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BOISE — The Chabad Jewish Center on Wednesday celebrated a historic day for Idaho’s Jewish community.
"This is a tremendous milestone that we are here today to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new Chabad Jewish Center," Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz said.
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," Lifshitz said. "It still is a very small community, but it did not have any traditional representation within the Jewish community."
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 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 died. His father, Moshit Mizrachi, said, “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 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 the 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.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/new-jewish-center-in-boise-will-include-idaho-s-first-mikvah/article_ccbe0852-a358-5acd-8876-9dc61b7851e2.html | 2022-07-07T23:35:42 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/new-jewish-center-in-boise-will-include-idaho-s-first-mikvah/article_ccbe0852-a358-5acd-8876-9dc61b7851e2.html |
Pleasant Prairie has appointed Tom Hupp, public works manager of technical support, as interim public works director with leadership assistance from Rick Greeno, superintendent of operations.
According to a release from the village, both Hupp and Greeno have accepted their new responsibilities while the search for the next public works director begins.
They assume the duties in interim of the position formerly held by John Steinbrink Jr., who retired last month in the middle of an investigation.
The Racine County Sheriff’s Office has recommended four felony charges to the Racine County District Attorney against Steinbrink Jr. Racine Deputy District Attorney Dirk Jensen said he expects a decision on whether they will be going forward with charges by the end of this week or early next week.
The recommended charges against Steinbrink Jr. include three felony counts of misconduct in public office and one felony count of private interest in public contract prohibited, according to Racine County Sheriff’s Public Information Officer Lt. Michael Luell.
The latter refers, according to statute, to cases where courts may determine that a public contract is illegal when it is awarded where an official or employee has a private interest.
In an opinion delivered Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin ruled in favor of Chrystul Kizer, who in 2018 was accused of killing the man who had been sex trafficking her and other girls.
The City of Burlington's July 4 fireworks have been "postponed to a later date," the city said Monday afternoon, due to safety concerns related to expected storms. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/pleasant-prairie-appoints-interim-public-works-director-to-fill-vacancy/article_541a10fe-fe31-11ec-96c6-cb94c7669a44.html | 2022-07-07T23:39:34 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/pleasant-prairie-appoints-interim-public-works-director-to-fill-vacancy/article_541a10fe-fe31-11ec-96c6-cb94c7669a44.html |
A late-night Lower East Side eatery has been closed for days after a wild tirade took place over the July 4th holiday weekend — all because of condiments.
Employees at Bel Fries on Ludlow Street were left traumatized after the chaos broke out Sunday morning shortly after 4 a.m., a chaos that caused extensive damage.
The restaurant's co-owner told NBC New York that he has six employees, but no one wants to come back to work because they’re traumatized and scared for their lives, he said, as they deal with physical and emotional wounds.
"They’re devastated. They’re afraid. One of them still doesn’t want to leave her home. She has a son. She fears for her life," said the co-owner, who did not want to share his name or show his face.
The chaos inside Bel Fries started when a number of customers became enraged and violent. The reason? They were told there’s a $1.25 charge for extra dipping sauce for their French fries, according to the restaurant's co-owner.
“They wanted extra sauce but didn’t want to pay for it," he said. "The extra sauce is actually a buck twenty five, buck seventy five and it started from there, the minute they told them, 'Hey you have to leave!' Once they told them they had to leave they jumped on them.”
The co-owner described to News 4 New York the extensive damage his restaurant sustained: “20-30 bottles broken, thrown at my employees, computers broken, the store was a disaster. Everything was a mess.”
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In a now-viral video, a woman throws what looks like a can at the employees then others climb over the counter. Others whip bottles of sauce at employees, while a stool gets thrown.
The group also ripped down the pandemic plastic barrier bolted to the counter, but it didn't end there. They continued to throw metal objects and destroy computers, while two women were seen at different times twerking on the restaurant's counter.
As the group laughs and claps, the restaurant is torn apart while another group watches, recording on their phones. News 4 New York's exclusive new video shows employees behind the counter trying to take cover during the attack.
Following the chaos, three women were arrested. All are facing multiple charges and are set to face a judge Friday.
The owner of the small business said the restaurant opened right before the pandemic, endured COVID, and was just getting back on its feet when the incident happened. He rushed to the store and visited his injured employees in the hospital. Now he wonders: Is it worth it to stay in the city?
“I’m thinking again is it worth it? Is it worth doing anything in New York City anymore?" he said. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-customers-trash-nyc-restaurant-during-tirade-over-french-fries-toppings-charge/3765637/ | 2022-07-07T23:39:40 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-customers-trash-nyc-restaurant-during-tirade-over-french-fries-toppings-charge/3765637/ |
CEDAR FALLS — Swim teams from the Midwest and beyond are competing for top honors this weekend at the Falls Aquatic Center during the Summer Sizzler.
The event, hosted by the Black Hawk Area Swim Team, started at 6 p.m. Thursday and continues through Sunday. A total of 23 competitive swim teams are participating from four different states -- including championship-level teams from Madison, Minneapolis and Kentucky. The event is expected to draw 800 to 1,000 spectators.
Competition starts at 8:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday and continues into the evening both days. Competition starts at 8 a.m. Sunday.
BLAST has put on the swim meet for more than 15 years, although it was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thursday night’s events include Triple Crown races where one male and one female swimmer with the fastest combined time in three events -- the 50 meter butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke -- will win a kickboard.
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Friday night will feature a Dueling 50 heat where the top eight female and top eight male swimmers from the morning preliminaries will face off 1-on-1 to win a Speedo backpack swim bag.
But the meet isn't only about having the best swimming skills -- at least in the traditional sense.
On Saturday afternoon, a new cannonball contest will be introduced for children under 12. The top three who make the “biggest splash” will win prizes.
That night, swimmers ages 13 and up will participate in the Lazy River races. They find partners, slide down the slides and race against the current of the river to the finish line.
BLAST head coach Melissa Woltz said this year is a return to normality after having a smaller event last year and no event in 2020.
“We are beating our pre-COVID numbers from 2019, which was around 400,” Woltz said. “We’ve turned it into a novelty meet compared to most regular swim meets.”
Outside of the pool, there will be food trucks, concessions, shaved ice and nachos. Vendors include Bowls of Love, Nacho Daddy’z Taco Truck, Get Roasted coffee truck, Chick-fil-a and Scoopskis.
The only part of The Falls that will be closed to the public is the lap pool. Admission to the event is free. | https://wcfcourier.com/sports/local/summer-sizzler-swim-meet-returns-to-cedar-falls/article_82fc9102-0345-594d-9779-a89a70e34ca4.html | 2022-07-07T23:39:45 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/sports/local/summer-sizzler-swim-meet-returns-to-cedar-falls/article_82fc9102-0345-594d-9779-a89a70e34ca4.html |
The Lincoln and Omaha airports will both receive federal grant funds to help pay for terminal improvements, Sen. Deb Fischer announced Thursday.
Eppley Airfield in Omaha is getting $20 million for its terminal access road project, while the Lincoln Airport will receive $850,000 for its terminal modernization project.
The Lincoln Airport is getting an $850,000 federal grant to help with its terminal expansion project.
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The grants come from $5 billion that was approved specifically for airport terminal projects as part of the federal infrastructure law. The Federal Aviation Administration announced the first $1 billion in grants Thursday.
“It’s exciting to see investments from the infrastructure law go to airport projects that will make a difference for Nebraska travelers," Fischer said in a news release. "This is big news for Nebraskans who rely on our airports for travel, business and to stay connected."
The Lincoln Airport is in the midst of a $55 million project to expand and renovate its nearly 50-year-old terminal. The $850,000 will go specifically toward replacing existing cooling towers, fans, exhaust decks, control equipment and related plumbing.
"This is incredibly timely, as this was not contemplated in our original terminal modernization project, LNK Next, but these funds give us leverage to complete additional needed infrastructure improvements," said Chad Lay, the airport's director of planning."
Dave Roth, CEO of the Omaha Airport Authority, said the $20 million grant will support the next phase of improving the Eppley Airfield terminal entrance drive.
The largest of the Federal Aviation Administration grants include $60 million to improve the terminal and replace the bag-handling system at Denver International Airport, $50 million apiece for Boston's Logan Airport and Orlando International Airport and $49.6 million for Dulles Airport outside Washington to build a new concourse.
The FAA said 532 airports submitted applications for 658 projects that, if all had been granted, would have totaled more than $14 billion.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Highest-paying construction jobs in Lincoln
Highest-paying construction jobs in Lincoln
The term “recession-proof” has taken on a new and important meaning in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008, a meaning that has been renewed during the pandemic. One recession-proof industry has proven to be construction. Residential and commercial real estate, roads, bridges, power and energy, hotels—each of these sectors has weathered economic storms and proven to be dependable ways for a person to support a family.
The American Institutes of Architects’ Consensus Construction Forecast predicts that nonresidential construction will grow 4.6%, while the overall commercial construction market will see a 5.4% increase. This is against market expectations of global construction gains of 3.7%, meaning the U.S. market is expected to be ahead of the curve. Moreover, road and highway construction is expected to reach $108 billion annually by 2024.
Aside from ongoing supply chain woes that have caused delays in materials delivery, one source of concern in construction is workforce shortages. Analysis from Deloitte says that labor shortages are the result of a lack of qualified candidates and a skills gap between generations in an industry growing more technologically savvy by the year.
But this does not mean there are no jobs out there—to the contrary, there are a great number of construction jobs out there, and many of them are high-paying and offer career opportunities. To that end, Stacker compiled a list of the highest paying jobs in construction in Lincoln using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics . Jobs are ranked based on annual pay as of May 2020. Job descriptions are from O*NET .
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#20. Helpers--brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $35,600
- #56 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 30
National
- Annual mean salary: $40,190
- Employment: 21,410
- Entry level education requirements: No formal educational credential
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- St. Louis, MO-IL ($63,660)
--- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI ($61,010)
--- Reno, NV ($54,490)
- Job description: Help brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, or tile and marble setters by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.
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#19. Construction laborers
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $35,730
- #238 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 830
National
- Annual mean salary: $43,000
- Employment: 971,330
- Entry level education requirements: No formal educational credential
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI ($66,670)
--- Kankakee, IL ($65,730)
--- Urban Honolulu, HI ($63,860)
- Job description: Perform tasks involving physical labor at construction sites. May operate hand and power tools of all types: air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, small mechanical hoists, surveying and measuring equipment, and a variety of other equipment and instruments. May clean and prepare sites, dig trenches, set braces to support the sides of excavations, erect scaffolding, and clean up rubble, debris, and other waste materials. May assist other craft workers.
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#18. Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface mining
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $38,840
- #120 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: data not available
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- Annual mean salary: $48,500
- Employment: 40,240
- Entry level education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($106,100)
--- Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV ($84,840)
--- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($78,360)
- Job description: Operate or tend machinery at surface mining site, equipped with scoops, shovels, or buckets to excavate and load loose materials.
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#17. Tile and stone setters
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $39,050
- #102 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 70
National
- Annual mean salary: $48,490
- Employment: 38,150
- Entry level education requirements: No formal educational credential
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Champaign-Urbana, IL ($78,200)
--- Urban Honolulu, HI ($69,740)
--- Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY ($63,630)
- Job description: Apply hard tile, stone, and comparable materials to walls, floors, ceilings, countertops, and roof decks.
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#16. Hazardous materials removal workers
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $39,410
- #110 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 80
National
- Annual mean salary: $49,170
- Employment: 44,010
- Entry level education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Knoxville, TN ($79,260)
--- Salinas, CA ($72,170)
--- Kennewick-Richland, WA ($70,300)
- Job description: Identify, remove, pack, transport, or dispose of hazardous materials, including asbestos, lead-based paint, waste oil, fuel, transmission fluid, radioactive materials, or contaminated soil. Specialized training and certification in hazardous materials handling or a confined entry permit are generally required. May operate earth-moving equipment or trucks.
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#15. Roofers
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $40,750
- #162 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 330
National
- Annual mean salary: $47,010
- Employment: 128,680
- Entry level education requirements: No formal educational credential
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Worcester, MA-CT ($82,700)
--- Santa Rosa, CA ($71,520)
--- Trenton, NJ ($71,260)
- Job description: Cover roofs of structures with shingles, slate, asphalt, aluminum, wood, or related materials. May spray roofs, sidings, and walls with material to bind, seal, insulate, or soundproof sections of structures.
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#14. Carpenters
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $41,130
- #294 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 1,270
National
- Annual mean salary: $54,200
- Employment: 699,300
- Entry level education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Urban Honolulu, HI ($82,950)
--- Vallejo-Fairfield, CA ($82,300)
--- Hanford-Corcoran, CA ($79,870)
- Job description: Construct, erect, install, or repair structures and fixtures made of wood and comparable materials, such as concrete forms; building frameworks, including partitions, joists, studding, and rafters; and wood stairways, window and door frames, and hardwood floors. May also install cabinets, siding, drywall, and batt or roll insulation. Includes brattice builders who build doors or brattices (ventilation walls or partitions) in underground passageways.
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#13. Highway maintenance workers
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $42,090
- #165 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 100
National
- Annual mean salary: $43,200
- Employment: 149,890
- Entry level education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($72,040)
--- Vallejo-Fairfield, CA ($66,270)
--- San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($65,290)
- Job description: Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement and repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road, or plow snow from roadway.
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#12. Cement masons and concrete finishers
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $42,160
- #198 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 690
National
- Annual mean salary: $49,390
- Employment: 195,580
- Entry level education requirements: No formal educational credential
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Urban Honolulu, HI ($86,370)
--- Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI ($81,730)
--- Rockford, IL ($78,320)
- Job description: Smooth and finish surfaces of poured concrete, such as floors, walks, sidewalks, roads, or curbs using a variety of hand and power tools. Align forms for sidewalks, curbs, or gutters; patch voids; and use saws to cut expansion joints.
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#11. Drywall and ceiling tile installers
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $43,340
- #99 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 70
National
- Annual mean salary: $51,930
- Employment: 99,700
- Entry level education requirements: No formal educational credential
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI ($90,640)
--- Bellingham, WA ($78,580)
--- Urban Honolulu, HI ($78,170)
- Job description: Apply plasterboard or other wallboard to ceilings or interior walls of buildings. Apply or mount acoustical tiles or blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing materials to ceilings and walls of buildings to reduce or reflect sound. Materials may be of decorative quality. Includes lathers who fasten wooden, metal, or rockboard lath to walls, ceilings, or partitions of buildings to provide support base for plaster, fireproofing, or acoustical material.
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#10. Sheet metal workers
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $44,490
- #193 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 330
National
- Annual mean salary: $55,320
- Employment: 128,220
- Entry level education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Fairbanks, AK ($132,900)
--- Kankakee, IL ($91,140)
--- Olympia-Tumwater, WA ($87,030)
- Job description: Fabricate, assemble, install, and repair sheet metal products and equipment, such as ducts, control boxes, drainpipes, and furnace casings. Work may involve any of the following: setting up and operating fabricating machines to cut, bend, and straighten sheet metal; shaping metal over anvils, blocks, or forms using hammer; operating soldering and welding equipment to join sheet metal parts; or inspecting, assembling, and smoothing seams and joints of burred surfaces. Includes sheet metal duct installers who install prefabricated sheet metal ducts used for heating, air conditioning, or other purposes.
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#9. Painters, construction and maintenance
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $45,570
- #102 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 250
National
- Annual mean salary: $46,460
- Employment: 217,880
- Entry level education requirements: No formal educational credential
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($69,360)
--- Salinas, CA ($64,630)
--- Vallejo-Fairfield, CA ($63,070)
- Job description: Paint walls, equipment, buildings, bridges, and other structural surfaces, using brushes, rollers, and spray guns. May remove old paint to prepare surface prior to painting. May mix colors or oils to obtain desired color or consistency.
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#8. Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $46,070
- #47 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 90
National
- Annual mean salary: $46,400
- Employment: 44,560
- Entry level education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Worcester, MA-CT ($80,010)
--- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($73,360)
--- Evansville, IN-KY ($71,030)
- Job description: Operate equipment used for applying concrete, asphalt, or other materials to road beds, parking lots, or airport runways and taxiways or for tamping gravel, dirt, or other materials. Includes concrete and asphalt paving machine operators, form tampers, tamping machine operators, and stone spreader operators.
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#7. Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $46,880
- #224 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 550
National
- Annual mean salary: $55,280
- Employment: 402,870
- Entry level education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA ($96,440)
--- Barnstable Town, MA ($93,620)
--- Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA ($93,320)
- Job description: Operate one or several types of power construction equipment, such as motor graders, bulldozers, scrapers, compressors, pumps, derricks, shovels, tractors, or front-end loaders to excavate, move, and grade earth, erect structures, or pour concrete or other hard surface pavement. May repair and maintain equipment in addition to other duties.
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#6. Brickmasons and blockmasons
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $49,350
- #115 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 80
National
- Annual mean salary: $58,420
- Employment: 59,940
- Entry level education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Duluth, MN-WI ($90,610)
--- Providence-Warwick, RI-MA ($90,290)
--- Pittsfield, MA ($90,070)
- Job description: Lay and bind building materials, such as brick, structural tile, concrete block, cinder block, glass block, and terra-cotta block, with mortar and other substances, to construct or repair walls, partitions, arches, sewers, and other structures.
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#5. Electricians
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $51,220
- #246 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 970
National
- Annual mean salary: $61,550
- Employment: 656,510
- Entry level education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($106,680)
--- Trenton, NJ ($90,210)
--- Kankakee, IL ($88,530)
- Job description: Install, maintain, and repair electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures. Ensure that work is in accordance with relevant codes. May install or service street lights, intercom systems, or electrical control systems.
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#4. Structural iron and steel workers
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $55,150
- #73 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 160
National
- Annual mean salary: $58,650
- Employment: 71,490
- Entry level education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Trenton, NJ ($91,360)
--- Rockford, IL ($90,160)
--- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA ($89,740)
- Job description: Raise, place, and unite iron or steel girders, columns, and other structural members to form completed structures or structural frameworks. May erect metal storage tanks and assemble prefabricated metal buildings.
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#3. Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $55,690
- #161 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 340
National
- Annual mean salary: $61,100
- Employment: 417,440
- Entry level education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($106,100)
--- Fairbanks, AK ($94,280)
--- Kankakee, IL ($93,420)
- Job description: Assemble, install, alter, and repair pipelines or pipe systems that carry water, steam, air, or other liquids or gases. May install heating and cooling equipment and mechanical control systems. Includes sprinkler fitters.
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#2. Construction and building inspectors
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $61,850
- #123 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 120
National
- Annual mean salary: $66,470
- Employment: 113,770
- Entry level education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($103,820)
--- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($102,920)
--- Salinas, CA ($98,360)
- Job description: Inspect structures using engineering skills to determine structural soundness and compliance with specifications, building codes, and other regulations. Inspections may be general in nature or may be limited to a specific area, such as electrical systems or plumbing.
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#1. First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $67,270
- #195 highest pay among all metros
- Employment: 970
National
- Annual mean salary: $72,990
- Employment: 614,080
- Entry level education requirements: High school diploma or equivalent
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($107,870)
--- Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA ($103,930)
--- Santa Rosa, CA ($100,620)
- Job description: Directly supervise and coordinate activities of construction or extraction workers.
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BLOOMINGTON — A Bloomington man is facing felony charges after prosecutors say he forged a check and tried cashing it at a Normal bank on Wednesday.
Tyson Wilson, 33, is accused of two counts of burglary, a Class 2 felony, by entering CEFCU at 3 Traders Circle, Normal, with the intent to commit theft. He is also charged with forgery, a Class 3 felony.
A prosecutor said Wilson handed a teller a check belonging to a Lincoln resident and made out in the amount of $412.22. The assistant state's attorney said bank staff detected the check had been forged, and Wilson told them he had received it for performing work.
Authorities later interviewed the Lincoln resident, who said they didn't know Wilson and suspected their checks had been taken from a previous residence they were evicted from, according to the prosecutor.
Wilson's bond was set at $10,000. He was still jailed at the McLean County Detention Facility as of Thursday afternoon.
Wilson was also ordered to have no contact with all four CEFCU locations in McLean County.
What you missed this week in notable Central Illinois crimes and court cases
This week's local crime and court updates from The Pantagraph.
A white former Chicago police officer captured on video struggling with a Black woman who was walking her dog along a Lake Michigan beach pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of official misconduct and aggravated battery.
Chicago police are searching for a driver who ran over and killed an 11-year-old boy who was crossing a street and then drove off.
Duane K. Martin, 34, and Destinee M. Nuckolls, 23, are accused of possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it.
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A Chicago police officer accused of dragging a Black woman from a car by her hair and kneeling on her back and neck during a period of protests and unrest following George Floyd's killing should be fired, the head of the police department told a civilian oversight board.
An 11-year-old boy died Thursday morning after he was hit by a vehicle in Lawndale, Chicago police said. The driver of the vehicle that hit the boy fled the scene.
A Yorkville man has been arrested and charged with murder in the fatal shooting of an Aurora woman who went missing 19 years ago and whose remains were discovered in Kane County in late 2020.
A suburban Chicago man charged in the drowning deaths of his three young children left a note for his estranged wife saying, "If I can't have them neither can you," prosecutors said Wednesday.
A 21-year-old man is charged with firing a gun at an occupied vehicle Saturday in Bloomington. Details:
Methamphetamine charges have been filed against a Heyworth man.
A suspect has been charged with decapitating a 22-year-old pregnant woman whose body was discovered by her mother last week, the Alton police chief announced with an emotional video.
A downstate Illinois man was among the 31 suspected white supremacists arrested over the weekend near an Idaho pride event after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with riot gear.
Those arrested came from at least 11 states, including Washington, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Colorado, South Dakota, Illinois, Wyoming, Virginia and Arkansas.
A Chicago police officer who was shot during an attempted traffic stop last week was released from the hospital on Sunday.
Three men were wounded, one critically, early Saturday morning in a shooting near the Shedd Aquarium, Chicago police said.
An Oak Lawn man, apparently frustrated that his 8-week-old daughter would not settle down after giving her a bottle and trying to rock her to sleep, slammed the baby on her back several times against a couch cushion, causing injuries that resulted in her death, according to a court document.
Newly unsealed search warrants in the Commonwealth Edison bribery probe centered on former House Speaker Michael Madigan provide the greatest detail yet about an alleged behind-the-scenes effort to kill an energy bill supported by Madigan’s daughter Lisa, the then-Illinois attorney general.
The incident sparked a Civilian Office of Police Accountability investigation, while Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she was "quite disturbed" by the videos.
A Chicago man was arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday.
Methamphetamine charges have been filed against a Bloomington man.
Three Bloomington residents are accused of having a combined half-pound of methamphetamine Thursday in Bloomington.
Nine Downs residents cite health risks while asking a McLean County judge to reverse a village board decision last year to allow construction of a concrete plant near schools and homes.
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BOSQUE, Texas — Bosque County Sheriff's Office has reported that possible evacuations could happen in the Walnut Springs area as a fire grows in the area of Hard Castle.
The fire is said to have been caused due to increasing and shifting winds in the area, according to Bosque County Office Of Emergency Management.
Currently, only 40 percent of the 460-acre fire has been contained by ground crews and aircraft, according to authorities.
The Sherriff's Office is reporting that there are chances the fire could spread to FM 927 and potentially the city, as reported on its Facebook. Currently, FM 927 is blocked from traffic, as stated by the county.
Authorities are saying that mandatory evacuations have not been ordered as police and firefighters monitor the situation.
Bosque County Office Of Emergency Management has deemed that there is no danger to Walnut proper at this time.
This fire is part of a growing number of wildfires reported in the area. 6 News will keep you updated as more information is received.
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DANVILLE, Va. – According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, America’s drug epidemic is the deadliest it has ever been.
More than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses in the United States during the 12-month period ending April 2021. That’s a new record high, with overdose deaths jumping 28.5% from the same period a year earlier.
The Commonwealth follows similar trends, and there’s one opioid that’s playing a driving role, according to law enforcement: Fentanyl.
“Fentanyl is so deadly. It’s one of the most dangerous things we have running around,” Danville Police’s Captain of Investigations David Whitley said. “I’d argue it’s more dangerous than a firearm.”
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid 100 times stronger than morphine. It was made as a pain killer for surgery.
However, it’s now adding to the ongoing drug epidemic.
In the last three years, Danville Police said opioids killed at least 16 people in the city, and from 2019 to 2020, reported overdoses went up about 400%.
“I’ve sat and talked with addicts. I’ve had the conversation. If you don’t change your life, this is going to catch you,” Whitley said. “I can think of one instance in particular, three weeks later she was dead.”
Authorities in several Virginia cities and counties said overdoses and deaths are on the rise, but determining an exact amount of increases in these cases can be difficult.
“Within the past year to six months it has really, we’re seeing it a lot,” Bedford County’s Major Jon Wilks said. “We’re actually seeing it mixed in with marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine, and other drugs we’re seizing.”
Major Wilks said there’s no way to know if a drug contains fentanyl – Meaning that buyers don’t realize the risk they’re taking.
“If you get any kind of what looks like a real prescription medication, it’s almost certainly counterfeit,” Executive Director of the Partnership for Safe Medicines Shabbir Safdar said. “It probably contains dangerous ingredients like methamphetamine or fentanyl.”
Safdar said traffickers are even mixing the drugs with pills mimicking Adderall, Tylenol, and Aspirin. An alarming amount is being bought by teens and young adults online.
Experts said to check your child’s browser history by looking for websites, sometimes disguised as Canadian pharmacies, promising cheap pills to save money.
“The conversation you have with your kids is please understand there are deadly pills around and that’s a real risk I can’t help fix for you,” Safdar said.
Authorities said there are two reasons we’re seeing more of the dangerous drug.
“Drug dealers, like anything, they’re going to sell the most drugs and they’re going to sell the best drugs,” Wilks said. “There’s not a lot of border control right now. The smugglers and those bringing it over, it’s easier for them to do that than it used to be.”
Law enforcement wants to stop the problem before it gets worse, so Danville Police created the C.O.R.E. Program, which stands for ”Community Opioid Response and Engagement.”
Danville Police use an investigative model to identify those suffering from addiction so they can find those trafficking the drug and those who do both.
“Our endgame is to go after the people who are trafficking it, the people who are bringing it in. The people who are suffering from addiction, it’s a mental health issue,” Whitley said. “But we need the reporting aspect of that so that we can start going down the trail of figuring out who the suppliers are.”
Danville Police are partnering with mental health services to help and last year, the department saw an 18% decrease in reported overdoses and a 33% decrease in opioid-related deaths.
Authorities are asking people to stay alert and never buy from a non-medical source and they might not know what they’re actually getting. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/deadly-drug-on-the-rise-in-virginia-police-say/ | 2022-07-07T23:47:08 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/deadly-drug-on-the-rise-in-virginia-police-say/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – The Roanoke Valley SPCA is bringing back its Paws to Read Program to encourage children to read while reducing adoptable animals’ stress levels.
Kids ages five and up can head to the Roanoke Valley SPCA to read to cats and kittens for 30-minute sessions.
The RVSPCA said that reading to shelter animals can help lower stress, calm them down, and improve their shelter experience.
Plus, they make the best judgment-free audience for kids who are still learning to read.
“It’s great for kids if they’re having problems reading, or maybe they’re not comfortable reading in front of people. It helps them to have some exposure with the animals, and it really helps our animals,” said Julie Rickmond, RVSPCA Marketing and Communications Director.
The program requests a $5 donation, that will include access to the SPCA’s lending library, a bookmark, pencil, and of course time with adorable, adoptable animals. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/paws-to-read-program-returns-to-roanoke-valley-spca/ | 2022-07-07T23:47:14 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/paws-to-read-program-returns-to-roanoke-valley-spca/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – After several mass shootings have plagued our nation, one security expert is training a group of professionals to be prepared for the worst.
The Active Shooter Elimination Team is a group of 5 security members that participate in active shooter drills to be prepared for what could happen.
The goal is to ensure the active shooter target is eliminated and the client is safe.
Chris Ragone is the session’s trainer and owner of Executive Security Concepts, a bodyguard company.
Ragone said he’d gotten an increase in interest from churches seeking protection.
“What I have done is put trained operators, trained agents who are licensed security professionals in the state of Virginia who are trained to go to the sound of gunfire,” Ragone said.
The ASET is learning a new weapon system for a new client to keep them safe, using a unique type of bulletproof vests and how to eliminate a threat.
“I recommend something, some type of training, pepper spray, stun gun tasers, all the way up to firearms, but what I don’t recommend is people buying a firearm, throw it in their purse, stick it in their glove box, take one concealed carry and that’s it,” Ragone said.
Personal Protection Agent Zachary Nobles explains that keeping people you love safe is essential.
“If you want to go out and buy a gun, that’s your right, but there’s no point in getting a gun and not knowing how to use,” Nobles said. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/security-program-encourages-people-to-be-proactive-in-crisis-situations/ | 2022-07-07T23:47:20 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/07/security-program-encourages-people-to-be-proactive-in-crisis-situations/ |
ST PAUL, Minn. — Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 21 years in prison on federal charges that he violated George Floyd's civil rights at the time of his death in May 2020.
The judge gave Chauvin credit for the seven months he already served, bringing his sentence moving forward to 245 months, or just over 20 years.
Chauvin pleaded guilty to the federal charges back in December, admitting for the first time that he kept his knee on Floyd’s neck — even after he became unresponsive — resulting in Floyd's death.
George Floyd's brother, Philonise, appeared in the courtroom to deliver a victim impact statement, and a written statement was read from Floyd's girlfriend, Courteney Ross, who said she misses the life she had with George Floyd, and that she and her children are still adjusting to their "new reality."
"Mr. Chauvin, I do not hate you. I am still working to forgive you," Ross said in her statement to the court.
Derek Chauvin's mother also spoke to the court, saying her son often put the Minneapolis Police Department before his family, and asked the judge to send Chauvin to a nearby federal facility.
Chauvin himself spoke briefly at the sentencing hearing, where he told George Floyd’s family that he “wishes all the best” for Floyd’s children, though he did not issue a direct apology.
Before handing down the sentence, Judge Paul Magnuson spoke to Chauvin directly. "I really don’t know why you did what you did. But to put your knee on another person’s neck until they expire is simply wrong and for that conduct you must be substantially punished."
John Pope also spoke at the hearing. As part of his federal plea deal, Chauvin admitted to using excessive force against Pope when he was 14 years old in 2017.
The plea deal called for Chauvin to serve his federal and state sentences at the same time and to be transferred from a Minnesota state prison to a federal prison, where experts say he likely will be safer and may be held under less restrictive conditions.
"Chauvin showed that he had no conscience, he showed no empathy," Philonise Floyd told reporters after the sentencing hearing. "He showed no compassion. I just don't understand, in this world, why? I want to be able to ask him, 'Why? Why did he do that?'"
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who led Chauvin's prosecution in state court, called the sentence "another step of accountability on the road to justice," in a statement released Thursday afternoon.
He also thanked the U.S. Attorney's Office and Department of Justice for prosecuting Chauvin's case, writing "it was appropriate and right that they stepped in."
“In no uncertain terms, George Floyd should be alive today,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in a statement. “Chauvin’s use of excessive force and his failure to provide medical care resulted in Mr. Floyd’s senseless murder. Chauvin’s unlawful actions in a separate incident also resulted in injury to a 14-year-old child ... While no amount of prison time can reverse the tragic consequences of Derek Chauvin’s violent actions, we hope that this sentence provides some small measure of justice for the families and communities impacted.”
“Derek Chauvin abandoned his sworn oath to uphold the sanctity of life when he callously took George Floyd’s life and when he violently assaulted a 14-year-old child. Chauvin’s actions constituted a grave abuse of police authority and a clear violation of these individuals’ civil rights,” said U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger in a statement. “To the victims, their families, and to the broader community: although the harm that Chauvin caused will never be erased, today’s sentence of more than 20 years in prison represents a measure of justice and accountability.”
In April 2021, a state jury found Chauvin guilty of second-degree manslaughter, second-degree murder and third-degree murder in Floyd’s death, making him the first white police officer to be found guilty of murdering a Black man in Minnesota. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill handed down a 22 1/2 year sentence on those counts.
For his own safety, Chauvin, 46, had been held since his conviction in “administrative segregation” at the state's maximum security prison at Oak Park Heights. He's been largely confined to a 10-by-10-foot room, which he’s been allowed to leave for an average of one hour a day for exercise.
If Chauvin were in the general population of a Minnesota state prison, he'd be at risk of running into inmates he had arrested or investigated when he was a Minneapolis officer, said Rachel Moran, another law professor at St. Thomas. While he can’t totally escape his notoriety in a federal prison elsewhere, she said, he’s unlikely to encounter inmates with such a direct, personal grudge.
State prison populations are heavy on violent offenders, including people convicted of murder, robbery and rape, Heffelfinger said. Federal prisons also hold inmates with violent backgrounds, he added, but they're more likely to house nonviolent drug dealers, white-collar criminals and the like.
Assuming the bureau decides Chauvin is safe enough in the general population, he’ll have more chances to move about, to work and to participate in programming. Those opportunities would vary with the security level and the individual facility.
The three other former officers charged in connection to Floyd's murder, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, were all found guilty in federal court in Feb. 2022 on civil rights charges related to Floyd's death.
Lane has also pleaded guilty to a state count of aiding and abetting manslaughter, while Thao and Kueng face an October trial on state charges of aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
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A doctor, nurse practitioner and two physician assistants have joined Franciscan Health, the Mishawaka-based health care system with hospitals across Northwest Indiana.
An interventional cardiologist and a nurse practitioner joined Franciscan Physician Network Munster Cardiology at 701 Superior Ave., where they are welcoming new patients.
Board-certified interventional cardiologist Jagdeep Sabharwal received training at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago, did a fellowship in interventional cardiology at Michigan State University in East Lansing, and completed a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Henry Ford Medical Center in Royal Oak, Michigan.
Sabharwal’s clinical interests include coronary interventions, cardiac imaging, peripheral arterial disease and structural heart disease.
Board-certified nurse practitioner Mohammad El-Ahmad trained at Chamberlain University in Chicago. His interests include heart failure, arrhythmias, valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease and acute coronary syndrome.
For more information or to make an appointment, call 219-934-4080.
Two board-certified physician assistants joined the cancer care team at Franciscan Physician Network Munster Cancer Center at 701 Superior Avenue, where they are welcoming new patients.
Hilary Benway trained at the Marquette University Physician Assistant Program in Milwaukee. Her clinical interests include breast malignancy, chronic leukemia, lymphomas, healthy lifestyle promotion and patient education and advocacy.
Victoria Pryzdia trained at the University of Dayton Physician Assistant Program in Dayton, Ohio. Her clinical interests include breast malignancy, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, leukemia and uterine and ovarian cancer.
For more information or to make an appointment with either, call 219-922-4081.
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Inflation has driven up the price of a typical Fourth of July cookout, which the Indiana Farm Bureau estimates will cost 13% more in the Hoosier State this year.
Hoosier Net became the first Indatel statewide network backed by both telephone companies and electric cooperatives after landing an investment from Accord Telecomunications Collaborative LLC.
Great Lakes steel production rose by 14,000 tons last week, while steel capacity utilization increased, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute.
Last year, consumer fireworks sales totaled a record $2.2 billion nationwide, up from $1.9 billion the previous year, according to the American Pyrotechnic Association.
The locally made Ford Explorer SUV posted a 18.7% increase in sales in May as compared to a year ago after months and months of decline brought about by the chip shortage. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/doctor-nurse-practitioner-and-physican-assistants-join-franciscan-health/article_d83df543-e2de-5fdc-843c-f3064c88a00a.html | 2022-07-07T23:56:10 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/doctor-nurse-practitioner-and-physican-assistants-join-franciscan-health/article_d83df543-e2de-5fdc-843c-f3064c88a00a.html |
The average gas price has fallen back under $5 a gallon in Northwest Indiana.
Gas now costs an average of $4.95 in Lake County, $4.87 in Porter County, and $4.72 per gallon in LaPorte County, according to GasBuddy.com. As of Thursday, the average price of gas was $4.92 in Newton County, $4.81 in Jasper County, $4.99 in Pulaski County and $4.82 in Stark County.
The average price of gas is now $4.75 nationally, according to AAA. Drivers are paying an average of $4.81 a gallon in Indiana, $5.23 in Illinois and $4.88 in Michigan.
AAA reports Indiana and Illinois saw two of the biggest declines in gas prices nationally over the past week: 13 cents per gallon and 16 cents per gallon, respectively.
The national average price of gas fell by a nickel per gallon over the past week due to the declining price of oil, according to AAA.
Gasoline inventories fell by 2.5 million barrels to 219.1 million barrels, according to the Energy Information Administration. Gas inventories are down 7% as compared to a year ago and 8% below the five-year average.
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Crude oil inventories fell by 8.2 million barrels last week to a total of 423.8 million barrels, according to the Energy Information Administration. That's about 4.9% lower than last year and 10% below the five-year average this time of year.
Domestic crude oil production stayed steady at 12.1 million barrels per day. That's about 800,000 barrels per day higher than a year ago.
"Crude prices continue to face strong headwinds amid broad market concerns regarding the potential for economic growth to slow or stall due to rising interest rates and inflation," AAA said in a news release. "A lower economic growth rate than expected could cause crude demand to decline, leading prices to follow suit. Additionally, EIA reported that total domestic crude stocks increased by 8.2 million barrels to 423.8 million barrels last week, which is nearly 22 million barrels lower than the storage level last year." | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/gas-prices-fall-back-under-an-average-of-5-a-gallon-in-northwest-indiana/article_d634645c-31d2-58fd-ab86-68c16dd59806.html | 2022-07-07T23:56:17 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/gas-prices-fall-back-under-an-average-of-5-a-gallon-in-northwest-indiana/article_d634645c-31d2-58fd-ab86-68c16dd59806.html |
Indiana ranked highly in a global study of entrepreneurship and innovation.
The research firm Startup Genome ranked Indiana as a Global Top 40 Emerging Ecosystem in its 2022 Global Startup Ecosystem Report. The study looked at 280 entrepreneurial ecosystems encompassing 3 million startups to guide officials on how to foster the startups it describes as "the #1 engine of job creation and economic growth."
Indiana got high marks for talent, early capital funding and performance in the report.
“The Start Up Genome Top 40 ranking is an exciting validation of the hard work of our entrepreneurs — but there is still more, as a state, we can do,” said Indiana Secretary of Commerce Brad Chambers. “We are leaning in and finding innovative new ways to enable our immensely talented young people to propel our economy forward. I see no more important investment of time and resources and no reason that Indiana should not be a Top 5 ecosystem for entrepreneurship worldwide.”
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The study placed Indiana as a Top 15 North American Ecosystem in Affordable Talent, Top 20 North American Ecosystem in Bang for Buck, Top 30 North American Ecosystem and the Top 10 North American Emerging Ecosystem in Talent & Experience. The Hoosier State also placed as a Top 25 North American Ecosystem, Top 10 North American Emerging Ecosystem in Funding and Top 25 North American Emerging Ecosystem in Performance.
The report found Indiana created $3 billion in ecosystem value over the past few years and had a density of talent and startup activity in the life sciences and energy sectors.
“Startup Genome is honored to work with Indiana Economic Development Corporation in accelerating ecosystem growth, job creation and impact in Indiana,” said JF Gauthier, founder and CEO of Startup Genome. “We are excited about Indiana’s startup community’s future because of the increasing investment in its innovative entrepreneurs.” | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/indiana-ranks-highly-in-entrepreneurship-report/article_7f97013f-b8a4-5526-9564-0005d094c6c8.html | 2022-07-07T23:56:23 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/indiana-ranks-highly-in-entrepreneurship-report/article_7f97013f-b8a4-5526-9564-0005d094c6c8.html |
Methodist Hospitals in Northwest Indiana have begun using a new robotic bronchoscopy to make lung cancer diagnoses.
The health care system, with hospitals in Gary and Merrillville, has been using Auris Health’s Monarch Platform to detect lung nodules earlier and more accurately.
Franciscan Health began using the system earlier this year, and Community Health System last year.
The platform uses robotics, software, data science and endoscopy to view inside the lungs and gather tissue samples for biopsies. It's billed as one of the latest advances in the fight against lung cancer.
"Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, in part because it has no symptoms in its early stages. Because the Monarch Platform provides improved reach, vision and control for bronchoscopic procedures, it holds potential to help us to make a diagnosis earlier,” said Vincent Sevier, Methodist Hospitals senior vice president and chief medical officer. “We are excited about the promise of this technology to offer a more hopeful future for our patients with lung cancer.”
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Most people diagnosed with lung cancer die, often because it is not found until it has reached an advanced stage. Many diagnostic platforms are limited in accuracy, resulting in false positives or negatives. They also can be unsafe, causing side effects like hemorrhages or collapsed lungs.
Doctors using the Monarch Platform uses a video game controller-like interface to guide the robotic endoscope to the lungs. They get continuous bronchoscope vision during the surgical procedure that's based on live camera footage and 3-D models of the patient's lungs.
“Methodist’s investment in this new diagnostic tool is another demonstration of our commitment to providing our patients access to the latest and most advanced technology,” said Matt Doyle, Methodist Hospitals president and CEO. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/methodist-hospitals-using-robotics-to-detect-lung-cancer/article_cd956dc4-2548-564a-90bd-f10ab4a060d4.html | 2022-07-07T23:56:29 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/methodist-hospitals-using-robotics-to-detect-lung-cancer/article_cd956dc4-2548-564a-90bd-f10ab4a060d4.html |
MUNSTER — Two drivers were taken to a local hospital Thursday after a crash in the 8100 block of Calumet Avenue, police said.
A Munster officer was traveling south on Calumet about 1:30 p.m. when he saw a Nissan SUV speeding north in the center turn lane, according to a news release.
Before the officer could turn around and attempt a traffic stop, the Nissan hit a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck as its driver exited a parking lot, police said.
Both vehicles came to rest in the southbound lanes, and all lanes were blocked because of a large debris field.
All lanes of Calumet were reopened about 3 p.m., police said.
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The Pima County Attorney’s Office’s former second-in-command described her tumultuous relationship with the county's top prosecutor in an email when she resigned, detailing allegations about treatment she claims was directly related to her race, and dozens of other grievances.
Tamara Mulembo, the office's first Black chief deputy, resigned in early October after 10 months in the post but stayed on until the end of 2021 as part of her separation agreement with the office. That agreement also included an anti-disparagement clause.
Mulembo wrote in the newly released Oct. 7 email: "Other senior leadership team got to be publicly recognized for their substantive work. I got trotted out during Black History month and spoon fed a narrative playing up stereotypes about my blackness, which I rejected," she wrote. She did not elaborate on that complaint.
The email also referenced an incident of sexual harassment by a coworker, with Mulembo saying Pima County Attorney Laura Conover gave her "the third degree" about her handling of the situation. It's unclear if Mulembo was the subject of the harassment or handling the situation as part of her job duties.
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Conover did not directly address any of the allegations in a written statement her office sent Tuesday to the Arizona Daily Star in response to Mulembo's claims, but she did dispute Mulembo's assessment of the office.
Conover said during a March appearance on KVOI (1030-AM) program The Bill Buckmaster Show that Mulembo left on good terms.
"I can't say it was a huge surprise (that Mulembo left). I was sad, but I couldn't be surprised that she got poached and got recruited," Conover said then. "Attorneys, of course, always go out with letters that clarify that nothing wrong was afoot and that we parted on good terms."
The email suggests otherwise.
Mulembo wrote that Conover subjected to her microaggressions, undermined her authority, prevented Mulembo from doing her job, publicly diminished her contributions, denigrated her during meetings, rejected suggestions, questioned decisions and more.
The Star received a copy of the email and Mulembo's separation agreement from David Berkman, who was the office's chief criminal deputy under Conover's predecessor Barbara LaWall. Berkman submitted a public records request for the email in November and forwarded the correspondence to the Star after he received it last week.
Conover told the Star in an email Tuesday that people identified in Mulembo's letter "disagree with her assessment" of the office and that her administration provides multiple avenues of support for employees.
"Employees know that my door is always open if they have concerns, as are the doors of our entire leadership team. Everyone at the office has heard me say, frequently, that our goal is to give each other the grace to learn, to grow, and to develop," Conover said in the email.
The office has implemented other processes to try to address employee welfare, including COVID vaccine access, support for employees who got sick, and long-overdue pay raises, she said in the email.
"Still, doing this emotionally taxing work in times that everyone recognizes as challenging is causing the criminal justice system to lose good dedicated public servants in all sectors nationwide from law offices to law enforcement agencies," Conover said. "I appreciate the meaningful contributions Tamara made to the growth and significant change in the Pima County Attorney’s Office and wish her continued success on her new professional path."
Mulembo's attorney, Merle Turchik, did not respond to the Star's request for comment.
Berkman has been requesting public records from the County Attorney's Office since his departure in January 2021, the month Conover took charge. A Democrat, Conover was elected to the post in November 2020.
Dozens of grievances
In the Oct. 7 email, Mulembo said she had read her list of concerns to Conover during an Oct. 1 virtual meeting.
"You asked me to bring issues to you and not ruminate on them," Mulembo said in the email. "I have brought issues to you. I will remind you of them now."
The email listed 36 complaints against Conover, including:
- "I was interfered with when disciplining the attorneys who violated COVID policy and caused us to have to shut down the office."
- "I had to manage your anger when I refused to target (an employee) for a discussion about an outfit that was dress code compliant."
- "You subject me to gaslighting, deflection, blame shifting when I attempt to raise issues with you, then (you) call me angry."
- "You asked me to sign (a review of a case in which an officer was involved in a shooting) that I had not substantively reviewed to avoid political fallout because the shooting victim was a Black woman and because I am a Black woman. When I addressed this with you, you accused me of twisting your words."
- "I have never been sworn in, even though we managed to find a badge for (an employee) who does not have a job description."
Mulembo detailed a situation in which she said Conover berated her for failing to keep her informed, even though she was telling her things she had learned earlier that day.
"Then, when I tried to keep you informed by contemporaneously sending you information during work hours that is important over the email (which you are at liberty to step away from), you accused me of deliberately trying to ruin your son's birthday party," Mulembo said in the email.
Mulembo said in the email that she offered a set of terms in the Oct. 1 meeting but that Conover declined and instead asked Mulembo to pursue mediation. Mulembo detailed the terms she offered: staying on until the end of the year to identify and onboard her replacement; continuing to work on her projects; working remotely, with the exception of one meeting; three months' severance pay and continued health insurance coverage during those three months; and a mutual anti-disparagement clause.
The day before Mulembo sent the email, Conover canceled a regularly scheduled meeting between the two and instead called a meeting of senior leadership, with the exception of Mulembo, the letter said.
"You told the group I was leaving because I can't handle the workload. This is false. You know it is false," Mulembo said in the email. "If you persist in circulating falsehoods about my job performance or otherwise denigrating me, I will be forced to defend myself."
In an April 2021 interview with the Star, Mulembo called her job at the County Attorney's Office “the stuff that dreams are made of.”
A spokesman for the office told the Star in October that Mulembo was leaving for nonprofit work.
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Gov. Greg Abbott is unmoved by Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin Jr.’s request that he shift control of a $5 million fund for victims of the Robb Elementary mass shooting to a state agency.
McLaughlin and state Sen. Roland Gutierrez wrote Abbott this week, saying the local district attorney in charge of the fund is ill prepared to handle the job.
The governor’s office, in turn, suggested in a brief statement Wednesday to the San Antonio Express-News that local officials could sort out the squabble among themselves.
McLaughlin and Gutierrez hadn’t received a response to their letter by Thursday. When he created the fund, the governor — after discussing it with a roomful of local officials — had announced that the district attorney would control the fund, McLaughlin said, adding that Abbott’s chief of staff recently told him Uvalde County commissioners had the final say.
An Abbott spokeswoman, Renae Eze, said by email that “the initial $5 million investment for the Uvalde Together Resilience Center was made to Uvalde County. The governor will support whoever local officials designate as project director of the UTRC.”
That left unresolved a festering debate over district attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee’s handling of the fund, which is meant to support the grieving relatives of the 19 students and two teachers killed in the May 24 massacre. Busbee did not respond to a request for comment.
“I think the governor is living his life in a political stance 24/7,” Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, said after being told of the statement. “Myself and Mayor McLaughlin are in the business of just trying to solve problems for people and this isn’t something we made up out of whole cloth.
“This is families going up to City Hall and demanding change within the district attorney’s office in how she is disbursing these funds,” he added. “This is a group of families that I have on a thread that I talk to by text every day and they are tired of getting the same responses.”
In their letter, Gutierrez and McLaughlin had asked Abbott to transfer responsibility for the state-funded support center to the Texas Department of Emergency Management.
Busbee’s office, they said, is “not equipped or staffed to provide these services,” and they cited “troubling reports” from residents about the center’s inability to help victims affected by the mass shooting.
The pain of losing a child “is made all the more severe because of the way these children were killed and injured” and state officials “ought to use every available resource in law to make these families whole,” the two wrote.
McLaughlin said Thursday that the governor put the district attorney in charge of disbursing the $5 million he earmarked to Uvalde County and “that needs to change.”
“And maybe they’re working toward that, I don’t know. As you can imagine, I probably won’t be on her Christmas card list this year,” he said.
It is not clear if county commissioners can take control of the fund from the district attorney, McLaughlin said. He said he told Uvalde County Judge Bill Mitchell about his exchange with the governor’s chief of staff and Mitchell’s response was, “She was in charge of it.” Mitchell could not immediately be reached for comment.
Residents complained at a recent city council meeting that “they go out there to see her, she’s rude to them, she won’t talk with them,” McLaughlin continued. “We’ve had families tell us that they’ve asked for money to help with their bills and they’re not getting it.”
Gutierrez said Busbee had released $4,000 so one family could bring out-of-town relatives to a funeral, and the far smaller amounts doled out to others have not been enough to keep families from having to scramble for help elsewhere to pay their bills while caring for their children and grieving.
Alfred Garza, whose daughter, Amerie Jo Garza, 10, was killed in the shooting, said most organizations were giving money to custodial parents of the victims but that he had been left out. He and the girl’s mother, Kimberly Garcia, are no longer together, he said.
While Garza said he’s received money from the Christina Grimmie Foundation, Victims First and the Red Cross, other funding sources are closed to him.
A Uvalde car salesman, Garza, 35, said he has not worked since the shooting. He has enough money to pay the bills this month, he said, but added, “I was trying to take at least the remainder of the year off if I can, but I don’t know if that’s going to be possible.”
Gutierrez said the 30-plus families of Robb Elementary victims need case workers assigned to them who can help process bills and applications for help — a task suited to TDEM, as the state’s emergency management agency is called.
There has been little communication among the key parties. Neither McLaughlin nor Gutierrez have talked with the district attorney.
“She’s not making any comments to the press right now. The investigation’s still ongoing,” an unidentified woman in Busbee’s office said before hanging up.
Abbott announced the creation of the Uvalde Together Resiliency Center in early June and gave it $5 million through his Public Safety Office, saying it “initially” would be run by the district attorney’s office to provide mental health care and other aid provided by state agencies and local organizations for people in Uvalde impacted by the shooting.
“We must come together as Texans to provide the ongoing, comprehensive support needed to move forward from this terrible tragedy,” he said at the time. He also included a long list of services that would be made available to the families, including educational support, insurance claims, grief counseling, health care and workers compensation funding.
Gutierrez said he had no idea how much of the fund has been spent so far, but said Busbee acquired a bank building for $750,000 to set up the resiliency center.
“No one has gotten any singular check from the district attorney’s office other than some bills that have been paid, like funeral expenses,” though some mortuaries had vowed to cover the victims’ expenses, he said.
Other sources of help have included the National Compassion Fund’s “Uvalde Together We Rise Fund,” he noted. The Compassion Fund, in partnership with San Antonio Area Foundation and the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country, will distribute money as gifts to victims and survivors of the shooting, but not until later this year. Online applications will become available around Sept. 8.
“The state has the money in the fund. We should be trying to get to the maximum capacity per complainant, which allows for $50,000 in … relief,” Gutierrez said. “As to this $5 million, no, families haven’t gotten much of anything other than some lost wage money and some bills that were paid.”
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People around Mark Elliot Stool kept overdosing, authorities say.
The San Antonio man was indicted this week on charges that he provided fentanyl-laced drugs to at least four people, three of whom died of overdoses, at his home in a tony Lockhill Selma neighborhood.
The federal case, one of at least five like it in San Antonio since last year, comes amid the U.S. government’s crackdown on fentanyl and other opioids.
Court records show Stool, 65, was charged in June with drug possession with intent to deliver, but quickly made bail.
A federal grand jury indicted him Wednesday on four charges of distributing controlled substances resulting in death or serious bodily injury, two counts of possession with intent to distribute (both fentanyl and methamphetamine), and two counts of conspiracy.
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An affidavit said San Antonio police and Drug Enforcement Administration agents began investigating Stool in May.
“During the course of this investigation, agents have learned of multiple individuals who have overdosed on fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin at Stool’s residence,” the affidavit said.
Stool told investigators that a friend of his, identified by the initials J.L., overdosed on Feb. 26, and that two other people he gave or sold drugs to also had died of overdoses. Another person survived after receiving Narcan, a prescription that counteracts opioid overdoses.
Lawyers for Stool were not available for comment Thursday.
Records show Stool had served deferred-adjudication probation for drug possession in 1997.
His parents, Newsom and Claudia Stool, were both doctors in other states before moving to San Antonio, public records show. His father, an orthopedic surgeon, died in 1990, and his mother retired in 2000. She’s listed in public records as the owner of the home where Mark Stool lives and where the overdoses allegedly occurred.
On June 10, undercover agents followed Stool as he left the house in his black Tesla, and had patrol officers stop him for traffic violations. Agents found him with baggies of substances that he said were methamphetamine and cocaine, the affidavit said.
“Stool advised agents that he is a distributor of cocaine and methamphetamine and that up to about three weeks ago he also distributed fentanyl,” the affidavit said.
Agents asked him about the death of J.L., and Stool allegedly said he sold methamphetamine to J.L. on the day he died. Stool said he and J.L. both ingested the methamphetamine and fell asleep. When Stool woke up later that day, J.L. appeared to still be asleep and unresponsive.
Stool left the house. When he returned, J.L. was in the same position, but had turned gray. Stool realized J.L. was dead and contacted the authorities, who pronounced J.L. dead at the scene, the affidavit said.
An autopsy found that J.L. died from the toxic effects of methamphetamine and fentanyl. Investigators found that meth recovered from the scene contained fentanyl.
Agents asked Stool if he knew of any other deaths related to narcotics that he had distributed.
Stool allegedly told agents about two more deaths — of a 25-year-old woman in March and a 66-year-old man in August — and the January overdose of a 23-year-old woman who survived after being given Narcan, the affidavit said.
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Ramiro Galindo marked a receipt as a ceiling fan hummed in the office of his Northwest Side automotive shop.
With temperatures already climbing to 100 degrees Thursday afternoon, he said he doesn’t bother turning on the wall air conditioner he installed high over the front counter after 1 p.m. It’s better to acclimate to the heat inside, then catch a breeze outside.
So he keeps a couple of small, cushioned chairs both inside and outside the waiting room.
It’s mind over matter — working through the heat — so he doesn’t think about it much.
“We can’t do anything about it anyways,” Galindo said with a smile.
Even so, the oppressive heat this summer has been hard to ignore.
That won’t change this weekend. The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for Friday afternoon into the early evening, with temperatures up to 104 degrees and up to 108 for parts of the Hill Country, I-35 Corridor and Coastal Plains.
NWS meteorologist Mack Morris said this weekend could be the hottest it’s been all summer, warning that it’s best to avoid outdoor activity between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Because of this, Morris said there’s a chance the service may extend that heat advisory.
“It’s a slam dunk for a good chunk of the area,” he said of hitting high temperatures. “Either way you put it, it’s best to avoid the peak heat of the day this weekend.”
Having worked out of Automotive Fitness Center along Bandera Road for about 40 years, Galindo has made several changes to cope with the heat over time. He used to have full window walls, but he’s remodeled them smaller to limit the amount of heat that gets in.
He keeps a large water cooler full for his workers and closes up shop earlier than he used to so as to avoid the building heat that comes later in the afternoon.
His team also has to wear gloves just to move a car into the repair bay.
“Sometimes you can’t even touch the steering wheel,” Galindo said, remarking that this summer is exceptionally hot for too many days.
The Weather Service backs his claim, reporting that the summers of the last two years have been relatively cool by comparison.
In 2021, the first 100-degree day didn’t even arrive in San Antonio until September. So far, the city has seen 28 total 100 degree days, according to the Weather Service. The hottest it’s reached is 105 degrees.
This year seems to be on par with the warmest summer on record, in 2011, Morris said.
Temperatures this weekend are expected to climb higher, with heat indices as high as 112 degrees.
Nighttime temperatures are not expected to provide much relief, as they may drop to just below 80 degrees.
“It’s especially dangerous,” he said of the heat. “In the afternoon, it’s at its worse, but you don’t think about fact hat if you can't cool off at night it exacerbates the issue.”
Much of the South Central Texas region is in Stage 3 or 4 drought, with the latter being the highest. This puts the onus on area counties and leadership to decide whether and when to enact burn bans and water restrictions.
Rains that fell over the weekend added just enough moisture to the soil to bring some added humidity, meteorologists said.
“It’s still very dry,” Morris said. “The rain last week was very helpful, but we need more.”
As of Thursday, none is in the forecast through next week.
Swimming is a decent way to cool off, but Morris warns that people often don’t realize they’re becoming dehydrated even in a pool.
People should still wear sunscreen, drink plenty of fluids, find a way to cool off in the shade, and take breaks, Morris recommends.
The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District reported that 235 people have been treated for heat exhaustion or stroke from March 15 to July 3.
Bert Hargesheimer, vice president for operational support services for CPS Energy, said the public utility promotes a similar message to its employees called “stop the job,” which as it sounds means crews may stop and receive the care they need to avoid heat-related illness.
Crews are trained to be aware of the symptoms of heat illness, including confusion, dizziness, exhaustion, thirst and heavy sweating.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration website warns that most outdoor fatalities occur in the first few days of working in warm or hot environments because the body needs time to build a tolerance to the heat, a process called heat acclimatization.
“We do a lot of messaging around heat stress and awareness, making sure all team members know what to look out for, what does it look like,” Hargesheimer said.
The utility even has registered nurses as part of its occupational health staff to visit a job site or assess employees via video messaging.
With all the personal protective equipment crews must wear for the job — such as long sleeves, pants, properly rated boots, hard hats and safety glasses — CPS Energy provides its teams with sun shields for their hardhats, towels, ice, water, and sports freeze pops.
They also have canopies to set up and make extra time for breaks to cool off. CPS Energy also has units that blow cool air into manholes for crews that must work underground, Hargesheimer said.
“Our workforce takes it very personally to make sure we have high reliability for the community,” he said.
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Looks like Bexar County is in for another hot COVID summer. The local risk level is high and worsening.
Public health officials are closely monitoring the rapidly spreading coronavirus subvariant BA.5, and to a lesser degree BA.4, hoping the coming surge won’t mirror what happened late last summer — when the delta variant caused hospitalizations to exceed 1,400 patients daily in a deadly surge that lasted from mid-July to mid-October.
“It’s certainly hard to predict, but we’re seeing encouraging signs as we look at outbreaks across the country,” said Dr. Bryan Alsip, chief medical officer at University Health.
These subvariants of omicron appear to be far more infectious than earlier versions, evading antibodies produced by vaccinations and prior infections, he said, but the the rates of severe illness and deaths are lower.
Still, people continue to succumb to the virus especially in the southern parts of the county, according to San Antonio Metropolitan Health District’s online COVID-19 surveillance dashboard.
One more death was confirmed Thursday by Metro Health. So far, 5,341 Bexar County residents have died from COVID-19 since early 2020.
Alsip said that as COVID-19 has evolved, so have the first presenting symptoms of infection.
“Now, there’s just so many nonspecific symptoms that could look like a cold or allergies, and patients aren’t necessarily testing positive right away, which means they are spreading the virus to others,” he said, adding that many patients also aren’t heeding the recommendation to wear masks for five days after a five-day isolation.
Another major difference this summer is that while there are more COVID-19 testing sites throughout the city, free tests for those without insurance are harder to come by.
Congress did not renew the federal CARES Act before it expired in March, which reimbursed providers for COVID-19 tests for Americans without health insurance throughout the pandemic.
This is a problem for places like Bexar County, where nearly 1 in 5 residents under the age of 65 are uninsured.
Metro Health has two free testing locations in San Antonio: a walk-up testing site at 7142 San Pedro Ave. for those with COVID-19 symptoms, open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays; and at CentroMed’s Palo Alto Clinic at 9011 Poteet Jourdanton Freeway, open from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays.
Curative, which has more than 35 local testing locations, charges people without health insurance $99 per test.
Other local clinics charge self-pay customers $130 to $175 per test. Some clinics require patients to pay for an office visit, which can raise the total price to more than $500.
Jamil Sabbagh, Curative’s vice president of west field operations, said in an email Thursday that while many people seem to be avoiding testing sites, many more rely on at-home tests. These test kits cost about $20 at pharmacies, but they are more likely to produce false negative results.
Alsip said that while more access to tests is good, this can be a problem when it comes to reporting.
“We probably don’t have a real good sense of the true count of cases in the community,” he said. “What we are seeing is an underrepresentation because they are only showing laboratory-confirmed cases.”
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CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — Teachers are often dipping into their own wallets to cover students’ school supplies when their families can’t and now one school district is hoping a redistribution of funds can help educators and families keep more in their accounts.
Bartow County said it will use federal COVID-19 funds to help with the lift.
“I think it'll help my classroom tremendously just having extra resources," Francie Brown, a teacher said. "We'll definitely go out and buy things for students if their family is not able to send in what they need."
Brown is a teacher at Clear Creek Elementary School said she is excited about how district leaders are using $22 million in federal COVID-19 funding. The county said it plans to buy a bulk of the supplies for elementary and middle school students.
“It'll help the students be better prepared and have all the resources they need and also help the families just taking a little bit of the financial burden off of them," Brown said.
The district announced this week it will cover supplies like paper towels, bleach wipes, loose-leaf paper, crayons, pencils, notebooks, and binders to save parents the hundreds of dollars families may be spending on school supplies each year. The price tag is expected to get higher as inflation continues to impact the economy.
“Binders can be get expensive, actually, and especially if you're buying for multiple children, so I know that'll be a good blessing to the families for sure," Brown said.
Graphing calculators, pencil boxes, headphones, backpacks, and lunch boxes aren't included. One parent said despite the limitations, she hopes the extra supplies bring her relief as she plans to shop for school supplies.
“It’s pretty pricy," Julie Harp said. "Some of the prices, they shock me."
Harp lives in Bartow County and says she knows all about expensive school supplies as a mom to three boys.
“It should have happened a long time ago. Like, I don't think parents should have to supply the classrooms because that's what we pay taxes for," Harp said.
She added that over the years, the request for school and classroom supplies have multiplied. Brown echoed her comments, adding that as an educator she knows firsthand how it can hinder students if they don't have everything they need to start of the school year right.
“When you have a list a mile long of all the other things that they have to have to be successful, sometimes those other ones get pushed to the side," Brown said. "This will allow for all students to have exactly what they need and to be prepared on the first day of school.”
11Alive reached out to four of metro Atlanta's largest school districts to see if they may consider using COVID-19 relief funds in a similar manner.
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ATLANTA — A person was rushed to the hospital and an officer is being treated after a shooting broke out in the parking lot of a Motel 6 in Marietta Thursday evening.
Police said it happened in the parking lot of the motel at 2360 Delk Road in Marietta shortly before 6:30 p.m. Two Marietta police officers were involved in the shooting, according to Marietta Police.
"At this time we can confirm one individual was transported to the hospital for treatment. One officer sustained injuries and is being treated," Marietta Police said.
Marietta Police said it has contacted the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to step in.
11Alive has a crew on the way and is working to learn more.
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STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — Police are investigating after they said a woman tried to claim a lost child, who wasn't her own, at Stone Mountain Park Saturday night.
Stone Mountain Police said she claimed to be the boy's mother after he got separated from his family, but they soon learned that was not the case. Authorities are now searching for the woman.
They describe her as of Middle Eastern descent, approximately 30 to 35 years of age, 5-feet 6-inches tall, with an average to thin figure, dark lipstick, and heavy makeup. She was wearing a light-colored top and a head covering at the time. She was also on the cell phone the whole time and had been standing in the middle of the park's lawn, slightly to the left, facing the mountain, according to Stone Mountain Police.
Authorities said the incident took place Saturday between 8 p.m. and a little after 9 p.m. It was raining and the woman was alone at the time of the incident, Stone Mountain Police said.
Anyone with information, who was at the park during this time, is asked to call the Stone Mountain Police Department at (770) 498-5675. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/stone-mountain/woman-tried-to-claim-lost-boy-stone-mountain-park/85-3b1a8a51-cfea-4ecc-b7de-9085b8ea3035 | 2022-07-08T00:00:25 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/stone-mountain/woman-tried-to-claim-lost-boy-stone-mountain-park/85-3b1a8a51-cfea-4ecc-b7de-9085b8ea3035 |
Campbell Road will be closed from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday during crossover-pipe replacement, the Allen County Highway Department said today.
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The Indiana State Police is the independent agency that Mayor Tom Henry’s administration asked to investigate kickback allegations made through an anonymous letter, a spokesman confirmed Thursday.
Fort Wayne City Council members last week received a three-page letter from an anonymous source that claims to offer evidence that at least one Public Works employee received free concrete work for an oversized three-car driveway, 100 feet of sidewalk, a new carriage walk and an expanded patio in the backyard of a north-side home. The writer included three photos that show the work at the home.
John Perlich, mayoral spokesman, said last week that Henry’s administration is taking the allegations seriously and had asked an independent agency to investigate. He confirmed Thursday the agency is the state police.
The Indiana State Police could not be reached immediately Thursday to confirm the investigation.
The Journal Gazette is choosing not to reveal the names of those accused or the location based solely on an anonymous letter.
The letter writer alleges the project would cost at least $15,000 and was done for free as compensation for helping the firm win a contract for city work. Two additional employees received free concrete work after becoming aware of the kickback scheme, the letter says.
To put in a driveway, a permit has to be obtained from the city because driveways connect to municipal streets and sidewalks. The Journal Gazette confirmed the employee named in the letter does not have any such permit at the north-side address, according to the city’s permit database.
“There’s no documentation that (the employee) paid for any of the concrete work – which is a clear violation of the city’s conflict of interest policy, which disallows an employee’s personal gain or the appearance of personal gain in dealing with a city contractor,” the letter said. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/city-asked-isp-to-investigate-kickback-allegations/article_eb8cd2e2-fe35-11ec-a1c8-53c55b024496.html | 2022-07-08T00:04:34 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/city-asked-isp-to-investigate-kickback-allegations/article_eb8cd2e2-fe35-11ec-a1c8-53c55b024496.html |
Fort Wayne International Airport will receive $13.8 million in federal funds to upgrade its 30-year-old terminal, federal officials announced Thursday.
The local airport is one of 85 airports across the country that will share in $1 billion of funding. President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law last year, which sets aside about $1 billion annually for aviation upgrades each of the next five years.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the grants will create “good jobs in communities across the country” in addition to improving airport terminals.
“Americans deserve modern airports that meet the needs of their families and growing passenger demand,” he said in a release.
Fort Wayne International Airport will use the $13.8 million to expand and modernize the existing terminal building, which doesn’t have adequate space for passengers waiting to board flights. The 30-year-old building has inefficient HVAC units and insulation, the local airport’s grant application stated.
The terminal improvements will create more efficient access for people with disabilities. The project will also increase taxiway distance from the terminal.
Fort Wayne’s proposed renovations hit three of the five outcomes assessed for the federal dollars – expanding capacity, improving accessibility and raising sustainability, the Federal Aviation Administration’s website said. Officials also looked for grant applications that serve smaller communities or plan to build new air traffic control towers.
The Fort Wayne airport is one of two Indiana facilities to receive funding for upgrades. The Evansville Regional Airport will receive $3.42 million for a similar modernization project.
The largest grant awards were $60 million to the Denver International Airport and $50 million each to the Boston Logan International Airport and the Orlando International Airport to upgrade the facilities’ terminals and luggage-handling systems.
The Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and the Philadelphia International Airport will each receive more than $20 million to renovate restrooms.
A. Bradley Mims, deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, said the investments will touch people across the country.
“The work that goes in to build safer, more accessible and sustainable terminals will provide opportunities for people across the nation,” Mims said in a statement. “The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is a critical investment not only in our nation’s infrastructure, but an investment in the future of our country’s workforce.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/fort-wayne-airport-to-receive-13-8-million-for-upgrades/article_2bee53b6-fe30-11ec-ba24-cf19b34dfa07.html | 2022-07-08T00:04:41 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/fort-wayne-airport-to-receive-13-8-million-for-upgrades/article_2bee53b6-fe30-11ec-ba24-cf19b34dfa07.html |
The death of a Fort Wayne woman who died when a person sat on her during a fight has been ruled a homicide, officials announced Thursday.
Teresa Raeann Pratt, 57, died April 25 after she was involved in a physical altercation with a person who held Pratt down by sitting on her, the Allen County coroner’s office said Thursday.
The fight occurred about 10:15 a.m. in the 8900 block of Center Street, just south of West Main Street. Pratt was admitted to a hospital, where she died about 10:45 p.m. that night.
Police haven’t released the name of the other person involved in the altercation.
The coroner’s office said Pratt died from mechanical/traumatic asphyxia due to chest compression. Her death is Allen County’s 14th homicide this year. No arrests have been announced by police.
The case remains under investigation by the Allen County Sheriff’s Department and prosecutor’s and coroner’s offices. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/fort-wayne-woman-sat-on-in-april-altercation-ruled-homicide-victim/article_63f67a60-fe10-11ec-9a7d-734bf5bb4437.html | 2022-07-08T00:04:47 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/fort-wayne-woman-sat-on-in-april-altercation-ruled-homicide-victim/article_63f67a60-fe10-11ec-9a7d-734bf5bb4437.html |
A section of Indiana 3 near Huntertown has been closed because of a sinkhole, the Indiana Department of Transportation said today.
The sinkhole was discovered in the shoulder of northbound Indiana 3 near Old Lima Road, the transportation department said in a statement. INDOT said its emergency closure has closed both northbound lanes to allow crews to assess and fix the issue.
A detour uses Old Lima Road to West Gump Road, the statement said. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/sinkhole-closes-section-of-indiana-3/article_22fccbe8-fe35-11ec-b9ab-b74a0265310e.html | 2022-07-08T00:04:53 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/sinkhole-closes-section-of-indiana-3/article_22fccbe8-fe35-11ec-b9ab-b74a0265310e.html |
UTICA, N.Y. – Homeless doesn't have to equal hopeless. That was the message at a press conference today, with the city of Utica, the Salvation Army and the Utica Rescue Mission.
Those organizations are coming together, not to provide a safety net, but a network of services and opportunities for homeless people in Utica.
They're using roughly $1.25 million dollars in federal coronavirus aid from the CARES Act to support the effort.
Last year, the agencies established two drop-in centers, one at the Rescue Mission and one at the Salvation Army, which operated through April. Now, that program will continue.
The program not only provides shelter for homeless individuals but gives them an opportunity to earn money by helping city crews maintain and beautify parks and playgrounds.
"I will say this – if it wasn't for the drop-in center right now, he would be lost on the streets of Utica. We were able to place him into permanent housing, get him into wrap-around services, and now he's actually part of that team and he's working, so he has employment. So there's one of many success stories, but that's a huge success story, there," said Ernie Talerico of the Rescue Mission.
Funding from a Community Development Block Grant also helps support the employment of the homeless individuals. | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/agencies-help-uticas-homeless-with-shelter-work-opportunities/article_cf62215e-fe3e-11ec-bb9d-0f2a1c569bb4.html | 2022-07-08T00:09:59 | 0 | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/agencies-help-uticas-homeless-with-shelter-work-opportunities/article_cf62215e-fe3e-11ec-bb9d-0f2a1c569bb4.html |
UTICA, N.Y. -- Thousands of runners will gather to participate in the Utica Boilermaker this weekend. Most of the runners have likely trained for the day, but there are some runners who might need help during the race.
Ham radio operators are tasked with spotting runners who look like they aren’t doing so well. Utica Amateur Radio Club President Ed Kobos talked about what they look for.
"You can actually look at people’s eyes, and you can tell if they’re going to need help, and there are some people that obviously will need help crossing the finish line," said Kobos.
Ed is one of the Ham Radio Operators that will be helping with communication efforts during the race. He explains why Ham Radios are particularly useful for this kind of an event.
"Well Cell phones you can talk to one person at a time, but using ham radio all of us can be listening at the same time so we can find out what’s going on, and if you see particularly a runner with a number that you recognize, you can relay that information."
When the Ham Radio Operators spot someone who looks like they may need help they relay that runners number down the line. Others will then watch for that runner so Emergency personnel can be ready should that runner need medical assistance. While spectators are there to watch the race, these volunteers are there specifically to watch for a runner who needs help. Boilermaker Ham Radio Coordinator Bob Decker says it happens more than you might think.
"Oh yeah on a regular basis we’ve provided that information to the EMS people when we’ve had those types of situations occur."
When an injury does occur the job of the Ham Radio Operator isn’t over. Medical personnel have their job to do, and can’t be distracted with the task of finding family and friends. Kobos explains where this line of communication comes in handy.
"As soon as we get people into the first aid tent, we go through and relay that information to the reunion area in case people are looking for their friends or relatives so that they know that they are either in the first aid tent or not in the first aid tent."
There will be about 30 Ham Radio Operators set up along the race course, and all will be wearing a Boilermaker Volunteer shirt. | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/ham-radio-operators-assist-in-boilermaker/article_bb05f408-fe32-11ec-bc8c-7f30eedd5961.html | 2022-07-08T00:10:05 | 0 | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/ham-radio-operators-assist-in-boilermaker/article_bb05f408-fe32-11ec-bc8c-7f30eedd5961.html |
My name is Dakota, which means warrior. I was named this due to the trauma I endured when I was younger and was hit by a car. When I was brought into the Coconino Humane Assoc. I had a fractured back leg as well as front leg. I had my front leg repaired and my rear leg was put in a cast to heal. The impact of being hit by a car has also affected my teeth. I may need to have some dental work in the future, and I will not be able to run marathons but I get around just fine. I am doing so well now that my caretakers deemed me a warrior. I'm a very handsome 5-year-old Border Collie mix looking for my forever home. If you're fairly mellow and looking for a devoted forever friend -- as opposed to a running buddy -- would you give me a chance and adopt me? See other adoptable pets online at coconinohumane.org.
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Fireworks exploded in green, red, purple and gold over the Treasure Valley on Monday night, leaving wisps of smoke to fade into the dying sunset. From a distance, The fireworks set off from Boise’s Ann Morrison Park seemed to stretch above the foothills.
The Fourth of July celebrations also left behind fires over the weekend, according to multiple fire departments in the Treasure Valley.
“We had a total of 14 brush or grass fires, a couple dumpster fires, so 14 total that appear related to fireworks,” Nampa Fire Marshal Ron Johnson said. “I would say this was … probably average for us, average for a Fourth of July.”
The 14 fires ranged from around 11:30 p.m. on Friday to around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Of the 14 fires, nine took place on Monday and early Tuesday.
There was no significant damage from any fire, Johnson said.
“I’ll say from observations, it seems like there was significant aerial fireworks last night in the city,” Johnson said.
State law allows vendors to sell aerial fireworks outside of cities, Johnson said, but it’s still illegal to set off the aerial fireworks.
“Obviously that doesn’t work. That’s a law that needs fixed,” Johnson said. “That’s something we’ve just been fighting and dealing with for years. As long as they’re sold here, people are going to light them off and create safety concerns.”
In Meridian, there were no structure fires or increases in calls due to fireworks, Public Safety Information Officer Kelsey Johnston said. Although one trash can caught fire after fireworks were thrown into it, neighbors were able to put the fire out.
The Boise Fire Department responded to 14 fireworks-related incidents between midnight of July 2 and 6 a.m. on July 5. However, there are seven incidents still being investigated so the number could rise.
Boise fire responded to 261 other incidents in that time frame.
In comparison, Boise Fire responded to 16 fireworks-related calls and 314 incidents for the same time frame last year.
The celebrations impacted more than just area fire departments.
On Monday, the smell of gunpowder drifted over the valley along with the whistles, pops and booms from the explosions.
And in fact, the fireworks actually made the air quality significantly worse in the area, the National Weather Service Boise tweeted.
At 10 p.m. Monday, air quality in Garden City was still in the “green” or “good” range. But by midnight, air quality was in the “yellow” or “moderate” range, and from 1 a.m.-3 a.m. was in the “red” or “unhealthy” range.
Garden City’s air quality was still only moderate by 8 a.m. Tuesday.
Boise’s air quality jumped around midnight to 2 a.m. Tuesday, all the way into “maroon” or “hazardous,” the highest possible level on the air quality index.
For next year, Johnson has a few tips to avoid starting fires. He said to only light off non-aerial fireworks, leave a good distance between your fireworks and combustible vegetation and homes, and have a bucket of water on hand to douse the fireworks in after they been extinguished.
“Overall, just be responsible and courteous to your neighbors,” Johnson said. “It seems like for the most part, people were following most of those.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/4th-of-july-fireworks-spark-dozens-of-fires-in-boise-nampa-no-serious-damage-reported/article_9ea06751-29db-5097-8cf2-634e716fb572.html | 2022-07-08T00:14:45 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/4th-of-july-fireworks-spark-dozens-of-fires-in-boise-nampa-no-serious-damage-reported/article_9ea06751-29db-5097-8cf2-634e716fb572.html |
Following a three-year hiatus, Boise’s Fourth of July parade has momentum to return in 2023.
Treasure Valley-based CapEd Credit Union announced in a Tuesday press release its plans to “provide the base of financial support and help organize volunteers, supportive community members, organizations and businesses” to bring an Independence Day parade back to the City of Trees.
The parade is not an official city of Boise event and must gain city approval, CapEd’s press release said.
“CapEd Credit Union embraces this opportunity to support an important community – and national – celebration. We look forward to drawing on our 86-year legacy of supporting and enhancing our community. I invite individuals and businesses to join us in organizing our community’s Fourth of July Independence Day Parade,” CapEd CEO Todd Erickson said in the release. “Our organization wants to ensure that succeeding generations celebrate the memorable epoch in the history of America.”
The final monetary amount CapEd will contribute is yet to be determined, a company spokesperson said.
CapEd has and will continue to work with the parade’s former organizers, David Barrett and family, as the event’s plans develop, the spokesperson said.
The Barrett family organized the We The People 4th of July Liberty Day Parade for nearly two decades before stepping away from the duty last summer.
“When Todd Christensen of CapEd Credit Union contacted me to see how they could help, I knew we had found the answer to how the parade could continue in Boise in a quality fashion,” David Barrett said in the release. “We are excited to be able to transition the Boise Fourth of July parade into the hands of CapEd Credit Union.”
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Chris Rock is one of the most influential and well-known comics of the past few decades, but on March 27, 2022, the slap heard 'round the world threatened to overshadow that 30-year career.
In San Francisco on Wednesday night at the Masonic, Rock performed new stand-up material on what he’s dubbed the Ego Death World Tour, his first live stand-up tour in five years, which started in April and includes 38 performances. On entrance, attendees were forced to lock their phones in pouches to keep the show from being recorded.
Rock walked on stage wearing all white, breaking into a not-fully-baked take on San Francisco’s homelessness problem. “High-ass rent and homeless people everywhere,” he said. Then he stated that he usually associates homeless people with lower rent areas, an awkward observation that fell flat.
Then Rock addressed the elephant in the room, the moment Will Smith slapped him in the face at the Oscars following a joke comparing Jada Pinkett Smith to Demi Moore’s character in “G.I. Jane.”
“Let me start by just saying, I’m OK. I got my hearing back. My fillings are coming in,” he said. He briefly returned to the topic later as he commented on our country’s addiction to attention, which is achieved through infamy, excellence or victimhood — in his case, at the hand of “Suge Smith,” comparing Will Smith to notoriously aggressive former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight.
“I’m not a victim, you’re not going to see me on Gayle crying,” Rock said, presumably referring to CBS morning news host Gayle King.
Although Rock has been touring this show since April, the set seemed to evolve with current events. He made it clear he was “unapologetically pro-choice,” partially based on his own experiences.
“I’ve paid for more abortions than anyone in this room. ... They named the recovery room after me,” Rock joked.
From there he transitioned to talking about fatherhood and the complications of raising rich kids. He revealed how his daughter was kicked out of private school (at his secret request) for drinking on a class trip to Portugal. Then, he contrasted a frugal bus trip he took from Brooklyn to Disney World as a child with a more recent Disney visit, where the VIP “illuminati package” included real perks like line-skipping, and a punch line about a lap dance from Minnie.
Elon Musk was also a target. Although Rock seemed unaware of breaking news regarding Musk fathering twins with a Neuralink executive, the comic associated Musk’s promiscuity with his wealth in terms too crude to be repeated here, saying he’s the most sexually active man in the world partially thanks to his ability to “fly bitches to the moon.”
Contrasted with his riffs on Musk and reproductive rights, some of the other material felt dated. He blamed Hillary Clinton’s two failed presidential runs on how she didn’t campaign in all 50 states. Meghan Markle was also in his crosshairs, with Rock saying she should’ve expected to experience racism and wasn’t a victim, which drew repeated protests from one audience member. He also dropped another local reference here, talking about how Black families also wonder about a baby’s skin tone and whether the child will look more like Steph Curry or Draymond Green.
Then in closing, Rock transitioned to talking about the pitfalls of his new dating life. Pulling out his glasses, he read real text messages from his phone, which were also projected onscreen behind him. The messages came from a woman Rock didn’t remember named Candace. Rock told her he was in a new relationship (he’s now reportedly dating Lake Bell), to which she railed at him about how he cheated on his previous wife.
Although at first it sounded like a setup to complain about cancel culture, in the end, the text messages felt more like penance for past transgressions. There were other similar moments where Rock gleefully inched close to dropping offensive bombshells, most noticeably in an extended bit about the complications of equal pay for women. The tension in the room was palpable, but his ability to flirt with such charged material showed why he’s one of the most lauded comics in history — even if a few people in the crowd likely thought he deserved a slap. | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/chris-rock-jokes-about-slap-17290913.php | 2022-07-08T00:19:22 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/chris-rock-jokes-about-slap-17290913.php |
LYONS, Ind. — Police in Greene County are searching for a missing 12-year-old girl.
The Greene County Sheriff's Department says Jenny Chaney left her home in the town of Lyons around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 7. Police believe she is attempting to walk to Clay County, which is about 20 miles to the north of Lyons.
Lyons is about 50 miles southeast of Terre Haute.
Chaney was last seen wearing a black tie-dye tank top and black and orange leggings. She has straight, medium-length light brown hair.
Anyone with information about Chaney's location is asked to call the Greene County Sheriff's Department at 812-384-4411. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana/greene-county-sheriff-searching-for-missing-12-year-old-girl-jenny-chaney/531-4fdcf0ef-d6cd-4181-b534-6f2f73894250 | 2022-07-08T00:20:51 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana/greene-county-sheriff-searching-for-missing-12-year-old-girl-jenny-chaney/531-4fdcf0ef-d6cd-4181-b534-6f2f73894250 |
SARASOTA, Fla. — Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrested a Georgia man who they said pulled a gun on another driver this week in Sarasota.
The incident happened on Interstate 75 in Sarasota on Tuesday. James Weaver, 74, was driving a 2015 Maserati with kids in the car when they say he pulled out a gun and pointed it at a driver in another vehicle.
According to FHP similar scenes like that, and even worse, are becoming a regular occurrence on Florida roads as the state continues to see an increase in aggressive driving and road rage incidents.
Experts at AAA have said it is putting drivers in dangerous predicaments that are often life-threatening.
"You just don't know what could trigger the driver next to you," said Mark Jenkins of AAA. "It's summertime, roads are more crowded, people are more tired, driving impaired, and let's not forget the various inflationary pressures and higher gas prices that can be adding to the stress."
"In the Tampa Bay area I see it quite frequently," said Sergeant Steve Gaskins, FHP Public Affairs Officer.
In May, Crime Tracker 10 took a deeper dive into where this is happening most. Between 2016 and 2021, Hillsborough County had the most recorded cases with 5,097. That's followed by Pinellas and Polk Counties with 2,389 and 2,364 respectively.
Pasco County saw 1,457 cases. Manatee and Sarasota Counties saw 1,248 and 1,159 respectively. Hernando saw 1,005, Citrus saw 510, Hardee 160, and lastly, Highlands saw 159.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, a Kentucky-based nonprofit that tallies shootings in near-real-time, there have been hundreds of instances in the last few years in which someone in a car showed a weapon in a threatening way or fired at a driver or passenger in another car.
GVA records analyzed by gun violence investigative group The Trace, show there were 728 road rage incidents involving guns in the United States in 2021, resulting in 132 deaths and 390 injuries. In 2021, there were 701 incidents, resulting in 102 deaths and 306 injuries.
According to The Trace, Texas and Florida lead the nation with most "road rage shootings." Between 2017 and 2021, Texas saw 467 cases while Florida saw 304. California saw the third-highest number of cases in that time frame with 179.
"I think it is all the more reason why you should be a courteous driver because you just don't know what could happen when you run into a situation that is escalated and it turns into violence," Jenkins said.
"If one person doesn't de-escalate the situation by creating distance, pulling over, and letting the other person go by, that's what we see, an escalation," said Gaskins.
Authorities said if you're confronted on the road, don't respond with aggression or try to retaliate. The best thing to do if you can't drive away is to stay calm, avoid eye contact or any rude gestures and call 911.
"Drive defensively and with courtesy," Gaskins said. "If everybody can do that, people would get to their destinations safer and we can reduce our fatality rate, our injury rate, our crash rate."
"If you feel like you were somehow disrespected on the road, just let it go, it's not worth trying to prove a point to somebody that's probably not going to learn the lesson," Jenkins concluded.
FHP suggests remembering as much info as you can if you find yourself in a road rage situation; the description of the person, their clothing, the vehicle, the license plates, and what direction they went. If you are being followed, FHP suggests to head to a police or fire station and honk your horn to attract attention to your vehicle. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/avoid-aggressive-driving-road-rage-safety-fhp-aaa/67-954d4a65-a3e3-4a05-9d6f-65def3539d83 | 2022-07-08T00:23:26 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/avoid-aggressive-driving-road-rage-safety-fhp-aaa/67-954d4a65-a3e3-4a05-9d6f-65def3539d83 |
MOGADORE, Ohio — Multiple animals were removed from a home in Portage County as authorities were executing a search warrant for alleged drug law violations Tuesday.
During the investigation at the home on 2nd Avenue in Mogadore, authorities called the Portage County Animal Protective League in response to the various animals. Here's what they removed from the residence, according to the Portage County Sheriff's Office:
- One cat
- One rabbit
- One scorpion
- Two alligators
- Two geese
- One snapping turtle
- Three tarantulas
- Three turtles
- Four ferrets
- Five dogs
- Five snakes
- Six ducks
- 300 fish
Pictures of the animals were shared by the Portage County Sheriff’s Office on Facebook:
As a result of the search warrant, the Portage County Sheriff’s Office says investigators also found the following items:
- Two firearms
- Ammunition
- Items commonly used in the distribution of controlled substances
- Digital scale
- THC wax
- Hashish oil
The Portage County Sheriff’s Office is also working with the Portage County Job and Family Services regarding a juvenile child who lives in the residence. The controlled substances will be sent to BCI for further chemical analysis.
“The investigation is ongoing and criminal charges will be presented for future criminal indictments,” according to the Portage County Sheriff’s Office.
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OLD TOWN, Maine — When a kid sets their mind on an idea, it's often difficult to change it.
7-year-old Arabella asked her parents two years ago to convert their garage into a flower shop, but she says her dad said, "No."
Instead, Arabella started a flower stand on their front lawn.
The first year, she donated all the money she made to "Ending Hunger in Maine." The second year, it all went completely to the Maine Parkinson’s Society.
This year, she has opened her own business in a store front in Old Town with help from her mom and dad.
Arabella says 25 percent of each stem sold will go toward the Northern Light NICU, but for her, it's about more than donating money — it's about making people smile.
“When she sells flowers by the side of the road, she’ll stand by the road and wave to everybody,” Arabella's mother, Jess Francis, said.
“With a flower!” Arabella added.
“With a flower in her hand," her mother continued. "She has said, ‘Even if they don’t stop to get a flower, I still made somebody smile today.’ I think that is what it’s all about isn’t it?” Jess said, smiling at Arabella.
Arabella and her parents are planning a grand opening celebration for Saturday, July 9, at their store, A Touch of Grace, in Old Town. The store is located on Main Street and will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/7-year-old-opens-her-own-flower-shop-hoping-to-help-others-old-town-maine-fundraising/97-461919a1-0ef8-4d15-af0c-3c198cb3658c | 2022-07-08T00:23:44 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/7-year-old-opens-her-own-flower-shop-hoping-to-help-others-old-town-maine-fundraising/97-461919a1-0ef8-4d15-af0c-3c198cb3658c |
ARKANSAS, USA — If you test positive for COVID-19 and want to take the newer medication for it, it will now be easier to get that medication. This comes after the FDA announces patients no longer need a prescription to get Paxlovid.
Prior to the FDA’s announcement Wednesday, July 6, you could only get Pfizer’s drug Paxlovid with a prescription. The antiviral drug has been shown to curb the worst effects of COVID-19. Now, at pharmacies that carry the medication, a pharmacist can screen patients for the drug.
“It has been known to decrease the severity of the illness and the number of days that you just really feel bad,” said Dr. Marti Sharkey.
Dr. Marti Sharkey says hopefully, this change will increase access to the medication. She says this drug is only for people who have an underlying medical condition or are over age 60. When you go to the pharmacy, you’ll have to bring to medical records with you including lab work.
“You need to make sure your kidney function is within normal limits. That your liver function is normal, and they need to be aware of all the drugs that you are on looking for any interactions. It’s best if you can go to your doctor who knows you the best and has your medical record but understanding but understanding at times it’s not feasible,” she said.
At Medical Arts Pharmacy in Fayetteville pharmacist, Julie Stewart says when the first got into Paxlovid several months ago, the demand was extremely low. They went about a month without dispensing the drug but right now they are actually out of it because of the demand.
“We normally see like a lot of Tamiflu during flu season, and we feel this is kind of comparable in term of the number of courses that we are dispensing a day,” said Stewart.
The medication is free for both patients and pharmacies, but Stewart says it still takes a lot of time for pharmacists to consult with patients who come in without a prescription.
“We may have a couple of days where we only dispense a couple of courses and there may be one day where we dispense 6 or 8 and so just getting the timing right for having it in stock sometimes is a little bit difficult to predict,” she said.
In some cases, Paxlovid has given people what’s known as rebound COVID. A person will take all the pills, test negative and then test positive.
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MAINE, USA — Billy Tucker died just a day after his birthday in his cell at Cumberland County Jail on June 4.
His grandmother, Charity Tucker, said she took care of him as a teenager and a few times throughout his young life as he battled addiction.
"He was a good kid, generous, very funny, always joking ... I'm a grandmother you know, so I'm biased, but he was a good man," Charity Tucker said. "A day after his birthday, I found out his mother called ... Billy was dead."
Charity Tucker said Billy wanted to go to Lewiston for a program to treat his addiction, and then move to Caribou with his father. He was arrested just days before he planned to drive up there, Charity Tucker said.
"I don't feel right about what happened to him down there ... They took him. It's like they didn't care. And now another man dies one month and two days after Billy? Something is wrong, something is very wrong," the grandmother added.
Billy is one of four people who died in Cumberland and York County jails since May.
Nicole Turner died in York County Jail on July 3, Michael Hansen in Cumberland County Jail on May 12, Billy Tucker on June 4 and an unnamed man in Cumberland County Jail on July 6.
Nicole Turner's death is being investigated as a suspected overdose, according to Maine State Police.
Nicole Turner's aunt, Peggy Turner, said Nicole struggled with addiction, but doesn't know why they're investigating her death as an overdose.
"She became an addict to cover her trauma, her trauma fueled the addiction, the addiction led to crimes, the crimes led to her being incarcerated which, therefore, led to her death which is still unknown," Peggy Turner said.
Peggy Turner said her niece was raped at 14 years old, and was rehomed from her family. She said she only found out about those past events around 2020.
"She was not an addict, she was a little girl who suffered severe trauma who became an addict," the aunt said. "She was a traumatized kid long before she was an addict."
Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition Assistant Director Jan Collins said jail is one of the most harmful places people can go to when they're battling addiction, as many jails don't have adequate treatment facilities.
"Usually when someone is battling an addiction they have an underlying mental health condition ... When that is taken away from them those health conditions will surface," Collins said.
Collins said jails in Maine don't go far enough to initiate addiction treatment.
"For someone who has a mental health disorder it is crushing to be placed in solitary confinement, you are alone with your demons and those demons are relentless," Collins added.
According to Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce, the county jail provides addiction treatment for people who were undergoing treatment at the time of the arrest, but the jail doesn't initiate treatment.
"I am responsible for their safety here and I don't take it lightly, so one is bad enough and three is definitely concerning," Sheriff Joyce said.
Joyce said the department hopes to implement an addiction treatment that can be initiated with someone who is booked in jail within the next six months. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/families-left-with-questions-after-four-county-jail-deaths-in-two-months-maine/97-f1858259-2d5b-4486-9653-a36b6eaf80de | 2022-07-08T00:23:50 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/families-left-with-questions-after-four-county-jail-deaths-in-two-months-maine/97-f1858259-2d5b-4486-9653-a36b6eaf80de |
AZ Patriots leader Jennifer Harrison sought by Tempe police over pepper spray attack
Tempe police announced on Thursday they were seeking to arrest Jennifer Harrison, AZ Patriots leader, in connection with a pepper spray attack on protesters in Tempe over the weekend.
Harrison told The Arizona Republic that the incident was in self-defense.
The incident occurred at about 9:30 p.m. on July 3 when a group of protesters near Mill Avenue and University Drive were pepper-sprayed by someone from a vehicle, according to a news release from the Tempe Police Department.
Some of the people who were pepper-sprayed sought treatment, though it's unclear exactly how many or the severity of those injuries.
Tempe police said at the time they were investigating the incident and did not identify any persons of interest. However, videos and photographs of the incident were shared on social media, many of which identified Harrison as the person doing the pepper spraying.
On Thursday, she said that the act was in self-defense.
"I have one comment: this was self-defense. I have an attorney and we are confident that we'll see this through," she said.
When asked about her thoughts on the statement released by Tempe police seeking her arrest, she said, "I think it's cowardly. I think Tempe PD knows my phone number, knows my address. I mean they could've just come and knocked on my door, I don't know why they had to put a Twitter release out like I'm some fugitive, but it's politics."
Harrison confirmed to The Republic her involvement in the incident on Monday. "You can clearly see an assault against the passenger window and the stream of pepper spray deployed after the unprovoked attack," she said at the time.
Tempe police said on Thursday they were attempting to locate Harrison to ultimately arrest and charge her in connection with the incident. It's unclear what charges she could face.
In an emailed response to a question about what charges could be brought against Harrison, Tempe Police Department spokesperson Natalie Barela said no further information was available.
Harrison involved in other pepper-spray incidents
Harrison became a political figure through guerilla actions, often showing up at protests for causes she disagreed with and filming videos of herself intentionally antagonizing attendees.
The videos drew an audience to the Patriot Movement AZ page on Facebook, making Harrison a quasi-celebrity. Her profile among Republicans grew. In 2019, she became a precinct committeeman, an official foot soldier in the Arizona Republican Party.
The videos also drew attention to the causes pushed by Harrison and the Patriot movement. They were against illegal immigration, feared the religion of Islam and denounced those who suggested police departments needed reform.
It was at least the second time that Harrison has shot pepper spray out of her car at people who didn’t agree with her politically.
In June 2020, Harrison filmed herself at a Black Lives Matter protest march through downtown Phoenix calling for police reform. In the video, Harrison and her boyfriend, Michael Pavlock, were in their car, stopped at an intersection by police to allow protesters to march past.
Harrison, in the video, used her megaphone to shout “Black rifles matter,” and “Trump 2020.” About six protesters started walking toward the car.
Harrison, in the video, yelled “You’re going to get sprayed.” Pavlock yelled, “You’re going to get shot.”
Harrison sprayed a girl with what she would later tell viewers was “bear spray,” a concentrated form of pepper spray. A Phoenix police officer told the two to drive away from the area.
Harrison, talking to the camera from the passenger seat, told viewers that she had “triggered” the protesters with her shouting.
“I was just being my obnoxious self on the megaphone,” she said. “I poke the bear. That’s what I do best.”
In December 2020, Harrison pleaded guilty to a felony charge of identity theft and agreed to enter a diversion program. Court records show the charges were permanently dismissed in May 2021.
Harrison was accused of stealing hotel points belonging to her ex-in-laws. The points were used, police said, to book a hotel room in Sacramento where Harrison and Pavlock attended a hard rock music festival.
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Police identify woman found dead in Phoenix canal
Jodicee Arianna
Arizona Republic
Phoenix police identified the woman whose body was found in a canal on Tuesday.
She was identified as 37-year-old Janet Begaue on Wednesday.
According to police, officers responded to the area near 32nd and North Indian Trail after receiving a call about an injured person. They were directed to the canal and found Begaue, who had been shot. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
An investigation is ongoing, police said.
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Charges dropped against former Gilbert teacher accused of inappropriate behavior with students
The Maricopa County Attorney's Office dropped charges against a former Higley High School teacher accused of engaging in inappropriate relationships with two students, County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said Wednesday during a news conference.
Aaron Dunton, 35, was arrested on June 30 following a months-long investigation of misconduct with two minors at two separate schools Durton used to work for, Gilbert police said.
Police said they began investigating in April when allegations were made that a teacher was involved in a relationship with a 14-year-old student at Higley High School.
Dunton resigned from the school after the allegations were made.
During the investigation, police said another victim came forward with allegations against Dunton from when he was a teacher at Power Ranch Elementary, which is in the same district as Higley High School. Police said the victim was 11 when the alleged incidents happened.
Dunton was booked into a Maricopa County Jail on four counts of aggravated assault, one count of tampering with a witness and two counts of contributing to delinquency and dependency.
On Wednesday, Mitchell said MCAO dismissed the seven charges and sent the case back to the Gilbert Police Department for more investigation to be done following the arrest.
“We have a responsibility not to proceed with prosecution unless and until we are able to support our burden of proof," MCAO said in a statement released to the Arizona Republic on Thursday.
According to Karla Navarrete-Contreras, an MCAO spokesperson, the motion to dismiss was filed without prejudice, meaning the office can re-file charges against Dunton once more information is collected.
"The case is still active, the investigation is still active and we're working with the police agency on that," Mitchell said on Wednesday.
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PHOENIX — Signatures to qualify a ballot measure that would reverse or block Republican efforts to tighten election rules was one of three initiatives filed in Arizona Thursday, but backers of a last-minute effort to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution failed to collect enough signatures to make the November ballot.
The other two measures whose backers submitted signatures to the Secretary of State were efforts to protect residents from predatory bill collection and to ensure that those funding elections are publicly known.
A newly organized group of abortion rights supporters that filed an initiative in mid-May to protect the right to abortion fell way short of the approximately 356,000 needed signatures.
The effort by a group called Arizonans for Reproductive Freedom was a longshot, and while they collected about 2,700 per day that only totaled about 175,000. Initiative proponents often aim to collect at least an extra 30% over the minimum as a buffer.
The group said they will pivot to getting the measure on the 2024 ballot. Abortions in Arizona stopped June 24 when the Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of precedent and said women do not have a right to an abortion. That renewed a state law in place since at least 1901 that bans all abortion.
"This campaign will not stop until abortions are once again legal and accessible across Arizona,” campaign Treasurer Shasta McManus said in a statement.
Progressive groups who want voters to counter GOP election restrictions filed more than twice the required signatures to get their measure on the ballot. Officials at the Secretary of State's office and county election officials will now work to confirm they filed enough to make the November ballot.
The measure would prevent the state Legislature from overturning presidential election results, a response to failed efforts by former President Donald Trump to get lawmakers in Arizona and other states he lost to reject President Joe Biden's victory.
The wide-ranging measure also reverses GOP efforts to limit mail voting and kick inconsistent voters off the permanent mail ballot list, among a host of other provisions. Backers filed double the number of signatures needed to make the ballot.
"Arizonans are putting an end to partisan politicians who want to overturn the rule of law and delegitimize elections," Cymone Bolding, co-executive director the group backing the measure, Our Voice, Our Vote Arizona, said in a statement.
Republican lawmakers proposed a host of new voting restrictions this year, although only a handful passed the tightly-spit Legislature.
The effort to require transparency among backers of candidates and ballot measures marks the third effort by Democratic former Attorney General Terry Goddard and others to get his measure on the ballot. They turned in many more than the required 237,645 signatures.
The measure seeks to require any organization spending more than $5,000 to identify all donors, with big penalties for failing to do so.
“The fact that we were able to surpass the requirement by over 137,000 voters is a testament to the growing appetite amongst voters to be informed,” Goddard said in a statement. "They want to hold the individuals responsible for funding the messages that inform their decisions on Election Day accountable.”
The third measure is being pushed by a progressive group called Healthcare Rising Arizona, which is backed by the Service Employees International Union.
The initiative, if enacted, would raise the amount of assets shielded from bill collectors, raising the homeowners' homestead exemption from $150,000 to $400,000, with annual adjustments, and boosting the value of autos that can be kept. It also limits interest rates on medical debts and increases the amount of cash that can be kept from $300 to $5,000.
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PHENIX, Va. — Phoenix firefighters are working to contain a massive structure fire burning in downtown Phoenix.
The fire broke out Thursday afternoon near 5th Avenue and Monroe Street.
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Video from the scene showed the roof of the structure collapse as the flames ripped through the building.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
There are no injuries reported at this time.
This is a developing story. Stay with 12 News for updates.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — A homeless man is behind bars, accused of setting another man on fire at a Glendale convenience store, according to the Glendale Police Department.
Police said early Sunday morning, officers received a call saying someone was on fire at a Circle K near 59th and Olive avenues.
When officers arrived, they found the victim, Blake Angerer, at the entrance of the store engulfed in flames.
Police said witnesses told officers the suspect, Luciano Simmons, came into the store and purchased gasoline that he put in a water bottle.
Witnesses said after buying the gas, Simmons left the store and walked to a bus stop nearby. A witness at the bus stop told police Simmons poured the gasoline on Angerer and set him on fire with a butane torch.
The witness said Angerer started running toward the store while engulfed in flames. The witness and store clerk poured water on Angerer until first responders arrived on the scene.
Police said the Circle K clerk pointed to Simmons at the bus stop and identified him as the man who bought the gas.
Video surveillance showed Simmons filling the water bottle with gas. Shortly thereafter, the video showed the witness and Angerer running from the bus stop to the store while Angerer was on fire.
Police documents state Simmons admitted to being at the Circle K and buying the gas but denied injuring Angerer.
Police said Angerer was transported to the hospital in extremely critical condition.
Police are still investigating a motive for the attack.
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TEMPE, Ariz. — At 13 years old, Alena Analeigh is making history as the youngest Black person to ever get accepted into a medical school in the United States.
In just one year, Alena has already finished two and a half years of college by taking a full course load at Arizona State University and Oakwood University.
“I really want to leave my mark on the world. And lead a group of girls that know what they can do,” Alena said.
12 News talked with Alena last year when she got accepted to ASU’s engineering program at only 12 years old with dreams of one day working for NASA.
But another passion took over shortly after: biology.
“It actually took one class in engineering, for me to say this is kind of not where I wanted to go,” she said.“I think viral immunology really came from my passion for volunteering and going out there engaging with the world."
She was inspired by a trip to Jordan and The Brown STEM Girl foundation.
“What I want from healthcare, is to really show these underrepresented communities that we can help that we can find cures for these viruses,” Alena said.
If everything goes as planned Alena will be 18 when she becomes a doctor.
“I want to inspire the girls. I want them to see that there are no limits,” she said.
Alena will attend the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine.
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STOCKTON, Calif. — The city of Stockton has announced relief for outstanding wastewater charges accumulated during the COVID pandemic will be available to residents in early August.
Nearly 12,000 Stockton customers will benefit from a State Water Resources Control Board program covering past-due fees on wastewater accounts from March 4, 2020, to June 15, 2021.
$985 million in funding was allocated from the state legislature to provide relief for customers experiencing financial hardships due to the COVID pandemic.
The Stockton City Council has now officially approved funding for the program, which will provide credits for over 11,700 accounts starting August 6, according to Stockton City Manager Harry Black.
"The City applied for and received $1.6 million in funding for our residential and commercial water accounts in February," said Black in a press release. "In April, the City identified and applied for $2.2 million in funding for overdue residential and commercial wastewater accounts."
Customers won't need to apply for the program as financial aid credits for outstanding fees will automatically be applied to eligible wastewater accounts, even if it is no longer active.
A “Notice of Credit to Wastewater Utility Bill” will be received in the mail by eligible customers who can then contact the city for additional overdue fees for up to 30 days.
Customers will not be eligible for credits if aid was received for overdue bills under other state-funded programs in the same time period.
More information on the program or utility aid can be found on the city of Stockton's website.
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TWIN FALLS — Members of a Louisiana family who were struck by a car Monday on U.S. Highway 93 have been identified.
The Ruston Daily Leader reported that Daniel and Beth Huey were riding a tandem bicycle with their two children in tow in a small trailer 7 miles north of Jackpot, Nevada, when they were struck from behind by a 39-year-old Twin Falls man driving a 2013 Infiniti M56.
Beth Huey and son, Paul, were killed. Daniel Huey and daughter, Faith, survived but are recovering in a hospital, the Daily Leader said. The condition of the man and his daughter is unknown.
Daniel Huey is the organist at Temple Baptist Church in Ruston and is also an assistant professor of Music Theory at Grambling State University. Beth Huey was accomplished as a flute player and joined in with her husband during many musical numbers at the church.
Reggie Bridges, senior pastor at Temple Baptist Church said the family had become a big part of the church.
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“Whether through Beth’s radiant smile or through Daniel’s worshipful music, we have been encouraged by them,” Bridges told the Daily Leader. “We now grieve with the Hueys as they experience unimaginable loss, and we pray that the God of all comfort will strengthen them. We especially ask the Father to bring healing to Daniel and Faith in these moments.”
A mother and son were killed Monday when a Twin Falls man struck a tandem bicycle they were riding north of Jackpot, Nevada.
Temple minister of music Jeremy Asher told the Leader that the Huey family were frequent bicycle travelers, often making trips around Ruston by bike and had dreamed of cycling across the United States to visit each parish.
“Since the Huey family moved to Ruston in 2020, my family and I have grown to love both Daniel and Beth, and their precious children,” Asher told the Leader. “As much as we admire their vast musical talents, their kind-hearted friendship and hospitality is what endeared us to them even more.” | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/louisiana-family-struck-by-car-while-cycling-identified/article_4567ac06-fe3b-11ec-a99b-d3041bb23bbd.html | 2022-07-08T00:42:50 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/louisiana-family-struck-by-car-while-cycling-identified/article_4567ac06-fe3b-11ec-a99b-d3041bb23bbd.html |
Police on Thursday released the identity of a passenger who was thrown from a vehicle during a rollover crash in Hanover County on Wednesday.
Sean Austin Serra, 27, of Doswell was pronounced dead at the scene in the 14200 block of Washington Highway in Ashland, the Hanover Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Crews were dispatched to the scene at 10:47 p.m. Police said a 2006 BMW was traveling northbound and drifted into oncoming lanes before flipping and ending up in a grassy embankment on its side.
Serra and the driver were ejected. The driver was treated at a hospital. No one else was in the vehicle. The crash remains under investigation.
U.S. cities building the most homes
U.S. Cities Building the Most Homes
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Rising real estate values and increasing rents have stretched budgets for homebuyers and renters over the last two years. The median home sales price in the U.S. jumped by nearly $100,000 from the first quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2022 amid low interest rates and a stronger-than-expected pandemic economy. Rents were flat for much of 2020 with COVID-related renter protections and rental assistance programs in place but accelerated in 2021 and the first half of 2022. Median rent in the U.S. has increased by more than 15% over the past year and recently passed $2,000 per month for the first time.
Since the beginning of 2022, the U.S. Federal Reserve has raised interest rates in efforts to combat inflation throughout the economy. Between rising mortgage rates and the rapid run-up in home values, the residential real estate market has shown recent signs of cooling . But while a leveling out in demand could slow the pace of price increases, these measures cannot solve another fundamental challenge in the U.S. housing market: a major shortage of housing supply.
Researchers at federal mortgage backer Freddie Mac have estimated that the U.S. has a housing supply shortage of 3.8 million units . This shortage has been fueled in large part by a decline in single family home construction, particularly for starter homes, dating back to the 1980s. And with millennials now comprising the largest generational segment of the homebuying market , a lack of affordable entry-level homes has driven competition for housing and kept larger numbers of young adults renting, contributing to price increases for buyers and renters alike.
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Home building is approaching historical highs after over two decades of underinvestment
The lack of housing supply has been exacerbated by significant underinvestment in new housing since the last recession. New housing authorizations tend to fall temporarily during economic downturns, but the collapse of the housing market in the mid-2000s and ensuing Great Recession sent annual housing authorizations to historic lows. New housing permits have recovered slowly over the last decade, only recently surpassing historic averages.
Starts and completions were delayed in 2021 amid worker shortages and supply chain disruptions
Despite recent demand and a clear need for new housing supply, the construction industry has struggled to keep up during the pandemic. COVID-related disruptions have produced worker shortages and hindered supply chains, making it harder and more expensive to obtain building materials. As a result, more single-family units are seeing monthslong delays in the time it takes to start and complete construction when compared to years past.
Utah and Idaho are building homes at the fastest growth rate
Although supply is a challenge across the U.S., some locations are moving faster than others in authorizing new construction. Fast-growing states in the Mountain West, like Utah, Idaho, and Colorado, along with Sun Belt destinations like Texas and Florida, lead the U.S. in the rate of new housing authorizations relative to existing homes. At the local level, major cities in these fast-growing states are also among the leading metros for new home construction.
To determine the metros building the most homes, researchers at Inspection Support Network analyzed the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Zillow. The researchers ranked metro areas according to the number of new housing units authorized per 1,000 existing homes in 2021. In the event of a tie, the metro with higher total new housing units authorized in 2021 was ranked higher.
Here are the U.S. metros building the most homes.
Small and midsize metros building the most new housing
15. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 17.9New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 15.7Total new housing units authorized (2021): 26,077Total new housing units authorized (2019): 22,414Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +16.3%Median home price: $374,074
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14. Richmond, VA
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 18.1New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 16.1Total new housing units authorized (2021): 9,547Total new housing units authorized (2019): 8,340Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +14.5%Median home price: $320,654
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13. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 19.0New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 17.0Total new housing units authorized (2021): 30,743Total new housing units authorized (2019): 26,599Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +15.6%Median home price: $791,933
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12. San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 24.6New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 18.0Total new housing units authorized (2021): 22,264Total new housing units authorized (2019): 15,895Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +40.1%Median home price: $329,532
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11. Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 25.9New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 16.7Total new housing units authorized (2021): 30,006Total new housing units authorized (2019): 19,308Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +55.4%Median home price: $639,316
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10. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 26.0New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 19.0Total new housing units authorized (2021): 50,581Total new housing units authorized (2019): 35,873Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +41.0%Median home price: $466,170
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9. Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 26.2New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 25.0Total new housing units authorized (2021): 69,263Total new housing units authorized (2019): 63,672Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +8.8%Median home price: $299,998
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8. Salt Lake City, UT
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 27.3New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 25.9Total new housing units authorized (2021): 11,642Total new housing units authorized (2019): 10,680Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +9.0%Median home price: $602,765
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7. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 27.9New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 23.1Total new housing units authorized (2021): 78,705Total new housing units authorized (2019): 62,708Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +25.5%Median home price: $381,089
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6. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 28.4New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 24.1Total new housing units authorized (2021): 30,126Total new housing units authorized (2019): 24,637Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +22.3%Median home price: $372,300
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5. Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 29.0New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 24.2Total new housing units authorized (2021): 30,618Total new housing units authorized (2019): 24,470Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +25.1%Median home price: $376,474
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4. Jacksonville, FL
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 34.6New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 23.1Total new housing units authorized (2021): 22,738Total new housing units authorized (2019): 14,687Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +54.8%Median home price: $355,286
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3. Raleigh-Cary, NC
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 39.5New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 25.5Total new housing units authorized (2021): 21,649Total new housing units authorized (2019): 13,320Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +62.5%Median home price: $445,219
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2. Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 40.8New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 30.1Total new housing units authorized (2021): 32,191Total new housing units authorized (2019): 22,702Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +41.8%Median home price: $433,158
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1. Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX
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New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2021): 59.4New housing units authorized per 1k existing homes (2019): 39.7Total new housing units authorized (2021): 50,907Total new housing units authorized (2019): 32,037Percentage change in housing units authorized (2019–2021): +58.9%Median home price: $594,441
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Community members are searching for answers after a Richmond nonprofit organization that supports municipal parks has dissolved. The group, Enrichmond Foundation, also oversees two historic cemeteries.
“Until we figure out who is responsible for the funds and where they are – and unless we have a firm commitment from our public officials that they will take care of the cemeteries with genuine descendent engagement – we’ll still be at the starting line,” said Brian Palmer, a member of the Descendents Council of Greater Richmond, which represents ancestors buried at the cemeteries.
Enrichmond was founded in 1990 and served as an umbrella organization for at least 85 area community volunteer groups, helping developing local parks and public spaces. The organization in 2019 and 2017 took over the 1800s East End and Evergreen cemeteries, which had fallen into disrepair.
The group's board in late June determined it was “in the best interest of the foundation and its charitable mission to dissolve the foundation,” according to a letter signed by Kerry Brian Hutcherson, a legal advisor, sent to community partners.
Hutcherson in the letter said he's assisting with the process to end the group.
“In the coming weeks, I will be working to gather a comprehensive list of the foundations’ assets and liabilities so that the foundation can follow up with partner organizations regarding the next steps in the dissolution process," he said.
A cause was not given.
Christopher Frelke, director of Richmond parks, recreation and community facilities, in an email to the foundation’s community partners said his department also is working with the City Attorney's Office "to determine the next steps and how to proceed moving forward."
“The city values your partnership and the impact you make to our park system,” the email obtained by the Times-Dispatch reads. “In order to ensure the most optimal transition this may take time, but in the interim we do not want to disrupt the valuable work you provide for our city.”
But Scott Morrison, the treasurer of the group Richmond Tree Stewards, said there's concern about the fallout from the group ending. He said they received a $15,000 grant in May that they no longer had access to — and a tree giveaway costing $7,000 is approaching.
“It’s another way in which this has been just absolutely crippling,” Morrison said. “And our questions to Enrichmond itself – how respectful were they of all of the partner organization’s funds? Or did they just use that for their purposes without really conferring or respecting our needs?”
In a May Zoom meeting with Enrichmond officials and representatives of their partner organizations, board members referred to Mickle as a “consultant” for the foundation. Mickle was described as “a prime candidate” to possibly lead the company in the future, according to the video obtained by the Times-Dispatch.
In a recent vote by the board, Hutcherson and John Mitchell Jr., a descendant of the civil rights activist of the same name and Enrichmond’s ambassador to the descendant community, became the authorized representatives for the foundation’s affairs, according to an email from former board President J. David Young. His term ended on June 30, he wrote.
City officials also withdrew a $75,000 annual contribution to the foundation in next year’s budget amid the descendents' demands for more accountability from local and state officials over the foundation.
“We’ve always tried to work with Enrichmond as equals, and they’ve never dealt with us as equals – more like as individuals,” Palmer said. “And we would not accept that.”
East End Cemetery on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. 9/14/2020: The Enrichmond Foundation acquired East End Cemetery and neighboring Evergreen Cemetery in the past three years. The origins of both cemeteries date to the late 19th century. JOE MAHONEY/times-dispatch The Enrichmond Foundation acquired East End Cemetery and neighboring Evergreen Cemetery in the past three years. The origins of both cemeteries date to the late 19th century. JOE MAHONEY/times-dispatch John Sydnor, Enrichmond Foundation's executive director, says it's possible more remains may be found. JOE MAHONEY/times-dispatch John Sydnor, Enrichmond Foundation's executive director, says it's possible more remains may be found. JOE MAHONEY/times-dispatch Volunteers have worked in recent years to undo decades of neglect at the cemeteries. 2018, TIMES-DISPATCH Volunteers have worked in recent years to undo decades of neglect at the cemeteries. 2018, TIMES-DISPATCH 9/14/2020: The Enrichmond Foundation acquired East End Cemetery and neighboring Evergreen Cemetery in the past three years. The origins of both cemeteries date to the late 19th century. JOE MAHONEY/times-dispatch The Enrichmond Foundation acquired East End Cemetery and neighboring Evergreen Cemetery in the past three years. The origins of both cemeteries date to the late 19th century. JOE MAHONEY/times-dispatch John Sydnor, Enrichmond Foundation's executive director, says it's possible more remains may be found. JOE MAHONEY/times-dispatch John Sydnor, Enrichmond Foundation's executive director, says it's possible more remains may be found. JOE MAHONEY/times-dispatch Volunteers have worked in recent years to undo decades of neglect at the cemeteries. 2018, TIMES-DISPATCH Volunteers have worked in recent years to undo decades of neglect at the cemeteries. 2018, TIMES-DISPATCH 10/28/2020: Analysis showed that some of the bones were taken from their original graves and subjected to dissection, then reburied. JOE MAHON | https://richmond.com/news/local/enrichmond-foundation-to-dissolve-raising-questions-about-historic-cemeteries/article_7ce8c294-f59f-5f6e-a582-ee4006c2b6a7.html | 2022-07-08T00:44:28 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/enrichmond-foundation-to-dissolve-raising-questions-about-historic-cemeteries/article_7ce8c294-f59f-5f6e-a582-ee4006c2b6a7.html |
Richmond city officials have made it clear they want to minimize financial commitments to replacing The Diamond. But with developers proposing to replace the stadium and build a new neighborhood around it for upward of $1 billion, the city could agree to siphon new tax revenue to pay for the construction.
After starting to solicit business interest in the project last fall, the city is now reviewing three offers for the replacement of the baseball stadium and new development that could give rise to housing, offices, retail stores, restaurants and hotels around it.
City officials say they expect later this month to choose one of the offers and recommend it for approval by the Richmond City Council. Seven of its nine members would need to vote for the project to proceed because it involves city-owned land.
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Associates from two of the three development teams vying for the project say they are proposing to finance it through the creation of a tax increment financing zone that would divert a cut of all new real estate tax revenues to cover the building costs.
David Carlock, principal of the Machete Group, a Houston-based development firm that’s leading a project team known as Richmond Community Development Partners, described the tax zone method, saying it would pay for the stadium, renovations to the Arthur Ashe Jr. Athletic Center and other new development.
“There’s a lot going on here, so we’ve constructed a financing plan that takes care of all that by letting growth pay for growth,” he said.
Jason Guillot, of Thalhimer Realty Partners, a local development and real estate management firm that’s affiliated with RVA Diamond Partners, another development team that includes Washington-based Republic Properties Corp. and Loop Capital of Chicago, said their plans also incorporate a so-called TIF district.
“We’re going to [place] future tax revenues from the development ... into a pool of funds that help pay for the ballpark over time,” Guillot said. “Our plan proposes no direct contribution from the city of Richmond nor any kind of moral obligation backing up the financing structure.”
Vision 300, a team that includes Boston-based Freehold Capital Management and local construction and development firm Hourigan Group, declined to discuss their project through a spokesperson.
Developers previously proposed a tax increment financing zone for the $1.5 billion Navy Hill downtown redevelopment project several years ago.
While those plans were met with scrutiny, which ultimately led to the City Council torpedoing the project, Carlock and Guillot noted that their teams’ proposed zones would cover only the 67-acre project site. Unlike the two Diamond District proposals, the backers of Navy Hill had proposed creating a large 80-block tax district that stretched beyond the boundaries of their development plans.
Similar to the Navy Hill project, which was based around the replacement of the Coliseum, one of the city’s primary goals for the Diamond redevelopment is building a new stadium by 2025 or else risk the Flying Squirrels leaving Richmond.
The Double-A ball club says the new stadium is necessary, as The Diamond does not meet new facility standards recently established by Major League Baseball. City officials have determined that renovating the stadium, which opened in 1985, is not an option.
The City Council in 2020 adopted a new comprehensive plan for Richmond that calls for large mixed-use development around the stadium to capitalize on its proximity to Interstate 95 and the growth of the nearby Scott’s Addition neighborhood in recent years.
Maritza Pechin, deputy planning director for the city and the project manager for the redevelopment process, said in a community meeting last month that she envisions the development could create a new skyline that would be visible to motorists traveling southbound on the interstate.
“This location, because of how the highway bends, could become a real signature spot in our community,” she said. “This is going to be an entirely new neighborhood — an entirely new place.”
The development teams and city are withholding the proposals as a panel of local officials reviews the plans and negotiates potential contracts. The development teams, however, have shared some details about what they are planning to build.
Jenny Joe, an architect with the New York firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill who is the lead designer of the RVA Diamond Partners plan, said a major feature of that proposal is an 11-acre crescent park that winds through the site and has a direct connection to a new baseball stadium.
“The stadium opens up to the park, which would be surrounded by developments so that it becomes more of an urban experience rather than what’s there today, which is an isolated building surrounded by surface parking,” Joe said. “We [wouldn’t] have any surface parking. It’s all vibrant, pedestrian-friendly and very accessible.”
Carlock said the Richmond Community Development Partners plan would include components of affordable housing, and that the developments around the stadium would be focused on creating a high-quality experience for residents, visitors and workers.
“There’s a hotel that’s essentially integrated into the stadium. There’s retail and dining, other entertainment uses. There’s a variety of price points on residential, so both market rate as well as affordable workforce [housing]. We also think it has an opportunity to be a significant office campus,” he said. “The scale of the Diamond District gives us an opportunity to do that — we think — very successfully.”
Pechin said officials will evaluate the proposals based on several criteria, including the team’s qualifications; experience building stadiums and mixed-use developments; financing plans; and the ability to meet the city’s goals for an “equitable” development that benefits the city and its residents.
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Legacy Soccer Club's U13 girls team prepared to shine at national showcase
The weekend of June 11 and 12 was a busy one on the pitch for the Legacy Soccer Club 2009 Girls’ Team as they competed in the New England Premiership League (NPL) Final Four Tournament.
Showcasing the top four U13 girls teams in the standings following a competitive regular season, the winner would earn a berth in the affiliated National Championship hosted in Denver this summer.
The competition? Some of the best girls U13 soccer teams in the country.
Originally formed in 2016 as the Easton United Soccer Club, many of these U13 Legacy girls have been playing competitively together since the second and third grade. On top of this history, they have a unique team composition with local roots consisting of girls from Easton, Hanson, Sharon, Mansfield and Brockton.
Oliver Ames Varsity boys’ Coach John Barata founded the Legacy Soccer Club and has coached the 2009 girls team for the last three years. For some of the team, their first Legacy coach was James “Scott” Dolan, a staple in the New England soccer community with an infectious smile and booming laugh who always encouraged the kids to play “Big Girl Soccer.” Dolan played an incredible role in the foundational development of these superstars, but passed away from a brain tumor in 2019.
Barata, whose daughter Elizabeth plays on the team, picked up where his good friend Dolan left off.
Legacy’s Final Four started out against a gritty Aztec club team in the semifinal round. Down 1-0, the Legacy girls tied it up early in the second half on a beauty from Linda Jenner. With spectators anticipating a possible overtime shootout, forward Mallori Waldron scored the dramatic go-ahead with just two minutes left in the game. This secured the team a spot in Sunday’s League Championship.
On Championship Sunday, Legacy drew a rematch with a powerful South Shore Select club team. Select won the regular season matchup, with a hard fought 1-0 victory over Legacy. On this day, however, it would be Legacy that cruised down the Road to Denver. Jumping out to an early 1-0 lead on a skillful goal by Waldron, Legacy scored their second goal a few minutes later on a beautiful rocket by Hayden Kelly from the right corner of the penalty box at the 18-yard line.
Meanwhile, Legacy’s defense, led by Annika Patel and Isla Gamble in the middle, kept Select in check throughout the game, with support from Madeline Barry, Mya Andrews, Clementine Lockhart and Greta Teravainen on the outside.
The midfield, consisting of Brooke Dean, Siena Fabrizio, Molly Manning, Penny Wooden, controlled possession, giving opportunities to forwards Elizabeth Barata, Emerson Bourgelas, Devin Thomas, and Sara Paul throughout the game. Fabrizio scored a third goal on a penalty kick late in the second half, securing the shoutout victory for stalwart goalie Olivia Zaniboni.
Barata is thrilled for his team to experience this incredibly memorable opportunity, saying “It is wonderful to have these girls come together from a few different towns and have so much success. For the town of Easton, it is an amazing opportunity for 12 girls to come together and compete for a national championship. Not bad for one town. As the coach for Legacy and the director of coach and player development for the town of Easton, I must say I am incredibly proud of all these girls”.
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For his last mission, 4-year-old's family is calling on you to join a superhero walk
Superheroes bring life and support to the lives of everyone in the city. For Gotham City, they have Batman. In Metropolis, the red and blue uniform of Superman is seen flying. In Lubbock, the family of 4-year-old Crosby Pruitt hopes he will become a hero in the city.
During Pruitt’s last mission, his family is requesting the help from all superheroes to get their gear ready to help Pruitt save the lives of others.
Pruitt has been hospitalized and on life support following an apparent accident in a pool last Friday evening, July 2, in a pool at a Lubbock County residence.
According to an event Facebook page set up by family friends, Pruitt is currently on life support and will soon be taken off, donating his organs to those in need.
The family and friends of superhero Pruitt are asking those in the community to dress like his favorite superheroes for an honor walk at or near Covenant Children's Hospital at a still-to-be-determined time in the coming days.
On Thursday, Covenant Health released a statement on behalf of Crosby's family, thanking the community for the outpouring of love, support, and prayers during the past few days.
"While the loss of our beloved Crosby is great, our faith in God remains strong. Crosby was a superhero from the day he joined our family. In death, his legacy of love and life will continue through the organs shared with other families in need," the statement reads. "A superhero is one who has abilities like no other; one who helps the world become a better place. Our Crosby, with God’s hand, is a true superhero – giving to others so they may love their family, laugh with their siblings, and embrace the joy they share. As a family, we will take the time to honor our son and brother. We pray for peace and ask for privacy in the days ahead as we remember Crosby."
On the Facebook event page, they have not set a time or date but have promised to provide updates.
This event has been shared by many across the city, with over 300 people interested in seeing the superhero’s final mission.
An account to help Crosby’s family has been created at the Plains Capital Bank called, “Crosby Memorial Account.” People can donate through Zelle with the email joshdpruitt@hotmail.com, according to a Facebook message from one of Crosby's family members, Jerry Pruitt.
On Wednesday, the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office issued a statement confirming deputies responded to a possible drowning that occurred at approximately 5:20 p.m. July 2, in the 3300 block of County Road 7630.The Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office and Woodrow Fire Department arrived on scene, wherethey located a 4-year-old male. The child was transported to Covenant Hospital by EMS. The investigation is ongoing. | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2022/07/07/superhero-walk-lubbock-crosy-pruitt-accident/65368782007/ | 2022-07-08T01:00:52 | 0 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2022/07/07/superhero-walk-lubbock-crosy-pruitt-accident/65368782007/ |
A bicyclist has died after he was struck by a truck in midtown Tucson on Thursday morning.
David Kenneth Morgan, 89, was traveling north on North Alvernon Way near East Mabel Street in the bicycle lane when he began to swerve left into the curb lane and suddenly entered the median lane where he was stuck by a white Ram pickup truck, Tucson police said. Despite life-saving efforts, Morgan was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the truck, a man in his 50s, immediately stopped after the collision and cooperated with the investigation, police said. It was determined that the driver was not impaired.
Unsafe movement by Morgan is the major contributing factor in the collision, police said. It is unlikely that any charges or citations will be issued, police said.
This is the 49th traffic fatality on Tucson streets this year, compared to 44 this time last year, police said. Three of the fatalities have been bicyclists.
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bicyclist-89-dies-in-crash-in-midtown-tucson/article_37707a7a-fe44-11ec-bbc8-6b34a47d7013.html | 2022-07-08T01:00:53 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bicyclist-89-dies-in-crash-in-midtown-tucson/article_37707a7a-fe44-11ec-bbc8-6b34a47d7013.html |
KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) provided an update on Ethylene Oxide (EtO) concerns in Kanawha County.
The WVDEP completed the last round of its four-part air sampling in South Charleston and Institute. Multiple sampling rounds were conducted since concentrations are influenced by factors like wind, weather and facility operations.
The fourth round’s results showed that facilities emitting EtO in those locations are in compliance with the requirements of their state-issued permits.
Additionally, the West Virginia Cancer Registry found no evidence of increased EtO-related cancer risks from the Kanawha County facilities previously identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The Cancer Registry mapped all supposed EtO-related cancer cases reported by the EPA in Kanawha County from 1993 through 2019. The results found the county does not have higher EtO-related cancer rates compared to other West Virginia counties, nor does it rank compared to counties in other states. Updated mapping can be found here.
In March, the WVDEP hosted a community open house where they were asked to sample for EtO concentrations west of Institute and South Charleston. The WVDEP’s response was to include sites in Buffalo and Guthrie in the fourth-round testing.
A full table of the fourth round sampling results is below. All sites in this round showed EtO concentrations of less than 1 ppb.
The WVDEP notes that these single data points on their own cannot be used to make conclusions on the possible lifetime health risk from EtO exposure.
Results from all four rounds are available on the WVDEP’s EtO webpage.
Additionally, the results from all rounds along with emissions and weather data from the days sampled will be reviewed by the WVDEP and the U.S. EPA. and put into a final report. The report will be released to the public once it is completed.
At a later date, the WVDEP will announce details for a future meeting on the final report. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/wvdep-no-elevated-eto-emissions-or-increased-related-cancer-risks-in-kanawha-county/ | 2022-07-08T01:04:16 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/wvdep-no-elevated-eto-emissions-or-increased-related-cancer-risks-in-kanawha-county/ |
FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas — Emergency crews responded to a pipeline explosion just west of Orchard in west Fort Bend County late Thursday morning, according to the Precinct 1 Constable’s Office.
The 24-inch natural gas pipeline, owned by Energy Transfer out of Dallas, exploded sometime before 11 a.m in the 15400 block of JoAnn near FM 1952. . The explosion caused minor grass fires in the area.
Energy Transfer was quickly able to turn the gas line off and the flames from the explosion were cleared within an hour, officials said.
Nearby residents said they heard the explosion when it happened.
"It was like a loud explosion. It was like a pop, loud loud loud pop, and I jumped and ran to the front door so I saw the flames," said a resident. "They were about 15 stories high before the blue smoke started. That's what I estimated. It was well over the house."
The Fort Bend County Office of Emergency Management said the area is isolated in a field and all of the area surrounding is restricted. Residents in the surrounding area were evacuated out of precaution.
Officials added that they don't know what caused the explosion but there will be an investigation.
Energy Transfer sent us the following statement.
"Our control center immediately shut in the line and the area was secured. There were no injuries. By shutting in the line and isolating the impacted section of the pipeline line, the fire was allowed to safely burn itself by 12:30pm. All appropriate regulatory agencies have been notified. We will continue to provide updates as information becomes available." | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/pipeline-explosion-fort-bend-county-texas/285-e0296fd7-d651-4673-9631-0717faca2573 | 2022-07-08T01:05:12 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/pipeline-explosion-fort-bend-county-texas/285-e0296fd7-d651-4673-9631-0717faca2573 |
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) started pausing the intake of committed youth last week due to a staffing shortage.
TJJD Interim Executive Director Shandra Carter sent a letter to Texas juvenile probation chiefs on Wednesday, June 29, highlighting the issue. In it, she cites safety concerns that coincide with these shortages.
"TJJD must maintain certain staffing levels to assure safe supervision of the youth in the agency’s care," a spokesperson told KVUE on Thursday, July 7. "The agency is working to resolve the underlying issues and resume intakes as soon as possible."
As of Thursday, there are now 140 committed youth on the waitlist to be housed with the department. They are currently awaiting transport in detention centers in various locations across the state.
"TJJD is staying in close contact with Juvenile Probation Departments to keep them apprised of the situation," the spokesperson said. "The agency regrets that it had to take this action and recognizes that many county facilities also are struggling with staffing shortages reflective of the national staffing crisis."
Carter's letter can be read below:
"Chiefs,
"I am incredibly disappointed to have to inform y’all that we will temporarily be halting intake of youth committed to TJJD. All five state secure facilities are implementing variations of their emergency operation planning. The current risk is that the ongoing secure facility staffing issue will lead to an inability to even provide basic supervision for youth locked in their rooms. This could cause a significantly impaired ability to intervene in the increasing suicidal behaviors already occurring by youth struggling with the isolative impact of operational room confinement.
"Two weeks ago, I contacted y’all about my three options for intake of committed youth waiting for a TJJD bed, but the situation has further deteriorated. As the staffing strength at each secure facility becomes more grim, we have no other option.
"Though the following steps cannot stop our hemorrhaging of staff, the agency is implementing them in an effort to resume intake as soon as it is safe to do so:
- Moving the female behavioral stabilization unit from our Ron Jackson unit to the McLennan County State Juvenile Correctional Facility
- Cease the Intensive intervention Programs (IIP) for violent youth at the McLennan County State Juvenile Correctional Facility and Evins Regional Juvenile Center, where we treat our most violent youth. IIP is a programmatic intervention that is intended to manage lower-level aggression and violence.
- Reduce female population by 16 at the Ron Jackson State Juvenile Correctional Complex to meet the current available staff, and move them to the McLennan County State Juvenile Correctional Facility, currently holding 242 males
- Review youth about to age out of TJJD jurisdiction for potential safe release to the community
- Identifying if any determinate sentenced youth may be eligible for early release to TJJD or TDCJ parole.
"These are the least worst measures, but we are attempting to safely make room for the 130 TJJD-committed youth currently in your county facilities. Please know that I am painfully aware of the strain this further causes in the detention bed crisis. I fully recognize that our biggest risk here is a youth who should be detained is in the community and commits a horrific violent crime.
"I am happy to answer any questions or concerns."
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GREENSBORO — Early voting started Thursday and runs through July 23 for the July 26 municipal elections.
Here's what you need to know:
What's on the ballot?
All of the City Council seats, mayor and five bond questions (housing, parks and recreation, firefighting facilities, law enforcement facilities, and transportation).
Voting sites
There are six locations:
• Old Courthouse, Carolyn Q. Coleman Conference Room (formerly Blue Room) First Floor — Room 108, 301 W. Market St.
• Barber Park, 1500 Barber Park Drive.
• Craft Recreation Center, 3911 Yanceyville St.
• Leonard Recreation Center, 6324 Ballinger Road.
• Lewis Recreation Center, 3110 Forest Lawn Drive.
• Griffin Recreation Center, 5301 Hilltop Road (Jamestown).
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Hours
The courthouse site is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. The other sites are open 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on July 16 and 17. All sites are open 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the final day of early voting, July 23.
Can I still register to vote?
Yes, but only during early voting, when you can register to vote and cast a ballot on the same day.
More information: www.guilfordcountync.gov/our-county/board-of-elections. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/early-voting-begins-for-july-26-greensboro-municipal-election/article_601decbc-fdfb-11ec-99b2-8f8874e0c27b.html | 2022-07-08T01:08:44 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/early-voting-begins-for-july-26-greensboro-municipal-election/article_601decbc-fdfb-11ec-99b2-8f8874e0c27b.html |
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Philadelphia police identified the man they believe raped a woman inside a Center City law firm this week.
The man wanted for the crime is 49-year-old Willie L. Harris, Philadelphia Police Department Officer Eric McLaurin said Thursday. Harris goes by several aliases, including William Banks, Wil Harris, Billy Smith, Reese Smith, Willie Smith and Maurice Harris, McLaurin said.
Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit Capt. James Kearney said the 22-year-old victim was working alone in the office on the 8th floor of the building on the 200 block of North 13th Street around 2:15 p.m. Tuesday when the suspect, now identified as Harris, walked in. He asked her for another woman whom she did not know, Kearney said.
He then demanded she stay seated in a chair as he rummaged through the office, looking for items, Kearney said. The victim offered to give her earbuds and earrings to him in the hopes he would leave.
The suspect became angry, police said, and he proceeded to beat and choke the woman repeatedly. Then, he raped her.
A second employee, who had stepped out for a 30-minute lunch break, came back into the office and witnessed the assault. The suspect then ran out, police said.
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Harris has no known address but has ties to Camden and Woodbury, New Jersey, as well as Center City Philadelphia, McLaurin said.
Anyone with any information on his whereabouts is asked to contact the PPD’s Special Victims Unit at 215-686-3251, 215-686 TIPS or 911. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/police-id-suspect-in-center-city-office-rape/3293396/ | 2022-07-08T01:13:35 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/police-id-suspect-in-center-city-office-rape/3293396/ |
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DALLAS — Six years have passed but the pain remains.
“Professionally and personally it’s one of the worst days of my life,” said officer Joe King of the Dallas Police Department.
The evening of July 7, 2016, took a toll on officers across the Dallas Police Department. They saw their fellow officers die -- then they had to get back to work.
“We were forced to suppress a lot of it, and I think the impacts are still being felt,” said DPD Assistant Chief Ruben Ramirez.
Officers struggled emotionally and mentally.
”The reality is nothing stays buried. It all manifest,” said Ramirez.
It’s one of the reasons Dallas police have launched a new mental wellness unit for officers.
"I feel like this profession is like a daily pin prick. Every day we see bad image after bad image after bad image, bad smell. People take it home they bury it and detach, compartmentalize it and that’s not good," said King.
The department wants to let officers know it’s okay to get help instead of numbing or masking their feelings. Police Lt. Lisette Rivera will lead the unit.
"We want to normalize that it is okay to talk about the things that you experience. It’s okay to have those feelings of anger and hurt and helplessness," said Rivera.
They’ve identified officers across the department they call checkpoint officers. Those officers will call and check in on officers who respond to murders, suicides and deadly accidents.
"It’s really touching those officers with a layer of empathy and compassion for the work they are doing every day," said Ramirez.
King says he will be among those officers who will reach out because he understands.
"I got to a point where I needed to go talk to somebody seeing a friend injured or killed," said King.
The hope is still to give officers a better way of coping.
"That we are building resiliency in them so they are building that capacity and they are able to go to those traumatic calls day in and day out and go home and be ok," said Rivera.
While July 7 left behind emotional scars, the department says it will be there to continue helping officers heal. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-police-mental-wellness-unit-help-officers-cope-stresses-jobs/287-aacdb5ff-8cf2-423c-b0e3-cc494c49f303 | 2022-07-08T01:14:13 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-police-mental-wellness-unit-help-officers-cope-stresses-jobs/287-aacdb5ff-8cf2-423c-b0e3-cc494c49f303 |
DALLAS — Dallas County Health & Human Services is asking for the community to monitor for monkeypox virus symptoms after an out-of-state visitor with monkeypox had multiple sexual encounters at a Dallas club in June.
Symptoms include fever, swollen lymph nodes and general body aches before developing a rash.
The infected person self-identifies as a man who has sex with other men, according to Dallas County health officials. The health department added monkeypox can affect anyone, regardless of sexual orientation.
The traveler was infectious while visiting the sauna at Club Dallas between June 22-25.
Thursday's announcement comes one day after the county announced its first locally transmitted monkeypox case.
"We're definitely watching this very closely," Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Dr. Philip Huang said.
Health officials said it was an out-of-state visitor who was in town for the Daddyland Festival over the Fourth of July weekend.
According to officials, the person reported attendance at the festival and other private parties. The visitor went to a Dallas hospital with a rash and was diagnosed with the virus through lab testing.
"Now having someone who tested positive who attended that event also, want to make sure that everyone is aware and watching for symptoms," Dr. Huang said.
Dallas County had previously reported four monkeypox cases among residents. All four cases were reported by self-identified men who had sex with other men.
But as Dr. Huang pointed out Thursday, contracting monkeypox is "not isolated to those groups."
The department said monkeypox can impact anyone and can spread through contact with bodily fluids, monkeypox sores and shared items that are contaminated with fluids or sores of a person with monkeypox.
"Monkeypox is not an LGBTQIA disease," said Rafael McDonnell, the senior advocacy, policy and communications director at Resource Center, which is based in Dallas.
Resource Center provides services and programs for LGBTQ+ communities across the area. McDonnell said they're continuing to educate the community about monkeypox and have put out information on social media.
"It happens that these initial cases have been in cases of men who've had sex with men, but again, close contact and sexual conduct are closely related, but not the same thing," McDonnell said.
Dallas County health officials didn’t release specific details on how any of the cases contracted monkeypox.
"A crowded bar, a crowded club, a crowded concert venue: We all just have to be careful and watchful and mindful of where we are, where we go and who we're going with," McDonnell said.
Due to limited vaccine availability, Dr. Huang told WFAA they are only giving shots to those who have come into close contact with an infected person.
DCHHS hopes to get more monkeypox vaccines soon, officials said Thursday. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/health-officials-recommend-club-dallas-visitors-monitor-for-monkeypox-symptoms-after-case/287-7a5654c1-d695-4ab5-a3bd-a90f2f922d68 | 2022-07-08T01:14:25 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/health-officials-recommend-club-dallas-visitors-monitor-for-monkeypox-symptoms-after-case/287-7a5654c1-d695-4ab5-a3bd-a90f2f922d68 |
FORT WORTH, Texas — One of the first things visitors see at Fort Worth Animal Care and Control is pet foster parent information. It's needed because there are days where a line stretches outside the door with people surrendering their pets.
Many of the pets in the city shelter have been turned over to Fort Worth Animal Care and Control by their owners, who no longer could care for them. There are also captured strays in the facility.
Unfortunately, this has led to more pets being euthanized as of late. Before the pandemic, the shelter had success lowering that number.
"We're doing everything we can to get these animals out of the shelter alive," said Fort Worth Code Compliance Director Brandon Bennett.
Bennett helps oversee Fort Worth's animal control facility. He's thankful for the department's relationship with animal rescue organizations.
Bennett calls the overpopulation of unwanted pets a sign of the times.
"When gas is $5 and $6 a gallon, and then rent goes from 4 [hundred] and $500 a month to $1,000 to $1,500 a month, pets are not generally the first thing that goes, but at some point," said Bennett.
One of the city's partners is Saving Hope Animal Rescue, where Sarah Clanton works with a team of volunteers.
Clanton spends times with many of Saving Hope's rescues to give them human interaction. Some of the pets have even delivered new litters, like Harlem from a batch of five puppies in need of foster care.
"Her mom was surrendered to the animal shelter," said Clanton.
Euthanasia breaks Clanton's heart, so that's also one of the reasons she works nonstop with Saving Hope Animal Rescue. The facility has rescued hundreds of pets that otherwise would have been put to sleep.
Right now, they need more people in the community to volunteer to be pet foster parents.
"So anyone that wants to foster, we provide the food, we provide puppy pads, toys, everyone gets a saving help collar and tag," said Clanton.
Saving Hope Animal Rescue recently shipped a busload of animals to the Pacific Northwest for adoption. They're also fundraising for a new facility to save even more unwanted pets.
The organization is in continuous need of donations, like pet food, blankets, collars, leashes, carriers and more. These items are also provided to pet foster parents.
"So we need donations and sponsorships for sure," said Clanton.
You can learn more about becoming a pet foster parent using this link: https://youtu.be/M1W1K2PZcGc. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/pet-foster-parents-volunteers-needed-at-fort-worth-animal-care-facilities/287-bb85df9c-0d53-4149-b70c-b20b2e831713 | 2022-07-08T01:14:31 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/pet-foster-parents-volunteers-needed-at-fort-worth-animal-care-facilities/287-bb85df9c-0d53-4149-b70c-b20b2e831713 |
A “55 + 1” Joint Reunion for the Bradford/Tremper Class of 1966 is 5 to 11 p.m. Friday, July 29, in the Wisconsin Room at the Brat Stop, 12304 75th St.
There is no charge for a classmate and a guest. Appetizers and pizza will be provided. There will be a cash bar. Guests may also order dinner off the Brat Stop menu at their expense.
A golf event at 10 a.m. on that day is also scheduled at Bristol Oaks Country Club, 16801 75th St. Participants must provide their own clubs and pay for the golf. Those interested should contact Leo Gallo or Clint Beth by email at leofgallo@gmail.com or clintb66@gmail.com . Please specify the number of people and whether you are playing nine or 18 holes.
In addition, both reunion committees will gather at these outdoor events: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 28, at the Peanut Butter & Jam concert Downtown in Veterans Memorial Park. Other gatherings are 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday, July 30, at the lakefront Taste of Wisconsin Festival (at the Snap-on Tent) and 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 31, at the Biergarten in Petrifying Springs County Park in Somers.
At all three outdoor events, look for the red, white and blue balloons to find the group.
Updates will be emailed to people who provide an email address. For more information, join the private Facebook group: Bradford/Tremper Class of 1966 or contact Gallo at leofgallo@gmail.com or Beth at clintb66@gmail.com .
College majors that earn the most money
College majors that earn the most money
Choosing a college major is a big decision. Students must decide to study something that challenges and interests them while balancing the hard realities of the job market and outlook of career paths. A good salary coming out of college is key to a secure middle-class future, and with increasing student loan debts, choosing a major that yields bigger salaries out the gate becomes even more desirable.
To show just how valuable these college majors can be, Stacker used data from a 2020 PayScale report to rank the top 100 college majors that alumni make the most money from in their respective professional careers. The rankings, released in 2021, are based on the highest average mid-career salary. Information is provided about the jobs a major in that area might be hired for, which skills they’ll attain in school, and what the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects their prospects are of finding a job upon graduation with a bachelor’s degree.
Stacker’s list of top 100 college majors that earn the most money is diverse, beginning with Japanese studies and ending with petroleum engineering. In between, computational and applied mathematics, aeronautics, building science, and mechatronics top the ranks of college majors that earn the most money early to mid-career. Within the list, engineer-related college majors dominate, with petroleum engineering majors making the most mid-career pay at $187,300.
Keep reading to find out if your major made the list of college majors that earn the most money.
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#100. Electronics Engineering
- Early career pay: $69,600
- Mid-career pay: $113,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 66%
Electronics engineering focuses on the design and development of electronic devices , including phones, music players, and GPS systems. Majors will be taught the ins and outs of digital systems design and circuit theory while adding drafting courses can enhance a graduate’s employability. The slowing of the manufacturing and telecommunications industries has the profession projected to grow by only 2% in the next decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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#99. Management Information Systems
- Early career pay: $65,000
- Mid-career pay: $114,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 42%
It is the role of an information systems manager to make data accessible and actionable through technology. This line of work requires problem-solving and analysis to find ways in which businesses can more efficiently make connections between data and the product or services they provide. Required coursework often merges multiple areas of discipline including mathematics, computer science, business, and ethics.
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#98. Industrial Distribution
- Early career pay: $63,600
- Mid-career pay: $115,000
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 48%
International sales manager, retail buyer, and regional sales director make up a few career choices for industrial distribution majors who study the purchase and transport of goods. Program coursework required for this career includes communications, domestic and international marketing, analysis, operations management, wholesale purchasing, and distribution supervision. Professionals in the field have strong math and problem-solving skills.
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#96. Asian Studies (tie)
- Early career pay: $47,700
- Mid-career pay: $115,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 41%
Asian studies majors explore the history, economy, culture, and politics of the continent of Asia. This broad knowledge and context positions graduates for careers in government, international relations, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.
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#96. Structural Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $67,800
- Mid-career pay: $115,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 66%
Considered a specialty within civil engineering , majors in this field concentrate on the design and structure of buildings, bridges, and roadways. Both a college degree and a professional engineer’s license are required to practice, which requires an understanding of physics, math, and material properties. During their careers, structural engineers work alongside architects and construction officials to determine design safety in the face of elemental forces, including snow, wind, and earthquakes.
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#93. Information and Decision Sciences (tie)
- Early career pay: $65,200
- Mid-career pay: $115,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 33%
By combining technology and business, a major in information and decision sciences can attain the title of business analyst, data quality specialist, and business intelligence developer, among others. Graduates gain skills to analyze emerging technologies, use computer programs, and design and update operating systems.
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#93. Materials Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $72,300
- Mid-career pay: $115,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 58%
Though the job outlook for college majors with a materials engineering degree is slight, growing 2% between 2019–2029, the early to mid-career pay ranks as one of the highest for young professionals. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the 2020 median pay for professionals is $95,640 annually, equaling $45.98 per hour. College majors learn how to design and test materials for the creation of products.
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#93. Paper Science (tie)
- Early career pay: $77,000
- Mid-career pay: $115,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 39%
Graduates in this major—which explains the science and technology of converting raw bio-materials into paper and new ways to manufacture the product—are well-versed in advanced math, chemistry, and physical and chemical properties of wood. Field, project, packaging, quality, and process engineer are some titles alums hold after graduating.
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#92. Telecommunications Engineering
- Early career pay: $66,400
- Mid-career pay: $115,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 47%
Telecommunications engineering entails designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting data, voice, video, and image systems. Graduates have jobs setting up network systems or installing fiber optic cable , and work for telecom companies, government agencies, or consulting firms. Available in associate, bachelor’s, or master’s degrees, majors in the subject learn computer programming and networking through studying digital electronics and satellite transmission, among other specialties.
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#89. Economics (tie)
- Early career pay: $62,000
- Mid-career pay: $115,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 41%
Collecting, analyzing, and forecasting data for specific market trends, including finance, labor, and agriculture, is what economics majors study. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects up to an 8% growth in the field from 2018 to 2028 for economists, who most often hold a master’s degree or doctorate. Critical thinking, reading comprehension, and decision-making are required skills for students who take on a variety of tasks, including conducting research, compiling reports, and supervising projects.
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#89. Pharmaceutical Sciences (tie)
- Early career pay: $52,800
- Mid-career pay: $115,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 69%
A pharmaceutical sciences degree program begins with coursework in chemistry, biology, physics, and math, and advances to more complex areas of study like drug design and manufacturing, research, and regulation. Graduates with a pharmaceutical sciences degree can find work in the private sector for biotech companies like Vertex or Regeneron, for government agencies like the FDA, in academia, or in pharmaceutical sales.
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#88. Business and Economics
- Early career pay: $59,600
- Mid-career pay: $116,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 46%
Business and economics, the study of trade and finance, is a double major that equips a graduate for several careers , including senior financial analyst, chief finance officer, and chief operating officer. Those with this double major find well-paying jobs in market research organizations, consulting firms, investment institutions, merger and acquisition departments, and insurance companies.
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#87. International Economics
- Early career pay: $58,700
- Mid-career pay: $116,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 48%
International economics is the study of global trade and finance and its worldwide effect. By predicting production, transaction, and multilateral trade negotiations, majors in the subject become government or global organization analysts and consultants, or work in the finance industry. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports most economics majors in the private sector have either a master’s degree or doctorate, but entry-level jobs in a federal agency only require a bachelor’s degree.
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#86. Applied Physics
- Early career pay: $67,300
- Mid-career pay: $116,500
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 52%
Applied physics is the practical application of core physics concepts to solve a problem. For example, acoustic engineering—a type of applied physics—marries the study of sound and the need to create environments, like factories, which can regulate noise. There is no shortage of career opportunities for holders of an applied physics degree, particularly in the fields of fiber optics, semiconductors, and astrophysics, to name a few.
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#85. Business and Information Technology
- Early career pay: $60,100
- Mid-career pay: $116,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 44%
While a computer forensic analyst averages more early career pay, a network architect makes even more than the mid-career pay for graduates of the major. The business end of the major teaches students finance, marketing, operating systems, and web administration. Students who attain a graduate business and information technology degree, and earn more annual pay, learn disaster recovery, managerial accounting, and systems project management.
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#84. Accounting and Computer Systems
- Early career pay: $63,000
- Mid-career pay: $117,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 37%
This degree is an appropriate fit for people with passion for business and technology . With an accounting and computer systems degree, alumni often pursue certification as a certified public accountant. Graduates also have the additional skill set of deeply understanding software and databases frequently used in business. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 12% expected job growth in the industry by 2028.
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#81. Engineering Mechanics (tie)
- Early career pay: $75,500
- Mid-career pay: $117,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
A degree in engineering mechanics offers a variety of important postsecondary career opportunities. Combining both basic sciences and engineering sciences like thermodynamics, mechanics, electrical engineering, and engineering mechanics is essential in fields such as aerospace and engineering. Graduates most often find work as architectural and engineering managers, engineers, or engineering professors .
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#81. Industrial Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $71,900
- Mid-career pay: $117,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 44%
An industrial engineering degree prepares graduates to oversee various aspects of large-scale projects , including quality control, labor, cost analysis, logistics, material flow, and more. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that many industrial engineers have a degree in a specific field, including mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and manufacturing engineering . An expanding health care system will probably produce higher demand for industrial engineers in professional, scientific, and consulting businesses.
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#81. International Business and Finance (tie)
- Early career pay: $61,400
- Mid-career pay: $117,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 31%
International business and finance majors learn to manage money on a worldwide scale. By learning international law, corporate governance, and capital markets, majors can become venture capitalists, management consultants, investment bankers, financial accountants, and financial analysts. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that business and financial employment is growing faster than the average for all jobs, with an expected 7% growth between 2018–2028.
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#80. Materials Science and Engineering
- Early career pay: $72,700
- Mid-career pay: $117,500
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 47%
A materials science and engineering degree combines the study of the structure and chemical properties of all types of materials , including metals, glass, polymers, graphites, plastics, and ceramics. While the Bureau of Labor Statistics separates materials scientists , who study substance interaction on atomic and molecular levels, from materials engineers , who develop and test substances, both professions earn a considerable median income.
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#79. Mechanical Engineering
- Early career pay: $71,000
- Mid-career pay: $117,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 50%
Mechanical engineering is the design and development of tools , devices, and machinery, which requires strong science, math, mechanical, and critical thinking skills. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports up to a 4% growth in mechanical engineering employment until 2028, such as in the automotive manufacturing industry. With a doctorate, mechanical engineers can participate in research and development programs as well as teach the subject at the university level.
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#78. Construction Engineering Management
- Early career pay: $68,800
- Mid-career pay: $118,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 57%
Offered at both undergraduate and graduate levels, construction engineering management is the combination of technology and science to reinforce construction framework on a wide range of large-scale projects, including airport design, roadways, bridges, and water waste management systems, or smaller residential and commercial structures. Majors who work in the field are well-versed in government codes, regulations, and laws for site inspections. They also have strong active listening and critical thinking skills to work with other officials.
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#77. Mining Engineering
- Early career pay: $78,800
- Mid-career pay: $118,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 64%
Extracting coal and other metals in the safest manner is what mining engineering students are preparing for in their careers. Reduction in mining of coal, and businesses hiring engineering firms as opposed to employing their own , has growth projected at just 3% over the next decade. The future of mining may be beyond the confines of the planet, with the Colorado School of Mines being the first to offer a space resources course for extracting precious metals from asteroids and other bodies in outer space.
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#76. Physician Assistant Studies
- Early career pay: $95,900
- Mid-career pay: $118,500
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 84%
Physician assistant studies prepare majors for a career in the medical field. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that most in the field require a master’s degree . This industry is forecasted to grow by up to 31% by 2028, making it an appealing choice for those interested in job security. Strong listening, critical thinking, and deductive and inductive reasoning skills are required for graduates , who become assistants in examining, testing, diagnosing, and treating patients.
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#75. Accounting and Economics
- Early career pay: $65,900
- Mid-career pay: $118,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 44%
Double majoring in accounting and economics combines the accounting’s skills of preparing financial documents and tax statements with economics’ understanding of markets and forecasting future decisions. Both professions individually are expected to grow at , or slightly above, the national average, while combining them only enhances job prospects.
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#74. Geophysics
- Early career pay: $58,000
- Mid-career pay: $119,000
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 47%
While a master’s degree is preferred among many employers , graduates with a bachelor’s degree in geophysics have a firm understanding of the planet’s physical properties and use physics to study the earth’s magnetic, gravitational, and electric fields. Emerging energy technologies, like wind and geothermal energies , will help keep geophysicists employed.
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#73. Computer and Information Science
- Early career pay: $63,600
- Mid-career pay: $119,500
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 55%
Treating the computer as a tool to find innovative solutions to complex problems falls to the computer and information science grads. Students will leave with a firm grasp of network security, computer programming, and software design. The job market for those completing a four-year degree is strong, with careers in software development expected to grow 21% over the next 10 years.
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#72. Quantitative Economics
- Early career pay: $65,000
- Mid-career pay: $119,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 43%
A specialized field of economics, quantitative economics incorporates statistics along with math to predict future economic conditions. The demand for economists is expected to grow slightly faster than average over the next decade, but the highly competitive nature of the field means grads should consider pursuing a master’s degree. Learning additional statistical analysis software can help those obtaining a bachelor’s degree enhance their job prospects.
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#71. Physics
- Early career pay: $65,900
- Mid-career pay: $119,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 48%
Understanding energy and matter and how they relate through space and time is the goal of those pursuing a degree in physics. There are plenty of options for graduates in physics, from teaching in a high school to understanding the origins of the universe. Students will graduate with skills in advanced math , quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, and thermodynamics.
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#70. Software Engineering
- Early career pay: $75,000
- Mid-career pay: $120,000
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 43%
Software engineering majors learn to develop programs for computers using principles of engineering. Learning a wide variety of computer languages and gaining certifications can help job candidates stand out from the pack. Becoming a software developer is one of the more lucrative career paths a graduate can take, with this field expected to grow by 21% over the next 10 years .
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#69. Operations Management and Information Systems
- Early career pay: $66,100
- Mid-career pay: $120,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 38%
An operations management and information major will have strong skills in design systems, research, learning strategies, oral and written communication, math, and science. After graduation, majors who focus on production and operations management and information services can become inventory managers, materials controllers, and risk analysts.
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#68. Integrated Science and Technology
- Early career pay: $65,200
- Mid-career pay: $121,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 56%
A bachelor’s degree in integrated science and technology holds several job titles, including software engineer and materials manager. After establishing a solid science foundation and its technology applications during the first two years of undergraduate studies, students then move on to more advanced learning, including applied biotechnology, environmental studies, production systems, networking, and telecommunications.
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#67. Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering Technology
- Early career pay: $76,900
- Mid-career pay: $121,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 53%
A degree in aeronautical/aerospace engineering technology teaches students the skills to design and build aircraft and spacecraft. Combining math, science, and engineering prepares graduates for careers in airframe design, logistics, or integration engineering. Growth in the field is projected to be sluggish due to the slowing of manufacturing .
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#66. Bioengineering
- Early career pay: $70,900
- Mid-career pay: $121,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 67%
The study of biological systems and biomedical technologies, bioengineering is the leading concentration required to become a biomedical engineer. Students use math, engineering, and science to conduct experiments and design systems on a multidisciplinary level. This major is also available as a graduate degree, which leads to higher annual income.
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#65. Ocean Engineering
- Early career pay: $69,400
- Mid-career pay: $121,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 51%
Ocean engineers study the relationship and interaction between engineered systems and bodies of water. Unlike oceanographers, who study natural occurrences, engineers design vessels and instruments to explore the depths of the oceans , which are less understood than the surface of Mars. Knowledge of robotic design, underwater acoustics, and geomechanics are just a few of the skills graduates attain .
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#64. Engineering
- Early career pay: $69,900
- Mid-career pay: $121,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 59%
A bachelor’s degree in engineering prepares students for a life designing, inspecting, and testing a wide variety of products, from airports to zippers. The median salary for an engineer in 2020 was $83,160. The demand for well-trained engineers is expected to accelerate in the coming years, as the country looks to update infrastructure and develop new energy systems.
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#63. Materials Science
- Early career pay: $67,100
- Mid-career pay: $121,800
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
Materials science majors study materials such as rubbers, metals, and glass, and look for ways to strengthen them or bind them together to form stronger substances. Semiconductor manufacturing is among the most lucrative jobs for a materials scientist, while research and development employ the most professionals in the field. A large part of the curriculum is chemistry , which is used to study material at its most basic level to alter it to suit a need.
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#62. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Early career pay: $76,800
- Mid-career pay: $121,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 48%
Fusing molecular biology, biophysical chemistry, and chemical engineering to create new products is the main area of expertise for a chemical and biomolecular engineer. Biomolecular engineers have a hand in everything, from life-saving pharmaceuticals to innovations in the food industry. This field is expected to see steady growth over the next decade.
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#61. Applied Mathematics
- Early career pay: $68,300
- Mid-career pay: $122,000
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 40%
Students in applied mathematics will learn how to use equations in their studies to find solutions to engineering and science problems. The field is expected to explode over the next decade , growing at a rate of 30%, bolstered by a surge in data storage. There are a wide range of fields to enter upon graduation, including finance, business, engineering, and government.
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#60. Engineering Science
- Early career pay: $67,900
- Mid-career pay: $122,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 45%
Engineering science alumni become researchers, electronic technicians, and field engineers, among other related occupations. Common major courses include cell and molecular biology, nanoengineering, quantum electronics, and thermodynamics of materials. Engineering science graduates are guaranteed employment in several states, including Washington, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
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#58. Aeronautical Science and Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $56,000
- Mid-career pay: $122,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 50%
Aeronautical Science and Engineering majors study the science of flight. Program alumni most often become pilots or engineers focused on the design and construction of aircraft. Those who choose to pursue a career as a pilot must also take separate lessons to earn a pilot’s license.
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#58. Metallurgical Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $81,800
- Mid-career pay: $122,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 61%
Transforming metal from ore into finished material falls under the direction of a metallurgical engineer. A subset of materials engineering, metallurgists can enhance their job prospects by taking computer modeling classes or gaining certifications. The field is expected to see little to no growth in the next decade —especially in manufacturing—while new medical and scientific products will help keep metallurgical engineers in demand.
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#57. Business Analysis
- Early career pay: $63,200
- Mid-career pay: $122,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 46%
Efficiency is the primary goal of a graduate with a degree in business analysis, from improving software to streamlining production processes. The need for these professionals is expected to grow rapidly in the next decade—especially within the health care and IT fields —as more businesses look to control costs. Successful graduates take a range of classes , including math, business, finance, and IT.
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#56. Pharmacology
- Early career pay: $57,700
- Mid-career pay: $122,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
Pharmacology majors become clinical research associates, staff nurses, and pharmacist technicians, among other related occupations. Drug interaction study involves several courses, including toxicology, pharmacokinetics, biochemical proliferation and differentiation, and apoptosis. The three top states for pharmacology majors are Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Alaska.
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#55. Control Engineering
- Early career pay: $69,700
- Mid-career pay: $122,800
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 61%
Control engineers combine math and mechanical engineering to design and implement automation or processing systems. Upon graduation, passing an exam to become an engineer-in-training is a must to get started. Control engineering is an offshoot of mechanical engineering, a field that is predicted to grow by 4% over the next decade . Keeping up with technological advances can help prospective employment.
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#54. Electronics and Communications Engineering
- Early career pay: $67,400
- Mid-career pay: $122,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 51%
Electronics engineering covers the design and manufacturing of electronic devices, from smartphones and televisions, to GPS systems and portable music players. The curriculum will encompass math, physics, circuit theory, and systems design, opening the graduate up for jobs in computers and government, among others. While the career path is expected to grow more slowly than average over the next 10 years , the research and development of new technologies will drive much of that growth.
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#52. Petroleum Land Management (tie)
- Early career pay: $59,300
- Mid-career pay: $123,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
Finding and buying land rights for oil and natural gas companies falls under the purview of petroleum land management . Professionals in this field discover ownership rights and negotiate leases or purchases for the purpose of drilling for oil. Knowing how to read zoning maps and investigate property deeds are two skills petroleum land managers will learn.
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#52. Bioscience (tie)
- Early career pay: $49,200
- Mid-career pay: $123,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
Bioscience encompasses several majors, including marine biology, animal science, and biomedical engineering. Separating organic and inorganic solutions and DNA extraction are just two skills graduates will have, on top of extensive math, science, and lab work. Graduates can find work in a variety of fields , including genetic counseling, pharmaceutical sales, biochemistry, and more.
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#50. Computer Science (tie)
- Early career pay: $75,100
- Mid-career pay: $123,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 42%
Computer science majors delve into the world of designing, developing, and applying computer software. Software development is a common career for a graduate with a computer science degree, a field that is expected to grow at 21% over the next decade , about four times the national average. A four-year degree will prepare grads with advanced math skills in calculus, statistics, and algorithms , as well as a slew of computer courses, including computer theory, information management, and design physics.
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#50. Physics and Astronomy (tie)
- Early career pay: $56,500
- Mid-career pay: $123,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 36%
While reaching the stars from a salary standpoint requires a doctorate, graduates with a bachelor’s degree in physics and astronomy can find work in a variety of fields, both within the government and private sectors. Coursework includes extensive math, statistics, and science training to learn how matter interacts with energy .
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#48. Biomedical Engineering
- Early career pay: $71,300
- Mid-career pay: $123,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 72%
A degree in biomedical engineering entails taking many of the same courses needed to graduate from medical school. Biomedical engineering students can take several paths within the discipline , including medical imaging, nanotechnologies, genetic engineering, or prosthetics. An increasing aging population will help increase the demand for biomedical engineers.
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#48. Managerial Economics
- Early career pay: $65,200
- Mid-career pay: $123,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 41%
Up to 6,270 managerial economic degrees were awarded during the U.S. 2018–2019 college year, making the major the 110th most popular. Courses for the major include accounting, calculus, econometrics, financial markets, economics of regulation, international trade, and money and banking. Graduates of the major find careers as financial managers and analysts, executive directors, and economists.
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#47. Economics and Mathematics
- Early career pay: $68,200
- Mid-career pay: $124,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 35%
Mathematical economists solve complex economic problems using principles of algebra, calculus, and statistics, and form models to predict future performance. Mathematical economists rely on quantitative methods, and advanced knowledge of computer modeling can help set job candidates apart when looking for work in finance, government, or education .
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#46. Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Early career pay: $73,100
- Mid-career pay: $124,800
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 48%
Industrial and systems engineering students specifically focus on productivity and quality improvement. They improve a business’ workflow by looking at people, product, and process to maximize efficiency. Employment in this sector is expected to grow 10% from 2019 to 2021, a rate above the national average , thanks to growing needs in the health care and automation industries.
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#45. Computer Science and Mathematics
- Early career pay: $70,500
- Mid-career pay: $125,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 43%
Combining computer science and mathematics can lead to a lucrative career as a software developer, programmer, or research scientist. The job outlook for these majors is fairly strong, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicting 16% growth for researchers , and 21% for developers . Additional certifications can help enhance job prospects and boost starting salary.
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#42. Astronomy (tie)
- Early career pay: $66,600
- Mid-career pay: $125,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 47%
Astronomy majors prepare to unlock the mysteries of the universe, and unlike most sciences where lab work is imperative, astronomers use mostly observation and math. Skills in physics, cosmology, and math are needed to observe, chart, and track celestial bodies as they move across the night sky. A bachelor’s degree in astronomy points graduates toward careers in fields like telescope operator or research assistant, while a doctorate is generally preferred to work in an academic setting as an astronomer.
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#42. Optical Science and Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $71,000
- Mid-career pay: $125,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
A major in optical science and engineering goes on to a career in optical design, fabrication, instrumentation, and communications. Optical engineers must have strong skills in math, physics, manual dexterity, and problem-solving . They should also be versed in optical design/analysis tools, such as Zemax, Code V, or Trace Pro, and be able to use a variety of scientific and laboratory equipment.
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#42. Quantitative Business Analysis (tie)
- Early career pay: $74,000
- Mid-career pay: $125,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 37%
Helping businesses make smart financial decisions by analyzing data falls under the purview of graduates with degrees in quantitative business analysis. Careers in this type of finance are in high demand, with the ability to value securities, identify investment opportunities, and even develop computer software. Graduates with a degree in the field will have a strong command of mathematics and statistics, while advanced computer skills are becoming more important for finding a higher-paying job.
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#41. Aerospace Engineering
- Early career pay: $74,300
- Mid-career pay: $125,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 55%
Aerospace engineering prepares graduates to design aircraft, including planes, missiles, and satellites. A downturn in manufacturing dampens the job outlook for graduates with an aerospace engineering degree, but a push toward the development of smaller satellites and unmanned aircraft should help offset that. Seeking additional training in computer languages, as well as structural engineering, can help job prospects.
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#40. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Early career pay: $74,700
- Mid-career pay: $125,800
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 56%
Learning how to design and manufacture electronic and electrical devices , along with computers and their components, is the goal of electrical and electronics engineering majors. Telecommunications, power generation, and the biomedical field are just a few of the career paths graduates can strive to attain. This job market is expected to slow in the next decade due to a downturn in manufacturing, but technological advancements and updates to the nation’s power grid should help offset losses.
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#39. Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Early career pay: $75,500
- Mid-career pay: $126,000
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 45%
Computational and applied mathematics involves creating and using mathematical models to solve complex science and engineering problems. A strong foundation in math, science, and engineering is required for a graduate to find success in a wide range of potential careers, including actuaries, forensic science, and teaching.
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#38. Instrumentation and Control Engineering
- Early career pay: $73,100
- Mid-career pay: $126,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
Instrumentation and control engineering majors will learn how to measure and control variables like temperature, pressure, and flow in a system. Knowledge of mathematics and physics, as well as engineering, are critical for success in the field. While the job outlook for engineers is declining, instrumentation engineers are critical to setting up and maintaining automated systems , which are always in demand.
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#37. Welding Engineering
- Early career pay: $81,000
- Mid-career pay: $126,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 56%
Using heat and pressure to fuse two pieces of metal into one as a welding engineer requires skills in computer design, math, and chemistry, among others. After graduating, four years of work experience is required before taking a state licensure exam to become a professional engineer. Joining professional organizations—such as the American Welding Society or the Edison Welding Institute—can enhance job prospects for entry-level candidates, who can find work in shipyards, oil rigs, or research laboratories.
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#36. Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
- Early career pay: $70,900
- Mid-career pay: $126,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 60%
Understanding how to build, fix, and maintain machinery falls to a mechanical engineer, while those who add aeronautical engineering to their major focus on airplanes, missiles, and weapons systems. Skills learned during this four-year degree include extensive math, physics, drafting, and computer courses. Both types of engineering are expected to grow at about the national average for the next decade, while combining the two can push a candidate to the top of the hiring list.
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#35. Marine Transportation Management
- Early career pay: $71,100
- Mid-career pay: $127,500
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
Training officer, deck cadet, merchant marine, third mate, and seaman are some of the job titles these college majors have. Marine and other transportation management jobs have been on the uprise since 2004, averaging 0.41% growth annually . ZipRecruiter reports marine transportation jobs and annual salary vary, noting career growth is directly related to skill and location.
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#33. Electrical Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $75,600
- Mid-career pay: $127,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 54%
Electrical engineers design and maintain electrical equipment , and require extensive training in math, science, and engineering. Despite slower job growth than average, learning new technologies can give grads an advantage in the job market, as research and development provide steady work. Passing an exam to become an engineer-in-training is a must, while work experience and further state licensing are needed to become a professional engineer.
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#33. Foreign Affairs (tie)
- Early career pay: $54,800
- Mid-career pay: $127,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 36%
Earning a degree in foreign affairs earns students knowledge of the ins and outs of foreign and domestic policy , including trade policy and public relations. Graduates can seek careers in government as diplomats or intelligence officers, or in the private sector working for international banks or businesses. Additional language skills are a plus for graduates seeking to reach the top of the applicant list.
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#32. Nuclear Engineering
- Early career pay: $76,400
- Mid-career pay: $129,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 62%
Designing and developing instruments and equipment related to the harnessing of nuclear power and radiation falls to nuclear engineering professionals. Graduates can find work with the government, in construction, or within the medical field, while a third are employed in electric power generation. Knowledge of computer programs , like LINUX, Oracle Java, and C++, among others, can enhance job prospects and pay.
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#30. Corporate Accounting and Finance
- Early career pay: $65,200
- Mid-career pay: $129,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 55%
Corporate accounting and finance majors primarily become financial managers for large-scale companies. Before becoming chief financial officers, graduates study capital budgeting, finance practicum, multinational financial management, and cost accounting, among other courses.
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#29. Entrepreneurship and Marketing
- Early career pay: $51,400
- Mid-career pay: $129,800
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 45%
Building launch-ready businesses are what entrepreneurship and marketing majors do best. Required skills include product development, merchandise management, and business planning. From bootstrapping to brand-building, majors must be able to take financial risks with their own business ventures to succeed. New venture formation and buyer behavior are examples of courses majors study to graduate.
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#28. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
- Early career pay: $74,400
- Mid-career pay: $130,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 49%
In the simplest terms, the naval architecture and marine engineering program focus on the design and construction of ships. Alumni will have an understanding of concepts like hydrodynamics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, resistance and propulsion, and advanced engineering mathematics, among others. Alumni can find jobs in any industry involving floating vessels. According to Webb, a leading naval architecture and marine engineering program, their graduates have been hired by the U.S. Department of Energy, Carnival Cruise Lines, Chevron, and various military programs.
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#27. Computer Engineering
- Early career pay: $79,000
- Mid-career pay: $131,000
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 46%
A computer engineering degree fuses computer science with electronic engineering, leaving grads equipped to design, develop, and monitor systems. As more common household products integrate computers and microchips, the demand for computer engineers promises to increase over the next decade despite the slowing of manufacturing. Math, science, keeping up with emerging technologies, and ongoing accreditation is imperative to getting ahead in the job market.
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#26. Aeronautical Engineering
- Early career pay: $74,700
- Mid-career pay: $131,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 66%
Aeronautical engineers focus on aircraft, studying their design and the effects of aerodynamics on performance. A subset of aerospace engineering, this profession will see slow growth in the next decade as manufacturing declines, but advances in fuel technology and reduction of noise pollution should help employment numbers. Additional training in software like C++, along with a focus on structural engineering, can help job prospects.
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#24. Computer Science and Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $79,400
- Mid-career pay: $131,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 44%
Combining computer science and engineering gets students ready for all aspects of building computer hardware and software. Focusing on software can offer better job prospects since the field is constantly changing, though hardware engineers make slightly more. Adding government clearances and professional certifications can enhance a graduate’s pay and chances of finding a job.
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#24. Marine Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $79,900
- Mid-career pay: $131,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 60%
Marine engineering majors learn about all the internal components of a ship, from steering and power, to refrigeration and lighting. To graduate, students master aspects of calculus, chemistry, physics, mechanical engineering, and algebra. Over the next decade, there is a projected 1% growth rate for jobs as marine engineers, who often spend a semester on the water.
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#23. Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Early career pay: $78,100
- Mid-career pay: $131,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 49%
Working on updated power grids, chemical sensors, and implantable devices are all tasks electrical and computer engineering majors perform. While the electrical side of the major teaches wireless communication and information processing, the computer side educates students on software verification and embedded systems. Job growth for the major until 2029 is expected to be 3%.
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#22. Computer Systems Engineering
- Early career pay: $79,000
- Mid-career pay: $133,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 51%
How computers integrate into business and personal lives is the most important function of a computer systems engineer. To do that, these majors learn to combine skills in math, computer science, and engineering to examine and test circuits, software, and hardware. A good portion of the professionals in this field work in California .
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#21. Political Economy
- Early career pay: $65,100
- Mid-career pay: $133,500
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 29%
A political economy degree program focuses on the intersection of politics, the economy, and how public policy is formed at that intersection. Some areas of career focus with this degree include social inequality, climate change, resource distribution, trade, and healthcare. Alumni often fill roles such as financial manager, lobbyist, and foreign policy specialist .
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#20. Actuarial Science
- Early career pay: $67,700
- Mid-career pay: $134,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 43%
Assessing risk within a particular industry falls under the purview of an actuarial science graduate, who uses math and statistics. Insurance companies are the primary employers of actuaries, who help create rates on premiums from life to car insurances. The field is expected to grow rapidly in the next decade, while adding business and analytics courses can help boost graduates’ prospects in what’s becoming a highly competitive job market.
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#19. Cognitive Science
- Early career pay: $68,700
- Mid-career pay: $135,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 42%
Cognitive science involves studying how the brain processes information, learns, and behaves . A wide range of potential careers awaits those with a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science, including marketing and teaching, as well as game and web development. Attaining a master’s degree or doctorate in the field can greatly enhance job prospects by honing skills like psychology, biology, and chemistry.
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#17. Building Science (tie)
- Early career pay: $53,800
- Mid-career pay: $135,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 53%
Designing the next generation of buildings that meet the needs of safety, human comfort, and environmental demands is the goal of a building science major. This study combines the skills learned in architecture and construction management and building science majors can expect a job market projected to grow by 10% in the next decade . While a master’s degree is preferred to earn more, those with bachelor’s degrees will attain skills in economics, physics, and construction technology.
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#17. Chemical Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $76,900
- Mid-career pay: $135,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 55%
Skills in math and multiple scientific disciplines are required for a career as a chemical engineer , and graduates will be prepared to tackle issues related to chemical manufacturing. Choosing to focus on a certain discipline, like nanomaterials or oxidation, can give job-seekers a bump in both prospects and pay, as the profession will grow at an average rate . A push toward domestic natural gas and oil will maintain the need for chemical engineers.
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#15. Pharmacy
- Early career pay: $68,600
- Mid-career pay: $138,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 78%
Becoming a full-fledged pharmacist requires a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in pharmacy. Four-year grads undertake an intensive study of biology and chemistry, while learning about the production and manufacture of pharmaceuticals. The need for professionals in this field is expected to increase rapidly over the next decade, as a growing elderly population creates a rise in demand within the health care industry.
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#14. Econometrics
- Early career pay: $64,200
- Mid-career pay: $139,000
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 35%
Econometrics entails using existing financial data to either test existing economic hypotheses or predict future performance. Graduates can find work in a variety of fields , including banking, investment, government, and academics, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicting above-average job growth in the next decade.
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#13. Systems Engineering
- Early career pay: $77,700
- Mid-career pay: $139,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 53%
Systems engineers will finish their four-year degree with the ability to build and manage complex systems, including people, equipment, and software for a variety of businesses. Aside from strong interpersonal and management skills, a systems engineer will possess high mathematics and information security acumen . The International Council on Systems Engineering offers a number of certifications for graduates to enhance their job prospects in this growing field.
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#12. Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Early career pay: $77,600
- Mid-career pay: $139,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 56%
Aeronautics and astronautics involve learning the design, manufacturing, and testing of everything that flies in the skies (aeronautics), and beyond the Earth’s atmosphere (astronautics). The job outlook for graduates with a degree in the field is average, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics projecting 3% growth by 2029 . Proficiency in math, science, and engineering is a must for obtaining an entry-level position, while additional training in computer software can enhance an applicant’s prospects.
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#11. Information and Computer Science
- Early career pay: $58,600
- Mid-career pay: $140,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 62%
Using both concrete and abstract principles, information and computer science majors learn to solve problems and explore new areas using computers. Graduates will leave school with the ability to create algorithms, understand different programming languages, and utilize artificial intelligence, data mining, and security skills. The need for these professionals is expected to grow at a rate well above the national average , although obtaining a master’s degree is a wise choice to further enhance job prospects.
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#10. Electrical Power Engineering
- Early career pay: $76,100
- Mid-career pay: $142,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 68%
Designing, manufacturing, and maintaining electrical equipment are the fields of expertise for graduates with electrical power engineering degrees. A downturn in manufacturing and telecommunications will have an adverse effect on job prospects in the next decade, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicting only 3% growth. Students can get ahead by completing internships, and will have to pass the Fundamentals of Engineering exam to become an engineer-in-training, while further work experience is needed before becoming a professional engineer.
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#9. Actuarial Mathematics
- Early career pay: $64,300
- Mid-career pay: $143,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 51%
Actuaries use math and statistics to analyze and assess financial risk for a business, usually in the finance or insurance fields. The field is relatively small, but competitive, and is expected to explode in the next decade at a rate of 20%. Graduates who pass two actuarial exams and have gained valuable internship experience in college in addition to possessing exceptional business skills, will set themselves apart while seeking a job.
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#8. Business Computing
- Early career pay: $73,000
- Mid-career pay: $143,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
A business computing degree prepares graduates to manage and leverage information systems to support a business. This may even require building new technology systems to maximize efficiency. Alumni of this degree program most often work in information technology roles.
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#7. Applied Economics and Management
- Early career pay: $66,100
- Mid-career pay: $146,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 67%
Applied economics and management majors use economic models to predict financial outcomes based on the decisions of a business or individual. Micro and macroeconomics, statistics, advanced algebra, and finance are just a few of the skills necessary to succeed in the field, which is expected to see solid growth in the next decade. Graduates can find work in public policy, private business, and as financial planners, among other paths.
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#6. Operations Research
- Early career pay: $83,500
- Mid-career pay: $147,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 54%
The need for increased efficiency among businesses has the demand for operations research analysts projected to grow by 25% in the next decade. Students in the program will learn how to apply practical solutions to complex business problems, using math and statistical analysis to make informed decisions. Since these analysts are needed in a variety of business settings, adding additional specializations , like computer programming, political science, or economics can enhance job prospects.
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#5. Public Accounting
- Early career pay: $59,800
- Mid-career pay: $147,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 47%
Public accountants offer financial services to businesses and people, like preparing tax documents, auditing financial statements, and providing consulting services. Graduating with a bachelor’s degree isn’t enough to find a job in this growing field, as becoming a Certified Public Accountant requires passing an industry exam, ethics exam, and being supervised by a CPA for six months to two years.
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#4. Interaction Design
- Early career pay: $68,300
- Mid-career pay: $155,800
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 55%
The very best interaction design —the process of anticipating and facilitating behaviors between users and technology— is undetectable to the user. When you engage with technology through the click of a mouse or touch of your finger, that is the result of interaction design. When a website feels intuitive or responds to your natural behaviors, that, too, is interaction design. While interaction design is a critical component of UX design , or user experience, smaller companies may only hire a UX designer, a more all-encompassing title. Conversely, large companies often break out the components of UX into separate roles, including interaction designers, visual designers, and information architects.
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#3. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Early career pay: $108,500
- Mid-career pay: $159,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 46%
There are a wide range of careers for a graduate with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science that all involve knowing the workings of both software and hardware for electronic devices. Jobs with this degree vary, from software design for major companies like Facebook, Apple, and Google, to creating systems for the aeronautical field. A firm understanding of computer languages, mathematics, and logic are critical to success, while continued education and certifications can advance job prospects.
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#2. Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
- Early career pay: $84,800
- Mid-career pay: $170,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 28%
Utilizing an operations research and industrial engineering degree means using mathematical models, statistical analysis, and real-time observations to design, optimize, and modify complex systems. Managing the flow of guests through an amusement park or scheduling a city’s bus routes are both examples of large scale and highly complex operational systems. As an industrial engineering and operations research degree holder, you can find work in a wide array of industries that require decisions to be made around safety, optimization, and efficiency, including transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, finance, and entertainment.
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#1. Petroleum Engineering
- Early career pay: $93,200
- Mid-career pay: $187,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 67%
Finding and removing oil and natural gas from the Earth falls under the well-paid direction of petroleum engineers. They analyze, design, and implement plans for extraction when a reservoir is found, requiring skills in math, science, mechanical engineering, and physics. The push toward renewable and clean energy may have an adverse effect on job prospects for graduates with a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering, though additional certifications and cooperative programs can boost job prospects.
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College majors that earn the most money
Choosing a college major is a big decision. Students must decide to study something that challenges and interests them while balancing the hard realities of the job market and outlook on career paths. A good salary coming out of college is key to a financially secure future, and with increasing student loan debts, choosing a major that yields bigger salaries out the gate becomes even more desirable.
To show just how valuable some college majors can be, Stacker used data from a 2020 PayScale report to rank the top 100 college majors that alumni make the most money from in their respective professional careers.
The rankings, released in 2021, are based on the highest average mid-career salary. For each major, information is provided about potential jobs, the skills students will attain in school, and Bureau of Labor Statistics projections regarding the likelihood of finding a job upon graduation with a bachelor’s degree.
Keep reading to find out if your major made the list of college majors that earn the most money.
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College majors that earn the most money
Choosing a college major is a big decision. Students must decide to study something that challenges and interests them while balancing the hard realities of the job market and outlook on career paths. A good salary coming out of college is key to a financially secure future, and with increasing student loan debts, choosing a major that yields bigger salaries out the gate becomes even more desirable.
To show just how valuable some college majors can be, Stacker used data from a 2020 PayScale report to rank the top 100 college majors that alumni make the most money from in their respective professional careers.
The rankings, released in 2021, are based on the highest average mid-career salary. For each major, information is provided about potential jobs, the skills students will attain in school, and Bureau of Labor Statistics projections regarding the likelihood of finding a job upon graduation with a bachelor’s degree.
Keep reading to find out if your major made the list of college majors that earn the most money.
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#100. Electronics Engineering
- Early career pay: $69,600
- Mid-career pay: $113,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 66%
Electronics engineering focuses on the design and development of electronic devices , including phones, music players, and GPS systems. Majors will be taught the ins and outs of digital systems design and circuit theory, and adding drafting courses enhances a graduate’s employability. The slowing of the manufacturing and telecommunications industries has the profession projected to grow by only 2% in the next decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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#99. Management Information Systems
- Early career pay: $65,000
- Mid-career pay: $114,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 42%
It is the role of an information systems manager to make data accessible and actionable through technology. This line of work requires problem-solving and analysis to find ways in which businesses can more efficiently make connections between data and the product or services they provide. Required coursework often merges multiple areas of discipline including mathematics, computer science, business, and ethics.
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#98. Industrial Distribution
- Early career pay: $63,600
- Mid-career pay: $115,000
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 48%
International sales manager, retail buyer, and regional sales director are a few career choices for industrial distribution majors who study the purchase and transport of goods. Program coursework required for this career includes communications, domestic and international marketing, analysis, operations management, wholesale purchasing, and distribution supervision. Professionals in the field have strong math and problem-solving skills.
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#96. Asian Studies (tie)
- Early career pay: $47,700
- Mid-career pay: $115,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 41%
Asian studies majors explore the history, economy, culture, and politics of the continent of Asia. This broad knowledge and context positions graduates for careers in government, international relations, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.
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#96. Structural Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $67,800
- Mid-career pay: $115,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 66%
Considered a specialty within civil engineering , majors in this field concentrate on the design and structure of buildings, bridges, and roadways. Both a college degree and a professional engineer’s license are required to practice, which requires an understanding of physics, math, and material properties. During their careers, structural engineers work alongside architects and construction officials to determine design safety in the face of elemental forces, including snow, wind, and earthquakes.
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#93. Information and Decision Sciences (tie)
- Early career pay: $65,200
- Mid-career pay: $115,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 33%
By combining technology and business, a major in information and decision sciences can attain the title of business analyst, data quality specialist, and business intelligence developer, among others. Graduates gain skills to analyze emerging technologies, use computer programs, and design and update operating systems.
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#93. Materials Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $72,300
- Mid-career pay: $115,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 58%
Though the job outlook for college majors with a materials engineering degree is slight, growing 2% between 2019–2029, the early to mid-career pay ranks as one of the highest for young professionals. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the 2020 median pay for professionals was $95,640 annually, equaling $45.98 per hour. College majors learn how to design and test materials for the creation of products.
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#93. Paper Science (tie)
- Early career pay: $77,000
- Mid-career pay: $115,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 39%
Graduates in this major—which explains the science and technology of converting raw bio-materials into paper and new ways to manufacture the product—are well-versed in advanced math, chemistry, and physical and chemical properties of wood. Field, project, packaging, quality, and process engineer are some titles alums hold after graduating.
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#92. Telecommunications Engineering
- Early career pay: $66,400
- Mid-career pay: $115,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 47%
Telecommunications engineering entails designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting data, voice, video, and image systems. Graduates have jobs setting up network systems or installing fiber optic cable and work for telecom companies, government agencies, or consulting firms. Available in associate, bachelor’s, or master’s degrees, majors in the subject learn computer programming and networking through studying digital electronics and satellite transmission, among other specialties.
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#89. Economics (tie)
- Early career pay: $62,000
- Mid-career pay: $115,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 41%
Collecting, analyzing, and forecasting data for specific market trends, including finance, labor, and agriculture, is what economics majors study. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects up to an 8% growth in the field from 2018 to 2028 for economists, who most often hold a master’s degree or doctorate. Critical thinking, reading comprehension, and decision-making are required skills for students who take on a variety of tasks, including conducting research, compiling reports, and supervising projects.
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#89. Pharmaceutical Sciences (tie)
- Early career pay: $52,800
- Mid-career pay: $115,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 69%
A pharmaceutical sciences degree program begins with coursework in chemistry, biology, physics, and math, and advances to more complex areas of study like drug design and manufacturing, research, and regulation. Graduates with a pharmaceutical sciences degree can find work in the private sector for biotech companies like Vertex or Regeneron, for government agencies like the FDA, in academia, or in pharmaceutical sales.
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#88. Business and Economics
- Early career pay: $59,600
- Mid-career pay: $116,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 46%
Business and economics, the study of trade and finance, is a double major that equips a graduate for several careers , including senior financial analyst, chief finance officer, and chief operating officer. Those with this double major find well-paying jobs in market research organizations, consulting firms, investment institutions, merger and acquisition departments, and insurance companies.
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#87. International Economics
- Early career pay: $58,700
- Mid-career pay: $116,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 48%
International economics is the study of global trade and finance and its worldwide effect. By predicting production, transaction, and multilateral trade negotiations, majors in the subject become government or global organization analysts and consultants, or work in the finance industry. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports most economics majors in the private sector have either a master’s degree or doctorate, but entry-level jobs in a federal agency only require a bachelor’s degree.
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#86. Applied Physics
- Early career pay: $67,300
- Mid-career pay: $116,500
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 52%
Applied physics is the practical application of core physics concepts to solve a problem. For example, acoustic engineering—a type of applied physics—marries the study of sound and the need to create environments, like factories, which can regulate noise. There is no shortage of career opportunities for holders of an applied physics degree, particularly in the fields of fiber optics, semiconductors, and astrophysics, to name a few.
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#85. Business and Information Technology
- Early career pay: $60,100
- Mid-career pay: $116,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 44%
While a computer forensic analyst averages more early career pay, a network architect makes even more than the mid-career pay for graduates of the major. The business end of the major teaches students finance, marketing, operating systems, and web administration. Students who attain a graduate business and information technology degree, and earn more annual pay, learn disaster recovery, managerial accounting, and systems project management.
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#84. Accounting and Computer Systems
- Early career pay: $63,000
- Mid-career pay: $117,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 37%
This degree is an appropriate fit for people with passion for business and technology . With an accounting and computer systems degree, alumni often pursue certification as a certified public accountant. Graduates also have the additional skill set of deeply understanding software and databases frequently used in business. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 12% expected job growth in the industry by 2028.
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#81. Engineering Mechanics (tie)
- Early career pay: $75,500
- Mid-career pay: $117,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
A degree in engineering mechanics offers a variety of important postsecondary career opportunities. Combining both basic sciences and engineering sciences like thermodynamics, mechanics, electrical engineering, and engineering mechanics is essential in fields such as aerospace and engineering. Graduates most often find work as architectural and engineering managers, engineers, or engineering professors .
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#81. Industrial Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $71,900
- Mid-career pay: $117,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 44%
An industrial engineering degree prepares graduates to oversee various aspects of large-scale projects , including quality control, labor, cost analysis, logistics, material flow, and more. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that many industrial engineers have a degree in a specific field, including mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and manufacturing engineering . An expanding health care system will probably produce higher demand for industrial engineers in professional, scientific, and consulting businesses.
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#81. International Business and Finance (tie)
- Early career pay: $61,400
- Mid-career pay: $117,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 31%
International business and finance majors learn to manage money on a worldwide scale. By learning international law, corporate governance, and capital markets, majors can become venture capitalists, management consultants, investment bankers, financial accountants, and financial analysts. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that business and financial employment is growing faster than the average for all jobs, with an expected 7% growth between 2018–2028.
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#80. Materials Science and Engineering
- Early career pay: $72,700
- Mid-career pay: $117,500
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 47%
A materials science and engineering degree combines the study of the structure and chemical properties of all types of materials , including metals, glass, polymers, graphites, plastics, and ceramics. While the Bureau of Labor Statistics separates materials scientists , who study substance interaction on atomic and molecular levels, from materials engineers , who develop and test substances, both professions earn a considerable median income.
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#79. Mechanical Engineering
- Early career pay: $71,000
- Mid-career pay: $117,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 50%
Mechanical engineering is the design and development of tools , devices, and machinery, which requires strong science, math, mechanical, and critical thinking skills. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports up to a 4% growth in mechanical engineering employment until 2028, such as in the automotive manufacturing industry. With a doctorate, mechanical engineers can participate in research and development programs as well as teach the subject at the university level.
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#78. Construction Engineering Management
- Early career pay: $68,800
- Mid-career pay: $118,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 57%
Offered at both undergraduate and graduate levels, construction engineering management is the combination of technology and science to reinforce construction framework on a wide range of large-scale projects, including airport design, roadways, bridges, and water waste management systems, or smaller residential and commercial structures. Majors who work in the field are well-versed in government codes, regulations, and laws for site inspections. They also have strong active listening and critical thinking skills to work with other officials.
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#77. Mining Engineering
- Early career pay: $78,800
- Mid-career pay: $118,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 64%
Extracting coal and other metals in the safest manner is what mining engineering students are preparing for in their careers. Reduction in mining of coal, and businesses hiring engineering firms as opposed to employing their own , has growth projected at just 3% over the next decade. The future of mining may be beyond the confines of the planet, with the Colorado School of Mines being the first to offer a space resources course for extracting precious metals from asteroids and other bodies in outer space.
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#76. Physician Assistant Studies
- Early career pay: $95,900
- Mid-career pay: $118,500
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 84%
Physician assistant studies prepare majors for a career in the medical field. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that most in the field require a master’s degree . This industry is forecasted to grow by up to 31% by 2028, making it an appealing choice for those interested in job security. Strong listening, critical thinking, and deductive and inductive reasoning skills are required for graduates , who become assistants in examining, testing, diagnosing, and treating patients.
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#75. Accounting and Economics
- Early career pay: $65,900
- Mid-career pay: $118,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 44%
Double majoring in accounting and economics combines the accounting’s skills of preparing financial documents and tax statements with economics’ understanding of markets and forecasting future decisions. Both professions individually are expected to grow at , or slightly above, the national average, while combining them only enhances job prospects.
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#74. Geophysics
- Early career pay: $58,000
- Mid-career pay: $119,000
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 47%
While a master’s degree is preferred among many employers , graduates with a bachelor’s degree in geophysics have a firm understanding of the planet’s physical properties and use physics to study the earth’s magnetic, gravitational, and electric fields. Emerging energy technologies, like wind and geothermal energies , will help keep geophysicists employed.
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#73. Computer and Information Science
- Early career pay: $63,600
- Mid-career pay: $119,500
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 55%
Treating the computer as a tool to find innovative solutions to complex problems falls to the computer and information science grads. Students will leave with a firm grasp of network security, computer programming, and software design. The job market for those completing a four-year degree is strong, with careers in software development expected to grow 21% over the next 10 years.
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#72. Quantitative Economics
- Early career pay: $65,000
- Mid-career pay: $119,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 43%
A specialized field of economics, quantitative economics incorporates statistics along with math to predict future economic conditions. The demand for economists is expected to grow slightly faster than average over the next decade, but the highly competitive nature of the field means grads should consider pursuing a master’s degree. Learning additional statistical analysis software can help those obtaining a bachelor’s degree enhance their job prospects.
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#71. Physics
- Early career pay: $65,900
- Mid-career pay: $119,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 48%
Understanding energy and matter and how they relate through space and time is the goal of those pursuing a degree in physics. There are plenty of options for graduates in physics, from teaching in a high school to understanding the origins of the universe. Students will graduate with skills in advanced math , quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, and thermodynamics.
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#70. Software Engineering
- Early career pay: $75,000
- Mid-career pay: $120,000
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 43%
Software engineering majors learn to develop programs for computers using principles of engineering. Learning a wide variety of computer languages and gaining certifications can help job candidates stand out from the pack. Becoming a software developer is one of the more lucrative career paths a graduate can take, with this field expected to grow by 21% over the next 10 years .
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#69. Operations Management and Information Systems
- Early career pay: $66,100
- Mid-career pay: $120,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 38%
An operations management and information major will have strong skills in design systems, research, learning strategies, oral and written communication, math, and science. After graduation, majors who focus on production and operations management and information services can become inventory managers, materials controllers, and risk analysts.
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#68. Integrated Science and Technology
- Early career pay: $65,200
- Mid-career pay: $121,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 56%
A bachelor’s degree in integrated science and technology holds several job titles, including software engineer and materials manager. After establishing a solid science foundation and its technology applications during the first two years of undergraduate studies, students then move on to more advanced learning, including applied biotechnology, environmental studies, production systems, networking, and telecommunications.
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#67. Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering Technology
- Early career pay: $76,900
- Mid-career pay: $121,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 53%
A degree in aeronautical/aerospace engineering technology teaches students the skills to design and build aircraft and spacecraft. Combining math, science, and engineering prepares graduates for careers in airframe design, logistics, or integration engineering. Growth in the field is projected to be sluggish due to the slowing of manufacturing .
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#66. Bioengineering
- Early career pay: $70,900
- Mid-career pay: $121,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 67%
The study of biological systems and biomedical technologies, bioengineering is the leading concentration required to become a biomedical engineer. Students use math, engineering, and science to conduct experiments and design systems on a multidisciplinary level. This major is also available as a graduate degree, which leads to higher annual income.
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#65. Ocean Engineering
- Early career pay: $69,400
- Mid-career pay: $121,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 51%
Ocean engineers study the relationship and interaction between engineered systems and bodies of water. Unlike oceanographers, who study natural occurrences, engineers design vessels and instruments to explore the depths of the oceans , which are less understood than the surface of Mars. Knowledge of robotic design, underwater acoustics, and geomechanics are just a few of the skills graduates attain .
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#64. Engineering
- Early career pay: $69,900
- Mid-career pay: $121,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 59%
A bachelor’s degree in engineering prepares students for a life designing, inspecting, and testing a wide variety of products, from airports to zippers. The median salary for an engineer in 2020 was $83,160. The demand for well-trained engineers is expected to accelerate in the coming years, as the country looks to update infrastructure and develop new energy systems.
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#63. Materials Science
- Early career pay: $67,100
- Mid-career pay: $121,800
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
Materials science majors study materials such as rubbers, metals, and glass, and look for ways to strengthen them or bind them together to form stronger substances. Semiconductor manufacturing is among the most lucrative jobs for a materials scientist, while research and development employ the most professionals in the field. A large part of the curriculum is chemistry , which is used to study material at its most basic level to alter it to suit a need.
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#62. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Early career pay: $76,800
- Mid-career pay: $121,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 48%
Fusing molecular biology, biophysical chemistry, and chemical engineering to create new products is the main area of expertise for a chemical and biomolecular engineer. Biomolecular engineers have a hand in everything, from life-saving pharmaceuticals to innovations in the food industry. This field is expected to see steady growth over the next decade.
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#61. Applied Mathematics
- Early career pay: $68,300
- Mid-career pay: $122,000
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 40%
Students in applied mathematics will learn how to use equations in their studies to find solutions to engineering and science problems. The field is expected to explode over the next decade , growing at a rate of 30%, bolstered by a surge in data storage. There are a wide range of fields to enter upon graduation, including finance, business, engineering, and government.
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#60. Engineering Science
- Early career pay: $67,900
- Mid-career pay: $122,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 45%
Engineering science alumni become researchers, electronic technicians, and field engineers, among other related occupations. Common major courses include cell and molecular biology, nanoengineering, quantum electronics, and thermodynamics of materials. Engineering science graduates are guaranteed employment in several states, including Washington, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
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#58. Aeronautical Science and Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $56,000
- Mid-career pay: $122,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 50%
Aeronautical Science and Engineering majors study the science of flight. Program alumni most often become pilots or engineers focused on the design and construction of aircraft. Those who choose to pursue a career as a pilot must also take separate lessons to earn a pilot’s license.
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#58. Metallurgical Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $81,800
- Mid-career pay: $122,200
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 61%
Transforming metal from ore into finished material falls under the direction of a metallurgical engineer. A subset of materials engineering, metallurgists can enhance their job prospects by taking computer modeling classes or gaining certifications. The field is expected to see little to no growth in the next decade —especially in manufacturing—while new medical and scientific products will help keep metallurgical engineers in demand.
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#57. Business Analysis
- Early career pay: $63,200
- Mid-career pay: $122,300
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 46%
Efficiency is the primary goal of a graduate with a degree in business analysis, from improving software to streamlining production processes. The need for these professionals is expected to grow rapidly in the next decade—especially within the health care and IT fields —as more businesses look to control costs. Successful graduates take a range of classes , including math, business, finance, and IT.
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#56. Pharmacology
- Early career pay: $57,700
- Mid-career pay: $122,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
Pharmacology majors become clinical research associates, staff nurses, and pharmacist technicians, among other related occupations. Drug interaction study involves several courses, including toxicology, pharmacokinetics, biochemical proliferation and differentiation, and apoptosis. The three top states for pharmacology majors are Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Alaska.
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#55. Control Engineering
- Early career pay: $69,700
- Mid-career pay: $122,800
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 61%
Control engineers combine math and mechanical engineering to design and implement automation or processing systems. Upon graduation, passing an exam to become an engineer-in-training is a must to get started. Control engineering is an offshoot of mechanical engineering, a field that is predicted to grow by 4% over the next decade . Keeping up with technological advances can help prospective employment.
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#54. Electronics and Communications Engineering
- Early career pay: $67,400
- Mid-career pay: $122,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 51%
Electronics engineering covers the design and manufacturing of electronic devices, from smartphones and televisions, to GPS systems and portable music players. The curriculum will encompass math, physics, circuit theory, and systems design, opening the graduate up for jobs in computers and government, among others. While the career path is expected to grow more slowly than average over the next 10 years , the research and development of new technologies will drive much of that growth.
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#52. Petroleum Land Management (tie)
- Early career pay: $59,300
- Mid-career pay: $123,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
Finding and buying land rights for oil and natural gas companies falls under the purview of petroleum land management . Professionals in this field discover ownership rights and negotiate leases or purchases for the purpose of drilling for oil. Knowing how to read zoning maps and investigate property deeds are two skills petroleum land managers will learn.
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#52. Bioscience (tie)
- Early career pay: $49,200
- Mid-career pay: $123,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
Bioscience encompasses several majors, including marine biology, animal science, and biomedical engineering. Separating organic and inorganic solutions and DNA extraction are just two skills graduates will have, on top of extensive math, science, and lab work. Graduates can find work in a variety of fields , including genetic counseling, pharmaceutical sales, biochemistry, and more.
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#50. Computer Science (tie)
- Early career pay: $75,100
- Mid-career pay: $123,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 42%
Computer science majors delve into the world of designing, developing, and applying computer software. Software development is a common career for a graduate with a computer science degree, a field that is expected to grow at 21% over the next decade , about four times the national average. A four-year degree will prepare grads with advanced math skills in calculus, statistics, and algorithms , as well as a slew of computer courses, including computer theory, information management, and design physics.
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#50. Physics and Astronomy (tie)
- Early career pay: $56,500
- Mid-career pay: $123,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 36%
While reaching the stars from a salary standpoint requires a doctorate, graduates with a bachelor’s degree in physics and astronomy can find work in a variety of fields, both within the government and private sectors. Coursework includes extensive math, statistics, and science training to learn how matter interacts with energy .
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#48. Biomedical Engineering
- Early career pay: $71,300
- Mid-career pay: $123,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 72%
A degree in biomedical engineering entails taking many of the same courses needed to graduate from medical school. Biomedical engineering students can take several paths within the discipline , including medical imaging, nanotechnologies, genetic engineering, or prosthetics. An increasing aging population will help increase the demand for biomedical engineers.
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#48. Managerial Economics
- Early career pay: $65,200
- Mid-career pay: $123,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 41%
Up to 6,270 managerial economic degrees were awarded during the U.S. 2018–2019 college year, making the major the 110th most popular. Courses for the major include accounting, calculus, econometrics, financial markets, economics of regulation, international trade, and money and banking. Graduates of the major find careers as financial managers and analysts, executive directors, and economists.
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#47. Economics and Mathematics
- Early career pay: $68,200
- Mid-career pay: $124,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 35%
Mathematical economists solve complex economic problems using principles of algebra, calculus, and statistics, and form models to predict future performance. Mathematical economists rely on quantitative methods, and advanced knowledge of computer modeling can help set job candidates apart when looking for work in finance, government, or education .
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#46. Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Early career pay: $73,100
- Mid-career pay: $124,800
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 48%
Industrial and systems engineering students specifically focus on productivity and quality improvement. They improve a business’ workflow by looking at people, product, and process to maximize efficiency. Employment in this sector is expected to grow 10% from 2019 to 2021, a rate above the national average , thanks to growing needs in the health care and automation industries.
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#45. Computer Science and Mathematics
- Early career pay: $70,500
- Mid-career pay: $125,100
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 43%
Combining computer science and mathematics can lead to a lucrative career as a software developer, programmer, or research scientist. The job outlook for these majors is fairly strong, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicting 16% growth for researchers , and 21% for developers . Additional certifications can help enhance job prospects and boost starting salary.
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#42. Astronomy (tie)
- Early career pay: $66,600
- Mid-career pay: $125,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 47%
Astronomy majors prepare to unlock the mysteries of the universe, and unlike most sciences where lab work is imperative, astronomers use mostly observation and math. Skills in physics, cosmology, and math are needed to observe, chart, and track celestial bodies as they move across the night sky. A bachelor’s degree in astronomy points graduates toward careers in fields like telescope operator or research assistant, while a doctorate is generally preferred to work in an academic setting as an astronomer.
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#42. Optical Science and Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $71,000
- Mid-career pay: $125,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
A major in optical science and engineering goes on to a career in optical design, fabrication, instrumentation, and communications. Optical engineers must have strong skills in math, physics, manual dexterity, and problem-solving . They should also be versed in optical design/analysis tools, such as Zemax, Code V, or Trace Pro, and be able to use a variety of scientific and laboratory equipment.
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#42. Quantitative Business Analysis (tie)
- Early career pay: $74,000
- Mid-career pay: $125,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 37%
Helping businesses make smart financial decisions by analyzing data falls under the purview of graduates with degrees in quantitative business analysis. Careers in this type of finance are in high demand, with the ability to value securities, identify investment opportunities, and even develop computer software. Graduates with a degree in the field will have a strong command of mathematics and statistics, while advanced computer skills are becoming more important for finding a higher-paying job.
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#41. Aerospace Engineering
- Early career pay: $74,300
- Mid-career pay: $125,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 55%
Aerospace engineering prepares graduates to design aircraft, including planes, missiles, and satellites. A downturn in manufacturing dampens the job outlook for graduates with an aerospace engineering degree, but a push toward the development of smaller satellites and unmanned aircraft should help offset that. Seeking additional training in computer languages, as well as structural engineering, can help job prospects.
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#40. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Early career pay: $74,700
- Mid-career pay: $125,800
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 56%
Learning how to design and manufacture electronic and electrical devices , along with computers and their components, is the goal of electrical and electronics engineering majors. Telecommunications, power generation, and the biomedical field are just a few of the career paths graduates can strive to attain. This job market is expected to slow in the next decade due to a downturn in manufacturing, but technological advancements and updates to the nation’s power grid should help offset losses.
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#39. Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Early career pay: $75,500
- Mid-career pay: $126,000
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 45%
Computational and applied mathematics involves creating and using mathematical models to solve complex science and engineering problems. A strong foundation in math, science, and engineering is required for a graduate to find success in a wide range of potential careers, including actuaries, forensic science, and teaching.
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#38. Instrumentation and Control Engineering
- Early career pay: $73,100
- Mid-career pay: $126,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
Instrumentation and control engineering majors will learn how to measure and control variables like temperature, pressure, and flow in a system. Knowledge of mathematics and physics, as well as engineering, are critical for success in the field. While the job outlook for engineers is declining, instrumentation engineers are critical to setting up and maintaining automated systems , which are always in demand.
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#37. Welding Engineering
- Early career pay: $81,000
- Mid-career pay: $126,600
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 56%
Using heat and pressure to fuse two pieces of metal into one as a welding engineer requires skills in computer design, math, and chemistry, among others. After graduating, four years of work experience is required before taking a state licensure exam to become a professional engineer. Joining professional organizations—such as the American Welding Society or the Edison Welding Institute—can enhance job prospects for entry-level candidates, who can find work in shipyards, oil rigs, or research laboratories.
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#36. Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
- Early career pay: $70,900
- Mid-career pay: $126,900
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 60%
Understanding how to build, fix, and maintain machinery falls to a mechanical engineer, while those who add aeronautical engineering to their major focus on airplanes, missiles, and weapons systems. Skills learned during this four-year degree include extensive math, physics, drafting, and computer courses. Both types of engineering are expected to grow at about the national average for the next decade, while combining the two can push a candidate to the top of the hiring list.
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#35. Marine Transportation Management
- Early career pay: $71,100
- Mid-career pay: $127,500
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: data not available%
Training officer, deck cadet, merchant marine, third mate, and seaman are some of the job titles these college majors have. Marine and other transportation management jobs have been on the uprise since 2004, averaging 0.41% growth annually . ZipRecruiter reports marine transportation jobs and annual salary vary, noting career growth is directly related to skill and location.
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#33. Electrical Engineering (tie)
- Early career pay: $75,600
- Mid-career pay: $127,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 54%
Electrical engineers design and maintain electrical equipment , and require extensive training in math, science, and engineering. Despite slower job growth than average, learning new technologies can give grads an advantage in the job market, as research and development provide steady work. Passing an exam to become an engineer-in-training is a must, while work experience and further state licensing are needed to become a professional engineer.
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#33. Foreign Affairs (tie)
- Early career pay: $54,800
- Mid-career pay: $127,700
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 36%
Earning a degree in foreign affairs earns students knowledge of the ins and outs of foreign and domestic policy , including trade policy and public relations. Graduates can seek careers in government as diplomats or intelligence officers, or in the private sector working for international banks or businesses. Additional language skills are a plus for graduates seeking to reach the top of the applicant list.
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#32. Nuclear Engineering
- Early career pay: $76,400
- Mid-career pay: $129,400
- Share of alumni who say their work makes the world a better place: 62%
Designing and developing instruments and equipment related to the harnessing of nuclear power and radiation falls to nuclear engineering professionals. Graduates can find work with the government, in construction, or within the medical field, while a third are employed in electric power generation. Knowledge of computer programs , like LINUX, Oracle Java, and C++, among others, can enhance job prospects and pay. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/55-1-joint-reunion-bradford-tremper-class-of-1966-scheduled-for-july-29/article_e16a73ac-fe06-11ec-a27b-5fe52e77d50d.html | 2022-07-08T01:15:10 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/55-1-joint-reunion-bradford-tremper-class-of-1966-scheduled-for-july-29/article_e16a73ac-fe06-11ec-a27b-5fe52e77d50d.html |
Kenosha police block off an entrance to 36th Avenue at 50th Street while investigating a shooting that occurred just before 10 p.m. Wednesday night. The 43-year-old victim has since been treated and released from a local hospital.
Kenosha police investigate a shooting that occurred just before 10 p.m. Wednesday night at 36th Avenue between 48th and 50th streets. The 43-year-old victim has since been treated and released from a local hospital.
Kenosha police block off an entrance to 36th Avenue at 50th Street while investigating a shooting that occurred just before 10 p.m. Wednesday night. The 43-year-old victim has since been treated and released from a local hospital.
Kenosha police block off an entrance to 36th Avenue at 50th Street while investigating a shooting that occurred just before 10 p.m. Wednesday night. The 43-year-old victim has since been treated and released from a local hospital.
Kenosha police block off an entrance to 36th Avenue at 50th Street while investigating a shooting that occurred just before 10 p.m. Wednesday night. The 43-year-old victim has since been treated and released from a local hospital.
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Kenosha police block off an entrance to 36th Avenue at 50th Street while investigating a shooting that occurred just before 10 p.m. Wednesday night. The 43-year-old victim has since been treated and released from a local hospital.
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Kenosha police investigate a shooting that occurred just before 10 p.m. Wednesday night at 36th Avenue between 48th and 50th streets. The 43-year-old victim has since been treated and released from a local hospital.
Terry Flores
SHOOTING WILSON HEIGHTS
Kenosha police block off an entrance to 36th Avenue at 50th Street while investigating a shooting that occurred just before 10 p.m. Wednesday night. The 43-year-old victim has since been treated and released from a local hospital.
Terry Flores
SHOOTING WILSON HEIGHTS
Kenosha police block off an entrance to 36th Avenue at 50th Street while investigating a shooting that occurred just before 10 p.m. Wednesday night. The 43-year-old victim has since been treated and released from a local hospital.
Terry Flores
SHOOTING WILSON HEIGHTS
Kenosha police block off an entrance to 36th Avenue at 50th Street while investigating a shooting that occurred just before 10 p.m. Wednesday night. The 43-year-old victim has since been treated and released from a local hospital.
Terry Flores
A man arrived at a local hospital with multiple gunshots to his upper body Wednesday night as Kenosha police investigate a shooting in the city for a third consecutive night.
The latest shooting was reported just before 10 p.m. and officers were still on the scene just before midnight canvassing at homes, talking to residents and collecting evidence at 36th Avenue between 48th and 50th Streets. The victim was driven to the hospital, according to Capt. Tim Schaal of the Kenosha Police Department.
“What we know is we have one male victim. He is in serious, but stable condition at the hospital,” Schaal said. “That’s the only victim that we know of as of right now...he was driven by a third party down to the hospital.”
According to a social media release Thursday, the victim was a 43-year-old male who has since been released from a local hospital.
Schaal said officers were investigating two separate scenes, however, in the city’s Wilson Heights neighborhood. Police radio traffic indicated officers were also checking on the possibility of another victim and were contacting hospitals in nearby communities, including Racine and cities along and near the northern Illinois border.
“It sounds like the incident started at one location and then progressed and moved along to the actual shooting location,” he said.
Police did not have suspects in the shooting.
“There’s a general lack of cooperation from the victim,” Schaal said.
Police also continue investigations into two shootings that occurred in Uptown earlier this week including one at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the 6100 block of 24th Avenue. In that incident, a 49-year-old man was taken to the hospital after he suffered multiple wounds as a result of gunfire. The man was reported in stable condition and expected to survive.
At 10:20 p.m. Monday night, five people were victims of a mass shooting including 20-year-old Anderail K. Armstrong of Kenosha who died in the incident that occurred in the 6300 block of 25th Avenue. Of the surviving victims, two had serious, but non-life- threatening injuries. The remaining two victims were in very serious condition, with life threatening injuries, but have since stabilized, police said.
The Thursday release said it was uncertain if this shooting was related to the previous shootings on July 4 and July 5.
No suspects have been arrested in the gun violence that occurred in Uptown. An investigation is open and ongoing.
This year to date, the KPD has seized 142 firearms, all of which have been related to a crime or rom a person that could not legally possess a firearm. 41 people have been arrested for felon in possession of a firearm and 18 people for aggravated assault with a firearm. 53 people have been arrested concealed carrying a weapon.
Investigators are asking anyone with information about the three shootings to contact the detective bureau at 262-605-5203 or Kenosha Area Crime Stoppers at 262-656-7333. People who call Crime Stoppers remain anonymous.
In an opinion delivered Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin ruled in favor of Chrystul Kizer, who in 2018 was accused of killing the man who had been sex trafficking her and other girls.
The state of Wisconsin has revoked the wholesale dealer license for Elkhorn car dealer, Car Rangers LLC, after the dealership was found rolling back odometers and altering titles to reflect lower mileage, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
Between April and May, a confidential informant reported purchasing 0.7 grams of crack cocaine, 4.5 grams of cocaine and fentanyl, and 0.8 grams of MDMA and fentanyl.
UNION GROVE — Three mobile homes were to have suffered damage, and may have been completely destroyed, in a fire that was extinguished after firefighters from more than a dozen agencies responded to the Hickory Haven mobile home park on Schoen Road Saturday afternoon. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/updated-watch-now-kenosha-police-investigate-shooting-in-wilson-heights-neighborhood-in-third-night-of/article_f53795e0-fdac-11ec-8c0b-fb8a26c8576e.html | 2022-07-08T01:15:16 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/updated-watch-now-kenosha-police-investigate-shooting-in-wilson-heights-neighborhood-in-third-night-of/article_f53795e0-fdac-11ec-8c0b-fb8a26c8576e.html |
Jacob Blake Sr., father of Jacob Blake Jr., was transported to an Akron, Ohio, area hospital after being detained by Akron police during a protest Wednesday evening. Protesters gathered in Akron in the wake of the police killing of Jayland Walker last month.
Justin Blake, Blake Sr.’s brother, said Blake Sr. has several health conditions, including heart problems, that were exacerbated by his encounter with the police. As of Thursday afternoon, Blake Sr. remained in the hospital in non-critical condition.
The Akron police department issued a warrant for Blake Sr.’s arrest Thursday afternoon according to municipal records, charging Blake Sr. with rioting, resisting arrest, failing to disperse and disorderly conduct. Akron police declined to provide additional information.
Online video of the arrests show a Black man in a white shirt, identified as a Michael Harris, being detained by several officers. Another officer begins striking the man repeatedly in the face. Blake Sr. is also seen being detained by other officers, who cuff him on the hood of Austin’s vehicle.
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Justin Blake was highly critical of the department’s response to protests.
“They were making a statement, and they used all these people as examples,” Justin Blake said. “They’re showing they are a brutal police force.”
Justin Blake also bristled against the charges of resisting arrest and claims that his brother had been fleeing police, arguing that Blake Sr.’s health conditions made such accusations ridiculous.
“They were there to unite the community and family and to get justice, before they were attacked,” Justin Blake said. “He wasn’t resisting arrest, he was leaning on the fence for a respite. He’s handicapped.”
Also arrested at the protest was Bianca Austin, the aunt of Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed in her apartment by Louisville police in 2020.
Blake Sr.’s son Jacob Blake Jr. was shot seven times by Kenosha Police officer Rusten Sheskey Aug. 23, 2020, setting off days of protests and unrest when a video of the incident went viral online. Tensions culminated on the evening of Aug. 26, when Illinois teen Kyle Rittenhouse killed two men and injured a third.
Sheskey was ultimately cleared by the department of criminal wrong-doing, and the Rittenhouse shootings were determined to be self-defense following a jury trial.
Akron police officers shot and killed 25-year-old Jayland Walker after a car chase on June 27. Walker suffered at least 60 wounds, although it’s uncertain how many were exit and entrance wounds.
The killing has set off protests in the Ohio city, with reports of numerous arrests throughout the past few days. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/jacob-blake-sr-father-of-2020-kenosha-shooting-victim-jacob-blake-jr-is-detained-hospitalized/article_45dc0b72-fe1e-11ec-a547-bba2205bc3ab.html | 2022-07-08T01:15:22 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/jacob-blake-sr-father-of-2020-kenosha-shooting-victim-jacob-blake-jr-is-detained-hospitalized/article_45dc0b72-fe1e-11ec-a547-bba2205bc3ab.html |
While the start of the 2022-23 school year is still weeks down the road, the incoming principal at Randall Consolidated School is gearing up for the year ahead.
Earlier this year, Ron Rivard was hired as the school’s next principal.
When the previous principal resigned in March, the school, which includes classes for 4-year-old kindergarten through eighth grade, posted the opening and began interviews.
“We interviewed five candidates (and) narrowed that down to three,” said Bob Antholine, the school’s district administrator. “Then we had those three come in front of a team of teachers, board members, parents and a few other staff ... Ron rose to the top of that selection committee.”
Prior to accepting the position, Rivard was an elementary school principal in the South Milwaukee School District.
“Something I’m pretty passionate about is working with teachers in a professional development capacity and trying to help them be able to be better so they can be better for students,” Rivard said.
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This year will be Rivard’s 26th year working in education.
“Ron has experience so he’s able to kind of come into the position and just start running,” Antholine said. “He’s also super personable and a connector, and that was a huge trait we were looking for.”
Rivard’s goals as new principal include making a positive impact and to learn more about Randall’s history.
“The goal that I always have for myself is trying to have the most positive impact that I can on students, families and the surrounding community,” Rivard said. “The other thing I want to do is I just want to learn more about the history here at Randall. I know there’s a past and that’s super important here and very important for me as new person.”
Although he is happy to enjoy the rest of his summer, Rivard is looking forward to the start of the school year.
“Aug. 25 is a date circled on my calendar because that’s open house so we’ll be able to see families and kids coming back,” Rivard said. “And then Aug. 31 is the first day of school so that’ll be very exciting.” | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/ron-rivard-gears-up-as-new-principal-at-randall-consolidated-school/article_3c186cae-fe2b-11ec-b559-2bc5fbc3f38d.html | 2022-07-08T01:15:28 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/ron-rivard-gears-up-as-new-principal-at-randall-consolidated-school/article_3c186cae-fe2b-11ec-b559-2bc5fbc3f38d.html |
Community members gathered Thursday morning at the Eiseley Branch Library to launch a new program that was created by a Lincoln East sophomore to foster a reading routine between caregivers and their newborn.
Through Books for Babies, all babies born in Lincoln hospitals will receive a free, developmentally appropriate board book.
Along with the book, caregivers will receive an informational pamphlet they can present at any Lincoln library to receive another free book for their newborn.
Ellie Hiser, a sophomore at Lincoln East, realized how great the need was for kids to be read to when her mother volunteered as a Court Appointed Special Advocate in Iowa.
"Families she worked with often had young kids, but never had any books in their homes," Hiser said.
Last summer, she began working to make her idea a reality by reaching out to Bryan Health. From there, they partnered with CHI St. Elizabeth and Lincoln City Libraries.
The program is being funded through donations from the hospitals, a Community Health Endowment grant and private contributions.
Marilyn Moore, vice president of the Community Health Endowment, said while it may seem silly to read to a newborn, language and vocabulary growth begins from birth.
"The first two years are probably the most important cognitive development and emotional development in a young child's life," Moore said.
The program will include a wide variety of books written in English, Spanish and Arabic, according to Pat Leach, Lincoln City Libraries director.
Lincoln City Libraries wants to make sure caregivers of all backgrounds are able to read to their newborns by acquiring more books in other languages going forward, Leach said.
"This looks different for every family and for each child in the family, so we want to make sure that people can make it their own," Leach said.
For more information on the program, visit lincolnlibraries.org and select the “Kids and Teens” tab.
Evelyn Mejia is a news intern and current sophomore at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She covers breaking news and writes feature stories about her community.
The Lincoln Police Department said Kevin Clements, 59, died when the chimney fell through his house in the Country Club Neighborhood after being struck by a tree branch.
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.
Children's books sit on a podium during an event Thursday at the Eiseley Branch Library announcing Books for Babies, a program which will give all babies born at Lincoln hospitals a free, developmentally appropriate board book.
Ellie Hiser smiles while her parents Elizabeth "Buffy" Hiser (left) and Dan Hiser look on during an event at the Eiseley Branch Library announcing Books for Babies, a program founded by Hiser which will provide all babies born at Lincoln hospitals with a free, developmentally appropriate board book.
Marilyn Moore, vice president of the Community Health Endowment, speaks during an event Thursday at the Eiseley Branch Library announcing the Books for Babies program. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/watch-now-lincoln-east-sophomore-helps-create-reading-program-to-benefit-newborns/article_d5825a4d-be3d-55dc-8f3f-4aa514e485a3.html | 2022-07-08T01:20:29 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/watch-now-lincoln-east-sophomore-helps-create-reading-program-to-benefit-newborns/article_d5825a4d-be3d-55dc-8f3f-4aa514e485a3.html |
EUREKA — A 25-year-old Goodfield man pleaded not guilty Thursday to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in Woodford County .
Jose Emmett entered the pleas to one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse; in a separate case, he pleaded not guilty to charges of unlawful possession of cannabis and unlawful possession with intent to deliver cannabis.
According to the arrest report, the girl reported abuse that she said happened June 24 and 26 at Emmett’s residence within the Timberline Campground in Goodfield.
Officers from the Deer Creek/Goodfield Police Department reported they conducted a search warrant at Emmett’s residence on July 1 and found approximately 657 grams of cannabis, more than $300 in cash, a scale and bags.
The defendant was charged Monday and a grand jury returned a bill of indictment Thursday.
Emmett is due back in court Aug. 3.
A booking photo was not immediately available Thursday.
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Tyson Brown
Tyson Brown is charged with burglary and forgery for attempting to cash a stolen check at CEFCU in Normal.
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Zachary J. Williamson
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Stephon T. Carter
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Richard L. Kletz
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Brennen M. Whiteside
Brennen M. Whiteside, 33, of Bloomington, is charged with one count each of vehicular invasion and aggravated battery.
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Xavier M. Moreau
Xavier M. Moreau, 19, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and violation of the Firearm Owner’s Identification Card Act.
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Corey W. Elizondo
Corey W. Elizondo, 31, of Peoria, is charged with possession of a stolen or converted stolen vehicle and theft.
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Joshua A. Lindsey
Joshua A. Lindsey, 33, of Bloomington, is charged with the following:
Two counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver (15 to 100 grams and 5 to 15 grams of meth) Two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (15 to 100 grams and 5 to 15 grams of MDMA) Two counts of unlawful possession of meth (15 to 100 grams and 5 to 15 grams of meth) Unlawful possession of a controlled substance (less than 15 grams of MDMA) Unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (amphetamine) Four counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance (less than 15 grams of amphetamine, less than 15 grams of clonazepam, less than 15 grams of lorazepam, less than 15 grams of cocaine) Unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver (30 to 500 grams) Unlawful possession of cannabis (30 to 500 grams)
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Ronnie Cannon
Ronnie Cannon, 43, of Chicago, is charged with possession of a stolen firearm, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon.
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Duane K. Martin
Duane K. Martin, 34, of Bloomington is charged with unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, three counts of unlawful delivery of 1-15 grams of cocaine and four counts of unlawful delivery of less than 1 gram of cocaine.
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Destinee M. Nuckolls
Destinee M. Nuckolls, 23, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine and permitting unlawful use of a building.
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Tyler C. Neely
Tyler C. Neely, 21, of Bloomington, is charged with four counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm (Class X and Class 1 felonies), reckless discharge of a firearm (Class 4 felony) and methamphetamine possession (Class 3 felony).
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Brandon E.J. Frieburg
Brandon E.J. Frieburg, 29, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 100 to 400 grams of meth with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of 15 to 100 grams of meth (Class X felonies).
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Rhiannan O. Keith
Rhiannan O. Keith, 23, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 100 to 400 grams of meth with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of 15 to 100 grams of meth (Class X felonies).
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George E. Wisehart
George E. Wisehart, 44, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of 5 to 15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver and two counts of meth possession.
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Christopher A. Johnson
Christopher A. Johnson, 29, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 5 to 15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony), possession of less than 5 grams of meth (Class 3 felony) and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of a controlled substance (Class 4 felony).
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Kelyi G. Kabongo
Kelyi G. Kabongo, 21, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession 5 to 15 grams of meth and less than 5 grams of meth with the intent to deliver, possession of 5 to 15 grams of meth and possession of less than 5 grams of meth.
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Tyrone L. McKinney
Tyrone L. McKinney, 30, of Bloomington, was sentenced to eight years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of 1 to 15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver.
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Terrance T. Jones
Terrance T. Jones, 34, of Chicago, is charged with armed robbery (Class X felony), aggravated battery causing great bodily harm (Class 3 felony), and two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon (Class 2 and 3 felonies).
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Noel R. Castillo
Noel R. Castillo, 48, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful vehicular invasion, aggravated battery, theft, criminal damage to government supported property and resisting a peace officer.
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Kerrigan T. Spencer
Kerrigan T. Spencer, 18, of Normal, is charged with two counts of burglary.
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Austin S. Waller
Austin S. Waller, 20, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of burglary at a Bloomington smoke shop. He is separately charged with three counts of burglary at the Corn Crib.
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Jacob S. Upton
Jacob S. Upton, 20, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of burglary.
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Franklin P. Roberts
Franklin P. Roberts, 50, of Bloomington, is charged with threatening a public official (Class 2 felony) and domestic battery (Class 4 felony).
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Ashley R. Schneiderheinze
Ashley R. Schneiderheinze, 32, is charged with unlawful possession of:
15 to 100 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class X felony) 15 to 100 grams of cocaine (Class 1 felony) 15 to 100 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class X felony) 15 to 100 grams of meth (Class 1 felony) Less than 15 grams of alprazolam (Class 4 felony) Less than 15 grams of clonazepam (Class 4 felony) 30 to 100 grams of cannabis (Class A misdemeanor) She also is charged with two counts of permitting the unlawful use of a building.
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Brandon E. Reynolds
Brandon E. Reynolds, 35, of LeRoy, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation for a charge of grooming.
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Hannah J. Jackson
Hannah J. Jackson , 21, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of cocaine and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine.
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Jason M. Harris
Jason M. Harris , 33, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated arson (Class X felony), residential arson (Class 1 felony) and two counts of arson (Class 2 felonies).
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Michael S. Parkerson
Michael S. Parkerson, 54, is charged with unlawful possession of methamphetamine (Class 2 felony) and possession of drug paraphernalia (Class A misdemeanor).
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Kerry M. Huls
Kerry M. Huls, 47, of Bloomington is charged with unlawful delivery of 5 to 15 grams of meth, unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of meth, unlawful possession of 5 to 15 grams of meth, and unlawful possession of less than 5 grams of meth.
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Randy M. Turner
Randy M. Turner, 39, of Danville, is charged with two counts of disarming a peace officer, five counts of aggravated battery, unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, attempted possession of a stolen motor vehicle, criminal damage to government supported property and driving under the influence of drugs.
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Malik A. Wilson
Malik A. Wilson, 23, of Chicago, is charged with two counts of attempted armed robbery and aggravated discharge of a firearm, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
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Jaren K. Jackson-Coates
Jaren K. Jackson-Coates, 24, of Peoria, is charged with unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of cannabis.
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Jawarren L. Clements
Jawarren L. Clements, 25, of Peoria, is charged with unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of cannabis.
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Hunter A.W. Williamson
Hunter A.W. Williamson, 23, of Heyworth, is charged with cannabis trafficking and unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class X felonies).
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Mason A. Artis
Mason A. Artis, 22, of Shirley, is charged with possession of a stolen license plate, unauthorized use of a license plate and three counts of theft. He is separately charged with unlawful possession of 15 to 100 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver (Class X felony) and unlawful possession of 15 to 100 grams of meth (Class 1 felony).
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Kenyatta C. Chissell
Kenyatta C. Chissell, 40, of Bloomington, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of heroin.
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Shanarra S. Spillers
Shanarra S. Spillers , 36, of Normal, is charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and reckless discharge of a firearm (Class 4 felonies).
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Enrique D. Sosa
Enrique D. Sosa, 55, of Spanish Fork, Utah, is charged with theft, financial institution fraud, wire fraud and two counts of computer fraud.
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Caleb W. Collier
Caleb W. Collier, 20, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class 1 and 2 felonies). He is accused of possessing between 1 and 15 grams of cocaine and less than 1 gram of cocaine.
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Jahda R. Davis
Jahda R. Davis, 20, of Normal, is charged with aggravated battery and resisting a peace officer.
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Roosevelt Williams
Roosevelt Williams, 43, of Bloomington, is charged with home invasion, criminal trespass to a residence and battery.
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Mark A. Carter
Mark A. Carter, 35, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Class 1 felony).
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Corey B. Dowell
Corey B. Dowell , 24, of Bloomington, is charged with failure to report an accident or injury.
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Joshua V. Wilburn
Joshua V. Wilburn, 33, of Bloomington, is charged with burglary and retail theft.
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Alicia L. Rodriguez
Alicia L. Rodriguez, 19, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated battery and domestic battery.
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Christina E. Dickey
Christina E. Dickey, 37, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Class 2 felonies).
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David L. Hendricks
David L. Hendricks, 44, of Clearwater, Florida, is charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class X felony), unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Class 1 felony) and unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class 2 felony).
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Kenneth R. McNairy
Kenneth R. McNairy, 32, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class X and Class 1 felonies), and two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Class 1 and Class 4 felonies).
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Christopher Garza
Christopher O. Garza, 35, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 30 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of domestic battery.
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Emmitt A. Simmons
Emmitt A. Simmons, 21, of LeRoy, is charged with indecent solicitation of a child (Class 2 felony).
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Joshua K. Wilson
Joshua K. Wilson, 39, of Normal, was sentenced to 152 days in jail and 24 months on conditional discharge after pleading guilty to one count of domestic battery.
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Kavion J. Anderson
Kavion J. Anderson, 18, of Hazel Crest, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation. He earned credit for 197 days served in jail. Anderson pleaded guilty to one count of vehicular hijacking.
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Elizabeth A. Johnson
Elizabeth A. Johnson, 40, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony), unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony), and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of meth (Class 3 felony).
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Jonathon P. Keister
Jonathon P. Keister, 38, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony), unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony), and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of meth (Class 3 felony).
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Brettais J. Lane
Brettais J. Lane, 30, of Bloomington, was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to unlawful delivery of a controlled substance in a public park and ulawful possession of a weapon by a felon.
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Jessica N. Huff
Jessica N. Huff, 35, of Peoria, was sentenced to seven years in prison. She pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of 15 to 100 grams of methamphetamine.
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Craig O. Harrington
Craig O. Harrington , 23, of Chicago, was sentenced to 30 months on probation after pleading guilty to one count of burglary.
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Brandon J. Black
Brandon J. Black, 33, of Decatur, is charged with child pornography (Class X felony), attempt to produce child pornography (Class 3 felony), sexual exploitation of a child and grooming (Class 4 felonies).
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Ricky A. Smith
Ricky A. Smith , 30, 0f Urbana, is charged with unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver, possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class X felonies), unlawful possession of meth and possession of a controlled substance (Class 1 felonies).
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Jesse S. Duncan
Jesse S. Duncan, 28, of Bloomington, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. He pleaded guilty to criminal damage to property with a value of between $500 and $10,000.
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Rhonda L. Davis
Rhonda L. Davis , 41, of Bloomington, was sentenced to four days in jail and 30 months on probation. She pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
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Brenden P. Cano
Brenden P. Cano , 23, of LeRoy, was sentenced to eight years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of child pornography production.
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Dujuan L. Enos
Dujuan L. Enos, 48, of Normal, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of between 15 and 100 grams of fentanyl.
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Chester Johnson
Chester Johnson, 69, of Chicago, was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful possession of firearm ammunition by felon.
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James Canti
James Canti, 48, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of between 15 and 100 grams of heroin.
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Justin A. Atkinson
Justin A. Atkinson , 39, of Bloomington, was sentenced to one year in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful restraint.
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Connor M. Mink
Connor M. Mink, 18, of Bloomington is charged with unlawful:
Possession of 5-15 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) Possession of less than 5 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 2 felony) Possession of 5-15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony) Possession of less than 5 grams of meth (Class 3 felony) Possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) Possession of less than 1 gram of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 2 felony) Possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony) Possession of less than 15 grams of alprazolam (Class 4 felony) Possession of 30-500 grams of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class 3 felony) Possession of 10-30 grams of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class 4 felony)
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Mark A. Thrower
Mark A. Thrower, 40, of Vinton, Louisiana, is charged with:
Eight counts child pornography (Class X felonies) Two counts aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a minor (Class 2 felonies) Two counts grooming (Class 4 felonies) Indecent solicitation of a child (Class 3 felony) Traveling to meet a minor (Class 3 felony)
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Kayala D.C. Huff
Kayala D.C. Huff, 23, of Normal, is charged with aggravated battery, domestic battery and resisting a peace officer.
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Rebecca Y. Choi
Rebecca Y. Choi, 32, of Wheaton, is charged with unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony), possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony), possession of less than 15 grams of amphetamine (Class 4 felony), and possession of drug paraphernalia (Class A misdemeanor).
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David W. Kallal
David W. Kallal, 36, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class X felony), 5-15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony), possession of 15-100 grams of meth (Class 1 felony), and possession of 5-15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Javon T. Murff
Javon T. Murff, 19, of Normal, is charged with two counts aggravated discharge of a firearm (Class 1 felony), robbery (Class 2 felony), possession of a stolen firearm (Class 2 felony), two counts aggravated unlawful use of a weapon (Class 4 felony), two counts reckless discharge of a firearm (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Demarcus J. Heidelberg
Demarcus J. Heidelberg, 24, of Belleville, is charged with unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) and unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Deon K. Moore
Deon K. Moore, 26, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon (Class 2 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Cordaiz J. Jones
Cordaiz J. Jones, 35, is charged with two counts of aggravated battery (Class 2 felonies), stalking (Class 4 felony) and two counts of misdemeanor resisting a peace officer.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Christopher L. Anderson
Christopher L. Anderson, 40, of Downs, was sentenced to 167 days in jail and 30 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of domestic battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Darrius J. Heard
Darrius J. Heard, 21, of Clarksville, Tennessee, was sentenced to six days in jail and 30 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Latele Y. Pinkston
Latele Y. Pinkston , 29, was sentenced to five years in prison. Pinkston pleaded guilty to unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Daniel Wilcox
Daniel Wilcox, 22, of New Concord, Kentucky, is charged with five counts each of criminal sexual assault (Class 1 felonies) and criminal sexual abuse, which are charged as Class A misdemeanors.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kaveior K. Thomas
Kaveior K. Thomas, 32, of Normal, is charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class X felony), unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Class 1 felony), two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, and violation of the Illinois FOID Card Act (Class 3 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Courtney A. Boyd
Courtney A. Boyd, 27, of Normal, is charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jodi M. Draper
Jodi M. Draper, 55, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Brian D. Stewart
Brian D. Stewart, 48, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Lonnie L. Kimbrough
Lonnie L. Kimbrough , 36, of Peoria, was sentenced to 24 months on conditional discharge and four days in jail. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful cannabis possession.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Amari S. Buchanon
Amari S. Buchanon, 25, of Normal, was sentenced to 16 days in jail. She earned credit for eight days served in jail. She pleaded guilty to one count of possessing a firearm without a valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Donna Osborne
Donna Osborne, 52, of Decatur, is charged with two counts of burglary (Class 2 felonies) and one count each of retail theft (Class 3 felony) and theft (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Juls T. Eutsey
Julian T. Eutsey, 21, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 24 months on probation. She pleaded guilty to one count of criminal sexual abuse.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Megan J. Duffy
Megan J. Duffy, 27, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 102 days in jail and 30 months on probation. She pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of 5 to 15 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Qwonterian V. Ivy
Qwonterian V. Ivy, 24, of Bloomington, was sentenced to four years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm at an occupied building.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Madison A. Knight
Madison A. Knight , 20, of Rutland, was sentenced to 120 days in jail and 30 months' probation for unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Dexter D. McCraney
Dexter D. McCraney , 38, of Normal, is charged with one count each of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Thomas J. Davis
Thomas J. Davis , 27, of Bloomington, was sentenced to six years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of 1-15 grams of cocaine. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Christina D. Noonan
Christina D. Noonan , 42, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of controlled substance trafficking (Class X felonies), two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver charged as Class X felonies and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver as a Class 3 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Wesley M. Noonan
Wesley M. Noonan , 48, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of controlled substance trafficking (Class X felonies), two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver charged as Class X felonies and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver as a Class 3 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kenyatta L. Tate
Kenyatta L. Tate , 46, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts each of unlawful possession of between 15-100 grams and 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class X and Class 1 felonies) and unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Class 2 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Quacy L. Webster
Quacy L. Webster , 43, of Bloomington, is charged with one count each of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Class 2 felony) and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jalen A. Davis
Jalen A. Davis , 21, of Bloomington, is charged with six counts of child pornography possession (Class X felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Lazaro Flores
Lazaro Flores , 34, of Streator, was sentenced to seven years in prison for aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol causing death.
Mohamed N. Thiam
Mohamed N. Thiam , 19, of Bloomington, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Lorenzo Sims
Lorenzo Sims, 30, of Chicago, is charged with five counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Class 2 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Laycell D. Wright
Laycell D. Wright , 32, of Rantoul, is charged with unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of methamphetamine (Class 1 felony). He also is charged with unlawful possession of 100-500 grams of cannabis (Class 4 felony) and 30-100 grams of cannabis (Class A misdemeanor).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Richard S. Bjorling
Richard S. Bjorling , 54, of Peoria Heights, was sentenced to seven years in prison for unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tyler D. Vidmar
Tyler D. Vidmar , 23, of Clinton, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
James E. Chase
James E. Chase , 52, of Bloomington, is charged with three counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Melissa J. Piercy
Melissa J. Piercy , 38, of Normal, is charged with unlawful delivery of meth (Class 2 felony), unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class X felony) and unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Charles L. Bell
Charles L. Bell , 33, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated battery (Class X felony), two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm (Class 1 felonies), aggravated unlawful use of a weapon (Class 2 felony), unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon (Class 2 felony), and violation of the Illinois Firearm Identification Card Act (Class 3 felony).
BLOOMINGTON POLICE
Wilmer A. Marquez-Ayala
Wilmer A. Marquez-Ayala , 35, of Bloomington, is charged with six counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a minor family member (Class 2 felonies) and three counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a victim under 13 years old (Class X felonies).
BLOOMINGTON POLICE
Joshway C. Boens
Joshway C. Boens , 41, of Chicago, was sentenced to 143 days in jail and 30 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of domestic battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Seth A. Kindred
Seth A. Kindred , 31, of Ellsworth, was sentenced March 30 to six years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver.
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Matthew D. Nunley
Matthew D. Nunley , 33, of Eureka, was sentenced to four years in prison for one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Clinton A. Page
Clinton A. Page , 29, of Normal, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 24 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery of a peace officer.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Loren M. Jepsen
Loren M. Jepsen , 34, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of home invasion causing injury (Class X felony). All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Calvin E. Young
Calvin E. Young , 30, of Bloomington, was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of cocaine.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jason R. Roof
Jason R. Roof , 46, of Heyworth, was sentenced March 28 to five and a half years in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
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James L. Fields
James L. Fields , 24, of Bloomington, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated discharge of a firearm at an occupied vehicle and unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Michelle E. Mueller
Michelle E. Mueller , 32, of Normal, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation. She pleaded guilty to one count of burglary. All other charges were dismissed.
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Telly H. Arrington
Telly H. Arrington , 24, of Normal, is charged with four counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Antonio R. Ross
Antonio R. Ross , 28, of Springfield, was sentenced March 24 to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of retail theft. All other charges were dismissed. He also was ordered to pay $7,305 in restitution. Ross earned credit for previously serving 239 days in jail.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Carlos L. Hogan
Carlos L. Hogan , 33, of Decatur, was sentenced to four years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of 30-500 grams of cannabis. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
David W. Kallal
David W. Kallal , 36, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kent D. Johnson
Kent D. Johnson , 34, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated domestic battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Andre D. Seals
Andre D. Seals , 37, of Champaign, is charged with aggravated battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tyler S. Burns
Tyler S. Burns, 31, of Chenoa, was sentenced to 170 days in jail and 30 months probation. He earned credit for the 170 days previously served in jail. Burns pleaded guilty to one count of burglary.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Carrie Funk
Carrie Funk , 54, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of criminal neglect of an elderly person.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Anthony R. Fairchild
Anthony R. Fairchild , 51, of Bloomington, is charged with one count each of burglary and theft.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Inez J. Gleghorn
Inez J. Gleghorn, 39, of Bloomington, was sentenced to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm in connection to an April 2021 stabbing in Bloomington. Other battery charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Alexis S. Williams
Alexis S. Williams, 24, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation. She pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Nayeon A. Teague
Nayeon A. Teague , 21, of Normal, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
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Frankie L. Hutchinson
Frankie L. Hutchinson , 21, of Chicago, is charged with one count of aggravated unlawful possession of stolen vehicle parts, two counts of unlawful possession of stolen vehicle parts, two counts of aggravated fleeing a peace officer and two counts of criminal damage to property.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Joseph L. McLeod
Joseph L. McLeod , 40, of Peoria, is charged with two counts of burglary, two counts of theft, and one count each of forgery and deceptive practices.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Lanee R. Rich
Lanee R. Rich , 18, of Heyworth, is charged with two counts each of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Corey K. Butler
Corey K. Butler , 19, of Champaign, is charged with possession of a stolen firearm and two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Darrius D. Robinson
Darrius D. Robinson , 29, of Normal, is charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jacob Z. Kemp
Jacob Z. Kemp , 32, is charged with three counts of aggravated battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jonathan A. Jamison
Jonathan A. Jamison , 44, of Normal, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jonathon K. Campbell
Jonathan K. Campbell , 43, Jonathan K. Campbell, 43, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 48 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of domestic battery causing bodily harm.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Geno A. Borrego
Geno A. Borrego , 23, of Pontiac, is charged with two counts of criminal sexual assault.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jaylin M. Caldwell
Jaylin M. Caldwell , 21, of Bloomington, was sentenced to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of 1-15 grams of cocaine. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Joshua D. Rials
Joshua D. Rials , 28, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of armed violence, Class X felonies, four counts of unlawful possession of a firearm and firearm ammunition by a convicted felon, Class 2 felonies. He was charged March 1 with two counts each of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and of firearm ammunition by a felon.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jamakio D. Chapell
Jamakio D. Chapell , 28, of Montgomery, Alabama, is charged with four counts of Class 2 felony aggravated battery, misdemeanor resisting a peace officer and 11 traffic charges, including driving under the influence of alcohol.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Thomas E. Dolan
Thomas E. Dolan , 22, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of between 500 and 2,000 grams of cannabis with the intent to deliver, unlawful cannabis possession, battery and unlawful restraint.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jordyn H. Thornton
Jordyn H. Thornton , 22, of Bloomington, was convicted of first-degree murder in the Oct. 30, 2018, shooting death of Trevonte Kirkwood, 27, of Bloomington, in the 1300 block of North Oak Street in Bloomington.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Ty W. Johnson
Ty W. Johnson , 36, of Bloomington, is charged with criminal sexual assault, robbery and possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kyle D. Kindred
Kyle D. Kindred , 23, of Shirley, is charged with cannabis trafficking, two counts of unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver and two counts of unlawful possession of cannabis.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Lorel M. Johnson
Lorel M. Johnson , 41, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of aggravated domestic battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kimberlee A. Burton
Kimberlee A. Burton , 29, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of child endangerment, Class A misdemeanors.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kevin C. Knight
Kevin C. Knight , 40, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Derail T. Riley
Derail T. Riley , 35, of Normal, is charged with one count of aggravated domestic battery, a Class 2 felony, and five counts of Class 4 felony domestic battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Ade A. McDaniel
Ade A. McDaniel , 40, of North Miami Beach, Florida, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, a Class 1 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jahni A. Lyons
Jahni A. Lyons , 19, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
BLOOMINGTON POLICE
Destiny D. Brown
Destiny D. Brown , 39, of Bloomington, is charged with three counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver, three counts of methamphetamine possession and one count of methamphetamine delivery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Billy J. Braswell
Billy J. Braswell , 39, of Wapella, is charged with three counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver and four counts of methamphetamine possession.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Mitchell A. Rogers
Mitchell A. Rogers , 37, of Peoria, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver and two counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Matthew D. Stone
Matthew D. Stone , 22, of Normal, is charged with one count of aggravated battery, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tyler A. Guy
Tyler A. Guy , 25, of Towanda, is charged with one count of Class 2 felony aggravated battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Gordan D. Lessen
Gordan D. Lessen , 36, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of domestic battery as a subsequent offense, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Steven M. Abdullah
Steven M. Abdullah , 31, of Heyworth, is charged with two counts of harassment of jurors, Class 2 felonies, 11 counts of communication with jurors, Class 4 felonies, and one count of attempted communication with a juror, a Class A misdemeanor.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Ryan D. Triplett
Ryan D. Triplett , 27, of Decatur, is charged with aggravated domestic battery-strangulation, a Class 2 felony, and domestic battery as a subsequent offense felony, a Class 4 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Pedro A. Parra
Pedro A. Parra , 40, is charged with two counts of burglary, Class 2 and Class 3 felonies, and misdemeanor theft.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Gregory A. Spence
Gregory A. Spence , 39, of Bartonville, is charged with three counts of burglary, Class 2 felonies.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Justin A. Leicht
Justin A. Leicht , 41, of Downs, is charged with three counts of burglary, Class 2 felonies.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Edward L. Holmes
Edward L. Holmes , 50, of Bloomington, is charged with the following:
Controlled substance trafficking of between 400 and 900 grams of cocaine Unlawful possession of between 400 and 900 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver Controlled substance trafficking of between 100 and 400 grams of cocaine Unlawful possession of between 100 and 400 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver Methamphetamine trafficking of between 100 and 400 grams of a substance containing meth Unlawful possession of between 100 and 400 grams of meth with the intent to deliver Methamphetamine trafficking of between 15 and 100 grams of meth Unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of meth with the intent to deliver
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Latoya M. Jackson
Latoya M. Jackson , 31, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of possession of a stolen or converted motor vehicle, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Shaquan D. Hosea
Shaquan D. Hosea , 26, of Bloomington, is charged with residential burglary, a Class 1 felony, and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, a Class 4 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jaccob L. Morris
Jaccob L. Morris , 20, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation after pleading guilty to burglary.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Dontel D. Crowder
Dontel D. Crowder , 35, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, Class 2 felonies, and harboring a runaway, Class A misdemeanor.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Donnell A. Taylor
Donnell A. Taylor , 29, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Eric E. Seymon
Eric E. Seymon , 19, of Bloomington, is charged with eight counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Aikee Muhammad
Aikee Muhammad , 19, is charged with two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm, two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and resisting a peace officer.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
William M. McCuen
William M. McCuen , 33, of Atlanta, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Meontay D. Wheeler
Meontay D. Wheeler , 23, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and torture, a Class 1 felony, aggravated domestic battery, a Class 2 felony, and aggravated domestic battery involving strangulation, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Fenwrick M. Bartholomew
Fenwrick M. Bartholomew , 51, of Normal, was sentenced to three years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Javares L. Hudson
Javares L. Hudson , 21, of Bloomington, is charged in federal court with possession of a machine gun. He was initially charged in McLean County court with two counts of unlawful use of a weapon-machine gun parts. One charge is a Class X felony and the other is a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tommy L. Jumper
Tommy L. Jumper , 60, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 30 months on probation and 96 days in jail for one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
David S. Fry
David S. Fry , 70, of Normal, is charged with 45 counts of child pornography. Sixteen of the charges are a Class 2 felony and 29 charges are a Class 3 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Logan T. Kendricks
Logan T. Kendricks , 35, was sentenced to five years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated domestic battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Davis W. Hopkins
Davis W. Hopkins , 25, of Chenoa, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine, a Class X felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson , 38, of Chicago, is charged with unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, a Class X felony; unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of cocaine, a Class 1 felony; unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, a Class 2 felony; unlawful possession of firearm ammunition by a convicted felon, a Class 2 felony; unlawful possession of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class 3 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Rochelle A. McCray
Rochelle A. McCray , 37, of Chicago, is charged with unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, a Class X felony; unlawful possession of between 1 and 15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, a Class 1 felony; unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of cocaine, a Class 1 felony; unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine, a Class 4 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Dontae D. Gilbert
Dontae D. Gilbert , 31, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 36 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated domestic battery-strangulation.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Stefan A. Mangina
Stefan A. Mangina , 32, is charged with three counts of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine, unlawful possession of meth with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Michael J. Owen
Michael J. Owen , 30, of Stanford, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of between 1 and 15 grams of cocaine. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Cedric J. Haynes
Cedric J. Haynes , 21, of Bloomington, is charged with nine counts of unlawful delivery of less than 1 gram of cocaine, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jonathan Wiley
Jonathan Wiley , 30, of Chicago, is charged with attempted possession or sale of stolen car parts, a Class 2 felony, and resisting a peace officer, a Class A misdemeanor.
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Jason S. Russell
Jason S. Russell , 22, of Chicago, is charged with attempted possession or sale of stolen car parts, a Class 2 felony, and resisting a peace officer, a Class A misdemeanor.
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Aaron J. Zielinski
Aaron J. Zielinski, 28, of Plainfield, was sentenced to four years on probation for unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine. A charge of unlawful possession of meth with the intent to deliver was dismissed.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Albert F. Matheny
Albert F. Matheny , 35, of Bloomington, was sentenced Jan. 10 to six years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of less than five grams of methamphetamine.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Hunter C. Kellenberger
Hunter C. Kellenberger , 24, of Pekin, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine. A meth possession charge was dismissed.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Samuel Harris
Samuel Harris , 21, of Chicago, was sentenced to 22 days in jail and 30 months on probation after pleading guilty to one count of possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jordan P. Gillespie
Jordan P. Gillespie , 27, of LeRoy, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for residential burglary and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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William R. Carter
William R. Carter , 23, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexual assault, attempted residential arson and unlawful restraint.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kentre A. Jackson
Kentre A. Jackson, 26, of Ypsilanti, Mich., was sentenced to 30 months of conditional discharge. He was charged as of June 9, 2020, with unlawful possession of 500 to 2,000 grams of cannabis and unlawful possession of 500 to 2,000 grams of cannabis with the intent to deliver. The latter charge was dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Andrew L. Stanley
Andrew L. Stanley , 39, of Bloomington, was sentenced to four years on probation for one count of arson. He pleaded guilty to setting his home on fire while a woman and a teenage girl were inside. One count of aggravated arson was dismissed in a plea agreement.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jerail M. Myrick
Jerail M. Myrick , 26, of Springfield, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of less than 1 gram of cocaine, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Amari M. McNabb
Amari M. McNabb , 23, of Country Club Hills , was sentenced to 28 years in prison for murder and mob action for his involvement in the 2019 fatal shooting of Juan Nash, 25, in Bloomington. He was found guilty in a jury trial of those charges, but the jury found him not guilty of discharge of a firearm.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Aaron Parlier
Aaron M. Parlier , 40, was sentenced Jan. 14 to 450 years in prison after he was found guilty in a bench trial of 10 counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a minor and 10 counts of child pornography production.
Rebecca L. Gormley
Rebecca L. Gormley , 35, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Penny S. Self
Penny S. Self , 59, of Ashland, is charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Nathaniel A. Butler
Nathaniel A. Butler , 20, of Bloomington was sentenced Jan. 4, 2022, to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty to aggravated discharge of a firearm into an occupied building and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm without a valid firearm owners identification card.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Contact Kelsey Watznauer at (309) 820-3254. Follow her on Twitter: @kwatznauer.
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Indigenous land tour culminates with free concert at Centennial High
LAS CRUCES – A 30-day musical tour featuring five Indigenous land areas in the western U.S. is coming to an end this week with jazz band D’DAT visiting the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument and performing a concert at Centennial High School.
D’DAT is a jazz group — founded as a trio in 2013 by Delbert Anderson — and based out of Farmington. Members now include Anderson on trumpet, Nicholas Lucero on drums, James Patookas on vocals and Michael McCluhan on bass.
Anderson explained that they were all influenced by Gitche Manitou, a fellow musician, who suggested the fusion of traditional Native American sound with modern jazz funk and hip-hop music. Manitou would often travel from First Nations in Canada to Germany throughout the year, Anderson said.
“He would always go to this festival while he was in Germany and … literally paint a side of a mountain. He would rappel and do this big mural during this three-day festival that they had there,” Anderson said of the group's mentor. “He had a big vision all the time.”
D’DAT’s Painted Mountains Tour was inspired by Manitou and a way for the group to say goodbye and thank him for his support. The band hit the road this summer taking 30 days to visit Canyon of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado, Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, Mecca Flats in Oregon, King Range in California and Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks in New Mexico.
Anderson said he had over 100 representatives of national monuments contact him about performing at their location, but they were only able to schedule five. At each location, the band spent time in the environment and meeting with Indigenous tribes. They also hosted workshops for the community to better encapsulate the culture and sounds of the area.
They composed two original pieces for each stop, inspired by the knowledge they picked up, and performed for the communities on their last day. The original tracks will be part of a 10-track album released next year celebrating Indigenous lands and people.
The album is also a way to help preserve the culture and customs of the tribes during times when older generations are passing away and traditions are being lost.
“The whole thing is literally about collaboration,” Anderson said. “It's about celebrating, again, public lands and celebrating the Indigenous voices and really getting in between two identities I think that there’s a lot of misunderstanding with.”
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, which was established as a national monument in 2014 to protect mountain ranges and desert areas in southern New Mexico, will be the group’s final stop from July 7-9. Anderson said they will be meeting with people from the Mescalero Apache tribe.
On Friday, the band invited community members to join them at the national monument’s visitor center near the Dripping Springs Natural Area. Attendees of past workshops will bring their instruments to play with the band.
Two new compositions will be written based on the Las Cruces-area experience and a concert will be held at Centennial High School’s football field at 7 p.m. Saturday. It is a free concert and all are welcome.
Anderson said the band will record the new tracks in November and the album will likely be released about six months later. He said the goal is to tour with the album next year and visit more of the national monuments that originally showed interest. The Painted Mountains Tour may even become an annual trip.
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Leah Romero is the trending reporter at the Las Cruces Sun-News and can be reached at 575-418-3442, LRomero@lcsun-news.com or @rromero_leah on Twitter. | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2022/07/07/farmington-band-ddat-ending-indigenous-land-tour-at-organ-mountains-desert-peaks/65367593007/ | 2022-07-08T01:22:05 | 1 | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2022/07/07/farmington-band-ddat-ending-indigenous-land-tour-at-organ-mountains-desert-peaks/65367593007/ |
New Mexico governor withstands lawsuits over pandemic orders
SANTA FE – New Mexico residents who say they endured constitutional rights violations, depression and anxiety under aggressive public health restrictions during the coronavirus outbreak have abandoned a lawsuit against Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham after most allegations were dismissed by a judge.
The move came after a string of adverse rulings in state and federal courts for plaintiffs in several lawsuits that challenged the authority of the Democratic governor and state health officials to impose public health restrictions, such as mask mandates, that were phased out earlier this year.
New Mexico imposed some of the most aggressive public health restrictions in the U.S. during the pandemic — mandating face masks, halting in-person activity at nonessential businesses and allowing public schools to suspend in-person classroom teaching for about a year. The orders withstood repeated legal challenges.
Attorney Jonathan Diener said Tuesday that a dozen plaintiffs dropped their lawsuit against Lujan Grisham and state health officials after a federal magistrate judge last week dismissed most of their claims.
The plaintiffs included a pet food business in Rio Rancho, a martial arts studio in Bernalillo, a restaurant in Silver City and a member of an Albuquerque-based megachurch. The lawsuit sought to limit future public health emergency declarations.
Diener said the lawsuit no longer appeared viable, though the federal judge had allowed claims to move forward about possible infringements on religious freedoms during the state’s initial shutdown of in-person gatherings at churches and other places of worship.
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One plaintiff, a member of the Albuquerque-based Calvery Chapel, alleged that she was denied expression of her religious beliefs and that she suffered depression and anxiety set in from social isolation during the pandemic.
Three lawsuits against Lujan Grisham and her public health orders are still pending in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
New Mexico state judges have consistently backed the governor’s authority to impose broad public health orders.
The New Mexico Supreme Court in August 2020 affirmed the authority of the state health secretary to restrict or close businesses because of the coronavirus pandemic, rejecting assertions that a temporary ban on indoor dining services was arbitrary and capricious.
In June 2021, the state’s top court ruled that there is no constitutional or statutory requirement to compensate businesses for financial losses caused by emergency public health orders.
Allegations of economic hardship under the orders were blunted somewhat by billions of dollars in federal and state aid that was funneled to New Mexico residents and businesses to sustain payrolls and unemployment payments without corresponding tax increases.
The New Mexico Supreme Court also has ruled that the Legislature was allowed to restrict in-person access to the state Capitol due to the pandemic. | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/new-mexico/2022/07/07/new-mexico-governor-withstands-lawsuits-over-pandemic-orders/65368446007/ | 2022-07-08T01:22:11 | 1 | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/new-mexico/2022/07/07/new-mexico-governor-withstands-lawsuits-over-pandemic-orders/65368446007/ |
BOISE — Citing potential First Amendment violations, the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho has filed a public records request with the Nampa School District for communications related to the board’s decision to remove 22 books from the district’s libraries and classrooms.
“We certainly believe that these books should be returned to the shelves, and that I think is the goal of many members of the community, too, and that there be a fair and regular process for then reviewing those books,” said Aadika Singh, legal director for the ACLU of Idaho, during a phone interview.
The Nampa School District Board voted to remove 22 books permanently from district libraries and schools on May 9, even though committees of parents, teachers and staff were in the process of reviewing the books, as previously reported. In subsequent meetings, trustees have expressed interest in creating and following a formal review process for challenged books, potentially leading to some of those removed being returned to shelves.
The school district did not provide a comment for the story on Wednesday afternoon, and representatives of the school board did not immediately return a request for comment.
The records request, submitted Wednesday morning, seeks materials that explain the events leading up to the decision to remove the books and justifications for doing so, according to a press release from the organization.
“Early evidence suggests that the Trustees used an ad hoc process and ignored the advice of librarians and teachers and removed these books because they express ideas related to race, gender, and sexuality and contain views by authors and characters who are members of racial or sexual minority groups,” Singh said in the release. “If that’s true, the Trustees have abused their power and are likely violating the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.”
The ACLU of Idaho was notified of the board’s vote the evening that it happened, and wanted to investigate further, Singh said. Colleen Smith, a litigation associate with Stris and Maher, LLP, said she has watched each public meeting in which challenged books are discussed, including the January board meeting in which a parent raised the issue of challenging books, she said.
A few key points concern Singh and Smith about the decision to remove the books. Parents have a right to structure and control what their children consume at school, but they do not have the right to control what other children have access to, Singh said.
The trustees appear to have been swayed by one parent speaking out against the materials, she said.
“The school board trustees seem to have adopted that dislike, discomfort,” Singh said. “That’s what the First Amendment is concerned with and is worried about: local school boards cannot remove books from school libraries based on their dislike or discomfort based on the ideas that are expressed in those books.”
If trustees did remove books because they relied on a single parent’s views rather than a review process, that would have violated students’ First Amendment right to access information, Singh said.
There is a legal precedent for this. In a case that came before the U.S. Supreme Court, Island Trees School District v. Pico, a school district that had removed books from school libraries without following a formal process and without listening to the advice of “literary experts” was found to have violated student’s rights to receive information, according to the American Library Association.
Student First Amendment rights protect their access to information so that they may learn about different perspectives and eventually become an active member of a diverse society, Singh said.
Smith said it was “troubling” to see the Nampa School District Board’s decision seemingly driven by one parent’s voice, which prompted the ACLU’s interest in researching the incident.
It is also concerning that the books in question in the district were removed from school shelves during the district’s initial review process, Smith said.
“That’s problematic under the law, for example, because if there isn’t a good (review) process in place, any parent could challenge a book, have it removed from the library shelves, and who knows how long the process would be to decide that that book gets to go back on the shelves,” Smith said.
Singh also noted the optics of the board’s vote to remove the books given that four of the five trustees were just a few months into a four-year term. The board voted 3-2 to remove the books from libraries and classrooms, with all three votes in favor cast by trustees whose terms began in January 2022, or who were appointed later. The two dissenting votes were cast by Mandy Simpson, who has served on the board since January 2020, and Brook Taylor, whose term began in January 2022.
Singh said it is a problem if the trustees are “just doing what they want” without following process. She also said parents have shared an interest in the district tackling more pressing issues, such as mental health, gun violence, and disproportionate discipline against students of color, she said.
“(The book ban) is not addressing real problems and real concerns of parents,” Singh said. “This is, you know, a fabricated problem, and board members really need to be spending their time addressing these core challenges to education in the Nampa School District.”
Ultimately, the ACLU of Idaho could sue the district to get the books back on shelves, Singh said.
"If there's another way to resolution short of litigation, through the board doing the right thing on their own, or through continued pressure from the community, we would welcome that," Singh said. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/aclu-investigating-nampa-school-board-book-removal/article_c6acb7a3-82e4-50e3-9816-bc048fe04fb2.html | 2022-07-08T01:28:59 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/aclu-investigating-nampa-school-board-book-removal/article_c6acb7a3-82e4-50e3-9816-bc048fe04fb2.html |
KILLEEN, Texas — The video above was published for another story regarding Killeen news.
A boil water notice was issued Thursday for some Killeen addresses on Cunningham Road and East Central Texas Expressway.
The areas affected are homes located from 2709 to 2710 Cunningham Road, as well as the following addresses on East Central Texas Expressway: 3100, 3110, 3124, 3126, 321, 3310, 3400, 3504, 3602, 3620, 3700 and 3806.
The reason for the notice is that water crews have to replace a valve and in order to do so, they have to isolate the water main.
Crews will remain on the site until they are done with repairs and water services are restored. However, water quality samples need to be taken the next morning in order to be tested to see if they are safe to drink. According to officials, this should be within 24 to 48 hours after they take the sample.
Residents at the addresses listed above should boil all water before consumption until water sampling results confirm that no contamination occurred.
If you have any other questions, you can call the Boil Water Notice Hotline at 254-501-6515.
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TEXAS, USA — The Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) confirmed to WFAA on Thursday that the state's juvenile detention facilities have stopped taking in youth due to critical staffing shortages.
The TJJD said the paused intake started last week. In a letter from the TJJD interim executive director to facility chiefs, the department said all five state secure facilities are implementing variations of their emergency operation planning.
The TJJD leader said the staffing problem is so severe it could lead to an “inability to provide even basic supervision for youth locked in their rooms.”
“This could cause a significantly impaired ability to intervene in the increasing suicidal behaviors already occurring by youth struggling with the isolative impact of operational room confinement,” the letter read.
As of May, the population hovered at around 570 youth – one of the lowest levels in the last decade, according to state records. A department spokesperson told WFAA on Thursday that there was 140 committed youth on the waitlist to come to TJJD.
"TJJD is staying in close contact with Juvenile Probation Departments, to keep them apprised of the situation. The agency regrets that it had to take this action and recognizes that many county facilities also are struggling with staffing shortages reflective of the national staffing crisis," the TJJD spokesperson said in a statement.
TJJD said it is working to resolve the underlying issues and resume intakes as soon as possible.
On June 22, Interim Executive Director of TJJD Shandra Carter testified before the Sunset Advisory Commission that children within TJJD are facing lockdowns that last 22 hours due to lack of staffing.
"Our youth are spending up to 22 hours each day in their rooms during lockdowns," Carter testified. "These lockdowns are necessary because we just don't have the available staff to safely supervise the youth when outside of their rooms."
The Sunset Advisory Commission audits state departments to ensure they're being run efficiently.
The commission has noted that staffing is the biggest problem facing TJJD.
Carter testified that staff needs to be paid more and that current staffing levels are shouldering massive amounts of overtime.
Per the Sunset Commission, the TJJD had a 71% turnover rate in the fiscal year 2021.
The next state legislature in 2023 will ultimately decide if the TJJD sticks around.
Juvenile attorney and former prosecutor Lisa Herrick for the Sparks Law Firm is representing 40 juveniles currently in DFW.
She's defended kids in Dallas, Tarrant, Parker, Johnson, and Denton counties since 2016.
She says that the entire situation is a problem.
"It's an absolute mess," Herrick said.
The worst-case scenario, Herrick said, is for juveniles who receive an 'indeterminate' disposition for their cases and waiting to be picked up by TJJD.
An indeterminate disposition means that the juvenile stays with TJJD to be rehabilitated. The agency determines when they should be released after being offered several rehabilitative services within TJJD like schooling, job training, and even drug treatment services.
However, if kids can't get picked up by TJJD for that evaluation -- the juveniles languish in detention facilities and miss out on rehabilitative services.
The same goes for 'determinate' cases, where judges order juveniles to TJJD for a certain amount of time.
However, the time they spend in county detention services would count as time served, yet those juveniles would also miss out on rehabilitative services.
"The faster the system intervenes with a child who has committed an offense; the faster rehabilitative services are offered, the more likely they are to be rehabilitated," Herrick said.
"If they're not being offered those rehabilitative services until they get to TJJD, which might be weeks or months after they're sentenced, the likelihood of them being fully rehabilitated is less," Herrick continued.
Herrick also said if a teen turns 19 before going to TJJD, they can also miss out on services.
"If a child is still in their local detention center on their 19th birthday, they will be released without ever having stepped into TJJD," Herrick said. "They just miss the opportunity."
In Tarrant County, a juvenile judge told WFAA that 23 juveniles are waiting to be transferred to TJJD.
Four of those juveniles are 18 and are being housed at the Tarrant County jail.
The longest a juvenile has waited to be picked up by TJJD? 118 days. The next longest wait time was 89 days.
The judge also said there are 27 pending juvenile homicide cases in Tarrant County. The judge said the most he's seen in the county was roughly 10.
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SAN ANTONIO — Local health care providers stopped offering abortions last Friday, when the Texas Supreme Court ruled the state can enforce a 1925 abortion ban.
Blair Wallace, a reproductive freedom policy strategist with the ACLU of Texas, said it is still unclear when the state’s trigger law will go into effect, pending ongoing litigation. But abortion providers feel the current landscape is too risky.
When San Antonio abortion rights activist Tori Cruz Ramirez learned the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it ignited an even stronger will to fight back and organize for her city. This month, she and other advocates started calling on San Antonio City Council representatives to pass the Guarding the Right to Abortion Care for Everyone (GRACE) Act.
The resolution would block city funds from being used to investigate reports of abortion, while making it the lowest priority for San Antonio Police officers. Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales and Sheriff Javier Salazar both said they would not investigate or prosecute people seeking or performing abortions, but Cruz Ramirez believes it's important to have certainty with written protections.
“We might not have the same DA next year, we might not have the same sheriff next year. So we need to go ahead and have that written, so that no matter who’s in those positions, we’re going to protect people regardless,” said Cruz Ramirez.
On Thursday, Mayor Ron Nirenberg released a statement to KENS 5 saying, in part, “We are evaluating what can be done locally. It’s a confusing landscape with different state laws on the books.”
District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry told KENS 5 in a statement that the council would work with the city attorney’s office to discuss what can and cannot be done at the local level.
District 2 Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez expressed his full support for the GRACE Act, if the council would consider it. District 5 Councilwoman Teri Castillo and District 7 Councilwoman Ana Sandoval also said they would support protections for San Antonians seeking abortions.
The GRACE Act was recently passed by city councils in Denton, Texas. Austin City Council is currently considering it.
A new abortion-rights battlefield
“It really boils down to the fact that a city has authority to articulate priorities for their communities and with that comes saying that it is not a priority to follow other things,” Wallace said. “What the city or county decides to do with those resources is up to their full discretion.”
Jon Taylor, chair of the political science department at UTSA, said it’s possible city and county leaders could not only de-emphasize enforcement, but also concentrate law enforcement resources in other areas that are considered higher priorities.
"It (abortion) is in that respect, a low priority, police officers really do have other things to do. At the same time, the other argument would be, 'Well no, law enforcement's supposed to enforce the law, and therefore they should go after (abortion providers)."
Although, Taylor adds, Attorney General Ken Paxton and/or Gov. Greg Abbott could step in.
“(It’s a) fight between state leadership and cities and counties in Texas, essentially; red leadership, blue counties and cities, and that’s kind of what we’re seeing here,” Taylor said.
Taylor believes leaders at the state level would get involved after Texas' trigger law goes into effect, if city or county leaders are not investigating and/or prosecuting abortion cases.
"All of a sudden you’ve got lawsuits, the state supreme court is ordering the district attorney to follow through, most likely that is what’s going to happen," Taylor added. "You could see an attempt of limiting district attorney’s powers regarding what they can and cannot prosecute and what they are supposed to prosecute."
Wallace said she does not know what Paxton would do, saying he is unpredictable. But she still believes protective policies at the local level could instill confidence in their communities.
"We’re really at a moment where it’s all hands on deck, and that means everybody from city council to DAs," she said.
For Cruz Ramirez, that's a bridge to cross if and when the time comes. Regardless, she is committed to continue fighting for abortion rights.
Full responses from San Antonio City Council Members:
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg:
“Access to health care, including abortion, is a human right. Criminalizing those who seek basic care will create a hostile and harmful future for far too many. We are evaluating what can be done locally. It’s a confusing landscape with different state laws on the books.”
Councilwoman Teri Castillo, District 5:
“The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe V. Wade, despite overwhelming support for legal abortion access, is an attack on a person’s autonomy of their own bodies, lives, and futures. This decision leaves millions of people vulnerable to criminalization for accessing healthcare. Access to healthcare is a human right. That includes safe access to abortion and other reproductive health care. I am supportive of a special session and any language that protects San Antonians from restrictive judicial decisions like the one passed down by the Supreme Court.”
District 2 Councilman Jalen McKee Rodriguez:
“In my capacity as city councilman, I recognize the limitations placed on our local government. Simultaneously though, I embrace the challenge to use the tools and resources at our disposal to do as much good as we possibly can. And throughout the state of Texas, cities like El Paso, Denton, and Austin are considering protections such as the GRACE Act, which stands for Guarding the Right to Abortion Care for everyone, and I implore our council to do the same.
"The action would signal for city fund to not to be used to solicit, catalog, report or investigate reports of abortion and would ensure that our San Antonio Police Department makes investigating abortion their lowest priority. This July we’ve entered a recess period, where no council or committee meetings will take place and the only way to pass such a resolution this month would be for our mayor to call a special session and if and when the mayor calls such a meeting or should we consider the GRACE Act when we return in August, it will absolutely have my support and I encourage you to rach out to your council member and ask for them to indicate their support for the goals of the GRACE ACT.
"As always, it is a privilege and honor to serve as councilman for City Council District 2 here in San Antonio. The fight continues.”
District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry:
“There are still a lot of questions to be answered on this issue regarding the recent Supreme Court ruling. For the time being, we will work with the City Attorney’s Office and others to discuss what can and cannot be done at the local level.”
District 7 Councilwoman Ana Sandoval was not available to provide a statement, but a spokesperson for her office confirmed Sandoval would support calling a special session for the GRACE Act and would support it in the event it was proposed. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-abortion-enforcement-police-texas-scotus-roe-v-wade/273-19ed1ec6-b30f-43a0-a180-d8be5378d643 | 2022-07-08T01:31:41 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-abortion-enforcement-police-texas-scotus-roe-v-wade/273-19ed1ec6-b30f-43a0-a180-d8be5378d643 |
TACOMA, Wash. — A 17-year-old male suspect was arrested Thursday for allegedly shooting and killing a 14-year-old girl in Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood.
The suspect was booked on a charge of first-degree murder.
According to the Tacoma Police Department, a group of juveniles was inside a car in the area of South 19th Street and MLK Jr Way Wednesday when someone shot at them. Police said a 14-year-old girl inside the vehicle was struck by the gunfire.
Police said the victims drove the car to the 1900 block of South Ainsworth and called for medical help. Responding officers gave the 14-year-old life-saving measures, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The investigation into the shooting continues.
Meanwhile, a peace walk was held Thursday evening in Hilltop, where more than 100 people mourned the teen and expressed their frustration. Alongside community members, Tacoma Police Chief Avery Moore, Mayor Victoria Woodards, state Sen. T'wina Nobles, and Rep. Derek Kilmer were in attendance.
"Are we failing our young people as adults and leaders in our community?" asked Brendan Nelson with Peace Lutheran Church.
Nelson was mentoring a group of young people when the car full of juveniles pulled up.
"To see that, we had been talking about trauma and how we can be grateful and thankful for things when there's so much chaos in the world, and then we come back to a life lost, here in our neighborhood," Nelson said.
Now Nelson has to begin the work of trying to make sense of a tragedy that hit so close to home.
"For them to actually see it, to know that there's a young person laying on the ground just steps away from them, is really difficult," Nelson said.
Terrance Turner of Tacoma Cease Fire, which organized the peace walk, is calling on everyone in the community to stand against the violence. His hopes were that young people would attend the event.
"It's a shared community, so it's a shared responsibility and they have an integral role that they do play and they can start by showing up today and say we're tired of little kids getting killed and nothing happening," he said. "It doesn't matter how many marches we do, nothing's bringing that child back, period, so what can we do different from this event is really where it's at."
The girl's death marks the 25th homicide in Tacoma so far in 2022.
Police Chief Avery Moore put out a statement on the shooting, saying in part, that "the murder of a child rips at the very foundation of our community, and no child should fear their community, nor should any parent have to bury a child."
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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Hoosier military veterans facing financial hardship can receive $500 for each child in their household to purchase school supplies and other education essentials.
The Indiana Department of Veterans Affairs this year is making money available through the state's Military Family Relief Fund (MFRF) to help the children of veterans start the school year on the right foot.
"We want to provide our veteran families with some relief for the upcoming school year," said Dennis Wimer, director of the Indiana Department of Veterans Affairs.
"Indiana's MFRF was designed to provide financial assistance to veterans, and Operation Back to School allows us to serve more veterans and their families."
To qualify, a veteran must have served in any branch of the U.S. military or National Guard and possess appropriate discharge paperwork.
The applicant also must provide documentation confirming the number of school-age children living in his or her household, the veteran's limited financial resources, residency in Indiana, and ability to receive direct deposit of the funds in a checking or savings account.
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More information about the program, and the application, are available online at: in.gov/dva .
The deadline to apply for Operation Back to School funds from the MFRF is Sept. 15.
Qualifying veterans also can seek MFRF assistance for housing, utilities, food, medical and transportation expenses, separate from the money available through Operation Back to School.
However, absent special circumstances, an Indiana veteran is limited to $2,500 in lifetime benefits from the MFRF.
Money in the MFRF comes from state appropriations, donations, and military-related special group license plate fees, among other sources.
Here are the new Indiana laws to know that took effect July 1
Animals
The owner of a lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, jaguar, mountain lion or bear must prevent all direct physical contact between the animal and a member of the general public, no matter the age of the animal. Violations are subject to a $1,000 fine for each person who comes into contact with the animal. (House Enrolled Act 1248 )
The owner of a lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, jaguar, mountain lion or bear must prevent all direct physical contact between the animal and a member of the general public, no matter the age of the animal. Violations are subject to a $1,000 fine for each person who comes into contact with the animal. (House Enrolled Act 1248)
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Annexation
The Aberdeen subdivision may seek to officially become part of Valparaiso, even though the neighborhood is not currently contiguous to the city. A pre-annexation financial study must be completed so Aberdeen residents know the fiscal impact of being voluntarily annexed by Valparaiso. (House Enrolled Act 1110 )
Doug Ross, file, The Times
Ag equipment
Counties, cities or towns can designate agricultural zones as Economic Revitalization Areas (ERA) on the same basis as outdated business districts or distressed residential neighborhoods. New farm equipment or new agricultural improvements located in an ERA are eligible for a property tax abatement for up to five years. The exemption does not apply to farmland. (Senate Enrolled Act 119 )
AP file photo
Bone marrow
The Indiana Department of Health is authorized to establish and promote a bone marrow donor recruitment program to find eligible Hoosiers willing to donate bone marrow to individuals fighting leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cell conditions. (Senate Enrolled Act 398 )
John Luke, file, The Times
Campus speech
State colleges and universities cannot designate outdoor areas of campus where First Amendment activities are prohibited. Higher education institutions may impose reasonable and content-neutral time, place and manner restrictions on other campus speech that's narrowly tailored to serve a significant interest of the school. (House Enrolled Act 1190 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Caregivers
An adult relative caring for a child after the child has been removed from a dangerous home situation is entitled to directly participate in court hearings concerning services needed by the child, or terminating the parent-child relationship. Previously, only state-licensed foster parents had a statutory right to intervene in legal proceedings pertaining to abused or neglected children. (Senate Enrolled Act 410 )
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Catalytic converters
A catalytic converter is redefined as a "major component part" of a motor vehicle and only licensed automobile salvage recyclers are permitted to buy or sell used catalytic converters. Automobile salvage recyclers also must keep the same records for catalytic converters as valuable metal dealers and cash payouts for detached catalytic converters are capped at $25 per transaction per day. (Senate Enrolled Act 293 )
Jonathan Miano, file, The Times
Coerced abortion
A new crime of "coerced abortion" punishes anyone who knowingly or intentionally coerces a pregnant woman to have an abortion with up to 2 1/2 years in prison. State law already required "the voluntary and informed consent of the pregnant woman" prior to obtaining an abortion. (House Enrolled Act 1217 )
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Data breach
Businesses, banks and similar entities that suffer a data breach must notify their customers within 45 days of the breach being discovered, instead of simply providing notification "without unreasonable delay." (House Enrolled Act 1351 )
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Dementia training
Home health aides who provide care to individuals with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or a similar cognitive disorder must complete at least six hours of dementia care training within 60 days of hire. Current home health aides with at least one year of experience must participate in at least three hours of dementia training. (Senate Enrolled Act 353 )
Joe Ruffalo, file, The Times
Double voting
The penalty for fraudulently casting more than one ballot in the same election is set at up to 2½ in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. The penalty does not apply to individuals casting a valid replacement ballot as permitted by law. (Senate Enrolled Act 328 )
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Expungement
Individuals charged with crimes who either are acquitted following a trial or the charges are dismissed will have their court records automatically expunged within 60 days of disposition, unless the county prosecutor requests a one-year expungement delay. Any non-prosecution of criminal charges within 180 days following an arrest must be expunged immediately. (Senate Enrolled Act 182 )
Jonathan Miano, file, The Times
Foreign land purchases
Foreign business entities are barred from purchasing Indiana agricultural or timber land, with certain exceptions. Businesses organized under Russian law or controlled by Russian nationals are prohibited from acquiring any real estate in Indiana. (Senate Enrolled Act 388 )
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Health officers
The Indiana Department of Health no longer is entitled to remove a local health officer on the basis of intemperance. Health officers still may be removed for failing to collect vital statistics, follow rules, keep records, make reports, respond to official inquires or for neglect of official duty. (House Enrolled Act 1169 )
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Handguns
Adults age 18 and up legally entitled to possess a handgun are not obligated to obtain a state permit to carry a handgun in public. Indiana carry permits remain available for out-of-state reciprocity purposes. Handguns continue to be prohibited in schools, courthouses, and any residence or business that chooses to bar handguns. (House Enrolled Act 1296 )
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Housing shortage
A 13-member Housing Task Force is directed to study issues relating to housing and housing shortages in Indiana. The task force must submit recommendations for policy changes to the General Assembly and the governor no later than Nov. 1. (House Enrolled Act 1306 )
Tony V. Martin, file, The Times
Hunting
The holder of an archery hunting permit is allowed to use a bow and arrow or a crossbow. Previously, crossbow hunters were required to obtain a separate license. (Senate Enrolled Act 186 )
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Inmate calls
The in-state rate for telephone calls placed by inmates at Indiana Department of Correction facilities drops to 12 cents per minute from 24 cents per minute. County jail telephone rates are capped at 21 cents per minute statewide, instead of ranging from 22 cents per minute to $4.70 per minute. (House Enrolled Act 1181 )
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Lead testing
Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, doctors must offer a blood lead screening test to the parents of children between nine months and six years old if the child has not previously been tested for lead poisoning. Parents are not required to have their children tested for lead. (House Enrolled Act 1313 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Low-level felons
Judges once again may sentence level 6 felony offenders to state prisons operated by the Indiana Department of Correction, replacing a mandate that individuals found guilty of minor felony crimes only serve their six-month to 2 1/2-year sentences in county jails. (House Enrolled Act 1004 )
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Lowell investment
The town of Lowell is authorized to segregate its recent water utility sale proceeds from other town funds, contract with an investment adviser, and deploy the funds in most kinds of investments offering higher returns than fixed-income securities, except corporate stock and other equity securities. (House Enrolled Act 1011 )
Kale Wilk, file, The Times
Medicaid
Pregnant individuals whose family incomes are less than 208% of the federal poverty level are entitled to receive low- or no-cost health coverage through Indiana Medicaid for the duration of their pregnancy, and up to 12 months after giving birth. (House Enrolled Act 1140 )
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Nuclear power
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission is directed to adopt rules by July 1, 2023, permitting small modular nuclear reactors to be used to generate electricity in the Hoosier State. The law does not mandate any utilities switch to nuclear power but opens the door by putting in place the regulations that would guide its development and use. (Senate Enrolled Act 271 )
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Pregnant inmates
Restraints used on a prison inmate in her second or third trimester of pregnancy need to be the least restrictive restraints necessary. A pregnant inmate must be unrestrained while in labor, delivering a baby and during the immediate post-delivery period, unless she is an immediate danger to herself or others, or a substantial flight risk. (House Enrolled Act 1294 )
Connor Burge, file, The Times
Property tax
The $3,000 property tax deduction for mortgaged property is eliminated beginning Jan. 1, 2023, and the homestead deduction is increased to $48,000 from $45,000. The senior citizen tax deduction may be claimed on homes worth up to $240,000, instead of a maximum of $200,000. (House Enrolled Act 1260 )
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Public comment
School boards must allow any person physically present at a school board meeting to address the board if the person is interested in doing so in accordance with the board’s public comment rules, including any time limits. Boards still can take "reasonable steps to maintain order in a meeting," including "removal of any person who is willfully disruptive of the meeting." (House Enrolled Act 1130 )
Dan Carden, file, The Times
Rape
The definition of rape is expanded to include a person who disregards the other person's attempts to physically, verbally, or by other visible conduct refuse the person's sexual acts. Rape in Indiana also consists of the use of force, or imminent threat of force, to compel sexual conduct; sex with a person unaware sexual conduct is occurring; or sex with a person unable to consent to sex due to mental disability. (House Enrolled Act 1079 )
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Semiquincentennial
A 23-member commission is established to organize events and commemorations across the state celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026. (Senate Enrolled Act 12 )
Library of Congress
Simulated child porn
The production, distribution, possession or viewing of a video or image depicting obscene sexual conduct involving a person who appears to be less than 18 years old — even if the person is over 18, or doesn’t exist — is the legal equivalent of child exploitation, possession of child pornography and similar felony crimes. (House Enrolled Act 1363 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
State fossil
The mastodon is designated as the official fossil of Indiana. Dozens of mastodon fossils have been found throughout Indiana, including the bones of at least five mastodons now held by the Indiana State Museum that were discovered in 2005 by workers digging a pond in the Porter County town of Hebron. (House Enrolled Act 1013 )
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Tax cuts
The utility receipts tax, a 1.46% charge paid by businesses and consumers on a portion of their electricity, natural gas, water, steam, sewage and telephone bills, is eliminated July 1. Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, the state income tax rate drops to 3.15% from 3.23%, with the possibility of future reductions to 2.9%. (House Enrolled Act 1002 )
Doug Ross, file, The Times
Tourism
The definition of "agritourism" is expanded beyond agricultural activities to include camping, canoeing, kayaking, river tubing and winter sports activities. An agritourism participant release form may be signed electronically, instead of only on paper. (Senate Enrolled Act 343 )
Connor Burge, file, The Times
Township trustees
A township trustee who fails to perform the duties of his or her office is subject to removal by court order if the removal is endorsed by the township board, county commissioners and county council, and other conditions are met. (Senate Enrolled Act 304 )
Dan Carden, The Times
Trans sports
All children assigned male at birth are barred from participating in any elementary, middle or high school athletics designated as a "girls" or "female" sport — no matter the child's gender identity or physical characteristics. (House Enrolled Act 1041 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Tribal law enforcement
A police officer employed by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi in South Bend may exercise law enforcement authority anywhere in the state, so long as the officer meets the standards of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy and the tribe consents to statewide police powers. (Senate Enrolled Act 347 )
Turn signal
A mandate that drivers signal all turns or lane changes at least 200 feet ahead of time, or 300 feet if the vehicle is traveling in excess of 50 mph, is deleted on Jan. 1, 2023, in favor of a requirement that motorists signal all turns and lane changes "a reasonable time" before completing them. (House Enrolled Act 1167 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
University gifts
Public and private colleges and universities in Indiana must report to the state, and disclose on their website, all gifts from foreign entities that already must be reported to the federal government upon receipt. (Senate Enrolled Act 388 )
Kale Wilk, file, The Times
Vaping taxes
A tax of 15% is imposed on the wholesale price of closed system cartridges used for vaping. Under a 2021 law, the tax rate was scheduled to be 25%. An additional tax of 40 cents per ounce is assessed on alternative nicotine products, such as electronic cigarettes. (Senate Enrolled Act 382 )
Richard Vogel, file, Associated Press
Virtual instruction
Public schools may only hold up to three student-directed virtual instruction days during the 180-day school year absent extraordinary circumstances and a waiver approved by the Indiana Department of Education. (House Enrolled Act 1093 )
John Luke, file, The Times
Youth ag
A public school or school corporation may purchase up to $10,000 in food each year from a youth agricultural program, up from the former annual maximum of $7,500. (House Enrolled Act 1320 )
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Editors note: The attached video is from June 21.
Pharmacists applauded the work of state legislators on Thursday for providing Pennsylvanians with greater access to COVID-19 and flu vaccinations.
House Bill 2679, sponsored by State Rep. David Hickernell (R-98), now goes to Governor Tom Wolf for his signature.
The legislation will allow pharmacies to provide COVID-19 and flu vaccines to children as young as five.
The current law only allows the flu vaccine for those nine and older.
“We want to thank Rep. Hickernell for his leadership on this critical issue to bring stakeholders and legislators together to create greater access to vaccinations for all Pennsylvanians, especially those in low-income communities,” said Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association CEO Victoria Elliott.
Pharmacies are located within five miles of 90% of Americans, according to the federal government. Often located closer to lower-income families, as well as open longer, and providing more COVID-19 vaccine doses, lawmakers hope that this bill will increase access to vaccines for families.
“Pharmacies remain ready and willing to continue to serve the needs of patients and their communities now and through any future pandemics,” Elliott said.
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LANCASTER, Pa. — Volunteer firefighters are feeling the pinch after an eventful Fourth of July weekend.
While crews were taking time away from their families to protect the community, increased gas prices were also taking bites out of their wallets.
“Our volunteers are using their own fuel to respond from home to here, or our fire police to direct traffic at the scene of an accident," said Captain Ben Watson with the Hempfield Fire Department.
Watson says his firefighters had 10 calls in a two-hour span during the Fourth of July weekend, due to severe weather. He says the increased gas prices add an extra burden for volunteers.
“People have tighter budgets, and they have other bills they need to pay," said Watson. "With the increase in prices it’s hard for some people.”
In order to help ease the pain, The Exterior Company is giving away gas gift cards to local firefighters. Gas cards will be sent to the Garden Spot/New Holland Fire Rescue, Hempfield Fire Department, and Manheim Township Fire Rescue.
James King, the Senior Project Manager with The Exterior Company, says the gesture is a way of saying thank you to local firefighters.
“When they’re volunteering, going back-and-forth to get on those fire trucks to make those calls and save people, that’s all their money coming out of their pockets," said King.
About 30 firefighters will be getting gas cards from The Exterior Company. All of them extended their gratitude for the donation.
“They were very grateful to receive that phone call that we were going to be giving these to local fire departments," said King.
“Everything helps, any little thing, we are very appreciative," said Watson.
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Gov. Greg Abbott is unmoved by Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin Jr.’s request that he shift control of a $5 million fund for victims of the Robb Elementary mass shooting to a state agency.
McLaughlin and state Sen. Roland Gutierrez wrote Abbott this week, saying the local district attorney in charge of the fund is ill prepared to handle the job.
The governor’s office, in turn, suggested in a brief statement Wednesday to the San Antonio Express-News that local officials could sort out the squabble among themselves.
McLaughlin and Gutierrez hadn’t received a response to their letter by Thursday. When he created the fund, the governor — after discussing it with a roomful of local officials — had announced that the district attorney would control the fund, McLaughlin said, adding that Abbott’s chief of staff recently told him Uvalde County commissioners had the final say.
An Abbott spokeswoman, Renae Eze, said by email that “the initial $5 million investment for the Uvalde Together Resilience Center was made to Uvalde County. The governor will support whoever local officials designate as project director of the UTRC.”
On ExpressNews.com: Uvalde Sheriff Nolasco agrees to testify about school shooting after initial refusal
That left unresolved a festering debate over district attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee’s handling of the fund, which is meant to support the grieving relatives of the 19 students and two teachers killed in the May 24 massacre. Busbee did not respond to a request for comment.
“I think the governor is living his life in a political stance 24/7,” Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, said after being told of the statement. “Myself and Mayor McLaughlin are in the business of just trying to solve problems for people and this isn’t something we made up out of whole cloth.
“This is families going up to City Hall and demanding change within the district attorney’s office in how she is disbursing these funds,” he added. “This is a group of families that I have on a thread that I talk to by text every day and they are tired of getting the same responses.”
In their letter, Gutierrez and McLaughlin had asked Abbott to transfer responsibility for the state-funded support center to the Texas Department of Emergency Management.
Busbee’s office, they said, is “not equipped or staffed to provide these services,” and they cited “troubling reports” from residents about the center’s inability to help victims affected by the mass shooting.
The pain of losing a child “is made all the more severe because of the way these children were killed and injured” and state officials “ought to use every available resource in law to make these families whole,” the two wrote.
McLaughlin said Thursday that the governor put the district attorney in charge of disbursing the $5 million he earmarked to Uvalde County and “that needs to change.”
“And maybe they’re working toward that, I don’t know. As you can imagine, I probably won’t be on her Christmas card list this year,” he said.
It is not clear if county commissioners can take control of the fund from the district attorney, McLaughlin said. He said he told Uvalde County Judge Bill Mitchell about his exchange with the governor’s chief of staff and Mitchell’s response was, “She was in charge of it.” Mitchell could not immediately be reached for comment.
Residents complained at a recent city council meeting that “they go out there to see her, she’s rude to them, she won’t talk with them,” McLaughlin continued. “We’ve had families tell us that they’ve asked for money to help with their bills and they’re not getting it.”
Gutierrez said Busbee had released $4,000 so one family could bring out-of-town relatives to a funeral, and the far smaller amounts doled out to others have not been enough to keep families from having to scramble for help elsewhere to pay their bills while caring for their children and grieving.
Alfred Garza, whose daughter, Amerie Jo Garza, 10, was killed in the shooting, said most organizations were giving money to custodial parents of the victims but that he had been left out. He and the girl’s mother, Kimberly Garcia, are no longer together, he said.
While Garza said he’s received money from the Christina Grimmie Foundation, Victims First and the Red Cross, other funding sources are closed to him.
A Uvalde car salesman, Garza, 35, said he has not worked since the shooting. He has enough money to pay the bills this month, he said, but added, “I was trying to take at least the remainder of the year off if I can, but I don’t know if that’s going to be possible.”
Gutierrez said the 30-plus families of Robb Elementary victims need case workers assigned to them who can help process bills and applications for help — a task suited to TDEM, as the state’s emergency management agency is called.
There has been little communication among the key parties. Neither McLaughlin nor Gutierrez have talked with the district attorney.
“She’s not making any comments to the press right now. The investigation’s still ongoing,” an unidentified woman in Busbee’s office said before hanging up.
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Abbott announced the creation of the Uvalde Together Resiliency Center in early June and gave it $5 million through his Public Safety Office, saying it “initially” would be run by the district attorney’s office to provide mental health care and other aid provided by state agencies and local organizations for people in Uvalde impacted by the shooting.
“We must come together as Texans to provide the ongoing, comprehensive support needed to move forward from this terrible tragedy,” he said at the time. He also included a long list of services that would be made available to the families, including educational support, insurance claims, grief counseling, health care and workers compensation funding.
Gutierrez said he had no idea how much of the fund has been spent so far, but said Busbee acquired a bank building for $750,000 to set up the resiliency center.
“No one has gotten any singular check from the district attorney’s office other than some bills that have been paid, like funeral expenses,” though some mortuaries had vowed to cover the victims’ expenses, he said.
Other sources of help have included the National Compassion Fund’s “Uvalde Together We Rise Fund,” he noted. The Compassion Fund, in partnership with San Antonio Area Foundation and the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country, will distribute money as gifts to victims and survivors of the shooting, but not until later this year. Online applications will become available around Sept. 8.
“The state has the money in the fund. We should be trying to get to the maximum capacity per complainant, which allows for $50,000 in … relief,” Gutierrez said. “As to this $5 million, no, families haven’t gotten much of anything other than some lost wage money and some bills that were paid.”
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Hays County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a man already facing fraud charges in another county.
Jesus Leonel Velerio-Santos has been accused of offering to do cabinet work at a discounted rate but then absconding with the money without doing any of the work.
The sheriff’s office reported Thursday that it already is investigating several fraud cases. It’s asking that anyone who’s been contacted by Velerio-Santos to call them.
Velerio-Santos is already in Kerr County Jail in connection with cases that have occurred there.
Authorities say Velerio-Santos, who drives a red Ford F-150, collects half the payment up front for proposed cabinet work with the other half due when the job is done. But once he’s collected the down payment, he doesn’t return to do the job, officials say. In addition, the clients are unable to reach him.
He is believed to operate in Austin, San Antonio and the Hill Country, according to a news release from the Hays County Sheriff’s Office.
People who have had dealings with Velerio-Santos are asked to to call detective Brian Wahlert with the Hays County Sheriff’s Office at brian.wahlert@co.hays.tx.us or to contact their local law enforcement agency.
People also may call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 800-324-8477. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Hays-County-Sheriff-s-Office-investigating-man-17291468.php | 2022-07-08T01:42:20 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Hays-County-Sheriff-s-Office-investigating-man-17291468.php |
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Ramiro Galindo marked a receipt as a ceiling fan hummed in the office of his Northwest Side automotive shop.
With temperatures already climbing to 100 degrees Thursday afternoon, he said he doesn’t bother turning on the wall air conditioner he installed high over the front counter after 1 p.m. It’s better to acclimate to the heat inside, then catch a breeze outside.
So he keeps a couple of small, cushioned chairs both inside and outside the waiting room.
It’s mind over matter — working through the heat — so he doesn’t think about it much.
“We can’t do anything about it anyways,” Galindo said with a smile.
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Even so, the oppressive heat this summer has been hard to ignore.
That won’t change this weekend. The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for Friday afternoon into the early evening, with temperatures up to 104 degrees and up to 108 for parts of the Hill Country, Interstate 35 corridor and Coastal Plains.
NWS meteorologist Mack Morris said this weekend could be the hottest it’s been all summer, warning that it’s best to avoid outdoor activity between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Because of this, Morris said there’s a chance the service may extend that heat advisory.
“It’s a slam dunk for a good chunk of the area,” he said of hitting high temperatures. “Either way you put it, it’s best to avoid the peak heat of the day this weekend.”
Having worked out of Automotive Fitness Center along Bandera Road for about 40 years, Galindo has made several changes to cope with the heat over time. He used to have full window walls, but he’s remodeled them smaller to limit the amount of heat that gets in.
He keeps a large water cooler full for his workers and closes up shop earlier than he used to so as to avoid the building heat that comes later in the afternoon.
His team also has to wear gloves just to move a car into the repair bay.
“Sometimes you can’t even touch the steering wheel,” Galindo said, remarking that this summer is exceptionally hot for too many days.
The Weather Service backs his claim, reporting that the summers of the last two years have been relatively cool by comparison.
In 2021, the first 100-degree day didn’t even arrive in San Antonio until September. So far, the city has seen 28 total 100 degree days, according to the Weather Service. The hottest it’s reached is 105 degrees.
This year seems to be on par with the warmest summer on record, in 2011, Morris said.
Temperatures this weekend are expected to climb higher, with heat indices as high as 112 degrees.
Nighttime temperatures are not expected to provide much relief, as they may drop to just below 80 degrees.
“It’s especially dangerous,” he said of the heat. “In the afternoon, it’s at its worse, but you don’t think about fact that if you can't cool off at night it exacerbates the issue.”
Much of the South Central Texas region is in Stage 3 or 4 drought, with the latter being the highest. This puts the onus on area counties and leadership to decide whether and when to enact burn bans and water restrictions.
Rains that fell over the weekend added just enough moisture to the soil to bring some added humidity, meteorologists said.
“It’s still very dry,” Morris said. “The rain last week was very helpful, but we need more.”
As of Thursday, none is in the forecast through next week.
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Swimming is a decent way to cool off, but Morris warns that people often don’t realize they’re becoming dehydrated even in a pool.
People should still wear sunscreen, drink plenty of fluids, find a way to cool off in the shade, and take breaks, Morris recommends.
The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District reported that 235 people have been treated for heat exhaustion or stroke from March 15 to July 3.
Bert Hargesheimer, vice president for operational support services for CPS Energy, said the public utility promotes a similar message to its employees called “stop the job,” which as it sounds means crews may stop and receive the care they need to avoid heat-related illness.
Crews are trained to be aware of the symptoms of heat illness, including confusion, dizziness, exhaustion, thirst and heavy sweating.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration website warns that most outdoor fatalities occur in the first few days of working in warm or hot environments because the body needs time to build a tolerance to the heat, a process called heat acclimatization.
“We do a lot of messaging around heat stress and awareness, making sure all team members know what to look out for, what does it look like,” Hargesheimer said.
The utility even has registered nurses as part of its occupational health staff to visit a job site or assess employees via video messaging.
With all the personal protective equipment crews must wear for the job — such as long sleeves, pants, properly rated boots, hard hats and safety glasses — CPS Energy provides its teams with sun shields for their hardhats, towels, ice, water and sports freeze pops.
They also have canopies to set up and make extra time for breaks to cool off. CPS Energy also has units that blow cool air into manholes for crews that must work underground, Hargesheimer said.
“Our workforce takes it very personally to make sure we have high reliability for the community,” he said.
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Like years before, preparation for the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo is in full swing. Unlike years before, 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of the event.
With the fairgrounds set to open Friday, here’s what to expect from this summer’s lineup of events and activities.
The theme of this year’s parade is “Diamonds and Wranglers - A 75 Year Celebration.” The parade will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday, and the current forecast predicts mostly sunny weather with a high of 88.
This year’s route is the same as last year’s, beginning at David Street Station, then continuing down Second Street. The parade will loop down Beech Street and Collins Drive onto Center Street where it finishes at Ninth Street. Those roads and other sections of the Yellowstone Highway between Ash and Poplar streets, as well as the connecting section of Walnut Street, will be closed to traffic to prepare for floats and paradegoers at 8 a.m.
The fair itself will be hosted at the Central Wyoming Fairgrounds starting at 3 p.m. Friday. Free gate admission is offered for the first three days, but a $5 fee is required to enter the fairgrounds from July 12 to 16.
Rides will remain open from 3 p.m. to midnight July 8 to 14, then start earlier from noon to midnight on the 15 and 16.
If bought in advance, day passes for the rides are $40 or $45 onsite. Advance purchase fun passes, which are good for all nine days, are $90 and include the gate fee. The passes are available at the Fairgrounds Arena Office until noon on July 12, or at all Casper, Glenrock and Douglas Homax locations. They can also be purchased by going to the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo website under the “carnival” tab.
The free stage on the midway will showcase a different musician or group at 6 p.m. every evening of the fair, starting on Tuesday with the four-piece rock band, Mastermind of Monkeys, covering different eras of music. On Wednesday, Zack Schommer, a local guitarist and singer, will perform. The band Flashback will cover various songs from over the years on Thursday, and July 15 will bring Aquile, a former contestant of The Voice, to the stage. Additionally that day, the band Ford & Fossil will perform from 9:30 to 11 p.m. Finally, on July 16, the Prairie Wildfire Band will give the final musical performance of the fair.
The Aussie Kingdom Wildlife Display will also take the free stage on the midway to perform three shows a day from July 12 to 16. The show will feature native Australian species including kangaroos, wallabies and wallaroos.
Additional events include the CWFR-Nitro Tour Monster Truck Show from 7:30 to 10 p.m. on July 9. Advanced tickets can be bought at www.MonsterTruckTour.com or are available at the gate. They are priced at $15 for kids 3 to 12 and $20 for adults. Kids under 3 are free. Sunday will feature the Open Class BBQ Contest from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Industrial Building. Also in the Industrial Building from July 12 to 16 will be Cowboy Christmas In July-Shopping and Virginia City Mining Company activities.
The Central Wyoming Fair’s PRCA Rodeo runs from July 12 to 16. The event takes place each night from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the outdoor arena. Tickets can be bought online at the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo website or at the Fairgrounds Arena Office. Additional tickets will be sold at the gate.
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One family's residence was burned and is now uninhabitable because of the fire. Outbuildings, heavy equipment and vehicles on their property were also damaged or destroyed in the blaze.
The Central Wyoming Hospice Kids Grief Camp's final week of the summer finished on Wednesday. The last day featured a painted horse parade and a butterfly release. | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/75th-central-wyoming-fair-and-rodeo-kicks-off-friday/article_e9508a9c-fe3e-11ec-b1c8-7f9f106b0dc3.html | 2022-07-08T01:52:28 | 0 | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/75th-central-wyoming-fair-and-rodeo-kicks-off-friday/article_e9508a9c-fe3e-11ec-b1c8-7f9f106b0dc3.html |
An anonymous bomb threat at Casper College was found to be unsubstantiated on Wednesday afternoon, police spokesperson Rebekah Ladd said.
Parts of the campus were evacuated because of the threat. Ladd said the college was cleared by 5 p.m.
The threat was made in a call to the local public safety dispatch center around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday, according to Ladd.
“The FBI told local officials that the same non-credible threat had been issued at other educational institutions in the region,” Ladd said in a text.
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A wildland fire that prompted evacuations in parts of western Natrona County has been contained, authorities say.
The fire burned a rural area off U.S. Highway 20-26, spreading to around 25 to 30 acres. Fire crews will remain on scene at least through tonight, according to Natrona County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Kiera Grogan.
One family’s residence was burned and is now uninhabitable because of the fire, Grogan said. Outbuildings, heavy equipment and vehicles on their property were also damaged or destroyed in the blaze.
No other buildings were damaged in what officials are calling the Reid Canyon Fire.
The public was asked to avoid the area near Natrona Road and Pine Mountain and to not park along the highway.
Officials received a report of a wildland fire burning brush around 11:30 a.m., Grogan said, but the fire had moved and caught nearby trees by 1 p.m.
Evacuations began around noon, Grogan said, though it is unclear how many people were displaced. No injuries had been reported by the time the fire was contained in the mid-afternoon.
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No roads were closed in the area, though crews on the scene were monitoring winds and commands from fire officials. Local agencies including the Natrona County Fire Protection District, Bar Nunn Fire and the Bureau of Land Management sent responders out.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation by county crews. Grogan said it’s too early to tell whether there was any suspected criminal activity involved.
It was the second time in three days that a wildfire necessitated evacuations in Natrona County. On Tuesday, a 39-acre grass fire burning east of town prompted people in the Geary Dome area to leave their homes.
Another small wildland fire ignited Wednesday, near the Casper landfill. It was “quickly contained,” Casper fire officials said in a statement.
“Fire activity in the wildland is becoming more frequent as fuels cure and dry out,” the statement said Wednesday.
Stage-one fire restrictions went into effect in Natrona County on Thursday, meaning open burning is prohibited. Campfires at homes or in campsite fire rings are still allowed. | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/fire-in-rural-natrona-county-contained-after-destroying-home/article_5e72456c-fe3b-11ec-adde-135f00a5416b.html | 2022-07-08T01:52:40 | 0 | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/fire-in-rural-natrona-county-contained-after-destroying-home/article_5e72456c-fe3b-11ec-adde-135f00a5416b.html |
CARROLL COUNTY, Ind. — A 15-year-old Carroll County girl was killed in a crash Thursday afternoon.
Emergency crews responded to the scene of the crash on County Road 200 East between county roads 300 South and 400 South around 4:45 p.m. Thursday. That location is in the southeastern part of the county, between Flora and Burlington.
First responders found two juveniles, later identified as 15-year-old Danielle Seibert of Bringhurst and 16-year-old Jackson Crow of Delphi, who appeared to have been ejected from a 2005 Honda Accord.
Investigators believe Seibert was driving south on CR 200 East when she left the east side of the road for an unknown reason. The car went into a ditch, then began rolling into a cornfield.
The car landed on its wheels, with both occupants, who police do not believe were wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash, on the ground nearby.
Seibert was pronounced dead at the scene from apparent internal injuries. Crow was flown to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne with serious internal injuries.
Reconstructionists from the Indiana State Police were called to the scene to help with the investigation. It is not known if drugs or alcohol were a factor in the crash. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/teenage-driver-killed-in-carroll-county-indiana-crash/531-3aedc305-9459-4cb6-8fd8-2f54e6fac1a6 | 2022-07-08T01:52:51 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/teenage-driver-killed-in-carroll-county-indiana-crash/531-3aedc305-9459-4cb6-8fd8-2f54e6fac1a6 |
The average price of gasoline across the state dropped 16 cents this week, according to AAA Texas.
The decline in Midland and Odessa was less than half .
AAA Texas reported the price in the Petroplex cities dropped 7 cents – the smallest drop of the largest 27 metropolitan areas. One result of this week’s metrics was that the average price in Midland ($4.31) was 2 cents less than the state average ($4.33). Last week, that difference was 11 cents.
Midland went from being the 13th cheapest average of the larger metropolitan cities to 17th. Odessa’s drop was more dramatic – moving from being tied for the eighth cheapest to being tied for the 15th cheapest.
“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 in the weekly report. “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.”
AAA Texas reported the following averages across the region -- $4.17 in Abilene (a decrease of 16 cents), $4.21 in San Angelo (a decrease of 8 cents), $4.27 in Amarillo (a decrease of 10 cents) and $4.28 in Lubbock (a decrease of 8 cents).
The lowest average in the state was $3.98 in Laredo. The highest average was $4.44 in El Paso.
The average in Midland is up $1.28 compared the same time in 2021 – the fourth lowest increase of the 27 larger metropolitan areas. The state average is up $1.52 during the same period.
Cheapest prices
This week
Laredo $3.98
McAllen $4.00
Brownsville-Harlingen $4.01
Corpus Christi $4.04
Sherman-Denison $4.14
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T-15. Odessa $4.28
17. Midland $4.31
Texas $4.33
National $4.75
Last week
Laredo $4.11
McAllen-Edinburg $4.15
Brownville-Harlingen $4.17
Corpus Christi $4.21
San Angelo $4.29
Also
T-8. Odessa $4.35
13. Midland $4.38
Texas $4.49
National $4.86
Source: AAA Texas. | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Gas-price-drop-in-Midland-can-t-keep-up-with-17290089.php | 2022-07-08T01:56:29 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Gas-price-drop-in-Midland-can-t-keep-up-with-17290089.php |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Vancouver Police Department announced it will start a second pilot test for body-worn cameras and in-car cameras.
The pilot will begin July 11 and is expected to last between 30 to 60 days, the police department said.
During the test, five officers will wear body cameras and five vehicles will be equipped with front-facing and rear-passenger cameras.
This pilot comes as Vancouver police anticipate a $1.5 million federal grant this fall, which was approved after VPD’s first camera test in December 2021.
After this second test is completed, a committee made up of two community representatives, members of the City Attorney’s Office, VPD, and the city’s Information Technology Department will meet for a proposal process.
The program development was largely in response to mounting public requests to increase transparency after the department shot four people, including minority individuals and those with mental illness, within a 30-day period in 2019.
In a July 2021 statement, congresswoman Jamie Herrera Beutler said “body-worn and in-car cameras have become a useful tool for our police officers to safely and effectively protect citizens. She added “I’m pleased to have worked with the Vancouver Police Department to advocate for this funding which will both aid officers and increase transparency.” | https://www.koin.com/local/clark-county/vancouver-police-department-to-begin-second-body-cam-test/ | 2022-07-08T01:59:05 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/clark-county/vancouver-police-department-to-begin-second-body-cam-test/ |
RIVERDALE, Ga. — A chaotic scene unfolded inside of a Walmart in Riverdale when gunfire broke out in the meat department.
Riverdale Police said it happened at the Walmart store at 7050 GA-85 shortly after 6 p.m. The dispute happened between two men. Riverdale Police said one man was shot and the other man ran away.
One woman, who was inside the store, told 11Alive she heard gunshots as she was standing inside the checkout line with her two children. She said someone started screaming and everyone took off running, stampeding to get outside of the store. During the panic, the witness said some customers left their belongings inside as they rushed to find safety.
An off-duty officer was there at the Walmart at the time and called in the shooting after hearing several gunshots coming from inside the store.
The man who was shot was taken to the hospital. According to Riverdale Police, there was a big police presence but there is "no active shooter."
Investigators are currently reviewing the store's surveillance video to learn more about the dispute between the two men and their investigation remains ongoing.
Units from Riverdale Police Department, Clayton County Police Department, Jonesboro Police Department, South Fulton Police Department, ATF, U.S. Marshalls and the Fayette County Sheriff's Office responded to help assist and evacuate the store.
11Alive has a crew on the way to the scene and is working to find out more.
This is a developing story. Check back often for new information.
Also download the 11Alive News app and sign up to receive alerts for the latest on this story and other breaking news in Atlanta and north Georgia. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/riverdale-walmart-shooting/85-75f2afa6-65ba-4d0f-bcd9-f53ae91f50d0 | 2022-07-08T02:10:46 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/riverdale-walmart-shooting/85-75f2afa6-65ba-4d0f-bcd9-f53ae91f50d0 |
PORTLAND, Ore. — A line of RVs sat parked along Southeast 67th Avenue outside of two vacant homes late Thursday morning. Neighbors say the area has become a magnet for members of Portland's houseless community taking advantage of the unoccupied properties.
“It’s unbearable to watch your whole city become a dumpster fire,” said Annette Benedetti, who lives nearby. She described what it’s been like since a group of about 16 houseless people moved into the neighborhood.
“It’s a living nightmare,” added Dustin Shannon, another neighbor. “There’s no peace of mind, there is no sleeping well at night — every little noise, I’m jumpy.”
Shannon and his family have lived in this neighborhood for 19 years. His backyard is next to one of the vacant houses, which he said has been empty for over a year. Now, a group of houseless people has moved in.
“It just gets worse and worse by the day, more and more of them are showing up," he said. "Stolen cars are showing up, they’ve got a pile of garbage out back that is taller than me.”
Shannon often picks up needles and trash from a path behind his house, one he used to let his grandson play in.
“Now we really can’t let him do that any longer,” he said.
“My children can’t walk in the neighborhood safely anymore,” Benedetti agreed.
She often hears gunshots and has had people run through her yard.
“I heard banging on this side of my wall last night, so I don’t sleep a lot,” she added.
Both neighbors said they have called the police but received little response. They’ve now taken it into their own hands.
"We’ve barricaded our backdoor at this point, blocked it off," said Shannon. "We’re not gun proponents, but we’ve invested in that. We’ve got a security system in place and I keep a bat at both my back and front door.”
Portland Police Bureau records show three calls to this neighborhood this year: two premise checks and a "suspicious circumstances" call.
Sergeant Kevin Allen told KGW that the agency sympathizes with neighbors who feel unsafe, but wants to remind people that they are severely short staffed and that they address life safety and major crimes first. Other issues, like the ones in this neighborhood, either have to wait or can’t be addressed at all.
The Portland Police Bureau reports losing more than 250 officers since 2020 and expects to lose another 20 this month, making responding to problems like these even harder.
“It’s not OK, something needs to be done about all of it,” said Benedetti.
Living in one of the RVs is 27-year-old Bridgette Miller and her husband.
“I’m just here to f***ing sleep, I’m just here to f***ing sleep,” she said, holding back tears.
“I work for a living I don’t just sit here and do drugs and mess up everybody’s sh** all day," Miller continued, "and it ruins my reputation and it’s hard for me, because everybody hates me already without knowing me.”
Miller had been plugging her air conditioning into an outlet in one of the vacant homes. At around noon on Thursday, the property maintenance manager told her to leave.
“It sucks. It really sucks," she said. She's now off to find the next neighborhood to call home.
“We’re trying to get an apartment ... because it hurts my pride really, I’m not a bad person," she said.
The property maintenance manager said the house on Southeast 67th Avenue had been broken into and showed KGW evidence of people staying there.
“Whoever broke in told this person, who was squatting out front, that they could plug in and use the power — except it’s not their building to allow that,” he said. “The city of Portland is doing almost nothing except pushing people around." | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/se-portland-vacant-homes-squatters-houseless/283-14b7d03c-2031-4ab0-a5c3-ce74eb97f6c0 | 2022-07-08T02:15:20 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/se-portland-vacant-homes-squatters-houseless/283-14b7d03c-2031-4ab0-a5c3-ce74eb97f6c0 |
GRESHAM, Ore. — Authorities are working to track down a man committed to the care of Oregon's Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) who left a residential treatment home in Gresham this week.
Christopher Hall, 41, was committed to Oregon State Hospital in 2020 after kidnapping a woman at knifepoint.
Hall's group home in Gresham realized around 2:30 a.m. on Thursday that he was gone, according to the PSRB. Despite the fact that the residential home is located in Gresham, PSRB said the last sighting of Hall was around 1 p.m. in Northeast Portland, near a KFC location along Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Hall is described as a Black man with black hair and brown eyes. He's 5-feet 11-inches tall and weighs roughly 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing a green shirt and shorts.
"Mr. Hall is affected by a mental health disorder that can cause him to become dangerous to others when it is active," PSRB said in a statement. "The most recent reports indicate that he may be under the influence of intoxicants. He is in need of immediate medical care."
A judge first committed Hall to the care of the Oregon State Hospital in April of 2020, placing him under the jurisdiction of the PSRB for a maximum sentence of 20 years. It's unclear precisely when, but the board indicated that Hall has since been granted conditional release from more restrictive incarceration in favor of the residential treatment home in Gresham.
Anyone who sees Hall is asked to contact local law enforcement immediately.
Hall's charges stemmed from an episode in August of 2019. Police responded to reports that a man — later identified as Hall — had tried to break into a Northwest Portland church and was swinging a heavy chain at people.
According to a witness, Hall forced his way through a back gate of the church and entered the building, where about a dozen children were having choir auditions. Hall wasn't making sense and seemed volatile, the witness said.
When officers arrived, Hall swung the chain at an officer and then ran away from the church.
Near the McDonald's located on West Burnside Street and Northwest 18th Avenue, Hall pulled out a knife and grabbed a woman who was waiting for a ride with her 13-year-old daughter.
Hall pushed the woman to the ground, held her at knifepoint and dragged her a short distance away before he was encountered by officers with their guns drawn.
Police said they were able to convince Hall to drop the knife, at which point he let go of the woman and tried to run, but a passerby grabbed Hall and held him down for police. After a struggle, an officer used a taser to incapacitate Hall and arrest him. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/psych-patient-gresham-missing-escaped-northeast-portland/283-354cf256-62fe-4703-8571-88c907e19182 | 2022-07-08T02:15:26 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/psych-patient-gresham-missing-escaped-northeast-portland/283-354cf256-62fe-4703-8571-88c907e19182 |
JACKSON, Calif. — The Electra Fire is now 40% contained thanks to the work of over 1,800 firefighting personnel.
The fire, which began on the Fourth of July, started on Electra Road at Highway 49 just south of Jackson.
While mandatory evacuation orders and warnings still remain in place in some locations, other evacuation orders have been lifted.
One firefighter from the local fire protection district was injured with burns, and no structures have been lost.
Their work has allowed homeowners like Larry Duclos to return home.
"They hit this thing hard and fast with a lot of resources to get it contained," said Duclos, whose property also survived the 2015 Butte Fire.
He was given mandatory orders to get out Tuesday, so he and his wife loaded photo albums, important documents, and animals into an RV and left.
Although he has to run a generator because power is still out, he is grateful his home of 25 years is still standing unscathed.
"Anybody I know -- I go into town -- all the locals talk and everybody is very happy with the amount of resources that Cal Fire threw at this thing," said Duclos.
Despite the mandatory evacuations, some people decided to stay and protect their property instead of leave.
On Highway 49 in Jackson, Don Luis Taqueria restaurant decided to give back. They've been giving away free lunches to evacuees and firefighters since Tuesday.
Owner Jose Fuentes says he just wanted to give back to a community that has given so much to him.
Randall Blank had to evacuate from Pine Grove and was happy to get a free meal.
"Just being able to come here and go, 'Alright, I don't have to spend $10 today.' Throw some money in the tip jar because they're still working, they still need the money," said Blank.
"Oh my gosh, [it was] really nice to see the faces of the people coming in having lunch," said Patty Villegas, who works at Don Luis Taqueria.
At nearby Sutter Creek, the Italian Picnic Grounds is serving as an evacuation center for people like Terry Teeters and his wife.
The Pine Acres resident, along with dog Bella and cat Daisy, are still waiting to return home. He too is optimistic and thankful for the hundreds battling the fire.
"They did an extensive amount of work both bulldozer and backfire and fire retardant to try to make sure that fire didn't come up and get any of the structures," said Teeters. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/amador-county-residents-grateful-for-work-of-firefighters/103-25e9d811-2e2a-4912-af53-3c61cf8a9a15 | 2022-07-08T02:16:02 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/amador-county-residents-grateful-for-work-of-firefighters/103-25e9d811-2e2a-4912-af53-3c61cf8a9a15 |
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