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HOUSTON — A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney.
Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, a southwest Texas woman whose remains were found nearly two years after she vanished in 2001.
In a letter sent Wednesday, Gonzales’ lawyers, Thea Posel and Raoul Schonemann, asked Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to grant a 30-day reprieve so the inmate can be considered a living donor “to someone who is in urgent need of a kidney transplant.”
His attorneys have made a separate request to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for a 180-day reprieve related to the kidney donation.
In their request to Abbott, Gonzales’ attorneys included a letter from Cantor Michael Zoosman, an ordained Jewish clergyman from Maryland who has been corresponding with Gonzales.
“There has been no doubt in my mind that Ramiro’s desire to be an altruistic kidney donor is not motivated by a last-minute attempt to stop or delay his execution. I will go to my grave believing in my heart that this is something that Ramiro wants to do to help make his soul right with his God,” Zoosman wrote.
Gonzales’ attorneys say he’s been determined to be an “excellent candidate” for donation after being evaluated by the transplant team at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. The evaluation found Gonzales has a rare blood type, meaning his donation could benefit someone who might have difficulty finding a match.
“Virtually all that remains is the surgery to remove Ramiro’s kidney. UTMB has confirmed that the procedure could be completed within a month,” Posel and Schonemann wrote to Abbott.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice policies allow inmates to make organ and tissue donations. Agency spokeswoman Amanda Hernandez said Gonzales was deemed ineligible after making a request to be a donor earlier this year. She did not give a reason, but Gonzales' lawyers said in their letter that the agency objected because of the pending execution date.
Abbott’s office did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is set to vote July 11 on Gonzales’ request to that agency.
Gonzales’ attorneys have made a separate request asking the board to commute his death sentence to a lesser penalty.
They also asked that his execution not proceed if his spiritual adviser isn’t allowed to both hold his hand and place another hand on his heart during his execution. A two-day federal trial on this request was set to begin Tuesday in Houston.
Gonzales’ request to delay his execution for an organ donation is rare among death row inmates in the U.S., Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Friday.
In 1995, condemned murderer Steven Shelton in Delaware donated a kidney to his mother.
In 2013, Ronald Phillips’ execution in Ohio was delayed so his request to donate a kidney to his mother could be reviewed. Phillips’ request was later denied and he was executed in 2017.
“Skeptics will think this is simply an attempt to delay the execution. But if that were the case, I think you’d be seeing many requests,” said Dunham, whose group takes no position on capital punishment but has criticized the way states carry out executions. “The history of executions in the United States shows that people don’t make offers of organ donations for the purpose of delaying an execution that will still take place.”
In a report, the United Network for Organ Sharing, a nonprofit that serves as the nation’s transplant system under contract with the federal government, listed various ethical concerns about organ donations from condemned prisoners. They include whether such donations could be tied to prisoners receiving preferential treatment or that such organs could be morally compromised because of their ties to the death penalty. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/texas-inmate-ramiro-gonzales-asks-delay-execution-donate-kidney/287-609753ef-c4c9-413b-b89e-82aad20669ea | 2022-07-02T03:43:33 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/texas-inmate-ramiro-gonzales-asks-delay-execution-donate-kidney/287-609753ef-c4c9-413b-b89e-82aad20669ea |
LAS VEGAS — A sunken boat dating back to World War II is the latest object to emerge from a shrinking reservoir that straddles the border of Nevada and Arizona.
The Higgins landing craft that has long been 185 feet (56 meters) below the surface is now nearly halfway out of the water at Lake Mead.
The boat lies less than a mile from Lake Mead Marina and Hemingway Harbor.
It was used to survey the Colorado River decades ago, sold to the marina and then sunk, according to dive tours company Las Vegas Scuba.
Higgins Industries in New Orleans built several thousand landing craft between 1942 and 1945, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Around 1,500 “Higgins boats” were deployed at Normandy on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day.
The boat is just the latest in a series of objects unearthed by declining water levels in Lake Mead, the largest human-made reservoir in the U.S., held back by the Hoover Dam. In May, two sets of human remains were found in the span of a week.
Experts say climate change and drought have led to the lake dropping to its lowest level since it was full about 20 years ago.
As both Lake Mead and Lake Powell upstream on the Arizona-Utah line drop, states in the U.S. West increasingly face cuts to their supply from the Colorado River. The lower levels also impact hydropower produced at Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam, which holds back Lake Powell.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton said last month that the agency would take action to protect the system if the seven states in the Colorado River basin don't quickly come up with a way to cut the use of up to 4 million acre-feet of water — more than Arizona and Nevada's share combined.
An acre-foot is about 325,850 gallons (about 1.23 million liters). An average household uses one-half to one acre-foot of water a year.
The two states, California and Mexico already have enacted voluntary and mandatory cuts. Water from some reservoirs in the upper basin — Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah — has been released to prop up Lake Powell.
Farmers use a majority of the river's supply. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/world-war-ii-era-boat-emerges-from-shrinking-lake-mead/75-afff19bb-2cd9-4061-911f-1bb9b6acd90c | 2022-07-02T03:43:40 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/world-war-ii-era-boat-emerges-from-shrinking-lake-mead/75-afff19bb-2cd9-4061-911f-1bb9b6acd90c |
RIVERVIEW, Fla. — An 11-year-old boy was struck by lightning during a family fishing trip Thursday afternoon in Riverview.
The child's pastor, Daniel Butson of Fishhawk Fellowship Church, said that that lightning strike turned a day on the boat into a nightmare.
“It hit his lower back, and went through his left foot, and actually knocked him out of the boat,” Butson said. “Into the water, where he began to sink.”
Pastor Butson said 11-year-old Levi Stock's father dove into the water after him, doing everything he could to make sure he didn’t lose his son.
“Some good Samaritans who saw this happen,” he said. “They get Derek and Levi into their boat, and that’s where Derek begins to offer life-saving CPR…he was doing CPR and Derek described to me ‘Daniel, it was like it lasted an eternity. It might have been five or 10 minutes, but it felt like forever.”
Pastor Butson says emergency responders arrived at the scene, and found that Levi had a faint pulse. Butson says crews rushed Levi to the hospital while his family sent out one request for the community…“please, pray.”
“We dropped everything, we started praying,” Butson said. “We let our whole church know to start praying. The community began to pray. People at the dock were praying…I know this was a story about the power of lightning, but it really ought to be a story about the power of prayer.”
Now, Pastor Butson says we’re able to tell a story of triumph, instead of tragedy.
“Twenty-four hours later, he’s now responding to his parents,” Butson said. “He’s talking, and I just got a report a few minutes ago that the doctors think he’s going to make a complete and full recovery. Which, we just praise the Lord for.” | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/florida-boy-struck-by-lightning/67-b67e576f-728b-431a-aa09-337c8ca0fcce | 2022-07-02T04:05:26 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/florida-boy-struck-by-lightning/67-b67e576f-728b-431a-aa09-337c8ca0fcce |
RUSKIN, Fla. — Firefighters extinguished a fire at a Ruskin home Friday night after it was struck by lightning, authorities say.
At around 5:48 p.m., Hillsborough County Fire Rescue responded to a home on Dovesong Trace Drive. When fire crews first arrived, they saw no signs of smoke or flames from the front of the house.
However, they noticed the fire was in the attic of the home. Firefighters were able to put the fire out in five minutes, the department said.
"Their quick discovery of the location of the fire, along with rapid deployment and use of the attack line, kept the blaze from rapidly spreading throughout the attic," Hillsborough County Fire Rescue said in a Facebook post.
After a search, it was determined that no one was inside and there were no injuries as a result of the fire. Investigators believe the cause of the fire was from a lightning strike. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/lightning-strike-house-fire-ruskin/67-7dd19b03-0376-4e20-a14b-7ee2f40b14ed | 2022-07-02T04:05:32 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/lightning-strike-house-fire-ruskin/67-7dd19b03-0376-4e20-a14b-7ee2f40b14ed |
LAKE WALES, Fla. — A family is grieving the loss of a young mother who investigators say was killed by a driver who was going the wrong direction early Sunday morning in Lake Wales.
Jessica Daigle, 27, was hit and killed at the intersection of State Road 60 and Stokes Road.
"The scar will go over your heart. She was the love of our lives. She was kind, she was generous," said Daigle's grandmother, Kathie Duke.
The pain is numbing, and the memories won't go away for the family.
"I feel like my heart has been ripped out of my chest. She was my baby, and I can't believe this happened to her. I should have gone before her," Duke said.
Duke is still unable to process what happened to her granddaughter, but she keeps close the necklace Jessica gave to her.
Jessica leaves behind her 5-year-old son, August. They were best friends, and she fought to make sure he would be OK.
"She wanted to be the best mother she could. I think that's all she's ever wanted. She loved and cared for August so much," said her brother, Noah Daigle.
The 23-year-old brother is still grabbling with the fact that his sibling is gone. Much like her bond with August, their own bond was unbreakable.
"We've always been there for each other. It hurts you know? It's someone very close to you. It's one of the closest people to me," he said.
Noah said his sister was set to graduate July 9 from welding school.
"I actually talked her into going to welding school because she almost didn't want to do it. She was more concerned about just caring for August," he said.
A master craftswoman, she worked to better herself, support her son and family. The family said the road of grief will not be easy for them.
"I just want one more night. One more night with her to just go out be siblings again. It's some of the best memories I have," Noah said.
Polk County deputies say 39-year-old Mark Poe was the driver who hit Jessica head-on. The Frostproof man now faces vehicular homicide charges and more are pending.
Jessica's funeral will be held on Saturday. Her family said plans are in the works to honor her during graduation in July.
The local community has stepped up to help the family and support her son in any way they can. If you'd like to donate money to the family, click here. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/polkcounty/wrong-way-driver-kills-27-year-old-lake-wales-mom/67-f6f0dfb0-3034-4360-ad8f-b3cec6a79615 | 2022-07-02T04:05:56 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/polkcounty/wrong-way-driver-kills-27-year-old-lake-wales-mom/67-f6f0dfb0-3034-4360-ad8f-b3cec6a79615 |
WACO, Texas — The Heart of Texas Homeless Coalition (HOTHC) announces its Project Homeless Connect event for July 8.
A non-profit centered around homelessness and housing instability from 9 a.m to 12 p.m. will be providing a one-stop-shop for resources and services at the Waco Convention Center.
The event will provide access to COVID-19 vaccinations, social services, and other resources from community partners, according to the non-profit.
Other referrals and services offered will include Employment Assistance, Haircuts, Health & Vision Screenings, HIV Testing, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Housing Information, Hygiene Items, Pet Care, Social Services, Veterans Benefits, Dental Screenings and more, as stated by the non-profit.
For more information, visit The Heart of Texas Homeless Coalition website, here.
More kcentv.com: | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/homeless-coalition-project/500-86ef5f3b-c51f-4f5e-ab15-535c9737ea9e | 2022-07-02T04:08:48 | 0 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/homeless-coalition-project/500-86ef5f3b-c51f-4f5e-ab15-535c9737ea9e |
ATLANTA — The Georgia Department of Labor is firing back after The Southern Poverty Law Center released a proposed settlement between the two parties.
The class-action lawsuit filed by the SPLC is asking the department to re-evaluate the way it was managing jobless claims made by Georgians.
During the height of the pandemic, 11Alive reported that thousands of claims were filed but the Department of Labor could not keep up with the volume of calls. Thursday, the preliminary agreement was approved by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. In the agreement, the SPLC called for the department to improve its communications systems and eliminate any backlog it may have.
However, the Dept. of Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said these demands were already put into practice and the claims process has been caught up for more than a year.
"For the attorneys on the other side to say they did all these miraculous things for these different people is extremely disingenuous and frankly untrue," Bulter said.
He added that the expectations of the department were not realistic, considering what it was faced with.
"So the expectation that during a pandemic when you're staffed to take care a few thousand people a month to all of sudden to start experiencing millions of people over the span of two weeks, with no time to prepare and to have the expectation that everything was going to be perfect and there's not going to be any type of delays is extremely unrealistic," he said.
In a news release, attorneys for SPLC said there is still more work to be done.
“While GDOL claims there is no current backlog in making payments for unemployment benefits, we know there are still hundreds of thousands of people waiting for their appeals to be heard, with many having no idea when their appeals will occur,” said Jamie Rush, a senior staff attorney for the SPLC Economic Justice Project. “The changes agreed to in this settlement should allow people to get their claims and appeals processed quicker while keeping them informed about what is going on.”
The two sides are still in ongoing discussions. The deal is set to be finalized on Sept. 1, pending court approval. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/state-labor-department-proposed-settlement-lawsuit-splc/85-4a0542a2-492d-4c7f-bafd-5f4ca00e88d1 | 2022-07-02T04:12:24 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/state-labor-department-proposed-settlement-lawsuit-splc/85-4a0542a2-492d-4c7f-bafd-5f4ca00e88d1 |
DALLAS — What showed up on the front steps of two Dallas homes was as unlikely as it was unwelcome.
Patricia Ann Ketchum and Christina Bristow received the same letter from the city of Dallas and the police department. It was taped to their front doors and Bristow even has video of the officer delivering it.
"It was a little... unnerving... is a good word for it," said Bristow. "No one got one but me in this area," said Ketchum.
That letter starts by identifying their homes as a "nuisance noise property," which city code defines as "noises interfering with enjoyment of property or public place and comfort."
The letter also reads that future violations may result in fines up to $500 and/or arrest. The letter was a warning to the occupants of the residence in the days leading up to the Fourth of July.
The letter states that multiple 911 complaints about loud music, gunfire and fireworks from their property put them on this list.
Ketchum is 74 years old and doesn't have a firearm and hasn't shot any fireworks ever.
"I don't know where they got their information from because it's not true," said Ketchum.
Dallas police confirms to WFAA that 680 letters were sent out days before July Fourth.
Tim Hill, Ketchum's son, got some clarification when he called into the police department.
"They did an algorithm that pulled calls from people who called 911 and people called on," Hill said. So, essentially the residents who called 911 were also getting letters.
Bristow is the neighborhood lead and she calls 911 for her neighbors. She feels someone should be held responsible for the possible mix-up.
DPD says the notices were part of a July 4 proactive approach.
"Dallas Police are handing out notices citywide leading up to the July 4th holiday. It’s a proactive initiative to educating the public and to prevent illegal firework use or possession in the city this weekend. There are more than 680 of the notices being passed out related to fireworks calls that were received July 4, 2021 and New Years Eve 2022. We have had reports that some of the notices have been left at unintended locations. We apologize for that confusion," read a statement from DPD.
"What's an unintended location? A mistake? How did they get my address?" posed Bristow.
They fear this mix-up could keep neighbors from wanting to call 911 when needed.
An effort to stop illegal fireworks may have just created more fireworks. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/city-of-dallas-police-nuisance-noise-warnings-wrong-addresses/287-6e21c1db-44a7-4c19-b4aa-6319eb7babb8 | 2022-07-02T04:15:57 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/city-of-dallas-police-nuisance-noise-warnings-wrong-addresses/287-6e21c1db-44a7-4c19-b4aa-6319eb7babb8 |
CELINA, Texas — Health officials in Collin County are warning residents about a possible exposure to rabies at a community pool on Friday.
Collin County Health Services said the possible exposure happened at the Heritage Celina Homeowner's Association community pool at 1231 Stanford Lane.
According to the health department, a bat was seen in and around the pool on Friday afternoon.
The department said that the bat may have rabies due to its reported behavior. The bat has not yet been located.
The county health department is now asking anyone who may have had physical contact with the bat to call the department's epidemiology program as soon as possible.
The department's number during regular business hours is 972-548-4707. However, if they need to be reached this weekend -- Friday, July 1, through Monday, July 4 -- residents should call the Collin County sheriff's dispatch at 972-547-5350 and ask for the epidemiologist on call.
Parents should ask their children if they had contact with the bat, the department said.
Collin County Health Services said rabies can be transmitted to humans through an infected animal's saliva. Rabies is preventable if treated before symptoms arise, the department said. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/collin-county-health-department-warns-possible-rabies-exposure-community-pool/287-e8defb33-4971-45b5-91c8-b511ecca17a2 | 2022-07-02T04:16:03 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/collin-county-health-department-warns-possible-rabies-exposure-community-pool/287-e8defb33-4971-45b5-91c8-b511ecca17a2 |
Bacteria outbreak causes fish stockings to suspend at Page Springs Fish Hatchery
The Arizona Game and Fish Department announced the temporary halt to fish stocking from Page Springs Fish Hatchery due to a bacteria outbreak in the trout at the facility.
The hatchery is located in Cornville, two hours north of Phoenix.
Hatchery staff began to notice a number of fish mortalities in early June and sent the fish to the University of Arizona for identification.
In a statement released Friday, July 1, the department said that UA identified the disease as lactococcus garvieae, which has been found in freshwater and saltwater facilities as well as on cattle and poultry farms. This is the first time the disease has been detected in Arizona, according to the statement .
A source for the bacteria at Page Springs Fish Hatchery has not yet been found, according to the statement.
AZGFD said that fish affected with lactococcus garvieae show symptoms such as bulging eyes, lethargic or erratic swimming, and increased mortality. They can also show no symptoms due to factors like water temperature and stress.
Some fish that were stocked in May and June from Page Springs Hatchery could carry the bacteria but show no signs or symptoms of the disease, AZGFD said.
The transmission from fish-to-human of the bacteria is unlikely, according to AZGFD.
AZGFD advises food handlers to follow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration advice and cook fish at an internal temperature of 145 degrees Fahrenheit. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/07/01/new-bacteria-suspends-fish-stocking-page-springs-fish-hatchery/7793831001/ | 2022-07-02T04:16:33 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/07/01/new-bacteria-suspends-fish-stocking-page-springs-fish-hatchery/7793831001/ |
A Denton County baker has been in national food competitions for her elaborate cakes. Now, her sweets are in the spotlight for a different reason.
Customers say the sweet treats at Hive Bakery in Flower Mound speak for themselves.
Most also like what owner Haley Popp has to say.
“When I opened Hive, I just kind of promised myself it was going to have my voice come hell or high water,” Popp said.
Popp has been baking for 17 years and opened Hive Bakery four years ago.
She created a buzz in early May when she posted a photo of a cake on Facebook after the Supreme Court's draft opinion of Roe v. Wade was leaked.
“We simply posted a cake that said ‘my body my choice’ and the backlash from this community was unreal as well as the support,” Popp said.
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Sales, Popp says, more than doubled in May with customers placing orders from around the world.
“We had to ship things to New Zealand, we had to ship things to Canada,” Popp said.
Normally, Fourth of July themed treats would be on the menu heading into the holiday weekend.
But because Roe was overturned, Popp says "protest cookies" took their place.
The message on the cookies isn't sugar-coated.
“We're absolutely terrified that we live in a country that takes away your right to personal freedom,” Popp said.
She says her "protest cookies" sell out online within hours of being posted.
The line at the store Friday morning was out the door.
“We fought very hard to get to this point, and I don't know why we're trying to step backwards,” said customer Todd Treece.
“Her posts always resonate with me because we live in quite a bubble out here. It’s very conservative,” said customer Angie Miller. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/denton-county-baker-selling-protest-cookies-with-a-message/3005718/ | 2022-07-02T04:27:55 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/denton-county-baker-selling-protest-cookies-with-a-message/3005718/ |
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Fort Worth police on Friday released new video showing officers chasing after a domestic violence suspect before shooting him Wednesday night.
Alejandro Molina Cornelio, 31, remains hospitalized in critical condition, Fort Worth Assistant Police Chief Robert Alldredge said in the video.
The video includes a 911 call and a sequence of police bodycam and dashcam clips of the incident in West Fort Worth.
Alldredge said it began as a domestic violence call at about 8:30 p.m. at a home in the 3200 block of Olive Place.
In the 911 call, a woman is heard saying her brother was outside with a gun and threatening his wife, who was staying at the home, along with several kids and relatives in the house.
The caller said he broke his way in through the front door and pointed the gun at people inside. He eventually got away before police arrived.
Dashboard camera video shows officers pursuing the pickup truck in what was a 9-minute chase. During the chase, the driver was making phone calls to family members inside the home, threatening to kill his wife and take his own life, Alldredge said.
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Alldredge said it became obvious that the driver was heading back to the house, so officers used their police vehicles to barricade the road outside the home and move the relatives to safety.
Video clips show the man's truck stopping at that roadblock before a police cruiser crashes into it. Officers are then seen surrounding the truck with multiple gunshots heard.
It wasn't immediately clear how many officers opened fire.
No other injuries were reported.
Cornelio faces three charges of aggravated assault, Alldredge said.
The investigation is ongoing and the case will be handed over to a grand jury for review. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/police-video-shows-fort-worth-officers-chase-shoot-at-domestic-violence-suspect/3005820/ | 2022-07-02T04:28:18 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/police-video-shows-fort-worth-officers-chase-shoot-at-domestic-violence-suspect/3005820/ |
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These Arizona lotteries were drawn Friday:
Pick 3
1-4-8
Fantasy 5
02-03-19-21-23
Estimated jackpot: $126,000
Triple Twist
04-11-13-17-38-42
Estimated jackpot: $611,000
Mega Millions
01-27-29-38-62, Mega Ball: 12, Megaplier: 3
Estimated jackpot: $360 million
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Estimated jackpot: $20 million | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/07/01/arizona-lottery-numbers-july-1/7794607001/ | 2022-07-02T04:29:37 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/07/01/arizona-lottery-numbers-july-1/7794607001/ |
FLOYD COUNTY, KY (WOWK) — One more law enforcement officer has died as a result of injuries sustained in a Thursday shooting in Allen, Kentucky, according to Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt.
Prestonsburg Police Department says the officer was Canine Handler Jacob R. Chaffins, Badge No. 533. The statement came on Friday at 10:42 p.m.
According to Prestonsburg PD, Officer Chaffins worked over the years for his community as an EMT, firefighter and police officer.
“You further dedicated yourself to the security of our country as a valiant soldier,” Prestonsburg PD says on Facebook. “The lives you’ve saved since you even started policing are innumerable, and that’s how you gave your life — saving another.”
Earlier on Friday around 3:30 p.m., Kentucky State Police (KSP) stated that Officer Chaffins was in the hospital in critical condition.
KSP also said on Friday that two additional law enforcement officers died, four officers were injured, and one civilian was injured as a result of the shooting. Before Officer Chaffins died, he was considered one of the four injured. Now a total of three officers have been killed in the shooting that happened Thursday around 6:44 p.m.
This is a developing story that 13 News will update as the investigation continues. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/1-additional-officer-dead-as-result-of-allen-ky-shooting/ | 2022-07-02T04:35:53 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/1-additional-officer-dead-as-result-of-allen-ky-shooting/ |
HOUSTON — A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney.
Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, a southwest Texas woman whose remains were found nearly two years after she vanished in 2001.
In a letter sent Wednesday, Gonzales’ lawyers, Thea Posel and Raoul Schonemann, asked Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to grant a 30-day reprieve so the inmate can be considered a living donor “to someone who is in urgent need of a kidney transplant.”
His attorneys have made a separate request to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for a 180-day reprieve related to the kidney donation.
In their request to Abbott, Gonzales’ attorneys included a letter from Cantor Michael Zoosman, an ordained Jewish clergyman from Maryland who has been corresponding with Gonzales.
“There has been no doubt in my mind that Ramiro’s desire to be an altruistic kidney donor is not motivated by a last-minute attempt to stop or delay his execution. I will go to my grave believing in my heart that this is something that Ramiro wants to do to help make his soul right with his God,” Zoosman wrote.
Gonzales’ attorneys say he’s been determined to be an “excellent candidate” for donation after being evaluated by the transplant team at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. The evaluation found Gonzales has a rare blood type, meaning his donation could benefit someone who might have difficulty finding a match.
“Virtually all that remains is the surgery to remove Ramiro’s kidney. UTMB has confirmed that the procedure could be completed within a month,” Posel and Schonemann wrote to Abbott.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice policies allow inmates to make organ and tissue donations. Agency spokeswoman Amanda Hernandez said Gonzales was deemed ineligible after making a request to be a donor earlier this year. She did not give a reason, but Gonzales' lawyers said in their letter that the agency objected because of the pending execution date.
Abbott’s office did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is set to vote July 11 on Gonzales’ request to that agency.
Gonzales’ attorneys have made a separate request asking the board to commute his death sentence to a lesser penalty.
They also asked that his execution not proceed if his spiritual adviser isn’t allowed to both hold his hand and place another hand on his heart during his execution. A two-day federal trial on this request was set to begin Tuesday in Houston.
Gonzales’ request to delay his execution for an organ donation is rare among death row inmates in the U.S., Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Friday.
In 1995, condemned murderer Steven Shelton in Delaware donated a kidney to his mother.
In 2013, Ronald Phillips’ execution in Ohio was delayed so his request to donate a kidney to his mother could be reviewed. Phillips’ request was later denied and he was executed in 2017.
“Skeptics will think this is simply an attempt to delay the execution. But if that were the case, I think you’d be seeing many requests,” said Dunham, whose group takes no position on capital punishment but has criticized the way states carry out executions. “The history of executions in the United States shows that people don’t make offers of organ donations for the purpose of delaying an execution that will still take place.”
In a report, the United Network for Organ Sharing, a nonprofit that serves as the nation’s transplant system under contract with the federal government, listed various ethical concerns about organ donations from condemned prisoners. They include whether such donations could be tied to prisoners receiving preferential treatment or that such organs could be morally compromised because of their ties to the death penalty. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-inmate-ramiro-gonzales-asks-delay-execution-donate-kidney/287-609753ef-c4c9-413b-b89e-82aad20669ea | 2022-07-02T04:35:54 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-inmate-ramiro-gonzales-asks-delay-execution-donate-kidney/287-609753ef-c4c9-413b-b89e-82aad20669ea |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Gov. Jim Justice has invited all West Virginians to honor America’s last World War II Medal of Honor recipient, West Virginia native Hershel “Woody” Williams, during memorial services on Saturday and Sunday.
Starting at 7:45 a.m. on Saturday, 13 News will begin our live coverage of the services celebrating Williams. A schedule of Saturday’s events is written below.
Saturday Schedule
On Saturday at 8 a.m., the procession will leave Beard Mortuary in Huntington and follow U.S. Route 60 through Ona and Milton.
In Milton, the procession will get on Interstate 64 near Exit 28. The procession will stay on I-64 until Exit 99.
It will then turn right onto Greenbrier Street before turning left onto Kanawha Boulevard to enter the State Capitol from the South Side Complex.
Upon arrival, the casket will be carried into the State Capitol Building and positioned in the Lower Capitol Rotunda.
10 a.m. – 6 p.m. | Public Viewing
Williams will Lie In State at the Capitol Rotunda for public viewing from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Public Entrance
All attendees must enter the Capitol Building using the public West Wing entrance. Doors will open at 10 a.m.
Parking
Parking for guests will be provided. Lots around the Capitol Complex will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The public employee parking garage off Greenbrier Street and the Laidley Field parking lot will also be open to the public.
Free shuttle services will be offered all day within the service area.
Designated handicap parking spaces will also be available at the lot beside the State Culture Center.
Currently, this is the schedule for Saturday’s events, but stick with 13 News for updates and live coverage on Sunday’s events as well.
A burial schedule is undetermined at this time. Burial services will be private for family only. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/memorial-service-to-begin-for-woody-williams-on-saturday-at-8-a-m/ | 2022-07-02T04:35:59 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/memorial-service-to-begin-for-woody-williams-on-saturday-at-8-a-m/ |
Michigan man found guilty of charges tied to Jan. 6 Capitol breach
A federal jury this week found a Southgate man guilty of charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in Washington, D.C.
The trial for Anthony Robert Williams, 47, started Monday in the District of Columbia.
On Thursday, jurors found him guilty of the felony offense of obstruction of an official proceeding and four related misdemeanor charges, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
The charges included entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
“His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election,” federal officials said in a statement Thursday.
Williams is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 16. He faces up to 20 years in prison on the felony obstruction charge, while the misdemeanors carry a combined statutory maximum of three years and potential financial penalties, the government said.
Reached Friday night, Benton Martin, a federal defender who represented him in the case, declined comment on the verdict.
According to the government’s evidence, in the weeks before a “Stop the Steal” rally coinciding with Congress meeting to certify Joe Biden as the winner in the 2020 presidential election, Williams posted various statements on social media indicating he intended to travel to Washington to “storm the swamp.”
He recorded videos of himself while illegally inside the Capitol building and “used bike racks put into place by police officers to assist other rioters in getting onto the Northwest stairs,” authorities said Thursday.
“Williams himself raised his arms as he scaled the railing after rioters broke through the line of officers. He was in a wave of rioters that entered the Senate Wing door at 2:18 p.m., just five minutes after that door was breached in the first breach of the building by rioters that day. He then went to the Crypt and was close to the front of the line of officers when rioters broke through.”
The government reported Williams then went to the Rotunda, where he filmed himself making statements such as “desperate times, desperate measures.”
Williams also “resisted efforts of law enforcement officers to push the mob out of the area, holding the line for his side in the Rotunda,” investigators said. “He was one of the last rioters to be pushed out of that area. He was in the Capitol Building for about one hour.”
The case against him emerged after an online tipster described since-deleted Facebook posts showing Williams inside the Capitol, according to an affidavit from an FBI agent.
Investigators found photos of Williams at the Capitol and obtained phone records showing his phone inside the building on Jan. 6, the agent said.
Facebook provided photos and videos from his account showing Williams inside the building, according to the government. In one video, Williams discussed how he "stormed" the building and "pushed back the cops," the FBI reported.
Williams was arrested on March 26, 2021, in Detroit. He later was released on a $10,000 bond.
Within weeks, federal officials said, he boasted about his actions on social media, saying in a post on April 19: “I was in the Capitol and have absolutely no remorse or fear in saying or doing it."
Last month, his legal team sought to delay the trial until September or later as high-profile hearings led by a U.S. House committee investigating the riot continue.
The timing “prejudices Mr. Williams’s ability to obtain a fair trial and raises a due process concern for two reasons,” they wrote in a filing, arguing the hearings affect his "ability to secure an unbiased jury, in any jurisdiction, given the high viewership of the hearings and their proximity in time to the trial. … Second, it is unfair to proceed to trial when neither the prosecution nor the defense knows what newly disclosed evidence may be produced through the Select Committee hearings.”
Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, who oversaw the trial, denied the request in a June 23 order, saying the hearings are "not sufficient reason" to reschedule.
“The events of January 6, 2021, occurred nearly 18 months ago and this defendant was charged and arrested nearly 15 months ago, with the trial in this case scheduled nearly 5 months ago, with ten substantive pretrial motions already resolved in preparation for trial to proceed in less than three business days,” she wrote. “The interests of justice are not served by any further delay in the resolution of this case.”
The jury’s decision on Williams came the same day the FBI arrested another Michigan man, Luke Lints, for his alleged role in the insurrection.
Weeks earlier, authorities arrested GOP gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley on four misdemeanor charges related to the attack.
The DOJ lists 16 people arrested in Michigan and charged in connection with the events.
“In the 17 months since Jan. 6, 2021, more than 840 individuals have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including over 250 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement,” officials said Thursday. “The investigation remains ongoing.”
Anyone with tips can call 1-800-CALL-FBI (800-225-5324) or go to tips.fbi.gov. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/07/01/michigan-man-found-guilty-charges-tied-jan-6-capitol-breach/7793799001/ | 2022-07-02T04:43:26 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/07/01/michigan-man-found-guilty-charges-tied-jan-6-capitol-breach/7793799001/ |
BLACKSBURG, Va. – A newly awarded recognition for Virginia Tech is creating a lot of buzz around campus.
Tech has earned Bee Campus USA certification.
“Bee Campus USA is an initiative from the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. Through the certification that Virginia Tech has achieved, we agree to a list of commitments that we are going to carry forward into the future,” said Assistant Professor, Dr. Margaret Couvillon.
Some of the commitments of the program are reducing the use of pesticides, planting more native plants for the area and most importantly, making campus a bee-friendly place.
“To create and enhance pollinator habitat around campus. That involves making sure there is plenty of forage, flowers for pollinators throughout the year and to create nesting habitats. Places to live, places to eat,” said Dr. Couvillon.
The number of bees found in the Hahn Horticulture Garden is a testament to Virginia Tech’s work.
“It kind of works towards our 2020 climate action goal and it’s bringing people together for a really important reason, that’s to preserve our native pollinators,” said Dr. Couvillon.
The next buzz-worthy part of the program is coming in the Fall when students will be planting more pollinator gardens across campus. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/02/buzz-worthy-recognition-virginia-tech-earns-new-certification-for-being-a-pollinator-friendly-campus/ | 2022-07-02T04:46:42 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/02/buzz-worthy-recognition-virginia-tech-earns-new-certification-for-being-a-pollinator-friendly-campus/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – People at English Gardens Apartments in Roanoke are scrambling to find a new place to live now that the deadline to vacate the property has come and gone.
Friday, July 1, just one day after the scheduled move-out deadline, there was one resident packing up a moving truck, preparing to leave.
Other residents, like Shirley Bowe says she is on the waiting list for other places, but hasn’t heard back yet.
10 News first told you about the change in ownership and planned renovations to English Gardens Apartments on Memorial Ave. back in March.
Over the past three months, many residents have stressed their concerns about finding another affordable place to live because of little to no availability.
“It’s terrible. There is nothing I can do until ya know, they give me a decision,” said longtime resident, Shirley Bowe.
“If they take me to court, what can I do? I mean, I’m trying,” she added.
The new owners, Gardens at Grandin, LLC. said they have plans for major renovations which would make living conditions unsafe for residents.
A representative with the company tells 10 News they are working with residents to help with the transition.
Residents were previously told if they do not move out by June 30, they could face additional fines and legal action. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/02/im-trying-at-least-10-roanoke-apartment-residents-stay-past-move-out-deadline/ | 2022-07-02T04:46:48 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/02/im-trying-at-least-10-roanoke-apartment-residents-stay-past-move-out-deadline/ |
PIKE COUNTY, Pa. — The current Dingmans Ferry Bridge has carried people over the Delaware River for more than 130 years.
It connects Pike County in Pennsylvania with Sussex County in New Jersey.
"I think it's a really cool bridge and we're like a family. I can't tell ya how many different souls I've met in the last 47 years of working here," said Daniel Kingston, bridge maintenance manager.
Daniel Kingston is the full-time maintenance manager for the bridge that has rarely seen any change over the last hundred-plus years.
From the workers collecting the tolls to the oak rails that cars drive over from one end to another.
But the start of this Fourth of July weekend brought one change to the bridge.
For the first time in 12 years, the toll just went up.
"We've done an awful lot of extensive repairs. Even though we're required to inspect it every two we inspect it every year and we put a lot of money into it and everything keeps costing more like everybody knows you go to the grocery store and so our insurance goes up, our encroachment fees for each state go up," said Kingston.
For cars and motorcycles traveling across Dingman's bridge, the price increase goes from $1 to $2.
For bigger box trucks, utility trucks, and trucks hauling a trailer that price goes up from $2 to $3.
"We have a lot of commuters that work down in new jersey and new york that cross here and we try to take care of them so the main this is that most people are pretty ok with it overall its been good," said Kingston.
The Dingmans Ferry Bridge usually sees about 150 vehicles a day but traffic is often heavier on holiday weekends.
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BOISE, Idaho — Behind Interfaith Sanctuary's building in Boise, a combination of AstroTurf, misters and canopies are making all the difference for those without a home.
Interfaith Sanctuary Executive Director, Jodi Peterson-Stigers, said the shelter created Project Cool Down on Monday, June 27, after seeing the triple-digit temperatures take a toll on the homeless community.
"We just want to make sure that people have choices and that they're safe," Peterson-Stigers said.
Last year, Interfaith leased an extra building for cooling, thanks to federal COVID-19 funding. That lease is now up and space is limited.
Interfaith Sanctuary serves about 150 homeless people each night, but during the day, those people have nowhere to go, since the building is reserved for those in recovery. Peterson-Stigers said Project Cool Down is the solution.
"We saw a greater need and kind of started to panic and wanted to make sure that we could be a safe space to provide cooling down," Peterson-Stigers said.
The shelter's staff made a donor page for Project Cool Down just two days ago. The goal was to raise $2,500 for supplies, but Peterson-Stigers said the Treasure Valley community quickly exceeded expectations.
"Within five hours, it was at $6,000 of donations," Peterson-Stigers said. "So, we were able to go shopping immediately."
With the monetary support, several cooling areas are already in place, but the Interfaith crew is not stopping there. Plans to add more canopies and AstroTurf are in the works.
Billy Manzanarez and Facility Director, Ernest Garcia both say Project Cool Down is a necessary resource.
"Cool Down is a safe place, where they can come in and just stand in the mist and come over and sit anywhere they want," Manzanarez said.
"The better we can make people. the happier their life is, the easier it is for them," Garcia added.
As Project Cool Down enters its first weekend, Peterson-Stigers said it would not have been possible without all of the community support.
"We are asked to respond really quickly, as things change within this homeless community, as the numbers grow," Peterson-Stigers said. "You do have to be able to turn on a time. And because of our community, we can."
Interfaith Sanctuary stopped taking monetary donations for Project Cool Down, but they still need some hot-weather items. They are accepting donations such as sunscreen, popsicles, sun hats and flip flops.
If you would like to donate, those items can be dropped off at the Interfaith Sanctuary. The shelter is located at 1620 West River Street in Boise.
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IOWA, USA — A probable case of monkeypox has been identified in North Central Iowa, the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday night.
This is the first reported case in the state. More than 5,700 cases of the virus have been reported internationally, 460 of which are in the U.S.
The adult patient was likely infected while traveling internationally. Testing was conducted by the State Hygienic Lab in Coralville.
The patient is currently isolating and receiving outpatient care.
HHS staff and local public health officials are conducting contact tracing procedures to identify anyone "who may be at risk due to close contact with the patient while infectious".
People with direct close contact are asked to watch for symptoms of illness and will be offered a vaccine series that can prevent the patient from developing severe illness or developing symptoms at all.
Monkeypox is not easily spread between people without close contact, so risk to the general public is low.
If you have a rash that looks like monkeypox, contact your healthcare provider.
Here’s who health officials believe may be at a higher risk of monkeypox:
- Had contact with someone who had a rash that looks like monkeypox or someone who was diagnosed with confirmed or probable monkeypox.
- Had skin-to-skin contact with someone in a social network experiencing monkeypox activity, this includes men who have sex with men who meet partners through an online website, digital application or social event
- Traveled outside the US to a country with confirmed cases of monkeypox or where monkeypox activity has been ongoing.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Mindy Hache and Kenneth Peneku of Winston-Salem have been together for two years. The couple will finally say “I do” on July 4.
“Excited and nervous,” Hache said.
“Excited, very blessed, and very lucky, feeling great,” Peneku said.
The pair met 10 years ago and started out as friends. They decided to take their relationship to the next level on July 4, 2020.
“We met through mutual friends and from there everything just took off and I’m kind of a romantic and so as things were progressing, I was like you know I want her to be my girlfriend,” Peneku said. “On my porch, the fireworks are going off in the background and I was like, I want you to be my girlfriend, and everything kicked off from there.”
July 4 is about more than just fireworks and parades for this couple.
“Then we got engaged on Fourth of July and then we’ll be married this Fourth of July,” Hache said.
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Hache and Peneku are one of four lucky couples who will receive a free wedding on July 4. It’s all a part of Red, White + Say ‘I Do’; A free wedding giveaway sponsored by Downtown Greensboro, Inc. and one of the many Fun Fourth Festival events taking place in Downtown Greensboro on Monday.
All four couples will get married in front of family, friends, and the community in Downtown Greensboro. The officiant, music, flowers, and a mini-reception will all be provided.
“It’s exciting because we get to share it with everyone,” Hache said. “It’s incredible, I actually found it by chance by looking up Fourth of July weddings. We’re very grateful, we’re very, very grateful.”
Hache and Peneku will be the third wedding ceremony to take place on July 4 at 4:00 p.m. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/fourth-of-july-winston-salem-couple-gets-married-for-free-at-fun-fourth-in-greensboro/83-4e3a019d-5045-4804-8143-258a61f2f8fa | 2022-07-02T05:10:21 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/fourth-of-july-winston-salem-couple-gets-married-for-free-at-fun-fourth-in-greensboro/83-4e3a019d-5045-4804-8143-258a61f2f8fa |
KENT, Ohio — People do great things all the time, and that's a wonderful thing. But, it's not every day you see a group of kids coming together to lend a helping hand.
Yet, that's exactly what happened a few weeks ago to Akron native, 24-year-old Matt Parisi.
He was on his lawn route in Kent when his mowing tractor became stuck in a drainage ditch.
"I kind of came in like the wrong angle and bottomed out the mower and I was just stuck there," Matt told us.
Now, being "stuck" may not sound like a big deal, but it is when you're dealing with life-changing challenges, like Matt.
"I shouldn't be here. I almost flat-lined twice," Matt said.
Three years ago, a motorcycle crash left him partially paralyzed. He now relies on crutches to walk. So, getting himself out of that ditch -- not an option.
Soon, help would arrive in the form of a group of kids, ages 8 to 16.
"It was some on the back and then some on the front and then some of us lifted it and then the other ones pulled it," said 16-year-old Codey Fortson of the rescue.
Together, about 13 kids helped push Matt's tractor out of the ditch. The morally mature gesture didn't go unnoticed.
A few days later, Kent school resource and community officers showed up to say thank you the kids.
"From the elementary school, middle school and high school, a bunch of kids came together and got to help somebody out. So, it's really cool, especially because I know all the kids from working at the school. So it was really awesome to hear that they did that," Officer Dominic Poe told us.
"I just wanted to come out with Officer Poe and join in, and tell 'em how proud we are, you know, at the Kent Police Department of them working together, coming together to help somebody in need," said Officer Joe Hadaway.
The lesson, according to the kids is, age doesn't matter when you're doing the right thing.
"If you see somebody else that needs help, help them," said Joshua Thomas, 16.
One thing is for sure, Matt is forever touched by their kind souls.
"For them to come out and do what they did for me, it's just, it warms my heart."
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TWIN FALLS — Lela Nadine Cox of Twin Falls, Celebration of Life at 12:00 p.m. Saturday, July 9, 2022, at Clyde Thomsen Park, 1036 Carriage Ln. in Twin Falls ID. Family and friends are invited to a picnic in the park in honor of Nadine.
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JEROME — Lou Ann Oneida, 67, of Jerome, passed away on June 22, 2022, at St. Luke's Magic Valley. Memorial Services will be held on Saturday, July 9, 2022, at 10:00 AM at Demaray's Jerome Memorial Chapel. Burial will follow at the Shoshone Cemetery.
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Sept. 25, 1949 - June 26, 2022
CASTLEFORD — Penny Ann Smith (Russell) (Row), 72, of Castleford, passed away, Sunday, June 26, 2022, at St. Luke's Magic Valley Medical Center, Twin Falls. She was the second-born child of Robert Douglas Smith and Elva Ann Smith (Peterson). She was the younger sister and co-conspirator to David Douglas Smith, and older sister and protector/instigator of shenanigans to Michael Wade Smith and Victoria Jane Smith.
Penny was born September 25, 1949, in Elko, Nevada and grew up in Ruby Valley. She put herself through school to earn first her LPN and then her RN degree in order to support her four kids alone in Elko until moving to Idaho in 1991.
She made her home in Castleford and spent every minute she could camping in Jarbidge, Nevada. Her beautiful gardens were envied far and wide, and nearly everyone who knew her had some gift or another that she crocheted for them. She was a friend to everyone and a stranger to none.
She was so proud that she had recently been appointed to the Castleford City Council and was so looking forward to serving the town and people that meant so much to her.
She was predeceased by her parents and only son, Chuck Dustin Smith. She is survived by her three precocious daughters: Shilo Smith (Rafael), Tawny Pirtle (Erwin), Codi Russell (Greg), 15 grandkids and five great grandkids.
A Celebration of Life was held in her honor at her home in Castleford on Friday, July 1, 2022. Her ashes will be scattered by family at a private ceremony at a later date.
Arrangements are under the care of Serenity Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services of Idaho, 502 2nd Ave. N., Twin Falls, Idaho. For tributes and condolences go to www.serenityfuneralchapel.com. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/penny-ann-smith-row/article_c3562b20-472d-5fae-9f53-f99dd797f147.html | 2022-07-02T05:11:52 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/penny-ann-smith-row/article_c3562b20-472d-5fae-9f53-f99dd797f147.html |
On Christmas Day, an Angel was sent to the home of Verr and Maudie Courtney. Her name was Roberta Mae. She was born in Ridgeway, Missouri, Dec. 25, 1927. There were three brothers - Gerald, Edwin, Kenneth and one sister Helen.
During her School Years, Roberta was in 4-H, sewing was her main interest. She received several ribbons. She graduated from Ridgeway High School, 1945. The family attended Kirkley Chapel in Ridgeway.
Roberta met the Love of Her Life when he came to work on the family farm. Verr died from a farm machinery accident. Maudie needed help.
Woodrow Bridge was quickly welcomed into the family. They were married Nov. 25, 1944 in Bethany, Missouri. Times were tough, the family moved to Twin Falls, Idaho for a new start.
After arriving in Twin Falls, they joined First Christian Church. They had two children, eventually grandchildren. This family, enjoyed camping in the South Hills, barbecue picnics in the backyard-badmitton-croquet and lawn darts, homemade ice cream with the neighbors, going to the Falls, playing cards-Kings on the Corners; Sewing and making quilts- family projects; Fireworks and listening to City Band in City Park Thursday nights; Also various Church Activities; One Special joy was helping with Scout Troop #65; Meetings, transportation, Pancake Suppers; and whatever was needed.
Roberta was employed at the Phone Company on Shoshone St. She was the Switchboard Operator. She worked at a Bean Mill in Kimberly. The job she enjoyed the most was at JC Penney on Main St. for 27 years; Alterations, Materials, Shoes and Work Clothes Depts. She retired when JC Penney moved to the Mall.
After retirement, helping at Church was a big part of her life. She assisted with decorating for Wedding Receptions, Dinners, VBS, Rummage Sales, Christmas Women's Mission Service - was President for two years. She also went on a cruise to Canada with her sister's family.
She passed while living at Canyons Retirement Community. She was happy, smiling and talkative in her wheelchair being seated at the table. She ate a good meal. It seems that she decided it was Sunday, her favorite day. She leaned back in her chair and after living a long, happy life, decided to spend the rest of the day with her first family through eternity. She slipped away quietly doing what she loved the most - eating Sunday Dinner.
Preceded in Death by Verr and Maudie Courtney, Woodrow Bridge, Gerald Courtney, Edwin (Colleen) Courtney, Kenneth Courtney, Helen (Dean) Radford.
Survived by Robert (Karen) Bridge, Pamela (Gary) Roehl, grand kids; Joe and Jean Roehl, John and Cory Bridge; eight really great-grandkids; and one great-great- grandchild.
July 7, 2022 at Parke's Funeral Home, 2551 Kimberly Rd., Twin Falls, ID. Viewing at 11am, Lunch at noon, Services at 1pm, Interment 3pm at Sunset Memorial Park.
In lieu of flowers, make donations to CWMS First Christian Church or Canyons Retirement Community in memory of Roberta Bridge.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a new state law that will stop police from arresting people for loitering for prostitution, an issue that divided sex workers and advocates during a rare nine-month delay since state lawmakers passed the bill last year.
“To be clear, this bill does not legalize prostitution," Newsom said in a signing message. “It simply revokes provisions of the law that have led to disproportionate harassment of women" and transgender adults, he said, nothing that Black and Latino women are particularly affected.
The bill will bar police in California from arresting anyone for loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution. Sen. Scott Wiener and other supporters said such arrest decisions often rely on an officer’s perception.
While Newsom said he agreed with the intent of the repeal, “we must be cautious about its implementation.” He said his administration will track crime and prosecution trends “for any possible unintended consequences” and, if so, work to correct them.
“For far too long, California law has been used to profile, harass and arrest transgender and gender-nonconforming people simply for existing in public spaces,” Tony Hoang, executive director of the LGTBQ rights group Equality California, said in praising the repeal.
The measure also will allow those who were previously convicted or are serving sentences to ask a court to dismiss and seal the record of the conviction.
Similar legislation became law in New York last year in what Wiener said is part of a broader effort to end violence toward and discrimination against sex workers.
“Everyone — no matter their race, gender or how they make a living — deserves to feel safe on our streets,” Wiener said in a statement thanking Newsom.
Wiener, Newsom’s fellow Democrat, used a parliamentary maneuver to delay Newsom’s consideration for months after the bill passed the Legislature in September. He hoped the pause would give proponents time to build more support, including by signing an online petition.
Opponents like the California Family Council countered with their own online petition as part of a monthslong tug-of-war.
The American Civil Liberties Union of California sought the legislation along with several groups backing transgender sex workers and others in the sex industry. It has support from public defenders, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and numerous criminal justice reform groups. Voters recently recalled Boudin amid a campaign labeling him as soft on criminals.
The loitering law allows police “to criminalize otherwise legal activities like walking, dressing or standing in public,” the ACLU said.
Moreover, workers who fear arrest for loitering “are more vulnerable to exploitation and violence, and face greater barriers to accessing safe housing and legal employment,” the group argued.
The nonpartisan National Center on Sexual Exploitation took the opposite view, saying that ending the law would make it easier for traffickers and sex buyers to exploit vulnerable people.
“Many officers rely on the loitering laws to initiate trafficking investigations that have led to serious convictions for traffickers and pimps," said Stephany Powell, a former LAPD vice sergeant and now the center's director of law enforcement training and survivor services.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the 75,000-member Peace Officers Research Association of California objected that the law would make it harder both to confront those who commit crimes related to prostitution and human trafficking and to help those who are being victimized.
Several victims and advocates also opposed the bill.
“Instead of providing help to survivors, this bill is hurting them. It's increasing demand,” said Vanessa Russell, founder of the anti-sex-trafficking organization Love Never Fails in the San Francisco Bay Area.
“If there is no intervention allowed by law enforcement, fatalities will increase," added Hannah Diaz, who was among survivors who joined Russell at an event last year opposing the bill.
The loitering bill is the latest of several related measures that became law in recent years.
A bill passed in 2016 bars arresting minors for prostitution, with the intent that they instead be treated as victims.
A 2019 bill bars arresting sex workers if they are reporting various crimes as a victim or witness. The same law bans using possession of condoms as reason for an arrest.
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Federal offices: Closed Monday
State offices: Closed Monday
Greensboro city offices: Closed Monday
High Point city offices: Closed Monday
County offices: Closed Monday
ABC stores: Closed Monday
Schools: Closed Monday-Friday
Greensboro Transit: Hourly service from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday. Route 11 will not serve Jamestown. Access GSO will also offer services on a Saturday schedule, from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
High Point Transit: HPTS Access and Hi Tran closed Monday.
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RUSHVILLE, Ind. — Officials in Rush County are investigating damage left from Friday evening storm, and whether someone was hurt while attending the county fair.
Charles Kemker, the county's Emergency Management Agency director, said the damage was mostly around Rushville but some trees and limbs were reported down outside the city.
"We did have a lot of trees down along with power lines. A couple of the trees came down on houses and also a couple of vehicles under others," Kemker told 13News.
Kemker said they are looking into report of an injury at the Rush County Fair, but they haven't been able to confirm the information.
He said there was some storm damage reported at the fairgrounds - including to some of Kemker's own equipment - but he did not elaborate.
Kemker said, besides the person(s) who may have been hurt at the fair, he wasn't aware of any other injuries.
He said the storm left damage to a communications tower at the Rushville Police Department.
"There was also a state communications tower affected. Being as we have two separate radio systems that we can operate from, all responders were still able to communicate," said Kemker.
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INDIANAPOLIS — “The crowds are gone and this delta town is back to its silent, solid life that is based on cotton and the proposition that a whole race of men was created to pick it.”
Those were the words of Indianapolis native Dan Wakefield, writing nearly 67 years ago as a reporter covering the trial of the two men accused of murdering of 14-year-old Emmett Till.
Roy Bryant and his half-brother, JW Milam, stood trial. Bryant’s wife, Carolyn, testified at the trial. She accused Till, who was from Chicago but visiting family in Mississippi at the time, of making a pass at her.
“I think all the reporters there understood, we all understood, that the outcome of the trial was pre-determined, that no jury of white men in Mississippi would convict these two white men,” Wakefield explained.
They didn’t.
Bryant and Milam went free, but later admitted in an interview with Look Magazine that they killed Till. They couldn’t be retried because of double jeopardy laws.
“I think the whole country is still on a quest, of sorts, for justice and for justice being done,” said Wakefield.
Till’s family is renewing their calls for justice after discovering an arrest warrant in the case that was never served.
The name on the warrant is Mrs. Roy Bryant, who is now in her 80’s and goes by the last name Donham.
Till’s cousins recently searched the basement of a Mississippi courthouse and found the unserved arrest warrant with Mrs. Bryant’s name on it.
Wakefield remembers Bryant in court.
“She was what the family wanted her to be, demure, quiet and also I would say, very confident - almost arrogant - as the men were,” Wakefield recalled.
This past December, the U.S. Department of Justice closed an investigation into Till’s murder after federal investigators reportedly could not prove Bryant had lied in her testimony about Till.
Federal investigators had reopened the case, reportedly after a book was published in which Bryant appeared to recant her claims against Till. But when federal investigators interviewed her, Bryant reportedly denied she had lied about what happened.
“I think she should be the one to give the rest of the story and tell the rest of the story,” said Mayor Johnnie B. Thomas, founder of the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center.
Thomas has some deeply personal reasons for wanting to know exactly what happened.
“They always said that black men was involved, and I’d like to know, including my father, was allegedly involved. He said he wasn’t. She would know,” said Thomas, speaking of Bryant.
Thomas said his father, Henry Lee Loggins, who died in 2009, worked for JW Milam, and although Loggins was never charged for any involvement in Till’s murder, allegations against him have lingered.
“I’d love to have answers," said Thomas. "I need answers."
Whether those answers come in the wake of the discovery of the arrest warrant is the question.
“They’ve always known there was a warrant issued, but never served. Of course, serving it now, I don’t know what it would do, with the case closed,” Thomas said. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indianapolis-native-who-reported-on-trial-of-men-in-emmett-till-case-offers-insight-into-ongoing-calls-for-justice-murder-warrant-mississippi/531-66330f8c-1a65-40b2-8140-f198aad8b83f | 2022-07-02T06:07:27 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indianapolis-native-who-reported-on-trial-of-men-in-emmett-till-case-offers-insight-into-ongoing-calls-for-justice-murder-warrant-mississippi/531-66330f8c-1a65-40b2-8140-f198aad8b83f |
INDIANAPOLIS — The Department of Veterans Affairs dedicated a new expansion at Crown Hill Cemetery Friday.
The expansion means for the first time in 63 years, Indianapolis-area veterans and their eligible family members will be able to be interred at a local veterans cemetery. Crown Hill was closed to first interments in 1959, the VA said.
The 15-acre expansion will include a new columbarium - a structure that stores and displays cremated remains - and serve more than 250,000 veterans.
Construction on the site started in June of last year and is only the second project to be completed under the National Cemetery Administration's Urban Initiative program to improve access to veteran burial benefits. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/veterans-administration-dedicates-new-columbarium-for-veterans-at-crown-hill-cemetery/531-5ea5ca6d-9939-4dde-831a-fda98a6f567a | 2022-07-02T06:07:33 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/veterans-administration-dedicates-new-columbarium-for-veterans-at-crown-hill-cemetery/531-5ea5ca6d-9939-4dde-831a-fda98a6f567a |
The past two years made it hard to go out with family and friends and celebrate important holidays, but with COVID-19 restrictions getting looser, the Fourth of July traditions are back in.
Here are 10 of the best Independence Day events taking place in western Washington. Read more
People looking to travel to Seattle over the holiday weekend should expect significant delays on Interstate 5.
Transportation crews are planning lane reductions along southbound I-5 between I-90 and Spokane Street in Seattle. During the lane reductions, crews will be replacing 35 expansion joints that are “road-worn and ready to retire.”
Work on I-5 will have a delayed start on Friday night in order to allow people heading out of town a smoother experience, according to WSDOT. Construction is scheduled to begin at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, July 1, and will last through the weekend, with lanes reopening at 6:30 a.m. Monday, July 4. Read more
There are an average of 2,500 calls to South Sound 911 on a typical day. On July 4, however, call volumes more than double.
"We get so many calls on the Fourth of July and, really, we want to keep those lines clear - our 911 call lines clear - for emergencies," said Jessica Kulaas, an education coordinator for South Sound 911.
South Sound 911 launched an online reporting system for fireworks complaints. Complaints may be reported online July 1 through July 5 at 6 a.m. in the following police jurisdictions: Fife, Milton, Orting, Roy, Ruston, Sumner, Tacoma, and University Place. Read more
Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer was ordered to post $100,000 bail after Kitsap County Judge Jefferey Jahns determined he violated the condition of release in connection to two criminal charges.
During a hearing Friday, Jahns said the court did not trust Troyer to adhere to the condition of release in the future. He also said he has concerns for the safety of Sedrick Altheimer, a Black newspaper carrier suing Troyer and Pierce County over a confrontation in January 2021.
The state Attorney General's office filed the motion to revoke Troyer's condition of release in June, during which time it was argued the sheriff did not keep his distance from Altheimer. Read more
At Skydive Snohomish, on a bluebird day, a birthday celebration took off.
For many, the nerves start early but for one skydiver, the excitement was building.
“I’ve wanted to do this for 7 years,” said Beverly Witte, 94-year-old and a Cogir Senior Living resident in Queen Anne.
Witte has done many things in her life, including spending 50 years as an employee of The Burke Museum. She worked for more than 20 years as a fossil preparer. She’s discovered remains of a Dinictis cat-like creature in South Dakota that was 35 million years old but she has never jumped out of a plane. Read more
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In February two of the prominent private schools in Midland were forced to deal with arrests of top officials related to the alleged failure to report with intent to conceal neglect or abuse.
In mid-February, five administrators at Midland Christian, including its superintendent and top brass at the high school and inside the athletic department were arrested. Weeks later Midland Police Department officers arrested four Trinity School of Midland officials, including its head of School and top brass in the middle and upper schools.
The aftermath included school officials stating that those arrested would not return to their respective campuses until the legal process finished. But as it turned out that was the beginning. A Midland County grand jury no-billed or opted to not indict the Midland Christian officials. Still, football coach/athletic director Greg McClendon resigned as did MCS Superintendent Jared Lee.
There has not been a decision from the grand jury regarding the arrest of Trinity’s four employees. There are no reports of whether any of the four have left Trinity.
The aftermath also included scrutiny on law enforcement and the District Attorney’s Office. Following the decision by the grand jury to not indict MCS officials, Midland Mayor Patrick Payton made a late-night statement in May, expressing his belief in the “men and women in blue and our legal and justice system right here in Midland. That doesn't mean we won't continue evaluating and taking a good, hard look at why we did what we did, how we can improve and get better as we seek to serve and protect this community.”
Later that week, the Midland Municipal Police Officers Association took the unusual step of expressing its “serious concerns about the grand jury process as it was handled by the Midland County District Attorney’s Office in this case.”
Tragedy on West Texas roads
On March 15, one of the great tragedies on the West Texas roads took place when a pickup collided with a van carrying members of the University of Southwest golf teams in Andrews County.
Nine people died, the National Transportation Safety Board came to the region to investigate, and a region was reminded how dangerous the travel that many take for granted can be.
The NTSB reported that a 13-year-old boy was behind the wheel of the Dodge truck that hit the van after a spare tire failed.
The accident took place on Farm-to-Market Road 1788, a half-mile north of State Highway 115, east of the city of Andrews.
The University of the Southwest golf teams were traveling back to Hobbs, New Mexico, from a tournament in Midland when the collision took place at 8:17 p.m. The NTSB reported that the 11-person passenger van was towing an 8-foot cargo trailer.
Wilson seeks ousting of Midland DA
In June, David Wilson filed a petition to remove Midland County District Attorney Laura Nodolf.
Wilson had been tried in December for the shooting of a Midland police officer and found not guilty by a Midland jury. In a petition for removal, Wilson asked for an immediate trial setting and also asked the court to temporarily remove Nodolf until a resolution in the matter takes place. The petition stated Nodolf searched David Wilson's home without a warrant, lied to a grand jury to secure Wilson's indictment and abused the grand jury process in her quest to “win.”
Judge Kelly Moore of Lubbock refused to order a citation to remove Nodolf, thereby ending the action against Midland’s top prosecutor.
County leaders voted out
The anti-incumbent wave rolled over Midland in March and May as county commissioners Robin Donnelly and Randy Prude lost bids to become Republican nominees for their respective seats.
In March, Jeff Somers collected 64% of the vote to defeat Donnelly and win the nomination for Precinct 2. Dianne Anderson needed a runoff to knock off Prude in Precinct 4 but collected 66.4% of the vote in her head-to-head matchup with Prude.
Cudd avoids jail
On March 23, former Midland mayoral candidate and business owner Jenny Cudd was sentenced to two months of probation and a $5,000 fine for her role in the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It was reported that the Department of Justice had sought a sentence of 75 days in jail.
Cudd wrote the following in a statement after the sentencing.
“I recognize that some of the language I used following my involvement in the incident on January 6th of last year may have caused division and confusion.
“While I do not regret traveling to Washington DC to express my rights as an American citizen, to protest actions I don't agree with, and show elected officials that that I expect my grievances to be heard. I do regret both unlawfully entering the capital and posting on social media about the incident without fully understanding the gravity of the situation & how it was perceived. While I cannot go back and change the past, I should have stayed within legal boundaries while calling for change, taken the time to understand the gravity of the situation, and tempered my emotions before making public statements.
“I apologize that the choices I made in the heat of the situation brought negative attention to our community in Midland. I have enjoyed all of my time in Midland for the last 14 years, and I will continue to be actively involved in our community in a positive way.”
COVID releases its grip on area
2022 stated with a spike in cases (3,124 from Jan. 9-15), deaths (41 involving patients at Midland Memorial in January) and positivity rates (more than 50% in January).
By early February, weekly cases dropped to around one-tenth of the early January total and deaths in February fell to 26. February, as it turned out, was the end of a seven-month COVID spike with 200 deaths involving inpatients at Midland Memorial Hospital going back to August.
At that point, cases and positivity rates plummeted to the point where the percentage of occupancy of COVID patients at Midland Memorial has been in the low single digits since mid-March. On June 30, Midland Health reported eight COVID inpatients.
Drought conditions
In June, the National Weather Service reported 1.72 inches of rain – a virtual monsoon – in Midland. It was more than the previous 10 months combined.
During the first half of 2022, commissioners passed multiple burn bans, the U.S. Drought Monitor showed the region moving between “extreme drought” and “exceptional drought,” and rainfall totals have stayed inches behind normal from the start of September (-9.91 inches) and the start of 2022 (-3.84 inches).
Other highlights
- A broken water main downtown dumped inches of water into the Bush Convention Center, flooding the facility and causing the closure that continues through the first half of the year. City officials have said insurance will help cover any damages that happen because of the flooding. There has been no public announcement about when the center might reopen and no details available on what caused the water main to break.
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Kevin Sparks breezed to the Republican nomination of the District 31 Texas Senate race. Sparks dominated a four-person GOP race and avoided a runoff. With the lack of a Democratic Party candidate, Sparks is guaranteed to claim the seat being vacated by Kel Seliger, a Republican from Amarillo.
From the Sports page…
--Legacy senior pitcher Chase Shores drew a ton of attention from MLB scouts and led the Rebels to second place finish in District 2-6A and a surprise appearance in the third round of the Class 6A playoffs
--Midland College sophomore golfer and Monahans native JT Pittman won the NJCAA national medalist title and led the Chaparrals to their third straight third-place finish at the national tournament.
--Midland College hired former successful Odessa College coach Tra Arnold as the new head coach of the men’s basketball program after Pat Rafferty resigned following five years at the helm.
--Bryce Hoppel won the USATF outdoor 800 title to qualify for the world 800-meter team. He has also won the 800 at the USA Track & Field Indoor Championships and placed third in the 800 at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
-- Midland Classical baseball won its second-straight TAPPS 4A state title.
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Basin Electric Cooperative hire
Basin Electric Power Cooperative has announced Miles McGrew will join the cooperative as its senior vice president of human resources effective Aug. 1.
Prior to accepting this position, he served as the vice president of human resources for Seaboard Triumph Foods located in Sioux City, Iowa.
McGrew earned a master’s degree in public health from the University of Illinois Springfield and a bachelor’s degree in labor relations from Sangamon State University in Springfield.
Johnson joins NDSU Extension
Debra Johnson has joined North Dakota State University Extension as the Family Nutrition Program Extension agent in Burleigh and Morton counties.
Johnson will conduct nutrition education and outreach for adults and youth from households with limited resources.
Johnson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics education from North Dakota State University. She previously worked as a home economics teacher at Mandaree and Gackle public schools. She has experience working with developmental and intellectual disabilities from various positions with REM ND Inc. and Lake Region Cooperative.
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Realtor Madison Steinmetz has joined Century 21 Morrison Realty in Bismarck.
Steinmetz most recently worked as a full-time administrative coordinator at Nutrien Ag Solutions in Bismarck. She holds an associate degree in agriculture industry and technology (agronomy) from Bismarck State College.
Auto Value employee awarded
Travis Ketterling has been awarded the 2021 Auto Value Counterperson of the Year by Automotive Parts Headquarters Inc.
Ketterling is a store counter sales representative at the Auto Value parts store in Bismarck.
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A crowd gathered downtown Thursday to listen to music, eat food and witness the dedication of a new mural.
After more than 30 days of work, local artist Mitchell Egly completed a 2,000-square-foot mural highlighting Fort Wayne’s 122nd Fighter Wing and its history. Egly has been painting murals for 15 years, and this is his second local public work.
The mural is on the Harrison Street side of Allen County Republican Headquarters, 135 W. Main St.
“It feels tremendous (to see the mural completed),” Egly said. “This is really a breath of fresh air for downtown Fort Wayne.”
Art This Way, a program through the Downtown Improvement District, partnered with Warrior Breed Motorcycle Club for the mural.
Warrior Breed is a nonprofit, veterans-based motorcycle club that was founded in 2014. Since then, the club has completed various missions supporting veterans, including one working with the 122nd Fighter Wing restoring jets and Heritage Park at Baer Field.
“What a great piece of military art,” said Gary Perkey, founder of Warrior Breed. “We are honored to be part of it.”
The nonprofit worked with Art This Way throughout the mural’s completion, starting in May 2021 with an email from the improvement district. Members of Warrior Breed helped choose the design and the artist.
The club also raised money for the mural and said 90% of its donations came from the annual Fort Wayne air show.
The American Legions in Waynedale and Auburn also donated, as did Indiana Tech.
Col. Joshua Wagner, a commander of the 122nd Fighter Wing, spoke at the Thursday evening event, saying that the unit has been working with Warrior Breed since 2019. He also said the mural highlights the unit’s history.
“The 122nd Fighter Wing has been in Fort Wayne for about 70 years,” Wagner said. “This mural shows about 30 of those 70 years.”
Steve Shine, county Republican chairman and owner of 135 W. Main St., said he couldn’t imagine any better way to celebrate Fourth of July weekend than with this event.
“Thank you for transforming what used to be a mundane building into one that pops,” Shine said, addressing the artist.
Egly said he took part in the project because he has family members in the military and because he always loved airplanes when he was younger.
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Residents at Brookdale Senior Living home celebrate Independence Day on Friday as they cheer for children taking part in The Learning Community’s annual Fourth of July parade. This year’s parade is the first since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Residents at Brookdale Senior Living home celebrate Independence Day on Friday as they cheer for children taking part in The Learning Community’s annual Fourth of July parade. This year’s parade is the first since the COVID-19 pandemic. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/patriotic-parade/article_e08d2c88-f97c-11ec-a4e3-6326582130a9.html | 2022-07-02T06:23:23 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/patriotic-parade/article_e08d2c88-f97c-11ec-a4e3-6326582130a9.html |
Carmen Lute
July 16, 1932 - June 19, 2022
HIGHLAND - Carmen Lute of Highland, IN, passed away peacefully at age 89, June 19, 2022.
Born July 16, 1932, in Monterrey, Mexico, to Mr. and Mrs. Juan Ornelas. She is survived by her four children: Kathleen (Wade) Werth, Stephanie (Jim) Snider, Bill Lute, and Sandi (Tom) McGee; seven grandchildren: Victor, Laura, Rena, Joy, Michaela, Robert, and Carol; and eleven great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilbur; and grandson, Jimmy.
Carmen retired from Community Hospital having worked as a housekeeper and a Spanish/English interpreter. She was a fun-loving lady with know-how. She could grow a giant bush that she started from a tiny sprout, and she was a talented seamstress. She will be missed.
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LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. – After spending more than two and a half weeks in the hospital, a Lehigh Acres man who was shot while working his hot dog stand is back home.
Kelvis Maiguel, better known as the Lehigh Acres ‘Hot Dog Guy’ was shot on May 31 while working his roadside stand set up at the corner of Homestead Boulevard and Milwaukee Road South.
“God does love me. I’m alive,” Maiguel said.
It’s been 31 days since Maiguel was shot and he’s more than alive. He’s out of the hospital and nearly healed.
“Unless God wants me up there, I’m not leaving anytime soon,” he said. “They told me I was a miracle. And I told them I believe it. I believe it’s because of God I’m still here.”
In the medical field, a miracle isn’t a real thing. But Kelvis is about as close as you can get to it. He was shot in the chest three times with bullets grazing his lung and hitting his colon and liver.
“My chest was the entry wounds to the bullets, but since they didn’t go out they just bounced inside,” he said.
James Gonzalez of Lehigh Acres is accused of pulling the trigger. Luckily a deputy was nearby and he was arrested. Their families know one another from past problems.
“I forgave you once when you robbed my house,” said Maiguel’s mother Ana Dannic. “This is no forgiveness for me.”
“What goes around comes around and I’m honestly not sorry for anything bad that happens to you bro,” Maiguel added.
Maiguel was released from the hospital on June 24 and came home after a two-and-a-half week stay in the hospital.
“I could not have been happier,” Dannic said. “I was three years old and it was Christmas and he was my big toy I was waiting for.”
The one place Maiguel wanted to be was in the kitchen.
“It brings me like nostalgia. Pure adrenaline and happiness,” he said. “I love making food for everybody.”
Maiguel and his mother run Ceberiano’s Hot Dogs and More. For the past week, they’ve been doing only delivery with apps like GrubHub and UberEats.
That’s the plan until Kelvis is back to full strength, which he realized might take a little bit.
“Finally when I’m done, I’m like ‘okay, wait. Now I need to sit down because I’m exhausted,’” he said.
While the corner Kelvis once worked is quiet, it won’t be like that for long. The plan is to be back out at the corner on July 19th, just one day before his birthday. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/01/lehigh-acres-hot-dog-guy-out-of-hospital-back-in-the-kitchen/ | 2022-07-02T06:33:30 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/01/lehigh-acres-hot-dog-guy-out-of-hospital-back-in-the-kitchen/ |
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio authorities responded to a scene where migrants were reported jumping in and out of an 18-wheeler on the southwest side Friday afternoon.
The 18-wheeler was parked along the 2500 block of South General McMullen Drive where Bexar County Sheriff's Office vehicles, ambulances and a fire truck were seen around 6 p.m. Friday evening.
The initial caller told deputies they noticed people "jumping in and out" of the semitruck at the scene, sparking concern given the discovery of dozens of dead migrants in an abandoned semitruck just days, and just to the south of Friday's scene.
This group of 14, however, appeared to be a work crew, according to Sheriff Javier Salazar. No arrests were made.
Homeland Security investigators were at the scene talking to the migrants to determine if there was any criminal wrongdoing, Salazar said, adding that while the migrants are in the U.S. legally, “I don’t believe they have permission to be working.”
There appeared to also be inconsistency between the permits they were given and what the individuals were apparently told those permits allowed them to do, adding to the confusion. Salazar said the workers were all employed by a California-based company, adding “the whole situation is just a little odd.”
“For example, one gentleman is a Cuban national, but he’s got an Italian passport. So HSI is trying to sort through all that.”
Salazar says there is also some cause for concern because since the migrants have court dates, it's unclear whether they qualify for work. The company hired them to do some type of demolition cleanup, the sheriff said.
At the same time, he commended the caller for being on high-alert and contacting authorities in the event it turned out to be a smuggling incident.
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AUSTIN, Texas — With Roe v. Wade overturned and Texas expected to soon put a ban on nearly all abortions, experts say some people will find ways to end pregnancies without a healthcare provider.
"I think that one thing that we see over and over is that restricting abortion does not remove the need for it,” said Abigail Aiken, Principal Investigator at Project SANA at the University of Texas at Austin.
Abigail Aiken has been conducting research on this topic for four years.
"We were interested in doing research that looks at what happens when people need to seek services but are in a picture of very restricted access,” said Aiken.
She said some people will resort to unsafe forms of self-managed abortion.
"Unfortunately, self-managed abortion does sometimes also encompass suffering, you know, people inflicting physical trauma on themselves to try to end a pregnancy,” said Aiken.
Aiken said that lately, more people are turning to a safer route, taking pills at home to induce an abortion. She said the website Aid Access sends pills to women in Texas and across the world. The site has seen significantly more requests from women in Texas since Senate Bill 8 passed last year, banning abortions once fetal cardiac activity is detected, which is typically at six weeks.
"There was a really big spike in requests right after it passed,” said Aiken. “And then there was a tripling of requests over baseline all the way out through the beginning of 2022, and actually, that's still ongoing at the moment."
The Aid Access website states that depending on what state you are in, they send it to you in different ways. It states:
“In the US states: Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington, our US doctors can provide abortions with the medicines mifepristone and misoprostol, which you will receive by mail within a few days. The costs of this service in 150 USD.”
“For other US states and other countries, our European doctors can provide the prescriptions for abortions with the medicines mifepristone and misoprostol. You will be informed about a trustworthy pharmacy in India who will ship the medicines to you by mail. The delivery of the packages take 1 to 3 weeks after shipment. The cost of this service is 95 Euro or 110 USD.”
But the big question: is this even legal in Texas?
"So that is a tricky question," she said.
This is tricky because of another Texas law related to abortion.
"There hasn't been so far any explicit law in Texas that says that self-managing your abortion is illegal,” said Aiken.
But, there is a law banning the mailing of abortion-inducing pills. Senate Bill 4, which passed last year, bans the delivery of abortion pills through the mail. It's meant to stop women from getting the pills from across state lines through places like Aid Access.
That same law also banned any medication abortions after seven weeks, although the FDA said they are safe for up to ten weeks. The law also requires an in-person physical before a doctor can prescribe a woman abortion-inducing medicine.
So, although these options are available for abortion pills through telemedicine and the mail, the ways of getting them are technically illegal.
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HOUSTON — A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney.
Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, a southwest Texas woman whose remains were found nearly two years after she vanished in 2001.
In a letter sent Wednesday, Gonzales’ lawyers, Thea Posel and Raoul Schonemann, asked Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to grant a 30-day reprieve so the inmate can be considered a living donor “to someone who is in urgent need of a kidney transplant.”
His attorneys have made a separate request to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for a 180-day reprieve related to the kidney donation.
In their request to Abbott, Gonzales’ attorneys included a letter from Cantor Michael Zoosman, an ordained Jewish clergyman from Maryland who has been corresponding with Gonzales.
“There has been no doubt in my mind that Ramiro’s desire to be an altruistic kidney donor is not motivated by a last-minute attempt to stop or delay his execution. I will go to my grave believing in my heart that this is something that Ramiro wants to do to help make his soul right with his God,” Zoosman wrote.
Gonzales’ attorneys say he’s been determined to be an “excellent candidate” for donation after being evaluated by the transplant team at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. The evaluation found Gonzales has a rare blood type, meaning his donation could benefit someone who might have difficulty finding a match.
“Virtually all that remains is the surgery to remove Ramiro’s kidney. UTMB has confirmed that the procedure could be completed within a month,” Posel and Schonemann wrote to Abbott.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice policies allow inmates to make organ and tissue donations. Agency spokeswoman Amanda Hernandez said Gonzales was deemed ineligible after making a request to be a donor earlier this year. She did not give a reason, but Gonzales' lawyers said in their letter that the agency objected because of the pending execution date.
Abbott’s office did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is set to vote July 11 on Gonzales’ request to that agency.
Gonzales’ attorneys have made a separate request asking the board to commute his death sentence to a lesser penalty.
They also asked that his execution not proceed if his spiritual adviser isn’t allowed to both hold his hand and place another hand on his heart during his execution. A two-day federal trial on this request was set to begin Tuesday in Houston.
Gonzales’ request to delay his execution for an organ donation is rare among death row inmates in the U.S., Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Friday.
In 1995, condemned murderer Steven Shelton in Delaware donated a kidney to his mother.
In 2013, Ronald Phillips’ execution in Ohio was delayed so his request to donate a kidney to his mother could be reviewed. Phillips’ request was later denied and he was executed in 2017.
“Skeptics will think this is simply an attempt to delay the execution. But if that were the case, I think you’d be seeing many requests,” said Dunham, whose group takes no position on capital punishment but has criticized the way states carry out executions. “The history of executions in the United States shows that people don’t make offers of organ donations for the purpose of delaying an execution that will still take place.”
In a report, the United Network for Organ Sharing, a nonprofit that serves as the nation’s transplant system under contract with the federal government, listed various ethical concerns about organ donations from condemned prisoners. They include whether such donations could be tied to prisoners receiving preferential treatment or that such organs could be morally compromised because of their ties to the death penalty. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-inmate-ramiro-gonzales-asks-delay-execution-donate-kidney/287-609753ef-c4c9-413b-b89e-82aad20669ea | 2022-07-02T06:36:16 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-inmate-ramiro-gonzales-asks-delay-execution-donate-kidney/287-609753ef-c4c9-413b-b89e-82aad20669ea |
WACO, Texas — Pride month has come and gone. Some people will turn the other cheek and forget all about the LGBTQ community. While those who are a part of that community do not have the luxury of ignoring the truth they live every day.
Dr. Emma Church, a clinical psychologist in Waco who specializes in holistic trauma therapy, says this year especially there's a bit of a feeling of uncertainty as we close the door on pride month.
"I think this year in particular, at the end of pride, there is a level of somberness and kind of sobriety too, there are still a lot of issues around our health and our rights that are up in the air," Church said. "I'm seeing a lot of fear at the end of Pride Month, this year in 2022."
People on the internet constantly joke about the fact that corporations and others will change their social media to fit the pride month acknowledgment for the month. However, as soon as the clock strikes midnight on July 1, all of that ends. Church says that calls into question the validity of these corporations who claim to be allies.
"There's this intentional, deeper look into the motivations behind why people participate in things like pride in the way that they do," she said. "You know, this is a cultural movement, we can capitalize on this and sell some products."
But even as some people move past pride month, Church says for the members of the LGBTQ community who can't run away from their truth, they can't do the work alone. Those who claim to be allies should do the work to understand the plight of the oppressed rather than being comfortable with where the community is at, Church explained.
"If you are wanting to be an ally and advocate continue to seek out new information, new information through caring relationships, through watching documentaries, reading articles, hearing more and more stories so that you can really keep this thing that is pride alive because it is the story of an entire population."
But there's hope for the future, she says. In her time working in Waco seeing patients, young and old, becoming more comfortable in their sense of self. They are embracing being apart of the LGBTQ community and not letting others dictate how they can live their life.
"I'm not seeing the same types of significant self-hatred and self-loathing that I have seen for the past 13 years of practice in my adult patients," Church said. "Their own self-acceptance gives me hope for future generations that are born into an idea that they are okay just as they are, who they are and that if somebody has a problem with that, that might strike them as strange."
Church emphasizes the importance of relationships, understanding, and compassion as she hopes to see a world where one day it's not the "Suffering Olympics" but rather a society working together to heal and progress.
"Relationships, love, become more important than ever when we're looking at oppressed communities," Church continued. "People need to do the work to understand one another and then maybe people won't feel the need to resort to fight or flight, anger, depression and sometimes even suicide. The more we work on relationships with one another and gaining understanding, we'll be able to recognize pride is more than June. There are 11 other months in the year to recognize a community that constantly needs support."
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Jane Clemsen, 92, of Fort Dodge, formerly of Clarion, died Friday, July 1, 2022, at Friendship Haven, Fort Dodge. Arrangements: Ewing Funeral Home, Clarion.
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Marilyn Ruth Wayment, 83 of Twin Falls, passed away June 30, 2022, at St. Luke’s Magic Valley. Funeral arrangements are under the care of White-Reynolds Funeral Chapel in Twin Falls.
Brett Jay Chapman, 33, of Pueblo, Colorado, died June 26, 2022. Funeral arrangements are under the care of White-Reynolds Funeral Chapel in Twin Falls.
Terry J. Kingston, 57, of Twin Falls died Monday, June 27, 2022, at home. Arrangements are under the care of Serenity Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services of Idaho in Twin Falls. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/death-notices/article_d567207a-f959-11ec-b6cc-af96a9862f0c.html | 2022-07-02T06:46:52 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/death-notices/article_d567207a-f959-11ec-b6cc-af96a9862f0c.html |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – One person was hospitalized and another person was rescued after a fire in Southeast Portland.
Portland Fire & Rescue crews were dispatched to an apartment fire in the 6400 block of Southeast 128th Avenue Friday evening, according to officials.
Crews pulled one person from the building, who was taken to a hospital in serious condition with upper body burns. PF&R said they found another person in the building; however, they reportedly refused transport.
According to PF&R, the fire mostly involved the attached garage and did not spread into the main part of the building. On the scene, crews noted a heavy fuel smell.
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EVERETT, Wash. — Betsy Alvarado’s home is full of photos of her kids, and those photos are all she has to remember 17-year-old Adriana Gil and 16-year-old Mariel Gil.
In December 2021, the two sisters and their father Manuel Gil were found dead inside a Renton apartment. Seven months later, the King County Medical Examiner ruled the cause of death for all three was starvation. The manner of death for the girls is still undetermined.
“It made me very angry because to me there's no undetermined,” said Alvarado, the girls’ mother.
According to the medical examiner, all three were emaciated and there wasn't food in the home. Investigators found written materials about fasting. Their father's death was ruled a suicide.
“His death was considerably after the girls’, somewhere between five to 10 days. The idea, I think behind ruling his death a suicide is he would have known what was going to happen if he continued to not eat,” said Renton Police Detective Robert Onishi.
According to the medical examiner, the cause of death for the girls is undetermined because there isn't a way to determine the girls’ state of mind and intent
Alvarado disagrees.
“Their state of mind was fear. That was their state of mind. Do what daddy is saying we have to do to not burn in hell,” said Alvarado.
“It makes it seem like they had the decision of whether they were going to eat or not, or take their own life. They were children,” said Ron Anderson, the girls’ step-dad.
Alvarado believes Manuel Gil's extreme religious beliefs lead the girls to cut themselves off from the world. She said Gil followed a sect of the Black Hebrew Israelite faith which has been categorized as a hate group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“He sat in the house with them for 5 days afterward. He didn't call for help. So what's undetermined? He did this to them,” said Alvarado.
Renton police said the ruling wasn't what they wanted either.
“It doesn’t answer anything for the family. It is not an outcome that we are satisfied with, unfortunately, it is what we have at the present,” said Onishi.
Alvarado said she called Child Protective Services to report concerns regarding the girls' well-being and never heard back. KING 5 reached out to CPS for a comment but as of Friday night, have not heard back.
Alvarado wants the case to stay open. Renton police said they need people with knowledge of the two girls and their father to come forward.
“We'd be looking for somebody who had something very, very personal, very, very intimate in terms of communication with the people who were actually directly involved in this,” said Onishi.
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Vinton, Va. – An early morning fire destroyed a music business in Vinton.
Witnesses tell 10 News they were driving by when they saw smoke and then fire coming from D.R. Music located at the intersection of E. Lee Avenue and S. Pollard Street.
They called 911 just after 1:30 am to report flames coming from the building. While Vinton Fire Department contained most of the fire, hot spots continued to flare up throughout the morning.
Firefighters say no one was inside when the fire started.
Donnie Ray, the owner of the music store says he was in business for 39 years. He says there were $100,000 worth of instruments inside the building where he also taught music lessons. Ray says the building is a total loss.
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TUPELO • Sam Gilliam joined the heavenly ranks of Tupelo native sons whose artistic legacies traveled beyond those small city borders. During his 88 years of life, Gilliam became an internationally renowned abstract artist who innovated modern art.
“Tupelo’s known for a lot of things, but I would say one would not automatically think accomplished African-American visual artist would be one of the things,” said Malcolm White, the retired former executive director of the Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC). “Sam was quite a get.”
Gilliam died Saturday, June 25. His death was announced by the David Kordansky Gallery and Pace Gallery, who worked with Gilliam in his later years. He died of renal failure at his home in Washington, the New York Times reported.
Gilliam was born in Tupelo on Nov. 30, 1933, to Sam Gilliam Sr. and Estery Gilliam. He was the seventh of eight children. He tapped into his love for art at an early age.
"Somewhere around 6, someone pointed out to my mother that it kept me quiet as I drew," Gilliam told the Daily Journal in a 2007 interview. "She said, ‘If you keep him doing this the rest of his life, you'll never have any trouble with him.' And I've been doing that the rest of my life."
Spending his early childhood years in Tupelo taught Gilliam to cultivate a lifetime of discovery, as he’d climb on his parents’ roof and look up.
"I noticed there was a much prettier world up there," Gilliam said in the 2007 interview. "Between the sky and the tops of buildings, there were a lot of things that were surprising.”
Shawn Brevard has followed Gilliam’s work for years, viewing his art in galleries in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Jackson. Seeing his photo on the front page of the New York Times on Tuesday, June 27, showcased his remarkable impact and “something that this town needs to pay attention to,” Brevard said. Gilliam’s legacy reminded her of another Tupelo legend, Elvis Presley, whose births are separated by merely 13 months.
“You got the visual art coming out of Sam, and you’ve got the musical art coming out of Elvis,” Brevard said. “(They both had) these experiences as children in this community that had a really incredibly foundational impact on their lives and their art.”
Gilliam’s family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, when he was 8, where he continued advancing in his artistry. He graduated from the University of Louisville with a bachelor’s degree in fine art and a master’s in painting. In between both degrees, he entered the U.S. Army in 1956, serving two years, according to a biography from HistoryMakers, a national nonprofit that preserves African American history.
He married Dorothy Butler, who was a pioneer in her own right as the Washington Post’s first Black female reporter, in 1962. The couple had three children: Stephanie Gilliam, Melissa Gilliam and L. Franklin Gilliam. Sam Gilliam married Annie Gawlak, an art dealer and longtime partner following his separation, in 2018.
Gilliam’s art career developed in the 60s. In 1968, he changed art history with his Drape paintings, which cast aside frame borders to drop his canvases on ceilings and walls. Pieces were mostly tailored for specific spaces, making each installation unique, said Ke Francis, a celebrated Tupelo-based narrative artist. Francis followed Gilliam’s career as a major figure in American art. Gilliam’s work provided a creative and innovative way to view museum space, Francis said.
“(It’s) like you were walking into, and being completely enveloped by, the color, rather than looking at it like you were looking at a window,” Francis said. “It’s a different feeling, more like you would actually be in a forest instead of looking at a painting of a forest.”
Gilliam earned international acclaim, becoming the first Black artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1972. He’d manage to have a great career despite facing barriers.
“Sam was one of the people who managed to get the work shown regardless,” Francis said. “People seemed like they were kind of forced to push their prejudices aside because the work was so powerful.”
He continued recreating his artistry throughout his career, according to Pace, with Pace founder Arne Glimcher crediting him with “explod(ing) the borders between sculpture, painting and installation” and “reinvent(ing) color and space in abstraction” in a written recollection.
“It was a very unique style that he worked in ... which is so rare in the art field, finding something that no one else has done before,” White said.
He received his flowers from his native state, receiving an honor for lifetime achievement in the 2007 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. As the MAC director at the time, White remembered Gilliam as gentle and humble despite his prestige.
Gilliam continued painting throughout his life, stopping only in death, according to the David Kordansky Gallery and Pace Gallery. While Gilliam wasn’t always a household name, Francis believes the final years of his career brought well deserved focus back to his work, showing it could last the span of time.
He leaves behind his wife, three children, three sisters and three grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, his family requested that donations be made to NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Children’s Defense Fund, the Rock Creek Conservancy or an art institution of the donor’s choosing. | https://www.djournal.com/news/local/tupelo-native-sam-gilliam-leaves-a-legacy-of-artistic-innovation/article_3416b5b1-ba44-55fa-a676-916c58977463.html | 2022-07-02T10:00:15 | 1 | https://www.djournal.com/news/local/tupelo-native-sam-gilliam-leaves-a-legacy-of-artistic-innovation/article_3416b5b1-ba44-55fa-a676-916c58977463.html |
Most years, Iowa corn is far taller than “knee high by the Fourth of July,” but this year’s crop — set back by late planting and too little rain — fits the adage.
“This year it’s more of an appropriate saying,” said Mark Licht, an assistant professor and cropping systems specialist with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. “I was just in a couple of cornfields that were at knee height. A couple of other fields I’ve driven past, I question whether they were even at that level.”
The “knee high” phrase may be as old as Iowa, founded in 1846.
One of the earliest time the phrase appeared in an Eastern Iowa newspaper was on July 3, 1884, when the Sumner Gazette said “It has been considered that if corn was knee high by the Fourth of July that the crop will be sure and safe,” The Gazette’s Time Machine reported last year.
But with advanced corn breeding and fertilizer, corn today often reaches 8 feet by midsummer. That’s under good growing conditions, the Iowa Corn Growers Association reported.
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Iowa’s cold, wet spring delayed corn planting statewide by two weeks and set soybean planting back 12 days, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship reported in May.
That wait contributed to 4% fewer corn acres planted nationwide this year, according to numbers released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
The service estimates nearly 90 million acres of corn were planted nationwide this spring, down 4% from 2021. Farmers planted 88.3 million acres of soybeans, up 1% from last year.
The data comes from surveys of 9,100 segments of land and more than 64,000 farm operators during the first two weeks of June.
“Part of the issue with corn growth is areas where we had too much water, so we had some saturated soil that slowed things down a little bit,” Licht said. “In areas of the state that are really dry, that is holding back some of that height as well.”
He said corn and soybeans plants are not elongating as much as they normally would by early July, which is typical of hotter, dryer conditions.
About half Iowa’s 99 counties are abnormally dry or worse, with two Western Iowa counties – Plymouth and Woodbury – considered in extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor’s June 30 report.
But there’s still plenty of potential for Iowa’s 2022 corn crop.
“Other than the northwest quarter of the state, really the rest of the state has some pretty great soil moisture,” Licht said. “I’ve had about 12 inches of rain in June at my house. That’s a lot more than normal. Hopefully, we keep getting the occasional downpours.”
In Iowa – the nation’s No. 1 corn producing state – corn acres are down about 2%, Licht said. He sees the late planting season as less of a factor in declining corn acres in Iowa than the price of fertilizer.
The U.S. is importing less nitrogen fertilizer from Russia because of sanctions imposed after Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Supply chain issues and COVID-19 also have slowed fertilizer production, contributing to prices two to four times higher than they were in September 2020, ISU reported in June.
While the selling price of corn also has increased, some farmers may have decided to switch some corn acres to soybeans, Licht said. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/corn-lucky-to-be-knee-high-by-the-fourth-of-july-but-expert-sees-potential/article_180eb50f-b0bb-5b78-ad1d-0ae1239928f3.html | 2022-07-02T10:38:01 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/corn-lucky-to-be-knee-high-by-the-fourth-of-july-but-expert-sees-potential/article_180eb50f-b0bb-5b78-ad1d-0ae1239928f3.html |
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Ellen and I were crossing the University of British Columbia campus during our Vancouver trip when I was surprised to see a replica of the “Goddess of Democracy” statue, the statue raised in 1989 by pro-democracy students in Tiananmen Square.
When I shared my awe and respect for the statue with two of the reverent souls meditating at her base I met Mr. Andrew Zhao, a humble, good humored, accomplished businessman and his charming wife, Wei. Andrew informed us it was the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Both were freshmen at Beijing Teacher’s University. Andrew, who was at Tiananmen Square, described watching art students assemble the Goddess of Democracy. And then, on June 4, “I saw the army open fire to the east of Tiananmen Square.”
According to a 2017 BBC report, the Chinese army killed at least 10,000 people.
“I helped carry the wounded to the nearby post hospital. We didn’t have stretchers. We used bikes, door planks, and chairs to carry the bodies of wounded students. My hands were covered with blood. I saw a girl shot in her neck, crying and screaming, ’Mom, mom, help me.’ She died on the way to the hospital.”
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At the foot of Lady Liberty’s twin we talked about history and democracy. Windblown hair frames her resolute face. She grips her torch firmly with both hands.
Andrew, a self-described good student who never failed a test, spoke of two schoolmates. “They are heroes who will never be forgotten. I saw their bodies unloaded from a hospital van. Shot in the back, they died instantly. In a place west of Tiananmen Square. One, was an undergraduate student studying political science and law. A volunteer dormitory supervisor, he gave me verbal warnings for playing games in my room after midnight.” Andrew recalls being irritated by his fellow student’s strict attitude, “until I saw his heroic sacrifices for the people of China. My other schoolmate was a nice, humble, graduate student. A typical brainiac! I was amazed by his bravery.”
Andrew was deeply traumatized by what he’d witnessed all those years ago. Wei nodded. That lovely afternoon we old men fretted over the state of democracies everywhere.
“After our democracy movement was crushed, we were forced into a month-long ‘Repentance Class’ to be brainwashed by the Chinese Communist Party. We were taught we ‘did not know the truth.’“
Accused of treason and counter-revolution, many got long sentences or even worse, the death penalty.
“We were lucky.”
“How’d you come to live in Canada?”
“I graduated and started teaching. Then I quit my teaching job because I couldn’t mislead children by teaching fabricated history. I joined an American company, Colgate Palmolive, as a management trainee and in 1996 I moved to Canada. God blessed me. We have been on our own here, with a few Canadian-born Chinese friends. We bought a home in 2006, radically changing our lives in a very happy way.”
It’s a lovely home.
In spite of enduring occasional racist taunts about “The Chinese Flu,” Andrew is a positive soul. “We believe in God now. Treat people the same way you wish to be treated. Life today is wonderful. I am a sales account manager. Wei is a home maker. We volunteer in community and social work programs.”
Andrew smiled again. “Don’t just do things right. Do the right things.”
Andrew and Wei insisted we should return to “Raincouver” so “we can show you authentic Chinese food.”
We encouraged Andrew and Wei to visit us in Arizona on our modest acre of desert. (In Vancouver, one of the most expensive cities in the world, land costs are sky-high) Andrew grinned. “You must be wealthy. Do you have horses?”
In later exchanges we continued to talk politics. “The most exciting change is our right to vote! In 2015, we cast our first ever ballot as new Canadians.”
“Why is that right so precious?”
“At every level Communist Party officials are corrupt. The army belongs to the Party not the country. With democracy you can have a separation of powers, freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of religion. Democracy matters in civilized society. In a free country, there is no one-child policy, no forced abortion, no death penalty for political dissidents, no cultural revolutions, no bans on private property ownership. That is why democracy is precious.”
Anything you’d like to say to my fellow Americans as we celebrate our Independence Day?
“Happy Independence Day! You are all blessed. Please keep showing your sincere concern for the well-being of others. Continue to lead the world to protect democracy, freedom and peace. We need you to take the lead of the direction of human civilization! We are counting on you.”
David Fitzsimmons, tooner@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/fitzs-opinion-on-our-summer-trip-i-met-a-humble-pro-democracy-hero/article_00f63366-f685-11ec-b4b5-dff0e522e1a3.html | 2022-07-02T10:57:57 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/fitzs-opinion-on-our-summer-trip-i-met-a-humble-pro-democracy-hero/article_00f63366-f685-11ec-b4b5-dff0e522e1a3.html |
Its first-floor windows were boarded up Friday, and a giant, yellow steel beam could be seen propping up an end of the foundation.
Soon, an 18th-century Palmer Township farmhouse almost smack dab in the middle of a massive complex of warehouses and other businesses will be moved, according to its previous owner.
Carson Cos. of Newport Beach, California, earlier this year acquired 95 acres, including the farmhouse, at 1571 Van Buren Road, for $60 million. Initial sketch plans brought before Palmer Township officials show up to five new warehouses could sprout from the site.
The land where the farmhouse is located sits within the 800-acre Chrin Commerce Centre off Route 33 between Nazareth and Tatamy. Most of the land is in Palmer Township.
Chrin officials did not return telephone messages, but Thomas Beauduy, a Chrin representative, said via email that the move will occur in mid-August and that details would be provided ahead of the move.
Chrin, which had used the building for offices, told Palmer officials the stone farmhouse was built in the 1700s. The last full-time occupant, Robert J. Young, said Friday the deed to the farmhouse dates to William Penn. The property eventually rolled over to two sisters, who later deeded it to the Moravians, said Young, who lived there with his family from 1979 to 2012, when Chrin bought the property.
“We really loved being there,” said Young, who raised horses with his wife, Diane. They built additions and devoted some of the 100 acres they owned into tracks for his sons’ motocross racing. He sold the property to local developer Charles Chrin, who championed the commerce center and Route 33 interchange. Chrin died in 2018.
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Cynthia Carman Kramer, the township’s planning director, said Chrin plans to move the house to an adjacent property at 1551 Van Buren Road, near the Route 33 overpass and Hollo Road, and use it as an office. The township issued demolition permits at the site and building permits for “reconstruction” of the structure at the new location, she said.
Carson plans to build five warehouses in two phases, with the buildings covering about 1.15 million square feet on one lot. The second lot, which faces Main Street, covers 18 acres and will feature retail.
Kramer said Carson did not appear as scheduled in May before the township planning commission to review plans. She said it is expected that company officials will appear in August before the review board.
Carson already has a presence in the Chrin complex, including Well Woven, a rug manufacturer; NRI, an apparel order fulfillment company; and Scholastic, which distributes children’s books. Other prominent tenants in the commerce center include Amazon, Martin Guitar and Porsche.
The continued development in and around the Commerce Centre has brought increased tax revenue to the area, according to a report Palmer has uploaded on its website. The township also said the bond used to pay for an interchange with Route 33 inside the complex will be paid off sooner than expected.
Morning Call journalist Anthony Salamone can be reached at asalamone@mcall.com. | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-palmer-township-farmhouse-20220702-pswow2cjxzdf3c6my6irserbey-story.html | 2022-07-02T11:12:47 | 1 | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-palmer-township-farmhouse-20220702-pswow2cjxzdf3c6my6irserbey-story.html |
Health District offers Moderna vaccine to eligible kids
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The Wichita Falls-Wichita County Public Health District has begun offering COVID-19 shots for eligible children ages six through 17 years with the Moderna vaccine.
The Health District's vaccine clinic hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Walk-ins are welcome, residents can visit the city of Wichita Falls website to register online or call 940-761-6841. The Health District has seen an increase in both cases and hospitalizations of COVID-19 in the past two weeks.
"We encourage everyone to ensure you and your family are fully vaccinated and stay home if you are feeling ill," the city said in a news release. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/01/health-district-offers-moderna-vaccine-eligible-kids/7789650001/ | 2022-07-02T11:14:51 | 1 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/01/health-district-offers-moderna-vaccine-eligible-kids/7789650001/ |
100 years ago
July 2, 1922: Little old 348 of "Doc Yak" and "Andy Grump" fame drove into the Illinois State Normal University driveway and Sidney Smith, "The Million Dollar Cartoonist," climbed out. He was escorted into the auditorium and presented to the student body by President David Felmley. After a few complimentary remarks, Smith proceeded to entertain the students with a chalk talk.
75 years ago
July 2, 1947: If dogs ever become eligible for social security, one of the first canine applicants will be Tippie, a 5-year-old shepherd and bird dog owned by the Claude Coone family of Heyworth. Tippie helps to load cattle on his owner's truck, guard the doors to the slaughterhouse and keep watch. Still, Tippie remains a gentle pet, fond of children and regarded by Coone as "one of the family."
50 years ago
July 2, 1972: One week after being named to the United States Olympic basketball team, Doug Collins has yet to grasp what he has accomplished. "It still seems like a dream," Collins said. "It's a great feeling. But maybe it will sink in when we all get together in San Francisco, and I see the rest of the guys." He will report there July 10.
25 years ago
July 2, 1997: Overcrowding at the McLean County Jail forced the transfer of prisoners to other areas for the first time since the facility was expanded in 1990. Twenty-five inmates were taken to four jails in surrounding counties over the weekend, in part because of nearly 20 arrests made Friday during Operation Broken Crown, the undercover Bloomington infiltration of the Latin Kings street gang.
Compiled by Pantagraph staff | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/75-years-ago-heyworth-family-dog-puts-in-a-hard-days-work/article_e5e444c4-f935-11ec-91bf-d78f42bc035f.html | 2022-07-02T11:54:13 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/75-years-ago-heyworth-family-dog-puts-in-a-hard-days-work/article_e5e444c4-f935-11ec-91bf-d78f42bc035f.html |
The Oregon Coast is a major summer destination for Oregonians as well as out-of-staters. Some will drive the whole coastline and be rewarded with views of all the Oregon Coasts.
Yes, “coasts,” plural.
Although we might think of the Oregon Coast as a single entity, it varies greatly as you travel from one border to the other, with the biggest difference being the kind of rocks that make up the headlands -- the places where hard land juts out into the sea.
First a bit of background: there are three broad categories of rocks, determined by how the rocks formed.
In certain places on our planet, some sediments on the ocean bottom are drawn down to hotter depths where the sediments melt. Often mixed with some melted continent, the melted sediment may be squished upward in the crust. This hot, fluid or semi-fluid rock is called magma; “igneous” rocks are cooled magma.
If trapped far below the surface, the magma will cool slowly, creating coarse-grained igneous rocks -- that may later be exposed. (Granite, for example.) If the magma flows to the surface (or nearly to the surface), the magma can cool more quickly, creating fine-grained igneous rocks. (Basalt, for example.)
Weathering and erosion break apart rock and transport it. The rock bits, from tiny silt-sized particles, to sand-sized, to gravel, and cobbles, collect. Through pressure and heat and chemistry, over time the individual grains can be recemented to make “sedimentary” rock. (Sandstone, for example. Bits of living things, such as shells, can also become sedimentary rock, e.g., limestone.)
Igneous or sedimentary rocks can be subjected to enough heat or pressure to reform them into a third kind of rock: “metamorphic.” (Schist or marble, for examples.) Metamorphic rocks can be highly variable because they can be formed from any other kind of rock, and metamorphic rock can be metamorphosed again -- perhaps many times.
The different types of rock aren’t stand-alone: rock material can be cycled, becoming different kinds of rock at different times. For example, the grains of sand in Cape Arago’s sandstone eroded from igneous rocks (mostly melted ocean sediments) in the Cascades and metamorphic rocks (mostly reformed ocean sediments) in the Klamath Mountains. Some of the sediment from those sources will eventually be subducted by the moving plates and be melted to become new igneous rock, or they may be reformed to become new metamorphic rock…which in turn will weather and erode into new sediment.
So where do the “different coasts” come in?
Most of the headlands north of Florence are igneous -- hard, dark basalts. Heceta Head and Sea Lion Point (where the Sea Lion Caves are), are the southern-most of these major igneous basalt headlands. In that region, there are few off-shore rocks/islands, such as Haystack Rock and Tillamook Lighthouse Rock at Cannon Beach, and the three volcanic dikes (wall-like structures) near Cape Foulweather, between Newport and Depoe Bay.
There is a break in the volcanics at Cape Kiwanda, a headland made of especially resistant sandstone. (Related to the sandstone, there are even sand dunes a little north of Cape Kiwanda, just inland of the beach in the Sand Lake area, in Tillamook County.)
The Oregon Dunes is a patch of sand between Sea Lion Point and Cape Arago that’s been collecting and moving for 20,000 years. There are rocks far below the dunes and the sea, but today’s shoreline along the Oregon Dunes doesn’t have any significant headlands.
Cape Arago is sedimentary rock, formed of layers of sediment that collected offshore tens of millions of years ago. Here, the reefs and rocks offshore are resistant layers and lumps in the tilted beds of sandstone.
Most of the headlands from Bandon to Oregon’s southern border (and into California) are metamorphic. A mix of more-or-less scrunched-up sedimentary and igneous rocks, the shoreline on the Southern Oregon Coast is especially irregular; these irregular rocks erode irregularly, too, which is why this Oregon Coast has so many gnarled coves and offshore rocks and islands.
This stretch of metamorphic coastline has a couple of exceptions, too: the headlands at Cape Blanco and nearby Blacklock Point are sedimentary.
The coast isn’t all about division, however. In addition to the adjacent Pacific Ocean, two other commonalities tie the different headlands together: many of Oregon’s headlands show old marine terraces, evidence of previous, higher sea levels; most of Oregon’s beaches between the headlands share sand grains brought up from ancient beaches laid down when sea levels were lower.
You can drive the entire Oregon Coasts to witness the variety, but you don’t have to drive far. We are fortunate that our stretch of the Oregon Coast spans these three different kinds of headland rocks: Heceta Head is igneous, Cape Arago is sedimentary, Tupper/Grandmother Rock and the seastacks at Bandon are metamorphic.
For information on how you can arrange your own exploration of our fascinating natural history, contact Marty at mgiles@wavecrestdiscoveries.com or www.facebook.com/wavecrestdiscoveries, or by calling 541/267-4027. Questions and comments about local natural history are welcome. www.wavecrestdiscoveries.com | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/nature-guide-journal-the-oregon-coasts/article_26f645a2-f7d8-11ec-9860-77e017e00b28.html | 2022-07-02T12:02:16 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/nature-guide-journal-the-oregon-coasts/article_26f645a2-f7d8-11ec-9860-77e017e00b28.html |
ATLANTA — It is “all-hands-on-deck” this holiday weekend for Atlanta Police, working to try to head off another potentially violent weekend across the city.
But on top of all of that, APD is activating its plan to protect the huge holiday crowds that are amassing, from all over Georgia and beyond, for fireworks and the AJC Peachtree Road Race.
“We’re going to have a lot of people on the street, a lot of officers on the street looking for criminal activity,” said Atlanta Police Sgt. John Chafee on Friday. “We want people to come out, enjoy the city, have a good time. But we want people to be safe while they’re out here.”
Sgt. Chafee said officers are on 12-hour shifts through Monday to provide extra coverage.
APD’s Homeland Security Unit is ready to move in if there are any specific threats to the city and to the crowds.
“We stay on top of looking at all types of information coming in,” Chafee said, “intelligence, looking for these types of threats.”
Along the route of Monday morning’s road race, MARTA buses and city dump trucks will soon move into place at key intersections to secure the runners.
APD’s Video Integration Center is taking in live video feeds from across the city. There are more surveillance cameras than ever before.
And now officers can tap into the video from their cars, using the system called FUSUS, to try to get to crime victims faster, and to reach crimes still in progress.
“It allows more eyes to be out there looking at things going on throughout the city,” Chafee said. “And it helps us to be able to pull video pretty quickly from a crime scene and get that evidence that we need. It’s something that has been very beneficial to us.”
Jen LeMaster of the Georgia World Congress Center said Friday she expects the Sunday night fireworks show at Centennial Olympic Park — just that event, alone — will draw some of the city’s biggest crowds in Atlanta since before the pandemic.
“Most community events are drawing twenty to thirty percent more because people want to get out and they want to gather, and honestly we have a great program,” LeMasters said.
And Atlanta Police are warning people against celebratory gunfire.
“You will be arrested if we catch you doing that,” Chafee said. “It’s something that is extremely dangerous. What goes up must come down. We do get cases where those rounds do come down and injure people, or worse.”
Chafee said spur-of-the-moment shootings stemming from individuals who are simply angry are increasing across the city, “simple arguments that often end in gunfire, that end in somebody being shot or somebody being killed."
"And it’s something that’s difficult to patrol against or for us to fight.... What’s difficult is when someone gets upset over something minor.... More and more people are choosing to resort to violence," Chafee said. "It’s something that’s certainly troubling to us.... People need to do a better job with managing their arguments, managing their emotions. And there needs to be a point where, obviously, you just walk away,” without firing a gun.
Much of the extra security this weekend is already as visible as possible, on purpose; much of it is not visible, on purpose.
Police are hoping that everyone watches out for everyone else.
“If you see something suspicious,” Chafee said, “or something that doesn’t fit, go ahead and call 911.” | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/atlanta-police-all-hands-on-deck-july-4-weekend-crowds/85-ecfc4c4a-42b9-42e1-a673-551a8f9dca5b | 2022-07-02T12:11:04 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/atlanta-police-all-hands-on-deck-july-4-weekend-crowds/85-ecfc4c4a-42b9-42e1-a673-551a8f9dca5b |
It’s the July Fourth Holiday Weekend and the celebrating begins:
A carnival, featuring rides and games, is open noon to 10 p.m. today Downtown, between 54th and 55th streets, west of Sixth Avenue. The carnival runs through July 4.
Libertyfest is today in Twin Lakes, starting with the Liberty Parade at 11 a.m. (starting at the St. John’s Parking lot and ending at Lance Park). At 4 p.m., Lance Park will have food vendors and a DJ. The Aquanuts water-ski show starts at 7 p.m., with the fireworks show at about 9:30 p.m.
Kenosha’s “Celebrate America” starts today in the HarborPark area. The festival features live music on stages in HarborPark, along with the Dock Dogs pier-jumping contests and vendors. The festival takes place at the harbor along 54th Street, between Sixth Avenue and Second Avenue. Celebrate America is open 3 to 10 p.m. today (and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday and Monday). Note: The Dock Dogs registration and practice starts at 4 p.m. today, 3 p.m. Sunday and 11 a.m. Monday, with performances starting an hour later each day. All dogs are welcome to take part. For more details, see Page B4.
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The Civil War Museum, 5400 First Ave., is hosting a free concert starting at 1 p.m. The Harmony Cornet Band uses instruments that date from 1860 to 1910 to “re-create the sounds of our priceless 19th century heritage,” museum officials said. Band members dress in period clothing and perform museum from that time period. The concert will be outside the museum. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-saturday-july-2/article_e247036a-f944-11ec-9476-c3ef51480325.html | 2022-07-02T12:12:33 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-saturday-july-2/article_e247036a-f944-11ec-9476-c3ef51480325.html |
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week, Justice Samuel Alito cited in his majority opinion the increasing prevalence of safe haven laws around the country as part of the court's rationale for dismantling longstanding federal abortion protections.
First introduced in Texas in 1999 as a response to growing baby abandonment, the Safe Haven or "Baby Moses" law gives parents who are unable to care for their child the option to leave their infant with an employee at a designated safe location without fear of prosecution for abandonment or neglect.
But how frequently are infants relinquished under the law in Bexar County and around Texas?
Not so often, according to data from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. Since 2009, only 18 infants have been relinquished under the law in the Bexar County region. This area encompasses 27 other counties including Uvalde, Comal and Guadalupe counties.
Statewide, only 172 infants have been relinquished under the law during the same time frame. The state sees an average of 12 infants turned in each year. The number peaked during the 2020 fiscal year at 21.
For parents thinking about bringing their baby to a Safe Haven, there are several things to keep in mind:
- The baby needs to be 60 days old or younger when you drop them off.
- The baby must be unharmed and safe.
- Safe Havens include any hospital, fire station or emergency medical services station in Texas.
- You must hand your baby directly to an employee who works at one of these Safe Havens and tell this person that you want to leave your baby there and that you don't intend on returning for the child.
Parents may be handed a form to disclose the child's medical facts and history to ensure the infant receives the care it needs. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/bexar-county-safe-haven-17277660.php | 2022-07-02T12:19:56 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/bexar-county-safe-haven-17277660.php |
ALBANY – An Atlanta resident who pleaded guilty for his role in a check-cashing scheme targeting Publix grocery stores in Georgia, Florida and Alabama has been remanded to federal custody.
Brandon Lamont Bell, 37, pleaded guilty to possession of counterfeit and unauthorized devices on June 23. Bell faces a maximum of 10 years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine. Bell was remanded to federal custody at a petition for action on conditions of pretrial release hearing before U.S. District Judge Louis Sands. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 29.
“Check-cashing schemes using stolen bank information is not a minor offense — the harm it causes people and businesses can warrant federal prosecution and will not be ignored by our office,” U.S. Attorney Peter D. Leary said. “Our office is working with local, state and federal law enforcement partners to protect people and businesses from fraudsters.”
“This case is another example that clearly shows criminals are continuously looking for ways to steal from financial institutions," Clint Bush, resident agent in charge with the United States Secret Service in the Albany resident office, said. "In this case, not only were financial institutions defrauded, but United States citizens were violated by having their bank account information stolen for the purpose of committing fraud.
“The United States Secret Service, along with our state, local and federal law enforcement partners will continue to investigate, arrest and support the successful prosecution of the criminals who choose to commit this and other types of financial fraud in our community and around the nation.”
According to court documents, Georgia State Patrol and Tifton Police Department officers were conducting a road check at the Interstate 75 Northbound Exit 61 ramp (the intersection of Old Omega Road and Magnolia Drive in Tifton). During the course of the encounter with Bell and other occupants of the vehicle, and the subsequent United States Secret Service investigation, agents discovered a check-cashing scheme involving Bell and other co-defendants targeting Publix Supermarkets in Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
Inside the vehicle, officers found 114 fictitious checks printed with 19 genuine bank account routing numbers, a printer and electric cords, nine counterfeit driver’s licenses and 18 VISA gift cards. Bell admitted that he possessed with the intent to defraud more than 15 counterfeit and unauthorized access devices.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service, GSP and the Tifton Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sonja Profit is prosecuting the case. | https://www.albanyherald.com/local/atlanta-man-pleads-guilty-to-publix-check-cashing-scheme/article_aadd61ec-f973-11ec-be6c-a3f7334d5032.html | 2022-07-02T12:25:48 | 0 | https://www.albanyherald.com/local/atlanta-man-pleads-guilty-to-publix-check-cashing-scheme/article_aadd61ec-f973-11ec-be6c-a3f7334d5032.html |
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ALBANY -- Ross Harrison, senior vice president and chief credit officer at Flint Community Bank, was recognized by the Community Bankers Association of Georgia for more than 39 years of dedicated service to the community banking industry at a retirement celebration held in his honor at Flint Community Bank’s office.
"Georgia is fortunate to have community bankers who have reached these significant milestones in their careers," John McNair, president and CEO of CBA, said. "It’s our pleasure to honor the men and women who have served the banking needs of their communities and lent their expertise to a new generation of community bankers throughout their careers.
"We congratulate Ross and appreciate his dedicated service to Georgia’s community banking industry and wish him all the best in his retirement.”
Most of Harrison's professional career was spent in Missouri, working as a loan officer and a leader in credit departments. When he and his wife, Shirley, moved to Albany, he joined Flint Community Bank as chief credit officer and senior vice president.
“Ross is a gentleman in the truest sense of the word,” Flint Community Bank President Frank Griffin said. “Ross is kind and respectful to those around him and is always ready with a kind word and a listening ear. He has a wealth of banking knowledge that has served our organization brilliantly over the years. He leads our credit team with humility and common sense.
"Ross is always quick to support those around him and teach them lessons that he's learned in his career and lifetime, lessons that may help a colleague make a more informed decision at work or 'life lessons' that may simply help his coworkers live better lives.”
Harrison served his country for 28 years. He spent six years in active-duty service with the Army, beginning in 1974. After his active-duty service, he returned to Missouri and entered the banking industry. He stayed active in the Army Reserve for 22 years and earned a master's degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College before retiring in 2003.
In addition to his service, Harrison has been involved in numerous nonprofit organizations over the years. He is an avid outdoorsman with a degree in Wildlife Biology from Washington State University. He has a passion for fishing, kayaking, quail and pheasant hunting, and training Brittany pups. Some of his most recent work has been serving in leadership roles with the Flint Riverkeeper and the southwest Georgia Chapter of Quail Forever.
CBA honors bankers who have reached milestones of 30, 40 or 50-plus years of banking experience and a proven record in excellent community involvement with the Lifetime Service Award. | https://www.albanyherald.com/local/ross-harrison-receives-lifetime-service-award-at-flint-community-bank/article_1170905c-f9f9-11ec-ae42-77b1a4de3ede.html | 2022-07-02T12:26:00 | 1 | https://www.albanyherald.com/local/ross-harrison-receives-lifetime-service-award-at-flint-community-bank/article_1170905c-f9f9-11ec-ae42-77b1a4de3ede.html |
GARY — The recent Lake Michigan drowning death at Porter Beach should serve as a deadly reminder to beachgoers that the powerful riptide waves can swallow any swimmer if they’re not properly prepared.
In 2022, there have been 20 drowning deaths in Lake Michigan with the most recent incident occurring at Porter Beach Monday morning. Thomas Kenning, 38, drowned after entering the water to save a teen who was struggling to stay afloat.
Dave Benjamin, co-founder and executive director of the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project, said if Kenning had taken something that floated with him when entering the water, it’s possible he would have survived.
“No matter how good or strong of a swimmer you are, you can have a drowning incident,” he said Monday evening at Wells Street Beach in the Miller section of Gary. “It’s not common sense to know panic is the first stage of drowning, or an active drowning victim can submerge within the first minute.”
Since 2010, there have been 503 drowning deaths in Lake Michigan which accounts for almost half of all drowning deaths in the Great Lakes, Benjamin said. Drowning incidents commonly occur because people aren’t aware of the active signs of drowning nor the preventative steps to take.
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“We don’t play in fire and still know fire strategy,” he said. “Everyone plays in water and few very people know the drowning strategy.”
Benjamin said after submersion, the heart will begin to stop after three minutes, followed by the start of irreversible brain injury after four minutes. He said there’s only a 14% chance a person will survive if rescued after 10 minutes of submersion.
The GLSRP promotes the “flip, float and follow” method to survive a drowning incident. Begin by flipping over on your back, floating to get your breathing under control and calming yourself down to conserve energy.
Astacia Decheske, of Hebron, visits Lake Michigan beaches every summer. Decheske said there’s been a drowning nearly every time she’s come to the beach.
“One time I was just reading and I looked up noticing everyone in the water was gone,” she said while sitting in a lawn chair next to her husband, Scott. “There were helicopters and boats everywhere. It was very frightening and very sad.”
Hammond resident Michelle Castillo brings her three sons to Wells Street Beach once or twice every summer. Castillo said she restricts how far out she lets her children go into the water due to high waves.
“These waves can be dangerous, it can pull them under,” she said as her three children were playing with a ball in the sand. “They should have a lifeguard here, or put restrictions out for the younger kids that parents have to be with them instead of sitting in a chair.”
Benjamin said a small child with zero swimming ability can immediately submerge without having the opportunity to show signs of panic.
Someone with limited swimming ability who is in water over their head may struggle for 15-20 seconds before final submersion. He said even adults with Olympic-quality swimming abilities can submerge within one minute once panic and exhaustion set in.
On Monday evening, his organization hosted a Surf Rescue Clinic at Wells Street Beach, informing a dozen attendees to be aware of safety stations at local beaches that include a life jacket and rescue ring. (For more information on water safety education visit https://glsrp.org/).
If a person appears to be in distress in the water, always ensure the rescuer uses the life jacket for themselves and the rescue ring for the victim, Benjamin said. It’s also important to notify an on-duty lifeguard.
Beachgoers should also be aware that buoys are generally placed for the purposes of boats, not swimmers. Although buoys are aligned, there may be different sandbar formations around them causing one buoy to be in a more shallow area compared to another.
“We just want everyone’s family fun-day at the beach not to turn into some horrific tragedy they’ll have to live with for the rest of their lives,” Benjamin said. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/watch-now-drowning-death-in-lake-michigan-underscores-need-for-safety-training-expert-says/article_7d5b8515-aecf-53de-bbce-5680d4347bbe.html | 2022-07-02T12:38:51 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/watch-now-drowning-death-in-lake-michigan-underscores-need-for-safety-training-expert-says/article_7d5b8515-aecf-53de-bbce-5680d4347bbe.html |
In Upper Mount Bethel Township, Ed Nelson plans to hold a dedication for a recently reopened bridge.
Replacing the relatively small span — 16-by-20 foot — for a relatively small price of around $100,000 will let visitors and others to travel in a remote part of the township more safely, said Nelson, who is township manager.
The one-lane bridge on National Park Drive, which crosses a runoff in woods near Slateford Creek, where waterfalls cascade from the Blue Mountain, collapsed more than two years ago when rushing water washed it away.
The loss of the bridge proved no problem initially for motorists, who were able to travel from the opposite direction on National Park Road from Route 611. This area of the township borders the National Park Service’s Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, which spans five counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
But the alternate access to and from Route 611 has become undermined and started to collapse, according to Nelson. And having no access not only hampered park travelers; it affected residents such as Charlotte Jewell. To the 83-year-old Jewell, the bridge is a vital link to run errands or make medical appointments.
“There was concern the road would start to wash out before we could get the bridge fixed,” Nelson said. “So she was quite anxious for this.”
Jewell was born in a home in the area and worked four decades in maintenance for the National Park Service before retiring about six years ago at 78.
“If the rest of the road [to Route 611] would have collapsed, and they didn’t have the bridge done ... ,” she said. “It stressed me out when I didn’t know what they were going to do.”
The township road crew, including forepeople Lindsey Manzi and Dave Constable, worked about three months before finishing the bridge during the first week of June, Nelson said. He also credited engineer Justin Coyle, who serves the township, as well as two Upper Mount Bethel businesses — Smith Wilbert Inc. and Vanderpool Masonry — that provided concrete blocks, iron rods, other materials and work.
Nelson also sought help from U.S. Rep. Susan Wild, whose territory includes the township, for dealing with the park service.
“To have them understand your level of urgency sometimes is difficult,” Nelson said. “As we got to explain what the necessity was, and we got Wild’s office involved, they helped us get through their bureaucracy and move the communications along solidly.”
Wild said she convened the stakeholders together to find an “expeditious way” to replace the bridge.
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Kathleen Sandt, a Park Service spokesperson, said while the bridge and road are the township’s property, and the federal government owns land on either side, the Park Service did not require any environmental compliance review. She also noted the portion of National Park Drive near Route 611 has been closed indefinitely due to a “slumping” of the road surface. Repairs are expected to be significant, she said.
Nelson said it was during his conversation with Wild and her staff that he came up with a code name for the bridge work. “I said, ‘We’re going to call this project Saving Charlotte,’ ” he said.
The project’s namesake is grateful for the township’s work.
“They should have the credit for building the bridge,” Jewell said of township officials and workers. “I appreciate everything they did.”
Morning Call journalist Anthony Salamone can be reached at asalamone@mcall.com. | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/nazareth/mc-nws-upper-mount-bethel-township-bridge-20220702-ign75f6m7nh4hlvl5cac3z5cyi-story.html | 2022-07-02T12:43:42 | 1 | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/nazareth/mc-nws-upper-mount-bethel-township-bridge-20220702-ign75f6m7nh4hlvl5cac3z5cyi-story.html |
LINWOOD — Camryn Dirkes proudly points to the bump on the side of her nose.
It happened when she took an elbow to the face as a freshman in her Mainland Regional High School basketball debut.
It’s a physical souvenir of the toughness and competitiveness that helped her have one of the most accomplished careers in Mustangs sports history.
A soccer, basketball and track and field standout, the graduate is The Press Female Athlete of the Year.
“I had a lot of fun these past four years, this year especially,” Dirkes said. “It definitely went quicker than expected, made a lot of new friends and memories that I’ll never forget. I couldn’t be more thankful for these four years, but they did fly by.”
She said the Mainland culture was a big reason for her success.
“As a young athlete coming in, everyone accepts you right away and treats you like one of them. That gets you ready for those big-game situations.”
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Dirkes found herself in plenty of those big-game situations as a senior.
She scored 14 goals for the girls soccer team, including the winner when Mainland ended Ocean City’s 45-game unbeaten streak with a 1-0 double-overtime victory Oct. 12. The Linwood resident was The Press Girls Basketball Player of the Year this winter, averaging 11.9 points. This spring she set the school record in the triple jump and individually won two South Jersey Group III titles, two Atlantic County championships and a Cape-Atlantic League title.
But it’s not her individual accomplishments that set Dirkes apart. Rather it was her belief in the team that made so many take notice.
“The rarity of her is her balance of confidence and humility,” Mainland girls basketball coach Scott Betson said. “You tend to have one or the other. Her confidence gives her trust in her athletic ability. Her humility and her approach is that it’s not about me. It’s about this group of girls that I’m with. Everyone likes her. You will not find someone who doesn’t have a positive thing to say about her.”
Few South Jersey athletes won as much as Dirkes in 2021-22.
She led the girls basketball team to a 28-3 record, the Cape-Atlantic League and South Jersey Group III titles and a state final appearance. The girls soccer team reached the South Jersey Group III final. The girls track and field team won the Atlantic County championship and finished 9-0 in dual meets to win the CAL American Conference title.
“It’s (about) the team,” she said. “I would have done individual sports if I wanted to try to succeed by myself. I really enjoy being part of a team. It’s such an interesting culture having a family outside of your own family. I truly do mean it when I say I don’t care how many points I score. I just want to win.”
Betson recalls meeting Dirkes at a 2018 informational meeting for incoming freshmen.
“She just walked in and owned the room,” he said. “You could tell even in those 10 minutes that this kid was different. Obviously, she’s athletically gifted, but that kind of maturity and confidence goes a long way in high school sports. ”
Dirkes is quick to laugh and smile. She was Mainland’s prom queen this spring. At first glance, she would appear to have had an ideal high school career but it was not without adversity.
She missed all of her sophomore 2019-20 basketball season with a foot injury. Like all athletes her age, she lost the 2020 spring season to the pandemic.
“It gave me some perspective on how much I really enjoyed being a part of a team,” she said, “and what I wanted to do in my future.”
That future will not include school sports. Dirkes will attend the University of Georgia, but she will not play for the Bulldogs. She will major in business with a focus on accounting and be a "normal" student.
“People ask me all the time what made me decide (not to play sports in college),” she said. “During that (COVID) break, I figured out what I wanted to do with my future. I do want to be a normal student. I want to focus on who I want to be outside of athletics. I’m looking forward to figuring that out.”
Dirkes, however, plans to keep competing in some form.
“Of course, I’m going to miss (sports),” she said. “I dedicated every aspect of my life leading up to this.”
So what will be her new competitive outlet? Golf? Road racing? Monopoly?
Dirkes laughed when she heard the question.
“Catch me on the (putting) green,” she said with a laugh. “Definitely not playing Monopoly. I’m not sure, but I’ll be doing something.”
The Press Female Athlete of the Year Runners-up
Imene Fathi
Imene Fathi
Wildwood senior
Fathi averaged 17.9 points and scored 1,332 career points in basketball. She made 87 saves and scored five goals for the Wildwood soccer team and batted .316 in softball. She will continue her basketball career at Stockton University.
Jackie Fortis
Jackie Fortis
Absegami senior
Fortis played volleyball, basketball and track and field. She had 92 kills in volleyball and averaged 7.8 points, 5.3 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 4.2 steals in basketball. She finished second in the discus at the Cape-Atlantic League championship.
Sarah Lally
Sarah Lally
Southern Regional senior
Lally excelled at field hockey, basketball and softball. She led the Rams defense in field hockey, averaged 7.9 points and 8.9 rebounds in basketball and finished her softball career with 20 home runs. Lally sparked Southern to back-to-back Shore Conference A South softball titles.
Emma Peretti
Emma Peretti
Hammonton junior
Peretti averaged 19.6 points and 16 rebounds in basketball. She has 1,135 career points. . This spring she won the Cape-Atlantic League and Atlantic County discus titles and also the South Jersey Group III shot put championship.
Summer Reimet
Summer Reimet
Ocean City soccer
She led the state with 62 soccer goals to help the Red Raiders win the Cape-Atlantic League and South Jersey Soccer Association Tournament titles. Reimet finished with 131 career goals. She will continue her soccer career at Monmouth University.
MMcGarry@PressofAC.com | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/meet-the-press-female-athlete-of-the-year/article_f3f64ae6-f97e-11ec-955b-6b494b0101db.html | 2022-07-02T12:47:39 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/meet-the-press-female-athlete-of-the-year/article_f3f64ae6-f97e-11ec-955b-6b494b0101db.html |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – A Jonesborough man is dead following a Friday evening crash, police say.
According to a press release from the Johnson City Police Department (JCPD), officers were called to the scene of a collision in the 3000 block of Cherokee Road around 3 p.m. Friday. When they arrived, officers found that a motorcycle driven by Randy J. Tucker, 47, of Jonesborough hit the back of a Fed-Ex box truck while it was backing into a nearby driveway.
Tucker died from injuries sustained in the crash, the report said. The truck driver was reported as unhurt.
The release specified that investigators believe speed was a contributing factor in the crash. No charges were listed against the Fed-Ex driver. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/jcpd-1-dead-after-motorcycle-rear-ends-fed-ex-truck/ | 2022-07-02T12:48:16 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/jcpd-1-dead-after-motorcycle-rear-ends-fed-ex-truck/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — People watching: we all do it. It can be a surreal experience. To look at another person and to realize they are their own person with their own lives, thoughts and experiences.
Sooo now that we have addressed that, here’s another question: where are the best places to people-watch in Dallas? Foursquare thought about this and has you covered. Here is their list of the best places to people-watch:
- Klyde Warren Park
- Katy Trail
- NorthPark Center
- Starbucks
- Rattlesnake Bar
- Addison Circle Park
- White Rock Lake T.P. Hill
- Highland Park Village
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- The Tipsy Alchemist
- Galleria Dallas
- Starbucks
- Lounge 31
- Katy Trail Ice House
- Houndstooth Coffee (the one on N Henderson)
For more information, visit Foursquare. | https://cw33.com/news/local/here-are-the-best-places-in-dallas-to-people-watch-according-to-foursquare/ | 2022-07-02T12:49:03 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/here-are-the-best-places-in-dallas-to-people-watch-according-to-foursquare/ |
The United States Supreme Court’s reversal of its prior decisions which had upheld certain constitutional rights to abortion and, as a result, leaving it up to state legislators to determine abortion rights, has left some employers questioning the impact of this decision on the workplace.
Some employers immediately responded. For example, Dick’s Sporting Goods announced, “if a state one of our teammates lives in restricts access to abortion, DICK’S Sporting Goods will provide up to $4,000 in travel expense reimbursement to travel to the nearest location where that care is legally available. That benefit will be provided to any teammate, spouse or dependent enrolled in our medical plan, along with one support person.”
Goldman Sachs announced, “We have extended our healthcare travel reimbursement policies to include all medical procedures, treatments and evaluations, including abortion services and gender-affirming care where a provider is not available in proximity to where our people live.”
Many other employers made similar announcements.
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These quick announcements demonstrate the unique circumstances for employers in balancing the needs of its employees without wading too far into a divisive topic that may distract from the needs of the business.
While women may not have a constitutional right to abortion, regardless of where they live, their right to non-discrimination remains.
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which amended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, prohibits discrimination because of pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions. In its pregnancy discrimination enforcement guidance, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission included “abortion” among the considerations for a “Medical Condition Related to Pregnancy or Childbirth.” The EEOC stated,
“Title VII protects women from being fired for having an abortion or contemplating having an abortion. However, Title VII makes clear that an employer that offers health insurance is not required to pay for coverage of abortion except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or medical complications have arisen from an abortion. The statute also makes clear that, although not required to do so, an employer is permitted to provide health insurance coverage for abortion. Title VII would similarly prohibit adverse employment actions against an employee based on her decision not to have an abortion. For example, it would be unlawful for a manager to pressure an employee to have an abortion, or not to have an abortion, in order to retain her job, get better assignments, or stay on a path for advancement.”
In 2020, Virginia added provisions in the Virginia’s Human Rights Act requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodation for “known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.” Virginia employers with five or more employees must provide reasonable accommodation unless doing so poses an undue hardship.
Reasonable accommodation under the Virginia law includes, “leave to recover from childbirth.” Whether receiving an abortion is included within the law is unclear.
Virginia is not among the states with “trigger” laws. Under current Virginia law, abortion is legal in the first trimester of pregnancy. It is legal in the second trimester when performed in a hospital and physicians certify that continuation of pregnancy will result in death of the woman “or substantially and irremediably impair the mental or physical health of the woman,” among other provisions. Abortion is always legal in Virginia where necessary to save the life of a woman.
Thus, the Supreme Court’s opinion changes very little for Virginia employers.
For employers operating in multiple states, employers should respond to the Supreme Court’s decision, if at all, carefully and take confidentiality and consistency into consideration when making broad policy changes such as that announced by DICK’s Sporting Goods.
Employers should carefully determine whether paying for travel for certain medical procedures can be consistently applied for other procedures that might not be available in the locality where an employee lives.
For example, a Virginia man recently traveled to California for a back procedure performed by a surgeon who specializes in that procedure and which was not available from Virginia surgeons. Employers who change policy just for abortion may find themselves appearing to favor one medical procedure over another. This could be considered discrimination if, for example, a man claims that he will never be eligible for the abortion benefit, and therefore the policy in itself discriminates against men who may have the need for travel out of state for other medical procedures.
In addition, employers should also consider confidentiality, and documentation that will be necessary, for an abortion benefit, in addition to tax implications and amendments to defined benefits plans.
Karen Michael is an attorney and the president of Richmond-based Karen Michael PLC and author of “Stay Hired.” She can be reached at stayhired@stayhired.net. | https://richmond.com/business/local/labor-law-employment-law-considerations-following-the-supreme-court-s-decision-on-abortion/article_25750e71-2d39-527a-863c-8c000ae94a35.html | 2022-07-02T12:50:41 | 1 | https://richmond.com/business/local/labor-law-employment-law-considerations-following-the-supreme-court-s-decision-on-abortion/article_25750e71-2d39-527a-863c-8c000ae94a35.html |
FORT WORTH, Texas — Fort Worth police have released body and dash camera video of a domestic incident that led to a man being shot by officers earlier this week.
The suspect, who was identified as 31-year-old Alejandro Molina Cornelio, remains in critical condition in a hospital. He's been charged with three counts of aggravated assault for the July 29 incident.
In a video update Friday night, police said the department responded to a domestic disturbance at a home on Olive Place in western Fort Worth.
According to police, Cornelio allegedly pointed a gun at people inside the home and also tried to take children who were inside before fleeing the area.
Police said officers were able to get a vehicle description and eventually located the suspect, but a chase ensued.
In the Friday update, police said Cornelio reportedly called family members who were at the home on Olive Place and threatened to kill his wife and then himself. He also pointed a gun at his head during the calls, according to police.
Police said the suspect eventually drove through the neighborhood while officers were still chasing him. Police said they believed the suspect was trying to drive to the family members' home.
Video released by the department shows a squad car colliding with the suspect's vehicle near a home. Gunshots from officers can then be heard in the videos provided by police.
"As you've seen, the suspect had numerous options available to him that would have led to a different outcome," Robert Alldredge, assistant police chief, said in the video update.
According to police, Cornelio was critically injured and transported to a hospital, where he currently remains.
None of the family members or officers involved were injured in the incident. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fort-worth-police-release-video-chase-shooting-domestic-violence-suspect/287-64acf77e-a4cb-4f00-a3c8-1e23b77e8b19 | 2022-07-02T13:19:25 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fort-worth-police-release-video-chase-shooting-domestic-violence-suspect/287-64acf77e-a4cb-4f00-a3c8-1e23b77e8b19 |
AUSTIN, Texas — (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court blocked a lower court order late Friday night that said clinics could continue performing abortions, just days after some doctors had resumed seeing patients after the fall of Roe v. Wade.
It was not immediately clear whether Texas clinics that had resumed seeing patients this week would halt services again. A hearing is scheduled for later this month.
The whiplash of Texas clinics turning away patients, rescheduling them, and now potentially canceling appointments again — all in the span of a week — illustrated the confusion and scrambling taking place across the country since Roe was overturned.
An order by a Houston judge earlier this week had reassured some clinics they could temporarily resume abortions up to six weeks into pregnancy. That was quickly followed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asking the state’s highest court, which is stocked with nine Republican justices, to temporarily put the order on hold.
“These laws are confusing, unnecessary, and cruel,” said Marc Hearron, attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, after the order was issued Friday night.
Clinics in Texas had stopped performing abortions in the state of nearly 30 million people after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion. Texas had technically left an abortion ban on the books for the past 50 years while Roe was in place.
A copy of Friday's order was provided by attorneys for Texas clinics. It could not immediately be found on the court’s website.
Abortion providers and patients across the country have been struggling to navigate the evolving legal landscape around abortion laws and access.
In Florida, a law banning abortions after 15 weeks went into effect Friday, the day after a judge called it a violation of the state constitution and said he would sign an order temporarily blocking the law next week. The ban could have broader implications in the South, where Florida has wider access to the procedure than its neighbors.
Abortion rights have been lost and regained in the span of a few days in Kentucky. A so-called trigger law imposing a near-total ban on the procedure took effect last Friday, but a judge blocked the law Thursday, meaning the state’s only two abortion providers can resume seeing patients — for now.
The legal wrangling is almost certain to continue to cause chaos for Americans seeking abortions in the near future, with court rulings able to upend access at a moment's notice and an influx of new patients from out of state overwhelming providers.
Even when women travel outside states with abortion bans in place, they may have fewer options to end their pregnancies as the prospect of prosecution follows them.
Planned Parenthood of Montana this week stopped providing medication abortions to patients who live in states with bans “to minimize potential risk for providers, health center staff, and patients in the face of a rapidly changing landscape.”
Planned Parenthood North Central States, which offers the procedure in Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, is telling its patients that they must take both pills in the regimen in a state that allows abortions.
The use of abortion pills has been the most common method to end a pregnancy since 2000, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone — the main drug used in medication abortions. Taken with misoprostol, a drug that causes cramping that empties the womb, it constitutes the abortion pill.
“There’s a lot of confusion and concern that the providers may be at risk, and they are trying to limit their liability so they can provide care to people who need it," said Dr. Daniel Grossman, who directs the research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California San Francisco.
Emily Bisek, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood North Central States, said that in an “unknown and murky” legal environment, they decided to tell patients they must be in a state where it is legal to complete the medication abortion -- which requires taking two drugs 24 to 48 hours apart. She said most patients from states with bans are expected to opt for surgical abortions.
Access to the pills has become a key battle in abortion rights, with the Biden administration preparing to argue states can’t ban a medication that has received FDA approval.
Kim Floren, who operates an abortion fund in South Dakota called Justice Empowerment Network, said the development would further limit women's choices.
“The purpose of these laws anyways is to scare people,” Floren said of states’ bans on abortions and telemedicine consultations for medication abortions. “The logistics to actually enforcing these is a nightmare, but they rely on the fact that people are going to be scared.”
A South Dakota law took effect Friday that threatens a felony punishment for anyone who prescribes medication for an abortion without a license from the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners.
In Alabama, Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office said it is reviewing whether people or groups could face prosecution for helping women fund and travel to out-of-state abortion appointments.
Yellowhammer Fund, an Alabama-based group that helps low-income women cover abortion and travel costs, said it is pausing operation for two weeks because of the lack of clarity under state law.
“This is a temporary pause, and we’re going to figure out how we can legally get you money and resources and what that looks like,” said Kelsea McLain, Yellowhammer’s health care access director.
Laura Goodhue, executive director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, said staff members at its clinics have seen women driving from as far as Texas without stopping — or making an appointment. Women who are past 15 weeks were being asked to leave their information and promised a call back if a judge signs the order temporarily blocking the restriction, she said.
Still, there is concern that the order may be only temporary and the law may again go into effect later, creating additional confusion.
“It’s terrible for patients,” she said. “We are really nervous about what is going to happen.” | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-supreme-court-blocks-order-resumed-abortions/287-095121c1-dfd7-4a02-9ce3-cd74eb1144f8 | 2022-07-02T13:19:31 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-supreme-court-blocks-order-resumed-abortions/287-095121c1-dfd7-4a02-9ce3-cd74eb1144f8 |
How 'autoantibodies' could help us understand long COVID and other autoimmune diseases
Antibodies are the specialized fighters that keep your body safe. These proteins produced by the immune system can attach to tiny invaders — viruses or other pathogens — and in many cases prevent them from entering and infecting cells.
Experts talked a lot about antibodies as the COVID-19 pandemic spread: how the proteins reacted to different strains of SARS-CoV-2, to what extent they granted immunity, how long that immunity might last.
But the body produces antibodies against all kinds of outside threats. The question is: what happens when the immune system mistakes part of the body for an outside invader?
The body can create what are known as autoantibodies.
If the body decides to attack itself instead of a pathogen, it can lead to autoimmune diseases or conditions that can cause the body lasting harm. Notorious examples include Type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
But new research from Arizona State University suggests that it’s more complicated than that. Healthy people have autoantibodies, too, and charting their numbers and types may help scientists better understand why they make some people sick.
“The study was basically looking at, ‘do healthy people make antibodies against themselves? And if they do, are they common?’” said Dr. Joshua LaBaer, the executive director of ASU’s Biodesign Institute, whose team conducted the study. “And the answer is they are.”
In a recent meta-review of several previous studies, LaBaer and his team found at least 77 common autoantibodies in healthy individuals. Those autoantibody levels increase throughout youth and adolescence and eventually plateau by adulthood.
He and other scientists have some theories about why those autoantibodies come to be, but they’ll need more research to better understand those mechanisms and why there are differences between different people. If the advances continue, scientists may find better targets for predicting cancers and other supposedly “autoimmune” conditions that may really be linked to prior viral infections.
And that could mean more breakthroughs in understanding long COVID, which we already know is a post-viral syndrome but still a mystery in many ways, including in its diagnosis and in its description.
LaBaer thinks autoantibodies are part of that puzzle.
"Knowing autoantibodies that are common in healthy people would help us identify which are really disease related and which ones are not," LaBaer said.
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Why the body sometimes produces antibodies against itself
From the moment you’re born, your body starts training to fight against the viruses, bacteria and other microorganisms that proliferate all around us. Immune cells called B-cells pump out specially-shaped proteins called antibodies that can take out specific targets, and other immune cells keep files to help recognize the invaders for future reference.
The immune system, including those antibody-producing B-cells, quickly learns what to attack — and what not to attack — said Ji Qiu, a research professor at the Biodesign Institute.
“Normally we shouldn't produce antibodies against our proteins because (when we are) very young, (like) one and two years old, our immune system was trained to not to mount a response against our own proteins,” he said.
The immune system’s training is strong, but it isn’t perfect. Qiu said its recognition system can be duped.
The body mounts a strong response against infection with a virus, bacteria or fungus, he said, something that has foreign proteins. Those proteins might happen to look a lot like human proteins, and even after the infection is cleared, the body might start to see an enemy when it should be seeing part of the body.
That is why infection with coxsackieviruses (types of viruses related to Hepatitis A and polioviruses) can lead to certain forms of autoimmune diabetes. Those viral proteins look very similar to some proteins in the pancreas, and damage to the pancreas by the immune system can eventually prevent the body from processing glucose normally.
But the proteins LaBaer, Qiu and other ASU researchers found in their meta-analysis, which included nine existing datasets, did not cause disease in their subjects.
Why? Qiu said he has some ideas.
“These proteins (may be) kind of sequestered in immune privileged sites, like in the brain and in the reproductive system,” Qiu said. That means that although those autoantibodies are present in some people, they aren’t hanging out in places where the immune system can easily get to them.
It’s more common to have these autoantibodies than you might think: Qiu said that in their study, he and his team found that as much as 43% of the population might have some of these autoantibodies.
That, he said, was the biggest surprise to him and the most significant finding of the paper in its implications for future research.
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Biomarkers for disease
The ASU autoantibody study was born from a long-standing interest in finding better ways to detect cancer, LaBaer explained.
“When I'm not doing COVID, my lab is very interested in cancer,” said LaBaer, whose lab has been tracking COVID-19 cases since 2020.
To that end, LaBaer and his team are working on ways to use blood tests to detect antibodies against cancer proteins, an early detection method that can suggest to doctors and researchers that a cancer might be present. It’s one potential application of autoantibodies that LaBaer thinks could be used for many other conditions.
But with the realization that healthy people have autoantibodies comes the task of developing a roadmap of sorts to better use those markers to pinpoint specific diseases.
“These common autoantibodies can confound the search for disease-linked autoantibodies, and their documentation will simplify the identification of autoantibodies specific to certain diseases,” the authors wrote in the article in the journal Cell Reports.
Michael Kuhns, an associate professor of immunobiology at the University of Arizona who was not affiliated with the ASU study, said that having a better handle on what kinds of autoantibodies exist in healthy people may help scientists evaluate "how robust (a particular autoantibody) might be as a biomarker, even a diagnostic.”
It’s just one way that scientists are steadily quantifying and documenting theories that have been in existence for years, theories that draw connections between prior infections and subsequent diseases.
“The idea of a microbial infection leading to antibodies that might cross react with your own proteins is not new," Kuhns said. (By cross react, he means that those antibodies can bind to your own proteins as well as outside ones.) "But having data to support an idea versus just having an idea are two very different things.”
He noted his appreciation for the authors’ decision to list limitations of the study at the end of the paper, which he said was a thoughtful nod to the risks of over-interpreting data.
“They talked about how many samples have statistical power, male versus female and things of that nature,” he said, adding that he thinks it’s important for scientists to recognize the limitations of their experiments and analyses.
“I'm an unabashed basic scientist,” Kuhns said. “I think there's a lot of utility in knowing the basics.”
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Autoantibodies and the quest to understand long COVID
Qiu thinks those basic principles behind autoantibodies may also be applicable to understanding why some people develop long COVID, the sometimes debilitating collection of symptoms that can set in after a coronavirus infection and range from persistent fatigue to GI symptoms, neurological issues and more.
“Because of the infection, it creates a conducive environment for the immune system to mount an immune response against our self proteins,” Qiu said.
Damage to tissues in the brain, lungs and gut may exacerbate the effects of autoantibody development after a COVID-19 infection, which he thinks might be one of the reasons some people experience symptoms even after the initial virus has passed.
His theory echoes that of Michael VanElzakker, a neuroscience researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who previously told The Republic how poorly understood “autoimmune” conditions may really be a consequence of the immune system “trying to get at something that was doing damage.”
Understanding that process will take time, as researchers around the world gather data from long COVID patients and sift through the complex array of symptoms they present. That, LaBaer said, is one of the challenges of studying long COVID, because it’s such a new disease that there is still work to be done in defining and diagnosing the condition.
But once they do that and find a sample of patients, “we're going to look to see (if) they make autoantibodies, because we think that they're likely to do that."
For Kuhns, the paper didn’t just present hope of new breakthroughs. It also drove home for him just how complicated a task the immune system has always had in determining whether something in the body is friend or foe.
“We're all teetering on the edge of autoimmunity,” he said. “These kinds of papers give you an idea of the complexity (of the immune system), and how much more we still have to know.”
Independent coverage of bioscience in Arizona is supported by a grant from the Flinn Foundation.
Melina Walling is a bioscience reporter who covers COVID-19, health, technology, agriculture and the environment. You can contact her via email at mwalling@gannett.com or on Twitter @MelinaWalling. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-science/2022/07/02/why-autoantibodies-could-help-us-understand-long-covid/7725986001/ | 2022-07-02T13:20:41 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-science/2022/07/02/why-autoantibodies-could-help-us-understand-long-covid/7725986001/ |
Flagstaff Federated Community Church: Please join us for in person services on Sunday, July 3, at 10am as we will welcome our new pastor, Pastor Diamond Pate, to Flagstaff Federated Community Church. Pastor Pate comes to us from the First Methodist Church of Gilbert. We are located at 400 W. Aspen Ave. on the corner of Aspen and Sitgreaves in Downtown Flagstaff. All are welcome to our services. We look forward to seeing you at 10:00am, fellowship on the front lawn to follow. For more information about Flagstaff Federated Community Church call church office at 928-774-7383, Mon –Thurs 9am – 1pm or email at office@flagstafffederatedchurch.org.
The Episcopal Church of The Epiphany Jul 2 — The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, 423 N. Beaver St., Flagstaff. 928-774-2911. 8 a.m.- July 3, 10:30 a.m., WELCOMING ALL: with Revs Alison Lee / Celebrant and Pam Hyde, Preacher: SAT 5:30PM; SUN: 8:00AM & 10:30AM - with organ, choir, and congregational singing; IN PERSON (MASKS) or on-line at epiphanyaz.org ; 928-774-2911. https://go.evvnt.com/1220861-0.
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Beacon UU Service: “Walking Towards Walden” Jul 3 — Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 510 N. Leroux St., Flagstaff. 928-779-4492. 10-11 a.m., ALL ARE WELCOME! You BELONG at Beacon - Spiritually open and intentionally inclusive since 1958. Henry David Thoreau went to the Concord woods “to live deliberately” – sometimes alone and other times with his friend and patron Ralph Waldo Emerson, musing about Nature and life. This morning, we reflect together on his landmark classic, Walden, through written excerpts, music, and meditations. Rev. Robin Landerman Zucker, preaching, with music from Andrez Alcazar, and a guided meditation from Angela Hansen. https://go.evvnt.com/1205261-0.
Church of the Resurrection Sunday Church Services: May 8 — 740 W. University Heights Drive S., 740 W. University Heights Drive S., Flagstaff. 928-853-8522. 10-11:30 a.m., Church of the Resurrection Presbyterian Church in America (PCA): We invite you to join us for worship at 10 a.m. on Sundays at 740 W. University Heights Drive South as Rev. Joshua Walker preaches through the book of Acts. Please feel free to contact us for information on our mid-week gatherings and for more information on our church. You can find us at www.cor-pca.org and www.facebook.com/CORFlagstaff or we can be reached at corflagstaff@gmail.com and (928) 699-2715.
Living Christ Lutheran Church: Living Christ Lutheran Church is a diverse and LGBTQ-affirming community of disciples embraced by God's unconditional love and enduring grace. You are invited to celebrate with us God's love and presence in your life, grow in your discipleship, and leave empowered to be God's hands in the world. We worship through music, teaching, prayer, and the sacraments each Sunday at 10 a.m. with Rev. Kurt Fangmeier leading. We offer worship both in-person (masks are respected, not required; encouraged for unvaccinated) and online. Learn more about us at our new website: lclcflag.org.
Leupp Nazarene Church: The church, near mile post 13 or Navajo Route 15, has been holding services by teleconferences and doing drive-up meetings. For information, call pastor Farrell Begay at 928-853-5321. Teleconference number: 1-7170275-8940 with access code 3204224#. Services are 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sundays and 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
Christian Science Society of Flagstaff: 619 W. Birch Ave. The Christian Science Society of Flagstaff has opened for Sunday services while continuing to have them available via Zoom for online and phone. Wednesday testimony meetings are available only via Zoom. For phone Sunday Services: Dial: 669-900-9128, Meeting ID: 369 812 794#, Passcode: 075454#. For phone Wednesday meetings, dial: 669-900-9128, Meeting ID: 971 672 834#, Passcode: 894826#. The access for Zoom on Sundays is: https://zoom.us/j/369812794. The Zoom access for Wednesdays is: https://zoom.us/j/971672834. The password to use to enter both is CSS. We welcome all to attend our Sunday Services in person, or live by Zoom, at 10:00 o’clock, and to attend our Wednesday Testimony meetings live by Zoom, at 5:30 o’clock. Our Reading Room will be open on Wednesdays from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 10-12 noon. For further information please call 928-526-5982. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-religion-news-for-july-2/article_24c6b9e4-f96b-11ec-a5b0-470b95d8a613.html | 2022-07-02T13:30:07 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-religion-news-for-july-2/article_24c6b9e4-f96b-11ec-a5b0-470b95d8a613.html |
Dear Master Gardener,
I love the sky-blue color of our native Western blue flax and the pale blue of our Rocky Mountain columbine. But other than these two, I see very few blue flowers. Why is this?
-- For the Love of Blue
Dear For the Love of Blue,
Because plants don’t naturally produce a true-blue pigment, the color is fairly scarce in the plant kingdom. But seeing that pollinators, especially bees, zero in on blooms bedecked in blue, some plant species have found it worth the extra energy and effort to make modifications to their red anthocyanin pigments to create blue ones. These modifications are complex biochemical processes involving changes in pH, shifts in light absorption, using flavonoids as co-pigments, employing several types of chemical bonding, and more.
Different species of flowers use different tactics creating blue from anthocyanins. Cornflowers do so by using a co-pigment along with calcium, iron, and magnesium ions. This particular anthocyanin is the same one that makes roses red when the pigment lacks the metal ions.
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Morning Glory buds are pink because their cell vacuoles carry a slightly acidic pH of 6.6. But as the flowers mature, the plant uses an intricate technique that renders the cell vacuoles slightly alkaline (pH 7.7). And so, mature morning glories are blue.
On the other hand, hydrangeas display pink flowers when planted in alkaline or neutral pH soils. Gardeners who don’t have slightly acidic soil but desire their hydrangeas to decorate in blue add aluminum sulfate to the soil. So, in a nutshell, it's the abundance of aluminum present in acidic soils that is responsible for the blue coloration of some hydrangea flowers.
I haven’t found any literature on blue-pigment-forming strategies employed by Western blue flax (Linum lewisii) or Rocky Mountain Columbine (Aquilegia caerulea). I feel confident in saying, though, that they involve elaborate ways of altering anthocyanin compounds so the blooms absorb most of the color spectrum while reflecting the blue wavelengths.
Dear Master Gardener,
I want to purchase a Colorado blue spruce tree, but some of the ones I see in northern Arizona are blue, while others are a boring green. How can I be sure my spruce will exhibit true blue?
-- Pining for True Blue
Dear Pining,
In essence, Colorado blue spruces (Picea pungens) are blue because their needles exude waxes that coat the needles. The coating reflects wavelengths of blue, giving the tree a glacial blue hue. The tree doesn't create these waxes merely to make the tree blue, but to protect it from inclement weather like heat, cold, and/or drying winds.
So why do some blue spruces garb in blue, while others don’t?
There are a number of reasons, the first being that certain trees have better genetics for reflecting blue than others. The best way to solve this is to scout for the bluest spruce available at your nursery. Ask your nursery if they carry cultivars specially known for their blue coloration.
Next, you’ll need to have a sun-filled spot in which to plant your spruce to allow it to photosynthesize at its fullest capacity. The soil must drain well and be kept evenly moist, not soggy. One inch of water per week should be ideal.
Once you have planted your truly blue spruce, remember it may lose some of its color if the waxy coating abrades away from excessive rain or drying winds. If this happens, you’ll have to wait a few weeks for the natural coating to return.
The newer the growth, the bluer the foliage, so it may be beneficial to cut out dead and crowded branches from time to time. Take extra caution to retain the tree’s natural symmetry.
Periodically check for stress and diseases. Browning or loss of needles anywhere on the tree may be due to excessive heat or drought. You’ll notice insect damage from signs like larval and pupal cases, live insects, chewed areas, and insect poop. In winter, look carefully for concealed spruce aphids, which cause branches to brown from the inner to the outer sections of branches.
For advice in these matters, email Coconino Cooperative Extension at CoconinoMasterGardener@gmail.com. Or send us your question and the answer may appear in Gardening Etcetera.
Cindy Murray is a biologist, co-editor of Gardening Etcetera. and a Coconino Master Gardener with Arizona Cooperative Extension. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/gardening-etcetera-dear-master-gardener-why-are-so-few-flowers-blue/article_1dc3654e-f96f-11ec-aefa-3343591b5cb9.html | 2022-07-02T13:30:08 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/gardening-etcetera-dear-master-gardener-why-are-so-few-flowers-blue/article_1dc3654e-f96f-11ec-aefa-3343591b5cb9.html |
Jamie Bilstad lost his job at a nursery last winter. Unable to make rent, he lost his apartment.
Bilstad is now a member of Bismarck's homeless community, which numbers in the dozens.
With nowhere to go, he walked from place to place for weeks buying a cup of coffee here, a breakfast sandwich there and spending much of his time at the public library to stay warm. Free meals at Heaven's Helpers Soup Cafe and The Banquet have helped stave off the pangs of hunger while he searches for another job so he can save money and move to Texas to be near his brother.
On this early March night, with the temperature outside sinking to 4 degrees, he's resting on the floor in a corner of the entrance to Ministry on the Margins, a nonprofit volunteer-based ecumenical ministry.
In late January the organization started an “Overnight Coffee House” pilot project from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. seven days a week. People can come off the street and get a cup of coffee and a snack, blankets and a pillow.
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“I honestly don’t know where (else) I would go,” Bilstad said.
Getting a count
Homelessness is a year-round problem in North Dakota, with the harsh winters and the sometimes sizzling summers, and it's a complex issue to solve. It's hard to even get a handle on how many people need help.
To the casual eye in the early morning hours of Jan. 27, the streets of Bismarck looked void of foot traffic. It was a blustery 10 degrees outside, with snow flurries visible in the glow of the street lights.
It was another cold, unforgiving winter night in North Dakota, but Ministry on the Margins Behavioral Health Specialist Kacey Peterson and Case Manager Ashley Jahner were roaming the downtown streets and south Bismarck neighborhoods in a minivan. Both can distinguish between a person walking across a parking lot to a destination, and a person walking on a sidewalk with seemingly no purpose -- and no home.
Peterson and Jahner were part of the "Point in Time" count of the homeless in Bismarck-Mandan. Eighteen volunteers drove and walked the streets, alleys, tree lines, parks and areas behind buildings from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. looking for people sleeping outside in the frigid weather.
As Peterson and Jahner crossed the railroad tracks on Third Street, a silhouetted figure in the distance caught their eye. They drove around the block and pulled up beside a Native American woman in her early 30s.
Peterson asked if she had a warm, safe place to spend the night. The woman -- who had previously been staying with a man who physically abused her -- said she was now staying with a guy who was treating her OK, and that “It’s better than sleeping outside.”
This year's count estimated 610 people statewide as being homeless, an increase of 62 from 2021. Eighty-three are considered unsheltered.
In the 10 counties of Region 7, which includes Burleigh and Morton counties, there were 120 people living in a sheltered environment and 38 without any form of shelter.
'Trying not to die'
Frank Walker is one of them.
For the past two years, he's been walking the streets. He acknowledges he's an alcoholic. He's waiting for his wife, who was recently released from prison but is still living at a halfway house.
“Tonight’s actually nice compared to other nights with the wind,” Walker said during an early March night. “I wear two pairs of pants, two jackets and two socks.”
He owns one pair of well-worn black leather shoes. His only form of identification is a red plastic wristband with his name, picture and date of birth. It came from his last stint at the local jail.
He had an uncle and a friend who both died from exposure during past winters.
“You can’t just lay down in the wintertime, because you freeze,” Walker said. “I walk around and not freeze to death. I’m just trying to stay alive. I’m trying not to die.”
On this night, he knocks on the Ministry on the Margins door. Through the glass, Sister Kathleen Atkinson, founder and executive director, recognizes him.
“He’s one of the good ones,” she says with affection.
Maturing ministry
Ministry on the Margins staff and volunteers have earned a reputation for being nonjudgmental, compassionate, determined and willing to listen. That helps break down barriers and build a trusting relationship.
The ministry is in a renovated car dealership. Atkinson sees the space inside as a warm place for the homeless to get off the streets, if only for a few hours.
“Our homeless people are so tired ... so tired," she said. "Imagine the sleep deprivation of walking day and night to survive. In a way we are a Band-Aid. But on the other hand, we need Band-Aids. If I cut myself, the Band-Aid stops the bleeding, and then I can do the healing.”
In nine years the organization has grown from a small basement office in downtown Bismarck with Atkinson and a handful of volunteers to its current location with paid full-time staff and countless volunteer help. With an expanded food pantry, donated clothing and a point of entry site to line people up with needed services, the organization has made a name for itself.
“We have office cred and we have street cred,” Atkinson said.
Shelter goal
Several blocks away is the Missouri Slope Areawide United Way emergency shelter. It's a clean and sober facility, with residents taking breathalyzer tests each night. New clients must take a urine test.
On an early March night, the bunk beds are full.
Angela Buckley, 39, and her fiance, Aaron Stanley, have filled two beds since moving to Bismarck in November because they couldn't find housing on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. She sleeps in the women’s dorm while he stays in the more crowded men’s dorm across the hall.
“I feel comfortable here for the most part,” Buckley said. “It’s a good shelter. I like the fact that you have to be clean (sober). (The staff) is so welcoming.”
The shelter came to be after the Ruth Meiers Hospitality House men’s shelter closed in October 2017. With a winter storm hitting the area, the Missouri Valley Homeless Coalition and other agencies asked United Way to open a temporary shelter.
Five years later in partnership with Community Works North Dakota, the shelter is operating in a permanent building housing 52 men and women with another 28 in other locations. That's despite the loss of ongoing city backing. The United Way received $250,000 from the city last year, but the money runs out this fall, and city commissioners have decided not to continue annual funding due to budget constraints.
United Way still plans to renovate the 3,200-square-foot shelter and build an addition more than doubling the space. The organization plans to fund the $3.25 million project with donations and hopes to complete it this year.
But the bigger space won’t translate to more beds.
“The goal is to get people into permanent housing and have higher-quality services to be able to expedite people out of the shelter and link them up to services to stay out of the shelter,” Executive Director Jena Gullo said.
Finding housing
Boosting affordable housing is one potential way to address homelessness.
A 2020 North Dakota Housing Finance Agency study indicated more than 39% of the state’s renters were spending more than the recommended one-third of their income on housing.
An efficiency apartment in the Bismarck metro area rents for about $700 a month, with a two-bedroom apartment going for nearly $900, according to a HUD analysis.
Rental assistance is one remedy, but only one in four families in the state needing assistance actually receive vouchers, according to the state study.
The North Dakota Rent Help program established by state agencies with $352 million in federal funding during the coronavirus pandemic is helping bridge that gap. The program has doled out about $200 million of the aid but might have to return nearly $150 million if the money can't be spent by September 2024. The agency has been working to improve the application and payment processing times.
The Housing Finance Agency study also found that there is a shortage of 13,000 affordable rental units statewide for those with extremely low incomes.
In Burleigh County, the shortage is estimated at 150 single units and 50 family size rental units. The Burleigh County Housing Authority oversees 289 low-income housing units, and helps with rental assistance in 840 single and family units, including the 40 one-bedroom apartments in the recently constructed Edwinton Place for those facing chronic homelessness due to mental illness or addiction.
The Housing Finance Agency is providing financial incentives to organizations such as Fargo-based Beyond Shelter Inc. and Mandan-based Lewis and Clark Group to build or rehabilitate low-income housing units.
The Lewis and Clark group is taking over the affordable living unit properties in western North Dakota once owned by Lutheran Social Services, which filed for bankruptcy last year following financial problems associated with its affordable housing program. In Bismarck, Lewis and Clark is renovating 120 units in the former Ruth Meiers Hospitality House.
Stopping the cycle
Building more affordable housing won't solve all of the root causes of homelessness. Poverty, lack of transportation, discrimination, poor credit, criminal records, and alcohol and drug addiction all are factors.
“We’re really trying to look from that 30,000-foot view so that we can more accurately address the challenges that legitimately exist that create an environment where someone isn’t able to pull themselves out,” said Mark Heinert, president of the Missouri Valley Coalition for Homeless People, a group of providers, agencies, churches, public entities and community members dedicated to the motto “Everyone deserves the right to have a place to call home."
One effective remedy is to have agencies and organizations coordinate on such things as addiction treatment, housing applications and mental health care.
“The real key is that we’re all speaking the same language and we are assessing people and then we’re providing services for people based on their vulnerability,” Heinert said.
The implementation of a "housing first" approach to end homelessness is an important step, according to Heinert.
Housing First
The philosophy is that housing is a basic necessity for those coping with alcohol or substance abuse. It’s in contrast to the "treatment first" model in which people have to become clean and sober before gaining access to emergency shelters or housing.
“It’s easy to be judgmental and say they 'need to get their stuff together' versus it’s really complicated, and these individuals are going to struggle and perhaps we need to be more compassionate in figuring out how this can be done," Heinert said. "It’s much more affordable and it’s much more effective to keep people housed.”
Shawnell Willer, continuum of care grant coordinator at the Housing Finance Agency, cited three permanent multi-unit housing projects as examples of success: Edwinton Place in Bismarck, LaGrave on First in Grand Forks and Cooper House in Fargo.
"They continuously successfully house individuals, and it becomes more apparent this is the best practice,” Willer said.
Atikinson, at Ministry on the Margins, considers the "housing first" model a moral thing to do.
“Do people deserve to be inside and sheltered or is it something we earn?" Atkinson said. “Just because you can’t afford livable housing does not mean that you should have a dirty, scratchy blanket."
Street outreach
Before officials can get the homeless into affordable housing, they need to reach out to them where they are -- on the streets.
As part of Ministry on the Margins' outreach program, Peterson and Jahner drive a minivan two days a week around the streets and parks of Bismarck with backpacks containing waters, snacks and gift cards, and a sack full of breakfast sandwiches and coffee from a local restaurant.
“Street outreach says you don’t need to always get here during our office hours and come to us,” Atkinson said. “We’re going to go where you are at with a cup of hot coffee with kindness."
She wants people in Bismarck-Mandan to think of the homeless population on a personal level.
"What do I want for my family? Do I want that for another family? I think that’s a hard thing for people to get around until you’ve been there,” Atkinson said.
Frank Walker, the man waiting for his wife in a halfway house, has been there, and still is. On that early March night, he couldn't wait for warmer weather.
“I’ll sleep in the park all summer,” he said.
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An apparent altercation over a bicycle led up to the death of a Lincoln man on Friday evening, Lincoln police said.
Officers responding to a call found the 26-year-old stabbing victim in the alley behind a convenience store at 27th and Dudley streets just before 9 p.m. The victim, who has not been identified, died at the scene.
In a news release, police said a witness described seeing the victim and another man involved in an altercation over a bicycle in front of the store before the stabbing was reported.
Police said the two men knew one another, but as of late Friday evening, no arrests had been reported.
Investigators worked at the scene for several hours, conducting interviews, checking available video and gathering other evidence. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 402-441-6000 or Crime Stoppers at 402-475-3600.
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Sunday's shooting marks the second this year at Seacrest Field, where a 17-year-old boy suffered a grazing gunshot wound in May. It's unclear if the cases are related, said the police, who offered few details on the latest shooting.
In April and May, the city spent $278,030 on police overtime over the course of four, two-week pay periods, including one period when the payments totaled $85,419.
The 32-year-old man had forced his girlfriend to drive a vehicle from Elk Creek toward Lincoln, Sheriff Terry Wagner said, and the woman stopped the car near 120th Street and Nebraska 2 before fleeing on foot.
The investigation into the 20-year-old man started in May, when he began sending emails to district employees mentioning a specific administrator, according to police.
No one was injured in the incident, which occurred around 5 p.m. Thursday near 190th Street along Bennet Road, spilling coal along the rail line and closing access to adjacent roads for several hours.
The man posing as Henry Cavill told the woman she needed to provide her bank account information so he could pay a customs agent to release the package of cash and diamonds he had sent her, according to police.
Ryan Long will tack close to another decade onto his stint in Tecumseh after a judge sentenced him to prison for shooting his then-girlfriend during a Halloween-night fight in 2019.
The 22-year-old had used social media to arrange a sexual encounter with a State Patrol trooper who was posing as a 14-year-old girl, the agency announced in a news release.
City employees installed a trail camera to monitor the property near West B and South Folsom streets, where an unknown man inserted a can of food into the kennel in a second attempted poisoning May 31, according to police. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-lincoln-man-killed-in-stabbing-on-friday-night/article_a6c1bf7f-5257-5477-bf5b-87c48b5db2ba.html | 2022-07-02T13:57:34 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-lincoln-man-killed-in-stabbing-on-friday-night/article_a6c1bf7f-5257-5477-bf5b-87c48b5db2ba.html |
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court blocked a lower court order late Friday night that said clinics could continue performing abortions, just days after some doctors had resumed seeing patients after the fall of Roe v. Wade.
Editorial note: The above video aired prior to Friday night's decision by the Texas Supreme Court.
It was not immediately clear whether Texas clinics that had resumed seeing patients this week would halt services again. A hearing is scheduled for later this month.
The whiplash of Texas clinics turning away patients, rescheduling them, and now potentially canceling appointments again — all in the span of a week — illustrated the confusion and scrambling taking place across the country since Roe was overturned.
An order by a Houston judge earlier this week had reassured some clinics they could temporarily resume abortions up to six weeks into pregnancy. That was quickly followed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asking the state’s highest court, which is stocked with nine Republican justices, to temporarily put the order on hold.
“These laws are confusing, unnecessary, and cruel,” said Marc Hearron, attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, after the order was issued Friday night.
Clinics in Texas had stopped performing abortions in the state of nearly 30 million people after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion. Texas had technically left an abortion ban on the books for the past 50 years while Roe was in place.
A copy of Friday's order was provided by attorneys for Texas clinics. It could not immediately be found on the court’s website.
Abortion providers and patients across the country have been struggling to navigate the evolving legal landscape around abortion laws and access.
In Florida, a law banning abortions after 15 weeks went into effect Friday, the day after a judge called it a violation of the state constitution and said he would sign an order temporarily blocking the law next week. The ban could have broader implications in the South, where Florida has wider access to the procedure than its neighbors.
Abortion rights have been lost and regained in the span of a few days in Kentucky. A so-called trigger law imposing a near-total ban on the procedure took effect last Friday, but a judge blocked the law Thursday, meaning the state’s only two abortion providers can resume seeing patients — for now.
The legal wrangling is almost certain to continue to cause chaos for Americans seeking abortions in the near future, with court rulings able to upend access at a moment's notice and an influx of new patients from out of state overwhelming providers.
Even when women travel outside states with abortion bans in place, they may have fewer options to end their pregnancies as the prospect of prosecution follows them.
Planned Parenthood of Montana this week stopped providing medication abortions to patients who live in states with bans “to minimize potential risk for providers, health center staff, and patients in the face of a rapidly changing landscape.”
Planned Parenthood North Central States, which offers the procedure in Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, is telling its patients that they must take both pills in the regimen in a state that allows abortions.
The use of abortion pills has been the most common method to end a pregnancy since 2000, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone — the main drug used in medication abortions. Taken with misoprostol, a drug that causes cramping that empties the womb, it constitutes the abortion pill.
“There’s a lot of confusion and concern that the providers may be at risk, and they are trying to limit their liability so they can provide care to people who need it," said Dr. Daniel Grossman, who directs the research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California San Francisco.
Emily Bisek, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood North Central States, said that in an “unknown and murky” legal environment, they decided to tell patients they must be in a state where it is legal to complete the medication abortion -- which requires taking two drugs 24 to 48 hours apart. She said most patients from states with bans are expected to opt for surgical abortions.
Access to the pills has become a key battle in abortion rights, with the Biden administration preparing to argue states can’t ban a medication that has received FDA approval.
Kim Floren, who operates an abortion fund in South Dakota called Justice Empowerment Network, said the development would further limit women's choices.
“The purpose of these laws anyways is to scare people,” Floren said of states’ bans on abortions and telemedicine consultations for medication abortions. “The logistics to actually enforcing these is a nightmare, but they rely on the fact that people are going to be scared.”
A South Dakota law took effect Friday that threatens a felony punishment for anyone who prescribes medication for an abortion without a license from the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners.
In Alabama, Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office said it is reviewing whether people or groups could face prosecution for helping women fund and travel to out-of-state abortion appointments.
Yellowhammer Fund, an Alabama-based group that helps low-income women cover abortion and travel costs, said it is pausing operation for two weeks because of the lack of clarity under state law.
“This is a temporary pause, and we’re going to figure out how we can legally get you money and resources and what that looks like,” said Kelsea McLain, Yellowhammer’s health care access director.
Laura Goodhue, executive director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, said staff members at its clinics have seen women driving from as far as Texas without stopping — or making an appointment. Women who are past 15 weeks were being asked to leave their information and promised a call back if a judge signs the order temporarily blocking the restriction, she said.
Still, there is concern that the order may be only temporary and the law may again go into effect later, creating additional confusion.
“It’s terrible for patients,” she said. “We are really nervous about what is going to happen.” | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-supreme-court-blocks-resuming-abortions/285-eb7808e7-6471-4f7b-bd0f-8bf3a345e6d4 | 2022-07-02T13:57:45 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-supreme-court-blocks-resuming-abortions/285-eb7808e7-6471-4f7b-bd0f-8bf3a345e6d4 |
Botetourt County, Va. – Virginia State Police are investigating a fatal crash in Botetourt County. The crash happened July 1, 2022 on Route 11, near Kessler Lane, just outside of Buchanan, Va., at 5:10 p.m. Friday afternoon.
Investigators said a 2015 Nissan Versa traveling south on Route 11, crossed the double yellow solid line and struck a 1999 Chevrolet Silverado head-on.
Sixty-three year old Linda Watson Wickline, of Buchanan drove the Nissan. Ms. Wickline was wearing her seatbelt and died at the scene.
The Chevrolet was driven by Noah A. Gilliam, 23, also of Buchanan, Va. Mr. Gilliam was wearing his seatbelt and was transported by EMS to Roanoke Memorial Hospital for injuries received in the crash.
The crash remains under investigation. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/02/virginia-state-police-investigating-fatal-crash-in-botetourt-county/ | 2022-07-02T14:05:40 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/02/virginia-state-police-investigating-fatal-crash-in-botetourt-county/ |
BLAKELY – The U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Christian Malik Gray, 21, and Jadrian Sol, 23, both of Blakely, on aggravated assault charges (seven counts), cruelty to children in the first degree (four counts), possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime in Union City this week.
The pair will be extradited and taken to the Early County Jail.
On May 31, the Blakely Police Department requested GBI assistance in reference to an aggravated assault investigation. Preliminary information indicates that Blakely Police Department officers responded to a shooting at a home at 250 Palmetto Ave. in Blakely and found three people shot. All three victims were treated and released. GBI agents were able to obtain warrants for Gray and Sol.
This investigation is active and ongoing. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Blakely Police Department at (229) 723-63414 or the GBI Sylvester Field Office at (229) 777-2080. Anonymous tips can also be submitted by calling 1-800-597-TIPS (8477), online at https://gbi.georgia.gov/submit-tips-online, or by downloading the See Something, Send Something mobile app.
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ALBANY – Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital honors a nurse each month with the DAISY Award. The DAISY award is an international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skills and compassionate care given by nurses every day.
Earlier this month, RN Dorothy Johnson, who works on the seventh floor, was surprised to not only receive the award but also a special visit by one of her past patients.
Johnson was nominated for the DAISY award by a fellow Phoebe Family member. According to the nomination, Johnson is not only caring, compassionate, empathetic and kind, she is also a loyal, attentive, intuitive professional and trustworthy.
“She consistently gives 150% every single shift and never waivers," the Phoebe staffer's nomination letter says. "She leads by example daily. She remains strong, even through the most problematic circumstances. One of the greatest attributes of this individual, is that she also remains positive and is a supporter for all of us when things get tough. For our patients and their families, during the most vulnerable time of their lives, she remains their rock."
One of Johnson’s past patients surprised her at the award presentation. The patient, who spent several weeks in the hospital, said, “She took care me like I was family. When I was in the hospital, I had to have spinal taps done. She would walk down with me and hold my hand during the process. She saved my life.”
Johnson, who has been a Phoebe Family member for 31 years, did not start her nursing career until she was in her 40s.
“I’ve always taken care of somebody," she said. "I’m the oldest of 10, so it’s like breathing. I love to serve and take care of others. I appreciate this award so much."
The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, Calif., and was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, a little-known but not uncommon auto-immune disease. The care Patrick and his family received from nurses while he was ill inspired this unique means of thanking nurses for making a difference in the lives of their patients and patient families.
At a presentation given in front of Johnson's colleagues, physicians, patients and visitors, the honoree received a certificate commending her for being an "Extraordinary Nurse." The honoree also was given a sculpture called "A Healer’s Touch," hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Africa.
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VALDOSTA – A Tifton man who was working as a bartender while brokering large amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl pleaded guilty to distribution.
Edgar Fernando Neri, aka Colocho, 21, of Tifton, pleaded guilty to distribution of methamphetamine before U.S. Senior District Judge Hugh Lawson. Neri faces a maximum of 20 years of imprisonment to be followed by at least three years of supervised release and a maximum $1 million fine. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 21. There is no parole in the federal system.
“The defendant was attempting to move large amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl into a small south-central Georgia community; discussions of trafficking firearms, a rocket launcher and body armor also occurred, further illustrating the violent criminal element surrounding the illegal distribution of drugs,” U.S. Attorney Peter D. Leary said in a news release. “We are working with law enforcement at every level to hold individuals accountable for those crimes which most affect the safety and security of our region.”
“A large amount of illegal drugs was taken off the streets of south-central Georgia," GBI Director Vic Reynolds said. "We will continue to dedicate resources to investigating drug activity to make our communities safer. Thank you to our federal partners for being a force multiplier when it comes to successfully investigating and prosecuting these types of cases."
“This defendant posed a clear and present danger to the Tifton community by dealing in dangerous drugs, including discussions of firearms trafficking,” Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Field Division Robert J. Murphy said. “Thanks to collaborative partnerships between the DEA and its law enforcement partners, this defendant no longer poses a threat to Tifton and elsewhere.”
According to court documents, GBI agents developed a confidential source in late August 2021 who had information regarding the distribution of methamphetamine in Tifton. The source had been purchasing from a local bartender known as "Colocho," who was wanting the CS to purchase larger amounts of drugs that would come from a source in Los Angeles.
During the course of the investigation, Neri discussed moving pounds of methamphetamine, multiple kilos of cocaine, as well as the purchase of body armor, rifles, a rocket launcher and rockets with his supplier in California.
Multiple controlled purchases of methamphetamine were made from Neri, who arranged for shipments of more methamphetamine and fentanyl pills, also referred to as “Percocet,” from the source. Packages containing three pounds of methamphetamine and 1,990 blue fentanyl pills were sent from Neri’s source in L.A. to Tifton in October 2021. Neri was taken into custody on Oct. 19, 2021.
Neri is being held responsible for distributing 1,290.93 grams of actual methamphetamine based on the high level of purity of the methamphetamine involved and 1,990 pills containing fentanyl and weighing 205.92 grams.
The case was investigated by DEA, GBI and the Tift County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert D. McCullers is prosecuting the case. | https://www.albanyherald.com/local/tifton-bartender-distributed-meth-from-l-a-to-south-georgia/article_1068e214-fa02-11ec-bcee-ffac7d9c897a.html | 2022-07-02T14:06:03 | 1 | https://www.albanyherald.com/local/tifton-bartender-distributed-meth-from-l-a-to-south-georgia/article_1068e214-fa02-11ec-bcee-ffac7d9c897a.html |
TIFTON — Trent Hester has been selected as the first-ever Leadership and Engagement Coordinator at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
In his role, Hester oversees ABAC’s orientations, Welcome Week, and Student Engagement Programs (STEPS). Internships, study abroad, and mentored research are included in STEPS.
“I also assist with the ABAC Ambassadors, and I am always happy to help in any area in need,” Hester said.
A Sale City native, Hester holds a baccalaureate degree in Writing and Communication from ABAC and a master’s degree in Public Administration from Valdosta State University. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of North Georgia, where he is researching the impact of the student conduct process on student retention.
“I came to ABAC as a student in 2012 and absolutely fell in love with the campus,” Hester said. “When I graduated, a position in the ABAC Housing office came available, and I applied and became the Residence Life Coordinator for ABAC Lakeside.
“I served in the ABAC Housing office in several capacities until March, when I began my role as Leadership and Engagement Coordinator.”
Hester says the people at ABAC make the difference.
“I love the people here,” he said. “Students, faculty and staff all have a shared mission of excellence, and we all work to make ABAC the best that it can be.”
In his new role, Hester coordinates the freshman orientation sessions that are coming up on July 11, July 25, Aug. 4 (Bainbridge), and Aug. 11. Welcome Weekend is set for Aug. 12-14, and the annual Freshman Convocation is scheduled for Aug. 13. Fall term classes begin at ABAC on Aug. 15.
“Of these events, I am most excited about our convocation ceremony — we’ve got some new, exciting things planned for the ceremony this year, and I’m excited to share this event with the students soon,” Hester said.
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Music and entertainment on multiple stages kicks off today (July 2) as the 2022 “Celebrate America” event starts.
A full line-up of entertainment runs July 2-4 along the lakefront, highlighted by the fireworks show at 9:30 p.m. on July 4.
“Celebrate America” activities along Kenosha’s harbor are 3 to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 2-3, and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday, July 4.
Live music, the Dock Dogs Diving contest and vendors are north of 54th Street between Sixth Avenue and Second Avenue, with more music and vendors in Veterans Memorial Park, 625 52nd St. Admission is free and open to the public. Food and beverages are available for purchase.
Dock Dogs Diving Contest
The Dock Dogs Diving contest is Saturday through Monday in a large pool set up next to the harbor, on 54th Street, east of Sixth Avenue.
Dogs are encouraged by their owners and the crowd to jump off the dock to retrieve a toy.
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On-site registration and practice begins at 4 p.m. today, 3 p.m. Sunday and 11 a.m. Monday, with performances beginning an hour later each day. Big Air Finals start at 7 p.m. on July 4.
Live music at the harbor
“Celebrate America” bands:
Saturday, July 2
Shoreline Stage (along the harbor near 54th Street and Fourth Ave.)
3 p.m.: Isabella Maria (top country hits)
5:45 p.m.: The Collective (rock and pop hits)
8:30 p.m.: The First Wave (‘80s New Wave/Alternative)
Fireworks Stage (at Veterans Memorial Park, 625 52nd St.)
3:30 p.m.: Saturday June Band (straight ahead rock ‘n’ roll)
6:15 p.m.: Project Nostalgia (pop and classic rock)
9 p.m.: Beyond the Blonde (tribute to women rockers)
Sunday, July 3
Shoreline Stage
3 p.m.: Simply Sound (pop rock, ‘80s to today)
5:45 p.m.: Kung Fu & Whiskey (‘60s/’70s rock)
8:30 p.m.: Kashmir (Led Zeppelin tribute)
Fireworks Stage
3:30 p.m.: The Eco Limes (The ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s and beyond)
6:15 p.m.: Andrew Scott Dendinger (rock, Bob Seger, Eagles, Chris Stapleton)
9 p.m.: Poison’d Crue (classic hair band favorites)
Monday, July 4
Shoreline Stage
Noon: Smolen & Friends (classic rock, country, pop)
2:45 p.m.: Whiskey & Harmony (country and pop rock)
5 p.m.: AM/FM (the hits from the ‘80s to today)
5 p.m.: Seal Party (Psychedelic soul from this west coast duo)
7:45-9 p.m. and 9:30-10:30 p.m.: Boys & Toys (Kenosha rock band)
Fireworks Stage
12:30 p.m.: Flat Creek Hwy (bluegrass/Americana)
3:15 p.m.: Would You Kindly? (female-fronted Kenosha rock band)
5 p.m.: Seal Party (Psychedelic soul from this west coast duo)
7:45-9 p.m. and 9:30-10:30 p.m.: The Hat Guys (dance rock, disco, ‘80s to current)
Live music in Pennoyer Park
The “Let Freedom Sing” stage, at the Pennoyer Park band shell, at 35th Street and Seventh Avenue at the lakefront, features live music on July 4.
The Kenosha Pops Concert Band will perform a medley of patriotic favorites from 4 to 6 p.m.
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Six people were injured and five of them hospitalized in a house fire Saturday morning, according to Chesterfield County Fire and EMS.
The fire was reported just before 5 a.m. at a house in the 2900 block of Brentwood Circle. The fire was under control shortly after 6 a.m.
Three adults were taken to the hospital with burns. Three children suffered smoke inhalation, and two of them were taken to the hospital, the fire department said.
Injuries to one adult and two children were considered life-threatening, the fire department said in a news release.
The fire marshal is investigating the cause.
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With $1B in recovery funds, Navajo Nation will upgrade infrastructure and create new jobs
The Navajo Nation will spend over $1 billion from the American Recovery Rescue Plan Act for water, electricity, broadband internet, housing, and other infrastructure priorities.
The rescue plan allotted over $2 billion to the Navajo Nation, the most any tribe received to go toward mitigation and relief of COVID-19. The virus hit the Navajo Nation in March of 2020 and showed how the largest tribe on the largest reservation in the country was vulnerable to catching a life-threatening disease.
Leaders said the lack of infrastructure, families living in multigenerational homes and underlying health issues contributed to the spread of the virus, which has to date taken over 1,800 Navajo lives.
“The executive branch was tasked to package the legislation and our division directors worked tirelessly to put a package together that would address the needs of the Navajo people,” said Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez. “Of course $2 billion doesn’t address all the needs so we had to prioritize.”
The priorities are similar to what Navajo citizens were asking for before the pandemic struck, needs that became more critical as COVID-19 swept through communities.
The spending plan includes:
- $215 million for water/wastewater
- $96.4 million for home electricity connections
- $120 million for broadband
- $130 million for housing
- $120 million for new hardship assistance applicants
- $150 million for bathroom additions
- $210 million for local chapter priorities
- $35 million for E911 and public safety
- $19.2 million for health care
- $5 million for cyber security
- $15.5 million for former Bennett Freeze area housing.
The money will go toward improving services on the Navajo Nation, and will also create jobs for tribal members within the nation and for some who have moved away, giving them an opportunity to move home.
Navajo Nation:After a 'scary' beginning, leaders say their COVID-19 response has become a model
After COVID struck, plans changed
The Nez administration was forced to navigate through a global pandemic that no one could plan for, but Nez said as he was running for president four years ago, his team went to the communities to ask what was needed.
With that information in hand, he created the Hozhó Diné Bi Nahat’á plan. It was meant for a pre-COVID time but is now largely the blueprint for post-COVID actions.
“We followed the Nahat'á plan put in place when we visited with communities four years ago,” said Nez. “The priority was water, electricity, broadband, telecommunication, homes, and so that was what we put together.”
Throughout the pandemic, Nez and his directors helped distribute food and supplies to all 110 communities on the Navajo Nation. At the beginning of the pandemic, the national focus turned to those communities and how the spread of COVID was affecting them.
“We were scared at the beginning because there was no vaccine, there was no medicine,” said Nez. “But we were in the communities because we felt it was important for the Navajo people to see their leaders, see their division directors out there because it would comfort them at a difficult time. It also let them know that we would overcome this pandemic by working together.”
Before vaccines were made available, the Navajo Nation went to extremes to stop the spread, imposing curfews and weekend-long shutdowns. The closed roads, schools, businesses, tourist sites and casinos reopened after the rest of the country. Mask mandates were also implemented in April 2020.
When vaccines arrived, leaders encouraged tribal members to get vaccinated, a message still in place. Nez and his director for the Health Department, Dr. Jill Jim, have continued their weekly virtual town halls to keep citizens up to date on the state of COVID on Navajo.
“I’m grateful that this legislation went through, but we still need to do more for public health, health care and our elders," said Jim. "Our people shouldn’t be living in third-world conditions. Some of the funding that was included in the original bill was reallocated by the legislative body, but we will continue to use our limited resources to help reduce the spread of COVID here in our communities.”
COVID-19:As Navajo businesses work toward reopening, federal official visits to see their progress
'Bring them home, embrace their expertise'
Before the recovery act, the nation received $714 million in CARES Act funding that provided electricity to over 1,000 homes, along with investments in water resources, hardship assistance for the Navajo people, telecommunications towers, COVID-19 relief and more.
Recovery act dollars landed in Navajo Nation coffers in May and August of last year. The first $1 billion was spent with $557 million going toward a second round of hardship assistance checks for over 345,000 qualified Navajo people. More than $400 million went toward funding CARES programs for water, electricity, broadband, small business assistance and judicial branch funding.
Before a full spending plan could be approved, the Navajo Nation Council held 26 work sessions to hear from local areas what was needed. They also held 40 committee meetings, and Nez said he was grateful for the 20 delegates who voted for the plan and for its sponsor. The council made amendments to the legislation.
“This legislation was sponsored to directly address the living conditions of our Navajo people during this COVID-19 pandemic," said the bill's sponsor, Council Delegate Mark Freeland. "Our relatives residing in rural areas need basic infrastructure access to drinking water, electricity, and bathroom additions.
"Many of our families do not have the luxury of waiting for thousands of infrastructure projects to begin," he said. "This is the Navajo people’s money, and they deserve our immediate support during this pandemic.”
Pearl Yellowman, director of the division of community development, said it was a lot of hard work to get to this point. The division created an online portal in April 2021 for chapters to submit projects, which were then vetted by the Department of Justice to ensure compliance with federal guidelines.
Over 550 project proposals were received and evaluated. As the person in charge of a division that has to work toward constructing quality homes, community public facility buildings and infrastructure, Yellowman said finally getting to this point was rewarding.
“Elders never come into the chapter house to ask for money, but they ask for roads, electricity and running water,” said Yellowman. “They still come for these basic needs. With these funds we will devote our time to getting our people cell towers, electricity, running water to bring their living standards to par to the rest of the world.”
Nez, along with Freeland and other council delegates, are currently running for re-election. Nez said he is confident these dollars will not only help those living on Navajo Nation but will also bring many citizens home.
"Once this bill is signed we are going to need engineers, we will be able to bring back a lot of our carpenters, electricians, ironworkers home," said Nez. "They're building infrastructure for other governments and people. Now is the time to bring them home, embrace their expertise.
"When we do that, our young people, our people that live off the Navajo Nation, will come home because there will be water, electricity, homes, available."
Arlyssa D. Becenti covers Indigenous affairs for The Arizona Republic and azcentral. Send ideas and tips to arlyssa.becenti@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter @ABecenti.
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It was half-year day Friday, and we celebrated the start of the second six-month installment of 2022 with heat, humidity, and reportedly even a little rain and hail in spots.
In a show of meteorological continuity, the year’s final semester began by extending the thermal trend that ended the initial one. Thursday, June 30, had also registered in the 90s, with a high of 91.
But if Friday embodied atmospheric drama it may have been in its skies and clouds. In late afternoon, darkness in the west suggested the stormy imminence of thunder, lightning and rain.
By evening it seemed that storms had skirted the city. But, it may not have mattered too much. Their mere proximity had helped in our observance of the First of July.
The billowing masses of cloud created an almost theatrical effect. By screening the sun, they produced an almost eerie light. It seemed to suggest the watery dimness beneath the surface of an outdoor pool, and it added a touch of visual distinction to half-year day. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/we-spent-half-year-day-friday-by-watching-storms-form-to-our-west/2022/07/01/7fcd8baa-f999-11ec-b665-98b884bdef6e_story.html | 2022-07-02T14:26:46 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/we-spent-half-year-day-friday-by-watching-storms-form-to-our-west/2022/07/01/7fcd8baa-f999-11ec-b665-98b884bdef6e_story.html |
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PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — As part of an effort to increase community trust and transparency, the Milwaukie Police Department is implementing a body-worn camera program beginning this month.
Body-worn cameras are relatively small devices that record interactions between police and community members. These video and audio recordings are intended to document statements, observations, behaviors and other evidence, and to deter unprofessional, illegal and inappropriate behaviors by both law enforcement and the community.
Milwaukie officials decided to adopt the program in September 2021, with support from both citizens and the Milwaukie Police Employees Association. For just under $100,000, using funds already in the MPD budget, the city signed a five-year contract with Motorola for all equipment, training, storage and technology upgrades halfway through the contract.
Body cameras are now required for uniformed patrol officers and sergeants who regularly respond to calls for service, conduct traffic enforcement and take enforcement actions. Milwaukie police officers turn on their cameras when responding to a call, conducting a traffic stop, conducting a search, transporting someone in their vehicle, and when involved in a pursuit or an interview.
Milwaukie officers also are expected to turn on their cameras when they have reasonable suspicion or probable cause that a person they are about to contact has committed or is about to commit a crime/violation.
Police officers are prohibited from editing, altering, erasing, duplicating, copying or distributing body-camera images and information. Software systems will not allow editing, and the video data is electronically timestamped whenever it is accessed.
Milwaukie officials said that police officers are required to announce that a recording is occurring at the beginning of interactions, unless the announcement cannot be made without jeopardizing officer safety, the safety of any other person or impairing a criminal investigation.
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In locations where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, such as a residence, you may request that an officer not record. Officers have no obligation to stop recording in response to your request if the recording involves an investigation, arrest or lawful search.
Officers have the discretion to turn off cameras in certain situations, such as a conversation with a victim if the victim does not want to be recorded. Body-worn cameras generally will be turned off if the officer’s camera would record a patient during a medical or psychological evaluation, unless the officer is responding to a call involving a suspect who is thought to be present in the medical facility.
Oregon law requires that all faces contained in a video recording must be blurred to make them unidentifiable prior to public release. This redaction of public records requests for video must be for an event for which the “public interest requires disclosure.”
While police enforcement activity is almost always in the public interest to disclose, the request should be for an approximate time or event and tailored to the relevant video. Video evidence also would be provided to the district attorney and city attorney.
Oregon law expressly prohibits the use of facial recognition or other biometric-match technology to analyze recordings obtained through the use of cameras to obtain evidence or search for suspects.
Milwaukie officials plan regularly scheduled random audits to verify that body-worn cameras are being used consistent with policy. Intentional unauthorized video editing or alteration would be a serious policy violation, which could result in discipline up to and including termination.
Limits on recordings, evidence
While body-worn cameras can be a useful to provide a unique perspective and additional information on police encounters, Milwaukie officials acknowledged the following limitations to the technology:
• A camera doesn’t follow officers’ eyes or see exactly as they see. It’s a small, portable camera attached to the chest area of an officer, who is almost constantly moving, which affects the quality of the video.
• Some important danger cues can’t be caught or recorded by a video camera.
• Camera speed differs from the speed of life.
• A camera may “see” different than a human does in various lighting situations.
• An officer’s arms or other objects can inadvertently block the view from the camera at times.
• A camera produces a two-dimensional recording.
• One camera alone may not provide sufficient clarifying information to be helpful in an incident.
• A camera can cause officers to second-guess themselves.
• A camera can only augment but cannot replace a thorough investigation or thorough, detailed police report. | https://www.koin.com/local/clackamas-county/all-milwaukie-police-officers-begin-using-body-cameras/ | 2022-07-02T14:35:21 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/clackamas-county/all-milwaukie-police-officers-begin-using-body-cameras/ |
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city's speed cameras will be operating 24 hours a day starting August 1.
Adams made the announcement Thursday afternoon alongside Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez.
“Overnight and weekend crashes have become far too prevalent in recent years, and we are so grateful that state legislators heard our call for 24/7 speed-camera coverage,” Rodriguez said.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a state law last week that now allows the camera to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The city’s 2,000 automated speed cameras were previously authorized by the state to operate only on weekdays, between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., missing the 59 percent of traffic fatalities that occurred when the cameras were required to be turned off.
New camera operation times will take effect one month after a public awareness campaign that prepares drivers and all New Yorkers for the coming change.
That campaign starts on July 1.
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Earlier this year, Adams also announced a plan to redesign 1,000 intersections across New York City to protect pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers with improved traffic signals and raised crosswalks.
“Sadly, we know reckless drivers are on our streets 24/7 — so our cameras must be on 24/7 too,” said Deputy Mayor for Operations Meera Joshi. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/new-york-city-speed-cameras-coming-online-24-7-next-month/3757794/ | 2022-07-02T14:36:02 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/new-york-city-speed-cameras-coming-online-24-7-next-month/3757794/ |
AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Police Department announced an Austin woman who went missing Friday, June 24, is now dead.
A CLEAR Alert was issued for 39-year-old Yolanda Jaimes the day after she went missing from the 7000 block of Craybrough Circle. According to a Friday release from APD, law enforcement suspected foul play following their investigation of the scene, which included detectives and specialists finding that "a significant amount of blood had been cleaned up" in her home.
Officers arrested Jaimes' husband for tampering with evidence and he remains in Travis County Jail with a $50,000 bond. He has been identified as Jose Villa-Denova, 48.
APD investigators, Travis County Search and Rescue and the Search Dog Network found heavily decomposed human remains on Tuesday, and on Friday, the Medical Examiner's Office determined the remains were Yolanda Jaimes'. Her CLEAR Alert was discontinued just before noon Friday.
The cause of Jaimes' death is not yet known due to the greatly decomposed state of her remains.
Jaimes' daughter started a GoFundMe account to raise funds for expenses for the four children left following Jaimes' death and Villa-Denova's incarceration. According to the fundraiser, their kids are 21, 17, 9 and 8. As of 8 p.m. on July 1, a total of $10,000 has been raised.
A release from APD said the case is under investigation as Austin's 35th homicide this year.
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RIVERVIEW, Fla. — An 11-year-old boy was struck by lightning during a family fishing trip Thursday afternoon in Riverview.
The child's pastor, Daniel Butson of Fishhawk Fellowship Church, said that that lightning strike turned a day on the boat into a nightmare.
“It hit his lower back, and went through his left foot, and actually knocked him out of the boat,” Butson said. “Into the water, where he began to sink.”
Pastor Butson said 11-year-old Levi Stock's father dove into the water after him, doing everything he could to make sure he didn’t lose his son.
“Some good Samaritans who saw this happen,” he said. “They get Derek and Levi into their boat, and that’s where Derek begins to offer life-saving CPR…he was doing CPR and Derek described to me ‘Daniel, it was like it lasted an eternity. It might have been five or 10 minutes, but it felt like forever.”
Pastor Butson says emergency responders arrived at the scene, and found that Levi had a faint pulse. Butson says crews rushed Levi to the hospital while his family sent out one request for the community…“please, pray.”
“We dropped everything, we started praying,” Butson said. “We let our whole church know to start praying. The community began to pray. People at the dock were praying…I know this was a story about the power of lightning, but it really ought to be a story about the power of prayer.”
Now, Pastor Butson says we’re able to tell a story of triumph, instead of tragedy.
“Twenty-four hours later, he’s now responding to his parents,” Butson said. “He’s talking, and I just got a report a few minutes ago that the doctors think he’s going to make a complete and full recovery. Which, we just praise the Lord for.” | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/florida-boy-struck-by-lightning/67-b67e576f-728b-431a-aa09-337c8ca0fcce | 2022-07-02T14:39:20 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/florida-boy-struck-by-lightning/67-b67e576f-728b-431a-aa09-337c8ca0fcce |
SAN ANTONIO — A late night accident on the 8000 block of I-35 leaves one man dead.
It happened around 10:30 p.m. near the Zarzamora exit on the south side.
Police say a 50-year-old man was trying to cross the highway when he was hit by a van.
That driver immediately stopped and called police to report the accident.
No other cars were involved and all traffic was diverted from the highway.
No charges are expected against the driver. The victim has not been identified yet.
Police are still investigating the crash.
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HOUSTON — A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney.
Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, a southwest Texas woman whose remains were found nearly two years after she vanished in 2001.
In a letter sent Wednesday, Gonzales’ lawyers, Thea Posel and Raoul Schonemann, asked Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to grant a 30-day reprieve so the inmate can be considered a living donor “to someone who is in urgent need of a kidney transplant.”
His attorneys have made a separate request to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for a 180-day reprieve related to the kidney donation.
In their request to Abbott, Gonzales’ attorneys included a letter from Cantor Michael Zoosman, an ordained Jewish clergyman from Maryland who has been corresponding with Gonzales.
“There has been no doubt in my mind that Ramiro’s desire to be an altruistic kidney donor is not motivated by a last-minute attempt to stop or delay his execution. I will go to my grave believing in my heart that this is something that Ramiro wants to do to help make his soul right with his God,” Zoosman wrote.
Gonzales’ attorneys say he’s been determined to be an “excellent candidate” for donation after being evaluated by the transplant team at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. The evaluation found Gonzales has a rare blood type, meaning his donation could benefit someone who might have difficulty finding a match.
“Virtually all that remains is the surgery to remove Ramiro’s kidney. UTMB has confirmed that the procedure could be completed within a month,” Posel and Schonemann wrote to Abbott.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice policies allow inmates to make organ and tissue donations. Agency spokeswoman Amanda Hernandez said Gonzales was deemed ineligible after making a request to be a donor earlier this year. She did not give a reason, but Gonzales' lawyers said in their letter that the agency objected because of the pending execution date.
Abbott’s office did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is set to vote July 11 on Gonzales’ request to that agency.
Gonzales’ attorneys have made a separate request asking the board to commute his death sentence to a lesser penalty.
They also asked that his execution not proceed if his spiritual adviser isn’t allowed to both hold his hand and place another hand on his heart during his execution. A two-day federal trial on this request was set to begin Tuesday in Houston.
Gonzales’ request to delay his execution for an organ donation is rare among death row inmates in the U.S., Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Friday.
In 1995, condemned murderer Steven Shelton in Delaware donated a kidney to his mother.
In 2013, Ronald Phillips’ execution in Ohio was delayed so his request to donate a kidney to his mother could be reviewed. Phillips’ request was later denied and he was executed in 2017.
“Skeptics will think this is simply an attempt to delay the execution. But if that were the case, I think you’d be seeing many requests,” said Dunham, whose group takes no position on capital punishment but has criticized the way states carry out executions. “The history of executions in the United States shows that people don’t make offers of organ donations for the purpose of delaying an execution that will still take place.”
In a report, the United Network for Organ Sharing, a nonprofit that serves as the nation’s transplant system under contract with the federal government, listed various ethical concerns about organ donations from condemned prisoners. They include whether such donations could be tied to prisoners receiving preferential treatment or that such organs could be morally compromised because of their ties to the death penalty. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-inmate-ramiro-gonzales-asks-delay-execution-donate-kidney/287-609753ef-c4c9-413b-b89e-82aad20669ea | 2022-07-02T14:39:32 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-inmate-ramiro-gonzales-asks-delay-execution-donate-kidney/287-609753ef-c4c9-413b-b89e-82aad20669ea |
ST. LUCAS --- A Fort Atkinson man has been released on bond pending trial for allegations he tried to kill his girlfriend.
Fayette County sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday arrested Robert Dale Kruse, 18, on charges of attempted murder and felony domestic assault. He is also charged with obstruction of emergency communications. On Thursday, he posted $20,000 bond.
According to court records, Kruse and the woman became involved in an argument at their home near Fort Atkinson in Winneshiek County on Monday night. He allegedly hit her in the head, and she left.
Kruse found her a short time later and pulled her out of her vehicle by her hair and began choking her, court records state. He grabbed her cell phone to keep her from calling for help and then forced her into his vehicle and drove to the area of Nickel and Pheasant Roads east of St. Lucas in Fayette County, records state.
At that point, he pulled her out of his vehicle and dragged her to the nearby Turkey River where he hit and kicked her, threw her into the river three or four times and struck her with a branch.
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He eventually drove her back to her vehicle, and she went to find others for help.
The woman was treated at Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-accused-to-trying-to-kill-girlfriend-posts-bond/article_27fd3770-82f9-5efd-8732-ce690f9196ba.html | 2022-07-02T14:45:02 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-accused-to-trying-to-kill-girlfriend-posts-bond/article_27fd3770-82f9-5efd-8732-ce690f9196ba.html |
The Idaho Transportation Department is asking for input on the just-released draft Idaho Transportation Investment Program. The 2023-2029 ITIP is a seven-year master plan of the state’s transportation improvement projects.
Everyone is encouraged to participate.
Projects can range from large-scale interstate improvements to smaller projects like the installation of a new guardrail. The draft ITIP includes projects in all 44 counties and all modes of transportation. Projects were selected based on technical data, as well as input from local officials and residents.
A complete breakdown of the draft plan can be found at itd.idaho.gov/funding.
A few of the major projects in South-central Idaho include:
- Replace the structure at the Interstate 84 Interchange at State Highway 50 (Exit 182) in Jerome County.
- Upgrade the railroad crossing signals at US-30/Curry Crossing in Twin Falls County.
- Restore the pavement of State Highway 27 from Interstate 84 to State Highway 25 in Minidoka County.
- Restore the pavement and upgrade traffic signals at the Interstate 84 Interchange at US-93 (Exit 173) in Jerome County.
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Comments will be taken from July 1-31 and can be e-mailed to ITDcommunication@itd.idaho.gov or mailed to:
ITIP – Comments
Attn: Office of Communication
P.O. Box 7129
Boise, ID 83707
Paper copies of the ITIP will be provided upon request by contacting the Idaho Transportation Department (208) 334-8119.
All comments will be reviewed, incorporated into the ITIP where appropriate, and responses will be sent in September once the comment period has ended.
After approval by the Idaho Transportation Board in September, the ITIP will then be submitted to the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency in October. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/idaho-transportation-department-now-taking-comments-for-all-upcoming-projects/article_de80741e-f96c-11ec-a7d4-27b51d6c3e8d.html | 2022-07-02T14:45:56 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/idaho-transportation-department-now-taking-comments-for-all-upcoming-projects/article_de80741e-f96c-11ec-a7d4-27b51d6c3e8d.html |
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What would it mean to end loneliness? Can you imagine a world in which everyone felt connected to their neighbors, to their families and to the people in their communities? It’s difficult to picture that kind of society for ourselves.
Especially in the last generation or so, as many Americans no longer live where they grew up and life in general has become more divisive, for many, seeing a friend or family member is a rare occurrence. And then the pandemic gave rise to new kinds of fears and suspicions of others. We’ve begun to take it for granted that division, strife, and a certain kind of loneliness are unsolvable problems.
But I don’t believe that’s true because I witness solutions to these problems every day.
Most people assume that Mobile Meals of Southern Arizona is dedicated mainly to providing meals to people who otherwise would go hungry. While that’s correct, as the CEO of Mobile Meals, I can tell you that we’re actually doing something that’s much more difficult to talk about and that ripples out into our whole community: we’re trying to help solve the problem of loneliness.
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The people we serve tend to be isolated by their health, their poverty, transportation issues, and many other challenges that arise out of a more basic problem: lack of community, loss of family, loneliness. Every day, our volunteers take meals to people who are homebound, but what they’re really delivering is the warmth and understanding of human connection, of building relationships one day at a time—not just for the people who receive meals, but also for themselves.
Do you feel lonely right now? Have you ever felt lonely?
According to the CDC, loneliness is a health risk: it increases the tendencies to smoke, drink too much alcohol, and become physically inactive among young and old alike, and socially isolated people over 50 have a 50% greater risk of dementia, 29% greater risk of heart disease, and 32% greater risk of stroke. Mother Teresa said that loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the most terrible poverty.
Psychologists have begun calling loneliness the new pandemic, but you can help us do something incredibly practical to end that feeling of isolation, for others as well as yourself. Come join us at Mobile Meals. Take a meal to someone who will not only eat that day because of you but who will also feel less lonely, more connected, and more human because of you. And you’ll feel that way, too, because of them.
The less we’re lonely, the healthier we’ll be, and those divisions that we read about every day will become less divisive. I see it every single day.
If you’re interested in volunteering, please call 622-1600 or go to our website mobilemealssoaz.org.
Robert Jensen is CEO of Mobile Meals of Southern Arizona | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-ending-loneliness-one-day-at-a-time/article_9b5ebb66-f62c-11ec-850a-3737f6174a7a.html | 2022-07-02T14:46:09 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-ending-loneliness-one-day-at-a-time/article_9b5ebb66-f62c-11ec-850a-3737f6174a7a.html |
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