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SEATTLE — Local educator Ray Opatowsky says Taylor Swift represents “joy and happiness” and more importantly, a new lease on life.
Ray says they’ve been a Swift fan for 17 years and feels like Swift is one of the few constants during a turbulent stretch of life.
Ray uses the Twitter handle @RaysunshineTV and the bio reflects some of the characteristics that make Ray shine.
“I’m a Trans Queer living in the PNW, raising a little Swiftie,” says Ray. They have a 4-year-old son who shares a passion for Swift's music but isn't quite old enough to appreciate what her songs did for the family unit.
Ray was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma during the pandemic and the timing added an additional layer of complication to an already intense chemotherapy plan.
“It was during COVID so I couldn’t have any visitors at all so it was lonely and isolating but Taylor’s music helped me get through it,” says Ray.
They point to a song Swift wrote for her mother for inspiration to endure.
“Taylor writes a song ‘Soon You’ll Get Better’ about her mom, who had cancer,” Ray says the positive energy and emotional lyrics gave them comfort during treatment.
“It was just me and Taylor for hours when I was sitting there getting treatment all alone,” says Ray.
Now in remission, Ray says going to see Swift in concert was a must, and thanking that star's parents was the goal.
“I just went to the floor area near VIP and had my sign with me when her mom noticed me,” they said.
Ray had a sign that said “I beat stage four cancer to be here!” and a friendship bracelet that said “Survivor.”
Andrea Swift traded bracelets with Ray and gave them a big hug. The moment was captured and is now circulating on social media.
“Her dad even came over and gave me some Taylor Swift guitar picks,” says Ray.
The photo of Ray holding the handmade sign was shared hundreds of times and has more than 7,000 likes. Ray says returning the love to Swift was powerful soul medicine and hopes more people in need will lean on the lyrics that helped during the toughest of times.
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TACOMA, Wash. — When Michelle Mood and her family moved into a home in South Tacoma three years ago, she thought they had found their forever home.
But then she learned that the city was planning to build a mega warehouse right behind her.
The City of Tacoma gave Bridge Point Tacoma LLC, part of Bridge Industrial, the green light to redevelop around 160 acres into a warehouse distribution center with about two-and-a-half million square feet of building space.
Mood says the city has not considered the environmental impact this project could have.
“I thought for sure they’d do an environmental statement, like hopefully they would in the north and the richer parts of Tacoma,” she said. “That has not been the case, so that’s been a real big disappointment.”
Today, the City Hearing Examiner began a multi-day development appeal to hear from environmental groups like Tacoma 350, who are calling on the city to change course.
However, the city’s website says a full Environmental Impact Statement isn’t needed to move forward, and Bridge Point Tacoma’s attorney, Courtney Kaylor, says the law doesn’t require one.
“This is not the forum for appellants to advance their policy objectives,” said Kaylor. “The City Council and the state and federal legislatures are where this discussion belongs.”
But Mood says this could be life-changing for South Tacoma residents.
According to the Tacoma Pierce County Health Department, the lifespan of people in South Tacoma is six years shorter than the average Pierce County resident, and experience the burden of air pollution and other environmental harms.
Mood says the environmental fallout from a mega-warehouse would only make things worse for the people living there.
“We are in the part of Tacoma that has the fewest number of white people, and it’s the poorest zip code with the shortest life expectancy,” Mood said. “This is an already suffering part of the city, I believe it has some of the worst health equity ratings and so at the very least one has to do due diligence and really check out the issues.”
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Since the four-year run (2017-2020) of what was once known as the NFL Pro Bowl, the structure of the weeklong event has changed drastically.
The NFL’s best players no longer play in a full-contact game. Now it’s all about having fun competing in skills challenges, obstacle courses, dodgeball, etc.
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Fortunately, for Orlando, the event is officially returning to City Beautiful.
Florida Citrus Sports CEO, Steve Hogan and NFL Vice President of Event Strategy, Matthew Shapiro made the announcement on Tuesday at a press conference at Camping World Stadium.
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The NFL Pro Bowl games will be played on Feb. 4, 2024.
Peyton and Eli Manning will return as head coaches of the AFC and NFC teams.
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Update: Two homes damaged in Cottonwood fire
Two homes were seriously damaged in a fire in Cottonwood on Tuesday afternoon.
The fire was reported at about 12:45 p.m. on Foothill Vista Drive just east of Interstate 5 and south of 1st Street. The initial report was that the house was "fully engulfed" in flames and that someone possibly was trapped in the house.
Cottonwood Fire Chief Bill Morgan said everyone was able to get out of the house.
An adjacent house was also damaged in the fire and both homes suffered serious damage. Morgan said the cause of the fire had not yet been determined.
Rosalva Campos, who lives across the street from where the fire burned, said she saw the fire start outside one of the homes. She and her family were concerned one man, who uses a wheelchair, may have been trapped in the house. But he got out safely, she said.
She said the scene became chaotic and some people went to work with garden hoses to try to stop the fire from spreading.
"It was it was terrible. It was really terrible when that happened," Campos said.
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Shasta Supervisors ignore objections, pass a 30-year agreement with the Redding Rancheria
Over the requests of the county’s top law enforcement officer, top firefighter and top prosecuting attorney to turn the deal down and go back to the negotiating table, Shasta supervisors approved a 30-year financial agreement with the Redding Rancheria for the tribe’s proposal to relocate its Win-River Resort & Casino.
The vote was 4-1 at Tuesday's board meeting. Supervisor Mary Rickert voted no.
Before the vote, Sheriff Michael Johnson said he just found out about the proposed agreement six days ago.
“I have not been part of the process, so it came as a shock for me to see such an agreement,” Johnson told supervisors.
Because of that, Johnson said he was scrambling to make sense of it and asked supervisors to hold off for a more equitable deal before calling what was on the table “fiscally irresponsible to citizens and the long-term viability of this county.”
Shasta County Fire Department Chief Sean O’Hara echoed Johnson's sentiments.
Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett said she became aware of the agreement Monday when she looked at the agenda. Since 2017, Bridgett said she had been involved in negotiations with county administration and members of the board about the casino project and its impact on law enforcement.
“We’ve done a real effort in putting together real hard numbers based on data and full-time positions that we would need, not how we are going to decide this $1,000 per call is going to be divvied up. What we had put together was very concrete and very real and had (we) been working on it very hard for a long time,” Bridgett said. “So, to see this new proposal for the very first time, which I’m hearing we’ve known about for months, is very disheartening to me as an elected official and a very big stakeholder in prosecuting the crime that would come out of (the casino). I think I should be involved. I was involved until the last six months or so,” Bridgett said to applause.
But Supervisor Kevin Crye, who was involved in the negotiations, said it was time to act on an agreement with the Rancheria because he was worried not doing so would potentially leave the county getting nothing from the tribe.
Crye noted more than once that right now the sheriff’s office and county fire do not get any money from the tribe for service calls to its current casino off Highway 273 south of Redding.
Under the agreement, the Rancheria, among other things:
- Will make a one-time payment of $1.6 million to the county, rather than pay annual property taxes, permit fees and other impact fees.
- Will make a one-time payment of $1 million to help fund law enforcement, then recurring annual payments of $1,000 per service call.
- Will 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.
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.
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The ultimate decision about whether the Rancheria goes forward with its relocation plans rests with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Both Johnson and O’Hara said they can’t budget based on money they will get per service call because it's an unknown from year to year.
Supervisors also cast aside concerns about locking the county into a 30-year financial commitment without the opportunity to revisit the agreement, saying the tribe would act in good faith and come back to the bargaining table should the deal go south financially for the county.
Supervisors were asked by many who spoke why Johnson and O’Hara were not brought into the conversation.
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“I would hope that you would take the time to talk to your sheriff. Mr. (Supervisor Tim) Garman, you were surprised that they didn’t talk to the sheriff. Why didn’t you approach the sheriff? Why didn’t you approach the Cal Fire guy and ask him about his opinion? Kevin, did you talk face-to-face with Sheriff Johnson about this?” retired superintendent of Shasta County schools Charlie Menoher said.
Said Crye: “We don’t like to micromanage. We have the CEO and we have county counsel.”
But in approving the agreement, supervisors waived the policy that says county counsel and the risk manager needs to review it first.
And minutes before the vote, acting county Counsel Matt McOmber cautioned supervisors.
“In the event of waiver of the county counsel review, and I can’t speak for risk management, that I cannot guarantee that there are not any legal insufficiencies that have not been resolved,” he said. “That is something that I want to make sure that the board's aware of in making this decision.”
Supervisor Patrick Jones asked McOmber for a worst-case scenario.
McOmber chose his words carefully because he wasn’t sure how many legal details supervisors wanted to discuss in a public meeting and not behind closed doors.
“I can say that term 'legal sufficiency' refers to things such as the validity and terms and conditions in a contract and whether they would be enforceable in a court of law,” McOmber said.
Ultimately, the board approved the contract.
Supervisors pass Second Amendment resolution
After two previous attempts failed, supervisors passed a Second Amendment resolution.
The vote was 4-0. Supervisor Mary Rickert went home sick after the morning session of Tuesday’s meeting and was not present for the vote.
Calling it a political statement and a message to Sacramento that the county isn’t going to back down, supporters of the resolution applauded after the vote.
Opponents of the resolution, many of whom said they support the Second Amendment, said it was redundant because supervisors have already taken an oath to support the Constitution.
The resolution was put together with help from the California Rifle & Pistol Association.
In voting for the resolution, Supervisors Crye and Garman reversed their position from February, when the measure failed to pass after a 2-2 vote that had Crye abstaining because he wanted to seek personal legal advice and asked for more time. Garman voted against the resolution.
But on Tuesday, Garman said his concerns in February that the resolution presented back then could put the county in legal jeopardy were gone.
“I don’t have to fear that our county will be sued at this point,” he said.
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MT. PLEASANT TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Two people were killed when their motorcycle crashed in Mt. Pleasant Township Tuesday.
According to the Westmoreland County coroner, the crash happened on Route 819 near Brinker Road.
A male and female were riding the motorcycle when they failed to negotiate a curve at an unknown rate of speed.
The coroner said the motorcycle overturned, slid across and off the road, went through a yard and into a house.
Neither were wearing helmets at the time of the crash, the coroner said.
No additional information was immediately available.
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SHALER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Emergency crews are at the scene of a house fire in Shaler Township.
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According to Allegheny County 911, units were called to the 1600 block of Burchfield Road at 9:03 p.m.
A viewer photo sent to Channel 11 shows flames at the intersection of Burchfield Road and Ponderosa Drive.
Our crew at the scene saw smoke filling the sky from a two-story house.
Dispatch said two people were taken to a local hospital for injuries sustained in the blaze. One is listed in critical condition.
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SOUTH FAYETTE TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The former treasurer of two South Fayette youth sports leagues is accused of improperly spending over $100,000 worth of league funding, much of it for personal use.
Lisa Howrylchak faces criminal charges including theft, forgery, and fraud.
Tonight on 11 at 11, what she’s accused of doing with the money.
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MT. OLIVER, Pa. — Police are investigating a triple shooting in Mt. Oliver.
According to Allegheny County 911, police and EMS units were called to the 300 block of Jacob Street at 9:07 p.m.
Allegheny County police said preliminary information indicated three juveniles, believed to be teenagers, were shot.
Allegheny County police later confirmed that first responders found one adult male and two juvenile males suffering from gunshot wounds at the scene.
The adult and one of the juveniles are listed in critical condition while the second juvenile is listed in stable condition.
Homicide detectives initiated an investigation.
Anyone with information concerning this incident is asked to call the County Police Tip Line 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.
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PATTERSON, Calif. — A man was killed in a crash on Interstate 5 near Patterson Tuesday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The crash happened just after noon on northbound I-5, just south of Davis Road. Officials say they were called to the area on reports of a Subaru and a tractor crashing into each other.
Officials say the Subaru, driven by a 26-year-old man from Arizona, was driving southbound I-5 when it crossed into the median, turned over and crossed into oncoming traffic before being hit by a tractor. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
The road was closed for approximately three hours before reopening once cleared.
The tractor driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Drugs and/or alcohol are not suspected to be the cause of the crash and it is under investigation.
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GRASS VALLEY, Calif. — As we move deeper into wildfire season, Cal Fire has a new tool in its arsenal — artificial intelligence, or AI. It all started with one drone and now the future of fighting fires is AI.
It's technology that will help Cal Fire respond to fires faster, safer and cheaper. It’s part of a new AI program being tested with Cal Fire’s Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit.
There are more than 1,000 high-definition cameras positioned across the state designed by UC San Diego’s Alert California to not only detect smoke and alert dispatchers, but to also determine how big of a threat the fire could be.
Nathan Menth, a fire captain with Grass Valley Emergency Command, oversees the program.
“What we do on a day-to-day basis is we utilize this program to assist us with within our unit's boundaries to locate anomalies in the sky or in the topography below indicating smoke or some type of dense cloud that may be smoke,” said Menth. “So even if zero 911 (calls) have come in, we can use the AI to build the incident and relay it to the first responders."
Then, they send in the drone to assess. Scott Eckman is the fire captain who oversees and flies the drones.
“Cost savings, the efficiency of them because they are readily available, we can get them here quickly and their availability to fly in the smoky mountainous terrain,” said Eckman.
The department plans to utilize a new drone this wildfire season. From the Aerial Ignition Academy that the Forest Service demonstrates, the drone can drop small ping pong balls injected with a chemical that will ignite upon landing. This will help Cal Fire create back fires more quickly.
“We’ll start a back fire so when the main fire gets to that line there is no more fuel left,” said Eckman. “Historically, we have troops on the ground creating that fire. With this we can do it much more efficiently and far more accurately."
The drones are also pivotal as Cal Fire relaunches its night flight program this year, flying helicopters over wildfires at night to get real-time updates on how the fire is growing rather than waiting until morning.
Drones will be able to fly when helicopters can’t and respond to small fires in the community when resources are tied up on large wildfires.
The program comes with a $24 million price tag. It’s being tested in six Cal Fire units across the state.
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FOLSOM, 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 Two, Chief Meteorologist Monica Woods looks at how the water is stored.
Reservoirs are the first line of water storage in California. There are around 1,500 yet there's still a need for more water most years.
"We built our water system in California principally around scarcity and that is because two out of three years, we don't have enough water," said Jeffrey Mount with the Public Policy Institute of California.
To address that scarcity, California built one of the most elaborate water conveyance systems in the world; capturing snowmelt runoff, storing it above and below ground, then moving it vast distances. Without it, California wouldn’t be the economic powerhouse it is today.
But that system is being pushed to meet multiple needs from water storage to flood control plus recreation, hydropower and the environment.
"We ask a lot of these reservoirs, but our reservoirs are principally built as water supply structures, and that's the way we operate them. Except in the winter, right? I mean, this is one of the things that everybody forgets that in the winter, let's take this wet year that we're having in 2023, we're going to end up with more water than we know what to do with in the fall. And I know what we're going to do is we're going to have to let that water go so we make room for potential floods next winter," said Mount.
It creates tension between flood managers and people wanting to see a full reservoir for water supply.
"So much of how that's operated is based on manuals and calendars that were put into place 30, 40, 50 years ago. Things change," said Daniel Bays.
He's a third-generation farmer in the Central Valley. He, like many other farmers, relies on water coming from Northern California.
"If you look back, we have cycles. We have wet cycles and dry cycles in the state and that's what a lot of the reservoirs and canal systems were built for was to help manage that," said Bays.
With a growing population, the water supply structures are starting to get stretched close to their breaking point.
Drew Lessard with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation that runs Folsom Dam says the concern is guiding managers to rethink reservoir operations.
"Where do we get to that point where we can ask no more of it? Probably we're getting close to that but we're still looking at ways that we can make and gain efficiency," he said.
Lessard says part of making Folsom more efficient will be expanding its capacity.
"Well, the Corps has a project right now and they already started a year or so ago on raise. The Corps has authorization to raise Folsom Dam three feet," said Lessard.
It'll make room for even more storage. Another project in the works is updating operation manuals. They will rely on improving forecasts, giving reservoir managers more certainty about how much water to let out and how much they can keep in.
"It's sort of the software. The hardware has been built, and now it's how do we work the software on how we route things," said Lessard.
With so many uses, Folsom is sometimes called "the little dam that could." Even beyond flood control and water supply, it's also the first responder when it comes to sending water south towards the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to help keep the water fresh and not salty.
This is quite possibly one of the biggest bones of contention for “water wasted to sea.”
"That seems to be the bigger issue that I see as usually, environmental groups aren't that eager to work with farmers or look at growers that are south of the Delta as big evil corporations. It's sad," said Bays.
He says farmers are constantly put into a corner and blamed for wasting water. He says there are still solutions out there.
"Everyone talks about getting another reservoir and I think a reservoir in the right place would be a good tool for us to use," he said.
An American River Basin study found an upstream, additional reservoir may help to address the climate whiplash with more rain than snow falling in the Sierra. One project being considered is the Alder Reservoir.
"It's strategically located so that when there's large rain events, we could be capturing that water directly. Or as the snow melts, we're also able to capture it too and relieve some of that operational pressure on Folsom," said Rebecca Guo with the El Dorado Water Agency.
It would help with water supply, reduce flood risk and provide cold water releases for certain fish species.
"The main benefit of it as we saw this past winter, Folsom was releasing water because there's just not enough storage capacity in Folsom, so this would be able to allow this water to be captured versus spilled where it wouldn't be able to be usable," said Guo.
The idea for the reservoir has been in the books since 1916 when a lot of agricultural growth was happening in El Dorado County. People needing water went looking upstream.
"This would be a part of a system of reservoirs along the South Fork of the American River. You know, the bottom part would be Folsom Reservoir and as you go upstream, there were up to 16 reservoirs planned at that time," said Ken Payne with the El Dorado Water Agency.
Alder Reservoir is the only one still being considered due to its location with a deep canyon perfect for storing cold water which would also help reduce evaporation loss.
"The system that we have in place really sort of began in the Gold Rush and is where we are today ... the conveyance systems that move water vast distances, water rights systems and environmental laws. I would not just say, 'Let's blow all that up,'" said Mount.
"Things change. Our demands change. Our desires as a state change and what we need changes. Crops change," said Bays.
WATCH PART ONE: Water Wasted | How does California measure its water supply?
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TUOLUMNE COUNTY, Calif. — A man's body was found in Lake Don Pedro more than a month after he went missing, according to the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office.
The man, identified as Jorge Arturo Cervantes, disappeared June 16 when he was at the lake and reportedly didn't have a lifejacket, according to a press release.
Multiple agencies and search and rescue teams were called to search for Cervantes, but ultimately the searches were unsuccessful at the time.
It is unclear where his body was found, but the sheriff's office's Marine Safety and Enforcement Unit, California Recovery Divers and Ralston Underwater Search and Recovery assisted in the recovery last week. No additional information is available at this time.
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STANISLAUS COUNTY, Calif. — A 64-year-old man drowned at Modesto Reservoir over the weekend.
The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to the drowning around 4:31 p.m. Saturday. The victim was identified as Eudoro Garcia, 64.
Deputies were told the 64-year-old was swimming by himself when he went underwater and didn't come back up. He was last seen about 40 yards from shore, roughly 40 minutes before the call for help went out to the sheriff's office.
Garcia was eventually found, but pronounced dead.
Garcia is the second person to drown in the county's reservoirs this month. 53-year-old Carlos Lopez drowned July 9 while visiting Woodward Reservoir with friends and family.
Officials said he was about 50 yards from shore when he began to struggle and go under the water. His body was found three hours later by the dive team.
According to the sheriff's office, neither swimmer was wearing life jackets when they drowned.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — After the first of three community forum on Sacramento police using military equipment saw low turnout, local leaders are encouraging more residents to come out to the next meeting Thursday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Hagginwood Community Center.
Residence are also encouraged to submit comments to the Military Equipment Use Survey.
Not only can residents give direct feedback to the police department, they can also review the proposed 2022/23 military equipment use policy—which Sacramento police are hoping to pass in September.
They released their first annual Military Equipment Use Report in June 2022, and later that year with approval from city officials, adopted a 2021/22 military equipment use policy.
Sacramento Community Police Review Commission Chair Graciela Castillo-Krings said this year they started working closer with the police department on increasing public input.
She said she's hopeful the community will get a bigger saying in the final 2022/23 military equipment use policy.
"I think the actual displeasure of the community was really heard and felt when the city council voted on the Rook earlier this year," Castillo-Krings told ABC10. "So the city council asked us to work in collaboration with the community, Sacramento Police Department and host community forums that would be engaging and make sure when the policy goes before council, there can actually be feedback from the community."
Community Police Review Commission member have publicly clashed with city officials over the previous military equipment use policy approval, but relations have since improved.
"The commission is really trying to have a space for us to have a dialogue where we can think about policies that are impacting all of us, it can be thoughtful, and can take into consideration some of the past mistakes so that we don't repeat them again," Castillo-Krings said.
"Look, I'm not saying we are going to get rid of military equipment. But I think what is important for us is before decisions are made, for them to be done in a transparent manner, for the community to be able to voice their decision not just in two minutes of public comment."
According to the draft 2022/23 military equipment use policy proposal, Sacramento police want to spend about $335,000 annually for the procurement of equipment.
The next community meeting Thursday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Hagginwood Community Center on 3271 Marysville Blvd. will include free food and childcare.
A third and final meeting will be hosted 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Hart Senior Center on 915 27th Street.
Meetings will start with opening remarks and a presentation by Sacramento police representatives—followed by a Q&A session moderated by a mediator referred by Sacramento State University.
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BOISE, Idaho — Planned Parenthood bought advertising space at six different billboard locations throughout the Treasure Valley, according to Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawai'i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky (PPGNHAIK) CEO Rebecca Gibron.
The billboards are a direct response to an increasing number of Idaho patients who are unsure if they can legally leave the Gem State for an abortion procedure. The billboards state it is legal, Gibron said.
"We've created this information campaign, to let Idahoans know where they can access safe and legal abortion outside of the state of Idaho," Gibron said. "We intend to have these up for a good deal of time, to help bring awareness for Idahoans who need access to abortion care, to bring awareness to where they can receive that care out of the state of Idaho."
Abortion is illegal in Idaho except for cases of rape with a police report, incest, or a doctor’s decision to prevent the death of the mother. However, the confusion seen by PPGNHAIK goes beyond the written law.
Attorney General Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) wrote a letter to Rep. Brent Crane (R-Nampa) where he expressed - on an official office letterhead - that a Idaho doctor referring a patient to receive an abortion outside Idaho's border is illegal. The AG's office later stated this letter was not an official opinion; Planned Parenthood is battling it court for fear of the interpretation contained in the letter could still be applied to state law at a future date.
"During our first hearing with the judge, his office refused to disavow the opinions contained in that letter, and I think that's significant," Gibron said. "It is absolutely having a chilling effect on providers, and it's really getting in the way of that relationship between the physician and their patient."
Doctors are hesitant to share out-of-state abortion options with patients for fear they could face legal consequences, according to Gibron.
Doctors who preform and illegal abortion in Idaho can be liable for a minimum of $20,000 in civil court per harmed party - including family members - along with two years in prison.
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BOISE, Idaho — Wish Granters has partnered with Lost Grove Brewing to host a summer fundraiser and the theme of the event is summer beach bash.
The organization was at the Lost Grove located on S. La Point St. in Boise and was decorated with summer themed banners and center pieces.
The event was held from 4 to 8 p.m. and there was live music from Blaze and Kelly, yard games like corn hole and beer pong and there was raffle prizes.
Wish Granters is hoping people can come out and support them so they can continue to fulfill wishes at no cost to the recipients and their families.
"We're only within Idaho at this point in time. So, we just really appreciate that support from our local community and businesses, and you just have no idea the impact that it has on these wish recipients and their family," said Olivia Kviklys, the Executive Director for Wish Granters. "So, every single bit of support we get, it really does impact these people so much and just know that you're making a difference in someone's life."
During the event, people could round up their tabs, buy certain pizzas on the menu and purchasing certain beers, like the Lt. Dan beer which will give Wish Granters $2 from every purchase.
Most of the proceeds from the event will go to the organization. Lost Grove is going a step further and donating 50 percent of proceeds from the entire day.
Lost Grove's other location in Hyde Park is also participating if you round up your tab on Tuesday, July 25 and will also donate proceeds from purchases of specific menu items for the rest of the month.
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BOISE, Idaho — The body of an Ontario man who drowned at Lucky Peak Reservoir Sunday has been found and recovered.
The Ada County Sheriff's Office says the 35-year-old was on a ski boat with several other people Sunday evening around 5 p.m., when he jumped into the water without a lifejacket, trying to help his kids who had fallen off a tube.
The sheriff's office says the man drowned.
Recovery crews were out on the water at 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning to search. They located the man's body around 11 a.m., very close to where he had gone into the water, about 300-400 yards from Turner Gulch.
"It's challenging and emotionally draining. We have deep sympathy for the family, and I can only imagine being in their spot and having to deal with a tragedy like this," Kevin Lowry, a patrol lieutenant with the Ada County Sheriff's Office said.
Crews were out Sunday evening after the man went missing. Boise Fire and the ACSO made multiple dives near where the man went into the water, but dive teams were limited on the depths they could go.
"Because it's over 100 feet, we are regulated by OSHA - anything over 100 feet we're not allowed to dive," Lt. Lowry said.
Law enforcement called in the help of Gene and Sandy Ralston, underwater search and recovery experts from Kuna who use a special deep water sonar.
"The system we use is housed in a heavy torpedo-shaped object that we tow 10 or 15 feet off the bottom," Gene Ralston said.
The sonar reflects sound waves off the bottom of the reservoir, and then processes that reflection into an image. Ralston says that most law enforcement agencies use a transducer that's mounted on the hull of their boat.
Crews were able to locate the man's body 174 feet underwater.
"One of the people on the boat happened to take a photo just moments before he drowned," Ralston said. "And we were able to get the GPS coordinates from that photo, and he's probably 150 feet away from those coordinates."
Marine deputies were on the scene minutes after emergency dispatch received the call Sunday evening.
"We were able to mark that spot, and those are the search points we started our search with - eyewitness marks and the marks we made when we got there," Lt. Lowry said.
The man's family was at Lucky Peak Reservoir when officials located the body.
"We have our Crisis Intervention Team that specialize in tragedy, mental health - those kinds of calls," Lt. Lowry said.
The man's body was recovered Tuesday afternoon around 2. Ralston used a remote operated vehicle (ROV) with two cameras and a scanning sonar device.
"It also has a grabbing device on it that has been redesigned to fully encircle a full-grown male's wrist or ankle," Ralston said.
Ralston recovered his first drowning victim from the Boise River in 1983. He's recovered 131 bodies over his decades of experience.
"People always, always have hope," Ralston said. "And even when you find them, it's like they passed away all over again...And no, it doesn't really get any easier. It gets more gratifying, though. We've got another family's loved one home - and that's what matters."
Ralston says that in addition to helping bring closure to families, a critical part of recovering a body is being able to obtain a death certificate, which can help families with financial affairs and life insurance.
The Ada County Sheriff's Office is stressing the importance of wearing a life jacket. Lucky Peak has loaner stations where you can borrow a life jacket for a day.
"The water is 68 degrees, it's very cold. You get that take-your-breath-away sensation when you enter the water, and sometimes that's too much for a person to overcome." Lt. Lowry said. "So, we really just want to deliver that message of safety - the PFDs, the life jackets and the importance of wearing those to avoid a tragedy like this."
The Ada County Coroner's Office has not yet identified the man.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A 15-year-old girl has been reported missing out of Daytona Beach on Tuesday, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
In a release, FDLE announced that Doris Romero, 15, was last seen near the 1000 block of North Libby Court.
Daytona Beach police told News 6 that she ran away a couple of nights prior, and police went out Tuesday night to perform some follow-up investigations to try to find her.
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FDLE describes Romero as being 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighing 140 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt, green sweatpants and prescription glasses, the release shows.
Anyone with information on Romero’s whereabouts is urged to contact FDLE or the Daytona Beach Police Department by calling 386-248-1777 or 911.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – An inspection of 475 food establishments in 37 Florida counties uncovered 68,689 packages of hemp extract products that targeted children, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture.
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson announced the sweep on Tuesday, saying the week-long investigation targeted the illegal sale of hemp extract products that are attractive to or marketed toward children.
“As part of our ongoing commitment to safeguarding Florida’s children and consumers, we launched ‘Operation Kandy Krush,’ Florida’s most extensive hemp inspection sweep ever,” Simpson said. “Today, we’re proud to announce the results, as we’ve uncovered nearly 70,000 hemp products — including euphoric, high-potency THC products — specifically designed to appeal to children, a blatant violation of Florida Law.”
We will not tolerate anyone who targets Florida’s children. Our team inspected more than 470 food establishments in 37 Florida counties. The operation uncovered 68,689 packages of hemp extract products we believe target children. https://t.co/cMVxQVlraR
— Wilton Simpson (@WiltonSimpson) July 25, 2023
According to the FDOA, individuals have historically used a loophole in Florida’s hemp statutes to manufacture and sell high-potency hemp products like delta-8 for consumption without restrictions, which includes minors.
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However, Simpson worked with Sen. Colleen Burton and Rep. Will Robinson during the 2023 Florida legislative session to reform Florida’s hemp laws, a release from FDOA states.
The changes include age requirements for the purchase of hemp products and prohibiting marketing strategies for those products that target children.
According to the law, the term “attractive to children” means that the products are manufactured in the shape of humans, cartoons or animals. Additionally, it could mean that the hemp extract products that could be mistaken for branded candy products by children.
No information was provided on where these products were sold or what legal repercussions may arise from the investigation.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A 32-year-old woman died in a two-car crash on Highway 211 on Sunday morning, Oregon State Police announced.
Police responded to the crash around 10:45 a.m. near Milepost 25 in Clackamas County. According to OSP, Kristina Copeland was operating a green 1992 Toyota Camry when she crossed the center line for an unknown reason and struck a blue 2004 Jeep Liberty, which was driven by Michelle Thornberg, 48.
Copeland was declared dead at the scene. Thornberg, as well as a girl passenger, were taken to OHSU for treatment, police said.
The highway was impacted for approximately four hours during the on-scene investigation.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Clark County deputy who lost a leg when a snow-covered tree fell onto his patrol car in February returned to full duty Tuesday.
On February 22, Deputy Drew Kennison was traveling on Washougal River Road when the upper portion of a large tree broke and fell onto his car where the windshield meets the hood.
Several other officers who traveled with Kennison at the time of impact said the collision caused his car to push off the roadway against another tree. Emergency workers had to use heavy tools to remove him.
Kennison was rushed to a trauma center, where his left leg was amputated.
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office said he was determined to return to “nothing less than a full return of duty.”
Kennison underwent 5 months of rehab and on Tuesday he returned to duty to the applause of his co-workers in the sheriff’s office.
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INDIANAPOLIS — One person is dead after a crash northwest of downtown Indianapolis.
It happened around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday on West 38th Street just west of Michigan Road.
A police department spokesperson said the crash involved a truck and a motorcycle. The driver of a truck was making a u-turn on West 38th Street near Newfields, failed to see the motorcycle and collided with it.
The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the truck was taken to a hospital for a blood draw, which is standard procedure in crashes involving fatality or serious bodily injury.
IMPD said impairment is not believed to have been a factor in the crash.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Human remains found buried in 1983 at an abandoned Indiana farm have been identified as those of a Chicago teenager who was a victim of the late serial killer Larry Eyler, authorities said Tuesday.
The remains, which were found near the remains of three young men Eyler also killed, are those of Keith Lavell Bibbs, who was 16 when he died, according to the Newton County Coroner’s Office and the DNA Doe Project.
(NOTE: The video in the player above is from a Dec. 2021 story on the identification of one of Larry Eyler's victims.)
Eyler confessed to at least 20 killings before dying in 1994 at an Illinois prison, where he was on death row for the 1984 murder of 15-year-old Danny Bridges of Chicago.
In 1990, Eyler confessed to killing a Black male in July 1983 at a Newton County farm and described that male as being in his late teens or early 20s, said Pam Lauritzen, spokeswoman for the DNA Doe Project, a nonprofit that works to identify cold case victims.
Bibbs, who was a Chicago resident, would have been 16 at the time of his death, she said.
The Newton County Coroner’s Office worked with the DNA Doe Project, Indiana State Police and the Identify Indiana Initiative to identify Bibbs nearly 40 years after his remains were discovered.
He is the last to be positively identified of the four victims found buried in shallow graves in October 1983 at the abandoned farm in Lake Village, about 60 miles southeast of Chicago. All four had been drugged and murdered by Eyler, according to his confessions.
Newton County Coroner Scott McCord said he was working Tuesday on paperwork needed to get Bibbs’ remains sent to his relatives for burial. He said the family is requesting privacy while they grieve.
“Everything’s done except for getting him back home,” he told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “It’s been a long road getting all those kids identified.”
The DNA Doe Project said in a news release that Bibbs’ DNA was “highly degraded” and investigators spent more than two years repeatedly trying to create “a workable DNA profile” to compare to databases used for forensic cases. In January, the nonprofit said a team of investigative genetic genealogists had finally made progress unraveling Bibbs’ “complex family tree,” leading to his identification.
Two of Eyler's four victims found buried at the farm were identified early in the investigation as Michael Bauer and John Bartlett. In April 2021, the coroner’s office announced that authorities had identified a third victim as John Ingram Brandenburg Jr. of Chicago, leaving only Bibbs' body unidentified at that time.
In December 2021, authorities announced that the body of another of Eyler’s victims found at a different site in rural northwestern Indiana had been identified as 19-year-old William Joseph Lewis of Peru, Indiana.
Lewis' body was also found in October 1983, but in a Jasper County field, about 70 miles southeast of Chicago. He was last seen alive in 1982 by his family at a friend’s funeral in Houston, Texas, officials said.
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INDIANAPOLIS — One person is in critical condition following a crash on the northwest side of Indianapolis.
The crash happened around 9:30 p.m. at West 38th Street and Georgetown Road. According to IMPD one of the drivers involved in the crash is in critical condition.
Photos of the scene shared by IMPD show a motorcycle at the scene and a vehicle that came to rest on its top.
There is no report on whether there were other injuries at this time.
This story will be updated as more details are confirmed.
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INDIANAPOLIS — We all know potholes can be a pain, but now there's concrete with a high-tech twist that might be able to help.
It was installed Tuesday on Indianapolis' south side, part of the Interstate 69 Finish Line Project. Purdue researchers call it "talking concrete."
The big benefits for construction goes beyond just preventing potholes.
On the new I-69, you can't see it, but contractors will be able to hear it, so to speak. New technology embedded right into the concrete that communicates with them, letting them know whether a highway is strong or whether it needs to be fixed.
It could be a game-changer for our highways, saving money, reducing potholes and speeding up construction projects so road closures don't have to last as long.
Under the rebar, six star-shaped sensors send messages in real time about the road's strength and stability.
"Those data will give the DOT engineers and the contractors a lot of information," said Luna Lu, professor of civil engineering at Purdue. "They can use that information to make data-driven decisions, when they should open the traffic, when they should be doing repairing."
Lu invented the technology. It's being tested here as part of a nationwide pilot program. Normally, testing a road's quality is a cumbersome process, one invented a century ago, taking samples of concrete with cylinders. With this tech, you just lay a sensor in the pavement.
"Boom, five seconds, that's it. And then, as engineer or contractors, we can get information from cloud-based and you can look at the information on your iPad, on your tablets, on your cell phone," Lu said.
In an instant. Is the highway strong enough to take traffic? Or is concrete getting weak and in need of repair?
"By using the sensor, we can detect the early, you know, sign of that pothole may be coming up before it becomes a major problem," said Lu.
The talking concrete is speaking to taxpayers, too. It's estimated these sensors could save 30% or more on road construction costs.
Purdue and INDOT plan to analyze data they get from the south side interchange over the next six months. The technology could then expand to other roads and highways.
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A construction worker died Tuesday after an incident involving a line boring machine, the Whitley County coroner said.
The worker’s identity, cause and manner of death will be released after the investigation, Coroner Scott Smith said in a news release.
The Whitley County Sheriff’s Department was called about 2:15 p.m. to the construction site in the 7000 block of East Indiana 14. The road was closed for about an hour and a half.
The coroner’s office and the sheriff’s department continue to investigate the death. The autopsy will be completed at the Northeast Indiana Forensic Center.
Assisting agencies include the Indiana State Police, the Jefferson and Washington township fire departments and Parkview emergency medical services.
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NEW HAVEN – A budget-related presentation got an East Allen County Schools board member to wonder Tuesday whether community members, such as businesses, would be willing to fund certain needs.
Ron Turpin, board secretary, posed the question as Chief Financial Officer Patrick McCann shared the district’s preliminary capital projects plan for the upcoming budget cycle.
The three-year schedule includes building repairs and remodels, equipment repairs and equipment purchases exceeding $10,000.
The district’s operations fund – which generates revenue through property and other taxes – pays for the projects. Adjustments are made according to need, budgetary restraint and alternative funding sources, such as the federal coronavirus emergency relief dollars, McCann said.
Projects proposed for 2024 include new carpeting, restroom updates, lighting improvements and door replacements at various schools.
Although the plan is available on the district’s website, Turpin suggested publicizing the needs because a community member might want to financially support a project.
“I think we need to talk long-term about how do we make this list more public and look for businesses and for philanthropists who want to help partner with our schools,” Turpin said.
He used the flagpole planned for Heritage Elementary School in 2025 as an example.
“That may be something, if I’m a community member, that’s really important to me, and I’m willing to donate $15,000 to have that,” Turpin said.
Tim Hines, board president, noted this topic – community and business involvement – has come up before, including during discussions about Grow Allen two weeks ago.
Grow Allen is a new nonprofit focused on local education and the four pillars of early learning, life skills, work-based learning and advocacy.
The group is seeking endorsements from Allen County’s school districts. EACS was the first to do so Tuesday with unanimous approval of a resolution indicating its support.
Hines reiterated what he said July 11 about the prospect of obtaining financial support from the private sector – people are willing to help.
“I think we need to find that mechanism that is the best way to start reaching out to not only our communities but our local businesses as well,” Hines said.
The capital projects plan is set for board approval in October along with the bus replacement plan and 2024 budget.
An entire budget review is scheduled for the Aug. 22 board meeting, and public hearings are planned for Sept. 19.
Meetings typically begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Administration Building, 1240 Indiana 930 East, New Haven.
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Mayor Tom Henry’s veto of a bill that would impose term limits upon his office’s appointees to local boards and commissions was sustained Tuesday after an override attempt by the Fort Wayne City Council failed to garner enough votes.
The veto was sustained in a bipartisan 5-4 vote, falling one vote short of the two-thirds majority required to override.
If approved, the bill would have limited mayoral appointees to four consecutive terms for one-year board positions, two for two- and three-year appointments and a single run for four-year roles. Under the proposal, board members could be reappointed after vacating their seat for one term, or if a replacement could not be found within 60 days. The bill was sponsored by Councilmen Glynn Hines, D-at large, and Jason Arp, R-4th.
Several council members who had previously supported the resolution voted Tuesday to uphold the veto.
Councilwoman Michelle Chambers, D-at large, was one member who initially supported the limits but changed her mind and supported Henry’s veto.
While explaining her vote, Chambers said she initially supported the bill because it aligns with her ideals and with a similar bill she sponsored to impose term limits upon City Council board appointees. That resolution was approved in June.
However, Chambers said she talked with attorneys who represent the city and the council, as well as a third-party municipal lawyer. She said enough concerns were raised over the bill’s effect on the separation of powers between the city’s executive and legislative branches.
“The different legal opinions raised valid concerns about the potential impact of this ordinance on the separation of powers and the council’s own appointing authority,” she said.
Chambers was joined by Council Members Tom Freistroffer, R-at large, Geoff Paddock, D-5th, and Sharon Tucker, D-6th, in upholding Henry’s veto.
Arp and Hines were joined by Councilmen Tom Didier, R-3rd, Paul Ensley, R-1st, and Russ Jehl, R-2nd, in support of the override.
Although she voted to uphold Henry’s veto, Chambers stressed that her commitment to reforming how appointments are made to Fort Wayne’s boards and commissions remains unchanged.
The bill initially proposed by Hines and Arp would have limited all mayoral board appointments to two consecutive terms, which matched Chambers’ original proposal for City Council appointments. Chambers’ resolution was changed via an amendment proposed by Didier. The resolution affecting mayoral appointees was later changed to match through an amendment Arp proposed.
Proponents of the bill argued that it leveled the playing field between the city’s legislative and executive branches by requiring the same set of rules for the council and the mayor’s office alike.
Hines said Tuesday that he co-sponsored the bill because there’s a need to “refresh” the city’s boards and commissions with talented residents.
Hines also noted that in the summer of 2020, local Black leaders provided Henry’s office with a list of 40 to 50 names of qualified, vetted people for consideration for board positions.
“Of course, the mayor was reluctant, and I don’t believe really acted on it to this date,” he said. “Therefore I thought that this bill that would encourage a turnover, … is very applicable to what we did with City Council, it encourages diversity, it encourages a lot of folks who have the ability and would like to serve on these boards and committees to do it.”
Although Ensley opposed term limits initially, he supported Tuesday’s veto override attempt. Ensley said he supported overriding the veto because “allowing the mayor to continue to appoint experienced and seasoned folks to these boards will put our appointees, who will by necessity be freshmen, at a disadvantage.”
Explaining his vote to override, Jehl said neither outcome was ideal, though he believed limiting the terms of mayoral appointments was the best option available.
However, Jehl also said should council members fail to override the veto, or if the courts struck down the resolution, council members should consider rolling back the resolution that imposed term limits for city council appointees in order to have “even rules for all of the appointments.”
In a statement late Tuesday, Henry described council’s vote to sustain his veto as a “win for the residents of our community.”
He said that a balance must be maintained between new and continuing board appointments, as “members who continue their service offer expertise, leadership and institutional knowledge.”
“I regularly review my board and commission appointments during and nearing the conclusion of members’ terms,” he said. “As the one given the responsibility to make such appointments, I take this duty seriously and will continue to do so.”
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The Northern Arizona football team was picked to finish eighth in the Big Sky Conference this season by the media and ninth by the teams' coaches in the preseason polls.
Lumberjacks defensive lineman Eloi Kwete was named to the preseason conference defensive team.
A 2022 All-Big Sky Second Team selection, Kwete played in and started all 11 games on the line last season.
He ranked sixth on the team with 50 total tackles, 19 of which were solo. At the end of the year, he ranked second in the conference with seven sacks and fourth with 11 tackles for loss. Kwete had a standout game in a win over Idaho State on Oct. 22, 2022, coming away with a career-high 10 tackles and two sacks.
In four seasons with the Lumberjacks, he's played in 33 games and has 133 total tackles, including 59 solo. Kwete has racked up 28 tackles for loss, resulting in 130 yards. He also has 15 career sacks, a forced fumble and two fumble recoveries.
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In the coaches' preseason poll, Northern Arizona had 44 total points. They were just edged by Portland State, which was ranked eighth with 45 points, but finished ahead of Northern Colorado, Cal Poly and Idaho State.
The media voted Northern Arizona to finish eighth with 178 total points, ahead of Portland State, Northern Colorado, Cal Poly and Idaho State.
Montana State was picked to finish first in both polls.
Northern Arizona officially opens fall camp on Aug. 2, exactly a month ahead of the season opener at the University of Arizona in Tucson on Sept. 2 at 7 p.m.
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WACO, Texas — Tragedy struck for Cenobio Banda and his family on the morning of July 16, when they lost their home in a fire caused by an electrical issue.
Just 12 hours later, the deadly apartment fire in Lacy Lakeview disrupted the lives of dozens of people.
The Banda family, including their one-month-old child, is now living in a hotel, receiving donations from all over to help get them back on their feet.
Despite the tremendous loss and a difficult future to navigate, the Banda family recognized that 31 other peoples lives changed that same day for similar reasons, and they decided to do something about it.
They reached out to the affected families in Lacy Lakeview and offered a helping hand by sharing donations they were receiving.
Cenobio Banda stated, "We don't have everything we need, but we can all have a little bit of something. We all took a big loss and, you know, their pain isn't smaller than mine. So, I mean, we can at least have a little bit of what we need."
While the Banda family works to share their donations, they continue to wait to hear back from their insurance company.
This untimely, tragic event has forced Cenobio Banda to pause his local business, PhatBoy Micheladas.
If you would like to learn where to donate and more, visit here.
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Trail cam confirms 'Lil' Jefe' the ocelot still roams the mountains of southeast Arizona
Arizona’s lone confirmed ocelot still roams the Huachuca Mountains more than a decade after his first sighting there, state wildlife officials said after viewing a hobbyist’s trail camera video shot on July 4.
The footage was retrieved from a camera that Vail resident Jason Miller set out in a canyon on the south side of the southeast Arizona range, and is the latest of more than 100 shots gathered of the same male ocelot since 2012, Arizona Game and Fish spokesman Mark Hart said.
The most recent prior confirmed sighting of this cat in the Huachucas was last October.
“That guy apparently has been a permanent resident all of his adult life,” Hart said, and is getting pretty aged for an ocelot.
The frequent sightings over the years leave little reason to think he ever went south to breed among Mexico’s ocelot population, Hart said. This particular ocelot was nicknamed “Lil’ Jefe” by Tucson schoolchildren in 2019, an echo of a larger spotted cat, a jaguar nicknamed "El Jefe" (in Spanish, “The Boss”), who previously roamed the Santa Rita and Whetstone ranges for at least a few years. That jaguar disappeared in 2015 but last year was confirmed to be living 100 miles to the south, in Sonora.
Lil’ Jefe, the ocelot, is identified by a “bootheel” shape on one of his spots, Hart said. He’s one of five ocelots — all of them males — confirmed to have roamed Arizona since 2009, and one of three seen in the Huachucas in that time.
Smaller than a bobcat and sporting a sleeker coat, the ocelot once roamed much of the Southwest but in recent years has been confirmed north of the U.S.-Mexico border only in Arizona and Texas. In Arizona, they are not known to have bred north of the border in recent decades, and may represent lone males dispersing to find their own territories.
Images help track the habits, behavior of the cat
It’s not Miller’s first time capturing this cat’s image. A trail cam he set in another Huachuca canyon two years ago also showed the small predator on the prowl. The latest shots, in two video snippets, show the ocelots walking past and sniffing at the area around a tree where a bear had come to rub its back.
When he checked the motion-activated camera’s small display screen, he said, he first thought he might have finally captured the jaguar image he has long sought. Once he realized it was an ocelot — and later heard it confirmed that it was the same one as before — he said he grew excited to get back out and gather more shots of him. He wants to learn the cat’s habits, same as he learned other animals’ behavior when he used to hunt.
“It’s so addicting,” Miller said. “When you hunt, you pull the trigger and it’s over. But with the camera you continue getting the same animals year after year. I fell in love with it.”
He said he hopes his images may help other Arizonans learn how unique their state’s wildlife is. He posts videos to a personal YouTube channel called @JasonMillerOutdoors, and has others showing bears, mountain lions, ringtails and other wild residents of southern Arizona’s Sky Islands mountain ranges.
“It’s just awesome to get something this rare," Miller said. "It’s the size of a house cat and it lives in this mountain range all by itself. I'm just fascinated.”
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Ocelot shows biodiversity of Arizona's Sky Islands
Game and Fish biologists appreciate the help in locating ocelots and jaguars, Hart said. “Every time there’s a spotted cat image or a video captured on trail cams, more trail cams go out,” he said. “As far as we’re concerned that’s been one of our best tools over the past decade.”
Knowing where ocelots and jaguars wander helps the state consider options for protecting them, he said, as both are federally listed endangered species.
The public’s videos also draw attention to the unique biodiversity in Arizona’s Sky Islands, the mountains that rise from desert to forest around southeastern Arizona and in Sonora, Hart said. Arizona is the only state with four wildcat species — jaguar, ocelot, mountain lion and bobcat — and the only place that has all four is in the state’s southeast corner.
Defenders of Wildlife, an organization that advocates for predator protections, responded to Miller’s video with a news release calling for more conservation of ocelot habitat in the U.S.
“Sightings of the rare ocelot are a powerful reminder of the biological significance of the Sky Islands region of Arizona. This special place faces threats such as industrial mining and impediments to wildlife movement like the border wall,” Sharon Wilcox, the group’s senior Texas representative, said in a written statement. “It’s critical that we do all we can to protect the remaining habitat of these 'border cats' like the ocelot and jaguar.”
The Center for Biological Diversity also said the video is only the latest piece of evidence that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should work to protect and recover ocelots in the state. That could start with finalizing a recovery plan that has been stalled for several years, said Michael Robinson, a senior conservation advocate.
“It’s great news to know that an ocelot or ocelots are still in the Huachucas,” Robinson said. “This is a reminder that ocelots were always part of the Southwest’s ecology.”
Brandon Loomis covers environmental and climate issues for The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. Reach him at brandon.loomis@arizonarepublic.com or follow on Twitter @brandonloomis.
Environmental coverage on azcentral.com and in The Arizona Republic is supported by a grant from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust. Follow The Republic environmental reporting team at environment.azcentral.com and @azcenvironment on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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Under a hot summer sun in Oak Cliff Tuesday evening, about two dozen kids got in one last sprint, another relay run and some final conditioning before hitting the road for a state meet.
Wednesday, they’ll leave for Brownsville where the Texas Amateur Athletic Federation Summer Games of Texas will be a first-of-a-kind experience for kids like 15-year-old Kenneth Henry.
"It's a lot of pressure. It makes me a little nervous, but I'm pretty sure I'll overcome it,” said Henry.
President of the Oak Cliff Missiles Alicia Finley said for some of her kids and teens, the trip will be their first time out of Dallas.
"It means that we're doing something right. You know, every year we get bigger. Every year we get to do more with the kids,” said Finley.
But broadening their horizons was just one of the reasons she helped found the track club in 2018. The other was to provide a safe haven for those ages four to 18.
"To me, it's a blessing in itself to be able to provide that alternative, to keep them out of the streets and away from the gun violence and other things,” she said.
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As Finley watches a summer uptick in violence from afar, she can't help but feel grateful for what her program has been able to offer those who’ve come through.
"Their determination is motivation for me to go stronger each year,” said Finley.
Still, four years in, she said the program relies on community support.
On the eve of their scheduled departure, the Missiles are about $3,000 shy of the funds it will take to comfortably transport and house 20 young runners for the five-day competition.
For those who've found community and their own strength out on this track, Finley holds onto faith what they need will come through to continue their mission this summer and the next.
"It was something for us to give back to the kids,” she said.
Finley has set up a GoFundMe to raise the rest of the money needed.
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BLACKSTONE, Va. – Virginia National Guard troops training at Fort Barfoot have a special relationship with the town of Blackstone just two miles away.
Fort Barfoot has more than 225 full-time state and federal employees who provide support to tenant and training units on approximately 41,000 acres.
At any moment in time, troops from all over the state can be training there. The places they eat, drink and shop is just down the road in Blackstone.
Clarence Hart who works at Fort Barfoot says the town wouldn’t be the same without the fort.
“I mean it definitely keeps this town afloat. You look at all the businesses up and down the street ... without the soldiers going in and out, very few of them would be successful. Especially the restaurants,” Hart said.
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James Harvey is a manager at The Brew House in Blackstone. There’s not a day that goes by without Harvey serving up something for someone serving our country.
“On a night-to-night basis, we’ll have 10-20 come sit, half a brigade,” Harvey said.
One group that recently trained at Fort Barfoot was Joint Task Force Cardinal.
The group is made up of 110 soldiers from all over the state including some from Danville and Lynchburg. Governor Glenn Youngkin recently deployed troops to Texas to help with the border crisis.
10 News Anchor John Carlin has spent his week down at the border embedding himself with the troops.
It’s pretty common for people in Blackstone to have to say goodbye to troops before deployment.
“It is definitely difficult,” Hart said. “You form all these bonds with people and they’re just in and out in a flash. It’s always awesome when men and women come through here to train. You get to see [them] interacting with the public and just be a part of the community.”
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SALEM, Va. – After months of contract negotiations, UPS and Teamsters have finally come to a tentative contract agreement.
The deal includes raises for both full-time and part-time workers and narrowly avoids a potential strike that could have started next week.
The agreement is worth $30 billion, according to Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien.
Existing part-time workers will get a raise to at least $21 an hour if workers approve the new contract, the union said.
Current workers will get $2.75 more an hour this year and $7.50 an hour more during the five-year contract.
Workers still need to ratify the tentative deal. Teamsters-represented UPS employees voted to authorize a strike after July 31 if the two sides didn’t reach an agreement.
Teamsters Local 171 represent UPS workers from Roanoke, Dublin, and Lynchburg. Vice-President of the group, Scott Barry, says this deal is about things much bigger than just a new contract.
“When you actually are a part of doing something that’s life-changing to people, it’s big. It’s big for the whole labor union across the country. This is why we do this,” Barry said.
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ROANOKE, Va. – Local youth volunteers are sponsoring a clothing drive at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Experts say patients who are admitted often show up in damaged clothes, so volunteers are collecting sweatpants and pajama bottoms to help make patients as comfortable as possible.
We’re told that having clothes ready in the Carilion Closet for patients as they leave can be beneficial.
“A lot of people come into the hospital and they don’t have everything they need, it’s very unexpected so we are here to provide things like sweatpants and shirts if they come and they don’t have what they need and provide some comfort for them,” Claire Glover, rising senior volunteer said.
Since getting its first donations in 2016, the Carilion Closet has given away nearly 4,000 articles of clothing.
You can take clothes to Carilion Children’s Tanglewood location at the side entrance all week during the drive.
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PINE BLUFF, Ark. — Mayor Shirley Washington wants to address a significant concern before Pine Bluff expands its downtown area — train noise.
Trains pass through the city's heart, and officials wonder if a quieter train would make downtown more attractive.
"We are doing that because our goal is to make Pine Bluff's downtown area a more entertaining district," Washington said.
Since May, a committee formed by Washington has been discussing how to make Pine Bluff streets quieter when trains roll through.
They're evaluating all their options, including a silent horn.
"We know it's impossible to have a completely silent area," Washington said. "We are exploring how we can make it a quieter zone."
However, for some people, noise isn't the primary concern regarding the trains.
Jefferson County Election Commission Chairman Mike Adam said the rumbling of the trains through downtown had affected the foundation of the building.
"If you look out that way, you can see there's another hole, that's brick, just fallen out," Adam said.
According to Adam, the building is old with poor maintenance, creating a dangerous situation.
While the Jefferson County judge and the quorum court are responsible for the maintenance of the building, Washington hopes to help solve some of these issues in the future.
In addition, Washington wants to address safety concerns around the train tracks by possibly putting up barriers and more lighting.
The Jefferson County Election Commission met Tuesday night to discuss the safety of the building.
They are looking into repairing the building or possibly relocating.
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Two young men were injured in two shootings that occurred within two miles of each other and ten minutes apart in Philadelphia’s Brewerytown and Strawberry Mansion neighborhoods Tuesday night.
The first shooting occurred on 33rd Street and Poplar Drive at 9:07 p.m., police said. A 22-year-old man was shot once in the back and once in the neck. He was taken to the hospital where he is listed in critical condition.
Less than ten minutes later at 9:17 p.m., another 22-year-old man was shot once in the left calf on 29th and Cumberland streets, police said. He was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
No arrests have been made and no weapons have been recovered in either shooting.
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A driver is recovering after a SEPTA bus jumped a curb and hit a wall near 15th and Walnut Streets in Center City on Tuesday night.
The driver of the bus is hurt with an injury to her arm and in stable condition, SEPTA officials said. There were no passengers on board when the crash happened.
SEPTA's System Safety Division is investigating the crash, officials said.
Some bus routes are now being re-routed around the area.
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Tuesday's incident is one of four crashes involving SEPTA vehicles within the span of four days.
On Monday, July 24, seven people were hurt after two SEPTA trolleys collided in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, according to SEPTA officials.
In another incident, a SEPTA bus crashed into a pole in Philadelphia on Sunday night, SEPTA officials told NBC10. Four people were hurt.
A 72-year-old woman was killed and 14 others were injured when a SEPTA bus backed into another bus in North Philadelphia on Friday, July 21.
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BALTIMORE — Kids at the Ronald McDonald House gathered to meet the new K-9 puppies they named for the Baltimore City Police Department.
“We’ve been around for 41 years and we never ever had a puppy naming ceremony, so it's history tonight at the Ronald McDonald House," said Sandy Pegnotti-Mayhew, CEO of Ronald McDonald House.
The puppies, whose names are Riley and Nova, are the newest additions to the department and are still in training to become full-time police dogs.
“They’re both 16 months old, they have already been certified for EOD, which means explosives and guns; they are one of the youngest two puppies in the country that have been trained that quickly," said Acting Police Commissioner Richard Worley.
The puppies also got custom collars with their new names on them.
Pegnotti-Mayhew says it's important for the house to give the kids exciting opportunities like this and to give them a sense of a normal life.
“They have got enough to deal with on their hearts and their minds at the hospital with the treatments and everything going on, we try to do all the things that bring joy and life and something happy," she said.
Worley says this partnership also means a lot for the K-9 officers.
“It helps to build the community trust in the police department, it helps the department grow, and it makes not only the children and families feel good but also makes our officers feel good; you see how many officers are here now," Worley said.
“Things like this, people may think, 'Oh, its a 15-minute ceremony,' and they may think that it's just a small thing, but it's actually a big thing," Pegnotti-Mayhew said.
With the two new puppies, the Baltimore City K-9 Unit now has 19 police dogs in service.
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PATTERSON, Calif. — A man was killed in a crash on Interstate 5 near Patterson Tuesday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The crash happened just after noon on northbound I-5, just south of Davis Road. Officials say they were called to the area on reports of a Subaru and a tractor crashing into each other.
Officials say the Subaru, driven by a 26-year-old man from Arizona, was driving southbound I-5 when it crossed into the median, turned over and crossed into oncoming traffic before being hit by a tractor. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
The road was closed for approximately three hours before reopening once cleared.
The tractor driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Drugs and/or alcohol are not suspected to be the cause of the crash and it is under investigation.
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Lincoln Public Schools officials expect busing delays to continue in the upcoming school year due to the ongoing driver shortage that forced the district to consolidate some routes last fall.
LPS is currently 30 drivers short of the ideal staffing number of 150 and 11 drivers short of its current consolidated route plan, Liz Standish, associate superintendent of business affairs, told the Lincoln Board of Education on Tuesday during a presentation on LPS’s annual transportation plan.
And that ongoing dearth of drivers is expected to lead to ride times for some students exceeding an hour, and in some cases, and hour and a half, Standish said, similar to delays last school year when the district consolidated 156 routes into 124. There are 131 routes proposed for the 2023-2024 school year, which begins Aug. 14.
“You could have that circumstance this next fall in the district where the rides are quite lengthy,” Standish said. “We are really doing the best we can with the staff we have.”
The delays are necessary, Standish said, because the “very tough” alternative is “double routing,” where a driver is asked to pick up another route after their first one, which leads to even lengthier delays for some.
“So to really try to get students in school on time, so they can be in class learning, we do increase the ride times when we have to,” she said.
The school bus driver shortage has placed districts across the country in tough positions, prompting officials to cut routes and dole out raises to drivers and transportation paras. Last December, Omaha Public Schools eliminated buses for 3,000 students, leading the district to later contract with an outside vendor to supplement its fleet.
LPS, which gave midyear raises to transportation employees during the 2021-2022 school year in an attempt to attract candidates, also contracts with an outside vendor — First Student — which supplied 11 drivers last year and is set to send eight this year. The district’s contract with First Student allows for up to 20 outside drivers, which are costlier than in-house ones.
The district eventually wants to build up to 150 routes as staffing allows, Standish said.
The transportation plan presented Tuesday also outlined nearly $775,000 in budget increases for the upcoming school year to cover rising fuel costs and new routes at Standing Bear High School and Lakeview, Adams, Rousseau, Everett and Meadow Lane elementary schools.
Route assignments are expected to be determined next week, with communication going out to families about their routes to follow. Standish said routes stay pretty consistent year to year.
“It’s not a revamp every year.”
The board will vote on the plan at its next meeting Aug. 8.
Board President Lanny Boswell and board members Don Mayhew and Barb Baier were excused from Tuesday’s meeting.
Photos: Thousands of LPS fifth-graders on hand for Saltdogs game
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'TIME' reports that the United States surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, has called for "immediate action" to shield the mental health of kids and adolescents on social media.
Lincoln Public Schools plans to enforce new cellphone rules for students this upcoming school year that require phones be kept off and out of sight during class and outline disciplinary action if those rules aren't followed.
Superintendent Paul Gausman announced the new protocols — as well as a new digital hall pass system in high schools — at Tuesday's Lincoln Board of Education meeting, saying the use of phones and social media is contributing to a "mental health crisis for our teenagers."
"Experts agree that children and teens need clear-cut rules and limitations when it comes to using digital devices and existing on social media platforms," Gausman said. "Providing a consistent personal electronic device plan across LPS gives our teachers and administrators the tools that they need and it gives our students a clear understanding of our expectations of them and the consequences of them not following those expectations."
The new rules, which will apply to all personal electronic devices, vary across the three building levels.
* In elementary schools, the expectation remains that if a student has a phone, it is turned off and kept in their backpack during the school day.
* In middle schools, devices must be powered off and out of sight at all times, including during lunch and passing periods, between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.
* High school students must power off phones and keep them away during class, but can use them before and after school, between periods and during lunch.
If a student uses their phone during class, staff will first ask the student to put it away in a designated storage area in the classroom, according to the new protocols. If the student does not comply, the device will be taken to the main office for the rest of the day. As a last step, students will be removed from the classroom if they continue to not comply.
Middle and high school students are allowed to wear smartwatches, but cannot use them for communication purposes, the rules state. Teachers may still also allow phones for instructional purposes.
"Students will still have the ability to communicate with families in any crisis situation," Gausman said. "We simply ask students to turn off electronic devices and put them away during instructional time. This will limit distractions and help them focus on their important task of learning.
Students who need to contact parents for emergency reasons may request to use a phone in the school office. Likewise, parents trying to reach their child during school hours may contact the office.
"Remember when we were in school? If our family needed to get an important message to us during the school day, they would contact the school office, and that message would be relayed to us as students," Gausman said. "That is still the case. It has become clear that cellphones have become a distraction in the learning environment, and implementing these new rules will help maximize instructional time, increase in-person communication and enhance safety for all."
In addition to the phone parameters, LPS is also rolling out digital hall passes in its eight high schools as a way to track missed instructional time and limit out-of-class behavioral issues. The new system will be accessed via students' Chromebooks, and each student will be allowed three passes per day to allow them to visit the restroom, library, office, nurse, counselor or other classrooms.
Teachers and the health office may grant additional passes and students are allowed to leave in case of an emergency, such as a medical episode. If a student doesn't have their Chromebook, a staff member can create a digital pass. Paper passes may also be used.
Electronic hall passes were piloted during summer school based on systems already in place at other Nebraska districts, while the phone rules were tested out at two high schools last year.
The protocols, which do not require board approval, were also among recommendations Gausman, whose is entering his second year as superintendent, outlined in an end-of-year transition report to the board in April.
The first day of school is Aug. 14.
How to take a break from social media
Be easy on yourself and ask for help about social media use
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Use your phone's screen-time tracking feature and limit social media use
Physically distance yourself from your phone and apps
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PORTLAND, Ore. — A man surrounded by his homeless friends lay on the sidewalk off Northwest 5th and Davis in Old Town. He had just overdosed on opioids and Portland firefighters were helping to revive him while trying to talk him into going to the hospital. It was 4 p.m. on a Monday. The scene was heavy, but one these firefighters now see every day.
“It's hard to see people in that state,” said Portland paramedic firefighter David Friedericks. He’s been with Portland Fire & Rescue for 13 years. For the last five he’s worked at Fire Station 1 downtown, the busiest fire house in the city — especially when it comes to overdoses. “At this point I’m kind of calloused but we just go on these calls, and they become routine. It used to be kind of a big deal to go on an overdose.”
Not anymore. In June alone, firefighters from Station 1 responded to 300 overdoses.
Portland police data shows that back in 2020 nearly 90 people died from overdoses. The number jumped to 135 in 2021, then to 159 in all of 2022. So far this year there have been 151 deaths, all in less than seven months. Police expect that number to be around 300 by year's end.
Portland firefighters are responding to more overdoses than fires — and when they do respond to a fire, it’s often-homeless camp related. When a KGW crew was riding along with Station 1 firefighters, three OD calls dropped in a matter of 25 seconds. They headed to one under a bridge in Southwest Portland.
“He hit some strong fetty and he just fell out and he was grey, turning grey, and his eyes were rolling back in his head. We just narcaned him and he came back,” said a drug user whose friend had just overdosed.
By "fetty," she meant fentanyl. Before KGW got there, his friends were able to revive him with Narcan, an opioid overdose reversal medication.
“It's very traumatic, traumatizing for her. I don't really know how I got here, necessarily, other than my poor choices,” said the man who had just overdosed on fentanyl.
Like the man in Old Town, he didn't want to go to the hospital.
“I obviously made a mistake,” he said.
This wasn't his first overdose. But since he's alive and coherent, there's nothing else first responders can do. So, everyone just moves on.
“I just need to kind of reset back into reality here a little bit if I can,” the man recovering from the overdose said.
Not long after that call, two more OD calls came in. The fire crew headed to one off Northwest Naito under the Steele Bridge, in a notorious homeless camp called The Pit.
“My friend just overdosed on fentanyl and uh, yeah, he literally died right here ... he was purple, we had to give him CPR, Narcan him. I literally had to breathe into him until I felt him come back to life,” said one drug user, rubbing the back of her friend who had just overdosed.
Friedericks asked the man three questions and made sure someone would stay with him before moving on.
“He's been through this before, there's no need for him to go to the hospital when he's alright. There's nothing, they can do for him there that I can't do right here,” the man's friend said.
It’s rare for crews to show up to an overdose where Narcan hasn't already been given. They fear the accessibility of Narcan gives drug users a false sense of security and in some ways could be making the crisis worse, even though it saves lives.
“Their heart stops working and everything shuts down, their brain stops working — and without Narcan, they'll die,” Friedericks said.
“It's like watching a slow-motion train wreck where you're not able to help stop the problem and it just continues to happen again and again,” added firefighter John Mountz.
Each time they respond to what has become an endless, exhausting routine.
“We're beating our head against a wall and the numbers that we're dealing with are unsustainable,” Friedericks said.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Many residents in Wichita got texts, phone calls and emails Tuesday from Sedgwick County’s Civic Ready Alerts.
“I would give this a good grade. Probably at least an A-minus,” said Sedgwick County Emergency Management Ops Manager Cody Charvat.
Charvat says this is the first big test for the system since it went online earlier in the year and was expanded on May 1.
You can get Civic Ready Alerts by signing up here. Alerts can also be sent even if you are not signed up.
“Multiple ways that I can draw an area on the map of Wichita Sedgwick county,” said Charvat. “It will tell me how many public users have signed up within that area… It will capture any published phone number it, can find, whether that’s white pages, yellow pages, published online as a business contact number.”
Charvat can draw a polygon on a map and send out alerts to anyone in case of an emergency when the public needs to be informed.
KSN asked if the system could also be used to alert people when there is a shooting, like the situation recently in Old Town where multiple people were shot.
“It has the potential for that absolutely,” said Charvat. “If it’s an active shooter in an area, those things are over so fast it would probably be done by the time we could get the alert sent out.”
But Charvat says the alerts can be sent out in a matter of a couple of minutes once police or fire have requested the alert to be sent to residents located in a certain area. It’s just a matter of drawing a map on the system, and the calls and emails will be on the way.
“Like we had today, like a standoff situation where we want people to avoid the area or shelter in place if they are already there, then absolutely, we could use it in a situation like that in Old Town or in any part of the city.”
The county will still use the alert system it has always relied on to inform the public of big events like the Andover tornado or other instances. But the new system is considered a success with the technology now going out to phones in any chosen area.
“It’s ever-changing. You know this was the first time we used in this capacity,” said Charvat. “And we will learn some things from this, and we’ll be even better the next time we have to use it.”
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The owners of Splash Aqua Park ICT plan to reopen Friday after they were forced to close this week when someone stabbed holes into the facility’s inflatable obstacle course Saturday night.
The incident caused an estimated $85,000 in damage, but the park will not be shutting down completely anytime soon, according to the couple operating the park.
“For a long time, we didn’t think that we were gonna even be able to operate for the rest of the season,” said Stephen Hager, one of Splash Aqua Park ICT’s owners.
The incident was the latest in a string of break-ins at the location.
In early July, a group of teens broke into the park and the shaved ice stand in front of the building.
A few weeks before that, they had broken into the shaved ice stand in a separate incident.
“Earlier this summer, they [vandals] came through, and they stole the cameras, stuff off the building,” Hager said.
Because the cameras were stolen, there is no security footage of Saturday’s incident.
“I mean, it was just malicious,” Hager said.
Hager and his wife, Ashton, plan to clean up the destroyed inflatables Thursday before reopening the undamaged half of the park Friday.
Tickets will be half-priced for the rest of the season.
“In 2024, we’re gonna have a full operation going again and continue to build on the support we’ve received,” Stephen said.
The Hagers say they’re less worried about break-ins happening next summer.
A local security business moving into the lot plans to add more surveillance to the area.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A group of book sellers and publishers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block a new Texas book ratings law they say could ban such classics “Romeo and Juliet” and “Of Mice and Men” from state public school classrooms and libraries over sexual content.
The law is set to take effect Sept. 1. It would require stores to evaluate and rate books they sell or have sold to schools in the past for such content. Vendors who don't comply would be barred from doing business with schools.
The lawsuit argues the law is unconstitutionally vague, a violation of free speech rights and an undue burden on booksellers. It seeks to block the law before it takes effect.
The measure was signed into law by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, one of several moves around the country in conservative states to ban or regulate reading material. A federal judge in Arkansas held a hearing Tuesday in a lawsuit seeking to block a law in that state that would subject librarians and booksellers to criminal charges if they provide “harmful” materials to minors.
When he signed the Texas bill into law, Abbott praised the measure as one that "gets that trash out of our schools.”
Plaintiffs in the Texas case include bookstores BookPeople in Austin and Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, the American Booksellers Association, the Association of American Publishers, the Authors Guild, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
Those groups say the law places too heavy a burden on book sellers to rate thousands upon thousands of titles sold in the past and new ones published every year.
“Booksellers should not be put in the position of broadly determining what best serves all Texan communities,” said Charley Rejsek, chief executive officer of BookPeople. “Each community is individual and has different needs. Setting local guidelines is not the government’s job either. It is the local librarian’s and teacher’s job.
Under the Texas law, “sexually relevant” material that describes or portrays sex but is part of the required school curriculum could be checked out with a parent’s permission. A “sexually relevant” rating could cover any sexual relations, extending to health books, historical works, encyclopedias, dictionaries and religious texts, the lawsuit said.
A book would be rated “sexually explicit” if the material is deemed offensive and not part of the required curriculum. Those books would be removed from school bookshelves.
Critics of the Texas bill predicted when it was signed into law that the new standards would mostly likely be used to target materials dealing with LGBTQ+ subject matter.
“We all want our kids to be accepted, embraced, and able to see themselves and their families in public school curriculums and books," said Val Benavidez, executive director of the Texas Freedom Network.
State officials would review vendors’ ratings and can request a change if they consider it incorrect. School districts and charter schools would be banned from contracting with book sellers who refuse to comply.
State Rep. Jared Patterson, one of the Republican authors of the bill, said he's been expecting the lawsuit but believes the law will be upheld in court.
“I fully recognize the far left will do anything to maintain their ability to sexualize our children,” Patterson said.
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LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — A man is in the hospital after a crash involving a bear in Luzerne County.
Troopers say a motorcyclist was traveling along I-81 in Rice Township near Dorrance around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday when a bear entered the roadway from nearby woods, colliding with the driver.
The driver was taken to the hospital to be treated for serious injuries after the crash in Luzerne County.
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SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY, Pa. — After a car accident took away his ability to walk, for more than 20 years Scott Dibble of Susquehanna County has never let his paralysis stop him from doing what he loves.
"That was November 1996, I got out of the hospital in January 1997, and as soon as my back had healed up, I was back doing all the things I should've been doing at that age or as close as I could be to it," explained Scott Dibble, Susquehanna.
After years of giving lessons for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, Dibble was named as the new 'Hunter and Trapper Educator of the Year' at both the regional and state level.
"Helping to improve the courses and make them better make them more accessible for more people to get involved, that's just what is it I was doing, and I didn't expect to be recognized for it because that's just what you're supposed to do," said Dibble.
The achievement comes after years of finding ways to make his disability and love of hunting work together.
From the early days of his father driving him out into the woods before anyone else or building custom equipment to get through rough terrain, Dibble did it, all to educate himself and, eventually, Pennsylvania's future outdoorsmen.
"When I was able to take it myself and to become an instructor, I jumped at the chance; because of that point, the other two instructors who would work with my father moved on to other things," added Dibble.
Dibble says his new recognition is only more encouragement to make his family proud and prove that nothing is impossible.
"There's nothing to hold you back from anything; if you really love something, then you were doing yourself a disservice by not participating in it any way you can," said Dibble.
Dibble says he will continue teaching the hunters and trappers educational courses for as long as he can because, as he says, anyone can do it.
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SAN ANTONIO — Get ready to party with Chase B.
Chase B, the DJ for popular musician Travis Scott, will be making his way to San Antonio on August 4, for a show at 1902 Nightclub.
His performance will be at the city’s only premier nightclub that features state-of-the-art audio and visual effects, and high-end luxury service.
1902 has been reimagined from the historic train station in St. Paul Square into a Vegas-style nightclub bringing world-renowned DJs, pop-culture personalities, and after-parties to the city of San Antonio every Friday and Saturday night.
Chase B, who is from Houston, Texas, recently signed with Scott's record label, Cactus Jack Records. He also has produced multiple songs for Scott.
Tickets are available on the 1902 website and will be available at the door the night of the performance.
VIP sections are available for the event and for reservations call 210-639-2208.
1902 is located at 1174 E. Commerce St. 78205.
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SAN ANTONIO — The mother of a woman who was mistakenly killed by police officers during a 2021 standoff has sued the city and the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD).
The July 2021 standoff began when Neida Tijerina's then-common-law husband, Angel Sanchez, violated a no-contact order, cut off his ankle monitor, and held Tijerina and three kids hostage. After a lengthy standoff with police, Sanchez aimed the shotgun at law enforcement, leading officers on the roof to open fire, hitting him.
Tijerina, however, died from a gunshot wound sustained in the confrontation.
Maria Tijerina is listed as the plaintiff in the wrongful-death lawsuit, which was filed Monday. Also listed among the defendants are "unknown officers" of SAPD who were involved in the 2021 police response.
The lawsuit alleges that the city failed to properly train, supervise, screen, discipline, transfer, counsel or otherwise control officers in the use of deadly force.
"The policymakers had a duty but failed to implement and/or enforce policies, practices and procedures for SAPD that respected Neida's safety and constitutional rights," it states. "This duty was delegated to (SAPD Chief William) McManus who was hired to carry out the actions and policies of the council by overseeing the operations of SAPD."
The lawsuit also claims the unknown officers misused and abused their official power by using excessive deadly force "in conscious disregard" to Nadia Tijerina's safety.
"The unknown officers took such actions knowing that the policymakers would approve their actions," the complaint goes on to say.
>Read the full lawsuit below:
Sanchez pleaded no contest to charges of murder, kidnapping and assault in connection with a deadly 2021 hostage situation was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Bexar County judge back in May.
The suit is seeking an unspecified amount of actual and punitive damages from the defendants.
KENS 5 has reached out to the city and SAPD for a statement. We are waiting to hear back.
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As fires rage uncontrolled in Canada, air quality concerns across the country have sparked a national debate regarding the level of healthy threat it poses.
UCF School of Public Administration Professor Thomas Bryer has spent countless hours working with students and the American Science Foundation to engineer, develop and create an online air quality database.
This includes a physical device and a website that posts the device’s findings.
Bryer said Florida has fortunately been spared from air pollution caused by fires in the far north. However, he said record heat and humidity currently circulating in Florida makes the air heavier on your body, which increases pressure.
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“If you take that and combine it with poor air quality, it’s a double whammy,” Bryer said. “The high heat, the high humidity in line with the poor air quality is a recipe for a heat attack and other heart ailments.”
The researchers’ online database currently shows air quality reports for several Orange County neighborhoods.
“What we have are low-cost, neighborhood-based monitors that can tell someone just outside their house how is the air quality. How’s the air quality in my house next to a freeway?” Bryer said.
Bryer said heat effects on air quality will continue to be a concern since temperatures are expected to only increase.
“The intensity that is being experienced, it’s something that’s is unheard of in modern times, and we again need to be prepared for the unexpected,” Bryer said.
Bryer added the study is set to conclude in fall, but he hopes the censor devices and online database continue to operate as a resource for residents.
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An arrest has been made in the shooting death of a 12-year-old boy in Fort Worth.
Police confirmed a child found a loaded gun and fired it, hitting Treyshawn Eunes over the Juneteenth holiday weekend. Now, at least one adult is charged in the incident. Eunes’ mother said this should be a lesson on gun safety and accountability.
There’s always something to remind LaKesha Bay that her son is no longer with her.
“I was doing his laundry the other day and he had a dollar in his pocket which I’m surprised it wasn’t spent,” Bay said, as she chuckled remembering her son.
She wakes up daily to the hard reality that his life was taken too soon.
“I guess the mornings are the hardest for me when I wake up and it’s just that harsh reality that he’s not going to be here today,” she said.
Her son, 12-year-old TreyShawn Eunes, was shot and killed while attending a gathering with his dad over the Juneteenth holiday weekend. It happened at the 5500 block of Brentwood Stair Road in Fort Worth.
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A business owner in the strip shopping center told NBC 5 that surveillance cameras captures children running from the area but didn’t record the shooting.
Bay said it’s how the shooting happened stirs mixed emotions.
Fort Worth police confirmed TreyShawn died after a young child got ahold of a handgun and fired it.
“Why did this have to be him? Why did he have to be there that day? Why couldn’t he have left?” she said.
This week, police announced the arrest of 35-year-old Decarlos Jordan on charges of tampering with and fabricating physical evidence. The investigation continues and additional arrests are possible
“I was relieved that it wasn’t due to any intentional violence, but also very saddened because this could’ve been prevented just by gun safety,” said Bay. “There’s gun safes, there’s gun holsters, there’s so much gun safety out there.”
Bay spends a lot of time thinking of how TreyShawn’s death could’ve been prevented and mourning what she’s lost. She believes any adult whose oversight might’ve led to the shooting should be held accountable.
“Yeah, there’s going to be consequences but that’s what we’re looking at now. That’s the ugly truth,” said Bay. “This is the one last thing I can make right for Trey. This is the one last thing I can do for him and I’m not going to stop until I get it done.”
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Forecast: Heat, strong storms in Metro Detroit on Wednesday
Southeast Michigan residents are in for a wild Wednesday: the National Weather Service predicts severe storms sweeping the region and hot days ahead.
"There is the potential for numerous severe storms across the region on Wednesday afternoon-evening," the weather service said in a statement.
The greatest risk is from the Ohio border into the southern Thumb region, according to the post.
The forecast called for the showers to arrive after 2 p.m. as temperatures climb into the upper 80s. The average high for July 26 is 84 at Detroit Metro Airport, weather service records show.
The storms could generate wind gusts topping 65 mph, 1-inch hail, flooding from heavy rainfall and possible isolated tornadoes, the weather service said.
On Thursday, a combination of squall line thunderstorms tied to a strong cold front spawned downpours, high winds and sizeable hail that damaged vehicles, homes and businesses. There were many reports of downed trees and thousands of power outages, some lasting into the weekend.
Some spots, including Detroit, saw severe weather again on Monday afternoon.
The Great Lakes Water Authority is warning residents to prepare for the latest round.
"The regional system is working as designed and is in dry conditions, and currently has capacity to handle the expected flows into the system," said Navid Mehram, the authority's chief operating officer of wastewater operating services, in a statement Tuesday.
"GLWA is asking residents in low-lying areas that are prone to flooding during heavy rainfall to remain vigilant, and out of an abundance of caution, to remove items of value from their basements. It is also extremely helpful if residents do not run their washing machines and dishwashers during heavy rain events."
Another story is the heat.
The mercury could reach 90 Thursday and Friday, the weather service said. The heat index could rise into the upper 90s both days.
In response, the city of Westland has opened several cooling centers that will also serve as charging stations for residents through Friday:
• Westland City Hall, 36300 Warren Road, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• Fire Station #1, 35701 Central City Parkway, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
• Fire Station #3, 28801 Annapolis, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
• Police Station, 36701 Ford Road, 24 hours a day
• The Friendship Center, 1119 Newburgh Road, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• William P. Faust Public Library, 35100 Bayview, 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday
• Jefferson Barns Community Vitality Center, 32150 Dorsey Road, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday
The H2O Spray Park at 1901 N. Carlson Road also is open daily from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Detroit has recreation centers where residents can go during regular business hours:
∎ Adams Butzel Complex, 10500 Lyndon, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturdays
∎ Butzel Family Center, 7737 Kercheval Avenue, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. weekdays
∎ Clemente Recreation Center, 2631 Bagley, 1 p.m. – 9 p.m. weekdays
∎ Farwell Recreation Center, 2711 E. Outer Drive, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. weekdays
∎ Lasky Recreation Center, 13200 Fenelon, 1 p.m. - 9 p.m. weekdays
∎ Northwest Activities Center, 18100 Meyers, 8 a.m. – 9 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturdays
∎ Patton Recreation Center, 2301 Woodmere, 8 a.m. – 9 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturdays
∎ Kemeny Recreation Center, 2260 S. Fort, 8 a.m. – 9 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturdays
∎ Crowell Recreation Center, 16630 Lahser, 1 p.m. – 9 p.m. weekdays
∎ Heilmann Recreation Center, 19601 Crusade, 8 a.m. – 9 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturdays
Detroit's Main Library is open 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. on weekdays and Saturdays. Its other branches are open 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. on weekdays.
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Oakland Co. Sheriff worker accused of misusing police information network
An Oakland County Sheriff's employee has been charged in connection with allegedly misusing his access to law enforcement tracking.
Andrew Moldenhauer was arraigned July 18 through 51st District Court in Waterford Township on three misdemeanor counts of unauthorized disclosure/LEIN information, records show.
LEIN, or Law Enforcement Information Network, a statewide computerized system that provides information such as driver’s license and vehicle numbers, typically is restricted to criminal justice agencies.
WDIV-TV (Ch. 4) reported Moldenhauer had used the system to track his girlfriend's ex-husband.
"We received information in early June about an employee who was inappropriately accessing the LEIN," the Sheriff's Office said in an email Tuesday. "We immediately investigated and determined that it, in fact, had merit and have since removed the employee from access to the LEIN."
Meanwhile, an internal discipline process is ongoing, the Sheriff's Office said. "The case was presented to the Oakland County prosecutor, with misdemeanor charges being issued. ... The employee has been here for 19 years. He was removed from his investigative position and all access to investigative police tools."
Moldenhauer, 39, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment, records show. Bond was set at $500.
A pre-trial conference is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Aug. 1.
Moldenhauer's attorney, Mitchell Ribitwer, told The Detroit News he was "unable to comment regarding this matter because there is pending litigation."
The incident comes less than a year after a Macomb County dispatcher was suspended amid an investigation into claims she used her position to target an ex-boyfriend's associates using the LEIN.
A man alleged the dispatcher used her access to find details on his former partner and a female acquaintance, who each received harassing phone calls, authorities said.
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TAMPA, Florida — It's a monumental task, but the Tampa Police Department says it's committed to keeping neighborhoods safe. Tuesday night, they addressed concerns in the city's third district in Ybor City.
"Our main goal is to reduce crime," Deputy Chief Mike Kutner said.
In the department's second meeting for its newly launched "Town Hall Tuesday" initiative to build on the strong bonds that make Tampa one of the safest cities in the nation, officers met with community members at Relevant Church.
"What solves crimes is the community's trust and calling us and reporting suspicious activity," Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw said.
Police say city-wide crime is down 2.2%. The department says violent crimes with a firearm are down 9% and homicides are down 18.5%, but officers are still seeing an increase in non-fatal shootings.
"That's the area that we're focused on, these non-fatal shootings. It's a big problem," Kutner said.
In District Three alone, violent crime with a firearm is down 21%, but non-fatal shootings are up 23% compared to the city-wide increase of 2.4%.
"There are more guns on the street. Clearly, we're recovering more guns and that's what we have to do," Bercaw said.
Police say so far this year they've recovered 1,004 guns off the street and 423 of them were recovered in this district. While cops try to tackle crime on the streets, the community has their own concerns when it comes to gun violence and their safety.
"There has to be some consequences that these young adults and adults understand that we're not going to take this anymore," a woman in the crowd said.
The most recent shooting in the district was caught on surveillance video. Teenagers with handguns and rifles shot at other teens at a pool hall. Police say 10 guns were recovered during their investigation.
"It's some weeks that I feel like I see this every day going on," Nicole Carraway, a woman who lost her husband to gun violence in District Three, said.
Willie Carraway was killed in August last year. His murder still hasn't been solved.
"It's difficult because I can't sleep at night and the people who took his life, it seems like they're sleeping well," Nicole Carraway said.
She went to both town halls because she thinks a better connection between police and the community will help reduce crime.
"I just hope that the community would come together to take their community back and put a stop to the things happening in the community," Nicole Carraway said.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — RAGBRAI is headed to Des Moines, and it is expected to be the busiest day yet for riders.
The nearly 55 mile journey south from Ames to Des Moines will welcome tens of thousands to the state's capital, bringing with them a lot of traffic congestion and potential hazards. Here's what you need to know about RAGBRAI's impact on the Des Moines metro.
What's the route through Des Moines?
The route map has bikers riding down E 14th street/Highway 69. This road will be closed on Wednesday, July 26th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., which will lead them to Water Works Park for entertainment and camping.
According to the Des Moines police, officers will report for RAGBRAI duty starting at 8 a.m. Wednesday and 4 a.m. Thursday in order to guide people through the expectant traffic. Police created maps specifying road closures in neighborhoods around the city, including Highland Park, Union Park, Historic East Village and more.
For real-time updates on road closures, check out Des Moines' and West Des Moines' interactive road maps. For traffic delays and to keep an eye on cameras around the metro, check out Iowa 511's website.
With delays expected, what will traffic in the metro look like?
The area around Water Works Park is expected to be the most congested area, however there will be crowds all across the Des Moines metro.
An important thing to note is that the bikers don't have cars, so they will be biking everywhere.
Iowa State Patrol says they have been working to make this route the safest it possibly can be, and they have a strategic plan in place.
“Number one, if you can avoid those areas tomorrow, tomorrow is a really good time to make sure to find somewhere else to maybe go. Just to completely avoid that northeast corner of Des Moines, if possible, because it is going to be congested. We’re going to see lots of bicyclists, we’re also going to see a lot of support vehicles that are going to be traveling down I-35, coming into the heart of Des Moines on 235. Then from there they’re going to be splitting all over the Des Moines Metro area," said Sgt. Alex Dinkla, a pubilc relations officer for the Iowa State Patrol.
Large crowds are expected all across the metro, and more people than usual are expected to take the Ames to Des Moines RAGBRAI route.
“With numbers tomorrow, we know that there has been estimates of about potentially 30-40,000 people on the ride so far this year each day. We do expect those numbers to probably elevate a little bit tomorrow," Dinkla said.
The support vehicles for RAGBRAI riders will be traveling south on I-35 and into 235, so officials say people can expect lots of traffic on those roads.
How are cyclists staying safe in the heat?
Wednesday and Thursday will see high temps across Des Moines, so keeping cool, hydrated and aware of resources is paramount.
Local hospitals are bracing for potential cyclist influxes during the heat wave.
"We are getting prepared as a system in central Iowa for how we will handle different types of issues such as a mild heat-related illness, to a more severe type of injury," Dr. Sydney Leach, MercyOne's Emergency Department Director, told Local 5.
MercyOne plans to have medical assistance available along the route, alongside Des Moines police and RAGBRAI officials. To avoid any heat-related injuries or illnesses, make sure to check the forecast and prepare ahead of time.
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What entertainment is available in Des Moines?
The bikers will be camping out at Water Works Park, and there will be Des Moines-apalooza, a celebration of all things capital city.
If you're new to the area and not sure what to check out, read Local 5's newcomer's guide Des Moines and browse CatchDSM's handy RAGBRAI page for more information.
Where are cyclists headed next?
Early Thursday, bikers will make their way out of Des Moines on Walnut Street. That will be closed from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. as they head toward Tama-Toledo for Day 5 of RAGBRAI.
For a look into RAGBRAI's full route, the 'pass thru towns' included and what each day is celebrating, click here.
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AMES, Iowa — Thousands of bikers finished the Carroll to Ames route on Day 3 of RAGBRAI.
Lots of people biked more than 80 miles for the route on Tuesday, meeting others along the way.
“As I’m pulling in, putting my bike down, I see just a bunch of people humming the wedding song," said first-year RAGBRAI rider Bob Hoffmann. “Sure enough, turn around, two people that met at RAGBRAI were getting married right there at the farmhouse. It was a pretty cool day.”
A fun filled day, meeting unique people — some even wearing tutus.
“Everybody is so happy to see you,” said Chicago-native Maciej Wojtasik. “I got so many compliments on my tutu today, so that has been the best part.”
Wojtasik wasn’t the only one getting compliments for their outfit on the ride Tuesday.
Other bikers also told Alabama-native Bob Nicholson that they liked his shirt — with a ladybug on the front, symbolizing their group.
“We are the ladybugs,” he said. “From all over.”
Nicholson biked with a few others in his ladybug-themed group, which consisted of people from Colorado, New York, Alabama and more.
The past three days participating in RAGBRAI has allowed Nicholson to meet some other bikers on and off the route, especially at the end of the night.
“Camp at night is when you get together, share stories, share a drink and have that camaraderie,” Nicholson told Local 5.
And Tuesday night's camp is at Brookside Park in Ames.
“Oh, I’ll be passing out by 9 p.m. for sure,” Hoffmann said with a laugh.
Hoffmann, Nicholson and Wojtasik all said they plan to wake up early Wednesday morning to prepare for Day 4 of RAGBRAI, when bikers will travel from Ames to Des Moines.
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CYPRESS, Texas — A Cypress family reached out to KHOU 11 after they received a shockingly high water bill seemingly out of nowhere.
Their water bill for the month of May was more than $2,500. Homeowner Stephen Deiro said he was notified by the water company that their usage for that month was 393,000 gallons of water. That comes out to about 9 gallons per minute for a month straight.
"It doesn't make any sense," Deiro said.
Deiro and his family said they believe the bill is incorrect. His sister, Jennifer Deiro, and their elderly mother live at the home. Stephen takes care of the bills.
"I don't understand how they could possibly be thinking that we could have a water bill like this," Jennifer said.
Their monthly water bill usually comes out to less than $100, according to Stephen. The most recent bill -- June -- is back to normal, but he’s still disputing the high bill from May.
"I'm at a loss. I've had American Leak Detection come to my home and make sure I have no leak. My pool company had the main maintenance person come and make sure there was no leak in my pool," Stephen said.
This week, they got a letter on their front door that said if the amount, with additional fees now totaling more than $2,800, wasn’t paid by Tuesday, their services would be terminated.
KHOU 11 reached out to the water company M. Marlon Ivy and Associate Inc. They said the shutoff notice was an automated letter that should not have gone out. They said service will not be cut off while the bill remains in dispute. Meanwhile, the family is adamant there was no leak and there must have been an issue with the water meter itself.
In a statement, the water company said: "His meter has been reread multiple times and tested. The meter is accurate, and his usage has now returned to normal."
As for what happens next? The utility company said they hope to get some sort of resolution by taking the dispute to the Grand Road P.U.D board next month.
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SAN ANTONIO — Five human smuggling victims were found at a home on the south side Tuesday.
Bexar County deputies were called out to the 400 block of W Pyron Avenue, between South Flores and Pleasanton Road, around 10:30 a.m. after they made a traffic stop and discovered a kilo of cocaine inside the vehicle.
Deputies obtained a warrant to search the man's home and found five migrants from Mexico. Four men and one woman were found, ranging in age from their 20s to their 40s.
The migrants told deputies they got to the home Monday night and were charged several thousand dollars.
BCSO is not sure how long this home has been used as a "stash house" for migrants.
“The bottom portion of the residence it doesn’t looks like a maintained home," Johnny Garcia with BCSO said. "Upstairs (is) completely emptied just like we would see in a stash house, leading me to believe that this potentially was.”
Ari Jimenez is a former Homeland Security Investigations agent. He said from his experience, stash houses can be found anywhere within the city.
“It’s not easy to find them," Jimenez said. "We have found in San Antonio proper, stash houses near schools, near places of worship, near churches, so it takes investigations.”
Michael Perez lives nearby and said he was shocked to learn about the possible stash house but is glad the migrants are okay.
“I’m speechless because I would never think anything would happen in this quiet, little neighborhood," Perez said.
A man was taken into custody who is believed to have been connected to the trafficking of these individuals.
“They turned what could’ve just easily been a drug bust here, we are rescuing five smuggling victims so it’s a big win for us," Garcia said.
This is a developing situation and further details will be added as they are received.
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HAMBURG, N.Y. — After a months-long saga with a special lobster, it's heading to a new home.
Larry the lobster's adventure all started in May when the Tops in Hamburg got in a new shipment of live lobsters.
And the rare orange lobster was one of those guys in the pack.
He's a rare lobster estimated to be one in a 30 million discovery.
The Aquarium of Niagara worked with Tops to find a new home for the lobster.
So this week the Kansas City Zoo announced it's taken him in.
Also, he has a new name, which is Larry Lombardi.
He'll now be on display at Sobela Ocean Aquarium inside the zoo when the aquarium opens in September.
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SAN ANTONIO — The mother of a woman who was mistakenly killed by police officers during a 2021 standoff has sued the city and the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD).
The July 2021 standoff began when Neida Tijerina's then-common-law husband, Angel Sanchez, violated a no-contact order, cut off his ankle monitor, and held Tijerina and three kids hostage. After a lengthy standoff with police, Sanchez aimed the shotgun at law enforcement, leading officers on the roof to open fire, hitting him.
Tijerina, however, died from a gunshot wound sustained in the confrontation.
Maria Tijerina is listed as the plaintiff in the wrongful-death lawsuit, which was filed Monday. Also listed among the defendants are "unknown officers" of SAPD who were involved in the 2021 police response.
The lawsuit alleges that the city failed to properly train, supervise, screen, discipline, transfer, counsel or otherwise control officers in the use of deadly force.
"The policymakers had a duty but failed to implement and/or enforce policies, practices and procedures for SAPD that respected Neida's safety and constitutional rights," it states. "This duty was delegated to (SAPD Chief William) McManus who was hired to carry out the actions and policies of the council by overseeing the operations of SAPD."
The lawsuit also claims the unknown officers misused and abused their official power by using excessive deadly force "in conscious disregard" to Nadia Tijerina's safety.
"The unknown officers took such actions knowing that the policymakers would approve their actions," the complaint goes on to say.
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Sanchez pleaded no contest to charges of murder, kidnapping and assault in connection with a deadly 2021 hostage situation was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Bexar County judge back in May.
The suit is seeking an unspecified amount of actual and punitive damages from the defendants.
KENS 5 has reached out to the city and SAPD for a statement. We are waiting to hear back.
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With a quorum restored after months of litigation and the former mayor removed from office after being hit with criminal charges, North Miami Beach commissioners were well positioned to get on with city business, but they had other plans.
July’s commission meeting revealed lingering disagreement between two key voting blocs. On one end sits Commissioners Jay Chernoff, Fortuna Smukler and Phyllis Smith; on the other, Commissioners Daniela Jean, McKenzie Fleurimond and Michael Joseph. The six-member commission produced three tie votes over the course of five hours at its July 18 meeting, igniting criticism from residents who say the lack of consensus is just another conspiracy to halt city business yet again.
According to the North Miami Beach city charter, each item that comes before it requires a majority vote from the commission in order to pass. Any item that receives a tied vote fails.
The first 3-3 vote came early on in the meeting, when commissioners considered an item on second and final reading that would have made breaking quorum an ethical violation. Fleurimond, who has left meetings before adjournment in the past, was the first to vote against it, provoking sarcastic laughter in the audience. Jean and Joseph soon followed suit. The item failed without discussion.
The same routine occurred later when voting on a motion that would have appointed Jean as vice mayor, only this time the votes were reversed. Chernoff, who was formerly vice mayor but has been acting as mayor since Anthony DeFillipo’s removal, joined Smith and Smukler in their dissent. The three commissioners prevented the item from moving forward, again without any discussion.
But the most controversial tie vote came when trying to call a special election that would ultimately resolve the stalemate commissioners are seeing in the first place. Interim City Attorney John Herin proposed Oct. 10 as a possible date to elect a new mayor, but Fleurimond, Jean and Joseph voted against it.
This time, commissioners did not remain silent.
“The longer we wait for this election, the longer the opportunity is to have it always be a 3-3 vote,” said Smith. “We need to have our seventh seat filled.”
“I cannot believe we’re not voting for this,” said Chernoff. “This is what everybody wanted, an election. I mean, come on.”
The reason for the election’s delay, according to dissenters, has less to do with substance and more to do with procedure. Joseph noted that the resolution’s memorandum was not posted to the online agenda, preventing residents from reading its contents ahead of the meeting.
Although Smith insisted that the calling of a special election is required in the city charter and therefore gives residents little reason to protest, Joseph touted transparency as a reason to do things correctly rather than, as he put it, “covertly.”
Fleurimond and Jean also expressed disappointment that Herin did not return to the dais with alternative dates as ordered. Opposing commissioners also asked for an in-depth analysis of the possibilities and consequences, given that the county elections department is unable to accommodate the 90-day window in which the commission is required to hold its election, according to the charter.
The commission will now have to wait until its next meeting Aug. 15 to hear and approve a date for the special election. It is unlikely, then, that the Oct. 10 date will still be available. Herin noted that the county elections department requires substantial notice to prepare before an election is called. Additionally, the city charter requires that candidates qualify no less than 38 days before a special election is held.
Residents also expressed disapproval of the delay, including former Commissioner Barbara Kramer. Kramer, who is also a qualifying mayoral candidate, accused Joseph of avoiding eye contact and making faces toward her during public comment but was subsequently asked by Chernoff to stop.
“Don’t tell me anymore to stop,” responded Kramer. “This city is stopped. It’s a 3-3 and this is all a game you all are playing, and you know very well you conspire together and you do all this business to stop this city.”
Although the tied items failed, commissioners still have the opportunity to reintroduce any given item at a later date for first reading. Two additional items regarding the payment of attorneys’ fees for litigation between Fleurimond and Chernoff were also tabled until the next meeting.
Asking for city approval to pay Fleurimond’s attorneys upwards of $26,000 for defending the commissioner against litigation brought by Chernoff, Herin was instead questioned repeatedly over conflict-of-interest concerns. Joseph, for instance, expressed worry that Chernoff has a conflict of interest as the commissioner who initially brought suit, while Smukler opined that perhaps Fleurimond has a conflict of interest as the defendant whose attorney’s fees would be paid for by the city.
According to relevant case law, elected officials have the right to reimbursement for attorneys’ fees if they prevail in any case brought against them in their official capacity. In the lawsuit brought against him by Chernoff, wherein he was challenged for repeatedly missing meetings and halting city business, Fleurimond was voluntarily dismissed and is therefore considered to be the prevailing party.
Herin explained that the city is obligated to pay Fleurimond’s fees on his behalf, but that the item still requires commission approval because the city was not in direct contract with his attorneys. However, Herin further noted that a “no” vote from the commission could be and likely would be legally challenged.
The items were nevertheless deferred until each commissioner can receive clarity from the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust about conflict-of-interest matters.
In the meantime, the city has officially begun the procurement process for a permanent city attorney.
And although tie votes were all the hubbub at its last meeting, the split commission was able to unanimously agree on a city millage rate.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — AAA calls this time of year the "100 deadliest days on the road," a period when more teens drive and get involved in deadly accidents.
The Little Rock Police Department said they've seen about a 43% increase in fatal car crashes compared to last year.
Little Rock Traffic Engineer Manager William Henry's job is to monitor safe traffic patterns and decide when drivers get the green light.
"If you're driving above the speed limit, then you're going to be stopped more often," Henry said. "If you drive the speed limit, you can generally go through the system nonstop."
His team has programmed traffic lights in the city to try and avoid accidents, even if some of their work slows drivers down by a few seconds.
"We increase all red times on our arterioles because of all the people running red lights," Henry said. "They have a disregard for the traffic signal."
Henry said those extra two seconds on red protect pedestrians, but only so much.
Little Rock police officer and accident reconstruction specialist Kyle Henson explained that many safety concerns come down to following the signals behind the wheel and in the crosswalk.
"About half of our fatal [crashes] right now are pedestrian accidents," Henson said. "You've either got pedestrians crossing outside an intersection [or] crossing when it's dark. There's no streetlight."
Henson admitted that traffic enforcement sometimes struggles due to staffing shortages.
"Unfortunately, traffic enforcement sometimes takes a backseat," Henson said. "Sometimes it has to take a backseat because officers have to take calls for service that take priority."
However, as a member of the accident reconstruction team, Henson said they always investigate what happened.
"There are charges of the negligent homicide manslaughter that can come out of these cases that have to be handled delicately and investigated to the fullest," Henson said.
LRPD says some of the most common spots for accidents include:
- University Ave
- Roosevelt Road
- Markham Street
- Baseline Road
- Geyer Springs Road
Little Rock police said they are trying to bulk up traffic enforcement where they can.
"We try to keep up as much as we can with where it happens and try to get some selective enforcement in the area," Henson said.
Meanwhile, Henry said adding a new stop sign or crosswalk in problem areas isn't always easy legally because the number of cars and pedestrians must warrant the change.
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For two hours Tuesday at Pinewood Bowl, Tedeschi Trucks Band stirred up its stew of rock, blues and soul, demonstrating why it just might be today’s premier roots music ensemble.
Led by the husband/wife duo of vocalist Susan Tedeschi and slide guitar master Derek Trucks, the 12-piece group — complete with horns, backing vocalist, keyboards and a pair of drummers — was, to say the least, captivating as it seamlessly spun together its signature blend of styles.
The set was a mix of covers, like Tedeschi’s soulful take on gently swinging version of Wet Willie’s “Keep On Smilin’” and a rock to gospel run though of Chuck Willis’ “I Feel So Bad," some TTB favorites and deep cuts, and a few songs from last year’s four-album release.
Those included a joyous “Fall In,” sung by its writer, Mike Mattison; keyboardist Gabe Dixon taking the lead vocals on the rockin’ soul “Ain’t That Somethin’”; and a gorgeous version of the set’s title cut, “I Am The Moon,” with Tedeschi channeling Bonnie Raitt on her pure soul vocals.
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As if to make the Raitt connection crystal clear, Tedeschi took the band through a piano-rich version of John Prine’s classic “Angel From Montgomery,” one of Raitt’s biggest hits, that shifted into the Grateful Dead’s “Sugaree.”
The latter was the best indicator that there’s kind of a jam band aspect to Tedeschi Trucks as well — the songs in the first hour of the show clocked in between seven and eight minutes each.
But there was no mindless noodling, even when songs like “Circle ’Round the Sun” stretched out toward jazz with the horns punching and moaning.
The longest song of the night, however, was an instrumental with a stripped combo that found Trucks showing why he’s seen as one of the great guitarists ever and the two drummers combining for a “solo” that was never boring — a true rarity.
To say that TTB connected with the audience I estimated at 3,000-plus during its Lincoln debut is an understatement.
By show’s end, hundreds were standing at the front of the stage, highly unusual for a seated Pinewood show, grooving to the ecstatic “Made Up Mind” while song after song pulled the crowd to its feet on a night when it was too sultry to stand for two hours.
As if to say, “We‘re really just a rock ‘n’ roll band,” Tedeschi Trucks started the encore with a stretched out ”Stay With Me” in all its Faces/Rod Stewart glory.
Tuesday’s show was the first of nine concerts set for Pinewood in the next 34 days. Suffice it to say, TTB set a very high bar for the eight shows to follow.
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On July 14 at around 1:15 pm, Coos County Marine Deputy R. Baker was patrolling Tenmile Lake near North Lake Marina when he observed a capsized sailboat with the sole occupant Ronald Nordquist (58), hanging onto the bottom of the boat.
Deputy Baker, with the assistance of a bystander, managed to get Nordquist and the boat to a dock. Nordquist had lost his life jacket when the boat capsized, so Deputy Baker pulled him from the water. With help from locals, Baker was able to upright the sailboat and start to de-water it. Nordquist was unharmed during this event.
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The North Bend City Council approved a contract for Outer Limits Construction in North Bend to masticate the underbrush on the west side of U.S. Highway 101 in and around Pittum Loop. The work will be paid for with a community wildfire risk reduction grant through the Office of the Oregon State Fire Marshal.
The North Bend Fire Department identified the area from the walking trail west of Highway 101 across Pittum Loop to the bluff as a high-fire and high-risk area for wildfire. The agency responded to 10 brush fires in that location last year.
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The police blotter is a public record of incidents as reported by law-enforcement agencies. All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are innocent until proven guilty. The information printed is preliminary and subject to change.
Monday 07/10:
North Bend
• 7:32 am, injured animal, 1700 block of Lincoln Street.
• 11:37 am, neighbor dispute, 1700 block of Hayes Street.
• 2:14 pm, fraud/email scam, 1300 block of Buckingham Street.
• 3:46 pm, animal complaint, 2100 block of Garfield.
• 8:05 pm, vehicle fire, Oak and State.
Coos Bay
• 12:13 am, animal complaint, 200 block of Park Avenue.
• 1:40 am, graffiti calls, N 10th Street and W Commercial Avenue.
• 2:04 am, located wanted subject, Woolridge and Newmark.
• 2:27 am, 42 year old male transported to Coos County jail on warrants, 800 block of S Broadway Street.
• 3:46 am, 46 year old male transported to Coos County jail on two warrants, 1000 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 4:43 am, theft, 300 block of S Cammann Street.
• 5:30 am, located wanted subject, 300 block of LaClair Street.
• 6:23 am, 32 year old male lodged at Coos County jail on domestic harassment, 200 block of S Wall Street.
• 7:08 am, theft from vehicle, Thomas Avenue.
• 9:28 am, fraud, 700 block of S Empire Boulevard.
• 11:20 am, threats, 700 block of F Street.
• 12:00 pm, criminal mischief, Newmark and S Morrison.
• 12:22 pm, 34 year old male transported to Coos County jail, 900 block of S Empire Boulevard.
• 12:55 pm, animal neglect, 2000 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 1:30 pm, disorderly conduct, Newmark and Norman.
• 2:59 pm, fraud, 800 block of Madison Street.
• 4:45 pm, disorderly conduct, Johnson Avenue and S 1st Street.
• 4:58 pm, disorderly conduct, 100 block of S Wall Street.
• 6:48 pm, burglary, 100 block of S Empire Boulevard.
• 7:52 pm, fraud, 500 block of 10th Avenue.
• 8:34 pm, 24 year old male transported to Coos County jail on warrant, 1200 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 9:46 pm, disorderly conduct, N Ackerman off Newmark.
• 9:55 pm, dispute, Ackerman and Newmark.
• 10:54 pm, disorderly conduct, 4th and Curtis.
Coquille
• 12:27 pm, family dispute, 900 block of N Collier Street.
• 4:33 pm, threats, 1500 block of N Hemlock Street.
Reedsport
• 10:11 am, domestic disturbance, 2400 block of Gardens Avenue.
• 10:15 am, trespassing, 300 block of S 22nd Street.
• 2:39 pm, animal problem, Birch Avenue and 21st Street.
• 2:59 pm, animal problem, 2600 block of Greenbriar Street.
Tuesday 07/11:
North Bend
• 7:31 am, disorderly conduct, Tremont Avenue and chip pile.
• 8:11 am, ID theft, 3200 block of Tremont Avenue.
• 8:25 am, disorderly conduct, Newmark and Chester.
• 10:03 am, 26 year old male transported to Coos County jail on violation of restraining order, 2200 block of Broadway Avenue.
• 10:05 am, phone harassment, 3200 block of Pine Street,
• 10:23 am, juvenile problem, 2100 block of Hamilton Avenue.
• 12:55 pm, 35 year old male transported to Coos County jail on menacing, attempted assault II and probation violation, 1900 block of Meade Avenue.
• 1:55 pm, runaway juvenile, 3700 block of Spruce Street.
• 2:49 pm, fraud, 2300 block of Everett Street.
• 4:46 pm, vehicle fire, McCullough Bridge.
• 5:14 pm, disorderly conduct, 1300 block of Virginia Avenue.
• 5:39 pm, located wanted subject, 800 block of California Avenue.
• 5:52 pm, 42 year old male transported to Coos County jail on warrant, 800 block of California Avenue.
• 6:41 pm, misuse of 911, 1100 block of Lewis Street.
• 6:42 pm, juvenile problem, 1600 block of Virginia Avenue.
Coos Bay
• 3:16 am, criminal mischief/unlawful entry into motor vehicle, Kruse and 5th.
• 6:39 am, theft, 1800 block of N 28th Court.
• 6:53 am, 48 year old male booked at Coos County jail on warrant and felon in possession of restricted weapon, 1400 block of Southwest Boulevard.
• 9:38 am, fraud, 1900 block of 28th Street.
• 9:54 am, unlawful entry into motor vehicle, 1500 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 11:00 am, dog complaint, 1300 block of N Bayshore Drive.
• 11:07 am, unlawful entry into motor vehicle, 1900 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 11:08 am, criminal mischief, 200 block of Holland Street.
• 12:52 pm, hit and run, 2000 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 1:12 pm, fraud, 1900 block of Shorepines Drive.
• 2:15 pm, theft, 2000 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 3:06 pm, 25 year old male lodged at Coos County jail on warrant and false information, 300 block of S Wasson Street.
• 3:34 pm, assault, Mingus Park.
• 3:46 pm, theft from vehicle, 500 block of S Wall Street.
• 4:35 pm, dispute, 200 block of Empire Boulevard.
• 4:57 pm, 38 year old male transported to Coos County jail on warrant, resisting arrest and probation violation, N Central Boulevard and W 6th Street.
• 5:09 pm, located runaway, 500 block of S 4th Street.
• 5:14 pm, disorderly conduct, 900 block of S Broadway Street.
• 6:04 pm, hit and run, 400 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 7:50 pm, unauthorized use of motor vehicle, S Wasson Street and Pacific Avenue.
• 8:28 pm, dispute, 100 block of N 14th Street.
• 8:43 pm, recovered stolen vehicle, 200 block of N Baxter Street.
• 8:54 pm, 36 year old male transported to Coos County jail on criminal trespass II, 700 block of S Broadway Street.
• 9:26 pm, barking dog, 1800 block of Cottonwood Avenue.
• 10:21 pm, fraud, 1100 block of California Avenue.
Coquille
• 2:24 pm, 36 year old male transported to Coos County jail on criminal trespass, 400 block of N Central Boulevard.
• 3:04 pm, 39 year old male transported to Coos County jail on criminal trespass II, 900 block of E 5th Street.
• 4:57 pm, 38 year old male transported to Coos County jail on warrant, resisting arrest and probation violation, N Central Boulevard and W 6th Street.
Wednesday 07/12:
North Bend
• 8:08 am, theft, 1100 block of Newmark Street.
• 11:27 am, juvenile problem, 700 block of Maryland Avenue.
• 2:29 pm, unauthorized use of motor vehicle, 3600 block of Inland Court.
• 5:36 pm, intoxicated subject, 1900 block of Virginia Avenue.
• 6:44 pm, juvenile problem, 1900 block of 19th.
Coos Bay
• 7:19 am, 37 year old female cited for driving while suspended, Ocean and LaClair.
• 9:50 am, theft, 800 block of S Empire Boulevard.
• 11:07 am, located stolen firearm, 100 block of N Wasson Street.
• 2:15 pm, 58 year old male cited on warrant, 400 block of Fulton Avenue.
• 2:44 pm, animal complaint, 800 block of S Broadway Street.
• 2:47 pm, unlawful entry into motor vehicle, 700 block of S 4th Street.
• 3:12 pm, criminal mischief, 1300 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 3:27 pm, dispute, Empire Lakes/John Topits Park.
• 4:24 pm, theft, 2000 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 7:06 pm, dispute, Fed Ex and woods.
• 9:37 pm, 58 year old female transported to Coos County jail on two warrants, 100 block of S 3rd Street.
• 10:24 pm, 38 year old male transported to Coos County jail on failure to report as a sex offender and resisting, 100 block of E Johnson Avenue.
Coquille
• 10:23 am, criminal mischief, 90 block of E 1st Street.
• 10:23 am, disorderly conduct, 200 block of N Central Boulevard.
• 1:11 pm, disorderly conduct, 70 block of W Highway 42.
• 1:11 pm, harassment, 96900 block of Highway 42S.
• 1:11 pm, disorderly conduct, 96900 Highway 42S.
• 4:52 pm, dispute, 1200 block of W Central.
• 5:20 pm, threats, 800 block of E 10th Place.
• 7:58 pm, 47 year old male cited on warrant and drinking unlicensed premises, 300 block of W Highway 42.
• 8:40 pm, neighbor dispute, 700 block of N Birch Street.
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No one hurt in Kiel house fire as residents evacuate after being awakened by smoke detectors
The fire department issued a reminder to the public to check their smoke detectors to make sure they are in working order.
KIEL – No one was hurt after an overnight house fire at 928 Fourth Street in Kiel Tuesday morning.
Kiel Fire Department said in a news release the department was dispatched to the home shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday after residents were awakened by smoke detectors and evacuated.
The first fire engine arrived on scene within six minutes and found smoke in the basement.
Fire personnel had the fire fully extinguished within five minutes and had it contained to the room where it started.
Crews were on scene for about an hour doing salvage, overhaul and ventilation work.
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No immediate damage estimate was available. Cause of fire is believed to be misuse of burning materials, the fire department said.
The department issued a public safety message reminding residents of the importance of installing working smoke detectors and to consistently check them to ensure they are working.
Contact Brandon Reid at 920-686-2984 or breid@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @breidHTRNews.
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High-profile supporters and opponents of Issue 1 spent an hour Tuesday night debating their side of the sole issue on the Aug. 8 ballot, a constitutional amendment that would make it harder for Ohio to amend its state constitution in the future.
The debate pitted the Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis against Ohio House Minority Leader Allison Russo, D-Upper Arlington, and former state representative and longtime Columbus Dispatch editor Mike Curtin.
At its core, Issue 1 seeks to limit how often the Ohio Constitution can be changed. The natural opposition has come largely, but not entirely, from citizen groups that have long used the citizen-initiated amendment process to allow Ohioans to vote on policy that the state legislature largely won’t touch, like protected abortion access, marijuana legalization, an increased minimum wage or laws aiming to curtail gerrymandering.
To counter, the statehouse authored and passed Issue 1 with nearly unanimous Republican support. The measure seeks to require a 60% vote threshold to pass all future constitutional amendments, including the abortion-rights amendment guaranteed to be on the ballot this November.
Notably, Issue 1 would also significantly increase the signature gathering requirements for citizen to get a proposal on the ballot. That specific proposal has left citizen organizers worried that the citizen-initiated process would become prohibitively expensive for anybody but well-funded interests to execute.
On Tuesday, the debaters collectively illustrated their view of how pivotal Issue 1 is — and how differently Ohioans view the proposal.
“I think a Yes vote on Issue 1 is one of the most consequential votes that an Ohioan can cast, maybe this decade, maybe in their lifetime,” LaRose told reporters after the debate. During, he characterized Issue 1 to be about “protecting the Ohio Constitution (from) what may be to come.”
LaRose argued that, with Ohio’s laws on amendments as they are, special interests can target the state and use the constitution as an effective means to change the state’s fundamental law.
Over the course of the night, the secretary cited his concerns with potential amendments on minimum wage, livestock standards of care, gun control and abortion access.
Russo characterized LaRose’s concerns about the Ohio Constitution’s vulnerability as unfounded.
“I think voters have been very judicious with this right that they have had for 11 years,” Russo said. “Let’s be clear, Issue 1 simply takes power away from voters and it gives more power to the politicians, and that’s it.”
Instead, Russo argued that Issue 1 was primarily a response to the abortion-rights amendment that Ohioans will get a chance to vote on this November.
“The only reason it is being attacked at this moment is the timing of a November ballot initiative,” Russo said. She characterized the August election, created by the legislature just months after the legislature eliminated nearly all August elections, as an attempt to “change the rules of the game in the middle of the game.”
LaRose, who urged the legislature to eliminate August elections, argued that a special election for small local matters is inherently different from an election for a constitutional amendment.
“There’s nobody not aware that there’s an important question on the Aug. 8 ballot and they’ve got the opportunity to get out and make their voice heard,” LaRose said. “This isn’t about process, this is about the question that’s in front of us.”
Issue 1 has major implications on the November abortion-rights amendment. If Issue 1 passes in August, the amendment would need at least 60% approval in order to pass; if Issue 1 fails, the amendment would pass with a simple majority. Polling suggests that Ohioans favor protecting abortion rights, but not necessarily 60% of them.
For Gonidakis, Ohio Right to Life, and many other supporters, Issue 1′s chance to block an abortion-rights amendment in the state constitution is critical. Gonidakis and LaRose both believe that the abortion-rights amendment would go further than just guaranteeing abortion access, asserting that the amendment would entirely remove a parents’ say over their child’s medical care.
“(The abortion-rights amendment) absolutely takes away parental consent if they’re successful, which they won’t be in November,” Gonidakis said. “That’s how dangerous it is, it absolutely allows for a late term abortion up to and through the ninth month of pregnancy.”
Notably, the amendment allows the legislature to outlaw most abortions after fetal viability, generally around 24 weeks. The same amendment also doesn’t mention parental consent. Previous reporting from Dayton Daily News found that legal and political science scholars were skeptical that the abortion-rights amendment would have any impact at all on parental consent.
During and after the debate, LaRose and Gonidakis continually referenced their belief that the Ohio Constitution should not be used for public policy.
“Controversial public policy shouldn’t be done via constitutional amendment. Constitutional amendments should be things we broadly agree on. Leave the controversy — the 50% + 1, the 52%, the 53% issues — leave that to the general assembly,” LaRose said.
Russo said the constitutional amendment process is afforded to Ohioans specifically to allow the citizens to have a say over the constitution when the legislature is unresponsive to the citizenry.
“Trying to say the legislature somehow reflects the values of Ohio voters … is a bit outrageous. When you look at the extreme policies that are being passed in the statehouse and where Ohioans really are on some of these issues, they are vastly out of step,” Russo said. “Ohio has this right that when (lawmakers) are that out of step or (when) they are corrupt, (Ohioans) can go to the ballot box and demand changes that reflect where they actually are.”
Curtin argued that the powers Ohioans wield over the state constitution should be applauded and preserved, not diluted.
“Ohio has the best state constitution in the nation right now. Why? Because the bedrock principle is and always has been ‘trust the people,” Curtin said. “No other state constitution respects ‘trust the people’ more than the Ohio Constitution.”
LaRose adopted that same argument about Issue 1.
“That’s what Issue 1 is all about. It’s about trusting the people of Ohio to reach a supermajority of 60% if we’re going to change the constitution. If you get 51 or 52% who like your idea, change the revised code.”
The debate was broadcast to the Dayton market via local station WDTN-TV. Russo told reporters that she hoped would get more Ohioans to make their way to the polls.
Early voting has been going strong and remains available in person through Aug. 6 and through absentee. On Aug. 8, Election Day, polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m.
This story will be updated further later today.
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Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management kicks off landfill expansion
The U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management's (OREM) lead cleanup contractor, UCOR, has started constructing the final permitted cell in Landfill V.
The Oak Ridge Reservation landfills have seen a 170% increase in waste receipts over the last five years, according to a UCOR news release. That rise is due in large part to the amount of soil being received from OREM remediation projects at the East Tennessee Technology Park, which are all slated for completion next year.
The new landfill cell being constructed ensures on-site disposal availability. Expanding Landfill V’s disposal capacity also will extend the life of the Environmental Management Waste Management Facility (EMWMF), an on-site disposal facility for low-level waste.
OREM disposes of sanitary, industrial and construction waste in Landfill V, while sending low-level contaminated waste to EMWMF. These complimentary efforts ensure space at EMWMF is used efficiently, the release stated.
The expansion effort underway is being implemented under a UCOR-issued small business subcontract using a Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation-approved design.
“This expansion is a critical step toward ensuring UCOR’s ability to support the current and future cleanup needs for years to come,” UCOR Landfill Operations Project Manager Josh Pemberton stated in the release. “A combined staff of 30 UCOR and CTI employees has proactively been planning and working to achieve this milestone for the past year and a half.”
CTI and Associates Inc. is a small business supporting the effort.
The landfill expansion is on schedule to be completed by the end of the year.
OREM is also nearing the start of early site preparations for its Environmental Management Disposal Facility. That facility, which is slated to begin operations in the late 2020s, will provide an additional 2.2 million cubic yards of waste disposal capacity for low-level contaminated waste.
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Sept. 4, 1946—July 17, 2023
HEYBURN – After fighting a valiant battle with cancer, our beloved wife and mother, Beverly Ann (Parsons) Sage’s battle ended on July 17, 2023. Everyone in our family is heartbroken.
She is deeply missed by her husband of 56 years, Robert Sage, who was the love of her life, and she was the love of his life; by her daughters, Lee Ann and Amy; and one granddaughter, Allee.
Mom was a wonderful and caring person and a fabulous cook. She spent 18 years working at St. Nicholas School in Rupert, preparing lunches for the students whom she loved cooking for. She loved running into past students and was honored they remembered her and her meals. She became known as, “my cookie” to them. Mom had a talent for making something out of nothing.
She was born September 4, 1946, in Mountain Grove, Missouri, to Floyd and Anna Parsons. She was the second of seven children born to that union.
She is survived by her loving husband; her daughters; granddaughter; siblings: Valdi (Fred) McCoy, Steven (Cheryl) Parsons, and Pauline (John) Taylor; along with several beloved cousins; nieces and nephews; and her many friends from church.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her sisters: Mae Gerard and Della Poole; infant sister, Carolyn Parsons; nephews: Russell Poole, Jeffrey Sage, and Michael Shelton; and her niece, Lorraine Ford.
Mom was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
A friend recently reminded us that Psalm 69:3 tells us . . No one can escape tears and heartache during this earthly journey, but as Christians, we have hope because we know God is in control. Mom believed this fully and was ready to meet our Lord and Savior.
The family would like to deeply thank the wonderful staff at Minidoka Memorial Hospital – especially Dr. Steele, Dr. Crane, and Dr. Claire – for the wonderful care and support during this difficult time. We would also like to thank the staff and doctors at St. Luke’s Cancer Institute for the care given to mom during her three-year battle with cancer. They gave us three years longer than expected.
Mom was a private person and requested no services; however, being the defiant husband and children that we are, services will be at a later date at the Seventh-day Adventist in Heyburn, Idaho.
Cremation arrangements have been entrusted to the care of the Rasmussen-Wilson Funeral Home of Burley.
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July 7, 1951—July 18, 2023
BURLEY – Dean Roland Searle, a 72 year old resident, of Burley, passed away Tuesday, July 18, 2023, at his home.
He was born July 7, 1951, in Burley, Idaho, to Elwin Armstead and Inez Manning Searle. He grew up in the View area with his two brothers, Joe and Kay, and his sister, Ruth. Growing up he enjoyed playing Superman, collecting rocks and stamps, and horseback riding.
At 17, he left Burley and went to live with his sister, Ruth, and her family in Salt Lake City, Utah.
In 1971 he joined the United States Army and spent a one-year tour of duty in Vietnam, then to Washington, DC, and three years in South Korea. After South Korea he was sent to many different duty stations in the United States and his final duty station was in West Germany.
In 1981 he met the love of his life, Rita, and they were married in 1983. They have one son, Dean E Searle, which he loved to play jokes on.
He is survived by his wife, Rita; son, Dean; and two grandchildren: Nate and Trinity.
He was preceded in death by his parents; Rita’s parents; a brother, Lee, who passed away before Dean was born; a brother, Kay; and his sister, Ruth.
Rita would like to thank Horizon Home Health & Hospice, especially Pastor Dan and Nurse Tracy. Also many thanks go out to Dean’s family for their help and support.
The family extends a special thanks to Mike Searle who was always there when we needed him. Rita would like to give a special thanks to Chuck Driscoll for all his help and friendship.
The family suggests, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to any military organization.
A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at Rasmussen-Wilson Funeral Home, located at 1350 E. 16th St., in Burley, where military rites will be provided by the Mini-Cassia Veterans Group. Urn placement will follow at View Cemetery.
Family and friends will be received from 10:00 until 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, preceding the memorial service, at the funeral home.
A live webcast of the funeral service will be available and maintained at rasmussenwilson.com.
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Nov. 15, 1933—July 12, 2023
ALMO — On July 12, 2023, at the age of 89, our beloved mother, Nancy Ann Ward, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family. Born on November 15, 1933, in Malta, Idaho, to parents, Garret and Myrtle Hutchison, Nancy led a life full of joy, faith, and service.
Known as the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo Queen of 1953 with her horse, Paint, and as a Raft River High School cheerleader, Nancy carried her vivacious spirit into her adult life. She attended Brigham Young University for two years, making lifelong friends and fond memories.
Nancy married the love of her life, Robert Wesley Ward, on January 17, 1956, in the Salt Lake City Temple. They were married for 64 years until Bob’s passing in December of 2020.
Together, they raised four smart and beautiful children: Debra Condie (Dean), Ilene Wilson, Steve Ward (Tonya), and Lisa Linton (Cory). She loved and cherished her 17 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren and held a special place in her heart for each one of them.
Nancy was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Bob; and his parents, Wesley and Edna Ward; her brothers, Duane Hutchison (Jeri), JD Hutchison (Joyce), Wally Hutchison (Rada), and Jack Hutchison; and in-laws, Rosco Ward, Ron and Elaine Fowles, Ronald and Venna Ward, and Alvin Bud Anderson.
Nancy is survived by her sisters-in-law, Vera Hutchison, Patricia Anderson, and Joyce Ward; brothers-in-law, Eugene Ward (Leeann), and Richard Ward (Cindy). She also is survived by many lifelong friends that she treasured and made many memories together with over the years.
An exceptional cook, Nancy was known throughout the Valley for her homemade bread, jam, pies and amazing Sunday suppers. No one could visit without leaving with a belly full of food and a heart full of love, a testament to her warm and nurturing nature. The grandkids always rushed to the freezer knowing that her yummy treats would be in there.
A devoted member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nancy served in many roles with humility and dedication. She held a particular fondness for her time spent as the Ward and Stake Relief Society President. Alongside Bob, she faithfully served eight years working in the Logan Utah Temple and served two church missions in Nauvoo, Illinois, strengthening their faith and family.
Nancy’s life was a testament to her love for her family, her church, and her community. She leaves behind a legacy of warmth, dedication, and love. As we mourn her passing, we also celebrate the incredible life she led and the countless lives she touched.
We would like to thank the staff at Autumn Haven and the special workers who took care of her in her final days.
May she be reunited and celebrate with those that have passed before her. Rest in peace, Mom.
The funeral will be held at 12:00 noon, Thursday, July 20, 2023 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – Almo Ward located at 834 E. 2985, S. Almo, ID. Burial will follow at Sunny Cedar Rest Cemetery.
Family and friends will be received at the church from 11:00 until 11:45 a.m. prior to the service.
A webcast of the service will be available and maintained at rasmussenfuneralhome.com.
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March 10, 1957 - July 19, 2023
BURLEY — Teresa Kay (Blacker) Ritchie, a 66 year old resident, of Burley, passed away Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at her home from liver cancer.
She was born March 10, 1957, in Burley, Idaho, to Marvin Ladell and Lovel Louise Wheeler Blacker. She had five siblings, Ted (Kathleen) Blacker, Cindy (Dan) Lloyd, Wally (Lisa) Blacker, Linda (Tony) Holt, and Heather (Shane) Waters.
Teresa resided in Burley where she lived a full and active life filled with family and friends, as well as many activities such as scouting, sewing, camping, and church.
On June 12, 1975, Teresa married the love of her life, Neil B. Ritchie, in the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple. They were happily married for 48 years. They had five children: David (Kimberly) Ritchie, Michael (Erika) Ritchie, Michelle Huck, Brandon (Sarah) Ritchie, and Steven (Angela) Ritchie; as well as 18 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
The funeral will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, July 27, 2023 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – Unity 3rd Ward, located at 275 S. 250 E., Burley, with Bishop David E. Smith officiating. Burial will follow at Riverside Cemetery in Heyburn.
Family and friends will be received from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at Rasmussen-Wilson Funeral Home, 1350 E. 16th St., in Burley, and from 10:00 until 10:45 a.m. Thursday, preceding the service, at the church.
A webcast of the funeral service will be available and maintained at rasmussenwilson.com.
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SEATTLE — Local educator Ray Opatowsky says Taylor Swift represents “joy and happiness” and more importantly, a new lease on life.
Ray says they’ve been a Swift fan for 17 years and feels like Swift is one of the few constants during a turbulent stretch of life.
Ray uses the Twitter handle @RaysunshineTV and the bio reflects some of the characteristics that make Ray shine.
“I’m a Trans Queer living in the PNW, raising a little Swiftie,” says Ray. They have a 4-year-old son who shares a passion for Swift's music but isn't quite old enough to appreciate what her songs did for the family unit.
Ray was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma during the pandemic and the timing added an additional layer of complication to an already intense chemotherapy plan.
“It was during COVID so I couldn’t have any visitors at all so it was lonely and isolating but Taylor’s music helped me get through it,” says Ray.
They point to a song Swift wrote for her mother for inspiration to endure.
“Taylor writes a song ‘Soon You’ll Get Better’ about her mom, who had cancer,” Ray says the positive energy and emotional lyrics gave them comfort during treatment.
“It was just me and Taylor for hours when I was sitting there getting treatment all alone,” says Ray.
Now in remission, Ray says going to see Swift in concert was a must, and thanking that star's parents was the goal.
“I just went to the floor area near VIP and had my sign with me when her mom noticed me,” they said.
Ray had a sign that said “I beat stage four cancer to be here!” and a friendship bracelet that said “Survivor.”
Andrea Swift traded bracelets with Ray and gave them a big hug. The moment was captured and is now circulating on social media.
“Her dad even came over and gave me some Taylor Swift guitar picks,” says Ray.
The photo of Ray holding the handmade sign was shared hundreds of times and has more than 7,000 likes. Ray says returning the love to Swift was powerful soul medicine and hopes more people in need will lean on the lyrics that helped during the toughest of times.
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BOISE, Idaho — The Ada County Highway District made some safety improvements to the busy intersection of 11th and State streets after a string of recent accidents.
"Left turn conflicts was kind of the predominant conflict that we saw come up in the crash history," said Colby GeDeros, ACHD traffic engineering supervisor.
Idaho Transportation Department preliminary data shows 18 crashes at the intersection in the last 10 years. Nine of those crashes involved pedestrians.
Just earlier this year, a man died after getting hit by a pickup truck turning left. To help avoid any more accidents, ACHD added a leading pedestrian interval.
"It allows pedestrians to get out into the intersection across about one lane of traffic, increases their visibility, and just establishes their right of way in the crosswalk," GeDeros said, "before vehicles have to think about yielding to oncoming cars or pedestrians."
The intersection corners two YMCA buildings, which brings a lot of foot traffic. President David Duro said he supports all of the changes.
The YMCA even sponsored bright orange crossing flags for people," he said.
"We've known really every person that's been struck in the intersection as somebody who's close to us," Duro said. "Our heart goes out to every person that's been injured ... hopefully these make a difference."
Community member Keeley Cheney agrees. She uses the crosswalk Monday through Friday.
Cheney said there have been some close calls, and the recent fatality only made her more hesitant to step out into the street.
"I have been hit almost three times," she said, "once standing on the corner and twice in the streets."
GeDeros said the leading pedestrian interval is proven to improve safety. ACHD already added the technology to about 40 intersections around the count as part of its 'Let's Get to Safety Initiative.'
They have 300 to 400 intersections to work on, he said.
ACHD also partnered with a Boise-based company PedSafety to add flashing left turn signs. The semi-new technology makes it easier for drivers to see pedestrians at all times of the day, marketing specialist Travis Goldsby said.
He said drivers are often distracted and do not pay enough attention to their surroundings, which is an issue the flashing lights address.
"This gives that visual indication having the sign light up," Goldsby said. "It forces the driver to recognize, 'Hey, I'm not the only one on the road, and I'm not the only thing that uses a street. Pedestrians also use the street."
While Duro is excited about all the safety improvements, he said people simply paying more attention will go a long way.
"As much as they help," he said, "there's no substitute for you and me to be safe when we're driving our cars to look out for pedestrians and for pedestrians to look out for cars."
GeDeros encouraged everyone, including bikers, walkers and drivers to always be aware of what is going on around them.
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Ezekiel Lee, 14, takes a bucket truck ride with Keegan Jones as students from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Indiana experience an afternoon of hands on learning and exploration of career opportunities at Indiana Michigan Power’s Baer Field Training Center on Tuesday afternoon.
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Memorial Park Jul 26, 2023 2 hrs ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Demia Moore, 9, and Ari’Onna Russell, 8, run through the sprayground at Memorial Park on Tuesday afternoon, when high temperatures reached the upper 80s. More heat and humidity is to come this week. See forecast on Page 2A. Stan Sussina | The Journal Gazette Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Most Popular Proposed income tax to fund Allen County jail fails; commissioners now say they can't move forward Fort Wayne Pride presses on Recent divorce filings in Allen County Fort Wayne shooting critically injures person Carroll students to fight denied records request on 'Marian' production Stocks Market Data by TradingView
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INDIANAPOLIS — Firefighters rescued a woman from a sewer Tuesday after seeing her hand poking up through the grates.
IMPD bike patrol officers noticed the woman's hand sticking out of a manhole cover in the 100 block of Shortridge Road, near East Washington Street and Shadeland Avenue, around 3 p.m.
Firefighters rescued the woman, who IFD said was around 50 years old, but still aren't sure how she got into the sewer or why she was there.
The woman was taken to the hospital to be checked out, but was reported in good condition.
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YUBA CITY, Calif. — Police are trying to locate an at-risk teenager who went missing in Yuba City.
According to the Yuba City Police Department, 15-year-old Casey Trask hasn't been seen since 5 a.m. Sunday. She was last seen on a Ring surveillance video leaving her home along the 700 block of Franklin Avenue.
She's described as having blue eyes with brown hair and a brown birthmark on her forehead and as wearing light-colored pants and a black shirt. She stands at 5'2" and weighs around 100 pounds.
If anyone sees Trask or knows where she is, they're asked to police at (530) 822-4660.
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SEATTLE — The Port of Seattle estimates 198,000 travelers passed through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport this week, setting a new record high for a single day.
The record travel day comes after one of the busiest weekends Seattle has seen in months. Between Taylor Swift's sold-out concerts and the Blue Jays coming down to play the Mariners at T-Mobile Park, the word got out that traveling in and out of western Washington would be challenging.
On Monday, Sea-Tac recorded 73,651 passengers, which broke even pre-pandemic levels.
Dorothy Challenger of Tacoma left herself four full hours just to be safe, something she sees as a good thing.
“After everything that has been said and done you have to live you can’t be scared. So for Sea-Tac to be that busy that means a lot of people are traveling they’re not living in a cage anymore,” Challenger said. “People are getting over their fears and they are living their lives."
But there’s a limit to how much passengers can take – one passenger who chose to remain nameless just wanted to vent.
“There’s not enough staff, not enough agents, not enough crew. It’s not getting better, it’s getting worse and we’re at the height of the summer,” the man said.
Yes, it will get worse, or better depending on how you look at it. Sea-Tac anticipates breaking the all-time passenger record again in August possibly several times. Paine Field in Everett says it’s on pace to see half a million passengers by the end of the year and just changed its name in an attempt to generate more business.
“Seattle region is what brought most of us here and it’s what drives our economy so it’s only fitting to have the name in there,” said Brett Smith of the field’s management company Propeller Airport.
Soon, the newly named Seattle Paine Field International Airport hopes to become an alternative for travelers looking for a flight into the Seattle Area.
Airports across the country have added additional TSA staff to help deal with the anticipated summer rush. Before heading out the door, travelers are asked to double-check their flight status through the airline or on the Port of Seattle's website.
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A motorcyclist has died from injuries he sustained in a collision with a BMW sedan on July 19, the Tucson Police Department said.
Authorities were notified July 25 that Micah Cameron Jacobs, 44, died.
The driver of the 2015 BMW sedan was not injured in the crash, which occurred about 6:15 a.m. July 19 at the intersection of East Fifth Street and North Jefferson Avenue, police said.
Traffic detectives say the BMW, heading east on Fifth Street, attempted a left turn onto northbound Jefferson, directly into the path of the oncoming motorcycle, police said. The motorcycle collided with the passenger side of the sedan.
The BMW driver, a 49-year-old man whose name was not released, was cited for failing to yield while making a left turn and causing serious injury/death from a collision, police said.
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This is the 52nd reported fatality this year on Tucson's roads, compared to 53 at the same time last year.
Eddie Celaya is a breaking news reporter and host of the "Here Weed Go!" podcast. He graduated from Pima Community College and the University of Arizona and has been with the Arizona Daily Star since May 2019.
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Help at humane society barn sale, join the Peace Choir or garden to feed needy
The City of Bloomington Volunteer Network is your source for information about volunteering locally. For a complete listing, visit BloomingtonVolunteerNetwork.org or call 812-349-3433. The inclusion of an organization in this list does not imply city endorsement or support of the organization’s activities or policies. Information and registration information for the following opportunities can be found online at BloomingtonVolunteerNetwork.org.
BCHS Barn Sale volunteers
Barn Sale time is coming! Brown County Humane Society needs your help to make this event as successful as possible. This event raised over $65,000 for the shelter last year and takes a village to reach its potential. Whether you can do a few hours, half days, or full days, your help will make a huge difference. Volunteers are needed to help with all aspects of this event from donation intake to Barn Sale Day help.
- Donation Days help: (cleaning items, sorting, and organizing) Aug. 4–7 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. https://tinyurl.com/donation-days-help
- Pre-Sale Prep: (setting up sale items, getting the event area set up, some heavy lifting needed) Aug. 8 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. and Aug. 9 from 8 a.m.–6 p.m. https://tinyurl.com/donation-days-help
- Sale Days help: (helping customers, keeping designated areas cleaned, some heavy lifting needed.) Aug. 10-12 between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. https://tinyurl.com/sale-days-help
- Clean Up help: (cleaning up, breaking down tables, moving items, heavy lifting needed) Aug. 13-14 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. https://tinyurl.com/clean-up-help
If you have questions, reach out to Megan at 317-946-8235 or volunteer@bchumane.org.
New choir members welcome
Bloomington Peace Choir is a community of people who love to sing. There are no auditions. Everyone of any skill level is welcome. The choir meets every Tuesday from 6:30–8 p.m. to rehearse Peace Choir songs at Bell Trace Senior Living Center. Member fee is $40 for each semester in 2023 (the first two weeks are free to see if you like it). Partial or working scholarships are available, just ask their membership coordinator about this opportunity. Singers under the age of 18 are welcome when accompanied by a parent or guardian. The fall session starts on Aug. 8! Learn more and sign up today at https://tinyurl.com/new-choir-members. For more information, contact 812- 834-5691 or bloomingtonpeacechoir@gmail.com.
Hoosier Hills Food Bank garden volunteering
Hoosier Hills Food Bank rents and operates a 1-acre plot of land at Will Detmer Park. The garden produces a variety of fruits and vegetables that are harvested in order to provide for those in need. No gardening experience necessary; come out and have a great time this summer and fall while helping feed the needy. Volunteers should wear close-toed shoes, no sandals or flip-flops. In the summer months, it is recommended to bring water and sunscreen. Currently, garden volunteer shifts run from about 9 a.m. to noon on multiple dates on July, 21, 24, 28, 31 and on Aug. 4, 7, 11, 14, 18, 21. This is a family-friendly opportunity for volunteers 10 years and up. Learn more and sign up today at https://tinyurl.com/hhfb-garden-volunteers. Questions? Contact garden@hhfoodbank.org or 812-334-8374.
Community Wish List Spotlight
Hoosier Hills Food Bank Wish List
Collects stores and distributes donated food to nearly 100 nonprofit organizations with feeding programs that directly serve needy and hungry people. HHFB distributes over 3.5 million pounds of food to hungry people each year.
Donations: Donations can be made in person at 2333 West Industrial Park Drive, Monday–Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The donation mailing address is P.O. Box 697 Bloomington, IN 47402.
Contact: Jake Bruner, 812-334-8374 or office@hhfoodbank.org.
Wish List: canned goods, boxed food, fresh produce, monetary donations towards the Fresh Friday distributions, books (for their Annual Book Sale)
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View their Wish List online at: https://tinyurl.com/hhfb-donations
You can find current in-kind, material needs on the year-round Community Wish List at bloomingtonvolunteernetwork.org/communitywishlist.
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IU grad Tori Moore killed in Alaska helicopter crash
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A helicopter crash in Alaska took the lives of a permafrost expert from the Netherlands, a pilot who recently transitioned from the military to fly charter helicopters and two other scientists conducting field work in the North Slope, one of the remotest regions in the U.S.
Ronald Daanen, 51, and Justin Germann, 27, both from Fairbanks; Tori Moore, 26, of South Bend, Indiana; and pilot Bernard “Tony” Higdon, 48, of North Pole, Alaska, all perished last week when the 1996 Bell 206 helicopter they were in crashed into a lake while they were on a scientific mission.
The three passengers were employees of Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources, working in the Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys.
Alaska search and rescue divers recovered the bodies of a helicopter pilot and three scientists on Sunday from the sunken wreckage of the aircraft, which went down in a shallow lake about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Utqiagvik — the northernmost city in the U.S., formerly known as Barrow. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident.
Daanen, a native of the Netherlands, had an ever-present smile and was also known as MacGyver because he could instantly fix anything that went wrong, whether it was repairing a generator or fixing a broken tent pole, colleagues said.
“He’s such a good-natured guy, he’s kind, he’s caring, he’s good humored,” said Howie Epstein, a professor in environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. During summer field work, they studied permafrost and changes in Arctic tundra in Canada, Alaska and Siberia.
When working on the North Slope, Daanen brought his homemade gin flavored with spruce tips, which Epstein said was "delicious." On a tiny island in Siberia, Daanen walked in with a chunk of gouda cheese the size of a curling stone, which they ate from at every meal for a week.
Daanen and his wife, Ina Timling, also competed in the World Ice Art Championships in Fairbanks. They created elaborate ice sculptures that usually had a science theme, using it as an educational opportunity to teach people about permafrost and Arctic landscapes, said Anna Liljedahl, an associate scientist with the Woodwell Climate Research Center and an affiliate professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
“We’ve lost an amazing friend and colleague,” she said of Daanen, who was a geologist for the state.
Permafrost, frozen ground and water were key components of his work, but she said he was a brilliant scientist who had wide and varied interests.
Germann was a state hydrologist with degrees from the University of North Dakota. He paid his way through college by joining the North Dakota National Guard and had to have his parents sign off because he was just a few months shy of his 18th birthday when he joined.
“He’s determined, a young man who chased his dream and accomplished a lot in his life,” his mother Karla said.
He completed an internship in Alaska and immediately made plans to return.
“I don’t think he was ever coming back to southwest North Dakota. That was his dream to be there and kayak and just hike and ride a bike in the snow, which is beyond crazy to me," she said with a chuckle.
The family had planned to visit Germann in Alaska in September but instead will travel this week to Fairbanks, where they are planning an informal memorial. His mother has been comforted by her son’s Alaska friends, who reached out to his family after his death.
“He had a lot of amazing friends up there, and we can’t wait to meet them,” she said.
Moore was a 2019 graduate from Indiana with a degree in geological and earth sciences. She wrote on her LinkedIn page that she was “interested in biogeochemistry, planetary science, environmental science.”
Her family declined to comment on her death.
Higdon became a full-time pilot in November, going to work for Maritime Helicopters. He had over 2,000 hours combined while flying Bell 206, Bell 407 and Eurocopter EC145 helicopters.
In a statement, the company praised Higdon: “We all knew Tony as the consummate professional and a skilled pilot. He will be greatly missed.”
He previously worked in different capacities at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks after serving more than 13 years as a military police officer with the U.S. Marine Corps.
Attempts by The Associated Press to reach Higdon’s family were unsuccessful.
AP researchers Jennifer Farrar and Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY, Pa. — After a car accident took away his ability to walk, for more than 20 years Scott Dibble of Susquehanna County has never let his paralysis stop him from doing what he loves.
"That was November 1996, I got out of the hospital in January 1997, and as soon as my back had healed up, I was back doing all the things I should've been doing at that age or as close as I could be to it," explained Scott Dibble, Susquehanna.
After years of giving lessons for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, Dibble was named as the new 'Hunter and Trapper Educator of the Year' at both the regional and state level.
"Helping to improve the courses and make them better make them more accessible for more people to get involved, that's just what is it I was doing, and I didn't expect to be recognized for it because that's just what you're supposed to do," said Dibble.
The achievement comes after years of finding ways to make his disability and love of hunting work together.
From the early days of his father driving him out into the woods before anyone else or building custom equipment to get through rough terrain, Dibble did it, all to educate himself and, eventually, Pennsylvania's future outdoorsmen.
"When I was able to take it myself and to become an instructor, I jumped at the chance; because of that point, the other two instructors who would work with my father moved on to other things," added Dibble.
Dibble says his new recognition is only more encouragement to make his family proud and prove that nothing is impossible.
"There's nothing to hold you back from anything; if you really love something, then you were doing yourself a disservice by not participating in it any way you can," said Dibble.
Dibble says he will continue teaching the hunters and trappers educational courses for as long as he can because, as he says, anyone can do it.
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Aerial mosquito spraying originally scheduled for Monday has been rescheduled for Wednesday evening between 6 and 8 p.m., weather permitting, for portions of Galloway Township and Port Republic, Atlantic County said.
Wind conditions forced the cancellation of Monday evening’s spray, the Atlantic County Office of Mosquito Control said Tuesday in a news release.
In the event of unfavorable conditions Wednesday evening, the spray will be postponed until Thursday evening, the county said.
The county is providing the aerial spray as part of its ongoing efforts to reduce the population of adult mosquitoes and prevent the spread of mosquito-borne illness.
In Galloway, the areas to be treated are bounded by Route 9 and Kings Highway; Route 9 east to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, from Smith-Bowen Road to Leeds Point Road; and Route 9 east to the Forsythe Refuge, from East Somers Landing Road to East Chanese Lane.
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In Port Republic, the areas to be treated are between Sooys Landing Road, Clarks Landing Road and Mill Street to the west and Chestnut Neck to the east.
Aerial spraying will be done using Duet HD, the county said. For more information about the pesticides to be applied, call the Office of Mosquito Control at 609-645-5948.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not require relocating or taking special precautions during mosquito spraying, though some may choose to avoid or minimize exposure by:
- Staying indoors during application to the immediate area
- Keeping windows shut and window fans and window air conditioners off (or set to circulate indoor air) during spraying
- Keeping children’s toys indoors
- Keeping pets indoors, as well as their food, water dishes and toys
Residents can help reduce mosquito populations by removing standing water from their properties.
For more information, visit atlantic-county.org/mosquito-control.
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ATLANTA — An Atlanta city councilmember is pushing for increased security at apartments days after windows on more than 140 vehicles were smashed at an Inman Park apartment complex over the weekend.
Councilmember Keisha Waites is calling for a new ordinance to require apartment complexes in the city to have what she's calling a comprehensive security plan. She knows first-hand how it feels to have a vehicle broken into; it happened to her last year.
"Folks should not be coming home to this type of ridiculousness," she said.
Officers responded around 7 a.m. Saturday 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.
"I’ve seen a lot of cars broken into but this is the most I’ve ever done in one spot," said Tony Campbell with Clear View Auto Glass.
He's picking up the shattered glass, crooks left behind after breaking into more than 100 vehicles at the apartment complex.
"I see a lot of people get guns and things like that stolen," Campbell said. "So I see them hurt about that. Some people have sentimental things taken."
According to a survey from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, at-home security cameras deter burglars 50 percent of the time. It also shows, having an alarm system will deter a burglary 53 percent of the time. Having police nearby ranked as the top deterrent - working 64 percent of the time.
Waites stated there is a security camera system at the complex where the break-ins happened over the weekend, but there have been technical issues getting video from it. She said that is why a working system and additional safety measures are needed.
As for the case at Mariposa Lofts, police released photos Monday 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.
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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Neighbors in the Scottdale Mill Village neighborhood of Dekalb County are expressing growing concerns over the state of the sewer lines near their homes, which they believe are in dire need of replacement. However, a critical issue arises as they contest whether these sewer lines are privately owned or maintained by the county.
The matter came to a head during a community meeting that took place Tuesday night where residents hoped to gain clarity on the situation from county officials. Tensions were high as attendees grappled with uncertainty and the possibility of being burdened with the cost of repairs.
One concerned resident, Jody McFerren, voiced his apprehensions.
"It's been about five or six years since we've had a meeting. So I'm very concerned about what's going to be going on," McFerren said.
He emphasized that considering the sewer lines are public, households should not be held responsible for their maintenance expenses.
However, the county's position differs.
According to McFerren, the county informed him and his neighbors that the sewer lines are privately owned, placing the responsibility of replacement squarely on the residents' shoulders. This conflicting stance has led to an ongoing dispute between the county and the affected homeowners.
The cost of replacing these aging sewer lines compounds residents' concerns. McFerren shared that the last estimate provided ranged between $30,000 and $36,000, a substantial financial burden for homeowners.
"That's half of the mortgage and most of the places that they paid for to buy them new," he lamented.
Robert Unger, another resident from the neighborhood, was unable to wait for a resolution. Faced with recurring issues, he decided to shoulder the cost of repairs himself, spending a substantial $11,000. Unger hopes for clarity from the meeting, anticipating that if a new sewer system is indeed in the works, he will be reimbursed for his expenses.
As the meeting began, residents like McFerren and Unger anxiously awaited further details from county officials. The hope was that the county would address their concerns and provide solutions to the dilemma that has left the community in uncertainty.
Unfortunately, ahead of the meeting, 11Alive reached out to Dekalb County for additional information, but no one was available for an interview.
A representative for the county sent the following statement:
"In response to questions raised by the Scottdale Mill community earlier this year, the DeKalb County Department of Watershed is meeting tonight (Tuesday) with Scottdale Mill property owners.
As stewards of the environment, the county will present possible options to this decades-old problem and begin to develop a path forward to protect the environment and enhance the quality of life of DeKalb residents."
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BUCKHEAD, Ga. — People traveling through Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood may notice smoky conditions Tuesday as police tend to a trash can fire at the MARTA station.
MARTA Police Department officials said a patron set fire to trash cans on the platform at the Buckhead station that's along Peachtree Road NE. The fire sent plumes of smoke traveling out of the station, making it appear to be on fire and causing hazy conditions at Lenox Square and for drivers along GA 400. However, police emphasize flames did not travel onto a train and the station itself was not on fire.
Police said they have arrested a woman who is believed to be behind the fires. Atlanta Fire said crews responded to the station shortly after 6:30 p.m. Firefighters said they quickly extinguished the flames.
No one was hurt and rail service has resumed at normal speeds through the area.
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