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SALEM, Ore. — A pedestrian was struck and killed by a driver in the unincorporated area of East Salem on Friday night, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office (MCSO).
Deputies and emergency crews responded just before 10:30 p.m. to a report of a single-vehicle crash involving a pedestrian in the 600 block of Lancaster Drive Northeast in East Salem, near Willamette Town Center. They arrived to find the pedestrian dead at the scene.
Deputies closed down Lancaster Drive Northeast for about three hours while the Marion County CRASH Team conducted an investigation.
Investigators found that the driver of a 2012 Kia Sorento had been heading northbound when he hit the pedestrian in the roadway. MCSO said that speed is not believed to have been a contributing factor to the crash.
The driver, a 50-year-old man, remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators. MCSO had not arrested or cited anyone as of Saturday morning.
The pedestrian was a 34-year-old man, MCSO said, though his identity is not being released until authorities can notify his next of kin.
Investigators have asked that anyone with information about the crash call MCSO's non-emergency number at 503-588-5032.
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DALLAS — Sunday marks the day to celebrate all the moms out there.
Right before Mother's Day, 65 women at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas alone became moms, hospital officials told WFAA. The labor and delivery team at Baylor University Medical Center is one of the busiest in North Texas, they said, typically delivering 11 babies on average per day.
However, in the past 72 hours, the Baylor University Medical Center team delivered 65 babies, nearly double their daily average.
Post-Partum Nurse Britney Waisner has been with the hospital for five years and said she has not seen this type of increase in some time.
"I can only think of one other time something like this has happened," Waisner said. "Definitely pretty crazy."
One of those 65 new moms, Mesquite native Jennifer Terry, will celebrate Mother’s Day at home with her new baby boy, Lincoln, who was born on May 5.
"Baby Lincoln wasn't supposed to be here until the 17th, but he is now considered a Cinco de Mayo baby," Terry said. "The way it all happened was a surprise, but I mean, being here from start to finish has been one of the best experiences by far."
Lincoln is the third child for Terry and her husband, Reginald Terry. All three of their children have been delivered at Baylor University Medical Center, she said.
"It's definitely been a blessing throughout," said Terry. "God's timing is perfect."
Mother's Day is always the second Sunday of May.
The 2022 holiday is creeping up on daughters and sons everywhere because while this year's celebration is on Sunday, May 8 - which is the second Sunday of May - it doesn't feel like it. That's because it is the first full weekend of May; the month began on a Sunday. So, technically May 1 was the very first Sunday of the month.
Next year, the day will go back to what feels more normal: May 14, 2023.
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PASADENA, Texas — Country music legend Mickey Gilley died on Saturday surrounded by family and close friends. He was 86-years-old.
The announcement comes after Gilley announced tour date cancellations on May 1, saying health issues and energy levels prevented him from being at 100 percent at his shows.
Gilley, whose career and business interests were synonymous with the Urban Cowboy movement of the 1980s, had a career that spanned seven decades and included musical hits like “Room full of roses,” and “Stand By Me,” and cameos in Urban Cowboy, the movie starring John Travolta and Debra Winger that was set at his Gilley’s nightclub.
Gilley was born March 9, 1936, in Natchez, Mississippi, and grew up in Ferriday, Louisiana. He learned to play piano at an early age. He learned the rockabilly style of playing from his first cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, who went on to form his own successful music career.
Not long after news of Gilley’s death was announced, condolences began to pour in from fans and peers, including fellow country music legend Gene Watson, another Houston-area singer and songwriter.
“I'm so very sorry to learn that our good friend and incredible legend in country music, Mickey Gilley has passed,” Watson said in a statement. “A great singer and a great showman -- and always a great friend. Please send your prayers out for his family."
Gilley’s music was popular on the radio, especially in the Houston area, long after the Urban Cowboy era had faded.
Rowdy Yates, who has played his hits throughout his career as a local radio host on KILT and Country Legends 97.1, remembered him as more than a local celebrity.
“Mickey Gilley was not just a gifted entertainer, but also a pop culture icon,” said Yates, a Texas Radio Hall of Fame member and national radio show host. “Not only did he create some of the most memorable country music for decades, but he turned a dingy night club in Pasadena, Texas into a live music Mecca that was known the world over.”
Pasadena Mayor Jeff Wagner gave the following statement in the announcement:
"Pasadena has lost a true legend. Mickey Gilley passed away today, surrounded by his loved ones. It was my great honor to know this man most of my life. Mickey was a true musical talent who charted 42 singles in the Top 40 Country Charts over a span of two decades. His talent and larger-than-life personality helped ignite a new interest in country music as he introduced the world to Pasadena through his dance hall and 'Urban Cowboy' in 1980. We were so honored to have Mickey perform at our State of the City in February, 2020. Our prayers for comfort and peace are with Mickey’s family, his loved ones and his fans."
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Since September, Lincoln police have used new state Department of Motor Vehicles facial recognition software to help them identify 23 possible suspects in crimes ranging from shoplifting to burglary to illegal gun purchases.
The use of that tool — one that civil liberty advocates still have concerns about despite evolving technology — was formalized last month when the Lincoln City Council approved a memorandum of understanding with the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles.
“This is an important tool for us,” Police Chief Teresa Ewins told the council. “And to make it perfectly clear to everyone, this is not the way in which we go and arrest anyone. You need a lot more than a hit on facial recognition. It is a tool.”
The use of facial recognition software to identify potential suspects isn’t new to LPD.
In 2013, the City Council approved an agreement with the DMV to allow police to run searches as part of criminal investigations — but didn’t allow officers to use findings as the sole basis for an arrest.
In 2019, police considered buying video processing software that also included facial recognition capabilities, but the DMV purchased upgraded software and officials decided entering into the agreement with the state was a better option, said Erin Sims, a former police sergeant who now supervises the department’s forensic lab.
Jared Minary, an LPD video technician, said in reality, police rarely used the old DMV software because it was really only effective when the image police had was of a person looking directly at a camera — which rarely happens with surveillance videos.
But the new software also used by other law enforcement agencies is more adept at analyzing surveillance photos. For instance, Sims said, it can take an image at an angle and build the second side of the face based on algorithms. Still, LPD will only run searches if the image it has is good enough quality to successfully search. LPD doesn't run searches based on police sketches or "look-alike" photos of celebrities — cases noted in some national studies of use of the technology.
Chad Marlow, senior policy counsel with the ACLU in New York, said the software produces more misidentifications with brown and black faces — a group already over-targeted by law enforcement.
Also, he said, using DMV photos as a database means all residents who have a driver’s license are potential suspects.
“You’re either allowed to have your privacy or drive. Pick one,” Marlow said. “I don’t think that most Nebraskans would appreciate having their feet held to the fire like that simply because they want to get to work at the grocery store.”
Another problem, Marlow said, is “automation bias,” which is the tendency for people to trust computers. That bias means an officer is likely to be hesitant to reject all the possibilities suggested by a search.
One of the recommendations from a Georgetown University report is to require “double-blind confirmation” by two analysts independently to conclude the same photo is a possible match.
And local law enforcement officials stress that a possible match doesn't mean a person is a suspect.
The technology is better described as “facial similarity,” said Minary and Sims, because it uses facial measurements from an image to match with photos that have similar measurements. Police typically get multiple possible matches to examine.
“Once the computer looks at algorithms and gets a top list of candidates, it’s no longer the computer's job to figure out who the suspect is, it’s the officer’s,” Minary said. “It’s just like a Crime Stopper’s tip — you can’t take it at face value. You have to validate.”
Once officers decide on a possible match, they must build a case on other evidence.
Case in point: Surveillance from a Walmart store recently captured images of two people stealing groceries and plants as they scanned items in the self-checkout. Those images were run through the DMV software, which came up with a number of potential matches, Minary said.
Investigators found two images that could be matches. The man identified as a possible suspect had a tattoo on his arm that matched the one captured in the surveillance video. He was contacted, admitted to stealing the items, was arrested and convicted, Minary said. The officer had enough information about the woman in the Walmart video, who is wanted for five similar crimes, to issue an arrest warrant.
That’s one of the 23 cases in Lincoln the new DMV’s facial recognition software helped solve since September. Of those, 12 resulted in arrests, Minary said, though not all those arrests occurred because of the matches. Eleven other cases that came up with potential matches are still under investigation.
About half the cases were shoplifting, but also included burglaries, larcenies from vehicles where people stole credit cards then tried to use them, someone giving false information to try to buy guns, “porch pirate” cases where delivered packages were stolen from porches and the theft of an ATM machine, Minary said.
The software the DMV uses is made by the same company that makes the fingerprinting software police use, he said. Unlike fingerprints, facial recognition images aren’t used as evidence in court.
Minary and a few other LPD employees will be trained to use the new software as part of the memorandum of understanding approved by the council, which will be good for four years with the option of renewing it for two more four-year terms.
Spike Eickholt, the government liaison with ACLU Nebraska, said while the technology is a convenience for police, the concerns about inaccuracy and privacy invasion means his office is committed to making sure LPD keeps its word that the technology won’t be used to “surveil, target or harass innocent people.”
Ewins, who is from San Francisco — the first major police department to ban the software’s use — said she is aware of the concerns and wants to make sure LPD is protecting people’s First Amendment rights.
“It’s all about checks and balances,” she said. “We are and will always be aware the software is not a panacea of identifying someone.”
Margaret Reist is a recovering education reporter now writing about local and county government and the people who live in the city where she was born and raised.
The state said the killing was first-degree murder. That Barnes kicked his way into the house, just as he'd threatened to do in texts later deleted, after she told him their relationship was over and not to come home.
Police in November said the 36-year-old had a contusion on his head and labeled his death "suspicious," but his death has now been ruled accidental in nature.
The company alleged the man stole 6,000 pounds of copper wire and a flatbed trailer, wrongfully used the company's credit card, submitted false timesheets and directed employees to work at his Pleasant Dale home on the clock.
The Lincoln property owner awoke to a knock on her door in the hours after the March 19 fire, which investigators initially ruled an accidental electrical fire. Immediately, she suspected that assessment was wrong.
As a group of people intervened in the alleged assault, the 22-year-old retreated to his residence and loaded a rifle, pointing it at at least six bystanders, according to police.
Officers responded at around 5:30 a.m. Sunday to an alarm call at Generation V smoke shop, 1501 N. Cotner, where police found the front glass broken and thousands of dollars worth of vape products stolen.
The man's girlfriend called authorities Thursday night and reported he began strangling her amid an argument at their house, according to court records.
Police said the owner of the complex had received a phone call about a missing doorknob on one of the building's vacant units. Upon entering the apartment, he was met by multiple trespassers, including one who threatened him with an ax.
The 33-year-old showed up uninvited to a small house party shortly after midnight Jan. 1 and stayed until every other guest left, leaving only him and the tenant alone in the hours before the attack, police said.
The Nebraska Crime Commission, a panel of police and public officials who review revocations and oversee statewide law enforcement standards and compliance, made Mathew Bornemeier's revocation official on Friday.
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Paul Holt, owner of the former Oasis Inn and Suites, talks about his plans for the hotel, which the city closed in 2020. Holt, who has owned the hotel since 2013, recently got city approval to open 28 apartment units in an annex north of the main hotel.
JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
The annex building at the former Oasis Inn and Suites, which used to house 55 additional hotel rooms, is home to 28 apartment units that the city recently approved for occupancy.
JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
Paul Holt, owner of the former Oasis Inn and Suites, talks about his plans for his buildings during an interview inside one of the apartments on Thursday.
JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
Audree Pool (left), with Concorde Management & Development, and Paul Holt, owner of the former Oasis Inn and Suites, talk during an interview inside one of the hotel rooms.
"I've gone full Elon Musk," said Holt, a 34-year-old serial entrepreneur who has owned the embattled property since 2013, when he bought it for $1.5 million at the age of 25.
"I've literally said, 'OK, everything's just gonna ride or die on this thing.'"
So in the 20 months since city inspectors ordered the hotel closed — citing bug infestations, scattered pet feces, inoperable fire alarms, water leaks, heating issues, doors that wouldn't latch and a disproportionate number of police calls to the property at 5250 Cornhusker Highway — Holt has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars and countless hours into face-lifting the northeast Lincoln hotel, a journey he has documented on YouTube.
Chad Blahak, Lincoln's Building and Safety director, said the 2020 revocation was the only time in his memory the city had forced an operating hotel to close. Holt is now aiming to be the first operator to win that license back.
The St. Louis native and University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate is not scared, he said, but he is clear-eyed about how daunting the task ahead of him is and the future prospects of the business he has marketed as "The Ugly Motel."
"If it's a race between me and the city," Holt said, "I will die."
At public hearings in 2020, as the city weighed whether to move forward with the revocation, Holt argued that he had already fixed much of the property's structural problems, but conceded the hotel needed "a lot of lipstick."
But the calculus changed after the closure, and since too has Holt's business plan.
His first order of business in the aftermath of the revocation was the renovation of the property's annexed outbuilding, a detached structure to the north of the main hotel that used to house 55 additional hotel rooms.
Now, the structure is home to 28 apartment units that the city recently approved for occupancy, marking the clearing of the first hurdle in Holt's larger race for the property's redemption. He has future plans to build an additional apartment building on the property that would face Superior Street.
Holt contracted Concorde Property Management to run the affordable housing units — now called N52 Apartments — and has inked leases for 33% of the one-bedroom and studio apartments as he turns his attention to the property's larger structure.
At the height of its popularity, the main building was an iconic hub of lodging and entertainment, once the home of Lincoln's "Holidome" hotel-amusement park and featured in the 1993 film "Terms of Endearment."
More recently, the property has become an item of Nebraskan nostalgia and a money pit for its 34-year-old owner.
"At this point it would have been cheaper to build new," Holt said. "It really would have."
Holt knows returning the hotel to its former glory — to once again be a destination, to compete with skyscraping hotels in downtown Lincoln — is a long shot. He is more focused on turning a profit by providing a suitable night's or week's stay for travelers who are not caught up in cosmetics, he said.
But even that goal, for now, remains strictly aspirational, according to the city.
"To our knowledge, he is not real close to being at a point where he's gonna be able to open the main structure," Blahak said.
Holt, though, is aiming to divide and conquer the former Holidome, which now flies the Travelodge flag as a part of the Wyndham hotel chain. His initial renovation efforts have focused on the building's eastside exterior corridor, where he hopes to open 55 hotel rooms by June 1, pouring profits back into further renovations.
That goal may be a pipe dream.
"The city has not given any indication to the owner that it would entertain allowing a portion of the units in the main building to be approved for occupancy prior to all the building’s issues being resolved," Blahak said, adding that none of the main structure's rooms were fit for occupancy the last time city inspectors visited.
In all, the main structure that was once home to 55 interior rooms — which opened directly to an open-air entertainment center complete with a swimming pool, mini-golf course, ballroom and sauna — seems to be a relic of the past.
The swimming pool is empty and, for now, inoperable. The mini-golf course is in a state of disrepair. The ballroom serves as a staging area for the remodel. The sauna is a laundry room.
And the owner isn't yet sure what he's going to do with the massive space — a looming question that may intensify if the city does not permit Holt to operate the hotel's exterior units without first solving its interior problems.
Still, Holt is at once defiant and proud.
He acknowledged the mistakes he has made in his ownership but lamented what he called political obstacles that have impeded the hotel's progress. He has grudgingly become a student in hard-knock hotel economics. He has poured more than a million dollars into the property, he said, and expects a total renovation will cost a few million more.
But he has sold his family's home in St. Louis to take up permanent residence in Lincoln, where he is going all-in on The Ugly Motel, in part, he said, because he's the only one who will.
"Who else is gonna spend the money and not just run off with it?" he said.
A Kansas City, Missouri, native, Andrew Wegley joined the Journal Star as breaking news reporter after graduating from Northwest Missouri State University in May 2021.
The state said the killing was first-degree murder. That Barnes kicked his way into the house, just as he'd threatened to do in texts later deleted, after she told him their relationship was over and not to come home.
Steven M. Sipple's byline may disappear, but his column catchphrase – one used literally hundreds of times – will live on for at least for today. It’s a fitting way to say farewell and to frame the future.
Police in November said the 36-year-old had a contusion on his head and labeled his death "suspicious," but his death has now been ruled accidental in nature.
The company alleged the man stole 6,000 pounds of copper wire and a flatbed trailer, wrongfully used the company's credit card, submitted false timesheets and directed employees to work at his Pleasant Dale home on the clock.
The Lincoln property owner awoke to a knock on her door in the hours after the March 19 fire, which investigators initially ruled an accidental electrical fire. Immediately, she suspected that assessment was wrong.
Preeta Bansal, a Lincoln native who was a law clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens in 1990, was attending his memorial service at the Supreme Court on Monday, the same day that a controversial draft opinion was leaked.
As a group of people intervened in the alleged assault, the 22-year-old retreated to his residence and loaded a rifle, pointing it at at least six bystanders, according to police.
The district contracted with the Lincoln-based design firm Clark & Enersen to draft plans for the pre-K-12 school, which would be built on 52 acres of land along U.S. 136 just north of the existing high school.
Officers responded at around 5:30 a.m. Sunday to an alarm call at Generation V smoke shop, 1501 N. Cotner, where police found the front glass broken and thousands of dollars worth of vape products stolen.
Paul Holt, owner of the former Oasis Inn and Suites, talks about his plans for the hotel, which the city closed in 2020. Holt, who has owned the hotel since 2013, recently got city approval to open 28 apartment units in an annex north of the main hotel.
The annex building at the former Oasis Inn and Suites, which used to house 55 additional hotel rooms, is home to 28 apartment units that the city recently approved for occupancy.
Paul Holt, owner of the former Oasis Inn and Suites, talks about his plans for his buildings during an interview inside one of the apartments on Thursday.
Audree Pool (left), with Concorde Management & Development, and Paul Holt, owner of the former Oasis Inn and Suites, talk during an interview inside one of the hotel rooms.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A small plane crashed on a foggy ridge near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge on Friday, killing two people on board, authorities said.
One of those killed in the crash was the mother of a Jesuit High School student, according to a letter posted on the school's website.
"We are saddened to report that the Jesuit community has suffered another loss with the death of Jennifer (JJ) Fox," the school wrote.
The school says Fox's friend also died in the crash.
An emergency beacon for a small aircraft was activated at 2:15 p.m. in the Marin Headlands northwest of the bridge, the Golden Gate National Park Service tweeted.
Searchers found the wreckage and the two bodies on a ridge in the backcountry away from roads and trails, the park service said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane was a single-engine Vans RV-10 and it went down around 2:40 p.m.
The plane, which can carry four people, is sold as a kit that can be built at home.
“Fog is completely obscuring the area and the crash site is closed for the investigation," the National Park Service said several hours after the crash.
However, it wasn't immediately clear whether weather played a role in the crash, which was under federal investigation.
The names of the victims weren't immediately released.
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PHOENIX — A federal judge on Saturday refused to halt an Arizona execution planned for Wednesday after the state provided attorneys for convicted killer Clarence Dixon with documents outlining testing done on the drug it will use, but an additional flurry of last-minute court action could still lead to a delay.
That court action is almost certain to include Dixon's contention that the test results released late Friday showed that the sedative to be used has exceeded its expiration date. Arizona's lawyers contend it will not expire until August.
Dixon's attorneys also plan to appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court a state judge's Tuesday ruling that while Dixon suffers from schizophrenia, he understands what is about to occur and is therefore competent to be executed. If the state high court refuses to overturn that, they plan to turn to federal court on that issue.
But time is running short, as U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa noted.
“I just do want to remind you that the window of opportunity here is closing,” Humetewa told Dixon's lawyers at the close of Saturday's hearing. “I do ask you to be mindful of that.”
Saturday's hearing primarily focused on whether the barbiturate sodium pentobarbital that was compounded into a solution by a licensed pharmacist met expiration guidelines. But that issue itself was not before the judge, only Dixon's contention that he had a constitutional right to know the test results the state was relying upon to set the expiration date.
Once that was provided by the state Friday night, Humetewa said she had nothing before her.
“So your request has been met," Humetewa said. "I think the argument over whether or not the compound has expired is a wholly different question.”
Dixon attorney Jennifer Moreno said an amended lawsuit seeking to explore that will be expedited.
Arizona and many other states have struggled to get execution drugs in recent years after drug-makers refused to sell their products for that use. Arizona obtained the pentobarbital they plan to use from an unidentified compounding pharmacy.
That pharmacist mixed a batch of the drug into a solution last September and sent it to a federally registered lab for testing, according to state documents. The testing showed it would last 180 days. The pharmacist then mixed a second batch from the same powder in February for use in Dixon's execution, and the state contends it won't expire until this coming August.
But Moreno said the documents just provided by the state do not show what the state contends.
“The underlying data demonstrates that the drug tested did not pass the defendant’s own tests,” Moreno said. “These are the tests the (state) said needed to be done to extend the beyond-use date beyond 45 days.”
Since they failed, Moreno said, the drugs the state plans to use actually expired in mid-April.
Dixon, now 66 and blind, is set to be the first person put to death in Arizona since in nearly eight years, mainly because of problems with the previous execution. The state had to give Joseph Wood 15 doses of a two-drug combination over two hours before he died in July 2014 in an execution that his lawyers said was botched. The state now is using just one drug.
Dixon was convicted of murder in the killing of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin. He was serving life sentences for a 1985 attack on a 21-year-old Northern Arizona University student when DNA testing linked him to Bowdoin's unsolved rape and murder.
Dixon had was found “not guilty by reason of insanity” in a 1977 assault case in which the verdict was delivered by then-Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sandra Day O’Connor, nearly four years before her appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Bowdoin was killed on Jan. 7, 1978, two days after that verdict, according to court records.
Bowdoin was found dead in her apartment, and had been raped, stabbed and strangled. Dixon had been charged with raping Bowdoin, but the charge was later dropped on statute-of-limitation grounds. He was convicted, though, in her death.
Defense lawyers said Dixon has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia on multiple occasions, has regularly experienced hallucinations over the past 30 years and should not be executed.
On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court issued a warrant for a second execution. Frank Atwood is set to die on June 8 for killing an 8-year-old girl in 1984. Authorities say Atwood kidnapped the girl, whose body was found in the desert northwest of Tucson.
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PASADENA, Texas — Country music legend Mickey Gilley died on Saturday surrounded by family and close friends. He was 86-years-old.
The announcement comes after Gilley announced tour date cancellations on May 1, saying health issues and energy levels prevented him from being at 100 percent at his shows.
Gilley, whose career and business interests were synonymous with the Urban Cowboy movement of the 1980s, had a career that spanned seven decades and included musical hits like “Room full of roses,” and “Stand By Me,” and cameos in Urban Cowboy, the movie starring John Travolta and Debra Winger that was set at his Gilley’s nightclub.
Gilley was born March 9, 1936, in Natchez, Mississippi, and grew up in Ferriday, Louisiana. He learned to play piano at an early age. He learned the rockabilly style of playing from his first cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, who went on to form his own successful music career.
Not long after news of Gilley’s death was announced, condolences began to pour in from fans and peers, including Johnny Lee, whose award-winning music career was catapulted by Gilley and the Urban Cowboy soundtrack.
“I’m devastated, and it’s going to be tough going on without him, said Lee, a Texas City native. “I know he would want me to. I loved Mickey so much.”
Fellow country music legend Gene Watson, another Houston-area singer and songwriter also expressed his thoughts about Gilley’s passing.
“I'm so very sorry to learn that our good friend and incredible legend in country music, Mickey Gilley has passed,” Watson said in a statement. “A great singer and a great showman -- and always a great friend. Please send your prayers out for his family."
Gilley’s music was popular on the radio, especially in the Houston area, long after the Urban Cowboy era had faded.
Rowdy Yates, who has played his hits throughout his career as a local radio host on KILT and Country Legends 97.1, remembered him as more than a local celebrity.
“Mickey Gilley was not just a gifted entertainer, but also a pop culture icon,” said Yates, a Texas Radio Hall of Fame member and national radio show host. “Not only did he create some of the most memorable country music for decades, but he turned a dingy night club in Pasadena, Texas into a live music Mecca that was known the world over.”
Pasadena Mayor Jeff Wagner gave the following statement in the announcement:
"Pasadena has lost a true legend. Mickey Gilley passed away today, surrounded by his loved ones. It was my great honor to know this man most of my life. Mickey was a true musical talent who charted 42 singles in the Top 40 Country Charts over a span of two decades. His talent and larger-than-life personality helped ignite a new interest in country music as he introduced the world to Pasadena through his dance hall and 'Urban Cowboy' in 1980. We were so honored to have Mickey perform at our State of the City in February, 2020. Our prayers for comfort and peace are with Mickey’s family, his loved ones and his fans."
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Saturday Night: Clouds will thin out some overnight, becoming mostly clear after midnight. Temperatures will drop below average (something we haven’t done much of this Spring) into the 40s and low 50s. Wind will be around 5-15 mph out if the NE in the evening, becoming NNE 5-10 overnight.
Mother’s Day: Dry, sunny, and pleasant conditions continue into Mother’s Day. Temperatures start out in the 50s in the morning, with most of us climbing into the low 80s in the afternoon. The exception will be in Northeast Alabama, where temperatures top out in the upper 70s. The drier air remains in place tomorrow, so despite temperatures returning to the 80s, lower dewpoints will keep things feeling comfortable through the day.
It’s called an “Omega Block” because the upper air pattern somewhat resembles the shape of the Greek letter omega (Ω)
Mid-Week Heat: Temperatures continue to trend upwards sunny and dry weather set to continue. An omega blocking pattern in the upper levels of the atmosphere will place a fairly strong upper-level ridge in place over the Southern U.S., including here in Alabama. This will lead to dry and hot weather through the middle of the week. We stayed just a hair shy of 90° in Birmingham last week, but we’ll make another run at it this week, with Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday all potential candidates for that first official 90° day.
Late-Week Rain Chances: A low pressure system will push back onshore from the Atlantic towards Georgia and Florida late in the week. As it moves west, the surface low is forecast to weaken into an open wave/trough, but there will still be enough lift and moisture associated with the system, coupled with the warm weather here, to support at least a few scattered showers and storms Friday and Saturday. A cold front on Sunday could trigger more showers and thunderstorms.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Willie Nelson is cancelling an upcoming performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival and postponing other shows after a positive case of the coronavirus in his band.
The 89-year-old musician posted on his band’s website on Fridaythat “due to a positive Covid case in the Willie Nelson Family Band” two upcoming shows scheduled to happen May 6 and May 7 would be postponed and that Nelson’s Sunday performance at Jazz Fest would be cancelled.
Nelson was slated to close the Gentilly Stage — the same stage where his son Lukas Nelson is performing earlier in the day with his band the Promise of the Real. No replacement for the elder Nelson has yet been announced.
The news comes after Melissa Etheridge announced Thursday that she would not be able to perform Saturday at Jazz Fest due to “COVID hitting my crew.” Mavis Staples will perform during that time period instead.
“Oh my heart hurts not to be there. Mavis will be amazing, I know. I am hoping I can be asked back again. Dave and crew are healing. Thank you for all the well wishes. COVID heartbreak,” tweeted Etheridge after news that Staples would appear on Saturday was announced.
Also on Friday, legendary New Orleans bass player George Porter Jr. said on Instagram that he had the coronavirus and was out for the rest of the festival. The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocatereported that Porter played multiple shows during Jazz Fest’s first weekend and had a number of performances scheduled outside the festival during the second weekend.
The seven-day festival started on Friday, April 29, and ends Sunday, May 8.
The event draws tens of thousands to the city’s Fair Grounds Race Course, where as many as 80 musical acts perform daily on more than a dozen stages, complemented by art and craft exhibits and an array of booths featuring foods from Louisiana and beyond. While it attracts national and international talent such as Nelson and Etheridge, the festival is also known for showcasing the wide gamut of musical talent and genres found in Louisiana such as zydeco, gospel, blues and of course, jazz.
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There’s no question that Justin Colorado killed his girlfriend outside a Flagstaff apartment complex in June 2020.
Instead, a Coconino County jury must decide whether his fatal shooting of 34-year-old Jessica Biakeddy was premeditated.
Opening arguments in Colorado's trial in Coconino County Superior Court began Friday, followed by the first batch of testimony accounts.
Prosecutors are urging jurors to convict the 31-year-old of premeditated first-degree murder, possession of a weapon by a prohibited person and drive-by shooting in connection with the death of Biakeddy.
Prosecutor Ammon Barker told the jury that Colorado made a conscious decision to fire at Biakeddy 10 times on the night of June 23, 2020. He told police he ultimately opted to shoot her the 10th and final time because he "didn't want her to suffer" — putting her down as one might do with an animal, Barker said.
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The defense says the shooting wasn't premeditated, but a drunken split-second reaction.
Whether the shooting was premeditated could make a tremendous difference for Colorado. Either way, he's going to prison, but whether the jury finds him guilty of first-degree murder will determine if he will ever have a possibility of parole.
Both Barker and defense attorney Jennifer Stock noted the couple's relationship was fraught. His past relationship with the mother of Colorado's child was a tense issue for the couple and they repeatedly fought about the same topic before making up again as they spent the day of June 23 together. Colorado took the day off work to visit Slide Rock State Park with Biakeddy. Colorado drank heavily throughout the day, Stock said, drinking beer before later switching to hard alcohol as the day progressed.
They continued to argue as they traveled to Flagstaff to visit Biakeddy's sister. Biakeddy went inside to have dinner with her sister and her niece and nephew while Colorado stayed in the car. She left the apartment multiple times, spending a few minutes with Colorado outside in the parking lot over the course of the evening before coming back inside.
Colorado stayed outside in the car the entire time, Stock said. He was upset, brooding over his separated family and his fraught relationship with Biakeddy. He kept drinking.
"He's in a dark place at this point," Stock said. "He's dark, he's drunk and he's angry."
Biakeddy eventually broke up with him that night and he began throwing her stuff out of the car, according to Stock. At some point, he attempted to go in for a hug goodbye and Biakeddy told Colorado to stay away from her. That's when he pulled out the gun. Biakeddy warned him she was going to call the police.
"He wants to intimidate her," Stock recounted for the court. "She says, '(Expletive) do it,' and bang, bang, bang, he does."
"He reacts and that's what it was — his reaction," she continued.
At least one witness saw the shooting and told police Colorado shot Biakeddy in the back as she ran away. He then shot her in the face as she lay on the asphalt screaming. He recounted the shooting in a confession to police, an audio recording of which was played for the jury.
"I shot close just to make sure she wasn't going to suffer," Colorado could be heard saying in the recording.
Barker said that was the moment Colorado decided to kill her — the moment of reflection before you kill someone, he told the jury.
That moment, according to Barker, is what made the killing premeditated.
The Coconino County medical examiner determined Biakeddy had 23 separate gunshot wounds, Barker said. He graphically recounted how the bullets passed through her body multiple times.
When police arrived on scene, Biakeddy was unconscious but still breathing. She died later at the Flagstaff Medical Center. Colorado sat stone-faced in his suit as Barker recounted the incidents of that night, but Biakeddy's family was clearly wrecked with emotion, sobbing as Barker recounted the details of her violent death.
Colorado then fled the scene and drove two hours to Kaibeto where he picked up the mother of his child and his daughter, Barker said. They later switched to her car after Colorado crashed his own. He allegedly confessed to killing Biakeddy to her and attempted to discard the gun used in the shooting. The woman eventually drove to a gas station and waited for police to arrive once Colorado fell asleep. The gun was later recovered and was a match for the one used to shoot Biakeddy.
Colorado confessed to Flagstaff police. He was still drunk during his first interaction with police, Stock said, detailing his slurred words and references to evil and the devil. He was sober by his next conversation with police, and Stock said he wanted to confess.
"It's a relief to tell them what happened," Stock said. "It's the least he could do."
The trial is scheduled to last a month.
Reporter Bree Burkitt can be reached at 928-556-2250 or bburkitt@azdailysun.com.
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There’s no question that Justin Colorado killed his girlfriend outside a Flagstaff apartment complex in June 2020.
Instead, a Coconino County jury must decide whether his fatal shooting of 34-year-old Jessica Biakeddy was premeditated.
Opening arguments in Colorado's trial in Coconino County Superior Court began Friday, followed by the first batch of testimony accounts.
Prosecutors are urging jurors to convict the 31-year-old of premeditated first-degree murder, possession of a weapon by a prohibited person and drive-by shooting in connection with the death of Biakeddy.
Prosecutor Ammon Barker told the jury that Colorado made a conscious decision to fire at Biakeddy 10 times on the night of June 23, 2020. He told police he ultimately opted to shoot her the 10th and final time because he "didn't want her to suffer" — putting her down as one might do with an animal, Barker said.
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The defense says the shooting wasn't premeditated, but a drunken split-second reaction.
Whether the shooting was premeditated could make a tremendous difference for Colorado. Either way, he's going to prison, but whether the jury finds him guilty of first-degree murder will determine if he will ever have a possibility of parole.
Both Barker and defense attorney Jennifer Stock noted the couple's relationship was fraught. His past relationship with the mother of Colorado's child was a tense issue for the couple and they repeatedly fought about the same topic before making up again as they spent the day of June 23 together. Colorado took the day off work to visit Slide Rock State Park with Biakeddy. Colorado drank heavily throughout the day, Stock said, drinking beer before later switching to hard alcohol as the day progressed.
They continued to argue as they traveled to Flagstaff to visit Biakeddy's sister. Biakeddy went inside to have dinner with her sister and her niece and nephew while Colorado stayed in the car. She left the apartment multiple times, spending a few minutes with Colorado outside in the parking lot over the course of the evening before coming back inside.
Colorado stayed outside in the car the entire time, Stock said. He was upset, brooding over his separated family and his fraught relationship with Biakeddy. He kept drinking.
"He's in a dark place at this point," Stock said. "He's dark, he's drunk and he's angry."
Biakeddy eventually broke up with him that night and he began throwing her stuff out of the car, according to Stock. At some point, he attempted to go in for a hug goodbye and Biakeddy told Colorado to stay away from her. That's when he pulled out the gun. Biakeddy warned him she was going to call the police.
"He wants to intimidate her," Stock recounted for the court. "She says, '(Expletive) do it,' and bang, bang, bang, he does."
"He reacts and that's what it was — his reaction," she continued.
At least one witness saw the shooting and told police Colorado shot Biakeddy in the back as she ran away. He then shot her in the face as she lay on the asphalt screaming. He recounted the shooting in a confession to police, an audio recording of which was played for the jury.
"I shot close just to make sure she wasn't going to suffer," Colorado could be heard saying in the recording.
Barker said that was the moment Colorado decided to kill her — the moment of reflection before you kill someone, he told the jury.
That moment, according to Barker, is what made the killing premeditated.
The Coconino County medical examiner determined Biakeddy had 23 separate gunshot wounds, Barker said. He graphically recounted how the bullets passed through her body multiple times.
When police arrived on scene, Biakeddy was unconscious but still breathing. She died later at the Flagstaff Medical Center. Colorado sat stone-faced in his suit as Barker recounted the incidents of that night, but Biakeddy's family was clearly wrecked with emotion, sobbing as Barker recounted the details of her violent death.
Colorado then fled the scene and drove two hours to Kaibeto where he picked up the mother of his child and his daughter, Barker said. They later switched to her car after Colorado crashed his own. He allegedly confessed to killing Biakeddy to her and attempted to discard the gun used in the shooting. The woman eventually drove to a gas station and waited for police to arrive once Colorado fell asleep. The gun was later recovered and was a match for the one used to shoot Biakeddy.
Colorado confessed to Flagstaff police. He was still drunk during his first interaction with police, Stock said, detailing his slurred words and references to evil and the devil. He was sober by his next conversation with police, and Stock said he wanted to confess.
"It's a relief to tell them what happened," Stock said. "It's the least he could do."
The trial is scheduled to last a month.
Reporter Bree Burkitt can be reached at 928-556-2250 or bburkitt@azdailysun.com.
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NAPLES, Fla. — A suspect crashed into a canal near the 800 block of 8th St NE in Naples after fleeing from deputies amid a domestic dispute investigation.
According to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO), the suspect is in custody at this time.
The suspect was transported to a hospital, according to the report.
The suspect will remain anonymous at this time.
CCSO currently has not released any further information.
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After filtering out incomplete applications and applications from people lacking the minimum qualifications, the Manchester school district has two applicants to be its next superintendent, with the Board of School Committee set to continue talking about the search on Monday.
Former Superintendent John Goldhardt left his post earlier this year to pursue superintendent jobs in other districts, and the city school board tapped Assistant Superintendent Jennifer Gillis to lead the district while a permanent replacement is sought.
But the field of potential replacements is small, according to a statement from the school district. Since posting the superintendent job on hiring websites in March, Manchester received 15 applications.
Ten of those applications were incomplete, according to the district, and another three did not meet the minimum qualifications for the job, including a state superintendent certification.
The district has not released the names of the two candidates who remain.
But during listening sessions around the city since Goldhardt’s resignation, city residents and school families said they wanted to see a school leader with local ties, thick skin and political savvy.
Ties to the city are needed for a new leader to establish credibility and to get buy-in for their initiatives, wrote Michele Holt-Shannon, director of New Hampshire Listens at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy, in an emailed report to school board members about the listening sessions.
“Patterns in the past of people leaving and lack of follow through make these new initiatives hard to trust and hard to invest in,” Holt-Shannon wrote.
An ability to get along with elected officials also was cited by participants, Holt-Shannon said, and residents said the next superintendent needs to be prepared for the blood sport that is city politics.
“It was said repeatedly how political it is to work as a Superintendent in Manchester,” Holt-Shannon wrote.
Listening-session participants also said it might be time to turn down the heat around city schools and give leaders a chance to be successful.
“Many think we all need to be more introspective about our roles making it hard for new leaders to be successful – whether inside the leadership team or in relationship with the Board of School Committee,” Holt-Shannon wrote — and that includes the board of aldermen and the school committee.
“Elected officials need to welcome this person,” Holt-Shannon wrote.
Other participants said they wanted to see a superintendent who is personally warm and makes people feel like their input would be important.
Anxiety about the quality of city schools also came through, Holt-Shannon wrote, with participants citing the discussion around academic “tracking,” the availability of vocational education and services for students learning English as key areas, as well as students’ mental and social well-being.
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The city of Nashua must provide the records requested by a resident, a court ruled last week, and the city has been ordered to pay the requester’s attorney’s fees.
A judge ruled in Hillsborough County Superior Court that Nashua had to provide Laurie Ortolano with the records she requested more than two years ago: security camera footage from the assessor’s office, and video recordings of interviews with city hall staff conducted by police for an inquiry into the assessor’s department that did not lead to any charges.
In his ruling, Judge Charles Temple wrote that Nashua should have provided the records Ortolano requested, and that because the city should have anticipated that Ortolano’s lawsuit would be successful, the city must pay her attorney’s fees.
Though the records at hand are not of great public interest, the judge wrote, the city had no good reason to withhold them.
“Although the footage (from a surveillance camera in City Hall) may not provide groundbreaking revelations about he Department’s functioning, it still provides some information about a governmental entity’s conduct and activities,” the decision stated. “While the footage’s value to the public may not be enormous, the City’s interest in its nondisclosure is miniscule.”
Nashua was ordered to provide documents in another right-to-know suit last year. Laura Colquhoun, a Nashua resident, filed a Right-to-Know request asking for all email communication between the city’s administrative services director and the city’s chief of assessing in early 2021. The city had argued the request was too broad, but a judge ruled it was not.
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SAN DIEGO — For riders like Ben McCue, San Diego’s most southern corner is a paradise for outdoor recreation.
"What I love about the Tijuana River Valley is it's really one of kind of the hidden gems of San Diego County in terms of it has miles and miles of multi-use trails. You can mountain bike you can ride horses," McCue said.
From the dry gravel roads and dirt paths in Border Field State park to the swampy Tijuana Estuary, the parklands just north of the border are critically important for the health of our environment and the people of San Diego.
The Tijuana River flows from Mexico into the valley below. Heavily polluted streams of chemical waste, raw sewage and garbage have been finding their way into the park for decades. An issue that effects both sides of the border.
"98% of the population in that watershed is in Mexico. Just looking at the inequities across the border, the lack of sewage treatment, the lack of trash collection," says McCue, the Executive Director of Outdoor Outreach.
"Yesterday in Imperial Beach, we had a SURF program scheduled for kids from Chula Vista High School. And right when they showed up, the lifeguards were putting in the beach closure signs," said McCue.
But to learn more about the environmental difficulties facing the border region, around two dozens riders geared up and headed to Border Field State Park on Saturday.
Wheels on the Watershed, a bike tour organized by environmental groups and led by McCue and Manuel Belmonte give riders a first hand look at what is happening at the border.
"We're here to talk about various types of environmental and justices that impact this this region and the the environmental impacts at the border create," said Belmonte.
The roughly ten mile ride gave an eye opening look to riders. The first stop was a massive pile of rubber tires.
"Once they’re here in California, they’re classified as hazardous waste," said McCue gesturing to the pile of tires. "It costs the state or who ever is removing, between $4 to $20 per tire."
Then to the South Bay Wastewater Treatment plant.
"It treats sewage originates in Tijuana, but to US standards," said McCue. "Honestly, we need a lot more of that we need a lot more people to care about this region."
The EPA has announced plans for a $300 million investment to reduce the flow of sewage and pollution flowing into the country. Helping Mexico clean wastewater, while reducing the flow of sewage into the United States.
But it’s tours like these that give a glimpse into the environmental problems at the border. Hoping to inspire the next environmentalist to protect this delicate ecosystem.
WATCH RELATED: 'You don't want to be here when it starts to rain' | Tijuana River Valley prone to flooding.
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Competing with some of the world's fastest runners, the stage was set for Northern Arizona athletes Abdihamid Nur and Nico Young to make history at Friday night's Sound Running Track Meet in San Juan Capistrano, California.
Running a 13:06.32, Nur broke Henry Rono's 5K collegiate record of 13:08.4 set in 1978.
Young came through the line at 13:11.30, the third-fastest collegiate time behind Nur's run in the same race and Rono's formerly 44-year-old record. With former Lumberjacks Luis Grijalva (13:13.14, 2021) and Diego Estrada (13:15.33, 2013) entering the night ranked No. 3 and 5 on the all-time collegiate 5,000-meter list, Northern Arizona now holds four of the top seven fastest times in the event.
The mark was the longest-standing collegiate track and field record and set the world record at the time.
In a field consisting of Olympians, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Joe Klecker, as well as 17-time NCAA champion Edward Cheserek, Nur and Young quickly found their place near the front and stayed there throughout.
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Nur and Young settled into the top five, where they would remain for the extent of the race. Led by a pair of pacers, including former Lumberjack Geordie Beamish, Nur and Young set out on a blazing pace with splits of roughly 63 seconds or faster for just about each lap.
Also running in the 5000m Friday night, Northern Arizona's Drew Bosley set a new personal best with a 13:25.90 in the race, beating his previous PR of 13:26.19 set indoors and smashing his outdoor personal best of 13:42.32 set in his lone run in the event last month. George Kusche also competed in the event, running a 13:48.91.
A few hours before Northern Arizona's quartet took the line in the 5000m, Theo Quax competed in the second heat of the men's 1500m and just missed matching his personal best of 3:39.84 set at 2019 Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, California. Quax finished the race at 3:39.85, beating his season best of 3:41.32, which was set nearly a month ago at this year's edition of the Bryan Clay Invitational.
While the time cannot officially be counted in the NCAA rankings this season due to the field of competition having noncollegiate runners, the mark would have placed Quax 35th in the nation and 23rd in the NCAA West Region. Additionally, Quax moved up to second among New Zealand runners in 2022 after entering the meet in third with his previous season best.
Northern Arizona's track and field team now turns its attention to the Big Sky Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships, set for Wednesday, May 11, to Saturday, May 14 at Idaho State in Pocatello, Idaho.
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Safecracker with a link to Houdini opens mystery safe for the town of Bristol
BRISTOL — For a few hours Tuesday, Bristol put on a Facebook Live version of Geraldo Rivera's opening of Al Capone's secret vault on live TV in 1986.
In Bristol's case, the mystery involved a locked safe that had been forgotten for decades in the basement of the old Oliver School on State Street. For as far back as anyone remembers, the combination has been lost, and no one had any idea what was inside.
The town's Facebook page was open for wisecracks Monday after Town Administrator Steven Contente used it to announce that the town had hired a safecracking specialist, and the opening of the safe would be on Facebook Live on Tuesday.
What he didn't say was that the safecracker was trained by descendants of Harry Houdini's locksmith, the man who adjusted handcuffs, padlocks and other keyed mechanisms to make sure Houdini made his impossible escapes just in time every time.
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So Houdini's act was rigged?
"I cannot divulge that, but let us say, I have knowledge," said Francesco Therisod, the vault-opening expert behind Castle Vault & Lock, where Contente was advised to seek the specialty service of breaking into a safe.
At 76, Therisod is semiretired. He has worked for the feds, opening seized assets and changing the combinations. He was hired to re-combo safes all over the state in 1999 when corporations feared losses from Y2K. When Gov. Bruce Sundlun shut down financial institutions to prevent collapses during the 1991 credit union crisis, Therisod was called in. He takes jobs like Bristol's, he said, because "I still have the rush when I turn the handle and open the safe."
He honed the specialty skill he learned from his wife's family. She is the former Linda J. Clark, the granddaughter of Herbert Clark, Houdini's behind-the-scenes locksmith. Herbert Clark moved to Rhode Island in 1901 when Houdini established his New England base in Providence.
Therisod prefers the term "safe technician" to safecracker, he said. He became a master at opening a safe by listening to the lock mechanism as he slowly turns the dial.
That's what he did in the Oliver School basement. He figured out the combination, but the bolts were rusty and wouldn't release.
His assistant drilled just under the lock and through the insulation, but even after "lots of banging" with a mallet, it still wouldn't budge.
Facebook commenters offered their takes on what was inside: milk money, little blue lunch tokens and Mount Hope Bridge tokens, Jimmy Hoffa, gold bars, dust, report cards, confiscated squirt guns and a whoopee cushion, the legendary "permanent record."
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Contente wore a fedora for the Facebook Live reveal, to evoke the Al Capone era. He kept announcing delays and asking the Facebook Live audience to stand by.
"We were at the end of the second hour," Therisod said. He decided, "I'd like to go another way," and he was ready to stop and come back with the huge cutters.
Assistant Cesar Lecaros wanted to give it one last good whack with the mallet.
This time the bolts fell away
The door opened to reveal ... another locked door. Eventually Superintendent Ana Riley led viewers through the cubbies and drawers, pulling out annual reports from 1838, bus contracts, handwritten minutes of School Committee meetings, but nothing after 1976.
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The safe will be moved to a Bristol administration building, and the Oliver School will be sold. Therisod gave it a new combination before he left, and he'll return to repair the drill hole and touch up the paint.
"A professional never ruins a safe," he explained. Bristol had bought a good one from a company that no longer exists. It was sold as a "double-door insulated fire safe," and he considers it a museum piece now.
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Overdose renders three men unconscious on Providence dance floor
PROVIDENCE — Three men suffered overdoses on a downtown dance floor early Saturday morning, losing consciousness and remaining unresponsive and at grave risk until nurses and firefighters revived them, according to police.
Police were called to the Black Sheep at 397 Westminster St. at about 12:45 a.m., said Providence police Cmdr. Thomas Verdi.
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They learned that two nurses had administered Narcan to two of the men, Verdi said. Providence firefighters were on the scene and caring for two 21-year-olds and one 22-year-old. All three men regained consciousness and were taken to Rhode Island Hospital, where their condition was listed as stable, Verdi said.
A friend of the trio told police that someone in the bathroom had sold his friends what they thought was cocaine, Verdi said. Within 10 minutes, they had passed out on the dance floor, the friend told police.
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SEBASTIAN COUNTY, Ark. — County Road Sugar Loaf Mountain Way in Sebastian County is closed due to a large mudslide.
The Sebastian County road director says recent heavy rains have caused the mudslide. The mudslide is south of what is commonly known as Lovers Leap all the way to Forest Tower Way.
This is an ongoing situation as ground sliding is still happening. The road is currently barricaded and closed until further notice.
Stay with 5NEWS for updates.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A local teen's hard work is about to pay off as he is set to graduate from the Del Mar College firefighter and EMT program before he gets his high school diploma.
AJ Cantu will soon be able to go out and find a job as a firefighter and EMT, due to a duel credit program offered through the college.
"I want to change the world for the better. I want to be the change I see in the world," Cantu said.
Counting down the days until he graduates, Cantu has been learning the same lifesaving skills as his older counterparts in the program.
"For a high school student to complete fire and EMT is an accomplishment, it is a tough program. The same testing material is the same as Corpus Christi fire cadets," said Joe McQuary, assistant instructor of Del Mar's fire science program.
McQuary said more schools are starting to offer firefighting program as a duel credit option. This as fire departments across Texas look to address a shortage of personnel.
"Right now especially in EMS, reason being people graduating are going to work at the hospitals instead of the ambulances because there's more pay," Melissa Stuive, Del Mar EMS program director said. "Some transitioning from paramedic and going into nursing, a lot of them have left the field."
Many departments end up turning to Del Mar for recruitment.
"The sooner you start, the faster you get out on the street and every city is hiring, every city you can think of is hiring," Cantu said.
Cantu said that after graduation he will be headed back to Del Mar to pursue Nursing.
"CCFD the age is 19, So I have to wait a couple of months. I can go work the ambulance, private, hospital, a lot of different jobs out there. A lot of things you can do with that experience," Cantu said.
For more information about the Del Mar fire science program, click here.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Nearly 60 students received their graduate degrees from the Clinton School of Public Service Saturday with a ceremony of presidential proportions.
For many, crossing the graduation stage is a huge milestone.
With every name called at the school's commencement ceremony, comes a different story of how they got there.
One of those students is Demetrious Jordan.
"I've been homeless a lot of times in my life. As a child, with my mom," Jordan said.
He continued to persevere through the hardships and, with the help and support of friends, he was granted an opportunity to become a student at the Clinton School.
"I came here thinking public service meant, you know, community service and things of that nature. It looks a lot of different ways and I intend to take that knowledge and take into the real world," Jordan said.
In his commencement speech to graduates, former president Bill Clinton also emphasized that importance when it comes to helping others.
It's work that graduate Lea Metz said she's been doing for quite some time.
"I have 20 years of experience, but I've really realized how much I don't know," Metz said.
That's a big reason why she started classes back in March 2020, coincidentally the first week of the pandemic.
"It was a lot of growing pains," Metz said.
She had to work hard through COVID stressors to get to where she is today.
"I want to continue to build upon that, so that I can go out and do greater work and be more mindful and thoughtful," Metz said.
That's a mentality that's also seen in Brentia Clayton, who has been making a difference in children's lives for years as a teacher.
"I've started to realize that the problem was on a deeper and bigger level," Clayton said. "I saw some of the punitive discipline systems, how African American children were being treated."
Her journey outside the classroom begins today.
She's hoping to work in public policy to make sure every voice in the school system is heard.
"If we can come together to make the lives of children better, then we can do anything," Clayton said.
Stepping across that stage leads to a path into their next journey.
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KATY, Texas — It will be a mother’s day to remember for one Katy family – after their own mom, lost in the woods for three days, has now been found.
Her pup Max is credited with saving her life.
For 3-year-old Max, barking is not really his thing - unless, he needs it.
“He’s not a barker, and I think something was coming, and he was like I got to protect her," Courtney Noppe said.
“When they actually found her, they heard him growling and barking," Justin Noppe said.
Max was with 63-year-old Sherry Noppe, a Katy mother, recently diagnosed with dementia. She left to take Max for a walk Tuesday afternoon, and then, she was gone.
“She remembers a little bit. She said she just kind of took a wrong turn and got lost and got circled around, but after that, she doesn’t really remember much, kind of got disoriented," Justin said.
For nearly three days, crews searched around Noppe’s home, which backs up to the nearly 8-000 acre George Bush Park.
Even without a leash, Max stayed by her side the entire time.
"As they got closer to her, I think that’s what caused him to bark because he was protecting her. So I do think his barking is what led those people to hear him and go in that area and find her. So yes, I do believe he saved her life," Justin said.
Early Friday morning, the two were found by his bark.
“I think she was hiding. I think she was disoriented, paranoid, and just was hiding, didn’t want to be found. And so no, I think if Max wasn’t there, she would not have been found," Justin said.
With only minor cuts and bruises, Sherry is home recovering. Max is still by her side.
“I think it’s amazing what he did. It’s honestly a miracle for him to have stayed with her for 3 days and not left her side," Courtney said.
As you can imagine, Max was exhausted as well. He was checked out by a vet and is now getting very special treatment with new toys and endless treats. We're told a tomahawk steak is in his future.
If you’re concerned about a loved one, suffering from a cognitive disability that might make them wander from home, there are programs that can help. HCSO’s LifeSaver project provides tracking devices that can be worn on their wrist or ankle.
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The future of salmon runs and four dams on the lower Snake River has divided many in the Pacific Northwest, and the topic is one of the pivotal differences for the two prominent Republican candidates to represent Idaho’s 2nd Congressional District.
Bryan Smith, an Idaho Falls attorney and a vice chairman of the Bonneville County Republican Central Committee, is challenging Rep. Mike Simpson for the Republican nomination in the upcoming primary.
Simpson first defeated Smith in the 2014 Republican primary and collected 61% of the vote compared to Smith’s 38%. Simpson has represented the district in the House of Representatives since 1998.
Idaho’s 2nd Congressional District mostly makes up the eastern half of the state but also includes a portion of Ada County. The other district includes northern and western Idaho, and is represented by Rep. Russ Fulcher.
Smith has been a vocal critic of Simpson’s proposal to breach four dams on the Snake River to save the salmon population. Salmon are anadromous, meaning they’re born in freshwater and spend most of their lives in saltwater before returning to freshwater to spawn. The Snake and the aptly named Salmon rivers in Idaho are spawning migration routes for the endangered fish.
Smith said the cost of the plan is too great and it would negatively impact grain growers, electric rates and shipping.
The proposal asks for $33.5 billion in federal spending to breach the dams in 2030 and to replace the transportation, irrigation and power generation the dams provide. Funding would come from the Biden administration’s multitrillion-dollar infrastructure package.
“Mike has spoken out of both sides of his mouth. He said himself he doesn’t even know if his plan would work,” Smith said. “No rational person believes you could possibly replace the clean power generated from those four dams with wind and solar power.”
Simpson did tell the Idaho Statesman in February 2021 he was “not certain” if removing the dams would restore the salmon population, but he could not condemn the salmon to extinction.
Simpson also mentioned his “concept” annually brings 487,000 acre-feet of water back to Idahoans because Idaho is currently sending that water to flush the four dams in an attempt to save the salmon runs.
The four dams are the primary reason for the dwindling salmon population in the river and marine biologists project the salmon will go extinct without intervention, Simpson said. He also believes a judge will order the dams to be breached without a plan to recover resources generated by the dams in accordance with the Endangered Species Act.
“If you’ve got a better plan to save the salmon — something we haven’t tried, then let me know what it is,” Simpson said. “I don’t deny that those dams are important but there are other ways to replace the benefits of those dams.”
Smith said he doesn’t believe the dams have a significant factor on the salmon population and others have pointed to a variety of other factors including ocean conditions, predators going into fresh water to hunt and federal mismanagement that affect salmon. He said salmon runs in the river have fluctuated with highs and lows over the last two decades.
“Fish biologists will tell you even if all those (other factors) were perfect we’d still lose those salmon runs because of the dams,” Simpson said.
Todd Myers, environmental director at the Washington Policy Center and board member of the Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Council, wrote in a 2021 blog post that spring chinook returns increased by 55% in 2020 and 27% in 2021 compared to 2019’s historically low runs. Myers also noted the 2010s recorded the highest runs in decades.
“Mike is a radical environmentalist willing to hurt grain growers in northern Idaho. He would rather represent fish biologists and environmentalists,” Smith said.
A 2020 study on the Snake River’s salmon population conducted by researchers from the University of California, Old Dominion University and Brigham Young University found Snake River chinook and sockeye runs have decreased by 60% since the dams were built in the 1960s and another study from the Northwest Energy Coalition attributes a 90% decline in overall salmon runs because of the dams.
Simpson and Smith’s views on governing also represent a divide between the Republican Party, with Simpson representing a more traditional stance on Republican politics and Smith representing a newer, far-right conservatism that has gained traction in the GOP over the last decade.
Smith said he supports amending the U.S. Constitution that places congressional term limits because the system was never designed for “career politicians” like Simpson and that Smith has a demonstrated history of fighting for conservative issues.
“Mike first began office 42 years ago (with the Blackfoot City Council) before the cellphone and internet were even invented,” Smith said.
Smith also is the vice chairman of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, an ultraconservative political action committee that has been criticized for its far-right ideology.
Simpson said there are advantages for Congress members that have accumulated several years of experience. Under Smith’s proposal of term limits, representatives and senators from large congressional delegations such as Texas and Florida would dominate committee leadership positions and more power would be granted to bureaucrats and staff who don’t have term limits, Simpson said.
Simpson is the chairman of the Interior Appropriations Committee, which oversees public land in Idaho. He’s also been the chairman and is a ranking member of the Energy and Water Appropriations Committee, which funds Idaho National Laboratory.
“I think when people look at my record, they’ll be pretty impressed with what we’ve been able to do for Idaho and making sure Idaho’s values are represented in Washington,” Simpson said.
The two candidates have not engaged in any debates since 2014 because Simpson refused to participate in Idaho Public Television’s 2nd Congressional Debate.
In a statement to the Idaho Press, Simpson wrote Idaho Republicans don’t need to see anything more from Smith and he told the Post Register he doesn’t want to get on a debate stage with someone “unfamiliar with the truth.”
Simpson said there are many issues, such as the Snake River dams, where he believes Smith either doesn’t understand the issue or is lying to contradict whatever he says. He specifically referenced Smith telling people his proposal takes water away from Idahoans and Smith calling him a liberal. (All four dams affected by Simpson’s proposal are in Washington state and they do not affect Idaho’s water resources.)
“Why should I get on a debate stage with someone who frankly can’t seem to tell the truth,” Simpson said.
Smith called Simpson’s statement a byproduct of arrogance that only a “life-long” politician could acquire. He said Simpson’s campaign is misleading voters by taking a 2016 quote he gave to the Post Register about then Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump out of context to make it seem like Trump wasn’t in Smith’s top 16 choices because he was a delegate for Ted Cruz.
The Idaho Press reported Simpson’s campaign leaves out the part of the quote where Smith said Trump is the nominee and he would support Trump.
Smith also criticizes Simpson because he voted for the Jan. 6 commission and for Simpson’s campaign using a Trump endorsement from the 2020 general election in this race.
“He doesn’t want to debate me because he can’t defend his record,” Smith said. “He knows he’s lied about me and that I’d call him out. He’s like a hit-and-run artist.”
The primary election is May 17. The winner of the Republican primary will face Rigby Democrat Wendy Norman in the November general election. The other Republican candidates are Flint Christensen from Shelley, Daniel Algiers Lucas Levy from Sun Valley and Chris Porter from Meridian.
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DALLAS, Texas — The City of Dallas said it's working to resolve issues related to the calculation of overtime for some Dallas Fire-Rescue members after the Dallas Fire Fighters Association brought to the City's attention that hundreds within the department haven't been paid owed overtime for December 2021 and January 2022.
During that timeframe, specifically in late December, the COVID-19 omicron variant was a massive hurdle staffing-wise for the department.
WFAA reported that firefighters were voluntarily working overtime. Some were even mandated to work beyond their regular hours to ensure fire stations and engines were fully-staffed after numerous infections within the department.
"We were 100% staffed through the whole thing, and many guys are proud of that," DFFA President Jim McDade said. "The surge hit, and infections just exploded. There were 200-plus guys off every day who tested positive."
But months after the surge, McDade told WFAA that many firefighters haven't been paid the overtime they're owed for stepping up and ensuring the department was fully staffed.
"Hundreds of firefighters are affected, and it's tens of thousands of dollars owed to us," McDade said.
Before December of 2021, McDade said it was city policy to cancel out any sick leave taken for COVID-19 with overtime hours accrued by firefighters within a typical 28-day, 212-hour pay period.
In December, the City did away with that policy. Instead, a firefighter's overtime wasn’t impacted if they got sick with the virus.
However, the City still operated its payroll as if the old policy was in place for December and January, per McDade.
The issue was brought to the City's attention by DFFA in February and everything was resolved.
But, McDade told WFAA that firefighters are still waiting on overtime pay for those two months. Specifically, firefighters who did get sick, got better, then stepped up and filled in for others infected – accruing large amounts of overtime pay.
McDade said their overtime was docked or canceled out when it shouldn't have been. He added that the City hasn't created a process or avenue for firefighters to claim that they haven't been paid.
The city manager's office told WFAA, "... any outstanding overtime will be paid."
But McDade said he's tired of waiting.
"The City of Dallas is jerking around its firefighters," McDade said. "We don't need it in another month or two weeks, or another three months; we need it now."
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ROUND ROCK, Texas — A suspect believed to be connected to a shooting in Round Rock has died, according to the Round Rock Police Department.
RRPD Police Chief Allen Banks said the suspect was found dead by officers in a wooded area around Camino Del Verdes Place and Salorn Way where he had retreated and was firing at officers from. However, it is not known at this time if officers firing at the suspect is what led to his death.
Banks also said the shelter-in-place order has been lifted as authorities believe there is no longer a danger to the surrounding community.
RRPD officers first received a report of a person being shot multiple times in the area of Old Settlers Boulevard and Sam Bass Road around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 7. They said the shooter was potentially a neighbor of the person shot, but the identity of the suspect is not known at this time.
Minutes later, at 12:38 p.m. authorities received a report of a man wearing a black trench coat and carrying an "AK-style rifle" while running across Old Settlers Boulevard. At 12:43 p.m., a fire department battalion chief reported that he saw a man hop a fence at Behren's Ranch and Plantation Drive in camouflaged clothes.
It was around this time, at 1:10 p.m., that RRPD tweeted they were responding to an armed individual in the area and said people should shelter in place. Nearby residents in the area of Old Settlers Boulevard and Bent Tree Drive were also asked to shelter in place. Others were asked to avoid the area. Old Settlers Boulevard was closed to traffic from Plantation Drive to Sam Bass Road.
Officers responded to the area the battalion chief saw the man and the man engaged officers by firing at them. The man then retreated into the wooded area around Camino Del Verdes Place and Salorn Way while still shooting at officers, Banks said. Officers returned the fire.
Officers saw the man was wearing body armor. Once the department's armored vehicle arrived on the scene, the man started firing at the vehicle and officers fired back.
Officers then reached the suspect, finding him in the dense wood line, Banks said. They used a less-than-lethal round to see if he would respond, but he did not. It was determined at that time that he had died. Banks said it is unknown right now if the suspect's death was caused by officer fire.
The investigation is ongoing at this time. Neither a motive nor a connection between the suspect and victim is known right now.
The victim who was shot at a home in the area sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to the hospital. The person is expected to be OK.
An officer on the scene suffered an unrelated medical issue and was taken to the hospital. That officer is expected to be OK as well, Banks said.
All officers that fired their weapons will be placed on standard administrative leave pending an investigation, Banks said. The exact number of officers placed on leave is not known right now.
Neighbors told KVUE they heard shots fired and reported a large police presence in the Behrens Ranch and Mira Vista neighborhoods. A helicopter and drones were involved in the search.
Police set up a staging area at Old Town Elementary. Pflugerville PD, Cedar Park PD, Leander PD and Georgetown PD assisted with the operation.
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PHOENIX — The family of Deana Bowdoin has waited 44 years for justice.
Next week, the man who brutally murdered the 21-year-old Arizona State University honors student in 1978 is scheduled to be executed at the state prison in Florence.
It's the first execution in Arizona in eight years, and it casts a spotlight on what one critic has called the state's "relentless search" for ways to put condemned inmates to death.
Arizona is moving ahead with executions again, even as most states are backing off.
Over more than a decade, Arizona's search for new execution methods has skirted the law, seen the state refurbish a gas chamber, and operated largely behind a veil of secrecy.
A botched execution in 2014 proved to be a turning point that tested the state's commitment to enforcing the death penalty.
'Gasping and gulping'
One dose of a lethal injection was supposed to kill Joseph Wood in 10 minutes.
"It was a clear gasp. It sort of looked like a fish opening and closing his mouth," said Michael Kiefer, a journalist at the Arizona Republic who was an execution witness.
According to Kiefer and other witnesses, the double-murder convict writhed for almost two hours before he died. He had been injected with 15 doses of a two-drug cocktail.
"He was gasping and gulping," said Dale Baich, a federal public defender who represented Wood. Baich worked on death penalty cases for 25 years.
"We were actually arguing in front of a federal judge to stop the execution as it was going forward."
The appeal failed.
'To hell with you guys'
"Prior to the execution, the state said, one dose will do it," Baich said in an interview. "They were wrong."
Wood had murdered his ex-girlfriend and her father. Their relatives saw the execution very differently.
"He smiled and laughed at us and then went to sleep," Richard Brown, a member of the victims' family, told reporters.
"All you people that think these drugs are bad. Well, to hell with you guys."
A scramble for suppliers
For several years leading up to the Wood fiasco, Arizona had scrambled to buy execution drugs, often in Europe.
"Lethal injection was first introduced in this country in 1977," said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University professor who is an expert on execution methods.
"From that time, up to about 2009, most states used the same three-drug formula. Starting in 2009, that first drug no longer became available."
Drugs at a driving school
Arizona's search for drugs had embarrassing results.
A year after the execution of Jeffrey Landrigan in 2010. documents in the United Kingdom revealed that Arizona prison officials obtained the lethal injection drugs from a tiny pharmaceutical company, housed in the back of a London driving school.
But that didn't deter state prison officials.
"After a federal judge in 2012 issued an order prohibiting the importation of the drugs in 2015, Arizona tried the same thing," Baich said.
"But this time the drugs were stopped at the border. What we have learned over the years is that the states should be transparent."
No answers on Wood's execution
The Wood execution resulted in a moratorium on capital punishment, as well as lawsuits against the state.
But it was hard to get answers about what happened to Wood.
"What we don't know is why 14 additional doses were administered," Baich said. "We don't know where the state got the drugs, we don't know who was making the decision to proceed after a backup dose of drugs didn't work."
The state never had to disclose the information after it abruptly announced the drugs wouldn't be used again, Baich said.
'Ever study the Holocaust?'
With the difficulty of getting execution drugs, an old execution method became new again. Arizona refurbished a gas chamber last used decades ago.
"Did anybody that was associated with this process ever study the holocaust?" said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.
Condemned inmates can now be put to death with a lethal injection or with chemicals similar to the gas that killed millions in Nazi death camps. The inmate gets to choose.
"The gas chamber is the least effective method of execution. It's the most torturous," Denno said.
"I would go so far as to say every gas execution is per se torturous."
Executions plunge to a 20-year low
Arizona's first execution in eight years comes as prosecutors nationwide are backing away from the death penalty.
Just 18 death sentences were imposed in 2021, down 94 percent from the late 1990s peak, according to the Death Penalty Information Center
There were only 11 executions last year, down 89% from the peak.
Clarence Dixon, a 66-year-old Navajo man, is set to be executed with a single dose of the sedative pentobarbital.
The U.S. Justice Department quietly developed a network of pentobarbital suppliers before resuming federal executions two years ago, according to a Reuters investigation.
Arizona found its own supplier. An investigation by The Guardian revealed the state paid $1.5 million last year for 1,000 vials of pentobarbital sodium salt, shipped in "unmarked jars and boxes."
'The appropriate response'
Shortly after that disclosure, Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced he was putting executions on a fast track.
Brnovich, who is running for the U.S. Senate, tweeted at the time: Capital punishment... is the appropriate response to those who commit the most shocking and vile murders."
A second execution is scheduled for next month
A repeat of Wood's execution?
Deborah Denno warns the Dixon execution could unfold much like Joseph Wood's eight years ago.
"The first lethal injection execution occurred in 1982, and that injection was botched," she said. "That's always been a problematic method of execution. But it's only gotten worse over the past decade, because of this scramble and experimentation with drugs."
"There's every reason to expect that the execution of Clarence Dixon, for example, is going to be very similar to the botched execution of Joseph Wood."
Dixon's attorneys have argued that he's schizophrenic and doesn't understand why he faces execution. So far, legal efforts have failed to block the scheduled execution.
Dixon was connected to Deana Bowdoin's murder almost 30 years after her death. A cold case detective with Tempe police used DNA evidence to track down Dixon.
'Traumatic for families'
In 2008, Dixon was sentenced to death for raping and killing Bowdoin in her Tempe apartment.
"It can be very challenging, very traumatic for families," Colleen Clase, a victims' rights attorney at Arizona Voice for Crime Victims.
"It can be traumatic to be in a courtroom where the offender is being made out to be the victim when they are the victims."
Clase's organization has helped people like Deana Bowdoin's surviving sister, Leslie Bowdoin James, seek justice by asserting their rights as crime victims.
Deana's sister at 42 hearings
"I would bet that I'm the only one in this room that attended every one of 42 hearings, every day of trial, and I followed and watched this inmate during every moment of those proceedings," James said at a recent commutation hearing for Dixon.
"Leslie has always been very active," Clase said.
James has issued this statement: "I will never stop thinking of Deana, but I look forward to the resolution of Dixon's criminal matter through the imposition of punishment."
I asked Clase how crime victims move on after an execution.
"Closure is not the right word," she said. "But there will be a close to the criminal proceedings. The emotional damage is always going to be there for any victim of any crime... the victimization itself is always going to be there."
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AUSTIN, Texas — A new 50-pound lifelike "child" robot is being used to train pediatric dentists.
Dr. Gary Cash is a dentist based in Austin who specializes in dental aesthetics and restorative dentistry. Dr. Cash has been in practice for 16 years, treating more than 16,000 patients – both for profit, and the community.
Cash said the robots are able to simulate signs of medical emergencies, allowing dental trainees to gain experience in knowing how to handle similar critical situations.
"This one is the next level. It actually will simulate medical conditions. The tongue moves the cheek, the water was able to spring out of the dental instruments. So it was very real life," said Cash.
The user is able to send signals to air cylinders installed within the robot's joints. It was co-developed by Japanese robotics startup Tmsuk and a local dental school.
The robot costs approximately $195,000.
Tmsuk hopes to develop it further so it can help people in other child care industries.
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FLOYD COUNTY, Ga. — Justus Edwards made great strides recovering from what should have been a paralyzing spinal injury while playing football -- and on Saturday, he was able to walk toward the next stage of his life.
After being told he may not be able to walk again after suffering a spinal cord injury in 2018, Edwards, with a little help, walked across the Berry College stage to get his degree.
The new college graduate was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science in December and attended his commencement ceremony at Berry College in his cap, gown and braces.
Edwards called it a "very fruitful day," while celebrating his new accomplishment.
He can now stand with just a walker and is walking on the anti-gravity treadmill without assistance. Edwards credits his faith and God for giving him a second quarter.
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SEATTLE — A viral video is raising new safety concerns about a downtown Seattle intersection. One man has spent years cataloging crashes at the I-5 southbound off-ramp on Union Street.
Michael Basconcillo says he's lived near the corner of 7th and Union for 20 years and grew tired of the constant screeching of tires and loud noises outside his door.
He would often run outside to find the aftermath: a car and driver crashed on the side of the road.
Basconcillo decided he would mount a camera at the intersection to document the problem of people exiting too fast on the southbound exit of I-5, near the Convention Center. Every once in a while, he'd catch a spectacular crash, and put together a montage of the problem.
This week, somehow he says, it ended up online and had thousands of views.
"I had two friends text me yesterday morning, and said you're famous, your video is on Reddit, I go, what's Reddit?" Basconcillo said with a laugh.
But the issue is no laughing matter, he says, as there is a crash at the spot by his estimate four to six times a year. "They see a 20-mile-an-hour exit sign, and that doesn't mean anything."
SDOT and WSDOT data is inconclusive, but the tire marks and scratched pavement is prevalent at the spot, which is technically a city street connected to a state highway.
WSDOT says it is aware of the issue and has been making changes since 2019, adding and replacing signage to urge people to slow down to 20 miles per hour on the sharp turn.
But Basconcillo says he believes the agencies could do more, like add divots or bumps in the roadway which increase vibration and encourage people to hit the brakes.
"It would wake somebody up, it would get their attention, and get them to slow down," he said.
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SAN DIEGO — The director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Dr. Rahul Grupta, along with local officials have announced new strategies that will help fight the trafficking crisis of methamphetamine, happening across the United States.
As the number of deaths from drug overdoses continue to skyrocket, that drug control strategy starts with two main pillars, addressing untreated addiction and drug trafficking..
According to the most recent data by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 106,854 people died because of a drug overdose in 2021.
In San Diego more than 3,000 clients at county treatment centers reported meth as their primary substance.
“When we have so many people killed from methamphetamine, which is cut with fentanyl, we have to make sure that we provide that help for people,” said Grupta.
During a press conference in San Diego, Dr. Rahul Grupta, expressed that the federal government will provide that help by prioritizing harm reductions and access to substance use disorder treatment. This means it will expand treatment for those struggling with a drug addiction.
“Incentives, motivational incentives with meth use, in order to make sure that people stay in treatment and are making progress while also doing urgent and needed research,” said Grupta.
The national drug control strategy also includes strategies to improve housing for those homeless and suffering with a drug addiction.
However, this new national drug control strategy brings up the question of what makes this strategy new and most importantly why is the federal government announcing it in San Diego?
Part of the focus is centered on increasing funding for drug enforcement and for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection since drug trafficking at the southern border happens almost everyday. Officials say San Diego easily becomes the epicenter of methamphetamine.
"We have to hit the drug traffickers where it hurts them the most, and that's their wallet. Through this strategy, we will work to more than triple the number of drug traffickers sanctioned and increase our border security," he said.
Attacking the pockets of drug traffickers, local and federal legislators says this will prevent issues to become an even greater crisis. San Diego used to be the capital of manufactured methamphetamine but because of law enforcement, much of that has been moved south of the border.
WATCH RELATED: 13 fentanyl deaths over three days in San Diego County.
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Miss Mississippi Volunteer, Rachel Shumaker of Pontotoc, secured the Second Alternate award at the inaugural Miss Volunteer America pageant in Jackson, TN Saturday night. Shumaker received a $6,000 scholarship along with her third place finish.
Rachel Shumaker of Pontotoc is pictured second from right at the conclusion of the inaugural Miss Volunteer America Pageant in Jackson, TN Saturday evening. Shumaker's roommate for the week, Miss Utah Volunteer Alexa Knutzen, was named as the pageant's first-ever winner.
Shumaker received the Second Alternate award along with a scholarship that she will use as a new law student at Samford's Cumberland School of Law this fall.
Miss Mississippi Volunteer, Rachel Shumaker of Pontotoc, secured the Second Alternate award at the inaugural Miss Volunteer America pageant in Jackson, TN Saturday night. Shumaker received a $6,000 scholarship along with her third place finish.
Rachel Shumaker of Pontotoc is pictured second from right at the conclusion of the inaugural Miss Volunteer America Pageant in Jackson, TN Saturday evening. Shumaker's roommate for the week, Miss Utah Volunteer Alexa Knutzen, was named as the pageant's first-ever winner.
Shumaker received the Second Alternate award along with a scholarship that she will use as a new law student at Samford's Cumberland School of Law this fall.
JACKSON, TN • Miss Mississippi Volunteer Rachel Shumaker finished as Second Alternate at the inaugural Miss Volunteer America Pageant in Jackson, Tennessee, Saturday night.
A native of Pontotoc, Shumaker won her title of Miss Mississippi Volunteer in July of 2021. Since last summer, she has been preparing for this weekend's competition.
Shumaker won a $6,000 college scholarship with her placement which she'll utilize as a new law student at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law this August.
Miss Utah Volunteer Alexa Knutzen was named as the first-ever Miss Volunteer America, winning a $50,000 scholarship along with her crown and scepter.
Shumaker competed earlier this week in preliminary events to secure her a spot in Saturday evening's finals. On Wednesday night, she was selected as the preliminary winner of the Fitness and Wellness category.
"Placing Second Runner-Up at the first-ever Miss Volunteer America and winning a $6,000 scholarship is tremendous to me, but it was even more special watching my roommate, Miss Utah Volunteer, become the first Miss Volunteer America," said Shumaker.
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First selected as a top fifteen finalist, the Mississippi State University graduate competed in the Fitness and Wellness swimsuit category. She then advanced to the top twelve where she played her piano piece titled "Malaguena" by Ernesto Lecuona.
Shumaker was later named a top ten and top five finalist, finishing the evening by competing in evening gown and on-stage question.
The rest of the top five finalists include Miss South Carolina Volunteer as Fourth Alternate, Miss Tennessee Volunteer as Third Alternate and Miss New Jersey Volunteer as First Alternate.
"I've learned a lot about myself including resilience, hard work and what I'm capable of doing," said the Mississippi pageant queen.
This July's second annual Miss Mississippi Volunteer Pageant week will be Shumaker's final few days on the job. On July 9th, she will crown her 2022 successor at the Tupelo Performing Arts Center.
BROOKE BULLOCK BURLESON is a digital producer for the Daily Journal. Contact her at brooke.burleson@djournal.com.
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The National Weather Service reported Saturday that the record for the high temperature on May 7 in Midland was tied.
The NWS reported that the temperature reached 103 degrees. It was the first time the high temperature reached 100 in 2022. The NWS also reported that the 103 high temperature was 17 degrees above average for this time of year.
The high Sunday is expected to reach 101 degrees. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. On Monday, a high around 99 degrees is in the forecast. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
There is a 30 percent chance of precipitation on Tuesday, according to the NWS’ seven-day forecast.
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BOISE, Idaho — This edition of Viewpoint focuses on the race for Idaho governor, specifically the three candidates running for the Republican nomination in the 2022 Idaho Primary Election, set for May 17.
Governor Brad Little is running for a second term as Idaho's 33rd governor. Little describes himself as a conservative Republican.
He and first lady Teresa Little have two sons and six grandchildren and call the city of Emmett home. Little served as lieutenant governor from 2009 to 2018, and as a state senator for four terms before that.
Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin of Idaho Falls is hoping to unseat Little. She describes herself as a conservative. Former U.S. President Donald Trump has endorsed McGeachin in this race.
McGeachin and her husband have two adult children. McGeachin served as a state representative from 2002 to 2012.
Ed Humphreys is a married father of two young children living in Eagle. He describes himself as a constitutional conservative and a patriot.
Humphreys is a financial advisor. He says he walked away from financial practice to focus on running for governor.
KTVB planned to hold a debate among the three candidates, but it was canceled after Gov. Little declined to take part, and Lt. Gov. McGeachin's campaign didn't reply by the deadline to schedule the debate.
In lieu of a debate, KTVB reached out to the candidates for interviews and they all accepted. For fairness, Viewpoint host -- KTVB's Doug Petcash -- asked each of the candidates the same general questions on a few of the big issues of the day. The topics included public education, taxes and abortion.
The interviews on this edition of Viewpoint were edited for equal time and to fit the time constraints of this show. You can watch the full interviews with the candidates below:
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Even though the weather was a bit cloudy for Kentucky Derby 148, the stars definitely took the place of sunshine and strutted the red carpet before one of the most famous races in the world.
WHAS11’s Grace McKenna spoke with many including singer Travis Tritt, iconic Chef Bobby Flay and Miss USA 2021 and former WHAS11 News alum, Elle Smith.
Rapper Jack Harlow even showed off his lyrical skills giving a preview of his new track "Churchill Downs" in which he also shot a music video for throughout the day.
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The oppressive heat residents are beginning to experience will mark the start of what is shaping up to be a warm summer.
With temperatures reaching the triple digits this weekend, air conditioning companies will have their work cut out for them. Jimmy Fielding, branch manager of ABC Home and Commercial Services, said that he is already staring to see the influx of customer inquires, amidst scorching temperatures.
"Our phones have been ringing non stop answering those phones and taking care of the customers," Fielding said.
Already predicting what customers might be experiencing, Fielding said that his technicians are trying to stay ahead of the hot summer season.
"If you have a symptom, get it checked out now before it gets worse," Fielding said.
With high temperatures becoming a steady constant for residents, air conditioning units run the risk of overworking, but there are preventive care tips that people can do to help take the strain off their units.
"Most people have two drain lines, so if you secondary line is dripping its not suppose to be," Fielding said.
While it may be an after thought, making sure that your unit's air filter is free of junk and debris can not only enhance your air quality, but lower your monthly bill as well.
"With all the leaves falling recently make sure you don't have any around you ac, hvac system on the outside," Fielding said.
He adds that if the thermostat is set at 77 degrees then bringing it down to 65 wont cool your home any quicker. Instead he encourages residents to lower the thermostat a few degrees. When not at home Fielding encourages residents to set your thermostat a degree or two warmer when not at home.
In fact, turning the thermostat completely off will consume more energy in the long run.
"During the day especially with summer coming up, kids at the house leaving your windows open, doors open, blinds up, make sure you work with your family, whoever is at the home, house will be cooler," Fielding said.
If residents feel that their unit is not performing to optimal standards then he encourages them to call a professional who can assess the problem.
"It could be as small as a clog to needing a full replacement," Fielding said.
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has launched a new Ambassadors Initiative, which pairs seasoned OLLI members with new members seeking more information.
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has launched a new Ambassadors Initiative, which pairs seasoned OLLI members with new members seeking more information.
Ever think about joining the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, but hesitate to ask questions before you decide?
Not knowing where to turn, or whom to ask, can make the difference between procrastinating and opening your world to making new discoveries and new friends.
If you’re part of the demographic that’s on the fence, or you’re a new member who would like to know more about what OLLI at UNL has to offer, the Ambassadors Initiative is for you.
The program is an outgrowth of the OLLI Membership Committee’s post-pandemic brainstorming efforts. Volunteers searched for answers after COVID-19 wreaked havoc with OLLI activities and hampered its membership base.
Seeking to retain existing members and attract new ones, OLLI launched the Ambassador Initiative, pairing seasoned OLLI members with new members who sought more information and welcomed help from experienced, like-minded individuals.
The early results have been encouraging, said OLLI at UNL Director Bob Michl.
“The ambassadors have been a great asset to OLLI by representing us … they promote us and assist new members who choose to be paired with an ambassador,” said Michl.
The ambassadors will be promoting their services when “A Taste of OLLI” comes to the Great Plains Room at the UNL East Campus Union on Friday, Aug. 12.
Role of the Ambassadors
Ambassadors Coordinator Gail Hollarbush helps mentor the roughly 15 ambassadors and works with the OLLI office to match new members with a mentor. The coordinator is responsible for training the ambassadors, including a review of protocols, goals and objectives, guidance on initiating contact, interacting with new members to assess their interests and providing guidance.
The training of the ambassadors also includes an in-depth review of OLLI’s website, courses, lectures, special events, interest groups and travel opportunities.
“We assist with aspects of the OLLI experience such as class selection, enrollment, finding classroom locations, classroom etiquette, managing classes via Zoom and learning how to navigate OLLI,” said Hollarbush, a retired executive director of the Carriage Glen retirement community.
Service in Action
Helen Raikes and Kathleen Wingard have been among the grateful recipients of ambassador services.
Raikes, who joined the OLLI membership rolls last fall, gives a “fabulous” rating to her ambassador, Helen Sellentin. Few OLLI members can match Sellentin’s depth of experience. The retired teacher joined OLLI in 2006 — and has taken classes in all five terms of the OLLI calendar each year for the past 16 years.
“You learn the things you choose to learn, and you’re surrounded by active learners who share your enthusiasm for learning,” said Sellentin, whose service on the OLLI Membership Committee helped spawn the formation of the Ambassadors Initiative.
Sellentin is also an active participant in OLLI special interest groups focusing on both politics and science and technology. When the coronavirus caused OLLI in-person sessions to come to a screeching halt, Sellentin and others put together courses on the intricacies of Zoom.
“Helen (Sellentin) met me for coffee even prior to registration, and we met again for coffee before the second term sign-up,” said Raikes, who found Sellentin’s enthusiasm to be infectious. Raikes jumped in with both feet, enrolling in the fall kayaking course, introduction to pickleball, and in an arboretum tour.
Raikes said her OLLI participation has currently been dialed back due to her candidacy for the District 5 seat on the Nebraska State Board of Education.
Wingard, who owns Heritage Yoga Center, 600 S. Cotner Blvd., has had an equally-fulfilling experience with her OLLI ambassador, Sara McLoughlin.
“Sara has been generous and passionate,” said Wingard, whose spouse, Alyx Knight, is another OLLI student who has benefited from McLoughlin’s assistance.
“Sara has a passion for people and learning,” Wingard said of her mentor.
Wingard prefers delving into social topics such as prison reform. Her spouse has enjoyed OLLI sessions on birding and playing the ukulele.
Meet the McLoughlins
McLoughlin connected with Wingard and Knight for an introductory coffee last fall to discuss the OLLI program and enrollment details. In addition to being an ambassador, McLoughlin’s activity level in OLLI has included enrolling in courses on pickleball, wild animals, sports, and taking the popular history sessions taught by Professor Thomas Berg. McLoughlin’s background includes being a Junior League activist, working at the Lincoln Visitors Center, and teaching lessons at Hart Dance Academy.
McLoughlin’s husband, Jim, initiated the ambassador idea, oversaw the creation of its inception, and assists Hollarbush. He worked in the financial software industry and retired in 2017 from Pfizer.
“Last fall, five percent of the roughly 200 new members who joined OLLI agreed to be connected with an ambassador,” said Jim McLoughlin. “We were encouraged by the initial response. We hope that number will rise as new members become familiar with the services we have to offer.”
The state said the killing was first-degree murder. That Barnes kicked his way into the house, just as he'd threatened to do in texts later deleted, after she told him their relationship was over and not to come home.
Steven M. Sipple's byline may disappear, but his column catchphrase – one used literally hundreds of times – will live on for at least for today. It’s a fitting way to say farewell and to frame the future.
The company alleged the man stole 6,000 pounds of copper wire and a flatbed trailer, wrongfully used the company's credit card, submitted false timesheets and directed employees to work at his Pleasant Dale home on the clock.
Police in November said the 36-year-old had a contusion on his head and labeled his death "suspicious," but his death has now been ruled accidental in nature.
"I've gone full Elon Musk," said Paul Holt, who has owned Lincoln's embattled former Holidome since 2013. "I've literally said, 'OK, everything's just gonna ride or die on this thing.'"
Preeta Bansal, a Lincoln native who was a law clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens in 1990, was attending his memorial service at the Supreme Court on Monday, the same day that a controversial draft opinion was leaked.
As a group of people intervened in the alleged assault, the 22-year-old retreated to his residence and loaded a rifle, pointing it at at least six bystanders, according to police.
The district contracted with the Lincoln-based design firm Clark & Enersen to draft plans for the pre-K-12 school, which would be built on 52 acres of land along U.S. 136 just north of the existing high school.
Officers responded at around 5:30 a.m. Sunday to an alarm call at Generation V smoke shop, 1501 N. Cotner, where police found the front glass broken and thousands of dollars worth of vape products stolen.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has launched a new Ambassadors Initiative, which pairs seasoned OLLI members with new members seeking more information.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has launched a new Ambassadors Initiative, which pairs seasoned OLLI members with new members seeking more information.
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Bob Schultz, left, volunteers at his son Ron's store, Racquet Corner. The business opened in 1988 and takes pride in helping customers find just the right racket, paddle, ball or shoe.
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Ron Schultz, right, owner of Racquet Corner at 3119 O St., restrings tennis rackets in April along with his dad, Bob.
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A wide variety of tennis and pickleball shoes are sold at Racquet Corner, 3119 O St.
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A wide variety of pickleball paddles are sold at Racquet Corner, 3119 O St.
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Bob Schultz restrings a tennis racket at Racquet Corner, 3119 O St., in April. His son, Ron, owns the store.
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Matt Westfall restrings a tennis racket in April at Racquet Corner, 3119 O St.
Six mornings a week, Bob Schultz eats his oatmeal crisp in his apartment at the Landing, walks to his car in the basement garage and heads for work.
The 92-year-old volunteers at his son Ron Schultz's store, Racquet Corner, where he pays the bills and helps customers find just the right racket, paddle, ball or shoe.
And on Sunday, after church, Bob plays pickleball at the Landing with friends, who also live at the independent living facility in south Lincoln.
The average age of the players in his group is around 76, he guesses. He is the oldest.
The Schultz family first began playing tennis more than 50 years ago, when it was too windy for badminton and Bob needed activities to keep his two young boys busy. They started with friends from church, using $5 rackets.
Bob was once a pretty decent tennis player and his strokes are still good, he says. But he can no longer race across the court after a well-placed ball.
Pickleball is a sport you can play long after your hips start complaining or your sprints slow to a crawl.
“When you’re my age, it’s hard to cover that ground," said Bob, who gave up tennis two years ago at age 90. "If they hit you a drop shot and you’re on the base line, you have a long ways to go. And I wasn’t getting there anymore.”
Pickleball, played on half of a tennis court, with peers, is a welcome alternative.
And Bob is the pickleball expert at Racquet Corner, where many beginning players find their first paddle and learn more about the game.
Six or seven years ago a tennis friend, who had vacationed in Florida, told Bob and Ron about this new sport that was becoming popular with seniors.
“You guys ought to get into pickleball,” he said.
They took his advice and today pickleball makes up almost 25% of Racquet Corner business, Bob said.
Pickleball was created more than 55 years ago by two Washington state dads, with bored children, using pingpong paddles and whiffle balls on a badminton court.
Today it is played on half a tennis court with a paddle and whiffle ball. It is sometimes described as playing pingpong while standing on the table.
And the sport has grown like periwinkle in Lincoln over the past few years. Pickleball Lincoln, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to the game, has grown from around 25 players to more than 800 in six years. And an online scheduler, where players can sign up for pickleball play across the city, has more than 560 users.
Though a favorite with seniors, the sport is now attracting younger players in their 20s and 30s, says Bob, who is helping more young men and women pick out paddles these days.
But tennis is still king at the small store, at 3119 O St., which began in 1988 to serve the growing tennis community. The nearby Woods Park had no indoor courts — just a shack and a half dozen outdoor courts — when Ron quit his probation officer job and opened the Racquet Corner.
Ron put a racket in the stringing machine to make it look like the new specialty store was busy, says Bob. It wasn’t.
But the store has grown in popularity and now employs Matt Westfall, a pro at Woods Tennis Center who strings between 4,000 and 5,000 rackets a year and takes care of the needs of the University of Nebraska's men's and women’s tennis teams.
Bob, a pharmaceutical salesman for 31 years, retired in 1986 and has volunteered at his son’s store since it opened. Bob's wife, Mary Ann, who died six years ago, came up with the store's name.
And the business is still a family activity. Rebecca, Ron’s wife, does the books. Granddaughter Emily Schultz does special projects, like spruce up the clothing area.
Bob's sales background is still charming customers, giving good advice about which paddles (or rackets) might work best for someone who wants a lighter weight, or the ability to put a spin on the ball, or have better control over the ball.
The Racquet Corner is able to compete with the big box sports stores by knowing their products and giving a little extra. You can try tennis rackets or a pickleball paddles for several days before making a final decision.
Bob walks out of the back room when he hears pickleball conversation in the main area of the store, ready to join the conversation and show off a few paddles.
He will show you how the paddles are constructed. You can try out handle sizes for both tennis and pickleball. He’ll help find the right footwear for your foot and sport.
Many high school tennis coaches across the state send players to the Racquet Corner for help on selecting rackets. And Bill Roehrs, a state pickleball ambassador who has introduced thousands of Lincolnites to pickleball, sends beginning students to Bob and Ron.
During the coronavirus pandemic, the American factories where pickleball paddles are made closed. No one was even taking orders, and indoor courts were closed, Ron says.
But he kept the store open at reduced hours. And Bob masked up and showed up for the regular customers.
As the pandemic continued, people figured out that it was safest to be outside. Tennis and pickleball players returned to the courts and last year Racquet Corner's sales were 25% above their previous best year, proving that the small store in central Lincoln can continue to compete with the big-box retailers.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has launched a new Ambassadors Initiative, which pairs seasoned OLLI members with new members seeking more information.
Bob Schultz, left, volunteers at his son Ron's store, Racquet Corner. The business opened in 1988 and takes pride in helping customers find just the right racket, paddle, ball or shoe.
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After a long day of throwing bales on the family farm near Lyons in the late 1960s, Dennis Kempke found a reprieve from the oppressive summer heat inside a barbershop.
Little did the teenager know what else he’d find there.
“My dad made me get a haircut, and I walked into the air conditioning and said, ‘This beats the hell out of farming,’” he said with a laugh. “I liked it. I’ve done it for 50 years, so I better like it.”
The decision Kempke made that day became a career that’s now stretched more than a half-century in south Lincoln. He got his start at Lincoln Barber College in 1970, graduated in 1971 and celebrated half-a-century of cutting hair last year.
And he’s still at it at the age of 69, cutting hair for 30 to 35 clients — most of whom he’s seen for decades — at Salon K near 14th Street and Pine Lake Road. The shop is owned by Kristy Thieler, who worked for Kempke for nine years before setting out on her own.
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The opportunity to once again work with her mentor — and share his expertise with her staff — was too much to pass up, she said.
“He taught me everything I know, so it was easy,” Thieler said. “... When I left and started my own shop, I had a system from him.”
Kempke’s system has been pretty standard since he first started cutting hair in Indian Village in 1971. Though he no longer keeps books by hand, which he picked up from the wife of his first business partner, he maintains old-fashioned customer service and conversation are a critical part of succeeding in the industry.
By this point, he’s known his clients long enough to know what to talk about when they’re in his chair.
“You can only talk about hair so long,” Kempke said, “so you talk about kids, grandkids, Nebraska football.”
Any visit — whether to his former shop, Barbers on Arapahoe, or at Thieler’s Salon K — begins with one simple word: “Hello.”
That simple level of customer service has long been a hallmark of Kempke’s business, and it’s made the trip to his new workplace. Thieler said she impresses this lesson she learned from him years ago upon her newest barbers, stylists and aestheticians to this day.
“I love the fact that all the people who didn’t get to learn from him get to see him,” Thieler said. “... They get to learn customer service. Doesn’t matter if they get 10 hellos — every client should be told hello.”
Beyond the old-school customer service he brings to his barber’s chair, Kempke has also been in the business long enough to see styles come full circle.
“I’ve seen a ton of styles, and they’re all stupid,” Kempke said. “Back in the ‘90s, when kids wanted bowl cuts, I thought that was the ugliest style. When you’ve been doing this for 50 years, you’ve seen a lot of things.”
Amid all the changing styles, however, at least one of his longest-tenured clients has changed his hair very little.
Virgil Haase first started coming to Kempke for haircuts in 1975, when he was attending Northeast High School. Haase wanted long hair, but he needed it short in the front so that he could see to play football.
The obvious solution? A mullet, which Haase still wears today.
Forty-seven years later, Kempke is still using almost the exact same approach for Haase’s hair — something Haase said other barbers he’s visited couldn’t replicate, particularly how he blends the sides.
“I like how he cuts my hair,” Haase said. “He’s good people, and I’ve never had a problem.”
Kempke said that the 30 to 35 clients he keeps — most of whom he’s known for ages — make him enjoy coming into work when most barbers his age have retired.
Even at his age, the ability to talk with his clients and do what he loves — still in the air conditioning — keeps him cutting hair more than 50 years after he got his start.
Kempke said he has no plans to slow down, though he might find time to sneak in a few more rounds of golf in the future.
“They say, ‘Who do I go to to cut my hair after 40, 50 years?” he said. “... I’ll probably do this more.”
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North Little Rock police are asking for help in finding 13-year-old Madisyn Green, who was last seen on May 7 around 3:20 p.m.
Green is described as being roughly 5'7" with black and brown dreadlocks. The teen was last seen wearing brown shorts, but an unknown colored shirt.
She was reportedly last seen in the 7600 block of Vestal Blvd on Saturday, and authorities encourage you to contact them if you have any information on Green's location.
You can reach NLRPD at 501-758-1234.
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Emily Anthony’s twin daughters, Aurora and Astrid, were born nine weeks early. During the sleepless nights and busy days after they came home from the neonatal intensive care unit, she had a mantra.
“I would always tell them, ‘Even my worst day with you is better than my best day without you,’” she said. “That’s what helped me get through so many of the hard moments when they were both awake in the middle of the night and not sleeping, or they’d be sick.
“I love everything about being a mom so much. It’s definitely the best thing I’ve ever done.”
Sunday marks Mother’s Day, a century-old annual tradition in the U.S. set aside to honor the hard work, dedication and responsibilities mothers shoulder each day. Although the Philadelphia transplant often credited with creating Mother’s Day, Anna Jarvis, fought against the holiday’s commercialism, the tradition still remains embedded. Lehigh Valley mothers said they’ll be celebrating with family and holding their children especially close.
A single mom by choice, Anthony, 36, of Salisbury Township, adopted the girls in 2020 after fostering them for two years.
“I felt like, well, if I can’t have my own children, and I have my own home, I have a spare bedroom and I have all this love to give, at least maybe I can support some other mothers who are going through a really difficult time, and open my home to their children and help them while they’re going through their crisis,” she said. “My goal was to help moms and be able to reunify their children with them. But, we all know that foster care is very unpredictable.”
The twins were her first placement, she said, adding “I got to become their mom forever.”
Jodi Wieand and her husband in March adopted their two boys after fostering the siblings for more than four years. She hopes she and her sons, 6 and 8, “can just stay home and spend the whole day together.”
Motherhood for foster and foster-to-adopt moms is a unique experience, “because you will always share these boys with their biological mother,” said Wieand, 44, of Lehighton.
“That might not be physically. It might not be in an actual relationship where the boys get to see her,” she said. “But, you will always share, because their mind and their heart is always going to be between two spots, even if they were coming from a situation that was less than ideal.”
And, although she admits she’s biased, Wieand said they’re “the most heartwarming and most genuine little boys I’ve ever met.”
“People say a lot, ‘They’re lucky to be with you guys,’” she said. “No, no, no, no — they’re not lucky. If they were lucky, they would be where they were supposed to be always. They are in an unfortunate circumstance, and we’re the ones that are lucky.
“We’re the ones that are lucky to know them and to love them.”
For Kimberly Levitt, this weekend will mark her and her wife’s first Mother’s Day with their daughter, Ellie, who was born in November.
Levitt, 30, and her wife, Catherine, of Allentown, got married in 2019, knowing they wanted children.
“Our journey obviously looks a little bit different,” she said, explaining the process of in vitro fertilization, or IVF, at a LGBT-friendly fertility clinic. " … And I got pregnant on the first try.”
Asked what it’s like being a new mom, Levitt said it’s hard to put into words.
“Sometimes, I just start crying randomly, because it’s something that we’ve wished for and wanted for a long time. And being in the same-sex relationship, things aren’t as easy or straightforward,” she said. “Now that she’s finally here, and she’s healthy and beautiful, and she has a little personality now — it’s better than whatever we imagined.”
Tuesday was a special day for Holly Varner and her family, who adopted their 8-year-old daughter after she spent more than 750 days as a foster.
Varner, 42, of Mohrsville, Berks County, is on what she calls her “second wave” of children. In the two years since she and her husband became foster parents, nine children have been placed with them. They have two biological children, ages 21 and 17, as well as a long-term placement for an 11 and 10-year-old.
Parenting the second time around is different, she said.
“I’ve done intensive training. I think training is really important for foster parents,” she said. “The standard American child does not come with an [instruction] book, and foster kids who have lived through trauma definitely don’t come with a book. You got to see behind things that they’re doing to try to find out why they’re really doing it. It’s like decoding a child every day. So, it definitely changed my parenting a lot.”
Similarly, Maria Bermudez already raised three children with her husband before starting to foster.
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“We did not know what we were getting ourselves into — as far as the need, it was big,” said Bermudez, 51, of Allentown. “We went from one foster kid to five foster kids.”
In December 2019, the couple adopted Anaveah Daisy, a little girl they’d been fostering since she was 4 months old. During the legal process, her biological children supported her wholeheartedly.
“They all looked at me and they said, ‘Mom, I know you’re going to fight for her. I know you’re not gonna let her go that easy,’” she said. “And, for me, I was fighting for my own child. I didn’t see her as a foster child. I didn’t see her as, you know, just a little girl that I’m just holding on to for a couple of months.
“No, I was fighting for what was mine. So, we were all willing to come in full force and fight for her.”
Anthony said it was a privilege to raise her daughters, adding she doesn’t take the responsibility lightly.
“I will absolutely always do whatever I can to make sure they have the best life possible and that they always know just how much they’re loved,” she said. “And that they have the best chances in life, because that’s all you can do as a parent, whether your kid is adopted or your biological child.”
Morning Call reporter Molly Bilinski can be reached at mbilinski@mcall.com.
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Taunton man signs with Cleveland Browns; Berkley painting business is booming: Top stories
Before we begin the new week in earnest, we're taking a look back at the week that was, and the stories that led the news with Taunton Daily Gazette readers.
Our top story this past week was about Marcus Santos-Silva, and how he's not only switching sports, but going to the big-time: he's signed an NFL contract with the Cleveland Browns.
Other top stories included:
A look at how the Bristol County District Attorney's Office is on a mission to test the more than 1,000 rape kits that have sat untested for years in the state's crime lab. They potentially contain evidence that can help solve violent crimes committed the county.
The old Lakeville State Hospital is slated to be demolished, but there is some hope that a part of it can be saved: the Children's Ward, built in 1930, has a storybook façade that some are trying to save. Here's the history behind that façade.
Parking in downtown Taunton: is there enough of it? And how will the Union Block project affect parking in the downtown area?
These were the Top 5 stories of the past week, according to Gazette readers:
Taunton native signs with the Cleveland Browns
Marcus Santos-Silva, of Taunton, who played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University from 2017 to 2020 and Texas Tech for the past two years, has changed sports to pro football.
He recently signed an NFL contract with the Cleveland Browns.
It won't be his first time on the gridiron: he also played youth football in Taunton.
Change of heart:Taunton native signs with the Cleveland Browns
Berkley painter has a booming business
For Berkley resident Maria Viveiros Ferreira, owner of Everlasting Charm Cabinetry & Furniture Refinishing, it all began with some chalk paint.
She began by restoring an older piece of furniture, and soon enough, she was refinishing more pieces for sale.
When a friend asked her if she also did kitchen cabinets, Ferreira was in business.
Booked and busy:Her friend asked for a cabinet refresh. Now, this Berkley painter has a booming business.
Taunton home with river sunset views flipped, resold for almost double
The local real estate market is also as booming as ever.
A home off East Water Street near the Taunton River was scooped up last summer, packed with upgrades like new flooring, electrical, plumbing, and new granite countertops, and resold for almost double less than nine months later.
Real estate report:Taunton home with river sunset views flipped, resold for almost double
Ponies rescued from Berkley horse farm, owner charged with animal cruelty
The Animal Rescue League has charged a Berkley horse breeder with 13 counts of animal cruelty following its investigation with Berkley Police and the Massachusetts Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Investigators rescued nine ponies and found three dead ponies and a dead horse at the farm, Animal Rescue League Lt. Alan Borgal said Tuesday.
Raynham church builds beds for kids in need
Volunteers led by the ninth-grade confirmation class at St. Ann’s Church in Raynham recently teamed up with A Bed For Every Child, part of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, for a Build A Bed team-build, adding 30 new beds to that lofty goal of “every child.”
Joan Lynn, director of religious education at St. Ann’s, says the effort began with St. Ann’s Faith Formation program as a service and fundraising project but grew to become a parish-wide volunteer effort.
'They’ll know they are cared for':Raynham church builds beds for kids in need
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Michelle Jurgenson brings a little bit of sunshine wherever she’s planted, always ready to help with a smile. Michelle was chosen as Non-Clinical Employee of the Month for March in part because of that helpful attitude.
“Michelle is being nominated because of the caring and positive attitude she has every day,” stated her nomination. “She strives to make admitting as efficient and smooth as possible in a compassionate manner and to ensure accuracy as well as understanding with each and every patient.”
“She takes time with each patient, giving them her undivided attention in order for them to feel comfortable and confident in their care while at SCHHC,” the nomination concluded.
Michelle has been a Patient Access Specialist III in the Patient Access Services/Admitting Department since September 2020. She has been an employee since October 2017 and initially started in the front office of the Primary Care Clinic.
Michelle grew up in Piñon Hills in San Bernardino County, Calif., where she met her future husband Trevor Jurgenson while they were both in elementary school. They’ve been dating since high school. Trevor is the Information Technology Manager and Security Officer for SCHHC. The couple has one daughter, Rylee, 7.
Michelle and Trevor came to Bandon in 2006. Trevor was encouraged to attend school in the area by his mother, Edie Jurgenson, who worked for 17 years at SCHHC as a nurse and later served as a Southern Coos Health District Board Member, and his father Dennis Jurgenson, who worked as an engineer for SCHHC, eventually becoming the manager in that department. Both are now retired. Trevor attained his IT degree at Southwestern Oregon Community College and began interning at SCHHC.
Michelle worked as office manager for Dr. Megan Holland’s private practice in Bandon for five years, then worked as a pharmacy tech at Tiffany’s Drugs before coming to work at the hospital.
She and Trevor moved back to California for a while after Michelle’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, where they both worked for the same school district and Michelle helped care for her mother. The family moved back to Bandon with Michelle’s mother when she was in remission; she eventually passed from the disease.
Michelle likes her job and her co-workers at SCHHC, but especially loves problem-solving for patients. A Patient Access Specialist is often the first person people will see when they come to the hospital, whether at the main entrance or the Emergency Department. The six-person Patient Access team at SCHHC handles the scheduling, preregistration, registration, check in, prior authorization, referrals, and switchboard functions that enable patients to access the care they need.
“I have great co-workers,” she said. “I like helping patients when they’re confused about things. I also like following up with doctor’s orders to make sure the codes are accurate because it could mean hundreds of dollars to a patient.”
“I love working here,” she added. “I have fun.”
When she’s not at work, Michelle likes to spend time with Rylee, helping her with softball and dance or going to the park. The whole family loves to play board and card games and does so almost nightly. She loves “just being a mom.”
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Five questions with ... North Canton children's librarian Jamie Macris
Jamie Macris, who has lived and worked in North Canton for more than 21 years, serves as the head of the Children's Department at the North Canton Public Library.
She was raised in Plain Township by her two parents, Jim and Doreen Doud, along with three "amazing sisters:" DeAnn, Sondra and Tracey.
"I graduated from GlenOak High School in 1996 and graduated with a B.A. in English from Kent State University in 2000," Macris said. "In 2000, I also married my high school sweetheart, George Macris. Our daughter, Kori, was born in 2006 and is now a sophomore at Hoover High School."
Macris has always loved dogs and currently has three: Leia, Jovie and Milo. Her first job was at Music Oasis as a high school student where she said, "I spent most of my paychecks." She later worked seasonally at B. Dalton bookstore and at Akron Porcelain and Plastics.
After she graduated from college, Jamie applied for a position at the North Canton Public Library and soon after became a library associate in the Children's Department. In 2011, she was promoted to head the department.
Why did you want to be a children’s librarian?
I always wanted to work with books in some way or another. I started to really love to read around fifth grade, thanks to the "Baby-Sitters Club" series, and I would spend all of my extra time reading, even if that meant bringing a book to my sister's marching band halftime shows.
I loved long car trips because that meant new books!
I had no doubt when I entered college that working on my English literature degree would be the best fit for me. I also had a wonderful experience in college volunteering at a local Head Start program in a preschool where I learned I really liked working with children. Working at the library in the Children's Department was a perfect opportunity.
What are some of your favorite children’s books and why?
Some of my favorite children's books from my childhood included "Little Critter" books and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. The illustrations are wonderful.
Later, I loved "Baby-Sitters Club," probably because there are many personalities portrayed in the series and I felt a connection with the shy Mary-Anne.
Once I had my own daughter, I fell in love with Mo Willem's "Piggie and Elephant" beginner books. They are so fun to read together with your child! As someone who loves to see kids find the joy of reading, I love "Dog-Man," "Narwhal and Jelly" books, Harry Potter, poems by Shel Silverstein, and so much more.
Would you share some of your other favorite pastimes (besides reading)?
I am a story addict. So, obviously, reading is one way I really enjoy spending my time, but I also love watching movies and TV shows and I can binge watch with the best of them.
I also play video games, board games, and love any chance to play card games, especially Nertz or euchre. Family game night is a regular occurrence at my house. I am lucky to have close friends who I enjoy going on weekend trips with and, of course, I love hanging out with my husband and daughter.
With all of the technology around today, do you believe that reading is still enjoyed as much by children, teens and adults?
There is a lot of technology around, but I don't feel like it necessarily detracts from the enjoyment of reading. In fact, I really enjoy listening to an audiobook while I clean up around the house or having my recent book on my phone so I can read it anywhere.
I believe that reading is still very much enjoyed by many children, teens, and adults. I see children come through the doors of the library every day, excited to search the shelves for something special to read.
It is heartwarming to help a parent search for a book they read as a child that they now want to share with their own children because it meant so much to them. I think that books offer a way into understanding one's self and learning about the world outside of your own experiences, which I think can be especially intriguing to teens.
For everyone, reading is so important because it can offer you new worlds and knowledge.
Would you give a few suggestions for parents who want to encourage their children to read more?
Make reading part of your day together. Read a board book to your infant after bath time and before bed, creating that comfortable routine that could last years.
While you are on an errand run, play early literacy games with your preschooler, like repeating nursery rhymes or take turns saying rhyming words together. If your child is under 5 years old, sign up for the Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and a new book will be mailed to them every month!
With your older children, take 20 minutes to sit down together as a family to read a chapter of a book each night or listen to a chapter from an audiobook while dropping them off to school or practice.
Show them that you enjoy reading by taking time to read something yourself. Bring them to the library and let them pick out something they are interested in. I promise that re-reading something is fine and that reading graphic novels is really reading.
To sign up for Stark's Dolly Parton's Imagination Library visit: https://starklibrary.org/home/services/imagination-library/.
Editor's note: Five questions with ... is a Sunday feature that showcases a member of the Stark County community. If you'd like to recommend someone to participate, send an email to newsroom@cantonrep.com.
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Shine on you crazy diamond: Ode to the man who kept Munson Stadium grounds immaculate
CANTON — Sept. 11, 2004 was a strange night in the history of Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium.
The City of Canton was exploring possible uses for the then-15-year-old ballpark that had lost its minor-league baseball team.
Rock group Bowling For Soup came in for a Saturday concert. The night began with Hulk Hogan introducing the warmup act, his daughter, singer Brooke Hogan.
The stage was on the baseball diamond, but field access, priced at a premium, had not sold as well as grandstand seats. When Bowling For Soup came on, someone from the band announced, "You people up there ... get on down here!" They didn't have to be asked twice. The field was wall-to-wall revelers by the time the band played its hit, "1985.".
"It wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't rained the night before," Kevan Lindsey said.
Lindsay didn't know Bartolo Colon from Antonio Banderas when he first worked at Munson Stadium.
He grew up on Canton's northeast side and matriculated through Timken High School caring little for baseball. His first job with the Canton Recreation Department was picking rocks off the Willig Park softball fields.
As Lindsey's responsibilities grew to include working on Shanafelt, Cook and other Canton fields, he began to enjoy making a diamond shine. Eventually he became known as the groundskeeper who kept the Munson Stadium field pristine.
Colon and Richie Sexson were hot baseball prospects when Lindsey first showed up in 1995, Munson Stadium's seventh season, near the end of Canton's run as Cleveland's Class AA farm affiliate.
The minor league team's players were controlled by Cleveland, but the franchise was owned separately by an East Coast carpetbagger named Mike Agganis. Agganis had talked Akron into building him a stadium where he could increase his profits.
"Agganis had a groundskeeper who he paid," Lindsey said. "That groundskeeper would call and ask the Recreation Department to send somebody down to help him at Munson. We'd go down.
"The groundskeeper would be in an office in a suit and tie, making sales calls. We asked, 'Why are you doing this?' He said, 'They're making me.'"
Before long, Lindsey became de facto head groundskeeper as the lame-duck minor league team played on.
"Agganis would hire groundskeepers and they wouldn't last a year," Lindsey said. "He wasn't my boss. I was paid by the Recreation Department."
Since Agganis was breaking a 10-year lease by bolting after eight seasons, he had to pay Canton a settlement. Canton used the money to redo the Munson field.
Amid hurry-up construction in 1988 and '89, the outfield was graded improperly, leading to drainage and sight-line problems. Over time, a sink-hole affect was such that the center fielder, in some spots, couldn't see the entire body of the man standing in the batter's box.
Distrusting Agganis, Canton used its own people to take over field upkeep while the Double-A team played out the string. When the city billed Agganis for its services, Agganis sued.
"I had one interaction with Agganis," Lindsey said. "One time he told me, 'I'm supposed to be paying the city for a professional groundskeeper, and you are not a professional groundskeeper. You're not even here full-time because you have other duties with the city.
"So I'm suing the city to not pay you. Everyone thinks you're doing a wonderful job, and we have no complaints. It's about money, and if I can get out of paying for you, I will. No hard feelings.'"
Bob Patt was a City of Canton administrator who dealt with Agganis during the minor league team's eight-year run. Patt got involved with redoing the field, working with Murray Cook, a groundskeeper linked the the Gateway project that installed the field first used in 1994 by Cleveland at Jacobs Field.
Murray became part of the team that redid the Munson Stadium field. Along the way, Lindsey got a major-league education. He was turned loose to maintain the redone field at Munson.
"Kevan became the epitome of a groundskeeper," Patt said. "He was so good at it."
Everybody raved about the Munson field. Everybody knew the field guy was Kevan. Probably, more people knew his nickname, "The Field Nazi," than knew his last name.
He was protective of that diamond, before and after Bowling For Soup night, which stands as the stadium's only concert..
Lindsey didn't do it alone, except for when he did as the maintenance budget shrank. For 10 years, the Ohio Men's Senior Baseball League maintained the field, often using Lindsey.
A second field was added at Munson in 2014. This year, both fields were covered with artificial turf. No groundskeeper is needed to maintain the grass.
"I spent a lot of time down there," said Lindsey, still employed by the Canton Recreation Department with duties away from Munson. "It was sort of like meditation ... concentrating on one field ... nice green grass.
"It was like home."
Reach Steve at steve.doerschuk@cantonrep.com
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Chattering crowd, clean look, baseball players everywhere. Munson Stadium comes to life.
CANTON — "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," goes the lament line in a classic Joni Mitchell song.
"They put a baseball field on top of a parking lot," goes a thump in the heartbeat of a Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium revival.
Upwards of 300 baseball games a year are imagined on Munson Stadium's two all-weather fields, the eye candy of a $5 million renovation.
A schedule heavy with games is not new, but artificial turf on the infields and outfields is.
The primary users at this point are McKinley High School and the Ohio Men's Senior Baseball League. The main field has been in place since the stadium opened in 1989. A second field, to be named after the late Hank Miller, was installed in 2014 on what used to be a parking lot behind right field.
Before Munson was a famous big-leaguer, he played against McKinley when Miller was the Bulldogs' head coach. McKinley's current coach, Zak Zelmer, describes having the refurbished ballpark as the team's home as "beyond our wildest dreams."
"There's a mystique, starting with who the stadium is named after," Zelmer said. "Jim Thome stood in the batter's box here. Right now I'm in the same clubhouse where Joe Charboneau sat when he was with the Canton Crocodiles."
The stadium was built on top of two softball fields that were part of Bauhof Park, next to a part of the Nimishillen Creek where Canton's southern border flows into Canton Township.
The view from the 5,500-seat grandstand — a grassy field flowing to I-77 traffic behind left field, an industrial building behind center field, houses on Allen Avenue behind right field — hasn't changed. It is a plain, out-of-the-way setting.
Originally, Stark County Regional Planning Commission visionaries Jim Holl and Ray Fete pushed to build stadium downtown. Those two traveled to minor league stadiums, talked to Major League executives, proposed a location flanked by Bender's restaurant and the Canton Repository, enlisted an architect to draw up a ballpark, and got a chilly reception.
Their voices had much to do with the fact any stadium got built.
Tom Bernabei, Canton's mayor since 2016, was assistant city law director when Munson Stadium went up.
"It's hindsight, but think what a downtown site has brought to Akron,," Bernabei said. "Of course you wish we had had more time to have done so, but they spent $31 million to build Canal Park."
Munson Stadium cost $2.2 million.
"To build something in the $30 million range," Bernabei said, "was something the city couldn't have afforded, although in hindsight when you look at the potential for downtown economic development and a cornerstone anchor, it would have been a great thing to have happened.
"It was on a short time notice. The city had 18 months to go from concept to completion."
Canton's minor league team bolted to Akron in 1997. The current renovation is intended to keep Munson Stadium viable, for whatever baseball games and other events land there, through 2057 and beyond.
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The stadium was alive one recent Tuesday. The parking lot was fairly full. On the newer field, workers were on their knees installing artificial turf.
A McKinley vs. Lake game finished up on the main field, the one surrounded by the grandstand. Malone and Walsh players watched and waited for their college game.
The crowd, not close to 1,000 let alone 5,500, nonetheless chattered up an atmosphere.
Lake made a sunset charge. A 4-0 McKinley lead began to melt in the seventh inning. Blue Streak batters Gavin Swope and Mason Champagne drove flies that got legs as they rolled on the artificial turf, all the way to the deep left-field fence.
When the Bulldogs and Blue Streaks cleaned out the dugouts, the Pioneers and Cavaliers moved in. Champagne was still aglow as he enjoyed a win and the stadium atmosphere.
"What they've done to this place is amazing," he said.
America is not full of amateur baseball parks with a big grandstand, arrays of rooms underneath, suites, a press box, and a shining red barn ringing with batting practice smacks.
Lake head coach Joe Anderson was a little boy in Green when Cleveland's farm affiliate was in Canton. He remembers watching his dad play at Munson in a Roy Hobbs league.
"This is one of the greatest places to play a high school game," Anderson said.
Malone pitcher Danny Miller watched some of the high school game from the grandstand before heading down for a college game under the lights.
"I never saw a game from the stands when I was in high school, playing for McKinley," Miller said. "You were looking up at the stands. It was weird sitting up there looking down.
"The new turf is great. Nothing can beat it with the kind of weather we have. The stadium looks a lot cleaner with it.
"This place grows on you. I love it."
Munson Stadium is a second home to Tom Crank. He has gone there for decades as a spectator, player and coach. He was there on this Tuesday as Malone's head coach.
"I'll never forget coming to the first game here in 1989," he said. "Deion Sanders led off the game with a hit for Albany-Colonie. Then he got thrown out trying to steal by the Canton catcher, Tom Magrann.
"It was funny. I met Deion Sanders when he was in town for his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I brought up that game at Munson Stadium. He said, 'That place is still there?'"
Alive and kicking.
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At first, Alexandria Garner was just tired.
The Shannon native, 27, had given birth to her second daughter, Charleigh. For the first three months afterward, Garner was mostly sleep deprived from having to constantly pump breast milk. She brushed off her exhaustion as the normal “baby blues.”
The turning point came on suddenly. One day, while she and her husband were driving home after visiting her family, Garner felt as if she just couldn’t do it anymore. Any of it.
“I just had the strong urge to jump out of the car and jump off a bridge because it was just that terrible at that time,” Garner said.
Roughly three months post birth, Garner learned she was experiencing postpartum depression. Despite the severity, however, her first thought wasn’t to seek therapy. She had already been cut off from her postpartum Medicaid, meaning she was uninsured and could no longer afford to do so.
In Mississippi, the current postpartum Medicaid policy only offers 60 days of coverage, leaving very little wiggle room for new mothers to seek treatment before having to pay hefty out-of-pocket expenses. During the 2022 legislative session, the Senate passed a bill to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage to a full year, but it died in the House.
With the future of similar postpartum legislation uncertain, two family advocates and two mothers who’ve received postpartum Medicaid shared the potential need and impact of extending the period of coverage.
Not enough time
Patricia Miles, 27, was disappointed when postpartum Medicaid coverage wasn’t extended for a year. She knows firsthand how important treatment can be for mothers experiencing severe medical anomalies following birth.
“I think it’s a huge disservice to women in general,” Miles, an Alabama native who now lives in Tupelo, said of the legislation’s failure to pass the House.
The mother of five’s most extreme postpartum experience occurred nine days after the birth of her second child. It started as a stomachache. Within a half-hour, Miles turned blue and was shaking. Her husband rushed her to the hospital, where she learned she had gone into septic shock. She stayed in the hospital for five days.
After giving birth at the end of March, Miles already feels like she’s on the clock to squeeze in necessary postpartum care. Because of previous issues, her top priority is pelvic floor therapy. With about one visit per week for eight weeks, however, she has to move quickly to fit in all her planned appointments before the 60 day cutoff.
“Pretty much, I would have to start it the same week I had the baby for Medicaid to cover it all the way through,” Miles said.
However, Miles said she won’t be able to begin therapy for a couple more weeks, since she won't have a doctor's referral until after her six-week postpartum checkup.
Miles, who has managed her mental health her whole life, spoke with a doctor when she noticed her postpartum depression a few weeks after giving birth. Medicaid is currently covering medication to treat it. However, she knows others aren’t as experienced in recognizing when they need help.
“A woman could be six, eight months postpartum when she develops it and wouldn’t be able to get the help she needed because of not having insurance anymore,” Miles said. “I see that as a huge impact.”
Filling the gap
Sisters Lauren Jones and LaShay Melton co-founded the nonprofit Mom.ME in 2017 to assist underserved mothers who can't afford therapy or other resources to deal with postpartum issues. Jones had her own experience with postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum OCD and postpartum PTSD. Melton didn’t know what was happening at first, but the sisters used that experience to learn more about postpartum, researching other southern states.
“We were just seeing that they were doing screenings for the moms early, prenatal screenings and postpartum screenings, they were catching it quicker,” Melton said of what other states were doing. “We looked to say, why isn’t Mississippi doing this same exact screening to be able to catch these moms earlier?”
States like Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina have already implemented a 12-month extension, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation Medicaid postpartum coverage extension tracker. Alabama and Florida are planning to implement a 12-month extension, and Georgia provides cover for a period limited to six months.
The 2021 Florida Legislature approved the program, according to the Florida Phoenix. In April 2022, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law the General Fund budget to include $4 million to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage, according to AL.com.
A large part of Mom.Me’s mission is helping mothers with therapy costs. The organization, which is based out of Jackson but helps mothers statewide, tries to provide at least six weeks of therapy for new mothers. They provide therapy to about 75 to 100 moms a year; another 400 to 500 take advantage of the peer support groups, where they come and go as needed.
The organization also provides some financial assistance, having set aside a small budget to help with bills or temporary shelter, and have provided diapers and car seats.
If Medicaid coverage was extended, however, they could expand the therapeutic program for longer, and their mothers could continue prioritizing their health.
“If you’re not going to expand Medicaid, at least give these moms a year with the postpartum bill to at least have some kind of insurance to kind of make sure that their medical needs are met during that time frame,” Melton said.
Don’t have choices
This is the second consecutive year House leaders have let a postpartum Medicaid bill die on the legislative calendar, despite health care leaders largely endorsing the proposal.
Mississippi has the highest infant mortality rate in the nation. Between 2013 and 2016, there were 136 Mississippi mothers who died either during pregnancy or within one year of their pregnancy's end, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health. Of those deaths, 86% of them occurred postpartum. Offering medical care and insurance coverage for one year postpartum could improve health outcomes, according to a maternal mortality report from the Mississippi State Department of Health.
“There’s obviously a disconnect between what the data is saying and what our legislative body is choosing,” said Toni Hill, a community midwife and activist for Black families around birth equity.
Hill has long advocated for more resources for families who receive Medicaid. Medicaid doesn’t cover midwives or most doula services. Within her role, Hill regularly checks in on those she serves, ensuring they’re not battling any issues.
“These Medicaid mothers, they deserve that,” Hill said. “In a state where we don’t have nurse family partnership or home visiting programs across the board, we’re not taking care of mothers, period. We’re just taking care of their babies, and their babies, (only while) in their uterus.”
Once the 60 days of postpartum Medicaid coverage passes, mothers in Mississippi have limited choices, Hill said.
Garner and her husband fell into the gap of making too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to cover medical expenses on their own.
“They gave it to my kids, which I’m grateful for,” Garner said. “I’d rather them have it, but we take care of them. If something happens to us, we still need it.”
When Garner finally asked for help, she reached out to Hill, her midwife, who saw that her daughter had tongue-tie, which was causing nursing issues. After addressing it, things gradually improved.
Within her role as a community activist, Hill looks toward basic needs, like monitoring blood pressure, providing diapers, offering low-cost services and occasionally providing preventative care, such as pap smears.
Not having insurance can be a barrier for mothers to find providers who will see them, or they may opt to go to the emergency room and risk a longer wait and a significantly larger bill.
Care is not accessible, Hill said. While there are free clinics, they can become overcrowded. Medicaid would help soften the blow for those clinics, Hill said.
Even though Mom.ME tries to connect lower-income mothers to resources, they see a lot are sacrificing simple things, Melton said.
For some, that’s picking between formula and diapers. Others have lived in shelters or with family members because they couldn’t afford rent, or can’t work because they can’t afford daycare.
Facing these challenges, many mothers put personal health care at the bottom of their priorities.
“I think it will always be something that falls through the gap if they don’t have the insurance because as parents,” Melton said. “What we do: We figure it out.”
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TUPELO • Like she does most every evening, Leslie Mart unlatches the gate in her backyard and walks a stone path to her mother's back door.
Mart, 57, opens the door to greet her dog, Ranger, who had joined Mimi VanDevender, 79, and her two dogs, Furby and Pepper, that morning.
For years, Mart and her mother have lived in back-to-back houses in the Joyner neighborhood and have shared an adjoining fence. Both natives of Cleveland, Ohio, Mart and VanDevender each lived in Florida before finding their way to Tupelo.
Mart had a 30-year head start on her mother. She moved to the All-America City in 1985 and VanDevender followed in 2015.
Since then, Mart and VanDevender have had dinner together nearly every night, save for those times when work or a prior engagement interfere.
VanDevender usually has dinner ready by the time her daughter gets home from work. Cooking has always been a passion for VanDevender; the kitchen is her favorite room in the house.
"My husband always said I would be the happiest person if he could put a bed in the kitchen," VanDevender says. "Because that's where I spend most of my time."
While she doesn't sleep in her kitchen, these days VanDevender has a computer on her kitchen island, which she uses to research new recipes, shop online with her daughter or search for answers to off-the-wall questions like "What is the proper way to boil an egg?"
The mother-daughter duo consider themselves food adventurers, always trying new recipes. And VanDevender has a knack for turning leftovers into an ingredient for another new meal, Mart says.
They also have food tastings, like when Mart bought six or seven varieties of mushrooms that they cooked, each picking their favorite.
While VanDevender does most of the grocery shopping, the two keep a running tab in a notebook and split the cost evenly.
They've shared nightly meals since 2015, but their time together — and proximity to one another — became even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We're so close, we're able to have our own family bubble," Mart says.
Throughout much of the first two years of the pandemic, VanDevender's best friend, Francine McGovern, who also lives nearby, also joined them. The three of them still have game nights every Saturday.
Living next door to one another while maintaining their independence is, as Mart describes it, "the best of both worlds.”
"We're close enough that we could share internet," she says.
Besides sharing meals, the women share plenty of similar interests. Both are active at Temple B'nai Israel, where Mart serves as president and VanDevender is the sisterhood president. They're both past presidents of the Joyner Neighborhood Association.
The most enjoyable part of their dinners, VanDevender says, is simply being together.
Mart left home at 16, so the two hadn't lived in the same city for years. Now that Mart is an adult, their bond feels more like a friendship than a typical mother-daughter relationship.
"We had a tumultuous relationship. As a young person, I was a challenge," Mart says. "It wasn't really until I had my own child that our relationship developed into one of respect and appreciation."
Since moving to Tupelo seven years ago, VanDevender's relationship with Mart has blossomed and developed beyond what either would've imagined.
"It's easy," VanDevender says. "We see each other for an hour or so and she goes home, and I'm fine. If I need her, she's here. We don't get on each other's nerves."
"We take care of each other," Mart says. "She takes care of me, and I get to help take care of her."
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When I entered the work “initiative” into my computer, I got a definition. When I typed “finishative” into it, I’m told it isn’t a word. But it should be. The two words are defined as follows, initiative: the first step, the act of setting a process in motion, the ability or willingness to take the lead. Finishative: the last step, the act of completing, the willingness to take a project or mission to its logical conclusion in optimum time. Both of these are essential to character, to growth and success in an individual, and for successful community development. Too often, folks aimlessly wander through life and end up with a load of guilt and regrets because of the many things they wanted to do but never got around to start.
Others wind up with the same guilt and regrets because they had dreams, with some initiative, started many projects but never finished most of what they began.
This community can grow if our leaders will genuinely take the lead, exercise wisdom and initiative in getting work underway; if citizens involve themselves willingly to accomplish it and if all will focus on finishative. While there are many ways to promote your community, let me suggest you look at your Chamber. Are you interested in economic development, education, tourism, developing leaders, promoting local business or improving transportation to Oregon’s Bay Area?
Your Chamber has people, your friends and neighbors, working on these and more. So grab the issue important to you and come on down and join us.
In the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, we know that “A rising tide lifts all boats” and are all willing to make a difference for our families on the southern Oregon coast.
Remember our business is helping your business. And like us on Facebook.
(Timm Slater is executive director of the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce. For more information on your Chamber, email timmslater@oregonsbayarea.org.)
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Northland Prep Academy boys golf is in an unprecedented place, in legitimate contention for one of the top spot in the Division III state tournament.
The Spartans, who finished 13th last season, have what they feel is the deepest roster in team history. Currently ranked No. 5 in the division with several regular-season tournament wins behind them, the program has a feeling that something special could happen Monday and Tuesday at the final in Tucson. Even a top-10 ranking would be the best finish at the state tourney, and the Spartans are aiming for more than that.
“I truly think this is our best chance to really do something, make some noise at state,” added senior Caiden Cardiff.
Cardiff is one of just two seniors who regularly start on the varsity squad. Meanwhile, the rest are underclassmen. With a relatively young squad, it was uncertain whether Northland Prep would have a good lineup. All six players on the roster have impressed, though.
But they placed high in a competition, then another, and another. Most recently, the Spartans took third overall in the High Desert Invitational, hosted by Chino Valley, and Cardiff and junior Kendall McCain took first and second, respectively, in the individual competition.
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The level all of the players stepped up to, despite some youth, was promising early in the season.
“Seeing them at the first few practices, we knew that these young guys would help us be a good team. We felt they could push us,” junior Jacob Frate said.
The state tournament is being played at the Omni Tucson National Catalina Course in Tucson, providing great golf conditions for the participants. The Spartans, however, are more used to the cold, windy days of early spring in Flagstaff and other parts of northern Arizona.
Great weather and a dry course could prove an advantage for Northland Prep, as it will probably be the best conditions the Spartans have had at a tournament all season and give them an edge.
The lack of traditional golfing weather in Flagstaff, McCain said, has given the Spartans a bit of a mental edge.
“Nobody sees us coming. We’re the school in Flagstaff where in the winter we can’t play. We don’t have yearround golf,” he said. “That’s humbling, but it’s also motivating to be able to say that we still beat teams even with that disadvantage.”
With a young roster, the Spartans could build a foundation for the future with a solid finish in Tucson. However, the new players are out there to support the veterans in an attempt to take advantage of a chance to score high that doesn’t always present itself like Monday and Tuesday do.
“It might be the best team we’ve had here, and maybe the best we’ll ever be at NPA,” said freshman Dallin Stephens. “So it would mean everything to have a good state tournament, because we don’t know if we’ll be able to do this or the year after. It might be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
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Real History With Jeff LaHurd: John Ringling’s last wishes
Imagine waking up tomorrow, and seeing on the front page of the Sarasota Herald the notice that John Ringling’s over-the-top manse, Ca’d’Zan was going to be sold on the courthouse steps to satisfy a judgment.
Shocking would best describe it. But on Dec. 7, 1936, that is precisely what was served up to the citizens of Sarasota.
It wouldn’t happen. Ringling had died five days earlier, and his death prevented the sale. On Dec. 2, Sarasota had received the news that the Circus King had passed away at his New York City apartment. He had been ill for quite some time. The banner headline of the Sarasota Herald blared “JOHN RINGLING DIES IN NEW YORK.”
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He was 70 years old. With him at his passing were his sister, Ida North, her sons John and Henry North, his ever-present nurse, Ina Sanders, his physician, and longtime friend Frank Hennessy.
His final years had been grueling to the man whose grand developments, world-class museum and art school, circus winter quarters and storybook mansion helped put Sarasota on the map.
He toiled mightily to lay the foundation for his adopted city to enjoy a reputation as the cultural center of the Gulf Coast. What should have been the great man’s golden years were fraught with betrayals, marital strife, court actions, economic setbacks, and illness.
Every facet of his later years seemed to fall under a dark cloud. Perhaps saddest of all, control of the circus, the foundation of his and his brother’s hard-won success was wrested from him by Sam Gumpertz, a former close friend and business associate who did not even want him on the circus grounds. (As Ringling biographer David Weeks put it, Gumpertz and the Charles Ringling family “had the grace” to avoid the funeral.)
He and Owen Burns, who headed up many of Ringling’s grandiose projects as well as his own, spent a lot of time in bitter litigation. His former private secretary of many years, Richard Fuchs, turned on him with a vengeance, and penned a long diatribe laying out all of Ringling’s personal faults and questionable business dealings.
Beleaguered Ringling was also cash strapped (It was reported that he had $311 available) and many of his assets were mortgaged to the hilt.
He came to distrust those he once held dear, particularly nephew John Ringling North, whom Ringling believed sold him short on a business transaction when he was in desperate need of all the cash he could gather.
John and Mable Ringling had no children, and John and Henry Ringling North, whose father had died, were their surrogate sons. Mr. John’s brother, Charles, passed in 1926, and Charles’ wife, Edith, who was never close to John because of his condescending attitude toward her, became his adversary over control of the circus.
Ida, the only sister in the Ringling clan, was dear to him, and during the lean years of the Great Depression they offered each other assistance.
Ringling’s final will was drawn up in New York City on May 19, 1934. The document was highly anticipated by many: eager locals whom he owed small amounts for services rendered, staff. Family members and the State of Florida were waiting in the wings for their slice of the pie.
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According to Weeks, in his book “Ringling, The Florida Years 1911-1936,” the claims stretched from a paltry $3.25 owed to the Sarasota Herald, up the ladder to $13 million to the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
As Ringling family dynamics were frequently contentious, often reported in the press, some locals were just interested in seeing what the great man left and to whom. (To assuage their curiosity, the entirety of the will and its codicil was printed in the Sarasota Herald on May 5, 1937.)
Ringling’s second wife, Emily, whose antics Ringling testified at his protracted divorce action were killing him, probably was not expecting very much and he did not disappoint her. The third provision stated: “To my wife, Emily Hague (sic) Ringling, I give and bequeath the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) only.”
After stipulating that his debts and funeral expenses be paid as soon as possible after his passing, the second provision called for the museum, his home and its contents be given to the State of Florida, noting that if “they failed to accept, it shall go to the City of Sarasota.” He also ordered that the museum must always be called the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art “without power in anyone to change such name.”
Of the remainder of his estate, half was left to the trustees whom he named as John and Henry North and Randolph Wadsworth, husband of his niece, Salomé. The other half was willed to Ida.
But between May of 1934 and November of 1935 Mr. John had a dramatic change of heart. Whatever affection he once felt toward John North was replaced by antipathy based on his belief that North had swindled him in a business deal. The resentment spread to his sister and Henry.
According to Weeks, quoting Eugene Garey Ringling’s New York Attorney, “He was unquestionably angry and resentful toward John North and feared him.”
Consequently, Ringling was determined that John and Henry be stricken from his will and Ida’s bequest be limited to $5,000 per year. A codicil to that effect was quickly – too quickly – drawn up.
As he was leaving his apartment in New York, bound by train to sunny Sarasota the one place he might find surcease, he summoned Garey. As Weeks describes the scene, Ringling was set to be chauffeured to the train station with nurse Sanders when his attorney arrived.
As Garey had never seen the last will, he advised Ringling against hastily drawing up the codicil. Weeks quoted the attorney, “I urged that he return with the will ... and then we would draft the codicil.”
But as per usual, Mr. John would have his own way, and the document was written in longhand then and there.
Garey was unaware that the Norths had been named executors of the estate and trustees of the museum. As such they were given “full power and authority in their discretion” to handle his real estate and investments.
The hurriedly drawn codicil stated, “For reasons good and sufficient to me I have determined that neither of such nephews shall receive anything whatsoever in any form, shape or manner from my estate.”
Thus, satisfied he had taken his revenge on his nephews, it was off to Ca’ d’Zan for some much-needed rest and recuperation.
The tangled web of John Ringling’s convoluted financial affairs, hounding creditors, bitter family rivalries, competing state and local governments, and a scorned former wife took ten years to wind its way through probate. (It was said that at one time or another every lawyer in Sarasota was involved in some facet of the document.)
While Mr. John’s wish to disinherit the Norths did not pan out, it was through the diligent effort of John North that the circus continued in the Ringling family, and that the museum and mansion remains now and forever a gift to the people of Florida and its legions of visitors.
As Weeks put it, “In time, the executors and their attorneys succeeded. Ultimately, they benefited personally; but the greatest benefit occurred, as Ringling had intended, to the generations of museum visitors who experienced the Ringling bequest.”
Jeff LaHurd was raised in Sarasota and is an award-winning author/historian.
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Donald Trump’s legal team wants to void a contempt ruling and $10,000-per-day fine against the former president over a subpoena for documents related to a New York civil investigation into his business dealings, saying they’ve conducted a detailed search for the relevant files.
A new, 66-page court filing dated Friday describes Trump’s lawyers’ efforts to produce documents sought by New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office, which is probing whether Trump may have misstated the value of assets like skyscrapers and golf courses on financial statements for over a decade.
Trump has called the investigation a political witch hunt and recently called James, who is Black, “racist” and said the courts were “biased, unyielding, and totally unfair.”
Last week, a New York appellate judge rejected his bid to suspend the fine while Trump appeals the decision.
In the recent court filing, Trump attorney Alina Habba said the responses to the subpoena were complete and correct and that no relevant documents or information were withheld.
Habba conducted searches of Trump’s offices and private quarters at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, according to the filing, but didn’t find any relevant documents that hadn’t already been produced. The filing also detailed searches of other locations including file cabinets and storage areas at the Trump Organization’s offices in New York.
In a separate sworn affidavit included with the filing, Trump stated there aren’t any relevant documents that haven’t already been produced.
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He added that he owns two cellphones: an iPhone for personal use that he submitted in March to be searched as part of the subpoena, then submitted again in May; plus a second phone he was recently given that’s only used to post on Truth Social, the social media network he started after his ban from Twitter, Facebook and other platforms.
In a previous court ruling, Habba called the contempt ruling and fine “unconscionable and indefensible.”
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Police in New York City are searching for a thief on a motorcycle accused of ripping off people's necklaces.
Investigators on Monday said he snuck up on a woman and grabbed her gold necklace at Grand Concourse and East 150th Street in the Bronx. The jewelry was valued at $800.
Police said the woman fell down as the biker rode away.
That same day, officers said the man targeted a woman while she waited to cross the street. They said he grabbed her necklace and pendant on Saint Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan.
Police said he tried two other times, but was unsuccessful. During his fourth attempt, police said the necklace he took from a woman broke and fell to the ground.
The man was seen on video riding a black and red motorcycle. Police believe he's approximately 40 years old and was seen wearing a black jacket, dark blue jeans ripped at the knees, and black and gray sneakers. He also wore a white helmet.
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They crawled to the surface as the coronavirus pandemic roiled New York City, scurrying out of subterranean nests into the open air, feasting on a smorgasbord of scraps in streets, parks and mounds of curbside garbage. As diners shunned the indoors for outdoor dining, so did the city's rats.
Now city data suggests that sightings are more frequent than they've been in a decade.
Through April, people have called in some 7,400 rat sightings to the city’s 311 service request line. That’s up from about 6,150 during the same period last year, and up by more than 60% from roughly the first four months of 2019, the last pre-pandemic year.
In each of the first four months of 2022, the number of sightings was the highest recorded since at least 2010, the first year online records are available. By comparison, there were about 10,500 sightings in all of 2010 and 25,000 such reports in all of last year (sightings are most frequent during warm months).
Whether the rat population has increased is up for debate, but the pandemic might have made the situation more visible.
With more people spending time outdoors as temperatures grow warmer, will rat sightings further surge?
“That depends on how much food is available to them and where,” said Matt Frye, a pest management specialist for the state of New York, who is based at Cornell University.
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While a return to pre-pandemic routines “is exciting after two years of COVID-imposed lifestyle changes,” Frye said in an email, “it also means business as usual for rat problems that are directly tied to human behavior.”
Rats have been a problem in New York City since its founding. Every new generation of leaders has tried to find a better way of controlling the rodent population, and struggled to show results.
When Mayor Eric Adams was borough president of Brooklyn, he annoyed animal rights activists — and upset the stomachs of some journalists — by demonstrating a trap that used a bucket filled with a vinegary, toxic soup to drown rats lured by the scent of food.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio spent tens of millions of dollars on efforts to reduce the rat population in targeted neighborhoods through more frequent trash pickup, more aggressive housing inspections, and replacing dirt basement floors in some apartment buildings with ones made of concrete.
The city also launched a program to use dry ice to suffocate rats in their burrows, once demonstrating the technique for reporters at an event where workers chased — but never caught — one of the fleeing critters.
During a recent news conference in Times Square, Adams announced the city’s latest effort: padlocked curbside trash bins intended to reduce the big piles of garbage bags that turn into a buffet for rodents.
“You’re tired of the rodents, you’re tired of the smell, you’re tired of seeing food, waste and spillage,” the mayor said.
Rats not only strike fear among the easily squeamish, they can also be a public health concern.
Last year, at least 13 people were hospitalized — one died — because of leptospirosis, a condition that attacks the kidneys and liver. Most human infections are associated with rats.
As some cities consider making outdoor dining permanent — an option born of necessity during the pandemic — they are mindful of a further swelling of the rat population. Even before the pandemic, experts noticed a rise in rat populations in some of the country’s largest cities.
Rats can survive on less than an ounce of food a day and rarely travel more than a city block to find food, according to rat scholars.
Some New York City restaurants erected curbside sheds to allow COVID-wary diners to eat outside. But unfinished meals left at tables have sometimes drawn brazen four-legged leftover bandits — a la Pizza Rat, who gained fame in 2015 after a video went viral showing the rodent dragging a slice of pizza down a flight of subway stairs (debates raged at the time about whether the video was staged).
As fewer people used the subways, there were fewer morsels on which to feast in tunnels.
“What happened during the pandemic was that your restaurants shut down,” said Richard Reynolds, whose rat-hunting group for years periodically takes out teams of dogs to sniff out — and kill — vermin. “When outside dining came along, there was food again.”
In planter boxes outside dining sheds, rats lie in wait for any fallen crumb. They lurk in storm drains ready to lunge.
It's the stuff of nightmares for Brooklyn resident Dylan Viner, who recently accidentally hit a dead rat with his bicycle. In recent months, he and friends have noticed a rise in the number of rats out in the open.
“I’ve always had a phobia of rats. I’m not squeamish about snakes or bugs — but rats, there’s something about them,” said Viner, a transplant from London, who likes to keep his distance from the vermin. “It's OK seeing them around the subway tracks. It's when you see one jump out in front of you and dash from a trash can to a dumpster or a restaurant ... that's when it makes you feel a bit squeamish.”
He recalled taking a recent walk in the West Village, where a stride landed on one of the creatures.
“I screamed and ran," he recounted. The rat might have squealed, too.
“Mine was so loud," he said, "that it's hard to know if it was mine or the rat's.”
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Two brothers shot while in their beds inside a Bucks County home have died, the Council Rock School District said.
JT and Nelson, 13 and 9 years old, passed away Friday, CRSD said in a letter to the community on Facebook Saturday night. Their mother, 38-year-old Trinh Nguyen, is accused of shooting and attempting to kill them in their Upper Makefield home Monday.
The boys had suffered gunshot wounds to the head. They had been in extremely critical condition at Saint Mary Medical Center since Monday, May 2.
Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said at a news conference that their organs will be donated.
"We are deeply saddened to lose two of our Council Rock students and will miss them greatly," Susan Elliott, Acting Superintendent of Schools, said Saturday. "This tragic event has shocked our Council Rock community."
Both children were in the Bucks County school district. JT attended eighth grade at Newtown Middle School, and Nelson attended third grade at Sol Feinstone Elementary. Elliott said the team has placed several counselors at the schools the boys attended and they'll remain there Monday. The district says they also plan to have therapy dogs available for the children at both schools next week.
A memorial of flowers and teddy bears was placed outside one of the schools. United Methodist Church offered space for the community to find healing and prayer in the aftermath of the shooting.
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Nguyen is being charged with three counts of attempted homicide and a count of possession of an instrument of crime. Those charges are expected to be upgraded to murder now that Nguyen's sons died from their injuries, according to Weintraub on Monday.
NBC10 reached out to Weintraub Sunday morning and is awaiting a response.
On Monday, at 7:05 a.m., police said they responded to a home on Timber Ridge Road in Upper Makefield Township for a report of an armed person. When they arrived they were met by a 22-year-old man.
The man told police that his neighbor, Nguyen, spoke with him earlier that day. She handed him a box of photos and asked him to give the box to her ex-husband who he worked with, investigators said.
When the man turned around to face Nguyen, she allegedly pointed a black revolver at his face and pulled the trigger twice. The gun did not fire however, police said.
The man then wrapped Nguyen in a bear hug and disarmed her, according to investigators. Nguyen then fled the area in a white Toyota Sienna minivan. Officials issued a BOLO / wanted bulletin for her.
After being told that Nguyen had two children, ages 13 and 9, police and a neighbor searched through her home for them. They then found both boys suffering from gunshot wounds to their heads.
Several law enforcement agencies took part in a manhunt for Nguyen who was considered armed and dangerous. Later that morning, members of the United Methodist Church in Washington Crossing spotted Nguyen's van in the church parking lot.
“I came walking down to the church, down that end and I noticed a white van running over here which is very odd,” MaryAnne Heacks, a church member, told NBC10.
Heacks said she didn't think much of it until she received a call from her son, a police officer in Virginia. Her son then told her about the BOLO / wanted bulletin for Nguyen.
“He still follows the Upper Makefield Police Facebook page,” Heacks said. “He saw what happened and he texted me to say, you know, ‘Lock up. This is armed and dangerous, they’re saying.’"
Heacks then alerted Thomas Koveleski, another church member, about the van.
“And I noticed the van out there with the lights on,” Koveleski said. “At least at 8:30. MaryAnne calls me, ‘Hey, my son says you better do something about that van.’ So I called directly to the police department. I said, ‘I know you’re busy but I have a white van up here. Somebody in it. I don’t know what’s going on.’”
Police arrived at the church around 11:30 a.m. and found Nguyen inside the van.
“Once I saw rifles coming out, I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ And then they all had their shields. And then they were just running from all directions,” Heacks said.
NBC10’s Deanna Durante was there as police took Nguyen into custody. The officers held shields as they approached her vehicle.
Investigators believe she was driving under the influence of drugs and she was taken to Saint Mary Medical Center.
Investigators have not yet determined a motive for the shooting.
NBC10 obtained documents showing Nguyen's ex-sister-in-law is the owner of the home where she lived. Records show Nguyen owed $11,000 in back rent. She had been ordered to be evicted from the property on Tuesday, the day after the shooting and arrest.
“God bless her,” Heacks said. “I pray for her because she’s going to have to live with that the rest of her life.”
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline by calling 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), visiting www.thehotline.org or texting LOVEIS to 22522.
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KATY, Texas — It will be a mother’s day to remember for one Katy family – after their own mom, lost in the woods for three days, has now been found.
Her pup Max is credited with saving her life.
For 3-year-old Max, barking is not really his thing - unless, he needs it.
“He’s not a barker, and I think something was coming, and he was like I got to protect her," Courtney Noppe said.
“When they actually found her, they heard him growling and barking," Justin Noppe said.
Max was with 63-year-old Sherry Noppe, a Katy mother, recently diagnosed with dementia. She left to take Max for a walk Tuesday afternoon, and then, she was gone.
“She remembers a little bit. She said she just kind of took a wrong turn and got lost and got circled around, but after that, she doesn’t really remember much, kind of got disoriented," Justin said.
For nearly three days, crews searched around Noppe’s home, which backs up to the nearly 8-000 acre George Bush Park.
Even without a leash, Max stayed by her side the entire time.
"As they got closer to her, I think that’s what caused him to bark because he was protecting her. So I do think his barking is what led those people to hear him and go in that area and find her. So yes, I do believe he saved her life," Justin said.
Early Friday morning, the two were found by his bark.
“I think she was hiding. I think she was disoriented, paranoid, and just was hiding, didn’t want to be found. And so no, I think if Max wasn’t there, she would not have been found," Justin said.
With only minor cuts and bruises, Sherry is home recovering. Max is still by her side.
“I think it’s amazing what he did. It’s honestly a miracle for him to have stayed with her for 3 days and not left her side," Courtney said.
As you can imagine, Max was exhausted as well. He was checked out by a vet and is now getting very special treatment with new toys and endless treats. We're told a tomahawk steak is in his future.
If you’re concerned about a loved one, suffering from a cognitive disability that might make them wander from home, there are programs that can help. HCSO’s LifeSaver project provides tracking devices that can be worn on their wrist or ankle.
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Why did you go into nursing?
Growing up, I had the honor of watching my mother, who has been a nurse since before I’ve been alive. I watched the sadness in her eyes when she lost a patient but I also was able to witness her shine when she knew she saved a life. Being raised by one of the most caring human beings empowered me to follow in her footsteps and become a nurse.
It may sound selfish, but I feel like I’m at my best when I’m helping others. Nursing is an innate part of me and I’m so lucky to have found such a phenomenal group of humans to work with at FMC. My entire 2E team amazes me each day. Every single nurse on that floor helps to build one another up, ensuring the best care for our patients. Burnout is painfully high with nurses, but my crew keeps me passionate and energized every single day.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
I enjoy being able to help those around me, whether it’s my patients or coworkers.
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Watching patients successfully walk out of the hospital and seeing them thrive in the community always makes my heart happy. As does watching the nurses around me thrive in their careers day to day.
Being a nurse is hands down the best decision I’ve made in my life, I truly wouldn’t change a thing.
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Why did you go into nursing?
I selected nursing after already obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and was not feeling fulfilled in that arena. My mom became ill with cancer and our family had a beautiful experience with hospice. She said to me often, “Sweetie, you should become a nurse.” At the time I thought caring for my mom was natural, but caring for strangers gave me pause. However, I knew I could genuinely care for and connect with people, and, I loved the idea of being able to work anywhere, anytime. My first job as a nurse was at Sage Memorial Hospital in Ganado, Ariz. I moved from away from my family and friends in Cleveland, thinking I would be gone for one year, whether I liked it or not. That was a long time ago!
What do you enjoy most about your job?
The best thing about my job is meeting and connecting with people from all walks of life – often people I would never meet or come across if it were not for my job – and having the opportunity to care for them when they need us. I also get to work amongst some of the smartest, most caring, funny, and interesting people on the planet! The bonds we share, being part of this team, is an honor and a privilege. Nothing has highlighted that more than the experience we have shared in the last two years.
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Why did you go into nursing?
I became a nurse to have a challenging career with the opportunity to be a positive impact on people's lives. While in high school, I met many nurses while my grandfather was living with us. Witnessing how much the nurses helped my family and my grandfather, inspired me to choose a career in nursing with the hope of having a positive impact on someone's life.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
It's constantly evolving and changing. Every day is different and it's impossible to not learn something new whenever I'm working.
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Why did you go into nursing?
I’ve known I wanted to be a nurse since I was about 9 years old. I just knew I always loved the medical field and helping others.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
The thing I love most about nursing is helping others, including staff and patient families.
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Why did you go into nursing?
There were many reasons that I selected nursing. One of the primary ones was that growing up I remember having to translate for my family at a very young age. I wanted to be able to provide that comfort and be a voice for those that felt didn’t have one and ease them by having someone care for them that spoke the same language.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
The thing I enjoy the most about my job is being able to care for the Flagstaff community and knowing that I am making a difference in their life regardless of how small that may be.
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Throughout the hallways at Flagstaff Medical Center (FMC), you will see nurses working hard, giving patients – our friends, family and neighbors – compassionate care in their time of need. Nurses are one of the most integral members of the staff and serve as the backbone of our hospital. We are proud to celebrate the dedication and commitment of our nurses during this year’s National Nurses Week, May 6-12.
The history of National Nurses week dates back to the 1950s when the first effort to designate a recognition day for nurses began. But it wasn’t until 1974 that the first National Nurses Week was celebrated. In 1982, a joint congressional resolution designated May 6 as “National Recognition Day for Nurses” and in 1991, the celebration was expanded to National Nurses Week, May 6-12, to accommodate the varied schedules of America’s nurses.
This year, Northern Arizona Healthcare is celebrating National Nurses week by recognizing the nurses of today, as well as remembering those of yesterday. Flagstaff Hospital, which would later become FMC in 1983, opened its doors on Jan. 4, 1936. The original facility housed four patients and employed two nurses and two physicians.
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Today, FMC employs more than 800 nurses, a number that has grown throughout the years as the Flagstaff community experienced exponential growth. The number of NAH employees has grown, including more than 230 nurses at other NAH locations in Verde Valley. However, our core values remain the same. Values that NAH nurses continually integrate in their day-to-day, patient care. The values include:
- Do amazing work
- Respect differences
- Build community
- Show compassion
- Be better together
These core components have ensured we’re providing patients with exceptional care close to home.
These values have been on full display throughout the pandemic by nurses who have been on the frontline of caring for patients. Their compassion and perseverance ensure that all patients continue to receive the highest quality of care.
Alongside our physicians and colleagues, nurses at NAH put their lives on the line to care for those who need it most. They come to work each day with a sense of commitment and duty, knowing the risks and putting others’ health ahead of their own. Each nurse chose the nursing profession for their own reasons, but it’s clear they’re all passionate about their work.
“My favorite thing about working at FMC would be the phenomenal team that I have the privilege of working alongside as we help our community,” Sara Porter, PEDS/PICU Charge Nurse at FMC said. “Our unit includes our director, manager, doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses and patient care technicians, with every individual coming to work excited to make a difference.”
“I have witnessed our unit deliver spectacular care that changes the life of the patient and their family,” Porter continued. “The children that we take care of inspire me each and every day, they are full of joy and are extraordinarily brave even in hard times.”
“There is nothing more rewarding than to watch a kiddo run up to hug the nurses after recovering from devastating injuries. It is a beautiful moment,” she said. “I feel beyond lucky in that I absolutely LOVE my job and that I get to call such amazing people my coworkers.”
The tireless efforts exhibited by these nursing professionals will not be forgotten, even long after the dangers of the pandemic have passed. For more than 50 years our nurses have provided outstanding care to the residents of northern Arizona, and we look forward to celebrating these hardworking nurses for the next 50 years.
Please join NAH in thanking nurses this week, and throughout the year, for everything they do to care for the health of our community.
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How and why did you select nursing?
Both my mom and grandmother inspired me to become a nurse, growing up my mom was an ER nurse. I moved to Flagstaff after I graduated high school and started taking classes for nursing school. While I was in school, I worked full time as a telemetry technician at Flagstaff Medical Center. When I graduated with my associate's degree in nursing, I started as a new graduate in the medical ICU.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
I love the reward I get from my job, it is fulfilling in so many different ways. As an ICU nurse, it is extremely important to have great critical thinking skills to be able to give the best care to your patients. I love building relationships with both the patient and the patient’s families. I recently became a charge nurse in the ICU and a new reward for me is being a resource to my fellow nurses. I have grown to love being there for these nurses and figuring out how to solve problems each day.
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Why did you go into nursing?
I got into nursing to help people in need.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
The thing I most enjoy about nursing is being able to help and serve people that are going through some of the most difficult times in their lives.
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Why did you go into nursing?
I would love to regale you with an amazing tale regarding my nursing origin story, but it simply does not exist. Having grown up with multiple family members in the healthcare field, nursing stood out to me as offering a fantastic work/life balance, with amazing scheduling opportunities and seemingly unlimited career direction. Fortunately, nursing has ended up proving to be a profession that I have thoroughly enjoyed!
What do you enjoy most about your job?
Hands down, the amazing people that I get to work with! Managing an ICU throughout a pandemic has certainly proven to be one of the most difficult things that I have ever undertaken. There have been many struggles and triumphs over the last TWO years through the pandemic, but it is my team that has motivated and allowed me to persevere. Being in a position that allows me to build, grow and support a team that I not only love to work alongside but that I would trust with my life, is what I show up for every day.
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Why did you go into nursing?
I have always been drawn to different healing modalities and the human body/health as a whole. Nursing was the perfect blend of studying and treating the body, while also being the ultimate immersion into the human experience. To me, it is deeply rewarding to dive head and heart first into the trials and tribulations that we will all inevitably face in our lifetimes, as none of us are immune from injury or illness. I went into nursing hoping – and continue to hope – that those efforts to heal with medicine and kindness can shine some light during darker times.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
First and foremost, seeing patients smile (when feasible)! Second, my amazing co-workers. It always blows me away what a resilient, hard-working crew we have here; I work alongside some truly remarkable people.
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Why did you go into nursing?
To this day, I think I have to credit my pediatric nurse practitioner for making me want to be a nurse when I was a kid. I just thought she was awesome and so nice and gave out the best stickers. As an adult, I’ve liked the idea that I can marry compassion and intellect constantly as a nurse because I think it’s a great blend of both. I like knowing that I serve the public with my job, and I like that it’s a stable line of work with enough days off to enjoy the community myself.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
It’s exciting to get to help a critical patient improve and I enjoy the constant learning process of that. The one part of my job that is always uplifting, though, is my coworkers. My fellow nurses are the most empathetic, energetic, and intuitive group of people. They inspire me to try to be a good nurse, and I am so thankful to learn from them every day.
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Why did you go into nursing?
I chose nursing as a result of the CNA program offered through Coconino High School at the time. I really liked it. It both resonated with me and motivated me to further my schooling.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
I love working with patients in a very hands-on manner. I am committed to serving the residents and visitors of Flagstaff and Northern Arizona as this is my home. The pandemic has had many challenges and I continue to look for new ways to be engaged and make a difference. I am also very thankful and bonded with my coworkers.
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The Arizona Daily Sun, in partnership with Northern Arizona Healthcare, Rehabilitation Hospital of Northern Arizona and Coconino Community College, is proud to highlight the nurses in our community for all their hard work keeping northern Arizona safe and their patients as comfortable as possible throughout the past year and beyond.
The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to present medical professionals with constant on-the-job learning as we discovered almost daily more details about the new virus and how it impacts people.
The Flagstaff community was asked to nominate local nurses for recognition in this publication. In this special edition, we recognize the nurses that stand out in their community for their compassion, kindess and dedication to their work.
Congratulations to everyone, and be sure to thank a nurse in your life today.
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STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — An art exhibit featuring multimedia works and artifacts inspired by the iconic seated Lincoln sculpture in Washington opened Saturday at the Norman Rockwell Museum to commemorate the memorial’s 100th anniversary.
The museum is located in Stockbridge, the same small Massachusetts town where Lincoln Memorial sculptor Daniel Chester French’s studio, Chesterwood, is located. The museum and studio worked together on the Lincoln Memorial Illustrated exhibit.
At least eight works of the celebrated American illustrator Norman Rockwell featured the Civil War-era president. A couple of those pieces, including the illustration “Lincoln for the Defense” which shows the former president in his early years as a lawyer, are included in the exhibit.
More than 50 multimedia works, including original paintings, illustrations, photographs, and artifacts inspired by the sculpture that was dedicated in May 1922 are on display.
“Norman Rockwell greatly admired President Lincoln,” Norman Rockwell Museum president and CEO Laurie Norton Moffatt said. “He thought of him as just a towering American and admired his ability to bring the country together at such a challenging time, and he incorporated him into a number of his paintings.”
The exhibit also includes a print of Rockwell’s 1975 oil painting of famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady taking a portrait of a seated Lincoln. The exhibit features a print because the original is in a private collection, Moffatt said.
The exhibit runs in Stockbridge until Sept. 5, before moving on to the Concord Museum from Sept. 22 until next Feb. 26. Plans to display it elsewhere are still in the works, Moffatt said.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fred Savage has been dropped as an executive producer and director of the rebooted “The Wonder Years” amid allegations of inappropriate conduct, the television show’s production company has confirmed.
“Recently, we were made aware of allegations of inappropriate conduct by Fred Savage, and as is policy, an investigation was launched. Upon its completion, the decision was made to terminate his employment as an executive producer and director of ‘The Wonder Years,'” a statement Saturday from 20th Television said.
20th Television did not immediately provide any additional details. A spokesperson for Savage did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Savage, 45, was a child star when he appeared in the original series, which ran on ABC from 1988-93 and followed a suburban white family in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A new version of the show, which features Don Cheadle as the narrator, premiered last fall. The new series revolves around a Black family living in Montgomery, Alabama, in the late 1960s.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, has died. He was 86.
Gilley died Saturday in Branson, Missouri, where he helped run the Mickey Gilley Grand Shanghai Theatre. He had been performing as recently as last month, but was in failing health over the past week.
“He passed peacefully with his family and close friends by his side,” according a statement from Mickey Gilley Associates.
Gilley — cousin of rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis — opened Gilley’s, “the world’s largest honky tonk,” in Pasadena, Texas, in the early 1970s. By mid-decade, he was a successful club owner and had enjoyed his first commercial success with “Room Full of Roses.” He began turning out country hits regularly, including “Window Up Above,” “She’s Pulling Me Back Again” and the honky-tonk anthem “Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time.”
Overall, he had 39 Top 10 country hits and 17 No. 1 songs. He received six Academy of Country Music Awards, and also worked on occasion as an actor, with appearances on “Murder She Wrote,” “The Fall Guy,” “Fantasy Island” and “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
“If I had one wish in life, I would wish for more time,” Gilley told The Associated Press in March 2001 as he celebrated his 65th birthday. Not that he’d do anything differently, the singer said.
“I am doing exactly what I want to do. I play golf, fly my airplane and perform at my theater in Branson, Missouri,” he said. “I love doing my show for the people.”
Meanwhile, the giant nightspot’s attractions, including its famed mechanical bull, led to the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy,” starring John Travolta and Debra Winger and regarded by many as a countrified version of Travolta’s 1977 disco smash, “Saturday Night Fever.” The film inspired by Gilley’s club was based on an Esquire article by Aaron Latham about the relationship between two regulars at the club.
“I thank John Travolta every night before bed for keeping my career alive,” Gilley told the AP in 2002. “It’s impossible to tell you how grateful I am for my involvement with ‘Urban Cowboy.’ That film had a huge impact on my career, and still does.”
The soundtrack included such hits as Johnny Lee’s “Lookin’ for Love,” Boz Scaggs’ “Look What You’ve Done for Me” and Gilley’s “Stand by Me.” The movie turned the Pasadena club into an overnight tourist draw and popularized pearl snap shirts, longneck beers, the steel guitar and mechanical bulls across the country.
But the club shut down in 1989 after Gilley and his business partner Sherwood Cryer feuded over how to run the place. A fire destroyed it soon after.
An upscale version of the old Gilley’s nightclub opened in Dallas in 2003. In recent years, Gilley moved to Branson.
He was married three times, most recently to Cindy Loeb Gilley. He had four children, three with his first wife, Geraldine Garrett, and one with his second, Vivian McDonald.
A Natchez, Mississippi, native, Gilley grew up poor, learning boogie-woogie piano in Ferriday, Louisiana, alongside Lewis and fellow cousin Jimmy Swaggart, the future evangelist. Like Lewis, he would sneak into the windows of Louisiana clubs to listen to rhythm and blues. He moved to Houston to work construction but played the local club scene at night and recorded and toured for years before catching on in the ‘70s.
Gilley had suffered health problems in recent years. He underwent brain surgery in August 2008 after specialists diagnosed hydrocephalus, a condition characterized by an increase in fluid in the cranium. Gilley had been suffering from short-term memory loss, and credited the surgery with halting the onset of dementia.
He underwent more surgery in 2009 after he fell off a step, forcing him to cancel scheduled performances in Branson. In 2018, he sustained a fractured ankle and fractured right shoulder in an automobile accident.
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NEW YORK (AP) — While Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker were holed up in an apartment cutting “Raging Bull” — an intense process that would have consumed the thoughts of most filmmakers — Scorsese told his editor to take a break. He had a movie he needed to show her.
“He said, ‘You have to see this one,’” recalls Schoonmaker.
Scorsese was by then already a passionate fan of the films ofMichael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the British filmmaking duo known as the Archers. He considered Technicolor films like “The Red Shoes,” “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” and “A Matter of Life and Death” to be masterpieces. But he had held off watching their 1945 black-and-white Scottish romance, “I Know Where I’m Going!” fearing it might be “a lighter picture.” Something about that title. And besides, just how many masterworks could Powell and Pressburger have made?
Yet Scorsese was coaxed into screening it with his friend Jay Cocks the night before shooting began on “Raging Bull.”
“I couldn’t have been more wrong,” Scorsese recalled in an email. “It was funny, it was exciting, it was truly mystical and it was deeply stirring. I’ve seen ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ many times since then — so many times, in fact, that I’ve almost lost count — and I’m always moved and always surprised every time, and I’m held in suspense right up to those amazing final moments.”
On Monday, Scorsese and the film restoration nonprofit he founded, the Film Foundation, will launch a new virtual theater, the Film Foundation Restoration Screening Room. Every month, for one night only, films that have been restored by the Film Foundation will be presented in free online screenings accompanied by discussions from Scorsese and other filmmakers. The screening room begins, naturally, with the restoration of “I Know Where I’m Going!”
Since it was released in the waning days of World War II, “I Know Where I’m Going!” has played a unique role in the hearts of moviegoers. It isn’t the most celebrated Powell and Pressburger film, nor is it regularly listed on all-time lists. Instead, it’s a movie that tends to be shared moviegoer to moviegoer, like a cherished gift or family treasure. It’s a buried gem that anyone who’s ever seen it wants to tell everyone about. “You have to see this one” is how most conversations about “I Know Where I’m Going!” begin.
“At the end of the war, people had suffered so much,” says Schoonmaker, speaking recently by phone. “And here is this movie that lifts your heart.”
Shortly after seeing “I Know Where I’m Going,” Powell visited Scorsese, who encouraged Schoonmaker to come along to dinner. They hit it off and by 1984 were married. Powell died in 1990; Pressburger in 1988. Ever since, Schoonmaker and Scorsese’s have dedicated themselves — when they’re not making films (they’re currently finishing the edit on “Killers of the Flower Moon,” an expansive crime film for Apple about the 1920s murders in Oklahoma’s Osage Nation )— to restoring Powell and Pressburger’s movies. Scorsese recently signed on to narrate a documentary on their films. For years, Schoonmaker has been combing through Powell’s diaries with the hope of publishing them.
“I inherited that,” says Schoonmaker,Scorsese’s celebrated longtime editor. “Michael, when he died, left a little furnace burning inside of me. What keeps me going is loving and trying to get other people to love his work.”
How much can come from loving an old movie? For Schoonmaker, the answer is almost everything. Scorsese’s passion for the Archers’ movies inspired Schoonmaker’s own, and in turn led to the love of her life.
“It was Marty’s passion for film history that made this all happen,” she says, chuckling.
The Film Foundation, which collaborated with the British Film Institute on the “I Know Where I’m Going” restoration, has restored more than 925 films, preserving wide swaths of film history and picking up the slack of many of today’s film studios, who have showed less interest in preserving cinema’s past than keeping pipelines of new “content” flowing.
“At this point, they’re not film companies anymore, but vast media conglomerates. For them, old movies are one small item in a wide array of properties and activities,” says Scorsese. “The people who run them are several generations from the very question of cinema: the word is meaningful only as a marketing term. Their interest is not in making good films, but in making their shareholders richer. So, no, restoring a Howard Hawks picture is not high on their list of priorities. The idea that it should be, for reasons that have nothing to do with profits and losses, is not even entertained. In this atmosphere, the idea of art has no place. It throws a wrench in the works.”
“I Know Where I’m Going!,” though, stands for the foolhardiness of best laid plans. Powell and Pressburger made it in 1944 while awaiting the Technicolor cameras Lawrence Olivier was using to make “Henry V.” Pressburger is believed to have written it in a matter of days. They pitched it to Ministry of Information, which controlled wartime moviemaking, as an anti-materialistic tale. (Britain feared a rash of consumerism would follow wartime rationing.)
In it, a headstrong woman, Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) travels to the Scottish Herbrides (the film was shot on the picturesque Isle of Mull) to marry a wealthy lord. But stormy weather prevents her from crossing to Kiloran (the island of Colonsay). While awaiting passage, she meets a naval officer (Roger Livesey) from the area. They become quickly enmeshed in local life, as we grow enchanted with it. Joan feels increasingly pulled off course.
But summarizing the exhilarating magic of “I Know Where I’m Going!” never quite does it justice. It reverberates with a warm, lyrical spirit that feels poised between past and present, legend and reality. It’s a movie that you, just as helpless as Joan, can’t help falling for.
The film’s devotees are a passionate tribe. “The Big Sleep” author Raymond Chandler once wrote, “I’ve never seen a picture which smelled of the wind and rain quite this way.” Tilda Swinton, who has a family home on Colonsay, thinks “I Know Where I’m Going!” should be handed out by Scottish diplomats when they travel the globe. “It’s like a confessional,” Swinton says in a video made for the Film Foundation. “You go back to it every few years.”
“I Know Where I’m Going” is in part about reconnecting with something — with nature and old ways — that makes it a particularly fitting film to kick off the Restoration Screening Room. With appointed showtimes and robust conversation around the film, the virtual theater is set up in a way that clearly differs from the standard streaming experience.
“We’ve gotten used to watching and listening on our own time. Something’s been gained, but something has also been lost,” says Scorsese. “We felt it was important to create a way of watching movies that guaranteed there was a greater audience out there watching and responding at the same time.”
At a time when film culture can be unsure of its direction, the lovingly restored “I Know Where I’m Going!” may help light the way. It is, at any rate, one spirit-lifting port in a storm.
“I’ve always felt that you can’t have a present or a future of cinema without its past. The films that I’ve seen, that I’ve re-seen and studied, that I’ve discovered for myself or through a friend … they enrich me, they inspire me, they sustain me,” says Scorsese. “I suppose it’s possible to imagine someone making movies without bothering to see anything made before their own time. But the question is: why? What’s the point? Why not see what you come out of? Every film is in conversation with every film before it and every one that follows it. It’s true of all art. Isn’t that amazing?”
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Before she was Mom to Bockary, Janet and Myracle, she was Aunt Kate to just about everyone else.
Including the teenager who stayed with Kate Wilcox for half a semester in 2013 so the girl could finish high school in Lincoln after her parents moved. And to the girl who moved in with her when another friend relocated to Lincoln but hadn't quite found a place to stay yet.
"I really had the ability to love other peoples' kids," she said.
But Wilcox, a teacher at Lincoln Public Schools, knew that she wanted her own kids to love. She had always been drawn to foster care — it tugged at her heart — and she felt like God was calling her to it.
So in 2017, she got her license and worked with the foster care agency Christian Heritage to line up some kids looking for a home. Because of her prior experience, the agency told her to expect to house one or two teenage girls.
"I was prepared for teenagers and I was a little disappointed to be honest. I love teenagers and I get along with them, but there was a part of me that really wanted to raise little kids and do the whole 'life' thing," said Wilcox, who teaches English language learners at Everett Elementary School.
Instead, she got three children — biological siblings all under the age of 5 who had shuffled homes over the years.
Bockary, the football-loving big brother who's everybody's best friend.
Janet Faye, named after her grandmothers and ferociously independent.
Myracle, the goofy, funny, loving baby sister.
They had gone through the foster care system before and were at a home with two younger siblings when Christian Heritage connected them with Wilcox. Being single, she wasn't sure if she was ready to take on all three, but she was smitten with the trio.
Wilcox went in with the idea of just being a foster parent, but she was called to something more. On Nov. 3, 2018 — National Adoption Day — Aunt Kate officially became Mom in an adoption ceremony.
It was an open adoption — Wilcox worked with the children's biological parents, who were "so supportive and loving."
The past three years have been filled with grace, with love, but also challenges. It's not easy to raise three children by yourself. Wilcox said her mother provides invaluable support. Her father and brother, too. Male role models for Bockary.
They moved to a bigger home in south Lincoln about two years ago, with a large backyard and plenty of space for a trampoline.
Bockary, 10, loves football, especially the Miami Dolphins, Alabama and Nebraska, of course (ask him what his magic eight ball says about the Huskers next season).
Janet, 8, and Myracle, 6, love to cook. Janet wants to be a chef.
They love their piebald kitty Tiana, named after the Disney princess.
Sundays are for church and pizza. Headstands are a common sight.
"Whenever we're feeling down, she always cheers us up," Bockary said.
This summer, the family is planning a road trip on a charter bus to Mississippi for a reunion on their biological mother's side of the family. In addition to two younger siblings adopted by another family on that November day in 2018, the three children also have four older half-siblings they stay in contact with.
Wilcox says she couldn't have done it without her family, faith and Christian Heritage, which has specialists that check in on foster families and provide support.
The foster care agency helps more than 1,000 kids annually across Nebraska. In addition to facilitating foster care matches, Christian Heritage also helps children experiencing neglect and abuse, provides support for biological families and teaches practical parenting and life skills to incarcerated mothers.
On any given day in Nebraska, there are about 4,000 children who are in the state's protective custody looking for a family.
"You don't have to go very far down the road to find kids who need help," said Stacy Bingham, executive director of growth and stewardship at Christian Heritage.
Wilcox, a Lincoln native, went to college in Kansas, where she majored in theater and gave acting a shot in LA. She moved back to Kansas and worked odd jobs, including as a youth leader, residence hall director and substitute teacher, where she found her calling in education.
She moved back to Lincoln in 2010, then spent some time in Morocco teaching and caring for orphaned children, where she decided she was ready to have children of her own.
Parenting, Wilcox says, is like a magnifying glass. Things she never thought she would care about are important now. And some things that seemed like a big deal are no longer important.
"As long as we're happy, as long as we're together, as long as we're doing OK," Wilcox says, "all that other stuff doesn't matter so much."
Zach Hammack, a 2018 UNL graduate, has always called Lincoln home. He previously worked as a copy editor at the Journal Star and was a reporting intern in 2017. Now, he covers students, teachers and schools as the newspaper’s K-12 reporter.
The district contracted with the Lincoln-based design firm Clark & Enersen to draft plans for the pre-K-12 school, which would be built on 52 acres of land along U.S. 136 just north of the existing high school.
Fourth-graders covered a little more than three miles on foot, pretending they were pioneers from 1849. They even pushed shopping carts that were outfitted to look like covered wagons.
Kristi Chambers, Richard LeBlanc, J.P. Caruso, and Penny McCord will interview with the Southeast Community College Board of Governors on May 17 to finish the term vacated by Jim Garver.
On Thursday, students were prepping for the Electronphonic concert when new LPS Superintendent Paul Gausman came in, climbed onto a drum set and walked students through some beats.
The statistics about teens and distracted driving stuck with the students, and they gained valuable experience producing the video. One student decided to change his major at college to media productions and film.
The district is circulating a questionnaire gauging community support for a potential bond issue from $15 million to $20 million for renovations at the district's elementary school in Bennet and junior and senior high in Palmyra.
The governor has donated $20,000 to Elizabeth Tegtmeier, a candidate for Nebraska State Board of Education. But an issue involving her adult son is creating a distraction.
As many as a thousand children may be eligible for the assistance with costs to the state estimated at $500,000 in the first year and $1 million in the second year.
Kate Wilcox with her children (from left), Bockary, 10, Myracle, 6, and Janet, 8. Wilcox, a teacher at Everett Elementary School, adopted the children after she became a foster parent.
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A gunman was wanted over the weekend for a shooting in the northeast corner of Central Park that left two boys wounded, police said.
Police rushed to the area of 110th Street and 5th Avenue around 5 p.m. Saturday for reports of shots fired.
One bullet hit a 12-year-old's leg, and a 14-year-old was shot in the bicep and grazed in the stomach by a second bullet, police said.
Officers recovered five shell casings in the area, but said they don't know what the motive may have been or if the boys were the shooter's intended targets.
Both boys were expected to recover.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Hundreds of high school seniors will close one chapter and begin a new one as they will walk across the stage to receive their diploma.
Before they prepare for their new journey, they’ll have one more requirement.
Filling out a federal financial aide form, known as FAFSA.
Birmingham City School Superintendent Dr. Mark Sullivan said this is a way to encourage students to go to college and that there is money available.
Dr. Sullivan says of the nearly 1,100 seniors graduating over 700 of them have already completed the FAFSA form.
Birmingham City Schools have also provided opportunities to assist students and parents with this process.
“We have FAFSA opportunities at the schools, with the school counselors and we have FAFSA nights where we give out prizes and gifts to those who complete it.” Sullivan says.
Colleges like Jefferson State Community College are also lending their help to those who need assistance.
Director of financial aid Morgan McCormack said it also benefits filling out the form early.
“Some schools give extra aid based on when you fill out your FAFSA, applying early helps you get extra money as well,” McCormick said.
Sullivan says completing the forms helps parents understand that there are options available.
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Ray Didinger, a Philadelphia sports media legend and Pro Football Hall of Famer who spent decades covering the Philadelphia Eagles, announced his retirement Sunday. Didinger covered the Eagles for 53 years, according to NBC Sports Philadelphia, for whom he was a pre and postgame analyst.
Filled with emotion, Didinger told his listeners of his retirement on his Sunday morning SportsRadio94WIP radio show with Glen Macnow.
"Sunday, May 29th will be my final show," Didinger announced. "I am ready to transition from Ray Didi to grandpop."
Didinger is retiring at the age of 75. He said on Sunday his health is fine.
Didinger was born and raised in Delaware County and graduated from Temple University.
Since the debut of Eagles Pregame Live in 1998, Didinger has been a beloved member of the NBC Sports Philadelphia family.
Didinger covered the NFL for The Philadelphia Bulletin and The Philadelphia Daily News for over 25 years and in 1995 his name was added to writer's honor roll in the Pro Football Hall Of Fame, WIP reported.
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Berkley Selectman George Miller fends off challenge from FinCom member Tabitha McCrohan
BERKLEY — By solid margins, Saturday's town election voters chose George F. Miller for another three years on the Board of Selectmen over a challenge from Finance Committee member Tabitha K. McCrohan, and they approved placing a $1 million debt exclusion vote on the annual town meeting warrant.
Miller, a selectman for the past 12 years, won by a total of 330 votes over McCrohan's total of 269 votes, or 55% to 45%, in an election that drew 610 of the town's registered voters.
A ballot question proposed a $1 million debt exclusion to pay for the bond or note for two police cruisers, two plow sanders and other new equipment for the Highway Department, a new heating system for the public safety building and two new election tabulators for the town clerk.
This measure was approved by a tally of 296 yes against 227 no, or 57% to 43%. The action means this plan will be up for a vote at the June 6 annual town meeting.
Miller said he wanted to thank the voters for allowing him to continue his work to bring more business to the town, "and allowing me to continue to work on the warehouse distribution center project which will prevent tax increases on property owners."
In a recent candidates forum, Miller noted he is currently negotiating with a developer to bring a 300,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution facility to the business district off of Myricks Street that will pay the town over $700,000 in taxes.
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In a nod to his challenger, Tabitha McCrohan, Miller added, "I appreciated the professionalism and effort of her campaign, and I am sure she will be serving on the Board of Selectmen in the future."
McCrohan declared she will not stop at one campaign for selectman.
"I plan to run for selectman sometime in the future," she said. "I will be a part of town politics for years to come."
Miller also thanked voters for their approval of the debt exclusion question, "so town departments will get the equipment and supplies they deserve."
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Finance Committee Chairman Joseph Freitas was unavailable for comment Saturday but said in a previous interview that it would have been a disaster for the town budget if the debt exclusion question hadn't passed.
"It would throw the budget into chaos," Freitas said. "We'd have to be looking for that money somewhere else. We'd have to look for it in other places such as personnel."
In other election results, Miller was elected town moderator with 357 votes; he was the only declared candidate on the ballot. He explained in a previous interview that he chose to serve in the role because no one else had volunteered and it was important for the position to be filled. He also noted he received an OK from town counsel that there was no direct conflict of interest to so serve in both roles.
Michael J. Ricardo became a new member of the School Committee with 366 votes; he also was the only declared candidate on the ballot. Michael Ledger became a new member of the Planning Board as a write-in candidate with 40 votes; there was no declared candidate for this position on the ballot.
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Attorneys for Keith Raniere, the former leader of the cult-like NXIVM group, want a new federal judge to consider a motion for new trial filed last week that argues federal authorities framed Raniere by planting child pornography on a computer hard drive.
Raniere's lawyers take aim at U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in new court papers, alleging he showed a “lack of judicial temperament” and “deep-seated, unequivocal hostility” for Raniere throughout the proceedings that landed the disgraced self-improvement guru in federal prison for 120 years for a sex-trafficking conspiracy.
They cited a heated exchange last year in which Garaufis threatened to have one of Raniere's attorneys arrested during a restitution hearing in which Raniere was ordered to pay $3.5 million to 21 victims, a sum that included the cost of surgically removing scars from branding rituals performed by a secret sorority.
“Only a new judge can fairly adjudicate any further issues in this case without these pre-existing biases and prejudices,” attorney Joseph Tully wrote in a motion Friday in Brooklyn federal court. “Anyone who had entered the courtroom and witnessed Judge Garaufis’ outrageous comments during trial, at the restitution hearing, or at sentencing, would have concluded that the judge was biased against Mr. Raniere and his counsel.”
Federal prosecutors have not yet responded to the motion to disqualify Garaufis. They have denied Raniere's claims of government tampering with evidence.
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Among my late mother’s papers I discovered a large envelope bearing an ominous description written in her meticulous printing — “Tommy’s Report Cards.” What possessed my mother to save these things I will never understand, but here they are arrayed before me, the libretto of my life in public education, written in the key of C.
Havre Public Schools, School District No. 16, Hill County, Havre, Montana. Progress Record, First Grade (1960-61). Genevieve Horvick. Teacher’s Comments: “We need to get rid of a few careless habits of not finishing his work pages. Needs to make good use of all time. Needs to work without bothering others. Needs to stop imitating the Three Stooges, particularly Curly Howard. Hums excessively. Promoted to Second Grade, with reservations.”
Havre Public Schools, School District No. 16, Hill County, Havre, Montana. Progress Record, Second Grade (1961-62). Mildred McKeever. Teacher’s Comments: “Needs to improve ability to concentrate. Jack Benny impressions are disruptive. Juggling must stop. Promoted to Third Grade, with reservations.”
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Havre Public Schools, School District No. 16, Hill County, Havre, Montana. Progress Record, Third Grade (1962-63). Gilma Johnson. Teacher’s Comments: “Reasonable effort and self control need improvement. Milton Berle impressions are disruptive. Tap lessons probably fruitless. Promoted to Fourth Grade, with reservations.”
Hilltop Elementary School, Kingman Arizona. Progress Report, Grade 4 (1963-64). Helen Gould. Teacher’s Comments: “Responsibility, unsatisfactory; getting along with others, unsatisfactory; work habits, unsatisfactory; attitude, unsatisfactory; Phyllis Diller impression, unsatisfactory. Can dance a little. Promoted to Fifth Grade, with reservations.”
Manzanita Elementary School, Kingman, Arizona. Report to Parents, Fifth Grade (1964-65). Cecil Baker. Teacher’s Comments: “Respect for school regulations is weak; care of personal and school property is weak; Ed Sullivan impression is weak. Gershwin fixation excessive. Promoted to Sixth Grade, with reservations.”
Manzanita Elementary School, Kingman, Arizona. Report to Parents, Sixth Grade (1965-66). M. A. Shaner. Teacher’s Comments: “Respect for school regulations is weak; care of personal and school property is weak. Must curtail mime performances. Promoted to Seventh Grade, with reservations.”
Kingman Junior High School, Kingman, Arizona. Report to Parents, Seventh Grade (1966-67). Norman Urquhart. Teacher’s Comments: “Respect for school regulations is weak; care of personal and school property is weak; Solo performances of Laugh-In and/or Hee-Haw skits disruptive. Can sing a little, but but a tad pitchy. Lenny Bruce imitations must stop. Excessive punning. Promoted to Eighth Grade, with reservations.”
Kingman Junior High School, Kingman, Arizona. Report to Parents, Eighth Grade (1967-68). C. Ottipoby. Teacher’s Comments: “We need to get rid of a few careless habits of not finishing his work pages. Needs to make good use of all time. Needs to work without bothering others. Needs to stop imitating the Three Stooges, particularly Curly Howard. Hums excessively. Promoted to Ninth Grade, with reservations.”
As for my high school report cards, space does not permit even a partial reckoning. However, it shall suffice to quote the King of Siam: “Et cetera, et cetera.”
Happy Mother’s Day.
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Authors, poets and journalists have a term for when they hit a wall and can’t write anymore, whether that’s due to mental exhaustion, lack of motivation or creative slowdown. It’s called “writer’s block,” and it has decelerated, derailed and even defeated writers since people started putting pen to paper.
A similar phenomenon exists in my running journey, and I bet it does in yours, too. Let’s call it “runner’s block.” Runner’s block is anything that keeps you on the couch instead of out there pounding the pavement (or trails) in an attempt to get and stay healthy.
Runner’s block can be physical, but for me it’s almost exclusively mental. And more often than not, it comes in the form of a simple, defeatist statement.
“I’ll do it tomorrow, when I have more time (or energy, or motivation, etc).”
“What if someone sees me? I don’t look like a runner.”
“Taking time for myself is selfish.”
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“I could never be as good as _________, so what’s the point?”
“Running is boring—Netflix sounds like a lot more fun right now.”
“It’s been so long since I last ran…”
“It’s too hot! It’s too cold! It’s too windy! The air is too thin!”
“What if I fail?”
All of these are real excuses I’ve made that have kept me from running. And all of them, if I just think one level deeper, come down to one thing: I don’t want to. Running is hard, and it’s easier not to run. Maybe you’re reading this right now and you can relate; you struggle with runner’s block too.
But there’s good news: runner’s block can be overcome. I could give you dozens of tips (it’s part of my side-gig, after all: I have a podcast called Overcoming Runner’s Block). But let me offer you this to get you started: If I can do it, you can do it.
I wasn’t a runner in high school. I don’t have “runner’s genes”: my body is not built to be a competitive racer or even fast. I’ve dealt with depression and anxiety. I have a demanding and time-consuming job. I’ve always been an “indoorsman,” more comfortable playing music or watching movies or writing (when I don’t have writer’s block) than playing sports, hiking or biking. I had — and have! — every excuse not to run playing on a loop in my head, and the volume gets turned up higher the closer I get to lacing up my shoes.
But one day I decided to stop making excuses and just do it. I’d recently turned 30 and I was losing energy fast and gaining weight even faster. My first run lasted 30 seconds, and I puked afterwards. But I’d made a decision. I didn’t want to be blocked anymore. I wanted to overcome. I wanted to run.
That was 15 years ago. My body didn’t become slim and muscle-y. I’ve never gotten fast. And I’m still self-conscious when I shuffle by a training Olympian speeding the other way on Lake Mary Road. But I have run 20 half-marathons, three marathons, two Olympic-distance triathlons, and more 5Ks, 10Ks and most importantly, training runs than I can count.
Don’t let runner’s block keep you on the couch. If I can do it, you can do it. Even if it’s 30 seconds at a time. You can overcome.
Steven Grahmann lives with his wife, two boys and an old dog in Flagstaff. You can see him running along on its roads, trails and mountains throughout the year. He has a weekly Health and Fitness podcast called “Overcoming Runner’s Block,” available on all podcast apps.
Send your running stories and news to coordinating editor Julie Hammonds (runner@juliehammonds.com).
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Officials with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office say two people are recovering after being shot on Watt Avenue in North Highlands just after 9 p.m. Saturday.
Deputies say they found the two victims after being called out by the fire department to the scene at a Walmart parking lot. The two were taken to an area hospital suffering non-life-threatening injuries, the sheriff's office says.
According to officials, the victims were talking to first responders as they were taken to the hospital. Authorities believe the shooting may have stemmed from a road rage incident on Watt Avenue.
No suspects have been arrested in the double shooting.
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Have you ever wondered which craft beers go best with which foods?
A new cookbook has the answer for you, and it has a bit of a local flair.
“The Craft Brewery Cookbook” by John Holl, which will be released Tuesday, features more than 70 recipes and beer pairings from chefs and brewers across the country, including one from Lincoln.
The Lincoln entry in the book is a spicy shrimp cocktail paired with an American sour ale.
Sam Riggins, owner and brewer at Cosmic Eye Brewing, said he got the inspiration for the recipe after trying different versions of the brewery's house bloody Mary mix and realizing there was something missing.
"After having a Mexican shrimp cocktail at El Chaparro, the flavors just clicked, and I knew what changes to make to the mix,” Riggins said.
He said that when Holl reached out to him about the book, he contacted Mike Vandenberg, executive chef of Course Restaurant, which is part of the Great Plains Culinary Institute on the Lincoln campus of Southeast Community College, to come up with his own recipe for a Mexican shrimp cocktail.
“It was a no-brainer to get Mike involved," Riggins said. "He’s a great chef, a good friend, and the restaurant is just down the street from the brewery.”
Vandenberg said he had never made a Mexican shrimp cocktail before but relished the challenge and was pleased with the result.
"I am not only very proud of how this dish turned out but also very humbled to be published in a cookbook with Cosmic Eye and many other talented brewers and chefs,” he said.
Cosmic Eye will be hosting a tasting of the final recipe Saturday in its taproom at 6800 P St. Tickets for the tasting, which are available at cosmiceye.beer, will include an 8-ounce portion of the spicy shrimp cocktail featured in the book and one Cosmic Eye beer.
Riggins said the cookbook only features types of beers and not those from specific breweries, but Cosmic Eye does have three different sour ales to pair with the dish.
"Or it would also work with our premium American lager -- Dead Man's Run and Dead Man's Light," he said.
Saturday was the last day for Franklin's Treasures and Treats in the Meadowlane Shopping Center at 70th and Vine streets, although it plans to reopen Wednesday for a closing sale.
The union also takes issue with BNSF’s new “HiViz” attendance policy. "The attempt is to keep people from taking a day off, and it’s working,” a union leader said. “It’s also driving people out of the industry.”
Grocery chain Hy-Vee will ask up to 500 of its employees to move from corporate-level jobs to retail positions at its stores, it said in a public statement.
Paid digital-only subscriptions at Lee Enterprises increased 51% from the previous year in the second quarter that ended in March, putting the company six months ahead of its goal for growth of digital audience and revenue.
After the pandemic forced the last two meetings to be streamed online, Buffett clearly relished the chance to bring Berkshire’s loyal and devoted shareholders back to his hometown for what he likes to call “the Woodstock of Capitalism.”
Sam Riggins (left) and Mike Vandenberg came up with a spicy shrimp cocktail dish that's featured in a new cookbook focused on food and craft beer pairings.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland’s Reigning Roses Walk for Mother’s Day has returned.
The 5k walk through Northwest Portland raises money for women and children experiencing trauma and poverty. It was held virtually last year due to the pandemic.
The event started at the new Rose Haven shelter on NW Glisan Street around 10 a.m. and is set to last into the afternoon. While pre-registration has closed, walk-ins are welcome at 11:30 a.m., the website said.
Music, mimosas and raffles took place before the walk, and those taking part in the 5k through the Alphabet District are encouraged to stop at giveaway stations for refreshments along the way.
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From left, Jelks Warren, Ameris Bank SVP, Commercial Banker; Josh Bowen, Ameris Bank Market President; William Bowen, Board Member with Ameris Bank and Southwell; and Chris Efaw, Southwell VP, Outreach and Development show off a contribution made by the bank to the Tifton hospital.
TIFTON – Ameris Bank recently contributed $75,000 to Tift Regional Medical Center through the Georgia HEART program
“We are so grateful to Ameris Bank for supporting our mission,” Southwell Vice President for Outreach and Development Chris Efaw said in a news release. “They are a true community partner, and we appreciate their generosity.”
The Georgia HEART program provides organizations, individuals, and married couples the opportunity to donate to qualified rural hospitals in the state and receive a 100 percent state tax credit. Visit www.GeorgiaHeart.org for more information.
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America’s faithful are bracing — some with cautionary joy and others with looming dread — for the Supreme Court to potentially overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and end the nationwide right to legal abortion.
A reversal of the 49-year-old ruling has never felt more possible since a draft opinion suggesting justices may do so was leaked this week. While religious believers at the heart of the decades-old fight over abortion are shocked at the breach of high court protocol, they are still as deeply divided and their beliefs on the contentious issue as entrenched as ever.
National polls show that most Americans support abortion access. A Public Religion Research Institute survey from March found that a majority of religious groups believe it should be legal in most cases — with the exception of white evangelical Protestants, 69% of whom said the procedure should be outlawed in most or all cases.
In conservative Christian corners, the draft opinion has sparked hope. Faith groups that have historically taken a strong anti-abortion stance, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, have urged followers to pray for Roe's reversal.
The Rev. Manuel Rodriguez, pastor of the 17,000-strong Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic church in New York City's Queens borough, said his mostly Latino congregation is heartened by the prospect of Roe's demise at a time when courts in some Latin American countries such as Colombia and Argentina have moved to legalize abortion.
“You don’t fix a crime committing another crime,” Rodriguez said.
Bishop Garland R. Hunt Sr., senior pastor of The Father’s House, a nondenominational, predominantly African American church in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, agreed.
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“This is the result of ongoing, necessary prayer since 1973,” Hunt said. “As a Christian, I believe that God is the one that gives life — not politicians or justices. I certainly want to see more babies protected in the womb.”
No faith is monolithic on the abortion issue. Yet many followers of faiths that don’t prohibit abortion are aghast that a view held by a minority of Americans could supersede their individual rights and religious beliefs.
In Judaism, for example, many authorities say abortion is permitted or even required in cases where the woman's life is in danger.
“This ruling would be outlawing abortion in cases when our religion would permit us," said Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, scholar in residence at the National Council of Jewish Women, “and it is basing its concepts of when life begins on someone else’s philosophy or theology.”
In Islam, similarly, there is room for “all aspects of reproductive choice from family planning to abortion,” said Nadiah Mohajir, co-founder of Heart Women and Girls, a Chicago nonprofit that works with Muslim communities on reproductive rights and other gender issues.
“One particular political agenda is infringing on my right and my religious and personal freedom,” she said.
According to new data released Wednesday by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, 56% of U.S. Muslims say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, a figure that's about on par with the beliefs of U.S. Catholics.
Donna Nicolino, a student at Fire Lotus Temple, a Zen Buddhist center in Brooklyn, said her faith calls on followers to show compassion to others. Restricting or banning abortion fails to consider why women have abortions and would hurt the poor and marginalized the most, she said.
“If we truly value life as a culture,” Nicolino said, “we would take steps like guaranteeing maternal health care, health care for children, decent housing for pregnant women.”
Sikhism prohibits sex-selective killings — female infanticide — but is more nuanced when it comes to abortion and favors compassion and personal choice, said Harinder Singh, senior fellow of research and policy at Sikhri, a New Jersey-based nonprofit that creates educational resources about the faith.
A 2019 survey he co-led with research associate Jasleen Kaur found that 65% of Sikhs said abortion should be up to the woman instead of the government or faith leaders, while 77% said Sikh institutions should support those who are considering abortions.
“The surveyed Sikh community is very clear that no religious or political authority should be deciding this issue,” Singh said.
Compassion is a virtue emphasized as well by some Christian leaders who are calling on their ardently anti-abortion colleagues to lower the temperature as they speak out on the issue.
The Rev. Kirk Winslow, pastor of Canvas Presbyterian Church in Irvine, California, said he views abortion through a human and spiritual lens instead of as a political issue. Communities should turn to solutions such as counseling centers, parenting courses, health care and education, he said, instead of getting “drawn into a culture war.”
He has counseled women struggling with whether to have an abortion, and stresses the importance of empathy.
“Amidst the pain, fear and confusion of an unexpected pregnancy, no one has ever said, ‘I’m excited to get an abortion,’” Winslow said. “And there are times when getting an abortion may be the best chance we have to bring God’s peace to the situation. And I know many would disagree with that position. I would only respond that most haven’t been in my office for these very real and very difficult conversations.”
Likewise, Caitlyn Stenerson, an Evangelical Covenant Church pastor and campus minister in Minnesota's Twin Cities area, called on faith leaders to “tread carefully,” bearing in mind that women in their pews may have had abortions for a variety of reasons and may be grieving and wrestling with trauma.
“As a pastor my job isn’t to heap more shame on people but to bring them to Jesus,” Stenerson said. “We are called to speak truth, but with love.”
Ahead of a final court ruling expected to be handed down this summer, faith leaders on both sides are preparing for the possibility of abortion becoming illegal in many states.
The Rev. Sarah Halverson-Cano, senior pastor of Irvine United Congregational Church in Irvine, California, said her congregation is considering providing sanctuary and other support to women who may travel to the state to end their pregnancies. On Tuesday, the day after the draft opinion leaked, she led congregants and community members in a rally for abortion rights in nearby Santa Ana.
“Our faith calls us to be responsive to those in need,” Halverson-Cano said. “It’s time to stand with women and families and look into how to respond to this horrible injustice.”
Niklas Koehler, president of the Students for Life group at Franciscan University of Steubenville, a private Catholic college in eastern Ohio, said he and others regularly attend a special Mass on Saturday with prayers for an end to abortion. They then travel across the state line to nearby Pittsburgh to hold a prayer vigil and distribute leaflets outside an abortion clinic.
Actions like that will continue to be necessary even if the draft opinion becomes the law of the land, Koehler said, because abortion will likely remain legal in states such as Pennsylvania.
“We will still be going to pray outside the clinic,” he said.
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Bharath reported from Los Angeles and Henao from New York. Associated Press writers Giovanna Dell'Orto in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Peter Smith in Pittsburgh contributed.
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A man has been sentenced to 45 to 100 years in the shooting deaths of two people last year during a custody exchange in the parking lot of a Walmart store in Whitehall Township.
Edward Joel Rosario-Jimenez, 24, was sentenced after pleading guilty Thursday to third-degree murder in the February 2021 deaths of 22-year-old Jonathan Martinez and 20-year-old Nicolette Law in Lehigh County.
Officials said Martinez, the child’s father, had arrived with his 3-year-old child and Law, his new girlfriend. Rosario-Jimenez drove a Toyota SUV to the store with the child’s mother and two other people. An argument began and the defendant shot Law and then Martinez before fleeing, prosecutors said.
Law was pronounced dead that night and Martinez died just over a week later. Rosario-Jimenez was arrested a few days later and the handgun was found hidden in a snowbank. LehighValleyLive reports that video evidence showed that it was 45 seconds from the time Rosario-Jimenez arrived to when he shot the two victims.
In exchange for the plea, Lehigh County prosecutors dropped plans to seek the death penalty in the case. Assistant District Attorney Steven Luksa called the sentence tantamount to a life term, but Laws mother said she had wanted to see a life sentence for the man who killed her youngest child.
Judge Robert Steinberg told the defendant that he belonged “in the darkest place the state correctional institution can put you," saying he had shown no remorse. He said it was a sad commentary on society that the killings occurred during a custody exchange.
"All their dreams and aspirations ended with your shooting of them," the judge said of the victims.
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Authorities in Delaware County issued an arrest warrant for a man wanted for shooting another man dead in Chester on Thursday. The victim was found near the entrance to Widener University's campus.
Early Saturday morning Chester police announced Jihad Perry, 43, is wanted for murder in connection to the shooting death of Robert Dungee. Police say Perry fatally shot Dungee in Chester Thursday afternoon, and officers found him blocks away on the campus of Widener University.
Police say Perry should be considered armed and dangerous.
Anyone will information is asked to contact Captain Matthew Goldschmidt at the Chester Police Department.
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How a violent 1916 laid the foundation for Beebe hospital in Lewes
“Charles Robins Jr., met with quite a painful accident while he and another boy,” the Milford Chronicle reported on March 10, 1916, “were playing with an ax, cutting his foot, almost entirely severed two toes.
"Several stiches were required, and later antitoxin had to be used."It was feared the foot had to be amputated, but is now better. Dr. Richard Beebe was the attending physician.”
If ever there was a year that demonstrated that Lewes needed a hospital it was 1916.
Later that summer, the Newark Post reported, “Frank Derrickson and Harry Scott on Wednesday night got into a dispute at Lewes over a horse trade. They quarreled but parted, Scott leaving for home in his buggy.
"Derrickson jumped into the buggy from the rear and slashed Scott on his neck and back with a knife. His screams scared the horses which ran for two blocks. Drs. Orr and Beebe closed the wounds with eight stitches. Scott, it is stated, will prosecute.”
In the early 20th century, medical care in southern Delaware was scarce. As Bob Kotowski explained in the 2015 issue of "Lewes History" (the journal of the Lewes Historical Society), “Before physician brothers James and Richard C. Beebe opened their four-room hospital in Lewes in 1916, anyone needing that level of health care had to make a long, arduous trip either to Philadelphia or, later, to Wilmington, Delaware.
"In the 18th and even early 19th century, those trips were rare. Whatever their ailment, Lower Delaware residents relied either on home remedies administered by mothers or wives or on the skills of local doctors.”
As the stitching up the ax-hewed foot of Charles Robins and the slashed neck of Harry Scott showed, the skill of local doctors was considerable; but the physicians often needed more than antitoxins, needle and thread to treat patients.
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Sometimes, however, patients were so badly injured that they were beyond care. It happened on Tuesday, July 18, 1916, when Lewes postmaster and fire chief, Ebe Lynch, and dentist, Dr. William W. Parker had an argument over baseball in Lynch’s restaurant and ice cream parlor on Second Street.
After the ruckus was over, Parker stormed out of the restaurant vowing, said, “I’ll get you and get you right. You’ll pay for this and pay for it dear.”
Lynch was standing in front of his establishment talking to some friends when Parker reappeared at the corner of Market Street. Lynch was about 40 feet from the dentist, when Parker lifted a shotgun and fired a single blast into the face and neck of Lynch, who died within minutes.
No hospital could have saved Lynch, but when Mrs. Edward B. Riley was driving a car with five of her friends, she lost control negotiating a short curve over the bridge across the Rehoboth-Lewes Canal.
The vehicle broke through the guardrail, turned over twice in the air, and landed in the water upside down. Although everyone in the car sustained a variety of broken bones, all of the people in the car were able to extricate themselves successfully.
According to the Wilmington Evening Journal, “Mrs. Riley has not had much experience as a driver.”
The rash of slashings, shootings, and car accidents in 1916 was unusual, but they indicated that the Lewes-Rehoboth area was in need of a hospital.
In 1916, Drs. James and Richard Beebe built a tiny three-bed hospital adjacent to their father’s house on Savannah Road. Over the last century, the hospital has grown and it is now the cornerstone of Beebe Healthcare that serves patients throughout southern Delaware.
Principal sources:
Milford Chronicle, March 10, 1916.
Smyrna Times, July 26, 1916.
Newark Post, July 20, 1916.
Evening Journal, July 20, 1916; Aug. 25, 1916.
Bob Kotowski, “Before the Beebes”, Lewes History, Vol. XVIII, Lewes, 2015, pp. 6, 7.
Pam George and Kevin Fleming, "Two Men with a Dream, The Story of Beebe Healthcare," Portfolio Books, Rehoboth Beach, 216, p. 12.
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MODESTO, Calif. — A man has died after a shooting in Modesto Saturday night, officers with the Modesto Police Department said.
Around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, police officers were sent to the area of Dallas Avenue and Park Hurst Way in Modesto after receiving two 911 calls where callers reported hearing gunshots.
When officers arrived to the area, they say they found an adult man down in the road suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
Officers say they tried to provide medical aid to the victim before he was taken to an area hospital by medics, where police say he later died.
The Modesto Police Department has not released information on a potential motive in the shooting or a description of the gunman, who is still at large.
Those with information on the homicide are asked to call Modesto Police Detective Joshua Lawrence at 209-572-9642.
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A woman was fighting for her life in a New York City hospital Sunday after she was struck by a landscaping truck that police later said had reported stolen hours earlier.
The 49-year-old victim was rushed to Jamaica Hospital after the truck clipped a parked car near 120th Avenue and 167th Street around 8:30 a.m., according to a senior NYPD official.
Several neighbors as well as the car's owner tried to stop the truck driver when the woman was hit, the official added. The truck was found abandoned nearly one mile away.
Police were still searching for the driver of the truck, which the official said at been reported stolen two hours before the incident.
The investigation is ongoing.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — On Tuesday, Village Creek Apartments in Fort Myers became the scene of an investigation. Police found 55-year-old Anthony Reece dead in his apartment.
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People who worked with Reece told police he was missing for several days before investigators found him inside his unit unresponsive.
“Well I saw the animal abuse control van and I immediately thought, oh my god animals are hurt,” said Melliara Ferrera.
Neighbors who live at the complex said Reece had a dog that was also found dead.
Family members who were at Reece’s apartment Saturday did not want to speak about what happened.
But, neighbors say too much crime is taking place on the property.
Fort Myers Police say they are investigating what happened to Anthony Reece.
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A woman was shot and killed following a fight overnight in Philadelphia, police said.
An altercation between a group of women occurred Saturday at 2:03 a.m. on Cottman and Rising Sun avenues, according to investigators. A woman involved in the fight then pulled out a gun and opened fire, shooting a 29-year-old woman twice in the chest, police said.
The victim was taken to the Einstein Medical Center where she was pronounced dead at 2:25 a.m.
An arrest was made in connection to the shooting. Investigators have not yet revealed the identities of the victim or suspect.
As of Saturday night, there were 161 homicides in Philadelphia, down 10 percent from the same time last year which was ultimately the deadliest on record.
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