, with three-day tickets and one-day tickets both available for purchase. All ticket options can be found here. Prices are subject to change, so festivalgoers should plan to purchase early to ensure the best price.
A map of the 2023 festival grounds is coming soon to the Oceans Calling website. Until then, festivalgoers can check out the 2022 festival grounds map, detailing ticket areas, food, merchandise and more, here.
Oceans Calling back after cancellation
Last year, the inaugural event was set to feature Alanis Morrisette, Cyndi Lauper, the Lumineers, Cage the Elephant, and Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, with three stages that were to be filled by more than 30 performances, Delmarva Now previously reported.
With 40,000 ticket holders expected, the resort town had no other choice but to cancel its planned inaugural event, much to the dismay of excited festivalgoers, due to Hurricane Ian's impending bad weather.
Following the cancelation, Mayor Rick Meehan and Town Council approved City Tourism and Business Development Director Tom Perlozzo’s request to reserve the weekend of Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, 2023, for the C3-produced festival to come to town this year.
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Salisbury getting new semi-pro arena soccer team, and here's how you help pick its name
A new semi-pro arena league soccer team is set to make its way to Salisbury for the 2023-24 season.
Major Arena Soccer League 3 announced in April that it would be adding a team in Salisbury to the league. The new Salisbury team will play its games at Crown Sports Center in Fruitland.
This will be the seventh team in the third tier of the MASL organization, with the league having additional teams across Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. And for Chris Economides, the Salisbury team will be another step in the league's growth.
The owner of the franchise will be Josh Danza, who also owns one of the league's teams in Baltimore.
"He's done very well with the team there. I guess he's got quite a big player pool in that geographic region," Economides said about Danza's new team in an interview with Delmarva Now. "And obviously it fits in geographically. ... When he approached us, it was an easy yes."
According to Economides, the players usually tend to be athletes coming out of college who are looking to continue their athletic careers as pros, but the age range does vary. The three tiers works similarly to minor league baseball, with players trying to work their way up the ranks of professional soccer.
The games themselves are high-paced, high-scoring affairs, bringing a new style of play to the indoor game of soccer.
"It's constant action. You'll see scores of 10-9, 9-8," Economides said. "Lot of goals. You see the skill level of these guys in very tight spaces, which is incredible. But you also have a lot more scoring.
"I'm a soccer purist, and a 1-0 game to me is still beautiful, but for the average fan, especially here in America, people want to see scoring. And I think the indoor games leads to that. ... It's two and a half hours of fast-paced action and family affordable fun."
Fans can also vote on what the team's name will be at prosocceralliance.com/salisbury, as well as signing up for tryouts, tickets or merchandise.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The primary election is just a few weeks away, and a local group is making sure younger voters are registered.
Rock The Block is put on by the group “Root the Power” to try and provide young people with the resources they need to become informed voters.
“People need to understand you can vote every presidential election, which is great, but the president is not going to fix your streets, when you have crime in your neighborhood, they’re not going to come here specifically to Wichita, Kansas, to fix what’s going on locally,” Jondalyn Marshall, program manager for Root The Power, said.
The event was held at The Center on 11th Street in Wichita. There was a neighborhood block party, free food and live music.
The deadline to register to vote in the primary election is Tuesday, July 11. Early voting begins on July 17 for the primary in August. For information on how to register, click here. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/rock-the-block-making-sure-young-voters-are-registered/ | 2023-07-10T13:05:37 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/rock-the-block-making-sure-young-voters-are-registered/ |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Firefighters in Johnson City helped rescue a fawn trapped in a storm drain.
On Monday, a Johnson City Firefighters Association post stated that a “quick response” and “compassionate actions” from Johnson City Fire Department members helped recuse the fawn.
Fire department members were able to bid the baby deer a fawn’d farewell before it reunited with its mother in a nearby field. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/johnson-city-fire-department-rescues-fawn-from-storm-drain/ | 2023-07-10T13:08:39 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/johnson-city-fire-department-rescues-fawn-from-storm-drain/ |
LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — Julia Mellody turns 102 years old Tuesday, but the folks at United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern PA celebrated Monday.
Even though Julia is older than most of us, she is still very independent.
"I still take care of myself, my apartment and everything, yeah, the only thing I don't go dancing. I'll see ya on my next birthday. Keep the birthdays coming," said Julia Mellody.
Happy Birthday Julia, from everyone at Newswatch 16, and rest assured we'll be back next year for her big 103!
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SAN ANTONIO — Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, the most outspoken advocate for victims and families of the Uvalde school shooting over the last year, launched a campaign for U.S. Senate on Monday morning.
“We are one of the most robust economies by any state in the United States, and yet, we are 45th in education spending, we're 45th in education performance, we're dead last on funding for mental healthcare, we've got people who are in office who refuse to do Medicaid expansion which essentially gives healthcare to working class families at no cost to them. So, every year they're dipping in six, seven, ten thousand dollars to handle their healthcare costs. [U.S. Senator] Ted Cruz could've fixed that,” Gutierrez told WFAA’s Natalie Haddad in his first statewide TV interview.
The U.S. Senate race that Gutierrez is joining will be the highest-profile and most-watched campaign in the state next year.
Gutierrez, an immigration attorney, is a Democrat who represents San Antonio, Uvalde and a wide swath of the Texas–Mexico border from Eagle Pass to Big Bend.
Since the massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School in May 2022, Gutierrez, a gun owner himself, has called for raising the age to purchase some semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21. The shooter who murdered the classroom full of fourth graders and their two teachers was 18 years old and legally purchased his weapons.
Gutierrez has also called for accountability inside the Texas Department of Public Safety for dozens of troopers failing to follow training and immediately enter the fourth-grade classroom to engage the shooter and save lives. It took more than an hour for a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol team to arrive on scene, breach the classroom door and kill the teenage shooter.
Despite Gutierrez’s high-profile pushes and emotional pleas to fellow lawmakers, the Republican-led legislature dismissed age requirements to purchase weapons and Gov. Greg Abbott has neither fired nor disciplined DPS Director Steve McGraw.
But Gutierrez’s biggest challenge now is to increase his name identification with Democratic primary voters across Texas and raise the millions of dollars it will take to run a statewide campaign.
“We have Republicans in office who call this a Texas Miracle, including Ted Cruz,” Gutierrez told WFAA. “And when things go wrong, they want to blame some immigrant for the problems of Texas. Well, there's not an immigrant that is responsible for the poor education outcomes, that is responsible for the poor healthcare outcomes, the poor electrical grid outcomes, the fact that we don't have common-sense gun solutions," he explained. "I'm not a prognosticator. I'm not a pundit. I'm just a man that has volunteered for public service for the last twenty years. I worked hard for those twenty years and I'm gonna continue to work hard. I think that when people hear our message and they understand where I came from, they understand I was born and raised in this state, they understand there's a real value in hard work – I think that they're gonna see a different message, and it's my hope that we get them to support our campaign and our candidacy."
Gutierrez faces an uphill fight for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He will first face U.S. Rep. Collin Allred in the Democratic primary on Super Tuesday, which is on March 5, 2024.
Allred launched his campaign early – in May. So far, he has raised $6.2 million through the second quarter and transferred $2.4 million from his congressional campaign account, giving him an early head start with money.
Plus, Allred leads Gutierrez in an early poll from the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation. In May, the TxHPF survey showed 33% of Democratic primary voters would vote for Allred, 22% for Gutierrez (before he announced) and 4% for John Love.
Still, Allred and Gutierrez remain unknown to many Democratic primary voters across the state, with 41% of those surveyed saying they remain undecided.
"You know, I don't know Colin Allred. I've spoken to him one time. He called me about 60 days ago. I'm sure he's a nice person. The fact is, I've done a heck of a lot more than he has in public service,” Gutierrez told WFAA. “It's my intent to sit down with people in the [Rio Grande] Valley, in Houston, in Dallas, El Paso, and Corpus [Christi] and everywhere in between, Austin, and have a discussion. You know, Beto O'Rourke ignited Texans. I'll outwork Colin Allred and I'll work harder than Ted Cruz. I'm sure Colin's a nice guy, but I'm gonna outwork him because that's the way I was raised."
Perhaps the most interesting element of the TxHPF survey is that Cruz appears weak against an unknown challenger. The TxHPF poll showed Cruz with 47% of support and Allred with 40%. A head-to-head match-up between Gutierrez and Cruz was not asked since Gutierrez had yet to declare his candidacy.
WFAA questioned Gutierrez on a number of national issues facing the U.S. to gauge his positions:
You’re an immigration attorney, where do you stand on border security?
"Listen, I voted against these border security bills because they're nonsense. They're political stunt by [Texas Governor] Greg Abbott and others to waste our taxpayer dollars, to house some migrants from time-to-time. Listen, we deport thousands of people every day. They don't talk about that. Most people get deported. That's the reality. Not their talking point. That's reality. Biden Administration needs to talk a little bit more about that reality… allow people to come up to live this American dream into the industries that need it… As far as security's concerned, half of the AR-15s that are sold in the United States end up in the hands of [the drug] cartels in Mexico. We do need to be aggressive. We need to do what we did in Colombia. Get the DEA involved. Infiltrate Mexican cartels, because they're hurting our economies, hurting our people, and they're hurting folks in our southern border… The state's stunts, [Governor] Greg Abbott's stunts, are simply that. He's giving rides to people that have already [been] processed, that are three months away from a work permit, sends them to New York, Massachusetts, California just to make himself look good. There's plenty of people in hospitality, ranching and farming in Texas that would love to be able to have those folks work for them because they can't find Americans that want to do that job.”
How much more should the U.S. get involved in the war in Ukraine?
"Ukraine is about democracy. We must fight to maintain democracy in Ukraine or any part of the world because when its challenged, it affects us. We cannot allow fascist dictators like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to take us back to World War II. We cannot allow ourselves to be in a situation where they overrun countries in Europe. Cannot happen. Must not happen. Just like democracy is challenged there, it's also eroding here."
Should the U.S. militarily protect Taiwan against an invasion from China?
"We have to do everything in our power to our partners, Taiwan is certainly a partner that leads the world in semiconductor production. But we'll do everything diplomatically first… there's plenty of economic pressures and economic diplomacies that can be had with China before anything happens in Taiwan. That's just the reality of things."
What is the greatest threat facing the United States today?
"It's fascism. People like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and [Florida Governor] Ron DeSantis that want to go after Disney, want to blame everything on immigration. They scream nationalist, they hold, they wrap themselves around the flag. You know what? I'm all about the United States of America. It's the country that gave my father the opportunity to be able to have his son run for the United States Senate. And that's pretty amazing. But the country I was raised in wasn't about burning books. It wasn't about telling women what to do with their bodies. It wasn't about blaming people on the margins; gay, lesbian, transgender, and trying to shame them and blame them for what's truly ailing us. We deserve so much more from our leaders. We deserve a real understanding of what's wrong and we deserve that they begin to talk about it and solve the problems."
Cruz is running for his third term and barely won six years ago against former congressman Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso.
The 2024 Democratic primary is Tuesday, March 5.
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SAN ANTONIO — A robbery near downtown was thwarted by police Monday morning.
Police say the store window was smashed at the 7-Eleven on the 1300 block of W Hildebrand near I-10 around 6:13 a.m., then a chain was wrapped arounf the ATM and it was dragged out of the store, then put inside a truck.
The four men were all wearing black, according to police.
Initially, one of the men walked inside the store and walked towards the cash machine. A second man reportedly smashed the front window from the outside and began to wrap a chain around the ATM, with help from the man inside the store.
A third man then attached the chain to a truck parked outside. A fourth man drove away in the truck, yanking the ATM a few feet beofre exiting his truck and putting the ATM inside it.
Police say the men took off but they have since recovered the ATM and possibly have at least one person detained so far.
This is a developing story.
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INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD is investigating after a pedestrian was hit by a car and died just east of downtown Indianapolis Monday morning.
Around 5:30 a.m. on July 10, officers responded to the 1200 block of East Washington Street, just east of Southeastern Avenue, for a report of a pedestrian struck.
Officers located a male who had apparently been hit by a car. He was taken in critical condition to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
No car was at the scene when officers arrived, and police have not spoken with any witnesses to the crash.
IMPD crash investigators responded to the scene to begin their investigation.
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Creative Kids Market in Lake Wales will showcase artistic and entrepreneurial talents
The Lake Wales Arts Center is launching the Creative Kids Market, a community event highlighting the entrepreneurial spirit and creative talents of over 40 young residents. The market will take place July 15 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1099 State Road 60 E.
The Creative Kids Market is a platform for budding artists, culinary enthusiasts and plant aficionados ages 6 to 18 to showcase their artistic creations, food items, plant arrangements and more.
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The market allows young entrepreneurs to gain real-world experience, while visitors can expect to meet the young artists and purchase pieces directly from the creators. Brannan Lawson, a local teacher, artist and founder of The Art Barn Studio, will be hosting the Creative Kids Market.
Admission to the market is free. Visitors are encouraged to bring cash to purchase items from vendors. For more information, e-mail Brannan Lawson at brannanlawsonart@gmail.com. | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/creative-kids-market-to-debut-july-15-at-lake-wales-arts-center/70386699007/ | 2023-07-10T13:16:01 | 0 | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/creative-kids-market-to-debut-july-15-at-lake-wales-arts-center/70386699007/ |
'These are beacons of light': Lakeland developer building modern homes in city's Northwest
LAKELAND — A Lakeland developer is building homes in the in city's Northwest that are raising eyebrows.
Franklin Cruz, 43, founder and CEO of True Investors and Elon Wright construction, has started work on three single-family homes on West 13th and 14th streets. Renderings of the modern two-story homes shared on Facebook and social media have their critics, with dozens of local commentators.
The first feature that jumps out is the two-story home's V-shaped roofline. The outer edge of home's roof stands about 24 feet before plunging down 7 feet in the center of the roof.
"People have very strong opinions in a good way or in a bad way," he said. "It's great. I just want them to love architecture."
Cruz, a Lakeland resident, has recently moved from real estate investing and rehabilitation into a full-fledged housing developer. The U.S. Army veteran has taken it up as his second career after his experience selling 9 acres off Carter Road to national builders — becoming Parkside by KB Homes. In the process, he made a realization.
"What hit me after speaking with them is, we will never have the homes of the future," Cruz said.
Growing up in the 80s, Cruz is a self-professed fan of "Back to the Future" and "The Jetsons." Those visions are far from becoming reality, as developers continue using the same floor plans over and over again without much innovation or creativity.
"It's the business. They are trying to optimize for profit and simplicity," he said. "That doesn't motivate me."
Cruz's home designs are inspired by architect Frank Lloyd Wright — whom Cruz honors in the name of his construction company. Lakeland has the world's largest single-site collection of Wright's architecture at Florida Southern College. Cruz said those buildings still feel feel modern and fresh despite being built in the 1940s and '50s.
Wright had the aim of building affordable housing with modern architectural design, Cruz said, which is what he inspires to do in Northwest Lakeland.
The first home built by Cruz under Elon Wright construction was at 709 N. Vermont Ave. for Habitat for Humanity. It features a small, black doorway designed to mimic an architectural trait taken from Wright of making an individual feel small before stepping into a larger space.
"It messes with your senses a bit," Cruz said. "Until you feel it, you can't comprehend it."
Cruz purchased a single property on West 14th Street that had a residence, dilapidated greenhouse and carport. He said historically it was previously divided into three lots when the street was platted. He obtained permission from the city to build three cottage homes on the property, each on a 40-by-60-foot base.
The trio of single-family homes being constructed on West 13th and 14th streets will have three bedrooms and three bathrooms and measure about 1,280 square feet. The buildings' first floor will have a living room and kitchen with a bathroom and access to the one-car garage. All bedrooms will be on the second floor. The starting market price will be about $320,000.
For potential buyers, the building's unusual roof design should not be an issue during heavy rainstorms or hurricanes. The low center has a gradual slope to funnel rain off the roof, Cruz said, and he's called around to make sure it won't be an issue for home insurance companies.
The first of the three residences should be completed in six weeks, Cruz said. He said construction can move that quickly because he took inspiration Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, by creating a vertically integrated company.
Cruz said his nine-member crew can handle construction, from pouring the foundation to wood framing and installing electrical wiring. It saves him the cost of hiring out various contractors and arranging timeframes. He's made his own schedule down to the half hour.
Once the build at 702 W. 14th St. is completed, Cruz said he expects to temporarily move in while marketing the house. During this time, he hopes to check and troubleshoot details. It's formally Design 002, as the second house he's built. The home's called "Nancy" in honor of his late mother, Nancy Cruz.
"I always ask myself if my mother would like living in the house," he said.
Cruz said he's not worried about potential buyers being scared away by recent happenings in the surrounding community, including a nearby police shooting earlier this year. He's previously owned a home in Tampa Heights.
"Being in Tampa Heights, I've learned people transform a neighborhood," he said. "It takes an amazing home to get those people to think about moving here."
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Cruz said his West 14th Street home, priced at $320,000, is competitive with similar new-construction homes in other areas of the city. He said buyers will see the size and features being sold at upwards of $450,000 in other developments and choose his uniquely modern design instead. The homes will have security systems installed.
"I want to push having beautiful designed homes in way more areas. To me, these are beacons of light in areas that normally aren't light," he said.
His company has already reached out to property owners of nearby vacant lots, some on the same street, for possible future construction.
Sara-Megan Walsh can be reached at swalsh@theledger.com or 863-802-7545. Follow on Twitter @SaraWalshFl. | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/homes-with-funky-modern-design-causing-a-stir-in-lakelands-northwest/70392081007/ | 2023-07-10T13:16:07 | 1 | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/homes-with-funky-modern-design-causing-a-stir-in-lakelands-northwest/70392081007/ |
Mosaic is awaiting approval from the EPA for a phosphogypsum road test in Polk County
Polk County could be the location for a test of radioactive phosphogypsum in roadbeds if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approves an application from Mosaic LLC.
The Florida Legislature approved a bill authorizing the state Department of Transportation to conduct a test road that includes a road layer of phosphogypsum from the many gypstacks across Florida.
The bill took effect July 1. And pending final approval by the EPA, the first test of phosphogypsum in roads could be at the Mosaic New Wales facility in Mulberry.
The state bill was a topic of debate at the June 20 meeting of the Polk County Commission.
Winter Haven resident Fred Strickland expressed concerns about using radioactive phosphogypsum in a roadbed test, saying a former phosphate mining company had already conducted such a test, spent millions in research and could not find another useful purpose for the material.
“This material is radioactive, has a high acid content and … our elected people in Tallahassee have not done their research because this has already been done,” Strickland said.
He also said he wondered whether residents who bought homes along a phosphogypsum road would be told that the road was built with the material.
“I would never buy a home on one of these roads,” Strickland said. “Would you want this material used for your home? Would you want your children’s school parking lot to use this material.”
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He said even as encapsulated roadbed, radon gas would seep through the road surfacing material as other studies have shown.
Phosphogypsum is a byproduct of the production of fertilizer from phosphate rock. It can contain uranium and radium-226, according to the EPA, which says the byproduct is more radioactive than the original phosphate rock because production of fertilizer concentrates the waste material.
Federal and state laws currently require phosphogypsum to be placed in “gypstacks” which can rise several hundred feet across many acres.
The Mosaic New Wales gypstack, which sits above the Floridan aquifer, was the site of a massive sinkhole in 2016 that resulted in water loss from the top of the stack.
'No proof that this is gonna have a problem'
Commissioner Rick Wilson said Wednesday by phone he supports the test by Mosaic — a frequent contributor to his political campaigns. He wrote a letter in April to Gov. Ron DeSantis in support of the road building practice.
He said, there are benefits to using phosphogypsum and he worked alongside his father with the material as he grew up without any known effects to his health. He added that his father built a two-mile stretch of asphalt road with the material as roadbase on his Bartow ranch.
“None of us died,” Wilson said.
This type of road construction would save money, he said, especially at today’s prices for road building, which now relies on limestone being trucked from beyond Polk County. Its use in roadbeds would also reduce the need for “eyesore” gypstacks currently used to stack the material, as well as the environmental benefits of diverting the waste from them.
“I know there's all kind of controversy about it, but you can find controversy in most anything that's out there if you really want to dig deep enough,” Wilson said. “There's no proof that this is gonna have a problem. They talk about the radon and all this.
“Can they use this in other things?” he asked. “I'm not 100% sure on that, but I damn sure know they can use it on roadbase and different things like that.”
According to Jackie Barron, public affairs manager for Mosaic, the fertilizer company is waiting for the EPA to approve its application in order to move forward with the demonstration project and test of the structural viability of the material as roadbase.
“The request is to build a modest test road to be constructed at one of our facilities” Barron said. “The test road will be made up of sand with a 10-inch base course containing up to 50% phosphogypsum. The plan is for six separate sections. The road sections shall evaluate different construction materials or serve as a control.”
“In addition, there will be three monitoring wells per section totaling 18 wells that will sample the groundwater quarterly for 18 months,” she said. “Each section shall be evaluated for performance and effects to the environment.”
The ultimate approval for proceeding with the test will rest with the EPA, Barron said.
“Federal regulations require the EPA to perform a rigorous scientific risk analysis when evaluating a request to reuse phosphogypsum beneficially," she said. "The impacts to human health and the environment are the primary focus of that analysis.
“At the end of the day, we welcome as much testing as possible," Barron said. “We want people to know this is a safe resource, not a waste, and we are decades behind others who long ago realized just that.”
She added that the road test would be a continuation of lab studies about four years ago at the University of Florida overseen by Timothy Townsend.
According to the campaign finance tracking group, OpenSecrets.org, Mosaic donated to the Republican and Democratic parties in Florida and several politicians representing parts of Polk County, including Melony Bell, R-Fort Meade, Jennifer Canady R-Lakeland, Sam Killebrew R-Winter Haven, and Josie Tomkow, R-Polk City.
Bell and Killebrew co-sponsored House Bill 1191, and in the state Senate, Sens. Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, and Colleen Burton, R-Lakeland, voted in favor of SB 1258 during its passage May 1 in the Senate.
The text of the original House version authorizes FDOT to undertake demonstration projects using phosphogypsum in road construction as an aggregate material and conduct a study on phosphogypsum as construction aggregate material.
The bill also provides that phosphogypsum used under specified circumstances is not solid waste and is allowed to be used in the state and authorizes placement of phosphogypsum in specified stack systems.
Mosaic also donated to State Attorney Ashley Moody and Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed the bill into state law.
Still needs EPA approval
The roadbed test will still need EPA approval, an agency spokeswoman said. “EPA’s regulation of phosphogypsum under 40 CFR Part 61 is not affected by state initiatives, such as Florida’s recently passed legislation (HB 1191) on the use of phosphogypsum in road construction demonstration projects."
The changes to the Florida laws appear to have been outlined to guide the Florida Department of Transportation, the EPA said. The Florida legislation also clearly states that any use of phosphogypsum as a construction aggregate must still comply with the conditions set forth by EPA’s regulations.
The EPA will make public the Mosaic LLC application and the technical analysis once the agency gives its pending approval. The EPA will open a public comment period at that time.
In testimony before the Transportation and Modals Subcommittee, state Rep. Lawrence McClure, R-Dover, said once phosphogypsum is encapsulated as part of a roadway below concrete or asphalt, the risks to human health are very low because the exposure to radioactivity is less than a mammogram.
During the Trump Administration, the EPA in 2020 had authorized a petition to start using the material in roadbeds. But soon after President Biden came into office, the EPA withdrew its approval citing the need for further evaluation.
In his letter to DeSantis, Wilson said Mosaic has operated in Central Florida for more than 130 years and it has had an economic impact of $3 billion and employs 3,000 people along the Interstate 4 corridor. He also wrote that supporting Mosaic was a matter of national security.
"Without Mosaic’s phosphate production, American farmers would be forced to rely on Russia and China to grow our food,” he wrote. | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/phosphogypsum-road-test-in-polk-county-awaits-epa-approval/70356126007/ | 2023-07-10T13:16:13 | 1 | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/phosphogypsum-road-test-in-polk-county-awaits-epa-approval/70356126007/ |
317 Project: 2 Amigos Mexican grocery keeps it in the family
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Conchas caught the boy’s eye, and he didn’t want just one.
The shelves at Tienda Mexicana 2 Amigos held everything from Mexican chips and candies to prayer candles, but alas, not the sweet breads in bulk. The boy wanted a box, so his mother tracked down Diego Zarza.
Zarza, an owner and manager at 2 Amigos, tried his best – a stroll up and down the aisles, a trip to the back – with no luck. He sent the boy and his mother on their way with apologies and well wishes: a small gesture that, to Zarza, makes a big difference.
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Customer service keeps the doors open at 2 Amigos, a Mexican tienda and taqueria on Southeastern Avenue. When you do things right and rectify them when you don’t, Zarza said, people come back.
“It’s hospitality,” Cecilia Diego, co-owner of 2 Amigos and Zarza’s wife, added.
The two have kept the store in the family. Zarza, 44, and Diego, 42, took ownership from Diego’s parents after moving from Delaware eight years ago, where they relocated from the Mexican state of Toluca. Their 15-year-old daughter, Ximena Zarza-Diego, works the register between soccer practice in summers.
Hospitality welcomes customers, but familiarity keeps them there.
Women chop cactus leaves as banda music floats through the speakers overhead, and the men behind the lunch counter converse animatedly between prepping bulky burritos (the menu’s best item, Zarza said). The store is packed to the brim with items customers likely won't find elsewhere — Mexican ice cream, Flamin' Hot Limon Cheetos, every fruit flavor of soda imaginable.
The heart of the 2 Amigos is its staff. They cook Thanksgiving dinner together and exchange gifts at Christmas. Sometimes, they’ll go bowling or take other staff outings.
Even in the hour or two she clocks between soccer, Zarza-Diego can see hospitality doesn’t only extend to shoppers.
“Everybody’s here as a team,” she said.
Contact Pulliam Fellow Heather Bushman at HBushman@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @hmb_1013. | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/indianapolis/2023/07/10/317-project-2-amigos-mexican-grocery-staff-is-family/70364545007/ | 2023-07-10T13:18:57 | 0 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/indianapolis/2023/07/10/317-project-2-amigos-mexican-grocery-staff-is-family/70364545007/ |
Barricaded gunman situation Monday in SW Detroit resolved peacefully
A man who held police at bay early Monday at a home in Southwest Detroit morning surrendered and is in custody, officials said.
Detroit Deputy Police Chief Franklin Hayes said officers were called just after 1 a.m. to a home in the 8800 block of Homer Street near Fort and Lawndale streets for a report of domestic disturbance. A caller reported a person was having a mental health crisis, he told the media.
They later received a report that shots had been fired inside the home, the deputy chief said.
An officer arrived and a man at the home fired a shot at his squad car, he said. The round went through the windshield, but did not strike him. The officer made a tactical retreat and called for backup.
Hayes said crisis negotiators were called.
Meanwhile, first responders were able to rescue a family member of the suspected gunman through a second floor window with ladder, he said. They were later able to extricate the others who were in the house. Hayes said medics examined all of the rescued parties and none had any serious injuries.
By about 3:30 a.m., the suspect surrendered to police and was taken into custody, the deputy chief said. He said the man would be taken to a hospital to be evaluated.
"We're very grateful (this incident had the outcome) it did," Hayes said. "It could have been a lot worse."
cramirez@detroitnews.com
Twitter: @CharlesERamirez | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/07/10/barricaded-gunman-situation-monday-in-sw-detroit-resolved-peacefully/70396708007/ | 2023-07-10T13:20:19 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/07/10/barricaded-gunman-situation-monday-in-sw-detroit-resolved-peacefully/70396708007/ |
Monroe Co. man dies Sunday after being run over by backhoe
A Temperance man is dead after a backhoe he was working on ran over him Sunday in Bedford Township, officials said.
The incident happened at about 3 p.m. Sunday in the 9100 block of Summerfield Road near Temperance Road, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said.
According to a preliminary investigation, Elmer Jones, 65, was performing maintenance on his John Deere backhoe tractor when for unknown reasons, police said, the tractor shifted into gear and accelerated. The machine struck Jones, knocked him to the ground and ran over him.
Officials said the tractor continued traveling, striking a tree and crashing into a fence and a neighboring barn until it came to a rest.
Medics took Jones to a hospital in Toledo, Ohio, where he was pronounced deceased.
Deputies said the crash remains under investigation. They also said alcohol was not a factor in the crash.
cramirez@detroitnews.com
Twitter: @CharlesERamirez | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/07/10/monroe-co-man-dies-sunday-after-being-run-over-by-backhoe/70396765007/ | 2023-07-10T13:20:25 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/07/10/monroe-co-man-dies-sunday-after-being-run-over-by-backhoe/70396765007/ |
Police: Monroe Co. Dunham's Sports robbery suspect is parole absconder
An armed man who robbed a Frenchtown Township sporting goods store last week is a parole absconder, Monroe County Sheriff's deputies said.
They said they have identified the suspect in the robbery as Ray Edward Vanlandingham, 55. Detectives said they believe Vanlandingham is in the Monroe and Frenchtown Township area.
Monroe County Sheriff Troy Goodnough said anyone who sees Vanlandingham should call 911 immediately. He said the suspect is considered armed and dangerous; anyone who sees him should not approach him or take action on his own, police said.
Vanlandingham absconded from parole in April, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections. The agency also said he has previous convictions for bringing contraband into a prison, armed robbery and using a firearm during a felony going back to the 1990s.
Officials said the robbery happened at about 6:15 p.m. Thursday at the Dunham's Sports store at 2149 North Telegraph Road between Stewart and Lasalle roads.
According to a preliminary investigation, the suspect entered the store, approached a clerk and asked for an item. As the clerk rang the person up, the register opened and the suspect produced a firearm. The suspect then took an undisclosed amount of cash from the register and fled, police said. He was last seen running south.
Deputies were called and a canine unit attempted to track the suspect but was unable to locate him, officials said.
Investigators said the suspect is about 5 feet 9 inches tall with a thin build, tanned skin and short hair. He was wearing a black T-shirt, a grey hat, and dark pants.
Anyone with information about the robbery should call the Detective Bureau of Monroe County Sheriff’s Office at (734) 240-7530 or submit tips to Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) SPEAK-UP.
cramirez@detroitnews.com
Twitter: @CharlesERamirez | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/07/10/police-monroe-co-dunhams-sports-robbery-suspect-is-parole-absconder/70396921007/ | 2023-07-10T13:20:31 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/07/10/police-monroe-co-dunhams-sports-robbery-suspect-is-parole-absconder/70396921007/ |
SEATTLE — Crowds cheered as 600 lighted drones created awe-inspiring images in the sky Sunday night during a free 18-minute show above the Seattle Center by the Space Needle. Attendees of the MLB All-Star Experience applauded the baseball-themed visuals and iconic Seattle imagery.
The drones, belonging to Texas-based company Sky Elements, hovered up to 400 feet above the ground, creating formations to the tunes of classic baseball music.
With roughly 150,000 tourists estimated to be in town for MLB All-Star Week, KING 5 caught up with visitors to hear how their experiences have been, despite recent shootings and other concerning trends in the area.
Max Summerville, a boy from Birmingham, Alabama, said he is thrilled his parents chose for them to stay in a hotel in Sodo near the stadiums.
“If we leave the one window open, and somebody hits it out of the stadium, it can come into our room,” said Summerville.
His parents agree it was a good choice.
“The whole scene around the baseball stadium thus far has been awesome,” said Tony Summerville, his dad.
So far, he said they have made it out to several All-Star events, including the celebrity game, where they got to meet Cal Ripken Jr.
His mom, Britney Summerville, said they have been loving Seattle this trip.
“Not had an ounce of, ya know, scary moments," Summerville said. "It's all been super nice. (The) area is completely covered by, ya know, volunteers and police. We'll 100% be back, yeah."
As part of his Downtown Activation Plan, one of Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's goals has been to bring back more visitors downtown.
One 11-year-old from Southern California said she would love to come back someday.
“We went to the gum wall, and we saw like people throwing fish at each other, and it was so fun,” said Lea Hernandez from California.
Meanwhile, a man visiting from Puerto Rico said he too feels safe and has no concerns.
“Very safe,” Eric Rodriguez said. “We walk for everything."
He watched staff set up for the drone show; something he was excited to see for the first time.
“Would you come back to Seattle based on your experiences in downtown Seattle this week?” we asked him.
“Yes," he said.
More than $50 million in revenue is expected to be generated for Seattle by this All-star Week. Experts predict one long-term impact to be the creation of jobs.
Speaking of the Seattle Center, you can watch two classic baseball films at the Mural Amphitheatre this week for free. “The Sandlot” will be shown Monday night and “A League of Their Own” will be shown on Tuesday. The films will start just after sunset. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/mlb-all-star-week-visitors-seattle/281-a8cfc3e5-2b16-4b24-92e5-41a5f6cbe46e | 2023-07-10T13:20:46 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/mlb-all-star-week-visitors-seattle/281-a8cfc3e5-2b16-4b24-92e5-41a5f6cbe46e |
News Tribune, July 10, 1983
- About 300 to 400 people yesterday rode the Duluth Transit Authority's new trolley, which began cruising downtown streets this week. The trolley, which has a fare of 25 cents, has a tall, green trolley body with a motor and rubber tires.
- St. Louis County commissioners this week will consider expanding the duties of the clerk of the County Board. The state Legislature recently passed a bill allowing the board to appoint its clerk, a selection previously handled by the county auditor.
News Tribune, July 10, 1923
- Plans for extensive improvements to the grounds of the Automobile Club at Pike Lake, including additional bathrooms near the beach and swings at the picnic area, were announced yesterday. Last Sunday, huge crowds stretched the present facilities of the club to the limit.
- Work on the Catholic Community Center in Hibbing will start this month, according to an announcement yesterday by Father Wickerling at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. The center will include a modern parochial school, church, parish house, and Knights of Columbus quarters. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/bygones-dtas-trolley-took-to-the-streets-40-years-ago | 2023-07-10T13:23:25 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/bygones-dtas-trolley-took-to-the-streets-40-years-ago |
Behind the Miss SC crown: Greenville's Jada Samuel sees it as next step in 'unique' journey
Jada Samuel's grandmother, Esther Harris Irby, grew up in Greenville's Southernside community during the segregation era.
Now, her granddaughter is Miss South Carolina.
In January 2024, Samuel will go on to compete in Miss America's 2024 pageant.
Samuel, 26, is the fourth Black woman to win the pageant. She hopes it will set the stage for more inclusivity in Miss South Carolina and in pageants, across the board. The Greenville native knows this is an opportunity that few Black women have had before.
"I'm thrilled about what it means to little girls who look like me," she said.
Samuel also recognizes the importance of her family and the trailblazers before her. She said her mother, Melody Samuel, and cousin Stacey Gardin, have been instrumental in shaping who she is today. She also credits Jil Littlejohn Bostick and Dr. Nika White.
Samuel said she watched these women champion others while being themselves, which has shaped the way she has approached life.
Meet Miss South Carolina, Jada Samuel
Samuel attended Hughes Academy for middle school and Southside High School. She then attended the University of South Carolina's (USC) School of Journalism and Mass Communications before starting her career as a lifestyle host and producer at Columbia's WIS news station.
Samuel said it was 'crazy' being the interviewee given her reporting experience.
"It's crazy. I never expected this. I think I'm excited about it. Like, 'was I always speaking in sound bites? Is this how this works?'" Samuel said.
Samuel, who has competed in Miss South Carolina six times, describes her journey into pageantry as "unique."
"I started competing after watching my cousin [Stacey Gardin] compete at a state pageant in South Carolina in a different system, and I was amazed by what I saw and was inspired," Samuel said. "I decided to compete at my high school pageant and did well."
Samuel earned $60,000 in scholarship money at the June 24 contest in Columbia. Through the years, she said she has collected over $85,000 in scholarship money.
In August, she will be receiving her Master in Business from Louisiana State University-Shreveport with a focus in Marketing. She said this degree has been completely paid for through scholarships she received from the Miss South Carolina Scholarship Organization.
The remaining scholarship money will be used to pay off student loan debt. Samuel said she may pursue another degree or complete a certificate program in the future.
"I think that's just incredible to be able to say that a hobby or passion like pageantry can be beneficial in so many ways outside of what people think," Samuel said.
To follow her journey, visit her Instagram.
How Jada Samuel won Miss SC
At the pageant, she presented "Amazing Grace," a reimagined version of Angela Bassett's BET Icon award acceptance speech on finding purpose. In past competitions, she has spoken about topics such as sexual assault and Charleston's Emanuel AME Church shooting.
"I always want to have an underlying message in each of my stories," she said. "That is the part that I am most excited about ― delivering a talent that is new, exciting and meaningful."
Samuel said Journalism school gives her the ability to speak publicly about a wide range of topics. Her background in speech, debate and theater aids in her onstage ease during the pageant's conversations and questions.
She is the first to win the competition using dramatic monologues in the organization's 86-year history. Previously, she won the title of Best Evening Gown.
She is also the oldest contestant to ever win. Last summer, she thought she had competed in her final Miss SC competition after placing second runner-up as Miss Columbia. Previous rules stated that contestants can't be older than 26 years old.
A recent rule change gave Samuel an opening as the age limit was upped to 28. She took this as her sign to compete again and chase after her dream.
"I was like, 'OK, is this a sign? Do I need to go back and compete?'" Samuel said in a recent interview. "And I did, and obviously, it was perfect timing."
The woman behind the crown: Jada Samuel's favorite things
Samuel said she does her own makeup before pageants. However, she has a favorite hairstylist.
"I love Alysia Nikole Beauty - she does my hair. She does my highlights and knows how to keep my hair healthy, so I do love going to her," Samuel said.
Also, no matter where Samuel travels throughout the state, she always finds herself at her favorite restaurant, Cantina 76. Her favorite menu item is the Peruvian shrimp tacos. She also enjoys Thai cuisine.
Her favorite S.C. boutiques? You can find Samuel shopping at Monkee's of the West End and Vestique, both located in Greenville, along with Miss Cocky in Columbia.
Samuel enjoys spending time with family and friends, throwing movie nights, crocheting or binging a good Netflix series.
Samuel's plans for the future, advice
In 2014, Samuel founded iShapeMe Inc., a nonprofit mentoring organization that empowers young women to shape themselves mentally, physically and spiritually.
Samuel plans to use her platform to grow the list of mentoring programs available for young people living in underserved areas throughout the state.
Samuel believes the beauty and fashion industries should be more inclusive. All sizes, shapes and hair textures should be represented, she said. A budding entrepreneur herself, Samuel is interested in creating her own pajama line.
Want to be in pageants? Samuel says, "Be yourself."
"Just do it without thinking what the judges will expect and do it because it means something to you in your community," she said.
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Marijuana businesses want to share address; Taunton homeless shelter moves: Top stories
Before we begin the new week in earnest, we're taking a look back at the week that was, and the stories that led the news with Taunton Daily Gazette readers.
Top stories this past week included:
This week's edition of Taunton Eats, where we compile a list of meal deals, special events and mouth-watering offerings at local eateries and markets to consider when planning your next night on the town. This week, we take a look at how Society Coffee Bar in Taunton is offering gallon-sized Quinny bags, so you can enjoy lots of iced coffee all summer long.
The latest Greater Taunton real estate report, featuring a custom-built ranch in Taunton that sold for $775,000. The Crane Avenue S home features custom built-ins, a gas fireplace, and cathedral ceilings. Check out this property, as well as other recent top-sellers.
These were the Top 5 stories of the past week, according to Gazette readers:
Are marijuana edibles and cultivation coming to Sherwood Drive in Taunton?
KBD Associates and Tower 3, both cannabis companies, want to grow marijuana and make edibles side-by-side on Sherwood Drive.
KBD Associates wants to make marijuana edibles and Tower 3 wants to grow marijuana at the same address. Both have host community agreements with the city.
Gazette Reporter Ed Baker has the story on what to know about the proposed businesses.
Retail marijuana:Are marijuana edibles and cultivation coming to Sherwood Drive in Taunton? What to know
'Helping those in distress': Taunton homeless shelter moves to new location
Catholic Social Services CEO Susan Mazzarella said Samaritan House’s new homeless shelter in a former rectory at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish is helping “the unhoused.”
“The work carried on here for individuals who are unhoused mirrors the same virtues in the (Biblical) parable,” she said during a dedication of the shelter at 80 Bay St. in Taunton by Fall River Diocese officials.
Here's a look at the new space, why they moved, and the care they offer.
'Helping those in distress':Taunton homeless shelter moves to new location. What to know
TMLP linemen crack $100K in overtime alone. Here are top 10 highest paid workers in 2022
Which Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant employees made the most in 2022? The Gazette analyzed salary data to get the answer.
More than two thirds made more than $100k in 2022, with overtime pay being a major factor.
TMLP salaries:TMLP linemen crack $100K in overtime alone. Here are top 10 highest paid workers in 2022
DA: Easton man in hostile relationship kills Raynham woman, then himself
An Easton man broke into the Raynham home of a woman he was in a hostile relationship with and killed her before taking his own life, prosecutors said.
Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Bristol County district attorney's office are investigating an "apparent murder-suicide" that occurred early in the morning on July Fourth.
This is the information that was available at the time of this writing.
Under investigation:DA: Easton man in hostile relationship kills Raynham woman, then himself
8 more Middleboro teens charged in triple stabbing at fire pit party
Eight additional teens have been charged with assault and battery in connection with a triple stabbing during an outdoor fire pit party near Wall Street on Friday, June 23, Police Chief Joseph Perkins said in a written statement on July 5.
The charges come on the heels of the arraignment on June 26 of Jayden Wainwright, 18, of Middleboro on an attempted murder charge in connection with the same incident.
'Out of control':8 more Middleboro teens charged in triple stabbing at fire pit party
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT)– Analytical AI, a Birmingham based company, is working on two major developments for our nation’s Air Force. This tech start-up was handpicked by AFWERX, the air force’s innovation funding program.
Co-founder and Chief Information Officer, Thomas Anthony said they focus specifically on image-based artificial intelligence to protect our homeland and strengthen national security.
This became their main focus after their business initially formed in 2019 out of a project that geared toward A.I. stroke detection.
They said this skill set led to current developments. The Air Force awarded them two $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research Direct-to-Phase II grants.
“Being chosen as part of the AFWERX Direct-to-phase II projects shows us that we are on the right track, we are in the right area, doing the right things that are needed for national security,” said Anthony.
With this money, Analytical AI Is developing two Air Force base improvement projects. One will work to improve detection of foreign object debris.
As a plane takes off, Anthony said they can pull debris off the runway which could destroy an engine and cause harm.
The other will improve perimeter security. Anthony said if you can see something on a monitor, they can train an A.I. algorithm to do the same job without missing a thing.
“If we are looking at a bank of monitors and you’re seeing a turkey in way of the base, it’s a human looking at it,” said Anthony. “Instead of that, it would be an artificial intelligence algorithm that’s looking at it and alerting the human. This is not replacing any humans. This is what we call a force multiplier, so it makes the human more efficient.”
The company also has other projects in the works that will help with limited mobility passenger screening and securing soft targets in unattended bags at airports before check point. Already in action is their A.I. technology used for full mobility screening.
“We build ready task specific A.I. detecting guns in bags that go through the airport,” said Anthony. “Now that’s something that sometimes maybe folks might miss because when a TSO is looking at a screen, they might look away, they might get bored. A.I. does not do that. It’s always aware.”
“So, there are a lot of those project we’re working on that improve security, improve efficacy, and thus people’s lives,” added Mark Froehlich, the company’s CEO.
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OCALA, Fla. — Marion and Ocala firefighters battled a house fire over the weekend in the 5500 block NW 39th Lane.
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According to Marion County Fire Rescue, the call came in just before 5 p.m. on Saturday.
Officials said multiple 911 callers reported smoke and flames coming from the house and one person was still inside.
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Fire crews arrived within minutes and confirmed smoke and flames were coming through the roof.
Despite fire crews’ efforts, the fire was able to claim the garage and the garage roof collapsed.
SEE: Daytona Beach firefighters battle truck fire
Firefighters said they were able to get control of the fire about 19 minutes after arriving on the scene.
No firefighters were injured during the incident.
One resident was transported to a local hospital, but no details were given on the nature of his injuries.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation and the Red Cross is assisting the family.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando police said one person has died after a shooting at the Metro Place Apartments on South Kirkman Road.
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The call went out around 12:30 a.m. Monday as a suspicious incident in the 1000 block of South Kirkman Rd.
When officers arrived they found one male with a gunshot wound and pronounced deceased by Orlando firefighters.
Police have not released the name of the victim or a description of the suspect or suspects.
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WASHINGTON — (AP) Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another incarcerated person at a federal prison in Florida.
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Two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press the attack happened Sunday at United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida. The people said he was in stable condition Monday.
One of the people said he had been stabbed in the back and in the chest.
Read: 3 TSA officers accused of stealing from travelers at Miami airport
The people were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack or the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Nassar was sentenced to decades in prison for sexually assaulting gymnasts, including Olympic medalists.
ABC News was also citing two sources familiar with the situation confirming the attack.
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TWIN FALLS COUNTY, Idaho — A man from Buhl died Sunday night after a rollover crash on U.S. Highway 30 at East 4100 North Road in Twin Falls County.
The man's name has not been released. Idaho State Police said in a news release that just before 10 p.m. Sunday, he was headed west on Highway 30 when he drove his Dodge Ram pickup off the right shoulder, overcorrected, then went off the left shoulder. The pickup rolled and came to rest about 20 feet off the roadway, police said.
The driver died at the scene. He was 52 years old. Police said he was not wearing a seat belt.
Highway 30 was blocked for about three and a half hours following the crash, which remains under investigation by ISP.
This was at least the second deadly rollover crash over the weekend in Twin Falls County. ISP said a Twin Falls man was killed Saturday night after he went off of Grandview Drive.
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ADA COUNTY, Idaho — Two drivers were taken to the hospital Sunday night after four cars crashed on Interstate 84 near Black Cat Road.
Idaho State Police said in a news release that a 19-year-old woman from Nampa was driving a Toyota Camry Solara eastbound on I-84 "at a high rate of speed" when the car lost its rear bumper. The drivers of a Mitsubishi SUV and a Ford Focus ran over the bumper, then pulled over on the left shoulder. Police said a Kia Soul collided with the Mitsubishi that had pulled over to the left.
Ground ambulance crews took the driver of the Kia, a 31-year-old man from Boise, and the driver of the Mitsubishi, a 45-year-old woman from Mountain Home, to nearby hospitals. Their conditions have not been released.
The crash occurred shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday. Three lanes of eastbound I-84 were blocked for about two and a half hours around the scene, which was in Ada County between Meridian and Nampa.
The incident remains under investigation of ISP. The agency has not said if anyone involved in the crash will face any charges.
Also Sunday night, ISP troopers were investigating a crash reported after 8 p.m. on westbound I-84 at the Meridian Road exit. The scene was cleared within the hour. Police have not released any further information about that crash.
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How Time Flies is a daily feature looking back at Pantagraph archives to revisit what was happening in our community and region. 100 years ago
July 10, 1923: The extreme hot weather of the last few days has forced several families from Clinton to take refuge in the cooling shade of Pastime Park. There are several cottages at the park and all are occupied. Others are camping along Salt Creek and near Weldon Springs. Hundreds of persons visited Weldon Springs on Sunday, and several picnics are scheduled at this popular resort this week.
75 years ago
July 10, 1948: St. Peters Evangelical Lutheran Church, two miles west of Benson, will observe its 85th anniversary on July 11 with special services. Professor A.J. Engelbrecht of Wartburg Seminary at Dubuque, Iowa, will deliver the sermon at the service at 10:30 a.m. The Rev. Herbert Hafermann of Oak Lawn will preach the sermon at 8 p.m.
50 years agoJuly 10, 1973: Adoption of a liquor ordinance by the Normal City Council made the town officially wet for the first time since residents voted themselves dry on March 4, 1935. The council ruled that the ordinance — which permits package liquor sales as well as sale by the drink in restaurants, bowling alleys and veterans, fraternal and golf clubs — will go into effect July 27.
25 years ago
July 10, 1998: If everything goes as planned, Bloomington-Normal residents may be able to mail their Easter cards and gifts at the newly renovated, $4.5 million Bloomington post office on Towanda Avenue. U.S. Postal Service district and local officials have finalized renovation plans for the 36,000-square-foot facility at the site of the former Eagle food store.
101 years ago: See vintage Pantagraph ads from 1922
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Hoover
Dr. J.A. Moore Dentists
Moberly & Klenner
W.P. Garretson
W.H. Roland
Pease's Candy
Thor 32 Electric Washing Machine
The Kaiser's Story of the War
Ike Livingston & Sons
Gossard Corsets
Cat'n Fiddle
'Stolen Moments'
Case Model X
The Johnson Transfer & Fuel Co.
The Pantagraph want ads
Franklin Motor Car Co.
'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'
Calumet Baking Powder
Mayer Livingston & Co. Newsmarket
'The Emperor Jones'
'California Fig Syrup'
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another incarcerated person at a federal prison in Florida.
Two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press the attack happened Sunday at United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida. The people said he was in stable condition Monday.
One of the people said he had been stabbed in the back and in the chest.
The people were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack or the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Nassar was sentenced to decades in prison for sexually assaulting gymnasts, including Olympic medalists.
Nassar is serving decades in prison for convictions in state and federal courts. He admitted sexually assaulting athletes when he worked at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians. Separately, Nassar pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.
During victim impact statements in 2018, several athletes testified that over the course of Nassar’s more than two decades of sexual abuse they had told adults what was happening, including coaches and athletic trainers, but that it went unreported.
More than 100 women, including Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, collectively sought more than $1 billion from the federal government for the FBI’s failure to stop Nassar when agents became aware of allegations against him in 2015. He was arrested by Michigan State University police in 2016, more than a year later.
Michigan State, which was accused of missing chances over many years to stop Nassar, agreed to pay $500 million to more than 300 women and girls who were assaulted by him. USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee made a $380 million settlement.
The Michigan Supreme Court last month rejected a final appeal from Nassar. Attorneys for Nassar said he was treated unfairly in 2018 and deserved a new hearing, based on vengeful remarks by a judge who called him a “monster” who would “wither” in prison like the wicked witch in “The Wizard of Oz.”
“I just signed your death warrant,” Ingham County Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said of Nassar’s 40-year sentence.
The state Supreme Court said that Nassar’s appeal was a “close question” and that it had “concerns” over the judge’s conduct. But the court also noted that Aquilina, despite her provocative comments, stuck to the sentencing agreement worked out by lawyers in the case.
“We decline to expend additional judicial resources and further subject the victims in this case to additional trauma where the questions at hand present nothing more than an academic exercise,” the court said in a two-page order.
More than 150 victims spoke or submitted statements during an extraordinary seven-day hearing in Aquilina’s court more than four years ago.
“It’s over. ... Almost six years after I filed the police report, it’s finally over,” said Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse Nassar.
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Harmony Township police are asking for the public’s help to locate a missing teen.
Nia Ivanisin, 15, was last heard from around 4 p.m. on July 9. She was reported to be at a friend’s home in Ambridge.
Ivanisin is five feet, two inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds. Her hair is colored blue. She has hazel eyes.
Ivanisian was last seen wearing a pink top, grey pants and white tennis shoes. She is known to frequent the Ambridge area.
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The Monday After: Effort to save Timken Stables has moved through decades
Round barn was an historically significant part of the former Timken estate.
The unique image of the Timken Stables, one of the historical gems in Canton, was saved in November of 1994.
Jan VanNostran, who sent Rotograms to members of Rotary Club of Canton members at that time, had appealed for extra copies of Canton watercolorist Tom Franta's 1986 Rotary holiday card, according to Diana Rossetti's "Boldface" column published on Nov. 27, 1994. That watercolor card depicted the Timken Stables.
"I needed that year to make up complete sets of all 12 years that Tom has been doing our cards," VanNostran explained. "Finally, one of our past presidents, in the process of moving, came across a box of them and donated them to the office."
That took care of preserving copies of the painting of the Stables, the round, once-proud and now faded structure on 13th Street NW, just west of Interstate 77. Saving the unique, historically significant barn that has existed for more than a century could prove more difficult.
"At the present time there is not anything we can do about it," said Barb Hickman, president of the Canton Preservation Society, noting the future of the Stables might be determined by a suit filed in court by the city of Canton seeking to force the owner to bring the structure up to fire and building codes.
According to an article published by The Canton Repository in March, the building at 2317 13th St. NW is owned by Beit HaKavod Messianic Synagogue, which is led by Rabbi Mark and Heidi Lancaster.
Lancaster, in a Repository story published March 19, said Beit HaKavod, which he founded in 2009, is working to raise the $4 million that is the estimated cost for repairs.
Meanwhile, those interested in preserving the Stables for its historic and architectural significance, wait for the pending lawsuit to decide the structure's fate.
"Our hands are tied," said Hickman.
An endangered treasure
The Preservation Society knows of the Stables' condition and long has encouraged saving it.
Almost a decade ago, an article written by Mimi Bogard in the Society's newsletter, "The Preservationist," called the Timken Stables one of Canton's endangered significant buildings.
"If local residents were asked to list Stark County's Most Endangered Historic Places, what would be named?" the newsletter asked in Fall 2014. "The Canton Preservation Society feels certain that the Timken Stables would make the list, probably right at the top."
Bogard noted that the Stables’ circular design was practical and interesting.
"The round shape of the Henry H. Timken Estate Barn, as it was listed in 1978 on the National Register of Historic Places, attracts attention," she wrote. "The design was believed to be most economical in use of construction materials, and most efficient for labor in the days before powered farm machinery.
"A circular design can also be well-suited for equestrian architecture, as at the Timken Estate Barn. The donut-shaped enclosure provided horse stalls and carriage storage and the central open area offered an ample training arena of 80 feet in diameter. The four round two-story towers, each 26 feet in diameter, accommodated haylofts and grain storage."
Added to the estate
Stark County historian and speaker Richard Haldi, a trustee for the Preservation Society, is knowledgeable about the Stables and the Timken estate. Haldi notes that H.H. Timken built seven structures on his 300-acre estate, including the Stables, between 1915 and 1917.
"Mr. Timken's address was Harrison Ave. Extension, as was the address for his stables and his westside caretaker's home, that lovely Timken 'farm house' that was located just north of the stables, a home that was demolished when the I-77 expressway came through the old Timken Estate in the late 1950s," explained Haldi, putting the pieces of the Timken estate into perspective.
That estate was a "working" farm, that could have used a barn of any shape.
"The first thing you passed when entering Timken estate property was a pond on your left with its beautiful waterfall -- a dammed up pond that was formed by Mr. Timken from the overflow stream that came from Meyers Lake," said Haldi. "It was an area grazed by many, many sheep until shortly after WWII."
Built more than a century ago
Research has shown construction of the Stables began in 2015, said Haldi, who cited a Repository article brought to his attention by a friend.
"Work was started Wednesday on farm buildings to be built on H.H. Timken's Farm in the rear of his home on Harrison Avenue NW. The buildings when completed, will cost approximately $67,000," said the article published Aug. 4, 1915.
The article reported the circular barn would cost $60,000. That barn, the article said, constructed of pressed brick with a fire retardant roof, would be virtually "fireproof."
"I believe the building's 1915-dollar cost ($60,000) represents something like 29 times that amount in today's 2023 dollar buying power value," estimated Haldi. "That's an extraordinary cost for a barn in 1915, to say the least, even for Mr. Timken."
Restaurant was recent use
After it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, the interior of the barn was altered to reflect its later use as restaurant and bar.
The open arena courtyard, for example, was enclosed using ceiling beams from the old Massillon Washington High School. For nearly a decade beginning in 1992, the building was operated as an eating establishment – The Stables Hall of Fame Grille – under the ownership of Massillon, Ohio State and professional football notable Chris Spielman.
It and other restaurant operations struggled, however, and the Stables went up for auction, Bogard noted in the Preservation Society's newsletter article. Beit HaKavod Messianic Synagogue under the leadership of the Lancasters bought the building in 2013.
The following year, the Preservation Society held one of its "Sneak Peak" events at the barn, opening it up for inspection by the public to raise funds both for the society and for repurposing the Stables as a house of worship.
Now, because of the pending court case, attention has focused on how to save the Stables, either through repair efforts by the owner or by acquisition by another party.
A Repository article by Charita Goshay published on March 19 reported that Rabbi Mark Lancaster, in a five-page statement to the paper, accused the city of trying to "take our building away from us."
A letter to the editor by Carol Canavan of North Canton suggested Stark County should obtain the building, "update it and turn it into a county Welcome Center featuring all of the Stark County places to see and visit."
"We don't care who owns it, we just want it to be saved," said Hickman of the Preservation Society's interest in the property. "It's a part of Canton's history. We've lost a lot of buildings. We would prefer it didn't get torn down."
Reach Gary at gary.brown.rep@gmail.com. On Twitter: @gbrownREP. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/the-monday-after-effort-to-save-timken-stables-in-canton-move-through-decades/70390905007/ | 2023-07-10T14:02:53 | 1 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/the-monday-after-effort-to-save-timken-stables-in-canton-move-through-decades/70390905007/ |
Plain Township to join growing list of Stark County communities with pickleball courts
Plain Township to become another community in Stark County to offer pickleball courts.
- Here's where you can now play pickleball in Stark County.
- Plain Township to add four pickleball courts to Al Leno Park after getting a state grant last year to cover part of the cost.
- The game of pickleball is described as a blend of tennis, badminton and ping pong.
PLAIN TWP. − The township's parks system will soon be out of a pickle.
While neighboring communities like Canton, North Canton, Louisville, Perry and Jackson townships and Green have had pickleball courts the last couple of years. Plain Township's parks haven't.
As the sport picked up in popularity locally, residents repeatedly asked if the township was going to get courts. Plain Township found itself on the outside looking in due to a lack of funding and rising costs.
But that changes in late August or early September. A contractor, paid in part from a grant, is scheduled to reconfigure and resurface two of the township's three tennis courts in Al Leno Park into four pickleball courts.
The 18-acre park, formerly Alpine Park, is at 3059 Alpine St. NE. It's connected by Pinetree Avenue NE to Easton Street NE near Oakwood Square east of Middlebranch Avenue NE.
The new pickleball courts are expected to be ready for use from dawn to dust by mid-September. The courts would be available on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Pickleball history
According to USA Pickleball, a state legislator in Washington state, Joel Pritchard, and two friends, Bill Bell and Barney McCallum created the game at Prichard's home on Bainbridge Island near Seattle in 1965. Pritchard's wife, Joan, dubbed the game "pickleball" in reference to pickle boats in crew rowed by competitors not chosen for other crew boats. And the equipment in pickleball was made up of "leftover" stuff from other games.
The game has been described as a mix of tennis, badminton and ping pong that uses a net and paddles. The size of the court is about half the size of a tennis court, making it easier for players of all ages.
Over the decades, the game spread throughout the country and into Northeast Ohio.
Steven Pustay, a retired GlenOak High School teacher and a board member of the local Hall of Fame City Pickleball Club, said Minerva is now also looking into building a pickleball court. Pustay said he's a volunteer consultant on pickleball court projects. He said he would hold clinics at Al Leno Park once the courts are set up.
Pustay estimated that more than 1,000 Stark County residents play the game.
“This has been a growing trend for the last decade," said Steinberg. "You realized this wasn’t a fad ... Pickleball is exploding."
The locations with pickleball courts in the greater Stark County area include, according to the Hall of Fame City Pickleball Club and Pickleheads site:
- Canton's Stadium Park, 10 outdoor courts
- North Canton, four outdoor courts at Glenwood SE and six outdoor courts at Arrowhead Golf Club.
- Jackson Township's North Park, eight outdoor courts
- Perry Township's Perry Park, four outdoor courts
- YMCA's in Stark County except Canal Fulton, at least one indoor court
- Hall of Fame Fitness Center, three indoor courts.
- North Canton Racquet Ball Club, indoor court
- Massillon Recreation Center, three indoor courts
- First Friends Church's gym on Market Avenue N and 55th Street NW, indoor court three days a week.
- Green's Boettler Park, six permanent and four temporary outdoor courts.
- Louisville's Aljancic Park, four outdoor courts. (Information has been corrected to fix an error. See correction below. 945 a.m. July 10)
- Massillon's Lincoln Park, one court.
- Alliance Recreation Center, three indoor courts.
- Alliance First Christian Church, two indoor courts.
Related:Massillon resident transforms old basketball court for growing sport of pickleball
Stymied by lack of funds
Steinberg said residents began asking for courts around 2018. He began looking into converting at least two of the township's three tennis courts at Al Leno Park into four pickleball courts with new bouncy surfaces. As part of the package, the third tennis court would be resurfaced. But the township didn't have a park levy until 2021. And funds were scarce. Steinberg's initial attempts at grant funding came up short.
And the costs of materials and labor surged.
Related:Pickleball picks up in Stark
Steinberg said he got a quote for the project of $49,610 in 2021 before he had lined up grant funding. The next year, the cost had risen to $55,000 to $60,000. In April, only one company submitted a bid. The total cost of four new pickleball courts and resurfacing the remaining tennis court was $89,517.
Trustees on April 25 awarded the project to the only bidder, Massillon-based Vasco Sports, which will resurface the tennis court and build the new pickleball courts over about two weeks. A $34,839 Ohio Department of Natural Resources grant will cover the additional expenses of converting the two tennis courts to four pickleball courts. The park levy will cover the rest of the cost.
On a recent evening, veteran player Kathy Ferry of Canton, who said she's played in out-of-town tournaments and Julie O'Brien of North Olmsted were playing doubles close to sunset at Canton's Stadium Park.
Ferry welcomed Plain Township adding four courts.
"We have a lot of pickleball players so the more the merrier," she said. "Everybody is playing."
O'Brien said, "This (sport) is going to be going on forever. It's here to stay."
North Canton caught pickleball wave
Catherine Farina, North Canton's deputy director of administration and park development, said due to residents' request for pickleball courts, especially from seniors, the city repurposed its tennis courts on Glenwood Street NE in 2019 into four pickleball courts. However, the city didn't resurface the courts. The courts have dead spots. Farina said the city is looking at resurfacing the courts next year, which could cost about $75,000.
She said the city built six new pickleball courts at its Arrowhead Golf Club, which it opened in May 2022. Officials hoped to draw pickleball players to buy food at the club as pickleball tends to be a social game. Now, the city is working with the North Canton YMCA, which has three indoor courts, to set up a pickleball league.
Patrick DeOrio, director of administration for North Canton, said he wants to be careful on where the city places pickleball courts since it is a very social game where the participants can cause a lot of noise. But so far, the city hasn't received noise complaints.
“It's gaining a lot of momentum," DeOrio said about the game. "You know it is when you get these young kids wanting to play it. It was pretty much for older folks. It’s not as intense as tennis. It's catching on with all age groups.”
He said the city was looking at reconfiguring the Glenwood courts to fit six pickleball courts there instead of four. And the city is considering placing four pickleball courts at Dogwood Park.
On Saturday, Brent Oswald played with his son, Jacob, at North Canton's Glenwood Street NE facility. Three of the four courts were being used.
"I love that the community added them," Brent Oswald said about the Glenwood courts. When hearing that Plain Township was adding courts at Al Leno Park, he said, "It's great. It's a fun game to play. It's become very popular. And we need more courts in the area."
Reach Robert at robert.wang@cantonrep.com. Twitter: @rwangREP.
CORRECTION: The name of the Louisville park with pickleball is Aljancic Park. The name was incorrect when this story first published. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/plain/2023/07/10/plain-township-to-add-four-pickleball-courts-to-al-leno-park/70336580007/ | 2023-07-10T14:02:54 | 1 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/plain/2023/07/10/plain-township-to-add-four-pickleball-courts-to-al-leno-park/70336580007/ |
The Heart of Stark: Nonprofits compete in Six for 60 challenge
In partnership with The Repository, every Monday, Stark Community Foundation highlights positive happenings in our community. Here’s to Good News Mondays!
More than 100 local nonprofits from all corners of Stark County applied to be part of Stark Community Foundation’s Six for 60: Endowment Fund Challenge and are now awaiting our community’s votes to decide the winners.
Starting today, anyone with a valid email address can help their favorite nonprofit win the challenge by voting once each day through Aug. 10.
In celebration of its 60th anniversary, Stark Community Foundation’s Six for 60: Endowment Fund aims to give back to the community by providing $10,000 in seed money to six Stark County nonprofits to each establish an organization endowment fund at the foundation.
This fund will ensuring a stable, predictable stream of income that can be used to offset their operations, fund new programs and support other mission-related activities in perpetuity.
At the end of the voting period, the nonprofit in each of the six categories — arts and culture, community and economic development, education, environment and animal welfare, faith based and human services — with the most community votes will win $10,000 to jump-start their organization endowment fund.
Community members can vote in three simple steps:
- Visit www.starkcf.org/vote to see the participating nonprofits and choose which to vote for.
- Submit your vote by entering your email address when prompted.
- Verify your vote through the email that will be sent to your inbox.
Visit www.starkcf.org/sixfor60 to learn more and vote in the Six for 60: Endowment Fund Challenge.
The Stark Community Foundation helps individuals, families, businesses and nonprofits achieve their philanthropic goals through a variety of charitable funds and strategic initiatives. Ranked in the top 10% of community foundations in the country, the foundation and its family of donors have granted $230 million to nonprofits since 1963. Learn more at www.starkcf.org. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/stark-county/2023/07/10/the-heart-of-starknonprofits-compete-in-six-for-60-challenge/70387702007/ | 2023-07-10T14:02:55 | 0 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/stark-county/2023/07/10/the-heart-of-starknonprofits-compete-in-six-for-60-challenge/70387702007/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Carowinds roller coaster shut down due to a large crack could soon see some repairs.
The park says a new support column for the Fury 325 is expected to be delivered next week.
It comes after someone visiting alerted authorities to the issue, recording a video of passengers speeding by on the ride, as one of the support beams shifts out of place alongside them.
As the investigation into what caused the issue continues, North Carolina Labor Commissioner Josh Dobson tells AP news, the crack may have started at least six to 10 days before the video was taken.
It's raised the question about roller coaster safety and inspections elsewhere around the country.
Michael Hupalo of MAH Consulting, LLC is a structural engineer. He says he has experience inspecting amusement park rides for more than 30 years.
While he hasn't worked on rides at Carowinds, he said coasters typically go through an extensive safety process at amusement parks around the country, including nondestructive testing to identify cracks and defects.
“It's more than just walking around looking at it. There are things you have to touch, things you have to climb on," Hupalo said. "It starts with the manufacturers mandated daily inspection.”
In the case of Carowinds, the park said both daily and yearly checks are performed, taking WCNC Charlotte behind the scenes in 2017 for a look at the process.
At that time, an inspector with Carowinds said they look carefully over rides down to the nuts and bolts and toss out parts with too much wear or tear.
As the search continues for answers in what led to the crack, Hupalo said age of the ride could play a factor, or it could be a new issue altogether and new procedures and tests will need to be created.
Despite this, Hupalo and other industry experts agree that rides are generally safe.
The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions estimates the chance of serious injury on a fixed-site ride at a U.S. park is one in 15.5 million rides taken.
“Occurrences like this are extremely rare," Hupalo said. "If everything looks right, it probably is. But it is machinery, and it needs to be properly maintained.”
It's unclear when the Fury 325 could reopen, as inspections and repairs continue.
Contact Kayland Hagwood at khagwood@wcnc.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/crack-on-carowinds-ride-extremely-rare-engineer-says/275-b6e686ac-3f88-47aa-888e-5a43bfa96cc1 | 2023-07-10T14:09:55 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/crack-on-carowinds-ride-extremely-rare-engineer-says/275-b6e686ac-3f88-47aa-888e-5a43bfa96cc1 |
LARGO, Fla. — Investigators are working to find out what caused a deadly house fire Sunday night in Largo.
Pinellas County deputies responded just before 10:30 p.m. to reports of smoke coming from a home on 116th Avenue North, near 104 Lane North.
They arrived on scene to crews from the Largo and Seminole fire departments working to put out a house fire.
Firefighters made forced entry through the home's front door where they found 59-year-old Thomas Shook lying on the floor, according to the sheriff's office.
He was transported to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Authorities said the fire does not appear suspicious in nature, but detectives with the homicide and arson units are still investigating.
The medical examiner's office will perform an autopsy to determine Shook's cause of death. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/man-killed-dead-largo-house-fire/67-05ae22e3-308d-4061-8025-896cd220b4ee | 2023-07-10T14:10:01 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/man-killed-dead-largo-house-fire/67-05ae22e3-308d-4061-8025-896cd220b4ee |
Faeries, Sprites, & Lights celebration at Minnetrista set July 27-29
MUNCIE, Ind. — This year's Faeries, Sprites, & Lights celebration at Minnetrista will be held July 27 through July 29.
Hours for the events will be 5-9 p.m. daily, with with a special sensory-friendly event on July 29 from 1–4 p.m.
During this multi-day event, children are encouraged to come dressed in their best magical faerie attire as they imagine and play in a faerie wonderland. Families can enjoy games, crafts, a theater show, live music and dancing, a bubble garden, live characters, and much more throughout Minnetrista's enchanted Oakhurst Gardens.
Minnetrista will kick off Faeries, Sprites, & Lights events on Saturday, July 15, from 2 to 4 p.m. with the Faerie House Workshop. Participants will create a magical home for their faerie friends. Experience a tea party, faerie style, at Faerie Tea Party on July 23 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or 2 to 2:30 p.m. Enjoy teatime, hors d'oeuvres, and fun activities with fellow faeries.
Minnetrista is excited to bring back the sensory-friendly version of FSL on July 29 from 1 to 4 p.m. The sensory-friendly event is designed to welcome faerie friends with sensory sensitives or disabilities to the Oakhurst Gardens to experience the magic in a calmer and welcoming environment. Guests can enjoy quiet music, an optional live theatre show, and character interactions, or take a stroll through the beautiful flowers and decorations.
Tickets for Faeries, Sprites, & Lights are $10 for members and $12 for non-members. Kids 2 and under are free. Tickets are available at minnetrista.net.
Parking for the event is located at the Delaware County Fairgrounds.
Minnetrista is looking for volunteers to help with Faeries, Sprites, & Lights! Volunteering with Minnetrista is the perfect opportunity to be a part of great things happening in our community while enjoying this magical event in Oakhurst Gardens. If you are interested, please email Mary Zwickl at mzwickl@minnetrista.net. | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/faeries-sprites-lights-celebration-at-minnetrista-set-july-27-29/70395598007/ | 2023-07-10T14:19:31 | 1 | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/faeries-sprites-lights-celebration-at-minnetrista-set-july-27-29/70395598007/ |
JUMP program opening up to all employers in Delaware County
MUNCIE, Ind. − The JUMP program and its clients are working.
John Bush, the adult probation officer who developed the program, told Delaware County Council last week that It has worked so well for clients and employers that the acronym for JUMP has changed. It was Judicial Users Manufacturing Partnership.
Today it's the Judicial Upward Mobility Partnership as the program continues to grow and branch out from its original aim to help manufacturers facing a labor shortage to other employment needs in the community.
"We're very enthused about the progress we've made so far," said Jeff Hansard, chief probation officer for Delaware County.
Probation officials reported to council members about the last six months of the effort that has been ongoing for a year.
"We're having a lot of positive impact on many of our clients and we're looking forward to the next six months," said Hansard.
He said the economic impact of the program, which matches nonviolent offenders recently released from jail with employers needing workers, delivered $1.5 million in wages for the 50 probationary clients during its first year, based on $15-an-hour wages.
"Obviously there is a direct tax benefit to the local jurisdiction and the state as well in terms of payroll taxes. Also, the money that gets spend in the community." Hansard said. "But more than that, it also reduces recidivism of offenders, it increases public safety and kind of one of the biggest pieces out of this is that it has really promoted good collaboration, especially between out department and Ivy Tech."
More:JUMP fills labor need while steering former offenders away from crime
Ivy Tech Muncie-Henry County is involved in the program through its initiatives to help students who are involved in the justice system and, according to Hansard, enabled JUMP participants to obtain needed certifications required for their jobs.
Initial the manufacturing participants included North American Stamping Group, CANPACK, Magna PowerTrain, Ken-Bar, Mursix, Muncie Power Products and Muncie Novelty. Currently, Arrowhead Plastics in Eaton is a major participant providing work for the probation clients.
In the future, JUMP will supply service employers with workers.
Bush said that at the beginning of the year manufacturing jobs became more scarce while the need was strong in hospitality, food service, customer service, construction and at call centers.
"They are calling us," he said. "They are seeing the news articles. We are getting published in national magazines based on what we are doing"
One magazine did an article about how one of the probation clients at North American Stamping had improved the manufacturing process in the plant.
"He was doing such a good job that his failure rate on parts ... went down so low that they've now redesigned their protocols for those machines because of what our client was doing," said Bush.
The program is now opened up to all employers in Delaware County, he said.
"Imagine if we are at 100 people or even 200 people working at the end of next year," Bush said. "You are talking $2 to $6 million in revenue of folks working and contributing back to the community."
Emily Stults, employment and education services coordinator, told council that from January to June 217 clients entered the program and are in every category of the program.
"We are at 217 in June, which is very good." she said. "We did not expect that at all."
There are 78 people waiting to be placed in employment and 41 people are currently working, she said.
Bush said employers arealso9 being trained in de-escalation methods and learning about what someone involved in the justice system has to deal with every day. The program aims to help clients overcome the stigma that goes with being convicted of a felony while looking for a second chance.
More:County enters agreement with Ivy Tech to place offenders at jobs with local manufacturers
Bush said he expects an increase in the number of clients in the near future when the program picks up individuals from Muncie City Court in addition to the Delaware County courts.
The first graduation ceremony for the program will feature 14 graduates. It will be Tuesday, July 11 in the Ivy Tech Fisher Building downtown.
David Penticuff is a reporter for The Star Press. He can be reached at (765) 661-7628. | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/jump-program-opening-up-to-all-employers-in-delaware-county/70384792007/ | 2023-07-10T14:19:32 | 0 | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/jump-program-opening-up-to-all-employers-in-delaware-county/70384792007/ |
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HOLCOMB, Kan. (KSNW) — In March of 2023, Cassy Linder lost her life after a distracted driver hit her car. Her dad and friends have been working to make sure distracted driving incidents stop.
“Even though it’s a horrific situation that we’re all in, we’re trying to do something and making something good out of this, and that’s what Cassy would want,” said Todd Linder, Cassy’s dad.
Linder says they aren’t yet sure exactly what the distraction was.
“What he has said in his statement to the highway patrol, which is also available online, is that he was using his phone and reached down for a bottle of water that had fell on the floor and looked back up, and it was too late,” Linder said.
Linder describes Cassy as headstrong, caring, and responsible.
“I’ll probably become the biggest advocate for distracted driving maybe this country’s ever seen when this is all done, but it’s to save lives,” Linder said. “It can be anything from reaching to holding, to dialing, to texting, to reading something. It’s all distracted driving.”
Cassy’s friends say she was loved by many.
She started becoming like part of my family,” Mia Flores said.
“I’ve known her since I was probably like 8 years old,” Ruby Diaz said. “She was my best friend growing up.”
Cassy’s friends put together a balloon release, a memorial, and fundraisers. Then, Linder came up with the idea to start advocating for her so this would stop happening.
“One little mistake, one distraction, can take the life of someone who impacted everyone,” Diaz said.
“I don’t want anyone to go through the motions and the mental and physical state that all of us had to endure with because of the accident,” Flores said. “I think if you get the word out there and you start educating people, then I think that makes them more aware of the dangers of distracted driving, and then it doesn’t make more car accidents come to life, and it saves a life, and then other families and friends don’t have to suffer from the same heartache that we had to suffer from.”
They got flags, handed out cards and have been sharing Cassy’s stories to educate others on the dangers of distracted driving, among other things. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/holcomb-teens-father-advocate-to-prevent-distracted-driving-following-deadly-crash/ | 2023-07-10T14:27:15 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/holcomb-teens-father-advocate-to-prevent-distracted-driving-following-deadly-crash/ |
CHENEY, Kan. (KSNW) — A woman was injured after a lawn mower caught fire in Cheney on Sunday. It happened before 4 p.m. in the 600 block of W. Cherry Oak Court.
The Cheney fire chief said the original call came in for a vehicle fire, but when they arrived at the scene, some fire spread to the home. The chief said a woman was mowing and ran out of gas.
“Tried to put some gas in the mower. The motor was hot. The gasoline ignited and then caught the motor on fire and the car on fire,” said Cheney Fire Chief Jerry Peitz.
The woman was taken to Ascension Via Christi St. Francis to be checked for burn injuries. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/one-injured-in-cheney-house-fire/ | 2023-07-10T14:27:21 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/one-injured-in-cheney-house-fire/ |
Ohio has about twice as many job openings as unemployed people, according to a Dayton Daily News analysis, a good thing for those looking for work or a new job, according to analysts.
“Ohio’s job market is robust, particularly for job-seekers,” said Bill Teets, director of communications with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. “Unemployment claims remain low and the number of job openings remain high.”
Ohio had 389,000 job openings in April, which was an increase of 29,000 from March, according to seasonally adjusted data released late last month by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The ratio of unemployed people to job openings in the state was 0.5, which was only the fifth time that’s happened since late 2000 — as far back as the bureau’s data goes.
Ohio also had two job openings for every unemployed worker in April, May, June and July of 2022.
A ratio of 1.0 means there is a job available for every unemployed person, while ratios less than 1.0 signal a tighter labor market in which firms have more job openings than there are people looking for work, the bureau said.
In the last 23 years, the “job-seekers ratio” in Ohio peaked at 8.8 in August 2009 after the Great Recession, meaning there were nearly nine unemployed people for every job opening.
During the slow recovery from recession, Ohio didn’t have enough jobs for all the people looking for employment, said Michael Shields, senior researcher with Policy Matters Ohio, a liberal-leaning research organization. But the job market improved.
Between January 2013 and February 2020, when the pandemic hit, the ratio of unemployed Ohioans to job openings ranged from 0.8 to 3, and there were 1 or more unemployed workers for every job opening in about 70 out of 86 months during that time frame.
COVID led to a huge number of job losses and big changes in the job market and labor force.
The region and state have recovered most or all of the job losses, and the state’s job-seekers ratio has been 0.9 or lower since June 2021.
Shields said ideally over the long-term there would be one job opening for every unemployed job-seeker.
But he said wages have not increased as much as they should have, especially considering productivity growth, and these are good labor market conditions for workers to seek out and push for higher pay.
Locally, there are signs that the supply of job openings well surpasses the number of job-seekers.
In May, there were about 13,400 unemployed people in the Dayton metro area searching for work, according to not seasonally adjusted data from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The metro area consists of Montgomery, Miami and Greene counties.
Between mid-April and mid-May, there were about 13,200 job openings posted online at OhioMeansJobs for those three counties.
And that’s just positions posted on OhioMeansJobs — not every job opening is listed on the state’s free online career and employment center.
Given so many job openings, employers are focused on recruitment and retention, and this is also a good environment for workers who want pursue career changes or switch jobs, said Teets, with Job and Family Services.
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An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the night sky in the early morning hours of Monday, April 24, 2023, near Washtucna, Wash. A solar storm forecast for Thursday, July 13, is expected to give skygazers in more than a dozen American states a chance to glimpse the Northern Lights.
A solar storm forecast for Thursday is expected to give skygazers in 17 American states a chance to glimpse the Northern Lights, the colorful sky show that happens when solar wind hits the atmosphere.
Northern Lights, also known as aurora borealis, are most often seen in Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia, but an 11-year solar cycle that’s expected to peak in 2024 is making the lights visible in places farther to the south. Three months ago, the light displays were visible in Arizona, marking the third severe geomagnetic storm since the current solar cycle began in 2019.
The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks has forecast auroral activity on Thursday in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Indiana, Maine and Maryland.
Auroral activity also has been forecast for Canada, including Vancouver.
Light displays are expected to be visible overhead in Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Helena, Montana, and low on the horizon in Salem, Oregon.; Boise, Idaho; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Annapolis, Maryland; and Indianapolis, according to the institute.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center said people wanting to experience an aurora should get away from city lights and that the best viewing times are between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time.
Northern Lights occur when a magnetic solar wind slams into the Earth’s magnetic field and causes atoms in the upper atmosphere to glow. The lights appear suddenly and the intensity varies.
A geomagnetic index known as Kp ranks auroral activity on a scale from zero to nine, with zero being not very active and nine being bright and active. The Geophysical Institute has forecast Kp 6 for Thursday’s storm. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/a-solar-storm-on-thursday-is-expected-to-make-the-northern-lights-visible-in-17/article_68bef588-1ed3-11ee-b64c-538d318dbd71.html | 2023-07-10T14:36:44 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/a-solar-storm-on-thursday-is-expected-to-make-the-northern-lights-visible-in-17/article_68bef588-1ed3-11ee-b64c-538d318dbd71.html |
FORT WORTH, Texas — Five people were arrested Saturday night following a street takeover incident in Fort Worth and a police chase involving stolen cars, authorities said.
Police in Fort Worth said they responded to the reported street takeover around 10:30 p.m. at the intersection of North Beach Street and North Tarrant Parkway in the northern area of the city.
Officers arrived to find a Dodge Challenger doing donuts in the intersection with a crowd of people gathered around it, according to police. When officers turned on their emergency lights and sirens, the Challenger fled the area at a high rate of speed and a chase ensued, police said.
During the chase, police said a North Richland Hills officer responded and successfully spiked the Challenger's tires.
The Challenger then pulled into a QuikTrip gas station and everyone inside the vehicle exited and jumped into a Dodge Charger, which then fled the area, according to police. It's unclear how many people were initially inside the Challenger.
Police officers and a DPS helicopter pursued the Charger, which eventually stopped under a bridge near Highway 121 and Riverside Drive, according to police. Police said all five of the occupants in the Charger fled on foot.
The five people were eventually located and taken into custody. Three were listed as adults and transported to the city jail, while the other two were juveniles and taken to a juvenile detention facility.
Police said both the Challenger and Charger involved in the incident were reported stolen in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and that both vehicles had fake license plates.
Police identified the three taken to city jail as Bruce Camacho, 17, Gustavo Camacho, 19, and Saul Olade, 20. All three were charged with evading arrest.
Gustavo Camacho also faces a charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
Police did not identify the two juveniles involved.
Fort Worth police also determined that the group involved in the incident is linked to the viral Austin street takeovers that occurred in February.
On the evening of Feb. 18 and into the morning of Feb. 19, Austin police said they responded to seven street takeover events. A month later, police announced that 17 people were charged in connection to the incidents.
Austin police said the suspects were from cities such as Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. The suspects also ranged in age from 15 to 32.
Further details on the Fort Worth street takeover incident were not immediately released as the investigation continues. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/five-arrested-fort-worth-street-takeover-police-chase-stolen-cars/287-9e983741-0fb6-4417-b0cb-5b48d722941a | 2023-07-10T14:48:52 | 0 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/five-arrested-fort-worth-street-takeover-police-chase-stolen-cars/287-9e983741-0fb6-4417-b0cb-5b48d722941a |
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Zoo will kick off the first of its series of "date night" events for parents to drop off their little ones.
The Kids Wild Night Out series starts Saturday, July 8. Parents can drop off their kids ages 3-12 on select Saturday evenings the next few months. The program runs from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., just enough time for parents to grab dinner or possibly a movie.
During that time, the kids will be treated to a pizza dinner, guided zoo tours, up-close animal encounters, and live music.
The upcoming dates include:
- Saturday, July 8
- Saturday, July 22
- Saturday, July 29
- Saturday, August 5
- Saturday, August 26
- Saturday, September 2
- Saturday, September 23
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SAN ANTONIO — Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, the most outspoken advocate for victims and families of the Uvalde school shooting over the last year, launched a campaign for U.S. Senate on Monday morning.
“We are one of the most robust economies by any state in the United States, and yet, we are 45th in education spending, we're 45th in education performance, we're dead last on funding for mental healthcare, we've got people who are in office who refuse to do Medicaid expansion which essentially gives healthcare to working class families at no cost to them. So, every year they're dipping in six, seven, ten thousand dollars to handle their healthcare costs. [U.S. Senator] Ted Cruz could've fixed that,” Gutierrez told WFAA’s Natalie Haddad in his first statewide TV interview.
The U.S. Senate race that Gutierrez is joining will be the highest-profile and most-watched campaign in the state next year.
Gutierrez, an immigration attorney, is a Democrat who represents San Antonio, Uvalde and a wide swath of the Texas–Mexico border from Eagle Pass to Big Bend.
Since the massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School in May 2022, Gutierrez, a gun owner himself, has called for raising the age to purchase some semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21. The shooter who murdered the classroom full of fourth graders and their two teachers was 18 years old and legally purchased his weapons.
Gutierrez has also called for accountability inside the Texas Department of Public Safety for dozens of troopers failing to follow training and immediately enter the fourth-grade classroom to engage the shooter and save lives. It took more than an hour for a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol team to arrive on scene, breach the classroom door and kill the teenage shooter.
Despite Gutierrez’s high-profile pushes and emotional pleas to fellow lawmakers, the Republican-led legislature dismissed age requirements to purchase weapons and Gov. Greg Abbott has neither fired nor disciplined DPS Director Steve McGraw.
But Gutierrez’s biggest challenge now is to increase his name identification with Democratic primary voters across Texas and raise the millions of dollars it will take to run a statewide campaign.
“We have Republicans in office who call this a Texas Miracle, including Ted Cruz,” Gutierrez told WFAA. “And when things go wrong, they want to blame some immigrant for the problems of Texas. Well, there's not an immigrant that is responsible for the poor education outcomes, that is responsible for the poor healthcare outcomes, the poor electrical grid outcomes, the fact that we don't have common-sense gun solutions," he explained. "I'm not a prognosticator. I'm not a pundit. I'm just a man that has volunteered for public service for the last twenty years. I worked hard for those twenty years and I'm gonna continue to work hard. I think that when people hear our message and they understand where I came from, they understand I was born and raised in this state, they understand there's a real value in hard work – I think that they're gonna see a different message, and it's my hope that we get them to support our campaign and our candidacy."
Gutierrez faces an uphill fight for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He will first face U.S. Rep. Collin Allred in the Democratic primary on Super Tuesday, which is on March 5, 2024.
Allred launched his campaign early – in May. So far, he has raised $6.2 million through the second quarter and transferred $2.4 million from his congressional campaign account, giving him an early head start with money.
Plus, Allred leads Gutierrez in an early poll from the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation. In May, the TxHPF survey showed 33% of Democratic primary voters would vote for Allred, 22% for Gutierrez (before he announced) and 4% for John Love.
Still, Allred and Gutierrez remain unknown to many Democratic primary voters across the state, with 41% of those surveyed saying they remain undecided.
"You know, I don't know Colin Allred. I've spoken to him one time. He called me about 60 days ago. I'm sure he's a nice person. The fact is, I've done a heck of a lot more than he has in public service,” Gutierrez told WFAA. “It's my intent to sit down with people in the [Rio Grande] Valley, in Houston, in Dallas, El Paso, and Corpus [Christi] and everywhere in between, Austin, and have a discussion. You know, Beto O'Rourke ignited Texans. I'll outwork Colin Allred and I'll work harder than Ted Cruz. I'm sure Colin's a nice guy, but I'm gonna outwork him because that's the way I was raised."
Perhaps the most interesting element of the TxHPF survey is that Cruz appears weak against an unknown challenger. The TxHPF poll showed Cruz with 47% of support and Allred with 40%. A head-to-head match-up between Gutierrez and Cruz was not asked since Gutierrez had yet to declare his candidacy.
WFAA questioned Gutierrez on a number of national issues facing the U.S. to gauge his positions:
You’re an immigration attorney, where do you stand on border security?
"Listen, I voted against these border security bills because they're nonsense. They're political stunt by [Texas Governor] Greg Abbott and others to waste our taxpayer dollars, to house some migrants from time-to-time. Listen, we deport thousands of people every day. They don't talk about that. Most people get deported. That's the reality. Not their talking point. That's reality. Biden Administration needs to talk a little bit more about that reality… allow people to come up to live this American dream into the industries that need it… As far as security's concerned, half of the AR-15s that are sold in the United States end up in the hands of [the drug] cartels in Mexico. We do need to be aggressive. We need to do what we did in Colombia. Get the DEA involved. Infiltrate Mexican cartels, because they're hurting our economies, hurting our people, and they're hurting folks in our southern border… The state's stunts, [Governor] Greg Abbott's stunts, are simply that. He's giving rides to people that have already [been] processed, that are three months away from a work permit, sends them to New York, Massachusetts, California just to make himself look good. There's plenty of people in hospitality, ranching and farming in Texas that would love to be able to have those folks work for them because they can't find Americans that want to do that job.”
How much more should the U.S. get involved in the war in Ukraine?
"Ukraine is about democracy. We must fight to maintain democracy in Ukraine or any part of the world because when its challenged, it affects us. We cannot allow fascist dictators like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to take us back to World War II. We cannot allow ourselves to be in a situation where they overrun countries in Europe. Cannot happen. Must not happen. Just like democracy is challenged there, it's also eroding here."
Should the U.S. militarily protect Taiwan against an invasion from China?
"We have to do everything in our power to our partners, Taiwan is certainly a partner that leads the world in semiconductor production. But we'll do everything diplomatically first… there's plenty of economic pressures and economic diplomacies that can be had with China before anything happens in Taiwan. That's just the reality of things."
What is the greatest threat facing the United States today?
"It's fascism. People like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and [Florida Governor] Ron DeSantis that want to go after Disney, want to blame everything on immigration. They scream nationalist, they hold, they wrap themselves around the flag. You know what? I'm all about the United States of America. It's the country that gave my father the opportunity to be able to have his son run for the United States Senate. And that's pretty amazing. But the country I was raised in wasn't about burning books. It wasn't about telling women what to do with their bodies. It wasn't about blaming people on the margins; gay, lesbian, transgender, and trying to shame them and blame them for what's truly ailing us. We deserve so much more from our leaders. We deserve a real understanding of what's wrong and we deserve that they begin to talk about it and solve the problems."
Cruz is running for his third term and barely won six years ago against former congressman Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso.
The 2024 Democratic primary is Tuesday, March 5.
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Fire that damaged former Fond du Lac barbershop building under investigation
Cause of the fire is under investigation.
FOND DU LAC – A fire that originated in a dumpster caused significant damage to the rear corner of the former Sippel’s Barber Shop at 227 S. Main St. in Fond du Lac Friday afternoon.
Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue said fire crews responded to the vacant building at around 3:30 p.m. Friday for the report of a dumpster fire.
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When crews arrived on scene, they found the dumpster at the rear of the building involved in fire and rapidly spreading to the northwest corner of the building.
Firefighters quickly knocked down the blaze and brought it under control, a news release said, but significant damage had already been done to the building.
The release said fire investigators are working to determine the cause and origin of the fire.
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How much water can $200M help save? State agency sifts through dozens of project ideas
Funding for water conservation projects in Arizona is starting to flow. Where it goes is the subject of ongoing talks.
With a total of $200 million to award, the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority approved eight water conservation projects, totaling about $15 million, in late June. Another 53 proposals from the first round of applications and about 40 from the second round await review.
The Water Conservation Grant Fund was negotiated last year as part of former Gov. Doug Ducey's $1 billion water package. The goal was to produce tangible, long-term water conservation results, either by reducing water use, improving efficiency or preventing shortages from infrastructure failures.
Lawmakers approved the massive water fund to help Arizona respond to the extended drought and Colorado River water cutbacks. The bulk of the fund was meant for water "augmentation," with a focus on Ducey's signature idea to build a desalination plant. Democrats held back the process until the $200 million for conservation was earmarked.
A diverse list of entities will compete for funding, with an equally diverse raft of proposals. But the financial resource, like the water, is finite.
Cities and counties, public water systems, irrigation districts, natural resource conservation districts and school districts can all apply for the funds. Tribal entities and private water systems also became eligible on June 21, after Gov. Katie Hobbs signed SB 1390 into law. The second round of applications closed on June 30.
Chelsea McGuire, assistant director of external affairs for WIFA, said she anticipates some applications from round two are heard before the Water Conservation Grant Fund committee reviews all proposals from round one.
This will ensure that the newest eligible applicants, like tribes, "are not relegated to the back of the line," she said.
WIFA's charge is to award grants to water conservation projects throughout Arizona, so the grant award process won't follow a traditional path, she added. All ideas will be reviewed within six months of being received.
The review process is also uncharted territory. Questions linger about how proposals should be evaluated and which should have higher priority. Many of these projects could not be executed without outside support, and some entities might have a harder time finding the required 25% match.
Grants could, for example, fund turf removal in urban areas, make system improvements in small towns, fund groundwater recharge projects or help curb big water use in agriculture.
WIFA staff and volunteer committee members are reviewing applications, and still discussing the best ways to make a balanced assessment. Reviews, staff said, should look not only at the cost-effectiveness of money spent per acre-foot of water saved, but the broader impacts of the projects.
There are no firms caps or anything in statute that directs how much WIFA can award to certain projects. The aspiration is that the funds can be spread out geographically, but also that at least a third of the funds go to conservation projects that address Colorado River water shortages, and a third deal with groundwater replenishment.
Spending priorities up to debate
Fund requests came in high. The 65 applications totaled $103.5 million, half of the total amount WIFA can award by June 2024. The second round came with 40 applications and totaled $49 million.
The amount of water saved is an important criteria in the applications, but focusing on it exclusively has risks.
Staff and committee members have discussed highlighting other elements, such as the applicants' water source and state of the supply, their budget and population served, and a list of co-benefits that help reviewers look at the nuances of the projects. A greater need or reliance on WIFA funds could also come into consideration.
The largest types of applications were turf removal programs, and research and education projects.
Of the 65 applications of the first round, 30 came from Maricopa County and half of them were for turf removal. Most of them requested the maximum grant amount.
Committee member Blake Anderson, president of Mogollon Water Management, questioned whether these kind of projects were the right way to spend taxpayer dollars. The turf removal projects would save between 40 and 100 acre-feet of water a year at a cost of $3 million.
“I think we should be challenging our applicants to find innovative ways to conserve water and also be serving the taxpayers well and get the best bang for our buck,” he said at the June 8 meeting.
Phoenix requested $3 million to offer a $2 per square foot incentive for turf removal to households and businesses. The city estimated that could produce 115 acre-feet of water savings per year; the equivalent of about 345 households' yearly water use.
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Different projects can bring similar conservation results.
The Alpine Domestic Water Improvement District, which received a $250,000 grant, expects an equal return on investments from dollars per acre-feet of water saved. The funds will help install advanced water meters to detect leaks and manage water resources in a town of 200 people. Last winter, the district was unable to detect several water line breaks because the meters were buried under the snowpack, the application said.
Other projects predict a return on investment 17 times higher.
Context can reveal new layers: where is water being saved, how many people will it benefit, what is the need and urgency for a project. Committee members agreed it is best to review applications on an individual basis to allow room for nuance.
"Communities are coming to the grant application with their best ideas of how they can save water," said another committee member. "But if we’re going to get into nitty-gritty of pinning them against each other, let’s say for what they are or not doing already to be stewards of the resource, I feel we are going to get stuck."
WIFA board members expect robust discussions and comments on the applications before reaching decisions, including dissent within the committee.
Arizona State University, Mesa, Surprise, Tucson and Willcox also submitted applications for turf-removal programs on the second round.
Many cities in California have begun aggressive programs to remove nonfunctional turf, and last year Nevada passed a law that requires removal of such lawns by 2026. In Arizona, such regulations are nearly non-existent. Last year, Ducey approved a law that prohibits banning artificial turf by homeowner associations, though this year Tucson banned nonfunctional turf for new developments.
Phoenix claimed in the past that it did not offer rebates to customers because it had reached water conservation goals “without financial incentives.” The city's per-person water use is below the conservation goal set by the Arizona Department of Water Resources.
"However, conditions on the Colorado River have made it clear that all water users in the Southwest will need to go above and beyond long-established norms and legal requirements to adjust to a world with less Colorado River water," said Max Wilson, deputy director of the City of Phoenix Water Planning Division.
Although the city did not get a grant, officials are "committed to launching this program in some form," said Wilson. The city will also start offering rebates for high-efficiency toilets and smart irrigation controllers this summer.
First grants awarded
On June 8, the seven-member Water Conservation Grant Fund committee reviewed 12 of 65 proposals from round one. WIFA staff selected the first batch of applications to review, to have "a diverse geographic representation and a variety of project types."
The committee recommended eight for approval, and tabled the remaining four.
Among the eight are grants for installing advanced water meter systems, which can provide real-time detection of leaks and accurate information for water saving; agriculture system upgrades; and others like a renovation of 190 acres of parks in Yuma with turf removal and advanced irrigation systems.
The four that did not pass were three grants requesting $3 million for turf removal rebates in Phoenix, Gilbert and Glendale, and an audit and large-scale water appliance replacement in Pima County.
The decision of the committee to table them is not necessarily a rejection, but a "not yet" vote.
The approved grants were:
- Alpine Domestic Water Improvement District: $250,000 to replace direct-read water meters with radio-read meters and reduce water losses to leaks. Expected savings: 4 acre-feet per year.
- City of Tucson: $3 million to replace outdated water meters with Automated Metering Infrastructure meters for 20,000 customers. Expected savings: 2,216 to 4,257 acre-feet per year.
- City of Prescott: $3 million for a 5-year program to replace old meters with Advanced Metering Infrastructuren. Expected savings: 405 acre-feet per year.
- San Carlos Irrigation and Drainage District: $555,658 to replace deteriorating structures and manual outdated gates (part of ongoing system-wide rehabilitation and modernization of canals, irrigation structure and technology). Expected savings: 5,792 acre-feet per year.
- Verde Natural Resource Conservation District: $2,998,732 to add pipes to irrigation ditches in the Verde Valley to improve water use efficiency and supply reliability. Expected savings: 1,955 acre-feet per year.
- City of Yuma: $3 million to install irrigation systems, remove some turf and install new irrigation technology on parks and citywide. Expected savings: 480 acre-feet per year.
- City of Goodyear: $74,000 for commercial, institutional, industrial, and HOA turf removal rebates. Expected savings: 40 acre-feet per year.
- Williams Unified School District No. 2: $2,158,500 to remove natural turf and replace with synthetic turf on five athletic fields in Williams. Expected savings: 39 acre-feet per year.
All applications can be viewed on the Water Conservation Grant Fund Committee Books.
Clara Migoya covers environment issues for The Arizona Republic and azcentral. Send tips or questions to clara.migoya@arizonarepublic.com.
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Here's how to find out if your doctor has been scolded by Arizona Medical Board
Andrew Ford
Arizona Republic
Records of doctor misconduct are obscured in Arizona, so The Arizona Republic built a tool to help patients find out if their doctor has been scolded by the state medical board.
You can either search by doctor name or enter terms that reveal misconduct, like: "cocaine," "sexual" or "violence". Please note there may be multiple doctors with the same name, so check out the full document by clicking the button beneath the snippet of the records. These entries come from a computer scan of meeting minutes and may be an imperfect reflection, so please refer also to the original material.
Read the investigation:Arizona law keeps some doctors' misconduct obscured. Here's how | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2023/07/10/arizona-doctor-misconduct-search/70375177007/ | 2023-07-10T14:56:08 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2023/07/10/arizona-doctor-misconduct-search/70375177007/ |
Your doctor could seem to have a clean record. How Arizona laws keep some misconduct hidden
Sex, drugs and harm to patients — the Arizona Medical Board determined more than 300 actively licensed doctors committed misconduct over the last decade, but their records were largely hidden from the public, an Arizona Republic investigation found.
The board identified doctor misdeeds that went far beyond bungled paperwork, yet the doctors received only a slap on the wrist in the form of strongly worded letters.
The board rebuked Dr. Nicholas J. Argyros for “removing insufficient skin during a circumcision” — he said the complaint to the board derived from another doctor’s actions, the incident happened long ago, and the amount of skin to remove in a circumcision is a judgment call.
“There’s not a dotted line where it says: cut here,” he said.
The board wrote up Dr. Ernesto R. Cruz for “soliciting an act of prostitution.” The board admonished Dr. Shilpa N. Atodaria, saying “that practicing medicine without a license will result in further Board action.” It reprimanded Dr. Sally T. Wareing for “failure to follow up following spontaneous miscarriage.” It scolded Dr. George H. Webb “for taking photographs of a patient’s vagina without gloves on a personal cell phone.”
Those doctors couldn’t be reached for comment.
Hearing about some of that misconduct, Helen Haskell, president of the patient safety organization Mothers Against Medical Error, let out a laugh.
“I’m sorry,” she said. “That’s unbelievable.”
The patients of those doctors would have little way to know about their past. For each of those doctors, the online profiles maintained by the state misleadingly say “none” under board actions.
Asked about the hidden misconduct, Kristina Jensen, deputy director of the Arizona Medical Board, pointed to the meeting minutes and advisory letters that are public record and state law that restricts what the board can put online.
The board is also bound by law to scrub discipline from the site after five years. The mild reprimand from the board often comes after it concludes it lacks evidence to go further or it doesn’t think formal discipline is warranted.
Asked whether the present arrangement serves the board’s stated mission to protect public safety and whether the “none” on a troubled doctor’s profile is misleading, Jensen did not respond.
Pat McSorely, executive director of the Arizona Medical Board, pointed to fine print at the bottom of a doctor’s profile detailing how a patient could request more records.
Transparency is key for patients selecting doctors
Haskell said the records of doctor misconduct should be more available to the public.
“Obviously they should be,” she said. “So that people can judge who they want providing their medical care.”
As a solution to those misleading profiles and obscure records, The Republic built a tool to allow patients to get a glimpse at doctor misconduct they’d otherwise have little chance of finding. Readers can search using the tool below.
The Republic exposed in December hundreds of actively licensed doctors who had been issued an advisory letter. The letters describe misconduct but stop short of formal discipline. The board sometimes determines discipline isn’t warranted or it lacks evidence to proceed. A 2017 ABC 15 investigation similarly raised concern about hidden doctor misconduct.
By mining the board’s meeting minutes, The Republic revealed more doctor misconduct than it did in December.
Search:Use this tool to find out if your doctor has been scolded by Arizona Medical Board
Doctors scolded for misconduct include:
- Harm to patients: Dr. Leona M. Martin failed to recognize the onset of heart failure. Dr. Steven C. Simon got a letter for a surgical injury “leading to patient death.” Dr. William R. Kelley failed to recognize on a medical scan a sponge left in a patient after surgery. He told The Republic he probably should have better communicated with the surgeon, but noted he didn’t do the surgery. He said his responsibility was reviewing the image and he didn’t make a big mistake.
- Misdiagnosis: Dr. David B. Bowne failed “to take appropriate action on a tonsil specimen that demonstrated cancer.”
- Failure to report crimes: Several doctors were reprimanded for failing to promptly tell the board about DUIs. Other doctors were rebuked for failing to report misdemeanors, including two involving “moral turpitude,” but board minutes don’t say what that entails.
- Access to drugs: Dr. Rosemary S. Browne was written up for failing to control access to her computer after a “patient self-reported using large amounts of opiates and that she had access to Dr. Browne’s computer allowing her to fill prescriptions through electronic prescription writing.” Dr. Browne said she was not aware of what was happening at the time and described the situation as learning the hard way about new computer processes for filling prescriptions online. She added that all this happened long ago — the board voted to issue Browne a letter in 2015 — and nothing like this has happened since. She described her other good work, including serving as the board president of the Arizona Geriatrics Society.
The Republic reached out to each of the doctors named in this story and added comments from those who could be reached.
Despite their histories, their profiles on the board’s website appeared clean as of June 30. That’s likely the only glimpse patients would have into a doctor’s past.
The Republic revealed in February that Gov. Katie Hobbs and all but one of the lawmakers who sit on the House and Senate health and human services committees took money in the past from the Arizona Medical Association’s political action committee, which backs “physician-friendly candidates.” The medical association pushed for the law that hides doctor advisory letters.
Asked recently about doctor misconduct in advisory letters, Rep. Patricia Contreras (D-Phoenix) said in an email that a lot of information is available online. She added, “Sexual misconduct is a serious offense that needs greater scrutiny. We are requesting more information from the Boards in order to investigate this further and make recommendations.”
Christian Slater, a spokesperson for Gov. Hobbs, reiterated Hobbs’ commitment to transparency and noted Hobbs signed a law that creates a searchable database of health professionals whose license was revoked in the past five years. But it doesn’t directly address the issue that advisory letters are kept hidden.
Arizona Republic launches tool to help patients see doctor misconduct
To make up for the government’s shortcomings, The Republic’s searchable database of state medical board meeting minutes will allow patients to find out if their doctor has been scolded.
Before now, the state medical board website limited patients to meeting minutes going back only to 2019; it was kept in a format that was not searchable. The Republic’s tool exposes misconduct back to 2013 and brings to a patient’s fingertips documentation of doctor misconduct.
"I'm really glad you’ve built this tool," said Haskell, the patient safety advocate. “I think that will be immensely helpful.”
For example, searching “Brannan” reveals the board’s admonishment of Dr. Scott M. Brannan, who rose to prominence as a star at Modern Vascular, a chain of clinics that focuses on clearing vascular blockages in the lower leg and that was also the subject of a Republic investigation. The Republic’s story was later quoted in a Department of Justice complaint against the company, which filed for bankruptcy in May.
The board minutes show Brannan landed on probation after the board’s medical consultant determined he “deviated from the standard of care” by failing to promptly send a patient to a hospital, who later died. The board minutes outline his positive test for steroid usage and for prescribing medication to his father-in-law, which doctors aren’t supposed to do.
The minutes show Brannan’s attorney later tried to get him off, arguing “the probation has affected Dr. Brannan's credentialing with insurance companies and now he is unable to provide services.”
But the board shut him down, denying a motion for a rehearing.
Looking at his profile on the state board’s site, Brannan’s prospective patients would know none of that.
Misleadingly, as of June 22, Brannan’s profile appeared clean. The board said that’s because of a technical issue, rather than the laws restricting what the board can put online.
Alerted to the issue, the board’s executive director said it would fix it:
“Thank you for calling our attention to Dr. Scott Brannan’s profile that should have listed disciplinary action in the box under 'orders.'" McSorely wrote in an email. “As you pointed out, that box reads 'none.' Staff has researched this issue and has located a computer coding error that occurred during a recent major IT change to our database. The correction to the coding error has been made a high-priority task and was sent on June 28 to be corrected by our vendor. The coding error should be corrected within seven days and the discipline accurately displayed.”
McSorely wouldn’t say whether that issue affected other doctors' profiles. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2023/07/10/arizona-doctor-misconduct/70375171007/ | 2023-07-10T14:56:16 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2023/07/10/arizona-doctor-misconduct/70375171007/ |
Tom Horne heads to court to defend transgender school sports ban. What to know
In April, the parents of two transgender girls filed a lawsuit challenging Arizona's year-old law that bans transgender girls from competing on girls' school sports teams.
The two plaintiffs — who are going by the pseudonyms Jane Doe and Megan Roe in court filings — are seeking to be able to play school sports on girls’ teams while the case proceeds. The earliest tryouts for the upcoming school year start in mid-July, according to court filings.
Arguments on the motion for a preliminary injunction are scheduled to be considered on Monday at a U.S. District Court in Tucson during a 1:30 p.m. hearing.
Plaintiffs seek equal opportunity to play on girls' sports teams
Last year, former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law a bill that bans student-athletes who are transgender girls from playing on competitive girls' sports teams.
In April, the parents of two transgender girls in Arizona filed a lawsuit alleging the ban violates the U.S. Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, Title IX, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, a 1973 federal law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities by programs receiving federal funds.
The plaintiffs are seeking to stop enforcement of the law and want an equal opportunity to participate on the girls' sports teams at their schools.
Jane, 11, has played soccer on girls' club and recreational teams for nearly five years and plans to try out for the girls' soccer, cross-country and basketball teams when she starts at Kyrene Aprende Middle School in Chandler this year, according to court filings. Megan, 15, intends to try out for the girls' volleyball team at The Gregory School in Tucson this fall.
According to plaintiffs' court filings, Jane and Megan have not and will not experience male puberty as a result of their medical treatment for gender dysphoria, a diagnosis that describes a feeling of discomfort or distress that might occur in an individual whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth or their body.
The suit names Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne as a defendant in his official capacity, as well as the Arizona Interscholastic Association, The Gregory School, the Kyrene School District and Kyrene Superintendent Laura Toenjes in her official capacity.
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Before the ban, the Arizona Interscholastic Association, a regulatory body that oversees high school athletic competition in Arizona, allowed transgender students to “participate in interscholastic events on teams whose gender matched the student’s gender identity." The association adopted this as a formal policy in 2017.
The association approved 16 requests from transgender athletes to compete on sports teams that align with their gender identity between 2017 and 2022, according to testimony by Kristina Wilson, who was the chair of the association's Sports Medicine Advisory Committee, during a March 2022 hearing on the bill. The organization oversees athletics for around 170,000 students, Wilson said.
Plaintiffs must show law would cause 'irreparable harm'
To succeed with their request for a preliminary injunction and temporarily block enforcement of the law, the plaintiffs must show that enforcing the ban would cause them irreparable harm.
Citing declarations of support from Stephanie Budge, a licensed psychologist from Wisconsin who specializes in issues of gender identity and gender transition processes, and Daniel Shumer, a pediatric endocrinologist and the Medical Director of the Comprehensive Gender Services Program at Michigan Medicine, the plaintiffs' attorneys argue that their clients' mental health is "dependent on living as girls in all aspects of their lives."
Playing on a boys' team would "directly contradict" their medical treatment for gender dysphoria and would be "painful and humiliating," the attorneys argue.
If the defendants are permitted to enforce the ban against them, Jane and Megan will be "deprived of the social, educational, and physical and emotional health benefits that come from school sports," attorneys said in court filings.
Arizona schools chief Horne argues that the ban neither violates Title IX nor the Equal Protection Clause. He claims that Title IX, the landmark 1972 legislation that prohibits sex-based discrimination within educational institutions that receive federal funding, was "actually adopted to promote sex equality by permitting sex-separated sports."
In court filings, he claims that cisgender girls competing in sports may face “emotional injury, physical injury, and competitive disadvantage" if transgender girls are not banned from girls' sports teams.
The goal of the ban is to provide "safety and fairness to girls in sports competition," Horne argues.
Schools, Arizona Interscholastic Association don’t want to be involved
The Arizona Interscholastic Association, The Gregory School, and the Kyrene School District and its superintendent, all named as defendants, have each put forward reasons as to why they believe they should not be involved in the lawsuit.
The Arizona Interscholastic Association did not enact the ban and does not enforce it, the association argues in court filings. In fact, it hasn't changed its 2017 policy since the law was passed.
It argues that the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction should be denied "as to AIA" because the plaintiffs "fail to identify why an injunction preventing any act by the AIA is necessary."
The Gregory School, a private middle and high school, argues that it's not subject to any of the laws that plaintiffs claim it's violating. The school is not subject to Title IX or the Rehabilitation Act, its attorneys claim, because it doesn’t receive federal financial assistance — a point of contention with the plaintiffs, who argue that the school's 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status constitutes federal aid. During Monday’s hearing, the Tuscon court is also scheduled to hear arguments on the Gregory School’s motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s claims against it.
The Kyrene School District, a public school district in Maricopa County, and its superintendent have no intention to defend the ban and “will not be an active participant in this case," according to court filings. The district is obligated under Arizona law to apply the ban and will abide by the decisions of the court, according to a joint court filing from Kyrene and the plaintiffs.
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State GOP leaders, conservative political group seek to defend the ban
A week after the lawsuit was filed, Democratic State Attorney General Kris Mayes announced she would not defend the ban and instead authorized Horne to hire private attorneys.
After Mayes refused to defend the ban, Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen and House Speaker Ben Toma, both Republicans, filed a motion to intervene to defend the law.
Arizona Women of Action, an anti-LGBTQ+, conservative political action committee, filed a motion to intervene to defend the ban as well. The proposed intervenors Anna Van Hoek, a governing board member for the Higley Unified School District, Amber Zenczak and Lisa Fink claim they, as Arizona parents with cisgender daughters who support the ban, offer a "critical and unique perspective as yet unrepresented in this action."
They argue that participating in girls' sports teams has "dramatically benefited" their "daughters' personal and social development" and that their daughters' sporting experiences have "built their self-confidence and allowed them to experience a type of camaraderie and friendship that could not be replicated anywhere else."
If their daughters' teams included transgender girls, their motion to intervene argues, "virtually all those benefits would evaporate." Van Hoek argues that the presence of transgender girls on a girls' sports team creates a "significant obstacle" to cisgender girls "achieving their best performance."
Attorneys for the intervenors will be heard at the July 10 hearing.
Arizona is one of 22 states that have laws banning transgender students from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity, according to the Movement Advancement Project. Idaho was the first to pass a ban in 2020.
Preliminary injunctions are currently blocking enforcement of the bans in Idaho, West Virginia and Utah, according to the Movement Action Project.
Madeleine Parrish covers K-12 education. Reach her at mparrish@arizonarepublic.com and follow her on Twitter at @maddieparrish61. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/07/10/tom-horne-heads-to-court-to-defend-transgender-school-sports-ban/70388076007/ | 2023-07-10T14:56:22 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/07/10/tom-horne-heads-to-court-to-defend-transgender-school-sports-ban/70388076007/ |
Duke Energy: Indiana had most outages in recent storm since Hurricane Ike
About 330,000 of Duke Energy’s Indiana customers lost power last week, more than any time since Hurricane Ike in 2008.
More than 1 in 3 Duke customers lost power in the derecho, a widespread, fast-moving wind storm. The storms damaged more than 150 miles of Duke’s power lines and damaged or destroyed more than 200 utility poles.
The straight-line winds left more than 30,000 households in and around Bloomington without electricity. Some outages lasted five days.
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Unusual weather? Climate change impact?
Jason Puma, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Indianapolis, said temperatures over the long July 4 holiday were within the normal range. It’s not unusual to see thunderstorms and 90 degree temperatures in Indiana during summer, he said.
The weather service issues a severe thunderstorm warning if a storm brings hail with a diameter of at least one inch or wind gusts of at least 50 mph. So far this year, Puma said, the NWS in Indianapolis has issued 113 warnings, which seemed fairly normal to him for this time of year. Puma has been with the service in Indianapolis for more than 20 years.
Gabriel Filippelli, executive director of Indiana University’s Environmental Resilience Institute, said climate change is causing a “more turbulent atmosphere,” which means storms likely will increase in frequency and/or intensity.
Warmer air holds more water vapor, and it can come down as heavy rain, which Indiana has recenlty experienced, he said.
When communities try to make their infrastructure more resilient to bad weather, they must make upgrades that can withstand not just storms of today — but those that will happen decades from now.
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Buried power lines?
Filippelli said the state’s most recent outages were largely caused by trees and tree limbs falling on overhead power lines, which should serve as a reminder that most modern cities bury their power lines, making them almost invulnerable to storms.
Overhead power lines also are exposed to higher temperatures — they can lose up to 20% of the power they’re transporting — increasing the state’s need for power generation, he said.
Duke Energy spokesperson Angeline Protogere said the company has some of its 39,000 miles of cable underground and especially targets outage-prone areas. However, she said, putting all of it underground would cost too much. She also said high-voltage transmission lines, which are unlike the power lines in neighborhoods, are not generally buried.
Protogere also said burying cable does not protect it from all damage, and when underground cables are damaged, problems may be more difficult to isolate and more costly to fix.
Filippelli said modern technology should make it easier for utilities to pinpoint problem locations.
And, he said, some of the highest costs related to storms are often disregarded in the “too costly” calculation: Storm damage is not just about infrastructure, business losses or inconveniences. Some people rely on electricity for critical medical devices and extreme heat can cause health problems. He said he understands Duke’s cost concerns, but said outages can cost lives.
Protogere said the utility continually upgrades its system, including cutting back trees near power lines, and replacing wooden power poles with sturdier ones made of steel, which also provide better protection against insects.
The utility also has installed what it calls “self-healing” technology, which detects power outages and reroutes power to restore service faster or avoid the outage altogether. Protogere likened the technology to a GPS system that reroutes a driver to avoid a construction area or heavy traffic.
She said the system allowed Duke’s customers to avoid more than 80,000 hours of power outages last year. The service is being provided to about 13% of customers, she said, but the utility hopes to soon cover about two-thirds of its customers.
Despite those efforts, Protogere said, power interruptions are inevitable.
“We will never eliminate power outages altogether,” she said, “particularly when you have an event of this scale.”
Other solutions to power outages?
Filippelli urged Hoosiers to keep power banks at home to charge their cell phones so they can stay updated on emergency information.
Filippelli said as more consumers buy electric vehicles, they will be able to use the power stored in those vehicles to charge their homes. According to a recent column in the Washington Post, some of the newest electric vehicles can power a home for three days.
A more expensive solution, Filippelli said, involves solar panels and a battery wall, in a garage, for example. Those can power a home every evening until the battery runs out — and they can bridge interruptions brought on by a storm.
Boris Ladwig can be reached at bladwig@heraldt.com. | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/indiana-derecho-knocks-out-power-to-1-in-3-duke-energy-customers/70388947007/ | 2023-07-10T15:02:57 | 1 | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2023/07/10/indiana-derecho-knocks-out-power-to-1-in-3-duke-energy-customers/70388947007/ |
My Favorite Ride: She's 17. Her Jeep is 40.
Victoria Mann came home one day when she was 14 to find an old Jeep Wagoneer Limited parked in the driveway at her dad's house. This wasn't unusual; Brian Mann has been fixing up and selling four-wheel-drive vehicles since the 1980s.
The beige paint on this one was faded and the surface had some dents and rough spots. The nutmeg-colored upholstery and bucket seats were shot. The headliner was hanging low. The vehicle was old, really old, manufactured 23 years before she was born.
And it was hers, a $2,500 gift from her dad. Her first car.
"She had no clue. When she asked what that was sitting in the driveway I said, 'That's your new Jeep!' She didn't really say much, not for a while," her dad recalled.
Was she overjoyed?
Not so much.
"I figured maybe I'd get a Jeep Wrangler, but when I saw this, I really thought it was something he was fixing up to sell. I guess I expected one ..." she paused, "not so old."
One from the 21st century perhaps.
But together, the father and daughter started tearing the old Jeep apart, gutting the interior.
Her dad fine-tuned the 360 V-8 engine and replaced the suspension, brakes and steering system. He installed a six-inch lift kit and 33-inch tires mounted on the original wheels.
Mann figures he's got $10,000 invested in the 40-year-old Wagoneer. He said it drives smooth and "will go straight down the road smooth at 80 miles an hour."
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Victoria got her driver's license and has been proudly driving her Jeep for about a year. At 17, her opinion of the relic has shifted since the day she first saw it.
"My friends think it's awesome, and they can hear me coming because they know the sound it makes," she said, describing the loud V-8 roar.
"My friends know what it sounds like too, so she can't hide," her dad said.
Jeep manufactured the Wagoneer Limited just one year. In 1984, it became the Grand Wagoneer and kept that name through 1992.
A magazine ad for the 1983 Jeep Wagoneer Limited called it "The Ultimate Wagon," and the official vehicle of the America's Cup. "Water covers three-quarters of the Earth's surface. Our Wagoneer covers the rest." It was pricy at $16,889 — $44,600 in 2020 dollars.
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The Wagoneer Limited featured tinted glass, a tilt steering wheel, cruise control, air conditioning, thick carpet, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, a premium audio system with electronic tuning, a cassette player and power windows, seats and door locks.
And fake-wood panel trim, thankfully long gone from Victoria's Jeep.
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UNION, Maine — A Maine man has drowned in a pond while trying to rescue his daughters, the Maine Warden Service said.
Henry Brooks, 46, of Hope was at Seven Tree Pond in Union on Saturday afternoon watching his 12- and 13-year-old daughters swim when one of them fell into deeper water where the river enters the pond, the warden service said. The other daughter also fell into the deeper water trying to rescue her sister and both were swept out to even deeper areas of the pond.
Brooks jumped into the water to rescue them, followed by his 27-year-old son, who grabbed a life jacket, the warden service said. The son swam to his sisters and brought them back to a nearby dock. When he looked back, he could not find his father, the warden service said.
Game wardens, fire and rescue crews, and the local sheriff's office searched the area by boat and foot but were unable to find Brooks. Three Maine Warden Service divers recovered Brooks' body at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday approximately 50 feet (15 meters) from shore, not far from the dock. The children were brought to PenBay Medical Center in Rockport, where they stayed overnight for observation.
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CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — A man was hit by a tractor trailer and killed during a series of cascading accidents on I-75 in Clayton County early Monday morning.
It happened just after 1 a.m. near the Mt. Zion Blvd. exit.
According to Clayton County Police, a first driver lost control of his vehicle and hit the inside barrier wall, leaving his car partially stopped in the far left lane.
A second driver then hit that car, and his car was left stopped in two of the further right lanes. Then a third car also became involved, hitting the debris in the roadway and also coming to a stop on the left shoulder.
It was the second driver who was hit by a tractor trailer as he got out of his car in the right lanes, with the truck hitting him on the left (driver's) side of his vehicle.
"The driver of the second vehicle was fatally killed during the fourth collision," police said.
There was no word on potential charges in the incident.
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JONESBORO, Ga. — Editor's note: The video above is from a previous version of the story.
Residents at Jonesboro's Tara Woods apartments are without water Monday, according to the Clayton County Water Authority.
The reason? The county says the apartment's management company owes them nearly $98,000.
In a statement, Red Apple Investments, who own the complex, said they blame the majority of the outstanding balance on tenants who did not pay rent during the pandemic.
However, it's important to note the water bill is already included in tenant's rent.
Clayton County Water Authority said they have tried working with management and still intend to turn off the water if the payment is not made.
11Alive has been working to reach management at the complex but has not heard back.
Clayton County Water Authority said Red Apple Investments had made five payments in 24 months. A spokeswoman for the water company said if Red Apple Investments would have acted in good faith, they wouldn't be in the situation they are in today.
Clayton County Water Authority said they awarded the complex $15,000 in July of 2022 from funding the county received from the CARES Act to help them get back on track with their payments to prevent tenants from having their water turned off.
A payment plan was also set up for Red Apple Investments, but Clayton County Water Authority said they defaulted.
11Alive's Cody Alcorn had a conversation with the management of Tara Woods Apartments on Thursday and sent a text asking "...if the outstanding balance will be paid by Monday (July 10)." He received a response stating, "Yes, we are working with the water company to resolve this."
The water company said this is not what they wanted to happen and felt for the residents of the complex but said it's come to a point where something must be done.
Clayton County Water Authority said Tara Woods is the only complex in the county with anywhere close to this amount for an outstanding water bill.
The water company said this was not an overnight decision, and they've made several departments aware throughout the county, including code enforcement and the commissioner's office. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/tara-woods-water-bill-deadline-atlanta/85-ad94585e-2d34-4192-b668-36819778be71 | 2023-07-10T15:04:46 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/tara-woods-water-bill-deadline-atlanta/85-ad94585e-2d34-4192-b668-36819778be71 |
ATLANTA — A woman was taken to the hospital for treatment early Monday morning after a tree fell onto her house in Grove Park, police said.
The Atlanta Police Department did not have additional details about the woman's condition. The incident was reported at a home on Charlotte Place a little after 3 a.m.
A resident at the home spoke to 11Alive outside and said the damage had occurred primarily upstairs, but that everyone was mostly okay.
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EUSTIS, Fla. — Eustis police have opened a death investigation after someone discovered a body Monday.
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Investigators responded to David Walker Drive near Mount Homer Road shortly before 8 a.m.
Police had few details to share about the case, but said the body was located in a field near a cell phone tower.
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As of 10 a.m., detectives remained at the scene working to gather more information.
A spokesperson for Eustis Police Department told Channel 9 that while it was early in the investigation, circumstances surrounding the death did not seem suspicious.
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At last check, police could not confirm the age or sex of the person who died.
Stay with WFTV.com for updates on this developing story.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Want to make your next trip to Discovery Cove to the next level? The resort unveiled its new “Ultimate VIP Experience” package on Monday.
The package includes added amenities and experiences for up to eight guests.
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Resort officials said the package is available as an add-on to any valid park admission.
Discovery Cove already provides guests with all-inclusive service including food and drink. The VIP package offers additional perks including:
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- VIP cabana complete with towel service, snack basket, mini fridge with Coca-Cola products and bottled water, dedicated cabana host, as well as a digital photo package and personalized buoy delivery with signature dolphin swim purchase.
- VIP concierge service to help tailor a schedule based on your group’s preferences.
- Get personal time with animal care specialists as they guide you through Explorer’s Aviary, Flamingo Encounter, The Grand Reef, and Snorkeling with Sharks.
- Reserved seating and table service for meals as well as a premium drink package upgrade including a full selection of unlimited alcoholic beverages, mixed drinks, frozen cocktails, wine, beer, and signature drinks.
- Valet parking and expedited entry.
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Pricing for the package starts at $1,899 to cover up to eight people.
You can make a reservation and learn more here or by calling 407-370-1427
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ORLANDO, Fla. — A Central Florida family was left with no legal recourse after they said their son died from a medical mistake.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The popular Brad’s Underground Pizza announced on Instagram on Monday that it will move to a larger kitchen in Orlando’s Curry Ford West in early July.
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The one-man-band ghost kitchen has taken Orlando’s foodie scene by storm, with customers ordering thin crust, double decker and deep dish pizzas via direct messages on Instagram weeks to months before the hand-delivered pies arrive.
Brad Czerkies said on Instagram that he has been stunned by the rave reviews of his pizza, which are often the subject of posts on the Orlando Foodie Forum, a Facebook group popular among Central Florida’s restaurant enthusiasts.
READ: Popular chain to open 15 new restaurants in Orlando after leaving the area almost 6 years ago
“I’ve received well over 1000 (direct messages),” he said in the post. “I’ve answered many of you, but many more are still waiting to hear back from me. Don’t worry. Your voices have been heard.”
Czerkies said the immense demand has forced him to move from his Maitland operation to Collab Kitchens, a facility at Curry Ford and South Conway roads that also houses Bento’s virtual kitchen, DoshiBox and Lucky Dragon.
READ: New rooftop restaurant offers unrivaled views of Disney’s nightly fireworks
“I’m still a one-man, one-owner operation, and I do this for the people of Orlando. I do this because we need it,” he said in the post. “I do this because this is the food I grew up on and love. I enjoy getting to share a little bit of my childhood with everyone.”
He said all orders will now be made through bradsunderground.com, and he will offer carryout as well. Deliveries will now be made through a third-party service.
READ: What’s all the buzz about? 9 things to know about Orlando’s new White Castle
Czerkies said he will post on his Instagram account once he is again accepting orders.
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WINTER PARK, Fla. — The incredibly popular SoDough Square pizzeria in Orlando’s SoDo District will soon open a second location -- this time in Winter Park.
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The restaurant, which offers Detroit-style pizzas, will open June 28 in the former Tin & Taco space at West Fairbanks and South New York avenues near Rollins College.
Owner Rob Bair, who grew up near Detroit, told Channel 9 on Thursday that the new restaurant will offer seven recipes unique to the new location, including pies with toppings such as capicola, jalapeño and hot honey. It will also offer salads and dry-rub wings.
The new location will offer strictly dinner service at first from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. -- or until it sells out of food -- Wednesday through Sunday.
Read: Jeff’s Bagel Run sprints toward 2 more new locations in Central Florida
If you’re still craving tacos and burritos from Tin & Taco -- SoDough Square’s sister restaurant -- while you’re in Winter Park, you’re in luck.
Bair said he plans to buy property nearby to build a new Tin & Taco location. The restaurant, which was founded in 2017, already has locations in downtown Orlando, the SoDo District, Lake Mary, Waterford Lakes and New Smyrna Beach.
He said he also plans to open two to three more SoDough Square locations in Central Florida before venturing out to the coast.
Read: Fazoli’s to open new Orlando restaurant 15 years after closing its last Orlando store
Bair is also the creator of Gringos Locos, which was founded in 2009 and has locations in downtown Orlando, the SoDo District, the Milk District, at the University of Central Florida and in the Amway Center.
One of SoDough Square’s most popular pies -- and Bair’s favorite pizza on the menu -- is the Detroit Rob City, which features 24-hour fermented housemade dough, housemade Detroit red sauce made from fresh tomatoes, a brick cheese blend shredded in house, dollops of whipped ricotta, fresh basil, pinched sausage, Ezzo cupped pepperoni and Mike’s Hot Honey.
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A man and two teenagers riding in a buggy pulled by a horse were seriously injured in a crash with a minivan over the weekend, authorities said.
State police in Centre County say the minivan struck the rear of the buggy on a road in Walker Township near Bellefonte shortly before 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
Police said the occupants of the buggy are believed to have suffered "major injuries” as the 50-year-old man driving and a 14-year-old youth were flown to Williamsport Hospital and a 15-year-old youth was taken by ambulance to Mount Nittany Medical Center.
Police said a 75-year-old woman in the minivan had a minor injury while the 80-year-old man driving and a 9-year-old girl who was a passenger were uninjured. But the driver was also taken to the medical center.
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Gun violence in Philadelphia is nothing new.
A mass shooting in which a shooter allegedly selected victims at random as he fired round after round along the streets of Kingsessing may be the most horrific recent example, but, tragic stories of loss of life lead the day's news on a regular basis.
And, for good reason.
Already, Philadelphia has seen 224 people killed -- according to police statistics -- since January and, Monday marked only the 174th day of the year.
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Hundreds of victims leave hundreds of mourning families and loved ones in their wake.
And, this past weekend, the nonprofit Mothers in Charge gathered in North Philadelphia with some of those closest to victims of gun violence in an effort to make a change.
"It's very bad right now -- a lot of it has to do with the availability of guns… There's too many guns in the hands of people who shouldn't have them," Dorothy Johnson-Speight, founder of Mothers in Charge told NBC10's Karen Hua.
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During a morning service at Christlike Pleasant Green Faith Baptist Church, members of the nonprofit gathered to discuss community strategies to deal with ongoing gun violence and shared ideas intended to help provide steps toward solutions.
"There needs to be more mentoring and more opportunities for young people, more things for them to do," she said.
NBC10 learned that many of the members of the congregation at the church on the 2900 block of N. 25th Street have been personally impacted by gun violence, just as members of Mothers in Charge have.
In fact, Johnson-Speight, founded the non-profit after her 24-year-old son, Khaaliq Jabbar Johnson was shot to death in a fight over a parking spot back in 2001.
But, she turned that grief into a mission with purpose.
"We do grief support for families who've lost loved ones, we provide that avenue for them to be able come and heal," Johnson-Speight said.
Gerald Chapman, senior pastor for the church, said that by having Mothers in Charge as a part of the day's service, members could talk about prevention, education and solutions, with some of those who have seen their lives upturned by violence in the city's streets.
"It has become such a problem that people are fearful of coming to church, fearful of coming out to anything in the community, not only by night but also by day," he said.
The church, he said, intends to be a safe space for the community, even though often, gunshots can be heard just around the block.
But, what might be a first step toward an end to gun violence? For, Johnson-Speight, legislation would be a step in the right direction, but, she also believes more community involvement could make an impact as well.
And, Chapman, for one, agreed.
"I think the number one solution is parent involvement, community involvement, church involvement," he said.
There are additional resources for people or communities that have endured gun violence in Philadelphia. Further information can be found here. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/seeking-peace-in-philly/mothers-in-charge-seeks-solutions-as-gun-violence-plagues-philly-streets/3601080/ | 2023-07-10T15:22:36 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/seeking-peace-in-philly/mothers-in-charge-seeks-solutions-as-gun-violence-plagues-philly-streets/3601080/ |
A Washington County man was prevented from bringing a loaded handgun onto his flight Monday morning when Transportation Security Administration officers at Pittsburgh International Airport detected it in his carry-on bag.
The 9mm handgun was loaded with 11 bullets, including one in the chamber, according to a TSA report.
The officer spotted the gun in the checkpoint X-ray machine. Airport police confiscated the weapon and the man, a Canonsburg resident, now faces a federal financial penalty.
Passengers are permitted to travel with unloaded firearms only in checked baggage. TSA has details on how to properly travel with a gun posted on its website.
Last year, 6,542 firearms were caught at 262 out of 430 airport security checkpoints nationwide. So far this year, 22 guns have been caught at Pittsburgh International’s checkpoints.
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PITTSBURGH — Christian Bey, the man convicted of fatally shooting an off-duty Pittsburgh police officer in 2019, has been sentenced to life in prison.
In April, after just one day of deliberations, a jury decided that Bey was guilty of murder in the first for killing Pittsburgh Police Officer Calvin Hall.
UPDATE: CHRISTIAN BEY WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON.
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A judge sentence Bey to life without parole this morning. Bey was found guilty in the 2019 murder of off-duty Pittsburgh Police Officer Calvin Hall back in April. pic.twitter.com/yJugFXt915
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Throughout the case, prosecutors said Hall was attempting to be the peacemaker when a block party in Homewood turned rowdy.
They said Hall interjected to diffuse the situation but was instead shot in the back three times by Bey.
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The union that represents locomotive engineers says a Thursday night coal train derailment in Virginia is renewing questions about Norfolk Southern's safety practices.
The derailment happened coming down out of the Appalachian Mountains near Elliston about 20 miles outside Roanoke. Fortunately, it involved coal cars and not hazardous materials like those that generated a huge plume of black smoke and forced evacuations in the eastern Ohio town of East Palestine after a different Norfolk Southern train derailed in February. That Ohio derailment triggered concerns nationwide about railroad safety and prompted calls for reforms from members of Congress and regulators.
“We’re just lucky right now that it’s coal. If it had been ethanol or LP gas or chlorine or anything like that, it could have been a totally different situation," said Randy Fannon, who leads the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union's safety task force.
Nineteen cars on the Virginia coal train derailed around 7:45 p.m. Thursday but remained upright and none of the coal spilled.
Before the derailment, the crew received a critical alarm from a trackside detector that a wheel bearing was overheating. But unlike in the East Palestine derailment where the crew received little warning, the crew was able to safely stop the Virginia train after it was alerted to the potential hazard.
The train's conductor found the railcar that triggered the alarm and confirmed the bearing was overheating. But a spokesman for the railroad said all the components appeared to be intact during a visual inspection.
Federal Railroad Administration spokesman Warren Flateau said the railroad decided to try and move the train to a siding, where the crew could safely set out the car with the overheating bearing without blocking the main track. But the train derailed before it reached the siding.
National Transportation Safety Board officials said late Friday they would investigate the Virginia derailment. While union officials and the railroads involved in an NTSB investigation aren’t allowed to speak publicly before that agency releases its findings, Fannon discussed the details of the crash Friday afternoon when the FRA was still leading the investigation. The NTSB had not taken the lead at that time.
Fannon said someone at the railroad’s headquarters in Atlanta who was working on the “hot box detector desk” told the crew to go ahead and move the train 8 miles (12.87 kilometers) down the track. The crew told union officials that they weren't comfortable with moving the train at the track speed of roughly 40 mph, so they kept the speed to around 20 mph. But the train still derailed.
Spokesman Tom Crosson said Norfolk Southern will use this derailment to help inform changes it is making to improve safety.
“This derailment should never have happened. It is unacceptable,” Crosson said. "We are working to achieve our goal of being the gold standard for safety in the railroad industry, and this incident strengthens our resolve."
Both the FRA and the NTSB said they were investigating Norfolk Southern's safety practices following the East Palestine derailment and several others in the past couple years.
The NTSB is doing a detailed investigation to determine everything that contributed to the East Palestine derailment, but investigators said in their preliminary report that an overheating bearing on a rail car carrying plastic pellets likely caused the derailment. The resulting fire burned for days as several cars carrying hazardous materials spilled their contents. Then officials decided to blow open five vinyl chloride cars and burn that chemical because they were worried those tank cars might explode.
“NS is still in the spotlight and they’re going to remain that way until they make some changes," Fannon said.
In years past before Norfolk Southern began overhauling its operations in 2019 and making widespread job cuts, Fannon said the railroad typically would have sent a mechanical inspector to examine the car after an overheating bearing was found to determine if it was safe to move the train. That doesn't happen anymore after all the cuts to the ranks of inspectors.
“I think the key to this is no qualified mechanical person inspected it,” Fannon said.
Norfolk Southern, like all the major freight railroads, has streamlined its operations over the past several years to reduce costs by relying more on running fewer, longer trains so it doesn't need as many crews or locomotives. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the other rail unions have said the changes make railroads riskier, spreading employees thin and making it difficult to take the time to properly inspect cars or complete needed preventative maintenance.
The railroads have defended their safety record.
Railroad officials have said they don't believe the cuts jeopardized safety, and they emphasize that they continue to meet the minimum federal standards. Norfolk Southern's CEO Alan Shaw has said he believes NS is a safe railroad and that he is committed to improving that. | https://richmond.com/news/local/business/rail-union-says-virginia-derailment-renews-questions-about-norfolk-southerns-safety-practices/article_241f8ece-1f32-11ee-8a82-97d031c0f557.html | 2023-07-10T15:30:38 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/business/rail-union-says-virginia-derailment-renews-questions-about-norfolk-southerns-safety-practices/article_241f8ece-1f32-11ee-8a82-97d031c0f557.html |
But the judge is yet to decide whether Abby Zwerner's case will end up in a civil courtroom or before the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission.
The Newport News School Board wants the lawsuit dismissed and argues that Zwerner suffered employment-related injuries. Workers’ compensation provides up to 500 weeks of benefits and lifetime medical care for injuries.
Zwerner was a first-grade teacher at Richneck Elementary School when she was shot in the hand and chest while sitting at her classroom reading table. The 25-year-old spent nearly two weeks in the hospital and has had multiple surgeries since the January shooting.
Newport News Circuit Court Judge Matthew Hoffman said that he will hold a hearing on the workers’ compensation matter in late October. Matters before the judge on Friday mostly involved the process of discovery, an early phase of a lawsuit where parties share evidence.
Anne Lahren, an attorney for the school board, argued that discovery should wait until Hoffman decides on the workers’ compensation matter.
But Kevin Biniazan, an attorney for Zwerner, pointed to other cases in the state in which discovery was allowed to proceed. Jeffrey Breit, another attorney for Zwerner, also said it was important to interview teachers before the new school year began.
Breit told reporters after the hearing that the legal team had no intention of interviewing any children before the workers’ compensation matter is resolved, while they may only seek to talk to one or two students if the case goes to trial.
Friday's decision was a victory for Zwerner, who did not attend the hearing and no longer works for Newport News Public Schools.
Zwerner is still on a “long road to recovery,” another one of her lawyers, Diane Toscano, said after Friday's hearing. “She's going to have physical and emotional scars for the rest of her life.”
The incident sent shock waves through the military shipbuilding community and the country, with many wondering how a child so young could access a gun and shoot his teacher.
The boy used a gun that belonged to his mother, Deja Taylor. She is facing trial in August on charges of felony neglect and reckless firearm storage on the state level. Last month, Taylor pleaded guilty in federal court to using marijuana while possessing a firearm, which is illegal under U.S. law.
Prosecutors in Newport News had also said in April that they were investigating whether the “actions or omissions” of any school employees could lead to criminal charges.
Meanwhile, Zwerner's lawsuit accuses the school system of gross negligence.
She describes a series of warnings school employees gave administrators in the hours before the shooting, beginning with Zwerner, who told an assistant principal that the boy “was in a violent mood,” had threatened to beat up a kindergartener and stared down a security officer in the lunchroom.
Other warnings included those from two students, who told a reading specialist the boy had a gun in his backpack, the lawsuit states. A search of his backpack found no weapon. And the assistant principal said the boy’s “pockets were too small to hold a handgun and did nothing,” Zwerner’s lawsuit states.
The lawsuit claims that school officials dismissed concerns about the boy’s violent behavior over the course of months. Often, after he was taken to the office, “he would return to class shortly thereafter with some type of reward, such as a piece of candy,” the lawsuit states.
The school board has pushed back, arguing in court documents that the boy was being evaluated and treated for possible ADHD — which causes inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity, while state and federal laws call for keeping such children in the classroom when possible.
The school system argues that Zwerner was “clearly injured while at work, at her place of employment, by a student in the classroom,” the board stated in court documents.
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MODESTO, Calif. — A man is dead after a crash in Modesto Sunday where three passengers were injured.
The crash happened around 4:15 a.m. on McClure Road, north of Leckron Road, according to California Highway Patrol.
A white vehicle was heading northbound on McClure Road when it crossed the southbound lane and collided with a parked trailer. A 34-year-old Modesto man driving the white car was pronounced dead at the scene.
Three passengers in the white car had major injuries and were taken to a hospital. The passengers, also from Modesto, include a 29-year-old woman, a 9-year-old girl and a 5-year-old girl.
CHP said the driver was wearing a seatbelt and it is unknown if drugs or alcohol were a factor in the crash.
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ROSEVILLE, Calif. — The search for escaped inmate and Mahany Park shootout suspect, Eric Abril, enters the second day in Placer County Monday.
Law enforcement from several agencies are involved in searching for the suspect who escaped custody overnight Sunday at the Sutter Roseville Medical Center.
Abril was last seen on video walking near Rainier Court in Rocklin around 3:39 a.m. Sunday. He was then spotted heading northbound near Saddletree Lane not long afterward, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Office. Those areas are about three miles north of the hospital.
The 35-year-old is about six feet tall, 175 pounds and has brown hair. The Rocklin Police Department said he has a tattoo on his left shoulder resembling ocean waves and bamboo. People are asked to call 911 if they see him. A tip line is also set up at 916-409-1257.
Abril is facing murder and kidnapping charges from the April 6 shootout at Mahany Park that left hostage James MacEgan dead. MacEgan's wife and a CHP officer were wounded.
Roseville Mahany Park Shooting
The shootout started around 12:30 p.m. on April 6, when California Highway Patrol was looking for Eric Abril so they could execute a search warrant in connection with a freeway shooting.
A CHP task force officer reported shots fired and CHP Officer Matthew Hiatt was hit.
Firefighters from Station 5 brought the officer into the station and provided medical treatment.
Roseville officers then responded to Mahany Park and were confronted by Abril, who was armed and running away from them.
Abril took two people hostage, husband and wife James and Patricia MacEgan, and he got into a shootout with law enforcement.
Abril allegedly shot the two hostages, injuring Patricia and killing James, before he was taken into custody.
Days after the shooting, ABC10 learned from police they were told about California Highway Patrol surveillance in the area on April 6, but not details about the search warrant they were trying to execute on Eric Abril.
They said 6 CHP officers were involved in the initial confrontation with Abril and then three Roseville police officers arrived.
CHP officers fired 15-25 rounds at Abril while Roseville police fired six rounds, and Abril allegedly fired 15-20 rounds at officers during the standoff.
Documents filed in Placer County Superior Court say Abril was wearing body armor and used a 10mm during the shootout.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon Health & Science University researchers conducted a new study that's raising concerns about cannabis use during pregnancy.
Marijuana use is more and more accepted in many parts of the country including in the Pacific Northwest. But researchers are still learning about how THC — the compound that gives marijuana its high — affects different populations including pregnant women.
“With cannabis, there's really a lack of safety data so what I found was, in the clinic when patients were looking on their own about cannabis use in pregnancy, they just weren't really coming up with much,” said Dr. Jamie Lo , associate professor obstetrics and gynecology at OHSU.
Lo is one of the OHSU researchers who studied THC in pregnant primates and monkeys. The study used cannabis-infused edibles, and the researchers gave them to female monkeys several months before conception and during their pregnancies. Other primates got a placebo.
“What we found was when there's maternal use of THC during pregnancy, there are changes of genes of babies born that affect neurodevelopment behavior including disorders like autism spectrum disorder,” Lo said.
In a pre-clinical study published in the journal Clinical Epigenetics, researchers called the changes "significant" and associated them with neurobehavioral disorders that are linked to poor health outcomes in childhood and adolescence, from poorer memory and verbal reasoning skills, to increased hyperactivity and inattention.
While more research is needed, this is important early information for pregnant women who are increasingly relying on cannabis edible to manage morning sickness, especially in the critical first trimester of pregnancy.
Lo said it's important to provide women with risk information if they are or are planning to become pregnant.
“What's really important to highlight at this moment is that we just don't really have enough evidence to say that there is a safe dose of THC or cannabis that you can use while pregnant, and we’re really just still learning about the potential health outcomes and effects it may have on children down the road,” Lo said. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/cannabis-use-pregnancy-baby-impact/283-f02d8bee-7637-4de1-8cd5-4b30c2806544 | 2023-07-10T15:33:55 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/cannabis-use-pregnancy-baby-impact/283-f02d8bee-7637-4de1-8cd5-4b30c2806544 |
Study suggests 'forever chemicals' could be in 45% of American homes, a figure that tracks Wisconsin findings
MADISON – Nearly half of U.S. households could have some sort of "forever chemical" contaminants in their tap water, according to a new study from the United States Geological Survey that closely tracks the findings of a Journal Sentinel investigation in Wisconsin.
The study estimated that 45% of tap water in the country contains one or more PFAS.
Last summer, the Journal Sentinel collected and analyzed tap water from 40 Wisconsin communities. About 40% of the samples had detectable levels of at least one type of PFAS, with 30% of the samples above the very low health action limits recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency last year.
For the USGS survey, 716 tap water samples were collected and analyzed from across the United States, representing areas with high, medium and low-level impacts from humans, according to the study. The low category included protected lands, the medium category included residential and rural areas with no known PFAS sources, and the high category included urban areas and locations with reported PFAS sources such as industry or waste sites.
For the most part, PFAS were detected in urban areas and potential PFAS sources. Scientists estimate that the probability of PFAS not being found in tap water is about 75% in rural areas and around 25% in urban areas.
In Wisconsin, the USGS survey tested eight sites — three private wells and five public drinking water systems. All of them had detections of PFOA or PFOS above the federal recommendations of 4 parts per trillion, but below the state's regulation of 70 parts per trillion.
The survey didn't list locations where the samples were collected, because they came from individual households, but the data still helps to give an idea of how widespread the issue could be, said Kelly Smalling, a USGS research hydrogeologist and one of the authors of the study.
It also provides more insight into the impact on private wells, Smalling said, which hasn't been looked at as much as public water systems. Concentrations and the compounds found in private wells were similar to what was found in systems, she said.
"In areas where maybe we don't have information on private wells, people could actually look to their public supplies and see what the PFAS risk of exposure in public supply is to kind of get a better understanding of what may be going on in their private well," she said. "It's definitely not going to be a one-to-one relationship, but I think it starts to give private-well users a little more information than they had a couple of weeks ago."
PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a family of man-made chemicals used for their water- and stain-resistant qualities in products like clothing and carpet, nonstick cookware, packaging and firefighting foam. The family includes 5,000 compounds, which are persistent, remaining both in the environment and human body over time.
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The chemicals have been linked to types of kidney and testicular cancers, lower birth weights, harm to immune and reproductive systems, altered hormone regulation and altered thyroid hormones. The chemicals enter the human body largely through drinking water.
PFAS have been found across the state in communities like La Crosse, Marinette, Peshtigo, Milwaukee, Madison, Rib Mountain, the Town of Stella, Rhinelander and Eau Claire.
As the number of contaminations grew across the state, regulators worked to create regulations, which went into effect last year, setting the 70 parts per trillion standard for drinking water. The federal government's regulation of 4 parts per trillion will likely go through months, if not years, of evaluation before it's enacted into any type of law.
The state doesn't have regulations for groundwater, but the Department of Natural Resources this year began the three-year rulemaking process to establish those. In Wisconsin, about 1 million households rely on private wells, or about 30% of the state's population.
In the meantime, the small dataset from the USGS could help regulators make more informed decisions at the state and local level.
Steve Elmore, the drinking water and groundwater program director for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, said that having data like this is only going to help form better regulations to protect people.
"Having more information about the distribution of PFAS in drinking water across Wisconsin and the nation, whether from a public water system or a private well, is critical for developing sound policy for protecting all Wisconsinites from PFAS exposure," he said. "Without understanding where water is PFAS-impacted, we cannot take steps to efficiently address its contamination."
And while regulations are still being worked on, those worried about their tap water could use this data to make informed decisions about treatment options, or use it to encourage their local public health agency to do a round of PFAS testing.
"It's a personal issue, and if folks are really worried about the quality of their drinking water, they can use this information," Smalling said. "And they can evaluate their own personal risk."
Laura Schulte can be reached at leschulte@jrn.com and on Twitter at @SchulteLaura. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2023/07/10/pfas-could-be-in-45-of-us-tap-water-study-suggests/70384387007/ | 2023-07-10T15:39:26 | 0 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2023/07/10/pfas-could-be-in-45-of-us-tap-water-study-suggests/70384387007/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — There's a local organization teaching young girls across Marion County how to become empowered, smart and brilliant young women.
Ladies Under Construction is a local 501(c) 3 organization providing mentoring and outreach services to girls ages 8 to 18.
Right now, they have about 24 girls enrolled in the summer program, which goes on for several weeks.
"It's for me to learn how to be a better woman for myself and others around me," 10-year-old Jarmani Teague said.
"It has helped me become in a better environment and want to basically be a better person and steer away from the violence and do good for the community," 14-year-old Jazmyn Lottie said.
Leaders with the organization said this summer, the girls are learning about leadership, character development and etiquette.
"Really teaching the young ladies poise, grace, posture and all of those different things," founder Aleanya Moore said. "And at the end of our camp experience, we're going to all get in a limo bus and we're going to dress up, and we're going to go ahead and take the girls to Sullivan's Steakhouse to give them a dining experience."
The girls will head to a special dinner July 16 before graduating from the summer program.
Organizers said they are now accepting girls for the fall program. You can find more information by calling 317-721-4582 or visiting their website. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/ladies-under-construction-indianapolis-empower-young-women/531-1a945798-81d1-4e43-9802-fdade7fefdc3 | 2023-07-10T15:55:30 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/ladies-under-construction-indianapolis-empower-young-women/531-1a945798-81d1-4e43-9802-fdade7fefdc3 |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Wichita Warbird Weekend concluded Sunday at the B-29 Doc Hanger, Education and Visitor Center.
The week-long Warbird Squadron event featured historic World War II aircraft, including B-29 Doc, B-25 Berlin Express, and the lead D-Day aircraft, That’s All, Brother.
The one-of-a-kind experience gives Kansans a look at the planes that paved the way for our victory in World War II that were built right here in Wichita.
“It’s important to have those back home so not only the people here but the people around the world can see that this is where aviation was a prime factor for all these years,” said Franklin Berry, B-29 Doc historian.
For others like Arles Oakley, whose dad served, this was a chance to connect with their lost loved ones.
“We used to go to air shows when I was a kid all the time, and he would, you know, he would tell me about the planes and all that good stuff. And yeah, it’s been a pretty good experience,” said Oakley | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/wichita-warbird-weekend-features-world-war-ii-era-planes/ | 2023-07-10T15:55:37 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/wichita-warbird-weekend-features-world-war-ii-era-planes/ |
FRANKENMUTH, Mich. (WJRT) - The family of Dorothy Zehnder announced her death on Monday at age 101.
Zehnder was the beloved matriarch of the landmark Bavarian Inn in downtown Frankenmuth. She died at home surrounded by her family on Sunday.
The Zehnder family released the following statement on Monday:
"We mourn the passing of our beloved mother, grandmother, and family matriarch. We extend our thanks for the support from the Frankenmuth community and ask that you help us remember Dorothy for the amazing woman she was and who will remain in our hearts. Our family will continue to uphold the spirit of Dorothy and her legacy to this community."
Zehnder was born in Reese on Dec. 1, 1921. She dedicated more than 85 of her 101 years to the family owned restaurant, working behind the scenes in the kitchen regularly until nearly her 100th birthday.
She taught thousands of employees how to make the Bavarian Inn's signature dishes while following the company's philosophy of "working efficiently old fashioned."
Zehnder was a cofounder of the Bavarian Inn and its associated businesses with her late husband William "Tiny" Zehnder, including the landmark restaurant, Castle Shops, Bavarian Inn Lodge, River Place Shops, Covered Bridge Shop, Frank's Muth, Frankenmuth Cheese Haus and an online store.
Bavarian Inn Corp. has grown to over 1,000 employees and the Bavarian Inn Restaurant ranks among the 50 largest in the United States with about 900,000 meals served annually.
Zehnder has been inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame and received the Saginaw Lifetime Achievement Award. She also authored three cookbooks, including "From My Kitchen to Yours" in 2014.
Zehnder was diagnosed with ovarian cancer three years ago, when she was 98 years old. She is survived by her brother, two children, a son-in-law, 10 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, sister and daughter.
The Zehnder family will announce funeral arrangements later this week. She will be buried in St. Lorenz Cemetery alongside her husband, Tiny.
The family requests memorial contributions to St. Lorenz Lutheran Church, where Dorothy attended for her whole life, or Frankenmuth City Beautification. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/dorothy-zehnder-has-died-at-age-101/article_fda415e6-1f2f-11ee-9fa4-2b8caa7cf08e.html | 2023-07-10T15:56:48 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/dorothy-zehnder-has-died-at-age-101/article_fda415e6-1f2f-11ee-9fa4-2b8caa7cf08e.html |
GROVELAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - A 25-year-old man from Oxford died after a head-on crash south of Grand Blanc on Friday evening.
Michigan State Police say the Oxford man was driving a Suzuki SUV south on Dixie Highway near Tripp Road in Oakland County's Groveland Township around 8:45 p.m. when he crossed the center line.
The Suzuki crashed head-on into a GMC Acadia, which was traveling northbound.
The Suzuki driver, who police did not identify, was thrown out of his SUV through the rear window. An ambulance rushed him to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The driver and passenger in the Acadia reported only minor injuries Friday.
Michigan State Police will continue investigating what caused the Oxford man to drive across the center line. An autopsy will be scheduled. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/oxford-man-dies-after-head-on-crash-on-dixie-highway/article_72287074-1f17-11ee-988e-2ff5b3d3d4d8.html | 2023-07-10T15:56:54 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/oxford-man-dies-after-head-on-crash-on-dixie-highway/article_72287074-1f17-11ee-988e-2ff5b3d3d4d8.html |
Updated 3:53 p.m.
GREENSBORO — East Wendover Avenue has reopened, according to a news release from Greensboro police.
Posted 1:30 p.m.
GREENSBORO — Authorities have closed East Wendover Avenue between Willard Street and Huffine Mill Road due to an investigation.
Greensboro police have not given further information about the incident.
Motorists are asked to use use alternate routes. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-courts/update-east-wendover-avenue-reopens-in-greensboro-after-closure-for-police-investigation/article_3ce6dec2-1e7d-11ee-8186-731b02dc6a42.html | 2023-07-10T16:09:03 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-courts/update-east-wendover-avenue-reopens-in-greensboro-after-closure-for-police-investigation/article_3ce6dec2-1e7d-11ee-8186-731b02dc6a42.html |
GREENSBORO — It’s a list that is too long.
A list of 36 people who have lost their lives to homicide this year in Greensboro.
A list that is on pace to exceed the city’s record high of 61 homicides in 2020.
Mayor Nancy Vaughan, who was unable to attend Friday’s briefing about the alarming trend at the Greensboro Police Department, shared her concerns in a written statement:
“It’s heartbreaking to see the loss of life of teenagers and young adults who had their whole life ahead of them,” Vaughan said. “As a mother, I’m disturbed by the brazen acts of homes being riddled with bullets, threatening the lives of innocent children. This is unacceptable and not the reputation we want Greensboro to be known for.”
As of Friday afternoon, here’s a list of those who have died this year:
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• Jan. 1: Natasha Yvette Walker, 32, died of her injuries hours after being shot in the area of Cridland Road and Parkway Street.
• Jan. 22: Jordan Little, 31, died after being shot in the 1900 block of Larkin Street.
• Jan. 28: Duan K, 34, died after being shot in the 2800 block of Pinecroft Road near Holden Road.
• Jan. 28: Kalup Maynard, 26, died after being shot in 3500 block of Lynhaven Drive, which is off Creek Ridge Road near Interstate 85.
• Jan. 29: Cedric Cantrell Monroe, 36, died after being shot at Southside Johnny’s, a gentleman's club at 6400 W. Market St.
• Feb. 5: Tron Davis, 14, was shot shortly after 5 p.m. at an apartment complex on 2616 North Church St. He died in a local hospital on Feb. 7.
• Feb. 6: Quantell Tehmel White, 21, was found shot to death in the area of St. Croix Place, off West Friendly Avenue.
• Feb. 15: Jesse Pitonzo, 26, died of stabbing injuries in the 4700 block of Champion Court.
• Feb. 18: Xavier Devonte Davis, 20, died after an aggravated assault in the 1500 block of Autumn Drive.
• Feb. 18: Ravett Patrice Robinson, 34, was found dead in a homicide/suicide in the 900 block of Ailanthus Street. Tevin Kewann Jolly, 31, was also found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
• March 1: Lanceford Ross Williams, 37, died after being shot near the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Carolyn Coleman Way.
• March 2: Robert Starr Pennix Jr., 62, died after being shot in the 3700 block of Peterson Avenue.
• March 16: Cash Whitaker, 3, and Landon Dennis, 2, both died in a fire at the Dennis home on Glenside Drive.
• March 23: Sharelle Johnson, 25, died after being shot in the 2400 block of Phillips Avenue.
• March 26: Omarion McKoy, 18, died after being shot in the 400 block of Woodlake Drive.
• March 27: Erica Burden, 47, died after being found suffering from "free-bleeding trauma" in the 100 block of Winston Street.
• April 1: Shade Wilhite, 2, died of extensive injuries at the home of her grandmother in the 400 block of Oferrell Street. Her grandmother was later charged in the child's death.
• April 1: Grimsley High student Ariyonna "Ari" Fountain, 17, died after being shot in the 1300 block of Ogden Street.
• April 4: N.C. A&T freshman Deja Rae Reaves, 18, of Chicago died after being shot in the 1000 block of Sullivan Street.
• May 13: Kristen Coe Valdez, 33, died after an aggravated assault on Forestglade Drive. Police did not release her cause of death.
• May 31: Rufus Moyer, 59, died after being shot May 19 in the 3400 block of West Gate City Boulevard.
• June 9: The body of Melvin Vincent Bailey, 25, was found by firefighters in a vehicle in the area of 1801 Huffine Mill Road. According to an autopsy, his death was a homicide.
• June 9: Christopher Savalas Parson Senior, 47, was found dead at a residence in the 1600 block of East Washington Street. He had been shot.
• June 11: Kayla Peterson, 21, died after being shot in the 4500 block of West Market Street.
• June 12: Susan Renaye Fox, 41, died from injuries she received after being shot June 11 in the 300 block of West JJ Drive.
• June 14: Famous Mason, 32, died from injuries received in a shooting shortly after 12:30 a.m. on April 24 at the Lees Brass Taps Bar & Grill in the 2500 block of Battleground Avenue.
• June 17: Eric Wayne Miller Jr., 32, died of his injuries after being shot on June 16 at the Choice Extended Stay in the 100 block of East Seneca Road.
• June 22: Graham Thomas Roberson, 51, was fatally shot by a Greensboro police officer after law enforcement was called to the 1000 block of Tuscaloosa Street around 12:12 a.m. in reference to a suspicious vehicle. Police say Roberson displayed a firearm prior to being shot.
• June 23: Lennis Beard, 37, died after being shot in the area of Bywood Road and Phillips Avenue.
• June 29: Douglas Lane Gillie Jr., 62, was found shot to death in his home at 5100 Bayberry Lane.
• June 30: Man who has yet to be identified by police. The man, who was armed with knives, was fatally shot when police say he charged toward officers in the parking lot of a BP convenience store on Randleman Road.
• July 2: Darrin Lamont Dennis, 40, died after being shot in the 2100 block of Randall Street.
• July 3: Theressa Little Johnson, 66, and Chestani Elizabeth Jones, 21, died after being shot at 1304 Blackmoor Road.
• July 6: Tevin Christopher Johnson, 29, died after being found injured in the roadway in the 2100 block of White Street. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/greensboro-homicides/article_b713c176-1c14-11ee-9566-0f0b2a582541.html | 2023-07-10T16:09:09 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/greensboro-homicides/article_b713c176-1c14-11ee-9566-0f0b2a582541.html |
GREENSBORO — Irish Spencer made a passionate plea Friday as she spoke about families who can’t afford to bury or cremate loved ones killed by recent violence in the Triad.
That includes 36 homicides in Greensboro so far during 2023 — an alarming jump from 41 for the entire year in 2022. The city had a record high of 61 homicides in 2020.
“We’re dealing with the aftermath,” Spencer said of the work her nonprofit is doing to help grieving families. “So if you’re out here causing the aftermath, I need you to please stop. ... We are very, very tired.”
Spencer founded Families Against Senseless Killings in 2016 after her son, Tre, was shot and killed in Greensboro. On Friday, she was among the speakers who participated in a “call to action” at the city’s police headquarters to talk about how the spike in homicides is affecting the community.
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“We’ve got to work together,” Spencer said about helping neighborhoods find solutions to prevent violence. “When you are in war, you’ve got to sit down and you’ve got to strategize.”
Spencer commended Police Chief John Thompson for being “proactive” and bringing community representatives together so that they can address violent crime.
Thompson spoke about the “horrible” trend of what the department is seeing in the number and types of homicides during 2023 — including the 25% attributed to domestic and family violence. Thompson said he hopes the community can better partner with police to help prevent those.
“We don’t police inside people’s homes,” Thompson said. “We don’t police family relationships. And that is a challenge that we face.”
Councilwoman Goldie Wells, who represents District 2 in east Greensboro, said she is “greatly concerned” about the number of homicides this year.
“Thirteen of them have taken place in the district where I serve,” Wells said.
Of the 36 homicides, 50% of those deaths were Black males and 29% were Black females, Wells said.
“Councilwoman (Sharon) Hightower and I serve the districts that are predominantly Black and brown folks,” Wells said. “The death rate of our Black men and women is higher ... and we are very concerned.”
Wells described the “senseless” losses of young people as a “community crisis.”
Hightower, who represents District 1, said she has seen an uptick in violence and emphasized that police can’t solve the issue alone.
“We must get to the root of this violence,” Hightower said. “How do we teach people to respect one another? To respect the lives of each other?”
Hightower urged leaders across the city to come together to “change the future” and prevent the type of violence that took the lives of two women and injured a 3-year-old boy on Monday night.
“It’s up to each of us to be a part of the solution,” she said. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/greensboro-homicides/article_c0381d12-1d0c-11ee-b923-fffcf073bb3c.html | 2023-07-10T16:09:15 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/greensboro-homicides/article_c0381d12-1d0c-11ee-b923-fffcf073bb3c.html |
ASHEBORO — The votes are tallied and the sand kittens recently born at the North Carolina Zoo now have names.
The kittens, born May 11, are Amira (an Arabic name meaning princess) and Cleo (for Cleopatra, the iconic Queen of Egypt) for the female kittens, and Jabari (an Arabic name meaning brave or fearless) for the male kitten.
The public was invited to vote in an online poll from a list of names provided by zookeepers. The poll had more than 15,000 responses, according to a news release from the zoo.
The kittens were born to first-time mother Sahara, 3, and father Cosmo, 9. This is the first litter for the sand cat pair.
Cosmo and Sahara were paired as a part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Sand Cat Species Survival Plan, which aims to maintain a healthy and genetically diverse population of sand cats to increase their numbers. More than 50 sand cats live at over 20 Association of Zoos institutions.
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"Glad to see herding cats is just as difficult for cats as it is the rest of us, and yet first-time mom Sahara is doing a fantastic job with her very fast, very adventurous and sometimes very naughty three kittens," Desert Keeper Eric Mahan said in the release.
Sand cats are native to the deserts of North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia.
Adults weigh between four and eight pounds and measure about 20 inches long. Under human care, a sand cat can live to be 13 years old. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/sand-cat-kittens-nc-zoo-names/article_ea6e5a50-1d12-11ee-bd30-3bb1a4923f1d.html | 2023-07-10T16:09:21 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/sand-cat-kittens-nc-zoo-names/article_ea6e5a50-1d12-11ee-bd30-3bb1a4923f1d.html |
GREENSBORO — Tyarra Williams vanished.
The 5-foot-5, 120-pound Dudley High graduate dressed in blue Levis, a black jacket, a pink shirt and a royal blue toboggan, walked out of her mother’s Stoneybrook Apartments unit on a frigid January night in 2016.
She was last seen walking across the parking lot at the apartment complex on Webster Road, where she lived, to see a friend in another unit.
The GPS tracker on Williams’ cellphone showed her leaving the friend’s house.
And nothing else.
Williams was gone.
None of the neighbors in the many buildings that surround the apartment remembered seeing anything unusual. None of the people across the country who have shared her “missing” poster — now viewed four million times on social media — had any additional details to offer. And none of the foot patrols that have canvassed neighborhoods ever found anything of consequence.
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None of them have been able to help bring Williams home.
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Today. Seven years later.
“That case has really bothered me,” admitted Natalie Wilson, who, along with her cousin Derrica Wilson, are the co-founders of the Black and Missing Foundation, a national organization whose mission is to draw attention to cases involving minorities so that they can hopefully come home.
Williams’ case is receiving renewed interest on several fronts, including the organization’s upcoming “Black and Missing” podcast later this summer.
“She just disappeared,” Wilson said.
The unsolved mystery is also getting another look by Greensboro police charged with revisiting old cases. Two retired investigators have been hired on a part-time basis, but it’s unclear where they’ll start. While some details shed light on Williams whereabouts prior to her disappearance, all they’ve done up until this point is provide a backstory rather than a direction for detectives to take.
Williams, who was 19 at the time she went missing, had spent the day signing up for college classes before helping her mother take down their Christmas tree.
Retired Det. Mike Matthews, who was the lead investigator on such high-profile cases as the Old Navy shooting of an armored truck guard by a former employee, says he’ll need the public’s help.
“We’ve never stopped looking,” Matthews said.
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Despite past national television exposure, including a popular Facebook page dedicated to finding Williams, investigators say they have little to go on.
A 46-second long video of a laughing, smiling and carefree Williams is on the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s website.
Williams’ mother, Danielle, is working with the police but has stopped giving interviews after appearing on numerous television news shows.
She maintains a Facebook account called “Help Find Tyarra Cacique Williams” and on her daughter’s 27th birthday in June wrote: At this point in life she should have been done with college and working with children and enjoying life.
The mother would go on to say that she should be waking up to wish her daughter a happy birthday and writing a different post, one where her child would be alive.
On social media, she often speaks to people she thinks may be involved in her daughter’s disappearance. One such post read:
I want the persons involved to know you have taken so much from her life and such a wonderful light from us. ... I said “persons” because no one can hold such a horrible secret so long by themselves. Somebody knows something.
If they do, they obviously haven’t come forward. It’s likely going to take someone with knowledge of what happened that night to revive the case and provide detectives with fresh leads.
And a mother hope.
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January. Seven years ago.
Williams, who didn’t drive, said she was on the way to see a friend and would be back in an hour.
Her phone charger was still plugged into an outlet.
Nearby Webster Road, where Williams lived, connects with busy Randleman Road and South Elm-Eugene Street and is largely surrounded by wooded acres of land.
Early on, investigators said they don’t believe Williams just walked away from her life that cold night.
They also have no physical evidence of what took place.
As word spread that a young woman was missing in Greensboro, and posters popped up all over the city featuring Williams with a toothy grin, perfectly coiffed hair and soulful eyes, calls began pouring into police.
One person said they saw her at a Walmart store. Another thought she had been on a city bus. Yet another reported seeing her walking on Vandalia Road.
But none of those tips panned out.
None of those tips could bring a young woman home.
“I think some of it is wishful thinking, hoping that a person who looks something like her might be her,” Williams’ mother, who works in the medical administration field, said at the time. “I wish it had been her. But we believe that if she could be home, she would be home.”
The day she went missing, Williams had registered for classes at GTCC and was going back with her mother the next day to pick up books. She wanted to be a teacher.
Since then, family and friends passed out fliers, tacking them up all around town, held searches and set up a website and social media alerts.
Through her cellphone’s GPS tracker, police determined that Williams made it to the friend’s apartment and appeared to be headed home when she disappeared.
The phone hasn’t been used since she went missing.
Over time, the public has given police a variety of tips. But they’ve done little to fill in the blanks of that night to say nothing of actually advancing the case.
The trail has just gone cold.
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Former Police Chief Brian James came up with the idea to hire two part-time investigators to look into old cases that have never been solved. With Williams and the others, that would mean pulling old files and scheduling new interviews.
“A lot of time and circumstances have changed and we hope it encourages someone to say something,” Matthews said.
In the meantime, her family has taken hope in the missing people who have been found in the years since Williams’ disappearance, including Jaycee Dugard, who resurfaced 18 years after being kidnapped. Another, then-13-year-old Jayme Closs, was found months after her parents were discovered dead in their Wisconsin residence. She was able to escape a home where police said she was being held captive.
The Black and Missing organization has enjoyed success in drawing attention to cases that have gone unresolved.
Their first was Tamika Huston of Spartanburg, S.C., who disappeared a year before Natalee Holloway, a white college student on spring break in Aruba whose case dominated the news cycle.
“And no one knew Tamika’s name,” Miller said. “And her aunt reached out to those same reporters, same networks, and there was no interest in Tamika’s story so we said we have to use our voices.”
While wanting everyone who is missing to be able to return to their families, the organization uses its resources on minorities because of the documented disparity in the media coverage of missing minorities and those of white women.
“Time is of the essence and these cases are very challenging,” Wilson said.
In Huston’s case, her boyfriend later confessed to the crime.
Both Miller and Matthews hope the renewed public interest in Williams’ case spurs someone to say something. Soon.
“Her family is waiting,” Matthews said. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/tyarra-williams/article_38c312e2-1c71-11ee-8f6d-1b1afe8f488c.html | 2023-07-10T16:09:27 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/tyarra-williams/article_38c312e2-1c71-11ee-8f6d-1b1afe8f488c.html |
GREENSBORO — The National Weather Service in Raleigh has issued a flash flood warning for Guilford, Alamance, Randolph and northwestern Chatham counties.
The warning is set to expire at 3 p.m. today. At 12:24 p.m., Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the area and up to two inches of rain have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is two inches in one hour, the weather service said. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly, according to the warning.
Nearly 19,000 customers in Guilford County were without power as of 1:11 p.m., with scattered outages in surrounding counties, according to Duke Energy's website.
A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for the area until 6 p.m. tonight. The storms may include damaging winds, torrential downpours and small hail, according to the watch statement. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/weather/flash-flooding-power-outages-guilford-alamance-randolph/article_e1dc11a2-1e7a-11ee-8b9e-5f2b6c4fc10c.html | 2023-07-10T16:09:33 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/weather/flash-flooding-power-outages-guilford-alamance-randolph/article_e1dc11a2-1e7a-11ee-8b9e-5f2b6c4fc10c.html |
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