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Average daily flows
Snake River at Heise 10,852 cfs
Snake River at Blackfoot 1,302 cfs
Snake River at American Falls 12,159 cfs
Snake River at Milner 0 cfs
Little Wood River near Carey 289 cfs
Jackson Lake is 48% full.
Palisades Reservoir is 76% full.
American Falls Reservoir is 46% full.
Upper Snake River system is at 59% of capacity.
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SAN ANTONIO — Two people are dead after a fire broke out at an apartment-style home on the city's west side, the San Antonio Fire Department said.
The call came in at around 12:21 a.m. on Waverly near North Zarzamora Street.
Authorities said their investigation is ongoing, but don't believe any foul play was involved. Investigators were called to the scene, but SAFD spokesperson Joe Arrington said that's any procedure when someone dies in a fire.
Arrington said the fire started in the back of the home. Fire crews received multiple calls early in the morning with one person even running to Fire Station 10, which is just down the street, to report the fire.
When crews arrived shortly after, they found the home engulfed in flames. For that reason, authorities couldn't get inside at first. But, once they were able to make entry, they found a man and a woman dead.
Neighbors told SAFD they were a young couple, but their identities haven’t been released. Crews said they did come across some challenges trying to put the fire out, as it was a tight space.
Arrington said there was no clutter, but wants to remind people to stay prepared. "It’s important to remind everyone, obviously now, check to make sure you have working smoke detectors. Please visit Fire Safe SA for home safety tips, as well as to request a smoke detector.”
You can find that information here.
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An inquest jury found two Seattle officers were justified in their use of deadly force against Charleena Lyles in 2017.
The jury released its findings on July 6, following days of proceedings. King County requires an inquest jury to be convened for every death caused by law enforcement.
The six jurors determined that at least one of the officers did not comply with department policy when it comes to the use of weapons such as Tasers. Neither officer was carrying one at the time of the shooting. However, the jury found a Taser would not have been an appropriate use of force for the situation.
On June 18, 2017, Charleena Lyles called 911 asking for help at her north Seattle apartment. There was a caution alert attached to her name due to a previous incident where she threatened law enforcement. Read more
Police said a 14-year-old girl was shot and killed in Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood around noon Wednesday.
The Tacoma Police Department said juveniles were inside a car in the area of 19th and MLK Jr Way when they were shot at. Police said the victims drove the car to the 1900 block of South Ainsworth and called for medical help, but a teenage girl was pronounced dead at the scene.
The recent spate of violence has been a recurring issue in Tacoma. Five people were shot over the weekend, and Tacoma had two mass shootings in a 24-hour span in late June.
Tacoma's homicide rate has been more than twice as high as last year’s rate at the same point in the year. Read more
King County health officials warned Wednesday that local transmission of the monkeypox virus, first confirmed in the county in May, is "likely."
Public Health – Seattle & King County said in a release that recent cases of monkeypox were identified in residents who did not travel during the time they would have been exposed to the virus, suggesting the virus was transmitted locally.
Health officials have identified nine monkeypox cases in King County as of July 6. King County's first monkeypox case was confirmed on May 23 after a man who recently traveled internationally to a country with virus cases reported feeling ill. Read more
Starting Wednesday, Washington State Ferries (WSF) said most of its routes will operate on alternate schedules due to a mounting staff shortage that has worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic.
WSF said in a public bulletin the changes will lead to "more predictable and reliable service systemwide" for customers. The agency said it plans to notify people when full service can temporarily be restored to a particular route. Read more
A new state agency was mandated to start investigating police use of deadly force cases on July 1, but it appears it actually won’t be ready to handle those investigations for months.
“It’s just a lot to get done. Standing up an office from nothing is incredibly difficult,” said Roger Rogoff, appointed last month by Gov. Jay Inslee to head up the state’s newest agency, the Office of Independent Investigations.
Under current law, when a police officer in the state uses deadly force, detectives from surrounding agencies, typically from the same county, investigate the incident and refer the case to county prosecutors for charging decisions.
Under the state law passed last year, the newly formed agency - and its up to 80 civilian employees - has the authority to conduct investigations of deadly force use by police officers. Those investigations from the state will be the ones presented to county prosecutors. Read more
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CROWN POINT — The Lake County Sheriff's Department will be meeting with FBI experts in domestic terrorism in the wake of the shooting at the Highland Park parade in Illinois.
"In light of current events in our region and across the country, and with so many upcoming events like parades, festivals and concerts, I feel it’s important that I share the following information from the Lake County Sheriff’s Department as we continue to take a proactive approach to public safety," Martinez said.
Local authorities will be collaborating on the Special Events Emergency Action Plan, which includes tactical elements used to neutralize an active shooter and minimize danger to the public.
In addition to FBI experts, the Lake County Sheriff's Department will be working with agencies across the county to create and build a critical incident response plan. Martinez said the plan will be routinely activated during special events in which authorities have determined there is a potential threat, based on a threat assessment.
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Martinez said an upcoming meeting will finalize the emergency plan, which involves additional security and surveillance for large-scale events like concerts and festivals.
Individuals who see unusual items, situations or suspicious activity should immediately report it to police, he said. The Department of Homeland Security has a list of how to recognize signs of terrorism-related activity in their "See Something, Say Something" campaign, including: implied threats, surveillance, entering a restricted area, cyberattacks, probing security and more.
"We have seen the aftermath of unspeakable tragedy in communities close to home," Martinez said. "Nevertheless, we should not allow these acts of violence to adversely affect our quality of life. As we attend public events like parades and festivals, let’s be observant of our surroundings and take precautions when necessary." | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lake-county-sheriffs-police-meeting-with-fbi-experts-for-special-event-threat-initiative/article_cc64c2f9-fc90-5758-aa1e-bf458cdde44d.html | 2022-07-07T14:02:59 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lake-county-sheriffs-police-meeting-with-fbi-experts-for-special-event-threat-initiative/article_cc64c2f9-fc90-5758-aa1e-bf458cdde44d.html |
SCHERERVILLE — Early Tuesday morning, Schererville Fire Chief Robert Patterson got the alert.
The alarm had been triggered before, by wind or the odd power outage, but this time was different.
When the two firefighters on duty went to check the electronic contraption built into the wall of Fire Station No. 2, to their "amazement," they found a baby girl, Patterson said.
Schererville installed the contraption, called a Safe Haven Baby Box, a little over a year ago "knowing it would be used, ... and it was," Safe Haven Baby Box CEO Monica Kelsey told the small crowd that stood outside the station Wednesday morning.
After an initial medical evaluation determined the child was healthy, she was taken to a local hospital for further care. A letter listing the exact date and time the infant was born was also left in the box.
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"The thoughtfulness and care in which the important details were supplied will further aid in providing a safe and caring environment for the infant," Patterson said. "The Schererville Fire Department would like to applaud the mother's tremendous act of courage and strength in entrusting our department with the health and well-being of her child."
When Colleen DeVries got a call from Patterson saying "we have a beautiful baby girl," she cried.
"We all felt like grandmothers," DeVries said gesturing to her fellow Tri Kappa Associate Chapter members.
After having a heart attack, DeVries experienced a moment of "divine intervention" — Schererville needed a Baby Box.
Actually DeVries, who is from St. John, would have been happy with a Baby Box anywhere in the Schererville, St. John, Dyer area. However, Schererville's Fire Station No. 2, located at 280 Plum Creek Drive, is the only nearby station that has someone on-called 24/7.
"After calling friends and enemies" and talking to just about every business in town, Tri Kappa was able to raise about $26,000, member Joanne Freeland said. After a few local businesses donated their labor, the total installation cost only ended up being about $10,000.
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In May 2021, Schererville welcomed the 66th Baby Box in the U.S. — on Thursday, the 112th box was completed.
"So you can see how much we've grown in just 426 days," Kelsey said.
The Safe Haven Baby Box organization was inspired by a Baby Box-like device Kelsey saw at a church in Cape Town, South Africa, and her own experience of being adopted after her mother left her at an Ohio hospital just two hours after giving birth.
Indiana's safe haven law allows for the anonymous surrender of an infant 30 days old or younger at fire departments, hospitals and emergency medical services stations. While different states handle infant surrendering differently, in Indiana, Baby Boxes are an acceptable use of the Safe Haven law. In some other states, parents must make direct contact with the emergency personnel before surrendering the baby.
"If you're in the hospital you're not going to say, 'I don't want this baby,' because they have your name, they have your record and you're no longer anonymous," Freeland said. "If the parent is embarrassed, ashamed, whatever, ... they do not want to have face-to-face contact."
In 2016 Kelsey opened the first U.S. Baby Box in her home city of Woodburn. The next one was installed at a fire station near Michigan City; now there are over 80 Baby Boxes all across Indiana including one in Hammond, Merrillville, Lowell, Crown Point, Gary, Valparaiso, Lake Station, Hobart, Chesterton and Portage.
The boxes can also be found in Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, Arkansas, Kentucky and Ohio, though Indiana has the most locations by far.
The boxes are built into the walls of hospitals and fire stations.
On Tuesday morning, when the metal door on the outside of Fire Station No. 2 was opened a strobe went off in the station and an alarm company was notified. The alarm company called the local dispatch and the fire chief and deputy chief each received a notification.
Inside each climate-controlled box is a padded plastic container with a blanket and cap for the child as well as an orange bag filled with resources for the parent.
The box's outside door automatically locks once it is closed.
After the child is taken to a local hospital, they are turned over to the Department of Child Services and placed in their Foster-to-Adopt program. Kelsey said the infants are placed with permanent families within 30 to 45 days.
'She's already thought this through'
"1-800-99BABY1" is printed in big white letters across the Baby Box door — the Safe Haven crisis line.
Parents can contact the line at any time to discuss their options and learn what resources are available. Safe Haven employs a psychologist to help council parents, Kelsey said.
While the Baby Boxes are a vital "last resort," Kelsey said Safe Haven still encourages parents to surrender children directly to emergency personnel. Over the last five years, 21 babies have been surrendered in the Baby Boxes and Safe Haven has assisted with another 121 face-to-face surrenders.
Safe Haven offers free trainings to all fire stations and hospitals that details both the technical aspect of the Baby Box and how to handle a face-to-face surrender.
"One thing that we always train on is, don't try to talk her out of it. She has gained every bit of confidence to walk in here and hand you a child, and the last thing you should do is shame her," Kelsey said, explaining that whether intentional or not, urging a parent to reconsider their decision will likely cause them to feel shame. "She's already thought this through."
Every time a child is found in a Baby Box, Kelsey holds a news conference. She said she has heard critiques from people who say the news conferences take away some anonymity.
"It is anonymous. No one knows who she is," Kelsey said. "One of the good things about coming and doing a press conference after a baby is surrendered in one of our boxes is I get to speak directly to her, if she's listening, ... and I do hope that she is listening."
Kelsey said parents often contact the hotline to check on their child after the surrender. She said the mother of the infant surrendered in Schererville is likely "scouring" the internet for information on her baby right now.
"These women want to know their baby is safe, their baby is healthy," Kelsey said. "Women want to utilize a safe place, they do not want to throw their babies in the dumpster." | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/schererville/watch-now-act-of-courage-first-infant-surrendered-at-schererville-baby-box/article_080337e5-e07c-5f3f-b0b3-3c83827fe2aa.html | 2022-07-07T14:03:00 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/schererville/watch-now-act-of-courage-first-infant-surrendered-at-schererville-baby-box/article_080337e5-e07c-5f3f-b0b3-3c83827fe2aa.html |
MERRILLVILLE — A new 101-room, four-story hotel is planned for the 8400 block of Indiana Street.
The Plan Commission recently granted preliminary subdivision approval for the four-story Tru hotel. It could consider final approval this month.
“It sounds very interesting, and I’m sure it will be good for the town of Merrillville,” said Town Councilwoman Marge Uzelac, D-4th, the commission’s president.
The hotel will feature a mixture of queen and king beds, and each room will have a micro-fridge. Amit Shah, a representative for the project, said there will be an indoor pool and fitness center as well as a complimentary breakfast bar for guests.
Merrillville Planning and Building Director Sheila Shine said the site for the hotel is in a commercial zoning district. A hotel is a permitted use for that zoning classification, but the subdivision approval is necessary before construction begins.
Shine said the Indiana Street property is currently a single lot, and a Home2 hotel already sits on that property.
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Two primary structures can’t occupy the same lot, which prompted the need for the two-lot subdivision.
“I don’t see a problem with it whatsoever,” said Councilman Shawn Pettit, D-6th, a commission member.
Shah said Tru is a Hilton product. There are about 200 Tru facilities in the country, and the Merrillville location could be the first in the Region, Shah said.
He said the design and features at Tru hotels are geared toward millennials.
“It has a young look,” Shine said earlier this month. “The seating is modern and the rooms are modern.”
Daily room rates could be about $120 to $130, Shah said.
Besides advancing the hotel project, the commission also granted preliminary subdivision approval for a 34-lot residential development planned near 77th Avenue.
Single-family homes will be constructed there, and each could be around 2,400 to 2,800 square feet.
“It’s a great development,” said Steve King, Merrillville’s engineering administrator/public works director. “Let’s get moving.”
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
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Glorious Coffee and Teas and Jamba is now serving up all manner of beverages in Schererville.
The hybrid coffee and smoothie shop just opened its doors at 1906 U.S. 41 in Schererville. It's located next to Basecamp Fitness and the newish IHOP just south of the Crossroads of America location.
"The location offers the same menu as our Crown Point location," said Raed Naser, one of the franchisees. "Customers can choose and customize all of of our drinks, hot or cold."
Glorious Coffee and Teas, previously Gloria Jean's, offers an array of coffee and tea drinks like brewed coffee, ice coffee, Madagascar Vanilla Latte, Vanilla Caramel Latte, White Chocolate Mocha, Cafe Mocha, Cafe Au Lait, Mocha Caramel Latte, Cappuccino, Latte, Americano, Chai Tea Latte, Matcha Green Tea Latte and a London Fog with steamed 2% milk.
It also has blended drinks, refreshers and bubble teas.
"The location is also cobranded with Jamba Juice, which offers fresh made to order smoothies and smoothie bowls," Naser said. "The location also offers all-day breakfast and lunch menus as well as plenty of bakery items."
Glorious Coffee and Teas and Jamba offer indoor dining and a drive-thru for caffeine fiends on the go.
The coffee shop is open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
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Foreign Local started pouring craft beer at a new taproom in downtown Hammond.
The craft brewery started brewing beers last year and just took over the former Sour Note Brewery taproom at 489 Fayette St., down the block from 18th Street Brewery and 18th Street Distillery.
Foreign Local bills itself as an "astral beverage producer pipe-dreamed since 2015" and "a Region-based company serving the craft beer and beverage needs of Indiana and the greater Chicagoland."
The craft brewery opened the taproom Wednesday, kicking off with live local music. It's serving a number of craft beers, including Raspberry Hazelnut Dead Forever, which it describes as "dessert in a glass," Maple Blueberry French Toast Astral Confection, which tastes like French toast topped with blueberries and "completely smothered in the mapleyest of maple syrup," and Apricot Mango Marshmallow Kush, a milkshake IPA brewed with apricot, mango, marshmallows, vanilla and milk sugar.
It also has Region Genuine Draft, a premium low-carb light beer "that reflects our unique Region-centric culture and traits" and which the brewery describes as "a beer for your aunts and uncles who don't like craft beer, and a beer for those who love craft beer but want a lighter option" and "by The Region, for the Region."
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Varied beer styles
Its beer styles are varied, often skewing toward the sweet. The Shallow Be Thy Grave Double India Pale Ale with vanilla beans promises "a thousand years reign of candied papaya and caramelized tangerine, bathed in sugar frosting and coconut creme, shrouded by cedar and Sour Diesel hops."
Foreign Local partnered with Smalltown Coffee in Crown Point on Phantasm Cold Brew Coffee and has a number of seasonal beer releases like the Strawberry Swisher PT.1 Milkshake IPA with strawberries and strawberry gummy bears, the Alligator Blood Russian Imperial Stout made with Mexican hot chocolate spices, the Loose Ends double dry-hopped hazy pale ale fermented in American Oak barrels, the Blueberry Kush Double Milkshake IPA with marshmallows, blueberries and vanilla and the Hiveminds barrel-fermented, double dry-hopped double IPA brewed locally sourced honey.
Foreign Local also sells a variety of merchandise with art from local artists, including a Region Rat coffee mug, Reaper T-shirt, Kush Serpent stemmed glass and Snake or Cat hoodie.
The taproom will be open 2-10 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 2-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 12-6 p.m. Sunday.
For more information, visit www.foreignlocalnwi.com or call 219-554-3978.
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Esca Kitchen and Company is serving American cuisine, brunch and Italian fare in downtown Valparaiso.
The contemporary restaurant opened a few months ago in the Albano's Pasta Shop space, where it promises your "next memorable meal." The chef-driven menu includes herb crusted salmon, hangar steak, braised pork shank, short rib ravioli, seafood risotto and chicken marsala. It's elevated cuisine. The massive Esca Burger, for instance, includes house-blended meat, smoked cheddar, pork belly and house-made pepper jam on a pretzel bun.
Touting "comfort meets refinement," it features entrees prepared with fine dining techniques and plated immaculately.
Esca offers both indoor and outdoor dining across the street from two wine tasting rooms and a craft beer taproom.
It has salads, a daily soup, desserts and starters like shrimp cakes, pork belly skewers, a tomato and burrata tart and a charcuterie board. The restaurant also serves wine, beer and cocktails.
For more information, call 219-286-6607 or email escavalpo@gmail.com .
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Relocated
Dr. Jeremy Popp, a chiropractic physician and acupuncturist, has expanded his practice.
He's now offering medical services at 630 N. Main St. in Hebron. The office provides chiropractic treatment, nutritional counseling and acupuncture.
Commercial In-Sites of Merrillville brokered the deal.
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Relocating
Healthchek, which promises low-cost health and wellness, is on the move.
The health care provider relocated from 2131 U.S. 30 to Deer Run Plaza at 320 East U.S 30 in Schererville, according to Merrillville-based Commercial In-Sites, which brokered the deal.
It offers a variety of medical services like heart, thyroid, allergy, hormone, drug and EKG testing. It also handles immunizations and PEMF therapy.
For more information, visit healthchek.net .
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Relocating
Operation Combat Bikesaver has moved its headquarters from Cedar Lake to 1670 E. North St. in Crown Point.
The nonprofit helps returning veterans build their own motorcycles. It has expanded to also have locations in Alabama and California.
"OCB is a nonprofit public benefit organization which provides a workshop, general safe haven and comradery filled stomping ground for veterans," Commercial In-Sites said in a news release. "This workshop includes trained individuals skilled in various areas of hands-on therapy providing therapeutic, hands-on, in-person programs for veterans suffering from PTSD, TBI and/or depression. Once a veteran completes any project or piece of art, it is theirs to keep or donate to another veteran or family member of their choosing at no cost to the veteran."
For more information, visit www.combatbikesaver.org .
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Open for season
Dig the Dunes Trail Stop has opened for the summer at the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk Pavilion in the Indiana Dunes National Park.
The retail shop and cafe is now open six days a week on the shores of Lake Michigan at 100 Riverwalk Drive in Portage. It's now serving lunch Tuesday through Sunday, offering beach and national park visitors pizza, paninis and pierogi.
It also has many events, including live music and free tastings from craft breweries like Burn 'Em and the Chesterton Brewery from 5-7 p.m. on the final Friday of every month.
For more information, visit digthedunes.com or call 219-716-2225.
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Closed
Top Line Furniture closed after a short run in downtown Hammond.
The furniture store opened last year on the first floor of 5217 Hohman Ave. and is now shuttered.
If you would like your business to be included in a future column, email joseph.pete@nwi.com .
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WATERLOO – As plans are finalized to transform Gates and Byrnes parks, dreams are becoming a reality.
Paul Huting, Mark Kuiper and Felicia Smith-Nalls presented the master plan during the educational series “Windows on Waterloo” put on by the Waterloo Community Foundation on Wednesday.
Much of the focus was on Gates Park, which is further along in the planning process. Huting and Kuiper hope Gates will be open for the public in summer or fall of 2023. Byrnes is expected to be ready by summer 2024.
Gates Park is separated into two parks — north and south. The north end will house two areas. A splash pad and inclusive playground will replace the tennis courts. An amphitheater and basketball court will replace the pool.
After multiple discussions with the public, a splash pad seemed a better fit for the community than a swimming pool, according to the panel. Huting said early on the public felt there should be pools at both Gates and Byrnes Park. But after community input and thoughts from the master planner, Huting said, he realized the pool at Gates is underused compared with the pool at Byrnes.
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Kuiper noted splash pads provide expanded hours, mid-morning to sunset, an expanded operating season, early May to Oct. 1, and free access. He noted Mark’s Park in downtown Waterloo is popular and overcrowded.
The idea of inclusive playgrounds is also popular in the community, according to the panel. The inclusive playground in Cedar Falls is busy. Playground features include structures to be used by people of any capabilities, such as swings, merry-go-rounds and multiple play structures. The playground area also will include a play tunnel, a natural-looking feature that could provide a quiet place for families.
This area of the playground will be gated off to provide a sense of security for parents, Kuiper said. In North Gates there will be an amphitheater for gathering and music, three basketball courts and a roller rink surrounding the basketball courts.
The area will be dug into the ground to keep trees and natural landscape on mounds, as well as to contain sounds from the amphitheater and help its acoustics.
Kuiper said the basketball court will hopefully become a home to the youth basketball league.
He said the roller rink around the court is being added due to the rising popularity of rollerblading and dance groups.
South Gates, where the former Chamberlain site sits, will become a sculpture garden. This part of the park will likely be finished after the main park is completed, the panel said, due to the environmental cleanup needed and to find funding for the art and sculptures. The hope is the sculptures will be made by local artists and tell the story of Black history in Waterloo.
The area will be planted in prairie landscape. Smith-Nalls noted the irony of replacing the environmental hazard of the Chamberlain site with native prairies.
“We can utilize the toxic blight and take that gate down and turn it into something beautiful,” she said, “being a pollinator that creates life rather than an area that destroys life.”
As for Byrnes Park, the plan is still evolving. So far is slated to have a six-lane, 25-yard lap pool, a zero-depth entry play pool, slide, new bathhouses and concessions and a replacement of filtration and water treatment facilities.
Some members of the public were confused about why the city decided to have only one park with a pool. Huting said with the indoor pool at the SportsPlex, a pool at Byrnes and a splash pad at Gates, the community’s aquatic needs would be filled.
Smith-Nalls also said that decision was based on equity — saying it doesn’t always mean two things are identical, but rather they meet the needs of the community.
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(RNS) — Outside the small Texas town of Elsa, a sheet metal fence too tall to see over surrounds a few acres of prime Rio Grande Valley land. In front of the compound’s drab, gray gate, bright orange letters spell out “Nature’s Resort.” The gate opens to reveal a seemingly ordinary community. RVs and small homes line the roads, péntaque and pickleball courts offer residents recreational spaces, and the front office acts as the community’s nucleus.
Nothing looks amiss, except that is, for what’s missing — namely, clothing.
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Misty Katz, part owner of Nature’s Resort, finds comfort in shunning clothes. Growing up in South Africa, she was scolded by her parents for undressing in public when her clothes got dirty. She didn’t take those lessons too seriously. More than half a century later, she lives at a nudist (or naturist) resort in South Texas and doesn’t worry about dirty clothes anymore.
For as long as Katz has been a nudist, she has also been a Christian.
Public nudity may seem antithetical to the modesty often promoted by churches, but to Katz, the two go hand in hand. “Believe it or not, we are modest,” Katz says. “Modesty doesn’t mean you have to cover everything up. We don’t display our wares, we’re not adorning various parts of our bodies in a way that’s going to attract attention.”
Her idea of modesty echoes Pope John Paul II’s 1981 book “Love and Responsibility,” in which he writes “nakedness itself is not immodest.” He goes on to explain that immodesty presents itself only when nakedness serves to sexually arouse.
At Nature’s Resort, public nudity is not sexual. “The initial conception is that this is a sexual thing,” Katz says. “People think we’re all out on the front lawn having sex with each other, swapping partners. In fact, if there is any overt sexuality, you see that gate open real fast and somebody is ushered out.”
Some Christian critics of nudism, including Mary Lowman of The Christian Working Woman, see the lifestyle as an affront to God. On her website’s page The Christian Dress Code, Lowman claims “God’s dress code from the beginning has been to cover our nakedness.”
Even still, nudism attracts unlikely allies. Some nondenominational, hard-line conservative clergy accept nudism. Pastor Ron Smith, of McAllen’s Church of the King, vehemently opposes homosexuality, abortion and the transgender community, but when it comes to nudism, his strident views loosen up.
“I think it’s odd, I think it’s strange, but I have no proof it’s sinning,” Smith said. “We have a retired couple that sit in the front row every Sunday that live at a nudist camp. I believe they’re dedicated Christians.”
Because the Bible doesn’t explicitly forbid nudism, Smith says he cannot condemn those who practice it. In fact, the Bible condones nudism on several occasions: “Adam and Eve were in the garden talking to God every day. They were nude,” Katz says. “When David had his big victory in battle, he went dancing in the streets naked to praise God. So, that must be OK in God’s eyes.”
Katz isn’t the only Christian at Nature’s Resort. Chip and Daisy are a married couple who requested to exclude their last names so friends and family don’t learn of their nudism. They, like most everyone at Nature’s Resort, are winter Texans, retirees spending their summers up north and coming down to the Rio Grande Valley when temperatures start to drop.
Chip, a Black man, is also one of the only residents of color out of the up to 250 people in the community. Like Katz, Chip and Daisy find nudism fits neatly into their Christianity and see it enhancing their religious lives. “In a nudist environment, the true Christian belief of valuing others and not judging others is accentuated,” Daisy says. “Here, you don’t judge someone for what they look like or what they wear.”
“It’s one thing to be with Christians in a building,” Chip says. “It’s another thing to be with Christians who are nudists. There’s a deeper connectivity.”
Though Nature’s Resort is not explicitly religious, it is affiliated with the American Association for Nude Recreation, an organization with deep Christian roots. AANR, once named the American Sunbathing Association, and the American League for Physical Culture before that, was led by Ilsley Boone in the 1930s.
Boone was a Dutch Reformed minister and a driving force behind popularizing Christian naturism in the U.S., where he preached a religiously enriching nudism. Christian naturism, popular in the early 20th century, continues to find success in the digital age on online forums.
And though Nature’s Resort’s particular brand of nudism is not the Christian variety, some of its members have found the lifestyle deeply spiritual.
“I think it’s far easier being a Christian nudist than being a Christian non-nudist,” Katz says. “That’s because as a Christian, you’ve got to love everybody. And as a nudist, you do love everybody.” | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/christians-south-texas-nudist-elsa-17289796.php | 2022-07-07T14:06:41 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/christians-south-texas-nudist-elsa-17289796.php |
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – The family of a teen whose car was damaged in a confrontation with neighbors in a gated Sanford community last month will hold a news conference Thursday morning to call for “more serious charges” against the two men arrested in the incident.
Jermaine Jones, 16, will be joined by family members — along with attorneys Greg Francis and Kevin Edwards — for the news conference outside of the Seminole County State Attorney’s Office at 11:30 a.m.
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Jones’ legal team described the June 14 incident as an attack in which he and another teenager were accosted and harassed while driving through the Lake Forest subdivision, leading up to one neighbor throwing a rock through the teen’s car window and another hitting one of the teens in their stomach with a traffic cone.
Jones told News 6 he acknowledges he was speeding through the neighborhood, but he thinks their actions were not appropriate.
“I can admit when I’m wrong,” Jones said. “I was speeding a little bit but either way, I don’t think it was justified for them to throw a rock through my car rather than just call the police.”
After the window broke, Jones stepped out of his car and said he began recording because he feared for his life. His legal team likened the situation to “what happened to Ahmaud Arbery,” a 25-year-old Black man who was chased, shot and killed in 2020 while jogging through a neighborhood in Georgia.
Court records show Donald Corsi and Howard Hughes were arrested by Seminole County deputies in connection to the confrontation. According to arrest reports, Corsi faces a property damage charge and a weapons charge for throwing the rock, while Hughes faces property damage and battery charges for throwing the cone. Both men were arrested June 14 bonded out of jail the next day, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said.
Jones’ family has asked the Seminole County SAO to consider more serious charges against the men “given the gravity of the situation,” a news release stated. The news conference Thursday will take place after Jones, his family and legal counsel meet with members of the SAO.
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ORLANDO, Fla – Calling all the pub sub lovers, Publix just announced a week-long sale of its sandwiches from heaven.
Whole 12-inch chicken tender Publix subs are on sale starting Thursday, according to Publix’s weekly ad.
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You can save $2 and get a delicious chicken tender sub for just $7.99.
The sale runs from Thursday, July 7 to Wednesday, July 13.
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A man remains hospitalized today after a motorcycle crash left him with life-threatening injuries late Wednesday in Fort Wayne.
Police said they were called to the area of North Clinton Street and East Washington Center Road about 10:30 p.m. after someone reported a collision between the bike and a passenger car.
Officers found the motorcyclist on the ground. Paramedics took him to the hospital in serious condition, but a doctor later downgraded the man's injuries to life threatening.
Police believe the man was traveling alone south on North Clinton when the car headed north on the street failed to yield the right-of-way while attempting a left turn into Bishop Dwenger High School.
The male driver of the car is cooperating with police and he and a front-seat passenger were not hurt in the crash, officers said. The motorcyclist was wearing a helmet.
An investigation is ongoing. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/motorcyclist-critical-after-fort-wayne-crash/article_861f5670-fdde-11ec-9e27-5b2e62c42d14.html | 2022-07-07T14:26:02 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/motorcyclist-critical-after-fort-wayne-crash/article_861f5670-fdde-11ec-9e27-5b2e62c42d14.html |
Boardwalk visitors in Atlantic City, Wildwood and Seaside Heights can pick up some free blueberries on Friday, also known as National Blueberry Day, courtesy of the state.
Blueberries were the state's No. 1 crop in New Jersey for 2021 with a production value of $78 million, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture is distributing free Jersey Fresh blueberries to beachgoers at New York Avenue and the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, Schellenger Avenue and the Boardwalk in Wildwood, and along the Seaside Heights Boardwalk.
“This was a very popular event last year and we are thrilled to return,” state Agriculture Secretary Douglas H. Fisher said in a Thursday press release.
Blueberries were first cultivated and grown here in 1916 by Elizabeth Coleman White in Burlington County, and the Hammonton area has become one of the country's biggest and most famous blueberry growing areas.
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There is a Whitesbog Blueberry Summer Festival at Whitesbog Historic Farm & Village in Browns Mills, Burlington County, each Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. through July 23. Visitors can buy blueberries, blueberry products and blueberry bushes, enjoy food and crafts from vendors, listen to live music and tour a historic agricultural area.
The blueberry season for New Jersey lasts through the end of July. During its height, production can be as high as 250,000-300,000 crates per day, according to the state.
At Tuesday's Atlantic County Commissioners' meeting, Commissioner Jim Bertino, of Hammonton, said the crop this year is strong and demand for New Jersey blueberries is high.
Losses due to weather in some other more southern states have meant more interest in buying New Jersey's crop, Bertino said.
Blueberries will be available while supplies last, the department said. In Atlantic City the giveaway will be near Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, and in Wildwood near Morey's Piers. Both are areas of high tourist activity.
New Jersey annually ranks in the top six in the U.S. in the production of blueberries, according to the state. Farmers here harvested 41 million pounds of blueberries on 8,900 acres last year.
The National Blueberry Day promotion is taking place in conjunction with the New Jersey Blueberry Industry Advisory Council.
Blueberries are low in calories and high in nutrients. Go to www.FindJerseyFresh.com to see where Jersey Fresh blueberries are available locally and to find recipes. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/free-blueberries-to-be-given-out-on-atlantic-city-and-wildwood-boardwalks-on-friday/article_0fec51fc-fdf6-11ec-9342-5be47ec73e7e.html | 2022-07-07T14:26:16 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/free-blueberries-to-be-given-out-on-atlantic-city-and-wildwood-boardwalks-on-friday/article_0fec51fc-fdf6-11ec-9342-5be47ec73e7e.html |
DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — The Dauphin County District Attorney's Office issued a warning to residents Thursday about a suspected scam in which the suspects are reportedly posing as county law enforcement officials.
The scammers contact potential victims and pose as judges, members of the sheriff's department, or members of the DA's Office. They claim the victim owes money for failing to appear for a grand jury proceeding and demand payment of thousands of dollars to avoid an arrest.
The scheme sometimes involves use of documents the scammers created with the citizens’ names, county officials said. The fraudulent documents purport to be real bench warrants.
The scammers are currently targeting medical professionals, according to the DA's office.
If you receive such a call, contact the Criminal Investigation Division of the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office at (717) 780-6200. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/dauphin-county-scam-warning-police/521-a8925b7b-8589-4090-8ad1-e1904dcd0310 | 2022-07-07T14:32:59 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/dauphin-county-scam-warning-police/521-a8925b7b-8589-4090-8ad1-e1904dcd0310 |
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Editor's note: The above video is from March 3.
Police are searching for a missing teenage girl.
Alanys Rodriguez-Cruz, 16, was last seen leaving her home around 1:40 p.m. on July 6 in a dark blue Scion.
Cruz is described as standing 5'1" tall and weighing about 150 pounds. She has shoulder length curly, brown hair.
Cruz was last seen wearing a black shirt, jean shorts, and black sandals.
Anyone with information on Cruz's whereabouts are asked to contact the Chambersburg Police Department at 717-264-4131. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/police-searching-for-missing-teen-chambersburg-franklin-county/521-7e67d800-7581-4fea-9480-96c05fd15a0a | 2022-07-07T14:33:11 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/police-searching-for-missing-teen-chambersburg-franklin-county/521-7e67d800-7581-4fea-9480-96c05fd15a0a |
PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Editor's note: The above video is from July 5.
The Pennsylvania State Police are celebrating 50 years of women in the force today by "honoring the trailblazers" who initially broke through the all-male barrier decades ago.
On July 7, 1972, 14 women graduated from the Pennsylvania State Police Academy with the 31st Cadet Class, and the surviving members of the class have been invited to a ceremony in their honor at the academy in Hershey.
“These women were motivated to enlist by a sense of duty and a genuine interest in police work,” Colonel Robert Evanchick, commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, said in a statement. “We owe them a debt of gratitude for their roles in breaking barriers and blazing trails that have helped make this department what it is today.”
The Pennsylvania State Police was the United States' first state police agency to fully integrate female troopers into the regular command structure, according to a press release.
Kathryn (Hosmer) Doutt was the first woman to head a bureau when, in 1995, she was promoted to major and assigned to serve as director of the Bureau of Patrol, and Lucinda Hammond (Hawkins) became the first female trooper to receive the Pennsylvania State Police Commendation Medal, one of the department’s highest awards, in 1989, also according to the release.
The following is a list of the other members of the 31st Cadet Class:
- Regina Adams
- Jill Bairhalter
- Romaine Engle
- Judith Galloway
- Nancy Lightner
- Judith McCarr
- Ann Metcalf
- Patricia Moe
- Kathryn Neville
- Mary Connie Rossetti
- Doris Sott
- Barbara Wharrey
For more information on the Pennsylvania State Police, click here. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/state-police-50-years-since-first-female-troopers/521-b5638d8a-b923-4cac-b3b9-6dcf2045e41d | 2022-07-07T14:33:17 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/state-police-50-years-since-first-female-troopers/521-b5638d8a-b923-4cac-b3b9-6dcf2045e41d |
Have you ever been hiking and seen a strange small growth on a plant, something that’s not a fruit, seed or bud? Something that might be red as a berry, or yellow or orange as a fruit? Or might have the shape of a little flying saucer, a Ping-Pong ball, a giant coronavirus, a fuzz ball, a strawberry, a Fabergé egg, a sea anemone or smooth velvet? One type is as large as a potato!
If you have, then chances are you were looking at one of thousands of kinds of plant galls!
What the heck are these galls?
Galls are curiously shaped, harmless tumor-like growths found on bushes and trees. They form whenever eggs or spores have been deposited on a plant by a wide variety of tiny insects (including wasps, midges, aphids and mites) or in the case of spores, by mistletoe fungi.
The tiny insects can be as small as a comma or as large as a grain of rice. These insects commonly seek out specific host plants: oaks, sycamores, rabbitbrush, catclaw, native roses, creosote and many others to lay their eggs upon. They’ll lay eggs in just about every plant part from stems or leaves to buds, flowers or roots.
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For their part, the plants initially protect themselves by isolating the eggs in hardened capsules, but when the eggs hatch, the insect larvae begin eating the plant from the inside out, triggering galls to grow and begin taking on varied, whimsical shapes and colors.
Some galls, like Papery Oak Apples that grow on live oaks, take plant armoring a step further. The gall-producing insects, tiny wasp larvae smaller than mosquitoes, employ a still-mysterious trigger to force the gall to exude a sugary honeydew that attracts honeypot ants, bees and wasps. Swarming the galls, ants such as the honeypots actively protect the gall, the larvae inside, and eventually the emerging adults, defending them from a host of hungry spiders, lizards, chickadees and nuthatches. As amazing as this miniature world is, there are even smaller parasites that lay eggs or feed on the tiny gall-producers themselves.
In one of nature’s strangest twists, each spring some tiny wasps eat their way out of their galls to daylight and fly off, only to live another couple of days. Amazingly, they use this brief time to lay the season’s second clutch of eggs, which will all hatch as females who will all create galls of an entirely different shape.
There is enough magic in nature to last a naturalist studying cecidology — the study of plant galls (known in botany as "cecidia") — a number of lifetimes! A good example was Alfred C. Kinsey, best known for his studies of human sexuality, who counted more than 1,400 species of these tiny creatures.
Galls were studied and used for centuries. Ground and steeped galls have been used as eyewash; charred galls were used for tattoos, hair dye and permanent ink (for printing things including U.S. currency). The Japanese treaty of surrender marking the end of WWII was printed with gall ink.
Who knew the reach and significance of these strange and wonderful life forms?
Dan Campbell retired after 30 years with The Nature Conservancy as Director for Arizona, Belize, Jamaica and Bahamas, "focusing on freshwater, marine and tropical forests systems".
The NPS/USFS Roving Rangers volunteer through a unique agreement between the Flagstaff Area National Monuments and the Coconino National Forest to provide Interpretive Ranger walks and talks in the Flagstaff area each summer.
Submit questions for the ‘Ask a Ranger’ weekly column to askaranger@gmail.com | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/ask-a-ranger-having-the-gall-to-learn-about-plants/article_1466bae2-fd88-11ec-8ae9-bbdb8c42a8fd.html | 2022-07-07T14:36:16 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/ask-a-ranger-having-the-gall-to-learn-about-plants/article_1466bae2-fd88-11ec-8ae9-bbdb8c42a8fd.html |
Amid concerns of negative impacts to water quality and unbalanced investments, Flagstaff City Council gave direction on Tuesday to move ahead with two water-related projects on the basis of preserving future water opportunities for the city.
The two items discussed during the work session were completion of an application to a federal drought response program grant and the acquisition of real property necessary to progress the Red Gap Ranch water pipeline. Council directed staff to move forward with both actions.
The first item concerned application to a U.S Department of Interior WaterSMART grant. According to the meeting agenda, the grants are designed to “support a proactive approach to drought by providing financial assistance to implement projects that will build long-term resilience to drought.”
The City of Flagstaff is interested in using the possible grant money for the construction of an aquifer recharge and recovery project that would put A+ grade reclaimed water back into groundwater supplies, thereby “recharging” the local aquifer and helping to ensure a future water supply. The city is requesting U.S. Bureau of Reclamation funding in the amount of $4,225,551 or 50% of federal cost share for the completion of $8,589,440 worth of design, permitting, environmental compliance and construction that will be completed by December 2025.
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Using even the highest-grade reclaimed water to recharge groundwater supplies is not risk-free, explained Robert Vane of the Flagstaff Water Group.
The greatest risk is of aquifer contamination from chemicals of emerging concern (CECs), which can include pharmaceuticals, personal care products, estrogen-like compounds, flame retardants, detergents, and some industrial chemicals with potentially significant impact on human health and aquatic life.
CECs are unregulated by state and federal water quality agencies both because they occur at difficult-to-detect concentrations and have received insufficient testing. Because they are unregulated, CECs may be present in A+ reclaimed water. They require advanced treatment to be removed completely. Under its current design, the project proposed for the WaterSMART grant does not include these advanced treatments.
“This is an area that should be approached carefully,” Vane warned during the meeting.
His cautions were echoed by Councilmember Jim McCarthy, who spoke of laboratory studies demonstrating the risks of CECs and suggested a conservative approach to preserving Flagstaff’s water quality. McCarthy pointed to Scottsdale, whose water managers oversee a robust groundwater recharging program complete with advanced treatment for CECs.
“The Scottsdale water treatment staff think that it is unwise to put A+ water into their aquifer,” McCarthy reported. “When asked why, I was told that there were two reasons. One is that they do not want to contaminate their aquifer, and second, they believe that their recovery wells need less maintenance if they are not subjected to the lower-grade water.”
It makes sense to secure quantity first, then address quality, said Brad Hill, interim water services director. He deemed the proposed grant-funded project “very appropriate from a water services perspective” in that it would allow the city to begin to take full advantage of reclaimed water resources.
“The next step of this conversation is not just water management, but water quality,” Hill said, implying that advanced treatment options could be explored after the recharge and recovery project was secured.
“I think it’s important we take advantage of this opportunity,” said vice mayor Miranda Sweet, urging continued cooperation and investigations of water quality.
“This won’t be the end of our water conversations,” she added.
The logic of seizing the grant opportunity while available prevailed. Council decided 6-1, with only McCarthy voting nay, to move ahead with the WaterSMART grant application. If awarded, Council will still have to approve acceptance of the grant funds, and be able to negotiate award agreements.
A similar logic was applied to acceptance of an ordinance allowing for the acquisition of property necessary for the Red Gap Ranch water pipeline project. The project, which proposes sourcing Flagstaff water via a pipeline from Red Gap Ranch roughly 40 miles away, has faced scrutiny as an expensive and unbalanced investment of funds that could be allocated toward other water security methods, such as direct potable reuse (DPR).
Due to the expense of a 40-mile pipeline, Red Gap Ranch water “won’t be paid for for years,” argued Ward Davis of the Flagstaff Water Group.
Davis urged to see Council and staff make more serious investments toward expanding DPR in Flagstaff. Councilmember Austin Aslan agreed, saying “we really need to show the public that we’re committed to alternatives.”
Much like with the WaterSMART grant, Red Gap Ranch included an element of exigency because the property necessary for the pipeline is subject to public auction. If not acquired now, the opportunity might not present itself again.
“I’m in favor of keeping doors open,” said Councilmember Khara House.
Despite reservations, House's attitude summarized the general approach of city council.
Acceptance of the ordinance permitting Red Gap Ranch property acquisition passed unanimously. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/city-council-prioritizes-keeping-doors-open-for-future-of-flagstaff-water/article_4c5c1218-fd64-11ec-bd33-4b5e169bf9a9.html | 2022-07-07T14:36:22 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/city-council-prioritizes-keeping-doors-open-for-future-of-flagstaff-water/article_4c5c1218-fd64-11ec-bd33-4b5e169bf9a9.html |
Another trial took place Tuesday for Matthew Riser, who allegedly burned toilet paper on the Coconino National Forest near where the Pipeline Fire began in June.
Riser was initially charged with three counts — possessing marijuana, lighting a fire during restrictions and residing on the national forest. The first charge was dismissed without prejudice at the previous hearing, meaning that it could be refiled in the future.
Tuesday’s status hearing opened with the defense declaring Riser’s intention to plead guilty to lighting a fire during restrictions and no contest to the third count.
The U.S. attorney noted that Riser is still a suspect in the ongoing investigation into the Pipeline Fire, which burned 26,532 acres near the San Francisco Peaks in June.
“Nothing today prevents future charges down the road,” he said, referring to the Pipeline Fire investigation.
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Judge Camille Bibles added that the second count refers to lighting a fire in a restricted area rather than culpability for the Pipeline Fire -- which “cuts multiple ways.”
It was decided that both pleas should wait until the next status hearing set for Wednesday, July 13, to give Bibles time to review the no contest plea and to allow Pretrial Services to prepare a report on how Riser’s release has gone. Riser may also be sentenced during that hearing. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/fourth-hearing-held-for-riser/article_d42efdb6-fd61-11ec-9f6d-e702c0396c93.html | 2022-07-07T14:36:29 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/fourth-hearing-held-for-riser/article_d42efdb6-fd61-11ec-9f6d-e702c0396c93.html |
With the graduation of four-year setter Aubrea Bandfield, Lumberjacks coach Ken Murphy reloaded at the position with Keira Hall, the state's top setter who signed her national letter of intent in November to play for Northern Arizona.
Hall, a 5-foot-10 setter out of Scottsdale, was named to the Arizona Republic's All-Arizona First Team following her senior season at Horizon High School. Leading Horizon to the 2021 5A Conference state title and a 38-5 record, Hall was also selected to the All-Conference First Team and Northeast Valley All-Region First Team for the third consecutive year.
"Keira is a great all-around player," Murphy said. "Over the last couple of years, she really developed as a setter and became a great leader on her team, and that's where some of the recognition she's gotten comes from. She's a great defender and she has a great sense for making the little plays that help her team be successful. She'll bring a lot to the team that won't show up in the stats and we're excited about the impact she'll have not only right away, but over the course of her career."
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Hall averaged 10.5 assists per set in the fall and set a new Horizon single-season school record with 1,112 assists -- capping her career total at 2,602. Her 1,112 assists led the 5A and ranked second in the entire state. In addition to her record-breaking assist total, Hall also tallied 250 digs, 44 service aces and 85 kills in her final season.
A two-time team MVP as a junior and senior, Hall also earned recognition on the national level, garnering All-America Honorable Mention distinction from Prepvolleyball.com. She was also named All-Region by AVCA and was a two-time AVCA Phenom.
At the end of her junior season in 2020, Hall was named the Northeast Valley Region Player of the Year, while also collecting Tournament MVP honors at the 2019 USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Championship (15 American) the year prior.
Q&A with Keira Hall
Q: What was it about NAU or NAU Volleyball that excited you when committing?
A: I really thought that the coaches were great and I had a great time talking to them during the recruiting process. I bonded with them and also my teammates on my official visit. I also really like Flagstaff. We have a cabin in Munds Park, so we're used to going up there.
Q: What do you bring specifically to the volleyball court?
A: I bring a lot of competitiveness to the court and good connections with my teammates. That helps with telling them what plays we're going to run and where I want them to be (to set them).
Q: What is one word to describe you as a volleyball player?
A: Competitive. I like to win.
Q: What is the one thing away from the volleyball court you're hoping to accomplish or explore over the next four years in Flagstaff?
A: Making a lot of new friends and connections.
Q: You recently came back from Greece, and you've also traveled to England and Italy. Where was your favorite location amongst the three?
A: Probably England. I went there for my 13th birthday and enjoyed it there. I really liked the culture. We went to Big Ben and the big carousel. It was fun. Greece is a very close second though.
Q: One of your hobbies is playing the piano. When did you start playing?
A: I was probably around 11 or 12 years old. I'm not the best at it. I like to do it for fun. I'll look up songs to play, but I'm not very experienced at it. I like to do it in my free time.
Q: Among other schools, you were recruited by Yale and Columbia in the Ivy League. How important is academics in your life?
A: It's very important. I've been in gifted and honors classes pretty much all throughout school and I'll be in the Honors College at NAU this year.
Q: What is one fun fact about yourself?
A: I really like baking. I used to bake a lot with my grandma. My favorite thing to bake is cookies. They're easy, but they turn out really well. | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/meet-volleyball-freshman-keira-hall/article_3e12d1f6-fd50-11ec-bd19-27542f7ef75e.html | 2022-07-07T14:36:35 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/meet-volleyball-freshman-keira-hall/article_3e12d1f6-fd50-11ec-bd19-27542f7ef75e.html |
Traffic on E. Washington near S. Lasalle Street being diverted after woman struck
Hannah Brock
Indianapolis Star
Indianapolis police are investigating a fatal crash involving a pedestrian early Thursday.
The crash happened before 6 a.m. when a woman was struck near the intersection of North Gale and East Washington streets.
The driver of the vehicle was cooperative and remained on scene, officials said.
Traffic is being diverted in the area. It's unknown how long traffic will be interrupted while police investigate.
This article will update. | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2022/07/07/indianapolis-traffic-east-washington-traffic-diverted-after-pedestrian-hit/7828177001/ | 2022-07-07T14:38:36 | 0 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2022/07/07/indianapolis-traffic-east-washington-traffic-diverted-after-pedestrian-hit/7828177001/ |
FOREST, Va. – Gas prices are beginning to fall from an all-time high, but drivers are still feeling pain at the pump.
So could you imagine paying 76 cents for a gallon for gas?
The thought became a reality for drivers at a 76 Gas station in Bedford County on Wednesday.
The promotion was part of the store’s Customer Appreciation Day for July 6. They also offered other discounts in the store.
The low gas deal only ran from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., but the manager allowed those left in line to take advantage of the deal.
We’re told folks started lining up along U.S. 460 in New London at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday morning to take part in the Customer Appreciation Day.
We met one driver, Lizzie Banton, who said her Ford F-150 had less than a quarter of a tank of gas when she got to 76 Gas in Bedford, and it usually costs her $80 to fill up, but on Wednesday, she only spent $12.59.
“I’m very thankful that they’re offering the 76 cents. I feel like it’s a good time to help the people out that can’t really afford the gas,” said Banton. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/drivers-flock-to-76-gas-station-to-get-gas-for-076-a-gallon/ | 2022-07-07T14:39:21 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/drivers-flock-to-76-gas-station-to-get-gas-for-076-a-gallon/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – The Roanoke City Council is pushing an incentive forward to increase housing opportunities in the Star City – City leaders approved a $50,000 grant from the Virginia Housing Development Authority during their session Tuesday.
The grant will be used to hire a consultant to look into the best ways to increase housing opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Council member Stephanie Moon Reynolds explained how parents are concerned about their children’s futures as adults.
“They’re finding that parents are now getting concerned, ‘What’s going to happen to my adult child? Where can they go? Will they have to go stay with another family member? What kind of facilities are available to take them in?’” Reynolds said. “So with this grant, we’re going to be able to look at perhaps talking about that and doing some studies.”
An idea of a possible facility discussed at the meeting was that of a cottage living facility.
The city hopes to take the ideas discussed and use them to help other housing vulnerable members of the community, like senior citizens, as well. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/roanoke-approves-grant-provides-housing-opportunities-for-people-with-intellectual-disabilities/ | 2022-07-07T14:39:23 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/roanoke-approves-grant-provides-housing-opportunities-for-people-with-intellectual-disabilities/ |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just as federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle set their differences aside to pass a bipartisan gun safety law, a tragic shooting happened at an Independence Day Parade in Illinois, killing seven people and injuring dozens more.
Investigators said the person of interest had two previous run-ins with law enforcement in 2019. Shortly after, they said the suspect legally purchased five firearms.
Virginia Democratic Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn called the tragedy “devastating” during a visit to Roanoke on Wednesday.
The country’s new gun safety laws toughen background checks, fund school safety and mental health programs, and push states to enact red flag laws.
Filler-corn said more needs to be done.
“We can do so much more and we’ve got to prioritize this,” said Filler-Corn.
Republican Congressman Bob Good says Congress has no constitutional right to limit law-abiding citizens’ rights.
“The greatest deterrent to a bad person with a gun is more good people with guns,” said Good.
Ahead of the next January General Assembly session in Richmond, lawmakers like Republican Delegate Wren Williams and Democratic Senator Creigh Deeds said gun-rights bills will likely be introduced, but it’s unclear if any more will pass.
“We are not interested in any additional gun control laws,” said Williams. “The Second Amendment is very clear: shall not be infringed.”
“Unfortunately, in this country, we’re just not able to have mature discussions about firearms,” said Deeds. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/virginia-lawmakers-react-to-gun-control-laws/ | 2022-07-07T14:39:29 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/virginia-lawmakers-react-to-gun-control-laws/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – On Wednesday, Virginia lawmakers paid a visit to Roanoke to visit TAP’s Raleigh Court Head Start Center.
Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn and Senator John Edwards toured the facility and learned about how TAP uses Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funding.
The head start center staff also spoke about the preschool and childcare services they provide children, in addition to the job training for parents looking to get back on their feet.
“TAP has done more for this community to help poor people, especially, than any organization I know of,” said Edwards.
The lawmakers said they want to fight for more funding when the next General Assembly session starts in January. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/virginia-lawmakers-visit-tap-head-start-center/ | 2022-07-07T14:39:39 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/virginia-lawmakers-visit-tap-head-start-center/ |
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- Two women suffered what Manchester Township police called severe burns on their heads, backs, arms and faces during a fiery ATV wreck on July 6, 2022.
- The 20-year-old flipped their ATV while riding in the woods along trails off Roosevelt Boulevard and Trenton Avenue, police said.
- Both women managed to get to a nearby home to ask for help, police said.
Two young women suffered severe burns to their heads, backs, arms and faces in a fiery ATV crash in New Jersey Wednesday.
Manchester Township police officers arrived to the area of Trenton Avenue in the Roosevelt City section of Whiting around 6:15 p.m. to find the 20-year-old women suffering from burns, Manchester Township Police Department officers said.
The injured women were able to walk to a nearby home where they waited for first aid, police said.
The 20-year-olds told investigators they flipped their ATV while riding in the woods along trails off Roosevelt Boulevard and Trenton Avenue, police said. The ATV caught fire after flipping.
The women were first treated on scene before being flown by medical helicopter to a burn center, police said.
Members of the Whiting Volunteer Fire Department and New Jersey Forest Fire Service were called to the scene to extinguish the burning ATV and the surrounding wooded area where flames had spread, police said.
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The incident remained under investigation Thursday. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/fiery-atv-crash-manchester-township/3292488/ | 2022-07-07T14:46:18 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/fiery-atv-crash-manchester-township/3292488/ |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Stanislav Horuna shuffles down the hall outside the hotel bar, his sandals clacking against the tile.
On this particular day, he’s carrying a copy of Daniel Kahnemann’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow” and wearing shorts and a tank top, a different look from the traditional gi he’s worn in some of the biggest karate competitions in the world.
“Sorry,” said Horuna, who won a bronze medal in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo in the kumite category of karate for his division. “I was at the pool.”
Until recently, Horuna and five of his fellow Ukrainian athletes had been staying at a hotel not far from the airport, training for the 2022 World Games in Birmingham. For two weeks, they would spend an hour and a half training in the hotel conference hall. At night, they would train for another hour and a half. The next day, they would start all over again.
Horuna hasn’t seen much of Birmingham. When he’s not training or giving his 97,000 followers on Instagram a peak into his life, he’s resting. Talking about the World Games outside the hotel bar, he sets down “Thinking, Fast and Slow” on the table next to him. The book is a 499-page examination of how the mind forms thoughts and how those processes influence the decisions people make. Horuna, who supported himself as a lawyer while he trained in karate, finds the book intriguing.
“It’s to understand myself and to understand other people,” he said.
Horuna himself has a lot on his mind these days. Not only is he training for his first event Saturday in the World Games, he’s also keeping up with what is happening in Ukraine as they fight invading Russian forces. Earlier that day, Ukrainian forces had just won back control over Snake Island, which had been occupied by Russia since February.
Even as noise pours out from the hotel game next door, Horuna remains focused, carefully considering each word he uses.
“I just do what I have to do,” Horuna said. “We all do.”
Horuna has been of the biggest karate stars to come out of Ukraine. In 2017, he took home the gold in the previous World Games held in Wroclaw, Poland. In 2021, he took home the bronze in Tokyo. Now, he hopes to be able to take home another medal in this year’s World Games.
For a time, Horuna wasn’t sure if he would be able to compete in the World Games. As Russia began invading Ukraine, he decided that he wanted to do something to help his country. That is when he began volunteering with Ukrainian forces, doing what he could to raise money for the effort.
Like many of his fellow countrymen, Horuna was affected by the war. Early on, he sent his wife and son to safety in Hungary. He said his training helped him to be able to remain calm, but nonetheless, he saw firsthand how the war had changed those around him.
“Every day, you hear the alarm. That’s pretty terrifying,” he said. “You know that this is for real.”
One way Horuna gave back to his country was by selling his Olympic medal for over $20,000, money which he used to buy a drone and other wartime supplies. Horuna doesn’t think twice about selling his medal, although it still feels bittersweet.
“It was an easy decision because at that time, it was very difficult situation on the frontline in the whole country. We didn’t know what will be tomorrow or next week or next month. There was only one thought: to survive,” he said. “We had to support with everything we had. And the decision was easy, but after I sold it and then I send it to Japan, then I started to miss it.”
Having won his division in the previous World Games, Horuna said his main motivation in this year’s World Games is to inspire other Ukrainians, as well as bring them honor.
“It encourages our people who have stayed in that region and encourages our fighters,” he said. “Some of them were athletes as well, but now, they are soldiers.”
Horuna said the last couple of years, it’s been difficult to stay motivated about the sport, especially with everything going on back home. At 33, he thinks he only has a couple of more years left in the sport. With the next chapter of his life looming, he doesn’t think he’ll return to law. Maybe he’ll start a business, maybe he’ll do something else.
“For me, of course, I would like to have to get this big victory at the end of my career because really this is the biggest tournament left for me,” he said.
More than just for himself, Horuna wants to bring home the gold as a win for Ukraine.
“I think they need small victories,” he said. “The time will come when we get that big victory against Russia, but until then, we need to smile and I think I can bring one.” | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/olympic-medalist-hopes-a-win-during-world-games-in-birmingham-can-bring-smile-to-ukraine/ | 2022-07-07T14:46:39 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/olympic-medalist-hopes-a-win-during-world-games-in-birmingham-can-bring-smile-to-ukraine/ |
TAMPA, Fla. — Update: The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says Antonia Myles has been located and is safe.
"Thank you to the public for any assistance in helping to find her," deputies wrote.
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Previous story: Hillsborough County deputies are asking for help finding a 71-year-old woman missing out of Tampa.
Deputies say Antonia Myles was last seen just after 5 p.m. Wednesday walking northbound on 22nd Street North.
Her family said that she has been known to wander away and once walked as far as Zephyrhills. Family members told the sheriff's office that Antonia may be suffering from dementia.
She was last seen wearing a blue sweatshirt and green sweatpants.
Anyone with information on where Antonia may be is asked to call the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at (813) 247-8200. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/hillsborough-tampa-missing-woman/67-80597bbc-9dd2-4ccd-9754-f3f91205a12d | 2022-07-07T14:48:25 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/hillsborough-tampa-missing-woman/67-80597bbc-9dd2-4ccd-9754-f3f91205a12d |
A 16-year-old girl was wounded as gunfire erupted during an argument between two groups on Long Island late Wednesday, authorities say.
The warring groups were fighting -- it's not clear about what -- on Cahill Street in North Amityville around 8:30 p.m. when Suffolk County police say someone fired one shot. The 16-year-old girl, who lives in North Amityville, was hit in the leg, they say.
Everyone but the victim ran off before police even arrived at the scene, officials said.
She was taken to a hospital for treatment and is expected to be OK. No other details were available, and authorities say their investigation is ongoing.
Detectives ask anyone with information to contact the First Squad at 631-854-8152.
Copyright NBC New York | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/16-year-old-ny-girl-shot-as-gunfire-erupts-amid-fight-and-everyone-else-runs-away/3764721/ | 2022-07-07T14:49:43 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/16-year-old-ny-girl-shot-as-gunfire-erupts-amid-fight-and-everyone-else-runs-away/3764721/ |
This article was originally published on Jul 6 7:19pm EDT by THE CITY
Do you know your evacuation zone? Have you packed a go bag? What’s your risk of flooding from rainwater?
You can now check that last one off your storm prep list.
As New York heads into a hurricane season that experts predict will be particularly intense, the Adams administration on Wednesday quietly released a map you can use to check your home’s risk of flooding from rain.
The map shows the risk of stormwater flooding during a “moderate event,” or a storm with two inches of rain in an hour. For reference, 3.15 inches of rain fell in Central Park in an hour during Hurricane Ida last year.
The map — which the city plans to update in August to factor in extreme events and future sea-level rise — is an updated version of one that the de Blasio administration originally created in 2021, which did not indicate current risk. It’s part of a new campaign from the Department of Environmental Protection called Rainfall Ready, which spells out what both city government and residents must do to prepare for storms that only stand to become more intense and dangerous as a result of climate change.
This approach, emphasizing personal responsibility, marks a slight shift from the de Blasio-era New Normal plan, which laid out a series of commitments from city agencies to protect and prepare New Yorkers for the next storms.
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Karen Imas, vice president of programs for the Waterfront Alliance, called the maps a “powerful resource for individual property owners, building owners and tenants,” that can help them understand their risks — immediately and in the long run — and encourage them to make a game plan ahead of time.
“The maps are one step in what’s really a long-term, multi-pronged process to create stronger climate resilience in the city,” Imas said. “As the city looks to fund physical improvements, looking at the geographic implications and looking at the vulnerabilities where upgrades haven’t been made will certainly figure into the city strategy and should.”
A spokesperson for DEP declined to comment on the new stormwater maps.
As New York saw most recently with Ida, flooding from heavy rain can be both destructive and deadly. Between downpours of rainwater and storm surges from the ocean — like with Superstorm Sandy in 2012 — the potential for flooding both near the coasts and further inland is high in the city.
Absent comprehensive city planning, there’s only so much any lone individual can do once the water is rising. But there are concrete steps New Yorkers can take to be better prepared before extreme weather arrives in our coastal city.
Here are some of the storm prep basics from the city — and New Yorkers who learned the hard way when Sandy hit ten years ago.
Evacuations: Know Your Zone
If a storm is coming, know whether you need to leave or stay put.
Find out if you’re in an evacuation zone with the Office of Emergency Management’s “Know Your Zone” address lookup tool here. There are six evacuation zones in the city, with zone 1 being the most likely to flood.
Bear in mind: the evacuation zones are drawn differently than flood risk maps designed for insurance purposes, which you can find with this look-up tool from FloodHelpNY from the Center for NYC Neighborhoods.
And evacuation orders, if the city issues them, are “based on the characteristics of an actual storm as it is approaching the city,” OEM says, not generic flood risk maps. Just because your home may normally have a minimal flood risk — according to insurance-based maps — doesn’t mean you won’t have to evacuate.
In Hamilton Beach, a coastal community in southern Queens, Roger Gendron says he won’t ever think twice about evacuating after living through Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
He, his wife and their two kids stayed during the storm and the water filled their entire first floor that night, reaching up to “two inches below the subfloor” of his second story, he said. They were ultimately safe, but he wishes they had left.
“If any type of storm is coming in and they’re predicting a pretty severe tidal surge, get out,” he said. “Even if it’s a voluntary evacuation notice, I think people should use that and say, ‘You know what, it’s time to go pack up.’ Let’s get the cats and the dogs and the birds … and let’s go to grandma’s five miles inland.”
And if you need to use a city-run evacuation center, it’s worth noting: You can bring your pets there, too, according to the OEM.
Pamela Pettyjohn, whose home in Coney Island was flooded during Sandy, strongly suggests signing up for Notify NYC, the city’s official emergency alert system.
“They call you in plenty of time,” she said. “Whether it’s a hurricane or a tornado or whatever, and they give you instructions as to what to do. It’s very, very helpful.”
She has Notify NYC alerts connected to both her landline and cell, which both ring “even if it’s just a squall that pops up,” she said.
Prep Your Space, and Make a Plan
Before a storm or hurricane, the emergency management department has a long list of ways to prepare, including:
Gendron also reminds New Yorkers to notify someone in your neighborhood if you do plan to evacuate — that way, if searches are made for missing people, you won’t be mistakenly put in that category.
That’s what happened with a neighbor of his during Sandy who evacuated Hamilton Beach at the last minute. Two days after the storm, neighbors realized she hadn’t been seen for some time.
“We’re going, ‘Oh, man, is she in her house?’ We were probably minutes away from breaking down her front door,” he said. Luckily, word arrived that she had ridden out the storm at a sibling’s house.
Get Supplies
Whether you leave or shelter in place, you’ll need to prepare with some basic emergency supplies. OEM has a checklist for supplies you’ll need ahead of a storm, including instructions for “go bags” — easy-to-grab kits if you need to leave in a hurry — pets and weather-specific garb.
Pettyjohn used to keep her go bag by the front door — until the first flood waters from Sandy drenched it.
“Let’s just say, during the storm, my go bag was the first thing that went,” she said with a laugh. Now, she keeps it on the stairs between her first and second floors.
Key items for her include any medications she needs and a thumb drive with vital medical records on it.
“During Sandy, you learned what worked and what didn’t … There were no doctors’ offices, no pharmacy. In order to get anything, you had to know exactly what the dosage was and everything,” she said. “You don’t remember all those names of all the medications, especially if you’re in shock or you’re going through a stressful situation.”
Highlights from OEM’s go-bag list include:
Gendron suggested getting two key things ahead of a storm: a hard copy of your insurance company’s contact information and your account numbers, if you have them — and a solar-powered cell phone charger.
“In the old days, it was a transistor radio” that you had to have, he said. “But now, it’s the smartphone.”
THE CITY is an independent, nonprofit news outlet dedicated to hard-hitting reporting that serves the people of New York. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/as-nyc-releases-new-flood-maps-heres-what-you-can-do-before-the-water-starts-rising/3764769/ | 2022-07-07T14:49:49 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/as-nyc-releases-new-flood-maps-heres-what-you-can-do-before-the-water-starts-rising/3764769/ |
Palm Coast ends talks with Green Lion to seek proposals for new restaurant at golf course
The Palm Coast City Council on Tuesday voted against continuing negotiations with the Green Lion restaurant at the Palm Harbor Golf Course and will ask other companies to make a pitch to take over the eatery.
The operators of the Green Lion also can submit a proposal to remain at the golf course.
Palm Coast had given the Green Lion until last Friday to agree to pay half the water bill for the triple-wide trailer it shares with the city on the Palm Harbor Golf Course.
The deadline came and went without an agreement. But Green Lion’s attorney sent a letter to the city last week warning the restaurant could take legal action if the city tries to evict the business from the golf course.
Green Lion warns of legal action:Green Lion warns it may take Palm Coast to court over restaurant at golf course
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Previously:Palm Coast, Green Lion continue working on deal; city wants to break even within 2 years
The City Council voted 3-2 against further talks.
Green Lion owners 'heartbroken'
The Green Lion is owned by the Marlow family, which also runs the Golden Lion, a popular restaurant in Flagler Beach.
Co-owner Chris Marlow emailed a statement to the News-Journal on Wednesday.
“Our family and staff are in complete shock by the events that took place last night after 11 p.m. at the Palm Coast Council meeting. We ... are absolutely heartbroken,” the statement said.
The statement also said that the decision was also a shock to the many people who packed a council meeting earlier this year to oppose the city's plan to terminate its agreement with the Green Lion.
History between Palm Coast, Green Lion
Discussions about Green Lion have sometimes become heated.
Co-owner Tony Marlow called the City Council “crooks” before walking out of the council chambers at a meeting last month.
Mayor David Alfin had limited the Marlows — Tony and his son, Chris, — to three minutes each of speaking time at the meeting, even though the Green Lion was on the agenda.
Alfin previously has said the Marlows were given limited time because the item was a presentation by city staff and the city had been in negotiations with the Marlows for 18 months.
Also at the June meeting, Chris Marlow was warned he would be removed from the meeting when he yelled from his seat at the council.
Councilman Nick Klufas, who has praised the restaurant and noted that it has many supporters at the golf course, on Tuesday made a motion to give Green Lion more time and suggested a workshop with the restaurant. Klufas was not present at the last meeting.
“I wish I had been present to advocate a little bit more on behalf of this community asset,” Klufas said, adding that he wanted to avoid “unnecessary friction” over the issue.
“There’s a tremendous following that is the golfers of Palm Coast and there’s going to be a lot of kerfuffle made of this,” he said.
But Vice Mayor Eddie Branquinho and Councilman Ed Danko were against any more negotiations. Branquinho said he did not like that Tony Marlow had called the council “crooks” at the previous meeting.
Alfin, Branquinho and Danko voted against further talks with the Marlows, while John Fanelli joined Klufas in supporting continued negotiations.
"I would certainly encourage the Green Lion to apply for the RFP process giving us the opportunity to vet, make sure that the business model is both profitable for them as I assume it has been and also is conscious of the taxpayer dollars which have subsidized the property for some time," Alfin said.
Green Lion currently pays $600 a month in rent for its space while the city pays the entire water bill of about $2,000 a month. The city had proposed installing a meter to separately bill for the electricity but said it would be too expensive to install a water meter for the trailer.
Tony Marlow had agreed to the city’s previous terms, including an increase in rent from $600 to $2,000 a month. But he had not agreed to pay a portion of the water bill and disputed that the restaurant used more water than the city. | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/flagler/2022/07/07/green-lion-talks-end-palm-coast-palm-harbor-golf-course/7818529001/ | 2022-07-07T14:50:17 | 1 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/flagler/2022/07/07/green-lion-talks-end-palm-coast-palm-harbor-golf-course/7818529001/ |
Orange City nonprofit hosting drive-thru food pantry for Volusia residents Friday morning
More than 30,000 pounds of food will be available to Volusia County residents in need Friday in Orange City.
The nonprofit Backpack Buddies of Orange City will distribute food in a drive-thru, no-contact format at PFC Emory L. Bennett Veterans Memorial Park, 1365 Veterans Memorial Parkway.
The organization is giving away perishable and nonperishable items — including frozen meat, dairy products, produce, pastries and more — from 9 to 11 a.m. or while supplies last, according to a news release.
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The event, open to Volusia County residents only, is made possible through partnerships with Farm Share, Society of St. Andrew, Volusia County, Orange City, All Terrain Tractor Service Inc., Vessel of Honor Outreach Center and several volunteers.
Backpack Buddies founder Kelli Marks said attendees receive about two weeks' worth of food. | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2022/07/07/backpack-buddies-orange-city-hosting-drive-thru-food-pantry-friday/7820062001/ | 2022-07-07T14:50:23 | 1 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2022/07/07/backpack-buddies-orange-city-hosting-drive-thru-food-pantry-friday/7820062001/ |
Woman charged after walking on I-75 in Troy with an empty drum over her head
A woman who was arrested Sunday after walking on Interstate 75 in Troy while carrying an empty 55-gallon drum over her head has been charged, Michigan State Police said.
Ellen Baracy, 33, of Grosse Pointe was arraigned Wednesday on charges of resisting arrest and cited for being a pedestrian on a freeway, a civil infraction, in 52-4 District Court in Troy, according to court records.
A judge set her bond at $3,000 and scheduled her next court date for next Thursday.
If convicted, she faces up to two years in prison for the resisting arrest charge.
Michigan State Police said the charges stem from an incident at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday on northbound I-75 north of Big Beaver in Troy.
A trooper on patrol spotted a woman walking on the right shoulder of the freeway with the drum over her head.
The trooper approached the woman to check on her, officials said. The woman, later identified as Baracy, was uncooperative but told the trooper she was picking up litter.
Authorities said the trooper suspected she was under the influence of a drug because of her erratic behavior. The trooper asked to see the woman's identification, but she refused and started to walk away. The trooper ordered her to stop.
At this point, Troy police officers arrived to help the trooper. The woman also ignored their orders to stop and she was arrested. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/07/07/woman-charged-after-walking-75-troy-empty-drum-over-her-head/7828917001/ | 2022-07-07T14:51:35 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/07/07/woman-charged-after-walking-75-troy-empty-drum-over-her-head/7828917001/ |
Dearborn officials warn of online phishing scam; police seek information
Scammers using social media to impersonate Dearborn city officials are trying to defraud residents, officials warn.
Some members of the Dearborn community have reported being contacted through various social media channels by people falsely claiming to be the chief of police or members of Dearborn's city council, according to a news release from Dearborn.
The scammers are phishing, or attempting to extract personal information from residents, to then get financial or personally identifying information to commit fraud.
The Dearborn Police Department asks anyone who receives the messages to block and report users who sent them. Government agencies and elected officials never communicate this way, it said, and will not ask for money or personal information.
For more information, residents may call the Dearborn Police Department at (313) 943-2132.
To protect against scammers on social media, the Federal Trade Commission suggests people avoid sending personal and financial information to any user claiming to be from the government, avoid wiring or sending any money and do not click on sensational-sounding claims in emails.
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Citing employee preference to permanently work from home, a downtown university has terminated its office lease with Pima County.
Southern New Hampshire University opened the new campus in February 2020, just a month before Arizona Governor Doug Ducey issued stay-at-home order in response to the pandemic.
The 10-year-lease with the county-owned building at 97 E. Congress St. was terminated June 1.
Lauren Keane, associate vice president of communication for the university, said more than 90% of employees of the Tucson campus expressed the desire to continue working remotely.
The private university had about 100 people in Tucson, including student-support staff, academic advisers, financial aid workers, admissions representatives and IT support to serve online students in Western time zones.
"The university is still fully committed to the community of Tucson, which has become ingrained into the fabric and culture of SNHU," Keane said. "We will continue to hire in Tucson and in other western states to best serve our learners in those areas."
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Prior to the pandemic, SNHU expected to outgrow the space at 97 E. Congress St. so an early termination clause was included in the initial lease to allow early termination on Aug. 31, 2024.
The county is also renovating its building at 130 W. Congress St. and could absorb the space vacated by SNHU, county officials said.
The university offered to pay the county a termination fee of $900,000 and $72,360.48 for rents and fees for the months of April and May and vacate the building before June 1, according to a memo to the Board of Supervisors from Jan Lesher, the county administrator.
"In addition, SNHU plans to leave furniture, fixtures and some equipment … to Pima County to help reduce their shipping costs of these items," the memo says. "These items and other construction renovations paid by SNHU were valued at approximately $750,000 when purchased new."
The total revenue loss — the rent that will not be paid to the county from June 1, 2022, through Aug. 31, 2024 — comes to $1.5 million, county records show.
SNHU's situation is not unique.
According to the Pew Research Center, for employees whose jobs can be done remotely, the majority prefer to continue working from home.
"Today, more workers say they are doing this by choice rather than necessity," Pew says. "Among those who have a workplace outside of their homes, 61% now say they are choosing not to go into their workplace."
Contact reporter Gabriela Rico at grico@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/university-in-downtown-tucson-closes-as-staff-chooses-remote-work/article_82b40cde-fca2-11ec-a347-1be21d2c0b65.html | 2022-07-07T14:51:46 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/university-in-downtown-tucson-closes-as-staff-chooses-remote-work/article_82b40cde-fca2-11ec-a347-1be21d2c0b65.html |
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Kingsport Fire Department (KPD) on Thursday announced it responded to 161 fire-related incidents in 2021, but none were fatal.
A release from the KFD revealed that 2021 did see an increase in fires compared to previous years, estimating a loss of nearly $4 million in property.
“Any time someone loses a home or a vehicle to fire, we understand that’s a major hardship,” said KFD Chief Scott Boyd. “But thankfully, no one lost their lives to fire last year. That’s always a good statistic to report.”
Medical calls accounted for a majority of incidents to which the agency responded; the release stated of the 8,300 incidents, nearly 6,500 were medical-related. Another statistic listed the average response time as a little over eight minutes.
As of December 2021, the fire department had 122 personnel across eight fire stations, serving a population of more than 55,400 residents living within 54 square miles. Earlier in 2022, the department opened a new training facility and anticipate two new pumper trucks by the fall.
The Center for Public Safety Excellence and the Commission on Fire Accreditation International reaccredited the department, which has an ISO rating of 2. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/kingsport-fire-more-fires-in-2021-than-previous-years-no-deaths-reported/ | 2022-07-07T15:00:26 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/kingsport-fire-more-fires-in-2021-than-previous-years-no-deaths-reported/ |
JACKSON, Calif. — Activity for the Electra Fire was moderate overnight because of humidity. Firefighters continued mopping up hotspots into Thursday.
Some evacuation orders were downgraded to warnings on Wednesday.
"All residents along Clinton Road and Butte Mountain Road within this area are clear to return home. The evacuation order for this area has been reduced to a warning," deputies wrote in a statement Wednesday afternoon. "The warning zone running east from Jackson, along Hwy 88 to Previtali Road has been removed. All existing evacuation warnings and orders not mentioned above remain in effect."
The Electra Fire in Sierra Nevada Gold Country broke out Monday afternoon and has burned about 4,272 acres. It was 40% contained Thursday morning.
Accounts to follow:
Evacuation Maps
Amador County:
For a full list of evacuation orders and warnings in Amador County, click HERE.
Calaveras County:
- Evacuation warnings have been issued for the following Evacuation Zones: 327, 328, 329, 330, 341, 342, 343, 352, 353, 354.
Gas Stations
Click HERE for a map of open gas stations in the area.
Evacuation Center
Amador County
The Amador County Sheriff's Office said the Italian Picnic Grounds in Sutter Creek will be serving as a shelter. The Red Cross will be there to help people who need it. People who have been displaced that have recreational vehicles or trailers can stay at Lake Pardee, according to the sheriff's office.
Calaveras County
- The evacuation shelter is moving to the Calaveras County Mountain Oaks School in San Andreas
There are also pet-friendly evacuee campsites for people with tents, recreational vehicles, trailers or vehicles. There is no indoor space available at the campsites, according to the Calaveras County Office of Emergency Services.
- Calaveras County Fairgrounds: 2465 Gun club Road, Angels Camp (209) 736-2561
- Camanche South Shore Recreation Area: 11700 Wade Lane, Valley Springs (people are asked to bring proof of residence if available)
Fire Map
This wildfire map was created using data from NASA, NGA, USGS and FEMA.
Road Closures
Amador County
- Tabeaud Road southbound at Highway 88
- Mount Zion Road southbound at Highway 88
- Upper Clinton Road and Butte Mountain Road
- Clinton Road at West Clinton Road
- Electra Road at Highway 49
- Santa Lane and Highway 49
Calaveras County
- Highway 26, from Jesus Maria Road to Ridge Road
View the Waze map below for traffic updates.
WILDFIRE PREPS
According to Cal Fire, the 2021 fire season started earlier than previous years, but also ended earlier, as well. January 2021 saw just under 1,200 acres burned from nearly 300 wildfires. Fires picked up in the summer when the Dixie Fire burned in five Northern California counties — Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen and Tehama. The Dixie Fire started on July 13 and wasn't contained until Oct. 25, burning nearly 1 million acres. It has since become the second-largest wildfire in state history and the largest non-complex fire.
Overall, 2.5 million acres were burned in 2021 from 8,835 wildfires. Over 3,600 structures were destroyed and 3 people were killed.
If you live in a wildfire-prone zone, Cal Fire suggests creating a defensible space around your home. Defensible space is an area around a building in which vegetation and other debris are completely cleared. At least 100 feet is recommended.
The Department of Homeland Security suggests assembling an emergency kit that has important documents, N95 respirator masks, and supplies to grab with you if you’re forced to leave at a moment’s notice. The agency also suggests signing up for local warning system notifications and knowing your community’s evacuation plans best to prepare yourself and your family in cases of wildfires.
Some counties use Nixle alerts to update residents on severe weather, wildfires, and other news. To sign up, visit www.nixle.com or text your zip code to 888777 to start receiving alerts.
PG&E customers can also subscribe to alerts via text, email, or phone call. If you're a PG&E customer, visit the Profile & Alerts section of your account to register.
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INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD is conducting a death investigation after a person was found dead in a car on the city's east side Thursday morning.
Police responded to a welfare check in the 1100 block of North Ridgeview Drive, near 10th Street and North Arlington Avenue, shortly after 8 a.m.
The people that live at the home told police they woke up and saw the car in their yard.
Police told 13News homicide detectives are investigating due to trauma on the body found in the car. It is standard procedure to conduct death investigations when the circumstances are unclear.
The Marion County Coroner's Office will determine the person's exact cause of death.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Birdkeepers at the Indianapolis Zoo are working to bring back a wandering macaw that ventured outside its normal flight pattern Wednesday evening.
According to an Indianapolis Zoo spokesperson, two green-winged macaws, named Orchard and Vineyard, flew a little further away from the zoo than normal Wednesday evening and landed in a nearby neighborhood on the west side of Indianapolis.
(NOTE: Video of the Indianapolis Zoo's macaws accompanying this story is from 2017.)
The male macaw, Orchard, came down from the tree and was taken back to the zoo by the animal care team. Staff members are still working to bring the female, Vineyard, home.
According to the zoo, their macaw flocks free fly through the zoo and often fly the perimeter of the zoo several times a day. The spokesperson said it's common for the birds to land and "hang out" in the trees close to the zoo.
Indy Lost Pet Alert posted about the missing bird Wednesday evening. It was seen near Long's Bakery on West 16th Street, which is about 20 blocks northwest of the Indianapolis Zoo along the White River.
The macaws came to the Indianapolis Zoo in 2017 and appear several times a day in the zoo's Bicentennial Pavilion. Fifty macaws came to the zoo when they debuted five years ago in several colors: red, green, blue yellow and orange.
When they're not putting on a show for guests in the pavilion, the macaws live in the zoo's Forests area, which includes a large cage and a winter enclosure for the colder months. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indianapolis-zoo-staff-working-to-bring-back-wandering-macaw/531-0e03803e-85a6-4a02-af49-20f542e421b5 | 2022-07-07T15:12:10 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indianapolis-zoo-staff-working-to-bring-back-wandering-macaw/531-0e03803e-85a6-4a02-af49-20f542e421b5 |
INDIANAPOLIS — United Way of Central Indiana is distributing over $1.4 million to 12 community organizations around the area.
The organizations, located in Marion and Morgan counties, are all part of the Center for Working Families network, which helps individuals and families get on a path to financial stability.
NOTE: The above video is from a previous report on United Way of Central Indiana naming a new president.
United Way of Central Indiana has been the lead local funder of the Center for Working Families network since 2015.
"United Way of Central Indiana is pleased to continue partnering with the 12 community-based organizations serving neighbors across Marion and Morgan counties,” Jesamyn Sparks, United Way’s workforce development and economic mobility director, said in a statement. “This investment supports programming at the Center for Working Families sites, which have expertly served their communities for decades.”
Here are the 12 sites that have been funded for 2022-2023:
- YMCA of Morgan County (formerly Barbara B. Jordan YMCA) – $50,000
- Community Alliance of the Far Eastside (CAFE) – $150,000
- Edna Martin Christian Center – $150,000
- Flanner House Inc. of Indianapolis – $150,000
- Goodwill Industries of Central & Southern Indiana – $100,000
- Hawthorne Community Center – $150,000
- Indianapolis Urban League – $150,000
- John Boner Community Center – $150,000
- Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center – $150,000
- Public Advocates in Community Re-Entry (PACE) – $100,000
- Shepherd Community Center – $37,500
- Southeast Community Services – $150,000
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The fentanyl crisis in Wichita will be the focus of a town hall meeting next week.
The meeting will be held Thursday, July 14, at 6 p.m. at Beggs Hall at the Rhatigan Student Center, WSU Campus, 1845 Fairmount Street.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Portland metro area’s newest venue has some exciting news to share!
The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts in Beaverton has announced the lineup for its inaugural season. The live performance series called “Reser Presents” kicks off in September.
Executive Director Chris Ayzoukian shared a preview of the 2022-2023 season.
Check out the full line up and find tickets for the upcoming season. | https://www.koin.com/local/patrica-reser-center-announces-lineup-for-inaugural-season/ | 2022-07-07T15:28:29 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/patrica-reser-center-announces-lineup-for-inaugural-season/ |
The Food and Drug Administration and Juul have agreed to put their court fight on hold while the government reopens its review of the company’s electronic cigarettes. Henrico-based Altria Group Inc. spent $12.8 billion in 2018 for a 35% stake in the California-based company.
The agreement reached this week comes after the FDA placed a hold on its initial order banning Juul's products from the market, saying that Juul's application warranted “additional review.”
Juul can continue selling its e-cigarettes in the meantime, according to the federal court filing.
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“With this administrative stay from the FDA now in place, we continue to offer our products to adult smokers while we pursue the agency’s internal review process,” Juul executive Joe Murillo said in a statement.
The FDA ordered Juul to pull its products from the market on June 23. A day later, a federal appeals court temporarily blocked the government ban at Juul's request.
If the FDA eventually decides to reimpose its ban, Juul will have 30 days to seek another stay, according to the filing.
To remain on the market, companies must show that their e-cigarettes benefit public health. In practice, that means proving that adult smokers who use them are likely to quit or reduce their smoking, while teens are unlikely to get hooked on them.
FDA regulators have recently authorized a handful of e-cigarettes from some of Juul's chief rivals, including R.J. Reynolds and NJOY. But industry players and anti-vaping advocates had been eagerly awaiting an FDA decision on Juul’s products, which are the best-selling e-cigarettes in the U.S.
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ORLANDO, Fla – Goat yoga is the new trendy workout of the season and experts say it can help with depression, improved flexibility and lower blood pressure.
This trend started back in 2016 by Lainey Morse in Albany Oregon.
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Now Floridians can enjoy the workout too, so here is a list of goat yoga places in Central Florida.
Alaska Farms
The mini goat yoga idea started at Alaska Farms by the Fernandez sisters who wanted to combat stress by bringing happiness to the community.
They offer yoga mats and classes are on Saturdays and Sundays.
The yoga sessions are in an enclosed studio.
Price: $30 per person.
To book a class, click here.
Address: 9650 Berry Dease Rd, Orlando, FL 32825.
Wildflower Farm
This is a small farm located right at downtown Orlando that offers goat yoga classes, farm products and merchandise for sale.
They require people to bring their own mats, but they offer mats for rental or purchase.
Price: $22 per person.
To book a class, click here.
Address: 2218 Carrington Dr, Orlando, FL 32807.
Grady Goat Yoga
Grady Goat foundation has hosted over 20,000 goat yoga participants since 2017.
Grady Goat Yoga started with one baby goat who spread love and happiness to the humans around it.
They require people to bring their own mats, but they offer rentals.
Price: $37 per person.
To book a class, click here.
Address: 12551 Franklin Road, Thonotosassa, FL 33592.
Goat Yoga in DeLand
They are a family-owned farm in DeLand and have their sessions outside with fresh air, green grass and friendly goats.
They also allow goats to maintain their horns instead of burning them off.
Price: $30 per person.
To book a class, click here.
Address: 1065 S Beresford Rd. Deland, FL 32720.
The Little Yogi
They offer many opportunities to spend some time with little goats.
They provide mats.
Price: $31 per person.
To book a class, click here.
Address: 5613 W O Griffin Rd, Plant City, FL 33567.
Dim Jandy Ranch
They offer goat yoga to help improve mindfulness and meditation.
During goat yoga they will allow guest to take pictures and feed the goats.
Price: $25 per person.
To book a class, click here.
Address: 13151 Pinto Ln, Fort Myers, FL 33912.
Yoga Mix
Right at downtown Orlando, Yoga Mix offer a variety of yoga including goat yoga, puppy and bunny yoga.
Price: $20.
To book a class, click here.
Address: 420 E Church St #117, Orlando, FL 32801. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/07/looking-into-goat-yoga-heres-where-you-can-go-in-central-florida/ | 2022-07-07T15:51:13 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/07/looking-into-goat-yoga-heres-where-you-can-go-in-central-florida/ |
MARION COUNTY, Fla – Marion County deputies said they arrested a man Tuesday who attempted to burglarize an Ocala home and tried to enter multiple vehicles at a nearby intersection.
Normad Eliud Rosario-Otero, 51, was reportedly confronted by the homeowner during the burglary attempt and ran away toward the intersection of SW Highway 200 and SW 60th Avenue, according to a news release.
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Rosario-Otero attempted to enter multiple cars and found a way into an elderly women’s vehicle through the passenger-side door, deputies said. Rosario-Otero allegedly grabbed the steering wheel and tried to press the gas pedal, but deputies said the victim kept pressure on the brakes.
Another citizen then removed Rosario-Otero from the victim’s car and he was restrained with a belt until law enforcement arrived, deputies said.
Rosario-Otero allegedly told deputies that he had used cocaine, Xanax and alcohol the prior evening and stated he did not remember the incident, deputies said.
According to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Rosario-Otero faces charges of attempted carjacking, burglary of a conveyance with battery, attempted burglary of a conveyance and attempted burglary of a dwelling. He was booked at the Marion County Jail on $100,000 bond.
Those with any further information about this incident were urged to call Detective Andrew Canterberry at (352) 438-5932.
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MELBOURNE, Fla – Five little ducks were rescued after being stuck down a drain in Melbourne on Thursday, according to police.
The ducks were saved by three 911 dispatchers of the Melbourne Police Department who were on their way home following a shift, police said.
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Chelsea Picciotti, Katie Brooks and Michael Delisle removed the drainage grate and saved all five ducklings, reuniting them with their mother duck, according to a Facebook post.
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GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Niswonger Performing Arts Center (NPAC) on Thursday announced the 2022-2023 schedule, jam-packed with country, rock, comedy, theatrical performances and more.
Events kick off on Aug. 21 with country music star Neal McCoy. The weeks to follow will include performances from Air Supply, Josh Turner, Jefferson Starship, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives and more.
At the start of the holiday season, the center will host the Atlanta Pops Holiday Radio Show Live with Jason Altieri and the Hollie Jollies Chloe Agnew and Timothy Miller. The whole family can also enjoy a musical performance of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and a ballet performance of The Nutcracker.
Other performances include a concert from Resurrection – A Journey Tribute and Rumours of Fleetwood Mac tribute band.
Theatrical performances include Lightwire Theater and a new production of The Adventures of Tortoise and Hare. Wings: A Celtic Dance Celebration will travel from Ireland and features world-champion dancers along with musicians and vocal virtuosos.
Comedians Heather Land and Mark Lowry will take the stage on Feb. 3 and April 14, respectively, to dish out some laughs and jokes.
NPAC also offers a Free Community Concert Series, which will include three performances from Atlanta Pops Holiday Radio Show, Gentri and Wild World of Animals.
“We invite you to celebrate the arts at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center this season,” said Vicki Hudson, executive director of NPAC. “Filled with a star-studded lineup of entertainment, our 2022-2023 Season features something for everyone. We are grateful for the continuing support of our patrons and for the financial support from our individual and corporate partners and grantors who assist us in achieving our goal of providing exceptional programming and performing arts education within our region.
“The generosity and financial support from our donors for the programming at NPAC, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is invaluable to our success.”
Tickets are officially on sale. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, click here. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/niswonger-performing-arts-center-announces-upcoming-season/ | 2022-07-07T15:51:51 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/niswonger-performing-arts-center-announces-upcoming-season/ |
Editor’s note: This feature first ran Aug. 8, 2013, in the Times-News and at Magicvalley.com.
For 50 years after the federal government told it to disband, the local Ku Klux Klan laid low — until its resurgence in the 1920s, when the Klan came to town to recruit members.
By 1922, the KKK had become a minor political power in the West, with a focus on white Protestant dominance over blacks, Catholics and Jews. The movement got a foothold in California, then spread to Oregon and Washington.
The Klan pushed to increase its membership that year, claiming 35,000 members in Oregon alone, wrote Eckard V. Toy in “The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s.”
In January 1923, the Rev. Lew Burger, a KKK leader and motivational speaker from New York, spoke at the IOOF Hall in Buhl.
The Buhl Herald praised Burger’s speaking style and said a dozen hooded Klansmen handed out membership forms at two of his lectures. Klan dues were $3.50 a year, plus a $10 joining fee. The newspaper did not report whether a Buhl branch — or klavern — was formed.
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The next month, Burger spoke to a group in Idaho Falls and claimed that 38 members of Congress were Klan members.
Curiously, H.W. Evans, imperial wizard of the Klan, declared that he had never heard of Burger and that no member of the Klan was allowed to discuss Klan membership, says a Feb. 15, 1923, Associated Press news article.
Later that year, the KKK came close to taking control of the Twin Falls city election; Klan candidates were narrowly defeated.
In 1924, about 150 men and women in full Klan regalia held a day-long rally at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds.
A year later, Buhl’s only black resident received a threat from the Klan. Henry Field had run a shoeshine parlor in town since 1915.
Field discussed the state of local banks after the post-WWI agricultural depression. Apparently, the Klan didn’t approve of the discussion and threatened him in a letter. Although others had joined in the conversation, Field was the only one threatened.
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Divers recover man's body from river in Pawtucket after friends reported he fell in
PAWTUCKET — Divers Wednesday night recovered the body of a 30-year-old Providence man who reportedly fell into the Seekonk River, the Pawtucket police said Thursday morning.
At about 9:15 p.m., the police and fire departments responded to the Pawtucket Town Landing, where they were told that a man had fallen into the river, Pawtucket Detective Sgt. Theodore Georgitsis said in a press release.
Three friends of the man were at the landing, according to the police.
"It was reported that they all were hanging out at the landing after being out all day together when the individual accidentally fell in the river," the police said. "It was relayed that neither the victim nor the friends he was with could swim or adequately swim to rescue him."
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Police officers and firefighters saw nobody on the surface and started search and rescue efforts with help from nearby fire departments. At about 11 p.m., the Cumberland Dive Team found the victim a short distance from where he had fallen into the water, the police said. His name was not released.
Pawtucket detectives responded to investigate, as did the state Medical Examiner's Office, which took custody of the body.
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"A preliminary investigation indicates that the incident may have been accidental," Georgitsis said. "However, the cause and manner of death will be determined by the Medical Examiner."
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Matriarch of Cardi's furniture family dies at 100
The mother of Rhode Island's famous furniture family has died at 100.
Cardi's Furniture and Mattresses announced the passing of Marion Cardi in Facebook and Twitter posts Wednesday.
"We celebrate the life of our Mother, Marion Cardi," the Facebook post said. "Mom passed away peacefully today at the age of 100 plus a month & a bit, in our arms. We won't try to tell her story in a post, other than say that our entire family along with friends, caregivers and team members, everyone she met, loved her and she loved them. Our wish and hope is that you had or have someone like our Mom in your life."
Mrs. Cardi's three sons, Pete, Ron and Nick, became familiar faces in Southern New England through their personalized advertisements. Mrs. Cardi appeared in some, too.
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"I couldn't ask for a better family," Mrs. Cardi said in an interview Cardi's posted to YouTube marking her 100th birthday in May. "They all turned out perfect and they've been wonderful to me."
Mrs. Cardi had a daughter and three sons. Her son, Nick, died in 2019.
She also told interviewer Ben DeCastro she enjoyed playing bridge and watching golf. She tried her hand at playing golf, too, when her family bought her a set of clubs.
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ATLANTIC CITY — A free pizza, an alcoholic beverage a week for the rest of your life, and a $1,500 reward — that is what the caretakers of Tony's Baltimore Grill are offering for information leading to the return of their stolen outdoor furniture.
Last weekend, as Tony's initiated outdoor dining for the first time to provide its longtime and new customers with a different experience, a patio table, umbrellas, and six chairs were stolen from the historic establishment from the outdoor dining area that seats 30 people.
"Everything that we do is centered on making sure that the Baltimore Grill stays in business for another 100 years," said the caretakers of Tony's Baltimore Grill, Julie and Nolan Aspell, who said the bar's legacy was as much a part of the city as the Boardwalk. "We decided to do outdoor dining primarily to accomplish that goal of being a place that new memories will be created without disturbing the ones that already live here."
While many restaurants added outdoor dining as a way to stay afloat during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tony's Baltimore Grill — in business since 1927 — decided to add the option this summer simply to offer patrons a new experience.
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The experience was more than the bar bargained for and "the thief is still at large," according to a spokesperson for Tony's.
The establishment had a soft opening of the new dining area Friday afternoon, during which guests could get served by the bar's singing waiter, James.
Unfortunately by the weekend, the bar had to post an alert on its Instagram page offering the cash reward, pizza and drink for life in exchange for information about the stolen items.
Outdoor dining is still available at Tony's Baltimore Grille Monday through Thursday from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. throughout the summer.
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CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE — The Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Cape May County is offering seniors the chance to learn how they can prepare nutritious, low-cost meals for themselves to support their health.
Through a six-week program on Thursdays from July 14 through Aug. 18, Chris Zellers, a health educator and assistant professor, will show seniors how they can affordably eat healthy through live cooking demonstrations and sharing recipes, the Rutgers Cooperative Extension said in a Thursday news release.
"Nutritious home-cooked meals don’t need to feel overwhelming," Zellers said Thursday. "A few basic shopping and cooking skills can transform the way you eat at home.”
County seniors who attend four of the six lessons will be eligible for a produce box provided by Legates Farm Market.
Each session will be held from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Lower Cape Senior Center, 2612 Bayshore Rd., Villas.
Information about the program can be obtained by calling 609-465-5115 ext. 3609. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/healthy-meal-program-for-cape-seniors-begins-next-week/article_8fd18c42-fe06-11ec-9509-2f3169d50d19.html | 2022-07-07T15:57:47 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/healthy-meal-program-for-cape-seniors-begins-next-week/article_8fd18c42-fe06-11ec-9509-2f3169d50d19.html |
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — Two people were taken to a hospital after an early morning crash on the Garden State Parkway on Thursday, State Police said.
Troopers responded to milepost 39.5 on the Parkway's northbound side in the township around 1:02 a.m., Trooper Brandi Slota said.
A preliminary investigation determined that the car, a blue BMW, was northbound when it veered off the roadway before striking multiple trees and flipping over.
The occupants were taken to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, Slota said, adding that the crash remains under investigation.
No other details were immediately available Thursday, Slota said.
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MAYS LANDING — Judicial officers, prosecutors and law enforcement covered under Daniel's Law can request their personal information be redacted from public records through an online portal becoming available next Tuesday.
Through the My NJ site, the same as MBOS (Member Benefits Online System) for state employees, registered users can submit a request for their information to be omitted. Those without a login can are being asked by the state Department of Community Affairs to sign up for one before the portal launches, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said Thursday.
Daniel's Law, legislation signed by Gov. Phil Murphy in 2020, came in the wake of Daniel Anderl's death. Anderl, the late son of U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas, was killed at the family's North Brunswick home earlier that year.
The law allows censorship of the personal information tied to current and former judges and prosecutors, law enforcement and their immediate family members from public records and government websites.
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Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who's also the DCA's commissioner, said Thursday that making ways to request record modifications is crucial for guaranteeing the law is fulfilled for those qualified for redaction under it.
“To effectively carry out their jobs, public servants must feel safe," Oliver said. "The OIP (Office of Information Privacy) is working hand-in-hand with our state agencies and partners to ensure that this portal does what it is intended to do – protect and save lives.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/new-jersey-launching-daniels-law-portal/article_2495b3ae-fdf7-11ec-ac4b-bb819eda3b68.html | 2022-07-07T15:58:00 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/new-jersey-launching-daniels-law-portal/article_2495b3ae-fdf7-11ec-ac4b-bb819eda3b68.html |
LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Lee County representatives said they understand the importance of having fast internet, so now they’re doing something about it.
The County is helping the state with a survey and a speed test.
“What we have set up is a website to make it super easy. Leegov.com/broadband. If you go there you can click on take the speed test which would take you to a link the state set up,” said county Communications Coordinator Betsy Clayton.
County leaders said during the pandemic, more people ended up working from home, going to school online, and using Telehealth services.
But not everyone was getting efficient service.
So now, the state wants to make a map that shows areas where the needs are met and also the areas that need improvement.
“The more data we can get about internet service and calls being dropped in Lee County the better we will be able to help the state move forward with some good projects,” said Clayton.
The link to the survey can be found under Newslinks. Once you put in your personal information it will take about 10 seconds to load your results. After that, it will show you how many megabits you’re getting per second.
“In terms of when you can expect things to get better, that’s on horizon but the timeline is not certain because obviously after you do a survey you need to put the data together, and then that will result in potential projects or things like that,” said Clayton. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/07/lee-county-offers-survey-and-speed-test-to-identify-locations-with-poor-internet-access/ | 2022-07-07T16:03:28 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/07/lee-county-offers-survey-and-speed-test-to-identify-locations-with-poor-internet-access/ |
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Police are investigating two separate incidents of vandalism at the Alliance for the Arts along McGregor Boulevard in Fort Myers.
According to the Fort Myers Police Department (FMPD), the most recent vandalism occurred over the 4th of July weekend. Unknown suspects put up several political signs, which had to be taken down.
“There was approximately $2000 damage from the staples to the wood,” according to FMPD.
Unknown suspects vandalized several murals honoring Ukraine by throwing paint on them in early April.
The murals of Ukrain President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were meant to show solidarity and honor the humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. One of the murals features Zelenskyy in front of the Ukrainian flag. The other is a recreation of a selfie video the Ukrainian leader took.
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Fort Myers Detectives are currently seeking any further information regarding the vandalism incidents.
Authorities are asking anyone with information to call the FMPD or to contact SWFL Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/07/police-investigating-two-separate-incidents-of-vandalism-at-alliance-for-the-arts/ | 2022-07-07T16:03:35 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/07/police-investigating-two-separate-incidents-of-vandalism-at-alliance-for-the-arts/ |
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A tractor-trailer collided with a pole early Thursday morning, shutting down McGregor Boulevard and Victoria Avenue in Downtown Fort Myers.
As a result of the crash, there is a downed power line.
The tractor-trailer had a piece of machinery on the back and the driver misjudged the height of the wire and knocked it over, according to the Fort Myers Police Department.
Century Link said it will take about two hours to clean up.
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ATLANTA — More than 15 units were called out to an apartment fire Thursday morning, Atlanta fire officials said.
Just before 9 a.m., firefighters were called to a two-story apartment building near the 2200 block of Campbellton Road.
"The fire unit arrived in less than five minutes to find heavy fire and smoke showing through the dwelling's attic," authorities said in a statement. "Operating in offensive rescue mode, firefighters knocked down all visible flames within minutes without any reported injuries to sworn personnel or civilians."
They said several apartments were damaged as a result of the blaze and it is under investigation.
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ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers appearing before a special grand jury in the investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally meddled in the state's 2020 election have broad immunity but can be asked about their conversations with people outside of the legislature, a judge has ruled.
A former state lawmaker and Georgia's lieutenant governor had asked the judge to quash subpoenas seeking their testimony before the special grand jury, citing legislative privilege and immunity. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who's overseeing the special grand jury, wrote in an order Wednesday that the pair must comply with the subpoenas, but he set limits on what grand jurors may ask them and other state lawmakers who are summoned.
The special grand jury was seated in May at the request of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who said in a letter to the county superior court chief judge that her team believes the 2020 general election “was subject to possible criminal disruptions” and is looking into “any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020 elections in this state.”
In court filings this week seeking to compel testimony from several Trump allies and advisers, Willis wrote there is evidence that testimony given before a legislative committee hearing in December 2020 by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and others “was part of a multi-state, coordinated plan by the Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.”
Giuliani's attorney declined to comment when contacted Tuesday. The former New York mayor's son said that day that his father was recovering from heart surgery.
Former state Sen. William Ligon, who did not seek reelection in 2020, chaired that Dec. 3, 2020, committee hearing where Giuliani and others spoke. Attorneys Don Samuel and Amanda Clark Palmer, who have been engaged as special assistant legislative counsel, argued on behalf of Ligon and Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, who serves as president of the Senate, that the subpoenas should be quashed. The lawyers told the judge they would likely represent other state lawmakers called before the special grand jury as well.
The Georgia Constitution says no member of the General Assembly "shall be liable to answer in any other place for anything spoken in either house or in any committee meeting of either house.” McBurney said that's important to allow lawmakers to speak freely to each other while conducting legitimate legislative activity.
As a result, McBurney wrote in his order, prosecutors and grand jurors cannot ask a lawmaker “about anything he said while participating in any session of the legislature, be that on the floor of the body or in subcommittee.” That includes conversations and documents prepared by a lawmaker or legislative staff. Elected officials' motivations for actions taken during a legislative session are not subject to scrutiny by a grand jury, he wrote.
Lawmakers also may not be asked about direct communications with other legislators in preparing for any legislative session or drafting any legislation or official report, McBurney wrote.
But legislative privilege does not extend to communications with private citizens on topics related to the grand jury investigation, even if those communications took place during the performance of legislative duties, McBurney wrote.
“If, as the District Attorney alleges, outside individuals sought to influence Georgia legislators and other elected state officials as part of a possibly illegal scheme to interfere with the lawful administration of the electoral process in our State, the grand jury should be able to investigate such activity,” McBurney's order says. “The legislative privilege, designed to protect the legitimate — as in lawful — legislative process, ought not to be a shield that benefits those outside individuals or otherwise obscures from the grand jury’s view the full scope of the alleged efforts to subvert Georgia’s elections.”
Such inquiries must, however, “remain limited to who and what, not why,” the order says. For example, the grand jury may not ask about what a lawmaker thought about what an outside party said or what, if anything, the lawmaker decided to do based on that input.
McBurney also denied a request from Ligon to delay his testimony before the grand jury until September to accommodate his lawyer's trial schedule. The judge said Ligon must be available to testify for two hours while the grand jury is meeting Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday of next week. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/fulton-county-judge-trump-grand-jury/85-a88179da-c738-4ee6-a7f9-709989d60fda | 2022-07-07T16:06:16 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/fulton-county-judge-trump-grand-jury/85-a88179da-c738-4ee6-a7f9-709989d60fda |
2 women to be sentenced in southern Arizona ballot harvesting case
YUMA — Two women faced sentencing Thursday in southern Arizona for illegally collecting four early ballots during the 2020 primary election.
Authorities say Guillermina Fuentes and Alma Juarez participated in “ballot harvesting.” That's a practice once used by both political parties to boost turnout but was made illegal by a 2016 state law that barred anyone but a family member or caregiver from returning early ballots for another person. It’s the only case filed so far by the state attorney general under the law, which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld last year.
Authorities say Fuentes, a former San Luis mayor and current school board member, ran a sophisticated operation using her status in Democratic politics in the Arizona border city to persuade voters to let her gather and, in some cases, fill out their ballots. But the crime she admitted in court last month does not involve filling out ballots or any broader efforts.
Fuentes and Juarez each pleaded guilty to a charge of ballot abuse, acknowledging they collected early ballots for people who weren’t family members, didn’t live with them or weren’t receiving care from them.
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Fuentes’ conviction is a felony punishable by as little as probation or as much as two years in prison. Juarez's conviction is a misdemeanor, and under her plea agreement, if she has cooperated as promised she will be sentenced to probation and prosecutors will not seek jail time.
Three other felony charges, accusing Fuentes of filling out one voter’s ballot and forging signatures on some of the four ballots she illegally returned, were dismissed.
Republicans repeating unsupported claims that President Donald Trump would have been reelected if not for widespread voting fraud have cited this case as part of a broader pattern in battleground states, but the evidence suggests it didn't extend beyond small-town politics.
Attorney General’s Office investigation records obtained by the Associated Press through a public records request show that fewer than a dozen ballots could be linked to Fuentes, not enough to make a difference in all but the tightest local races.
The office of Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican seeking his party’s U.S. Senate nomination, provided the records after delays of more than 15 months.
Fuentes and Juarez were seen with several mail-in envelopes outside a cultural center in San Luis on the day of the 2020 primary election, according to reports from investigators. The ballots were taken inside and dropped in a ballot box.
Fuentes was recorded on video by a write-in candidate who called the Yuma County sheriff.
An investigation was launched that day, and about 50 ballots checked for fingerprints, which were inconclusive. The investigation was taken over by the attorney general’s office within days, with investigators collaborating with sheriff’s deputies to interview voters, Fuentes and others. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/07/07/2-arizona-women-sentenced-ballot-harvesting-case/7830502001/ | 2022-07-07T16:06:46 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/07/07/2-arizona-women-sentenced-ballot-harvesting-case/7830502001/ |
Green Valley's only hospital closes amidst financial woes
The Santa Cruz Regional Valley Hospital closed down last week, after years of financial struggles. Located 30 miles south of Tucson, it was Green Valley’s only hospital.
The closure occurred after TMC HealthCare, a large healthcare provider in southern Arizona, backed out of acquiring the hospital last month.
TMC Health worked with the hospital on the acquisition for seven months before it decided to back out of the deal.
“After careful due diligence, the decision was made to not proceed with the acquisition of the hospital," said TMC Health in a statement. "We are working closely with management at Santa Cruz to identify appropriate placements for as many employees as possible. We continue to explore opportunities to provide needed medical services to the Green Valley community.”
According to the Santa Cruz Valley Regional Hospital's website, the 7-year-old hospital ceased all services at 12 p.m. Thursday. The 49-bed facility served Green Valley, Sahuarita, Nogales, Rio Rico, Tubac, Amado, Patagonia and Sonoita.
On June 20, a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice was issued stating that 315 employees would be affected by the closure.
WARN requires “employers to provide notice 60 days in advance of covered plant closings and covered mass layoffs,” according to the state’s Department of Economic Security website.
Closure was caused by a 'perfect storm' of events
Pima County District 4 Supervisor Steve Christy said there was a “perfect storm” of factors that contributed to the closing of the hospital from debt to lack of patients.
Christy said many residents chose to go to Tucson with its state-of-the-art medical facilities, and Sahuarita, which neighbors Green Valley and has an 18-bed medical center that opened in 2020.
Even residents in communities as far south as the border town of Nogales often preferred to travel to Tucson, said Olivia Ainza-Kramer, president of the Nogales-Santa Cruz County Chamber of Commerce.
“For Nogales and Rio Rico, our hospital is Holy Cross hospital, the services ... are very good and very good staff except that it's a small hospital. Whenever they (people) needed to be treated for something else that they couldn't treat here, they would be transferred to Tucson,” she said.
Representatives from the Carondelet Network, which runs Holy Cross did not respond to requests for comment.
The Arizona Daily Star reported on July 2, the hospital’s former CEO Stephen Harris said only about 15% of the people living in Green Valley used the hospital.
Another issue facing the Santa Cruz Valley Regional Hospital was mounting debt. The Daily Star’s article reported the hospital fell behind on repaying Medicare payments advanced to keep the hospital open during the pandemic.
Christy noted that with the recent downturn of the economy, the frequent change in leadership of the hospital, and the medical complex's complicated ownership structure, the decision of TMC Health to back out of the deal was no surprise.
According to Pima County GIS maps, multiple entities own different buildings and the land the hospital sits on.
Christy said the plan for TMC Health to take over the hospital was one last effort at saving the institution after years of financial issues and ownership changes. He called the closure “gut-wrenching” after the deal fell through.
Hospital has a turbulent past
The Arizona Republic reported in May 2020, that in 2018 Lateral Investment Management took over ownership and gave the hospital its current name after it emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Then, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of Arizona gave Santa Cruz Valley Regional Hospital one-time funding of $3.6 million from the COVID-19 Crisis Contingency and Safety Net Fund in May 2020 after hospital leaders said they were on the brink of closure due to a drop in revenue during the first months of the pandemic.
Hospital leaders told The Daily Star the hospital, which leaders estimated cost $79 million to build, had experienced “turmoil and financial mismanagement” in its early days.
Before the facility was built the area did not have a hospital or emergency room, and residents had to travel about 30 minutes by car to get to an ER.
“It’s very sad because in 2015 it opened with such high hopes and great expectations,” Christy said. “It’s a beautiful facility. I think it's indicative of what many rural hospitals are experiencing right now.”
Christy said there has been no talk about what will become of the complex that housed the hospital.
Hospital administrators could not be reached for comment.
Coverage of southern Arizona on azcentral.com and in The Arizona Republic is funded by the nonprofit Report for America in association with The Republic.
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Tolleson election: City Council candidates discuss finances and landing a grocery store
Tolleson voters will decide between four candidates vying for three City Council seats in the Aug. 2 election.
Political newcomer Frank Aponte, a retired city employee, is challenging incumbents Jimmy Davis, Clorinda Erives and Linda Laborin for a seat on the council.
Early voting began July 6. Those who choose to vote by mail are advised to mail their ballot by July 26 or drop it off at a ballot drop-off location or voting location by 7 p.m. on Election Day.
The Arizona Republic asked candidates to answer three questions on city issues. Here's how they responded.
Keeping city fiscally responsible
Tolleson will soon open its city hall and has begun planning for an aquatic center. What will you do to ensure the city is fiscally responsible as it undertakes these major projects?
Aponte: "If elected as a council member I as well as other council members would prioritize allocating enough monies in the budget for the upkeep and safety of the aquatic center, i.e. cleansing, chlorination, repairs and supervision such as, life guards, CPR training, life saving floatation devices, etc."
Davis: "The new Tolleson Civic Center and aquatic center will soon be the crown jewel of our city. I have been tasked by Mayor (Juan) Rodriguez with overseeing the aquatic center project. It is very important that we use the taxpayers’ dollars efficiently as well as making sure the wants and needs of our residents are met in this project. We have been very actively gathering feedback from the community during the design process by conducting focus groups and with a community survey gathering input from interested parties. As the project continues, we will continue to gather feedback.
"This project is something the community pushed forward, when the Tolleson Union High School pool closed. This left Tolleson without an aquatic’s facility. These major projects must be handled with patience and care. I will work to ensure the aquatic center project stays within budget and is something that will last generations."
Erives: "It is so exciting to see the new Tolleson’s City Civic Center. To go from design concept to a physical building is impressive. The Civic Center will be home to our public library, senior center, council’s chambers and administrative offices. The future home of our aquatic center will be located behind the City Civic Center.
"The City Civic Center comes with a $22 million price tag. Like all projects, expenses can total up quickly, especially unforeseen expenses. As a council, our role is to be diligent and transparent with the taxpayer’s checkbook. Therefore, it is imperative for us stay vigilant to the City Civic Center’s budget, make note of any unexpected expenses. Financial transparency will be provided through the City of Tolleson’s website. Financial documents can be found through hyperlinks. Our new City Civic Center is a state-of-the-art building for all residents of Tolleson."
Laborin: "We had an election on the aquatic center and we are fully funded for this project."
Bringing a grocery store to Tolleson
Tolleson is home to Costco, Kroger, Albertsons/Safeway distribution centers yet the city still does not have a grocery store for 7,295 residents. How can you work to bring a grocery store to the city?
Aponte: "As for a grocery store, I would have to consult with the economic development department as well as with council to view the options, if any, such as land, location and interested parties willing to bring their business to Tolleson."
Davis: "We are frequently told about the 'magic' grocery store population number by major grocers. I have continued to support development that includes housing options to boost our population in our city. If we can grow our population, we will have an ample chance at securing a major grocer within our borders. The development in Tolleson coupled with the growth south of our city should make us an attractive market for a major grocer in the very near future."
Erives: "Tolleson would benefit greatly from having a grocery store as it would offer residents access to fresh foods, provide new jobs and generate taxes. In order for a grocery store to come into Tolleson, our residential count needs to reach 10,000.
"Recently, our council approved the construction of a new apartment complex along McDowell Road and three new housing projects along 99th Avenue, as well as the expansion of a current apartment complex. It is with great anticipation that with construction of these new housing projects, our residential count would grow leading a grocery store to invest in Tolleson."
Laborin: "We have a great economic development gentleman, who's being working on this problem for a few years. We need to get our population numbers higher in our small 6.5 square miles. He's getting more families and companies to build apartments and houses. The traffic is going to be a bit of a problem, but we'll figure it out."
Biggest challenges city faces
What do you see as the city’s two most critical challenges and how would you help solve them?
Aponte: "The city’s two most major challenges are city code and city ordinance compliance. The way to solve them would be to work with code enforcement to enforce the code and ordinance violations, i.e. issue warnings and citations for those violations."
Davis: "Homelessness and substance abuse plague our municipalities nationwide. We have all suffered loss as a result of substance abuse, and we see chronic homelessness Valley-wide.
"Harm reduction strategies are being implemented to combat substance abuse in Tolleson. I will continue to support these strategies and push programs that save lives.
"Homelessness must be address at its root. First, finding solutions that meet basic human needs like water, food and shelter. Once we get people off the street, only then can we begin to find solutions for them. Breaking them out of the cycle of homelessness.
"These issues are so incredibly nuanced, one size does not fit all, so we must work to create programs that are able to adapt to the needs of the individual. I will continue to support strong substance abuse and homeless programming in the city of Tolleson."
Erives: "The COVID-19 crisis has brought a myriad of issues to our community, such as mental health, drugs and homelessness, small business struggles, domestic violence, job loss, and poverty, just to name a few. Although recovery for each issue is important, housing and education stand out for me as Tolleson’s most critical challenges.
"Housing — The stress of this pandemic has increased the number of families struggling to pay their mortgages and rent. Some are facing eviction, even homelessness. I would like to work on a comprehensive housing response plan that addresses immediate, medium- and long-term effects of COVID-19 that includes stakeholders to help improve their housing situations.
"Education — To help close the learning loss gap, students need additional instructional time. Multiple after school and summer programs are offered through our recreation center and our public library. My Vice Mayor Story Time is another program supporting children’s academic growth."
Laborin: "Traffic is a problem going through our small community. People living around us travel our main streets to get to the freeway on the north side of town.
"Water is a concern for our residents. Just like it is for our neighbors in all directions."
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El Mirage election: Where City Council candidates stand on housing and development
El Mirage's mayor and three council incumbents are uncontested in their Aug. 2 reelection bids.
Mayor Alexis Hermosillo and Councilmembers Monica Dorcey, Anita Norton and Donna Winston all are seeking second terms representing the northwest Valley city of some 36,000 residents.
Early ballots were mailed out July 6. Those who choose to vote by mail are advised to mail their ballot by July 26 or drop it off at a ballot drop-off location or voting location by 7 p.m. Aug. 2. Search the Maricopa County Elections Department website to find a location near you.
The Arizona Republic asked the candidates three questions about issues facing the city. Hermosillo and Winston did not provide responses, but here's what Norton and Dorcey had to say.
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When did you join El Mirage City Council, and what is the biggest change you’ve seen in El Mirage since then?
Dorcey: "I joined the City Council in December 2018 and the biggest change has been in the area of development. We have seen significant commercial/industrial development in one of the largest parcels with rail access in the county right here in El Mirage. A few projects are complete but many more in the pipeline.
"We have also seen significant growth in the available housing stock with one project completed and two more in construction. Once they are done there will be approximately 700 more housing units available."
Norton: "I was appointed on Nov. 7, 2017 to fill a vacancy … and won election to serve on the City Council in the 2018 primary election. ... As a result of new leadership within the council and new staffing ... there has been a refreshing, positive atmosphere at City Hall which has helped greatly in bringing about positive changes within the community parks, streets, utilities management, public safety involving both police and fire, senior center, and library, as well as a more positive environment for city employees. ... We have seen a big change in response times, cases solved, and lower turnover due to improved morale and opportunities for advancement.
"While we are gradually losing agricultural fields in the southern portion of the city, we have (seen) several major companies establish a presence in El Mirage and several others who have plans to bring commercial development which will .. provide hundreds of jobs, (and) greatly increase our revenue base."
Q: In your ideal scenario, what does El Mirage look like in 5-10 years, and how do you make that happen?
Dorcey: "In the next 5 years El Mirage will hopefully be completely built out, both commercially and residentially. I will do all I can to see that we maximize the number of jobs that we can attract with the commercial/ industrial development that will be taking place, that the jobs pay well and are attractive to El Mirage residents, and that the businesses are environmentally friendly. I also hope to see a much more robust retail sector here with more restaurants and other needed services."
Norton: "While we have several neighborhood parks, as well as Gentry Park and Gateway Park, hundreds of residents that I have spoken with have asked about a larger city park with more baseball and soccer fields, a fishing pond, volleyball courts, more grassy areas, and a community swimming pool. Most neighboring cities offer those amenities to their residents and I think it would greatly enhance the quality of life in El Mirage. We have many families in El Mirage with young people who need an area for family outings where they can feel safe and enjoy the outdoors."
Q: What are El Mirage’s biggest challenges right now, and what are you doing or what will you do to resolve them?
Dorcey: "El Mirage is experiencing the same challenges every Phoenix Metro city is facing, even though on a smaller scale. We have invested significantly in our Police Department in an effort to address the drug trafficking, with impressive success. We were once known for being one of the most affordable cities in the Valley but housing prices and rents are now high here, as well. And pursuing economic development that attracts good jobs with good wages and desirable companies is a challenge, but certainly a good one to have."
Norton: "To manage the budget wisely in providing needed services without burdening the taxpayer with unnecessary expenditures through bond issues is one of our biggest challenges. For example, our court house needs some recommended changes. However, I do not feel it is wise or necessary to ask the taxpayers to be burdened with a $14-plus million courthouse when a remodeling of the existing courthouse would meet the needs at a tenth of the cost without putting an additional undue burden for 20-plus years on the taxpayers.
"One other need most residents who I have spoken with have asked for are more restaurants. While that is a private matter for a landowner and a business to negotiate, I believe that with the commercial development of the area between Peoria and Olive avenues, there will be a greater need and more feasibility for a steakhouse or eatery of some sort to locate here."
Q: What is or should the city be doing to ensure affordable housing is available in your community?
Dorcey: "The first thing we are already doing is working cooperatively with neighboring communities through the Maricopa Association of Governments, particularly in the far West Valley, on strategies that can be implemented on a regional basis, especially with regard to homelessness.
"We are also looking at affordable housing strategies that will work within the constraints we have on scale and available land. One such strategy is to invest in building the stock of affordable existing homes through a land trust. New ideas are emerging, and it will be incumbent on the City Council to continue to explore them and stay committed to addressing this issue for the long term."
Norton: "Although the City of El Mirage is in a situation of being land-locked and facing restrictions on new residential development due to proximity to Luke Air Force Base, we are limited in what we can offer in further residential development. What little vacant land remains in El Mirage is privately owned and most of it is not available for residential development. We have worked with the nonprofit New Town Development to rehab several vacant homes to create affordable homes for low income homeownership."
Reach reporter Taylor Seely at tseely@arizonarepublic.com or 480-476-6116. Follow her on Twitter @taylorseely95 or Instagram @taylor.azc.
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. – A new addiction treatment program center is coming to Martinsville.
On Thursday, Pinnacle Treatment Centers announced that they will be celebrating the opening of Martinsville Treatment Services with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on July 12.
Martinsville Treatment Services, located at 8500 A.L. Philpott Highway, Suite #3, is an outpatient addiction treatment program for people over the age of 18, the release said.
According to the release, the center will offer medication-assisted treatment, as well as individual and group counseling.
Pinnacle Treatment Centers said that at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, attendees will participate in a candlelight moment of silence to honor lives lost to overdose, that there will also be a “Recovery Canvas” for attendees to share messages of hope, as well as a 15-minute Narcan training for those interested in learning how to administer the medication to someone in distress from a drug overdose.
There will be free Narcan distributed among those who complete the training, the release said.
The ceremony will be held at the Martinsville Treatment Services center from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on July 12.
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ROANOKE, Va. – You can spend your Saturday hanging out with some wild animals at the Mill Mountain Zoo to help them celebrate their 70th birthday.
From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 9, the zoo will be throwing a giant birthday party to celebrate.
There will be a bouncy castle and carnival games all day at the zoo, and everyone who comes to the celebration can enjoy a piece of free birthday cake from Bali’s bistro.
A magician will be doing performances and Delicia’s gourmet ice will be selling their sweet treats, too. The first 150 people through the gate will get a pass for a free ice sample.
Niki Voudren, Executive Director at Mill Mountain Zoo said she is excited to celebrate this huge milestone and continue the zoo’s mission of helping animals and providing them with the best care.
“Platinum Zoobilee is the celebration of our 70-year anniversary as this beautiful iconic mountain top zoo,” Voudren said. “It is a very kid-friendly event. We will have ice cream, free birthday cake, games, all kinds of crafts, and lots of fun, keeper chats. All the fun things you would expect at a kid’s event.”
If you are looking for a more “adult” way to celebrate this big birthday, the Mill Mountain Zoo will be hosting Zoo Doo: a night with local food vendors, wine, and unique surprises.
These celebrations also come with some upgrades to the zoo.
Over the last few months, the zoo staff has been painting all the buildings to match their new color and brand. They are softening the color scheme to blend in more.
The staff is also gearing up to renovate the reptile and python house, which is expected to be complete in the fall.
Also in the fall, the Mill Moutain Zoo is launching a new playground in partnership with Carillion Children’s Hospital, which will be called Carillion Children’s Curiosity Corner.
Emily Moore, an Education Associate said everyone at the zoo is happy about the upcoming changes.
“We are a small zoo so it is really nice to see all these things we have been wanting to happen for so long starting to get going,” Moore said. “It is just really exciting because we all really love the zoo so much and we want to see that progress happen.”
Not only that, but the zoo is also completing a fun new addition, the Zoo Choo!
The Zoo Choo! has been painted, the engine has been installed, and the brakes and hydraulics have been replaced, but the zoo staff said they still have some work to do on the tracks and the tunnel. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/mill-mountain-zoo-celebrates-70th-birthday-with-a-community-zoobilee/ | 2022-07-07T16:10:50 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/mill-mountain-zoo-celebrates-70th-birthday-with-a-community-zoobilee/ |
CEDAR FALLS — The Governor’s STEM Advisory Council is anticipating that more 112,000 students throughout the state will benefit from STEM Scale-Up programming in the 2022-23 academic year.
Nearly 2,000 educators are expected to engage with 13 selected programs offering high-quality science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and experiences for preK-12 students and educators in-school, afterschool and in other educational settings.
For each of the last 11 years, the STEM Council has invited top preK-12 STEM programs to scale across Iowa in the aptly named “STEM Scale-Up Program.” Educators were able to apply for one or more programs to be implemented during the coming year with topics including computing, medicine, robotics and connections to STEM careers. These programs were selected based on the council’s strategic priorities and identifying opportunities to prepare Iowa students for the future workforce.
“The council resolved early on that no young Iowan would come in second when it comes to access to excellent STEM education, and the Scale-Up Programs have been successful in delivering high-quality learning experiences,” Jeff Weld, executive director of the council, said in a news release. “About one-fifth of all preK-12 youth take part in this strongly evaluated and effective program, totaling over one million today. Participants express greater interest in STEM study and careers, and outperform peers on statewide tests of mathematics, science and reading. For these reasons Scale-Up has become a signature STEM Council initiative.”
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To create the annual STEM Scale-Up Program menu, the STEM Council reviews applications from programs that serve students from preschool to high school. This year, there were 79 applications that resulted in the 13 high-quality programs being selected.
Program recipients are selected by regional STEM advisory boards each guided by a program manager. Selection criteria is based on need, student diversity, geographic location and distribution, and plans to sustain the program, among other factors. Since 2012, funding from the Legislature has enabled more than one million Iowa students to participate in STEM Scale-Up Programs.
Educator training for this year’s STEM Scale-Up Program recipients begins this summer. A complete list of 2022-23 STEM Scale-Up Program recipients can be found at iowastem.org/scale-up. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/governors-stem-council-announces-scale-up-recipients/article_108b356b-55aa-57b2-b455-e7b0761599eb.html | 2022-07-07T16:12:09 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/governors-stem-council-announces-scale-up-recipients/article_108b356b-55aa-57b2-b455-e7b0761599eb.html |
A motorist died after a vehicle left a county road and struck a concrete bridge guardrail before bursting into flames, Newton County police said.
The single-vehicle crash was reported at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday on County Road 150 East, north of 700 South, police said. The site is approximately two miles north of Brook.
It appears the 2008 Chrysler van was travelling north on the county road when it left the roadway and struck the guardrail, according to police. The impact killed the driver, who was the only occupant.
"Subsequently the vehicle caught fire," police said.
The name of the driver is being withheld at this time pending positive identification. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/motorist-dies-after-striking-guardrail-region-police-say/article_21a67ead-1672-52d8-ae83-9a09bcf2b43b.html | 2022-07-07T16:14:36 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/motorist-dies-after-striking-guardrail-region-police-say/article_21a67ead-1672-52d8-ae83-9a09bcf2b43b.html |
VALPARAISO — A 53-year-old Valparaiso-area woman faces a criminal charge of cruelty to an animal after repeatedly refusing medical care for her dog, which had suffered a broken leg, according to police and court records.
Patricia Soliday was taken into custody at the Porter County Jail Saturday and appears to have been released after posting an $800 cash bond, records show.
Porter County police said they were alerted June 21 that the dog in question, Oliver, had been injured earlier that month after leaving Soliday's yard in the 700 block of Cub Run Road.
An officer said he spoke with Soliday that day and she responded by screaming racial slurs and complaining about others contacting animal control.
Soliday said her dog left her yard and was injured while she was away at work, police said.
"She also stated that she did not know if he was attacked by another dog or how he became injured because she was not home at the time," according to the incident report.
Soliday said she took Oliver, a 6-year-old mixed breed male dog, to a local veterinarian on June 3 and was told the dog had suffered a broken front leg, according to police. She was given medications for the dog, but said she did not have the thousands of dollars needed to repair the break.
The veterinary office in question reportedly told police the dog suffered open fractures and Soliday declined surgery to repair or remove the leg, offers for discounted care or to surrender ownership of the animal to allow for immediate care.
When Soliday failed to show for a visit at another veterinary clinic June 23, she reportedly told police she did not feel well and "her health comes first."
"Throughout my conversation with Ms. Soliday, she did not appear to comprehend the severity of Oliver's injury," the officer wrote.
The initial veterinarian who saw Oliver told police that without immediate care, Oliver would likely suffer systemic infection and death of the tissue in the broken leg.
Soliday took Oliver to a second veterinarian June 28, but again refused care due to costs, police said. She also refused to surrender the animal.
"(The veterinarian) expressed concern over Oliver leaving the clinic with Ms. Soliday because she does not believe that Ms. Soliday will follow up with further care for Oliver's injury," the report says.
Soliday is scheduled to appear Aug. 24 for an initial hearing in her criminal case before Porter Superior Court Judge Christopher Buckley.
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CROWN POINT — A special use request to allow a car repair shop in a B-3, Business District has been denied.
The Crown Point City Council unanimously denied the request, made by Caliber Collision, during a Tuesday night meeting. The special use request received a 3-2 favorable recommendation from the Board of Zoning Appeals during its June meeting; however the City Council had concerns about the shops' proposed location.
Caliber was hoping to locate at 125 South Superior Drive, which is off of Broadway. Crown Point has long been trying to develop Broadway into a business corridor. Councilman Scott Evorik, R-at large, said that though Broadway "is not developing as fast as I think we thought it would, I just don't know about an automotive repair (shop) right there."
Instead, Evorik said, the business should be located a block away, where there are lots available that are already zoned industrial.
Gus Wilson, the developer for the project, said Caliber assured the council that all repair work is done indoors and that Caliber "is not a tire shop with open doors and loud noises."
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Caliber currently has 1,300 locations in 27 states. Wilson said Caliber has had success with locating in more residential areas in the past because of how visually appealing the businesses are.
"It does not come across as an industrial building when you look at it from the outside," Wilson said. "They are good neighbors."
Caliber usually places its buildings behind a 6-foot-tall vinyl fence and uses landscaping as buffering, Wilson added.
Councilman Chad Jefferies, D-1st, said a fenced-off lot may change the "feel" the city has been working to curate along Broadway.
"We'd love to have your business in Crown Point, just not in that location," Councilwoman Dawn Stokes, D-2nd, said.
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Philly Pinentel, 4, drives his Jeep at the Crown Point Fourth of July Parade.
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Five-year-old Nora Stone waves to the passing units at the Crown Point Fourth of July Parade.
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Blakely, 2, and Alivia Govan wave as the Crown Point Fourth of July Parade passes.
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Members of the Jesse White Tumblers wow the crowd at the Crown Point Fourth of July Parade.
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Tractors of all sizes roll down up Main Street at the Crown Point Fourth of July Parade.
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SAN JUAN COUNTY, Wash. - A proposal to rename a channel in San Juan Islands after one of the first Indigenous elected officials in Washington state was approved by a state board.
The Washington State Board of Natural Resources approved four naming proposals Tuesday, including renaming Harney Channel between Shaw and Orcas islands after Henry Cayou.
The proposed name, Cayou Channel, would honor Indigenous longtime businessman and local politician, Henry Cayou.
Cayou lived his whole life in the San Juan Islands until his death in 1959. He was a successful commercial fisherman and was one of the first Indigenous elected officials in Washington state, according to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Cayou served for 29 years as the San Juan Island County commissioner.
Harney Channel was named after notorious American General William Selby Harney in the 1800s. Harney led the U.S. Army’s Department of Oregon from 1858 to 1860 and has a storied history of killing indigenous people throughout the midwest and western territories, and narrowly avoided war with Great Britain, which led to the occupation of the San Juan Islands, according to the Oregon Historical Society.
The Washington State Board of Natural Resources said the naming of Cayou Channel is the result of a "substantial community organizing effort" from San Juan County residents.
The proposal was first submitted in early 2021 and has cleared all state hurdles.
The approved name proposal will be added to the Washington Administrative Code, and the Washington State Board of Natural Resources will pass the proposal along to the United States Board on Geographic Names for federal review. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/state-appove-proposal-rename-san-juan-islands-channel-indigenous-leader/281-b0fa47b5-c3f7-4e50-9dfd-c6aa1f4e1e7f | 2022-07-07T16:14:58 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/state-appove-proposal-rename-san-juan-islands-channel-indigenous-leader/281-b0fa47b5-c3f7-4e50-9dfd-c6aa1f4e1e7f |
A jury has convicted San Antonio businessman Michael Angelo Padron of defrauding the federal government by illegally obtaining more than $240 million in contracts intended for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses.
The jury found Padron — who is neither a veteran nor disabled — guilty of conspiracy to defraud the United States and six counts of wire fraud. It acquitted him of two other wire fraud charges.
“We are disappointed with the jury’s verdict,” Santosh Aravind, one of Padron’s lawyers, said in an email. “Mr. Padron intends to appeal.”
Padron, 62, faces up to five years in prison on the conspiracy charge and up to 20 years on each wire fraud count. He is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 19 with co-defendants Michael Wibracht — a former San Antonio apartment developer — and Ruben Villarreal, who both pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the government rather than stand trial.
The jury reached its verdict in the six-day trial on June 29.
“Fraudulently obtaining multi-million-dollar government contracts from a program designed to benefit service-disabled veterans is reprehensible,” Jeffrey Breen, special agent in charge of the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General’s South Central field office, said in statement after the verdict.
The alleged conspiracy stretched from 2004 through at least 2017 and resulted in San Antonio construction company Blackhawk Ventures and other companies receiving contracts intended for service-disabled vets, according to the March 2021 grand jury indictment.
Padron and Wibracht, 48, exercised financial and operational control over the company, which disqualified them from receiving contracts designated for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, prosecutors said.
To conceal their control, they installed Villarreal — a Floresville disabled veteran who served in the Navy for 20 years — as the majority owner of Blackhawk. But Villarreal, 72, didn’t pay any money for the purported stake, Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Brown told jurors.
Padron and his business partners used disabled veterans as “props and puppets” to win tens of millions of dollars in contracts that should have gone to companies actually run by disabled veterans, Brown said.
Aravind described Padron as a successful businessman betrayed by people who falsely claimed he was part of “some sprawling conspiracy to defraud the government.”
Padron owns a general contracting company called Mapco Inc.
Blackhawk won more than 1,300 set-aside contracts from various government agencies over the years, a federal database shows. They included a $21.2 million contract to build a parking garage at the Dallas VA Medical Center and a $13.7 million contract for a battle command training center at Fort Sam Houston.
After prosecutors presented their case, Padron’s counsel sought his acquittal. U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez denied the request.
pdanner@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/Jury-convicts-San-Antonio-businessman-of-17289968.php | 2022-07-07T16:17:07 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/Jury-convicts-San-Antonio-businessman-of-17289968.php |
If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in San Antonio traffic, you have probably muttered a few four-letter words.
The Express-News recently asked readers about what they think are some of the worst roads, highways and intersections in San Antonio.
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One person simply lamented: “I tend to find that traffic is not a problem if you just don’t leave the house.”
Area traffic woes have long been known to area planners. The local Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, which engages in long-range transportation planning for the region, has an interactive map that highlights the deadliest roads.
The city of San Antonio also tracks traffic counts on all the roads and intersections it maintains.
Much of the feedback the Express-News received from readers lines up with a recent Texas A&M Transportation Institute report that analyzed the 100 most congested roadways in the Lone Star State. Eight San Antonio roadways made the ranking, including Loop 1604 between U.S. 281 and Interstate 10, Loop 410 between U.S. 281 and I-10. Click here for the full list.
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Below is a lightly edited sampling of what we heard from readers:
I do want to point out relatively non-busy/non-vital intersections where the stop light takes forever and should be re-timed. I have a few in mind: Interpark Blvd/Wood Valley near 281/Bitters is one. You wait 2-3 minutes for maybe 1 or 2 cars to exit or enter the neighborhood. The light just needs to be re-timed.
Highway 151 to Alamo Ranch Parkway. The overpass and subsequent overpass over Westwood loop did nothing to help the traffic during the afternoon rush.
Zarzamora Street between Interstate 35 and Loop 410.
U.S. 281 south to Loop 410 W exchange, 281 south by Trinity (for some reason), I-35 (all of it is an attack on humanity).
I-35 north and south at 1604 and 410.
Coming from Boerne on I-10 south and turning onto 1604 heading east. The intersection always causes heavy congestion from traffic turning onto I-10 heading south, the yield sign causes headaches for traffic turning onto 1604 east. Once you merge, the traffic from 1604 heading east on to I-10 north causes additional confusion.
Once you are on the overpass you are confronted with traffic from I-10 south merging with 1604 east traffic on the overpass. Once you have merged here you are confronted with east bound 1604 traffic and traffic exiting onto Tradesman. I avoid this intersection by exiting to 1604 west and going under the overpass to the stop lights and turning east on the access road. May take a little longer but it is much safer. I have lived in southern California and Washington DC and never been intimated by heavy merging traffic as I am by this intersection.
The ramps from 281 to 410 – poor design, as usual. Same with the ramp from I-10 east to 410 east and I-35 from Wurzback to Austin (or any direction for that matter). Too much capacity with no chance of ever fixing.
Bandera Road from 410 to 1604. Too much traffic for the current lanes. The Texas Department of Transportation and San Antonio need to build the overhead lanes.
Intersection of Highway 281 and Bitters Road is very dangerous.
Potranco Road, even though they widened it about three years ago, still experiences heavy traffic because of continued development from 1604 west to the Medina County line and beyond. Soon Highway 211 will be opened from Culebra Road to Potranco Road but no widening construction is taking place on 211 from Potranco Road to Highway 90. Once 211 is opened, all that four-lane traffic from Culebra will be dumped on the 4-mile, two-lane portion of 211.
The intersection of Starcrest and Hidden is terrible. Every minute someone runs that stop sign. And accidents happen often. It’s almost like traffic laws don’t exist at that corner. According to the San Antonio Police Department, stop signs all around the city are confusing for San Antonio drivers.
West 1604 to I-35 S next to Ikea. Multiple short lane switches, merges and flip-flopping yields.
Nacogdoches and O'Connor…specifically the section between HEB and Walgreens. Drivers constantly try and cross three lanes of busy traffic to get to the opposite side out of HEB and cause jams but most of the time accidents. Then you have drivers coming off of O'Connor into the HEB parking lot that back traffic up into the box during rush hour. From a few people I’ve spoken to, they’ve asked D10 councilman but they say nothing can be done even though they can just add a raised median to the double yellow striped section that is currently there.
The intersection at I-10 and Woodlawn/Fredericksburg is an absolute nightmare. If you are trying to head West on I-10 from Woodlawn Road, you will likely sit at two separate lights for close to 6-7 minutes. It is often easier to cut across Woodlawn to Fredericksburg to avoid the poorly timed lights.
1604 after 281 going north. All those acceleration lanes are too short and go right into on coming traffic.
Sonterra to 281 S access road...people come out of Sonterra and dive straight for the left lane at considerably lower speeds than the vehicles already in the left lane.
410 and 90 interchange on the west side, it's a clover intersection that simply cannot handle the traffic. I see accidents there weekly.
Northeast 410 as it merges with I-35 always get backed up like crazy.
The stretch on 1604 from I-35 to I-10 (East & West) is the most congested in the city for many years. Primarily between Blanco Rd to I-10.
1604 between I-10 and Blanco just about any time of day. Most of Alamo Ranch.
1604 and Culebra. Traffic even at 4am on a Tuesday
1604 near Shavano Park and 1604 and Culebra are a nightmare. Actually, all of 1604 is a nightmare
Wilderness Oak and Blanco is an F rated intersection and the city keeps approving the building of more houses and apartments. They even re-zoned the land at the intersection for a company to build apartments even though the residents were begging the city to improve the infrastructure first. Wilderness Oak is 2 lanes of traffic and Blanco is 2 lanes of traffic that both combine into the two lanes on Blanco between Huebner and Wilderness Oak. Fortunately the pandemic has reduced traffic to the point where it’s not too crazy but eventually things might go back to how they were or worse if everyone has to start commuting to work again
Culebra in the Alamo Ranch area is not built for that much traffic
151 that exits into the Alamo ranch area.. absolutely horrible design. Culebra and 1604 is also horrible. Potranco and seascape gets bad at times too.
Wurzbach and I-10!
timothy.fanning@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-traffic-These-roads-and-intersections-17288206.php | 2022-07-07T16:17:38 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-traffic-These-roads-and-intersections-17288206.php |
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar has tested positive for the coronavirus.
Salazar, 51, is experiencing “minor symptoms” and will be working from home and quarantining with his horses, the sheriff said in a Facebook post on Wednesday evening.
“The bad news is I tested positive for COVID this morning,” Salazar said. “The good news is Sarah bought me this really nice barn to quarantine in. Chucky and Jesse love the extra attention, but they both snore. No, horses don’t get COVID, they are both healthy as a horse.”
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Salazar’s announcement comes as COVID-19 is on the rise again, with diagnosed cases and hospitalizations related to the illness surging in recent weeks.
In five 24-hour periods during the past two weeks, more than 1,000 positive COVID tests were reported in Bexar County — levels not seen since February, the Express-News reported Wednesday.
timothy.fanning@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/javier-salazar-covid-19-17289807.php | 2022-07-07T16:17:45 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/javier-salazar-covid-19-17289807.php |
BUCKEYE, Ariz. — A man is recovering from severe burns after a fire broke out at a Chipotle restaurant in Buckeye Thursday.
Around 5 a.m., City of Buckeye fire crews were called to the restaurant near Yuma and Watson roads for a report of a working fire.
The first units on scene reportedly found a 23-year-old man outside the restaurant with 60% burns on his body. He was treated at the scene and flown to Maricopa Burn Center, officials said.
As far as the blaze, authorities said a fire suppression system inside the kitchen activated and doused the flames. At this time, investigators are on the scene.
Since the fire investigation is in its early stages, additional information on the cause has not yet been released. Officials added that the restaurant will be closed until further notice.
Two other businesses next to the Chipotle will also be closed. This is a developing story. We will update it as more information becomes available.
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The Supreme Court just overturned Roe v. Wade, removing federal protections for the right to have an abortion — and opening the door to restricting more of our rights.
To make matters worse, our current Arizona attorney general has indicated he will seek to enforce the currently-enjoined territorial law (enacted even before Arizona became a state in 1912) that makes it a crime for anyone to provide an abortion.
When I’m speaking to the voters of Legislative District 18 at their doors, I hear a common refrain: Shock, that the Supreme Court could reverse a policy that women have counted on for half a century. Anger, that six unelected justices could so suddenly take away the rights of half the population to control their own bodies. Fear, that other fundamental rights will fall next.
Now we know that it’s up to each state whether we have the right to access the full suite of health care options during pregnancy, including abortion. And given the laws Arizona has recently passed with its thin Republican majority, our concerns are valid.
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I share the voters’ concerns, for I was recently pregnant. I had my second child almost four months ago, and watched with concern–bordering on panic–as our state Legislature passed laws during my pregnancy impacting the health care I could receive.
Due to pandemic precautions, a shortage of health care workers from burnout, or simply the provider’s policy — or all three — I was not able to schedule my first appointment until I was 12 weeks pregnant. Remember, the “weeks” begin counting from the last menstruation, so a person can be considered a few weeks pregnant immediately after conception.
Although I had been trying for pregnancy and testing regularly, my first appointment at 12 weeks was not much more than a confirmation that yes, indeed, I was pregnant. It would not be for a few more weeks that I would be able to have the additional tests that could confirm that the pregnancy was proceeding without complications for my health and the health of the fetus.
Earlier last year, the Legislature passed a law criminalizing the provision of abortion for reasons of genetic abnormalities, and I was waiting for my own test results during the time this law would go into effect. Thankfully, this law was quickly put on hold while lawsuits were pending.
But just last week the U.S. Supreme Court allowed that law to go into effect while the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals continues to consider its legality.
I’m so grateful to Mayor Romero and the Tucson City Council, who recently announced a directive that Tucson police will not make arrests over these new laws. And I’m thankful that the Democratic nominee for state attorney general, Kris Mayes, has promised she will not prosecute people for seeking or providing abortions.
However, there continues to be uncertainty in Arizona over what the state of the law is at this exact moment, and what additional restrictions on our individual freedoms will follow.
But here’s another thing I hear at voters’ doors: Resolve that women will rise up as a result of this decision and ensure that we protect our rights once again.
Now that the Supreme Court has removed federal protections to access an abortion and to control our own bodies, it is more important than ever to elect people at the state and local levels who will fight for our rights.
We need to elect representatives who can speak from experience and who will not be swayed by dreams of bipartisan action.
That’s why I’m proud to be the only LD18 Senate candidate endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona and Arizona List as a champion for protecting reproductive rights. I will do my utmost to be faithful to that trust if elected, for the sake of all who are capable of pregnancy.
Priya Sundareshan is a candidate for Arizona Senate in Legislative District 18, and her two boys are healthy (after complications during delivery). | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-i-needed-every-health-care-option-available-during-my-recent-pregnancy/article_a61ede3e-fd41-11ec-b830-57c307b17ef5.html | 2022-07-07T16:39:00 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-i-needed-every-health-care-option-available-during-my-recent-pregnancy/article_a61ede3e-fd41-11ec-b830-57c307b17ef5.html |
SARASOTA, Fla. — A man was killed in an industrial accident while at work Tuesday, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.
Leroy Firestone, 58, was standing on a ladder performing maintenance on the hydraulics of a garbage truck at Waste Pro on 15th Street East when the hydraulic blade/door on the side of the truck activated, causing it to close on Firestone’s head, the sheriff's office said in a statement.
Firestone died at the scene.
"I was blown away. I mean, this is something that nobody's ever prepared for," said Jeff Zint, Firestone's coworker. "He always had a smile on his face. He was a gentle giant."
Family and friends said Firestone was always happy. He was known on the 96K-Rock airwaves for years. The radio station is where he and his wife, Anne Whittemore Firestone, met. She said the news of her husband's death took her breath away.
Deputies say detectives interviewed distraught co-workers and found nothing suspicious about the incident. It's believed there was some sort of miscommunication between Firestone and another employee while repairs were being made to the truck.
“At Waste Pro, we’re family. This is an extremely difficult time for all of us. Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our Waste Pros," the garbage collection company said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with our employees and their families during this time of mourning and reflection.
"We appreciate the responsiveness of the first responders and emergency teams and we will continue to cooperate with local authorities on this ongoing investigation.”
Currently, the incident is being labeled as an accidental death. An investigation is still ongoing. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/manatee-man-garbage-truck-killed-accidental-death-at-work/67-9d6c1e5d-7709-44a4-b4f3-2f9da2bd5f1c | 2022-07-07T16:39:06 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/manatee-man-garbage-truck-killed-accidental-death-at-work/67-9d6c1e5d-7709-44a4-b4f3-2f9da2bd5f1c |
TYLER, Texas — An East Texas veteran is asking for one thing for his 100th birthday....cards.
Army Air Corp veteran and former Prisoner of War (POW) Archie Thomas will celebrate his Centenarian birthday on July 13 and is asking for 100 cards to commemorate the special event.
Thomas served in World War II and was awarded the prestigious Purple Heart.
To send a card to this true American hero, mail it to the following address:
Archie Thomas
c/o Watkins-Logan Texas State Veterans Home
11466 Honor Lane
Tyler, Texas 75708
Let's help make this his best birthday ever! | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/purple-heart-recipient-former-pow-asks-for-100-cards-for-100th-birthday/501-5a954692-1695-454c-9618-b3d911dc0a13 | 2022-07-07T16:39:12 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/purple-heart-recipient-former-pow-asks-for-100-cards-for-100th-birthday/501-5a954692-1695-454c-9618-b3d911dc0a13 |
SAN ANTONIO — Finally some good news for drivers in Texas, as gas prices have dropped by the largest amount so far this year.
AAA Texas says fuel prices could continue to fluctuate through the month of July, but as of Thursday, July 7, the statewide average is $4.33 per gallon. San Antonio drivers are paying around $4.27/gallon, which is a drop of 19 cents since last week, but still up by $1.50 since 2021.
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That price is 16 cents less than last week and is $1.52 more per gallon compared to last year. Drivers in El Paso are paying $4.44/gallon, which is currently the highest price in the state. Down in Laredo, drivers are paying the least amount at $3.98/gallon.
Experts say the national average cost for regular unleaded is $4.75/gallon, which is 11 cents lower than last week and $1.61 more than last year.
While it's nice to see the lower prices, AAA Texas is not sure yet if this is a trend or just another round of price fluctuation, which has occurred numerous times this year. The main reasons for the recent drop are decreasing crude oil prices due to concerns about a decline in global demand later this year and an increased regional supply. July is usually one of the busiest months for road travel and gasoline demand, as folks go on vacations. Because of this and also Russia’s war in Ukraine, the uncertainty surrounding global crude supplies could cause prices to fluctuate and possibly move higher during July.
“The largest weekly decline in 2022 for fuel prices is good news for drivers, but we’re not out of the woods just yet,” said AAA Texas spokesperson Daniel Armbruster. “Gas prices will remain elevated compared to one year ago and could fluctuate in July, which is typically one of the busiest months in Texas for road trips and fuel demand.”
Currently, drivers in Texas are paying the 6th lowest price for gas in the country, according to gasprices.com. By comparison, drivers in California pay the most, $6.19/per gallon. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas-sees-largest-weekly-price-drop-for-gas-this-year-according-to-aaa-texas-fuel-pump-san-antonio-gasoline-travel/273-44dbfcf7-1e2a-433f-b7c2-97287d95c047 | 2022-07-07T16:39:18 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas-sees-largest-weekly-price-drop-for-gas-this-year-according-to-aaa-texas-fuel-pump-san-antonio-gasoline-travel/273-44dbfcf7-1e2a-433f-b7c2-97287d95c047 |
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — After a Missouri man died while driving a jet truck in the Battle Creek Field of Flight Air Show and Balloon Festival, police say a blown tire caused the fiery crash.
Chris Darnell was performing at the show over the holiday weekend. His wife, Brooke, describes him as an amazing friend, husband and father.
"He's a legend," she says. "He's with us. He's given us so much strength already through this tragedy."
Chris was a longtime racer, joining his father's company, Shockwave Jet Truck, more than a decade ago.
"He's been racing all of his life, though. This is what he was supposed to do," Darnell says.
She says he was much more than just a performer.
"While Chris was performing, obviously, he was very loud. He was always on stage at airshows or drag races in front of hundreds of thousands of fans, but at home, he was Chris," Darnell says. "He is the most humble person you would ever meet. [He] lights up a room and is so welcoming. [He] treats everybody the same."
She says travelling with him and their daughters to shows across the country created some of her favorite memories.
"I mean, what other career can you take your family along and do that with? My kids met some of the coolest people," Darnell says. "Air shows and drag races were a huge part of his life. We were number one and we knew it. And watching him perform was breathtaking. Every time I watched him, I just sat in awe just at what he does."
She says her family will return to Battle Creek one day.
"Battle Creek was so good to my family. We left so much there, the hotel, the police officers, the firefighters. I mean, I'm still in shock of just how much people supported us there which I didn't know at the time that I needed so much," Darnell says.
She wants people to remember her husband by the pride he had in his work, his country and his family.
"Chris has created a legacy for us, but we weren't quite ready to live that," Darnell says. "I can guarantee you, me [and] our two girls will live it out to the absolute fullest."
A GoFundMe has been made to help the family at this time.
A full interview with Darnell can be found here:
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What to Know
- Visitors can feed giraffes at the Philadelphia Zoo's new interactive experience
- The experience is $6 for general admission holders, $4 to $5 for zoo members.
- Just be ready to snap a quick photo with Stella, Abigail and Bea because the Zoo says their 18-inch tongues move fast.
Visitors can now come face-to-face with the Philadelphia Zoo's tallest animals, just watch out for their tongues.
The Philadelphia Zoo announced a new interactive experience Wednesday, the Giraffe Feeding Encounter, located in the African Plains section.
The up-close experience gives visitors a rare opportunity to feed 🦒 Stella, 🦒 Abigail and 🦒 Bea, the zoo's giraffe family.
Families are warned to be ready for photos as the giraffes' 18-inch tongues move fast.
The new hands-on experience is an additional $6 for general admission holders; $5 for Individual, Dual, Family and Family Plus members; and $4 for Family Deluxe members and above.
Tickets are only available inside the zoo. For more information visit their site. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/you-can-now-feed-the-philly-zoos-tallest-creatures-heres-how/3292470/ | 2022-07-07T16:39:43 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/you-can-now-feed-the-philly-zoos-tallest-creatures-heres-how/3292470/ |
A 28-year-old man convicted of murder in connection to a 2019 store robbery that led to the death of a New York City police officer who was hit by crossfire from other officers' guns, was sentenced to 30 years to life for the crime.
Jagger Freeman's sentencing was announced Thursday by Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said. Aside from his prison sentence, Freeman -- who pleaded guilty last month -- was also sentenced to 5 years post release supervision.
Prosecutors said he and Christopher Ransom, 30, set off a chain of events that led to New York Police Department Detective Brian Simonsen being killed in February 2019 after officers responded to a Queens store that was being robbed by the two men.
Simonsen was shot in the chest in as he and six other officers opened fire on Ransom during the robbery at a T-Mobile store in the Richmond Hill neighborhood. Another sergeant was wounded.
Authorities said officers fired after they thought a real gun was being pointed at them by Ransom, with 42-year-old Simonsen ending up fatally shot and another officer wounded.
NYPD officers discharged a total of 42 rounds at the scene within 11 seconds, investigators have said.
Freeman was convicted of murder, robbery, assault and other charges for his role in the deadly shooting. Police said he acted as lookout during the robbery. His lawyer declined to comment.
His sentencing includes the conviction for robbery in the second degree and grand larceny in the third degree related to Freeman’s participation in a separate cell phone store robbery on Feb. 8, 2019.
“The defendant orchestrated a string of robberies, the last of which involved an imitation weapon and led to the tragic loss of Detective Brian Simonsen and the wounding of Sergeant Matthew Gorman," Katz said in a statement. "The jury found the defendant guilty of murder and he will now serve a lengthy time in prison as punishment for his criminal actions. We continue to express our condolences to Detective Simonsen’s family and fellow service members.”
Meanwhile, Ransom pleaded guilty in October to aggravated manslaughter and robbery and was sentenced to 33 years in prison.
Ransom, who police say was pointing a fake handgun, had said the shooting stemmed from a "prank gone horribly wrong." He said he returned the workers' money -- a claim that investigators deny -- but police were already responding.
"I am the author of the chain of events that led to the death of Detective Simonsen and for that I am deeply sorry," Ransom said at his sentencing. "I would like forgiveness but I would no dare as of it, I would not put that burden on the late detective's loved ones."
Even if he had asked for forgiveness, Simonsen's widow said at the time that she would not have offered any.
"I know the correct and the Christian thing to do was to look you in the eye and forgive you, but today I can't and I don't," said Leanne Simonsen.
A 19-year veteran of the NYPD, Simonsen was known since childhood as "Smiles" for his bright, welcoming nature, colleagues and friends said.
In an interview after his arrest, Ransom said he was "not a monster" and didn't anticipate what happened. Police described him as a career criminal with more than two dozen arrests prior to this case; friends called him an eccentric prankster.
Ransom, who has 25 prior arrests including one for impersonating a police officer, was shot eight times on that winter day in 2019. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/nyc-man-gets-30-years-to-life-for-2019-robbery-that-led-to-nypd-cops-friendly-fire-death/3765091/ | 2022-07-07T16:41:07 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/nyc-man-gets-30-years-to-life-for-2019-robbery-that-led-to-nypd-cops-friendly-fire-death/3765091/ |
What to Know
- Two women suffered what Manchester Township police called severe burns on their heads, backs, arms and faces during a fiery ATV wreck on July 6, 2022.
- The 20-year-old flipped their ATV while riding in the woods along trails off Roosevelt Boulevard and Trenton Avenue, police said.
- Both women managed to get to a nearby home to ask for help, police said.
Two young women suffered severe burns to their heads, backs, arms and faces in a fiery ATV crash in New Jersey Wednesday.
Manchester Township police officers arrived to the area of Trenton Avenue in the Roosevelt City section of Whiting around 6:15 p.m. to find the 20-year-old women suffering from burns, Manchester Township Police Department officers said.
The injured women were able to walk to a nearby home where they waited for first aid, police said.
The 20-year-olds told investigators they flipped their ATV while riding in the woods along trails off Roosevelt Boulevard and Trenton Avenue, police said. The ATV caught fire after flipping.
The women were first treated on scene before being flown by medical helicopter to a burn center, police said.
Members of the Whiting Volunteer Fire Department and New Jersey Forest Fire Service were called to the scene to extinguish the burning ATV and the surrounding wooded area where flames had spread, police said.
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A 25-year-old Queens man faces a litany of charges, including assault on a police officer and reckless endangerment, for allegedly whacking an NYPD officer with his car door as he fled a traffic stop and leading cops on a wild elevated subway track chase.
According to the NYPD, officers assigned to Brooklyn's 90th Precinct had lawfully stopped Kendall Floyd's car near Humboldt and Debevoise streets around 4:10 p.m. Wednesday. It wasn't immediately clear what prompted the initial stop, but a police official says Floyd allegedly flung his door open and hit the officer in the process.
Floyd then allegedly started running, the NYPD spokesperson said, and officers caught up with him near Broadway and Thornton Street about three blocks from the initial stop. That's where Floyd climbed a stanchion pole onto the elevated subway tracks, according to the NYPD. He then jumped a "great distance" onto a building roof.
Authorities say Floyd suffered a leg injury in that jump and responding officers were able to apprehend him. He was taken to a hospital and is expected to be OK. The officer he allegedly hit with his car was also taken to a hospital and will be fine.
In addition to the assault and reckless endangerment charges, Floyd is accused of official misconduct, false personation, criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and violating seatbelt laws. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-man-turns-daredevil-in-effort-to-flee-car-stop-gets-caught-after-roof-jump-cops/3765078/ | 2022-07-07T16:41:19 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-man-turns-daredevil-in-effort-to-flee-car-stop-gets-caught-after-roof-jump-cops/3765078/ |
Police are investigating after a .45 caliber Glock handgun was stolen from a residential garage in southeast Lincoln, where homeowners had left their garage open Tuesday night, according to authorities.
Lincoln Police Capt. Todd Kocian said the residents woke up Wednesday morning and noticed the vehicle in their garage had been rummaged through near 77th Street and Phares Drive.
Burglars made off with the handgun, a holster, ammo, two magazines and a pair of sunglasses, Kocian said, altogether worth around $1,095.
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.
Steven A. Alexander was arrested Tuesday morning on suspicion of first-degree assault, manslaughter and use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony in connection with the fatal stabbing of 26-year-old Austin Gress on Friday.
The 21-year-old initially told police he was confident everyone at the rural Fillmore County party was of legal age to drink. But investigators later found at least 50 attendees were under 21, according to court filings.
19-year-old Alexandor Eskra was driving a Subaru east in the inside lane of O Street near 37th Street around 9:30 p.m. Saturday when a westbound Ford Focus crossed the raised median and collided with Eskra's vehicle, according to police.
The woman had been driving near 12th and A streets around 3:30 p.m. Sunday when she noticed a white sedan following her, the police said. An occupant of the sedan fired a gun at the woman's car, leaving six bullet holes.
Christopher Gardner had been traveling north on 27th Street near Arbor Road around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday when he ran the stop sign at the T-intersection and entered the bean field, Sheriff Terry Wagner said.
Fire investigators determined the fire started in a garbage can and crept up the side of the house, entering the attic and causing damage to the siding of a neighboring residence, according to a city housing complaint.
The man entered the U.S. Bank near 27th and Superior streets around 12:15 p.m. and passed a note to the teller, demanding money, police said. He fled the scene on foot, leaving a pair of slippers behind in the parking lot.
The 30-year-old man arrived at the park, near 30th and D streets, around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, when the woman directed him to a nearby alley, according to police. When he entered the alley, he was assaulted by four men. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/glock-handgun-stolen-from-southeast-lincoln-garage-police-say/article_219f540a-948a-543e-aed5-787b118d83ba.html | 2022-07-07T16:42:29 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/glock-handgun-stolen-from-southeast-lincoln-garage-police-say/article_219f540a-948a-543e-aed5-787b118d83ba.html |
With Ohio’s handful of abortion clinics severely restricted and potentially threatened with closure, options for people seeking to end their pregnancy are limited — but not necessarily out of reach.
On June 24, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturned Roe v. Wade, a federal judge lifted the injunction blocking Ohio’s 2019 “Heartbeat Bill,” which banned almost all abortions after five or six weeks’ gestation — before many women know they’re pregnant.
Nothing in current Ohio law prohibits traveling out of state for an abortion or criminalizes having an abortion elsewhere, said Jessie Hill, professor of law at Case Western Reserve University.
This news organization studied the impact of the Heartbeat Bill and abortion law in neighboring states for a report on what options those seeking abortions have if Ohio law would prevent it.
» What are Ohioans’ options under new abortion restrictions?
Indiana: Abortion is banned after 22 weeks of pregnancy, with some exceptions built into law. Patients must have an 18-hour waiting period before having an abortion
Kentucky: A judge granted a request to temporarily suspend the state’s law that went into effect after the Roe v. Wade overturning that banned all abortions.
Michigan: Republicans want to enforce a 1931 law that banned abortion, but Democrats in the state have said they will work to prevent that from happening. A state judge issued a temporary injunction on enforcement last week, so abortion remains legal.
Pennsylvania: Abortion is banned after 24 weeks after a person’s last menstrual period. Those seeking an abortion must wait 24 hours before the procedure.
West Virginia: Abortion is banned with no exceptions for rape or incest. A lawsuit was filed not long over Roe v. Wade was overturned that seeks to block enforcement of the law.
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Police are seeking an unarmed man after he robbed a north Lincoln bank of an undisclosed amount of money Wednesday afternoon, fleeing on foot and so far evading police efforts to track him.
Lincoln Police Capt. Tarvis Banks said the robbery occurred at about 12:15 p.m. at the U.S. Bank near 27th Street and Ticonderoga Drive, a block north of Superior Street.
Police on Thursday released photos of the man captured from surveillance cameras inside the bank, where he initially said he needed to withdraw money before he passed a note to the teller, demanding cash, according to authorities.
He was not visibly armed at the time of the robbery, Banks said.
The police department deployed K-9 units in an attempt to track the suspect. Search efforts focused on the area immediately around the bank, Banks said.
Officers on scene said the man was seen stuffing money into his clothes in the bushes across Ticonderoga Drive immediately following the robbery. He was last seen fleeing west and had not been caught as of Thursday morning, Capt. Todd Kocian said.
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Police described the suspect as in his 30s or 40s with tattoos on his hands and chest, extending to his neck.
At the time of the robbery, he was wearing a beanie, a white undershirt and a plaid or flannel shirt.
And he could be shoeless. Crime scene investigators marked as evidence a pair of slippers near the west side the bank parking lot, apparently left behind by the robber.
The Nebraska Bankers Association offers an award of up to $20,000 for information that leads to the apprehension of suspects alleged to be responsible for the robbery of any FDIC-insured institution in the state, said Kara Heideman, the association's communications director.
The association works with local Crime Stoppers or the FBI to pay the informant after a suspect is apprehended, Heideman said. Tips provided to Crime Stoppers remain anonymous.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-police-release-photo-of-suspect-in-u-s-bank-robbery/article_561842ee-d6db-550b-97e2-8be79521cfb4.html | 2022-07-07T16:42:35 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-police-release-photo-of-suspect-in-u-s-bank-robbery/article_561842ee-d6db-550b-97e2-8be79521cfb4.html |
Lancaster County Commissioners decided last week to give $250,000 in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to Waverly to help pay for a new aquatic center.
Waverly has wanted to replace its aging swimming pool for years — and in 2020 voters approved a $3.5 million bond issue and a half-cent sales tax increase to pay for an updated aquatic center.
Like most everything else, the pandemic brought the project to a screeching halt, but city officials are now determined to move forward.
“We literally do have duct tape holding parts of our pool together this year,” City Administrator Stephanie Fisher told the Lancaster County Board last week. “So we are at mission critical now.”
Initially, city officials estimated the aquatic center — which would meet ADA requirements, have zero-entry features, a current channel, slides, a diving board and twice the capacity of the existing pool — would cost about $4.5 million.
Enter supply chain issues and inflation, and the lowest bid city officials received was $6.4 million, Fisher said.
Counting the bond issue, fundraising efforts and grants, Waverly has about $4.6 million in hand.
The city and the Greater Waverly Area Foundation Fund are still fundraising, Fisher told the county board. And supporters told the city council at a meeting in May they want to get the project going, because fundraising will get harder the longer they wait and at least one grant for the project has an expiration date.
“This is a project the city needs,” Fisher told the county board. “We’re just trying to figure out how to get it in the ground.”
To that end, county commissioners — who said such an aquatic center would benefit tourism and the entire county — allocated the money from the $62 million in federal stimulus funds it received.
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.
Salary increases for sheriff's deputies and correctional officers — the "domino effect" of the state's pay hikes for its corrections staff — will have a major impact on Lancaster County's budget.
After nearly two years in the position, Soulinnee Phan has been able to make significant changes in the city clerk office, including making it one of the most diverse city government offices.
The improvements play into the city’s downtown “principal corridors project,” an ambitious project to revitalize key entryways and streetscapes in the downtown area.
City leaders officially launched a project to find a second water source for Lincoln, naming an advisory council and contracting with Olsson to analyze the two options identified by the city.
The city plans to begin producing biochar — a charcoal-like substance that enhances soil and helps reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — with a $400,000 Bloomberg Philanthropies matching grant.
The Planning Commission voted to recommend a waiver to allow two houses where people recovering from substance abuse live to have up to nine residents, but it voted against a waiver for a similar house where up to 14 people live.
The stretch of Nebraska 2 that runs through the city will be called Nebraska Parkway when the South Beltway opens; and the old Muny Pool bath house is getting a mini-facelift. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/waverly-aquatic-center-gets-a-boost/article_561b6ab7-9d72-54f2-ac41-cc7638d69be5.html | 2022-07-07T16:42:41 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/waverly-aquatic-center-gets-a-boost/article_561b6ab7-9d72-54f2-ac41-cc7638d69be5.html |
SAN ANTONIO — Finally some good news for drivers in Texas, as gas prices have dropped by the largest amount so far this year.
AAA Texas says fuel prices could continue to fluctuate through the month of July, but as of Thursday, July 7, the statewide average is $4.33 per gallon. San Antonio drivers are paying around $4.27/gallon, which is a drop of 19 cents since last week, but still up by $1.50 since 2021.
The related video above was originally published June 10, 2022.
That price is 16 cents less than last week and is $1.52 more per gallon compared to last year. Drivers in El Paso are paying $4.44/gallon, which is currently the highest price in the state. Down in Laredo, drivers are paying the least amount at $3.98/gallon.
Experts say the national average cost for regular unleaded is $4.75/gallon, which is 11 cents lower than last week and $1.61 more than last year.
While it's nice to see the lower prices, AAA Texas is not sure yet if this is a trend or just another round of price fluctuation, which has occurred numerous times this year. The main reasons for the recent drop are decreasing crude oil prices due to concerns about a decline in global demand later this year and an increased regional supply. July is usually one of the busiest months for road travel and gasoline demand, as folks go on vacations. Because of this and also Russia’s war in Ukraine, the uncertainty surrounding global crude supplies could cause prices to fluctuate and possibly move higher during July.
“The largest weekly decline in 2022 for fuel prices is good news for drivers, but we’re not out of the woods just yet,” said AAA Texas spokesperson Daniel Armbruster. “Gas prices will remain elevated compared to one year ago and could fluctuate in July, which is typically one of the busiest months in Texas for road trips and fuel demand.”
Currently, drivers in Texas are paying the 6th lowest price for gas in the country, according to gasprices.com. By comparison, drivers in California pay the most, $6.19/per gallon. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/texas-sees-largest-weekly-price-drop-for-gas-this-year-according-to-aaa-texas-fuel-pump-san-antonio-gasoline-travel/273-44dbfcf7-1e2a-433f-b7c2-97287d95c047 | 2022-07-07T16:47:34 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/texas-sees-largest-weekly-price-drop-for-gas-this-year-according-to-aaa-texas-fuel-pump-san-antonio-gasoline-travel/273-44dbfcf7-1e2a-433f-b7c2-97287d95c047 |
JACKSON, Calif. — Two people were arrested on Wednesday in evacuations zones for the Electra Fire in Amador County.
Find the latest updates on evacuation zones for the Electra Fire here.
On Wednesday morning, deputies with the Amador County Sheriff's Office responded to reports of a vehicle that continued past a roadblock in Jackson around 11:50 a.m. The driver was identified as 31-year-old Jose Martinezestrada of Plymouth and the sheriff's office said he "had no legitimate reason for being in the evacuation zone."
Martinezestrada was arrested on suspicion of entering a disaster area, violations of probation as well as drug and vehicle violations, according to the Amador County Sheriff's Office. He was booked into the Amador County Jail.
On Wednesday evening, deputies with the Amador County Sheriff's Office as well as with Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office and officers from the Sacramento Police Department responded to assist with another vehicle in an evacuation zone.
The second driver was identified as 39-year-old Dustin Johnson of Pioneer, who deputies said had no "legitimate" reason to be in the evacuation zone. Johnson left the area on foot and was arrested after a short chase. Johnson was arrested on suspicion of entering a disaster zone, possession of a firearm, possession of illegal fireworks and other charges.
The Amador County Sheriff's Office is continuing to provide security in evacuation zones for the duration of the Electra Fire. Nearby agencies will also help the sheriff's office with 24-hour protection of homes and properties.
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NESCOPECK, Pa. — The fields may be empty now, but starting Thursday night, music lovers will fill the farm for the 25th annual Briggs Farm Blues Festival in Nescopeck where 20 artists are set to take the stage.
Organizer Maegan Beishline said the crew has built an "exceptional lineup" to celebrate their 25 years.
Organizer Robert Kelcher said their big headliner Kenny Wayne Shepherd dropped his first album in 1989, and the festival over the weekend coincides with the album's 25th anniversary.
"We have a really diverse lineup, everything from rock and roll to country blues. We have all our bases covered this year," Kelchner said.
After Covid canceled the festival in 2020, last year's return was monumental.
"We had a record-breaking year last year. We were fresh out of the heaviness of Covid and everyone was really itching to get out. So I think that built a lot of excitement for this year," Beishline said.
Kelchner said they plan the festival year-round with a ton of back work the crowd doesn't see.
Nearly 10,000 people are expected to flock to the Briggs Farm for the three-day festival. So with those numbers in mind, organizers expanded the farm to allow more space for camping and parking.
"One of the things people enjoy about coming to the festival is that there is a very relaxed atmosphere. So as we grow, we are very intentional about maintaining that relaxed atmosphere," Beishline said.
"People bring in their coolers or they can buy food and beverages here as well. But people set up here with their camping chairs and just pick their spot and it's home for them for the weekend," Kelchner said.
Gates open at 5 p.m. at Briggs Farm in Nescopeck, and music starts at 6. Tickets and camping passes are still available. For more information, click here.
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NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. — A section of the Central Susquehanna Valley Transportation project finally opened Thursday morning in central Pennsylvania.
Traffic is now moving along the northern portion which connects the Ridge Road interchange in Northumberland County to Route 15 in Snyder County.
PennDOT says the remaining portion of the new road will open Friday.
Check out WNEP’s YouTube channel. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/northumberland-county/portion-of-central-susquehanna-valley-thruway-open-ridge-road-route-15/523-b7ca4e57-1430-4569-997c-be287d0ad250 | 2022-07-07T16:48:27 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/northumberland-county/portion-of-central-susquehanna-valley-thruway-open-ridge-road-route-15/523-b7ca4e57-1430-4569-997c-be287d0ad250 |
MONTROSE, Pa. — State police are looking for a missing boy in Susquehanna County.
Mason Maguschak, 12, from Montrose, was last seen around 10:15 p.m. Wednesday at his home.
Investigators say Maguschak is 4'4" and 70 pounds and has blue eyes and sandy-colored ear-length hair. He was wearing a white t-shirt, gray Adidas pants with black stripes, and black Ugg slides.
Anyone with information is asked to contact state police at 570-465-3154.
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As temperatures rise, so does the need for roadside assistance.
For Dallas County Courtesy Patrol officer Coda Mosley, time is of the essence when assisting stranded drivers, clearing crashes, and helping everyone make it home safely.
"A normal day is a lot of flat tires and a lot of gas,” said Mosley.
Especially, he said, as drivers have felt pinched at the pump, leaving more running dry on hot Texas roads.
"It's gone up. It's definitely gone up,” he said. “I guess because of the prices, we’ve seen a lot of people running out of gas.”
Over the last couple of months, Dallas County reported the number of calls for drivers stranded because they ran out of fuel climbed about 20%, from 285 in April to 353 in May.
In June, that number climbed again to more than 360.
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Wednesday afternoon, Courtesy Patrol responded to multiple calls for drivers in need of gas, including Diamond Nicholson.
"I was expecting to make it to the gas station and I didn't,” said Nicholson.
Nicholson was just an exit away as she sat stranded along the shoulder of Central Expressway with her baby in triple-digit heat.
Mosley assisted by supplying a gallon, enough to get Nicholson to a place where she could fill up.
"Oh, yeah. On this expensive gas,” she said.
With temperatures expected to continue to hover around dangerous highs, Mosley said it’s more important than ever not to let the tank get too low.
"I mean, my best bet is to tell you not to run out.,” he said.
But if someone does find themselves stranded, he recommends staying in the car with a seatbelt on and windows down.
And he assures, help is on the way.
"We do make sure that we don't mess around. We get to where we need to get them off the side of the road and to someplace safe,” he said.
Those in need of help in Dallas County can call Courtesy Patrol at 214-320-4444. Reach roadside assistance anywhere by calling the number on the back of a driver’s license. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/courtesy-patrol-helping-more-drivers-stranded-without-gas/3008506/ | 2022-07-07T16:48:35 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/courtesy-patrol-helping-more-drivers-stranded-without-gas/3008506/ |
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Rodney Hawkins set out to uncover pieces of hidden history, starting with his own family.
“We have to be able to give flowers to our ancestors in some shape or form. But we can’t do that if we don’t know where they are,” said Hawkins.
A conversation with his great-grandmother changed the course of the next couple of years.
“And that was the spark of going down this rabbit hole of understanding our history and then realizing that we had a cemetery that was in disarray and needed to be restored,” he said.
It led Hawkins and his family deep into the Nacogdoches backwoods.
“I put out the call to family members to say, 'hey we’re going to do this' and they came from across the nation to help restore the cemetery,” he said.
Hawkins, a journalist, realized he wasn’t alone. Decedents of enslaved people across the United States have ancestors whose burial sites have been neglected, forgotten, and often paved over.
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“I’m very fortunate that our cemetery wasn’t at a place where we couldn’t bring it back,” he said. “But there are cemeteries, for example, that has a gas station on top of them where you would drive past it and wouldn’t even know.”
A series of stories and a serendipitous encounter with art gallery owner Daisha Board brought Hawkins to this moment. He is now the producer and creative director for an exhibition at the Daisha Board Gallery in Dallas.
It’s called "The Mount: A Photo Collection on Restoring America’s Buried Past." Images of his journey, captured by photographer Kwesi Yanful, expose Hawkins’ quest for the truth.
“To have an exhibition like this that’s so powerful in lineage, in history, in ancestry, we needed to show it,” Board said.
Board is known nationally for providing platforms for artists from various cultural backgrounds.
“For me to have a space that does not censor them, that gives them the freedom to express themselves in any way possible, that’s vital,” she said.
Board said over the Juneteenth holiday, people packed the gallery for what turned out to be a full-circle moment. A photo illustrating one of Hawkins’ ancestors purchasing assets as a free man 148 years ago on June 19 hangs on the gallery wall.
“He was buying cattle, property, some of which we own to this day,” Hawkins said.
“For some people it’s emotional,” Board said. “Some people resonate with the people in the images.”
Hawkins hopes his journey to uncover hidden, but significant history inspires others to do the same.
“We have to cherish those moments no matter how ugly or painful or shameful they may be. I’m proud of this,” he said. “I’m proud of where we came from.”
The cemetery Hawkins and his family uncovered is now recognized by the State of Texas as an historic landmark under the guidance of the Texas Historic Commission.
Hawkins’ family lineage was also a springboard for the "Lone Star Slavery Project," spearheaded by historian and researcher Kyle Ainsworth at Stephen F. Austin State University.
The Mount: A Photo Collection on Restoring America’s Buried Past can be seen at the Daisha Board Gallery through Saturday, July 9. For more information visit https://daishaboardgallery.com/ | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-art-exhibition-uncovers-hidden-history/3008549/ | 2022-07-07T16:48:51 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-art-exhibition-uncovers-hidden-history/3008549/ |
Thursday marks six years since the downtown Dallas shooting that killed five police officers.
Members of the Dallas Police Department as well as the families of the fallen officers will mark the somber anniversary with a private ceremony out front of the department headquarters.
The officers who were killed were Brent Thompson of Dallas Area Rapid Transit police, and four officers from the Dallas Police Department - Michael Krol, Lorne Ahrens, Michael Smith and Patrick Zamarripa.
Each of the five officers was working a Black Lives Matter protest march on the night of July 7, 2016, in downtown Dallas when a lone gunman ambushed the event. In addition to the five officers who were killed, 9 other people were shot. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-police-ambush/dallas-marks-6-years-since-5-officers-killed-in-downtown-ambush-shooting/3008851/ | 2022-07-07T16:48:57 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-police-ambush/dallas-marks-6-years-since-5-officers-killed-in-downtown-ambush-shooting/3008851/ |
BOISE, Idaho — The Chabad Jewish Center on Wednesday celebrated a historic day for Idaho’s Jewish community.
Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz says, "This is a tremendous milestone that we are here today to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new Chabad Jewish Center."
The Chabad Jewish Center has had a presence in Idaho's capital city since 2004.
"When we moved to Boise. Boise had a small Jewish community. It still is a very small community, but it did not have any traditional representation within the Jewish community,” Lifshitz said.
According to the U.S. Census, Idaho’s Jewish population is a bit more than 2,000, about 0.1% of the state's total population, but it's growing.
"During the pandemic, our community has grown tremendously, and we are now looking at being able to provide services to the community,” Lifshitz said.
To help serve the growing Jewish community, the new $3.5 million construction project is going to include Idaho’s first ever Mikvah.
“A Mikvah is a place where Jewish women go on a monthly basis to conduct a private ritual and ceremony between themselves and God and a community of other women," said Dan Berger, chair of the Chabad Jewish Center Building Committee.
The center will also have a new library to honor a community member who passed away. His father, Moshit Mizrachi says, “Eli's Children Library. Eli passed away six years ago in a drowning accident. The library is another way of maintaining culture and tradition and religion."
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean was among the elected officials who spoke at the groundbreaking.
“This event, and what is about to happen here, it more than symbolizes the importance of community, the importance of coming together around the importance of shared values, the importance of having a place,” McLean said.
Leaders at the Chabad Jewish Center say this facility will carry the legacy for future generations.
“We've seen the landscape of Judaism change over the last 18 years and Boise has arrived," Lifshitz said, "Now we need to rise to the occasion and provide for our community.”
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