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PORTLAND, Ore. — A local health organization helped hundreds of Oregonians stay off the streets during the pandemic, but now it needs more funding to keep it going.
Yesi Olvera is one of two women at the Neighborhood Health Center helping families in need of food, transportation, and healthcare. She is often a calm, constant voice for many struggling to make ends meet.
“You are there kind of to push them through it and help them and guide them,” said Olvera, a certified community health worker. She’s one of two people working with 752 families.
“We would get urgent referrals over to us from the counties like 'hey this family doesn’t have food they’re in quarantine they can’t leave, and they have no food, so you have to call them at 7, 8 p.m.'”
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Oregon Health Authority funded the work for two years, but now the money is within months of running out.
“We’re really caring for individuals - they don’t have to be a patient - they’re just individuals in the community that need care and we’re there to care for them,” Olvera said.
The county vets families in need and sends qualified candidates over to the Neighborhood Health Center. That’s when Olvera picks up the phone.
Some calls last up to three hours.
“You got to find a way so they understand it,” she said as she started speaking Spanish to a client.
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Olvera said being bilingual allows her to reach communities who otherwise might not ask for help.
“She’s so committed to the community and to her culture and she can reach and connect to families that someone like me could never do,” said Penny Moore, director of development and communications at the Neighborhood Health Center.
“It’s super rewarding honestly it’s just nice to know that you made a difference, and although nobody sees it, you know it,” Olvera said.
The program is funded through June, but officials are hoping to get more money so they can reach families outside of Washington and Clackamas counties.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — In court for the first time since his Saturday arrest, a seemingly jovial Michael Bivins pleaded not guilty to vandalizing several places of worship in Portland over a five-day stretch.
"Having this person behind bars is a benefit to all of our community," said Senior Rabbi Michael Z. Cahana of Congregation Beth Israel.
Investigators said Bivins spray painted an anti-Semitic phrase on the side of Congregation Beth Israel's synagogue and threw a large rock through a window.
Bivins is also suspected of breaking a window at Congregation Shir Tikvah's synagogue on Northeast Sandy Boulevard. Authorities said Bivins even tried to burn down the Portland Muslim Community Center of on North Vancouver Avenue.
"I would hope that he could understand the great harm caused by these kinds of incidents," Cahana said. "There are people who should feel comfortable in their synagogues, in their mosques."
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Cahana said his congregation's sense of security was shattered by Bivins, who used to work as a freelance journalist in the Portland area. He has covered many of the protests across the city over the course of the last several years.
Bivins seemed in front of the cameras in court. At times, he smirked for photographers and he even flexed once.
His behavior in court surely would not have amused his victims, who instead choose to focus on the work of law enforcement.
"I'm really pleased that law enforcement, many different bureaus of law enforcement, took these incidents so seriously," Cahana said.
A judge set bail at $45,000. Bivins is due back in court May 17.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The trial of romance novelist Nancy Crampton-Brophy continued Monday with the defense calling up family members to testify.
Crampton-Brophy is accused of shooting and killing her husband Daniel Brophy, who was an instructor at the Oregon Culinary Institute, in June of 2018.
The defense claimed the Crampton-Brophy and her husband were so in love that she would never have killed him. The State maintains Crampton-Brophy stood to gain a lot of money from her husband's death, and that she lied to police about her where she was the morning of the murder.
Crampton-Brophy's niece, Sarah Gitchell, testified that she spent a lot of time with Crampton-Brophy after her husband was murdered.
"I personally observed her grieving, crying, sobbing, breaking down many times," she said.
Gitchell said Crampton-Brophy and her husband seemed to have an ideal relationship.
"She started talking about Dan and started crying and said this wasn't a part of the plan and said Dan being gone wasn't part of the plan, and 'what am I going to do now,'" Gitchell said.
Gitchell went on to tell jurors that her aunt never spoke about concerns in her marriage, and overlooked a lot of issues to keep the peace within her relationship. Gitchell said at the time of the murder, Crampton-Brophy was not concerned about her safety.
"We all just figured it had to be a random person off the street," she said. "Meth had started to become a problem in the area and people often behave erratically and violently."
There was also testimony from Crampton-Brophy's cousin, Vicki Schmall, who mainly focused on her relationship with Crampton-Brophy.
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A man was arrested and charged with stabbing a bartender and musician to death outside of a South Philadelphia Wawa earlier this year.
On February 14, around 1 a.m., Roger Segal, 49, parked his SUV outside a Wawa store on 1602 South Christopher Columbus Boulevard. Segal went into the store to pick up food he had ordered and then returned to his vehicle to eat.
Around three hours later, police were called to the Wawa parking lot for a report of a person with a weapon. When they arrived they found Segal unresponsive inside his SUV and suffering from a stab wound to his abdomen. He was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 4:38 a.m. that morning.
Investigators later obtained surveillance video and photos of a man who had parked next to Segal’s SUV in a black minivan earlier that morning. The man later drove away before returning on foot to Segal’s vehicle, police said. He then opened Segal’s SUV and stabbed him, according to investigators.
Police later identified Walter Robbins as the suspect in Segal’s murder. On March 22, police received a tip that Robbins was in the area of 7th and Snyder streets. Robbins was then found on the 2000 block of South 7th Street and taken into custody, according to the affidavit.
While being interviewed by police, Robbins allegedly admitted to stabbing Segal. Investigators said robbery was the motive and Robbins and Segal did not know each other. Robbins was charged with murder and other related offenses.
“I teared up right away. Like I said it was very bittersweet,” Michael Urbanski, a friend and co-worker of Segal’s, told NBC10. “I’m happy that they caught somebody. Hopefully justice will be served. But it’s bittersweet. It’s a reminder of what happened, you know? A senseless thing for nothing.”
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Segal was a musician and bartender who worked at the Woolly Mammoth sports bar on South Street. Friends described Segal as a kindhearted person with a passion for music and sports.
“Very well-liked guy,” Urbanski said. “People come in here asking about him still and they’re just heartbroken with what we have to tell them, you know?”
A charity concert will be held at Dobbs on South, a music venue on South Street, in honor of Segal. Proceeds from the event will go towards a charity dedicated to autism research. Friends said Segal was passionate about the cause due to his brother having autism.
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SkyForce10 is over the scene of a police chase in Philadelphia.
The chase began near the Lowe’s store along 3800 Aramingo Avenue shortly before 9 p.m. Monday. During the chase, the vehicle’s tires popped and sparks began to fly.
The chase continued as the car entered I-95 southbound.
Police have not yet revealed why they are pursuing the suspect.
This story is developing. Check back for updates.
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Law enforcement surveys the scene of a plane crash on Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, in Chamberlain, S.D. Nine people were killed and three people were injured when a plane crashed shortly after taking off on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Federal investigators confirmed that the buildup of ice on the wings and other parts of the plane was a key factor in a 2019 crash that killed nine of 12 members of an Idaho family on board an overloaded small plane.
The National Transportation Safety Board said in its report on the November 30, 2019 crash near Chamberlain, South Dakota, that the single-engine plane didn’t even have enough seats for all the passengers aboard, and two people were likely seated in the aisles when it crashed shortly after takeoff. The report said the plane was about 100 pounds overweight, according to the Sioux Falls Argus Leader.
The crash killed nine members of the Hansen family from Idaho Falls, Idaho. They were returning home from an annual pheasant-hunting trip in South Dakota when the plane crashed.
Among the dead were brothers Jim and Kirk Hansen, founders and executives of Kyani Inc., a wellness company based in Idaho Falls that sells health products and supplements worldwide; their father, Jim Hansen Sr.; Kirk Hansen’s children, Stockton and Logan; his sons-in-law, Kyle Naylor and Tyson Dennert; and Jim Hansen’s son, Jake, and grandson, Houston.
The report said the pilot made several key errors that contributed to the crash including failing to remove all the snow and ice from the plane even though a witness told investigators that the pilot and a passenger spent three hours clearing snow and ice before takeoff.
Carey Story, who owns the lodge where the family was staying, said she urged the family to stay another night because of the snow storm but the pilot refused and said they needed to get home.
The report said the pilot told Story “the airplane was 98% good and the remaining ice would come off during takeoff.”
But the report said that 10 minutes before takeoff there were visible icicles hanging from the plane’s horizontal stabilizer, and snow was falling heavily. Video from the crash, and a transcript of communications with the tower indicate the runway was at least partly covered with snow.
Previously, the NTSB said three of the Pilatus PC12 plane’s warning systems — the stall warning, stick shaker and stick pusher — activated within seconds of liftoff. The plane only managed to climb 460 feet into the air before it crashed less than a mile from the Chamberlain airport.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Every day, rows of freshly-baked pan dulce delight customers, and the aroma of the Mexican sweet bread fills the air at Esperanza’s restaurant and bakery in Fort Worth.
Baking the sweet bread is a nearly 40-year-long family tradition at the restaurant.
But as the price of wheat soars, Esperanza’s is just one of many bakeries that told WFAA that wheat flour price increases are hurting profits.
Joe Lancarte, one of Esperanza’s owners, said it’s a challenge.
“I see it going up,” Lancarte said. “It has gone up somewhat really in the last month or so.”
Russia’s war in Ukraine is driving an increase in wheat prices. Together, Russia and Ukraine export more than a quarter of the world's wheat, according to USDA data.
“During the pandemic, that made it hard enough with pricing going up and the shortage of everything with everything going on,” Lancarte said. “Now with what’s happening with Ukraine, that has not made it better.”
Dr. Mark Welch, a professor at Texas A&M University’s School of Agricultural Economics, researches the economics behind wheat and other grain products.
Ever since the war in Ukraine began, he’s been tracking the conflict’s impact on wheat prices globally.
“The global economic impact is very far-reaching,” Welch said. “[The U.S.] we’re completely self-sufficient in our grain use, however, the conflict and disruption of global supplies is driving prices higher.”
Welch pointed to data from the USDA, which showed that when the invasion in Ukraine began in mid-February, wheat prices in Texas were $8 per bushel (60 lbs. of wheat). Now, wheat in Texas costs $12 per bushel.
“That’s a 50% increase,” Welch said.
Welch said the increase in wheat prices gets passed down from wholesale wheat suppliers, to bakeries, to grocery stores, until it eventually hits consumers.
Lancarte is already feeling the impact.
“We’re trying to do our best to try to keep the price down as long as we possibly can,” Lancarte said.
Lancarte fears that increasing his pan dulce prices would lead to losing customers.
“Our quality is number one, so if the price goes up, the price goes up. We’re not gonna skimp and go with a cheaper flour where the quality is not as good,” Lancarte said.
He hopes his customers will keep walking through the door to enjoy the family’s pan dulce recipes that have been passed down for generations.
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SAN CARLOS PARK, Fla. — A family dumped most of their belongings in the front yard of the San Carlos Park duplex unit they were renting right before moving out.
Neighbors along Pebble Beach Road said for nearly a week and a half, the piles of furniture, clothing, stuffed animals, even food sat outside.
Corey Moses has lived in the duplex’s other unit for over three years. He said the family moved in about a year ago in the middle of the night.
They also moved out in the middle of the night.
“With rent prices the way they are now. Looking to buy a house. It’s probably not going to happen anytime soon so we’re just kind of staying put and pinching pennies,” he said.
To make matters worse, many believed it was his mess. Then, strangers began to notice the pile.
“People have scavenged through most of the good stuff that was here. It kind of piled up towards the door. It’s been out here for two weeks,” Moses said.
Moses said he reached out to Lee County and his property manager, Realty Group of Southwest Florida, multiple times.
The trash remained untouched until Monday afternoon, after we reached out to Realty Group of Southwest Florida, who sent someone over.
A spokesperson said it should be cleaned up before the end of the day Tuesday.
The company also said the family was not evicted. They just reached the end of the lease.
Here’s how Lee County Code Enforcement handles situations like this:
· Code Enforcement holds a property owner accountable for obtaining compliance with local regulations and ordinances.
· A typical first step is for Code Enforcement to issue a violation to a property owner, then the property owner has to resolve the issue.
· If a violation continues to exist, then a lien may be placed against the property and accrue interest.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — The mysterious chains and handcuffs found last Monday on Fort Myers Beach are linked to a film being shot in the area.
Crews with the independent film, ‘Beach Chain’, confirmed they left the props on the beach one night due to weather conditions.
“That one day we were in the middle of a lightning storm that came through and really shut down production,” says A.L. Glover, 3rd assistant director of ‘Beach Chain.’
The crew ended up leaving behind the props because of the rain.
“We made sure they were not on the shoreline and they were not in the bird area,” said Glover.
When they went to pick them up the next morning, the chains and cuffs were already tagged by the Turtle Time team.
“The craziest thing ever, you just left the apparent star of the movie at the beach,” said Bobby Thomas from Fort Myers Beach.
Glover said before they came to Southwest Florida to film, they were well aware of the wildlife situation.
Ranger Rob Howell said the film crew could have really harmed our nesting sea turtles.
“It seems like they were going out of their way to mark off a list of everything you’re not supposed to do in a protected wildlife zone,” said Howell.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a one-night Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Night Market on Capitol Mall in Downtown Sacramento.
The night market is meant to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which takes place during the month of May. The rich AAPI culture within the Sacramento region will be beautifully celebrated along with over 30 AAPI-owned food and drink vendors and local AAPI merchants.
There will also be live screen printing and musical performances by local artists Kiyomi, DJ Soosh, and Basi Vibe. Filipino-American Bay Area rapper P-Lo will be headlining.
"We wanted to find a way to bring the community together to not only celebrate the Heritage Month but also celebrate our AAPI community, the people, the food, the art and the culture," said Matt Sumida, director of marketing and community relations at the Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce.
The market will take place on Capitol Mall, between 3rd and 5th, and L and O Streets, which has a huge significance to the Asian Pacific community in Sacramento.
Capitol Mall used to be known as Sacramento's 'Japantown.'
According to the Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce, between the years 1880 to 1940, Japanese Americans started to expand from a small community to a thriving cultural center filled with businesses and entertainment.
By 1940, Sacramento’s Japantown had hundreds of businesses ranging from markets to traditional flower arrangements to cultural sporting events like sumo wrestling.
However, due to the results of World War II, the Japanese American community was forced to uproot Japantown and relocate to a much smaller area.
Now, Sacramento's Japantown is between 9th and 11th and T and W Streets. Although the area's much smaller, businesses and shops, some that have remained there since relocating, are alive and buzzing with energy, according to the Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce.
Also, based on a 2022 analysis by Smart Asset, the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom metro area ranks among the top 10 places for Asian American entrepreneurs.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult for various small businesses, and the rise of anti-Asian hate has hurt many businesses. This night market is not only a time for the Asian and Japanese American communities to honor and reclaim the area their ancestors once frequented, it's also a time to bring people together to celebrate and provide people and the community with a platform to learn about local businesses and how to support them.
"Personally, as a fourth-generation Japanese American who has grown up in Sacramento, it is empowering," Sumida said. "It's really cool to be able to have an event where we're bringing the community to celebrate the whole Asian Pacific Islander culture. That's really cool to see."
A full list of vendors as well as tickets are available on the AAPI Night Market website at www.aapinightmarket.com.
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Two girls told police they saw a duct-taped boy after two men grabbed them and pulled them into a van in Philadelphia on Monday.
The girls, ages 11 and 12, told investigators they were walking their dog on 32nd and Diamond streets around 8 p.m. when a white van with tinted widows and two masked men inside pulled up next to them.
The girls said the men then grabbed them and pulled them inside the van.
The girls told police they started kicking and punching the driver while calling their families on their cellphones. The men then let the girls out of the vehicle at 30th and Norris streets, according to investigators.
The girls also told police they spotted a boy who was duct-taped inside the van before they escaped.
The girls said the van had a sliding side door and they spotted pillows inside.
The girls did not provide a detailed description of the men, only describing them as two white males who were wearing black ski masks. They also said the boy inside the van was African American and possibly 7 years of age with a red shirt and tape over his mouth.
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"They told us there was a little boy in the back of that van that had duct tape covering his mouth and he was very upset," Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
Philadelphia Police continue to investigate.
This story is developing. Check back for updates.
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BOISE, Idaho —
This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, who is running for governor, called on Gov. Brad Little Monday to call a special session of the Legislature to remove the three exceptions in Idaho’s current “trigger law” banning abortion, saying she wants to “make Idaho a state where life is fully and unconditionally protected.”
Idaho’s current law, enacted in 2020, would take effect 30 days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. It would make abortion a felony in Idaho, with exceptions only to save the life of the mother, or for cases of rape or incest that had been reported to police and documented with a police report submitted to the doctor.
McGeachin, in a press release from her campaign, called the current trigger law “insufficient, containing numerous exceptions and carve-outs.” She said, “No child should ever be murdered because of the circumstances surrounding his or her conception.”
McGeachin’s call drew immediate objections from both sides of the abortion debate on Monday, with abortion rights backers calling it “unthinkable,” and anti-abortion activists saying Idaho’s trigger law already is the strongest in the nation.
“Idaho is already positioned to outlaw almost all abortions in this state,” anti-abortion activist David Ripley, head of Idaho Chooses Life, the group that spearheaded the 2020 trigger law, wrote in an email to Little’s office on Monday. Ripley said there’s “absolutely no need to hold a special session of the Idaho Legislature. In fact, such an event could only pose a threat to the pro-life gains we have already painfully won.”
House Assistant Minority Leader Lauren Necochea, D-Boise, reacted with shock to McGeachin’s position, calling it “deeply disturbing.”
“It is unthinkable to force the continuation of a pregnancy with life-threatening complications,” Necochea told the Idaho Press. “And we should never force childbirth upon a victim of rape or incest, or anyone else.”
“The supposed exceptions in statute for rape and incest are already insufficient,” Necochea said, “and are going to be very hard for most victims to navigate, because most victims of rape and incest do not file a police report. It’s my understanding that it’s also not common for police reports to be released mid-investigation.”
The trigger law, SB 1385, passed in 2020 with no Democratic support in either house; its lead sponsors were Sen. Todd Lakey, R-Nampa, and Rep. Megan Blanksma, R-Hammett. It had 30 GOP co-sponsors; Little signed it into law on March 24, 2020.
Asked whether she opposes all exceptions to banning abortion in Idaho, including to save the life of the mother, McGeachin issued this statement through her campaign: “I believe that life begins at conception, and no child should be killed because of the circumstances surrounding his or her conception. Of course I understand that there are rare medical emergencies in which it may be impossible to save the life of both the mother and the child. In such rare occurrences, a difficult decision may have to be made, but Idaho law must never allow for elective abortion masquerading as medical necessity.”
Rep. Brent Crane, R-Nampa, who has advocated for and sponsored anti-abortion legislation in the state Legislature, said Monday that he’d oppose any special session on the matter. “I think you’re getting the cart before the horse, and you need to make sure that you are on strong legal footing before the Idaho Legislature moves forward with respect to anything dealing with abortion. The court needs to weigh in,” he said.
The recently leaked draft opinion showing a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court is prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade has prompted a political furor, but Crane said Idaho already has “a pretty restrictive trigger law.”
“It is a very emotional and highly sensitive issue,” he said.
Crane raised eyebrows around the state on Friday when both he and Necochea appeared on Idaho Public Television’s “Idaho Reports” and discussed the fallout from the leaked high court decision in Idaho. Asked whether he’d hold hearings on additional legislation in the House State Affairs Committee, which he chairs, Crane said he’d consider holding hearings on proposals to ban emergency contraception, such as Plan B, which is a legal, over-the-counter medication, and that he was undecided on whether or not he’d allow hearings on a proposal to ban IUD’s, a long-approved, long-lasting form of contraception.
Crane said Monday that once he gave more thought to the question, he wouldn’t hold hearings on a proposal to ban IUD’s, though he would on Plan B. “I think it’s a question the committee probably needs to wrestle with,” he said, “where do we draw that line.”
Necochea said, “I was shocked to hear that different kinds of contraception could also become outlawed in Idaho. This shows that overturning Roe v. Wade is just the beginning, and that Republicans are going to be looking at curtailing all different kinds of reproductive rights.”
“There have been relentless attacks on our rights to make the most intimate, personal decisions, and the trajectory of these attacks shows a continual move to the most extreme positions,” she said. “This is consistent with the right wing of the Republican Party, and unfortunately, the Republican Party as a whole is moving in that direction.”
She added, “We know Idahoans are using contraception so they can plan healthy pregnancies. They need to be able to continue to do so.”
Crane noted that the current trigger law includes restrictions including that when an abortion is performed to save the life of the mother, “the doctor has to make every reasonable attempt to save the life of the child.” Ripley called it “the best trigger law in the nation.”
In addition, the law forbids doctors from finding that the mother’s life is in danger from suicide. It doesn’t include any exceptions for cases where the mother’s health, but not her life, is threatened.
Crane said he didn’t know if the Idaho Legislature would consider amending its trigger law to ban all abortions with no exceptions. “I want to wait until the court makes their decision, I want to let Idaho’s trigger law go into effect and see how it would work, and go from there,” he said. “Rushing forward I don’t think is wise.”
At her “Rally the Vote” event at Kleiner Park in Meridian last week, McGeachin told the audience, “I’m not afraid to say that in Idaho we need to unconditionally prohibit abortion, and as your governor, this will be one of my top priorities.”
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Nelnet reported first-quarter earnings that were significantly higher than a year ago.
The Lincoln-based financial services company said it had net income of $186.6 million, or $4.91 per share, for the first three months of the year, compared with net income of $123.6 million, or $3.20 per share, for the same period a year ago.
After making derivative market value adjustments, Nelnet's income dropped to $75.9 million, or $1.99 per share, compared with $94.1 million, or $2.44 per share, for the first quarter of 2021.
The company also announced Monday a three-year extension of a stock repurchase program to repurchase up to 5 million shares of the company's Class A common stock. The 5 million shares authorized under the new program include the remaining unpurchased shares from a prior repurchase program, which expired on May 7.
Nelnet said it repurchased 380,053 shares for $32.9 million in the first quarter, and has since purchased an additional 253,838 shares for $21.2 million.
The book features a spicy shrimp cocktail that was the brainchild of Cosmic Eye Brewing owner Sam Riggins and Course Restaurant Executive Chef Mike Vandenberg.
Saturday was the last day for Franklin's Treasures and Treats in the Meadowlane Shopping Center at 70th and Vine streets, although it plans to reopen Wednesday for a closing sale.
Grocery chain Hy-Vee will ask up to 500 of its employees to move from corporate-level jobs to retail positions at its stores, it said in a public statement.
The union also takes issue with BNSF’s new “HiViz” attendance policy. "The attempt is to keep people from taking a day off, and it’s working,” a union leader said. “It’s also driving people out of the industry.”
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In the past two months, about 100 households in central Lincoln have had their medical debt paid in full through a program started by First-Plymouth Congregational Church.
What began in March as a big idea with $8,000 has since grown into nearly $200,000 in donations.
“This is the perfect definition of grace," pastor Juan Carlos Huertas said in describing the program's work with neighbors of the church at 20th and D streets. "They weren’t asking for it. They weren’t calling us about it. They just got a letter one day that says, ‘Hey, we got you.'"
The church's justNeighbors initiative was launched shortly after Huertas, who is from Puerto Rico and had been preaching at a Methodist church in Louisiana for 16 years, arrived at First-Plymouth last summer.
Senior pastor Jim Keck had been brainstorming ways to enter into the lives of the church's neighbors and help in ways that could create relationships.
"I thought to myself, 'How do you come out of COVID with some new energy and focus?'" Keck said. "And it felt to me that on-the-ground justice work, serving the community, was going to be an essential way to remind people why spiritual communities matter.”
So justNeighbors was launched, beginning at a nearby Laundry Land, where the church paid for anyone's laundry and members helped fold it. The church also recruited congregation and community members to volunteer at Clinic With a Heart, a medical clinic that helps Lincoln residents with no health insurance. They hope to find a way to fill gas tanks for their neighbors as well.
“We are neighbors, and these are our people whether they attend worship here or not," Huertas said. "We are in kinship with one another, and that matters to us. It matters to me."
While organizers were pleased with the initial work they did through justNeighbors, they still hoped to have a bigger impact.
Huertas and Keck knew that churches across the country had been buying up medical debt in their communities, and they wanted to do the same in Lincoln.
So Huertas did some digging, speaking to doctors, accountants and medical debt collection agencies.
One collection agency responded and began providing First-Plymouth with anonymous profiles of community members in central Lincoln who owed medical debt.
First-Plymouth began its relief efforts March 6. Since then, all collection plate offerings have gone toward paying off neighbors' medical debt. Community members have also been sending donations.
The church plans to continue the program through Easter 2023.
Once funds are disbursed, recipients are mailed a letter from the debt collection agency informing them that First-Plymouth has paid their debt.
Because the program has been so successful, First-Plymouth is looking to expand its work to other parts of Lincoln. It's also working on paying medical debt for some western Nebraska residents.
Churches across the state and country have also been reaching out to find out what it takes to get similar programs up and running.
Huertas said they plan to begin the next phase of the medical relief initiative in the fall by creating an educational component. While they'll still be raising funds, the hope is to raise awareness about all the complexities of the health care system.
“I believe this has so much traction because it’s so everyday and human," Keck said. "We’ve all had bills we’ve had to pay on every month, and most of us have had bills we can’t get ahead on."
Evelyn Mejia is a news intern and current sophomore at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She covers breaking news and writes feature stories about her community.
"I've gone full Elon Musk," said Paul Holt, who has owned Lincoln's embattled former Holidome since 2013. "I've literally said, 'OK, everything's just gonna ride or die on this thing.'"
The state said the killing was first-degree murder. That Barnes kicked his way into the house, just as he'd threatened to do in texts later deleted, after she told him their relationship was over and not to come home.
Steven M. Sipple's byline may disappear, but his column catchphrase – one used literally hundreds of times – will live on for at least for today. It’s a fitting way to say farewell and to frame the future.
The company alleged the man stole 6,000 pounds of copper wire and a flatbed trailer, wrongfully used the company's credit card, submitted false timesheets and directed employees to work at his Pleasant Dale home on the clock.
Police in November said the 36-year-old had a contusion on his head and labeled his death "suspicious," but his death has now been ruled accidental in nature.
Preeta Bansal, a Lincoln native who was a law clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens in 1990, was attending his memorial service at the Supreme Court on Monday, the same day that a controversial draft opinion was leaked.
Habitat ReStore hosted its grand reopening Saturday, the culmination of a frenzied two-week move from its previous location on Y Street to new space at the Edgewood Shopping Center near 56th Street and Nebraska 2.
The district contracted with the Lincoln-based design firm Clark & Enersen to draft plans for the pre-K-12 school, which would be built on 52 acres of land along U.S. 136 just north of the existing high school.
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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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DALLAS, Texas — The mother of Landon "Knox" Thomas spoke briefly with WFAA over the phone Monday, detailing the moments leading up to the 2-year-old being attacked by a coyote in the White Rock area last week.
The conversation happened on the same day that Dallas Animal Services revealed it had received 13 calls regarding coyotes, some involving aggressive coyotes, from February to the day little Knox was attacked.
The agency's director, MeLissa Webber, told WFAA there should have been an educational community meeting held over the past weeks.
"I don't think we could have prevented the attack, but I do think we missed an opportunity to educate people," Webber said.
Knox's mother, Genna Thomas, told WFAA that her son is doing well and is recuperating at home, expecting to recover following the attack.
"He's acting like himself, but he certainly doesn't look like himself," Thomas said.
Knox suffered lacerations to his head and neck, received a fracture to his jaw, and had bruises and scratches after being dragged down his front porch steps by the coyote.
Thomas said that she, Knox and her 5-year-old were getting ready to leave the house that morning when the attack happened.
She said she was in the house when the front door to her home beeped due to someone opening it.
"I heard the beeping, and within seconds my 5-year-old is rushing in yelling for help," Thomas said.
Thomas said she came rushing to see what happened and saw the coyote's mouth around little Knox's head.
"The door opened at 8:15 a.m., and I was on the phone with 911 at 8:17 a.m. -- it happened so fast, within minutes," Thomas said.
Dallas Animal Services has killed four coyotes in the area since the attack.
Three have tested negative for rabies, and a test for the fourth has yet to come back.
Alongside council member Adam McGough and the USDA Wildlife Services, Webber detailed every coyote call made from February to the day Knox was attacked Monday night at White Rock Elementary.
At least four calls included aggressive coyote behavior, including a coyote stalking kids as they walked to school.
A few calls included coyote sightings on school grounds, to which DAS worked with school officials to create a hazing plan to keep any coyotes away.
Webber did underscore that it was difficult to reach some of the callers reporting aggressive coyotes -- that information about the callers or callback info wasn't available.
Webber also added that it was inconclusive whether any community members were petting coyotes as they approached, which was widely reported last week by multiple media outlets.
However, she confirmed that there was proof of unintentional and intentional feeding by neighbors.
The city now has a coyote management plan, and DAS is working alongside its federal USDA partners to monitor coyote behavior and activity in the White Rock area.
McGough said at the meeting that the City of Dallas has never had a coyote management plan before, which includes a new hotline for anyone to call if they spot an aggressive coyote: 469-676-9813.
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DALLAS — After back-to-back mass shootings at events held without permits within the City of Dallas this spring, the Dallas Police Department proposed a new plan on Monday that would require the promoters of any event with 100 or more attendees to not just acquire a permit, but to submit a safety plan as well.
On Saturday, March 19, at least 10 people -- all aged between 15 and 21 years old -- were injured after a shooting at a spring break party hosted at the private events venue The Space in southern Dallas.
Two weeks later on Saturday, April 2, 16 people were injured -- including one victim as young as 13 years old -- and another was killed when gunfire rang out at a trail ride and concert hosted at a church-owned property in rural southern Dallas.
In response to those shootings, Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia promised changes to the way his department handles events held without proper city-issued permitting. At a City Hall gathering of Dallas' Public Safety Committee on Tuesday, the public got its first glimpse of those new plans via a proposed ordinance that police said aims to crack down on promoters who don’t get the proper permits for their events.
Shared in a presentation by DPD assistant chief Mike Igo, the new plan, which remains in its preliminary stages, would require any promoter hosting large events of 100 or more people to register their event with the city and present a safety plan for their attendees, among other requirements.
Violators of this draft ordinance would be fined anywhere ranging from $500 to $2,000, per the presentation.
"In addition, the draft that has built into it where the venue, the operator and the owner be held liable," Igo said.
Promoters found in violation of the ordinance would also be required to cover the costs of an emergency response should DPD or Dallas Fire Rescue be called in to assist a call related to their event.
"Hopefully this ordinance will let promoters know that we want events to happen in Dallas and people to have friendly entertainment," Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said after the presentation concluded. "But it can’t be the Wild West -- it just can't."
Some Dallas City Council members, however, raised concerns about the proposal, which DPD said it crafted with the help of various neighborhood organizations, among them the Deep Ellum Foundation.
"I'm all for making our events safe," said Dallas City Council member Jesse Moreno. "But I want to make sure we’re not burdening the promoters."
One concern voiced during Igo's presentation involved churches, nonprofits and businesses that regularly host events with crowds of 100 or more people on their property. In those cases, businesses would be asked to submit a general safety plan and provide the city with a calendar of events -- but they would not be required to submit a new permit request for every event hosted on their watch.
"We need to let promoters know they are going to be on the hook for what happens at their events," Mayor Johnson said. "It’s not that you just have the event and whatever happens happens."
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PORTLAND, Ore. — In November 2020, Oregon voters approved Measure 110, essentially decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs — from heroin to cocaine to opioid pills. Instead of criminal penalties, the law calls for treatment centers to be set up all over the state, so addiction could be treated as a health care issue, not a law enforcement issue.
The problem, law enforcement says, is that has led to a huge increase in the amount of drugs on the streets — and now, an increase in crime.
KGW joined Sgt. Matt Ferguson, the leader of the Special Intelligence Unit of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, for a ride-along to see what that looks like. On this day, Ferguson and his team partnered with Portland Police to run surveillance on a motel in Northeast Portland.
"It's been a constant source of complaints, ranging from assaults to prostitution to drug dealing. Drug dealing is kind of driving the complaints there," Ferguson said.
After the team spotted and stopped a car they recognized from earlier drug activity, Ferguson explained it's obvious who belongs in the area and who doesn't.
"They’re not associated with the hotel at all, and that’s where we see some of the drug dealing happening, where we see prostitution. So those are all kind of telltale things that we’ll look for. A lot of the hotels are trying to do their best to combat this," he said. Ferguson said license plates can tell them a lot — an obvious red flag is if the plates don't match up with the vehicle.
Back at the office, Ferguson showed off drugs and guns seized in two recent cases, including a stash of small blue pills: fentanyl.
"It's everywhere. It's everybody we contact. I have a couple cases that are back to back cases we did this week, and in each case, it's fentanyl possession and stolen handguns. This is almost everything we do right now," Ferguson said.
"Measure 110 has everything to do with it," he added.
Ferguson said because Measure 110 reduced criminal penalties for small drug amounts, the drug business has flourished.
"The fentanyl pills are counterfeit OxyContin pills. By decriminalizing that, it's basically legitimized criminal organizations. Drug possession, use and sale is just rampant, with very little consequences, and it's taken away our tools as police officers to sort of interdict that."
Reported drug offenses in Portland dropped from 880 between February 2020 and January 2021, before Measure 110 went into effect, to 364 the following year. Instead, law enforcement is focused on large-scale busts.
Ferguson was involved in a bust last June in which investigators found 500 fentanyl pills and 44 firearms, two of which were machine guns, and 1,000 grams of methamphetamine.
In March, the DEA took down a ring of 12 people accused of importing fentanyl from Mexico into California and Oregon. They seized 115,000 fentanyl pills, 41 pounds of meth and 57 pounds of heroin. The same month, several agencies led by Homeland Security seized 150,000 fentanyl pills and 20 pounds of suspected bulk fentanyl, the largest single fentanyl seizure in Oregon history.
"Fentanyl is a lot easier to produce, it’s a lot easier to ship, because heroin has a very distinct smell, it's expensive, it's hard to make. You have to get it here. Dogs will alert to it if you have an odor-seeking dog. It's just hard to get," Ferguson explained. "Fentanyl is super easy. It's pill form, you can get thousands of them relatively easily. They sell for as little as $3 a pill, and heroin is as much as a hundred dollars a gram. So if I’m a user, and Portland has this massive base, fentanyl is just the way to go. It's just a better business model for the cartels."
Ferguson said he wants people to know the streets are getting more dangerous.
"We’ve seen more guns than we’ve ever seen in our investigations. Almost everybody is armed, and I think that’s tantamount to what we are finding in our investigations. Criminal organizations are robbing other criminal organizations. That’s kind of our big push right now — trying to stop the gun violence and the drug violence that goes with it, because they’re hand in hand. It's not one or the other. It's not related to the pandemic, it's not related to COVID, it's because we have a criminal environment that’s tolerated and allowed to flourish here.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Officials are warning that California could experience an energy crisis in the coming months.
Agencies that manage California's energy grid are sounding the alarm and warning that climate change continues to wreak havoc on the state's energy system. They say it threatens the grid's reliability and puts millions of residents at risk of rolling blackouts during intense heatwaves this summer.
James Mearns, a lecturer at Sacramento State University, has worked in the energy industry for 45 years.
"The drought effects were fairly well characterized, and we saw a significant shortfall in our generation capabilities as a result of those effects," he said. "With that, we're expecting the hydrogenation component to be way down."
Mearns said greenhouse gas emissions are also contributing to the growing problem and many traditional power plants are being retired quicker than they can be replaced by renewable energy.
"As you retire those more stable resources, you create the potential for dynamic behavior on the grid that won't support a sustained power output needed for those homes," he said. "We've been a little bit behind the curve on the transmission buildout to our renewable resource base."
In 2020, extreme heat led to power outages across the state. In 2021, drought also caused a powerplant in Oroville to shut down, and the Bootleg Fire in Oregon took out interstate transmission lines that caused 4,000 megawatts of energy to be cut off.
Mearns said Californians should always be prepared with a backup plan in place and added that there are steps people can take to reduce the risk of a power outage, such as lowering energy use during peak demand times.
"I would take advantage of the delta breezes in the middle of the night," he said. "Be prepared to take your kids, take your dogs and put them in a pool rather than simply going to the thermostat and trying to cool the inside of a very large house."
Mearn said the hope is that the state can run as long as it can without having to take a planned outage and just deal with the situation on a day-to-day basis.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — "What is the hold up?" That’s likely the question more than 40,000 students and their families are asking as the Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) and the Sacramento City Teachers Association (SCTA) negotiate over when and how the school year will end.
Following an eight-day strike by the SCTA and SEIU spanning late March into early April, SCUSD is on track to fall short of providing the minimum amount of instructional time required by state law.
SCUSD could face some $47 million in penalties from the state if they fail to meet that threshold, SCUSD Superintendent Jorge Aguilar told ABC10.
Both the district and the teachers association agree they want to solve this by adding a week of school to the existing calendar, which would extend classes through June 24.
Despite agreeing on that, disagreements over some of the details are holding up the negotiations, Aguilar said.
“Our families deserve to know whether or not our school calendar is going to be extended or not, and I hope that that will be resolved by the end of this week at the latest,” he said.
Between April 20 and May 4, SCUSD has proposed or counter-proposed three different versions of a memorandum of understanding between itself and the SCTA to extend the school year by a week and two days (including Thurs., June 16 and Fri., June 17). SCTA has responded each time – and now awaits the district’s latest reply.
SCTA president David Fisher told ABC10 he thinks the district is taking too long to respond to the union’s counter-proposals. The SCTA provided the most recent one on Wednesday, and as of Monday the district had not yet responded, although they did publish this update on negotiations Friday.
“We don't think that we're that far apart. We don't know what's taking them that long to come back to the table and just get this done,” Fisher said.
Asked what he’d say to parents who are frustrated that this process is taking so long – as summer plans hang in the mix – Fisher said, “I'm a parent myself and an employee in the district, so we have many of our members - who are teachers - who are parents within the district and have their own plans, so we are equally frustrated.”
Asked about Fisher’s concerns that the district isn’t replying in a timely manner, Aguilar said there are a lot of moving parts. For example, he said the district has consulted with CalSTRS – the state’s retirement system for teachers – four times in the past week or so since reduced instructional time could have an impact on teachers’ service credit.
"This is a pretty unprecedented, very complicated, very detailed issue that needs to be addressed,” he said.
In addition, he said the district is working to ensure there are enough teachers in that added week to teach the students who show up.
“People tell me all the time, ‘Well, we don't know if students are going to show up. Many of our families won't send their students to school for that last week.’ The reality is, we don't know,” Aguilar said. “And we do believe that we owe it to all of our families that may be in a different situation and may send their children to recover some of that quality instructional time.”
He said adequate staffing is key to a safe learning environment, “that we have the greatest level of certainty that we will not be in a situation where we have far too many of our staff members who are taking personal necessity time away from our school system - and then we're finding ourselves in that same staffing crisis that led to some of the challenges that we have faced, including this eight-day strike that we had to endure.”
The SCTA has proposed that the district “survey parents and legal guardians to determine projected student attendance by grade level and school” and staff the final week accordingly, letting teachers take time off as long as they let their administrator know by May 20. That is their latest counter to the district’s proposal that “no more that 20% of the certificated staff at any school site may be granted approved leaves of absence” on the additional instruction days: June 16-17 and June 20-24.
The two parties also disagree on who should bear responsibility if there’s an issue with teacher pay and/or pension amid all of this.
Nancy Knowdell has two kids in the Sacramento City Unified School District.
“We’re in-fighting. Parents just want all of this to be done,” Knowdell said. “They want function, not dysfunction.”
She said the extra week feels like a punishment for students and teachers, many of whom have already made summer plans.
“As a parent, my children are very likely not going to show up (for the added week). We have signed up for camps, we have signed up for other things, and to be honest, they're exhausted from the last few weeks,” she said, explaining that despite the eight days without school during the strike, students have still had to prepare for state testing happening this week. “I think the best possible scenario is that the district just try to recognize that people had made plans based on the calendar they published at the beginning of the year.”
She said she thinks the district should have foreseen this issue and dealt with it last month while resolving the strike with the teachers union.
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Cascade County attorney: County has no authority for adult-use marijuana sales on ballot without petition
Cascade County Commission cannot place the issue of adult-use marijuana sales directly on the ballot without a citizen generated petition, according to a formal opinion from the County Attorney’s office penned Friday and released Monday.
“The Board of Cascade County Commissioners does not have authority to circumvent the public's Petition process and place on the general (or primary) election ballot an initiative to prohibit the previously approved or allowed recreational marijuana operations within the jurisdiction of Cascade County,” read the legal opinion.
This follows a push by local residents who attended a county commission meeting on April 26 to get the county to follow the city of Great Falls in voting to put adult-use marijuana sales within city limits on the ballot in November.
Ballot Initiative 190, legalizing recreational marijuana for those 21 and older, passed statewide in Montana and by a majority with 54% in support and 46% against in Cascade County. The legislature then passed HB 701 which outlined the specific regulations surrounding adult use of marijuana. The legislation went into effect Jan. 1.
The county established their zoning laws for dispensaries in December before HB 701 went into effect, restricting sales to in the county’s heavy industrial I-2 district just north of the city and requiring businesses not be within 500 feet of a school or place of worship.
The legal opinion released Monday stated that when the County Attorney’s office was tasked with the question of whether the commissioners “have the authority to place on the general (or primary) election ballot an initiative to prohibit the previously approved or allowed recreational marijuana operations within the jurisdiction of Cascade County?”
“The short answer: No.”
The opinion found that the city has “self-governing powers” as outlined in the Montana Code Annotated to and may “exercise any power not prohibited by this constitution, law, or charter.” Whereas, the county is a “general powers” county that “can only act within such authority as has been granted to them by law.”
The opinion outlines a disagreement from Yellowstone County’s interpretation of the petition requirement. Yellowstone County, like Cascade County, voted with a majority to approve I-190 and commissioners voted to put sales of adult-use marijuana within the county back before the voters without a petition and will appear on the June 7 ballot.
In their opinion, the Cascade County Attorney's office said they disagreed with the legal opinion that the petition process was not required, citing the Montana Code Annotated section on local government’s authority to regulate.
“MCA $ 16-12-301(7Xa) contains no express or implied authority for the Board of County Commissioners to unilaterally act to disregard the statutory citizen Petition process in its entirety. For the Board of County Commissioners to do so, it would be usurping the right of the electors to "enact, repeal, or amend an ordinance" through the Petition process, a process which has been specifically reserved to the electors under the law,” the opinion reads.
The opinion said that the county attorney’s office spoke with the Granite County Attorney, who agreed with the county’s legal opinion.
Granite County voted with a majority for I-190, however, electors went through the petition process and placed the issue on the June 7 ballot.
The opinion said that the electors of Cascade County have the right to go through the petition process outlined in the MCA to “prohibit the previously approved marijuana operations within the county.”
The county would have 60 days to respond to the action called for in the petition. Before a petition can be circulated for signatures, a sample must be submitted to the county election administrator for approval, and the petition would need to be signed by at least 15% of the local government's qualified electors to require an election. Full requirements are outlined in the MCA.
County Commissioner Joe Briggs said that the opinion matched his interpretation of the law and that he’s glad the county now has a formal opinion on the matter.
One of the commenters during the April 26 meeting, local counselor Julie Bass, was notified of the opinion on Monday.
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EMMETT, Idaho — Cherries close to harvest - just like Lance Phillips' crop at Gem Orchards in Emmett - are vulnerable to cold temperatures. Amid a freeze warning through Monday night, Phillips is working around the clock to save his fruit.
"You lose a little sleep. But as farmers, that's what you do," Phillips said. "If we dropped five or six degrees below our critical temperature, we could lose everything. Which would be a years’ worth of income."
At 28 degrees, Phillips expects to lose 10% of his cherries every hour. If the temperature drops to 24 degrees, Phillips expects to 90% of his crops. Phillips, and other orchards, base these estimations on numbers from Washington State University and Michigan State University.
"[It's] devastating for us as farmers and ranchers that are depending on this crop that is set and ready after we've already done 4 months of work getting everything prepped and ready and irrigation on and trees pruned," Phillips said.
To combat the cold temperatures, Phillips uses a combination of smudge pots and wind fans. The pots burn diesel fuel and send out a 15-foot radius of warm air. The wind fans push this warm air through the cherry orchard to stop temperatures from dropping to critical levels.
The pots and fans can only boost the temperatures by 2 or 3 degrees, Phillips said. He's hoping that's all that's needed.
"We're never 100 percent sure," Phillips said. "Always watching, preparing it and making sure everything is fueled up and ready to go. We make sure we get that ready well in advance."
Gem Orchards is one of the main suppliers for the annual Emmett Cherry Festival, according to the Gem County Chamber of Commerce. If the fruit is lost from the freezing temperatures, prices could potentially increase to make up for the lost product, according to Phillips.
One acre of cherries at Gem Orchards is worth between $10,000 and $15,000. Protecting the crop is not only necessary for his livelihood, but for the 8 seasonal employees on his staff, according to Phillips.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — For many people summer means plenty of trips to the pool. But as temperatures start rising, so should your awareness about the dangers around water.
That was unfortunately the case for one Arkansas father, who got a dreadful call one day that his son had been pulled from a pool and rushed to the hospital.
The call was a horrifying scenario that no parent ever wants to find their children in, but now the father is turning his mourning into a message for others.
"I left that early morning for work," Brandon Love said, recounting the day.
Love said the adults in the house were sleeping, with the older kids going outside and their younger children following shortly after.
Love's son and nephew managed to climb into a neighbor's backyard pool using a ladder that had been left inside--which is when the unthinkable happened with neither of the two children surviving.
"It's not something I'd wish on my worst enemy," Love said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), drowning is a leading cause of death for children. In fact, more children between the ages of 1 and 4 die from drowning than anything else except for birth defects.
The CDC said drowning can happen quickly and quietly, especially with unsupervised children.
"That's the kicker to this. It could have been prevented," Love said.
Safety around swimming is a conversation that Karen Lamoreaux, founder of Safety Before Skill Swim School, encourages guardians to have with children, but understands that there may be a stigma associated with it.
"I think one of the reasons why it doesn't come up in conversations as much as it should is because there's a shame attached to it," Lamoreaux said. "We tend to make judgement when we hear these stories that somehow these were bad or neglectful parents and that's simply not true. Drowning happens to the best of parents."
Lamoreaux is a huge advocate for swim safety and said the most effective thing parents can do to keep their children safe around water is enroll them in early intervention swim lessons.
"We start at [age] 4 months old at Safety Before Skill. We want them to know what to do before they're crawling, before they can get to the water without mom or dad," she said.
Lamoreaux and many other swim safety experts are also warning parents about the dangers of using certain flotation devices.
"The floaties, the inflatable ones that go over the arms are the absolute worst thing," she said. "We want to avoid those devices because they put our children in a vertical position in the water so they move like [this] through the pool and that's also known as the drowning position."
Devices like arm floaties fool kids into feeling as though they can swim independently when they're not wearing them, even when they're not skilled enough to do so.
"The bottom line is that our children should spend more time without a floatation device than with it. We've gotten kind of lazy over the years as parents," Lamoreaux said. "We want to put a flotation device on them so we can have our hands free and enjoy our time at the pool. But what that does is it creates this really false sense of security, and the littlest ones don't understand that it's the flotation device that's doing the work."
That's an attention to detail that Love is building upon. He's now turning the loss of his son and nephew into life lessons and a sense of security for both him and other parents.
Love's daughter is taking swim classes and he's making it his mission to educate other parents on the importance of water safety. He hopes that message can help potentially saving someone else's life.
"It only takes two seconds for kids to slip away so why not just go ahead and enroll them in lessons and get them the skills they need," Love said.
If you're interested in swimming education for your little one, you can find more information on Safety Before Skill’s resources here.
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John R. Whiteman, 43, of Coos Bay, passed away on May 3, 2022 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, www.coosbayareafunerals.com, 541-756-0440.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Imagine a brunch with your friends where you can order marijuana on the side.
While cannabis lounges are relatively new, the first one in the country, Lowell Farms Cafe, opened in West Hollywood in 2019.
Now, the city of Sacramento is considering allowing dispensaries to branch into the market. It's one idea out of a sweeping set of proposals to overhaul the city's cannabis business landscape. It's set for a committee discussion on Tuesday.
"Just like on a Friday night, you want to go have a cocktail with your significant other, your friends - the same thing should be allowed for cannabis," said Maisha Bahati, the owner of Crystal Nugs, Sacramento's only black-owned cannabis delivery service.
She's all in for the idea.
"It's illegal to smoke really anywhere except your house," Bahati said. "There are a lot of people who can't smoke at home, so having a place where you can safely consume? That's something that's attractive to a lot of people."
In downtown Sacramento, there was no shortage of people who supported the idea.
"It's about time, right? Certain European countries do it, so why not?" said Matongo Haamanaklui.
"Everybody knows it's legal. Everybody know that it's used for medicinal purposes, so everybody should be comfortable with that," Tony Mosbe added.
For Clarence Laston, it begged the question "why have something legal with no place to comfortably smoke it?"
"If you can smoke in lounges and have a cigar, you should be able to have a THC lounge," he said.
New state laws allow local jurisdictions to permit cannabis retailers to also prepare and sell non-pot food and beverages. The city's office of cannabis management is recommending city leaders jump on the opportunity to attract tourism and support economic growth.
In a prepared document, the department wrote:
"The integration of consumption lounges into the City has the potential to significantly increase opportunities for entry into the industry as license holders could partner with existing restaurants and create shared facilities with minimal up-front capital."
Bahati said it's a chance for the city to back up its commitment to social equity. She was one of 10 Cannabis Opportunity Reinvestment and Equity (CORE) recipients awarded a dispensary permit in addition to the city's existing 30 storefronts. The CORE Program is a program created to assist individuals and communities who are facing barriers to starting cannabis businesses due to the historical disparate enforcement of cannabis crimes.
"With 30 existing dispensaries, it's already going to be hard to compete, so being able to attach something that is going to be new to consumers is really going to give us (CORE recipients) an opportunity to solidify ourselves and kind of build something," Bahati said.
She said she's heard opposing arguments, such as the lack of a breathalyzer equivalent to determine how impaired a person may be from weed, but Bahati believes existing and new measures can ensure safe, secure and responsible use.
A cannabis consumption lounge license in the state comes with several age and operation restrictions including prohibiting the sale of alcohol and tobacco.
If approved, Sacramento's cannabis management office recommends the city require lounges develop training for its staff on best medical practices, monitor consumption via cameras and staff check-ins, set time limits for customers and offer ride-sharing or public transit passes.
The 4-person Law and Legislation committee meets Tuesday, May 10 at 11a.m. The city council could vote on the matter on May 24.
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A Brooklyn teenager was sentenced Monday for the deadly shooting of an honors student playing basketball after school in 2018.
Aaron Nathaniel was sentenced to 10 years to life in prison for the fatal shooting of Oluwadurotimi "Timi" Oyebola nearly four years ago. Nathaniel, who was just 14 when he was arrested, pleaded guilty to second degree murder on April 6.
"This heartbreaking case highlights the devastation gun violence wreaks in our communities. An innocent, beloved teenager was senselessly killed when this defendant callously sprayed a Brownsville basketball court with bullets," Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said. "A promising life has been cut short, a family remains in mourning, and after living through a troubled childhood, this young defendant’s future is now in ruins."
Oyebola, who was just 16 at the time, was on a basketball court at the Chester Playground on Chester Street on Sept. 21, 2018, when gunfire range out just before 4 p.m. Oyebola was shot in the head and rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Nathaniel was arrest 12 days after the shooting. The violent incident was captured on video surveillance, which showed him holding a gun. Nathaniel admitted to the shooting, and said Oyebola was not the intended target, according to DA Gonzalez.
Oyebola, who was from Queens, was an honors student at Ascend Charter School in Brownsville, and was called a bright, "good" kid who loved basketball and stayed out of trouble. The 11th-grader already had scholarships offered to him.
His father, David Olawane Oyebola, previously told NBC New York that Oyebola was "highly intelligent, God-fearing… very focused. He loved basketball... They cut his life short. They cut his life short."
Oyebola's father said he’d asked his son to stop playing basketball: "'What are you getting from it?'" he recalled asking his son.
But the honor-roll student said he didn’t want to give up the sport.
"'No, no, I love basketball, dad, I will not disappoint you. I am good in my academics,'" his father recalled Oyebola saying.
After Nathaniel was arrested for the murder, Oyebola's parents said they didn't hate the boy who killed their son.
"When I see him, I'm going to say give your life to Christ," said Oyebola. "I've already forgiven him in my heart."
The father said he and his wife want to focus their energy on preventing future gun violence among youth.
"I don't want to see another 14-year-old doing what he did," he said. "And I don't want another 14-year-old be incarcerated because I know they have been manipulated."
Early on during the criminal court proceedings, Oyebola's parents said they wanted to know how someone so young could kill another person.
"Can you imagine?" said Oyebola's father, David Olawane Oyebola. "Fourteen years of age. Fourteen years of age. Who raised him? What is the background?"
"I need to know the parents of this boy," said mother Adetutu Oyebola. "I need to know the parents."
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A New Jersey county has agreed to pay $10 million to a man who was left paralyzed after an encounter with police eight years ago.
Xavier Ingram had sued Camden County, its police department and individual officers after the episode. A recent trial ended in March without a resolution when jurors couldn't reach unanimous agreement on all counts.
Ingram, who is Black, is a quadriplegic and currently lives in a nursing home, and he testified in court from a hospital bed, said his attorney Beth Baldinger.
A settlement was reached last week before a new trial was to start. The settlement must still be approved by a federal judge.
“Mr. Ingram requires better medical care and quality of life that he no longer wishes to delay, and it’s in his best interests to bring this litigation to a close,” Baldinger, said Monday. “The bottom line is Mr. Ingram had his day in court, he looked the jury in the eye and told his truth, and that cannot be overstated.”
Ingram was 20 in June 2014 when police on foot patrol approached him outside a store in Camden.
According to Ingram's lawsuit, while running from the officers he fell on the ground, and the officers handcuffed him and held him down, with one officer stepping on his neck and pushing down forcefully. Ingram claimed officers refused to give him appropriate medical assistance after he screamed that he couldn’t feel his arms or legs.
According to Baldinger, Ingram ran from the officers because he had an outstanding motor vehicle summons and didn't want to be arrested.
Police contend Ingram's injuries were caused when he slipped and fell on the ground and that he ran because he was in possession of drugs and a stolen gun. Ingram has denied having a gun.
In an email regarding the settlement Monday, Camden County spokesperson Dan Keashen wrote, "Based on the settlement, the county maintains, and continues to maintain, that no wrongdoing took place and is not liable for any of the actions and circumstances of the aforementioned incident.”
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The sooner, the better. That's what pharmacists say when it comes to taking the treatments aimed at lessening the effects of COVID-19.
Nowadays, the antiviral pills and IV infusions of monoclonal antibodies are available to more people.
"We have a lot more options now," said Dr. Young Yoon Ham, an infectious disease pharmacist at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). "We have basically options that we didn’t have at all in the beginning parts of COVID for mild therapeutics."
Dr. Ham explained there are four different treatment options, from pills to infusions. The most common is called Paxlovid.
"It’s an oral medication and you take it for five days," she said. "It can reduce the amount of people going into the hospital for COVID by about 90%."
Make sure to call your primary care provider to ask if you qualify. If not, you may be able to take an on-site infusion.
Dr. Ham said researchers are learning that medications like Remdesivir help quite a bit when a patient takes them early on.
"When we started using it in hospitals when people were pretty sick, it didn’t actually seem all that effective. But, we do have a study out for Remdesivir and we start giving it to them at the point of mild disease — it’s actually very effective, it’s like just as effective as Paxlovid."
There's also another pill from Merck, called molnupiravir. Dr. Ham said it's effective, though studies have shown its efficacy is lower than the other treatment options.
Dr. Ham said most people might qualify for at least one of the treatments.
"If you have COVID and you are sick, just ask. I don’t want people to be scared away by stories that they’ve heard about how limited these treatments are — because other places have limited them more than we have.
"Just reach out to health care providers see if you qualify and let them make that decision, but you shouldn't not reach out because you don’t think that you’re qualified."
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Midland ISD Board President Bryan Murry said there were lessons to be learned from bond defeats in Odessa and Greenwood.
He also said a bond is specific to the community and Midland ISD’s examination of facility and education needs will continue despite recent electoral outcomes nearby.
He told the Reporter-Telegram that political outcomes elsewhere aren’t nearly as important in a discussion with the community as what is happening with educational outcomes. District leaders are optimistic that headway will be made on reducing the number of failing and D-rated campuses. Murry said this week for the district to ask for even one dime that academic improvement and maintenance upgrades are required.
On Saturday, the Ector County Elections Office reported that Ector County ISD Proposition A (which would have provided funding for various school maintenance projects, as well as funding for the construction of a new career and technical school campus) failed 61.45 percent to 38.55.
Proposition B (which would have provided for the construction of a new high school in northeast Odessa) failed by nearly 30 percentage points (64.75 percent to 35.25).
A long-range facilities planning document presented to the Midland ISD board earlier this year showed the highest-ranked capital improvement projects included:
- General campus improvements – mechanical, electrical, plumbing (include a minimum of $50 million as identified by the facilities assessment and operations team),
- Two new high schools (both ninth to 12th grades),
- New elementary school in northeast Midland, Lone Star Trail (kindergarten-fifth),
- Repurpose Midland Freshman campus to a middle school (include a minimum of $6 million for general campus improvements identified by facilities assessment and operations team),
- Repurpose Legacy High School campus to middle school (include a minimum of $20 million for general campus improvements identified by the facilities assessment and operations team).
A bond in Midland isn’t expected until May 2023 at the earliest, and Murry said it will be important that MISD officials make their case based on realistic ask (money wise) and community buy-in for the need for those facility improvements.
“One of the things I learned from the bond in 2019 is that the community was not a big enough part of the process,” Murry said. He pointed to bond efforts in communities like Arlington where those holding forums and compiling information were third parties. “The community will support us if we give them a reason to support us.”
The board president and representative of northwest Midland said Midlanders will learn more about the district’s offerings for Career and Technical Education in June and test scores around the district in late summer.
He said a bond committee will be put into place and that committee will then decide “how much to bite off at one time” or whether to “break it up into pieces.”
Ector County voters turned down more than $400 million in asks from the district this past weekend. Nearly 60 percent of voters shot down Greenwood’s $140 million bond in November 2021. Midland ISD’s bond in 2019 included $569 million in projects.
When Murry was asked about the right time to put a bond in front of a community, he offered, “I’m an accountant; there is never a great time to raise taxes.” He then noted it is hard to know when it is a good time but that interest rates are only going to increase and that building costs are certain to rise “exponentially.”
He did say the ultimate outcome of facility improvements – whether at one time or over a period of a time – is that freshmen need to be on the senior high campus and sixth-graders need to join seventh- and eighth-graders at middle schools.
“That’s an important part of the process,” Murry said about the realignment, noting that positives to the moves include educational continuity, students’ being able to take advantage of electives, the district being able to better use resources and cut the number of student transitions to a new campus.
A main point of Murry’s look-back at past elections was that the process matters, specifically the district’s actions. Those actions include performance in the classroom, the improved outcomes in taking care of maintenance issues with the current budget (like with roof repair and HVAC projects), the inclusion of those wanting to provide feedback about what’s needed and the value officials must show when a plan is put before the community.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Stanford University said it found a noose hanging from a tree outside of a residence hall and is investigating the incident as a hate crime.
In an email to students and staff, university officials said campus safety authorities immediately "removed the noose and retained it as evidence," after receiving a report Sunday evening that a noose was seen outside an undergraduate dormitory.
"We cannot state strongly enough that a noose is a reprehensible symbol of anti-Black racism and violence that will not be tolerated on our campus," said the email from Vice Provosts Susie Brubaker-Cole and Patrick Dunkley. "It is the moral responsibility of those with any knowledge of this incident to come forward" so appropriate action can be taken.
A Stanford spokesman did not answer questions seeking more details on the incident, including whether campus video surveillance cameras captured the noose being placed in the tree.
It's the third such incident in the last three years, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. In 2019, a noose was found hanging on a tree near a residence for summer students. In 2021, two loose ropes that resembled nooses were found hanging in a tree near a walking trail.
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A Brooklyn man was indicted on charges that he allegedly forged more than 100 credit and gift cards to rack-up high-end purchases.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that Berlioz Florestal was arraigned in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Monday, where he was charged with 223 counts of possession of a forged instrument and other forgery-related charges. He also was arraigned on a separate indictment for forgery-related offenses after he allegedly drove with a fake North Carolina license.
In what Gonzalez called a "sophisticated and high-tech operation," the 20-year-old Forestal was caught with 110 forged credit and gift cards scattered or hidden throughout his apartment during a search by law enforcement in Nov. 2021, according to officials. Also allegedly found inside the Midwood apartment were multiple credit cars skimming devices and readers, a credit card embossing machine, three packs of magnetic strips, validation stickers, a forged driver's license and about $3,300 in cash.
Among the fake cards were 40 Visa gift cards, 17 Vanilla gift cards, 32 Mastercard gift cards and 21 others from a variety of financial instructions, Gonzalez said. The investigation revealed that Florestal used the counterfeit items in part to buy high-end items and clothing from retailers like Gucci and Prada.
Beyond the fake cards, Florestal was stopped by police in Coney Island on April 24 for having windows that there tinted too darkly, according to Gonzalez. He was found to be driving with a suspended license, and placed under arrest.
When searched at the station house, police found a forged North Carolina driver's license in his pants pocket. A credit card embossing machine wrapped in a black garbage bag was later found in Florestal's trunk, as was a hologram sticker of the Delaware state seal.
Florestal was released without bail and is next scheduled to appear in court on July 28.
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The number of city bus riders is continuing to go up from the record lows during the pandemic, a good sign for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. What's not good news: The number of fare-beaters is also increasing.
An MTA survey showed that nearly 30 percent of riders avoid paying the fare, as many hop onto buses through the rear door.
"There's not one bus that everyone pays. There's always someone who either goes through the back door or passes by the bus driver without paying," said Bronx resident Kimberly Diaz.
The MTA issued a memo reminding drivers on regular bus routes to not to hit the toggle switch that puts the doors in Select Bus Service mode, or SBS. Doing so automatically opens all doors at each stop.
Instead, the transit agency wants them to only the front door. Passengers looking to get off through the back door can open it themselves.
“The policy is intended to continue to offer customers easy exits while deterring fare evasion by reducing the time that rear doors are open while no one is exiting on local bus routes," MTA Spokesperson Aaron Donovan said.
"If they see a whole bunch of people, to not open the back door because people who don’t pay can camouflage themselves and enter through the back door," Diaz said. "It’s not a bad idea but people are going to try to do it anyways."
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The transit workers union says the directive won’t help.
"Bus operators unlock the rear door at bus stops, so that exiting passengers can push the tape, open the door and get off. This memo does not change that practice. When passengers exit, fare-beaters take advantage of the open rear door and board through it," a official at the TWU Local 100 said.
Transit advocates believe activating an OMNY fare box by the rear doors could make a difference.
"The MTA needs to be doing more to get riders on through every door, and if the MTA can’t step up and keep its promise for all-door boarding, then Gov. Hochul needs to step in and make sure we’re doing everything possible to speed buses & boost ridership," said Danny Pearlstein, of the Riders Alliance.
Many buses already have an OMNY payment system by the back door, but are not functioning yet. When aske about a timeline to get them functioning, the MTA said they still don’t have one.
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NAPLES, Fla. — A Naples man died after being hit by a Collier County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) patrol vehicle early Sunday morning.
According to Florida Highway Patrol, the deputy was traveling northbound on Santa Barbara Boulevard with their emergency lights on when they collided with the victim identified as 19-year-old Jacob Moreno.
The FHP report stated Moreno walked right in front of the CCSO deputy’s path prior to the crash.
We spoke to the father of the victim who was hit and killed by a Collier County Sheriff’s Office Deputy on Mother’s Day.
Carlos Moreno said his son Jacob had just finished his freshman year at Florida State University and was back home for the summer.
“Just a week ago we were talking about projects and today I am looking at funeral homes. It’s just so sad, he was a really good kid,” Moreno said.
Moreno said his son was a great student, a great athlete and a talented musician. On the way home from FSU, Jacob was sharing his latest music with his dad.
“He was a kid that was always joking around, he was a happy guy, he was always laughing,” Moreno said.
Now Moreno is working on setting up his funeral as Florida Highway Patrol continues their investigation.
Moreno says he wants more details as to what exactly happened.
We will provide updates as more information is released.
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The basketball world and the Dayton community were shocked to learn of the Monday shooting death of Adreian Payne, a former local high school basketball standout who played at Michigan State University and in the NBA.
Payne, 31, died early Monday morning at a hospital following the shooting at an Orlando, Fla., townhouse, the Orange County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office told the Dayton Daily News.
“He meant so much — not as a player, but as a person — to all of us,” Art Winston, his former Jefferson High School head coach, said. Art’s wife Brenda received Mother’s Day greetings from Payne every year, even as recently as Sunday. That’s how close Payne was to his former Jefferson High School family.
The alleged shooter, identified as Lawrence Dority, 29, stayed at the scene of the shooting and was taken into custody for interviews by homicide detectives. He has been arrested on a warrant for first degree murder and is being held in the Orange County Jail.
No other information was available from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office late Monday afternoon.
Hate the news i received this morning…. Rest Easy to my brother/Teammate @Adreian_Payne
— Jared Sullinger Sr. (@Jared_Sully0) May 9, 2022
Confirmed the former MSU star big man has died. He was 31. https://t.co/a9SkZvicHH
— Chris Solari (@chrissolari) May 9, 2022
Payne, a 6-foot-10 center, was born in Dayton in 1991. He graduated from Jefferson High School in 2010. He helped lead the team to a Division IV state championship as a senior.
“He was our best player,” Winston said. “He was great leader on and off the floor. He did everything that was asked of him in the classroom. You never had to worry about him getting in trouble. I won’t say he was perfect, but he was close.”
Dr. Richard Gates, superintendent of Jefferson Township Local School District, was the principal at Jefferson when Payne was in school.
“We were very saddened to hear the tragic news Adreian’s passing,” Gates said in a statement. “He was an outstanding young man with so much potential. He will forever be one of the Jefferson Township Educational Community’s shining stars.”
Payne played for Michigan State from 2010-14. He was a three-year starter who scored 1,232 points in his career. The Spartans reached the Sweet 16 in his junior and sophomore seasons and the Elite Eight in his final season.
The Dayton Daily News reported previously Payne lost his mother to a severe asthma attack when he was just 13. Payne was diagnosed with the same reduced lung capacity during his freshman year at Michigan State.
Credit: Ron Alvey
Credit: Ron Alvey
He earned bigger headlines for befriending a young cancer patient, Lacey Holsworth, 8, during his college career. They grew so close she walked out with him onto the court during Senior Night in 2014 and helped him cut down the net when Michigan State won the Big Ten tournament that same season. She died in April 2014.
The Atlanta Hawks drafted Payne with the No. 15 pick in the first round of the NBA Draft in 2014. He played four seasons in the NBA (2014-18) and appeared in 107 games with the Hawks, Minnesota Timberwolves and Orlando Magic.
In 2018, he was waived by the Orlando Magic after he was named in a report by ESPN’s Outside The Lines that stated he had been involved in an alleged sexual assault at Michigan State in 2010, according to ESPN.com.
No charges were filed in that case, but Payne never played in the NBA again, according to ESPN.com.
Payne’s basketball career continued overseas through 2021. He played in Greece, China, Turkey and Lithuania.
In September 2021, Payne said on social media that he was taking a break from basketball because his 4-year-old son Amari had to undergo a brain procedure. He said basketball was not as important as his family.
“I will be back doing what I love soon,” Payne wrote on Twitter. “Basketball has my heart. Amari is my heartbeat.”
Jared Sullinger, who played in the Big Ten at Ohio State at the same time Payne was at Michigan State, was one of the first to comment on Payne’s death on Twitter.
“Hate the news i received this morning,” Sullinger wrote. “Rest Easy to my brother/teammate.”
Rhode Island coach Archie Miller, who was an assistant coach at Ohio State and Arizona, during Payne’s high school career, wrote on Twitter: “Sad to hear the passing of Adreian Payne this morning. Started watching him while he was in 10th grade, remember his grandmother on his visit. Loved seeing him develop at Michigan St. and become an NBA player. (Prayers) for his loved ones, Spartans, and Dayton, OH. #RipAP”
Wright State assistant coach Travis Trice, whose son Travis played with Payne at Michigan State, wrote, “Life is short. Treasure your loved ones while you can! Rest easy, Adreian Payne.”
Nick Ward, who played for the Spartans from 20016-19, called Payne a “Michigan State legend” and wrote he was “one of the reasons I wanted to play in Green and White.”
Winston saw Payne’s potential in junior high. He played wide receiver and quarterback in football and ran track as well as play basketball.
Credit: Jonathan Bachman
Credit: Jonathan Bachman
Payne was 6-foot-8 as a sophomore and grew to 6-10 as a senior. By that time, he ranked among the nation’s top recruits. In the summer of 2008, before his junior season, Rivals.com ranked him 14th in the class of 2010. Payne remained dedicated to improving his game and averaged 15 points as a junior and 15.9 as a senior.
“You have to improve every year,” Payne told the Dayton Daily News then, “because if you don’t they’ll think, ‘What is he doing there? Is he doing his work? Is he slacking off?’ A lot of people get the big head and don’t focus on their game because they think they’re already there. I’m not there yet.”
Former college teammate Brandon Wood said he had kept in touch with Payne, speaking with him as recently as last month about his plans to start a non-fungible token.
“He was looking to start an NFT tied to the Spartans,” Wood said in a telephone interview. “I’ll never forget the good times I had with him and Draymond (Green) when we were roommates. If you ever spent time around AP, you understood that he had a really big heart and he cared about people.”
Michigan State great Magic Johnson remembered Payne with a post on social media. “Our prayers and thoughts are with his family and Spartan Nation! Adreian will be sorely missed,” Johnson wrote on Twitter.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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"A big, big opportunity": Brockton taekwondo talent Nicalas Fernandes eyes 2024 Olympics
The 2024 Olympics in Paris once felt like they were a long ways away.
But now fast-approaching, they don't even feel real for Nicalas Fernandes.
Once a taekwondo prodigy, the Brockton native was chosen by the International Olympic Committee to receive one of 10 scholarships offered to Cape Verdean athletes hoping to punch their tickets to Paris in two years.
“It hasn’t really hit yet, but it’s starting to sink in now," said Fernandes, a sophomore at Merrimack College. "It’s mind-blowing trying to understand how big it is, myself.”
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In receiving the scholarship, Fernandes was honored by the Cape Verdean Association of Brockton last month. He was presented the scholarship with local city leaders in attendance, such as Mayor Robert Sullivan, City Councilor Moises Rodrigues and state Rep. Michelle DuBoise.
“It was a very proud moment, a very happy moment," Fernandes said. "They basically noticed all the hard work I’ve been putting in lately.”
And by "lately", Fernandes is referencing his entire life.
He started training martial arts at age 6, first starting out with karate. Four years in, he transitioned to taekwondo at the age of 10. It was at that point he began competing in tournaments, both locally and around the world. He nearly qualified for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo during a run in Morocco a few years ago.
“I feel like I’ve been getting better and better, training in different places," said Fernandes. "Every competition – win or lose – I feel like I’ve gotten better. Any loss I’ve taken, it’s a learning experience.”
While the scholarship doesn't guarantee a spot in the Paris Olympics, it will help relieve some of the financial burden that comes with entering Fernandes' name in tournaments to potentially qualify, thus widening his chances.
“I’m just happy that everyone’s proud of me,” said Fernandes. “It’s just a big, big opportunity for me right now.”
Fernandes' athletic background doesn't just end at mixed martial arts, however. A former football player, basketball player and track runner in high school, he started his collegiate career at Dean College where he won a Eastern Collegiate Football Conference title (and received a championship ring) on the football team as a freshman wide receiver in 2019.
But now, all of his focus is turned onto his achieving his biggest of dreams.
“I’m just preparing for 2024," Fernandes said. "Hopefully I get there.”
What goes around, comes around
Through his training, the opportunities coming Fernandes' way have been well-earned.
But it's no coincidence that doors are opening for someone who gives back as much, if not more, than he puts in.
Fernandes and his mother, Nancy, formed the Nicolas Fernandes Foundation, a nonprofit organization which once helped rebuild a Mozambique orphanage that houses over 200 children after it was destroyed by a cyclone. It also sends school and medical supplies to Cape Verde, as well as fund fees and registration for local Brockton kids to play youth sports. He recently helped support the registration of kids interested in playing for the Brockton Raiders youth football team.
“I’m proud to be from there," he said. "City of Champions.”
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FULTON • During his full but shortened 31 years of life, Leonard Kirk “K.C.” Cooper Jr. touched many people around Northeast Mississippi.
Friends and family described Cooper as a talented, caring person who liked to have fun and help friends. While he might have been salty, friends also say he was the salt of the earth.
His life was cut short in mid-April following a fatal altercation outside of a west Tupelo restaurant. One man, Timothy Turner, has been charged in connection with Cooper’s death.
Instead of seeing him as the victim of a brutal crime, friends and family choose to remember “K.C.” Cooper as a man who loved life, his art, his friends and never met a stranger.
‘He was the kind you could depend on’
Russ Houston and Cooper grew up together, starting in the same daycare. They played baseball together, from little league through high school.
“He was the kind of friend I could call at 2 a.m. from Texas and say I had a flat and needed help,” Houston said. “He would say it might take me 9 hours, but I’m on my way. He was the kind you could depend on.”
After graduating from Itawamba Agricultural High School in 2009, Cooper traveled to Wyoming to attend Wyotech Trade School to learn auto collision repair and refinishing.
“He looked at vehicles as art. He was truly an artist,” Houston said. “He was good with his hands; he was good with a needle and thread and could do interiors. He could work on engines if he wanted to.”
Houston remembers working on four-wheelers and motorcycles with Cooper, trying to coax more performance out of them. But Cooper’s artistic talents were not limited to wheeled vehicles. He was a talented artist and even dabbled with tattooing.
“He was good at tattooing, but it didn’t last long,” Houston said. “He figured ink on a person is a little more permanent than paint on a car.”
Mikah Beth Deaton attended high school with Cooper. Since they were close friends and both had red hair, many people mistakenly believed they were related.
In some ways, they were. Just not by blood.
“He was like my brother,” Deaton said. “You could call him anytime and he would be there.”
In high school, he put a stereo in her car. She still remembers rolling up to campus the following day.
“When I pulled up at school, the windows were rattling, and I was so proud,” Deaton said. “My father said I better hope the car doesn’t catch on fire.”
Although he was a freewheeling artist who loved to ride four-wheelers and go mud riding, Cooper had his neat side – ultra neat at times.
Deaton said he could be a little obsessive-compulsive about his tools.
“Everything had a spot,” she said.
‘He had a precious heart’
Cooper’s girlfriend, Lisa Benson, said they met about a year ago while attending a get-together with mutual friends. She quickly became enamored with him.
“He was a go-getter and wanted to do something every day,” Benson said. “He could stay in the shop for hours on end. He would not sit down until 10 o’clock at night.”
He always had a project going at their house, even if it was something as simple as putting shelves in the pantry or her closet.
“He was very caring,” Benson said. “He didn’t want to disappoint anyone, even folks who were hard to please.”
While he stayed active at nearly all times, Benson said there were a handful of things that would allow him to slow down – including fishing and hunting. And of course, family.
“The only time he would sit still was Sunday nights,” said mother, Madonna Steele.
That’s when Steele said Cooper, Benson and her 9-year-old daughter would cover over and just hang out.
“I would cook supper and we would all watch ‘Yellowstone,’” Steele said.
Cousin and fifth grade reading teacher Stephanie Byrd called Cooper a “genuine” person.
“You didn’t have to wonder what he thought; he would tell you,” Byrd said. “I remember K.C. as a little bitty child taking up for others.”
Another teacher, Susan Sheffield, remembered seeing Cooper in the school hall taking the blame (and sometimes a paddling) for something he didn’t do, just to protect others.
“He had a precious heart and would do anything for anybody,” she said. “People say that all the time about folks, but with K.C., it was true.”
Not that he didn’t have his rough side.
“Sometimes, you wanted to strangle him, but that was part of growing up,” Sheffield said.
Sheffield also tutored Cooper in 12th grade and watched the young man mature over his senior year.
“At graduation, he was in line, and he was genuinely appreciative of the teachers who had helped him and was thanking us,” Sheffield said. “He knew he wasn’t the easiest to deal with all the time.”
And some former teachers were thankful to Cooper.
Fresh out of college, Joseph Jones thought he was ready to pound knowledge into the seventh grade English class but admitted “K.C. and his buddies taught me more than I taught them.”
Jones said Cooper was a natural leader.
“He wasn’t scared of the older boys,” Jones said. “He helped me with trouble students. I could count on him. If there was an issue, I could leave and go to the bathroom and when I got back, the trouble would be sorted and we could get back to class.”
Even though he was always active and on the move, his mother said Cooper had one bad habit.
“He was always late,” Steele said.
When the family learned delays in the autopsy at the state medical examiner’s office could delay the funeral up to two weeks, Cooper’s family was unsurprised.
“He was literally a week late to his own funeral,” Steele said with a grin.
Byrd laughed.
“That’s K.C.,” she said.
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Growth in the Golden Strip: Mauldin, Simpsonville and Fountain Inn to dress up downtowns
Millions of private and public dollars are being poured into growth across the Golden Strip.
Once considered merely bedroom communities of Greenville, the cities of Mauldin, Simpsonville and Fountain Inn have worked to establish themselves as unique and worthy of not only visiting but seeking out for living.
Growth throughout the area is helping fuel the investments, the needs and the urgency.
Simpsonville and Fountain Inn are working to further develop and enhance their downtowns.
Void of a traditional downtown, Mauldin is working to establish one.
All three cities issued bonds last year in preparation for new municipal buildings and increasing pedestrian access to their towns.
Long-range plans are in place for the cities to turn architectural renderings into reality to make their towns better places to live, work and play.
Downtown Fountain Inn's renovations could make it feel like a brand-new city by this time next year.
Balancing growth and preservation:Fountain Inn is spending big on downtown renovations
Simpsonville is prepping to spend $30 million on downtown work and traffic flow.
One way or the other:Downtown Simpsonville is changing directions, literally
Mauldin is spending millions, too. The city closest to Greenville will be hard to miss once its pedestrian bridge over Interstate 385 is in place.
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– Caitlin Herrington, local reporter and lover of alliteration, covers government and growth in the Golden Strip. Get in touch with her at cherrington@greenvillenews.com and follow her on Twitter and Instagram @GVLnewsCat.
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Southwestern Oregon Community College's Physics and Astronomy Lecture Series welcomes Dr. Tonia Venters with her lecture “Illuminating the Extreme Cosmos through Astroparticle Astronomy”. This will be a virtual lecture to provide insight into astroparticle astronomy. The lecture will be at 5:30 pm on Monday, May 16, and will be streamed live via Zoom here: https://socc-edu.zoom.us/j/95765406236.
Dr. Venters is a research astrophysicist at NASA Goddard following academic studies at Rice University and the University of Chicago. Dr. Venters shares this description of her talk:
For ages, astronomy has relied on light in order to learn about the universe, but light isn’t the only cosmic messenger. Recent developments have brought about the dawn of an exciting new era of multi-messenger astronomy, a discipline that combines observations in gravitational waves and astroparticles, as well as light, to get a more complete picture of the universe and the astrophysical systems within it. Of the different messengers, perhaps the most mysterious are two of the astroparticles: cosmic rays and neutrinos. Cosmic rays are the messengers of the most extreme accelerators in the cosmos; however, efforts to identify their origins have been thwarted for over a century due the fact that they don’t point back to their sources.
On the other hand, even though neutrinos do point back to their sources, individual sources have yet to be confidently identified. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the recent developments in multi-messenger astronomy and then focus on the particular challenges of cosmic-ray and neutrino astronomy. Finally, I will set the stage for next generation facilities that will shed light on the universe through astroparticle astronomy.
For more information about this lecture and future events, please contact Dr. Aaron Coyner, Associate Professor of Physics, at 541-888-7244, aaron.coyner@socc.edu. To learn more about physics and engineering degrees at Southwestern please visit https://physics.socc.edu/.
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Get to know the 3 finalists for Wicomico school superintendent
The Wicomico County Board of Education wants to hear from you.
Through May 12, community members are asked to share their thoughts on the three finalists for Wicomico County superintendent of schools through a survey on the board's website. Parents or guardians, students, employees and community members can read biographies, watch in-depth interviews and take part in the community input survey by visiting the Wicomico County Board of Education's website: wcboe.org/finalists
During their interviews, Frederick Briggs, Eric Minus and Micah Stauffer were each asked three crucial questions. Here's the highlights of their video interviews:
‘The first 100 days’
When asked how they plan to spend their first 100 days as the new superintendent, each finalist stressed the importance of listening to the various perspectives within their community.
“Collaboration is key,” said Briggs during his interview. “I firmly believe that if we work together, we can accomplish great things here in Wicomico County public schools. If we work together, we can win together.”
Background:Wicomico Board of Education names 3 finalists for schools superintendent
Briggs, who is currently chief academic officer for Wicomico County public schools, believes having an open dialogue with parents, students and stakeholders is important to the overall success of the school system.
“The school system belongs to the community,” said Minus, who is intent on spending time with the surrounding community and learning about the climate and culture of the school system.
Minus is currently executive director of secondary schools for Baltimore County public schools and the only finalist from outside the county.
Similarly, Stauffer believes the community and stakeholders should remain engaged and a part of any progress as the new superintendent enters the school system.
“I think the most important thing a new superintendent can do is build relationships with the members of our community,” said Stauffer, who currently serves as chief finance and operations officer with Wicomico County public schools.
The pandemic impact
Many schools have faced immense disruption from the pandemic nationwide. Now, the Wicomico County Board of Education is taking a closer look at mending the mental and emotional health crisis of its students and faculty.
More:Wi-Hi biology educator named Wicomico Teacher of the Year
More:Wicomico County election: Who is running for county executive, council, school board, more
“I would certainly love for us to begin conversations around what a built-in wellness opportunity for staff and students looks like within the system,” said Minus, after noting how this has been two of the most challenging years of every educator’s career.
Briggs maintains that, although the school system has taken steps to fix the mental and emotional health crisis, there is still more work to be done. He thinks further investments in school psychologists and social workers is necessary.
“The trauma that many of our students faced during that time is very real, and we want to make sure we are supporting all of our students in their return to school,” Briggs said.
According to Stauffer, another issue has stemmed from the pandemic and should not be overlooked — a culture of division growing across the nation, state and local community.
“We all want the same thing. What I want for my children is the same thing that I want for all children,” Stauffer said. “I want them to go to a school that is safe, has a positive learning environment and where they can reach their highest potential. We need to look at the culture of division so that we’re all on the same team and moving toward the same goals.”
Vision for Wicomico public schools
As they spoke, each finalist brought forth their vision for the future of Wicomico County public schools while building upon the vision of outgoing Superintendent of Schools Donna Hanlin.
Related:Wicomico superintendent Donna Hanlin announces retirement plans for 2022
Stauffer highlighted the past objectives — early childhood education, college and career readiness, and recruiting and retaining a high-performing workforce — and his desire to preserve them.
Briggs felt similarly.
“I’m confident that under my leadership we can make strides to continue the growth that’s happened over the last six years,” he said, before stating his overall intent to assist students in becoming productive members of society.
More:3 Eastern Shore superintendents are leaving their jobs — it's a nationwide trend
Minus is thankful for the work Hanlin and her staff have done. Now, he hopes to bring forth a distinct level of innovation through his past experiences within the nation’s school system.
“My vision is clear in making sure that Wicomico County is a place for all students in terms of our equity approach,” Minus said.
‘What I really want you to know’
Briggs grew up on the east side of Wicomico County and is a product of the Wicomico County school system.
“This school system means the world to me. As many know, there were eight superintendent vacancies across the state of Maryland. I was only interested in one, and that’s here in Wicomico County,” said Briggs, later mentioning how he wants the very best for Wicomico County students, faculty and staff.
Minus comes from a family of educators and is celebrating his 26th year in education. He considers it a privilege to be in the education profession.
“What I really want you to know about me is I’m a husband, a father of two and a passionate advocate for public education,” he said. “I truly believe that a quality education is the great equalizer for how we can create a level playing field for all our students.”
Stauffer, like his fellow finalists, is invested in Wicomico County.
“I believe that there is a bright future ahead for all of us. We just need to work together, unify, and build the culture we want to see.”
Olivia Minzola covers communities on the Lower Shore. Contact her with tips and story ideas at ominzola@delmarvanow.com.
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A driver and two people standing on the sidewalk died when a speeding SUV slammed into the base of a SEPTA Market-Frankford Line elevated station early Tuesday morning.
The deadly wreck around 2:45 a.m. cracked part of the wall of SEPTA's Allegheny Station in the heart of the Kensington neighborhood and caused SEPTA to bypass the busy station heading into the morning commute.
A Philadelphia police officer on patrol in the area "saw and heard a vehicle traveling eastbound on Allegheny Avenue," Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said. "The vehicle was obviously travelling at a very, very high rate of speed, according to this officer."
The SUV then hopped the curb, struck a turnstile and crashed into the building, "doing severe damage" and causing "a large crack in the station," Small said.
The SUV was badly damaged and partially caught fire.
Along the way, at least three people standing on the sidewalk were struck, Small said. Two of those people died, one of them decapitated.
When medics approached the crashed SUV, the driver was dead, Small said.
None of the three dead were immediately identified.
A third pedestrian was rushed from the scene with serious injuries and was listed in stable condition at the hospital, Small said.
The crash caused a large crack in the wall of the el station and tore the metal turnstile off its base. It was unclear when the station would be able to reopen. In the meantime, SEPTA would shuttle bus passengers.
Philadelphia Licenses and Inspections would likely need to check the stability of the station before it could reopen, Small said.
The entire crash was caught on police surveillance cameras, Small said.
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The full investigation and cleanup continued Tuesday morning.
The crash took place at an intersection where people, some of them vulnerable, normally gather.
"It was crazy, it was going like 90 to 100 mph," a man who witnessed the crash said. "Luckily, it was late at night."
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With a hotly contested Republican governor's race drawing voters to the polls, top state and county election officials predict about one-third of eligible voters will cast ballots in Tuesday’s primary election.
Secretary of State Bob Evnen, the state’s top election official, expects 35% turnout based on early votes cast and recent history. He said there had been 227,679 early ballot requests and 122,679 ballots returned as of Friday.
A wave of nearly 8,500 new Republican voters, with about 10,900 fewer Democratic and nonpartisan voters, could be a signal that many voters switched in hopes of weighing in on the GOP governor's race, which appears too close to call between the top three candidates.
In addition to the governor's race, Nebraska voters will also be nominating candidates to replace former U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, a Republican convicted in March on charges he lied to federal authorities about an illegal campaign contribution. Even though he has resigned and withdrawn as a candidate, his name will appear on the primary ballot. Democrat Patty Pansing Brooks and Republican Mike Flood will face off in a special election on June 28 to finish out his term and both hope to advance from the primary to the Nov. 8 general election.
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Voters will also choose a new attorney general and state auditor. And Evnen is being challenged by two Republicans who believe there was illegal voting in the 2020 election in Nebraska.
There are five Southeast Nebraska legislative districts on the ballot, and only one race features an incumbent.
Lancaster County Election Commissioner Dave Shively predicts about 37%, or 74,000 voters, will cast votes. Although all of the Lancaster County offices, including three of the five County Board seats, are on the ballot, many county races are not competitive.
Contested races include the Republican ticket for the District 3 Lancaster County Board seat where incumbent Deb Schorr is being challenged by former Lincoln Board of Education member Matt Schulte and Panama Mayor Travis Filing.
In the county treasurer’s race, either Jasmine Gibson or Tracy Refior will become the Republican nominee to compete against Democratic incumbent Rachel Garver in November.
On the Democratic ticket, Public Defender Joe Nigro faces challenger Kristi Egger.
One candidate each will be eliminated in the Southeast Community College Board of Governors District 5 race and the Lower Platte South Natural Resources Subdistrict 1 race.
Shively said there were 40,750 requests for early vote ballots in Lancaster County, and about 29,000 had been returned as of Friday.
Here are answers to some frequently asked questions:
When are the polls open?
8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
How do I know where to vote?
Go to the State of Nebraska VoterCheck site at votercheck.necvr.ne.gov and click on “Polling Place.” Or call your county clerk/election commissioner's office.
Can I still return my early vote ballot?
Early vote ballots in Lancaster County can be delivered in person to the Election Commission Office, 601 N. 46th St., by 8 p.m. Do not mail your ballot or return it to your polling place Tuesday.
Can I vote if I did not re-register?
Yes, if you have a voter registration on file, you can go to your new polling place on Election Day. You will be asked to complete a new registration form, and your ballot will be sealed in an envelope.
Do I need a voting card to vote?
No, the card is for information only and does not need to be presented to election officials to vote. No identification is required to vote.
How do I track my ballot or know it was accepted?
Check the Voter Information Center, votercheck.necvr.ne.gov/voterview, on the Secretary of State’s website to track the status of your ballot, including when your ballot was sent, returned and its status.
What if I asked for an early ballot, but didn't receive one?
If you happen to lose a ballot, ruin it or have not received your early ballot by Election Day, you can still vote with a provisional ballot at your polling place.
Are polling places handicap-accessible?
Yes. You can ask for your ballot to be brought to your car if it is difficult for you to get into the polling place.
Can voters receive assistance in voting?
Voters who cannot read, are blind or have a physical disability may request assistance in marking their ballots. The voter may have a friend or relative help, or he or she may request the assistance of two election board workers, one each of a different party.
In addition, a voting machine will be available at each polling location. Visually or physically disabled voters can use it to mark ballots in private and unassisted.
Can someone pick up a ballot on my behalf?
If you are unable to go to the polls, another person can pick up an early vote ballot on your behalf until 7 p.m. at the county election office. It must be returned by 8 p.m.
What's against the rules?
* Campaigning or handing out political literature within 200 feet of a polling place, except on private property.
* Wearing political badges or insignia into a polling place on Election Day.
What if I want to report a problem or have a question?
Contact your county clerk/election commissioner or the Secretary of State's office at 402-471-2555 or 888-727-0007.
How can I get more information about candidates?
The Journal Star Voter's Guide and earlier campaign and election stories are available online at JournalStar.com. Coverage will continue on the Journal Star's website through and beyond Election Day.
What if I have questions not answered here?
Lancaster County residents who have questions should contact the Lancaster County Election Commission Office at 402-441-7311. The Secretary of State's office is at 402-471-2555 or 888-727-0007.
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…
Joe Nigro and Kristi Egger are running in the primary to be the Democratic nominee. The winner will face Trevin Preble, the sole Republican ca…
One of two Republican candidates for Lancaster County Treasurer -- Tracy Refior or Jasmine Gibson -- will be eliminated in the primary. The wi…
The District 5 seat on the SCC board is the only race where one candidate will be eliminated in the primary. Joann Herrington, Megan Neiles-Br…
Two of the three candidates in Lower Platte South Natural Resources District Subdistrict 1 race will advance from the primary. Candidates are:…
Reach the writer at 402-473-7253 or skulhanek@journalstar.com.
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Hoosier2Hoosier, Bloomington Animal Shelter, Middle Way House seeking volunteers
The City of Bloomington Volunteer Network is your source for information about volunteering locally. For a complete listing, visit BloomingtonVolunteerNetwork.org or call 812-349-3433. The inclusion of an organization in this list does not imply City endorsement or support of the organization’s activities or policies.
Information and registration information for the following opportunities can be found online at BloomingtonVolunteerNetwork.org.
H2H donation sorting in May
The Hoosier2Hoosier Community Partnership diverts the huge volume of reusable items left by students each spring in Indiana University residence halls from the landfill. It provides those materials instead to local nonprofits who need them — including Middle Way House, the Food Bank, Shalom, the Animal Shelter, MCUM, local refugee resettlement groups, New Leaf New Life, New Hope for Families shelter, Habitat ReStore and lots of other local nonprofits. Items range from clothing to bedding to small appliances. Volunteers age 16+ are needed daily to help with sorting of these reusable items in preparation for nonprofit partners can come in and select whatever items they find suitable for their programs or clients. Shifts are available from 9-10 a.m., May 17-20, 23-27 and 31. Masking is required. Groups are welcome. To volunteer, contact Margie Hershey at hershey@indiana.edu or by text or phone at 812-345-5073.
New volunteers welcome at Animal Shelter for summer and beyond
Summer is the busiest season at the Bloomington Animal Shelter. Individuals looking to make an impact in the area of animal welfare will be richly rewarded with hands-on service. The following high-priority positions are now seeking new volunteers: Adoptable Cat Care, Stray Cat Care, Rabbit Care, Dog Walking, Adoption Counseling, Canine Stewarding and Shelter Greeters. Volunteers aged 13-15 may volunteer with a parent or legal guardian, and those 16 and older may volunteer on their own. All applicants must pass their screening process and cannot have a negative history with the Bloomington Animal Shelter, or have a history of any violent, severe or animal-related offenses. Interested individuals who meet the volunteer requirements and can commit a minimum of 6 months of service are encouraged to apply now at https://tinyurl.com/ShelterNewVolunteerApplication. Contact Jenny Gibson at gibsonj@bloomington.in.gov or 812-349-3872.
Middle Way House 50 years of Caring Picnic
This summer will mark 50 years of Middle Way House being in our community. To celebrate this accomplishment, Middle Way will be hosting a community-wide celebration "50 Years of Caring" on June 12 in Switchyard Park. There will be live performances from beloved local artists, baked goods, food trucks and more! Volunteers can support Middle Way and make this event a smooth-running success with a donation of their time. Set-up shifts are available from 9 a.m. to noon. Event volunteers will take a 3-hour shift from noon to 3 p.m. to help provide direction, sit at the baked goods table, and assist with various other tasks. And tear down volunteers take center stage from 3-5 p.m. to clean up and leave the park as they found it. All volunteers will receive a Middle Way House T-shirt for in exchange for their time. Interested individuals and groups can sign up online at https://tinyurl.com/50YearsofCaringVolunteers or contact Sophie Lofton, events coordinator at events@middlewayhouse.org or
812-333-7404.
Community Wish List Spotlight
MY SISTERS CLOSET
My Sisters Closet's mission is to promote a stronger community and promote economic self-sufficiency, by providing women professional support services and tools for success both women and children. To serve clients and volunteers, they need ongoing supplies that support their programming. Contact Erin McAlister at info@sisterscloset.org or 812-333-7710 to coordinate a donation.
Featured Wishes: unused hair brushes, blow dryers, paper towels, RSVP Medium point pens in black or blue, cream and white resume paper, white copy paper, tissue paper in various colors, bus tickets. View their full Wish List online at sisterscloset.org.
You can find current in-kind, material needs on the year-round Community Wish List at BloomingtonVolunteerNetwork.org/communitywishlist.
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ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta rapper Young Thug was one of 28 people indicted Monday in Georgia on conspiracy to violate the state’s RICO act and street gang charges, according to jail records.
The Atlanta rapper, whose name is Jeffrey Lamar Williams, was arrested at his home in Buckhead, an Atlanta neighborhood just north of downtown. He is being held at the Fulton County Jail.
The conspiracy charge dates back to 2013 and the gang charge to 2018, the jail record says.
Young Thug is allegedly one of three founders of the Young Slime Life, “a criminal street gang that started in late 2012” in Atlanta, the indictment says. YSL is affiliated with the national Bloods gang, officials said. Charges include “Preserving, protecting and enhancing the reputation, power and territory of the enterprise through acts of racketeering activity including murder, assault and threats of violence.”
Young Thug’s lawyer Brian Steel told local media that, “Mr. Williams committed no crime whatsoever” and that he would “fight till his last drop of blood to clear him.”
He will make his first court appearance on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m.
Also indicted on Monday were Atlanta rapper Gunna, whose real name is Sergio Kitchens, and aspiring rapper Christian Eppinger, who was already in jail, accused of shooting an Atlanta Police officer six times in February. It was not immediately known if Gunna, who is accused of conspiracy to violate the state’s RICO act, has been arrested.
In April 2021 Young Thug and Gunna posted bail for 30 low-level inmates who were unable to afford the costs themselves.
Young Thug’s record label has been called YSL Records or Young Stoner Life Records. The label refers to its artists as part of the “Slime Family,” and a compilation album called “Slime Language 2” hit No. 1 on the charts in April 2021.
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NEW YORK (AP) — An author’s online essay on why she used plagiarized material in a novel pulled earlier this year has itself been removed after editors found she had again lifted material.
Jumi Bello’s “I Plagiarized Parts of My Debut Novel. Here’s Why” appeared just briefly Monday on https://lithub.com. Bello’s debut novel, “The Leaving,” had been scheduled to come out in July, but was canceled in February by Riverhead Books.
“Earlier this morning Lit Hub published a very personal essay by Jumi Bello about her experience writing a debut novel, her struggles with severe mental illness, the self-imposed pressures a young writer can feel to publish, and her own acts of plagiarism,” the publication announced. “Because of inconsistencies in the story and, crucially, a further incident of plagiarism in the published piece, we decided to pull the essay.”
Lit Hub editor Jonny Diamond said Monday that the plagiarized material concerned passages about the history of plagiarism; several commentators on social media had found similarities between Bello’s writing and work from various previous sources. Bello did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In her essay, Bello writes about her determination to finish her novel, about a young Black woman who becomes pregnant. She remembers wanting to add “literary descriptions” of pregnancy, which she had not experienced, and seeking outside material.
“I tell myself I’m just borrowing and changing the language. I tell myself I will rewrite these parts later during the editorial phase. I will make this story mine again,” she wrote.
“I would have told myself anything at that point. I would go to sleep at 8am because of keyed-up nerves and wake up at midnight. I stay up all night, writing through the days. I just want to get through it, to a place where I can sleep again. Looking back on this moment, I ignored my instincts. I ignored the voice inside that said quietly, this is wrong wrong wrong.”
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — 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 20-22 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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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — 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 20-22 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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NEW YORK (AP) — When she was 18, she was handpicked by Mikhail Baryshnikov to dance a high-profile role at American Ballet Theatre, launching a celebrated career as one of the world’s top ballerinas. Now, 40 years later, Susan Jaffe has been named to lead the company.
Jaffe takes over in December as artistic director at ABT, succeeding Kevin McKenzie as the first new director in 30 years. Jaffe says her goals include making the overwhelmingly white ballet world more accessible and inclusive.
“I’m going to preserve the beauty and the depth of classical ballet,” Jaffe said in an interview, “but with an eye toward where we are today in in the ballet world. And we want to be mindful of making sure that we are inclusive and doing everything we can to try to make ballet accessible and loved by everyone — because I love ballet and I want everyone to love it.”
Besides finding ways to recruit a more diverse pool of dancers, Jaffe, 59, said the company would reassess some ballet classics (or parts of classics) that may no longer be appropriate for modern sensibilities. “For example, a ballet that’s all about slavery and the enslavement of women maybe might not be something we want to save,” she said, referring to “Le Corsaire,” a traditional favorite for its bravura choreography.
Jaffe also aims to add new, modern choreographers to the company’s repertoire. “I’ve got a list of 20 artists that I would want to bring in either to do a work already done or a new commission,” she said. “That brings an array of artists that maybe ABT hasn’t seen before.”
The former ballerina, who has been serving as artistic director at Pittsburgh Ballet Theater since 2020, noted in a statement that this would be her seventh role at ABT, starting as a student and moving up through dancing, teaching and other roles.
In addition to her 22 years as a principal dancer at ABT — one of the top classical ballet companies in the world and, along with New York City Ballet, one of America’s two leading ballet troupes — Jaffe danced as a guest with companies like the Royal Ballet, the Kirov, the Stuttgart Ballet, La Scala and many others. She left the stage in 2002.
Jaffe also served for eight years as dean of dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
In the interview, she recalled how Baryshnikov, then the director of ABT, chose her at 18 to dance a key pas de deux at the Kennedy Center in Washington, with dancer Alexander Godunov. Just a few years later he made her a principal dancer, a title she held for 22 years.
Jaffe will take over as the dance world is still recovering from the pandemic shutdowns. She said one silver lining of the pandemic was the extent to which dancers created digital content by necessity, reaching a broader audience.
“The explosion of dance in the digital form has been a silver lining of the pandemic,” Jaffe said. “I think it would be silly for us to say, ‘Okay. Well, it’s over now. We’re all just going back into the theaters’ because I think there’s been such a richness that has been created out of that,'” she said. “I would definitely be looking to keep and expand on that.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s silver tea set is going to a family with a 5-year-old daughter who once was Ginsburg for Halloween. A medal Ginsburg was awarded when inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame is going to a family that demonstrated recently for reproductive rights. And a drawing of her that hung in her office was a Utah-based scientist’s Mother’s Day gift to his wife.
All told, an online auction of 150 of items owned by the late justice raised $803,650 for Washington National Opera, one of the late justice’s passions. The auction ended in late April, and buyers are now picking up items or arranging to have them shipped to their homes in 38 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Germany. Winning bids ranged from $850 to $55,000.
Elizabeth Haynie Wainstein, the owner of The Potomack Company auction house in Virginia, said they were “just really blown away by the interest.” A pre-sale estimate was that the auction could raise $50,000 to $80,000.
Ginsburg died of cancer at age 87 in September 2020. In her later years, the court’s second female justice and liberal icon also become a pop culture figure known as the “Notorious RBG.” In January, an online auction of her books brought in $2.3 million, almost 30 times the pre-sale estimate, according to Bonhams, the company that conducted the auction.
Washington National Opera artistic director Francesca Zambello, a friend of Ginsburg’s, said the auction’s proceeds will be “a huge help this year as we try to cultivate the return of our audience” amid the lingering coronavirus pandemic.
The auction’s biggest ticket item was the drawing of Ginsburg, which sold for $55,000. The image had accompanied a 2015 article about her in The New York Times. Ginsburg liked it so much she got a copy for her Supreme Court office signed by the artist, Eleanor Davis. The buyer asked that his name not be made public.
Other high-dollar sales included modern art that Ginsburg had collected. A terracotta Pablo Picasso jug she displayed in her living roomsold for $25,000 while an earthenware Picasso plate that hung in her dining room sold for $22,500. A print of Josef Albers’ “Red Orange Wall,” which hung in Ginsburg’s bedroom, sold for $27,500. Albers was among Ginsburg’s favorite artists, and an original work of his on loan from the Smithsonian was prominently displayed in her office at the court.
Even much less valuable Ginsburg pieces went for large sums. A drawing that one of Ginsburg’s grandchildren, Paul Spera, made as a child showing his grandmother as the Statue of Liberty sold for $12,000. At the top, Spera had written “Bubbie of Liberty,” using the Yiddish word for grandma.
Other sales included $5,000 for a glass souvenir vasegiven to attendees of a luncheon at the Capitol following President Barack Obama’s first inauguration, $16,000 for a black mink coat with Ginsburg’s name sewn in a pocket, and $30,000 for her 2002 National Women’s Hall of Fame medal. Buyers paid another 27% in auction fees on top of their winning bid.
Before her death, Ginsburg displayed a number of the items that were auctioned in her apartment at the Watergate complex in Washington. The auction’s online catalog included images of how Ginsburg had displayed those items.
Jennifer DiBrienza, a California-based educator, was the medal’s winning bidder, spending nearly twice what she had planned to. When bidding near the end of the auction pushed up the price, she thought to herself: “I’ve been winning this for days. I can’t give it up now,” she said.
DiBrienza, who along with her three children demonstrated last week following the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn a nationwide right to abortion the court recognized in 1973, said she hopes having Ginsburg’s medal will be “a reason to talk about her.”
Krishan Paramesvaran was the winning bidder on two items: a wood sculpture for $3,500 and a silver tea set for $5,000. The tech executive and father of three said his family plans to put the sculpture in their living room and the tea set alongside china in their dining room. The tea set will be mostly for display, he said, though he imagines it will get used once or twice. Paramesvaran said his 5-year-old daughter, the one who dressed as Ginsburg for Halloween, knows it’s coming and they had in the past talked with her about “powerful women” and “the impact that RBG has had.”
Right now, he said, the family is “super, super excited” as they wait for the items to be shipped to them in Washington state. Said Paramesvaran: “We have not been able to stop thinking about the fact that we’re about to have something that she owned in our house.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — As Mattea Roach, Amy Schneider and Matt Amodio can attest, it’s cool to be smart again.
“Jeopardy!” is on an unusual run of super champs. In the past seven months, each of those contestants has landed in the television game show’s historical list of top five winning streaks. Roach’s run of victories ended on her 24th game Friday.
The timing couldn’t be better for “Jeopardy!” — and the show’s fans know all about timing.
The show had been reeling last summer after it bungled the process of replacing late host Alex Trebek. Mike Richards was fired as both host and executive producer of the show after insensitive statements he had made on a podcast surfaced.
“It has really let people fall in love with ‘Jeopardy!’ again and forget about what happened to focus on all of these amazing contestants,” said Andy Saunders, who runs thejeopardyfan.com website.
Amodio, a doctoral candidate at Yale University, ran off 38 straight wins before he was beaten last October. He soon gave way to Schneider, the engineering manager from Oakland who was a fixture on TV over the holidays before her streak ended at 40. Roach, a 23-year-old tutor from Toronto, was the show’s youngest major champion.
They joined Ken Jennings, whose 74-game streak in 2004 has never seriously been challenged and high-stakes gambler James Holzhauer, who won 32 in 2019, in the “Jeopardy!” top five.
The show, which has aired regularly since 1984, changed its rules in 2003 to allow people to stay on until they lose. Prior to that, winners were capped at five games.
Ask Michael Davies, the show’s executive producer, why the sudden run of big winners, and you get a verbal shrug.
“I don’t have a simple answer,” he said.
The “price” for such long runs can be a string of dull games because the players are so dominant. Yet the winning streaks create strong characters in ways that are unusual for game shows. People tune in to root for or against them like they do for sports teams, said Saunders, who has worked in game show production.
That’s reflected in the ratings. The “Jeopardy!” audience is up 400,000 this year in an era most shows are shrinking, Davies said. The game averaged 9.4 million viewers a night during the third week in April, more than any program that week on prime-time television, the Nielsen company said.
“The people that win are the people who make the most attempts, the ones who are able to unscramble what it is that they’re asking faster than anybody else,” Davies said.
Schneider and Roach were notable for their impressive breadth of knowledge, and they were rarely wrong. Amodio was particularly adept at harder questions with a big monetary value and he sought them out first, pinning hopes on a “shock and awe” strategy that demoralized opponents.
Since he’s been producer, Davies said “Jeopardy!” has been trying broaden out the subject matter that contestants face.
“We’re trying to test excellence,” said Davies, who was producer of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” during Regis Philbin’s heyday. “We’re trying to test people on how much they really know. We don’t want it to be for people who know trivia. We want it to be for people who spend a lifetime reading books, acquiring knowledge.
“We celebrate facts,” he said. “We celebrate people who know things.”
Not all television viewers know this, but “Jeopardy!” usually tapes a week’s worth of episodes in a single day. That can help a champion who gets on a roll.
But after they lost, both Schneider and Roach pointed to fatigue as a factor.
“I do think that my last two games, I was maybe just out of it,” said Roach, who had to come from behind for her last win. “I was really, really tired. I remember yawning uncontrollably before playing my second-to-last game. From what I recall, I believe I was slower on the buzzer, I was not able to come up with responses.”
She’ll be back for the yearly Tournament of Champions, competing with Amodio and Schneider. Davies, a sports fan, wants to put more emphasis on the event that brings together each year’s best contestants, and to make sure it is held each year at the same time, in the fall.
“I think it’s pretty clear that this has been good for the franchise,” he said.
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Television Writer Lynn Elber contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Joshua Cohen’s “The Netanyahus,” a comic and rigorous campus novel based on the true story of the father of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeking a job in academia, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Benzion Netanyahu, who died in 2012, was a medieval historian and ultra-nationalist who taught at several American schools, including the University of Denver and Cornell University. “The Netanyahus” is set around 1959-60 and centers on a Jewish historian at a university loosely based on Cornell who is asked to help decide whether to hire the visiting Israeli scholar. The novel, subtitled “An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family,” has been highly praised for its blend of wit and intellectual debate about Zionism and Jewish identity.
“It is an infuriating, frustrating, pretentious piece of work — and also absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I’ve read in what feels like forever,” The New York Times’ Taffy Brodesser-Akner wrotelast June.
Many of the winners in the arts Monday were explorations of race and class, in the past and the present. Winners were also announced in several journalism categories.
James Ijames’ “Fat Ham,” an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” set at a Black family’s barbecue in the modern South, received the Pulitzer for drama. Raven Chacon, the first Native American composer to win a Pulitzer, was honored in the music category for “Voiceless Mass.”
The late artist Winfred Rembert won in biography for “Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South,” as told to Erin I. Kelly. Rembert, who survived years in prison and a near-lynching in rural Georgia in the 1960s, died last year at age 75.
In an interview Monday, Kelly spoke of the book’s long and unexpected back story. She is a professor of philosophy at Tufts University and had come across his work several years ago while working on a different project, on criminal justice. She contacted Rembert, who was living in New Haven, Connecticut, and found him so compelling that she wanted to make sure his life was properly documented.
“He was both charismatic and down to earth,” she said. “He had an incredible grasp of language and an incredible visual memory.”
Rembert had been in poor health and died before “Chasing Me to My Grave” came out, although he did get to see an edited manuscript.
“We both felt a great sense of urgency to get the book done,” Kelly said.
Andrea Elliott’s “Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City,” which builds upon her New York Times investigative series about a homeless Black girl from Brooklyn, received a Pulitzer for general nonfiction. Elliott’s book has already won the Gotham Prize for outstanding work about New York City.
Two prizes were awarded Monday in history: Nicole Eustace’s “Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America” and Ada Ferrer’s “Cuba: An American History,” which traces the centuries-long relationship between U.S. and its Southern neighbor.
Diane Seuss won in poetry for “frank: sonnets. Her collection, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Prize, draws in part on her roots in rural Michigan and features her fierce and lyrical reflections on gender, class and substance abuse among other subjects.
“My father died very young. My mom raised my sister and me. Young me came to poetry by instinct alone,” Seuss said Monday, also citing influences ranging from Frank O’Hara to Amy Winehouse. “I consider ‘frank: sonnets’ a collaborative effort — with the living and the dead.”
Chacon created “Voiceless Mass” specifically for the pipe organ at The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee, where it premiered in November 2021. Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from the Navajo Nation. His art work, currently on display at the Whitney Biennial, is inspired by those who gathered near the Standing Rock reservation in the Dakotas to protest an oil pipeline.
“This was my first time writing for a church organ and I wanted to make a statement about the space that this organ is housed in,” said Chacon, who is Diné, the Navajo word for “the people.” “I wanted to think about the church’s role in the forming of the country, particularly as it pertains to Indigenous people.”
His 2020 opera, “Sweet Land,” co-composed with Du Yun, was performed outdoors at the Los Angeles State Historic Park earned critical praise for its revisionist telling of American history using different narratives simultaneously. The opera was awarded best opera by the Music Critics Association of North America for 2021.
Chacon has been mentoring hundreds of Native high school composers in the writing of string quartets through the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project since 2004.
Chacon told The Associated Press in an interview after learning of the Pulitzer win that he wants his work to stand as a reminder that Indigenous people are involved in chamber music and classical music.
“I am happy that this work was heard. I think overall chamber music is not something that can always be accessible to a broad audience,” Chacon said. “There’s an opportunity for anyone to listen to chamber music and I am happy I am able to contribute to that.”
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez congratulated Chacon, saying the artist exemplifies the tremendous potential of Navajos.
“His award showcases the talent, innovation and creativity of Indigenous people and shows our young people that anything is possible through hard work and prayer,” Nez said in a statement to the AP.
Chacon graduated from the University of New Mexico and the California Institute of the Arts and is scheduled to start a residency at the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage in Philadelphia in 2022.
His solo artworks have been displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian Institute’s American Art Museum and National Museum of the American Indian and many more.
Drama finalists included “Selling Kabul” by Sylvia Khoury and “Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord” by Kristina Wong.
The drama award, which includes a $15,000 prize, is “for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.” Ijames is a Philadelphia-based playwright and Wilma Theater co-artistic director whose “Fat Ham” production was streamed last summer.
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AP Entertainment Writers Kristin M. Hall and Mark Kennedy contributed to this report. Writer Felicia Fonseca from Flagstaff, Arizona, contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Midge Decter, a leading neoconservative writer and commentator who in blunt and tenacious style helped lead the right’s attack in the culture wars as she opposed the rise of feminism, affirmative action and the gay rights movement, has died at age 94.
Decter, the wife of retired Commentary editor and fellow neoconservative Norman Podhoretz, died Monday at her home in Manhattan. Daughter Naomi Decter said her health had been failing, but did not cite a specific cause of death.
Like her husband, Midge Decter was a onetime Democrat repelled in the ’60s and after by what she called “heedless and mindless leftist politics and intellectual and artistic nihilism.” Confrontation energized her: She was a popular speaker, a prolific writer and, as she described it, “the requisite bad guy on discussion panels” about the cultural issues of the moment. Her books included “Liberal Parents, Radical Children,” “The New Chastity” and the memoir “An Old Wife’s Tale.”
In 2003, she received a National Humanities Medal, cited as one who “has never shied from controversy.”
Calling herself an “ardent ideologue,” she faulted affirmative action for causing “massive seizures of self-doubt” among Black people. She attacked gays as reckless and irresponsible, and alleged that they had removed themselves from “the tides of ordinary mortal existence.”
Feminism was her special target. “The Libbers,” as she called them, “had created a generation of self-centered and unsatisfied women ‘hopping from marriage to marriage,’ resenting their children for limiting their personal freedom and pressuring themselves to have careers they might not have wanted.
The real agenda of feminism was to leave a woman “as unformed, as able to act without genuine consequence, as the little girl she imagines she once was and longs to continue to be,” Decter wrote.
Her opinions were not left unanswered.
The poet and activist Adrienne Rich once wrote that Decter suffered from “a strange lack of information about the unfilled needs, let alone the enormous destructiveness, of the social order which she so admires.” Responding to a 1980 article by Decter about gay people, Gore Vidal remarked that “she has managed not only to come up with every known prejudice and superstition about same-sexers but also to make up some brand-new ones.”
Decter, Vidal added, “writes with the authority and easy confidence of someone who knows that she is very well known indeed to those few who know her.”
In her early years, Decter did not uphold tradition; she challenged it. Born Midge Rosenthal in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1927, she was the youngest of three girls and, apparently, the loudest. “Annoyingly talkative” was her family’s consensus, she recalled, underlined by “a certain note of turbulence.”
As a teenager, she acted out, 1940s style — cutting school on occasion to smoke, swear, drink “gallons” of Pepsi and talk about boys and sex. She dreamed a liberal dream. Visits to relatives in Brooklyn left her longing for the “bustle and the smells and the variety” of a big city. She dropped out of the University of Minnesota and transferred to New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary.
In 1948, she married Jewish activist Moshe Decter and for a time lived in leftist paradise, Greenwich Village. Her decision to divorce her first husband had a similar ring to the words of an imagined suburban housewife (“Is this all there is?”) in a book Decter would very much dislike, Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique.”
“Divorce begins in that moment when one looks into the mirror and says, ‘Is THIS all there is going to be forever?’” Decter wrote in her memoir, published in 2001.
She doubted the modern wish to “have it all,” but Decter managed a full life of family, work and material comfort. She was married more than 50 years to Podhoretz and had four children, two with each husband. (All four worked in journalism and son John Podhoretz eventually became editor of Commentary). She wrote for several publications, from The Weekly Standard to The New Republic. She was an editor at Basic Books and executive editor at Harper’s magazine, where she helped work on what became Norman Mailer’s award-winning book “The Armies of the Night.” She founded the anti-Communist “Committee for the Free World” and was a member of the conservative watchdog Accuracy in Media.
Her turn to the right, like her husband’s, was personal and political. She and Podhoretz were longtime Manhattan residents who had socialized with Mailer, Lillian Hellman and others from whom they became bitterly estranged. In her memoir, Decter accused her leftist opponents of not simply disagreeing with their country, but wishing for its downfall — an attitude she feared would spread to her own family.
“Living as I had been, and where I had been, I had been subjecting my own children to danger: the danger they would be worn down and jaded before they ever had the chance, or the spiritual wherewithal, to take on the chills and spills of real adulthood.” she wrote.
“Put those feelings and ideas all together, and they amounted to what would one day come to be called neoconservatism.”
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Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
MOVIES
— Stephanie Conway is a popular high school senior in 2002, but a cheerleading accident puts her in a coma for 20 years in the new Netflix comedy “Senior Year,” debuting Friday. After waking up at age 37 in 2022, Stephanie, played by Rebel Wilson, decides to re-enroll and finish out her high school career. Directed by Alex Hardcastle, a veteran of American sitcoms like “New Girl,” “Parks and Recreation” and “The Mindy Project,” senior year co-stars Sam Richardson, Alicia Silverstone, Chris Parnell and Angourie Rice as young Stephanie.
— Netflix is also offering up the period drama, “Operation Mincemeat” on Wednesday, based on a real operation in World War II in which British intelligence officers use a dead body dressed as an officer of the Royal Marines in an attempt to dupe the Axis powers and keep the Allied invasion of Sicily a secret. The film, directed by John Madden (“Shakespeare in Love”) stars Colin Firth and Matthew Macfayden (both of whom, incedentally, have taken spins as Mr. Darcy) as well as Kelly Macdonald and Penelope Wilton.
— “Firestarter,” Stephen King’s creepy tale of a young girl with pyrokinetic powers, has a new adaptation from director Keith Thomas coming to Peacock (and theaters) on Friday. Ryan Kiera Armstrong takes on the role Drew Barrymore originated in 1984 as the girl saddled with the impossible responsibility of protecting her family and herself against the government agency that hopes to weaponize her powers. Zac Efron plays her father opposite Sydney Lemmon as the mother.
— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr
MUSIC
— The Black Keys are celebrating a key anniversary with a new album. “Dropout Boogie,” which is out Friday, features collaborations with Reigning Sound’s Greg Cartwright, Billy F Gibbons of ZZ Top and Angelo Petraglia from Kings of Leon. It will be released one day before the 20th anniversary release of The Black Keys’ first LP, “The Big Come Up.” Early singles from the new album include “It Ain’t Over,” written by band members Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney in tandem with Cartwright, and “Wild Child,” a classic rocking throwback. The new album captures a number of first takes that echo the stripped-down blues rock of the duo’s early days making music together in Akron, Ohio. The Black Keys will tour North America for the first time in three years starting in July.
— Becky G is following up her hit single “Mamiii” with her third studio album, the 14-cut “Esquemas” out Friday. “Mamii” featuring Karol G debuted in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 and in the top 10 on the Billboard Global 200 singles chart. The single — with a music video that features “Euphoria” actor Angus Cloud — has amassed 350 million streams globally to date, with over 150 million streams on Spotify alone. Another cut from the album is “No Mienten,” a throbbing dance cut led by the pluck of seductive guitar strings. And there’s “Kill Bill,” a murky, slinky banger with the sound of swords clashing and thunder.
— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
TELEVISION
— Duke Kahanamoku gets his due in PBS’ “American Masters: Waterman — Duke: Ambassador of Aloha,” debuting Tuesday and narrated by Jason Momoa. Kahanamoku won a total of five Olympic medals in the 1912, 1920 and 1924 Games and was an advocate for his native Hawaii and surfing. The documentary, directed by Isaac Halasima, traces Kahanamoku’s rise to fame, encounters with racism, and role in Hawaii’s transition from a kingdom to U.S. state. Archival footage and new interviews, including with top surfers Laird Hamilton and Carissa Moore, help tell the story.
— Devotees of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel “The Time Traveler’s Wife” made its 2009 film adaptation a success despite mixed reviews. Perhaps the intricate sci-fi romance is better suited to a series, which HBO is offering with Rose Leslie and Theo James as the challenged lovers. “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” debuting Sunday and adapted from the 2003 book by the ever-reliable Steven Moffatt (“Sherlock,” “Doctor Who”), follows the zig-zagging relationship of Henry, born with a genetic glitch that causes him to jump across decades, and Claire, whose devotion to him is timeless.
— Another book-to-TV adaptation, Hulu’s “Conversations with Friends,” also arrives Sunday. Based on Sally Rooney’s acclaimed 2017 novel, the 12-episode series stars Alison Oliver and Sasha Lane as Dublin college students Frances and Bobbi, exes who remain close friends and spoken word poetry collaborators. Their friendship is tested when the women meet an older couple, writer Melissa (Jemima Kirke) and her actor-husband Nick (Joe Alwyn). A flirtation for one pair and an affair for another follows — causing Frances to re-evaluate her life and Bobbi’s role in it.
— AP Television Writer Lynn Elber
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave has confirmed the death of his son Jethro Lazenby at age 31.
“With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away,” the frontman of rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds said in a statement Tuesday.
“We would be grateful for family privacy at this time,” Cave added.
A fashion model, rapper, actor and photographer, Lazenby was Cave’s son with model Beau Lazenby and was born in Melbourne in 1991.
He was the eldest of Cave’s four children, all boys.
One of Cave’s twin sons with his current wife, Susie Cave, died in an accidental fall from a cliff near Brighton, England, in 2015. Arthur Cave had taken the psychedelic drug LSD before he fell at age 15.
Jethro Lazenby, who used the name Jethro Cave to help his modeling career, was found dead a day after he was released from prison last week.
Lazenby’s body was discovered in a Melbourne motel on Friday afternoon, a police statement said.
A coroner will determine the cause of his death. There were no indications that he was a victim of crime, police said.
He had been in custody since shortly after he assaulted his mother during an argument in her Melbourne home on March 7 and left her bruised and bleeding, Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper reported.
He pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful assault and to breaching court orders. He was released from a remand prison on strict bail conditions Thursday, the newspaper reported.
A magistrate ordered him to undergo substance abuse treatment and to avoid contact with his mother for two years. He was to return to court in June to be sentenced for the assault and for stealing from a convenience store.
Lazenby had been imprisoned in 2018 for assaulting a girlfriend.
His lawyer told a magistrate last month that his client had a longstanding diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Lazenby told the London-based Evening Standard newspaper in 2012 that he was 7 or 8 when he first met his famous father. Cave told Britain’s The Guardian newspaper in 2008 he would always regret his lack of contact with his son in early childhood.
“But I now have a great relationship with him,” Cave said. “It was difficult at the time, but it turned out great in the end.”
Lazenby is survived by a younger half-brother, Luke Cave, who was also born in 1991. The musician’s second child, only days younger than his first, was born in Brazil to his then-wife Viviane Carneiro, a Brazilian fashion designer and journalist.
Lazenby is also survived by half-brother Earl Cave, Arthur’s twin. The twins were born in 2000.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism Monday for its coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, an attack on democracy that was a shocking start to a tumultuous year that also saw the end of the United States’ longest war, in Afghanistan.
The Post’s extensive reporting, published in a sophisticated interactive series,found numerous problems and failures in political systems and security before, during and after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in the newspaper’s own backyard.
The “compellingly told and vividly presented account” gave the public “a thorough and unflinching understanding of one of the nation’s darkest days,” said Marjorie Miller, administrator of the prizes, in announcing the award.
Five Getty Images photographers were awarded one of the two prizes in breaking news photography for their coverage of the riot.
The other prize awarded in breaking news photography went to Los Angeles Times correspondent and photographer Marcus Yam, for work related to the fall of Kabul.
The U.S. pullout and resurrection of the Taliban’s grip on Afghanistan permeated across categories, with The New York Times winning in the international reporting category forreporting challenging official accounts of civilian deaths from U.S. airstrikes in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Pulitzer Prizes, administered by Columbia University and considered the most prestigious in American journalism, recognize work in 15 journalism categories and seven arts categories.This year’s awards, which were livestreamed, honored work produced in 2021.The winner of the public service award receives a gold medal, while winners of each of the other categories get $15,000.
The intersection of health, safety and infrastructure played a prominent role among the winning projects.
The Tampa Bay Times won the investigative reporting award for “Poisoned,” its in-depth look into a polluting lead factory. The Miami Herald took the breaking news award for its work covering the deadly Surfside condo tower collapse, while The Better Government Association and the Chicago Tribune won the local reporting award for “Deadly Fires, Broken Promises,” the watchdog and newspaper’s examination of a lack of enforcement of fire safety standards.
“As a newsroom, we poured our hearts into the breaking news and the ongoing daily coverage, and subsequent investigative coverage, of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse story,” The Miami Herald’s executive editor, Monica Richardson, wrote in a statement. “It was our story to tell because the people and the families in Surfside who were impacted by this unthinkable tragedy are a part of our community.”
Elsewhere in Florida, Tampa Bay Times’ editor and vice president Mark Katches mirrored that sentiment, calling his newspaper’s win “a testament to the importance of a vital local newsroom like the Times.”
The prize for explanatory reporting went to Quanta Magazine, with the board highlighting the work of Natalie Wolchover, for a long-form piece about the James Webb space telescope, a $10 billion engineering effort to gain a better understanding about the origins of the universe.
The New York Times also won in the national reporting category, for a project looking at police traffic stops that ended in fatalities, and Salamishah Tillet, a contributing critic-at-large at the Times, won the criticism award.
A story that used graphics in comic form to tell the story of Zumrat Dawut, a Uyghur woman who said she was persecuted and detained by the Chinese government as part of systemic abuses against her community, brought the illustrated reporting and commentary prizeto Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider.
Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic won the award for feature writing, for a piece marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks through a family’s grief.
Melinda Henneberger of The Kansas City Star won for commentary, for columns about a retired police detective accused of sexual abuse and those who said they were assaulted calling for justice.
The editorial writing prize went to Lisa Falkenberg, Michael Lindenberger, Joe Holley and Luis Carrasco of the Houston Chronicle, for pieces that called for voting reforms and exposed voter suppression tactics.
The staffs of Futuro Media and PRX took the audio reporting prize for the profile of a man who had been in prison for 30 years and was re-entering the outside world.
The prize for feature photography went to Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and Danish Siddiqui of Reuters for photos of the COVID-19 toll in India. Siddiqui, 38, who won a 2018 Pulitzer in the same category, was killed in Afghanistan in July while documenting fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban.
The Pulitzer Prizes also awarded a special citation to journalists of Ukraine, acknowledging their “courage, endurance and commitment” in covering the ongoing Russian invasion that began earlier this year. Last August, the Pulitzer board granted a special citation to Afghan journalistswho risked their safety to help produce news stories and images from their own war-torn country.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A Reuters photographer who was killed while covering fighting in Afghanistan was part of a team that took home the Pulitzer for feature photography.
Danish Siddiqui and his colleagues Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave won for images depicting the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic in India.
Their work, which was moved from the breaking photography category by the judges, “balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place,” the committee wrote.
Siddiqui, 38, had been embedded with Afghan special forces in July and was killed as the commando unit battled for control of a crossing on the border between southern Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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The Pulitzer Prizes announced its winners Monday from a tumultuous year that saw an insurrection, the frantic end of the United States’ longest war and fallout from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and catastrophic climate change.
The awards featured 15 journalism and seven arts categories. Each winner received a prize of $15,000 except for the public service award — given to The Washington Post this year — which comes with a gold medal. The Pulitzer was first awarded in 1917 and is considered the most prestigious American journalism award.
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The Pulitzer Board has awarded a special citation to Ukrainian journalists.
The board recognized those in their home country covering the ongoing crisis that began earlier this year for “their courage, endurance, and commitment to truthful reporting during Vladimir Putin’s ruthless invasion of their country and his propaganda war in Russia.”
The board said reporting has provided an accurate picture of the situation in the country and has done honor to both Ukraine and journalists everywhere.
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The New York Times received the Pulitzer for national reporting for its work documenting how routine traffic stops ended in the deaths of hundreds of people, many of them Black.
The newspaper’s investigation found that during the previous five years, 400 unarmed drivers or passengers not under pursuit for a violent crime were killed by police.
The reporting found that just five officers were convicted of crimes in those killings, while governments paid at least $125 million to resolve civil actions such as wrongful-death lawsuits.
The Times reported that it reviewed video and audio recordings, prosecutor statements and court documents in finding patterns of questionable police conduct.
“It’s an example of data journalism so thorough that it turns long-held suspicions into fact,” the panel said.
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Raven Chacon, a composer, performer and installation artist from the Navajo Nation, has won a Pulitzer Prize for music for his composition, “Voiceless Mass.”
Chacon’s work is currently on display at the Whitney Biennial, which is inspired by oil pipeline protestors at the Oceti Sakowin camp near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
His 2020 opera, “Sweet Land,” co-composed with Du Yun, was performed outdoors at the Los Angeles State Historic Park and earned critical praise for its revisionist telling of American history using different narratives simultaneously. The opera was awarded best opera by the Music Critics Association of North America for 2021.
Chacon has been mentoring hundreds of Native high school composers in the writing of string quartets through the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project since 2004.
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The Washington Post received the Pulitzer for public service for itsextensive, interactive coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The Post’s reporting found numerous problems and failures in political systems and security before, during and after the insurrection. Among the most significant were that law enforcement officials did not respond with urgency to warnings about potential violence; President Donald Trump resisted calls from numerous advisers to urge the mob to disperse for three hours and officials in at least 17 states received hundreds of threats. Many of those threats were concentrated in states where Trump disputed election results.
The newspaper said its reporting of the lead-up to the attack, the riot itself and the aftermath was based on interviews with more than 230 people, thousands of pages of court documents and internal law enforcement reports and hundreds of videos, photographs and audio clips.
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The Miami Herald received the breaking news Pulitzer for its coverage of the June 24, 2021, collapse of a 12-story oceanfront condominium tower in Surfside, Florida.
Ninety-eight people were killed in the early morning partial collapse at the Champlain Towers South, a disaster that prompted a massive search-and-rescue effort.
The Herald was cited by the Pulitzer panel for “urgent yet sweeping” coverage, which it said was done “merging clear and compassionate writing with comprehensive news and accountability reporting.
That reporting included details of rescue efforts and interviews with witnesses, survivors, family members and friends searching for loved ones at the scene. It also included the buildings history, repairs and the process it was undergoing for recertification under the building code.
“As a newsroom, we poured our hearts into the breaking news and the ongoing daily coverage, and subsequent investigative coverage, of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse story,” Miami Herald Executive Editor Monica Richardson wrote in a statement. “It was our story to tell because the people and the families in Surfside who were impacted by this unthinkable tragedy are a part of our community.”
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Joshua Cohen’s “The Netanyahus” has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
The work is a comic and rigorous campus novel based on the true story of the father of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeking a job in academia.
The late artist Winfred Rembert won in biography for “Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South,” as told to Erin I. Kelly.
Andrea Elliott’s “Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City,” which builds upon her New York Times investigative series about a homeless Black girl from Brooklyn, received a Pulitzer for general nonfiction.
Two prizes were awarded Monday in history: Nicole Eustace’s “Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America” and Ada Ferrer’s “Cuba: An American History.”
Diane Seuss won in poetry for “frank: sonnets” and the music award Monday was given to Raven Chacon for his composition for organ and ensemble, “Voiceless Mass.”
James Ijames won the drama award for “Fat Ham.”
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A collaboration between the Chicago Tribune and the Better Government Associationon problems with fire safety regulations in the city received the Pulitzer for local reporting.
“Deadly Fires, Broken Promises” detailed city ordinances that are routinely ignored, such as one passed after a fire killed four children in 2014 that required fines on landlords who violate smoke detector regulations.
Cecilia Reyes of the Tribune and Madison Hopkins of the watchdog BGA found that fires killed 61 Chicagoans from 2014 through 2019 in buildings where the city had been warned about safety problems but failed to adequately address them.
The reporters found many of those fires occurred in low-income, minority neighborhoods.
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The New York Times received the international reporting Pulitzer for a series of articles on U.S. airstrikes in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and patterns of targeting failures that led to civilian deaths.
The staff of the newspaper found flawed intelligence, faulty targeting, and very little accountability and challenged the official accounts of the strikes, including one that killed an aid worker and members of his family in Afghanistan.
The Times used U.S. public records law to obtain more than 1,300 credibility assessments from the Pentagon on drone strikes that took place between September 2014 and January 2018.
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The Tampa Bay Times won the investigative reporting Pulitzer for its series of articles on the exposure of workers and nearby residents to dangerous levels of lead at a battery recycling plant.
The three-part series “Poisoned,” by Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington and Eli Murray, documented how hundreds of workers at Gopher Resource were put in harm’s way when they extracted lead from used car batteries, melted it down and turned it into blocks of metal to resell.
The reports detailed the company’s use of inadequate equipment and ventilation in a building where systems designed to capture chemicals were either turned off or dismantled entirely.
The newspaper also obtained records that documented a pattern of pollution dating back to the 1960s and showed the plant had pumped more lead into the air than any other factory in Florida over the last two decades. It also found that polluted water was discharged into the Palm River, excessive levels of chemicals were sent into Tampa’s sewer system, and hazardous waste was mishandled.
Prompted by the reporting, investigating county regulators found more than two dozen possible violations.
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LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II will not attend the opening of Parliament on Tuesday amid ongoing mobility issues.
The palace said in a statement Monday that the decision was made in consultation with her doctors and that the 96-year-old monarch had “reluctantly’’ decided not to attend.
Prince Charles will read her speech, which sets out the government’s agenda for the coming parliamentary session. Prince William will also attend.
Elizabeth has attended only a handful of public events in recent months, though she continues to hold virtual audiences regularly.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Conservatory of Music is buying a record label following its acquisition of a management agency.
The school said Monday it had bought Pentatone Music, adding to a portfolio that includes Opus 3 Artists, which it purchased in October 2020.
“Bringing Pentatone in–house creates an extraordinary backdrop to explore new ideas for performing, recording and distributing music,” conservatory president David Stull said in a statement.
Pentatone is based Baarn, Netherlands, and will have access to the conservatory’s recording studio in San Francisco. The label will record a performance of the National Brass Ensemble, of which Stull is executive director, conducted by San Francisco Symphony music director Esa-Pekka Salonen and will work with students at the conservatory’s 2023 winter term.
Large classical labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Decca and Sony have sharply curtailed new classical recordings in recent decades.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” sold for a cool $195 million on Monday, making the iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe the most expensive work by a U.S. artist ever sold at auction.
The 1964 silkscreen image shows Monroe in vibrant close-up — hair yellow, eyeshadow blue and lips red — on a rich blue background. It’s also the most expensive piece from the 20th century ever auctioned, according to Christie’s auction house in New York, where the sale took place.
The Warhol sale unseated the previous record holder and another modern master, Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose 1982 painting “Untitled” of a skull-like face sold for arecord $110.5 million at Sotheby’s in 2017.
Christie’s said an unnamed buyer made the purchase Monday night. When the auction was announced earlier this year, they estimated it could go for as much as $200 million.
“It’s an amazing price,” said Alex Rotter, chairman of Christie’s 20th and 21st century art department. “Let it sink in, it’s quite something.”
“This is where we wanted to be, clearly,” said Guillaume Cerutti, CEO of Christie’s. “It proves we are in a very resilient art market.”
The proceeds of the sale will go to the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation Zurich, which put the painting up for auction. The foundation aims to help children with health care and educational programs.
Warhol created more than one image of Monroe; this particular painting has been exhibited in museums around the world.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times moved swiftly to change Monday’s answer to its daily Wordle puzzle out of fear that it would be seen as some sort of commentary on the debate over abortion rights.
The game, which became a sensation late last year and wasbought by The Times in January, gives users six tries to guess a different five-letter word each day.
Yet The Times scrambled when it discovered that Monday’s word, which had been entered into Wordle’s computer program last year, was “fetus.”
The timing was particularly fraught given last week’s leaked report of a draft U.S. Supreme Court decision that would strike down a 50-year-old ruling governing the ability of women to receive abortions.
The appearance of “fetus” was “entirely unintentional and a coincidence,” the newspaper said in a message to readers on Monday.
“At New York Times Games, we take our role seriously as a place to entertain and escape, and we want Wordle to remain distinct from the news,” the message said.
The Times changed Monday’s answer to a different word, and a spokesman said that a “vast majority” of users saw that. But some people who had not refreshed their browsers saw “fetus” instead, spokesman Jordan Cohen said.
He would not say whether The Times had received any complaints about “fetus.”
Wordle was invented by Josh Wardle, a Brooklyn software engineer, as a gift for his partner and took off when he began posting it online. Players guess words and hone in on the correct answer as the game tells them if their guesses contain letters in the word of the day.
The Times bought his invention for more than $1 million and is revamping the technology to make sure every user is seeing the same word every day, the newspaper said. Cohen said millions of people play Wordle each day.
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Police are investigating a shooting that happened close to Philadelphia’s popular Rittenhouse Square late Monday night.
A man was shot in the leg at 17th and Sansom streets around 11 p.m., police said. The man was taken to the hospital in stable condition according to Chief Inspector Scott Small.
SkyForce10 was overhead as officers investigated on Sansom street between 17th and 18th streets in Center City.
It’s not known at this time if the man was the intended target of the gunfire or what led to the shooting, police said.
At this time, no arrests have been made.
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At least two people were killed in a crash in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, early Tuesday, that left a car wrapped around a tree in some woods, prosecutors say.
Chopper 4 captured images of a heavily damaged vehicle that appeared flipped on its side in the trees after the accident near Ridgewood and Bloomfield avenues around 5 a.m. A heavy law enforcement response was evident.
Some streets were closed down in the area for hours -- and were expected to be through much of the morning -- as authorities investigated.
No information was immediately available on the victims or a possible cause of the crash.
The Essex County prosecutor's office says its investigation is ongoing.
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Canton takes 'next step' to receive opioid settlement money
CANTON – City Council has agreed to create a 10-member board to represent local interests in the statewide distribution of opioid settlement funds.
"This is the next step that we need to take," Law Director Kristen Aylward Bates said Monday.
Councilmen Greg Hawk, D-1; John Mariol II, D-7; and Frank Morris were absent for the council vote, which received no opposition at Monday's regular meeting.
Canton previously agreed to OneOhio, a plan to divide $808 million in lawsuit settlement money amongst subdivisions affected by the opioid epidemic. In late 2021, the state settled with the three largest opioid distributors — Cardinal Health, McKesson and AmerisourceBergen.
More:Stark County communities say yes to opioid settlement
The state will collect 15%, local governments will receive 30%, and the OneOhio Recovery Foundation Board will get 55% of the settlement. The OneOhio nonprofit will be comprised of 29 state and regional representatives who will fund community efforts to address opioid abuse.
Stark County is designated as Region 6 for the purposes of OneOhio. The law director told council members that she was collecting feedback from other political subdivisions about the proposed structure when she learned May 16 will be the first OneOhio Recovery Foundation Board meeting.
"We will have one member from Region 6 appointed to that 29-member board," Bates said.
The Region 6 Local Board will "vet projects" to submit to the OneOhio Recovery Foundation Board, she said. Members will consist of:
- Two people appointed by Stark County commissioners.
- Two people appointed by the largest municipality (Canton).
- Two people appointed by a majority of the mayors or leaders of the remaining municipalities.
- Two people appointed by a majority of township trustees or the Stark County Township Association.
- Two people from the community with experience related to the opioid crisis selected by the previous political members.
Bates' communication to the council stated that it's not yet known when and how much the state will distribute.
According to a state estimate, Canton could receive $692,000 to more than $988,000 from the settlement's local government portion designated for community recovery programs. The state foundation could provide an additional $7.33 million to $10.47 million to the region.
Other action
- The council approved the purchase of nine new cameras, two license plate readers, two mounting poles, and 50 camera licenses to connect with Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority cameras to expand the Wi-Fiber surveillance system into northeast Canton, including near the Ellisdale housing complex. The total installation is estimated to cost $152,562 with an annual cloud storage cost of $43,152, according to a memo from Mayor Thomas Bernabei. The city plans to pay for the project with American Rescue Plan Act money.
- City Council authorized the mayor or service director to enter a professional service contract with Arcadis for up to $1.4 million to design and oversee electrical improvements at the Water Reclamation Facility.
- The council authorized the mayor or service director to purchase an asphalt recycling machine for an estimated $200,000.
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Lincoln Public Schools and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are partnering on a new focus program at Standing Bear High School that will offer students dual-credit courses and hands-on experience centered around business.
The new focus program — a collaboration between LPS and UNL's College of Business — is set to include courses and pathways in areas such as accounting, finance, marketing, economics and supply chain management.
Standing Bear is scheduled to open in August 2023.
Although in the early stages of development, UNL plans to offer Nebraska Now classes through the high school's focus program, in which students can take college-level courses taught by UNL faculty to earn credit.
"I think for us, it's really just (about) the outreach and creating that accessibility," said Laurie Miller, associate dean of undergraduate programs and curriculum at the College of Business. "For a lot students, they don't necessarily know what it means to study business ... they might think it's just crunching numbers. But it's so much more than that."
Students will be able to enroll in the program as juniors, and there are plans to integrate pre-pathway curriculum into other content areas, such as English and math, at the underclassman level. All Standing Bear freshmen would take a business class as well.
Other tentative classes are capstone-type courses and more "experiential" learning opportunities, said James Blake, LPS director of strategic partnerships and focus programs. The program will be based solely at Standing Bear with no plans at this time to offer classes on the UNL campus.
Growing the district's focus program offerings has long been a priority at LPS. In preparation for the 2020 bond issue, a task force examined areas in which the district could expand programs and identified business as the top area of interest, Blake said. Partnering with UNL made sense.
"This is two institutions that should be working closer together, and we're not sitting back waiting for someone outside of our institutions to encourage us," Blake said. "We just rushed ahead and did this because it's the right thing to do."
With the help of UNL faculty, the program will build on the business entrepreneurship pathway offered at The Career Academy, as well as the district's existing curriculum, Blake said. UNL and LPS will each hire a counselor to coordinate the program.
The two entities are also exploring ways to incorporate an entrepreneurial component for sophomores akin to UNL's annual Quick Pitch competition in which students craft a proposal for a new business venture.
The focus program took about six months of planning, Blake said, with a lot of insight gathered from the partnership between LPS and UNL at Lincoln Northeast centered on agricultural sciences.
That Food, Energy, Water and Societal Systems program, or FEWSS, started this year as a pilot for freshmen and sophomores and will formally open this fall.
LPS has announced plans for other focus programs in recent years, including a health sciences pathway at Lincoln Northwest and a content creation and digital media program at The Bay, both of which will open this fall.
Now Standing Bear joins the list with a focus on an area especially relevant in today's world.
"Business is everywhere," UNL's Miller said. "And so the more that we can expose students to that, the more that we can get them excited about it, just what a great opportunity for us and our community."
Breaking down Lincoln's public schools: Enrollment, test scores and more
Adams
Adams Elementary: 7401 Jacobs Creek Drive
Enrollment : 776 students
77.9% white, 2.3% Black or African American, 9.6% Asian, 4.9% Hispanic/Latino, 5.4% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 8.6% free, 2.3% reduced
Gifted students: 10.4%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 73 language arts; 76 math
LPS
Arnold
Arnold Elementary: 5000 Mike Scholl St.
Enrollment: 742 students
57.1% white, 1.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 8.4% Black or African American, 1.5% Asian, 19.2% Hispanic/Latino, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 12% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 46.7% free, 12.7% reduced
Gifted: 2.8%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 44 language arts, 32 math
LPS
Beattie
Beattie Elementary: 1901 Calvert St.
Enrollment: 368 students
73.6% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.3% Black or African American, 1.1% Asian, 8.2% Hispanic/Latino, 13.3% two or more races
Free or reduced-price lunch participation: 25.3% free, 8.2% reduced price
Gifted: 6.0%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 59 language arts, 55 math
LPS
Belmont
Belmont Elementary: 3425 N. 14th St.
Enrollment: 829 students
42.4% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 15.7% Black or African American, 2.2% Asian, 26.9% Hispanic/Latino, 11.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 67.5% free, 11.0% reduced
Gifted: 3.7%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 44 language arts, 34 math
LPS
Brownell
Brownell Elementary: 6000 Aylesworth Ave.
Enrollment: 320 students
65.9% white, 4.9% Black or African American, 0.3% Asian, 14.8% Hispanic/Latino, 14.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 45.2% free, 10.5% reduced
Gifted: 2.3%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 50 language arts, 37 math
LPS
Calvert
Calvert Elementary: 3709 S. 46th St.
Enrollment: 361 students
62.9% white, 1.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 7.1% Black or African American, 1.5% Asian, 12.0% Hispanic/Latino, 15.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 45.7% free, 6.7% reduced
Gifted: 11.3%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 47 language arts, 31 math
LPS
Campbell
Campbell Elementary: 2200 Dodge St.
Enrollment: 591 students
46.6% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 14.3% Black or African American, 11.3% Asian, 16.6% Hispanic/Latino, 10.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 59.4% free, 10.5% reduced
Gifted: 4.2%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 38 language arts, 34 math
LPS
Cavett
Cavett Elementary: 7701 S. 36th St.
Enrollment: 580 students
77.0% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.9% Black or African American, 4.0% Asian, 8.9% Hispanic, 6.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 10.4% free, 3.6% reduced
Gifted: 13.3%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 70 language arts, 69 math
LPS
Clinton
Clinton Elementary: 1520 N. 29th St.
Enrollment: 392 students
39.2% white, 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 24.3% Black or African American, 4.7% Asian, 21.0% Hispanic/Latino, 10.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 81.2% free, 10.5% reduced
Gifted: 3.6%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 30 language arts, 30 math
LPS
Eastridge
Eastridge Elementary: 6245 L St.
Enrollment: 291 students
72.9% white, 1.0% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.5% Black or African American, 1.4% Asian, 10.3% Hispanic/Latino, 10.0% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 25.8% free, 10.0% reduced
Gifted: 7.9%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 55 language arts, 51 math
LPS
Elliott
Elliott Elementary: 225 S. 25th St.
Enrollment: 383 students
23.3% white, 1.8% American Indian or Alaska Native, 13.7% Black or African American, 12.8% Asian, 33.7% Hispanic/Latino, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 14.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 76.4% free, 6.3% reduced
Gifted: 4.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 42 language arts, 35 math
LPS
Everett
Everett Elementary: 1123 C St.
Enrollment: 374 students
27.8% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 13.5% Black or African American, 9.9% Asian, 40.4% Hispanic/Latino, 7.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 73.7% free, 8.7% reduced
Gifted: 5.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 37 language arts, 24 math
LPS
Fredstrom
Fredstrom Elementary, 5700 N.W. 10th St.
Enrollment: 437 students
74.0% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.7% Black or African American, 3.6% Asian, 9.7% Hispanic, 10.4% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 22.3% free, 6.3% reduced
Gifted: 7.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 52 language arts, 54 math
LPS
Hartley
Hartley Elementary, 730 N. 33rd St.
Enrollment: 339 students
37.5% white, 2.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 17.5% Black or African American, 3.6% Asian, 25.9% Hispanic/Latino, 1.0% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 12.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 71.5% free, 9.4% reduced
Gifted: 3.2%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 38 language arts, 28 math
LPS
Hill
Hill Elementary , 5230 Tipperary Trail
Enrollment: 449 students
72.2% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.8% Black or African American, 5.3% Asian, 10.3% Hispanic/Latino, 7.0% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 24.0% free, 5.0% reduced
Gifted: 10.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 70 language arts, 59 math
LPS
Holmes
Holmes Elementary , 5230 Sumner St.
Enrollment: 393 students
70.7% white, 3.5% Black or African American, 3.5% Asian, 10.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 37.1% free, 7.0% reduced
Gifted: 11.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 61 language arts, 47 math
LPS
Humann
Humann Elementary, 6720 Rockwood Lane
Enrollment: 564 students
78.8% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.2% Black or African American, 1.3% Asian, 5.9% Hispanic/Latino, 9.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 23.9% free, 4.0% reduced
Gifted: 16.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 72 language arts, 67 math
LPS
Huntington
Huntington Elementary , 2900 N. 46th St.
Enrollment: 370 students
45.0% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 12.0% Black or African American, 1.5% Asian, 24.6% Hispanic/Latino, 16.2% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 67.0% free, 14.1% reduced
Gifted: 4.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 32 language arts, 23 math
LPS
Kahoa
Kahoa Elementary, 7700 Leighton Ave.
Enrollment: 537 students
78.8% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.9% Black or African American, 2.6% Asian, 6.7% Hispanic/Latino, 7.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 22.9% free, 7.3% reduced
Gifted: 6.9%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 66 language arts, 64 math
LPS
Kloefkorn
Kloefkorn Elementary, 6601 Glass Ridge Drive
Enrollment: 488 students
83.7% white, 0.7% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.5% Black or African American, 4.4% Asian, 5.3% Hispanic/Latino, 4.4% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 6.2% free, 2.0% reduced
Gifted: 11.9%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 77 language arts, 72 math
LPS
Kooser
Kooser Elementary, 7301 N. 13th St.
Enrollment: 821 students
63.5% white, 0.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 5.6% Black or African American, 11.9% Asian, 11.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 7.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 30.0% free, 8.3% reduced
Gifted: 2.9%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 55 language arts, 49 math
LPS
Lakeview
Lakeview Elementary, 300 Capitol Beach Blvd.
Enrollment: 400 students
53.0% white, 0.8% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.3% Black or African American, 3.8% Asian, 22.8% Hispanic/Latino, 10.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 57.0% free, 9.5% reduced
Gifted: 1.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 35 language arts, 29 math
LPS
Maxey
Maxey Elementary, 5200 S. 75th St.
Enrollment: 683 students
75.9% white, 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.2% Black or African American, 13.5% Asian, 3.4% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 5.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 10.6% free, 3.4% reduced
Gifted: 10.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 70 language arts, 69 math
LPS
McPhee
McPhee Elementary, 820 Goodhue Blvd.
Enrollment: 304 students
26.8% white, 1.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 16.3% Black or African American, 12.7% Asian, 35.9% Hispanic/Latino and 6.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 77.2% free, 6.9% reduced
Gifted: 4.0%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 36 language arts, 22 math
LPS
Meadow Lane
Meadow Lane Elementary, 7200 Vine St.
Enrollment: 620 students
72.1% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.8% Black or African American, 2.6% Asian, 13.8% Hispanic/Latino, 8.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 33.6% free, 8.1% reduced
Gifted: 8.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 51 language arts, 39 math
LPS
Morley
Morley Elementary, 6800 Monterey Drive
Enrollment: 421 students
78.1% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.8% Black or African American, 0.2% Asian, 7.4% Hispanic, 0.5% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 9.7% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 20.2% free, 5.5% reduced
Gifted: 15.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 69 language arts, 56 math
LPS
Norwood Park
Norwood Park Elementary, 4710 N. 72nd St.
Enrollment: 238 students
68.0% white, 4.4% Black or African American, 2.4% Asian, 18.9% Hispanic/Latino, 6.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 46.6% free, 15.0% reduced
Gifted: 4.9%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 43 language arts, 30 math
LPS
Pershing
Pershing Elementary, 6402 Judson St.
Enrollment: 430 students
57.5% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 6.6% Black or African American, 3.3% Asian, 20.6% Hispanic/Latino, 11.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 54.5% free, 12.7% reduced
Gifted: 4.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 49 language arts, 50 math
LPS
Prescott
Prescott Elementary, 1930 S. 20th St.
Enrollment: 492 students
44.9% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 13.8% Black or African American, 7.3% Asian, 18.8% Hispanic/Latino, 0.5% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 13.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 51.2% free, 9.5% reduced
Gifted: 7.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 52 language arts, 36 math
LPS
Pyrtle
Pyrtle Elementary, 721 Cottonwood Drive
Enrollment: 454 students
78.9% white, 1.9% Black or African American, 2.6% Asian, 10.0% Hispanic/Latino, 6.7% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 17.3% free, 3.6% reduced
Gifted: 17.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 68 language arts, 60 math
LPS
Randolph
Randolph Elementary, 1024 S. 37th St.
Enrollment: 428 students
61.4% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 5.6% Black or African American, 3.7% Asian, 16.4% Hispanic/Latino, 0.5% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.4% two or more races
Free and reduced-lunch participation: 45.6% free, 8.9% reduced
Gifted: 3.0%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 53 language arts, 40 math
LPS
Riley
Riley Elementary, 5021 Orchard St.
Enrollment: 321 students
49.5% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 6.9% Black or African American, 3.4% Asian, 22.7% Hispanic/Latino, 16.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 55.1% free, 10.0% reduced
Gifted: 5.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 44 language arts, 42 math
LPS
Roper
Roper Elementary, 2323 S. Coddington
Enrollment: 803 students
53.5% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.9% Black or African American, 6.9% Asian, 21.2% Hispanic/Latino, 8.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 40.0% free, 10.4% reduced
Gifted: 6.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 44 language arts, 46 math
LPS
Rousseau
Rousseau Elementary, 3701 S 33rd St.
Enrollment: 531 students
72.9% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.0% Black or African American, 3.4% Asian, 7.0% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 12.2% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 22.7% free, 8.4% reduced
Gifted: 14.7%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 68 language arts, 63 math
LPS
Saratoga
Saratoga Elementary, 2215 S. 13th St.
Enrollment: 235 students
48.5% white, 1.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 7.8% Black or African American, 3.4% Asian, 26.2% Hispanic/Latino, 12.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 61.7% free, 9.7% reduced
Gifted: 5.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 36 language arts, 25 math
LPS
Sheridan
Sheridan Elementary, 3100 Plymouth Ave.
Enrollment: 407 students
86.0% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.5% Black or African American, 0.5% Asian, 4.9% Hispanic/Latino, 6.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 12.0% free, 5.2% reduced
Gifted: 17.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 74 language arts, 64 math
LPS
West Lincoln
West Lincoln Elementary, 630 W. Dawes Ave.
Enrollment: 505 students
37.0% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.7% Black or African American, 2.4% Asian, 41.2% Hispanic, 9.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 72.1% free, 10.3% reduced
Gifted: 3.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 32 language arts, 29 math
LPS
Wysong
Wysong Elementary, 7901 Blanchard Blvd.
Enrollment: 684 students
89.9% white, 0.1% Black or African American, 2.2% Asian, 3.8% Hispanic/Latino, 3.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 3.9% free, 1.5% reduced
Gifted: 7.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 75 language arts, 68 math
LPS
Zeman
Zeman Elementary, 4900 S. 52nd St.
Enrollment: 440 students
63.0% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.8% Black or African American, 3.0% Asian, 16.1% Hispanic/Latino, 12.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 29.5% free, 9.3% reduced
Gifted: 3.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 58 language arts, 49 math
LPS
Culler
Culler Middle School, 5201 Vine St.
Enrollment: 708 students
39.4% white, 1.0% American Indian or Alaska Native, 14.7% Black or African American, 7.1% Asian, 27.3% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 10.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 60.9% free, 9.3% reduced
Gifted: 8.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 32 language arts, 30 math
LPS
Dawes
Dawes Middle School, 5130 Colfax Ave.
Enrollment: 398 students
55.0% white, 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 8.3% Black or African American, 2.3% Asian, 19.8% Hispanic/Latino, 14.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 53.3% free, 13.1% reduced
Gifted: 10.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 37 language arts, 32 math
LPS
Goodrich
Goodrich Middle School, 4600 Lewis Ave.
Enrollment: 818 students
42.9% white, 1.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 13.0% Black or African American, 4.0% Asian, 29.5% Hispanic/Latino, 9.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 61.6% free, 11.1% reduced
Gifted: 9.7%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 36 language arts, 38 math
LPS
Irving
Irving Middle School, 2745 S. 22nd St.
Enrollment: 910 students
62.7% white, 0.8% American Indian or Alaska Native, 6.5% Black or African American, 3.2% Asian, 14.3% Hispanic/Latino, 12.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 35.4% free, 8.1% reduced
Gifted: 26.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 55 language arts, 49 math
LPS
Lefler
Lefler Middle School, 1100 S. 48th St.
Enrollment: 558 students
57.9% white, 0.7% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.5% Black or African American, 4.7% Asian, 15.8% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 43.7% free, 12.0% reduced
Gifted: 13.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 45 language arts, 45 math
LPS
Lux
Lux Middle School, 7800 High St.
Enrollment: 789 students
80.0% white, 0.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.7% Black or African American, 3.8% Asian, 7.2% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 6.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 10.5% free, 6.3% reduced
Gifted: 28.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 66 language arts, 68 math
LPS
Mickle
Mickle Middle School, 2500 N. 67th St.
Enrollment: 719 students
70.9% white, 0.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.8% Black or African American, 1.5% Asian, 11.8% Hispanic/Latino, 12.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 34.9% free, 9.5% reduced
Gifted: 17.1%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 55 language arts, 53 math
LPS
Moore
Moore Middle School, 8700 Yankee Woods Drive
Enrollment: 646 students
86.4% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.6% Black or African American, 4.3% Asian, 3.4% Hispanic/Latino, 4.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 7.0% free, 2.3% reduced
Gifted: 27.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 69 language arts, 78 math
LPS
Park
Park Middle School, 855 S. Eighth St.
Enrollment: 833 students
41.2% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 11.9% Black or African American, 6.7% Asian, 30.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 9.2% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 55.8% free, 10.4% reduced
Gifted: 9.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 37 language arts, 37 math
LPS
Pound
Pound Middle School, 4740 S. 45th St.
Enrollment: 700 students
67.6% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.6% Black or African American, 2.4% Asian, 12.4% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 12.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 25.7% free, 8.6% reduced
Gifted: 22.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 59 language arts, 60 math
LPS
Schoo
Schoo Middle School, 700 Penrose Drive
Enrollment: 898 students
63.9% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 7.2% Black or African American, 5.0% Asian, 12.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 30.3% free, 9.7% reduced
Gifted: 15.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 50 language arts, 48 math
LPS
Scott
Scott Middle School, 2200 Pine Lake Road
Enrollment: 1,182 students
77.7% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.2% Black or African American, 4.6% Asian, 7.2% Hispanic/Latino, 7.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 13.1% free, 4.3% reduced
Gifted: 30.1%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 65 language arts, 70 math
LPS
East
East High School, 1000 S. 70th St.
Enrollment: 2,250 students
78.7% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.2% Black or African American, 4.6% Asian, 8.4% Hispanic/Latino, 5.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 14.6% free, 5.3% reduced
Gifted: 24.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 59 language arts, 58 math, 63 science
LPS
Lincoln High
Lincoln High School, 2229 J St.
Enrollment: 2,320 students
42.6% white, 1.7% American Indian or Alaska Native, 11.9% Black or African American, 8.9% Asian, 23.3% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 47.5% free, 9.7% reduced
Gifted: 15.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 36 language arts, 34 math, 34 science
LPS
North Star
North Star High School, 5801 N. 33rd St.
Enrollment: 2,243 students
54.9% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 8.7% Black or African American, 6.5% Asian, 21.5% Hispanic/Latino, 7.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 42.1% free, 9.7% reduced
Gifted: 10.1%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 29 language arts, 31 math, 34 science
LPS
Northeast
Northeast High School, 2635 N. 63rd St.
Enrollment: 1,869 students
59.4% white, 1.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.7% Black or African American, 2.4% Asian, 17.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 10.0% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 49.9% free, 10.8% reduced
Gifted: 10.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 32 language arts, 30 math, 34 science
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Southeast
Southeast High School, 2930 S. 37th St.
Enrollment: 1,980 students
73.4% white, 1.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.8% Black or African American, 1.2% Asian, 10.6% Hispanic/Latino, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 9.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 25.1% free, 7.6% reduced
Gifted: 22.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 49 language arts, 48 math, 53 science
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Southwest
Southwest High School, 7001 S. 14th St.
Enrollment: 2,196 students
76.8% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.9% Black or African American, 3.8% Asian, 9.6% Hispanic/Latino, 5.7% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 17.7% free, 5.1% reduced
Gifted: 24.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 62 language arts, 58 math, 64 science
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Contact the writer at zhammack@journalstar.com or 402-473-7225. On Twitter @HammackLJS
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It is a clear and cool start to this Tuesday across Central Alabama. Temperatures are in the 50s and 60s.
A ridge of high pressure will be parked over the Deep South today and it will stick around for the next few days. On either side of it will be an area of low pressure – one over the Rockies and the other off the U.S. East Coast. This weather set up is called an Omega Block. What does that mean for Central Alabama? We will be sunny and warmer today with high temperatures in the mid to upper 80s.
Tonight, it will be clear, cool, and comfortable. Lows will be in the upper 50s to lower 60s.
Wednesday will be sunny and hot as the ridge of high pressure builds a little more into Alabama. High temperatures will be around 90°. This could be the first 90° days of the year! A weak disturbance will move in from the north on Wednesday night. This could be parts of Western Alabama a few showers. We will dry out on Thursday, and it will remain sunny as the ridge starts to build back to the west. We will still be very warm with high temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. Remember the average high temperature this time of year is only 81°, so we will be well above average.
The ridge starts to break down on Friday as the East Coast low moves toward the west and into Georgia/Florida. We will still have pleasant weather, but it will not be as hot. It will be mostly sunny with high temperatures in the mid 80s.
Weekend Outlook: The East Coast low will continue to move inland over Georgia. There are some questions on if it will be a surface low as well as an upper-level low. If it becomes surface based, then it could try to become a subtropical system. However, the chance of this remains very low. This will be something to watch throughout the week. Regardless of what it becomes, it will be weak and bring a partly cloudy sky to Alabama on Saturday. We could also see a few showers mainly over Eastern Alabama. High temperatures will be in the mid to upper 80s. This could have a small impact on the Regions Tradition Golf Tournament in Birmingham each day.
A weak cold front will move toward Alabama from the west on Sunday. This will push the remnants of the low to the northeast and bring us spotty showers and thunderstorms. We will still be very warm with highs in the mid to upper 80s. This could have a small impact on the Regions Tradition Golf Tournament in Birmingham each day.
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A bad turn for Brevard County terns? Conservationist fear so.
A Brevard County colony of least terns, considered "threatened" by wildlife officials because their numbers are dwindling, have taken perhaps a "wrong turn" in their nesting decision, ending up at a construction site in Satellite Beach.
The least tern is protected by the U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty Act and as an endangered species in the Midwest and Great Plains states by the federal Endangered Species Act, and as a state-designated threatened species by Florida’s Endangered and Threatened Species Rule.
This protected species prefers to lay its eggs on the ground without unleashed dogs, or people, snooping around their nests. But at least 125 pairs of the threated birds have chosen to roost near to where heavy equipment turns dirt for a high-rise hotel and condo development called The Vue at the northwest corner of Shearwater Parkway in Satellite Beach, 30 miles south of where NASA and SpaceX send rockets to space.
Often rocket launches and loud noises can spook the skittish roosting terns into leaving their nests, never returning to their eggs or fledglings. So these particular terns have drawn the attention — and concern — of local birders and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
It's that time again: Turn off your beach lights and watch out for nesting shorebirds
FWC typically warns to keep dogs off the beach or leashed, so they don't chase away shorebirds.
But here, the commotion of construction is what makes the birds roost most precarious. So the FWC is trying to keep the peace (and quiet) between birds and developers.
"The FWC is working with site managers to ensure work can continue in a manner that avoids disturbance to nesting least terns," Lisa Thompson, a spokeswoman for the FWC, told FLORIDA TODAY in an email.
"The FWC and partners can work with property owners in these cases to protect nests, monitor nesting activity, and establish buffers between project activities and breeding birds," Thompson added
The least tern is the smallest tern in North America.
"Least terns face threats to their survival, including habitat loss, disturbance while breeding and raising young, and predation. As a state-designated 'threatened' species, they are protected from harm and harassment," Thompson added.
On April 30, the northern portions of The Vue site was marked off with stakes and rope to protect the well-camouflaged tern nests and eggs, which can be difficult to see and avoid, Thompson said.
In addition to the risk of scaring the least terns away from their nests, studies show noise from construction can keep them from detecting approaching predators and mask the alarm calls they'd otherwise hear from other birds that do sense the approaching danger.
Least tern breeding season in Florida ends Sept. 1, although some individual breeding colonies finish breeding significantly earlier.
The terns eggs and days might be numbered here on this 27-acre site: A Tennessee developer proposes to build The Vue at Satellite Beach, an ambitious complex featuring a four-star hotel, three condo buildings up to 85 feet high, and single-family homes across State Road A1A from Hightower Beach Park.
The park is a mix of state- and city-owned land, funded mostly through state conservation programs, totaling 18 acres bought for more than $8 million in the 1990s. The park was intended as a preserve with some "limited recreation" in order to protect nest shorebirds, sea turtles and other wildlife.
Efforts to reach the developer Monday via phone and email were unsuccessful.
The Vue at Satellite Beach proposed at Hightower Beach Park
Satellite Beach City Manager Courtney Barker said that volunteers on behalf of FWC were documenting shorebird nesting at Hightower Beach and noticed the nesting at The Vue site, notifing the city and FWC. Staff from the state agency visited the site and roped off the nesting area, primarily on the northeast corner of the site.
"The FWC, city staff and representatives of the builder and property owner met at the site this past Friday and resurveyed the nests and provided the builder with the parameters that they can work under (basically staying out of the roped off area) until such time as the eggs hatch and the hatchlings leave the nest," Barker told FLORIDA TODAY in an email.
State law requires the nests be protected while active, she added, "and the developer will not be able to construct anything in the roped off area until the hatchlings leave, which will likely be about 90 days.
"Our biologist and the FWC staff will be monitoring the site frequently to ensure that the nests are not disturbed. The site work is completed and was permitted under the St. Johns River Water Management District and the city. The upcoming work is vertical and is permitted through the city," Barker said.
But some environmental advocates fear the high-rise across from Hightower will disturb — among other things — tern and turtle nesting if the lighting is excessive and/or increased foot traffic from the new development across the road lures too many to the preserve.
Construction activities at the site already are causing the terns there to "flush," or fly away from their nests, said Sandra Sullivan, a South Patrick Shores resident who' running for Brevard County Commission.
"Every time they (construction workers) come down that middle road, it's flushing them. It's a disturbance. The nests are on both sides of the road, and right up to the road," Sullivan said of the terns she saw there Monday morning.
Brevard County Commission candidate quarrels with Satellite Beach over condo development
The property where The Vue will be built is the former Satellite Shores subdivision. The aging neighborhood contained 105 rental homes that were part of then Patrick Air Force (now Space Force) Base's former housing annex.
Crews tore down the dilapidated duplexes in 2018. Since then, the terns flocked there.
It seemed peaceful for perching at first. That all changed when the bulldozers arrived.
The terns, along with black skimmers and other shorebirds often nest atop the nearby Winn-Dixie and the CVS on Fifth Avenue in Indialantic, as well.
FWC estimates more than half of Florida’s least tern population relies upon rooftops for nesting. FWC requires owners of business and other buildings, especially ones with the gravel rooftops terns tend to like to nest on, to maintain those artificial nesting habitats.
When embarking on unexpected building repairs during the nesting season, FWC requires owners to work with the agency's regional shorebird biologists to determine if the project will in any way harm nesting terns and will guide owners on how to apply for an FWC permit if one is needed.
"We have a feeling that these birds have been coming here for a very long time," said Catherine Vecchio, of Satellite Beach volunteer with the Florida Shorebird Alliance, which monitors terns in the area. She hopes Hightower can maintain its conservation role and that some other areas can be preserved for terns to nest in peace.
"We make room for human snowbirds," Vecchio said. "We have birds that migrate here every year for nesting."
Jim Waymer is an environment reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Waymer at 321-261-5903 or jwaymer@floridatoday.com. Or find him on Twitter: @JWayEnviro or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/jim.waymer
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The founder of a Philadelphia cheesesteak restaurant and one of his sons have pleaded guilty in a federal tax fraud case alleging the hiding of nearly $8 million in sales over the course of a decade.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 83-year-old Anthony Lucidonio Sr. and 55-year-old Nicholas Lucidonio, two owners of the well-known cheesesteak and sandwich shop Tony Luke’s, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government.
The New Jersey residents told a federal judge that they kept two sets of books to hide cash from sales at their south Philadelphia shop and acknowledged paying part of workers' salaries under the table to evade payroll taxes, the newspaper reported.
The defendants, who are to be sentenced later this year, said in a statement released by their attorneys that they “accept full responsibility for paying some Tony Luke’s employees in cash. This practice ended in 2017, over five years ago."
The statement said the defendants “have fully cooperated with the government’s investigation since it began and look forward to putting this matter behind them." Tony Luke's, they said, “will continue to serve its faithful clientele and provide gainful employment for its loyal employees and their families."
The face of Tony Luke’s, Anthony Lucidonio Jr., known as Tony Luke Jr., was not named in the indictment. He split from his father and brother in 2015, followed by a public sometimes personal court battle over franchising agreements and recipe ownership.
Tony Luke’s opened in 1992 and now has more than a dozen locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Washington D.C., Maryland, Texas, and Bahrain.
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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.
The affidavit states Lipscombe told officers he consumed “a couple of drinks at his house but not even to get messy.” Lipscombe could not initially recall to officers when he started or stopped drinking the alcoholic beverages he had that day, but later said he was at home from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Lipscombe reportedly told police he arrived back to the Homewood Suites on Stonelake Boulevard at “dusk” on Friday, May 6, but the initial time of the call for service was after midnight on Saturday, May 7.
The affidavit goes on to say that Lipscombe was argumentative. When he was asked to count backwards from 76 to 56, Lipscombe continued to count to 51 and could not remember the instructions he was given by officers regarding the countdown.
The affidavit states that Lipscombe refused a preliminary breath test and a blood test was administered. He has been charged with driving while intoxicated.
KVUE asked the offices of the Honorable John Lipscombe if present or future drunken driving cases would be effected by the judge's arrest.
"Judge Lipscombe will not be making a statement at this time. We have a visiting judge covering his docket and other matters starting today and until he returns. At this time, we do not know when he will return," the office responded.
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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Authorities identified the longtime civilian member of the NYPD who was found shot in the head in her Queens apartment Monday as 51-year-old Migdalia Ortega -- and they say they now know who they are looking for in her killing.
Police identified 55-year-old Pedro Cintron as the suspect in the death of Ortega, who was found shot in her third-floor apartment on Fresh Pond Road, near Palmetto Street, in Ridgewood that morning. A 48-year-old neighbor who went upstairs to check on Ortega after hearing commotion was also shot -- twice.
The neighbor is expected to survive, though she suffered bullet wounds to her abdomen and her shoulder and remains hospitalized, police have said.
Now authorities are turning their attention to finding the alleged shooter. Cintron was the boyfriend of Ortega, and police have said the woman's death appears to have stemmed from some sort of domestic incident. She worked in information technology at NYPD headquarters for 11 years and had relatives on the force.
Police believe that Cintron got into a black vehicle and sped off after the shooting. They released images of him (below). Anyone with information on Cintron's whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
An investigation is ongoing.
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The newest 950 feet of paved trail in Lincoln started as an idea, and a grant application, nearly 15 years ago.
Why not run the Salt Creek Levee Trail directly under the BNSF Railway bridge, instead of its jog out to First and J streets and through a narrow concrete culvert prone to flooding and vandalism?
But it wasn't that simple, said Ariana Kennedy, resources conservationist with the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District.
The district had to manage multiple agencies to make it happen. It worked with the state Department of Transportation, which was administering the federal highway grant. It secured right-of-way from the railroad, to build beneath its six sets of tracks between Rosa Parks Way and O Street. It obtained permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, because it was working on a levee.
Plans were drafted, reviewed, revised and reviewed again.
“It was paperwork and meetings,” Kennedy said. “It was a long process.”
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But it would be worth the work. The underpass would make the Salt Creek Levee Trail a seamless, 4 1/2-mile stretch from Van Dorn to Superior streets that hugs the creek and dips below a dozen bridges.
And it would eliminate the need to use the outdated sidewalk tunnel on First Street, which often fills with mud and debris and can feel dim, dank and claustrophobic.
“The width and height are nowhere near today’s standards,” said J.J. Yost, planning and construction manager for the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, which has tried to keep the tunnel clean.
It’s not clear if the parks department will continue to maintain it, he said. “We don’t really know what the future of that tunnel is; it’s not really part of the trail system, it’s part of the sidewalk system.”
But it will maintain the new, $1.2 million underpass. The federal grant is paying 80%, and the Railroad Transportation Safety District and the Great Plains Trails Network made up the balance, Kennedy said.
The contractor hired by the natural resources district broke ground on the underpass in August 2021, and had planned to have it finished by November.
But there were delays, Kennedy said. “These kind of projects, you can be hopeful. But they always take longer than you expect.”
Still, the new underpass officially opened to bikers, walkers and runners Friday afternoon, six months later than expected and a decade and a half after Kennedy started working on it.
“I’m beyond excited,” she said. “It almost seems unreal to have it finished.”
10 scenic hiking trails in Nebraska
Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge - 68 miles from Lincoln
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Pioneers Park Nature center - 7 miles from downtown Lincoln
Eugene T. Mahoney State Park - 25 miles from Lincoln
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Ponca State Park - 145 miles from Lincoln
Smith Falls State Park - 317 miles from Lincoln
Scotts Bluff National Monument - 399 miles from Lincoln
Pine Ridge National Recreation Area - 439 miles from Lincoln
Toadstool Geologic Park - 473 miles from Lincoln
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A new poll shows a majority of Coconino County voters would support keeping the tax that provides the majority of funding for the county's jails.
The poll, conducted by Northern Arizona University's Fred Solop, surveyed 800 registered voters – half from Flagstaff and the other half from Coconino County – during a three-week period in March and April. It found that 82% would support the extension of the tax to maintain and operate the county jail and jail programs, while 13% would oppose it.
"This is very positive," Solop said. "This is very strong support."
An additional 2% said they were leaning toward supporting it. Six percent said they need more information before making a decision.
Older voters were more likely to support voting for the tax, with 71% of voters above age 55 indicating their support, compared to 59% of voters younger than 55. White voters were also more supportive of the extension than voters of color.
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Now, the Coconino County Board of Supervisors must decide whether the initiative should be placed on the November ballot. They're set to vote on the issue Tuesday.
If the issue does make it onto the ballot, Solop said it's "in a very strong position to pass with voter support."
The half-cent tax provides 86% of the Jail District's revenue, covering everything from an in-custody substance abuse treatment program to adult education, special education, and religious services in addition to life skills and literacy classes.
The remaining portion of the average of $19 million needed to operate the jail annually comes from bed rentals and the county's general fund, according to county financial records.
The tax, which was first approved in 1996, is set to expire in 2026 unless it finds a spot on the ballot in the upcoming 2022 election and is then approved by voters.
Breaking it down further, Solop said voters indicated they were more likely to support the tax once they learned the money was to be directed toward mental health and drug treatment programs, as well as new job skills.
"What we're seeing is programming ... we see that the voting public really wants programming – they support programming and knowing the revenues generated from jail district sales tax creates positive feelings and a sense that people will vote for this extension," Solop explained.
Support was higher in Flagstaff at 82% compared to 77% in other parts of the county.
The majority of individuals who indicated they would vote against the tax said it was because they believe taxes are already too high. Others said they felt the jail district is not effectively spending the money, while others felt the entire system needs to be defunded.
If the extension doesn't pass, the Jail District would still need to recoup the costs. The county would directly bill the cities and towns for arrests made in their jurisdiction, while the county would need to redirect general funds to fund jail operations for any arrests made in unincorporated areas of Coconino County.
Reporter Bree Burkitt can be reached at 928-556-2250 or bburkitt@azdailysun.com.
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Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) will be opening new preschools at two of its elementary schools in the 2022-2023 school year.
The preschools will be located at Killip and Thomas Elementary Schools and based on a sliding income scale. Tuition for the coming school year is $200 per month for all months of the school year (including December and March) and $100 per month for families who qualify for reduced price. Students qualifying for special education services will not be charged tuition, according to an announcement on FUSD’s website.
They will be “licensed preschools with an academic and kindergarten-ready focus, are aligned with Arizona state standards and curriculum and will have certified preschool teachers,” according to the announcement. Each class will have 14 to 18 students.
The preschool programs will be half-day sections Monday through Thursday (no school on Fridays), following FUSD’s school calendar. The morning session will be from 8:40 am to 11:30 am and afternoon session will be from 12:30 pm to 3:20 pm.
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Registration for these programs is open to all students in FUSD’s boundaries, who have turned three on or before August 31. To qualify for the three-year-old program, students must also be three before the first day of school. Students must turn four on or before August 31 to qualify for the four-year-old program.
Registration for the program is available online. More can be found at fusd1.org/preschool.
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Love to sing? Want to learn new songs and have fun? Sea Breeze Harmony Chorus is excited to present its Spring Sing Fling, a six-week in-person singing experience. This opportunity is open to all women ages 16 and older who enjoy singing.
Members of Sea Breeze Harmony Chorus, along with Spring Sing Fling guests, will learn two new songs over six weeks, “Count on Me” by Bruno Mars and “When You Say Nothing at All” by Alison Krauss, and you'll also learn a lot about vocal production.
The chorus and friends will meet each week beginning Tuesday, May 17, and continuing May 24, May 31, June 7, June 14 and June 21, culminating on June 28 with a performance and strawberry shortcake social. Each meeting is at 6:15 p.m. at the Bay Area Senior Activity Center, 886 S. 4th St. Coos Bay.
Guests will be charged a $10 fee for the use of sheet music, audio learning tracks and six weeks of choral instruction.
Sea Breeze Harmony Chorus is an active group that sings for festivals, parties, fundraisers, dinners, holiday events – you name it. The group competes at the regional level, which helps to focus on refining singing and performing abilities. They also sing for enjoyment, emphasizing fun, friendship and four-part harmony.
Sea Breeze Harmony Chorus is a nonprofit organization and an affiliated chapter of Sweet Adelines International.
Come join in the fun! For more information about the Spring Sing Fling or Sea Breeze Harmony Chorus, contact director Gail Elber at 541-808-1773.
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DALLAS — You're not just dreaming. Gas prices really are higher than ever in Texas, including here in Dallas-Fort Worth.
The average price in Texas hit $4.068 per gallon Tuesday, breaking the previous high during the initial price spike in March, according to AAA Texas, which tracks gas prices across the state.
Here in North Texas, prices were even higher: The average for Dallas on Tuesday was $4.145 per gallon, and Fort Worth was $4.143 per gallon.
Both figures were record highs locally.
Houston prices were slightly lower, at $4.053 per gallon, and Austin was $4.06 per gallon.
Meanwhile, San Antonio remained just under that $4 mark, with an average price of $3.994. What a bargain.
Only Texarkana had a higher average price than DFW, checking in at $4.174 per gallon.
There are a few bright spots in the data, even for pricy North Texas. The national average was sitting at $4.374, well above what we're seeing here.
The spiking gas prices are in step with inflation across the board in North Texas.
From March 2021 to March 2022, Dallas-Fort Worth saw inflation of 9% – the largest year over year increase since December 1981.
Prices in the DFW area were up 3% from January 2022 to March 2022.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics called that the largest bi-monthly change in DFW since April 1980.
Gas prices experienced the biggest spike – with the average price up 48% in the last 12 months, as of last week.
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MIDLAND, Texas — Every morning Debbie Newcum takes her dogs out for a walk.
“I have been walking this neighborhood with my dogs for nearly 30 years, that’s how they got their exercise and how I get in some exercise too," said Newcum.
However, last week Newcum's daily routine was forever changed.
“I turned up on Cuthbert and I was on this side across from Bonham Elementary and suddenly there was this big pit bull that just showed up. She was just right there," Newcum said.
“I had my two little dogs up near me as much as I could. She immediately, I mean in a matter of seconds, she grabbed a hold of Angel my dog and she started shaking her like a rag doll and she was crushing the life out of her."
Debbie began screaming for help as her dog was being attacked. It wasn't until a bystander came to their rescue that she was able to get the pit bull to release her dog.
"He jumped out of his car and he came around and started kicking the dog, he finally kicked the dog off Angel," Newcum said.
However, it was too late-Debbie's dog didn't make it.
“It was too late for her but I feel like he saved my other dog and me. He’s the big hero, he will always be a big hero to me,” said Newcum.
Debbie is thankful for this hero, but sad her dog is gone.
“I had to watch my little dog get attacked and killed. I had to watch her take her last breath and I don’t want anyone else to go through that," she said.
This experience has changed her routine with her other dog.
"I will not walk my one dog I have left. I will not be walking him anymore I want take that chance because I saw how fast it can happen," said Newcum.
According to her, the owners of the attacking dog have not come forward.
The City of Midland tells NewsWest 9 that there was an incident on May 2nd, involving a pit bull on that Animal Services picked up due to dangerous dog behavior.
If you are looking to prevent a dog attack, here are some safety tips you can follow.
- Consider changing where and when you're walking your pet, such as sticking to well-lit and populated parks and public spaces.
- Staying in your neighborhood is also a good idea.
- Keep personal protection items on you that you would use to defend yourself like pepper spray, a stun gun or even a big stick.
- Consider protective gear for you dog like a harness or a vest.
- When in doubt call animal control or even 911 if you think your life might be in danger.
Midland Animal Control can be reached at 432-685-7420 and Odessa Animal Control at 432-368-3527.
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SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Police are searching for a killer. There is a new clue in the murder of father of four Quinton Smith. He was shot while leaving a bar. On Monday, investigators released the video of the suspect vehicle. Police say it was taken right before the deadly gunfire that happened on January 9.
Dominique Smith and her mother-in-law Velinda spoke to KENS 5. They said that day is when their lives changed for the worst.
"It was the worst day of my life," Dominique said. Honestly it was. When I got the call, it was the worst day for me," Velinda said.
Right before her husband was shot, Dominique spoke to her husband. She didn't know that would be the last time she would speak to him.
"We were on the phone like 10 minutes before it happened," she said. I never thought that was going to be my last 'I love you', or see you later. See you later is what we said because it was never goodbye."
Investigators say Quinton was shot while walking to his car. It happened on West Avenue near Edgebrook Lane. Police said the shooter fired off several rounds from a car. Quinton was hit twice. He died at the hospital. Four months to the day is when police released the new clue in the case. It is surveillance video of the suspect vehicle. Police want to find the vehicle and the people seen around it.
"I thought the case was going to go cold, “Velinda said. We can't let that happen. We can't let that happen, his widow said. Somebody knows something. Please. Someone come forward. There is a lot of people in the video. I understand fear. I get. Be anonymous."
"I would say to whoever did it," Velinda said. God will judge you. God will deal with you."
Anyone with information on the suspect vehicle, or the individuals in this video, can call Crime Stoppers at (210)224-STOP (210-224-7867). Crime Stoppers may pay up to $5,000.00 for information leading to the arrest of the individual(s) involved in this murder.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — The last two years have been the most challenging years of Ben Cromwell's life. In July 2020, he was hospitalized with COVID-19.
"I had severe clotting from COVID," said Cromwell. "It was resistant to medicine, and it took them 11 surgeries to try to save my legs, and they ended up having to amputate both legs in order to save me."
He was amputated below the knee on his right leg and above the knee on his left leg. He remembers the pain.
"At a certain point, I was in so much pain that I was asking them to take my legs."
With two prosthetics after surgery, Cromwell knew he needed to learn how to move again. He set goals for himself.
Basic movements like standing up, walking or climbing stairs were no longer simple for him.
Cromwell's physical therapist, Shannon O'Neal with Fort Worth Physical Therapy, has watched him struggle and grow. She said the last few months, he's accomplished a lot with the help of a new Power Knee.
"This is a total game changer," said O'Neal. "The Power Knee gives some energy back to him."
Cromwell received Ossur's new motor-powered bionic prosthetic knee, which recently launched in the United States. It's designed for above-the-knee limb loss patients, and has advanced algorithms to detect movement and patterns. The Power Knee can adjust to the patient's speed and cadence.
"I've never gotten up the stairs with the other knee," said Cromwell, referring to his previous microprocessor knee.
He's excited for this new technology. "There's been several times that I've stumbled and it stopped me from falling." Cromwell hopes the Power Knee will take pressure off his right knee and prevent future knee replacement surgeries.
Cromwell was introduced to Ossur's Power Knee by Cody Longenbaugh, a Certified Orthotics and Prosthetics Assistant at Baker Orthotics and Prosthetics in Fort Worth.
Longenbaugh, also an amputee, was the first non-military person in the United States to be fitted with a Power Knee.
"Once I wore this, I knew I had something that needed to be shared with the world," said Longenbaugh.
Even though their stories of limb loss are different, they both have the drive to keep moving, and are seeing major benefits from the Power Knee.
"I want to be able to be that person that's helping, and the only way I'm able to do that is to get on my feet and get going," Cromwell said.
With the Power Knee, there's still a learning curve, and it will continue to take practice and daily physical therapy. But it gives Cromwell a new sense of hope.
"When you see something that gives you hope to be able to resume your regular life, that's pretty exciting."
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Herald-Tribune welcomes Report for America journalist to cover justice system
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune will welcome a new reporter to its staff next month as one of 200 host news organizations in the Report for America program, which seeks to strengthen and build new sustainable models for local journalism.
The Herald-Tribune was selected to receive a Report for America corps member in a national competitive process. The reporter, Gabriela Szymanowska, will cover criminal justice, the courts and the legal system for the paper in the yearlong, renewable position.
Report for America, an initiative of the nonprofit Ground Truth Project, is a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities.
Report for America provides half the salary of a full-time reporting position to the local newsrooms it selects. The Herald-Tribune will be seeking community and philanthropic support to raise the rest of the cost.
“We feel very fortunate to have been selected from among hundreds of newsrooms nationwide to host a Report for America corps member,” said Jennifer Orsi, executive editor of the Herald-Tribune. "We are excited to partner with a program helping to strengthen local journalism across the United States.
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“We have had a strong history of covering the legal and criminal justice system, which is such an important institution in the community,” Orsi said, pointing to award-winning projects like "Bias on the Bench," which revealed disparate sentences by race in Florida courts. “But as the business model for local newspapers has become more challenging, we have not had a dedicated courts and criminal justice reporter in some time. We are so pleased to have Gabi covering these important topics."
“We look forward to partnering with the Herald-Tribune and helping to support your corps member,” said Kim Kleman, senior vice president of Report for America. “There are few beats more essential to communities than courts coverage. We’re happy to help you deepen this coverage with the addition of Gabriela Szymanowska to your team.”
Szymanowska is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and worked as a public safety and breaking news reporter for the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., following internships with the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel and News21 in Phoenix, Ariz. She has received several awards for her work, including being part of the team from the Carnegie-Knight News21 program to win the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Human
Rights College Journalism Award for “Kids Imprisoned.”
"I am thrilled to join the Sarasota Herald-Tribune covering crucial issues in the judicial system that impact so many people every day. I joined Report For America because I believe in the importance of local journalism in helping to get communities the information they need to make decisions that affect their daily lives," Szymanowska said. "I'm excited to diligently work to get the answers the people need from the judicial system to strengthen their community."
As part of the Report for America service program's goal to foster deeper ties between local news organizations and their communities, Szymanowska will create and execute a community service program during her time in Sarasota.
How to Help
Readers can help support the Herald-Tribune's Report for America corps member by going to bit.ly/HTRFA, contacting RFA@heraldtribune.com or by sending a tax-deductible donation to Herald-Tribune/RFA, 1777 Main St., Sarasota, FL, 34236. Please make checks payable to GroundTruth Project/RFA .
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SAN DIEGO — Diesel fuel prices have surged, with a spike of 22.6 cents nationally over the past week, now sitting at a record high of $5.52 a gallon, according to GasBuddy.
But in California it’s a full dollar more at a whopping $6.51 a gallon, according to AAA.
This price surge could end up pushing the cost of goods up even more.
“It’s already affected the trucking industry,” said Bob van der Valk, a retired Chevron employee from San Diego. “They have a fuel surcharge on most of their deliveries and they’re collecting it because right now it’s supply, supply, supply,”
One factor affecting diesel supply is the high demand for air travel right now as people are flying more.
“Kerosene is a clean diesel and is what’s used in jet fuel,” said van der Valk. “It’s in high demand right now and it takes away from the regular diesel fuel production at the refineries,”
With inflation at a 40-year high of 8.5%, this price hike for diesel could mean even higher prices for everything from groceries to lumber and other products.
“86% of things that we eat, and wear come on a truck, so therefore you’re going to see an increase in that because it needs fuel to get there,” said Phillip Harris, training coordinator for United Truck Driving School in Mission Valley.
Harris has 18 years under his belt in the trucking industry and he says diesel hikes like these end up passed along to the consumer.
“It is frustrating,” said Harris. “It’s going to go into the cost that I have to charge my customer and that’s not necessarily what I want to charge them, but I have to make a living and keep this truck on the road with the fuel, so it is hard for the owner/operator,”
With our economy so dependent on transportation and supply chains, Phillip says record-breaking price increases like we’re seeing will likely have an impact on what we pay for everyday products.
“The supply chain is what keeps our nation healthy and growing and once we start to get into that supply chain, it starts to affect a lot of things,” said Harris. “Everything we eat, wear, and drink comes on a truck.”
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SAN DIEGO — A new statewide survey is out, and Californians are less satisfied with the direction of the state than they were in 2020.
The California Community poll was conducted by Strategies 360, LA Times and several California nonprofit organizations.
The survey also finds that Californians strongly value higher education, but because of how expensive it is, many say it’s not worth the student debt they’ll have when they graduate.
Now, other pathways like two-year community colleges and vocational schools are becoming more popular.
CBS 8’s Anna Laurel went to San Diego City College to see what the hype is about.
Lauryn Dacosta is just three weeks from finishing her first semester at San Diego City College.
“The school to be a doctor, it’s a little too much for me," said Dacosta. "And this program, it’s two years. This is right up my alley,”
She’ll graduate in December of 2023 and once she passes her test, she’ll have her registered nursing license.
“You don’t need your bachelor’s degree to work as a nurse at all," said Dacosta. "So, after this program, I could go, and work and I would be doing the same job as people who have their bachelor’s degree.”
And it’s that realization that attracts millions of students into the California Community College System.
“First generation, low income, middle class, students trying to figure out where they want to major," said San Diego Community College President, Ricky Shabazz. "This is the place to get a world class education where the average Californian has access,"
According to that new statewide California Community Poll, most Californians don’t believe the average person has access to CSU or UC.
- 60% believe UC is unaffordable.
- 55% believe Cal State is unaffordable.
San Diego State University’s website says the cost for the 2022-2023 academic year is anywhere from $23,912 to $32,134.
Most people in the survey do not believe a four-year degree is necessary to get ahead. 63% of people said other pathways like two-year community colleges and vocational schools can lead to financial success.
Only 33% said a four-year degree is needed.
SDCC President Shabazz points to a program his school does with SDG&E.
“You can come to city college, major in our electrician program which is about a year and a half, two-year program, apply to get into the apprenticeship program," said Shabazz. "Which is another three years and at the end of those three years, you could be making upwards of $200,000 with virtually little debt or no debt.”
It’s that debt at the end of the education that makes the difference for people.
Shabazz says 90% of the more than 15,000 students at San Diego Community College are on scholarships, grants, and fee waivers.
For Freshman Dacosta, she’s ready to make some real money.
“I'm ready to wrap it up. I wanted to finish my school and join the workforce,” said Dacosta.
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ROCHESTER, Minn.- Rochester Public Schools is looking to add more diversity to its staff and they're launching a new initiative to make it happen.
Starting this summer, the district is focusing on recruitment support for teachers of color.
According to Superintendent Dr. Kent Pekel only 4.4 percent of licensed teachers are persons of color. Dr. Pekel says its critical for all students to learn from teachers with diverse backgrounds.
"A series of recent studies have shown that if a student of color has just one African American teacher, the benefits for them over the course of outcomes over the course of their career is really just extraordinary. In some ways that is hard to understand but if you think about it it really re-frames school
Teacher Natalia Benjamin says adding more diverse teachers will improve student interactions and set them up for success.
"As the staff in schools can represent the community where we live, our students will feel more part of this school and that there's the ability to just integrate the home environment into the school environment."
The district will share the plan with the school board on June 21. Pekel is predicting they will vote for it since they've been supportive of the idea.
RPS plans on launching targeted outreach programs to colleges to recruit more diverse teachers
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Temple University has paid $3.95 million to purchase 2000 N. Broad St., an historic building on its campus that had been used for years to house a fraternity, the Philadelphia Business Journal reports.
The 14,545-square-foot building was sold by Temple 2000 GHA LLC, an affiliate of Greek Housing Alliance of Bala Cynwyd.
Temple isn't certain how it will eventually use the building.
“For now, the plan is to secure the site and hold on to it in the immediate future,” said Steve Orbanek, a spokesman for Temple. “Over the next couple of years, we will be completing a campus master plan, and we hope that that will provide us with some guidance on how we ultimately proceed with this parcel.”
Read more about the historic North Philadelphia building sale at PBJ.com.
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Police are looking for two suspects who flashed guns and punched a 36-year-old food delivery worker, then stole the food and $5 before fleeing the Brooklyn scene over the weekend, authorities say.
The victim was delivering food to a building on Lefferts Avenue around 9:20 p.m. Saturday when the two suspects cornered him in the lobby, according to police and surveillance footage.
The two showed guns and beat up the worker before stealing the food and cash, along with his phone, authorities say. The worker chased them out of the building, at which point one of the two suspects fired a gun in his direction.
He wasn't hit and refused medical attention at the scene, officials said. The suspects ran off.
Police released surveillance footage of the incident (above). Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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The 26-year-old woman accused of callously shoving an 87-year-old voice coach in an alleged unprovoked attack on a Manhattan street two months ago has been ordered held without bail by a judge who cited the nature of the crime and the defendant's potential as a flight risk in announcing the decision on Tuesday.
Lauren Pazienza was indicted last month on charges including manslaughter and assault in the March 10 push of Barbara Gustern, who was just steps away from her Chelsea home the night of the attack. Gustern suffered traumatic brain damage when she fell to the ground and hit her head on the sidewalk.
She died five days later.
Neither Pazienza's lawyer nor her parents spoke to reporters as they left court Tuesday. The Long Island woman faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
Prosecutors allege Pazienza behaved guiltily in the aftermath of the sidewalk attack near West 28th Street and Eighth Avenue, deleting her entire online presence including her wedding website, despite being slated to get married in June, and fleeing to her parents' home in Port Jefferson, on Long Island.
She also allegedly stopped using her cellphone, which prosecutors say she stashed at an aunt's house so as to avoid being found by police.
An anonymous tip on March 19 identifying Pazienza as the suspect in the attack led the NYPD to her parents' door two days later. Her father answered, telling police his daughter wasn't home and that they were not allowed in, according to prosecutors.
Her surrender was arranged soon after. And a jarring narrative began to emerge.
Prosecutors allege Pazienza crossed the street and cursed at Gustern before violently shoving her to the ground. The elderly woman was left bleeding profusely before a witness helped her into the lobby of her building where she recalled what happened, telling police the push was "as hard as she had ever been hit in her life."
She was dead within the week.
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Her attacker appeared to briskly walk off after the incident. Surveillance video from an avenue away minutes after the attack showed a woman matching Pazienza's description walking in the same direction a witness told police the attacker went.
Security video showed Pazienza in and around the area for almost a half-hour after the attack, according to prosecutors. About seven minutes after the shove, she was seen in a physical altercation with a man believed to be her fiancé, prosecutors said.
They also allege Pazienza was later seen watching the ambulance as it arrived at the scene to take Gustern to the hospital.
Additional surveillance footage tracked Pazienza to Penn Station, where police were able to get a clearer image of her, prosecutors said. She and her fiancé were later seen at the transit hub, where both swiped his MetroCard. Detectives were able to track the pair back to their home in Astoria, where video showed Pazienza and her fiancé enter their building about 90 minutes after the attack, prosecutors said.
She was wearing the same clothes as the woman who was seen crossing Ninth Avenue immediately following the attack, they added.
Paziena surrendered to authorities on March 22, with lawyer Arthur Aidala at her side. At the time, Aidala blasted the charges as overblown. He said they were looking forward to seeing the evidence and "trying to get to the bottom of what happened that day," calling what happened to Gustern a "tragedy."
Aidala also said there's no evidence his client watched the victim lying on the street, and that video could show anyone watching. He also implied that the evidence was unclear, saying the push could have been accidental.
"Whether it was a push, whether it was a shove, whether it was a kick or whether someone tripped — the evidence is not very solid on that at all," he said.
Pazienza is said to be a former event planner. A former employer, French high-end furniture and home accessory designer and retailer Roche Bobois, said the woman resigned from her role in December.
According to The New York Times, Gustern was an acclaimed singing coach who once helped train rock singer Debbie Harry and the cast of the 2019 Broadway revival of the musical "Oklahoma!"
A neighbor said that Gustern used to perform on Broadway herself, along with her late husband.
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The Cincinnati Bengals have selected Kettering Health as the team’s official health care partner for at least the next decade.
The partnership, which became official this morning, is aimed at both entities creating a larger platform together to raise health awareness and to allow each to reach more people.
“This is really exciting for our community, for our organization, for our teams,” said Tim Dutton, executive vice president of mission, brand and people for the Dayton-based health network. “This is (a) partnership ... that will develop health programs, initiatives that will help everyone in the greater Ohio area, I think aspirationally, live better lives.”
Terms of the 10-year partnership were not released.
The goal is that the partnership becomes a “transformative” one for the community, according to Dr. Thomas Graham, Kettering Health’s chief innovation officer and an orthopedic hand surgeon with decades of experience across the NFL and other professional sports.
Dutton said Kettering Health over the last year has become a “preeminent destination” for the care of the professional athlete, with about 100 of them coming to Dayton in that time to seek care within the health system. In addition, Kettering Health has established itself as a destination for care for people nationwide, Graham said
“Read the newspapers across the country and across the world the last couple of weeks,” he said. “I think everybody knows that we are in the game here and it just so happens that taking care of the active individual is very much at the very nucleus of what we do.”
One of the areas that will see an immediate impact from the partnership is the NFL’s Crucial Catch “Intercept Cancer” program. The effort focuses on informing, educating and inspiring people to get the necessary cancer screenings that are vital to maintain health.
“We’ll actually be working with the Bengals and the NFL to promote cancer screenings year round,” Dutton said. “Cancer is a year-round issue, so it really needs year-round education. I think that’s one of the most exciting elements of this partnership, because it uses the platform that the NFL has to actually impact people’s lives locally.”
Under the partnership, Bengals’ rookies will visit a local school to participate at an NFL Youth Flag Football event designed to teach children how to play flag football.. Other cooperative initiatives to set the groundwork for a healthier future are planned.
As a health care provider, Kettering Health is “uniquely positioned” to provide those screenings through its comprehensive cancer programs, Dutton said.
Kettering Health will provide in-stadium care at five clinics located throughout Paul Brown Stadium during the upcoming Garth Brooks concerts, and the organizations are collaborating on additional medical coverage for events at the stadium, Dutton said.
Dayton has been a longtime and critical part of the Bengals’ fanbase, according to Elizabeth Blackburn, the franchise’s director of strategy and engagement. The Bengals partnership with Kettering Health unlocks a new level of engagement in the Dayton community.
Blackburn said one of the things that brought the two organizations together was how similar they are when it comes to goal for the community.
“The brand alignment in our core values, specifically Kettering Health’s passion for innovation and excellence, is something that aligns perfectly with what we here at the Bengals are all about” she said. “We felt like they have great people and a very impressive leadership team. We think that this partnership has a ton of potential and we’re very excited to get that going.”
Partnerships between sports organizations and health care systems are something that is “pretty well established paradigms,” Graham said.
“They seek true partnership, true alignment philosophically,” Graham said. “You’re looking for supplementary and complimentary ways to celebrate what each individual organization respectively can accomplish, but multiply that by what they can collectively accomplish.”
Both have people working together to inspire people to live healthier lifestyles, he said.
“The synergy that can be generated when two championship organizations come together, that’s what makes this incredibly exciting, not only for our organization, not only just for the Bengals, but the entire citizenry of Southwest Ohio,” Graham said.
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UTICA, N.Y. – A fire broke out on the second floor of a vacant home on Park Avenue in Utica Tuesday morning.
The fire started just before 8 a.m.
Fire officials say no one was injured, but there is extensive damage to the home.
According to Fire Chief Scott Ingersoll, the conditions inside the home presented some challenges.
"At this time, the house is reportedly abandoned. We did find the front door open when companies arrived. There are hoarding like conditions inside the structure, meaning that there's just a lot of contents right now. When companies arrived, they tried to do a primary search of the first and second floors, but they were driven out by the amount of fire we found in the building," he said.
The cause is still under investigation.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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Retail gasoline prices nationwide rose again today, hitting another all-time record and eclipsing one set in March,
The average cost of a retail gallon of gasoline hit $4.37 this morning, according to the American Automobile Association, surpassing the former record of $4.33.
Today’s gas price was a 17-cent increase from the week before, according to AAA. In Ohio, prices rose 23 cents to $4.18. a gallon compared to the prior week. Dayton, Springfield and Cincinnati saw prices jump by 30 cents, 33 cents and 26 cents, respectively, in the course of a week.
The increase is primarily due to the high cost of crude oil, which was hovering near $100 a barrel last week and is now closing in on $110.
“With the cost of oil accounting for more than half of the pump price, more expensive oil means more expensive gasoline,” Andrew Gross, AAA spokesperson, said in a statement. “These prices are creeping closer to those record high levels of early March.”
Prices could continue to climb through Memorial Day as summer road trip season begins and oil prices remain volatile, according to Patrick De Haan, of Gasbuddy.com. In addition, the soaring price of diesel also set a new all-time record of $5.53 per gallon today.
Hikes in price cycling states such as Ohio contributed to the surge in the nationwide average, De Haan said on Twitter.
A price-cycling pattern is where stations ignore minor fluctuations in the market on a daily basis. Instead, most stations undercut each other a penny or two each day until they run out of margin, De Haan previously told this news outlet.
“That is, until they’re no longer making any money and then a retailer will raise their price 25 to 40 cents a gallon to pass along any price difference and to restore their margin to maybe 15 to 20 cents a gallon,” he previously said.
“The rise in the national average should cool by later this week,” De Haan said today.
The nation’s top 10 largest weekly increases as of Monday were Michigan (+26 cents), New Jersey (+25 cents), Connecticut (+19 cents), Kentucky (+19 cents), Indiana (+19 cents), Rhode Island (+19 cents), Illinois (+18 cents), Washington, D.C. (+18 cents), Alabama (+18 cents) and Tennessee (+18 cents).
The top 10 most expensive markets as of Monday were California ($5.82), Hawaii ($5.28), Nevada ($5.11), Washington ($4.83), Oregon ($4.81), Alaska ($4.73), Washington, D.C. ($4.69), Arizona ($4.66), Illinois ($4.59) and New York ($4.51).
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Want to do something to benefit your community? You can donate a bag of food this week
About 80,000 pounds of food. It's a lot, enough for more than 70,000 meals.
It's an estimate of the amount of food not collected the past two years during the National Association of Letter Carriers "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive, which was called off in 2020 and 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
This month, Stamp Out Hunger is back. About 60,000 bags have been delivered to mailboxes in Monroe County. In 2019, they came back filled with 42,432 pounds of canned goods, pasta, cereal and other shelf-stable foods.
The initiative grew out of a 10-city experiment in 1991 where USPS letter carriers delivered an empty grocery sack with citizens' mail along with a note asking them to fill it with nonperishable food. It went nationwide in 1993 and by 2010, more than a billion pounds of food had been collected.
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Julio Alonso, Hoosier Hills Food Bank's executive director, got word in April the food drive, the biggest one benefitting the local food bank, would happen in 2022.
"It was a big blow for us, not having it those two years," he said. "One fortunate thing in the pandemic was we saw grants and donations of money go up significantly, and so we were able to do a lot more food purchases."
That helped make up for direct food donation shortages in 2020, then in 2021 as pandemic shutdowns and ramifications continued. "We were kind of prepared for not having it a third year, then got word from the letter carriers that it was on," Alonso said Monday afternoon.
Over the past month, food bank volunteers have folded 60,000 donated plastic grocery sacks into eighths and stapled a 4-by-6-inch information card to each one. They usually get started in February, but were rushed this year since notice of the food drive didn't come until April.
The bags are collected on the second Saturday in May, because the spring is when holiday-time donations start to run out, leaving food pantry shelves bare.
Some people fill the provided bag, some put food into boxes, some leave a can of peaches or green beans inside their mailbox.
Alonso pointed out Congress didn't extend the expanded child tax credit, increasing the number of children living in poverty. Pandemic-based SNAP benefit extensions end this month.
The food bank issued a news release encouraging citizens to participate and fill a bag for Stamp Out Hunger. "We’re hoping the community will embrace the food drive as they did before the pandemic,” it said.
Donations should be nonperishable, not past their expiration date and in not in glass containers. They can be left in or near a person's mailbox, or taken to one of Bloomington's two post office sites from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, May 13.
In highest demand donation-wise, Alonso said, is canned fruit.
Fresh Friday returns May 27
Speaking of fruit, Hoosier Hills Food Bank's Fresh Friday returns on May 27, and will continue on the fourth Friday of each month through September. The program started a few years ago and was just one day in the summer, when people would come to get fresh produce.
In 2020, as the food bank saw an increase in the number of people seeking food assistance, the fresh food program was expanded to every other Friday. Nonperishable foods, along with dairy products and frozen meats, were added to the produce-heavy donation boxes.
The final Fresh Friday distribution that summer served 1,100 households, Alonso said. Twice-a-month events continued during 2021, when the number of households seeking food decreased to 400.
This summer, the drive-through program will offer food, one box per household, on the following dates from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.: May 27, June 24, July 22, Aug. 26 and Sept. 23. The food bank is at 2333 W. Industrial Park Drive.
"We're not sure what to expect as far as numbers," Alonso said. "We're packing boxes right now."
Contact reporter Laura Lane at llane@heraldt.com, 812-331-4362 or 812-318-5967.
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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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