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A man in FDNY clothes seen taunting pro-abortion rights protesters outside a church, in a video that went viral this weekend on social media, isn't actually affiliated with the department in any way, officials said Monday.
The video depicts a man at the front of a group on the steps of Old St. Patrick's, squaring off with protesters who both support abortion rights and oppose the expected imminent reversal of Roe vs. Wade.
The man, wearing a jacket with various FDNY logos and an "America First" cap, appears to tell the women they do not have a choice in having children; he appears to tell one woman that her body is his and she will have his baby.
“A video circulating from a protest in Manhattan over the weekend shows an individual wearing a FDNY sweatshirt. The individual in the video is not a member of the FDNY. The comments made do not represent the views of the FDNY. The matter is under investigation," Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Frank Dwyer said in a statement.
One version of the video, posted by activist and author Amy Siskind, had more than 1.7 million views on Twitter alone as of Monday morning. Another version was shared by far-right members of Congress like Rep. Paul Gosar and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who both called the man and his fellow counter-protesters "heroes".
The video stirred enough controversy that "FDNY" was a trending topic across the United States on Twitter Monday morning.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — AJ Cucksey walked away a winner after he picked a winning ticket at the Kentucky Derby.
AJ was donning his Derby threads (orange in support of the Vols) when he went to the race over the weekend. While there, AJ also picked out a ticket for Rich Strike, the horse who pulled out a comeback victory during the race.
AJ Cucksey was diagnosed with inoperable brain tumors in 2014 when he was four years old. Despite the diagnosis, AJ and his family share messages of positivity and determination on their social media page as he undergoes his journey.
AJ is an avid sports fan, loves the Vols and likes to play football.
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KALMAR TOWNSHIP, Minn. - A 31-year-old Kasson man is facing a second-degree murder charge after a 70-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday night after checking his property.
The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office said William Shillingford, of Kasson, shot and killed the man in the 5000 block of County Road 105 in Kalmar Township.
Authorities do not believe the suspect and the victim knew each other. The name of the victim has not been released.
Authorities say the victim went out to check on a suspicious vehicle on his property and was shot at least once in the upper body by an unknown suspect.
The suspect ran away and police set up a perimeter to contain him.
During the search, authorities found a gun in an unoccupied structure near the initial scene. A suspect was then located and taken into custody.
Although the man who was shot at the scene received immediate medical attention, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has been requested to assist with the investigation.
Police say there is no further threat to the public and have not released any names of the victim or the suspect.
Rochester Police Department, Kasson Police Department K9, Goodhue County Sheriff K9, and Minnesota State Patrol arrived on scene. Byron Fire and Mayo Clinic Ambulance Service also responded to assist.
In a statement, the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office says, "Our deepest condolences go out to the family who have lost their loved one in this tragedy. We are not releasing any names at this time, as this is an ongoing investigation and more details will be given once we are able to do so."
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DALLAS — Students graduating from a historically Black college in East Texas were told at their commencement ceremony that an anonymous donor had paid their balances, officials said.
Wiley College said in a news release that over 100 students were gathered for graduation Saturday when the school's president, Herman J. Felton Jr., made the announcement, informing graduates they "do not owe the college a penny."
"If you have a balance, you had a balance," Felton Jr. said. "You no longer have a balance."
The college said in the news release that the estimated total for the balances owed to the college by the graduating class of 2022 was about $300,000.
“We are constantly communicating with donors to assist students in these ways so that they can begin their after-college experience with less debt,” Felton Jr. said.
The 2007 movie “The Great Debaters” starring Denzel Washington was inspired by debate in 1935 in which Wiley prevailed over the University of Southern California's nationally-known, powerhouse team at a time when the nation was heavily segregated.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — A Fort Myers mother is going viral on social media after making a video saying her son was mistreated by a teacher at a Fort Myers elementary school.
Cheyenne Cruz’s son, Wintyr, is a kindergartner at Orangewood elementary school in Fort Myers. She said in early May, she overheard her two sons talking about how her six-year-old’s art teacher used a rag to inappropriately discipline Wintyr on April 29. She describes the situation she said her son was involved in:
“He heard the sink running so he turned around so he saw her taking a rag and filling it up with water, which later he told me was cold because he could feel it,” said Cruz. “He saw her, he said, wind her arm up and when she was about to release it, he turned around to shy away from it and it hit him directly in the back.”
Cruz said she first approached the school’s principal about the issue who confirmed it did happen.
“She calls me back later that night and she’s like, we find that it absolutely did happen and my contact at the district said I needed to self-report to DCF and that’s when I got upset,” said Cruz.
Cruz said she spoke with Lee County School District officials about the incident.
In a statement regarding the incident, The Lee County school district told NBC2/ABC7 —
“We are aware of the incident and appropriate measures are being taken.”
Friday, Cruz took her grievances to TikTok posting a video that went viral discussing the incident and raising awareness about the incident, relaying the message to thousands of people.
“I posted the video and I woke up the next morning and it had 20,000 views,” Cruz said. “I had like 3,000 likes on it, a thousand comments.”
Cruz said she and the school have been in contact with DCF. In the meantime, Cruz said her son will not be attending school this week.
“Wintyr does not go to school tomorrow, he goes to a psychologist for psychological damage,” said Cruz.
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A weather balloon floating over Southwest Florida mystified many residents Sunday evening.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed it was actually a weather balloon that was hovering more than 60,000 feet in the air.
NBC2 Meteorologist Jason Dunning said the balloon comes from a private company that does Space Tourism called ‘World View Enterprises.’
Where the balloon traveled from is incredible! NBC2 traced it back to Tucson, Arizona where it was launched. The balloon went up into the jet stream, across the state of Texas, and over the Gulf of Mexico.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon City is under some new leadership as former mayor Rachel Lyes Smith’s resignation went into effect this month.
Taking over mayoral duties until a new mayor is elected is Oregon City Commission President Denyse McGriff.
Commissioner McGriff shared some updates for her community with AM Extra.
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Average gas prices in Lincoln have topped $4 for the first time in nearly 14 years.
As of Monday morning, the average price for a gallon of unleaded gas was $4.05, according to AAA, the highest price since July 2008 and within 10 cents of the all-time record.
The price is about 21 cents higher than it was a month ago and $1.17 higher than a year ago.
Lincoln's price is higher than the statewide average of $3.98 a gallon, but it's not the highest in the state. That honor goes to Kearney, which had an average price of $4.07 a gallon on Monday.
On a county level, the highest price was in Brown County, which is north-central Nebraska. Its average price as of Monday morning was $4.30 a gallon.
Nebraska is one of the few states in the country to have not yet hit $4 a gallon for its average gas price. Nebraska's $3.98-per-gallon average was the seventh-lowest in the country as of Monday morning.
Nationally, prices Monday morning were just under $4.33 a gallon, which is just short of the all-time record set in early March, when prices were surging in the first few weeks of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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The current surge in prices can also be traced to the Russia-Ukraine situation.
“Gasoline and diesel prices alike saw strong upward momentum last week as oil prices continued to climb after the EU signaled its desire to sanction Russian oil," said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, in a blog post.
Another factor, according to AAA, is that gasoline demand is continuing to rise while total gasoline supply declined last week by 2.2 million barrels.
Reach the writer at 402-473-2647 or molberding@journalstar.com.
On Twitter @LincolnBizBuzz.
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An unidentified man is in protective custody after police say he threatened several people with a hammer and attempted to pull people from their vehicles Sunday afternoon at the Cubby's gas station at the Greenwood interchange of Interstate 80, according to authorities.
Cass County Sheriff's deputies responded to the gas station at 1:40 p.m. Sunday as the man fled the area on foot, heading north along Nebraska 63, the sheriff's office said in a news release.
Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol had already been pursuing the man before he arrived at Cubby's after he drove through a fence adjacent to I-80 near mile marker 417, the agency said in a news release.
The State Patrol joined Cass County deputies in a foot pursuit, chasing the man to the adjacent I-80 Speedway, according to the news release.
The man ran toward the west grandstands, where a trooper deployed a taser and took the man into custody after he tried to harm himself with a shard of glass, the State Patrol said. There were no events scheduled Sunday at the track.
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Greenwood Fire and Rescue crews transported the man to Bryan West Campus for self-inflicted injuries, according to the sheriff's office. Authorities said he damaged two vehicles amid the foot pursuit.
The man has been placed in emergency protective custody at the Lancaster County Mental Health Crisis Center, according to the State Patrol.
Once released from protective care, he will be taken to the Cass County Jail on suspicion of attempted robbery, flight to avoid arrest and vandalism.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
Reach the writer at 402-473-7223 or awegley@journalstar.com.
On Twitter @andrewwegley
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A 20-year-old Lincoln woman was cited for reckless driving after she veered off the road in her SUV over the weekend, striking a utility pole and fire hydrant before overturning, according to police.
The woman was driving her 2002 Dodge Durango south on 27th Street shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday morning when she changed lanes as she neared Vine Street, Lincoln Police Sgt. Chris Vollmer said.
As the woman changed lanes, Vollmer said, the vehicle left the roadway.
The 20-year-old and one occupant suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Vollmer said. It's unclear if they were hospitalized.
The SUV was totaled, Vollmer said, and the crash caused $3,500 in damage to the pole and fire hydrant.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
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Before we head up to Lake Michigan for the occasional getaway, we ask our family and friends if they want us to bring back any “special” items from stores we don’t have in Dayton.
Our daughter, Jordan, likes the taffy from the Taffy Barrel, a store filled with barrels of every imaginable flavor.
My sister, Beth, likes the fudge from Kilwin’s, a candy, ice cream and confectionary concern where the smells make your mouth water.
Our good friend Sean likes the roasted corn salsa that American Spoon, a family-owned company, prepares in small‑batch copper kettles. They use fruits and vegetables from Michigan farmers and foragers to make everything from preserves and spoonable fruit to salsa and drink mixes.
When I talked to Melissa, Sean’s wife, she requested new toys for Sully, their Rhodesian Ridgeback/Lab mix, and Smarty, their English Lab. We purchased the ones they currently play with at a unique pet store by the lake.
“OK,” I said as I jotted Melissa’s requests on my list, completely forgetting about the salsa. “How long has it been since we first got those two the toys?”
“At least two years,” Melissa replied. “Their bodies are still intact, but they’re getting pretty unrecognizable. They have lasted longer than any other soft toy the two have had.”
We talked about the toys’ durability, applique eyes and lifelike looks before I hung up and went back to packing.
Once at the lake, we waited for a decent weather day to shop. The middle of March up there is generally a better time for skiing than for leisurely walking up and down sidewalks and popping in and out of favorite art galleries and specialty stores.
Our first stop was a family favorite, Ruff Life Pet Outfitters. Gary Albert opened the store in 2012, and it reflects his love for dogs and the outdoors. His theater degree from Michigan State University as well as his work in both Chicago’s professional theater and corporate world influenced the store’s modern industrial design.
The store carries the usual dog items such as treats, toys, leashes and collars, but items differ from the big box stores in terms of how and by whom they are manufactured.
For example, the toys we purchased for Sully and Smarty are from Fluff & Tuff, a family business based in Michigan. On their website they list some of their guiding principles: “Durable yet attractive toys, exceptional customer service and philanthropy wherever possible.”
The construction of these toys is remarkable. Not only are they fabricated to the safety standards of children’s toys, but they are certified from the International Council of Toy Industries’ (ICTI), Ethical Toy Program.
These toys have seams that are concealed and double-stitched. This is a must with my family’s Lab, Teddy, who when given a soft toy will search for a loose thread or weak seam so he can pull it apart quickly.
Gary said these toys are among his hottest sellers.
We picked out a squirrel for Sully, an otter for Smarty. Melissa said they were thrilled. Even Wasabi, the family’s “tuxedo” cat and self-proclaimed ruler of their house, loves them, often cuddling up to one or the other for a nap.
Of course, not everything went according to plan. There was the matter of Sean’s salsa, which we had initially forgotten because I neglected to write it down.
But he got it by Easter, so everyone was happy.
Karin Spicer is a member of The Dog Writers Association of America. She lives with her family and two furry pets who inspire her. She can be reached at spicerkarin@gmail.com.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James previously announced that the state would take steps to try and secure abortion protection ahead of any changes to Roe vs. Wade -- on Monday it was revealed that those changes in the state will start with funding.
In a news conference about protecting access to abortion rights, James -- alongside State Senator Cordell Cleare and Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas -- announced new legislation to establish a state program that would provide financial resources to abortion providers in New York. The Reproductive Freedom and Equity Program would be a dedicated state program that would earmark roughly $50 million in funding to abortion care and providers. This would include funding for training, staffing, security, and even funding to cover the uninsured.
The state's Department of Health would be in charge of the multi-million dollar program.
This is a measure in response to last week’s leaked draft that the Supreme Court justices are prepared to overturn Roe vs. Wade. A decision that could happen as early as July.
Lawmakers announced that the measure revealed Monday protects reproductive care in New York and for those from conservatives as well who could possibly end up coming to New York for abortions.
"If Roe [vs. Wade] is overturned, 26 states will and/or are likely to ban abortion, and 58% of women of reproductive age or about 40 million women live in those states," James said during the news conference.
According to James' office, citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2019, 9% or about 7,000 of the abortions performed in New York were for people from out of state. That number could increase to more than 32,000 if Roe vs. Wade is overturned.
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James said a ban on abortions wouldn't stop individuals from actually getting them, rather it would stop people from obtaining safe abortions.
“Health care is a fundamental human right and abortion is an essential aspect of women’s health care,” Cleare said, adding "We will not be subject to the arbitrary whims of a politicized Supreme Court nor can we fund health care services via private fundraising — our women deserve better, and justice and equity demand it!”
Meanwhile, González-Rojas (D-NY) said New York will fight to protect the right.
"Whether you know it or not, everyone loves someone who has had an abortion," she said. "New York needs to stand with our loved ones, and fight to protect that right and access to that right, while the Supreme Court has failed us."
Wednesday is expected to be a key day in the abortion rights issue as the Senate looks to codify reproductive rights in the federal law.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says this week's vote in the Senate will show American's where every senator stands on the issue.
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Ready, set, row!
The Jefferson Dad Vail Regatta returns to the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia this weekend with fans expected to pack the grandstand and riverbank along Kelly Drive again.
"The Jefferson Dad Vail Regatta will be back at full strength," Dad Vail Regatta Organizing Committee president Jim Hanna told NBC10.
The races on Friday, May 13, and Saturday, May 14, are FREE to watch for anyone lining the riverbank.
On its website, the Jefferson Dad Vail Regatta bills itself as "a premier collegiate rowing championship, providing a unique experience for all athletes, coaches, spectators, sponsors, the sport of rowing and our community."
The annual race, also known as "the largest collegiate regatta in North America," brings hundreds of athletes, many spectators and detours in Fairmount Park with the closure of Kelly Drive.
When Do the Races Take Place?
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The first of more than 175 races for this year's competition is expected to launch around 7 a.m. Friday. Races are scheduled from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
The Dad Vail has yet to post the full racing schedule (weather permitting).
Going to the Regatta?
You can access parking areas adjacent to Reservoir Drive then take free shuttle buses down to the river. And, you can watch the action for free. The Grandstand is located at 2200 Kelly Drive.
How Can I Take Public Transit to the Regatta?
SEPTA's route 32 and 38 buses will drop passengers off near the Philadelphia Museum of Art where shuttle buses will be available, race organizers said.
Can't Make It to the Regatta and Don't Want to Miss the Action?
The Dad Vail Regatta has teamed up with Five Tribes Cinema Productions to livestream the races on Friday and Saturday.
What Are the Road Closures?
Race organizers announced Monday afternoon that Kelly Drive would be closed at the Strawberry Mansion Bridge from 10 a.m. Thursday until around 6:30 p.m. Saturday when the event ends, race organizers said.
The Kelly Drive closure allows crews to get boats and other equipment to the river's edge.
How Do I Avoid the Regatta?
Any detours from Kelly Drive will be posted, but you can plan to avoid the area entirely.
You can use the Schuylkill Expressway (Interstate 76) as an alternate route. Martin Luther King Drive, on the other side of the river, can be used Thursday and Friday, but is closed south of Sweetbriar Drive due to construction. (The entire stretch of MLK Drive is closed for recreational use during the day Saturday.)
With MLK Drive closed for a mix of construction and recreation, expect plenty of extra volume on I-76.
How Much Do You Know About the Dad Vail Regatta?
The regatta, established in 1934, is the largest collegiate rowing event in North America, drawing thousands of athletes from more than 100 colleges and universities from across the United States and Canada, organizers said.
"The Jefferson Dad Vail Regatta was started by two men with ties to rowing at the University of Pennsylvania. The individuals were ‘Rusty’ Callow and Lev Brett," race organizers said on the event's website. "Callow was then coach at Penn and laid the foundation. Brett was credited with being the architect. Their goal was to have a college regatta for developing crew programs."
The race course used in the dozens of races in the Olympic length of 2,000 meters and poses "unique" challenges to the crews, Hanna said.
Looking for the full Dad Vail experience? Rowers Village is the place to be, Hanna said.
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CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters.
California is poised this year to make changes to what some call “hidden” court fees, hundreds of dollars often tacked onto traffic tickets and minor violations that can increase their cost nearly tenfold. But so far, state officials disagree on how far to go.
Known as a civil assessment, the fee is imposed on hundreds of thousands of Californians as a penalty for failing to pay a ticket by a deadline or failing to appear in court on a charge.
The vast majority of the fees are issued in traffic or infraction cases. A fine can be imposed each time a deadline is missed.
A $300 maximum fine can be added for violations as minor as jaywalking and on tickets that originally cost as little as $35, according to the Debt Free Justice California, a coalition of organizations, policy experts and legal advocates opposing “unfair ways the criminal legal system drains wealth from vulnerable communities.”
California has one of the highest late fees in the nation, the coalition says. The group says the fees trap low-income Californians in a cycle of ballooning debt with the courts.
Money collected from the extra charges bolsters court coffers, leading advocates to accuse the state of paying for its judicial system by charging those who can least afford it.
The fees generate nearly $100 million annually, and the courts retain more than half.
In Riverside County, the fees that the court system kept made up 14% of its budget, according to a report published by the coalition this year.
The report gave as an example a San Lorenzo resident who is a CalWorks recipient and mother who could not afford to pay for traffic violations. She was charged late fees on traffic citations five times since 2009, amounting to more than $1,500 of debt, about double the cost of the original tickets.
It made her ineligible for a driver’s license for 13 years, the report said.
“They were trying to take all of this money away from us,” she said, “but we didn’t have any in the first place.”
Civil assessment fees are disproportionately borne by people of color, who are overrepresented in traffic stops compared to their share of the population, the report said.
In January advocates sued San Mateo County Superior Court challenging its practice of automatically charging the $300 maximum fee in all traffic cases with a missed deadline.
Gov. Gavin Newsom in his January budget proposed halving the fees, to a maximum of $150, and spending $50 million to backfill court budgets.
The proposal by some lawmakers and the Debt Free Justice coalition to eliminate the fees entirely could cost about twice as much. Senate leaders endorsed that plan in their budget proposals last month, as they announced an unprecedented $68 billion projected budget surplus.
Too poor for tickets
The coalition said it hopes Newsom will back full elimination of fees when he unveils his revised budget proposal this week. H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for Newsom’s Department of Finance, declined to comment.
The Judicial Council, which governs the court system, has supported making changes to civil assessments. In a 2017 report a commission of courts officials recommended limiting the use of civil assessments or letting fines be converted to community service.
“We’re grateful for the efforts of both the Governor’s administration and the Legislature to reform the system and provide necessary backfill funding for the judicial branch,” said Martin Hoshino, administrative director of the Judicial Council, in an email. “We support the Governor’s proposal and are committed to working with him and with legislative leaders in the coming weeks as they finalize the state budget.”
The proposals come after the state eliminated dozens of court fines and fees over the past two years that advocates said disproportionately affected low-income criminal defendants. The state repealed such charges as the cost of a public defender, drug testing, and probation and supervision services.
Newsom also signed a law last year that limits the state’s use of wage garnishments to claw back those debts and another that expanded a pilot program allowing Californians to ask the courts to reduce ticket fines they can’t afford to pay.
Last year a bill to eliminate civil assessments passed the state Senate but was gutted in the Assembly. The Debt Free Justice coalition said at the time it couldn’t get Newsom to agree to a deal to eliminate the fees.
His administration told lawmakers the fee should be reduced but remain to motivate defendants to come to court.
“We feel the 50% reduction strikes a balance of providing immediate fiscal relief for all Californians and also preserving the viability of the civil assessment being used as a tool to keep individuals accountable, to compel individuals to appear in court proceedings,” Mark Jimenez, principal program budget analyst at the Department of Finance, told a Senate budget subcommittee in February.
Jimenez said the penalties are an alternative to issuing warrants to demand court attendance.
But Senators were unconvinced that the fees were an effective motivator for those too poor to pay traffic tickets.
“If they don’t have the money … how is that any incentive to come in?” said Sen. Dave Cortese, a Democrat representing San Jose. “You either have it or you don’t.”
The coalition surveyed 200 Californians with recent traffic citations for its report; 73% said they did not know they would be issued a late fee for failing to appear or to pay, and 38% said extra fees would not have helped them make a timely payment.
Advocates suggested text messages would be more effective at getting defendants with demanding work schedules to court.
This article is part of the California Divide project, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequality and economic survival in California.
CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.
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In their darkest moments, the mothers of Mom.ME. found community within each other.
Mom.ME. started in 2017 as a conversation between friends about postpartum issues. Sisters LaShay Melton and Lauren Jones used Jones’s own experiences navigating postpartum depression and anxiety, postpartum OCD, and postpartum PTSD as a jumping off point.
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“That’s why we’re so passionate about helping moms get over that hurdle. If they can’t get over it, we want to see them through it. We want to be able to hold their hands along the way,” Melton said.
Since then, the organization has grown to include hundreds of mothers from throughout Mississippi. Mom.ME focuses on the total wellness of their mothers, prioritizing mental health by offering therapy and peer support, providing education and sharing available resources free of charge.
Reducing barriers
Mother of five Adrienne Perryman, 35, struggled for years before she was able to get the help she needed. Her second child’s birth eight years ago was the beginning. It was a culmination of events: her mother died of cancer, she got married, moved into a new home and suffered back-to-back miscarriages. She didn’t understand what it was at first; she just knew she was always mad and upset.
“Any little thing would trigger me,” Perryman said. “My mind was just so cloudy.”
Perryman’s doctors introduced her to Mom.ME during the annual check up of her twins, now 3 years old. Soon, she was connected to a personal therapist for a year and a half and is still involved with Mom.ME’s peer support groups.
One of Mom.ME.’s goals is helping underserved mothers. Many of their mothers tell them that they don’t have health insurance. It impacts not only their physical health, as they are then unable to continue postpartum care, but adds to the stressors for lower income households.
“Our organization was put in place to be able to pick up that slack. We work with therapists who curb their fees on a sliding scale, for us to pay for those therapy services for that mom,” Melton said.
When her youngest son was born ten months ago, Perryman was prepared for her postpartum Medicaid coverage to end after two months when it was extended. It was part of the Mississippi Division of Medicaid’s temporary extension of postpartum coverage during the federal COVID-19 emergency.
It was welcome news for Perryman, who has ongoing medical concerns. After developing blood clots in 2018, her ability to work is limited, and she has to visit a hematologist regularly. The extension allows her to still have her check ups, see doctors and continue monitoring her mental health.
“With Medicaid, it’s kind of a fighting battle trying to get it and keep it, so I was just praying that I would be able to keep it to be able to do my services because I knew that I really needed that help,” Perryman said.
Mom.ME. can vouch for the need. Some mothers who receive therapy return by the end of the year, and many have mental health conditions that require treatment even beyond that limit.
“They become family”
Mom.ME. was life changing for mother of two Jamie Matthews. Matthews, 29, experienced her most severe postpartum depression with the birth of her now one-year old son. Depression began during her pregnancy, caused by several factors. At nearly five months pregnant, she found out she had preeclampsia, a serious blood pressure condition. She felt her doctor wasn’t listening to her, leading to her eventually being admitted into the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson for over a month.
“That really made me become more and more depressed because there I am, stuck in the hospital, nobody to talk to,” Matthews said. “It really set in.”
Even after giving birth, her son couldn’t come home immediately. For over two months, her son remained in the hospital, separated from home by a two and a half hour drive. Matthews had to continue caring for her daughter, now four years old, and work, leading to “a lot of depressing moments,” Matthews said. When her son finally could come home, bonding with him was difficult.
“I didn’t feel like I wanted to harm him, but I didn’t feel like he was my child. I think he was maybe nine months before I . . . felt that connection with him,” Matthews said.
Matthews discovered Mom.ME. during a doctor’s appointment for her son. A social worker spoke to Matthews, and Matthews completed an anxiety and depression survey. She was told she was high risk and put in contact with therapy and Mom.ME. She was drawn to the fact it was headed by Black women, and counts the organization as part of her support system.
Biweekly group sessions have allowed members to get to know, support, and be there for each other holistically, Matthews said. As someone in the healthcare field, Matthews appreciates the group therapy’s stance of no judgment and confidentiality, and the knowledge that others have been through what she’s been through.
“They’re not just therapists, they’re not just resources. They become family,” Matthews said.
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Flagstaff police are searching for an "armed and dangerous" suspect in connection with two robberies in recent days, officials say.
In the first robbery, the suspect displayed a handgun and demanded money from the clerk at Family Dollar off Route 66 near Lockett Road around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, according to FPD spokesman Sgt. Odis Brockman. The robber left the store on foot with an unknown amount of cash. Surveillance video later showed the individual leaving the shopping complex in what appeared to be a light-colored sedan.
A second robbery occurred at the Circle K near Steves Boulevard and Insteratee 40 shortly after 5:45 a.m. Monday, Brockman said. The masked individual again displayed a handgun and demanded money. They fled on foot northbound on Steve's Boulevard and into the lower Greenlaw neighborhood.
The robber appeared to be wearing the same clothes in both incidents, leading authorities to believe it was likely the same person, Brockman said. The person appeared to be wearing a dark-colored Carhartt jacket with a beanie and face mask along with black pants and shoes.
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Brockman said the suspect should be considered armed and dangerous. Anyone with any information should contact Flagstaff police Det. Joseph Gilbert at 928-679-4120 or jdgilbert@flagstaffaz.gov.
Tips can also be submitted anonymously to Coconino County Silent Witness at 928-774-6111.
Reporter Bree Burkitt can be reached at 928-556-2250 or bburkitt@azdailysun.com.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — A pedestrian died after being struck by a vehicle on the Morrison Bridge on Sunday afternoon.
Police responded at 4:55 p.m. to a crash report on the Morrison Bridge westbound near where the ramp from I-5 southbound connects to the bridge, according to a press release from the Portland Police Bureau (PPB).
Officers arrived and found a pedestrian who appeared to have been struck by a vehicle. Medical personnel arrived and began providing aid, but the man died at the scene.
His identity will be released after the Medical Examiner's office confirms the cause and manner of death and his family has been notified, police said.
The driver of the vehicle remained on the scene and was cooperative, police said. The Portland Major Crash Team responded to conduct an investigation. The Morrison Bridge was closed for part of the evening.
Portland has continued to struggle with a record pace of traffic fatalities this year, following a surge of traffic deaths last year that made 2021 the city's deadliest traffic year since 1990.
Portland saw 63 traffic deaths in 2021, up from 54 in 2020, according to the Portland Bureau of Transportation's Vision Zero Traffic Crash Report released earlier this year. Pedestrians accounted for 27 of those deaths, up from 18 the year before.
Anyone with information about the Morrison crash is asked to contact crimetips@portlandoregon.gov, attention Traffic Investigations Unit, and reference case number 22-121917, or call (503) 823-2103.
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SEATTLE — A viral video is raising new safety concerns about a downtown Seattle intersection. One man has spent years cataloging crashes at the I-5 southbound off-ramp on Union Street.
Michael Basconcillo says he's lived near the corner of 7th and Union for 20 years and grew tired of the constant screeching of tires and loud noises outside his door.
He would often run outside to find the aftermath: a car and driver crashed on the side of the road.
Basconcillo decided he would mount a camera at the intersection to document the problem of people exiting too fast on the southbound exit of I-5, near the Convention Center. Every once in a while, he'd catch a spectacular crash, and put together a montage of the problem.
This week, somehow he says, it ended up online and had thousands of views.
"I had two friends text me yesterday morning, and said you're famous, your video is on Reddit, I go, what's Reddit?" Basconcillo said with a laugh.
But the issue is no laughing matter, he says, as there is a crash at the spot by his estimate four to six times a year. "They see a 20-mile-an-hour exit sign, and that doesn't mean anything."
SDOT and WSDOT data is inconclusive, but the tire marks and scratched pavement is prevalent at the spot, which is technically a city street connected to a state highway.
WSDOT says it is aware of the issue and has been making changes since 2019, adding and replacing signage to urge people to slow down to 20 miles per hour on the sharp turn.
But Basconcillo says he believes the agencies could do more, like add divots or bumps in the roadway which increase vibration and encourage people to hit the brakes.
"It would wake somebody up, it would get their attention, and get them to slow down," he said.
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A long-running cancer charity scam, that allegedly made one New York man thousands of dollars that went toward his mortgage payments and credit card bills instead of sick patients, has been busted by city prosecutors.
The man from Staten Island appeared in court on Monday to face charges alleging he created at least 23 fake cancer charity organizations and pocketed $152,000 for his personal use.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced the indictment that accuses Ian Hosang, 63, of operating the fraudulent charity funds between 2014 and 2021 by linking them to legitimate groups like the American Cancer Society and United Way.
An investigation by the district attorney's office uncovered evidence that alleges Hosang "lined his own pockets" from countless donations that he in turn used to pay his living expenses, bills and trips to the liquor store. Attorney information for Hosang was not immediately available.
The man is also accused of stealing a Brooklyn woman's identity and naming her as the director of many of the fake entities he created to allegedly scam donors.
"Many of the charities included the words 'American Cancer Society' or 'United Way' with added qualifying language to allegedly mislead potential donors," the Brooklyn district attorney explained in a press release Monday.
Gonzalez said the Staten Island man advertised the charities online, with websites claiming that “Thanks to our volunteers, our ‘angels on earth,’ we have been able to keep organizational costs low while using most of your generous contributions to benefit kids and their families.”
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Hosang appeared in court Monday before the Brooklyn Supreme Court. His indictment includes 12 counts of third-degree grand larceny, three counts of first-degree identity theft and one count of first-degree scheme to defraud.
He was released without bail and is scheduled back in court next month, the district attorney said. If convicted, Hosang faces up to seven years in prison.
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Police have arrested an alleged knife-wielding suspect who started arguing with a 52-year-old straphanger in a Brooklyn subway station last week, then chased him and ended up knocking them both down onto the tracks, authorities say.
The 35-year-old suspect, Anthony Melendez of Brooklyn, was cuffed Sunday night in the May 4 attack on the southbound platform at Broadway Junction around 8:45 p.m.
According to police, Melendez allegedly walked up to the victim and engaged him in a verbal dispute. It's not clear what they argued about, but Melendez allegedly whipped out the knife and started to chase the victim, knocking both to the tracks.
The physical struggle continued down there, with the suspect allegedly slashing the victim in the chest, ear, finger and head. Both men were able to get off the tracks without being hit by a train. Surveillance cameras captured the chaos, with the victim seen flinging items at the suspect as the two were on the platform as well.
Melendez initially got away but was later caught. The victim sought medical care by private means, police said.
It wasn't clear if he knew Melendez prior to Wednesday's incident. Attorney information for the suspect wasn't known either.
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ALBANY – Albany Technical College received formal notification recently of its Practical Nursing program’s accreditation decision granted by the Accreditation Commission for Education In Nursing Board of Commissioners at its meetings in March 2022.
The deliberation and final decision were in part based on peer evaluators who came on-site at Albany Tech as a visiting team. Evaluators observed best practices and fostered the instructors and nursing program development at the college.
“We’ve worked hard to get to this level," Lisa Stephens, dean of Business/Healthcare Technology at Albany Tech, said in a news release. "With this accreditation in the Practical Nursing program here at the college, we offer students the very best education possible in the nursing field. This accreditation body stamp of approval means that we can provide the best in terms of time or resources."
The purpose of the ACEN is to provide specialized accreditation for all levels of nursing education and transition-to-practice programs located in the United States, U.S. territories and internationally. Accreditation is a peer-review, self-regulatory process by which non-governmental associations recognize educational institutions or programs that have been found to meet or exceed standards and criteria for educational quality.
Accreditation also assists in further improving the institutions or programs as related to resources invested, processes followed, and results achieved. The monitoring of certificate, diploma, and degree offerings is tied closely to state examination and licensing rules and the oversight of preparation for work in the profession.
“This is great news for the community as we expand our nursing program over the next year," Albany Tech President Anthony Parker said. "The need for trained and qualified nurse graduates has never been greater. This allows for better results as we move forward and graduate more medical professionals than ever before."
The Practical Nursing program teaches students the skills needed to help patients in nursing homes and other health care facilities. Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) work under the direction of doctors and registered nurses (RNs) and check patients’ vital signs, change dressings, and provide other types of basic patient care. They also help patients bathe and dress when needed.
The Practical Nursing program includes courses in anatomy and physiology, pharmacology and nutrition, among others. Students will be taught how to collect fluid samples, administer IV medications, maintain patient records, and teach families to help care for sick or injured relatives.
Students in the program earn a Practical Nursing diploma and will be prepared to take the National Council Licensure Examination to become an LPN. Graduates qualify for LPN positions in hospitals and long-term care facilities as well as home health agencies.
Following completion of the Practical Nursing program and successfully passing the licensure exam, students can choose to continue their education by enrolling in higher-level nursing or medical programs at Albany Technical College and other institutions.
The Practical Nursing Program is approved by the Georgia Board of Nursing, 237 Coliseum Drive, Macon, Ga. 31217-3858. (Phone: (844) 753-7825)
Effective June 22, “The Practical nursing program at Albany Technical College's main campus located in Albany is a candidate for initial accreditation by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing.” This candidacy status expires on June 22.
The most recent accreditation decision made by the ACEN Board of Commissioners for the Practical Nursing program is candidacy. View the public information disclosed by the ACEN regarding the program at http://www.acenursing.us/accreditedprograms/programSearch.htm.
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JASPER, Arkansas — According to officials, a Springfield, Missouri man died from a fall in the Indian Creek drainage of Buffalo National River on Saturday, May 7.
A little before 5 p.m., the Buffalo National River’s dispatch center was notified of a hiker who had fallen near the Eye of the Needle in the Ponca Wilderness.
Brad Lee Thomas, 46, was hiking with a group in this undeveloped wilderness area when he fell approximately 20 feet.
Dispatchers were were Thomas was unresponsive and that CPR was in progress, before their arrival.
Witnesses conducted CPR and rendered aid until rangers and first responders arrived to the scene, but their lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful.
Rangers have responded to multiple hiking accidents in the Indian Creek drainage over the past month, officials said.
Officials with the river said the undeveloped backcountry area includes extremely technical, loose and slippery footing, and steep terrain, leaving the most experienced hiker susceptible to injury.
They want to remind everyone hikers should be equipped for self-rescue, as emergency response can take several hours at this location.
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An investigation is underway after the remains of a human fetus were discovered Sunday afternoon in the basement of a New Jersey home, officials announced Monday.
Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Wayne Chief of Police Jack McNiff jointly announced that around 5:45 p.m. police responded to a home in Wayne following a report that the remains of a human fetus had been discovered.
According to officials, the residents discovered the remains inside a storage container in their basement and contacted the authorities.
The Medical Examiner’s Office took custody of the remains and will conduct an autopsy.
Additional information was not immediately available.
Authorities ask anyone with additional information to contact the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office at 1-877-370-PCPO or the Wayne Police Detective Bureau at 973-694-0600.
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EAGLE, Idaho — This Mother's Day is a difficult one for Heather Langer of Eagle. It's her first Mother's Day without her precious daughter, Reese. A year ago, 13-year-old Reese had a severe allergic reaction to nuts. Sadly, she passed away four days later.
"It will be a year this month, May 16. You almost become numb, but sharing her story seems to help," Langer said.
The emotions are still so raw a year later.
"She was the best kind of friend that you could ask for," Langer said. "She was friends with everyone, and she was so giving and helping."
Reese was a happy teen, a joy to her mom, a little sister to her two big brothers, and adored by her dad, Ryan. She was a student at Eagle Middle School. Reese was also a member of local cheer squad, Idaho Cheer.
"She was a competitive cheerleader, she loved doing cheer, it was her second family," Langer said.
Reese was allergic to nuts, and her mom said because of the allergy, she was very careful about what she ate.
"We were at a cheer banquet last year, and she ate a dessert that she thought was safe. She had an anaphylactic reaction," Langer said with tears in her eyes. "She had baklava, which was new to her and she was told it tasted like honey and pastry, and so she thought it was safe."
However, it wasn't safe. Reese and her mom had no idea there were finely-crushed walnuts in the the crust, and Reese started to react. Her mom said in all the chaos, they realized how serious this really was. They tried Benadryl, and administered Reese's EpiPen (epinephrine injection), but Reese's reaction to the walnuts escalated quickly.
"My first thought was that of course we would get it under control, but you could tell it was something different this time. On the drive to the emergency room, she lost consciousness, " Langer told KTVB with sadness. "I mean she even got in the car herself, shut her own door, it happened that quick. We were three minutes away from the ER."
Reese went into anaphylactic shock. Anaphylaxis causes the immune system to release a flood of chemicals that can cause the body to go into shock. Blood pressure drops suddenly and the airways narrow, blocking breathing. Signs and symptoms include a rapid, weak pulse; a skin rash; and nausea and vomiting.
"They rushed her right back and tried to get a pulse," Langer said. "She was in a coma for four days, but we later found out there was just no brain activity."
Reese's death is still so painful for her family. Everyone who knew Reese, knew about her allergies. The dessert that Reese ate at the catered banquet seemed harmless, but it wasn't.
"I just want to make sure that this doesn't happen to anyone else." Langer said. "I just want people to understand the seriousness of food allergies. This is serious, life threatening, and it's scary."
Soon after Reese's death, Langer started a foundation. A nonprofit to honor her daughter's memory.
"The foundation is called Reese Strong," Langer said. "When Reese was in a coma all of her cheerleader friends came up with a hashtag that they spread everywhere, Reese Strong. It stuck, and in the beginning I thought it was to be strong for Reese, to keep her in our prayers, and will strength to her. In the end it was much more than that."
The very first event for the Reese Strong Foundation was held in September 2021. The Run for Reese's goal was to spread food allergy awareness.
"The first fun run was at her middle school," Langer said. "It seemed fitting to have it there. It was mostly her friends and the cheerleaders, but we were surprised to see how many community members came out to it."
The foundation also organizes a yearly golf tournament fundraiser.
"We're raising awareness, educating others, and eventually we will be helping with financial assistance for epi-pens," Langer said.
This week, May 8-14, is National Food Allergy Awareness Week. Langer found out Idaho was one of the few states that didn't recognize this special week, she decided to push for change.
"We sent a request off to the governor's office and we brought it to his attention," Langer said.
Governor Brad Little heard about Reese's story and took action, honoring her memory with an official proclamation. Idaho will now recognize Food Allergy Awareness Week.
Langer is still struggling with the loss of Reese on a daily basis, but, somehow running the foundation makes her feel like she is doing something to stop the preventable deaths of those with severe food allergies. One thing Langer stresses, is the importance of using an epi-pen as soon as possible after a reaction. The rule is epi-first, epi-fast. Minutes do count.
This loving mom says she will keep sharing her daughter's story wherever she goes to spread awareness.
"Everyone grieves differently, for me talking about it helps, sharing memories helps, going to the cemetery everyday helps." Langer said.
In the coming days, Langer is working on getting educational flyers into schools. This weekend, the second annual Run for Reese will be held. It's on Saturday, May 14th at Eagle Middle School. It starts at 10 a.m., and everyone is invited.
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An investigation is underway in State College after Penn State University landmarks were targets of vandalism over graduation weekend, the school said.
The university says the Nittany Lion Shrine, Old Main and Hintz Family Alumni Center were all defaced with red paint sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Vandals broke an eye off of the iconic Nittany Lion statue and splashed it with red paint, according to PSU officials. The site was fenced off and unavailable for graduation photos while university police investigate.
"It's kind of sad," Christy Parker told affiliate WJAC in her cap and gown. "This is tradition. So all the graduates come through and take their pictures. And there was a line of people standing down here."
Red paint was used to graffiti Old Main and the Hintz Family Alumni Center, too.
NBC10 affiliate WGAL reports large red letters that read “TIME IS UP” were featured on the front door of Old Main and blue words that read “DEATH BY COP,” “DEATH BY HAZING,” “DEATH BY SUICIDE,” and “DEATH BY PSU CULTURE” covered other entrances of the historic building.
The Hintz Family Alumni Center entrance was covered in red letters that said “FTG,” according to WGAL, and a note was also written that read “Should have listened when you had the chance.” The note was signed by “ADG.”
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“These are profoundly disturbing acts, at a time when many families are taking photos and celebrating the educational accomplishments of their graduates,” Penn State University said in a statement.
The vandalism at Old Main was cleaned up by midday Sunday, but it is not yet known when the Lion Shrine's repairs will finish, WJAC reports.
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact University Police or submit a tip online at https://www.police.psu.edu/report-crime.
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JASPER, Arkansas — According to officials, a Springfield, Missouri man died from a fall in the Indian Creek drainage of Buffalo National River on Saturday, May 7.
A little before 5 p.m., the Buffalo National River’s dispatch center was notified of a hiker who had fallen near the Eye of the Needle in the Ponca Wilderness.
Brad Lee Thomas, 46, was hiking with a group in this undeveloped wilderness area when he fell approximately 20 feet.
Dispatchers were were Thomas was unresponsive and that CPR was in progress, before their arrival.
Witnesses conducted CPR and rendered aid until rangers and first responders arrived to the scene, but their lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful.
Rangers have responded to multiple hiking accidents in the Indian Creek drainage over the past month, officials said.
Officials with the river said the undeveloped backcountry area includes extremely technical, loose and slippery footing, and steep terrain, leaving the most experienced hiker susceptible to injury.
They want to remind everyone hikers should be equipped for self-rescue, as emergency response can take several hours at this location.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — The Walton Family Foundation has launched a new strategy to support the development and prosperity of people and communities in the Delta region of Arkansas and Mississippi.
The plan is part of the foundation’s five-year commitment, Strategy 2025, to tackle tough social and environmental issues with urgency and a long-term approach to expanding access to opportunity.
The initiative will focus on three key areas:
- Education and youth engagement
- Economic asset building for individuals and families
- High-impact coalition building
The plan strives to ensure residents have fair access to resources and opportunities to achieve their highest ambitions.
“Every community is different, and so are the challenges they face—which is why following local leadership and vision is critical,” said Annie Proietti, Walton Family Foundation board chair. “We recognize that building a vibrant, equitable Delta won’t happen by going it alone. Realizing this vision means joining with partners and supporting one another toward shared goals.”
The Walton Family Foundation says it will invest in the educator workforce, unlocking college and career pathways, and improving access to educational options for a new generation of success.
It will also look for new ways to provide residents with the resources needed to build financial security through economic asset building and boost upward mobility by offering workforce development and career training to strengthen small businesses.
The foundation will build coalitions of local, regional, and national partnerships to develop future community leaders and provide better opportunities in the area.
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A 23-year-old Moravian College graduate was struck and killed in an apparent DUI crash in Arizona over the weekend, according to reports.
Norah Bruther, who graduated from Moravian College, now Moravian University, in 2020, was hit as she tried to cross Camelback Road in Scottsdale around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Arizona’s KTVK 3TV and KPHO CBS 5 News reported.
Bruther reportedly died at the scene.
“The light of her personality could illuminate the darkest room,” read a post on the Tri Sigma Moravian University Facebook page. According to the site, Bruther was a member of Moravian’s chapter, Eta Lambda.
Bruther was also a three-year starter for the Moravian women’s soccer team, and appeared in 12 games for the Greyhounds during the 2018-19 season. According to her player biography, she was also secretary of the school’s accounting club.
Stanley Lambert, a 22-year old defensive end for Arizona State University’s football team, was reportedly arrested on DUI-related charges in the crash.
According to Fox 10 Phoenix, which quoted an officer at the scene, Lambert was booked for one count each of DUI - impaired to the slightest degree, and DUI with a blood alcohol content of .08% or more. Additional charges are possible pending lab results, Fox10 said.
Bruther was from Sea Girt, New Jersey, according to her LinkedIn profile, but was visiting Scottsdale and staying in the area at the time of the incident, a Scottsdale Police Department spokesperson told the station.
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Stefani Schaefer visits Alliance in Fox 8 News segment
ALLIANCE – The Carnation City's own Stefani Schaefer spotlighted her hometown on Monday in a segment on Fox 8 News.
The Cleveland-based news station aired the video about Alliance as part of a series that focuses on the hometowns of its news anchors from Northeast Ohio.
Schaefer grew up in Alliance and attended Regina Coeli School and the University of Mount Union. She stopped at Heggy's Confectionary, Mount Union, Regina Coeli, Glamorgan Castle and Silver Park during her visit to the city.
Schaefer said the stop at Heggy's was "most special" to her. Her mom, Patti, godson, Corey Unckrich, and best friend, Sandi Mascitti, were there to share butter fries and discuss their favorite things about Alliance.
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One of Schaefer's favorite memories of growing up in Alliance was taking trips to Heggy's. Her mom used to bring her to the restaurant and candy store for butter fries to celebrate after she brought home a good report card.
She said her mom still brings her Heggy's chocolates every Christmas.
At her alma mater, Schaefer met with one of her former professors, Jamie Capuzza. She teaches in Mount Union's Department of Communication.
"Professor Capuzza was one of my favorites at Mount Union College. Well, now I should say the University of Mount Union," Schaefer said.
Capuzza taught Schaefer during her senior year at the university. It's been about 30 years since Schaefer was a Mount Union student, but Capuzza remembered her senior project on adult literacy.
Schaefer said Capuzza's enthusiasm made her "a ray of light" in the classroom. She and other female students were able to relate to Capuzza, Schaefer said.
Schaefer also visited Silver Park. She spent a lot of time at the park as a kid, she said, whether she was playing baseball or attending the Greater Alliance Carnation Festival there.
"A lot of great memories were made here," she said.
Schaefer pre-recorded the segments, but made another visit to Alliance on Monday. Dressed in a purple Mount Union ballcap and T-shirt, she filmed live in front of Glamorgan Castle.
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Californians seeking to start a family with the help of in vitro fertilization are often on the hook for the full cost of treatment, in the range of tens of thousands of dollars. The cost could deter some people from having children, and it could leave others in exorbitant debt.
While 17 states have laws that require health insurers to cover fertility treatments, most of which include in vitro, California does not.
The debate over whether health insurance plans should provide fertility coverage isn’t new to Sacramento, but even in a state where Democrats like to boast about their fight to advance reproductive health, these efforts have not gone very far. The main hold up is money.
Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, an Oakland Democrat, is trying again this year. Her Assembly Bill 2029 would require some health insurance plans to cover fertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization. The bill also broadens the definition of infertility so more people would be eligible to be diagnosed and treated, including single persons, same sex couples, and transgender people.
Wicks recently accepted amendments in an attempt to reduce the cost of her bill, which as first drafted had a $715 million price tag for employers and health plan enrollees. The coverage mandate in her revised bill would apply only to large group health insurance, which covers about 9 million Californians. Plans in the small group and individual markets would be exempt. Even as first written, the bill would not apply to Medi-Cal, the insurance program for low-income residents.
The bill would also now cap a person’s lifetime benefits to $75,000 and limit egg retrievals to three.
“This is my third time doing this,” Wicks said. “We’re trying to get this passed and this means making amendments to narrow it.”
Wicks said the issue is personal to her — her second child is a product of in vitro fertilization. (In 2020, Wicks took her then newborn to the Capitol to vote for a family leave bill.) The goal, she said, is to take a piecemeal approach and expand the benefit to more people over time.
California law currently requires insurance companies to offer fertility treatment, excluding in vitro, but it’s up to the employer or group to decide whether that’s included as a covered benefit. This bill would make that coverage mandatory.
Annabel Adams, who recently testified in support of Wicks’ bill, has paid close to $50,000 for three rounds of in vitro fertilization. Born with a chromosomal inversion that makes it difficult for her to sustain a pregnancy, she has suffered six losses.
Her doctors recommended in vitro fertilization, or IVF, a process in which eggs are retrieved from the ovaries and fertilized by sperm in a lab. The fertilized egg, or embryo, is then transferred to the uterus. For Adams, this process allows her doctors to test the embryos to ensure they aren’t affected by her genetic issue, increasing her chances of a sustainable pregnancy.
Her first round of treatment, including medication, cost her $25,600, she said. Her Kaiser insurance plan, as offered by her University of California employer, didn’t cover it. Her husband’s insurance helped cover some of the costs for the second and third rounds.
“Every pregnancy is filled with terror. These are wanted pregnancies; these are children we are envisioning and planning a future around,” said Adams, a resident of Long Beach and founder of California Fertility Advocates. “Finding out that IVF was essentially the cure to my disease and knowing it was not easily accessible to me, it felt like an added layer of harm.”
The health insurance lobby and business groups oppose Wicks’ bill, citing the cost. They say that like other pieces of legislation that require new benefits to be covered, this bill would prompt increases in health insurance premiums for employers and employees.
According to the California Association of Health Plans, this is the most expensive bill the organization is opposing this year, and Wicks’ recent amendments don’t change its stance.
“As health plans we have to be concerned about the costs for everyone,” said Mary Ellen Grant, a spokesperson for the association. “We are not disputing the merits of this bill, but they do increase health care costs for Californians. That’s just not something that the health plans can get behind.”
Grant said that lawmakers have to take into consideration the sum of all benefit mandates they choose to pass, not just a single bill. This year, the association is opposing 14 bills that would require new benefits be covered — collectively, these bills could increase annual premiums by $1.5 billion, the association said.
The California Chamber of Commerce and various local chambers, representing the interests of businesses, have also voiced their opposition to the bill because of the cost. The bill is next headed to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, which weighs a bill’s fiscal impact.
In 2019, California enacted a law clarifying that insurers had to cover the cost of preserving eggs, sperm or embryos for patients undergoing treatment for diseases that affected their ability to have children. Two previous bills introduced by Wicks in 2019 and 2020, targeting fertility coverage more broadly, did not advance.
While much of the conversation around Wicks’ current bill is focused on in vitro fertilization, because it is the most expensive type of fertility treatment, the bill gets at the broader issue of fertility coverage overall, said Dr. Marcelle Cedars, a reproductive endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco. Not everyone who is infertile needs in vitro fertilization.
“It’s really about recognition of infertility as a disease,” Cedars said. “As with any other disease, all evidence-based, medically valid treatment options should be available to patients.”
Cedars said she has patients whose diagnosis is covered by their insurance, but not their treatment. “You would never say, ‘Oh, by the way, you have diabetes, but we’re not going to give you insulin to treat it.’ I mean, that is crazy, what other disease would you treat like that?”
Infertility is estimated to affect approximately one in eight couples, or about 15% of the population in the U.S. Dr. Cedars said that while infertility is recognized as a disease by the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association, socially and politically, it’s murkier. Treatment is often thought of as elective.
“Reproductive health is tricky in this country, as we saw this week,” Cedars said, referring to news of a leaked draft opinion that showed the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to strike down Roe v. Wade. “Reproductive health is really a spectrum, it’s not having children when you don’t want to and being able to have them when you do.”
In the abortion debate, California is positioning itself as a sanctuary state for people from out-of-state seeking to terminate a pregnancy. Democratic legislators have authored a package of bills making their way through the Legislature to protect abortion access and affordability. Gov. Gavin Newsom has already signed into law one of those bills, eliminating out-of-pocket costs for abortions.
Wicks and supporters of her bill said that ultimately this bill is also about choice — allowing people to start a family if and when they choose to. “It is why I work on bills for safe and legal abortion and insuring that doulas are covered,” Wicks said. “All of these things to me are very connected.”
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More than two dozen men and women clad in hard hats and safety vests filed into a crowded hearing room April 27 to cheer on yet another bill trying to solve California’s housing crisis.
The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act would allow developers to fast-track local approval to build affordable housing where offices, strip malls and parking lots sit right now. But it has quickly become one of the most hotly contested bills in the California Legislature because the labor requirements on those projects satisfy some but not most unions. The bill, introduced by Assembly Housing Chair Buffy Wicks, mirrors multiple bills that died in recent years as a result of squabbling between developers and labor unions.
The men and women in hard hats, however, were carpenters, and so represented something previous bills didn’t have: Support from both developers and some construction unions.
But despite the neon flashes in a sea of suits, the impasse is far from over.
Following the carpenters, a parade of electricians, pipe-fitters, ironworkers and drywallers — wearing union logos but no hard hats — stepped up to the microphone to voice their disapproval. While the state’s Conference of Carpenters, which represents about 82,000 workers, co-sponsored the bill, the Building and Construction Trades Council — an umbrella labor group known colloquially as “the Trades” and spanning almost half a million workers in nearly every other construction industry — remains vehemently opposed. The California Labor Federation, which represents more than 1 million members including the Trades, said they “stand in strong solidarity” with the Trades.
After several years of gridlock, the rare split within the construction unions presents both an awkward conundrum and a potential for compromise on a proposal that would free up swaths of land for development of affordable housing. It certainly makes it harder to paint bill supporters as anti-labor — a phrase that amounts to slander for politicians in deep blue California.
Longtime Democratic strategist Garry South said lawmakers may have to calculate which facet of organized labor will cause them the most pain during a major election year. And the Trades, which contribute tens of millions of dollars in campaigns and engage in aggressive lobbying, remain a force to be reckoned with. According to a CalMatters analysis of the 2022 races so far, state and local Trades councils have contributed more than $1 million to political candidates while carpenters groups have given more than $800,000.
But as the housing crisis reaches a fever pitch among voters, South said “elected officials will ignore it at their own peril.”
That’s the motivating factor for the bill’s author.
“I don’t want to be the housing chair presiding over inertia and status quo,” said Wicks, a Democrat from Oakland. “Here’s the reality: I and 79 of my other colleagues in the Assembly every weekend go home to constituents who are homeless, constituents who have to live in people’s garages, constituents who are squeezed out of their house, who are living in motels, who are living in their cars, who are being evicted or experiencing foreclosure, or who are barely hanging on. That is simply not okay. And so what that means is building more low-income and middle-income housing. And that’s what this bill does.”
What does the labor language really say?
The bill, which has the support of Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, would allow housing that is 100% affordable to low-income households to be built “by right” on areas now zoned for offices, retail and parking. That means skipping many city council meetings that tack on costly delays as well as the state’s premier environmental law many blame for its housing woes. Livable California, a local control group, has already dubbed it “the worst bill of 2022.”
The bill would also allow mixed-income housing, with a minimum of 15% of units affordable to low-income households for rent or 30% of units affordable to moderate-income households for sale, along commercial corridors such as strip malls.
The Carpenters and the Trades are at loggerheads over how much unionized labor developers would have to use to take advantage of the streamlining. The Trades are pushing for language requiring a certain amount of the workforce be graduates of an apprenticeship program, which effectively means union members. That’s common for public works, but unusual for residential construction.
A 2019 Trades-commissioned study found less than a fifth of construction workers across California were unionized in 2017, a number likely lower in the residential sector.
Developers argue the standard — that at least 30% or in some cases 60% of the workers in each trade for a given project be graduates of an apprenticeship program, most of which are run by unions — is too hard to meet, particularly in areas of the state lacking in apprenticeship programs. The Carpenters agree.
“If you had a standard that can’t be met when you need to move forward on construction then it’s not a standard, it’s a barrier,” said Daniel Curtin, director of the California Conference of Carpenters.
Under Wicks’ bill, developers would have to pay union-level wages — which are common to builders of exclusively affordable housing, but rare among market rate developers. Projects larger than 50 units would require health benefits for workers and contractors would need to request the dispatch of apprentices, but if they’re unavailable, the project would move forward anyway.
The bill also gives unions new tools to go after developers over wage violations without waiting on state regulators, an enforcement mechanism the Carpenters have touted as the strongest in California.
But in a scathing letter, the Trades argued the benefits were largely unenforceable. They said developers could bypass the health care requirements, which could be overturned in court, and called the apprenticeship standard in the bill a simple paper exercise that wouldn’t result in more jobs — allegations Wicks’ office denies.
“This bill claims to have labor standards that might as well be written in invisible ink because they will disappear before the first worker laces up their boots,” Erin Lehane, legislative director for the Trades, said during the hearing.
They insist their stricter apprenticeship standards are needed because the lengthy local approval process Wicks’ bill would strip away normally gives unions leverage for pay and work rules. They argue only strict requirements to use state-approved apprenticeships would equip workers with the skills, training and fluency in labor law to offset the silenced community process.
“If this bill were to pass in its current form without any changes, I will guarantee you that my clients will put up the money to put it on the ballot to referendum it,” said Scott Wetch, a lobbyist who represents about 150,000 electrical workers, plumbers and sheet metal workers. “And, then we have the public discussion with the voters as to if they approve or disapprove of taking this authority away from the local city councils.”
Wetch requested that the bill be sent to the Rules Committee — a holding area of sorts where stakeholders can buy time and de-escalate rhetoric. Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, a Democrat from Los Angeles who leads the budget subcommittee on housing, said the move indicates some unions’ willingness to compromise.
Here’s something the unions all agree on: The labor workforce needs to grow to meet construction demands, and is struggling to do so. Pay and health coverage among the mostly non-union workforce is often so poor that nearly half of construction workers rely on the state’s five largest public safety net programs, according to a recent UC Berkeley Labor Center study.
Apprenticeship programs help remedy these issues by providing free education that leads to good-paying union jobs, but have only graduated about 70,500 apprentices since 2010, according to the California Department of Industrial Relations. The Trades believe strict apprenticeship requirements on the streamlined projects guarantee more jobs, which will grow the pool of applicants and in time, graduates. Still, they say they have enough workers to start building homes today.
The Carpenters contend too many workers are already subject to substandard work conditions and earning low wages, and many can’t prove they have the years of work experience equivalent to an apprenticeship graduate because they’re paid under the table.
“We know that this will kick the door open, raise the wages, raise the conditions, produce housing, a platform for new workers to come in. We train them, we organize them,” said Jay Bradshaw, executive officer of the Northern California Carpenters Union. “Why other labor unions aren’t jumping on this, I don’t know. For us, it’s crystal clear.”
Following the robust, if uncomfortable, testimony, the bill was referred to the Rules Committee on a 7 to 1 vote. Wicks said the bill will face similar deadlines to other Assembly bills — it will have to get out of the rules and appropriations committees and onto the floor by May 20.
“I’m hopeful,” Carrillo said. “I think clearly what we’re seeing is a desire to find solutions. People want to see solutions, they don’t want to see homeless encampments continue to grow.”
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BURLINGAME, Calif. — Facebook parent Meta has opened its first physical store — in Burlingame, California — to showcase its hardware products like virtual and augmented reality goggles and glasses.
The store, which is open to the public as of Monday, is made for people who want to test out products like Ray-Ban Stories, Meta’s AR glasses and sunglasses, along with the Portal video calling gadget and Oculus virtual reality headsets.
Shoppers still have to order the glasses from Ray-Ban but can buy the other products at the store.
“It’s a very concrete step from moving away from social media and ads that mislead people and elections and spying and data and all those things to a very physical representation of clean, classy, well-designed, cool hardware that makes you go, ah,” said Omar Akhtar, research director at Altimeter, a technology investment firm.
Akhtar said he “didn’t believe in virtual reality” until he sat and tried on the Oculus headset for the first time — and believes this will be the same for others who are able to put on the goggles and try it out. Apple pioneered physical retail stores in Silicon Valley and Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, is likely hoping it'll replicate at least some of that success.
“The truth of it is that physical things never went away and they’re never going to go away,” Akhtar said. “Everybody realizes that even if we are going to step into the virtual world, we’re going to need to access it with hardware.”
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PEARLAND, Texas — A single mother is grateful after receiving what she calls a life-changing gift on Mother's Day.
Kristin Johnson is a single mother with two children. She's had a tough year. She escaped a violent relationship, her truck was stolen and her brother and father died within months of each other.
"Some days I feel like breaking down and I can't get through anymore. I have a serious conversation with God and I know my worth and know that I have a greater purpose here than the season of what's going on right now," Johnson said.
That's where the owner of the Greasy Spoon restaurant in Pearland, Max Bozeman II, comes in. He said he's been inspired by many single mothers throughout his life and he wanted to do something for someone in need. He started a giveaway and opened it up for applications. He said he got more than 200 applications for the car, but Johnson's story stood out and she was chosen as the winner.
Johnson said the gift is a new opportunity for her to get her life back on track.
Bozeman is hoping to help even more people next year.
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SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. — The Twin Rivers Unified School District said Monday that a student was taken into custody at Foothill High School near North Highlands after they were allegedly found with a gun.
According to the district, a gun was found after a student tried to leave the school office while being questioned and searched. The student was taken into custody.
Additional mental health experts will be available at the school for students and staff.
"The district proactively takes measures to address these situations safely and expeditiously. Weapons of any kind are never permitted on our campuses and there are serious consequences for students who are found in possession of a weapon," the district wrote in a statement.
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DALLAS — Students graduating from a historically Black college in East Texas were told at their commencement ceremony that an anonymous donor had paid their balances, officials said.
Wiley College said in a news release that over 100 students were gathered for graduation Saturday when the school's president, Herman J. Felton Jr., made the announcement, informing graduates they "do not owe the college a penny."
"If you have a balance, you had a balance," Felton Jr. said. "You no longer have a balance."
The college said in the news release that the estimated total for the balances owed to the college by the graduating class of 2022 was about $300,000.
“We are constantly communicating with donors to assist students in these ways so that they can begin their after-college experience with less debt,” Felton Jr. said.
The 2007 movie “The Great Debaters” starring Denzel Washington was inspired by debate in 1935 in which Wiley prevailed over the University of Southern California's nationally-known, powerhouse team at a time when the nation was heavily segregated.
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Grand jury reports have been filed in six in-custody deaths in Lancaster County, including the death of a 20-year-old Lincoln man who fled a traffic stop in a residential area early Christmas morning and ran into a parked car at over 55 mph.
The grand jury, which met in mid-March, ruled Ahmad Gregory's death accidental.
Lincoln Police Officer Grant Powell, a crash reconstructionist, told the grand jury members it started at about 12:50 a.m. Dec. 25 when a Nebraska State Patrol trooper tried to stop Gregory, who was driving a Mercedes sedan with no license plates near 27th and Vine streets.
Powell said the car ended up having in-transit tags.
According to the transcript, Gregory was driving too fast when he hit dips in the road at 31st and Hitchcock Street, causing him to lose control. He sideswiped a car, then struck a Honda Ridgeline essentially head-on.
Powell said he was going at least 57 mph at impact.
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Gregory, who wasn't believed to be wearing a seat belt, was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died.
Powell said a baggie of marijuana, cash and a scale were found in the car.
At the hearing, a juror asked about the criteria for maintaining a high-speed pursuit in a residential area, particularly in stops that aren't for felonies.
Powell said different agencies have different policies regarding when and how long to pursue a vehicle and under what circumstances. Here, he said, there were no pedestrians or traffic visible in the trooper's cruiser video. So the risk to the public was relatively low, he said.
The grand jury also determined the deaths of five others — all serving prison sentences — to be natural causes.
Lawrence Ortiz died Oct. 4 of vascular disease; Marvin Lovette died Nov. 1 as a result of cardiac arrest; Jason Frost died Nov. 5 of COVID-19 pneumonia; Atlee Mosemann died Nov. 18 of stomach cancer; and Kristopher Prigge died Jan. 2 of leukemia.
2022 Primary Voter's Guide
The Lincoln Journal Star reaches out to candidates in contested local primary races and asks them to participate in our annual Voter's Guide by providing biography information and answering questions relevant to the offices they seek.
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry will appear on the ballot even though he has resigned. Other Republicans: Mike Flood, Curtis Huffman, John Glen Weaver a…
Nine Republicans are running for the GOP gubernatorial nomination and two Democrats. One from each party, along with a lone Libertarian candid…
Republican incumbent Bob Evnen of Lincoln faces two challengers in the primary: Robert Borer of Lincoln and Rex Schroder of Palmyra.
Mike Foley and Larry Anderson are competing on the Republican ticket in the primary. One will advance to face Legal Marijuana Now candidate L.…
State Treasurer John Murante is running for a second four-year term. He faces Paul Anderson in the Republican primary. Both are from Omaha. Th…
The primary will eliminate one of two Republicans candidates — Mike Hilgers or Jennifer Hicks — who are running. The Legal Marijuana Now candi…
Three Southeast Nebraska legislative districts have competitive primary ballots: Districts 2, 26 and 46.
Only the District 3 seat on the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners features a contested race in the primary. County Commissioner Deb Scho…
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Hoping to get runway extension off ground, Ormond Beach will host 'community conversation'
Opposition to a long-proposed Ormond Beach airport runway extension could leave the project grounded, but the city is hosting a "community conversation" Tuesday to gauge public opinion and answer questions.
"The OB Life: Airport Focus" will be from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ormond Beach Senior Center, 351 Andrews St. It will also be available to stream at https://..opengov.com/ormondbeachfl/published/WBqzTztTe.
"We're just trying to be as transparent as possible with the community and get some good factual information out to everyone regarding the 600-foot runway extension," Mayor Bill Partington said. "Basically, the extension is going to make things quieter, safer and it's paid for with grant dollars that if we don't use them, they would go to some other community."
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Happy trails:Ormond Beach approves $285,500 for trail along Thompson Creek
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The event will provide "a platform" for feedback as well as an opportunity for residents to hear directly from those involved, according to a city flyer promoting the event.
City officials say they aim to increase safety and efficiency by extending the runway 600 feet to the west. The proposed project is scaled back from an earlier plan to lengthen the runway by 1,000 feet, which would have involved a 400-foot extension to the east.
Because that additional 400 feet would have meant purchasing right-of-way from neighbors who opposed the plan, it was dropped.
But the 600 feet also remains in dispute, while some longtime residents recall a failed attempt more than 15 years ago to get the 1,000-foot extension.
Wide-ranging concerns: Cost, noise, safety, transparency
Signs are up in yards across the city reading: "No airport runway extension."
Opponents include Don Miller, who's unhappy that the city closed the Bear Creek Golf Course at the end of 2020. He said part of the course will have to be used to extend the runway, although city officials have said the course closed because of financial problems involving the private operator.
Miller said he believes the 400 foot-extension to the west will be added later, giving the airport an opportunity to serve larger carriers.
Another concerned resident is Fran Canfield, HOA president of the adjacent Bear Creek 55+ community.
"We have a quiet environment to which we all enjoy when we are walking our pets and riding our bikes, and I would say over the past maybe three years now the … air traffic has increased as well as the noise, and we have become very worried and are losing confidence in our city officials because of the contradictions that keep being out for public review."
Former City Commissioner Jeff Boyle said a handful of pilots who live in the city are pushing for the expansion that the majority of residents don't support.
"They’re asking us to subsidize an airport we don’t want. There’s no public mandate other than new special interests in the city … and (residents) will tell you the city has operated with a lack of transparency, a lack of truth, direct contradictions."
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Turnout for the May 17 primary election has started slow, with both Coos and Douglas counties reporting a slower start to voting than two years ago.
According to the Coos County clerk's office, close to 2,000 voters turned in ballots in the first three days since voting began.
The clerk's office reported 1,839 ballots have been returned by mail with another 77 ballots dropped off at the Coos County Courthouse. Through the three days, a little less than 4% of all ballots have been returned.
In Douglas County, voting has been a little faster with 4,558 ballots returned as of Wednesday. That accounts for 5.18% of all ballots, which is 0.97% fewer than two years ago.
Voters in both counties are electing two county commissioners. In Coos County, voters are also deciding on candidates for county clerk.
In addition, voters from both major parties will be choose candidates for offices such as governor and U.S. representative.
In Coos County, voters will also be deciding on a transient tax for Charleston, a school bond for the North Bend School District and a bond to pay for a new library in Coos Bay.
Votes can be mailed in or dropped off through May 17. Any ballots postmarked by May 17 will be counted even if they arrive after the election date.
Both counties expect to announce the first wave of returns around 8 p.m. May 17, although final results may now be known for a week or longer as a new state law requires all votes cast by election day to be counted.
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September 23, 1946 – March 26, 2022
Richard “Rich” Adamson, a longtime resident of Shelton, Washington, died March 26, 2022 in Olympia, Washington surrounded by his loving family. Rich is preceded in death by his parents, Chet and Lucille Adamson and his sister Carolyn. Rich is survived by his wife, Verlane of Olympia, Washington; son, Doug and his wife Laura of Olympia, Washington; and his daughter, Tainya Adamson of Chehalis, Washington.
Rich was born September 23, 1946 in North Bend, Oregon. After graduating Marshfield High School in 1964, Rich later graduated from the University of Oregon where he met his future bride and mother of his two children, Verlane. Rich enlisted in the United States Coast Guard where he spent four years in active duty. After completing active duty, Rich graduated with his law degree from the University of Gonzaga in Spokane. He also enlisted as a reservist with the United States Navy Judge Advocate General Corps. Rich and his family relocated to Shelton in 1977 to take a job as a deputy prosecutor at the Mason County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office where part of his duties included being an assistant Mason County Coroner. Rich also had a private practice, served as a municipal court judge for the City of Shelton, and Mason County court commissioner. In the capacity of court commissioner, he helped touch the lives of many children. His happiest times were serving families during adoptions. Rich also traveled the country to help train judges to help become more effective during court matters related to domestic violence. At the same time, Rich continued to serve our country in the Navy. He rose through the ranks and retired as a United States Navy Capitan who served as a military judge. Community service was in Rich’s heart. He was a proud member of Skookum Rotary and was a founding member of the organization’s Oysterfest. He also served as a Cub Scout CubMaster and soccer coach. Above all, Rich loved God and loved being a humble servant of God.
A funeral service is planned 2 p.m., Saturday, May 14, 2022 at Faith Lutheran Church in Shelton, where he was a long-term member.
Any memorial contributions can be made to Turning Pointe Survivor Advocacy Center in Shelton and Special Olympics Oregon.
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1922
Tank steamer Whittier is a total wreck
Vessel owned by Union Oil Company — had made this port frequently
Crew of twenty-five escape in small boats
Goes on the rocks ten miles south of Point Arena and is badly ripped open
Salvage is impossible
Made latest trip to Coos Bay last fall — Cargo of ten thousand barrels of oil is also lost
SAN FRANCISCO — The tank steamer Whittier, of the Union Oil Company, is a total loss with a cargo of 10,000 barrels of oil on the rocks ten miles south of Point Arena.
The crew of 25 escaped in small boats. The vessel was ripped so badly she settled to such an extent that salvage is impossible.
The Whittier frequently made Coos Bay and was a familiar vessel in this port. She brought oil for the Union Oil Company for this locality. The last visit of the Whittier here was last fall when she brought oil for the government which was discharged at Empire where the tank for the bar dredge Michie is located.
North Bend boys make fine record
Capture second place at Eugene field meet
Score higher than Eugene or Franklin high school team of Portland
Four members of the North Bend high school track team have returned from Eugene where they covered themselves and the school with honors in a field meet Saturday. Besides North Bend, the Eugene high school, Franklin high school of Portland and Oregon University freshmen had men entered.
The meet was won by the university freshmen, but North Bend was second with 21 points, while Franklin high had but 14 and Eugene only 13 points.
Lloyd Balcom won the mile run in 5:02, seventeen seconds faster than the time made in the Coos county high school meet last year.
Trygve Kjelland won first in the javelin, second in the discus, third in the broad jump and third in the shot put.
Irvin Shriver won second in the 220-yard dash and second in the broad jump.
New hotel at North Bend is opened today
Dinner will be served to a large number this evening and dance will be given
First National Bank of North Bend is builder
That institution is now located in handsome quarters at the front of the structure
Hotel greatly admired
Beautiful furnishings and artistic architecture and interior admired — distinguished guests are here
The Hotel North Bend was formally opened this morning in North Bend, in tie to accommodate a number of early arrivals who came on the morning train to be present at the opening. Among these are Fred Lockley of the Oregon Journal and Senator Norblad P.D. Partridge, D. A. Dinsmoor, who came from Olds, Wortman & King in Portland; J.E. Tourtellotte, the architect who designed the hotel; C.G. Hedges, of the firm of Hedges & Huls, contractors who erected the building, and S.P. Melford of Venice, Cal., a friend of the proprietors.
1972
‘Pre’ lowers U.S. 5,000 meter record
EUGENE (UPI) — Oregon’s Steve Prefontaine set an American 5,000-meter record in warming up for the summer Olympics Saturday as the Ducks defeated Washington State 99-63 in a Pacific-8 track meet.
Prefontaine’s 13:29.8 bettered his old mark of 13:30.4 set in 1971. The Duck junior also broke the meet three-mile record at 13:04, topping the old standard of 13:12.8 he set in 1970.
Gold Beach names Siler to head grid fortunes
GOLD BEACH — A two-time Rose Bowl quarterback with the University of Washington has been named the new head football coach at Gold Beach High School, announced Edsel Colvin, Superintendent of schools.
William A. “Bill” Siler, who currently is coaching at Yucaipa, Calif., HS, was named Thursday by Colvin to succeed Tery Mero in the grid post after the latter resigned earlier this year.
Colvin also announced the filling out of the rest of the head coaching staff for the 1972-73 school year at Gold Beach. Siler will replace Brad Flanary as head track coach — Flanary will stay on as head mentor in basketball and cross country — and Frank Speer will succeed Mero as baseball coach.
Siler, who quarterbacked Washington to the Rose Bowl in 1962 and 1964, was a junior college All-American at Pierce JC in Woodland Hills, Calif., in 1960. He received his degree in physical education in 1964, and earned his M.Ed. from Eastern Washington State College in 1968.
He started his coaching career in 1964 at Soap Lake, Wash., and for the 1965-66 seasons served as Wapato, Wash., HS. In 1968, Siler went to Needles, Calif., then took over the head coaching position for football at Yucaipa from 1969 to 1972.
2002
Swinderman bowls through blindness
Karyn Swindeman often has a smile on her face when she picks up the bowling ball.
She lines up and goes for strikes and spares every Tuesday morning at North Bend Lanes. She bowls in the Alley Cats league and takes the game pretty seriously.
Swinderman had one of her best games on April 23 with 10 straight spares and a strike on her final roll for a 185 — 60 pins higher than her average of 125.
The score came close to her all-time high of 191 six years ago ... and she could barely see any of it.
Swinderman was born with congenital glaucoma and is legally blind.
The 32-year-old has endured 24 eye operations to reduce fluid pressure since she was born. Her left eye is unusable and her right eye can only differentiate brightness and some colors.
She can’t drive. Her mother — Florence — brings her to the bowling alley and walks her to the appropriate lane.
And that is where the differences end.
“I don’t know how she does it,” said Glenda Bohner, who has a 154 average and is one of Swinderman’s teammates. “She bowls better than me sometimes.”
Even Swinderman, who has bowled off and on since 1988, isn’t really sure how she does it.
After she picks up the ball, she studies where she needs to throw the ball.
While most can tell how many pins are standing, all Swinderman can see when all 10 pins are up, is a white blurry wall. If she tries to pick up a spare, she aims for the white spots.
If that doesn’t work, she keeps mental notes and relies on her other senses like sound and touch.
OSAA approves volleyball changes
High school volleyball will go through a major scoring change starting this fall.
The Oregon School Activities Association’s board of directors voted Monday to institute a rally scoring system for all high school matches. Regular season varsity matches also will be best three out of five games instead of best two out of three, as has been the procedure in the past. Freshman and junior varsity matches will remain best two of three.
In rally scoring, one point is scored every time a ball is served. In the past, points could be scored only on side-outs.
Colleges went to a rally scoring system last eyar.
Longtime local volleyball coaches Suzanne Grami of Coquille and Susi Armstrong of North Bend said the switch to rally scoring will change the nature of the game.
“Momentum is everything,” said Armstrong, who next fall will become the volleyball coach at new West Salem High School. “You get down a few points and it’s hard to catch up.
“But it will be fun.”
“I personally like the excitement of the old scoring,” said Grami. “You can be down 14 points and you still have a chance.
“I watched my daughter play rally scoring (at Oregon Institute of Technology) and it seems if you get behind by 10 points, you can’t catch up.”
Both coaches noted, though, that the switch was coming.
“Everybody has gone to rally scoring,” Grami said, referring to colleges and club volleyball. “It’s time Oregon catches up. I’m for keeping up with the times.
“It should be exciting.”
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An AMBER Alert was issued for a 4-year-old boy last seen in Salem City, New Jersey.
Lincoln Walker was last seen at Cedar Grove Apartments located at 469 Grieves Parkway.
Authorities describe Lincoln Walker as a Black 4-year-old boy, wearing jeans, no shoes, no shirt, and about 43 pounds and 38 inches in height.
Authorities are searching for Daishaliz Velez-Fernandez as a suspect in the abduction of the boy. She was last seen driving a 2010 Black Ford Fusion with the license plate NJ-Z25PAD.
A photo of Lincoln Walker or Velez-Fernandez was not shared.
Anyone with information should contact 911.
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The lingering impacts of the coronavirus pandemic continue to be felt in Manhattan, where fewer than 10% of office workers at major employers are returning to work five days a week.
On any given day, a new survey out by the Partnership for New York City found that fewer than 40% of the island's one million office workforce is back in person.
Fully remote and hybrid mixes of home and office work have exploded in popularity since the pandemic shuttered most buildings.
By and large, the survey of more than 160 major employers found that remote work "is here to stay." More than three-quarters (78%) of employers said a hybrid model will be the predominant working style for its workers, the study from The Partnership found.
Surveyed over a two-week period starting in late April, employers said only 38% of their workforce is back in the office on an average weekday:
- 8% of Manhattan office workers are in the office full time (five days a week)
- 11% are in four days per week
- 17% are in three days per week
- 21% are in two days per week
- 14% are in one day per week
- 28% of Manhattan office workers are fully remote
The office workforce could tick back up by the end of summer, however. The Partnership found that nearly half (49%) of office workers are expected back in office in some capacity by September. A majority of that group would only be in three days a week.
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Meanwhile, companies surveyed remain split on vaccine enforcement for employees who return to the office in person. An estimated 38% of employers said they'd continue to enforce vaccine mandate, while 18% would not. Almost half of the group was undecided.
The Partnership for New York, which represents the city's business leaders and largest employers, asked questions only of big companies in Manhattan for the purposes of this study.
Most have offices in Midtown West (38%), Midtown East (33%) or the Financial District (16%). More than a third of respondents (35%) are in finance, followed by real estate (17%), law (11%), tech (6%), consulting (4%) and media (6%).
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An AMBER ALERT has been issued for a boy who police say was abducted in Salem City, New Jersey, on Monday.
Police say 4-year-old Lincoln Walker was last seen at Harvest Point Apartments on 469 Grieves Parkway in Salem City.
Investigators believe Walker was abducted by a woman named Daishaliz Velez-Fernandez.
Walker is described as a 4-year-old Black boy weighing 43 pounds and standing 38 inches. He was last seen wearing jeans with no shirt and no shoes.
Police have not yet released a photo of Velez-Fernandez.
Police also said Velez-Fernandez is driving a 2010 black Ford Fusion with the license plate NJ-Z25PAD. She is described as a Hispanic woman though police have not released a more detailed description of her.
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TEXAS, USA — During their 20 years in control of the Texas Legislature, Republican lawmakers have steadfastly worked to chip away at abortion access.
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Bound by the limits of Roe v. Wade, which stopped them from enacting an outright ban on the procedure, lawmakers got creative. They required abortion clinics to have wide hallways and deputized private citizens to sue providers in an effort to shut down facilities that offer the procedure.
Future lawmaking on the topic will likely not require such ingenuity. A leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion, published last week by Politico, suggests the court will reverse the landmark abortion ruling in the coming weeks, allowing states to regulate abortion as they see fit. Texas has a “trigger law” that would make performing an abortion a felony, which would go into effect 30 days after the Supreme Court overturns Roe.
Their decadeslong goal achieved, Republican lawmakers said there’s still work to be done. Texas GOP leaders and members of the Legislature said it is now time to turn their attention to strengthening the social safety net for women and children and investing in foster care and adoption services.
“It only makes sense,” said Rep. Steve Toth, R-The Woodlands. “The dog’s caught the car now.”
At least some of the more conservative members of the House said they also want to ensure strict enforcement of the abortion ban and to prevent pregnant Texans from seeking legal abortions in other states.
“I think I can speak for myself and other colleagues that align with my policy beliefs — we’ll continue to do our best to make abortion not just outlawed, but unthinkable,” said Rep. Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park, a member of the far-right Freedom Caucus.
Texas already has an arsenal of statutes to punish virtually anyone involved in the procurement of an abortion, said University of Texas at Austin law professor Liz Sepper. These include last year’s Senate Bill 8, which empowers private citizens to sue anyone who “abets” an abortion after six weeks of gestational age, as well as unenforced pre-Roe abortion statutes criminalizing a person who gets the procedure, which the Legislature never repealed — some dating to the 1850s.
“If Roe is overturned, there’s already a criminal ban, there’s already an aiding and abetting ban, there’s already a ban on mailing medication abortion,” Sepper said. “In terms of law’s ability to change behavior, they’ve almost filled all the gaps — with the exception of criminalizing the pregnant person involved in an abortion.”
Cain said he has a particular interest in going after abortion funds, which seek contributions from donors to help defray the cost of out-of-state trips for pregnant Texans to receive the procedure, citing a state law that prohibits “furnishing the means for procuring an abortion.”
In a March letter to one such group, the Lilith Fund, Cain threatened to file a bill in the coming legislative session that would empower district attorneys to prosecute abortion-related crimes across the state even when local authorities refuse to do so.
Attempts to prohibit individuals from contributing to abortion funds would likely violate the First Amendment’s protections on free speech, said South Texas College of Law Professor Charles “Rocky” Rhodes.
“Helping people go get abortions is going to be one of these difficult questions that’s going to arise in a post-Roe world if a legislature tries to criminalize the ability of a pregnant person to get an abortion someplace where it’s legal,” Rhodes said.
Cain said he is in discussions with fellow Republicans about other abortion-related legislative priorities but that it is premature to discuss them. The next legislative session is scheduled to begin in January.
Texas Democrats, who are vastly outnumbered at the Legislature, characterized the leaked opinion as “bleak” but said they would not stop fighting for access to abortion.
“This will only power our fight to codify the right to abortion at the federal level,” Hannah Roe Beck, the Texas Democratic Party’s co-executive director, said in a news release. “It’s more important than ever that we elect leaders who are ready to put everything on the line to get this through Congress. We cannot tolerate anything less.”
An effort in Congress to do this, however, failed to pass the Senate in February. Another vote scheduled for this week is also expected to fail.
Austin state Rep. Donna Howard spoke of expanding the safety net in terms of pregnant Texans who still will be seeking abortions.
“How do we provide enough health care to those who we are going to be forcing to have pregnancies and carry them to term?” Howard said. “It’s more going to be a focus, I think, on that now, if there’s a way to look at how people can access medication abortion that is a way to get around the law.”
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a staunchly conservative Republican, said in a statement Tuesday that the Legislature would continue to strengthen adoption programs in the state.
"Texas has led the way to protect innocent life in the womb, and we will continue to do so moving forward in the Texas Senate,” Patrick said.
Gov. Greg Abbott did not respond to questions from The Texas Tribune about abortion-related legislative priorities for the coming session in January. House Speaker Dade Phelan said in a statement that he was confident the Legislature would “rise to the occasion and redouble our commitment to maternal health care in our state.”
State Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, the author of SB 8, did not respond. He posted on Twitter on Thursday that Texas would “lead the way in a post-Roe world.”
Republicans have good reason to avoid discussing enforcing Texas’ pre-Roe laws, said Renée Cross of the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston: A full abortion ban is broadly unpopular with voters.
Just 15% of respondents in a University of Texas at Austin poll released this week said they support prohibiting all abortions. More troubling for Abbott’s reelection bid this year, Cross said, is the fact that a majority of independents said they believe abortion should be available in most circumstances.
“The Republican Party has been able to rely often on independent voters, but not on this issue,” Cross said. “We saw some Republican voters, particularly suburban women, not vote for President Trump in 2020. A lot of those women will probably think twice about voting for Gov. Abbott.”
Other Republican lawmakers spoke about pitching nonpunitive measures in the upcoming legislative session. Toth said if abortion is outlawed in the state, Republicans in the statehouse will focus on expanding social programs to help pregnant women and their children.
“Now more than ever, the pro-life community and legislators need to step up and make sure we help out women in a crisis pregnancy,” he said. “It means prenatal care, helping them stay in school. It means making sure that we help women once the baby is born, it means adoption services.”
Toth said the expansion of safety net programs would be a “moral response” to the outlawing of abortion in the state. Such an expansion would require an increase in state funding for adoption services, foster care and welfare programs, which Republicans have been hesitant to support in the past. But Toth, a member of the staunchly conservative House Freedom Caucus, said he believes GOP lawmakers would now support the increased funding.
Joe Pojman, executive director of the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life, said he would also support an increase in funding for the Alternative to Abortions program, which the Legislature funded with $100 million this two-year budget cycle. The program pays a far-flung network of nonprofits — many of them ardently anti-abortion — for counseling, classes on prenatal nutrition and newborn care, and the provision of baby items.
But Pojman says lawmakers need to better promote the program so more pregnant people have access to it.
“For a lot of women who find themselves pregnant, they don’t even know that those exist,” he said.
State Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake, who is a member of the budget-writing House Appropriations Committee, said he would support an increase in funding for social safety net programs for pregnant women and young children.
He said he’d push for an increase in Medicaid coverage for low-income new mothers. That coverage was increased last year from 60 days to six months, but experts had recommended extending it by a whole year.
House lawmakers agreed to extend it by a year, but the Senate brought the coverage back down to six months during final negotiations in the 2021 legislative session.
“We have to now work really hard to help these new moms and these new babies,” Capriglione said. “I’m going to be pushing for it.”
But Republicans are also preparing for a protracted fight with Democrats in Congress who will be reenergized to push for access to abortion at the federal level.
“This is not going to go away,” Toth said. “Nothing really changes.”
Rhodes, the South Texas law professor, said the potential overturning of Roe could also weaken federal protections ensuring access to contraceptives. He said states could consider reclassifying emergency contraception such as Plan B, the pill that prevents pregnancy by the delaying the release of an egg from the ovary, as forms of abortion.
“It’s pretty wide open, with how creative our Legislature has been lately, for creating additional restrictions on our reproductive freedoms,” Rhodes said.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Austin police arrested and charged a Travis County judge who presides over drunken driving cases with that crime. Now, we're learning more about what happened before the judge was arrested.
Judge John Lipscombe was booked into the Travis County Jail around 9 a.m. on Saturday, according to jail records.
Before then, at around 12:30 a.m. that morning, an officer was called to the parking lot of Homewood Suites on Stonelake Boulevard in North Austin. According to an affidavit obtained by KVUE, the man who called 911 told responding officers that Lipscombe was attempting to back into a parking space when he almost hit his car.
The two then got into an argument before Lipscombe drove around the parking lot and parked in a handicap space in front of the hotel.
When officers found the man identified as the judge sitting inside the lobby, officers said he "appeared slow to answer questions and was overall disoriented." Officers also noted he slurred his speech and had a faint odor of alcohol.
He has been charged with driving while intoxicated.
Lipscombe has been on the bench since 2011. Prior to becoming a judge, he was a prosecutor in the Travis County Attorney's Office.
Lipscombe was in the news in 2019 after the state commission on judicial conduct admonished him for draping a black cloth over the doors of his court to protest the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying that he "cast discredit on the judiciary."
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Melvin “Pete” Mark’s fingerprints are all over the city of Portland. He was one of the business leaders behind creating both Pioneer Courthouse Square and the Oregon Convention Center. His Melvin Mark Companies control more than 4 million square feet of property in Portland and beyond.
“He was born and raised in New York and he believed that people should come and have a strong central city that they could come and congregate in,” his son, Jim Mark, told KOIN 6 News.
But he had another passion — collecting presidential memorabilia for more than a half-century.
“He was very fascinated with JFK and the Kennedys,” Jim said. “He probably had one of the larger collections of Kennedy memorabilia.”
One of JFK’s favorite rocking chairs and a table he used in the Oval Office are just 2 of the more than 100 items auctioned off this past weekend, with proceeds going into a foundation for the arts.
“This will come to preserve different history and arts in our city,” Jim said.
Melvin Mark acquired a number of pieces tied to President Dwight Eisenhower, including a bomber jacket Ike wore in 1952 during the Korean War.
President Franklin Roosevelt is also represented in the collection with an original copy of his 1933 inauguration speech, the lap blanket he wore to stay warm in the presidential limosine and one of his signature top hats.
He also collected another hat from FDR’s successor, Harry Truman, who wore it at his inauguration.
The collection also includes important historical documents from the Magna Carta to the Emancipation Proclamation.
Saturday’s auction was expected to raise about $3 million, but it ended up surpassing expectations — and raising almost $5 million. JFK’s rocking chair alone went for nearly $600,000.
Jim Mark said the items sold at the auction are just a fraction of his dad’s collection. There will be other auctions and local exhibits in the future.
“It’s important that they go to museums. It’s important that they go to places where they will be viewed and enjoyed by many people,” Jim said. “Hopefully my dad’s legacy will live on forever, you know?”
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NEW YORK (AP) — “A Strange Loop,” Michael R. Jackson’s critically cheered theater meta-journey earned a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Monday as Broadway joined the national discussion of race by embracing an envelope-pushing Black-written and Black-led musical.
Jackson’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize drama winner about a Black gay man writing a show about a Black gay man earned nods for best musical, best leading man in newcomer Jaquel Spivey and best featured actress for L Morgan Lee, who becomes the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for a Tony Award. The show also was nominated for scenic design, lighting, sound, orchestrations, Stephen Brackett’s direction and John-Andrew Morrison for featured actor.
“I hoped my collaborators would be acknowledged. That actually, in a weird way, was much more exciting to me,” Jackson told The Associated Press. “Even if we hadn’t gotten any nominations, I would have been disappointed, but I also would have known how powerful the show has been resonating with people.”
Playwright Lynn Nottage had two reasons to smile Monday morning: Her book for the Michael Jackson musical “MJ” was nominated for best book and her play “Clyde’s” got a nod for best play.
“This has been a historic season for a multitude of reasons. There’s been a diversity of Black voices on Broadway in unprecedented numbers. Theater came back after being dark for almost two years and we made art while facing down COVID. And so this feels particularly good given all of the circumstances,” Nottage said.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson of “Modern Family” fame got a nomination for “Take Me Out,” as did Jesse Williams, the “Grey’s Anatomy” star making his Broadway debut. Williams thanked the audience for coming with him on a complex ride.
“This is my first time having this experience in the box, having experience on stage, and that fellowship, that dynamic, that partnership, that reliance we have with each other, that interplay with the audience is critical and something new to me. So it’s a thrilling ride,” Williams said.
Right behind “A Strange Loop” is a tie with 10 nominations each for “MJ,” a bio musical of the King of Pop stuffed with his biggest hits, and “Paradise Square,” a musical about Irish immigrants and Black Americans jostling to survive in New York City around the time of the Civil War.
The rest of the best new musical category includes “Six,” the corrective feminist take on the six wives of England’s Henry VIII, “Girl From the North Country,” which uses the songs of Bob Dylan to weave a Depression-era story in the Midwest, and “Mr. Saturday Night,” a reworking of Billy Crystal’s film about a bitter, old insult comic chasing a last laugh.
Two of the best play nominees are about economics — “Skeleton Crew,” Dominique Morisseau’s play about blue-collar job insecurity in a Detroit auto stamping plant in 2008, and “The Lehman Trilogy,” Stefano Massini’s play spanning 150 years about what led to the collapse of financial giant Lehman Brothers.
There’s also “Clyde’s,” Nottage’s play about a group of ex-cons trying to restart their lives at a truck stop diner, and “The Minutes,” Tracey Letts’ depiction of a small-town city council meeting that exposes backstabbing, greed and the larger delusions in American history. “Hangmen,” Martin McDonagh’s look at an executioner-turned-pub owner forced to grapple with his past when capital punishment is made illegal in the United Kingdom, also earned a best play nod.
One of its actors is Alfie Allen, making his Broadway debut and who got nominated as a featured actor. “I’m out having some pancakes, and I am having a lovely morning,” he said. The “Hangmen” ensemble has been welcoming, he said, like a family: “Everybody was just so supportive of each other, and I’m still pinching myself a little bit. It’s amazing.”
There were four musical revivals during the season, but only three got nominations: “The Music Man” which celebrates America’s soul with a traveling con man in a small Iowa town starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, who each have two Tonys and were each nominated this time as well.
The two other entries in the musical revival category are “Caroline, Or Change,” Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s show that explores America’s racial, social and economic divisions in 1963 Louisiana, and “Company,” Stephen Sondheim’s exploration of a single person’s conflicted feelings about commitment, this time with a gender-switching of the lead character. That left “Funny Girl,” the classic American show starring Beanie Feldstein about the rise of a comic star of the Ziegfeld Follies, out of the running — it got only one nod, for Jared Grimes as best featured actor in a musical.
Grimes, a triple threat whose heroes include Sammy Davis Jr. and Gregory Hines and whose performance includes an electrifying tap dance number, took the traditionally white character Eddie Ryan and remade it as a young Black man.
“Eddie Ryan is a big leap for us in the direction of just understanding that we can be everything and anything. We just need a chance,” he said. “I like to think that we’re making good strides.”
Nominations for best play revival are “Trouble in Mind,” Alice Childress’ play about a Broadway play that explores the racial divide in the 1950s, “How I Learned to Drive,” Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning memory play told by the survivor of childhood sexual abuse, starring two nominees: Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse and “American Buffalo,” David Mamet’s look at loyalty and greed set in a junk shop starring Laurence Fishburne, Darren Criss and Sam Rockwell, the latter the only actor in the play nominated.
The others are “Take Me Out,” Richard Greenberg’s exploration of what happens when a baseball superstar comes out as gay, and “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enough,” playwright Ntozake Shange’s exploration of Black womanhood. That work also made history: Camille A. Brown the first Black woman to direct and choreograph a Broadway play since 1955 earned nominations in both categories.
Brown noted the amazing amount of Black playwrights represented this season and wanted to acknowledge another Black woman in her category: Lileana Blain-Cruz, who was nominated for directing a revival of “The Skin of Our Teeth.”
“I’d love to see more Black female directors get opportunities to direct on Broadway, more people of color sharing stories and just for it to continue to expand,” she said, on her way to celebrate with her mother.
The season — with a whopping 34 new productions — represents a full return to theaters after nearly two years of a pandemic-mandated shutdown. Many nominees talked about how they had worried theater might never return.
“I’m just so grateful, and also just so happy that Broadway is alive and well,” said Jennifer Simard, nominated for “Company.” “Because there was a minute there when I wasn’t sure we’d be back after the pandemic. So I am so grateful.”
Neither Matthew Broderick nor his wife Sarah Jessica Parker earned nominations for a revival of “Plaza Suite,” but Patti LuPone got one for “Company” and so did LaChanze for “Trouble in Mind.” Ruth Negga earned a nomination for “Macbeth,” but her co-star Daniel Craig came up empty. Tony-winner Phylicia Rashad got her first nomination in more than 15 years with “Skeleton Crew” and “Saturday Night Live” veteran Rachel Dratch earned a Tony nod in the feminist farce “POTUS.” One eye-raising decision was not to hand Katrina Lenk a nod for her work in “Company.”
The nominees for best actress in a musical nominees are Sharon D Clarke of “Caroline, Or Change,” Foster in “The Music Man,” Joaquina Kalukango for “Paradise Square,” Carmen Cusack in “Flying Over Sunset” and Mare Winningham in “Girl From the North Country.”
Joining Spivey, Jackman and McClure in the best actor in a musical category are Crystal for “Mr. Saturday Night” and Myles Frost, whose King of Pop in “MJ” was a moonwalking triumph. The best actor in a play category is dominated by the three leads in “The Lehman Trilogy” — Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Adrian Lester. The rest are Morse, Rockwell, Ruben Santiago-Hudson in “Lackawanna Blues” and David Threlfall from “Hangmen.”
The Tony Awards will be held at Radio City Music Hall on June 12. The ceremony will air live on CBS and Paramount+ starting at 8 p.m. ET. Film and stage star Ariana DeBose will host.
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National Writer Jocelyn Noveck contributed to this report.
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Columbus police are investigating whether two Ohio State University students who died last week of an apparent drug overdose took laced Adderall.
The students who died were identified Monday as Tiffany Iler, 21, of Broadview Heights near Cleveland and Jessica Lopez, 22, of Greendale, Indiana. A third student hospitalized survived the overdoses that happened Wednesday night at an off-campus house, according to police and media reports.
Ohio State said Iler was a neuroscience student and that Lopez was studying computer and information science.
“We are heartbroken and extend our deepest sympathies to their families and friends during this extremely difficult time,” the university said in a statement. “The university has reached out to their family, and we are thinking about them and their loved ones.”
The university is offering counseling following the deaths.
Investigators are looking into whether the students overdosed after taking Adderall laced with fentanyl, according to media reports.
Following the overdoses last week, Columbus Public Health issued a warning about fake Adderall pills laced with fentanyl that are causing an increase in overdoses and hospitalizations.
Earlier this week Columbus Public Health issued an alert regarding fake Adderall pills in the OSU campus area.
“Please do not use any drugs that are not prescribed for you,” read a post on Columbus Public Health’s Facebook page. “If you buy them off the street or get them from someone you know, they can look exactly the same but have fentanyl in them. Fentanyl can and will kill you! More than 90% of all drug overdose deaths in central Ohio involve drugs that are contaminated with fentanyl.”
The alert encouraged people to get free naloxone and fentanyl test strips at the Wilce Student Health Center.
Thursday the university’s office of student life posted an alert warning students about fake Adderall pills possibly containing fentanyl.
”While we strongly discourage any kind of drug misuse, if you, or someone you know, may choose to experiment with drugs be aware of the possibility of unexpected contaminates or how drugs may unsafely interact with alcohol. Contaminated drugs can result in a severe and unexpected reaction, including death, from only one use,” the message read.
OSU also encouraged students to call 911 if anyone appears to be in distress.
Students who are in need of support can also reach out to Ohio State’s Counseling and Consultation Service by calling 614-292-5766 or by scheduling an appointment here: https://ccs.osu.edu/services/schedule-an-appointment.
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'She was gone' Agent's heroic rescue of drowning girl trapped under boat
"When you see a life come back... there aren't words. It's humbling."
Sgt. Stephen Rhodes said he was in the right place at the right time.
It was late Saturday afternoon, the day before Mother's Day, and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries officer was patrolling the coast near Timbalier Bay when he was told about some fishermen who were overfishing for shrimp on Grand Isle.
"I had no intention of even being on Grand Isle on that day," he said.
While citing the fishermen, Rhodes said he saw something dangerous - a smaller aluminum boat was maneuvering through the rock jetties to meet a family on the beach. Because of the confined space, the waves become rough and it's harder for a boat to maintain control.
"Initially, I thought, 'This is crazy! What is this guy doing? He's going to swamp his boat," Rhodes said.
The boater was able to get his boat under control, the family loaded onto the vessel and Rhodes went back to writing the ticket.
"The situation was not safe, but it's sorted. So it's okay," Rhodes said. "I kept glancing up and noticed that the boat got out of the jetties. I thought, 'Okay. He's safe, he's good. Not something I need to worry about."
He returned to the ticket, then someone shouted that they saw the boat flip.
Race Against Time 'I knew it was game on'
"I turn and look and - my best guess is 400 - 500 yards past the rock jetties into the Gulf of Mexico - I could see that the boat had overturned with people starting to climb up onto the hull of the boat," Rhodes said.
"At that point, I knew it was game on," he said.
Rhodes said he started running from the beach to get back to his patrol car, but it was more than 1,000 yards away. But as he was running, some good Samaritans who were riding an ATV saw him and offered him a ride back to his truck.
"I said, 'Man, I just had a boat flip.' They said, 'Hop on board, we will take you to your truck,'" Rhodes said.
He said the good Samaritans offered to stay with him and his truck until he could get his boat into the water. Rhodes said their actions saved a "tremendous" amount of time getting him into the Gulf.
Rhodes pulled alongside the overturned boat. Though the adults only spoke broken English, he learned that 7-year-old girl was still missing and most of the family could not swim.
In the Water 'She had to be trapped under the vessel'
"Straight away they were saying, 'Our sister is in the water, you need to help us!'" Rhodes said.
Acting quickly, he loaded the people from the overturned vessel onto his boat. In the process, one of the girl's brothers said that she was wearing a life jacket.
"And instantly I knew that the only place for this little girl to be would be under the vessel," Rhodes said. "She had to be trapped under the vessel."
The girl's family was inconsolable. In another coincidence, Rhodes noticed another boat nearby and called for help. He needed another person to hold his boat in place so he could look for the girl. And so, another good Samaritan came to his aid, moving from his boat to Rhodes to hold it in place.
Rhodes pulled off his heavy gear and jumped into the Gulf. Grabbing onto the side of the boat, he knew that he could not safely swim under the vessel to search for the girl.
"Again, the thought came into my head: start using your legs. Stretch out under the vessel and start feeling with your legs. You have a greater reach with your legs," he said.
Rhodes worked his way from the back of the boat to the front where he felt what he thought was the little girl.
"I took a couple of deep breaths, dove underneath the boat, felt where I thought I felt her, and grabbed hold of her and part of her PFD, and pulled her out with me," Rhodes said.
Revived 'When you see a life come back, there aren't words'
But when the pair surfaced, Rhodes said something was not right.
"I could see that she was gone. Her eyes were open, but they were not focused," he said.
The good Samaritan manning his boat pulled the girl onboard. Rhodes said they removed her life jacket but were not starting CPR. He swam around to his boat, said "give her to me," and started trying to revive the girl.
"After the second round of breaths, I saw the blank stare correct itself. I saw her eye come back into focus," he said.
He put his hand on her chest and felt her heart "going a million miles a minute, just pounding away."
"I kept my hand on her chest for a few minutes and felt it rise like the breath come in," Rhodes said.
Rhodes said he quickly sped back to Bridge Side Marina, at the same time radioing dispatch that he needed EMS immediately. What he did not know was that paramedics were already in place, ready at the marina and waiting to take the girl.
Robert Vegas witnessed Rhodes race back to the marina.
"He was just driving full speed to the boat launch," Vegas said. "I thought he was going to end up in the parking lot."
"I took my vessel and ramped it into the launch, and the EMS truck was literally right there. And as all that transpired, the good Samaritan that was with me on board my boat had the girl in his arms and handed her off to EMS," Rhodes said.
"Jumped out with the little girl in his arms. It just gives me chills talking about it," Vegas said. "he looked like he was in a movie like Superman, you know. Some superhero, you know."
The LDWF said that paramedics were able to stabilize the girl and she was later airlifted to Children's Hospital in New Orleans. The agency said that she is expected to make a full recovery. The girl was back at home in Baton Rouge on Monday and is doing well, her uncle says.
"When you see a life come back... there aren't words," Rhodes added. "It's humbling."
"I just happened to be closer," Rhodes said.
Rhodes said Saturday was not the first time he saved a life. Years before he was an LDWF agent, he said he saved a friend from choking by performing a Heimlich maneuver.
"These two incidents, you can't compare them," he said. "To know that she was gone and to see her come back, it's a completely different thing altogether."
The LDWF said nine people in total were on the boat when it capsized around 6:40 p.m. The agency thanked the good Samaritans that stepped up to help Rhodes during his rescue and saved time that probably made it possible to save her life.
“We are extremely proud of the actions of Sgt. Rhodes. He did an exceptional job of using good judgment and his training to help save the life of this young girl and the other occupants in the capsized vessel,” said Col. Chad Hebert. “Would also like to thank all of the good Samaritans that assisted in this successful rescue. Sgt. Rhodes was on patrol by himself and these good Samaritans helped him perform this rescue faster. That time saved probably made it possible to resuscitate the young girl.”
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CALIFORNIA, USA — Roe v. Wade is one of the biggest and most contentious Supreme Court decisions to have ever been issued. It's the topic of countless discussions, with some sides absolutely polarized on the topic of abortion.
A leak of an early draft of the Supreme Court's ruling has the potential to overturn the landmark decision. If the February opinion as written becomes the law of the land, an estimated 26 states are certain or likely to outlaw abortion immediately.
It remains one of the greatest arguments in the country, and the court is expected to rule on the case before its term ends in late June or early July.
ABC10 spoke with Lisa Ikemoto, UC Davis professor of law, to break down the most important things to know.
What's going on?
Simply speaking, the Supreme Court is poised to make a decision on abortion and whether it is protected by the Constitution.
A draft of a February Supreme Court opinion was leaked and suggests the court could be poised to overturn the landmark case that legalized abortion nationwide.
A state law from Mississippi is pushing the question as to whether there's a right to abortion in the Constitution.
"They're considering a state law passed by the Mississippi legislature that would ban abortion from 15 weeks. Fifteen weeks is well before the point of viability, and so that raises the question of whether or not there is a constitutional right to abortion or whether state legislatures would have the power to override access to abortion. And it looks like they might do that," Ikemoto said.
What exactly is Roe v. Wade?
Going back to basics, Roe v. Wade is a court ruling, but Ikemoto says it's also a law.
"Certainly when we think of laws, we think of statutes as enacted either by Congress or by state legislatures. But courts also have the power to make law. They have the authority to interpret statutes in some cases, but they also have the law to create what we call common law," Ikemoto said.
The ruling itself goes back to 1973 when the court decided abortion was a right protected under the Constitution.
A case in the 1990s, Casey v. Planned Parenthood, helped gauge how much people can restrict access to abortion.
"That's why we do have state laws that restrict access to abortion or that regulate the way that abortion can be offered and services that can be provided. But we still have a guarantee that in every state, the legislators can't foreclose abortion altogether," Ikemoto said.
What happens if Roe v. Wade is overturned?
There's no single outcome if Roe v. Wade is overturned. The leaked opinion says there's no constitutional right to an abortion, and that the matter would be left for the states to decide.
"That means in some states, the state legislatures could decide to enact bans or very severe restrictions on access to abortion. But in other states, they might step forward (and expand it)," Ikemoto said.
Why not leave it to the states and the democratic process?
Ikemoto said the draft opinion seems to indicate that the contentious issue should be decided by the states in what Justice Samuel Alito referred to as the democratic process.
"So, it's something that our elected officials should have the responsibility of addressing on a state-by-state basis," Ikemoto said, articulating Alito's argument. "And certainly we do that with many other types of laws. Most of the laws that state legislatures have the authority to do that with their basic health and safety laws."
However, she made note that there was a counterpoint to that idea and that abortion rights were different.
"It secures the ability to have the say-so over your own body, and without state interference, without government interference over that, and it also does so in a way that is highly gendered.
She added that those that see the greatest impact from those laws include people who lack travel resources, don't have full access to health and have been hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic.
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NEVADA COUNTY, Calif. — Nevada County Sheriff's Office deputies are searching for a kidnapping suspect who is considered to be armed and dangerous.
According to deputies, the suspected kidnapper is 40-year-old Allyn Charpentier from Nevada City.
On Sunday, deputies received reports of an active shooter inside the Country Store in North San Juan located on the 19000 block of Tyler Foote Crossing Road. As deputies were heading to the scene, they also received reports that a possible kidnapping had taken place.
When deputies arrived at the Country Store, they noticed broken glass and that the store's front window had been shot out. Deputies also found the store clerk hiding in the bushes across the street from the scene.
Bystanders reported the kidnapping victim had been taken out of the store at gunpoint. According to deputies, Charpentier forced the victim into her own vehicle and left the area.
Shortly after Charpentier and the victim left, deputies "received a call reporting a vehicle, possibly matching the description of the victim’s vehicle, was seen driving at a high rate of speed eastbound on North Bloomfield Graniteville Road."
Deputies located the victim at the Waste Management transfer station in the town of Washington. The victim, who deputies said appeared to be in good condition, was taken to safety at a nearby residence.
The victim told deputies she was able to flee from Charpentier just outside the town of Washington. Deputies sent a CodeRed alert to Washington as Charpentier's whereabouts are unknown.
A search of the victim's vehicle led deputies to find firearms that are believed to have been used during the crime. According to deputies, Charpentier should be considered armed and dangerous. Deputies say Charpentier and the victim had previously been in a "dating relationship."
Deputies ask anyone who spots Charpentier to call 911 immediately.
Sexual violence resources:
- National Domestic Violence Hotline (24/7)
- Voice: (800) 799-7233
- National Human Trafficking Hotline
- Voice: (888) 373-7888
- National Sexual Assault Hotline (RAINN)
- Voice: (800) 656-HOPE (4673)
- California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA)
- W.E.A.V.E.: Women Escaping a Violent Environment 1-866-920-2952
- RAINN: Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network
- NSVRC: National Sexual Violence Resource Center
- National Sexual Abuse Hotline 1-800-656-HOPE 1-800-656-4673
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The community has honored the late DJ Gio with a newly painted mural on the walls of Jazz Alley in Sacramento.
Giovanni Isidro Razo Pizano, known to many as DJ Gio, was killed by what police called a double homicide and robbery attempt on April 10 in Natomas.
The mural displays the performer with a halo, sitting holding his phone with the words "long live DJ Gio" at the bottom.
It was painted by the local artist known as "Pawn the Muralist".
30-year-old Vernon Mulder was also killed in the shooting.
REMEMBERING DJ GIO
While many knew him as an entertainer, David Garibaldi, a local artist in Sacramento, knew him as his friend.
“DJ Gio, when he plays, it’s a different energy; it’s not just a DJ. He is an entertainer, so if you ever see videos of him, he’s not just behind the turntable, he’s on the mic in front of the crowd. He’s really moving everyone,” Garibaldi told ABC10 in April.
DJ Kenzo, from Stockton, said he first opened a show for DJ Gio four years ago. DJ Kenzo said the impact DJ Gio had was felt not just in Sacramento but also in Stockton and Modesto. He said that DJ Gio gave young DJs someone positive to look up to.
“Seeing a DJ that was about 45 minutes away from me, going crazy and doing amazing things... I wanted to be as close I could with him and learn from him,” DJ Kenzo told ABC10 in April.
DJ Kenzo also said he got advice from DJ Gio that he'll never forget.
"He just told me don’t stop, stay consistent. Don’t stop, don’t quit,” DJ Kenzo said.
Watch more from ABC10: Community mourns the loss of popular Sacramento entertainer DJ Gio
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A former Lehigh Valley factory with a familiar landmark is changing owners, with the new proprietor planning to breathe life into the century-old building while providing up to 600 jobs.
Real estate developer Nick Tsapatsaris said Monday he has an agreement to acquire the old Dixie Cup factory in Wilson from Wilson Park LTD, which is headed by Salisbury Township attorney Joseph Reibman.
The building, which ceased manufacturing in the early 1980s, had been used for storage, but over the years, the mostly vacant complex had become an eyesore, with broken windows.
Tsapatsaris, who’s president of Nick Tsapatsaris & Associates in Ridgewood, New Jersey, said he plans to turn the building into a “last mile logistics center.” The term refers to final step of a delivery process from a distribution center or other facility to an end user. Reibman said uses could include a warehouse operator in need of additional storage.
The property also has undergone environmental review under state law, and Tsapatsaris said he understands what is required to clean the building to meet standards, such as asbestos removal.
Tsapatsaris also said he plans to restore the iconic, 40,000-gallon water tower, which sits atop the building complex. The tower, which had been painted with the name Dixie, was repainted decades ago. “The cup is going to stay,” he said.
Reibman confirmed that an agreement is in place to sell the building to Tsapatsaris, but he said closing on the property is not scheduled until the first or second week in June. Wilson Park’s plans under Reibman included high-end apartments and some commercial space.
But he said Monday five of Wilson Park’s partners have died, and their heirs were not interested in pursuing the redevelopment of Dixie Cup.The limited partnership has owned the plant since 1983, a year after Dixie moved its cup manufacturing.
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Then, the property, which sits between South 24th and 25th streets, was used for distributing ALPO pet food, Hefty trash bags and other products. But in the early 2010s the market for the complex dried up as more modern warehouses were being built in the Valley.
Meanwhile, Tsapatsaris is seeking a tax abatement for the 12.5-acre complex and land via a state program known as Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance. The purpose of the legislation is to incentivize redevelopment of aging or deteriorating properties.
Tsapatsaris and Wilson solicitor Stanley Margle III said Wilson Area School Board approved the tax plan May 2. School district officials did not return a phone message seeking comment.
The LERTA district still needs final approval from borough council and Northampton County Council, which is why Tsapatsaris attended council’s economic development committee meeting last week. While some council members at the meeting sounded enthused, Executive Lamont McClure said the proposed tax incentive would need county review.
Tsapatsaris said he bases the 600-jobs estimate on data he gathered from a former silk mill in Dover, New Jersey, that his company converted and owns. At 200,000 square feet, about one-third the size of Dixie, the Dover property known as Guenther Mill has brought in about 200 workers, he said.
The former Dixie Cup manufacturing plant in Wilson was in use from 1921 until the early 1980s. The company got its start in New York, but industrialist Hugh Moore moved to the Lehigh Valley because he needed more manufacturing space.
Morning Call journalist Anthony Salamone can be reached at asalamone@mcall.com.
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Family mourn father and 15-year-old son killed in crash near Massachusetts restaurant
A Providence man and his 15-year-old son were the victims of a fatal crash in Massachusetts that sent their car into a lake, according to a relative.
They were identified as Edwin A. Sosa, 34, and his son Cristian Sosa in a GoFundMe campaign organized by Jessica Aldana, a cousin. Edwin's survivors include a 10-month-old daughter.
The crash happened Friday night near the Alicante Restaurant & Lounge in Mendon, Massachusetts, where Edwin worked as a chef.
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Sosa was pulling out of the restaurant parking lot at 84 Uxbridge Rd. with his son in the passenger seat when their car collided with a Ford F-350, which had a three-car carrier trailer attached, according to a news release from Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early's office.
According to a preliminary investigation, the crash sent the car off the road and down a 20-foot embankment into Lake Nipmuc, the district attorney said.
Mendon police, fire and emergency medical services responded to the crash and took the father and son out of the car, according to Early. They were taken to Milford Hospital, where they were pronounced dead, Early said.
The restaurant closed for the day Saturday as the staff dealt with the loss, but it reopened Sunday, Mother's Day.
'Thank you for blessing our lives with nothing but happiness'
A post on the restaurant's Facebook page calls Edwin "one of the greatest" as a chef, co-worker, father and friend. "Thank you for blessing our lives with nothing but happiness. Through some difficult times, you always had a smile on your face," the post says. "You inspired us to appreciate everything in life, especially each other."
The district attorney said Edwin was from Attleboro, but Aldana, the GoFundMe organizer, said the father and son were residing in Providence.
"Edwin was the most loving and caring person who touched many lives. Cristian was a young man with so much left to live," Aldana says in the GoFundMe. "No one ever knows the words to say in a situation like this, just to feel the unbearable crushing pain that steals the very breath you need to keep pushing forward in these moments."
Edwin leaves his girlfriend, Sylvia Aldana, and 10-month-old daughter, Melody Rose Sosa, according to the GoFundMe account.
The account is raising money for burial costs.
"Edwin, Cristian, you were beautiful souls who were loved and loved so dearly," Aldana writes. "I pray that you knew that."
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Mass. State Police: RI man driving wrong way on Route 495 hits car, Smithfield woman dies
A 31-year-old Smithfield woman was killed when the car she was driving was hit by a wrong-way driver, also from Rhode Island, early Saturday morning on Route 495 in Mansfield, the Massachusetts State Police say.
Kerrie Dolbashian, was driving north on the northbound side of Route 495 shortly before 3 a.m. when her 2019 Toyota Camry was hit by a 2013 Nissan Pathfinder being driven south by a 35-year-old Pawtucket man, according to the Massachusetts State Police.
Having received calls about a wrong-way driver just before 3 a.m., state troopers started responding to the area in an attempt to find and stop the wrong-way vehicle and came upon the head-on crash, according to the state police.
Dolbashian was enrolled as a student at the Community College of Rhode Island this spring.
She "had obvious fatal injuries at the scene," the state police said.
The driver of the Nissan, whose name has not been released, suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries and was taken by helicopter to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, the police said.
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Massachusetts State Police are investigating the crash and will determine whether the surviving driver will be charged and, if so, what charges he will face.
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Veterans Voice: Families of deployed Guardsmen join together for mutual support
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported James Holbrook's current rank, and the town where Tim O'Leary was born.
In 2006, Rhode Island National Guardsman James Holbrook, of Charlestown, returned from Iraq after his first overseas tour of duty. Shortly thereafter he met Jessica Donofrio, a URI student from Connecticut who would later become his wife.
Also in 2006, Tim O’Leary graduated from Mount St. Charles Academy in Woonsocket, where he had been a standout defenseman on the hockey team.
The year before, they had snapped a 12-game winless streak at Massachusetts powerhouse Catholic Memorial with a 2-0 victory. Legendary Mount coach Dave Belisle told The Journal, "We just played great defense. To kill six penalties against a team like Catholic Memorial says a lot.”
Tim O’Leary was one of those he singled out by name.
Sixteen years later, O’Leary and the Holbrooks are teamed up to play defense once again, but this time it’s on a much larger stage, for much larger stakes.
They all play different but crucial roles with A Company, 1st Battalion, 182nd Infantry of the Rhode Island National Guard, as the unit prepares to deploy to Southwest Asia in support of Operation Spartan Shield, a joint mission of Operation Enduring Freedom, under the Kuwait-based U.S. Army Central.
Beautiful day for a picnic
Sunday, May 1, was one of the nicest days of the year. Soldiers of Company A took full advantage, gathering with their families at Allen Harbor Marina in North Kingstown for a picnic.
With Company A headed overseas, it served as a bonding opportunity as well as a going-away party. About 250 soldiers and family members attended.
Capt. Timothy O’Leary is commanding officer of Company A. He hails from Grafton, Massachusetts, but now lives in Harrisville.
He runs a welding business that his parents started 40 years ago.
“I went to work full time after graduating [high school] in 2006 and have had few breaks since, other than time spent training with the National Guard,” O’Leary told Boston Voyager Magazine in 2018.
He joined the Guard in 2009, and earned his commission in 2011 through Officer Candidate School. Juggling work, drilling and family, he earned his B.A. in Business Management in 2017 through night school at Johnson & Wales in Providence.
“We have soldiers who live in all six New England states, plus New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,” said O’Leary.
As traditional Guardsmen, they lead normal civilian lives, with a drill weekend every month plus the traditional two-week annual training period. This means the soldiers’ families almost never see each other — unlike regular Army units, whose full-time soldiers all live at or near a permanent base.
“For the soldiers,” said O’Leary, the picnic “was an opportunity to introduce their families to their friends and [unit] leadership, and to enjoy each other’s company.”
It also gave O’Leary the chance to speak directly to the families, letting them know of the support systems available while the soldiers are overseas.
“The picnic helped families meet and create bonds they can lean on while we are deployed,” concluded O’Leary.
Jessica Holbrook is the Family Readiness Group coordinator for Company A. Her husband, Sgt. 1st Class James Holbrook, a Narragansett police officer, will be heading out on his fourth deployment.
“James and I married in 2012, after he returned from his second deployment to Afghanistan,” she said. They live in Ashaway with children, Juliana and Jason.
According to the Army, a Family Readiness Group is a “command sponsored organization of family members, volunteers, soldiers [who] provide mutual support, assistance and communications among the family members, the chain of command … and community resources.”
Company A’s Family Readiness Group had been dormant for a while, but with a deployment on the horizon the need to fire it back up became apparent.
“Knowing James and I had already experienced a deployment together, they asked if I would volunteer,” said Jessica Holbrook.
The first task was to get everyone together before the deployment.
“We wanted to have a ‘meet and greet’ so everyone could meet me and put a face to the name,” she said.
A core group of officers and noncommissioned officers have served together in Company A for more than a decade. However, this was the first deployment for many of the younger soldiers.
“We wanted to show wives and families they are not alone,” Jessica Holbrook said. “We also wanted to give them a great sendoff with many positive memories.”
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Support from Military Order of Foreign Wars
However, Company A did not have the resources to pull off the kind of event O'Leary and Jessica Holbrook envisioned.
The Rhode Island Commandery of Military Order of Foreign Wars offered to help.
“We saw this as an opportunity to help close the generation gap between us older veterans and the soldiers of today,” said MOFW officer and retired Army National Guard Col. Dave Russell.
In addition to underwriting much of the cost of the picnic, the MOFW sent a team of volunteers, thus allowing Holbrook and her team to spend more time with their families. (As commander of the Rhode Island MOFW, I was one of those volunteers.)
“Thanks to MOFW support, we were able to join with our husbands, sons and brothers preparing for deployment,” Holbrook said.
“The picnic brought us together with laughs, food and drinks,” she added. “This was one of the best parties Company A has ever had. I feel the soldiers left the event with the confidence that all the families will support them, as well as each other, during these next months.”
Family members were invited to sign a poster featuring the unit logo. The poster, containing well-wishes from loved ones, will be proudly displayed overseas.
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One of the oldest units in the Army
The 182nd Infantry can trace its lineage to 1636 and the North Regiment, a British unit in Massachusetts. This makes it one of the oldest regiments in the Army, and one of the few National Guard units with campaign credit for both the American Revolution and the War of 1812.
The battalion headquarters is in Melrose, Massachusetts, and the three other line companies plus a Forward Support Company are all part of the Massachusetts National Guard.
A Company previously deployed to Iraq in 2005 and to Afghanistan in 2011. Recently, the company was activated to Providence in June 2020 for civil unrest and to Washington in January 2021 for the presidential inauguration.
Upcoming mission
While regulations prohibit the publishing of exact dates, locations and other details of a deployment, one can get a general idea of what A Company will be doing from the social media of other Guard units sent on similar missions.
These mobilizations have lasted about a year, including about 45 days of additional training stateside before heading overseas.
Task Force Spartan is made up largely of rotating National Guard units, supported by active Army and Army Reserve support elements. Its headquarters is in Kuwait, although units from other states have been based in Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
This is also a multinational operation, with Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kuwait and other nations committing forces.
The mission has been ongoing since 2012, when it was established to fill the void caused by the withdrawal from Iraq. According to one report to Congress, “Spartan Shield is responsible for building Washington’s relationships with militaries across the Middle East and Central Asia, from Egypt to Oman to Kazakhstan.”
As a result, the United States trains militaries in 17 of the 20 countries in the region. U.S. troops have been deployed in two of the remaining three: Syria and Yemen.
The last of the 20 countries is Iran.
Dispelling any doubt about Spartan Shield’s purpose, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Van bluntly told the news website Al-Monitor in a 2020 telephone interview, “It is to deter Iranian aggression.”
This is a serious mission, not to be taken lightly.
I am sure that all our readers will join with me in wishing these soldiers and their families all the best in the months to come.
Calendar of events
Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Veteran’s Expo at Pierce Memorial Stadium, East Providence. Sponsored by the East Providence Elks Lodge #2337. Exhibits feature veterans services, employers relocation service, plus life and living assistance. Free lunch for veterans. Backpack with hygiene products, tent and sleeping bag available to those in need. Rain or shine. (401) 434-8565.
Sunday, 2 p.m., Gold Star Families Memorial Monument dedication ceremony, R.I. Veterans Cemetery, Exeter. For information, email RIGSFMM@gmail.com, or visit woodywilliams.org/monuments/ri-veterans.html.
Sunday, 3 p.m., Lafayette Band presents Armed Forces Salute, a concert to honor those who've served in the military, at St. Bernard Church, 275 Tower Hill Rd., North Kingstown. Program consists of patriotic favorites, Broadway tunes, and big band and swing music. Admission is free and all ages are welcome. Voluntary donations at the door will be shared between the Providence VA Medical Center Voluntary Services Office and the band's free community concert program. For more information visit lafayettebandri.org. Contact Mike Dynon, (401) 480-3520 or mdynon12@gmail.com.
May 19, 8:30 a.m., Sgt. Adam S. DeCiccio Warwick Memorial Post 272 VFW golf tournament, Cranston Country Club. Shotgun start; $130 per player; individual – Callaway system; foursome, scramble, low gross. Raymond Denisewich, co-chairman, (401) 644-8066, raymond.denisewich@gmail.com.
May 19, 2 to 5 p.m., R.I. House of Representatives annual Veterans & Military Families Day at the State House. Veterans organizations that wish to participate should notify Rep. Camille Vella-Wilkinson by Thursday. Exhibitors will get a table and two chairs. Please let her know if you need power. Spaces are limited; reserve your spot as soon as possible. Email vellawilkinson@gmail.com.
May 19, 5:30 p.m., woodworking class at the Providence Vet Center, 2038 Warwick Ave., Warwick. The Providence Vet Center also has openings in its very popular Guitar for Veterans group. Instruction and instruments are provided at no cost. Vet Center eligibility is required: If you are interested in participating or have questions regarding eligibility, call (401) 739-0167 or email Paul.Santilli@va.gov.
May 20, 7:30 a.m., CSM Edward McConnell golf tournament, presented by Military Police Regimental Association, Rhode Island Chapter, Triggs Memorial Golf Course, 1533 Chalkstone Ave., Providence. For tickets and information go to mprari.org/events-1/mpra-ri-2022-csm-edward-mcconnell-annual-golf-tournament.
May 26, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Virtual career fair hosted by Enlisted Association of the National Guard. This is the nation’s largest event of its kind for the National Guard community. Access nationwide employment opportunities and interactive hiring rooms. National Guard servicemembers, veterans, retirees and families — get your résumés seen by employers across the United States. Register at eangus.org/national-guard-community-virtual-career-fair/ or email eangus@eangus.org
June 4, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Surfing at Narragansett Town Beach. This is Vet Surf’s first surfing activity of the year. Free; all equipment provided, no experience necessary. If you Go to VetSurf.org and select the Participants tab to sign up. Email Justyn.Charon@va.gov or call (401) 739-0167.
June 18, 9 a.m., Learn to fly-fish at Deer Creek Farm in Foster. Dare to Dream Ranch and DEM‘s aquatic resource education office are offering this one-day course for veterans and families. All tying materials and fishing equipment provided. To register call Cyndi at (401) 871-2332; leave your name, phone number, email and how many people you are registering,
To report the outcome of a previous activity, or add a future event to our calendar, email the details (including a contact name and phone number/email address) to veteranscolumn@providencejournal.com
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Dr. Hussein Abdul-Latif spent the last week typing out prescription refills for his young transgender patients, trying to make sure they had access to their medications for a few months before Alabama made it illegal for him to prescribe them.
He also answered questions from anxious patients and their parents: What will happen to me if I suddenly have to stop taking testosterone? Should we go out of state for care?
A new state law that took effect Sunday makes it a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for doctors to prescribe puberty blockers and hormones to trans people under age 19. A judge has not yet ruled on a request to block the state from enforcing the law.
The measure is part of a wave of legislation in Republican-controlled states focused on LGBTQ youth. Bills have been introduced to limit discussion of gender and sexual identity issues in younger grades or to prohibit kids from using school restrooms or playing on sports teams that don’t align with their sex at birth.
Abdul-Latif, a pediatric endocrinologist and co-founder of a clinic in Birmingham to treat children with gender dysphoria, said he is very discouraged by the Alabama law. He said it was already hard enough for families in this very conservative state to come to terms themselves with their children’s situations. They had already faced the social stigma and “the difficult decision of leaving their church family or being viewed less worthy,” he said.
But gradually, he said, trans kids became more visible and there was a greater openness in the state for them to come out.
“They always existed, but they often did not have the feeling of empowerment to come out, or come out to their physicians,” he said. “And now that they are, we’re hitting them back with legal action.”
Abdul-Latif notes that the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Endocrine Society both endorse the treatments that clinics here and in other states are providing for transgender youth.
In contrast, “The state is not only saying I am criminal for prescribing those medications, but it’s saying that my organization of thousands of physicians, pediatricians and pediatric endocrinologists are maybe partners in that criminal enterprise,” he said.
Four Alabama families with transgender children have filed a lawsuit challenging the new state law as unconstitutional. The U.S. Department of Justice has joined the suit. A federal judge heard evidence this week on a request to block the state from enforcing the statute while the legal challenge goes forward. More than 20 medical and mental health organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, have also urged the judge to block the law. A decision is expected sometime this week.
Alabama maintains the law is about protecting children. “The science and common sense are on Alabama’s side. We will win this fight to protect our children,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said last week.
Now that the law is in effect, families are wondering if they will have to move out of state and doctors are worried about what will become of their patients.
Abdul-Latif, who is originally from Jordan, and pediatrician Dr. Morissa Ladinsky both moved to Alabama years ago to work as instructors and physicians at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In 2015, after seeing more families with kids identifying as trans and seeking help for gender-related issues, they decided to found a clinic to treat children with gender dysphoria. They now treat more than 150 young people who are transgender or gender diverse.
Ladinsky, who testified last week as a witness in the lawsuit, told The Associated Press that she felt like she was “walking in a nightmare” when the Alabama Legislature approved the ban. She says the measure is an unprecedented legislative overreach into the decisions of parents and the practice of medicine.
“This is the first time ever that I can remember, at least for pediatricians, that we are literally forced to choose between the Hippocratic Oath we took to ‘do no harm’ and never abandon our patients versus the facing of a potential felony conviction,” she said.
Ladinsky quickly agreed to co-found the gender clinic in Birmingham when Abdul-Latif approached her about it. She had moved to the city from a hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, that had a pediatric gender health team, and was familiar with the treatments.
But that wasn’t all. She also had taken a route to work each morning that brought her by the spot where Ohio transgender teen Leelah Alcorn had stepped in front of an oncoming tractor-trailer in 2014. Leelah left a suicide note that read, “My death needs to mean something. … Fix society. Please.”
Some of the children Abdul-Latif and Ladinsky have treated in the Birmingham clinic came to them after suicide attempts, the doctors said. One patient tried to kill themselves five times, he said. A 2021 survey by the Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization focused on suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ youth, found that 52% of transgender and nonbinary youth seriously considered suicide in the past year, and 1 in 5 reported attempting suicide.
“In our minds, there is no doubt they saved my daughter’s life,” said David Fuller, whose daughter was among the first patients treated in Birmingham.
Jessica Fuller, now 22, was 16 when she first came to the clinic after telling her father that she was trans. “The dysphoria was awful and I was thinking about suicide more often than I wish to talk about,” Fuller wrote in an email.
She called the new Alabama law “a waste of time and money.”
“It’s terrifying not just for the kids but the doctors and nurses just trying to help kids not kill themselves,” she wrote. “Are you gonna arrest him for something so harmless?”
Abdul-Latif said he understands that some people may be skeptical over the medical treatments for transgender kids.
“But to make it into a law and make it into a felony — that is way beyond skepticism,” he said, adding that the law “basically closes … a very important dialogue in the country about what is better and what is best for kids with gender dysphoria.”
“I welcome an argument. I welcome skeptical voices. I do not welcome imposing voices that leave no discussion,” he said.
David Fuller, a police sergeant in the city of Gadsden, said he’s angry that the law could lead to officers putting handcuffs on the people he calls heroes and credits with saving his child.
“I’m a police officer and I know what a crime is,” Fuller said. “I know what a criminal is. These people are not criminals. It’s political crap.”
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Investigators in a New Jersey community need help identifying a man found in a 55-galloon steel drum dumped in the ravine of a private property more than 20 years ago.
The two-decades old cold case has produced a sketch of the man recovered on a Marlboro residence in April 2002, prosecutors in Monmouth County said.
A family living on the property discovered the steel drum on April 19 and notified local police a short time later. By the end of the month, officials opened the drum, welded shut, to discover the man's body inside.
Monmouth officials said the body had significantly decomposed, and no wallet or identifying information was found on his person.
The man's death was ruled a homicide after an official autopsy determined he died from multiple injuries, including a stab wound to his heart.
Prosecutors listed the following items recovered on the man's body:
- A short sleeved red, white, blue, and yellow striped golf type shirt with an inner tag reading Chaps Ralph Lauren and a size of XL. The words Chaps and Ralph Lauren are printed randomly all over the shirt.;
- Carhart utility or carpenter style jeans the size of which is 34×32;
- A pair of ankle high Chukka style black Timberland boots size 9 ½ wide;
- Hanes Jockey shorts, size 38; and
- A belt with a 3 prong belt buckle.
A sketch of the man was completed based on forensic evidence. Anyone with information can contact Monmouth County Crime Stoppers confidential telephone tip-line by calling (800) 671-4400.
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New York City says it's safe to dance.
The city's mayor and top education official announced schools would lift the COVID-19 vaccine requirement previously needed to attend prom.
Although proof of vaccine is no longer needed to dance this year, officials are encouraging students in attendance to wear a mask.
“I am thrilled that, starting this year, every one of our young people will have the chance to celebrate all of their hard work with a prom and graduation, regardless of vaccination status,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement.
The decision to drop the requirement for students was made in consultation with the city's health department, Adams and Chancellor David Banks said.
Monday's announcement follows a prior change to policy that similarly lifted the vaccine requirement for students attending graduation. Guests attending the end-of-year ceremony will still be required to be vaccinated to enter school buildings.
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“Graduation and prom are such momentous occasions in the lives of our young people, which is why I am so excited that thanks to the hard work of our school communities, we have come to a point where we can safely take this next step," Banks said Monday.
The COVID-19 transmission rate in New York City is up 20% in the last week and nearly 90% in the last month, to the same levels as late January.
The city already raised its alert level to "medium" last week, and on Thursday, Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan told CNN all options could be on the table -- including the return of a mask mandate -- if things continue getting worse.
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MARCY, N.Y. – Firefighters were called to a brush fire on Barnes Avenue near the Utica Marsh Wildlife Management Area Monday afternoon.
Someone spotted smoke around 1:30 p.m. and the Maynard Fire Department was called to the scene.
There are a lot of trees and dry grass in the area, so Utica and Deerfield firefighters were also called in to help contain the spread.
Fire crews were still at the scene putting out hot spots at 4:30 p.m.
It is not yet clear how the fire started.
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UTICA, N.Y. – The WWE will return to Utica for the first time in three years this summer for a Sunday Stunner event.
Matches include Cody Rhodes vs. Seth ‘Freakin’ Rollins, and Bianca Belair vs. Liv Morgan, Rhea Ripley and Becky Lynch. Drew Mcintyre will also face Sami Zayn.
Ronda Rousey will also make an appearance at the event.
The Sunday Stunner will take place on July 24 at 7 p.m.
Tickets go on sale Friday, May 13, at 10 a.m., and can be purchased by calling 315-790-9070 or visiting empirestatetix.com.
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A 20-year-old Lincoln woman was cited for reckless driving after she veered off the road in her SUV over the weekend, striking a utility pole and fire hydrant before overturning, according to police.
The woman was driving her 2002 Dodge Durango south on 27th Street shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday when she changed lanes as she neared Vine Street, Police Sgt. Chris Vollmer said.
As the woman changed lanes, Vollmer said, the vehicle left the street.
The woman and one occupant suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Vollmer said. It's unclear if they were hospitalized.
The SUV was totaled and the crash caused $3,500 in damage to the pole and fire hydrant.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
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The Midland Reporter-Telegram's 2022 Readers' Choice Awards contest has now officially moved into the Voting Period.
Voting is open across all categories in the contest and you may go in and vote for your favorites in each category. The voting round will run from May 9 through June 5. The top three businesses with the most votes in each category will receive a Gold, Silver or Bronze Award.Click here to start voting for your favorites today!
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A Midland man died Saturday after another vehicle “disregarded” a stop sign, moved through an intersection and collided with his vehicle west of Midland.
The Texas Department of Public Safety report stated that around 7:26 p.m. Pedro Alejandro Anchondo was driving his 2018 Ford Mustang and making a turn onto Airline Road. At the same time a 2018 Dodge 2500 pickup was moving east on Airline. The report added that the Dodge disregarded the stop sign and collided with the Mustang.
“(Anchondo) was pronounced (deceased) at the scene,” the report stated.
The driver of the Dodge, a 32-year-old Midlander, was transported to Midland Memorial Hospital in stable condition. No other information was provided, including whether a driver was going to be cited.
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A 70-year-old Midland man failed to yield the right of way early Sunday morning and a passenger in his vehicle was killed after his vehicle collided with a truck on Business 20, according to the Department of Public Safety
DPS reported that around 12:10 a.m. Sunday, Silvia Veronica Cortez Chavez, 50, was a passenger in a 2007 Chevrolet Silverado pickup, which was traveling east in a turning lane of Business 20 (around 8 miles west of Midland). The report added the driver of the Chevrolet failed to yield the right of way to approaching traffic and turned in front of a 2018 Dodge Ram 3500 pickup, resulting in a collision.
“The front passenger of (the Silverado) was pronounced deceased),” the DPS stated.
Cortez Chavez was not wearing a seatbelt, according to DPS.
The driver of the Silverado was transported to Midland Memorial Hospital in stable condition. The driver of the Dodge was not injured.
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Midland authorities continue to seek information on a missing person cold case.
Caitlin Marie Denison, of Reno, Nevada, told her family in January 2018 that she was in Midland with a man she met in Reno, according to the Midland Crime Stoppers Facebook page.
Denison, who was 19-year-old when she was reported missing, called her family on Jan. 10, 2018, and told them she "felt scared for her life," according to the Midland Crime Stoppers. That was the last time Denison was seen or heard from.
Denison is described as 5 feet tall, 120 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes. She has a tattoo on her left finger of an alien head and the letter “M." She also has a tattoo of a Libra scale on her left forearm. She has two piercings on each side of her nose and a piercing on her bottom lip.
Midland Crime Stoppers is offering a $2,500 cash reward for any information that leads to Denison's whereabouts.
Call Midland Crime Stoppers at 694-TIPS or download the crime stoppers app ‘P3 Tips’ and submit an anonymous mobile tip. No caller ID is ever used and callers will remain anonymous. Reference MPD case 211115017.
Denison is one of 12 missing people last seen in the Midland-Odessa area.
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ARKANSAS, USA — During the 23rd Arkansas Drug Take Back Day, law enforcement agencies across the state collected medications from residents at various drop-off locations to be disposed of using an environmentally safe method.
On April 30, as part of the Arkansas Drug Take Back program, 126 Arkansas law enforcement agencies collected 28,480 pounds, approximately 12.92 tons, of medications within a four-hour time span.
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reports law enforcement agencies have collected more than 246 tons of medications since the program began in 2010. All medications gathered are transported by the Arkansas National Guard and DEA to a commercial facility for incineration.
The top 10 collection sites on Arkansas Drug Take Back Day were:
- Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office – 6,599 pounds
- Baxter County Sheriff’s Office – 1,408 pounds
- Washington County Sheriff’s Office – 1,198 pounds
- 8th Judicial District (Bi-State) Drug Task Force – 875 pounds
- Benton Police Department – 840 pounds
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Police Department – 800 pounds
- North Little Rock Police Department – 748 pounds
- Jonesboro Police Department – 697 pounds
- Sherwood Police Department – 590 pounds
- Sebastian County Sheriff’s Office – 570 pounds
“We are grateful for everyone who participated across the state for another successful event that will save countless lives,” said Arkansas Drug Director Kirk Lane. “The continuous success is due to dedicated Arkansans and our partnerships. Please don’t forget that if you missed this event, we have permanent drop boxes throughout Arkansas were the expired and unneeded medications can be properly disposed.”
There are currently 268 permanent Drug Take Back drop boxes in Arkansas with some available 24/7.
As part of the National Drug Control Strategy, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) called for an increase in prescription drug return and disposal programs in order to deter prescription drug abuse. In early 2010, a coalition led by Arkansas government leaders, law enforcement agencies, and specialists launched the “Monitor, Secure, and Dispose," program. As part of the “Monitor, Secure, and Dispose” effort, the coalition organized Arkansas’s participation in the DEA's National Prescription Take-Back Initiative and events.
The DEA says all medications collected are destroyed at environmentally safe facilities across the United States due to prescription medicines being toxic waste and pose a danger to people, pets, and the environment if not disposed of properly. For example, medicines flushed or poured down the drain ends up in the waterways, affecting our drinking water.
For more information or resources about the Arkansas Drug Take Back program, call (501)618-8175 or email info@artakeback.org.
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GARLAND, Texas — Garland police arrested a woman Sunday after she reportedly crashed an ambulance stolen from Baylor Hospital earlier that day and leading them on an erratic chase through a neighborhood, police say.
Officers received a hit-and-run call involving the ambulance around 4:50 p.m. Sunday, police say, and later learned it was a Wilmer Fire Department ambulance which had been stolen from the Dallas hospital.
The ambulance was found and officers tried to stop it by turning on their lights and sirens but the driver refused to stop, police say. The driver also turned on its lights and sirens, leading the officers on a chase and driving erratically through a residential area, running over many lawns and damaging property, according to police.
Police say the driver eventually drove through a metal guardrail, causing the ambulance to become disabled — after which, officers were able to take the driver into custody.
The driver, a 34-year-old woman, is a resident of Austin and was believed to be under the influence of an illegal drug, police say. Police charged her with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, driving while intoxicated, evading arrest and failure to stop and leave ID.
Police are still investigating. The suspect is in the Garland Detention Center and no bond has been set at this time.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Southern California police who responded to reports of screams from a sports utility vehicle over the weekend arrested a man after officers found the body of another man inside the SUV.
Officers in the city of Anaheim Sunday morning saw a man getting out of the SUV that was parked in a residential neighborhood, police said in a statement.
“Upon inspection of the vehicle, officers located a recently deceased adult male who had suffered trauma,” the statement said. “Detectives are not disclosing the nature of the injuries to the victim.”
The man who had been exiting the SUV was detained and police said there were no other suspects and no threat to the community.
The victim’s identity was withheld pending notification of relatives, officials said.
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ELK GROVE, Calif — Sheldon High School officials are investigating anti-LGBTQ vandalism that was found in the school's restroom.
On Thursday morning, Sheldon High School staff found threatening and discriminating anti-LGBTQ vandalism written in a restroom on campus. A statement from Elk Grove Unified School District officials says the school's custodial staff worked to remove the vandalism.
School officials are investigating the incident. On Monday, school officials were notified that the information was relayed to some students.
"Each complaint will be fully investigated in a way that respects the privacy of all parties concerned, and appropriate action will be taken to remedy a finding of discrimination, harassment, intimidation or bullying," a statement from the district says.
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OXFORD, Miss — A woman says she has left a Mississippi apartment where thousands of bees were found living in the walls and ceiling.
Alexa Lee told The Oxford Eagle that she moved to Oxford from Georgia in February.
A couple of months after moving in, Lee noticed bees hovering outside the apartment she rented. She says she's allergic to insect bites and stings.
Maintenance workers and beekeepers came to deal with the problem. Lee says one of them told her they found “tens of thousands” of bees.
She says she is now living somewhere else.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Tourism in the Capitol City is ready to boom, and the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau is ready for it.
"You see visitors coming back and more tourists in the destinations," President Gina Gemberling said. "We were hoping that summer travel would come back this year, so we figured this was a nice way to promote all of our attractions."
That comes in the form of an attractions pass, a new promotion from the visitors bureau aimed at showcasing things to do in Little Rock. With tourism bouncing back after down years due to COVID-19, Gemberling said it's a way to show all there is to do in Little Rock.
"The longer they stay in the destination, the more dollars they're spending in the destination," she said. "Then hopefully, coming back to the destination."
That money is huge. According to the bureau, if there was no tourism, Little Rock residents would have to pay an additional $600 a year in taxes.
There's things to remember before tourists head to town though. Despite lower numbers compared to just a few months ago, COVID-19 is still very much here in central Arkansas.
"Any trend upwards, especially a sustained trend upwards, you know, gets out attention," said Mike Cima, the state epidemiologist for Arkansas. "You know, raises the collective blood pressure, I think."
Cima said he gets it – people are tired of COVID. Cases have been low, but they're starting to tick back up.
They're still looking at the data, but there could be waning immunity from booster shots. It's one reason why Cima said staying informed of COVID-19 in Arkansas is important for any summer plans.
"There is a plethora of data available that folks can access on a daily basis that updates every single day," Cima said. "That would help, you know, allow them to make informed decisions about how they go about their daily routines."
So keep an eye on what's going on with COVID before you head on vacation – it's the same thing Arkansas officials are doing too.
"It will continue, I think, in the future," Gemberling said. "We'll always keep our eye on it, we'll want to know what's happening and just be ready if we need to pivot again."
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CABOT, Ark. — A family is trying to keep moving forward after finding their livelihood destroyed.
A stolen car crashed into a family-owned food truck in Cabot and now they're cleaning up what's left with their neighbors.
Clint Cook is walking through what's left of his family's business.
"My heart dropped, like, this is how we make our living," he said.
It's always been Cook and his wife Lindsey's dream to start a restaurant.
"It's what we do, like, it's our passion. We love it and it's, I feel like, it's kind of like our calling," he said.
Three years ago when they opened up Cook's Hook, Cook said they never imagined it would be the center of a crash scene.
"Not in a million years. I was actually standing by the Sheriff and I said, 'So Sheriff, I was like, what's the chances of this happening?' He said, 'Astronomically small,'" he said.
Early Sunday morning Cook got a call from police that a neighbor's car had been stolen and it ended up in the middle of his business.
"It was just a silly, not so great robber, who decided that he would steal a car without brakes, he didn't know, and then right into my food truck," he said.
From what Cook knows, the driver is okay, but from the ketchup on the wall and the dents in his truck, they've got their work cut out for them, but they're determined to start over and move forward.
"If there's like a change in the world, that comes from anything that we can do to offer to help, it'd be through our food, so this is it," he said.
With their son helping them along the way, the Cooks are staying positive as the community lifts them up, already starting a GoFundMe to help rebuild.
"Things happen to people, and we don't always know why, and just trust and everything will work out. Just come together as community help each other out, always," he said.
We reached out to police to find out the story behind this stolen car. We don't have any word yet on any suspects or charges.
This Saturday, May 14, Maw Maw's House in Cabot, is going to give all of its profits to Cook's Hook.
You can also personally donate here.
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UPDATE 6:20 PM: FORT MYERS, Fla. — A man was brought into custody after barricading himself in a home San Carlos Boulevard home.
LCSO deputies were seen walking the man out of the home after the afternoon incident. The identity of the suspect is unknown at this time.
No further information is available at this time. We will provide updates as more information is released.
ORIGINAL STORY: FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Lee County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) is investigating a San Carlos Blvd home where a person has barricaded themselves inside.
🚨 UPDATE 🚨
— Carmine Marceno – Florida’s Law and Order Sheriff (@SheriffLeeFL) May 9, 2022
This is happening on San Carlos Boulevard in Fort Myers.
Deputies are currently conducting negotiations with the subject. pic.twitter.com/yPdT311B7r
According to LCSO, A K-9 unit has arrived to the scene located near Camellia Road and San Carlos Boulevard in San Carlos Park. Deputies are currently negotiating with the subject to come out from inside the home.
Sheriff Carmine Marceno will deliver a statement from the house.
No further details are available at this time. Count on NBC2 to provide updates as the story develops.
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Man who threatened to 'exact revenge' sentenced by Wicomico County judge on gun charges
A Wicomico County judge sentenced a man to more than two dozen years in prison on several firearm charges and a probation violation.
The Wicomico County State's Attorney's Office said 39-year-old Alan Donoway was sentenced May 6 to 15 years on firearm violations, including a five-mandatory minimum with limited possibility of parole. He also received 12 years for violating his probation.
Those sentences will be served consecutively.
Jurors convicted Donoway March 9 of the following charges:
- Illegal possession of a firearm by a person prohibited by a felony conviction
- Possession of a firearm by person prohibited by controlled dangerous substance conviction
- Illegal possession of a regulated firearm
- Loaded handgun on person
- Loaded handgun in vehicle
- Illegal possession of ammunition
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Prosecutors said Donoway contacted the mother of his child July 15, 2020, and told her to leave the Delmar motel she was staying at with her children.
During the video call, Donoway showed the woman a handgun, prosecutors said, and told her he was headed to the motel "to exact revenge" on someone in a neighboring room.
The Wicomico County Sheriff's Office was then contacted and deputies stopped Donoway's vehicle a few miles south of Delmar. A loaded handgun identical to the one displayed during the video call and multiple magazines were recovered from the vehicle, according to prosecutors.
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Old Bay on crabs, of course, but goldfish? Believe it
Marylanders are known to put Old Bay on ... well ... everything, but goldfish? In a way, yes, with a new offering from McMormick & Co.
The company known to come up with all kinds of uses for its signature spice has now teamed up with Goldfish crackers to tempt the taste buds of those who want that salty/spicy blend while snacking.
The limited-time Old Bay Seasoned Goldfish is available now wherever Goldfish are sold, for a suggested retail price of $2.79 per 6.6-ounce bag, while supplies last, according to McCormick.
“What I find most exciting about this partnership is that once again Goldfish is showing up for our flavor enthusiasts in a big, bold way,” said Janda Lukin, chief marketing Officer of Campbells Snacks. “Old Bay Seasoned Goldfish harnesses the fandom of two iconic brands and brings consumers a new way to experience their favorite zesty flavor on their beloved fish-shaped cracker, just in time for summer.”
Old Bay vodka? Can't get enough Old Bay on your food? How about in your cocktail?
The launch of Old Bay Seasoned Goldfish marks the second time Goldfish and McCormick & Company have collaborated. The two partnered in April 2021 to debut Frank’s RedHot limited-edition flavored crackers for spice lovers.
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And if you want to get that Old Bay spice in your cocktails too?
McCormick in March also unveiled Old Bay Vodka, through a partnership with George's Beverage Co. Crafted at McClintock Distilling and made from corn and six times distilled for maximum purity and smoothness, according to a press release.
McClintock Distilling, named best craft vodka distillery in the country by USA TODAY, is a craft distillery located in in Frederick, Maryland. The team there built out a dedicated state-of-the-art facility for production.
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Old Bay Vodka is 70 proof or 35% alcohol by volume.
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Ocean City, Parsonsburg players strike it rich in Maryland Lottery
Three Eastern Shore struck it rich in Maryland Lottery winnings announced for the week ending May 8.
A player from Parsonsburg won $50,000 in the $2,000,000 Gold Rush. The ticket was purchased at Parsonsburg Quick Stop at 7181 Parsonsburg Road.
An Ocean City player scored $25,000 on a Keno ticket sold May 5 at 7-Eleven #19083, 2611 Philadelphia Ave., Maryland Lottery said.
But the biggest prize of $150,000 was won by a player in Queen Anne's County, who played the same Bonus Match 5 combination three times on May 7 at Outpost 544, 1921 Dudley Corner Road in Millington.
Four other players landed prizes of $100,000 each last week in Baltimore City, Capitol Heights, Lanham and Poolesville.
In all, 38 tickets worth $10,000 or more were either sold or redeemed in the seven days ending May 8, and the Lottery paid a total of more than $32.1 million in prizes during that span.
Winners of prizes larger than $25,000 must redeem their tickets at the Maryland Lottery Customer Resource Center in Baltimore, which is open by appointment only. Prizes of up to $5,000 can be claimed at any of more than 400 Expanded Cashing Authority Program (XCAP) locations. All Maryland Lottery retailers are authorized to redeem tickets up to and including $600. More information is available on the How To Claim page of mdlottery.com.
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Salisbury man pleads guilty to charges in bank, Pizza City robberies
A Salisbury man has pleaded guilty to two charges in connection with robberies at a local bank branch and pizza shop.
The Wicomico County State's Attorney's Office said Billy Sorrow, 47, pleaded guilty May 3 to robbery and second-degree burglary. He also admitted to being in violation of his probation.
A judge sentenced Sorrow to 40 years with all but 30 years suspended. He'll be on supervised probation after his release.
Salisbury officers responded to Pizza City at about 1 a.m. on Feb. 26, 2020, for an alarm because of broken glass, according to prosecutors.
Security footage showed Sorrow keeping watch for another person who entered Pizza City, prosecutors said, and took about $300 from the register.
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Officers responded to a Hebron Savings Bank branch later the same day for a robbery. Witnesses told officers Sorrow came into the bank and gave an employee a note demanding money, according to prosecutors.
The employee gave Sorrow $50, according to prosecutors, and refused to hand over any more cash. Sorrow also took a customer's bank bag with stamped checks as he fled.
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TUPELO • State officials have filed a lawsuit seeking to recover more than $3.8 million from the Family Resource Center, a nonprofit organization based in Northeast Mississippi that finds itself embroiled in allegations that it “squandered” federal grant money intended to help the poor.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in Hinds County Circuit Court by the Mississippi Department of Human Services, was lauded by state government leaders as the latest effort to remedy an allegedly far-reaching scheme of corruption that investigators claim infected the state’s anti-poverty programs for several years.
“Our purpose with this suit is to seek justice for the broken trust of the people of Mississippi and recover funds that were misspent,” said Gov. Tate Reeves and Attorney General Lynn Fitch in a joint-statement released on Monday.
The FRC and its executive director, Christi Webb, allegedly misspent money from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program. According to the lawsuit, they did so “for their enrichment.”
In a written statement released to the Daily Journal on Monday, FRC board member and legal counsel Casey Lott reiterated previous claims by the organization that it has done nothing wrong.
“Mrs. Webb and other employees of the North Mississippi Family Resource Center have always adamantly denied any intentional misspending of TANF funds or any other wrongdoing,” Lott said.
In statements and interviews last year, Lott said FRC “did what they were instructed to do by the state of Mississippi.”
Lott has also claimed that Webb protested some of the payments she was directed to make by then-MDHS leadership.
However recipients of TANF grants, including FRC and other organizations and people named in Monday’s litigation, were themselves required to spend TANF money according to federal guidelines, according to the MDHS lawsuit, which is being handled by former U.S. attorney Brad Pigott.
The lawsuit also asserts that FRC, Webb and other named defendants either knew, or should have known, the relevant restrictions that governed use of the TANF program.
Beginning with a state auditor’s investigation in 2019, and continuing through multiple criminal and civil probes, officials have claimed that significant portions of these TANF dollars were not spent in accordance with federal guidelines.
For example, the litigation filed Monday repeats prior allegations identified by investigators that FRC and other organizations funneled lucrative contracts to family members and friends of former MDHS Executive Director John Davis, sometimes for services that were never actually performed.
The lawsuit claims, for example, that Davis’ brother-in-law was paid by FRC and other organizations “without regard for whether or not he was performing any actual services for either organization.”
In all, 38 organizations were named in Monday’s civil lawsuit. In addition to Webb and the FRC, the Northeast Mississippi Football Coaches Association is a named defendant.
Beyond Northeast Mississippi, targets of the civil litigation included former football star Brett Favre, former MDHS Executive Director John Davis, and Nancy New, who ran the Mississippi Community Education Center, a nonprofit that also received significant funding through the TANF program.
New and her son, Zach New, pleaded guilty in April to criminal charges linked to their use of TANF money, according to reporting by Mississippi Today.
Criminal charges remain pending against Davis.
No FRC employee, including Webb, has been charged with any criminal wrongdoing.
Bob Anderson, who was appointed by Gov. Reeves to head MDHS in the wake of the TANF scandal, pointed to Monday’s litigation as the latest step to right the agency.
“MDHS has been working hard to restore trust and put in place numerous internal controls to ensure that misspending is not repeated in the future,” Anderson said in writing. “The rest of the task involves recovering and returning to the taxpayers the millions of dollars in misspent funds which were intended to benefit Mississippi’s needy families. We begin that task today with the filing of this civil complaint.”
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Members of a Georgia Sheriff’s Department are accused of racially profiling Delaware State University’s lacrosse team last month. Now the president of the historically black university is demanding answers and considering possible legal action.
On April 20, the DSU women’s lacrosse team was on a bus headed home from a game in Florida. While traveling on I-95 in Liberty County, Georgia, the bus was pulled over by Liberty County Sheriff’s Department officers.
In a letter, DSU President Tony Allen wrote that the officers stopped the team “under the pretext of a minor traffic violation.” The officers boarded the bus and claimed the driver committed a traffic violation since he was driving in the left lane, according to a member of the lacrosse team.
“The belongings of the student-athletes, including suitcases in the luggage racks beneath the bus, were searched by police and drug-sniffing dogs,” Allen wrote.
The incident was captured on video and later posted on YouTube.
“They’re pulling our luggage out and they have dogs going through, sniffing through our belongings,” Pamella Jenkins, head coach of the DSU Women’s Lacrosse team, told NBC10.
Allen wrote that the officers tried to intimidate the team into confessing to possessing drugs or drug paraphernalia.
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“Their response was on this stretch of highway that a lot of buses like this are smuggling people and narcotics and that they have to be vigilant about checking,” Jenkins said.
The officers searched through the bus but no drugs were found.
“To be clear, nothing illegal was discovered in this search, and all of our coaches and student-athletes comported themselves with dignity throughout a trying and humiliating process,” Allen wrote.
Sydney Anderson, a member of the team, wrote about the incident in DSU’s student newspaper.
“It went from two officers to six officers and they brought out their K-9,” Anderson told NBC10. “They started smelling our bags. Going through everything. Our personal hygiene like underwear and everything in the bags and they did that for about twenty minutes.”
Most members of DSU’s Lacrosse team are African American. Jenkins and Anderson believe the incident was racially motivated. Allen, meanwhile, reached out to Delaware’s Governor, Congressional delegation, Attorney General, and Black Caucus.
“They, like me, are incensed,” Allen wrote. “We have also reached out to Georgia Law Enforcement and are exploring options for recourse—legal and otherwise—available to our student-athletes, our coaches, and the University.”
Jenkins told NBC10 she wanted an apology from the Liberty County sheriff, who is African American.
“That would be great. Yes. Yes. An apology,” she said. “And just some acknowledgement that this isn’t something our student athletes have to look forward to. This is not okay that that happened to us.”
NBC10 reached out to the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office on Monday. We were told that they would have a statement on the incident. We have not yet received one however.
Delaware State University is a historically black university located in Dover, Delaware.
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Women Against Abuse, Inc., Philadelphia’s leading domestic violence agency, will host Philadelphia’s ONLY women chef competition that attracts hundreds of business and community leaders and food aficionados on Wednesday, May 18, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Lincoln Financial Field. Telemundo62 news anchor Belén Smole will emcee the event which will feature unique creations from women chefs representing some of the region’s most well-known restaurants. A panel of celebrity judges will select two winners- sweet and savory- and a runner up.
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NFL Hall of Famer and Former Eagles Cornerback Troy Vincent and celebrity chef and talk show host Tommi Vincent, both survivors of domestic violence, will be named Advocates of the Year. Goya Foods will host the VIP Locker Room tour and Tucker Law Firm will host the VIP reception. Other key sponsors/donations include the NFL, Eagles Cares, Morgan Lewis, Sally & Edwin Rosenthal, ASI Management, Brandywine Realty Trust, Drexel University, Einstein HealthCare Network, Expert Events, Independence Blue Cross, The Sheller Family Foundation, Stradley Ronon, Univest Banking, Patrick Mundy and Candice Harris, and Myra and Allen Woll.
Chefs who will be competing for the 2022 Purple Dish and Dessert Awards include:
- Jessica Boese, Nothing Bundt Cake
- Sharonda Harris-Bunton, Vegans R Us
- Jennifer Carroll, Spice Finch
- Emily Chewla, Cry Baby Pasta
- Angela Cicacla, Cicala at The Divine Lorraine
- Doreen De Marco, American Sardine Bar
- Rebeca Foxman, Fox & Son
- Julie Kline, La Colombe
- Maddie Knowles, Maddie Bakes
- Georgieann Leaming, FoodieHall
- Marti Lieberman, MacMart
- Mary Lochary, The Westin
- Justine MacNeill, Fiore
- Chef Stecher, Walnut Hill College
- Victoria Tyson, Vicki's Kitchen
- Diane Widjojo, Hardena Bar Philly
Women Against Abuse, Inc., is one of the largest domestic violence service providers in the country, and serves more than 10,000 people in Philadelphia each year through emergency housing, legal services, hotline counseling, education and advocacy. For more information visit www.womenagainstabuse.org.
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MANSFIELD, Texas — Nearly 300 employees at a Mansfield company are safe after a dangerous chemical release on Monday afternoon.
The incident happened at Dura-Tech located at 109 Sentry Drive. Mansfield firefighters are trying to narrow down what led to the chemical release.
An Arlington Fire Department hazmat team also responded to the scene. The team had to be sprayed off in their hazmat suits after being inside Dura-Tech.
The chemical release forced the evacuation of 260 employees. Paramedics treated four employees reportedly exposed to the chemical. But they refused medical transport for further treatment, according to Jeff Smith of the Mansfield Police Department.
Smith shared the chemical release involved nitric acid that can irritate the skin if exposed and can lead to breathing issues. By the time they arrived on the scene, two of the four employees exposed to the chemical had already changed out of their work clothes and showered as a precaution.
Mansfield firefighters instructed the evacuated employees to stay about 300 feet away from the building. Smith anticipated the fire department being on scene until the building is cleared by state environmental experts.
The Mansfield Fire Department responded to the same location in 2021 for a similar incident, according to Smith. The high winds in Mansfield on Monday afternoon are a plus for firefighters as the winds cause the airborne chemical to dissipate faster.
No homes had to be evacuated due to the incident.
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DALLAS — Police are investigating one of the city’s latest homicides. The fatal shooting happened near East Ledbetter Drive and Sunnyvale Street on Monday.
Yellow crime tape was stretched across several streets and business parking lots as investigators gathered evidence.
“It hurts,” said Sandra Potter as she rushed to the scene. She identified herself as one of the victim’s relatives.
Emotions were high after the shooting ended with a man being killed from a gunshot wound.
“It’s too many young kids out here getting gunned down,” Potter cried.
At least two dozen evidence markers littered the parking lots of several nearby businesses. Detectives said the suspect was on the run.
“I feel like the police should crack down and do better,” Potter said.
Data from the Dallas Police Department was shared during the city council’s Public Safety Committee meeting on Monday, showing murders are up nearly nine percent over last year.
Residents in the area have long voiced concerns about crime and wanting to see more neighborhood police officers on the streets.
“It’s a constant juggling act, is what it is. We have to keep our eye on the ball. Reduction to violent crime is paramount in this department and for this city, and so it is a juggling act to move pieces of this department,” Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia explained.
A plan to add more officers to the area is in the works.
Tim Williams is Director of Operations for Williams Chicken. He rushed to check on employees and customers after the shooting. He has somewhat of a different perspective on tackling some of the neighborhood crime issues.
“My take is that we need to be better corporate citizens. When you look at the shopping centers and the buildings around here. We need to take more pride in what we do,” Williams explained.
A nearby 7-Eleven store is part of DPD’s Starlight Program. That initiative is a partnership between businesses and DPD, where stores allow police to watch surveillance video, in and around the business, in real time.
Police said detectives are working to collect surveillance video from several locations in that area.
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LAKE JACKSON, Texas — Emily Stanley had to take off work on Monday so that she could drive around and search for baby formula.
“It's just insane. As if a pandemic wasn't enough, now there's no formula,” Stanley said.
The Lake Jackson, Texas mom said she drove an hour away to Galveston and bought what she could find.
Friends in Stanley’s hometown of Waxahachie are also looking for formula and mailing it to Lake Jackson.
“She shipped it to me in wine boxes,” Stanley said of her friend, Leah. “People steal packages anyway even if they don't know what's in it. We just didn't want it to be recognized.”
Data shows the baby formula shortage is not improving. According to retail data company, Datasembly, more than half of the baby formula supply in six states including Texas was completely sold out in April.
Due to a major voluntary recall of three popular baby formula brands in February, supply chain experts believe it could be six months before things get close to back to normal.
“The demand was increasing; supply was suddenly cut short, right? So when there is that mismatch between the supply and demand, this was just disaster waiting to happen,” Sree Bhaskaran of SMU’s Cox School of Business said.
So, what can parents do?
Be careful shopping for formula online, Cook Children’s pediatrician Dr. Alice Phillips said.
“We don't want them to be buying formula online from an unreputable source where it could be a counterfeit formula,” Dr. Phillips said.
The North Texas doctor doesn’t recommend making your own formula either.
“That's really high risk and makes me as a pediatrician very anxious because we don't know if they're going to get all of those components correct, if it is going to be sterile, if it's going to be safe,” Dr. Phillips said.
The best advice? Give your pediatrician a call.
“We have a lot of connections,” Dr. Phillips. “We have relationships with formula reps that we can get formula in that we need it.”
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DALLAS — John "Lucky" Luckadoo has always balked at the idea that he is an American hero, even though he survived one of the most dangerous bombing campaigns of WWII.
He is a bit closer, however, to getting millions of his fellow Americans recognized as the heroes he has always believed them to be.
The last time we talked with Luckadoo, at Presbyterian Village North where he lives, was on his 100th birthday two months ago. We returned on Monday, where a crowd ushered into the same auditorium to surprise him for reaching one more big milestone.
He is the last surviving member of the Bloody 100th: a name unfortunately earned because so few survived dangerous daytime bombing runs over Germany. Luckadoo defied the odds and returned after more than his fair share of missions, once with his boots frozen to the controls of his B-17.
But on Monday, true to humble form, he gave the same heartfelt speech he's done so many times before.
"I shudder to think that you're trying to paint me as a hero. Because I ain't no hero," he said. "The real heroes are those who did not come home. And the real heroes are also those who stayed home and outproduced the world."
Which is why for years now he's pushed for a national 'Home Front Heroes Day': a Veterans Day of sorts to recognize 'Rosie the Riveter' and other Americans who helped support the war effort from home.
And today Congressman Colin Allred showed up, a bi-partisan resolution in hand, expressing support for designating May 9th as 'Home Front Heroes Day' on a national level. Allred introduced the resolution along with Rep. Jake Ellzey, a Republican from Texas' 6th district.
Allred also praised Luckadoo for his recent biography in print called "Damn Lucky." And for the fact that Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are working on a Bloody 100th documentary.
"You know, that's something," Allred said in his remarks to Luckadoo and the crowd assembled in the auditorium. "But creating a national holiday, that's also something. What a life! What an incredible life of service you've led Major!"
"I am proud to join my colleague Rep. Allred in submitting H.R. 1088 to designate May 9th as 'Home Front Heroes Day,'" said Ellzey in a written statement. "The brave men and women that serve in our nation's military would be unable to do their jobs without the love and support of those back at home. Our country is strong because of the sacrifices of our citizens. It is only fitting that we take a day to honor those sacrifices."
The resolution now goes to the U.S. House for consideration.
"With congressional support, why, of course we can achieve our goal," Luckadoo told WFAA.
Because, 100 or not, Lucky isn't done fighting for his country just yet.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — A 38-year-old woman with severe intellectual disabilities has been hospitalized and on a ventilator in intensive care for nearly three weeks after a 10-day stay at the Tarrant County Jail, her family said.
The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Kelly Masten was booked at the county jail on an assault charge from April 12 to April 21 and that officials are investigating what happened during her time there.
“She is fighting for her life right now in ICU on a ventilator,” Kristina Salinas, Masten’s sister said. “She has never been institutionalized, in jail, never been in any type of facility.”
Masten suffers from Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, a rare epilepsy disorder causing her to have seizures nearly every day. On April 11, her grandmother called 911 after Masten bit her.
Officers took Masten into custody on a charge of assault-bodily injury and told her grandmother that Masten would be taken to jail and then to the mental health unit at JPS. That didn’t happen.
The sheriff's office in a news release said Masten, who was housed in a single cell, had "at least 20 interactions" with the jail's medical staff and that detention officers also checked her regularly.
“She was just left seizing in a cement jail, continuously injuring herself to the point that she is covered head to toe in bruises,” Salinas said.
Citing privacy laws, the sheriff's office did not provide information about her health condition, though officials said "there is no indication of a criminal offense" happening against Masten at the jail.
The Tarrant County District Attorney’s office dropped the charge against Masten.
The jail has struggled with inmate safety issues over the past
In three years from 2016 through 2018, the Tarrant County jail recorded three in-custody deaths.
From 2019 through 2021, though, the jail has recorded 36 deaths, according to data from an open records request.
Masten was taken to JPS, but Salinas says her name and birthday were both recorded wrong at the jail, meaning medical records weren’t found.
Police documents showed Masten's name spelled "Maston." The 38-year-old has the mental capacity of a 5-year-old. As a result, she was sent back to the jail, where she remained until her family could post bond for her on April 21. The family said her clothes were soaked in urine.
“She cannot read or write. She cannot spell her name,” Salinas said. “She only knows her first name. Besides that, she cannot relay any type of vital or important information.”
Her father visited her in jail and watched her have a seizure, but the jail said they couldn’t do anything because they can’t force inmates to take medication.
“We don’t know how our baby is going to come out of this now,” Danny Masten said. “Is she going to be able to function at all? Maybe she won’t be. We don’t know that yet.”
Salinas says Kelly has now developed pneumonia at the hospital and her condition is trending worse, not better.
On the day she as supposed to be released, Masten's family said they waited for her outside of the jail. She never came outside.
When the family asked jail officials, they were told she has already been taken to JPS.
"I don’t know what policy and procedure they go by, but it obviously does not work,” Masten said. “It was the wrong facility. Other actions should’ve been taken but it’s a little too late for that now because my sister is still fighting for her life.”
On Tuesday morning, there will be a protest at the jail over Masten’s treatment and the jail’s handling of mental health inmates.
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A 24-year-old Lincoln man has been charged with robbery after he held the door open for a 55-year-old woman who uses a walker before ripping her wallet and backpack away, police said in court records.
The alleged robbery occurred at about 7:30 p.m. March 18 as the woman left her apartment near 20th and A streets, Lincoln Police Officer Matthew Fisher said in an affidavit for Anthony Mixan's arrest.
After the woman walked through the door and out onto a porch, Mixan walked to the side of her and grabbed the wallet and backpack that were attached to her walker, pulling the items, the walker and the woman across the porch, Fisher said in the affidavit.
A camera on the porch captured the incident on video.
Mixan, the boyfriend of an acquaintance who had stayed at the woman's apartment, made off with about $800 in cash and the woman's car title, Fisher said.
Police contacted Mixan on Thursday at the Lancaster County Jail, where he was being held on unrelated charges, and arrested him on suspicion of robbery.
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Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
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A 17-year-old Lincoln boy was charged as an adult in Lancaster County Court on Monday with four felonies after he advertised a defaced, stolen handgun for sale on his Snapchat account, police said in court records.
Lincoln Police Investigator Joseph Villamonte was conducting surveillance on Grantt Crear's social media account Friday when Crear posted a .25 caliber handgun for sale, Villamonte said in the affidavit for the teen's arrest.
Investigators pulled over a Chevrolet Impala that Crear was riding in near 70th Street and Pioneers Boulevard later Friday and found the gun in the glove box, near where Crear was sitting, along with three separate bags of marijuana and a digital scale, Villamonte said in the affidavit.
The handgun, reported stolen from a car last week in Lincoln, had part of its serial number scratched off.
Crear was charged with possession of a stolen firearm, possession of a defaced firearm, possession of a firearm while violating a drug law and possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.
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He was taken into custody and lodged at the Youth Services Center.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
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HOUSTON — Nora Gaber was just seven years old when a car crash cut her young life short. But her parents, doctors Osama and Lillian Gaber, wanted her legacy to live on. They donated her organs to save other children.
"In her memory and really in her honor, they developed Nora’s Gift Foundation, which is our foundation, and Nora’s Home came shortly after," said Natalie Lencioni, executive director of Nora’s Home.
Since the facility opened in the Texas Medical Center in 2013, it’s offered a place for organ transplant patients and their families to stay.
"This is my home away from home," said patient Bobby Channell, whose doctors told him in 2003 that he only had months to live.
Bobby refused to give up the fight, consulting with new doctors. Over the years, they installed a defibrillator, a pacemaker and other devices to keep his heart pumping.
"Until Jan. 13, when I finally got my heart," Bobby shared.
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In the months before and since his transplant, Bobby stayed at Nora’s Home.
"My family was there with me through the whole thing," Bobby said. "And faith."
Not just the spiritual kind.
"I feel like Nora’s Home saved my life," said Faith Crouch, who was born with cystic fibrosis. "When you’re diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, you pretty much just assume you’re going to have a transplant."
After six years of being added to and dropped from three different transplant lists, Faith got new lungs in January 2021.
"I ended up coming here, moving in and we lived across the hall from each other," Faith said.
"The first time I saw Faith, I went and told my mother. I said, ‘There’s this girl here and she’s really cute,'" remembered Bobby, prompting a giggle from Faith.
The couple didn’t start dating immediately. That’s a fairly recent development that they’re navigating as Bobby recovers at Nora's Home.
"We definitely want to be together," Bobby said.
Faith nodded, adding, "It gets really hard to not be together now."
Their love story is an example of the relationships nurtured by the staff and volunteers of Nora’s Home.
"They really make the home a home," said Lencioni.
More than 1,400 families have stayed here during their transplant journey, most decorating a tile for the halls of Nora’s Home. Some thank God. Some honor their donor. Some, like the ones painted by Bobby and his mother, are an illustration of the bridges crossed.
"I think the real gift that Nora’s Home provides is that sense of community that you can only see and understand once you’re inside our walls.
It's a place with a whole lot of heart and faith.
"Nora’s Home kind of helped my soul heal while I was staying here," said Faith.
To learn more about Nora's Home, click here.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay spent years putting together his expansive guitar collection.
On Monday, he announced one of his prized possessions — the Fender Mustang electric guitar used by the late Kurt Cobain — will be auctioned off to help support the team's Kicking The Stigma mental health awareness campaign.
Bidding will take place May 2022 at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City's Times Square and a portion of the proceeds will go to Irsay's initiative.
During the announcement, Irsay, and his daughter, Kalen Jackson, said Cobain's family supported the move and would put other items from Cobain on the auction block during that weekend.
But Irsay, who owns dozens of musical instruments including a drum set from The Beatles and the original manuscript of Jack Kerouac's “On The Road” has no intention of losing Cobain's guitar with an opening bid of $2 million.
Cobain used the guitar in Nirvana's iconic “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video.
The Irsays have committed $16 million to the team's mental health initiative and Irsay said he has been speaking with director Peter Berg about filming a new public service announcement. Berg directed Hollywood hits such as “Friday Night Lights," “Lone Survivor” and “Patriots Day.”
Cobain died in April 1994 from what was ruled to be a suicide.
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MODESTO, Calif. — Modesto police recently identified two of the three people shot near Tully Road and West Briggsmore Avenue when their vehicle came under fire on Thursday night—one of whom died from their injuries.
Detectives say 28-year-old Trevon Shaquille Draine, of Los Angeles, was shot and killed, while another man from Los Angeles sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
Another victim, identified as 38-year-old Jamil Spencer, also had non-life-threatening wounds. However, after police identified him, they discovered he had a warrant out of Memphis, Tennessee for homicide.
Spencer was arrested by detectives after uncovering the warrant.
Thursday night's shooting did not appear to be a random act, police said, and police said there is no threat to the community in connection with the shooting.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Less than a year after communications giant iHeartMedia acquired the 107.9 frequency at an FCC auction for $6,146,000, "The New 107.9" began broadcasting in Sacramento as KSTE-FM.
News of the station's return spread through online radio forums on Wednesday, with reports the newly-launched radio station began broadcasting 24-hour loops of Star Wars music and Cinco De mayo-themed music.
"Friday" by Rebecca Black was played on repeat throughout Friday.
The controversial history of 107.9
Then operating as KDND, the owners of 107.9 came under scrutiny after its morning show, the Morning Rave, hosted a contest in 2007 where on-air contestants were asked to drink heavy amounts of water without urinating.
A then-highly coveted Nintendo Wii was the prize for the contestant able to hold their bladder the longest. The contest was billed as "Hold Your Wee for a Wii."
One 28-year-old contestant died of water toxicity as a result of the contest. A jury ruled in 2009 that the contestant's spouse was owed $16.5 million in compensation following a wrongful death lawsuit.
KDND's parent company Entercom announced in 2017 that it would acquire CBS Radio. The radio station's license with the FCC to broadcast was terminated the same year.
Now owned by iHeartMedia, operating as KSTE-FM, programing for "The New 107.9" is still unknown, but a newsletter, contact and advertiser page is live on its website.
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STOCKTON, Calif. — The Vegan Chef Challenge (VCC) is making its debut in Stockton throughout the month of June, where herbivores and foodies alike can support bringing more plant-based food options into restaurants.
The month-long event will feature a variety of restaurant chefs from around the city who are challenged to curate a number of vegan menu options for customers to choose from.
Participating restaurants will be directly competing and whichever one gets the most votes, will keep the winning item on its menu permanently.
Anyone is invited to vote. All you have to do is go to a participating restaurant, ask for the Vegan Chef Challenge menu, eat and vote.
The VCC, by non-profit organization Vegan Outreach, has been around since 2010 and has become a fun and inclusive tradition for cities across the nation.
Switching to plant-based foods has become increasingly popular in recent years, yet not all local eateries have created many vegan options to keep up with the ever growing trend.
VCC creates an initiative for chefs to include more vegan options as plant-based eating becomes a mainstream trend.
The deadline for chefs to sign up for this competition is May 20 and competing restaurants will be announced later this month.
More information on how to vote, participate as a chef, win prizes for eating in the upcoming competition or general information can be found through Stockton VCC.
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NAMPA, Idaho — After Supreme Court documents on Roe v Wade were leaked last week, an edited 10-second clip from Idaho Reports is being shared across social media, the clip is causing concern for Idahoans that worry the state could ban things like contraceptives or drugs prescribed to end a pregnancy.
The man quoted in the clip, Nampa Rep. Brent Crane, says there is more explanation needed and the popular clip being shared misses the crux of his answer.
The exchange in the edited clip is between Rep. Crane and Idaho Reports host Melissa Davlin.
As a follow up to a conversation about penalizing women who drive to Oregon for abortion care, something Crane said would be a scary place to be and he did not believe in penalizing women who choose to do that, Davlin asked Crane: “How about abortion pills via mail or IUD’s or ‘Plan B,’ would you hear legislation to ban those?” Crane responded: “I would, absolutely,” right as the clip is cut off.
“The clip is obviously taken out of context and is being used for political purposes to derive a narrative and also to raise money. It's very unfortunate that they're using it to scare women and to try to raise money around this issue. But that's exactly what has happened,” Crane told KTVB on Monday.
Crane, who serves as Chairmen of the House State Affairs committee, says the context missed in the clip is that he was talking about medical concerns about drugs that can induce an abortion. He says he wasn’t talking about contraceptives like IUDs.
“I went on to explain that what I was concerned about was the abortifacient piece, then the health of the mother, the concerns. There are rumors that are out there that some of these abortifacients, that women have complications. And so, my feeling is, is that we should probably have a hearing to let both sides come and present the evidence to the committee and then let the committee decide how they want to handle the issue of abortifacients,” Crane said.
Abortifacients are substances that induce an abortion.
After the edited clip was posted and shared over the weekend, some spoke out on social media about fears of losing options when it comes to contraceptives and specifically emergency contraceptives. Idaho Democratic Party Chairwoman Lauren Necochea put out a statement in response to the clip saying in-part :
“The admission that Idaho’s Republican lawmakers may outlaw safe and effective forms of birth control is our worst fear realized. It proves this was never about abortion. It is about enacting extremist views and stripping away Idahoans’ most basic freedoms. This declaration should serve as a wake-up call for every Idahoan, and American, that our right to privacy and the very control of our bodies and lives are in their crosshairs.”
Crane says the short clip simply misses the point of the conversation.
“It's unfortunate that that got taken out of context that Representative Crane would have a hearing and he's going to ban IUD. That's not true. That is false. I have absolutely no plans to do anything that is going to outlaw or ban IUDs. My wife and I, in our own personal family, planning how to use contraceptives. And so I don't have any plans to outlaw it. I will not be bringing the legislation. And if a legislator comes and wants to propose legislation that bans IUDs, I have no desire or intent to move that legislation forward or to allow it to have a hearing,” Crane said.
To be clear, Crane says he is a pro-life lawmaker who believes abortion should be outlawed.
“Abortifacients for me are something that I would actually hear legislation, to outlaw pills that perform an abortion. However, I believe a woman has the right with regards to contraceptive care and the choice of the contraceptives that they are going to use. And so, we will have that debate should this ruling get passed down. We will have that debate in committee, and we will determine where the Idaho legislature feels like Idaho should be with regards to that issue,” Crane said.
Crane says he has heard from constituents over the weekend and understands concerns.
“The way that was characterized, it caused a lot of women to be concerned that their contraceptive care was going to be taken away. And that is simply not true. And so I appreciate the opportunity to clear this up,” Crane said. “I don't have any concerns that Idaho lawmakers are going to be taking away your access to contraceptives.”
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