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BALTIMORE — "Eat like a Greek, think like a Greek."
It's the motto of a new restaurant that opened Thursday night, boasting family recipes perfected over decades, passed from Yiayia to grandchildren to your table.
Estiatorio Plaka held its grand opening in Greektown, taking over the same space as the former Acropolis restaurant.
The room was packed with foodies, city and state leaders, and Greeks wanting a taste of their beloved cuisine.
"It's great. Greektown is one of my favorite places to come and eat. We can just add this restaurant to the list. It's a great thing because it's about community coming together and being open for everyone," said Mayor Brandon Scott.
Estiatorio Plaka is located at 4718 Eastern Avenue and is open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
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BALTIMORE — The aquarium isn't just for watching the jellies and trying to get a glimpse of a shark.
The National Aquarium hosted an after-hours art extravaganza Thursday night.
"We thought, 'How can we take this lecture series and bring it into modern times?'" said Emma Wesoloski, The National Aquarium.
This is the third installment of the event, Voyages.
"So, it's really cool to see that highlighting of a local artist," said Tina Canady, who attended the event. "It was very powerful, I am going to be thinking about it for a while."
It highlighted Baltimore artists, singers, and dance groups.
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High-profile attacks reflect why Black community faces more domestic violence
Kelly Mays was in an abusive relationship in 2010 when an assault happened. Her then 13-year-old daughter inspired her to leave and seek help to make it happen.
The now 48-year-old Westland resident said that controlling behavior in the relationship intensified and became physically abusive. On her youngest daughter's first birthday, she was assaulted and hospitalized.
When Mays went home from the hospital, she decided to leave the relationship, but it was initially psychologically difficult. “In my head, as a Black woman, I have to make it work. I have to make things work with my Black man,” she said.
But her oldest child, Celeste, told her mother that she wanted to go live with her father and not watch her experience more pain.
"'Mom, I can't, I can't do this," Mays remembers Celeste saying. "I can't be in this space with you watching you struggle and suffering. ... Or, you can just call it quits."
“I chose my baby," said Mays, who is now a mental health counselor and advocate for survivors of domestic violence, "and I ended it, and I left.”
First Step, a Wayne County nonprofit focused on assisting survivors of domestic violence, helped Mays file a personal protection order and provided support when, according to court records, her abuser pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 26 weeks in a domestic violence program and 18 months of probation. The abuser isn't being named by The Detroit News at the request of Mays.
“That’s what Black women need," Mays said. "We need that opportunity to normalize conversation, to feel pain, to feel heard, and not to feel embarrassed about reaching out for services.”
Experts agreed that domestic violence disproportionately affects the Black community. Nearly half — or 45% — of Black women and 40% of Black men have experienced intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner sexual violence or intimate partner stalking in their lifetimes, compared with 25% of women and 11% of men across all races, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
There are a variety of reasons the Black community deals with more domestic violence than others, including poverty, a lack of access to help, cultural factors and a mistrust of police that discourages the reporting of violence that allows the situation to fester, experts said.
While intimate partner violence can affect anybody, access to resources is not equal, especially for the African American community, said Christine Kinal, president and CEO of Pontiac-based HAVEN, a center for victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault. Marginalized populations that experience higher levels of stress, unemployment and poverty encounter more barriers to getting help, she said.
“All those things keep you away from resources and having an ability to get away from your abuser,” Kinal said.
'The kids come first'
A recent spate of high-profile killings in Metro Detroit reflects how domestic violence tears at the Black community.
In mid-May, Detroit Medical Center nurse Patrice Wilson was found dead inside a car in Novi on Mother's Day, and ex-boyfriend Jamere Miller was accused of abducting and killing her in an incident that Detroit police said involved domestic violence. During the same month, Oakland County public health officer Calandra Green was found dead in her Pontiac home along with her husband, Charles Quincy Green, whom Oakland County Sheriff's investigators believe killed Green before he took his own life.
Earlier this month, Rashad Trice, 26, was accused of sexually and physically assaulting Wynter Cole Smith’s mother in a Lansing apartment before kidnapping her 2-year-old daughter, who was later found dead in a Detroit alley. Trice, who is charged in federal court with kidnapping resulting in death, was previously convicted of domestic violence charges involving the mother over a year ago, court records show.
Black women in the United States were killed in homicides related to intimate partner violence at a rate of 1.5 per 100,000 in 2020, nearly three times the rate of 0.56 for White women, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Michigan Black women were the victims in such homicides at a rate of roughly 0.7 per 100,000 in 2020, more than double the rate of 0.3 for White women, according to the latest data from the state Department of Health and Human Services and the 2020 U.S. Census.
Abusive partners may harm children or use children to control victims of domestic violence, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
When Wynter's paternal grandmother Sharen Eddings found out that Trice had reportedly stabbed Wynter's mother, she said it "put fear in her heart." The 51-year-old Detroiter said she has seen a lot of women affected by domestic violence but never children.
"People are getting out (of jail)," Eddings said, "and they're committing even more heinous crimes, and our kids are paying the price for this."
She encouraged anyone in a similar situation to ask for help and tell someone.
"I know it's hard," Eddings said. "You might feel like you're going to be judged, or it might be embarrassing, but the kids come first."
Once it starts, threats of harm to family members and children can prevent survivors from leaving an abusive relationship, said Chéree Thomas, deputy director of the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, a nonprofit that serves all the domestic and sexual violence organizations in the state. Survivors may have to parent with an abuser even after their relationship has ended, she said.
The most dangerous time for a person experiencing domestic violence is when they leave the relationship, Thomas said. Wilson was fatally shot allegedly by her boyfriend just after finishing a shift at Detroit Receiving Hospital. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said the alleged killer “would not let her go.”
“When we talk about domestic violence, only the perpetrator knows how far they’re going to go,” Thomas said. “That person utilizes as much as they feel (is) necessary to maintain that power and control, and death is the ultimate act of control in those relationships.”
Mistrust of police
A mix of factors helps explain why African Americans experience domestic violence more than other racial groups. Some of them are cultural.
Oftentimes Black survivors follow an unsaid rule that "we don’t talk about what goes on in our house with our Black men … because we’re supposed to protect our Black men at all costs,” Mays said.
Sometimes there are generational or religious factors, she added.
“I was taught, you stay with your Black man, you endure, you endure, you struggle because that’s how you show that you’re a good godly woman," Mays said. "That’s not something I want to pass on to my daughters."
Another factor is the large distrust among Blacks of public safety and police officers, Thomas said.
“If I’m experiencing domestic violence, and ... I feel like my partner or the person who’s harming me may be harmed by this system, I may be less likely to report,” Thomas said. “But then that also leaves me more vulnerable. That also leaves me unprotected.”
If police officers make an arrest, the case report is turned over to the local prosecutor’s office to authorize charges, said Ron Wiles, deputy director of the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police. The case then moves through the court system.
Domestic violence calls are some of the most dangerous situations that law enforcement officers respond to, and fear of escalation makes Black survivors more reluctant to report abuse, said Sharman Davenport, president and CEO of Turning Point, the only shelter and comprehensive service agency for domestic violence in Macomb County.
“Just because there’s abuse doesn’t mean that you necessarily want that person to be harmed," Davenport said.
Heightened emotions, mental health concerns, alcohol or drug abuse and a lack of information contribute to the dangerous nature of domestic violence calls, Wiles said. De-escalating the situation and collecting information are usually law enforcement’s top priorities.
“When the aggressor or the abuser finds out that law enforcement is en route or has responded…, (sometimes) they resist or fight with the officers, or flee the scene in general,” Wiles said.
Law enforcement agencies across the state are trying to build trust with the communities they police, Wiles said, referencing the Michigan Advocates and Leaders for Police and Community Trust (ALPACT) program.
“The more officers can get out and interact, not in an enforcement aspect… it’s a great way to build relationships, trust and understanding,” Wiles said.
Finances are another reason survivors may be reluctant to contact law enforcement.
“If you’re in a domestic violence relationship, there’re still kids involved a lot of times; there’s economics involved,” Turning Point's Davenport said. “Maybe that’s the breadwinner, and you don’t necessarily want them to go to jail.”
Calling for help from the police may also involve Michigan Child Protective Services. Women may be scared to lose custody of their children, even temporarily, said Lachetta Johnson, founder of the House of Kadence, a grassroots community group in Detroit that provides culturally specific case management services for victims of domestic violence.
“Instead of providing the mother with some services and help and protection, she’s punished for now leaving an abusive relationship, when in fact, she probably didn’t have the tools,” Johnson said.
Victims can also seek help without police involvement, she said.
Getting more shelters
Domestic violence disproportionately affects Black women, but there aren’t enough shelter beds available for them, said Thomas with the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence. Domestic violence shelters are designed specifically to protect survivors from intimidation, stalking and physical threats.
The shortage is particularly evident in Detroit, a majority Black city, where there is only one domestic violence shelter, Thomas said.
Metro Detroit shelters often operate at capacity and are working to expand. In June, Pontiac-based HAVEN housed 29 children, the most in the organization’s history at one time, Kinal said.
“We’re often full," Turning Point's Davenport said. "A lot of the shelters now are trying to expand their capability of taking in more survivors by using hotels."
But there aren’t enough resources within Black communities, Thomas said. The needs of Black survivors may differ from the traditional support services.
“(Survivors) want the harm to stop but need to be able to go somewhere that actually understands that nuance,” Thomas said. “The need for culturally specific programming and … financial assistance to those programs is high.”
The state of Michigan recently allocated $30 million to victim services in the 2023-24 budget, the first for the state, Thomas said.
Culturally specific organizations
Community healing is one example of a resource for survivors outside of the criminal justice system, Thomas said.
Kalimah Johnson, a clinical social worker, founded the SASHA Center (Sexual Assault Services for Holistic Healing and Awareness) in Detroit 13 years ago to provide support group services for members of the African American community that have experienced sexual assault.
“A lot of times, sexual assault goes hand in hand with domestic violence,” Johnson said. “We try to gather and get Black women together to lower the isolation of being sexually assaulted or domestically abused.”
Among the services provided are therapists, educational workshops and "conversations between and with Black men," she said.
The House of Kadence received its first-ever grant financed by federal American Rescue Plan dollars through Ujima, a national resource center for domestic and sexual violence in the Black community. In the last year, they helped over 40 survivors and are looking to expand, Johnson said.
“We would just help them find safe, secure and temporary shelter, while teaching survivors the daily necessities needed to obtain and maintain their long-term safe and affordable housing,” Johnson said. “We do focus on autonomy. Want to make sure that the survivors get all of their own power back.”
Since leaving her abusive partner, Mays has started working with HAVEN’s survivor’s speakers bureau to share her experiences and help others feel empowered.
“People are starting to have conversations now," Mays said. "This work is starting to move forward, but it’s still ... not enough, and we need to be doing more."
Resources for domestic violence survivors
- 24/7 National Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233
- 24/7 National Sexual Assault Hotline: (800) 656-4673
- First Step: A resource for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault that offers shelter services. Help Line: (734) 722-6800
- Haven: A shelter and resource center for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault. Crisis Line: (248) 334-1274; chat online
- Turning Point: A shelter and resource center for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault. Crisis Line: (586) 463-6990
- SASHA Center (Sexual Assault Services for Holistic Healing and Awareness): A resource that focuses on the African American experience with groups and services that are open to all. (888) 865-7055, info@sashacenter.org
- YWCA Interim House: Offers shelter services for domestic violence victims. (313) 862-3580, ywca@ywcadetroit.org
- The House of Kadence: Provides direct, culturally specific case management services for survivors of domestic violence. (313) 681-6506, Thehouseofkadence@yahoo.com
- Transition 123: Faith-based organization that provides support services to survivors of domestic violence and their children. (877) 463-2269, Transitions123detroit@gmail.com
- Supreme Transitions: Provides wrap-around services to survivors of domestic violence through leads and referrals. (313) 355-3498, supremetransitions@gmail.com
- Sisters Against Abuse Society: Provides services for survivors of domestic violence. Hotline: 313-693-9322, SistersAgainstAbuse@gmail.com
- Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence. Hotline: (866) 864-2338, voices4email@mcedsv.org, chat online
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Michigan officials join 'Barbie' buzz online
It's a Barbie world.
As buzz builds before the official release of the first live-action film built around the iconic doll, Michigan officials aren't missing out.
On Thursday, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer posted a series of images on Twitter featuring a brunette Barbie in a pantsuit as her tiny doppelganger.
"Come on Barbie, let's go govern," Whitmer tweeted, mimicking lyrics from the 1990s Aqua song about the Mattel legend.
"This Barbie is the 49th Governor of the great state of Michigan, and just like @Barbie, fuchsia is my power color. ... I'm committed to fighting for a state where every Michigander, no matter their background, can thrive."
Whitmer tweeted other pictures showing her gubernatorial twin at the state Capitol, signing bills at a miniature desk and even driving a hot-pink convertible, all while wearing a necklace with a Michigan-shaped pendant.
Michigan State Police also joined the act, tweeting a picture of a blonde Barbie in a blue officer's uniform with a squad car in the background.
"This Barbie is ready to serve the state of Michigan!" the agency tweeted.
MSP went on to say career possibilities on its team were "endless."
After some apparent criticism of the meme, the post was deleted by evening.
"MSP’s social media team values the contributions of our female members and out of respect for them we have removed our previous post about Barbie," officials wrote late Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Michigan State Parks, Trails and Waterways Twitter page touted Barbie throughout the day, showing off dolls who served as shoreline birders, a ranger and a boater.
Michigan House Democrats tweeted a photo of the state Capitol building in Lansing bathed in a rosy shade to mirror the iconic Barbie dreamhouse.
The messages come as Barbie's parent company Mattel has launched a marketing blitz with more than 100 brands plastering pink everywhere.
There are pink benches at bus stops and pink clothing displayed in store windows. Microsoft's XBox has come up with a Barbie console series and HGTV is hosting a four-part Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge.
Forecasts show the film could open above $90 million at the box office in North America.
The Associated Press contributed
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Man, woman arrested on animal cruelty charges after husky puppy found dead in Scottsdale alley
A man and woman were arrested Thursday on animal cruelty charges after a husky puppy was found dead in an alley in Scottsdale, according to the Scottsdale Police Department.
Lester Paul Richmond, 35, and Heather Auditor, 32, were arrested during a traffic stop near Miller Road and Pierce Street early Thursday. Detectives later served a search warrant at their house. While serving the warrant, detectives found more evidence related to the case, according to a police news release.
Police said they started an investigation after the dead puppy's body was found by a witness walking through an alley near Miller Road and Latham Street. The puppy appeared to have had its mouth taped shut. Investigators then began conducting interviews of residents in the neighborhood and checking surveillance cameras that may have covered the area where the puppy was found, according to the police news release.
Detectives later found a surveillance video showing a car belonging to Richmond in the alley at the same time that the dead husky was left. Authorities then were able to identify Richmond as the registered owner of the husky. After identifying Richmond as a suspect, investigators were able to get video surveillance of Richmond and Auditor talking about getting rid of the husky, police said in the news release.
Richmond was booked into a Maricopa County jail on one count of animal cruelty, police said in the news release.
Auditor also was booked into jail on one count of animal cruelty as well as one count of hindering prosecution, the police news release said.
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On July 7 around 11:30 am, Deputy Vitek located a male Adult in Custody (AIC) unconscious and unresponsive in his cell. Immediately he radioed for medical assistance from jail nedical staff. Deputies Graham and Bowen responded to the cell as well.
During the event, the male AIC was found not breathing, and a pulse could not be found. Due to no trauma being seen, it was clear to the deputies that this likely resulted from a drug overdose. The well-trained deputies provided an initial dose of Narcan, and the medical staff started CPR. A second dose of Narcan was ultimately given, and the AIC began to breathe intermittently.
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The Liberty Theatre is among Oregon’s latest entries in the National Register of Historic Places. Oregon’s State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation (SACHP) recommended the nomination at their February 2023 meeting. The National Park Service — which maintains the National Register of Historic Places — accepted this nomination in June 2023.
The Liberty Theatre is located at the SW corner of the intersection of Sherman and Washington avenues, at the southern end of downtown North Bend, Oregon.
The theatre was completed in 1924 from designs by the Portland architectural office of Tourtellotte and Hummel, built by Salem based contractors Hoover and McNeil with the original interiors designed by Carl R. Berg, of the B. F. Shearer Company. The Moorish-inspired design includes towers created by incised stucco treatments, decorative copper domes, arched entry openings and other details.
Throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s, the Liberty served as a community center, hosting live Sunday concerts, high school plays, lectures and other events, in addition to showing motion pictures. The first “talkie” movie at the Liberty was Speakeasy, shown on July 9, 1929, after a sound system was installed in the auditorium.
The theatre is significant for its association with the history and development of entertainment and recreation in the North Bend area and the growth of that city during the early 1920s period.
Continuing its original motion picture use until 1954, since 1959 the Liberty Theatre has been the home of Little Theater on the Bay, a Coos County-based community theater group that is among the oldest performing arts organizations in the state. The Liberty Theatre, owned and operated by Little Theater on the Bay, continues to provide a venue of arts and culture in the southwest Oregon coastal region.
Beginning in 2015 the Liberty Theatre has been the focus of a multi-phased restoration and rehabilitation effort that has restored original windows, removed non-historic exterior treatment and repainted in historically-based colors, upgraded the main lobby, and auditorium, and re-installed the copper roof-top domes.
The State Historic Preservation Office used funds provided through the National Park Service Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants Program to complete this National Register nomination. The grant program fosters economic development in rural communities through the rehabilitation of historic buildings in those communities.
The National Register is maintained by the National Park Service under the authority of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
This effort is in line with Oregon’s Statewide Preservation Plan that seeks to increase the number of listings in the National Register. It also supports the goals to increase access to Oregon heritage that are part of the Oregon Heritage Plan.
Properties listed in the National Register are:
- Recognized as significant to the nation, state, or community;
- Considered in the planning of federal or federally-assisted projects;
- Eligible for federal and state tax benefits;
- Qualify for historic preservation grants when funds are available;
- Eligible for leniency in meeting certain building code requirements;
- Subject to local laws pertaining to the conservation and protection of historic resources.
State law in Oregon requires local governments to offer a minimal level of protection for properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places; the decisions about how to accomplish that goal reside with local governments, which also have the authority to create and regulate local historic districts and landmarks.
More information about the National Register and recent Oregon listings are online at oregonheritage.org (listed under “Designate”).
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June 20, 1944 – July 11, 2023
On Tuesday, July 11, 2023, Ronald Lawrence Perry passed away at the age of 79. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Sharon; and three children, Bryan Perry of Vancouver, Brad and Sarah Perry of Pennsylvania, and Tami Perry of Reedsport; grandchildren, Garret, Chase, Josh, Kendra, Braden, Silas, Colevyn, and Keaten; one great granddaughter, Nova.
Ronald was born in Bremerton, Washington on June 20, 1944 to Robert and Bernice "Bunny" Perry. He grew up in Reedsport, Oregon, where he graduated Class 1962. He joined the Army out of high school where he was part of the Corp of Engineers stationed in Europe. Years later he got married at First Christian Church of Reedsport. He and his wife, Sharon moved to Portland where he started his maritime career as a deckhand for Willamette Tug and Barge. A few years later they moved to Battle Ground, Washington, which is where he traveled and followed every sport activity the kids played. If he wasn’t coaching, he was cheering.
In 1992 he accepted a job offer with Foss Tug and Barge to be a launch operator of the tugboat, Arrow 2 in Astoria, Oregon. He settled in Ocean Park, Washington where he retired from the water in 2006. That same year he returned to his roots and took over his late stepfather, Jim DeWitte and Bunny’s tavern. The Waterfront Tavern and Lounge is where Capt. Ron took his calling as boss and cook.
Ron was an attribute to the old town, he donated too many events including his famous spaghetti feed for the dog shelter, and the family pizza night he hosted every year to welcome the carvers in Chainsaw Events. If he wasn’t in the kitchen he was out talking with the customers, which in return became friends. 2022 he would sell the tavern and do what he and Sharon long lived to do, travel. That took them on adventures across the US map. This trip home was filled with graduation, baseball games and birthdays that "Poppy" cherished. His family had a private gathering and will have a Celebration of Life at a later date.
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November 11, 1955 – July 11, 2023
Russell Joseph Stingley passed away on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Russell or SPUD as some knew him, was born on November 11, 1955 to Richard Thomas and Doris May (Hjorth) Stingley in Hillsboro, Oregon. He lived in Anchorage, Alaska and Boise, Idaho, as well as Coos Bay and North Bend, Oregon. He attended North Bend (Oregon) High School.
Russell worked for Washington Crab Producers and West Coast Seafoods in Astoria and Coos Bay, Oregon, and Westport, Washington for 35 years retiring in 2012. On July 7, 2010, Russell married Lana M. Nickel in Aberdeen, Washington. He loved hunting, fishing, clam digging, the Lake Quinault area, and all the places he has lived in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
Russell was preceded in death by his parents, Richard and Doris Stingley; and sister, Cathy Stingley who recently passed. He is survived by his wife, Lana Stingley who resides at the family home in Grayland, WA; son, Alan Conquest of Phoenix, AZ, and Richard Nickel who resides at the family home in Grayland, WA; brother, Bruce Stingley of Eagle River, AK; sister, Susan Stingley of Boise, ID; and very special cousin, Tim Parker of Boise, ID.
The family asks that memorials are made to Lana Stingley and Richard Nickel at P.O. Box 290 Westport, WA 98595.
To share memories or to sign the online book of memories please visit www.harrisonfamilymortuary.com .Cremation arrangements are entrusted to Harrison Family Mortuary of Aberdeen.
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The Coos Bay Police Department (CBPD) recovered stolen property and arrested three people after a search warrant was served at a Coos Bay home.
On July 18, 2023, at approximately 7:00 a.m., CBPD officers served a search warrant at a residence in the 200 block of S. Empire Boulevard. The search warrant was related to multiple theft and burglary cases under investigation by CBPD. A CBPD drone pilot monitored the property during the officer’s initial arrival. Initially, ten people inside the home were detained by officers for the search, and later, another person was found hiding inside.
During the search, officers located and seized suspected and confirmed stolen property, including a large number of tools belonging to local businesses. Officers also found a number of suspected stolen electronics, bicycles, guitars and other items. Those items were also seized as evidence.
Three of the eleven detained people found in the home, who were arrested on unrelated charges, were transported to the Coos County Jail. CBPD continues to investigate the related theft and burglary cases. CBPD is dedicated to proactively investigate and hold those who committed these crimes in our community accountable for their actions.
The Coos Bay Police Department was aided on scene during the search warrant by the Oregon State Police and drone team members from the Coos Bay Fire Department.
1. Jessica Dixon, age 33: Probation Violation
2. Benjamin Remy, age 29: Del Norte County Sheriff (CA) warrant charging Failure to Appear on original charge of Obstruct Police, no bail warrant
3. Paul Ross II, age 55: NBPD warrant charging Probation Violation on original charge or Possession of Methamphetamine, bail $10,000
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AUSTIN, Texas — On Thursday, members of the Austin City Council approved two separate items to help address homelessness in the City.
The first plan enacted consists of a $20 million contract that will be divided among four groups to clean up encampments throughout Austin over the next five years.
The groups are Enterprise Professional Services, The ICCS Academy, Kyle Lawn Works and The Other Ones Foundation.
Max Moscoe, who is part of The Other Ones Foundation, explained that the group's role will be to offer people experiencing homelessness work through its Workforce First program. Anyone participating will earn $20 per hour and will be provided food and transportation to the work site.
The foundation also offers opportunities for unhoused people to be introduced to other resources and programs.
"We are happy to help people in encampments keep their space clean and never remove anything without their permission," said Moscoe.
The contract was set to be voted on in May, but was pulled from the agenda after council member Mackenzie Kelly (District 6) had questioned the credentials of one of the groups that was originally considered. That group was not part of the contract that was approved on Thursday.
Council members also moved forward with a plan that would convert the city-owned facility the Marshalling Yard - located on Airport Commerce Drive near the intersection of U.S. 183 and State Highway 71 in southeast Austin - into a temporary emergency shelter.
The new shelter will have 300 beds, which will be available for one year.
However, the new warehouse the City will use is behind a neighborhood, concerning some residents.
Zac Richard has a clear view of the facility from his front porch and said it is the best-case scenario for a bad situation.
"I don't believe it's actually going to have any greater negative impact than what we're already seeing," said Richard. "The homeless people are here. I mean, they're already in close proximity. There's not much that can be done other than give them an established place to actually shelter."
Austin's Homeless Strategy Officer explained that there is currently only one bed available for every five people experiencing homelessness in Austin.
The new emergency shelter is set to open on Aug. 1.
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Leander City Council approved a new resolution Thursday night that will update fire codes for pet boarding facilities in the area.
The move comes in the wake of a 2021 fire at a boarding facility in Georgetown that killed 75 dogs.
At Thursday night's meeting, members approved stricter code rules that include the implementation of sprinkler systems, as well as 24-hour staff supervision, depending on the number of animals staying at a respective facility.
The move follows a similar law passed by the state in May, which added another requirement for Texas pet resorts following the Georgetown fire.
That bill, championed by Rep. James Talarico (D-Round Rock), requires kennels to give pet owners a written notice if their animal will be left unattended during specific hours. Under the bill, if a pet is injured or dies while unattended and the facility didn't give written notice, that would be a Class B misdemeanor.
The state bill will go into effect on Sept. 1.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — Update: 9:00 p.m.
A level 1 Energy Emergency Alert was issued and ended by the California Independent System Operator after they were able to secure additional resources. The alert was issued at 7:30 p.m. and ended at 8:30 p.m.
Original Story:
The California Independent Systems Operator (ISO) issued a level 1 Energy Emergency Alert.
The EEA was implemented at 7:30 p.m. and will remain until 10 p.m. due to high demand and temperatures across the CAISO grid. CAISO says conservation efforts are encouraged but not mandatory during this time.
CAISO says, "During the effective time period, all available generation resources in the CAISO Balancing Authority are committed to meet firm load, firm transactions, and reserve commitments."
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For more information on the EEA alerts, view the chart below.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A year-long audit of the Johnson City Police Department that found shortfalls in the handling of sexual assault cases was presented to the City Commission on Thursday night.
City Manager Cathy Ball made a presentation during the meeting about key takeaways the city learned from the report, including significant areas that need improvement.
“There was no indication of any corruption, any willful intent or any illegal activity,” Ball said. “We think that’s that’s very important to point out.”
Ball said the police department’s record system was where the report found the most significant deficiencies.
“We have a record-keeping system on our patrol side, on our criminal investigation division. We need to find one that takes all of the information from the time a victim is initially interviewed and pulls all that information together,” Ball said.
The city manager also said police will partner with the district attorney’s office regarding protocols for sexual assault.
“They’re able to call out an assistant district attorney that can help them with anything that may be unusual or not completely spelled out in the protocol,” Ball said. “This gives us a more thorough opportunity to be able to collect evidence, to be able to look at a site.”
One concern brought up during public comment was the internal promotions of police staff after the retirements of the former police chief and other positions.
“I’m highly suspect of these officers being able to make this transition that needs to happen,” Jacob Lou Allen told commissioners. “Given that they have been steeped in the same culture that resulted in the incidences that produced this report.”
Another concern was if the investigation found that former officers didn’t correctly do their job.
“As a taxpaying citizen, I would cringe and be offended if they are allowed to keep their retirements or any other thing that they earned along the way,” Chris Edwards told commissioners.
Ball said the city is working to regain the public’s trust.
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A man died after suffering an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound while being transported to the Kenosha County jail, according to the Pleasant Prairie Police Department late Thursday.
At about 3:46 p.m., officers arrested the man for weapons related offenses, according to a Pleasant Prairie Police Department statement. The man was being transported to the Kenosha jail for criminal charges by two Pleasant Prairie Police officers. While driving the squad on Sheridan Road near the entrance of the Kenosha County Jail at 54th Street, officers heard a gunshot from the backseat prisoner portion of the squad.
Preliminary information indicates the man in custody suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a concealed weapon not located in the initial search by officers. Life saving measures were attempted, however the man in custody was pronounced dead at the scene.
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As required by Wisconsin State Statute 175.47, the incident will be investigated by an outside law enforcement agency, according police. The Racine County Sheriff’s Office is conducting this investigation with the full cooperation of our Department as we are committed to full transparency, according to the statement.
"Our thoughts are with all law enforcement personnel involved with this incident and the decedent’s family during this tragic time," according to the statement. "We wish to thank the public for their continued support, and we ask for your patience and understanding while this matter is under investigation."
Kenosha County Sheriff's Department and the Kenosha Police Department were also called to assist. The county medical examiner was later summoned to the scene.
Authorities blocked the area at Sheridan Road at 54th Street for about six hours but have since cleared the scene.
Mugshots: Kenosha County criminal complaints from July 13-14
Onwar D. Albright
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Onwar D. Albright, 30, of Kenosha, faces chares of contempt of court (disobey order), disorderly conduct, stalking resulting in bodily harm, second degree sexual assault/use of force, criminal damage to property, and second degree recklessly endangering safety.
Billie James Chomicki III
Billie James Chomicki III, 30, of Pleasant Prairie, faces charges of possession with intent to deliver cocaine (between 1-5 grams), and bail jumping.
Rebecca A. Farrar
Rebecca A. Farrar, 43, of New Auburn, faces charges of harboring or aiding a felon, and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Amir Chakafrancis Furlow
Amir Chakafrancis Furlow, 34, of Kenosha, faces charges of probation and parole, vehicle operator flee or elude an officer, possession with intent to deliver narcotic, possession with intent to deliver heroin (less than 3 grams), possession with intent to deliver designer drugs (between 3-10 grams), and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Sam Tomas Jimenez
Sam Tomas Jimenez, 34, of Kenosha, faces charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence (4th offense), and bail jumping.
Terence Quintell Majors
Terence Quintell Majors, 37, of Kenosha, faces charges of probation and parole.
Dionia O. Scott Jr.
Dionia O. Scott Jr., 28, of Racine, faces charges of probation and parole, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of THC (2nd+), and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Jonathan Allen Stinnette Jr.
Jonathan Allen Stinnette Jr., 18, of Winthrop, Illinois, faces charges of probation and parole.
Tymant Robert Travis
Tymant Robert Travis, 22, of Wisconsin, faces charges of battery or threat to judge/prosecutor/officer (aggravated assault).
Chaylen Terrell Wright
Chaylen Terrell Wright, 25, of Chicago, Illinois, faces charges of probation and parole, and resisting or obstructing an officer.
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Argon leak triggers hazmat response on Texas Tech campus Thursday night
Lubbock Fire Rescue's hazardous materials team and other emergency personnel responded to Texas Tech for a reported gas leak in the Experimental Sciences Building II on the northwestern portion of campus Thursday night.
The university issued a TechAlert instructing the campus community to avoid the area around 10 p.m. Thursday.
LFR hazmat was initially dispatched for "an unknown gas leaking inside the structure," according to a tweet from the department, but the gas was later determined to be argon, an inert gas that poses no treat to people or property. Argon is a nonflammable, nontoxic and extremely stable noble gas used in a wide variety of scientific applications.
The container of argon was removed from the building and the university issued an all-clear just after 11 p.m.
The Avalanche-Journal's Adam D. Young, Alana Edgin and Alex Driggars contributed to this report.
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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 that he tried 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 said. 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 said. Eventually, they were put in a car.
During their drive around the city, Irving and Ngwe tried 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 said. 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, documents said.
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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Steve Rothgeb of St. Joe United Methodist Church puts a fresh coat of paint on a jungle gym Thursday morning at Price Elementary School as part of Fort Wayne Community Schools’ Day of Caring. More than 150 employees and volunteers from local businesses and organizations spent the day getting schools across the city in shape for the new school year.
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Fort Wayne/Allen County
PBS ‘Iconic’ series sessions planned
PBS Fort Wayne is partnering with Purdue University Fort Wayne and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art for local screenings and discussions of segments from the PBS miniseries “Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein.”
The first session will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Walb Student Union at PFW.
The second will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the auditorium at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 311 E. Main St.
Screenings of clips taken from various episodes of “Iconic America” will be followed by a panel discussion. Local community leaders will examine how iconic spaces, both national and international, influence experiences and identities in America today.
Audience input will be encouraged.
Although admission to each event is free, anyone planning to attend may reserve their place by visiting PBS Fort Wayne’s Iconic America web page at https://pbsfortwayne.org/iconicamerica/
This PBS series and its outreach events are made possible locally in part by Foresight Consulting of Fort Wayne.
Neighborhoods group sets meeting
The quarterly meeting of the Allen County Neighborhoods Association will be from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday.
The meeting will be in the Omni Room in the Garden Level of Citizens Square, 200 E. Berry St.
The association is open to all homeowners’ groups and neighborhood associations in incorporated and unincorporated areas of Allen County. The association strives to improve communication between neighborhoods, residents, government and other community services.
More information is available online at https://www.allencounty.us/government/community/allen-county-neighborhoods-association.
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CULLMAN, Ala. (WIAT) — With its first day underway, Rock the South is expecting 100,000 people in Cullman over its three-day annual music event. This is the biggest turnout the festival has seen since its inauguration in 2011 after tornadoes hit the area.
“All of Cullman’s history of 150 years, this is the biggest event that has been here,” Laura Kate Baugh with Rock the South marketing said.
People from all 50 states and ten countries are flooding in for the country music lineup at Rock the South.
“We’re all the way from southern Indiana, it was a haul,” says first-time attendee Destiny Goodroe.
“I’m very excited to see them perform, it’s my second concert ever,” says Emma Hammond from Florence, AL.
“See Zach Bryan, Chris Stapleton, all the great artists out here,” says Andrew Folds from Atlanta, GA. “It’s hot but it’s going to be fun.”
With the growth seen at the festival, the event has had to change venues in the last few years as well as work on updating infrastructure around the event.
“We still want to be invested in that local community feel. You know we have Vans Sporting Goods which is great but we also have a national company like Pepsi, and we’re able to give back to charities,” Baugh said. “We’ve given over $1 million to local and regional charities around here to make sure that we still stay true to our grassroots.”
Alabamians are also glad to see the festival gaining popularity and are excited for what the future of it holds.
“We needed it and they’re doing a great job of building it and it’s growing every year,” Manny Acosta from Athens, AL said. “It’s good for the community, it’s good for Cullman.”
Organizers say they have more security and parking attendants to help with traffic flow this year but still recommend coming early to beat the crowds.
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SUPERIOR — A Superior Youth Organization board member was injured in an altercation with another person during a youth baseball game at the Hayes Sport Complex near Field No. 1 Thursday evening.
According to a statement from the SYO, the board member was checking out what "sounded like an animal in distress near the complex." As he walked toward the sound, an altercation took place between the board member and another person. The board member sustained injuries and was treated by the Superior Fire Department and later at an emergency room for additional treatment.
"We took safety precautions around the complex to keep players and spectators safe," wrote SYO president Ryan Stovern in a statement. "All coaches and umpires were alerted to the situation and the game being played on Field #1 was moved to Field #2."
Stovern went on to thank the Superior Police Department for their quick actions in responding to the incident.
"At no time did we feel any additional threat towards those at the complex thanks to the actions taken by SPD," Stovern wrote. "Again, we took precautions as we felt were necessary. If at any time SPD had said shut down everything, we would have taken that course of action."
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As thunderstorms move across the more northern parts of the Miami Valley, outages have begun for various reasons.
Before thunderstorms moved in, an outage was reported in parts of Kettering and Oakwood Thursday evening affecting a few hundred power customers. According to the AES outage map, the outage affected 346 customers and was reported at 5:04 p.m.
AES spokeswoman Mary Ann Kabel said that the outage was caused by a tree falling on a main power line, and affected customers around Acorn Drive, Shroyer Road, Devonshire Road and Wilmington Pike.
She said that crews are on the scene, but it is unclear how long it will take to restore power as a crews work to remove the tree.
Further outages started later in the evening as thunderstorms moved across the area.
The number of power customers without electricity as of 12:09 a.m. on Friday is listed below by county, according to the AES and Ohio Edison maps.
- Greene: 716
- Montgomery: 616
- Miami: 492
- Clark: 20
- Champaign: 3
- Preble: 2
- Darke: 1
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Theater lovers, mark your calendars.
Tada Theatre's 2024 season — entitled "Something For Everyone" — debuts in February and includes seven shows.
* Feb. 8-25: "Nunsense II: The Second Coming."
* June 13-30: "Forever Plaid."
* July 12: TADAstock 5 outdoor concert at the Telegraph Mill.
* Aug. 8-25: "Oz in Concert."
* Oct. 10-27: "The Rocky Horror Show."
* Dec. 5-15: "It's a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play."
The 2023 season continues Aug. 10-27 with "Forbidden Broadway's Greatest Hits," a spoof of some theater's most well-known stars and productions.
Following that, TADA will stage the musical comedy "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" from Oct. 12-29. The show made its regional premiere at TADA 11 years ago and was later performed at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
This year's season concludes with two holiday shows in December. "Chanel Salvage's Hot Christmas Spectacular" is set for Dec. 8-10, followed by "Your Holiday Show of Shows" from Dec. 15-17, featuring magician David Fox, Elvis tribute artist Bill Chrastil and Matt Geiler from "America’s Got Talent."
For more information about the 2024 season and this year's remaining shows, visit tadatheatre.info .
Photos: Those we've lost in 2023
Tina Turner
Tina Turner , the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and '70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping "What's Love Got to Do With It," died May 24, 2023, at 83. Few stars traveled so far — she was born Anna Mae Bullock in a segregated Tennessee hospital and spent her latter years on a 260,000 square foot estate on Lake Zurich — and overcame so much. Her trademarks included a growling contralto that might smolder or explode, her bold smile and strong cheekbones, her palette of wigs and the muscular, quick-stepping legs she did not shy from showing off. She sold more than 150 million records worldwide, won 12 Grammys, was voted along with Ike into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 (and on her own in 2021 ) and was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2005. Her life became the basis for a film, a Broadway musical and an HBO documentary in 2021 that she called her public farewell.
AP file, 2009
Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch , whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film “One Million Years B.C.” would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and '70s, died Feb. 15, 2023. She was 82. Welch’s breakthrough came in 1966's campy prehistoric flick “One Million Years B.C.,” despite having a grand total of three lines. Clad in a brown doeskin bikini, she successfully evaded pterodactyls but not the notice of the public.
AP file, 1982
Jim Brown
Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown , the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, died May 18, 2023. He was 87. One of the greatest players in football history and one of the game’s first superstars, Brown was chosen the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1965 and shattered the league’s record books in a short career spanning 1957-65. Brown led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964 before retiring in his prime after the ’65 season to become an actor. He appeared in more than 30 films, including “Any Given Sunday” and “The Dirty Dozen.” When he finished playing, Brown became a prominent leader in the Black power movement during the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.
AP file, 1965
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte , the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, died April 25, 2023. He was 96. With his glowing, handsome face and silky-husky voice, Belafonte was one of the first Black performers to gain a wide following on film and to sell a million records as a singer; many still know him for his signature hit “Banana Boat Song (Day-O),” and its call of “Day-O! Daaaaay-O.” But he forged a greater legacy once he scaled back his performing career in the 1960s and lived out his hero Paul Robeson’s decree that artists are “gatekeepers of truth.”
AP file, 2011
Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie Presley , the only child of Elvis Presley and a singer-songwriter dedicated to her father’s legacy, died Jan. 12, 2023. She was 54. Presley shared her father's brooding charisma — the hooded eyes, the insolent smile, the low, sultry voice — and followed him professionally, releasing her own rock albums in the 2000s.
AP file, 2012
David Crosby
David Crosby , the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar and an ongoing troubadour in Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) Young, died Jan. 18, 2023, at age 81. While he only wrote a handful of widely known songs, the witty and ever opinionated Crosby was on the front lines of the cultural revolution of the ’60s and ’70s — whether triumphing with Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young on stage at Woodstock, testifying on behalf of a hirsute generation in his anthem “Almost Cut My Hair” or mourning the assassination of Robert Kennedy in “Long Time Gone.”
AP file, 2017
Lance Reddick
Lance Reddick , a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including “The Wire,” "Fringe” and the "John Wick” franchise, died March 17, 2023. He was 60. Reddick was often put in a suit or a crisp uniform during his career, playing tall, taciturn and elegant men of distinction. He was best known for his role as straight-laced Lt. Cedric Daniels on the hit HBO series “The Wire,” where his character was agonizingly trapped in the messy politics of the Baltimore police department.
AP file, 2013
Richard Belzer
Richard Belzer , the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV's most indelible detectives as John Munch in "Homicide: Life on the Street" and “Law & Order: SVU,” died Feb. 19, 2023. He was 78. For more than two decades and across 10 series — even including appearances on “30 Rock” and “Arrested Development” — Belzer played the wise-cracking, acerbic homicide detective prone to conspiracy theories. Belzer first played Munch on a 1993 episode of “Homicide” and last played him in 2016 on “Law & Order: SVU.”
AP file, 2013
Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams , who was among the most recognizable stars in America in the 1970s and 1980s for her role as Shirley opposite Penny Marshall's Laverne on the beloved sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," died Jan. 25, 2023. She was 75. Williams played the straitlaced Shirley Feeney to Marshall's more libertine Laverne DeFazio on the show about a pair of blue-collar roommates who toiled on the assembly line of a Milwaukee brewery in the 1950s and 1960s.
AP file, 2012
Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin , the wry character actor who demonstrated his versatility in everything from farcical comedy to chilling drama as he received four Academy Award nominations and won an Oscar in 2007 for "Little Miss Sunshine," has died. He was 89. A member of Chicago's famed Second City comedy troupe, Arkin was an immediate success in movies with the Cold War spoof "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" and peaked late in life with his win as best supporting actor for the surprise 2006 hit "Little Miss Sunshine.”
AP file, 2011
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot , the folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind" and "Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died May 1, 2023. He was 84. One of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums and penned hundreds of songs, including “Carefree Highway," “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
AP file, 2012
Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck , a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll, influencing generations of shredders along the way and becoming known as the guitar player’s guitar player, died Jan. 10, 2023. He was 78. Beck was among the rock-guitarist pantheon from the late ’60s that included Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix. Beck won eight Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice — once with the Yardbirds in 1992 and again as a solo artist in 2009.
AP file, 2010
Bobby Caldwell
Bobby Caldwell , a soulful R&B singer and songwriter who had a major hit in 1978 with “What You Won't Do for Love” and a voice and musical style adored by generations of his fellow artists, died March 14, 2023. He was 71. The smooth soul jam “What You Won't Do for Love” went to No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 6 on what was then called the Hot Selling Soul Singles chart. It became a long-term standard and career-defining hit for Caldwell, who also wrote the song.
AP file, 2013
Gary Rossington
Gary Rossington , Lynyrd Skynyrd’s last surviving original member who also helped to found the group, died March 5, 2023, at age 71. According to Rolling Stone, it was during a fateful Little League game, Ronnie Van Zant hit a line drive into the shoulder blades of opposing player Bob Burns and met his future bandmates. Rossington, Burns, Van Zant, and guitarist Allen Collins gathered that afternoon at Burns’ Jacksonville home to jam the Rolling Stone’s “Time Is on My Side.”
AP file, 2017
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter , an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, died March 2, 2023. He was 89.
AP file, 2013
Jerry Springer
Jerry Springer , the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred images of nudity, died April 27, 2023, at age 79. At its peak, “The Jerry Springer Show” was a ratings powerhouse and a U.S. cultural pariah, synonymous with lurid drama. Known for chair-throwing and bleep-filled arguments, the daytime talk show was a favorite American guilty pleasure over its 27-year run, at one point topping Oprah Winfrey’s show.
AP file, 2010
Jacklyn Zeman
Jacklyn Zeman , who became one of the most recognizable actors on daytime television during 45 years of playing nurse Bobbie Spencer on ABC’s “General Hospital,” died May 10, 2023. She was 70. Zeman joined “General Hospital” in 1977 as Barbara Jean, who went by Bobbie, and was the feisty younger sister of Anthony Geary’s Luke Spencer.
AP file, 2016
John Beasley
John Beasley , the veteran character actor who played a kindly school bus driver on the TV drama “Everwood” and appeared in dozens of films dating back to the 1980s, died May 30, 2023. He was 79. Beasley played an assistant coach in the 1993 football film “Rudy” and a retired preacher in 1997's “The Apostle,” co-starring and directed by Robert Duvall.
AP file, 2017
Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner , the Brooklyn-born character actor who played a myriad of imposing figures in his 60 years in the business, including monologuing movie mogul Jack Lipnick in “Barton Fink,” the crooked club owner Bugsy Calhoun in “Harlem Nights” and an angry publishing executive in “Elf” died April 8, 2023. He was 81.
AP file, 2012
Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore , the “Saving Private Ryan” actor whose bright 1990s star burned out under the weight of his own domestic violence and drug convictions, died March3, 2023, at age 61. Sizemore became a star with acclaimed appearances in “Natural Born Killers” and the cult-classic crime thriller “Heat.”
AP file, 2013
Charles Kimbrough
Charles Kimbrough , a Tony- and Emmy-nominated actor who played a straight-laced news anchor opposite Candice Bergen on “Murphy Brown,” died Jan. 11, 2023. He was 86. Kimbrough played newsman Jim Dial across the 10 seasons of CBS hit sitcom “Murphy Brown" between 1988 and 1998, earning an Emmy nomination in 1990 for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series. He reprised the role for three episodes in the 2018 reboot.
AP file, 2008
Julian Sands
Actor Julian Sands , who starred in several Oscar-nominated films in the late 1980s and '90s including “A Room With a View” and “Leaving Las Vegas,” was found dead on a Southern California mountain in June 2023, five months after he disappeared while hiking. He was 65. Sands, who was born, raised and began acting in England, worked constantly in film and television, amassing more than 150 credits in a 40-year career. During a 10-year span from 1985 to 1995, he played major roles in a series of acclaimed films.
AP file, 2019
Cynthia Weil
Cynthia Weil , a Grammy-winning lyricist of notable range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long partnership with husband Barry Mann and helped write "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," "On Broadway," "Walking in the Rain" and dozens of other hits, died June 1, 2023, at age 82.
AP file, 2010
Sheldon Harnick
Tony- and Grammy Award-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick , who with composer Jerry Bock made up the premier musical-theater songwriting duos of the 1950s and 1960s with shows such as "Fiddler on the Roof," "Fiorello!" and "The Apple Tree," died June 23, 2023. He was 99.
AP file, 2016
Barrett Strong
Barrett Strong , one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated with Norman Whitfield on such classics as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “War” and “Papa Was a Rollin' Stone,” died Jan. 29, 2023. He was 81.
AP file, 2004
Willis Reed
Willis Reed , who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the New York Knicks to their first championship and create one of sports’ most enduring examples of playing through pain, died March 21, 2023. He was 80.
AP file, 1970
Tim McCarver
Tim McCarver , the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as one of the country's most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators, died Feb. 16, 2023. He was 81.
AP file, 2003
Billy Packer
Billy Packer (left), an Emmy award-winning college basketball broadcaster who covered 34 Final Fours for NBC and CBS, died Jan. 26, 2023. He was 82. Packer’s broadcasting career coincided with the growth of college basketball. He worked as analyst or color commentator on every Final Four from 1975 to 2008. He received a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio and Sports Analyst in 1993.
AP file, 2006
The Iron Sheik
The Iron Sheik , a former pro wrestler who relished playing a burly, bombastic villain in 1980s battles with some of the sport's biggest stars and later became a popular Twitter personality, died June 7, 2023. He was 81. During his pro wrestling career, he donned curled boots and used the “Camel Clutch” as his finishing move during individual and tag team clashes in which he played the role of an anti-American heel for the WWF, which later became the WWE.
AP file, 2009
Treat Williams
Actor Treat Williams , whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series “Everwood” and the movie “Hair,” died June 12, 2023, after a motorcycle crash in Vermont. He was 71. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role as hippie leader George Berger in the 1979 movie version of the hit musical “Hair.”
AP file, 2018
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg , the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, died June 16, 2023. He was 92.
AP file, 1973
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson , a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, died June 8, 2023. He was 93. For more than a half-century, Robertson was a familiar presence in American living rooms, known for his “700 Club” television show, and in later years, his televised pronouncements of God’s judgment, blaming natural disasters on everything from homosexuality to the teaching of evolution.
AP file, 2015
Robert Blake
Robert Blake , the Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted in the killing of his wife, died March 9, 2023, at age 89. Blake, star of the 1970s TV show, "Baretta," never recovered from the long ordeal which began with the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, outside a Studio City restaurant on May 4, 2001. The story of their strange marriage, the child it produced and its violent end was a Hollywood tragedy played out in court. Blake portrayed real-life murderer Perry Smith in the movie of Truman Capote's true crime best seller "In Cold Blood."
AP file, 1977
Ted Kaczynski
Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski , the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died June 10, 2023. He was 81. Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died by suicide at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina.
AP file, 1996
Lloyd Morrisett
Lloyd Morrisett , the co-creator of the beloved children's education TV series “Sesame Street,” which uses empathy and fuzzy monsters like Abby Cadabby, Elmo and Cookie Monster to charm and teach generations around the world, died Jan. 15, 2023. He was 93.
AP file, 2019
Chaim Topol
Chaim Topol , a leading Israeli actor who charmed generations of theatergoers and movie-watchers with his portrayal of Tevye, the long-suffering and charismatic milkman in “Fiddler on the Roof,” died March 8, 2023, at age 87. A recipient of two Golden Globe awards and nominee for both an Academy Award and a Tony Award, Topol long has ranked among Israel’s most decorated actors.
AP file, 2015
Len Goodman
Len Goodman , a long-serving judge on “Dancing with the Stars” and “Strictly Come Dancing" who helped revive interest in ballroom dancing on both sides of the Atlantic, died April 22, 2023. He was 78.
AP file, 2007
Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach , the singularly gifted and popular composer who delighted millions with the quirky arrangements and unforgettable melodies of "Walk on By," "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" and dozens of other hits, died Feb. 8, 2023. The Grammy, Oscar and Tony-winning composer was 94. Over the past 70 years, only Lennon-McCartney, Carole King and a handful of others rivaled his genius for instantly catchy songs that remained performed, played and hummed long after they were written. He had a run of top 10 hits from the 1950s into the 21st century, and his music was heard everywhere from movie soundtracks and radios to home stereo systems and iPods, whether “Alfie” and “I Say a Little Prayer” or “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” and “This Guy’s in Love with You.”
AP file, 1979
Stella Stevens
Stella Stevens , a prominent leading lady in 1960s and 70s comedies perhaps best known for playing the object of Jerry Lewis’s affection in “The Nutty Professor,” died Feb. 17, 2023. She was 84. She was a prolific actor in television and film up through the 1990s, officially retiring in 2010.
AP file, 1968
Barry Humphries
Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries , internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly-veiled snob whose evolving character has delighted audiences over seven decades, died April 22, 2023. He was 89.
AP file, 2013
Annie Wersching
Actor Annie Wersching , best known for playing FBI agent Renee Walker in the series “24" and providing the voice for Tess in the video game “The Last of Us,” died Jan. 29, 2023. She was 45. Her first credit was in “Star Trek: Enterprise,” and she would go on to have recurring roles in the seventh and eighth seasons of “24,” “Bosch," “The Vampire Diaries,” Marvel's “Runaways,” “The Rookie" and, most recently, the second season of “Star Trek: Picard” as the Borg Queen.
AP file, 2010
Dave Hollis
Dave Hollis , who left his post as a Disney executive to help his wife run a successful lifestyle empire, died Feb. 12, 2023. He was 47. Hollis worked for Disney for 17 years and had been head of distribution for the company for seven years when he left in 2018 to join his wife's venture. The parents of four moved from Los Angeles to the Austin area, collaborated on livestreams, podcasts and organized life-affirming conferences. In their podcast, “Rise Together,” they focused on marriage.
AP file, 2015
Christine King Farris
Christine King Farris , the last living sibling of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died June 29, 2023. She was 95. For decades after her brother's assassination in 1968, Farris worked along with his widow, Coretta Scott King, to preserve and promote his legacy. But unlike her high-profile sister-in-law, Farris' activism — and grief — was often behind the scenes.
AP file, 2015
David Jude Jolicoeur
David Jude Jolicoeur , known widely as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding members of the Long Island hip-hop trio De La Soul, died Feb. 12, 2023. He was 54. De La Soul’s debut studio album “3 Feet High and Rising,” produced by Prince Paul, was released in 1989 by Tommy Boy Records and praised for being a more light-hearted and positive counterpart to more charged rap offerings. De La Soul signaled the beginning of alternative hip-hop.
AP file, 2015
Robbie Knievel
Robbie Knievel , an American stunt performer who set records with daredevil motorcycle jumps following the tire tracks of his thrill-seeking father — including at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in 1989 and a Grand Canyon chasm a decade later — died Jan. 13, 2023. He was 60.
AP file, 2000
Gina Lollobrigida
Italian film legend Gina Lollobrigida , who achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world” after the title of one of her movies, died Jan. 16, 2023. She was 95. Besides “The World’s Most Beautiful Woman” in 1955, career highlights included Golden Globe-winner “Come September,” with Rock Hudson; “Trapeze;” “Beat the Devil,” a 1953 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones; and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell.”
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Lynette Hardaway ("Diamond")
Lynette Hardaway , an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump and one half of the conservative political commentary duo Diamond and Silk, died Jan. 9, 2023. She was 51. Hardaway (pictured at left), known by the moniker “Diamond,” carved out a unique role as a Black woman who loudly backed Trump and right-wing policies.
AP file, 2018
Adam Rich
Adam Rich , the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences as “America’s little brother” on “Eight is Enough,” died Jan. 7, 2023. He was 54. Rich had a limited acting career after starring at age 8 as Nicholas Bradford, the youngest of eight children, on the ABC hit dramedy that ran from from 1977 to 1981.
AP file, 2002
Bobby Hull
Hall of Fame forward Bobby Hull , who helped the Chicago Blackhawks win the 1961 Stanley Cup Final, has died. Hull was 84. The two-time MVP was one of the most prolific scorers in NHL history, leading the league in goals seven times. Nicknamed “The Golden Jet” for his speed and blond hair, he posted 13 consecutive seasons with 30 goals or more from 1959-72.
AP file, 2019
Charles White
Charles White , the Southern California tailback who won the Heisman Trophy in 1979, died Jan. 11, 2023. He was 64. A two-time All-American and Los Angeles native, White won a national title in 1978 before claiming the Heisman in the following season, when he captained the Trojans and led the nation in yards rushing.
AP file, 1979
Jerry Richardson
Jerry Richardson , the Carolina Panthers founder and for years one of the NFL’s most influential owners until a scandal forced him to sell the team, died March 1, 2023. He was 86.
AP file, 2013
Sister André
Lucile Randon, a French nun known as Sister André and believed to be the world's oldest person, died Jan. 17, 2023, at age 118. She was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11, 1904. She was also one of the world’s oldest survivors of COVID-19.
AP file, 2022
Tatjana Patitz
Tatjana Patitz , one of an elite group of famed supermodels who graced magazine covers in the 1980s and ’90s and appeared in George Michael's “Freedom! '90” music video, died at age 56.
AP file, 2006
Russell Banks
Russell Banks , an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown in “Cloudsplitter," died Jan. 7, 2023. He was 82.
AP file, 2004
Cardinal George Pell
Cardinal George Pell , a onetime financial adviser to Pope Francis who spent 404 days in solitary confinement in his native Australia on child sex abuse charges before his convictions were overturned, died Jan. 10, 2023. He was 81.
AP file, 2018
Ken Block
Ken Block , a motorsports icon known for his stunt driving and for co-founding the action sports apparel brand DC Shoes, died Jan. 2, 2023, in a snowmobiling accident near his home in Utah. Block rose to fame as a rally car driver and in 2005 was awarded Rally America's Rookie of the Year honors.
AP file, 2013
Walter Cunningham
Walter Cunningham , the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, died Jan. 3, 2023. He was 90. Cunningham was one of three astronauts aboard the 1968 Apollo 7 mission, an 11-day spaceflight that beamed live television broadcasts as they orbited Earth, paving the way for the moon landing less than a year later.
AP file, 2014
Anton Walkes
Professional soccer player Anton Walkes died Jan. 18, 2023, from injuries he sustained in a boat crash off the coast of Miami. He was 25. Walkes began his career with English Premier League club Tottenham and also played for Portsmouth before signing with Atlanta United in MLS. He joined Charlotte for the club’s debut MLS season in 2022.
AP file, 2017
Pat Schroeder
Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder , a pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, died March 13, 2023. She was 82. Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government. She was elected to Congress in Colorado in 1972 and won easy reelection 11 times from her safe district in Denver.
AP file, 1999
Seymour Stein
Seymour Stein , the brash, prescient and highly successful founder of Sire Records who helped launched the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and many others, died April 2, 2023, at age 80. Stein helped found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and was himself inducted into the Rock Hall in 2005.
AP file, 2005
Klaus Teuber
Klaus Teuber , creator of the hugely popular Catan board game in which players compete to build settlements on a fictional island, died April 1, 2023. He was 70. The board game, originally called The Settlers of Catan when introduced in 1995 and based on a set of hexagonal tiles, has sold tens of millions of copies and is available in more than 40 languages.
AP file, 1995
Ginnie Newhart
Ginnie Newhart , who was married to comedy legend Bob Newhart for six decades and inspired the classic ending of his “Newhart” series, died April 23, 2023. She was 82.
AP file, 1985
Vida Blue
Vida Blue , a hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball’s biggest draws in the early 1970s and helped lead the brash A’s to three straight World Series titles before his career was derailed by drug problems, died May 6, 2023. He was 73.
AP file, 1976
Martin Amis
British novelist Martin Amis , who brought a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, died May 20, 2023. He was 73. Amis was a leading voice among a generation of writers that included his good friend, the late Christopher Hitchens, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie. Among his best-known works were “Money,” a satire about consumerism in London, “The Information” and “London Fields,” along with his 2000 memoir, “Experience."
AP file, 2012
Doyle Brunson
Doyle Brunson , one of the most influential poker players of all time and a two-time world champion, died May 14, 2023. He was 89. Brunson, called the Godfather of Poker and also known as “Texas Dolly,” won 10 World Series of Poker tournaments — second only to Phil Hellmuth's 16. He also captured world championships in 1976 and 1977 and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1988.
AP file, 2011
Hodding Carter III
Hodding Carter III , a Mississippi journalist and civil rights activist who as U.S. State Department spokesman informed Americans about the Iran hostage crisis and later won awards for his televised documentaries, died May 11, 2023. He was 88.
AP file, 2003
Ray Stevenson
Ray Stevenson , who played the villainous British governor in “RRR,” an Asgardian warrior in the “Thor” films, and a member of the 13th Legion in HBO’s “Rome,” died May 21, 2023. He was 58. He made his film debut in Paul Greengrass’s 1998 film “The Theory of Flight.” In 2004, he appeared in Antoine Fuqua’s “King Arthur” as a knight of the round table and several years later played the lead in the pre-Disney Marvel adaptation “Punisher: War Zone." Though “Punisher” was not the best-reviewed film, he'd get another taste of Marvel in the first three "Thor” films, in which he played Volstagg. Other prominent film roles included the “Divergent” trilogy, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” and “The Transporter: Refueled.”
AP file, 2017
Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto , the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl from Ipanema” made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, died June 5, 2023, at age 83.
AP file, 1981
Tori Bowie
U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died May 2, 2023, from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Bowie won silver in the 100 and bronze in the 200. She then ran the anchor leg on a 4x100 team with Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix and English Gardner to take gold.
AP file, 2017
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi , the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy's longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption, died June 12, 2023. He was 86. A onetime cruise ship crooner, Berlusconi used his television networks and immense wealth to launch his long political career, inspiring both loyalty and loathing.
AP file, 2021
John Goodenough
John Goodenough , who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery that transformed technology with rechargeable power for devices ranging from cellphones, computers, and pacemakers to electric cars, died June 25, 2023, at age 100.
AP file, 2019
Coco Lee
Coco Lee , a Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter who had a highly successful career in Asia, has died by suicide July 5, 2023. She was 48. She was the first Chinese singer to break into the American market, and her English song “Do You Want My Love” charted at #4 on Billboard's Hot Dance Breakouts chart in December 1999.
If you or someone you know exhibits warning signs of suicide, call 1-800-273-TALK, text 741741 or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org .
AP file, 2005
Jane Birkin
Actor and singer Jane Birkin , who made France her home and charmed the country with her English grace, natural style and social activism, died July 16, 2023, at age 76. The London-born star and fashion icon was known for her musical and romantic relationship with French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Their songs notably included the steamy “Je t’aime moi non plus" ("I Love You, Me Neither"). Birkin's ethereal, British-accented singing voice interlaced with his gruff baritone in the 1969 duet that helped make her famous and was forbidden in Italy after being denounced in the Vatican newspaper.
AP file, 2021
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“Who’s Your Founding Father? One Man’s Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence” by David Fleming, Hachette Books, 320 pages, $29.
The Declaration of Independence was signed July 4, 1776. Thomas Jefferson was the primary architect of the document. After reading “Who’s Your Founding Father?” by David Fleming, the reader may no longer be certain of either statement.
Readers, like this reviewer, are probably unaware of another declaration of independence from English rule that was devised and signed by a group of patriots in the backwoods village of Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 20, 1775. Known as the Mecklenburg Declaration or “MecDec,” it predated Jefferson’s Declaration by more than a year. Our third president may have plagiarized his own version.
Although author Fleming is primarily a sportswriter for ESPN, he resides in Charlotte and has been obsessed with pursuing the merit of this possibility. His mesmerizing book follows his effort to solve this 250-year-old cold case. His research, documentation and extensive bibliography make his conclusions compelling.
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Eleven previous U.S. presidents have accepted the veracity of the priority of the MecDec, as well as such luminaries as journalist George Will, evangelist Billy Graham, and documentarian and past exhibitor at UNL’s International Quilt Museum Ken Burns. The May 20 date is featured on the state flag of North Carolina. Nevertheless, a rather snarky Wikipedia entry still deems it a hoax perpetrated in 1819. That was the year John Adams, our second president, first found out about the MecDec.
Adams and our third President had a long feud until their deaths on the same date, July 4, 1781. Adams had immediately assumed his rival had first copied and then concealed the earlier document. Readers will also be indebted to Adams for increasing their vocabularies by applying the word “crapulent” to Jefferson and his adherents’ behavior and to the reviewer for assuring that it is a perfectly cromulent word.
As Fleming follows his trail down the rabbit hole to its conclusion, he leaves a hilarious trail of pop culture breadcrumbs along the way, including the title, which refers to the annoying chant Yankee fans used to distract Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez, “Who’s your Daddy?” We also discover why Charlotte’s NBA team is known as the Hornets.
By the time the author has concluded his search for the truth, he has found a cast of characters as bizarre as any Alice encountered. Thomas Jefferson’s already tarnished image makes the reader want to find the feet of clay which must be buried under the head on Rushmore. His chief defender and protector in this controversy was a 19th century math professor at the University of North Carolina who the book portrays as a slimier version of Jabba the Hutt.
To reveal any more about this correction of a historical mistake would spoil the reader’s delight in discovering the details the author has so painstakingly uncovered. This book will remind the reader of “National Treasure,” the popular 2004 adventure/comedy movie, with Fleming in the Nicholas Cage role.
The only slight disappointment with this book is the lack of a pictorial insert of the fascinating characters and sites described within.
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NEW YORK — It's hard not to feel grudging respect for Gerald Daniel Blanchard's long résumé of crime — no matter what side of the law you're on.
He once stole half a million dollars from a bank before it officially opened by using a concealed pinhole camera inside the branch. He escaped from a police interrogation room by hiding in the ceiling tiles. Then there was the time he swapped a priceless jewel from an alarm-equipped museum display case with a gift shop replica, Indiana Jones-style.
“It’s like a chess game. You need to know 10 moves ahead of what the police are doing,” Blanchard said in a recent Zoom interview. “I was more into it for the thrill and the excitement.”
Wired magazine called Blanchard, originally from Omaha, the “world’s most ingenious thief,” and The Globe and Mail newspaper described him as "Canada’s most sophisticated bank robber and fraud artist." Audiences can get into his head with the new Hulu documentary “The Jewel Thief,” which was released July 13.
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Director Landon Van Soest traces Blanchard's evolution into a criminal mastermind, going from shoplifting at an Iowa RadioShack as a teen to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars while disguised in a burqa in Cairo. He often taunted police to try and catch him.
“For me, it’s really a film about obsession and ambition and addiction that kept driving him to something bigger,” said Van Soest. “He always had to outdo himself. He always had to outsmart someone.”
A portrait emerges of a creative, calculating and patient man with a strong engineering bent despite a learning disability and borderline dyslexia. But Blanchard is not always a reliable narrator, with some of his embellishments knocked down in the documentary.
“There were a lot of different versions of many of these stories,” said Van Soest. “We just kind of chose to lean into that. We were going to present many different versions of some of these stories and let the viewers walk away and make up their own minds.”
The movie uses interviews with Blanchard and footage from his own extensive archives, as well as speaking with his mother, accomplices and the police who chased him. It's enlivened by a soundtrack that includes songs like Jane’s Addiction’s “Been Caught Stealing.”
Blanchard was a thin, nerdy-looking kid who grew up poor in Omaha with a single mom who worked two jobs, and he developed a grudge against banks.
“I like stealing from the banks and corporations,” he told The Associated Press. "The reason why I don’t like stealing from people is because they work hard for the money. I remember my mom crying on the phone when I was younger saying, ‘We don’t have the money to turn the lights on. Our food is going to go bad.’”
Early petty shoplifting emboldened him to disconnect a RadioShack's alarm system and take the entire inventory one Easter Sunday. He sold it all to friends and teachers. His home was soon visited by a SWAT team.
Blanchard later figured out how to scam stores by crafting fake receipts for shoplifted goods and returning them for a refund, a skill he used when he found himself penniless at the Canada border after serving 4½ years behind bars.
A customs agent gave him $10 to take the bus. He instead bought a $9 disposable camera and stole another, photocopied the sales receipt at a Staples for 10 cents, and returned both. With the money, he did the same thing with more expensive items — a rechargeable battery and a computer program. By the end of the day, he had a couple hundred dollars.
“The Jewel Thief” would likely not have been made — or at least the tone would be vastly different — if Blanchard's crimes had caused bloodshed or death. His honor code, or his criminal calculations, didn't include anyone getting hurt.
“I would always scale my crimes,” he explained. “If you use a gun, what’s the consequences? If you don’t use a gun, what’s the consequence? Could somebody be hurt? And so I put a scale and I basically thought in my mind, 'What’s the least amount of prison time I could get if I got caught?'”
The crime that would put Blanchard in prison for a long time started when he walked into a Canadian bank under construction wearing a hardhat and safety vest bought at a Home Depot. He installed a $50 Toys R Us baby monitor into a wall and messed with the motion detector so he could shut it off. Blanchard watched remotely as money was put into ATM machines, and struck that night.
As you might guess, Blanchard is not much of a fan of TV crime shows. “It frustrates me. And I can’t watch it because it’s so fake. I always analyze it saying, ‘They should have did it this way or that way’ or ‘You can’t do it this way.’ I’m always analyzing and thinking things many steps ahead.”
Blanchard's list of crimes — including, as a prisoner, breaking into the commissary of the Anamosa State Penitentiary in Iowa — includes the 1998 theft of one of Sisi’s stars, a jewel once belonging to a 19th century Austrian empress. He had replaced it with a fake, a ruse which went unnoticed for several days.
The piece was only recovered when Blanchard — looking for a deal from prosecutors — took police to his grandmother’s Winnipeg house, where the jewel had been carefully stashed. In fact, Blanchard still had much of the cash he stole. He wasn't a big spender.
“I had lots of money and I never just blew it away or threw it away like most people do. I would always save it. If I could steal something, that’s what I would do,” he says.
It's hard to watch “The Jewel Thief” without wondering if he could have used his skills for good, such as advising on bank security.
Van Soest calls him “clearly a very intelligent, very capable person that could have offered something much more positive to society.” But Blanchard says that once he had a criminal record, law enforcement jobs became impossible.
He said he's happy with where his life is now. “I learned deep inside myself is the void that I have, which is money doesn’t bring happiness,” he said.
“I’ve lived a poor life being young. I lived a wealthy life. I've lived the middle-class life. So I’ve had the whole spectrum in my lifetime and I’m comfortable with living a normal middle-class life.”
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Desperate Souls. The documentary "Desperate Souls" argues that the 1969 best picture Oscar winner reflects the cultural upheaval and New York City of its time. Unrated. (Ross). Grade: B.
Oppenheimer. Director Christopher Nolan brings a jagged, dissonant sensibility to his biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist known as the “father of the atomic bomb.” R. (Grand, East Park, Edgewood, SouthPointe) Grade: C+.
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Derek Trucks was, it seems, born to play guitar.
A child prodigy, by age 13 Trucks had played with legendary blues guitarist Buddy Guy. At 20, he formed The Derek Trucks Band. Then, at 25, he became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band, joining his uncle, drummer Butch Trucks.
In 2009, he dissolved The Derek Trucks Band, just before it won the 2010 best contemporary blues album Grammy. Two years later, Tedeschi Trucks Band, the group he formed with his wife, singer Susan Tedeschi, did the same.
Last month, Trucks, who’s constantly on lists of the greatest guitarists of all time, called in from a motel outside Washington, D.C., with Tedeschi sitting nearby, to talk about his music and the band in advance of their Tuesday show at Pinewood Bowl.
Here’s part of that conversation:
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I hear lots of people that I wouldn't expect to hear say you guys are the best live band going right now. Then the other thing you hear is, they're a jam band or they're a rock band or they're a blues band or they're a whatever. What do you call yourself and what do you think when you hear people say that?
I don’t know if we know what it is, really. So I guess it doesn’t surprise us that it’s hard to put your finger on it. But it’s kind of always been that way. With my solo band, they would have us on jazz festivals when we weren’t a jazz band. They’d have us on jam band festivals and we weren’t a jam band. We’d be on blues festivals and it wasn’t a pure blues band. So we’ve kind of always been one foot in here, one foot in there.
I feel like a lot of the great American music is that way. Ike and Tina (Turner), they were an R&B band, but it was a rock band. The Allman Brothers are improvisational, but it’s blues and rock. A lot of our favorite bands, it’s hard to really quantify what it is. So we don’t feel worried about that too much, especially in this day and age when no one’s gonna play us on any radio station anyway.
That really puts the emphasis on the live thing, then. So where do records fit into that?
I feel like the recorded elements of a band's career at this point is really a way for your audience to really get to know the music and the material. This last record we put out was four albums. When we started playing this stuff live, we were really surprised at how many people that had already ingested the music and knew it. So then you feel like you can play anything in their catalog because people, people know it.
So are you still playing a lot from "I Am The Moon" (the four-album set released last year)?
This summer is less about solely focusing on that. The live shows, it feels a little looser. I feel like after a year of playing it, it kind of falls in with the rest of the teams you've written. It just becomes what do you feel like playing on any given night?
Is your name really from Eric Clapton and Derek and the Dominoes?
Yeah, my parents were children of that time and that record was a big part of it. My dad grew up in and around the Allman Brothers. So Duane was a big figure in his life. So that record was a big part of it. And I have a sister named Jessica.
Really? Maybe there’s something fitting then, that you ended up in the Allmans for a while.
And I find out later that Susan was born on the same day that the "Layla" record came out, which (was) kind of a trip.
You're in your early 40s (Trucks is 44), and you've been doing this for …?
I guess about 30-35 years now. Is that even possible? Sue, is that true? Wow, that’s amazing. That’s a long time.
Was there a point where you decided "I’m going to do this for the rest of my life?"
I think around 14 or 15, somewhere in there, I did have the feeling that if, "You’re gonna do this, let’s do it. And you’re probably going to be a lifer." Once you get hit with it, you know you’re going to do it. Everybody I was playing with was well into their 40s, 50s at that time. I think there was a moment, where you’re like, "This is it. Let’s do it. You’re probably never going to make it out of playing bars. Who cares?"
When did you start playing slide guitar?
Probably 9, 10 years old. The sounds that were most intriguing to me were The Allman Brothers Band's "At Fillmore East" and there was an Elmore James record. So I was definitely interested in the sound of the slide guitar from the jump. When a guitar teacher brought over a slide, that was kind of the first epiphany where it’s like, "That's what I've been hearing. Cool."
And also at 9, your body isn't fully developed. Your hands are not. It hurts to play a steel string, you’re putting that aside. You can make these sounds (with the slide) that you've been hearing and that it makes sense to you. So you know, there was a kind of right time, right place for me.”
Now you’re the master of the slide.
I guess. Lucky for me, there are a million traditional guitar players, but there's only a few handfuls who play slide. Elmore James, who was kind of the first electric slide player, I listened to a ton. Then Duane Allman, Jesse Ed Davis kind of cracked it open for me in a different realm, and Johnny Winter. I feel like at some point, you become a part of that tradition and stream and you just try to get to know where it came from. Then you kind of try to keep pushing it. Now I’ll hear things come on occasionally and I'll hear the influence. I can hear my playing in their playing, which is a trip. The first time that happens, it's kind of hard to wrap your head around.
So do you develop your sounds during the improvisation in the live shows?
That's for sure; you stumble across things every night. And sometimes it's not good. You got to, you have to be willing to fail. It's good to humble yourself. So taking it every once in a while. I think it's probably good for you.
I will say with this band the lows aren't very low anymore. There's enough trust where things don't really get off the rails. But you know when a night could be better, when you're leaving meat on the bone and there's a frustration when you don't get it to where you want to get it to. One of the things I like about this group is everybody stays hungry. A great night, there's not a lot of back-slapping. It's more: Sleep good tonight.
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Annually, I put together a pair of best-of lists — of concerts and live shows I’ve seen and albums I’ve heard — in the first six months of the year, then follow it up with a year-end compilation that almost always omits some of the shows and records that made the half-year list.
This year, I’m cheating by a couple of weeks — I wanted to include ZooFest, which happened July 6-8, and had a week off following the festival, and the Cowboys in the Campfire show July 9. But given that there were no shows of note in the first two weeks of January, it really is a list of the best shows I saw in the first six months of live music of 2023.
Another caveat here, there’s nothing here from the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Let’s just say it’s hard to compare American Ballet Theatre’s “Giselle,” Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott, and the musical “Jagged Little Pill” with the pop/rock/country shows that make up the list.
Kiah is the first artist, in memory, to turn up on one of my best-of lists twice in the same year, much less six months. But she was stunningly great opening for Isbell in May and even better when she played a full ZooFest set.
The Crowell and Fullbright shows were part of Switchyard, a festival held in conjunction with the World of Bob Dylan conference I attended in Tulsa in early June. They were the first shows that I’d seen at the legendary Cain’s Ballroom, the “house that Bob Wills built” in the ’30s and ’40s and the site of one of the infamous Sex Pistols shows on their ill-fated 1978 tour.
Now for the recordings. It’s impossible for anyone to “keep up” with the cascade of new releases — I get from 50 to 100 emails announcing new albums or containing downloads and streams each week.
So there’s no chance of any list like this — whether compiled by one person or a staff — can really represent the “best of” all the albums released in any time period.
That means that what follows is a collection of my favorite albums released in the first six months of the year with another caveat: Trimming the list to 15 to match the number of shows meant that records by, among others, Janelle Monae, Miley Cyrus and Son Volt got omitted.
Here’s the 15 that made the countdown in alphabetical order:
* boygenius, “The Record.”
* Lana Del Rey, “Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.”
* Bob Dylan, “Shadow Kingdom.”
* Foo Fighters, “But We Are Here."
* Ellie Goulding, “Higher Than Heaven.”
* PJ Harvey, “I Inside The Old Year Dying.”
* The Hold Steady, “The Price of Progress.”
* Ice Spice, “Like..?”
* Jason Isbell, “Weathervanes.”
* Iggy Pop, “Every Loser.”
* Margo Price, “Strays.”
* Paul Simon, “Seven Psalms.”
* Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives, “Altitude.”
* Young Fathers, “Heavy Heavy.”
* Lucinda Williams, “Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart.”
And a final addendum — which is the release I’ve spent the most time listening to this year, in large part because of its size — the five-CD Bob Dylan box set “Fragments” that contains a remixed version of his “Time Out of Mind” album that, to my ears, is better than the 1997 Daniel Lanois-produced release, a couple CDs of outtakes and alternative versions from the 1996-97 recording sessions and a pair of live CDs from the era.
That set was part of my Dylan immersion that included the conference and a day spent at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, looking at handwritten lyrics, photos and films and artifacts, which will almost certainly be the highlight of my 2023 musical tourism.
10 most memorable concerts at Pinnacle Bank Arena
Nov. 9, 2013: Pink
Nov. 23, 2013: Elton John
July 14, 2014: Paul McCartney
Jan. 17, 2015: Fleetwood Mac
July 11, 2015: Neil Young
March 26, 2016: Carrie Underwood
Aug. 18, 2017: Kendrick Lamar
Oct. 20, 2017: Garth Brooks
March 24, 2018: Lorde
Oct. 2, 2018: Odesza
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Project Blackbird, 9 p.m. Friday, Zoo Bar. The U.K.’s Project Blackbird is American vocalist Ming Ngael, guitarist Alan Roberts, drummer Eddie Dublin and multi-instrumentalists Jamie Varley and Jon Read, the former trumpet player of The Specials. They’ve been described as creating soundscapes “where Sade, Bjork, Jeff Beck and David Byrne meet Portishead.”
Lindsay Beaver and Brad Stivers, 5 p.m. Saturday, Zoo Bar. Austin’s singing drummer Lindsay Beaver and fiery guitarist Brad Stivers return to the Zoo Bar for the first time since 2019 on Saturday. Tagged by Alligator Records’ Bruce Iglauer as “the love child of Amy Winehouse and Little Richard,” the classically trained Beaver and Stivers bring blues, soul and rock ’n’ roll with passion, urgency and flair.
Lindsay Beaver will return to the Zoo Bar on Saturday with guitarist Brad Stivers.
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Bad Wolves with For The Fallen Dreams, Inimical Drive, Arson City, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Bourbon Theatre. Active rock radio hitmakers Bad Wolves, who most recently topped the charts with “Sober,” will bring their crunching metal that has been streamed more than a half-billion times to the Bourbon on Tuesday. The L.A. metal band will be joined by three other bands on the hard-rock bill.
Alistair Greene, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Zoo Bar. Blues rocker Alistair Greene, who played the Bourbon Theatre with Tab Benoit a couple of years ago, is back in Lincoln this week for a Zoo Bar show. Singer/guitarist Greene spent eight years touring with the Alan Parsons Project; has appeared with Eric Clapton, Walter Trout and Coco Montoya; and was a member of Sugarray Rayford’s Blues Music Award-nominated band. He’s touring behind a new Benoit-produced album, “The New World Blues.”
20 infamous band feuds from the '60s and '70s
20 infamous band feuds from the '60s and '70s
Take musical groups full of big egos and even bigger hair, put them in two decades full of substance use and musical experimentation , and you have a recipe for some pretty gnarly fights. Stacker delved into 1960s and 1970s music history to uncover the backstage conflicts and behind-the-scenes drama of some of the era's most iconic bands, using information from interviews, memoirs, and news sources.
The conflicts range from silly—see the Who's Roger Daltrey growing impatient at how long it took to film a promo, leading to a physical altercation with Pete Townshend —to serious, like Johnny Ramone's tendency for violent outbursts and stealing his bandmate's great love .
While some squabbles resolved fairly quickly, others lasted for decades—several remain unsettled. Many groups survived the fallouts, like Fleetwood Mac miraculously holding strong for decades through the messy web of divorces, breakups, and affairs members engaged in throughout the early '70s. For others, these disputes spelled out the beginning of the end for some of the era's most iconic bands.
Read on to learn about the backstage arguments and grudges between your favorite musical acts.
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The Beatles: John Lennon vs. Paul McCartney
John Lennon and Paul McCartney helmed history's most successful band as songwriting partners from the moment they met in 1957, but the two had major differences behind the scenes, both in personality and creative instinct.
While McCartney was "meticulous" and took painstaking care in writing songs, Lennon was more erratic and experimental. This, among many other differences between all four band members, led the group to split in 1970 . That same year, McCartney went so far as to sue his bandmates to legally end their professional partnership, which sparked a public back-and-forth between him and Lennon.
In a 1971 Rolling Stone story, Lennon stated , "I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul." McCartney responded by sneaking in some thinly veiled strikes at Lennon on his 1971 album "Ram," singing , "Too many people preaching practices" and "You took your lucky break and broke it in two." While the pair reconciled a few years later, they remained relatively distant until Lennon died in 1980.
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Simon & Garfunkel: Paul Simon vs. Art Garfunkel
The animosity between Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel began even before they hit it big, during the earliest years of their act. After they started working together in 1957, Simon signed a solo deal on the side, which Garfunkel felt betrayed by and would hold a grudge against for decades.
After a decade of nationwide success for the duo, this and other grievances would boil to a head when, in 1969, Garfunkel traveled to Mexico to film a role in a screen adaptation of "Catch-22." By November, Garfunkel had agreed to another film, leaving Simon feeling left behind. The two went on to produce one last album, "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and decided to part ways after. Although they have reunited for the occasional performance in the years since, their resentments remain.
In his 2017 memoir, Garfunkel remarked , "The friendship was shattered for life. … I never forget, and I never really forgive," while Simon told writer Robert Hilburn about his lack of trust in Garfunkel in the wake of the Jazz Fest in New Orleans. In his 2018 biography "Paul Simon: The Life," Simon told Hilburn: "[Garfunkel] let us all down. I was tired of all the drama. I didn't feel I could trust him anymore."
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The Who: Pete Townshend vs. Roger Daltrey
The Who achieved widespread success in the late '60s and early '70s, but by 1973, guitarist Pete Townshend and frontman Roger Daltrey had accumulated some resentment. That year, while filming a slow-moving promotional material for their upcoming Quadrophenia tour, Daltrey recalled Townshend "went off like a firework ."
The confrontation escalated into a physical fight, according to Daltrey. In 1975, Townshend complained to New Musical Express : "We've become a golden oldies group. … I can tell you that when we were gigging in this country at the early part of this year I was thoroughly depressed." In response, Daltrey gave the same magazine his side of the story months later, saying: "The Who wasn't bad. Wasn't quite as good as we could have been, but it was because Townshend was in a bad frame of mind about what he wanted to do. And he didn't play well."
The squabble was quickly resolved, with the pair collaborating with the band on an album and tour within the same year.
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The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger vs. Keith Richards
The battle of the Rolling Stones frontmen began around 1978 , when Keith Richards' narcotics addiction had grown so bad that he went on trial and was forced to sober up. In the years before, Mick Jagger had taken control of the group, away from the drug-addled Richards, but once the latter stopped using, he wanted his fair share of power back.
On the 1980 song "All About You," Richards sang what many interpreted as a particularly scathing critique of Jagger, leading the two to all but stop speaking by the following year: "Well if you call this a life/ Why must I spend mine with you?/ If the show must go on/ Let it go on without you/ So sick and tired hanging around jerks like you." Just as the band was preparing to go on tour to promote their album "Dirty Work," Jagger informed them by written letter that he was deciding to focus on his solo career instead.
Although it took several years, the two rock powerhouses did eventually reconcile, and today the Rolling Stones remain the longest-running rock band in history , completing a tour as recently as 2022 .
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Neil Young and Stephen Stills' conflicts lasted over several years, spanning not one but two iconic '60s and '70s bands. When they first joined in 1966 to form Buffalo Springfield, Stills was considered the most prominent member and used his position to mock Young's singing abilities publicly during concerts. Additionally, he had little sympathy for the latter's struggle with epilepsy, which made Young anxious to perform in front of crowds.
Once they joined the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, nearly every member had some sort of contention for the other. Crosby and Graham Nash had no longer been on speaking terms. Stills continued giving Young a hard time, while Young and bandmate David Crosby butted heads as well, with Crosby publicly calling Young's then-girlfriend Daryl Hannah a "predator." After releasing the critically acclaimed "Déjà Vu" and embarking on a tour laden with drug use and arguments , the group broke apart immediately following the final show.
The group has since come apart and broken up again over the decades but remains mostly on contentious terms, with Crosby remarking in a 2021 interview that he didn't anticipate a reunion of the group again. (Crosby died in January 2023.)
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The Kinks: Ray Davies vs. Dave Davies
Like their later counterparts—brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis, which they're often compared to—the Kinks' Ray and Dave Davies' disagreements began with their sibling rivalry. In 2010, Ray recalled , "We were battlers. … But the very thing that makes a band special is what ultimately causes it to break up." The same year, Dave said : "I think Ray has been happy for only three years in his life. … And those were the three years before I was born."
Throughout the Kinks' pinnacle in the '60s, the brothers constantly fought, whether onstage, in the studio, or at home. Despite their differences, the band managed to stay together until 1996—and the brothers' relationship seems to be on the mend; a reunion may even be possible .
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Jeff Beck vs. the Yardbirds
Jeff Beck squandered his opportunity as a replacement guitarist for Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds when he invited his friend Jimmy Page to join the band in 1966.
Page's presence made it easier to boot Beck out of the band when he refused to go along with the group's move toward a pop sound in favor of more experimental music. Things came to a head in late 1966, when Beck became frustrated after a string of back-to-back tour engagements across the U.S. He left the band soon after, and in his absence, Page moved up to lead guitar before debuting Led Zeppelin years later.
Although Beck went on to have a successful career in his own right, he seemed to harbor resentment for years, announcing onstage in his 1992 acceptance speech during his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, "Someone told me I should be proud tonight, but I'm not, because they kicked me out. They did!"
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The Everly Brothers: Don Everly vs. Phil Everly
"Never do business with family" seems to apply to rock 'n' roll as much as any other industry, as the Everly Brothers proved early on. Tensions between the brothers culminated in a heated confrontation during a 1973 Knott's Berry Farm performance in Buena Park, California.
Don was in his cups at the time, causing a Knott's manager to halt the show mid-gig. Phil tossed his guitar to the ground and stormed offstage in frustration, leaving Don to announce to the audience, "The Everly Brothers died 10 years ago." The duo didn't perform together again for an entire decade, eventually reuniting for a 1983 concert .
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Pink Floyd: David Gilmour vs. Roger Waters
Although 1979's "The Wall" was one of Pink Floyd's most iconic albums, its production was marred with conflict.
David Gilmour was frustrated with Roger Waters, who "forced his way to become that central figure" and attempted to dominate creative direction. Waters, on the other hand, claimed his bandmates were stifling his talent, telling Rolling Stone in 1987: "There was no point in Gilmour, Mason or Wright trying to write lyrics. Because they'll never be as good as mine. Gilmour's lyrics are very third-rate."
Touring for "The Wall" and producing the follow-up album "The Final Cut" in 1983 only saw increased divisions between Waters and Gilmour. When Waters eventually left the band in 1985, Gilmour objected to his desire to dissolve the band entirely. He continued to record with Nick Mason and Richard Wright as a trio, prompting Waters to sue them, albeit unsuccessfully .
Pink Floyd continued as a trio until after a few years of calm. The band eventually reunited for performances with the original lineup in 2005. In 2013, Waters admitted that he regretted the lawsuit .
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The Beach Boys: Mike Love vs. Brian Wilson
The two major eras of the Beach Boys—their start as a happy-go-lucky surf pop group and later development into a more innovative, musically complex sound—are well-known now. Still, it wasn't a unanimous group decision.
Cousins Brian Wilson and Mike Love argued during the production of "Pet Sounds" in 1966, with the former pushing for a fresh sound and the latter strongly opposed to the new, psychedelic leaning, later remarking to Rolling Stone , "Don't f— with the formula!"
Love also took issue with Wilson's reputation as the group's primary songwriter, suing him multiple times over the years , one of which gained Love co-writing credits to some of their most popular songs, including "California Girls" and "I Get Around." In his 2016 autobiography, Love wrote: "There was always the perception that my cousin Brian did all the writing as well as the producing and stuff like that. That was not true. I was the co-author of so many big hits."
After deaths, substance abuse, and mental health struggles put distance between all of the band members over the years, Love won the legal right to use the Beach Boys' band name in 2008.
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Eagles: Don Felder vs. Don Henley
The Eagles are one of the most notoriously contentious bands in contemporary music, and one of their biggest hits was at the center of a firestorm. During the 1976 production of "Hotel California," guitarist Don Felder tried his hand at vocals, but his bandmates were less than enthused with his performance and had lead singer Don Henley re-record the song, to Felder's dismay .
Felder's tension with Henley intensified during sessions for their next album, "The Long Run," when he sarcastically referred to Henley and bandmate Glenn Frey as "the Gods." The band splintered apart after Frey and Felder had a near-violent argument during a 1980 concert. They reunited in 1994 for a new album and tour, but Felder and Henley once again came to blows over Henley's higher paycheck, leading Felder to be kicked out of the band in February 2001. Felder sued the band for wrongful termination , and their distaste for each other has yet to wane.
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Fleetwood Mac: Stevie Nicks vs. Lindsey Buckingham
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were already on rocky terms when they were invited to join Fleetwood Mac in 1974, having spent years beforehand performing as the duo Buckingham Nicks and in a relationship marred by their battling strong personalities.
However, the opportunity to join the band was too good to pass up, and Nicks recalled telling Buckingham : "OK, this is what we've been working for since 1968. And so Lindsey, you and I have to sew this relationship back up. We have too much to lose here."
Even so, they broke up during the production of the band's seminal album "Rumours" in 1976, which Nicks described as "a living nightmare ," adding, "He and I were about as compatible as a boa constrictor and a rat." Several of the album's most acclaimed songs are famously open messages between Buckingham and Nicks battling out each's perspectives on their failed relationship, including "Go Your Own Way," "Never Going Back Again," and "Dreams."
Despite the conflict between the former couple—and Nicks' brief affair with bandmate Mick Fleetwood in 1977 —they remained musical collaborators for decades after "Rumours" released, both temporarily leaving the band to pursue solo careers before returning. In 2018, when Nicks denied Buckingham's request to delay Fleetwood Mac's tour schedule to accommodate his solo work, Buckingham was fired from the band for a seemingly final and permanent time.
Buckingham subsequently sued the band for breach of contract for his termination.
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Fleetwood Mac: John McVie vs. Christine McVie
Although Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were perhaps the most well-known, they were just one of three couples enduring major falling-outs during the production of "Rumours."
At the same time, drummer Mick Fleetwood was going through a divorce with his wife, Jenny, as were bandmates John and Christine McVie. Christine described being too close for comfort with her former spouse while working together, witnessing John's drinking allegedly turn him into "more Hyde than Jekyll ." She said she began an affair with the band's sound engineer "for [her] sanity."
Still, despite the web of on-and-off relationships among band members, Fleetwood Mac remained resilient: "Rumours" became one of the highest-grossing albums of all time .
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The Allman Brothers Band: Gregg Allman vs. Dickey Betts
Guitarist Dickey Betts was a famously rowdy coworker behind the scenes, frequently trashing hotel rooms, brawling with cops, and getting arrested. He first entered the band in 1969, but his heavy drinking and wild antics didn't fare well with lead singer Gregg Allman. Their differences caused the group's disbanding in 1976, with Betts stating in an interview with Rolling Stone, "There is no way we can work with Gregg again. Ever."
The band subsequently reunited in 1979, broke up again in 1982, and came together once more in 1989. But the final straw came in 2000, when the band had finally had enough of Betts' heavy drinking and permanently kicked him out of the group.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival: John Fogerty vs. Tom Fogerty
Creedence Clearwater Revival's work was astoundingly prolific, encompassing seven albums between 1968 to 1972 alone. However, lead singer John Fogerty felt it wouldn't have been possible without his oversight.
His overbearing personality led his brother and bandmate Tom Fogerty to finally quit in 1971 . The entire band disintegrated the following year, with other members also dissatisfied with John's level of creative control.
The two brothers never fully reconciled, with John telling The Guardian in 2000: "The best I can say in Tom's case is he was the older brother, and the younger brother had a lot more talent; therefore, he was jealous even to a greater degree than the other two in Creedence Clearwater Revival."
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The Band: Levon Helm vs. Robbie Robertson
Members of the Band—known as the Hawks up until 1963—were as eclectic in personalities as they were in musical styles, leading to heavy strife throughout their peak during the '70s.
In particular, Levon Helm grew to resent Robbie Robertson's gradual dominance over the group's songwriting, positing that he falsely claimed to be the sole songwriter to get a higher paycheck. By 1976, Robertson suggested they play one final farewell concert, to be documented by Martin Scorsese in what would later become "The Last Waltz." However, Helm took issue with the film positioning Robertson as the central figure of the Band, calling the film "the biggest f----- rip-off that ever happened to the Band."
Robertson only sought to set their differences aside at Helm's deathbed in 2012 .
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The Beatles: George Harrison vs. Paul McCartney
It's no secret Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the double figurehead of the Beatles, something lead guitarist George Harrison reportedly came to resent. In 1967, during sessions for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," McCartney domineered . During filmed production for "Let It Be" in 1969 , Harrison became so irate over McCartney's overbearing direction that he quit the band —only to rapidly return.
In the 2015 book "George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door," Harrison's then-wife, Pattie Boyd, remembered: "They would tolerate each other, but I think George basically didn't like Paul's personality. … Like a little brother, he was pushed into the background. He would come home from recording and be full of anger. It was a very bad state that he was in."
After the Beatles broke up in 1970, Harrison finally had the freedom to release his first solo album, "All Things Must Pass," largely comprising songs McCartney (and Lennon) had previously rejected .
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Kiss: Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley vs. Ace Frehley and Peter Criss
The original 1973 lineup of the heavy metal foursome was more of two twosomes, with Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley believing they took the band's success more seriously than hard-partying Ace Frehley and Peter Criss.
By 1978, Frehley and Criss both allegedly stated they wanted to quit the band, leading to a short break before giving it another go by producing four Kiss solo albums released that September. However, this did little to improve relations. Stanley recalled a tense onstage argument between him and Criss over the latter's cocaine-muddled drumming performance in his 2014 memoir "Face the Music: A Life Exposed." In 1980, Criss was booted from the band, with Frehley following in 1982 after a lackluster commitment to Kiss' next album.
In a 2019 interview, Simmons recalled : "Ace and Peter … were in and out of the band—fired—three times. For drugs, alcohol, bad behavior, being unprofessional … they weren't carrying their load. You can't be in a car with two flat tires. It's not going to go anywhere."
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Deep Purple: Ian Gillan vs. Ritchie Blackmore
In 1973, Deep Purple saw one of its greatest successes with the release of "Smoke on the Water"—but behind the scenes, mainstream success may have driven a wedge between singer Ian Gillan and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. Though it was unclear exactly why at the time, Gillan abruptly departed the band that same year.
In a 2020 interview , Gillan hinted that the band's increasing "commercialism" caused his exit, recalling: "[Blackmore] had an ear for the more popular stuff. And it was very successful. But I thought it couldn't survive, because it was planting itself in a fashion, and fashions come and fashions go."
Deep Purple disbanded entirely in 1976 before reuniting in 1984, which included Gillan and Blackmore. However, Gillan grew increasingly unhappy with Blackmore's dominance and metal-leaning musical preferences. In 1993, Blackmore quit Deep Purple—this time for good—in a spectacular fashion , throwing a tantrum onstage and launching a drink at a cameraperson during a live performance. Blackmore left the band four shows after, leaving Deep Purple to finish a series of concerts in Japan planned that December without him.
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The Ramones: Johnny Ramone vs. Joey Ramone
Johnny Ramone (aka John Cummings) and Joey Ramone (aka Jeffrey Hyman) may not actually be related, but they fought like rival siblings just the same.
Rumor has it their constant bickering and estrangement from each other was largely due to the group's strenuous touring schedule and Johnny's military-strict oversight of the band, including reportedly physically assaulting his bandmates for being late or not performing up to par.
Johnny met Joey's then-girlfriend Linda during recording sessions for "End of the Century," released in 1980, and the two allegedly began an affair, eventually marrying. It is speculated that Joey's song "The KKK Took My Baby Away" is aimed at Johnny for stealing his girlfriend.
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A father and his 8-year-old son were killed in a murder-suicide inside a home in Lower Makefield Township, Pennsylvania, police said.
Lower Makefield Police responded to a home along the 500 block of Heritage Oak Drive shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday for a wellness check, investigators said. When there was no response at the door, the officers looked through the window and spotted an unresponsive boy on the living room floor.
The officers kicked the door in and entered the home. They then found the 8-year-old boy on the floor as well as his 47-year-old father who was on the couch, police said. Both were suffering from gunshot wounds and they were both pronounced dead, according to Lower Makefield Police Chief Kenneth Coluzzi.
Chief Coluzzi told NBC10 the cause of death was a murder-suicide.
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“From what we could determine from the crime scene it’s clear that it’s a murder-suicide at this point,” Chief Coluzzi said. “A father shot the individual. Shot his son.”
Chief Coluzzi said no one else was home at the time of the shooting and police recovered a handgun. They are not releasing the identities of the father and son pending the notification of their family members. They are also interviewing the boy’s mother to determine if there were any domestic issues with the family prior to Thursday’s shooting.
Chief Coluzzi said the boy attended school in the Pennsbury School District.
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“They’re going to be providing any grief counseling for his friends and things like that. His classmates,” Chief Coluzzi said.
Chief Coluzzi told NBC10 police are also speaking with neighbors who are already dealing with the recent flooding that killed five people and left two children missing in the nearby Upper Makefield and damaged homes in Lower Makefield.
“It’s tough news. It’s always tough when this happens and there’s a child involved,” he said. “And we just had a lot of tragedy in Upper Makefield and Lower Makefield with the flooding and the children being lost in Upper Makefield and the loss of other lives and the property damage. So we’re just coming off of that and now we have another tragedy that we’re dealing with.”
This story is developing. Check back for updates.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline by calling 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), visiting www.thehotline.org or texting LOVEIS to 22522.
If you or someone you know needs help, please contact the National Suicide Prevention hotline at 1-800-273-8255, or reach out to the Crisis Text Line by texting ‘Home’ to 741741, anytime.
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INDIANAPOLIS — A gathering at the Community Justice Campus Thursday night was focused on just that: community.
Neighbors living near the center gathered to hear five proposals from developers and their plans for how they plan to transform the area.
"We are hoping for companies to bring in more restaurants. More commercial activity. More retail activity. We feel like the government presence is nice, but we need something more personable," said Rob Grigsby.
The proposed development will focus on the Twin Aire Shopping Plaza and Drive-In site located across the street from the CJC. Each proposal had a few common themes.
"Folks are looking for housing options. Home ownership options. There are a lot of references to work with Kroger," said the Department of Metropolitan Development Principal program manager for land and real estate Ike McCoy.
With the CJC settled there, the community and the city see that area as a prime place for development.
"It's going to bring a lot of folks to the neighborhood. We have roughly 2,000 public sector employees that spend some part of their day on the campus, and we think it will be a huge impact," McCoy said.
It's an impact neighbors want to be a part of. During the meeting, they asked questions and made sure to give their feedback on the developer's plans. It's something they believe is vital for the success of not only the project but the entire community.
"I think the voices are there. I've been involved in other community meetings they don't always listen. We have to sometimes speak louder and show up in a stronger force. I think the real power comes from the people, not the government," said Grigsby.
DMD will continue to accept feedback on the proposals for two more weeks. For more information click here.
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SEATTLE — Teetee Shade enjoys coming to the Atlantic City Boat Ramp with her family. She takes pride in the summer hang-out spot.
"We cook. We clean this park. We make sure this park is lit. We make sure the park is safe for our kids to play in," Shade said. However, things happen here that are out of her control.
"I would never be caught here at night anymore because it is dangerous."
Headlines about shootings at or near the Atlantic City Boat Ramp put an unwanted spotlight on the area.
"It's really stressful for us because we don't want to come here the next day or so. My car has been shot a couple of times," Shade said. She's adamant those committing the crimes are not part of her community that enjoys the park on a daily basis.
To address the surge in violent crimes, Seattle Parks and Recreation, partnering with Seattle Police, will be closing the Atlantic Boat Ramp at 10 p.m. for the next two months. Shade, however, isn't sure that'll keep crime from happening.
"We talk to all the boaters. We're familiar with most of the boaters that come out here every year," she said. "Those aren't the people that are actually engaging in this park, they just come to go into the water."
She blames the violence on a particular group.
"Young kids, probably on drugs. You have to be on drugs to keep doing that stuff in these parks," she said.
Along with closing the boat ramp, Shade, while having mixed feelings about more police, would like to see officers patrolling the area to keep crime down.
"They're here for us. I need them out. My kids are out here."
Shade would also like to see Atlantic City Boat Ramp have gates that actually close. As of now, cinder blocks with chains attached to orange traffic cones are what's in place.
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TAMPA, Fla. — Warning: The following story contains mentions of domestic violence.
Just three days after Tampa police say a man stabbed the mother of his children 13 times and led them on a chase that ended in a deadly shootout – the woman he left to die is sharing her story.
Police say Michael Bresnahan stabbed his wife Crystal in front of their three boys then dropped off the kids at his brother's home and took his brother's AK-47.
He then led police on a chase for miles before crashing his car and getting into a shootout. Police say he died after turning the gun on himself despite 18 officers firing back at him. An autopsy is still pending.
Speaking exclusively to 10 Tampa Bay's Angelina Salcedo, Crystal says she wasn't aware of her husband's actions after the stabbing until an officer told her.
Hearing Crystal's story isn't easy. The 29-year-old mom is still at Tampa General Hospital after undergoing several surgeries.
She's a miracle and brave enough to share her story. She says she never spoke out about the abuse she was going through until things escalated in April.
An incident happened in April that led to Crystal needing stitches on her face. She opened up to a close friend and coworker who then told her boss. That started her journey to have the courage to leave the situation she'd been in for eight years.
She's sharing her story now knowing it could save someone's life.
"I could not die there. I couldn't die like that. It couldn't be the last time my boys saw me," Crystal said over Zoom from her hospital bed.
She fought for her kids and told herself she wouldn't let him get her into the car. She says she was afraid he would torture her. On July 8, she made the decision to leave the home they shared and take the kids to a domestic abuse shelter. Once Michael found out they had left, Crystal says he wanted his family back.
"I don't think I'll ever forget my son's voice that day because as my husband was stabbing me in that front seat, he was saying, 'Dad, please stop! You're gonna kill mom!' He was a foot away from me and he was watching all of it," she said.
Now Crystal can't forget their reaction or their little voices. It's a shock and pain that the young mother isn't sure she's fully processed. Her husband of eight years was stabbing her down the street from the domestic violence shelter where she ran to protect her life.
"I was so scared of this man that I took my children and I ran to a shelter. He asked me if he could take the kids to the park that day. I said it would be fine," she said. "When he came to pick them up, he wanted to know if I would ever take him back. I've been telling him this whole time, you know, no, but I guess it hit different on Monday."
Michael Bresnahan acted out in a way Crystal hadn't seen before. He tried to take her phone and told her the best thing she could do is not scream and get in the car.
"The minute that I touch my son's face and go to put my lips on him, I feel the knife in my back. He didn't stab me yet, he was just poking me. He was reaching for my phone. I fought like hell not to get in that car," Crystal said.
Surveillance video obtained by 10 Tampa Bay from a nearby home caught her screams. It captured several cars and trucks passing by while the stabbing was happening.
"He was banging my head on the sides of the door, the doorframe. He was trying to knock me out so that he could easily put me in the car. When he stabbed me I thought I had been punched in the stomach. I looked down and saw blood gushing out. I looked up at his face and he just kept stabbing me," Crystal said.
He stabbed her over a dozen times. Crystal says she has 18 wounds all on her stomach, legs, one of her arms and back.
From her hospital bed, Crystal says she's been given a second chance at life. Despite the incident that almost took her life, she says she never intended for her kids to be without their father.
"Even though he stabbed me almost 20 times and left me for dead, it still breaks my heart that he did that to himself and that he was about to try to hurt so many more other people," Crystal said.
Now her focus is on her kids. She's fighting to get them back after Michael's family filed an emergency injunction to get custody. She says they won't let her speak with them and she's waiting to tell them "Mom is okay."
"I want to wrap them up and want to make sure they're okay because I know they're not. They don't have their dad or me now," Crystal said.
While she waits to talk to them, Crystal is also fighting for anyone else who might be in her position, because they aren't alone.
"I want to help people get out. I don't want anyone to ever go through what I went through. Please get out and don't look back. No matter how nice they're being don't trust. Just don't trust," she said.
Moving forward Crystal can't work due to her being in the hospital, but her children still have needs and she'll have medical bills to pay. Her family says she no longer has a vehicle because of the incident and she also needs a place to live for her and her children.
They've started a GoFundMe to support them during this time if you'd like to help.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, there are resources available. You can call the National Domestic Violence hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or the Florida hotline at 1-800-500-1119.
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Authorities in an area west of the Kenosha County Courthouse following a "critical incident" that occurred as Pleasant Prairie Police were tak…
A man died after suffering an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound while being transported to the Kenosha County jail, according to the Pleasant Prairie Police Department late Thursday.
At about 3:46 p.m., officers arrested the man for weapons related offenses, according to a Pleasant Prairie Police Department statement. The man was being transported to the Kenosha jail for criminal charges by two Pleasant Prairie Police officers. While driving the squad on Sheridan Road near the entrance of the Kenosha County Jail at 54th Street, officers heard a gunshot from the backseat prisoner portion of the squad.
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Preliminary information indicates the man in custody suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a concealed weapon not located in the initial search by officers. Life saving measures were attempted, however the man in custody was pronounced dead at the scene.
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As required by Wisconsin State Statute 175.47, the incident will be investigated by an outside law enforcement agency, according police. The Racine County Sheriff’s Office is conducting this investigation with the full cooperation of our Department as we are committed to full transparency, according to the statement.
"Our thoughts are with all law enforcement personnel involved with this incident and the decedent’s family during this tragic time," according to the statement. "We wish to thank the public for their continued support, and we ask for your patience and understanding while this matter is under investigation."
Kenosha County Sheriff's Department and the Kenosha Police Department were also called to assist. The county medical examiner was later summoned to the scene.
Authorities blocked the area at Sheridan Road at 54th Street for about six hours but have since cleared the scene.
Mugshots: Kenosha County criminal complaints from July 13-14
Onwar D. Albright
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Onwar D. Albright, 30, of Kenosha, faces chares of contempt of court (disobey order), disorderly conduct, stalking resulting in bodily harm, second degree sexual assault/use of force, criminal damage to property, and second degree recklessly endangering safety.
Billie James Chomicki III
Billie James Chomicki III, 30, of Pleasant Prairie, faces charges of possession with intent to deliver cocaine (between 1-5 grams), and bail jumping.
Rebecca A. Farrar
Rebecca A. Farrar, 43, of New Auburn, faces charges of harboring or aiding a felon, and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Amir Chakafrancis Furlow
Amir Chakafrancis Furlow, 34, of Kenosha, faces charges of probation and parole, vehicle operator flee or elude an officer, possession with intent to deliver narcotic, possession with intent to deliver heroin (less than 3 grams), possession with intent to deliver designer drugs (between 3-10 grams), and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Sam Tomas Jimenez
Sam Tomas Jimenez, 34, of Kenosha, faces charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence (4th offense), and bail jumping.
Terence Quintell Majors
Terence Quintell Majors, 37, of Kenosha, faces charges of probation and parole.
Dionia O. Scott Jr.
Dionia O. Scott Jr., 28, of Racine, faces charges of probation and parole, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of THC (2nd+), and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Jonathan Allen Stinnette Jr.
Jonathan Allen Stinnette Jr., 18, of Winthrop, Illinois, faces charges of probation and parole.
Tymant Robert Travis
Tymant Robert Travis, 22, of Wisconsin, faces charges of battery or threat to judge/prosecutor/officer (aggravated assault).
Chaylen Terrell Wright
Chaylen Terrell Wright, 25, of Chicago, Illinois, faces charges of probation and parole, and resisting or obstructing an officer.
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AUSTIN, Texas — On Thursday, members of the Austin City Council approved two separate items to help address homelessness in the City.
The first plan enacted consists of a $20 million contract that will be divided among four groups to clean up encampments throughout Austin over the next five years.
The groups are Enterprise Professional Services, The ICCS Academy, Kyle Lawn Works and The Other Ones Foundation.
Max Moscoe, who is part of The Other Ones Foundation, explained that the group's role will be to offer people experiencing homelessness work through its Workforce First program. Anyone participating will earn $20 per hour and will be provided food and transportation to the work site.
The foundation also offers opportunities for unhoused people to be introduced to other resources and programs.
"We are happy to help people in encampments keep their space clean and never remove anything without their permission," said Moscoe.
The contract was set to be voted on in May, but was pulled from the agenda after council member Mackenzie Kelly (District 6) had questioned the credentials of one of the groups that was originally considered. That group was not part of the contract that was approved on Thursday.
Council members also moved forward with a plan that would convert the city-owned facility the Marshalling Yard - located on Airport Commerce Drive near the intersection of U.S. 183 and State Highway 71 in southeast Austin - into a temporary emergency shelter.
The new shelter will have 300 beds, which will be available for one year.
However, the new warehouse the City will use is behind a neighborhood, concerning some residents.
Zac Richard has a clear view of the facility from his front porch and said it is the best-case scenario for a bad situation.
"I don't believe it's actually going to have any greater negative impact than what we're already seeing," said Richard. "The homeless people are here. I mean, they're already in close proximity. There's not much that can be done other than give them an established place to actually shelter."
Austin's Homeless Strategy Officer explained that there is currently only one bed available for every five people experiencing homelessness in Austin.
The new emergency shelter is set to open on Aug. 1.
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A police sergeant in a New York City suburb has been indicted on federal civil rights charges, accused of using his stun gun multiple times on a handcuffed man in mental crisis who was being involuntarily taken for medical treatment, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Sgt. Mario Stewart, a commander on the force in Mount Vernon, fired his Taser at the man seven times in two minutes, according to the indictment. He is charged with violating the person’s constitutional rights by using excessive force.
“Stewart’s alleged conduct not only betrayed his duty as an officer to protect those under his charge but also violated the law,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said.
Kevin Conway, Stewart’s attorney, said his client was doing his duty and did not violate anyone's rights or commit a crime.
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“He merely was discharging his duty in responding to a mental health call for an individual who was in an agitated mental and physical state,” Conway said.
The sergeant and other officers were dispatched to a parking lot in March of 2019 to assist a man who was partially naked and appeared to be in distress.
Stewart, who was the supervisor at the scene, gave an order for the man to be handcuffed and taken down to the ground. Officers then tried to put him in a “restraint bag” for transportation. But they were only able to get it partially in place, according to the indictment, because the man was clinging to a strap on the side of the sack.
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Stewart told the man to let go, and when he didn't, fired his stun gun repeatedly, prosecutors said.
At the time, the man was on the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back and his legs secured in the bag.
Conway said emergency medical personnel had unsuccessfully tried to get the man to agree to be transported for care, and Stewart had no choice but to use nonlethal means.
Stewart, of Brooklyn, pleaded not guilty at an appearance before a federal judge in White Plains on Thursday and was released on a personal bond, the lawyer said.
In a statement, the administration of Mount Vernon Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard, who took office several months after the incident, said “the alleged conduct predicating the Department of Justice’s charges is abhorrent and erodes the public’s trust in the hard-working men and women of the Mount Vernon Police Department.”
Mount Vernon is about 15 miles (20 kilometers) north of midtown Manhattan.
Emails seeking comment were sent to the police department and the police union.
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Police say a pair of thieves posing as federal agents managed to steal tens of thousands of dollars in luxury items and cash from a couple in Queens over the weekend.
The police department released surveillance footage on Thursday of the two suspects wanted in Sunday's brazen robbery in hopes of stopping the thieves before they potentially strike again.
The suspects reportedly pretended to be FBI agents when they pulled up in a Porsche to the Queens residence near Main Street and Elder Avenue. They stepped out wearing suits and displayed guns at their waistbands, police said.
Police said the victims, a 25-year-old man and 31-year-old woman, had just returned home when they were approached by the men in disguise. The thieves turned violent and tased the couple before tying them up.
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In total, police said the armed thieves got away with the couple's Mercedes, $20,000 in cash, $20,000 in cryptocurrency, a Rolex and a number of designer bags.
The thieves drove off in the Porsche and Mercedes.
Police urges anyone who has information regarding the case to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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3 suspects have pleaded guilty to Egypt Covington's death
The three men charged in connection with the slaying of Egypt Covington in 2017 have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, Michigan State Police announced Thursday.
Shandon Ray Groom and Timothy Moore, both of Toledo, had been slated to face a trial this month. But Moore entered his guilty plea Thursday, and Groom did so on July 14, Wayne County Circuit Court records show.
Both are scheduled for sentencing on Oct. 5 before Judge Wanda Evans.
A third man charged, Shane Lamar Evans of Sumpter Township, pleaded guilty in April. He was sentenced the following month to 15-25 years in prison.
"The investigation has revealed that there are no other living persons that are responsible for her death," Michigan State Police said in a statement Thursday on Twitter.
Special Investigation Section detectives were investigating another possible suspect, "however that suspect was shot and killed in another incident in Toledo, Ohio."
"It is through the persistent work of the Second District SIS detectives that Egypt’s family can now have a small piece of closure," MSP said.
Covington, 27, was found June 23, 2017, bound and shot to death in her home on Hull Road in Van Buren Township. She was a singer and worked as an account manager for a wine and beer distributor. She was last seen alive the day before her body was discovered.
"The lengthy investigation involved electronic data multiple witness interviews, and covered multiple states," MSP tweeted Thursday. "The investigation revealed Moore and Groom were alerted by Evans of a residence which may contain marijuana. The suspects were led to a duplex by Shane Evans for the purpose of a robbery. Moore and Groom entered Egypt’s residence, instead of the neighboring residence, which was supposed to contain the marijuana."
All three suspects were arrested in 2020.
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BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) denied Colorado Parks and Wildlife's (CPW) request to use the Gem State as a resource to reintroduce gray wolves back into Colorado.
IDFG officially denied the request in consultation with Idaho Gov. Brad Little through a letter addressed to CPW Director Jeff Davis.
"Idaho respects that decisions regarding what's best for the State of Colorado should be made by the people of Colorado," Davis wrote in the letter dated June 6.
Colorado voters approved Proposition 114 in 2020 behind 50.9% support. The measure requires the state to create a plan to reintroduce gray wolves to Colorado by the end of the 2023 calendar year.
KUSA reported CPW is required to obtain about 30 to 50 wolves over three to five years -- CPW made formal requests to multiple states.
"You can't go to the supermarket to buy wolves. So, they're asking other states to basically provide them wolves for their relocation," IDFG Public Information Specialist Roger Phillips said. "We know that wolves are polarized throughout the west. We don't really want to further contribute to that polarization."
Since 2014, wolves in Idaho have killed nearly 1,300 livestock from roughly 300 different livestock producers. U.S. Fish and Wildlife reintroduced gray wolves to Idaho in 1995 without state support, according to Phillips. IDFG has learned firsthand how difficult it is to manage a wolf population.
"Wolves that came into Idaho quickly spread into neighboring states, particularly Oregon and Washington, and now they're as far as central California," Phillips said. "So, giving wolves to Colorado isn't necessarily giving wolves to Colorado. They could end up in their neighboring states as well that did not ask for them."
Fourth generation Coloradoan rancher Janie VanWinkle opposes translocating gray wolves. She runs a 600 head herd.
"Wolf advocates are as passionate about this issue as the livestock producers, the cattlemen and women in Colorado," VanWinkle said. "But that was a couple million people ago that wolves were here, and the landscape is different now."
Idaho's gray wolf population was delisted from the endangered species list in 2015, according to IDFG's letter to CPW. That allows Idaho state agencies, such as IDFG, to manage and regulate the population in place of the federal government.
Lawsuits regarding wolves are regular, according to Phillips. IDFG in concerned translocating wolves to Colorado could result in a lawsuit that ends with Idaho losing their state control.
"One of the things that litigants frequently asked for is that all wolves throughout the country go under federal protection, which obviously would affect Idaho wolves as well," Phillips said. "So, we kind of don't want to contribute to another situation where, you know, there's a court case that we that we don't have any control over."
IDFG announced in May roughly 1,300 wolves exist in the Gem State; by 2028, the agency wants to reduce the population to 500.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — A 9-year-old child was killed after a multi-car crash along Highway 50 Thursday evening in Sacramento.
The crash happened just west of 59th Street on westbound Highway 50.
A spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol said there appeared to be three to four vehicles involved in the crash. One of the cars veered off to the right, flipped over and landed on its roof.
A nine-year-old boy was killed in the crash. A CHP spokesperson said the initial investigation suggests the child was not wearing a seatbelt.
It's not known whether DUI is suspected in the crash.
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BUCKEYE, Ariz — It was Marg Burg's 90th birthday on Thursday and she had a single mission:
“I’m gonna jump out of a plane,” she said.
Gearing up and taking instruction from her jumping instructor at Skydive Buckeye, Marge told 12News she got her inspiration from a former president.
“Well, I saw George Bush Jr. do it when he was 90. And I thought, 'well, if he can do it, I can.' I never thought I'd ever reach 90, you know?" Marg said. "But here I am. I'm gonna do it!"
With her family down below, Marg made the 14,000-foot descent to the drop point and safely landed near the Skydive Buckeye facility.
"I'm excited for her. Yeah. Very excited," said Marg's daughter Brenda Omahan. "She makes every day count. And we all love Mom very much. And I wish all my siblings could be here, but I'm representing mom."
Marg told 12News how it was jumping out of a plane at 90.
“It was wonderful, just wonderful," she said, "like I was a bird. It was exciting to see everything from up there, just wonderful.”
All of us at 12News wish Marg a very happy birthday!
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Authorities in an area west of the Kenosha County Courthouse following a "critical incident" that occurred as Pleasant Prairie Police were tak…
A man died after suffering an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound while being transported to the Kenosha County jail, according to the Pleasant Prairie Police Department late Thursday.
At about 3:46 p.m., officers arrested the man for weapons related offenses, according to a Pleasant Prairie Police Department statement. The man was being transported to the Kenosha jail for criminal charges by two Pleasant Prairie Police officers. While driving the squad on Sheridan Road near the entrance of the Kenosha County Jail at 54th Street, officers heard a gunshot from the backseat prisoner portion of the squad.
Authorities from multiple Kenosha County jurisdictions surround the area outside 54th Street and Sheridan Road that occurred as Pleasant Prair…
Preliminary information indicates the man in custody suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a concealed weapon not located in the initial search by officers. Life saving measures were attempted, however the man in custody was pronounced dead at the scene.
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As required by Wisconsin State Statute 175.47, the incident will be investigated by an outside law enforcement agency, according police. The Racine County Sheriff’s Office is conducting this investigation with the full cooperation of our Department as we are committed to full transparency, according to the statement.
"Our thoughts are with all law enforcement personnel involved with this incident and the decedent’s family during this tragic time," according to the statement. "We wish to thank the public for their continued support, and we ask for your patience and understanding while this matter is under investigation."
Kenosha County Sheriff's Department and the Kenosha Police Department were also called to assist. The county medical examiner was later summoned to the scene.
Authorities blocked the area at Sheridan Road at 54th Street for about six hours but have since cleared the scene.
Mugshots: Kenosha County criminal complaints from July 13-14
Onwar D. Albright
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Onwar D. Albright, 30, of Kenosha, faces chares of contempt of court (disobey order), disorderly conduct, stalking resulting in bodily harm, second degree sexual assault/use of force, criminal damage to property, and second degree recklessly endangering safety.
Billie James Chomicki III
Billie James Chomicki III, 30, of Pleasant Prairie, faces charges of possession with intent to deliver cocaine (between 1-5 grams), and bail jumping.
Rebecca A. Farrar
Rebecca A. Farrar, 43, of New Auburn, faces charges of harboring or aiding a felon, and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Amir Chakafrancis Furlow
Amir Chakafrancis Furlow, 34, of Kenosha, faces charges of probation and parole, vehicle operator flee or elude an officer, possession with intent to deliver narcotic, possession with intent to deliver heroin (less than 3 grams), possession with intent to deliver designer drugs (between 3-10 grams), and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Sam Tomas Jimenez
Sam Tomas Jimenez, 34, of Kenosha, faces charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence (4th offense), and bail jumping.
Terence Quintell Majors
Terence Quintell Majors, 37, of Kenosha, faces charges of probation and parole.
Dionia O. Scott Jr.
Dionia O. Scott Jr., 28, of Racine, faces charges of probation and parole, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of THC (2nd+), and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Jonathan Allen Stinnette Jr.
Jonathan Allen Stinnette Jr., 18, of Winthrop, Illinois, faces charges of probation and parole.
Tymant Robert Travis
Tymant Robert Travis, 22, of Wisconsin, faces charges of battery or threat to judge/prosecutor/officer (aggravated assault).
Chaylen Terrell Wright
Chaylen Terrell Wright, 25, of Chicago, Illinois, faces charges of probation and parole, and resisting or obstructing an officer.
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Sheriff: One person missing after structure fire on Dersch Road in Shasta County
Authorities are searching for an individual who they say cannot be found after structure fire on Dersch Road earlier Thursday afternoon.
The fire in the 26000 block of Dersch Road was reported at about 1 p.m.
Crews responding reported that the structure was fully engulfed, and the flames were spreading to surrounding vegetation.
Ultimately, firefighters contained the fire.
But a Shasta County Arson Task Force’s press release said that one person remains unaccounted for.
The press release did not say what caused the fire.
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4 huge blockbuster movies are currently on pause in the pre-production phase due to the ongoing SAG strike in Hollywood. While thousands of screenwriters have been on the picket lines since May, more than 160,000 actors have since joined their cause. Screen performers, represented by the SAG…
“Midnight Cowboy,” somewhat surprisingly, won the Academy Award for best picture in 1969, an acknowledgment of director John Schlesinger’s groundbreaking film that the documentary “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy” argues reflects the cultural upheaval and New York City of its time.
“Desperate Souls,” which is based on Glenn Frankel’s 2021 book “Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation and the Making of a Dark Classic,” doesn’t make its argument via a standard “making of” approach.
Rather, director Nancy Buirski marshals testimony from the film’s actors, most notably star Jon Voight, along with Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban and Jennifer Salt (also the daughter of screenwriter Waldo Salt), uses audio recordings of Schlesinger and co-star Dustin Hoffman, and gathers footage from films and news reports to make her case.
And she does so persuasively, exploring the picture’s realism — which hadn’t yet fully come to American cinema — its depiction of sex and gay life, its connection to the Vietnam War, its twist on the Cowboy Western and briefly the Andy Warhol art scene.
A string of writers, including Charles Kaiser, author of “The Gay Metropolis," and critics Lucy Sante and J. Hoberman provide the glue that holds the film together, providing both historical context and observations that make the central point that, regardless of its intent, “Midnight Cowboy” captures its time and the culture more honestly and effectively than, say, the musicals and pictures like “True Grit,” which filled theaters in 1969.
“True Grit” yielded the best actor Oscar winner in John Wayne, who took the statuette over the portrayals of Voight as hustler Joe Buck and Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo — an obvious contrast between the conservatism represented by The Duke and the free, new liberating world of “Midnight Cowboy.”
But that world was also dark, literally, set in crumbling, crime-ridden New York City, and metaphorically, where its seemingly doomed characters have to try to survive, and figuratively, reflecting the strife of a country being torn apart by war and civil unrest.
“Desperate Souls” acknowledges that much of what it finds to be representative of the film’s time, like its depiction of gay street life and its dissection of grimy New York, came only in service to its story, which, at its heart, is a tender tale of male friendship, then rarely depicted.
There’s no requirement that viewers need to have seen “Midnight Cowboy” to get the basic message of “Desperate Souls.” But having seen it and knowing at least something about it certainly helps in understanding and fills in some of the documentary’s blanks.
The fact that “Desperate Souls” exists at all perhaps makes the best case for its central argument — that “Midnight Cowboy” is so relevant to its time and place and the changes that continue to reverberate through the culture that it needs to be reexamined 54 years after its release.
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Desperate Souls
Grade: B.
Director: Nancy Buirski.
With: Bob Balaban, Michael Childers, Brian De Palma, J. Hoberman, Adam Holender, Charles Kaiser, Jennifer Salt.
Rated: Not rated.
Running Time: 1 hour, 41 minutes.
Now Showing: Ross.
The Reel Story: This documentary argues that "Midnight Cowboy" reflects the cultural upheaval of its times and realistically depicts New York City of the late ’60s through testimony from the film's actors, critics and footage from the film and TV.
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Sarasota Babe Ruth 14s lose first game of Southeast Regional before rallying to win second
SARASOTA - In winning the Florida state title, the Sarasota Babe Ruth 14 All-Stars had to emerge from the losers’ bracket.
Head coach Scooter Gennett’s team knows all about must-win situations.
After two games of the Southeast Regional, Sarasota finds itself back in that same scenario.
Forced to play two games on Thursday due to Wednesday’s rain postponement, the 14s dropped their opening game to host Lawrenceburg Tennessee, 11-4, before rallying to defeat Marshall Co., 13-5, on Thursday night.
Sarasota (1-1) plays 2-0 Tallahassee on Friday at 12:30 p.m. before closing out the tourney on Saturday against Greenville (1-1) at 12:30 p.m. The mission of Gennett’s club is clear.
“We got to win out,” he said, “no matter what.”
In the event three teams finish the tourney with identical 3-1 records, the one having allowed the fewest runs will advance to the Babe Ruth World Series. Sarasota has allowed 16 runs after two games, Lawrenceburg 10, Greenville seven, and Tallahassee six.
Playing Lawrenceburg at 10 a.m., Sarasota jumped out to a 2-0 lead when walks and sloppy play in the field allowed the hosts to take a two-run lead before expanding it late in the game.
The difference for Sarasota in the two games?
“We hit the ball hard in the first game, we just couldn’t find holes,” Gennett said. “This game, they were playing just a little looser. We had a little talk - ‘Just play your game. It’ll come. They’ll start falling’ and then we throw a nine-spot inning out there. That’s our capability, but not pressing and not forcing it. Just letting it happen. Especially at their age, they just got to get their feet wet a little bit. Get comfortable.”
Against Marshall Co., Sarasota took a 4-0 lead, then saw the visitors on the scoreboard plate five runs in the top of the fifth inning for a 5-4 lead. But Gennett’s club exploded for nine runs in the bottom of the frame for a 13-5 lead. The game was halted in the bottom of the sixth due to lightning.
Sarasota finished the game with 13 hits. Center fielder JD James had two doubles among his three hits, scored two runs and drove in one. First baseman Braden MacKay had three hits, two of them doubles, drove in three runs and scored two. Catcher Nelson Dominguez had a double among his three hits, scored one and knocked in two.
Outfielder Davin Davidson had a double, single, scored a run and drove in one. And second baseman Olivia Lockhart had a single and scored twice. Sarasota got a fine performance from starter Jackson Pennella, who pitched the first three innings, allowing one hit with six strikeouts. He was followed by Hudson Peluso and Cooper Madden, the latter getting the victory.
Friday against Tallahassee, Gennett will send ace James to the mound. Sarasota’s loss to Lawrenceburg means it no longer controls its own destiny.
“Yeah, for sure,” Gennett said. “All we can do is win the next game, but it’s unfortunate. We’re definitely better than (Lawrenceburg), but they ended up winning. It’s baseball at the end of the day.”
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Nearly 10% of Ohio’s kindergarteners — more than 12,000 children — were missing at least one required dose or had no immunization record on file during the past school year, the Ohio Department of Health said during a press conference Thursday.
“Despite the volumes of data that assure us that vaccines are safe and effective, too many of our children continue to suffer from some very serious vaccine preventable childhood illnesses — illnesses that some might mistakenly think are just a part of the past,” said Bruce Vanderhoff, director of the Ohio Department of Health said Thursday.
Required immunizations for school in Ohio protect children against 10 preventable diseases, including diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox) and meningitis.
During the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years, immunizations dropped, Vanderhoff said, though some of those delays in childhood vaccination schedules could have been due to missed well-child doctor visits during the pandemic.
Even though vaccinations started to pick back up during the last school year, the state still experienced a measles outbreak impacting 85 children, mostly in central Ohio. About 40% of the impacted children had to be hospitalized, Vanderhoff said. There were no deaths from this outbreak.
“This is a bad illness, particularly for very young children,” Vanderhoff said.
Vanderhoff addressed the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and its debunked link to autism, saying the study this myth stemmed from approximately 25 years ago was disproven and retracted in its original publication, the Lancet. An investigation found the authors of the study “had acted unethically and had shown callous disregard for the children involved in their study,” Vanderhoff said.
“The fact is that vaccines substantially reduce your risk of developing numerous serious illnesses and are very practical and very important health interventions that we all can trust,” Vanderhoff said.
If you do not have health insurance, the Vaccines for Children program is a federally-funded program overseen by CDC and administered in Ohio by the Ohio Department of Health. The Vaccines for Children program supplies vaccine at no cost to public and private health care providers who enroll and agree to immunize eligible children in their medical practice or clinic. Health Care Providers interested in enrolling in the program should contact the Ohio Department of Health Immunization Program at 1-800-282-0546.
On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a vaccine, Beyfortus, for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract disease in infants born during or entering their first RSV season, as well as in children up to 24 months of age who remain vulnerable to severe RSV disease through their second RSV season.
“RSV can cause serious disease in infants and some children and results in a large number of emergency department and physician office visits each year,” said Dr. John Farley, director of the Office of Infectious Diseases in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “Today’s approval addresses the great need for products to help reduce the impact of RSV disease on children, families and the health care system.”
Health providers are expected to receive advice from the Centers for Disease Control’s advisory committee on immunization practices with this new vaccine sometime in August, Vanderhoff said.
“RSV is a serious respiratory virus that flared up in near record numbers last fall here in Ohio and which nationally is the leading cause of hospitalization in infants under one year of age,” Vanderhoff said.
Parents should talk with their children’s doctors and health providers if they have hesitancy toward any of the required immunizations for school, said Dr. Douglas Harley, president of the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians.
“We encourage developing those relationships with patients because that’s how you build trust,” Harley said.
With measles specifically, worldwide, there 36 cases of measles per 1 million persons reported each year and about 134,200 die. For every 1,000 children who get measles, one or two will die from it, according to the CDC.
“I think we have to play the odds, and the odds are definitely in our favor with vaccines,” Harley said.
Other safety concerns should be taken into consideration ahead of school time, including making sure children have a safe route to school and protective gear if they bike to school.
“Parents should practice the walk or the bike ride to school or going to the bus stop before that first day of school,” Vanderhoff said.
Parents should also have conversations about the risks from vaping with their children, said Dr. Sara M. Bode, a primary care pediatrician and medical director of Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s School-Based Health Services. About one in four teens and one in 10 middle school children have already tried vaping, she said.
“Vaping is on the rise in kids. It’s an issue we take very seriously and discuss at each and every visit with our teens and with families,” Bode said. “Kids are exposed to a lot these days, and we have to have these conversations.”
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$3.6 million going to Montana tribes to improve highway safety
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced Thursday that it has authorized $20.9 million in grant awards for 88 tribal projects to reduce roadway fatalities and serious injuries on tribal lands. The grants from the Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund include $3.6 million in construction funds for nine projects in Montana to improve travel safety on five of the state’s seven Indian Reservations.
“The crisis of traffic deaths on our nation’s roads stretches across the country, and that devastation is experienced at even higher rates in communities of Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and other indigenous peoples,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in a news release on Wednesday. “The grants we are announcing today through our Tribal Transportation Program will improve, repair, and modernize infrastructure in communities of all sizes on tribal land, making roads safer and saving lives.”
A recent report from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on roadway safety found that of the communities in the top 20% of roadway fatalities nationally, nearly half are “historically disadvantaged,” which, according to DOT, includes tribal lands.
Southern Montana’s Northern Cheyenne Reservation will receive nearly 40% of the state’s share of Tribal Transportation Program grants. Roughly $1.4 million will go to build a multi-use pedestrian pathway leading from the outlying tribal community of Muddy Cluster into Lame Deer, the Northern Cheyenne community's largest town. That grant will also make safety improvements to BIA Route 2.
Closer to Great Falls the Chippewa/Cree people of the Rocky Boy Reservation southwest of Havre will receive nearly $790,000 to build a similar multi-use pedestrian pathway from the community of Middle Dry Fork Village to the Rocky Boy Health Center in Box Elder, and to install striping and rumble strips on the main road bisecting the reservation from east to west.
According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) four counties in Montana have a roadway fatality rate higher than the national average, and each of those four overlaps with Native American reservation lands. “The grants we’re announcing today will improve the lives of everyone who lives and travels on tribal lands,” said Federal Highway Administrator Shailen Bhatt. “We’re pleased to provide funding that can help tribes install roadway departure countermeasures and infrastructure improvements like road shoulder widening as well as pedestrian paths to make travel for all road users safer while improving mobility, access, and economic opportunity.”
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There will be a pleasant easing of the humidity across metro Richmond this weekend. NFL training camps have opened. We are losing 90 seconds of daylight each day. Fall is coming.
But there is plenty of summer ahead of us. The sun still gets high in the sky, and average high temperatures remain in the 80s until the middle of September.
So far, this summer has been remarkably close to average Virginia. True, there have been spells of localized intense rain, like what happened last week across Lynchburg, where 8 to 10 inches of rain fell in four days, swelling the James River from the Hill City to Richmond.
But overall, rainfall has been near normal statewide this summer, as there have been drier spots in Virginia’s northern counties to counteract some of the heavier rain across the middle of the state. In fact, the only part of the state in a moderate drought is north of the Rappahannock River.
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Richmond has had 7.16 inches of rain since June 1, about a quarter-inch above the average of the last 100 years during this time.
Of course, there are small but significant differences in rain totals around any metropolitan area during the summer. Amounts south of the James are a little higher, with 8 to 9 inches more common from Chester to Midlothian.
For sure, it has been seasonally hot, but not too much hotter than normal. Richmond has not reached 95 degrees yet this summer, only five degrees above normal during the peak of summer.
Usually, Richmond hits 95 at least once during the summer, with the average first occurrence on June 16. On occasion, we go through a full summer without getting that hot. It has happened 10 times since 1897 — the last time was in 2004.
Through July 19, the average temperature in Richmond this summer has been 75.8 degrees, just 0.1 degree below the average over the last 100 years.
If it seems cool, it’s because every summer since 2010 to this point has been above that average.
Although the core of the heat nationally will hold west of the Plains in the next couple of weeks, a sliver of it will break east and move into Virginia toward the end of next week. This means the period from Thursday through Sunday will probably be the hottest stretch so far this season, heading above the 95-degree level at least once.
But unlike the prolonged, torrid heat in the West this summer, it will last only for a few days before we return to the general pattern we’ve been in for most of the summer. The outlook for August is for a seasonably hot and humid period with a healthy scattering of showers and thunderstorms, which would keep us away from a late-summer drought.
Getting through a Virginia summer without a drought or a serious heat wave is a good thing, especially as summers continue to heat up in the warming climate. But as a caution, that also brings an increase in humidity and the potential of heavier rain, just like what happened in Lynchburg last week.
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GREENSBORO — Four people were shot Thursday night shortly before 7:45 p.m. in the 1900 block of Brice Street, Greensboro police said in a news release.
Two gunshot victims were taken by ambulance to a local hospital, and two more gunshot victims arrived by private vehicle, police said.
Police are not releasing any other details at this time.
The violence comes amid calls by local law enforcement officials and community leaders in the Triad to stop the shootings.
This week, the number of homicides in Greensboro reached 41 for 2023 — the total for all of 2022.
Authorities are asking anyone with information to contact Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000. Residents can also download the mobile P3tips app for Apple or Android phones to submit a mobile tip, or go to P3tips.com to submit a web tip. All tips to Crime Stoppers are anonymous.
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GREENSBORO — The average number of moves a foster child makes while in the custody of the Guilford County Department of Social Services is nearly triple that of the national rate, according to a state document released this week.
The information is included in a July 14 “corrective action plan” that the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services ordered the county DSS to follow.
The state agency issued the mandate after it reviewed the county department’s records following the deaths of three children in a December 2022 house fire. Among other things, the state determined DSS did not properly handle an open case involving the children’s mother, Brandi Sturdivant, who was later charged with three counts of negligent felony child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury.
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The final corrective action plan is a revised version of one submitted by the county in June. It addresses not only DSS assessments of the safety of children referred to Child Protective Services, but also how it handles agreements involving the children’s care and its relationship with foster families.
According to the document, kids under DSS care “experienced unnecessary moves that did not lead to permanence.”
The county’s human services director and social services director must review any “unplanned moves” under the corrective action plan.
Research has shown that children need consistency, predictability and attachment to a caring adult to thrive.
Over an unspecified 12-month period in which children entered DSS custody in Guilford, the state said they were moved on average 11.6 times per 1,000 days of foster care — just shy of every three months.
The national average is 4.1 times, or slightly more than eight months.
Though NCDHHS included the 11.6 and 4.1 figures in its approved plan, which is publicly posted on the county’s website, it took the state agency more than two days to define for the News & Record exactly what those numbers measured.
The state’s plan also found the county is failing when it comes to talking to its foster parents.
“(DSS) does not demonstrate transparency in communicating with foster parents” and “does not include foster parents in planning for permanency of the child in their home,” the plan says.
To help address this, the county is required to randomly select foster parents to interview so that it can be determined if the communication is clear and needs are being met.
Each month, NCDHHS also will review a sample of safety assessments to ensure they are adequate.
And DSS managers must also conduct random checks weekly to ensure social workers are getting appropriate oversight. The state notes that Guilford’s social worker ratio exceeded the state standard of 10 cases per worker.
At a news conference last month, Assistant County Manager Victor Isler said while DSS had a vacancy rate of about 35% last year, that figure had fallen to 3.3% after the county increased employee salaries.
The high vacancy rate forced supervisors to carry individual cases.
Much of the report requires additional training for the DSS staff, noting that required training for new staff and supervisors was delayed at the county agency. The plan requires the county to maintain a training log and include training as a goal in annual performance evaluations.
The report also noted NCDHHS did not provide timely “technical assistance” to supplement required training by county staff.
“Like most human services agencies, NCDHHS has experienced a workforce shortage,” a spokeswoman for the agency said in an email on Thursday. “This led to a delay in providing timely technical assistance to Guilford County.”
Reached for comment Thursday evening, Isler said the county is conducting a “root cause” analysis of the system to help determine how the problems might be addressed. He anticipates that process will take three months and said it will involve working with other partners, such as the court system and foster care agencies, who also are involved in planning and placement decisions.
He did not want to comment specifically about the report before that process occurs.
“We recognize that there is an explanation that needs to be shared with the community and I’m committed to that,” he said.
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Get to know Terry Fator, 'America's Got Talent'-winng ventriloquist bound for Ocean City
Life is all about laughter for famous ventriloquist, impressionist, standup comedian, singer and "America’s Got Talent" winner Terry Fator.
“I always knew I wanted to be an entertainer,” said Fator, who admitted to loving nothing more than being in front of a large crowd since he was a young boy.
And now, Fator and his cast of puppets are coming to Ocean City with a new version of his Las Vegas show, “Terry Fator: On the Road Again." The show will take place July 23 at 7 p.m. at the Ocean City Performing Arts Center, with doors opening at 6:15 p.m.
The upcoming show will feature comedy, modern songs from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's, comical musical parodies and Fator’s unique ventriloquism skills that made him a star.
The puppet “cast” includes audience favorites country superstar Walter T. Airdale, Vikki the Cougar, America’s first “quiet quitter” Duggie Scott Walker and Winston the Impersonating Turtle. Fator’s show is also said to feature a number of celebrity "guests," such as Elton John, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
Fator, who took the top prize in the season finale of season 2 of NBC’s "America’s Got Talent" in 2007, went through a variety of different styles of entertainment between the ages of 3 and 10, including singing, poetry, piano, magic — and even hypnosis.
Yet, it wasn’t until Fator stumbled upon a book about ventriloquism titled "Ventriloquism for Fun and Profit" by Paul Winchell, tucked on a shelf in his school’s library, that he finally found a craft he was utterly fascinated with.
“The main reason I went ahead and pursued (ventriloquism) was because I always loved to perform in the school talent show,” Fator, 58, said.
The school talent show was chock-full of magicians and singers, but ventriloquists were few and far between.
“I thought, ‘Well, you know, there’s not a ventriloquist so this will give me something totally different to do,' ” he said.
Fator, a mere 10 years old at the time, was determined to stand out.
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He checked out the library book, purchased his first ever puppet at Sear’s for a small price of $10, maybe $20, he said, and cooked up a comedic routine that incorporated José Jiménez, a fictional character created and performed by comedian Bill Dana, born William Szathmary.
Fator’s first puppet, a Willie Talk dummy which he paid for with money he amassed from babysitting, was straightforward, with a string used to open and close its mouth.
“By the time I was 11, I absolutely knew I wanted to be a professional ventriloquist and do that for a living,” he said.
His talent earned him countless certificates, plaques and ribbons throughout his childhood, all of which offered a great deal of encouragement for the up-and-coming ventriloquist.
Fator later received his first professional ventriloquist puppet at the age of 18. That puppet, who most know as Walter T. Airdale, is still used by Fator 40 years later, to this day.
"He's definitely my most special (puppet)," Fator said.
Puppetry was a way beyond the family business
According to the now-famous performer, his family operated a janitorial business, and a young Fator was not keen on spending his days scrubbing carpets or cleaning toilets. So, to pass the time spent emptying trash cans, Fator would practice his ventriloquism by repeating his ABC's and singing along to the radio without moving his lips.
“What kid wants to work in a janitorial business? I did not want to be doing that,” he admitted. “I don’t like physical labor; I like mental labor.”
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As a young boy, Fator’s imagination was simply bursting at the seams.
“If it was snowing, we would be on a quest in the Yukon,” Fator said of the imaginative scenarios he would concoct with his siblings. “I was very creative. I was always using my imagination to make the world around me a different and more entertaining place.”
Fator grew up in a very religious household strictly centered around fundamentalist beliefs. His father, whom Fator said was abusive, dreamed that one day, Fator would grow up to become an Evangelist or preacher.
“I tried. I really wanted to because I wanted to please him,” he said.
Fator never felt God’s call to become a preacher. However, as he grew older, he came to the sudden realization that he was an Evangelist — one of joy and laughter.
“I have a good friend who said, ‘If laugher is not present, God is not present,’ ” he said. “God created laughter; he created humor. And I just feel like, if I’m spreading joy and laughter and bringing people away from their problems, even if just for a little while, I think that’s a noble calling, I really do.”
Spectators often reach out to Fator following his shows, whether in-person or via letters in the mail, to thank him for the infectious laughter he has a knack for creating.
Fator was especially moved during one conversation with a fan.
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“There was one guy, a grizzled man who you could tell lived a very weathered life and had seen a lot in his lifetime,” Fator said. “He came up to me and shook my hand and tears started to roll down his cheeks. He said, ‘I was in Vietnam, and I was spit on when I got home. Tonight, when you asked us to stand, it was the first time since the early 1970s that I felt proud of my service and stood up. So, thank you for that.’ ”
Fator works closely with the United States military and first responders. According to Fator, 100% of the proceeds from the Terry Fator store go directly to the Terry Fator foundation, whose primary mission is to raise money to support military service members, veterans, first responders and their families through various nonprofit channels.
“I remember thinking, ‘When I’m older, if I get the chance, I’m going to do everything I can to make the people who serve our country and our communities feel proud,’ ” he said.
Ultimately, his craft is deeper than laughter, Fator said. It’s about making connections with those around him.
“I love to feel a connection with my audience. I love to feel their energy; to raise their energy; to know that, just for a little while, life is okay for them,” he said.
Everything changed with 'America's Got Talent'
After living a very much ordinary life, the ventriloquist’s experience on "America’s Got Talent" was simply surreal. It was a dream come true for the Dallas, Texas, native.
“All of a sudden, I’m on television and millions of people are watching me and rooting for me,” Fator said. “It was a grind. Especially when you get into the top 20 and top 10, they start you at 5 a.m. I spent a lot of time rehearsing. It was an unbelievably fun and grueling experience.”
The first time a fan recognized Fator out in public was an absolute rush, the performer shared.
“I suddenly went from obscurity to international fame,” he said.
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The puppet that Fator believes helped him pull out the win on the competition show is Winston the Impersonating Turtle.
“Let’s be honest, a turtle singing Roy Orbison is what won 'America’s Got Talent' for me,” Fator said. “I live in an unbelievable house in Vegas, many millions of dollars, and I call it ‘The House that the Turtle Built.’ ”
Fator’s experience on "America’s Got Talent" led him to being a headliner in Las Vegas for the last 17 years.
“I’m just having the time of my life,” he said. “I love it.”
Fator's puppets will always have a special place in his heart.
"They are an extension of me. There's a real connection between myself and the characters," he said. "We create, and we love the characters that we create."
Those interested in attending "Terry Fator: On the Road Again" to see Fator and his creative cast of characters live on-stage can purchase tickets here.
Olivia Minzola covers communities on the Lower Shore. Contact her with tips and story ideas at ominzola@delmarvanow.com.
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First responders were called to a house fire in Indiana Township, Allegheny County, early Friday morning.
The fire broke out before 2 a.m. along Indianola Road.
A Channel 11 photographer captured video of heavy smoke coming from the fire. It appeared as though a detached garage may have caught fire.
A 911 dispatcher said no injuries were reported
There’s no word yet on what caused the fire.
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Strong storms moved across the Pittsburgh region Thursday night, bringing heavy rain and lightning.
Though the severe weather has moved out of the area, areas of fog and lingering high water remain and thousands are still without power.
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We're monitoring thunderstorms and high winds expected this evening + crews are prepared to respond should outages occur. Keep this info handy! If you experience an outage due to the weather, don't rely on your neighbors to report it. Always let us know if you're without power ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/InWwekqEkW
— West Penn Power (@W_Penn_Power) July 20, 2023
Here are the outages reported by West Penn Power as of 5:40 a.m. Friday:
ALLEGHENY 157
ARMSTRONG 83
BUTLER 27
GREENE 638
MERCER 314
VENANGO 184
WASHINGTON 569
WESTMORELAND 1,619
For up-to-date outages, visit www.outages.firstenergy.com.
Here are the power outages reported by Duquesne Light:
Total Active Outages: 11
Total Customers Affected: 319
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Greenville ranked among top US cities for remote workers, internet speeds by Forbes
Nina Tran
Greenville News
When it comes to working remote, Greenville ranked No. 13 on the latest Forbes Advisor's report: The Best Cities For Remote Workers In 2023.
In addition, Greenville ranked No. 5 for having the best internet connectivity for remote workers, according to the press release. Greenville was just behind Spokane, Washington, Richmond, Virginia, Austin, Texas and Springfield, Massachusetts for best internet speeds and availability of Wi-Fi hotspots.
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The report based their conclusion off the following methodology using these 11 key metrics:
- 10%—Median household income, Census American Community Survey
- 10%—Worker Friendliness, Oxfam Best States to Work in America 2022
- 10%—Cost of Living, MIT Living Wage Calculator
- 10%—Unemployed Rate, Census American Community Survey
- 10%—Annual Taxes, Census American Community Survey
- 7%—Average Internet Download Speeds, HighSpeedInternet
- 7%—Number of Free Wi-Fi Hotspots, WiFiMap.io
- 9%—Arts and Entertainment Establishments per 100,000 businesses, Census County Business Patterns
- 9%—Food and Drink Establishments per 100,000 businesses, Census County Business Patterns
- 9%—Rent Affordability, MIT Living Wage Calculator
- 9%—Median Home Price, Census American Community Survey
Nina Tran covers trending topics for the Greenville News. Reach her via email at ntran@gannett.com
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Disability Rights Ohio, others concerned about changes in new state budget
More than 2.5 million Ohioans have a disability
- This year marks 33rd anniversary of Americans With Disabilities Act.
- July is National Disability Pride Month.
- An estimated 20% of Ohioans have a disability.
NORTH CANTON − Steve Pryce says he knows what it's like to be in need of support.
The North Canton man, who suffers from a mental-health disability, works for an Akron-based agency that helps people like himself. United Disability Services provides vocational programs to get those with disabilities ready for work.
"We also do packaging work," Pryce said.
Disability advocates contend the state's new budget contains a provision that could make it more difficult for people with disabilities to get assistance through Disability Rights Ohio.
Disability Rights Ohio, the state's federally and state-designated Protection and Advocacy System and client-assistance program, was created in 2012 following an investigation into the Willowbrook State School that uncovered inhumane and unethical treatment of people with disabilities. The probe led to the passage of the DD Act.
Advocates are worried that the provision will mean less autonomy, which would hamper their ability to serve clients, and believe it may be in violation of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 1975.
Pryce said he testified earlier this year before the the Ohio House on behalf of Disability Rights Ohio.
"Some people aren't happy with the work (Disability Rights Ohio) is doing but the people I work with are vulnerable and need a third-party protector," he said. "I don't think their voices would be heard as much. I don't think some would be as independent. I think they need advocacy and a third party to protect them."
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The agency's executive director, Kerstin Sjoberg, said the budget provision poses a challenge to disabled people's independence because it supports institutional settings at the potential expense of home-based and community-based services.
"We're concerned about the type of state interference with an organization that's supposed to be an independent advocate for disabled individuals," she said. "We think the state should focus on working collaboratively with us to remove the barriers and expand access. This conflicts with what disabled Ohioans, who direct our work, want and with the purpose of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 1975.
"While we applaud the General Assembly for increasing the wages of direct care workers, the inclusion of this requires (our agency) to adopt a policy that conflicts with our mission, vision, and federal law is not something that should be included. Rather, legislators should be working in collaboration with DRO to address barriers and expand opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities.”
The budget amendment was created by State Sen. Mark Romanchuck, R-Ontario. He couldn't be reached for comment for this story but told Hannah News Service that he sought the change because of DRO's practice of planning and discussing services with clients who have significant intellectual disabilities, without benefit of their parents or guardians present.
The amendment also authorizes the creation of a six-member legislative committee to examine the viability of DRO's operations. That committee, in turn, will publish a report of its findings for legislators, the governor and the state's Joint Medicaid Oversight Committee.
That the state may be re-embracing institutionalization is worrisome, Sjoberg said, adding that Disability Rights Ohio and other agencies unsuccessfully appealed to Gov. Mike DeWine to exercise a line-item veto.
"You need help in recovery"
“The U.S. Congress created the P&A system to operate independently of the states, and investigate and monitor facilities to protect the rights of individuals with disabilities,” she said. “DRO’s goal is to ensure that Ohioans with disabilities are free from abuse, neglect, and exploitation, and that their rights are protected. This amendment will directly interfere with DRO’s role as Ohio’s P&A system.
"We still have to figure out what the impact is going to be on us, but we want to make sure we don't anything that will interfere with our role as the protection advocacy system."
July marks National Disability Pride Month. Sjoberg urges Ohioans to educate themselves about disability rights. Approximately 2.5 million Ohioans, or 20% of the population has some form of disability, she said.
Pryce, who also has a brother with developmental disability, said it took two times before he was able to find the proper balance of treatment. He said he's been able to work steadily the last 20 years because of the recovery services available.
"It can be hard on the individual and the family," he said. "I was misguided. I thought if just worked hard, I could recover. I've found that the law is very important and that programs take steps. You need help in recovery; you need support. That's what I had more of the second time around. An agency like DRO can help."
Pryce said most people who have disabilities want to be independent.
"People are capable of more," he said. "I think the system needs to improve, but we've come a long way already. There's less stigma and more awareness."
Noting that this year marks the 33rd anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, Sjoberg said progress has been made - but with caveats.
"You generally have more physically-accessible places in public, and the amount of people that were in an institution in 1990 compared to today is huge progress," she said. "But when you look at other markers, how many people with disabilities are in school? There's no academic reason why they should be in social segregation. How many are in poverty? Those numbers haven't moved significantly."
Sjoberg said people who want to work but who need long-term or personal support services are often caught in a Catch-22.
"For someone that might be in need of that type of personal assistance, you have to be on Medicaid, and Medicaid has income and asset limits that are very difficult to work around," she said.
Reach Charita at 330-580-8313 or charita.goshay@cantonrep.com
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Enshrinement Week 2023: Cleveland Browns fans bring extra economic opportunity to Canton
- Browns fans are expected to be in full force in Canton for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Enshrinement Week this year.
- The Browns are playing in the Hall of Fame Game, and Browns legend Joe Thomas is being enshrined.
- Community leaders believe having visitors come to Canton from the Northeast Ohio region presents a unique economic opportunity.
CANTON ‒ Longtime Browns fan Kathy Halter expects the Dawg Pound to be in full force.
Halter, who serves as president of the North Canton Browns Backers, has seen a lot of chatter on social media from fans planning to come to the community for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Enshrinement Week.
"I think it's going to be massive Browns fans," she said.
With the Cleveland Browns playing in their first Pro Football Hall of Fame Game since 1999 and Browns legend Joe Thomas being enshrined as part of the Hall of Fame Class of 2023, many expect the Stark County region to be swimming in brown and orange. And with fans traveling to Canton from across Northeast Ohio, this year is a unique opportunity for the community to showcase everything it has to offer to visitors who live in the region and may return for future events.
Many Browns fans expected to come to Canton for Enshrinement Week
Rich Desrosiers, chief communications and content officer at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, said this year's festival could be one of the most well-attended ever. The Hall of Fame Game is expected to be a sellout, and the Enshrinement Ceremony is on pace to be the largest in history.
The Enshrinement Festival generates roughly $40 million for the Stark County region. It attracts more than 280,000 visitors to the area every year, according to a 2014 estimate from the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce.
"We're approaching that number now with three weeks left," Desrosiers said last week. "And we know the Enshrinement tends to be a little weather dependent ... so I do think if the weather is good and ideal, we'll get that last little push with the walkup crowd to probably push that to an official sellout."
Desrosiers said they expect plenty of Browns fans to come to town this year.
Richard Bailey, assistant professor of sport business at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, said it's common for fans of any sport to travel to a hall of fame to watch a popular player from their favorite team be enshrined. He believes a lot of Browns fans will make the roughly 60-mile trip from Cleveland to Canton for Enshrinement Week.
"With Joe Thomas just having retired a handful of years ago, with him having such a great reputation in Cleveland, I expect there will be quite a few people that will travel down here for the enshrinement ceremony and a variety of different events that are going on at the Hall of Fame Village," he said.
Thomas played left tackle for the Browns from 2007 to 2017.
"It's going to be a different year," Jerzee's Cafe general manager Sean Calhoun said. "With Joe Thomas kind of being the guy that he is and getting inducted as a first-ballot Hall of Famer, that's a really big deal for Ohio in general, especially the Northeast Ohio area."
Calhoun said the restaurant expects to get a good crowd, particularly with Canton's First Friday events also happening on Aug. 4.
Jessica Cooke, front desk supervisor at the DoubleTree by Hilton Canton Downtown, expects to see a lot of Browns fans in the downtown area.
"With the Browns actually being in the Hall of Fame Game, it'll be interesting to see that turnout," she said. "I'm sure it's going to be a madhouse, in a good way."
Enshrinement Week could introduce Canton restaurants, attractions to more Northeast Ohio residents
Visit Canton sees an opportunity for an exponential impact.
Canton has a chance to show off its food and entertainment offerings to residents of other Northeast Ohio communities who will hopefully have a positive experience and want to come back, Visit Canton Chief Marketing Officer Tonja Marshall said.
Bailey said he thinks recent developments at the Hall of Fame Village will draw more visitors from Northeast Ohio. The Village has added a number of restaurants and attractions over the last several months, including The Brew Kettle, Topgolf Swing Suite, Don Shula's American Kitchen and a giant Ferris wheel ride.
Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium has also hosted several high-profile concerts and comedy shows and served as a host site for the USFL's Pittsburgh Maulers and New Jersey Generals during the league's 2023 season.
"I think this is a unique opportunity to show a lot of people who may be a little closer to Cleveland there are unique entertainment options here," Bailey said. "Just thinking about some of the events they've had in the last few years with concerts, USFL, other things like that ... it packs a very powerful punch."
He predicts that as the Village continues to expand, more visitors will come to events like Enshrinement Week.
"I think it's going to revitalize the area a lot," he said.
Desrosiers said it's typical that fans of a particular team attend enshrinement events when one of their team's former players is being enshrined, but the Hall of Fame's overall goal is to make Enshrinement Week an event football fans want to see, no matter who is being honored.
He said the developments at the Village will give visitors things to do before and after the enshrinement. A lot of area families attend the Hall of Fame Game every year, and the Hall hopes to extend that to the rest of the week.
"We want to get that family tradition feel around the enshrinement as well," he said.
Reach Paige at 330-580-8577, pmbennett@gannett.com or on Twitter @paigembenn.
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Stark Library considers moving Sandy Valley Branch; no decision yet
- Stark Library is exploring the possibility of moving its Sandy Valley branch.
- No decisions have been made yet.
- Some patrons are concerned the move would take an important community resource away from the area.
CANTON – Stark Library is looking at the possibility of moving its Sandy Valley Branch, prompting concern from some patrons who want it to stay in its current location.
The library district's board of trustees has not made any decisions about the branch's future, and there is no timeline yet for when that will be.
"We are at the point where we are exploring other locations to locate a branch in Central Stark. We're not at the point of making any decisions about what that might be," Stark Library Communications Director Stephanie Cargill said.
The board consulted with Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative to evaluate patron engagement in the southern central part of the county. The library district previously worked with the group to assess its other branches as part of its multi-year Re | imagine renovation plan.
Following a presentation from Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative at its June meeting, the board authorized Fiscal Officer and Director of Facilities Chris Butler to enter into a task order agreement with HBM Architects to develop potential library site layouts and budget details pertaining to the Sandy Valley Branch and south central Stark County.
Cargill said the library's goal is for its branches to serve the largest number of patrons possible.
What's next for Stark Library's Sandy Valley Branch?
Assessing how the library serves South Central Stark County is part of the next stage of the district’s Re | imagine project. Stark Library remodeled its North, East Canton, Madge Youtz, Perry Sippo, DeHoff Memorial and Lake Community branches over the last several years and announced earlier this year a $54 million plan for a new Main Library and Operations Center in downtown Canton.
In a presentation to the board in June, the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative said the Sandy Valley branch has the lowest market penetration of all Stark Library branches and that moving to a more populated location in southern Stark could potentially increase usage.
According to the presentation, staff members said the current building has a good collection, plenty of storage space and a large meeting room. But they also said the branch is isolated, lacks visibility in the community and needs a larger area for teens.
The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative gave two suggestions for the future of library services in southern Stark: update the Sandy Valley location with enhanced signage, curb appeal and interior spaces or identify a new location for a modernized branch.
Some Sandy Valley patrons worry the potential move would take an important resource away from rural communities in the southern part of the county. The branch is located at 9754 Cleveland Ave. SE in Pike Township and primarily serves patrons from Magnolia, Waynesburg, the Canton South area, and some communities outside of Stark.
Jessica Miller: 'We shouldn't be punished and have our library taken away.'
Lifelong Magnolia resident Jessica Miller said she felt shocked and disappointed when she heard the branch could potentially be leaving the area.
"Just because we're south of Route 30 doesn't mean we're not part of Stark County," she said. "We chose to live in a more country, rural, less city-like area for a reason, but we shouldn't be punished and have our library taken away. I mean, we pay the same taxes (other residents) do."
During Tuesday's board of trustees meeting, Dianne Williams, who co-owns a business with her husband in East Sparta, said she attended Sandy Valley High School and now lives in the Canton South area. Although she would love to see a library come to the Canton South area, she said she thinks Sandy Valley needs it more, if there is only going to be one location in southern part of the county.
"I happen to know of many seniors and families that come to Sandy Valley for the internet access because they don't have internet access otherwise," Williams said. "They either don't have because they can't afford it or they don't have the resources for it or because, quite frankly, they don't have a reliable internet availability to get in their own homes."
Williams said that updating the Sandy Valley branch would help bring in more patrons. She said the district should renovate the library similar to its other branches and suggested adding more resources, such as toy rentals for children and financial planning classes for seniors.
Another woman said the library branch is crucial to low-income students in Sandy Valley schools.
Stark Library conducted patron survey
Stark Library has conducted a patron survey and held meetings with staff, community leaders and superintendents of the Canton Local and Sandy Valley school districts as part of the evaluation process, Cargill said.
The Main Library and the Sandy Valley Branch were the most commonly used libraries by the more than 170 survey respondents, according to the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative's presentation.
Sixty-four percent of patrons live within 10 minutes of their most frequented branch, and 91% live within 15 minutes. Half of the survey respondents said they would be more likely to visit the library if it was closer to their home, and most respondents said they had not used library programs in the last year, but would like to see more programming options.
Library hours and the size of the book collection did not have a significant impact on usage.
Last week, the library district hosted a listening session with patrons at Fry Family Park to discuss services in the south central region.
Stark Library Board of Trustees President Steven Pittman said during the recent board of trustees' meeting that every board member has received transcripts of all the comments from the listening session or submitted via email.
"When a decision is made for Sandy Valley, it will be made in public, it will be in a resolution," he said.
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ODENTON, Md. — When 70-year-old Robert Moore is lifting heavy weights, he makes it looks effortless.
He demonstrates how to do a bench press and dead lift inside his son Adam Moore's gym, Priority Health and Fitness in Odenton. Robert Moore has done weight resistance training for most of his adult life. A couple of years ago, Adam suggested he take his training to the next level.
"He said, 'Boy Dad, your numbers look pretty good, you ought to consider competing," he said.
Moore entered the Maryland competition through the United States Powerlifting Group. He says he established the records in the state for squat, bench press, dead lift and combo for his age group of 65 and older.
That qualified him for the Nationals in Atlanta.
"Once again I did well. I ended up setting the all-time world record in the squat, bench press and grand total."
Moore was proud of the results, but deep down, felt that he could do more with these accomplishments.
"These medals are nice but if I could power lift and maybe raise awareness for a cause that is near to my heart, the Alzheimer’s Association, I would feel pretty good about that."
He reached out to the Greater Maryland Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association to plan an exhibition at his son's gym, where he would attempt to break his own world records while also raising money for the organization.
The exhibition would tie into The Longest Day, a fundraising campaign done by the Alzheimer's Association each year.
His motivation to succeed: his mom Nancy Moore and his mother-in-law Dolores Dube, who both suffered with the neurological disease.
"Its terrible, its just a devastating disease," Moore said about watching both women go through the stages of Alzheimer's.
With grit and determination, and Nancy and Dolores in the back of his mind, Moore was on a mission to smash his records at the event on July 5. And one by one, he did.
"The support from the crowd was phenomenal and I was able to break all my world records," he said.
More importantly, Moore raised more than $10,000 for the Alzheimer's Association.
"Its just a terrible disease, very sad to see. So if there’s anything we can do to help research and help those with Alzheimer’s live their best life than we should do that."
Moore is continuing to raise donations for the Alzheimer's Association. To make a donation, click here.
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Art fair in Jackson, Wyo. begins todayArt Fair Jackson Hole begins 10 a.m. today at the Center for the Arts Park, 240 S. Glenwood St. in Jackson, Wyo. The event will also take place 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.
This annual summer event will host local and national artists displaying and selling their work. Attendees can view and purchase paintings, sculptures, photography, jewelry and more.
Art Fair is a fundraising event, and all profits go to the Art Association.
Admission is $6 for a single day for adults. Admission is free for children aged 12 and younger.
Wines in the Wild to feature music at I.F. ZooWines in the Wild is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. today at the Idaho Falls Zoo at Tautphaus Park, 2725 Carnival Way.
Attendees can participate in wine tasting and listen to music by The Jazz House Big Band, which plays jazz and swing tunes.
There will also be visits from the zoo’s ambassador animals.
Attendees must be aged 21 and older and have a valid ID.
Funds go to the “improvement and expansion of the Idaho Falls Zoo,” the event page said.
Annual Sidewalk Art Festival set for Saturday and SundayThe free Eagle Rock Art Guild’s Sidewalk Art Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday along the east bank of the Snake River. The event begins 9 a.m. Saturday and then starts 11 a.m. Sunday.
Attendees can view and purchase works by the artists selling their items, and there will also be live entertainment and food vendors.
Liatt and Dan to play Snake River concertLiatt and Dan will give a free show 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Greenbelt Stage “near Memorial between D and E Streets,” according to idahofallsarts.org.
Liatt and Dan play top 40 music.
LIVE United Concert Series continues ThursdayAnother entry in the free LIVE United Concert series will be held 6 p.m. Thursday at The Waterfront at Snake River Landing, 1220 Event Center Drive in Idaho Falls.
This concert will feature folk-rock band, Fox and Bones. The band is “akin to Lake Street Dive, Nathaniel Rateliff, and Shovels & Rope as a relatable, soul-stirring, retro-tinged folk-rock outfit,” foxandbones.com said.
Each concert helps support a United Way project.
On Thursday, the project is a socks and underwear collection for a back-to-school clothing program.
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Why Wilmington hasn't sent parking ticket appeals to court for a year
- The last time a ticket appeal was heard in Justice of the Peace Court was July 15, 2022.
- Wilmington says they've received three requests for JP Court hearings since last July, which are pending with the court because of planned changes for processing appeals.
- Because of delays with responding to constituents' requests for appeals, Wilmington dismissed 495 tickets last year and refunded drivers a total of $115,700.
Wilmington will mark one year Friday since it sent any parking ticket appeals to court, but city officials say that’s because Delaware’s largest city is on the cusp of change.
Wilmington parking appeals were last heard in Delaware Justice of the Peace Court on July 15, 2022, court administration confirmed Wednesday, and nothing has been sent to JP Court 20 to warrant holding hearings on Friday.
Cases are usually scheduled on the third Friday of each month, but Wilmington must send cases to JP Court for hearings to be scheduled.
Mayor Mike Purzycki’s Deputy Chief of Staff John Rago said Thursday the city has been in discussions with DELJIS and court officials over the last few months to revise its process by which ticket appeals are delivered to the Justice of the Peace Court.
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Around September last year, Rago said Wilmington decided to dismiss 495 parking tickets that people had appealed because “we felt that we hadn’t handled any of their concerns in a timely manner.”
Drivers who had paid fines and fees also were refunded a total of $115,700, he added.
“We know that our parking and towing system can always be improved, and we base that largely on the constituent’s experience with the system,” Rago said. “We have been involved now over the last several months in making changes — and one of them involves revisions to the appeals process.”
Wilmington hopes to announce the new approach in the next few weeks.
Parking advocate draws attention to lack of appeals
The city’s appeals process has been riddled with issues for years from miscommunication to no communication to tacking on late fees when a ticket has been appealed. Promises of reforms have often followed, but problems persist.
Parking advocate Ken Grant held a news conference – complete with balloons and cupcakes – at Wilmington City Hall Wednesday to draw attention to the lack of scheduled court hearings on appeals, but was kicked out of the building by the mayor.
Wilmington officials said the lobby of the city government building isn’t a “traditional public forum like the sidewalk or a park,” and Grant didn’t have permission to be there, which is why he was asked to leave the building.
According to a Delaware Online/The News Journal analysis of data from the city and JP Court, the percentage of appeals sent to court dropped by more than half, from an average of 3.9% sent to JP Court from 2012-15 to 1.2% from 2016-21.
Of the 50,055 parking tickets issued last year, Rago said only 11 cases were appealed to JP Court.
Grant fears Wilmington may be ignoring drivers’ requests for their appeal to be heard in JP Court. He requested copies of the forms people submit to request a court hearing and was told the city doesn’t keep those records.
“It’s been a year since the last time the city took a parking appeals case to JP Court, which is part of everybody’s constitutional due process rights, and the city doesn’t seem to really care about those due process rights,” Grant said Wednesday outside city offices.
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Rago said Wilmington has received only three requests for appeals to be heard in JP Court since last July when hearings were held on parking appeals. The intention is to schedule those hearings once the new appeals system is in place, he said.
“Even though they are sort of in the system, they are not in the court yet because we are still working on this mechanism with DELJIS to transfer these over,” Rago said.
Scrutiny of city parking enforcement policies
Wilmington’s parking enforcement policies and procedures have been under scrutiny since a federal civil rights lawsuit was filed in September 2021. The suit argues that Wilmington is violating drivers’ constitutional rights by allowing companies to tow cars, scrap or sell them and keep the proceeds.
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While the federal suit doesn’t target the city’s appeals process, parking advocates and aggrieved drivers have continued to highlight discrepancies with the city process.
Wilmington attorneys previously blamed the pandemic, which temporarily closed courts in 2020 until hearings could be conducted virtually, as well as staffing issues for delays in appeals being sent to Delaware’s Justice of the Peace Court.
Rago said the city lost two employees who were responsible for handling parking ticket appeals around the same time last year, prompting the city to dismiss nearly 500 tickets that drivers had appealed.
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The employee tasked with handling appeals now has helped Wilmington get back on track, he said, and has helped clear up confusion and questions from constituents who reach out.
“Consequently, I think we’re seeing fewer appeals in part because of her work in answering constituents' concerns,” Rago said.
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MANOR, Texas — Several people in at least one subdivision north of US 290 in Manor have no water as of late Thursday night into Friday morning. The main area impacted is the Presidential Meadows development on the north side of Manor.
The issue was first reported late Thursday night, and the City of Manor's Water Division said it is aware of it after several residents made calls. A representative for the Water Division said Thursday night that it was likely someone would take care of the issue first thing Friday morning.
As of 5 a.m., KVUE Daybreak crews in the area had not seen any crews overnight.
Some neighbors told KVUE Friday morning that they were still without water. However, others said they haven't had their services disrupted at all.
KVUE called the Water Division's overnight line Friday morning and left a message. This story will be updated when we receive more information.
No additional information is available at this time.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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The death was “part of a matter believed at this time to be limited to three inmates, one of whom was found unresponsive on Monday and unable to be revived despite the prompt efforts from jail staff and medical personnel,” said jail spokeswoman Lt. Charlene Jones.
It is not clear how the other inmates were involved. Officials as of Thursday had not released the name of the person who died or the cause of death.
Jones said the facility was not put on lockdown.
The jail provides services for Charles City, Chesterfield, Prince George and Surry counties, as well as Colonial Heights, Hopewell and Petersburg. About 1,300 incarcerated individuals and pretrial detainees are housed there.
It was one of two jails targeted for closure for unsafe conditions; the other was in the Hampton Roads region. Both are still operational.
Geoff Garner, the newly appointed executive director of the state board, said the agency received “timely notice” from the jail regarding Monday’s death and that the board would be investigating it further.
The board is tasked with jail oversight, including investigating deaths and setting minimum operating safety and health standards for the incarcerated.
Garner also did not share the name of the person who died, which his predecessor, Ryan McCord, did regularly when asked by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
This was the second death reported at Riverside this year, Garner said. On Feb. 7, John H. Howard died there. Howard, 64, had longstanding health problems and had been transferred to VCU Medical Center by jail staff.
The jail had three deaths in 2022 and eight in 2021, including one suicide, records show.
15 photos of the Richmond City Jail from The Times-Dispatch archives
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At just two months pregnant, Leah Keuper already felt “behind the eight ball” when she and her husband started applying for child care for their unborn child.
Parents in the Richmond area said they have faced waitlists that are several months, and even years, long. The extreme waitlists coupled with the hefty price tag of childcare drives some parents to question whether leaving the workforce altogether would be easier and less expensive.
Keuper and her husband Andy Duffy, who now have a 4-month-old baby girl named Margot, said their search started with center-based care but eventually expanded to include anything and everything they could find that was within a reasonable distance of their new home in Fulton Hill.
“At a certain point it became, I just need somewhere to keep her alive while I’m at work because I don’t have room to be picky anymore,” Keuper said.
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The couple knew they wanted to start a family sometime in the near future, but the pregnancy itself was unplanned. Keuper said she thought starting applications at two months pregnant, instead of before the pregnancy began, would give them enough time to find a day care.
That left them in the dust.
The childcare industry reached a tipping point during the COVID-19 pandemic, both for parents and childcare providers. Though it has leveled off a bit, the struggle to find affordable quality child care remains a struggle for many – especially for middle class families who make too much to receive government subsidies but not enough to afford nannies.
For Keuper, the hardship didn’t stop at the long waitlists. Center-based care options ranged between $350 and $400 per month, putting costs somewhere in the region of $1,600 per month. Both she and her husband have stable office jobs, but the cost would have been difficult.
“That basically means that I would make no money,” Keuper said. “It’s very close to not making sense for me to work, but for my mental health, I need to work.”
Center-based care refers to commercialized day cares, often with multiple classrooms and age groups up to 5 years old. In-home care is usually run from a personal home and capped at 12 children. Keuper said that although she preferred center-based care, she was able to find an in-home provider that wasn't certified. Home-based child care providers that serve less than five children can apply for voluntary registration, but it is not legally required.
She was able to find the provider just a few weeks before returning from her three-month maternity leave.
“Finding child care has been the most stressful part about having a baby,” Keuper said.
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Her experience is hardly an anomaly with parents across the Richmond area.
Danielle Phelps, a resident of Richmond’s Church Hill neighborhood, started looking for care for her newborn twins before they were born earlier this year. She went to the Department of Social Services website to find accredited providers. That process worked for her when her now-8-year-old son was born. This time around, she was astounded by the long waitlists.
Phelps said all of the centers she called within a manageable distance of her home wouldn’t have spots for her twins until at least 2024.
“Once I couldn’t find a center, I flipped to looking for in-home day cares that were certified,” Phelps said. “A lot of the issues with those folks was that they weren’t accepting children under six months. But the prices with those were just as much as the centers, if not more.”
The average annual cost for center-based care in Virginia is $11,579, according to the 2023 Kids Count Databook, an annual child care statistics. That report said the average cost for in-home care was $8,843.
Families who spoke to The Times-Dispatch said their quoted center-based prices totaled between $13,000 and $20,000 per year, without much difference between center-based and in-home care.
The cost was a burden on the paychecks of Phelps and her husband, who have middle-class corporate jobs. With twins, the average cost in the region came out to more than $2,000 per month. Phelps said center-based care and in-home costs were around the same for her. The providers didn’t offer discounts for twins, or have a guarantee that both babies would have spots open at the same time.
The couple eventually turned to a local network of Facebook groups for people looking for child care. Many of those are in-home providers or nannies with backgrounds in child care.
“We did go meet her and looked around her house,” Phelps said. “It did make me feel more comfortable, but honestly we just went off vibes because you don’t really know until you’re there if things are going to be a good fit.”
The limited child care options come as the Richmond region also experiences a sharp population increase. The area ranked as the fastest-growing in Virginia for two years straight, according to the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia. The result has been shortages in available housing and services.
COVID-19 upended childcare providers
The post-pandemic childcare landscape has improved some since 2021, but still leaves many parents struggling to find care for their children.
Access to care has largely been hindered by the number of child care workers. Nationally, the workforce dropped by more than one-third during the first two months of the pandemic, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Child care workers dropped from nearly 1.1 million to 677,000 in April 2020. As of April 2023 that number has rebounded to 996,000.
To help alleviate the workforce shortage, the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation launched the Early Educator Fast Track Initiative throughout Central Virginia. The program aims to connect 18 early childhood education programs in Richmond, Henrico, Petersburg, and Chesterfield with 62 newly trained early childhood educators.
The trainees will be paid $17 an hour, which is considered a competitive wage in the industry, and receive four weeks of paid online and on-site training. Trainees are also guaranteed job placement, and bonuses at six months and one year of employment.
“It's definitely difficult to recruit new employees. The labor market is really tight, and early care and education is unfortunately a lower wage profession right now,” said Karin Bowles, vice president of strategy for VECF. “We do believe that the low wage is part of the issue… You have other jobs paying similarly… fast food, big box stores. People are leaving [the industry] to work in places that can pay them $1 or $2 more” per hour.
Virginia's median wage for child care workers was listed at $13.48 per hour in 2022, according to the BLS, which comes out to around $28,000 per year. That was slightly below the national wage of $13.71.
The YWCA Sprout School, a childcare provider with three locations in Richmond, found an influx of qualified workers through the VECF fast track program.
“The candidates that we're seeing, although they may not have specifically daycare or preschool experience, we're seeing family members that have worked as soccer coaches [or] people who have worked in elementary schools as a classroom helper or an assistant,” said Kristen Evans, director of human resources at YWCA Sprout School.
Emily Griffey, a policy analyst for Voices for Virginia’s Children, said that significant improvements have been made to the state’s child care system since the worst days of child care during the pandemic. But, individual challenges remain.
How Virginia compares in child well-being
Virginia was ranked 14 in overall child well-being by the 2023 Kids Count Data Book, an annual report tallying child care statistics. Virginia ranked 12th in economic well-being, with fewer children living in poverty compared to other U.S. states and more parents with stable jobs. The commonwealth was ranked 10th in education, with comparably more children ages 3-4 in school, and greater reading proficiency among young children.
Over the past few years, several important changes to Virginia’s child care system have shifted the landscape.
The Virginia Department of Education expanded the number of people eligible for child care assistance through the federal Child Care Development Block Grant. Families were previously required to have a job in order to apply for funds. Now they can apply while looking for work.
The new framework also expands eligibility to include lower-middle-class incomes. Families earning 85% of an area’s average median income can get assistance. The previous criteria was anyone up to 185% of the federal poverty line. For a family of three that is an annual household income of $45,991.
The new threshold is typically equivalent to between 300% and 350% of the poverty line. For a family of three, that is an annual household income between $74,580 and $87,010.
The new threshold expands eligibility to families with incomes too high to be eligible for government subsidies like Medicaid and SNAP, but not high enough to afford quality child care.
“That helps provide economic stability because when you’re slightly above the poverty line, you’re not necessarily economically secure, particularly with how much inflation has rocked families these days,” Griffey said.
The Virginia Department of Education also switched its reimbursement methodology for child care providers. Rather than looking at market-based reimbursement, the new methodology factors in the true costs of running a child care facility, factoring in inputs like staff wages, facility safety and curriculum.
Griffey said the methodology change should help increase wages of child care workers.
What comes next for families
Hanover mother Krystina Askew said she and her husband faced the same pitfalls as other parents who spoke with The Times-Dispatch.
They’ve been able to use a nanny share program – where two or more families split the cost of an in–home nanny – while also calling around to see if they can find a slot for their twins when they turn two years old later this year.
Center-based care providers are “not even sure if they will have two slots open up at the same time for both of my twins,” Askew said. “Some centers have told me that you can alternate, that people rotate their twins all the time. I [thought]: that is not a solution to my problem.”
On top of finding spots for her twins at a center, Askew said the added cost of twins has been a hurdle. Most centers don’t provide much more than a 10% discount on tuition for additional children.
“That [cost] was a catalyst for us in trying to decide if one of us should be a stay-at-home parent because we still need gas, cars and food,” Askew said.
She said the system is “not working for anybody I know who is having kids.”
At the St. James Children’s Center in downtown Richmond, the staff and parents seem to bypass many of the issues that middle-class families and other providers face. The nonprofit serves children regardless of the families’ ability to pay.
“We can do it with philanthropic dollars. But we are not the norm of what goes on,” said Winnie Canup, development director at St. James Childcare Center.
About 20% of the center’s $1 million annual budget comes from tuition. The other $800,000 is from philanthropic contributions. The center is housed by St. James Episcopal Church, but is not religious.
Tuition is charged on a sliding scale based on the families’ income.
“We serve a diverse group of families and children... We just meet them where they are,” said Dihanne Whittington, executive director at St. James Childhood Center. “We have a compassionate, loving staff that really embodies what you want your children to be around every day, be taught by, be loved by.”
St. James purposely keeps its enrollment at 75% lower-class families, whose income is under 300% of the federal poverty line.
“We intentionally build the classes so that about 25% are from more affluent families,” Canup said. “In building that model, which is intentionally diverse, we really do try to model the world we want to live in and we want families to live in.”
Some low-income families receive government subsidies and do not pay for childcare. The highest tuition at St. James for affluent families is $225 a week.
For about 75% of families served by St. James, there is no waitlist.
“There's a different mentality when you have the luxury of having some means. Our lower-income families don't think six months ahead, that in six months their child will be two and be eligible for this place,” Canup said. “They call when they get a job and they want to come in tomorrow. Because we intentionally balance our classrooms, we tend to have more affluent families on the waitlist.”
The teachers at St. James are salaried and receive two weeks of paid time off. For those who choose to have healthcare, the center pays for 70% of it.
“We really, really recognize the professionalism of this field. Teachers are really working hard to make a difference in kids’ lives, and we try to compensate them for that,” Canup said. “Quality care is really expensive. It’s expensive to provide and it’s expensive for parents.”
Shaneka Charles, who has a daughter who attends St. James, said it has been a godsend.
Her daughter was diagnosed with autism while attending the childcare center, and the staff worked with her through the process and helped her daughter to thrive.
The center “did a wonderful job and now my daughter is talking, singing her letters, ABCs. They had so many people working with her,” Charles said. “They go hard for you, hard for your kids.”
Charles had inquired with other childcare centers in the past that charged $300 or $400 a week.
“That’s ridiculous for a mom like me who just takes care of her daughter and tries to be able to survive with food and clothing,” Charles said. “This inflation can affect so many families and cause them to not be able to have [anybody] to watch their kids.”
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Preservationists are adding new interpretations at the Hanover County home of founding father Patrick Henry.
New research and signage unveiled Thursday at Hanover’s Scotchtown site in Beaverdam are designed to show more than just the life of the man who delivered the famous “Give me liberty or give me death” speech, but also the lives of enslaved people, women and other families who later lived at the property.
Scotchtown, the home of Patrick Henry in the 1770s, is in western Hanover County.
Bill Lohmann, Times-Dispatch
Scotchtown, at 16120 Chiswell Lane, was Henry’s home from 1771 to 1778. It was where many of his ideas about separating from the British monarchy would have solidified and the place where he most likely rehearsed his famous speech about the rights of the colonies, which was delivered in 1775 during the Second Virginia Convention convened at St. John’s Church in Richmond.
Born in 1736, Henry was a delegate to the First Continental Congress, served as a first and sixth governor of Virginia, and died in 1799.
Henry at one point owned about 1,000 acres at the Scotchtown site. The footprint today is about 40 acres.
One freshly unveiled sign at the site acknowledges how slavery was an integral part of the property’s daily life. Henry writes in a correspondence that he is wrestling with the idea that enslaved people were such a fixture of his life while also saying, “I will not, I cannot justify it.”
Representatives from Preservation Virginia, Hanover County and Virginia 250 stand with a newly unveiled sign on Thursday at Scotchtown, the former home of founding father Patrick Henry.
Sean Jones
“Patrick Henry is known across the colonies as someone who challenges tyranny of the British Government – he is the champion of the colonists’ rights. Yet do these rights that (Henry) speaks about in the courtroom extend to all residents of Scotchtown?” the sign reads.
It also notes that the enslaved workers, plus his own wife and daughter, are not included in the rights he advocated for leading up the American Revolution.
“There are a lot of other people involved in this place,” said Elizabeth S. Kostelny, CEO for the statewide Preservation Virginia group. “We’ve learned so much more in the intervening years. Keeping these signs updated and putting history in context makes it more accessible.”
U.S.’ 250th anniversary nearing
Preservation Virginia is also hoping to do more archaeological research to understand if there are more buildings that have been lost over time that might show the daily lives of others, like enslaved people, who may have lived there.
Scotchtown was purchased by Virginia’s first governor, Patrick Henry, in 1771. It is a tourist attraction in Beaverdam in Hanover County.
DEAN HOFFMEYER, Times-Dispatch
The unveiling at Scotchtown is Hanover’s way of adding to historical knowledge around the period leading up to American independence. The nation will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution in 2026 with all states and localities across the country called to bring their own new research and historic sites.
Scotchtown is part of The Road to Revolution Heritage Trail, which follows the life of Henry throughout central Virginia. It is due to have about double its current number of historic sites leading up to 2026.
About 300 representatives from 34 states converged on Williamsburg in March to exchange ideas for the semiquincentennial.
“Virginia is leading this national commemoration because Virginia is the crucible of the nation and the very fabric from which it was created,” said Cheryl Wilson, executive director for Virginia 250. “The goal is telling all sides, multiple perspectives as stories, somewhere that everyone can see themselves.”
This 1891 painting of Patrick Henry is part of the U.S. Senate collection.
Jack Berry, head of Richmond Region Tourism, said work around the 250th could create new events that continue for generations.
Berry cited the Norfolk Harborfest, dubbed as the longest-running maritime festival that includes events and live music.
That event, he said, was born from festivities created by Norfolk’s committee during the 200th celebration in the 1970s.
From the Archives: Photos of the Richmond region in the 1980s
In March 1987, manager Cissy Travers (right) and assistant John Gurski organized the shelves at Video World, a video rental store on Robious Road in Chesterfield County. At the time, some of the leading rental titles were big movies from 1986, including “Top Gun,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Stand By Me” and “Aliens.”
Staff photo
In October 1988, Eddie Van Halen of the rock band Van Halen performed a 15-minute guitar solo to a concert audience of almost 10,000 at the Richmond Coliseum.
Staff photo
In September 1985, the James Center Development Co. demolished this vacant building between East Canal Street and the Downtown Expressway to make way for the development of the James Center. The structure formerly housed the freight office and some accountants from the Chessie System railroad company.
Bob Brown
In November 1982, a crowd filled Regency Square mall for the first day of Sunday store openings in Henrico County. Before the Sunday closing law, or so-called blue law, was formally repealed by the Board of Supervisors, Henrico residents – who in a referendum that month voted in favor of repeal – had to travel to surrounding localities to shop on a Sunday.
Rich Crawford
In March 1989, Melvin Major of the Fin & Feather Pet Center pulled Slick – a 7-foot, 8-inch boa constrictor owned by Joseph Dodson III – from the under Dodson’s car in Henrico County. Slick had gotten so entangled in the vehicle that a wheel and spring had to be removed to retrieve him – and a flare was used to encourage him to move in the right direction.
Staff photo
In June 1984, engineer Charlie Dean inspected the new Big Bad Wolf roller coaster at Busch Gardens near Williamsburg. Park officials had determined that the ride was slightly faster than the maximum comfortable speed of 48 mph, so engineers installed an additional breaking system ahead of the ride’s debut.
Staff photo
In October 1982, a $30,000 DeLorean sports car was positioned outside a store in Short Pump after a test drive. The DeLorean became an icon of the 1980s for both its short, drama-filled history and for being immortalized in the “Back to the Future” film franchise starting in 1985.
Staff photo
In July 1985, actors George Takei, who played Sulu on the original “Star Trek” television series, visited two Richmond-area Theater Video stores to sign autographs and meet with fans. Partially visible at right was cast mate Walter Koenig, who played Chekov. Takei noted that “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry “had a special sensitivity for casting people who shared his own vision of the future.”
Staff photo
In December 1984, Alyson Rappaport showed off the gift she received for her Cabbage Patch doll: a full-length mink coat. The coat cost around $100 and was made by a Philadelphia furrier as Alyson’s seventh birthday gift from her parents. Cabbage Patch dolls were one of the consumer crazes of the 1980s.
Staff photo
In February 1982, Atari video game enthusiasts gathered at the Best Products on Quioccasin Road in Henrico County for an “Asteroids” competition. The contestant with the highest score won a television set, an Atari console and five game cartridges. The Atari 2600 was a mainstay of early 1980s home entertainment.
Times-Dispatch
In March 1986, Cricket Satterfield showed off his entry in Richmond's third annual Chili Cook-Off. Held downtown in Festival Park between the 6th Street Marketplace and the Coliseum, the event generated about $7,600 for the Richmond Police Memorial Foundation. Last year’s event, held at the Richmond Raceway Complex, marked the 30th anniversary.
Times-Dispatch
In March 1988, Kings Dominion introduced the Avalanche. The new ride resembled a bobsled run – and even got a thumbs-up from members of that year’s Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, who visited the park to help introduce the ride. The Avalanche, which lasts 90 seconds and reaches a speed of 41 mph, is still operating today.
Alexa Welch Edlund
In April 1982, preparations for construction of the Richmond Convention Center were underway along East Broad Street downtown. Among businesses that were torn down to accommodate the new facility were Swatty’s Men’s Shop and the Greyhound bus station.
Lindy Keast Rodman
In April 1986, under dark skies, a freight train made a southbound crossing of the James River on the Seaboard System Railroad bridge downriver from the Powhite Parkway.
Bob Brown
In February 1981, Benny Parsons spun his No. 15 car into the rail as Richard Petty went by in the Richmond 400 NASCAR race at the State Fairgrounds. Parsons finished fifth and Petty finished third behind Darrell Waltrip, who won the race for the second time in a row. Waltrip earned about $19,000 for the victory.
Rich Crawford
In April 1987, Juanita Wade walked down the flooded Main Street in Columbia, a James River town in Fluvanna County near Fork Union. A little farther upriver in Bremo Bluff, the James River crested at more than 33 feet following spring rains. In Richmond, it reached about 15 feet above flood stage.
Overton McGehee
In January 1989, rock ’n’ roll pioneer Chuck Berry played a sold-out show at the Mosque (now Altria Theater) in Richmond. Among those in attendance was Gov. Gerald L. Baliles, to whom Berry dedicated “Rock and Roll Music.” Tickets to the show cost $19.50.
Mark Gormus
This October 1988 image shows the Annabel Lee, a reproduction paddle-wheeler that offered dinner cruises and entertainment on the James River from 1988 through 2003. The boat had seating for more than 200 passengers, plus two full-service bars and two dance floors. After attendance declined, the owners moved the vessel to the Washington, D.C., area at the beginning of 2004.
Bruce Parker
In October 1980, Blevins Gibbs (front), Henry McClellan and Larry Daylight, all Native Americans from Oklahoma, visited the Kings Dominion theme park in Doswell as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World. The show, based out of California, traveled the world and featured as many as 80 performers, though only 11 were at the local stop. Its focus was on entertainment, but it also aimed for authenticity and education.
Don Long
8/9/2015: This September 1987 image shows an illuminated Broad Street in Richmond from the City Hall observation deck during a series of torrential rains around Labor Day. The James River rose to 15½ feet above flood stage and filled 24 square blocks of the city with 6 feet of muddy water. More than 50 streets were closed downtown.
Dan Currier
8/1On July 4, 1988, Festival Park in downtown Richmond hosted a country music concert featuring Exile and Juice Newton, among others. The free event closed with a laser show in which patriotic images were projected onto a screen suspended over the audience.
Robin Layton
In August 1980, Rudolph Cunningham placed a chicken into the rotisserie oven at Stonewall Market on Grove Avenue in Richmond. The market was opened in 1946 by Stanley and Marilyn Linas. Decades later, in an era of supermarkets, Stonewall Market still maintained a strong base of customers who had groceries delivered to their kitchens. Mrs. Linas even admitted that she had not met many of her customers in person, as much of their business was done over the phone.
Don Pennell
8/2This August 1984 image shows part of death row, including haunting artwork, at the Mecklenburg Correctional Center. In May, six death row inmates, including the Briley Brothers, escaped after studying the behavior of guards, overpowering them, stealing their uniforms and feigning a bomb threat in order to get out of the unit. All were recaptured and later executed.
Bob Brown
In March 1984, country and bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs performed for a crowd of more than 3,000 at the Mosque in Richmond; his set list included seven No. 1 singles from the previous two years. Skaggs is an accomplished mandolin player and also plays guitar and fiddle. His career included work with the Country Gentlemen, a bluegrass group from Northern Virginia.
Bob Brown
In May 1987, a canoeist navigated through the James River rapids near downtown Richmond during the Wild Water Race, which was part of Big River Weekend. The event celebrated the outdoors and river-related activities in Richmond.
Gary Burns
In November 1988, American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars members were among participants at a Veterans Day ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond.
Bill Lane
In September 1982, a section of the former Pinnell’s boat and bicycle shop on lay in ruins after demolition the day before. The store was razed to make way for a 3-story medical office building - the new $24 million structure was built between Grace and West Broad streets, close to Richmond Metropolitan Hospital. Today the building serves as a Virginia Commonwealth University dormitory.
Clement Britt
In September 1984, the Empire Theatre on Broad Street in downtown Richmond reopened with a gala and performance from the Richmond Symphony. Opened in 1911, the Empire closed and reopened many times since its founding. It is now known as the Sara Belle and Neil November Theatre and is home to the Virginia Rep.
P. Kevin Morley
In December 1982, a celebration of the seven-day Kwanzaa holiday began at Richmond’s Hippodrome Theater with a reading of the Nguzo Saba, the seven core principles, by Jamil Mulazim. Douglas Webber (left) and Umar Kenyatta lit symbolic candles. Kwanzaa, derived from the Swahili term for “first fruits,” was developed as an African-American celebration in the 1960s.
Masaaki Okada
In March 1985, the Diamond was in the late stages of construction. The 12,500-seat baseball stadium on the Boulevard in Richmond was set to open a month later for the new season. Compared with Parker Field, the Diamond offered more seating, concessions, restrooms and boxes where guests could host parties while watching the game.
Bob Brown
Membership in The Woman's Club has grown from about 200 in 1900 (when noted activist Mary Munford was president) to almost 1,500 today. Through its educational programs, its impressive list of speakers has ranged from Amelia Earhart to U.S. presidents. Its college scholarship fund for young women has supported more than 500 students – and as part of TWC's 125th anniversary celebration in 2019, it boosted its scholarship commitment to $100,000.
TIMES-DISPATCH
In September 1985, NASCAR driver Kyle Petty inspected his wrecked Ford Thunderbird after a practice run at the Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway in Henrico County during the Wrangler 400 competition. Petty’s car hit Dale Earnhardt’s, with Petty getting the worst of it.
P. Kevin Morley
On Valentine’s Day 1989, a 50-foot-wide heart hung from the columns of the state Capitol’s south portico in Richmond. The oversized valentine was created to mark the 20th anniversary of the “Virginia is for Lovers” advertising campaign.
Wallace Huey Clark
In August 1989, Coppola’s Deli owner Joe Coppola (right) and manager Bill Gerloff carefully assemble a 40-foot Italian hero in the Carytown eatery. The giant sub required three cases of tomatoes, 50 pounds of cold cuts and 15 pounds of provolone cheese. The sandwich was made for the Carytown Watermelon Festival, where patrons could buy 5 inches for $5.
Jay Paul
In October 1982, Tim Smith checked the progress of a bunch of bananas in Highland Springs. His father, George, began cultivating the banana grove 10 years earlier after a friend gave him a plant as a gift. The plant grew and multiplied into 89 banana trees, ranging from 6-inch shoots to 18-foot trees. (George Smith said he didn’t eat the fruit – he grew them because he said they were beautiful plants.)
Bob Brown
In April 1985, Blanche Whitaker operated the elevator one last time at Central Fidelity Bank in downtown Richmond. Whitaker was retiring after more than three decades and was believed to be the last manual elevator operator in the city. With her departure, the bank planned to convert the elevator to automatic control.
Carl Lynn
In January 1980, the Richmond Bicentennial Commission erected this billboard along Interstate 95 downtown to celebrate the city’s 200th year as Virginia’s capital, which previously was Williamsburg.
Rich Crawford
In spring 1981, the Express Lane drive-thru convenience store opened in Louisa County. Patrons could stay in the cars to assess their choices, then place orders with a “runner” who would retrieve items. The store was patterned after the drive-thru beverage locations on North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
Times-Dispatch
In April 1985, Cammie Joyce, a daughter of Dr. William H. Parker for whom the former Parker Field was named, threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the new Diamond on opening night for the Richmond Braves. The new baseball stadium on the Boulevard replaced Parker Field.
Staff Photo
In October 1982, Hull Street Station in South Richmond was vacant and boarded-up – the last regular passenger train to Danville had left 25 years earlier. The Southern Railway donated the station to the Old Dominion chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, which planned to convert the space into a museum and library. Today it houses the Richmond Railroad Museum.
Times-Dispatch
In June 1986, Historic Richmond Foundation leader John G. Zehmer Jr. (center left) reviewed roof plans with architect Kenneth MacIlroy at Monumental Church on East Broad Street in Richmond. The historic church, built as a memorial to those killed in the 1811 Richmond Theatre fire, was getting a new copper roof as a step toward preserving the building.
Bruce Parker
In July 1988, Soap Box Derby contestants made last-minute preparations before the race in Richmond. The derby, sponsored by the Richmond Jaycees, was held on Byrd Street between Fourth and Ninth streets.
Masaaki Okada
In July 1980, Matthew J. Robinson Jr., president of Imperial Broom Co., stood in his shop off Jennings Road in Henrico County. He was the fourth generation to run the family operation, which started making brooms in 1900.
Don Long
In May 1989, a transformer exploded under the sidewalk on the Fourth Street side of the Richmond Newspapers Inc. building downtown. The ensuing fireball charred two cars parked on the street and sent flames up the side of the building. No one was hurt in the nighttime explosion, and delivery of the next morning’s RTD (which was printed in the building) was only slightly delayed.
Wallace Clark
In June 1986, “Mr. Newspaper” greeted a young girl and her mother at a Richmond-area mall. The RTD mascot often traveled around town promoting the newspaper.
Carl Lynn
In March 1987, in preparation for new carpeting, the Dumbarton branch library in Henrico County had to remove about 80,000 books from shelves. About 50 people handled the first phase overnight – but restocking the shelves awaited.
Staff photo
In August 1981, children enjoyed outdoor recreation at Camp Happyland in the Richardsville area of Culpeper County, not far from Fredericksburg. The Salvation Army started the camp in the late 1950s to improve children’s health through exercise and proper nutrition.
Bill Lane
In October 1985, the Richmond band the Snake-Handlers were booked for a Halloween performance at Rockitz , located Laurel and West Broad streets. The band posed in their “monster room,” which was covered in monster movie memorabilia dating back to the 1960s. Band members were John Cecka (front), Jim Thomson (left), Jeanne Freeman (center), Ron Curry (kneeling) and Tim Harriss (right).
Lindy Keast Rodnam
In October 1981, Jerome Hamlin posed with his robots during a visit to the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond. Hamlin, whose company was based in Connecticut, designed several humanoid robots for an exhibit called “The Computer Works.” One of them(back right) was ComRo (Computer Robot) I, a domestic robot that would be offered through the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog that year. The price: about $15,000.
Lindy Keast
In March 1988, a voting booth at City Hall in Richmond was set up for the presidential primaries. Voters flipped selectors to mark their choices; Democrat Jesse Jackson and Republican George H.W. Bush won the Virginia primaries.
Bob Brown
In April 1986, Virginia Commonwealth University students Karen Sensenig and Phil Conein put together a student gallery in the Commons building in Richmond. The first show featured the works of seniors, and students could get guidance from faculty advisers about selecting, displaying and pricing their work.
Bob Brown
In October 1980, a monument was unveiled at Dock and 20th streets in Richmond to commemorate Libby Prison, a Confederate prison for Union soldiers during the Civil War. Unveiling the plaque were (from left) Joseph B. Mitchell of the Sons of Confederate Veterans; Luther Libby, great-grandson of the ship handler who once owned the building; and Chester S. Shriver of the Sons of Union Veterans.
Don Pennell
This November 1985 image shows the Lukhard’s market on Libbie Avenue in Richmond. Rawley Lukhard, chairman of the grocery retailer, had just announced plans for an expansion. Today, the building houses Libbie Market.
Carl Lynn
In December 1988, a candlelight walk on Church Hill in Richmond was a highlight of the neighborhood’s annual weekend Christmas Festival. Other seasonal events around the city included a holiday musical at the Byrd Theatre and “Nutcracker” performances by the Richmond Ballet.
Staff photo
In September 1987, employees of Crazy Zanies in Carytown were ready to deliver messages and singing telegrams around Richmond. Most employees had day jobs, were students or were stay-at-home parents who enjoyed dressing up and doing a little comedy on the side. The cast of characters changed with the seasons and expanded upon demand.
Don Pennell
In December 1984, visitors lined up to tour the house at 2005 W. Grace St. in Richmond’s Fan District. That year, residents of the Church Hill and Fan neighborhoods opened their doors for Christmas house tours. Each tour had a theme – in the Fan, it was “The Elegance of Christmas.” Almost 200 volunteers assisted with tours, and 75 hosts shared their homes. On Grace Street, three newly renovated homes were featured, which contributed to long lines.
Staff photo
In December 1985, special effects engineer Dick Johnson sprayed fake snow around St. John’s Episcopal Church on Church Hill in Richmond, which was serving as a set for the CBS miniseries “Dream West.” The “snow” was a combination of soap, water and air. The miniseries focused on 19th-century American adventurer John Charles Fremont, who was portrayed by Richard Chamberlain.
Staff photo
In June 1984, actress Mary Tyler Moore took a break between scenes outside Bamboo Café in Richmond’s Fan District. Moore was filming the romantic comedy “Finnegan Begin Again,” which co-starred Robert Preston and Sam Waterston. Scenes were shot all over Richmond, including at the Richmond Times-Dispatch headquarters downtown.
Staff photo
In March 1984, bear trainer Venko Lilov played with Marfa backstage at the Coliseum when the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus came to Richmond. Lilov, a former wrestler from Bulgaria, had joined the circus as a gymnast and married a woman who came from a circus family. He switched his focus after they bought two 3-month-old bears and raised them.
Staff photo
In June 1986, one of two surviving antique terra cotta bull’s heads was prepared for mounting by Ron Kingery at the 17th Street Farmers’ Market in Richmond. The heads originally were part of a set of 42 that adorned the public market at Sixth and Marshall streets. Many were sold off in 1964, but two were rediscovered in city storage. Restoration was led by Virginia Commonwealth University art conservationist Laurence Pace.
Staff photo
In April 1989, fans of “Gone with the Wind” celebrated the film’s 50th anniversary year at a gala at the Carpenter Center in downtown Richmond. The film made its Richmond premiere there in 1940 when the facility was Loew’s Theatre. The gala began with a fife and drum performance by men dressed in Civil War uniforms, and some women dressed as Southern belles in hoop skirts and lace.
Bob Brown
In January 1984, members of the Richmond band Suzy Saxon and the Anglos had their hair shampooed at a local beauty parlor for a scene in the video for their single “Boys in Dresses.” The video was featured in an episode of MTV’s “Basement Tapes,” which highlighted up-and-coming bands. To save money, the band filmed the video in 24 hours – and even sold chocolate bars to raise funds. Saxon made her singing debut at Richmond’s Open High School when she was still known as Suzy Peeples.
Bruce Parker
This December 1982 photo shows the Toys R Us store on Quioccasin Road in Henrico County. During that holiday season, games and stuffed animals tied to “E.T.” – the character from the summertime movie blockbuster – were popular in local stores, as were Smurf and Pac-Man items.
Carl Lynn
In April 1986, a “monkey cowboy” rode a dog during a lighter moment at the Lite Beer World’s Toughest Rodeo, held at the Richmond Coliseum. During the show, 60 cowboys and cowgirls – more than a dozen were Richmonders – participated in competitions sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
Bob Brown
This July 1980 image shows Dirt Shirt, a store on West Cary Street in Richmond that offered custom screen-printed T-shirts. At the time, Dirt Shirt had two outlets in Richmond, one in Hopewell and one in Gordonsville.
Staff photo
In March 1986, director Wayne Westbrook filmed a scene at the Bill “Bojangles” Robinson statue in Jackson Ward as part of a documentary about Richmond. The film was Continental Cablevision’s entry in a national contest among a dozen North American cable systems.
Lindy Keast Rodman
In December 1982, Pat Benatar returned to Richmond and performed for 9,000 fans at the Coliseum. After developing her vocal talents in Richmond for several years in her early 20s, Benatar moved to New York in 1975 to pursue a career that turned into worldwide rock stardom.
Wallace Clark
This January 1980 image shows the interior of Best Products Co.’s headquarters at Interstate 95 and Parham Road in Henrico County. The building’s interior, which housed about 350 executives, reflected the tastes of Best founders Sydney and Frances Lewis, who were avid art collectors. Several Andy Warhol silkscreen prints of Marilyn Monroe hung above the lobby.
Carl Lynn
In April 1980, cyclists delivered to Mayor Henry L. Marsh III a copy of the proclamation – drafted 200 years earlier by Gov. Thomas Jefferson – that named Richmond as Virginia’s capital, succeeding Williamsburg. The Virginia Bicycling Federation was marking the centennial of its national organization that year, and member groups – including the Capital Community Cyclists of Richmond – were delivering copies of the proclamation to county seats throughout Virginia.
Staff photo
In September 1982, Sondra Jones, Miss Virginia-USA, helped Phil Reynolds unveiled the name of the trackless trolley – Belle of Richmond – that was set to begin a five-month trial run in downtown Richmond. Reynolds came up with the winning entry in a naming contest. The Belle was replaced by a regular bus the following year.
Bruce Parker
In February 1980, a customer in protective goggles got a head start on summer at an indoor tanning booth at a salon in Henrico County. Tanning salons hit the U.S. market in the late 1970s, but today, dermatologists and researchers express significant concern about indoor tanning.
Amir M. Pishdad
In June 1988, barbers were busy at Belcher’s Barber Shop in the Mutual Building at Ninth and Main streets in downtown Richmond. The shop, which Dalton William Belcher opened in 1967, is still in business today.
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In July 1981, Robby Van Pelt, a 13-year-old from Henrico County, stood proudly in front of his three-level, eight-room playhouse. Robby built the structure himself after spending months collecting scrap wood and metal. The playhouse had a master bedroom, porch and wall-to-wall carpeting. Electricity for lighting and to power a radio was siphoned from his parents’ house.
Don Pennell
In October 1984, workers installed the Best Products sign at the company’s headquarters on Parham Road in Henrico County. The catalog showroom retailer was founded by Sydney and Francis Lewis in Richmond in the late 1950s; it went out of business in 1997.
Bob Brown
In September 1982, Mayor Roy A. West cut into a cake celebrating the 200th anniversary of Richmond’s incorporation as a town. The ceremony was held at the Miller & Rhoads department store downtown. Lillian Bagby of the store bakery and store President Robert Rieland joined West. The cake was decorated to represent different city landmarks, including City Hall, the 17th Street Farmers Market and Shockoe Slip.
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In March 1984, Delores Green (left) and Roxie Kricorian waited for calls on the Homework Hot Line, which had just begun offering afterschool help to Richmond students. From the 11th floor of City Hall, two four-teacher teams fielded calls from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays.
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In August 1989, the James River Park System’s Ralph R. White knelt on a log above the river. In 1980, White became the park’s first naturalist – at a time when visitors frequently cut their feet on broken glass, drownings weren’t uncommon and litter was everywhere. Within a decade, White had directed significant improvements in safety, cleanliness and visitation.
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This September 1987 image shows the White Tower restaurant at Brook Road and Azalea Avenue in Richmond shortly before it closed. The hamburger chain opened in the 1920s in Milwaukee and reached its peak in the 1950s, with more than 200 locations nationwide. White Tower declined as rivals such as McDonald’s grew; Richmond was one of the chain’s last strongholds.
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In January 1987, Lauralas Blue Hyacinth, a grand champion Blue Persian from Pennsylvania, was in Richmond for the 15th annual Old Dominion Cat Show in Richmond. She wore a bib when she ate to protect her finely brushed fur.
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In December 1985, pop artist Andy Warhol (right) dined with his business manager, Fred Hughes, in Richmond. Warhol was in town for the dedication of the West Wing of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, which was built to house 19th- and 20th-century painting, sculpture and decorative arts from the Mellon and Lewis family collections.
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In April 1986, a helicopter removed the letters “CFB” from the Central Fidelity Bank building at Third and Broad streets in downtown Richmond. The letters had been placed atop the skyscraper in 1977. Each letter weighed about 2,500 pounds, and the removal project took just under two hours.
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In July 1980, Gene Ladin (left) and Alfred I. Mollen stood in front of a giant working radio they designed. At 14 feet tall and 28 feet wide, it picked up all local stations and even had a cassette slot. The radio was part of the storefront at Mollen’s Auto Audio on Westmoreland Avenue in Richmond. Mollen was the store owner, and Ladin was vice president.
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In December 1985, makeup artist Michele Burke worked on actor Richard Chamberlain between takes of “Dream West,” a CBS miniseries filmed in Richmond. The story focused on 19th-century American adventurer John Charles Fremont, who was portrayed by Chamberlain.
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This March 1985 image shows one of the first Subway restaurants in Richmond, located on Glenside Drive in Henrico County. A Times-Dispatch dining review said the restaurant’s concept – store-baked bread, 6-inch and footlong subs, and salads – was a welcome alternative to fast-food burgers and pizza.
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In March 1985, Mildred Ashton (left) and Elva Jones glazed lipstick on the assembly line at the A.R. Winarick cosmetics manufacturing plant in Westmoreland County. On average, a worker could fill 50 bottles of nail polish per minute or assemble more than 6,000 lipstick containers per day.
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In November 1988, Leonard Martin made a delivery for Pizza Hut. At the time, major chains were battling for Richmond-area customers. Pizza Hut, which had been in Richmond for 20 years and had nearly 40 local restaurants, was ranked No. 1, followed by Domino’s (about 15 regional stores) and Little Caesars (19). Pizza Inn and Godfather’s rounded out the top five.
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In August 1982, patrons dined at the Fish Market restaurant in Shockoe Slip in Richmond. Hundreds of people had gathered in the area for the Shockoe Slip Summer Jazz Festival.
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In August 1988, Norma Ray (left) served beverages at a Pizza Hut trailer outside Main Street Centre in downtown Richmond. Pizza Hut’s marketing manager said that the trailer was a way to reach customers downtown, where the chain didn’t have full restaurants.
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In October 1988, Veronica Gerber videotaped her child’s preschool class during a Shabbat service. Sony introduced a Betamovie camcorder in 1983, and as the decade wore on, Sony and its competitors released increasingly affordable camcorders that could hold multiple hours of footage on a videotape.
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In September 1989, the Westhampton Theater in Richmond’s West End was showing two notable films from the era. “Sex, Lies and Videotape” helped revolutionize modern independent film, and “When Harry Met Sally” is a classic romantic comedy. The Westhampton closed in 2016 after a 78-year run.
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In November 1984, the bronze statue known as “The Three Soldiers” (or “The Three Servicemen”) was unveiled in Washington as more traditional complement to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The unconventional wall designed by Maya Lin was controversial, and the statue by sculptor Frederick Hart was a means of addressing concerns.
Bruce Parker
In April 1981, Richmond-area eye doctor Allen Cohen examined a patient. Cohen specialized in soft contact lenses and was starting to offer extended-wear lenses that were fairly new to the market.
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In May 1987, a candlelight vigil in Richmond honored AIDS victims and those fighting the disease. The march began at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and wound around Capitol Square. In June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first handful of illnesses – rare lung infections and other signs of impaired immune systems in five men – in what became known as the AIDS epidemic.
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In August 1988, a guest sat near his bed at the Freedom House Community Shelter in Richmond, where there was no set length of stay. Homelessness was on the rise in 1980s amid economic and political changes that affected incomes, social programs and the availability of affordable housing.
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In July 1986, Virginia Beach-based religious broadcaster Pat Robertson sat on the set of his “700 Club,” the long-running program he continues to host on the Christian Broadcasting Network. In the political realm, Robertson unsuccessfully sought the Republican Party’s nomination in the 1988 presidential contest.
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In November 1985, Robert Williams stood in his cell at the State Penitentiary, then located on Spring Street in downtown Richmond. Williams was one of three men in medical isolation there because of a diagnosis of AIDS. In the preceding two months, President Ronald Reagan made his first public mention of AIDS, and actor Rock Hudson’s death raised awareness of the epidemic.
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In November 1980, a woman played “Super Simon” in Richmond. The memory game, in which players must repeat a series of electronic tones and lights, offered additional variations from the original “Simon,” which was made by the Milton Bradley Co. and later, after being acquired, Hasbro. “Super Simon” cost about $35 at the Zayre store on Mechanicsville Turnpike
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In September 1988, models showed off about 160 outfits during a fashion show organized by Thalhimers to benefit the Florence Nightingale Circle for Sheltering Arms Rehabilitation Hospital in Richmond. The show, which was themed around the movies, drew about 1,500 attendees to the Richmond Marriott.
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In September 1989, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones were in concert at RFK Stadium in Washington; the sold-out show drew more than 50,000 fans and was the second of a two-night gig in D.C. The tour, in support of the “Steel Wheels” album, hit about three dozen North American cities before moving to Europe.
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This September 1988 image shows a row of homes in the town of Fries, located in Grayson County in Southwest Virginia. The textile mill that had been the lifeblood of the town since that dawn of the 20th century was getting ready to close in the face of less expensive foreign imports. The town was named for businessman Francis Henry Fries, who had established the mill.
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ABOVE: Seen in 1981 at the Richmond Coliseum, Ralph Sampson recorded three consecutive double-doubles during a memorable run in 1983. LEFT: Mike Scott was arguably more impressive during a three-game span in March 2012. He scored 85 points and grabbed 31 rebounds against Florida State, Maryland and N.C. State.
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In March 1987, TV news reporter Diane Sawyer, then with CBS, interviewed former presidential adviser Brent Scowcroft at the Mosque (now the Altria Theater) as part of the Richmond Forum speaker series. Scowcroft offered his perspective on Ronald Reagan’s ongoing presidency and shared memories from his time as national security adviser to President Gerald Ford.
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In March 1986, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor spoke with U.S District Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr. before addressing a monthly luncheon meeting at the Richmond Bar Association. O’Connor was appointed to the court by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, becoming the first woman on the court. The local luncheon drew 650 people, setting a high mark for the bar event.
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In August 1988, a trolley passed by a large screen that protected passing vehicles from sandblasting and painting under Interstate 95 on East Main Street.
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In August 1981, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Armstrong left the Cannon Memorial Chapel at the University of Richmond after marking a special day. Fifty years earlier – on Aug. 29, 1931 – they were the first couple to marry in the then-new chapel. For their 50th wedding anniversary, they returned to the chapel from their Rhode Island home for a celebration service led by their son.
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In August 1985, WTVR-TV’s Gary Gilliam interviewed Ed and Debbie Bishop, applicants who wanted to be on a live traveling version of “The New Newlywed Game” that was slated for Regency Square mall in Henrico County. The Bishops were among 25 couples selected at random – from more than 500 applications – for an interview. Four couples were selected for the event, which was hosted by Bob Eubanks as part of a promotional tour ahead of the fall television season, when the latest version of the game show would debut on WTVR and other stations. The winners got a weeklong trip to the Bahamas.
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This June 1988 image shows a quiet moment dance floor at the Pyramid Club, a bar on North Boulevard in Richmond. On Wednesdays, the club hosted House Night – which featured house music, a danceable electronic genre. Admission was $1, and several hundred patrons might fill the un-air-conditioned club.
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In September 1980, East Grace Street between Fourth and Fifth streets in downtown Richmond was closed for a Sunday afternoon “dinner on the grounds,” hosted by Centenary United Methodist Church. The city permitted the street closure for two hours.
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In September 1984, Bremmer Carter Jr. placed loaves of freshly baked on a rack for cooling and slicing at Weiman’s Bakery in Shockoe Bottom in Richmond. The bakery was opened in 1945 by Jacob Weiman and produced nearly 120,000 pounds of baked goods each month at its peak. Over the years, the bakery supplied grocery stores, brand-name bread dealers and local restaurants. After almost seven decades, Weiman’s closed in February 2013.
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In March 1987, Tom Pivec, president of Master Clean Car Wash on Midlothian Turnpike in Richmond, showed off a new robotic washing system that used a 100 percent cotton cleaning curtain. Pivec said the operation could accommodate 1,200 cars per day. The location previously had been Hot Springs Car Wash, whose owner, Joseph Enning, was a familiar face through his television commercials.
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In September 1985, Corey Green peeked out the school bus window on his way home after the first day of school at John B. Cary Elementary School in Richmond.
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In October 1982, two people ate lunch at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in downtown Richmond. A free-lunch ministry among downtown churches served about 150 people per meal, up from only about 25 two years earlier.
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In December 1982, a group of Richmond school bus drivers modeled new uniforms, which included light blue shirts, navy slacks or skirts, berets or caps, and jackets and ties. There was no money in the school system budget for uniforms, so Julia Armistead (right) initiated the effort to get drivers out of plain clothes. The school system’s 180 drivers had the option of buying a uniform, which cost about $80.
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In July 1985, Tom Thomas kicked back on his Harley-Davidson outside Newgate Prison, a bar in the 900 block of West Grace Street in Richmond. The bar was popular with bikers; other businesses in that stretch, including an adult theater, attracted a diverse clientele that could make the area a hot spot for police. The Newgate Prison site was later home to the Virginia Commonwealth University police headquarters for more than a decade.
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In June 1985, Edward Harris lighted the Virginia Special Olympics torch at the University of Richmond, which drew thousands of disabled athletes, coaches and volunteers. The torch arrived on the campus at the end of a 20-mile relay from the state Capitol. The first International Special Olympics Games was held 50 years ago in July 1968.
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In May 1987, patrons at Regency Square in Henrico County filled the mall’s new food court, which included 11 eateries on the mall’s lower level between Miller & Rhoads and Sears. The dining space accommodated up to 450 people and was the first phase of a $5 million renovation at the mall.
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In May 1987, Larry Ingram, president of Neighbors of Chimborazo Park, stood at a contaminated spring along slowly shifting land on Chimborazo Hill in Richmond’s East End. The Church Hill neighborhood group had expressed concerns about the shifting hill; city officials said the issue was being studied as part of a multiyear improvement program.
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This October 1988 image shows East Broad Street looking west into downtown Richmond from Church Hill. That month, radio stations WRVA-AM and WRVQ-FM announced plans to leave their Church Hill studio building after 20 years for new space in South Richmond.
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In May 1983, patrons of Stonewall Café on West Main Street in Richmond dined on the restaurant’s patio. The building was constructed in the 1880s and was used as an elementary school until 1962 – it was once Stonewall Jackson School and West End School, and earlier, it housed the Richmond Normal School. The building was sold to a developer in 1980, and today, the space houses the Baja Bean Co. restaurant.
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In November 1989, Virginia Commonwealth University basketball player Lionel Bacon jogged onto the court at the Richmond Coliseum during pregame festivities. Fireworks, sparklers and, in this moment, a fog machine were among effects that turned player introductions into a lively production.
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In December 1989, a customer navigated the self-service area of the 7-Eleven at Eighth and Broad streets in downtown Richmond. The convenience store chain said it spent millions on customer and product research before rolling out new items or setups – including the 64-ounce Double Gulp fountain drink that was introduced that year. (The original 32-ounce Big Gulp arrived in 1976, and the 44-ounch Super Big Gulp followed in 1986.)
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In October 1986, as part of a $4 million improvement program, WWBT-Channel 12 installed a new TV antenna on its tower on Midlothian Turnpike. It replaced a 30-year-old antenna.
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In June 1984, actress Mary Tyler Moore had her makeup touched up between takes at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond on the set of “Finnegan Begin Again.” The HBO romantic comedy film was shot all over Richmond and co-starred Robert Preston and Sam Waterston.
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In December 1985, actors wearing 19th-century clothing strolled on a “snowy” street in Richmond’s Church Hill neighborhood. The CBS miniseries “Dream West” was being filmed in the area – the program focused on 19th-century American adventurer John Charles Fremont, who was portrayed by Richard Chamberlain. The “snow” was a combination of soap, water and air.
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In July 1985, Farm Fresh Inc. prepared to open a grocery store on Brook Road in Henrico County. This was the fifth store in the Richmond area for the Norfolk-based grocer. The Brook Road location, which was open 24 hours a day, totaled 93,000 square feet and had 18 checkout lanes. In addition to groceries, the location had a bookstore, delicatessen, post office, cheese shop, restaurant, video entertainment center and bulk sales department.
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In September 1984, a crowd of almost 6,000 watched the Richmond Braves play their final Triple-A baseball game at Parker Field on the Boulevard. Days later, the stadium was leveled to make way for the Diamond, which debuted the following year and is now home to the Double-A Richmond Flying Squirrels.
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In October 1985, employees at a Car Pool location in Richmond wiped off vehicles after the wash cycle. The company was established in 1977 in Richmond; the first location was at 2900 Chamberlayne Ave.
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In February 1986, an explosion rocked a row of houses on Davis Avenue in Richmond’s Fan District. The blast inside one home blew out bricks, windows and a back wall. Police and fire officials also discovered a fire in the home’s basement, but the cause of the fire and explosion was not immediately unknown.
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In October 1986, a plaque dedication ceremony marked the addition of Richmond’s Fan District to the National Register of Historic Places. The event, which included songs from the Fox School choir, capped a two-year effort by the Fan Woman’s Club in cooperation with state landmark officials. More than 3,000 buildings in the Fan were photographed and surveyed in the campaign.
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In June 1982, a peacock checked out the Italian Garden at Maymont. Peacocks roamed free in the Richmond park for many years until the early 1990s. Maymont has not had peacocks in its animal family since 2013.
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In February 1981, Richmond Mayor Henry L. Marsh III operated a backhoe to kick off Project One, which included the construction of the Greater Richmond Convention Center. The project was part of a deal between Marriott Corp. and the city housing authority to finance and build a hotel-convention center in downtown Richmond.
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In November 1985, Brown & Williamson workers left the Petersburg plant after its last cigarette production shift. The tobacco company had operated in the city for 53 years but was consolidating production in Georgia. B&W was founded in North Carolina in the 1890s and became a subsidiary of British American Tobacco in the 1920s; operations later were combined with R.J. Reynolds.
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In March 1988, Helene Kahn stood in her GiGi Hats shop on East Grace Street in downtown Richmond. Kahn, who opened the store in 1950 and operated it until her death in 1996, offered hats, wedding veils and other millinery. In 1968, she was the first woman to lead the Downtown Retail Associates trade group.
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In July 1988, 15-year-old John Moncure – who was 5 feet, 9 inches tall – was dwarfed by the roots of a tree that fell through his neighbor’s house on Lakeside Avenue in Henrico County during a storm. The teen’s father estimated that the tree was 150 feet tall.
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In September 1984, workers installed columns for the grandstands as construction progressed quickly on the Diamond, which was replacing Parker Field as Richmond’s minor-league baseball stadium. The Diamond opened the following April.
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This March 1985 image shows a hillside in South Richmond’s Woodland Heights neighborhood, near 27th Street, where homes would be built. The builders planned two-level houses with the living room, dining room and kitchen on the upper level and bedrooms and a sitting room downstairs. Both levels would have decks overlooking Riverside Drive.
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In September 1988, a television news set allowed media students at Virginia Commonwealth University to use a realistic backdrop for their studies. What is now the Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture was founded in 1978 and is one of the largest sections of VCU’s College of Humanities and Sciences.
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In February 1986, a $50,000 façade renovation neared completion at the Village Shopping Center at Patterson Avenue and Three Chopt Road in Richmond. The shopping center, which housed 30 merchants, was undergoing its first substantial renovation since it opened in the mid-1950s.
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In February 1980, patrons toured an exhibit on stamps at Richmond’s main post office at 1801 Brook Road. Titled “The Magic World of Stamps,” the exhibit promoted interest in and understanding of stamp collecting.
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In December 1986, U.S. Postal Service employee Victoria Booker operated an optical character reader device in a Richmond branch to electronically read addresses on letters. Post offices started using the devices in the 1960s to help sort mail by city, state and ZIP code.
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In February 1989, Karl Baskerville cut the hair of William B. Judkins. Baskerville had a mobile barbershop and catered to local attorneys at seven firms around Richmond.
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In May 1987, baseball stars Dick Allen (left) and Hank Aaron jokingly traded head gear during the Legends Festival of Sports baseball classic at The Diamond in Richmond. The event brought together former professional athletes in a baseball game, golf tournament and tennis exhibition to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network.
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In October 1989, workers dismantled the Morgan Fountain in Richmond’s Shockoe Slip in preparation for its rebuilding. The marble horse fountain, donated by a Baltimore woman in 1909 in memory of a Confederate cavalry captain, was rebuilt on a larger stone base to help protect it from traffic. It also was moved a short distance to better align with surrounding buildings.
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In November 1988, General Manager James N. Crandol stood at the seafood counter at the new Super Fresh in the Brookhill Azalea shopping center in Henrico County. The nearly 40,000-square-foot grocery store was the largest of the chain’s 14 locations in the area. The new market was a prototype for the chain, with several specialty food and merchandise departments.
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In March 1989, owner George Cassanese (from left), banquet operator Peter Anton and chef Bryan Moyer stood inside the new Sunset Café at the Chesterfield Airport. The restaurant replaced the Crosswinds Restaurant and Lounge. The two-floor restaurant underwent a full renovation which included a banquet room, lounge and a party rom. The menu included specialty sandwiches, appetizers and pasta dishes.
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In October 1989, Yoel Kranz of Chabad Lubavitch Center of Virginia showed second-graders at Collegiate School in Henrico County the center’s “Sukkah-mobile,” a traveling educational display. The Jewish holiday of Sukkot is a harvest festival that also marks the Jews’ exodus from Egypt; a sukkah is a booth or hut that recall the temporary dwellings used during the wandering.
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In October 1985, patrons enjoyed the seafood lunch buffet in the Richmond Room of the downtown Thalhimers department store. The Friday buffet cost $5.95 and included shrimp Creole, clams, steamed and spiced shrimp and many other selections.
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In October 1987, children were entertained by the University of Richmond mascot as the Spiders faced the University of Virginia. It was a tough day for the home team: UR fell 4-1 to the No. 1-ranked Cavaliers, who were led by coach Bruce Arena and captain John Harkes – both of whom became fixtures of the U.S. national team.
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In July 1980, Alan Dessenberger (left), the principal of the soon-to-open Mills E. Godwin High School in Henrico County, and Randy Patterson checked the lighting in the student TV studio. On opening day that year, 500 freshman and sophomore students started classes, and freshman classes were added in subsequent years. Godwin’s first seniors graduated in 1983.
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In February 1987, Junior the golden eagle visited the General Assembly during a hearing on the state’s hunting and fishing laws. Edward Clark Jr., president of the Wildlife Center of Virginia, introduced Junior to Del. A. Victor Thomas, D-Roanoke, who was chairman of the House Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources.
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In November 1980, Virginia Commonwealth University students who worked on the school’s paper, the Commonwealth Times, held their weekly meeting in the Millhiser House on West Franklin Street in Richmond – but they had yet to furnish the space. Today, the house is home to the Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute, named for VCU’s former provost.
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In April 1988, Capitol Restaurant had just opened at the Richmond International Airport. The restaurant, operated by Concession Air Corp., gave diners a view of takeoffs and landings. Dinner menu items included a chicken strips appetizer for about $3, a grilled chicken teriyaki entrée with salad and potato for $6.95 and an apple pan dowdy dessert for $2.95.
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In August 1980, the Executive Mansion at Capitol Square in Richmond was home to an outdoor tent for the wedding reception of Gov. John Dalton’s daughter. A brief controversy had centered on whether the state had spent $2,500 for the tent, but Dalton eventually paid for it himself.
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In March 1988, George and Brenda Huggins opened their Everything Yogurt outlet in Cloverleaf Mall in Chesterfield County. Frozen yogurt was just starting to gain popularity locally – the Everything Yogurt chain was started by Lane and Sara West after they moved to Richmond from Charlotte, N.C., and noticed the absence of yogurt shops.
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In June 1980, Barbara Gregory stood outside her Truckers Inn in the Sussex County town of Wakefield. Gregory almost lost her lease until a trucker known as “Country Gentleman” stepped in: In a two-week period, “Country Gentleman” gathered more than 150 signatures on a petition to help save the inn. That convinced the property owner to negotiate with Gregory for a month-to-month lease, which allowed her to keep her business open.
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In May 1988, Buck Fuller awaited the lunchtime crowd at Tubby’s Burgers in Sandston. A Times-Dispatch reporter who visited the restaurant recounted the owner’s memorable personality: “Buck Fuller, complete with white chef's hat, greets his customers: ‘What'll it be, a Tubby Burger? How about a chicken salad sandwich? It's fresh. It's homemade. It's never been touched by human hands.’ Then with a wink: ‘I mixed it with my feet this morning.’ “
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In August 1989, Lynette Douglas modeled an outfit from Attitudes, a specialty clothing boutique at Fourth and Grace streets in downtown Richmond. Today, the block features a number of restaurants.
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In June 1981, a refurbished Navy landing craft, which sunk earlier that month, was afloat again in the James River in Richmond. The plan was for it to be used as a public ferry to Belle Isle – the city was in the early stages of turning the island, a former Civil War prisoner camp, into a recreational destination. This setup was created a decade before construction of the suspended pedestrian bridge that reaches Belle Isle today.
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In April 1981, Dick Harman – shown preparing for his role as broadcaster for a hockey game in Richmond – was about to begin a call-in sports talk show on WLEE radio. In 1988, Harman became the public announcer for Richmond City Council meetings, and after an estimated 700 meetings, he retired in 2018.
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In June 1989, Virginia Commonwealth University students moved the top section of their “Goddess of Democracy” reproduction to the Student Commons, where it was displayed for several days. The 33-foot statue, which mirrored one made by art students in Beijing, was a memorial to student protesters who were murdered at Tiananmen Square in China that month.
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In September 1984, Willie Thompson added flour to dough at Weiman’s Bakery on Church Hill in Richmond. The bakery was opened in 1945 by Jacob Weiman and produced nearly 120,000 pounds of baked goods each month at its peak. Over the years, the bakery supplied grocery stores, brand-name bread dealers and local restaurants. After almost seven decades, Weiman’s closed in February 2013.
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In September 1981, the Spiderettes, the University of Richmond pompom squad, practiced a routine at the university. The group, which performed during football pep rallies and at halftime of basketball games, had won a first-place trophy the previous month at a national cheering competition in Knoxville, Tenn. The winning routine was choreographed to The Brothers Johnson dance track “Stomp!”
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In January 1984, a family of Weimaraners stood in the back of owner Doug Solyan’s pickup truck ahead of an exercise session at Byrd Park in Richmond. From left are Kelly (10 months), Georgina (7 years) and Sadie (5 years).
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CAPE MAY — About a year after they were publicly proposed, and little more than a week after a ribbon cutting to dedicate them, the city’s Promenade arches remain controversial.
The new arches provide lighting along several blocks of the beachfront walkway that runs along Beach Avenue, and are based on arches that were in place a century ago. The concept was to return a piece of Cape May history while improving the look of the beachfront walkway.
Over the winter, reproductions of the arches were installed from Gurney Street to Decatur Street.
On Tuesday, neighbors asked City Council not to go any farther.
At the council meeting, Historic Preservation Commission member and architect John Boecker, who drew up plans for the arches, and Curtis Bashaw and Tom Carroll from the Fund for Cape May presented a proposal to add more arches in two phases.
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Boecker based the design on photos and historic postcards showing the arches that were installed around 1910. Originally made of wood, the arches were destroyed in a series of storms, with the last of them gone by 1944.
The new arches run from a beachfront arcade to close to Cape May Convention Hall, each set about 150 feet apart. The six arches are made from Azek, a synthetic material designed to resemble wood, wrapped around steel frames.
As some critics have pointed out, owners are not allowed to use Azek on historic homes within the city’s closely regulated historic district.
Cape May got some time in the national spotlight Monday with a visit from ABC's "Good Morning America."
The Fund for Cape May, a private nonprofit that has helped the city fund other projects, put up the money for the arches and plans to continue the effort in two phases. Each archway costs about $25,000. The first would add 10 more arches, two near Convention Hall, the other eight continuing along the Promenade to the Beach Patrol headquarters at Grant Street. A potential third phase could continue the arches the other way, to the end of the Promenade at Madison Avenue.
While the reviews may have been mixed on social media — with some loving the structures while others describing them as an ugly and unnecessary expense — the public response Tuesday was united in opposition.
“They obstruct views and diminish property values,” said Edmond Shinn, an attorney who said his family has a home on Beach Avenue. “I think there is a strong argument to make that they create light pollution.”
He and other speakers said many do not realize there are private homes along Beach Avenue.
Anita Fennerty, who lives in a Beach Avenue home that dates to when the former arches were originally installed, suggested the arches could cause damage during storms, which she said will likely increase in strength because of climate change.
She mentioned some of the serious storms that have struck Cape May and said her husband was rescued by lifeboat, along with his mother and siblings, from the porch of the same home during the flooding that accompanied a serious storm in 1944.
“You’ll have a hard time convincing me that the benefits of these arches outweigh the risks,” she said.
Bashaw, a well-known hotelier and a driving force behind the Fund for Cape May, said ideas for improving the look of the Promenade have been discussed for years. He said he hoped the initial project would increase interest in continuing it.
CAPE MAY — Along a recently widened portion of Cape May’s beachfront Promenade, six new arch…
The new arches provide lighting for pedestrians in a more attractive way, he said.
“Today, it’s just a completely different image,” Bashaw said.
Mayor Zachary Mullock said Wednesday the arches allowed for the removal of what he described as unsightly power lines, utility poles and light fixtures.
Most of those who spoke against the project have homes along the Promenade. The next phase of the project will be in the commercial district, he said, and he cast doubt on a potential third phase that would include residential areas along Beach Avenue, where opposition could be more intense.
“I don’t think any council member wants to die on the hill of changing a light post,” Mullock said.
There was no vote at the council meeting, just the presentation. Mullock said council would vote on the next phase at a future meeting.
On a sunny July morning, visitors strolled the Promenade or headed to the beach. Most did not seem to notice the new structures. Jonathan Hefetz, of Fair Lawn in Bergen County, visiting Cape May with his family, said he hardly noticed the arches until he was asked his opinion. When he looked up, he noticed they had lights. Without knowing the history of the structures, or anything of the local controversy, he said he thought they added to the beachfront walkway.
“Without them, it might look sort of desolate,” he said.
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Meteorologist Joe Martucci says to be patient Friday morning, there will be plenty of dry time for the Jersey Shore. High temperatures will peak around 80 degrees.
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Two rounds of rain Friday will have the potential to bring a quick inch or two, leading to flooding issues. However, it will be short-term pain for long-term gain, as the weekend looks to be the most comfortable of the summer so far.
We’ll start with the rain first. A line of storms will bring up to 60 minutes of rain through 8 a.m. Friday. With tropical moisture in place, be prepared for poor driving conditions and areas of roadway flooding. In addition, damaging winds and lightning are possible.
It is unusual to have this kind of weather this early in the day, which is usually the most stable. However, this is the third time this week we’ve seen a fairly early downpour.
Admittedly, the storms will weaken as they head toward us. At the coast, the risk for hazardous weather will diminish.
Otherwise, morning low temperatures will be at or around 70 degrees.
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The sun will poke out at 8 a.m., with some smoky haze, and we’ll get into a battle to determine what the afternoon will be like.
On one side, the strong July sunshine and lingering cold front promote afternoon showers and storms.
On the other hand, the morning rain will have used up much of our unstable air, our atmospheric juice.
I believe it’s fair to split it down the middle here. From 1 to 7 p.m., a few heavy downpours will be around. However, I expect most of us to be rain free during this period. Additional areas of roadway flooding are possible if you picked up a good soaking during the morning.
That will leave you with a decent dry window to get outdoor work done or spruce up the house for a busy summer weekend. High temperatures will be in the low to mid-80s.
The cold front will pass Friday evening. This will unlock drier air and a gentle wind coming out of the north. The wildfire smoke should exit the area, too.
Temperatures will fall into the 70s during the night. Come Saturday morning, expect low temperatures to be around 70 for Margate and the shore, with 60s for Egg Harbor City and inland areas.
Based on what I’ve seen on social media, we’re looking forward to this comfortable, lower humidity weekend.
Dew points, a measure of moisture in the air, have been around the sticky 70-degree mark for much of the month.
This weekend, it’ll be between 60 and 65 degrees, which is typically seen as just a touch humid.
The lower humidity will kick out the rain threat, save for a brief, very small shower that isn’t worth putting into my extended forecast graphics.
High temperatures will be in the low to mid-80s everywhere Saturday, as a northwest wind keeps the cooling sea breeze away.
Sunday will have a southwest wind in the morning turn into an afternoon sea breeze at the coast. Shore highs will peak around 85 with near 90 readings inland.
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Keep your devices charged, move in loose objects and continue to have a way to receive weather alerts when you're sleeping. A line of weakening thunderstorms, with a history of wind damage, will move toward the coast early Friday. A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect.
The National Weather Service has three main tools at their disposal to alert you of weather …
The watch, issued by the Storm Prediction Center, a government agency based in Norman, Oklahoma, will run through 8 a.m. A watch means that the ingredients for severe weather are present. When life or property threatening weather is imminent, a severe thunderstorm warning will go into place.
Typically, New Jersey severe thunderstorms occur during the afternoon and evening. However, mesoscale convective complex, a cluster of strong thunderstorms that consist of a circular, long-lasting area of cumulonimbus clouds has raced through the Midwest Thursday night and making it's way toward New Jersey.
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The biggest threat will be winds up to 60 mph and flooding rain. Small hail will be possible in any story, generally under an inch in diameter. A tornado is not ruled out either.
Near Harrisburg, in central Pennsylvania, trees feel on roads, even interstates between midnight and 1 a.m. This line will pass through New Jersey but will weaken as it does so.
Storms will be short lived, passing through for no longer than an hour.
Temperatures will be in the 70s during this time. After 8 a.m., some sunshine will come out and thunderstorms will be possible from between 1 and 7 p.m. However, given the morning thunderstorms will use up most available atmospheric energy, and the sunshine not fully making an appearance, storms should be isolated.
Afternoon highs will be in the 80s. It will be humid until late in the day.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — It’s unclear what changes could come to the Pulse interim memorial after the onePULSE Foundation announced its lease has ended.
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This means control over the site is back in the hands of the club’s owners.
The future of the memorial has been up in the air for a while.
Now that onePULSE’s temporary permit has expired, it can no longer oversee things like day-to-day care and security at the site.
It is a permit issued through planning that allowed for the temporary memorial to be constructed on the site.
Read: Pulse national memorial won’t be located on nightclub property, foundation says
And it was temporary because the vision was to ultimately build a permanent memorial on that site in the future.
The onePULSE Foundation said it only just discovered the permit expired in May of 2022, and the permit was granted to property owners and issued under Barbara Poma’s name.
Read: ‘Our hearts remain broken’: Community reflects on 7 years since Pulse tragedy
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Dave Wannstedt hasn’t coached college football since the 2010 season, but that didn’t stop conversations with Northwestern.
In the wake of a hazing scandal that cost long-time head coach Pat Fitzgerald his job, defensive coordinator David Braun was hired as the interim head coach for the 2023 season, but it appears that Northwestern wants to add a veteran presence around him.
In a radio appearance with Mike Mulligan and David Haugh Thursday morning on 670 The Score in Chicago, Wannstedt said that he spoke with Northwestern about a place on the coaching staff but ultimately pulled himself out of consideration.
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With the approval of the rest of the NFL owners, Pittsburgh Steelers minority owner Josh Harris has completed a $6 billion deal to become the next owner of the Washington Commanders, the league announced on Thursday. The Commanders are being sold under pressure from the NFL by Daniel Snyder, after he was accused of financial improprieties.
“Congratulations to Josh Harris and his impressive group of partners,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a press release. “Josh will be a great addition to the NFL. He has a remarkable record in business, sports, and in his communities. The diverse group that Josh has put together is outstanding for its business acumen and strong Washington ties and we welcome them to the NFL as well.
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CROWN POINT — An Indianapolis man was arrested on Tuesday for dealing cocaine after police used a confidential informant to catch him in the act.
Jesse R. Williams, 34, was charged with three counts of felony-level dealing in cocaine and possession of marijuana, a class B misdemeanor. If convicted on the cocaine dealing charges, Williams would face 62 years in prison.
Charging documents detailed how officers from the Lake County Sheriff’s Department conducted two cocaine purchases via a confidential informant, one on June 6 and another on July 5, in Gary. The C.I. positively identified Williams in a photo lineup after both purchases, the probable-cause affidavit stated.
Police collected 15.2 grams of cocaine from those two controlled purchases, charges stated.
Officers wrote in the affidavit that they detained Williams at a traffic stop at 5th Avenue and Grant Street on Tuesday.
When police searched Williams’s home, they located 33.9 grams of cocaine, 16.2 grams of marijuana, a scale and $1,800. They wrote in charging documents that the amount of cocaine collected “is considered per se possession with the intent to deliver under Indiana law.”
Williams’s appeared in court on Thursday, according to court records. His next appearance has not yet been set.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Demond Tyler
Age : 23
Residence: Danville, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306450
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Cedar Lake Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jacqueline White
Age : 37
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306462
Arrest Date: July 7, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kristina Schierberl
Age : 43
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306434
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Glynisha Shiel
Age : 43
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306435
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Byron Strong
Age : 44
Residence: Glenwood, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306464
Arrest Date: July 7, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dollie Tecaxco
Age : 44
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306428
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: LCCS
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Semaj Reynolds
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306454
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Fred Parker
Age : 48
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306425
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paige Perry
Age : 26
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306460
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake Station Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH PUBLIC SAFETY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lawrence O'Toole
Age : 37
Residence: Crown Point
Booking Number(s): 2306463
Arrest Date: July 7, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - SCHEDULE V
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mathew Murphy
Age : 48
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306457
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Geoni McNeal
Age : 25
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306440
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS; RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Brett Miner
Age : 41
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306443
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shanae McGee
Age : 30
Residence: Lafayette, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306432
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Wilbur Jenkins II
Age : 39
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306444
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kerry Kirk
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, In
Booking Number(s): 2306426
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Robert Mathena
Age : 57
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306445
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Nathaniel Guzman
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306441
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Joshua Hansen
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306427
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: SEX CRIME - CHILD MOLESTATION - FORCIBLE RAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bradley Heideman
Age : 31
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306448
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kyanne Edwards
Age : 21
Residence: Lafayette, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306431
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ollicia England
Age : 40
Residence: Gary, In
Booking Number(s): 2306461
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY; THEFT OF A FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Kenyatta Freeman Jr.
Age : 27
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306456
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jacob Gould
Age : 33
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306466
Arrest Date: July 7, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake Station Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Antonio Cornejo
Age : 38
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306423
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lashionda Bradley
Age : 46
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306449
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
James Buhle
Age : 42
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306429
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Zakiya Coats
Age : 25
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306437
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Carlos Andrade
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306442
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT; BURGLARY - PROPERTY; BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Dierra Bluitt
Age : 25
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306438
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jovon Sharp
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306398
Arrest Date: July 5, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Demetrian Shorter
Age : 23
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306420
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Matthew Potocki
Age : 32
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306400
Arrest Date: July 5, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tonie Pattent
Age : 60
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306417
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Macker
Age : 64
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306409
Arrest Date: July 5, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jerry Moore
Age : 51
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306415
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Winfield Police Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christopher Hurley
Age : 40
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306414
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Leroy Jefferson III
Age : 33
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306411
Arrest Date: July 5, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edwin Macias Guerrero
Age : 22
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306394
Arrest Date: July 5, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Patrick Hammack
Age : 45
Residence: Sumava Resorts, IN
Booking Number(s):
Arrest Date: July 5, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mark Henderson
Age : 63
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306418
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Isabell Hernandez
Age : 30
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306416
Arrest Date: July 6, 2023
Arresting Agency: Winfield Police Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lexi Adams
Age : 27
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306395
Arrest Date: July 5, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Derrick Angelucci
Age : 32
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306399
Arrest Date: July 5, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cartrelle Sullivan
Age : 44
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306369
Arrest Date: July 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lap Dai Truong
Age : 38
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306389
Arrest Date: July 5, 2023
Arresting Agency: St. John Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Smith
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306376
Arrest Date: July 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Candice Johnson
Age : 19
Residence: Lynwood, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306364
Arrest Date: July 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Dyer Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Julie Lonngren
Age : 39
Residence: Bridgeview, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306388
Arrest Date: July 5, 2023
Arresting Agency: Winfield Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cody Nagel
Age : 33
Residence: Fort Wayne, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306373
Arrest Date: July 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- INVASION OF PRIVACY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tomislav Ristic
Age : 47
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306385
Arrest Date: July 5, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jonathan Igras
Age : 21
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306381
Arrest Date: July 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Gallagher Jr.
Age : 43
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306372
Arrest Date: July 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christina Brown
Age : 39
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306374
Arrest Date: July 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Deanna Findley
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306391
Arrest Date: July 5, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Danielle Ford
Age : 31
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306390
Arrest Date: July 5, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ramon Bridges
Age : 38
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306377
Arrest Date: July 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ian West
Age : 38
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306318
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Michael Wynter
Age : 60
Residence: Stone Mountain, GA
Booking Number(s): 2306321
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Maltese Tally
Age : 26
Residence: Milwaukee, WI
Booking Number(s): 2306363
Arrest Date: July 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Whiting Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
John Stoddard Jr.
Age : 62
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306348
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake Station Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Eric Skinner
Age : 43
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306335
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Angel Preacely
Age : 32
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306359
Arrest Date: July 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Riley
Age : 36
Residence: Saginaw, MI
Booking Number(s): 2306337
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - BODILY WASTE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Aarjione League
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306323
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Charles Moore
Age : 34
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306315
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Suzanne Krischke
Age : 57
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306333
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marquita Ford
Age : 34
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306355
Arrest Date: July 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antonio Galvan
Age : 23
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306327
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jason Brown
Age : 37
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306331
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Berrios Jr.
Age : 41
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306349
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Laura Bobadilla
Age : 48
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306358
Arrest Date: July 4, 2023
Arresting Agency: Munster Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Keith Bretthorst
Age : 42
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306345
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lakisha Brooks
Age : 45
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306336
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: ASSISTING A CRIMINAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Narcisa Apuyod
Age : 49
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306343
Arrest Date: July 3, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dan Rodriguez
Age : 50
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306299
Arrest Date: July 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Zivanovich
Age : 26
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306302
Arrest Date: July 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shaunese Rice
Age : 24
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306309
Arrest Date: July 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Robert Lay III
Age : 43
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306300
Arrest Date: July 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Loretta Bell
Age : 40
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306312
Arrest Date: July 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Larry Gore
Age : 63
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306305
Arrest Date: July 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake Station Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Calvin Winfield
Age : 20
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306287
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Katelyn Zajeski
Age : 18
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306264
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Percy Perry
Age : 75
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306272
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andrew Wilcox
Age : 29
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306269
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Javonni Avila
Age : 29
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306286
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Matthew Druzbicki
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306289
Arrest Date: July 2, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lowell Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Kras
Age : 50
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306275
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Troy Sykes
Age : 40
Residence: Dolton, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306252
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Venzke Jr.
Age : 28
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306241
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Taylor Smith
Age : 30
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306259
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Gregory Phillips
Age : 32
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306235
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: LSCT
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - RECKLESS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jose Rivera Jr.
Age : 26
Residence: Oak Forest, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306225
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: LSCT
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicole Roge
Age : 40
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306248
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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MIDLAND, Texas — The 39th annual Celebration of the Arts Festival in Midland is set to kick off in style Friday night.
Artists from across Texas and beyond will be showing off their skills in the heart of the Tall City. You'll get to see art from painters, sculptors, musicians, and much more!
"It's a free event for everybody in the community," Danny Holiva, Arts Council of Midland Executive Director said. "Kids and whoever wants to can do art projects and takeaways, and we, of course, have all of our visual artists, and everything's for purchase."
The celebration kicks off with the premier party at 7 p.m., a ticketed event, and the festival opens to the public on Saturday and runs over the weekend from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
To learn more visit acmidland.org.
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A man was gunned down just feet from Broad Street moments after picking up food from a popular North Philadelphia restaurant overnight.
"We can clearly say that our 33-year-old homicide victim was picking up takeout food when he got into an altercation it appears -- or at least a conversation -- with a male and a female, which lasted a few minutes," Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said of what could be seen on surveillance video. "And then you can see the three of them on the street... and that's when a male shooter pulls a gun and fires the multiple shots."
A woman flagged down police officers to tell them that there was a man down on the sidewalk of Belfield Avenue at Courtland Street -- right by North Broad Street -- in the Logan section of North Philadelphia, Small said.
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Police rushed the semi-conscious man to a nearby hospital where he died early Friday morning, Small said.
Surveillance video shows the gunman get into a what appeared to be a white or light-colored SUV that drove off West on Courtland, investigators said. It was unclear if the woman he was with got into the same vehicle.
Investigators found ballistic evidence that at least 12 shots had been fired at close range, Small said.
"Clearly the shooter or shooters walked right up onto this individual and fired the 12 shots," Small said.
The shooting victim had a handgun on him when he showed up at the hospital, but it appeared he never got a chance to fire it, Small said.
Moments before the shooting he could be seen picking up food from the popular Sid Booker's Shrimp Corner restaurant along North Broad Street.
Entering Friday, there were 236 homicides in Philadelphia, according to data gathered by Philadelphia Police. That's down 23% from the same time last year, but still on pace to be one of the deadliest years since data began being tabulated in 2007.
There are additional resources for people or communities that have endured gun violence in Philadelphia. Further information can be found here.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Northbound Interstate 135 was temporarily closed due to a fatal crash on Thursday.
The crash happened shortly before 8 p.m. near the exit ramp to 13th St. Sedgwick County Dispatch confirms one person has died, while four others were injured in the crash, two critically.
I-135 was shut down while emergency services and crews work.
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Patterson seeks change of venue, cites publicity
Anthony Patterson’s attorneys have filed a request for a change of venue for their client’s trial, claiming publicity about him has been “prejudicial and inflammatory,” and he cannot get a fair jury here.
Patterson, a former Wichita Falls automobile dealer, is charged with multiple offenses of indecency with a child, sexual assault of a child and human trafficking related to alleged incidents in 2017.
Patterson was also charged with separate incidents of sexual assault of a child going back to 2004 and 2005.
The motion ticks off at least 104 local news stories and 35 stories “in national media” the lawyers say generated “hysteria” about the case.
“The pervasive and inflammatory pretrial publicity in the community that has been negative and prejudicial to Patterson, replete with falsehoods and speculation, have made obtaining a verdict based solely on the evidence developed at trial impossible in Wichita County or counties contiguous to Wichita County,” the motion states.
It claims, “The community reactions include unconditional conclusions of Patterson’s guilt and calls for Patterson to receive the death penalty.”
It also contends, “There exists a dangerous combination against Patterson instigated by influential persons that he cannot receive a fair trial.”
The request was filed by Patterson’s three Dallas-area lawyers and local attorney Chuck Smith. A hearing on the motion is set for Aug. 31.
Patterson’s trial is set for October. In the meantime, he is free from jail on a more than $5 million bail.
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The question isn’t so much “Where’s Waldo?” as it is — “where isn’t he?”
We found Waldo nestled inside a geode at the Kenosha Public Museum, residing in a display case next door at the Civil War Museum and striding next to — what else? — some novels at Blue House Books.
It’s all part of this month’s community-wide scavenger hunt to find the elusive children’s book character.
In Martin Handford’s book series, Waldo pops up in all sorts of locations, always wearing his signature look: A striped red-and-white shirt and matching hat, blue jeans and black-rimmed glasses.
Here in Kenosha, Waldo hangs out in 25 local spots, including K9 Kibble, RK News, Lemon Street Gallery, the Kenosha History Center, Modern Apothecary and the Dinosaur Discovery Museum.
People are also reading…
Ground zero for all things Waldo-related is Blue House Books, where owner Samantha Jacquest has, so far, handed out more than 200 scavenger hunt stamp cards. By the end of the hunt on July 31, she expects to have some 300 people participating.
Here’s how it works: Before setting out to find Waldo, stop by the bookstore, 5915 Sixth Ave. A, and pick up a “Find Waldo” stamp card, which contains the names of all the participating sites. At each venue, after you find the cardboard Waldo figure, get your card stamped.
When you collect 20 stamps, your card will be entered into a prize drawing.
“People have until just before 5 p.m. on Monday, July 31, to turn in their completed stamp cards,” Jacquest said. “We’ll start drawing the winning cards at 5 p.m. You don’t have to be present to win, but if you are here, you’ll get to pick out your prize.”
At the Civil War Museum, Yo-Fan Callewaert has been happily signing those Waldo stamp cards.
“When kids find him, they are so excited,” she said at the museum’s front desk. “It’s definitely bringing in more people here and is so much fun.”
She and other museum staffers keep Waldo on the move, too, so if you find him one day ... he might not be in the same place the next time. If you need help in finding Waldo, Callewaert does give hints.
Back at Blue House Books, Jacquest and her staff are having fun moving their Waldo — and his glasses — daily, while they get ready for the July 31 prize drawing.
Since the scavenger hunt launched on July 1, local Waldo locations “have seen a lot of people stopping in, especially for the first time. This event pushes them to check out new places,” Jacquest said. “There is no purchase necessary to participate in this, but getting people to visit these locations has been fantastic.”
Kenosha’s Waldo scavenger hunt is part of a nationwide event overseen by Candlewick Press, which publishes the Waldo books, and hosted by local bookstores each year.
Jacquest signed up this year — and will happily do it all again.
“This has been super-duper fun, and we’ll definitely apply next year,” she said.
Until then, you have 11 days to find Waldo.
Now, get out there.
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July 21 is Junk Food Day! For 24 hours, you can forget all about your healthy eating habits. Instead, indulge in your favorite snacks, whether you prefer salty or sweet — or both! That means Cheetos for breakfast, potato chips for lunch and a whole pan of Rice Krispie treats for supper.
Head to the Southwest Library, 7979 38th Ave., for a free screening of the animated film “Puss in Boots: the Last Wish” from noon to 2 p.m. Everyone is welcome to “bring your lunch or some movie snacks to eat while you watch this fun family film on the big screen.”
The Kenosha Woman’s Club is having a “basement sale in July” fundraiser. From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. today (and Saturday), visitors can shop for items, from “vintage items to brand new merchandise, classic to unique.” All proceeds go to the Woman’s Club to “continue the tradition of philanthropic work and community service.” Note: Entry is through the basement door on the west side of the building at 6028 Eighth Ave.
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The St. Therese Catholic Church festival opens today on the festival grounds outside the church, 2020 91st St. The festival is open 5 to 10 p.m. today, and the band Trip plays tonight. There are children’s activities, raffles and plenty of that “healthy” festival food offerings. The festival continues Saturday and Sunday.
“Movie Nights in the Park” features a free outdoor film shown at dusk each Friday night in Petrifying Springs Park, Area No. 1 (next to the Biergarten), 5555 Seventh St. in Somers. Tonight’s film is the 1985 kids adventure film “Goonies.” Bring a lawn chair and bug spray — and snacks, of course.
A German-style biergarten is “popping up” on in HarborPark, today and Saturday. There will be food trucks and live music, along with vendors. Admission is free, and everyone is welcome. The biergarten is open 3 to 9 p.m. today and 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. For more information, visit the event’s Facebook page, @Pop-up Biergarten Events.
The Kenosha Komets Hockey Team is hosting a Hawaiian-themed Open Skating event from 6 to 9 tonight at the Kenosha Ice Arena, 7727 60th Ave. There is a snack shop with food to purchase. The cost is $10 per skater or $35 for four-plus skaters. Rental skates are available for $7.
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Karlee Eaton named Miss Charlevoix
Annie Doyle
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CHARLEVOIX — Thirteen contestants made up the Charlevoix Venetian Court this year.
At the coronation ceremony on Wednesday, July 19, Karlee Eaton, daughter of Brad and Kristin Eaton, was crowned the 2023 Miss Charlevoix Venetian Queen.
The Miss Charlevoix Venetian Queen competition is scholarship-based and the winner is awarded $3,000. The young ladies that participate in the Miss Charlevoix Venetian Queen competition serve the Charlevoix community as its ambassadors.
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— Contact reporter Annie Doyle at (231)675-0099 or adoyle@charlevoixcourier.com. Follow her on Twitter, @adoylenews
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Charlevoix celebrates Venetian Festival fun
CHARLEVOIX — Thousands of people flocked to Charlevoix this week for the 93rd annual Venetian Festival.
Starting on July 15 with the popular beach and boating party Aquapalooza at Ferry Beach, people enjoyed Canadian Reggae band Lazo and Exodus, corn toss and beach volleyball games and wading in the waters of Lake Charlevoix.
Throughout the week, people took part in a variety of sporting contests and tournaments. From the Beach Bash Basketball tournament to the Cottage Croquet Tourney, the Venetian schedule was filled with opportunities for local athletes.
The croquet tournament took place on Monday, July 17 in East Park. Henry Morley and Steve Trecka took first place and Linda and Doug Smith took second place.
On Tuesday, July 18 the annual 3-on-3 soccer tournament at Shanahan Field brought in players and teams from all around Northern Michigan.
Soccer players competed in several different age categories — youth, high school, adult and over 35 — in the popular tournament.
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Venetian fun continued throughout the week, with Kids Day, carnival rides, live music, the Miss Charlevoix Coronation and more.
Wrapping up the festivities on Saturday, there is still plenty of fun for people to look forward to.
Starting at 9 a.m., the Drenth Memorial Footrace will take place on Bridge Street. The Ryan Shay Mile takes place at 10:30 a.m., and is a championship competition available by invitation only. The race brings in some of the best mile runners from across the country.
More:Annual Ryan Shay Mile returns with record holders, past champion back
The Street Parade will take place just after the race, at 11 a.m. on Bridge Street.
After that, carnival rides and Venetian Rhythms music will be available.
To end the festival, a boat parade will take place at dusk on Round Lake. A fireworks show will immediately follow.
For a full schedule of events, visit venetianfestival.com.
— Contact reporter Annie Doyle at (231)675-0099 or adoyle@charlevoixcourier.com. Follow her on Twitter, @adoylenews
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Multiple vehicles crashed at Midpoint Bridge Thursday night.
Eastbound lanes remained closed while EMS and firefighters aided those involved.
The accident happened around 11 p.m., and roads remained closed for hours and are now back open.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
The current condition of the drivers is unknown at this time.
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Charlevoix housing initiative goes to November ballot
CHARLEVOIX — The Charlevoix City Council has officially sent a citizen-led housing initiative to the ballot in November.
After a public hearing this week, council had the option of approving the proposed language as an ordinance but instead voted to send it on to the ballot box.
The council meeting on July 17 was well attended, with standing room only. The property in question is the former site of the city’s department of public works that now sits as an empty plot of grass across the street from Ferry Beach and the Back Lot restaurant at the end of a residential area with highly sought-after views of Lake Charlevoix.
As of publication, two citizen groups have filed successful petitions for ballot initiatives for their respective land use proposals, with both collecting over 350 signatures from registered voters and having their ballot language approved by the city clerk and city attorney.
The second group wants the property used as a park land.
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People in the audience spoke both in favor of the property being used for housing and also park land.
There was a consistent confusion regarding the housing initiative, which includes an option that the city-owned property be sold to a developer and the funds gleaned from the sale used for housing developments in another area of the city.
Former city council member Greg Bryan spoke about the confusion, noting that “Historically, citizen initiatives have been confusing, which this is a demonstration of, and they are usually filled by problems and usually driven by emotion."
The city has yet to determine what type of housing could be built on the property or what amount the property could be sold for.
The park initiative was also addressed at the July 17 city council meeting. Council scheduled a public hearing for it at its next meeting on Aug. 7.
To read the ballot initiatives and a more detailed description of each, visit the city’s website at charlevoixmi.gov and search for the July 17 city council agenda packet.
The next city council meeting will be at 6 p.m. on Aug. 7 at Charlevoix City Hall.
— Contact reporter Annie Doyle at (231)675-0099 or adoyle@charlevoixcourier.com. Follow her on Twitter, @adoylenews
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Prime Delaware fishing spot in peril. Anglers upset to lose pond for canal dredging
When Kevin Hertzog heard that his favorite fishing spot near Delaware City was going to be drained and filled with dredged materials, he was upset, especially for his son, Tanner, who grew up fishing there.
So was fellow fisherman Tom Campbell.
“I’ve been fishing here for about 50 years. This is a prime place to catch fish,” Campbell said.
His brother, Rich Campbell, agreed, "The best bass fishing in Delaware, hands down.”
They’re talking about a pond on Cox Neck Road just west of Delaware City in an area known as Delaware City dikes, part of the Army Corps of Engineers property along the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.
“The pond is home to a variety of wildlife, with woods around it,” Hertzog said.
The men said along with fish, they’ve seen swans, herons, ducks, beavers, otters, muskrats and deer on the property.
Fishing and kayaking are popular activities, along with duck hunting.
Posted sign was the only notice
A cardboard sign near the pond was the first notice Hertzog saw that the pond was going to be drained, but he didn’t know if it was real or a joke because it didn’t look official. But he was able to confirm the project through fellow anglers who had contacted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
His reaction? “Extreme disappointment,” Hertzog said. “This is something I’ve used for many, many years. It’s close to my house. It’s kind of a unique spot. The water is very clear. There’s a lot of grass in the water so you can’t run a motorboat.”
While you can fish from the banks, going out in a kayak is popular with many of the anglers.
Hertzog taught his teenage son, Tanner, how to fish here several years ago.
Tanner said one of the techniques he learned from his dad and other experts at the pond is “throwing top water,” using lures that float along the surface.
“This pond is an amazing place for it,” Tanner said. “It’s just a great place to come and catch fish.”
He was disappointed about the lack of notice about the draining and said he usually sees announcements on various websites when there’s going to be a change at a pond, park or wildlife area.
However, the difference here is that the pond is U.S. Army Corps of Engineers property. It’s not a state or federal park or wildlife area, but it has been open to the public.
Fisherman Joe Harvilla said the Corps of Engineers even improved the access to the pond years ago, building a dirt and gravel road leading down to the water, making it easy to put in a kayak or canoe.
“I remember when you used to have to park along the road and climb over the dike with your kayak,” said Harvilla, who’s used the pond for about 30 years.
“I was sad to hear they’re going to drain this pond but I’m also concerned that most of the green spaces like this are closing or are now private or fishing is prohibited,” he said. “Growing up, you could fish anywhere, but now there are fewer and fewer places to go.”
The anglers said they’re worried about where younger people will go for fishing and recreation, especially north of the canal.
More on nearby development plans:Subdivision with 108 homes planned along C&D Canal between St. Georges and Delaware City
Why is the pond being drained?
The pond along Cox Neck Road is part of hundreds of acres along the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal owned by the Army Corps of Engineers, designed to help with the maintenance of the shipping and boating channels for the canal and Delaware River.
Draining the pond as a place for dredged materials is part of a long-term plan, said Steve Rochette, public affairs officer for the Philadelphia District of the Army Corps of Engineers.
“This site has always been a dredged material disposal site. It just hasn’t received sediment in a number of years,” said Rochette. “We’re always evaluating capacity of various sites along both the Delaware River and the canal to ensure we have space for future dredging operations to keep the channel open for commerce.”
Preparations for the project includes clearing vegetation and raising the dike. The pond will probably be drained sometime in the fall.
“Draining of the area will be a slow process,” he said. “We will then inspect and repair sections of the dike in preparation for dredge material placement. We are attempting to do this work gradually to mitigate impacts as the sites would not be receiving dredged material for more than a year from now.”
The pond will be gradually drained as sediment is moved around to rebuild the dikes around the perimeter. The water will be directed to flow to a sluice box and then out to the canal.
If fish are unable to follow the water as it’s being drained, the Corps of Engineers has a plan to relocate the fish.
“After the site receives dredged material, it would continue to exist in a somewhat natural state similar to many of the other sites that we own and operate along the canal and Delaware River,” Rochette said.
The work was coordinated with the DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife, he said.
Michael Globetti, DNREC media relations manager, referred questions about the project to the Army Corps of Engineers.
Projects at island near Delaware City:Historic Fort Delaware gets $4 million upgrade. What to know about the Civil War-era park.
Any hope the pond can be saved?
Some of the longtime sportsmen wonder if the site will ever return to anything close to their favorite fishing spot, but they’re holding onto hope that the project could be changed.
“There’s got to be some other place along the canal where they could put this that’s not an active pond,” said Hertzog. “I’ve tried to raise awareness. I’ve reached out to Facebook groups. I’ve emailed state legislators.”
On Tuesday, the state press secretary for U.S. Sen. Chris Coons said the senator didn’t have any comments about the project at this time.
For U.S. Sen. Tom Carper, the state communications director said they would look into the project but couldn’t comment yet.
Andrew Donnelly, communications director for U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, said Wednesday the Congresswoman’s office doesn’t have additional information other than what was provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Rich Campbell said while he’s going to miss fishing at the Cox Neck Road site, he and the other older anglers have enjoyed a lot of good years at the pond, but he repeated the concerns they have for kids and teenagers.
“I fished here when I was 12,” he said. “The next generation is not going to have things like this to do anymore.”
Reporter Ben Mace covers real estate and development news. Reach him at rmace@gannett.com.
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ROANOKE, Va. – Happy Friday! Grab your morning coffee and check out the Morning Sprint to find out what’s trending.
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BUCKEYE, Ariz — It was Marg Burg's 90th birthday on Thursday and she had a single mission:
“I’m gonna jump out of a plane,” she said.
Gearing up and taking instruction from her jumping instructor at Skydive Buckeye, Marge told 12News she got her inspiration from a former president.
“Well, I saw George Bush Jr. do it when he was 90. And I thought, 'well, if he can do it, I can.' I never thought I'd ever reach 90, you know?" Marg said. "But here I am. I'm gonna do it!"
With her family down below, Marg made the 14,000-foot descent to the drop point and safely landed near the Skydive Buckeye facility.
"I'm excited for her. Yeah. Very excited," said Marg's daughter Brenda Omahan. "She makes every day count. And we all love Mom very much. And I wish all my siblings could be here, but I'm representing mom."
Marg told 12News how it was jumping out of a plane at 90.
“It was wonderful, just wonderful," she said, "like I was a bird. It was exciting to see everything from up there, just wonderful.”
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- Negotiations between Donald Wheat and city officials over terms of a $2 million loan guarantee for Wheat's motorhome plant in Duluth bogged down yesterday. Wheat said city officials are adding demands to what he thought was an agreement reached on June 10.
- The Trans-Superior sailboat race ended yesterday as all 39 of the boats that started Saturday in Duluth crossed the finish line at Point Iroquois. The Quintessence, skippered by Charlie Erickson of Minneapolis, was the first finisher, crossing the line some 75 hours after leaving Duluth.
News Tribune, July 21, 1923
- Ore shipments from Duluth docks so far this month exceeded shipments during the same period in June by 1,264,957 tons. The late start of the 1923 season has served as an incentive for excessive shipments, according to the United States Engineer's Office.
- The Duluth Municipal Band, conducted by Charles Helmer, will open this season of open-air concerts on Sunday, performing in the Lester Park bandstand. Helmer said the band will perform in different parks each Sunday afternoon during the summer, weather permitting.
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SUPERIOR NATIONAL FOREST — When the Biden administration barred new mining activity on 225,000 acres of federal land in the Rainy River Watershed, the decision was aimed at protecting the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from potential pollution from copper-nickel mining, which has never been carried out in the state.
The move, paired with other federal action, effectively killed Twin Metals’ planned underground copper-nickel mine that would have been located near the BWCAW.
Still, the ban didn’t target copper-nickel mining specifically, and is instead a ban on all hardrock mining activity, leading some to mischaracterize the move as harming the state's existing taconite industry.
But there aren’t any taconite deposits on withdrawn lands, and there are only two slivers of natural ore on two withdrawn parcels, which would unlikely be developed soon, or ever, anyway.
“It is true that the withdrawal would prevent the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) from leasing any hardrock minerals, including taconite on federal lands for the area for the 20-year period,” Matt Judd, a natural resource staff officer for the U.S. Forest Service and team lead on the withdrawal analysis, said in an email to the News Tribune. “It is also true there are no known taconite ore resources on the withdrawn land parcels and therefore would not affect taconite mining.”
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The state’s only active iron range — the Mesabi Range, home to all six operating taconite mines — isn’t affected by the withdrawal. It spans just over 100 miles from west of Grand Rapids to just across Birch Lake near Babbitt.
The eastern tip of the Mesabi Range is near, but doesn’t overlap, withdrawn lands.
On the Vermilion Range, which spans from Tower to Ely and hasn’t been mined in almost 60 years, only two slivers of native iron can be found on two withdrawn parcels, representing a tiny fraction of the 225,500 acres of withdrawn land.
And the likelihood that a company would mine it in the next 20 years?
“Potential for the development of these mineral occurrences is likely low due to low volumes of ore and high production cost, as compared to taconite mining found in the Mesaba Iron Range,” the Forest Service said in its mineral report.
The Vermilion Range was mined from 1884 until its last mine, Ely’s Pioneer Mine, closed in 1967.
While its iron ore is high grade, much of it is located deep beneath the surface, usually requiring underground mines to reach it.
By the mid-20th century, steelmaking technologies were changing, allowing the use of low-grade ore instead, and open-pit mining for low-grade ore was cheaper than underground mining.
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Processing lower-grade iron ores into pellets became dominant on the Mesabi Range to the south.
There hasn’t been much interest in the Vermilion Range’s iron since.
“I have never heard any talk about opening up mining on the Vermilion Range,” said Don Elsenheimer, a senior geologist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
Today’s mining is focused instead on ore that hasn’t been oxidized and still maintains its magnetic properties, allowing processing plants to crush it, then pull the iron out using magnets, said Heather Arends, mineral potential manager at the DNR.
Northeastern Minnesota’s two other inactive iron ranges — the Cuyuna Range near Crosby and the Gunflint Range between the Gunflint Trail and Minnesota-Canada border — are unaffected by the mineral withdrawal.
The Gunflint Range is either in the BWCAW, where mining has long been banned, or the buffer zone, where any mining activities on the surface are already banned.
Fact-checking the talking point
The fact that no known taconite deposits are on withdrawn lands hasn’t stopped politicians and others from characterizing the mineral withdrawal as an assault on the state’s taconite industry.
They have seized on the fact that the withdrawal would ban all mining and mining activities, making no exception for taconite or other iron ores.
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But they leave out the fact that there aren't any taconite deposits on the withdrawn lands, and that only two parcels in the 225,000-acre withdrawal have any iron formation at all. (The type of native iron found there hasn’t been mined in the state in almost 60 years, and is unlikely to be mined in the next 20 years, according to the Forest Service).
Still, U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Minn., has referred to the land withdrawal as a “blanket taconite mining withdrawal.”
“Arguments made by well-funded anti-mining organizations that taconite will not be affected by this withdrawal are at best, misinformed or at worst, a thinly veiled attempt at hiding the true goal of banning all mining in Minnesota, while trying to avoid the political ramifications associated with taking such a radical anti-mining position,” Stauber wrote in an Aug. 3 letter to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
I sent a letter to the Secretaries of Agriculture & Interior, urging them to end their political process and reject the blanket taconite mining withdrawal.
— Pete Stauber (@RepPeteStauber) August 4, 2022
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The mineral withdrawal would also ban mining activities, meaning mineral exploration would be barred from that land for the next 20 years.
But the region has been heavily explored, and it is unlikely there’s a taconite deposit that big enough and accessible enough to economically mine that has yet to be found.
Asked by the News Tribune whether the withdrawal really would affect taconite, Stauber, of Hermantown, in February pointed to developments in scram mining, or the extraction of iron from piles of waste rock or tailings left behind by old mines.
“Piles (of waste rock) that 30 years ago we didn’t think would be useful, but they are useful now,” Stauber said. “And that’s going to happen across the range as technology gets better.”
That type of mining has been done on the Mesabi Range before, most notably by Magnetation almost a decade ago. Several other companies are also trying to bring it to an industrial scale.
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However, the withdrawn lands hold no known mine stockpiles, tailings, underground mines or any mine infrastructure, according to data curated on the Minnesota Natural Resource Atlas developed by the Natural Resources Research Institute in Duluth.
That means scram mining for iron ore would not be affected by the mineral withdrawal either.
Ultimately, a talking point by the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, which is opposed to copper-nickel mining with the Rainy River Watershed, is accurate.
"The mineral withdrawal does not negatively impact taconite mining. Congressman Stauber has said that the Boundary Waters watershed mineral withdrawal would negatively impact taconite mining. This is false," the group said in a news release in May. "There are no taconite mines on the federal lands withdrawn from the mining program, and the withdrawal area has no economically viable taconite deposits."
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YORK, Pa. — The York State Fair kicked off for another 10 fun-filled days on Friday.
This is the third year the State Fair was held in July, instead of September.
But even with the slight change of schedule, there are plenty of familiar favorites for fairgoers. The State Fair features nearly 1,300 farm animals coming through the UPMC Arena, multiple thrilling and family-friendly rides on the Midway, and amazing live performances at the grandstand.
Some of those performances include Five Finger Death Punch, Nelly and Dierks Bentley.
And with the summer, comes heat. But, fair officials said they have fairgoers covered.
"All of our buildings are air-conditioned; we have multiple misting tents and two air-conditioned tents provided by the state," said Montgomery Stambaugh, communications director of the York State Fair.
There were a few new promotional days this year, including $2 Tuesday.
“We’ve got $2 Tuesday going on which is $2 admission, $2 rides, as well as $2 food specials from select vendors," explained Stambaugh.
There will also be a souvenir tent and several "selfie stations" throughout the fairgrounds this year too.
The fair runs from July 21 to July 30. For more information, click here.
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In 1983, Don Foster and then-wife Lucy Lovely opened a hole-in-the-wall bookstore near Sunset Strip in Denton. Two relocations and several decades later, that little bookstore has blossomed into one of North Texas’ most recognized landmarks, drawing book and music lovers from across the region.
“It’s the greatest thing in my life, except for my children, of course,” Foster told the Denton Record-Chronicle.
Recycled Books, Records & CDs — a three-story home to hundreds of thousands of treasures — celebrated 40 years in business this June, and, despite the store’s growth over that time, not much has changed. Though Lovely left the business to pursue work in sustainable agriculture, Foster and two of his three children still run the day-to-day operations at Recycled Books.
Just like at its opening, the Fosters and staff, who help curate sections, aim to fill the store with a mix of the eclectic and the everyday. While a lot of the store’s finds in the early days came from the family seeking inventory out directly, these days much of it comes through the front door.
“We always wanted to be a place where people could meet up and find anything that would interest them, from the mainstream to the really obscure stuff,” said Ivy Foster, who helps run Recycled alongside her father and brother.
More than just a retail spot, Recycled has long served as a community gathering space. Before filling the basement with inventory, it hosted local events from science expos to group meetings. Plenty of notables have passed through over the years, according to Don, from Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth to nationally acclaimed author Grady Hendrix.
The store’s growth hasn’t always been seamless. From repeated predictions about the death of analog to the shutdown necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Recycled has not been immune to economic challenges. But what has remained constant, Ivy said, has been the public’s support, which has helped the store ride out the waves.
The family hopes that, given the mutual love with Denton, another 40 years is in Recycled’s future.
“The community in general has always been incredibly supportive, and we’re so, so grateful,” Ivy said. “We definitely just want to keep improving and listening to the community about what they’re looking for and trying to keep that going for them as much as we can.”
Recycled will host a storewide 20% off sale July 28 through July 30 to celebrate the anniversary. To learn more, visit recycledbooks.com.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Alerts have been issued Friday for parts of Central Florida due to high temperatures.
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Wait, there's a Topgolf in New Smyrna Beach? Pretty much ... but it's cheaper!
A prototypical, mid-summer afternoon rain shower interrupted Chris Wrobel’s tutorial on the intricacies of the driving range at the Preserve at Turnbull Bay.
But such things won’t interrupt golfers there. Not anymore.
“Unless the rain is coming in sideways,” Wrobel grinned.
And a new shelter encompassing 15 individual bays and some strategically placed fans are just the tip of the iceberg.
With the help of Toptracer, Wrobel, the course’s general manager, has helped turn the range into the most technologically advanced in all of Volusia and Flagler Counties.
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Each bay is fitted with monitors and comes equipped with enough practice options and games to keep the most avid golfer toiling away for hours without ever reaching the first tee box.
Want to dial in a yardage with a specific club? Use the practice option, lock in on one of the range's several colored stakes, and fire away. The monitor will measure ball speed, spin, carry, launch angle and total distance among other things.
Too hot on the course? Play a round of virtual golf on a world-famous course, say St. Andrews or Pebble Beach, among several others while under an awning.
Think Topgolf, only all the bays are on one floor and the beer is a little more reasonably priced.
Of course, those aren't the only differences despite the fact Topgolf utilizes Toptracer technology and is very much a part of an initiative, headed by parent company Callaway, to bring more and more such setups to driving ranges around the country.
Topgolf also utilizes golf balls with microchips in them while Toptracer ranges, such as the newly installed one at Turnbull bay, do not, giving serious golfers more realistic feel when it comes to ball striking.
It's as simple as downloading the free Toptracer Range app, which unlocks a world of possibilities at Turnbull bay.
So far, Wrobel said the investment, which ran the course around $125,000, is paying off.
“We started this a year and a half ago, (Toptracer has) a mobile version and you can download the app and use your phone as a monitor,” Wrobel explained. “It doesn’t have the games that the monitor does, but we started that last year. It worked pretty well for us so we decided to go full-on, put the shade structure up, bring in the monitors and so far, it’s been well worth it.”
The facility, which opened in early February, has already attracted more golfers and some new regulars and the hope is that it’s just the start of an overhaul. Currently, beer is sold by the can but plans for a full kitchen could soon be in the works as well. Wrobel also said food trucks may be brought in on certain days.
The course is still recovering from an April fire that destroyed its clubhouse with plans to rebuild soon already in the works.
What are the hours of operation for the driving range at the Preserve at Turnbull Bay?
The range at Turnbull Bay is open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. That will continue into the winter as lights have been added to account for darkness.
How much does the driving range cost at the Preserve at Turnbull Bay?
Instead of renting out bays by the hour, golfers will pay to use the facility by the basket. A small bucket will run $5, a medium is $10, a large is $15 and a jumbo basket, holding 100 golf balls, is $20.
Punch cards are also available with 15 buckets of balls going for $225. Party packages are also available for groups with six players or more at a cost of $25 per player for two hours.
Are there any specials for the driving range at the Preserve at Turnbull Bay?
Turnbull Bay is offering daily specials on its range.
Monday is 25% off a bucket for all golfers over 60 years of age after noon. Tuesday and Thursday are "Buckets and Brews" days, with golfers getting 40% off of a bucket with the purchase of a six-pack of beer or 10% off a bucket with the purchase of one drink.
On Wednesday, ladies receive 20% off any bucket after noon while Friday is Date Night, with a bucket marked half off with the purchase of a large or jumbo basket. On Saturday, for Family Day, kids 12 and under receive a free medium bucket with the purchase of a large or jumbo basket and on Sunday, buckets are half off with the purchase of $25 of merchandise from the course store.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — A disaster declaration has been issued in Tarrant County due to the threat of wildfires amid dry, blistering conditions in North Texas.
County Judge Tim O'Hare made the declaration on Thursday, citing drought conditions in unincorporated areas of the county that can lead to wildfires.
"Tarrant County has been experiencing several days of extreme high temperature, low humidity and gusty winds creating the need to take extraordinary measures to protect the lives and properties of the residents of the unincorporated areas of Tarrant County," read a statement on the county's website.
Under the declaration, all outdoor burning is prohibited, and any violation is a Class C misdemeanor with a fine of up to $500. Any controlled burning will need to be approved by the Tarrant County Fire Marshal's Office.
The declaration is in effect until Wednesday, July 26.
The county saw a large grass fire on Wednesday near northern Fort Worth and Saginaw. The fire burned through the afternoon but was eventually reported as 100% contained by around 8 p.m. the same day. About 184 acres were burned, according to officials.
The fire was sparked as a construction company was doing underground cabling and was cutting up rebar. The gusty winds caused the flames to spread quickly both northeast and northwest.
Adam Turner of the Texas A&M Forest Service told WFAA on Wednesday that the high heat impacts firefighters' ability to put out the flames and requires crews to take breaks.
"It makes it more difficult," Turner said. "We can't work for as long without having to take breaks and cool off. All of that heat that's affecting us is also affecting all of this grass and brush that's out there."
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Pennsylvanians should be aware of a scam targeting consumers who are rescheduling flight plans following flight delays and cancellations. Scammers are taking advantage to obtain personal information, Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry warns.
Scammers have been using Google’s search engines and creating fake accounts that appear to be affiliated with major airlines and are also altering existing legitimate Google listings. Consumers fall into the scam by searching their airlines, contacting a fake airline representative and providing their personal information, including credit card information.
It is believed that Google has removed these listings from their search engine databases. However, consumers should remain vigilant when rescheduling flights, Henry says.
Tips to remember:
- Make sure you are accessing the airlines’ legitimate website;
- Do not trust search engine results to relay the airlines’ phone number;
- Always obtain the phone number directly from the official website of the airline you need to contact; and
- Do not give out personal or financial information in response to a request that you did not expect.
Consumers with questions or those who feel that they have been victimized by the scam may submit a complaint with the Office of Attorney General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection online, by emailing scams@attorneygeneral.gov or by calling 1-800-441-2555.
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State police are investigating after they say the driver of an SUV drove directly into a marked state trooper patrol unit then fled, almost striking a trooper.
Just after 3:35 a.m., multiple reports were received that about 50 vehicles were stopped on the Fort Pitt Bridge. They appeared to be doing burnouts and drag racing on the bridge, according to state police.
When troopers arrived on scene, a burgundy Jeep Grand Cherokee drove into the police unit, then nearly struck a trooper.
Troopers were able to locate the vehicle near Bridgeville with the help of the South Fayette Police Department.
Channel 11 was the only station in South Fayette this morning on Boyce Road, where we saw a burgundy Jeep with some rear damage being towed from the scene.
We also saw a person in handcuffs being taken away in a state police cruiser.
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Judge derails attorney's attempt to funnel class action money to University of Tennessee
Prominent Tennessee attorney Gordon Ball is used to getting his way when judges need to figure out where to send unclaimed cash from class action lawsuits.
This time, however, a federal judge said no to Ball's attempt to shepherd unclaimed money from a lawsuit over shoddy auditing by an international accounting firm to the Neel Corporate Governance Center at the University of Tennessee.
Ball's effort was opposed by a law firm that also took on the accounting firm, but wanted unclaimed reward money to go to a consumer advocacy group that works on behalf of people nationwide.
The law firm that fought Ball's effort cited a Knox News investigative report on Ball's successes rewarding schools he favors even when there's no evident connection to the purpose of the lawsuit that produced the cash.
The process of sending unclaimed money from class action lawsuits is governed by the cy pres doctrine, which says suitable donors should have some connection to the purpose of the suit. Recipients have included children's hospitals and nonprofit advocacy groups.
Ball has successfully directed unclaimed reward money to East Tennessee State University, the University of Memphis School of Law and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He's also left his mark, literally, on those campuses. Each has named facilities after Ball.
Magistrate Judge Debra Poplin sided with representatives from Cohen, Milstein, Sellers and Toll, a national law firm, and their suggestion to send unclaimed reward money to the Institute for Law & Economic Policy, a public policy research and educational foundation that works to preserve, study and enhance investor and consumer access to the civil justice system.
The dollars at stake haven't been finalized, but $23.4 million was set aside for victims of the accounting firm, and it's common for money, often substantial sums, to be left after victims have been identified and given a chance to secure their portion.
Poplin explained the Institute for Law & Economic Policy was a more appropriate location for unclaimed reward dollars because it works to protect investors. She pointed out previous rulings by courts that sent unclaimed dollars to the organization.
Poplin's recommendation was filed July 19. The decision ultimately is U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan’s to make, but he is unlikely to rule otherwise.
As for Ball's client's request for the money to go to UT, Poplin wrote he didn’t sufficiently explain why the funds should go to the Neel Center at UT, or how class members from across the country would benefit from UT getting the money.
“While (Ball's client, Lewis Cosby) argues that the class members benefited from his work in this matter and that he graduated from the University of Tennessee, this is not a proper consideration,” Poplin wrote.
In an emailed statement to Knox News, Cosby said the matter is settled.
“As I stated earlier, it is entirely up to the judge to make the decision regarding cy pres funds. I respect all the work that Judge Poplin has done through the years in this case, and it is final as far as I am concerned.”
Neither Ball nor attorneys from Cohen, Milstein, Sellers and Toll responded to a request for comment.
Tyler Whetstone is a Knox News investigative reporter focused on accountability journalism. Email tyler.whetstone@knoxnews.com. Twitter @tyler_whetstone.
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Knoxville's airport plans for 'more flights, more destinations' with 6 new gates
McGhee Tyson Airport plans to add six new gates by 2028, a 50% increase as the airport projects a record-breaking 2.7 million passengers in 2023.
The passenger increase will test the limits of the current terminal, which was completed in 2000 and was built to serve up to 2.6 million passengers yearly, according to Patrick Wilson, president of the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority.
Over the next five years, the airport expects to far exceed its prepandemic numbers and to expand its offerings.
“We’re expecting to continue to see more flights, more destinations, and we’re also seeing the size of the aircraft increase,” Wilson told Knox News.
Why the Knoxville airport is adding more gates
The airport is at capacity, both from a passenger and an airplane size standpoint.
Wilson said those capacity issues became apparent in 2019, one year after Allegiant Air made McGhee Tyson an operating base and stationed two Airbus planes there. It was a record year, with 2.57 million passengers.
The gate expansion enters its planning phase at the same time the airport announced more surface parking and a new $180 million parking garage, expected in 2026.
Delta, which offers flights to Atlanta, Detroit and New York City, uses Boeing 737 jets with 180 seats for some of its flights. That's a far larger plane than the regional jets the terminal was built to accommodate.
The airport currently offers nonstop flights to 26 destinations from five airlines, several of which offer low-priced tickets.
Increased aircraft size means the current terminal is a tight squeeze for some planes, and flight volume can leave planes sitting on the runway waiting to unload passengers.
To make the best use of the airport's 12 current gates and to bridge the gap until 2028, Wilson said the airport would transition away from a system where certain gates are leased to airlines, which can leave passengers sitting on the tarmac even when gates are available.
Instead, airlines can deboard at any available gates and pay a per-use fee.
Brian Simmons, chairman of the airport's board of commissioners, said the new parking and gate expansion would make the airport as convenient as possible for passengers without limiting the services it provides.
“We’re fortunate to be butting up against the capacity, but we are not turning away airline services, we’re not turning away airlines," Simmons said. "We can accommodate them right now, but we know in the future we need to do this. We feel like our timing is good and we have a healthy sense of urgency here."
According to Wilson, the airport is always trying to attract new carriers like Southwest and new services from its current carriers, though these decisions are up to airlines.
How will McGhee Tyson pay for the gate expansion?
The unknown price tag on the gate additions will be funded by federal grants, state grants and bonds, the same funding methods that supported the current terminal building, Wilson said.
Some of this money is likely to come from the Federal Aviation Administration through its Airport Improvement Program, which provides more than $3 billion in grants to public-use airports.
In addition to grants from the FAA and the Tennessee Department of Transportation, which helped cover a $134 million runway reconstruction completed in 2021, the airport will enter into debt that will be paid back from airline revenues and ticket fees.
The proportion of funding sources for the gate expansion project is still unknown.
Often, FAA grants allow airports to make small changes.
On July 20, the FAA announced its latest slate of grants, which include $3.1 million for McGhee Tyson to install new lights on its runways. Another recent FAA grant for $2 million will allow the airport to acquire zero emissions shuttles and charging stations to support its sustainability efforts.
How can taxpayers provide feedback on the expanded terminal plans?
All kinds of public feedback, from Facebook comments to emails from passengers, are used in the airport's planning, according to Becky Huckaby, vice president for public relations.
But the fliers can give direct feedback on the terminal expansion in an online survey that will be posted to the airport's website as early as next week.
“One of the questions on there, is ‘what kinds of amenities do you miss in the terminal?’” Huckaby said.
By enlisting users to imagine what the new terminal could look like, McGhee Tyson hopes to better pursue its mission statement "to connect East Tennessee's people and businesses with the world."
Daniel Dassow is a reporting intern focusing on trending and business news. Phone 423-637-0878. Email daniel.dassow@knoxnews.com.
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