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DALLAS (KDAF) — If you don’t know who Sam Hunt is … where have you been?
This Country rockstar just released his new EP during Mother’s Day and is now taking his music to Dallas on his Summer On The Outskirts tour.
This will be his tenth year traveling the country with his band, and Hunt will be in Dallas on Aug. 19, according to his Instagram. Don’t miss Sam Hunt live at the Dos Equis Pavilion. You can purchase tickets here.
If you aren’t able to make it to his Dallas performance, Hunt will be in Houston on Aug. 18 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. You can find tickets for that event here.
Either way, we don’t have to have any more “house parties” since Sam Hunt is bringing the party to us. Don’t miss out on the chance to see him live!
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DALLAS — Yaqub Talib, brother of former NFL cornerback Aqib Talib, has taken a plea deal ahead of his trial for a murder charge in the death of a North Texas youth football coach.
Yaqub Talib's trial had been set for Aug. 7, but Talib, instead, took a plea deal for 37 years in prison, according to officials. Formal sentencing and victim impact statements are still scheduled to take place on Aug. 7.
Yaqub Talib was arrested and charged for the Aug. 13, 2022, incident during a youth football game in Lancaster.
Video from the incident showed a brawl between adults during the game that ultimately led to a shooting. Yaqub Talib was accused of shooting and killing coach Mike Hickmon. Talib turned himself in days after the shooting.
Prior to the trial beginning, a Dallas County court had given the prosecution permission to use Talib's previous offenses in the murder trial. Those offenses included aggravated assault, unlawful carrying of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance.
Hickmon's family also filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Talib and Big 12 Youth Sports League. The family is seeking $1 million in damages and is calling for a jury trial.
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...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS
EVENING...
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM EDT /10 AM CDT/ TO 8 PM EDT
/7 PM CDT/ FRIDAY...
* WHAT...For the Heat Advisory Thursday, heat index values up to
109. For the Heat Advisory on Friday, heat index values up to
111 expected.
* WHERE...Portions of southeast Alabama, Big Bend and Panhandle
Florida and south central and southwest Georgia.
* WHEN...For the first Heat Advisory, until 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/
this evening. For the second Heat Advisory, from 11 AM EDT /10
AM CDT/ to 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ Friday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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Weather Alert
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS
EVENING...
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM EDT /10 AM CDT/ TO 8 PM EDT
/7 PM CDT/ FRIDAY...
* WHAT...For the Heat Advisory Thursday, heat index values up to
109. For the Heat Advisory on Friday, heat index values up to
111 expected.
* WHERE...Portions of southeast Alabama, Big Bend and Panhandle
Florida and south central and southwest Georgia.
* WHEN...For the first Heat Advisory, until 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/
this evening. For the second Heat Advisory, from 11 AM EDT /10
AM CDT/ to 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ Friday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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The Dougherty County Public Library System's Central branch in downtown Albany is one of several buildings being used as cooling-off stations Thursday and Friday as extreme heat pounds the city.
ALBANY – The city of Albany, with the assistance of Dougherty County officials, activated Operation Safe Place Thursday to give citizens a place to cool off during the day.
According to current weather reports, the heat index will reach dangerous temperatures over the next two days, and city and county officials would like to offer shelter from the heat to those who need it.
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“Barbenheimer.”
While this may seem like a random string of letters, it’s the term fans came up with for the dual release of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer" this week.
With larger-than-life budgets and star-studded casts, both films are expected to be blockbusters, but their similarities end there.
“Barbie” is a bright fantasy-comedy that follows the iconic Mattel dolls Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they are thrust from their sparkly pink utopia and into the real world. On the other hand, “Oppenheimer’’ is a deep thriller about American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s (Cillian Murphy) role in developing the atomic bomb during World War II.
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The battle of these completely opposing films is a cultural phenomenon that has blown up the internet over the past several months. There hasn't been a cinematic showdown close to this since 2008 when "Mamma Mia!" and "The Dark Knight" premiered on the same day.
'Barbie' vs. 'Oppenheimer': Which film are you most excited to see?
Cities across the U.S. have leaned into the hype by hosting "Barbenheimer"-themed events and parties, but there can be only one winner in the box office battle.
Delaware residents have shown excitement for "Oppenheimer" while those in Indiana favor "Barbie."
Which film are Richmond residents most excited to see?
One metric to gauge moviegoers’ preference amid the sparkly pink explosion of cinema is through Google searches.
“Barbie” is the winner when comparing Google searches in the Richmond-Petersburg area for the terms “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.” Google trends data shows that "Barbie” averaged more searches than "Oppenheimer" over the past six months. This is also true when comparing similar terms like “Barbie movie” and “Oppenheimer movie” or “Barbie tickets” and “Oppenheimer tickets” over the same period.
As a state, Virginians side with “Oppenheimer,” according to a Google search term analysis conducted by marketing agency Digital Third Coast. The agency analyzed 108 terms related to the “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” movies over three months to discover which movie residents in each U.S. state were most excited to see.
Ticket sales are also telling. Several movie theaters in the area including the Regal West Tower, the Midlothian AMC Dine-In and BTM Movieland at Boulevard Square declined or did not respond to requests for comment. But ticket sellers from Cinema Cafe in Chesterfield County indicated on Tuesday afternoon that advance ticket sales for “Barbie” were stronger with four sold out and three half-full screenings on Friday, as compared to “Oppenheimer,” which had no sold out but all half-full screenings.
Also, among the available showtimes between Thursday and Sunday listed on the Midlothian AMC Dine-In’s website, two screenings of “Barbie” were marked as ‘almost full’ while none of the screenings of “Oppenheimer” earned the mark as of Wednesday morning.
Samantha Siewert, who studied film at George Mason University and hosts regular movie events with the group Trying to Adult RVA, said there was high demand among group members for a “Barbie” movie night. Projected turnout for the movie night is far higher than usual with 40 people planning to attend in comparison to the average attendance of between 20 and 25 people, Siewert said.
Siewert also said she has no plans to see “Oppenheimer” and is on team “Barbie,” as she prefers Gerwig’s work.
“I’ve heard such great things about ‘Barbie,’ it’s got a great cast and even though it’s a comedy there’s many different components and interesting fun facts about the film that I’ve heard,” Siewert said.
John Christopher Rebaldo, who is studying mechanical engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University, said he was more drawn to the scientific aspects of Nolan’s films.
“I actually recently watched ‘Interstellar’ and ‘Inception’ and loved it, so seeing ‘Oppenheimer’ next is a no-brainer,” Rebaldo said. “I’m really interested in science and plan to work in aerospace next spring, so that’s what drew my interest for ‘Interstellar’ and ‘Oppenheimer.’ I might go see ‘Barbie’ if I hear good things about it.”
Many theater patrons are planning on fully immersing themselves in the cultural phenomena by viewing both films in one day. AMC Theatres, which has almost 1,000 theaters worldwide, even reported that the number of members in its loyalty program who purchased ‘Barbenheimer’ double-feature tickets doubled from 20,000 to 40,000 in just a week.
Andrew Merrill, who works at a theater, said he is looking forward to a day spent at the theater.
“I believe ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ are both highly anticipated movies for both fan bases and cultures," Merrill said. "This is what movie theaters need right now.”
Overall, it appears Richmond residents would rather live in a Barbie world.
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From staff reports
The Iron Blossom Music Festival headed to Richmond on Aug. 26 and 27 has released its lineup.
The festival has also put up a limited number of single-day tickets, priced at $109.50, for sale through Monday. For reference, two-day tickets currently cost $199.50.
Here is the Iron Blossom Music Festival lineup:
Lord Huron is a headliner on Aug. 26.
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Saturday, Aug. 26: Headliners: Lord Huron and Noah Kahan
The Iron Blossom Music Festival is bringing Hozier, Lord Huron, Noah Kahan and more than a dozen other acts to town Aug. 26-27. Hozier is the headliner on Aug. 27.
Hozier
Sunday, Aug. 27
Matthew E. White is on the lineup for Aug. 27.
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The Legendary Ingramettes
The Iron Blossom Music Festival, which was originally scheduled to take place in Monroe Park, will be held at the Bon Secours Training Center at 2401 W. Leigh St. due to "overwhelming response," according to organizers.
Concerns about the music festival being held in Monroe Park were immediately voiced, such as parking, traffic, accessibility and the size of the festival, with promoters expecting around 10,000 to turn out.
The two-day music festival is organized by Charlottesville’s Starr Hill Presents , Virginia Beach’s IMGoing and Richmond’s Haymaker Productions .
Top five weekend events: Ember Music Hall opens, Legend's Anniversary Party & Greensky Bluegrass
Ember Music Hall
Friday and Saturday
Check out Richmond’s newest music venue when Ember Music Hall hosts The Barons, a Charlottesville rock ‘n’ roll band, and Ookay, a California DJ on his “You Got It” tour. Launched by the LX Group, which also owns Kabana and Nama, Ember Music Hall aims to bring a new live music experience to Richmond, specifically tailored to electronic music and DJs with 100 LED screens and a top-of-the-line sound system. 7:30 p.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday. 309 E. Broad St. Tickets range $14.39-$23.49. (804) 404-2327 or embermusichall.com .
Courtesy of Ember Music Hall
Legend Brewing Co.'s Anniversary Party
Saturday
Wish Richmond’s oldest craft brewery a happy birthday on its 29th anniversary with an all-day party featuring music from Suggesting Rhythm, food, games, prizes and, of course, beer. Noon-8 p.m. Legend Brewing Co. 321 W. 7th St. Free entry, pay as you go. (804) 232-3446 or legendbrewing.com .
Legend Brewing Co.’s last year’s anniversary party. Courtesy of Legend Brewing Co.
Greensky Bluegrass
Thursday
Fresh off a Camp Greensky Iceland three-night affair, the five members of Greensky Bluegrass are back and touring the states, making a pit stop at Music at Maymont. Known for electrifying live performances, Greensky Bluegrass is a local favorite. Doors open 5:30 p.m.; music at 7 p.m. 1710 Hampton St. $40 in advance; $55 day of show. musicatmaymont.com .
Jamie VanBuhler DBA: VisualLife Photography
'Honky Tonk Laundry'
Starts Friday
Shannon Gibson Brown, left, and Debra Wagoner will take you to Nashville with the musical “Honky Tonk Laundry,” when their country characters join forces to turn their laundromat into a honky-tonk and exact revenge on those who wronged them. Times vary. Hanover Tavern, 13181 Hanover Courthouse Road, Hanover. $55. Through Aug. 27. (804) 282-2620 or VirginiaRep.org .
Photo by Robyn O’Neill
'Something Rotten!'
Starts Friday
“Something Rotten!,” a musical comedy about two brothers trying to find theatrical success in 1595 with Shakespeare as a rival, will be performed for free at Dogwood Dell’s Festival of Arts. Friday-Sunday at 8 p.m. through July 30. 1300 Blanton Ave. (804) 646-3677 or rva.gov/parks-recreation .
Courtesy of the City of Richmond
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The Virginia Department of Health has endorsed a proposal from health system Bon Secours to build a new freestanding emergency room in Hanover County and recommended denying a competing proposal from HCA Healthcare.
The decisions are not final, but the opinions are a boon to Bon Secours and a blow to HCA — both of which hope to build new emergency rooms in the wealthy, aging suburb.
And it's the second blow to HCA, whose proposal to build a 60-bed hospital in Hanover was also recommended for denial by the state Department of Health.
A new ER from Bon Secours would provide timely emergency access to residents of northern Hanover and Ashland, said a spokesperson for the health system. A representative for HCA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Hanover has become a battleground between the two health systems, thanks to its residents' money and age. On average, Hanover residents are wealthier than those in Henrico and Chesterfield counties and the city of Richmond. The number of Hanover residents over the age of 65 is expected to shoot up 40% between 2020 and 2030.
Bon Secours, a nonprofit health system, has proposed building a $17 million emergency room at 11400 North Lakeridge Parkway, near Interstate 95. (Bon Secours moved the location less than a mile from the east side of the highway to the west side.)
The site would alleviate the crowds at Bon Secours' nearest hospital, Memorial Regional Medical Center, which is about 10 miles south. Memorial Regional sees a high volume of patients, according to hospital data.
HCA's proposed location is just 4 miles from where Bon Secours wants to build. HCA has pitched two different facilities at 10054 Sliding Hill Road. First, it filed plans for a 60-bed hospital. But the health department recommended denying that project, saying HCA had not proved a need for another hospital.
In response, HCA proposed building a $39 million freestanding emergency room on the same site that could eventually become a full hospital. The cost of building is higher because HCA plans to spend nearly $15 million buying the land. The health department called the expense "exceptionally high."
HCA's second proposal has faced roadblocks, too. The location is just 6 miles from another emergency room owned by HCA, called Hanover ER. That facility is underutilized, the health department said in a report, and does not need an outlet for crowds.
Additionally, HCA has been given approval for a freestanding ER in Scott's Addition, which is due to open next year. Its existence undercuts the need for yet another facility, the health department said.
Virginia Commonwealth University Health opposed both the Bon Secours project and the HCA one. VCU Health called HCA's idea "predatory" and designed to expand the health system's geographic footprint and market share.
After evaluating the proposals from Bon Secours and HCA, the health department's Office of Licensure and Certification recommended approving a certificate of public need for Bon Secours and recommended denying HCA's request. Health systems do not need approval to open freestanding emergency rooms, but they do need approval to install critical equipment, such as CT scanners.
Adding another CT scanner to the HCA facility would be a "duplication of services, a poor business decision and poor planning," the health department said in its report.
Dr. Karen Shelton, the state health commissioner, still has to make a final decision on HCA's hospital proposal and both freestanding emergency room proposals.
This morning's top headlines: $1B Powerball winner; Pfizer tornado; Women's World Cup
$1B Powerball winner; Pfizer tornado; Women's World Cup; and more morning headlines:
A tiny neighborhood store in downtown Los Angeles near Skid Row has sold the winning ticket for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1.08 billion. It's the sixth largest in U.S. history. The winner could take the $558.1 million lump sum before taxes, or get $1.08 billion paid out in yearly increments. The store where the winning ticket was sold will also receive a $1 million bonus from the California Lottery. Officials presented a giant symbolic check to the store's owner, Navor Herrera, and his family on Thursday. The winning numbers for Wednesday night’s drawing were 7, 10, 11, 13, 24 and red Powerball 24.
A man stormed a high-rise construction site in downtown Auckland early Thursday morning, shooting at terrified workers and killing two people hours before New Zealand plans to host the first game of the FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament. The gunman was found dead after a police shootout, during which an officer was shot and injured. Four civilians were also injured. The shooting happened near hotels where Team Norway and other soccer teams have been staying. New Zealand Prime Minster Chris Hipkins said the tournament would go ahead as planned. The opening match is scheduled for Thursday between New Zealand and Norway.
Ukrainian officials say a third night of Russian air attacks has pounded Ukraine’s southern cities, including the port city of Odesa where at least two people were killed. At least 19 people were injured in the southern city of Mykolaiv in the overnight attack. Another two people were injured in Odesa and buildings were damaged in the city center. The attacks came one day after particularly intense Russian bombardment using drones and missiles that damaged critical port infrastructure in Odesa, and came a few days after President Vladimir Putin pulled Russia out of a wartime deal that allowed Ukraine to send grain to countries facing the threat of hunger.
North Korea isn’t responding to U.S. attempts to discuss the American soldier who bolted to the North across the Koreas’ heavily armed border. The U.S. says the Pentagon reached out to its counterparts in North Korea's army but those communications have not been answered. Pvt. Travis King ran into North Korea while on a tour of the border village of Panmunjom on Tuesday. He is the first known American held in North Korea in nearly five years. Tensions are high as the two nations continue to engage in a tit-for-tat cycle of weapons tests and military exercises. The U.S. and North Korea are still technically at war, and there are no known, active channels of communications between them.
A tornado has heavily damaged a major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina — the latest in a string of extreme weather events plaguing the U.S. Torrential rains flooded communities in Kentucky while an area from California to South Florida endured more blistering heat on Wednesday. Pfizer reported no serious injuries but authorities said medicine was damaged after a tornado damaged the plant near Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Elsewhere, Phoenix, Arizona, broke an all-time record Wednesday morning for a warm low temperature of 97 degrees. And Kentucky braced under a forecast of more rain after flash floods prompted rescues from homes and vehicles in some waterlogged communities.
The Supreme Court would have to abide by stronger ethics standards under legislation approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. It comes in response to recent revelations about donor-funded trips by justices. The bill faced united opposition from Republicans and has little chance to make it through the full Senate. The legislation would set ethics rules for the court and a process to enforce them, including new standards for transparency around recusals, gifts and potential conflicts of interest. Democrats first pushed the legislation after reports earlier this year that Justice Clarence Thomas participated in luxury vacations and a real estate deal with a top GOP donor.
Police cast doubt on Carlee Russell's kidnapping claim after reporting toddler on an Alabama highway
Police are casting doubt on a 25-year-old Alabama woman's claim that she was kidnapped from the side of an interstate after calling 911 to report seeing a toddler. Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis says detectives are still investigating where Carlee Russell was and what happened to her between the time she went missing Thursday to her return home two days later. But he also says investigators have been unable to verify most of her initial statement. Carlee Russell's mother, Talitha Russell, told NBC’s “Today” show on Tuesday that her daughter was abducted and fought for her life.
An attorney for former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin says they'll ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review his second-degree murder conviction in George Floyd's killing. The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday denied without comment Chauvin’s petition for his case to be heard, maintaining his conviction and 22 1/2-year sentence. Chauvin's attorney said Wednesday the most significant issue is whether holding the proceedings in Minneapolis in 2021 deprived Chauvin of a fair trial due to pretrial publicity and concerns for violence. Chauvin faces long odds at the U.S. Supreme Court, which hears only about 100 to 150 appeals out of thousands every year.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told top Vietnamese officials that Washington considers building strong economic and security ties with Vietnam a priority. Yellen visited an electric scooter and battery factory outside Hanoi on Thursday as part of an itinerary focused on highlighting Vietnam's importance as a rising industrial power and alternative for manufacturers seeking to diversify their supply chains away from China. She earlier visited India, which is keen to draw more high tech investments and build its own export capacity. Yellen also met with the head of Vietnam's central bank and said the two sides agreed on establishing an economic policy dialogue.
Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran have stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad, breaking into the compound and lighting a small fire. Online videos showed demonstrators at the diplomatic post waving flags and signs showing the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr ahead of a planned burning of the holy book Thursday in Stockholm. The Swedish Foreign Ministry said its embassy staff were safe without elaborating. Iraq’s Foreign Ministry condemned the attack. A Swedish news report says two demonstrators planned to burn a Quran and the Iraq flag outside the Iraqi Embassy later Thursday.
A row of tightly trimmed ficus trees along a stretch of sidewalk outside Universal Studios has become a hot spot in the face-off between Hollywood studios and striking screenwriters and actors. Some members of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA unions think the studio purposely pruned the trees in an effort to remove a source of shade for workers picketing under the hot Southern California sun. They gathered on Wednesday regardless. One woman wore a green wreath on her head and held a sign depicting an untrimmed tree under the words “Never Forget.” SAG-AFTRA member and Democratic Burbank Mayor Konstantine Anthony says strikers "don’t want to see any more shady nonsense.”
Hannah Wilkinson has scored to open the second half and New Zealand has beaten Norway 1-0 for its first-ever win at the Women’s World Cup just hours after a shooting in downtown Auckland that shocked the host nation. A gunman stormed a high-rise construction site near Norway’s team hotel and opened fire, killing two people early Thursday. The gunman was found dead after a police shootout. There was increased security at Eden Park stadium where 42,137 — a record crowd for a soccer match in New Zealand — were on hand to cheer on the home team, co-hosts of the tournament with Australia.
Cameron Smith has started his title defense at the British Open and is chasing a South African amateur holding an unlikely lead at Royal Liverpool. Smith is looking to do what no player has achieved since Padraig Harrington in 2008 and lift the claret jug in successive years. The Australian opened with a birdie at the first after a putt from about eight feet. Christo Lamprecht reached the back nine at 3 under. He is a two-time All-American from Georgia Tech who qualified by winning the British Amateur at the nearby Hillside links. He made three birdies in a four-hole stretch from No. 3.
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Violent crime in Richmond during the first half of the year is down compared to the same period last year, new data shows.
In one of his first acts as Richmond's new police chief, Rick Edwards presented the city's mid-year crime briefing to the community Thursday, pointing out an 8% decrease in overall violent crime in the city.
"Aggravated assaults are significantly down, so we're pleased about that," said Edwards, who served as acting chief for nine months before being appointed to the permanent role Wednesday.
An 18% decrease in aggravated assault, a 17% decrease in non-fatal shootings and a 4% decrease in individual robberies contributed to the overall drop.
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Other violent crimes saw negative trends, however. Homicides increased 13% compared to last year, and the number of rapes went up by 17%. The number of juveniles wounded from shootings jumped from 12 to 14, a figure Edwards called "troubling."
The city's homicide total for 2023 stands at 37 and counting. A fatal shooting Thursday in Fairfield Court — just hours before the crime briefing — is in the early stages of an investigation.
Incident-based reporting data showed a 70% homicide clearance rate for the Richmond Police Department, compared with the national average of 54%.
Updates on the five officer-involved shootings this year were also provided, with two resulting in fatal injuries and two resulting in non-fatal injuries. No officers are being charged in those cases; one incident when an officer shot at and missed a person remains under review.
One of the fatal injuries stemmed from a Jan. 9 incident in the 3300 block of McGuire Drive. A person who was shot by an officer recently died from injuries sustained in that shooting, according to Edwards. Body camera footage from the incident will be released by the department next Thursday.
Edwards said the department plans to work with the state to ban "glock switches" that convert semiautomatic pistols to fully automatic guns.
"I think most people should agree that it's not a good way to have self-defense or defend your home," he said. "It's actually a really dangerous device."
Mixed score for property crime
The city has had 15 accidental shootings this year, nearly double the number from all of 2022.
"Those are totally preventable statistics, and they affect people and ruin lives," Edwards added.
Property crime showed another mixed bag: arson, burglary and theft for motor vehicle parts and accessories were down from 2022, while shoplifting, theft from motor vehicles and motor vehicle thefts went up.
A total of 358 firearms were stolen from vehicles this year, a 19% leap from the first half of last year. According to Edwards, criminals are often getting guns from people who leave their weapons in their vehicles. A 13-year-old was killed in March by a gun that was stolen from an unlocked vehicle.
"I can't fathom being a gun owner and leaving it on the seat of the car in plain view in an unlocked car," Edwards said. "That sounds insane to me."
Shoplifting incidents rose 53% from last year, with ABC stores accounting for 420 of the 807 reports. The department is collaborating with eight of the stores on a "Liquor Lifters" initiative to identify shoplifting suspects.
For road safety, police data showed a 24% decrease in collisions to date. Traffic summonses increased 27%, highlighting the department's emphasis on heavier traffic enforcement.
Real-time crime center plan advancing
In another safety initiative, Richmond police partnered with Virginia State Police and four federal agencies for Operation Safe Summer. The program, which runs through Sept. 8, has resulted in 118 arrests thus far.
An additional aspect of Operation Safe Summer is Friday and Saturday night gym openings for young people at the Gill Center and George Wythe High School gym.
"That's designed for folks between age 15 and 20 to come in and have a safe place to play basketball, to just talk and have a place where they can just be kids and avoid some of the challenges that we've seen already this year," Edwards said.
The new chief noted some developments and improvements within the department. The number of police applicants this year was 74% higher compared to last year; 10 formerly sworn officers returned to the department, and 15 part-time officers were sworn in .
More than 200 officers received Integrating Communications, Assessment and Tactics training, with a goal of ICAT training for all officers by the end of the year.
Richmond police became the second department in Virginia to adopt virtual reality training simulators that provide scenario-based exercises and de-escalation trainings.
Edwards said he hopes to have the previously approved real-time crime center set up by year's end to add even more advanced technology to the department.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – East Tennessee State University (ETSU) is encouraging veterans, reserves and members of the National Guard to apply for its entrepreneurship course.
ETSU’s free Startup Training Resources to Inspire Veteran Entrepreneurship (STRIVE) program is in its fourth year, according to program director Mark Bays. The program’s goal is to help those who have served in the military launch their own business.
“This program provides a free entrepreneurship course to veterans and their spouses to go through eight weeks of business training where they’ll get to develop their business plan, their business pitch, and get access to subject matter experts and other local assistance providers to help guide them on their way,” Bays said.
The STRIVE program is open to any veteran and their spouse so long as they have a business idea.
“The program has just progressed each year with more access to resources, more community involvement,” Bays said. “We’ve had about 45 veterans that have attended through the program. Several have started their own business and are currently in business right now.”
The application deadline for the next course is Aug. 1. The eight-week program begins on Sept. 14 and is held online and at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center at Mountain Home. About 20 people are accepted into the STRIVE program each year.
“As far as we’re concerned, there can never be enough assistance out there for our veterans, and this is just part of a way to give back to a community that has given so much for us,” Bays said.
More information on the course is available on ETSU’s website.
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Zorn Park could be getting play structure back
HARBOR SPRINGS — After months of community debate regarding bringing a playground back to Zorn Park in Harbor Springs, an agreement may finally be met between the city and a Zorn Park Advocacy group.
The city has been in communication with the advocacy group's lawyers to work on a donor agreement so a good compromise can be met between the city and residents. The group was advocating for preserved green space at the park.
Parks and recreation director Rachel Roon and city manager Victor Sinadinoski met with the group’s representation during a Zoom meeting and told them they would need a donor contract written and sent over for the Aug. 7 city council meeting so the council can review the agreement, Roon said during Tuesday’s Parks and Recreation board meeting.
“We're at the spot where we've kind of come up with a plan that everyone is on board with, and that is to put new equipment — a smaller one-unit structure into the sand with turf — and right now we are waiting for the donor agreement to get to council for the Aug. 7 meeting,” Roon told the News-Review.
During Monday’s city council meeting, Sinadinoski said a deadline was put on the donor agreement because council members had said they wanted a deadline and it would be helpful for the city to be able to start ordering items to use at the park.
“This has been ongoing for about a year now ... so we need to get this wrapped up,” Sinadinoski said.
Last fall, full and part-time residents alike spoke at multiple city council, parks and recreation and planning commission meetings to share their thoughts on bringing a playset back to Zorn. Some residents shared their support, while others said there were already too few areas to view the water.
More:Harbor Springs struggles with placement of play equipment at Zorn Park
During the June 20 Parks and Recreation board meeting, Roon showed off updated layout plans for the Zorn Park playground. A playset will be added to a new area that will have a short cement barrier and turf put in.
The playground would be put in the park in 2024, with the playset placed over a nearly 1,000 square foot area of sand, coming right off the sidewalk into the turf. The turf will be placed beside the sidewalk, allowing the new play structure to be ADA accessible. The swings will be placed on the west end of the beach where they formerly were.
Prior to 2020, a play structure was located at the west end of the beach on the sand. It was removed and sent to storage following safety concerns when there were higher water levels.
Now, a new play structure is expected to be brought in to preserve the views of the water and reduce the footprint needed to offer equipment.
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During the meeting, Roon said the footprint of the new play equipment is smaller because it is less spread out, and it’s more accessible.
At the June parks board meeting, Roon said the old Zorn Park equipment may be brought to another park.
“We're just happy to wrap this up after a year and a half,” Roon said to the News-Review. “We're hoping that it's a win-win for everyone — the city, its community. So, we're hoping that all the negotiations and discussions pay off in the end.”
The next city council meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 7.
—Contact reporter Karly Graham atkgraham@petoskeynews.com. Follow her on Twitter at@KarlyGrahamJRN.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – After Portland city commissioners Rene Gonzalez and Dan Ryan laid out their objections to the voter-passed charter reform, Gonzalez is conceding that two of his three alternative proposals lack support among city council.
Gonzalez and Ryan were gauging interest in putting three charter amendments on the next ballot that would have removed the next mayor’s veto power, reduced the new number of city commissioners from 12 to eight and streamlined ranked-choice voting.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and commissioners Mingus Mapps and Carmen Rubio objected to those proposed changes – saying the city should move forward with the charter reform passed by voters and look into improving it if there were major flaws.
In a statement released on Thursday, Gonzalez said “city commissioners have a responsibility to reassess from time-to-time prior decisions that have long-term effects. In response to updated information on charter reform implementation and many questions and concerns from community members, we held a work session to allow council to publicly deliberate on three important issues that voters were not allowed to weigh-in separately on last November. My hope was to reduce cost and streamline its implementation.”
“After conferring with my colleagues, it has become clear there is a lack of support within City Hall for the referral measures addressing adjustments to the size of council and the ranked choice voting method. I look forward to continued dialogue with my colleagues, and public engagement on the question of a mayoral veto this coming spring,” Gonzalez added.
During Tuesday’s work session, Mayor Wheeler questioned if the commissioner’s proposals undermined the will of Portland voters.
“We have not even implemented what the voters have asked for, and yet we are already going back to the voters with changes,” Wheeler said.
Commissioner Ryan argued that voters didn’t have the chance to consider the reforms individually.
“What this work session isn’t, it isn’t the council circumventing the will of the voters. In fact, it’s a chance to consider going back to the voters three times in November perhaps with these items, look at them separately and vote. Last November, the bundling of reforms did not give voters that chance,” Ryan said.
After Commissioner Mapps questioned the proposal to reduce the number of commissioners, Gonzalez said the provision would reduce costs and question the “quality of candidates.” Later, Gonzalez told KOIN 6 News that judging the “quality of candidates” is subjective and that a candidate’s educational background and leadership experience should be considered.
“All of this is to focus on what tweaks we might make to assure better implementation in a more effective government come 2025,” Gonzalez said during the work session.
The reform amendments could still appear on the future ballot.
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LANCASTER, Pa. — The City of Lancaster on Thursday issued a boil-water advisory for certain residents of Milton Road and Lampeter Road, due to an emergency water main repair.
The city said the notice is for customers residing at:
- 542, 544, 546, 548, 530 Milton Road
- 703 and 651 Lampeter Road
The water main repair may cause an increased risk from microbial contamination due to a drop/loss of water pressure within parts of the distribution system.
"Typically, a drop/loss of water pressure is the result of a pipeline break or a pump failure," the city said. "A drop/loss of pressure creates conditions that could allow contamination to enter the distribution system through back-flow by back-pressure or back-siphonage.
"Although there is no direct evidence that the water is unsafe, there is a pronounced increased chance that disease-causing organisms could enter the water distribution system."
Affected residents are advised against drinking the water without boiling it first. Customers should bring all water to a rolling boil, let it boil for one minute, and let it cool before using; or use bottled water, the city said.
"You should use boiled or bottled water for drinking, making ice, washing dishes, brushing teeth, and food preparation until further notice," the city said.
People with severely compromised immune systems, infants, and some elderly may be at increased risk. These people should seek advice about drinking water from their healthcare providers, according to the city.
General guidelines on ways to lessen the risk of infection by microbes are available from EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791.
The city said residents will be informed when the water is safe to drink.
Residents may also contact the City of Lancaster Water Department: Water Quality Laboratory at (717) 291-4818 Monday-Friday, 7 AM – 4:15 p.m. After hours, the Water Emergency phone number is (717) 291-4816.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — UPDATE (3:40 p.m. July 20): The boil water notice for residents of southeast San Angelo has been lifted, according to the City of San Angelo.
Here's what residents should know to do after a boil water notice is lifted:
- Flush household pipes/faucets first: To flush your plumbing, run all your cold water faucets on full for at least five minutes each. If your service connection is long or complex (like in an apartment building) consider flushing for a longer period. Your building superintendent or landlord should be able to advise you on longer flushing times.
- Automatic ice makers: Dump existing ice and flush the water feed lines by making and discarding three batches of ice cubes. Wipe down the ice bin with a disinfectant. If your water feed line to the machine is longer than 20 feet, increase to five batches.
- Water heaters, water coolers, in line filters, and other appliances with direct water connections or water tanks: Run enough water to completely replace at least one full volume of all lines and tanks. If your filters are near the end of their life, replace them.
- Water softeners: Run through a regeneration cycle.
- Reverse Osmosis (RO) units: Replace pre-filters, check owner's manual.
- Replace other water filters, as they are disposable and may be contaminated. This applies especially to carbon filters and others that are near the end of their life.
Contact the COSA Water Utilities Department with any questions at 325-657-4209, or at 301 W. Beauregard Ave.
UPDATE (11:35 a.m. July 20): Southeast San Angelo residents remain under a boil water notice July 20 following a July 19 water main break.
Crews are currently on scene and the City will alert the public with any updates.
ORIGINAL STORY: Various parts of Southeast San Angelo have been advised to boil water before use following a July 19 water main break.
Particular areas include Tres Rios, Belaire, Glenmore, Goodfellow Air Force Base, Christoval Road and Janie Lane to Butterfly Lane along FM 1223.
According to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, residents in these areas should boil and cool water for two minutes if being used for drinking, cooking, brushing teeth, washing hands or hair and/or making ice.
This information is especially important for children, senior citizens and individuals with weakened immune systems.
As such, it is advised to share updates with those in the affected areas.
The public water system will provide updates as to when the water is safe to consume.
Call public works director Shane Kelton at 325-657-4206 with any additional questions.
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Kevin Teasley, left, Ricky Haskins, middle, and Rodney Williams celebrate 21st Century's fifth straight Class A sectional title on March 7. Williams, the Cougars' former boys basketball coach and athletic director, died Tuesday.
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Former 21st Century boys basketball coach Rodney Williams holds up five fingers to the crowd after the Cougars won their fifth sectional title in 2020. Williams died on Tuesday.
Rodney Williams joined 21st Century Charter School when it was founded in 2005, he started off as a special education classroom assistant. Throughout the years, he became known as one of the architects of the Cougars athletic program and the coach that led the boys basketball program in its meteoric rise.
Williams died Tuesday morning after a years-long battle with cancer. He was 67.
“He was a giant in the community and a giant in the school,” said Kevin Teasley, founder and superintendent of 21st Century.
Williams, along with his colleague Ricky Haskins, launched the athletic programs in 2008, the sports included cross country, track, volleyball and baseball.
But it was the boys basketball program that quickly grew to become one of the best in the state.
The team first competed as a member of IHSAA in 2010 and finished with a record of 5-15, but two years later the Cougars won their first sectional championship and didn’t look back. During Williams’ tenure as head coach, the team won five more sectional championships, consecutive regional titles in 2016 and 2017, and posted an overall record of 160-101.
The best season for the Cougars was Williams’ last season at the helm, in 2020. They went 22-3 and won their fifth consecutive Class A sectional title. The team had their eye on the state championship until the COVID-19 outbreak forced the cancellation of the state tournament.
Williams received personal accolades as well, winning the Post-Tribune’s Boys Basketball Coach of the Year in 2017.
“Rodney was much more than athletics,” Teasley told The Times. “He was a mentor, a father figure.”
Williams was a Gary native and attended Horace Mann High School. He later attended Northwestern and came back to the city when he graduated in 1977. Williams knew of the importance of completing high school and college, according to Teasley. And because of this, he was a perfect fit for 21st Century.
Williams considered Haskins his best friend. They had known each other for half a century. In addition, they both had played basketball at and graduated from Horace Mann.
Haskins died in 2020. And now the 21st Century community has lost Williams as well. What remains is a gym that houses the program they built, named to honor them, and the contributions they made to the school: The Haskins Williams Athletic Center.
Teasley told The Times Williams helped set the stage for 21st Century.
“The future is bright because of the foundation he set,” Teasley said. “He will be missed, no question."
PHOTOS: 21st Century plays Westview in boys basketball regional
Kevin Teasley, left, Ricky Haskins, middle, and Rodney Williams celebrate 21st Century's fifth straight Class A sectional title on March 7. Williams, the Cougars' former boys basketball coach and athletic director, died Tuesday.
Former 21st Century boys basketball coach Rodney Williams holds up five fingers to the crowd after the Cougars won their fifth sectional title in 2020. Williams died on Tuesday.
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TEXAS, USA — You've heard people say, "There's nothing to do in town." Here is a list of events happening in San Angelo, Abilene and beyond to do with your friends and family.
BIG COUNTRY
FRIDAY
10 a.m. - Abilene Youth Sports Authority Fundraiser, Jason's Deli, 1772 State Hwy 351
10 a.m. - Coca Cola Southwest Beverages Hiring Fair - Abilene, Holiday Inn Abilene - North College Area, 3525 W. Lake Road
10 a.m. - Abilene Public Library Art in the Park: Sun Prints, Red Bud Park, 3125 S. 32nd St.
3 p.m. - Caleb Sutton, Heff's Burgers, 4310 Buffalo Gap Road
3:30 p.m. - Tween Summer Camp Series, Abilene Public Library Main Branch, 202 Cedar St.
4 p.m. - Once Upon a Storytime, Abilene Public Library South Branch, 4310 Buffalo Gap Road
5 p.m. - Stuffed Animal Sleepover Pajama Party, Chick-fil-A, 500 E Commerce St. - BROWNWOOD
6 p.m. - Trivia Night and World Cup Watch party, 10 Mile Productions, 401 Center Ave. - BROWNWOOD
6 p.m. - TX09 National Barrel Horse Association Summer Beach Party Friday Night Barrel Race, Cowboy Heritage Church, 8468 County Road 112N - CLYDE
6 p.m. - Greta Van Fleet - Starcatcher Listening Party, Record Guys, 701 S. Leggett Drive
7 p.m. - Glen Templeton, Potosi Live, 897 FM 1750
8 p.m. - Geru y su Legion 7, Tequilas Night Club, 133 Eplens Court
SATURDAY
7:30 a.m. Tour de Gap benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters, Buffalo Gap Flea Market, 817 Main St. - BUFFALO GAP
9 a.m. - Zippity Zoo Day, Abilene Zoo, 2070 Zoo Lane
10 a.m. - South STEAM: Wings Wanted, Abilene Public Library South, 4310 Buffalo Gap Road
10 a.m. - Family Fun Saturday, National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, 102 Cedar St.
11 a.m. - Food truck and live music, SunnHaus Brewing, 344 Clark Road
11 a.m. - Christmas in July: A Cops and Outlaws Toy Drive, Scotty's Bistro & Pub, 601 S. Commercial Ave. - COLEMAN
1 p.m. - Adult Dungeons and Dragons Club, Abilene Public Library, Mockingbird Branch, 1326 N. Mockingbird Lane
3 p.m. - Funfetti Preschool Dance Party, Prep Academy Dance Studio Abilene, 141 Oak St.
6 p.m. - Tavern Night 2023, 10 Mile Productions, 401 Center Ave. - BROWNWOOD
8 p.m. - The Loganos, Play Faire Park, 2300 N. 2nd St.
8:30 p.m. - Stray Sons and Jimmy Queen Memorial, Heff's Burgers, 4310 Buffalo Gap Road
8:30 p.m. - Sounds of the Night, Abilene State Park, 150 Park Road 32 - TUSCOLA
9 p.m. - Hayden Haddock, Wild Duck Marina, 320 High Top St. - LAKE BROWNWOOD
9 p.m. - The BARBIE Pink Party!, Fat Boss's Pub Abilene, 216 Pine St.
SUNDAY
1:30 p.m. - Pokemon Meet-up, Abilene Public Library Main Branch, 202 Cedar St.
CONCHO VALLEY
FRIDAY
11 a.m. - Illustrated Melodies: A Summer of Musical Storytimes - Rock and Roll Session, Old Town Books, 506 S. Chadbourne St.
Noon - One-year Anniversary and ribbon cutting ceremony, Alejandro’s Kitchen and Tequila, 4388 Sherwood Way
4:30 p.m. - Totally Tiki Luau, Lyndale San Angelo Senior Living, 6101 Grand Court Road
6 p.m. - Cameron Sacky Band featuring Graycie York, Cooper's Bar-B-Q, 20809 US Hwy 277S - CHRISTOVAL
8 p.m. - Los Garcia Bros., Club El Patron, 1616 S. Chadbourne St.
8 p.m. - Laugh Out Loud Comedy Night with Greg Duran and friends, Reynas Tacos, 334 W. Concho Ave.
SATURDAY
8 a.m. - Church yard sale, Lake View Bible Church, 4923 Grape Creek Road
9 a.m. - National Cowboy Day, Fort Concho National Historic Landmark, 630 S. Oakes St.
11 a.m. - The Desert Tribe grand opening, 110B Alexander St.
Noon - Kids Business Showcase, Sunset Mall, 4001 Sunset Drive
1 p.m. - Free genealogy class, Stephens Central Library, 33 W. Beauregard Ave.
2 p.m. - Saturday Story-time and Crafts, Stephens Central Library, 33 W. Beauregard Ave.
2 p.m. - Tom Green County Libraries Teen Republic Draw Together, Stephens Central Library, 33 W. Beauregard Ave.
3 p.m. - Funfetti Preschool Dance Party, Prep Academy, LLC, 2430 Sherwood Way
3 p.m. - Hands of Mercy Cat Sanctuary Benefit Paint Party and Auction, The Other Place, 11354 US Hwy 87N - CARLSBAD
5 p.m. - Inaugural Toys for Tots Christmas in July Gala, Koronazz, 4611 S. Jackson St.
6 p.m. - Downtown Barbie Crawl, downtown San Angelo
6 p.m. - Monthly Car Show, Hooters, 4384 Sherwood Way
6 p.m. - 2023 Concho Valley Friends of NRA event, The Stables at Fort Concho, 210 Henry O. Flipper St.
7:30 p.m. - Joseph Ramon of the Scary Mondelos, Summerland Public House, 105 Frisco St. - MENARD
7:30 p.m. - Wall Western Dance Club - Polka Club Duijka Brothers dance, St. Ambrose Catholic Church, 8602 Loop 570S - WALL
8 p.m. - Del Castillo with special guest Lisa Morales, San Angelo Performing Arts Center, 82 Gillis St.
8 p.m. - Michael Siaz, Willow Creek Café & Club,
8:30 p.m. - Reagan Quinn, Garrett Bryan and the Traveling City Committee, The House of FiFi DuBois, 123 S. Chadbourne St.
9 p.m. - Rita Capuchina, Riverside Golf Course and Bunkers Bar and Grill, 3301 Riverside Golf Club Road
SUNDAY
8 a.m. - Church yard sale, Lake View Bible Church, 4923 Grape Creek Road.
Want your event(s) listed? Email them to srojas@foxsanangelo.com by noon Wednesdays.
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Purdue University Extension has partnered with urban farmers to help locals assess their soil health and land history.
A Zoom presentation Wednesday outlined the methods available for such an assessment.
“There are methods that we can use to make sure that we’re not going to do harm to ourselves and to protect people that we live with, live next to, care about, sell feed, sell crops to, etc.,” former Westwood College professor and urban farmer Sam Love said during the presentation.
Love highlighted that researching soil and site history can aid land and homeowners in determining their soil health and, therefore, what can grow on certain properties.
The first of the methods Love outlined in his presentation was conducting a soil test.
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A soil test, according to Purdue Extension’s website, measures phosphorus, potassium, pH levels and organic matter in a soil sample.
Although Purdue extension does not conduct soil tests for homeowners, A&L Great Lakes Laboratories Inc., which is located in Fort Wayne, does conduct such tests.
To submit a sample for testing, collect enough soil to fill a plastic sandwich bag and indicate what will be grown in the area where the soil was collected.
There are a variety of basic soil test packages available without recommendations or, at an additional cost, with recommendations.
More information and cost estimates can be found at the website https://algreatlakes.com/pages/soil-analysis.
"Modern-day nutrient management focuses on efficiency," according to the website.
"That is, getting the greatest possible crop production while reducing economic and environmental issues," the site said. "However, soils are complex, dynamic, and highly variable systems. Without comprehensive analyses, it is virtually impossible to achieve maximum efficiency. You can’t manage what you don’t measure."
Another method from Love’s presentation was self-observation.
Albeit a simple method, self-observation is important to assess what’s already growing on a piece of property, Love said.
Dry or dead patches can indicate problems with soil, as well as the presence of invasive species.
A common invasive species in northwest Indiana is tree of heaven, which closely resembles native sumac species and secretes a chemical into the soil that is toxic to other plants, Love said.
The presentation continued on with perhaps more complicated resources for looking up land history.
GIS, or geographic information systems, can be a useful tool for recording both land history and land characteristics over time.
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) offers maps free for public use that identify a range of locations facing environmental damage, from cleanup sites to brownfields.
Brownfields, according to Love, are sites that are too polluted for the growth of vegetation.
Brownfields often are the sites of abandoned gas stations or the sites of abandoned dry cleaners.
Additionally, Love said that soil maps can be a useful tool in identifying what soil types are common in certain areas.
Although data is available through the Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO), access to information is not necessarily user friendly.
“There is a very real reason for us to be more knowledgeable of what is in the ground beneath our feet before we start planting and eating from there,” Love said.
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The 68th annual Eagle Rock Art Guild Sidewalk Art Festival starts this Saturday at the Riverwalk.
The two-day art festival will bring in numerous artists from the area to showcase their work to more than 15,000 people, the guild's website said.
President of the guild, Dawn Langston, said this year's event will be bigger and better than ever. There will be more artists, more vendors and more music in celebration of the guild's 75th anniversary.
Langston remembers attending the event when she was a teenager. Her family lived near the Riverwalk and would stop by the festival each year.
Langston said she would walk past all the artist's booths and be amazed at the variety of work they displayed. Art didn't just have to be a landscape painting. It could be more than acrylics and oils.
She saw artists displaying sculptures, glass-work, photography and furniture. Art was so much more than she thought it could be.
"It was so meaningful to me as a young person to see that art is different for everyone and it can mean different things," Langston said. "I saw beautiful works of art I would never see in my day to day."
This year's festival will showcase 56 different artists. All but three artists will be present at the event both Saturday and Sunday, Langston said. Five music groups will take the stage at the festival, along with two DJs. Eight food vendors will be present as well.
The magnitude of this year's festival is something that Langston want to bring back. She said that over the years, the guild has run in to some difficulties. She saw the festival shrink smaller and smaller. Langston feared that it would soon go away.
However, as president in the guild's 75th year, Langston took the opportunity to revitalize the event. She said she really wanted to emphasize the "festival feel" this year.
The festival begins at 9 a.m. on Saturday and will run until 6 p.m. that evening. The festival will start back up on Sunday at 11 a.m. and will wrap up at 5 p.m.
Langston hopes people will come and visit with the artists, maybe buy a few pieces or just window shop, and enjoy the event. She hopes attendees will relax and enjoy the event for hours on end.
At noon on Saturday, Arctic Circle will bring 200 free milkshakes in honor of the guild's 75th birthday. Langston said the milkshakes are first come, first serve.
The guild's own booth will be selling previous festival posters as well as prints of original Fred Ochi creations, a founding member of the guild.
The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho will be hosting a children's art activity on Saturday. Langston said she wants to use this event as a way to unify different art organizations in the area. She said that it did not matter what organization anyone is a part of. The event is about community and the art it produces.
Langston creates sculptures from up-cycled materials, such as robots and animals. She said the only reason she started that work was because of an artist in Salt Lake City. She was visiting a similar festival and was intrigued by the sculptures. The price tag deterred Langston from buying a piece, but she still stayed and learned from the artist.
While Langston tries to create affordable art, she said that this year's festival could do that for some other artist. One artist can inspire another, and it shouldn't solely be about revenue. It should be about celebration and creation of art, Langston said.
The revenue from the guild's personal booth will go toward a permament building fund. The guild has been nomadic, moving from building to building and house to house, for years. Langston said a permanent home is essential to the guild's longevity.
"Having the community's support is invaluable," Langston said.
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SANFORD, Fla. — An 80-year-old man was arrested Thursday not long after shooting his 78-year-old wife to death at their home, the Sanford Police Department said.
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Police said Nicholas Coulantes called 911 shortly after 8 a.m. to report that he had just shot a person at his South Summerlin Avenue home.
Investigators met him in the front yard of his home, and they discovered the body of his wife, Alexandria Coulantes, in the home.
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Nicholas Coulantes was arrested on charges of second-degree murder.
Detectives said they are still trying to determine why he killer her.
“This isn’t a case of who killed Alexandria. The ‘why’ Nicholas Coulantes took the life of his wife is what investigators are working hard to understand,” Sanford police Chief Cecil Smith said in a statement. “This is a devastating event, and we would at least like to give Alexandria’s family the answer to that question.”
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Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Sanford police or Crimeline at 800-423-8477.
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — A 911 call saying a man was going to kill his wife and kids led to an innocent man being put in handcuffs in Volusia County.
“My heart was flying out my chest,” Sandile Hunter Mgidi said.
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Deputies are now searching for the person who made the hoax call that sent dozens of deputies to a home on Gondolier Terrace in the Deltona area near Interstate 4 and Normandy Boulevard.
The 911 caller told deputies that a man killed his wife and was getting ready to kill his kids at the home. But the sheriff’s office said the whole thing was made up.
Read: Police: Miami woman, 18, allegedly tried to hire hitman to kill her 3-year-old son
But for the people who live at the home, what happened next was very real.
About a dozen deputies drew their guns and commanded Mgidi to slowly move toward them Monday night.
“I was a little nervous that I was gonna trip and make the wrong move and they were gonna shoot me,” he said.
Mgidi was in town from New Jersey visiting his friends Kaitlyn Gorczyca and Christopher Valentin who had just moved to Deltona.
Gorczyca and Valentin were at the grocery store when deputies showed up back at their home, drawing their guns and handcuffing Mgidi.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said these so-called “swatting” calls seem to be happening more often.
Read: Fight between two groups leads to deadly shooting at Walmart in Florida, police say
“These idiots who are making the calls, they either want to harass the person who they’re making the call on or they are hoping that the police or the homeowner make a fatal mistake,” Chitwood said.
“You look all over the internet and usually it ends bad, someone getting killed … thank God it didn’t come to that,” Valentin said.
“It’s very scary because it could be anyone,” Gorczyca added.
Chitwood said detectives have some leads on possible suspects. When they’re caught, they could face several charges.
Read: Robbery suspect leads law enforcement on high-speed chase on I-95, police say
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OCALA, Fla. — An employee at a UPS facility in Ocala was arrested Wednesday after police say he was caught stealing thousands of dollars in merchandise and selling it on his wife’s Facebook page.
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Ocala police officers responded to the United Parcel Service Customer Center on SW 28th Ave. Wednesday and met with a Loss Prevention Manager who said he was already conducting an investigation into items that had been taken from undelivered packages.
READ: Suspect in 2011 Titusville double homicide transferred to Brevard County jail
The manager told police he already learned that an employee, 33-year-old Jose Flores Franco, had been using his wife’s Facebook page to sell items he had stolen.
Police say the manager even provided them with copies of screenshots of Facebook Market posts showing items that appeared to be identical to the ones that were reported lost or stolen, including multiple iPhones, Apple Watches, AirPods, and packages of Pandora jewelry.
ARRESTED FOR GRAND THEFT: UPS employee arrested for stealing iPhones, Apple Watches, and jewelry—worth over $10k—from packages to sell on Facebook. https://t.co/5fhlH8p8QI pic.twitter.com/9CV7KAYXwi
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READ: Robbery suspect leads law enforcement on high-speed chase on I-95, police say
In all, the value of the stolen items was estimated to be just under $12,000.
Police say they went to Flores Franco’s home to recover the stolen items and found a box full of electronic devices, all in their original packaging. They also found a second box that contained multiple bags of jewelry.
All the stolen items were collected and placed into evidence.
READ: Former Florida corrections officer indicted for wire fraud, ID theft
Flores Franco was arrested and charged with grand theft of more than $10,000 and dealing in stolen property.
He’s since been released from jail on a total of $7,000 bond.
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Field for Alachua County sheriff widens with candidate who hopes to succeed bosses again
Another candidate has thrown their name into the mix to become the next sheriff of Alachua County.
Col. Chad Dondrill Scott, who rejoined the Alachua County Sheriff's Office in 2022, has filed to run for sheriff with the hope of succeeding his current boss, Sheriff Clovis Watson Jr. who withdrew from the race last month.
Scott currently oversees patrol at the sheriff's office, among other functions.
He is a former police chief for the city of Alachua, a place he worked for 13 years. Watson and his undersheriff, Joel DeCoursey, held the position prior to Scott. All three now hold high-ranking titles for the Alachua County Sheriff's Office.
Campaign filings show that Scott filed to run for office the day after Watson withdrew from the race. Since then, Scott has been the highest-ranking official shown on the organization's social media posts, presenting awards to a fellow officer and posing for pictures with cadets in the academy.
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Previous stint at sheriff's office
In 2007, while working at the Alachua County Sheriff's Office under then-sheriff Sadie Darnell, Scott was accused of working security shifts at a local business while also on duty as a sergeant.
Following an internal investigation, Darnell let Scott let go from the agency. Attempts to reach Scott have been unsuccessful.
Court records show Scott was charged with four misdemeanors for theft and four felonies for making false statements by a public servant. The charges, however, were later dropped after prosecutors said Scott made restitution. They also said there was "insufficient evidence to sustain a conviction" and destroyed all evidence in the case, court records show.
Scott landed back on his feet soon after being hired at the city of Alachua months later, working under DeCoursey until his retirement in 2015. Scott succeeded DeCoursey as chief of police until last year when Watson hired Scott back at the sheriff's office. He was promoted to the rank of colonel within months at the agency.
Campaigning
Since entering the race, Scott has raised the most funds among active candidates. His $3,000 comes in the form of a trio of donations, including a $1,000 loan to himself, $1,000 from Undersheriff Joel DeCoursey and $1,000 from Property Appraiser Saniyiyah Ayesha Solomon.
Other candidates who have filed so far include University of Florida Police Capt. Latrell Simmons, Tyrone Johnson Jr. and Pamela Marshall Koons.
Watson initially filed for reelection in April but withdrew just two months later, signaling the end of his time as sheriff after one term. His campaign raised over $15,000, securing $1,000 donations from DeCoursey, Scott and sheriff's office attorney Jacob Rush. Other donors included County Commissioner Ken Cornell, sheriff's office spokesman Chris Sims and Maj. Jack "Lance" Yaegar.
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Man, 80, accused of shooting his wife to death at their Sanford home‘My heart was flying out my chest’: Innocent man put in handcuffs after Volusia County swatting callPolice: Miami woman, 18, allegedly tried to hire hitman to kill her 3-year-old sonAmerican Heartland, Disneyland-sized theme park, to be built in Oklahoma‘I almost caught him’: Woman says man grabbed her on Seminole County walking trail
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Representatives of multiple law enforcement agencies gathered in Orlando Thursday to announce the results of an investigation that spanned over six years.
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Investigators say a major drug cartel that ran largely out of Lake County employed planes and trains in a multi-state trafficking operation that has supplied thousands of kilograms of methamphetamine and fentanyl to the Orlando area since 2016.
A federal grand jury returned indictments for 17 people Thursday as part of the drug trafficking and money laundering scheme. 14 have been arrested, but authorities are still searching for three others.
“This is a complex investigation involving a drug trafficking organization that transported thousands of kilograms of drugs across the United States,” U.S. Attorney Roger Handberg said during Thursday’s announcement.
“The drugs seized in this investigation are some of the most dangerous, most destructive, and most addictive substances we have today,” D.E.A. Special Agent Deanne Reuter added. “I can not stress enough, fentanyl is a highly addictive, extremely potent synthetic opioid.”
OCSO is proud to be part of a joint investigation that brought federal drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy charges against 17 people accused of moving thousands of kg of meth and fentanyl into Central FL.
— Orange County Sheriff's Office (@OrangeCoSheriff) July 20, 2023
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The arrests included suspected ringleader, 48-year-old Dudzinski Poole of Apopka. He’s charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, conspiracy to commit drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Poole faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years up to life in prison.
“The defendants who have been indicted included members of the conspiracy at every level…the leader, his key partners, and the source of the supply,” Handberg said.
Multiple Central Florida law enforcement agencies inspected flight records dating back more than two years and found the suspects were transporting drugs through trains and commercial flights.
Investigators found more than 350 flights taken by the organization to transport the drugs to Central Florida.
“For over six years, this organization trafficked methamphetamine and fentanyl,” Handberg said. “Thousands of kilograms intended for distribution here in Central Florida and elsewhere in the United States…but not anymore.”
READ: Suspect in 2011 Titusville double homicide transferred to Brevard County jail
Handberg says a key part of the money laundering case was Poole’s development of an entertainment business he used to promote concerts with artists and pay with the drug money.
Poole would then combine the profits from ticket sales with the drug trafficking money to keep the entire organization running for years.
The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, The Criminal Investigations Division of the IRS, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Secret Service, and multiple local law enforcement agencies including the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Orlando Police Department, Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, Florida Highway Patrol and the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation.
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Gainesville Sun takes home 4 awards in premier Florida journalism contest
One of Florida's premier journalism contests ended Thursday with the Gainesville Sun once again being recognized for its award-winning coverage across a range of topics.
The annual Florida Society of News Editors journalism contest recognizes work across the Sunshine State's newspaper industry and features some of the best reporters and editors in the business.
The Sun staff, which competes in Division C, earned second place in the community leadership category for its extensive coverage of Terrell Bradley's arrest by the Gainesville Police Department.
The series of articles began when the newspaper learned that a man was in the hospital after losing an eye during a K-9 attack. Upon further investigation, reporters found inconsistencies between the original narrative shared by GPD officers and what actually occurred, including the original reason for the traffic stop. GPD, which took weeks to address the arrest, eventually suspended two officers, reprimanded three others and halted its K-9 unit after public pushback and protests.
More:A Gainesville man lost his eye after a police K-9 attack. Community members demand answers
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The Sun's Andrew Caplan picked up a third-place award in investigative journalism for his dogged coverage of residency claims from Alachua County commissioners. The reporting resulted in one official resigning from office, though gaining her seat back during the next election, as well as two elected leaders being fined for back taxes.
It is the third time this year Caplan has been recognized for his investigative reporting, having secured first place in the investigative category for the South Carolina Press Association awards in March and earning a McClatchy Presidents Award for his 2022 project "Cut Off" back in June.
Business reporter Alan Festo also picked up a third-place award for his extensive coverage of "growth and development" in Alachua County, where he chronicled the latest openings and closings around the region in 2022. His reporting, which readers have grown to love over the years, is one of several categories that set the newspaper apart from its regional competitors.
Gannett photographer Doug Engle's dedication to the profession was also recognized with first place in sports photography. Engle, who splits time between the Ocala and Gainesville newsrooms, earned top honors for The Sun for his coverage of the Florida Gators.
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90-year-old skydives for her birthday in Buckeye
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BENTON, Pa. — State troopers in Columbia County are searching for the person responsible for a string of break-ins.
Troopers say there have been eight break-ins at businesses in Benton Township in just the last week.
But the problem has been going on for months.
RC's Bar and Grill were broken into earlier this summer.
The owner caught the culprit on surveillance video.
"We just don't want that to happen again, and it is a violation, and you don't want to be violated again. With someone coming into your safe space. You are supposed to feel secure and safe, and we just don't," said Kimberly Mohr, co-owner.
The same person also allegedly broke into a VFW, a pharmacy, and a landscaping business, among other places.
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Detroit News wins general excellence, 11 other first-place awards from APME
The Detroit News won for its general excellence as a newspaper and took home 11 other first-place awards, including best spot news, digital presence, sports column and editorial writing, in the 2022 Michigan Associated Press Media Editors contest.
The contest recognizes the best journalism across Michigan in several categories.
The News competed in Division III, where it competed against the Detroit Free Press and the Grand Rapids Press. In addition to the first-place awards, News staffers also took home 14 second- and third-place awards, for a total of 26 honors.
The News' win in the APME general excellence in its division is the second time this year that the newspaper has won a best-in-class award for its work. In March, the Michigan Press Association named The Detroit News as the 2022 newspaper of the year, recognizing the paper's coverage of the 2021 shooting at Oxford High School, challenges to Michigan's election and more.
Among the work honored by APME were the News' editorials and column writing; public service reporting by Craig Mauger and Beth LeBlanc on secretive spending by the Michigan Legislature; and feature writing for a collection of stories by Francis X. Donnelly, including one about a Pez dispenser smuggler.
The News was recognized for its photography and videography, including a Best Video award for a video by Andy Morrison about Michigan's Grand Island ice caves, and for print design, including Best Full Page Design for coverage of the massive clubhouse fire at Oakland Hills Country Club. The paper also took home the top prize for best digital presence at detroitnews.com.
Here's a complete list of the Detroit News's first-place APME awards:
- Best Editorial Writing: On pork spending, term limits and presidential gaslighting
- Best Sports Column: Controversial LIV golf tour doesn't dim Rocket's glare by Tony Paul
- Best Feature Photo:Love amid a caregiver crisis by Todd McInturf
- Best Sports Photo:Michigan are the victors! by David Guralnick
- Best Feature Writing: Four stories -- A Pez smuggler, 68-year reunion, a legal odyssey, and wedding bells -- by Francis X. Donnelly
- Best Digital Presence: detroitnews.com
- Best Public Service:Tracking the Michigan Legislature's secretive spending spree by Craig Mauger and Beth LeBlanc
- Best Spot News Coverage: Lee Chatfield suspected of engaging in criminal enterprise by Beth LeBlanc and Craig Mauger
- Best Full Page Design: Oakland Hills in flames
- Best Illustration or Graphic: Miguel Cabrera's 3000 hits by Jamie Hollar
- Best Video:Michigan Marvels: Grand Island Ice Caves by Andy Morrison
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NANTICOKE, Pa. — Luzerne County Community College (LCCC) is celebrating the life of a decorated World War II veteran who made his mark on our region and the state.
The Walk of Honor on the campus of LCCC in Nanticoke has a new addition; a bronze statue honoring the life and legacy of Pat Solano.
“Think about a 100-year man,” said Bob Tambur. “That means a man that comes along, a great man, every 100 years, so I know, tag Pat Solano as a 100-year man.”
Solano passed away in January 2021 at the age of 95. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, later moving on to serve in state government.
“He always loved to tell stories about the war, but he really preferred to talk about stories of his travels from around the country and all of the things he did with politicians in PA in both parties,” said Molly Blaskiewicz, one of Solano’s granddaughters.
His loved ones remember how he was a true family man.
“He brought insight and integrity to politics, but his greatest accomplishment was being a father to six,” said Mary Pat Blaskiewicz, another one of Solano’s granddaughters. “He was a mentor, a confidant, a genius and our backbone.”
The Solano name is no stranger to the LCCC campus.
Inside the student center, you'll find his name proudly displayed on the campus veterans center after years of service on the college's board of trustees.
“During the 80s and 90s, when this college expanded its enrollment and particularly its buildings and facilities, it was Mr. Solano that stood out in leading those endeavors,” said LCCC President Thomas Leary.
Solano's family hopes all who pay a visit to the walk of honor remember their "100-year man.”
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ORLANDO, Fla. – A Florida professor is sounding the alarm, saying college students and graduates need to pay attention to their student loans ahead of payments resuming.
“There are going to be all kinds of economic consequences. We’re already starting to see it,” said F. King Alexander, who is an educational leadership professor at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Alexander told News 6 that it’s now time for a call to action for students and borrowers to pay attention to their student loans.
This comes after students protested the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision earlier this month to strike down President Biden’s “loan forgiveness” plan.
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“It’s the housing market, it’s the automobile market, they’re not buying new cars,” Alexander said. “It’s the consumer spending market, which impacts just about everywhere, and these are all just consequences that are just going to continue.”
Tuesday, the Department of Education released data saying over 56,000 borrowers’ loans were forgiven in Florida under the administration’s $39 billion discharge approval for more than 800,000 people.
Those eligible had been paying for 20 or 25 years with more than 240 payments.
“The critics of this plan number one have said that it might lead to more inflation. Well, they said the same thing about the G.I. bill and Social Security,” Alexander said.
It should be noted that a common complaint regarding Social Security in the U.S. is that the federal government has continued to borrow from the fund, increasing the national debt. As more currency is issued to address outstanding debts — such as was seen during the COVID-19 pandemic — it increases the amount of money in the economy and devalues existing currency, leading to inflation.
Alexander said people should make sure their information is up to date with the Department of Education, check to see if their lender has changed, and make a plan after payments are set to resume in a little more than 70 days in October.
“Pay something monthly so you develop a record because it could be in a year from now that this issue could come back up,” Alexander said.
Alexander is referring to the Biden Administration’s plan B, the Higher Education Act, which was first passed in 1965. That plan, however, may take some time.
For borrowers, Biden has stated those who cannot begin making payments this fall won’t face default, nor would they be reported to credit bureaus or debt collection agencies for one year.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – After the COVID-19 pandemic, Central Florida organizations said people are still having a hard time getting back on their feet for a number of reasons.
Prior to the pandemic, Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida said it was distributing 150,000 meals a day.
That number doubled during the pandemic. Corporate Partnerships Manager Maureen Mikel said the needle hasn’t moved much since then.
“Unfortunately, that need has just consistently stayed about the same since the pandemic at about 300,000 meals every single day that we’re distributing,” Mikel said.
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Mikel said they hoped that number would drop — but searches on the organization’s online food finder tool have increased over the last year. In June 2022, there were 7,100 searches using the food finder tool. In June 2023, that number jumped 36% to 9,721.
“n that due to rising costs of virtually everything — inflation, lack of affordable housing mixed with this heat right now, you know, utility bills are out of control,” Mikel said.
However, Second Harvest isn’t alone in this fight. Light Orlando is also helping feed families by partnering with U.S. Hunger to pack 500,000 meals that will be distributed to charities feeding families across Central Florida.
“We’re seeing a lot more individuals that you wouldn’t have thought would be struggling with different kinds of food insecurity because of the housing market, interest inflation and stuff has gone up,” said Light Orlando Program Officer Troy Wright.
Wright said with the help of 1,400 volunteers, packing 500,000 meals will be one of their largest endeavors yet. They’ll pack those meals at the Central Florida Fairgrounds on Aug. 12.
“Those things that that we typically would argue about are those things that maybe would make us not be friends or not hanging out on a Friday night, they’re suddenly gone and we’re all there for one purpose,” Wright said. “And that purpose is to serve the community and to give back. So it’s really just a linking of arms and joining forces for the common good.”
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MARION COUNTY, Fla. – A Marion County business owner has been arrested following several reports of taking customers’ money without ever doing any work, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said.
James Johns, 47, has been accused of collecting deposits for construction work promised by his company, Freaky Fast Construction, with no intention of actually starting the projects.
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The first report against Johns came in March 2023, where deputies said the victim claimed to have paid Johns a $3,000 deposit for a new roof. The victim said the contract they signed in December 2022 stated that construction work would begin the following month, but they hadn’t been able to get in contact with Johns since then.
SunBiz records show Freaky Fast Construction, LLC lost its ability to do business in the state of Florida in September 2022, due to a failure to file a required annual report with the state.
Deputies said that Johns eventually responded to the victims claiming he was in the hospital and stating he would give them a full refund, but then never did.
A similar report came in April 2023, where the victim told deputies they paid Johns a $3,500 deposit in October 2022. The victim said the contract they signed stated the construction work would be completed in December, but again, they received no further communication from Johns aside from his claims of being in the hospital.
Deputies questioned Johsn who admitted to entering the contracts and collecting deposit payments, but then said he never had an injury that would prevent him from completing the construction work, records show.
Johns also claimed to have purchased the materials needed to complete the jobs, but could not provide proof or an explanation of where they were, deputies said.
Deputies said they then discovered Johns was running Freaky Fast Construction without a licensed contractor.
Johns faces two counts of contractor fraud and two counts of grand theft.
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Brownstown Township has nearly 50 rescue cats available for adoption
Nearly 50 cats were recovered Sunday from a home in Brownstown Township, resulting in a violation of township code and filling a local animal shelter to capacity, the Brownstown Police Department said.
Police responded to neighbors' complaints of a large number of cats in the home and the strong odor of ammonia from cat urine emanating from the home, said Justin Danosky, director of public works for Brownstown Township.
The recovery happened on Sunday around noon when officers were dispatched to the 18400 block of Winwood Avenue in Brownstown Township.
Upon arrival, officers observed about 20 cats from the windows and front door, suspecting more were inside the residence, Brownstown deputy chief of police Andrew Starzec said.
Brownstown Township Animal Control was advised of the infestation, indicating to authorities that they'd been working with the resident on this issue, Starzec said.
At least one violation was issued to the residents for being out of compliance given the number animals in the home, township officials said.
No further details were released.
"ACO has recovered nearly 30 cats from this residence to be cared for at the Brownstown Animal Shelter but this has put them at maximum capacity," Starzec said in a statement.
Township officials said the cats appear to be in good health and are available for adoption.
"There has been a nonstop line for people looking to adopt cats and some of the cats have been adopted," Danosky said Thursday.
For adoption information, contact Brownstown Township Animal Control at (734) 675-4008.
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SHAVERTOWN, Pa. — A summer camp in Luzerne County is teaching kids how to embrace their differences and build confidence.
A bright summer day means a new experience for these kids. This trip brings Camp Sight to the Lands at Hillside Farms near Shavertown.
Jake Major, 8, from Sugarloaf, is one of 15 campers this year.
“We get to go on adventures, like today we are on this farm, and that guy is telling us about really cool animals,” said Major.
All of the children at Camp Sight are either blind or visually impaired.
“He has neuronal migration disorder, so basically, he has one eye that doesn't work,” said Megan Major. “They compared his vision to looking through Swiss cheese, so a lot of it is a struggle, but he makes do with what he has.”
During their time at the Lands at Hillside Farms, campers will learn all about the animals and how to take care of them.
“I kind of love animals, and I am really grateful to be on this farm," said Jake Major. "No chickens or no roosters, that's very good for me."
Throughout the two-week-long camp, Northeast Sight Services takes the kids to many places to try new activities like cooking, arts and crafts, and getting out on the water, all while creating memories and friendships.
“We just love having the kids get together,” said Amy Feldman, development director at Northeast Sight Services. “I always say some of these children, they are the only kids in their school who are visually impaired, so they never get to meet other children who are dealing with some of the same challenges.”
“He doesn't feel alone, there's kids who have similar situations or worse situations, but they all come together and help each other, it's a really great thing,” said Feldman.
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SHAWNEE ON DELAWARE, Pa. — The golf course at Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort in Monroe County is used to having spectators.
Just not for this reason.
After months of planning and construction, crews are finally setting the new permanent golf bridge in place.
"It's amazing how much this bridge means to people who live here. There are people who have been filming, recording, and watching this process since September of last year. The bridge is historic. The new bridge coming in is living history, and I think people just want to be a part of it," said Jeromy Wo, the resort's marketing director.
That's why people like Brian Farris of Stroudsburg decided to come out.
"I wanted to see it only because it's been all those years of talking about getting it put in, and it's finally going to happen," Farris said.
The bridge connects golfers to 24 holes on the island course.
A golfer during his time, Farris said he frequented the course a lot... and building a permanent golf bridge was on the owner's mind back then.
"He also, at that time, had engineered a bridge to put across the island there. I think at that time it was around $700,000. But the interest on money back then, he said we can put up the temporary one at the time," Farris said.
For more than a century, this temporary bridge has limited the resort on what can go over it.
Officials say the new permanent bridge will be a game changer for them.
"Now we will have access to this island year round. That means if it's warm in January, we can get a couple rounds in. If it's cold in January, who knows, maybe we'll have some sort of winter activity out there. We can't wait, and the future is bright," Wo said.
The new permanent bridge will alleviate problems they've had in the past with high water washing it out while also doing away with having to set it up every year.
"I was here. I've been here through flood and fought the river. So it's a blessing to see this go in," Farris said.
Resort officials say while the temporary bridge got them through the past 100 years, the new permanent one should last even longer.
The grand opening of the bridge is scheduled for October, but officials believe it will be done before then.
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LONG POND, Pa. — It's the start of what's expected to be a very busy weekend at Pocono Raceway in Monroe County.
Before cars roar around the track, generators are being turned on, and RVs, campers, and tents are filling up the infield. Some of these race fans have quite the setup.
"We have our cooking area here, our tents, campers. We usually have our cornhole boards out, but it's easy," said Mike Burke from Dalton.
The group from Lackawanna County is taking up seven of the hundreds of campsites at the track.
Officials say this is the third year in a row infield camping has been sold out.
"The camping is neat. It really is a family environment in our infield where you've got the campers that didn't know each other but met each other at a race here and now formed a compound to make sure they get spots next to each other," said Ben May, president of Pocono Raceway.
Meeting campers from another state is exactly what Karen Vincent and her son did at the track three years ago. The family from New Hampshire now meets up with one from New York. This year is their first time camping at the track.
"We usually stay in a hotel and go back and forth every day, so we don't get to do all this. Yeah, we're pretty excited."
Campers moving in for race weekend tell Newswatch 16 they all come back for one reason: to have a good time.
"It's fun. It's close to home, hanging out with your friends, your camping family," Burke said.
"It's always fun when you come up for race weekend at any of the tracks, and it's always just entertaining to just go out and see who wins," said Zachary McCassey from New Hampshire.
There are four races this weekend. The biggest one is Sunday.
Raceway officials say the weekend offers something for everyone, not just racing. The event guide is posted here.
"We have the free carnival. We have the kid's zone. We have the bars. We have live music. We have shopping and just a ton of stuff, a lot of food trucks, a lot of cool things to do," May added.
Limited tickets for still available for Saturday and Sunday. Kids under 12 get in free.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, observed each year to bring awareness to the unique struggles facing racial and ethnic minorities.
And this week’s Getting Results Award winner knows those struggles firsthand.
So she started a nonprofit to bring people together and let them know they’re not alone.
Yasmin Flasterstein looked out into the backyard of a South Orlando home, where grass was growing waist-high and the walls were open around her, exposing electrical boxes and wood framing.
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“It doesn’t look like a lot right now, but I love it and it brings me motivation,” said Flasterstein, looking through a hazy wall of windows in the mid-century home under renovation. “I don’t see the overgrown grass. I’m excited for the garden.”
Flasterstein has big plans for the single-family home in a quiet neighborhood. She calls it Eva’s Casita.
“It’s going to be the first peer respite in Central Florida,” she said with a smile. “It’s going to be a place where people can take a break from hardship, stay for free overnight and just get away for a little bit. They’ll be surrounded by others with shared, lived experiences.”
Flasterstein is the founder of Peer Support Space, a peer-led organization designed as a supplement to the mental health system. Flasterstein said the organization puts a focus on helping people with intersecting marginalized identities.
“We focus on catching individuals that fall through the cracks of our mental health system,” the Peer Support Space website reads. “We help those (18+) navigating mental illness and/or substance misuse challenges, neurodivergence, disability, grief, trauma, or other obstacles to mental wellness. This is done while focusing on Black, Latinx, immigrant, LGBTQ+, disabled folx, and other communities that show statistically higher rates of mental health challenges and/or lack of access to affordable and accessible mental wellness options that practice cultural humility.”
Peer Support Space hosts daily virtual community gatherings, identity-focused peer gatherings and in-person, activity-based workshops.
“I think it’s important to know that Peer Support Space isn’t meant to replace traditional treatment. I think it’s a complement to traditional treatment,” Flasterstein said. “We’re just a piece of the puzzle. But it’s important. And no one understands the cultural nuances of a community like the community itself.”
Flasterstein added Eva’s Casita will serve to catch people before they’re in crisis.
“The idea is they can come here and get their ducks in a row,” she said. “They can connect with one of our one-to-one peer supporters. Now they have a peer that can work alongside them that has similar lived experiences.”
Peer Support Space has gotten results. The organization hosts 75 groups a month with hundreds attending virtually from across the country.
Flasterstein’s background is in emergency mental health response. She was part of the response to the Pulse tragedy and discovered a lack of services for people with intersecting marginalized identities.
“There’s a lot of preexisting issues for marginalized identities looking for mental health treatment,” Flasterstein said. “In the case of the Pulse tragedy, people were LGBTQ+ and Hispanic or Black. It was really hard to find therapists for them that specialized authentically in both things.”
Tammy Cissell nominated Flasterstein for the News 6 Getting Results Award. Cissell holds mental health workshops and has watched Peer Support Space grow.
“Mental health and well-being is very dear to my heart,” Cissell said from her home in Chuluota. “I saw on News 6 to reach out if you know someone getting results and I think she’s doing amazing things in the community. The community needs her.”
Cissell said she’s excited to see the respite home completed.
“I believe it can make a world of difference in people’s lives, being surrounded and supported by people who care about you. I’ve learned that compassion, connection and comfort are what heals people and I know that’s what people will get there,” she said.
Cissel is convinced the respite is needed.
“I would love to see her succeed because when she succeeds so many people will benefit from that,” she added.
Flasterstein told us Eva’s Casita should start welcoming guests as early as November.
“I’ve been picturing the day we open for a long time,” Flasterstein said. “We’re hoping to do this right so it can be a blueprint for more peer respites in Florida.”
To keep up-to-date on everything happening at Peer Support Space, visit the organization’s website.
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Nearly two years after launching production of its electric pickup trucks and SUVs in Normal, Rivian is planning to open its first showroom in Chicago.
California-based Rivian has leased a 5,160-square-foot space at 871 N. Rush St. in the Gold Coast, called Space, where consumers and the EV-curious can kick the tires on the automaker’s inaugural R1T and R1S models.
Rivian’s Chicago showroom is set to launch in September, following a similar opening in New York City last month. Space showrooms are also set to open in Vancouver, British Columbia, next week and Seattle in September. The first Space showroom took flight in Venice Beach, California, in October 2021, one month after Rivian began production in a converted Mitsubishi plant about two hours south of Chicago.
“The launch of Rivian Spaces is a key part of our next phase of growth, introducing retail sites as a primary experiential touchpoint and bringing the brand to life through an in-store experience,” Tony Caravano, senior director of customer engagement at Rivian, said in a news release.
Chicago will be the fifth out of a planned 10 showrooms to open this year, according to Charlotte Catania, a Rivian spokesperson. The Gold Coast showroom will be open for “at least 18 months,” she said Wednesday.
The Chicago showroom will allow customers to test-drive and reserve vehicles, which otherwise are purchased online. The base price of the R1T truck is $73,000, while the R1S SUV starts at $78,000, according to the Rivian website.
Rivian launched production in September 2021 and now has about 7,000 employees building electric pickup trucks, SUVs and Amazon delivery vans in a formerly vacant, 3.3 million-square-foot auto plant.
In late 2021, the company pulled the plug on plans to open a Fulton Market showroom as it struggled to ramp up production to meet robust early demand.
The new showroom rollout comes as production is beginning to gain traction, with Rivian building nearly 14,000 vehicles in the second quarter and on track to produce 50,000 EVs for the year.
Rivian has also delivered 5,000 Amazon electric delivery vans since the first one hit the road last summer. Amazon, an early investor in Rivian, has ordered 100,000 electric vans through 2030.
While Rivian is opening its first Chicago showroom, it already has a service center at 2033 W. Walnut St. on the Near West Side. Illinois has two of 30 Rivian service centers nationwide, including one at the Normal factory.
Tesla, the EV market leader, has six suburban showrooms/service centers and one in Bloomington. It also has two Chicago showrooms.
In May 2019, Illinois auto dealers, the secretary of state and Tesla entered into an administrative consent order agreeing that Tesla could have no more than 13 dealer licenses in Illinois.
The Illinois Automobile Dealers Association, however, continues to challenge Rivian’s right to cut out the middleman and sell directly to consumers.
In December, a Cook County judge dismissed a 2021 lawsuit brought by the dealers against the secretary of state and EV manufacturers Rivian and Lucid, for allegedly violating Illinois vehicle franchise requirements. The court ruled the state was correct in issuing dealer licenses to Rivian and Lucid, as it had previously done with Tesla.
The auto dealers appealed that decision in January and filed their opening briefs last week. Rivian declined to comment Wednesday on the pending legislation.
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Ironman, Art Fair bring road, park closures in Salem this weekend
City of Salem officials are warning residents and visitors to expect multiple, temporary road and park closures due to two of major events Friday through Sunday.
The third Ironman 70.3 Oregon returns Sunday. The event will host thousands of athletes from around the world. It consists of a 1.2-mile downriver swim in the Willamette River, 56-mile bike ride along River Road to the Ankeny Natural Wildlife Refuge and a 13.1-mile run through Minto-Brown Island Park.
Several road closures are planned Sunday along River Road South from Riverfront Park in downtown Salem and south toward Riverside Street.
Riverfront Park also will have some parking restrictions and limited access to the park as the Ironman crew sets up in advance for the event.
The route from Riverfront Park on Front Street SE, Commercial Street SE, Mission Street SE, Saginaw Street S, Owens Street S and River Road S toward the Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge and back will face closures.
City officials said information is being sent to residents that live along the racecourse and signs will be posted to warn drivers of the potential traffic impacts that may occur throughout the day. They advised attendees to find more information about parking downtown online at cityofsalem.net/community/neighborhoods/parking/where-to-park/find-free-parking-in-downtown-salem.
Attendees will be able to gather at Riverfront Park to cheer on participants but will not be able to travel over the Peter Courtney Minto Island bridge that connects Riverfront to Minto.
The bridge will be closed Sunday to everyone except competitors, emergency personnel and event staff.
Those with questions concerning race day road or park closures can reach out to the city's Dispatch Center at 503-588-6311.
The 74th annual Salem Art Fair & Festival opens Friday for the weekend. Temporary closures will be in place on Northbound High Street between Bush Street and Miller Street SE while organizers clear out of Bush's Pasture Park from from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday.
Due to traffic and parking Sunday from Ironman, art fair attendees are encouraged to use 12th Street SE and avoid lane closures on Front Street and Commercial Street.
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Oregon wildfire updates: Boulder Fire 100% contained, Flat Fire grows to 15,217 acres
This story was updated at 11:15 a.m. Thursday
“If it smells like a campfire, it’s probably a good idea to close windows,” was the advice issued to Eugene from the National Weather Service Thursday morning. Smoke from the Flat Fire in southern Oregon has lowered air quality in the area as the fire’s path spreads.
Here’s the latest information on wildfires happening throughout the state.
Flat Fire in southern Oregon grows to 15,217 acres
Growing 2 miles southeast of Agness, the Flat Fire burnt 15,217 acres on Thursday morning, according to the fire team.
The fire’s perimeter has been moving back and forth between the Oak Flat and Agness area of southwest Oregon's Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, also burning about an hour east of Gold Beach near the confluence of the Illinois and Rogue rivers.
A public lands closure was issued for the area on Monday night. That closure covers the Illinois River, its trail and the northern half of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness. Still, the Rogue River remains open and accessible.
Roads, trails and part of the Illinois River are under other closures issued by Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest. Increased fire traffic on the roads nearby should also mean increased caution for drivers in the area, the fire team added in a news release.
Mixes of winds and low humidity have also led to a red flag warning, now in effect throughout southern Oregon.
The wildfire first ignited at Oak Flat Campground toward the mouth of the Illinois River on Saturday. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to the team.
The focus of teams Wednesday was shifted toward the north side of the fire as crews worked to protect the community of Agness. Structure protection groups are also in place working to protect buildings. The fire has threatened about 40 structures, the fire team has said previously.
“Structure protection groups will continue working to prepare buildings,” Thursday’s release said. “If conditions permit firefighters will be conducting small burnout operations on the western flank of the fire to slow fire spread.”
The spread of the north side of the fire was slowed throughout Wednesday. Thursday teams predicted the fire will be most active in the west. Depending on weather conditions, crews could begin to start small burnouts on the western flank of the fire to slow the spread. As of Thursday morning, teams were working to reduce vegetation and assist firefighter operations.
The crew at the scene of the Flat Fire has almost doubled, growing to 908 personnel through 34 crews.
Haight Creek Fire
The Haight Creek Fire is estimated to have burnt more than 100 acres southwest of Veneta, burning on Oregon Department of Forestry protected Bureau of Land Management land.
Firefighting aircraft began scooping water from Fern Ridge Reservoir Wednesday afternoon to fight the fire's spread near Alma. The Lane County Sheriff’s Office added in a release that anyone recreating on the reservoir uses caution and even considers heading to a different recreation spot for the time being.
Access to Oxbow Road is also closed near the fire for the safety of the fire team.
No evacuation orders have been issued and no structures or powerlines are threatened. The biggest threat is to natural resources, the Oregon Department of Forestry said Wednesday.
“Today’s day shift will concentrate on holding and improving the fireline around the perimeter, cutting down dead timber and begin to mop-up 20 feet into the fire where possible,” the department added in Thursday's update. “Dead, standing timber, or snags, are always a safety issue to firefighters during a fire and a safety concern to public after the firefighters leave, so crews will focus on falling them to improve safety as fire activity slows.”
15 dedicated aircraft, eight air tankers and seven helicopters worked the fire Wednesday, and air operations continued Thursday.
Antelope Creek Fire
South of Antelope, the Antelope Creek Fire flared up Wednesday evening and is now 100% contained. Burning 380 acres and fueled by wind, teams were able to quickly stop forward progression Wednesday night. The cause is still under investigation, according to Central Oregon Fire Information.
The 224 Fire
Now at 75% containment, the 224 Fire has not grown from 38 acres. The 224 Fire first ignited 5 miles southeast of Estacada. While all evacuations were lifted Tuesday night, North Fork Road 4610 in the area is closed for firefighter safety.
Promontory Park opened to the public Wednesday.
The main focus for teams Thursday is continuing mop-up efforts and increasing containment lines around the fire’s perimeter.
“Tonight, operations will work to mop-up into 100 feet of fire with the assistance of an infrared camera, where safety allows,” an update from the Oregon Department of Forestry, North Cascade District said. “The infrared camera is a thermal imaging camera that finds heat in the fire during night, allowing our crews and firefighters to mop them up efficiently.”
The cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to the fire team.
Boulder Fire
The Boulder Fire in Mount Hood National Forest is now 100% contained, overall burning 233 acres. Active firefighting wrapped up Thursday, according to an update from the Forest Service.
Next on the list: suppression repair, backhauling equipment and patrolling the fire area. Some of those efforts include removing extra dirt and vegetation debris which were added for fire lines, or removing fire-weakened trees. Repairs of roads that were damaged during the fire are also a new focus for the team.
During the Boulder Fire, roadways, campgrounds and trails north and east of Forest Road 48 in the Barlow Ranger District were closed. Boulder Lake Campground, Little Boulder Lake, Bonney Meadows Campground, Badger Lake Campground, Camp Windy and Port Camp Campground remain under a Level 3 evacuation as of Thursday.
The full closure order is on the Forest webpage.
Fire officials are also asking for help in determining how Boulder Fire started. Any information, photos or videos that could help fire investigators can be sent to SM.FS.R6TipHotLine@usda.gov
Abigail Landwehr is an outdoors journalism intern for the Statesman Journal. She can be reached at alandwehr@gannett.com
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BLOOMINGTON — The Illinois Department of Transportation announced Thursday six projects are ongoing in Bloomington-Normal as part of year five of the Rebuild Illinois project.
The six projects, which are part of Gov. J.B. Pritzker's bipartisan capital program, make up a $48 million investment in improving safety, mobility and quality of life while sustaining and creating well-paying jobs throughout the region, according to IDOT.
The Bloomington-Normal area projects include:
- patching, milling and resurfacing Veterans Parkway from Clearwater Avenue to Old Route 66 in Bloomington, with ADA improvements, which began in June and is expected to be completed in October;
- box culvert replacement across U.S. Business 51 north of Raab Road in Normal, which began in June and is expected to be completed in September;
- superstructure replacement on Old U.S. 51 over Kickapoo Creek one mile north of the U.S. 136 bridge, which began in June and is expected to be completed in November;
- patching, milling and resurfacing Illinois Route 9 from Illinois Route 122 to Walton Drive in Bloomington, which began in April The work began in April and is expected to be completed by the end of July;
- patching, milling and resurfacing Interstate 55 from the Logan County line to just south of Shirley, which began in June and is expected to be completed in October;
- patching, milling and resurfacing Interstate 74 from just north of I-55 Business to just east of U.S. 51 at I-55 in Bloomington, which began in May and is expected to be completed in September.
The Rebuild Illinois project passed in 2019 and is investing a total of $33.2 billion over six years into the state's aging transportation system, creating jobs and promoting economic growth. It is the largest capital program in state history and the first that involves all methods of transportation: roads, bridges, transit, waterways, freight and passenger rails, aviation, bicycle and pedestrian accommodations.
Year four of the project included an estimated $12.1 billion in improvements statewide on 5,339 miles of highway, 533 bridges and 762 additional safety improvements.
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BLOOMINGTON — Grossinger Motors Arena will celebrate World Fragile X Day on Saturday, July 22 alongside more than 475 iconic landmarks in 17 countries around the world.
The landmarks will be illuminated in a vibrant teal color symbolizing solidarity with the Fragile X community and raising awareness for Fragile X syndrome, a genetic brain disorder that causes intellectual disabilities.
The event is a global initiative of the FRAXA Research Foundation, which aims to highlight the advancements in Fragile X research and unite people worldwide while raising awareness for the most inherited cause of autism and intellectual disabilities, according to the foundation's announcement.
Individuals are encouraged to wear teal or illuminate porch lights with teal bulbs to show their support on World Fragile X Day.
Other landmarks in Illinois participating are located in Canton, Champaign, Mason City, Quincy, Rockford and Chicago.
Visit worldfragilexday.com for more information.
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — A sea otter launched into the national spotlight after images of her aggressively wresting surfboards away from surfers off the coast of Santa Cruz, California circulated on social media is building a fan club as she continues to evade capture.
A team of wildlife experts with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the nearby Monterey Bay Aquarium have been trying to capture the 5-year-old animal, known as otter 841, since last week because they say she poses a public safety risk.
They say they want to examine her and relocate her at a zoo or aquarium —as yet to no avail.
She now has a growing fan club, with people showing up every day to get a glimpse of her spending time sunbathing on the rocky shore, diving in the water and chomping down on crabs.
Jessica Fujii, Sea Otter Program Manager at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, said the team has faced some challenges in its pursuit, including bad weather.
“The main issue is more just her ability to evade. Because this has been an ongoing effort, she is wary of those nets," Fujii said.
Federal and state wildlife officials did not return messages from The Associated Press seeking comment Thursday on their effort to catch otter 841.
The mischievous mammal was made famous by a professional photographer who posted photos and videos on social media that show her aggressively approaching surfers and getting on top of surfboards — on at least one occasion biting and tearing chunks off a board.
“They can’t throw a net over her in the water. They can’t tranquilize her because of fear of her drowning. So they really need to get hands-on her," said the Santa Cruz photographer, Mark Woodward.
The team trying to capture her has used a baited surfboard. She’s gotten on it multiple times in the past few days, according to Woodward. But as soon as a wildlife official towing the surfboard carrying her gets near the team's boat, she dives off, he said.
The otter’s aggressive behavior is highly unusual, and the reason is unknown, federal wildlife officials said.
“Aggressive behavior in female southern sea otters may be associated with hormonal surges or due to being fed by humans,” the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a statement last week.
Otter 841 was born in captivity and released into the wild in June 2020. She is tagged with her number and has a radio transmitter that officials have been monitoring to keep tabs on her.
They said it is not the first time the otter has been aggressive toward humans. She was observed approaching people in late 2021. In May 2022, she was spotted with a pup in the Santa Cruz area, and four months later exhibited similar aggressive behavior.
Meanwhile, her fans want her to be left alone.
“Just leave ‘em alone. Just let ’em have fun. Hasn’t bitten anybody. Roughs up the board. It’s like a dog with a chew, you know?” said Jackie Rundell, a Santa Cruz resident who on Wednesday visited the bay.
Southern sea otters, whose population dwindled to about 50 in 1938, are managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service. They are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act and are protected under the Marine Mammal Act and California state law.
Now with a population of about 3,000, sea otters play a fundamental role in maintaining healthy coastal ecosystems by preying on sea urchins that can multiply and eat their way through the kelp forests both marine creatures share, wildlife officials said.
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FOLSOM, Calif — If you're a Folsom resident, it's time to start finding an alternate route as lane closures are set to begin on Folsom Boulevard. It's expected to heavily impact traffic for the next few months.
A pipeline construction project is requiring phased lane closures on Folsom Boulevard from Blue Ravine Road to Bidwell Street. The project is said to cover a one-mile stretch.
The project is set to begin this month and last through November.
The city says construction will cause major traffic delays as there will only be two lanes open for the duration of the project, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Motorists are recommended to take alternate routes.
The first phase of the project will consist of night work located at the intersection of Folsom Boulevard at Blue Ravine and is scheduled from July 30 through Aug. 6. This phase will impact traffic between the hours of 7 p.m. and 5 a.m., according to city of Folsom.
The second phase is set to begin as early as Aug. 7 on Folsom Boulevard from Parkshore Drive to Bidwell Street. Folsom Boulevard will be reduced from two lanes to one lane in both directions and the speed limit reduced to 35 mph.
Traffic restrictions are expected to change throughout each stage of the construction project.
Here is a map of the pipeline construction project's location:
As part of the City of Folsom Capital Improvement Program, the Environmental & Water Resources Department identified this pipeline project as necessary to maintain the integrity and reliability of the water and wastewater system.
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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A person was killed in a single-vehicle accident on I-80 in Yolo County, Wednesday.
According to a California Highway Patrol accident report, it happened just after 10 p.m. on Interstate 80, east of Webster Street.
Upon arrival, officers found a car had crashed and someone died.
CHP says its preliminary investigation found the driver was going east at a high rate of speed when it went off the road and overturned.
CHP says alcohol and/or drugs are believed to be a factor in the crash. Anyone who witnessed the crash or has additional information can call the CHP Woodland Area office at 530-662-4685.
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STOCKTON, Calif. — More than 561,000 square feet of office space in California's Central Valley is sitting unused, according to new data released by leading real estate and investment firm CBRE.
The report, released this month, focuses on Lodi, Stockton, Manteca, Tracy and Modesto's office real estate market.
As a whole, the valley's vacancy rate was up 5.9% at the end of the second quarter. The new vacancy rate represents an increase from 5.7% to 5.9% quarter-over-quarter.
Despite the increase in office vacancy rate, CBRE says the valley's market exhibited greater stability than the Bay Area or Sacramento markets.
"Looking ahead, the Central Valley office market will continue to experience challenges surrounding the lack of premier space and new construction in the region," the report said. "This trend should continue while construction cost and lending requirements remain cost prohibitive based on proforma rent expectations."
Of all the valley regions that CBRE studied, North Central Stockton had the highest total vacancy rate at 11.1%. Lodi had the lowest total vacancy rate at 4.3%, followed by Manteca with a total vacancy rate of 4.5%.
Technology and government companies were the most active in the valley's office real estate market during its second quarter.
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- Maine Veterans exposed to toxic hazards have until August 9th to apply for PACT Act benefits.
Ahead of the deadline, Senator Angus King held a press conference to give details on how Maine Veterans can receive compensation.
The benefits come from the PACT Act of 2022, which expands healthcare and compensation benefits for Veterans exposed to toxic hazards like burn pits, Agent Orange, and other dangerous substances.
According to Senator King, only around four-thousand out of an estimated fifty-six-thousand eligible Mainers have already filed a claim.
King said, "Veterans in Maine who feel that they have a claim that they where exposed to a burn put, and by they way there are thousands of those Veterans, should get in touch with the VA (Veterans Administration) in the next week to avoid losing what could be a years worth of benefits."
For more information about PACT Act eligibility and filing a claim, click here.
Maine Veterans can also call the Togus Regional Benefits Office at, 207-621-6938
The deadline to file a claim is August 9th.
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FILE -- Governor Mills recently signed into law a joint proposal that would promote building solar energy projects on farmland that has been contaminated by PFAS.
"The need to really provide solutions for farms contaminated by the forever chemical PFAS is real. This is one potential tool in the toolbox that will get us there," said Senator Stacy Brenner, one of the law's sponsors.
The proposal combines Senator Brenner's bill in promoting economic reuse of contaminated land with Senator Eloise Vitelli's bill in advancing Maine's clean energy goals.
"It just makes common sense. If you're going to not grow crops on this land and we need to advance our energy goals, this is a perfect land application," said Senator Brenner.
This piece of legislation has three goals: advancing Maine's clean energy development, ensuring benefits to ratepayers and making use of PFAS-contaminated farmland.
Senator Brenner walked us through how this process would work.
"If the land has a level of contamination that's deemed by the Department of Agriculture to be in a situation where the business pivot doesn't make financial sense or it's too deeply contaminated for continued production, then that plot of land would be elevated in the procurement of the P.U.C. [Public Utilities Commission] and the solar developer would be incentivized to use that property over the other one," said Senator Brenner.
This is something Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Deputy Commissioner Nancy McBrady sees as a win-win for both sides.
"If that location works with an energy developer and is right for solar development, it would be seen as a income-generating option for that farm," said McBrady.
McBrady admits its too early to know whether farmers will benefit from this, but says this offers another options for farmers.
"If there are going to be locations developed for renewable energy, it would be our preference it would be on contaminated land. I think that is going to be offered to its best and highest use," said McBrady.
This law will go into effect 90 days after the Maine Legislature adjourns from its current session.
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BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL)- As summer starts to wind down, you might be looking for a place to take in the views and enjoy some seasonal foods.
Vivian’s Table at The Bristol Hotel in Virginia is offering a summer menu.
Chef Jason Van Marter Stopped by First at Four Thursday to showcase some of the restaurant’s summer apps and sides.
The recipes are below:
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GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — Greeneville City Schools are analyzing test score results, which reflect the best school year since 2017. The newly released Tennessee Department of Education TCAP test score data showed Greeneville exceeded the state average in most areas.
“The TCAP results that we got this year really exemplify the excellences that our teachers and our students have worked towards throughout the school year,” said Greeneville High School Principal DeAnna Martin. “They’ve worked hard in all subject areas, and we have worked on scaffolding instruction in the classroom to meet the needs of all of our students.”
Greeneville City Schools scored a total of 45% in over all proficiency, this means 45% of students either met or exceeded expectations. To break down the results, 31% met the needs and 14% of students exceeded those expectations.
Martin told News Channel 11 that while she is proud of the test results, she wants her students’ achievements to be in extracurricular areas as well.
“We are giving our students the background and the education to be successful in whatever they want to do after they leave us as a senior, so we want them to be future-ready,” said Martin.
Suzanne Bryant, assistant director for instruction, said that achievement is just one way to measure student growth.
“I’m hoping to see that our students have grown more than expected because we usually see our students grow more than their projections,” said Bryant. “We’re always hoping for growth that exceeds expectations.”
Bryant said that the test scores reflect the efficiency of the district.
“It reflects that we have amazing teachers to begin with, that we’re a community that works together, that our teachers and families and students all work together to ensure that students are successful,” said Bryant.
School leaders will be analyzing the test results to determine what techniques they can implement in the future to further increase student growth.
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MESA, Ariz. — An adult and two children were rescued Thursday afternoon from a smokey apartment building in Mesa, officials said.
The fire was reported at about 1 p.m. at a complex located near Dobson and Broadway roads. Upon arrival, Mesa firefighters discovered a family of three people were trapped inside a second-story bedroom due to heavy smoke.
Firefighters used a ladder to rescue the children and adult out of the apartment. They're being treated for possible smoke inhalation but appear to be in good condition, the fire department said.
Sky12 footage shows most of the fire damage appears to have been isolated to one of the complex's buildings.
It's not yet known how many residents of the complex will be displaced by the fire.
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Home Fire Prevention:
The Arizona Fire & Medical Authority has released tips on how to prevent fires from starting in your home.
“More than 4,000 Americans die each year in fires and approximately 25,000 are injured,” the authority said on its website. “An overwhelming number of fires occur in the home.”
First off, the authority says that every house needs to have at least one working smoke alarm. Every level of the home and every sleeping area should have a working smoke alarm inside of it to offer the best protection.
Appliances should also be used in a way that manufacturers recommend, since overheating, shorts and sparks can all lead to a fire breaking out.
Lastly, families should have an escape plan from every room of the house.
“Caution everyone to stay low to the floor when escaping from fire and never to open doors that are hot,” the authority said. “Select a location where everyone can meet after escaping the house. Get out then call for help.”
The authority offers free home safety inspections. Schedule one with them by calling 623-544-5400.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Starting Monday morning, McConnell Air Force Base is closing the main gate to base housing for improvements, which is expected to alter traffic patterns around the base and along South Rock Road.
The current housing gate is just east of Rock Road and Arnold Court. Starting at 7 a.m. Monday, July 24, all housing traffic will be routed through a security gate at 31st Street and S. Arnold Boulevard.
A McConnell spokesperson said the change will shift the traffic volume at the usual housing gate to Rock Road intersections at Pawnee Street, 31st Street and 47th Street.
But, the traffic will not be as simple as heading south and then east and vice versa, because there is no traffic signal at Rock and 31st.
McConnell Air Force Base provided a map showing how airmen can get from housing to the base.
The shift to the 31st Street housing gate could mean delays as drivers adjust to the new route and traffic volume at peak times.
If someone in base housing wants to get to 31st South and Rock Road or a place south of there, officials recommend heading east to Webb Road first. Then they can go to either Pawnee or 47th Street South to access Rock Road since those intersections have traffic signals.
“Patience is key. Stick to the detour and adjust your travel time,” Jon Murphy, 22nd Air Refueling Wing occupational safety manager, said. “As we work to improve our facilities, there will be traffic delays. Plan and be a part of the solution, not the cause of a problem!”
The 31st Street housing gate will be open at all hours until the improvements are finished to the other entrance, possibly by the end of November.
“The work on the main gate to McConnell base housing includes repairs and security improvements to the road to include a mill/overlay of the existing road, construction of speed tables to slow traffic, widening of the road at the guard shack checkpoint, installation of a sunshade over the incoming lane next to the guard shack, new rolling gates, and new or revised traffic signs for those entering and exiting the housing gate,” John Schwartzbeck, Engineering Flight chief with the 22nd Civil Engineering Squadron, said in a news release.
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Corpse flower at Mitchell Park Domes will be in full bloom Friday morning for about 24 hours
Mitchell Park Domes' rare, stinky corpse flower, nicknamed "Musky," is starting to bloom, and visitors will have to hurry to catch a whiff.
Horticulturalists expect the giant flower to be in full bloom by Friday morning. As it opens, it will emit an odor some have compared to roadkill.
The flower will be in bloom about 24 to 36 hours before it collapses, which means visitors will have to stop by the tropical dome on Friday or Saturday to smell Musky.
More:Rare, stinky corpse flower on the verge of blooming at Milwaukee's Mitchell Park Domes
The Domes, at 524 S. Layton Boulevard, is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The last admission is one hour before closing time.
It is the first time this corpse flower has bloomed in about eight years. The Domes previously saw two other corpse flowers bloom in 2021, and another in 2018. Amorphophallus titanum, the flower's official name, is native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Find additional information about tickets and hours at mitchellparkdomes.com.
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BALTIMORE — There will be a second meeting on the Brooklyn Park mass shooting, but not for nearly two months.
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Baltimore City council member Mark Conway says the first council meeting on the attack brought more questions.
Baltimore Police are expected to write up a report on the attack and said it would be done 45 days after the meeting.
The meeting will focus on that report, as well as concerns about 911 calls made, BPD protocols and safe streets data.
The shooting happened July 1.
Two young adults, 18-year-old Aaliyah Gonzalez and 20-year-old Kylis Fagbemi, were killed.
READ MORE: Two killed, 28 injured overnight in a mass shooting in South Baltimore
28 other people were injured.
The meeting is set for September 13.
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BALTIMORE — Another neighborhood is joining a lawsuit against BGE claiming they forced them to change their homes and pay for damages caused during the work.
The Milton-Montford community claims BGE forced them to install gas regulators with no input from the community on when or where they'd be installed.
Neighbors say when they pushed back, BGE said their gas would get cut off if they didn't comply.
And when the regulators were installed, they damaged historic marble steps saying repairs were the homeowners' responsibility.
One of the biggest concerns is the regulators being narrow busy streets.
"We have scooters, the kids ride bikes, there is no protection for these regulators. Nothing is protecting these gas regulators and this is our concern. What are y'all going to do now because now we've had an accident and they just came in inches of blowing up the whole neighborhood," said Soretha Staten, vice president of the Milton-Montford Community Association.
That accident, a car crashing inches away from one of the regulators.
Neighbors also say their bills have gone up drastically since regulators were installed.
We reached out to BGE on the issue, they say the work done was "reviewed and approved by the Maryland Public Service Commission, granted a permit by Baltimore City and is in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and BGE standards."
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“BGE installed natural gas service regulators on the exterior of homes in the Milton-Montford neighborhood in 2022. Gas regulator installations in this community are part of important work that has been reviewed and approved by the Maryland Public Service Commission, was granted a permit by Baltimore City, and is in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and BGE standards. The goal of this work is to provide customers with natural gas in the safest and most reliable manner possible. Gas service work incurs no additional cost to customers. Customers who have a question about their BGE bill are encouraged to contact us online at bge.com [bgeknowledge.custhelp.com] or call us at 800-685-0123.”
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BALTIMORE — The search for justice may be over in the shooting death of 19-year-old Jaymyra Burrell.
RELATED: 'She had her whole life ahead of her:' Murder of pregnant teen leaves Baltimore father mourning
Baltimore Police say an arrest was made in connection to the incident.
It all began on December 4, 2022 around 3:00am, officers were called to the 5600 block of Woodmont Avenue for reports of multiple shots being fired.
When they arrived, they located a young woman, later identified as Burrell, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Nathaniel Burrell, Jaymyra's father, said she was gunned down just feet away from his front door.
"I was in bed and my mother came to the window and said 'look at all of those police cars out there', and I saw all of the police out there," he remembered.
Months later, deputies from the Kanawha Coutny Sheriff's Office discovered the suspect, 22-year-old Malik McCormick, while conducting a traffic stop in South Charleston, West Virginia.
During the stop, law enforcement quickly found out McCormick had an outstanding warrant for Jaymyra's murder.
On Tuesday, McCormick was extradited from West Virginia to Baltimore where he is currently being held at Central Booking.
He is charged with first degree murder and various handgun violations.
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ODENTON, Md. — A man was stabbed after an argument in Odenton, Thursday afternoon.
Around 1:00 p.m., officers responded for a report of a stabbing that occurred at the Subway on Orchard Parkway.
Investigation revealed that the victim was with his girlfriend and her child at the time of the incident.
Police say the suspect, the former significant other of the girlfriend and father of the child, approached the couple in the store.
An argument took place and at some point, the suspect attempted to physically take the child.
The victim intervened and became involved in a fight with the suspect.
During the struggle, the victim was stabbed in the torso. He was then taken to a trauma center for what was described as a "serious non-life-threatening injury."
The suspect was also taken to a hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening injury.
Western District detectives are actively investigating the incident and ask that anyone with information contact them at (410) 222-6155 or the Anne Arundel County Police Tip Line at (410) 222-4700.
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BALTIMORE — It might be nine in the morning at Henderson-Hopkins Elementary, but the students here are excited about learning through music.
"So it gives them the opportunity to express themselves in a different way, while still learning what they need on the educational side as well," said
Latasha Adkins, one of the classroom teachers.
Today, the group of Pre-k students was focused on patterns.
Using shapes and then music notes, they came up with their own, then incorporated them into music.
"Students love art, they love sound, they love singing, they love that stuff, so for me it's been really really cool to sit with that instructor, see what their style is and see what they come up with and what we can brainstorm together. Arts for learning really gives us a powerful curriculum to set us up for success," said Ama Chandra-Brown, one of the classroom teachers.
The students love the program too, like five-year-old Ari.
"My favorite part of music class, is we can dance," he said before breaking out into dance.
While some students might break out into a dance during their interview, others like Olivia opt for song — singing Miss Mary Mack.
The program, Summer Arts for Learning Academy, is free to over 2,000 Baltimore City schools, at nine different locations.
It's nationally recognized for its impact and has been shown to mitigate summer learning loss.
"It takes their learning to another level cause they see the 'ah ha's.' I love that look when they light up and they can see the connection between this thing and that thing," said Chandra-Brown.
The students love the opportunity to get into the classroom and make some music.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A boil water advisory has been issued for customers of the West Travis County Public Utility Agency public water system.
Customers affected by the notice are those that use the Highway 290 System and Hamilton Pool Road area - the neighborhoods of Belvedere, Provence, Madrone Ranch and Deer Creek.
The advisory comes as a result of tank levels dropping to critically low levels after the system experienced uniquely high water usage demand Wednesday night.
To ensure the neutralization of all harmful bacteria and other microbes, it is strongly encouraged that water for drinking, cooking and ice-making should be boiled and cooled prior to use for human consumption. The water should be brought to a vigorous rolling boil and then boiled for two minutes.
Public officials will notify customers once the water is safe to consume and the notice is lifted.
Those who aren't sure if they are included in this boil water notice can call Customer Service at 512-263-0125 for verification.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The Huntsville Police Department identified human remains found in May 2008 as those of a Vietnam War veteran originally from Texas.
Monday, HPD said, forensic analysis confirmed the remains belonged to Ralph Eric Hucher. Hucher was 52 years old when he was last in contact with family in 2002, according to police.
The remains were discovered in a wooded area along Old Highway 20 in Huntsville-annexed Limestone County. Investigators found personal belongings including a lighter, binoculars, pocketknife, glasses, and a jacket.
Two years ago, in May 2021, HPD says Cristy Kissel, a forensic genealogist with Ceartas Forensic Services, used newer DNA technology to help obtain a more robust DNA profile.
Confirmation from the FBI DNA Lab linked the genetic material from the remains matched Hucher. His relatives were notified about the positive identification, and HPD is coordinating the return of his remains.
No foul play is suspected, and HPD considers the case officially closed.
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A Colorado-based company plans to hire nearly 250 workers to warehouse and recondition stainless-steel beer kegs at a new, 270,000-square-foot industrial facility on Tucson’s southeast side.
MicroStar Logistics, a major supplier of outsourced beer kegs based in Denver, plans to invest $70.5 million in facilities and equipment at the vacant industrial site at 9825 E. Old Vail Road, including a construction cost of $37.1 million, according to materials submitted to the Tucson mayor and city council.
The new facility will be used for warehousing, distribution and processing operations including keg maintenance, rebranding, refurbishment, repair and cleaning, according to a jobs incentive package presented at a council study session on Tuesday.
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Construction is expected to start in August and be completed by the end of July 2024, according to the company’s city incentive application.
MicroStar was expected to make a formal announcement of the project this week.
Tucson-based Diamond Ventures will develop the industrial-zoned site just west of South Houghton Road and fund about half of the cost of the project, the application says.
'Shared keg' service
MicroStar reconditions beer kegs as part of its main business model of “shared keg” service, which allows empty kegs to be returned to the nearest participating brewery, thereby reducing transportation costs.
The company, which also offers keg rentals, more recently launched a network to process and manage reusable plastic shipping pallets used for beer kegs.
In February, MicroStar announced it would launch its pallet-management network with Constellation Brands, which recently purchased a new fleet of reusable plastic pallets.
Constellation brews Modelo and Corona beers for the U.S. market at two breweries in Mexico, including one in Obregon, Sonora.
MicroStar Chief Operating Officer Glen Opp told the city council he's been visiting Tucson for the past few years and looked at other communities before choosing the Old Pueblo as a plant site.
"It's the community, the people in the community we can employ, and our connection with our customers, specifically in Obregon, there's a huge connection there," Opp said.
MicroStar says it’s the largest independent owner of beer kegs with nearly 6 million in use under the MicroStar and KegCraft brands in the U.S. and Kegstar in Australia, the United Kingdom and Europe.
Citing a study by Deloitte Consulting, the company says stainless-steel kegs are the most environmentally-friendly delivery method for beer, supplanting some 6 million cans and bottles annually.
Tax breaks eyed
According to City Manager Michael Ortega’s summary of the project presented to the mayor and council, the Microstar project will create a total of 243 new jobs with an average wage for all new jobs projected at $55,278.
As planned, the MicroStar project qualifies for the city’s Primary Jobs Incentive Program, which requires an employer to invest at least $5 million in new or expanded facilities within the city limits, and create at least 25 primary, non-retail jobs that meet certain wage and benefit requirements.
The city memo says Microstar plans to hire 59 workers at annual pay of more than $54,932 — the average local wage benchmark required to get the incentive — and an average wage for all new jobs is projected at $55,278, about $5,000 more than required based on Arizona’s average wage.
Qualifying employers can get incentives of up to 100% of city construction sales tax revenue generated by the project, applied toward offsets to impact or permit fees, off-site public improvements, or workforce training for the project.
The estimated value of the incentive to MicroStar is $482,615, the city manager said.
Over five years, the project is expected to generate direct revenue to the city of $3.1 million, and more than $15 million to other taxing districts, according to an economic analysis by Sun Corridor Inc., the Tucson region’s main economic-development group.
MicroStar still must sign a development agreement with the city, which is expected to come before mayor and council for approval in late August.
And the incentive payment to MicroStar is contingent upon the project meeting and maintaining its employment projection of 59 jobs at qualifying pay levels for five years.
Sustainability on tap
During Tuesday’s council study session, the council voted unanimously to direct staff to develop an agreement to be presented to the council on Aug. 22.
Ward 4 Councilwoman Nikki Lee welcomed MicroStar to her ward and said the company’s business and environmental and sustainability goals align with the city’s own goals.
Council member Kevin Dahl of Ward 3 also welcomed the company and, citing growing regional concerns about future water supplies and efforts to conserve, encouraged the company to incorporate sustainable water-use practices in its plant design.
Asked about expected water and chemical usage at the keg plant by Mayor Regina Romero, MicroStar's Opp said the company reclaims and reuses most of the water it uses and uses very low levels of cleaning chemicals.
At a similar plant MicroStar opened in Eagle Pass, Texas, in 2019, the company uses water reclamation systems and treats its wastewater to adjust its pH to neutral before discharging it, he said.
“We build water reclamation into all those processes, we bring water effluent back to the areas that we can and we can control the levels, and make sure we’re a good citizen,” Opp said, offering to provide the city with a sample of wastewater from its Texas plant.
Opp told the council the company’s keg-sharing business model also lowers the carbon footprint of its brewery customers, which include some 700 craft brewers in the U.S. and big brewers besides Constellation including Pabst.
Contact senior reporter David Wichner at dwichner@tucson.com or 520-573-4181. On Twitter: @dwichner. On Facebook: Facebook.com/DailyStarBiz
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...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT MDT /11 PM PDT/ TONIGHT
TO MIDNIGHT MDT /11 PM PDT/ SUNDAY NIGHT...
* WHAT...Temperatures up to 107 on Friday, up to 109 on Saturday
and up to 104 on Sunday.
* WHERE...Portions of south central, southwest and west central
Idaho and southeast Oregon.
* WHEN...From midnight MDT /11 PM PDT/ tonight to midnight MDT
/11 PM PDT/ Sunday night.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
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rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
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Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District biologist Nadja Reissen examines a mosquito in Salt Lake City in this 2019 file photo.
Payette County staff have detected the presence of West Nile virus in local mosquitoes for the first time this season.
The mosquitoes that tested positive were located in the Fruitland Community Park area, and were tested as part of the county’s mosquito abatement program, according to a news release from the county.
“The early detection of West Nile virus is one of the primary reasons for our comprehensive adult mosquito surveillance program,” said Nikki Harris, the program manager.
West Nile has also been found in mosquitos in Canyon County multiple times this season.
Mosquitos can transmit the virus to humans, horses, and other animals when they bite, and are most active at dawn and dusk. The county is encouraging residents to protect themselves by wearing insect repellant, draining areas of standing water that could provide habitat for mosquito larvae, ensuring window and door screens are in good condition to prevent mosquitoes from coming indoors, avoiding going outside at dawn and dusk, and wearing pants and long-sleeved shirts outdoors if mosquitoes are present.
Symptoms of West Nile virus tend to begin within 14 days after being bitten by an infected mosquito, and can include a low-grade fever, fatigue, and headaches, muscle and joint aches. In more rare, severe cases, symptoms include high fever, severe headache, neck pain, a torso rash, and disorientation, which could be signs of encephalitis, or brain inflammation. Those experiencing severe symptoms should seek medical attention immediately.
Avoiding mosquito bites entirely is the best prevention, the release said.
Abatement program staff will increase surveillance of mosquitoes around the area in question, locating and treating mosquito-infested waters. They will also be spraying pesticides in the areas surrounding Fruitland to control the insects.
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...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT MDT /11 PM PDT/ TONIGHT
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* WHAT...Temperatures up to 107 on Friday, up to 109 on Saturday
and up to 104 on Sunday.
* WHERE...Portions of south central, southwest and west central
Idaho and southeast Oregon.
* WHEN...From midnight MDT /11 PM PDT/ tonight to midnight MDT
/11 PM PDT/ Sunday night.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
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The Goldrun Fire, located in Gem County, spread to about 850 acres on Thursday afternoon.
The Goldrun Fire grew to nearly 850 acres Thursday afternoon, the Idaho Department of Lands announced in a news release. It was an estimated 400 acres on Wednesday.
No evacuation orders have been issued, but structures remain threatened, the release said. The blaze is approximately three miles northeast of Ola, in Gem County, about 55 miles north of Boise.
Responders are fighting the flames with seven helicopters, "several" air tankers, five 20-person ground crews, two water tenders and seven engines. There are 200 fire personnel assigned to the fire, the release said.
Firefighters have been hampered by high temperatures, wind and poor recovery of humidity at night, the release said.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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DANVILLE, Va. – Danville is seeing a big economic boost.
Weeks after opening, Caesar’s Virginia temporary casino brought in $30 million and the city saw nearly $2 million in revenue.
John Shutts or “Johnny Bodacious” as many call him, has owned Schoolfield Restaurant for 8 years.
Shutts says he’s seen Danville change positively over that time frame.
“Absolutely, it’s been magnificent to watch the economic director and development make this dream happen for the city,” Shutts said.
Shutts is excited about the new possibilities considering his business is steps away from where Caesars will be built.
While the temporary casino is operating, it’s good news for his business; he says foot traffic has increased.
“It’s exciting I mean we’re just enjoying all the way around, we’ve been expanding our hours little by little, trying to compensate slowly watching the growth come in, I think sales are up 5-10% right now,” Shutts said.
According to the Virginia Lottery, since Caesar’s opened the temporary casino in May, it brought in nearly $30 million total in revenue.
City leaders say they are feeling the effects.
“We are certainly pleased to have this visitation for the Danville casino the numbers look really good,” Danville City Manager Ken Larking said.
Larking says the city gets about 8.5% that Caesars collects every month.
For June, Larking says the city collected about $1.6 million which will go to a rainy-day account.
For this fiscal year, Larking says the city is expected to collect $13 million which will go toward education, economic development, workforce development, quality of life, and infrastructure.
“We want to be careful about making strategic investments that would help us with sustainable growth over time the purpose of Danville having this opportunity for having the casino was to improve lives for people who live here,” Larking said.
The numbers for July are expected to be released by mid-August.
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Not your typical cat names, but General Fiction and Crime come from a family of kittens named after book genres!
They’re two months old and just recently became available for adoption. They are sweet, friendly, and looking for forever homes.
Julie Rickmond, the Marketing and Communications Director for the Roanoke Valley SPCA says she’d love to see them get adopted together, but it’s certainly not required.
For more information on how to adopt General Fiction, Crime, or another pet, visit here.
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Concerns about guns in polling locations were discussed at Thursday's Allen County Election Board meeting, but members say there's nothing they can do to address the issue.
Fort Wayne resident Jan Eshleman told the board about her experience at Peace Lutheran Church during the most recent election when a poll worker at the site was carrying a gun. The experience left her in fear.
"I don't want to be afraid when I go to vote – flat out," she said.
Jack Morris, the Democratic member of the board, said he sympathized with Eshleman's concerns but the issue was simply out of the board's hands because state law leaves the choice with the owners of polling places.
Morris said the church, 4900 Fairfield Ave., was fine with guns on the property. A secretary for the church who responded to a Journal Gazette call Thursday said the organization follows state law, which does not prohibit carrying a gun at such buildings.
But, like other private businesses, churches can prohibit people from carrying a gun on their property, according to a "Gun Owners' Bill of Rights" publication by Indiana's attorney general.
Eshleman referred to South Carolina mass shooter Dylan Roof, who in 2015 shot and killed nine Black churchgoers in a move many believe was racially and politically motivated. She asked Election Board members how she is supposed to know whether the poll worker at her voting location might follow in Roof's footsteps.
Eshleman said she knows what it took for women to get the right to vote and she doesn't want to be scared to fulfill her civic duty.
"I owe it to my foremothers to vote at every single election, and I do. But I'm not gonna do it with guns," she said.
Morris and Allen County Director of Elections Amy Scrogham recommended Eshleman vote early or by mail if those concerns persist.
But she wasn't satisfied by that advice.
"Why is it incumbent on me" to change, she asked.
Eshleman said she will speak to Peace Lutheran Church's pastor about her concerns.
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A 24-year-old man pleaded guilty to three counts of child pornography on Thursday in hopes of receiving a prison sentence limited to six years.
David Knezevich is accused of possessing two videos and four photos of children engaged in sex acts with other children, adult males and a dog, according to a probable cause affidavit written by Brandon Davenport, a detective with the Indiana State Police.
Prosecutors offered Knezevich a plea deal, which isn't official unless a judge accepts it. In exchange for pleading guilty as charged, Knezevich would be sentenced to six years in prison followed by four years on probation.
Police became aware of Knezevich after a tip from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children revealed an account belonging to him sent a video of a 13-year-old girl being sexually abused, court records show. After obtaining a warrant, police found a second video of two prepubescent girls engaged in sex acts.
The second video appears to be from a broadcasting platform. The app purports to "(create) authentic connections between people as one of the world's most popular live video broadcasting platforms."
The more than 30-minute long video shows the two children reading the screen and appearing to take directions, according to the affidavit. However, police could not determine what the girls were saying because it was in a foreign language.
Police also found four photos of one child who appeared to be younger than 14 years old naked and performing sex acts with an adult male and a dog, records show.
Charges were filed against Knezevich in December. He is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 18.
At that time, Allen Superior Court Judge David Zent will determine whether to accept or reject the agreement. If Zent rejects it, Knezevich will be allowed to reinstate his plea of not guilty.
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- Another woman has come forward saying she was also approached by the same two men at the center of the Willow Grove Park Mall attempted abduction investigation, but at a different mall in a different county.
- Khalilh Evans, 44, of Philadelphia, has been arrested and is accused of trying to abduct a teen girl at the Willow Grove Park Mall on July 12.
- Police have not identified the second man believed to have been working with Evans and are asking the public to come forward with any information to help them learn more about the two suspects.
Another woman has come forward and said she also had a run in with the two men at the center of the Willow Grove Park Mall attempted abduction investigation.
The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said she encountered Khalilh Evans and another man several days before the incident in Willow Grove on June 27 at the Oxford Valley Mall in Langhorne, Pa.
She said she was at the mall with her 3-year-old nephew, walking around when she stopped at the big chess area for her nephew to play. That’s when she said she was approached.
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The woman said that Evans was there, but he stayed back while the other man came straight up to them. She said she grabbed her nephew and relocated to a different area of the mall.
The two suspects then approached her again—this time Evans came up to her and said hello, she said.
No crime was committed, but it was enough for the woman to call security and have them escort her out of the mall to her car.
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When police announced that a 14-year-girl was the target of a kidnapping attempt and released surveillance video, the woman said she recognized without a doubt that those were the same men that had approached her.
“I do feel extremely lucky. I don’t know what could have happened that day,” the woman said.
Police in two different townships are now taking a look at this case and they want to know more about the two suspects.
Attempted abduction of 14-year-old at Willow Grove Park Mall
Evans, 44, of Philadelphia, was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals on Thursday, July 13, and charged with false imprisonment of a minor.
"This was particularity disturbing, a crime like this," Abington Township Police Chief Patrick Molloy told NBC10. "This is one where your heart skips a beat."
The incident occurred around 7 p.m. Wednesday at the mall, located on 2500 Moreland Road in Montgomery County, Abington Township police said.
The 14-year-old girl told police she was descending an escalator from the second level to the first level when she was met at the bottom by a man who identified himself as “Alex,” investigators said. The man -- who police said appeared to be at least three times her age -- asked the girl to walk with him and extended his arm, as if escorting her.
The girl told the man she was underage and tried to step away from him, according to police. As she stepped away, the man allegedly grabbed her arm, placed it in his arm and restrained her before leading her across the mall.
The attack was caught on video.
"As you can see from the video he's basically twisting her wrist," Molloy said, while calling the incident "unambiguous."
Police said the girl escaped the man’s grasp, screamed and ran away. Several witnesses then stepped in and stopped the man from approaching the girl, according to investigators.
Police said the man appeared to be working with a second man. Both men left the mall immediately after the girl fled and were last seen entering a dark gray Dodge or Chrysler minivan or “crossover” type vehicle, possibly a Dodge Journey.
Police receive more tips about suspect in custody for attempted kidnapping
Police said since releasing photos of the suspects Wednesday night, they received a tip that a man fitting the same description used the same name "Alex" while giving his phone number to another 14-year-old.
"This as you could imagine -- being a father -- we have sisters and nieces, I don’t think there's a crime that's more scary than this," Molloy said. "Because God knows what the intentions were of these individuals."
Police also said they received numerous tips from the public stating at least one of the men also approached other young women at the mall and possibly other malls. An 18-year-old woman, who we are not identifying, told NBC10 the two men approached her and her friend shortly after the attempted abduction.
"They grabbed my friend by the arm and was holding her hands like this and stuff," she said.
The young woman said she and her friend gave the men fake phone numbers and were able to get away.
During the investigation, police identified one of the suspects as Evans.
What police know about Khalilh Evans
Investigators said Evans went to his attorney's office in Media, Delaware County, and surrendered to U.S. Marshals on Thursday. He was transported back to Abington Township and will be arraigned by a judge.
Evans was wearing a "security" uniform while being escorted by police. It's unclear at this time if he worked as a security guard.
Molloy said Evans was on probation at the time of the incident and has a "28 page rap sheet" that includes numerous weapons offenses as well as charges of aggravated assault and terroristic threats.
While announcing Evans' arrest, Molloy blamed the "failed policies in Philadelphia":
“I think some of the failed policies in Philadelphia with the District Attorney’s Office, where it’s somewhat of a revolving door, where dangerous felons are let back onto the street to prey upon our citizens," he said. "And this is a particularly disturbing case because these are innocent children. This shouldn’t have happened. He should’ve been detained. He should’ve been in jail. And I know there’s a lot of things that go into those decisions on why people are back on the street. But this here is a disgrace. We need to do a better job. The system failed.”
NBC10 reached out to the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office for a response to Molloy's comments as well as Evans' lawyer. We have not yet heard back from them.
What we know about the second man believed to have worked with Evans
The second man who police initially believed was working with Evans during the attempted abduction is still under investigation, according to Molloy. Police said they are still trying to determine his exact role in the incident. He has not been charged as police continue to investigate.
Following Evans' arrest, NBC10 obtained a statement from the owner of the Willow Grove Park Mall.
"As always the safety and security of our shoppers is a top priority," the owner wrote. "We were pleased to learn that one of the suspects was apprehended and we will continue to cooperate with the Abington PD in their investigation. We are thankful to both bystanders and authorities for their prompt reaction."
Police are asking anyone with information about either of the men shown in the photos to come forward as they continue piecing together this investigation.
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Allen Superior Court Judge David Zent could barely hear the quiet “yes, sir” from a 19-year-old defendant Thursday as the teen admitted to attempting to kill a man in October.
Riley Irving pleaded guilty to attempted murder and two counts of robbery in exchange for a 25-year prison sentence. If Irving went to trial and was found guilty, he would have faced a sentence of up to 102 years.
The sentence offered in the agreement includes a 25-year sentence for attempted murder, a 25-year sentence for robbery and a 16-year sentence for his second robbery charge – all to be served concurrently.
Irving’s alleged accomplice, 16-year-old Naing Ngwe, is scheduled for a jury trial Sept. 5.
Irving allegedly shot a man in the chest last fall after robbing him and his friend at gunpoint as they drove around Fort Wayne, according to a probable cause affidavit written by Darrin Strayer, an officer with the Fort Wayne Police Department. When the victim was taken to the hospital, he was in critical condition.
The two victims told police they traveled from Indianapolis to Fort Wayne to meet someone at an apartment complex, records show. After arriving, Irving and Ngwe held the victims at gunpoint and went through their pockets.
The victims said they were told if they moved, they would be shot or killed, court documents show. Eventually, they were put in a car.
During their drive around the city, Irving and Ngwe attempted to get money from one of the victim’s bank cards and demanded he send Irving and Ngwe money through CashApp, the victims told police. They then drove to the location of the shooting.
The victim, who was shot, kept nudging his friend to signal he needed to get out of the car and run, records show. The friend escaped the car and ran, hearing gunshots as he went toward a wooded area.
The second victim heard his friend screaming for help and eventually found the gunshot victim, who told him he wasn’t going to make it and asked him to take care of his daughter.
Zent oversaw the hearing and allowed Irving to change his plea. On Aug. 14, after reviewing a pre-sentence investigation report, Zent will decide if he will accept the offered agreement.
If the judge does not accept the agreement, Irving would not be bound by its terms. At that point, he would be able to change his plea back to not guilty.
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The city of Fort Wayne issued this news release tonight:
When it rains, the 100-year-old combined sewers in older parts of Fort Wayne can overflow, resulting in the discharge of a combination of stormwater (rain or snowmelt) and untreated sewage into CSO impacted waterways within the Great Lakes Basin. Today's forecast indicates a strong possibility that overflows will occur or have started to occur within the past four (4) hours. The overflow may be continuing. The approximate times when the overflow started and stops will be summarized within seven (7) days in a supplemental notice available on the City's website at https://www.cityoffortwayne.org/cso-notification.html.
Consumption of or direct contact with sewage-contaminated water could make you sick. Signs are posted along affected waterways in Fort Wayne to identify the locations of combined sewer overflow points and areas where contact with water could be hazardous to your health. These locations, and waterbodies potentially impacted, may also be found by clicking the following link: https://www.cityoffortwayne.org/cso-notification.html.
During and after a combined sewer overflow event, individuals should avoid direct contact with water in any of the waterways that are potentially impacted by CSOs as shown on the map found at https://www.cityoffortwayne.org/cso-notification.html.
In addition, City Utilities encourages the public to take the following precautions:
• Avoid direct contact with CSO-impacted streams during and for three days (72 hours) after a rain event and for 72 hours after receiving a CSO notification;
• Alter recreational activities to avoid direct contact with CSO-impacted water;
• If contact does occur with CSO-impacted water, wash your hands immediately, especially prior to eating;
• Use a waterless hand sanitizer at outings that occur near CSO-impacted streams.
Every Wednesday City Utilities will post information at the following location giving details of any CSO discharge events that have happened in the previous seven (7) days:
https://www.cityoffortwayne.org/cso-notification.html.
Clean water is a priority for the City of Fort Wayne. City Utilities is implementing a variety of projects to improve waterways and reduce CSO discharges. The long-term costs to control CSOs in Fort Wayne will likely exceed $250 million.
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Chincoteague Island Pony Swim and Auction returns for its 98th year. Here's all to know.
Giddy-up, Delmarva.
The 98th annual Chincoteague Island Pony Penning and Swim is back for yet another year on the island where wild ponies roam.
Pony Penning returned to its full glory in 2022 after a two-year COVID-19 in-person hiatus. The nearly 100-year tradition, whose roots are as deep as the marsh mud, includes the Pony Swim on Wednesday and Pony Auction on Thursday. The auction is the biggest annual fundraiser for the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company, which manages the wild pony herd on Assateague Island.
Here's everything you need to know about the island’s historic pony celebration and festivities, which begin Sunday, July 23, and continue for the next big week.
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'A time of homecoming'
Pony Penning is a time of homecoming, according to the Chincoteague Chamber of Commerce & Certified Visitor Center. Whether attendees have lived on Chincoteague their entire life or only for a short season, the last week of July is a pilgrimage to rekindle, reconnect and recharge with family and friends during this exciting week of pony fever.
Thousands line the shores of Veterans Memorial Park and Pony Swim Lane to watch the world-famous Chincoteague Ponies make their annual swim from Assateague Island to Chincoteague Island. Charter boats and kayaks filled with eager onlookers line the Assateague Channel, creating a pathway for the ponies as they make their yearly swim from shore to shore.
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The town of Chincoteague will provide enhanced viewing of the event on a large Jumbotron located at Veterans Memorial Park and provide free shuttle bus service to the event beginning at 5 a.m. on Wednesday, July 26. The shuttle operates on Wednesday only. When shuttle service ends on Swim Day, the Pony Express Trolley will begin running at 1 p.m. to assist.
Visit www.chincoteaguechamber.com/pony-penning and the chamber's Facebook page for any updates, a shuttle map and information including where to park, helpful hints and a full schedule of events.
Roundups and vet checks
Festivities are set to kick off on Saturday, July 22, with the South Herd Roundup at about 7 a.m. at the South corral on Beach Road. The North Herd will be rounded up on Sunday, July 23. The North Herd of wild Chincoteague Ponies will join the South Herd to await the "big day" in the traditional Beach Walk on Assateague Island at 6 a.m. on Monday, July 24. Vet checks will be given on Tuesday, July 25, ahead of the annual swim and parade.
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Pony Swim and auction
The annual swim on Wednesday, July 26, will occur at the earliest morning slack tide. The estimated swim window will be between 8:30-10:30 a.m. The auction of foals is set to take place on Thursday, July 27, at 8 a.m. at the Carnival Grounds located at 3648 Main St. The auction will also feature a virtual component, so those planning to bid online are advised to register beforehand.
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Additional festivities
The week's events culminate with the return swim of the South Herd adult ponies to Assateague Island on Friday, July 28, with a time to be determined after the swim on Wednesday. The Chincoteague Volunteer Fireman's Carnival will be open from July 21-22 and July 24-29 from 7-11 p.m. featuring rides, games, raffles and fabulous Eastern Shore food including oyster and clam fritters. The last night of the carnival will be celebrated with a huge fireworks display on July 29.
Come early to enjoy the 35th annual Chincoteague Island Blueberry Festival, Misty's Birthday Party, Buckaroo Bingo, free showings of "Misty of Chincoteague," Music at the Dock, Storytelling, Farmers and Artisans Market, and more fun events that take place throughout the month of July.
Stop by the Chincoteague Chamber of Commerce and Certified Visitor Center located at 6733 Maddox Boulevard to learn more, visit the Events Page of the chamber's website, or download the Chincoteague app (see QR code below) for details on these and many other events and activities.
Chincoteague Pony named Virginia's State Pony
The wild Chincoteague Ponies have attained celebrity status through the years. In recognition of the beloved animals, the Chincoteague Pony has become the official state pony of the Commonwealth of Virginia as of Saturday, July 1.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin officially signed off on bills making the official pony designation official on March 27, Delmarva Now previously reported. Sen. Lynwood Lewis' bill SB1478 passed unanimously while a companion bill — HB 1951 — cleared the House of Delegates with a 93-7 vote during the 2023 General Assembly session.
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17-year-old Sophia Gallivan's longstanding passion for horses and the horse industry led her to become an advocate for the bill that has been passed into law. Gallivan, a member of the Chincoteague Pony Drill Team and a 4-H Virginia Horse Ambassador, was most honored by the support of the First Lady of Virginia, Suzanne Youngkin.
According to the State Symbols USA website, Virginia is now the 18th state in the country to have an equine member as its state symbol. "Virginia is For Pony Lovers" commemorative T-shirts can be purchased at the Chamber Office.
Olivia Minzola covers communities on the Lower Shore. Contact her with tips and story ideas at ominzola@delmarvanow.com.
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The Treaty of Cambridge: 60 years later, a legacy of hope and still a work in progress
Cambridge native Dion Banks carries with him the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and its intersection with the city his family has called home for generations.
His car’s trunk is filled with photos of civil rights leaders who walked the streets before he was born and a cutout copy of the 1963 Treaty of Cambridge, a landmark agreement between the city’s residents and the federal government.
But Banks, a marketing vice president by trade and co-founder of the nonprofit Eastern Shore Network for Change, sees the treaty, signed 60 years ago Sunday, as far more than words on a page.
“It provided hope,” said Banks, in an interview, standing outside the Bethel A.M.E. church that served as a headquarters for those clamoring for change during the 1960s. For some Cambridge residents who hadn’t had steady electricity or indoor plumbing, the treaty helped lay the foundation for amenities most Americans take for granted.
The three-page document — signed by the United States attorney general, the city’s mayor, state officials and civil rights advocates — also fit the small Eastern Shore locale back into the pages of history, making the city a reference point at that summer’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. put forth the dream that still rings in society today.
Birmingham comes before Cambridge
Four months before King spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the march in Washington, D.C., he wrote from the confines of a jail cell in Birmingham after being arrested for protesting segregation on Good Friday.
His arrest combined with the thousands of schoolchildren who marched, braving dogs and firehoses in the Alabama city, garnered international attention and catapulted President John F. Kennedy’s administration into the midst of a national crisis.
“The Kennedys were in the middle of a transitional moment for America,” said Harry Belafonte, the legendary singer who died earlier this year, during a 2018 documentary interview. Belafonte was right there in the middle of the transition, too, pushing the administration forward on civil rights.
He called U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the president’s brother, on King’s behalf during the reverend’s Birmingham imprisonment, and later participated in a critical meeting between Black activists and Robert F. Kennedy in May of 1963, which would change the country.
Less than a month after the meeting, President Kennedy, at the urging of his brother, was on television, speaking forcibly in favor of equal rights and opportunities for African Americans.
Cambridge protests continue despite presidential speech
But presidential proclamations, regardless of how passionate, did little to prevent the ongoing protests that persisted on the pavement across the country in the streets, including in Maryland, where demonstrations had been taking place in restaurant seats since the dawn of the decade.
William “Bill” Hansen first came to Maryland from his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended a Catholic university. He befriended an African American peer playing basketball and eventually helped to form an interracial council on campus. This led to more organizing activity.
Hansen, who is white, met Baltimore native Reginald Robinson, who is Black, during sit-in protests at restaurants along Maryland’s portion of Route 40. After arrests in Baltimore in 1961, the two decided to take action to change a part of the state with the worst racial reputation — the Eastern Shore.
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“Once you crossed that Chesapeake Bay Bridge, which was very new then,” said Hansen, of the bridge that opened in 1952, “you were in Alabama.”
Robinson, who spent the early part of 1961 working on voter registration in Mississippi in the Deep South, put the racism of Maryland’s Eastern Shore and Alabama on an “equal scale.”
“That’s what the reputation was,” said Hansen, in a May interview. “That’s why we came there.”
The two, along with eight others, held a sit-in at City Restaurant in Crisfield, a remote waterfront city that was the hometown of the state’s then-Gov. J. Millard Tawes. They were arrested in Crisfield on Christmas Eve 1961 and jailed in Princess Anne, the Somerset County seat.
Their bail bondsman, Frederick St. Clair of Cambridge, suggested they go there next. It would be in the abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s home county where the threads of history converged.
Threads converge in Cambridge
Hansen and Robinson entered a city struggling on Race Street and stayed with the St. Clairs, which included Herbert, the city’s first Black councilmember and a wealthy businessman.
St. Clair’s assessment of the city in 1963 did not contradict the recollections from 60 years later.
“It's hard to believe that Washington, D.C., is only seventy-five miles away-we live like the Deep South,” said Herbert St. Clair, in a 1963 article. “There are parts of the Eastern Shore where Negroes still get off the sidewalk and stand in the gutter when a white person walks past.”
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Downtown’s main road, ironically “Race Street,” divided the white and Black sections of town, said Donna Richardson Orange, a Cambridge native and cousin to the bail bondsman St. Clair.
“At one point there were no Blacks working on Race Street,” said Richardson Orange, now a septuagenarian, in a July interview. Employment prospects weren’t much better at the time for Blacks off Race Street either.
Phillips Packing Company, which employed thousands of Cambridge residents and supplied rations for World War II troops, dwindled after the war, eventually closing its doors in the ’60s. Those doors slammed harder for those in the Black community.
In 1963, the unemployment rate for whites stood at about 7 percent; for Blacks the rate was nearly four times higher, according to a document in the state’s archives.
Only 3 percent of Cambridge’s total population of the age of 25 or older was college-educated, and only 28.7 percent had completed high school, contrasted with the statewide figure of 41.7 percent, according to a 1963 article.
It was in that environment that Hansen and Robinson began their organizing work, primarily with the city’s young people. Hansen described being beat up on a picket line by a young white man while leading a protest of one of the six segregated restaurants in nearby Easton.
Hansen didn’t hit back. State troopers intervened on Hansen’s behalf and broke up the melee. No arrests were made. An aggressor, white Cambridge native Eddie Dickerson, was shocked. So much so that he went to the church later that night to find out why Hansen had not hit him back.
“We honestly think that love can overcome hate,” Hansen told Dickerson, as recorded in the 1963 article “Why Didn’t They Hit Back?” produced by the Congress of Racial Equality.
Robinson worked as a field secretary in Cambridge for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC. Hansen would soon be relocated to another SNCC project in Albany, Georgia, as a field secretary, but not before he was beaten again, thrown out of the Choptank Inn, and arrested.
“I believed in the American dream,” said Hansen, now a professor of politics at the American University of Nigeria in Yola. He’s missing a few teeth after beatings endured in the civil rights era. “The policy that we pursued in Cambridge was to hold a mirror of America up to itself.”
That mirror and the images of America
The image of America in that mirror was unsightly in 20th century Cambridge, as it would have been a century prior, standing near the Dorchester County Courthouse, a site where the enslaved were taken up High Street from the waterfront, sold at auction, and where Tubman did a rescue.
Today, a statue of Tubman, called “The Beacon of Hope,” unveiled last year, stands, marking the spot. About 30 yards away, another marker indicates the spot where John Kennedy spoke during the presidential campaign of 1960. His brother Robert served as his campaign manager.
The twin markers miss the moment that the two brothers help etch into the city’s civil rights history. Gloria Richardson, whose daughter Donna brought her into the demonstrations before she became a civil rights leader in her own right, set the record straight on who should get credit for the 20th century chapter of the civil rights story. It wasn’t primarily the Kennedys or King.
“It wasn’t Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who turned Cambridge around,” said Richardson, in a book that compiled accounts of women involved with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. “It was all the local students who were out there laying their lives on the line.”
Two of those students, Black teenagers and schoolmates of Donna Richardson Orange, Dwight Cromwell and Reva “Dinez” White, were arrested for praying peacefully outside of a segregated bowling alley on Memorial Day 1963 and sentenced to time in state facilities on June 10, one day before Kennedy’s civil rights speech.
“It bothered me,” said Richardson Orange, of seeing her 15-year-old schoolmates sentenced. “It bothered a lot of us.”
Over a dozen Blacks were arrested for protesting the arrests outside of the Courthouse, according to subsequent reporting. The day of the Kennedy Oval Office speech, two white men were shot in Cambridge and three businesses destroyed. The day after the speech, another couple of businesses — both Black and white — were destroyed by fire.
Hundreds met at the Courthouse that week in a racial standoff, with police separating the Blacks and whites in an attempt to maintain order. The next day, Gov. Tawes called in the National Guard.
National Guard comes to Cambridge
Coming so soon after the Birmingham protests and President Kennedy’s speech, the images of racial tumult and the Guard in Cambridge put the first-term Kennedy administration in a bind.
“The Kennedys were running around the world as the ‘great human rights people’ when there was warfare in the streets of Cambridge,” said Gloria Richardson, in her account in a book.
She would go to Washington multiple times that summer as chair of the Cambridge Non-Violent Action Committee, including to a July 9 White House meeting where the president laid out his agenda to address the racial issues in the country. But the situation in Cambridge still simmered.
The same day as the White House meeting, the Cambridge native Eddie Dickerson, who had beaten Hansen 18 months earlier, had his photograph appear in newspapers across the country. The reformed Dickerson had an egg broken upon his head by a white restaurant owner while he knelt and sang civil rights songs next to Black protesters.
The moment was captured by the press and Dickerson endured the indignity without reciprocating the violence. He was not the only one pictured pushing away from violence.
In a now iconic photo, Richardson is seen walking through the streets of Cambridge and putting her hand up to block a National Guardsman’s bayonet while a crowd looks on.
In her writing, Richardson recalls a different fight: the Cambridge contingent “battling back and forth with Robert Kennedy” during those weeks.
“They called us to Washington for this meeting to try and settle things,” said Robinson, in a May interview, the only living witness to the July meeting that took place in at the U.S. Department of Justice in D.C. sixty years ago.
The meeting in Washington, D.C.
Richardson came prepared, if not elated. She had earlier designed a door-to-door survey of Cambridge’s Black community to find out exactly what people in the community wanted.
“It was not a happy occasion for Gloria,” said John Lewis, the then-national chair of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, who attended the meeting and recalled it in his memoir. Richardson’s lack of joy may have stemmed from a distrust of “the scene,” as Lewis indicates, or from the severity of the situation as she had learned from her survey and her life’s experience.
The answer was not desegregation alone. Along with high unemployment, 40 percent of the city’s homes had no inside toilet facilities, she found, in a report that was sent to the Kennedys.
Robinson, the Cambridge field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, recalls what was discussed that day as “the whole gamut,” including jobs, housing and schools. He also noted the meeting was the first occasion “the federal government decided to talk to us.”
“That was meeting was so important because it was one of the first times that … they had attempted to call us in at that level,” he said. “I don’t know of another meeting such as that.”
By day’s end, an agreement had been reached. Employment, desegregation of public places and schools, and housing for the Black community were all addressed in the agreement.
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Lewis, a native Alabamian who marched alongside Richardson in Cambridge, called the agreement a “great step forward for Cambridge” for both Blacks and whites during a press conference on July 22 at the Justice Department.
“We look forward that Cambridge will lead the way in the State of Maryland as a new city, as a new community, striving to solve the problems that we all face in this nation,” said Lewis, according to a transcript of the press conference on file at the Kennedy Library in Massachusetts.
After-word: The March on Washington
Either way you look at it, Cambridge got one word in at the Lincoln Memorial the next month, August, at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom held in D.C. along the national mall.
Despite the smiling photograph of Robinson next to Richardson taken at Bethel A.M.E. Church in Cambridge on the day that the agreement, or Treaty of Cambridge as it came to be known, was signed, the story wasn’t yet finished. Gloria Richardson and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee wanted the Kennedy administration to keep its promises.
In an indication of the gender inequity of the day, six Black women, including Richardson, shared a small section of the march program, while more than six men, Black and white, gave remarks.
“Hello,” was the word Richardson managed to say into the microphone that day before the mic moved on to another speaker, the meaning of her presence in that moment not yet recognized.
“Cambridge” was not in the original text of the 23-year-old John Lewis speech at the Washington march. In a day-of change to keep unity between civil rights organizations, Lewis changed his speech, making it less critical of Kennedy’s legislation and referencing Cambridge.
“We will march through the South, through the streets of Jackson, through the streets of Danville, through the streets of Cambridge, through the streets of Birmingham,” said Lewis, later a U.S. Congressman representing Georgia, “but we will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity that we have shown here today.”
Richardson Orange, the Cambridge teen in attendance at the peaceful march that day, went home, but she and her mother would soon be walking in a changed country with new leaders.
Leaders leave, new leaders emerge
This month, standing across Pine Street from the St. Clair business where Richardson worked, Dion Banks waves back to a lot of people driving by, including one he points out as the city’s former mayor, Victoria Jackson-Stanley, the daughter of Richardson’s lieutenant from the ’60s.
Jackson-Stanley, the city’s first African American mayor who served from 2008 until 2021, is representative of a different Cambridge than the one Hansen and Robinson came to back in 1962. (A sign was also installed in Crisfield last month commemorating the pair’s actions in that city.)
After President Kennedy was killed in November 1963, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, desegregating all public accommodations throughout the country, including in Cambridge, where despite the signed agreement, citizens voted against requiring desegregation the previous year.
“When it comes to the legacy,” said Banks, of the Treaty of Cambridge,“one thing that happened when Gloria left was there was no one that really stepped into the position of leadership.”
Richardson moved to New York in 1964, John Lewis was voted out of his position with SNCC in 1965 as “Black Power” became popularized, and H. Rap Brown, who became chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in 1967, came to Cambridge later that year.
Brown, pictured today with Richardson on a mural on the side of a Pine Street store, was in town when a significant section of the Black community burned after an altercation with police in ’67.
“The press likes to say ‘the Rap Brown riot’ and conveniently ignore everything that came before it,” said Richardson, in a 2017 article in Baltimore magazine. “I mean, it’s not like there wasn’t plenty of activity and attention to what we were doing just a few years earlier.”
“But all of that tends to be forgotten,” said Richardson, who is depicted in another mural image, standing next to Tubman, which since 2017 greets visitors crossing a bridge into Cambridge.
The children, Cromwell and White, eventually released from Maryland facilities through the agreement and Robert Kennedy’s intervention with the state, have faded into history’s pages.
Housing built because of the Treaty of Cambridge still stands
Six decades later, the housing that was built in Cambridge as a result of the 1963 agreement still stands, albeit with an updated façade and a gate installed around the federally owned apartments.
State Delegate Sheree Sample-Hughes, who grew up in Salisbury in the late ’70s and ’80s and now represents the area in the state legislature, has reached out to the state’s federal delegation to ensure the properties that are federally owned are “up to par” with “proper living conditions.”
“We need to meet with the management companies that are overseeing these properties,” she said. During a recent ride along with the Cambridge Police Department, Sample-Hughes, in a way reminiscent of Richardson, informally surveyed the children in the area, asking their wants.
One boy asked for a swing set.
The day after the interview, the delegate was scheduled to meet with representatives from the Cambridge YMCA regarding where the organization is thinking about building in the future.
“We should already to some degree have the map and be able to expand upon it,” said Sample-Hughes, currently the House of Delegates Speaker Pro Tempore. “We’ve come a long ways.”
“There’s still more to be done,” she said, “but we can only do it if we do it systematically and with a plan.”
Dwight A. Weingarten is an investigative reporter, covering the Maryland State House and state issues. He can be reached at dweingarten@gannett.com or on Twitter at @DwightWeingart2.
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ROCKWALL, Texas — Drivers in the Rockwall area were dealing with a lot of traffic Thursday night because of a major accident emergency workers are currently dealing with.
As of 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Interstate 30 Westbound reopened after it had been shut down to one lane in Rockwall because of an accident that happened in Rowlett. Drivers had significant delays and needed to consider alternate routes, according to the Rockwall Police Department.
It is unknown what caused the accident or how many vehicles were involved.
This is a developing story. We will provide more information as it is provided.
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ARLINGTON, Texas — It's still a year away, but the excitement can already be felt in North Texas for the 2024 MLB All-Star Game.
The MLB and the Rangers on Thursday unveiled the Texas-sized logo for next year's gathering of baseball's top players.
The logo features an outline of the state with the title "Texas All-Star Game 2024."
The game will be held at Globe Life Field in Arlington on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. It's only the second time the Rangers have hosted the Midsummer Classic -- the first being in 1995 at the Ballpark in Arlington.
"Today marks the beginning of what will be an incredibly exciting 12 months leading up to 2024 All-Star Game,” Rangers majority owner Ray Davis said. "... We look forward to working with Major League Baseball and the Cities of Arlington, Fort Worth, and Dallas over the next year to create a spectacular week of All-Star activities leading up to July 16, 2024."
"We’ll also do our best to see that Bruce Bochy is managing the 2024 A.L. All-Star Team," Davis added.
This year's All-Star Game was held in Seattle and featured five Rangers players as starters: Marcus Semien, Corey Seager, Josh Jung, Jonah Heim and Adolis Garcia. At one point in the July 11 game, there were six Rangers on the field at once when pitcher Nathan Eovaldi took the mound.
Globe Life Field will also be host to the All-Star Futures Game and All-Star Celebrity Softball Game on Saturday, July 13, 2024, and the Home Run Derby on Monday, July 15.
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AUSTIN, Texas — The state of Texas resigned Thursday from a national, bipartisan effort to prevent voter fraud, becoming the largest state and ninth GOP-led state to leave the initiative since 2022.
The exit from the Electronic Registration Information Center, commonly known as ERIC, comes after Texas Republicans began showing a willingness this year to leave the group, which has been targeted by conspiracy theories about its funding and purpose. Republicans elsewhere have cited other reasons for leaving the initiative and said they have been working on an alternate system.
On Thursday, Texas submitted a letter to ERIC giving notice that the state would withdraw from the program, effective in 91 days, according to a Secretary of State spokesperson.
As fewer states participate in the effort, which allows states to share government data to maintain accurate voter lists, the costs for participating states are set to increase, spokesperson Alicia Phillips Pierce said.
There is no immediate plan to join another system, but the state continue to research options, Pierce said.
Other states to have recently resigned from ERIC include Louisiana, who was first, as well as Alabama, Florida, West Virginia, Missouri, Ohio, Iowa and Virginia.
In Kentucky, Secretary of State Michael Adams, a Republican, said he is exploring his state’s options. His state is required to participate in ERIC due to a court order. But according to Adams, several surrounding states as well as Florida, where many Kentucky residents retire, are leaving or do not participate.
“Even if ERIC were hunky-dory, I still need to find ways to get information from 30-plus states that aren’t in ERIC,” Adams said.
New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver said she was approached by officials in Ohio to discuss a data-sharing agreement, and she declined. “I am very interested in the longevity of ERIC because the concept of doing state-by-state agreements, it’s just a mess,” Toulouse Oliver said, adding that it took years to develop the various security and privacy protocols built into the process.
Multiple Democratic officials have said they are uninterested in alternatives to the ERIC system, which still includes a few Republican-led states. They expressed hope that large-population states will join, like California and New York, which are not currently part of ERIC.
“I’m committed to ERIC, I believe in it," Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said earlier this month, before Texas announced its plans to leave. "There have been a lot of attempts in the past to create what ERIC created effectively, and those attempts failed.”
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Devin Wayne Center, a Fayetteville man, is accused of conspiracy to riot after allegedly mounting up alongside 30 other men with connections to the white nationalist group Patriot Front with the intent to disrupt an LGBTQ+ Pride event in Idaho on June 11, 2022.
Center has plead not guilty, and is facing trial alongside other alleged members of the group.
During the trial, Coeur d’Alene Police Captain David Hagar testified that while monitoring the downtown Pride parade, a call came in stating that a U-Haul truck was being "Loaded up with a small army of people," before heading towards the downtown area.
In body camera footage taken as officers pulled over the U-Haul, Captain Hagar can be heard speaking about issuing "20 no-seatbelt tickets," right before the hatch is pulled up, revealing 28 men.
Police say that there were approximately 17 shields in the truck, six radios, first aid kits, and two 10-foot poles with what appeared to be American flags on the end.
Captain Hagar described the shields during his testimony as likely being able to do "some serious damage."
During the trial, when Center's defense argued that the police decided to arrest the men simply because of their clothing, Captain Hagar reportedly replied with "No one else had two-way radios. No one had shin guards ... You can't portray them as citizens who were downtown just walking in the park."
The Coeur d’Alene Police Lieutenant Johann Schmitz, when taking the stand after his captain stated that "I didn't know what their intent was, but it warranted our attention," before saying that "A U-Haul is not a normal mode of transport for people."
When the defense argued that in order to make an arrest, probable cause needs to be established, Lieutenant Schmitz reportedly replied that "We don't have to wait for someone to commit the crime ... I believe we had probable cause, and the fact that we're here today is proof of that."
This conspiracy to riot charge is punishable by up to a year in jail, and a $5,000 charge.
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FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ark — The Franklin County Sheriff's Office posted on social media a picture of a man they identify as Miguel "Mickey" Salazar who was reported missing around 5:30 p.m. on July 18.
Salazar, described as a Hispanic male, and 6" was last seen near his home on Heritage Road.
The police urges those who see him or make contact with him to call 479-667-4127.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — One year into a new Florida law, regulating how loud you can play music in your car, 9 Investigates how often officers are writing tickets and who is most often cited.
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At its onset, critics worried Florida’s ‘loud music law’ would lead to profiling. Investigative Reporter Karla Ray gathered data from a dozen local agencies, and found it’s rarely being used at all.
“I spent about $570 for the whole thing, including the wiring and everything,” Marion County teen Nicholas Didato said of his stereo system, which was loud enough to lead to a citation for violating Florida’s loud music law.
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“Man, I’ve got a lot of equipment in there,” another man, Daron Parsons, said. “I’ve got like, over 12 or 15 sub(woofers)… in all, probably like 100-or-something speakers in that little car.”
Both young men have packed their vehicles to rock the road, and they’re among the first to receive citations under Florida law which allows law enforcement to ticket someone playing audio that can be heard more than 25 feet away.
“I didn’t think that, you know, they would really enforce it like that,” Didato said, after he was given a ticket in his high school parking lot.
“It’s ridiculous, though, because it’s just music,” Parsons said.
9 Investigates requested data from the largest law enforcement agencies in Central Florida. Of the ten that responded, fewer than 90 total citations had been written. Attorney Jeff Lotter, who is a former FHP trooper, says any music could put you at risk.
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“A police officer on the sidewalk is going to hear audio coming out of my vehicle, even at low levels,” Lotter said.
Of the cases we compiled, nearly 80% cited were either black or listed as white with Hispanic surnames. Based on the low total of citations, Lotter doesn’t believe that’s an indication of profiling.
Still, he says agencies should be paying close attention to these cases, to make sure profiling doesn’t happen.
“Certainly a concern, but I haven’t seen that come through,” Lotter said. “I think law enforcement has a lot of discretion across the board, though the supervisor should definitely be watching for the statute.”
Didato and Parsons are using discretion, too; but not turning their speakers off for good.
“I don’t really want to be racking up a heap of money, you know, paying for tickets all the time,” Parsons said.
Of the cases we looked through, most who were cited simply paid the fine, but a few fought the case in court and won. Lotter says that’s a risk not everyone will take, and there’s no guarantee it’ll work.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s not science fiction -- lawmakers on Capitol Hill are discussing how artificial intelligence can help on the battlefield. This week, one congressional committee weighed how the military can safely and effectively use AI.
When you think about artificial intelligence and the military -- your mind might wander to a scenario described by a few lawmakers.
“We might envision ai with future wars being fought by robots and such,” Rep. Pat Fallon (R) Texas, said.
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Why send someone’s son or daughter into a war zone where they can be hurt or killed when a mission can be completed by machines? Experts told representatives artificial intelligence and national security go hand-in-hand.
“The country that is able to most rapidly and effectively integrate new technology into warfighting wins,” Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, said. “If we don’t win on AI, we risk ceding global influence, technological leadership and democracy to strategic adversaries like China.”
Congress is looking to people like Wang and Klon Kitchen, of the American Enterprise Institute, to answer questions that may be on the public’s mind, as well.
Read: Florida’s loud music law: 1 year later
“What keeps you up at night about the military use of AI,” Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D) Michigan asked. “If China is investing three times and in some cases ten times that we are, what is the number 1 thing that you feel like you know, kind of worst-case scenario?”
“The most acute challenge that we’re likely to encounter in the near term is a simply more effective and efficient enemy,” Kitchen responded.
Much of this week’s conversation revolves around how the Chinese military is already spending money on AI.
“It’s for autonomous drone swarms, whether that be aerial, subsurface or ground, they’re investing across all fronts,” Wang described. “They’re investing into adaptive radar systems, which jam and blind U.S. censors and information networks. So, they’re investing across the whole spectrum.”
Those in the industry said this isn’t only about warfighting. They believe it’s also about your tax dollars -- the technology can help build a more efficient force that wastes fewer resources.
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Man, 80, accused of shooting his wife to death at their Sanford homePolice: Miami woman, 18, allegedly tried to hire hitman to kill her 3-year-old sonOrange County eyes jail security updates to stop drones dropping drugs over fenceMoe’s employees say they haven’t been paidTeen accuses Osceola County School Board member of forcibly kissing her, giving her alcohol
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando City returns home Friday night for the first round of Leagues Cup play against Houston Dynamo FC.
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The Lions are coming off a huge win in Atlanta Saturday night, topping Atlanta United 2-1 and moving into fifth place in the MLS Eastern Conference.
While most soccer fans will be paying attention to the anticipated appearance of Messi in Ft. Lauderdale for Inter Miami FC in their Leagues Cup opener against Liga MX’s Cruz Azul, City fans will be all in to see the Lions take their first steps in claiming the Leagues Cup title.
Alright, we will all have our phones out at Exploria Stadium
While they are still battling for the MLS Cup, Orlando City lost their chance to defend the U.S. Open Cup when Charlotte FC beat them in May.
The Leagues Cup is another opportunity for Orlando to bring home a trophy.
What is the Leagues Cup?
The Leagues Cup is a four-week tournament with teams from MLS and Liga MX, separated into 15 groups, with all games played at MLS stadiums in the U.S. and Canada.
Orlando City will host the first two games of the South 2 group against MLS’s Houston Dynamo CF on Friday night and Liga MX’s Santos Laguna on July 29, a Liga MX team the Lions know well.
Santos Laguna beat the Lions during Leagues Cup play in 2021 at Exploria Stadium.
What is at stake for the winners?
The top three teams will automatically qualify for the CONCACAF Champions Cup, and the Champion qualifies directly to the CONCACAF Champions Cup Round of 16.
The winner of the CONCACAF Champions Cup will go on to play in the FIFA Club World Cup against other champions from across all major international soccer clubs.
The last and only MLS team to win the CONCACAF Champions Cup was the Seattle Sounders in 2022. Los Angeles FC has gone to the finals of the CONCACAF Champions Cup twice, most recently in 2023, but came up short in both appearances.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — For Domonique Howell, finding a place to live that she can afford and access with her wheelchair has been a lifelong struggle.
“It’s always been a challenge,” said Howell.
It’s a challenge that she says too often strips people of their dignity.
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“In every house or apartment I’ve ever lived in up until this point, which is only the last five years, I’ve had to either leave my chair outside of the bathroom or leave it in a hallway or another room and either be carrying it in the bathroom or have a commode-like toilet in my room, which is inhumane,” said Howell.
Howell balances caring for her nine-year-old daughter at their home in Philadelphia and being a longtime disability advocate.
She was even named Ms. Wheelchair Pennsylvania for 2023.
On Thursday, Howell was in Washington D.C. to testify before the Senate Special Committee on Aging about her experiences.
“My entire life, I had to make the decision between accessibility and affordability as so many other Americans with disabilities do,” Howell testified.
Lawmakers on the committee discussed potential solutions.
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A Democrat-backed bill called the Visitable Inclusive Tax Credits for Accessible Living Act, or VITAL Act, would increase funding for the Low-income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program and aims to ensure developers are building more accessible housing units.
Our Washington News Bureau spoke with Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), the sponsor of the bill in the Senate.
“What we want to do is take the existing low-income tax credit and strengthen it, add more funding so that we can up the dollar amounts for the credits and also to help developers in their efforts to develop more of these properties that have accessible features to them,” said Casey. “This hearing gave us a chance to spotlight the fact that sometimes as simple as having doorways that are wide enough for a wheelchair or other features in a home can provide that kind of accessibility that everyone should have a right to expect.”
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Republicans on the committee argued the federal government should implement spending cuts and pass fiscal policies to help drive down inflation in order to make housing more affordable.
Republicans also cautioned against too much government red tape for housing developers.
“We ought to minimally have a guideline of regulations that are going to help, not make it even worse,” said Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN).
Disability advocates also pointed to housing barriers due to local zoning rules that sometimes stop developers from building more housing units accessible to people with disabilities.
They urged Congress to consider financial incentives for local governments to revise zoning rules in those instances.
Howell, meanwhile, said she’s grateful to raise awareness about an urgent need.
“I think it’s important to have people with disabilities at the table to understand our stories, understand what the lack of accessibility has done to our quality of life,” said Howell.
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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — Osceola County School board member Julius Melendez is accused of providing alcohol to a teen and forcibly kissing her.
The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office confirmed they received a complaint from the school district where an 18-year-old girl alleged “inappropriate conduct” by 45-year-old Julius Melendez.
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The teen is not a student in Osceola County Schools.
We now have a copy of the complaint the teen sent to the school district on July 1.
The teen accusing Melendez only spoke to Channel 9′s Ashlyn Webb.
Read: Central Florida county offers Citizens Police Academy for Spanish speakers
Julius Melendez was her manager at a café in Kissimmee. She says she was having a tough time with family, and Melendez offered for her to stay at his house.
Before they went to Melendez’s home, she says they stopped at the café where he poured her drinks. She said one drink turned to nine and her trying to get as far away as possible from him.
“I thought it was a little weird. But you know, he told me prior to this, that he looked at me like I was his own. I believe that would mean like one of his own children,” she said.
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She said that’s what was going through her mind as she said Melendez first poured her and him three mimosas each at the café.
She said they were there for about 20 minutes before they locked up the café and began driving to his house.
She said the car ride was uncomfortable. He spoke about being a school board member and how he was often on the news. Then, she said, he started talking about her.
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“He did start calling me beautiful in the car,” she said.
When they got to Melendez’s home, she said she set down her bags while Melendez fixed more drinks.
“We probably had about six drinks at his house and wine glasses,” she said.
She states in the complaint Melendez repeatedly offered to fix her more drinks throughout the night. She tells Channel 9 he sat close to her, touching her arms, shoulders, and then, her thigh.
Read: Sheriff: Osceola County deputy aided ‘childhood friend’ accused of sexual contact with minor
“He had asked if he could kiss me, and I told him no,” she said. “He apologized for asking to kiss me.”
She said she told him she was going to bed in the guest bedroom. Melendez carried her bags into the room.
“He leaned in, and he kissed me,” she said.
“And then what did you do?” Channel 9 asked.
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“I told him like, ‘no, like, I already told you, you know, like, I need to go to sleep. I’m tired.’ And he ended up leaving the room and going downstairs to his room,” she said.
She said the bedroom door wouldn’t lock, and she was afraid to go to sleep.
“I was scared to leave my room,” she said.
She says hours later, she snuck out of the home and took an Uber home.
She tells Channel 9 she thought Melendez was in his early 30s. It wasn’t until she spoke to investigators that she learned he’s 45.
“It made me really disgusted… like he’s older than my dad,” she said.
She told Channel 9′s Ashlyn Webb she wanted to share her story so other girls could gain the confidence to speak up if this happened to them.
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The teen says she does plan to move forward with charges against Melendez. The Sheriff’s Office said they’ve passed this case on to the State Attorney’s office for review.
So far, Melendez has not been charged.
State Attorney Monique Worrell’s office said in an emailed statement Thursday that the case is still open and under review to determine what charges would be appropriate. No arrest has been made.
Read: State attorney: Osceola County deputy charged in Wawa explosion that burned 75% of man’s body
Channel 9 did speak to Julius Melendez by phone Thursday morning before airing the story. He declined to comment.
Channel 9 confirmed Melendez no longer works at the café in Kissimmee he previously managed.
The school board declined to comment saying it’s an open investigation.
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Man, 80, accused of shooting his wife to death at their Sanford homePolice: Miami woman, 18, allegedly tried to hire hitman to kill her 3-year-old sonOrange County eyes jail security updates to stop drones dropping drugs over fenceMoe’s employees say they haven’t been paidTeen accuses Osceola County School Board member of forcibly kissing her, giving her alcohol
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Firefighters put out a grass fire in Northwest Portland that was threatening a building, Portland Fire & Rescue reported Thursday afternoon.
The first report came in around 2:53 p.m. Portland Fire said the brush fire was up against a "metal-clad building" in the 2200 block of Northwest Front Avenue near the Willamette River. Crews inspected the inside of the building while dousing the outside of the structure with water. Portland Fire stopped train traffic in the area temporarily for the safety of firefighters.
By 3:02, Portland Fire reported the fire had been extinguished and some firefighters were staying at the scene to make sure the fire hadn't extended into the building.
The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Authorities are seeking help from the public in finding a man and woman suspected of stealing a debit card from who they describe as an “elderly victim,” and then withdrawing large amounts of cash.
According to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the area of Chase Bank at 12400 SE Sunnyside Rd. in Clackamas after receiving a report that two people had stolen a debit card and then went inside the bank to withdraw money before running out of the building and fleeing east on SE Sunnyside Rd.
The victim told officials that a man and woman were in line behind her at the grocery store earlier in the day and that the man was standing close by. While the victim completed her purchase, the man asked if the woman had dropped a $10 bill, then followed her into the parking lot, trying to give her the bill.
“Surveillance video of this interaction revealed the man pulling something out of his pocket and dropping it on the ground, picking it up, and then speaking with the victim,” CCSO said.
As the two suspects asked the victim to check her wallet to see if she had dropped anything, the victim believes that her debit card was stolen from her wallet while she was distracted.
After receiving notifications of multiple withdrawals from her bank account, the victim drove to the bank on Sunnyside Rd. and saw the same man and woman in the checkout line, officials said. When she yelled out and said they had stolen her debit card, the two suspects ran out of the bank.
Anyone who can help identify these suspects is asked to contact the CCSO tip line at 503-723-4949 or by using the online form at https://www.clackamas.us/sheriff/tip Reference CCSO Case # 23-014880.
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Four juveniles arrested after large brawl breaks out at Heart of Illinois Fair
JJ Bullock
Journal Star
Four juveniles were arrested by Peoria police after a large fight broke out at the Heart of Illinois Fair on Wednesday night.
Police say they responded to the fight around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday and were able to disperse the large crowd and kick some juveniles out of the fair.
Shortly after, however, the crowd gathered again on the south end of the fairground and began another large brawl.
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Police used pepper balls on the crowd and arrested four juveniles. They were charged with mob action, battery and disorderly conduct.
All four juveniles were released from custody to their parents.
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MICHIGAN CITY — A Michiana Shores man was convicted of two counts of murder Wednesday by a LaPorte County jury.
Kyle K. Earley, 43, was found guilty of stabbing to death his uncle, Denis Earley, 64, and stabbing his father, John Earley, 73, who later died from his injuries, according to court records.
Records show police discovered the stabbed brothers around 9:20 a.m. Sept. 1, 2022, inside a blood-spattered home in the 300 block of Groveland Trail in Michiana Shores. Kyle Earley was arrested at the scene.
He's scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 17.
The penalty for murder in Indiana is a prison term of 45 to 65 years. A judge may order the sentences on multiple counts to be served either concurrently or consecutively.
LaPorte County Prosecutor Sean Fagan issued a statement praising Deputy Prosecutors Sarah Konieczny and Doug Shaw for securing the double guilty verdict against Kyle Earley after a three-day trial.
"When you have great people, you get great results. Doug and Sarah, along with Chief Deputy Chuck Watterson, worked this case tirelessly, and thanks to their dedication they secured justice on behalf of the state of Indiana and the Earley family," Fagan said.
Fagan also credited the outcome of the case to the thorough investigation conducted by the LaPorte County Sheriff's Office and presented by LCSO Sgt. Scott Boswell; the Long Beach Police Department; and the Michigan City Police Department.
Michiana Shores is a tiny town of 306 residents located at the easternmost point of Indiana's Lake Michigan shoreline, immediately adjacent to the state's border with Michigan.
Gallery: Indiana historical markers in the Region
First Physician
First Physician
Location: 2985 W. 73rd Place, Merrillville
Erected by Woman's Auxiliary, Lake County Medical Society
Henry D. Palmer, M.D. (1809-1877) located at this site in 1836. First physician in Lake County, he was also counselor to the pioneers for 40 years and member of the underground railroad aiding escaped slaves.
Great Sauk (Sac) Trail
Great Sauk (Sac) Trail
Location: Van Buren Street at West 73rd Avenue (Old U.S. 30/Lincoln Highway) on traffic median east of Calumet Cemetery and west of Broadway, Merrillville
Erected by Indiana Sesquicentennial Commission, 1966
Part of a transcontinental trail used by prehistoric peoples of North America, it passed through modern Detroit, Rock Island and Davenport in the Midwest. The trail was important into the 19th century.
St. John's Lutheran Church Tolleston
St. John's Lutheran Church Tolleston
Location: 2235 W. 10th Avenue at Taft Avenue, southeast corner, Gary
St. John's Church, the oldest surviving institution in Gary and north of the Little Calumet River, began with the work of the Rev. Henry Wunder in the early 1860's. He regularly came from Chicago by horse and buggy. Baptism records date from 1863; the first church was built on this site in 1868 or 1869; 1870 is celebrated as date of organization. The church served German immigrants to Tolleston (named for George Tolle who came in 1856). Tolleston was annexed to Gary in 1910.
Dutch in the Calumet Region
Dutch in the Calumet Region
Location: 8941 Kleinman Road, Highland
Erected 1992 Indiana Historical Bureau and Lamprecht Florist & Greenhouse, established 1923
Dutch immigrants after 1850 began moving to this area because of its similarities to their homeland. They helped to locate ditches to drain water from the extensive marshes, leaving rich land to expand successful horticultural activities.
St. John Township School, District #2
St. John Township School, District #2
Location: 1515 Joliet Street (Old U.S. 30/Lincoln Highway), east of St. John Road at the St. John Township Community Center, Schererville
Erected 1995 Indiana Historical Bureau and Committee to Save Township School #2
Built, 1853, approximately one half mile south; closed, 1907; moved to this site and restored for educational and community uses, 1993-1994. One of twelve St. John Township schools; structure typical of early one-room school buildings in Indiana.
The Lincoln Highway/The Ideal Section
The Lincoln Highway/The Ideal Section
Location: Southeast corner U.S. 30 (Joliet Street) and Janice Drive, Schererville
Erected 1996 Indiana Historical Bureau, Northwest Indiana Lincoln Highway Association, Dyer and Schererville Historical Societies, Sand Ridge Bank, Welsh, Inc.
United States' first transcontinental highway, constructed 1913-1928, from New York City to San Francisco. Dedicated to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. Conceived by Carl G. Fisher to encourage building "good roads." Sponsored by Lincoln Highway Association and supported by automotive industries.
The Lincoln Highway/The Ideal Section
"Ideal Section" - 1.5 miles - of Lincoln Highway, completed 1923, designed and built as a model for road construction. Funded by county, state, and U.S. Rubber Co. Features included 100 foot right-of-way, 40 foot paved width, 10 inch steel-reinforced concrete, underground drainage, lighted, landscaped, bridge, and pedestrian pathways.
Froebel School - side 1
Froebel School - side 1
Location: 15th Avenue and Madison Street, Gary
Installed 2014 Indiana Historical Bureau, Froebel Alumni Park Committee, and Northern Indiana Public Service Company
Froebel opened here, 1912, as many European immigrants and southern blacks moved to Gary for jobs in steel mills. An experiment in progressive education, it served students of diverse backgrounds and the local community. Despite early status as integrated school, black students were excluded from many extracurricular activities and facilities into 1940s. Closed 1977.
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Froebel School
Froebel School
Location: 15th Avenue and Madison Street, Gary
Installed 2014 Indiana Historical Bureau, Froebel Alumni Park Committee, and Northern Indiana Public Service Company
After WWII, Froebel made national headlines when hundreds of white students walked out protesting "integration experiment" there. "Hate strikes" lasted several weeks in 1945 and reflected growing racial tension in North. In 1946, Gary school board adopted desegregation policy, but discrimination continued. Indiana state law desegregating public schools passed 1949.
Stewart Settlement House
Stewart Settlement House
Location: 1501 E. Massachusetts St., Gary
Installed 2014 Indiana Historical Bureau, Indiana Landmarks, and Christ United Methodist Church
Stewart House was organized during depression of 1921 to provide social services for Gary’s black community. A vital neighborhood center for unemployed WWI veterans and southern blacks who migrated for jobs in steel mills, it helped thousands adjust to urban life. Services included lodging and meals, as well as legal, medical, and employment advice. Moved here, 1925.
Stewart Settlement House
Stewart Settlement House
Location: 1501 E. Massachusetts St., Gary
Installed 2014 Indiana Historical Bureau, Indiana Landmarks, and Christ United Methodist Church
U.S. Steel, with an interest in regulating its workers, helped fund the settlement house, designed by architect W.W. Cooke. The Methodist Episcopal Church and Gary’s blacks also donated funds. Rev. Frank Delaney guided its development as superintendent, 1920-1939, and made it a source of pride for blacks. During Great Depression, it aided hundreds daily. Closed 1970s.
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
Location: 1927 Madison St., Gary
Installed 2019 Indiana Historical Bureau, KHEF, Inc., Atty. Junifer Hall, Atty. Jacqueline Hall, and Law Office of Deacon-Atty. John Henry Hall
Rep. Katie Hall (1938-2012)
Democratic leader Katie Hall was born in rural Mississippi and moved to Indiana in 1960. She taught in Gary before serving in the Indiana General Assembly, 1974-82. Hall became the first African American U.S. Representative from Indiana, serving 1982-85. During her tenure, she authored and sponsored the bill that made Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a federal holiday.
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
Location: 1927 Madison St., Gary
Installed 2019 Indiana Historical Bureau, KHEF, Inc., Atty. Junifer Hall, Atty. Jacqueline Hall, and Law Office of Deacon-Atty. John Henry Hall
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
The struggle to make Dr. King’s birthday a federal holiday began soon after the civil rights leader’s death in 1968. Growing interest, publicity, and advocacy helped Representative Hall secure passage of a bill in 1983. President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law that November, designating every third Monday in January as the holiday. Celebration began in 1986.
Bailly Homestead
Bailly Homestead
Location: Bailly Cemetery, U.S. 12
Marker no longer standing.
Home of Joseph Bailly, a French Canadian, who established a fur trading post here on the Detroit-Chicago road in 1822. It became a center of trade, culture and religion. The family cemetery is on the land near by.
Iron Brigade
Iron Brigade
Location: Eastbound U.S. 20 at southeast corner of Ind. 49 overpass, Chesterton
Erected 1995 Indiana Historical Bureau, Porter Co. Tour. Com., Indpls. Civil War Rnd. Tbl., Porter Cmp. 116, Dept. of Ind., Sons of Un. Vets. of Civil War
Composed of infantry regiments from Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan, the Iron Brigade fought with Army of the Potomac during the Civil War (1861-1865). Received name for valor at battle of South Mountain, Maryland (1862). Sustained combat fatalities among the highest in the Union armies.
Willow Creek Confrontation
Willow Creek Confrontation
Location: Southeast corner of Woodland Park, 2100 Willow Creek Road, Portage
Erected 1995 Indiana Historical Bureau
As railroad lines expanded through U.S., conflict occurred between competing lines. Michigan Central Railroad, with track in Porter County since 1851, briefly defied state militia and court orders (1874) to allow Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to cross its track. Crossing was built at Willow Creek Station.
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Ogden Dunes Ski Jump
Location: Kratz Field, 82 Hillcrest Road at Boat Club Road, Ogden Dunes
Erected 1997 Indiana Historical Bureau and Historical Society of Ogden Dunes.
Steel and wood ski jump with adjustable height and length was built here for Ogden Dunes Ski Club, incorporated in 1927 to promote winter sports. Five annual events with international competitors were held 1928-1932, with 7, 000 to 20, 000 spectators. Reputed to be the largest artificial ski jump at the time. Dismantled after 1932 event.
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Edwin Way Teale
Location: 285 E. U.S. Highway 20, Chesterton
Installed: 2009 Indiana Historical Bureau and Musette Lewry Trust
Born 1899 in Illinois, Teale became an influential naturalist, author, and photographer[ who won 1966 Pulitzer Prize for his book Wandering Through Winter. Teale wrote that boyhood summers and holidays spent near here at his grandparents’ farm inspired his interest in nature. Teale moved to New York City; employed by Popular Science Monthly 1928-1941.
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Edwin Way Teale
Location: 285 E. U.S. Highway 20, Chesterton
Installed: 2009 Indiana Historical Bureau and Musette Lewry Trust
Teale published his first critically acclaimed book, Grassroot Jungles, in 1937. In 1943, he published Dune Boy, recollections of time spent exploring the dunes and woodlands in this area. During his life, he wrote, edited, and contributed to over 30 books, which educated Americans about nature’s importance and beauty. He died in Connecticut in 1980.
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Legacy of Steel/Burns Harbor Steel Plant
Location: Burns Harbor Town Hall, 1240 N. Boo Rd., Burns Harbor
Installed 2018 Indiana Historical Bureau, ArcelorMittal, and the Town of Burns Harbor
In the early 1900s, steel plants were developed on southern Lake Michigan to improve access to growing Midwest markets. After purchasing 3,300 acres in Porter County, Bethlehem Steel built and began its Burns Harbor operations in 1964. The plant’s development spurred local conservation efforts leading to the creation of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1966.
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Legacy of Steel/Burns Harbor Steel Plant
Location: Burns Harbor Town Hall, 1240 N. Boo Rd., Burns Harbor
Installed 2018 Indiana Historical Bureau, ArcelorMittal, and the Town of Burns Harbor
The Burns Harbor plant was key to building the Port of Indiana and incorporation of the Town of Burns Harbor in 1967. Designed as a fully integrated plant, it relies on the port for transporting raw materials. Since 1969, Burns Harbor remains the newest integrated U.S. steel facility. Global steelmaker ArcelorMittal gained ownership of the Burns Harbor plant in 2007.
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Civil War Camps
Location: Ind. 2 W and Colfax Avenue, La Porte
Erected by the Indiana Civil War Centennial Commission, 1963
Two Civil War training camps: Colfax and Jackson, were located near La Porte. The 9th and 29th Indiana Volunteer Infantry regiments were organized and trained here.
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Old Lighthouse
Location: Old Lighthouse Museum in Washington Park, Michigan City
Marker no longer standing. Replaced by local marker.
Built on the water’s edge, 1858, by the United States Government. One of the first lights on the Great Lakes. Harriet E. Colfax was the tender from 1853-1903. Remodelled 1904, electrified 1933, discontinued 1960.
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Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad
Location: CR 250 and Ind. 39, south LaPorte
Erected 1995 Indiana Historical Bureau.
Proposed in 1905 as a 742 mile, straight-line, high speed route, without crossings; estimated ten hours travel time at a cost of ten dollars. Just under twenty miles, between LaPorte and Chesterton, were constructed, 1906-1911.
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Camp Anderson
Location: 2404 E. Michigan Boulevard at Carroll Street, Michigan City
Erected 1996 Indiana Historical Bureau and McDonald's Restaurant
One of three Civil War training camps in La Porte County. Site is one fourth mile west. Named for Colonel Edward Anderson. Used 1863-1864 to train Indiana Union volunteers of the 127th, 128th, and 129th regiments.
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Indiana Territory Boundary Line
Location: 213 Pine Lake Avenue, LaPorte
Erected 1999 Indiana Historical Bureau, the Hinton Family, and L Porte County Historical Society, Inc.
Northwest Territory formed 1787; Indiana Territory formed 1800. Admission of Ohio 1803 and formation of Michigan Territory 1805 established Indiana Territory's northern boundary at southern tip of Lake Michigan. When Indiana became state in 1816, Congress moved boundary ten miles north giving Indiana part of Lake Michigan.
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Indiana Territory Boundary Line
Location: 213 Pine Lake Avenue, LaPorte
Erected 1999 Indiana Historical Bureau, the Hinton Family, and L Porte County Historical Society, Inc.
Northern boundary of Indiana Territory established at southern tip of Lake Michigan when Michigan Territory formed in 1805.
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LaPorte County Courthouse
Location: 813 Lincolnway and Michigan Avenue, southeast corner of LaPorte County Courthouse lawn
Installed: 2001 Indiana Historical Bureau, LaPorte County Board of Commissioners, and LaPorte County Historical Society
County formed by Indiana General Assembly and LaPorte selected county seat 1832. Three courthouses built on this site: first 1833, second 1847-1848. Present courthouse constructed 1892-1894 of Lake Superior Red Sandstone; designed by Brentwood S. Tolan of Fort Wayne in Richardsonian Romanesque Style. Incorporates cornerstone from 1848 courthouse.
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LaPorte County Courthouse
Location: 813 Lincolnway & Michigan Avenue, SE corner of La Porte County Courthouse lawn, LaPorte
Installed: 2001 Indiana Historical Bureau, La Porte County Board of Commissioners, and La Porte County Historical Society, Inc.
Features include open-arched central tower, stained glass window transoms, wood paneling, and gilded friezes. Goddess of Justice stained glass graces courtroom. Tower has 272-piece glass skylight; gargoyles decorate exterior. Included in Downtown La Porte Historic District, listed in National Register of Historic Places 1983.
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LaPorte's Carnegie Library
Location: LaPorte County Public Library, SW corner of 904 Indiana Avenue/US 35 & Maple Avenue
Installed: 2002 Indiana Historical Bureau and Friends of the LaPorte County Public Library
La Porte's first public library was established 1896. La Porte City School Board was awarded $27, 500 Carnegie grant 1916; by 1919 local support had been secured to meet grant requirements. Architect Wilson B. Parker designed the Neo-Classical style structure. Library opened in 1920 with 30, 000 volumes.
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LaPorte's Carnegie Library
Location: LaPorte County Public Library, SW corner of 904 Indiana Avenue/US 35 & Maple Avenue
Installed: 2002 Indiana Historical Bureau and Friends of the LaPorte County Public Library
Renovation and expansion designed by architect William Koster; building dedicated 1991. Original 1920 section retained. Library has played a major role in community's development. One of 1, 679 libraries built in U.S. with funds from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Indiana built more Carnegie libraries than any other state.
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The Rumely Companies
Location: NW corner of Madison Street & Lincolnway, La Porte
Installed: 2003 Indiana Historical Bureau and Rumely Historic Recognition Committee
Meinrad Rumely (1823-1904), a German immigrant, founded a blacksmith shop here 1853, which grew into a dominant company through reorganizations and acquisitions. Rumely companies in La Porte benefited from available rail transportation plus German and later Polish immigrant laborers. Products included a wide variety of agricultural machines.
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The Rumely Companies
Location: NW corner of Madison Street & Lincolnway, La Porte
Installed: 2003 Indiana Historical Bureau and Rumely Historic Recognition Committee
Rumely's prizewinning thresher later became one of the earliest powered by steam. Thousands of OilPull tractors sold worldwide 1910-1930. Rumely companies were at the forefront of mechanization of American and world agriculture and had significant impact on La Porte. Allis-Chalmers acquired the firm 1931 and closed La Porte plant 1983.
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The Lincoln Funeral Train
Location: 100 E. Michigan Blvd. (U.S. 12), Michigan City
Installed 2010 Indiana Historical Bureau and Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Assassinated President Abraham Lincoln's funeral was April 19, 1865 at the White House. The funeral train left for Springfield, Illinois April 21 directed by military; stops en route allowed the public to pay homage. From Indianapolis, train passed mourners lighted by bonfires and torches along the way; arrived in Michigan City by 8:35 a.m., May 1.
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The Lincoln Funeral Train
Location: 100 E. Michigan Blvd. (U.S. 12), Michigan City
Installed 2010 Indiana Historical Bureau and Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Residents decorated depot north of here with memorial arches adorned with roses, evergreens, flags, and images of Lincoln. Train stopped to switch engines and to allow dignitaries from Illinois and Indiana to board. Sixteen women entered funeral car to place flowers on casket. Train left for Chicago on Michigan Central Railroad; track was lined with mourners.
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LaPorte University/Indiana Medical College
Location: Lincoln Elementary School, SE corner of Clay St. and Harrison St., LaPorte
Installed 2018 Indiana Historical Bureau and the Healthcare Foundation of LaPorte
LaPorte University was established in the early 1840s to include law, literary, and medical departments. The medical department, later Indiana Medical College, began classes by 1842. Its distinguished faculty attracted students from across the U.S. Notable attendees included Dr. William W. Mayo, whose practice evolved into Mayo Clinic, and Dr. William H. Wishard.
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LaPorte University/Indiana Medical College
Location: Lincoln Elementary School, southeast corner of Clay Street and Harrison Street, LaPorte
Installed 2018 Indiana Historical Bureau and the Healthcare Foundation of LaPorte
Before the university’s founding, Indiana offered few opportunities for professional medical training. The medical college trained skilled doctors in the Midwest, preparing them for the region’s medical needs in surgery, anatomy, theory, and obstetrics. Classes ceased circa 1850; it consolidated with Indiana Central Medical College (1849-1852) in Indianapolis, 1851.
Source: Indiana Historical Bureau, www.in.gov/history/
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Gary Roosevelt High School
730 W. 25th Ave., Gary
Installed 2020 Indiana Historical Bureau, Lady Panthers & Supporters '63, Roosevelt Adult Booster Club, National Gary Theodore Roosevelt Alumni Assoc., Inc., and Indiana Landmarks
As Gary grew in the early 1900s, African American students were segregated within white schools or overcrowded into small, separate schools. To compensate, officials transferred some Black students to Emerson High School in 1927. After over 600 white students walked out in protest, the school board reinforced segregation by building a new school for the Black community.
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Gary Roosevelt High School
730 W. 25th Ave., Gary
Installed 2020 Indiana Historical Bureau, Lady Panthers & Supporters '63, Roosevelt Adult Booster Club, National Gary Theodore Roosevelt Alumni Assoc., Inc., and Indiana Landmarks
Theodore Roosevelt High School was dedicated in 1931 as an all-Black K-12 school. While many community members opposed segregation, they took pride in Roosevelt, and strove to make it equal to Gary’s white schools. It employed highly educated Black teachers, pushed students to excel in academics and sports despite discrimination, and produced many distinguished alumni.
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The Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center plans to honor entrepreneurs and advocates who make a difference in the Calumet Region.
The Northwest ISBDC has issued the Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards for more than 30 years to highlight local businesses and entrepreneurs who are having an impact.
“Every year, our E-Day committee is amazed at the strong showing of nominations that represent a range of industries,” said NW-ISBDC Regional Director Lorri Feldt. “We are truly fortunate to have an extensive array of unique businesses — along with their inspiring stories — that reflect our communities here in Northwest Indiana.”
E-Day Awards go to a small business person of the year, small business exporter, an entrepreneurial success, a young entrepreneur, a minority-owned small business person, a family-owned business, an emerging small business, a small business advocate and an advocate for youth entrepreneurship.
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To qualify, business owners must have an established track record of at least three years and do business in Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Jasper, Starke, Pulaski and Newton counties. Anyone from the public can make a nomination.
An awards ceremony will honor the winners on Nov. 9 at Avalon Manor on U.S. 30 in Hobart.
The Northwest ISBDC provides no-cost assistance for entrepreneurs starting or expanding their businesses in a seven-county northwest Indiana region. It helps business owners with one-on-one consulting, referrals, workshops, training opportunities and other services.
For more information, visit www.isbdc.org, go to www.edayleaders.com or call 219-644-3513.
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Petco, a national retail chain with stores in Highland and Portage, gave $10,000 to Humane Indiana, the Highland-based nonprofit that helps pets and wildlife across Northwest Indiana.
San Diego-based Petco's Petco Love charity recently presented a check to Humane Indiana at its store at 10235 Indianapolis Boulevard in the Highland Grove Shopping Center "in support of their lifesaving work for animals throughout Northwest Indiana."
“We are honored to have Petco Love’s partnership for our mission, helping pets and people live their best lives,” said Jessica Petalas, Humane Indiana Shelter Director.
Humane Indiana cares for 7,000 animals in its shelter and rehabilitates more than 10,000 injured or orphaned wildlife each year. It offers services like a veterinary clinic, surrender prevention programs, a pet food pantry and crisis fostering.
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It operates a shelter in Munster and wildlife rehabilitation center in Valparaiso, reaching 30,000 residents across Northwest Indiana a year.
Petco has donated to 4,000 such organizations across the country, giving $350 million since 1999. It estimates it's helped 6.7 million pets be adopted.
“Our investment in Humane Indiana is part of more than $15M in investments recently announced by Petco Love to power local organizations across the country as part of our commitment to create a future in which no pet is unnecessarily euthanized,” said Susanne Kogut, president of Petco Love. “Our local investments are only part of our strategy to empower animal lovers to drive lifesaving change right alongside us. We recently launched Petco Love Lost, a national lost and found database that uses patented image-recognition technology to simplify the search for lost pets.”
For more information about Humane Indiana, visit humaneindiana.org or petcolove.org.
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Wintrust, which has branches in Dyer, Lansing and across the south suburbs, reported a record profit of $334.9 million, or $5.18 per share, for the first six months of the year.
That's up from $221.9 million, or $3.56 per share, an increase of 46% in earnings per share.
Wintrust's pre-tax, pre-provision earnings totaled $506.5 million in the first half of 2023, up from $329.9 million during the same period in 2022.
In the second quarter, Wintrust earned $154.8 million, or $2.38 per share. Diluted earnings per share fell 15% as compared to the first quarter.
“We are very pleased with our record net income for the first half of 2023. Our margin stabilized in the second quarter of 2023 and we continue to believe that maintaining such level will allow for strong financial performance in the coming quarters," President and CEO Timothy Crane said. "Specifically, the repricing of our premium finance receivables portfolios in the second quarter helped offset increases in deposit pricing. Strong and balanced deposit growth as well as prudent liquidity management provided stability in our balance sheet through this period of volatility. Credit performance within the portfolio remained strong.”
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In the second quarter, Wintrust grew deposits by $1.3 billion or a 12.4% annualized rate. Total loans increased by $1.5 billion, a 14.8% annualized rate.
Net interest margin fell to 3.64% during the second quarter as deposit costs rose.
“As noted in our first quarter earnings release, our net interest margin was approximately 3.7% at the end of March of 2023," Crane said. "Despite continued acceleration in deposit pricing and the impact of hedging activity, our net interest margin remained relatively stable throughout the second quarter of 2023. Due to our relatively short-term and asset sensitive balance sheet, we believe that we can maintain the net interest margin between 3.6% and 3.7% for the remainder of the year as we expect further upward repricing primarily in our premium finance receivable portfolios to mitigate higher deposit costs as deposit pricing stabilizes. Net interest income decreased by $10.5 million in the second quarter of 2023, however, we expect net interest income to increase in the third quarter given the aforementioned strong balance sheet growth paired with a stable net interest margin.”
Wintrust made provision for $28.5 million in credit losses in the second quarter, up from $23 million during the first quarter. Net charge-offs totaled $17 million in the second quarter, up from $5.5 million in the first quarter.
Non-performing assets accounted for only 0.22% of total assets.
“Our second quarter of 2023 results continued to demonstrate the benefits of the diversified, multi-faceted nature of our business model," Crane said. "Net income for the quarter was the second highest in our history, behind only net income from the first quarter of 2023. We remain focused on continuing to grow deposits to enhance liquidity and support future asset growth while remaining well positioned for higher interest rates. Total loans as of June 30, 2023 were $917 million higher than average total loans in the second quarter of 2023, which is expected to benefit the third quarter. We are pleased by our position in the markets we serve to continue to grow deposit and loan relationships and believe we are situated well to expand our net revenues and earnings in the coming quarters.”
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Nearly 350,000 Cupkin stainless steel children’s cups are under a voluntary recall after testing found lead, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday.
The recall involves Cupkin double-walled stainless steel children’s cups sold in pairs in 8-ounch and 12-ounce models.
Liquids in the cup were not exposed to lead due to the double walled construction, but testing revealed that the cups may pose an exposure to lead if the cup bottoms are mistreated, according to the company, which is encouraging customers who purchased the cups between 2020 and Feb. 19 to immediately stop using them.
Both sizes of the recalled cups were sold in 12 different color combinations including a matching straw: blue and green; pink and purple, blue and gray; peach and teal; black and white; coral and yellow; green and pink; brown and peach; cobalt and mint; rust and salmon; aqua and periwinkle; and polignac and putpourri.
No incidents or injuries have been reported involving the cups, which were sold online at Amazon.com and Cupkin.com for about $20.
For a full refund, there is an online form to fill out, or you can email CPSC@Cupkin.com or call 888-721-0096 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PT weekdays.
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Sheppard AFB training group welcomes new commander
The most diverse training group in the Air Force welcomed a new commander Wednesday as Col. Eric Haler took over leadership of the 782nd Training Group at Sheppard Air Force Base.
Haler’s appointment comes as the second of three July changes of command at Sheppard.
The 82nd Mission Support Group welcomed Col. John Hollister, who replaced Col. Andy St. Sauver July 7. The 982nd Training Group is scheduled to change command from Col. Terry Koester to Col. Grant Fowler on Thursday.
Haler said the 782nd includes training for aircraft maintenance, logistics, ground transportation, civil engineering and more, and supports Air Force bases all over.
The 782nd Training Group is responsible for "basically generating the combat power and expertise to get out to the squadrons, the bases out there, so they can actually execute the mission,” Haler said.
The 782nd also has a presence at bases in other states, including Missouri, Virginia, Mississippi and Florida.
Haler takes over from outgoing commander Col. Daniel Lemon, who served in the role for two years. Lemon made updating the technology and innovation of the group a priority.
Haler said he plans to continue that trend.
Haler, who has spent 23 years in the Air Force, has served as a squadron commander before.
He said he looks forward to the opportunity to lead again.
“I love it,” Haler said, later adding, “I love working with airmen, and this is really exciting. I’m glad to be here and looking to help build and innovate and train the next generation of airmen because that’s going to be our combat power out there.”
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Refueling issues slightly delayed the Air Force Thunderbirds’ arrival at Dayton International Airport Thursday, but the famed flight demonstration squadron will be ready to perform for a familiar crowd at the CenterPoint Energy Dayton Air Show on Saturday and Sunday.
“The energy here is palpable,” said Maj. Jeffrey Downie, the team’s advance pilot and narrator, who landed Wednesday in Dayton.
Downie, No. 8 among the squadron’s pilots, had praise for Dayton, an Air Force town that typically sends what he called “patriotic” crowds to the summer shows. The team last performed over Dayton in 2021.
The Thunderbirds and their F-16 Fighting Falcons are the headline act at this weekend’s Dayton Air Show, the 49th edition of the summer spectacle. The entire team is expected to be in Dayton by early Friday.
“For Dayton, for the air show itself, the community and the airport itself, to host the Thunderbirds is no small task,” Downie told media Thursday afternoon, about 40 minutes before the squadron’s C-17 cargo flight — Thunderbird 14 — was scheduled to land.
“You’ll see that when the C-17 gets here, and all the people get off the aircraft, and all of our luggage, all of our equipment and all of our tools,” he said. “We have to be able to operate in very austere environments without backshop support.”
2023 marks the Thunderbirds’ 70th anniversary. The elite demonstration team was established in 1953, six years after the Air Force became an independent military branch, splitting from the Army.
“There’s just a ton of history on this team,” Downie said, noting that the Thunderbirds have had about 2,535 members over the decades.
Today, the roar of the F-16s’ Pratt & Whitney engines is a highlight of air shows around the nation.
The Thunderbird members, based at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, serve two-year stints in the squadron, most of that time spent traveling to and performing in air shows like the one in Dayton. When they’re not performing or traveling 270 or more days a year, they’re practicing routines endlessly, refining everything from the four-ship diamond formation, to the six-ship Delta, to solo maneuvers.
Downie promised “an incredible performance” — fast-paced, fun and musical.
“It really tugs at the heart strings,” the major said. “It just makes you proud to be an American.”
The Thunderbirds are an Air Combat Command unit ready to go to war if needed. The team is made up of eight pilots (including six demonstration pilots), four support officers, three civilians and more than 130 enlisted personnel performing in 25 career fields, according to the Air Force.
Tips for attending the Air Show
If you’re planning to attend this weekend’s air show, here’s what you should know: General admission parking passes should be purchased in advance. Parking passes per car are priced at $15, and RV and bus parking is priced at $25.
The general admission parking lot is accessible from I-75 exit 64 at Northwoods Boulevard. Look for signs directing you to a new entrance to the general admission lot, at Northwoods and Engle Road. If you’re on surface streets southbound from the Tipp City area, signs should direct you to Northwoods and from there to Engle.
Air show leaders are asking patrons to come early to avoid traffic headaches.
For Chalet, Flight Line Hangar and Pavilion ticket holders, parking in a lot off West National Road is included in ticket purchase, and a free shuttle to the show is provided. This lot is accessible from I-70 exit 32 at Airport Access Road. A handicap-accessible lot will be available for attendees with handicap plates or hang tags off of Wright Drive accessible from I-75 exit 64 at Northwoods.
For more information on the show, visit https://daytonairshow.com/.
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How to go
The CenterPoint Energy Dayton Air Show is Saturday and Sunday.
Buy tickets and general admission parking vouchers at DaytonAirShow.com. Show leaders encourage guests to buy parking vouchers before the show.
Where: East side of Dayton International Airport. Take exit 64 at Northwoods Boulevard from Interstate 75. Follow signs to the new general admission parking entrance at Northwoods and Engle Road.
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Young Wichitan killed in motorcycle crash
Lynn Walker
Wichita Falls Times Record News
A Wichita Falls man was killed in a collision between a motorcycle and a pickup Wednesday evening in west Wichita Falls.
Wichita Falls police said the wreck happened just after 6 p.m. in the 3400 block of Arena Road.
The victim was Caleb McWhorter, 24.
Investigators determined McWhorter's 2023 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle was traveling north on Arena Road at a high rate of speed when the driver of the pickup truck pulled out of his driveway into the road. The motorcycle struck the pickup.
McWhorter, who was wearing a helmet, was thrown from the motorcycle. The driver of the pickup truck was not injured.
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