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Flagler County Chair Joe Mullins to trooper giving him speeding ticket: ‘I run the county’
When Flagler County Commission Chairman Joe Mullins was stopped for speeding June 19 in a red Ferrari, he told a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, “I run the county,” as heard on a dash cam video.
Mullins was driving a 2013 Ferrari convertible sports car when he was pulled over on northbound Interstate 95 at mile marker 287 in Flagler County. Mullins' Ferrari was traveling 92 mph in a 70-mph zone, according to the citation.
It’s hard to hear everything on the audio. But the trooper was explaining the process to Mullins when he pauses and says “I’m sorry?”
“I run the county,” Mullins said.
“You run the county?” the trooper said.
The trooper then said he just has to explain things to Mullins before telling him his options for the citation.
After the trooper told him he was free to go, Mullins quickly drove away, as seen in the dash cam footage.
It was the second time in two weeks that FHP had stopped 51-year-old Mullins for speeding.
Two troopers stopped Mullins on June 2 when he was ticketed for driving a gray 2018 Mercedes Benz SUV 89 mph in a 60-mph zone in the express lane eastbound on Interstate 4 around mile marker 91, according to the citation, which said Mullins' actual speed was 91.7 mph.
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The FHP report described Mullins as a “county commissioner” and “extremely condescending, belligerent, illogical and disrespectful,” and noted that he “flashed his business card to get out of ticket.”
The trooper who spoke to Mullins is heard in the dash cam footage warning him that if he gets out of the SUV, he will be arrested.
According to the dispatch notes from FHP, Mullins “stated it would be a carrer [sic] ending move if I arrested him for failing to obey a lawful order.”
The dispatch notes also stated that Mullins accused the troopers of putting “everybody’s lives at risk to pull him over.”
The audio on the dash cam is difficult to hear because of the noise from passing vehicles.
After walking back to one of the patrol cars after the initial contact with Mullins, the trooper tells his colleague that Mullins "said he was a county commissioner."
"Yeah, well, he's getting a ticket," the other trooper said, later asking, "What county?"
"Flagler" the other said.
The troopers return to Mullins’ car and there is more discussion.
"Ready to leave?" a trooper asks.
The trooper tells Mullins if he stays he will get a parking ticket.
"If you get out this car, you're going to jail" the trooper says moments later.
There are some more words exchanged between them. The trooper tells Mullins that their interaction is being audio and video recorded.
"You ready to leave?" the trooper asks.
Mullins then drives away.
In the June 19 incident involving the Ferrari, Mullins wrote an undated letter filed June 20 addressed to the Flagler County magistrate judge asking that no points be assessed on his license and his record “not be noted if possible.”
He continued: “On Father’s Day while preparing for family to come into town and running behind in my work schedule rushing between meetings, I was pulled over on I-95 for speeding. I lost track of time while and while taking calls and dealing with traffic knowing I was behind schedule, I was not paying attention to my speed nor the limit.”
Mullins was ordered by traffic hearing officer Thomas Pycraft to take a four-hour driver improvement course. Pycraft withheld adjudication on the traffic citation, which means no points would be assessed against Mullins' driving record.
In the June 2 incident, Mullins paid $256 and completed a four-hour basic driver improvement course, according to records at the Seminole County Clerk of Courts office.
Adjudication was withheld on June 30 against Mullins by the clerk, according to Seminole County Clerk of Court records.
Mullins wrote a letter dated June 6 and filed June 24 in Seminole County Court to the magistrate judge saying that when he was stopped for speeding he had been on a conference call, behind schedule and was not paying attention to his speed. Mullins incorrectly wrote the incident happened on Interstate 95.
“I am asking for lenience as I am gladly to pay in full the amount owed but would like the assessed points and my record not to be noted if possible,” Mullins wrote.
Mullins also wrote: “I commit in the future to pay more attention to my speed and be aware of my time so it will not put me in a rush situation.”
Mullins, who is running for reelection to his District 4 seat, had not returned a request for comment from The News-Journal as of press time. | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/flagler/2022/07/12/flagler-county-chair-joe-mullins-speeding-ticket-florida-trooper/10036353002/ | 2022-07-13T10:46:49 | 0 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/flagler/2022/07/12/flagler-county-chair-joe-mullins-speeding-ticket-florida-trooper/10036353002/ |
NSB approves donating 3 properties to Habitat for Humanity affordable housing
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — The New Smyrna Beach City Commission last week approved donating three city-owned properties to be developed for affordable housing.
The commission considered four applications and made the donations to Habitat for Humanity — a global nonprofit housing organization.
“We have a huge need, and it is becoming ever more challenging to find individuals that can afford housing given the constraints,” Mark Billings, executive director for Habitat for Humanity, told city commissioners.
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Every three years, Florida Statute 166.0451 requires municipalities to identify city-owned properties that are appropriate for use as affordable housing and put them up for sale or donation.
After almost a year of analyzing which properties would be best suited for this use, commissioners in May identified and approved four properties to be listed for donation. These empty-lot properties are located at 2524 Nordman Ave., 2519 Auburn Ave., 708 Francis Ave., and 349 Palm St.
The four properties were then listed on the city's website and the city received applications from Habitat for Humanity and the New Smyrna Beach Housing Authority.
Billings told commissioners that it didn’t matter which organization was awarded the properties.
“The only wrong decision is not to make a decision for these to go to help affordable housing,” he said.
The nonprofit proposed single-family home projects, while the city Housing Authority proposed duplexes, which would not be allowed in the R-2 zoning district where they are located. Teresa Pope, executive director for the Housing Authority, did say that there would be no problem changing the proposed homes to single-family.
City Commissioner Michael Kolody said that the Housing Authority “should not look upon this as a rejection of their performance” after commissioners voted to donate the properties to Habitat for Humanity.
“It will certainly move quicker, because it is a private entity,” he said.
Kolody also mentioned that the city Housing Authority is devoting much of its attention to the ongoing Greenlawn Manor, a $23 million senior affordable housing project. It consists of a three-story building with 80 individual living units.
“Affordable housing has certainly always been an issue in this town, as well as many others,” Kolody said.
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Billings added that the projects would benefit the city’s finances (as the properties will be sold and returned to the tax rolls) and those in the community who most struggle with housing prices.
“Affordable housing — for those individuals that are deserving and can afford it, such as our police officers, teachers, firefighters, first responders, exactly those individuals that are deserving a hand up — breaks the cycle of poverty,” Billings said. “This is an opportunity for us to take the cost out and make it more affordable.”
City Commissioner Randy Hartman said that affordable housing has been "a passion" of his for several years.
“I can’t tell you how many times I have heard ‘I wish my son could find a place to live here,’ but there’s no affordable housing,” Hartman said. “The only way that you really are going to make these homes affordable is by reducing some of the costs — either the permitting fees (waivers) or land donations. I think we need to move forward.”
Pope echoed Billings’ view that the properties would be in good hands with either organization and highlighted the current need facing the community.
“It’s our servers, our cooks, our housekeepers, our housekeeping staff, our bus drivers, our grocery and department store workers, our trash collectors, our teachers — the ones who serve us and our families,” Pope said. “If they no longer exist, who is going to serve us?”
The average income of those currently being assisted by the housing authority is $24,817.
“The annual household income needed to afford a two-bedroom rental, at fair market rent, is $51,619. The average household size is 2.8 people. Over 70% of (residents being served by the Housing Authority) are working families, and the others are seniors and disabled residents who make less than $1,000 a month. A two-bedroom apartment in New Smyrna Beach is over $1,200 a month,” Pope said. “This doesn’t add up.”
Francis Ave. property denied after neighbors push back
Although commissioners showed support for the initiative and for affordable housing in the city in general, they did not approve donating the property located at 708 Francis Ave.
The property is an empty lot of green space with a tree canopy where nearby residents enjoy spending time. The adjoining property at 706 Francis Ave. is also undeveloped and was considered for donation before the City Commission decided on the other four properties.
Francis Avenue resident Kelsey Hansen-Walter, who lives across the street from the lots, told commissioners that she and her husband were opposed to the lots’ donation, citing sections of the city charter that require the city’s commitment to environmental stewardship.
“The neighborhood needs the two lots to remain green spaces, which has been promised by you to remain so,” Hansen-Walter said. “This, among many other reasons, is why we urge you not to donate the (Francis Avenue) lots for development and consider rezoning them from residential to actual parks and green spaces.”
Francis Avenue resident Michael Shannon mentioned that residents maintain the lots and encouraged commissioners to officially make them a public park area.
City Commissioner Jake Sachs agreed with the residents who wanted the area to remain a green space.
“A lot of people know how I value parks,” Sachs said. “I support, of course, affordable housing, but if my colleagues and the organizations, Habitat and the Housing Authority, would be willing to forgo that property and leave that as a passive park, it would also be a tremendous asset.”
He said that he is willing to look at more opportunities for affordable housing projects in the future.
“Green space is something that’s diminishing in our city, and I am trying to hold on to that dearly,” Sachs added
New Smyrna Beach Vice Mayor Jason McGuirk reiterated that he would not support donating the Francis Avenue property “at this time or likely in the future” after hearing from residents.
“At this point, I’m not comfortable with moving forward with the (708 Francis Ave.) location,” he said. “Nine residents have come out and expressed concern, and I haven’t had anyone else come up on any of the (other) properties.”
After voting to reject that property’s donation, commissioners directed city staff to meet with area residents to discuss what would be the best course of action for 708 Francis Ave. | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2022/07/13/affordable-housing-new-smyrna-beach-donates-3-properties-to-habitat-for-humanity/7818753001/ | 2022-07-13T10:46:55 | 0 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2022/07/13/affordable-housing-new-smyrna-beach-donates-3-properties-to-habitat-for-humanity/7818753001/ |
OLD FORGE, Pa. — A fire damaged a house late Tuesday night in Lackawanna County.
The calls came in just after midnight in Old Forge.
Firefighters knocked down the flames at a home on Casey Avenue.
Crews tell us everyone inside made it out okay.
Officials think the fire started in the garage but it's too early to tell.
See news happening? Text our Newstip Hotline. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/fire-damages-home-casey-avenue-old-forge-late-night-flames-lackawanan-county/523-3d0e03b0-c52a-404d-b7ec-47bc0f67d4cb | 2022-07-13T11:07:10 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/fire-damages-home-casey-avenue-old-forge-late-night-flames-lackawanan-county/523-3d0e03b0-c52a-404d-b7ec-47bc0f67d4cb |
SCRANTON, Pa. — It may not be the weekend yet, but it is "fry-day" at Cooper's Seafood House in Scranton.
The seafood restaurant is launching their french fry fundraiser Wednesday night for Go Joe 25.
They're coated in old bay seasoning and topped with crab!
For every order, Cooper's will make a donation to St. Joseph's Center.
There is a launch party set for 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 13. Joe will be there.
For more Go Joe stories, check out WNEP's Youtube page. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/french-fry-fundraiser-st-josephs-center-go-joe-25-coopers-seafood-house-scranton/523-ed1eb242-8f12-43c2-849c-08a35d4683b7 | 2022-07-13T11:07:16 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/french-fry-fundraiser-st-josephs-center-go-joe-25-coopers-seafood-house-scranton/523-ed1eb242-8f12-43c2-849c-08a35d4683b7 |
MOOSIC, Pa. — A crash on Interstate 81 in Lackawanna County sent three people to the hospital.
It happened around 2:30 Wednesday morning on the southbound side near Moosic.
State police say three people went to the hospital.
Troopers say two vehicles collided, but they're not sure how it happened.
Traffic was down to one lane but has since reopened.
See news happening? Text our Newstip Hotline. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/three-taken-to-hospital-after-crash-lackawanna-county-interstate-81-moosic/523-711f6ddb-176d-4c26-9863-6a188c5e56e1 | 2022-07-13T11:07:22 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/three-taken-to-hospital-after-crash-lackawanna-county-interstate-81-moosic/523-711f6ddb-176d-4c26-9863-6a188c5e56e1 |
INDIANAPOLIS — This year's Indiana State Fair gets underway July 29, and you'll be able to enjoy everything you've come to expect from the fair, plus lots of new experiences.
NOTE: The above video is a previous report on the Indiana State Fair's theme for 2022.
On Wednesday, fair officials shared an expansive list of new — and back by popular demand — attractions, including:
- The Canine Stars Stunt Dog Show will be held at the MHS Family Fun Park from Aug. 3 through Aug. 21. Daily free shows (with paid fair admission) will be at noon, 3 p.m., and 5:30 p.m.
- The baby farm animals and their moms in Momma Town at the Expo Hall, every day of the fair from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- The Flying Fools High Dive show, daily at 12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 5 p.m., and 7 p.m.
- Back from the 2021 Indiana State Fair, Strongman Mighty Mike's show will be free to watch (with paid fair admission) daily along Main Street at 1 p.m., 3:30 p.m., and 6 p.m.
- The Backyard Brats & Brews will expand in 2022, with more games, new seating areas and daily entertainment.
- The USA Mullet Championships is set for 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 30.
- The State Fair Hot Air Balloon Night Glow returns on opening day, Friday, July 29, at 9 p.m. The event is free with fair admission.
The Indiana State Fair is 18 days of entertainment for the entire family. You'll enjoy all the usual agriculture education programs and youth events, as well as a wide array of fun attractions, food and much more.
Fairgoers are encouraged to buy tickets early to save up to 40%. Tickets are available online at the state fair's website, and discounts end at 11:59 p.m. on July 28.
The fair runs from July 29 through Aug. 21, closed Mondays and Tuesdays. You'll find everything you need to know here. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana-state-fair-unveils-more-new-attractions-2022/531-2b7ae7d0-226c-4ba9-9a35-d459cd256d5d | 2022-07-13T11:17:26 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana-state-fair-unveils-more-new-attractions-2022/531-2b7ae7d0-226c-4ba9-9a35-d459cd256d5d |
ATLANTIC CITY — The state and Atlantic County on Wednesday will be in state Superior Court for a hearing on potential damages a new casino payment-in-lieu-of-taxes law may have caused.
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The hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. and Judge Michael J. Blee will preside of the hearing.
County officials sued the state in December after state lawmakers passed a bill that amended the original PILOT program, which went into effect in 2017.
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The changes including adjusting the definition of casino gross gaming revenue so it only includes bets made in person and removes any wagers made online. Gross gaming revenue is one of three factors used to determine how much the industry will pay in PILOT.
The new law cut the county’s share of revenue by as much as $26 million over the next five years, according to county estimates.
Earlier this year, Judge Blee affirmed a previous court decision that said the change to PILOT breached a settlement agreement the County and the State had reached in 2018.
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The county in 2017 had sued the state over the original PILOT legislation, and the settlement awarded the county about 13% per year of the total PILOT paid by casinos, based on all casino revenues — brick and mortar, internet and sports betting.
Since 2017, casinos have made PILOT payments instead of paying property taxes as a way of stabilizing finances for Atlantic City. The casinos had successfully sued the city to lower their property tax assessments, sending city finances spiraling and putting the municipality at risk of bankruptcy. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/pilot-lawsuit-hearing-set-for-wednesday/article_90bafab2-0220-11ed-bd2a-d35abaf55ea0.html | 2022-07-13T11:25:30 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/pilot-lawsuit-hearing-set-for-wednesday/article_90bafab2-0220-11ed-bd2a-d35abaf55ea0.html |
The Oregon Institute for Marine Biology in Charleston will hast Dr. James Carlton from Wilton College for a talk about "The Age of Invasions Meets the Age of Plastics: How Tsunamis, Storms, Megarafting, Coastal Development, and Climate Change May All be Related.”
The public is invited to hear Carlton speak about his research on tsunami debris and rafting of invasive species on Wednesday, July 13, at 7 p.m. His talk will be held in the OIMB Boathouse Auditorium at the end of Boat Basin Road. Please park at OIMB or along Boat Basin Road and walk past the Coast Guard housing to the OIMB boathouse auditorium.
Carlton is a professor emeritus of marine sciences at Williams College (MA) and director emeritus of the Williams College-Mystic Seaport Ocean & Coastal Studies Program. His research focuses on the environmental history of coastal marine ecosystems, including invasions of non-native species.
Carlton is the only scientist to receive the Interagency Recognition Award from the U.S. federal government for his national and international work to reduce the impacts of exotic species invasions in the sea, among many other awards. His seminar will address the Great Japan earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 which ejected into the Pacific Ocean millions of rafting objects which carried 100s of living Japanese species to North America and Hawaii. Remarkably the tsunami debris field with living species from Japan continued to arrive in 2021-2022. This event provided a unique opportunity to study transoceanic rafting of coastal species and an unexpected window into the discovery of a neopelagic community. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/oimb-to-host-public-talk-on-the-age-of-invasions/article_49d0131c-0086-11ed-add7-472a8ef4b091.html | 2022-07-13T11:29:18 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/oimb-to-host-public-talk-on-the-age-of-invasions/article_49d0131c-0086-11ed-add7-472a8ef4b091.html |
DES MOINES, Iowa — UPDATE: She was found as of 10:18 p.m. June 12, according to police.
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An 11-year-old girl is missing from Des Moines.
Police said they needed help locating Kloe Sharpe, who was reported missing at 2 p.m. Tuesday after "voluntarily" leaving her home.
She was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, white Nike shoes, jeans and was carrying a blue Nike bag. She is 5 feet tall and weighs around 115 lbs.
If you have any information regarding her location or believe that you've seen her, police ask that you call 911.
Local 5 will update this story as more information becomes available. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/11-year-old-missing-des-moines-police-department/524-0501e26a-9f79-4bd5-a1ab-ab21f4129e0b | 2022-07-13T11:42:21 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/11-year-old-missing-des-moines-police-department/524-0501e26a-9f79-4bd5-a1ab-ab21f4129e0b |
DES MOINES, Iowa — Yesterday, Des Moines City Council member Indira Scheumaker released a statement in response to questions of her absence at past city council meetings.
She says the effects of COVID-19 has increased her struggle with clinical depression and anxiety.
Two years into the pandemic, Leslie Carpenter with Iowa Mental Health Advocacy says mental health help is still in high demand.
“We are seeing less access for people to get the mental health care that they need, at the same time as we're seeing more people needing it," Carpenter said.
Mental Health Professional and Clinical Manager of the Iowa House of Mercy Mollie Michelfelder echoes those comments and worries. She believes that there aren't enough accessible resources to go around.
“We know that overdoses are have increased, we know that suicides have increased, we've certainly seen an increase in both the need for mental health assessments and the need for substance abuse assessments,” Michelfelder said. “And the difficulty with that is that there are often long wait times to connect with those services.”
Being separated from connections due to social distancing is a large reason we're seeing an increase in need for mental help, according to experts.
“I believe a big factor in this is the isolation that has been part and parcel of the pandemic," Michelfelder said. "And isolation, we know, breeds mental illness itself and also substance abuse. What we also know is that connection is what heals us."
According to Carpenter, it's important to prioritize overall health as opposed to focusing on the physical or mental side of things.
"It's equally important because mental health is physical health, it is medical health," she said. "It is critical that we're thinking about taking care of ourselves in every single way."
Carpenter also says that grief is a large reason people are struggling after the pandemic — many of us know someone who lost their life to the virus.
Both Carpenter and Michelfelder say that being your own advocate and reaching out for help is the best thing you can do. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/covid-19-mental-health-impact/524-8f24ab00-a31f-4c14-868b-dc15914806b1 | 2022-07-13T11:42:22 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/covid-19-mental-health-impact/524-8f24ab00-a31f-4c14-868b-dc15914806b1 |
BUCHANAN COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — Oakwood Fire and Rescue posted late Tuesday night to warn the community about flooding in several areas.
In a Facebook post, the rescue squad revealed the flooding caused bad driving conditions, mudslides and debris on the road. Buchanan County Sheriff John Mclanahan told News Channel 11 that the following areas are affected:
- Whitewood area — Partially blocked roads
- Oakwood area — Most roads are blocked or closed
- Route 460 in the Vansant area — Partially blocked
Mclanahan said that multiple crews have responded to the areas to assess the damage. A shelter has been set up at Twin Valley Elementary School on Riverside Drive.
Officials warned drivers to avoid the area if they can. If motorists must pass through the area, they are advised to drive with extreme caution as many roads are blocked or partially blocked.
Storm Team 11 predicts more scattered showers throughout the region on Wednesday.
This is a developing story. Stay updated on-air and online at WJHL.com. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/rescue-squad-warns-of-flooding-in-buchanan-county/ | 2022-07-13T11:47:08 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/rescue-squad-warns-of-flooding-in-buchanan-county/ |
100 years ago
July 13, 1922: Five automobile bandits armed with automatic revolvers and sawed-off shotguns terrorized motorists along the hard road between Peoria and Pekin last night, shooting through the windshield of an automobile and holding up several parties. When a man and his wife sought to escape, the robbers fired a volley of shots at their car. Money obtained during the raids amounted to less than $100.
75 years ago
July 13, 1947: The McLean County chapter of the American Cancer Society said the new diagnostic center for cancer — the first in the county — is ready for operation. The clinic is sponsored by the McLean County Medical Society, with 30 local doctors cooperating. Patients must be referred to the clinic by their doctors, and the clinic will be open twice a month, on the first and third Fridays.
50 years ago
July 13, 1972: The Home Sweet Home Mission drive for $300,000 is only at the one-third mark at a time when officials hoped it would be nearly complete. Board secretary Richard Middleton said prospective donors complain about the mission's decision to renovate a five-story building in the northwest corner of Wood Hill. The complaints are that it would be better to build a new structure, and some people dislike the chosen location.
25 years ago
July 13, 1997: The 10th annual El Paso POW/MIA Parade saw both a remembrance of those missing and a call for further action. The parade, sponsored by El Paso VFW Post 6062, ran through downtown El Paso to the memorial commemorating Woodford County service members. "We want to make the public aware that we still have MIAs and POWs. We want them accounted for," said event coordinator Linda Whitton.
Compiled by Pantagraph staff | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/100-years-ago-bandits-terrorize-motorists-on-central-illinois-road/article_2233fbf8-0201-11ed-a974-03be328c0b23.html | 2022-07-13T11:56:33 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/100-years-ago-bandits-terrorize-motorists-on-central-illinois-road/article_2233fbf8-0201-11ed-a974-03be328c0b23.html |
SAN ANTONIO — One person is dead after they were hit by two cars while attempting to cross the street.
San Antonio Police are searching for one of the drivers, who did not stop.
It happened at around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night on Walzem Road on the east side near Abbey Place.
Police say a white car was driving north on Walzem Rd when the driver says someone ran out in front of their car. The driver wasn’t able to stop in time, hitting the person.
They stopped immediately, but says another dark-colored car heading south on Walzem Rd. hit the pedestrian while they were still on the ground.
That car didn’t stop. The pedestrian is being described as a person in their 30s.
Police say no one else witnessed the accident.
Texas Department of Transportation wants to remind pedestrians that they should always use crosswalks and don’t assume a car will stop for you.
Try to make eye contact with the driver before crossing and avoid wearing dark-colored clothing.
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SAN ANTONIO — Police are saying an argument between a couple is what lead up to a shooting on the far west side Tuesday night.
It happened around 11 p.m. at the 8600 block of Harvest Moon near Marbach Road.
Police say the woman, who is in her 30s, shot her boyfriend in his buttocks, then drove him to a nearby fire station where firefighters sent him to the hospital for his injury. He is expected to recover.
Police are still investigating the incident but no one has been charged as of now.
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SAN ANTONIO — Officials suspect that arson may be to blame for a fire at an automotive shop on the southwest side of town overnight.
It happened around 12:15 a.m. early Wednesday at the 11500 block of Gaylord Drive just off Highway 16.
Firefighters say a neighbor made the call about the fire. When the first units arrived at the location, they found an automobile shop on fire. Aerial units were ordered to help contain the blaze. Officials say there were numerous cars surrounding the exterior of the building.
The fire spread to a nearby field due to the dry conditions.
Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze, and determine that nobody was inside the structure.
There are no witnesses to the fire and arson is on the scene to determine the cause of the fire.
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Since going on the air in 1950, KENS 5 has strived to be the best, most trusted news and entertainment source for generations of San Antonians.
KENS 5 has brought numerous firsts to South Texas television, including being the first local station with a helicopter, the first with its own Doppler radar and the first to air a local morning news program.
Over the years, KENS 5 has worked to transform local news. Our cameras have been the lens bringing history into local viewers' homes. We're proud of our legacy as we serve San Antonians today.
Today, KENS 5 continues to set the standard in local broadcasting and is recognized by its peers for excellence and innovation. The KENS 5 News team focuses on stories that really matter to our community.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas is seeing record high temperatures and has also hit record-breaking energy demand on the grid multiple days just this past week.
On some of those days, ERCOT has asked people to conserve energy during the hot afternoons. So, are businesses also working to conserve energy?
“It's generally not required that anyone help conserve energy unless they've enrolled in formal programs, like formal demand response programs through the ERCOT grid,” said Joshua Rhodes, with Webber Energy Group at the University of Texas at Austin.
ERCOT sent this statement to KVUE: "There are no requirements for them to conserve. However, when ERCOT asks for conservation, we hope all businesses will heed our request, including miners."
So just like households, businesses are only being asked to conserve energy.
“You know, sometimes it actually, it does work though,” said Rhodes. “Even just asking sometimes is helpful.”
The president of the Texas Blockchain Council, which is a Bitcoin industry association, told Bloomberg more than 1,000 megawatts worth of bitcoin mining load went offline on Monday to conserve energy for the grid.
Energy being conserved from both homes and businesses makes a difference.
“Residential makes about half, commercial makes up about a quarter, and industrial makes up about another quarter during these peak demand times,” said Rhodes.
These are some incentives for large companies to save energy. One of those is the state’s 4CP Program. As a part of this, if the companies reduce electricity use during peak times on summer days, their costs get reduced the following year, or increased if they use too much.
Riot Blockchain, which has a data center in Rockdale, sent KVUE the following statement when asked about energy consumption during peak demand hours:
“Riot's Data Center participates in supporting the citizens of Texas on the ERCOT grid by curtailing all power to help stabilize the grid during peak hours of demand. The Company recently began their annual participation in ERCOT’s Four Coincident Peak (“4CP”) program in which Riot’s Whinstone Facility located in Rockdale, Texas will curtail energy consumption when called on by ERCOT during the four summer months of peak energy demand. As part of Riot’s participation in the program, in June the Company curtailed energy consumption for a total of 8,648 megawatt hours.”
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The Compassion Project is a new partnership that is truly a one-stop shop serving those who are experiencing homelessness in the Birmingham area.
The Faith Chapel Care Center, Food for Our Journey and God’s Loving Hands are all working together to provide food, cooling shelters, showers, laundry, health services and fun activities for those in need.
Organizers said when the World Games was announced in Birmingham, they wanted to do something special for the homeless community in addition to the work they were already doing.
Debra Blaylock is a minister for Faith Chapel and says it’s been a blessing to see so many organizations come together to make a difference.
“They’re people like we’re people, and it’s important that we not forget about those that are experiencing homelessness. I tell people all the time, most of us are two paychecks away from being possibly homeless ourselves so we have to keep that in mind. They’re our family, they’re our citizens so we have to care for them too,” Blaylock said,
The Care Center is open every single day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will be available through the end of the World Games on Sunday, July 18.
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EVANSDALE — The mother of an Indiana girl whose killer remains at large will be the guest speaker at Saturday’s rally to remember cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins.
Anna Williams is slated to speak at the 10th Annual Memorial Ride and Drive on Saturday.
Williams’ daughter, 13-year-old Abigail Williams, and Abigail’s friend, Liberty German, 14, were found dead near a recreational trail outside of Delphi, Indiana, in February 2017.
People have noted the similarities between the Delphi crime and the slayings of the cousins, who disappeared 10 years ago today and were found dead months later. In the past, investigators have said the similarities appear to be a coincidence.
The Memorial Ride and Drive honors the memory of Lyric and Elizabeth as well as other missing children and victims of homicide.
Registration for this year’s ride begins at 8 a.m. at Lofty’s Lounge, 3480 Lafayette Road. The program starts at 10 a.m., and the ride takes off at 11 a.m.
The route will pass by Meyers Lake and head to Jesup. From there, the ride will go to Quasqueton and then to LaPorte City before returning to Evansdale.
Proceeds from the ride will benefit Angels Park, Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers and the Elizabeth Collins Foundation.
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The kidnapping and deaths of Elizabeth Collins, left, and Lyric Cook-Morrissey remain unsolved after their remains were found in rural Bremer County.
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Crime scene tape on a log near the Wapsipinicon River where the bodies of Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins were discovered by hunters in Seven Bridges Park near Readlyn in December 2012.
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Ava Webb, 8, leans against her dad's motorcycle as they wait for the ride to begin.
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A woman stands on the bumper of a car to get photos of the motorcyclists lining up for the annual Lyric and Elizabeth Ride and Drive at Lofty's in Evansdale on Saturday morning.
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Hundreds of motorcyclists line up for the annual ride.
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Motorcyclists laugh together as they wait for the annual Lyric and Elizabeth Ride and Drive to start at Lofty's in Evansdale July 13, 2019.
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Stormi Albright, 9, sits on the shoulders of her dad, Casey Albright, as they give the signal for the motorcyclists to start their engines during the annual Lyric and Elizabeth Ride and Drive that started at Lofty's in Evansdale on Saturday morning.
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From left, Drew Collins, Megan Neiswonger, Misty Cook and Cheryl Voelschow attend a vigil at the RiverLoop Amphitheatre on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. Collins is the father of Elizabeth Collins, Neiswonger is the mother of Jake Wilson, Cook is the mother of Lyric Cook Morrissey, and Voelschow is Jake’s grandmother.
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Riders pass by the entrance to Angels Park at Meyers Lake during the fifth annual Memorial Ride and Drive for murdered cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins Saturday in Evansdale.
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Riders take off for the fifth annual Memorial Ride and Drive for murdered cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins Saturday in Evansdale.
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The Yu family bows their heads during a prayer before the fifth annual Memorial Ride and Drive for murdered cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins Saturday in Evansdale.
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A woman sports this years T-shirt for the fifth annual Memorial Ride and Drive for murdered cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins Saturday in Evansdale.
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Riders take off for the annual Memorial Ride and Drive July 15, 2017.
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People listen as Tom Nichols speaks about the painful circumstance of his 22-year-old daughter Lindsay's 2012 murder before the fifth annual Memorial Ride and Drive for Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins Saturday in Evansdale.
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Tom Nichols speaks about the painful circumstance of his 22-year-old daughter Lindsay's 2012 murder before the fifth annual Memorial Ride and Drive for murdered cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins Saturday in Evansdale.
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Drew Collins, right, hugs Tom Nichols, whose 22-year-old daughter, Lindsay, was murdered in 2012 before the fifth annual Memorial Ride and Drive for murdered cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins Saturday in Evansdale.
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Shawn Murphy's shirt is in memory of Pete Miles who passed died recently. Miles was heavily involved in past years in the Memorial Ride and Drive for Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins Saturday in Evansdale.
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Flags honoring murdered cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins wave on the back of Shawn Murphy's motorcycle at the fifth annual Memorial Ride and Drive Saturday in Evansdale.
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Motorcycles pass by as they leave for the fifth annual memorial ride and drive for Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins Saturday, July 15, 2017, in Evansdale, Iowa.
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A sign on the back of a motorcycle is in memory of murdered cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins Saturday in Evansdale.
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A mural painted by Jeff Sonkens of Florida this past winter is now on display facing Highway 20 at Angels Park at Meyers Lake in Evansdale. The area around the lake was the focus of an intense search for cousins Elizabeth Collins, 8, at left, and Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, five years ago. The girls were later found deceased.
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A mural painted by Jeff Sonkens of Florida this past winter has been installed at Angels Park at Meyers Lake in Evansdale in memory of cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, who were abducted and killed five years ago.
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An American flag stood tall over Angels Park at Meyers Lake Thursday in Evansdale, the five-year anniversary of the kidnapping and slaying of cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, and Elizabeth Collins, 8.
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The Waterloo grave site of Elizabeth Collins, 8, of Evansdale, who was kidnapped and killed in 2012.
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Elizabeth Collins' headstone was decorated with flowers July 13, 2017, in Waterloo, the five-year anniversary of the 8-year-old's kidnapping and murder in Evansdale. Also killed was her cousin, Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10.
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Ricky Siebrands, right, of Cedar Falls, takes a photo of Alaina Hughes, 7, in front of a painting of angel's wings at Angels Park at Meyers Lake Thursday in Evansdale.
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Angels Park in Evansdale
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Ricky Siebrands, right, of Cedar Falls, and his grandchildren Caylee, Colton and Alaina, look at the new mural of the cousins at Angels Park at Meyers Lake on Thursday in Evansdale.
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Caylee Siebrands, 8, looks upon the sculpture at Angels Park at Meyers Lake on Thursday, July 13, 2017, in Evansdale, the five-year anniversary of the kidnapping of cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, and Elizabeth Collins, 8.
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Caylee Siebrands, right, 8, shows Alaina Hughes, 7, a memorial bench for Lyric Cook-Morrissey at Angels Park at Meyers Lake Thursday, July 13, 2017, in Evansdale. 2017 marks five years since cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, were abducted after going for a bike ride in Evansdale, and their bodies were discovered later at the Seven Bridges Wildlife Area in Bremer County.
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Drew Collins, father and uncle, respectively, of young cousins Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey, and volunteers are again putting on the Memorial Ride & Drive for the Girls at 8 a.m. July 15, 2017 at Lofty’s in Evansdale, marking the fifth anniversary of the girls’ abduction and deaths.
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The statue at Angels Island during the Evansdale Child Safety Day Wednesday, July 13, 2016, in Evansdale, Iowa. Evansdale is hosting a child identification day for the 4th anniversary of the Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey disappearance.
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Evansdale Police officer Dan Taylor helps Jake Dudley, 3, with his fingerprint card as his twin brother Owen, right, looks on during the Evansdale Child Safety Day on Angels Island Wednesday, July 13, 2016, in Evansdale, Iowa. Evansdale is hosting a child identification day for the 4th anniversary of the Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey disappearance.
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Sharon King pulls out more memorial bracelets to offer during the Evansdale Child Safety Day on Angels Island Wednesday, July 13, 2016, in Evansdale, Iowa. Evansdale is hosting a child identification day for the 4th anniversary of the Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey disappearance.
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Evansdale Police officer Dan Taylor helps Owen Dudley, 3, with his fingerprint card during the Evansdale Child Safety Day on Angels Island Wednesday, July 13, 2016, in Evansdale, Iowa. Evansdale is hosting a child identification day for the 4th anniversary of the Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey disappearance.
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Sharon King, right, hands out memorial T-shirts for Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey.
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Eathan Stock, 7, of Waterloo practices his techniques on Drew Collins, right, on how to get away from an abduction at a self defense class offered during the Evansdale Child Safety Day on Angels Island Wednesday, July 13, 2016, in Evansdale, Iowa. Evansdale is hosting a child identification day for the 4th anniversary of the Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey disappearance.
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Jason O'Connell, top right, with the help of Drew Collins, top left, demonstrates how to get away from an abduction at a self defense class offered during the Evansdale Child Safety Day on Angels Island Wednesday, July 13, 2016, in Evansdale, Iowa. Evansdale is hosting a child identification day for the 4th anniversary of the Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey disappearance.
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Evansdale Police Chief Kent Smock gives a statement asking for the public's help identifying people familiar with Seven Bridges Wildlife Area, where the bodies of Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey were found. Photographed Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, at City Hall in Evansdale, Iowa.
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Evansdale Police Chief Kent Smock gives a statement asking for the public's help identifying people familiar with Seven Bridges Wildlife Area, where the bodies of Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey were found. Photographed Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, at City Hall in Evansdale, Iowa.
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Evansdale Police Chief Kent Smock asks for the public's help identifying people familiar with Seven Bridges Wildlife Area, where the bodies of Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey were found, at City Hall in Evansdale.
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Evansdale Police Chief Kent Smock points to a detail on a map showing the Seven Bridges Wildlife Area in Bremer County where the bodies of young counsins Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins were found after in late 2012 after the girls went missing that July. At a press conference, authorities asked for the public's help in identifying those familiar with the area as part of the ongoing investigation into the girls' abduction and deaths. Photographed in Evansdale, Iowa, Feb. 3, 2015.
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The headstone of Elizabeth Collins is memorialized with family photos at Waterloo Memorial Park Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in Waterloo, Iowa, two years since the bodies of two Evansdale cousins Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook were discovered in Seven Bridges Wildlife Area.
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A window covering at Countryside Vineyard Church ask for information about the disappearance of Evansdale cousins Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook.
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The headstone of Elizabeth Collins is memorialized with family photos at Waterloo Memorial Park Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in Waterloo, Iowa, two years since the bodies of two Evansdale cousins Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook were discovered in Seven Bridges Wildlife Area.
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Two people embrace at the 2nd Annual Memorial Ride and Drive for Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook Saturday, July 12, 2014, in Evansdale, Iowa. The proceeds from the ride will go toward the Cedar Valley Crimestoppers and the Angels Memorial Park
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Patches were available for purchase before the 2nd Annual Memorial Ride and Drive for Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook Saturday, July 12, 2014, in Evansdale, Iowa.
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Ride organizer Chris Webb, right, along with over 125 motorcyclists make their way along Lafayette Road for the 2nd Annual Memorial Ride and Drive for Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook Saturday, July 12, 2014, in Evansdale, Iowa. The proceeds from the ride will go toward the Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers and the Angels Memorial Park.
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Motorcyclists were decorated for the 2nd Annual Memorial Ride and Drive for Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook Saturday, July 12, 2014, in Evansdale, Iowa. The proceeds from the ride will go toward the Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers and the Angels Memorial Park.
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Over 125 motorcyclists make their way along Lafayette Road for the 2nd Annual Memorial Ride and Drive for Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook Saturday, July 12, 2014, in Evansdale, Iowa.
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FILE PHOTO: Drew and Heather Collins, parents of Elizabeth Collins, are shown before the second annual memorial ride in Evansdale in 2014.
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Motorcyclists make their way down East Bremer for the 2nd Annual Memorial Ride and Drive for Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook Saturday, July 12, 2014, in Waverly, Iowa. The proceeds from the ride will go toward the Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers and the Angels Memorial Park.
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Ride organizer Chris Webb, center, and more than 125 motorcyclists make their way along Lafayette Road for the second annual Memorial Ride and Drive for Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook on Saturday in Evansdale.
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Riders make their way down a hill on Dubuque Road during the Cousins Memorial Ride and Drive Saturday, July 13, 2013, in Black Hawk County, Iowa. The event was in honor of Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins, and the proceeds will go to Angels Park and Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Purple anniversary shirts make up most of the crowd as people listen to Drew Collins speak before the Cousins Memorial Ride and Drive Saturday, July 13, 2013, in Evansdale, Iowa. The event is in honor of Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins, and the proceeds will go to Angels Park and Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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People listen during a prayer before the Cousins Memorial Ride and Drive Saturday, July 13, 2013 in Evansdale, Iowa. The event is in honor of Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins, and the proceeds will go to Angels Park and Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Pete Miles, right, hugs Heather Collins, left, before the Cousins Memorial Ride and Drive Saturday, July 13, 2013 in Evansdale, Iowa. The event is in honor of Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins, and the proceeds will go to Angels Park and Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Heather Collins, left, wipes her eye before she reads a verse from the Bible with husband Drew Collins before the Cousins Memorial Ride and Drive Saturday, July 13, 2013 in Evansdale, Iowa. The event is in honor of Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins, and the proceeds will go to Angels Park and Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Riders come down River Forest Road during the Cousins Memorial Ride and Drive Saturday, July 13, 2013 in Evansdale, Iowa. The event is in honor of Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins, and the proceeds will go to Angels Park and Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Riders come down River Forest Road during the Cousins Memorial Ride and Drive Saturday, July 13, 2013 in Evansdale, Iowa. The event is in honor of Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins, and the proceeds will go to Angels Park and Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Heather and Drew Collins drive a Pontiac TransAm down a hill on Dubuque Road during the Cousins Memorial Ride and Drive Saturday, July 13, 2013 in Black Hawk County, Iowa. The event is in honor of Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins, and the proceeds will go to Angels Park and Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Drew Collins, left, holds his wife Heather during a prayer before the Cousins Memorial Ride and Drive Saturday, July 13, 2013 in Evansdale, Iowa. The event is in honor of Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins, and the proceeds will go to Angels Park and Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Students help cut and install color panels for the wall of the library lounge honoring Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins at Bunger Middle School Friday, May 17, 2013, in Evansdale, Iowa. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Devontay Adams uses pink paint to touch up the color panels for the wall of the library lounge honoring Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins at Bunger Middle School Friday, May 17, 2013, in Evansdale, Iowa. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Sixth-grader Jay Turner brings in color panels for the wall of the library lounge honoring Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins at Bunger Middle School Friday, May 17, 2013, in Evansdale, Iowa. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Alyssa Standridge, right, helps hold up the board as Mark Kennedy of Peters Construction build the wall of the library lounge honoring Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins at Bunger Middle School Friday, May 17, 2013, in Evansdale, Iowa. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Mike Weber, left, of Peters Construction gets help holding the wood panel by sixth-grader Kayhil Schmit, right, as they work on the library lounge honoring Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins at Bunger Middle School Friday, May 17, 2013, in Evansdale, Iowa. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Family and friends gather for a graveside service for Elizabeth Collins at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July of 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December of 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Family and friends gather for a graveside service for Elizabeth Collins at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July of 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December of 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Flowers are left at the headstone for Elizabeth Collins at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July of 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December of 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Flowers are left at the headstone for Elizabeth Collins at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Callie, Drew and Heather Collins listen at the graveside service for their daughter and sister Elizabeth Collins at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Drew Collins, left, father of the late Elizabeth Collins, shares a moment with Elizabeth's best friend Gabrielle Engel, 10, at the graveside service at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Maria Roche, left, and cousin Rachel Roche, sing as Bill Roche, right, plays the guitar at the graveside service for Elizabeth Collins at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July of 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Drew Collins, top, father of the late Elizabeth Collins, hugs his daughter Callie at the graveside service for Elizabeth at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Heather Collins, left, mother of the late Elizabeth Collins, gives a flower to Collin Yu, 10, after the graveside service for Elizabeth at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Al Yu and his wife Carrie, top, comfort their sons Ethan, 8, center, and Collin, 10, before the graveside service for Elizabeth Collins at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Heather Collins waits to talk with the media before the graveside service for her daughter Elizabeth Collins at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Elizabeth Collins' dog Gus is decorated with a rose at the graveside service for Elizabeth at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Family and friends hold a balloon release after the graveside service for Elizabeth Collins at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Adonnis Hill, left, the father of murdered teenager Donnisha Hill, talks with Drew Collins, father of the late Elizabeth Collins, at a graveside service for Elizabeth at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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A man wipes his eyes at the graveside service for Elizabeth Collins at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Family and friends hold a balloon release after the graveside service for Elizabeth Collins at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Wylma Cook, right, hugs her grandson Kelly Collins at the graveside service for Elizabeth Collins at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Kelly Collins, brother of the late Elizabeth Collins, helps distribute balloons for a release after the graveside service for Elizabeth at Waterloo Memorial Park cemetery Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. Elizabeth Collins and her cousin Lyric Cook went missing in July 2012 after riding their bikes by Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Hunters found their bodies in a wooded area in December 2012. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Elizabeth Collins, left, and Lyric Cook-Morrissey. The two Evansdale cousins disappeared in July 2012. Their bodies were found in a wildlife area by hunters in December 2012.
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CEDAR FALLS — The Board of Education on Monday again appointed Joyce Coil, a former longtime member, to fill a vacancy.
“Board president Jeff Hassman reached out and asked if I would consider, and I told him it’d be my honor and pleasure,” Coil said when reached by telephone. “I hope to stay informed of the district’s initiatives, and feel there’s a lot of history I can bring. I’ve always enjoyed the board work and the volunteerism.”
Director Brenda Fite resigned last month, less than a year into her first four-year term, because of plans to relocate to Ohio.
Coil was the unanimous pick of the board and took the oath of office over Zoom. She will serve until someone is chosen by voters next school election in the fall of 2023.
The retiree is a hospice volunteer for UnityPoint Health-Waterloo, and also helps with fundraising for the district’s new Tiger Performance Center and aquatics center.
It’s the second time the board has appointed her to fill a vacancy since stepping away. In 2021, Coil jumped back into the role in the interim after former member Sasha Wohlpart moved out of state.
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Coil, a former board president, has a quarter-century of experience and “will be temporarily filling Brenda’s position until the fall of 2023,” said Hassman.
He noted that “several people” expressed an interest in being Fite’s replacement.
According to Hassman, the elected officials have the “tendency” to favor the candidates who are former board members.
“It’s someone who is already seasoned and can jump right into the board with the mechanics and understandings of the district and the board,” he said. “ … The other (criteria) is it’s a school board member who has a commitment not to run in the next election and so that doesn’t give the favor of incumbency to anyone who would like to run for that position in 2023.”
Coil confirmed she’s not interested in running.
Hassmann said officials did not receive a petition forcing a special election. It would have needed signatures totaling 30% of the voters who participated in the last school election.
“We want to thank each and every person who expressed an interest in serving on the board and would encourage those who are not going to be appointed to run in the election in the fall of 2023,” Hassman said. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/joyce-coil-again-appointed-to-fill-vacancy-on-cedar-falls-school-board/article_5ae0a1f7-3814-5e0f-a771-c61737907fac.html | 2022-07-13T12:15:06 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/joyce-coil-again-appointed-to-fill-vacancy-on-cedar-falls-school-board/article_5ae0a1f7-3814-5e0f-a771-c61737907fac.html |
WATERLOO — After allegations of racist taunts at an East High School softball game, the Board of Education is applauding Waterloo Community Schools’ response to the incident.
During the game in Charles City Thursday, a Trojans shortstop said she heard racist insults coming from the Comets’ bleachers. The player told head coach Chad Adams what she heard, who then consulted with umpires. The fans were kicked out of the complex but continued to yell profanities at the field before leaving.
After leaving, the fans gathered within earshot of the field and continued to yell for the rest of the game.
Waterloo Schools released a statement on Friday evening, saying the district was gathering more information and is an advocate for the students.
But before that statement, board members said they were alerted of the incident Friday morning by the district’s new superintendent, Jared Smith. It was Smith’s first week on the job.
Smith said he was happy with how coaches and officials responded during the game and with how East’s athletic director, Tim Moses, and Waterloo Schools’ director of athletics, Dan Huff, dealt with the situation afterward.
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He said “strides have been made” since alleged racist behavior occurred last year at a Dubuque Wahlert-East basketball game.
At that game, Wahlert High School students allegedly yelled the N-word and other derogatory terms. Holy Family Catholic Schools administrators said there is “no credible evidence” Wahlert students acted inappropriately.
Players at East said last week that they believe incidents like this happen at games often and it’s something the students take into account when they travel. Endya Johnson, the board’s vice president, said the issues are something that can’t be controlled.
“If we’re going to help our students, we need to protect them,” Johnson said. “I’m glad the response was what it was and moving forward now, that we have tools and we’re equipped to handle this situation.”
Board member Astor Williams seconded this statement, saying he hates that issues like this happen but they can’t be stopped.
“Going forward, I hope we don’t deal with this but if it does happen again, (I hope) it’s handled similar to how it was handled this time,” Williams said. “It should give the community a bit more ease that something was done and done at that moment. We didn’t have to wait until this board meeting. Something was done directly at that time.”
District officials said they still don’t know who made the alleged taunts, but it appears to be one or two people who were not current students. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/waterloo-school-board-responds-after-alleged-racism-at-softball-game/article_1e468c1d-1149-54b7-a51f-a75db4f2fd28.html | 2022-07-13T12:15:12 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/waterloo-school-board-responds-after-alleged-racism-at-softball-game/article_1e468c1d-1149-54b7-a51f-a75db4f2fd28.html |
What to Know
- The NYPD identified the 7-year-old boy and 47-year-old woman killed in a Hudson River boat capsize as Julian Vasquez and Lindelia Vasquez; they weren't mother and son but their relationship wasn't immediately clear
- Police had said the two were trapped under the boat and couldn't get out; the other 10 boaters were pulled from the water and three were said to be in critical condition
- An investigation into the accident, which happened right in front of the USS Intrepid, is ongoing
Authorities have released the identities of the woman and child killed in a Hudson River charter boat accident a day ago as their investigative focus turns to what exactly went wrong in the waters off midtown Manhattan a day ago, the NYPD said Wednesday.
Lindelia Vasquez, 47, and 7-year-old Julian Vasquez, relatives visiting from Colombia, were trapped under the private fishing boat when it flipped over in the Hudson near Pier 86, in front of the USS Intrepid in the middle of the afternoon.
The two who died weren't mother and son, according to the NYPD, but their familial relationship wasn't immediately clear. Officials said a group of family and friends had chartered the boat out of New Jersey earlier in the day.
Lindelia Vasquez and Julian Vasquez were among the 1 aboard who found themselves in the water when the boat capsized around 2:45 p.m. Nearby ferries raced to the scene to help police and fire department rescuers get people out of the choppy waters.
Three people, including the captain of the 18-foot vessel, were said to have been critically injured in the accident. No updates were immediately available on their condition Wednesday.
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The owner of the boat was following behind on a jet ski, authorities said, and rushed to call for help from ferries at the nearby NY Waterway terminal after seeing the boat flip over. Two ferries came to the aid of the people in the water, who were left clinging to the capsized craft, the hull seen still bobbing in the river.
In all, 13 people were pulled from the water, including the man on the jet ski. The 7-year-old boy and the 48-year-old woman were trapped under the boat, unable to get out. They were rushed to local hospitals in critical condition after dive crews from the NYPD and FDNY were able to finally reach them, but were later pronounced dead.
The names of the boy and woman who died were not released.
The 11 others were injured, with the captain of the boat in critical condition, according to authorities. The extent of the other injuries was not immediately known. They were ushered away still in their bathing suits, heartbroken by the losses.
“Our hearts go out to a group of people who were just using the water in our city,” Mayor Eric Adams said at the news conference. “This is a devastating moment for them and those who were part of the families that were there...The water is an enjoyable part of New York, but it can be a dangerous place."
What caused the boat to capsize is under investigation, said Inspector Anthony Russo, commanding officer of the New York Police Department’s Harbor Unit. Investigators planned to look at the water conditions and the boat's capacity to determine what went wrong on the river, where boat wakes and currents pose constant challenges.
Authorities said they are looking to see whether the boat was overloaded with passengers, and if weather played a role during the windy day.
“There's a lot of commercial and recreational traffic during the day here. We also have a lot of people on Jet Skis, kayaks,” Russo said. "The Hudson River is always a dangerous place to operate."
NY Waterway said that all its routes have resumed normal service. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/boat-capsize-hudson-river-victims-intrepid-museum/3772334/ | 2022-07-13T12:18:40 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/boat-capsize-hudson-river-victims-intrepid-museum/3772334/ |
A Houston man was indicted on charges accusing him of trying to use a heavy-duty drone to drop a bag of forbidden items to inmates at a federal prison in Texas, authorities announced Tuesday.
Federal officials unsealed an indictment charging Davien Philip Turner with two counts of unlawfully flying an aircraft. Each count is punishable by up to three years in prison.
At a news conference in Beaumont, U.S. Attorney Britt Featherston said there was no evidence that Turner succeeded in delivering contraband with his drone, but there have been cases of such items being dropped from drones into the federal prison complex south of Beaumont.
Photos displayed during the news conference showed Turner is accused of trying to deliver wire cutters and other tools, as well as money, cellphones, cellphone charges, and bulk amounts of tobacco.
This is the third federal case involving smuggling attempts by drones to be charged in the United States, and the first in Texas, Featherston said.
“Around the country, drones use in smuggling into prisons has been on the rise,” Featherston said.
A multi-agency investigation of the use of drones to deliver contraband to prisons continues, he said.
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The Biden administration has called on Congress to expand authority for federal and local governments to take action to counter these and other nefarious uses of drones, which are a growing security concern and nuisance.
Turner was to remain jailed without bond pending a Thursday detention hearing, according to court records. A message left for Turner’s federal public defender was not immediately returned.
Violence at the Beaumont prison, including a Jan. 31 gang fight that left two inmates dead and two others injured, led to a nationwide lockdown of federal prisons. Seven inmates who are members of the MS-13 gang were charged with attacking and killing members of the Mexican Mafia and its affiliate, the Sureños, prosecutors said.
Before that, security measures at the minimum- and medium-security section of the complex had become so lax that local law enforcement officials privately joked about its seemingly “open-door policy.” An inspector general’s report prompted officials to build a fence around the prison, repair broken door alarms, add and upgrade video cameras, and install additional lights. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-man-attempted-to-use-drone-to-airlift-contraband-to-prisoners-prosecutors-say/3012974/ | 2022-07-13T12:31:46 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-man-attempted-to-use-drone-to-airlift-contraband-to-prisoners-prosecutors-say/3012974/ |
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. — A large new Walmart fulfillment center officially opened in Franklin County on July 13.
The cavernous warehouse building includes 1.8 million square feet of space to build out Walmart’s growing e-commerce business.
The opening comes as Walmart is trying to compete with e-commerce giant Amazon. Walmart+, its retail subscription service, lags far behind Amazon Prime. Walmart’s current share of the online market, 7%, is roughly one sixth the size of Amazon’s 39.5%.
Walmart notes the facility is a fulfillment center, not a distribution center. The difference is that distribution centers handle products that go to stores, while fulfillment centers process items that are then shipped directly to customers.
The facility joins Walmart’s six other distribution centers and four fulfillment centers in Pennsylvania.
The center will create 600 full time jobs, according to Walmart, and will serve the entire Northeast.
More Walmart jobs are expected in Franklin County, as the company also announced its plans to build another fulfillment center in Greencastle. The facility would employ another 1,000 people and is scheduled to open in 2024. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/walmart-fulfillment-center-franklin-county/521-189517b7-4896-43a9-9fb9-21c826fe3f8e | 2022-07-13T12:33:11 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/walmart-fulfillment-center-franklin-county/521-189517b7-4896-43a9-9fb9-21c826fe3f8e |
Judge's departure will delay trial for activists arrested at Anthony Thompson Jr. protest
Despite one defendant asserting her right to a speedy trial, there will be no swift resolution in the charges against the Anthony Thompson Jr. Seven civil disobedience demonstrators, most of whom appeared in court Tuesday.
The group, led by the Rev. Calvin Skinner and activist Constance Every, garnered headlines when they were arrested at a Knox County Commission meeting in April 2021 as they fought for policing accountability and reform. Thompson, 17, was shot and killed by a Knoxville police officer inside his high school.
The delay in the controversial case has nothing to do with the charges against the demonstrators.
Criminal Court Judge Kyle Hixson has been appointed to the Court of Criminal Appeals Eastern Section effective Sept. 1. He warned the attorneys his calendar is packed and a request to have a trial in August was not going to happen.
Skinner told Knox News after the hearing the anticipated delay, and the need to fly back and forth from his current residence in England, is inconvenient, but he stressed it was a small matter compared to the pain faced by Thompson's family.
"Whatever inconvenience placed in our way is just that, an inconvenience," he said. "The barriers these proceedings present do not compare to the injustice the family of Anthony Thompson Jr. continues to face."
What is important, Skinner said, is to continue to "always center (the) narrative, that a high school student was unjustly murdered by police officers, and to recognize the pattern of mistreatment in that particular case, but also the pattern of mistreatment to those who fight for justice on behalf of Black lives in particular."
What led to the arrests
The protesters were at the meeting of the commission, which oversees the Knox County Schools budget, to demand the release of police bodycam video from the fatal shooting of Thompson.
A number of protesters entered the room but initially stood silent, fists raised, until Every sounded a bullhorn siren and announced the commission meeting – which was in the middle of business – was over. Skinner and other members of the group began shouting before they were forcibly removed by Knox County deputies.
The seven who were charged with disrupting a meeting include Skinner, Every, Kevin Andrews, Gavin Guinn, Carrie Hopper, Aaron Valentine and Mary Winter.
The case is believed to be the first tried under Tennessee's enhanced penalties for disrupting public meetings. The law was part of the Tennessee General Assembly's push to punish "unruly" demonstrators – some of whom damaged state property – in the wake of a nationwide police reform movement that started when a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd in 2020.
The state enhanced the penalty for disrupting a public meeting from a Class B misdemeanor to a Class A misdemeanor, putting it on the same level as being charged with impaired driving, simple drug possession, theft under $1,000 and assault. The penalty can include up to 11 months and 29 days in jail with a maximum fine of $2,500.
Attorney: Charges politically motivated
On Tuesday, Guinn and Valentine were appointed attorneys, while Andrews is hiring private counsel. Winter did not appear because she had been subpoenaed to appear in court the same day in Sullivan County.
Hopper's attorneys, Tyler Caviness and Chelsea Moore, asserted her right to a speedy trial and filed a motion to sever her case from the others because she will be ready for trial much sooner.
After Hixson proposed the motion be heard on Aug. 19, the same day the other defendants return to court, Caviness said he was hoping to have the trial by then.
"That’s not gonna happen," Hixson replied, before setting the severance motion for July 22.
Attorney David Stuart, meanwhile, is representing both Every and Skinner, arguing there is no conflict of interest.
"They are both on the same page and expect to stay on the same page," Stuart said after the hearing.
Stuart called the prosecution "politically motivated" and discriminatory, and accused District Attorney General Charme Allen's office of working to suppress dissent over the shooting of a Black teenager.
"The idea that the district attorney justified that killing ... while going gung-ho against the people who protested that killing is not right," he said.
At a November preliminary hearing, Douglas P. Nanney, who was representing six of the seven demonstrators at the time, had argued the demonstrators had a right to speak at the meeting and listed a Sixth Circuit ruling that dealt with protected speech at a school board meeting.
Judge Patricia Long disagreed, moving the cases forward. | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/13/activists-who-disrupted-knox-county-meeting-face-trial-delay/10032142002/ | 2022-07-13T12:43:14 | 1 | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/13/activists-who-disrupted-knox-county-meeting-face-trial-delay/10032142002/ |
Even after two teens died in a police chase, Knox County Sheriff's Office didn't investigate pursuit
Maria Gaspar had been 16 years old for all of five weeks when she went out on a Wednesday night in April with a Powell High School classmate.
The friendship or relationship, whatever it was, came on quickly. She had only recently introduced the boy to her parents.
“It was kind of weird at first because she never goes out,” her brother, Francisco Rogelio, later told Knox News. “She wasn’t like a girl who was into boys or anything, so it was kind of off, but we just thought she was getting to that age. She’s 16.”
That night, April 13, was the last time her family would see her.
The boy sped away from a deputy who attempted to pull him over after spotting him driving recklessly at around 11 p.m., according to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office. Police said he stole a woman’s license plate earlier in the day and was using it on his 2001 Chevrolet Silverado. (Knox News is not naming him because he is a minor, he wasn't charged and his family didn't agree to it.)
Seven minutes later after the chase started, reaching speeds of 75 mph on a two-lane road, the boy lost control. He drove up an unusually steep railroad crossing on Ball Camp Pike, went airborne and wrapped the truck around a tree. Both Maria and the boy were dead before rescue crews could get them out.
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Now, Maria’s family has questions, a lot of questions, that may never get answered. The Knox County Sheriff’s Office has refused to answer a number of questions Knox News has asked about the chase.
The Sheriff’s Office of Professional Standards didn’t investigate the wreck, something that's not required by department policy, unlike most law enforcement agencies.
Spokesperson Kimberly Glenn said in an email it is her understanding that supervisors "review any pursuit involving injury and/or death." That process, she said, typically involves supervisors watching body camera footage, reviewing the post-pursuit report and interviewing "anyone pertinent." This review does not produce a report, she said.
The chase itself is questionable. Most departments discourage or outright forbid officers from chasing drivers for nonviolent offenses, particularly when they reach speeds as high as they did in this case.
Because the Sheriff's Office does not equip cruisers with dash cameras, unlike the Knoxville Police Department and departments around the country, there is no way to verify how the boy was driving or why the deputy began the chase, and the Sheriff's Office has refused to provide further details.
Maria's family crushed by her loss
We met Maria’s family in their home one morning this spring. It was storming, the rain coming down in sheets. It was the kind of day where Maria’s brother and father sometimes stayed home from work when it was too wet to lay sod.
The curtains were drawn. The living room, a row of love seats and couches pushed back against the wall, was dark. The only light came from a skylight in the kitchen.
There were five of Maria's loved ones there — her mother, father, two young siblings and brother Francisco — but it was quiet. They were defeated.
Like many her age, Maria wanted to graduate but didn’t know what she wanted to do for a career. She liked sports and hanging out with friends and playing video games, particularly Roblox, which she played online for hours.
The family has attended Temple Baptist Church for some 20 years, ever since they made their way to Knoxville from Guatemala. It’s where Maria was baptized, grew up, made friends and learned about life.
Her father, Rogelio Francisco Francisco, has been praying constantly, trying to ease the pain. It doesn’t always work.
“Right now, he normally drives when he goes to work, but we haven’t let him drive,” Rogelio said. “Sometimes it just hits him out of nowhere and you don’t want him to wreck or anything.”
A representative from the family of the boy declined to comment for this story.
Chase policies run counter to most
The only document completed by the Sheriff’s Office aboutthe chase that killed the two 16-year-olds was a one-page post-pursuit report.
At the top of the report, it instructs police to “Provide ALL information available at time of report.” However, Deputy John Longendorf, who chased the pair, did not finish filling it out, leaving blank the “narrative” section and spaces for details about the vehicle and passengers.
Sheriff’s Office policy requires nothing further, a lack of detail at odds with how other departments handle pursuits.
Many departments don’t even allow officers to chase drivers unless the person is suspected of committing a violent felony. The Sheriff’s Office’s policy requires chases be terminated once there is a “clear and unreasonable danger to the officer, the suspect or other users of the highway.”
Instead of calling off the chase, Longendorf pursued the teens at speeds reaching 75 mph on two-laned Ball Camp Pike.
In body cam video footage after the wreck, Longendorf told another deputy he knew the railroad tracks were coming up and he braked hard. The teens did not.
“They hit that f------ railroad track and went sky high. ... They hit (the railroad tracks) and as soon as they hit, they lost it,” he said.
Other departments’ chase policies
Knoxville Police Department: KPD’s pursuit policy requires an officer to suspect a person has committed a felony or serious misdemeanor. Officers are to take into account their surroundings and whether the person could be captured later.
- After a pursuit, even nonfatal pursuits, KPD policy requires an administrative review. This process includes a review by the officer's immediate supervisor, lieutenant and district commander. The pursuit report is then submitted to the Internal Affairs Unit for review. Once completed, the reports are public record.
Chattanooga Police Department: Chattanooga’s policy requires an officer to suspect a person has committed a violent felony. The department handbook gives a list of offenses that fall into this category: murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault, robbery, rape, aggravated kidnapping, child sexual assault, aggravated arson and felony reckless endangerment. The policy strictly forbids chases for “traffic offenses, misdemeanors, nonforcible felonies or when the suspect flees for an unknown reason.”
- Like Knoxville’s policy, Chattanooga’s policy requires pursuit reports be sent through the chain of command to the division commander, who will review it and determine if an internal investigation is warranted. What’s more, the Chattanooga Training Unit commander conducts an annual review of all police pursuits “in an effort to reveal patterns or trends which could be predictive or indicate the following: program effectiveness, training needs, equipment upgrade needs, and/or policy modification needs.”
Metro Nashville Police Department:Nashville’s policy gives more leeway for officers to initiate a chase but requires the immediate danger of a pursuit be less than the potential danger to the public should the suspect remain at large. The policy requires the driver of the vehicle being pursued demonstrates a disregard for the safety of others regardless if the offense is a serious felony or a minor regulatory offense.
- Nashville’s policy also requires a “critique session” in which the officers and their supervisors go over what went well and what didn't in the pursuit. This is to be completed within three days of the chase.
Atlanta Police Department: In early 2020, Atlanta outlawed all police chases after a number of fatal wrecks, but in January 2021 the department amended the policy and now allows chases when a felony has occurred. Chases for property offenses, misdemeanors, traffic offenses or civil infractions are forbidden.
KCSO stonewalls Maria's family
The Sheriff’s Office originally told Maria’s family it didn’t have any videos of the wreck, Rogelio said.
“But when I talked to the (Sheriff's Office) and said aren’t like the cameras supposed to be on and stuff ... so they told us they don’t have any videos of what happened,” he told Knox News. “So, (my family) is just curious why they don’t have their cameras on. They want to know what happened, you know. At least see what happened.”
When preparing to send Knox News the body camera footage of the wreck on June 15, public records coordinator Hillary Martin told Knox News in an email, “We were hoping to allow the family to view the footage first, but they've not been able to do so yet.”
Weeks later, the family told Knox News they have yet to be contacted about the footage.
Separately, Rogelio told Knox News he previously reached out to the Sheriff’s Office to learn more about his sister’s death and was told it was still under investigation.
But there was no investigation.
When asked by Knox News if any review was done, Glenn said, “Unless I’m told otherwise, we did not do an internal review.”
KCSO won't answer questions
The Sheriff's Office fought against the release of the body camera footage until Knox News obtained an opinion from the State Office of Open Records Counsel which said the agency was required by law to provide it. What the Sheriff's Office ultimately provided was heavily redacted.
Vehicles driven by Knox County Sheriff's Office deputies are not fitted with dash cameras Footage would likely have shown how the boy was driving and how he wrecked. Instead, all that is visible from the deputy's body cam is the steering wheel and the inside of the deputy's cruiser.
In response to a second attempt to get answers to questions about the chase, Glenn sent an email to Knox News: “To reiterate, Chief Workman said you are able to receive the public records portion of the request. He will not be answering any questions or making any comments about it."
The response is strange, said attorney Andrew Fels, who succeeded in representing University of Tennessee Meghan Conley in her lawsuit against the Sheriff’s Office seeking to obtain public records about immigration enforcement.
“Two kids die in a car accident after they were chased by a deputy. KCSO refuses to answer basically any of your substantive questions about what happened," he said. "The report itself has two lines of narrative. Very strange.”
Here are some of the questions Knox News posed that the Sheriff's Office has declined to answer:
- Did the boy know the woman whose license plate he allegedly stole earlier that day or was it a random theft?
- Can you describe how the boy was driving recklessly?
- The incident report lists “unknown” regarding whether either teen was wearing their seat belt. Can you confirm whether they were or were not wearing them?
- I have a copy of the Sheriff’s Office’s pursuit general order. Why was a pursuit deemed appropriate in this instance?
- How far (in miles) did the officer pursue?
- The family of the passenger, Ms. Gaspar, told me KCSO originally told them no video existed. Why was that the case?
- Separately, they said the last time they reached out to KCSO they were told there was nothing for KCSO to provide because the wreck was still being investigated. However, Kimberly Glenn confirmed there was no further review done by KCSO beyond the (incomplete) post-pursuit report, so why was that the case?
- The chase reached speeds up to 75 mph on a two-lane road. Why was the pursuit not terminated? KCSO’s general order for pursuits states, “The necessity for pursuit or apprehension must be balanced against the probability and severity of damage or injury that may result. If a pursuit creates a clear and unreasonable danger to the officer, the suspect or other users of the highway, the safety of all concerned may outweigh the necessity for immediate apprehension; and the pursuit shall be terminated.”
- KCSO general orders for pursuits does not require an investigation or review, presumably even when they are fatal. Why is that? | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/13/knox-county-sheriffs-office-does-not-require-review-police-chases/9586200002/ | 2022-07-13T12:43:20 | 0 | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/13/knox-county-sheriffs-office-does-not-require-review-police-chases/9586200002/ |
CROWN POINT — It's officially curtains for the historic Crown Theater, which has been transformed into an engineering office.
Indianapolis-based Commonwealth Engineers, which originally opened a Northwest Indiana branch office in part of the former Hub Bootery space on North Main Street in downtown Crown Point in 2018, renovated and repurposed the historic movie theater at 19 N. Court St. on the old Lake County Courthouse square after a recent effort to revive it as a performing arts space failed.
The engineering firm took over the space long occupied by the vintage single-screen movie theater that originally opened in 1917. The 497-seat movie theater where Crown Point residents saw countless movies on the square over the decades was renamed the Palace Theatre in 1926 before the original Crown Theater name was restored again in the late 1960s.
"While it’s sad that the building won’t be used as an entertainment venue, it’s great that another business can use the unoccupied building for a real purpose," Crown Point Chamber of Commerce President Alan Myszkowski said. "More people on the square means more commerce, which is a great thing for surrounding businesses. We truly wish them well, and look forward to any opportunities to work with them in the future."
Commonwealth Engineers was founded in 1974 and specializes in water resource engineering and environmental infrastructure engineering. It has offices in Indianapolis, Crown Point, Fort Wayne, Evansville and Bowling Green, Kentucky.
The company did not immediately return requests for comment.
The engineering firm has built out an office inside and put its name on the facade of the 105-year-old Crown Theater building.
Star Plaza alum Brad Strom started renovating the long-closed movie theater in 2018 but never got it back open after running into undisclosed financial difficulties. He was slapped with lawsuits from investors and customers who had purchased advance tickets, leaving him facing orders of restitution and penalties of more than $577,000 in Lake County Superior Court.
The Crown Theater had been part of a dying breed.
Many single-screen movie theaters have faded from the landscape, including the Town Theater in Highland, the Kennedy Theater in Hessville, the Palace Theater in Gary, the Indiana Theater and Voge Theater in East Chicago, Cinemas I and II in Miller and the Paramount, Parthenon and many others in downtown Hammond.
Cinema Treasures estimates 37,898 single-screen theaters across the country have been closed and 19,782 have been demolished, with a huge wave of closing following Hollywood's shift from using reels of film to digital film projectors, a prohibitive capital expense for many smaller neighborhood theaters often trying to make do with $5 matinee tickets. Only 3,654 single-screen movie theaters nationwide are still showing movies today, and not all of them screen first-run films.
While the opulent Hoosier Theater from 1924 continues to entertain moviegoers on 119th Street in downtown Whiting, many historic single-screen movie theaters like the Orpheum Theatre, the Hohman Theater and the Bijou Photoplay have long since faded from the landscape in Northwest Indiana.
"When I was a kid I grew up near Cinemas I and II by the Kmart in Griffith," said Scott Hudnall, vice president for the Lake County Historical Society. "I would just walk over to the movie theaters, and now that's gone. People no longer have that option. It's disappointing."
Modern multiplexes with multiple screens drove out the historic single-screen movie theaters, which weren't as profitable with fewer screenings.
"Showplace showed up and a lot of them shut down," Hudnall said.
He's encouraged that the Crown Theater building is being preserved even if it's not as a movie theater.
"It's still good the building itself is being preserved. It's history," he said. "Even if it isn't used for what it originally was purposed for, it's better than tearing it down and putting something new there."
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The Crown Theater was transformed into an office for Commonwealth Engineers, a firm based out of Indianapolis that has had a branch office in downtown Crown Point for a few years. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/shows-over-historic-crown-theater-turned-into-engineering-office/article_09847195-3af9-5e94-9c5b-61ac177db3d3.html | 2022-07-13T12:47:42 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/shows-over-historic-crown-theater-turned-into-engineering-office/article_09847195-3af9-5e94-9c5b-61ac177db3d3.html |
MICHIGAN CITY — Lifeguards are credited with saving three drowning children Tuesday afternoon from rough conditions in Lake Michigan off the local Washington Park beach, Michigan City firefighters say.
The children, ages 9, 10 and 11 years old, were being overtaken by waves and rip currents when lifeguards came to their rescue around 1:30 p.m.
"Two of the victims were caught in a rip current that was pulling them to the east while the other victim was caught in a current that was pulling him to the west," the local fire department said.
"It took the effort of five lifeguards in the water to pull these kids back to shore," the department said. "When on shore, the parents wanted them to be checked out by LaPorte County Emergency Medical Service."
"The Washington Park Lifeguards have repeatedly stepped up to action this summer," firefighters said.
Firefighters followed up the rescue by walking the shoreline warning beachgoers of the dangerous water conditions and encouraging them to stay out of Lake Michigan that day.
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VALPARAISO — Police say they will be conducting safety training Wednesday and Thursday and again the same days next week at Heavilin Elementary School at 2450 Heavilin Road.
"There will be an increase of police vehicles in the area, and police related activities occurring within the school," the department announced. "Please do not be alarmed, as emergency services are aware of the drill taking place."
The drills will take place from 2-10 p.m. on each of the days, police said.
The training is taking part in conjunction with Valparaiso Community Schools.
"Thank you to the Valparaiso Community Schools for their continued partnership and cooperation as we work together to better serve our community," police said.
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VALPARAISO — Police say they will be conducting safety training Wednesday and Thursday and again the same days next week at Heavilin Elementary School at 2450 Heavilin Road.
"There will be an increase of police vehicles in the area, and police related activities occurring within the school," the department announced. "Please do not be alarmed, as emergency services are aware of the drill taking place."
The drills will take place from 2-10 p.m. on each of the days, police said.
The training is taking part in conjunction with Valparaiso Community Schools.
"Thank you to the Valparaiso Community Schools for their continued partnership and cooperation as we work together to better serve our community," police said.
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VALPARAISO — Police say they will be conducting safety training Wednesday and Thursday and again the same days next week at Heavilin Elementary School at 2450 Heavilin Road.
"There will be an increase of police vehicles in the area, and police related activities occurring within the school," the department announced. "Please do not be alarmed, as emergency services are aware of the drill taking place."
The drills will take place from 2-10 p.m. on each of the days, police said.
The training is taking part in conjunction with Valparaiso Community Schools.
"Thank you to the Valparaiso Community Schools for their continued partnership and cooperation as we work together to better serve our community," police said.
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VALPARAISO — Police say they will be conducting safety training Wednesday and Thursday and again the same days next week at Heavilin Elementary School at 2450 Heavilin Road.
"There will be an increase of police vehicles in the area, and police related activities occurring within the school," the department announced. "Please do not be alarmed, as emergency services are aware of the drill taking place."
The drills will take place from 2-10 p.m. on each of the days, police said.
The training is taking part in conjunction with Valparaiso Community Schools.
"Thank you to the Valparaiso Community Schools for their continued partnership and cooperation as we work together to better serve our community," police said.
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VALPARAISO — Police say they will be conducting safety training Wednesday and Thursday and again the same days next week at Heavilin Elementary School at 2450 Heavilin Road.
"There will be an increase of police vehicles in the area, and police related activities occurring within the school," the department announced. "Please do not be alarmed, as emergency services are aware of the drill taking place."
The drills will take place from 2-10 p.m. on each of the days, police said.
The training is taking part in conjunction with Valparaiso Community Schools.
"Thank you to the Valparaiso Community Schools for their continued partnership and cooperation as we work together to better serve our community," police said.
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Valpo police to train at local elementary school
VALPARAISO — Police say they will be conducting safety training Wednesday and Thursday and again the same days next week at Heavilin Elementary School at 2450 Heavilin Road.
"There will be an increase of police vehicles in the area, and police related activities occurring within the school," the department announced. "Please do not be alarmed, as emergency services are aware of the drill taking place."
The drills will take place from 2-10 p.m. on each of the days, police said.
The training is taking part in conjunction with Valparaiso Community Schools.
"Thank you to the Valparaiso Community Schools for their continued partnership and cooperation as we work together to better serve our community," police said.
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The former owner of Hometown Appliances agreed to pay a total of about $35,350 in restitution, with some of the money to be paid to his 18 victims upfront and some in installments during the next year.
"The loss prevention officer also told the officer that the suspect shown in the surveillance images may have committed similar check frauds at other locations in Northwest Indiana," police said.
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Valparaiso police say they will be conducting safety training Wednesday and Thursday and again next week at Heavilin Elementary School at 2450 Heavilin Road. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/valpo-police-to-train-at-local-elementary-school/article_fa88775b-9983-5780-80c4-bc4837c4ecfa.html | 2022-07-13T12:47:54 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/valpo-police-to-train-at-local-elementary-school/article_fa88775b-9983-5780-80c4-bc4837c4ecfa.html |
Two Venice brothers are in end-stage renal disease. A live kidney donor could save them
Matthew Cipolla's night routine has an extra step beyond the common practices of carefully applying skincare or flipping through a book: he hooks himself up to a dialysis machine that filters his blood while he sleeps.
Matthew, 24, has Alport Syndrome, a genetic condition that progresses into kidney disease or hearing loss. So does his 22-year-old brother, Mark Jr.
The pair entered end-stage renal disease this year, Matthew in March, and Mark in June.
Kathy Cipolla, their mother, said Matthew was forced to go on dialysis after his emergency hospitalization in the spring. The plunge in health happened just months after the family relocated to Venice.
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Kathy said she thought Matthew's mild symptoms were a result of environmental changes.
"It was actually his blood pressure, which had never been a problem before," she said. "I'm very fortunate that he didn't stroke out or die at the time because that's how sick he was. But he hid it so well."
Now, Matthew is on dialysis while he sits on a list of hundreds of thousands of others waiting for an organ donation.
'Very quick and very traumatic'
The Cipollas found out their sons had an underlying medical problem in 2002.
"Mark Jr. fell ill," Kathy said in an interview with the Herald-Tribune. "It was in his diaper — urine was green, not yellow like it should be. The doctors took a sample and found out that Mark had protein and blood in his urine."
The family consulted a nephrologist, a doctor that specializes in kidney health. Kathy said it was determined the kids likely had Alport Syndrome, but genetic testing didn't confirm the condition until 2015, after the Cipollas were stationed in Washington, D.C., and referred to Walter Reed Medical Center.
"We knew back in 2015 that the kids would have to have dialysis eventually," Kathy said. "But when Matthew — only being 23 — went into renal failure... it was very quick, very traumatic."
Dave Widmyer, Matthew's current nephrologist, explained that most patients with Alport Syndrome end up on dialysis at a rather young age — in their 20s or 30s. That's why a living donation is invaluable.
"It can't be understated how important organ donors in general are. (Candidates) are waiting four or five years on average for a cadaver kidney, so that's where living donations become especially important," Widmyer said.
A living organ donation is when a living person donates an organ or part of an organ for transplantation, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.
Federal data shows that more than 106,000 people are on the national transplant waiting list, a list that adds an eligible candidate every nine minutes.
Widmyer also explained that unlike a cadaver kidney — which results in an emergent surgery for the transplant patient — a living donation allows a medical team to have a more organized process.
During the Herald-Tribune's reporting, Mark Jr. suddenly entered end-stage renal disease, too — just months after his brother suffered the same medical emergency.
Kathy said her younger son will move to Southwest Florida next month to follow a similar treatment plan as Matthew's, including a public appeal for a live kidney donation.
Fortunately, the men have different blood types so one sibling doesn't take donation priority over the other, according to Kathy.
"Matthew has more time accrued since he has already started dialysis," Kathy said in a text message. "Mark Jr. ... has rapidly progressed since his last bloodwork."
Kathy, an emergency room nurse, oversees treatment for both her sons while also running a Facebook page to inform friends and family of Matthew's condition titled "Save Matthew." The page was established well before Mark Jr. was in end-stage renal disease.
"We’re asking the public to think about it and if anybody out of the goodness of their heart — somebody doing something altruistic — would look into seeing whether or not they’re a potential donor," she said.
Could you be a live donor?
Matthew's blood type is O+ and Mark's is A+, meaning that both brothers can receive a kidney from anyone with O-type blood, with Mark also able to receive from someone with A-type blood.
There are several resources providing guidance on kidney donations such as kidneyregistry.org with a simplified Q&A section or kidney.org, which offers information on anonymous donations and insurance coverage.
UNOS also has a brochure that breaks down each step of becoming a living organ donor.
Anyone interested to see if they're a match for either of the Cipolla men can "sign up" via Matthew's Facebook page or by visiting this link.
Anna Harrop, the living donor coordinator at Largo Medical Center, can also be reached at 727-588-5653 or by email at anna.harrop@hcahealthcare.com for a free blood testing kit for anyone with a donation inquiry.
Stefania Lugli covers a little of everything for the Herald-Tribune while pursuing watchdog/investigative stories. You can contact her at slugli@heraldtribune.com or dm her on Twitter at @steflugli. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/07/13/venice-florida-kidney-disease-living-donation-brothers-matthew-mark-cipolla/7830112001/ | 2022-07-13T12:49:20 | 0 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/07/13/venice-florida-kidney-disease-living-donation-brothers-matthew-mark-cipolla/7830112001/ |
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- A man died after he was shot near his Northeast Philadelphia home Tuesday night, Philadelphia police said.
- The man had just parked when three men approached him, investigators said.
- At least 17 shots were fired, striking the man in the head, police said.
A man was shot and killed shortly after parking outside his Northeast Philadelphia home late Tuesday night.
Police arrived around 10:30 p.m. to find the man shot in the head on the sidewalk in front of his family's home along Walker Street, not far from Harbison Avenue, in the Wissinoming neighborhood, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
Officers scooped the bleeding man up and rushed him to the hospital where he died a short time later, police said.
Witnesses told investigators that the man, who was in his 30s, had just parked his car and got out of the vehicle when three men approached him near the front steps, Small said.
"At least 17 shots were fired from a semi-automatic weapon," Small said. "Most of (the shell casings) were on the sidewalk just a few feet away from where this victim was found by police."
The three men ran off onto nearby Benner Street, police said.
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Investigators didn't reveal a motive for the deadly shooting.
This is the latest homicide in Philadelphia where at least 289 people have been killed so far in 2022. That's down just 2% from last year, which wound up being the deadliest in Philadelphia's recorded history.
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The Stafford Township 12-and-under baseball team captured the District 16 title Sunday with a victory over Linwood/Somers Point.
The win gave Stafford the first district title in league history.
During the tournament, Stafford outscored opponents 84-4.
“This an unbelievably special group of ballplayers and even better kids,” Stafford Manager Bruce Kelly said.
“I have been very fortunate to coach a majority of these kids on our travel baseball team, the Stafford Hitmen, over the last three years, and their growth has been unbelievable. To see it all come together and know that they have the potential to make a deep run this summer is amazing.”
In the tournament, Owen Hughes, Conner Kerlin and Zando Kelly were solid on the mound for Stafford. Zando Kelly batted .684 with 15 RBIs and three homers. Colton Gearl and Connor Grob also were key contributors on offense.
Stafford will next play in the Section 4 tournament at 8 p.m. Friday in Monroe Township. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/stafford-township-wins-district-16-title/article_b6ac3656-01ed-11ed-9aa5-af229748b87f.html | 2022-07-13T12:56:42 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/stafford-township-wins-district-16-title/article_b6ac3656-01ed-11ed-9aa5-af229748b87f.html |
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — On Tuesday night, a Lehigh Acres woman died after she was hit by a car while walking on the northbound travel lanes of Kings Highway in Charlotte County.
The driver of a sedan was driving north on Kings Highway when she then crashed into the 48-year-old woman, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver, described as a 22-year-old Arcadia woman, received minor injuries in the crash.
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Kenosha Police found and corralled an alligator wandering the streets of Kenosha’s north side on Tuesday morning around 11 a.m.
At 11:15 a.m., KPD received a call from a resident on 22nd Avenue and 24th Street reporting an alligator near their house. Three officers responded and safely taped the alligator's mouth before loading it into a squad car to take to a reptile sanctuary, Lt. Joseph Nosalik said.
Briefly after capturing the animal, KPD received a call from a resident reporting their lost pet alligator, according to Nosalik. After confirming compliance with state ordinances through the Department of Natural Resources, KPD returned the alligator to its owner, Nosalik said.
Video, photos: Pets gone wild of Nebraska
Messi and Meelo
This is Messi and Meelo. Messi is camera shy but meelo loves to make funny faces at the camera.
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Saber
Saber is threatening to post something embarrassing on Facebook if he isn't fed.
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Finnegan Lucifer
Finnegan Lucifer, yes, that’s his middle name, has a thing for comforters. And he can never be found at the scene of the crime. He always hides before I find the mess.
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Muddy pet
Zoey
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Mollie
Mollie loves getting into the toilet paper.
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Pets
Dreaded Christmas moments when you have pets.
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Kitten
Here is 6-month-old kitten Brick, after discovering a new toy.
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Penny
Penny after a long day of playing.
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Christmas Cat
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Chanel
Chanel hates the new dog.
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Jack
Jack, a Bengal mix.
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Maverick
Maverick, age 8 months, is certainly a rascal.
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Kitty baer
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Pets
His owner came back from vacation to this.
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Pets
Speck Strack can be naughty.
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Pets
Rosie says she didn't do it.
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Pets
Swiss cheese is his name.
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Naughty dog
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Spook
Spook thinks he is helping with the laundry.
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Cooper
Cooper checks out the pond. Right after that, he fell in.
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Cat
Lynx loves to help with laundry.
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Dog
This is Buddy, taking a pit stop in an Omaha park. Don't worry; his owner cleaned it up.
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Cat
Lynx thinks he is quite the acrobat.
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Naughty dog
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Naughty cat
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Mattie
Mattie is getting inpatient about opening her presents.
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Naughty dog
Naughty dog Ripley after he ate his owner's cake.
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Deer
Well, this isn't a pet, but one of our readers captured this photo of a deer going after some foliage.
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Norman
Norman likes to help with the cleaning. He is 1 year old and adopted him from a rescue place last year.
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Olive
Olive learning to eat solid food.
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Honey
Honey after getting into the mud and jumping on the furniture.
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Naughty pet
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Naughty pet
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Pet
She found the grease trap under the grill.
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Maximus
Maximus had some fun with the flowerpots.
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Elli, Kate and Chloe love the snow
Elli, Kate and Chloe love the snow
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Man found dead in Alliance was fighting demons, trying for fresh start
ALLIANCE – Most in the Carnation City never got to know Robert Walton.
His time here was cut short.
People would've liked him, his aunt Janene Walton-Spencer said. He was creative, kind-hearted and generous. He made glass jewelry. He loved Legos.
"He was my Robbie," she said.
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It seemed Walton, 53, was turning a corner on a life hardened by demons from addiction and family deaths when his life ended.
His body was found in a station wagon the parking lot of Alliance's Walmart on June 26.
Walton died from cardiac arrhythmia but alcohol and drugs were found in his system, according to the Stark County Coroner's Office.
"He wasn't just some homeless guy. It looked like it, but he wasn't. He was there for work," said his aunt.
Seeking a fresh start
Walton was from Vista, California, near San Diego. He arrived in Dennison in April 2021 to live with his aunt and cousins.
More:How and where to get addiction help
Her nephew "came here for a fresh start" after a long-term relationship ended and he had few options in California, Walton-Spencer said.
In Dennison, Walton bonded with the family, and shared his love of Legos with his cousins' children.
"He was just having the best time," his aunt said.
Walton's ex-girlfriend, Angela Bello, said she never stopped caring for him and they kept in contact regularly.
Her father made a sizable donation to defray funeral expenses for Walton.
"Rob was a kind and generous man who loved life and his family. We had a lot of fun but also a lot of pain," Bello said.
Some of that pain, Bello said, involved them losing their house, and Walton's decisions leading to the loss of a kitchen grease collection business.
"I had to go, though, it broke my heart," she said.
A job brought him to Alliance
After leaving a factory job, Walton found employment in June with a contractor in the Alliance area.
He died a few days later.
"That's what took him there," Walton-Spencer said.
She said her nephew was planning to sleep in his station wagon during the work week and come home on weekends.
"Due to gas prices," she said. The drive from Dennison to Alliance takes roughly an hour.
Walton-Spencer said her nephew went to work on June 21 and June 22. He never returned.
"They found (his body) Saturday," she said. "He had a mattress in his car. He just didn't wake up."
"We were all rooting for him."
Spencer-Walton said her family has endured many untimely deaths. "People tend not survive very long in our family."
Her nephew and a sister – also Walton's mother – were 53 when they died. Her brother was 61 when he died of a heart attack.
"We were all rooting for him and believed he could get it together," Bello said. "He was trying. I will miss him and love him always."
"He will be missed by us and his ex-girlfriend," Spencer-Walton said.
Reach Benjamin Duer at 330-580-8567 or ben.duer@cantonrep.com. On Twitter @bduerREP. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/alliance/2022/07/13/robert-walton-california-alliance-ohio-dead-2022/7810751001/ | 2022-07-13T13:18:22 | 0 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/alliance/2022/07/13/robert-walton-california-alliance-ohio-dead-2022/7810751001/ |
New York City suffered through another violent night Tuesday into Wednesday, with four people shot and killed in less than three hours in four separate incidents.
Between 10:45 p.m. Tuesday and 1:10 a.m. Wednesday, gunfire rang out over and over again in the Bronx and Brooklyn, adding to the city's growing murder toll - down somewhat from last year but still the second highest in a decade.
The first murder happened in the Wakefield section of the Bronx; cops responded to a 911 call in the 600 block of East 234th Street and found a 31-year-old man with a gunshot wound. He died at Saint Barnabas.
Minutes later, in the 100 block of Thomas Boyland Street in Bed-Stuy, cops found a man, 29, shot in the leg. He died at Brookdale Hospital.
Shortly after midnight, in the 200 block of Lincoln Avenue in the Cypress Hills section, a 911 caller reported a 24-year-old man shot in the torso. He died at Jamaica Hospital.
But there was one more fatality to come, just after 1 a.m. in the 2300 block of Grand Concourse. A 911 call led to Melquan Cooper, 34, who was shot in the torso. He also died at Saint Barnabas.
After a surge of violence earlier this year, newly elected Mayor Eric Adams launched a gun violence plan to get weapons off the street, including the return of controversial anti-crime units.
The numbers trended in the right direction in the following months - shooting incidents decreased, and murders continued to decline.
But in the last few weeks conditions have again deteriorated. Over the last four weeks, major crimes in New York City are up 33% versus the same period last year, including a 16% rise in murders. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/4-shot-and-killed-in-3-hours-in-nyc-overnight-as-murder-rate-turns-higher/3772420/ | 2022-07-13T13:19:21 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/4-shot-and-killed-in-3-hours-in-nyc-overnight-as-murder-rate-turns-higher/3772420/ |
The man wanted in connection with three stabbing attacks, one of them deadly, on sleeping homeless people in Manhattan has been arrested, three law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the case said Wednesday.
No other details on the circumstances of the apprehension were immediately released.
News of the arrest comes after News 4 obtained a copy of an internal NYPD memo in which department officials warned patrol units in Manhattan to be alert for the serial stabber. He is believed to have attacked at least three homeless people, all of whom were sleeping in public spaces, in an eight-day span, the memo said.
The first victim, a 34-year-old, was sleeping on a park bench on the Hudson River Greenway at West 11th Street on July 5 when cops say the attacker stabbed him once in the stomach shortly after 3 a.m. He died of his injuries a short time later.
The other two victims -- a 59-year-old as he lay on a bench near Madison Avenue and East 49th Street around 10 p.m. Friday and a 28-year-old stabbed in Stanley Isaacs Playground on East 96th Street near the FDR Drive early Monday -- are expected to survive their injuries. They, like the man who died, were stabbed in the stomach.
None of the victims have been identified.
According to the internal NYPD memo, all officers were told to survey their assigned areas for potential homeless people and "proactively engage" with them in an effort to help get them off the streets. Wellness checks should also be conducted, and officers should remind people of shelter and other services available to them, it said.
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The memo said special attention should be paid to areas where the homeless tend to camp, though it's not clear if that's how cops tracked down their suspect.
The case is the second involving a suspect apparently targeting homeless people in New York City this year. In March, a 30-year-old man was arrested for allegedly shooting five people, killing some of them, in Manhattan and Washington, D.C.
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New York City's monkeypox outbreak continues to grow, and the city is once again out of vaccine appointments - raising questions about how much worse things could get in the coming weeks.
Cases are now doubling here every six days. The city represents more than a quarter of all U.S. infections, according to CDC data, and more than 2% of all current infections worldwide.
But the latest round of vaccine appointments ran out almost immediately on Tuesday after a wave of errors left many people unable to even access the booking website, and the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said it could only hope for more shots "in the near future."
The latest hiccup is one in a string of problems the city has experienced since it started to rollout the monkeypox vaccine.
Getting hands on a vaccine has been difficult -- only a few thousand appointments have opened in the past few weeks.
"We truly wish we had more," said New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, as she pushed for more help from the federal government.
There will be 5,100 doses soon heading to the state, and 14,000 more to NYC. But Hochul cautioned it's still not enough.
"What I’ve conveyed to the White House is that we’ve received about 14 percent of doses allocated nationwide, but we have more than 14 percent of the nation's cases," she said this week.
One New York City Councilmember who represents the outbreak's epicenter in Chelsea called on the government to accelerate the process of getting vaccines out of a factory in Denmark - where they are apparently in limbo because its FDA inspection expired.
"The U.S. let the Denmark plant’s good standing certification with the U.S. lapse, and none of the doses can be delivered until the FDA conducts a new inspection/review — even though 1M shots are already vialed, labeled and ready for delivery," Erik Bottcher tweeted Wednesday morning. "The FDA has apparently conducted the inspection and is currently reviewing. This was supposed to happen months from now but the Biden admin is doing it now. If the FDA can’t authorize this in the next few days, Biden should overrule the FDA and accept the E.U.’s certification."
While monkeypox is contagious and typically confined to the African continent, health officials say the risk to the general U.S. public is low. They say this isn't COVID all over again because vaccines already exist to treat orthopoxvirus, the family of viruses to which monkeypox and diseases like smallpox and chickenpox belong.
But ensuring a steady supply of the FDA-approved monkeypox vaccine is a problem. And it's causing other headaches, too.
But how does the monkeypox vaccine even work? It's a two-dose vaccination process like many others, though the vaccine supply issue may mean some New Yorkers have to wait an extra week or two to get their next layers of protection against monkeypox.
City Hall has now formally asked the Biden Administration to delay those second doses, precisely so it can get more first doses in arms while supply is constrained.
At this point, eligibility in New York City is limited to "gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men and transgender, gender non-conforming or gender non-binary persons ages 18 and older who have had multiple or anonymous sex partners in the last 14 days," under the guidelines released by the health department. Learn more here.
On Long Island, Suffolk County opened an online monkeypox portal for vaccination appointments Monday. In less than two hours, all 750 available appointment slots had been filled, with all the doses to be given out at two locations on Fire Island later in the week.
There have been four confirmed cases in Suffolk County, and one in Nassau County, which has been given 400 doses to dole out. Officials at Northwell Health — which is overseeing much of the vaccine distribution on Long Island — are hopeful more doses and testing will soon be made available.
Cases are rising in Westchester as well, with plans there still up in the air.
What Is Monkeypox?
Monkeypox was first discovered in 1958, when outbreaks occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research -- resulting in its name. (What you need to know about monkeypox.)
The first case in a human was reported in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which still has the majority of infections. Other African countries where it has been found: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone.
Human symptoms of monkeypox are similar to but milder than the symptoms of smallpox, the CDC says. It presents itself as a flu-like illness accompanied by lymph-node swelling and rash on the face and body.
Monkeypox starts off with fever, headache, muscle aches, and exhaustion. Monkeypox also causes lymph nodes to swell, something that smallpox does not. The incubation period is usually 7−14 days but can range from 5−21 days.
The CDC is urging healthcare providers in the U.S. to be alert for patients who have rashes consistent with monkeypox, regardless of whether they have traveled or have specific risks for monkeypox. See more information from the travel notice here. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-out-of-monkeypox-vaccine-again-as-pressure-grows-on-biden-to-act/3772484/ | 2022-07-13T13:19:33 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-out-of-monkeypox-vaccine-again-as-pressure-grows-on-biden-to-act/3772484/ |
SAN MARCOS, Texas — Editor's note: The above video was published in October 2021.
Hays County officials are still trying to figure out who started the devastating San Marcos apartment fire that killed five people in July 2018. As the four-year anniversary draws near, they're asking for the public's help.
The Hays County Crime Stoppers Cold Case group put out a call Wednesday asking for information that could lead them to the person or persons responsible for the fire. Anyone with any information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-324-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip online.
The fire at the Iconic Village Apartments, near Texas State University, began just before 4:30 a.m. on July 20, 2018, while most residents were asleep.
Twenty-year-old Dru Estes of San Antonio, 21-year-old Belinda Moats of Big Wells, 19-year-old Haley Michele Frizzell of San Angelo, 21-year-old David Angel Ortiz of Pasadena and 23-year-old James Phillip Miranda of Mount Pleasant lost their lives.
Zachary Sutterfield of San Antonio suffered burns on 70% of his body and was given a 50% chance to live. He survived and shared his story with KVUE in 2019.
In 2021, investigators determined that an accelerate was allegedly used to ignite the fire. But who is responsible remains a mystery.
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- 5 deaths ruled homicides in San Marcos apartment fire | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/hays-county/san-marcos-iconic-village-fire-tips/269-e1f95ec8-35ca-4dc1-9db9-dfb7a93057b8 | 2022-07-13T13:24:05 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/hays-county/san-marcos-iconic-village-fire-tips/269-e1f95ec8-35ca-4dc1-9db9-dfb7a93057b8 |
SAN ANTONIO — We're loving it! Head over to the golden arches on Wednesday and celebrate National French Fry Day with a free order of the delicious, crispy treat.
McDonald’s has fry-making down to a science, ensuring the golden delicious spuds come out perfectly crisp every time. And on Wednesday, July 13, they are handing them out for free!
The related video above was originally published June 29, 2022.
McDonald's is giving everyone a FREE order of Large Fries, no purchase necessary, exclusively in the McDonald’s app on July 13.
For all of you fry aficionados, we thought you might be interested in knowing about this amazing deal on spuds.
Did you know that McDonald's World Famous Fries have been around since 1955? Back then, they actually hand-cut them in every store. Now of course, they peel, cut, blanch and par fry quality potatoes before freezing them and shipping them to their restaurants, where they’re prepared into the hot, crispy fries you know and love.
You deserve a break today, so get up and get away to McDonald's for some free fries!
Happy National French Fry Day.
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ROSWELL, Ga. — Roswell police have located the parents of a toddler who was found alone at an apartment complex early Wednesday.
The boy was found walking around unsupervised around 1:30 a.m. at the Park 83 apartments on Calibre Creek Parkway.
Police believe he's about two or three years old.
This is a developing story. Check back often for new information.
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Mandan is looking to continue a recent uptick in residential and commercial development.
The city is adding new residential lots and subdivisions, fueling the trend that started last year after a year of uncertainty and decline in development at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’ve seen a dramatic increase in development because of COVID (decreasing)," Mandan Principal Planner Andrew Stromme said.
A boom in the housing market has been causing lots of people to move to newer areas, according to Stromme. There has been increased demand to develop residential space by the new high school under construction in the north and the new elementary school being built in the southeast part of town. Development also has been increasing by Red Trail Elementary and Mandan Middle School, both of which opened in the past 15 years.
Population growth also is a factor. Mandan grew by nearly 6,000 residents between 2010 and 2020, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
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To accommodate new development, the city is planning to build a sewage plant in the northern part of the city. Roads also are being constructed throughout the city totaling 3.5 miles. Roads have already been approved around the new schools and should be completed early next year. Stromme said this should prompt development, and that more development means more revenue for the city.
“Following construction, we anticipate new development in north Mandan," he said.
The newly platted subdivisions have been zoned for residential and commercial use. The city approved 392 new residential units between May 2021 and June 2022, with an additional 533 to be available if planned subdivisions are fully built out. Units range from single-family homes to apartment complexes.
The city also is expecting up to 20 additional commercial lots and two new city parks. Stromme said that building permits for lots are usually not issued until after roads have been completed. This can take 12-18 months after a subdivision is approved for development by the City Commission.
“The city is very optimistic about new development opportunities and what we have to offer to people in Mandan," he said.
For more information, go to https://www.cityofmandan.com/housing or contact Stromme at (701) 667-3248. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/mandan/mandan-continues-surge-in-development-as-pandemic-wanes/article_d2bc6e3c-f721-11ec-aa00-bbc45d8af448.html | 2022-07-13T13:34:27 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/mandan/mandan-continues-surge-in-development-as-pandemic-wanes/article_d2bc6e3c-f721-11ec-aa00-bbc45d8af448.html |
HOUSTON — A sergeant with the Harris County Precinct 5 Constable's Office was removed as a youth baseball coach due to his actions after a game in west Houston last weekend.
Kenneth Wendt's poor sportsmanship was caught on camera after his 9-and-under Scorpions Baseball team lost to Prospects Baseball on Saturday.
The game was over, but the drama was just getting started. The two teams lined up to high-five, but Wendt, who is seen in the video wearing khaki shorts, took it too far. He's seen bumping into the first kids in the line.
Parents are angry, saying he was too aggressive.
"Nothing in the world gives you the right to do that to kids," Prospects 9U baseball coach Victor Torres said.
Torres said you'd expect it from the kids, but not the coach.
"They come in and they slap you hard on the hand. And you'll be like, 'hey, don't do that.' But an adult, you wouldn't expect it," Torres said. "I was upset. I was really upset."
Scorpions Baseball sent KHOU 11 News this statement:
"His actions were unacceptable and do not align with our organization’s values. We removed him from coaching and from our club about 8:30 a.m. Sunday."
"How is that even possible," Torres said. "You hold them to a higher standard. And then you come out here and do that to kids, to 9-year-old kids."
A parent from the Scorpions, who was at the game Saturday, is defending the former coach.
“We have known the Wendt family for two years and Kenny has always been a great husband, father, and coach. He spends an extraordinary amount of time in coaching and helping kids and their families both on and off the field.,” the parent said.
Torres said it's a teachable moment for everyone.
"Just like I tell my kids" 'We don't lose, we learn,'" Torres said. "You don't do that to 9-year-olds. You don't put your hands on 9-year-olds. Especially not someone else's child."
The Harris County Constable Precinct 5 Office is aware of the incident and is investigating.
Editor's note: The original version of this story indicated this was a Little League team. The team is not affiliated with Little League. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/coach-removed-rough-encounter-opposing-players-after-loss/285-d9898a7e-7b3d-46bc-a058-6c38bf4999a6 | 2022-07-13T13:38:18 | 1 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/coach-removed-rough-encounter-opposing-players-after-loss/285-d9898a7e-7b3d-46bc-a058-6c38bf4999a6 |
The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer:
From what you’re seeing in political ads on your TV screen and and in your mailbox, you would think that Arizonans care about just one or two hot-button issues and are hopelessly divided and polarized. But are the candidates missing the mark? Do they represent your views? What will it take for them to get your vote?
These are the questions we at the Center for the Future of Arizona asked when we surveyed likely voters in the upcoming elections. Our approach is similar to the Star’s new approach to elections, which focuses on what voters want to know. Our survey formed the basis of the Arizona Voters’ Agenda launched in early June. What we found might surprise you. Voters agree on much more than they disagree about important issues facing our state, and they are not nearly as polarized as pundits would have you believe.
Three polls we’ve commissioned over the past decade show that Arizonans are generally pragmatic, not dogmatic. They want solutions to Arizona’s challenges, not soundbites. Tucson voters share the same concerns as voters in Phoenix or rural Arizona. Our survey also put in stark relief the enormous gap between what’s important to voters and what candidates emphasize. Here’s what voters want candidates to address as they compete for their votes and what political reporters should be asking:
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1. What is your plan to ensure Arizona students have quality teachers and principals?
2. What do you think the state should do with the growing budget surplus? (Spoiler alert: Voters prioritize funding for education, public safety, and infrastructure over tax cuts.)
3. What should Arizona do to protect our water future and secure our long-term water supplies?
4. What sustainable practices should continue and be implemented to protect Arizona’s air, land, and water, and foster a high quality of life for all?
5. What should Arizona do to keep our elections secure while preventing barriers to participation? (Spoiler alert: Arizona voters like early in-person voting and want to continue to have the option to mail their ballots.)
6. How do you define a functioning border for commerce, and what is your vision for immigration reform? (Another spoiler alert: Building a wall isn’t a priority for voters; comprehensive immigration reform is.)
Imagine an election season in which candidates spoke to these issues, and presented competing, concrete plans for making Arizona a better place. Wouldn’t that be a refreshing change from what candidates are serving up these days?
Our survey found that 38% of voters will choose candidates based on their position on the issues and 27% based on whether they have clear plans or solutions. That’s two-thirds of the voters more interested in policy than ideology.
So why aren’t candidates listening? Why aren’t they giving likely voters what they want? Maybe it comes down to who votes.
Early ballots have been mailed for the Aug. 2 primary election, which, if history repeats itself, will have a low turnout dominated by the most dedicated voters in each party. They are not representative of the general electorate. Independents generally sit out primaries, letting others determine their choices in November. Don’t kid yourself that you can skip the primary you don’t think is important. It is! Show up for election day! You can request an early ballot until July 22, or you can go to your polling place on Aug. 2. Independents have the same right to vote in a primary as anyone else. You just have to specify which party’s ballot you want to vote, whether you vote early or in person. Don’t let the candidates escape into soundbites and polarizing talking points. Hold them accountable to define and explain their positions on the issues that matter to Arizonans. This is the path to achieving The Arizona We Want.
Sybil Francis is president and CEO of Center for the Future of Arizona, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that brings Arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state. Get the details of the Arizona Voters’ Agenda at https://www.arizonafuture.org/the-arizona-we-want/arizona-voters-agenda. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/arizona-opinion-6-things-for-arizona-voters-to-keep-in-mind/article_b106398e-0212-11ed-9854-d3854c76908c.html | 2022-07-13T13:52:08 | 0 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/arizona-opinion-6-things-for-arizona-voters-to-keep-in-mind/article_b106398e-0212-11ed-9854-d3854c76908c.html |
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Indiana University coach Bob Knight once threw a red chair across the court, during a game, to express outrage. No matter how many games and championships his teams won, it was never enough.
Knight was often physically and verbally aggressive. His behaviors were praised by many on his side. They considered Knight a hero because he won games. He was a bully, but he was their bully. It is that way with Donald Trump. His true believers are not swayed by his behaviors related to the 2020 election and the events of Jan. 6, 2021. The behaviors of Knight and Trump are often displayed by people for whom losing is intolerable. They must win at all costs. Trump was taught early that being a loser is the worst fate. He lost on the biggest stage, the 2020 presidential election.
Trump started months before the election saying that he would only lose if it was fixed, just in case he lost. His approval ratings never topped 50%, so he was not favored to win, and did not.
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The election came and Trump lost by 7 million votes. Predictably, he claimed victory by a landslide. It was the start of “The Big Lie.” Trump did not concede and never will. He bullied his way through, insisting on victory. As with Bob Knight, his followers do not care. Trump is their bully and bullies know how to rally people to their side.
Trump continued with his stolen election mantra from election day until Jan. 6. It supplied his endless need for attention, power and millions of dollars to “Stop the Steal.” There was no credible support for his claims. Sixty court cases found no basis.
Trump invited his followers to Washington on Jan. 6 when electoral votes would be officially counted by Congress. He said it “will be wild.” Thousands of his supporters came, some armed. Among them were extreme right-wing revolutionary groups like the Proud Boys, Oathkeepers and QAnon.
Trump stirred the multitude into a frenzy, telling them that a terrible crime had been committed on them, and that they should “Stop the Steal” and “Fight like Hell.” He said that they should march to the Capitol and he would be with them. Thousands of fever-pitched insurrectionists went through barriers, assaulted police, broke windows and invaded the Capitol’s interior, threatening some members of Congress and to hang Mike Pence. Many were injured. Some died. Trump reportedly sought to join the mob, but was persuaded otherwise by Secret Service. Watching events from the West Wing, he did nothing to stop the four hour-invasion.
It could be reasonably concluded that Trump’s behaviors incited an insurrection to stop the electoral vote count and overturn election results. He may not have directly stated that the hordes should attack and destroy, but the motivation was clear. It was plausible deniability.
On the evening of Jan. 6, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney and Kevin McCarthy blamed Trump for the day’s destructive events. McCarthy later recanted his comments, fearing political retribution.
There has been solid, unwavering testimony to the Jan. 6 committee from various Republicans about the 2020 election results. All agreed that there was no evidence of fraud. Former Attorney General William Barr said that it was BS, in a longer version. No amount of authenticated testimony will matter to Trump’s hardcore followers. Trump will call it all “fake news” and a “witch hunt,” and his supporters will agree. He indeed could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and lose no votes. The Jan. 6 events arose from Trump’s refusal to lose, a need to accumulate followers and divide the country for his own desires. He has been throwing red chairs across a basketball floor since the day he lost.
Paul McCreary was raised on a farm in Illinois and spent 29 years in education in Michigan. Upon retirement, he moved to Indiana, Colorado and now the deserts of Arizona, trying to stay relevant and creative. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-throwing-chairs-across-the-floor/article_49ba3dfe-0215-11ed-8cb9-b3bc929b4f28.html | 2022-07-13T13:52:15 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-throwing-chairs-across-the-floor/article_49ba3dfe-0215-11ed-8cb9-b3bc929b4f28.html |
Average daily flows
Snake River at Heise 12,074 cfs
Snake River at Blackfoot 1,360 cfs
Snake River at American Falls 12,188 cfs
Snake River at Milner 0 cfs
Little Wood River near Carey 326 cfs
Jackson Lake is 47% full.
Palisades Reservoir is 73% full.
American Falls Reservoir is 39% full.
Upper Snake River system is at 55% of capacity.
As of July 12. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/average-daily-streamflows/article_9aeb5a78-020b-11ed-86a8-8f0d5c894fe2.html | 2022-07-13T13:52:16 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/average-daily-streamflows/article_9aeb5a78-020b-11ed-86a8-8f0d5c894fe2.html |
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game will be traveling to ponds and lakes throughout the Magic Valley this month with its “Take Me Fishing” trailer in tow.
Take Me Fishing Trailer Days is a great way for anyone looking for a new activity to do during the summer or for anyone who wants to learn how to fish.
Not only is the event free, but anyone who participates isn’t required to have a fishing license, whereas outside of the event anyone over the age of 14 is required to have one.
The trailer is fully stocked with poles, tackle and bait for those who want to show up and participate. Renting the equipment is free, though it is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Fish and Game staff members will be there to help both kids and adults learn the basics of fishing whether you are new to the activity or need a refresher.
Restocking schedule
With the trailer going around in July, it lines up perfectly with the agency’s fish restocking schedule.
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“It’s a great way to teach kids to fish,” avid fisherman Steve Gobel of Twin Falls said. Gobel is an advocate of restocking lakes and creeks with fish.
According to its website, the agency is stocking close to 31,000 catchable-sized rainbow trout throughout July, with Lake Cleveland having the biggest stock at 5,000 trout.
The Take Me Fishing trailer will be at Lake Cleveland on Saturday, July 30, making it the perfect spot to participate in the Take Me Fishing event.
“Fishing for stocked rainbow trout, particularly in community ponds, is a great way to introduce new anglers to the sport by using simple (and relatively thrifty) set-ups like worm/marshmallow combinations or commercial baits like Power Bait or Crave, either near the bottom or below a bobber,” the Fish and Game says on its stocking schedule.
All scheduled fishing events will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For more information about Take Me Fishing Trailer Days, visit idfg.idaho.gov/fish/trailers or call 208-324-4359. For more information about the restocking schedule, visit idfg.idaho.gov/fish/stocking. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/take-me-fishing-trailer-days-lines-up-with-fish-stocking-schedule/article_08cccfae-015d-11ed-ab5c-134a1387d6e8.html | 2022-07-13T13:52:22 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/take-me-fishing-trailer-days-lines-up-with-fish-stocking-schedule/article_08cccfae-015d-11ed-ab5c-134a1387d6e8.html |
NEWBERG, Ore. — It's a magical time in Oregon wine country right now. July and early August are when the lavender fields are in full bloom. Purples, pinks, even white blooms and all their beautiful scents are on display.
The Newberg Lavender Trail is worth a visit for restaurants with lavender infused foods, desserts and cocktails. Even coffee shops and art galleries are getting into it. Several lavender farms are also on the itinerary to explore and cut the flowers to bring home, or learn to make a wreath.
Marilyn Kosel has owned Wayward Winds Lavender Farm in Newberg for over 11 years. It's a U-cut farm with several large fields of lavender plantings — even a lavender maze to walk through. She holds wreath-making classes, sensory classes for children and there's a butterfly release party this month. The farm has a list of events on their website.
In the back of the farm, Kosel has a test garden where she explores growing new varieties of sizes and colors of lavender from around the world to see what works best in our climate.
Kosel used to own a plant nursery decades ago, but she fell in love with lavender when she saw a mass planting of it.
"It is very happy. It makes people happy, and I love that about it," she said.
The Newberg Lavender Trail includes a collection of 27 places to go and things to do and eat — all having to do with the flowers, going on all month.
The lavender farms, including Chehalem Flats Farm, are free to visit and Wayward Winds has a lot of props and playfully colored furniture to take the perfect picture. There are twin bathtubs couples have sat in and held hands for a photo overlooking the fields in bloom. Or a 1953 Chevy pickup parked in another field, perfect to put in the back of high school senior pictures or pose next to with the family.
Wayward Winds charges $50 for professional photographers to book a session, and most photographers like to book times at sunrise or sunset.
There are also treats! Flavored Italian sodas and snow cones are made by the staff at a small wooden stand in the middle of the fields. There's also an outdoor little market filled with all things Kosel and her team make from scratch at the farm. That includes scone mixes, flavored jams, syrup, honeys and even flavored chocolate sauces. Plus soaps and lotions, and of course, loose leaf lavender for sachets.
But it's the U-cut aspect of bringing that beautiful scent back home with you. Kosel explained the right way to do it.
"When [you're] cutting the lavender, you want to reach in and grab a handful. And you want to cut the stems as long as you can, but leave green on the plant," she said.
At $7.50 a bunch, the fragrance will last in the dried flowers for years. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/places-to-see-lavender-oregon-newberg-trail/283-55408fe0-254b-4152-a30e-c9d0975c067e | 2022-07-13T13:53:34 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/places-to-see-lavender-oregon-newberg-trail/283-55408fe0-254b-4152-a30e-c9d0975c067e |
FORT WORTH, Texas — A crash shut down northbound I-35W in far north Fort Worth on Wednesday morning.
The highway was reopened by around 8:30 a.m., after about an hourlong closure.
An ambulance and fire truck, along with police vehicles were seen blocking the northbound lanes near Alliance Gateway Freeway.
Traffic appeared to be backed up for several miles, impacting drivers who were heading north on I-35W through the north Fort Worth area.
The crash appeared to involve one vehicle, but more information was not yet released.
U.S. 377 could be another northbound option for drivers, along with North Beach Street and North Riverside Drive.
This is a breaking news story. Check back for more information. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/crash-shuts-down-i-35w-in-far-north-fort-worth-alliance/287-675c1924-0c09-4e68-a17f-af71c6e65764 | 2022-07-13T13:57:41 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/crash-shuts-down-i-35w-in-far-north-fort-worth-alliance/287-675c1924-0c09-4e68-a17f-af71c6e65764 |
Boaters to get limited access to sail under Mathers Bridge until repairs are completed
Brevard County officials have decided to give boaters limited access to sail underneath the Mathers Bridge while the bridge undergoes needed repairs during the coming weeks.
The 700-foot-long, low-level, swing-span bridge — which first opened in 1927 — connects South Tropical Trail on the southern end of Merritt Island to the western end of Banana River Drive in Indian Harbour Beach.
The county must replace actuators that are used in opening and closing the bridge. The bridge has four actuators, and all four are required to operate the bridge to allow boaters to pass.
Initially, county officials decided to leave the bridge in a closed position, allowing motorists and pedestrians to cross over the bridge, but preventing larger boats from passing underneath the bridge.
On Wednesday, the county announced a change in that plan.
Brevard County Communications Director Don Walker said the bridge would open for boaters roughly once a week for one hour.
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"At the request of numerous boaters and associations, we are attempting to aid stranded boaters impacted by the current closure for whatever reason they need to be on the opposite side of the bridge from where their boat is now," Walker said. "This is a limited offering, and at this time will not be expanded for recreational purposes, due to the extensive time and resources required to open and close the bridge" manually.
Walker said it will take roughly one hour to manually open and one hour to manually close the bridge each time, preventing motorist and pedestrian traffic from crossing the bridge.
Boaters will be able to pass under the bridge from 10 to 11 a.m. on July 15, July 23, July 29 and Aug. 6, if the repairs are not completed by then.
"We are expecting the bridge actuators and motors to be repaired within three to four weeks," Walker said.
Walker said the county's maintenance and repair contractor will perform the manual bridge openings, in conjunction with the Brevard County Public Works Department's road and bridge crews. The process will begin roughly at 9 a.m. and conclude at noon on the designated days, with the bridge open to boaters from 10 to 11 a.m.
During each three-hour evolution, a Brevard County Fire Rescue emergency crew will be on standby in the Dragon Point area of Merritt Island as a safety precaution, should an emergency arise in the area.
Walker said county officials devised the plan, in consultation with County Commissioner Curt Smith, whose District 4 includes the Mathers Bridge area
The bridge opening schedule is subject to change if there are any issues or it is determined there is little interest among boaters in the bridge openings.
While no reservation is required, boaters can contact the county's road and bridge office from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays at 321-255-4310 to advise on the date they intend to use the opportunity to sail under the bridge.
Walker said, when it is fully operational, the Mathers Bridge opens and closes as many as 800 times a month to allow taller boats to navigate along the Banana River.
Even with the bridge in the closed position, smaller boats still are able to pass under the bridge — if they are small enough to pass underneath without the bridge opening. The clearance under the bridge is about 6 feet, but that depends on the tides.
There have been several previous issues with the bridge during the past year, resulting in either access underneath the bridge area being closed to boaters, or the bridge being closed to motorists, forcing a detour to the Pineda Causeway.
Dave Berman is business editor at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Berman at dberman@floridatoday.com. Twitter: @bydaveberman.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Preparations for Amazon Prime Day are year-round in Park City and Wichita.
The Amazon Fulfillment Center in Park City expects to ship out over a million packages for Amazon Prime Day, an event for Prime members to shop for deals from top brands and small businesses.
Prime Day this year is on Tuesday, July 12 and Wednesday, July 13.
There are deals, both big and small, for everyone.
“The Lego sets gonna be 30%, some of the TVs can flex all the way up to more than 70% off … even diapers can be found for 30% off,” said Amazon Spokesperson Andy DiOrio.
Preparations started last year for the two-day event.
“We opened up our fulfillment center just last year,” said DiOrio. “Already in the last year alone, we’ve expanded greatly the way that customers can order and also get their packages delivered.”
Preparations continued into this year.
“We opened our ICT Amazon Air Gateway in January of this year,” DiOrio said. “That’s a response for our Wichita customers. There is a demand for products to be ordered and delivered in the market, and so we answer that by expanding our delivery operations in the airway.”
Over 1,000 Amazon associates have been hired to deliver the goods — in just two days.
“We’re at numbers that we need right now for that intense 48-hour, to really 96-hour window of Amazon Prime Day and the days themselves when the deals drop, but also during the week when it’s now time to deliver those great gifts that all of our customers throughout the Wichita region have ordered,” said DiOrio.
In order to get Prime Day deals, you do need to be an Amazon Prime member. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/amazon-prime-day-preparations-year-round-in-park-city-and-wichita/ | 2022-07-13T14:05:48 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/amazon-prime-day-preparations-year-round-in-park-city-and-wichita/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — When the temperature is as hot as we have seen lately, having access to fresh water is even more important, and if you are homeless, it can be even harder to find.
July is Hydration Awareness Month, which has the goal of making sure people know where free water is available and expanding those locations.
One organization is doing its part to help those who do not have easy access to water. The Alliance of Overlooked Neighbors is encouraging businesses, mainly in downtown Wichita, to put out coolers so the homeless population can have cold water readily available.
“What we’re trying to do is, we’ve asked locations around Wichita to be free water locations, so we’ve either recruited locations or identified existing locations,” said Olivia Sailors, Coordinator for the Alliance of Overlooked Individuals.
Research has shown that locally, members of the homeless community are forced to walk three to four blocks to find water or a public restroom.
“Unhoused individuals are 200 times more likely to die from heat-related emergencies, so they need to be hydrated is super important in Wichita and beyond, so the more that we can expand access to water, the safer our community is going to be,” said Sailors.
Sailors says that there are currently 25 locations where free water is available, and they hope for that number to increase. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/local-organization-launches-water-for-the-homeless-program/ | 2022-07-13T14:05:54 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/local-organization-launches-water-for-the-homeless-program/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Two different Sedgwick County commissioners Tuesday called the county fire department a “house of cards.”
“It could crumble,” said commissioner Jim Howell. “We need to fix the problem. If we don’t, we may not have a department in 20 years.”
That issue is the department running to fires where people are not taxed but still get service.
“I feel the fire department does a great job. We are very good,” Howell said. “So, how do you find efficiencies? How do you find more money for the paychecks without raising taxes?”
Howell remains adamant that firefighters deserve a raise, but there is the issue of the department spending resources to the point it strains services. Some county commissioners on Tuesday also called out fire leadership for not finding a way to get more money into the system.
“What would happen is, you all need to update your resumes if that happens,” said Commissioner David Dennis. “Because if we lost Maize, it’s a house of cards, and the rest of Fire District Number One is going to follow right behind.”
Dennis says the fire department responds to Maize fires. Maize pays into the system, but Dennis is asking if Maize would consider starting its own fire department, taking the tax money with it.
Other areas of the county that do not pay into the Sedgwick County Fire Department still get the service, even if they are not taxed for the service. Meanwhile, some firefighters with the county say money is a problem.
They need more.
“We do have to raise starting pay as well as fix the pay from those at the bottom,” said Sedgwick County Firefighter Casey Ingalls. “All the way through our line personnel on the floor. Multiple years of not getting raises and our benefits being looked at.”
Ingalls points out the starting pay is $14.26 an hour. He also says they are losing firefighters to better-paying jobs.
“We don’t necessarily have a voice,” said Ingalls. “That is our major frustration right now.”
As the county firefighter union president, Ingalls says the county does not recognize the union at the county level.
“The commissioners, they need to take a look at us as people on the floor and in the fire district,” said Ingalls. “But not so much as us as numbers.”
Meanwhile, Howell says firefighters need better pay.
“They need and deserve better,” said Howell. “And we can all agree on that.”
The county is in the middle of budget planning right now. What happens next is far from decided.
“We need answers on how to get this fixed,” said Howell. “We are definitely working on that.” | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/sedgwick-county-fire-a-house-of-cards-commissioner-says/ | 2022-07-13T14:06:00 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/sedgwick-county-fire-a-house-of-cards-commissioner-says/ |
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A 17-year-old is dead after a shooting in Battle Creek Monday evening.
The Battle Creek Police Department says dispatchers started receiving calls for multiple gunshots in the area of Arbor Pointe Townhomes, which is off of Jackson Street W near N. 20th Street.
That's where police found a 17-year-old boy who had been shot.
First responders rushed him to a hospital, but his injuries were too severe. He died at the hospital.
The boy's parents identified the victim as Christopher Mark Williams.
He graduated from Battle Creek Central High School last month.
Authorities said they're continuing to investigate and have not released any additional details.
Anyone with information on this incident can call police at 269-966-3322 or 269-781-0911, or anonymously through Silent Observer at 269-964-3888.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A dog died on Sunday after swimming in an area of Barton Creek located right beside Barton Springs Pool.
The death came within an hour of swimming in the section known as "Barking Springs." While the dog's cause of death is currently unknown, toxic algae could be to blame.
The City's Watershed Protection Department said in a Tuesday release it saw "a few isolated mats of algae near rocks in this area," and took samples of the algae for testing.
On Saturday, the department announced it found blue-green algae in Lady Bird Lake, which connects to Barton Creek.
Toxins from blue-green algae can harm both people and animals. No toxins have been found in water samples from Lady Bird Lake and Emma Long Metropolitan Park on Lake Austin. However, toxins were found in algae samples in both locations.
When toxins are found in algae samples and not water samples, that means exposure to the toxins can only be achieved through ingesting or directly handling the algae. Dogs can become exposed when they drink algae-affected water, eat the algae itself or lick the algae off their fur.
The Watershed Protection Department said people and animals alike should not swim in warm, stagnant water or water with "scum, film or mats of algae." Swimmers are also encouraged to rinse off after exiting the water.
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ORONDO, Wash. — Logan Schneider thought his day was done on his family's cherry farm last week when it was really just beginning.
"Looking at what happened, I don't know how we both got out," he said.
Logan was riding a tractor in the orchard about 12 miles north of Wenatchee last week when a helicopter hit overhead powerlines and landed on top of him.
"I was pinned against the steering wheel, stuck with the nose of the helicopter sitting right behind me," the recent high school graduate explained.
Logan freed himself from the wreckage only to find the helicopter pilot trapped -- dangling upside down in his harness.
"I heard him screaming," said Logan. "I looked and I saw him upside down hanging. Fire was everywhere. When I was in the moment I really wasn't thinking. I was just doing."
Logan was able to free the pilot. They both sustained minor injuries.
The odds of getting hit by a falling helicopter and walking away with just a slight burn are incredible.
"It's one in a million, I'd say," Logan said.
When asked if he ran out and bought a lottery ticket that day, Logan replied, "I did! I won two bucks! The craziest thing about the whole situation is the pilot and I share the same birthday. I just thought it was so bizarre."
Logan celebrated that birthday by taking it easy last Friday - two days after his harrowing ordeal.
Despite the accident, Logan said he plans to pursue his dream of being a pilot. He will be going to flight school in the fall, after a crash course in close calls.
"I feel like I always have someone watching over me, God watching over me, protecting me. And you never know when it could be your last moment." | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/helicopter-falls-tractor-orondo/281-375b50c1-b64d-4cfe-9e3b-844f806468fe | 2022-07-13T14:09:12 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/helicopter-falls-tractor-orondo/281-375b50c1-b64d-4cfe-9e3b-844f806468fe |
HOUMA, La. — The mother of a 2-year-old boy who had been reported missing Tuesday afternoon, and her boyfriend, have been arrested on counts of murder after the child's body was found in a trash can Tuesday evening, Houma Police said.
The body of missing two-year-old Ezekiel Harry was found in a trash can on Daspit Street in Houma.
Arrested is the child's mother, Maya Jones and her live-in boyfriend, 37-year-old Jermaine Robinson.
The family of the child's father found out about the discovery as Ezekiel Harry's grandmother got a call informing her that the child's body had been found.
WWL-TV's Meg Farris reported that the grandmother collapsed upon receiving the call and started sobbing, telling family members that the body had been found.
According to Houma Police, Ezekiel Harry was initially reported missing Tuesday afternoon while walking outside with his mother and three other children.
What was initially reported as an abduction became a possible case of foul play after police say the child's mother repeatedly changed her account of the incident.
Police said 28-year-old Maya Jones initially told police that a subject in a gray truck passed by her and her kids in Bayou Terrebonne and abducted Harry.
Houma police say they investigated the report and found that Jones was giving them inaccurate information.
Houma police say that Jones left her Cadiere St. home with her three children and traveled to the area of Bayou Terrebonne adjacent to Mahler Street. Jones then proceeded to go to nearby residences saying her kid was abducted.
WWLTV’s Meg Farris interviewed Harry’s father and other family members from the father’s side of the family. Farris said that the mother and father are separated and in different relationships.
“I feel that you, as the mother of the child, shouldn’t be changing your stories on Ezekiel’s whereabouts,” Harry’s father said.
Harry’s grandmother spoke about his presence.
“We had him over every weekend, he was a great child,” the grandmother said. “I just hope he comes home safe.”
Harry’s grandmother later received a call saying that Harry’s body was found.
Before Harry’s body was found, Farris was interviewing Harry’s family members near the intracoastal waterway that police were searching.
“There’s gotta be something going on in this area for them to come this way,” the grandmother had said.
Houma PD said this is an ongoing investigation in their press release.
Farris reported that Jones is being questioned by police.
"Anyone with information is encouraged to submit a tip anonymously through Crime Stoppers Bayou Region by phone at 1-800-743-7433 or online at www.crimestoppersbr.org. Tipsters could be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000 in cash if the information leads to an arrest," the Houma PD release says. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/mother-boyfriend-arrested-after-childs-body-found-in-trash-following-long-search/289-dce7eb68-3270-49d2-a274-e195cfd52088 | 2022-07-13T14:09:13 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/mother-boyfriend-arrested-after-childs-body-found-in-trash-following-long-search/289-dce7eb68-3270-49d2-a274-e195cfd52088 |
TAMPA, Fla. — A 12-year-old Wimauma girl, who has been fighting for her life at a hospital in Mexico, has been flown back to the Tampa Bay region to continue undergoing treatment at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Pete.
Jasmin Cervantes-Garcia was the only survivor of a major crash that happened late last month while her family was vacationing in Leon, located in the state of Guanajuato. A charter bus hit her family's pick-up truck head-on, killing her parents and grandparents.
Tampa-based air ambulance company Jet ICU transported Cervantes-Garcia back to Florida. The medical flight came after Cervantes-Garcia's aunt launched a GoFundMe page, raising more than $31,000 for the girl's care.
The flight landed a little after 6 p.m. Tuesday in Tampa.
Cervantes-Garcia's older brother and Aunt Cindy Garcia provided an update on her condition.
Through tears, Aunt Cindy confirmed not much had changed – saying Jasmin is still not speaking. She is, however, opening her eyes at times and communicating through blinks.
"Jasmin, you know I'm here for you. Can you squeeze my hand?" Aunt Cindy recalled asking her niece. "She squeezed it. Not forcefully, but she squeezed it, so she knew that I was there."
Aunt Cindy stayed with the 12-year-old at the hospital in Mexico but knew that she wanted Jasmin to get further medical treatment back in Florida, saying it would be a "new chapter" of care. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/wimauma-mexico-jasmin-cervantes-garcia/67-ee88ee82-fb9c-48a3-b632-c457cc0fd625 | 2022-07-13T14:09:26 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/wimauma-mexico-jasmin-cervantes-garcia/67-ee88ee82-fb9c-48a3-b632-c457cc0fd625 |
WATERLOO — A farming initiative is calling for 100 veterans to help construct a seasonal high tunnel system in Waterloo.
Hip Hop Farmers Youth Initiative, based in Cordova, Tennessee, is on a mission to build these structures — which resemble a greenhouse — to help communities in food deserts. The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines a food desert as a low-income area where residents do not have easy access to a large grocery store or supermarket that sells healthy and affordable food.
The food desert “challenge” is asking for 100 veterans to help build the structure in record time. James Bunch, a USDA retiree and leader of Hip Hop Farmers, said he’s invited the Guinness Book of World Records to be at the event July 29 at Antioch Baptist Church.
He’s estimating veterans will start building around 7 a.m. to beat the heat and finish constructing the tunnel in a matter of hours — in hopes of establishing a world record.
Bunch says Waterloo is one of three main projects — the other two are in Mississippi and Arkansas — sponsored by the USDA to educate disadvantaged youths, veterans, and community-based organizations about farming and agriculture through the use of seasonal high tunnel systems.
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The tunnels will maximize the growing season to start in early spring until early December and protect plants from severe weather.
To learn more about the event, call (901) 315-6008. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/veteran-volunteers-needed-to-build-agricultural-structure/article_8c601cc8-ea5f-5689-84b8-314a33ac461e.html | 2022-07-13T14:16:44 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/veteran-volunteers-needed-to-build-agricultural-structure/article_8c601cc8-ea5f-5689-84b8-314a33ac461e.html |
EDWARDSVILLE, Pa. — A rising junior in the class of 2024 Davis Motyka continues his wrestling training for Wyoming Seminary inside their facility in Edwardsville.At 45 kilograms Motyka earned his spot on the USA Greco-Roman World Team in April. They now head to Rome, Italy at the end of July for the World Cadet Wrestling Championships.
"Yeah I have been working all year. I have been going 6-7 days a week honestly so. We have been going hard and I have been training with some of the best guys in the country getting me ready so," said Davis.
Will Weber is an assistant coach at Wyoming Seminary and the head coach for X-Calibur Athletics. He says Davis is one of the quickest kids he has ever seen wrestle.
"Fast! Fast! It's high pace lots of scoring and getting after it. One of the hardest working individuals. You know great kid on and off the mat. That is really what we strive for here," said Will.
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To get ready for his rigorous summer schedule Davis spent 2 weeks at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado learning from the best the sport has to offer. And before the trip to Rome he will head to Fargo North Dakota for USA Nationals and wrestle free-style.
"Yeah I am pretty fast when I wrestle. I just have a distinct fast style just like to always move and keep moving the whole match and tire guys out," added Davis.
We'll Davis has the best of both worlds when it comes to his wrestling career and future not only does he live here locally in Kingston but he trains with one of the best wrestling programs in the country.
"It's definitely going to be a fun time and see a lot of foreign guys from like other countries. It's going to be tough but honestly I think that I have put in all the work this summer and I don't think that anyone is going to stop me," again said Davis.
Steve Lloyd Newswatch 16 sports Luzerne County. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/davis-motyka-from-wyoming-seminary-on-u17-usa-greco-roman-world-team-sports-luzerne-county-news-wrestling-usa-greco-roman/523-b95df7f8-a273-437a-b091-14c3442bf5b0 | 2022-07-13T14:18:27 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/davis-motyka-from-wyoming-seminary-on-u17-usa-greco-roman-world-team-sports-luzerne-county-news-wrestling-usa-greco-roman/523-b95df7f8-a273-437a-b091-14c3442bf5b0 |
HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — This week is National Summer Learning Week, dedicated to making sure kids don't fall behind over the summer.
On Tuesday, Newswatch 16's Chelsea Strub read Summer Days and Nights to children at the South Wilkes-Barre Child Development Center in Hanover Township.
Organizers say these events help kids return to school in the fall ready to succeed.
"So I'll say that it's really important that especially young children continue to read throughout the summer minds, get those key vocabulary skills in and listening skills, so they're ready when they returned to the classroom in the fall," said Jennifer Deemer, vice president of community impact.
More than 20 volunteer readers are expected to read to more than 300 kids this week at the center in Luzerne County.
Check out WNEP's YouTube channel. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/summer-reading-in-luzerne-county-chelsea-strub-summer-days-and-nights-south-wilkes-barre-child-development-center-hanover-township-jennifer-deemer/523-2ed0a013-22fd-4a8b-9f73-9cca979242fd | 2022-07-13T14:18:33 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/summer-reading-in-luzerne-county-chelsea-strub-summer-days-and-nights-south-wilkes-barre-child-development-center-hanover-township-jennifer-deemer/523-2ed0a013-22fd-4a8b-9f73-9cca979242fd |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A new law was passed Monday that requires drivers to remove ice and snow from their vehicles within 24 hours following heavy snow or ice storms.
Governor Wolf signed Act 90 of 2022 into law, which enacted the bill into law.
Senator Lisa Boscola (D-18) proposed the bill to help avoid future snow or ice-related tragedies.
The law, nicknamed "Christine's Law," was conceived after the death of Christine Lambert of Palmer Township on Christmas Day in 2005. Lambert was driving when a large piece of ice dislodged from a passing box truck and crashed through her windshield.
“I have been fighting on behalf of the Lamberts to get Christine’s Law on the books ever since that tragic accident over a decade and a half ago,” Boscola said in a press release. “It’s been a long road to get this bill become law, but it was a fight I had to win for Christine’s husband Frank and son Matthew.”
Christine's Law will allow police to be more proactive. Before, they could only penalize drivers when serious bodily harm occurred from snow or ice projectiles. Now, officers can pull over a vehicle where the buildup of ice or snow poses a potential hazard.
"Act 90 is first and foremost about public safety,” Boscola said. “The goal of Christine’s Law is to increase public awareness and make people more vigilant about clearing snow and ice from their vehicles so that the tragedy that befell the Lamberts doesn’t happen to other families.”
Christine's Law will go into effect in 60 days, meaning snow and ice removal will be required for the upcoming winter season. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/snow-ice-removed-24-hours-harrisburg/521-c8af808e-70c1-4d99-a69b-b4829b7ebbad | 2022-07-13T14:18:39 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/snow-ice-removed-24-hours-harrisburg/521-c8af808e-70c1-4d99-a69b-b4829b7ebbad |
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — An early morning collision between a train and an SUV in Tuscaloosa left one person dead Wednesday.
According to Tuscaloosa Police, the driver of the SUV collided with the train at the intersection of 16th Street and Queen City Avenue around 12:35 a.m. The SUV was pushed about 100 yards to an area near Fire Station 1 on Greensboro Avenue as a result of the crash.
The driver of the SUV, a man in his late thirties, was pronounced dead at the scene. The identity of the driver has not yet been released.
CBS 42 will update this story as more information is released. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/1-dead-after-train-suv-collide-in-tuscaloosa/ | 2022-07-13T14:19:53 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/1-dead-after-train-suv-collide-in-tuscaloosa/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Kansas Department of Transportation announced some more closures at Wichita’s North Junction.
The northbound I-235 exit to northbound I-135 will be closed today from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. for bridge construction.
Also, the northbound I-235 exit to southbound I-135 will be closed today, Thursday and Friday during daytime work hours.
On Friday, July 15 at 7 p.m., the northbound I-135 exit to southbound I-235 and the westbound K-254 exit to southbound I-135 will close until late Sunday, July 17. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/more-closures-announced-at-wichitas-north-junction/ | 2022-07-13T14:23:18 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/more-closures-announced-at-wichitas-north-junction/ |
Rags to riches? How trash at landfills could be recycled into energy as flammable gas
When you throw trash in the waste bin and then wheel it out to the curb, a truck usually comes once a week and hauls it away to a landfill. Then what? Maybe you've never thought to ask.
Any organic matter, mostly food waste and yard debris, begins to rot. Microbes and invertebrates move in to aid with decomposition by consuming and metabolizing the decaying organic matter. The process requires time, some moisture and a little oxygen to get started. In turn, it releases hydrogen sulfide, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and methane, among other substances.
Carbon dioxide and methane are greenhouse gases, so-called for their ability to absorb energy from the sun and trap it in the atmosphere. This retention of heat by gases emitted largely from burning fossil fuels is what scientists have concluded is causing climate change. Carbon dioxide is the most common greenhouse gas, but methane is the most powerful.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates the warming effect of methane gas at 25 times that of carbon dioxide over a 100-year period. New findings published in the June issue of the scientific journal Nature Communications suggest the damage might be as much as three times greater than that.
In 2020, methane made up about 11% of total greenhouse gas emissions from human activities in the United States. About 17% of that came from landfills.
Highly flammable, methane is also the main ingredient in natural gas, which is widely used to power refrigerators, air conditioners, stoves, heaters, driers and outdoor lighting, to name a few. In 2021, natural gas accounted for 32% of total energy consumption in the United States, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Now, an Arizona-based landfill company intends to transform the dangerous methane released from landfills into extra fuel and cash while sparing the atmosphere those climate-warming emissions, all from ingredients we throw away every day.
Trash to treasure
Republic Services announced plans in May to partner with Archaea Energy to develop renewable natural gas, or RNG, projects at 39 of its 198 landfills across the country. The venture boasts a budget of $1.1 billion, $800 million from Archaea Energy and $300 million from Republic Services, and aims to convert landfill gas into pipeline-quality RNG that will offset fossil fuel use in a variety of applications.
With experience operating existing RNG and landfill-gas-to-electric projects, Archaea Energy will spearhead engineering and constructing the facilities at Republic Services landfills in 19 states. They expect each location to be operational within four to six months and for the whole suite to be completed by 2027.
While none of the planned sites will be located within Arizona, Republic Services Inc. operates as one of the largest waste disposal and recycling companies in the country, with 14 million customers and 36,000 employees in 47 states, from headquarters in Phoenix. It recently ranked among the highest in stock-market value of any Arizona-based corporation, though it has also fielded more than 4,000 customer complaints in the past three years, some due to trash pickup disruptions related to worker strikes in multiple states.
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Pete Keller, Republic Services' vice president of recycling and sustainability, expects payback on the investment in these new landfill projects to take about two years but said it can depend on state-specific tax incentives and political fluctuations.
“The economics are outstanding," Keller said in an interview with The Arizona Republic. "Part of that is the credits in the marketplace. Those are things that are hard to predict. All indications would suggest the value is going to continue to be there, but there’s no way of knowing."
Some of those projects trade at 10 times their value, Keller said, which makes such investments attractive.
"I think we’ve said publicly that we expect somewhere between $75 to $100 million in incremental annual value."
The concept is not new, but the expansion is notable. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Landfill Methane Outreach Program, there were already 541 operational landfill biogas projects in the United States as of March 2022. Arizona hosts two of them, one owned by Waste Management Inc. and the other by Glendale, and has another 17 sites slated as candidate landfills.
“What they’re proposing to do is nothing really radical," said Bruce Rittmann, a professor and the director of the Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology at Arizona State University as well as an expert in managing microbial communities and capturing renewable energy. "One of the things that was developed around 1990 was the concept that we should recover that methane because it’s a valuable natural gas and a potent greenhouse gas."
What's new is that Republic Services plans to capture it to the tune of "more than 12.5 million MMBtu of RNG annually," the energy equivalent of more than 2 million barrels of oil. In addition to netting a profit, this aligns with the company's "long-term sustainability goal to beneficially reuse 50% more biogas by 2030."
The captured methane, Keller says, will be purified and injected into the pipeline. Someday they may be able to use it on site to charge batteries that could power an electric trash-pickup vehicle fleet, but that possibility will depend on technological advances in lighter batteries and progress in the federal government's renewable fuel standards and in the market for large electric vehicles making that economical.
In May, Republic Services was ranked 58th on a list of "100 Best Corporate Citizens" in terms of their environmental, social and governance plan. It is also worth noting that a majority of respondents to a recent survey expressed little faith that such plans are taken seriously by corporations and viewed them more as a "marketing exercise."
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Still, the potential is there. Rittmann did some of his own calculations and concluded that Republic Services' estimate for how much methane it would be able to transform into RNG might even be conservative.
"You start with how much organic material is going into the landfill in the United States. Then you can compute on average the amount of methane that is produced. I came up with something like 2% (that will be captured)," Rittmann said. "My conclusion is that the number they’re stating is feasible. It’s in the ballpark. They’re not just blowing smoke here, and actually the potential might be higher."
But like anything that sounds like a climate change silver-bullet solution — other than the central solution recommended internationally by scientists of simply reducing global reliance on fossil fuels — there could be complications.
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Landfills are designed to have the top sealed with materials like plastic liners or clay caps, Rittmann said. This prevents water from getting in and gas from getting out.
“As the gas comes up, they’ll capture it. The concept is simple, but the execution is not simple."
That's because landfills are full of all sorts of different materials, some that break down nicely via microbial digestion and some — like construction debris or plastics, glass and other content that should have been placed in the recycling bins — that take up space in these capped landfill cells and make them decompose irregularly.
The ideal inputs are food waste and yard waste, which is why some cities collect compostable material separately. Even some organic material, like cornstalks, are what scientists call lignocellulosic, or a protective part of the plant that has evolved to be less biodegradable and will break down more slowly. All of this causes lumpiness inside the capped landfill cells and variables in how flammable gas can be extracted from them.
This doesn't concern Keller, who says Archaea Energy has shown it can capture emissions from landfill decomposition, even amid the chaff, and purify the approximately 50% that is methane for safe addition to the gas pipeline.
“Once the landfill gas is upgraded, the molecule is identical, it's completely compatible with existing gas distribution," Keller said. "If there’s a risk, it’s execution risk at the individual site. We could get snagged on an interconnect, maybe some unseen things, but the risks aren’t significant. The biggest risk is just time value. We want to get more of these done as soon as possible."
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Another snag in this solution relates to control of methane. The Clean Air Act sets limits for the emission of six hazardous air pollutants: carbon monoxide, ground-level ozone, lead, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and sulfur dioxide.
“It’s incredibly nuanced, but methane is not currently regulated," Keller said. “The only thing we have to do regarding methane is make sure it doesn’t leave our property in the soil."
Seems simple enough. But the consequences of methane seeping into the ground undetected can be deadly. In addition to not being regulated as an air pollutant, methane processes at landfills are not currently subject to reporting under the EPA's Risk Management Program. And a recent decision by the Supreme Court limiting the EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants suggests there won't be new federal intervention on that any time soon.
A 2020 investigation by the Los Angeles Times and the Center for Public Integrity found that unplugged California oil wells were leaking methane and carcinogenic gases within 600 feet of more than 350,000 people's homes. One family in Kern County was displaced for nine months in 2014 after flames erupting from their wall sockets were traced back to explosive gas leaking from underground pipes.
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Methane generated from the breakdown of organic material at landfills is less likely to build to explosive levels, but incidents such as the 1986 destruction of a home and severe injury of its residents in Loscoe, England, due to colorless, odorless methane seeping into their cellar from a nearby landfill indicate it is possible.
The issue in that case was labeled a "fundamental lack of appreciation of how methane needed to be managed instead of hoping for the best through an 'out-of-sight, out-of-mind' approach."
Since then, facilities have made an effort to flare or capture methane emissions, though one report estimated that there are still nearly a quarter million sites across the U.K. alone that remain subject to "ground gas" leaks from landfills and mines, many of which are poorly documented and seldom reported.
Keller says regulatory and technical improvements since the 1990s, such as the requirement that the base of landfills be sealed to prevent leaks into the soil, leave him confident this is not a situation they will encounter.
“There were examples of methane accumulating in neighbor’s basements and causing unsafe conditions. There might have been a few little explosions. I remember seeing a cartoon about it one time," Keller said. “The sites themselves are lined now. The other way is we have monitors through the site. Absolutely, methane doesn’t migrate from sites that have bottom liners."
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Rittmann, who is not an expert on landfills specifically, says it can be hard to know what is coming off these sites and exactly where it is going.
“There’s a lot of work on actually measuring what is coming out of landfill," he said. "That’s not so easy to do. How do you know if you’re collecting all of it?"
That's one of the reasons he prefers the option of collecting organic waste and sending it to wastewater plants where anaerobic digesters can capture emitted gases in a more controlled environment. That's one focus of his research at ASU and an option he hopes will become more widespread in the future.
For now, though, we have landfills, and separate bins for what goes there versus what goes to recycling facilities. The more people can help keep those streams separated, the better these projects to turn trash into something useful will function, and the lower the risks will be. Modern technology and a focus on climate solutions have created an opportunity for waste to be less wasteful.
"Virtually all the natural gas we use today is fossil," Rittmann said. "Anytime you can replace fossil fuel use, that's a good thing. That's our ultimate goal here."
Joan Meiners is the climate news and storytelling reporter at The Arizona Republic and azcentral. Before becoming a journalist, she completed a doctorate in ecology. Follow Joan on Twitter @beecycles or email her at joan.meiners@arizonarepublic.com. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2022/07/13/how-your-trash-could-be-turned-into-a-source-of-renewable-natural-gas/7773677001/ | 2022-07-13T14:27:43 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2022/07/13/how-your-trash-could-be-turned-into-a-source-of-renewable-natural-gas/7773677001/ |
BRIDGETON — A city man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing $1,300 worth of landscaping equipment, police said.
Police investigated the burglary around 8:25 a.m., at a unit block on S. Giles Street. The property owner said he witnessed a Black male, later identified as Eric Gale, 52, on home security cameras entering his shed and stealing two backpack blowers and a trimmer, police said.
After reviewing the footage, Gale was arrested and charged with burglary and theft. He was taken to the Cumberland County jail, police said.
One of the backpack blowers was located and returned to the property owner. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bridgeton-man-arrested-after-stealing-landscaping-equipment-from-shed/article_711ca524-02a8-11ed-a1a9-1bfdee7d0b87.html | 2022-07-13T14:28:01 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bridgeton-man-arrested-after-stealing-landscaping-equipment-from-shed/article_711ca524-02a8-11ed-a1a9-1bfdee7d0b87.html |
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The Maple Branch forest fire in Wharton State Forest was fully contained by Wednesday morning.
Ninety-eight acres have burned in the area of Tylertown, Washington Township, Burlington County. That grew from 40 acres Tuesday afternoon.
Firefighters were performing a backfiring maneuver to help contain the flames, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said.
Batsto Village and its surrounding hiking trails were closed Tuesday morning but has since reopened, the Forest Fire Service said.
Buttonwood Campground was also shut down Tuesday, the Fire Service said. However, Bulltown Road reopened late Tuesday, according to the Fire Service's Twitter account.
A backfiring is done by Forest Fire Service staff, who intentionally set a separate fire to consume fuel in the larger blaze's path. This is done to stop the fire from spreading or to change its direction, the Fire Service said.
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Structures are no longer threatened by the blaze, the Fire Service said.
No injuries were reported, and the fire remains under investigation. Firefighters will remain in the area to continue strengthening containment lines, the Fire Service said.
The combination of a dry forest floor and gusty winds helped spark the fire. Winds gusted in the 20s while the 10-hour fuel moisture, the amount of water in 0.25 inch to 1 inch in diameter objects such as tree branches, was low as well. Relative humidity values over 50% likely prevented the fire from spreading further.
The forest is still recovering from a wildfire that burned nearly 15,000 acres in the Pine Barrens last month. Officials declared the wildfire New Jersey's largest since 2007.
That fire threatened areas near Batsto Village as well.
Firefighters believe that blaze was set accidentally as a result of illegal campfire activity. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/wharton-state-forest-fire-fully-contained/article_8565d9ea-01fb-11ed-8306-4b6a7c7e75f0.html | 2022-07-13T14:28:13 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/wharton-state-forest-fire-fully-contained/article_8565d9ea-01fb-11ed-8306-4b6a7c7e75f0.html |
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Austin is the latest Texas city to put tighter restrictions on electric scooter rentals in an effort to ease congestion.
KXAN-TV in Austin reports the city is putting limits on the number of scooters allowed within a popular stretch of downtown, between Congress Avenue, the Texas Capitol and Lady Bird Lake.
The city said sidewalks are becoming too crowded with scooters parked along the heavily-traveled stretch. The city said driver data showed 100,000 scooter trips on that portion of Congress Avenue in the second quarter of this year.
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A proposed redevelopment project would bring more apartments to downtown Lincoln.
The project would involve demolishing the vacant building at 1030 O St. that was once home to Kuhl's Restaurant and putting up a six-story building with 70 apartments and underground parking.
The building would have studio, one- and two-bedroom market-rate apartments, as well as amenities including a fitness center and a rooftop space.
Lincoln developer Brett West said he is developing the project in partnership with building owner Monte Froehlich, who is the president of US Property.
The project got an initial approval Tuesday from the city's Urban Design Committee, which is a first step that all projects hoping to use tax-increment financing have to go through.
The developers have not yet made a formal application to the Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Department, so no other details, such as an estimated cost, were available.
West said that it's possible demolition of the existing building could begin later this year, but it's more likely it would start sometime in 2023.
Froehlich, who could not be reached for comment, has owned the building since 2012. He actually bought two buildings at the time and combined them into one.
He attempted to redevelop the building with the help of TIF in 2013 but ran into problems because the city said he owed more than $100,000 in impact fees on another project.
Froehlich settled the impact fee issue later that year, but a few months later he announced he was abandoning redevelopment plans for the building because structural problems made it too expensive to restore, even with TIF funding. He said at the time that the building would likely have to be demolished.
The project would join a crowded field of downtown redevelopment projects in the two-square-block area bounded by O, Q, Ninth and 11th streets.
The former Lincoln Electric System headquarters next door to Froehlich's building has been transformed into about two dozen condo units, while the Terminal Building a half a block to the west is adding about 30 condos on its upper floors.
Across the street, the Gold's Building at 11th and O streets is being redeveloped into a 110-room hotel with some retail space on the first floor.
Less than two blocks away, at 10th and P streets, Trinitas Ventures is transforming the former site of the Journal Star into a 320-unit student-oriented apartment complex that will rise as high as 13 stories.
Eppley Airfield in Omaha is getting $20 million for its terminal access road project, while the Lincoln Airport will receive $850,000 for its terminal modernization project.
The money will be added to $1.5 million already committed by the Lancaster County Board, giving the airport $3 million to help recruit more air service.
The 10th annual Lincoln's Best Places to Work award ceremony highlighted Lincoln businesses for their outstanding efforts to create positive environments for their employees.
The $100 million project, dubbed Lake Mac Casino Resort & Racetrack, could not be built until the state completes a market study on whether the state can support more than six casinos.
The Lincoln company said it has plenty of employees and delays in sending rail cars to New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority are due mostly to supply chain issues.
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Arizona traffic fatalities are down in 2022, data shows. Here's why
After a deadlier than usual year for traffic deaths in 2021, fatalities in 2022 showed a sharp decrease, according to preliminary data from the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety.
According to the preliminary data from the office, traffic fatalities between January and June fell from 626 deaths in 2021 to 350 deaths in 2022 — a 44% decrease.
While the data GOHS provided doesn’t offer a monthly breakdown of alcohol-related traffic fatalities, the current count of 51 alcohol-related deaths is far less than half of 2021’s 230 total death count.
The lower death rate is a stark contrast to the state’s traffic fatality trends, which have only risen over the past several years.
'Maybe people are driving more responsibly'
Alberto Gutier, director of the Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety, said he celebrated the fall in fatalities, but is cautious due to the preliminary nature of the figures. Traffic fatalities retroactively increase as county medical examiners continue investigating deaths and release their findings.
Gutier told The Arizona Republic that it takes until about September for the year’s preliminary figures to provide a clear picture of whether a significant increase or decrease in fatalities is to be expected.
But given just how significant a decrease the preliminary fatality figures are so far, Gutier said he’s confident there is a decrease overall, even if there are fatalities that have yet to be accounted for.
“The trend is down in fatalities,” Gutier said. “I’m very happy with that. I can’t tell you how much, but it’s a good trend. Maybe people are driving more responsibly.”
Gutier hopes the decrease comes partly from an increase of traffic safety awareness through signage and the media along with law enforcement training designed to catch dangerous drivers before someone is harmed or killed.
Population increase means more drivers
Although Gutier welcomed the decrease in traffic fatalities, he also highlighted that Arizona’s growing population means an increase in drivers and, consequently, more opportunities for someone to kill or be killed while behind the wheel.
The office found that Arizona went from approximately 4.6 million licensed drivers in 2011 to 5.8 million in 2021 with 103,958 and 121,221 crashes in those years, respectively.
Rick Murray, president and CEO of the National Safety Council’s Arizona chapter, echoed Gutier’s hopes that the lower fatality figures means more people took traffic safety messages to heart and reduced risky behavior while driving.
Murray said he believes the drop in fatalities could partly come from traffic returning to pre-pandemic levels and traffic congestion forcing those who would normally speed to slow down.
“We certainly saw a huge drop off when the pandemic started because nobody was driving,” Murray said. “But then we saw a lot more fatalities because in the subsequent months following that because the roads were so wide open. We had people going extensive speeds that created really catastrophic accidents and created a lot more deaths than we’d normally see in the number of accidents.”
How to avoid crashes on Arizona roads
Murray said speed is the biggest determining factor when it comes to whether a collision will be fatal — no matter how high a car’s safety rating may be.
“We can makes cars as safe as we want, but speed is going to be — and it’s going to be by driver behavior — but (speed) is going to be the determining factor in regards to whether we survive those types of catastrophic accidents.”
Murray said increased distractions, whether it be a smartphone or the touch-screen monitors installed in many car dashboards, have also contributed to fatal accidents as more drivers fail to keep their eyes glued to the road.
“The technology we have in our cars today is certainly a major distraction to a lot of drivers as they’re going down the road at 75, 80 miles an hour as we see in Arizona,” he said.
Murray said people often fool themselves into believing they can multi-task effectively while driving or mentally downplay the danger of driving distracted. He added that driving often feels second nature, leading many to underestimate how much they need to focus on their surroundings.
Murray said drivers talking on the phone can still be distracted even if the phone is in a hands-free setting and their eyes are on the road.
“You will probably — five times out of ten — miss that turn off if you’re in a deep conversation on the phone while you’re driving on the road,” Murray said. “How many times have you gotten out of the car and you get there and you say ‘Did I run that red light?’ or ‘How did I get here?’”
He said almost every driver has experienced times where they can’t recollect portions of a drive because their mind was somewhere else at the time.
“That’s why we stress to drivers in all of our training, everything that we do, that we’ve really got to be singularly focused on our action of driving,” Murray said. “Because I think we all underestimate the deadliness of a 3,000 pound at 70 or 80 miles an hour.”
Reach the reporter Perry Vandell at 602-444-2474 or perry.vandell@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @PerryVandell.
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Motorcycle operator dies after crash in Westerly
WESTERLY — A 32-year-old Westerly man died after a motorcycle crash Tuesday night, the police said.
The crash happened shortly after 9 p.m. at a curve on Weekapaug Road near Cove Road, according to Police Chief Paul Gingerella.
The police believe excessive speed caused the operator to lose control of the motorcycle. He was not wearing a helmet. His name was not released pending notification of family.
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The operator had been traveling with another motorcyclist, who didn't stop, Gingerella said.
A police officer who had been closing Westerly Town Beach earlier saw the two motorcycles riding along Atlantic Avenue at a high rate of speed, Gingerella said. The officer followed them but did not chase them, according to Gingerella.
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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – A job fair will seek to hire more bus drivers for the Osceola County School District as district officials say the school year is on track to start with a shortage.
The school district is participating with CareerSource for Tuesday’s job fair at Valencia’s Osceola campus in Kissimmee. Interested applicants can visit the fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the CIT building.
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This job fair comes weeks before the school district will host a final job fair ahead of the new school year.
“Currently, the department is in the process of creating and establishing bus routes. We ended the 2021-2022 school year with 35 routes that did not have a bus driver. For the 2022-2023 school year, that number could go up as we establish routes based on where children move and how many children, who need transportation to school, are moving to the area,” the district said in a release.
A spokesperson with the district’s transportation services said the upcoming school year will start “with a driver shortage” and that the district would have a better idea of how many drivers are needed closer to Aug. 10.
The district reached an agreement in June to raise the district’s starting wage for full-time drivers to $16.50 an hour. Any substitute drivers, attendants and full-time attendants will start at $15 an hour.
Applicants do not need a commercial driver’s license as the district provides training in July. The district said it will waive the high school diploma or GED requirement for applicants if they fit the criteria.
The final job fair will be taking place on July 26.
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SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – A man accused of slashing his wife’s throat in their Altamonte Springs home has been indicted by a grand jury on two charges, including first-degree murder.
Police arrested Xichen Yang, 21, at his home on Ballard Street in June after they received a call from a man who claimed he called his employee, Yang, and the worker said he had just killed his wife and was in the process of cleaning up the scene.
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A grand jury indicted Yang on first-degree premeditated murder and tampering with evidence, according to the State Attorney’s Office on Tuesday.
When police arrived at Goldelm at Charter Pointe Apartments, they got a key from the leasing office and entered Yang’s apartment, records show. Inside, officers said they found the victim — Nhu Quynh Pham — in the bathroom laying in a pool of blood with her throat slashed. Investigators said they also found disinfectant and rubber gloves used for cleaning.
When police questioned Yang, he admitted to slashing the woman’s throat, according to the arrest report. Yang said the woman began crawling away after the attack, so he placed her in the bathtub, records show.
Yang said he then put on his wife’s favorite music and held her hand for about 10 minutes as she died, according to police.
Officers said Yang told them he could have stopped short of killing his wife but that was “not how he was raised” and he always “goes all the way.”
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The dog days of summer are upon us and keeping cool is the number one thing on everyone’s mind.
That’s why former President Ronald Reagan designated the third Sunday of July as National Ice Cream Day in 1984.
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Reagan’s proclamation described ice cream as a “nutritious and wholesome food.” Whether nutritionists agree with that is another matter, but one can’t help but associate ice cream with happy memories and good feelings, so in a world turned topsy turvy, an ice cream cone can feel pretty wholesome.
And Americans clearly love their ice cream. The International Dairy Foods Association said the average American eats about 4 gallons of ice cream a year.
So if you want to celebrate National Ice Cream Day this Sunday, here are just a few places in the Orlando area that specialize in this favorite frozen treat.
Abracadabra Ice Cream Factory – 520 N Main Street, Kissimmee
This magical ice cream place lets you choose a base (including sugar-free and lactose-free options) and some toppings and — through the sorcery of liquid nitrogen — creates a custom ice cream treat just for you. This café in downtown Kissimmee is popular for kids with its on-site bouncy houses for paying customers and birthday party packages.
Bacio — 8734 Lee Vista Blvd., Orlando
Bright colors, Instagram-worthy sundaes and Italian coffees are all on display at Bacio Ice Cream Shop in Orlando, not far from Orlando International Airport. The shop has gluten-free, dairy-free and sugar-free options, which means this shop is sure to please your whole crowd.
Frutamix – 253 Ocoee Apopka Rd., Ocoee
Mexican treats both savory and sweet are the stars of this tiny but popular shop in Ocoee. With your birria tacos and elotes, be sure to pick up some ice cream – they have several flavors. You can get scoops in a cup or cone, try a Fresas con Nutella or get a paleta (ice cream pop!).
Goff’s Drive in — 212 S. Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando
This historic, family-run soft serve shop is no-frills but much loved for its sweet treats and inclusive nature. So it was a shock when someone set the little ice cream shop on fire earlier this year.
However, the owners, with the help of the community, are getting ready to reopen on Monday, July 18. It’s one day after National Ice Cream Day, but who’s to say you can’t celebrate a day late?
The Greenery Creamery — Two locations in Orlando and Sanford
This fancy ice cream shop makes locally-sourced dairy and plant-based ice cream in small batches and fancy flavors that rotate. This month, for instance, The Greenery Creamery is featuring strawberry yuzu lemonade, key lime pie and milk and cookies, to name just a few. They even have ice cream flavors for dogs!
Ice and Bites Café — 3402 Technological Ave. #220, Orlando
Taiyaki is popular at this eatery by the University of Central Florida. You can fill a fish-shaped waffle with ice cream and fun toppings like Pocky sticks and fruit skewers.
Not in the mood for taiyaki? Get your ice cream in a cup, or try an affogato cloud — ice cream and a double shot of espresso, topped with cotton candy. They have a full menu of regular food as well, along with Sno Bowls and boba tea.
Kelly’s Homemade Ice Cream — Multiple locations
You simply can’t leave Kelly’s off any list of Orlando ice cream shops. This mom-and-pop shop started as a food truck visiting markets and events before opening the first location in Audubon Park in 2015. They’ve expanded since then, with five shops around Orange County and in Oviedo, plus counter service at Foxtail Coffee locations too. That’s a lot of ice cream!
Speaking of which, Kelly’s features classic flavors, some originals like Cookie Monster and Banana Pudding, and a selection of seasonal featured flavors, which you can add to cups, cones and sundaes. Kelly’s says it has about 100 ice cream recipes that it rotates through throughout the year, so you never know what you’ll find when you step up to their counter.
In honor of National Ice Cream Day, Kelly’s is offering buy one, get one free scoops of ice cream in cups or cones at participating locations.
Martin’s Dreamery Creamery and Coffee House — 1945 County Rd. 419, Suite 1151, Oviedo
Martin’s is a family-owned shop that specializes in ice cream but also in baked goods (like Keto donuts!), breakfast sandwiches and coffee. So they are open early in the morning. And is it ever too early for ice cream?
Martin’s makes all its ice cream in-house, with six to eight regular flavors plus rotating seasonal flavors like Key Lime and Bithlo Mud. Dairy-free options are also available, made with coconut milk.
Mr. Freeze Ice Cream Trucks — Various locations
Does anything say summer more than chasing after a neighborhood ice cream truck? Those days are not over folks. Not if Mr. Freeze can help it.
Mr. Freeze Ice Cream Trucks feature traditional soft serve ice cream and Italian ice, which can be added to sundaes, soda floats and more. Mr. Freeze is largely available for events only, but they also do local drives around the Orlando International Airport neighborhoods, like Lake Nona, Lee Vista and the Goldenrod area.
Follow their social media sites to find out where they are going next.
Midnight Sun Ice Cream Sandwich Co. — Various locations
Handmade flavors stuffed between two fancy cookies, all made to order. An Alaska husband and his Florida wife have joined forces to create ice cream sandwich art inside a yellow truck. This is not your grandma’s ice cream, unless your grandma is into Malbec-Strawberry, or Miso Butterscotch, or goat cheese-mission fig-port swirl ice cream.
And the cookies – pumpkin seed shortbread, cashew macarons, candied orange-allspice shortbread. Yeah, they fancy.
You can find Midnight Sun at food events around Central Florida.
Nan and Pop’s Ice Cream Shop — 351 Ronald Reagan Blvd., Longwood
What do you do when the kids fly the nest and you are on your own again? These grandparents opened up an ice cream shop and named their ice cream and bubble waffle creations after their grandkids. That’s called scoring points. They also sell “freak shakes” filled with all kinds of goodies, and sundaes featuring Selma’s Cookie Company cookies.
Wafu — 3201 Corrine Dr., Orlando
The News 6 Florida Foodie featured Wafu before they opened their new permanent space on the second floor of East End Market. Wafu specializes in soft serve in taiyaki cones, but they have waffle cones too, and fancy toppings like mochi, Pocky and Matcha Powder.
You can also get Taiyaki with savory and sweet fillings too.
West Orange Creamery — 1575 Maguire Rd. #101, Ocoee
Everything about this place in Ocoee screams old-timey soda fountain, down to the wood accents, the lighting, the big mirror, and the fact that they sell cherry lime rickey phosphates, made by a “soda jerk.” They also sell egg creams which, for folks up north, that’s pretty exciting.
Of course, this is a story about ice cream, so let’s touch on that. All your classic ice cream treats are here, with free “Jimmies” for the asking. They also sell special, extra fancy milkshakes worthy of the ‘Gram.
Wondermade — 214 E. 1st St., Sanford
The tagline of this shop in Downtown Sanford is “Love and Marshmallows,” but they also sell handmade ice cream too which can go well with fancy marshmallows. Wondermade makes regular and vegan ice creams in classic and not-so-classic flavors, like cornbread or maple bacon or — here’s a surprise — S’more.
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CHIPLEY, Fla – Whether you are a wolf lover or an animal enthusiast, this experience will leave you woofing of fun and for some, this place is their childhood dream come true.
Meet Seacrest Wolf Preserve’s Director
Some kids love watching cartoons, and some love watching documentaries about wolves while reading every book they can read about wolves.
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“I grew up as a kid who was fascinated with wolves,” said Lindsey Banks, director and license holder of Seacrest Wolf Preserve. “I was one of those that didn’t want to be a pretty princess, I wanted to be a wolf.”
Banks said she went into veterinary medicine and became a vet technician, and she worked in that career for a long time and moved to Florida in 2018.
She said she worked at a local vet clinic and the veterinarian mentioned to her that there was a wolf preserve in Chipley that she should go check out.
“I went into the website and I was like, ‘oh my goodness I have to do this,’” Banks said. “‘This is like my childhood dream to go interact with a wolf.’ So my mom and I scheduled and we went on a VIP tour, and for a lack of a better term, I just never left. I loved it.”
She said she started as a volunteer, got into a part-time position, then full-time, and worked hard to get where she is now, the director and license holder.
“It reignited that childhood passion I had for the wolves,” Banks said. “I am so thankful every day because I get to go to work and do something I absolutely love, something I am passionate about and I get to share my passion with hundreds of people who come through every year.”
Banks said Seacrest Wolf Preserve’s goal is to take care of the wolves and educate people about what a wolf really is and why they are so important.
What is Seacrest Wolf Preserve?
Seacrest Wolf Preserve is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1999 by Wayne & Cynthia Watkins, dedicated to wolf and wildlife conservation, according to their website.
Banks said everything started when a Michigan Zoo had a captive wolf case that needed placement and the couple had a huge background in conservation and it just kind of spun off from there.
“Wolves are highly social creatures, they don’t do well by themselves,” Banks said. “In long terms of being alone, they’ll begin to mourn themselves to death and essentially die of a broken heart. They are very reliant on their pack mate for everything, including livelihood.”
Seacrest started as a rescue facility with a pack of three and the whole educational aspect grew from that, as people in the small community of Chipley started getting curious about what was going on at the farm, Banks said.
She said the couple started allowing people to watch the wolves through the fencing.
Banks said the couple quickly realized that Hollywood had created a big bad wolf mentality and everyone was scared of them.
“People think that they huffed and puffed and blow the little pigs’ houses down and steal grandma’s identity,” Banks said. “But we like to say Little Red Riding Hood is a liar because these wolves are highly social and very caring animals and they want to avoid humans in the wild because they are a very big threat to them, but they just want to happily coexist.”
She said the couple decided to educate people with a hands-on experience to allow them to have a memorable experience and ignite a spark of passion. It was a way to get them to understand what a wolf is and the importance they have in the ecosystem.
“Wolves are constituted as a keystone species and are highly important to their ecosystems’ help,” Banks said. “When the wolves were killed out of Yellowstone, it turned into a barren wasteland.”
She said that when they disappeared, the hoofed animals were able to overpopulate because they did not have a predator picking out the weak and the sick, so they overpopulated and trampled vegetation, making birds and bees leave, and the river was trampled an entire mile off course.
When the wolves were reintroduced everything went back into place, Banks said.
Seacrest Wolf Preserves is located in Chipley, Florida and they have 10 enclosures of an acre or more, where they keep their wolves.
Banks said the enclosures have trees and grasses and they are large in size. They have a pond in each enclosure where they can swim because they love swimming.
She also said that they are carnivores and are fed a variety of meats like chicken, beef and pork.
“They are very well cared for and they love the attention,” Banks said. “All these wolves have been imprinted on since they were very young, so they are highly human social and they thrive off of that interaction.”
She said that they have been taught to be highly human social since they were about 10 days old. They are bottle-fed and trained to be used to a variety of sounds, equipment and different people touches during the imprinting program.
When guests go visit the wolves, they are monitored at all times by trained staff, Banks said.
To visit the wolves, Seacrest Wolf Preserve offers a private VIP tour of $250 plus tax per person for the first two people. Each additional person after the first two is $150 plus tax, according to their website.
The VIP tour is very popular, so they recommend people make the reservation in advance. To make a reservation, visit the preserve’s website.
Seacrest has a dress code to make sure that wolves are not fascinated with people’s clothing. They required people to wear cotton shirts, jeans or khakis.
They only allow visitors who are 10 years old and up.
Seacrest Wolf Preserve used to have public Saturday educational tours and overnight camping, but due to COVID-19, they are understaffed and are hoping to bring back the camping and the public educational tours soon.
“We are completely funded off of donations, tour fees, and gift shop purchases,” Banks said. “To support Seacrest we have an Amazon Wishlist. Go on there, order something off of that, we have donor programs in our website, and come visit us for a tour to learn about the wolf, and then go be a voice for the wolves.”
She said that there are petitions online to help get the wolves back on the endangered species list and she recommends people go listen to speakers and learn even more.
“The biggest thing is to raise awareness for how important the wolf truly is and to help get rid of that big bad wolf mentality, teach people,” Banks said. “If you hear somebody talking about wolves and how they are bad and scary, tell them they are not. I went to see them at Seacrest and this is what I learned.”
Address: 3449 Bonnett Pond Road Chipley, FL, 32428.
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Swimming was suspended at a Long Island beach Wednesday for the second time this month over another report of "dangerous marine life activity" that a local source with direct knowledge of the case says involved a shark bite to a surfer.
Few official details were immediately available regarding the incident at Smith Point, the same beach where a lifeguard was bitten during a training exercise less than two weeks ago. No details on a possible victim or any possible sighting were known. The source said the attack happened at some point between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. The surfer's condition wasn't known.
Chopper 4 showed a heavy emergency response at the scene by mid-morning.
Smith Point was one of two Suffolk County beaches that temporarily halted water activities earlier this month over "dangerous marine activity." Cupsogue was the other one that closed, but both beaches reopened for the Fourth of July holiday.
The lifeguard in that first Smith Point case had been playing the victim role in the training exercise when he was bitten in the chest. He tried to swat the creature, said to be 4 to 5 feet long, away and suffered a hand injury, authorities said. It was the first reported shark attack at Smith Point since the beach opened in 1959, the parks commissioner had said.
The lifeguard needed some stitches but was otherwise said to be OK. Authorities had said someone reported seeing a shark in the area before the attack but it wasn't clear if it was the same shark. Days later, last Thursday, a lifeguard in Fire Island's Ocean Beach community was also attacked by a shark. That person also survived.
And another possible shark bite was reported on the last day of June at Jones Beach.
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More Shark Sightings to Come?
More sharks are being spotted in the waters off Long Island, a trend that is likely to continue — and experts say that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Cleaner oceans, warmer water temperatures and a resurgence of bunker fish that sharks feed on are seen as factors, according to experts. Detection, from drones to helicopters, also has improved and reports are easily spread through social media.
“There are a lot more sharks than 10 or 15 years ago,” Christopher Paparo, manager of Stony Brook University’s Marine Sciences Center, told Newsday. “We’re spotting sharks, whales and dolphins here. In the 1960s, we did not have sharks, whales and dolphins.”
Shark attacks in the area have been very rare until recently, with an average of about one reported per 10 years for the last century, Newsday reported. Two lifeguards suffered bites and a third person was bitten in what possibly was a shark attack, within the last two weeks, the newspaper reported.
The United States recorded 47 unprovoked shark bites in 2021, a 42% increase from 33 incidents reported in 2020, according to records kept by the Florida Museum of Natural History.
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HOUSTON — A sergeant with the Harris County Precinct 5 Constable's Office was removed as a youth baseball coach due to his actions after a game in west Houston last weekend.
Kenneth Wendt's poor sportsmanship was caught on camera after his 9-and-under Scorpions Baseball team lost to Prospects Baseball on Saturday.
The game was over, but the drama was just getting started. The two teams lined up to high-five, but Wendt, who is seen in the video wearing khaki shorts, took it too far. He's seen bumping into the first kids in the line.
Parents are angry, saying he was too aggressive.
"Nothing in the world gives you the right to do that to kids," Prospects 9U baseball coach Victor Torres said.
Torres said you'd expect it from the kids, but not the coach.
"They come in and they slap you hard on the hand. And you'll be like, 'hey, don't do that.' But an adult, you wouldn't expect it," Torres said. "I was upset. I was really upset."
Scorpions Baseball sent KHOU 11 News this statement:
"His actions were unacceptable and do not align with our organization’s values. We removed him from coaching and from our club about 8:30 a.m. Sunday."
"How is that even possible," Torres said. "You hold them to a higher standard. And then you come out here and do that to kids, to 9-year-old kids."
A parent from the Scorpions, who was at the game Saturday, is defending the former coach.
“We have known the Wendt family for two years and Kenny has always been a great husband, father, and coach. He spends an extraordinary amount of time in coaching and helping kids and their families both on and off the field.,” the parent said.
Torres said it's a teachable moment for everyone.
"Just like I tell my kids" 'We don't lose, we learn,'" Torres said. "You don't do that to 9-year-olds. You don't put your hands on 9-year-olds. Especially not someone else's child."
The Harris County Constable Precinct 5 Office is aware of the incident and is investigating.
Editor's note: The original version of this story indicated this was a Little League team. The team is not affiliated with Little League. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/texas/coach-removed-rough-encounter-opposing-players-after-loss/285-d9898a7e-7b3d-46bc-a058-6c38bf4999a6 | 2022-07-13T14:54:05 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/texas/coach-removed-rough-encounter-opposing-players-after-loss/285-d9898a7e-7b3d-46bc-a058-6c38bf4999a6 |
HOUSTON — A sergeant with the Harris County Precinct 5 Constable's Office was removed as a youth baseball coach due to his actions after a game in west Houston last weekend.
Kenneth Wendt's poor sportsmanship was caught on camera after his 9-and-under Scorpions Baseball team lost to Prospects Baseball on Saturday.
The game was over, but the drama was just getting started. The two teams lined up to high-five, but Wendt, who is seen in the video wearing khaki shorts, took it too far. He's seen bumping into the first kids in the line.
Parents are angry, saying he was too aggressive.
"Nothing in the world gives you the right to do that to kids," Prospects 9U baseball coach Victor Torres said.
Torres said you'd expect it from the kids, but not the coach.
"They come in and they slap you hard on the hand. And you'll be like, 'hey, don't do that.' But an adult, you wouldn't expect it," Torres said. "I was upset. I was really upset."
Scorpions Baseball sent KHOU 11 News this statement:
"His actions were unacceptable and do not align with our organization’s values. We removed him from coaching and from our club about 8:30 a.m. Sunday."
"How is that even possible," Torres said. "You hold them to a higher standard. And then you come out here and do that to kids, to 9-year-old kids."
A parent from the Scorpions, who was at the game Saturday, is defending the former coach.
“We have known the Wendt family for two years and Kenny has always been a great husband, father, and coach. He spends an extraordinary amount of time in coaching and helping kids and their families both on and off the field.,” the parent said.
Torres said it's a teachable moment for everyone.
"Just like I tell my kids" 'We don't lose, we learn,'" Torres said. "You don't do that to 9-year-olds. You don't put your hands on 9-year-olds. Especially not someone else's child."
The Harris County Constable Precinct 5 Office is aware of the incident and is investigating.
Editor's note: The original version of this story indicated this was a Little League team. The team is not affiliated with Little League. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/coach-removed-rough-encounter-opposing-players-after-loss/285-d9898a7e-7b3d-46bc-a058-6c38bf4999a6 | 2022-07-13T14:55:23 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/coach-removed-rough-encounter-opposing-players-after-loss/285-d9898a7e-7b3d-46bc-a058-6c38bf4999a6 |
In June 1944, a secret U.S. Army unit was created, tasked with deceiving the Nazis. The unit was an unusual group of soldiers who included artists, filmmakers and designers.
Their weapons weren’t the traditional ones used in battle. Armed with inflatable tanks and sound effects, the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops fought to throw the enemy off their trail.
The Veterans National Memorial Shrine and Museum has unveiled a new exhibit focused on the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops – or the Ghost Army – in World War II.
The exhibit comes during the “Bill Blass Blast – 100 Days of Bill Blass” celebration. Blass, a Fort Wayne native, was a member of the 1,100-person Ghost Army.
Blass was also a fashion designer whose work is on display at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art until September. This year would have been Blass’ 100th birthday.
The exhibit at the veterans museum includes a replica of an inflatable tank that the Ghost Army used during the war. The replica is 18 feet long, 10 feet high and 10 feet wide.
“These inflatable tanks and inflatable trucks came complete with sound effects,” said Eric Johnson, second vice commander of the Veterans National Memorial Shrine and Museum. “The whole Ghost Army was nothing but a big deception.”
Johnson said the unit was a “big secret” for 60 years. Rick Beyer “broke the story” about the Ghost Army, Johnson said, writing a book and creating a documentary about it.
“As a filmmaker and writer, I’ve always been interested in unusual history,” Beyer said Tuesday during a telephone interview from Chicago. “But this became more than a project to me … I hope it teaches people that embracing a crazy idea may be the thing to do.”
Beyer lent the inflatable tank replica to the museum, said Linda Wyss, one of the founders of the Bill Blass celebration. Wyss originally reached out to Beyer for help on the project, and he lent the replica for the duration of the celebration.
“When I reached out to Rick, … he said, ‘I’ve got a wonderful exhibit that I’ve taken all over the world,’” Wyss said. “Getting him involved and learning more about the unbelievable element of the Ghost Army has been really fun.”
Wyss is part of a group of eight women who planned the Bill Blass celebration, and she said she was the one most interested in the Ghost Army and Blass’ involvement.
Originally, the tank was going to be on display at the Fort Wayne History Center, but Wyss discovered it would only be on display in September, when Beyer is coming to town to give a talk. She then asked volunteers from the veterans museum if they would want it on display at the 2122 O’Day Road property.
“It has been fantastic to work with the museum,” Wyss said. “All the board members over there are just dedicated veterans who are doing an amazing job … They love what they’re doing, and they’re excited about what they do.”
The museum keeps the inflatable tank in the property’s pavilion, and it has a motor and fan inside it that keeps it inflated. Beyer said he was originally worried the tank wouldn’t be able to fit inside the pavilion, but museum volunteers assured him it would.
“It looks great,” he said. “When you actually see it, it makes the whole idea of the Ghost Army real.”
Johnson said people can come see it whenever the museum is open, along with the rest of the Ghost Army exhibit featuring Blass and other artists’ work from the field
“I was out Saturday; we had an event … and people were just taking about the exhibit and how interesting the story was,” he said. “They’re just amazed, they can’t get a grip on this story.”
This is the busiest time of year for the museum, Johnson said, and volunteers are happy more people are coming out to see the exhibit, especially when the property is changing and growing.
“People get a look, and they can’t believe what’s transpired out here,” he said. “I think people who came to the veterans museum in the past would just be amazed by what has happened now.”
For more information, visit honoringforever.org. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/veterans-museum-unveils-new-display-in-fort-wayne/article_efd71c6c-015b-11ed-b473-e77936b751f4.html | 2022-07-13T15:02:28 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/veterans-museum-unveils-new-display-in-fort-wayne/article_efd71c6c-015b-11ed-b473-e77936b751f4.html |
HUNTINGTON, WV (WOWK) – Near the Sheetz gas station along 18th Street West in Huntington, West Virginia, neighbors say they’ve seen a growing number of motorcycle riders and they believe it’s becoming a problem.
In a surveillance video sent to us from one of the neighbors, you can see motorcycles and ATVs circling the parking lot behind the gas station late at night, creating loud noises and waking up local residents.
However, what started as complaints about the noise quickly switched to a concern for safety after July 1st, 2022.
According to Cabell County Dispatch, they received a call that morning around 2 a.m. for a hit and run involving a motorcycle. Those who saw this unfold are starting to come forward, sharing some of the unsettling details.
West End resident Stephanie Heck was sitting at the Sheetz when she says she saw a bike traveling at an alarming speed down the road. It struck a young girl, who she believed to be a teenager.
“She was unfortunate to lose her leg about six inches above the ankle. Whoever did this to a young girl, I would like the police department as much as I can to find them,” heck says, detailing the events of that morning.
Other people claim they saw heck chase after the bike in her van. She did confirm this, but said she was not going to confront the person, but instead report their location to the police.
She also says she was not able to catch up to them but managed to see what kind of motorcycle it was. She claims she’s been working with the Huntington Police Department and will not be releasing the make and model so as not to hinder their investigation.
Other neighbors also say they believe the lack of lighting on the road and the number of stoplights is what is attracting these unwanted visitors.
We’re working to confirm other details in this case, including the victim’s condition and if any arrests have been made. We have also reached out to HPD for an update, but have not heard back. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/witnesses-share-details-on-victims-condition-after-hit-and-run-involving-motorcycle/ | 2022-07-13T15:08:46 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/witnesses-share-details-on-victims-condition-after-hit-and-run-involving-motorcycle/ |
Louisiana man was arrested after fighting at funeral of man killed in July 4 shootout
On July 9, a family was mourning the death of their 24-year-old son when a fight broke out during the funeral.
Orlando Puryear Jr., who was found shot on July 4 in his vehicle in the parking lot of Sports World.
Rev. Dr. R. Timothy Jones of Peaceful Rest Baptist Church explained that on Saturday the church was hosting the funeral for Puryear when an altercation transpired.
Jones said on Facebook, "an altercation transpired that compromised the dignity of the service."
Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office was providing security when the fight broke out and was able to request assistance from Shreveport Police Department. "We are grateful for the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office and the Shreveport Police Department for their quick response in mitigating a situation that could have been worse," said Jones.
More:Victim named in Fourth of July shootout in Shreveport. So far, no suspect in custody.
Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office said Puryear's uncle, Endrick Butler, 52, punched another male which then started an altercation. The altercation happened around 11 a.m. and forced an evacuation of the church.
Puryear's body was returned to Good Samaritan Funeral Home.
Butler was arrested for disturbing the peace by fighting and was booked into Caddo Correctional Center. Butler has since been released and the person he attacked did not press charges.
Read:Shootout kills one, injures 3 in Shreveport on Fourth of July. What you need to know.
Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com. | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/07/13/shreveport-man-arrested-after-fighting-family-members-funeral/10037247002/ | 2022-07-13T15:10:45 | 1 | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/07/13/shreveport-man-arrested-after-fighting-family-members-funeral/10037247002/ |
Shreveport man pleads guilty to vehicular homicide of his girlfriend
A Shreveport man pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and first-degree negligent injury Monday prior to trial.
Jaiden Augustus Seth Kephart, 22, pleaded guilty on July 11, for seriously injuring his roommate and killing his girlfriend, he faces up to 35 years of imprisonment.
On Sept. 13, 2018, Kephart, then 19, was driving his girlfriend and roommate to work in a borrowed vehicle when he turned in front of an oncoming Ford F550. The impact of the collision killed Kephart's girlfriend and seriously injured his roommate.
Following the crash Kephart's blood was drawn for forensic testing, the results proved that marijuana and alprazolam, as well as cocaine metabolites, were in his blood.
Kephart, who suffered no lasting injuries, admitted to medical personnel that he would test “dirty,” and also took a selfie in the hospital bed with the notation “took 8 bars and wreck my girl.”
During the guilty plea, prosecutors introduced the toxicology report, the death certificate of the female victim and the defendant's selfie into evidence.
More:Shreveport man sentenced to 15-years for terrorizing local hospital
Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com. | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/07/13/shreveport-man-pleads-guilty-vehicular-homicide-his-girlfriend/10042201002/ | 2022-07-13T15:10:51 | 1 | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/07/13/shreveport-man-pleads-guilty-vehicular-homicide-his-girlfriend/10042201002/ |
Long Lake alligator finds new home as rescue gives opportunity in Fond du Lac to safely rehome exotic pets
OSCEOLA - The small American alligator that took a Fourth of July beach weekend at Long Lake will soon be off to a new home.
Earlier this month, J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue of Menasha took in the alligator, and held it for a week to give the owner a chance to come forward.
Someone did come forward, but after some discussion, the rescue and owner decided the alligator would be happier at a sanctuary, according to the rescue's Facebook page.
Now, the alligator arrived in Michigan, where it will stay at reptile rescue Critchlow Alligator Sanctuary, J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue owner John Moyles announced Tuesday.
J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue set up a Facebook fundraiser to help cover shipping costs, and if any additional money is raised, it will go toward the rescue's other animals.
According to the Facebook page, the alligator was kept in an outdoor cage, but it wasn't properly secured that day. This is one of a few ways alligators end up at a rescue, alongside voluntary surrender and owners leaving them behind, Moyles said.
This was the rescue's fourth alligator since Moyles opened the rescue over two years ago. Though alligators get sent to sanctuaries due to the amount of care they need, the rescue takes in many kinds of aquatic animals and helps them find new homes.
The rescue accepts donations for the care and rehoming of the animals that come in, including a lizard with retained shed in her eyes named Gergit and a ball python with a swollen face named Chiquita.
It also waives adoption fees for accredited zoos, sanctuaries and educational facilities, which is the case for a sand boa heading to the NEW Zoo and Adventure Park.
Overwhelmed with an exotic pet? Surrender it safely in Fond du Lac on Aug. 13
Moyles has worked in the pet industry since 1996, which included exotic pet surrender events in the Fox Valley with Sea Grant.
One of these events is coming to Fond du Lac, with J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue hosting the Exotic Pet Surrender Event 10 a.m. to 1 pm. Aug. 13 at the Fond du Lac Public Library, 32 Sheboygan St.
"Some pet owners that are unable to care for their pet may think that releasing the animal is the right thing to do," Moyles said in a news release. "However, releasing a pet is harmful for the animal and the environment."
Event organizers will accept fish, invertebrates, reptiles, pet birds, exotic small mammals and plants, no questions asked. Domestic animals, including dogs, cats, rabbits, pigs and chickens will not be accepted.
Wisconsin Sugar Glider Sanctuary & Rescue, Fox Wolf Watershed Alliance, Winnebago Waterways and University of Wisconsin Sea Grant/Water Resources Institutes will join the event, sponsored by Festival Foods and DubiaRoaches.com, a reptile live food and supplies store.
Animal ambassadors will be there to answer any questions, and a photo booth will give visitors an opportunity to take a picture with a rescued pet.
For more information on the event or J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue, email adoptions@jraar.org or visit jraar.org.
Contact Daphne Lemke at dlemke@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @daphlemke. | https://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/local/2022/07/12/long-lake-alligator-finds-new-home-michigan-reptile-sanctuary/10036558002/ | 2022-07-13T15:14:59 | 1 | https://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/local/2022/07/12/long-lake-alligator-finds-new-home-michigan-reptile-sanctuary/10036558002/ |
Genesee County lottery club wins $1.85 million jackpot after playing for 20 years
A Genesee County lottery club won a life-changing $1.85 million jackpot after 20 years of trying its luck.
The Lunch Bunch Crew Lottery club members, who chose to remain anonymous, matched the winning Lotto 47 numbers drawn June 18: 02-04-06-17-31-36.
They purchased the winning ticket at Tom’s Market, located at 465 South Street in Ortonville, about 20 miles southeast of Flint, according to the Michigan Lottery.
“A co-worker and I started a Lottery club about 20 years ago,” said the club’s representative. “There are currently five of us in the club and we take turns purchasing a ticket each week."
This time around, the group invested $10 in five plays.
“One day at work, a few of us saw an article about a winning Lotto 47 ticket that was sold in Ortonville and remembered we had never checked our ticket," the representative said. "We texted the club member who had purchased it asking where she purchased the ticket and if she had checked it yet. When we got a reply from her saying she had not checked it, but purchased it at Tom’s Market, we knew right away. We started jumping and shouting with joy!”
The crew went to Michigan Lottery headquarters to claim the prize, which they chose to receive as one lump-sum payment of about $1.2 million rather than annuity payments for the full amount.
“We are still in shock! Winning is life-changing for all of us,” said a club member.
Each Lotto 47 play is $1. Lotto 47 drawings take place on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 7:29 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at a retailer or online at MichiganLottery.com until 7:08 p.m. on the day of the drawing.
srahal@detroitnews.com
Twitter: @SarahRahal_ | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/07/13/genesee-county-lottery-club-wins-1-85-million-jackpot-after-playing-20-years/10046804002/ | 2022-07-13T15:24:18 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/07/13/genesee-county-lottery-club-wins-1-85-million-jackpot-after-playing-20-years/10046804002/ |
Man, 32, dies in Bloomfield Twp. car crash
Sarah Rahal
The Detroit News
A 32-year-old man died Tuesday after a car crash that Bloomfield Township Police and Fire departments are investigating.
At 8:40 a.m., police and firefighters responded to a single car crash on the ramp from southbound Interstate 75 to westbound Square Lake Road, near Opdyke .
When they arrived, authorities saw the vehicle off the roadway in a wooded area. Authorities said the engine was still running, and the accelerator apparently still depressed.
The vehicle was on fire and the man was found dead in the driver's seat. There were no other passengers in the car, police said.
Police are seeking information from witnesses of the crash. They should call Sgt. Pete Matejcik at (248) 433-7769.
srahal@detroitnews.com
Twitter: @SarahRahal_ | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/07/13/man-32-dies-bloomfield-township-car-crash/10047153002/ | 2022-07-13T15:24:24 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/07/13/man-32-dies-bloomfield-township-car-crash/10047153002/ |
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PORTLAND, Ore. (Portland Tribune) — Leslie Wright’s name will appear on the ballot even though Oregon City commissioners determined on July 6 that Wright is not eligible for the Aug. 23 mayoral election.
Oregon City charter requires that commission candidates are residents of the city for at least 12 months prior to the election date.
“The people of Oregon City deserve to know that their mayor lives in their community and knows their community,” Commissioner Adam Marl said.
Wright’s name will appear on the mayoral ballot with two other candidates who failed to submit Voters’ Pamphlet statements. Commission President Denyse McGriff, the fourth candidate and the only one who submitted a Voters’ Pamphlet statement, recused herself from the process to disqualify Wright.
Besides Wright’s residency, Marl said there were several other reasons why Wright wasn’t qualified to be mayor.
On July 1, County Circuit Judge Michael C. Wetzel ruled that Wright’s filing for the city’s “mirror” position rather than mayor was “sufficient” for showing intent to run in the mayoral election. Wright’s mayoral campaign launched with a statement that he later said he regretted about plans to place homeless people in shuttered schools like “the Japanese.”
City Attorney Bill Kabeismann said the county and secretary of state have cited a state statute mandating that a slate of candidates has to be finalized within 60 days of filing by the city recorder. While the ballots had not yet been printed when Oregon City commissioners made their determination of Wright’s residency, state and county officials said that the law mandates his name appear on the ballot anyway, given the timing of the city’s decision.
Two mayoral elections are being held in a three-month period because the mayor who was elected to replace Dan Holladay after a 2020 recall, Rachel Lyles Smith, resigned prior to the end of her term, and the city charter calls for voters to fill the seat as soon as an election can be held.
Wright presented a Washington state driver’s license to file in both the upcoming Oregon City mayoral elections and in the March 2021 mayoral election. Oregon state law requires that citizens obtain an Oregon license within 30 days of establishing residency here.
All three of the elected commission members who found Wright to have not been an Oregon City resident for the past year said his driver’s license was the biggest factor in their determination.
“If any of us in this room pulled out our driver’s licenses, it’s going to show where we’re living on it, pretty much, so that’s a big piece that’s missing,” Commissioner Rocky Smith said.
According to a sworn statement from Wright’s former employee, he had been living in Wilsonville during November and December 2021. Even without the sworn statement, commissioners said they had enough evidence to disqualify Wright from taking public office.
Smith said Wright’s history of receiving mail in Oregon City wasn’t enough for him to establish residency in the city. Much of the mail Wright received in Oregon City was out of date or undated, so it had limited value to commissioners.
“I have plenty of relatives that get their mail sent to other loved ones,” Smith said.
Commissioners said they were only able to weigh evidence on three out of seven potential factors that the Oregon Legislature uses to determine residency. Wright declined to offer any additional proof of his residency and didn’t attend the hearing, despite repeated requests for information from commissioners.
Commissioner Frank O’Donnell said Wright’s decision to avoid the hearing and provide the commission with additional information had deprived the elected officials with evidence that may have potentially swayed them to make a different decision.
“The burden of proof falls upon the applicant … falls upon the prospective candidate,” O’Donnell said.
Commissioners said they would have preferred to allow Wright to be eligible for the office, but in the end, they felt they had to disqualify him based on their oaths of office promising to uphold the U.S. Constitution and the city charter.
It’s possible the city recorder will not submit Wright’s name to the county elections office in November because of the commission’s determination about his residency and the evidence presented at the hearing in July. | https://www.koin.com/local/clackamas-county/oregon-city-mayoral-candidate-will-appear-on-ballot-despite-ineligibility/ | 2022-07-13T15:32:40 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/clackamas-county/oregon-city-mayoral-candidate-will-appear-on-ballot-despite-ineligibility/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Boring, Oregon is not so boring during the summer as kids head to the city to experience the great outdoors.
Summer camps are returning this year offering fun-filled days of activities and educational programs for kids.
Kohr Harlan checked out the Salvation Army Camp Kuratli with some activities kids can experience. | https://www.koin.com/local/kohr-explores-fun-filled-summer-camp-in-boring/ | 2022-07-13T15:32:46 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/kohr-explores-fun-filled-summer-camp-in-boring/ |
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — A bicyclist has died after being hit by a sports car Tuesday night in Pasco County.
Florida Highway Patrol says a 17-year-old Dade City girl was driving the Ford Mustang north on Wire Road while two bicyclists – without lights – were riding the same way. It was slightly after 9 p.m., a little more than 30 minutes after sunset.
As the driver was approaching Otis Allen Road, FHP says she couldn't see the bikers and hit one of them – a 24-year-old man from Zephyrhills. The man was taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries.
The other bicyclist, a 20-year-old Zephyrhills man, was not hurt. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/pasco-crash-dade-city-bicyclist-bike/67-2a158a88-2125-4608-84fb-68eec4a3a98d | 2022-07-13T15:36:12 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/pasco-crash-dade-city-bicyclist-bike/67-2a158a88-2125-4608-84fb-68eec4a3a98d |
Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) recently released a 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment for its service area that includes both Flagstaff and Verde Valley medical centers. The assessment looks at a variety of health issues in northern Arizona to help determine going forward areas of focus.
The report, created by healthcare consulting firm PRC, follows a 2012 assessment looking at similar fields of focus. In addition to research at the local, state and national levels, the report is based on a survey of 400 people (200 each in FMC and VVMC's service area) as well as a survey of 106 community partners and health experts (referred to as key informants).
It identified several areas of opportunity, representing each community’s greatest health needs. In the Flagstaff region specifically, needs included the cost of physician visits, prevalence of fast food, homicide deaths, the mental health provider ratio, incidence of chlamydia and impacts from substance abuse.
Top concerns of surveyed community stakeholders across the service area were mental health, substance abuse and access to healthcare services, followed by heart disease and stroke.
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“FMC and NAH will use the information from this Community Health Needs Assessment to develop an Implementation Strategy to address the significant health needs in the community,” according to the report’s summary. “While the hospital will likely not implement strategies for all of the health issues listed above, the results of this prioritization exercise will be used to inform the development of the hospital’s action plan to guide community health improvement efforts in the coming years.”
NAH’s most recent assessment from 2019 led to the organization deciding to focus on “developing and/or supporting strategies and initiatives” in three priority areas -- access to health services, mental health and chronic disease.
For each area, the report outlines additional goals, the strategies used to address them and the impact each program has had.
Strategies under the health access goal included adding capacity to primary care clinics, enrolling patients in the community care network and a remote patient monitoring program.
To address chronic disease, NAH set up a COVID-19 vaccination clinic, administering more than 32,000 doses, developed a “comprehensive cardiovascular service line” and hosted community screenings for diabetes, tobacco and cardiovascular disease.
Mental health strategies included partnerships with community agencies such as the Guidance Center and NAU, mental health first aid training and telehealth options for behavioral health.
The report also details the rates of a variety of health issues and related community characteristics for each hospital's service area, as well as for NAH’s overall service area, Arizona and the United States.
Categories where FMC’s service area fell behind Arizona overall included the amount of the population with low food access (32.5% in FMC, 26.8% statewide) and the prevalence of fast food restaurants (98.9 per 100,000, 77.3 in Arizona), binge drinking (23%, 16.5% in Arizona) and vaping (11.8% used vape products, 5.3% in Arizona).
Areas the FMC region was ahead of the state included a lower portion of the population that was linguistically isolated (1.8%, compared to 3.6% in Arizona), without a high school diploma at the age of 25 or older (9.5% in Flagstaff, 12.9% in Arizona) or with late or no prenatal care (7% in FMC, 9.2% in Arizona). It also reported a lower amount of children in poverty (17.2% in Flagstaff, 21.5% in Arizona).
Most respondents in the total service area reported “very good” (37.2%) or “good” (28.4%) health, with a combined total of 19.8% in the Flagstaff region reporting fair or poor health. The 18.9% in the service area reporting fair or poor health represents an increase from the 2012 survey, in which a total of 16.8% reported fair or poor health.
Compared to Arizona, the FMC region had lower incidence rates of lung disease, cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke, HIV and gonorrhea.
Across NAH’s service area, 38.1% saw the health services offered in the community as good, with another 25.4% seeing them as very good. A total of 8% saw them as poor. In the FMC area, a combined total of 22.4% saw local health services as either fair or poor.
Of those aged 18 to 64 in the NAH service area, 59.7% had private insurance, 24.3% had some form of government insurance and 9.6% had no insurance or used self-pay. In the FMC area, 7.9% between those ages lacked coverage. The amount of those in NAH’s service area without coverage fell from 21.4% to 9.6% since 2012.
The survey of key informants shows that 42.3% saw access to healthcare as a moderate problem in the community, with 27.9% each seeing it as a major and minor problem, respectively.
FMC's service area has a rate of 110.3 primary care providers per 100,000 population in 2021, with 47.1% or residents saying they'd visited a physician for a checkup in the past year (73.8% of Arizona residents had had a routine checkup in the past year).
In 2021, the area had 38.6 dentists per 100,000, with 52.7% visiting a dentist in the past year.
In the past year, 20.7% of those in FMC’s service area reported that the cost of a doctor visit prevented them from accessing care. Another 14.5% reported the cost of prescriptions prevented their accessing care, and 12% cited lack of transportation.
Most respondents in the service area reported a very good (26.1%) or good (26.8%) mental health status, though a smaller share than for physical health. In the Flagstaff region, a combined total of 28.1% reported either fair or poor mental health. The rate of people reporting fair or poor health for the overall region almost doubled from 2012’s total of 12.3%, to 23.9%, according to the 2022 survey.
A total of 33.1% of respondents in the Flagstaff area said they had been diagnosed with a depressive disorder, compared to 16.8% across Arizona. In NAH’s overall service area, the total reporting a diagnosis of a depressive disorder was 27.5%, more than double 2012’s total of 12.5%. Suicide rates were also higher in FMC’s service area than in Arizona as a whole (27.3 per 100,000, with 18.3 in Arizona).
Coconino County had 90.3 mental healthcare providers per 100,000 population in 2021. In the past year, 14.6% of respondents in the Flagstaff region said they were unable to access mental health services when they had needed them.
Of key informants, 61% saw mental health as a major problem in the community, with one healthcare leader quoted in the report as saying “there’s a serious lack of resources for people with mental health problems and people in mental health crises."
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In Coconino County, 17.6% of the population was reported as in poverty, with 31.6% not having enough cash on hand to cover an emergency expense of $400. Across NAH’s entire service area, 28.4% of the population had a member of their household who had lost a job, hours, wages or health insurance because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The county also reported that 30.4% of residents had housing costs over 30% of their households income between 2016 and 2020 and 15.5% of those in the FMC region reported unhealthy or unsafe housing conditions in the past year.
Though the overall violent crime rate was lower in FMC’s service area than across the state, the rates of deaths from unintentional injury (79.3 per 100,000), motor vehicle crashes (21.8 per 100,000) and homicide (8.2 per 100,000) were all higher than statewide rates (58.8, 13.2 and 6.5 per 100,000, respectively).
As of May 31, 2022, Coconino County's COVID mortality rate was 334.6 per 100,000.
A total of 73.3% of the service area population had been fully vaccinated against COVID, with another 3.4% planning to get their vaccinations. A total of 7% was undecided, with 16.4% not planning to be vaccinated.
The most common reasons given among those who had not received the vaccine were side effects (19.2%), safety or trust (19%) and lack of research (13.9%). Smaller percentages said they didn’t want the vaccine (8.3%), didn’t believe in it (5.9%), had refused out of personal preference (5.9%) or already had COVID (4.5%).
Of key informants surveyed, most (40%) saw COVID as a moderate problem in the community, with 18% seeing it as a major problem and 16% seeing it as no problem at all. Across the entire service area, 28.4% had a member of their household lose their jobs, hours, wages or health insurance as a result of the pandemic, which had also caused 21.6% of those within FMC’s service area to forgo some kind of medical care.
The full report is available at nahealth.com/about-us/community-health-needs-assessment. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/northern-arizona-healthcare-releases-community-health-needs-assessment-for-2022/article_fcd634f2-016f-11ed-add9-4bed2748c15a.html | 2022-07-13T15:45:43 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/northern-arizona-healthcare-releases-community-health-needs-assessment-for-2022/article_fcd634f2-016f-11ed-add9-4bed2748c15a.html |
The Northern Arizona women's tennis team was named an ITA All-Academic Team for the ninth time in the past 11 years.
Additionally, the Lumberjacks also earned three ITA Scholar-Athlete honors from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, as Elinor Beazley, Annabel Davis and Gina Dittmann all claimed the recognition.
For Beazley, it is the third honor of her career in her third season with the Lumberjacks, while Dittmann now has her second in as many seasons and Davis her first in her first collegiate season.
Northern Arizona has had multiple athletes named ITA Scholar-Athletes in all of the past 11 years.
ITA All-Academic honors are given to programs that hold a team grade point average of 3.2 or higher. ITA Scholar-Athletes must achieve a GPA of at least 3.5 for the academic year.
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Along with the team honors, nine men's tennis athletes were awarded with individual scholar-athlete honors on the ITA's list.
Maciej Ziomber, Facundo Tumosa, Marcus Sulen, Dominik Buzonics, Daniel Dillon, Morgan Donovan, Eban Straker-Meads, Chris Steele, and Dani Torres were all named 2022 ITA Scholar-Athletes.
Straker-Meads earned his third ITA academic honors, as Ziomber and Tumosa earned their second, and Sulen, Buzonics, Dillon, Donovan, Steele and Torres earned their first of their careers.
The nine individual accolades rank most for the Lumberjacks squad in program history, previously set at three.
The Lumberjacks earned the highest GPA in the Northern Arizona Athletic Department this spring with a 3.76. | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/nau-roundup-tennis-earns-ita-all-academic-recognition/article_3d1ca99a-0203-11ed-91f4-7787c7c9222f.html | 2022-07-13T15:45:44 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/nau-roundup-tennis-earns-ita-all-academic-recognition/article_3d1ca99a-0203-11ed-91f4-7787c7c9222f.html |
The board of directors of Operation Rebuild Hope voted to terminate the employment of Patrick Wright as the executive director of the nonprofit organization that helps homeless veterans find housing.
The board met June 24 and released the minutes from the meeting last week. The meeting came days after the board voted to put Wright on a 60-day leave following his arrest in Coos Bay.
After the vote to put Wright on leave, Wright and his supporters responded by taking over the Operation Rebuild Hope facilities and refusing to allow board members to enter.
The board met June 24 with Bruce Bertrand, Patty Bertrand, Elizabeth Wright, Raebecca Kilcoyne, and Dean Bolton attending virtually. Board President Ryan Cook was unable to attend, but voted by proxy after seeing the agenda.
The board started by voting to remove Wright from the board of directors and immediately followed up by terminating Wright's employment from the organization.
In other votes, the board removed Angela Archer as a board member, authorized the agency to hire an attorney and an agency to do an audit of finances and voted to refuse access for Wright and Archer to all agency properties, computers and financials.
In addition, the board named Bruce Bertrand as temporary executive director, voted to keep Operation Rebuild Hope from leasing property or working on a warehouse being purchased by Archer and the board voted to trespass any employees loyal to Wright from the agency's facilities.
In a few more actions, the board reinstated the employment of any employee fired by Wright over the prior three weeks and terminated a lease agreement with Archer on an additional property.
While the board was unanimous in its decisions, there continues to be a debate over whether the actions mean much.
The last social media post from the organization came June 21 and reads, "Operation Rebuild Hope is aware there are individuals currently acting as employees and on the behalf of ORH. These individuals have been terminated as of last week. Patrick Wright is the current Executive Director. Secondly, board members have been asked to adhere to their signed non disclosure agreement. Thirdly and most importantly, please know all grant funding is secure and above all so is the safety of our veteran clients."
The turmoil at the nonprofit Wright co-founded began when Wright had an altercation with Coos Bay police. At the time, Wright intervened in a fight at a Front Street business and refused to back down when police arrived.
Wright was arrested following incident and taken to the county jail. The Coos County district attorney's office said they are continuing to investigate the incident. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/board-votes-to-fire-founder-of-operation-rebuild-hope/article_bddb6110-0083-11ed-b064-0b1a410948a2.html | 2022-07-13T15:45:59 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/board-votes-to-fire-founder-of-operation-rebuild-hope/article_bddb6110-0083-11ed-b064-0b1a410948a2.html |
Chick-fil-A is giving away free chicken nuggets from Wednesday to July 20.
Any customer who creates or logs in to their account via the Chick-fil-A app or online will automatically receive the offer on their "Rewards" tab for an eight-count of the nuggets, which can be redeemed during checkout.
The offer is meant to encourage people to download the Chick-fil-A app and to express gratitude for support, as Chick-fil-A previously stated when it offered a similar promotion in January.
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The offer is limited to one per customer and can be redeemed during regular restaurant hours Monday through Saturday. Chick-fil-A is closed Sundays.
Locations in the San Antonio area can be found here. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Chick-fil-A-free-chicken-nuggets-17302044.php | 2022-07-13T15:48:00 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Chick-fil-A-free-chicken-nuggets-17302044.php |
There once was a growing city that had an alligator garden, a sky ride at Brackenridge Park, a mayor named Jack White, and almost no air conditioning.
It’s hard to imagine, but people survived in San Antonio for centuries without air conditioning. Some homes were built to withstand brutal temperatures. San Antonians fought the heat by forming their lives around it.
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When Daniela Rodriguez Quintanilla was a child, her mother would tell her to lightly touch her stomach until goosebumps spread across her skin.
“Eventually, it wouldn't be so hot,” Rodriguez Quintanilla said.
Others cooled themselves with paper fans and gobbled paletas. People also went swimming in rivers and lakes.
San Antonians can thank Willis Haviland Carrier for inventing the modern AC system in 1902.
Over two decades later, Carrier’s company collaborated with a San Antonio architect to build the Milem Building, the world’s first high-rise with a full mechanical AC system.
Soon after, air conditioning started popping up in some downtown buildings in the 1920s. In the following decades, AC units would be added to restaurants, department stores, grocery stores, public buses and homes of the rich.
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In 1936, department store Joske's became the first fully air-conditioned store in Texas. It was such a big deal that they featured it in advertisements.
But air conditioning wouldn’t be commonly used until the 1940s and 50s, with window units being added to existing homes. Friedrich Air Conditioning Co., which still has its headquarters in San Antonio, was a leader in manufacturing window units.
How people survived in San Antonio
Early caliche and adobe block homes in San Antonio had large openings on all four walls that were closed by day and opened at night to catch the breezes from the Gulf of Mexico.
San Antonians built homes with deep screened porches to shade the main walls of the house and allow air to flow through. Others were shaded by large oak trees, making the inside of the homes 10 to 20 degrees cooler than ones that baked all day in the sun.
Later, some homes were built on a southeast axis with even larger windows on opposite walls to draw in night breezes. When it wasn't breezy, heat and humidity made sleep a tortuous, damp ordeal.
Electricity’s arrival in the 1870s set fan blades whirring, circulating indoor air. Texans learned that running water over a screen or cloth placed in front of a fan cooled the air.
Millions of large and small evaporative coolers, or “swamp coolers,” made their way into homes and businesses.
Mary Nelda Pedroza lived with her grandparents in the late 1990s. There was no air conditioning in their home in Natalia, a city about 30 miles southwest of San Antonio.
“I remember my grandfather would sometimes set up a huge swamp cooler on the outside of my front porch with a water line going into it,” said Pedroza, 45, whose grandparents finally installed a wall unit in one of the bedrooms after her grandmother suffered a heart attack. “That’s how we would cool down, but I wouldn’t recommend it. I just remember it feeling humid all the time.”
In the days before AC, others used ice blocks for added cooling.
Texas was a pioneer in commercially made ice, accounting for 10 percent of the nation’s production. San Antonio was said to have more ice houses than churches.
Texas also popularized the use of refrigerated rail cars for meat, fish and produce shipments.
Ice blocks were the first automobile “air conditioners” — ice buckets were placed near vents to cool air flow.
Nash cars, which owned Kelvinator appliances, offered a water cooler on its 1938 cars.
Packard offered mechanical cooling in 1939 with a unit that took almost the entire trunk. It wasn’t until after World War II, when Cadillac moved its controls from under the hood to inside the car, that air conditioning became an attractive option.
Hearst newspaper archives were used in this report.
timothy.fanning@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-air-conditioning-heat-17302129.php | 2022-07-13T15:48:01 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-air-conditioning-heat-17302129.php |
Seven weeks after a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, video captured during the massacre shows officers equipped with weapons and shields spending more than an hour in a hallway — from when they first took cover from the gunman to the moment he was killed inside a classroom.
Mostly, they waited.
Surveillance footage obtained by the Austin American-Statesman and ABC affiliate KVUE reveals officers crouching behind shields, their weapons aimed down the hallway. Others passed the time by leaning against walls with their guns pointed at the floor.
As the minutes dragged on, more than a dozen officers from various agencies appeared in the hallway, some of them milling around while others took cover behind corners.
Investigators have concluded that a door to the classrooms where the gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, remained with his victims — some still alive and calling 911 — likely was unlocked the entire time.
Police never tried to open the door in the one hour, 11 minutes and 26 seconds that passed before a team of officers finally entered at 12:50 p.m. and fatally shot Ramos as he emerged from a closet.
The May 24 massacre left 19 children and two teachers dead, and 17 others injured.
To Amelia Sandoval, the wait is inexplicable — and infuriating.
Her grandson, 10-year-old Xavier Lopez, was still alive as officers lingered in the hallway. He died at 2:15 p.m., after he was evacuated.
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Sobbing, Sandoval told the San Antonio Express-News on Tuesday that she had watched the leaked video.
“Just the thought of him trying to hold on for so long, it makes me wonder what was going through his mind, knowing the police officers were out there and no one was coming through the doors,” said Sandoval, 56. “We always taught our kids to call 911 — but for what?”
“I’m just very angry,” Sandoval continued. “The only thing that goes through my mind is hearing all those bullets, and (the officers) just standing there listening to them. Our babies should have got medical attention.”
Last week, state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, chairman of a Texas House committee investigating the law enforcement response to the shooting, asked the Texas Department of Public Safety to allow the committee to release much of the video along with its report.
DPS declined, saying that Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell-Busbee, who is also investigating the shooting, had objected to the video’s release.
On Tuesday, before the video leaked, Burrows announced the committee will release the video on Sunday.
The footage shows the gunman crashing a truck in a ditch and entering the school at 11:33 a.m. Once inside, Ramos, dressed in black, strolls down a hallway with an assault-style rifle.
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Seconds later, a child emerges from around a corner that Ramos just passed. Facing the gunman’s back, the child freezes and then flees as Ramos enters a classroom and begins firing.
For the next three minutes, gunfire sounds. The screams of children, described in a previously released report by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center, or ALERRT, were edited out by the Statesman and KVUE.
At 11:36 a.m., three Uvalde police officers equipped with body armor, two rifles and three pistols rush into the school and approach the classrooms.
But they do not enter.
The video shows four more officers entering the school, then hanging back at the end of the hallway. These officers — three from the Uvalde Police Department and one from the Uvalde CISD Police Department — are equipped with body armor and pistols.
One pulls a phone from his pocket and looks at it while clutching a pistol in his other hand.
At 11:37 a.m., more gunfire sounds. The officer doesn’t move. The others who had approached the classrooms run back down the hallway, grazed by fragments from the wall. Touching their heads, they appear mostly unhurt.
One of them again walks toward classrooms 111 and 112 but comes back. A minute later, he crawls a short distance down the hallway, returning to cover. Yet again, he walks down the hallway and back, and touches his head.
Two officers peer around corners.
At 11:41 a.m., the gunman fires another round.
“Do we know who it is?” an officer says.
Their pistols drawn, they remain in protective positions.
“He’s right there where that door is,” an officer says.
At 11:44 a.m., the gunman fires another round. The officers remain in their positions, taking cover behind a corner.
By 11:51 a.m., more heavily armed officers arrive, moving in and out of the hallway to assess the situation. They have come from a variety of agencies, including the Uvalde Sheriff’s Office, local fire marshals and constable offices, the Southwest Texas Junior College Police Department and the U.S. Border Patrol, according to ALERRT.
One officer with the word “SHERIFF” on his vest leans a shield against a corner of the hallway and steps away.
Another officer with a rifle crouches behind the shield. Now, at least seven officers are in the hallway. Their voices are often muffled in the video. Someone mentions a “negotiator.”
“There’s kids in there,” one says.
Noon comes and goes. A second shield arrives, then a third. By 12:09 p.m., about a dozen officers are massed in the hallway.
Someone says: “Victims in there.” One officer mentions a door, wondering whether it’s locked. Someone mentions a “master key.”
Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, has blamed the excruciating wait that day on Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo. As incident commander, Arredondo was unnecessarily concerned about finding a key to the unlocked classrooms, McCraw has said.
To Sandoval, that explanation is not sufficient.
“There was more than one agency out there,” the grandmother of Xavier said. “I want everyone there held accountable.”
At 12:21 p.m., there is more gunfire. With two shields in tow, Border Patrol tactical officers advance down the hallway and stop at a set of double doors within 36 feet of the classrooms, according to the ALERRT report. But they do not enter.
Someone says, “They’re making entry.”
That doesn’t happen. Instead, more than a dozen officers continue to wait in the hallway. One looks at his watch.
At 12:30 p.m., a fidgety officer in a “SHERIFF” vest avails himself of some hand sanitizer from a wall dispenser.
Five minutes later, an officer says, “We’ve got SWAT on the way.”
An officer appears with a Halligan — a crowbar-like tool often used to force entry — slung over his shoulder. About 10 minutes later, a sledgehammer arrives. Neither, it seems, are used in an attempt to enter the classrooms.
Finally, at 12:50 p.m., a team enters classroom 111 and kills Ramos.
It took too long to do so, Sandoval said.
“I’m so livid because, you know, just watching them just stand there and stand there,” she said. “Not one of them lived up to the oath that they took. They were the ones wearing those stupid bulletproof vests, and our babies were taking their last breath, some of them fighting to the end.”
bchasnoff@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Uvalde-school-hallway-shooting-video-17301908.php | 2022-07-13T15:48:03 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Uvalde-school-hallway-shooting-video-17301908.php |
HAMMOND — Police said they raided a suspected illegal gambling operation in the city, arresting several people and confiscating equipment and a large amount of money.
Hammond police teamed up with officers with the Indiana Gaming Commission to carry out the raid around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, according to Hammond Police Lt. Steven Kellogg.
Casino gambling equipment was among the items confiscated, he said.
Indiana Gaming Commission Deputy Director Jenny Reske confirmed the agency's participation in the raid and said officers were executing a federal warrant.
She referred all further inquiries to the United States Attorney's Office Northern District of Indiana, which declined comment.
"Hammond Police want to thank the Indiana Gaming Commission and other participating agencies for their assistance," Kellogg said.
The identities of those arrested have not yet been released.
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Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Jason Woods
Age : 31
Residence: Wolcott, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205825
Arrest Date: July 6, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shunell Watson
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205839
Arrest Date: July 6, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Isaiah McNeal
Age : 26
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205831
Arrest Date: July 6, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Reginald Russell
Age : 30
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205828
Arrest Date: July 6, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - OBTAINING PROPERTY - BY CREDIT CARD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mariya Smith
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205845
Arrest Date: July 6, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST A PERSON < 14 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jared Smithey
Age : 27
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205822
Arrest Date: July 6, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tanner Lewis
Age : 25
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205835
Arrest Date: July 6, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sydney Gonzales
Age : 27
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205846
Arrest Date: July 6, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jenifer Joy
Age : 35
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205827
Arrest Date: July 6, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST A PERSON < 14 YEARS OLD - BY ADULT; RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Anthony Casares
Age : 19
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205823
Arrest Date: July 6, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT; THEFT - PROPERTY - FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Rickey Stewart Jr.
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205797
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Emily Weber Brokke
Age : 22
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205785
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Stephen Miller Jr.
Age : 32
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205793
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andres Perez
Age : 43
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205801
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER (ATTEMPTED)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dion Pope
Age : 39
Residence: Brooklyn, NY
Booking Number(s): 2205816
Arrest Date: July 6, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alexa Rodriguez
Age : 18
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205817
Arrest Date: July 6, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cody Long
Age : 29
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205792
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicole Meljanac
Age : 39
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205791
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Angela Miller
Age : 43
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205811
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Majestic Lee
Age : 24
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205808
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dwayne King
Age : 51
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205800
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amari Evans
Age : 24
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205787
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Howe
Age : 45
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205799
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Keck
Age : 36
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205815
Arrest Date: July 6, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paul Delgado
Age : 42
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205814
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mariah Driver
Age : 22
Residence: Madison, WI
Booking Number(s): 2205813
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brandon Clements
Age : 32
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205812
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - W/PRIOR AN UNRELATED CONVICTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Megan Myers
Age : 27
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205766
Arrest Date: July 4, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Samaria Porter
Age : 25
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205783
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Roque
Age : 59
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205773
Arrest Date: July 4, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION - SIMPLE; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Kristina Delaney
Age : 34
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205776
Arrest Date: July 4, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Jablonski
Age : 33
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205770
Arrest Date: July 4, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
James Kratkoczki
Age : 41
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205767
Arrest Date: July 4, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Lopez
Age : 36
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205779
Arrest Date: July 5, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Stephan Metcalfe
Age : 25
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205772
Arrest Date: July 4, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dashiae Williams
Age : 20
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205748
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER (ATTEMPTED)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Wineteer
Age : 46
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205758
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: IMPERSONATION - PUBLIC SERVANT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Fabian Yanez
Age : 29
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205741
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Lea Vogel
Age : 39
Residence: Nineveh, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205742
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: OWI; NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Darien Small
Age : 30
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205750
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE; POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Davion Stephenson
Age : 23
Residence: Country Club Hills, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205746
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Samantha Taylor
Age : 29
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205756
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Raffinee Pedraza
Age : 37
Residence: Bourbonnais, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205760
Arrest Date: July 4, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jamal Simmons
Age : 27
Residence: Hazel Crest, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205734
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS (AGGRESSIVE DRIVING/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Taylen Johnson
Age : 20
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205736
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Deontae Marzette
Age : 29
Residence: Richton Park, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205759
Arrest Date: July 4, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Casey Doll
Age : 27
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205744
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Raynard Donald
Age : 20
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205739
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lauren Fuqua
Age : 22
Residence: Lynwood, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205745
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tyrae Hayes
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205733
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dominique Byndom
Age : 25
Residence: Riverdale, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205749
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Reynaldo Briseno
Age : 57
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205757
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ronald Ruggeri
Age : 63
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205706
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kayla Shamblin
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205703
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Emigdio Nodal
Age : 62
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205711
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alexander Rodriguez
Age : 35
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205725
Arrest Date: July 3, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD; DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY; BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
John Fry
Age : 62
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205716
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ashley Jager
Age : 23
Residence: DeMotte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205712
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Benjamin King
Age : 37
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205702
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Elizabeth Lambert
Age : 29
Residence: Bourbonnais, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205704
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Carey Carlson
Age : 40
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205717
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vicorio Banks
Age : 27
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205710
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Anthony Brown
Age : 47
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205705
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER RESIDENCY VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Malik Young
Age : 26
Residence: University Park, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205672
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Stephanie Slawinski
Age : 33
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205699
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dashawn Wims
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205675
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jasmine Robinson
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205694
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI; FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Kenneth Nuzzo
Age : 25
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205665
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cassandria Norfleet
Age : 32
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205686
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Lewis
Age : 23
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205669
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
William Lipsey
Age : 58
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205679
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rashonda Love
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205659
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dermaine Michaels
Age : 34
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205668
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Lewis
Age : 57
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205463
Arrest Date: June 24, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Idris Doss
Age : 40
Residence: Fort Wayne, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205663
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST PERSON W/MENTAL OR PHYSICLA DISABILITY - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Savalley Evans
Age : 42
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205673
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Johnson
Age : 31
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205670
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Johnston
Age : 64
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205662
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jessica Kollwitz
Age : 34
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205683
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Danielle Bronson
Age : 37
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205696
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Celia Bruno
Age : 38
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205691
Arrest Date: July 2, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bruce Burns
Age : 55
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205660
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Darius Barnes
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205666
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brandon York
Age : 47
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205648
Arrest Date: June 30, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Megan Hogan
Age : 36
Residence: Holton, MI
Booking Number(s): 2205647
Arrest Date: June 30, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vicki Kirkwood
Age : 53
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205655
Arrest Date: July 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Julian Payne
Age : 44
Residence: Lincoln, NB
Booking Number(s): 2205637
Arrest Date: June 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Omar Rivera
Age : 42
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205652
Arrest Date: June 30, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kimberly Bouknight
Age : 37
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205649
Arrest Date: June 30, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jordan Fletcher
Age : 20
Residence: North Judson, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205640
Arrest Date: June 30, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alejandro Arteaga
Age : 19
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205645
Arrest Date: June 30, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
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A beach hazard has been issued for local stretches of Lake Michigan starting Wednesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.
"High wave action and dangerous currents expected at Lake Michigan beaches," according to the warning.
The hazardous conditions are expected from 3 p.m. Wednesday through late night for Lake Michigan beaches in Lake and Porter counties, and along the nearby shoreline in Cook County, Illinois, the NWS says.
"Swimming conditions will be life threatening, especially for inexperienced swimmers," weather officials predict. "Remain out of the water to avoid dangerous swimming conditions and do not venture out onto piers, jetties, breakwalls, or other shoreline structures."
The shoreline warning was issued along with a hazardous weather outlook for the Region, which calls for a limited thunderstorm risk through Wednesday night.
"Isolated thunderstorms are possible along and south of the Kankakee River Valley this afternoon," the NWS said. "Severe weather is not anticipated, though gusts from a few showers or storms reaching 40 mph are possible."
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"Strengthening northeast winds over Lake Michigan this afternoon will result in building waves and dangerous swimming conditions that will continue through this evening."
The beach warning comes in the wake of a report of a 9-year-old girl drowning Tuesday afternoon in an unguarded portion of Lake Michigan off Marquette Beach in Gary.
A 14-year-old girl seen struggling at the same time was able to be rescued by beachgoers and was later released after being treated at an area hospital, officials said.
A 72-year-old Illinois man pulled from Lake Michigan Sunday by Indiana Dunes State Park lifeguards near Chesterton was later pronounced dead, according to the Porter County coroner's office.
Autopsy and toxicology results are pending for the deceased, identified as Kirshnaraju Rudraraju, of Woodridge, according to the coroner.
Lifeguards at Washington Park in Michigan City are credited with saving three drowning children Tuesday afternoon from rough water conditions in Lake Michigan, city firefighters said.
The children, ages 9, 10 and 11 years old, were being overtaken by waves and rip currents when lifeguards came to their rescue around 1:30 p.m. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/beachgoers-warned-to-avoid-lake-michigan-wednesday-afternoon/article_c3082c08-0557-54f2-833b-af097ed0f545.html | 2022-07-13T15:49:42 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/beachgoers-warned-to-avoid-lake-michigan-wednesday-afternoon/article_c3082c08-0557-54f2-833b-af097ed0f545.html |
A group of girls wait for passing units at the Crown Point Fourth of July Parade.
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
A custom hod rod from Hawk Home Inspection rolls up Main Street at the Crown Point Fourth of July Parade.
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Yesenia Hernandez, granddaughter to Nicolas Toledo, who was killed during Monday's Highland Park., Ill., Fourth of July parade, writes on a memorial for Toledo, along with the six others who lost their lives in the mass shooting, July 6.
Percy Jackson, like most Region residents, remembers when attending a summer festival or holiday parade didn't involve looming thoughts of potential gun violence or mass shootings.
“There used to be a time when you could pack your lunch, grab a blanket and lay in the park,” said Jackson, a resident of Merrillville. “You can do it now, but not feel safe.”
Festivals and parades should be exhilarating experiences during the summer, giving families and friends opportunities to spend quality time together, eating elephant ears, drinking freshly squeezed lemonade and escaping life's troubles.
"The main concern I have is the gunfire; it's ridiculous," said Jackson, who fondly recalls attending Concert in the Park at Gleason Park in Gary with his wife, Cheryl, in the 1970s.
The recent July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois, left seven people dead and dozens wounded after Robert E. Crimo III allegedly used a Smith & Wesson M&P15 semi-automatic rifle to turn a traditional spectacle into a national tragedy.
“I really don’t think there’s much we can do except try to regulate some of these people carrying guns around that shouldn’t have them to begin with,” said Suellen Tauber, of Highland. “We can’t just say we won’t attend these events. This has to come to the state government and what they’re doing to prevent crazy people from getting guns, especially automatic weapons.”
Tauber, who attends Highland’s Fourth of July parade and festival each year, said state lawmakers should be concerned about the safety of local residents more than gun owners.
“An outdoor event isn’t roped off. ... How can you prevent someone from just walking up to people with their guns?” she said. “The government lets gun owners have full control over what they do, and it’s just not right in my opinion.”
Jessica Peterson Rogers, a Merrillville resident, used to participate in local Fourth of July parades when her children, Eugene and Kristyn, were members of Merrillville High School’s Band of Pirates.
“Nowhere is safe. You never know when something can happen,” Peterson Rogers said. “Seeing those band kids in the parade running and screaming for their lives ... just didn’t sit right with me.”
Public safety authorities in Northwest Indiana are creating a Special Events Emergency Action Plan to prepare for potential active shooter situations at public events.
David Bagnall, manager of the Porter County Fair, said plans continue to be in effect to prevent altercations by stationing local sheriff's department personnel on the fairgrounds and up to 50 off-duty police officers at any given time.
Porter County law enforcement also has metal detectors in certain areas and K-9 police units trained to sniff out firearms. Bagnall said that although Indiana recently passed a permitless carry gun law, guns are absolutely prohibited on county property. It's important for people attending public events to be aware of their surroundings at all times and to create a potential exit strategy if a dangerous situation unfolds, experts say.
The Rev. Michael Yadron, pastor of St. Thomas More Church in Munster, said its annual festival transitioned last year from hosting a carnival to hosting a music and food fest. In years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival often experienced altercations, he said.
In 2016, a 26-year-old woman was shot after gunfire was exchanged in the Munster Jewel-Osco parking lot near the time the festival was wrapping up for the night, police said.
“The town of Munster had some concerns with the festival starting back up after the pandemic,” Yadron said. “They really had us consider taking out the carnival rides altogether or else they were going to mandate the rides be shut down at an earlier time compared to the rest of the festival each night.”
St. Thomas More officials decided to remove the carnival rides altogether, and the festival hasn't experienced any problems in the past two years.
The town of Griffith has a team of individuals working with its police department to look at safety at different events throughout the summer, including the Griffith Central Market, Broad Street Blues and BBQ Festival and Rock ‘N’ Rail Music and Street Festival.
The annual Rock ‘N’ Rail Music and Street Festival, which takes place in September in downtown Griffith, has officers patrolling from rooftops and concrete barriers around the outskirts of the festival to prevent trucks from coming through, according to Griffith Town Council President Rick Ryfa, R-3rd.
“We’ve spent years and years redefining safety procedures,” Ryfa said. “We have things that are visible and behind the scenes to ensure everyone is safe.”
Yesenia Hernandez, granddaughter to Nicolas Toledo, who was killed during Monday's Highland Park., Ill., Fourth of July parade, writes on a memorial for Toledo, along with the six others who lost their lives in the mass shooting, July 6. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/gun-violence-can-destroy-electrifying-moments-at-local-festivals-parades/article_b8033d92-86fc-5014-ad43-5adf59347996.html | 2022-07-13T15:49:43 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/gun-violence-can-destroy-electrifying-moments-at-local-festivals-parades/article_b8033d92-86fc-5014-ad43-5adf59347996.html |
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