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What is coal ash? Can it harm your health if you're exposed? Experts weigh in
When the sun sets on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s use of coal power plants, it won’t set on the utility’s responsibility for the forever waste of coal ash, the product of decades of burning coal.
TVA has burned coal since at least 1933, starting with the Wilson Steam Plant in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Over the years, TVA has had about 13 coal plants spread across its seven-state region, five of which haven’t been retired yet.
This has resulted in tons of coal ash, which is exactly what it sounds like: the ash left over from the process of burning coal. Coal ash can pose varying degrees of health impacts depending on what elements are in the ash, how large the ash particles are, how a person has been exposed and for how long.
What is coal ash?
Coal is primarily composed of carbon. When the carbon is burned away, what’s left is a concentrated waste of elements and particles, said Laura Ruhl, a former assistant professor of environmental geochemistry and hydrology at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.
No coal ash is the same. The composition varies depending on where the coal was mined and how it was processed, burned and disposed of.
Generally speaking, coal ash could be composed of just about any naturally occurring element on the periodic table, said Grace Schwartz, an assistant professor of chemistry at Wofford College.
Some of the more concerning elements in coal ash can include heavy metals such as mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium or chromium. Coal ash also can contain elements that emit radiation.
With so many possible elements in the ash, assessing health risks and creating regulations can be hard, public health expert Greg Nichols said.
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What are some different types of coal ash?
Coal ash is a broad term for coal waste, and there are multiple subcategories. Here are a few types of coal ash, according to the Environmental Protection Agency:
- Fly ash: This powdery ash is created when “finely ground coal” is burned in a boiler. It’s primarily composed of silica.
- Bottom ash: These are sand- and gravel-size particles, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. These particles form at the bottom of a coal furnace, according to the EPA.
- Boiler slag: This is a type of molten bottom ash that becomes pellets with “a smooth glassy appearance” once cooled in water. This forms in specific types of furnaces.
- Flue gas desulfurization material: This material can be wet or dry and contain calcium sulfite or calcium sulfate in a wet sludge or be in the form of a mixed powder with sulfites and sulfates.
What health risks from coal ash are known?
While coal ash is still being studied to measure potential risks, some of the health effects from properties such as the size of its particles or the elements in it are known.
Small particles, known as particulate matter, can be inhaled or ingested, bringing them into the body. Small enough particles can be brought into the bloodstream and lungs, according to the EPA.
That means "that a lot of the metals that were in the gaseous phase are now absorbing to the surface of these ash particles, and the smaller ash particles, the greater the amount of metals and things of concern on the surface of them,” Ruhl said.
Ruhl said that once those particles are deposited into the body, the body will have its own reactions to the metals and, potentially, elements that emit radiation.
Paul Terry, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Tennessee’s Department of Medicine, said that when elements meet liquids in the body such as lung fluid or stomach acid, those liquids can cause those elements and metals to dissolve, which means the elements could be absorbed into the bloodstream and have a variety of impacts on the body.
Some heavy metals such as mercury and arsenic have been studied individually for health impacts, said Neha Pathak, a founding member of the Georgia Clinicians for Climate Action.
“Selenium is ... one that's really interesting because (at) low concentrations, it's actually considered a nutrient, like, our bodies need small amounts of selenium,” said Amrika Deonarine, assistant professor of environmental engineering at Texas Tech University. “Then once that concentration gets too high, once we're exposed to too much of it, and it can have negative effects.”
It’s difficult to measure the total impacts of exposure to coal ash because the composition varies.
Type of exposure to coal ash can influence health impacts
Exposure to coal ash involves multiple elements at once, which could have a greater impact.
“It's different when you put them together. The tolerance we have for these chemicals goes down when they're delivered together,” Terry said. “Models or estimates that just look at individual components fail to understand and quantify the synergy that can cause much more damage than any one of those things could alone at much lower concentrations.”
Terry said that vulnerable populations - such as asthmatics, children and people with histories of cancer and heart disease - are more at risk of having negative reactions when exposed to contaminants.
We know there can be health impacts from being exposed to coal ash over a long periods of time, Pathak said, but not at what dose those impacts might appear.
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“How long does it take and how many hits do you need to have in order for it to cause this long-term damage?" Pathak said. "Regionally, people are being exposed to different things. So what is that chemical brew that is really dangerous versus somewhat dangerous versus maybe your body can handle it? We don't know all of these things."
The risks also can vary depending on how a person was exposed. If a person works in a place where they are exposed to coal ash daily without a mask or respirator, they could be exposed to higher levels of the ash than a person who is exposed in a single instance. The former type of exposure is embodied by the cases brought by workers who cleaned up TVA’s 2008 Kingston coal ash spill.
Their lawsuits yielded a verdict in 2018 that linked the worker’s working conditions and exposure to the ash at the spill site to about 10 different health conditions and diseases suffered by the workers years later, including lung cancer, heart and respiratory conditions, types of cancer and peripheral neuropathy.
Terry and Pathak both pointed out that there could be health impacts to communities that live near coal plants or ash disposal sites where the ash could be getting into groundwater, nearby rivers and creeks, air or soil. This type of low-level exposure over a long period of time has not been studied enough to know exactly what the total impact could be.
“Don't underestimate in any way potential harm when it comes to communities. Of course, chronic exposure is horrible, acute exposure is horrible. Chronic low level exposures? Probably not good at all,” Terry said.
How does TVA dispose of coal ash?
Because ash particles are hard to control when dry, some utilities opt for storing their ash in ponds or impoundments. That used to be TVA’s method of disposal before the Kingston coal ash spill, when a dike holding back a fly ash disposal pond broke, releasing 5.4 million cubic yards of wet ash that covered homes and contaminated the Emory River Channel.
After Kingston, TVA started storing its ash dry with a technology-based monitoring system that oversees the disposal sites 24/7. To contain the ash and prevent it from becoming airborne and coming in contact with people, TVA also has “fugitive dust” plans that can include watering down the ash and compacting it.
“We use compaction technology and cutting-edge 3D technology to map each layer of coal ash that is placed into TVA’s dry storage landfills to further ensure the safety and stability of our sites,” TVA’s page about coal ash says.
While the dust plan should combat potential releases of ash into the air, coal ash also can enter the environment by leaking into groundwater underneath the disposal sites.
“So different elements have different behaviors, and some of them will dissolve easily into water, for example, because of their chemical form, and other environmental factors like pH and redox potential which is basically related (to) how much oxygen there is,” Deonarine said.
For communities and individuals primarily using well water for drinking, this can pose a direct health risk if ash is leaking into nearby groundwater.
In an effort to monitor potential releases of coal ash into groundwater, TVA has monitoring wells at each of its disposal sites and plants.
In Tennessee, this data can be used to inform the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation of whether the ash at TVA’s plants and disposal sites poses a certain level of risk to the environment and the people living nearby.
After Kingston, TDEC released an order requiring an investigation of all coal ash TVA has disposed of in Tennessee. The investigation could mean TVA might need to remediate its disposal sites by digging up and moving the ash it has already disposed of to another location.
Is coal ash considered hazardous waste?
The EPA does not consider coal ash as “hazardous waste,” a label that would come with specific restrictions on how the waste would have to be handled and disposed of.
“So just like (the) pure volume of this material (coal ash) that's out there is enormous,” Ruhl said. “And I think that was one of the factors that went into considering whether this should be a hazardous waste or not, was the fact that there's so much of this stuff that if it was deemed a hazardous waste, and they had to dispose of it in a hazardous waste landfill, it would fill them … up very quickly.”
Instead, coal ash is still regulated federally but under “minimum federal criteria for the operation of municipal waste and industrial waste landfills,” according to the EPA. The restrictions include design of the landfill, location, clean up, financial assurance, corrective action and closure requirements.
In 2015, the EPA created the first national regulations for coal ash with the Coal Combustion Residuals Rule as a result of the 2008 Kingston coal ash spill.
The rule focuses on the risks of disposing of coal ash, such as contaminants leaking into groundwater, particles becoming airborne and the potential breaking of impoundments that hold wet coal ash.
“Additionally, the rule sets out recordkeeping and reporting requirements as well as the requirement for each facility to establish and post specific information to a publicly-accessible website,” the EPA says on its page about the rule.
In addition to the baseline created by the federal government that all states must abide by, individual states can create their own regulations that could be more restrictive than the federal rule. In Tennessee, TDEC’s commissioner’s order currently goes beyond the scope of what the federal coal ash rule requires, according to a press release about the order.
TDEC can order additional investigations, remedial actions, maintenance and monitoring.
Do the regulations account for all coal ash everywhere?
Not necessarily. Coal was burned for decades around the country and coal ash was generated for just as long. The regulations that exist today for coal ash disposal and usage didn’t always exist.
This means there’s a very real possibility we don’t know where all of the coal ash is in the country and therefore have no evaluation of how safe it is in some current locations.
More:Coal ash could be reused anywhere. Here's how government does - and doesn't - regulate it
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – An Orlando woman who was arrested in 2020, accused of leaving her boyfriend to die of asphyxiation in a zipped suitcase as he called out for her, will be the subject of another pretrial hearing in Orange County court Friday morning.
Sarah Boone, 45, has since pleaded not guilty to the charge of second-degree murder that she faces in the death of 42-year-old Jorge Torres Jr.
Boone on Feb. 24, 2020, called deputies to an apartment along Frantz Lane in Winter Park to report that Torres was dead, according to an arrest affidavit.
She told investigators that she and Torres were drinking wine, painting and assembling a puzzle the night before, claiming they had agreed it would be “funny” if the two played “hide-n-seek.” Boone said the game ended with Torres zipped in a suitcase and her asleep upstairs, according to authorities.
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Boone located Torres dead the next day, her arrest affidavit states. Deputies said they found the victim’s body lying near the suitcase and front door of the residence.
Boone signed off on papers allowing investigators to search her phone, according to the affidavit.
One of two videos that were highlighted by the sheriff’s office, recorded at 11:12 p.m., allegedly showed the suitcase facing down in the living room, moving as Torres pushed around in an attempt to escape. Torres could reportedly be heard repeatedly calling out to Boone as she laughed at and taunted him, deputies said.
“For everything you’ve done to me. (Expletive) you. Stupid,” Boone said, according to the affidavit.
“I can’t (expletive) breathe, seriously,” Torres replied.
“Yeah that’s what you do when you choke me,” Boone could reportedly be heard saying.
In the other video, recorded at 8:20 p.m., the suitcase was seen facing up in a different part of the living room, deputies said.
Boone drove herself to the sheriff’s office on Feb. 25, 2020, for a follow-up interview, during which she was shown the first video mentioned.
She wished to not finish watching the video about halfway through, deputies said. She reportedly told investigators it looked “bad,” but she denied intentionally leaving Torres in the suitcase and, when she was asked why she never checked on him or let him out prior to falling asleep, Boone reportedly said, “I don’t know.”
An earlier status hearing in January saw a possible trial moved from an expected Jan. 30 start date. Her attorney, Frank Bankowitz, appeared virtually and said that he had recently contracted COVID-19.
Boone’s latest status hearing was scheduled for Friday morning.
This is a developing story. Check back here for updates.
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Homes sales increase for month of June in North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton metro region
SARASOTA — Home purchases in the region continued to climb over the past month, marking a second consecutive increase in sales, according to data released from Florida Realtors and compiled by the Realtor Association of Sarasota and Manatee (RASM) this week.
The real estate organizations announced on Thursday that combined June home sales increased in the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton metro region, new listings are down and home values have stayed higher overall when compared to the same time last year.
In Sarasota County, single-family sales decreased by 4.1% to 769 sales, while condo sales increased year-over-year by 1.3% to 381 sales. For Manatee County, single-family home sales increased year-over-year by 17.7% to 759 properties sold, while condo sales increased by 12.1% to 297 sales.
“The residential market in Manatee County continues to thrive with two back-to-back months of increased sales over the last year, indicating strong buyer activity and market resilience,” said Brian Tresidder, 2023 RASM President and Strategic Growth & Sales Manager at William Raveis Real Estate. “The real estate market in Sarasota County remains dynamic, with single-family sales experiencing a decline compared to 2022. Nevertheless, June sales point to more balance, slowly narrowing the gap with last year’s figures and reaffirming the region’s market strength.”
Increases in the inventory of homes in both Manatee and Sarasota counties have increased over the last year, too.
RASM reported that single-family home inventory in Manatee County increased by 55.6% while the availability of condominium units rose by 126%.
Sarasota County supply and home inventory have increased to a three-month supply of available units and properties for home buyers to purchase, the report stated.
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Overall, there were 5,386 active listings combined for both property types in the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton metro region — a 51.6% increase from last June and a nearly 4% increase from last month. Across the two-county region, a total of 3,545 active listings were reported for single-family homes, and 1,841 listings were reported in the condo market at the end of June.
Single-family home prices in Manatee County decreased year-over-year by 4.5% to $525,000. Condo prices increased by 3.8% to $370,000 in Manatee County.
In comparison, Sarasota County real estate increased by 4.5% to a $522,500 median purchase price while median condominium pricing decreased by 6.3% to $390,000 in Sarasota.
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How did a Sarasota company that started off Fruitville Road grow into a global firm?
Art Lambert and Ron Simkins have built a global company operating in almost 80 countries and accepting seven different currencies — all from a headquarters in Sarasota.
It is a success story that started with just a couple of employees in a warehouse district near Fruitville Road and Interstate 75 but has since grown to 120 employees in Sarasota with a global headcount of about 200.
S-One Holdings Corporation is the parent company of LexJet, DigiPrint Supplies, S-One Labels & Packaging and Brand Management Group.
The business focuses on the graphics and digital printing industry, including licensing agreements with Hewlett Packard and Kodak brands to sell wide-format printing equipment and supplies.
Lambert attributed the early growth of the company to being in the "right place at the right time."
Both he and Simkins had worked in the computer industry at Zenith Data Systems in Chicago before relocating to Sarasota. When they formed LexJet — combining Lexan materials with Inkjet technology — they positioned themselves for the transformation from analog to digital printing.
Lambert said the company realized a lot of their customers needed help in understanding how to use their products given the transformation that was occurring in the industry.
The company saw a niche and started to fill it as quickly as possible.
"While others were selling stuff, we were selling knowledge," he said.
Lambert emphasized a company culture that wasn't about a cutthroat sales quotes or the latest business buzz, but instead focused on the customer and how to meet their needs.
He has numerous sayings from his almost 30 years growing the Sarasota business.
High employee retention rate
Two important ones he emphasized were established early in the companies growth:
"Stop selling and start helping." and "Have fun, make money, and don't get in the way of anyone having fun or making money."
One thing Lambert stressed during an interview about the companies growth through the years was retaining employees.
S-One has an average tenure of 10.9 years with 62 employees having more than 10 years experience at the firm. Thirty eight employees have more than 15 years and 17 have more than 20 years.
The company boasts of an employee retention rate of 90% with team members ranging in age from 23 to 77. Lambert said the company doesn't have individual offices — not even for the cofounders — to foster more collaboration between employees across all departments.
Adapting to flexible work
While the company did transition to work from home after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has since transitioned to a hybrid approach.
Maintaining the hard-fought culture the company has built is something he does worry about.
"If anything keeps me up at night it's to make sure that our remote workers stay engaged," he said. "... I'm surprised frankly that as many people do come into the office."
The company moved into new offices at 4728 S. Tamiami Trail where they have 40 to 50 people that use the space, even though the company's investments in technology allow for fully remote work.
Another business venture includes the construction of the "biggest green screen n Southwest Florida's Gulfcoast" at the new office that is available for external companies to create television quality productions in Sarasota, according to a company spokesperson.
With all the successes, S-One still is focused on growing the business and finding start-ups ripe for an acquisition.
"S-One has been structured from the ground up as an acquisition platform," the company's website explains. "We have been content to reinvest tens of millions of dollars into the infrastructure and personnel at S-One as we watched and waited for the industry to consolidate and shift from a traditional distribution/dealer model to a direct to the end user model."
Lambert said the company is also strategic in the choices it makes.
"If we see an opportunity we will jump on it," he said.
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A social media post from a popular bookstore in Oak Cliff sparked concern from its supporters. Now people in the surrounding community want an explanation from the city of Dallas.
The owner of the Pan-African Connection, Akwete Tyehimba, said she was told to discontinue her food distribution efforts and she wants to know why.
Akwete Tyehimba knows her community, and the community knows her.
For decades, she’s been running the Pan-African Connection bookstore, which now sits at the corner of South Marsalis Avenue and Ann Arbor Avenue. It’s a popular place for items such as books, skincare products, and authentic African collectibles. It’s also known for its education programs, outreach, and food distribution. So, a recent encounter with a City of Dallas employee came as a surprise.
“They were inspecting the shopping center,” said Tyehimba. “I specifically asked ‘Are you telling me I cannot do this any longer?’ And the answer was yes.”
She said she had been told her to take down her food distribution table and to remove the cold storage, known as "The Peoples’ Fridge," from the front of her store.
“This is something quiet. People can come on their own time, in their own dignity, and just get food to make ends meet,” she said.
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Food distribution, said Tyehimba, started roughly seven years ago. The table giveaway and the People's Fridge continued as a vital lifeline to many during COVID. During that time, Tyehimba said she never received pushback from the city.
Pan-African Connection shared the recent news on its social media platforms, much to the disappointment of its followers.
Shyan Woods, who frequents the store, said the bookstore kept free food on her table for years, especially at the height of the pandemic.
“This has been my spot,” Woods said. “We've been able to come here and eat and not even spend a whole lot of money.”
Tyehimba said she wanted to know why she was asked to remove the table and refrigerator from the front of her store. She tells NBC 5 the city worker who told her to remove the table and fridge said she was enabling the homeless, but she’s received no additional explanation from the city of Dallas since then. Still, she took down the table and removed the fridge.
“I'm being obedient and trying to do things in order,” she said. “But I have not heard from them at all.”
NBC 5 reached out to the city of Dallas via email. We also asked what, if any, rules or ordinances were broken.
As of Thursday night, NBC 5 had not received an answer. However, NBC 5 was told to expect a joint statement from Code Compliance and the Office of Homeless Solutions concerning the matter.
On its website, Code Compliance does outline guidelines and recommendations for feeding the homeless. However, Tyehimba said most people she serves are not homeless; rather, the working poor. She hopes this matter will be resolved soon.
“I was hurt because I see the faces of the families that come here to pick up the food,” she said. “It hurts because we're not, we're just not serving those that need it.”
Akwete Tyehimba said she is willing to submit applications for additional permits if necessary. However, she has not heard from the city about additional protocol or requirements.
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ISABELLA COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - Police are asking the public to help locate a missing 14-year-old girl with autism from a rural area of Isabella County.
The Isabella County Sheriff's Office says Jamie McClure was reported missing from her residence in Coldwater Township, which is located in the northwest area of the county.
McClure has autism and may run away if people try to approach her. She was last seen wearing a black T-shirt, gray sweatpants and brown shoulder length hair.
Anyone who sees her should call 911 immediately.
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When Mike Theiler picked up a camera because his girlfriend worked at a camera shop, he had no intention of becoming a photojournalist. He was studying architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
He said he couldn’t handle the construction sciences, chemistry, physics or mathematics. “I was spending way too much time running around, drinking at Casey’s Tavern and the Zoo Bar.”
Theiler started taking pictures on campus of the turmoil surrounding the Vietnam War and those photos were published in either the Lincoln Journal or the Daily Nebraskan.
He said that’s when it dawned on him.
“This is a lot more fun than sitting at a drafting table.”
So Theiler became a photographer for news services UPI and Reuters and traveled the globe from 1971-2021.
His new book — “Nikon Road: A Nebraska hayseed takes his cameras on a Forrest Gump journey of discovery around the world” — chronicles his work as a photojournalist.
Theiler’s career is captured, in a way, in two pictures of Ronald Reagan.
In the first, from 1976, Theiler captured then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan in Lincoln reading about his Republican primary win in the state. In the second, from 1984, Reagan is knocking back a toast during a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
“There I am in 1976. Reagan reading the Lincoln Star, and not having a glimmer of how far that was going to take me around the world, to 162 countries and living overseas for 12 years and just an incredible life,” he said.
Another “prize picture” was shot in 1976 — a photograph of Holdrege basketball player Brian Kohlscheen face down on the floor, despondent after missing a last-second shot in the state championship game against Aurora.
That shot, in an important sense, set Theiler up to shoot the Olympics, which he has done seven times, beginning in Moscow in 1980.
The player photo captures the whole essence of sports — the winning and the losing, Theiler said.
“It’s really no different in Class D or Class C Nebraska basketball tournaments than it is when you go to the Olympics,” he said.
Theiler, who went to St. Mary’s Catholic School, Lincoln High and UNL, decided to leave Nebraska during a late ’70s road trip that he and a friend were taking to the Panama Canal.
“We never made it to Panama, but for a kid from Nebraska being out of the country was a real eye-opener in terms of cultural experiences and photo opportunities,” Theiler said. He said once he saw Mexico and Guatemala, he knew he wanted to experience the world.
He had the opportunity when a job opened up at UPI Europe in Brussels. After a year, he transferred to Israel, where he covered the Israel-Palestinian uprising and the war in Lebanon.
“I realized I wasn’t in Kansas anymore,” he said. But he said he felt prepared after growing up in Nebraska.
“Photography is a lot more than shutter speeds, F stops and focal length lenses. It’s how you deal with people. I learned that in Nebraska.”
After Israel, Theiler moved to China, where, in 1983, he became the first American-born photographer to be accredited in the country since the 1949 revolution.
China provided a couple more of his favorite photos — Yasser Arafat eating with chopsticks at a state dinner and the iconic image that adorns the “Nikon Road” cover of Mickey Mouse and a Chinese peasant standing on the Great Wall of China.
Moving back to the U.S. in 1989, when his wife Susan, a State Department agricultural attache, was recalled to Washington, D.C., Theiler has spent the past three decades shooting political events, politicians and celebrities in and around the nation’s capital.
In his career, in Lincoln, in foreign countries and in D.C., Theiler has photographed 10 presidents, from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden, along with dozens of artists, entertainers and other notable who have passed through D.C.
That includes Princess Diana, who Theiler encountered on the street outside the British Embassy in 1995. The only photographer there, Theiler shot a few frames, with Diana never looking at the camera. When her limousine left, he followed. But the limo pulled alongside his truck.
“Her window comes down and she’s looking up at me and she says, ‘Excuse me. I’m on a private visit to the United States. I’d appreciate it very much if you didn’t follow me around.’ And I am dumbfounded. I mean, here’s probably arguably the most famous woman in the world. And she’s talking to me. The window goes back up, and the limousine pulls away.”
Theiler, who was working for the British news agency Reuters, was told to continue to follow Diana. He knew she liked to shop at Neiman Marcus and went to the upscale store, spotted her and then stood around waiting for instructions on whether to continue photographing her and potentially anger her.
“Next thing I know, she sees me,” Theiler said. “She walks over and says, ‘Excuse me, I thought we had an agreement.’ I’m dumbfounded, I don’t know what to say.” A few minutes later, the bureau called back and said to leave her alone and not antagonize her.
Theiler has never lost touch with his Nebraska roots, calling himself a goodwill ambassador for the state. He returns to Lincoln often to visit family, friends and his old haunts.
At 4 p.m. Saturday, he’ll be at Francie & Finch Bookshop, 130 S. 13th St., for a question-and-answer session and his first book-signing event for “Nikon Road,” which he ends with a widely seen iconic photograph taken inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
“The Trump supporter with a confederate flag in the halls outside the Senate was kind of a really nice bookend to my career,” Theiler said. “I’m only doing about a day or two a month in Washington, to kind of stay in the game. I can’t imagine retiring 100%.”
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What: Mike Theiler "Nikon Road" book discussion and signing.
Mike Theiler about to board Air Force One for a presidential trip. Theiler, a Lincoln native who has spent three decades as an international photojournalist, has brought together many of his best photos in his new book "Nikon Road."
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People entered U.S. national parks nearly 312 million times in 2022, up by 15 million visits from the year before, according to the National Park Service. Eight of these federally-owned and protected parks garnered 26% of visits, and another 25% of visits came from the 331 least-visited parks.
President Woodrow Wilson first signed the "Organic Act" on August 25, 1916, creating the National Park Service. Since then, the service has helped safeguard so many of the nation's scenic treasures with titles as varied as parks, preserves, reservations, fossil sites, and more. Stacker zooms in on national parks, and large land or water areas, typically larger than national monuments and more general than national preserves. Stacker used publicly available data and resources from the National Park Service to compile this brief history of all 63 national parks in the U.S.
Every national park is a natural or cultural resource the federal government deemed worthy of protection. Congress typically passes a statute to create a national park. Before that, each park passed a rigorous screening process to determine whether it is worth federal conservation. Researchers with the NPS have to deem the area of national significance, in other words, it is an unspoiled example of a resource that tells the story of U.S. natural or cultural heritage and history. Many of the older parks on this list, such as Acadia National Park, started as national monuments at the beginning of the 20th century, and later became national parks.
If you're looking for your next outdoor adventure, the West Coast offers plenty of opportunities. California has nine. Arizona and Washington each have three, and Oregon adds one more to the list. But national parks are found throughout the nation and offer a wide range of sites and experiences.
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Here are three ways to get to the 2023 Wisconsin State Fair without driving
The Wisconsin State Fair, 640 S. 84th St., kicks off this year on Aug. 3 in West Allis.
The fair will open 10a.m. to 10p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, and 10 a.m. to midnight Thursday through Saturday. Planning your trip? Here's your guide for how to get to the fair:
Several Milwaukee bars run shuttles to the State Fair
Some bars and hotels are running shuttles to the fair grounds and have their own schedules and hours of operation. There may be a purchase necessary or fee applicable to use the service.
These are the bars on the shuttle list so far:
- Ambassador Hotel, 2308 W. Wisconsin Ave.
- Brewski's Sports Club, 304 N. 76th St.
- Jack's American Pub, 1323 E. Brady St.
- Magoos on the Mound, 5841 West Bluemound Road
- Milwaukee Brat House Downtown, 1013 N. Doctor M.L.K Jr. Drive
- Milwaukee Brat House Shorewood, 4022 N. Oakland Ave.
- WurstBar: 1239 E. Brady St.
State Fair officials are still waiting to hear back from a few venues, said spokesperson Tess Kerksen. You can check the fair's website for the most up-to-date information on the shuttle program.
You can take Milwaukee County Transit System buses to the State Fair
Here's the Milwaukee County Transit System transit options for State Fair:
- Route 18 (National Avenue): You can ride Route 18 between downtown along National Avenue and Greenfield Avenue. Arrive at the State Fair at either 81st Street or 84th Street.
- Route 33 (Vliet-84th): Festivalgoers can also take Route 33 that travels along Vliet Street, Glenview Avenue and 84th Street and arrives at Greenfield Avenue.
If you're planning on taking the bus, you can track the bus and pay your fare using the Umo App. You can also pay with M-cards or cash.
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Arrange a bus group to the State Fair
You can bring your bus group to the State Fair. If you arrange in advance, you can have access to free bus parking and free admission for your bus driver. To plan your trip, you can contact groupsales@wistatefair.com.
When arriving by bus, festivalgoers will be dropped off at Entrance E (UScellular Main Entrance).
You won't be able to take the Waukesha County Shuttle Service
Shuttles between Waukesha County and the Wisconsin State Fair will not be operating in 2023 due to a driver shortage.
Onsite parking options are available at the Wisconsin State Fair
If you're planning on driving, it'll cost you $15 per vehicle or $8 per motorcycle to park on the grounds. You can purchase parking passes online.
General parking are available at these gates:
- Gate 1: At West Greenfield Avenue and S. 79th Street. Opens at 6 a.m. daily.
- Gate 7: At Kearney Street between South 84th and South 76th Streets. Opens at 9 a.m. daily.
- Gate 9: At West Pierce Street and South 76th Street. Opens at 9 a.m. daily.
Authorities are only allowing vehicles to turn right into State Fair Park along bordering streets, including South 84th Street, West Greenfield Avenue, West Kearney Street and South 76th Street.
All parking is first come, first serve.
Accessible parking costs $15 per vehicle. Enter at Gate 2 for accessible parking, at South 84th Street north of West Greenfield Avenue. Parking opens at 9 a.m. daily.
Designated accessible parking is also available at Gate 1, at West Greenfield Avenue and South 79th Street, and at Gate 7, located at West Kearney Street between South 84th and South 76th streets.
Preferred parking, near the Main Stage Entrance via Gate 1 and near the US Cellular Main Entrance via Gate 7, costs $25 per vehicle.
Contact Alex Groth at agroth@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @grothalexandria.
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'Forever chemical' contamination on French Island leads to $42 million claim against La Crosse
MADISON - A small western Wisconsin town may sue the city of La Crosse for over $42 million, over "forever chemical" contamination that seeped into hundreds of private drinking water wells from a nearby airport.
The Town of Campbell in early June filed a notice of a claim against the city over an extensive PFAS contamination impacting hundreds of homes and putting a community on edge. The city has until about mid-September to either pay the $42.4 million or be sued by the residents of French Island, where the Town of Campbell is located, according to a press release from the Fitzpatrick, Skemp & Butler law firm in Onalaska.
The PFAS found in drinking water across the island are likely the result of the use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam at the La Crosse Regional Airport for decades. PFAS were first detected on the island in 2014 in La Crosse municipal wells, and testing of private wells began in late 2020, at which point the widespread contamination became evident.
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The island is now under a drinking water advisory, and over 2,000 residents are receiving bottled water from either the Department of Natural Resources or the city of La Crosse.
The airport inhabits the northern portion of the island, while the Town of Campbell inhabits the southern portion. French Island is across the Black River from the city and is home to about 4,300 residents. There are 1,200 private wells on the island.
Over 550 wells on the island have been tested, either by the owners, the DNR or the city of La Crosse, according to DNR data. Of those, 140 wells had levels of PFAS over state regulations and only 13 had no detections of the chemicals at all.
The city has already filed a lawsuit naming companies that manufactured the firefighting foam sold to the airport over the last several decades. The city's lawsuit will likely take years to work its way to a resolution or settlement, but the funds could be used to help the city pay for long-term solutions.
Tim Jacobson, an attorney at the Fitzpatrick, Skemp & Butler law firm, did not respond to multiple requests for an interview about the claim.
PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a family of man-made chemicals used for their water- and stain-resistant qualities in products like clothing and carpet, nonstick cookware, packaging and firefighting foam. The family includes 5,000 compounds, which are persistent, remaining both in the environment and human body over time.
The chemicals have been linked to types of kidney and testicular cancers, lower birth weights, harm to immune and reproductive systems, altered hormone regulation and altered thyroid hormones. The chemicals enter the human body largely through drinking water.
Laura Schulte can be reached at leschulte@jrn.com and on Twitter at @SchulteLaura.
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NEW YORK — Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" graced a decadeslong career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died Friday. He was 96, just two weeks short of his birthday.
Publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed Bennett’s death to The Associated Press, saying he died in his hometown of New York. There was no specific cause, but Bennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016.
The last of the great saloon singers of the mid-20th century, Bennett often said his lifelong ambition was to create “a hit catalog rather than hit records.” He released more than 70 albums, bringing him 19 competitive Grammys — all but two after he reached his 60s — and enjoyed deep and lasting affection from fans and fellow artists.
Bennett didn’t tell his own story when performing; he let the music speak instead — the Gershwins and Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern. Unlike his friend and mentor Sinatra, he would interpret a song rather than embody it. If his singing and public life lacked the high drama of Sinatra’s, Bennett appealed with an easy, courtly manner and an uncommonly rich and durable voice — “A tenor who sings like a baritone,” he called himself — that made him a master of caressing a ballad or brightening an up-tempo number.
“I enjoy entertaining the audience, making them forget their problems,” he told The Associated Press in 2006. “I think people ... are touched if they hear something that’s sincere and honest and maybe has a little sense of humor. ... I just like to make people feel good when I perform.”
Bennett was praised often by his peers, but never more meaningfully than by what Sinatra said in a 1965 Life magazine interview: “For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.”
He not only survived the rise of rock music but endured so long and so well that he gained new fans and collaborators, some young enough to be his grandchildren. In 2014, at age 88, Bennett broke his own record as the oldest living performer with a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart for “Cheek to Cheek,” his duets project with Lady Gaga. Three years earlier, he topped the charts with “Duets II,” featuring such contemporary stars as Gaga, Carrie Underwood and Amy Winehouse, in her last studio recording. His rapport with Winehouse was captured in the Oscar-nominated documentary “Amy,” which showed Bennett patiently encouraging the insecure young singer through a performance of “Body and Soul.”
His final album, the 2021 release “Love for Sale,” featured duets with Lady Gaga on the title track, “Night and Day” and other Porter songs.
For Bennett, one of the few performers to move easily between pop and jazz, such collaborations were part of his crusade to expose new audiences to what he called the Great American Songbook.
“No country has given the world such great music,” Bennett said in a 2015 interview with Downbeat Magazine. “Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern. Those songs will never die.”
Ironically, his most famous contribution came through two unknowns, George Cory and Douglass Cross, who in the early ’60s provided Bennett with his signature song at a time his career was in a lull. They gave Bennett’s musical director, pianist Ralph Sharon, some sheet music that he stuck in a dresser drawer and forgot about until he was packing for a tour that included a stop in San Francisco.
“Ralph saw some sheet music in his shirt drawer ... and on top of the pile was a song called ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco.’ Ralph thought it would be good material for San Francisco,” Bennett said. “We were rehearsing and the bartender in the club in Little Rock, Arkansas, said, ‘If you record that song, I’m going to be the first to buy it.’”
Released in 1962 as the B-side of the single “Once Upon a Time,” the reflective ballad became a grassroots phenomenon staying on the charts for more than two years and earning Bennett his first two Grammys, including record of the year.
By his early 40s, he was seemingly out of fashion. But after turning 60, an age when even the most popular artists often settle for just pleasing their older fans, Bennett and his son and manager, Danny, found creative ways to market the singer to the MTV Generation. He made guest appearances on “Late Night with David Letterman” and became a celebrity guest artist on “The Simpsons.” He wore a black T-shirt and sunglasses as a presenter with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the 1993 MTV Music Video Awards, and his own video of “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” from his Grammy-winning Fred Astaire tribute album ended up on MTV’s hip “Buzz Bin.”
That led to an offer in 1994 to do an episode of “MTV Unplugged” with special guests Elvis Costello and k.d. lang. The evening’s performance resulted in the album, “Tony Bennett: MTV Unplugged,” which won two Grammys, including album of the year.
Bennett would win Grammys for his tributes to female vocalists (“Here’s to the Ladies”), Billie Holiday (“Tony Bennett on Holiday”), and Duke Ellington (“Bennett Sings Ellington — Hot & Cool”). He also won Grammys for his collaborations with other singers: “Playin’ With My Friends — Bennett Sings the Blues,” and his Louis Armstrong tribute, “A Wonderful World” with lang, the first full album he had ever recorded with another singer. He celebrated his 80th birthday with “Duets: An American Classic,” featuring Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder among others.
“They’re all giants in the industry, and all of a sudden they’re saying to me ‘You’re the master,’” Bennett told the AP in 2006.
Long associated with San Francisco, Bennett would note that his true home was Astoria, the working-class community in the New York City borough of Queens, where he grew up during the Great Depression. The singer chose his old neighborhood as the site for the “Fame”-style public high school, the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, that he and his third wife, Susan Crow Benedetto, a former teacher, helped found in 2001.
The school is not far from the birthplace of the man who was once Anthony Dominick Benedetto. His father was an Italian immigrant who inspired his love of singing, but he died when Anthony was 10. Bennett credited his mother, Anna, with teaching him a valuable lesson as he watched her working at home, supporting her three children as a seamstress doing piecework after his father died.
“We were very impoverished,” Bennett said in a 2016 AP interview. “I saw her working and every once in a while she’d take a dress and throw it over her shoulder and she’d say, ‘Don’t have me work on a bad dress. I’ll only work on good dresses.’”
He studied commercial art in high school, but had to drop out to help support his family. The teenager got a job as a copy boy for the AP, performed as a singing waiter and competed in amateur shows. A combat infantryman during World War II, he served as a librarian for the Armed Forces Network after the war and sang with an army big band in occupied Germany. His earliest recording is a 1946 air check from Armed Forces Radio of the blues “St. James Infirmary.”
Bennett took advantage of the GI Bill to attend the American Theater Wing, which later became The Actors Studio. His acting lessons helped him develop his phrasing and learn how to tell a story. He learned the more intimate Bel Canto vocal technique which helped him sustain and extend the expressive range of his voice. And he took to heart the advice of his vocal coach, Miriam Spier.
“She said please don’t imitate other singers because you’ll just be one of the chorus whoever you imitate whether it’s Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra and won’t develop an original sound,” Bennett recalled in the 2006 AP interview. “She said imitate musicians that you like, find out how they phrase. I was particularly influenced by the jazz musicians like (pianist) Art Tatum and (saxophonists) Lester Young and Stan Getz.”
In 1947, Bennett made his first recording, the Gershwins’ standard “Fascinatin’ Rhythm” for a small label under the stage name Joe Bari. The following year he gained notice when he finished behind Rosemary Clooney on the radio show “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts.” Bennett’s big break came in 1949 when singer Pearl Bailey invited him to join her revue at a Greenwich Village club. Bob Hope dropped by one night and was so impressed that he offered the young singer a spot opening his shows at the famed Paramount Theater, where teens had swooned for Sinatra. But the comedian didn’t care for his stage name and thought his real name was too long for the marquee.
“He thought for a moment, then he said, ‘We’ll call you Tony Bennett,’” the singer wrote in his autobiography, “The Good Life,” published in 1998.
In 1950, Mitch Miller, the head of Columbia Records’ pop singles division, signed Bennett and released the single, “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” a semi-hit. Bennett was on the verge of being dropped from the label in 1951 when he had his first No. 1 on the pop charts with “Because of You.” More hits followed, including “Rags to Riches,” “Blue Velvet,” and Hank Williams’ “Cold, Cold Heart,” the first country song to become an international pop hit.
Bennett found himself frequently clashing with Miller, who pushed him to sing Sinatra-style ballads and gimmicky novelty songs. But Bennett took advantage of the young LP album format, starting in 1955 with “Cloud 7,” featuring a small jazz combo led by guitarist Chuck Wayne. Bennett reached out to the jazz audience with such innovative albums as the 1957 “The Beat of My Heart,” an album of standards that paired him with such jazz percussion masters as Chico Hamilton, and Art Blakey. He also became the first white male singer to record with the Count Basie Orchestra, releasing two albums in 1958. Sinatra would later do the same.
Bennett’s friendship with Black musicians and his disgust at the racial prejudice he encountered in the Army led him to become an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. He answered Harry Belafonte’s call to join Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march and perform for the protesters.
Bennett’s early career peaked in the 1960s as he topped the charts with “San Francisco” and became the first male pop solo performer to headline at Carnegie Hall, releasing a live album of the 1962 concert.
In 1966, he released “The Movie Song Album,” a personal favorite which featured Johnny Mandel’s Oscar-winning song “The Shadow of Your Smile” and “Maybe September,” the theme from the epic flop “The Oscar,” noteworthy because it marked Bennett’s first and only big-screen acting role.
But as rock continued to overtake traditional pop, he clashed with Columbia label head Clive Davis, who insisted that the singer do the 1970 album “Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today,” with such songs as “MacArthur Park” and “Little Green Apples.” Bennett left Columbia in 1972, and went on to form his own record label, Improv, which in 1975-76 produced two duet albums with the impressionistic pianist Bill Evans now considered jazz classics.
Despite artistic successes, Improv proved a financial disaster for Bennett, who also faced difficulties in his personal life. His marriage to artist Patricia Beech collapsed in 1971. He wed actress Sandra Grant the same year, but that marriage ended in 1984. With no recording deals, his debts brought him close to bankruptcy and the IRS was trying to seize his house in Los Angeles. After a near-fatal drug overdose in 1979, he turned to his son, Danny, who eventually signed on as his manager. Bennett kicked his drug habit and got his finances in order, moved back to New York and resumed doing more than 200 shows a year.
He is survived by his wife Susan, daughters Johanna and Antonia, sons Danny and Dae and nine grandchildren.
Bennett was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2005 and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2006. He also won two Emmy Awards — for “Tony Bennett Live By Request: A Valentine Special” (1996) and “Tony Bennett: An American Classic” (2007).
Besides singing, Bennett pursued his lifelong passion for painting by taking art lessons and bringing his sketchbook on the road. His paintings, signed with his family name Benedetto — including portraits of his musician friends and Central Park landscapes — were displayed in public and private collections, including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
“I love to paint as much as I love to sing,” Bennett told the AP in 2006. “It worked out to be such a blessing in my life because if I started getting burnt-out singing ... I would go to my painting and that’s a big lift. ... So I stay in this creative zone all the time.”
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AP National Writer Hillel Italie contributed to this story.
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Every year on Pearl Harbor Day, it is Nikki Nojima Louis’s birthday.
Eighty two years ago, it was the day the FBI separated her father from her family when Japan invaded Pearl Harbor.
Louis and her mother were incarcerated at the Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho, known as Hunt Camp, after President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.
"I remember that I was in Block 44 but I didn't remember anything else--like my barrack number or the apartment number we were in because after Minidoka, I grew up in Chicago," Louis told the Times-News.
I never knew of Louis's stories of struggles and strength until shortly after the closing ceremony concluded on July 9. As I sat on the lava rock waiting for a friend to say farewell, Louis walked toward my direction. I offered her my seat. She sat down and the warm wind blew around as we introduced ourselves.
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Then, she began to speak of her experiences as a child survivor of Japanese American incarceration.
Louis's stories shared a similar parallel to the stories of other participants of the pilgrimage. Her family spoke little about their incarceration experience after they resettled outside of camp. The trauma from camp remained enclosed.
She discovered the truth about her father's experience in the Santa Fe Internment Camp while she was teaching creative writing and Asian American studies at the University of New Mexico.
"He talked a little bit about Santa Fe but I didn't know there were three other prison camps and many other prison camps that the government kept secret until the Freedom of Information Act," Louis said.
"I knew more about the Holocaust than I knew about my own Japanese American experience," Louis said. "Part of that was denial, part of that was guilt, part of that was shame because like many immigrant families, they want their children to speak English."
A history of loss, suffering and community was explored in the 2023 Minidoka Pilgrimage. Throughout July 6-9, pilgrims listened to educational sessions that included speakers with various expertise, attended tours at the Minidoka National Historic Site conducted by the National Park Service staff and continued their deep reflections about the Japanese incarceration's impact on their communities.
I spoke to Karen Yokota-Love, a third-time Minidoka pilgrim, during the closing dinner on July 8. Her purpose at the pilgrimage was to find ways to heal her community at Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church in Seattle.
Incarcerated elders who passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a deeper feelings of mourning, she said.
"The feelings this time are very different. They're stronger. There's more grief involved," Yokota-Love told the Times-News.
"I think these pilgrimages are really important for the healing process because the experience of being incarcerated is traumatic," Yokota-Love said. "So for me, what I'm most fascinated about is how to minister to people that basically had this experience where they haven't talked about their history or their lives."
"And then to come back to the actual ground, hear those stories and talk about the stories for the first time.
"I think it's very cathartic and it's healing. It's nice to see they can come full circle and experience that."
The tour of the Minidoka historical site and the generational talk were two key events in which I witnessed the process of understanding and healing between the participants.
I joined Tour D led by Emily Teraoka, a National Park Service Ranger. The clouds hovered above the group as we walked along the dirt path to see the barrack, baseball field and other historical sites.
Throughout the tour, participants were quiet and deep in reflection. I sensed the emotions of grief and heartache as Teraoka shared the painful reality Japanese American incarcerees suffered in the camp.
The stories of the pilgrim's ancestors continued in the generational talk groups that took place at the College of Southern Idaho.
Seated in a circle, group three answered questions related to their personal testimonies regarding their ancestry.
A singular tissue box was passed around.
The air was quiet with raw emotion and sincere support as strangers connected with powerful personal stories.
Similarly to Yokota-Love's feelings of grief during the pilgrimage, Miyako Namba mourned the passing of her grandma, May Namba, one of the original founders of the first Minidoka Pilgrimage in 2003.
Namba grew up being involved in the Japanese American community with the influence of her grandma.
"A lot of us have been coming for about a decade and so it's fun to have these connections and relationships and grow them and build them," Namba told the Times-News. "It's such an emotional and intense weekend that you just kind of bond with them very deeply like you would, you know, a summer camp friend."
As I was speaking to Namba, I thought about the theme of the pilgrimage which was posed by Erin Shigaki, the co-chair of the 2023 Minidoka pilgrimage planning committee.
What kind of ancestors do we want to be?
"Someone that helped build community and whether that means here or at home," Namba answered. "But just respecting your elders. Our generation is so good at assuming that everybody is okay and kind of just letting them do their own thing."
Louis is going to be celebrating her 86 birthday on Pearl Harbor Day.
She creates oral history plays about the Japanese American experience living in New Mexico.
Throughout her years, she has gone to many pilgrimages throughout the United States and remains active in the Japanese American community.
"There is a certain amount of guilt and shame about being put in camp because I think there was more of a tendency to identify ourselves as victims," Louis said. "Now we are survivors and surviving means a lot more qualities: consistency, bravery, resilience, stoicism.
"So it's much more of a human approach and that's kind of approach that I hope we have with all people."
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BLOOMINGTON — Lydia Jennings of Bloomington attended a two-week symphony session at Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin.
Jennings is a student at Bloomington High School who plays the tuba. She was among 57 musicians from across the country who participated in the session, which provides intensive, performance-based instruction to promising young musicians by immersing them in a professional mentoring environment.
The performance center is a residential music academy for advanced young musicians where students are taught by nationally known performers and educators during the day and perform in concerts alongside them at night. During the two-week session, students were given the opportunity to hone their technical skills and learn all the aspects of life as a professional musician firsthand, and they performed seven concerts in front of paying concertgoers.
Birch Creek celebrates its 48th concert season in 2023 and continues to support a student-to-faculty ratio of approximately 2-to-1. The center hosts four sessions focused on percussion and street band, symphony and big band jazz.
Program Director Ricardo Castañeda is in his 26th year at Birch Creek and 23rd in this role. He is currently principal oboist with the Chicago Sinfonietta and solo English horn with the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra.
James Harden, executive director of engagement and social emotional learning in Champaign Unit 4 School District, delivered the keynote speech Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Recently graduated high schoolers received over $80,000 in scholarships during the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Bradley Ross Jackson, president of the Bloomington-Normal NAACP Youth Council, at the 2023 NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Carla Campbell-Jackson, vice president of the Bloomington-Normal NAACP, at the NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
James Harden, executive director of engagement and social emotional learning in Champaign Unit 4 School District, delivered the keynote speech Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
James Harden, executive director of engagement and social emotional learning in Champaign Unit 4 School District, delivered the keynote speech Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Michael Coleman, previous recipient of Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Mentoring and Providing Scholarships, delivers remarks on Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. lined up to give out scholarships at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Brandon Caffey of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. presented students with scholarships on Saturday, June 3, at the Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Members of the local Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. gave out scholarships at Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Photos: Bloomington-Normal NAACP, other groups present $82K in scholarships
The Bloomington-Normal NAACP and a number of other groups handed out over $80,000 in scholarships to recent high-school grads in Bloomington and Normal.
James Harden, executive director of engagement and social emotional learning in Champaign Unit 4 School District, delivered the keynote speech Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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Recently graduated high schoolers received over $80,000 in scholarships during the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
D. JACK ALKIRE, THE PANTAGRAPH
Bradley Ross Jackson, president of the Bloomington-Normal NAACP Youth Council, at the 2023 NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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Carla Campbell-Jackson, vice president of the Bloomington-Normal NAACP, at the NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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James Harden, executive director of engagement and social emotional learning in Champaign Unit 4 School District, delivered the keynote speech Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
D. JACK ALKIRE, THE PANTAGRAPH
James Harden, executive director of engagement and social emotional learning in Champaign Unit 4 School District, delivered the keynote speech Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
D. JACK ALKIRE, THE PANTAGRAPH
Michael Coleman, previous recipient of Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Mentoring and Providing Scholarships, delivers remarks on Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
D. JACK ALKIRE, THE PANTAGRAPH
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. lined up to give out scholarships at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
D. JACK ALKIRE, THE PANTAGRAPH
The Bloomington-Normal NAACP held its annual Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
D. JACK ALKIRE, THE PANTAGRAPH
Brandon Caffey of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. presented students with scholarships on Saturday, June 3, at the Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
D. JACK ALKIRE, THE PANTAGRAPH
Members of the local Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. gave out scholarships at Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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How Time Flies is a daily feature looking back at Pantagraph archives to revisit what was happening in our community and region.
100 years ago
July 21, 1923: Negotiations are being made for the sale of the old Third National Bank building at the northwest corner of Main and Front streets to a shoe concern at St. Louis for the sum of $50,000. Although the deal was not fully agreed upon yesterday, it is expected to be completed shortly. The St. Louis concern plans to open a retail shoe store in the building.
75 years ago
July 21, 1948: Machinists local 1000, currently negotiating for a new contract with Eureka Williams, rejected what the company termed "our final offer" that would reduce wages. The committee asserted that the company is asking employees to take a cut of 8.2 cents per hour.
50 years ago
July 21, 1973: Bloomington's "east side explosion" was a major factor in a city real estate assessment increase of more than $16 million, Bloomington Assessor Leo Haas said. Haas said the real estate assessments totaled $164,273,500, an increase of $16,315,530 over 1972's total.
25 years ago
July 21, 1998: Bids are expected to be let this fall for the second phase of work on Veterans Parkway that will include widening the road from four to six lanes from Clearwater Avenue to just past Fort Jesse Road. The work will be done in two phases, with the first through G.E. Road/Vernon Avenue completed by November 1999 and the second part through Fort Jesse Road finished in October 2000.
101 years ago: See vintage Pantagraph ads from 1922
Gerthart's
Union Gas and Electric Co.
Hoover
Dr. J.A. Moore Dentists
Moberly & Klenner
W.P. Garretson
W.H. Roland
Pease's Candy
Thor 32 Electric Washing Machine
The Kaiser's Story of the War
Ike Livingston & Sons
Gossard Corsets
Cat'n Fiddle
'Stolen Moments'
Case Model X
The Johnson Transfer & Fuel Co.
The Pantagraph want ads
Franklin Motor Car Co.
'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'
Calumet Baking Powder
Mayer Livingston & Co. Newsmarket
'The Emperor Jones'
'California Fig Syrup'
Compiled by Pantagraph staff
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LeROY — Last fall, the LeRoy Fire Department responded to a call on Interstate 74 not long after a tornado was reported on the southwest part of town.
First responders discovered that two semi trucks had rolled over on opposite sides of the interstate. But as they tended to the situation in the midst of heavy thunderstorms, firefighters were exposed to plenty of vehicles that refused to yield, Assistant Fire Chief Ed Underhill said.
After that call, and with the loss of Bloomington firefighter Chris Brown in a 2013 crash still weighing on Central Illinois stations, Underhill said something had to change.
Crew members of LeRoy's volunteer department worked together to repurpose a 1993 engine into what they describe as a buffer truck that would alert motorists of an oncoming emergency scene.
"Running into a truck is better than running into a fireman," Underhill said. "You can replace a truck but you can't replace a fireman."
After obtaining a new engine in December 2021, Underhill said the department tried to sell its 30-year-old engine for more than a year.
At the most, Underhill said, the department would have gotten $10,000 for the truck. But once it was repurposed to address firefighter safety, he said the engine would hold a lot more value to the department.
In February, the department's board of trustees approved the project.
Working with a budget of $5,000 to $6,000, firefighters changed the strobes and siren bulbs, added reflective tape strips the back of the truck, bought three emergency road signs and 50 cones and added an arrow board asking motorists to change lanes.
No outside help was used for the modifications, Underhill said.
After six months of work, the truck became ready for deployment on Tuesday and will be located roughly a quarter of a mile away from emergency scenes. Underhill said the truck also will be available for mutual aid requests, which can be from any department in McLean County.
"On a weekend or evening, if you want IDOT to come block (traffic), it takes a couple hours for them to get their trucks and everything out, whereas we can get set up pretty quick," Underhill said.
He added that most mutual aid requests LeRoy responds to are from Farmer City and Downs since they both are along the interstate.
Although the truck has been repurposed, Underhill said it still has a 1,000- gallon tank, which means it is insured to serve as a pumper truck or water tender at structure fires.
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Double-booking foils popular Detroit masquerade ball this fall, organizers vow to return
A scheduling conflict has torpedoed Detroit's most elaborate, creepiest Halloween event this fall, though organizers are promising a "glorious return" in 2024.
Theatre Bizarre ― a popular masquerade ball held at Detroit's Masonic Temple ― has been canceled for 2023 because of a double-booking at the venue, according to a message posted on its website and social media late Thursday. The double-booking would've impacted Theatre Bizarre's floor space and its main entrance, organizers said.
"We have a contract for the space and have been pressing for a resolution for some time," reads a statement on Theatre Bizarre's website and its Facebook page. "Unfortunately, it remains out of reach."
The Masonic Temple has hosted Theatre Bizarre for the last 11 years and organizers say they're hopeful "this situation will be addressed and a spectacular return produced in 2024."
"The Temple is an extraordinary venue, with a layout and mystique that intertwine perfectly with the Theatre Bizarre experience and storyline," reads the statement.
The Masonic Temple could not be reached for comment Friday morning.
Thousands are drawn to Theatre Bizarre every fall with tickets often in short supply. Attendees wear elaborate costumes and it's filled with creepy performances and displays. A Masquerade Gala is typically held before the big event.
“The event is based on a world we have created over the years,” wrote Theatre Bizarre’s creative lead, John Dunivant, on its website. “What started out as a backyard party with a bunch of friends has turned into a critically-acclaimed, enveloping production that has been referred to as a 'cultural institution' by the Miami Foundation."
The message on Theatre Bizarre's website ― signed by Dunivant along with Dawn Orebaugh, Controller Maria Christian, General Manager ― ends with an apology to performances, local businesses that play a key role in the event and attendees.
"We appreciate all of you so much and could not have made it these 22 years without your passion, dedication, creativity, and blood, sweat and tears," reads the message on Theatre Bizarre's website. "With utmost commitment to each of you and the City of Detroit, we remain determined that The Greatest Masquerade on Earth will return in 2024."
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Massive hail damages businesses, homes in Michigan; 61K without power
As strong storms charged through the Flint area late Thursday afternoon, dropping hail the size of tennis balls, it didn't last long, but residents such Wayne Wodtke say it did plenty of damage.
Wodtke, a floral designer at Vogt's Flowers and Gifts, said when he and his coworkers went out to see their cars after the storm passed, all of them were damaged but his Hyundai Tucson seemed to be the worst. It's dented in 75 spots from the hail and the windshield is completely destroyed by five holes. Wodtke said the hail was the biggest he's ever seen.
"My heart just dropped," said Wodtke when he saw his car. "The hail didn’t even last that long. It came in a couple waves. It was just a matter of a few minutes. We had a customer in the store at the time and when he left, his windshield was smashed in three places. We felt so bad."
Areas hit hardest by Thursday's brief but dramatic storms shifted into cleanup mode Friday morning. Businesses and residents across Davison, about 10 miles northeast of Flint, were dealing with damages to windows and cars.
More than 61,000 customers, meanwhile, were without power early Friday. Besides hail, the storms also uprooted trees and flooded some area roadways.
As of 8 a.m. Friday, DTE Energy reported 58,918 power outages scattered across Metro Detroit, with large clusters near Dearborn Heights, River Rouge and Clinton Township, with 2,159 field resources working towards restoration.
"This storm event resulted in hundreds of “singles” jobs in which restoration efforts will result in getting the power back on to a single customer address," said Cindy Hecht, senior communications strategist for DTE Energy, in a statement.
By late Thursday, the total had peaked at around 90,000, the utility's outage center reported.
"Our crews are working as quickly and safely as possible to restore power to everyone impacted by the extreme weather that hit Southeast Michigan. We estimate that 80% of impacted customers will be restored by end of day Friday, July 21. We know how challenging it is to be without power," the utility said.
"Please be safe and remain at least 25 feet away from downed power lines or anything in contact with them. Assume any downed line is live and dangerous."
Consumers Energy reported outages affecting more than 3,000 customers across the state as of 8 a.m. Friday, with 67 crews working towards restoration. Earlier Thursday, the utility reported 20,000 customers were without power.
A line of storms rolled through the region by 4 p.m. Thursday as part of a squall line associated with a cold front, generating wind gusts near 60 mph and hail, damaging property across the state.
Squall lines, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, are groups of storms arranged in a line, often accompanied by gusts of high wind and heavy rain. Squall lines tend to pass quickly and are less prone to produce tornadoes.
In hard-hit Genesee County, the Todd Wenzel Buick GMC Of Davison dealership "sustained damage to a large portion of our inventory and our building," officials said on the business' Facebook page.
"We are open and can continue to service and sell vehicles, but ask that you please have patience with us as we take steps to repair the damage. Our thoughts are with all of those in the same situation after today’s storm."
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People entered U.S. national parks nearly 312 million times in 2022, up by 15 million visits from the year before, according to the National Park Service. Eight of these federally-owned and protected parks garnered 26% of visits, and another 25% of visits came from the 331 least-visited parks.
President Woodrow Wilson first signed the "Organic Act" on August 25, 1916, creating the National Park Service. Since then, the service has helped safeguard so many of the nation's scenic treasures with titles as varied as parks, preserves, reservations, fossil sites, and more. Stacker zooms in on national parks, and large land or water areas, typically larger than national monuments and more general than national preserves. Stacker used publicly available data and resources from the National Park Service to compile this brief history of all 63 national parks in the U.S.
Every national park is a natural or cultural resource the federal government deemed worthy of protection. Congress typically passes a statute to create a national park. Before that, each park passed a rigorous screening process to determine whether it is worth federal conservation. Researchers with the NPS have to deem the area of national significance, in other words, it is an unspoiled example of a resource that tells the story of U.S. natural or cultural heritage and history. Many of the older parks on this list, such as Acadia National Park, started as national monuments at the beginning of the 20th century, and later became national parks.
If you're looking for your next outdoor adventure, the West Coast offers plenty of opportunities. California has nine. Arizona and Washington each have three, and Oregon adds one more to the list. But national parks are found throughout the nation and offer a wide range of sites and experiences.
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LONDONDERRY — A longtime member of the town Budget Committee arrested July 14 on multiple charges of child pornography will continue to serve in the elected position until his term expires, unless he decides to step down, according to Town Manager Michael Malaguti.
Malaguti said that, due to New Hampshire law and the town charter, Timothy Siekmann could not be removed from his position.
Siekman faces up to 20 years in federal prison on the possession charges. All of the children depicted in the images and videos were female and approximately ages 2 to 9 years old.
"If he steps down, the chair of budget would address it at the next committee meeting, which is in August," Malaguti said.
Malaguti added that Siekmann was not issued a device by the town and that there are not any publicly available devices at town hall.
"What he does, going forward, the town hopes whatever decision he makes, whether to serve or resign, is made in best interest for the community and for the budget committee," said Malaguti.
Siekmann pleaded not guilty to 15 counts of possession of child pornography at his arraignment in Rockingham Superior Court on Friday. He posted $2,500 cash bail and was released on Monday.
The five videos and 10 images were allegedly downloaded to Siekmann's work computer, using a number of different technologies, like virtual machines, VPNs, and a more efficient type of physical hard drive called a Crucial Solid State Drive.
The dispositional conference, which could lead to an early resolution of the case, is set for Sept. 12 at the Rockingham Superior Court.
The original tip was received by the Derry Police Department on Aug. 3, 2022, by a Cybertipline Report from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Data System. The tip showed that three files were uploaded via BingImage Peer-to-Peer, a way for users to quickly search and access photographs.
Detective Scott Tompkins of the Derry Police was able to locate the computer's IP address, and its communication services company, Fairpoint Communications. He executed a search warrant for the documents of the organization, and from that was able to locate a subscriber under the name "Tim Siecmenn," registered to the same address as Siekmann's home address, kicking the investigation over to the Londonderry Police Department.
Londonderry police Detective Corey Ford executed a search warrant at Siekmann's address, taking several devices as evidence. When asked by Ford during the execution of the search warrant if he owned any computers, Siekmann allegedly indicated that his work laptop was in the den area.
Ford was able to confirm that the laptop was registered in Siekmann's name via the device's records. Siekman did not admit to possessing any child pornography.
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The Flagstaff area has always been special to Lauren Langley and her family.
Langley’s parents got engaged in Flagstaff, and even though she grew up in Show Low, the young entrepreneur fell in love with the region and one ponderosa pine shaded spot in particular.
That spot is an unassuming dirt lot next to the Dollar General in Kachina Village. The property is small, and the anchor for Langley’s infant business, a bakery named after a golden retriever housed in a bumblebee yellow food truck.
It’s called Honey Pie, and it’s co-owned by Langley’s father.
“It’s good. He’s the business mind and I’m definitely the baker mind. So, I came up with all the drinks, the menus, everything. He’s more my investor because I needed help. It’s definitely hard. It was hard to find a spot, but this was my favorite spot for sure,” Langley said.
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As a teenager, Langley coped with stress in the kitchen, elbows deep in dough and batter.
“I realized, 'Why don’t I just do this for a living? If I do this whenever I’m stressed to feel better, why not just do it for a living?'” Langley said.
She followed her dream to culinary school in Oregon, where she refined her skills as a professional baker and built the foundation she’d need to start her own business.
After a stint in Phoenix, Langley looked for a place to launch her culinary career in Flagstaff. She found a property in Kachina Village and fell in love.
“I wanted to come back to Arizona after I went to culinary school ... Flagstaff’s the place,” Langley said. “We found the property in March [two years ago]. That’s when I felt like this was the spot.”
While baking provided relief from stress for Langley, the process of opening a physical bakery quickly became a source of stress instead.
This winter brought near-record-breaking snowfall to the region. That snow piled on the roof of the newly minted Honey Pie bakery until the weight of melting ice and snow caused the building to buckle and collapse.
Shingles littered the location Langley had handpicked, and standing in the rubble, she decided there was no way around demolition — the entire building needed to go.
Langley and her father decided they could salvage lumber from the collapsed structure. They were going to use the remnants to revive Honey Pie. Knowing that bulldozers would be on their way to complete the work the snow had started, the pair plucked nails from quality boards and piled them near the corner of the property.
According to a post made on the social media app Next Door by a family member, their truck’s transmission was being repaired, and they couldn’t yet haul the salvaged lumber away.
“Later, we realized someone took the wood,” Langley said matter-of-factly. “So I thought, ‘It’s OK, we’ll start from scratch.’”
As a baker, Langley is used to starting from scratch. That’s how she makes the dough for her scones, cinnamon rolls and signature custard-based honey pies.
Langley said that the benefit of having to erect an entirely new building is that she has more creative control over how the structure will look and be laid out. She’s particularly looking forward to setting up a drive-thru window.
The salvaged lumber would have given the brand-new building a nostalgic touch, but Langley isn’t worried about the loss in the long run. Her eyes are on the horizon.
Langley continued to build the business by drawing in wholesale clients, partnering with another fledgling business, Lund Canyon Coffee Company, and selling pastries to more established roasters, such as Single Speed Coffee.
All the while, she invested in a food truck-style trailer, which occupies the lot she loved in the first place.
“We found the trailer partially into wholesale that weekend. We found it in Phoenix and we were like, 'Let’s turn it into something we can use to start doing retail,” said Langley.
Now, she’s open Fridays and Saturdays, plugging away against the odds. She’s even hired her first employee to man the trailer and make the often pollinator-themed lattes that accompany Langley’s handmade treats.
“The hardest part is that it can be defeating. The hours. A lot of people have their own opinion of what I should do, but I kind of just try to pursue my dream and kick butt. It can kind of be hard not to let things get in the way,” Langley said. “My favorite thing is making people smile with pastries. I enjoy baking. I just hope that I can get the funds by the end of the year to start the [physical] bakery. I just hope I can make people smile.”
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MITCHELL — Rules regarding conduct and abuse are more prevalent than ever in club sports in the United States and South Dakota.
But how those rules are utilized from national organizations by local teams and programs can be muddy.
In the midst of an investigation for allegations of sexual assault within the Mitchell Legion baseball team, a Mitchell Republic analysis reviewing policies and procedures of misconduct for baseball programs shows national organizations often pass responsibility, without implementing mandates, to local levels in hopes that messaging will get to players and parents.
American Legion baseball has a 24-page guidebook for risk management related to abuse of players, which is used by South Dakota teams. But players and parents may not see that level of detail. In the case of the Mitchell Baseball Association’s teams, players and parents sign an agreement that focuses on rules that mostly pertain to attendance and penalties for alcohol and drug use.
“In order to prevent adverse public reaction, dissension, and to promote general welfare for the participants, the following rules will be enforced,” the Mitchell Baseball Association rules read from 2019, covering issues like skipping practices, allowances for a single-family trip, work duties and on-field actions deemed detrimental to the program.
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While American Legion baseball provides risk management policies to coaches about child abuse and sexual abuse, it says it doesn't have "responsibility for ensuring that designated individuals receive the information." It instead makes the information about sexual abuse risk management "strongly urged and recommended" that local team sponsors and Legion posts implement a system for "ensuring availability" of the information to coaches, managers and adult volunteers.
“Providing coaches, managers and volunteer staff of American Legion Baseball teams an awareness of the policies established for acceptable/unacceptable behavior minimizes opportunities for misconduct and helps prevent unfounded allegations. It is just as vitally important that policies and procedures for reporting and responding to suspected abuse, misconduct, or policy violations are clearly established as well,” the national guidance from the American Legion says.
Regarding inquiries about how national guidance from American Legion was applied to Mitchell Baseball, Mitchell Baseball Association President Jason Christensen said in a statement that the MBA "cannot comment on a pending investigation or matters involving juveniles. The Mitchell Baseball Association takes all allegations seriously and will continue to take a cautious approach to ensure the safety of its players and coaches."
A July 19 announcement from the Pennington County State’s Attorney’s office confirmed prosecutors are investigating allegations of sexual assault within the Mitchell Legion baseball program. Which levels of personnel on the team are being investigated — players, coaches or other staff — hasn’t been disclosed by authorities despite multiple requests to state and Pennington County officials for clarifying information from the Mitchell Republic.
National rules for American Legion baseball focus on safeguarding youth participants as it relates to adult involvement. Teams are required to conduct annual background checks on managers, coaches and other volunteer staff with regular access to players. Additional training is offered for adults in American Legion programs through a separate organization, Protect Youth Sports, which has text on its website that says “an organization that serves children and youth has the obligation to exercise ‘due diligence with regards to protecting its members, especially the children.”
“By performing background checks on your volunteer coaches your organization is: putting up a safeguard at the 'doorway' of the organization that will, in most cases, scare off sexual predators; (and) offering peace of mind to discerning parents when choosing a youth sports program, by letting them know your league is being proactive in trying to protect the children,” the organization said.
Coaches, managers and volunteer staff members of American Legion baseball teams must complete abuse awareness training annually. Its policies also advise that awareness about preventing abuse should be disseminated to all adults involved with Legion baseball teams “regardless of how experienced they may be.”
Federal laws increase focus on abuse
Combating sexual abuse in sports has been reformed since 2017, when federal law was passed to require reporting suspected child abuse and sexual abuse within 24 hours to all adults who are authorized to interact with minor or amateur athletes by a national governing body. It also helped to establish the U.S. Center for SafeSport to address abuse of minors.
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SafeSport’s purview only covers sports regulated from the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. That includes USA Baseball, the organization that sanctions the country’s national teams. American Legion baseball is a national member organization of USA Baseball.
“Over the course of the last few years, we have seen abuse of minor athletes within the U.S. Olympic family come to the forefront,” USA Baseball’s website reads . “Too many athletes went unprotected from predators within their sport, which led to the creation of (U.S.) Senate Bill 534. Through SB534 and the governance of the U.S. Center for SafeSport, there are many policies now in place to ensure minor athlete well-being is at the forefront of every sport.”
Away from the Legion baseball framework, clearly defined policies regarding abuse are more patchwork in South Dakota. The state’s VFW baseball program, which organizes baseball for small towns from ages 8 to 16, doesn’t have policies related to abuse published on its website.
Little League Baseball, which is played for ages 12 and under in large communities in South Dakota, including Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Brandon and Pierre, follows the SafeSport pathway of rules regarding abuse. Little League International touts itself as the one of the national leaders of protecting children from abuse, due to mandating background checks for coaches and volunteers, something it began doing in 1998.
An emphasis with both American Legion baseball and VFW baseball — the two preeminent summer baseball programs for youth in South Dakota — focuses not toward player misconduct off the field but on patriotism and on-field behavior. That includes both organizations mandating players stand at attention for the national anthem or Pledge of Allegiance, reciting sportsmanship-minded creeds prior to the game and wearing each organization's respective patches on the uniform.
“The purpose of The American Legion baseball program is to stimulate Americanism and develop citizenship,” the Legion baseball handbook reads, while the national guidance discusses building the nation's future through youth sports and developing sportsmanship, loyalty and team spirit.
A section of the South Dakota VFW baseball handbook boldly discusses about how it will crack down on teams that attempt to break or manipulate playing rules for an unfair advantage.
“If you’re habitually looking for opportunities to find loopholes or manipulate the rules to gain an unfair advantage, you will be discovered or reported,” the South Dakota VFW baseball handbook reads regarding its rules and eligibility policies. “You’ll be investigated, adjudicated and receive appropriate consequences. This is our 64th year and you should know and understand our intent with our rules and code of conduct is to grow our players to be people of integrity, service before self and willing to put effort into the process to be an excellent human in addition to becoming the best player they can be.”
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Fort Wayne investigators are determining the cause of a fire that damaged a two-story home late Thursday.
Crews said they arrived at 731 Cottage Avenue at 11:40 p.m. and found light smoke and flames in an upstairs living room area.
Nine adults safely fled the house and there were no injuries, officials said.
Firefighters had the blaze under control in less than 20 minutes. No further information was provided.
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More than 600 remain without power after a brief but powerful thunderstorm swept across northern Indiana on Thursday.
Indiana Michigan Power officials said heavy winds downed trees and damaged power lines and equipment, disrupting service to nearly 20,000 Indiana Michigan Power customers.
The storm ripped through the Fort Wayne area in the early evening, leaving about 9,000 customers without power, according to I&M. About 10,000 customers in the Elkhart area also had outages. Another 370 people in Avilla lost power, the utility said.
It expects a full restoration by 3 p.m. today.
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PHOENIX — Country music fans faced the extreme heat outside Chase Field Wednesday and Thursday to see Morgan Wallen. But some say they didn't get relief from the heat once they got inside the venue.
After Wallen's show Wednesday night, social media was filled with complaints from fans who were disappointed with the venue. Many said the performances were great, but the heat was unbearable, and stated some concessions were out of water. Some fans left early, unable to bear the heat despite the roof being closed.
“It wasn’t something that I would expect from, you know, a big show like this," said Cheyenne Booras of Scottsdale. "We were disappointed.”
Cheyenne Booras is a big fan of Morgan Wallen and decided to take her six-year-old son with her Wednesday for his first-ever concert.
She said she felt the cool air when she walked into the closed-roof stadium but that changed once the venue filled up.
“It never fully cooled off throughout the entire night," Booras said. "They had wheelchairs ready to wheel people out. And they did.”
The heat caused Booras and her son to leave the show early. She was feeling light-headed.
"If it's not safe, it's not safe, you know? To put people in that type of danger," Booras said.
Matthew Allison was there too.
“Dripping sweat," Allison said. "Your shirt was wet, everything was wet. People there were using pizza boxes or nacho containers, everybody was fanning everybody trying to cool down when we got there.”
Allison is a regular concertgoer and frequents Chase Field. He said Wednesday night's experience was unprecedented.
“The experience in the facility was not good," Allison said.
A Diamondbacks spokesperson released the following statement in response to concerns raised about the conditions inside the venue:
“In preparation of the record temperatures, we began running air conditioning throughout the facility at 7 a.m. before Wednesday night’s concert and will run it at its highest output in preparation for tonight’s concert. Unfortunately, due to extreme outside temperatures and a sold-out crowd of over 50,000 concert fans, we expected it to be warmer than usual inside of Chase Field. The heat entered the building through ingress and the opening of doors in the middle of the afternoon. The temperatures will not affect the show times or durations of the artists’ acts.”
“I would hope that they would want to announce that whatever did happen, why it was that way, what they're going to do to solve that problem in the future and ensure that people that are spending hundreds to thousands of dollars are not in that kind of situation," Allison said.
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Kathleen Road exit from eastbound I-4 will close for three days next week for CSX project
Drivers who often exit Interstate 4 onto Kathleen Road will have to find another route for a few days next week, as the exit will be closed for a CSX railroad project.
According to the Florida Department of Transportation, CSX is replacing the railroad bridge over I-4, just west of Kathleen Road. The existing 250-foot bridge will give way to two new 400-foot bridges to allow the railroad to double-track and also accommodate future widening of I-4.
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Beginning Monday, the eastbound exit from I-4 onto Kathleen Road will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Wednesday as the contractor removes embankment along I-4, the FDOT said.
Eastbound motorists who would normally use the Kathleen Road exit might have to use Exit 28 instead, for U.S. 92/Memorial Boulevard. Or, depending on the destination, County Line Road or U.S. 98.
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Fort Meade receives new fire trucks, but they're too big for the firehouse
Fort Meade officials have said for some time that the city is in desperate need of new fire engines.
One of the city’s current engines spends nearly as much time in the shop for repairs as available for use, City Manager Jan Bagnall said.
The good news for the city is that Fort Meade recently received delivery of two fire engines that had been ordered last year. The trucks are painted in the colors of Fort Meade High School, gold with black trim.
The less-happy news: The two new engines do not easily fit inside Fort Meade’s one fire station. Taller than the city’s current trucks, the engines can be backed into the fire house through the front door but do not fit under the rear opening, Bagnall said.
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As a result, Fort Meade is currently keeping the new trucks at its public works warehouse as it plans to modify or replace the fire station. The Florida Legislature allocated $750,000 in the budget passed this session to Fort Meade for a fire station, half the amount requested by Rep. Melony Bell, R-Fort Meade.
In her appropriations request, Bell wrote that a building inspector had found “significant issues associated with the current Fire House that make the current Fire House unable to be refurbished or fixed economically compared to the alternative of a new build Fire House.”
The budget also directs $1 million to Fort Meade for fire engines.
The city paid $1.12 million to Toyne Fire Apparatus of Iowa for the two engines. Bagnall said he approved the order last year shortly after the city received a letter from Bell promising money for fire trucks in 2023 budget.
Bagnall said a previous interim fire chief, whom he declined to name, failed to check the dimensions of the trucks against the clearance height of the fire station.
It is the latest issue involving Fort Meade’s fire department. The City Commission voted in May to give Bagnall a written reprimand after learning that he had signed an order for a fire truck without getting approval from commissioners, as required by city charter for any purchases above $25,000.
Bagnall said that he inadvertently signed the contract for the $642,000 order, thinking it was merely an order for a change to an existing contract. That engine likely won’t be delivered until next year, and Bagnall said the city won’t have to begin making payments until 2026.
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As of last week, the two new engines were being kept at Fort Meade’s public works warehouse. The trucks were parked side by side under a structure that is not enclosed.
“Covered spaces are used by fire departments for temporary storage, and the goal is to have the permanent storage/firehouse completed within a two year time frame,” Bagnall said by email. “Covered storage is not the ideal solution, but it does protect the assets until a permanent solution is completed.”
Bagnall said that the new fire trucks are not yet in use.
“Once we get a temporary structure completed and move some offices to enable our fire personnel to move we will put those new engines into service,” he said by email. “I expect that will be in approximately a month or two. Then we will be able to start the rehab of the old Firehouse. I expect that will take approximately one year.”
All fire personnel have completed training on the new engines, Bagnall said. Fort Meade has a volunteer fire department that is now headed by an interim fire chief, Matt Zahara.
Fort Meade Mayor James Watts said he welcomed the addition of the two fire engines.
“Oh, it's a great asset to Fort Meade,” he said. “We were at the point we needed to upgrade our equipment anyway. We were going to have to do it to stay certified.”
Asked about the tight clearance for the trucks inside the fire station, Watts said, “Somebody didn’t measure something.”
He added that he thought the city could “make it all work.”
Watts didn’t seem inclined to blame Bagnall for the issue.
“There’s a time that you have to trust the people that work for you,” Watts said. “But you do have a responsibility; if anything goes wrong, it always goes back to him. But you do have to have faith in your employees to do their jobs. Accidents and mistakes happen.”
Bagnall said Fort Meade has problems with its downtown fire station that go well beyond the tight fit of the new trucks. He said he ordered assessments of all city departments after being promoted to his position in 2021.
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A review of the Fire Department found that the station and equipment had not been properly maintained for years if not decades, Bagnall said. He gave the example of the station’s cascade system, which includes devices used to refill the air tanks in firefighters’ breathing apparatus.
The system had not received any maintenance since 2013 and broke down a few years ago, Bagnall said. Fort Meade has been relying upon Polk County's air-support truck.
“The station is not in good shape,” Bagnall said. “It has not also been maintained for possibly decades. And you have to have a solution for that. We do have a temporary solution, as well as we're working on a long-term solution for the firehouse. And that is going to be coming down to funding.”
Fort Meade is seeking guidance from the state on how the $750,000 allocation may be used to renovate the current firehouse, he said.
Bagnall recently spoke at a Polk County Commission meeting to seek $1 million for improvements to Fort Meade’s fire station. That request followed the county’s withdrawal of $6.5 million it had offered to help Fort Meade develop a long-planned equestrian center. County commissioners rejected the request.
Gary White can be reached at gary.white@theledger.com or 863-802-7518. Follow on Twitter @garywhite13.
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TAHOE CITY, Calif — 2022 was a year of rapid biological change for Lake Tahoe.
That is a simple way, to sum up the 2023 Tahoe: State of the Lake Report. The report highlights improvement in lake clarity which on average hovered near 72 feet. A few years ago, it was around 61 feet.
“2022 was a year of remarkable changes in Lake Tahoe,” said Geoffrey Schladow, Director of the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center. “The clarity improved to levels we hadn't seen since the 1980s.”
The reason for the increased clarity is due to the return of a native animal, called Zooplankton. It cleans the lake at a faster rate. While the population of its predator, the Mysis shrimp, is on the decline.
“Once the shrimp disappeared, because we had seen something similar in Emerald Bay, we sort of cautiously predicted well, this could happen in Tahoe. It did,” said Schladow.
He and his team are trying to figure out why the shrimp died. But Schladow is certain the shrimp will return, and the lake clarity will decrease.
“The fact that we can sometimes be surprised by what nature throws at us," said Schladow. “And hopefully we can live up to that public trust we sometimes receive to learn from it. And to use that to everybody's advantage.”
One big concern researchers have for Lake Tahoe is the amount of microplastic pollution in the lake. The report shows the lake’s levels of microplastic are among the highest of freshwater lakes in North America.
Researchers said the microplastics in Lake Tahoe are at a similar level found in the San Francisco Bay.
In a positive development, researchers said restoration and management efforts continued to decrease nutrient and fine particle loads from entering the lake. Total nitrogen coming into Lake Tahoe from the Upper Truckee River was 11.1 metric tons per year compared to the mean annual load of 17.3 metric tons per year.
UC Davis researchers have been monitoring the second deepest lake in the United States continuously since 1968.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. — A Texas man faces up to life in federal prison after he allegedly kidnapped a girl at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her prior to his arrest in California, officials with the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.
The suspect, 61-year-old Steven Robert Sablan of Cleburne, Texas, was arrested last week in Long Beach on charges of kidnapping and transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, according to officials. He was indicted on Thursday, July 20.
Sablan allegedly approached the 13-year-old victim who was walking down a street July 6 in San Antonio and forced her into his vehicle at gunpoint, according to court documents.
Court documents stated that the 61-year-old began driving and told the girl he could take her on a cruise ship to see her friend in Australia. He allegedly sexually assaulted her multiple times while driving from Texas to California, according to court documents.
On July 9, Sablan parked his vehicle in Long Beach and went into a laundromat to wash clothes while the victim stayed in the car, court documents stated. During this time, officials said the victim wrote "help me" on a piece of paper to get someone's attention.
A witness saw the girl and called police, who arrived to find Sablan outside of the vehicle and the victim who mouthed "help" from inside the car, according to court documents.
Sablan was arrested, and authorities searched the vehicle and found a black BB gun, the "help me" sign and a pair of handcuffs, according to court documents.
Officials said law enforcement discovered the victim was reported missing out of San Antonio.
Sablan could be sentenced to the maximum of life in federal prison if he's convicted of both charges, according to officials.
The FBI and police departments in Long Beach and Cleburne investigated the case.
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Second chance for 'Squeeze'? Lakeland agency may bring back lunch transit service
LAKELAND — Two years later and a few tweaks along the way, downtown Lakeland residents and employees may see the lunch Squeeze relaunch this fall.
The Lakeland Downtown Development Authority's board of directors has talked with Polk County's public transit agency Citrus Connection to consider bringing back a golf-cart transit service during limited lunchtime hours.
"We've worked out what we believe to be most of the kinks," said Tom Phillips, Citrus Connection's general manager. "Now that we have special event and evening Squeeze down, I think a lunch Squeeze could be successful."
Citrus Connection first attempted to launch a public transit golf cart system, called The Squeeze, in October 2021. It started with a weekday lunch service from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. catering to local employees and an evening service aimed to offer visitors an easier time getting around downtown.
The evening shuttle service on Friday and Saturday nights, from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., has become a popular fixture providing rides for 200 to 300 people a night, Phillips said.
"It's a very successful program," he said. "It's the first time we've introduced City of Lakeland or Polk County to a premium transit service, and the community is using it a lot."
What's different?
The original Lunch Squeeze didn't pan out. Some days, the downtown shuttle service saw only two riders.
Phillips said there are a number of things that can be tweaked to improve it for a relaunch. Citrus Connection didn't do a great job marketing The Squeeze and its lunchtime service to downtown employees, he said, and a better advertising campaign could improve ridership.
Launched as a paid transit service, The Squeeze became free to ride in May 2022. Users won't have to figure out how to pay via Venmo or CashApp, Phillips said, they just have to hop onboard. He suggested seeking an exemption to the city's advertising ordinances to put out sandwich boards if the service is relaunched, to clearly identify stops to new users.
"Timeliness will be important, as people have to clock in and clock out of different jobs," said Eric "Bro" Belvin, manager at Linksters Taproom.
The Squeeze's original lunch route was predicted to take five to seven minutes to complete a full circuit with two golf carts starting at opposite ends. Jeff Donalson, owner and co-manager of Tom Wolf Company, said he thinks an average person would be willing to wait a maximum of three to four minutes for a shuttle to arrive when on a limited lunch break.
Mirrorton, a large apartment complex in downtown Lakeland, has finished construction and is home to hundreds of new residents since The Squeeze's initial launch, Phillips said. He sees this as a potential ridership pool of remote, at-home workers.
"The fact is there are so many more people living downtown, this would be a good option for them," Phillips said. "Just having the bodega is a another great opportunity. You can grab things for the first time and bring back to apartment or house."
Alternatively, he said downtown workers might desire to hop the shuttle to go back home, eat lunch and check on a pet without giving up their parking spot.
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The costs?
Julie Townsend, LDDA's executive director, said relaunching the transit service on Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. would cost an estimated $37,000 a year. The total could change if LDDA's board is interested in having more than three carts in circulation, or if the hours or days of operation are changed.
Phillips also suggested The Squeeze's lunch service could be seasonal in nature. He said ridership is likely to peak during hot, humid summer months when people don't want to walk outside versus more comfortable fall and spring seasons. This could reduce the potential budgetary cost to the LDDA.
"Lakeland doesn't have a parking problem, it has a walking problem," he said.
LDDA board member Donna De Stefano of Summit said she was in favor of launching The Squeeze's lunch service again.
"I’m all for it, I think its great," she said. "The key is marketing efforts to work with the population hubs."
The new route for the lunch transit service is still under development. Phillips suggested he'd focus on businesses or office buildings known to have a large number of employees. Another suggestion was to have a shuttle service, The Squeeze or something, to transport people from the city's Parking Lot B, near GrayRobinson off Lake Morton, into Munn Park.
Phillips has been asked to work with Citrus Connection staff and the city's transportation planners to come up with some viable routes to present to the LDDA board of directors at their next meeting.
Sara-Megan Walsh can be reached at swalsh@theledger.com or 863-802-7545. Follow on Twitter @SaraWalshFl.
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Sacrificing for safety: Polk County's sidewalk project eats into Lakeland yards
LAKELAND — On an afternoon that seemed almost hot enough to melt asphalt, a trio of workers wearing reflective shirts and hard hats toiled to produce pavement.
The crew used a loader machine to move dirt Friday afternoon as newly poured concrete dried in a strip along Meadow Lane, the latest stretch of sidewalks being installed in the Crystal Lake area of unincorporated southeast Lakeland.
Polk County is adding about 2 miles of sidewalks in an area surrounding Crystal Lake Elementary School. Part of the project is receiving federal funding through the Safe Routes to School program, which promotes walking and bicycling to school through a mixture of infrastructure upgrades and other elements.
That program offers federal money to reimburse Polk County not only for sidewalks but also streetlights and other improvements, said Bill Skelton, the county’s project management liaison.
Sidewalks are now being prepared or installed along Meadow Lane and Ellerbe Way, just east of the school, which is located at 700 Galvin Drive. The project will also add sidewalks on Crosby Street and Colonial Avenue, east of Jamestown Avenue, and a stretch of Galvin Drive leading to the school entrance.
Altogether, the Safe Routes to School program will produce 5,400 feet of sidewalk, 16 crosswalks with signs, 19 streetlights and a school zone with crosswalks, signs and beacons, Skelton said.
The Crystal Lake area project is scheduled to finish by September, Skelton said.
In addition, Polk County is constructing 3,040 feet of sidewalk along Longfellow Boulevard from Main Street to Colonial Avenue in an area northwest of the Crystal Lake project. And the county plans to build 2,376 feet of sidewalk beside Eastside Drive, which runs roughly parallel to Combee Road.
'Trying to provide a safer area'
The Longfellow Boulevard and Eastside Drive projects emerged as recommendations from Polk County’s Sidewalks Advisory Committee, which includes representatives from county agencies and Polk County Public Schools as well as public volunteers. The committee meets monthly, and its members set priorities for the construction of new sidewalks.
Skelton said that most potential sidewalk projects originate with a request from a citizen or a group.
“Like all our sidewalk projects, we're trying to provide a safer area for walkers, so they don't have to be on the unimproved shoulder, they don't have to walk in the travel lane,” Skelton said. “So that's one of the things that the committee looks at is the crash history involving pedestrians and then proximity to schools. So this actually checks several boxes.”
County records show that two traffic incidents involving pedestrians, neither of them fatal, occurred along Longfellow Boulevard in 2015 and 2018. Skelton said the committee looks at crash reports for five-year periods, and other incidents could have happened earlier.
The committee assigns scores to proposed sidewalk projects based upon such factors as accident history, traffic speed, connectivity to existing sidewalks and population density in a neighborhood. Proposals are reviewed at least twice in consecutive years, and if the score is not 100 or higher it doesn’t receive further consideration, Skelton said.
“I personally feel that there's not a bad sidewalk request,” Skelton said. “I think there's merit in every request. But, of course, we're limited by our funding to what we can construct.”
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The county’s budget for sidewalks has remained steady at $2.25 million for the past few years, he said.
“So now you think it buys a lot of sidewalk, however, it only really affords us, like, 10 to 14 projects a year, something on the order of three or four miles,” Skelton said.
The budget for the Longfellow Boulevard project is about $481,000, including design and construction, Skelton said. The estimated cost for the Eastside Drive project is about $417,000.
The county only builds sidewalks on one side of a road, Skelton said.
The cost includes design and preparation. Open drainage ditches run along some stretches of Longfellow Boulevard, adding to the challenge of creating sidewalks.
“Many of these projects require substantial drainage modification,” Skelton said. “So, oftentimes, they become drainage projects with a sidewalk atop. The actual sidewalk construction is sometimes dwarfed by the drainage modifications that are required to site the project.”
In some cases, a design merely moves a swale away from the area where the sidewalk is going. But sometimes the project requires installing pipes and building the sidewalk over the former ditch, Skelton said.
Polk County doesn’t pay to acquire the right-of-way for sidewalks but sometimes requests easements from homeowners, allowing them on private property. Owners usually grant the easements, but a denial can thwart a proposed sidewalk, he said.
The federally funded Safe Routes to School program doesn’t provide for acquiring property, Skelton said. The sidewalks along Meadow Lane and Ellerbe Way are all going on the county-owned right-of-way.
Some homeowners assume that they own the property extending all the way to the road in front of their houses, but cities and counties generally reserve ownership of a strip of land for utilities.
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'Everybody's yard started getting torn up'
In preparation for building sidewalks on Meadow Lane and Ellerbe Way, crews installed wooden stakes in yards denoting the boundaries of the right-of-way. In some cases, the sidewalk zone extends beyond existing fixtures in yards, including fences running along property lines to the curb and others running along the front of yards.
The stakes in some yards signaled that the sidewalk would erase planters or bird feeders. In one yard, a marker stood just short of a mature oak tree.
Planners must leave a certain amount of space between the curb and sidewalk, a zone known as a “clear recovery area” for drivers, Skelton said.
“Generally speaking, obviously we want to site the sidewalk as far away from the travel lanes as we can, just as a matter of safety and to provide that clear recovery zone,” he said.
He added that the sidewalks won’t necessarily extend as far into yards as the stakes might suggest. The markers designate the right-of-way area, but there can be a buffer of a few feet from the edge farthest from the road, he said.
“A lot of people are surprised by where the right-of-way is,” Skelton said. “It does come as a surprise to some people, and there's some people that welcome the sidewalk, and then there's other people that they're opposed to it.”
As work proceeded Friday afternoon on Meadow Lane, the sidewalk had left behind truncated fences in some yards. At Pat Bishop’s house, the project had cut through a chain-link fence on one side of her yard and a white, plastic privacy fence on the other.
Bishop, a resident of Meadow Lane for six years, said she did not recall getting any prior notice about the work.
“We just saw everybody's yard started getting torn up,” she said.
Bishop said neighbors were “very shocked” to learn how far the project would extend into their front yards.
While acknowledging the proximity to Crystal Lake Elementary School, Bishop questioned how much use the new sidewalk would get.
“There's not even enough kids that walk to school that are even going to use it,” she said. “And I bet they’ll still walk in the road like they always do. I bet it won’t be used.”
A neighbor, Dale Anderson, has lived on Meadow Lane for 26 years.
“It’s a little bit farther up than I would have liked, but I don’t have to move anything,” he said. “I didn't have to reconnect my fences or move the mailbox or any of that kind of thing. So I think they did a good job.”
Anderson said he hasn’t noticed many children walking past his house on the way to Crystal Lake Elementary.
“But there is a bus that comes by and they drop them off real close to Combee (Road) there,” he said. “Some of the other schoolkids might use it.”
Gary White can be reached at gary.white@theledger.com or 863-802-7518. Follow on Twitter @garywhite13.
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PLANT IT FORWARD: No green thumb is necessary to attend New Garden Nursery's 2023 Plant Fest. There will be local vendors, food trucks, music, free plant swaps and more at 3811 Lawndale Drive on Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. Workshops begin at $35, but entrance is free, including the chance to win door prizes every hour. Find more information at newgarden.com.
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LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: It's a'me, the Mario Movie! Head down to Hester Park on Saturday evening for a free public screening of "The Super Mario Bros. Movie." Good for the whole family, so bring a blanket, lawn chairs and an appetite as the Greensboro Police Department will offer complimentary food from the grill. The movie begins at 8 p.m. For more information, visit greensboro-nc.gov.
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GREENSBORO — A large portion of I-40 East in Greensboro is expected to be closed for resurfacing from 9 a.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday, according to a spokeswoman for the NC Department of Transportation.
The closure will allow crews to take up the old asphalt and put down a new surface.
All eastbound I-40 lanes will be closed from Exit 212A (I-73) to Exit 227 (I-85). I-40 East will be open to local traffic only between Exit 213 (Guilford College Road) and Exit 218A (U.S. 220/Freeman Mill Road).
It’s possible the closures won’t be in place the whole time, because crews may need to pause for rain.
Similar closures affected travel in Greensboro last week. NCDOT hopes to get the work finished this time around, weather permitting.
“Right now, this is the last planned, but it’s possible that more may come up,” NCDOT spokeswoman Kelse Edwards said.
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That’s with the exception of one section open to local travel.
The Guilford College Road (213), and Freeman Mill Road south/220 (Exit 218a) exits will both be open and Edwards said local motorists can drive between those two. All the other entrances from 212a to 227 will be closed.
Drivers can follow marked detours to avoid the closure.
One detour will direct I-40 East drivers to use I-85 North and I-73 South (the entire southern part of the Greensboro Urban Loop) to avoid the whole closure area.
The other detour will allow drivers on the interstate coming up to Freeman Mill Rd to utilize U.S. 220 South and I-85 North (the southeastern part of the Greensboro Urban Loop) to bypass the eastern part of the closure area.
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SAN ANTONIO — A massive fire at a vacant home north of downtown spread to two other homes Friday morning, fire crews said.
The fire started around 6 a.m. in the 800 block of West Poplar, near Cyprus Street.
Fire crews on the scene say the fire in the vacant home may have started from transients who were seeking shelter in the home. The flames were so intense, the structure is now nearly gone.
The fire spread to the homes on either side of the vacant home. Fire crews say no one was injured.
This is a developing story and further details will be added as they are received.
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SAN ANTONIO — A man was shot and killed at a northeast-side motel after defending his girlfriend from a man who tried to touch her, police said.
The shooting happened in the parking lot of that motel near I-35 and Eisenhauer around 3:30 a.m.
Police say the man and woman were near their vehicle in the parking lot when another man walked up and began attempting to touch the woman.
The two men reportedly got into an argument, and eventually a physical fight, when the man attempting to touch the woman pulled out a gun and shot the other man three times.
The man who was shot was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman he was with was not hurt. The suspect took off from the area and has not been found.
Investigators are looking for a black vehicle in connection with this crime. If you know anything, you are urged to call police.
The victim and his girlfriend were from San Antonio and not staying in the motel, police said. They believe the couple was visiting friends.
This is a developing story and further details will be added as they are received. Check back to this article for updates.
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SAN ANTONIO — A man was stabbed in an area north of downtown and walked to a QuikTrip to ask for help late Thursday night, police said.
The attack happened near the QT on San Pedro just before 11:30 p.m.
A San Antonio detective told KENS 5 two men were fighting and one cut the other. The victim sought help from a security guard at the gas station.
The crime scene was extensive, starting at Elmira and ending at Euclid.
Multiple people were detained in this stabbing, and it is not clear if the suspect was among those detained.
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SAN ANTONIO — Police are looking for a missing man last seen on June 28 in the downtown area.
Police say Victoriano Flores, who goes by Victor, was last seen in the 200 block of North Alamo Street. They did not give his age but did describe him as a "missing endangered senior".
Flores is also described as being 5'6" in height and weighing 140 pounds. He has hazel eyes and gray hair. He has a diagnosed medical condition, is right-handed with straight ear top length hair and has a scar on forehead and has dentures, police said.
If you have seen or may know the whereabouts of this missing person please contact the San Antonio Police Department's Missing Person Unit at (210)207-7660.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Beers were flowing Friday morning in Orange County, right down the storm drain.
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The crash happened near the intersection of Orange Blossom Trail and Boy Scout Boulevard.
Photos: Beer spills across roadway after crash involving Bud Light truck in Orange County
Another car was seen heavily damaged at the intersection.
The Bud Light truck was seen with a large hole in the side.
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Several boxes of beer along with broken and spilled bottles were seen tossed along the roadway at the crash site.
Orange County officials have not said what caused the crash and if there were any injuries.
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Channel 9 has a crew working to gather more information and will provide updates on Eyewitness News.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — An area of low pressure over the Atlantic Ocean now has a 40% chance of formation into either a tropical depression or named system through next week.
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It’s unlikely the storm system will develop over the next few days due to dry air in the area.
However, as the system moved closer to the Caribbean waters it will find warm water and better conditions to strengthen.
Read: Hurricane season: What is the Saffir-Simpson scale; how does it work; is there a Category 6?
It’s still too soon to know where the storm will make landfall as it moves west from Africa.
Tropical Storm Don also continues to move through the Central Atlantic.
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Don is forecast to weaken as it eventually passes by the northeastern U.S.
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The groundbreaking establishment of an active management area in the Douglas basin seemed destined for a possible repeal last week.
Voters in the Cochise County groundwater basin had approved establishing the new groundwater management system in 2022, but last week county election officials reviewed petitions calling for a repeal election. They declared the petitions sufficient.
This week, though, that repeal effort ran into its own brick wall when the Environmental Defense Action Fund, a political action committee, filed suit against the repeal effort.
The suit alleged a variety of problems with the petition effort. Most broadly, it said under state law there simply is no provision for voters to rescind the establishment of an active management area and return it to the previous status, an immigration non-expansion area. The suit also alleged various problems with the petitions themselves.
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This week, the Cochise County Attorney’s Office reviewed the lawsuit and agreed with its allegations, elections director Bob Bartelsmeyer said. As a result, there will be no election this year, and those seeking one will have to try again from scratch.
Ann Waters, who led the initiative effort, said she did so to protect people’s grandfathered water rights, which she said are endangered by the active management area’s establishment.
“The AMA still has not defined what it actually is,” she said. “People voted on something without knowing what it was.”
The effort to establish the active management area was historic — the first time local people had used a provision of state law that allowed them to establish greater regulation over groundwater in their basin.
While the effort to establish an AMA in the Douglas basin was successful, a similar one in the Willcox basin failed.
Candidates late on finance filings
Two candidates for Tucson City Council failed to file on time this week the latest required campaign-finance disclosures.
Democrat Miguel Ortega and Republican Victoria Lem, both candidates in Ward 1, had not filed disclosures Thursday afternoon that were due on Monday.
The other candidates for city office, including incumbent Democrat Lane Santa Cruz, did file her disclosure on time.
Find out more on the candidates’ campaign spending in Sunday’s Arizona Daily Star.
PAC remains unofficial in Tucson
The political action committee that sent out mailers in the Ward 1 race opposing Democratic incumbent Santa Cruz still has not complied with city ordinances.
The Arizona Prosperity Initative PAC hasn’t filed paperwork establishing itself as an entity operating in Tucson elections. The other outside groups spending in the race have done so.
However, Arizona Corporation Commission records show the initiative was formed as a corporation April 6 by Timothy LaSota, a well-known Republican attorney in the Phoenix area.
The directors are Donald Justin Harris, Joel Rhoads and John Holden.
Finchem has flown the coop
It looks like the Tucson area will no longer have any responsibility for former state Rep. Mark Finchem.
Voter registration documents, reviewed by a Phoenix newsletter called 48th Estate, show that Finchem registered to vote from a Phoenix address in January. He has also filed his intent to challenge Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican, in the 2024 election.
Finchem, then an Oro Valley resident, served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2015 through 2022, winning four elections.
In 2022, he was the Republican nominee for secretary of state but lost that race to Democrat Adrian Fontes — though he has never accepted his 120,000-vote loss.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Attorneys for an Orange County woman accused of killing her boyfriend during a game of hide-and-seek are set to be back in court Friday.
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Investigators said Sarah Boone drunkenly zipped Jorge Torres Jr. into a suitcase at their Winter Park home and left him to die in February 2020.
They said video shows Boone taunting Torres while he struggled to breathe.
READ: Man, 80, accused of shooting his wife to death at their Sanford home
Records indicate the couple had a history of domestic violence.
Friday’s hearing could be the last time her lawyers are in court before her trial.
It is set to begin on Monday.
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(The Hill) — If you ever wanted to spend a long weekend in Pittsburgh, now may be the time.
Pittsburgh ranks as one of America’s coolest cities in midsummer, with an enviable average July temperature of 73.2 degrees, according to federal weather data.
Much of the nation is enduring a dangerous heat wave, breaking records across the Southwest. The high temperature in Phoenix has reached or exceeded 110 degrees on 20 consecutive days.
In Pittsburgh, by contrast, Friday’s projected high is 78.
As an exercise in escapism, we found 10 large cities, one of them Pittsburgh, with some of the coolest July weather in America. Our average temperatures come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and span the years 1991 through 2020, so they reflect the growing reach of global warming.
San Francisco
Mark Twain once said, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” (Or did he?)
With an average July temperature of 60.3 degrees, San Francisco puts up some of the coolest summers in the Western Hemisphere.
The chill comes from the city’s coastal location along the Pacific Ocean. California’s Central Valley, to the east, works like a vacuum, pulling cool marine air across the city, by one forecaster’s account.
“Today’s high is 62 degrees,” said Dan Luscher, an urbanist and longtime San Franciscan, speaking Wednesday. “If I didn’t read the news, I wouldn’t even be aware there was a heat wave.
“I think San Francisco should start positioning itself as a climate haven or climate sanctuary,” he said, “as these kinds of heat events are only going to get more common.”
Seattle
With an average July temperature of 66.5 degrees, Seattle ranks as one of the nation’s coolest cities in midsummer.
Seattle sits on the same chilly swath of the Pacific Coast as San Francisco, but about 800 miles farther north. To the east lie the Cascade Mountains, a range that shields the city from the cold air of the American interior in winter and from the extremes of heat in summer. There’s a reason why television’s Frasier Crane always wore that suit.
Seattle gets 90-degree weather on roughly four days a year, one local news site boasts. When a heat dome settled over the city in 2021, producing eight days of 90- and even 100-degree heat, the city plunged into crisis.
San Jose
While San Jose might sit on fewer vacation itineraries than the cities listed above, the Californian city boasts an enviable average temperature of 69.5 in July. For an explanation, see its northern neighbor San Francisco.
Portland
With an average July temperature of 70.2 degrees, Portland shares many climatic qualities with other Pacific Coast cities.
But Portland, too, is seeing more 90-degree days in an era of advancing climate change.
San Diego
San Diego enjoys an average temperature of 70.7 degrees in July. And unlike, say, Seattle, San Diego also gets lots of sun. The city makes many lists of American destinations with the most sunshine and objectively nice days.
Pittsburgh
We leave the West Coast now and travel to Pittsburgh, of all places, where July temperatures average a cool 73.2 degrees.
Because of its distance from the coast, Pittsburgh suffers the occasional weather extreme. Back in 2014, temperatures fell into the 40s in mid-August. Leaves began to turn.
“Pittsburgh residents have been known to wear swimsuits and winter jackets during the same week,” a local reporter wrote after an earlier summer cold snap, beneath the headline, “Weather in Pittsburgh is awful for several reasons.”
On the bright side, summers in Pittsburgh don’t get too hot.
“We are close enough to the Atlantic and the Gulf Stream to get some of the moderation associated with being more coastal,” said Neil Donahue, a chemistry professor at Carnegie Mellon University. “We are not all that far north of the Mason-Dixon line, but we are definitely not South.”
Milwaukee
With an average July temperature of 73.3 degrees, Milwaukee stays a tad cooler than Chicago, its southerly neighbor. Both cities reap gloriously cool summer breezes off of Lake Michigan.
Los Angeles
Angelenos love to gripe about the weather, but, in truth, July in Los Angeles is relatively sweet, with an average temperature of 73.3 degrees.
“The one real advantage we have is the beach,” said John Singh, an entertainment publicity consultant in the Sherman Oaks enclave. “So, when it gets uncomfortably hot, we can head out to the coast, where it’s almost always cool.”
Detroit
Detroit, like Milwaukee, benefits from its Great Lakes address and from sheer northerliness: The city sits a stone’s throw from Canada. Average July temperature: 74.1 degrees.
Boston
Among large East Coast cities, Boston seems to do the best job at resisting summer swelter. Its average July temperature is 74.1 degrees.
“What I like most about it is, at least in the early mornings, it is cool enough to walk to work, which is one of my favorite daily routines,” said Gal Wettstein, a research economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
“Of course, we still complain about the hot and humid Boston summer days.”
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Harrisburg magisterial district judge filed a lawsuit against law enforcement personnel who she claims targeted her with a "racially motivated" prosecution.
Sonya McKnight was accused of interfering with police during a traffic stop involving her son in February 2020. She was acquitted in 2021 after a Dauphin County judge found that prosecutors did not present sufficient evidence against her.
Her lawsuit, filed in the United States Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on July 10, alleges that several police officers, a detective and members of the Office of Attorney General filed false reports and otherwise misrepresented what happened the night of the traffic stop.
Police officers Farida Kingsboro, Anthony Cummings, Chad Showers and Dominic Cristillo; special agent Jerrett Ferrari; Chief Deputy Attorney General Kirsten Heine; and Deputy Attorney General Kristyne Crist are named as defendants in the lawsuit.
The police officers allegedly reported that McKnight was agitated during the traffic stop and took her son's car without permission. According to the lawsuit, body and dash camera footage showed that McKnight was relaxed during the incident, standing with her hands in her pockets.
When Ferrari, who was assigned to investigate McKnight's presence at the traffic stop and had previously investigated a shooting at a home owned by McKnight, met with her to discuss the traffic stop, he allegedly told the judge that there was no video of the incident, according to the suit.
The lawsuit also claims that Kingsboro did indeed give McKnight permission to take the car, saying that she was not planning to have it towed.
There was additional disagreement between the parties over whether McKnight had entered her son's vehicle and taken a bottle allegedly containing prescription pills. McKnight denied she had; Kingsboro "was adamant" that the judge did enter the car. According to the lawsuit, dashcam video shows that McKnight never entered her son's car.
When referring to the initial investigation into McKnight's conduct, the lawsuit states "Special Agent Ferrari noted that, 'It was apparent during my interview with all four Officers that they were intimidated by McKnight because of who she is.'"
The defendants are charged with malicious prosecution in violation of Fourteenth Amendment, conspiracy to remove plaintiff from office via malicious prosecution in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, malicious prosecution in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment, malicious abuse of process in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, conspiracy to remove plaintiff from office via malicious prosecution and abuse of process with racial animus in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, abuse of process in violation of Pennsylvania law, malicious prosecution in violation of Pennsylvania law, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress. McKnight is also seeking punitive damages.
"The fabrication of evidence and charges and malicious prosecution of Judge McKnight was the result of a vast conspiracy to frame and prosecute Judge McKnight because of her race and gender, which Defendants unreasonably and stereotypically associated with criminal activities," the lawsuit says.
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LANCASTER, Pa. — Police are searching for a Lancaster man accused of stealing three birthday cakes from a local Weis Market store—one of which had a picture of his face printed on it, according to investigators.
Daquai Anthony Jackson, 24, is charged with retail theft in the alleged incident, which occurred on May 28 at the grocery store located in the Manor Shopping Center on the 1200 block of Millersville Pike, according to Manheim Township Police.
Police say Jackson entered the store and picked up three cakes he had ordered at the bakery counter. He then went through the store, selected four canned goods, two candles, a small cupcake and a box of chips.
Once at self-checkout, Jackson paid $12.99 for some of the items he purchased, but left the store without paying for the remaining items, including the cakes. The total loss to the store was $90.40, police claim.
Witnesses told police that the person who ordered the cakes was the same person pictured in a photo printed on one of them. Police used that photo along with surveillance footage of the alleged incident to identify Jackson as the suspect.
Jackson is known to police and has at least two other retail theft offenses on his record, police said.
Investigators filed a criminal complaint against Jackson and obtained a warrant for his arrest.
He remains a wanted person at this time, police said.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts should call the Manheim Township Police Department at 717-569-6401 or submit a tip online.
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KNOX COUNTY, Texas — A Benjamin man died early Thursday morning when his pickup truck was hit by an SUV, causing both vehicles to be engulfed in flames.
According to a preliminary crash report from the Texas Department of Public Safety, the SUV driven by Kevin Lepaul Beck, 43, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, was traveling east on US Hwy. 82 at a high rate of speed. The pickup truck driven by Candido Benjamin Uribe, 72, of Benjamin, was exiting a private drive on to the highway eastbound at a slower speed than Beck.
DPS said Beck told them Uribe's pickup did not have its lights on. Beck wasn't able to control his speed and hit the back of Uribe's pickup. Both vehicles caught fire in the crash and were engulfed in flames.
Beck was able to get out of his SUV, but Uribe was trapped in his pickup truck, according to the DPS report.
Uribe was pronounced dead at the scene.
The crash is still under investigation by DPS.
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COMANCHE COUNTY, Texas — A Comanche woman was killed Tuesday evening when the SUV she was driving was involved in a head-on collision with a pickup truck.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said the crash happened at 8:17 p.m. Tuesday on Farm-to-Market Road 2247, 6.2 miles north of Comanche.
A preliminary crash investigation said the pickup truck, driven by Waggoner Wayne Shelton, 18, of Comanche, was traveling south in the northbound lane of FM 2247, driving on a curve in the roadway. The SUV, driven by Samara Ann Christine Johnson, 21, of Comanche, was traveling north, approaching the pickup truck on the same curve.
Shelton steered back toward the southbound lane to the right and Johnson steered left toward the southbound lane to try to avoid the pickup truck. The vehicles then collided head-on.
Shelton and a 14-year-old passenger were both taken to Hendrick North Hospital for treatment of injuries. DPS said neither were wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash.
Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. — A Texas man faces up to life in federal prison after he allegedly kidnapped a girl at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her prior to his arrest in California, officials with the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.
The suspect, 61-year-old Steven Robert Sablan of Cleburne, Texas, was arrested last week in Long Beach on charges of kidnapping and transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, according to officials. He was indicted on Thursday, July 20.
Sablan allegedly approached the 13-year-old victim who was walking down a street July 6 in San Antonio and forced her into his vehicle at gunpoint, according to court documents.
Court documents stated that the 61-year-old began driving and told the girl he could take her on a cruise ship to see her friend in Australia. He allegedly sexually assaulted her multiple times while driving from Texas to California, according to court documents.
On July 9, Sablan parked his vehicle in Long Beach and went into a laundromat to wash clothes while the victim stayed in the car, court documents stated. During this time, officials said the victim wrote "help me" on a piece of paper to get someone's attention.
A witness saw the girl and called police, who arrived to find Sablan outside of the vehicle and the victim who mouthed "help" from inside the car, according to court documents.
Sablan was arrested, and authorities searched the vehicle and found a black BB gun, the "help me" sign and a pair of handcuffs, according to court documents.
Officials said law enforcement discovered the victim was reported missing out of San Antonio.
Sablan could be sentenced to the maximum of life in federal prison if he's convicted of both charges, according to officials.
The FBI and police departments in Long Beach and Cleburne investigated the case.
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Crews battled a fire at an abandoned mobile home in North Huntington Township Friday morning.
PHOTOS: Crews battle fire at abandoned mobile home in North Huntington Township
The fire broke out along California Lane around 6 a.m.
Flames and heavy smoke could be seen coming from the structure.
There are about seven to ten abandoned mobile homes in the area, which is located just off the main road.
No injuries were reported.
There’s no word yet on what started the fire.
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RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. — A total solar eclipse will be happening next year on April 8, 2024. It will be visible in many parts of the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Since it lies directly in the middle of the eclipse's path of totality, Russellville, Arkansas has been listed by Astronomy Magazine as one of the top 10 locations in the country to see the rare celestial display.
There will be a Total Eclipse of the Heart Festival in Russellville that is offering a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for couples who happen to be in love "to the moon and back."
In order to participate all couples will need a wedding license and something out of this world to wear.
Flowers, decorations, a wedding cake, and a bottle of sparkling juice will be provided at no cost to the bride and groom. The Liverpool Legends, the world’s most popular Beatles tribute band, will also be performing a song for the couple’s first dance.
The ceremony will end just minutes before totality takes place and there is over four minutes of complete darkness with only a thin circle of light around the moon that will resemble a huge wedding ring in the sky!
Asides from offering the free wedding ceremony, the festival will give each couple registered several gift cards and discounts from area businesses which include jewelry, furniture, travel, restaurant meals, and a hot air balloon ride.
For more information about the event, please click here.
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SEATTLE — It’s been a week since the fight to save a tall Redcedar in the Wedgwood neighborhood began. The Snoqualmie Tribe is weighing in, and working to get the tree saved as an archaeological site.
The Tribe submitted paperwork to declare the tree a Culturally Modified Tree or CMT and the area surrounding it an archaeological site under Tribal and state law.
In a statement, the Tribe said an archaeological permit is now required before the developer can take any action to remove the tree.
Representatives from the Tribe and the State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation urged the City of Seattle on Wednesday to permanently stop the removal of the tree.
In a statement, the Tribe said the city claims its hands are tied and there’s no way for it to stop the proposed development.
“Both the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe and the State of Washington communicated to the City that the improperly granted permit should be immediately revoked and the private developer stopped from demolishing a culturally modified cedar tree which has stood for over a century,” said Jaime Martin, Executive Director of Governmental Affairs & Special Projects for the Tribe.
“However, the City has chosen to ignore these concerns and has taken no action to address the valid grievances raised by the Tribe and the State. Seattle, a city that often apologizes for past injustices inflicted upon Indigenous Peoples, shows a shocking level of indifference and dismissiveness towards the harm it is currently causing by desecrating this Tribal archaeological site.”
CMT’s are markers of an indigenous trail system, leading to fishing, hunting, and gathering places and visiting relatives of other communities across the region.
The tribe said the living signpost is connected to the Snoqualmie people.
“I think that is such an important and beautiful thing to preserve since a lot of us have forgotten the history of this land and where we are,” said Jess Mcintyre, an activist working to save the tree.
Activists who each go by the name Droplet are calling the Redcedar home until it's off the chopping block.
“We're staying here until this tree is safe and cannot be cut down,” Droplet said.
The tree is slated to be cut down to build homes on a lot, but those fighting for the tree want the developer to use the original plan which would allow for the tree to stay and homes still built.
“People were moved to save this tree on a deeper level and not just a handful it built so quickly,” Droplet said.
The owner of the tree service provider Alex Tree Service said he will not cut the tree down and said a letter was sent to the city to remove the public notice required before a tree can be cut down.
KING 5 has reached out to the City of Seattle and the Legacy Capital and has not yet heard back.
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Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer reports the following transactions:
Maxum Genesis Group, Inc. leased 5,400 square feet of industrial space at Staples Mill Business Center, 8209-8231 Hermitage Road, in Henrico.
Chico's renewed its lease of 4,600 square feet of retail space at River Road Shopping Center II, 5001-5029 Huguenot Road, in Richmond.
The Tax Complex renewed its lease of 4,325 square feet of office space at 1650 Willow Lawn Drive in Henrico.
BFT leased 2,787 square feet of retail space at Carytown Exchange, 3550-3403 W. Cary St. and 3403-3550 Ellwood Ave., in Richmond.
Gilliam Family Enterprises, Inc . leased 2,700 square feet of industrial space 901 Grove Road in Chesterfield.
Green Massage leased 1,236 square feet of retail space at Midlothian Festival Shopping Center, 9550 Midlothian Tpk., in Chesterfield.
Have Site Will Travel and The Man with Square Feet reports the following transaction:
Commonwealth Book and Supply Co. Inc., leased 2,366 square feet at 310 Shafer St. in Richmond.
Joyner Commercial Real Estate reports the following transaction:
Redemption Thrift leased 8,450 of retail space located at 10030 Robious Road in Chesterfield.
Redemption Thrift leased 8,450 of retail space located at 10030 Robious Road in Chesterfield.
Pollard & Bagby Inc . reports the following transactions:
Goodwill of Central and Coastal Virginia, Inc. leased approximately 28,325 square feet at 120 Giant Drive in Chesterfield.
Castro Electric, LLC leased approximately 2,000 square feet at 7911 Iron Bridge Road in Chesterfield.
Bad Bunny Thrift Shop, LLC leased approximately 319 square feet at 5809 Lakeside Ave., Suite G1-E and G1-F in Henrico.
Next Door renewed its lease of approximately 2,906 square feet at 2619-2623 W. Main St. in Richmond.
Birreria El Ranchero renewed its lease of approximately 1,375 square feet at 3815 Richmond Highway in Chesterfield.
The Lamar Companies renewed its lease at 1506 Webster St. in Richmond.
Capital Area Alcohol Safety Action Program renewed its lease of approximately 5,800 square feet at 4915-4917 Augusta Ave. in Richmond.
Lakeside Driving School LLC renewed its lease of approximately 726 square feet at 5809 Lakeside Ave., Suite G1-C in Henrico.
YSA, LLC renewed its lease of approximately 892 square feet at 518-A W. Grace St. in Richmond.
Designer Deliveries, Inc. renewed its lease of approximately 10,000 square feet at 1804 Currie Street in Richmond.
Kicks Boomin, LLC renewed its lease of approximately 3,312 square feet at 914 W. Broad St. in Richmond.
Cabinetry & Construction, Inc. renewed its lease of approximately 5,200 square feet at 1806 Currie St. in Richmond.
50Floor, LLC renewed its lease of approximately 552 square feet at 8253 Crown Colony Parkway, Suite 201 in Hanover.
Phoenix Family Services, LLC leased approximately 792 square feet at 5206 Markel Road, Suite 301 in Henrico.
Inge Labuschagne renewed its lease of approximately 1,050 square feet at 4818 Grove Ave. in Richmond.
Nu Image Beauty Salon, Inc. renewed its lease of approximately 912 square feet at 3991 Glenside Drive, Unit L in Henrico.
Shear Dimensions renewed its lease of approximately 950 square feet at 11469 Robious Road in Chesterfield.
RH Beauty, LLC renewed its lease of approximately 273 square feet at 104 S. Sheppard St. in Richmond City.
Stevie F. Miller renewed its lease of approximately 650 square feet at 8424 W. Broad St. in Henrico.
Cherry Bomb Fitness, LLC leased approximately 750 square feet at 414 N. 2nd St. in Richmond.
Saints Express, Inc. renewed its lease of approximately 704 square feet at 10368 Leadbetter Road in Hanover.
Alesia Sade Beauty renewed its lease of approximately 460 square feet at 1915 Huguenot Road, Suite 100 in Chesterfield.
Porter Realty Company, Inc. reports the following transaction:
Critter Authority, LLC leased 1,900 square feet of office/warehouse space at 2014 Tomlynn St. in Henrico.
Taylor Long Properties Commercial Real Estate reports the following transactions:
Black Optix Tint leased 2,007 square feet located at 798 Southpark Blvd, Park South Shopping Center, Suite 22, in Colonial Heights.
BioLife Plasma Services leased 16,361 square feet located at 798 Southpark Blvd, Park South Shopping Center, Suite 34, in Colonial Heights, VA 23834.
1st Franklin Financial Corporation leased 1,528 square feet located at 637 Southpark Blvd in Colonial Heights.
Legends Salon Color and Care leased 950 square feet located at 10401 Midlothian Tpk. in Richmond at the Pocono Green Shopping Center, Suite G.
One South Commercial reports the following sales:
Laurie C. Rhodes and Lucas Cassanese purchased 1,536 square feet for $325,000 at 3006-3008 Cliff Ave. in Richmond. Justin Sledd and Isaac Weintz of One South Commercial represented the seller.
2204 West Grace Street LLC sold their quad at 2204 W. Grace St. in Richmond for $1,080,000. Tom Rosman and Justin Sledd of One South Commercial represented the seller.
700 West LLC purchased 1.21 acres for $280,000 at 303, 307, and 315 E. Wythe St., Petersburg. Tom Rosman and Isaac Weintz of One South Commercial represented the seller. Ryan Rilee of One South Commercial represented the purchaser.
The Times-Dispatch's 'Photo of the Day'
Jan. 1, 2023
Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb (24) carries the ball as Washington Commanders cornerback Danny Johnson (36) tries to stop him during the first half of a NFL football game between the Cleveland Browns and the Washington Commanders on Sunday, January 1, 2023 in Landover, MD.
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Jan. 2, 2023
Sharon MacKenzie of Mechanicsville walked with her friend Cindy Nunnally and her golden retriever, Sunny, during a GardenFest for Fidos at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden on Jan. 2.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
Jan. 3, 2023
People remember 8-year-old P’Aris Moore during a vigil in Hopewell on Jan. 3. The girl was shot and killed while playing in her neighborhood.
ALEXA WELCH EDLUND, TIMES-DISPATCH
Jan. 4, 2023
UR's Jason Nelson presses down court as George Washington's Brendan Adams, left, and Hunter Dean defend in the Robins Center Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023.
ALEXA WELCH EDLUND/TIMES-DISPATCH
Jan. 5, 2023
Manchester's Olivia Wright reaches in on James River's Alisha Whirley at James River Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023.
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Jan. 6, 2023
Daron Pearson plays basketball at Smith Peters Park in the Carver neighborhood on Friday, January 6, 2023 in Richmond, Va.
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Jan. 7, 2023
UR's Tyler Burton takes a shot as Duquesne's Joe Reece defends Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023.
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Jan. 8, 2023
Park ranger Bert Dunkerly leads a walking tour of Revolutionary Richmond on the grounds of the Chimborazo Medical Museum in Richmond on Jan. 8. The tour was part of a multiday annual event interpreting Richmond’s Revolutionary history, including the capture of the city by British General Benedict Arnold on Jan. 5, 1781.
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Jan. 10, 2023
Bon Secours Richmond Community Hospital COO Joey Trapani and Richmond City Councilwoman Cynthia Newbille react after cutting the ribbon to commemorate the opening of the East End Medical Office Building on Tuesday. Bon Secours Richmond Market President Mike Lutes (left) and Del. Delores McQuinn, D-Richmond, were also part of the festivities.
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Jan. 11, 2023
Pages are introduced at the Senate chamber during the first day of Virginia General Assembly at Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023.
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Jan. 12, 2023
Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, worked at his desk at the Virginia State Capitol on Thursday. Above him is a portrait of former Lt. Gov. Don Beyer, now a congressman representing the 8th District in Northern Virginia.
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Jan. 13, 2023
Elizabeth Leggett is photographed with her pup Pallas, 10, in her neighborhood in Richmond's business district on January 13, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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Jan. 14, 2023
Aubrey Nguyen, age 5, and Andrew Nguyen, age 8, eye the dragon as it comes by during the Tet celebration at Vien Giac Buddhist Temple Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. Jow Ga Kung Fu, of Virginia Beach, performed the Dragon Dance.
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Jan. 15, 2023
The St. James's West Gallery Choir sings during "Evensong, A Celebration of the Life and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." at St. James Episcopal Church Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023.
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Jan. 16, 2023
James "States" Manship of Thornburg came to the gun rights rally at the Bell Tower in Capitol Square on Lobby Day, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, dressed as President George Washington.
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Jan. 17, 2023
Del. Emily Brewer, R-Suffolk, confers with Del. Sam Rasoul, D-Roanoke, at the state Capitol on Jan. 17. Brewer sponsored the bill on state purchasing, House Bill 2385.
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Jan. 18, 2023
Aaliyah Rouse, 9, and Jennifer Rouse stand by as Aaron Rouse is sworn in in the Senate by Clerk of the Senate Susan Clarke Schaar during a general assembly session at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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Jan. 19, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin talks to the media at George W. Carver Elementary School on Jan. 19.
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Jan. 20, 2023
VCU's fans cheer for the team against Richmond during the second half of the NCAA men's basketball game at University of Richmond, Richmond, Va., on Friday, January 20, 2023.
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Jan. 21, 2023
Jacqueline Dziuba, bottom left, and Steven Godwin, who live in Greenville, N.C., and other visitors check out the exhibits at the Poe Museum in Richmond in January as the museum celebrates Edgar Allan Poe’s 214th birthday and its own 100-year anniversary.
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
Jan. 22, 2023
Paul McLean (left), founder of the Virginia Minority Cannabis Coalition, listens alongside Mark Cannady during the “Is Social Equity in Off the Table in 2023?” portion of the program on Sunday on the second full day of the Virginia Cannabis Conference presented by Virginia NORML at Delta Hotels Richmond Downtown. Lobby Day takes place Monday.
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Jan. 23, 2023
The flags at the Executive Mansion are at half-staff to honor those killed and injured in Monterey Park, California last weekend. Photo was taken on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023.
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Jan. 24, 2023
Sen. Steve Newman, R-Lynchburg, listens to debate during a Senate floor session in the state Capitol on a bill to make Daylight Savings Time year-round.
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Jan. 25, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin listens to George Daniel as he tries some Brunswick stew on Brunswick Stew Day at the Capitol Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Next to Daniel are (L-R) Dylan Pair, stewmaster Kevin Pair and Austin Pair. The yearly event returned to the Capitol for the first time since the pandemic.
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Jan. 26, 2023
Meghan Vandette is photographed with her dogs, Pepper, a deaf mini Australian shepherd, and Finn on Thursday, January 26, 2023 at Ruff Canine Club in Richmond, Virginia.
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Jan. 27, 2023
Three-year-old London Oshinkoya (from left) and 3-year-old twins Messiah and Malkia Finley go through the toys brought by Crystal Holbrook-Gazoni near the Gilpin Resource Center in Richmond on Friday.
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Jan. 28, 2023
Dance instructor Paul Dandridge (foreground) works with youngsters as he teaches a theater dance during the “Genworth Lights Up! Youth Series: On the Road” at the Center for the Arts at Henrico High School on Saturday. The series offers free workshops and performances throughout the year for youth of all ages.
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Jan. 29, 2023
Ronnie Jenkins II of Chesterfield County sits inside a Barefoot Spas hot tub with his 11-year-old son, Connor, and his wife, Amber, during the RVA Home Show at The Meadow Event Park in Caroline County.
Daniel Sangjib Min photos, TIMES-DISPATCH
Jan. 30, 2023
Frank Saucier listens as elected officials give remarks during a vigil for Tyre Nichols on Monday at Abner Clay Park in Richmond. Nichols died from the injuries he sustained after being beaten by police officers in Memphis.
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Jan. 31, 2023
Mayor Levar Stoney gets ready to deliver his State of the City on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at the Richmond Main Street Station in Richmond, Virginia.
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Feb. 1, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin attends the Virginia March for Life in Richmond, VA on February 1, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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Feb. 2, 2023
Petersburg High School's basketball standout Chris Fields Jr. on Thursday, February 2, 2023 at the Petersburg High School in Petersburg, Virginia.
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Feb. 3, 2023
Shawnrell Blackwell, left, a Southside Community Development & Housing Corporation homeowner and board member, watches as Dianna Bowser, president and CEO of SCDHC, shares a moment with Suzanne Youngkin during a ceremony at Virginia Housing in Richmond on Friday after Gov. Glenn Youngkin and the first lady presented the first Spirit of Virginia Award of 2023 to the affordable housing nonprofit.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
Feb. 4, 2023
Members of the Break it Down RVA Line Dancing group perform during a Black History Month Celebration at Virginia State University on Feb. 4.
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Feb. 5, 2023
Wide receiver Terry McLaurin (17) of the Washington Commanders, right, look on before the flag football event at the NFL Pro Bowl on Sunday in Las Vegas. With him are, from left, NFC wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown (14) of the Detroit Lions, NFC wide receiver CeeDee Lamb (88) of the Dallas Cowboys and NFC wide receiver Justin Jefferson (18) of the Minnesota Vikings.
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Feb. 6, 2023
(From left) U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, and Sethuraman Panchanathan, Ph.D., director of the National Science Foundation, arrive for a tour of VCU's Nanomaterials Core Characterization Facility with lab director and physics professor Massimo Bertino, Ph.D. (right) on Monday, Feb. 6. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
Feb. 7, 2023
Sen. Dick Saslaw, D-Fairfax, is seen 4 1/2 hours into Tuesday's crossover session at the state Capitol.
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Feb. 8, 2023
Chef Patrick Phelan works with his staff on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at Lost Letter in Richmond, Virginia.
SHABAN ATHUMAN/TIMES-DISPATCH
Feb. 9, 2023
Onlookers stand near a shattered window on East Broad Street following a shooting on Thursday. One person was killed and another wounded.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
Feb. 10, 2023
Colonial Williamsburg moves a 260-year-old building, originally called the Bray School, on a truck to a new location a mile away, where it will be put on public display, in Williamsburg, Va., on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. The Bray School is believed to be the oldest building in the US dedicated to the education of Black children.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
Feb 11, 2023
Randolph-Macon celebrate after beating Roanoke College during a NCAA Division III Basketball game on Saturday, February 11, 2023 at Randolph Macon Crenshaw Gym in Ashland, Virginia. With today's win, the Yellow Jackets hold the longest home winning steak in NCAA Division III history.
SHABAN ATHUMAN/TIMES-DISPATCH
Feb. 12, 2023
The Science Museum of Virginia hosted a competition for student engineers during a commemoration of Celebrate Engineering Ingenuity Day. A packed crowd watches Sunday as a team of “Bridge Breakers” from the American Society of Civil Engineers puts students’ inventions to the test.
Lyndon German
Feb. 13, 2023
A crew from Walter D. Witt Roofing installs a new roof for Melvin Washington, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, as part of the Owens Corning National Roof Deployment Project in Richmond, VA on February 13, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
Feb. 14, 2023
Richmond City Council member Cynthia Newbille pulls the winning raffle ticket as Marc Edwards, from InnovAge Virginia PACE, holds the basket during the 9th annual "For the Love of Our Seniors" event at Main Street Station in Richmond, VA on February 14, 2023. The event is a resource fair for senior residents and caregivers in Church Hill. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
Feb. 15, 2023
A crew from the Richmond-based company Cut Cut installs the new art installation "McLean" by Navine G. Dossos on the façade of the Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, VA on February 15, 2023. The installation is part of the exhibit "So it appears" opening February 24th. The vinyl pieces being used are adapted from a series of paintings. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
Feb. 16, 2023
Giov. Glenn Youngkin meets with the community at Westwood Fountain in Richmond, VA on Thursday, February 16, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
Feb. 17, 2023
Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Alison Linas, left, and Franklin greet Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Jennifer Guiliano and attorney Alex Clarke at the Henrico County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court building on Friday.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
Feb. 18, 2023
Fans take pictures during the All-alumni Block Party before VCU’s game against Fordham on Saturday.
SHABAN ATHUMAN, TIMES-DISPATCH
Feb. 19, 2023
Virginia Tech's Georgia Amoore, left, waits for a pass from Elizabeth Kitley (33) during the first half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against North Carolina State on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, in Blacksburg.
Matt Gentry, The Roanoke Times
Feb. 20, 2023
Richmond resident David Scates filed an appeal with the VEC last summer four days after the state agency notified him that he had been overpaid unemployment benefits after catching COVID-19 and losing his job. Now, Scates is one of almost 17,000 Virginians at risk of having their appeals dismissed because the VEC contends they filed too late.
EVA RUSSO, TIMES-DISPATCH
Feb. 21, 2023
State Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, greets chief election officer and college friend Sheryl Johnson (right) at the Tabernacle Baptist Church polling station in Richmond, VA on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 as (from left) election workers Katie Johnson and Eric Johnson look on. McClellan is running to succeed Rep. Donald McEachin, D-4th. McClellan would be the first African American woman to represent Virginia in Congress and would give Virginia a record four women in its congressional delegation. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
Feb. 22, 2023
Members of the media tour Fox Elementary School in Richmond, VA after Richmond Public Schools Chief Operating Officer Dana Fox provided an update on construction plans to rebuild the school on Wednesday, February 22. The building, which dates to 1911, was heavily damaged in a three-alarm fire on the night of Feb. 11, 2022. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
Feb. 23, 2023
Marley Ferraro and her boyfriend, Zack Bannister, both VCU freshmen, spend time together between classes at Monroe Park as Thursday weather reaches around 80s in Richmond, Va., on Feb. 23, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
Feb. 24, 2023
Sen. Aaron Rouse, left, D-Virginia Beach, talks with Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, before a general assembly session at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
Feb. 25, 2023
Jenna Anderson of Cosby High shows her medal to her dad, Waylon Anderson, after winning the 112-pound weight class during the VHSL Girls State Open Championships at Unity Reed High in Manassas on Saturday.
SHABAN ATHUMAN, TIMES-DISPATCH
Feb. 26, 2023
Contestants in a duathlon race (run-bike-run competition) dash from the starting line in the first event of the West Creek Endurance Festival at the West Creek Business Park in Goochland County on Sunday.
Mark Bowes
Feb. 27, 2023
Eric and Linda Oakes speak to a small crowd before unveiling a plaque and bench dedicated to their son, Adam Oakes, in the VCU Student Commons building near the office of Fraternity and Sorority Life on February 27, 2023. The date marks the two-year anniversary of Oakes' death in a hazing incident, and VCU is calling this an annual hazing prevention day and day of remembrance for Oakes. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
Feb. 28, 2023
Jess Tanner (center) looks on as her daughters Aubrey (left), 10, and Charleigh, 8, deliver Girl Scout cookies to school counselor Michelle Nothnagel (right) and the other teachers and staff members at Manchester High School on February 28, 2023. With help from groups of retired teachers and others in the community, the girls, who are members of Girl Scout Troop 3654, raised over $1,000 to purchase the cookies for the staff. Jess Tanner, is an art teacher at Manchester and also a co-leader of their troop. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
March 1, 2023
Shirley Wiest, left, and Wilma Bowman, center, show a blanket for a veteran with the help of Julie Wiest, daughter of Shirley Wiest, at Sunrise of Richmond in Henrico, Va., on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Shirley Wiest and Wilma Bowman sewed over 3000 blankets for people at the VA Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and Moments of Hope Outreach among others.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 2, 2023
Carl Gupton, president of Greenswell Growers, is shown at the greenhouse of the company in Goochland, Va., on Thursday, March 2, 2023. Greenswell Growers, an automated indoor farming, can produce 28 times more greens per acre than traditional farming. They just sealed a deal with Ukrops and will start selling on Kroger shelves all across the mid-Atlantic.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 3, 2023
Highland Springs walks off the court after beating Stone Bridge during the Class 5 boys basketball quarterfinal on Friday, March 3, 2023 at J.R. Tucker High School in Henrico, Virginia.
SHABAN ATHUMAN/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 4, 2023
Nutzy plays with Shane Paris-Kennedy,9, during the Richmond Flying Squirrels Nutzy's Block Party on Saturday, March 4, 2023 at The Diamond in Richmond, Virginia.
SHABAN ATHUMAN/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 5, 2023
Patrons wait in line for Caribbean soul food from Mobile Yum Yum, one of the food trucks participating in Mobile Soul Sunday in Monroe Park. The event kicked off the Richmond Black Restaurant Experience, a weeklong celebration of Richmond’s Black-owned restaurants.
Sean McGoey
March 6, 2023
Henrico County officials celebrate the start of renovations at Cheswick Park in Henrico's Three Chopt District on March 6, 2023. The 24.5-acre park, Henrico's oldest official park, will receive $2.1 million in improvements, including a new open fitness area and upgrades to its trails, playground, restroom facilities, pedestrian bridges, parking lot, main entrance, stormwater management infrastructure and signage. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
March 7, 2023
Congresswoman-elect Jennifer McClellan heads into the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC for orientation on March 7, 2023 in preparation for her swearing in as the first Black Congresswoman from Virginia. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
March 8, 2023
Kate Chenery Tweedy shows the exhibition of Secretariat at Ashland Museum in Ashland, Va., on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Kate Chenery Tweedy is spearheading an effort to bring a monument of Secretariat to Ashland.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 9, 2023
John Marano of Top Trumps USA speaks to the media next to Mr. Monopoly at Maggie Walker Plaza in Richmond, Va., on March 9, 2023. Top Trumps USA, under license from HASBRO, will design a Richmond-specific board that highlights the region’s favorite historic landmarks.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 10, 2023
The U.S. Postal Service commemorate the history and romance of train travel with the unveiling of its Railroad Stations Forever stamps during a ceremony at the Main Street Station in Richmond, Va.
Lyndon German
March 11, 2023
Susie Williams of Richmond gets a makeover at the Shamrock the Block Festival in Richmond on Saturday. The festival was relocated to Leigh Street this year.
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
March 12, 2023
A procession of Fifes and Drums moves down Duke of Gloucester Street in Colonial Williamsburg on Sunday. It traveled from old Colonial Williamsburg Courthouse to the Raleigh Tavern, where Thomas Jefferson and other leaders formed a Committee of Correspondence in 1773.
Sean Jones photos, Times-Dispatch
March 13, 2023
Cuong Luu, foreground, a volunteer of Feed More, prepares boxes of meals with other volunteers and staff at the food bank in Richmond, Va., on Monday, March 13, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 14, 2023
Bill Barksdale, technical director of Virginia Video Network, works with Kelli Lemon, director of digital programming, at the video studio of Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, Va., on March 14, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 15, 2023
Del. Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Fairfax, looks on a portrait after unveiling it as former Speaker of the House at the house chamber of the State Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Filler-Corn made history as the first woman and first Jewish Speaker in Virginia.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 16, 2023
MIKE KROPF, THE DAILY PROGRESS Virginia's Isaac McKneely (11) becomes emotional after an NCAA Tournament first round game against Furman in Orlando, Fl., Thursday, March 16, 2023.
Mike Kropf
March 17, 2023
Brian Erbe, center, a pipe manager, and other members of Greater Richmond Pipes and Drums perform to celebrate St. Patrick's Day at Rosie Connolly's Pub Restaurant in Richmond, Va., on Friday, March 17, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 18, 2023
Virginia Tech's Mekhi Lewis takes down Oklahoma State's Dustin Plott during the consolation semifinals at the NCAA Division I wrestling championships, Saturday, March 18, 2023, in Tulsa, Okla. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
Ian Maule
March 19, 2023
Virginia Tech's Kayana Traylor (23) is congratulated by teammates after scoring just before halftime of a second-round college basketball game in the women's NCAA Tournament, Sunday, March 19, 2023, in Blacksburg, Va. (AP Photo/Matt Gentry)
Matt Gentry
March 20, 2023
Hannah and Ty Bilodeau of Lynchburg visit the recently completed Richmond Virginia Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with their children, Blythe, 5, Goldie, 4, and Graham, 2, in Glen Allen in Henrico, Va., on Monday, March 20, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 21, 2023
Doug Ramseur, center left, and Emilee Hasbrouck, center right, defense lawyers for Wavie Jones, one of three Central State Hospital employees , who was charged in death of Irvo Otieno, speak to the media at Dinwiddie Courthouse in Dinwiddie, Va., on Tuesday, March 21, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 22, 2023
WRANGLD's, from left, senior customer success manager Trevor Lee, chief business officer Andy Sitison and CEO Jonathan "JD" Dyke work at their office of the 1717 Innovation Center in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, March 22, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 23, 2023
New Bon Secours Community Health Clinic is open in Manchester, Richmond, Va., on Thursday, March 23, 2023. The clinic will serve scheduled appointments and same day call-in appointments for the uninsured. The 8,000 square foot building is also home to the Bon Secours Care-A-Van, a mobile health clinic.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 24, 2023
Liz Kincaid, CEO of RVA Hospitality and owner of Max's On Broad, is photographed at the restaurant in Richmond, VA on March 24, 2023. Max's On Broad will be closing April 1 and will relaunch as a new concept in the summer. Kincaid also owns Tarrant's & Bar Solita. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
March 25, 2023
Henrico County families gather at Deep Run Park & Recreation Center on Saturday to celebrate all things agriculture during the county's second annual Farm Graze event. Children went booth to booth learning about the wonders of agriculture while participating in fun activities and scavenger hunts.
Lyndon German
March 26, 2023
Church Hill resident Alex Gerofsky finishes the Hill Topper 5K at the Church Hill Irish Festival with a time of 20 minutes, 26.8 seconds.
Thad Green
March 27, 2023
Wyatt Kingston, center, conducts a strength training session with Marshall Crenshaw, left, and Kevin Wright at Hickory Hill Community Center in Richmond on March 27.
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
March 28, 2023
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, center, talks about the ongoing housing crisis in the city during a news conference on March 28.
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
March 29, 2023
From left, Caroline Ouko and Leon Ochieng, mother and older brother of Irvo Otieno, react near the casket during the celebration of life for Irvo Otieno at First Baptist Church of South Richmond in North Chesterfield on March 29.
Eva Russo
March 30, 2023
Senior students in Charlottesville-Albemarle Technical Education Center's culinary program presented Taj Mahsala: an Indian fusion menu.
SYDNEY SHULER, THE DAILY PROGRESS
March 31, 2023
Richmond Police address onlookers Friday, March 31, 2023 at the intersection of North Avenue and Moss Side Avenue, near Washington Park. Richmond police shot a man who was suspected of shooting a woman earlier in the day in the 1100 block of Evergreen Avenue on Richmond's Southside.
April 1, 2023
Sculptor Jocelyn Russell takes photos of the crowd after the unveiling of her statue of Secretariat at Ashland Town Hall Pavilion on Saturday.
Michael Martz photos, TImes-Dispatch
April 2, 2023
Drivers race in the Toyota Owners 400 at the Richmond Raceway in Richmond, VA on April 2, 2023.. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 3, 2023
Dinwiddie County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill plans to resign from her post to attend graduate school in Paris, where she will start a master’s program in international governance and diplomacy at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, colloquially known as SciencesPo.
EVA RUSSO, TIMES-DISPATCH
April 4, 2023
From left, Judy and Ron Singleton pose for a photo on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. MIKE KROPF/TIMES-DISPATCH
Mike Kropf
April 5, 2023
Beatrix Smith dips her matzah in salt water as she enjoys a Pasover Seder with her classmates (from left) Helen Corallo, Camp Maxwell, and Amara Ellen at the Weinstein JCC Preschool Program in Richmond, VA on April 5, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 6, 2023
Virginia Community College System Chancellor David Doré speaks with students at Piedmont Virginia Community College on Thursday.
SYDNEY SHULER, THE DAILY PROGRESS
April 7, 2023
A worker pushed water off a tarp on the field at The Diamond Friday, when the Flying Squirrels were scheduled to open their season against Reading.
MIKE KROPF/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 8, 2023
Ember O’Connell-Evans, 1, plays with hula hoops during the Dominion Energy Family Easter event at Maymont on Saturday.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
April 9, 2023
Mike Kearney plays an early form of badminton with grandkids Savannah and Ashton on the lawn of Montpelier during “We, the Kids” Day.
ANDRA LANDI, FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW
April 10, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin, center left, tours Richmond Marine Terminal with W. Sheppard Miller III , Virginia Secretary of Transportation , center right, as Stephen A. Edwards, left, Virginia Port Authority CEO, and Christina Saunders, manager of Richmond Marine Terminal, give them the tour on Monday, April 10, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 11, 2023
Inaara Woodards, 5, of Henrico, visits Italian Garden at Maymont with her mother, Victoria Crawley Woodards, and three brothers, Kai, 13, Zion, 12, and Avion Woodards, 11, during their home-school field trip to the park in Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. "It’s gorgeous!" Victoria Crawley Woodards said of Tuesday weather. She said it was the perfect weather for the field trip and other activities.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 13, 2023
Clarence Thweatt, right, a lead trainer for Chesterfield Public Schools, works on marking points during a transportation road-e-o event, which is friendly competition of school bus drivers demonstrating their driving skills and knowledge of laws, at Chesterfield County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 14, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at Liberty University.
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April 15, 2023
Tyson Foods workers attend a job fair at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church on Mechanicsville Turnpike. The Glen Allen plant is closing, displacing about 700 employees.
Em Holter
April 16, 2023
A display of 32 white balloons were raised and a 32-second moment of silence was observed in honor of the victims of the April 16, 2007, tragedy at the start of the 2023 3.2-mile Run in Remembrance on the Virginia Tech campus.
MATT GENTRY, The Roanoke Times
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April 17, 2023
Albert Hill Middle School sixth-grader Drew Sirpis looks for birds during the educational boat trip on the James River on Monday.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
April 18, 2023
Richmond Flying Squirrels Luis Matos steals the second base against Erie SeaWolves shortstop Gage Workman in the 3rd inning at The Diamond, Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 19, 2023
Children participate in Little Feet Meets at Matoaca High School in Chesterfield, VA on April 19, 2023. A total of 1,400 Special Olympic athletes from grades PK-5 throughout Chesterfield County Public Schools competed in Little Feet Meets between two dates, April 12 at James River High and April 19 at Matoaca High. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 20, 2023
Mike Blau, center, a line cook, and others work on preparing a soft opening of The Veil's new taproom, located in Scott’s Addition at 1509 Belleville St., on Thursday, April 20, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 21, 2023
(From left) VCU sophomore Caroline May, of Pittsburgh, PA, and senior Lee Finch, of Norfolk, VA carry a coffin with a blow-up Earth ball during a VCU Student Climate Protest in Richmond, VA on April 21, 2023. The small crowd walked from the James Branch Cabell Library, though Monroe Park, to the office of VCU President Michael Rao in a mock funeral procession. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 22, 2023
Anthony Clary gestures as he runs through confetti during the Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10k on Saturday.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
April 23, 2023
A volunteer picks up an old wooden palate and brings it to a trash pile during Friends of Fonticello Park's community cleanup on Sunday.
Sean Jones, Times-Dispatch
April 24, 2023
Kay Ford spends time with her cat, Patches, at her home in Mechanicsville, VA., on Monday, April 24, 2023. Ford recently adopted Patches, a 40-pound cat, from Richmond Animal Care and Control. The story of Patches went viral after RACC publicized the cat.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 25, 2023
Emily Cover, a project manager with DPR Construction, is shown at Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, left top, in Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. DPR is the team that built the hospital.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 26, 2023
Guests tour the Anthropology Lab at the new College of Humanities and Sciences STEM building on West Franklin Street in Richmond, VA on April 26, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 27, 2023
Police tape marks the scene outside George Wythe High School.
ANNA BRYSON/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 28, 2023
Sculptor Kate Raudenbush takes in her finished piece "Breaking Point" in the Flagler Garden Near the Monet Bridge at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden on April 28, 2023. The garden is set to debut "Incanto: An Oasis of Lyrical Sculpture" on Saturday, April 29, 2023. Incanto features five designed, allegorical sculptures, accompanied by poetry, throughout the garden. The exhibition is the work of Raudenbush and poet Sha Michele. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 29, 2023
Pharrell Williams performs during the Pharrell's Phriends set at Something in the Water in Virginia Beach on Saturday.
Kendall Warner
May 1, 2023
A man carries a piece of furniture through a neighborhood in Virginia Beach, Va. on Monday May 1, 2023. The City of Virginia Beach declared a state of emergency after a tornado moved through the area and damaged dozens of homes, downed trees and caused gas leaks. (AP Photo/Ben Finley)
Ben Finley
May 2, 2023
Sports Backers Stadium is shown next to The Diamond in this drone photo, in Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, May 2, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
May 3, 2023
CAL CARY, THE DAILY PROGRESS UVa cheerleader, Madison DeLoach, in front of other UVa cheerleaders tour the The Avelo Airlines Boeing 737 after landing at Charlottesville Albemarle Airport coming from Orlando on May 3, 2023. Avelo Airlines launched its first Charlottesville to Orlando flight line at the Charlottesville Albemarle Airport on May 3, 2023. The inaugural event consisted of a returning flight from Orlando to Charlottesville Albemarle Airport, a firetruck water salute upon arrival and a tour of the airplane.
Cal Cary
May 4, 2023
(From left) Maryann Macomber, of Mechanicsville, VA, leads a small group prayer with Gloria Randolph, of Richmond, VA, Randolph's great-grandson Xavier Jones, also of Richmond, and John Macomber, of Mechanicsville, during a National Day of Prayer event at the Bell Tower in Capitol Square in Richmond, VA on May 4, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 5, 2023
Steffiun Stanley preps dishes at Birdie's in Richmond, VA on May 5, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 6, 2023
People at the ¿Qué Pasa? Festival sit on the grass and enjoy the weather on Brown’s Island on Saturday.
Mike Kropf/TIMES-DISPATCH
May 7, 2023
Arts in the Park saw thousands pass through Byrd Park over the weekend. The festival is sponsored by the Carilion Civic Association.
Charlotte Rene Woods, Times-Dispatch
May 8, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin shares a quiet moment with Holocaust survivor Halina Zimm on Monday afternoon before ceremonially signing a bill that adds a definition of antisemitism to Virginia law.
David Ress, Times-Dispatch
May 9, 2023
The Molcajete Sinaloa at Mariscos Mazatlan in Henrico, VA on May 9, 2023. Mariscos Mazatlan focuses on traditional Mexican cuisine from the city of Mazatlan and all along the Mexican coast. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 10, 2023
A goose, seen here on May 10, 2023, has built a nest in a median of the parking lot near Dilliards at Short Pump Town Center. The mall has put out orange cones to keep cars away and Jerome Golfman, assistant manager at Fink's Jewelers, said he regularly brings it water, cracked corn and other grains.
Eva Russo, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 11, 2023
Mary Finley-Brook, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Richmond and an expert on American gas infrastructure, says repairing the pipes no longer makes sense as gas prices continue to rise.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 12, 2023
(From left) Sam Amoaka, a freshman at Virginia State University, helps his girlfriend, Tamia Charles, a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University, move out of her dorm along with her dad, Thomas Charles, of Fredericksburg, VA, in downtown Richmond, VA on May 12, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 13, 2023
Virginia’s Thomas McConvey (left) defends the ball from Richmond’s Jake Kapp during an NCAA Tournament game at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville on Saturday.
Mike Kropf/TIMES-DISPATCH
May 14, 2023
University of Richmond outfielder Christian Beal made a catch on the run during the Friday game of Spiders-VCU series at The Diamond.
MIKE KROPF, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 15, 2023
The flags at Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission building are flown at half-staff on Monday. Governor Youngkin announced that flags would fly half-staff in honor of Peace Officers' Remembrance Day.
Mike Kropf/TIMES-DISPATCH
May 16, 2023
Ukrop's crumb cake has been picked up by Kroger and is being sold nationwide. Here, fresh cinnamon crumb cakes are packaged at the Ukrop's bakery in Richmond, VA on May 16, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 17, 2023
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney officially proclaims May as Jewish American Heritage Month during a celebration held in collaboration with the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond and the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) at Richmond City Hall in Richmond, VA on May 17, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 18, 2023
Acting Police Chief Richard Edwards stands by as Penn and Victoria Burke places a flower in honor of Sergeant J. Harvey Burke in the wreath at the memorial stone at the Richmond Police Training Academy in Richmond, VA during the Richmond Police Department Police Officers' Memorial Service on May 18, 2023. The ceremony, which took place during National Police Week, paid homage to Richmond's fallen officers. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 19, 2023
Doumit Bouhaidarat fries falafel balls to order during the St. Anthony Lebanese Food Festival on Friday.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 20, 2023
Dogs compete in the Subaru Ultimate Air Dogs — Splash Qualifier #4 event on the second day of Dominion Energy Riverrock on Saturday.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
May 21, 2023
The Virginia men’s tennis team celebrates after winning the national championship on Sunday in Orlando.
Courtesy UVa athletics photos
May 22, 2023
Vietnam War veteran Stuart Blankenship is photographed at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, VA on Monday, May 22, 2023. Blankenship is one of 50 Vietnam War Veterans from throughout the Commonwealth featured in the exhibit “50 Years Beyond: The Vietnam Veteran Experience” which opened at the Virginia War Memorial on January 28, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 23, 2023
Wilbert Hobson poses for a portrait at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Va, on May 23, 2023. Hobson was part of the 101st Airborne unit of the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war. Hobson is very active in his chapter of the American Legion and helped found the Friends of Dupont, and organization. Graduating from an all-Black high school, Vietnam was Hobson’s first real experience with integration. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH
Margo Wagner
May 24, 2023
Powhatan Owen, shown at the Virginia War Memorial, volunteered for a Burial Honor Guard company in Washington state to commemorate the service of fellow veterans and has further connected with veterans while attending powwows across the U.S.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
May 25, 2023
Madi Mabry laughs with other members of Mango Salon at the 2023 Top Workplaces awards in Richmond on Thursday.
Margo Wagner, Times-Dispatch
May 26, 2023
A solar cell receives light at the Agecroft Hall and Gardens on May 26, 2023, in Richmond, Va. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH
Margo Wagner
May 27, 2023
Julia Hunter, a shawl dancer, participates in the Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe’s powwow on Saturday.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 28, 2023
Festival organizers Pete LeBlanc, left, and Zavi Harman enjoy the second installation of Daydream Fest in front of the Main Line Brewery stage on Sunday.
Gabriela De Camargo Goncalves
May 30, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks during the Commonwealth’s Memorial Day Ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial on Monday.
Margo Wagner, Times-Dispatch
May 31, 2023
Earl Gary, owner of YME Landscape, used a compact tractor to move topsoil for a temporary landscaping at the former site of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's statue on Monument Ave. in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.
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June 1, 2023
Jorge Figueroa leads tenants and New Virginia Majority organizers in a rally at Southwood Apartments, in Richmond, VA on June 1, 2023 to protest rent increases. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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June 2, 2023
This screenshot from the Virginia Department of Transportation's real-time traffic cameras shows multiple southbound lanes of Interstate 95 closed after a crash near the Belvidere Street exit the morning of Friday, June 2, 2023.
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June 3, 2023
Richmond Kickers defender Simon Fitch shoots the ball defended by Chattanooga Red Wolves forward Walter Varela at City Stadium on Saturday, June 3.
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June 4, 2023
Mark Whitfield and Ciara Dickson watch Samaya Dickson throw the ceremonial first pitch at the Flying Squirrels game on Sunday.
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June 5, 2023
People bow their heads before eating as Dr. Stepfanie Ramsey gives the invocation at the 2023 Times-Dispatch/Sports Backer Scholar Athlete Awards Ceremony on June 5, 2023 at the Jefferson Hotel. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH
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June 6, 2023
A radar measure the speed of passing cars on Main Street on June 6, 2023, in Richmond, Va. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH
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June 7, 2023
A piece from a mortar board lays on the ground at the site of a shooting at Huguenot High School's graduation ceremony.
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June 8, 2023
A participant holds a candle during a vigil hosted by Grace & Holy Trinity Church on Thursday to remember Huguenot High School graduate Shawn Jackson and his stepfather, Renzo Smith.
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June 9, 2023
Louisa softball players celebrate after beating Hanover 5-3 in the Class 4 state semifinals on Friday, June 9.
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June 10, 2023
Riverside lacrosse players and coaches run on the field after defeating Freeman in the Class 5 championship game in Ashburn on Saturday, June 10.
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June 11, 2023
The Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground featured drumming, dancing and music Sunday as visitors gathered for Elegba Folklore Society’s 27th annual Juneteenth, A Freedom Celebration, on Sunday.
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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Amazon has selected NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for construction of a $120 million processing facility for its upcoming network of space-based internet satellites known as Kuiper, according to News 6 partner Florida Today.
The Launch and Landing Facility, managed by the state’s aerospace finance and development authority Space Florida, will host the 100,000-square-foot processing plant located near the runway where space shuttles used to land. It will include a 100-foot high bay for integrating the Kuiper internet satellites in the payload fairings of United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin rockets before liftoff from nearby pads at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. In total, it’s expected to stand just over 120 feet in height.
Amazon expects the total investment, including equipment, to run to $120 million and bring 50 new jobs to the Space Coast. Space Florida previously referred to this in public documents and meetings as “Project Comet.”
“We are proud to continue our investment in Florida and to join the historic Space Coast community as we invest in people and facilities to support Project Kuiper,” Brian Huseman, vice president of public policy and community engagement at Amazon, said in a release.
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The Kuiper internet satellites themselves will be built in Kirkland, Washington, before transport to KSC. The new facility will then receive the shipments, prepare the satellites, and connect them to customized dispensers that will deploy them in orbit. From there, they’ll be encapsulated in the protective fairings of ULA’s Vulcan and Blue’s New Glenn rockets.
Amazon has so far secured 83 launches across ULA, Blue Origin, and European launcher Arianespace to deploy its constellation. Manufacturing of the satellites is slated to begin before the end of this year.
Amazon is joining the equivalent of a space-based internet gold rush. SpaceX has so far launched roughly 5,000 of its Starlink internet satellites to low-Earth orbit, while OneWeb operates about 650. SpaceX targets all ranges of customers from residential to RVs to government, while OneWeb is more of an enterprise and maritime internet option.
That means Amazon’s goal of eventually launching some 3,200 satellites directly competes with SpaceX’s Starlink network. The company plans on offering three different kinds of customer terminals that will be used to receive space-based broadband. Pricing has not yet been announced, but SpaceX currently charges $120 a month for new customers.
“Since the early days of rocket launches and payload processing, decades of infrastructure and capital investment has been made, transforming Florida into a global center for the aerospace economy,” said Frank DiBello, president and CEO of Space Florida. “We couldn’t be more thrilled that Project Kuiper chose Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility for this facility, and we look forward to being a part of their mission of global connectivity.”
The satellite processing facility builds on Amazon’s $25 billion investment in Florida since 2010. Founder Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company Blue Origin, which is preparing to launch its New Glenn rocket no earlier than late 2023, has also spend billions on investments at Launch Complex 36, a rocket factory just outside KSC, and general infrastructure upgrades.
Contact Emre Kelly at aekelly@floridatoday.com. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @EmreKelly.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. — A Texas man faces up to life in federal prison after he allegedly kidnapped a girl at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her prior to his arrest in California, officials with the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.
The suspect, 61-year-old Steven Robert Sablan of Cleburne, Texas, was arrested last week in Long Beach on charges of kidnapping and transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, according to officials. He was indicted on Thursday, July 20.
Sablan allegedly approached the 13-year-old victim who was walking down a street July 6 in San Antonio and forced her into his vehicle at gunpoint, according to court documents.
Court documents stated that the 61-year-old began driving and told the girl he could take her on a cruise ship to see her friend in Australia. He allegedly sexually assaulted her multiple times while driving from Texas to California, according to court documents.
On July 9, Sablan parked his vehicle in Long Beach and went into a laundromat to wash clothes while the victim stayed in the car, court documents stated. During this time, officials said the victim wrote "help me" on a piece of paper to get someone's attention.
A witness saw the girl and called police, who arrived to find Sablan outside of the vehicle and the victim who mouthed "help" from inside the car, according to court documents.
Sablan was arrested, and authorities searched the vehicle and found a black BB gun, the "help me" sign and a pair of handcuffs, according to court documents.
Officials said law enforcement discovered the victim was reported missing out of San Antonio.
Sablan could be sentenced to the maximum of life in federal prison if he's convicted of both charges, according to officials.
The FBI and police departments in Long Beach and Cleburne investigated the case.
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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 (TOOF), explained that the group's role will be to offer people experiencing homelessness work through its Workforce First program. Anyone participating must be at least 18-years-old and will earn $20 per hour and will be provided free 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 as its shelter 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 Aug. 1.
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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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HOUSTON — Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has been a fixture in the lives of countless kids who love her pretty clothes, pink cars and fancy Dreamhouse. The little doll isn't just for little girls either. Barbies are among the most collectible toys in the world and the very first Barbie that sold for $3 is now worth close to $30,000 in mint condition.
Fast forward 24 years, and the "Barbie" movie has inspired Houston bakeries, bars and restaurants to think pink. You can also find Barbiecore fashion at local boutiques and stores.
The movie has already riled up some haters, including Sen. Ted Cruz who calls it "communist propaganda."
Love her or hate her, you might as well hop on the Barbie bandwagon and enjoy the ride, H-Town. After all, this is Barbie's world and we're all just living in it.
Barbie mania in Houston
PopFancy Dessert Bar is welcoming Barbie fans of all ages to get dolled up and head to its pop-up featuring an immersive, life-sized Dreamhouse Boutique Cafe.
The free event will include a Barbie-themed menu, live DJ, photo-ops, trivia nights and more.
Reservations are recommended but not required.
WHEN: July 28 - Aug. 20, 1 p.m. - 10 p.m. daily
Rooftop Cinema in Uptown is going all out for its "Barbie" screenings. Dress to impress in your favorite Barbie-themed outfit for the pre-movie costume contest. They'll have pink merch for sale to complete your look. The winner will receive two free tickets to a future screening.
Hang out after the movie for Barbie trivia and Pink Hour with drink specials on pink drinks, including rosé, strawberry margaritas and Palomas.
Some "Barbie" screenings are already sold out so check their website for tickets.
Texas jewelry designer and philanthropist Kendra Scott is offering Barbie bling for a good cause. Twenty percent of the purchase price will go to Mattel's Barbie Dream Gap project created to help ensure that "a new generation of girl leaders grow up strong, smart, and bold."
After all, Barbie herself has a pretty impressive resume with 250+ careers, ranging from astronaut to zoologist. Seriously, the girl's a boss!
8th Wonder Brewery is also joining the fun and helping a good cause with its limited-release Montrose, a rosé style sour in a pink can. It's described as "tart, bright and elegant and the perfect pairing to triple-digit heat."
A portion of the proceeds will benefit The Montrose Center.
While you're in the area, swing by downtown's Discovery Green this weekend to check out the cool pink lights in celebration of all things Barbie.
You can enjoy a Sunday Funday Barbie Brunch at Brasserie 19 with Barbie-themed cocktails like Cosmopolitan Barbie and Beyond the Pink.
Amrina in The Woodlands has added the Clouds of Barbie dessert to its menu. The pistachio cake is topped with a pistachio macaron and pistachio butter-filled golden lips. They're also offering the pretty in pink Bartail, a cocktail with pisco, grapefruit juice, Campari and simple syrup.
You can satisfy your Barbie sweet tooth with special cupcakes at Crave or cakes and cookies from 3 Brothers Bakery.
Citizens of Montrose is paying homage to "Barbie" with its hot pink Margot Robbie bowl featuring dragonfruit, orange, lemon and agave and topped with apple, strawberry, pineapple, coconut and bee pollen.
They're also serving up a pink Velvet Latte.
Cool off with refreshing Barbie-themed drinks this weekend at Taste Kitchen + Bar downtown. Their limited-edition cocktails are called Malibu Barbie Daiquiri, a "fruity, frozen pink delight that embodies the playful, fashionista spirit of the iconic doll herself." Or go for the glam with a Glitter Me Pink martini, infused with shimmery, gold glitter.
Slowpokes is also offering limited-time Barbie Drinks through July 23. The Barbie Girl is a berry cream lemonade made with strawberry, raspberry, lemonade and coconut milk. The Barbie World is an iced vanilla latte with strawberry cold foam and pink sprinkles.
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'Worthy of investment': A look at the $11 million renovation to historic Peoria Stadium
Peoria Stadium has long been a gem of the Peoria community, serving Peoria Public Schools athletics since 1936 from its site at 315 E. War Memorial Drive. Yet, in recent decades the stadium and its amenities have been "falling apart" and lacking much needed investments.
Those investments have come, and the 128-year-old Peoria Stadium facility that sits on an 82-acre site is undergoing a historic $11 million renovation.
"It's been neglected for many, many years," Peoria Public Schools Superintendent Sharon Desmoulin-Kherat said. "So it's nice it's able to get an uplift because it's such a nice, green, fun space for the community and we are the stewards."
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What is happening to Peoria Stadium?
The most notable changes happening to Peoria Stadium, which will be done this fall, will be the complete renovation of the visitors' side bleachers, which Kherat said were "falling apart," the switch from a grass football field to turf and new concrete steps, replacing old ones that were littered with potholes.
Renovation to the visiting bleachers is complete and has brought an immediately noticeable difference to the aesthetics of Peoria Stadium. The area now boasts clean, new concrete and shiny new bleachers.
"The bleacher side looks beautiful," Kherat said.
The switch from a grass field to a turf surface is not only going to be a striking visual difference for the football field — which is now adorned with black paint in the end zones and a black "PPS" logo at midfield — but is also a welcome change for the style of football that can be played.
"The grass was kind of getting a little old and kind of didn't always hold up real firm by the end of the season, and the turf surface will give us a little more speed and traction as we get late into playoff runs and things of that nature," said Peoria High School football coach Tim Thornton.
The new turf field will also allow the teams to practice at Peoria Stadium without worrying about tearing up the grass ahead of gameday, Thornton said.
"In the past, we would always practice at our high school and travel to the stadium for games," he said. "Being in that atmosphere for the first time is new for a kid and it can kind of deplete your home-field advantage a bit. Now it will be something where we can go practice up there a little bit and get comfortable so gameday won't be the first time a kid walks on that field."
The bathrooms on the home side of Peoria Stadium will be renovated, and the track surrounding the football field will be restriped and upgraded as well.
A new video board was added to the site last year.
New multi-purpose dome coming to Peoria Stadium
The crowning achievement of the Peoria Stadium makeover may well be the addition of a "multi-purpose" athletic dome being built on the property.
Kherat said the dome will be able to host indoor soccer games and a variety of other sports in a space completely new to Peoria.
The new dome, which will look like a "big white bubble," according to Peoria Public Schools CFO Mick Willis, will be constructed on an empty lot north of the football field and baseball diamonds.
Construction on the dome has not begun yet. Foundation work is expected to begin in late fall or early winter, Willis said. Completion of the dome is expected by the fall of 2024.
The dome will be the newest addition to the Peoria Stadium complex that currently plays host to football, baseball, softball, basketball and other outdoor activities.
How much will the Peoria Stadium renovation cost?
The total amount being spent for the renovation of Peoria Stadium is $11 million.
State funding will contribute $5 million to the project. The other $6 million is being paid for by Peoria Public Schools, which is using a "one-time unanticipated influx of capital" to pay for it.
That $6 million is coming to the school district from Personal Property Replacement Taxes, according to Peoria Public Schools CFO Mick Willis.
When the project was originally planned pre-pandemic, Peoria Public Schools budgeted $6.5 million total, expecting to only have to put in $1.5 million of its own money.
But supply chain issues and a spike in construction costs raised the total price tag to $11 million. State funding would still only cover $5 million.
A majority of the total cost of the project is being spent on the dome, Willis said.
What will the Peoria Stadium renovations mean for the community?
When Kherat took over as superintendent in 2015 it was on the heels of a Peoria controversy in which an unpopular idea to turn the Peoria Stadium site into a commercial space was almost resoundingly detested by Peorians.
She said Peoria Public School leaders, board members and community leaders all agreed the stadium needed to be invested in and renovated to keep its historic significance in Peoria while becoming "vibrant and robust."
"We had conversations with the community and had several meetings with them and all agreed that it's a beautiful space and needs to be maintained in its original state," Kherat. "I fell in love with and agreed that all it needed was some renovation."
Former school board president Dan Adler said the stadium has been a "huge community asset for over 100 years" and needed to be preserved.
"What I hope it says to parents and kids is they're worthy of our investment," Adler said. "Whether it be small fundraisers or big grants through the state, we're going to do what we can so they know they're valued and can play in the future."
Kherat said she hopes the stadium renovations bring a sense of "pride and joy" to students and parents of Peoria Public Schools.
"My hope is that they'll be inspired and motivated to do their very best and have access to state-of-the-art fields and it only helps," Kherat said.
City councilmember Tim Riggenbach, who served on the Peoria Stadium steering committee and whose 3rd District is home to the stadium, said he hopes the renovations can be a "catalyst" for the neighborhood.
"I'm just thrilled to see the reality of the improvements actually happening," Riggenbach said. "This is something the community has been asking for and looking for for a long, long time."
Rep. Jehan Gordon Booth, D-Peoria, helped secure the funding for Peoria Stadium in the state budget and said she hopes the renovations will help "instill a sense of pride in Peorians who attend the games."
"The facility just certainly needed some T.L.C.," Gordon Booth said. "I think it's imperative we find ways to ensure that the things we care about here in Peoria are funded and taken care of. This is a great community, and it can be even greater with additional vision and resources."
Thornton said he thinks the renovations will bring new energy to the players on the field.
"I think the players will be excited about it, especially the first time they lay eyes on it, the first time we get on it and kind of bounce around and fly around," Thornton said.
Riggenbach said he thinks the first reaction from students and parents when they see the new stadium will be a "wow."
"It's very tangible and clear that the commitment by the school district is there for that facility," Riggenbach said.
Gordon-Booth echoed a similar sentiment.
"I think it's really important students see and feel that investment," Gordon Booth said. "One of the conversations I think is important as leaders and education leaders that we have is that when we are wanting students to step up to the plate so they can be who we know they can be, that we show them we've got skin in the game, too."
A large group of community activists have worked for years to make the renovations of Peoria Stadium a reality, Kherat and Riggenbach said, emphasizing it was a group effort.
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What is the history of Peoria Stadium?
Peoria Stadium was privately purchased in 1895 and operated under the name "Peoria Exposition Park." It was originally a 1-mile oval track built to host horse races, complete with a grandstand for viewing. Later, it would also host automobile and dog races.
Gordon-Booth said Peoria Stadium has a "rich history that should not be ignored."
An amusement park was added to the site, but it was short-lived and closed in 1928.
In 1936, Peoria Public Schools purchased the track and land for $300,000 and quickly built a football field and track for athletic events.
Peoria High School won the first-ever football game at Peoria Stadium on Thanksgiving Day 1937, beating Manual High School 19-0.
The Peoria Redwings of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League also called Peoria Stadium home until 1951, when the team disbanded because of poor finances.
Softball diamonds were added to the site in the 1960s and eventually expanded as the popularity for slow-pitch softball grew in the 1980s.
The grandstands, built in 1895, were condemned by the city in 1971 because they were in a state of disrepair.
In 2013, the "Walmart controversy" embroiled the stadium and brought about a fierce public outcry after the retail giant proposed building a store on the site of Peoria Stadium.
Riggenbach said he is glad "wiser heads" prevailed in the conversation around whether to let Walmart buy the land.
"A lot of my constituents were very vocal in their concern in keeping that green space and not letting it be paved over," Riggenbach said. "I like to think the part of the beauty of this is it is respecting the history and heritage of that place. It goes back, way, way longer than my tenure on council. People will tell you stories of things that happened there years ago, and I think it is important we don't always tear down and rebuild."
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A teenager who randomly shot into a crowd of people in a Lincoln high school parking lot last year, seriously injuring two people, apologized at his sentencing Thursday saying, "I wish I could go back and change the outcome of things."
"I was pretty young. I didn't know what I was doing at the time," said Omar Armell, who is 18 now.
Omar Armell
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He asked the victims and their families to forgive him for all the tragedy he caused them and said he'd like to better himself and move forward.
Armell was 16 when, early June 26, 2022, in a stolen vehicle, he circled a group in Seacrest Field 's parking lot near 70th and A streets and fired at least 16 shots, hitting 19-year-old Isaiah Craig and 24-year-old Bobbi Fulton, according to prosecutors.
Chief Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Chris Turner said the motivation was gang retaliation, though neither of the victims had any involvement.
"They just happened to be in a school parking lot hanging out with friends," he said.
He said Armell's group believed a rival gang member was somewhere within the group, and Armell decided to shoot. As a result, Turner said, Fulton was left with a gunshot wound to her back, a shattered rib and collapsed lung.
Craig fared worse, he said.
"The bullet that ripped through his arm into an artery, into a lung and then eventually into his spine left him with what he describes as a 'dead arm,'" Turner said.
He said he's now paralyzed and can't pick up his newborn daughter.
"These are all things directly attributable to Mr. Armell's intentional decisions," Turner said.
Armell's attorney, Nancy Peterson, said Armell's life has been forever altered by his actions that day.
"It's just a horrible tragedy on all sides," she said.
Peterson said Armell had absolutely no family support and essentially had been raising himself.
"Mr. Armell is now 18 years old facing realities of an adult sentencing, an adult prison, and all that holds for him," she said.
Lancaster County District Judge Lori Maret said everyone agrees this was a very serious and tragic event.
She said she was encouraged to hear Armell ask for forgiveness because it was the first time he had shown any acceptance of responsibility.
"Maybe that is a glimmer of hope for him and his future when he's done serving his sentence that he can become a positive, productive member of society and begin to rebuild his life and repay the debt and the damage that he's caused," Maret said.
She said the life and background that Armell has had to endure and survive isn't an excuse for what happened.
"But it can begin to explain how everyone arrives at that fateful night and how things like this can happen," Maret said, before sentencing Armell to 16 to 18 years in prison on each of the two counts of first-degree assault, to which Armell earlier pleaded guilty.
The judge ran the sentences concurrently, meaning he will have to serve eight years before he's eligible for parole.
States with the highest rate of gun-related fatalities
States with the highest rate of gun-related fatalities
When it comes to gun-related deaths in the United States, 2020 was unfortunately a banner year, recording the highest number of gun-related deaths ever in a single year, driven by a surge in firearm-related homicides.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's most recent findings, overall firearm-related deaths rose 15% over 2019 numbers to reach more than 45,000 nationwide, while firearm-related homicides went up 35%. In terms of the national rate of gun deaths based on population, per-capita numbers actually decreased (13.6 deaths per 100,000 people) from their historical peak (16.3 per 100,000) set in 1974, largely due to the rise in the overall population—more than 100 million since the 1980 census. Nonetheless, both the number of gun-related homicides and suicides reached levels not seen since the early 1990s.
Investigating firearm-related deaths also helps highlight public health crises, particularly as related to suicide. Suicides accounted for a substantial portion (54%) of gun-related fatalities in 2020. States with fewer gun laws tallied more than double the number of suicides by firearm as states with relatively stricter access to guns. Since most suicides involve firearms, addressing suicide as an epidemic will necessitate a closer look at firearm access.
Stacker cited data from the CDC to look at the rate of gun-related fatalities in every state. Five-year averages between 2017 and 2021 are used and fatalities are broken down by firearm assault and intentional self-harm using a firearm. Additional categories classified by CDC Wonder include incidents involving law enforcement, unintentional discharge, and undetermined intent. Deaths from operations of war and terrorism involving firearms are not included in overall calculations.
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#50. Massachusetts
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 3.7 deaths per 100K (1,282 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 1.5 deaths per 100K (531 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 2.1 deaths per 100K (712 deaths)
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#49. Hawaii
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 4.0 deaths per 100K (281 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: Five-year average not available
- Gun-related suicide rate: 2.4 deaths per 100K (174 deaths)
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#48. Rhode Island
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 4.6 deaths per 100K (246 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 1.6 deaths per 100K (84 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 2.9 deaths per 100K (155 deaths)
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#47. New York
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 4.6 deaths per 100K (4,527 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 2.2 deaths per 100K (2,168 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 2.3 deaths per 100K (2,234 deaths)
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#46. New Jersey
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 4.9 deaths per 100K (2,184 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 2.7 deaths per 100K (1,201 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 2.1 deaths per 100K (946 deaths)
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#45. Connecticut
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 5.8 deaths per 100K (1,031 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 2.3 deaths per 100K (409 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 3.3 deaths per 100K (585 deaths)
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#44. California
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 8.2 deaths per 100K (16,193 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 3.8 deaths per 100K (7,548 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 4.0 deaths per 100K (7,952 deaths)
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#43. Minnesota
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 8.7 deaths per 100K (2,453 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 1.9 deaths per 100K (548 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 6.4 deaths per 100K (1,818 deaths)
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#42. Nebraska
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 9.8 deaths per 100K (945 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 2.0 deaths per 100K (189 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 7.3 deaths per 100K (709 deaths)
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#41. Iowa
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 10.0 deaths per 100K (1,584 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 1.9 deaths per 100K (297 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 7.8 deaths per 100K (1,239 deaths)
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#40. New Hampshire
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 10.4 deaths per 100K (708 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: Five-year average not available
- Gun-related suicide rate: 9.2 deaths per 100K (628 deaths)
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#39. Washington
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 11.2 deaths per 100K (4,260 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 2.5 deaths per 100K (968 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 8.2 deaths per 100K (3,110 deaths)
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#38. Wisconsin
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 11.4 deaths per 100K (3,336 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 3.5 deaths per 100K (1,008 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 7.6 deaths per 100K (2,208 deaths)
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#37. Vermont
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 12.0 deaths per 100K (378 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: Five-year average not available
- Gun-related suicide rate: 10.6 deaths per 100K (334 deaths)
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#36. Maine
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 12.2 deaths per 100K (825 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: Five-year average not available
- Gun-related suicide rate: 10.9 deaths per 100K (732 deaths)
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#35. Delaware
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 12.3 deaths per 100K (604 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 6.2 deaths per 100K (304 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 5.9 deaths per 100K (287 deaths)
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#34. Illinois
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 12.7 deaths per 100K (8,032 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 7.8 deaths per 100K (4,968 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 4.6 deaths per 100K (2,889 deaths)
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#33. Virginia
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 12.9 deaths per 100K (5,523 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 4.6 deaths per 100K (1,966 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 8.0 deaths per 100K (3,418 deaths)
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#32. Maryland
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 12.9 deaths per 100K (3,924 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 8.1 deaths per 100K (2,466 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 4.6 deaths per 100K (1,382 deaths)
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#31. Utah
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 13.0 deaths per 100K (2,080 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 1.8 deaths per 100K (283 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 10.7 deaths per 100K (1,715 deaths)
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#30. South Dakota
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 13.1 deaths per 100K (579 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 2.0 deaths per 100K (89 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 10.4 deaths per 100K (458 deaths)
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#29. Pennsylvania
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 13.2 deaths per 100K (8,488 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 5.3 deaths per 100K (3,380 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 7.6 deaths per 100K (4,898 deaths)
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#28. Michigan
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 13.3 deaths per 100K (6,666 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 5.5 deaths per 100K (2,748 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 7.6 deaths per 100K (3,801 deaths)
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#27. North Dakota
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 13.4 deaths per 100K (513 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: Five-year average not available
- Gun-related suicide rate: 11.2 deaths per 100K (426 deaths)
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#25. Oregon
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 13.7 deaths per 100K (2,875 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 2.2 deaths per 100K (473 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 10.9 deaths per 100K (2,291 deaths)
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#24. Florida
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 13.7 deaths per 100K (14,678 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 5.0 deaths per 100K (5,311 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 8.4 deaths per 100K (9,058 deaths)
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#23. Ohio
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 14.4 deaths per 100K (8,397 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 5.9 deaths per 100K (3,430 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 8.1 deaths per 100K (4,754 deaths)
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#22. North Carolina
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 14.9 deaths per 100K (7,781 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 6.0 deaths per 100K (3,146 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 8.2 deaths per 100K (4,289 deaths)
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#21. Colorado
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 15.7 deaths per 100K (4,500 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 3.6 deaths per 100K (1,023 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 11.5 deaths per 100K (3,298 deaths)
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#20. Kansas
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 15.7 deaths per 100K (2,290 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 4.6 deaths per 100K (664 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 10.7 deaths per 100K (1,558 deaths)
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#19. Indiana
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 15.9 deaths per 100K (5,361 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 6.2 deaths per 100K (2,103 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 9.1 deaths per 100K (3,066 deaths)
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#18. Idaho
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 16.2 deaths per 100K (1,459 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 1.4 deaths per 100K (130 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 14.0 deaths per 100K (1,256 deaths)
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#17. Arizona
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 16.7 deaths per 100K (6,047 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 4.7 deaths per 100K (1,694 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 11.4 deaths per 100K (4,112 deaths)
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#16. Georgia
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 17.1 deaths per 100K (9,095 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 7.4 deaths per 100K (3,921 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 9.2 deaths per 100K (4,904 deaths)
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#15. Nevada
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 17.7 deaths per 100K (2,728 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 5.0 deaths per 100K (776 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 11.9 deaths per 100K (1,835 deaths)
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#14. Kentucky
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 18.0 deaths per 100K (4,023 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 6.0 deaths per 100K (1,341 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 11.1 deaths per 100K (2,476 deaths)
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#13. West Virginia
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 18.2 deaths per 100K (1,635 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 4.3 deaths per 100K (384 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 13.0 deaths per 100K (1,167 deaths)
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#12. Oklahoma
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 18.9 deaths per 100K (3,745 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 6.0 deaths per 100K (1,185 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 12.5 deaths per 100K (2,466 deaths)
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#11. South Carolina
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 19.7 deaths per 100K (5,067 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 8.8 deaths per 100K (2,250 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 10.4 deaths per 100K (2,667 deaths)
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#10. Tennessee
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 19.9 deaths per 100K (6,786 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 8.2 deaths per 100K (2,811 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 10.9 deaths per 100K (3,728 deaths)
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#9. Arkansas
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 20.8 deaths per 100K (3,137 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 7.7 deaths per 100K (1,157 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 12.1 deaths per 100K (1,833 deaths)
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#8. Montana
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 21.6 deaths per 100K (1,157 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 2.4 deaths per 100K (128 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 18.1 deaths per 100K (973 deaths)
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#7. Missouri
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 21.9 deaths per 100K (6,710 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 9.6 deaths per 100K (2,949 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 11.6 deaths per 100K (3,559 deaths)
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#6. New Mexico
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 22.5 deaths per 100K (2,360 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 7.4 deaths per 100K (774 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 13.7 deaths per 100K (1,434 deaths)
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#5. Alabama
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 23.2 deaths per 100K (5,720 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 10.9 deaths per 100K (2,674 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 11.5 deaths per 100K (2,833 deaths)
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#4. Wyoming
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 23.4 deaths per 100K (679 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: Five-year average not available
- Gun-related suicide rate: 20.2 deaths per 100K (586 deaths)
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#3. Louisiana
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 23.7 deaths per 100K (5,509 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 13.4 deaths per 100K (3,124 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 9.6 deaths per 100K (2,226 deaths)
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#2. Alaska
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 23.7 deaths per 100K (871 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 5.2 deaths per 100K (192 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 16.8 deaths per 100K (618 deaths)
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#1. Mississippi
- Gun-related death rate, 2017-21: 25.6 deaths per 100K (3,803 deaths)
- Gun-related homicide rate: 13.9 deaths per 100K (2,063 deaths)
- Gun-related suicide rate: 10.3 deaths per 100K (1,527 deaths)
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A brother and sister involved in a drug robbery that left a Lincoln man dead in 2021 entered pleas Thursday for their roles in the crime.
In back-to-back hearings, Anna Feilen, 19, and Marques Moten, 33, pleaded no contest to conspiracy to rob James Shekie.
Both will face up to 50 years in prison at their sentencings later this summer for it.
The shooter, Deontae Rush of Omaha, already is serving a life sentence, plus 25 to 35 years in prison, for his first-degree murder after being found guilty at trial for fatally shooting Shekie in a failed attempt to rob him of 4 pounds of marijuana.
At the plea hearing, Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Eric Miller said on March 1, 2021, Lincoln Police were called to check on Shekie because his door had been left open for three days in frigid weather.
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They found Shekie, who by then had been dead for nearly a week.
Investigators quickly arrested Feilen and Moten for conspiracy to commit robbery after phone records tied her to Shekie and to a Facebook Messenger conversation between her and Moten about a plan to rob him.
About a week later, Rush was arrested in Chicago, where he'd fled.
At Rush's trial in November, Feilen and Moten, who is paralyzed, told jurors that they waited in the van early Feb. 23, 2021, as Rush kicked in the door at Shekie’s mobile home at Mark IV Estates near North 20th and Superior streets to rob him.
Soon after, they heard gunshots and a scream and drove away, only to pick up Rush later, emptyhanded, at a nearby FedEx.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Wichita is turning 153 years old today.
On July 21, 1870, The City of Wichita was officially born, just three months after the establishment of Sedgwick County, Kansas. 124 people signed the petition to Judge Reuben Riggs of Sedgwick County to incorporate the town of Wichita. Judge Riggs granted the petition, and the town of Wichita was born.
This weekend, on Saturday, July 22, from 1 to 5 p.m., there will be a birthday celebration at the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum. Free admission to the party with a birthday card to your favorite Sedgwick County town, city, or community. Enjoy refreshments, activities, and music in the Museum’s Heritage Square. Special tours will be offered on dozens of exhibits.
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At the altar of St. Ann's Basilica in Scranton, Brother Andre Mathieu began the church's annual Solemn Novena with a blessing.
"In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit," he said.
"Amen," the congregation replied.
For the past 99 years, those faithful to St. Ann have made a pilgrimage each July to the namesake’s church on the namesake’s street. St. Ann is the grandmother of Jesus. The Novena — nine days of prayer — ends on her feast day, Wednesday, July 26.
The church was founded over 100 years ago by the Passionists, a religious congregation. According to the church, in the early 1900s, a mine subsidence damaged the monastery. Two years later, a hill slide threatened to destroy the property, just two days after St. Ann’s Feast Day. Priests prayed through the night and in the morning, two huge boulders rolled into place, stabilizing the monastery. A weekly Novena was started in honor of what the priests believed was St. Ann's intercession.
Those who come to the church each summer pray for many things, including health and strength. One couple prayed for a baby, said Brian Hallock, Novena coordinator.
"One year to the day of the starting of the Novena their baby was born," he said. "So there's some great favors that have been granted by St. Ann."
On the second day of prayer, St. Ann’s Street was lined with cars on either side and in the middle. The grounds of the red brick monastery and basilica sit on a plateau. Surrounding a walkway to the church are marble benches with the names of past parishioners, the shrine to St. Ann and the grotto. Behind the stone cave opening, the faithful light candles for themselves and others.
"Everybody is praying for certain things ... maybe it's peace in Ukraine or maybe it's something else in their own family," Hallock said.
During Tuesday’s daily 11 a.m. mass, pews were mostly filled inside the church. Outside under big white tents, devotees sat on plastic chairs praying along with Mathieu to St. Ann. Ken Nole sang between prayers. They sat on the lawn and in their cars. The church broadcasts the services over the radio.
“During the Solemn Novena, it's a totally different place," said Hallock. "It's almost like a big fair or festival, not in the sense of all the hype and all the stuff that goes on, but where people are together, they're talking, they're sharing stories with one another ... families come together.”
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(CNN) — Your dream of buying 654 castles or maybe 171 private islands could become reality after tonight’s $720 million Mega Millions jackpot drawing.
The six coveted numbers will be plucked at 11 p.m. ET Friday. If you hit the jackpot but don’t want to wait 29 years to collect all your millions, the cash value option is $369.6 million.
The $720 million jackpot is among the biggest in Mega Millions history. The jackpot has jumped past the $700 million mark only four previous times, the lottery said.
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But don’t start shopping for new houses yet. The odds of hitting the Mega Millions jackpot has gotten worse in recent years – from about 1 in 258 million to about 1 in about 302 million.
That’s because lottery officials have added more balls and Mega Balls into the mix – meaning there’s a wider array of number combinations for players to pick.
While that makes it harder to score the jackpot, it also helps jackpots snowball to astronomical amounts when no one wins. And lottery officials have said more people can become millionaires by winning secondary prizes.
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DULUTH — Charges have been dropped against a caregiver who was accused of raping a vulnerable adult at knifepoint earlier this year.
The St. Louis County Attorney’s Office in late June dismissed the criminal complaint against Martin Jermaine Billue Sr., citing “the interest of justice.”
Billue, 51, had been charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping and second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon for allegedly brandishing the knife while sexually assaulting the 70-year-old woman with mobility issues.
The defendant had been working for startup company Papa Inc., which connects elderly and disabled clients with “Papa Pals” — independent contractors who are able to accept jobs that involve providing companionship while helping with household tasks and shopping.
“After charges were brought, law enforcement’s investigation continued, and exculpatory information was discovered, which weakened the strength of the state’s case to the point of it no longer being viable to sustain criminal litigation,” prosecutor Alexander Saumer told the News Tribune.
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Exculpatory evidence refers to information that tends to exonerate or otherwise prove favorable to the defense at trial. Saumer did not elaborate on the new evidence that was received.
The case, nonetheless, has played a role in a wave of scrutiny on Papa, a rapidly growing gig economy platform for eldercare services that is perhaps most akin to Uber’s role in the taxi industry.
A recent Bloomberg Businessweek investigation found dozens of complaints involving allegations of sexual harassment and assault by both clients and contractors, and the case also was cited in a letter to Papa from U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pennsylvania, chairman of the Special Committee on Aging.
“Although the criminal charges were recently dismissed, court documents make clear that a serious breach of professional and ethical standards nonetheless took place,” Casey said of the Duluth case.
Alleged victim said suspect ignored pleas to stop
Court documents indicate the woman reported the alleged assault to police on Feb. 2, three days after the incident, explaining that the delay was because she was afraid she could lose her housing if found to be unable to live on her own.
The alleged victim told investigators that her social worker had helped her arrange additional care services through Papa, but was initially hesitant to allow Billue into her East Hillside house as she has had stalking issues with men in the past and believed a woman was supposed to assist her.
She told police that Billue assisted her with some household tasks and took her shopping, but she found it odd that he was not wearing a name tag, changed clothes at one point and did not assist with carrying her bags.
The woman, who uses a walker or wheelchair, said she asked Billue to put away clothes in a spare bedroom when he called for her. According to the complaint, she found him with his genitals exposed and holding a knife in his hand.
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She went on to tell officers that Billue forcibly ripped off her clothes and raped her, ignoring her pleas to stop as she experienced pain. Before leaving, he allegedly took a shower and told the victim to call Papa and request that he be sent to her residence again.
Officers said she was still wearing torn pants and noted she was able to provide a detailed description of Billue, including unique tattoos on his body. Police reports say she was brought to a hospital for a sexual assault exam, with staff noting bruising on her legs indicative of an assault.
Billue told police sex was not 'against her will'
Billue, when interviewed by police, said the woman’s story “was false unless she might have changed her mind. A transcript indicates an investigator asked if she “wanted it at first but changed her mind in the middle of it,” to which the suspect responded: “That’s the only explanation there could be.”
Police described Billue as “cryptic,” repeatedly dodging questions about what exactly had occurred on Jan. 30, though he never denied engaging in sexual intercourse with the woman.
“Billue stated he did nothing to her against her will,” a police report notes. “Billue stated he was never under the impression she was unhappy until now.”
Billue admitted placing a knife on his belt at one point, but denied that he ever threatened her. He claimed the client had asked him to take photographs of some knives and other antiques that she wanted to list for sale; the alleged victim denied that and told investigators she suspected he wanted to steal items of value.
The interview transcript indicates Billue also told officers several times that the alleged victim had contacted him after that day and had wanted him to return to continue providing at-home caregiver services.
The woman also denied that claim, according to the police reports. Billue stated he had deleted her messages from his phone as he did not want his significant other to see them; the client showed officers her phone, which did not list any calls to the suspect.
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The police reports indicate officers were preparing to analyze phone records from both parties; those results were not included in the reports that have been filed in court.
Joy Beitzel, an attorney at the Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault, is representing the woman in a harassment restraining order case against Billue. She said she could not comment on the specifics of the case but noted civil matters have a much lower legal burden than criminal prosecutions.
“I’ve had cases where parties successfully get a protective order when they did not receive what they were looking for from the criminal justice system in terms of prosecution,” Beitzel said.
“I’ve also heard prosecutors tell survivors, when they’re either dismissing a case or declining to charge a case, that their decision isn’t to say they don’t believe the survivor. It’s just that they believe there are enough facts in the case to create a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury, so they use their discretion to not push it to trial.”
Company changes practices amid scrutiny
Papa founder and CEO Andrew Parker has since “had several conversations with the member and has offered her all the help and support we can,” a spokesperson told the News Tribune.
The company added that it has “fundamentally reviewed and revamped our screening process to immediately begin going above and beyond the industry standard” after its previous background check vendor failed to flag a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction that should have prevented Billue from ever being hired.
Billue, who also had several drug convictions in the late 1990s and early 2000s, was fired by the company upon his arrest.
Bloomberg in May reported that it reviewed more than 1,200 confidential reports logged by the company over four years and found an array of complaints. An unsafe work environment was cited in 18% of sampled complaints, sexual harassment in 8% and theft in 5% of cases.
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Casey’s July 13 letter, which cited both the News Tribune and Bloomberg stories, asked Parker to address “troubling allegations about the company’s clients receiving inadequate care and being subject to abuse.”
“With the increasing demand for home care services to enable older adults and people with disabilities to live at home, service providers must ensure they are offering their clients the opportunity to live safely,” the senator wrote. “Similarly, care workers deserve to be treated with dignity. The allegations of abuse by both Papa care workers and clients, as well as the lack of training and oversight to prevent and address future problems, raise deep concerns.”
Papa last week announced new trust and safety measures, with company officials saying they are “engaged in discussions with Sen. Casey’s staff and are fully cooperating to gather requested materials, answer all of their questions and organize a meeting.”
The spokesperson indicated there have been more than 1.6 million visits conducted through the platform, with only 0.1% resulting in a member-reported safety complaint. The statement added that visits are monitored through real-time geolocation technology and a team “investigate(s) each and every concern raised to us.”
“Complaints are not something we hide,” the statement said. “We are fully transparent with our clients, as required by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations. Papa sends any and all complaints to the affiliated plan within 24 hours, and then re-reports upon resolution of the incident.”
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School supplies drive at Buehler's Fresh Foods
JACKSON TWP. − Buehler’s Fresh Foods, 7138 Fulton Dr. NW, is hosting a school supplies drive through Aug. 6.
Drop off school supplies at the store. Suggested items to donate include pencils, pencil sharpeners, erasers, crayons, markers, glue sticks, watercolor paints, scissors, school boxes, folders, dry-erase markers, headphones, notebooks, three-ring binders, composition notebooks and backpacks.
Supplies also may be ordered online and sent directly; visit https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1F238L8YI7E07?ref_=wl_share.
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GRATIOT COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - A 71-year-old man died in a head-on crash in Gratiot County possibly caused by a medical emergency he suffered behind the wheel.
The Gratiot County's Sheriff's Office says the crash was reported around 2:20 p.m. Thursday on Luce Road near Sanctuary Drive in Arcada Township.
Investigators say 71-year-old Michael Doran of Ithaca was driving a pickup truck south on Luce Road when he crossed the center line into the path of a northbound semi-truck.
The trucks collided head-on. Doran was pronounced dead at the scene while the 57-year-old Mount Pleasant man driving the semi-truck did not report any injuries from the crash.
The sheriff's office believes Doran may have suffered a medical emergency behind the wheel before he drove across the center line. Neither driver was intoxicated when the crash happened.
Authorities closed Luce Road for nearly seven hours while they investigated and cleared the scene.
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FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - The City of Flint has confirmed that a petroleum-based substance was spilled into the Flint River on June 29.
According to the city, they believe approximately 10 gallons were released into the river, contrary to the initial estimate of 200-300 gallons. The city adds that the spill originated near Dort Highway, was a one-time discharge and has since stopped.
Lab samples show that diesel-range organics, oil-range organics and trace amounts of volatile toxic organics were detected.
Booms were placed around the storm sewer outfall near the Utah Avenue bridge. While the city believes the residue at the outfall has been completely absorbed, the city plans to leave the booms in place until July 24.
The city will inform the public when they lift its recommendation to avoid contact with the Flint River near the bridge.
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What's going on at the damaged Lucky Fortune restaurant on Lancaster?
Location: 1401 Lancaster Drive NE
Description: Seven months after a fire tore through and destroyed Lucky Fortune, work is expected to begin to rebuild the east Salem Chinese restaurant.
The owner submitted plans with the city to repair the fire damage on the building at 1401 Lancaster Drive NE. The plans are currently under review.
In the early morning hours of Dec. 18, a trash fire next to the restaurant spread to the building and engulfed it in flames.
It was the fourth suspicious fire set that night in the area.
A bag of garbage outside an apartment building on Sunnyview Road spread to the residence and severely damaged it. A wooden structure was set ablaze. A dumpster outside the BottleDrop at Sunnyview and Lancaster erupted in flames.
Surveillance video outside the BottleDrop caught footage of the man allegedly setting the fire. Police created a description of the man, and a patrol officer spotted and arrested 28-year-old Leonardo Hernandez-Cruz on Dec. 18.
Herndandez-Cruz was charged with two counts of first-degree arson, second-degree arson and reckless burning.
According to the indictment filed in Marion County, he is accused of causing more than $50,000 in damage at Lucky Fortune and putting people at serious risk of injury at the restaurant and apartment complex.
Hernandez-Cruz has remained in jail while he awaits his trial.
Meanwhile, the longtime restaurant is boarded up and vacant. No trespassing signs and signs declaring it a public nuisance are posted on the exterior.
The spot on Lancaster just south of Fred Meyer was opened in 1994 by the Cheung family, who previously operated restaurants in Salem and Vancouver.
The opening announced in the Statesman Journal boasted of affordable lunch specials, the "largest, most varied menu of Chinese selections, including specialties not available elsewhere," a banquet room and a roomy lounge with dancing and karaoke nightly.
A series of violent incidents, including shootings and fights, at the restaurant back in 2008 put their liquor license at risk.
The 68-year-old owner of the restaurant, Kow Lan Cheung-Lin, was killed in a hit-and-run after a driver struck her and her son in the parking lot of the business following a fight inside the restaurant. The driver was later arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison for manslaughter.
The restaurant continued operating until Dec. 18, when the fire damaged it.
Documents submitted to the city show plans to rebuild the restaurant and keep the parking lot and signage in place.
The owners of Lucky Fortune were not available for immediate comment on when they expected to reopen.
Source: City of Salem
Is there something under construction you'd like to tell us about or find out more about? Contact reporter Whitney Woodworth at wmwoodworth@statesmanjournal.com, call 503-910-6616 or follow on Twitter @wmwoodworth.
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CROWN POINT — The woman who owns and operates local mental health services center Crown Point Counseling was arrested last month for forging records.
Suzanne Krischke (aka Suzanne Bonaventura) was arrested on July 3 for allegedly forging patient documents for a 2019 audit, according to court records.
Records indicate that Krischke was charged with seven counts of counterfeiting records. If convicted on all counts, she’d face 17 and a half years in prison.
Charging documents detailed how Krischke purportedly falsified the signatures of doctors when she was required by the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, which oversees Medicaid, to resubmit old records for an audit.
Charges described how Indiana Medicaid typically operated on a trust-based system, wherein most claims from enrolled medical providers don’t require individual verification, due in part to the sheer volume of claims.
Crown Point Counseling was first audited in 2017 for reimbursed claims from 2016, after the FSSA notified the mental health provider that 95 of their claims were not complaint.
When the counseling center resubmitted the documents for reconsideration in 2019, auditors noticed “that the documentation submitted for the reconsideration audit was the same documentation submitted for the initial with modifications to make them compliant,” according to the probable cause affidavit.
An employee at Crown Point counseling told investigators that Krischke, supervisors and human resources “made everyone in the office create fake treatment plans in response to an audit. He said the problem of missing documentation stemmed from guidance to therapists that they did not need to create treatment plans until a patient was seen three times,” charges stated.
The FSSA stipulates that practitioners must document some sort of treatment plan within seven days of a patient seeing a provider, the affidavit stated.
A former employee described to investigators how “documents were created to fill in gaps and documents were modified after audits during reconsideration audits at the direction of Krischke.”
He said that he didn’t think Krischke had a stamp or electronic signature from the doctors, so he suspected they just copied the signatures by hand.
Court records indicate that Krischke appeared in Mag. Mark Watson’s courtroom on Monday. Her next hearing is set for September 12 in Judge Gina Jones’s courtroom.
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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MICHIGAN CITY — Over the next few months, the Shirley Heinze Land Trust will hold four "Nature in the Arts" events.
The first event will take place this Saturday at the St. Francis Nature Preserve in Michigan City.
Participants will be able to explore some of Shirley Heinze' reserves while creating nature-inspired art during the free, family-friendly programs. The Nature in the Arts initiative received funding from both the Indiana Arts Commission and South Shore Arts.
Shirley Heinze is partnering with a number of local environmental nonprofits, hospitals and arts organizations to host the events.
Each day features a different theme:
July 22: "The Art of Mindfulness"
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. CT at the St. Francis Nature Preserve, 35000 Franciscan Way. This event will include a relaxing hike along the board walk, three mindfulness stations and collage-making. Franciscan Health Michigan City, the Lubeznik Center for the Arts and Brown Faces Green Spaces are the event partners.
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. CT at the Meadowbrook Nature Preserve in Valparaiso, 109 West 700 North. Attendees will be able to explore the preserve through guided hikes and will create watercolor and pastel art pieces that celebrate native plants and pollinators. The Art Barn and the Chesterton Art Center are the event partners.
Sept. 30: "Bug-Eating Plants of the Bog"
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET at the Lydick Bog Nature Preserve in South Bend, 25898 US-20. Attendees will create art that represents the many carnivorous plants present in Lydick Bog. The South Bend Museum of Art and the Northern Indiana Pastel Society are the event partners.
Oct. 7: "Wetlands and Watercolors"
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. CT at the Ivanhoe South Nature Preserve in Gary, 750 Colfax St. Attendees will create art that represents the surrounding dune and swale habitat. Brown Faces Green Spaces and South Shore Arts are the event partners.
Based out of Valparaiso, Shirley Heinze has worked to preserve natural areas throughout northern Indiana since 1981. The trust currently oversees some 3,000 acres in Lake, Porter, LaPorte, St. Joseph, Marshall and Starke counties. Many of Shirley Heinze' preserves are open to the public; a map is available at heinzetrust.org/preserves.
For more information call 219-242-8558 or visit heinzetrust.org.
Shirley Heinze Land Trust programs coordinator Mari Patis (right) leads a group through the Meadowbrook Nature Preserve during a May nature walk. The land trust will be hosting a series of "Nature in the Arts" events throughout the next few months. The first event will be held in Michigan City this Saturday.
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ROANOKE, Va. – Roanoke City Park and Rec workers were at the Greenway Friday morning working to clean up the Smith Park area after several plant boxes were vandalized overnight.
We’re told that there were about 35 out of 50 boxes that had the plants ripped out and tossed aside.
When we spoke with workers Friday morning, they told us they were still making their way down the Greenway to assess the total amount of damage done.
They said a police report has not been filed yet.
We’re working for you to learn more and will continue to update this article with the latest information.
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ROANOKE, Va. – One runway remains closed at the Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport after an incident involving a private plane.
Authorities say it happened shortly after 10 a.m. and report that no one was seriously hurt.
ROA Public Safety and Operations teams, State Police, and City of Roanoke safety units are currently at the scene.
We’re told runway 6-24 is closed at this time.
The incident remains under investigation.
We’ve reached out to State Police to learn more.
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Heart's lead singer, Ann Wilson, to perform at Brown County Music Center
Singer-songwriter Ann Wilson of the rock band Heart seems to have agreed on the right title for her newest (2022) album, "Fierce Bliss." Wilson, fierce rock singer and bringer of vocal and songwriting bliss, comes to the Brown County Music Center July 30.
Wilson appears to have lost nothing to decades of touring. She's one of those women whom singing-kids everywhere aspired — and aspire — to emulate. (See her YouTube interview and duet with fellow star Kelly Clarkson, an American singer, songwriter, author and popular TV personality.)
Heart has sold more than 35 million records
Heart has sold more than 35 million records globally, had 29 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, and had Top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 during the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2010s. The female-fronted band was formed in 1973 in Seattle by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.
Ann Wilson is one of greatest heavy metal vocalists
Ann Wilson grabbed the No. 78 spot in Hit Parader's 2006 roster of "Greatest Heavy Metal Vocalists of All Time." Ten years ago she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a Heart member.
She still wears lots of black — both clothes and signature long hair — and once dreamed of designing fashion. In fact, she attended art college. But performance-fame crowded in, and now she hires a clothing designer in Seattle.
Wilson quickly admitted she has had help: her very involved husband of nine years (Dean Wetter), two kids, dogs, an au pair and a house-sitter, many of whom have accompanied her on the road. Wilson adopted her two children, daughter and son, in the 1990s.
"My husband does everything on the tours," Wilson said over the phone. This includes figuring out logistics, offering a different viewpoint, critiquing stage designs and "protecting me."
She dances, too
Rock music requires resounding physicality, and Wilson values those days she can sleep till 10:30 a.m. The variety of dance classes she has taken energizes her stage work. Her voice sparkled with enthusiasm when she mentioned Afrobics, a dance genre that uses African instruments such as drums for quick, inventive rhythms.
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When she was 12, she contracted mononucleosis and had to stay home. "My grandmother gave me money to buy a guitar, to keep me occupied. There was a huge movement then of kids my age singing songs backed up with a guitar."
But Wilson, spurred by a desire for serious music, "didn't just stand in front of a mirror" to sing and play. By 18, she was determined to make a life out of music.
Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2023 Grammys
Nancy Wilson, Ann's younger sister, plays guitar in Heart.
The sisters snagged the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2023 Grammys. It's a Lifetime Achievement Award that celebrates performers who have had superior creative impact on the recording industry.
"We're sisters and music collaborators. We've had ups and downs," Ann Wilson said. In addition, she enjoys doing "my own solo thing."
No faking, thank you
What happens when a singer gets tired of doing a song?
"I will not go up there and be fake. I'll put it away for awhile."
Or, she'll change it, but not enough to make it unrecognizable. "Life is about change."
And what about a singer such as Ann Wilson, who belts out rock and roll night by night? "I sing from my core (body's center), never from my throat."
Ann Wilson's sturdy voice won hits for Heart in the 1970s. "Crazy on You," from Heart's first album (1976), and "Barracuda," the following year, got audiences roaring. Turns out "Barracuda" reflects rampant sexism in the music industry.
Heart lost some visibility in the mid-1980s but returned with biggies such as "What About Love" and "Nothin' at All."
It appears "nothin' at all" has kept Ann Wilson from succeeding in a male-driven industry, and in opening doors for women musicians worldwide.
Ann Wilson is somewhere out there right now, on her way to Brown County. From her album"Fierce Bliss" comes this:
"But don’t fool yourselfShe was heartache from the moment that you met herAnd his heart is frozen stillAs he tried to find the will to forget her somehowShe’s somewhere out there right now.” — "Forget Her"
If you go
WHAT: Ann Wilson of Heart
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. July 30
WHERE: Brown County Music Center, 200 Maple Leaf Blvd., Nashville
TICKETS: Starting at $69. Tickets are selling quickly. To order tickets online, go to https://tinyurl.com/mv5f6fra.
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In tiny Gosport, Indiana, they're all Republican and they can't get along
GOSPORT − On occasion, town council meetings in Gosport go off the rails. Downright shouting matches sometimes erupt between citizens and the three people elected to run things in the Owen County town of 850.
Contention surfaced early in the most recent meeting, where back-and-forth shouting could be heard clear out in the parking lot five minutes after a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance kicked off the night.
"You're going to run this town into the ground!" shouted former town council member Melvin Hall, who resigned in 2020, so someone younger "and with more tolerance" could take over.
Current town council president Gerry Lunsford yelled back. "And you, you didn't do nothing when you were on the board, and the town's in the condition it's in now because of all the years you didn't do anything."
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Don Garletts, who purchased the downtown's historic Masonic Hall for a possible restaurant, had a front-row seat to the debate. He was at the meeting to ask the council to close an alley so he could offer outdoor seating. He was advised to return in August.
Garletts stayed until the end, not participating in the rowdy banter, but paying close attention. "Thank you for the most entertaining public meeting I've ever attended, and I've been to a lot of them," the Indiana Limestone Fabricators owner said after presenting his plan.
Meetings heat up
It was the second Tuesday in July, the first of two meetings for the month. Temperatures hovered in the 90s and humidity — and the tempers of some of the people present in the room— were high.
Council meetings are held at the Gosport Community Building, where there's no air conditioning. There is central air conditioning a few blocks away at Town Hall, a former physician's office the town bought for $75,000 in 2018.
But when an estimate to renovate the building to include a meeting hall was tens of thousands of dollars more than anticipated, the board arranged to use the community center for their meetings in exchange for paying the $60 water bill.
The clerk-treasurer's office is at Town Hall. A sliding glass window that once separated Dr. John Stearley's waiting room from the receptionist is now where people pay their water and sewer bills.
But board members said elected clerk-treasurer Donnie Hall, in office 10 years, is rarely present. "More often than not, when I go there, he's not there," Lunsford said during the meeting.
Even though the board members and Hall are all Republicans, discord reigns. The town stands divided between the old guard and younger, middle-aged officials now in charge.
"If we had a clerk that was in that office, none of this would be an issue," Lunsford said. "One hour a month is what he is required by law to work. And he makes $38,000 a year. And when we say something, his response is always the same: that he's an elected official and we can't set his hours."
Gosport Town Board members each made $4,256 in 2022.
Meanwhile, Hall sat quietly a few feet away, taking the minutes as council members complained about him and the way he oversees town business. They spoke as if he wasn't there.
"Decisions are made by the town board, not Donnie Hall. He controls the purse strings, and we never know how much money we have because Donnie never tells us," Lunsford said.
"This is a three member, not a four-member, board. We tell him to write checks, and that is the clerk-treasurer's job."
'I'd like to see you all get along'
Hall was appointed to the position a decade ago and has been re-elected twice. "I'm the scum of the earth as far as this town board goes," he said after the meeting concluded.
He said no one in town complains about his office hours. He said he sometimes works in the evenings when he can get more done without interruptions.
Hall hadn't planned to seek another term; his position and all three town council seats are on the ballot this November. "But after the way they talked to me tonight, I just might be going down there to sign up tomorrow."
Owen County's Republican Party will hold a town convention next month, in place of a primary election. Declarations of candidacy must be filed with the county clerk by Aug. 1.
Gosport residents will gather at the community center to hear candidate speeches and ask questions, then vote to narrow the field to three council and one clerk-treasurer candidate for the November election.
"Remember there's an election coming up," resident Mary Craft announced to the disgruntled board members. "There's nothing wrong with the way Donnie runs things."
Another woman at the meeting who supported Hall suggested the board find a way to work in tandem with the clerk-treasurer.
"Have you got together with Donnie to tell him you are displeased?" she asked. "I'd like to see all of you get along."
Getting down to business
The night of July 11, the community center doors were open for ventilation and the hope of a cool breeze that never came. Flies buzzed around the room.
Citizens complained, loudly at times, about issues including water rates, sewer fees and the hiring of a full-time utility clerk. There was discussion of a fallen tree, skateboarders, the condition of a burned-out house, the location of a farmers 'market, renting a stump grinder for $500 and the lack of police presence in town.
The board took heat for voting to hire a full-time utility clerk to be at town hall eight hours a day to take payments. People were less upset after learning the salary would come from $70,000 the town will save by doing its own water testing instead of paying an engineer.
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Board members deflected criticism for unanimously passing a $5-per-month storm water utility fee, on the heels of a $4 monthly water cost hike last year. Residents fear even higher water bills after a rate study is complete.
Board members contend that since the town's wastewater system is failing and repair costs are exceeding income, they had no choice but to charge users more. That's caused concern in a town where many residents are senior citizens or families living on fixed incomes.
Glass table doesn't sit well
With an annual budget around $200,000, how money gets spent in Gosport matters. For instance, the town board approved spending $7,200 to re-roof the old water plant because they can't afford to build a new one.
They appropriate one or two thousand dollars at a time to repair 100-year-old water lines in the center of town and failing pumps at the water treatment plant.
At one point during the July 11 meeting, board member Larry Norman found himself justifying his Office Depot purchase of a $427 metal-and-glass table for the town hall lobby.
It was on sale, he said, $100 off. "You can't buy a laminate table for that," Norman told residents upset about the purchase, which left just $8 in the office equipment budget for 2023.
"So, yes ma'am, I did buy that table and I had the authority to," Norman said. "We need a place to have a semi-professional meeting and not all be just standing around."
Craft, 79, a longtime Gosport resident, wasn't happy. "Well," she said, "You don't need a $500 table. You can just take it off my water bill."
The town board meets again July 25 at 7 p.m. at the Gosport Community Building, 301 N. Ninth St. It's a public meeting anyone can attend.
Contact Herald-Times reporter Laura Lane at llane@heraldt.com or 812-318-5967.
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It's Your Business: Ivy Tech supports local industry with skills training
Ivy Tech Community College is Indiana’s largest provider of training and talent development through a strong mix of academic and skills-based programs. Many Hoosiers know firsthand of our expansive academic offerings with over 40 programs of study, most with transfer opportunities so graduates can continue at a four-year university partner. These programs are all driven by local community needs and support a career and talent pipeline to help our industry partners thrive.
In fact, many are directly supported by industry through a program called Achieve Your Degree. In this partnership, industry supports their employees using their company's tuition assistance program. On campus, the student's bill is deferred to the end of the semester while still providing support to find financial aid sources such as grants and scholarships. Any bill that remains at the end of the semester is sent directly to the employer, eliminating any out-of-pocket expenses for the student.
Thanks to programs such as Next Level Jobs, many times the student’s tuition is still completely covered at no cost to the student or employer. This partnership helps industry ensure they have a continued pipeline of talent while empowering their employees by showing commitment to personal and professional growth.
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In addition to these partnerships, Ivy Tech also provides direct industry training for employers needing to support their teams through workforce development called skills training. Skills training is a way that industry can upskill their teams on focused needs using a schedule and training plan that works for their business model. Skills training takes elements of existing academic programs and focuses on the elements a particular company needs to grow their team. These skills training partnerships are led by Ivy Tech’s faculty using proven training and development techniques focused on adult learners. For example, a company that needs employees to expand on their Microsoft Office skills has many paths they could use to reinforce these skills based on the depth of the need.
The Ivy Tech Bloomington campus currently offers a certificate and full associate degree focused on Business Operations, Applications, and Technology that a student can earn in two to four semesters. To focus on a particular Microsoft product, a student could also take a single eight-week class that builds the fundamentals focused on that product, such as Excel. However, if a company had a group of employees that needed to build skills in a particular part of Excel, a focused skills training partnership may be a good fit as it allows for a fully customized class. This skills class could be offered multiple times a week in small sessions in a format that works around existing business needs. Additionally, in many circumstances, these skills training classes can be hosted on-site for the industry partner.
The list of topics that can be offered under a skills training partnership is endless and based on the needs of the industry. Examples of topics the Bloomington campus has recently trained on include OSHA 10, Project Management Professional, Programmable Logic Controllers, Society of Human Resource Management, ethics, and technical writing. For those in the information technology space, training can be offered on a variety of CompTIA certifications such as Security+, A+, Network+, and more. Additionally, the campus has offered a variety of soft skills classes for partners such as delegation training, conflict resolution and time management.
To get started on building a skills training plan for your team, reach out to our Ivy+ Career Link team. We can be reached at ivytech.edu/bloomington/careerlink, agross52@ivytech.edu or 812-330-6004.
Adam D. Gross is the vice chancellor for Ivy+ Career Link at Ivy Tech Community College in Bloomington.
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More than 600 people remain without power after a brief but powerful thunderstorm swept across northern Indiana on Thursday.
Indiana Michigan Power officials said heavy winds downed trees and damaged power lines and equipment, disrupting service to nearly 20,000 Indiana Michigan Power customers.
The storm ripped through the Fort Wayne area in the early evening, leaving about 9,000 customers without power, according to I&M. About 10,000 customers in the Elkhart area also had outages. Another 370 in Avilla lost power, the utility said.
At one point, the storm became so severe that the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for southeast Allen County near New Haven.
I&M expects power to be restored by 3 p.m. today.
In Ohio, an elderly woman died after a large tree fell on her family's Ohio City home during the storm, Van Wert County Emergency Management officials said.
First responders took the victim to a Fort Wayne hospital in critical condition, but she later died from her injuries, officials said.
Her husband, also inside the house during the storm, was not hurt.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Do you ever drive by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper and think, “That’s a nice looking cruiser”?
If so, the agency is hoping to get your vote in the annual American Association of State Troopers (AAST) “Best Looking Cruiser” contest.
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FHP’s photo entry features a 2019 Dodge Charger in FHP’s traditional colors of black and tan next to a large alligator.
Troopers said the winning cruiser will serve as the cover vehicle for the 2024 AAST wall calendar, the proceeds of which benefit the AAST Foundation. The foundation provides educational scholarships to dependents of member troopers.
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“When people see a Florida State Trooper, they know that they are there for protection and can expect professional and competent service,” said Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Executive Director Dave Kerner. “A vote for FHP is a vote for Florida.”
The competition ends at noon on Monday, July 31. You can click here to vote.
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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — People in Central Florida will have a chance to see a rocket launch this weekend.
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SpaceX is looking to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday.
The launch is set for 7:01 p.m.
Launch operations officials are monitoring the potential for storm activity during the launch window.
SpaceX is planning to land the first stage of its rocket after liftoff and land on one of its droneships in the Atlantic.
Watch: SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
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Woman charged with fatal shooting outside Livonia party store after argument escalates
A Detroit woman has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of a Redford woman at a Livonia party store, according to prosecutors.
Lania Julieah Conn, 24, and Markayla Sadler, 27, got into a verbal altercation just before 1 a.m. Tuesday inside a party store in the 13820 block of Merriman Road, which escalated in the parking lot after Conn left the store, according to a press release from the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office.
The argument turned physical and Conn allegedly took out a gun and shot Sadler, according to the press release. Livonia police found Sadler dead in the parking lot with a gunshot wound to the head.
Conn fled the scene after the shooting. She was charged in Livonia's 16th District Court with second-degree murder and one count of felony firearm.
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'I can picture my students here': Arizona teachers become learners at hands-on science program
MARANA — They peered into buckets of water, all of them down on all fours under the shade of a tall salt-cedar tree amid the loud song of cicadas. Inside the buckets, tiny creatures swarmed.
"Wow!" "Gnarly!" "Cool!" "They are eating each other!", they shouted.
They're school teachers, ranging in age from 25 to 58, but on this day, they were the learners, part of an immersive summer research experience identifying the early life stages of damselfly and dragonfly species that now populate a 15-mile section of flowing stream in the Santa Cruz River. The site is one of three stretches that flourished with life after public entities began releasing high-quality treated wastewater into the desert wash.
Researchers are monitoring the transformation of this renewed habitat, and teachers from metro Tucson and the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui nations are tagging along to learn from current research, create place-based lessons and bring new hands-on science teaching to the classroom.
"It’s given me a lot of ideas of how to introduce students to issues outside the textbook. To do science instead of only learning about it,” Marco Cubillas, a sixth-grade teacher of ecology and chemistry at Roskruge Bilingual Magnet Middle School, said in Spanish.
That morning, near Marana, the group picked up rocks at the bottom of the river looking for insect larvae, swung nets to catch adult damselflies and learned how researchers measure population trends.
“I can picture my students here," Cubillas said cheerfully as they waded knee-deep in the stream. "They’d love it, they’d learn so much. We learn in many different ways, especially by doing.”
The cohort was the second of three that will take part in a six-week University of Arizona summer program called Research Experiences for Teachers Sites in Biological Science, or BIORETS. The program, funded by the National Science Foundation, supports and finances biological research experiences for K-12 teachers, often pairing them with scientists to work on a site or project.
It is an opportunity to engage K-12 teachers with current research, but also with larger issues in the community.
For Michael Bogan, associate professor at the UA and lead of the BIORETS program on the Santa Cruz River, the benefits go beyond the educational component.
The program can extend awareness about the existence and value of the Santa Cruz River, Bogan said, even when the flow depends on clean effluent discharges.
“For generations, when the river was dry, people just lost connection with it," Bogan said. "They no longer thought of it even as a river.”
“If all we accomplish is all of those students knowing about the river and why it's important and then they went home and told their parents about it," Bogan continued, "to me, that's a big success."
Bridging the gap in science teaching
In the program, teachers hear from public entities and nonprofits doing water conservation and recharge. They participate in training to collect and analyze data, brainstorm on simple research approaches, and try new teaching tools and software. They also follow researchers into the field, do plant surveys, set up camera traps and tour important sites.
A big component of the program indoors is the work on data literacy, said Rebecca Lipson, co-principal investigator on the BIORETS program. Teachers learn what data is needed to answer research questions, what certain data can and cannot show, practice how to read it and create visualizations.
“Any career in STEM these days is heavy on data, so it really is an integral part, if (students) want to pursue education and careers in the field," said Lipson, who leads pedagogy discussions and training in the summer program along with education specialist Margaret Wilch.
Modernizing the understanding of current research is also a priority.
“There is really a gap between what students learn in K-12 and the type of learning and research that is happening at the university," said Lipson, who has taught middle-school science and now supports undergraduate research initiatives.
"If they only know what they read in books and those books are dated, and they don't have an understanding of what research looks like, they might not be inspired to pursue STEM careers," she said, adding that the Santa Cruz River program is designed to connect to the community and inspire the students to get involved.
The engagement component, where students take part in the process of science, is now a requirement under recent changes to the Arizona Science Standards. Lipson believes the program can help teachers adapt.
“The curriculum moved from learning a lot of information to now investigating phenomena and having students be the scientist, asking the questions, doing the investigations, coming to conclusions through their own activities," she said.
"It's exciting but the part that is difficult for many people is that there isn't a guidebook on how to do that."
Taking the classroom outdoors
Rachel Carpenter had plenty of experience as an educator but less as a science instructor. Attempting to do real science and data collection with her students felt like a stretch, she said.
The program offered her a door to research and experts and “jumpstarted something,” she said.
After the pandemic, she “really wanted to bring things to life” and used her time at BIORETS to network and partner with the Pima County Natural Resources education department and Audubon for her students’ projects. They built and installed bird boxes at the school and nearby parks and monitored them for Lucy’s warblers.
Carpenter took new training at Arizona State University’s Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory and with the Central Arizona Project.
"I feel more connected to a lot of the environmental, climate issues and energy issues that are happening now around us,” she said. “I feel more confident in understanding them, reaching out to people and asking questions, and bringing those back to my students."
The program also checked an important priority for her: It anchored learning on “things that are happening right here, right now around them," she said.
Jessica Pitts, a teacher at Valencia Middle School and part of the first cohort, returned to the river with 72 sixth-graders with help from Michael Bogan. For many, the trip was their first visit to an Arizona stream they didn't know existed.
Depending on their background, the class they teach and the resources available, teachers have a variety of ideas on how to integrate what they learned into the classroom.
Jennie Quijada, a recent graduate of conservation biology and teacher at Rincon High School, had the science background but was looking for more tools to bring field research into the classroom.
She remembers hating “textbook-based” science in high school. It was in college, at one particular camping trip watching raptors around the Vermilion Cliffs, where she was hooked.
"This is what school could be," she tells students, encouraging them to pursue STEM careers.
She plans to take students on several small field trips at the UA campus, replicating plant surveys they practiced at the summer program, and make two visits a year to sites like the river.
Anna Verdiguel Gillet, who teaches biochemistry at Flowing Wells High School, plans to blend what they learned at the program with human health-focused classes, using knowledge on wastewater treatment and ecology, and pulling in studies that correlate stream health to human health.
The two BIORETS cohorts so far brought in teachers from six school districts: the Arizona State School for the Deaf and Blind, Flowing Wells, Tucson Unified School District, Altar Valley Elementary District, Baboquivari Unified School District, and two Bureau Indian Education schools: Tohono O'odham High School and Santa Rosa Day School.
Jacqueline Bruhn, general coordinator of the program, said the six-week experience builds “community-wide awareness.”
“Hundreds of Tucson area students will have a teacher who spent their summer collecting data with their toes in the flowing waters of the Santa Cruz River,” she said.
Life in the river is reborn
Once perennial, the Santa Cruz River only flows in about five stretches year-round, all of them with treated effluent or “imported” water.
The first is between Rio Rico and Tubac and receives about 13 million gallons a day from the Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Facility. The second is on the San Xavier reservation, where years of restoration with Colorado River water have even brought groundwater levels up to the surface. The third is the Santa Cruz River Heritage Project near downtown Tucson, where the Tucson Airport Remediation Project water treatment facility sends about 345,000 gallons a day to the wash around West Starr Pass Boulevard.
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The fourth section is near Sweetwater Wetlands Park and currently receives an average of 4.6 million gallons per day. The fifth section starts around Ina Road and flows north up to 20 miles to Trico Road with about 30 million gallons per day from the Tres Rios Water Reclamation Facility.
Near Marana, effluent discharges started around the 1970s, but poor treatment made the water too rich and low in oxygen for many species to establish. It was in 2013, with high-quality treated effluent, that life took off.
Willows, cattails, small fish and Sonoran mud turtles have returned to sections of the river that now flow year-round.
That early morning on the river near Marana, Bogan and Rocío Guzmán, a doctoral student specializing in dragonflies and damselflies of the Sonoran Desert, taught teachers about the insects’ life cycle, their connection to stream health and how to conduct surveys.
The Santa Cruz was “wiped clean” from aquatic life when the communities nearby dried it up, Bogan said. Species have to come back from other areas.
Before it received high-quality treated effluent, the river section in Marana had about five dragonfly species. It now has about 50.
"Since 2013, all 48 of those other species had to fly from somewhere else," Bogan said. Some came from Tanque Verde, Sabino Canyon, Cienega Creek and the Santa Cruz River in Tubac.
New species have also appeared. Bogan and Guzmán recorded the presence of a neotropical bluete in the river stretch near Marana. The dragonfly was found before only in Mexico and a very short section of the Gila River.
The diversity and type of species also offers information about the recovery of the Santa Cruz River.
Dragonflies, and many other living creatures, are better indicators of the health of a body of water than expensive water quality equipment, Bogan said.
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Water sensors take a snapshot of the conditions but can miss critical information, like a plant discharging toxic waste the next morning. Bugs are there all the time, and their lifetime is telling of whether a site is livable at all, he explained.
There are hardy species that can survive with raw sewage, though seeing them in abundance is not necessarily good. Other species are highly sensitive to water pH, nutrient concentration, oxygen levels in the water and amount of water flow. Seeing a diversity of species in abundance is a good indicator for the river.
Threats to the flow of treated water
Water has revived sections of the river, but there are no guarantees all treatment plants will keep discharging water in years to come. Water is in high demand, and treatment plants could send the treated effluent to other users.
Water entities earn credits for sending the treated water to the river, as it helps recharge the aquifer. Those credits help them offset groundwater pumping later.
The stretch of river near the Agua Nueva plant and the Heritage Project gained some “water rights” in 2021. Tucson and Pima County approved a plan to create a “conservation effluent pool” for both sites, which dedicates water to the river to keep the ecosystem going. The stretch near Agua Nueva will get 5 million gallons per day. For the Heritage Project, the daily commitment is variable but will not exceed more than 35.8 million gallons a year, which comes to around 10,000 gallons a day.
There is no water commitment for the longest stretch of stream receiving water from the Tres Rios plant. The site, which receives the largest volume of water of all three in the metro area, is also on state trust land, which means it could be sold and developed at any point.
Close to midday, the group emerged from the wash and walked up a dirt trail above the tamarisk and willow trees. Out in the open, the scorching heat scattered teachers to their cars. Nearby, a bulldozer worked a big mountain of gravel, dug from the deposits that the waters of the Santa Cruz River once moved.
Clara Migoya covers environmental issues for The Arizona Republic and azcentral. Send tips or questions to clara.migoya@arizonarepublic.com.
Environmental coverage on azcentral.com and in The Arizona Republic is supported by a grant from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust. Follow The Republic environmental reporting team at environment.azcentral.com and @azcenvironment on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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Arizona tribal road projects among those awarded federal grants
More than seven dozen tribal transportation projects across 18 states, including three in Arizona, can soon begin thanks to $20.9 million in federal grant funding aimed at reducing roadway fatalities and serious injuries on tribal lands.
Arizona's Colorado River Indian Tribe received the largest allocation from the Federal Highway Administration's Tribal Transportation Safety Program Fund for any one of the 88 projects. The Kaibab Band and Paiute Indians also received funding for a project on their reservation in northern Arizona.
Transportation-related injuries and fatalities affect Native American and Alaska Native populations at greater rates than other demographic groups, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data.
“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,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement announcing the funding. “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.”
Here's a breakdown of what tribes in Arizona can expect:
Colorado River Indian Tribes
- $1,571,680.63 for pedestrian safety improvements on Agency Avenue and 1st Avenue East on the Colorado River Indian Reservation including the construction of new 5-foot-wide sidewalks.
- $2,500 to update the 2016 Tribal Transportation Safety Plan.
Kaibab Band and Paiute Indians
- $67,500 to complete the design phase of an all-weather accessible pathway on the Kaibab Indian Reservation
Reach the reporter at LLatch@gannett.com.
The Republic’s coverage of northern Arizona is funded, in part, with a grant from Report from America. To support regional Arizona news coverage like this, make a tax-deductible donation at supportjournalism.azcentral.com.
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Arizona man facing death penalty in a child murder has now been accused of killing his cellmate
A man who was already facing the death penalty in the murder of a child now has new murder charges against him.
On July 12, a Maricopa County grand jury indicted 34-year-old Thomas Desharnais in the murder of his cellmate, Richard Cano Sr. The two were housed together at the county's Lower Buckeye jail when Desharnais is accused of strangling Cano on Sept. 24, 2022, Anthony Ramirez, the attorney representing Cano's family, told The Arizona Republic on Thursday.
Desharnais had been in jail after he had been charged with the long-term abuse and first-degree murder of an 11-year-old boy in January 2022 at the Extended Stay America Hotel in Scottsdale. His wife, Stephanie M. Davis, who was also the boy's grandmother, was also arrested and charged.
In May, more charges were brought on by the state related to that case after a second victim had disclosed last year that there was additional criminal conduct committed by Desharnais and Davis. Prosecutors accused the couple of kidnapping and child abuse from around the time of the death of the 11-year-old, court documents show.
Ramirez said the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office erred by housing Cano, who was in jail for drug possession, with Desharnais, who was facing the death penalty.
Even though Cano was murdered in September, the case was not handed over to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office until April, Ramirez said. He said that there has been a lack of transparency from the Sheriff's Office in this case, and that Cano's family was not notified of Cano's death until weeks later.
Ramirez said his office received the incident report of Cano's death. He said it laid out how officials found Cano unconscious and tried to provide medical care.
But said he is still awaiting a more complete picture from a thorough police investigative report. He said that the family now plans to file a lawsuit against the county after it had failed to respond to its wrongful death notice of claim, filed March 7.
A spokesperson for the Sheriff's Office declined to comment on the case, stating in an email that the office does not comment on pending litigation. The Maricopa County Attorney's Office also declined to comment, as it is an open case.
Desharnais pled not guilty to the new murder charge on Wednesday. His next hearing for these cases is on Aug. 15 in front of Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Fish.
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Queen Creek begins receiving Colorado River water transfer
Town-officials in Queen Creek celebrated Wednesday that the East Valley suburb would begin receiving a share of Colorado River water, five years after it green-lit the purchase.
The town will receive 2,033 acre-feet of fourth-priority Colorado River water annually.
Water that was used to irrigate 485 acres of farmland in Cibola in eastern Arizona now will supply nearly 6,100 households in Queen Creek.
Queen Creek made a one-time payment of $24 million to GSC Farm LLC for the annual entitlement.
“We made the strategic decision to reduce our reliance on groundwater in a way that is cost effective to our residents and future generations,” Queen Creek Mayor Julia Wheatly said at Wednesday’s news conference.
The controversial water-rights deal prompted Mohave County, La Paz County, Yuma County and the city of Yuma to file a complaint against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in December. The entitles sought the court to declare that the department had “violated (the National Environment Policy Act) and the (Administrative Procedures Act)” and that the final environmental assessment “failed to take a hard look at the environmental impacts of the transfer.”
The U.S. District Court in Arizona decided that Mohave County and La Paz County had no standing in their complaint, Paul Gardner, the town’s utilities director told The Arizona Republic. Yuma County and the city of Yuma may continue with their complaint, but it would not affect the Queen Creek's ability to receive its water allocation, he said.
The water will be delivered through the Central Arizona Project canal, which runs along the Town’s eastern border. Gardner said the town's proximity to CAP's canal system makes it easier for it to go after water deals like this.
The Cibola water-transfer is the first step in Queen Creek’s strategy to reduce its reliance of groundwater and move towards becoming a designated water provider by 2030. To receive that designation, it would allow the town to prove it has a 100-year supply of water for any new development instead of requiring each developer to apply for its own certificate of assured water supply.
The designation has become critical for cities like Queen Creek after Gov. Katie Hobbs announced Arizona Department of Water Resources would not issue certificates of assured water supply to developments solely reliant on groundwater.
Queen Creek, which is 70 square miles and about 70% built out, has water certificates for 92% of its land, Gardner told the Arizona Republic in June.
“The Town is continuing to evaluate additional renewable supplies, including Harquahala water and participating in the study to raise Bartlett Dam. Water is a finite resource, and we will continue to do our part to diversify our supply,” he said.
The Harquahala groundwater basin is an untapped water source, west of Phoenix. Both Buckeye and Queen Creek are seeking the state's approval to pump out water from the aquifer there.
Queen Creek is also in the process of acquiring permits and beginning construction for three new water recharge facilities to pump back its treated wastewater into the aquifer.
Gardner has been there since the beginning of the town’s water company in 1985 which has grown from 500 customers to more than 40,000. Queen Creek is home to more than 66,000 residents and is estimated to reach 125,000 residents once the town is fully developed.
Reporter Maritza Dominguez covers Mesa and Gilbert and can be reached at maritza.dominguez@arizonarepublic.com or 480-271-0646. Follow her on Twitter @maritzacdom.
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Surprise enters new chapter with city-owned libraries
Surprise public libraries — Surprise Regional, Asante and Hollyhock — are now city-owned after having been managed by Maricopa County.
The transition from Maricopa County to city management began this March with library staffing and programs moving under the city’s purview, according to a news release.
Kelsey Lamphier, Surprise’s Arts, Culture, and Library Department director, explained why the changes were deemed necessary.
Among the list of reasons was that at nearly 150,000 residents, the city has grown to the point where it now has the ability to bring oversight of the library system in-house.
“Bringing oversight in-house gives us the opportunity to customize the programming and materials to our community’s desires,” Lamphier said.
This concept of customization comes in opposition to the idea that the Maricopa County Library District accommodates a wide range of communities encompassing libraries from Gilbert to Sun City.
Thus, having city-provided library services opens the door to integrate more community input and interests.
“We are able to create more synergies with other city programs and events, creating additional opportunities to engage with library services,” Lamphier added.
With the new change in management also comes changes in service. The three libraries now live under the Public Library System. Aside from the logo, naming update, and only a few weeks of management under its belt, the city has already introduced a number of services and amenities.
What’s new?
- Interactive website: The new library website features a roll-up catalog search, making the search process more accessible. The new site will also allow users to register for programs, access digital resources, view suggested readings, and reserve library spaces.
- Collection development: The current Surprise Public Library collection includes 106,000 books, one-third of the county’s collection. The books are now assigned to the Surprise libraries only, meaning a person must have a Surprise Public Library card to access them. Additionally, the collection is fully managed by the city. If residents have items they would like to see in the collection, they can contact the library at library@surpriseaz.gov.
- Decreased printing fees: Surprise Public Library is committed to being revenue driven. Each month, the first 20 black and white prints are free. Printing fees overall were reduced to 10 cents per black and white copy and 25 cents per color copy.
- Mobile app: The library launched a mobile app on July 1. Through the app, you can search the catalog, view the program catalog, and even check out materials.
- Increased access to Libby Library: Surprise Public Library has its own Libby Library, which means an increased access to digital content like eBooks and audiobooks.
- Curbside pickup: Pickup was reinstated in all three libraries. Once you arrive, pull into a designated space and call the phone number on the sign.
- Holiday hours expanded: The libraries will now be open on most holidays to provide a space for friends and family to gather. Themed programming and special events will add to the celebrations.
In addition to the changes detailed above, library-goers can expect increased programming, a request that was highly made, according to Lamphier.
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“One of our most popular new programs is Pajama Storytime ― kids can wear their pajamas and bring a stuffed animal to the library for bedtime stories, rhymes and songs to wind down for the evening,” Lamphier said.
“We’re also planning to bring back book clubs and increase the programming for teens,” she added.
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Surprise welcomes back curbside recycling
A highly anticipated program returns to Surprise — curbside recycling.
As a way to get residents back in the habit of recycling, the city plans to initiate a pre-launch program beginning on July 24, according to a press release.
Starting this week, residents are encouraged to separate recyclables into their designated blue curbside bins. The bins will be collected on Monday via a recycling truck, as opposed to a trash truck.
Bins must be out on the curb by 6 a.m. and will be picked up on regularly scheduled trash pick up days, according to the release.
Both trash and recycle bins are to be set in the street against the curb with the handle side facing the home. Each container is supposed to be a minimum of four feet from each other, fences, mailboxes, light posts, and any other obstacles. Vehicles are to be kept at least fifteen feet away from the bins.
Normally materials should be prepared to go directly to a recycling facility, though they will continue to be landfilled until the curbside recycling program officially begins.
This will allow the city Public Works team to double check recycling bins for any unacceptable materials. The team will also leave education tags on each bin to help residents avoid violations once the program is officially launched.
The city’s drop-off recycling program will remain available during the pre-launch period. Recyclables can be dropped off Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. at the Public Works North Yard at 17274 N. Litchfield Road. For more information about Surprise’s recycling program and tips about how to recycle, visit surpriseaz.gov/Recycle.
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BALTIMORE COUNTY — We have an update to a story we first told you about in late June.
A single mom and her kids who live in Randallstown are in danger of being evicted over a billing dispute she had no control over.
She was eventually given 30 days to find a new place to live.
That woman is Kendra Mackall. She has an 8-year-old son who is on the autism spectrum.
RELATED: A Randallstown woman is danger of being evicted due to billing dispute
When she found out she was slated to be evicted, she did not know what to do.
However, one realtor, who also has a child on the spectrum, heard her story and reached out to help.
Mackall lives at the Carriage Hill Apartments in Randallstown.
Through the help of St. Vincent De Paul of Baltimore, she was able to get the apartment.
The nonprofit helps women who were victims of domestic violence and mental illness find housing.
Mackall says she took care of the utilities, while they paid the rent.
The apartment complex claims they were behind on rent, so they decided not to renew the lease.
This meant Mackall was scheduled to be evicted on July 10.
Mackall went to court and was able to get a 30 day extension thanks to pro bono lawyers.
Vince Brusio heard her story and reached out to help.
He's a realtor who has taught seminars in Carroll County aimed at helping the special needs community with real estate.
When he heard about Mackall's situation, he knew he needed to reach out to help her.
"St.Vincent and Carriage Hill they came to an agreement to give us more time because we haven't been able to find housing that is suitable for our families because my son has autism and I suffer with disabilities," said Mackall.
"Everybody should have a place to live. And for me, it's a matter of not necessarily, you know, is it somebody that has a certain income level, but do they have what they need. And having a daughter with autism, I know that we all weather the same storm, but we're not always in the same boat," said Vince Brusio.
Mackall has to go back to court on August 11.
We reached out to both Morgan Properties, the company that owns Carriage Hill, and St. Vincent De Paul of Baltimore.
A Morgan Properties spokesperson confirmed Carriage Hill Apartment Homes recently met with the Baltimore County Department of Housing and Community Development, which funds the St. Vincent de Paul program. A 30-day stay has been granted for the affected residents while we manage the process and explore opportunities for a more permanent stay. We expect this matter to be resolved in our follow-up meeting with the Department of Housing which is planned for the coming weeks
St.Vincent De Paul of Baltimore released a statement as well.
We are pleased that Morgan Properties has provided additional time for our client to find alternative housing. Due to a strict privacy policy that protects client confidentiality, we cannot comment on the particulars of Ms. Mackall’s situation. However, we continue
to work diligently to ensure the well-being of Ms. Mackall and all others impacted by this matter
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland continues to experience its lowest unemployment rate in nearly half-a-century.
This according to new preliminary data released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
In June Maryland gained 4,700 jobs causing the unemployment rate to fall to 2 percent.
The Mining, Logging and Construction sector experienced the most growth, increasing by 3,900 jobs.
Some sectors experienced a loss including Trade, Transportation, and Utilities.
In May Maryland gained 2,000 jobs leading to a 2.4 percent unemployment rate.
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OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Another store just moved from Owings Mills' New Town Village Shopping Center to Mill Station.
Starbucks closed at the New Town shopping center, on Groffs Mill Drive. The company confirmed it reopened at the nearby Mill Station today.
Community leaders, including the Randallstown NAACP, have raised concern about Giant Food leaving New Town. They've been working to find a replacement.
A Starbucks spokesperson said:
As Starbucks standard course of business, we continually evaluate our store portfolio, using various criteria to ensure we are meeting the needs of our customers. We are happy to share that we are relocating our store at 9764 Groffs Mills Drive to 10256 Mill Run Circle, Owning Mills, MD, and look forward to serving new and existing customers when the store opens on July 21, 2023.
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Two Indy stores celebrated on America’s favorite mom-and-pop shops list
In June 2022, Victoria Beaty decided to set up a brick-and-mortar plant store to bring nature into the home. Just over a year later, The Botanical Bar was named one of America’s favorite mom-and-pop shops by Yelp and Entrepreneur Media.
The list celebrates small, independent and often family-owned businesses across the country. Two Indiana businesses were named on the list: North Mass Boulder and The Botanical Bar.
The Botanical Bar makes wellness a priority
The Botanical Bar operated as a pop-up shop for two years before opening as a brick-and-mortar store in 2022.
The store offers a diverse range of plants, from the easygoing snake plant — “the queen of low maintenance,” according to shopkeeper Allison Foster — to the tropical and majestic bird of paradise. As a Black- and woman-owned business, the store also offers a range of goods and handicrafts made by other local women of color — part of Beaty’s mission to uplift diverse women.
When customers enter the store, they are met with a bright, candle-lit space and a forest of lush, vibrant green plants. The monstera is a particular favorite among patrons, Foster said, with its glossy, distinctive leaves making you feel like you are on a tropical vacation. The atmosphere of the store lines up with Beaty’s goal to create a safe, healing space where people can connect with nature.
“Nature is really a part of who we are and our day-to-day lives,” Beaty said. “Having greenery in your space, whether it’s your office space or your home, brings a bit of that nature inside.”
Beaty’s interest in plants stemmed from her childhood when her grandmother was a florist and she was always surrounded by houseplants. During the pandemic, her interest deepened as she derived a lot of comfort and joy from taking care of a houseplant.
That childhood experience motivated her to join an urban farming program through Growing Places Indy, a farm dedicated to urban agriculture and where Beaty became executive director in 2019. Learning to farm reshaped the way she thought about the world and made her appreciate nature more — something she hopes to impart to others on a smaller scale through houseplants.
“Caring for something outside of yourself helps you slow down and feel more connected to the world surrounding you,” Beaty said.
She was inspired to turn her passion project into a business when she noticed that there were no other Black-owned houseplant shops in Indy and she wanted to open a space where Black women would feel reflected.
Creating a welcoming atmosphere for everyone, regardless of their level of interest or experience with houseplants, is one of Beaty’s biggest priorities. She does this through conversations with customers, an online blog with tips and workshops that allow her to meet more members of the local community.
The Botanical Bar is located at 1103 N. College Ave. More information can be found at thebotanicalbarindy.com.
North Mass Boulder emphasizes the community aspect of climbing
At one time, the 55,000-square-foot space on the northeast end of Mass Ave was an abandoned box factory. In 2019, however, co-founders Elliot Steward, Zach Donovan and Colt Reichart transformed the place into North Mass Boulder — a bouldering gym with a co-working space, café, and taproom with a live DJ.
The gym focuses on bouldering because of its often collaborative nature. While one person boulders, other climbers can help them figure out the best route. But for those who are hesitant about scaling the walls, North Mass Boulder also offers yoga classes, a free weights section and dedicated family rooms, including one with a pirate ship.
A monthly membership at the gym is $75 for adults, with discounted options available for kids, students and seniors.
North Mass Boulder is located at 1409 Roosevelt Ave. More information can be found at northmassboulder.com.
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DENTON, Texas — Denton officials are asking residents to conserve water on Tuesday, July 25, as the city works to repair a water line.
The city isn't asking residents to conserve water for essential needs, such as drinking, cooking and bathing. But officials are requesting residents avoid washing cars, trucks and boats; draining and re-filling pools and watering their lawn.
City crews had previously worked on July 13 to repair one of the city's raw waterlines. The repairs are expected to be finalized on July 25. The city plans to notify residents when the repairs are completed and normal water usage can resume.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – As Fun Fest nears its end and skies start to clear up, the Tri-Cities is ready to host events all weekend long.
The Storm Team 11 forecast calls for a few isolated showers here and there with temperatures in the low 80s.
News Channel 11 has compiled a list of events from Friday, July 21 through Sunday, July 23.
Fun Fest
On Friday night, Boyz II Men will take the stage as part of the Sunset Concert Series. The concert begins at 7 p.m. with opener Johnnyswim. The annual Hot Air Balloon Glow will take place on Legion Field Friday at 8 p.m. with 15-20 hot air balloons set to light up the sky.
On Saturday, the balloons stay in the spotlight during Breakfast with the Balloon from 6-9 a.m. and the Hot Air Balloon Rally at 7 a.m. and later at 7 p.m. The concert series continues with Clay Walker and Chris Lane at J. Fred Johnson Stadium at 7 p.m.
The Eastman Fireworks Spectacular will mark the end of Fun Fest 2023 starting at 10 p.m.
For a full list of Fun Fest events and times, click here.
Potter in the Park
Muggles, witches and wizards alike can head to Elizabethton’s Covered Bridge Park at 6 p.m. Friday. The free Potter in the Park event celebrates the fictional birthday of Harry Potter and will feature a search for Horcruxes in downtown. At 7:30 p.m., everyone will reconvene at Covered Bridge Park for a costume contest, followed by trivia, crafts, games, snacks and more.
At dusk, there will be a special showing of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Appalachian League Baseball
On Friday night, the Elizabethton River Riders, Kingsport Axmen and Bristol State Liners play at home. The River Riders are playing a double-header against Danville starting at 5 p.m.
Bristol and Elizabethton also play at home Saturday and Sunday nights. For tickets and times of each game, click here.
Hungry Mother Festival
The Hungry Mother Festival in Marion will celebrate its 50th year this weekend. The festival runs Friday-Sunday at the Hungry Mother State Park.
The three-day festival features vendors, food trucks and games. The Hungry Mother Festival funds the Art League, which in turn supports students and teachers in Smyth County.
Tusculum Alumni Yard Sale
Starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, the community is invited to Tusculum University’s Welcome Center for an Alumni Yard Sale.
The purchases made at the yard sale will support the school’s residence hall upgrades. Items for sale were donated by alumni and community members. The yard sale wraps up at 1 p.m.
Independence on the Frontier
Visitors to Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park on Saturday can take a journey back 247 years to the day when colonials on the frontier learned of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
A special reading of the document will take place inside Fort Watauga at 1 p.m., but activities will be going on throughout the day with glimpses at what life was like on the frontier.
The event runs from 10 a.m. through 4 p.m.
The Bellflower Grand Opening
A new bakery will cut the ribbon and open its doors in Erwin Saturday. The Bellflower will serve Erwin and Unicoi County with breads, pastries, cakes and other desserts.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m. at 111 South Main Avenue.
Celtic Gathering Cookout
Irish stew, Scottish sausage rolls, meat pies and scones are just some of the items visitors to the Appalachian Highland Celts’ Celtic Gathering Cookout on Saturday.
The cookout will be held at Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site in Johnson City from noon until 4 p.m. Admission is free but donations are welcomed by the organization.
A presentation on Celtic-Christianity Heritage will take place during the event, and alternative food options like hot dogs and chips will be available.
Beaverdam Jams
For the third year, the Town of Damascus is hosting Beaverdam Jams at the town park. The free music festival runs from 2-8 p.m. Saturday instead of a monthly concert series like in years past.
You can find the full music lineup and a list of food and drink vendors online.
Covered Bridge Jams
Elizabethton’s summer concert series continues at Covered Bridge Park Saturday at 7 p.m.
This Saturday, From the Edge will take the stage.
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The latest on Fayetteville's long-awaited Day Resource Center for the homeless
Fayetteville’s long-awaited Day Resource Center is in its final stages of completion, city officials said Tuesday.
The center, located at 128 S. King St., a 12,800-square-foot warehouse that formerly served as a live music venue, is in “the last aspects of re-construction and upfitting,” according to Chris Cauley, the director of economic and community development for the city of Fayetteville.
“Cumberland HealthNET, a local non-profit with the Continuum of Care, is taking the lead in operating the center. They’ve worked diligently for several months to invite partners interested in extending services to our unsheltered residents,” Cauley said in an email. “The success of this center is directly linked to the collaboration of non-profit service providers in our community offering support for unhoused individuals to have access to an array of resources in one location.”
Cauley said that nonprofits interested in offering services at the center should contact Cumberland HealthNET. The nonprofit has a website, www.chnnc.org, and can be contacted via phone at 910-483-6869 or via email at info@chnnc.org.
The center is intended to offer resources to the unhoused in a central location during the day, Cauley said in a recent interview.
“The city is funding it 9 to 5,” Cauley said. “If the nonprofit is able to raise other funds, get grants and things and open up for expanded hours, they may be able to do that. But right now, we’re looking at this as a place for people to come do business.”
Construction on the center began last year, but the project really got started in spring 2021, when the city purchased the King Street property, Cauley said.
Cumberland HealthNET was selected to run the day center because it is the organization that runs the coordinated entry program, according to Cauley.
Debbie Brown, chair of the Fayetteville-Cumberland County Continuum of Care on Homelessness, said previously that coordinated entry is the phone number homeless people can call for help. The continuum recently published a new phone number, 844-401-HOPE, for coordinated entry, Brown said.
Find out more about homelessness here:At least 475 people are homeless in Cumberland County. Here's how local government helps.
According to Cauley, Cumberland HealthNET will soon announce who will serve as the center's manager. The day center will also host case workers, two nursing staff members and a certified nursing assistant from Cumberland HealthNET, according to a handout shared at a September City Council meeting.
A floorplan approved by the City Council shows showers and laundry facilities, an intake area, a multipurpose room, a warming kitchen and staff offices at the proposed site.
“This is the community’s building,” Cauley said.
More in this series:How local nonprofits are helping Cumberland County's homeless — and what they need to succeed
Cauley noted that the center received funding from multiple sources — state grant money and city funds allocated to the shelter directly and to Cumberland HealthNET — a major difference from the Raleigh Oak City Cares shelter that Fayetteville’s center was modeled after.
“The city has stepped up and put a lot of public funding into this,” he said. “In Raleigh, they had much deeper pockets. They had corporate donors, and they were able to build this thing.”
The city did not have an estimate for when the day resource center will be open to the public.
Government watchdog reporter Lexi Solomon can be reached at ABSolomon@gannett.com.
More in this series:'I'm doing what I can': How one Fayetteville man has battled homelessness for 16 months
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FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. — The swimming pool at Caledonia State Park in Franklin County is closed until further notice due to an electrical problem in the pump house, park officials announced Friday.
The pool will remain closed until the issue can be repaired, the park said in a post on Facebook.
Park officials said they're are hopeful that the repairs can be finished and the pool re-opened by Friday, July 28.
"Our maintenance staff are working diligently to have the pump repaired as fast as possible," the park said on Facebook.
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LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — A security breach at a Lancaster County orthopedic clinic exposed the personal information of more than 500 patients.
Lancaster Orthopedic Group, which has locations in Manheim Township, Mount Joy and Ephrata along with a fourth location in Chester County, said the breach was detected and stopped on March 29 and reported to authorities on May 26 after an internal investigation to determine the extent of the incident was conducted.
LOG is now working with federal investigators to determine how to breach occurred and who might have been affected, according to LancasterOnline.
"Upon discovering this incident, LOG responded immediately to secure their network environment and launched a thorough investigation with the help of independent information technology security and forensic specialists to take appropriate actions," LOG said in a statement.
An investigation determined that the following categories of patient information has been exposed, according to LOG:
- Name
- Address
- Date of Birth
- Social Security Number
- Medical Treatment Information
- Insurance Information
LOG said it has found no evidence that patients' information has been specifically misused as a result of the breach, nor has it received any reports of related identity theft since the incident was discovered.
"LOG is working to identify all individuals potentially affected by this incident," the medical group said. "Potentially affected individuals identified by LOG will receive a letter via first class mail outlining steps that they can take in response to the incident."
LOG said it is also providing a toll-free number individuals can call to learn more about the incident. The call center can be reached at 1-833-961-6572, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.
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SAN ANTONIO — Walmart has added two new locations to the Bexar County area this morning.
The grand re-openings occurred on the far west side and southwest side of Bexar County.
One Walmart opened near Culebra Creek Park located at 6703 W Loop 1604 and the second Walmart opened near Palo Alto College located at 8538 IH-35 S.
The company says it's excited to continue serving the San Antonio community.
There are more than twenty Walmart locations across Bexar County.
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