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TWIN FALLS — A two-week jury trial has been set in December for a Twin Falls man accused of killing his girlfriend’s infant in a shaken-baby incident.
Logan Danial Penner, 19, was arraigned in district court Monday with his defense attorney Steven McRae submitting a plea of not guilty on the charge of first-degree murder. Penner faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $50,000 fine, or both, with a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years.
Prosecuting Attorney Grant Loebs filed a motion in December that he would not seek the death penalty.
The state has standards regarding appointed defense attorneys in capital cases, and Loebs said at the time that the motion helped settle the matter and not complicate the case's prosecution.
The trial, which Deputy Prosecutor Kevin Kohtz said is expected to last two weeks, is set for Dec. 4-15.
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Penner admitted to police, according to court records, that on Nov. 25 he was frustrated by the crying, cholicky baby, and shook him, hitting the baby's head on the edge of a crib, when his girlfriend was out of the Twin Falls apartment doing laundry.
The baby became unresponsive and was taken off life support Nov. 30.
Penner was initially charged with felony aggravated battery but charges were amended to first-degree murder upon the child’s death.
The newer charge, as outlined in Idaho Code, is a result of Penner being accused of perpetuating an aggravated battery on a child under 12 years of age.
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Betty Jean Newbry Peterson, 96, of Twin Falls died Friday, July 21, 2023. Arrangements are under the care of Parke's Magic Valley Funeral Home, Twin Falls.
Mary Lou Brooks, 87, of Gooding died Friday, July 21, 2023, at St. Luke's Medical Center in Twin Falls. Arrangements are under the care of Demaray Funeral Service - Gooding Chapel.
Mary Linn, 70, of Twin Falls died Saturday, July 22, 2023, at a local hospital. Arrangements are under the care of Parke's Magic Valley Funeral Home, Twin Falls.
Delores Osborn, 80, of Rupert died Friday, July 21, 2023, at home. Arrangements are under the care of Joel Heward Hansen Mortuary, Rupert.
Ella Louise Robertson Fillmore, 80, of Albion died Saturday, July 22, 2023, at home. Arrangements are under the care of Rasmussen-Wilson Funeral Home, Burley.
Marjorie Gebauer, 100, of Twin Falls and formerly of Paul, died Saturday, July 22, 2023, at home. Arrangements are under the care of Rasmussen-Wilson Funeral Home, Burley.
Brenda Sears, 66, of Twin Falls died Sunday, July 23, 2023, at a local hospital. Arrangements are under the care of Parke's Magic Valley Funeral Home, Twin Falls.
Emilia Cuevas Vargas, 89, of Burley died Sunday, July 23, 2023. Arrangements are under the care of Rasmussen-Wilson Funeral Home, Burley.
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Update: Man found in Lake Cunningham jumped in, drowns while running from Greenville deputies
A body discovered in Lake Cunningham Sunday afternoon has been identified as Chuck Gilbert Shelton Jr., 38, according to a release from the Greenville County Coroner's Office on Monday.
According to a statement from the Greenville County Sheriff's Office sent Monday afternoon, Shelton jumped into Lake Cunningham while deputies were serving a warrant to someone at the residence he was located.
According to the statement, deputies arrived at 964 River Road at 3 p.m. to serve a warrant for Failure to Appear in court. Once they arrived "an unknown male, unrelated to the warrant," later determined to be Shelton, ran from the residence for "unknown reasons" and jumped into the lake.
Greenville County deputies said Shelton swam a short distance before going under water and did not resurface. Deputies on scene jumped in to locate him, but were unsuccessful, the statement said.
Previously:Remains identified, one man charged after body found in barrel in Upstate lake
Shelton's cause of death was determined as a freshwater drowning, according to the coroner.
The coroner's office was advised that the Greenville County emergency rescue dive team was searching for an individual in the lake around 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Shelton was pronounced dead by paramedics on the scene.
According to the release, witnesses saw Shelton entering the lake near River Road in Greer. He was last seen above water roughly 15-20 feet from a dock located near Lake Cunningham Road.
Shelton's death was determined an accident, however, the case remains under investigation by the coroner's office.
Kathryn Casteel is an investigative reporter with The Greenville News and can be reached at KCasteel@gannett.com or on Twitter @kathryncasteel.
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What baby names are the most popular in South Carolina? Here's your list.
If you are naming a newborn in South Carolina, you may be curious to know which names are the most popular among residents.
Although the Social Security Administration does not yet have a list of 2023's most popular baby names, it does share 2022's list.
The source is a 100% sample based on Social Security card application data. Click here to search the list.
In South Carolina, Noah placed at No. 1 for male names in 2022, with Liam, William, James and John trailing behind in the Top 5.
Charlotte ranked No. 1 for female names in the same year, with Olivia, Amelia, Ava and Emma in the Top 5.
Many of the state's top baby names were shared by 2022's nationwide Top 10 Most Popular Baby Names list. Click here to read about North Carolina's most popular baby names.
Read on to see which names made the SC list:
Top 10 boys' names in South Carolina in 2022:
- Noah
- Liam
- William
- James
- John
- Elijah
- Oliver
- Henry
- Charles
- Asher
Top 10 girls' names in South Carolina in 2022:
- Charlotte
- Olivia
- Amelia
- Ava
- Emma
- Harper
- Elizabeth
- Isabella
- Evelyn
- Sophia
Top 10 boys' names in South Carolina in 2021:
- William
- James
- Liam
- Noah
- Elijah
- Oliver
- Samuel
- John
- Mason
- Asher
Top 10 girls' names in South Carolina in 2021:
- Olivia
- Ava
- Charlotte
- Emma
- Amelia
- Harper
- Evelyn
- Isabella
- Elizabeth
- Sophia
Top 10 boys' names nationwide in 2022:
- Liam
- Noah
- Oliver
- James
- Elijah
- William
- Henry
- Lucas
- Benjamin
- Theodore
Top 10 girls' names nationwide in 2022:
- Olivia
- Emma
- Charlotte
- Amelia
- Sophia
- Isabella
- Ava
- Mia
- Evelyn
- Luna
Nina Tran covers trending topics. Reach her via email at ntran@gannett.com
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CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — Charlotte County is leading the way in trying to bring more women into law enforcement. They’re joining a nationwide campaign pledging to increase the number of women on the force to 30% by 2030.
For one deputy, the project hits home.
Samantha Serbin: “Do you work with a lot of women?”
Shelley Havel: “Not a lot. When I first started on the road, I was the only female on duty for the entire county per shift.”
People in Charlotte County may know her as Corporal Shelley Havel. Behind the vest, the now 15-year law enforcement vet didn’t always know policing would be her path in life.
“This is the first job I actually feel like I’m meant to do,” Havel explained. “When I got here in 2008, the only jobs that were open were 911 dispatchers, so I applied and got hired. I worked in dispatch for 4.5 years… I went to the academy at 42, graduated at 43 then I was on the road. I’ve been on the road ever since.”
At first, Havel was sent to a lot of sensitive calls. The idea was hoping the female presence would make female victims feel more comfortable sharing otherwise difficult details.
“If you’re a female victim of sexual assault, a lot of times you’re more comfortable speaking with a woman, and you can communicate, talk about details that they may not be comfortable to share with a man,” Havel explained.
The compassion and comfortability with women are some of the five reasons a new campaign is focusing on increasing the number of women in law enforcement. It’s called 30×30 – bringing the number of sworn female officers/deputies up to 30% by 2030.
“Do I think as a female, if you’re called to the job, you could do it? I do,” Havel said.
Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) Public Information Officer Claudette Smith is taking charge with the campaign locally. Charlotte County is the only agency in Southwest Florida taking the pledge.
“I really do hope that other sheriff’s office locally do join the campaign,” Smith said.
Currently, CCSO is 15% women. Statistically, they’re above the national average in terms of women on board, which is 12%.
“It is not about making it easier for women. The standards are still the same,” Smith explained. “You still have to have the same skills and requirements as any male. It’s just finding the right people.”
“It takes a special type of person to be able to deal with these types of calls on a daily basis,” Havel added.
Someone who is mentally and physically strong… facing some of life’s most horrific crimes head-on.
“Anybody that has a desire can do this job. But I think a lot of times people are afraid. Afraid of the unknown. afraid of what if I can’t, but you never know if you can until you try,” Havel said.
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WATSONTOWN, Pa. — A man faces kidnapping charges in Northumberland County after allegedly attacking a woman.
Police in Watsontown say 72-year-old Byron Magargle Sr. waited for a woman to come out of her house along East Brimmer Avenue early Monday morning.
That's when officers say Magargle hit the victim in the face, tied her hands and feet together, and placed a gag in her mouth.
A neighbor heard the commotion, called police, and subdued Magargle.
He remains locked up in Northumberland County.
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CAPE CORAL, Fla. — A Cape Coral intersection is getting a much-needed upgrade. Crews will be working to install a traffic light at the intersection of Del Prado Boulevard and De Navarra Parkway. Work begins today but isn’t expected to be complete until early 2024.
People living and working near the intersection describe it as chaotic and a nightmare. That is…before the city installed polls to guide traffic.
“Everybody was going every which way; there was no regulation. People cutting each other off, people didn’t know whether to be on this side of the turn of that side. Like I said, total chaos,” Kevin Smith explained.
Smith and hundreds of others travel that way on a weekly basis. Everyone we spoke with mentioned seeing a large number of accidents.
“Traffic coming so fast there’s always an accident, bad accident,” Jessie Florence said.
Cape Coral Police report working more than 60 crashes at the intersection since the beginning of 2020. The concern for safety is what prompted the city to install the poles standing now, and the light coming in the future.
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City officials told NBC2 the signal is part of an agreement with a developer due to additional traffic from a new subdivision. That developer will be responsible for the financial part of the project. Though some say the developer has pushed on the fee to residents in the community.
While crews are working, the speed limit is being decreased to 35 mph.
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LACEY, Wash. — Brandee Hay says she never thought her coffee stand, Great NorthWest Coffee Co., would be the site of a political scandal.
But on July 7, security cameras captured a disturbing act from Lacey Councilman Ed Kunkel.
Video from that day shows Councilman Ed Kunkel standing with fellow Councilman Lenny Greenstein.
You can see Kunkel pulling a campaign sign out of the ground belonging to Thurston County Commissioner candidate Emily Clouse.
The two men then walk off-camera with the sign in hand.
Hay says she gave Clouse permission to put her sign up a month before Kunkel.
But when she learned Kunkel was related to one of her employees, she said he could put his sign up too.
After Clouse called her to say her sign was missing, Hay reached out to Kunkel for an explanation and was disappointed to hear Kunkel say that Clouse puts her signs up without permission.
“I said, 'Well regardless, you didn’t have my permission to take her sign down, nor did we discuss it,' and told him that I knew it was a misdemeanor and I asked him to please take his signs down,” Hay said.
Clouse says this isn’t the first time that her signs have been taken down but isn't taking this personally because this is the cost of being in politics.
“I do understand that it’s a common tactic,” she said. “It’s really upsetting that that’s what people do because I’m all for running a clean campaign.”
But she is concerned this may keep new voters from taking part in the process.
“I think it will dissuade people like me from running for office in the future, and to me, that’s really upsetting,” Clouse said. “I like to get new voices at the table. I like to explain to people and educate people on why it’s important to step up, especially in an off-season election like this. We really need to get more eligible voters at the table, so that’s really what my focus is on.”
But Hay says this has caused her to pay more attention.
“I don’t ever want to vote for somebody or have somebody be in power that’s going to use and abuse the title,” she said. “I don’t think that’s fair for anybody.”
KING 5 has reached out to both Councilmen Kunkel and Greenstein for a comment and have so far not heard back from them.
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Miami-Dade Police Director Freddy Ramirez was in critical condition Monday after trying to kill himself following a domestic dispute at a Tampa hotel, police said.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has appointed Miami-Dade Police Department Deputy Director Stephanie Daniels to the position of MDPD Interim Director “until further notice.”
Ramirez, who until Monday directed the largest police agency in the southeastern U.S., served in a dual role as Director of the Miami-Dade Police Department and Chief of Safety and Emergency Response. He was responsible for oversight of both the Miami-Dade PD and Fire Rescue Department.
Daniels, who will take over the director role, grew up in Liberty City and started as an officer in 1992. She was promoted to MDPD Deputy Director in March, becoming the first woman to hold the position.
JD Patterson, who oversees the county’s Corrections and Rehabilitation Department, will become the Interim Chief of Public Safety responsible for the administration’s public safety portfolio including MDPD and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Levine Cava said.
Ramirez, 52, who had traveled to Tampa for a meeting of the Florida Sheriffs Association, was in his car with his wife on I-75 south of Tampa when he pulled over and shot himself in the head, according to several news outlets.
Ramirez was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where doctors performed surgery on the law enforcement veteran. Mayor Levine Cava traveled to Tampa to be with Ramirez and his family in the hospital, according to her office.
"Following a critical injury in Tampa yesterday, Chief Ramirez is hospitalized and in critical but stable condition," Levine Cava said in a written statement. "All that matters right now is Chief Ramirez's wellbeing, and I join his family, his loved ones, and all his Miami-Dade Police Department and Miami-Dade County family in praying for his swift recovery."
The Miami-Dade Police Department issued this statement on Monday.
"The entire Miami-Dade Police Department stands together behind Freddy and asks that our community continue to keep him in their prayers."
The self-inflicted shooting happened while Ramirez was traveling with his wife for the Sheriffs Summer Conference, which began Sunday at Tampa’s JW Marriot Hotel.
The couple left the conference’s welcome reception around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, stepped outside the hotel and argued, reports said. The Tampa Police Department confirmed in a news release that officers responded to a domestic call involving Ramirez and a woman, who they did not identify, at the hotel Sunday night.
According to the release, officers arrived after receiving a report of a man with a gun, later identified as Ramirez, outside the property. Officers received “third-hand” information that the man had pointed the weapon at himself, but there were no first-hand witnesses and no security camera footage of the alleged incident, police said.
Hotel security informed police the man was on the 12th floor. When police arrived about 20 minutes later, a woman exited the room followed by Ramirez. He told police he argued with the woman but had not displayed a gun, according to the news release.
Ramirez told police he had no intention of harming himself or others. Police also said the woman corroborated that they had argued and said she did not have any concerns for her safety.
With no evidence of crime, and no one appearing to be in immediate danger, police decided to release Ramirez at the scene.
Under Florida’s Baker Act law, police could have involuntarily committed Ramirez to a mental health facility for 72 hours if they had evidence he was a risk to himself or others.
The couple left the hotel and were driving back to Miami when Ramirez pulled over alongside I-75 in the Tampa suburb of Riverview and shot himself, reports said.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Ramirez tried to take his own life in the car but did not provide additional details.
News reports said Ramirez shot himself in the right temple and the bullet exited through his right eye. His wife called 911 after the suicide attempt.
Ramirez was expected to survive but may lose vision in one eye.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Florida Highway Patrol are investigating the incident, according to FDLE.
In 2015, Miami-Dade County’s first Black police director, Robert Parker, killed himself six years after retiring.
Several Florida officials shared statements on Twitter after news broke of Ramirez's injury.
"To many of us he is not just a colleague, but a friend. Please keep Freddy & his family in your thoughts & prayers," Miami-Dade County Commission Chairman Oliver G. Gilbert III wrote.
Community activist and founder of Mothers Fighting for Justice, Romania Dukes, posted, “Anyone who knows me know how much they mean to me. Say a prayer for my friend, my brother [Ramirez] … I’m hurting … my heart can’t take no more.”
In May, Ramirez announced his candidacy for the newly created Miami-Dade Sheriff post.
Patch.com contributed to this report.
This article has been updated to reflect additional information from the original posting.
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WYTHE COUNTY, Va. – A tradition continues this weekend, as people gather alongside Highway 21 for the 100-mile yard sale, hoping to find some steals and deals.
It starts in Wythe County and continues all the way down to Harmony, North Carolina.
Organizers said people should drive slowly in the area this weekend and watch for stopping cars.
The fun starts on Friday and continues through Sunday.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — One person was killed in a crash on the Kansas Turnpike Monday evening.
According to Butler County dispatch, the crash happened around 7: 30 p.m. near mile marker 80, north of El Dorado.
The Kansas Turnpike Authority is looking for a maroon semi in connection to the deadly crash.
The identity of the person killed in the crash has not been released.
KSN will provide more information as it becomes available.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Wichita Police Department arrested a woman Monday night after an argument led to an alleged cutting.
Shortly before 6 p.m., the WPD responded to the 1300 block of S. Everett St. for a cutting.
According to Sergeant John Ryan, an argument between two women happened on Seneca.
“They ended up following each other,” said Ryan.
He says an argument ensued, and one of the women was cut. She was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries for treatment.
A suspect, a woman in her 20s, was arrested, according to Ryan.
Wichita police were able to talk to witnesses.
It is unknown if the women knew each other.
An investigation is ongoing. KSN will provide more information as it becomes available.
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A new yellow fever memorial will name the nameless, with the help of Shreveport Times archives
On Sunday, September 28th, 1873 the Times, or as it was called then The Daily Shreveport Times, wrote in its 270th edition “The epidemic still holds us in its fearful grasp and is hourly taking off its victims…The atmosphere is so impregnated with pestilence that hardy any person feels well.” What followed was a list of the names, races and ages of those who died in the days before and during the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1873.
Historian and author Gary Joiner told The Times in a past retrospective that "The Times did not start reporting Yellow Fever deaths as such until Sept. 9 of that year, there was a sense of denial in Shreveport. The doctors were saying there was not an epidemic, not until there were just too many people dropping dead to deny it.”
It’s those lists of names, collected by Joiner, that the Oakland Cemetery Preservation Society will include on the new Yellow Fever memorial marker that is being built at Oakland Cemetery. “The newspaper became a significant public record... It is from their compilation that LSUS, under the direction of Dr. Gary Joiner, was able to build a database. This is what was used for the memorial marker,” said Dr. Cheryl White, Vice-President of the Oakland Cemetery Preservation Society and professor of history at LSU Shreveport.
The project began two years ago and was funded by the City of Shreveport and private donors in the community. “The memorial has been a dream of several of the Oakland board members for many years. It was a team effort to design and fundraise, partnering with LSUS History Department to draw upon important demographic research documenting most of those buried in the mass grave,” said White.
“For 150 years the Yellow Fever Mound has been "silent" - and these victims have been nameless. That will change with the new memorial!” said White.
If all goes to plan, the monument will be ready by October 2023, just in time for the 150th anniversary of Yellow Fever in Shreveport. “Shreveport in 1873 suffered critical population loss and yet survived - and thrived. This is because the community spirit and economic engine of the city were inextricably linked. This memorial dedication marks a point of history for Shreveport, but also a community triumph,” said White.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Is California wasting its water? The state had a historic winter and the ABC10 Weather Team is investigating where the water is going and if we're wasting it. In Part One, Meteorologist Rob Carlmark looks at how the snowpack is measured.
There’s an old saying in mountain towns that there’s nothing better than the first snow of the season and nothing more unwelcome than the last snow of the 2022-23 season.
Like a distant relative coming to visit, this past winter showed up early and stayed late, but family is family. Similarly, the love runs deep for Jason Rolfe in South Lake Tahoe.
He grew up in the area, left for work and school, and couldn’t wait to come back to play in the snow knowing it’s ground zero for the water the state needs to function.
“We do appreciate that we are the ones holding the snow for the rest of California. You know, the rivers, the fishing, the lakes, helping with the drought. It really does roll downhill and it helps everybody else out. We're happy to be the stewards of the snow until you're ready for it,” Rolfe said.
He wanted to document the moment the snowpack turns to snowmelt. As it seemingly breathes, it is in fact bringing life to plants, animals and people hundreds of miles down the hill.
"These manual measurements are just as important as all the other measurement methods that we have,” said Sean DeGuzman with the Department of Water Resources.
He might wield the single most powerful pole in California. He helps make manual measurements of the snowpack to help nail down how much water the state will have once the snow melts.
DeGuzman measures the depth of the snow and how much water is in the snow to have an idea of the yearly water supply. This tried-and-true method backs up the hundreds of automated sites in the state.
“This is the only in-person boots-on-the-ground field verification, where we can actually verify that the automated sensors are great, but they are out in the backcountry exposed to wilderness, exposed to all the elements, exposed to bears, everything you can imagine," he said.
As crucial as the measurement is, you need more to precisely identify such an important metric. After all, the snowpack delivers a third of the water the state will need for the dry summer months.
"As time has gone on from the 1920s when our population was quite small and the agricultural demands on water were small, and then the environmental demands on water were also small, right? All of that, we've gone from that all the way to this time, where our population is enormous and we have all of these demands to where we're down really to each waterdrop. That matters,” said Tom Painter.
What started as a jet propulsion laboratory experiment with NASA has turned into a foundation of the future. Airborne snow observatories use laser and spectrometer measurements of the snowpack from the sky.
“Now, with our quantity of measurements and those accurate measurements, they can know to within about 2% how much water they're going to get as a minimum,” said Painter.
Almost every basin and range in the West is using these modern techniques to measure the snowpack because it will only become more important to get the data right as winters become more unpredictable in the Golden State.
“It could be a banner year one year and it could be drought the next. You just never know living up in the mountains,” said Rolfe.
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SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif — As early as this weekend, a controversial plan for homelessness will go into effect that could jail the unhoused. San Diego is calling it Progressive Enforcement, which means jail time is likely if the homeless refuse to accept shelter after three warnings.
"There will be 3 steps for enforcement. The first step will be an offer of a shelter bed and education of the ordinance. Step two will be an offer of a shelter bed and issuance of a misdemeanor citation. Step three will be an offer of a shelter bed and physical arrest of the person," said Captain Shawn Takeuchi, of the San Diego Police Department, during a city council meeting on June 13.
San Diego Councilmember Stephen Whitburn introduced the ordinance and stresses it's possible because San Diego now has enough shelter beds for every unhoused person.
"We can work to help people get on their feet, and we can have reasonable regulations on the use and locations of encampments," said Councilmember Whitburn during a city council meeting on June 13.
In Sacramento, there are not enough beds or shelter for the unhoused. The federal ruling, Martin vs Boise, prevents cities from enforcing anti-camping ordinances until there are enough shelter spaces. As for what can be done, Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper expressed what he thinks would be the best start.
"I think for the most severely mentally ill, conservatorship," said Sheriff Cooper during a press conference on July 12.
The sheriff's Homeless Community Outreach Team spoke to almost 200 people over 5 days and only one person accepted the resources provided. While they want something to be done, the sheriff's office notes that jail may not be the best answer.
"For a lot of those folks, jail isn't the right place, but it might be a good stop. It might be a way to again, be an intervention technique," said Sergeant Amar Gandhi.
Still, the sheriff's office says it's keeping an eye on how this plays out in San Diego. As for community advocates like Bob Erlenbusch, he says there could be multiple reasons why anyone would refuse shelter or help.
"They could be extremely claustrophobic. They could not want to separate from their pets. They could not want to separate from a spouse or partner," said Erlenbusch.
A spokesperson for Councilmember Whitburn's office, in San Diego, says housing and shelter provided will be an individual, non-congregant situation so people will not be separated from their pets.
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SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — A wildfire in Shasta County has authorities calling on people nearby to be ready to leave if needed.
The so-called Wonder Fire is burning off Wonderland Boulevard and Fawndale Road, south of Shasta Lake in Shasta County. The blaze has grown to 40 acres.
The Shasta County Sheriff's Office issued an evacuation warning for the area of Bridge Bay Marina due to the blaze.
Law enforcement says Wonderland Blvd. at Fawndale Road is closed to traffic going north. Both North and Southbound off-ramps to Bridge Bay Marina are closed.
Links to follow:
Evacuation Map
For evacuation updates, view the map from Shasta County below.
Fire Map
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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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ROGERS, Ark — A sculpture of a BB Gun found outside the Daisy BB Airgun Museum has broken the record for World's Largest Daisy BB Gun, according to the World Record Academy.
The sculpture was fabricated by a Springfield, Missouri signage company named Elemoose. At 25 feet tall, the BB gun looks like it is propped against the east side of the building. The structure was engineered by John Miller of J & M Engineering also in Springfield. The stock of the gun is filled with approximately 20,000 BBs.
According to the Daisy Museum's website, the sculpture was installed on January 20, 2021.
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TOLEDO, Ohio — Beth Winhusen of Cincinnati is doing things she couldn't do just a couple of years ago and it's thanks to a woman she'll never get to meet.
That woman is Ali Held Herman.
"Supermom," Jeremy Herman, Ali's husband, said. "She loved to be outside. She ran everyday, worked out every day."
So when Ali, 35, suddenly died from a brain aneurysm two years ago, it was a shock to say the least. But her family knew something good could come from tragedy. The mother of three young children would live on as an organ donor.
"Initially, I was okay," Loren Held, Ali's father, said. "I was happy with it. I'm an organ donor as well, so we understood. But to see what it's become, how much good there is out of it, I never thought in a million years it would be so beneficial to recipients. It's a miracle with Beth walking around here."
Ali has saved five lives through organ donation and touched dozens more.
"We got a letter in the mail last week or the week before for bone grafts, tissue, her corneas, plus all the major organs was probably 50 [people] at least," Jeremy said.
They got to meet one of them in Beth, who holds Ali's heart.
"Overwhelmed. Beyond blessed. We have loved them before we met them," Beth said. "We've been texting back and forth for many, many months but there's nothing like seeing them in person and saying thank you."
They gathered at Mercy Health St. Vincent's Hospital in central Toledo Friday, the place where they said goodbye to Ali years ago. Ali's husband, children, parents and other close relatives and friends would take turns with a stethoscope listening to their loved one's heart beat on during a rare meeting between organ donor and recipient families. Life Connection of Ohio provides on-going support and helped facilitate the meeting.
"I just felt it was the presence of Ali walking in with her and (she) was just so grateful," Cyndi Held, Ali's mother, said. "The gratitude that she gave us and feeling so sad that we lost her, but seeing that gift going on. There's just no words."
A number of years ago Beth's heart became damaged when she got an infection during a hospital stay. About three years ago, she learned there was nothing else the doctors could do. She needed a new heart, and she got one.
"I've been told it is so healthy because she was so athletic and took such good care of herself," Beth said of Ali's heart.
Now, Beth enjoys hiking in the woods with her husband and doesn't take a single day for granted.
"Everyday is a gift from God and this new heart I have," Beth said. "Just every sunrise, every sunset, every moment that I walk, that I breathe. All I can do is cry and say thank you."
Ali's family encourages other organ recipients to reach out to their donor families. They said there's nothing to feel bad about and it helps them heal.
If you would like to learn more about organ donation, click here.
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AUSTIN, Texas — There is a call for action to address access to clean drinking water and the lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons, with elected officials saying temperatures are rising above 130 degrees in some prisons.
Chivas Watson has a long history in the criminal justice system, doing time over 17 years, and vividly remembers being stuck inside a cell.
"You just wake up in the sweat, and so your resting place is now wet. And so sweat carries, and sweat travels, sweat manipulates and people get sick," Watson said.
Now, the price to stay cool is going up for prisoners and their families. In an email to KVUE, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) confirmed its vendor, Royal Pacific Tea Company, emailed and requested a price increase.
The department claims it did not initially accept the request and asked for a lower price, with hopes to find an alternate vendor. After negotiations with the vendor, TDCJ accepted the cost for the remainder of the fiscal year.
The current cost of bottled water is now $7.20 a case. Before, it was $4.80 a case. An individual bottle now costs $0.30 as opposed to $0.20. During triple-digital heat, Dr. Amite Dominick with Texas Prisons Community Advocates points out the increase could not come at a worse time.
"Oftentimes the primary breadwinner is the person who is incarcerated, so that's an additional financial strain, and then they are forced to purchase things like water," Dominick said.
TDCJ points out inmates still have access to non-bottled water at their units for free, but Dominick said many Texas prisons are old with outdated pipes.
"The tap water is filthy. It's simply filthy," Watson said.
"What does that say about us as a society if we are literally baking people alive and we're premeditatively doing this? And we're refusing to change?" Dominick said.
Here is the full copy of the email from TDCJ to KVUE:
"TDCJ orders bottled water from a Statewide Procurement Division (SPD) awarded contract. The contract is currently awarded to The Royal Pacific Tea Company Inc. The vendor emailed SPD requesting a price increase.
"SPD notified TDCJ of the request and asked us to accept the request. TDCJ did not initially accept the request and asked SPD to negotiate for a lower price. While SPD negotiated, TDCJ began trying to find other supplies and could not find a vendor to meet the needs of the agency. SPD then negotiated a price with the vendor and, to meet the needs of the agency, TDCJ accepted the cost for the remainder of fiscal year 2023.
"TDCJ has updated our specifications of solicitation for the upcoming fiscal year in hopes to lower costs.
"Due to the increase, TDCJ held the price at a lower cost for a few months to delay the impact felt by the inmates for as long as we could.
"The current cost of water is now $7.20, it was $4.80. Individually, for each bottle, it is now $.30 a bottle as opposed to $.20.
"It is also noteworthy that all inmates have access to nonbottled water at the units for free.
"Amanda Hernandez, Texas Department of Criminal Justice"
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DALLAS — Everyone has a day they'll never forget.
For Rene Martinez, it was the day his mother told him 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez, a child from their neighborhood, was killed by a Dallas police officer in 1973 .
“This was the epitome of the worst that could happen,” Martinez said.
Martinez was just 24 years old when his mother, Maria Villasana, asked him a question that would shape the course of his life and professional career.
“She asked, ‘What are you going to do about it?’” Martinez said.
He began organizing community meetings and protests the very next day.
At the time, Martinez shared in the community’s anger over the young boy’s murder.
That anger only grew by day.
“I think the Santos Rodriguez incident was a pivotal point,” Martinez said.
Fifty years have passed since Santos was killed. Martinez told WFAA it feels like yesterday when protests erupted.
“Since I was the youngest and dumbest, I was the one asked to lead the march,” Martinez said.
Four days after Santos was killed, Martinez led thousands on a peaceful march down Commerce St. in downtown Dallas.
“It was a huge turnout, and the march and riot itself was very unfortunate, because it turned into a riot,” Martinez said.
As the march he organized ended, another group arrived.
“They were angry, they were much more vocal, and they couldn't really be controlled,” Martinez said.
They large group of rioters burned a squad car, blew up a motorcycle and tore through storefronts. They left behind a trail of destruction.
When Martinez watched an elderly woman beating a charred squad car, he decided it was time to go home.
“That was the epitome of anger and what people were feeling that day,” Martinez said.
The reaction to the murder of Santos sparked the beginning of the Chicano movement in North Texas. For years, marches, meetings, and calls for accountabilities followed.
“We did get some outcomes, and it was the beginning of the type of police reform we now have,” Martinez said.
His push for justice, accountability, and equal rights have become his life’s work. Martinez, a President of the LULAC Dallas chapter and Special assistant to the President of Texas A&M University-Commerce is focused on educating the next generation about the Santos story.
“We cannot afford to forget that day, but more importantly, that it should never happen again,” Martinez said.
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RED OAK, Texas — Gershon Caston, 38, was scheduled to begin teaching at Red Oak Middle School in just a couple of weeks. Now, he's on the verge of losing his job after he was arrested on a child sex trafficking charge.
Caston was among four people arrested by the Dallas Police Department last week in connection to the alleged sex trafficking of a child.
The 38-year-old, who has taught at several school districts around North Texas, was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, trafficking of a child and compelling prostitution under 18.
According to arrest affidavits, the victim was taken to Caston's home, where he allegedly sexually assaulted her multiple times, gave her drugs and alcohol and forced her to engage in commercial sex.
Caston had been recently hired by Red Oak ISD in Ellis County to start teaching and coaching in the fall of 2023. Records from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) revealed that from 2014 to 2023 the 38-year-old had taught at Dallas, DeSoto, Duncanville, Garland, Irving and Lancaster independent school districts.
Red Oak ISD confirmed Caston also "assisted some" with summer strength and conditioning camps in the area but that he has not worked at other schools in the district.
The district said he "met the hiring criteria when the process happened in May before this incident."
Caston was initially placed on leave, but the Red Oak school board on Monday approved of suspending him without pay. The board also approved sending Caston a letter of proposed termination.
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RICHLAND, Wash. — Energy Northwest announced a partnership last week to build up to a dozen small nuclear reactors in central Washington.
X-Energy Reactor Company and Energy Northwest have agreed to develop as many as 12 Xe-100 advanced small modular reactors at a site near Richland, which houses the only commercial nuclear energy facility in the region.
Energy Northwest expects the first reactor to be online by 2030, and the total project could generate up to 960 megawatts of carbon-free electricity.
“Energy Northwest’s mission is to provide the region with clean, reliable and affordable electricity, and X-energy’s innovative advanced reactor technology will be a valuable addition to our existing portfolio of carbon-free electric generating resources,” said Bob Schuetz, CEO of Energy Northwest. “As the Northwest region of the United States pursues a future clean energy grid, it is clear it will need new sources of dependable, carbon-free power. X-energy’s Xe-100 advanced reactor technology possesses many attributes ideally suited to a carbon-constrained electric system, and this agreement reflects our determination to deliver the technologies to meet growing clean energy needs.”
Each module could provide up to 80 megawatts of full-time electricity or 200 megawatts of high-temperature steam.
According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, one megawatt of energy capacity could produce enough electricity to equal the amount typically consumed by between 400-900 homes in a year.
The release also states that Energy Northwest and X-energy have "engaged extensively" in talks about building an XE-100 facility in central Washington since 2020.
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HOUSTON — A Seabrook woman claims a scented candle exploded in her hands, leaving her with severe burns that required multiple surgeries. Now, she hopes a lawsuit will spread awareness and help with her recovery.
RickiLynn Gardner is suing Aroma360, which does business under the popular website Hotel Collection, for $1 million.
According to the release from a pair of Houston attorneys, Gardner bought the candle from their website and watched as a large flame erupted from the candle. A Blink camera inside the home captured her attempting to move the candle after trying to put the flames out when the candle erupted in her hands.
Gardner claims the candle engulfed her hands in flames and covered them with melted wax, which led to her suffering severe burns.
"The danger of these candles cannot be overstated," said attorney Randy Sorrels, who is representing Gardner. "The consuming public should be warned of how these products can cause fire, explosion, and injury."
According to the law firm, consumer research showed that similar incidents were reported with the Florida-based company.
KHOU 11 reached out to the companies involved in the lawsuit for a statement but has not heard back yet.
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CARROLL, Iowa — RAGBRAI riders rode for much more than recreation on July 24, and it's a day many won't forget.
'I Ride 4' is a day RAGBRAI director Matt Phippen created for people to "fill in the blank" and ride for any cause they choose.
One Des Moines nonprofit, Dream Team of Des Moines, has created a special bond with Phippen, even riding in honor of him on Monday.
“We got together and we decided to design some t-shirts that say 'Dream Team rides for Matt Phippen' and 'No more M.S.' Because there are times in life, when you’re family, there’s things in the world much bigger. And you have to stop and you have to go 'Hey, I hurt for him,' or 'I hurt for her,' or 'I hurt for them.' And that’s what Dream Team is, and that’s what were doing today. We’re riding for Matt Phippen because we care for him.”
Phippen was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, and he says this is a special day because he sees all the support people have shown for him.
“I think it was so cool being on the route today and seeing all the different jerseys. I ride for MS, I have MS, I was diagnosed a while back and to see people that were wearing MS jerseys, in support for me and then to see the Dream Team to wear a shirt to say they're in support for Matt Phippen ... [it's] pretty cool," Phippen said.
Riders take the journey from river to river for a number of reasons, even if it is just for the thrill of the ride.
"I think 'I Ride 4' is whatever you want it to be. It could be I’m riding for myself because I never thought I could do this and I want to be able to do it and prove to myself I can accomplish this, it could be for someone you lost and just to remember them the entire way. But what I think is most magical about it is you have the ability to be on the road with a complete stranger and be able to open up to them and tell your story and not feel like you're judged because you might not ever see them again, right?" Phippen said.
It is a day where many connections are made, and one Phippen told Local 5 he hopes will continue for years to come.
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A Fort Wayne Community Schools board member on Monday commended the superintendent for emphasizing equity in education while welcoming new teachers to the district.
Mark Daniel recognized and celebrated the diversity of FWCS' students, parents, staff and administration while speaking at new teacher orientation last week, board Vice President Rohli Booker said.
She said the superintendent's words were "especially important during a time in this country where the mention of diversity, equity and inclusion can be polarizing."
At last week's Southwest Allen County Schools board meeting, a board member said language about diversity, equity and inclusion on a group's website turned him off to a potential partnership.
"That has a lot of negative connotations," SACS board member Brad Mills said July 18. "I don't think it's right for our community."
Mills was explaining why he didn't want SACS to partner with the nonprofit Rise to address race issues. He declined to elaborate after the meeting.
FWCS considers diversity a strength and expects its teachers to understand diversity, equity and inclusion, Daniel said after Monday's board meeting.
"We all know we have different values and different perspectives," he said. "How do we come together, and work together, and work for a common solution, and how do we better our community? Period. That's shared humanity. That's not isolating."
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A 21-year-old man faces up to 10 years in prison for felony aggravated battery after he allegedly shot a man earlier this year.
Dennis V. Williams Jr. of New Haven entered a plea agreement that dismissed his initial charges of attempted murder, battery and criminal recklessness. The sentence will ultimately be up to Allen Superior Court Judge David Zent, but the plea agreement caps the time in prison to 10 years.
Without the plea agreement, Williams would have faced three to 16 years for the felony aggravated battery charge to which he pleaded guilty.
Williams was charged after he allegedly shot a man twice Jan. 19 at the victim’s home in the 900 block of Columbia Avenue in Fort Wayne. The men had been arguing on Instagram regarding a woman whom Williams was dating and who once dated the victim.
Williams and his brother-in-law allegedly sent the man threatening messages. A man who the victim didn’t recognize knocked on the front door about 15 minutes after he received the messages, according to court records.
When the victim came to the door and onto the porch, the man asked if he sold drugs, court documents said.
The victim told police that he heard a noise in the bushes near the door and asked who it was. He then said he had to leave and turned to go inside.
The victim was then shot twice, and police said the assailant appeared to be in the bushes because of the angle the bullets hit the man.
Williams told police that he shot the victim because he thought he had a gun.
The plea agreement also covers a separate case in which Williams was charged in May with felony strangulation and misdemeanor domestic battery. Williams pled guilty to a felony domestic battery charge as part of the agreement, which dismisses his two initial charges.
Williams is expected to spend one year on probation for domestic battery once he’s released from prison on the aggravated battery charge. His sentencing hearing is set for 8:30 a.m. Aug. 28.
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Fort Wayne Community Schools’ plan to finance about $10 million in safety and accessibility improvements with general obligation bonds got the board’s final blessing Monday.
The elected leaders also agreed to hire two businesses to provide services for the accessibility projects, which will affect 11 buildings.
The pre-construction services contract with FCI Construction totals $28,125. The design services agreement with Martin Riley Architects and Engineers is estimated at $449,400.
The work will be funded with general obligation bonds – a common tool districts use to pay for projects outside the operations fund.
The accessibility upgrades have an overall construction budget of $6 million. They will affect Young Early Childhood Center; Adams, Harrison Hill, St. Joseph Central and Weisser Park Elementary Schools; Jefferson, Kekionga, Lane, Northwood and Portage Middle Schools; and the Center for Academic Success at Nebraska.
The projects involve replacing platform lifts that have capacity for 750 pounds with more robust lifts that have capacity for 1,400 pounds.
FWCS will also use the bonds to pay for $3 million in districtwide safety enhancements, including security film on select windows and upgrades to the antiquated technology buildings use when buzzing people inside, resulting in better video quality of visitors, Superintendent Mark Daniel has said.
FWCS hopes to generate millions for additional safety efforts, including a weapons detection system, through a November ballot measure.
If the referendum is successful, the district anticipates the annual cost for property taxpayers will be $76 based on FWCS’ average homestead property value, $167,325.
Daniel has said the district is using general obligation bonds to address some security needs so it can start on those improvements immediately than wait for a successful referendum.
Officials have said the bonds will support the improvements without exceeding the district’s longtime goal of maintaining an annual debt service rate of 30.28 cents per $100 of assessed valuation.
The board previously approved a resolution related to the bond projects after two public hearings in May. Monday, it acted on two items – a resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds and an appropriation resolution.
The bonds total about $10.3 million, but the documents the board approved allow for an appropriation of $12 million to account for interest that may be earned.
Officials previously shared a timeline showing projects would begin next spring with completion in fall 2025.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Following a Sunday morning break-in at Austin NAACP headquarters, Austin police said based on preliminary information and the current status of the investigation, there is no evidence to suggest the incident was a hate crime. The case is being investigated as a burglary.
At the NAACP office, it's a scary sight – shattered windows and the hard, cold evidence of a brick left behind.
"You can't explain the feeling when you see something like that in this business," said Austin NAACP President Nelson Linder."
Linder said what's odd is only a few items were stolen, including his favorite guitar and three laptops, but two were found in good condition next to the office.
"But the big stuff, it was all left – sound system, amplifier – which is very interesting," said Linder. "This indicates very petty stuff, personal animosity and that kind of thing."
The activist said the organization gets hate calls and threats all the time, but now this seems personal and not racially motivated.
"Hate in terms of race, ideology, no," said Linder. "Hate in terms of that personal animosity and don't like the organization, yes, and that transcends skin color."
While it was initially thought to be a potential hate crime by Linder, Austin police said there is no evidence to suggest the break-in was a hate crime.
"We think we got an idea who might have done this already," said Linder. "It's going to surprise a lot of people."
Incidents like these will get more attention from the City of Austin now that leaders have launched an anti-hate campaign called "We All Belong."
On the We All Belong website, you have multiple resources in one place. It explains what a hate crime is, how to file a report and victim services. It also tracks where hate crimes are reported in Austin by year and council district.
Councilmember Alison Alter hopes having all of this information together will help people feel more comfortable speaking up.
"There's absolutely hate crimes and hate incidents that are happening in our community that are not being reported," said Alter. "We deploy resources based on, you know, the demand for those resources, so the more that people report, the better sense we have of how we can deploy."
As for Linder, he wishes APD got the evidence faster. APD said on Sunday, July 23, at approximately 8:02 a.m., someone called 911 regarding a possible break-in at the NAACP office. APD officers responded at 8:50 a.m. and took an initial scene report.
While APD said officers attempted multiple times to contact the business owner but were unsuccessful, Linder said he didn't get any calls from APD that morning. APD said around 10:43 a.m., 911 received another call regarding a break-in at the same location. However, officers had already taken the report and been on the scene, so the officers did not return.
Linder said APD didn't gather evidence until Monday morning – 24 hours after the event.
"I think that needs to be looked at very closely," said Linder. If it's a hate crime, or even people just angry, there's a danger there that requires a certain kind of assistance as fast as possible."
Linder said he respects that officers did what they could when they could, but the system is flawed. He also added, "I think when you look at public safety, beyond manpower, there are constables here, certainly not DPS, the other agencies here that might work together in the city to get things done a little quicker, a little faster based on knowing the city and the community setup."
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TAMPA, Fla. — A man was hit and killed by a car Monday night after walking on a road in the area of Tampa International Airport, authorities say.
Shortly before 10 p.m., the man was walking on the roadway on the northbound approach to the Veterans Expressway off State Road 60 when they were struck by the car, the Tampa Police Department told 10 Tampa Bay.
Authorities say they still don't know why the man was walking along that stretch of the road.
Traffic will reportedly be backed up in the area where the man was hit and killed. Drivers are asked to seek alternative routes.
Police say the investigation of the incident remains ongoing and are working to talk to the driver of the car that hit the man.
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AUBURNDALE, Fla. — A Polk County family is desperate to find their loved one. Tonya Whipp, 38, from Auburndale vanished eight weeks ago.
Auburndale police are searching for leads as to where she could be. Whipp was last seen on May 26. Since then, her sister Jenny Shelton hasn’t heard from her.
"She would always contact me. We would always stay in contact," Shelton explained.
It’s been silence for weeks. Community searches have taken place, but no leads for investigators. Leading the efforts to locate Whipp are investigators with the Auburndale Police Department.
"She vanished and we don’t have anything to follow up on for physical evidence," Auburndale Police Chief Terry Storie said.
Storie said Whipp lived with her boyfriend in Auburndale. He said he was the last person to see Whipp on May 26 before he left for work.
"He got home early the next morning, she was gone," Storie said.
Storie said there was no indication the two were in a fight. Another man lives with them and Storie said he didn’t have any information for police. Tonya’s car and dog were left at the house.
"We don’t have any evidence that she’s been harmed. We only know that she’s missing," Storie said.
That means there are no suspects or person of interest. Police are tracking Whipp's phone and credit cards.
"Waiting for data from the search warrants that we need for records. That’s a waiting game," Storie explained.
In the meantime, Whipp's family is asking for your help.
"If you know something, please just call. We want to find my sister," Shelton added.
If you know anything, you can contact Auburndale Police or Heartland Crime Stoppers.
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Nurse helping patient in street struck, killed in Livonia, police say
A nurse at a Livonia facility died last weekend after she was hit by a vehicle while pushing a patient in a wheelchair, police said.
Officers were alerted around 9:42 on Sunday about an uncooperative patient who had walked away from Majestic Care and was lying in the eastbound lanes of nearby Five Mile, the Police Department said in a statement.
Several nurses picked up the patient and put her in a wheelchair to return to the facility. But as they did so, an 80-year-old driver swerved to avoid the wheelchair, striking one of the nurses, according to the release.
The nurse, identified as a 42-year-old woman from Plymouth, was transported to St. Mary Mercy Hospital and pronounced dead, police said.
The driver, a Livonia resident, also hit two vehicles. She was treated at a hospital for minor injuries.
Alcohol does not appear to be a factor in the incident, police said.
Majestic Care provides community-based nursing at more than 30 locations in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, according to its website.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the Care Team member’s family, friends, and colleagues as they cope with this unimaginable loss," Paul Pruitt, CEO of Majestic Care, said in a statement Monday.
"She was an amazing care giver that provided exceptional care to residents and created magic for all those around her. We recognize with admiration the dedicated care she gave serving as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) and the calling she answered by always putting the lives of residents as a top priority.”
Majestic Care is providing grief counseling and support services to its staff and residents. The company also is "committed to maintaining a safe and secure work environment for all our Care Team members, and this accident has reminded us of the importance of workplace safety," according to the release. "Majestic Care is cooperating fully with the relevant authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident to understand what happened and to prevent similar occurrences in the future."
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PITTSBURGH — There are only three players that have not been signed from the 2023 NFL Draft Class, and Pittsburgh Steelers second-round pick Joey Porter Jr. is among them, just 48 hours before the team is scheduled to report to St. Vincent College for training camp on Wednesday.
After the Indianapolis Colts agreed to terms with No. 4 overall pick, quarterback Anthony Richardson and the Arizona Cardinals signed second-round linebacker B.J. Ojulari on Monday, the last three unsigned players are Seattle Seahawks No. 5 pick, cornerback Devon Witherspoon; Porter and Seahawks No. 52 second-round pick running back Zach Charbonnet.
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FINLEYVILLE, Pa. — A woman is dead after she was partially ejected from her vehicle in a car crash in Finleyville.
According to the Washington County Office of the Coroner, Sarah Beth McClintock, 37, from Monongahela, was driving near 2268 state Route 88 at around 1:30 a.m. Monday when she lost control of her car and rolled.
Officials said McClintock was partially ejected from her car through her sunroof.
McClintock was taken to Monongahela Valley Hospital where she died in the emergency room less than an hour after the crash.
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Residents in Upper Makefield, Pennsylvania, are in mourning after flash flooding killed six people on July 15.
Search crews are still looking for a baby boy who got swept away in the flood waters.
Meanwhile, survivors are also dealing with the traumatic events of that day.
One survivor, Jamie Sosonkin, spoke with NBC10 about her experience when her car got stuck in the high waters of Route 532 and Crossing Road in Upper Makefield.
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“I couldn’t see anything, except for water everywhere and trees,” Sosonkin said. “I just kept thinking I can't have my son or my husband find me this way. I can't drown.”
Sosonkin also helped save the life of a 16-year-old boy by pulling him to safety.
“Like all I could think was I can't watch this kid die in front of me. He cannot die in front of me. Neither of us remember how he got over, but he did and we were there for about 3 and a half hours,” Sosonkin said.
A vigil was held on Sunday to honor the six victims who died in the flooding and the young infant still missing.
Crews in Upper Makefield are determined to find 9-month-old Conrad Sheils and are searching the creek by the Delaware River.
The bodies of the boy's mother and sister were found in days following the flooding.
“If they didn’t keep being so persistent in trying to find us, I don’t know what would have happened. So I’m just really grateful," Sosonkin told NBC10.
Investigators identified the six flood victims as Katheryn "Katie" Seley, 32, and Matilda Sheils, 2, of Charleston, South Carolina; Enzo De Piero, 78, and Linda De Piero, 74, of Newtown; Yuko Love, 64, of Newtown; and Susan Barnhart, 53, of Titusville, New Jersey. You can learn more about the victims and the timeline of the flood here.
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Funeral arrangements were released for Philadelphia police officer Lynneice Hill after she suddenly passed away while on the job earlier this month.
A viewing will be held on Wednesday, July 26, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Mount Airy Church of God in Christ on 6401 Ogontz Avenue in Philadelphia. The viewing will be followed by a service at the church at 11 a.m.
The internment will then take place at Laurel Hill West Cemetery on 225 Belmont Avenue in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
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Among those who attended was Hill's husband Dennis Smith. He was surrounded by family, friends, and fellow officers.
"She's like a celebrity. She was my celebrity. She was our family celebrity. That was just her. Her heart. She has a heart of gold," said Smith.
Hill had served in the police department for more than two decades. Her most recent assignment was as a Community Relations Officer.
On Friday, July 14, while working an overtime assignment in South Philadelphia, Hill suffered a medical emergency and was found unresponsive in her patrol car.
She was 44 years old.
"She was the rock of our district. She was the heart of our district. She made everyone smile," said Philadelphia police officer Juan Delgado.
During the fundraiser, a portrait was given to Hill's husband for her honor, integrity, and service.
“We pray for Officer Hill’s family, friends, and colleagues with the Philadelphia police department,” said Philadelphia police union president John McNesby in a statement. “Our friend and colleague, Lynneice Hill served with humility, distinction, and integrity. The FOP will never forget her dedication and contributions to her community and the Philadelphia police department.”
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BALTIMORE — Neighbors in District 7 are now questioning where the city is spending money to improve parks and recreation centers.
“It's not a question of whether Baltimore has the funds; do we have the intelligent and committed elected officials to address the problems that we have?" said Dr. Marvin Cheatham.
Dr. Cheatham referenced an audit from December 2022 that states the Department of Recreation and Parks is not in full compliance with the city code known as the equity assessment program, which the city council created in 2018 to prevent and reduce disparities based on race, gender, or income.
Sonia Eaddy says she sees those disparities firsthand in her neighborhood since their rec center has been closed for more than 20 years.
“Having this recreational center open giving the kids somewhere to go where you can feel safe. You know, having this pool where you can bring families engage families again this is what has been missing. This is what we see is missing from our neighborhoods," Eaddy said.
“What we are asking for one is that our elected officials have to get more in tune with what’s happening in Baltimore City," Dr. Cheatham said.
They want to see improvements in their neighborhood rec centers, which they say have been neglected for too long.
Eaddy says the people in her community have raised over $1 million to try and reopen the Greater Model Community Center, but it's not enough, and she wishes the city would consider reopening the center, which was once a staple in her community.
“When they bought this park and this pool, it brought the community together, you know the kids had a place to play and be kids. So with that loss and seeing how hard it is to fight for our youth and our neighborhood, I have grandkids now and nowhere for them to go," Eaddy said.
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City plans to borrow $18 million to build two new fire stations
MUNCIE, Ind. — The city administration is moving ahead with plans to borrow about $18 million through a bond issue to replace two Muncie fire stations.
Muncie Mayor Dan Ridenour told the Muncie Redevelopment Commission Thursday that the new stations were needed for public safety as well as the health of firefighters serving those stations.
The plan is to replace Fire Station No. 5 on Tillotson Avenue next to Christy Woods on the Ball State University campus and Fire Station No. 6 on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in McCulloch Park.
The price for construction has increased from $13 million since Ridenour announced plans to replace them during his State of the City report in March. Interest rates and building costs have pushed the cost higher, the mayor said.
The mayor said the cost of building two stations went from $13 million when the idea was first looked at to $21 million. He said the city worked to cut the cost to $18 million.
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The higher costs have caused the city to make a bond issue for the two stations, he said. Originally the city was planning to use money from economic development income taxes to pay for the construction.
The mayor said he has visited with firefighters in stations across the city and the meetings were not pleasant because of the living conditions firefighters endure.
"I hate to blame people who do things in history," Ridenour told the redevelopment commission, "because they probably did the best with the knowledge they had at the time. But when you look at today's standards, our firefighters are not as safe as we would like them to be."
The mayor said firefighters face danger from cancer-causing substances when battle fires. Cancer rates are higher inside fire departments, Ridenour said, and often the exterior suits worn in smoke while combating fires are kept near where the firefighters live and sleep in the stations.
"Nowadays, you build your fire stations where you have your fire suits, that have all that smoke and everything on them, ... in separate areas, away from the sleeping quarters." Ridenour said.
He said that separating the ventilation systems inside the stations was a main takeaway for the committee.Ridenour said the city replaced roofs on four fire stations this year to help solve some issues for those buildings. A committee that looked at the problem determined that Stations 5 and 6 would be the first entirely replaced.
"We already know what stations will be next," Ridenour said. "We originally tried to do three. We just couldn't put the funds together. As much as you'd like to do everything that you'd like to do ... we are not the federal government, and therefore, we cannot just print money and do what we think is the right thing."
He said the city would look at a timetable to get the other stations replaced.
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Station No. 5 will have to move to a temporary site during construction of the new station along Tillotson. That station will remain on the same footprint, with increased parking at the station, which will be provided by Ball State at a lot south of the station.
The mayor said IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital, which is near the station site, has agreed to provide a site for a temporary station nearby during construction. The work on Station No. 6 can begin after approval from Muncie City Council and finances are worked out.
"The fire department has agreed to put in $250,000 a year to help with the payment," Ridenour said of the city's contribution. "And I would like for the (redevelopment commission) to put in $400,000 a year."
The redevelopment commission collects property taxes from tax increment finance districts in the city. That money is commonly used for redevelopment projects. Ridenour said new legislation from the state allows redevelopment commissions to help fund public safety projects.
He said the No. 5 station, near the university and hospital, was severely undersized. It also had issues with it ventilation and had "dilapidated living quarters." Its expansion will include a second floor.
Fire Station No. 6 needed to be enlarged, he said, to place more equipment there due to the configuration of railroads in the city. Trains stopped could leave Station No.6 and part of its coverage area cutoff from help from other stations during a fire.
Redevelopment commission member Isaac Milller said he has been told by fire administrators that new stations, just as new equipment, can aid in the recruitment of firefighters.
The bond would not be issued by redevelopment commission but would be issued by the city, with the commission's agreement to pay $400,000 annually and the other coming from the fire department budget.
The redevelopment commission voted unanimously to support the funding plan, including a commitment to provide $400,000 annually toward the bond payment if a bond issue is approved.
Ridenour told the redevelopment commission he wasn't able to say much about the bond's interest rates. The borrowing would have to be approved by city council before interest rates are locked in for the bonds.
The mayor said he was hopeful of getting the information together to present to council in September.
David Penticuff is reporter with The Star Press. He can be reached at dpenticuff@gannett.com.
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FAIRLAND, Ind. — Video has emerged of a fight on an Indiana high school basketball court. It happened Sunday after a girls game at the Triton Central High School Fieldhouse in Shelby County.
Now, the Shelby County Sheriff's Department is investigating what led to the fight where investigators say one person reported an injury and had to be checked out by medics.
It was during a tournament game played by girls high school travel teams. The Next Level Classic was put on by Indiana U.S. Amateur Basketball.
One team, the Cincinnati Indians Elite. The other team, the DSB Heat, was from Owensboro, Kentucky.
The Kentucky team's coach said his girls were already off the court when the punches started flying between the girls from Cincinnati and at least one of the referees.
"Hundreds and hundreds of games, we do it every year. We love it," said travel basketball dad Randy Lane.
He's talking about going to all the games his 15-year-old daughter plays for the DSB Heat. Lane is usually in the stands taking video when his daughter is on the court. After Sunday's game against the Indians Elite, Lane stopped rolling, but hit record again when he said he saw a fight happening on the court.
The video shows a commotion happening on the left side of the screen. It quickly shifts to the right, as you see members of the Cincinnati team walking toward a female referee at center court.
"I didn't hear a lot of what was said, but you could see them arguing back and forth,” Lane said.
The coach from the Kentucky team was watching, too.
"I see them running after her and she's backpedaling and it's just chaos, I'm talking just chaos,” said DSB Heat coach Bobby Ewing.
Chaos that Ewing said only got worse when someone in a black hoodie punched the referee.
"Just punched her right in the face. You can see it. Jumps up, hits her in the face,” Ewing described.
You can't see it from the angle in Lane’s video, but Ewing said the referee then threw a basketball at someone.
"I guess she hits somebody and then about that time she starts backpedaling, and they get her on the ground and just jump on her,” Ewing said. "They were stomping and everything. Kicking. It was a full-blown fight."
Ewing and several others called 911. He said other referees and a few parents from his team eventually broke up the fight and got the female referee to the sideline.
"It was a scary situation," said Ewing. "It was scary."
And although shocking, not totally surprising, said Ewing, when he considers how contentious the game between the two teams had been.
The DSB Heat was up 41-10 when another referee called the game 10 minutes before it was supposed to end. That's because, Ewing said, the Cincinnati team was swearing at his players and it seemed to be escalating.
"I hear them saying, ‘We can go outside,’” Ewing said. "None of our kids on our team wants to fight."
If his team said anything back before the refs called the game, Ewing said it was what he calls “basketball talk.”
"'You can't guard me,' or 'I'm going to stop you,' stuff like that. No cussing and all this stuff. You can't attack people,” Ewing said.
The video Lane recorded, though, shows it can happen and certainly did after Sunday’s game.
"I think there needs to be some accountability,” he said.
The Shelby County Sheriff's Office said it is still investigating what happened.
13News tried to reach out to the team from Cincinnati to get their side of the story, but were unsuccessful. We also reached out to Indiana U.S. Amateur Basketball, the organization that put on the tournament. They have not yet responded to our email.
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BLOOMINGTON — Michael Bakana, the man convicted in May of killing one woman and attempting to kill another outside a bar in downtown Bloomington, will spend the rest of his life in prison.
At the end of a lengthy hearing Monday, Judge Casey Costigan sentenced Bakana, 44, of Normal, to 110 years in the Department of Corrections.
Costigan said it was difficult for him not to agree with Assistant State’s Attorney Jeff Horve's description of the crime: execution, senseless gun violence, brutal violence. “And I would also add ‘danger to society,’” he said.
Bakana was convicted by a McLean County jury of murder in the death of 22-year-old Mariah Petracca and attempted murder in the shooting of her friend, Bibianna Cornejo, as well as aggravated battery with a firearm. The violence was recorded on Jan. 30, 2021 on a Bloomington Police Department camera outside Daddios Bar in downtown Bloomington.
At the time of his trial in May, Bakana had been out on bond when authorities said he cut off his GPS monitoring bracelet and fled. He was taken into custody in Lexington, Kentucky, within hours of the jury's guilty verdict in the four-day trial.
Speaking outside the courtroom after the decision, Cornejo said she was relieved. “I feel better now that we got justice for Mariah,” she said.
Mariah Petracca’s mother, Madeline Petracca, echoed the relief of justice but said, “It’s just a tragedy all around.
“It’s never going to bring my daughter back, unfortunately,” she said. “I have to live with that and now my grandson has to live without a mom.”
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Calling Bakana's actions brutal, vicious and cold-blooded, Horve asked the judge to issue a sentence of natural life. If Costigan opted instead for a number of years, Horve asked the judge to find that Bakana caused “severe bodily harm” in the attempted murder offense. This would ensure that the sentence had to be served consecutively with the murder sentence.
He said this shooting, which stemmed from an argument and shouted insults, could “only be characterized as an execution — over what? Over some words from some girls who had too much to drink, over nothing.
“The defendant shot two girls who were walking away,” Horve said. “He engaged them and what’s even more horrifying is how he shot Bibianna Cornejo, fired two shots at her while she’s lying on the ground watching her friend bleed to death next to her.”
Bakana’s attorney, Clyde Guilamo, asked Costigan to sentence his client to 45 years in prison, the minimum possible sentence, noting that Bakana had no criminal history, acted “under strong provocation” and is “a good man.”
“We all wish that that day would’ve happened differently. It’s a tragedy any way you split it,” Guilamo said. “... Mr. Bakana is a good man. It doesn't change that what happened out there was a tragedy; that’s going to always be a tragedy.”
In a statement to the court, Bakana said he was the victim of “extreme emotional violence,” “extreme mental violence,” mob action, a hate crime and “two forcible felonies, based on my understanding of the law,” expressing anger about what happened Jan. 30, 2021.
Speaking for about 14 minutes, Bakana also explained his citizenship process; his education, which he said includes two bachelor’s degrees and a Master of Business Administration; his faith as a humanitarian Christian; and the nonprofit organization, One Heart for Congo, which he said he created to help raise money to save child soldiers.
The Pantagraph was unable to independently verify the latter claim. Paperwork filed with the Secretary of State’s Office for One Heart for Congo lists several names of organization leadership but shows no connection to Bakana. A search of other public documents did not immediately reveal ties between the defendant and the organization, which is categorized in state records as "dissolved."
Bakana thanked his family, his attorney and Costigan, who he said was “a great judge” and the first person to explain his charges fully and make sure he had a French translator so he didn’t miss anything.
In regards to the victims, he said: “I apologize to all those who suffered or are suffering because of my actions.”
Costigan said the court does not condone the “racial slurs” cast toward Bakana during the argument that night, but “they were words … not strong physical provocation.”
The judge noted that Bakana had the opportunity to walk away from the situation or contact law enforcement but instead decided to take matters into his own hands, “and execute a sentence on these individuals.
“Quite frankly, you weren't a victim of this situation, in the court’s view, at all,” Costigan said.
He sentenced Bakana to 35 years on the murder charge, plus 25 years as a firearm enhancement, because he used a gun to commit the offense; and 25 years on the attempted murder, plus the firearm enhancement. He found that Bakana caused severe bodily harm in the attempted murder, ensuring that sentence runs consecutive to the murder sentence.
Guilamo said after the hearing, the 60-year murder sentence must be served at 100% and the 50-year attempted murder sentence is 85%.
In a prepared statement after the sentencing, McLean County State's Attorney Erika Reynolds said, "No amount of time in prison can undo the terrible acts committed by the Defendant in January of 2021. However, the sentence of 110 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections that was imposed by the judge today will help ensure that no other innocent person is victimized by the Defendant. We hope that this sentence will also be something that allows the victims’ families to begin to find some closure."
Seeks new trial
Before the sentencing, Costigan denied a defense motion for a new trial.
Guilamo argued that the jurors should have been told that they could find Bakana guilty of second-degree murder, which would align with the self-defense argument he presented during the trial.
A second-degree murder conviction could have seen Bakana released in 10 years, allowing him to start a family and continue his career, he said.
Guilamo said his client asked in February for the lesser charge to be included in jury instructions. The judge, however, noted that Bakana could not make the request at trial because he failed to appear, waiving the opportunity.
Assistant State’s Attorney David Fitt said the jury instruction would not have made a difference because the evidence would not support a second-degree conviction.
“The evidence against the defendant is so overwhelming that he got into an argument, he left the situation and he chose to come back but only after arming himself,” Fitt said. "Then he sought them out, and when they tried to leave, he followed them with his hand on the gun, primed and ready to go.
“ … The facts of this case are so overwhelming that if there was error, any error in not giving that second-degree instruction is completely harmless because what jury would ever say grabbing a gun from your car and following two drunk women who are trying to leave is self-defense?”
Guilamo also argued that the defendant should have been granted a change of venue, calling the May proceedings a “circus” and a “chaotic trial.” Seated at the defense table, his client nodded.
When Bakana's escape was announced to the public, his attorney noted, public schools in the area were placed on lockdown. Alerts were sent out to families, which affected jury members.
Addressing elements of Guilamo’s argument, Costigan said while he’s never had a homicide case go perfectly smooth, “it was the court’s impression that the trial was not a circus, that it was maintained with dignity and integrity.”
He said any issues related to media or police response at the start of the trial were the defendant’s doing.
“There never would have been issues, there never would have been these lockdowns, there never would have been police alerts … had the defendant just shown up for court,” Costigan said. “... His own actions created those issues and now to complain about them … well, it was the defendant that created that atmosphere, outside of this courtroom.”
Guilamo pointed out that he had sought to delay the trial after Bakana first failed to appear. “In hindsight, we can see that if we had continued this matter for just one week, Mr. Bakana would have been available and present for court,” he told Costigan.
“That’s a bit disingenuous, isn’t it, Mr. Guilamo?” the judge asked, noting that Bakana could have been on the run for years before he was apprehended.
The bulk of the Monday’s hearing was spent on the motion for a new trial, which Guilamo told reporters was because he wanted to give the most focus to that argument. Without a new trial, he said, even the minimum sentence of 45 years in prison likely would be a life sentence.
In response, Fitt said the defendant was not entitled to a perfect trial, but a fair one.
“And although he chose not to participate in any trial at all, that’s what he got in his absence: a fair trial,” the prosecutor said.
Costigan agreed with that assessment and denied the defense motion for a new trial.
Bond issue
On another matter, Costigan settled the fate of the $200,000 bond that Bakana posted before the trial — and forfeited by failing to appear in court. The judge agreed to allow $50,000 of Bakana’s posted bond to be used for attorney fees in accordance with a contract previously presented to the court.
Costigan had previously ruled, in March, that another $50,000 could be taken from Bakana's $200,000 bond to pay the first installment of attorney fees.
Guilamo had asked the judge to vacate the defendant’s bond forfeiture, which would have allowed the money to be returned to Bakana. Costigan denied the motion.
He awarded $5,789 of the money to the Petracca family for funeral expenses and $1,456 to Cornejo to cover child care expense she couldn’t pay because her extensive injuries from the shooting kept her out of work.
After court costs, the remaining balance of Bakana’s bond will be given to the county.
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LYNCHBURG, Va. – Congressman Bob Good is in Lynchburg this week to talk about some of the issues he’s trying to address up in Washington D.C.
The congressman was joined by Lynchburg Peacemakers President, Shawn Hunter, Monday evening for a discussion with the Lynchburg Republican City Committee.
Hunter talked about some of the efforts his group is doing to address gun violence in the city.
“We’re still out in the streets and we still doing one street at a time. We’re putting cameras out and we just feel that awareness. It’s important that we stay vigilant against this violent crime and work together,” Hunter said.
Congressman Good followed up Hunter with some background about how he group up as a kid. One of the things Good says could help address gun violence is providing work opportunities for kids.
As far as the government’s role, Good says there is only so much they can do.
“Unfortunately you cannot pass a law that makes everyone obey the law,” Good said. “Government has a role to play from a law enforcement standpoint. We certainly should have no cash bail policies. We shouldn’t be letting violent felons out of jail. We shouldn’t be failing to prosecute violent crimes which is happening all over the country.”
Good says government is not the answer to solving gun violence. He emphasized some of the work groups like the Peacemakers are doing in terms of restoring trust in the community.
Congressman Good talked about other issues with residents such as the economy, border control, and the debt ceiling bill.
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ROANOKE, Va. – Roanoke Parks and Recreation have created renderings of what a future In-River Park could look like.
10 News first told you about the plans to build a kayak park in the summer of 2022.
Now you can take a look at some of the renderings of what the park could look like.
Roanoke Parks and Recreation says while a number of similar in-river parks can be found across the country, this will be the first of its kind in the state of Virginia.
The parks will focus on ADA river access, whitewater features, enhanced wading spaces, scenic viewing points, and calm river play areas.
$2 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding was allocated to this project in 2022 by the City of Roanoke, with an additional $1 million allocated in 2023.
Katie Slusher is the Planning and Development Coordinator for Roanoke Parks and Recreation. She says the park is meant for anyone and everyone.
“We’re really excited to have something like that, that will be of interest and exciting for folks that are outside of Roanoke as well as living here in Roanoke,” Slusher said.
The project is currently in the process of acquiring permits and finalizing designs.
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Trader Joe's is urging consumers to steer clear of two types of cookies after the grocery store chain issued a product recall for a "Potential Foreign Material" on Friday.
"Trader Joe’s Almond Windmill Cookies," with "sell by" dates of Oct.19 through 21, and "Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Chunk and Almond Cookies," with "sell by" dates of Oct. 17 through 21, are being recalled over concerns of rocks contamination, according to a release.
The recall was initiated after the grocery chain's supplier alerted Trader Joe's of cookie products that "may contain rocks." Trader Joe's said the affected product had been removed from sale and destroyed accordingly.
"If you purchased or received any donations of Almond Windmill Cookies and/or Dark Chocolate Chunk and Almond Cookies, please do not eat them," Trader Joe's said.
Customers can return the tainted cookies to any of the Trader Joe's stores for a full refund, the company said.
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A missing paddleboarder whose body was recovered in a pond on Martha's Vineyard on Monday has been identified as a beloved employee of former President Barack Obama and his family, a statement from the former first couple said.
Massachusetts State police said the body of 45-year-old Tafari Campbell, of Dumfries, Virginia, was recovered from Edgartown Great Pond, along the southern coast of the island, shortly before 10 a.m.
State police say Campbell was employed by the former president and was visiting Martha's Vineyard at the time of his death. The Obamas were not home, police said, but the couple released a statement Monday afternoon describing Campbell as a member of the family.
“Tafari was a beloved part of our family. When we first met him, he was a talented sous chef at the White House – creative and passionate about food, and its ability to bring people together. In the years that followed, we got to know him as a warm, fun, extraordinarily kind person who made all of our lives a little brighter.
That’s why, when we were getting ready to leave the White House, we asked Tafari to stay with us, and he generously agreed. He’s been part of our lives ever since, and our hearts are broken that he’s gone.
Today we join everyone who knew and loved Tafari – especially his wife Sherise and their twin boys, Xavier and Savin – in grieving the loss of a truly wonderful man.”
State police Underwater Recovery Water Unit divers recovered the body after it was located by Massachusetts Environmental Police using side-scan sonar from a boat. The recovery was made about 100 feet from shore at a depth of about eight feet.
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The search began on Sunday night, shortly before 8 p.m., and resumed early Monday morning.
Several public safety agencies on the island responded to the Turkeyland Cove area for the search Sunday night, after a report that a paddleboarder had gone under the water and wasn't seen coming back up. Another paddleboarder was with the man when it happened, police said.
The death investigation is being conducted by Edgartown and state police. No further details were immediately released.
Police initially gave the man's age as 43, then 44.
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BOISE, Idaho — Following a two-week trial, a jury has ordered anti-government activist Ammon Bundy and his friend and business associate Diego Rodriguez to pay St. Luke's and other plaintiffs damages exceeding $52 million stemming from ongoing protests and harassment.
The verdict was delivered on Monday evening by a 12-person jury. Most jurors agreed that the two were responsible for causing harm.
Bundy, Rodriguez and their businesses will have to pay $26 million in punitive damages, used to punish a defendant, and $26.5 in compensatory damages, used to compensate for a loss.
On May 11, St. Luke's, their doctors and CEO filed a lawsuit against Bundy, his campaign and his organization "The People's Rights Network," along with Rodriguez, his blog "Freedom Man Press" and Freedom Man PAC over defamation rooted in a child protective services case.
Rodriguez's infant grandson was taken into the custody Department of Health and Welfare last year because doctors observed the infant was malnourished and dehydrated. The child was hospitalized first at St. Luke's Meridian and was then re-admitted to St. Luke's Boise. This gave way to days-long protests outside the St. Luke's hospitals by Bundy, Rodriguez and their followers claiming the hospital kidnapped the child and were engaging in human trafficking, causing emergency services to re-route patients and put the property on lockdown.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit say the two had given a concerted effort to disrupt hospital business, make false statements about CPS and the hospital and that its staff were attacked online. In April, a judge issued a default judgement, meaning the allegations could move forward in court against the two because they were frequently refusing to show for depositions in the ongoing legal action.
During the trial, one security guard testified the staff was barricading the doors of the hospitals as crowds tried to enter to get the infant back. One emergency room physician, who testified the infant was so malnourished he could die, said she was harassed so much online after the protests she installed security systems in her home.
Bundy and Rodriguez have still been absent from the trial, neither replying to warrants or appearing in court, but the show went on without them.
Bundy told KTVB in a statement after the verdict that he was embarrassed for the court.
"This confirms everything I have said and I am glad that I did not participate and legitimize the process," Bundy said.
Rodriguez said that he will appeal the verdict.
"Anybody with a brain or with 2 cents of basic understanding of justice knows that you can’t have an honest or legitimate trial when the defendant has not been allowed to bring evidence to the case. And when the judge has struck all of my answers from the record. And when the jury pool was tainted with employees who work for the Plaintiff. This case is teed up for a mistrial — to be thrown out by the appellate courts," Rodriguez said.
The hospital issued a statement after the verdict was reached, saying the jury's decision affirms the importance of protecting health care workers and that the verdict sends a strong message that condemns these types of actions.
“Taking legal action is not something we take lightly. But standing up to the threats, bullying, intimidation, disruption, and self-serving actions of the defendants was necessary. Inaction would have signaled that their menacing behavior was acceptable. Clearly, it is not, and the jury’s decision validates that fact,” Chris Roth, president and CEO of St. Luke’s Health System said.
The Western States Center, a nonprofit that, "strives to create a world where everyone can live, love, worship and work free from bigotry and fear," told KTVB the verdict is a "moment of real accountability."
"(Bundy's) decision to target St. Luke’s and to use inflammatory, dishonest rhetoric about the hospital’s actions endangered both staff and patients. This verdict shows that the courts have the ability to treat this kind of threat with the seriousness it deserves," The Western States Center said.
Both Bundy and Rodriguez still have warrants out for their arrests for civil contempt of court. Bundy's warrant amounts to $10,000 and Rodriguez amounts to $25,000, according to Ada County.
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CALDWELL, Idaho — New court documents show 54-year-old Jeffery Noble from Meridian allegedly harassed and threatened five councilmembers and the mayor between 2019 and this month.
Police arrested Noble on July 19th. He faces two counts of stalking and one count of threatening state officials. That includes councilmen Chris Allgood, Bradly Doty and John McGee.
A criminal complaint accuses Noble of causing those councilmembers to fear for their lives and their families' lives. A Caldwell City spokesperson told KTVB councilmembers cannot comment until after Noble is potentially sentenced because they are possible witnesses and victims.
According to a probable cause affidavit filed on the 19th, the councilmembers said they were receiving threatening emails. KTVB heavily redacted the five-page affidavit and the emails included because of vulgar words and expletives.
Nampa Police Corporal Matthew Richardson states in the PCA that the Caldwell Police Department called his department to investigate on June 27th. The next day, Nampa PD's bomb unit responded to Caldwell City Hall about a suspicious package delivered with an envelope that read "explosives to follow."
The envelope was addressed to Councilman Doty, who is also a major with the Idaho State Police. A K-9 was brought in, but the dog did not find anything dangerous.
Police said Noble sent an email to law enforcement agencies and the military confessing to sending the package the same day it was delivered.
Other emails in the PCA show Noble calling councilmembers names, talking inappropriately about their family members and demanding they leave town.
Councilman McGee told officers he did not think much about the emails until Noble started threatening violence. In an email sent to McGee on June 25th, Noble said he "should be stoned to death" and threatened to crush his skull.
The PCA also shows Noble went to at least three city council meetings. It said the mayor at that time had to stop Noble because he would not stop talking.
Councilmembers said Noble would email for months at a time and then stop for a bit before restarting.
Through the court documents, KTVB learned Noble was not honorably discharged from the Navy. The PCA states Noble was an "organizational maintenance technician and air launched weapons technician."
Emails show Noble previously claimed he was an explosives expert with the military.
Police said Noble was on probation for exhibition of a deadly weapon and disturbing the peace at the time he was arrested for these alleged threats.
Noble was previously charged for stalking and harassing another ISP officer and his own son.
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SEATTLE — Concerns from the Puyallup and Muckleshoot Tribes over the construction of a new megachurch in Milton were overlooked by the city, according to an Indigenous rights lawyer who says the new build could be violating treaty rights.
The megachurch is prompting environmental, traffic and housing concerns from multiple groups. The Salvation Baptist Church bought a single-family zoned piece of land to build the 92-thousand-square-foot building.
"I saw the trees go down last week and that was sad," said Milton resident Jeoffrey Cross.
"The sanctuary holds 2,000 people in one seating so that's a lot of people coming," said Chris Phillips who lives a block away from the property. After fighting the construction of the church for years, Phillips says her hopes diminished when the trees were cut down. "I just don't want to see it happen, but then again, I feel like it's a done deal and I'm done with it."
The City of Milton conducted the necessary state environmental reviews before construction and found two wetlands and a stream to Surprise Lake with endangered Coho Salmon on the site. The Puyallup and Muckleshoot Tribes wrote letters to the City of Milton in 2021 with their main concerns focusing on fish blockage and stormwater infiltration that could result in the death of the fish. The city responded to the Puyallup Tribe by inviting them to a public comment session.
"The fact that the tribes were invited to public comment and in fact their comments were treated as public comments rather than intergovernmental communications is very telling," said Gabriel Galanda who does not represent Puyallup or Muckleshoot Tribes but is an Indigenous rights lawyer. He said even the hearing examiner, who reviewed the project, listed the Tribes' letters in the public comments section when they should have been held in higher regard.
"If it's not illegal, they certainly violated best practices," said Galanda who believes more should have been done to address the Tribes' concerns. He said the city should have made more of an effort to meet with the Tribes per treaty agreements.
"It seems the City of Milton or at least its politicians don't appreciate the supremacy of Indian treaty rights and particularly fishing rights," said Galanda.
Former Milton Public Works Director Nick Afzali resigned in 2021 over the project. In his resignation letter, obtained by KING 5, he wrote in part the church "does not align with my core values as a professional who has been serving the public… for the last thirty years." Afzali was the State Environmental Policy Act official who conducted the environmental reviews.
"They had 20 acres and they are pretty much filling up every square foot except where there are wetlands and streams," said Phillips.
This is what Phillips, a former architect, had to say when asked if the city did everything right: "No. That is my professional and personal opinion."
KING 5 reached out to Milton Mayor Shanna Styron Sherrell multiple times about how the city handled the project. She declined to comment for this story but said the church went through neighborhood meetings, city council meetings, public hearings, and appeals.
Even after all of that, Galanda believes it's not too late for the city to respond.
"The project should be paused, and the City of Milton should engage in government-to-government consultation with the Puyallup and Muckleshoot Tribal nations regarding the impacts this project will have on treaty rights," Galanda said.
Trees have recently been cut down and construction work is currently happening. KING 5 should learn more about the church's plans through the permitting process in the coming months.
A spokesperson for the church told KING 5 they chose that property because of its proximity to their other church. When asked about environmental concerns, they pointed to the long approval process but declined to answer additional questions.
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VACAVILLE JUNCTION, Calif. — Crews were able to get a fire under control in Vacaville after it spread from a vehicle to multiple buildings.
The Dixon Fire Department responded to the blaze just after 6 p.m. along the 5300 block of North Meridian Road in Vacaville, which is in their district.
Firefighters said the blaze started as a vehicle fire and spread to vegetation and to multiple buildings. No one was injured.
Crews are now working on mop up after getting the fire under control just before 8 p.m.
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JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — Officials with Tennessee Hills Distillery met with community members on Saturday to discuss the future of the former Parson’s Table Restaurant building.
Tennessee Hills purchased the iconic Jonesborough building in 2021, but renovation work came to a halt last year.
Tennessee Hills Owner Stephen Callahan said the main goal of the meeting was to have an open conversation with the community about the progress at the Parson’s Table property and the issues they have faced.
“A lot of people wanted to know why the building still sitting empty. Our response is we’re building a 50,000-square-foot facility in Bristol, Tennessee, that requires a lot of capital and also requires a lot of our attention,” Callahan said. “And we tried to work with the town several years ago. If they would have worked with us, we would be standing in a fully completed building at this point.”
Callahan said the original plan for a temporary kitchen has changed due to uncovering many unexpected renovations.
“We dropped the existing ceiling that was put in…the building has actually settled towards the railroad tracks and so we’ve had to pump about $300,000 just to shore up the foundation and put a new roof on, which were unexpected costs on the project,” Callahan said.
Tennessee Hills has also considered other ideas, from a bakery to a dinner club, but nothing has been set in stone.
“That was why we wanted to meet with the neighbors and the people and community to see what they feel like we need to do with the building because it is such an iconic building,” Callahan said.
Dana Helvey, a neighbor who attended the meeting, said the business would be great for the community but would like more clarity and better communication regarding the project.
“I wanted to hear what the plans were, because you do not spend $700,000 on a building and then make repairs without having a plan, what do you want it to become?” Helvey said.
He also said issues like noise have taken a long time to resolve.
“We understand you want to do this and you want to do all these great things, but we’re sort of tempered by what you have not done in the past and how fast you reacted to issues,” Helvey said. “And that’s a concern.”
“We have worked very hard with our neighbors to kind of resolve the noise issues,” Callahan said. “We’ve put sound patrols on all of our sound equipment. We close the door at 9:00, even though we technically don’t have to at 10.”
Callahan said it may be years before the building is fully renovated.
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Alice: An Operatic Wonderland
The Red River Lyric Opera will premiere Amy Scurria’s opera “Alice: An Operatic Wonderland,” with Zane Corriher and Kelly Balmaceda’s libretto in English, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 28 in the Fain Fine Arts Theatre at Midwestern State University.
The opera is a new and unique interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s classic “Adventures in Wonderland” and will feature “a mix of the hottest emerging artists with seasoned professionals,” said conductor Kristin Roach from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.
“Our Alice will not be like Disney nor Tim Burton,” said director Grace Edgar, an MSU theatre professor. She remembers seeing the Dali sketches of Alice in the Dali museum in Paris and said that influenced the visual concept. “We are using fragments of those sketches to make projections,” Edgar said.
Scurria said she first fell in love with the Carroll classic at the age three, when she also fell in love with music. “My mom read Alice to me, and I learned to read by reading it again and again and again. I have memories of my mom reading it to me the first time. I remember hearing how Alice spoke and how she responded and how forthright she was. It was the first time I felt that Alice was someone I could relate to.”
The composer began composing her second full-length opera after Covid hit. “We were all stuck in the rabbit hole, weren’t we?” she said with a laugh. “It was a leveling ground. It invited or forced us to look inward.”
Scurria, who had earlier been diagnosed with autism, said she was surprised how many autistic women connect with the character, Alice. “The world we developed for the play – once Alice enters Wonderland – is exploring the neurodiverse brain. Wonderland is actually her brain.”
Carroll’s book doesn’t have much drama, the composer said. “It wouldn’t literally translate to a great opera if you took it straight.” Working with her librettists, they developed a through line for the opera.
The composer first heard the music in her mind and put it on the page, before working with her director, conductor and cast to bring it into real life.
The first actual staging was in North Carolina, and Scurria said her mom heard three different people singing different parts of the opera afterwards. “That is a composer’s greatest dream is to create something and hear people singing it.”
The director is extremely excited as they stage the opera. “Last year, I met Amy at the National Women’s Theatre Festival and she told me about Alice, and I was interested. “We wanted it to be female-centric including the conductor, director, and producer, Darla Diltz, MSU professor of voice. Traditionally, they said, women in opera are not in leadership positions. Amy wanted to write an opera with a female lead with a positive turn.
Everyone is very pleased with the cast and a production that is humorous but which also has depth. While Alice may be a child, and the music will appeal to all ages, the opera is not specifically for children. The music and story is universal and will play to a large audience.
Alice is being sung and performed by Sophia Formella, originally from Dallas, who is currently living in New York City and working as a Teaching Artist at the Metropolitan Opera Guild. Isabella Cadriola, performing the role of Cheshire Cat, said that Formella is onstage for 95% of the opera. “It’s a lot for anyone to do and it’s incredible for her to be able to do it,” Cadriola said.
Cadriola, from the DC area, is “super excited” to play her role. She will also perform in Montiverdi’s “L'incoronazione Di Poppea.” “It’s super cool to be in a role in a new opera,” she said. “You never get to say to Mozart, ‘Hey what did you want here, what did you mean by that, dramatically?’"
She also enjoys playing a cat. “I get to show so much physicality and get to do growls and meows,” she said with a laugh.
Also showing this weekend at the RRLO is “L'incoronazione Di Poppea” (1642) at 7:30 July 26 and Adam Guettel’s “The Light in the Piazza” at 7:30 p.m. July 27 and 2:30 p.m. July 29. All of the operas will be performed in MSU’s Fain Fine Arts Theatre.
Scurria is currently working on full orchestra version for the University of Utah set to premiere in Spring 2024.
Alice: An Operatic Wonderland - If you go
- What: Composer Amy Scurria’s opera, “Alice: An Operatic Wonderland”
- When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday July 25 and 7:30 p.m. Friday July 28
- Where: Fain Fine Arts Theatre, 3410 Taft Blvd.
- Admission: $10 general admission
- Information and tickets: Redriverlyric.com
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Chamber, SMAC urge hiring consultant to protect SAFB
The Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce and the Sheppard Military Affairs Committee want to hire a consulting firm to the tune of $12,000 a month to protect the future of Sheppard Air Force Base.
“The feeling in the community and among a lot of folks is we need to have feet on the ground in Washington, D.C.,” SMAC president Glenn Barham told the city’s 4-A Economic Development Corporation board at a recent meeting.
SMAC and the chamber propose the 4-A and the Type B Sales Tax Corporation (4-B) split the consultant’s fee. Both groups direct a portion of the city’s sales tax revenue to economic development.
“There will be proposals coming before this board and the 4B board within the next month that will lay out the proposal to hire a consulting firm,” Barham said.
He said his group and the chamber would set aside $30,000 each for expenses incurred by the consultant.
Barham declined to say who the consultant is. He said the goal in hiring the firm is to bring the T-7 aircraft to Sheppard as soon as possible and to attract new missions to the base.
Boeing’s T-7 is set to replace the aging T-38 Talon jets the Air Force has used to train fighter pilots for 60 years.
SMAC was formed to promote and safeguard Sheppard after the base lost its medical training mission in 2005, a loss that had a $48 million annual negative impact on the local economy.
Chamber president Ron Kitchens said Sheppard is crucial to making Wichita Falls more of a college town.
“If you look at it, it’s a giant trade school,” he said.
Kitchens said the $144,000 annual fee was the “best guess” of the consultant.
“If it’s more, we’ll figure it out and raise the rest from the private sector,” he said.
Because of rules governing nonprofit organizations, SMAC and the chamber are limited in how much money they can spend on the consultant.
If the 4A and 4B boards move ahead with hiring the consultant with sales tax money, the Wichita Falls City Council would have final approval.
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Lakes drop with no relief in sight
Wichita Falls lakes continued their downward spiral over the past week as days of extreme heat dominate the forecast for Wichita Falls and North Texas.
The combined capacity of lakes Arrowhead and Kickapoo, dropped 1.2 percent to 63.3 percent, meaning water customers will stay in Stage 1 Drought water use restrictions.
Lake Kemp, which is currently contributing up to 20 percent of the city's water supply, was is relatively good shape, standing at 76 percent of capacity Monday.
Wichita Falls began enforcing Stage 1 water restrictions a week ago, meaning violators face fines in Municipal Court.
The National Weather Service offers no relief in the week ahead, predicting daytime high temperatures of 104 to106 degrees for the next seven days. No rain is in the forecast. The city is about 1.5-inch below its normal rainfall for this point in the year.
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Sam Pak to run for City Council Dist. 4
Financial adviser Samuel Pak announced Monday he will run for the Dist. 4 seat on the Wichita Falls City Council.
The seat, which represents the southernmost neighborhoods in the the city, is currently held by Tim Brewer, who announced he will not run for reelection.
Pak made his announcement in front of City Hall on the first business day of filing for city offices.
Pak moved with his family to Wichita Falls when he was 10 and sees it as his hometown.
He attended Texas A&M and Midwestern State universities and has served on the Red Cross Board, the MSU Alumni Association and is vice president of the Hispanic Cultural Initiative.
"My history of working with businesses, nonprofits and government has put me in a unique position of understanding what makes the city run," Park said. "I love the city and see so much for its potential in the future."
Pak said in a news release he would like to see "better-paying jobs come into the area, as well as better systems put in place to retain the small mom-and-pop businesses that are already investing in our community."
He joins Sheppard Air Force Base instructor Mike Battaglino in the Dist. 4 race.
More:SAFB worker announces bid for city council
In addition to Dist. 4, the offices of mayor and council districts 3 and 5 will be on the Nov. 7 ballot.
More:Two Wichitans enter race for mayor
Business owner Carol Murray and insurance agent Tim Short earlier announced their candidacies for mayor.
In Texas, mayor and city council candidates are non-partisan, meaning they do not declare by party, such as Republican or Democrat.
Candidates may file through Aug. 21.
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TWIN FALLS — Chet Neal Kirkpatrick, 29, died in Twin Falls, Idaho, on July 10, 2023.
Funeral Services for Chet were held on Saturday, July 15, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. at the Dubois Community Center. He is interred at the Dubois Cemetery.
Condolences may be sent to the family online at www.eckersellfuneralhome.com.
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April 1, 1933—July 20, 2023
FILER — Jay Allen Moyle, of Filer, passed away July 20, 2023, at the age of 90, with his irrigation boots on changing water on the farm in Filer that he and Barbara started in 1966. Jay was born on April 1, 1933 to “Harry” Emmett Moyle and “Alice” Norma Bounous in Alpine, Utah. Jay’s family moved to Heyburn during his school years and he graduated from Heyburn High School.
He enlisted in the Army for 2 years and served at Fort Lewis in Tacoma. When he returned to Heyburn, he married the love of his life, Barbara Lee Holden on May 24, 1960.
Jay is the father to 3 children, Allen (Karla) Moyle, Dean (Kelly) Moyle, and Tina Moyle Sutton; grandfather to 6: Kevin (Taylor) Moyle, Rodney (Kirbie) Moyle, Rex Moyle (Bailey), Shelby (Andy) Chacon, William Sutton and Macy Sutton; he is the great-grandfather to: Demi Jay Moyle, Jay Roger Moyle, Von Howard Moyle and baby girl Wesley Moyle coming in October.
Jay’s life was an adventure. His father died at a young age, and as the eldest child he had the responsibility of continuing the family mink farm. While running the farm in Burley, the family decided to expand to Durango, Mexico. He and Barbara made many trips to Durango, and his second son, Dean was born in Mexico. After that endeavor, he and Barbara decided to move to Filer and build a mink farm on Rock Creek. They chose Filer to be closer to the trout farms and Berties Poultry Plant. The farm is still operating, and Jay’s sons and grandsons followed in his footsteps in the mink business.
Jay was an avid pilot and gun collector. He started flying when he was 16 and was still flying his Bonanza V-tail into his eighties. In the early 60’s, the family bought a P51 Mustang. In his 20’s, Jay had a few close calls in it. He put it in a stall at 5000 feet above the ground and the handbook said 10000 feet. He recovered in the nick of time, after a few other close calls and the Burley airport being too short his mother told him to get rid of it. Other planes he flew were a Twin Beech that made many trips to Mexico hauling mink. The plane had one parachute so passengers flew at own risk.
Jay had an impressive Winchester gun collection. They all had shiny bores, were sighted in and had shells reloaded and ready to go. Jay made each grandchild a Winchester 30-30 with their initials inlaid in gold that they received on their 13th birthdays, they got more elaborate with each gun.
He enjoyed hunting with his family and many close friends. Jay had gone to Africa on three different trips, his goal was to shoot a Cape Buffalo with a Winchester 405 iron site, which he got done at the age of 80. He shot multiple big horn sheep and elk, many shot at Long Tom Lookout, and Indian Creek in the Middle Fork of the Salmon. His friend Robin and son Dean made sure he kept hunting bears and cougars into his 80’s.
He restored multiple antique autos, also helping his children and grandchildren restore cars of their own. His collection included a 1948 Ford, which was his deer hunting rig that he could ride his tote goat in one back door and out the other side; a 1941 Lincoln Continental 2 door sedan; a 1956 Thunderbird, paid for with 10 cent jack rabbit hides; and a 1971 Cadillac El Dorado convertible. In November of 1955, while driving the T-bird he got the only speeding ticket of his life.
Jay was an avid reader and loved historical books. He could relay facts that he had learned in perfect detail. Jay always had a story for every occasion. He will be truly missed by everyone he came into contact with.
Jay is survived by brother, Lee (Marta) Moyle, sister, Ronda (Chuck) Crockett, sister, Joan (Greg) Serrao, and sisters-in-law, Dona Mann and Cindy Moyle. He is also survived by all his children, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Friends and family may visit with the family at Parke’s Magic Valley Funeral Home, 2551 Kimberly Road in Twin Falls on Wednesday July 26, 2023, from 5:00-7:00 PM. There will be a Celebration of Life at the Twin Falls Reformed Church, 1631 Grandview Drive North, Twin Falls, on Thursday July 27, 2023, at 10:00 AM. Burial with military honors will follow the services at 3:00 PM at Paul Cemetery in Paul, Idaho.
In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to the Snake River Elks in Jerome, Idaho.
Memories and condolences may be shared with the family online in Jay’s tribute page at https://www.magicvalleyfuneralhome.com.
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Nov. 11, 1994—July 15, 2023
TWIN FALLS — Julie Elaine Griffin was born in Kingman, Arizona, on November 11, 1994, to her parents Jennifer Hazlett and Jeff Griffin, and passed away on July 15, 2023, in Twin Falls, Idaho, from injuries sustained in car accident.
Julie grew up in Arizona, relocating to Nevada in 2008, where she graduated from Battle Mountain High School. She moved to Twin Falls in 2013, attending College of Southern Idaho on scholarship majoring in Social Work. She deepened her passion for caring for others when she started working at SL Start in 2013, and she has been a caregiver at MDC Magic Valley since 2019.
Julie was the loving mother to Kimberlynn Elaine Patterson (22 months) who was the light of her life. She is survived by her mother and step-father, Jennifer and Ernie Hazlett and her brother, Mason Hazlett. She had guardianship of two special children whom she loved liked her own, Flor Muralles Mars and Francisco Muralles. She is also survived by her father and many extended family members.
In the months preceding her death, Julie’s smile reflected the happiness and love she shared with her fiance, Bet Bergstrom and son, Keaton.
She is preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Katie and Carl Blair, and her aunt and uncle, Sharon Blair and Steve Blair.
A Celebration of Life is scheduled for Saturday, July 29, 2023, at 11:00 am at the Twin Falls Reformed Church located at 1631 Grand View Drive N. with Lead Pastor, Chuck Swoboda officiating.
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Dec. 6, 1945—July 18, 2023
Sandra Rae Schaer passed away on July 18 2023. Sandy was born on December 6 1945 in Flagler Colorado, the youngest of three daughters born to Robert and Ruby Scott.
In 1947, the family packed up and moved to Idaho, finally settling in the Castleford area. Sandy graduated in 1964 from Castleford High School, and not long after, she met the man that she would spend the next 58 years with, Fred Schaer.
Fred and Sandy were married in September of 1965, and soon after settled on their farm SE of Castleford. In 1974 her only son, Charles, was born.
Sandy began her nursing career in the late 70s working for Dr. C.F. Wurster, which she immensely enjoyed. Dr. Wurster convinced Sandy to attend the nursing program at CSI and in 1984 she became an RN. After Dr. Wurster retired, she worked as a nurse for Dr. Porter and then the Emery brothers. After about three years with the Emerys, she began working at the Twin Falls Clinic and Hospital, where she was a family practice nurse, a family practice nurse coordinator, and finally the head of Occupational Health. When the Twin Falls Clinic and Hospital was sold, she went to work at St. Benedict’s as the head of Occupational Health until she retired in 2007 to take care of her father.
During her retirement years, she enjoyed trips to the Oregon coast, sewing, embroidery, quilting, and lunch/dinner get-togethers with her dear friends, Sharon Slagel, Gay Park, Mel Martin, Ann Bybee, and Barbara Holloway(Mom dearly loved all of you!).
Sandy is survived by her husband, Fred of Buhl, her son, Charles of Elko, Nevada, sister, Aridith(Hubert) Monzel of Burlington, Wisconsin, several nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Ruby Scott, and her sister Meredith.
Fred and Charles would like to extend a special thanks to: Dr. Jared Manning and the staff at St. Lukes MSTI; the staff of Visions Home Health & Hospice; Ginger Hanchett; Julie Pendleton and the staff at DeSano Place Assisted Living in Jerome; John and Viki Lewis and family; her dear friends Sharon, Gay, Mel, and Ann.
Per Sandy’s wishes there will be no service. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family on Sandra’s memorial webpage at www.farmerfuneralchapel.com.
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Aug. 1, 1930—July 19, 203
WENDELL — Wanda L. Hays, 92, a recent resident of Boise and formerly of Wendell, Hagerman, Riggins, and American Falls, passed away on Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at her home.
Wanda was born on August 1, 1930 in Gooding, to William A. and Mary E. Hansen Gill.
Wanda married Fenton S. Hays on December 12, 1948, and they made their home on a small dairy farm west of Wendell.
Wanda was a member of the Rebekah Lodge, and a longtime member of the Wendell Grange.
She was preceded in death by her husband – Fenton Hays—on April 28, 2003.
Wanda moved to Boise three years ago where she has lived with her son and daughter-in-law, Bob and Becky.
She is survived by her three children – Suzanne Hays and Bob (Becky) Hays of Boise, ID and Gary (Debbie) Hays of Grangeville, ID; three grandchildren, JoAnne (Tony) Armolea, Jake (Amy) Hays and Bryan (Stefanie) Hays; three great-grandchildren, Olivia Armolea, Ayden and Dylan Hays.
In addition to her husband, Fenton, she was preceded in death by her brother, Art of Mesa, AZ.
A memorial Celebration of Life for Wanda will be held on Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 11:00 am at Living Waters Presbyterian Church in Wendell. A reception will follow the service.
A private family inurnment of ashes will precede services at the Wendell Cemetery.
Cremation arrangements are under the care and direction of Demaray Funeral Service – Wendell Chapel.
Condolences, memories and photos can be shared with the family by following the obituary link at www.demarayfuneralservice.com.
Memorials may be made to St. Luke’s Respite House (Fruitland. ID – Hikin for Healthy Hooters Room, cancer) and/or the Meridian Idaho Lions Club (Camp Hodia project – youth diabetes).
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ARIZONA, USA — The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is looking for two suspects accused of shooting and killing a woman in Guadalupe.
MCSO said deputies were called to Guadalupe Road and Priest Drive Monday night to investigate a shooting call.
When deputies arrived, they learned a shooting occurred between two people, and a female was struck and killed during the incident.
MCSO said the suspects fled the scene and are still at large.
If you have any information, you are asked to contact the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office at 602-876-1000.
This is a developing story. Stay with 12News for updates.
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HOUSTON — A Seabrook woman claims a scented candle exploded in her hands, leaving her with severe burns that required multiple surgeries. Now, she hopes a lawsuit will spread awareness and help with her recovery.
RickiLynn Gardner is suing Aroma360, which does business under the popular website Hotel Collection, for $1 million.
According to the release from a pair of Houston attorneys, Gardner bought the candle from their website and watched as a large flame erupted from the candle. A Blink camera inside the home captured her attempting to move the candle after trying to put the flames out when the candle erupted in her hands.
Gardner claims the candle engulfed her hands in flames and covered them with melted wax, which led to her suffering severe burns.
"The danger of these candles cannot be overstated," said attorney Randy Sorrels, who is representing Gardner. "The consuming public should be warned of how these products can cause fire, explosion, and injury."
According to the law firm, consumer research showed that similar incidents were reported with the Florida-based company.
KHOU 11 reached out to the companies involved in the lawsuit for a statement but has not heard back yet.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A plan to eliminate some parking spots at Zilker Park is heading to the Austin City Council.
At Monday night's Parks and Recreation board meeting, members approved a recommendation to eliminate parking at the Zilker polo field starting in September. That area has an estimated 1,000 parking spots.
There's been concern about how parking there affects the environment.
Members acknowledged that this is a temporary solution to a long-standing issue that comes with having so many cars in the park.
"This is not a long-term solution, and it may be a midterm solution at best," said Austin Parks and Recreation board member Pedro Villalobos.
The board also recommended the City of Austin fund more shuttle buses that run within Zilker Park to help avoid parking issues. That plan now goes to the full city council for approval.
It comes after parking prices were increased at the park in May and fees were implemented at parking lots that were previously free. The parking lots that previously charged $5 for parking were increased to $7 from through Labor Day.
The parking lot off Stratford Road, just north of the Zilker Botanical Garden, and the South Barton Springs Pool parking lot, near Azie Morton Road, are now charging $7 on the weekends and holidays.
The Austin Parks and Recreation Department said it hopes charging at the parking lots will help with traffic issues.
"Since we haven't had these spaces metered, there is less turnover in these areas, with Zilker is both residents and visitors. We do anticipate this will help with circulation in those two lots," Parks and Recreation Assistant Director Lucas Massie said.
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BLOOMINGTON — One of the first steps to add about 800 residential units to the city of Bloomington has been approved by the City Council.
On Monday, the council authorized the annexation and amended the zoning of a 77-acre plot near the terminus of Old Peoria Court north of West Market Street (Illinois Route 9) east of Rivian Motorway.
The developer, Bloomington 77 Developments LLC, is planning to add 700 to 800 multi-family residential units to the site, including apartments and townhomes. There also would be 114,000 square feet carved out for commercial development and space for an outdoor running and biking trail.
This is one of several housing developments proposed in Bloomington-Normal since Patrick Hoban, CEO of the Bloomington-Normal Economic Development Council, reported that there is a shortage of 7,000 to 8,000 residential units in the area.
The developer would be responsible for any costs associated with water main construction and must maintain a temporary access road between the southern portion of the planned development and Old Peoria Court. No city incentives were written into the annexation agreement.
Although no one spoke at Monday's public hearing regarding the annexation, some homeowners of the adjacent Old Peoria Court residential area raised concerns about the project's influence on traffic and storm water retention during a Planning Commission meeting earlier this month.
Community leaders have said the lack of housing for a rapidly growing population brought on by the expansion of companies like Rivian and Ferrero have become an economic concern.
Alderwoman Mollie Ward said there has been a lot of talk over the last few months about the shortage of housing units in the area, but this project has the potential to fill as much as 10% of the county's overall shortage.
"It's pretty rare that we have something that impacts the entire community as fully as it sounds like this is going to," Ward said.
The council voted 7-1 in favor of the project with Alderwoman Donna Boelen voting no. Alderman Kent Lee was absent.
Boelen voiced concerns about the city's obligation to perform maintenance on any new infrastructure that would come from the project.
"I know that (the developers) are going to be paying for putting in the infrastructure but over the long run, the city will have to maintain it and to be honest, we're having trouble maintaining what we have with the allocated funding," Boelen said.
The council also must sign off on a special use permit related to the project, which was approved without opposition by the Zoning Board of Appeals last week.
A traffic signal also would be required on Market Street. Therefore, a traffic study and intersection design study would be required.
Other business
As part of its consent agenda, the City Council also approved a $62,500 agreement with Dewberry Engineers to determine which city facilities are most suited for solar installations.
The work would include preparing preliminary sizes and configurations and providing construction cost estimates for future budgeting. The city had allocated $75,000 for this work in its fiscal 2024 budget.
Bloomington Deputy City Manager Billy Tyus said the city has discussed opportunities to utilize its current properties for solar energy over the last few years.
"Before we would determine any budget of what we could do, we need to know sort of what the opportunities are," Tyus said. "We have a lot fo different buildings throughout our organization from the arena the water facilities to office facilities et cetera."
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Federal statistics show that people of Asian descent make up less than a percent of Bismarck’s population, but many residents still have a natural curiosity about other cultures.
It’s what prompted South Korean-born Boram Chern to form the Bismarck-based Korean culture club K-Kota. The curiosity is strong within its membership, which comprises a variety of people — none of whom are Korean. Some are young, some are older. Some have previously been exposed to Korean culture, and others are new to it.
What they all share is an interest in learning and experiencing a taste of South Korea.
Jessica Archambault and her family appreciate the opportunity Chern has created in the community. They recently attended their first K-Kota meeting — a food tasting in early July. They said they like going to similar events, but have to go Fargo or Minneapolis for them. Archambault’s daughter, Arabella, loves studying other cultures and languages, and Archambault’s father, Dwight, expressed an appreciation for being able to try the food.
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“When I was growing up, we never had anything like this in Bismarck, and now to have things like this are unique and very good,” he said. “I enjoy these things. I’ve always liked to go and try different foods and different things.”
Offering culture
Chern has lived in Bismarck for about seven years. She first moved to the United States when she was teenager, and she eventually came to North Dakota with her family. Chern joked how she could probably count all the Koreans she knows in Bismarck on her fingers. She is aware of eight families, with four having moved to Bismarck after the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
To her surprise, Chern has met many people in Bismarck who express an interest in Korean culture and media. One in particular, Jill Carter, is a fan of the hit South Korean boy band BTS and would tell Chern about their concerts, interviews and songs.
Meeting all these people got Chern thinking how she could teach and share Korean culture with them. It was only after Carter suggested the idea of a Korean club that Chern created K-Kota last March, the name coming from a play on “Dakota.”
“I think that’s something that I can offer this community also. And being Korean, I think I can do more as a Korean presenting culture nowadays,” Chern said.
The club began as monthly meet-ups in the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library. Chern discussed with attendees what they wanted to do and learn through the club. Many ideas were food-related events, so Chern began with those. She held a cooking class in May for gimbap, a seaweed-wrapped rice roll with a customizable filling. The dish is easy to prepare, making it a popular picnic or lunch meal.
Chern also has met a couple of people in town who study Korean online. She knew from the beginning that she wanted to offer language classes along with the culture activities.
“Learning a language must require interaction with others. I know from my experiences. I am more than happy to help them as a Korean speaker,” she said.
Language and food
The class she teaches has had about six sessions so far. There are seven students including Carter. Not everyone is at the same level, with some students having prior knowledge of Korean. Students still were able to form a close bond with one another, and share their love of Korean culture through the class.
“They’re really eager to learn something. They’re really eager to try something new. They’re really excited for it. And when I’m speaking or when I’m trying to share, when I’m trying to do something like that, I can feel how much they’re really looking at me. Their eyes and ears really focus on me,” Chern said.
She runs the club by herself. She maintains K-Kota’s Facebook page, using pictures she took in Korea for event posts. Chern said she’s been enjoying the club and loves meeting people. She welcomes anyone, regardless of their knowledge of Korean culture, along with their ideas — such as an Korean barbecue event and a Korean crafting event for when it’s colder outside. One member suggested an event involving Korean beauty products, which Chern plans to host toward the end of July.
Some of K-Kota’s last events were food tasting meetups and cooking classes. One weekend involved tasting Korean street food, and the next was cooking Korean holiday food. Chern recently held a tasting event for homestyle food at her husband’s restaurant, Noodlezip.
It was Brittany Babel’s first K-Kota event. She learned about it on Facebook and decided to come. Babel studied in South Korea for a year when she was a student at North Dakota State University. The food spread was nostalgic and reminded her of what she ate during her time overseas.
Chern served a number of small side dishes: soybean sprout, vinaigrette seaweed, braised tofu, steamed egg, cabbage kimchi and seasoned eggplant with assorted bell pepper. These surrounded a bigger bowl of pork kimchi, with rice on the side. Chern loves cooking and made everything herself.
Korean dishes are always served with side dishes, but the term “side dishes” doesn’t accurately describe what they are, according Chern. Korean people look at all the things on the table — the rice, soup, the main dish and smaller dishes — as one set.
Elizabeth Ehlis attends K-Kota events and the language class with her mother, Karla. She grew an interest in Korean culture from consuming Korean media. She and her mother found out about the club when she saw a poster in Asian Gourmet Market, and they have been with the club since March.
“I just like that Boram has given us this opportunity. And I mean, North Dakota ... doesn’t really have a whole lot of Korean population, or a very big Asian population to begin with. So just that she’s offering this and giving us the opportunity to learn the language, learn about Korean culture has been great,” Ehlis said.
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A weekend garage fire in Bismarck was attributed to a lithium-ion battery pack for an electric bike.
Firefighters responded to the blaze in a row of garages at an apartment building on Fraine Barracks Road around 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Smoke and fire damage was limited to the garage unit of origin, according to the Bismarck Fire Department.
No injuries were reported, and the fire has been ruled accidental.
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Nothing but the top seed at the Class A state tournament in Kindred -- well, maybe bragging rights as well -- was on the line in the final matchup of the Class A West Division tournament Saturday.
The Dickinson Volunteers didn't let that hold them back, riding a four-run third inning to the toppling of the top-seeded Bismarck Senators, 6-5.
Bismarck's starters continued their tough run in the divisional tournament, as Traiden Kalfell didn't escape the third and was responsible for five of Dickinson's six runs on the day.
The Senators managed a pair of runs in the first inning, but that was all Dickinson starter Drew Gabel gave up until the Senators strung together a close-but-not-enough rally in the bottom of the seventh that finally got Gabel out of the game.
Logan Gross was summoned and got the final out on the first and only batter he faced to end Bismarck's rally a run short.
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Dickinson outhit the Senators 11-9, with Cameron Wolf's 3-for-4 day leading the pack for the Volunteers.
Dickinson also got two-hit days from Tyler Danbom and Christian Tibor, with their lone extra-base hit of the day coming on a double by Will Easum.
Just two Senators managed a pair of hits, with Kalfell collecting a triple and single in four trips -- driving in four of Bismarck's five runs in the process -- and Andrew Jablonski smacking a pair of singles to go with a walk.
Gabel's final line was 6 2/3 innings, nine hits, four runs (all earned), three walks, a strikeout and a wild pitch in 105 pitches.
Kalfell (2 1/3 innings, six hits, five runs (all earned), one walk, three strikeouts) was lifted for Jablonski (3 2/3 innings, five hits, one run (earned), two walks, six strikeouts), who gave way to Hayden Emter, who gave the Senators their lone one-two-three inning of the day in the top of the seventh.
The win sets up Dickinson for a state tournament matchup with Kindred in the first round, with the Volunteers facing the host squad in the final game of day one on Friday, July 28. First pitch for that game is scheduled for 7 p.m.
Bismarck's loss drops them into the 2-3 matchup at 1:30 p.m., where they'll face the East Division's No. 3 seed, the West Fargo Vets.
BISMARCK CAPITALS 12, BISMARCK REPS 4
In the all-Bismarck second state qualifying game, a big offensive inning from the fourth-seeded Bismarck Capitals boosted them past the third-seeded Reps.
Hayden Ritter pitched into the fifth for the Capitals, with Quinn Carlson taking over from there and earning the win after the Capitals scored the go-ahead run in the sixth and eight insurance runs in the seventh.
Tanner Groseclose matched Ritter in making the fifth, but his relievers, comprised of Gavin Brice and Aiden Johnson, were less successful in limiting the damage after the Reps' starter left the game.
The Hummel brothers did plenty of damage for the Capitals, with Evan (2-for-4, double, sac fly, two runs scored, RBI) and Micah (1-for-2, 2 HBP, one run scored, RBI) standing tall on opposite ends of the lineup.
Avrey Emery (1-for-3, walk, HBP, two runs, 3 RBI) reached base three times, as did Grady Swanson (2-for-4, double, walk, three runs, RBI) for the fourth seed.
For the Reps, Cash Weisenberger finally had a big day at the tournament, going 3-for-3 and finishing a home run short of the cycle.
Charlie Vig capped a productive tournament for the Reps, going 1-for-3 with a walk, stolen base and two runs scored.
The Capitals are the third seed at the state tournament and play the East's No. 2 seed Casselton at 4 p.m. on July 28.
WATFORD CITY WALLEYE 12, MANDAN A'S 5
The host Mandan A's were shocked in the first state qualifier game of the day, as Watford City took advantage of seven different Mandan errors in the second inning to break the game open.
Carson Voll dominated at both the plate and on the mound for the Walleye. Taking over for starter Landon Ledahl in the second, Voll pitched to the seventh, allowing just a single run in the fifth.
At the dish Voll was even better. Going 2-for-4 with a double, hit by pitch, stolen base and a run, he set the table all day long for a busy Walleye offense, who batted around in that seven-error second.
Watford City also put up a four-spot in the fourth, with its first six batters of the inning reaching via walk or single before a sac fly, fielder's choice and strikeout finally got Mandan out of the inning.
Judd Johnsrud mopped up for the Walleye, giving up a run behind back-to-back singles from Carson Ressler and Logan Seefeldt but suffering no further damage.
Marcus Bird Horse started for Mandan and made it through the second before giving way to the A's bullpen.
Jack Tooke, Aaron Gray and Carson Ressler all took the mound for the A's, with Ressler finally settling things down after taking over in the fifth.
Ty Weiler reached twice on a walk and a hit by pitch and scored a run for Mandan, with Cameron Beaver (2-for-4, run scored), Ressler (3-for-4, one run scored, two RBIs) and Jensen Schulz (3-for-4, two doubles, stolen base, run scored) also getting on multiple times.
The Walleye get the tough challenge of facing the East's top seed in Wahpeton in the first game of the day July 29, with first pitch set for 11 a.m.
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Crooked numbers were the theme of the night for Duluth Monday at Bismarck Municipal Ballpark.
The Huskies scored two runs in the first inning, three in the third, fourth and sixth, and two more in the eighth en route to a 14-7 Northwoods League win over the Larks.
Duluth pounded out 19 hits and drew seven walks in the 3-hour, 15-minute game in front of 1,900 fans.
The first of those three-spots erased an early 4-2 Larks lead.
Jared Mettam, the second batter of the game, connected for a solo home run to make it 1-0 Duluth, but the home team answered.
Jack Herring doubled to start the bottom of the first. After a single by Nick Oakley, AJ Kostic doubled home Herring.
Garret Hill and Aaron Biediger were hit by pitches in consecutive at bats to force in Oakley. Luke Hammon singled home Kostic to make it 3-2 Larks. The next batter, Bradlee Reap, rapped into a double play, but Hill scored making it 4-2 Larks.
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Bismarck’s lead was short-lived.
Brandon Compton launched a solo home run with one out in the top of the third for the Huskies. Four batters later, Raymond Velazquez delivered a two-out, two-run double to put Duluth in the lead for good.
Six Huskies had multi-hit games. Compton, a freshman from Arizona State, led the way, going 4-for-6 with three RBIs and four runs scored.
Former Bismarck State College standout Michael Hallquist went 3-for-4 and scored a run for Duluth. The Fargo product and Northwoods League All-Star has clubbed a league-best 12 home runs this season.
Mettam also had three hits for Duluth, which boosted its second-half record to 14-7 with the win.
Jack Herring banged out two hits for the Larks to raise his batting average to .338, tied for seventh-best in the league.
Luke Hammond also had two hits for the Larks, who are off today before hosting Duluth again on Wednesday at 6:35 p.m.
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The Mandan City Commission has submitted its preferred option for a North Dakota Department of Transportation project that would expand the Interstate 94 Sunset Drive interchange.
The project seeks to address deteriorating pavement along the highway to meet future traffic needs, according to the DOT. It also evaluates options to provide accommodations for pedestrians and cyclists, which would improve safety along Sunset Drive, a major north-south corridor on the west side of the city.
The city chose to recommend a single-point urban interchange with lights at intersections over several other options.
State data shows that 95 crashes occurred in the interchange area -- between Boundary Street Northwest and Old Red Trail Northwest -- from 2017-22, with 37 taking place at the intersection of Sunset Drive and Old Red Trail.
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The project is separate from a Bismarck-Mandan Metropolitan Planning Organization feasibility study underway on upgrading the parts of Sunset Drive north and south of the interchange. Construction on that project is at least five years away.
Physical work on the interchange project is expected in two years.
Project consultants Mead & Hunt evaluated four alternatives for the interchange and presented them at a public meeting on April 20 where public feedback was welcomed. Mead & Hunt also ranked the alternatives based on overall efficiency. Three alternatives can be constructed with stop lights or roundabouts at intersections -- the fourth alternative was only considered with roundabouts -- for a total of seven options, though only six were ranked.
The alternatives presented were a single-point urban interchange, a partial cloverleaf interchange, a diverging diamond interchange and a diamond interchange with roundabouts at intersections.
The current structure is a diamond interchange.
The top-ranked alternative was a single-point urban interchange with stop lights at intersections. The next ranked choice was also the single-point urban interchange but with roundabouts at intersections.
A single-point urban interchange is similar in form to a diamond interchange but has the advantage of allowing opposing left turns to proceed simultaneously by compressing the two intersections of a diamond into one single intersection over or under the free-flowing road.
“That particular configuration gives us more space between the on and off ramps and our intersections,” Mandan City Engineer Justin Froseth said.
The next-ranked choice was a partial cloverleaf interchange with stop lights at intersections.
The partial cloverleaf would have four straight ramps and a loop ramp. The loop would be used by drivers heading south on Sunset Drive wanting to head east. It would remove the left turn that currently takes place.
The diverging diamond interchange ranked fourth with stop lights at intersections and fifth with roundabouts.
In a diverging diamond, opposing directions of travel on the non-freeway road would cross each other on either side of the interchange, to reduce the amount of vehicles turning in front of oncoming traffic.
The fourth alternative, the diamond interchange with roundabouts at intersections, was not even ranked as it failed to address the needs of the project. This alterative would be the most similar to what is currently in place, but the lights at the exit and entrance ramps would be replaced with roundabouts.
The partial cloverleaf interchange with roundabouts ranked last.
The consultants will gather recommendations from over 15 groups -- mostly divisions within DOT -- to choose the alternative to go forward with.
The Mandan City Commission unanimously chose to submit the single-point urban interchange with stoplights as the city’s preferred alternative.
The total cost of the project will range from $20.8 million to $26.4 million, depending on the final alternative chosen. It will mostly be funded by the DOT, but the city would need to pick up costs if construction expands past the DOT right-of-way.
“We would potentially need to participate in any costs that are outside of the right-of-way if it's the stoplights or changes to intersections that are on our side, but nothing is set in stone on that,” Mandan City Planner Andrew Stromme said.
A second public meeting will be held in the coming months to present the rankings and preferred alternative.
Following that meeting an environmental report will be done of the preferred alternative, and design work can then begin. Utility relocations will begin in 2025 and the project will be finished by 2026.
More information is at https://bit.ly/46EX4Q2.
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NOLAN COUNTY, Texas — It has been nearly a month since Shawn Adkins was released from Mitchell County Jail after he was accused of killing 13-year-old Hailey Dunn.
Now, Hailey's father, Clint Dunn, is speaking up about supposed allegations he had with the over decade-long investigation.
Dunn was unable to attend a virtual press conference held Monday morning due to illness, but his personal team spoke about the number of problems he had with investigators from multiple counties.
Prosecution dropped the charges against Adkins after he was offered a 30-year plea deal — a deal Adkins rejected.
A deal that, according to Erica Morse, a senior private investigator with Jensen Investigations of Indiana, "blindsided" Dunn.
"We feel very strongly that the clock ran out on this case," Morse said. "Shawn sat behind bars for two years, and we think this was an issue of timing more than anything. They had to pull that trigger so to speak, and have this trial move forward, or they had to release him and conduct more investigation and get their ducks in a row."
Dunn's frustrations with the case made him voice a number of allegations against the investigators of Mitchell, Scurry and Nolan Counties.
Dunn and his team allege that investigators miscommunicated with Dunn and his team and mishandled evidence, specifically about Adkins' work boots and soil tests they requested be done on the boots.
They even claim that there were attempts to keep Dunn quiet on the investigation.
"We have some real problems going on in this case," Morse said. "There has been, not only a lack of communication to Clint, but we do not feel like there has been accurate truth telling going on here."
Meanwhile, Dunn's team, unhappy with the investigation, would like to take the fight to court.
They're hoping to find an attorney, but claim they've had little success
"We have paid for multiple consultations with attorneys from West Texas all the way to East Texas, Houston, Corpus [Christi], Austin, you name it," Morse said. "They all are very interested until they realize it is the Hailey Dunn case."
Meanwhile, Dunn has drafted a bill that he calls the "Police Accountability and Transparency Act," that would improve police forces and add new rules and regulatory bodies.
However, the bill is only a draft, as he is still looking for lawmakers to help co-write it.
Hailey Dunn's case, according to Dunn's team, is now a cold case.
We have reached out to district attorney's and sheriff's offices in Nolan, Scurry and Mitchell Counties about the allegations Dunn and his team made, but they were either unavailable or unable to speak about the allegations.
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SEATTLE — Seattle police and fire investigators are looking into a string of arsons, most of which were set between July 16 and 17, just blocks apart.
The fires set across three neighborhoods: the Chinatown-International District, First Hill and Capitol Hill.
The cluster that occurred on July 16 and 17 were all started in dumpsters, garbage bins and stairwells.
One of the largest fires was set on July 12 in First Hill next to Virginia Mason Hospital. As flames took over the vacant building, the smoke could be seen from I-5.
Just a week later, on July 20, a two-alarm fire destroyed a building in Seattle's Chinatown-International District due to smoke. The fire broke out in a vacant produce warehouse on 10th and South King Street. Crews also shut off the electricity, which cut power to thousands.
There were seven arson cases in the Chinatown International District in July, compared to four in the first six months of 2023.
Investigators are more concerned with the fact that the fires were intentionally set than the scale or size of the fires. They are asking business owners to keep lights on, lock down garbage bins and report any information that seems relevant to the police.
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Kenosha police at outside a home following a standoff in the 2100 block of 54th Street Monday night, July 24, 2023.
A standoff has ended with the arrest of a man Monday night in the city's Columbus Park Neighborhood.
The incident was reported at 6:18 p.m. in the 2100 block of 54th Street where Kenosha Police responded with a multitude of officers at a home in the neighborhood. Authorities were on scene at least three hours and had ordered the individual out of the home when the man was eventually arrested, according to Sgt. Trevor Clayton of the Kenosha Police Department.
"I know that they were clearing the house they set up a perimeter at and then at some point the person they were looking for was arrested," he said. It was not immediately known why the man was wanted by police.
Police had the "structure clear" shortly after 10 p.m., Clayton said. Officers were still at the residence late Monday where they continued to process the scene.
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Authorities had closed down the area between 53rd and 55th Streets at 22nd Avenue, but have since re-opened it.
Mugshots: Kenosha County criminal complaints from July 13-14
Onwar D. Albright
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Onwar D. Albright, 30, of Kenosha, faces chares of contempt of court (disobey order), disorderly conduct, stalking resulting in bodily harm, second degree sexual assault/use of force, criminal damage to property, and second degree recklessly endangering safety.
Billie James Chomicki III
Billie James Chomicki III, 30, of Pleasant Prairie, faces charges of possession with intent to deliver cocaine (between 1-5 grams), and bail jumping.
Rebecca A. Farrar
Rebecca A. Farrar, 43, of New Auburn, faces charges of harboring or aiding a felon, and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Amir Chakafrancis Furlow
Amir Chakafrancis Furlow, 34, of Kenosha, faces charges of probation and parole, vehicle operator flee or elude an officer, possession with intent to deliver narcotic, possession with intent to deliver heroin (less than 3 grams), possession with intent to deliver designer drugs (between 3-10 grams), and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Sam Tomas Jimenez
Sam Tomas Jimenez, 34, of Kenosha, faces charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence (4th offense), and bail jumping.
Terence Quintell Majors
Terence Quintell Majors, 37, of Kenosha, faces charges of probation and parole.
Dionia O. Scott Jr.
Dionia O. Scott Jr., 28, of Racine, faces charges of probation and parole, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of THC (2nd+), and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Jonathan Allen Stinnette Jr.
Jonathan Allen Stinnette Jr., 18, of Winthrop, Illinois, faces charges of probation and parole.
Tymant Robert Travis
Tymant Robert Travis, 22, of Wisconsin, faces charges of battery or threat to judge/prosecutor/officer (aggravated assault).
Chaylen Terrell Wright
Chaylen Terrell Wright, 25, of Chicago, Illinois, faces charges of probation and parole, and resisting or obstructing an officer.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The co-owner of The Belmont Goats is announcing an ambitious new plan to move the goats to a castle.
Jess Kurtz, the owner of the goats, tells KOIN 6 News they’re considering purchasing the six-acre, $5 million property known as Blackberry Castle in Portland’s Northwest Hills.
The goats had a home in North Portland but had to move before it became a Safe Rest Village.
The castle has had difficulty finding an owner and has been on the market for about nine months. It comes with a luxury spa and climbing wall.
Those interested in providing financial assistance can contribute to The Belmont Goats GoFundMe.
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19-year-old dies after being pulled from Willamette River at Keizer Rapids Park
A 19-year-old who went underwater and didn't resurface in the Willamette River at Keizer Rapids Park was pronounced dead on Sunday, according to the Keizer Police Department.
Filemon Villavisencio Santos was swimming at the park Saturday when he jumped off a dock and never surfaced, police said.
Witnesses told first responders that Santos, who was not wearing a life jacket, had been under water for about 10 minutes when officer Iliya Kuzmenko arrived at approximately 5:52 p.m.
“Kuzmenko jumped in and, with several other park patrons, recovered his body,” a news release said. “Once on the dock, Kuzmenko started CPR and continued until medical personnel arrived and transported Mr. Santos to the Salem Emergency Department where he was listed in critical condition.”
Sometime after 5 p.m. Sunday, Santos succumbed to his drowning, police said.
“At this time, it is unknown why Santos did not resurface,” the news release added.
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Update: Wonder Fire north of Redding reaches 80 acres, 5% contained
Update at 9:45 p.m.
The Wonder Fire reached 80 acres, burning in a mix of grass, brush and timber, according to Cal Fire. The fire was 5% contained, but crews are expected to remain on the fire overnight and for the next several days, building fire line and putting out hot spots, Cal Fire said.
Update at 8:30 p.m.
Wonderland Boulevard at Fawndale Road is closed to northbound traffic due to the fire.
Also both northbound and southbound off-rams to Bridge Bay Marina are closed, according to Cal Fire.
Update at 6:30 p.m.
The Wonder Fire, burning about 10 miles north of Redding, was at 45 acres and 0% contained, according to Cal Fire.
The fire, which started northeast of Mountain Gate, was burning north toward Lake Shasta and was not threatening any structures, according to Cal Fire. The fire remained east of Interstate 5.
Update at 5:30 p.m.
Cal Fire has requested evacuation warnings for the area around Bridge Bay on Lake Shasta as the Wonder Fire continues to burn out of control and has reached more than 50 acres and is moving northwest toward Lake Shasta.
Update at 5:15 p.m.
A fire burning north of Redding is growing as firefighters have asked for additional resources to fight the blaze, which is being called the Wonder incident.
Crews on the scene have requested additional aircraft to attack the blaze from above. There are also crews coming from Siskiyou and Lassen counties to assist, according to emergency scanner reports.
Crews on the scene report that the fire is moving northwest and they are warning boaters and businesses in the Bridge Bay Resort area.
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Firefighters are working on a fire burning in heavy brush and timber in the Mountain Gate area.
As of 4:30 p.m. the fire had burned 3 acres, with spotting out in front of the blaze, according to emergency scanner reports from crews at the scene of the fire.
The blaze was first reported at about 4:15 p.m. in the area of the Mountain Gate Quarry, just east of Interstate 5 in Mountain Gate, according to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection dispatchers.
Firefighters at the scene reported the fire burning at a moderate rate of spread. There were also power lines down in the area of the fire and the railroad tracks in the area were located near the fire.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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Second Amendment resolution back before Shasta County supervisors
The Shasta County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will once again attempt to pass a Second Amendment resolution, five months after the board deadlocked, leaving the proposal's fate uncertain.
Supervisors’ latest attempt to pass a resolution comes as the number of mass shootings in the United States so far this year has surpassed 400, which puts 2023 on a pace to eclipse 2022, when there were 647 mass shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
This will be at least the third time the county has tried to pass what would be a symbolic resolution, since state and federal gun laws supersede local gun rules.
In March 2021, former Shasta County Supervisor Joe Chimenti, who was the board’s chair, pulled a Second Amendment resolution from the agenda due to the mass shooting that had killed 10 people in Boulder, Colorado one day before the board meeting.
Supervisor Patrick Jones, the board's current chair, re-introduced a resolution in February. Jones helps manage his family gun’s shop, Jones’ Fort, in east Redding.
But at the February meeting, the resolution failed to pass after a 2-2 vote that had Supervisor Kevin Crye abstaining because he wanted to seek personal legal advice and asked for more time. That upset Jones, who, with Supervisor Chris Kelstrom, voted for the resolution. Supervisors Tim Garman and Mary Rickert voted no.
This latest version of the resolution is the result of county officials working with the California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA) that provided the advocacy group an opportunity to submit alternative language than what had been submitted before, according to a staff report to supervisors.
The staff report says, “County Counsel has received the resolution and recommendation.”
Matt McOmber is acting county counsel after James Ross left the job about two weeks ago. Ross had planned to work until Aug. 11, but left early for unknown reasons.
Deputy County Executive Officer Erin Bertain said both McOmber and Ross signed off on the resolution that will come before supervisors.
In February, former County Counsel Rubin Cruse Jr. heavily edited a resolution that in large part featured the wording brought by the CRPA. Jones and Kelstrom wanted to pass a Second Amendment resolution that kept much of the resolution before Cruse’s edits.
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This latest version features 29 articles with some minor edits that Bertain said were made by county counsel.
There also is some opinion in the resolution, including an article that states, “The Board of Supervisors believes there have been many problems with reports and studies claiming that gun laws work and that those reports and studies cherry-pick that data used and do not give an accurate picture of the effectiveness of these laws.”
Another article in the resolution questions the effectiveness of more gun laws in stopping gun violence or suicide and "that both are issues of the conscience and mind, among another factors.”
“The Board of Supervisors believes that the California Legislature has passed laws that will be determined to be unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, and continues to pass laws that will be determined to infringe, unconstitutionally, upon people’s rights under the Second Amendment,” another article states.
Retired Shasta County Public Defender Jeff Gorder, a vocal critic of the board’s far-right majority, said this version is certainly different than the one that came before the board in February.
“They have toned it down from what I can tell, trying to what I would say put some ambiguity in there as to what their intent is,” Gorder said.
Supervisors will consider agreement with Rancheria
Also on Tuesday’s agenda, supervisors will consider adopting a 30-year financial agreement with the Redding Rancheria for the tribe’s proposal to relocate its Win-River Resort & Casino closer to Interstate 5 just south of Redding.
The agreement is being sponsored by Supervisor Crye.
Supervisors could approve the agreement without County Counsel or Risk Management signing off on it first, which goes against county policy.
The agreement would mean the county would receive one-time and recurring payments, instead of property taxes and other fees, for the cost of law enforcement, fire and other emergency services at the resort.
But “although the agreement provides some revenue to the county for each of these areas, as currently drafted, the agreement would not fully mitigate the anticipated costs,” the staff report to supervisors says.
The Rancheria wants to build a gaming facility that would include a casino, a 250-room hotel, an event and convention center and parking areas on about 230 acres on the west side of I-5.
The ultimate decision about whether the Rancheria goes forward with its plans rests with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The staff report says an agreement such as this requires review and approval by County Counsel and county Risk Management.
But supervisors on Tuesday will consider waiving that review and approval.
Under the agreement, the Rancheria, among other things:
- Would make a one-time payment of $1.6 million to the county, rather than pay annual property taxes, permit fees and other impact fees.
- Would make a one-time payment of $1 million to help fund law enforcement, then recurring annual payments of $1,000 per service call.
- Would make a one-time payment of $1 million to help with costs associated with fire and emergency services, then recurring annual payments of $10,000 per call for service.
In May 2022, supervisors reversed an earlier decision to oppose the casino project and issued a letter of support to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Pickleball popping off in Redding as popularity soars
The sun had barely risen over Shasta County at 6 a.m. when 20 men and women holding paddles and round yellow balls descended upon the six blue 20 by 40-foot courts.
More people began arriving shortly after, some with their own 32-inch nets. Soon, more than 60 players were at the courts, each ready to play pickleball — the fastest-growing sport in America.
Friday's Vintage store owner and pickleball player Dylan Mosschart, who competed in five early morning matches, said he picked up pickleball at the start of the pandemic in 2020.
"I think it's the diversity of the players," Mosschart said. "You can be as athletic as a marathon runner and get out here and play or be someone who doesn't work out at all or is getting older — still come out here and kick butt."
The pickleball wave has spread across the country. Over 8.9 million Americans have picked up the sport since 2019, growing by 159%, according to a study done by the Sports and Fitness Industry Association in 2022.
Pickleball caught on during the coronavirus pandemic as people began looking for a contactless group activity. Though its popularity has increased in recent years, former Washington congressman Joel Pritchard invented the sport in 1965.
Pickleball tournament organizer Ruben Basurto, 29, said the quantity of players in Shasta County has tripled since 2019. Basurto said there were roughly 100 players playing at once a week in Redding four years ago. That number has risen to over 300 players.
Basurto was born in Mexico and played college soccer at Oklahoma Baptist University before moving to Redding and started playing pickleball.
"It's an interesting environment here in pickleball because this is the first time I've seen such a cordial, respectful atmosphere in a competitive field," Basurto said.
Redding resident and avid pickleball player Brandon Walden said he started playing 18 months ago with the urging from his friends.
"It sounded so dumb at first because of the name of it," Walden said.
However, soon after Walden caught the pickleball bug and now plays at least three times a week.
"I came out one day and I was about 56 pounds heavier than I am now," Walden said. "I played two hours and instantly got hooked."
The courts in pickleball are smaller which allows for more people to play games than the space needed for tennis. Because there are multiple people playing games at once within a vicinity, there's a fanfare of loud noise created by the popping sound of shots and playful banter.
Over 80 different players were in attendance as eight pickleball courts and nets were set up at a roller hockey arena adjacent to the six permanent pickleball courts.
Shasta College head tennis coach Heidi Lee has also become a pickleball fan and is playing three times a week with her husband Kevin Lee at Enterprise Park. Lee believes the comradery and sportsmanship within the pickleball community in Redding is helping the sport thrive.
"Pickleball is free, fun and it's not a level-based sport," Heidi Lee said. "Everybody can play. We have eight-year-olds out here. We also have 88-year-olds. We have everyone of every level and nobody cares about mixing in. You just have good games, and you can play all day long. You don't ever have to worry about not having anyone to play with."
Longtime hiker and adventurer Hal Martin, 78, found himself rallying and scoring points against a player that was six times his younger. Martin believes pickleball is helping him prolong his health.
"I see a lot of people my age who are not active at all," Martin said. "It just keeps your mind and body moving. If you're gonna sit around and be a couch potato, it's not going to work for you. I'm not a fast person but I can move my upper body enough to do well in pickleball. It is a fun sport."
Basurto says the sport is continuing to grow at a rapid pace and is hoping more courts can be built by the city of Redding to accommodate the high demand. Courts were full at 7:30 a.m. and pickleball players were waiting 30 minutes in the waking hours of the morning to avoid playing in the 110-plus degree temperatures.
"The base has to do with the atmosphere we've created within this sport," Basurto said. "The sport is so forgiving. Any person can pick up the sport at any age and begin having fun."
Ethan Hanson started working for the Redding Record Searchlight after four years with the Los Angeles Daily News as a freelancer. His coverage includes working the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament in South Bend, Indiana, and writing about the St. Louis Rams' move to Los Angeles with the Ventura County Star. He began his career as a play-by-play broadcaster for LA Pierce College from 2011-2017. Follow him on Twitter at @EthanAHanson_RS and ethan_a_hanson on Instagram.
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Huge housing development proposed for Bloomington. Find out where.
Developers hope to build a housing development with thousands of units on nearly 140 acres in southwest Bloomington.
Here’s what we know.
Where in Bloomington is the development proposed?
The property is east of South Weimer Road and southwest of Catalent’s Bloomington campus.
A limited liability company, Sudbury Development Partners, purchased the property in February for nearly $13.2 million. Co-developers are Carmel-based Sullivan Development and Muncie-based The Ridge Group.
How big is the property? How much housing is proposed?
The property, which is undeveloped, covers 138.51 acres.
The developers plan to build up to 6,000 new housing units — though it will probably be fewer because of environmental and other constraints. The developers envision a mix of housing types, including single-family homes, condos, townhomes, duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, senior living, assisted living, two or three hotels and apartment buildings with commercial spaces on the ground floor.
Tyler Ridge II, president of The Ridge Group Development, said The Ridge Group and Sullivan Development each plan to develop 10% of the acreage. The Ridge Group would focus on apartment buildings, condos and townhomes, and Sullivan would focus on affordable housing. The Ridge Group has done other projects in the Bloomington area, including Flats on 46 in Ellettsville.
The remaining acreage would be developed by other firms. Ridge said those won’t be identified until after requested zoning changes have made it through the plan commission and city council.
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How tall do the Sudbury developers want to build?
A city planner said in a recent plan commission meeting that the developers appear to want to build structures that have 10 stories, which has raised eyebrows of some neighbors who said they would not like their single-family homes to be across the street from a high-rise.
Scott Robinson, director of the Bloomington Planning and Transportation Department, said a 10-story building would not be consistent with the scale that the city is looking for, and planning staff have communicated that to the developers, who said they have been meeting with planning staff weekly since early this year.
Robinson said the city has only one zoning district, mixed use student housing, where buildings can have up to six stories — though if developers meet environmental and affordable housing incentives, they can add another two stories.
Would any of the Sudbury units be affordable?
Travis Vencel, development director of Sullivan Development, said the city requires that 15% of the housing units be affordable, which is defined as available for people who earn less than 120% of the median area income. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has set this year’s IMA for Bloomington at $94,700. If the affordable units were available today, they would go to families earning no more than $113,640.
Robinson said people who earn 120% or less than the median income struggle to find housing because they earn too much to qualify for federal subsidies, which don’t kick in unless people earn less than 80% of the area median income, which is $75,760.
How much the units would cost, though, is unclear, as many of the units won’t be built for years. In addition, the mix of the units — how many apartment buildings, single-family homes, condos, etc. — has not yet been determined.
Ridge said the owners have invested $13.2 million to purchase the land and another $1.2 million on development costs. Ridge and the investors’ local attorney, Angela Parker, of Carmin Parker, declined to identify other investors.
What share of the units will be for sale?
In filings with the city, the developers said they expect that about 10% of the units would be available for sale, though Robinson said that’s “way too low.”
Both Robinson and Vencel said federal law prohibits the city from requiring ownership or owner occupancy, but Robinson said the city can make ownership more likely by the type of housing that would be built. He said single-family homes, row houses and duplexes are more conducive to ownership.
Robinson said the city is disinclined to have the development tip the current renter-owner balance in the city. He estimated about 40% of the current housing units are occupied by owners.
Some of the details will be worked out over the next few months as the proposal is discussed before the plan commission and eventually before the Bloomington City Council.
When could the first homes be available?
The first tenants would not be able to move in until more than three years from now.
Vencel said in a recent plan commission meeting it would take 12 months to develop the land and another 24 months to complete any residential buildings. That means if the project were to get underway in spring 2024, the first homes would not be completed until spring 2027.
Developers have said they envision the entire project to take at least eight years, though Robinson said that timeline is probably “aggressive.”
Developers said they have had interactions with all current city council members as well as council and mayoral candidates, utility officials and leaders in city offices including planning and economic development.
Ridge told the plan commission the developers are looking for input from local officials and residents and hope to turn the project into something all parties can be proud of. Vencel said the project would be “impactful” for Bloomington.
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What do the neighbors say about the housing proposal?
Some Bloomington residents who live near the proposed site said they worry the project might be a little too impactful.
Kelli Wesley, who lives on Arbor Ridge Way, north of the proposed development, asked developers to build taller buildings toward the center of their property. She said she would not want the development’s tallest structures to be right next to the single-family homes in her neighborhood.
Rachel Knoble, who lives on Weimer Road, said her home floods sometimes already and she asked developers and city officials to prevent the development from making the situation worse.
Other nearby residents said they do not believe the current road infrastructure is adequate to handle traffic from thousands of additional residents, never mind heavy construction machinery.
Plan Commission Vice President Jillian Kinzie urged the developers to answer the questions posed by the residents. She said she had some strong concerns about the project’s impact on the environment and existing developments and said she expected plan commission members to be “pretty protective” of the property, which she said was the “last developable land in Bloomington.”
Parker said developers have met with neighbors to seek their input and will pay attention to their concerns. A lot of details about the project have yet to be determined, she said.
Ridge said putting together a development of this size in a top three market in the state is “quite an undertaking,” but also a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
Robinson said city officials are in no rush and want to make sure the community has ample time to sort out any points of contention, including building size near existing neighborhoods, water and sewer capacity and road connections.
What’s next?
The Bloomington Plan Commission is scheduled to continue to discuss the project at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 14 at City Hall.
Boris Ladwig can be reached at bladwig@heraldt.com.
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More than 50 Democrats in the N.C. General Assembly are urging federal regulators to block a planned natural gas pipeline through the Triad over concerns about its impact on the environment, particularly in poor, rural areas where residents lack the financial and political clout to push back on the $500 million project.
The legislators also question whether future demand in North Carolina justifies development of the 75-mile line that would move 375 million cubic feet of gas per day — enough to serve the equivalent of more than 2.2 million average homes — from southern Virginia, through the heart of Rockingham County and to the end of the line in Alamance County.
“Over the last five years since the proposed MVP Southgate was announced, we have increasingly heard from neighbors, residents and constituents about the real and significant concerns the (pipeline) poses to our communities,” the N.C. House and Senate members tell the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in their letter dated July 21.
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The MVP Southgate Extension would connect with the partially completed main Mountain Valley Pipeline, designed to move fracked natural gas from the Marcellus shale fields in West Virginia about 300 miles across nearly 1,000 streams and wetlands before ending in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
In a June filing with FERC, Mountain Valley requests an extension of its expiring Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the MVP Southgate. If approved, the certificate would give the company until June 2026 to complete the pipeline.
The main pipeline project has been hit with dozens of water-quality violations and hundreds of thousands of dollars in related fines. Opponents insist there’s no reason to expect anything different in North Carolina.
From Guilford County, signers of the FERC letter were Reps. Cecil Brockman, Amos Quick and Pricey Harrison; and Sens. Michael Garrett and Gladys Robinson.
Rep. Ashton Wheeler was the only Guilford Democrat not to add her name.
In Forsyth County, Rep. Kanika Brown signed on while Rep. Amber Baker and Sen. Paul Lowe did not.
‘From nowhere to nowhere’
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality rejected water-quality permits for the Southgate project in August 2020, suggesting that doing so would be premature until completion of the $6.6 million main Mountain Pipeline was ensured.
“In essence, it would be a pipeline from nowhere to nowhere incapable of carrying any natural gas, and certainly not able to fulfill its basic project purpose, while having no practical alternative,” NCDEQ said in explaining its permit denial.
Early this month, the 4th U.S. Circuit of Appeals prevented Mountain Valley from resuming work on its main line in response to a legal challenge of legislation tied to a deal between President Joe Biden and Republicans to raise the federal debt ceiling.
The Fiscal Responsibility Act included a measure requiring fast-tracked approvals for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, whose completion has been held up by regulatory hurdles and legal challenges.
Proponents hoped the legislation would remove the last major hurdle for the stalled project while raising prospects for the Southgate Extension.
But the Wilderness Society, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, argued that the provision violated the separation of powers provision in the U.S. Constitution by declaring that “no court shall have jurisdiction to review any action” related to the pipeline and if anyone took issue with the new law, it had to go directly to U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay, preventing work on the pipeline until the court issues a ruling expected to be challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court, whatever the outcome.
‘Environmental injustice’
In addition to Mountain Valley’s lack of a North Carolina water-quality permit for the extension, the 52 Democratic state legislators note that the company has not obtained an air-quality permit for a Virginia compressor station that would pump gas through the pipeline.
“The proposed (MVP Southgate) and associated Lambert Compressor Station are examples of environmental injustice, as their negative impacts would disproportionately affect largely poor, rural areas on the border of Virginia and North Carolina,” the letter says.
In 2021, the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board rejected a permit for the proposed compressor station because it “did not meet the fair treatment and site suitability requirements of federal and state law.”
The North Carolina lawmakers also cited an analysis last month by an energy consulting firm projecting that the Mountain Valley Pipeline would run at half of capacity when completed.
Democrats and critics of the projects insist that new fossil fuel transmission lines will simply become costly “stranded assets” — paid for by utility customers — as North Carolina moves away from the use of fossil fuels that contribute to climate change and transitions to renewable energy including solar and wind power.
North Carolina Republican lawmakers, meanwhile, have argued that relying solely on the existing Transco Pipeline — which also slices through the heart of the Triad — as a primary natural gas supply puts the state’s energy production at risk.
“Completing the Mountain Valley Pipeline will help bring a second interstate natural gas pipeline to North Carolina,” N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger of Rockingham County said in an email to the Journal when asked about the project last year.
Transco has been among the opponents of the MVP Southgate Extension.
Company spokesman Shawn Day said Mountain Valley has “no update or estimate” on when work on the extension into North Carolina will begin or when the pipeline could be operational.
“Mountain Valley remains committed to the MVP Southgate project and continues to evaluate its options to help meet strong residential and business demand for affordable, reliable natural gas,” Day wrote in an email.
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Where to get your free steering wheel lock to protect your Kia or Hyundai from theft
Thefts of certain Kia and Hyundai models have been on the rise over the last few years. To protect your vehicle, you might want to pick up a free steering wheel lock from the IMPD this week.
Previous IndyStar reporting found that thefts of Kia and Hyundai vehicles have become more prevalent, partly because certain models lack security protections that come standard in other car.
This is the case in some Kia models from 2011 to 2021 and Hyundai models from 2015 to 2021. Kia’s 2022 models have an immobilizer and Hyundai models beginning in November 2021 have steering wheel locks.
Many of them lack electronic immobilizers that prevent thieves from breaking in and bypassing the ignition. The feature has been standard on nearly all vehicles manufactured by other companies since 2015, according to the Highway Loss Data Institute.
To combat the issue, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department will give out free steering locks to Indianapolis residents with Kia and Hyundai cars lacking the anti-theft feature.
Kia and Hyundai thefts:Owners suffer as thefts increase 350% in Indianapolis
Where to pick up your steering wheel lock
To receive a free steering wheel lock, residents can bring their current car registration to any Indianapolis police district from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. from Monday through Friday while supplies last. From 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 25, free steering wheel locks also will be available in the lobby of the city-county building.
Free steering locks are only available to residents of Indianapolis who own a Hyundai model from 2015 to 2021 and/or a Kia model from 2011 to 2021 that lacks security measures.
Other ways to protect your car from being stolen
Indianapolis police previously shared the following tips:
- Install quality video surveillance cameras and alarms
- Install a GPS tracking device
- Leave porch lights on
- Call police regarding suspicious people
- Lock all windows and doors
- Never leave your car running
- Establish relationships with neighbors and fellow business owners
- Contact dealerships regarding anti-theft options for the vehicle
- Keep information, such as the make, model, model year, license plate and Vehicle Identification Number accessible in the event your vehicle is stolen
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CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — Editor's Note: The above video is from a previous version of this story.
A 6-year-old who was allegedly beaten by his mom's boyfriend to the point he was "foaming at the mouth" is now recovering, according to Clayton County Police.
"He has came out of the coma and is slowly on his way recovery," police said.
The child was admitted unconscious to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Hughes Spalding hospital early last month. Police said that the 6-year-old was suffering from a brain bleed, blood clot in the lungs, broken bones and severe bruising.
During several interviews with the child's mother, 33-year-old Porshe Wells and her boyfriend, Napoleon Ates, police said detectives discovered that an assault happened on Sunday, June 4.
His mother and her boyfriend were supposed to appear in court on Monday, but their court date was pushed back.
Clayton County Police said Ates began beating the 6-year-old after he believed the child had stolen $80 from him to give to a roommate. At first, Wells told police that she was not present during the beating, but the department said later she admitted to being there.
Through the investigation, police also found out that Ates beat the child daily for an entire weekend, until the 6-year-old was unconscious. Wells told police after the assault, she attempted to wake the child with a cold bath, but that didn't work.
Wells then neglected to take her unconscious child to the hospital for two days, the department said.
Ates was arrested for child abuse in the first degree and battery charges in Forest Park. The Clayton County Police Department said it is bringing the following charges against him:
- Aggravated assault
- Aggravated battery
- Two counts of cruelty to children in the first degree
- Cruelty to children in the second degree
- Cruelty to children the in the third degree
- Contributing to the deprivation of a minor
The child's mother is also being charged with the following,
- Aggravated assault
- Aggravated battery
- Two counts of cruelty to children in the first degree
- Cruelty to children in the second degree
- False statements
- Contributing to the deprivation of a minor
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ATLANTA — Atlanta Police Department investigators released photos of two people they are looking for after more than 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 the Mariposa Lofts apartment complex in Atlanta's Inman Park neighborhood at 185 Montag Circle NE. When APD officers got there, they found windows busted out of numerous cars inside the apartment complex's parking garage. Two guns were stolen out of different vehicles, although none were taken from the APD patrol car, according to officers.
On Monday APD released pictures of two people who they said were involved in the break-ins. APD is hoping someone will come forward and help officers identify the suspects, pictured below.
Luke Hendershott spent Saturday afternoon vacuuming the glass remnants from his SUV. Luckily, Hendershott said his drum set was unharmed. He said he was in town for a gig and now has to head back to Chattanooga with less than what he came with.
"Three busted windows and $80 cash was missing and a pair of pants," Hendershott said.
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. Authorities said car break-ins are plaguing the city because people are leaving valuables inside the car, causing criminals to take advantage.
Anyone with information on the case or anyone who can help police identify the suspects is asked to contact Investigator J. Mogavero at 470-217-2696.
Tipsters can also submit information anonymously to Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404-577-TIPS (8477) or online at www.StopCrimeAtl.org.
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ATHENS, Ga. — Police are investigating a Saturday crash in Athens that left a 29-year-old motorcyclist dead, according to the department.
The crash happened around 8:46 p.m. on North Avenue at Northside Drive. It was the eleventh fatal crash for Athens-Clarke County this year, police added.
Authorities said that a 22-year-old pickup truck driver was turning left onto North Avenue from Northside Drive when he collided with Kody Kuckuck, 29, on his motorcycle. When officers got to the scene, they found Kuckuck dead.
The investigation remains ongoing, according to police.
Anyone with information regarding the crash is asked to contact the officer investigating the case at (762) 400-7169 or email him at joey.lewis@accgov.com.
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ATLANTA — A Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta program is helping mothers get back into the workforce.
It’s a free program called MomForce for moms who have been out of the workforce and are hoping to learn some skills and gain experience before finding their next job.
“It’s really hard. It’s not easy, but it’s so worth it,” said Betsy Hasson, a former stay-at-home mom.
Hasson was part of the 2023 Spring session and ended up getting a job at Children’s after she finished.
“Everybody that works in this building believes that they can improve the lives of children, every single one,” said Hasson, with tears in her eyes. “And so to be here, working with everyone that is so inspiring is amazing to me.”
There are two MomForce sessions each year, in the spring and fall. The sessions last 12 weeks.
Candidates need to have a bachelor’s degree, have been out of the workforce for at least three consecutive years, have five years of professional experience, and be able to work on-site 20 hours each week.
“A lot of women left the workforce during the pandemic. We were not immune from that. We lost a lot of working parents," said Linda Matzigkeit, the Chief Administrative Officer of MomForce. “They couldn't find childcare. They just felt this calling to be home with their kids for any number of reasons.”
Matzigkeit said she founded MomForce with the idea of giving moms a way to ease back into a job after taking a break to raise their kids.
“We need women in the workforce,” she said. “And we need to create a path for them to onboard back in.”
Of the more than 100 women that have been through the program, Matzigkeit said half ended up getting jobs at Children’s. She said others found jobs at alternative companies, while some decided they still wanted to be stay-at-home moms.
“At the end, they say, ‘What have you learned?’" Matzigkeit said. “And a lot of them said, ‘My kids are really proud of me.’ The fact that their kids are proud of their moms almost brings tears to my eyes.”
Along with learning new skills and landing a new job, Hasson agreed that not only making her kids proud but also feeling like she was putting herself first made the 12 weeks of tough work worth it.
“I feel like more than a pile of laundry. I feel like more than just a chauffeur,” Hasson said. “I feel like I can give back.”
The applications are now open for the fall session of MomForce.
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ATHENS, Ga. — Editor's note: The video in this story is from a previous report.
Former University of Georgia linebacker Adam Anderson has been sentenced to a year in jail after he pleaded guilty to the sexual battery of two women.
11Alive obtained documents Monday from the Athens-Clarke County Superior Court which show Anderson negotiated his plea. The filing revealed he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of sexual battery. Anderson was previously indicted on two rape charges.
Now, he must turn himself in to the Clarke-County Jail by noon on Saturday, July 29, documents show.
The Athens-Clarke County Police Department initially launched an investigation surrounding Anderson in November 2021. A 21-year-old woman told authorities that Anderson had forced himself on her. He also previously faced another rape indictment out of Oconee County. Back in May, Anderson's attorneys asked to combine the two indictments. He was suspended from playing football while police investigated.
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ATLANTA — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it's funding $58 million to clean up lead in drinking water at schools. A large portion of that money is coming to Georgia as many kids in metro Atlanta head back to school next week.
This year, a study gave Georgia an "F" grade for protecting water quality in schools.
Bruno Pigott, EPA Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water, said the goal of the money is to keep children in Georgia safe.
“Lead is a very serious problem, especially for children. Learning and development is so important at this age," Pigott said.
Georgia will receive $2.3 million in funding over two years through the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN).
“The money from this grant program will, for the first time ever, be used not only to test for lead in schools but it will also be used to remove the sources of lead in schools and child care centers," Pigott said.
The money also provides schools with the tools to keep lead in check.
“It will also allow schools and child care centers to provide filters if they need be, and other things that can reduce lead exposure for children," Pigott said.
The EPA reports lead can lead to developmental and cognitive damage in children.
“We know and the science is clear, that there is no real safe level of lead and that it has an effect on children's ability to learn and grow and develop," Pigott said.
The EPA also released guidance to help local water utility companies identify where lead may exist.
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COVINGTON, Ga. — A business in Covington is left with a massive clean-up job after an SUV rammed into its storefront.
Covington Police Department officers arrested the driver Monday afternoon. Police said the driver was likely intoxicated when they crashed into Hester's Package Store. The liquor store is along Highway 81 of Avery Street NW next to a used car dealer.
An 11Alive viewer snapped a photo of the crash.
The driver bulldozed through the front of the store, driving over a cement parking block. The SUV came to a rest with its hood inside the store and its back tires on the first parking spot in the lot. The entrance of the business was not damaged in the crash, the photo shows.
Police said no one was hurt. The driver is now accused of driving under the influence and faces a DUI charge.
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CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — A man accused of shooting and killing a partygoer in Clayton County in 2019 will spend the next decade behind bars.
Court records show Jorge Beltran was sentenced Monday. He was found guilty of picking a fight at a quinceañera and fatally shooting 27-year-old Juan Perez Salazar on Nov. 17, 2019, according to a news release from the Clayton County District Attorney's Office.
Prosecutors said Beltran, who was 17 years old at the time, started a verbal fight with Perez Salazar. Evidence showed that Perez Salazar tried to keep from escalating the argument at the birthday party and was actually trying to break up a fight between Beltran and another person. Beltran continued the argument by pointing a gun at Perez Salazar's face, which he swatted away, investigators said. Beltran then punched Perez Salazar in the face and the two got into a fist fight.
As attendees of the quinceañera tried to break up the fight, Beltran pointed his gun again at Perez Salazar's face. Perez Salazar pushed it away a second time. For a third time, Beltran pointed his gun and aimed lower, shooting Perez Salazar in the lower chest area at close range. He died from his injury.
Surveillance video from the Oasis Event Center captured the entire incident, prosecutors said, making it possible to identify Beltran despite him running from the scene.
Beltran claimed he shot in self-defense. However, the jury returned a guilty verdict on July 14, according to the district attorney's office. Beltran was convicted of malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault, records show. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison and eight on probation.
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KENNESAW, Ga. — A situation involving a person barricaded inside of a home in Kennesaw Monday afternoon has been resolved, according to authorities.
Cobb County Police Department alongside officers from Kennesaw Police Department went to a home in the 4100 block of Kentmere Main. According to KPD, the suspect barricaded themselves inside and no one else was believed to be in the residence.
The home is near Legacy Park, specifically by the baseball field off Legacy Park Circle. Neighbors in the area might have noticed an increased police presence with officers on the scene.
Police didn't elaborate on how the situation concluded. 11Alive is waiting for additional details.
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DELAWARE COUNTY, Pa. — A Georgia man is accused of kidnapping and killing an 8-year-old girl in Pennsylvania nearly 50 years ago.
Delaware County District Attorney's Office has filed charges against David Zandstra, an 83-year-old man from Marietta. He is accused of 8-year-old Gretchen Harrington's disappearance on Aug. 15, 1975. Her body was found on Oct. 14. of that year.
Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer described Zandstra as "a monster," adding "he is every parents' worst nightmare."
Zandstra was charged with homicide, murder, kidnapping a minor, among other offenses.
"This heinous act left a family and community forever changed," Stollsteimer said in a news release.
At the time of the initial crime, officials said he served as a pastor at Trinity Christian Reformed Church, one of two the young girl attended. He was one of the adults responsible for taking children from one church to another as part of summer programming.
During a trip to Bible camp one summer, Harrington was offered a ride by Zandstra, according to authorities as he was a close family friend. They add that the Marietta man admitted to taking the girl to a secluded spot, performing sexual acts in front of her and beating her to death with his fists.
Investigators said for decades, he denied seeing the child the day she was allegedly abducted.
The investigation took a turn earlier this year when authorities interviewed someone who was close to Zandstra's family. She described details, which included a 1975 diary entry, that pointed to Zandstra's sexual misconduct with children, a news release from Stollsteimer's office said.
"This man is evil. He killed this poor 8-year-old girl he knew and who trusted him. And, then he acted as if he was a family friend, not only during her burial and the period after that, but for years," Stollsteimer said during the news conference on Monday.
1975 Pennsylvania cold case: Search for Gretchen Harrington
The family of Gretchen Harrington released a statement in the wake of Zandstra's arrest describing their daughter as someone who "exuded kindness to all and was sweet and gentle."
"The abduction and murder of Gretchen has forever altered our family and we miss her every single day. We are grateful for the continual pursuit of justice by law enforcement and we want to thank the Pennsylvania State Police for never stopping in their constant search for answers," the statement read in part. The family also asked for privacy as they wrap their heads around Zandtra's arrest. The full statement can be found at the bottom of this story.
Officials said Zandstra is currently in Georgia fighting extradition and being held without bond. Cobb County Jail records show Zandstra has been in custody for six days.
A DNA sample was collected from Zandstra and will be submitted to the CODIS system often used by law enforcement. It will be compared to open cases in Pennsylvania and across the country to see if Zandstra potentially assaulted any other children.
Anyone with additional information about Zandstra's activities while he was living in Texas and Georgia are asked to call the Pennsylvania State Police.
Watch Monday's news conference below:
Family of Gretchen Harrington statement
“With today's announcement of an arrest, we are extremely hopeful that the person who is responsible for the heinous crime that was committed against our Gretchen will be held accountable. It’s difficult to express the emotions that we are feeling as we take one step closer to justice. Gretchen was only 8 years-old when she was suddenly taken away from us on her way to church on Friday, August 15, 1975. If you met Gretchen, you were instantly her friend. She exuded kindness to all and was sweet and gentle. Even now, when people share their memories of her, the first thing they talk about is how amazing she was and still is...at just 8 years old, she had a lifelong impact on those around her. The abduction and murder of Gretchen has forever altered our family and we miss her every single day. We are grateful for the continual pursuit of justice by law enforcement and we want to thank the Pennsylvania State Police for never stopping in their constant search for answers. We would not be here today if it was not for them. As a family we ask for privacy at this time as we continue to digest this information. Thank you for your understanding, love, and continued support. It means the world to us.” – The Harrington Family
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HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — Steve Blizzard, one of the four victims killed a little more than a week ago in a Henry County mass shooting, will be remembered this week by friends and family.
Services include a viewing Monday night and funeral on Tuesday, both at the Haisten Funeral Home in Jackson.
According to an online obituary, 65-year-old Blizzard was born in Atlanta in 1957 and served in the U.S. Army from 1975-1979.
"He enjoyed travelling, woodworking, photography and music. Paw Paw Steve loved spending time with his grandkids and family. He worked for Henry County Board of Education for over ten years as a master locksmith," the obituary states.
The obituary notes he is survived by his three children, nine grandchildren, three brothers and his friend and former spouse.
He is to be interred at the Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery, in Milledgeville, according to the obituary.
Blizzard and three others - 66-year-old Ron Jeffers and husband and wife Scott Leavitt, 67, and Shirley Leavitt, 66 - were shot to death in the Dogwood Lakes subdivision on July 15.
A daylong manhunt for the suspect, Andre Longmore, ended with him dying in a shootout with police the following day.
Tom Hannegan and Donald Smith lived a house away from Blizzard.
"We had a really close relationship with Steve... because we were only two doors down from him. Waving at him when he comes home from work, he waves at us when he comes home from work. We saw him every day," Smith told 11Alive after the shooting.
Both Smith and Hannegan said Blizzard was a fixture in the community.
"[Blizzard and Jeffers] were good people," said Hannegan, who was also friends with Jeffers. "They cared about the community. They cared about their neighbors. They were just good people."
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ATLANTA — A budding saga that was playing out in lawsuits between The Gathering Spot and its acquirer, Greenwood, is being squashed. The two businesses announced their resolution in a joint statement on Monday in an Instagram post.
"Even though business disputes are common in corporate transactions, Greenwood and The Gathering Spot are pleased to put this issue to rest and move forward," the statement said.
Both companies have agreed on a settlement that "marks an end on friction" in their previous dispute, according to their statement. The details of the agreement have not been released.
“No one wins when the family feuds," said Ryan Glover, CEO of Greenwood, and Ryan Wilson, CEO of The Gathering Spot (TGS). "We apologize for distracting our communities over the last week as this became a topic of so much public discussion. As we work together to build for our community and customers, we will continue to hold ourselves to the highest standards."
Glover and Wilson's agreement comes after Wilson filed a lawsuit alleging Greenwood failed to pay a $5 million payment tied to TGS meeting a revenue target. Greenwood, in a previous court filing, denied those allegations.
Greenwood, a fintech company, bought TGS back in April. The two companies said that they want to continue to "uplift Black and minority communities." TGS in Atlanta has become known nationwide as a private networking club for Black and minority business owners.
“We are ready to finish what we started, in the same spirit that we began with and continue to build and grow our community,” said Wilson.
The statement also said that "The Gathering Spot will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary of Greenwood under the leadership of its co-founders, Ryan Wilson and TK Petersen." A previous Instagram post on the TGS page said Petersen would be moving on "to other endeavors" and the end of the month.
After settling, the businesses agreed to continue to foster "economic empowerment, inclusion and community engagement," the statement said.
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ATLANTA — Three people were rescued from the Chattahoochee River on Sunday, according to Atlanta Fire and Rescue.
Per a release, rescuers said they found two adults and a child on a flotation device.
At this time, there is very little additional information for why the three people needed to be rescued or how they got in that situation.
Firefighters simply said they "retrieved all victims without injuries."
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Spotted hyena is the newest species at Salina's Rolling Hills Zoo. What to know about Maxi
For the first time in zoo history, a spotted hyena has made its way to Salina's Rolling Hills Zoo.
Maxi was welcomed to the facility last week after making the trip from a zoo in Miami, Florida. Since she arrived, she has been enjoying her personal pond, jumping in and out and taking long dips in the summer heat.
Staff at Zoo Miami said Maxi is a charismatic animal. The zoo told Rolling Hills that she is everything they could ask for as an ambassador for her species, and that she could hopefully change some minds about hyenas.
"They're really a misunderstood species," said Brenda Gunder, Rolling Hills Zoo curator. "Maxi is a smart, inquisitive animal and looks to, in a sense, please those engaging with her. She's always interested in what you're doing, and she's calm with her keepers."
Maxi's journey to Rolling Hills
Maxi was born in October 2012 at the Pairi Daiza Zoo in Belgium. She moved to Miami in 2019.
As a member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Rolling Hills works with population managers that manage species across the network of AZA zoos. When Rolling Hills is in search for a new animal, it will work with officials from AZA to see what would be a good fit. Among other criteria, they look at zoo amenities and if they can provide good animal welfare for each species.
Housing for rare species can be a challenge. Because of this, Gunder said, there aren't a lot of hyenas in zoos. But through the AZA, Rolling Hills was identified as a good fit for Maxi.
"We are all super excited to have Maxi here," Gunder said. "She's an extraordinary hyena."
Maxi is an addition to 90 species and more than 400 animals in the park, from the smallest fish in the aquarium to the largest giraffes and rhinos.
"Because we want to introduce our guests to a variety of species from around the world, you never know what species we are going to bring to the zoo next," said Linda Henderson, development and marketing director at Rolling Hills. "This is all part of our mission of touching hearts, igniting passion and saving wildlife."
What to know about spotted hyenas
Spotted hyenas are commonly referred to as the "laughing hyenas" with more than 11 different vocalizations. The laughter vocalization is a series of high-pitched giggle-like sounds. Though it sounds like a giggle, the sound is generally made when the hyenas are threatened, under attack or frustrated.
Gunder said hyenas are often looked at in a negative light, as they are often portrayed in films as scruffy-looking tricksters out to hurt the "cuter animals." But Maxi is a good representation of their natural beauty, she said. Maxi is curious, smart and loves to engage in her training with keepers.
Rolling Hills Zoo's African painted dogs have often been mistaken for hyenas, but they are two vastly different species. Hyenas are more closely related to mongooses and cats. In the wild, hyenas are scavengers and will never pursue a kill unless desperate. Instead, they wait for other predatory animals to tire from a kill and scavenge from the carcass remains. Hyenas are competitive over their food and spend a lot of time fighting with each other.
"A lot of guests will come up and notice how beautiful Maxi is, really," Gunder said. "Bringing these different species in helps people understand what is out there in the wild."
Rolling Hills invites people to meet Maxi and learn more about her species, rare to zoos around the world. The zoo is located at 625 N. Hedville Road in Salina and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
Kendrick Calfee has been a reporter with the Salina Journal since 2022, primarily covering government and education. You can reach him at kcalfee@gannett.com or on Twitter @calfee_kc.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — The convicted shooter at Mansfield Timberview High School received his punishment on Monday, and the teacher he injured spoke out before the teenager headed to prison.
Timothy Simpkins was sentenced to 12 years in prison after the same jury found him guilty of attempted capital murder in the October 2021 shooting at Timberview.
Simpkins took the witness stand during his sentencing trial on Monday and became emotional during his testimony at the Tarrant County Courthouse in Fort Worth. His defense team decided to let him testify on his own behalf.
In October 2021, Simpkins shot and injured two students and a teacher.
Under cross-examination on Monday morning, Simpkins told the court he wanted the jury to sentence him to strict probation. Prosecutors asked jurors to give Simpkins the maximum punishment of life in prison.
"I am sorry for what I did," said Simpkins. "I am truly sorry. I understand what I did was wrong."
Simpkins ultimately learned his fate after jurors deliberated for several hours on Monday.
After Simpkins received his 12-year sentence, the teacher injured in the shooting, Calvin Pettit, spoke to the teenager in the courtroom before he headed to prison.
"Not a single person in this courtroom was happy to hear your sentence," Pettit said. "I prayed continuously that you don’t receive a life sentence in prison. Your life is valuable and you do deserve a second chance. But not right now."
"I sincerely appreciate your apology and I completely recognize how difficult it must be to admit that… But I’m not ready to accept your apology yet," the teacher continued. "For the pain and suffering you have inflicted upon the people I love, I’m not sure if I can forgive you."
During testimony last week, the English teacher told jurors that the shooting left him with post-traumatic stress and that he's now looking for a different career path from an educator.
"What I once hoped to be my lifelong career as an educator abruptly ended in a tragic and violent manner," Pettit told Simpkins.
After the sentencing, defense attorney Lesa Pamplin spoke with WFAA and shared her reaction to the jury's decision.
"Very pleased with it," Pamplin said. "I thought this case was overcharged, and I said that to the jury and I think they agreed."
Below is a recap of the three-day period of testimony before Simpkins was found guilty of attempted capital murder.
Timberview High School shooting trial background
Day 1
Simpkins' attorneys did not give an opening statement to the jury when the trial started on the morning of Monday, July 17. After prosecutors outlined their case during opening statements, they called their first witnesses from a long list of people who could possibly be called to testify in the case, which included Mrs. Altman, a Timberview High School English teacher.
Prosecutors used cellphone video as part of the evidence in the trial against Simpkins.
Altman told jurors that she decided to let student Zac Selby into the classroom despite him arriving late. She also shared that he had not been in class enough to complete a threat assessment evaluation on him. Altman told the court Selby immediately approached Simpkins in the classroom and that’s when the fight ensued, which eventually turned to shots being fired allegedly by Simpkins.
During the fight itself, Timberview coach Dean Boyd responded to Altman’s calls for help. When he arrived in her classroom, Boyd broke up the fight between Simpkins and Selby.
During Boyd's testimony, the assistant district attorney called him down from the witness stand to demonstrate for jurors the body language of Simpkins and then how he warned teachers and students.
Gunfire left Selby injured and one of their classmates grazed by a bullet.
Prosecutors also put Timberview English teacher Calvin Pettit on the stand to tell jurors about his gunshot wound. Pettit’s classroom is down the hallway from Altman. He also heard her calls for help.
One of the bullets struck Pettit, who went down immediately. He learned about his injury after regaining his composure.
Pettit also disclosed to the court that the shooting left him with post-traumatic stress, which has impacted his ability to enjoy his passion for teaching. Despite being rushed to the emergency room after the shooting and undergoing surgery, the bullet that struck him remains lodged in his shoulder for now.
Despite forgoing opening statements, Simpkins' attorneys made repeated objections to testimony from witnesses for the prosecution.
Monday’s testimony ended with statements from the FBI, which also responded to the shooting. The list of witnesses for the prosecution includes more than 40 local law enforcement personnel, 11 FBI personnel, and at least 40 civilians, which includes teachers and students from Timberview.
Day 2
On the second day of the trial, prosecutors showed jurors the dramatic video of the shooting inside Timberview. The video was difficult to watch and silenced the courtroom as it played.
According to prosecutors, the video shows Simpkins shooting Selby in a hallway after their fist fight.
Prosecution witnesses on day two included students and teachers like coach Jeremy Walker, who ran to an office where he found a frightened co-worker.
"I literally crawled on the floor, she was crying so I heard her. So, I just crawled to her and held hands and we cried together," Walker said.
Student Shaniya McNeely testified about getting grazed by a bullet while running for safety.
"When I was running, I felt a quick flash. It was just a really fast burn and that is when I stopped but a teacher kept telling me we have to go, we have to go," McNeely said.
The prosecution rested its case late Tuesday morning.
Before court resumed in the afternoon, Selby went before the judge. Defense attorneys accused Selby of intimidating a witness and making social posts.
Day 3
On the third day of the trial, the defense called one witness, a student who recorded the fight between Simpkins and Selby. Defense attorneys then rested their case.
The trial, however, hit an hours-long delay after defense attorneys challenged what deliberation instructions the judge should give the jury for the charges in this case.
The judge excluded the self-defense argument in the instructions, which means Simpkins' attorneys cannot claim self-defense nor mention it in their closing arguments.
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