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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Daytona Beach Police Department said they are searching for the owners of two dogs found at North Street and Washington Street early Tuesday morning.
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The dogs are temporarily being housed at the police department located at 129 Valor Blvd police said.
Read: Pregnant woman, unborn child killed in apparent double murder-suicide, sheriff says
The Daytona Police Department are asking anyone that has information that will help reunite the dogs with their owner to call 386-671-5100 or DM the police on their Facebook page.
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DELAND, Fla. — Back-to-school season is just around the corner.
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The City of Deland wants to ensure kids have everything they need to begin a successful school year.
For the 13th year, the city will give away free backpacks and school supplies.
The event will be on July 20 at 8 a.m. at Earl Brown Park, 815 South Alabama Avenue.
Read: Sip & Savor: Foodie festival coming to Icon Park
Mayor Chris Cloudman said he is excited to give back to the community.
“Providing children with backpacks and school supplies gives parents one less thing to worry about as they prepare for the upcoming school year,” he said.
Each family will receive one voucher per child to ensure they receive a free backpack.
Read: Fin-natic experience: SEA LIFE Orlando Aquarium kicks off ‘Summer of Sharks’
Then, kids will receive free school supplies ( pencils, pens, and notebooks) around the park.
Also, the DeLand Police Athletic League be giving away sneakers until supplies last.
Here are other free services for families:
- Gen Mobile will give out free smartphones and data plans for those qualifying through the Affordable Connectivity Program.
- Hispanic Health Initiatives will offer free glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol testing.
Read: Lake County to open a new school for students this year
Parents are asked to bring a photo ID and proof of Volusia County residency to receive blood testing.
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LAKE COUNTY, Fla. — A new 163,000-square-foot school will welcome students in Lake County next month.
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The Aurelia M. Cole Academy, the second K-8 school in the county, will be open just in time for the new school year.
It replaces Clermont Middle School and Clermont Elementary School. The middle school closed in 2021, and the elementary school closed last year.
Students can learn about STEAM subjects, including science, technology, engineering, arts and math.
For students interested in computers, there will be skill classes for all grades and robotics electives in fourth and fifth grade.
A culinary program will teach children essential skills in the kitchen, and a dance studio will hold rotating dance classes. Second-grade students can choose to take dance instead of P.E.
Lake County Schools expects about 1,200 students to attend the school.
Read: Lake County health department hosting back-to-school immunization events
The academy is named for Aurelia M. Cole, a woman recognized as a pioneer in Lake County education.
Cole was a principal at East Ridge High School, and in 2004, she became the first African-American high school principal in Lake County after integration.
She was also chosen as an assistant superintendent and served as a dean in other schools around the area.
“Aurelia Cole had high standards for students and staff and genuinely cared about student achievement,” said Scott Voytko, principal of Aurelia M. Cole Academy. “We are proud to carry on her name and her priorities.”
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ORLANDO, Fla. — After one wave of severe storms, 3 inches of rain and 56 mph winds are in parts of Volusia County.
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Meteorologist George Waldenberger said a few strong storms are possible for Brevard County through late afternoon.
Read: Eye on the Tropics: Don weakens to a tropical storm
Through sunset, more scattered passing rain is possible for the rest of Central Florida, including Orlando.
Expect another early start to storms Monday and Tuesday, with morning showers possible again and late morning or early afternoon storms each day.
You can see where the rain has cooled things off....and where it hasn't...yet. pic.twitter.com/qNIeBbi9xW
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AUSTIN, Texas — One person has died following a crash involving two motorcycles in northern Travis County Sunday morning.
The Austin-Travis County EMS (ATCEMS) reports that the crash occurred just after 8:30 a.m. Sunday in the 19400 block of FM 1431 near Jonestown.
Both occupants sustained serious injuries, with one adult patient dying on the scene. The other patient was airlifted to St. David's Medical Center in Round Rock with serious, but likely non-life threatening injuries, according to ATCEMS.
Officials are urging drivers to avoid the area, as the investigation continues.
This is a developing story, and it will be updated with the latest information available. Stick with KVUE for the latest news.
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — If you're in the market for a used car but want something on the more luxurious side, we've got you covered!
A 2013 Lamborghini Aventador, black-on-black and fit for someone like Bruce Wayne, will be up for auction in Montgomery County.
The Lamborghini was recently seized by the Precinct 5 Constable's Office and will be up for auction on Wednesday, Aug. 2 at 10:00 a.m. The Italian supercar has 691 horsepower and usually retails at just over $400,000.
The Aventador comes with a clean title and will be sold as-is. Just bring a heavy duty suitcase, because bidding is cash only. So if you recently won $2 million playing Powerball in Spring, or maybe just $1 million in Katy or southwest Houston, here's your chance to blow some of that money burning a hole in your pocket!
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PITTSBURGH — A woman was taken to a hospital after she was hit by a car in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood.
According to Pittsburgh police, the crash happened in the 6300 block of Penn Avenue just before 1:30 p.m.
Police said a car accelerated across the intersection before losing control and hitting a pedestrian on the sidewalk.
The female pedestrian was taken to a local hospital in critical condition. She was later upgraded to stable condition.
The elderly driver was taken to the hospital as a precaution, police said.
The Collision Investigation Unit responded to the scene to investigate.
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SHARON, Pa. — A man is dead after he was shot multiple times in Sharon early Sunday.
The Sharon Police Department responded to a shots fired call in the area of the 400 block of Baldwin Avenue around 1:43 a.m.
When officers arrived, they found a man who had been shot multiple times. That man was later identified as Chad Runyan, 32.
The first officers on the scene rendered aid to Runyan before medics transported him to a hospital, where he died of his injuries.
Sharon police said this is an active and ongoing investigation.
The City of Sharon Police Department is investigating, as well as the Mercer County District Attorney’s Office, the Mercer County Coroner’s Office and the Sharon Fire Department.
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SEATTLE — Taylor Swift fans from all over the country came to Seattle for the ‘Eras Tour’ as complete strangers are now lifelong friends.
It’s a lot of work to bring 24 strangers together, but not for Swifties, or Sarah Andrews.
“We tried to get tickets and like everybody else we really couldn't,” said Andrews, a Swift fan from Coeur D’Alene.
For three months post surgery, Andrews was stuck in bed and what got her through was watching TikToks of Taylor Swift concerts and she knew she had to get to one.
“I saw TikTok, and it said, can you imagine trusting 24 Strangers enough to buy a suite at a stadium? And it kind of panned on all these people that looked happy and I thought, yeah, I think I could do that,” Andrews said.
Andrews called Lumen Field about a suite. There was one available for $40,000. Andrews said her husband gave her the green light and pulled the money out of savings knowing she’d get it back in 24 hours.
She then got to work to find other Swifties on Facebook.
“It was about midnight, when I saw this random post in a Swiftie Facebook group and I said, if anybody is looking for tickets, would you be interested in the suite? and I thought, this is fake. this is so fake.
Turned out, it wasn’t and Katie Lorton is one of 24 strangers that took a leap of faith.
“I felt like this is it. This is the one time I'm gonna get to see her, so let's just go for it,” Lorton said.
“This friendship that we've created where a lot of my friends aren't Swifties the way I am. So it's been nice to geek out and just be able to be excited about something just thoroughly excited,” said Lorton.
Meghan and Hannah Habel saw the same post. They also took the chance.
“Everyone is so nice and it's so fun to bond over something that's really important,” Habel said.
The twin sisters have been to several Swift concerts together, and with them now living in different states, the Eras Tour is bringing strangers and sisters together.
“When we saw Red together it was right before we each separated for the first time to go to college so it was kind of a really meaningful experience for both of us,” Habel said.
Complete strangers now meeting in Seattle Saturday for the first time.
“None of these people knew each other this morning and they were having drinks together and staying together, it's cool to see life long friendships being made,” Andrews said.
The group is prepping to see Taylor Sunday with friendship bracelets and repping their favorite era, but Andrews said it’s much bigger than that.
“There isn't one person that can't relate to something she has to say in her song, or something that she embodies. I feel like this is the first thing in a really long time that has really brought a ton of people together,” Andrews said.
Andrews also said what started out as a way to get through surgery recovery now became life changing.
“I do think the group will continue way past the concert. I do think we are hopefully friends for life,” Andrews said.
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A Hammond native who wrote for many hit television shows like "The Wonder Years," "The Bob Newhart Show" and "All in the Family" died.
Phil Doran died just eight days shy of his 79th birthday due to complications of Alzheimer’s in southern California early this year.
"He has roots in Hammond and Munster and was a very well known in Hollywood," his brother-in-law Henry Feinberg said. "He created, wrote, produced and directed television game shows and primarily sitcoms. Some of his shows are still syndicated around the World. Amongst his accolades were a book and stage plays."
He grew up in south Hammond and then Munster, graduating from Hammond High School in 1961. He went on to earn a degree in broadcasting from Indiana University and headed to Los Angeles to become a comedy writer in Hollywood. He met the Rat Pack comedian Joey Bishop, which got him a gig writing jokes for his Las Vegas standup. He was invited to an industry party where he met the producer Chuck Barris, landing him a gig as an Associate Producer for "The Dating Game."
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He started writing for "The Bob Newhart Show" and went on to become a mainstay of network television between 1970 and 1995. He wrote for "All in the Family," "Too Close for Comfort," "Facts of Life," "Who’s the Boss" and "Wonder Years."
Doran created, wrote and produced the ABC series "Carter Country." The show about a small-town police force debuted in 1977 and ran for two seasons.
He was a producer for shows like "Jennifer Slept Here," "Sister, Sister," "Free Spirit" and "The Facts of Life." Two of his staged plays were performed in Los Angeles.
His family said in his obituary he wrote "the kind of classic shows we all grew up with and would forever become a cherished part of our lives."
After retiring from Hollywood, he moved to Italy and wrote the comedy novel "The Reluctant Tuscan," which was published in 2001.
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LE FLORE COUNTY, Okla. — One person is dead and another injured after a crash in LeFlore County on Saturday, July 22, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP).
Who was involved?
Police say those involved include a 17-year-old male teenager from Poteau whose name is being withheld because he is a minor.
The other person was 20-year-old Hailey Johnson from Keota, Oklahoma.
Neither of the drivers had passengers with them, the report says.
What happened?
According to the crash report, the teenager was driving a 2005 Chevrolet Silverado eastbound on OK-9 at around 9:40 p.m. At the same time, Johnson who was driving a 2014 Nissan Versa westbound on OK-9.
The report states the teenager "went left of center" and hit Johnson head-on. Officials say Johnson was "ejected approximately 10 ft. from the vehicle's point of rest."
What are their conditions?
According to the report, the teenager was flown to a Tulsa hospital with "leg injuries," but Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene.
No further details were released, but OHP says the cause of the crash is under investigation.
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MADISON COUNTY, Ark. — Three people are dead and three others injured after a multi-vehicle crash that took place on Saturday, July 22 in Madison County, according to the Arkansas Department of Public Safety.
How many vehicles were involved?
There were three vehicles involved including:
- A 2021 Honda
- A 2022 Toyota
- A 2004 Chevy
What happened?
According to the crash report, at around 9:20 p.m., the Honda and the Chevy were both headed westbound on U.S. Highway 412, while the Toyota was headed east. Police say the Toyota then crossed the center line to try to pass the Chevy. The Honda then hit the Toyota in the eastbound lane "causing the Chevy to leave the roadway," until it hit "an embankment," the report says.
The Honda and the Toyota left the roadway "overturning multiple times," according to the report.
This incident caused the death of:
36-year-old Chasitie Vandroof from Springdale and a minor who were in the Honda.
38-year-old Jacob Doss of Green Forest who was a passenger in the Toyota.
Three people were injured including:
- The driver of the Toyota
- The driver of the Chevy
- The passenger of the Chevy
Those injured were taken to a local hospital.
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DENVER — A Florida woman has filed a $100 million class action lawsuit against Denver-based Frontier Airlines alleging that the air passenger carrier engages in deceptive practices to make its fares seem lower than they are.
The lawsuit, filed by Amira Hamad in U.S. District Court in Orlando, says Frontier is not the low-cost airline it claims to be.
"FRONTIER is not a budget airline. FRONTIER does not have the lowest airfares," the complaint reads. "FRONTIER just breaks its fees into tiny little pieces and checkpoints to water down the appearance of what is actually an average airfare when combined and compared to the industry."
The complaint says the airline uses "bait-and-switch" and "gotcha" tactics that are intended to "confuse, trick and trap consumers."
One example given in the lawsuit is that the airline claims to offer one free personal item as long as it fits within certain dimensions, but uses a much smaller measuring instrument at the gate to determine whether the item can be carried on board at no cost. It also alleges that Frontier gives its gatekeepers bonuses for each personal item they charge at the gates.
The complaint says Frontier does not make its fee structure clear to consumers at the time of purchase, especially when the tickets are purchased through third-party vendors.
"FRONTIER's fees are not conspicuously shown on its website or on the websites of third-party vendors," the lawsuit says, "and consumers are often unaware of FRONTIER's large and plentiful fees until after they purchase a ticket that initially appeared attractive."
The complaint says Frontier's baggage fee structure is misleading and confusing and is intended to get customers to pay "significant hidden fees."
The lawsuit seeks punitive damages of $100 million "to deter Frontier and other airlines from further similar conduct."
A spokesperson for Frontier said the airline does not comment on pending litigation.
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MODESTO, Calif. — A viral video on TikTok has caused concern among construction workers in California's Central Valley.
In the video, content creator Tonya Balch Summers says that two PG&E workers in the valley near Stockton were offered water by a passerby amid hot temperatures.
Balch said that the waters were laced with fentanyl and that one of the workers died at the scene while another was left in critical condition.
She added that the situation was "happening right now" on July 21, 2023, the same day that she uploaded the video, which has since been viewed more than one million times.
The video garnered hundreds of comments including one from a user who wrote, "It happened Wednesday the 19th in Modesto Ca."
A post uploaded Saturday to a Stockton Facebook group also claimed that the incident happened in Modesto within the past week.
Sharon Bear, a public information officer for the Modesto Police Department, told ABC10 Saturday that the department is aware of the rumor and that it is false.
PG&E did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday.
Watch more from ABC10: Family of woman killed after being run over by lawnmower at Modesto park mourn her
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KANE COUNTY, Utah — An Ohio man was killed in a cliff-jumping incident at Lake Powell on Thursday, according to the Kane County Sheriff’s Office.
Just before noon, the Glen Canyon Communications Center received a 911 call reporting a possible cliff-jumping fatality approximately a quarter mile south of Buoy 89 within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
The sheriff's office said witnesses reported seeing a person cliff-jump from approximately 50 feet who then failed to resurface. On Friday, the Utah Department of Public Safety Dive Team used a side scan sonar to locate the victim and divers recovered his body, KCSO said.
The victim has been identified as Cory Ryan Ehrnschwender, a 36-year-old from Cincinnati.
Buoy 89 is located in Kane County, Utah about 89 miles from the Glen Canyon Dam.
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WASHINGTON — An Alexandria auction house will have one of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's favorite collars up for sale in September.
The Pegasus Collar, which was featured in a Time Magazine piece commemorating the justice after she died in 2020, will be up for sale at the Potomack Auctions during its September 20-21 auctions.
The Pegasus Collar is a limited edition silver metallic bib by the company Stella & Dot. Potomack Auctions says each of Ginsburg's collars had a powerful coded message. During a 2009 C-SPAN interview, Ginsburg showed off one of her favorite collars and explained that since the standard robe is made to show a man’s shirt and tie, she and Sandra Day O’Connor decided they should include something feminine for their robes.
This collar is meant to evoke power and strength due to the imagery of battle armor in its layered metal pointed feathers.
The late justice wore the Pegasus Collar in the official photo of all nine justices in 2018 after Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the Court, which was her first day back at work after a fall that fractured her ribs.
This is not the first piece of the late justice's collection to go up for auction at Potomack. In 2021, the auction house sold Ginsburg's modern art and memorabilia collection for more than $1 million to benefit the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center.
Another of Ginsburg's collars, a gold one made of glass beads, sold at an auction in September 2022 for $176,775.
A portion of the money made will be donated to the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Endowed Fund for Research in Civil Rights and Gender Equality of the American Bar Foundation, an organization founded in 1952 for which Ginsburg served many years as an officer and board member.
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WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing child in Warner Robins, Georgia Sunday morning.
Authorities say to keep an eye out for a silver 2003 Jeep Liberty with the license plate CSX509.
They believe the child, 1-year-old Ta'yonni Johnson, was abducted by Calvin Williams Johnson.
Amber Alert | Missing 1-year-old
The vehicle was last seen on Watson Boulevard. The child is believed to be in "extreme danger," according to authorities.
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ATLANTA — Newly appointed Louisville Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel is ready for her big promotion as she steps in to an embattled department, looking to bring healthy interactions and community engagement to the forefront.
Gwinn-Villaroel's rise to her new role began in Atlanta. She spent nearly 25 years -- 24.5 to be exact -- in many different positions within the Atlanta Police Department.
In Louisville, she said that policing is in a "critical state" and explained that she hopes to drive the ship for change in a city that has been longing for it when it comes to its policing. Her time in Atlanta was valuable for a number of reasons, but Gwinn-Villaroel said it allowed her to explore what she enjoyed and what she didn't.
"Atlanta Police Department is an amazing department," Gwinn-Villaroel said in an exclusive interview with 11Alive. "It has truly shaped my career -- being able to move around in different assignments that some departments are not able to have such movement, but because of the size of the Atlanta Police Department I was afforded that opportunity and I grew."
Gwinn-Villaroel came to Louisville from the Atlanta Police Department in 2021 alongside former Chief Erika Shields, who hired her as a deputy chief. Greenberg, who was elected mayor last year, had said in December that Gwinn-Villaroel would become interim chief after Shields stepped down in January.
“This is a challenging job,” Greenberg said at a news conference Thursday. “And over the last few months, it’s become very clear that the best person to do this work is already on the job.”
Gwinn-Villaroel thanked Greenberg for taking a “leap of faith” with her hiring.
“I stand here today on the shoulders of so many who paved the way for me and opened the doors,” she said.
She faces challenges in recruiting new officers to a force that has about 250 job openings, and restoring community trust after the U.S. Justice Department announced in March that it had found Louisville police engaged in a pattern of violating constitutional rights and discrimination.
The report said the Louisville police department “discriminates against Black people in its enforcement activities,” uses excessive force and conducts searches based on invalid warrants. It also said the department violates the rights of people engaged in protected speech, like the street protests in the city in the summer of 2020 after Breonna Taylor’s death.
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — An Alpharetta Police Department officer sadly passed away Thursday after he suffered a medical emergency while off-duty, the agency said in a social media post.
Master Police Officer Bradley Rocks died in the early morning hours on July 20 with his wife by his side. The department did not state what type of medical emergency Rocks suffered.
Rocks was also a proud U.S. Army veteran, serving three years in the military before starting his law enforcement career with the Broward County Sheriff's Office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where Rocks was originally from.
He joined the Alpharetta Police Department in 2006 within the agency's Uniform Patrol Division. He later became a motor officer in the department's Motors Unit.
"Rocks was known for his easygoing personality, his infectious smile, his love for his wife and children, and his passion about being a motor officer," the department said in the post.
Rocks leaves behind his wife, son, daughter, mother and several siblings.
"We ask everyone to keep his family, friends, and ADPS family in your thoughts and prayers as we mourn the loss of our friend and brother," the department said.
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ATLANTA — Atlanta Police are investigating after over 100 vehicles, including one of its own patrol cars, were the target of break-ins at an apartment complex near Downtown early Saturday morning.
Officers responded around 7 a.m. to Mariposa Lofts apartment complex in Atlanta's Inman Park neighborhood at 185 Montag Circle NE to the report of multiple cars having been broken into.
When APD officers got there, they found windows busted out of numerous cars inside the apartment complex's parking garage. At least two guns were stolen out of different vehicles, although none were taken from the Atlanta Police patrol car, according to their initial investigation.
Luke Hendershott usually uses his hands to play drums for his band, but instead, he got his hands dirty by spending the afternoon vacuuming the glass remnants from his SUV.
"It's been a while and I'm still not done, but we're about halfway there," Hendershott said.
Luckily, Hendershott says his drum set was unharmed.
"Three busted windows and $80 cash was missing and a pair of pants," Hendershott said.
Hendershott says he was in town for a gig and now has to head back to Chattanooga with less than what he came with.
"I'm just going to have to probably garbage bag them until I get back into town," Hendershott said.
And he's not alone. One resident told 11Alive he works from home and had no idea what was going on.
"You feel violated," he said. "It's like you know that feeling of, 'Aw man, I'm at work and somebody came and ate my plate.'"
Residents say the thieves mostly took money and items that weren't too heavy to grab and go quickly.
"Wallet, gone," one resident said. "I had to call the bank this morning and cancel that card. Gotta go get a new driver's license."
Residents also tell 11Alive rent is around $2,300. And with that kind of money, they expect safety.
"People pay too much rent," One resident said, "The gate has been broken now for seven months."
And when they complain, residents say the leasing office responds that they're working on it. There is construction around the complex.
"When rent is due, I can't say, 'Hey, I'm working on it.'"
11Alive watched residents sweeping glass shards from around their vehicles. Some hope it's a better wake-up call to fix the gate before residents wake up to another break-in.
"Rent is too high to not feel secure," a resident said.
Atlanta Police urged people in the community to take any valuables out of their cars, lock their doors and never leave their vehicles running in order to prevent theft. Police said car break-ins are plaguing the city because people are leaving valuables inside the car, causing criminals to take advantage.
Atlanta Police also attached a social media post, titled "Clear Car Campaign: Love It, Like It, Lock It":
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In the height of the tourist season, one may be trying to find more affordable options when in the city.
As many people know, tours, attractions, museums and more can add up and put a dent in the bank account.
Below is a compiled list of free activities one can enjoy that still satisfy getting a glimpse into the NYC experience.
Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse Kayaking
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Where: Pier 4 Beach, New York, NY 11201
When: Wednesdays and Thursdays (5 p.m. to 7 p.m.), Saturdays (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.), Family Program on Sundays (12 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.)
At Pier 4 Beach in Brooklyn Bridge Park, visitors can kayak for free along the river for 20 minutes. All people need are clothes they can get wet in, and the rest is provided by Brooklyn Bridge Park. Kayakers can book the trip here and the reservations open two weeks in advance. The free slots are only on certain days and times, and walk-ups are welcome if there is free space.
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Staten Island Ferry
Where: 4 Whitehall Street New York NY 10004 (Manhattan) or 1 Bay Street Staten Island NY 10301 (Staten Island)
When: 24/7!
This approximately 50 minute round trip ferry ride is one of the best spots to enjoy those New York City skyline views. The ferry runs 24 hours a day 7 days a week for free! The ride takes passengers from the tip of Lower Manhattan to Staten Island where people can see the Freedom Tower, the Statue of Liberty and more. Check out the schedule here.
Bryant Park Movie Nights
Where: Bryant Park, New York, NY 10018
When: Mondays - (Lawn opens at 5 p.m. and movie starts at 8 p.m.)
Enjoy the summer nights with a movie in Bryant Park on Mondays! Admission is free, so bring some food and a blanket to enjoy a killer movie. There is also food and drinks if viewers want to treat themselves!
Line up:
- July 17 - Reality Bites
- July 24 - Start Trek III: The Search For Spock
- July 31 - Swingers
- August 7 - 48 Hrs.
- August 14 - Zoolander
- August 21 - Good Burger
Queens Museum & the Unisphere
Where: Museum - Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Building, Queens, NY 11368, Unisphere - Avenue of the Americas, Queens, NY 11354
When: Museum - Wednesday through Fridays (12 p.m. to 5 p.m.) Saturday and Sunday (11 a.m. to 5 p.m.), Unisphere - All Week (6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
This free experience is perfect for those who want to experience art and the outdoors. Visitors to the museum will be able to see the famous “Panorama of the City of New York On Long-Term View” Collection along with other beautiful pieces. Just make sure to reserve a spot on their website by clicking here. After going to the museum, visitors can then walk to the Unisphere right next to the museum and enjoy this amazing attraction.
New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Where: 476 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018
When: Monday and Thursday through Saturday (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.), Tuesday and Wednesday (10 a.m. to 8 p.m.)
The beautiful library that houses the iconic Rose Main Reading Room is a must see. Not only is the library free to enter, but so are the tours! The 60 minute building tour is on Monday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The tickets must be reserved online and are limited to the first 20 people. Visitors can access the link here for the building tour. The 15 minute Rose Main Reading Room Tour is available Monday through Saturday at 10:30 a.m., 1:30 a.m., and 3 p.m. This tour is only open to the first 25 people who sign up in person 30 minutes prior to the tour.
The Museum at FIT
Where: 227 W 27th St, New York, NY 10001
When: Wednesdays through Friday (12 p.m. to 8 p.m.), Saturdays and Sundays (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.)
Get fashion inspiration at the Museum at FIT. Here visitors can view all types of fashion from various different artists. Right now, people can see the “¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today” Exhibit which demonstrates fashion from Latinx Artists from all over.
Wellness Wednesday - World Trade Center
Where: North Oculus Plaza - 50 Church Street, New York, New York 10007
When: Select Wednesdays (5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.)
Wellness Wednesdays are the perfect way for anyone to recenter themselves this summer. These various free fitness classes are on differing Wednesdays, and all people need is a yoga mat! Make sure to register for each class here before attending.
New York Botanical Garden
Where: 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
When: Wednesdays (Time varies on the visitor)
Be one with earth at the New York Botanical Garden. Explore the lush green gardens and beautiful scenery every Wednesday for free. New York City residents are able to get a general admission all day Wednesday, while non-city-residents can only get general admission from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Unfortunately, this pass does not include the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, Special Exhibitions, or the Tram Tour. However, there are plenty of areas to explore on the 250 acres of land.
Bronx Zoo
Where: 2300 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10460
When: Wednesdays (Time varies on visitors & by reservations)
There are plenty of animals to see at the Bronx Zoo for free on Wednesdays! Each week, the Wednesday tickets are available to reserve at 5 p.m. the Monday prior. Reserve the tickets here. It is extremely important to note that everyone must have a ticket to enter the park, and the ticket does not include access to premium exhibits and rides. Also, keep in mind the parking at the zoo is a separate cost to consider.
Intrepid Museum Sea, Air and Space Museum
Where: Pier 86, W 46th St, New York, NY 10036
When: April 28, June 30, July 28, August 25, September 29 (5 p.m. to 9 p.m.)
This gigantic vessel which fought in World War II, the Cold War and the Vietnam War is home to the Intrepid Museum. The museum allows for free admission on the last Fridays of the summer months. People will be able to see various parts of the museum along with movies, guest speakers, stargazing and more.
Make sure to check out these fun activities while in NYC this summer. Stay cool and hydrated out there!
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — An Orange County Regional History Center exhibit recognizing an Orlando concert promoter will celebrate one year in a few months.
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Guests can visit the Figurehead: Music and Mayhem exhibit during its encore weekend in September.
The exhibit describes how Figurehead changed the Central Florida music scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
There will be three events to kick off the weekend:
Downtown Walking Tour
Friday, Sept. 8, 6 p.m.
Take a guided tour of downtown Orlando’s music history with Jim Faherty, former owner of former co-owner of Sapphire Supper Club. You will stop at venues that hosted memorable shows and get an after-hours look at the Figurehead exhibit.
Guests will receive a Figurehead pint glass, a screen-printed exhibition print, and one Figurehead beer from Ten10 Brewing Company with admission.
Read: Fin-natic experience: SEA LIFE Orlando Aquarium kicks off ‘Summer of Sharks’
Figurehead Night Out
Saturday, September 9
Doors open at 6 p.m., and the show starts at 7 p.m.
The concert features live performances from Steven Foxbury, The Riddlers, Greg Reinel, and The Tremolords.
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The Morning After Brunch
Sunday, September 10, 12 p.m.
A buffet-style brunch with a live performance by Orlando-based artist Terri Binion wraps up the festivities.
Food is included with ticket admission.
For more information about tickets for the Figurehead Encore Weekend, click here.
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BOISE, Idaho — The Ada County Sheriff's Office reported that the remains of a man were found in the Boise River on Saturday, July 22. According to the office, the body had been in the water for quite some time, and was found near Walnut St., by the Parkcenter Bridge.
The body was found by a member of the ASCO dive team who was doing snorkeling training at the time. The sheriff said that the water in that location is around eight feet deep. The man's name has not been released, the coroner's office is still working on identifying him.
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BOISE, Idaho — Police arrested 51-year-old Cambria Kichner from Boise on second-degree murder charges on Saturday. According to the Boise Police Department (BPD), officers were called to a house on the block of 6700 W. Fernwood Dr., for a suspected suicide. When they arrived, officers found a man inside the home dead from a gunshot wound.
"During the initial investigation, the scene appeared suspicious, and evidence led detectives to believe it to be a homicide," a new release stated.
BPD then arrested Kichner on the aforementioned charges and she is currently booked into the Ada County Jail. Police stated that Kichner and the man knew each other. The victim's name will be released following the notification of next of kin and BPD said the investigation is still ongoing.
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Police investigating after man found unresponsive in retention pond on Hillcot Lane
Police are investigating after a man was found unresponsive while floating in a retention pond in west Indianapolis Sunday morning.
Officers were called to the scene in the 1500 block of Hillcot Lane at around 10:30 a.m. When the man was pulled from the water by rescuers from the Wayne Township Fire Department, investigators discovered he had suffered from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police believe the man may be connected to a shooting early Saturday morning in the same area. According to a release, gunfire was reported in the area following a disturbance between a homeowner and an unknown man at around 4:30 a.m.
The man reportedly ran from the scene and investigators later found evidence suggesting he had been shot. Detectives conducted a search of the area and found what they believe to be the vehicle the man was using, but were not able to locate him.
Detectives have reason to believe the man who fled the scene may be the same person found in the water through information gathered at both scenes.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Det. Christopher Edwards at (317) 327-3475 or email him at Christopher.Edwards@indy.gov. Tips can also be provided anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at (317) 262-8477, through the P3tips mobile app or at www.CrimeTips.org.
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ANAHEIM — After a quiet first three innings at the big A, the Pirates and the Angels exploded for 12 runs over the course of the fourth and fifth inning as the Angels defeated the Pirates 8-5 Friday night.
Johan Oviedo (3-11) looked to put together a repeat performance of his start last week after striking out a career-high 10 against San Fransisco. But on Friday in Anaheim Oviedo worked just four innings allowing five runs on three hits including two home runs in the loss.
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ANAHEIM — The Pittsburgh Pirates (43-55) defeated the Los Angeles Angles (50-49) by a score of 3-0 to even the current three-game series.
Five different Pirates’ pitchers combined to toss a five-hit shutout over the Halos, and the offense was sparked by Endy Rodriguez hitting his first MLB home run.
The rubber match will take place on Sunday.
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There are many nonfiction books that have recognized and defined the shape of technology.
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There are many nonfiction books that have recognized and defined the shape of technology.
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NEW CANEY, Texas — A group of friends spent a year working on a special gift for a man they’ve known since high school who was diagnosed with ALS several years ago. It was his dream to have his prized ride restored.
A lineup of classic cars parked at the Valley Ranch Town Center on Saturday in New Caney. However, there was one in particular people showed up to see.
In front of a crowd of several dozen people, Richard Watson and Brett McMath revealed a newly restored ‘73 Ford Mustang Mach 1 for Craig Reagan, his wife Nancy Reagan and their kids.
The classic Mustang has belonged to Craig Reagan since he was 17 years old. It’s been sitting in his garage for more than 20 years.
In 2016, Reagan was diagnosed with ALS, a progressive disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
A year ago, a group of Reagan's friends, including Watson and McMath, who all graduated from New Caney High School more than 35 years ago began working on Reagan’s ‘73 Mustang.
“We're car guys. We all drove classic cars, well, then they weren't so classic,” McMarth said.
The idea came to Richard Watson after a high school reunion they had last year.
“I thought, man, I have a shop, I can do this. It'll be nice. It should be done," Watson said.
Watson got a group of friends together and they all decided to do that as a gesture for him and to raise awareness for ALS and raise money to help Reagan’s family. They got together a few times a week for a year at Watson’s shop Rusty Nuts Garage.
“Craig is such a special guy,” McMath said.
“I just want him to be happy. None of us know how long we have on this earth and I just hope he's happy with it,” Watson said.
They left the car as good as new.
“It's like a new car to him just with all the memories,” Nancy Reagan said.
She said her husband Reagan was told he’d only live about 20 months past his diagnosis, but now he’s at month 85 surrounded and loved by many.
“It touches our heart and our family that we've had so much support and, you know, the continued friendships,” Nancy Reagan said.
“Words can’t express the happiness that I feel,” Craig Reagan said.
On Sunday, his friends will drive up Reagan’s ‘73 Mustang to College Station where he now lives.
When asked if he will allow his kids to drive his newly restored ride, Reagan said no and laughed.
He created a website to share his story and raise awareness about ALS and research and treatment.
His friends also created a Gofundme account for Reagan to help pay for his care.
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NEBRASKA, USA — An archeological dig for a lost children's cemetery near the Nebraska site of a former Native American boarding school has ended after two weeks — and no remains were found.
Dave Williams, the state’s archeologist, said the team searching near the former Genoa Indian Industrial School plans to meet on Zoom with representatives of 40 tribes across the U.S. next week to determine the next steps.
“I would have preferred that we found the children,” said Judi gaiashkibos, a member of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and the executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs. “But we have to remain hopeful. They’ve been gone more than 90 years. I feel like I have to remain steadfast and committed.”
The search gained renewed interest after hundreds of children’s remains were discovered at other Native American boarding school sites across the U.S. and Canada in recent years.
Dogs trained to detect the odor of decaying remains searched the area last summer and indicated there could be a burial site in a strip of land bordered by a farm field, railroad tracks, and a canal. In November, ground-penetrating radar identified four anomalies — or areas of disturbed soil beneath the ground surface — in the shapes of graves.
Williams and his team spent the last two weeks excavating but didn’t find the first anomaly they were seeking, which could’ve contained children’s remains.
“That's one of the challenges of archaeology,” Williams said. “We can have a lot of evidence that something should be where we think it’s going to be. And then once we actually get in and open up the ground and take a look, it’s not what we expected.”
They'll spend the next few weeks reevaluating the data and everything that led them to that location, Williams said, and figure out a new plan in consultation with the dozens of tribes that lost their children to the school.
There are three other anomalies nearby. Crews could search for those, pursue other leads or stop the search entirely if the tribes collectively decide that’s what they want, Williams said, but he hopes the team can still help the tribes, find the children and “bring them to rest in a satisfactory way.”
Sunshine Thomas-Bear, a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and the cultural preservation director for the tribe, said she wishes there had been more consultation with all 40 tribes — and not just the tribes in Nebraska — before now. She's looking forward to that happening more in this next phase.
“Nothing was found this time. But perhaps that was because we weren’t all ready yet," Thomas-Bear said. "There were tribes that weren’t notified, there were tribes that weren’t there. We believe that everything happens for a reason. I think that if we get on the right track together, perhaps we’ll be more successful.”
The Genoa Indian Industrial School was part of a national system of more than 400 Native American boarding schools that attempted to assimilate Indigenous people into white culture by separating children from their families, prohibiting them from speaking their Native languages, cutting them off from their heritage and inflicting abuse.
The school, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of Omaha, opened in 1884 and at its height was home to nearly 600 students. It closed in the 1930s and most buildings were demolished long ago.
The U.S. Interior Department — led by Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico and the first Native American Cabinet secretary — released a first-of-its-kind report last year that named hundreds of schools the federal government supported to strip Native Americans of their cultures and identities.
At least 500 children died at some of the schools, but that number is expected to reach into the thousands or tens of thousands as efforts like the Nebraska dig continue.
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Trisha Ahmed is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues. Follow Trisha Ahmed on Twitter: @TrishaAhmed15
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SAN ANTONIO — A different kind of calvalry was at the Alamo Saturday for an educational program.
The Texas Camel Corps showed visitors the way camels were used by the Army when it was a military outpost in the 1850's. The Army used camels to transport supplies due to their ability to cross long distances in the heat while needing very little water, compared to horses and mules.
The camels that worked at the Alamo were stationed at Camp Verde, more than 60 miles away in the Texas Hill Country.
The Texas Camel Corps was founded in 1997 by Doug Baum. The group's goal is to educate the public about the use of camels in the 19th century.
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BRIGANTINE — An amendment to the Atlantic County Water Management Plan will allow the construction of 14 single-family homes in the historic Rum Point section of the island, slated to start in the fall.
A 0.991-acre expansion of the Atlantic County Sewer Services will allow for Rockwell Brigantine LLC to subdivide 48 acres into 18 lots.
Approximately 14 of those lots will be used to build homes with stormwater improvements.
"The Rum Point development area is the last large piece of developable land on the Island," said Mayor Vince Sera. "There is land across the boulevard at the base of the bridge that could be developed, but it belongs to Atlantic City not Brigantine."
The single-street development, which will be accessible from Atlantic-Brigantine Boulevard, will feature a cul-du-sac and seven homes on each side of the street, according to plans.
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Two of the remaining lots will be used for stormwater improvements, while one will be used as open space and landscaping, and the other will remain wetlands.
Rum Point was used as a drop-off point for pirates in the 18th and 19th centuries. During Prohibition in the 1920s, "rum runners" rolled barrels of rum on and off the beach, which gave the area around the Brigantine Bridge its name.
"It will clear a historically used unofficial landfill site," Sera said. "It’s believed that when the old Brigantine Bridge was torn down, the construction debris was dumped and/or buried in that area. The testing the developer did prior to the preliminary subdivision showed large amounts of concrete and other debris on the site. All of that will be removed as part of the proposed project."
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The Planning Board first approved plans for the site in 2009.
Sera said the Planning Board reapproved the plan May 24 to make sure the project was still in compliance with city codes, zoning rules and ordinances that have changed since Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
"A lot has changed since Superstorm Sandy, and we wanted to make sure that the developer understood that they needed to conform to the new standards. And that they are not somehow grandfathered in under the old regulations," Sera said.
Rockwell Customs, based in Media, Pennsylvania, has 10 other properties, including ones in Avalon and Brigantine. The Oceanside by Rockwell at 321 Sixth St. South is a 16-unit condo site with water views.
Rockwell Customs did not return a call seeking comment on the project.
"The single-family lots that are being created comply with all of the land use requirements of the city and will also need to comply with any (New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection) requirements for development along the waterfront," said Sera. "Bulkheads will be added to the site that will assist the island and its residents with flood mitigation as well as erosion control on the cove side of the site."
A homeowner's association will be formed and will maintain responsibility for nonstandard street amenities, like streetlamps.
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BUENA VISTA TOWNSHIP — The Township Committee voted in December to allow the municipality to receive proposals for retail sales of cannabis.
Now that New Frontier Solutions LLC is interested in setting up shop in the township, some residents are not happy about it.
“We thought they (the Township Committee) had our best interests at heart. That was a big mistake,” said Sharon Corsiglia, 74, who has lived in the township for more than 50 years.
Previously scheduled for last Thursday’s Planning/Zoning Board meeting, the application for New Frontier has been postponed to Sept. 21 at the request of the applicant, Township Clerk Lisa A. Tilton said Wednesday.
The originally scheduled meeting was to consider whether New Frontier’s application is complete for the zoning process to permit a Class-5 retail cannabis dispensary at 614 Union Road.
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If the application was deemed complete, a zoning hearing was to be held during the same meeting concerning approvals including minor subdivision, minor site plan/conditional use and variance/use variance/bulk variances.
Mayor William Ruggieri declined to comment, citing the pending application.
The problem some residents have with the proposed cannabis retail business dates to at least December.
Northfield became the second municipality to exit the Atlantic County Central Municipal Court last week for the Joint Municipal Court of Hammonton, joining Hamilton Township, which left in May. Leaders from those municipalities have cited net revenue for the court falling short of the expectations that had been set when they joined the central court in 2021.
The Township Committee introduced amendments to the township’s 2022 master plan for cannabis ordinances Dec. 12. It met again Dec. 27 to hold a public hearing and final vote not just on allowing retail cannabis sales but also to accommodate cannabis cultivator, manufacturer, wholesale and distributor licenses.
“The ordinances were passed under the cover of the holidays between November and December,” Corsiglia said.
Three members of the public spoke during the public hearing prior to the vote.
Dr. Robert Zlotnick, who works for Atlantic County Prevention, said he was against the ordinance.
John Armato, a former state assemblyman, spoke and opposed the ordinance, the meeting minutes said. He requested the licensing fees be put toward drug abuse prevention and requested cannabis be prohibited from being consumed in the parks.
Carlo Favretto Jr., a Buena Vista Board of Education member, said individuals younger than 25 should be prohibited from buying cannabis. He questioned whether the tax benefit is worth the risk and requested the money be used for drug abuse prevention.
Corsiglia lives about seven houses away from the proposed retail cannabis business, but said she did not learn about the application until last month. Corsiglia’s son received a letter about the proposal because he lives within 200 feet of the location and he is a volunteer firefighter whose firehouse is also within 200 feet of the site.
In neighboring Vineland, where licenses for medical and adult-use cannabis are permitted, a person can smell the scent of marijuana for two miles, Corsiglia said.
BUENA — Borough officials deliberated on how to administer their new marijuana policy Monday.
The proposed business is at Landis and Union avenues. There are already about 100 signs up on Landis Avenue and elsewhere within the township saying, “No Cannabis in Buena Vista Township,” Corsiglia said.
During the Township Committee meeting in December when the retail cannabis sales ordinance was approved, Armato asked during the public hearing, “Do you see any interest today of anyone wanting to open up a retail shop in the township?”
Mayor Ruggieri said, “No.”
Donna Casazza Virunurm, 59, who lives in Vineland but whose father owns more than 10 acres of land within a few hundred feet of the proposed marijuana shop, is skeptical of the mayor’s answer.
“The N.J. Cannabis Regulatory Commission licenses take months to finish and be approved, and a license application requires stating the intended location,” Virunurm said. “It is unbelievable that the mayor and committeemen were not fully aware of New Frontier Solutions’ intentions to operate a cannabis retail facility at the corner of Landis Avenue and Union Road prior to Dec. 27.”
Virunurm said she is not against cannabis retail sales, but she doesn’t want it at that location with all the variances and waivers the developer needs.
There have been other residents who have had to suffer to abide by the regulations of the Planning/Zoning Board, and exceptions should not be made for New Frontier, she said.
The beauty of the rural farming and residential area still exists there and should be maintained as long as possible, she added.
BUENA — The Borough Council voted Monday to appoint Richard Giovinazzi as its newest member.
St. Mary’s School, at 735 Union Road, may be just beyond 1,000 feet away, but it is within a half mile of the proposed marijuana shop.
“It’s just too close,” Virunurm said.
There is a NJ Transit bus stop at the location, which will lead to a great deal of foot traffic, and Merighi’s Savoy Inn and Luna’s Outdoor Bar & Grill are across the street. It is a main attraction and is well known for weddings, children’s parties and other events, Virunurm said.
“There has been a severe lack of transparency. There was no cannabis task force. This has been rushed,” Virunurm said.
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ATLANTIC CITY — Back in the day, the city had some pretty unique attractions, like the Steel Pier diving horses of the 1900s.
Now, as the city continues producing bizarre experiences, Jon Henderson says "the biggest little event in Atlantic City history" wasn't horses diving 50 or 60 feet off towers into small pools but micro wrestlers jumping off the top rope of a wrestling ring, showcasing their athleticism and showmanship through the Knee-High Knuckle Buster micro wrestling matches that have been hosted in the city annually.
For the past eight years, crowds of more than 1,000 people have piled outside the Ducktown Tavern and Liquors' "Duck Hut" to watch eight people with dwarfism (a genetic condition resulting in an adult height below 4-feet-10), also referred to as little people, wrestle.
With the addition of a film crew that documented the lifestyles and careers of the Knee-High Knuckle Buster micro wrestlers at their championship matches Saturday, it's not farfetched to envision micro wrestling gaining more popularity with sports fans.
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"Micro wrestling is a spectacle and not something you see every day," said Henderson, the owner of Good Time Tricycle Productions, which puts on specialty experiences in the city, including the Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival, and the Tattoo Expo. "There's an appeal in that."
Henderson said the city needed more out-of-the-box programming to create diverse entertainment options.
“There was one wrestler break dancing, another one taking pics with people. … I love this place,“ said Ventnor resident Vraj Patel, wearing a red and white mask, who attended the micro wrestling event for the first time.
Patel has been a fan of WWE wrestling since he was a kid, with Rey Mysterio and the Undertaker being among his favorites.
“You see it online, and it looks like a blast. But once you’re here in person, everything is different,“ Patel added. “Awesome wrestlers, great people, great vibes.”
Dominic Anthony, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, said he‘s been to every Knee High wrestling event in Atlantic City since the program started. As a micro wrestling fan, he’s also been to matches in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New York.
He wore the authentic red and blue “lucha libre” wrestling mask he bought in Tijuana, Mexico, a few years ago. He hadn’t washed it since.
“This is the best thing I’ve ever been to, and I’ve been to the Vatican,” said Anthony, 28, who said he was 3 inches too tall to become a micro wrestler. “It’s where people like me can come here and have fun. I don’t have a lot of money to be spending in the casinos, so I can be here, smoking cigars, ripping Miller Lites, and watch Psycho body slam people.”
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Jacob Brooks, a brawler and high-flyer style wrestler known as "Lil Show" who participated in Saturday's matches, said, "When people come to our show, they think it’s gonna be a circus act, but we end up blowing people’s mind with our athleticism. The reason we keep coming back to Knee High is because we keep putting on great shows. We love it, they love it. ... We come here and show them what we can do, and we never disappoint."
Brooks said the wrestlers practice and train frequently. But when they're in the ring, they think of pretty much any moves they can do, and then do it, like his finisher he created called the Killshot.
Other moves include the shooting star press micro wrestler that Hot Rod did in the first match Saturday, jumping off the top rope with steel chairs, shoving yellow "caution slippery when wet" signs into other wrestlers faces, or even chugging beers like "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, an actor and retired professional wrestler.
Brooks said he has been wrestling for the past 20 years. This was his fifth time in Atlantic City for a Knee-High Knuckle Buster event. He said the annual city event is just as big as their shows in New York City and Nashville, Tennessee.
"By being a wrestler, just doing what we love, we're changing the game. We're no longer looked at as just a 'comedy act,'" said Brooks. "I've never met a person that didn't love our show."
"What's offensive to some isn't offensive to others," added Henderson, who noted micro wrestling has been around for as long as wrestling has been a thing. "We can only be respectful on how we showcase it."
Henderson started the Knee-High micro wrestling events in 2016 as a dare at the former Hideaway Atlantic City club on New York Avenue before moving it to the Ducktown Tavern. He said hosting it for the past seven years at the city's center — the tavern is located at 2400 Atlantic Ave. — where the parking lot is fenced off for control, and drinks and food are affordable, just made sense.
Ducktown Tavern owner Johnny Exadaktilos has hosted other interesting events, including Colombian festivals, flat-screen TV giveaways during the Super Bowl, and Phillies playoff game trips where they travel to in the tavern's refurbished firetruck.
"Johnny X has never been afraid to think outside the box to drum up business and market Ducktown in various, non-conventional ways," said Brian Ireland, a bartender at Ducktown who's worked all the micro wrestling events the bar has had. "Well over 1,000 people attend, and it's something out-of-towners and locals alike look forward to all year. It's become something Duck is known for at this point."
Added Anthony, the 28-year-old fan from West Chester: ”Nothing is more Atlantic City than this lawn right here."
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Michigan State Police weighs modern policing, training to expand recruitment
The Michigan State Police are revamping their approach to training troopers as the agency seeks to diversify its recruitment statewide.
Officials say they've hired more recruiters and expanded the agency's "Teen-to-Trooper" pipeline, a program to attract young candidates to policing. They're also stepping up efforts to attract diverse candidates, setting a target of increasing the agency's minority trooper applicant pool to 25% and female trooper applicant pool to 20%, saying diversity is "critically important to strengthening community relationships and building trust," officials said.
The state police's most recent graduating class, which finished in June, was 77% White and 6% Black.
MSP leaders said like industries across the country that continue to face staffing challenges and trying to attract candidates, "policing is no different in that regard," officials said in a statement Friday. Still, they say they're proud of the agency's progress.
"I'm especially proud of our progress here at our agency because we continue to attract highest-quality candidates in this challenging and competitive environment," said Michigan State Police director Col. Joe Gasper at a news conference in mid-July. "To achieve this success has been very intentional."
As of June, MSP has about 1,170 troopers assigned statewide, and a total of 1,885 enlisted members.
In April, out of 971 troopers, 798, or 82%, were White men; 75, or 7%, were White women; 43, or 4%, were Black men; five, or less than 1%, were Black women; 14, or 1.4%, were Hispanic men; and one was a Hispanic woman, according to MSP.
Gasper said the agency now is training its 144th Trooper Recruit School class, where potential recruits undergo a series of real-world instruction exercises during a 20-week program. Eighty-two recruits are registered for the program, which began July 9. Graduation is Nov. 22.
On a recent weekday, recruits stood before a row of mats, their arms outstretched. They're trained in a number of areas, which MSP officials said they've modified to mirror modern policing best practices.
Subject areas include problem-solving, critical thinking, de-escalation methods, relationship-building with the community and creating path for accessible mental health services.
Recruits also receive training on water safety, legal issues and physical training. Water tank training, which involves recruits experiencing various real-world scenarios in water, involves a 12-foot-deep pool.
The training is important because Michigan troopers "are never more than six miles away from a body of water," said 1st District Lt. Rene Gonzalez, public information officer for the MSP First District.
First District Recruiter Trooper Donald Stewart remembers having to make a save in Houghton Lake. He said without his training, "I would not have been prepared for that."
"And the 8-year-old boy probably wouldn't be alive today," Stewart said.
Capt. James Grady, commander of the MSP Training Division, said potential recruits also receive academic and physical instruction. Cultural diversity and an implicit bias curriculum were added to recruit training in 2021. It includes 16 hours of instruction which includes speakers of various communities and ethnic groups and "candid and honest conversations."
"This was an intentional addition to our training because we see the value in making sure our prospective troopers understand and have exposure to various cultures," Grady said in a news release in 2021. "We pay very close attention to what our communities say they need from us. Policing as a profession has changed and we are adapting to better prepare the next generation of troopers."
With the agency's "teen-to-trooper" pipeline, which consists of its Explorer and Cadet programs, teens are trained and mentored by troopers. Unlike explorers, cadets, who have to be at least 18 and enrolled in high school or an undergraduate or graduate program, are paid $16.26 to $18.90 an hour for the part-time positions. Cadets complete a five-day residential academy at the MSP Training Academy in Lansing before beginning their work assignments at posts statewide. There are roughly 100 cadets in the state, Gasper said.
Faheem Abdullah, 25, of Coldwater said although he's only in his second week of training, it's harder than he expected.
"It pushes you through your limits," Abdullah said.
Carly Arnett, 24, of Hillman, who has worked as a county deputy, training has been more detail-oriented and "super intense" compared to a previous prior police academy she graduated from.
"Just the atmosphere of having to stay here really puts your mindset in the academy," Arnett said. "20 weeks sounds like a long time, but for the responsibility we hold, its really a small glimpse."
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CARLISLE, Pa. — Police have confirmed that Carlisle Springs Road will be closed due to a motor vehicle accident occurring on the 1300 block.
According to the Carlisle Police Department, motorists and pedestrians are advised to avoid the area.
Additionally, police advise to plan alternate travel routes while the road is closed.
Currently, a re-opening time for the roadway is unknown.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Staff members of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium were greeted by a surprise in the gorilla habitat on Thursday - the unexpected birth of a female gorilla!
According to the zoo's Facebook, the new mother of the infant, Sully, was believed to be a male gorilla before this surprise birth.
Sully, who has lived at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium with her mother and fellow troop members since 2019, was discovered holding the baby gorilla early Thursday.
"Gorillas rarely show outward signs of pregnancy because the newborns are smaller than human babies and gorillas naturally have large abdomens," the zoo said.
The zoo team said they are thrilled to welcome this new addition to their family.
"We’re thrilled by the addition of another birth for this critically endangered species. As the 34th gorilla born here since 1956 when the Columbus Zoo became the first zoo in the world to welcome the birth of a baby gorilla, she’s an important part of our work to conserve these magnificent animals."
The Columbus Zoo invites gorilla fans to officially celebrate the baby’s birth by visiting the indoor gorilla habitat that will re-open to guests starting Friday, July 21 at 11 a.m.
For more information about the birth of the new baby gorilla and her mother Sully, click here to visit the zoo's blog.
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KILLEEN, Texas — Two dogs and 20 cats are reportedly dead after a house fire in Killeen, according to the Killeen Fire Department.
Killeen Fire said units were dispatched to a fire at a home in the 4500 block of Twin Oaks Circle around 2:23 a.m. on Sunday, July 23.
Units were told that there were more than 20 cats and two dogs living in the home, according to the department, and all human occupants were safely out of the house.
Killeen FD said firefighters were able to get the fire under control within 10 minutes of units arriving and continued extinguishing areas for another 30 minutes.
While conducting search and rescue operations, the department said firefighters found 22 cats and two dogs inside the home that had all suffered from smoke inhalation.
Paramedics on scene were reportedly able to revive two of the cats, but said the other 20 cats and two dogs did not survive.
According to the Fire Department, a Killeen Police officer had arrived on scene before fire crews and was able to discharge a fire extinguisher into the front window of the house, which the department said slowed the advance of the fire and allowed firefighters to rescue as many pets as they could.
The only person in the home was evaluated for smoke inhalation, according to Killeen FD, but did not ask to be transported to the hospital. No injuries to firefighters were reported.
Killeen FD said they responded with 26 staff, four engines, one tower ladder truck, one rescue truck, two ambulances, two battalion chiefs and two EMS captain. The Harker Heights Fire Department, Killeen Animal Services and Oncor also assisted.
The cause of the fire is currently being investigated by the Killeen Fire Marshal's office, but the department said they do not suspect foul play.
Killeen FD said the home was deemed uninhabitable. The occupants were reportedly assisted on scene by the Killeen Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
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MONROE COUNTY, Pa. — A child is dead after drowning in Monroe County.
Troopers say the nine-year-old died Saturday in the area of Lakeside Drive and Oak Drive in Polk Township.
Officials say the investigation into the drowning is ongoing in Monroe County.
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Developer Chuck Sides, Donatello's Pizza and Peoples Church top Oregon tax delinquents
Search names, amounts in our database of Oregon Department of Revenue information released on those owing more than $50,000.
Prominent Salem developer and former state legislator Chuck Sides is among the Salem area businesses and people who owe delinquent state taxes. Sides, along with his wife, Sally, owes the state $402,506, according to the Oregon Department of Revenue.
Also on the list is Salem veterinarian Arthur Mills and his wife, Tammy Mills, who owe a combined $3.35 million; Donatello’s Pizza in Salem, owing $428,652; and Peoples Church of Salem, with a past-due bill of $56,792.
The Department of Revenue this month published the list of people and companies owing the state more than $50,000.
The 2019 Oregon Legislature authorized the list's publication, with the passage of SB 523, with the goal of increasing revenue collections. The state delayed publication during the COVID-19 pandemic in recognition of the financial hardships some taxpayers faced.
Debtors on the state list owe a variety of state taxes, including personal income tax, corporate activity tax, marijuana tax, statewide transit tax, withholding taxes and more.
The Department of Revenue gave affected taxpayers nearly eight-weeks' notice that they would be on the list, and the opportunity to pay their balance in full or make payment arrangements.
In all, there are about 2,000 people and businesses on the list, owing about $332 million.
Delinquent Oregon cannabis businesses
The list of delinquencies is heavily weighted toward cannabis companies.
Statewide, the largest past-due amount on the list is $27 million, owed by American Patriot Brands, a Medford cannabis cultivation and distribution company.
In March, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company and five other entities and individuals with fraud, alleging they raised more than $30 million from investors, then siphoned off millions to enrich themselves.
A Salem cannabis entrepreneur, Troy Duzon, is fourth on the list, with a bill of $3.6 million. His company, Duzon Enterprises, has a past-due amount of $1.38 million.
The company operates Paka House Cannabis in Salem. It previously operated Cannabis Re-Leaf and Oregon Cannabis Outlet locally.
Christopher Curtiss, who operated now-closed K9 Chronic in Springfield, is 10th on the list, owing $1.65 million in marijuana and other state taxes.
Gov. Tina Kotek in May said she had ordered the Department of Revenue and the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to withhold licenses and renewal of licenses from marijuana businesses delinquent on taxes, to improve tax compliance in the industry.
Salem-area tax debtors
Sides is one of the Salem area's most prominent developers, completing more than 30 local projects, including the Keizer Station shopping center adjacent to Interstate 5.
In an interview, Sides said his state tax debt stems from a property transfer he believes should have qualified for a capital gains transfer, which would have deferred taxes on the profit.
"We were found to be wrong," he said. "We took that as far as we could get it, but coming up with that chunk of dough has required me to sell some other properties, which should be done within this year. We will pay it back."
Sides declined to name any of the properties. The Department of Revenue list indicates the debt is in connection with his company News LLC, which bought the former Statesman Journal building in downtown in 2016 for $2.6 million.
In 2018, the Statesman Journal reported that News LLC owed $118,150 in back taxes on the property.
Marion County property records show News LLC sold the property to a California company in June 2021 for $2.9 million. The county property taxes now are current.
Sides also has outstanding federal tax liens.
In 2014, the Statesman Journal reported that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service had filed an $856,246 tax lien against Sides for unpaid personal income taxes, for the 2011 tax year.
The IRS has since filed additional liens of $4,987 for the 2012 tax year, and $86,157 for the 2014 tax year.
Sides said he hired a tax attorney to handle the cases and believes he has reached a settlement with the IRS, but has not yet received any paperwork.
Silverton resident Arthur Mills, who owns Companion Pet Clinic in north Salem, is seventh on the state's tax debtor list, with $1.88 million past due. His wife, Tammy Mills, owes $1.47 million.
That's up significantly from the $328,661 the Statesman Journal reported Arthur Mills owed the state in 2017.
"We are not evading taxes," Tammy Mills said in an interview. "We pay taxes every month. The huge balance is regarding an issue we had with them years ago. We are working with representatives of the Oregon Department of Revenue to get it cleared up."
Eugene-area tax debtors
Oregon's second-largest tax delinquent is Michael A. Melekzadeh, a Eugene athletic shoe reseller operating under the name Zadah Kicks. He owes the state $19.3 million.
Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice charged Melekzadeh with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and money laundering. Zadah Kicks allegedly sold preorders of collectible sneakers before their release dates knowing it could not fulfill all the orders.
After Melekzadeh, two cannabis entrepreneurs top the list of Eugene tax delinquents.
Jeremy Wheeler, who operates Sweet Leaf Cannabis in Springfield, owes $829,851. The Growers Guild Gardens, which operates Prohibition Falls in Eugene, owes $559,416.
A Eugene Winery, Hayworth Estate Wines, also is near the top of the list, owing $119,816.
Tracy Loew covers the environment at the Statesman Journal. Send comments, questions and tips:tloew@statesmanjournal.com or 503-399-6779. Follow her on Twitter at@Tracy_Loew
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CHAMBERLAIN, S.D. — A $30,000 award for Chamberlain-area child care is ready to be spent.
The Lake Francis Case Economic Development Corporation recently received a $30,000 grant to be used toward child care needs. It was awarded by The Barger Foundation, a Chamberlain-area philanthropic foundation, after a June 7 public meeting provided insight into the on-the-ground challenges faced by providers and parents. On Monday, July 17, they unveiled a six-pronged plan as to how those dollars will be given out.
The money will be allocated among applications received in the six categories, to be decided upon by vote of the board members of the Lake Francis Case Economic Development Corporation.
“I think it would be ideal if we had two day cares that wanted to open up, and they took $15,000 each,” said Mike Lauritsen, the executive director of the Lake Francis Case Economic Development Corporation. He cited an option for the money that would see it used as startup funding for a new child care center, saying he thought the option would provide the most impact to the community.
Although the money would be considered a loan if used for a day care start up, it will essentially turn into a grant if the day care start-up stays open for two years. The day care would still be responsible for paying back the first two years of payments, but with monthly payments of $10 each — around $240 in two years.
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One of the other funding options would provide one-time bonuses for childcare employees, a response to a staffing pay challenge cited by many at the June 7 meeting, which has contributed to provider shortages.
During the June 7 Childcare Summit in the gym of the Chamberlain Community Center, providers talked about a lack of available funding that has made it difficult to pay staff members a competitive wage. As a result, many workers often leave due to a desire for higher wages, said providers at the meeting.
"We're losing people who can just go down the road and work at McDonalds for $15 an hour,” said Robyn Knecht, president of The Childrens' Ark day care in Chamberlain, during the June 7 meeting. Knecht said that while the state provides one-time grants for facility improvements, there are no state-level dollars for funding staff salaries.
The state signed a workaround to the staffing shortages on June 14, amending the Department of Social Service's mandatory provider-to-child ratios. Now a single adult provider can look after 15 children five or older — up from ten at a time. The program is an attempt to minimize the impact the staffing shortage will have on the availability of childcare, but was met with opposition from some providers.
Another direction would be to provide parents with match funding for child care; the money could provide a limited number of Chamberlain and Oacoma-area parents with up to $2,000 each of one-time funding for child care costs, matching their employers’ contributions.
The option comes after discussion of the high cost for child care relative to income, which has hurt the ability of many to have their children enrolled in daycare.
An estimated one half of Chamberlain exceeds the income minimums for state childcare assistance. Currently, the Department of Social Services has a Child Care Assistance program, providing low-income families with funding for daycare services. However, there is a statewide income limit for that funding — for a family of three it's $51,000. Chamberlain’s median household income is $50,000 — which means that using that figure for a family of three, around half would not qualify for assistance funding.
Lauritsen also emphasized the extent that the child care affordability problem was a workforce one as well.
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"When parents can't find childcare, it means one of the parents is going to have to be home — and that's one person that's not in the workforce," Lauritsen said, citing a a statewide workforce shortage that has impacted Chamberlain.
The other directions for the money include funding for child care certification course, maintenance and improvements to existing facilities, and Chamber of Commerce membership fees for all registered childcare providers.
The money is a one-time grant, awarded from the Barger Foundation. Lauritsen acknowledged the limitations of the one-time nature of the grant, after the public meeting heard comments expressing a lack of recurring funding. But he also stressed the importance of bringing an award like this grant to Chamberlain.
He believes that successful use of the $30,000 this year will provide a springboard for next year's funding; Lauritsen said that The Barger Foundation has already urged him to apply next year.
“I'm optimistic that we would get it again in the future, because we can use the successful program to show the Barger foundation that 'this is what we did with the money,'” Lauritsen said. “When they see that, I think they're more likely to give us funding again next year.”
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PORTLAND, Ore. — A deadly car crash as a result of racing killed two 18-year-old teen girls and a 55-year-old woman in Southeast Portland Thursday night, Portland police said.
Saturday, police identified the three deceased people: Hannah E. Fetters and her twin sister, Grace I. Fetters, both 18, and Julie D. Skeen, 55.
The deadly crash happened July 20 at Southeast Powell Boulevard and Southeast 63rd Avenue in Portland's Foster-Powell neighborhood.
Just before 10 p.m., two cars, a 2015 BMW 3-series sedan and a 2005 Subaru Impreza, were racing east on Southeast Powell Boulevard. As the two cars were racing, another car, a 2004 Lexus sedan, tried to turn west onto Southeast Powell Boulevard from Southeast 63rd Avenue.
One of the teen girls was the driver of the BMW while the other was a passenger. The BMW crashed into the Lexus, sending the BMW onto the median and knocking over trees.
Both teens died at the scene. Skeen was taken to the hospital and later died. There was also an unidentified adult male passenger in the Lexus who was treated for serious but not life-threatening injuries.
The Subaru was not directly involved in the crash. The 17-year-old male driver of that vehicle pulled over and cooperated with officers at the scene.
No arrests have been made.
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I-17 Southbound backed up for about 10 miles due to brush fire blocking the highway
Fernando Cervantes Jr.
Arizona Republic
Motorists on southbound Interstate 17 are expected to see traffic backed up for about 10 miles near Cordes Lakes due to a brush fire near the roadway, according to ADOT. Officials expect delays to last for a while.
The closure is about an hour north of Phoenix, crews are currently working to control the fire and reopen the roadway.
The backup is reported to be between mileposts 260 and 270, with motorists advised to consider delaying travel or taking an alternate route.
This is a developing story.
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3.8 magnitude earthquake shakes parts of central Arizona
Fernando Cervantes Jr.
Arizona Republic
Sunday afternoon in Yavapai County saw the ground shake with an earthquake hitting central Arizona according to the United States Geological Survey.
According to the USGS Earthquake map, a 3.8 magnitude earthquake was detected about two kilometers from Chino Valley. The quake was detected about 5 kilometers underground.
The epicenter of the earthquake was determined to be near Center Street and Railroad Avenue. No damages have been reported from the earthquake.
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36-year-old Ohio man dies after cliff-jumping in Lake Powell
On Thursday, an Ohio man died while cliff-jumping at the Utah side of Lake Powell, according to a news release from the National Park Service. The victim was identified as Cory Ryan Ehrnschwender, 36, from Cincinnati.
Around noon, the Glen Canyon Communications Center received a 911 call that reported a suspected cliff-jumping fatality about a quarter of a mile south of Buoy 89 inside the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
The buoy is located in Kane County, Utah, and about 89 miles from the Glen Canyon Dam. According to witnesses, Ehrnschwender jumped from a height of 50 feet and then did not resurface from the water.
An initial search was conducted by Glen Canyon National Recreation Area rangers, officers from the Utah Department of Natural Resources and the Kane County Sheriff’s Office.
On Friday, the Utah Department of Public Safety Dive Team located Ehrnschwender’s body using sonar and recovered his body on Friday morning in about 30 feet of water.
Officials are currently investigating what led up to his death, and an autopsy is being conducted by the Utah State Medical Examiner in Salt Lake.
Officials also remind visitors that people recreating around Lake Powell are prohibited to jump or dive off places higher than 15 feet above the water.
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Early morning house fire in Glendale leaves 6 people without home; no injuries reported
Fernando Cervantes Jr.
Arizona Republic
An early morning house fire in Glendale left six people without a place to live.
Firefighters from the Glendale, Peoria and Sun City fire departments responded to reports of a house fire near Libby Street and 75th Avenue in Glendale.
Once firefighters arrived, they found a home engulfed in flames. Due to the extensive damage the house had received, crews deemed the house lost and moved to prevent the spread of the fire to other houses.
Officials said that no victims were found inside the house, and no injuries were reported to any firefighters or residents. Glendale Fire said the fire has been extinguished and no other homes were damaged by the blaze.
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Young girl hospitalized after 2-car crash in east Phoenix on Sunday morning
Fernando Cervantes Jr.
Arizona Republic
A young girl was hospitalized after a two-car crash in east Phoenix on Sunday morning.
According to Phoenix Fire, firefighters responded to a crash at the intersection of 40th and Fillmore streets.
Once they arrived, they found three people involved in the crash who needed help. A young girl was trapped inside a midsized sedan while the two others were walking around the scene.
The young girl was taken to a hospital in stable condition, and the other two patients did not need to be taken to the hospital.
The cause of the crash is currently under investigation.
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Suspect at large after killing store clerk in Arizona City
Early Sunday morning, officers found a clerk at an Arizona City market dead and the search for the suspected killer began.
At 7:15 a.m. Sunday morning, the Pinal County Sheriff's Office and Arizona City Fire responded to The Sunlite Market in Arizona City, a town located off the Interstate-10 near Casa Grande, for a welfare check.
The caller who reported the incident said the clerk was injured and not breathing. When officers arrived, they determined the clerk was dead and identified a suspect from surveillance footage.
The suspect has been described as a middle-aged black man with facial hair who was wearing a white t-shirt that reads "USA ALL DAY," black pants, Jordan shoes, and a black baseball style hat with a palm tree on the front.
The suspect is considered armed and dangerous and is wanted for first degree homicide related to this incident.
Please call 911 if you see this suspect or call 520-866-5111 with any additional information.
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Police Department is investigating after the Austin NAACP office was targeted by vandals early Sunday morning.
Austin NAACP President Nelson Linder told KVUE Senior Reporter Tony Plohetski office equipment and other supplies were stolen in the break-in, including three computers and personal items.
Linder said as of around 3:15 p.m. Sunday, APD has not been in contact with him or come by to review the scene. Linder lamented the response time from police but said the office was "self-sufficient."
He also told KVUE he believes the act was intentional and was committed out of anger.
A Good Samaritan called 911 on Saturday night after walking past the area, according to Linder, who didn't get a call until Sunday morning from the property manager.
A brick found on the ground after the break-in is evidence, Linder said.
KVUE reached out to APD who said officers could not get a hold of business owners on Sunday morning but are investigating. Police have not released any information about a suspect.
Last year, the organization moved from its longtime location on East 12th Street to its current location on East 11th Street after its former office building was damaged in the February 2021 winter storm.
No other information is available at this time.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A small plane crashed into a vacant, two-story home in Georgetown on Sunday morning.
According to the Georgetown Fire Department (GFD), the crash occurred just before noon in the 500 block of Northwood Dr. The plane had three occupants, all of whom were taken to the hospital with unspecified injuries.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is beginning an investigation into what caused the crash to occur. GFD will assist in the early stages of the investigation.
People are asked to avoid the area on Sunday.
Airplane crashes into vacant Georgetown home, July 23, 2023
This is a developing story and it will be updated with the latest information available. Stick with KVUE for the latest news.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A person is in critical condition after being rescued from the American River Sunday, fire officials said.
Crews with the Sacramento Metro Fire District were called to the American River Parkway in Rancho Cordova around 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
Firefighters pulled one patient from the water and transferred him or her to an ambulance. The patient, who authorities say was not wearing a life jacket, was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Watch more from ABC10: People head outdoors early ahead of another triple degree Northern California weekend
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SOMERSET, Calif. — Evacuations are in place after a wildfire sparked in the Somerset area of El Dorado County, Cal Fire said Sunday.
The so-called Rontree Fire is burning at Rontree Lane and Fairplay Road in the Somerset area.
Cal Fire said the fire has burned 10 acres so far and is spotting. Officials added that structures are threatened and evacuations are in place. The fire is 10% contained.
According to a spokesperson for the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office, there are about 5 homes impacted by the evacuation on Leap Frog Lane.
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WILDFIRE PREPS
According to Cal Fire, the 2022 fire season was quieter than previous years, but there were still several significant fires. January 2022 saw just one major incident with the Colorado Fire in Monterey County burning 687 acres. Fires picked up in May when the Lost Lake Fire burned through 5,856 acres. The largest fire in 2022, the Mosquito Fire, started in early September. It burned through more than 76,000 acres in El Dorado and Placer counties.
Overall, 331,360 acres burned in 2022 from 7,477 wildfires — well below the five-year average of 2.3 million acres. Over 870 structures were affected and nine people were killed, all civilians.
If you live in a wildfire-prone zone, Cal Fire suggests creating a defensible space around your home. Defensible space is an area around a building in which vegetation and other debris are completely cleared. At least 100 feet is recommended.
The Department of Homeland Security suggests assembling an emergency kit that has important documents, N95 respirator masks, and supplies to grab with you if you’re forced to leave at a moment’s notice. The agency also suggests signing up for local warning system notifications and knowing your community’s evacuation plans best to prepare yourself and your family in cases of wildfires.
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YAVAPAI COUNTY, Ariz. — An earthquake hit central Arizona Sunday afternoon in Yavapai County, according to the United States Geological Survey.
The 3.8 magnitude earthquake was just over a mile southeast of Chino Valley. It struck just before 2 p.m., the USGS said.
The earthquake's epicenter was near Center Street and Railroad Avenue.
It's not known if the quake caused any damage.
Back in May, the USGS reported an earthquake in northern Arizona. The 3.2 magnitude earthquake struck in Coconino County, near the community of Cameron.
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — If you're in the market for a used car but want something on the more luxurious side, we've got you covered!
A 2013 Lamborghini Aventador, black-on-black and fit for someone like Bruce Wayne, will be up for auction in Montgomery County.
The Lamborghini was recently seized by the Precinct 5 Constable's Office and will be up for auction on Wednesday, Aug. 2 at 10:00 a.m. The Italian supercar has 691 horsepower and usually retails at just over $400,000.
The Aventador comes with a clean title and will be sold as-is. Just bring a heavy duty suitcase, because bidding is cash only. So if you recently won $2 million playing Powerball in Spring, or maybe just $1 million in Katy or southwest Houston, here's your chance to blow some of that money burning a hole in your pocket!
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DALLAS — A shooting in the Northwest Dallas area left one person dead and three others injured early Sunday, police said.
Police said they responded to the shooting around 3:45 a.m. in the 3300 block of Sheila Lane, near the intersection of West Northwest Highway and Webb Chapel Extension road.
According to police, investigators believe an unknown suspect in a vehicle shot at the victims and then left the area. Four people were transported to a hospital.
One person died from his injuries, one is in critical condition and two others are stable, according to police. The person who died has not yet been identified.
Further details were not immediately released as the investigation continues.
Anyone who has information is asked to call police at 214-671-3657. Crime Stoppers is also offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest and indictment, and they can be reached at 214-373-8477.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A small plane crashed into a vacant, two-story home in Georgetown on Sunday morning.
According to the Georgetown Fire Department (GFD), the crash occurred just before noon in the 500 block of Northwood Dr. The plane had three occupants, all of whom were taken to the hospital with unspecified injuries.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is beginning an investigation into what caused the crash to occur. GFD will assist in the early stages of the investigation.
People are asked to avoid the area on Sunday.
This is a developing story and it will be updated with the latest information available. Stick with KVUE for the latest news.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Tarrant County has reported at least four heat-related deaths so far in July as the scorching summer continues.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office released a summary of deaths due to hyperthermia this summer since May 1, 2023. All the reported deaths occurred in the month of July.
According to the report, the deaths were recorded as followed:
- July 2 - 26-year-old man who was working outdoors
- July 3 - 74-year-old man with no working A/C
- July 8 - 79-year-old woman with no working A/C
- July 17 - 77-year-old woman who was working outdoors
The medical examiner said the number of heat-related deaths could change as the office awaits further lab tests and investigations on other cases.
So far in July, there have been 14 days with temperatures at or above 100 degrees that were recorded at Fort Worth Meacham Airport. The hottest temperature was 110 degrees on July 18.
The Tarrant County area has also dealt with several excessive heat warnings through the month.
Under these warnings, the county could expect to see heat index values, or feels-like temperatures, above 110 degrees. The highest heat index recorded this month was 116 degrees.
During the summer heat in Texas, it's important to know the signs of heat-related illnesses:
Heat cramps
- Often the first stage in a heat emergency
- Symptoms include muscle pain and tightness
- Rest in a cool place and drink something with electrolytes and salt or cool water to replenish your body
Heat exhaustion
- Heat exhaustion can send patients to the hospital and happens when someone loses large amounts of water and salt due to excessive sweating, especially from physical labor or exercise, according to MedStar officials.
- The loss of fluids can interfere with your body's circulation and brain function
- Symptoms of heat exhaustion can include heat cramps, paleness, clammy skin, heavy sweating, weakness, dizziness, fast or weak pulse, fatigue, headache, nausea, vomiting, fainting
- If someone is experiencing the signs of heat exhaustion, have them move to a cooler location, lie down, remove or loosen clothing, and apply cool and wet cloths to their body. Have them sip water as well.
Heat stroke
- This is the most serious heat-related illness and can happen in less than an hour, according to MedStar officials, especially if you are participating in strenuous activity. It can be life-threatening.
- Heatstroke happens when someone's body is no longer able to cool itself after long, intense exposure to the heat.
- Symptoms include the absence of sweating, hot/dry/red skin, pulsing headache, strong or rapid pulse, confusion, vomiting, shortness of breath, body temperature at 104 to 106 degrees, seizure activity, unconsciousness
- If you believe someone has heatstroke, call 911 right away.
- Check them for a pulse and watch their breathing, start CPR if necessary.
- Move them to a cooler location, have them lie down or sit under a fan, apply cool and wet cloths or ice packs to their body.
How to prevent heat exhaustion or heat stroke
- Hydrate: MedStar officials say you should make sure to drink plenty of water throughout the day, especially if doing any outdoor or strenuous activities.
- Ventilate: Stay somewhere cool during the day with plenty of airflow. If indoors without air conditioning, MedStar officials say to make sure you open the windows and turn on a fan.
- Cover Up: While it might seem counterintuitive, covering up with loose-fitting and light-colored clothing can actually keep you cooler. How? The clothes and a hat can help shield you from absorbing the heat of the sun. Once you feel yourself getting warm though, you should remove a hat or any items from your head that could trap your body heat.
- Limit Activity: Try not to engage in strenuous activity for long periods of time outside on a hot day and take frequent breaks in a place out of the sun while you do. Make sure to drink water before, during and after your time outside as well.
- Check on Loved Ones: Children and elderly people are especially vulnerable to high heat, but they might be unaware of hot it is around them, so be sure to check in on them regularly to make sure they're OK.
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Community Parade kicks off 2023 HOF Enshrinement Festival
CANTON – With a burst of community spirit, the annual Community Parade kicked off the 2023 Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival on Sunday.
Parade participants began marching at 2:30 p.m. near Market Avenue at 11th Street North, making their way South through the heart of downtown Canton.
From dance groups to marching bands to antique vehicles to local nonprofits, nearly 100 units registered to participate in this year’s parade.
Onlookers gathered with lawn chairs and umbrellas along the route, watching and cheering as the parade passed by.
The Community Parade first began in 1980 to celebrate the local community.
Denise Waggoner of Canton came to the Community Parade to watch her 16-year-old son perform with the McKinley High School band. She said the parade is another outlet for local talent and performance.
"We love the band," said Waggoner. "We love seeing him playing and marching."
Kristee Battle of Massillon attended the Community Parade in support of her 8-year-old son and his Plain Local youth football team.
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Battle said she was eager to see how many people attended the parade this year. She attributes the turnout to the recent Hall of Fame Village expansion.
"I am excited to see how the Hall of Fame keeps making our city better," she said.
Contact Abreanna Blose by email at ablose@gannett.com or by phone at 330-580-8513.
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Proposed student housing development in South Overton going to Lubbock zoning commission
A new 707-bed student housing development is being presented in front of the Planning & Zoning Commission this week but this time it's located in the South Overton National Residential Historic District.
The planned construction would sit behind CVS and the Wesley Foundation Building on University Avenue — 2401 to 2413 on 14th St. and 2402 to 2416 on 15th St.
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For context, the South Overton neighborhood received its historic designation from the city council in 2012 and with its designation comes specific requirements developers must follow when building.
With that said, the new development is just outside the historic district boundary — but that isn't stopping residents from advocating against the proposed development.
Through an open records request, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal was able to learn the following information that the P&Z Commision will receive ahead of its meeting on Thursday.
South Overton student housing spec
The proposed facility would include 707 beds in a seven-story building about 80 feet tall. The seller, Thomas K. Abraham, owns the 14 properties being sold to Parallel construction company for the purpose of developing the project.
According to the City of Lubbock Ordinances, the Planning & Zoning Department — the city officials — must notify residents in a 500-foot radius around the area being requested for the zoning change asking if they are in favor or against the zone change.
Of the more than 40 properties inside the radius, 23 responded — 22 in favor and 1 opposed.
It is also worth noting the seller owns multiple lots within the notification radius and wrote 21 of the letters responding in favor of the zone change and development.
The department also received an additional 13 responses that were outside of the notification area — two in favor and 11 opposed.
Again, the two responses in favor were from properties Abraham owns. Abraham also signed all those letters in favor of the development, commenting "excellent use for student housing" on each letter.
The developers are also asking for a reduction in the required number of parking spaces from 635 required spaces to 544 spaces — a shortfall of 163 spaces from the number of beds.
According to the developer's plans, the building will feature a courtyard, study lounge, a rooftop deck and a pool in what can be described as a 1970s architecture-designed building — glass and various shades of grey concrete on the building exterior.
What South Overton residents are saying about the proposed building
Some area residents have shared concerns about the proposal, largely focusing on the number of beds, potential traffic issues, the height of the building and potential degradation of the nearby historic district.
Many of the concerns echo the same issues that bogged down the proposed student housing development to the southwest of this project — near 19th Street and Akron Avenue — in the Tech Terrace neighborhood.
Stefan Estreicher, a resident in the neighborhood inside the notification radius, said that the new building would change the landscape of the historic neighborhood and is a slippery slope for other projects.
"The only future developments would be other high-rise apartments to replace cheap structures, with yet another Chick-fil-A here and there. This would benefit a few developers but destroy the historic value of South Overton," he wrote. "The local residents will be pushed out one by one, the historical markers will disappear, and Texas Tech will be surrounded by cheap student housing."
The opposition is also seeing support from those outside of the neighborhood.
Stephen Faulk, a local architect and a resident of the Tech Terrace neighborhood, cited numerous hazardous conditions the building would create, such as the potential for 163 students who would have to find parking on the streets.
"I don't care how many traffic studies are conducted, those (housing project) perimeter streets will be lined with their overflow parking that will hinder and impact Lubbock's first responders," Faulk wrote.
Faulk also pointed out that there is a nearby parking lot that belongs to St. John's United Methodist Church that will attract students.
A member of St. Johns, Craig Rutherford, said he doesn't want the church to take on the burden the developers will create of having the numerous students parking in the church's lot.
"We already struggle to exit our lot since the very busy coffee shop opened across the street. I cannotimagine the congestion that would result if this is approved," Rutherford said. "It is already very congested onUniversity on weekdays, especially at lunch, and this would make a difficult situation a nightmare."
The only other letter the commission received in favor of the development that was not written by Abraham was from Johnathan Krebbs.
"Ken's properties have always been eye sores," he wrote. "This new zoning would allow for a nice addition to the neighborhood and significant property taxes for our schools."
Numerous letters cite the same issues, with those opposed to the proposed project sharing the same sentiment last seen at the Tech Terrace student housing fight.
"I'm not opposed to economic development, but I would like development that carefully considers the impact of zoning changes to our historic neighborhood," said Catherine Prenot, a South Overton resident.
The Planning & Zoning Commission will hear the development proposal at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 27 at Citizens Tower where they will either make a recommendation in favor or against the project to the City Council who will have the final say.
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POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Florida Highway Patrol said a 36-year-old Winter Haven woman has died of her injuries after an accused DUI driver slammed into her vehicle early Sunday morning.
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Troopers said at 4:10a.m, Quarpaesha Raquel Prather, 31, of Lakeland was traveling eastbound on State Route 400 in the outside lane approaching Galloway Road.
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According to the news release, the victim was also traveling eastbound.
Investigators said Prather collided with the rear end of the female victim’s car.
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The impact caused the victim’s car to rotate and overturn into the south shoulder of the highway, troopers said.
The Florida Highway Patrol said the victim was ejected from her car and suffered fatal injuries.
Prather was arrested and brought to the Polk County Jail.
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BOISE — During the transition from the delta variant to the omicron variant, Saint Alphonsus Physician Carolyn McFarlane met a patient she will remember forever.
The patient, an older gentleman, had taken extensive precautions to avoid catching COVID-19 — vaccinations, distancing, and more. But after attending a family reunion, the virus finally found him.
Meeting him sparked something in McFarlane. Despite her being covered in protective equipment, having to shout loudly to be heard, and the patient having to wear a BiPAP breathing device, the two hit it off, McFarlane said.
“He said, ‘You got this,’ and I said, ‘We’re going to do everything,’” McFarlane said.
At the time, there was a lot of misinformation circulating about the pandemic. Distrust from the community was directed toward doctors, which weighed on McFarlane and her colleagues. But this patient was different.
“Seeing people who have followed all the recommendations and had done every last thing that they possibly could to avoid getting COVID, I kind of drew a line in the sand, and said, ‘No. No, I’ve learned so much from this pandemic,’” McFarlane said. “‘I’ve seen so many cases since March of 2020 to this point. I’m not going to let this person succumb to this disease.’”
“Unfortunately, I committed to something that is beyond my control,” she said.
The patient had numerous comorbidities, or other health ailments that potentially made him more susceptible to COVID. However, he was clear that he did not want to be intubated, she said.
The first day, he responded well to treatment. The second day, at the first signs he needed additional help, McFarlane escalated treatment quickly. But by the third day, he began struggling, and grew worse on day four.
On the fifth day, he told McFarlane, “‘I’m done.’”
Though it was difficult to accept the patient’s choice to discontinue additional treatment, it was McFarlane’s job. The patient was grateful for McFarlane’s care and support, and she, for him. It affirmed her reasons for practicing medicine, she said.
“He reminded me that it’s about him and his personal journey and how he wished to live his life here on Earth,” McFarlane said.
When the time came, “I said my goodbyes to him and vowed I would never forget.”
He was the last patient she treated who died from COVID-19 complications.
This week, Saint Alphonsus dedicated a memorial garden at its Boise and Nampa campuses to remember those who died during the pandemic, and the health care workers who served them. McFarlane attended the dedication with that patient in mind.
The health system’s Ontario and Baker City, Oregon, campuses will have their new gardens dedicated Monday, said Mark Snider, spokesperson for Saint Al’s.
At the Boise location, the garden is located near the “S2” entrance, by the campus’s emergency room.
A NEED TO REFLECT
About six months into the pandemic, Saint Al’s staff began asking for a COVID-19 memorial, said Sheri Ainsworth, mission director for Saint Alphonsus’s Nampa location. After committing to creating one for each of its four campuses, it took some time to coordinate the elements of each one.
Boise’s garden location happened to already have trees growing, offering much-appreciated summer shade. Sterling Landscape donated the materials for each garden, including plants, irrigation materials, and stones. The company also donated time installing each of the gardens, Ainsworth said. The Boise location also has two benches for visitors.
The gardens have been well-received so far, she said. Staff have expressed “an appreciation for having a space for them to recognize all that they endured during the pandemic, and really just a place for them to go and spend time remembering, and being hopeful for the future,” Ainsworth said.
Central to each location are four words that were selected by a team of colleagues at that location for display. Boise staff selected unity, hope, grace, and resilience; Nampa staff selected family, bravery, love, and compassion; Ontario staff selected faith, hope, resilience, and family; and Baker City staff selected strength, faith, bravery, and compassion.
The planning team sought the input of Jacqueline Crist, a local art consultant, and Troy Passey, an artist who blends language with art. At the Boise location, a large sign displays the words to Emily Dickinson’s poem, “The Gentian weaves her fringes” in English and Spanish, with a nearby sign displaying it in Braille.
“(The poem) really appeals to nature and its ability to heal us,” Ainsworth said, adding that it was important to incorporate nature into the healing space of the memorial.
“It allows us to transform our grief and fatigue into hope and resilience,” she said.
McFarlane said she plans to keep that patient in her heart when she visits, and walks by. But the garden is also about the more than 500 patients who died of COVID while in the health system’s care, and the health care workers and administration that persevered to save patients, she said.
“There are a lot of angels here.”
ACCESSING NEEDED CARE
McFarlane recognized that though the pandemic has been declared over, health care workers and the public still face challenges.
Many health care providers still have healing to do, including addressing their mental health needs, she said.
“While we take care of others, we also definitely need to make sure that we take care of ourselves,” she said.
Members of the public have a similar need, and may also need to resume medical care for health conditions they may have left untended during the pandemic.
“There’s no time like the present to find that therapeutic relationship,” she said. “It doesn’t have to be with your previous provider; it can be starting fresh. But that medicine is still out there to help with very treatable conditions. And that includes mental health.”
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Originally published July 21 on IdahoCapitalSun.com.Idaho government officials pledge to be transparent about how government agencies are spending millions of lawsuit settlement dollars to help combat opioid addiction and abuse.
The Gem State has received $26 million to date from opioid settlement funds. Less than half of those funds went directly to the state, $8 million was set aside for cities and counties and another $5.8 million was directed to the state’s seven regional public health districts.
The funds come from opioid manufacturers, distributors and retailers who settled lawsuits with states for more than $54 billion for their role in the epidemic of opioid abuse, which is linked to 75% of reported drug overdoses in America in 2020. Opioid settlement funds have little oversight, KFF Health News reports, which has drawn comparisons to massive settlements that tobacco companies paid to states that had few restrictions.
Few of those dollars have been spent so far in Idaho. But another round of spending reports are due in two months, which will detail what money was spent locally throughout fiscal year 2023, which ran from July 2022 to June 2023.
“We are at the very beginning,” Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Dave Jeppesen said in an interview about the opioid settlement funds.
And this process could take a long time.
IDAHO PROMISES TO TELL THE PUBLIC HOW IT SPENDS SETTLEMENT MONEY
Idaho will receive its final payments in 2038, if the companies who agreed to settlements with Idaho don’t prepay, said Stephanie Guyon, deputy attorney general in the consumer protection division of the Office of the Attorney General.
All Idaho local government agencies that received funds are required to file financial reports by the end of September that will later be published by the Idaho Attorney General’s Office. That level of transparency is rare, national reporting suggests, two years into states receiving settlement funds.
Only 15 states say they will report all opioid settlement fund spending, according to OpioidSettlementTracker.com. Idaho has promised full public reporting, while 18 states have pledged reporting some figures and 17 states have not publicly committed yet, according to the tracker, which collaborated with KFF Health News.
State and local governments have received more than $3 billion so far. Payments began in 2022, KFF Health News reports.
In 2021, 353 Idahoans died from drug overdoses, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reports. Opioids were tied to 241 of those deaths.
HOW MUCH MONEY IS IDAHO DUE FROM OPIOID SETTLEMENTS?
Idaho is expecting to receive millions of dollars over the next several years. In total, Idaho is set to receive nearly $217.8 million across all settlements, but about $90 million is pending additional settlements. Idaho is slated to receive $127.8 million with the current settlements in place.
Idaho’s settlement money goes into three pools: 40% goes to the state, 40% to cities and counties, and 20% to health districts.
The Idaho Attorney General’s office has finalized opioid settlements with three pharmaceutical distributors, two manufacturers and one consulting firm. The state anticipates finalizing five more settlements involving two additional manufacturers and three pharmacy chains.
In total, 75 Idaho local and regional government agencies — including cities, counties and the state’s seven regional health districts — are eligible to receive funds. Here’s the full list of eligible agencies. That list includes all 44 Idaho counties, all seven public health districts and 24 cities.
No opioid funds were spent at the state level in fiscal years 2022 and 2023, said Madison Hardy, spokesperson for the Idaho governor’s office. That last fiscal year ended June 30. The Legislature, following Gov. Brad Little’s recommendation, appropriated opioid funds to be spent in fiscal year 2024, which just began this month. But it mostly relied on funds from sources other than the settlements to fund projects suggested by the Idaho Behavioral Health Council, a group co-chaired by Jeppesen that guides how the state spends opioid settlement funds.
Idaho estimates receiving $2 million each year for the state’s portion of the opioid settlement funds going forward.
WHAT’S BEEN REPORTED SO FAR?
Financial reports were filed for 31 government agencies who received funds in fiscal year 2022, which ended June 2022, but Guyon noted that many agencies did not spend any funds that year.
Any local government agency that receives funds must submit a financial report to the Idaho Attorney General’s Office, whether they spent them or not, Guyon said. The office plans to publish each year’s reports on its website, which lists the settlement funds Idaho has received so far and describes the process.
The Idaho Behavioral Health Council, which recommends how the state should spend its share of the funds, recommended a slate of projects for this fiscal year to combat opioid abuse, including funds for housing initiatives, community recovery centers, inpatient treatment and a new program for Idaho’s courts.
The projects that were funded by the state pulled from various pools of money — with only less than $2 million of the $89 million group of projects funded by opioid settlement funds.
CDH RAMPS UP PERSONNEL FOR PROGRAMMING
Cities and counties, rather than spending the funds themselves, can reallocate their money to their public health districts. So far this year, 12 counties and cities have sent a total of $191,000 money to their local health districts, according to recently released data by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Central District Health, which is receiving the largest sum of money compared to all local government agencies in Idaho, has received $1.5 million so far, said Rebecca Sprague, public health program manager at the district. But it has only spent $61,000, mostly on personnel costs to build up programs that would complement efforts that are already taking place in the communities it serves in Ada, Boise, Elmore and Valley counties. That includes ramping up its clinic to offer more treatment for opioid use disorders.
Funds from the settlements must be spent to combat opioid addiction or abuse, as reported previously in the Idaho Statesman, but the state’s defined goals for the funds are broad. Sprague said that’s important in Idaho, where the opioid epidemic might look very different in bustling cities like Boise compared to rural communities.
“It’s not going to be a one-sized-fits-all,” Sprague said, adding that “We are using our funds in a way that we have learned will probably make a really big impact, will fill in the gaps that we know of.”
If you have questions about how your local government is spending this money, Sprague encourages you to call your elected officials.
Eastern Idaho Public Health, a health district that spans eight counties that include Idaho Falls and Rexburg, has spent less than $1,100 of the more than $664,000 it has received so far, health education specialist Mallory Johnson said in an email.
“With the use of the opioid settlement funds, Eastern Idaho Public Health is excited to expand current programming,” she said, which includes drug overdose prevention programming, trainings on how to use the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone, drug take back events and more. “EIPH has strived to be careful and strategic with how opioid settlement funds are utilized and has spent time developing a strategic plan” and a committee to guide spending.
WHAT’S TO COME?
Jeppesen, who co-chairs the Idaho Behavioral Health Council that recommends to Gov. Little how to spend the state’s portion of settlement funds, said the state hopes to get a picture down the road of how successful the funds have been at slowing Idaho’s opioid epidemic. But generally, he said, the funds will have been a success if they help create better, comprehensive treatment for people struggling with addiction and prevent new addictions.
The Idaho Behavioral Health Council meets next on Aug. 11 to consider suggestions for state projects. Eighty ideas in 29 different categories came in from public feedback, which Jeppesen said the council will narrow to a handful of items that it’ll suggest the Legislature fund when they return to the Idaho Statehouse next year.
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The front doors of a Plano church were damaged in a firebomb attack early Sunday, according to police and church officials.
Sometime between midnight and 12:30 a.m., an incendiary device with a chemical accelerant was either thrown or placed at the doors of the Community Unitarian Universalist Church of Plano’s main building, a post on the church’s Facebook page said.
Plano firefighters extinguished the blaze and the damage was limited to the front doors and objects directly outside of it as well as the entrance foyer, the post said. No one was injured.
“Plano police and fire department personnel did a thorough collection of evidence of the crime scene,” the post said. “They also interviewed multiple church personnel who arrived on-site to assess the incident.”
Plano police confirmed arson investigators are handling the case. A department spokesperson said they are investigating who threw an accelerant at the church and whether more than one suspect was involved.
The church continued to have Sunday morning services with extra security provided by Plano officers.
“The church community asks for your support and prayers at this time as we deal with the impact of this incident,” the post said.
According to the church, a hate group has been targeting it since at least June 25. The post said church officials have been reviewing building security and working with law enforcement “since the intrusion of a hate group” in the church building during a service that day.
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The Dallas Zoo announced the birth of a female calf Klipspringer.
The newest edition to the Klipspringer family, Mitzi, was born May 15, the zoo announced Sunday. The baby, born to first-time parents Clarice and Rudi, is the first Klipspringer calf born at the Dallas Zoo in 23 years.
Meanwhile, the zoo also recently celebrated its eldest Klipspringer’s birthday.
Saba turning 24 is a “remarkable milestone,” according to the zoo, which said Saba is the second-oldest klipspringer across all Association of Zoos and Aquariums institutions.
Klipspringers are dwarf antelope native to Africa’s rocky regions, according to the zoo, and the AZA has referred to klipspringers as “a ballet dancer in antelope form.”
"Both Mitzi and Saba remain in habitats behind the scenes at the Zoo, where our dedicated zoologists provide them with exceptional care, ensuring they are happy and healthy," the zoo said in a statement.
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NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. — Starting on Monday, the New Kensington Bridge will close to all traffic for almost the rest of the summer.
It’ll have a major impact on local businesses and the thousands of drivers who use it every day.
New Kensington Bridge will close for 6 weeks to all traffic starting around 9 a.m. Monday.
The almost century-old bridge spans the Allegheny River between East Deer and New Kensington. Around 16,000 vehicles use it every day.
“Morning isn’t bad because I go in early. But coming home, it’s gonna take a while to get home,” said Brian Kranak, who lives in New Kensington.
According to PennDOT, the bridge closure is because of a $24.5 million preservation project that started in March.
One end of the bridge is covered with a tarp and has fencing on each side.
The bridge will be fully painted, repairs will be made the concrete and steel, and light poles will be installed.
Detour routes will be posted, and that’ll affect food and gas sales at businesses, including Food Mart Glassmere on Freeport Road.
“I think it’ll affect it a lot. Because everybody, they’re going to go the other way on 28 when they go across the Tarentum Bridge,” said cashier Wanda Ripple.
Tenth Street, which is under the bridge on the New Kensington side, will also be shut down.
PennDOT said Elite Coach Transportation will provide a shuttle service for transit riders.
During the construction, the sidewalk on the bridge will stay open for pedestrians.
The bridge is expected to remain closed until Sept. 4.
Here are the posted detours:
North of the Closure
- Take Freeport Road (Route 1001) northbound
- Freeport Road becomes West 7th Avenue (Route 1001)
- Turn right onto Route 366 and cross the Tarentum Bridge
- Continue straight on Route 366 toward New Kensington onto Stevenson Boulevard
- Turn right onto Seventh Street (Route 56)
- Turn right onto Industrial Boulevard (Truck Route 56)
- Follow Industrial Boulevard back to the New Kensington Bridge
- End detour
South of the Closure
- From the New Kensington Bridge, take Industrial Boulevard (Truck Route 56) eastbound
- Turn left onto Seventh Street (Route 56)
- Turn left onto Stevenson Boulevard (Route 366)
- Bear right toward Route 366 Tarentum onto Tarentum Bridge Road
- Cross the Tarentum Bridge
- Turn left onto East 7th Avenue (Route 1001)
- East 7th Avenue becomes West 7th Avenue (Route 1001)
- West 7th Avenue becomes Freeport Road (Route 1001)
- Follow Freeport Road southbound back to the New Kensington Bridge
- End detour
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Another week of heat: 24 days of 110-degree temps, 30% chance of showers this evening
With the excessive heat warning extended until Wednesday, more record-breaking heat is expected to continue, but rainy conditions have the potential to expel some relief.
Saturday set another daily record high in Phoenix at 118 degrees, which broke the previous record of 116 degrees set in 2006. It was the 23rd consecutive day with highs reaching 110 degrees or above in Phoenix and the sixth consecutive day of high temperatures of at least 115 degrees, which tied for the record of the longest streak on record.
But the Phoenix area did get some rainy relief around 11 p.m. with scattered rainstorms, heavy winds and .04 inches of rain recorded at two locations: Jackson and Seventh streets and 27th Avenue and Durango Street in Phoenix.
Sunday is forecasted to bring even more rainy conditions to the Valley with a 30% chance of showers forecasted throughout the Phoenix metro area between 4 and 8 p.m. and later into the evening.
"There will be plenty of gusty winds and some blowing dust and hopefully a few locations will see some measurable rainfall," said Phoenix National Weather Service meteorologist Tom Frieders.
Due to this precipitation, a slight drop in temperatures compared to Saturday's heat is also forecasted, as Sunday is expected to have a high of 116 degrees and a low of 92 degrees. Temperatures this afternoon have propelled Phoenix into the 24th straight day of temperatures of more than 110 degrees.
If Phoenix hits 115 degrees or more this afternoon, it will be the seventh consecutive day of at least 115 degrees and will become the longest streak of that occurring on record.
Excessive heat warnings issued by the National Weather Service have persisted for weeks, seeing constant extensions and currently lasting until Wednesday for the Phoenix area and many surrounding counties.
The excessive highs aren't the only problem. Record-high lows, meaning low temperatures that are higher than usual, have accompanied the sweltering temperatures, adding yet another challenge for cooling down. Saturday and Sunday continued the streak, producing 14 consecutive days with lows of more than 90 degrees.
Phoenix's delayed and uneventful monsoon season plummeted the metro area into a new record on Friday: four months without rain, the sixth-longest stretch of time without measurable rainfall recorded at Phoenix Sky Harbor since the record-keeping began. Saturday night finally changed that, and the rainy conditions are expected to remain.
"The risk starts to go down a little bit for storms after (Sunday)... it looks like Tuesday and Wednesday for the most part we dry out a bit," said Frieders. "Then by late Friday, into the weekend, we may see chances up to around 30% again for thunderstorms in the Valley."
On Monday there is a 20% chance of showers with a high of 113 degrees. Tuesday and Wednesday are forecasted to return to drier weather with no chance of showers. Tuesday is forecasted to have a high of 115 degrees while Wednesday is forecasted to have a high of 113 degrees.
Over the weekend, chances of showers are forecasted to jump back up to a 20-30% chance. This should have an effect on temperature toward the end of the week, according to Frieders.
"Once we get later in the week and into the weekend, we're hoping that the thunderstorm coverage does increase and that temperatures get a few degrees cooler, hopefully closer to that 110 to 112 degrees category," said Frieders.
Here's a look at how the week of heat has fared so far.
Sunday, July 23: If forecast rings true, today will mark longest 115-degree streak on record, rainy conditions forecasted this evening
Sunday afternoon's temperatures surmounted Phoenix into 24 consecutive days of over 110-degree temperatures. A 116-degree afternoon was forecasted, and if that is recorded, it will be the longest 115-degree streak on record at seven consecutive days.
However, a 30% chance of rain was forecasted for this evening, bringing gusty winds, clouds of dust and potential scattered showers across the Valley.
Saturday, July 22: New daily record high, 6th consecutive day of highs over 115 degrees
Soaring Phoenix into a new daily record high, Saturday's heat reached 118 degrees at the peak of the afternoon, breaking the previous daily record of 116 degrees set in 2006. Saturday continued the non-stop excessive heat warnings and pushed the National Weather Service to extend warnings until Tuesday.
Saturday was the 23rd consecutive day with highs reaching 110 degrees or above in Phoenix and was the sixth consecutive day of high temps of at least 115 degrees, which tied for the record of longest streak of such temp. It was also the 13th day of consecutive record-high low temperatures over 90 degrees.
Luckily, scattered storms brought relief to the Phoenix area around 11 p.m. with about 0.4 inches of rain reported at two different locations in Phoenix.
Friday, July 21: Record high-low temperatures break record at 12 straight days and 4 months without rain
Friday introduced some further records in Phoenix which are:
- The reported low temperature at Sky Harbor Friday morning was 92 degrees, which brings the streak to 12 consecutive days with lows of 90 degrees or above, surpassing the previous record of 11 days in 2020. This also breaks the record warm low of 91 degrees set in 2005.
- 120 days or four months straight with no recorded rain in the Phoenix area, the sixth-longest streak since record-keeping began.
Thursday, July 20: Record high-low temperatures tie 2020 mark at 11 straight days, new daily Phoenix high, 4th straight day of 115 degrees
Thursday afternoon saw the previous daily high record set earlier in the day smashed, as temperatures at Phoenix Sky Harbor reached 119 degrees for the second time in two days. The previous daily record was 114 degrees, and according to the National Weather Service, this was the seventh time ever that 119 degrees was reached at Sky Harbor.
Thursday morning saw the low temperature recorded at Sky Harbor International Airport to be 93 degrees. While not as bad compared with Wednesday's all-time record-setting low of 97 degrees, topping the formerly first-place slot set in 2003, Thursday's warm-low did its job in keeping the consecutive day streak of a low temperature of 90 degrees or above alive.
Now, at 11 days straight, 2023 has tied the number of days with such a warm-low record set in 2020.
Just after 12:30 p.m., temperatures at Sky Harbor reached 115 degrees, setting a new daily high for July 20. In addition to the record-setting date, the weather service noted that it was also the fourth straight day that temperatures reached 115 degrees in Phoenix.
Wednesday, July 19: All-time warm-lows, highest daily and average temperature for the Valley, streaks continue in Phoenix and Tucson
Wednesday produced a slew of records across the board, boasting highs in Phoenix for:
- All-time record high-low temperature: 97 degrees.
- All-time highest average temperature: 108 degrees.
- 20 straight days of highs above 110 in Phoenix.
- Fourth highest all-time temperature at Sky Harbor: 119 degrees.
- Daily temperature record in Phoenix: 117 degrees.
Tucson's streak of consecutive days at or above 110 degrees grew too, climbing to 11, surpassing the previous record of 10 days set in both 1990 and 1994.
Additionally, Tucson shattered its warm-low temperature record Wednesday as well. A low of 86 degrees recorded at the Tucson Airport was enough to outdo the original record set in 1979 at 83 degrees.
Tuesday, July 18: Daily records broken, streaks continue
Tuesday was obviously much of the same, as the 110 or above streak continued rolling, marking 20 days in Phoenix at that point while also producing a new daily high of 118 degrees, torching the previous record of 115 degrees set in 1989.
The daily high in Tucson was beaten as well, as the city hit 112 degrees, eclipsing previous highs of 109 established in 1989 and 1992.
Monday, July 17: Streak of lows above 90 degrees continues in Phoenix, third-latest rainfall during monsoon season in Tucson
Monday in Phoenix saw its streak of lows at or above 90 degrees increase to eight, while in Tucson, the city received some much-needed rain, setting the record for the third-latest date in the monsoon to record measurable rainfall.
Hot weather tips
The Arizona Department of Health Services provided tips to prevent heat-related illness:
- Drink water: It is recommended to drink at least 2 liters of water per day if people are staying inside all day. Those who spend time outdoors should drink 1 to 2 liters per hour they are outside.
- Dress for the heat: wear light-weight and light-colored clothing. Sunscreen should always be applied to exposed skin and it is recommended to wear a hat or use an umbrella when outdoors.
- Eat small meals and eat more often: They recommend avoiding foods high in protein that increase metabolic heat.
- Monitor those at risk: Check on friends, family or others for signs of heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
- Slow down and avoid strenuous activity: It is recommended to only do strenuous activity during the coolest hours of the day, between 4 and 7 a.m.
- Stay indoors.
- Take breaks when engaged in physical activity: Take a break in a cool place when doing activity outside on a hot day.
The Valley of the Sun has catered to its name this July with heat records broken every day in the Phoenix area, and Friday's projected temperatures are expected to continue the streak.
If Friday's forecasted temperatures ring true, Phoenix will spiral into the 23rd straight day of days above 110 degrees with no signs of stopping, as these temperatures are forecasted to continue into the weekend.
Friday's high temperature is forecasted to hit 119 degrees in the afternoon, however, National Weather Service Phoenix meteorologist Ryan Worley said they are not confident Phoenix will see that high of a temperature today due to increased unexpected overnight moisture. It's more likely that 115 degrees will register.
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PORTAGE — Energy giant BP is continuing its work to determine whether Indiana is a good place to invest some of the billions of dollars businesses and governments are putting into capturing and sequestering carbon, one of its executives told the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission last week.
Indiana has the necessary geology, BP Vice President for U.S. Low Carbon Ventures Damian Bilbao told commission members, and the potential for the Whiting refinery to separate natural gas’ hydrogen and carbon — the former to be used for fuel and the latter to be sequestered deep underground — may make investment here a good business model for the company.
Bilbao also said Indiana has the laws in place to encourage the possibility.
“It’s something we believe Indiana is uniquely positioned for,” Bilbao said.
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He said the sequestration would be 80 to 100 miles south of the Region. It would be stored indefinitely 4,000 to 7,000 feet underground. The company is currently negotiating with landowners for rights to pump the carbon under their properties.
BP also is continuing to gather subsurface information to determine whether and where sandstone is appropriate for permanent carbon storage.
If Indiana were to be chosen for carbon capture and sequestration, it would have an economic impact of $10 billion, Bilbao said, with 10,000 to 12,000 construction jobs and 2,000 to 2,200 permanent jobs.
Sequestration would not begin before 2030, he estimated.
“All of that is success case,” Bilbao said. Executives leading the Indiana project “need to compete internally (at BP) for capital.”
Commission members, all local elected officials, questioned Bilbao on how the liquefied carbon dioxide would be sent to the sequestration sites — by pipeline, he answered — and whether there was potential harm to groundwater. Bilbao said water in the areas in question is within 500 feet of the surface, well above the depth the carbon would be stored.
Bilbao said the main criticism BP has heard regarding carbon capture is that it extends the life of the fossil fuel industry. The company’s counter argument is that “there is no way to achieve decarbonization objectives without carbon capture.”
Bilbao’s appearance was at the invitation of commission member Lake County Surveyor Bill Emerson in light of a series of public hearings BP held earlier this year on carbon capture.
After those sessions, a BP spokesperson told The Times that the twin tasks of determining Indiana’s viability and convincing company leadership to make the investment put the project in its early phase.
"We have to make the case to the big headquarters in London that this is one of the best opportunities, and then they would make a decision about whether to make the investment. So we're still a long way off," the spokesperson said. "It's still very early but we see a lot of potential here."
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The AfterShocks, a team of Wichita State University alumni, are heading to the quarterfinals after a 63-59 win against Team Arkansas, a team of University of Arkansas alumni, Sunday evening.
Team Arkansas took the lead in the first quarter with a score of 17-15 but lost it the next.
The AfterShocks took a six-point lead at the half.
It was a closer game in the third quarter, with the Aftershocks up by one, 46-45.
In the end, the AfterShocks won with a final score of 63-59 against Team Arkansas.
The AfterShocks will move on to the quarterfinals Tuesday night at Charles Koch Arena and play HEARTFIRE, a team of The Basketball Tournament veterans. Buy tickets here, or watch the matchup at 8 p.m. CST on ESPN+.
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A last-minute effort made to save Ilitch-owned building in Detroit's former Chinatown
Detroit City Councilwoman Gabriela Santiago-Romero is attempting a last-minute delay of the demolition of a building slated to be razed as soon as Monday and owned by an entity linked to the powerful Ilitch organization, according to the council woman.
Santiago-Romero said it may be too late to save the dilapidated 3143 Cass Avenue building. If saving the building isn't an option, the council woman also seeks to find why the billionaire owners of the properties let it remain idle and blighted for years. The two-story structure, three blocks north of Little Caesars Arena, has a partially collapsed roof. The property was bought by an Ilitch-linked entity in 2004 for $50,000, according to public property records.
"We're hoping that maybe some kind of public attention or conversation can delay (the demolition) and potentially allow (the building) to be renovated. But, we'll see," Santiago-Romero said. "I really want to hear from the city and the Ilitches what the conversation was about the property. Was there any conversation about saving it, ever?"
Santiago-Romero learned of the demolition Wednesday and began to contact city officials and Olympia Development of Michigan, ODM, the real estate arm of Ilitch Holdings Inc. On Friday, she sent a letter to various city officials requesting an emergency delay of the demolition. A meeting Monday is tentatively scheduled with Olympia Development representatives and the council member's staff, Santiago-Romero said.
The demolition is happening because the city declared it a dangerous building, a status that means the structure is considered a safety hazard. Santiago-Romero said it was first marked for demolition by the city in 2008.
The building again was issued a demolition citation by the city in May, according to an ODM statement emailed to The Detroit News. ODM has awarded the demolition to private contractor Farrow Group.
The ODM statement did not indicate if the group was open to delaying the demolition. "In addition to the recent approval of 10 new and historic developments in The District Detroit, we continue to work closely with the city of Detroit on developing a broader plan for all our real estate holdings," the statement said. The statement refers to the $1.5 billion real estate development project that involves the Ilitch group and billionaire developer Stephen Ross. The project is receiving $798 million in total tax incentives.
Santiago-Romero said city officials told her the Cass Avenue building could be torn down starting Monday.
"I just think that we should provide more care for the buildings we have," she said. "Especially for folks that have the means to maintain them. If the roof is collapsing, that shouldn't be the case. We are asking residents to maintain homes that are missing a window. If it's a historic property, we should be working diligently to save a property or to sell it to somebody that cares to save it."
The Cass Avenue building once was part of the historic Chinatown, a 20th-century enclave of businesses and residences catering to the local Chinese community. Now, it is near the 50-block area called The District Detroit. The district on the northern edge of downtown includes the corporate headquarters of the Little Caesars pizza chain, Little Caesars Arena, Comerica Park and the Fox Theatre. Those facilities are either controlled or owned by entities linked to Ilitch Holdings. In total, entities linked to the Ilitches own or control at least 60% of the properties in the 50-blocks of The District Detroit, ranging from parking lots and various empty parcels, according to a Detroit News analysis of the area.
Beyond District Detroit, entities linked to the Ilitches own many properties around the MotorCity Casino Hotel, another major Ilitch development, according to a Detroit News analysis. The Cass Avenue building slated for demolition is among the scores of properties linked to the Ilitches that have been idle for years, if not longer.
Francis Grunow, a resident active in various historic preservation efforts, also began lobbying city officials and others last week for an interim historic designation to the former Chinatown building. The building dates back to 1883, Grunow said. "In 1963, 3143 Cass Avenue was purchased by the Chinese Merchants Association Hall (On Leong Tong) and served as the heart of the recently displaced Chinese American community in Detroit," Grunow wrote in a letter to city officials. "The Association hosted community gatherings for social, educational, recreational, and religious purposes for many years, and featured a theater space for the presentation of Chinese operas."
Several other buildings in the former Chinatown have been renovated and found new life in recent years. Among those fairly new businesses are the Peterboro restaurant, Iconic Tatoo and 8 Degrees Plato. A building on same block as 3143 Cass was bought in May and is expected to become an Asian-themed eatery. That building, 3175 Cass, was the former Chung's restaurant, which closed more than two decades ago. None of those buildings and developments are owned or controlled by Olympia Development.
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This Westland native could pass for Ernest Hemingway
A Westland native was a finalist Saturday in a Hemingway look-alike contest, his fourth time in the competition.
Tim Stockwell, who now lives in Key West, Florida, entered into Sloppy Joe's 42nd Hemingway Look-Alike Contest. Sloppy Joe's Bar is a famous Key West saloon beloved by American writer Ernest Hemingway.
"Most people who know their Key West history are familiar with the stories about Sloppy Joe’s, and know it was Ernest Hemingway’s favorite watering hole during his time on the island," according to the bar's website. "When Joe Russell officially opened his bar, Hemingway and his 'Mob' of cohorts were enthusiastic regular customers. In fact, the author once called himself a co-owner silent partner in the enterprise."
It was Hemingway who encouraged the bar’s final name change to Sloppy Joe’s Bar. The new moniker was adopted from Jose Garcia Havana club selling liquor and iced seafood.
"Because the floor was always wet with melted ice, his patrons taunted this Spanish Joe with running a 'sloppy' place … and the name stuck. Somehow, it seemed to fit Joe Russell’s bar just as well," the bar's history states.
They honor Hemingway's legacy as the first famous author to make the island his home with a look-alike contest at the bar each July. Contestants vie to be named "Papa" or the winner.
The Look-Alikes arrive in "Hemingway garb." Some even wear safari outfits, khakis and even the hot wool fisherman turtle neck sweater. Many entrants have been competing for years. Some bring their own cheering squad, bar judges said. Most contestants admit (confidentially) that they may never win, but return year after year for the fellowship.
The Hemingway Look-Alike Society is dedicated to the Hemingway Look-Alike scholarship program and touts itself as the largest contributor to the Community Foundation of the Florida Keys.
The judges are looking for someone who looks like Hemingway, but also someone who will return each year to judge the contest, someone who will work on the scholarship program with good moral character, the contest application form says. Contestants get two minutes to speak.
This year, there were 144 contestants. About 64 were judged on Thursday during round one and 80 contestants on Friday in round two. Stockwell competed Thursday and advanced to the final round.
On Saturday, 26 finalists competed and judges winnowed the list to five, including Stockwell.
Of the finalists, Gerrit Marshall of Madison, Wisconsin, was named this year's winner.
Stockwell said he plans to return in 2024 to compete for the title for the fifth time, he told judges.
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Berkley schools get first school resource officer in program with city
An Oakland County school district is getting its first, full-time school resource officer under a new program between a city and school district.
This week, the city of Berkley and Berkley School District launched a Public Safety-School Resource program that places a Berkley public safety officer into the schools full-time, city and school officials announced Thursday.
The school resource officer, or SRO, will assist with school safety and security, provide educational programming, and investigate public safety matters related to the district. The SRO will have an office at Berkley High School during the school year and will visit the district's other schools regularly and respond to them as needed. The officer will work out of the Berkley Department of Public Safety when school is not in session.
Officials also announced that Sgt. Dave Arney has been assigned to the new SRO position. Arney, who is assigned to the detective bureau, has completed the 40-hour basic school resource officer training course through the National Association of School Resource Officers, officials said.
Under the agreement, the district will cover 75%, $67,405.50, of the SRO's contractual salary with a grant. The city will cover the remaining $37,750 of the SRO's salary.
Chief Matt Koehn said the department has long had officers visit schools within the district to build relationships with students, parents and staff as well as assist with safety and security matters.
"This program enables us to enhance these efforts by having a designated officer in the schools full time, which we believe will increase safety, strengthen relationships and serve as an important recruiting tool," Koehn said.
Superintendent Scott Francis said student and staff safety is a top priority for the district.
"Sgt. Arney has worked closely with the Berkley School District for several years as our school liaison officer and he is a familiar face to many of our students and school community. We welcome Sgt. Arney in his new role for the 2023-24 school year," Francis said.
In May, Holly Area Schools welcomed Village of Holly police Officer Matthew Patercsak as a full-time school resource officer.
Patercsak joins the district's two existing full-time SROs and armed security guards. He will work with students and staff to address building safety and security concerns, help students resolve conflicts, and provide an open ear to students who want to share concerns. His hiring was made possible by a state grant.
Nearly 200 school resource officers are headed to Michigan schools in the next three years because of a $25 million Michigan State Police grant awarded to school districts, intermediate school districts and charter schools to boost school security.
The new round of hiring and funding for SROs comes as two Michigan schools are grappling with the aftermath of mass shootings — one at Michigan State University that killed three students on Feb. 13 and one on Nov. 30, 2021, at Oxford High School that killed four students and left families and communities unnerved.
State and national civil rights advocates say despite school districts pouring millions of dollars into campus police programs, there is little evidence they increase school safety and tend to undermine school climate and criminalize students. Police officers have the same powers inside schools as out, meaning they can detain, handcuff and arrest students.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A small plane crashed into a vacant, two-story home in Georgetown on Sunday morning.
According to the Georgetown Fire Department (GFD), the crash occurred just before noon in the 500 block of Northwood Dr. The plane had three occupants, all of whom were taken to the hospital with unspecified injuries.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is beginning an investigation into what caused the crash to occur. GFD will assist in the early stages of the investigation.
People are asked to avoid the area on Sunday.
This is a developing story and it will be updated with the latest information available. Stick with KVUE for the latest news.
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HOWARD COUNTY — A taste of Christmas in July!
Shoppers had the chance to pick up some early holiday gifts.
A craft fair took place on Saturday at the Howard County Fairgrounds.
More than 250 vendors took part in selling all kinds of items, including Christmas trees, ornaments, candles, and woodworking,
"Just get you a jump start on holiday shopping. If you start now in July, plus, we're all indoors and air conditioned so it gets everybody out of the heat," said Chris Ignaczak, who organized the event.
There was also a petting zoo, kid activities, and a visit from Santa.
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BALTIMORE — After two mass shootings in two major cities, faith leaders made a call for peace through prayer.
Over the weekend, the Ministers Conference of Baltimore and Vicinity joined with the Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity for a prayer vigil focused on bringing an end to gun violence.
Both cities saw mass shootings over the 4th of July weekend, along with Washington, D.C., and several other states.
These faith leaders are now demanding action to prevent the loss of other innocent lives.
"Pray with us, pray for peace in our cities. Let's not accept this as a normal; let's not accept this as an everyday occurrence, let's realize that this too can change, and since we're here, let us be the agent for that change," said Bishop Reginald Kennedy, senior pastor of Gospel Tabernacle Baptist Church.
The prayer vigil took place at the Gospel Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby stopped by the event, where faith leaders prayed for over two hours.
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BALTIMORE — The Maryland Department of Corrections is looking to fill positions.
The agency held a hiring event on Saturday at Calvin M. Rodwell Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore.
"We are hiring applicants who are all over Maryland. We want to fill positions with the state of Maryland for all different agencies. So we have 17 different agencies represented right now. And we also have 14 different eternal stakeholder for the Department of Public Safety & Corrections," said William Curtis Smith, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Service.
WMAR-2 News is told their biggest push is to hire correctional officers, but they are also looking to fill other positions.
The state is also offering a hiring bonus of up to $75,000.
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HERMON -- The Darling's Ice Cream for a Cause truck made its way over to the Maple Crest Farm Animal Rescue in Hermon on Sunday. The truck was designed as a fun way to give back to local communities and causes. In honor of Maine's statewide Open Farm Day they decided to help out a local animal rescue.
"We love coming out to different events and getting to socialize with the locals and make everybody's day better by handing them a piece of ice cream," said Nicole Majewski, who was assisting with the truck. "It's really rewarding honestly I mean everyone's so happy to see you and everyone is really willing to donate to any cause that we go and support so its a very rewarding experience."
All of the funds collected were going directly to the animal rescue and farm.
"Everything that comes in through our tours and through the Darling's Ice Cream for a Cause today goes right back to feeding the animals, and maintaining the farm and caring for things around here," said Owner of Maple Crest Farm Trisha Martin. "The generous give back from them to our rescue we appreciate that very much."
The farm is a nonprofit organization home to a wide variety of rescue and domestic animals.
The owner says days like this allow for more people to learn about what local farms have to offer to the community.
"Open Farm Day is an opportunity to make your farm open to the public so families can see what farming is all about different aspects of agriculture or animals or gardening," said Martin. "There's a variety of different things that families can be exposed to here in the state of Maine that they can get through an open farm day event."
The Darling's ice cream truck was there from noon to 2 p.m. handing out ice cream and smiles.
More information about the farm can be found at https://www.maplecrestfarm.me/.
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DEDHAM -- Youth involved in the University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H programs took the Lone Spruce Farm in Dedham on Sunday participating in activities meant to showcase the work they do within the community.
Farms all across the state are participating in Real Maine's Open Farm Day and the Lone Spruce Farm opened it up as chance to showcase all that UMaine's 4-H programs have to offer.
"Today was a great opportunity for us to marry Maine Open Farm Day with 4-H open house because 4-H has been such a great way of connecting youth to all there is in agriculture," said Owner of Lone Spruce Farm Kristin Beauchamp.
Beauchamp also serves as a leader for one of 4-H's newest groups the Wellness Warriors.
"Our goal here today is to let people know what goes on behind the scenes of their food so we're introducing people to the goats behind our cheese, and the gardens behind our vegetables, the chickens behind the eggs and also let people know all the great things 4H has to offer through extension," said Beauchamp.
According to Leah McCluskey who serves as the Hancock County Community Education Assistant, they're not only trying to educate but offer hands on activities for their youth groups.
"We don't do anything that these kids can't do themselves, all of it is about being involved in hands on work so they're getting practical experience and also just getting to have fun," said McCluskey.
They offered lots of activities throughout the day and members of the youth groups say the work they get to do is very rewarding.
"I like kind of going out and helping other people and I'm a very crafty person so I like crafting a lot and this is the perfect program because we do a lot of crafts and we do a lot of fundraisers," said Olivia Doyle with the Jolly Juniors.
"This is exactly what I want to do with my life, know what's going on with food and be connected with the outdoors," said Alexis Mahoney with the Wellness Warriors.
Organizers say the proof of the success of their work shows up right on the kids faces.
"Watching them smile watching them walk away with whatever they walk away with, that's the icing on the cake," said McCluskey.
For more information about UMaine's Cooperative Extension programs visit https://extension.umaine.edu/4h/.
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SEATTLE — Taylor Swift does two surprise songs that aren't on the Eras Tour setlist at every concert. Here's what Swift played for a sold-out crowd at Lumen Field in Seattle on Saturday night.
Swift treated fans to an acoustic performance of "This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" from her album "Reputation" and "Everything Has Changed" on the first night of the Eras Tour concerts in Seattle.
Another change to the setlist in addition to the surprise songs was "No Body, No Crime," which Swift played with opener Haim who are featured on the song off of Swift's album "Evermore."
For those headed to Sunday's concert, here are a few things to keep in mind:
Who's opening for Taylor Swift in Seattle?
Swift's special guests at her Seattle concerts will be HAIM and Gracie Abrams.
Can I tailgate outside for Taylor Swift in Seattle?
According to the venue's website, Lumen Field does not allow tailgating at its onsite parking lots.
When can I purchase Taylor Swift merch?
At every stop on the tour, a merchandise truck has set up outside the stadium but be prepared for hundreds of fans lined up to buy merch. Fans in most cities have waited hours to make a purchase.
The truck opens for sales at noon on both concert days. The merch trucks will also be open the day before the concerts on Friday.
The merch trucks will be located outside the northwest and southwest corners of Lumen Field.
What will traffic be like in SODO for Taylor Swift?
If you’re headed to SODO for the concert, expect crowds and heavy traffic. Other events, including a Mariners game Sunday afternoon, are expected to bring additional people to the area. Traffic is expected to be heaviest when Mariners fans leave T-Mobile Park after the game, which begin at 1:10 p.m. Concertgoers are urged to arrive before or after the game ends to avoid overlapping traffic.
Several road closures could further impact concertgoers. State Route 520 will be closed from Seattle to Bellevue the weekend of the concert. State Route 18 will also be closed between Issaquah Hobart Road and I-90 from Friday night through Sunday at noon.
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KOOTENAI COUNTY, Idaho — Sixteen-year high interest rates, declining inflation levels and more rate hikes are on the horizon. Is a recession imminent?
Since March 2022, the Federal Open Market Committee has increased its target interest rate 10 times. The target interest rate is currently between 5 and 5.25%, a level not seen since 2007.
When you hear that the interest rate is rising, you may think of soaring mortgage rates or maybe increased yield on savings accounts, but what is the interest rate and what does it really mean for it to increase?
What we commonly refer to as the interest rate is something called the Federal Funds Rate (FFR). The FFR is the rate at which banks lend money to each other overnight. If it is 5%, then a bank will be able to lend another bank at a 5% yearly rate. Since this is the overnight market, a bank will pay about 0.0139% (5%/360) interest per day on a loan.
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BOISE, Idaho — A family of three, and their dog, lost their home to a fire on Saturday, July 23. According to the Boise Fire Department (BFD), a firetruck arrived at the house, located on W. Teakwood Dr., and found it fully engulfed in flames.
Boise Fire called more trucks to the scene and were able to keep the fire from spreading and eventually contain it. The department also stated that fire hydrants weren't available in the area, which is also why they had to call in more engines.
No one was injured but the family cannot remain in the home. BFD said that the Local 149 Burnout Fund is helping the family with needs and that the cause of the fire is being investigated.
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NEBRASKA, USA — An archeological dig for a lost children's cemetery near the Nebraska site of a former Native American boarding school has ended after two weeks — and no remains were found.
Dave Williams, the state’s archeologist, said the team searching near the former Genoa Indian Industrial School plans to meet on Zoom with representatives of 40 tribes across the U.S. next week to determine the next steps.
“I would have preferred that we found the children,” said Judi gaiashkibos, a member of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and the executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs. “But we have to remain hopeful. They’ve been gone more than 90 years. I feel like I have to remain steadfast and committed.”
The search gained renewed interest after hundreds of children’s remains were discovered at other Native American boarding school sites across the U.S. and Canada in recent years.
Dogs trained to detect the odor of decaying remains searched the area last summer and indicated there could be a burial site in a strip of land bordered by a farm field, railroad tracks, and a canal. In November, ground-penetrating radar identified four anomalies — or areas of disturbed soil beneath the ground surface — in the shapes of graves.
Williams and his team spent the last two weeks excavating but didn’t find the first anomaly they were seeking, which could’ve contained children’s remains.
“That's one of the challenges of archaeology,” Williams said. “We can have a lot of evidence that something should be where we think it’s going to be. And then once we actually get in and open up the ground and take a look, it’s not what we expected.”
They'll spend the next few weeks reevaluating the data and everything that led them to that location, Williams said, and figure out a new plan in consultation with the dozens of tribes that lost their children to the school.
There are three other anomalies nearby. Crews could search for those, pursue other leads or stop the search entirely if the tribes collectively decide that’s what they want, Williams said, but he hopes the team can still help the tribes, find the children and “bring them to rest in a satisfactory way.”
Sunshine Thomas-Bear, a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and the cultural preservation director for the tribe, said she wishes there had been more consultation with all 40 tribes — and not just the tribes in Nebraska — before now. She's looking forward to that happening more in this next phase.
“Nothing was found this time. But perhaps that was because we weren’t all ready yet," Thomas-Bear said. "There were tribes that weren’t notified, there were tribes that weren’t there. We believe that everything happens for a reason. I think that if we get on the right track together, perhaps we’ll be more successful.”
The Genoa Indian Industrial School was part of a national system of more than 400 Native American boarding schools that attempted to assimilate Indigenous people into white culture by separating children from their families, prohibiting them from speaking their Native languages, cutting them off from their heritage and inflicting abuse.
The school, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of Omaha, opened in 1884 and at its height was home to nearly 600 students. It closed in the 1930s and most buildings were demolished long ago.
The U.S. Interior Department — led by Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico and the first Native American Cabinet secretary — released a first-of-its-kind report last year that named hundreds of schools the federal government supported to strip Native Americans of their cultures and identities.
At least 500 children died at some of the schools, but that number is expected to reach into the thousands or tens of thousands as efforts like the Nebraska dig continue.
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Trisha Ahmed is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues. Follow Trisha Ahmed on Twitter: @TrishaAhmed15
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PITTSBURGH — The Los Angeles Angels shelled Mitch Keller for six runs, claiming the series against the Pirates with a 7-3 win.
That marks 14 runs allowed and an 11.45 ERA for the purported staff ace in Keller’s two starts since the All-Star Break.
Bryan Reynolds and Shohei Ohtani hit dueling solo shots in the first inning.
Angels’ first baseman Eduardo Escobar plated a run when he doubled with runners at the corners and no outs in the second, but Keller managed to strand two runners in scoring position from there.
The wheels fell off in the fifth inning, when Keller allowed home runs on back to back pitches, part of a four-run frame that put the Angels up 6-2.
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MCKEESPORT, Pa. — A road in McKeesport was damaged after a water main break Sunday morning.
The water main break happened along Oak Street.
Viewer video sent to Channel 11 shows water erupting from the pavement and flowing down the street.
There’s no word on when the break will be repaired.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — 16-year-old Ananya Uddanti is like any other teenager, she's a student at Central High School and when she's not busy with school she has hobbies that she enjoys— one of those is making jewelry.
“One of my favorite parts about it is being able to like, take things I found around the house such these game pieces and turning them into like jewelry that people can wear,” said Uddanti. “So, giving like old things a new purpose.”
She started making jewelry in 2020 when there wasn't much to do other than stay home.
“I’ve always been into arts and crafts since I was younger so I was kind of looking for different creative things that I could do,” Uddanti described.
Eventually, she decided to sell the pieces she was making, by starting her online business called Creations by Ananya.
“My first few customers were some of my friends,” said Uddanti. “But after that, like once I started getting people in California in New York, it felt so much more real.”
With the pandemic front and center at that time she saw how people around the world were being impacted and wanted to help, so she decided to donate the money she was making.
“Dancers in India lost their livelihoods because they were in lockdown and so they were like taking donations to buy them groceries,” said Uddanti. “So that was kind of my first project that I did.”
She wanted to do more so she created a nonprofit called Help 2 Inspire. Through her nonprofit, Ananya has been able to work towards closing educational gaps.
“I sponsored two girls’ education in like they're kind of in the rural part of India. So, they get to go to a proper school that has like, proper educational programs,” said Uddanti.
She’s also been working to close healthcare gaps by working with other nonprofit groups in India.
“We donated a complete blood count machine so that they could do testing and so they run a couple of free camps a month,” she explained.
Uddanti plans to continue using jewelry as a way to help those who need it most.
“It's clear to me that you can take something small at home, and just turn it into something a lot bigger than yourself,” she added.
For more information on her non-profit organization, please click here.
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If you see a shiny, bubblegum pink and white Corvette rolling around the Twin Cities this July, you’ll likely find a woman behind the wheel with cascading blonde hair and a joyful laugh.
As she drives, she cranks up the music, much of it from the new Warner Brothers “Barbie” movie soundtrack. She wears a white-and-pink checkered dress and pink sunglasses, an outfit Margot Robbie dons in the motion picture.
You may even wonder if you’d spotted the actual Mattel doll come to life. (In fact, spectators have mused as much, having captured images of her and posted them to social media).
But alas, the woman painting the town pink isn’t Barbie: she’s identified herself as Ann Marie Keene, of Shoreview.
“I’ve been taking the Corvette out quite a bit and I see pictures on Instagram and social,” Keene said. “People have spotted the Barbie car. So they’ll stop me.”
Keene, 53, is fully in her Barbie fantasy this summer, and it doesn’t stop with costuming and Corvette tours. She has converted her entire home into what looks like a Barbie Dreamhouse — highly stylized and brightly colored, with a good measure of kitsch and camp. She has an entire “Barbie room” with a round bed covered in a hot pink, disc-sequined duvet.
The kitchen is painted “envy green,” and cabinets are adorned with gold handles in the shapes of panthers. Her living room has a velvet sofa and high ceilings, and a rocking horse supported with a gold pole — a spectacle that looks like it was plucked straight from a carnival carousel.
While this is Keene’s actual home with her husband, it also serves as a home to models, social media influencers and Twin Cities creatives looking to collaborate in a safe, colorful space. In 2020, Keene opened her home to others as “The Zebra House,” offering the space for photoshoots, content creation and bachelorette parties. People can rent the space for a minimum of two hours, at $125 per hour.
One peek into Keene’s dreamhouse, and you’d be sure that her whole life has been leading up to the release of a Barbie blockbuster. But there’s a big plot twist.
“It’s interesting because I grew up a tomboy, I didn’t play with Barbies,” Keene said. “I know that sounds hard to believe.”
Her full embrace of the blonde icon is more of a recent rebirth. After decades in a corporate job, she’s decided to play.
“I’ve never played so hard and had so much fun,” Keene said. “I love the experience I had for 30 years in the graphic arts industry and corporate, but I’ve taken all that knowledge and now can just have fun.”
Fun comes in many forms for this Barbie. She can waterski barefoot and rides a motorcycle. But perhaps more surprisingly, she is also training to be a death doula, a unique interest she connected with Margot Robbie’s portrayal of Barbie in the film. In the movie, Barbie becomes aware of the realities of the “real world” outside of “Barbie Land,” openly pondering about death.
“I’m finishing my death doula training in August through the University of Vermont, so I’m super excited about that,” Keene said.
However, most of her time is spent remodeling different parts of her home, curating new spaces - like a Madonna room - and working on a new business called “Bare All Barbie.” The business is a collaboration with local artist Jeralyn Victoria, who works with Keene to turn digital prints into hand-drawn sketches that are then printed onto wallpaper or cards.
A peek on the Zebra House Instagram page reveals many photoshoots of Keene cosplaying as Barbie or collaborating with other models. She says her favorite part is seeing just how much joy the space brings to artists.
“When I hear people laughing, that is what makes my job all worth it," Keene said. "I want people to be able to come and experience the space.”
Those who come to the Barbie movie might realize the leading blonde has plenty more depth than the “real world” has ever expected from her. Similarly, people who might get a smile and laugh out of Keene when they first spot her, after a conversation, will quickly find out that behind the Corvette and fun outfits is a person with many complexities, a culmination of ambition, entrepreneurship, savvy and plenty of heart.
“It doesn’t go [without] all the hard work that I’ve put in my whole life,” she said. “At 14 I was a car hop at A&W, worked three jobs. Which I loved, I loved every minute of the hard work and now I can enjoy it.”
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ATLANTA — The U.S. Postal Service today celebrated the life and legacy of Rep. John Lewis (1940-2020), an American hero and key figure in some of the most pivotal moments of the Civil Rights Movement, by issuing a Forever stamp with his portrait.
A dedication ceremony for the stamp was held today at Morehouse College.
News about the stamps is being shared with the hashtag #JohnLewis. Followers of the Postal Service's YouTube page can view the ceremony live at John Lewis Commemorative Forever® Stamp Dedication Ceremony - YouTube. An additional video will be posted two hours after the ceremony providing more information and insights in telling the story of this stamp on the Postal Service's Facebook and Twitter pages at facebook.com/USPS, and twitter.com/usps.
"Look carefully at how the shadow falls on the right side of his face, illuminating the left side, in a way that seems to take the viewer from darkness into the light. A fitting tribute to a man who sought to awaken the conscience of a country," said Ronald A. Stroman, a member of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors and dedicating official for the stamp. "The Postal Service is proud to celebrate Lewis — a national treasure — and to honor his legacy with the tribute of this Forever stamp that is as beautiful visually as was the spirit of the man whose image it bears."
Joining Stroman for the ceremony were mistress of ceremonies Alfre Woodard, activist; Lawrence Edward Carter Sr., professor and founding dean; Martin Luther King, Jr., International Chapel at Morehouse College; John-Miles Lewis, son of John Lewis; Henry M. Goodgame Jr., vice president of external relations and alumni engagement; Linda Earley Chastang, president and chief executive officer of the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation; Michael Collins, chair of the board for the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation; U.S. Raphael Warnock; Peggy Wallace Kennedy, civil rights activist and author; and Bill Campbell, and Shirley Franklin, former mayors of Atlanta.
"As an avid collector, stamps were important to Congressman John Lewis who always made sure he purchased stamps on their first day of issue," said Collins. "We are deeply grateful to the United States Postal Service for recognizing the congressman with this official Forever stamp, a testament to the indomitable spirit and unwavering commitment of a true American hero. The congressman was a treasured civil rights icon and a timeless advocate for justice, equality, and human rights. This commemorative stamp serves as a timeless reminder of his remarkable legacy and the enduring impact of his lifelong dedication to the betterment of our society. May it inspire and encourage all Americans to continue the necessary work and the 'good trouble' of building a more just and inclusive nation."
Also participating in the stamp dedication ceremony were Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir; dancer Logan Byrd; and vocalists Dottie Peoples, Bettie Mae Fikes, and Victory Brinker.
The stamp features a photograph of Lewis taken by Marco Grob for the Aug. 26, 2013, issue of Time Magazine. Lewis's name is at the bottom of the stamp. The words "USA" and "Forever" appear in the stamp's top left corner. Derry Noyes, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp.
The John Lewis Forever stamp is available in panes of 15. Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price.
Background on John Lewis
A key figure in some of the most pivotal moments of the Civil Rights Movement, John Lewis was the face of the Nashville Student Movement, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an original Freedom Rider, and one of the keynote speakers at the historic 1963 March on Washington. Even in the face of hatred and violence, Lewis remained resolute in his commitment to what he liked to call "good trouble."
Devoted to equality and justice for all Americans, Lewis spent more than 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives steadfastly defending and building on key civil rights gains that he helped achieve in the 1960s. He was a staunch and unwavering believer in and advocate for nonviolent protests. The recipient of more than 50 honorary degrees, he was called a "saint" by Time magazine and "the conscience of the Congress" by his colleagues.
He served as executive director of the Voter Education Project; as associate director of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency that oversaw the Peace Corps and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA); and as a member of the Atlanta City Council. He was also the author of several bestselling books, including the "March" comic book series and the inspiring autobiography "Walking With the Wind."
Elected to represent Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986, Lewis garnered the support needed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1991, sponsored the legislation that created the 54-mile Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Trail, and worked for more than a decade to establish the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, DC. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President Barack Obama.
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CARROLL COUNTY, Ark. — A motorcycle crash left one person dead and another injured in Carroll County on Saturday, July 22, according to a crash report.
Officials say at around 12:30 p.m., Raymond Scott Kinnunen, 58, of Fayetteville was driving east on a 2007 Harley Davidson Motorcycle on U.S. Highway 62. The report states Kinnunen was "approaching a vehicle that was slowing to turn left" when he lost control.
This caused Kinnune to "separate" from his vehicle and get hit by another motorcycle driver. Kinnune has died as a result of the crash, and the second motorcycle driver was injured, according to the report.
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BENTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS, Ark. — Fire crews worked to put out a fire at the Lost Springs Apartments complex in Benton County on Saturday, July 22, according to the Little Flock Fire Department (LFFD).
The fire took place at around 6:36 p.m., according to officials. When crews arrived, they reported the "second floor of an apartment building fully involved" in flames and immediately evacuated tenants.
Additional fire departments from Rogers, Pea Ridge, and Avoca assisted LFFD in putting out the fire within "a few hours," according to officials.
LFFD says no one was injured in the fire and the scene has been cleared.
The cause of the fire is unknown at this time but is being investigated.
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SHERWOOD, Ore. — Nearly 50 teenaged and young women took part in a three-day camp at the Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue training center in Sherwood for the Portland Metro Fire Camp.
Gathered around an old, wrecked car, a group of camp cadets aged 16 to 22 learned the finer points of cutting and dismantling, including operating the "jaws of life" tool emergency crews use to get injured people out of vehicles.
The cadets and firefighter instructors are all female, participating in the 15th year of the Portland Metro Fire Camp.
“We cram a lot into three days and they're usually pretty hot, tired and exhausted by the end of it,” said Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue Lieutenant Emily Van Meter. Van Meter, an instructor at the camp, said the lessons are many, with an ultimate goal, “To show them that they can do whatever they want, that we are not confined by what society tells us to do, and to give them the ability to see themselves in our position.”
The camp is put on by TVF&R in partnership with Portland Fire & Rescue. And it's not easy.
“It's hard work. It's hard work. Just like it wasn't a shock, but it was like this is the real deal,’ said Meghan McKenna with a laugh.
In fact, it is hard work but fun and rewarding, added the teenager from Oregon City, who is seriously interested in this as a career.
“I just think this camp is a great opportunity for kids my age to come out and see what it's like to be a woman in the fire service and get your hands on with all the equipment and the training that we get to do,” said McKenna.
What we saw during our visit was just a fraction of training, so there's something here for everyone.
My favorite was the fire hoses, I just feel like they’re such a staple of firefighting, and it was so cool to be able to be in control of one and learn how to use it properly,” said camp cadet Quinn D’Elia of Sherwood.
Altogether, this builds knowledge, skills and confidence.
And you can see it in the high fives and camaraderie that grows as camp goes on, showing the power of this type of togetherness.
“I think it's really important for women to find their communities anywhere, but specifically in male-dominated fields, and it's really inspiring to see all of these women out here and knowing that we will always have a place on the front lines,” said Camp Cadet Madeline Wafer of Portland.
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PORTLAND, Oregon — Portland is once again dealing with high temperatures this summer. Now Portland metro counties teamed up this weekend to determine which neighborhoods are most susceptible to extreme heat.
On Saturday, around 100 volunteers drove around Clackamas, Washington and Multnomah County collecting heat and humidity data. They used sensors that stuck outside of their passenger windows to determine how hot a neighborhood was Saturday.
One neighborhood could be up to 18 degrees hotter than another, based on the amount of shade and pavement, Multnomah County officials said. Neighborhoods that are much hotter are called heat islands.
“When we have had really hot days, we do see an increase in heat related illness,” Washington County Public Health Senior Program Coordinator Kathleen Johnson said.
This is the first heat mapping project in which the Portland metro-area counties worked together.
“We’re really trying to center the health aspect of it,” Johnson said. “And really preserve human life and prevent illness.”
Johnson said in 2021, during the heat dome, nearly 100 people died in the metro area. Temperatures reached a record high 116 degrees in late June.
"We need more trees,” Volunteer Patti Lamborn said. “We need to come up with maybe better ways to pave our road that doesn't reflect as much heat."
County officials said data will be available by the end of the year. It will also be used to update Multnomah County’s heat vulnerability index.
Through the data, officials plan to add more tree canopies and cooling centers in places most heavily impacted by rising temperatures.
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SPICEWOOD, Texas — Central Texas has been experiencing a record number of triple-digit temperatures this summer, which means vineyards are having to harvest grapes earlier. But despite the heat, many Texas vineyards like Spicewood Vineyards are expecting one of their largest harvests.
“Our average yield is usually 2 to 2.5 tons an acre, and this year it's 3.5 to 4, which is unheard of for us,” said Ron Yates, owner and president of Spicewood Vineyards.
After the February 2021 ice storm damaged several buds on some of their older vines, they had to replant new ones.
"February 21, the crazy polar vortex has kind of given us some issues," Yates said. "We lost some primary buds. We didn't have a lot of fruit the last two years and grape-growing."
But since vines take around three years to yield fruit, this year is their comeback.
“We’ve had probably our largest fruit set we've ever had in the history of the vineyard – in 30 years, the most fruit on the vine,” he said.
They are projecting to pull off 50 tons of grapes from just this vineyard during harvest season. That’s 12 more tons than their highest yield. And to put that into perspective, Yates said each ton can yield about 50 to 60 cases of wine.
But the heat has pushed harvesting season to come a little earlier than normal.
"We'll probably have everything off by the first week of August, everything off the vines, which is about two or three weeks early for us this year," Yates said. "The heat, it's just been so intense that the ripening process happens way quicker."
Yates said usually you want to stop watering grapes close to harvesting time to let them build sugar and have time to fully ripen. But since they’ve had to water closer to harvesting time because of the heat wave, the grapes are nearing the end of their time on the vine.
“When it's really, really hot and the grapes are in that final stage, it can cook them from the outside and mess with the skins and do things that are not great for the grapes,” Yates said.
The vineyard owner says as long as we don’t continue to see temperatures over 105, the harvest should be good. The vineyard harvested Sauvignon Blanc last week and will start with lighter red wines on Tuesday.
But Yates said next year, the yield should be back to normal.
“Next year we'll probably settle back down a little bit, but I'm super excited about how everything's looking even with this crazy heat,” Yates said.
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CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — A Charlotte man died in a fatal crash Sunday, July 23.
The 72-year-old man was driving a Dodge Durango south on McCall Road Sunday morning.
The man ran off the road and hit a palm tree in a nearby parking lot.
The man was taken to the local hospital, where he later died.
The 70-year-old woman who was in the passenger seat sustained minor injuries.
According to Florida Highway Patrol, the crash is still under investigation.
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INDIANAPOLIS — It's hard to believe, but the first day of the new school year for Indianapolis Public Schools is one week away.
On Monday, August 31, more than 30,000 IPS students and educators will head back to class. Like many families right now, the school district is spending this time preparing.
For the last few years, IPS has turned over its bus operation to private company, First Student.
A representative with the program tells 13News it will operate more than 200 bus routes within IPS.
While school districts around the nation are dealing with bus driver shortages, First Student said it has more than 250 drivers on staff with a strong pipeline of potential drivers training or scheduled to train.
First Student is not the only transportation option for IPS students.
This year, the district is also partnering with IndyGo. For selected high school students, IndyGo will be their only means of transportation with an expected average travel time of 25 minutes.
Thursday, July 27, IndyGo is offering a back-to-school night at Carson Transit Center 6-8 p.m., providing a reduced Fare ID card, free backpack and other training.
IPS also recently launched its Take Care, Be Aware campaign. Teachers will offer in-class lessons about safety on getting to and from school, focusing on pedestrian, bus, vehicle and bike travel.
First Student said the beginning of school can bring some growing pains, it's not unusual to see bus delays during the first couple weeks as drivers navigate new routes and learn new safety protocols and guidelines. It said patience and understanding are appreciated.
This year, IPS is launching a fleet of privately owned SUVs and drivers to get kids to and from school for children who are the only student in the neighborhood.
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Hicks: Populists are wrong — life is better today
MUNCIE, Ind. — America’s populist movements, on both the left and right, are wedded to the notion that our past was better than our present. This nostalgia takes many forms. Some of it is a longing for a time without cell phones, internet or social media.
For others, it is a wistful desire to see stronger cultural institutions, such as families, churches, unions and civic groups. Most of us can sympathize with this feeling, even if we don’t wish to return to the past. This longing can even be constructive if we work to create new institutions that survive in the 21st century.
For some folks, the desire is really for a fictional view of the past. On both sides of the political aisle, this longing can spiral into a surprisingly open admiration for authoritarian movements. Some of this is fostered by noxious racialist or classist ideologies. More of it is attached to the belief that the economy was better in the past, and that more active management of the economy can restore us to a golden age of the past.
This idea has surprising durability. However, it is mistaken across nearly every domain. Indeed, it is so false that it shouldn’t need to be debunked, but I suppose we all are prisoners of distant recollection.
There’s a meme that comes with this debate that shows magazine illustrations of the 1950s. It claims that once upon a time, a family of four could afford a house, own a car, take vacations, and send the kids to college—all on one income. The implication is that you cannot do so today, but is any of this true?
The average home in the 1950s was 983 square feet, which is about one-third the size of the modern home. One can purchase such a home right here in Muncie, Indiana—fully renovated with modern appliances—for $52,900. So, places exist where one can hold a low-income job and afford the sparse luxuries of the 1950s.
I could produce a long spreadsheet showing how easy it is today to financially replicate a 1950s lifestyle, but doing so would largely overlook the details of the 1950s lifestyle—much of what we consume today is so qualitatively different that the products of old are impossible to match. Automobiles are a perfect example.
Today’s automobiles last, on average, almost twice as long as 1950s automobiles, and they are far more fuel efficient. We could easily wrap this calculation into the cost of driving 100 miles. But, there’s a catch—in 1950s, the death rate per miles driven was a bit more than five times higher than it is today. Risk of extreme injury has likewise plummeted. This is due to better technology in mundane things like seatbelts. There are also 300-some semiconductors in today’s car that help to deploy airbags, sense road conditions and adjust lighting.
It is more difficult to assess the changing cost of travel when accounting for the reduced chance of death or severe injury. This is but one problem associated with comparing the past to today. As relative prices change, families will adjust their consumption. They will buy fewer or cheaper items and spend the savings elsewhere. Changes in quality are reflected in the behavior of consumers, so naturally we would need to adjust the way we compare the past to the present.
The difficulty of the comparison permits populist demagogues to mislead us about the past. One common conspiracy theory claims that the federal government is lying about inflation. The claim is based on the fact that every decade or so the statisticians at the Bureau of Labor Statistics adjusts the list of goods used to calculate inflation. Of course, the reason the BLS does this is to more accurately reflect the changes families make in buying goods due to quality or relative prices, not to lie about inflation.
If the BLS did not make these adjustments, we’d still be measuring the price of bituminous coal for household heating, and we’d overlook the cost of health insurance, airline tickets and telephone and subscription TV services. No one suggests that our measures of inflation are perfect, but if you read somewhere that the BLS is lying, you are reading a crackpot.
There are a couple of other ways to think about the large quality changes we’ve seen. One method still relies upon measuring income, but instead of simply using prices, we create something called a ‘time price’ of a good. The ‘time price’ is how long it would take the average worker with a high school diploma to buy the good. There’s a terrific book on the subject, “Superabundance” by Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley. The gist of the book is that nearly everything we buy today has a much lower time price than it did at any time in the past.
Tupy and Pooley focus on lower-income workers and examine everything from the hours it takes to provide 2,000 calories per worker in a family to a large basket of commodities that are inputs to everything else. What they report is that over the past century, the standard of living of Americans has risen about four-fold. Most of that growth occurred after World War II and continues to grow today.
The time price measurements reveal a huge drop in the time it takes to buy typical goods, from food to housing to transportation. However, costs for services have not dropped as much, for two reasons. The first is that labor costs within a region are tied to average worker productivity. We are very productive at making goods. Most of our productivity gains in services regard changes in quality. The second reason is that we demand more services.
The perfect example of this is in cancer deaths. In the 1950s, close to 35 of every 100,000 women died of breast cancer each year. Today, that number has dropped to fewer than 20. At the same time, the share of household spending on this disease has grown substantially. We pay more for diagnostic equipment and analysis of scans, and we spend much more on treatment. This reflects our preferences matched with the opportunities of economic growth. It is that which has raised our lifespans by 15 percent since the 1950s.
So when the populists of the left and right argue that we are worse off now than we were 30, 50, or 100 years ago, ignore them. They are dead wrong. What they really want is for you to have less choice in what you buy because they want more control over society and our economy. These authoritarians belong only in history books, not on ballots.
Michael J. Hicks, PhD, is the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and the George and Frances Ball distinguished professor of economics in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University.
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Concern is growing after a rash of violent crimes connected to teenagers made headlines in Dallas. Now, one well-known community leader, Antong Lucky, tells us it's going take more involvement from adults to fix the problem.
Lucky said he’s seen the headlines and he’s concerned. He’s the president of the Dallas-based nonprofit Urban Specialists, where he said they try to reach people who are at risk of becoming victims or offenders.
“For me, it’s a clarion call to organizations and people to get involved with our youth,” he said.
Lucky is a familiar face among youth throughout the city of Dallas as someone young people look up to. He’s one of many in the streets and on the front lines but said it’s going to take more hands on deck.
“Whenever you see an uptick in violence, it’s young people who are not connected to resources,” he said. “They’re not connected to organizations, not connected to mentors who can help them.”
Over the two weeks, teenagers between the ages of 13 and 16 were arrested for three separate homicides in Dallas. A 16-year-old and 13-year-old were arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault for a homicide here near Willie Mae Butler Park
In another case, Dallas Police recently arrested a 16-year-old for an April homicide at the 5800 block of Highland Hills Drive. The victim was also 16 years old.
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There was also the arrest of a 15-year-old after Dallas Police arrived at the 1400 block of Peru Street on July 5 and found 50-year-old Walter Smith shot to death. The juvenile was later arrested on July 18.
Lucky said he’s pained by the news and feels overwhelmed at times. Still, the call to action remains. He says someone must do the work.
“Anytime I wake up I the morning and see on the news where some person has been tragically murdered it’s a blow,” he said. “But if you look around, you can see the success stories from these same young people. It’s just a battle of the wills.”
Investigations for all three murder cases are ongoing. Dallas police have not released the names of the suspected juvenile offenders.
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