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Peter Courtney presented guitar made from fallen 150-year-old maple tree at State Capitol
Oregon Corrections Enterprises surprised Peter Courtney on Friday with a custom Prison Blues electric guitar made from a 150-year-old maple that fell on the State Capitol grounds during the 2021 ice storm.
The presentation came before the regular meeting of OCE's advisory council at its showroom on State Street.
Courtney was lured to the meeting expecting to give a speech about his appreciation of Oregon Corrections Enterprises and its programs. He still did, embarrassed to admit he had never been to the showroom, so he made an advance visit earlier in the week.
"I didn't want to leave," he said. "I was mesmerized by the products. The men and women incarcerated, their handiwork, their skill, I was just blown away. I can't say enough about what this organization is doing."
Courtney, former Senate president, is a long-time supporter of Oregon Corrections Enterprises, a semi-independent state agency providing work and training programs for adults in custody in Oregon prisons.
In partnership with the Oregon Department of Corrections, OCE operates 21 businesses in nine institutions, with 1,400 adults in custody working in various programs, including wood and metal manufacturing, commercial laundries, and website graphic and video design.
Courtney and two other legislators went to the furniture workshop in 2008 to recognize the thousands of hours inmates put into making desks and other furniture for the renovated House and Senate office wings. In 2013, he personally purchased miniature state flags from the embroidery shop to give as gifts to his fellow legislators.
When the historic maple tree fell during the February 2021 ice storm, Courtney talked to then-OCE administrator Ken Jeske about saving the wood. They shared ideas about products some of OCE's manufacturing businesses could make using the maple, including a guitar.
Prison Blues produced its first guitar in 2016, donating it to the governor's food drive. Two years later, OCE officials held a contest for adults in custody to come up with plans to develop a guitar manufacturing program. In 2019, blues rock recording artist Ty Curtis came to the showroom to test drive one of their guitars.
Today, Uptown Music in Keizer sells the guitars. A salesperson said Friday afternoon the shop once had 10 but is down to three in stock. The Prison Blues custom electric guitars retail for $1,250.
The custom guitar presented to Courtney features a lighter-colored wood fretboard inlay of the Capitol building on the neck.
Courtney said he does not play guitar. But he used to play cello and trumpet.
"I was pretty good," he said while posing for photographs next to the glossy guitar.
Courtney took it home but said he will not be keeping it.
"It belongs to the Capitol," he said.
During the meeting, Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend, also presented Courtney with a memento, a replica of the Oregon State Seal made of wood from the reader board removed from the Senate chambers.
"We wanted you to have a piece of Oregon Senate history for you to display in your home or wherever you want," Knopp said, noting it is one of just 30 made.
"This is very nice, too," Courtney said. "I'm humbled."
Capi Lynn is a senior reporter for the Statesman Journal. Send comments, questions and tips to her at clynn@statesmanjournal.com or 503-399-6710. Follow her work on Twitter @CapiLynn and Facebook @CapiLynnSJ.
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Making a recovery: Golden paintbrush removed from endangered species list
After more than 25 years on the endangered species list, the golden paintbrush has made a comeback.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took the flowery yellow plant off the list this week, adding that the herb made its recovery in the Pacific Northwest. The golden paintbrush’s home stretches from the Willamette Valley to southwestern British Columbia, Canada.
Named after its bright yellow flowers, the golden paintbrush is classified as a short-lived perennial herb that can grow up to a foot high. White sticky hairs cover the plant.
A mix of invasive species, fire suppression and recreational picking shrunk the plant’s population in Oregon. It was first added to the endangered species list in 1997, being found at only 10 known sites in Washington and British Columbia.
Through replanting efforts, that number has risen to 48. In Oregon and the Willamette Valley, 26 sites are known after teams worked to maintain the paintbrush’s prairie and grasslands habitats.
“We almost lost this beautiful flower, but thanks to the Endangered Species Act it’s now abundant,” Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a news release.
Work to bring back the golden paintbrush could also help other endangered species in the long run. In the release, the Center for Biological Diversity added other threatened groups who could see support from the flowery plant include:
- Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly
- The Willamette daisy
- Kincaid’s lupine
- Nelson’s checker-mallow
- Three subspecies of Mazama pocket gopher
Abigail Landwehr is an outdoors journalism intern for the Statesman Journal. She can be reached at alandwehr@gannett.com
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RICHMOND, Ind. — A judge has set a 2025 trial date for a man charged in the killing of an eastern Indiana police officer who was shot during a traffic stop last year.
Phillip Matthew Lee, 48, whose trial is set to start in Wayne County on Feb. 10, 2025, according to court records, could face the death penalty if he's convicted in the death of Richmond Police Department Officer Seara Burton.
Burton was shot in the head on Aug. 10, 2022, after officers stopped Lee’s moped and Burton was called to assist with her police dog, which indicated the possible presence of narcotics. The officer died Sept. 18, more than two weeks after being taken off life support.
Lee, of Richmond, is charged with murder, attempted murder, unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon and drug-related charges.
Lee’s lead defense attorney, Denise Turner, recently filed a motion seeking access to all Richmond Police Department text messages, emails and voicemail recordings which mention her client since the shooting.
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INDIANAPOLIS — A proposal looking to curb illegal parking passed out of the Indianapolis Department of Public Works committee Thursday night.
It would incentivize ParkIndy to issue tickets for nonmoving violations, especially cars parked in bike lanes, fire lanes and crosswalks.
It’s an issue downtown bicyclists say is not just annoying, but dangerous.
“Every day there is at least one, if not more, cars in the bike lane,” said Robert Pflueger. “This is a designated lane for bikers, so we don’t have to ride on the sidewalk or the road.”
This new proposal would allow ParkIndy to share revenue with the city for all tickets issued, instead of just meter violations.
"Councillors and residents have asked our department to address a recurring bicycle and pedestrian safety concern: vehicles illegally parking within bike lanes and crosswalks, causing an unsafe commute for those reliant upon multi-modal infrastructure," said Indy DPW director Brandon Herget.
In 2022, more than 10,000 non-moving tickets were issued, but only about 20% were given out by ParkIndy. The rest were written by IMPD officers.
“What we are able to do with this amendment that passed out of committee is supplement our IMPD folks that are out doing traffic enforcement by adding those folks already doing meter enforcement to those ranks,” Herget said.
The city entered into a 50-year agreement with ParkIndy in December 2010 . The city and ParkIndy share revenue for meters, tickets, and meter “bagging” fees.
The proposal now goes to the full City-County Council for a vote on Aug. 14. If adopted, a trial period would run through 2025.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — After winning the 2022 rib-eating contest, the Tom Green County Sheriff's Office came into the 2023 battle with victory on its mind. San Angelo Police Department's Public Information Officer Richard Espinoza said the SAPD made a few strategic moves prior to Friday's competition, in hopes to capture a needed victory.
"We have been preparing all week for it (the rib-eating contest). I have been stretching my stomach all week, I have not eaten since last night and I have been eating lettuce to stretch my stomach out," Espinoza said.
Although the sheriff's office was the winner to date prior to Friday's feast, that did not deter them from making adjustments in order to win again. TGCSO's Sgt. Ty Kimrey ensured that his team was ready.
"It is just another day for us, we are champions, we do not get excited to win again, it is great to raise the money and everything but we are not going to storm the field or anything, because we have been here before," Kimrey said.
Both law enforcement agencies came in confident, but unfortunately, only one winner could be crowned. The format for the competition was a relay race of ribs, where four officers from each department lined up and could only begin eating once the athlete in the seat next to him finished.
The police department came out swinging, finishing fast with their first two legs of the race. After jumping out to a lead, the sheriff's office roared back with their final two teammates finishing their ribs, covered in barbecue sauce and water, en route to the promised land.
"We had our game plan, we stuck to it, we knew that if we started fast, we knew our anchor and other guys would step up," the TGCSO team said.
With the win, the sheriff's office won $500 for the Children's Advocacy Center of Greater West Texas. Both departments enjoyed friendly banter and laughs throughout the afternoon, as all of them look forward to next year's competition.
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The city is calling on the court to intervene after overcrowding has become a problem at the Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Service Center in West Philadelphia.
The overcrowding is to the point 30 young people are sleeping in the gym on mattresses on the floor.
The center is meant to temporarily house kids who have criminal cases in the legal system before they are placed elsewhere. That includes those who have been adjudicated delinquent, which is the juvenile version of being found guilty.
NBC10 obtained the city's refiled lawsuit stating the center is "dangerously overcrowded."
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Chief Legal Officer at Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center Marsha Levick has been following the issues at the Juvenile Justice Center since they started last fall.
“The facility has been more than approximately 30% overcrowded for months," said Levick.
Once that happens, the commonwealth is supposed to assume custody and place them in a state or private facility.
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“I have heard stories of kids not being sure what time it is and the only way they can be sure is what kind of food they’re being served," said Levick.
The city claims the center is seeing an increase in contraband, fights, and conflict.
Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout Founder Kendra Vandewater visits the kids for weekly wellness checks.
"They’re saying that they’re not getting the meals three times a day like they should. They’re not being let out of their pods or their rooms because of staff shortages. They’re not getting rec time," said Vandewater.
The center has a licensed capacity of 184 beds and the city says while occupancy fluctuates daily, the center exceeded capacity by 58 kids on June 5.
Now a commonwealth court judge is giving the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services 30 days to take custody of 27 kids who have been adjudicated delinquent.
"Our facilities, which face ballooning populations of youths referred to them, primarily from Philadelphia, are intended to provide treatment and rehabilitation. Many of these youths are being referred to DHS for periods of time far exceeding the traditional timeframe for treatment, using the current limited bed space,” said a spokesperson at the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services.
The city tells NBC10 it's grateful for the court's decision and believes it will alleviate overcrowding and ultimately help lead to the safety and well-being of kids and staff at the center.
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An investigation is continuing into the deaths of a well-known Tucson couple, a linguist and an artists' community leader, after their bodies were found in the Rio Grande in Sierra County, New Mexico.
Muriel Macaskill Fisher, 73, was found by jet ski-riders on June 18 in the Rio Grande near Williamsburg, N.M. Her husband Paul Fisher, 70, was found the same day near Truth or Consequences, N.M.
No cause of death has been established as the investigation continues, the Sierra County Medical Examiner's Office and the University of New Mexico Office of the Custodian of Public Records told the Star on Thursday.
Sierra County sheriff's officials haven't returned multiple emails and phone calls from the Star seeking information about the case.
Sierra County Sheriff Joshua Baker told the Sierra County Sentinel that no suspects were being sought and there was not believed to be any danger to the public, according to a June 29 article by reporter Frances Luna.
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Authorities found the couple's rental car on Riverside Drive in Truth or Consequences, the article said.
“I don’t know what happened, but I’m glad they had each other,” said Adrienne Halpert, owner of Global Arts Gallery in Patagonia and a long-time friend of both Paul and Muriel. “The ripples of their essence go deep and wide. … I’ve never known people like them. They magnified each other’s creativity.”
The Fishers were Tucson residents for more than 40 years. Muriel, a Gaelic linguist and retired senior research scientist at the University of Arizona’s Department of Linguistics and Gaelic language, won the Excellence in Community Linguistics award from the National Science Foundation in 2014.
She taught her native Gaelic for many years, privately in her Tucson Gaelic Institute, at Pima Community College and at the UA.
Paul was a longtime leader in Tucson’s arts community, having been director of arts education for the Tucson Pima Arts Council from 1990-1996. He did a stint as Tucson Water’s conservation mascot “Pete the Beak” in the late 1970s.
“(Paul) and I were both a part of the Arizona Commission on the Arts artisan resident program,” said Thom Lewis, who knew the Fishers for decades. “Later he was involved as the executive director of Arts Integrative Solutions, an offshoot of a program I worked for."
"Paul and Muriel always had that great charm that people from the British Isles always have," Lewis said. Muriel was a native of the Isle of Skye in Scotland, and Paul was from Britain.
"They were always a very enduring, funny people," Lewis said.
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Record-high temperatures in Tucson this week pushed Tucson Electric Power beyond its forecasted peak demand this week.
But TEP didn’t quite break a peak-demand record, which was set in 2021, and the company says it has lined up adequate reserves to handle demand spikes.
Amid record-high, triple-digit temperatures in the past week, TEP saw demand of 2,369 megawatts on Monday, the highest demand day in the past week, compared with a forecast peak of 2,265 MW, TEP spokesman Joe Barrios said.
This week's demand was high but didn't surpass TEP's record peak demand of 2,446 MW on June 16, 2021.
Barrios said the company is well-prepared to handle higher peaks than forecast, with planned capacity reserves intended to cover extreme weather or significant power-plant outages.
“We know our service plays a crucial role in helping to maintain customers' comfort and safety during high temperatures,” Barrios said. “We work to strengthen our grid throughout the year so that it's as resilient as possible when summer arrives.”
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In the Phoenix area, Arizona Public Service Co. and Salt River Project both broke peak-demand records on consecutive days last weekend.
The head of the state agency that regulates utilities noted that TEP, sister rural utility UniSource Electric, Arizona Public Service and the Salt River Project all had peak demand this week that outstripped forecasts.
In a news release calling the utilities’ success in keeping the lights on a “triumph” of cooperative planning efforts by regulators and the power companies, O’Connor cited figures showing TEP and UniSource Electric combined saw peak demand of 3,369 MW — just shy of their 3,612 MW capacity — compared with a combined forecast of 2,955 MW.
Barrios said the ACC figures used a slightly different demand calculation also based on peak usage over one hour, but UniSource didn’t top its demand forecast despite a spike in usage.
TEP is working hard and spending millions of dollars to upgrade its power grid, Barrios said.
In 2022 alone, TEP spent more than $290 million to improve power lines, poles, transformers and other transmission and distribution equipment used to deliver service to customers, he said.
On top of high demand, TEP had to deal with significant damage from a storm earlier this week that snapped about 30 wooden power poles and left thousands of customers in the Foothills without power for hours while crews reached lines in difficult terrain.
TEP has an ongoing program of replacing wooden power poles with stronger steel poles.
But wooden poles remain in areas where the utility’s lift trucks can’t drive, and instead, linemen must climb the poles with spiked boots, Barrios said.
TEP improved a key measure of system reliability, the so-called System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI), representing the total number of minutes of interruption the average customer experiences.
Barrios said the company improved its SAIDI score to 61.8 minutes last year, compared with 73.8 minutes in 2021, despite higher temperatures and increasing peak energy usage during the summer, which adds stress on equipment.
Contact senior reporter David Wichner at dwichner@tucson.com or 520-573-4181. On Twitter: @dwichner. On Facebook: Facebook.com/DailyStarBiz
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Blake Osen, 11, creates a flavorful drink while running his 208 Soda Bar during Art in the Park and the Food Truck Festival on Friday at Twin Falls City Park. Osen has been making the sodas since kindergarten. He’s using the money to pay for football and help out others who may need financial help for football. He’s also saving for college tuition.
Blake Osen, 11, creates a flavorful drink while running his 208 Soda Bar during Art in the Park and the Food Truck Festival on Friday at Twin Falls City Park. Osen has been making the sodas since kindergarten. He’s using the money to pay for football and help out others who may need financial help for football. He’s also saving for college tuition.
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A man died Thursday morning after an ATV crash near Buhl, police say.
A call came in at 11:25 a.m. regarding the incident west of Stone Ridge subdivision in Buhl, according to the Twin Falls County Sheriff’s Office.
No other information was being released, pending notification of next of kin.
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A boil order has been issued in southern Twin Falls after a contractor struck a waterline on Friday afternoon.
The order affects about 500 residences and businesses north of Orchard Drive to Park Avenue, and east of Washington Street to Gregory Way, the city's website said.
Affected residents will receive a door flyer notifying them of the order, the city said.
The city is testing the water for any potential contamination from the waterline break. Until test results are returned, residents are encouraged to buy drinking water or boil tap water for 15 minutes to ensure safe water for consumption.
Until tests results determine otherwise, unboiled water is safe for non-consumption purposes but not for drinking.
The contractor has offered to reimburse affected residents for drinking water purchases during the event. They are encouraged to bring receipts for water purchase during the boil order to the Twin Falls Public Works Department, 119 South Park Avenue, by Aug. 3 for reimbursement.
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A Fort Wayne man was sentenced Friday to two years in community corrections after admitting to causing his 6-year-old’s death in 2020.
A Lee, 38, pleaded guilty to reckless homicide in May in exchange for a two-year sentence. Per the agreement, an additional charge of driving with a suspended license was dropped.
Lee was originally scheduled for sentencing last month but his attorney, Gregory Ridenour, requested a continuance so the defendant could be screened for alternative placement. Ridenour said Lee is the main provider for his family, so his sentence would be best served near them, saying Lee could stay with his mother.
At the June hearing, Ridenour brought up the option of home detention, commonly known as residential services or house arrest, in a city-based facility that would allow Lee to continue working and living in the community, as a potential alternative placement.
An Allen County Community Corrections eligibility report filed Tuesday shows Lee was approved for housing as part of the alternative placement program. Community Corrections staff requested Lee also be required to enroll in – and successfully complete – all recommended rehabilitative interventions if approved for alternative placement.
Allen County Deputy Prosecutor Adam Mildred said he would not object to alternative placement but said Lee’s past domestic violence convictions were a concern. Mildred pointed to Lee’s 15 prior charges for driving without a valid license.
Mildred said it appeared that Lee has never had a valid driver’s license.
Allen Superior Court Judge David Zent said he rescheduled the sentencing to Friday so that Ridenour could make the “best argument possible” for Lee. But he told Lee not to get his hopes up for alternative sentencing.
“I’ll be honest, it’s highly unlikely I’ll approve that,” Zent said in June.
But the judge was persuaded on Friday.
During a change of plea hearing in May, Lee admitted to driving recklessly and causing the accident that killed his 6-year-old, Fara Har Na. His daughter was found pinned under a door of the car Lee collided with.
Lee initially denied knowing the child after the crash, let alone being her father, according to a probable cause affidavit written by Allen County Sheriff’s Department Officer Brent Bollinger. Lee’s wife later told police who the child was.
Evidence from the crash suggested Lee’s daughter was not properly buckled into her seat at the time of the crash, court records show.
During an interview with a Department of Child Services caseworker, Lee admitted to knowing the girl would unbuckle herself and not checking to see if she was restrained.
Police arrested Lee nearly two years after the September 2020 accident last August, court records show. He was then charged with reckless homicide and driving with a suspended license.
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LYCOMING COUNTY, Pa. — Ready to wobble their way into your heart are bonded sisters: Darcy and Lacey.
"I call them conjoined twins because they are always together. Even when they're fighting, they're typical twin sisters: they cuddle and then they yell at each other," said Bethany Reed, foster coordinator at Lycoming County SPCA.
Darcy and Lacey are not actually joined at the hip, but Reed says they may as well be.
These pretty kitties have never known life without each other and would not have it any other way.
Both these little ladies came to the shelter originally as part of a trap, neuter, return program until rescue workers noticed they moved a little differently from the other kittens in their litter.
"It's not a sad thing either," said Reed. "It's who they are. They don't know they're any different."
Darcy and Lacey both have cerebellar hypoplasia, known as C-H, which is a neurological disorder that affects their motor skills, but please don't think that slows these sisters down.
Reed says they are independent and can do almost anything a cat without their condition can.
Assuming their handicap holds them back would not make these scrappy sisters very happy at all. They are determined and capable.
Darcy and Lacey love to cuddle. Their foster mom has loved having them live with her and seeing their progress from uncoordinated kittens to playful 1-year-olds, but wants them to find their forever family.
Reed said their perfect home is, "One that, someone just understands that they're a little different, but that doesn't make them any less fun."
These mighty meowers are both 1 year old and rescue workers want potential adopters to know that C-H will not ever go away, but it will not get worse either.
Both cats are completely healthy.
Darcy and Lacey both get along with other cats, and a meet and greet with a calmer dog is possible. Slightly older children in their perfect home would be fine as well.
Reed said these sweet sisters will make you feel loved from the moment you meet them.
"They are so sweet, they love attention," said Reed. "As soon as you go in the door, you'll hear meowing and they start running towards you, wobbling."
If you would like to add these wonderful wobblers to your family, you can find their adoption information here.
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TWIN LAKES — As the gates opened Friday, the crowds surged on Day 2 of Wisconsin’s Country Thunder music festival near Twin Lakes.
People flooded the gates when they opened at 1 p.m.
This was Hailey Renn and Kelsi Steele’s first time at the music festival. When the gates opened at 1 p.m., they made sure to immediately go to the front row of general admission seats and claim their spots for the evening.
“We’re really excited to see the performers today and we wanted front row spots,” Renn said.
Renn and Steele said they’re most excited to see Jon Pardi, who performed at 10 p.m. They said they were going to wait all day to watch his act in the front row.
The two agreed that they enjoy outdoor concerts more than indoor ones, which prompted them to buy tickets to Country Thunder for the first time.
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“We’ve been going to a lot of concerts this year and we really liked the line-up, so we wanted to go,” Renn said.
Friday was also Nicholas and Katie Haasser’s first visit of 2023’s music festival.
“We went two years ago and we really enjoyed it,” Katie said. “Last year we couldn’t get tickets because they sold out so fast, so we just wanted to come again.”
Katie said the best part about Country Thunder is the “entire experience.” She said the two of them like getting food and “listening to the music.”
“I like hanging out and seeing the crowd,” Nicholas said. “I’m really excited to see Parmalee.”
Katie said she’s most excited to see Jon Pardi perform.
“Everything else at the festival seems really similar (compared to two years ago),” Katie said.
She won tickets
Sisters Missy Folger and Kelsey Saunders came to Country Thunder after Folger won four tickets from radio station Q98.5 in Rockford, Ill.
“I put my voice on the radio … and they picked my saying to win,” Folger said.
While it was Folger’s second time at Country Thunder, it was Saunders’ first.
“I’m just really excited for a good night. I think it’s going to be a good time,” Saunders said. “I’m surprised to see how open everything is right now and I can’t wait to see the flip tonight.”
While Folger is excited to see Bailey Zimmerman perform Sunday at 5:30 p.m., Saunders was looking forward to seeing Lainey Wilson on Friday.
“I’m hoping to just have a good time while spending time together,” Folger said.
Jennie Gibson went to her first Country Thunder performance in 1997 and went for about 10 years in a row after that before taking a break.
“Then I decided I’m single, no more boyfriend, and I wanted to come enjoy it (the festival) anyways,” Gibson said.
She said despite not knowing many of the country artists these days, she enjoys attending the music festival to see what’s new in the country music world.
“I hope the festival keeps doing well. I just hope that they keep having it and people enjoy themselves,” Gibson said.
Minor fire
On Thursday there was a “minor” fire behind the main stage. Matt Gronke with the fire department said “there were some cardboard boxes burning underneath a generator.”
Gronke said the fire was extinguished before they got there.
“Other than that it was really uneventful,” Gronke said. “No news is good news in our department.”
As a reminder, Matt Gall with the fire department hopes everyone in attendance at Country Thunder uses their “common sense” and “stays safe” on the grounds.
Tony Ibarra, a medic at Country Thunder, tells guests to “drink more water, have fun and stay safe.” He said their ultimate goal of the weekend is to ensure they’re keeping everyone safe.
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TWIN LAKES — For the past five years the Sexual Assault Treatment Center from Aurora Hospital has had a booth at Country Thunder in an attempt to educate those attending the music festival about sexual and domestic assault and to prevent it altogether.
Dawn Sturt, a sexual assault nurse, said as well as she’s aware as long as their booth has been present at the music festival, there haven’t been any sexual assaults during the event/
“We’re trying to keep it at zero as much as possible, but also educating people on the topic,” Sturt said.
Before they came, Sturt said there seemed to be an average of around two to three sexual assaults at Country Thunder every year.
Sturt said their pledge is “it’s on us.” She said it’s their mission to educate as many people as they can in hopes that they’ll go on to be advocates for sexual assault awareness.
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“Like I said, we haven’t had any sexual assaults here since I’ve been here the last five years. So to me, that’s a huge leap. Our goal is to outreach all of Wisconsin,” Sturt said.
She said their booth is also present at the festival to help anybody who may be in trouble or in a crisis.
“If people have any questions or concerns we can also talk to you in private if you have a private session. We’re here out of the goodness of our hearts volunteering,” Sturt said.
The booth is gathering signatures to raise awareness about sexual assault and for people to “take the pledge” to be an advocate for and mitigate sexual assaults.
As of mid-day Thursday, Sturt said they had already gathered 70 signatures. Last year, they had collected around 500.
“I’ve had repeat signatures from folks that are like, ‘Thank you for all of that information,’” Sturt said. “To me that shows that we’re growing as a team to reach out to the public, especially within Country Thunder.”
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Employee suspended from Alachua County Sheriff's Office reinstated for second time
Butscher is now back on as the captain over patrol operations.
An employee of the Alachua County Sheriff’s office has been reinstated after a week of suspension that came less than two months after winning a lawsuit against the sheriff.
Capt. Rebecca Butscher was reinstated from suspension on July 20, a week after she was suspended with pay on July 13, a spokesperson for ACSO confirmed. Butscher is now back on as the captain over patrol operations.
The sheriff’s office declined to provide the reason for Butscher’s suspension. The office also refused to share any records relating to the internal investigation, saying it has not yet been finalized.
“The investigation is not complete, but there's no belief that she needs to be out of work,” said ACSO spokesman Chris Sims.
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Butscher’s attorney, Bobi Frank, said that she and Butscher went into the office for the evidence review of the file and Butscher’s interrogation on Wednesday morning.
About the first case
It's not the first time Butscher had to battle for her job this year.
In June, Sheriff Clovis Watson Jr. decided to reinstate Butscher and two other employees who faced termination who took the sheriff to court for not being given employee compliance review hearings before being disciplined.
Butscher argued that she was recommended for termination following a disagreement with a former deputy who was recently promoted above her to major.
Butscher was reprimanded for being "insubordinate" based on her “body language and tone,” the court filing states. The determination was at the sole discretion of Maj. Lance Yaeger, who had an initial disagreement with her.
The lawsuit argued that Yaeger and Watson violated the officers' bill of rights multiple times by continuously not allowing Butscher to defend herself from the accusations. She was ultimately suspended and given a year of probation within the agency.
Eight Circuit Judge Donna Keim on May 25 ruled that the termination and disciplinary processes executed by the sheriff violated the state statute for three of his employees.
Watson was ordered to hold compliance review hearings for the affected officers no more than 10 days after the judge’s decision. But instead of dragging the process on, he agreed to meet a list of their demands that included job reinstatement and ordered back pay.
He withdrew from the 2024 election two weeks later, signaling that he did not have the full support of agency employees.
"Throughout my many years in leadership, I have learned that while you may find yourself as the head of an organization or entity, sometimes you must make the tough decision to step aside and prepare the organization for new leadership that will continue to advance our agency toward the future," he wrote to employees.
On July 6, prior to her suspension, ACSO made a Facebook post commemorating 30 years of service by Butscher.
“Sheriff Watson wants to recognize Captain Rebecca “Becky” Butscher for her faithful and courageous service to the great citizens of Alachua County over the last 30 years,” the post read. “Let’s just say that it’s known that Captain Butscher cares deeply for those in her command.”
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Gainesville city commissioners vote to increase property taxes by nearly 17% next year
Increase could generate $15 million for the city
Gainesville city commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to approve a proposal to raise property taxes no more than 17% for the upcoming year.
Commissioners agreed to a millage rate of 6.4297 for the upcoming fiscal year, an increase of 0.9297 mills. For a property whose assessed taxable value is $100,000, the millage rate would generate an additional $92.97 over the year prior, according to city officials.
“Ours is a community that continues to grow and, in light of our budgetary needs for the upcoming year, a millage increase would help preserve the many necessary programs and services our neighbors expect,” said Gainesville City Manager Cynthia W. Curry in a news release.
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The change comes at a time when city leaders are being forced to reconcile debt after being grilled by the Joint Legislative Auditing Committee in February about utility debt and oversight. The city announced a plan in April to reduce $315 million of Gainesville Regional Utilities’ debt over the next 10 years in response to growing calls from lawmakers and residents.
The increased property taxes are a major revenue source that will help make up for the losses and would add an additional $15 million to the budget if implemented.
Still, the increased rate is not yet finalized and it could still be set lower.
The commission will set the millage rate on Sept. 7 at the first public hearing for the 2024 budget. The final rate will be decided at another public hearing on Sept. 21.
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Fishing section of Daytona Beach Pier reopens after $1.56 million in repairs
DAYTONA BEACH — Repairs to the Daytona Beach Pier, which was pummeled by tropical storms Ian and Nicole last fall, have been completed.
More than 30 pilings had to be fixed or replaced, and portions of the substructure and decking were rebuilt, according to a report by Daytona Beach City Manager Deric C. Feacher.
Most of the pier remained open during the repair work, but the wooden structure's easternmost end used for fishing had been shut down for more than nine months. That fishing section reopened Friday, and it will be open now seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
City officials knew repairing the storm-battered Daytona Beach Pier wasn't going to be cheap. At the beginning of this year, the running tab on repairs was $684,000. Then in March, city commissioners were asked to spend another $877,932 to mend the nearly 100-year-old pier jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean.
That brought the total repair bill to $1.56 million.
The additional $877,932 covered the replacement of additional pilings, cap beams and cross bracing that were damaged by Nicole. The money also went toward tightening structural connection hardware under Joe's Crab Shack which loosened during the pair of tropical storms and rebuilding the east end of the pier.
The city hopes to eventually be reimbursed for its pier repair expenses by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Portions of the iconic pier were beat up first by Tropical Storm Ian at the end of September, and then again in early November by Tropical Storm Nicole. As the pair of storms tore through the area, 16 of the pier's pilings were swept away, cross braces and joists snapped, and decking splintered.
The fishing section of the pier was shredded and required extensive repairs.
Critical support structures under the southeast corner of the Joe's Crab Shack building were also damaged, although the restaurant only closed for a few days after Nicole blew through Volusia County.
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The city hired Orlando-based Construct Co., Inc., to tackle the repairs, the same company that handled work on the pier at the eastern tip of Main Street in 2021 and 2022.
Restoration work began in the fall.
The pier has been repaired repeatedly over the past 15 years, including one major overhaul that was completed about 10 years ago. Over the past few decades, city leaders have also occasionally discussed building a new pier, an idea being explored again.
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FDLE investigator recommended charge of aggravated child abuse against Shores officers
State Attorney's Office declined to prosecute, saying DCF determined child who was jailed for potty training was 'safe'
A Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigator found cause to charge two Daytona Beach Shores police officers with aggravated child abuse, a first-degree felony after they jailed their 3½-year-old son for a potty-training lesson, newly released documents show.
The State Attorney's Office declined to prosecute Lt. Michael Schoenbrod and Sgt. Jessica Long, pointing to a Department of Children & Families determination that there was "no impending danger" to the boy and no need for departmental services or intervention.
The new details are contained in records provided to The News-Journal Friday by the State Attorney's Office following a public records request and a judge's ruling on Monday that made the FDLE report and other filings public.
FDLE's investigation
An anonymous call to DCF reported that Schoenbrod, 44 at the time of the incidents, and Long, 36, took their child to the city's holding cell on Oct. 5 and Oct. 6 as part of a potty-training lesson.
When DCF interviewed Schoenbrod and Long on Oct. 27, two Volusia County Sheriff's Office personnel accompanied the caseworker. Body camera footage from one included large portions of the caseworker's interview, and afterward, the sheriff's office requested FDLE investigate.
Special Agent Lisa Gundrum and at least two other agents conducted interviews. Schoenbrod and Long declined to talk to FDLE, but other Daytona Beach Shores officers did.
Sgt. Bill Phillips told investigators on Oct. 6 he saw Schoenbrod in a hallway facing a holding cell, with a child inside. The boy "did not appear to be in any distress, but at some point had been crying," the FDLE report states.
Detectives Daniel Carranzana and Gary Malphurs, as well as Crime Analyst Kelley Register all told FDLE they had heard Long talking about having potty-training issues and trying a new approach, telling the boy something along the lines of "bad boys go to jail," and by not using the toilet, he was being a bad boy.
Carranzana and Malphurs told investigators Long had said when the child went potty somewhere other than the toilet, she and Shoenbrod had made the boy sit in the feces.
Video from inside the public safety building showed Long bringing the child inside on Oct. 5, then putting him into a holding cell, shutting the door, and walking around the corner to avoid being seen by the child. Later, she appeared to ask the child if he had to go potty, and she let him out and they walked to the bathroom.
Videos from Oct. 6 showed Schoenbrod and the child in handcuffs entering the booking area, then the lieutenant placing the boy onto a concrete bench in the holding cell. Schoenbrod then walked out of sight of the child and sanitized his hands before returning and leaving with the boy, the report states.
The FDLE report also included descriptions of images found on Long's cellphone, which was seized on Dec. 19. The images were sent on Oct. 6 by "McDreamy," including one of a handcuffed child upset in the backseat of a vehicle, plus two photos and one video showing the child in the holding cell.
The phone's user messaged "McDreamy": "Oh my goodness. This is crazy we're going to this length."
Based on the evidence gathered in her investigation, Gundrum wrote on Jan. 11 to the State Attorney's Office that she "finds probable cause" to charge Schoenbrod and Long with aggravated child abuse. She included a legal description of the charge: "A person who knowingly or willingly tortures, maliciously punishes or willfully and unlawfully cages a child."
State attorney's rationale to not prosecute
Assistant State Attorney Ashley Terwilliger, in a Feb. 7 memo detailing her analysis to not charge the officers, cited several reasons, including a determination by a child protective investigator that the boy was "safe."
DCF determined there was "no impending danger to the child," and that no additional services or interventions were needed, Terwilliger wrote.
She cited a DCF child protection investigator's review of video showing the child was in the holding cell for less than five minutes on Oct. 5, and on Oct. 6, Schoenbrod led the child into the cell "with large, loose-fitting handcuffs" on his arms.
"The child did not appear upset when the father opened the cell door," Terwilliger wrote.
She did not note the length of time the child was in the cell on Oct. 6. Schoenbrod told the DCF it had been "13 minutes or something like that."
A child-protection investigator interviewed Schoenbrod's mother, who stated the parents are "excellent, loving and caring," Terwillinger's memo states.
She quoted the DCF's determination that the boy was safe: "Final risk level is low."
Terwilliger's conclusion: "Evidence shows no physical or mental injury to the child."
Battle over public records
In two orders signed Thursday, Volusia Circuit Judge Mary Jolley referenced Florida statutes governing DCF services and the state's public-records law, which presumes all government records are open unless otherwise exempted.
Her orders followed a hearing Monday at which an attorney representing the Florida Center for Government Accountability and The News-Journal called for the records to be opened. The full FDLE report was 74 pages.
However, Daytona Beach Shores and FDLE were still withholding records Friday, with officials citing a temporary restraining order that had been granted after Schoenbrod and Long petitioned the court asking that the records remain confidential.
In that petition, attorney Michael Lambert wrote that DCF determined the FDLE conclusion was "unfounded," the state attorney declined to prosecute, and the city of Daytona Beach Shores did not sustain an allegation that the officers committed a crime. He was able to get a judge to sign an order determining that allegations stemming from an anonymous complaint "would subject these formerly accused petitioners, their child and family to undeserved and unwanted public scrutiny."
Lambert could not be immediately reached for comment after 5 p.m. Friday.
Paul Waters, an attorney representing Daytona Beach Shores, said Friday the city's professional standards investigation into Schoenbrod and Long, which has concluded, remains sealed.
"Those records are still confidential under the court's temporary injunction order," Waters wrote in an email Friday.
"We will not violate a standing court order, nor I suspect would you if in our position," he wrote.
Also this week, Gretl Plessinger, FDLE's communications director, wrote that the agency was awaiting "the written order and a final hearing date to be set regarding the injunction" before processing its records.
An evidentiary hearing on the temporary restraining order was scheduled for Aug. 15, the court file shows.
The State Attorney's Office and Volusia County Clerk's Office both unsealed previously closed records Friday after the judge's orders were distributed.
Public records advocates argued that those orders should have resolved the concerns raised by the city and FDLE regarding the restraining order.
Lonnie Groot, a part-time Daytona Beach Shores resident who formerly served as the city attorney, has been fighting for records to be opened. He said in an email Friday he has been watching the city government for about 50 years.
"(I) have seen greatness, egocentric weakness, calculation in every move and breath," Groot wrote, "but I have never seen the quest to hide, hide, hide as is the case in this matter."
Michael Barfield, director of public access initiatives at the Florida Center for Government Accountability, said after reviewing the matter: “This is the most egregious sealing of court records I’ve ever heard of. The effort to cover up the actions of these two officers is astounding. The citizens of Daytona Beach Shores and Volusia County deserve better.”
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Body found in Santa Clara neighborhood identified
Suspicious death investigation launched
Charles Gearing
Eugene Register-Guard
A female's body was found near shrubs in the Santa Clara neighborhood early Friday morning when an employee at an area business notified authorities, the Lane County Sheriff's Office said.
The body located about 5:30 a.m. on Prairie Road near Leghorn Road has been identified but the name is being withheld until next of kin are notified, the sheriff's office said.
The body has several "recent injuries," a news release said, leading authorities to call the case a "suspicious death."
Anyone with information is asked to contact the sheriff's office at 541-682-4150.
Charles Gearing is a breaking news reporter with the Eugene Register-Guard. He may be reached at cgearing@gannett.com or by phone at (708)262-7626.
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Virtual reports, mutual aid among Eugene police policies commission wants to review
Eugene city councilors unanimously approved a work plan for the police commission to review police policies and recommending changes.
The plan outlined the police commission's top 10 goals for the next two years, including allowing police officers to file reports virtually, revising the Eugene Police Department's mutual aid policy and brainstorming ideas to address downtown safety.
Two city councilors and 10 Eugene residents appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the City Council make up the commission. The commissioners voted on the goals after hearing recommendations from the police department and the public.
Virtual policing
Police Chief Chris Skinner said he wants to create a platform for community members to file reports, such as for theft, more easily online. At a June 8 work session where police commissioners discussed these goals, Commissioner Scott Lemons said this was a new technology and he was supportive of Eugene being a leader on it but wanted commissioners to set a time to examine the technology and create policy around it.
Mutual aid
The mutual aid policy, last updated in 1999, outlines the procedures for when the department collaborates with other police departments for emergencies other than civil disputes and natural disasters.
Police Commissioner Bonnie Dominguez said the policy is too abbreviated and should be expanded.
Dominguez said the current policy doesn't address what to do if an officer from another department is under investigation, allowing that officer to operate in Eugene. That should be discontinued, she said, adding the policy should ensure EPD is always the agency "taking the lead" when collaborating with other police departments.
Downtown Eugene safety
Commissioners plan to review ways to promote downtown safety. Police Commissioner Dallas Boggs suggested the committee establish policies on where to take someone who commits a crime because of mental illness and how to improve response times.
Among recent changes downtown, police installed three cameras, posted on light posts and the side of a building. They are intended to deter crime and help officers and detectives who are investigating crimes in the downtown core identify suspects.
Discipline matrix
The police commission plans to establish a matrix to outline the action to take when it is determined an officer violates policy or engages in misconduct. This item was previously suggested by the Ad Hoc Police Policy Committee but was put on hold because the state legislature was discussing a similar statewide policy. Since that didn't make it out of the Legislature, the commission plans to return to the idea.
Recruitment and retention
Police commissioners plan to discuss how to better recruit and retain police officers.
City councilors praised commissioners' early work in 2023 toward addressing officer mental health, which has included applying for a grant that will give law enforcement workers more mental health care as an employee benefit, commissioner ride-alongs where officers give commissioners feedback and the beginning work toward establishing a first-responder rest stop.
"In order to have good service we need to have people that are able to have good mental health," Councilor Randy Groves said.
Commissioners discussed additional ways to boost officer retention at the June work session. Dominguez suggested leadership development for minorities, who according to a 2017 report represent 13.8% of officers but 18% of Eugene. Police Commissioner Jensina Hawkins suggested the commission establish someone in the police department responsible for diversity, equity and inclusion and have that person present to the commission on how to improve.
Ad Hoc Police Policy Committee update
A temporary committee formed in 2020 following George Floyd's murder had a similar charge to update police policies. Police Commissioner Ian Winbrock said this item is intended to provide the City Council and the community an update on the policies proposed by that committee.
Communicating with people with disabilities
Police Commissioner Sean Shivers said change was needed to a policy established in 2009 on how police officers should interact with people with disabilities. Shivers, didn't say what should be changed but said he wanted to revisit the policy with input from people with disabilities.
Employee performance evaluations
Police Commissioner Silky Booker said he wants to discuss a policy for employee performance evaluations because police department leaders have not been filling out employee performance evaluations when they're due. This, Booker said, has lead to "there being no paper trail of particular officers who have discipline issues."
Strike and labor disputes
This policy addresses how police officers should act when dispatched to a labor strike. Commissioners didn't say why they wanted to revisit the policy at the June work session, but it was last updated in 1999.
Emergent technology
Police commissioners said policies for new technologies would be created as they come up. Commissioners mentioned facial recognition, drones and artificial intelligence as technologies they may want to create policies for.
Eugene Police policy changes in the last year
Three of the bigger policies police commission has changed since July 2022 include:
Impact weapons policy
Updated to ban officers from using batons against suspects who aren't actively resisting or on suspect's head, neck, spine, heart, kidney or groin when deadly force isn't authorized.
Deescalation policy
Updated to emphasize officers should use non-violence when possible and only use force "after attempts at de-escalation have been exhausted or are deemed not possible."
Chemical incapacitants policy
Updated to lower the previous requirement that officers aid any bystanders hit by chemical agents to only bystanders who ask for help. Eugene Police use two chemical agents Oleoresin Capsicum (pepper spray) and Ortho-Chlorobenzalmalononitrile (CS gas).
Alan Torres covers local government for the Register-Guard. He can be reached by email at atorres@gannett.com or on twitter at @alanfryetorres
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What’s that new addition at Kalapuya High School in Eugene?
Project: A new two-classroom addition for Kalapuya High School's STEM and science labs.
Location: 1200 N Terry St., Eugene.
Bethel School District is in the final stages of a 3,550 square foot addition to its Kalapuya High School campus.
The two-classroom addition is expected to open in time for the upcoming school year and offers additional space for the school’s growing vocational and career technical education programs.
Kalapuya’s two new classrooms will house the school’s STEM program and a science lab. Storage spaces in the new addition will allow for educational equipment storage, according to the district.
Kalapuya High School was originally constructed in 2002.
The project is a part of a $99.3 million bond passed by voters in 2020 to rebuild Cascade Middle School, provide vocational education facilities at Kalapuya and Willamette high schools and make major repairs to other district buildings.
Textbooks, computers and school safety improvements across the district are also funded under the bond.
In addition to the classrooms, the district recently broke ground on a new CTE building on the Kalapuya campus.
Wildish Building Co., of Eugene, is the general contractor for the project while Portland-based Soderstrom Architects designed the new building.
Building size: 3,550 square feet
Architect: Soderstrom Architects
General contractor: Wildish Building Co.
Source: Bethel School District construction manager Pat Bradshaw, Bethel School District website, City of Eugene permit records.
Is there something under construction you'd like to tell us about or want to find out more about? Contact multimedia journalist Ben Lonergan atblonergan@registerguard.com or follow him on Twitter or Instagram @lonerganphoto.
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Apply now for Oak Ridge Police Department's Citizen's Police Academy
The Oak Ridge Police Department is accepting applications for its next Citizen’s Police Academy, which is set to begin next month.
Applications for the program are due by Friday, Aug. 4, at 5 p.m. Classes will meet on Tuesdays from Aug. 22 to Oct. 10 from 6 to 9 p.m.
During the eight-week course, according to a city news release, students will learn the policies and procedures of the Oak Ridge Police Department and experience firsthand how the department operates.
"The Citizen’s Police Academy provides insight into law enforcement generally, and the Oak Ridge Police Department specifically, with the goal of creating and developing a growing nucleus of responsible, well-informed citizens who have the potential to influence public opinion concerning police practices and service delivery," the release stated.
Students will get to know officers and understand the challenges the job brings, through classroom lectures, hands-on experience, and real-life scenarios and role play. Students will also participate in a ride-along with officers during a patrol shift. They will also be exposed to the same training that all Oak Ridge officers receive.
The academy is open to adults ages 18 and older. Selection will be on a first-come, first-served basis. However, if the class becomes full, priority will be given to Oak Ridge residents. Classes have filled up quickly in previous years. Due to the law enforcement-sensitive training and handling of weapons, a criminal history check will be done by the department. Applications can be completed online at http://www.oakridgetn.gov/orpd-citizens-police-academy, printed and filled out, or picked up at the records division of the police department at 200 S Tulane Avenue in Oak Ridge.
Applications can be submitted by mail or dropped off in person. The mailing address for the Oak Ridge Police Department is P.O. Box 1, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Please add “Attention Shannah Newman” to any mailings.
Once accepted, a schedule and list of locations for the class will be distributed. A $50 administrative fee will be due on the first night of class. For questions or more information, contact Lt. Shannah Newman at snewman@oakridgetn.gov or by phone at (865) 425-3501.
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Anderson Country district attorney general appointed to state bar association board
Anderson County District Attorney General David "Dave" Clark has been appointed to the 25 member board of governors for the Tennessee Bar Association.
This board governs the policy, finances and management of the Tennessee Bar Association, consisting of more than 10,000 attorneys across the state, according to a news release from Clark's office. He serves on the board as the Tennessee’s prosecutors' representative. This is Clark’s second time serving on the board.
Regarding the appointment Clark said, “It is always an honor representing the interests of our state’s prosecutors who are fighting for justice and the people of Tennessee. It is especially meaningful in trying to help shape the policy and direction of our critically important, but overwhelmed, state legal system through the leadership of the Tennessee Bar Association. I am grateful for this opportunity.”
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SARASOTA, Fla. — A new program to help prevent homelessness has been implemented in Sarasota County.
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has entered a partnership with the nonprofit United Way to set up what they have called an ‘eviction intervention’ program.
The program is called the Supportive Housing Initiative and Eviction Lifeline and Diversion or S.H.I.E.L.D. It would support landlords and tenants facing an eviction crisis.
Last year, a Sarasota County deputy who had gone to serve an eviction notice at a highrise condominium, shot and killed a man who had threatened them with a knife.
According to leaders at the sheriff’s office, that shooting took an emotional toll on deputies and staff. Some had said they were limited and felt helpless in what they could do for the tenants despite feeling compassion for their predicament.
That April 2022 incident spotlighted the county’s eviction notification process.
In addition, the rate of post-pandemic eviction began to rise with many people expressing the stress of rising inflation and the cost of housing in the area. Last year deputies issued around 800 eviction notices – and this year, they’re at 400.
All of this led the sheriff’s office to create the new eviction intervention program which would allow deputies to do more than just enforce the law when issuing the eviction notice.
“Most of the evictions that we were going to, you know, there is a tenant still present, and we are hearing a lot of cases where they say, ‘I’ve got nowhere to go and I don’t know what to do,'” Capt. John Walsh with the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said.
“The deputies themselves are having to listen to the stories. We want to do something, we understand these people are going to be homeless and there’s going to be a tool now,” Walsh added.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. program is aimed at mitigating the effects of residential evictions, which can result in a tenant’s homelessness. Many of the impacted tenants include vulnerable community members such as families with children, veterans and the elderly.
Many of whom, according to officials, have no alternative housing options and are dealing with various life-changing issues including those related to health concerns, job loss, financial drain or Hurricane Ian recovery.
“We are diverting that eviction and that particular family, senior, or individuals from becoming homeless,” Barbara Cruz with United Way Sarasota said.
Deputies also have a handy doorknob flier that lists resources for the tenant to find help.
“We can help with the first and last month’s rent and their security deposit. That’s one of the things that we can do to get them into a new place,” Cruz said.
It’s a race to keep folks out of the court system, which can make it harder to rent in the future. The program has helped around 25 individuals and families since it kicked off last month.
“We leave our business card with our cell phone, we text with people, and we now frequently have ongoing interactions, and with people that have other questions, we have other resources that we try to push out,” Walsh said.
To find out how you can get help with your emergency housing needs and prevent eviction, visit Sarasota County Sheriff's Office or United Way.
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PHOENIX — Authorities are investigating another possible heat-related death in the Valley.
An elderly man was found unresponsive inside his mobile home at the Desertscape community in north Phoenix early Tuesday morning.
A manager at the mobile home park told 12News that the man's air conditioning unit was undergoing repair and he had been living off a portable A/C unit.
“Seniors don't sweat as well as younger people do. So it's really important that they stay hydrated that they recognize the symptoms of dehydration, and make sure that they drink a lot of (water), seniors don't drink enough water as it is, for various reasons. And a lot of times, they're on medication that can have adverse effects regarding the heat," said Director of AARP Dana Marie Kennedy.
The Medical Examiner's Office will determine the man's official cause of death.
Heat-related deaths in the Valley
According to the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, 18 people have died from apparent heat-related issues as of July 15. An additional 69 cases are under investigation.
Department of Health officials said four of the 18 people were indoors when they died. Data shows 75% of those people had non-functioning air conditioners. The other 25% had units that were not in use.
The first heat-related death was reported on April 11. Thirty-three percent of the heat-related deaths were people 75 or older.
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BUCKEYE, Ariz — It was Marg Burg's 90th birthday on Thursday and she had a single mission:
“I’m gonna jump out of a plane,” she said.
Gearing up and taking instruction from her jumping instructor at Skydive Buckeye, Marge told 12News she got her inspiration from a former president.
“Well, I saw George Bush Jr. do it when he was 90. And I thought, 'well, if he can do it, I can.' I never thought I'd ever reach 90, you know?" Marg said. "But here I am. I'm gonna do it!"
With her family down below, Marg made the 14,000-foot descent to the drop point and safely landed near the Skydive Buckeye facility.
"I'm excited for her. Yeah. Very excited," said Marg's daughter Brenda Omahan. "She makes every day count. And we all love Mom very much. And I wish all my siblings could be here, but I'm representing mom."
Marg told 12News how it was jumping out of a plane at 90.
“It was wonderful, just wonderful," she said, "like I was a bird. It was exciting to see everything from up there, just wonderful.”
All of us at 12News wish Marg a very happy birthday!
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STOCKTON, Calif. — The Stockton Unified School District reinstated longtime educator Christina Fugazi Thursday, nearly four months after the former Stockton Vice Mayor was placed on paid administrative leave.
Fugazi, who most recently served as assistant principal for Edison High School, says the district never told her why she was put on leave March 24.
"Apparently, there is an investigation that is ongoing, but I have been cleared of any wrongdoing," said Fugazi. "It's amazing... going to Edison today and seeing the people that I work with, the staff members that I have been blessed enough to work with... lots of hugs."
The district declined to provide the reason for putting Fugazi on leave, saying they could not comment on personnel matters to preserve the integrity of all parties.
Two months before placing Fugazi on leave, the district placed Edison High School Principal Chris Anderson on administrative leave. The district did not say whether the two leaves were connected.
Anderson has since resigned from the district and Justin Gan has been filling in as principal at Edison.
According to the job listing site EdJoin, the district is looking for a new high school principal, though the listing does not specify for which campus.
For the 2023-2024 school year, Stockton Unified will move Fugazi from Edison High School to serve as assistant principal at Stagg High School.
"I'm super excited to be going to Stagg, I want to do all I can for kids," said Fugazi. "I truly put kids first my entire life, nothing's going to change that. I'm going to bring that passion that I have and that work ethic with me to Stagg."
In addition to getting her office set up at Stagg, Fugazi is getting her campaign set up to run for Stockton Mayor in 2024.
"(This week) I let people know that I am going to be running for mayor," said Fugazi. "I love the city and I don't want to leave, I just want to make it better."
Fugazi joins a small field of mayoral candidates including community center director Ernesto Gonzalez who lost a bid for city council in 2018 and city councilman Daniel Wright.
Watch more from ABC10: Stockton Kings hold 209 Pantry Day, addressing food insecurity in the community
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — It's the start of another weekend which means it's the perfect time to enjoy everything from award-winning concert performers to corndogs and carnival rides at the 2023 California State Fair.
The state fair is still rolling through its 17-day run. This year, the fair is bringing in some big names for its annual concert series. Still to come are performances by Ashanti, Kool & the Gang and more.
If you're already set on going to the fair and just need a beeline to the ticket information page, you can click HERE.
For everyone else, here's a schedule for what's happening Saturday. Remember, the hours are subject to change.
Hours of operation: 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Carnival hours: 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.
Kids Park Hours: 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.
California Professional Chef Challenge Finals
Fairgoers can watch professional chefs use a mystery ingredient to prepare a 3-course meal in front of a panel of judges at the Save Mart California's Kitchen building B. Click here to sign up.
July 22 Schedule:
- 6 - 8 p.m.
Fair food
Food vendors are open daily, click here for the full list.
The California State Fair and Food Festival has a pass that gives out four tickets for $34 that can be redeemed at vendors who are part of the food festival. Look for the purple flags to find participating vendors.
- 10 a.m.: Free Seasoning & Spice Rub sampling by Papwa Flavor of Roseville @ Taster's Row
- 10 a.m.: Free Raw California Honey sampling from Twin Bee Apiaries of Alameda @ Taster's Row
- 10 a.m.: Free Homemade Jams, Jellies, Salts, Sauces and Rubs sampling from Kanning Kathy @ Taster's Row
10 a.m.: Free Olive Oil sampling from Sutter Buttes Olive Oil Co. @ Taster's Row - 12:30 p.m.: Wings-N-Things w/ Pawpa Flavor & Special Guest Big Kev of Cal Tex BBQ @ Cooking Demonstration
- 1 p.m., 2 p.m. & 3 p.m.: Berries from Ag in the Classroom @ Taste of CA
- 2 p.m.: Chevys Fresh Mex, Chef Carlos, Summer Fair Menu @ Cooking Demonstration
- 3:30 p.m.: Lumpia and Garlic Goodness @ CA Fresh Cooking Demonstration
- 6 p.m.: Corndog Eating Contest Finals @ Sky River Casino Promenade Stage.
Fun for the Family
- 10 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Gospel Celebration @ PG&E Center Stage
- 11 a.m.: California Produce Trivia @ the Save Mart California's Kitchen Cooking Theater in building B
- 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m. & 5 p.m.: Camp Smokey Puppet Show!
- 12 p.m., 12:30 p.m., 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 5 p.m., 6:30 p.m. & 7 p.m.: Tree Circus Stage Show
- 2 p.m., 4 p.m. & 6 p.m.: Jack Spareribs Ventriloquist @ Building D
- 2:30 p.m., 4:30 pm. & 6:30 p.m.: JUMP! The Ultimate Dog Show @ Grandstands
- 7 p.m.: Big O Tires Demolition Derby @ Rodeo Arena (General Admission $10)
Concerts
- 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.: Jimmy Ashley @ the Save Mart Wine Garden
- 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.: Sacramento Taiko Dan @ Sky River Casino Promenade Stage
- 1:30 p.m.: Gas Money @ Sky River Casino Promenade Stage
- 3 - 5 p.m.: Dusty Foster @ Jack Daniel's Honky Tonk Saloon
- 3 - 6 p.m.: Jeff Oliver @ the Coors Light Blues & Brews Stage
- 3 - 7 p.m.: Jimmy Becker and Jay Rin @ the Save Mart Wine Garden
- 4 - 5 p.m.: Smokey Red @ Sky River Casino Promenade Stage
- 4 - 7 p.m.: Dave Badilla the One Man Band @ Langunitas Craft Beer Stage
- 5 - 7 p.m.: The Niteliters @ Cantina 1854
- 6 - 9 p.m.: The Dave Russell Band @ Jack Daniel's Honky Tonk Saloon
- 7 - 9 p.m.: David Perez Band @ the Coors Light Blues & Brews Stage
- 8 - 10:00 p.m.: The Isley Brothers @ Toyota Concert Series on the Golden One stage
- 8 - 10:30 p.m.: The Konsept Party Band @ Sky River Casino Promenade Stage
Maps
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MARYSVILLE, Calif. — Fire crews are battling a large structure fire in Marysville, according to Marysville Fire Department.
The fire started at the Glacier Ice Company building on 9th and B streets Friday afternoon. The cause of the fire is currently unknown.
Marysville firefighters are now accompanied by Loma Rica Cal Fire Station 61 firefighters to put the fire out.
The fire knocked power out to over a thousand people in the area as temperatures reached triple digits. A cooling center was opened at the New Beginnings Wesleyan Church at 616 C St for those who need relief from the heat.
No injuries have been reported at this time.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Investigators said two people forced Central Florida women into human trafficking.
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Law enforcement is looking for more potential victims.
The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation said they know of three female victims but believe there could be more out there.
MBI wants people to know that if they believe they were also victims of the two individuals, they should contact MBI and the Victim Service Center of Central Florida to assist in healing and recovery.
MBI agents arrested Joselito Martinez and Tanya Wurster Wednesday.
Read: Florida’s fight against human trafficking: What is being done?
Between 2019 and 2021, the two suspects provided women a place to live after bonding them out of the jail.
In return, the victims were forced to engage in commercial sex acts with customers.
Investigators said Martinez and Wurster took photos of the victims and advertised them on the internet and commercial sex sites.
In total, the two raked in $300,000 in a two-year period.
Read: Victims raise questions after changes to Florida human trafficking bill
Besides pimping the women out, the two would use NARCOTICS, threats of violence and humiliating acts such as shaving the victim’s head to control them.
According to MBI, two women were branded as property with tattoos.
Kaylen Palmer with the Victim Service Center of Central Florida said it could take years for victims of human trafficking to come forward.
Read: A timeline of fentanyl cases this month inside Orange County Jail
But it’s an important first step, even if you confide in a close friend or relative.
“It’s always scary to come forward,” Palmer said. “It’s always scary to tell your story. What we tell people is, you know, it’s important to understand that there are other people out there, you’re not alone.”
At Victim Service Center, the organization offers free services and does not discriminate against race, gender or citizen status because everything is kept confidential.
People can call the 24/7 Helpline at 407-500-HEAL (4325). Call 1-800 FLA-SAFE if you have a tip on this case.
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MONTGOMERY, WV (WOWK) – Roommates in Montgomery say their ceiling collapsed this week, and they are still waiting for it to be repaired.
Linda Clow and Eric Ferguson say they woke up Wednesday close to 3:30 a.m. to a loud bang sound. When they ran into their living room, they saw a corner of their ceiling collapsed on the floor.
They also said there were about 15 pigeons flying around the apartment, who were presumably entrapped in the ceiling. Piles of pigeon feces also fell from the ceiling, making a mess in the apartment.
A maintenance crew came to patch the ceiling on Wednesday, but there are still holes in the ceiling where the collapse happened, as well as black mold leaks and pigeon droppings falling to the floor.
The apartment is owned by a man named Barry Blackburn. 13 News Reporter Sam DeCoste spoke with Blackburn on the phone asking when the ceiling will be repaired. Blackburn said it will take about two weeks. He cited ongoing projects his maintenance team is working on as reason for the delay.
While Clow and Ferguson wait, they say they have to leave their front door open all hours of the day due to the black mold filtering the air in the apartment. They say they can also still smell the pigeon feces, and see flies scattered everywhere.
“It’s very bad in here, very bad,” Clow said. “It’s affecting our living, it’s stressing us out. It’s affecting our health. I just wish [Blackburn] would start fixing things…The flies, the smell, the piles of trash isn’t good. We shouldn’t have to live like this. He should’ve found us a temporary place until he got something fixed here.”
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Coconino County Treasurer Sarah Benatar went to Washington, D.C., Tuesday to appear before a House committee hearing on climate risk and financial policy.
Benatar — the youngest person to serve as a county treasurer in Arizona history — gave written and oral testimony to the House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions during the trip.
During the hearing, titled “Climate-Risk: Are Financial Regulators Politically Independent?” legislators explored reasons why regulators are considering climate change or climate risks in their decision-making processes. That included looking into connections with the Biden administration’s climate agenda and the impact of recommendations from international non-governmental organizations.
Benatar shared a table with the director of Supervision and Regulation for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the senior deputy comptroller for large bank supervision under the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the deputy director of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), and the director of Risk Management and Supervision at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
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“It’s always nerve-wracking, but it was, from my viewpoint, an opportunity to share the local story,” she said. “These concerns are not unique to Coconino County; they’re being seen by every county official across the country.”
As the Coconino County’s treasurer, it is Benatar’s duty to protect, invest and manage public money.
She said in doing that she considers three things: the safety of taxpayer dollars, liquidity and the yield of investments made on behalf of local government.
In addition to her elected role, Benatar is the president of the Arizona Association of Counties (AACo), a member of the National Association of Counties (NACo) and the president of the National Association of Hispanic County Officials.
Benatar said thanks to those those capacities, she’s come to understand the ways other local leaders are thinking through climate change and financial regulation.
“We’re all worried about risk. We’re all staying up, working long hours to mitigate risk. We are all wanting to make sure taxpayer money is safe. We all want to make sure our communities are safe. We all have a duty of loyalty and a duty of care to our communities,” Benatar said. “Being able to share that story that often doesn’t make it to D.C. Being able to share what’s really happening from the perspective of those who are working the front lines, who are seeing it and living it day-to-day, was for me quite the honor.”
During her testimony, Benatar spoke directly to the connection between climate and finance, based on her observations in Coconino County.
“In the last year, we had forest fires, we had flooding events, we had a tornado, we had record snowfall, and now we have record heat,” Benatar said.
She said those events profoundly influence the way she does her job.
It’s her duty to make sure the county can pay for firefighting, flood mitigation and snow removal. When she invests taxpayer dollars in corporate bonds or commercial paper, she also looks at how much changing weather patterns or shifting public outlooks on energy affect the soundness of her investment.
During the hearing, House committee members tried to understand why climate change is a part of financial risk management frameworks at all — some implying climate change itself might not be valid.
Benatar’s position on that issue is clear.
“It’s not hypothetical,” she said. “These are the realities we’re seeing every day. I talk to my fire districts every day. I really do, because we manage their money and we understand. We work with them on their cash flow analysis. We know we’re going to have fires coming up. How can I help you make sure you have the dollars available to go address that fire?”
She also said considering climate concerns for local fiduciaries is a matter of best practice — that predates some of the political pressures the hearing was interrogating.
In planning for the county’s financial future, Benatar testified that she would need to consider environmental factors alongside other forms of financial risk.
Whether climate change should be a consideration in fiscal decision-making was up for debate during the hearing.
“My testimony talked about having all the tools in our toolbox. As a government official, as someone who is responsible for all the money, I should be able to have all the tools in my toolbox to be able to analyze risk to public dollars,” Benatar said.
She said climate change is by no means the only factor built into risk-management frameworks. Benatar said before investing public dollars, she considers aspects such as cyber security and the impact of emergent technology, like AI, on the market.
“Risk is always going to be adapting. We need to be able to stay on top of that to follow the risks, follow the trends, see what’s happening. We need to adapt our analysis to true risk. There’s no better everyday example of it than in our county,” Benatar said.
She’s concerned that legislatures want to define which risks financial regulators and local governments can assess — and to leave certain considerations off-limits intentionally.
“We’re hearing climate change is not a true risk. That has been my concern at the state level. It’s something we’ve seen in states across the country. You can have your beliefs, but to force us to not be able to look at any risk, forcing our hands as to what the definition of a risk is? Risks are going to change,” Benatar said.
By singling out topics that regulators or public money managers can and can’t consider, she said, legislators are taking a market-driven process and making it political.
“Across the country, legislation is being introduced that will greatly reduce the universe of banks with whom our treasury can do business, what we can invest in, and what policies we can adopt to evaluate risk associated with public fund management,” Benatar said in her testimony Tuesday. “Many of these proposals claim to want to depoliticize financial regulations, but, instead, embed new political tests that protect special interests from market competition.”
Earlier this year, Benatar signed her name to a letter opposing “anti-ESG” laws in Arizona. ESG is shorthand for environmental, social and corporate governing policies — and it’s become a political buzzword.
The letter, signed by 14 of Arizona’s 15 county treasurers, opposed SB 1138 and SB 1139 — bills aimed at restricting government partnership with companies that took up causes such as climate action or social equity.
Benatar’s office contracts with federally regulated banking institutions to manage processes such as payroll for local government employees.
At the time, she was worried anti-ESG laws would limit which banks she could work with, and might leave the treasurer’s office with no banking partner at all.
Being told not to consider a risk factor because it falls under “ESG policy,” Benatar argues, effectively blindfolds the people tasked with fiduciary responsibility.
“It’s not political. It shouldn’t be political. We are talking about a best practice that has been in place for quite some time,” Benatar said. “The term ESG is new. You’re taking factors in our approaches to ensuring safety and making them political. It’s not anything new. It’s not a new way to look at things. It’s just ESG is a new trending acronym.”
Local officials, she said, never want to bankrupt their governments. If she has to invest blindly or select banking contracts based only on an institution’s decision not to have ESG policy, she’s not confident she could safely manage public money.
Speaking to the Arizona Daily Sun from Austin, Texas, where Benatar is attending a NACo conference, Benatar said she hopes her testimony made an impression in Washington.
“I hope they walk away from that hearing having heard concerns on the local level about how harmful this type of legislation will be for our ability to be fiduciaries of public dollars and to be good fiduciaries of public dollars. It’s not a partisan issue,” Benatar said.
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Slayton Ranch Road has been repaired and reopened to traffic after a crossing over the Rio de Flag washed out under a school bus in March.
The repair cost the county $552,000 and took less than four months to complete.
According to Coconino County Public Works the Rio De Flag Crossing Improvement Project did more than just restore the roadway. It took into account the possibility that the Rio will fill again and that water might challenge drainage infrastructure in the area.
“I’m really proud of the team effort that made this project a success,” said Christopher Tressler, the Public Works director and county engineer. “Although the washout was certainly unfortunate, it did provide us with a great opportunity to work together to analyze what happened and then expedite construction of a better crossing for residents.”
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The new crossing includes a 4’x12’ cast-in-place concrete arch structure under Slayton Ranch Road along with headwalls, and water inlet and outlet protection. The arch structure was chosen based on hydrological analysis, as the best candidate to provide optimal drainage and accommodate heavy rainfall and snowmelt.
According to Coconino County officials, the project is “substantially completed,” but permanent guardrails still need to be installed. In the meantime, temporary guardrails will remain in place.
“I’d like to thank everyone in the neighborhood for their patience during this project,” said District 4 Supervisor Judy Begay, whose district includes the Slayton Ranch Road area. “Construction is rarely convenient, but I think we can agree that this beautiful new crossing was worth the wait. I’d also like to thank the construction crews for all of their hard work, which was necessary to complete this project as soon as possible.”
For more information about this project, Public Works can be contacted at 928-679-8300.
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A second-inning rally was not enough for the West Flagstaff Little League All-Stars at Continental Park on Thursday night, as the team ended its season with a 10-4 loss to Ahwatukee in the Majors state tournament.
WFLL manager Shane Burcar acknowledged after the game that much of what cost his team was preventable and out of character.
“We weren’t perfect tonight. Some of the attitudes could have been better,” Burcar said. “Unfortunately at 11, 12 years old, they weren’t. Maybe the intensity got to them. But it was all with good intentions.”
WFLL conceded five runs in the opening two innings after a series of defensive errors and entered the bottom of the second without a run of its own.
The deficit was on the verge of being much larger.
After throwing three strikeouts in nearly two innings -- though the team gave up runs due to defensive mistakes -- WFLL starting pitcher Brisson Burcar came off the mound near the end of the top of the second inning. Drake Shafor pitched in relief. At the time, Ahwatukee had the bases loaded with two outs. Shafor struck out Ahwatukee right fielder Cooper Bowen on a 3-2 count after an intense at-bat to end the inning.
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After a hitless first inning, WFLL had four runs in five hits in the second, including RBI doubles from both Deegan Custer and left fielder Murph Keck. Keck finished 2 for 2 on the night, adding a single in the fourth.
Shane Burcar was pleased with his team’s fight after a slow start.
“I think it says a lot. We got down 5-0 and before you know it, within 15 minutes, it’s 5-4,” he said. “We fought to the end and believed to the end. I think they have a lot to be proud of.”
WFLL couldn't sustain the momentum on offense as Ahwatukee continued to drive in runs. Much of that was due to the performance of Ahwatukee pitcher Ethan Burik, who pitched a nearly complete 88-pitch, 11-strikeout game and was only replaced for the final three pitches due to pitch-count limit.
Outside of its furious second-inning rally, WFLL recorded only two hits for the night. A five-run fourth inning for Ahwatukee capped off a 16-hit performance that included seven stolen bases.
After securing its spot in the state tournament by winning the district championship, WFLL came into the game having won two straight after a loss in the first round. Its two wins in the state tournament placed WFLL among Arizona’s top eight teams and ranks among the best performances for a Flagstaff team in the tournament’s recent history.
Burcar said the experience, although cut shorter than WFLL would have desired, was rewarding for everybody involved.
“It means everything to me,” he said. “They’ve made me a better person and a better coach. I’m just thankful to have this opportunity to be with these 12 players for the last several months.”
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A two-story residential building in Newark partially collapsed Friday evening after a reported explosion.
Local police and fire department crews responded to the building on South pine Lane around 6 p.m. It wasn't immediately clear if anyone was injured or home at the time of the incident.
The force of the blast blew through much of the roof and several of the exterior walls on the second floor. The extent of destruction is still under investigation.
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EAST CHICAGO — Two men at large were arrested Tuesday on unrelated charges of battery and murder, respectively, a U.S. Marshals inspector said.
Dominique Jones, 28, was taken into custody at around 10 a.m. at a residence on the 3600 block of Michigan Court in East Chicago. Investigators knocked and announced the arrest warrant and quickly discovered Jones was trying to escape through a window upstairs. He surrendered and was taken to the Lake County Jail.
Jones was charged with aggravated battery and battery resulting in bodily injury for the May 4 beating of a 60-year-old man outside a Taco Bell in Munster, according to court records.
Lloyd Gatlin, 28, was arrested around 7:45 a.m. on the 4900 block of Homerlee Avenue, officials said. He was charged with murder, aggravated battery and battery resulting in serious bodily injury for the killing of Martin Cabrera on Aug. 18, 2021. Charging documents said Gatlin punched Martin Cabrera in the face, causing him to fall and fatally hit his head.
Gatlin was booked into the Lake County Jail.
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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The Crown Point Community Foundation recently announced more than $87,000 in grant awards for its June grant cycle.
The 15 grants benefit organizations and residents in Crown Point, Cedar Lake, Lowell, Winfield and unincorporated south Lake County. In addition, the CPCF awarded a $4,000 grant to the City of Crown Point in support of the Fourth of July Parade and performance by the Jesse White Tumblers.
Community grants come from unrestricted endowment funds created by donors to support south Lake County causes. Grant recipients in the current round included:
Chasing Dreams: $4,455.00 to support a summer camp providing educational life experiences to individuals with a disability.
Crown Point Bulldogs Touchdown Club: $2,000 for catapult monitoring equipment and software to monitor athletes’ activity to prevent various health problems.
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Crown Point Police Department: $6,000 for police officer trading cards for community awareness and involvement.
First United Methodist Church of Lowell: $1,400 for a Kids Karnival free event for people in the community.
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana: $1,000 to provide crockpots to food-insecure residents of south Lake County through the mobile market program.
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago & Northwest Indiana: $5,000 to provide educational and leadership development services to girls, and support and training for adult leaders in south Lake County.
Indiana Plan: $8,600 to create opportunities for the under-represented, minorities and women in the construction trades by providing basic construction awareness training to prepare them for the apprenticeship application process.
Jacob’s Ladder Pediatric Rehab Center: $7,280 to provide hearing screenings to children who have qualified for First Steps early intervention services due to developmental milestone delays.
MAAC Foundation: $5,000 for MAAC’s Mental Resiliency for Responders, which supports mental health and mental health awareness for first responders.
Meals on Wheels of Northwest Indiana: $15,000 to help deliver nutritious meals with a wellness check to primarily low-income seniors and other vulnerable individuals in south Lake County.
Old Sheriff’s House Foundation: $3,640 to complete renovation and restoration of the second floor bathroom.
Open Hearts Therapeutic Riding Center: $5,500 for facility improvements to better facilitate the growing needs of students and community outreach programs.
Pack Away Hunger: $7,500to purchase meal ingredients to pack 100,000 meals for food insecure residents of Lake County and engage at least 250 community volunteers.
The Humane Society of Hobart: $10,000, for sheltering homeless pets, providing resources and services to pet families and structural support to municipal agencies.
White’s Residential & Family Services: $5,000, to provide support to foster families and children, including 24/7 staff availability, skill-building activities, and personalized treatment planning.
The Crown Point Community Foundation awards grants from its unrestricted endowment funds three times a year. To apply for a grant, visit cpcfgrants.communityforce.com.
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PITTSBURGH — A woman is in custody in connection to a stabbing that left two other women injured.
Allegheny County dispatchers say police, firefighters and medics were called to the 6400 block of Centre Avenue in East Liberty at around 3:15 p.m. on Friday.
Officers said they found a woman who had been stabbed when they arrived. The woman showed police where the woman who stabbed her was last seen running and gave them a description of what she looked like.
Medics learned about a woman who had been stabbed and was in a nearby house. Investigators say the second victim was taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
Police were able to chase down the suspect and arrested her after a short foot pursuit.
She was also taken to a hospital to be treated for medical complaints and will later be taken to the Allegheny County Jail.
Anyone with more information is asked to contact Pittsburgh Police.
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PITTSBURGH — Crews are set to start making updates to the Penn Avenue Corridor from Point State Park to 11th Street in downtown Pittsburgh.
There are multiple updates in the $150k mobility enhancement project. A city spokesperson said crews will repave part of the road, upgrade pavement markings and put concrete curbs in the bike lane buffer. There will also be updates to the parking and loading lane meant to improve loading.
The spokesperson said the enhancements should make one of the city’s oldest bike lanes safer and provide better access to loading zones for drivers.
The paving and pavement markings work starts on Monday. Installing other parts of the project will happen throughout the summer. Most of it will be done overnight to limit traffic disruptions, as detours are not expected throughout construction.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — After a flag was donated to the USS Lexington back in 1994, its roots remained unknown until recently.
The flag, known as Yosegaki Hinomaru or a good luck flag, was discovered to belong to Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, a Japanese soldier who fought in World War II. It is being reunited with its family after being on display aboard the USS Lexington since its donation.
Mutsuda was killed in combat during WWII and the flag represents what legacy is left of him. Through a repatriation ceremony, the flag will go through representatives of the OBON Society to be reunited with Mutsuda's family.
The initial ceremony was held on July 20 at the USS Lexington Museum and a ceremonial reuniting with the surviving family of Mutsuda will take place once the flag reaches Japan.
The writings and signatures on the flag are messages of good luck from family and friends that were written before the soldiers left for the war.
According to the USS Lexington's website, the return of the flag is seen as the return of their family member’s remains.
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TEXAS, USA — Before a packed courtroom in Austin this week, a group of women relived their pregnancy losses.
The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit in March on behalf of 15 Texas women who said the law put their lives in danger.
During the two-day hearing, attorneys called two out-of-state physicians as witnesses, who both said they found the language about exceptions in Texas’ abortion law to be confusing.
“There’s a grey zone. There’s a lack of clarity,” said Dr. Ali Shahbaz Raja, a physician from Boston. “[Doctors] are going to err on the side of caution of not treatment.”
One doctor argued against other physicians’ claims that the law is unclear, saying doctors who do not provide abortions when a patient has severe pregnancy complications are misunderstanding the law.
Dr. Ingrid Skop, a Texas OB-GYN, argued that “the law is clear." She suggested physicians who are fearful of making a wrong decision “haven’t read the law carefully.”
“They should have known they could offer intervention in that situation,” Dr. Skop said. “They did not need to wait until women were on the verge of dying and going to the ICU before they intervened.”
During testimony, the women shared stories of how they were unable to get a medical abortion during their pregnancies, despite the pregnancy putting their lives at risk. Some women were, at times, too emotional to speak. One of them became physically ill while on the witness stand as she recounted her experience of having to carry her baby to term, despite doctors telling her halfway through her pregnancy that her daughter had no chance of survival.
Texas is one of 13 states where abortion bans were automatically instated when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer. Texas’ trigger law prohibits all abortions except under limited circumstances, such as a “life-threatening condition to the mother caused by the pregnancy.”
Physicians who perform an abortion outside of these circumstances could be subject to a sentence of up to life in prison and at least a $100,000 fine.
Authors of the legislation said the state’s trigger law works in concert with Texas’ 2021 law, known as Senate Bill 8 — which allows private citizens to sue providers or anyone who aids and abets abortions that occur after six weeks.
The lawsuit does not seek to overturn the laws. Instead, plaintiffs are asking the court to clarify when physicians can make exceptions to the law.
SMU Professor Seema Mohapatra studies abortion law. She says the consequences of violating this law are severe.
In this case, Mohapatra said it may leave some doctors hesitant to provide a standard of care that is otherwise normal and expected when there’s a pregnancy complication.
“It’s this very, you know, odd and unhealthy kind of relationship for a physician to have with their patient that, no, you’re not sick enough right now and I could risk, you know, having a felony conviction. I could risk my license," Mohapatra explained from the viewpoint of a physician.
The judge overseeing the case says it will take weeks before a decision is made. Mohapatra said, regardless of the decision, anyone pregnant in the state of Texas, as well as physicians, "will be potentially impacted by this."
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What metro Phoenix highways will be closed this weekend? Here's what to know
These Phoenix-area freeways will be closed or restricted this weekend as part of ongoing freeway improvement projects courtesy of the Arizona Department of Transportation.
Notable closures will be seen along stretches of U.S. 60, Interstate 17, Interstate 10 and Loop 303.
ADOT advised drivers to allow for extra time and plan alternate routes. Drivers should be prepared to slow down and merge safely when venturing through work zones.
Travel and roadway conditions can be checked at az511.gov.
Westbound US 60 closed between Loop 101 and I-10
Details: Westbound U.S. 60 (Superstition Freeway) will be closed between Loop 101 (Price Freeway) and I-10 for ongoing pavement work.
Both of the Loop 101 ramps to westbound U.S. 60 will be closed.
When: 9 p.m. Friday, July 21 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 24
Alternate Routes: Westbound Loop 202 (Red Mountain or Santan freeways) can be used to reach I-10. Westbound Southern Avenue, Baseline Road or Broadway Road can be used to travel past the closure.
Southbound I-17 closed between Pinnacle Peak Road and Loop 101 in north Phoenix
Details: Southbound Interstate 17 will be closed between Pinnacle Peak Road and Loop 101 in north Phoenix for a pavement improvement project.
- Southbound I-17 on-ramp at Happy Valley Road closed
- Southbound I-17 ramps to Loop 101 closed
- Loop 101 ramps to southbound I-17 remain open
When: 9 p.m. Friday, July 21 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 24
Alternate Routes: Southbound I-17 motorists can exit prior to the closure and take local routes such as southbound 19th or 35th avenues to travel beyond the closure.
Eastbound I-10 closed between I-17 and SR 51
Details: Eastbound I-10 will be closed between I-17 ("Stack" interchange) and SR 51 for scheduled tunnel maintenance.
The north and southbound I-17 ramps to eastbound I-10 will be closed.
When: 9 p.m. Friday, July 21 to 9 a.m., Saturday, July 22
Alternate Routes: Eastbound I-10 traffic is able to use southbound I-17 as a detour and reconnect with I-10 near Sky Harbor International Airport.
Westbound I-10 closed between I-17 and 7th Avenue
Details: Westbound I-10 will be closed between I-17 near Sky Harbor Airport and Seventh Avenue for scheduled tunnel maintenance.
- Southbound SR 51 ramp to westbound I-10 closed
- Southbound I-17 ramp to westbound I-10 near Sky Harbor Airport closed
- Westbound Loop 202 ramp to I-10 westbound open, traffic must exit I-10 at Seventh Street
- Westbound Sky Harbor Boulevard ramp to westbound I-10 open, traffic must exit to northbound SR 51 or eastbound Loop 202
When: 9 p.m. Saturday, July 22 to 9 a.m. Sunday, July 23
Alternate Routes: Westbound I-10 traffic headed near the closure can take northbound I-17 to get to the I-10 at the Stack interchange, north of Van Buren Street.
Southbound Loop 303 closed between Indian School Road and I-10 in Goodyear
Details: Southbound Loop 303 will be closed between Indian School Road and Interstate 10 in Goodyear for pavement maintenance.
- Southbound Loop 303 on-ramps at Glendale Avenue, Bethany Home Road and Indian School Road closed
When: 8 p.m. Friday, July 21 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 22
Northbound Loop 303 closed between I-10 and Indian School Road
Details: Northbound Loop 303 will be closed between I-10 and Indian School Road for pavement maintenance following the southbound side.
- I-10 ramps to northbound Loop 303 closed
When: 9 p.m. Saturday, July 22 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 24
Alternate Routes: Drivers can exit ahead of either the southbound or northbound closure and use local routes like Sarival Avenue, Cotton Lane or Pebble Creek Parkway.
Eastbound I-10 narrowed to three lanes between 32nd Street and Broadway Road
Details: Eastbound I-10 will be narrowed to three lanes between 32nd Street and Broadway Road for bridge work as part of the ongoing I-10 Broadway Curve Improvement Project.
When: 10 p.m. Friday, July 21 to 6 a.m. Sunday, July 23 and 8 p.m. Sunday, July 23 to 4 a.m. Monday, July 24
- Eastbound I-10 off-ramp closed at Elliot Road from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, July 22
Alternate Routes: Drivers can exit at Warner Road.
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Arizona needs mining, GOP lawmakers say, as Apache runners protest Oak Flat copper plan
U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar led a congressional hearing on Friday in Goodyear where a panel of other House members, mining industry leaders and lobbyists advocated for greater access to mined materials like copper and rare earth minerals.
"Minerals like copper, lithium, cobalt fuel our modern way of using high-tech applications like smartphones and satellites," said Gosar, R-Ariz.
The growth of renewable technologies to achieve the Biden administration's goals of "net-zero" emissions will require massive amounts of new materials to build electric vehicles, renewable energy-generating capacity and battery storage. Gosar said that would require a six-fold increase in mining.
But he asserted that China either partially or totally controls 43 of the 50 critical minerals listed by the U.S. Geological Survey. The publication Foreign Relations found that the U.S. is 100% import-dependent on 12 critical minerals and more than 50 percent import-dependent on 32 others, with China the largest import source for 26 of the listed critical minerals.
Gosar said even phosphate, used in commercial fertilizers, comes from China. If China were to cut off the phosphate supply, he said, the U.S. food supply would suffer.
The hearing took place as, 125 miles away, a group of runners made a nearly 100-mile trek from the San Carlos Apache Reservation to Mount Graham to protest a proposed copper mine and raise awareness of how they believe the federal government fails to protect sacred tribal sites.
The grassroots group Apache Stronghold, other Native activists and their allies have fought for nearly 20 years to stop a mine that would obliterate Oak Flat, one of the Apache people's most sacred sites. The mine would use a new mining method known as block cave mining, a systemic excavation process that would leave behind a crater about 1,000 feet deep and about 1.8 miles in diameter.
The subsidence would destroy Oak Flat, a riparian area about 60 miles east of Phoenix that sustains the site's eponymous Emory oak and other species, and the underground water sources that created the site.
Feds should loosen rules to expand mining, supporters say
At the hearing in Goodyear, the focus turned to China. Several representatives expressed alarm over that country's chokehold on critical minerals, calling it a "dangerous reliance." U.S. Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., said if America doesn't wake up to China's manipulations, "we're all going to be speaking Mandarin."
Gosar and others said there are solutions: loosen up what they called onerous agency regulations that they said throttle the permitting process, and rein in the judiciary by reforming the tort process. U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., said federal agencies are almost immune to accountability. Also, the group said, a multitude of lawsuits impedes the permitting process.
U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs said he and his fellow Republicans had passed a bill to streamline energy extraction permitting, but that the Senate had held it up.
Arizona produces the most copper in the U.S., he said, which is why school kids learned that one of the state's famed "Five Cs" is copper. (The others are cattle, citrus, cotton and climate.)
Lesko and Gosar also decried the resistance to mining uranium in northern Arizona because the U.S. currently relies on Russia for high-grade uranium. Gosar said smaller "modular" nuclear plants could serve to power the nation in place of the huge plants currently in operation.
Misrael Cabrera, the former director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality who now heads up the University of Arizona's School of Mining and Mineral Resources, said the Mining Act of 1872 could still serve the nation.
"Just because it's old doesn't mean it's outdated," he said.
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Cabrera also said modern mining methods are much safer than in past years. And in response to a question by Gosar, Cabrera said the northern Arizona uranium deposits, contained in long veins known as Breccia pipes, would be safer out of the ground so they don't leach into groundwater.
"Nuclear is safe, economical and clean," he said.
Gosar and U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, R-Georgia, both decried President Joe Biden's moves to limit mining, including the withdrawal of the final environmental impact statement for the Resolution Copper mine project, the stalled progress on a copper and nickel mine in Minnesota, the recent call for a 1.1-million-acre national monument in the Grand Canyon region to prevent new uranium mining, and the withdrawal of 336,000 acres surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park to new oil and gas leasing.
U.S. Rep. Eli Crane, whose sprawling district encompasses Oak Flat, said he had three priorities for any mines in Arizona: economic impact, national security and preserving the environment.
"We need to do (mining) in a clean and safe manner that protects our air and water," he said.
Craig Wiita, who heads a refining operation in Prescott, said new federal regulations had eliminated 75% of his available product. Wiita's company, Del Sol Refining, handles rare earth elements like tellarium, antimony and other such minerals needed in solar panels, ammunition and other manufacturing. But, he said, small companies must expend about 25% of their resources pursuing permits in a process that takes seven to 10 years.
"That's a huge amount for a small company," he said.
Wiita also said germanium, a metal much used in the electronics industry, can be found in a huge deposit in Idaho, enough to serve the entire nation.
Recycling won't be enough to satisfy the growing demand for minerals to power a renewable energy grid, Wiita said. He said solar panels and electric vehicle batteries should still be recycled to keep toxic materials out of landfills and groundwater supplies.
Wiita also would like to get his hands on some of the funds the Biden administration has allocated for exploration for critical minerals. That way, he said, he could keep his staff, although so far he's managed to avoid laying anyone off after most of his business melted away.
"I haven't seen a dime of that," he said.
Opposition to mining at Oak Flat
The GOP delegation's stance is opposed by many people both within Arizona and across the nation. Native rights group Apache Stronghold, led by former San Carlos Apache Chairman Wendsler Nosie, has been fighting to prevent international mining giant Resolution Copper from building a huge copper mining operation at Oak Flat, one of the Apache people's most sacred sites.
Oak Flat, or Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, "the place where the Emory oak grows," is also culturally important to other Southwestern tribes, and is one of Arizona's remaining riparian zones and a popular site for recreational users.
The 2,200-acre site, currently a campground in the Tonto National Forest, has been at the heart of a nearly 20-year-long struggle among tribes, environmentalists, the U.S. government and Resolution Copper, which is owned by multinational mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP.
Congress approved a land swap of other environmentally sensitive lands in Arizona for Oak Flat between Resolution and the U.S. Forest Service in December 2014 after a 10-year effort by Resolution to make the deal. Apache Stronghold filed suit in January 2021 to halt the swap. Parties to the litigation are currently awaiting a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a hearing in March by the entire 11-judge panel.
Added to suit:Federal court allows international mining giant to oppose tribes in Oak Flat lawsuit
In May, the U.S. District Court in Arizona allowed Resolution Copper to join Apache Stronghold's lawsuit.
Nosie or anyone from his group was not present at the hearing. They were running east from the Old San Carlos Memorial in Peridot to Mount Graham, home to more Apache sacred sites. Nosie was aware of the hearing, and in a statement sent to The Arizona Republic, he said, "Arizonans need to know that this mining project will destroy our sacred sites, take away our water, and contaminate our environment forever."
Nosie urged people to speak up for the state's spiritual, cultural and environmental well-being.
San Carlos Apache Tribe invites lawmakers to meet at Oak Flat
Upon learning of the hearing, the San Carlos Apache Tribe sent a letter to Gosar, who heads the House Natural Resources Committee's oversight and investigations subcommittee, citing its own concerns over Rio Tinto and BHP's own ties to Communist China.
"We suggest meeting on sacred Apache ground at Oak Flat following your field hearing in Goodyear on Friday afternoon," said San Carlos Chairman Terry Rambler in a letter addressed to the five lawmakers.
Gosar, who did not mention the letter before or after the hearing, said he would like to visit Resolution's mine site sometime soon. A Resolution spokesperson who was present said Gosar would be welcome to see what the mine has accomplished to create a sustainable mining operation and about $140 million in environmental mitigation.
Another lawsuit filed:Environmental groups sue to block mining projects in the Patagonia Mountains
Debra Krol reports on Indigenous communities at the confluence of climate, culture and commerce in Arizona and the Intermountain West. Reach Krol at debra.krol@azcentral.com. Follow her on Twitter at @debkrol.
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Holy Ground Ceremony and Mount Graham Sacred Run at San Carlos Lake and Peridot, Arizona
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School is just around the corner and Standing Bear High School is almost ready to open to its first 307 students.
Located at 70th Street and Saltillo Road, the new 240,000-square-foot high school is a twin to Lincoln Northwest High School, which opened last fall. Scott Wieskamp, director of operations at Lincoln Public Schools, said the schools each cost about $62.5 million and are “future-ready” to provide flexibility in education.
“These buildings are identical,” Wieskamp said. “The benefit obviously of Standing Bear is we’ve had more time. We’ve had another year.”
It’s not so much the design of Standing Bear that will set it apart, but instead, it’s the traditions that school leaders hope to instill.
As the city’s first and only public high school named after a person, Standing Bear earned its name from an important figure in Nebraska’s history. Principal Sue Cassata said the school will strive to tell the story of Chief Standing Bear, who led the Ponca Tribe during the 19th century.
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“We visited the Ponca Tribe up in Niobrara a couple times and have involved the Ponca in various aspects,” Cassata said. “Being really intentional about that has been very important.”
The mascot, the Grizzlies, and the logo is evident in those conversations. They also plan to bring in elements of nature with wood paneling and images of Northern Nebraska.
“As students walk through the building, not only do they get a sense of Standing Bear High School, but they also get a sense of the story of Chief Standing Bear,” Cassata said.
Similar to Northwest, there won’t be plaques and trophies covering the walls, but instead nearly 100 bulletin monitors that will digitally recognize achievements, donors, lunch menus, events and stories of Chief Standing Bear and other native tribes of Nebraska “so students gain an appreciation and understanding of the power of place.”
Cassata said that place is an identity builder and relies on the communities that have shaped us to who we have become. While identifying a culture for the high school, she has found it important to combine both geographical places and human geography.
She said it's important for staff, parents and students to understand "we’re here on ground that before us has a long and robust history, and understanding that we are one part of an entire story.”
Cassata was formerly principal at Lincoln East High School, where the student population grew from 1,200 to 2,400 students.
“I am excited about knowing every student,” Cassata said. “I have never been in an environment, besides out of the classroom, knowing every child and knowing a little bit about their stories.”
There will only be 246 freshmen and 61 sophomores in attendance at Standing Bear this year, compared to the nearly 500 students who attended Northwest last year. For Northwest’s second year, there are currently 876 students enrolled. Both schools have the capacity of 1,000 with room for expansion to increase to 2,000 students.
There are about 30 teachers at Standing Bear, most who have already entered the school a few weeks ago to begin unpacking and prepping for the school year.
Just like Northwest, Standing Bear is separated into two sections with a three-story instructional wing toward the southeast portion, and an activities hub to the north.
The main entrance of the instructional wing opens into administrative offices and classrooms. Another area on the opposite side has the majority of parking for students and spectators for athletic and performing art events.
The second floor of the curriculum portion has identical wings that can be divided up by grade level, teams and class types. Each wing has a common area to allow for collaborative classrooms with garage-style doors that can be raised for cross teaching.
“We’ve sometimes been accused of teaching in silos where the art department does their thing and the career tech ed department does their thing,” Wieskamp said. “This gives opportunities for those different departments to collaborate.”
Wieskamp said the collaboration can allow one class to design a project, another to build the items and a third class to market it. Cassata said each department will plan weekly classes to take place in the collaborative spaces.
“When I taught in a classroom, I created the learning based on the construct of those four walls,” Cassata said.
With the new design, she hopes to eliminate the four walls and allow teachers to think about cross-collaborations for students to create projects and connections in their learning.
The third floor houses a focus program in partnership with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Business. While there is currently only one business instructor, the program will have guest speakers and bring students to the downtown college campus to jumpstart planning for post-graduation. The Future Business Leaders of America club will also be starting this fall.
Just as the learning won’t be contained to four walls, the classrooms aren’t confined to the interior of the school. A rooftop garden will be used for science and horticulture classes.
Outdoors, students and teachers will have electric vehicle charging stations available among the plants used to create an environmentally-friendly campus.
“Our site will be more natural, native types of minimal-maintenance grasses and landscaping that we won’t have to mow. Other than places close to the building where we’ll have a lot of pedestrians and traffic,” Wieskamp said.
Passing through the instructional wing corridors is the library, green room and “‘learning stairs.” The stairs reach from the second to third floor and are called the “Grizzly Den.”
In the center of the new school is the soon-to-be-buzzing cafeteria which is set up like a food court to encourage students to stay on campus for lunch rather than leaving for the nearest drive-thru. A commercial-grade kitchen filled with stainless steel appliances has taken home right next to the cafeteria for family and consumer sciences classes.
The activities wing of the building features a performance gym, auxiliary gym, swimming pool auditorium and theater. Wieskamp said the performance gym can currently seat around 2,600 patrons with the possibility of a future addition.
Wieskamp said the set-up of the school allows for the instructional wing to be closed off for evening performances and games in the activities side.
The major construction projects will be finished by the school year as crews take the few weeks of summer to clean up, landscape and prepare for students. Superintendent Paul Gausman said that construction will continue throughout the year with the building finalizing at the end of the school year.
Besides the physical construction, the story of Standing Bear High School is just beginning to be written as the school awaits a fight song, alma mater song, sporting events and students to create their traditions. Unlike the six other LPS high schools, which have years of traditions to continue, Standing Bear students have a history to begin writing.
“We get to offer a chance for our incoming Grizzlies to create tradition, instead of the tradition continues, the tradition begins and they can be a part of that,” Gausman said.
For now, they are ready to welcome their first students.
“We want to say to the Grizzlies and the Grizzlies families that are coming this August, we are ready for you, we’re looking forward to this,” Gausman said. “We certainly want to say to those future Grizzlies, we’re excited to have you help develop this culture.”
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SEATTLE — Fans clamoring to get their hands on exclusive Taylor Swift merchandise arrived as early as 3 a.m. outside Lumen Field on Friday, hours before the merch trucks opened.
Jenisha Green and Makenzie Bell were the first to arrive Friday morning, coming up from Olympia. Bell said they had their eyes on a blue Taylor Swift crewneck, which you can only get at the merch truck. Other Taylor Swift merchandise can also be purchased online.
“They have a limited stock for each stop, so had to get here early to ensure we get it,” Bell said.
Lumen Field did not allow fans to line up before 8 a.m. on Friday, which was two hours before the trucks were expected to open. However, fans started lining up across the street from the stadium to have quick access to the actual line once it opened.
Hundreds of people arrived before the trucks opened. Fans brought lawn chairs and snacks to ride out the wait. Some offered friendship bracelets, which are a concert staple, to security guards who were on hand to make sure the event went smoothly.
“It’s a fun experience to have,” Green said. “Just to see how many people admire Taylor Swift. It’s amazing to see how impactful she is to everyone and it’s just a great experience to be here.”
Early Merch Day is open to all fans, with or without tickets to the concert. The truck will be open Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday, merchandise sales will start at noon.
There are two Taylor Swift merch trucks set up outside the northwest and south gates of Lumen Field.
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PORTLAND, Oregon — One of the four women found dead in Oregon accused the man identified as a person of interest in the investigations just months before her death.
The Willamette Week newspaper reports that in November of last year Ashley Real filed an allegation of domestic violence against 38-year-old Jesse Calhoun.
Real's remains were discovered by deputies on May 7 in a heavily wooded area near Eagle Creek, off Southeast Judd Road in rural Clackamas County. The 22-year-old had last been seen in late March and a missing person report was filed with Portland police on April 4, 2023.
Authorities are not releasing the domestic violence report because of the pending death investigation.
Calhoun is a person of interest in the deaths of four women who's bodies were found over over the past six months. He has not been charged with any crimes connected to their deaths, and police have yet to publicly identify him as the person of interest. The Willamette Week was the first to report his name after authorities released information saying they had connected the four cases to one person.
Calhoun is currently back in prison, having been arrested in early June on unrelated parole violation charges.
KGW has obtained court documents dating back to 2007 that show Calhoun's previous criminal history. A former girlfriend claims that while drinking in a bar in Baker County in November of 2007, Calhoun grabbed her by the throat to the point she could not breathe. A short time later, Calhoun punched her repeatedly in the head and arm. Court documents show that a year later, Calhoun was accused of pulling her off a bike and dragging her 50 feet across a parking lot.
Much more recently Calhoun is accused of threatening the father of another girlfriend's children. It's all laid out in a stalking protective order filed in Clackamas County court in May of 2022.
"I know everything about you dude," Calhoun texted the father in April of last year. "Everywhere you go. What you do. Stop f****** with Krista dude. I'm going to tell this to you only once."
"You are a cocky son of a b**** that will always get yours when the time is right," Calhoun texted one day later.
A judge would eventually deny the father's request for the stalking protective order, saying he did not prove a basis for the order.
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SEATTLE — The Better Business Bureau (BBB) in Washington has a warning for fans trying to buy tickets to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour: Be wary of scammers.
According to the BBB, there have been 48 reports of Taylor Swift ticket scams ahead of her Saturday and Sunday shows at Lumen Field. This doesn't count the scams that have not been reported to BBB or ones that were reported to another agency.
The BBB said in an interview with KING 5 Friday morning that the scams have typically involved people finding Swift tickets on social media, where the seller asks for Venmo or Zelle for payment. In these cases, the BBB said the seller promised to refund the money if the ticket doesn't work. But by then it's too late: The buyer has a fake ticket and the seller pockets the money.
Another scam involved a person finding a fake Taylor Swift website that appeared legitimate and buying a phony ticket on the site. The BBB said this website popped up in a Google search.
To protect against scams, the BBB recommends going to reputable sources like SeatGeek or StubHub for buying tickets. As of Friday afternoon, the cheapest ticket on StubHub for Swift's Eras Tour is over $1,700.
Fans clamoring to get their hands on exclusive Taylor Swift merchandise arrived as early as 3 a.m. outside Lumen Field on Friday, hours before the merch trucks opened.
Lumen Field did not allow fans to line up before 8 a.m. on Friday, which was two hours before the trucks were expected to open. However, fans started lining up across the street from the stadium to have quick access to the actual line once it opened.
Early Merch Day is open to all fans, with or without tickets to the concert. The truck will be open Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday, merchandise sales will start at noon.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — In the run-up to the November 2020 election, proponents of Measure 110 cited the European nation of Portugal as a positive example of what can be accomplished by decriminalizing drugs for users. But now there are signs that the country's once-promising program has run into trouble.
KGW's The Story has reported before on how Oregon's Measure 110 perhaps didn't mirror Portugal's model near enough. The consequences for drug users, which Portugal has used as a method of directing people into treatment, are much weaker in Oregon. Portugal also has universal health care, which helps ensure that anyone can seek help when they need it without being turned away.
So if Portugal is struggling, what does that mean for Oregon?
The Washington Post's reporting
For progressives in the Pacific Northwest, Portugal stood as a shining example of how much good can be done through drug decriminalization. The argument was that addiction is a health issue, not a criminal one. Instead of dealing with police and courts, most people caught using drugs in public were given counseling and a quick path into treatment facilities if that's what they wanted.
And Portugal did report dramatic results soon after passing its new law back in 2001. But the Washington Post recently reported that 22 years later, Portugal now struggles with drug users who openly flout the law and police who are losing motivation to issue tickets.
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The Post story quotes the mayor of Porto, a large city on Portugal's Atlantic coast, who questions whether the country should rethink its plan for drugs.
"These days in Portugal, it is forbidden to smoke tobacco outside a school or a hospital. It is forbidden to advertise ice cream and sugar candies. And yet, it is allowed for people to be there, injecting drugs," the mayor told the Post.
According to the article, police claim that urban visibility of the drug problem is at its worst point in decades, and the state-funded non-governmental organizations that have mostly taken over responding to substance users seem less concerned with treatment than affirming that lifetime drug use should be seen as a human right.
The police chief of Porto is quoted as saying: "At the end of the day, the police have their hands tied." He added that the situation is now comparable to the years before decriminalization began.
The article also cites a newly released national survey showing that the percentage of adults using illicit drugs is on the rise. Back in 2001 it was 7.8% — now it's 12.8%, and overdose rates have hit a 12-year high.
Admissions of a backslide
Last November, The Story's Pat Dooris spoke to the architect of Portugal's drug decriminalization, Dr. João Goulão. Back then, he painted a fairly rosy picture of success for the country since 2001.
"We estimate that when our strategy that included decriminalization was approved, we estimate that we could have 100,000 people using only heroin," Dr. Goulão told Dooris. "That means 1% of our population. Nowadays we estimate that we can have around 33,000 using any kind of drug in a problematic way."
But since that Washington Post article, Goulão has changed his tune. He's publicly admitting that things are not going all that well in Portugal.
Last week, he spoke at Georgetown University, at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, acknowledging some of the problems that have been cropping up in his country.
"It is true that we are having some difficulties nowadays in supplying treatment, timely treatment without a waiting list, for instance," Goulão said. "We have the visibility of disorganized users on the streets in Lisbon and Porto, mostly in the big cities. And we are concerned about it."
The Washington Post article also points out that Portugal slashed funding for its drug oversight operation back in 2012. It dropped from roughly $83 million per year down to $17 million. That's why most of the drug outreach is now done by nonprofit groups.
Goulão said that the cuts were a big mistake, although he suggested that the numbers were not entirely correct.
"We have people on the street. And I would say that at the given moment our political responsibles were convinced that such problems in Portugal were solved. Right?" he said. "So there was a stagnation or even a decrease. It's not exactly the same decrease that is said in the Washington Post article. But it's not his fault. Probably we explained it wrong. There was a misunderstanding about the cuts. But in fact we are not investing as much as we should."
When Portugal launched its decriminalization back in 2001, it had plenty of beds for anyone who needed intensive treatment. There was no wait. But that is not the case today, the Washington Post reported — sometimes the wait now can last up to a year.
The Oregon comparison
In some ways, what Portugal is experiencing now can be compared to what Oregon has been going through since Measure 110 passed. Oregon has never had the kind of access to care that Portugal did when it decriminalized drugs, and waitlists at inpatient treatment facilities were common even before Oregon decriminalized drugs.
But there are signs for hope. If funding cuts are indeed a major driver behind Portugal's backslide, Oregon could eventually be in an even better position that its European forebear.
Portugal has a population of about 10.33 million people. Oregon's population is less than half that, closer to 4.25 million. Yet thanks to Measure 110, Oregon allocated about $300 million for drug treatment programs in the current biennium alone, compared to Portugal's $17 million per year as reported by the Post.
It isn't a one-to-one comparison — Portugal still has the benefit of a publicly-funded health care system, which is not summed up in the funding it puts toward oversight. Oregon already handles most of its addiction outreach through nonprofits, because the state and local governments never had the infrastructure to take it on. And even among U.S. states, Oregon is starting from a historic deficit in access to drug treatment and mental health care. But at the very least, Oregon is working to expand that access now instead of diminishing it.
The Story airs at 6 p.m. every weekday on KGW. Got a question or comment for the team? Shoot an email to thestory@kgw.com or call and leave a voicemail at 503-226-5090.
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Woman dies, 2 kids hurt in Auburn Hills crash, police say
A 43-year-old Pontiac woman was killed and her two children were injured Friday morning in a rollover crash involving another vehicle, Auburn Hills police said.
The incident happened around 11:27 a.m. on Lapeer Road south of Harmon, the police department said in a statement.
Auburn Hills police and fire departments responded and learned from witnesses that one person had been ejected.
A preliminary investigation found a 36-year-old Oakland Township man driving a 2021 Ford F-150 was attempting to turn onto southbound Lapeer Road from a median turn-around when he hit the woman's 2002 Cadillac Escalade, according to the release.
“This impact caused the driver of the Cadillac to lose control and cross over the median onto the northbound side of Lapeer Road, where the vehicle rolled, and the driver was ejected from the vehicle,” police wrote.
The driver’s daughters, ages 5 and 3, were also in the Cadillac Escalade, officials said. They all were taken to Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, where the woman was pronounced dead.
“Her young children sustained injuries in the crash and are expected to be okay,” police said Friday.
The Ford F-150 driver was the only one in the truck. He was not injured.
Police said the man is cooperating with investigators. Alcohol and drugs do not appear to be a factor in the crash.
The Southeast Oakland County Crash Investigation Team is investigating the incident.
Anyone who witnessed the crash is asked to call the Auburn Hills Police Department at (248) 370-9460.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — Officials in Tuscaloosa attended a groundbreaking ceremony Friday morning for the McWright’s Ferry Road Extension project.
Construction on the $68 million project got underway last March. Once completed, it will connect Rice Mine Road to New Watermelon Road and connect to McWright’s Ferry. It will include a new roadway bridge spanning to North River, south of the Lake Tuscaloosa Dam Spillway.
Mayor Walt Maddox says the road construction will be a game changer.
“The community will win by having better infrastructure and more opportunities for economic development and a higher quality of life,” Maddox said. “Indeed, today is a winning day for our community and I am proud to be a part of the team that made it happen.”
Tuscaloosa City Councilman Norman Crow says many residents have been wanting to see this happen for 40 years. Crow also believes the new 3-mile stretch of road project will reduce commute times for drivers and will improve response times for first responders.
“This is a 40-year project dream that’s been out there since the late 70s as Mayor Maddox said,” Crow said. “This is an important project for my district and for the whole county for public safety reasons and for traffic reduction reasons and I think it will spur economic growth for in this part of the county.”
The McWright’s Ferry Road Extension project should be open to the public sometime in 2025.
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DESOTO, Texas — The DeSoto Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding an 11-year-old girl who went missing Friday morning.
Police say the girl, Zakiyah Garrett, was reported missing from her home in the 500 block of Ray Avenue. They say she left home at about 10:30 a.m. Friday.
It's unknown what she was wearing before she left home, police added.
Garrett is listed as 4-foot-9 and weighs between 70 and 80 pounds.
Anyone with information on the girl's whereabouts is asked to call police dispatch at 972-223-6111 or 911 immediately.
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Republicans, Democrats will hold primary elections in Forrest County
Forrest County residents will have a few local choices to make in the Aug. 8 party primaries to narrow down the candidate pool ahead of the Nov. 7 general election.
Many of the races are uncontested or do not have more than one candidate in their respective political parties. Those candidates will be included on the November ballot.
The Board of Supervisors will see new faces in January in Districts 1 and 5, as the incumbents are not seeking reelection this term.
District 1 Supervisor David Hogan is running for tax collector. District 5 Supervisor Chris Bowen is not seeking any elected position in the county. Both were first elected in 2007.
Statewide races also will be on the Republican and Democrat primary ballots.
Where to vote:Forrest County precincts
Click here to see a list of candidates running for statewide office.
Here are the local races that will be on the party primary ballots:
Supervisor, District 1
- Jeremy Burge, Republican
- Wesley Clark, Republican
- Herman Dungan, Republican
- Gentry Mordica, Republican
Supervisor, District 2
- Sheila Angelety, Democrat
- Sharon A. Thompson, Democrat
- The winner of the primary will face Republican Gerald B. Steele in November.
Supervisor, District 3
- Burkett Ross, Republican
- Steve Stringer, Republican
Supervisor, District 4
- Nicholas "Nick" Brown, Democrat
- Roderick Woullard, Democrat
- The winner of the primary will face Republican Brian Cawthon in November.
Supervisor, District 5
- Terri Bell, Republican
- Douglas "Butch" Benedict, Republican
Justice Court Judge, District 4
- Robert Davis, Democrat
- James M. Fenton, Democrat
- DeCarlo C. Hood, Democrat
Tax Collector
- Malcolm G. Berch, Republican
- David Hogan, Republican
- Zac Howell, Republican
Tax Assessor
- Cayla Camp Burns, Republican
- Mary Ann Palmer, Republican
- The winner of the primary will face independent candidate Charles "Chip" Brown in November.
Coroner
- Elizabeth Broome, Republican
- Lisa Klem, Republican
- The winner of the primary will face Democrat Gregory E. Fluker I in November.
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Lamar County sheriff, incumbent supervisors face challengers in Aug. 8 Republican primary
In the upcoming primaries, Lamar County Sheriff Danny Rigel, who was first elected to the office in 2003, will face a challenger in Purvis Police Chief Joey Walker, who was appointed in 2014.
Both men have decades of law enforcement experience.
One of the most contested offices on the ballot is for District 1 Constable. With seven candidates, the race most likely will end in a runoff.
Click here to see a list of candidates seeking statewide office.
Four of the five incumbents on the Board of Supervisors face challengers this season, with only District 5 Supervisor Dale Lucus running unopposed.
Lamar County will hold its party primaries on Aug. 8 for statewide and local offices.
Where to vote:Lamar County precincts
Here are the local races that will be on the Republican primary ballot:
Sheriff
- Danny Rigel, Republican
- Joey Walker, Republican
Supervisor, District 1
- Steve Lampton, Republican
- David West, Republican
Supervisor, District 2
- Patrick Birchfield, Republican
- Warren Byrd, Republican
Supervisor, District 3
- Terry Bass, Republican
- Ford Ramsey
- Mark Smith
Supervisor, District 4
- Mitch Brent
- Anthony "Tony" Purvis
County Attorney
- Scotty Chabert
- Cynthia A. Re
Justice Court Judge, District 3
- Charles Greer
- Daniel M. Waide
Constable, District 1
- Jason Ashley
- Lance Emfinger
- Chip Estes
- Bryan Ford
- Frank "Gam" Gambino
- Dearl Head
- Timothy Webb
Constable, District 3
- Mike Byrd
- Emmett "Scooter" Coker
- Jimmy Daughdrill Sr.
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Margaret Stevens, 78, of Rupert died Thursday, July 20, 2023, at Highland Estates in Burley. Arrangements are under the care of Joel Heward Hansen Mortuary, Rupert.
Jay Moile, 80, of Filer died Thursday, July 20, 2023. Arrangements under the care of Parke's Magic Valley Funeral Home, Twin Falls.
Bonnie Jean Aspitarte, 96, of Twin Falls died Tuesday, July 18, 2023, at Grace Assisted Living in Twin Falls. Arrangements are under the care of Demaray Funeral Service - Gooding Chapel.
Vickie Lee Bennett, 66, of Hill City died Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at home. Arrangements are under the care of Demaray Funeral Service - Gooding Chapel.
Wanda L. Hays, 92, of Boise and formerly of Wendell died Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at home. Arrangements are under the care of Demaray Funeral Service - Wendell Chapel.
Peggy Joann Inscoe, 91, of Twin Falls died Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at Bennett Hills Assisted Living in Gooding. Arrangements are under the care of Demaray Funeral Service - Gooding Chapel.
Consuelo Correa, 79, of Burley died Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello. Arrangements are under the care of Rasmussen-Wilson Funeral Home, Burley.
Jerry David Grimes Sr., 80, of Twin Falls died Sunday, July 16, 2023, at St. Luke's Magic Valley Regional Medical Center, Twin Falls. Arrangements are under the care of Serenity Funeral Chapel, Twin Falls.
Margaret Stevens, 78, of Rupert died Thursday, July 20, 2023, at Highland Estates in Burley. Arrangements are under the care of Joel Heward Hansen Mortuary, Rupert.
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SEATTLE — Taylor Swift and her legion of fans are descending upon Seattle for her latest stop on the Eras Tour.
Two nights of sold-out shows at Lumen Field means well over 140,000 fans will be navigating the SODO neighborhood of Seattle. Swift is breaking records with her tour and using her influence in charitable ways. She supported her fans, made donations to food banks, PETA, UNICEF and The Red Cross. Her massive fanbase is following suit and Seattle could benefit in more ways than one.
Swifties from the National Charity League stopped by to volunteer at Northwest Harvests SODO Community Market on Friday.
“We are lucky to have dedicated volunteers and today we have some Swifties in the house!” says Jeanie Chunn with Northwest Harvest.
The SODO Community market serves as a free grocery store where anyone facing food insecurity can stop by to shop for food and essentials without paying when they leave. National Charity League (NCL) volunteers supported the market today as guests stopped by for packaged foods, fresh fruits and vegetables and more. NCL is a national nonprofit that encourages mothers and daughters to serve their communities together. The organization donates nearly 3 million hours of time to more than 6,000 charities across the country. It’s estimated to make an $86 million dollar impact each year and empowers today's girls to become tomorrow's leaders.
Leslie and her daughter, Bailey, were among the volunteers today. They represent the Lake Washington Chapter of NCL.
“I joined NCL with my daughter because I had already done it with my mom when I was growing up and it was really important to give back to the community that serves us and get involved,” says Leslie.
Now, 16-year-old Bailey is on the National Youth Advisory Council for NCL and says being a Swiftie is a natural fit.
“It’s only right that I give back. I'm fortunate to even be in a position to volunteer here and it’s nice to provide people with a real shopping experience,” Bailey said.
The pair were adorned in handmade Taylor Swift friendship bracelets.
Northwest Harvest reminds us that the summer can be a challenging time to attract volunteers and donations.
“People don’t often think about food insecurity during the summer months because it’s a carefree time but the reality is a lot of families don’t have access to those meals that their children would be receiving," Chunn said.
It’s estimated that one in 12 Washingtonians struggle with hunger every day. KING 5 is a proud supporter of Northwest Harvest and you can support the organization with a financial donation or by volunteering.
The Northwest Harvest SODO Community Market is located at 1915 4th Avenue S, near the corner of 4th Avenue S & S Holgate Street and is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with food and services like healthcare, housing, legal and more.
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‘Help Me’: Kidnapped girl from Texas rescued in California after writing note to passerbySheriff: Babysitter arrested after baby left for hours inside 133-degree car diesWoman, 62, dies in head-on Volusia County crashNo water, homes torn apart: residents around mobile home park feel abandonedProject Kuiper: Amazon to build $120M satellite processing facility at Kennedy Space Center
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MONACA, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced that $5 million of the $10 million fine paid by the Shell Cracker Plant will be used to fund environmental and quality-of-life projects in Beaver County.
The Shell Cracker Plant was fined by Governor Shapiro and the PA Department of Environmental Protection for exceeding its total emission limitations for air contaminants.
On Thursday, the DEP announced $5 million would be used on projects that provide environmental, health or quality of life benefits in the county.
At least one of the projects is expected to provide air quality testing in the vicinity of the plant. Another will focus on providing education to the community that encourages participants to improve their health and the quality of their communities.
“The Consent Order and Agreement includes a strong recommendation to fund a project that provides additional and independent air monitoring. We’re encouraged by the community feedback we received supporting that and the steering committee incorporated it in the final protocol,” said DEP Secretary Rich Negrin.
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MOON TWP, Pa. — A man with an active warrant was arrested outside of the Pittsburgh International Airport before a night of riding with “high-end performance vehicles.”
Police say they were called to the airport at around 3 a.m. on Friday after receiving notice that a group of these vehicles would be meeting there. When officers arrived they saw multiple vehicles conducting burnouts in the area. The drivers began doing burnouts as police arrived.
Just a few minutes later state police were called to a similar incident where about 50 vehicles were stopped on the Fort Pitt Bridge doing students.
As they were investigating police noticed a car with a heavily tinted license plate and altered brake lights.
Dashawn Evans, 41, was driving the vehicle, police say.
Officers say Evans had a suspended license and was actively wanted.
Evans allegedly had a Pennsylvania registration plate inside his vehicle and a search of the vehicle revealed that it had been reported stolen out of Altoona in June.
Evans is charged with receiving stolen property and multiple traffic citations. He is currently out on nonmonetary bail.
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PHOENIX — A propane storage facility caught fire Thursday in Phoenix, launching several propane tanks into the air and requiring a four-alarm response from Phoenix Fire Department.
The massive fire broke on a 119-degree day in the Valley of the Sun.
Propane company AmeriGas recommends the tanks "should never be stored in or subject to temperatures above 120°F."
Like the tanks at the site of the fire, propane tanks sit in Arizona backyards every day.
As for how concerned people in Arizona should be about their backyard barbeques using propane tanks, experts said not to be too concerned.
“If they're designed and constructed adequately and meet the ANSI or ASTM standards for that type of appliance, they really shouldn't be overly concerned,” Stan Jaworski, a mechanical engineer and expert with Robson Forensic.
Jaworski said the tanks have safety measures to help, like a pressure relief valve, which will release propane between 110 and 130 degrees Fahrenheit.
That will allow propane to weep from the tank when it’s hot.
“A little bit just weeping out of that valve – the breeze is going to take it away; mother nature is going to do its thing,” Jaworski said.
Jaworski and Richard Meier, principal investigators at Meier Fire Investigation, said keeping propane from ignition sources is important.
“Keep them away from your air conditioners, pool heaters, whatever else you got outside that might cause a spark, have a flame,” Meier said.
It’s also recommended to keep propane tanks stored out of the sun, and if in an outdoor kitchen, make sure it’s ventilated.
Both experts also add to double-check that tanks are up to date, and if unsure, the best thing to do is exchange it.
The current standards require propane tanks used for things like grills to have both a pressure relief valve and an overfill protection device.
“What that does is it leaves 20% of the tank empty at the top, or somewhere in the tank, it's at the top of the because the vapor is lighter than the liquid. That's called "headspace," and it gives the liquid somewhere to expand to,” Jaworski said.
The experts also note that propane has a smell that most people can recognize.
“When you're lighting your grill, you know, open the lid, sniff, make sure it's not full of propane before you throw the match in or hit the starter button,” Meier said.
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PHOENIX — Clean-up efforts are underway after a massive propane facility fire destroyed at least 30 vehicles and two structures Thursday.
The fire was first reported around 5 p.m. at Bill’s Propane Services near 40th and Washington streets.
Early Friday morning, crews began cleaning the property that was destroyed. Hundreds of propane tanks were left charred, melted, or in broken pieces. Several work trucks on the property were left in burned shells. The tires were reduced to their thin wire and pieces of melted metal surrounded the vehicles.
At least 30 vehicles from the adjacent business, Sundance Airport Parking, were also caught in the flames.
One of those vehicles belonged to Dino Dimitri. He landed in Phoenix at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, after a 10-day vacation in Puerto Vallarta, and learned of the massive fire.
“We got in the courtesy van to come get our car and they said we can’t give you your car because the place is burned down,” Dimitri told 12News. “We were very lucky because cars in front of us were charred, cars behind us, and next to us.”
Dimitri and his wife were able to recover some items from their vehicle.
Bonnie Root, who has worked at Sundance Parking for 25 years, stopped by the property on Friday. She told 12News the owners had left 30 minutes before the fire began.
“Sad knowing everything is just gone,” Root said, fighting back tears. “It’s just sad to see this happened, but I’m happy nobody was hurt. I know God is protecting us and he has a plan for us.”
12News first confirmed Canyon State Propane operates Bills Propane Services.
“We’re grateful to the first responders for their assistance and we’re partnering with the appropriate authorities to better understand the incident,” said Jim Saladin, from Lettermen’s Energy, the parent company of Canyon State Propane, in a statement.
Timeline of the propane fire
12News obtained an exclusive video from Mesquite Fresh Street Mex, located just south of the propane facility, that shows the start of the fire.
4:31 p.m. - Faint white smoke can be seen coming from the business.
4:36 p.m. – Black smoke starts to build.
4:37 p.m. – Flames are visible as black smoke increases.
4:38 p.m. – Explosions can be seen and heard go off, along with car alarms.
4:40 p.m. – Other parts of the property caught fire and the inferno took off.
4:45 p.m. – Firefighters can be seen starting to put a hose on the fire but retreat as a piece of the structure goes into the air towards their direction on 40th Street.
Propane tanks also exploded, and some were flown up to 500 feet in the air, Phoenix Fire officials said.
One of those tanks landed on Ivy Hurtado’s car, the manager at Mesquite.
“It probably just hit the car and bounced somewhere else,” Hurtado said.
The Arizona Animal Welfare League, located just feet from the propane business, also suffered minor damage from debris and tanks landing on their property.
The shelter is at full capacity and most of their animals had to be evacuated during the fire. AAWL will have free adoptions this weekend.
“It was a horrific event,” said Alessandra Navidad, president and CEO of AAWL. “Thankfully, the animals were safe, and our staff was safe.”
The Phoenix Fire Department said investigators continue to look into what caused the fire.
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DURYEA, Pa. — A little rain couldn't stop the opening night of a fireman's carnival in Luzerne County.
Folks packed the Germania Hose Company's Annual Bazaar.
It is one of the biggest fundraisers of the year for the company.
Firefighters say seeing everyone come out to support them makes it all worth it.
"Like any other event you put it on and you just don't know if anyone is going to show up, so what makes it really good for me is I can come out and see everyone having a good time, that's all that matters," said Jerry Korea, President of Germania Hose Company.
A fireworks show is scheduled for Sunday to close out the bazaar.
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NANTICOKE, Pa. — Police were investigating a shooting in Luzerne County.
A video from a viewer shows police at the intersection of Maple Street and West Green Street around 7:30 p.m.
We know one victim was taken to the hospital.
Police aren't releasing many details, officers left the scene about 10 p.m.
No word of anyone in custody after the shooting.
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LENOXVILLE, Pa. — "It was pretty remarkable. He started off just singing in bars and nightclubs and made it to a pretty incredible level," said Robert Keating.
For decades the voice of late singer Tony Bennett reached the ears of millions, something his cousin Keating was never shy to talk about.
"In fact, one time we were having a party here, and I need sheet music to sing Perry Como another Italian crooner, always had sheet music, and I joked maybe I'm related to Perry Cuomo and not Tony Bennett because he remembered all the lyrics and I forget them all," Keating said.
Bennett passed away Friday morning at the age of 96 at his apartment in New York City.
At one time, Keating's mother and cousin Tony lived in a family-owned apartment building.
"So he and my mom would run into each other in the elevator and they hadn't seen each other since they were little, but the very first time when he walked in the elevator and saw my mom he looked at her and said hello, Flora," Keating explained.
He says the stories of his famous relative and his ties to our area were always a favorite for discussion.
"Well, I know he came to Scranton earlier on a train that was known as the Pheobe Snow, and he'd come and perform in Scranton young in his career," Keating said.
After decades apart, the two were finally able to meet when Bennett performed at the F.M. Kirby Center back in 2012; creating a memory Keating and his son Tyler still cherish to this day.
"We are turned to leave, and he grabs the top of Tyler's head, and as you can see, he has very curly, great head of hair, and he says your son has one heck of a head of hair," he said.
Keating says another famous crooner once said Tony Bennett had the best singing voice of their generation.
The man who said that, according to Keating, was Frank Sinatra.
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In the winter of 2010, shortly after police discovered the remains of his roommate and three other women buried on a remote stretch of Long Island shoreline, Dave Schaller provided detectives with a description of the person he believed to be the killer.
More crucially, Schaller told them about his truck.
The man they were looking for was a towering, Frankenstein-like figure with an “empty gaze” who drove a first-generation Chrysler Avalanche, Schaller recalled telling investigators. The man’s size stuck out, as did his unusual pick-up truck, which he’d used to flee the house Schaller shared with Amber Costello.
On that night, Schaller said he came home to find the stranger threatening Costello, an occasional sex worker, who had locked herself in the bathroom. The two men came to blows, with the hulking intruder eventually leaving in the truck.
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Prosecutors say Costello was last seen alive on Sept. 2, 2010, as she left her home to meet that same client. A witness saw a dark-colored truck drive by the house again shortly after she left.
“When they told me she was dead, he was the first person who jumped in my head,” Schaller told The Associated Press. “I’ve been picturing his face for 13 years.”
Gilgo Beach Developments
On July 14, police arrested Rex Heuermann on charges of killing Costello and two other women, Melissa Barthelemy and Megan Waterman. He is the prime suspect in the death of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes. Heuermann, an architect who worked in Manhattan, has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The arrest marked a stunning breakthrough in the hunt for a serial killer who had eluded investigators and whose crimes gripped Long Islanders since the bodies of four women — all of them sex workers — were found wrapped in burlap near Gilgo Beach.
Within months, the remains of six other bodies, including a toddler, were discovered elsewhere along the same beach highway. Heuermann has not been accused in any of those cases. Police have said the deaths may be the work of multiple killers.
The arrest has brought a measure of relief to families of the victims at a moment when the trail appeared to have gone cold. But as new details emerge about how police finally caught the alleged killer, they’ve also raised questions about whether investigators adequately pursued a key lead — Schaller's description of the stranger and his truck — that may have helped solve the case sooner.
“This was crucial information, and I don’t know why they didn’t share it,” said Rob Trotta, a county legislator who worked as a Suffolk County Police detective until 2013. “They made some serious blunders here.”
Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney, who inherited the investigation when he took office in 2022, said the key to unraveling the case was the description of the truck, discovered by a state investigator after the launch of a new task force formed to take a fresh look at the evidence.
When they ran it through a vehicle records database, one of the results turned up a hit: A man who owned a Chevy Avalanche lived in a neighborhood that investigators were already zeroing in on as the suspect’s likely location because of a sophisticated analysis of cellphone location data and call records. Heuermann fit the physical description provided by Schaller, too: He was 6 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed 240 pounds.
Tierney told the AP he did not know why police had not run a search earlier, but suggested the piece of information may have been “lost within a sea of other tips and information.”
He stressed there were other elements that ultimately helped investigators arrest Heuermann, including new technology that helped match samples of DNA to the suspect.
“What solved this case was a lot of dedicated investigators, analysts and attorneys from a bunch of agencies getting together and collaborating,” he said.
But for Schaller, any feelings of relief over the arrest were soon eclipsed by anger and confusion.
Speaking out for the first time since the arrest, he said he had met with homicide detectives on multiple occasions during the initial years of the investigation.
During one of their final meetings, roughly two years after the women went missing, he said he picked the truck's model out of a line-up of photographs provided by the detectives.
“I gave them the exact description of the truck and the dude,” he said. “I mean come on, why didn’t they use that?”
The question has vexed some law enforcement officials as well. Two high-ranking officials who worked closely on the case and attended briefings between 2011 and 2013 said they never heard anything about a witness statement describing the suspect and his vehicle.
The law enforcement officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose information about the investigation.
According to a vehicle history report, Heuermann bought the pickup — a dark green, first-generation edition — at a Chevrolet dealer on Long Island in 2002 and transferred ownership to his brother, Craig, in South Carolina in 2012.
Authorities seized the vehicle last week. In a search warrant, they said they were looking for other clues in the vehicle or at property the brothers owned in Chester County, South Carolina, such as DNA, fluids, fingerprints, phones and what they described as possible “trophies” that may have belonged to the victims — clothing, jewelry, Bibles or photos.
Investigators said they were also looking for any electronics, video recordings and writings related to the killings; burlap; duct tape; guns and ammunition; cutting tools; and a specific type of paper towel from the Bounty Modern Print Collection.
While it’s not clear whether investigators pursued the tip about the vehicle before last year, those involved in the case pointed to fierce divisions between the various law enforcement agencies — as well as overlapping scandals that engulfed Suffolk County — as a potential explanation for a key clue slipping through the cracks.
Shortly after taking over the Suffolk County police department in 2012, James Burke moved to end cooperation with the FBI amid federal scrutiny of his own misconduct.
Four years later, Burke was sentenced to 46 months in prison after he was found to have conspired to cover-up his beating of a man who had discovered sex toys and pornography inside his car.
The federal inquiry would also lead to prison sentences for Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota, who oversaw the early years of the Gilgo Beach case, as well as the county’s top anticorruption prosecutor, Christopher McPartland.
“This was a dark cloud over the community,” recalled Tim Sini, who succeeded Burke as police commissioner and later became the county’s district attorney. “When you have the police department and the district attorney’s office blocking the FBI, that does not engender trust in law enforcement.”
Sini said he inherited an investigation that was “in disarray,” with detectives blocked from cooperating not only with federal investigators, but with the neighboring police department in Nassau County, where Heuermann lived.
He declined to say if he knew about the description of a suspect and its vehicle, but noted that his office invested heavily in technology that allowed investigators to track data from cellphone towers used by the suspect’s burner phone.
The arrest, Sini said, was the result of painstaking detective work that spanned multiple administrations and relied on a wide range of evidence. But, he added, “I wouldn’t call it a major success. The case should’ve been solved earlier."
Associated Press journalists Michael R. Sisak, Robert Bumsted and Julie Walker contributed to this report.
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A 30-year-old Lincoln man who sold heroin that led to a man's overdose death was sentenced Friday to just over nine years in federal prison.
Zachary Northey is being allowed to turn himself in to the Federal Bureau of Prisons to begin serving his sentence on Oct. 18.
"This case obviously involves a tragic situation where a victim overdosed and subsequently died," Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly Bunjer said in court Friday.
She said on three occasions, Northey had provided heroin to the victim, identified in the plea agreement as Mickey "Mick" Rowe.
"On the third is when he lost his life," Bunjer said.
She said Rowe had overdosed the first two times, but Northey continued to sell to him, a fact she called troubling.
Northey was indicted in 2019 and ultimately pleaded guilty to distributing heroin.
Bunjer said he had sold heroin to Rowe on Nov. 26, 2018, Jan. 2, 2019 and Jan. 8, 2019, the day before he died.
Early that morning, emergency responders went to a Lincoln home at 2300 Atlas Circle on a report of an overdose on suspected heroin or prescription medication, according to scanner traffic that day.
Rowe, 40, died. In the obituary that followed, family said he had lost his battle with addiction.
Bunjer said Northey has done well on supervision and has successfully completed treatment since then. The government also considered his lack of criminal record in reaching the agreement to a 110-month prison term, nearly five years below the guideline range.
Michael Hansen, of the Federal Public Defender's Office, said before Northey was indicted, he had made a number of bad decisions.
"This court gave him an opportunity to get off of 'bad decision road,' to address his chronic and severe addiction to opioids," he said.
In 28 years as a defense attorney, Hansen said he hadn't seen anyone redeem himself to the extent that Northey has. He applauded him for his work.
Northey turned down a chance to say anything before Senior U.S. District Judge John Gerrard sentenced him to the agreed term. First, he told Northey, while he was using and supplying heroin, he was in a bad spot.
"Bad things happen when that occurs. And of course a tragedy occurred in this case," the judge said.
Obviously, the results were substantial and that's why there would be a substantial prison sentence, Gerrard said. But he also considered the work he's made toward recovery and his lack of prior record.
And he sentenced Northey to nine years and two months in federal prison, plus three years of supervised release.
In May, Eric Sherrod Harris, the man who sold the drugs to Northey, was sentenced to 14 years.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Emotions ran high in a debate over parental rights versus the privacy and safety of LGBTQ+ students. It played out Thursday night at the Chino Valley Unified School District board meeting in Southern California's San Bernardino County, part of a broader conversation happening throughout the state.
At the center of the conversation was a controversial proposed Parental Notification Policy (pages 10-14 here), which a majority of board members ultimately approved after hours of public comment.
It requires teachers and staff to alert parents if a student is having suicidal thoughts or gets injured at school.
It also says teachers, counselors and staff members are to notify a student's parents within three days of learning the student wants to be treated as a gender other than the sex they were assigned at birth. That includes asking to go by a different name or pronouns, use a different restroom or join a sports team that doesn't correspond with their assigned sex at birth.
California's Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond spoke during the public section of the meeting, telling ABC10 in an interview the next day that students in that district invited him to come weigh in.
“I asked people to think from their heart about the impact that certain policies can have on young people,” said Thurmond. “I raised the example of a number of young people who are not in a home where it's safe for them to talk about their sexual orientation. I talked about the 40% of students who identify as LGBTQ+ who have thought about suicide and that a policy like this creates a high risk for many students to find themselves having suicidal thoughts. That, from a humanitarian standpoint, we should be thinking about what's best for our kids.”
He said Chino Valley is the first district he has seen take up this issue.
Republican Assemblymember Bill Essayli also spoke at the meeting. He told ABC10 how he believes "several other districts" will follow in Chino's footsteps.
He authored a parental notification bill which would require a similar practice at all California public school districts. It died in committee this session, but his office says he's committed to bringing it back next session.
“I do think it's important for parents to be involved,” said Essayli. “When a child is experiencing gender dysphoria, it's a real issue and it puts them in a higher risk for mental health issues, including suicide. We know through studies that the students do better with parental support, so to exclude parents, I think, is actually more harmful to the kids than positive.”
Thurmond said he thinks there’s a balance to be struck between parental rights and “the right of our students to be safe.”
California Attorney General Rob Bonta also weighed in Thursday. In a letter to the district and news release, he said, “by allowing for the disclosure of a student's gender identity without their consent... [this policy] would strip them of their freedom, violate their autonomy and potentially put them in a harmful situation."
He adds he "will take action as appropriate to... protect students' civil rights."
ABC10 asked Thurmond and Essayli why they think this is a state issue and not something strictly for the local, district level.
Essayli said he wrote that bill in response to the California Department of Education, which has previously issued guidance saying students are allowed to keep their gender identity private from their parents. He said writing a bill is his way of pushing back on what he thinks is bad policy.
Thurmond said he feels it's appropriate for the state to step in when school board policy is causing students to feel threatened and endangered, as he believes is the case for LGBTQ+ youth who aren't yet ready to share their gender identity with their families.
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STOCKTON, Calif — An new exhibit is giving an inside look at the effects of a historic redevelopment in 1950s East Stockton that can't be found in an ordinary library book.
Stockton's Mexican Heritage Center unveiled its newest show for this month, The Spirits of Barrio Del Chivo 'Goat Valley,' telling the stories of a close-knit community of color forced out of their homes due to being labeled a slum.
"When somebody was sick, they said they didn't go to doctors, they all went to church and prayed for the person," said Mexican Heritage Center executive director Gracie Madrid. "They said they never went hungry because even if the person of the house wasn't there, they could always go in the house, borrow sugar, borrow whatever they needed."
The neighborhood called Barrio Del Chivo, or 'Goat Valley,' was a community of a majority Hispanic and some Black members. According to Madrid, it was called Goat Valley because a lot of goats were raised and eaten in the area.
At the time, the state was giving out grants to cities like Stockton to identify several underdeveloped communities, labeling them "slums" and they would choose one for state-funded redevelopment.
"This was unfortunately the area selected by the city council to demolish and the reason they declared it a slum area was because they said it was unhealthy," said Madrid. "There was no indoor plumbing and they just said it was not safe to be there."
The exhibit also features voices from people who lived in the neighborhood telling the stories of how the community came together in times of need despite living in poverty.
A majority of people living in the slum at the time owned their homes and according to testimonies voiced by former residents in the exhibit, the amount the cities gave them in exchange for their homes wasn't enough to afford homes outside of the community.
"Some of their houses were cardboard boxes, but it was their home and they were happy there," said Madrid. "They had to find another place to live and they didn't have the money."
Community organizations and activists like the NAACP, Delores Huerta and several others came forward during meetings to voice their opposition to the redevelopment and alternative motions, all of which are printed out for display in the exhibit.
"When they were discussing it [it] caused a lot of bad feelings with the people and they had meetings and a lot of the community people would come in saying they wanted a self-help program instead of demolishing and doing away with the neighborhood," said Madrid.
Council meeting notes from the time the decision was made, photos from the time in the slum, clothes, furniture and exclusive interviews with former residents will be featured in the show until July 28 at the Mexican Heritage Center on S. Sutter Street.
The immersive exhibit has been seven years in the making which, according to Madrid, was due to how hard it was to uncover any information about the historic event.
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PLACER COUNTY, Calif. — Placer County Sheriff Wayne Woo stood in front of cameras July 10 to tell the community that elected him the manhunt for one of the county’s most dangerous inmates was over.
Inmate Eric Abril, who is awaiting trial on murder charges, was captured by deputies after a massive 33-hour manhunt around Roseville and Rocklin.
The sheriff said Abril managed to escape while on a trip away from the county jail for hospital treatment. Woo owned the crisis at the news conference.
“As the sheriff of this entire county, I take full responsibility for this incident,” said Woo. “This should never have happened.”
Responding to a half dozen requests for public records made by ABC10 under state transparency laws, the sheriff’s office said it decided to withhold nearly all the information requested.
The lack of openness from the sheriff's office has raised further questions about the handling of the case and the extent to which crucial information is being withheld from the public.
“The public generally has a right to the full story, not just the official story,” said attorney David Loy with the First Amendment Coalition. “That's exactly why we have a Public Records Act so we can verify what politicians promise to us.”
ABC10 reached out to the sheriff's office for comment on this story but received no response before our deadline.
The sheriff’s office released only a single page under the Public Records Act: an “end of watch” report from days before the escape on July 6, the day Abril was transferred to the hospital.
The page shows a deputy was assigned to guard Abril and he was transported by ambulance, but the vast majority of details on the page were blacked out.
Back in April, officers tried to serve a search warrant on Abril in a Roseville Park. He’s accused of shooting one of the officers, and a couple he took hostage. James MacEgan, the husband, died.
Despite the seriousness of his alleged crimes, Abril was reclassified in May as needing only one deputy as a guard for trips away from the jail. The sheriff’s office declined to provide any records related to how that determination was made.
The Placer County Sheriff’s Office also kept secret basic information about its own staffing levels around the time of the escape.
Loy was especially troubled by the fact the Placer County Sheriff’s Office refused to release its duty rosters, the list of who was working around the time of the escape. The agency also refused to share its own minimum staffing levels.
The sheriff’s office argued releasing these facts wouldn’t be in the public interest, despite the fact the sheriff personally fielded questions about them.
“I have no information to believe that this was at all related to staffing levels,” said Woo at the July 10 news conference.
“The public has a right to know [the staffing levels] whether the sheriff made that statement or not,” said Loy. “The public always has an interest in knowing who's on the public payroll. Are they doing their job? How are they being managed? How are they being allocated? It's our tax dollars.”
The response to ABC10’s records requests did provide one new detail: the sheriff’s office said it does not have a written agreement with Sutter Roseville Medical Center regarding the management of in-custody patients.
In addition to his existing murder case, Abril now faces additional charges of escape.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two people were found dead from suspected fentanyl overdoses in north Sacramento Friday, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office.
A 46-year-old man was found just after 9 a.m. near the 3600 block of Elkhorn Boulevard. A sheriff's office press release says he was unresponsive as fire personnel performed lifesaving measures. He was later pronounced dead.
A few hours later and miles away, a 16-year-old boy was found unresponsive behind a dumpster near the 7400 block of Watt Avenue. The call came in just after 1 p.m. and he was later pronounced dead at the scene after lifesaving measures were attempted, according to the release.
The sheriff's office says both cases appear to be fentanyl overdoses, but the official cause of death will be determined by the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Representing America in the Olympics is a dream for many young athletes.
Rock climber Ben Jennings has his eyes set on the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Jennings, a 19-year-old Butler University student from Carmel, is Indiana's very own "Spiderman." He can scramble up a massive wall in the blink of an eye.
At the national championships in Utah, he won the junior title while setting a national record, racing up a 45-foot wall in 5.7 seconds, a mark he described as "pretty average."
"The world record now is just set right below five seconds. So it's like a 4.90 right now," he said. "The sport's just evolving and it's getting super fast."
Jennings practices most days at Epic Climbing and Fitness. He's getting ready to climb against the best in the world in August at the World Youth Championship in Seoul, South Korea.
"It's a really special accomplishment for me. I try not to take it too seriously or anything, I'm still in the youth stage, but it does mean a lot and it tells me I'm (among) some of the best competitors in the country for my sport, which is really meaningful," Jennings said.
Speed climbing is a new sport featured in the Summer Olympics. Coach Jessi Haynes said Jennings has the talent to climb his way there.
"He is really young, so he has so many years ahead of him in terms of potential," Haynes said. "And just because of his work ethic and his positive attitude, I think absolutely, if he continues to put his nose to the grindstone."
Jennings will be a sophomore at Butler this fall, while keeping a firm grip on his ultimate goal.
"2024 Games are kind of out of the question, just because of age and where I'm at right now at this point in time, but the L.A. '28 games are kind of what I have my eyes set on," he said.
One wall at a time, Ben Jennings is chasing those dreams.
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Lansing man convicted of threatening federal judge, sheriff, court clerk
A 41-year-old Lansing man has been convicted by a federal jury on charges he sent threats to public officials, U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison announced Friday.
Kevin William Cassaday was convicted last week after a four-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Laurie Michelson. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on all counts after deliberating for less than two hours, Ison said in a statement.
Cassaday was charged with threatening a federal district court judge’s chamber, Ingham County Sheriff Scott Wriggelsworth and the Court of Claims clerk’s office.
Officials said his threatening communications included: “I am going to get my guns and we are going to have a party,” “You want me to kill, I will start with you and your family,” and “I want the clerk dead!”
At trial, those that received Cassady’s threats called them "the most direct and persistent threats that they had ever received during their government service," Ison said.
“Public officials should be free to serve their communities without worrying about threats to their lives,” Ison wrote Friday. “This offender’s threats to harm a member of the judiciary, an elected law enforcement official, and at least one other public employee caused undue concern for these employees. The jury has rightfully sent the message that threats to those serving the public will not be tolerated.”
Devin Kowalski, acting Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Michigan, said the verdict sends a clear message that threats against public officials will not be tolerated.
“Mr. Cassaday intended to intimidate and create fear in victims whose jobs are integral to our justice system,” he wrote. “The FBI and our law enforcement partners are committed to aggressively investigating those who threaten members of our community with violence.”
Cassaday's conviction comes after a 33-year-old woman recently was sentenced in connection with threatening Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Last month, a northern Michigan man accused of extremist, anti-government views pleaded guilty to possessing illegal pipe bombs. Prosecutors expressed concern about Terrence VanOchten engaging in "disturbing behavior," citing comments he made about placing former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's head on a stick.
A northern Michigan man earlier threatened to kill U.S. President Joe Biden and phoned in bomb threats nationwide, according to the FBI.
In March, federal prosecutors unsealed a case against Sebewaing resident Randall Robert Berka II, whom authorities linked to a YouTube account titled “kill all federal agents on sight and hang biden” that included threats to kill members of the LGBTQ+ community and Democrats, namely Whitmer.
A grand jury has also indicted an Adrian-area man accused of posting threats on Twitter to kill Jewish politicians, including Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
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Livonia lawyer accused of smuggling drugs into state prison
A 69-year-old attorney from Livonia has been arrested amid accusations he smuggled drugs into a prison in Branch County, authorities announced Friday.
the attorney was arrested on Thursday for felony offenses involving “illegal controlled substances” being brought into the Lakeland Correctional Facility “under the guise of an attorney client visit," according to the Michigan State Police Marshall Post.
The attorney has not been named pending an arraignment, officials said in a statement.
State police arrested the man with help from the Michigan Department of Corrections. Both are conducting a joint investigation, which police said started in June.
The suspect is being held at the Branch County Jail and was expected to be arraigned soon, investigators said.
“The issue of smuggling drugs, cell phones, weapons, and other dangerous items is a serious matter with serious safety implications for all involved including the prison staff who have to deal with the results once the items are inside,” officials said.
“MSP would like to remind people to be wary when asked to bring items into a prison or jail outside of accepted normal practices allowed by that facility. We also would remind people that specifically not knowing what you are bringing in does not automatically absolve you of any legal responsibilities or consequences if caught.”
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BOISE — With the sun barely above the foothills, kids and adults gathered near a side channel of the Boise River to peek at the temporary captives.
A team of bird banders at the Intermountain Bird Observatory’s Diane Moore Nature Center were making the rounds to different mist nets, a contraption designed for snagging birds to study, then release, for science.
Once caught in the net, team members retrieve the birds, identify what species they are, record data such as sex and weight, and put a small metal band on their leg with an identification number unique to them. Visitors have the chance to “release” the bird — holding out their hand for the bird to stand on before it flies off.
Though the nature center hosts banding events frequently where visitors can drop by to learn about birds, Thursday’s event was a little different. Organizers of Latino Conservation Week had planned events every day for the community to grow its connection with nature, and Thursday, several families with kids had come to the bird banding event to learn and enjoy being outside ahead of the 100-plus-degree heat.
America Yorita-Carrión, one of the local Latino Week Conservation organizers, brought her two children to the event. She is one of five co-founders of Peques Nature Club — peques means “little ones” — a community group of parents that wanted to coordinate more nature experiences for their children.
“One of the things that brought us together as parents is that we understand the educational and life outcomes that come from spending time in nature,” Yorita-Carrión said.
Another aim of the group is representation in outdoor spaces and Spanish language preservation, Yorita-Carrión said.
It’s about “normalizing that I’m making these efforts to preserve the Spanish language and culture and (my kids) can see that other families are doing the same, and it doesn’t feel as isolating or something that’s just happening in our home,” she said.
A NATURE-FILLED WEEKThe week began with a kick-off event at the MK Nature Center in Boise on July 15 that featured local Mexican folk dancing group Ballet Folklorico Mexico Lindo, family-friendly activities, and Boise Mayor Lauren McLean reading a proclamation declaring Latino Conservation Week. Each day after, different organizers and community partners led events in locations across the Treasure Valley. Activities included a greenbelt walk hosted by the University of Idaho Extension offices of Ada and Canyon counties where kids could collect some plants and watercolor. Peques Nature Club hosted a water celebration ceremony at Discovery Park in Meridian, Yorita-Carrión said.
“It’s just fun ways to experience being outside, finding joy in that and learning why we should protect those things that we find enjoyment in,” she said.
This is the second year that Yorita-Carrión has helped plan the week-long series of events as part of a task force of community groups and agencies for Latino Conservation Week.
The event was first created by the Hispanic Access Foundation in 2014, and has grown since then to include people in many parts of the country, she said. In the Treasure Valley, in addition to Peques Nature Club parents, local organizers include Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge and The Nature Conservancy of Idaho.
At Thursday’s bird banding, many of the songbirds being caught — like yellow-rumped warblers, orioles, and house wrens — are migratory, spending their summers in Idaho and wintering in Mexico and Central America, said Heidi Ware Carlisle, education director for Intermountain Bird Observatory. Others are year-round residents, like chickadees and red-winged blackbirds.
She said restoration done to a nearby side channel of the Boise River, bringing water back in, also appears to have created habitat for aquatic insects that hatch into their adult land phase, providing food for more birds, though she noted they only have one fall’s worth of data so far.
“(The birds) were just swarming,” she said. “Every morning as the sun would hit, the yellow-rumped warblers would show up, and they would just follow the sun as it was coming up the channel, foraging all along it.”
Volunteers have been revegetating the sides of the channel, which will provide additional shrubby habitat enticing to many birds in the years to come, she said.
A NEW WAY OF ENGAGEMENTDevyn Hallamore, the community conservation ambassador with Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge, said there are two important things to keep in mind about the week and working with the Latino community. First, the activities are open to everyone, not just Latinos, she said.
“It’s for us all to come together to recognize and support the Latino community, but everyone is invited and included, and everything we’ve planned is free and family-friendly,” Hallamore said.
Second, Hallamore said that she has heard some organization leaders say they would like to be coordinating with the Latino community more, but are not sure where to begin. She thinks it takes having more regular conversations that bring together Latino community members and organizations, as well as the agencies and organizations looking to partner with them to create new activities. It is less about outreach, and more about engagement, she said.
“We focus a lot on doing things with the community, not for the community,” she said. “I won’t design an environmental education program and say, ‘who wants to do this?’ But I’ll find someone I want to partner with and then go, ‘what are your goals? And how can we design this together to achieve both of our goals?’”
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ANNAPOLIS — A company in Annapolis is reducing waste by using 3D printing and advanced knitting to create shoes that are mostly made out of the recycled material.
For shoe makers Trey Hentz, Alan Guyan and Kevin Fisher the operation of starting a footwear focused on waste reduction started in a garage in Annapolis.
Now craftsmen and digital machines create Made Plus in a small factory in Annapolis.
"We built a shoe factory and a shoe brand and a shoe all together at the same time and we did that in 18 months,” said Trey Hentz who is the Chief Manufacturing Officer for Made Plus.
All three creators have a background working with shoes. Trey came from Nike while Kevin and Alan came from Under Armour, giving them the knowledge it takes to craft a detailed shoe brand.
"We use advance knitting operations 3d printing technology and computerized stitching operations,” said Alan Guyan who is the founder and CEO of Made Plus.
The made to order shoe company launched June first of this year.
"Were crafting the shoe for the individual customer, so that's number one. Number two because we're doing a one for one literally also beside for our standard items, the customer has the opportunity to customize their shoe,” said Hentz.
They say their brand is also based on ethically creating the product.
"The shoe laces are recycled, the internal components have been recycled, unfortunately we can't recycle yet the outsole and the insole we're still trying to figure out ways to get through there,” said Hentz.
Each pair of shoes is made from about seven water bottles. This first collection is named after a boat Skiff from the bay in Annapolis.
"We chose the name skiff because it is a very small boat in the Annapolis community particularly for the bay but it's also a small boat as we are a small company,” said Guyan.
Currently the shoes only ship in the U.S. but they are looking to expand.
"Our traditional process is about 30 days but we're really shipping in about 14 days right now,” said Guyan.
Achieving their goals one step at a time, "Traditional shoemaking in athletic space could be between 360 and 400 steps our first goal out of the gate was to be under 50 and we achieved that,” said Guyan.
Alan and trey said they are competitively priced costing a little more than the traditional big brands.
To order a pair of these locally made shoes head to https://www.madeplus.com/
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AUSTIN, Texas — Vic's BBQ opened its doors in Del Valle in 1987, then moved to southeast Austin in 1998 with great success.
Ysabel Murrieta's husband, Vic, owns Vic's, while she and her sister mostly operate it six days a week, and it's a job she's been doing with pride for more than 20 years.
Sadly, it's one she may soon have to say goodbye to.
During the pandemic, the restaurant shut down for two months and according to Murrieta, it never recovered. Over the past three years, business has suffered, leading to staff shortages and hiked up prices.
Her sister, Lupe Garcia, stepped up and came out of retirement just to help out.
"We were always open from 6 [a.m.] to 8 [p.m.]. We did breakfast, lunch and dinner... now we're only doing breakfast and lunch because it pretty much dies out here after 3 p.m., it slows down," said Murrieta. "Everything that we have to put into the business is pretty much coming in and going out, right out. There [are] no little extras, you know, like we used to have before."
The business has done what it can to stay afloat by using small business loans and applying for grants. However, Murrieta said when she and her husband attempted to apply for an ERC (Employee Retention Credit) grant, they did not qualify due to having family members on staff.
Through the setbacks and customer decline, Murrieta worries the decision to close may come sooner rather than later.
"We have a good business. It's good. But maybe we're in the wrong location," said Murrieta.
Murrieta acknowledged that if she and her husband were to shut down, it would be extremely difficult. She worries for her employees who have been with her for more than 20 years.
She only hopes before that decision is made, a miracle comes around.
"Vic and I have talked about it, but until you really realize it's going to happen -- that's the hard part," said Murrieta.
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WINTERSET, Iowa — Winterset Police Chief Ken Burk passed away on Friday, July 21, after two decades of service to his community.
The Winterset Police Department posted a message honoring Burk on their Facebook Friday, which reads in part:
"Chief Burk has proudly led the Winterset Police Department for the past 20 years. We kindly ask that you keep the Burk family and the Winterset Police Department in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time."
Burk served as the chief of police for the past twenty years for a team of nine total officers. It's not only the Winterset Police Department who are grieving the loss of their police chief, but city officials who knew him well.
Winterset City Administrator Drew Barden said he had a very close relationship with Chief Burk.
He was "professional, collaborative, honest, a leader, confident," Barden told Local 5 with tears welling in his eyes.
Barden added: “[Chief Burk] cared about his community. He didn’t just do a job. He truly felt like he was serving and protecting his community.”
Winterset has a population of just over 5,300 people, and Barden said almost everyone knew Chief Burk.
"Chief is ... a part of this community," Barden explained. "Chief wasn't just doing a job, chief was a citizen of Winterset as well."
Someone Winterset mayor Philip Macumber knew for many years. Macumber told Local 5 News that Burk would sit in on city council meetings even when he didn’t have to, because he just cared so much about improving the city of Winterset.
“It’s been tolling on me not only professionally, but personally," Barden said.
Chief Burk's passing on Friday has been a difficult situation for Barden and the rest of the community — the he lived to serve.
“The Winterset Police department, [Burk’s] family, the city staff and this community are grieving his loss," Barden said.
“Chief was the epitome of what a police officer is," he added. "And that was protecting and serving this community.”
The funeral service to honor Chief Ken Burk's life is pending and arrangements are being handled at Caldwell Parrish, Winterset Chapel, the city said.
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DULUTH — Cirrus Aircraft has purchased a building it has leased from the City of Duluth for the last two decades.
Cirrus purchased the 79,000-square-foot Incubator Building, sometimes called the Customer Building, at 4973 Airport Road, for $3.45 million, the city and company announced in a joint news release Friday.
“The purchase of the incubator building will allow us to expand production and meet the growing demands of our customers,” Zean Nielsen, Cirrus CEO, said in the release.
In April, the Duluth Economic Development Authority considered using the proceeds of the sale to fund the city-owned broadband system, ultimately passing a resolution that said proceeds from the property sale to Cirrus “may be” used to fund the city’s broadband internet project, “subject to council approval.”
But as of Friday, there is not yet a specific plan for the money.
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"The intended use of the proceeds are undetermined at this time, but will go toward advancement of economic development in the city," city spokesperson Kelli Latuska said in an email to the News Tribune.
According to a 2002 News Tribune article, a federal grant from the Economic Development Administration contributed $3.5 million toward the building's construction. The city of Duluth issued bonds for another $3.1 million and retained ownership of the land while DEDA owned the structure. Cirrus, which contributed $2 million to the project, leased the building and its lease payments were used to pay off the city's bonds.
The company has grown substantially since then, and in 2011, it was acquired by China Aviation Industry General Aircraft (CAIGA), an offshoot of the government-owned Aviation Industry Corp. of China.
Last year, the company saw annual billings of more than $765 million, behind the sale of 629 aircraft, including 90 personal jets, in addition to the company's piston-driven airplanes.
Today, the company employs more than 1,300 people in Duluth.
“Cirrus Aircraft is a major force in our economy, and I am eager to see what they can do to advance aviation through this expansion,” Duluth Mayor Emily Larson said in the release. “The confidence of Cirrus to invest here is a signal of the abundant opportunity we offer as a City and region, and gets us one step closer to meeting my vision of being the best possible place to do business in the State of Minnesota."
Last year, Cirrus bought the 189,000-square-foot former Northwest Airlines maintenance base from DEDA for $1.
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The Allen County Council has started the annual budget process, but members and departments still face many unknowns – including the size of raises county employees will receive next year.
Auditor Nick Jordan described this week’s discussion about the 2024 budget as a high-level look that will help guide department heads as they work on next year’s financial plans. Department budgets are due Aug. 18.
However, county officials have less information to work with this year because of the unresolved pay raises and a few other unknowns. Council members aren’t required to determine employee raises in July, but it helps inform the budgeting process, Jordan said.
Councilman Ken Fries, R-at large, advocated for 6.25% pay increases during 2022 discussions and then scaled back his proposal to 5.5% raises, which council members approved. On Thursday, Fries said he wants employees to get an appropriate cost of living raise and suggested possible increases of 5% or 6%.
In the budget pre-allocation report, Jordan factored in a 3% cost-of-living raise, which is based on a compensation study by the Ohio firm Clemans, Nelson & Associates. A 3% raise would eliminate many of the issues with red-line employees – those whom the consultants determined are paid too much for their positions.
The first phase of the compensation study included about 1,200 employees in grids for non-sworn officers, labor and professional office support. About 700 employees received raises, which account for nearly $2 million of the 2024 budget. For comparison, this year’s county total budget is about $275 million, and the city of Fort Wayne’s is about $215 million.
More changes will come as part of the second and third phases of the compensation study. The second phase focused on about 30 employees in higher management and will require about $100,000 to $150,000 in higher pay, Jordan estimated Friday.
The third phase will look at pay for elected officials and chief deputies.
Jordan’s pre-allocation report is based on projected revenue for 2024 and the 2023 budget approved last year.
The county is looking at about $132 million in anticipated revenue, including $75 million in property taxes and almost $57 million in other general fund revenue. The 2023 budget figure used for analysis in the auditor’s office was about $131 million.
The council members will have about $2.7 million in the budget to pay for employee raises and requests from departments for money beyond their 2023 budgets. If members had approved the 3% raise Jordan included in the report, Council members would have had about $182,000 for the additional requests department heads will pitch in September.
A 5% raise would cost more than $4 million and would leave the current projected budget at a deficit of more than $1 million with no dollars for appeals.
Last year, council members faced $2.7 million in appeals from departments hoping to get more money approved for their budgets. Some departments didn’t spend all the money they were budgeted, resulting in about $500,000 returned to the county and available for other needs.
Generally, County Council hears appeals for upwards of $1 million or more each year.
Another unknown factor is how much the county will receive in local income tax. Allen County is expected to receive about $25 million in local income tax for public safety and certified shares.
County officials have created a system with three new fire districts and the Southwest Allen County Fire Protection District to cover the county, which will affect how much local income tax the county receives. The three new fire districts will receive pieces of the local income tax that are currently split among the county, cities, towns, townships and public safety agencies.
The Department of Local Government Finance has not yet determined how much the fire districts will receive, but Jordan said it could reduce the county’s share by about $700,000 or $800,000. The county’s share for 2023 will depend on the amount of local income tax collected but was projected to be about $21 million.
County Council members have also been focused on funding the construction of a new jail.
A request from the commissioners for a 0.2% local income tax increase to help fund the new Allen County Jail was rejected Thursday after four of the six present members voted in opposition.
Aside from the one-time cost for the facility’s construction, County Council would have to allocate more money to the sheriff’s department for operations in the larger jail.
“If a new, bigger jail is built, one would assume higher operational costs. That’s not currently being factored in,” Jordan said. “That aside, the county is still in very, very good fiscal position.”
County Council next meets at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 17. Appeals will be considered in September, and members plan to finalize the 2024 budget at the Oct. 19 meeting.
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The American dream of homeownership is getting further out of reach for many Hoosiers.
As pandemic-era supply shortages began to return to normal, home prices fell, giving prospective homebuyers hope they could find something affordable. But those hopes were dashed for some who found they could not afford the high mortgage rates, which are more than double pandemic lows.
According to Paul Schwinghammer, former president of the Indiana Builders Association, markets will bounce back eventually. But when prices return to “normal,” many will still be unable to afford the investment that sustained previous generations.
“The days of a brand-new home at $200,000 are probably very much in our rearview mirror,” Schwinghammer said.
Potential homeowners increasingly are pushed into becoming renters due to high mortgage rates. But the thriving rental market is not the silver bullet to the housing market some think it is, Schwinghammer said.
“That’s not the American dream,” he said.
Homeownership grows more costly
Housing has become more expensive in the past several decades.
In 1950, Hoosiers made less – the median household income was $2,827, or about $30,000 in today’s dollars. Now the median household income is $61,944 – or more than twice the 1950 amount. But housing prices have zoomed past that growth.
In 1950, the inflation-adjusted cost of the median home value was around $70,000. Today, the median listing price is $218,000, according to the state housing dashboard. In other words, the cost of housing has tripled, clearly outpacing wage growth in Indiana.
The cause of this gap is hotly debated. Some argue it is due to a decreased supply of housing. In Indiana, 16.8% of existing housing was built prior to 1940, and the percentage of homes built in the 2010s makes up the smallest slice of the housing pie at just 5.3%.
Experts point to the 2008 housing crash as a major factor in the building slowdown. After the crash, the membership of the Indiana Builders Association fell from 7,200 to 3,000, and the industry has been cautious ever since.
Although building picked up pace in response to pandemic-driven demand, Indiana still has a 1.04% shortage of housing stock according to FreddieMac – the largest of all surrounding states.
Community opposition
At the most basic level, a housing unit cannot be cheaper than the raw cost to build it. During the pandemic, supply and demand saw timber, copper and other building materials spike in price, which was exacerbated by high labor costs. Schwinghammer argues this raw cost can be further increased by municipal regulations surrounding lot size, materials and aesthetics.
“That’s all well and good, except you’re ruling out homebuyers,” he said.
For affordability advocates, a relatively simple solution is increasing the number of homes that can be built in an area by reducing lot size. This allows more homes to be built, increasing supply, all at a savings to builders. Affordability advocates hope builders pass that savings on to consumers.
But in practice, housing density is fiercely contested. Examples of density include apartment complexes and duplexes, which aren’t options if an area is zoned for single-family use. Other times, rules including parking space requirements can thwart density attempts.
But overwhelmingly, the biggest opposition to denser housing can come from neighbors and community members, whether it’s an apartment complex in Broad Ripple or a controversial zoning change to allow for multifamily housing in certain Bloomington neighborhoods. In fact, a survey of New York developers found that the majority of opposition to developments came from residents.
Ultimately, Indiana joins most of the country in having high rates of single-family detached housing, with that housing type making up 73% of all housing in Indiana, according to the state housing dashboard.
A shortage of affordable housing
Housing supply remains low in general, but low-income Hoosiers are facing an even bigger gap when it comes to affordable housing supply. According to a Prosperity Indiana report, the state is 120,796 homes short of affordable and available rental homes, which means there are only 39 affordable units available for every 100 low-income renter households. The numbers show Indiana is performing worse than the regional average.
“Indiana is increasingly out of step with its Midwest peers when it comes to affordability and stability,” said Andrew Bradley, policy director at Prosperity Indiana.
One method of helping low-income renters is Section 8 housing, a federal program that allows income-qualifying individuals to pay subsidized rents. But the program often fails to meet the demand. In Indiana, people are often on waitlists for three to five years before they can get housing, and sometimes the waitlists themselves are closed. There are currently seven waitlists open on the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority website, spanning only about a third of the state’s counties.
With state and federal assistance so hard to find, some municipalities have attempted to fill the gap in affordable housing through local regulations.
In Bloomington, where housing is the most expensive in the state, local officials attempted to implement inclusionary zoning in 2017. Inclusionary zoning requires developers to include a certain percentage of affordable units in their projects instead of trying to individually negotiate more affordable units through incentives.
That same year, the Indiana General Assembly banned municipalities from doing so, halting the city’s plans. Today, Indiana preempts municipalities from enacting four different types of equitable housing policies. In addition to inclusionary zoning, these include short-term rentals, source of income nondiscrimination policies and rent regulation. Indiana is the only state in the country to prohibit all four policies.
Bradley said Indiana’s Housing Task Force is focusing too much on building new homes instead of sharing a focus on strengthening protections for tenants and improving current housing stock. He said this is partly due to a lack of representation of everyday Hoosiers on the task force.
He referenced Senate Bill 202 as an example of the legislature’s priorities. The bipartisan legislation focused on tenant protections but was later stripped down to a study bill. The bill did not end up passing the House and was not selected as a summer study topic.
“Suppliers of new housing have dominated the conversation at the Statehouse,” Bradley said.
Homebuyers suffer from high rates
Although commodity prices have decreased 10% across the board, homebuyers are not seeing relief due to high mortgage rates, which currently hover around 7%, Schwinghammer said. Although mortgage rates have spiked as high as 16% in previous decades, the current rate is higher than pre-pandemic rates of around 4% and pandemic lows of 3%.
Part of this is due to the Federal Reserve’s sharp hikes in interest rates in order to combat inflation.
Ultimately, Schwinghammer said, it would take 33% of the average person’s wage to begin homeownership – resulting in the highest debt-to-income ratio since 2007. Housing is effectively the least affordable it’s been in nearly two decades, he said.
As potential homebuyers are shut out of the market, builders have turned to the build-for-rent phenomenon sweeping the country in order to keep busy. Build for rent involves communities of single-family rental homes that people can live in without making a purchase, allowing people to avoid interest rates.
Schwinghammer said build for rent, which once accounted for 3% of the market, is now 15%.
As people struggle to afford new homes, pre-existing – and often cheaper – homes are selling less because homeowners don’t want to trade in their lower mortgage rates for the current 7% interest rate.
But the market is cyclical by nature, Schwinghammer said, and interest rates will likely be declining in a year.
“The natural ebbs and flows of the market will allow that to happen,” he said.
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Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is continuing his fight on culture war issues, this time on reproductive health care records and workplace diversity.
Last month, Rokita joined opponents of a draft federal privacy rule that would block state officials from accessing information on residents’ reproductive health care services – including abortions – obtained outside the state.
Rokita joined 18 other Republican attorneys general who signed the June 16 letter, opposing the change proposed in April by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to amend HIPAA, the federal law restricting release of medical information.
The rule change would block state authorities – including the attorney general – from obtaining protected information about reproductive health care services obtained lawfully out of state “for criminal, civil or administrative investigations or proceedings” against those individuals or regulated entities.
That protected patient information on reproductive health care services would include those related to pregnancy, contraception, fertility, prenatal care, miscarriage management and abortion.
State laws ‘at risk,’ Rokita letter says
Rokita said in a June 20 tweet that HHS’s new proposed rule “carves out” reproductive health care “from important exceptions” to HIPAA, which “puts many of Indiana’s laws at risk.” He did not say specifically which exceptions, or what laws could be in jeopardy, however.
His office also did not comment further on the attorney general’s current authority to obtain out-of-state medical records.
In the proposed rule change, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said that after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision last year – which allowed and prompted many states including Indiana to ban most abortions – the federal department has fielded concerns about “instituted or threatened” investigations of health care information in states where abortion remains legal.
Becerra said that “is likely to chill individuals’ willingness to seek lawful treatment or to provide full information to their health care providers when obtaining that treatment.”
The letter signed by Rokita and his colleagues accuses President Joe Biden’s administration of seeking to “wrest control over abortion back from the people in defiance of the Constitution and Dobbs,” based on “a false narrative that states are seeking to treat pregnant women as criminals or punish medical personnel who provide lifesaving care.”
The letter, led by Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, argues the rule change would “upset the careful, decades-old balance” of safeguarding patient privacy with “permitting disclosure of information to state authorities to protect public health, safety and welfare,” along with unlawfully interfering with states’ authority to enforce their laws.
The GOP attorneys general additionally said the broad definition of reproductive health care in the rule change could enable the Biden administration “to advance radical transgender-policy goals” and “obstruct state laws concerning experimental gender-transition procedures for minors (such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgical interventions).”
A split ruling from the Indiana Supreme Court late last month will likely put the state’s near-total abortion ban back into effect, despite an earlier injunction. The prohibition was enacted by the Indiana General Assembly last year.
During the 2023 legislative session, state lawmakers passed a medical care ban for transgender minors that no longer allows parents to authorize gender-affirming care for their children.
The law took partial effect this month – banning only the surgical procedures – while a lawsuit plays out in federal court.
Democrats support new federal rules
Meanwhile, all 23 Democratic state attorneys general signed on to a separate letter in June in support of the proposed HHS patient privacy protections, maintaining that the Dobbs decision “has created a climate of uncertainty and fear in the provision of reproductive health care throughout the country.”
They added that “rapid technological advances have transformed how health care providers and individuals collect and store their personal health information, including reproductive health data.” But existing privacy protections, they continued, “have not kept up with these changes and fail to contemplate circumstances in which basic health care is subject to civil liability and criminal penalties.”
GOP hits firms’ diversity programs
The Democrats’ letter also calls on HHS officials to clarify that the privacy protections would extend to include information on gender-affirming care.
Last week, Rokita joined another letter penned by GOP attorneys general warning the nation’s largest companies – many of which have diversity and equity programs – they could face legal action for using race-based policies.
In the July 13 letter, Rokita and a coalition of 12 other attorneys general put Fortune 100 companies on notice that they could be hit with legal action for violating the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, which put an end to using race as a basis for admitting students to college. The attorneys general targeted hiring and contracting, too.
The letter compares policies held by many Fortune 100 companies to slavery and racial segregation.
“In an inversion of the odious discriminatory practices of the distant past, today’s major companies adopt explicitly race-based initiatives which are similarly illegal,” the letter says, pointing to “racial quotas” in hiring, recruiting, retention, promotion and advancement.
The letter immediately reminds companies they must refrain from “discriminating on the basis of race, whether under the label of ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ or otherwise. Treating people differently because of the color of their skin, even for benign purposes, is unlawful and wrong.”
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling struck down race-based admissions policies at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina.
The letter says the court’s decision “reinforced the principle that all racial discrimination, no matter the motivation, is insidious and unlawful,” which means eliminating “all of it.”
“If your company previously resorted to racial preferences or naked quotas to offset its bigotry, that discriminatory path is now definitively closed,” the letter continued. “Your company must overcome its underlying bias and treat all employees, all applicants, and all contractors equally, without regard for race.”
Rokita’s endorsement comes after he also criticized Target’s Pride campaign earlier this month, claiming in a Republican-backed letter that the corporation is infringing on states’ ability to “safeguard citizens.”
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When Keoni Seals was about 11 months old, he would spend an entire day screaming in pain. It was unsettling, so his mother, Shyra, took him to the emergency room.
For three months, Keoni was in and out of the hospital, even spending his first birthday in the emergency room. His pediatrician would try her best to help, but the infant would need special treatment from Riley Children’s Hospital.
Keoni has sickle cell disease, a painful condition that causes red blood cells to change into a sickle shape and break down. Indiana is one of the 11 states in the country that works with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help with its Sickle Cell Data Collection Program.
Sickle cell disease primarily affects Black people, with 1 in 13 being born with the disease trait, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
The Indiana Department of Health has a Lifelong Sickle Cell Collaborative Services Grant, which received an extra $500,000 at the beginning of July, according to the Indiana Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center.
The grant will be distributed between the Indiana Department of Health, the Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center and other sickle cell community advocates to provide education and resources to sickle cell patients in the state.
Now, at age 20, Keoni is still feeling the effects of sickle cell disease, Shyra Seals said. He’s had his spleen removed and received countless blood transfusions. Sickle cell disease can lead to infections, fatigue and painful episodes in the chest that can last for days or weeks.
At one point, he had pica, a disorder that causes children to crave items that aren’t food and can lead to lead poisoning.
“We didn’t have anyone in Fort Wayne to help at first,” Seals said. “There was a lot more support in Indianapolis.”
When Keoni was receiving treatment at Lutheran Hospital, they met Beverly Lymon, who is in charge of the Timothy Lymon Sickle Cell Foundation – a local nonprofit and support group for both children and adults. Lymon named the foundation after her brother, Timothy Lymon, who had sickle cell disease and died when he was 17.
“We try to educate people about the disease,” Lymon said. “We work with youth that have the disease and their siblings as well because the disease not only affects youth, it affects the whole family.”
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Lymon said, the group met once a month at one of the Allen County Public Library downtown and had about 15 regular members, but numbers would vary. Once the pandemic hit, it became more difficult to meet, and the group is still rebuilding its membership, she said.
Lymon plans to resume regular monthly meetings in October. The group meets every second Saturday.
The foundation started in the 1980s. The idea was born after Lymon visited the hospital with her sister and saw children receiving gifts from the staff, but there was nothing for children with sickle cell disease.
“I was just appalled that a sickle cell child could be in the hospital, and (hospital staff) could be passing out treats, and they would not be able to get anything,” she said.
After that, Lymon said, she would go to hospitals and bring backpacks with activities to keep children in the hospital occupied.
“We wanted them to not think about their illness and keep their mind busy,” she added. “It worked out pretty successfully.”
Christopher Riley, board member for the Timothy Lymon Foundation, said it’s important to educate people on sickle cell disease. People might not know they have the sickle cell trait, he said, and they could have a child with someone else who doesn’t know they have it.
“They could have a lifetime of dealing with the ramifications of sickle cell disease and not even know about it before,” he said.
Riley said it’s important for the Timothy Lymon Foundation to help provide that education, especially in communities where health care is underfunded. He also believes the education is important in Fort Wayne because it’s Indiana’s second-largest city.
Lymon said the foundation attends health fairs and clinics around the city to share information. Foundation volunteers also put red bows up around Fort Wayne during September, which is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month.
“We sometimes put up 1,000 bows or so in the Fort Wayne area,” she said. “And then on each of the bows, we put down some information to educate the public about the illness because a lot of people aren’t familiar with it.”
The bows prompt people to ask about sickle cell disease, Seals said.
“I noticed a shift in my son’s experience with nurses,” she said. “Now they know what to look for, and they’re more present and more interested in learning about his pain.”
Each person’s experience with sickle cell disease is different, and sometimes the effects of it cannot be seen, Seals said. She sometimes struggled with officials at her son’s school to help them understand the pain he was in because they couldn’t see it for themselves.
“Sometimes we would hear, ‘Oh, he’s just faking it,’ ” she said. “But, (Lymon) would come in and explain what sickle cell disease is and help us through that. Sometimes she would even be there before me because she just wants to be an advocate for parents and kids.”
Crystal and George Guy’s son, George Guy IV, 17, also has sickle cell disease. The family lived in Iowa when George IV was born, and they found out about the Timothy Lymon Foundation through a Fort Wayne clinic after moving here.
It’s extra stressful to be a parent of a child with sickle cell disease, Crystal Guy said, because something as small as the common cold could send his health in a different direction. George Guy also said it’s been challenging to be a parent of someone with sickle cell disease, especially when dealing with accommodations in school.
“He may miss days because he’s struggling with sickle cell disease, and his schools may not even have the resources to help him,” he said.
The Timothy Lymon Foundation has helped George IV because it gives him an opportunity to talk to other people who have the same chronic illness, George Guy said. The couple said their son has a good social network, but his illness complicates when he can see his friends.
“He’s met some of his best friends through this program,” George Guy said. “It would have been a very lonely experience without the group.”
The couple said they hope the Timothy Lymon Foundation can partner with hospitals in the future to give children more resources. George Guy said some of these resources could include scholarships or tutoring for kids and liaisons to help parents navigate the health care system.
Lymon is optimistic about the future of her organization and sickle cell disease in Indiana, especially if the public is educated on the illness.
“I think that some changes are coming, I just don’t think they’re happening quick enough,” she said. “But, education is coming, and I’m pretty hopeful.”
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A new study from Indiana University found clinicians can diagnose autism in young children with high accuracy – and one area health network helped discover these results.
Alexandru Tanase, pediatrician at Lutheran Health Physicians Warsaw, worked with IU’s School of Medicine on the study. Lutheran was one of eight Early Autism Evaluation hubs throughout the state that participated.
Researchers found autism can generally be diagnosed two years earlier than the current time frame, improving opportunities for early intervention that can include helping children learn physical, thinking and communication skills.
“Our goal was to try to identify autism as early as possible,” Tanase said.
According to the Autism Society of Indiana, 3.5 million people in the United States are on the autism spectrum, and it’s the fastest growing developmental disability in the United States.
In total, 126 children participated in the study. Lutheran had 20 participants.
IU started the study in 2012, but Lutheran didn’t join until December 2018 – five months after Tanase began working for the health network.
Rebecca McNally Keehn, IU assistant professor of pediatrics and lead author, said the study was designed to address a national public health problem: the number of children with autism exceeds the number of specialists trained to diagnose it.
Because most specialists are clustered in metropolitan areas, many children wait longer than recommended to get diagnosed.
“These delays in diagnosis lead to delays in accessing intervention services, which are known to improve child and family outcomes,” McNally Keehn said.
The Children’s Autism Center in Fort Wayne is a nonprofit organization that provides services, such as applied behavior analysis therapy, speech therapy, social skills groups and parent training. The center announced July 12 that its supporting organization, Founding Four, bought the Village at Coventry Shopping Center.
The May 1 purchase allows the autism center to expand its services into the former Vet Tech space, which is about 6,700 square feet. Tara Held, development coordinator for the Children’s Autism Center, said the organization’s goal is to offer services to adults.
The expansion will not affect the organization’s current applied behavior analysis services, she said.
Officials also wanted to diversify the nonprofit’s revenue stream. Held declined to release the shopping center’s sale price.
The eight study hubs IU worked with evaluated about 5,000 children in Indiana, McNally Keehn said, leading the researchers to ask how accurate the diagnoses were.
“We found that our primary clinicians are very accurate,” she said. “There were virtually no over-diagnoses, meaning that our clinicians were excellent at finding autism. … It’s very promising.”
McNally Keehn said of the 126 children who participated in the study, in 82% of cases, researchers and doctors agreed with the autism diagnosis.
Children can be diagnosed with autism in their second year of life, McNally Keehn said, but the median age for diagnosis in the United States is 4 years old.
“The delays in diagnosis can last months or years because of the barriers families face to find a specialist,” she said.
Tanase said the average age of children diagnosed by Lutheran clinicians was 30 months, but experts say the best intervention comes when it is confirmed by 18 months.
Finding autism earlier is important for the child’s quality of life, McNally Keehn said.
“The earlier they are diagnosed, the earlier they can be enrolled in interventions,” she added. “Insurers only pay for interventions when there is a medical diagnosis.”
During the study, Tanase didn’t find anything specific to Lutheran or northeast Indiana. But he said it’s important to understand what autism is and how it affects children.
“Autism is the same everywhere,” he said. “Children are always there and needing services.”
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Jonah is WTVA’s Pet of the Week for July 21, brought to you by Cloverhaven Animal Hospital in Tupelo.
Do you want to adopt him? The adoption fee is $50.
Call the Tupelo-Lee Humane Society at 662-205-4221 or visit TupeloLeeHumane.org.
Jonah is WTVA’s Pet of the Week for July 21, brought to you by Cloverhaven Animal Hospital in Tupelo.
Do you want to adopt him? The adoption fee is $50.
Call the Tupelo-Lee Humane Society at 662-205-4221 or visit TupeloLeeHumane.org.
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CALDWELL, Idaho — Two men were hospitalized with injures and three dogs were killed after a multi-home fire on Red Robin Way Friday afternoon, according to the Caldwell Fire Department.
Officials said the fire started around 2:30 p.m. Friday near the intersection of Chicago Street and 21st Avenue. When two Caldwell engines arrived, one home was on fire, with flames spreading to a second home. A vehicle was also damaged in the incident.
Caldwell Fire said one of the homes was severely damaged in Friday's fire, while the second home has minor exterior damage. Crews were able to contain the fire in less than 15 minutes.
Both men hospitalized from the fire are expected to recover. According to CFD's news release, one man was hospitalized with minor burns, and the other with smoke inhalation. Three dogs died in Friday's fire.
Officials said the cause of the fire "appears accidental in nature," but is still under investigation. Due to triple-digit temperatures, crews rotated often through rehabilitation to avoid heat-related illnesses.
The Nampa and Middleton fire departments assisted Caldwell crews on Friday. Caldwell Police also assisted, as drivers were asked to avoid the area during response.
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HUMMELSTOWN, Pa. — First responders put their lives on the line every day. They’re the first to arrive at an emergency scene, going into the unknown and putting others before themselves.
But, the number of heads responding to a call is decreasing.
Volunteerism isn’t as high as it once was. One fire department tries to get young adults involved earlier with a junior firefighter program.
It’s a similar trend around many volunteer firehouses – numbers are down and have continued to decrease, but there’s one thing Hummelstown Chemical Fire Company takes pride in, their junior firefighter program.
Kids can join the fire department as young as 14 but can’t become an actual firefighter until they reach 18 years old.
“We do have a good turnaround of guys, we have a good set of gear up here for all of our guys but we need to still keep going or we’re not going to have the volunteerism. So, getting the younger kids in here. Learning what we’re doing. Showing them what we’re doing. Hopefully, they’ll stick with it and move up to where we are," said David Deal, the Hummelstown Chemical Fire Battalion Chief.
The department has seven young adults in this program but there’s something very unique about this group. They all are related to or have a family member in the fire department.
“They’ve grown up around the firehouse and learned what goes on. They’ve stepped up and want to go through and fulfill the same roles their parents did. With the decreasing numbers in the fire service, this is something that we need to see, more and more. It gives them a sense of worth to learn what it takes to be a firefighter," said Rich Fanning, Jr., Hummelstown assistant fire chief and junior coordinator.
One family keeps the tradition going, keeping it in the family business.
“I don’t want to see fire calls but when we do go on a call together. It’s kind of cool seeing that I have family with me," said Deal said.
Tytan Deal, 14, is a fifth-generation firefighter and is currently in the junior firefighter program.
“[I do it] to help the community and my family did it my whole life so I want to follow in their footsteps. It feels like I’m doing something worth my time and not just wasting my life," explained Tytan.
The junior firefighters can only go on fire calls and have to stay outside the scene, but that’s where some of the most important work needs to be done; assisting the crew so they can keep putting their effort towards the fire.
“We can only run until 10 p.m. but we can get hoses, tools for the firefighters, pull lines, hit hydrants. We [just] can’t go inside or near the house," Tytan said.
“Rolling hose, helping stretch the hose, throwing ladders, getting traffic controlled, changing air cylinders is huge and if they’re not here to do it. We have to do it, the senior members have to do it. So, it takes time out of us to do it. Or we could just come out, almost like a pitstop. Firefighters can come out, get their air cylinder changed really quick and we can go right back into the fire," added Fanning, Jr.
They train every other week and get extra training by joining the seniors every Monday evening.
It’s not just the fire components, they need to be ready for anything in the field, even a medical emergency to one of their own.
To keep anything going, the most important part is the next generation.
That’s not all for this story. Three of the junior firefighters are racers. Two of them are part of a program that helps get their name in the national spotlight.
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LANCASTER, Pa. — The stars and stripes were on full display at the Sandwich Factory in Lancaster, as people cheered on the US Women’s National Team against Vietnam.
“I love watching women’s soccer and I know the girls are super excited," said Joel Rice, who helps coach girls' youth soccer for PA Classics.
PA Classics is an organization with traveling club teams.
The girls of PA Classics took a break from the pitch to watch America’s best soccer players with their families. Coaches and parents alike said their kids were hyped up all week for Team USA’s first match.
“At training all week they’ve been locked in, saying, ‘what are you doing for the game, who are you watching, who is on the roster,'" said Rice.
“I’m so excited to be here, (my daughter) is excited to be here, and it’s such a great way to share and bond," said Marcie Sorber, a PA Classics parent.
All of the girls at the watch party said they look forward to watch their idols dominate during the tournament. Their favorite player, Alex Morgan.
“I hope Team USA wins for Alex Morgan," said Roslyn Fry, who plays with PA Classics.
With the US defeating Vietnam 3-0 in their opening match, coaches and players hope this will be the start of another dominant World Cup run.
The US Women's National Team looks to hoist their third consecutive World Cup championship, a feat that has never been accomplished in either Men's or Women's tournaments.
The women next hit the pitch versus the Netherlands on Wednesday at 9pm. You can watch the game live on FOX43.
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DALLAS — Thee suspect wanted in the kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl that triggered a June AMBER Alert was arrested earlier this month.
Leonard Lamar Neal is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting the young girl. Police say Neal also abducted her brother.
Neal was added to the Texas Department of Public Safety's Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives List before he was arrested.
Briana and Kenyatta Jordan told WFAA they spotted Neal getting on a DART bus and immediately called 911.
"I knew if it was him, he needed to get off the streets," Kenyatta Jordan said.
The bus, the couple said, drove away, so they followed until police could catch up and take Neal into custody.
"It was honestly something out of a movie," Briana Jordan told WFAA.
The Jordans said they didn't know there was a reward for information leading to Neal’s arrest. But when friends told them, the parents of six, gearing up for an expensive school year, got excited.
"When we found out there was gonna be a reward, I thought we’ll get the kids school stuff!" Briana Jordan said.
"Every dime I get goes towards my babies, every dime," Kenyatta Jordan added.
But the couple told WFAA Crimestoppers told them they weren't eligible for any of the money because they called 911 first instead of the Crimestoppers hotline.
"If knew about calling Crimestoppers, I still would’ve called 911 first!" Kenyatta said.
Word of the Jordans' story spread quickly, and soon reached a handful of small business owners who wanted to help.
The owners of Riddell Plumbing, Complete Fire Protection and CC Carpet, plus organizers with non-profit Texas First Responders, pooled together their money and sent the Jordans a $5,000 check.
"These people were heroes," Scott Riddell of Riddell Plumbing said. "A lot of people just stick their head in the sand and ignore things, and what they did was a great deed."
"Somebody has to step up to take care of this family," Cameron Morrison with Complete Fire Protection added.
The gesture brought the Jordans to tears.
"Because [the business owners] had no obligation, whatsoever. They weren’t the ones that said we’ll pay you," Briana Jordan said.
"I appreciate everything. I appreciate them," Kenyatta Jordan added.
WFAA reached out to Crimestoppers for a statement but as of writing have not heard back.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. — Neighbors in Clearwater reached out to 10 Tampa Bay about exposed trash at their apartment complex that’s been left to sit in the Florida heat for days.
Multiple neighbors told crews that over the past few days, the situation has improved…but that it’s still horrible.
“It’s nasty, it’s unbearable,” Timothy Mignone explained.
Mignone and his mother Doris both live at the Garden Trail Apartments in Clearwater.
Doris says she often has to go back into her home because the smell wafting up to her balcony is overwhelming.
“Just coming out here, I feel like throwing up right now, it’s sickening,” Mignone said.
When our teams arrived, trash had been sitting all day on an open utility trailer. Neighbors say it’s an improvement from how things were last week.
“It was all over here on the ground, almost out here in the parking lot,” Mignone explained.
Other neighbors tell 10 Tampa Bay they saw a “notice of non-payment” on the trash compactor, and then staff later told them it was broken. They say that started the initial pile-up of trash, with bags flowing out of the compactor and covering the surrounding sidewalks.
Someone eventually placed the utility trailer outside to carry off the trash in the meantime.
A dumpster was also eventually brought out to the complex, but neighbors say it’s so high that it’s tough for older residents or kids to take out the trash to use.
That dumpster wasn’t placed where the trash compactor used to be, which sat next to an area with steps that would have made the dumpster easier to access for those who have trouble lifting it.
The dumpster was instead placed in the middle of the parking lot.
While the trailer of trash sautées in the sun, neighbors are just hoping that somehow, they can get a breath of fresh air.
“It’s just bad business,” Doris said.
10 Tampa Bay crews visited the leasing office during business hours and the doors were locked. Crews also reached out to the apartment complex via email and phone to find out what’s been going on.
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Triple-digit heat indexes reported across Central Florida‘Help Me’: Kidnapped girl from Texas rescued in California after writing note to passerbyRecruiters inside jail are working for human traffickers, advocate saysSheriff: Babysitter arrested after baby left for hours inside 133-degree car diesWoman, 62, dies in head-on Volusia County crash
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ARKANSAS, USA — Pine trees have been mysteriously dying across Arkansas and experts aren’t sure why. Specifically, the victim of this aliment is the Arkansas state tree— the loblolly pine.
The normally lush, forest-green pine needles begin turning brown, limbs will fall, and in many cases, these trees die completely after becoming infected.
Dead and drying trees pose a safety hazard and can be costly to cut down. Additionally, this mystery ailment also threatens Arkansas’ $3.6 billion dollar timber industry.
Like a detective sifting through evidence at a crime scene, Dr. Vic Ford, a forester by trade with the University of Arkansas Agriculture Extension Office has a few leads. Though, he and the team of scientists studying the issue readily admit they are far from cracking the case.
“We are detectives. We're trying not to eliminate anything. We're considering all the environmental factors,” Ford explained.
Just like in any other investigation, everyone and everything are considered to be suspects.
At the top of the list includes disease, extreme weather, and chemical agents. Though one leading theory is that no single factor is the culprit, but rather a combination of many.
Some samples sent to laboratories for analysis confirmed the presence of pine needle blight, a pathogen known to affect trees in the southeastern United States. Though, Dr. Ford believes that may be a separate issue from the more widespread issue in Southeast Arkansas, the heart of timberland.
Recent weather extremes may be one of the leading factors that have been putting stress on Arkansas's beloved state tree. For instance, in a matter of months, Arkansas experienced a prolonged flash drought that was immediately followed by record rainfall.
Dr. Ford explained how when this happens trees aren’t able to handle the stress.
“So that puts a tree under stress. And then if something else comes along, that will stress it more, and then if something else happens, then you've got the decline phenomenon," he added. “It's a multiple-factor problem. I think that's probably the best way the best words I could use to describe it. And it's a solvable problem. We've got the right people working on it, we just need some time”
Ford and his colleagues know that good science takes time, though they feel the pressure to solve this mystery as quickly as possible. The price tag for not doing so may be catastrophic.
“It's a big deal,” Ford stressed. “I'm trying to think of the millions of acres we have in Arkansas, about half of Arkansas is forested. The timber industry has a concern and they're looking for answers.”
According to data from the University of Arkansas at Monticello, Arkansas’s thriving timber industry supports 27,000 jobs in the state and is responsible for bringing in $3.6 billion to the state’s economy.
Though finding answers has been just as important to everyday Arkansans, too.
For instance, one Arkansas County woman had over 100 pines succumb to the illness in her front yard. The cost to cut the dead timber was more than $26,000.
In De Witt, a once popular city park is now a tree graveyard full of stumps. City crews were forced to cut dead trees as falling limbs posed a serious safety hazard.
Dr. Ford’s group investigating this pine decline has heavily relied on citizen reports. Since May, these reports have come in from all corners of the state.
If you’ve noticed dead or dying pine trees, you’re encouraged to complete this form provided by the Arkansas Forestry Division.
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